Due to changes in my personal and professional responsibilities, I no longer have the time to dedicate to maintaining this web site which I once did, and which it truly requires.
I will leave the site up as-is with little or no maintenance because some of the information may be useful for some time yet, however that usefulness is presently somewhat limited and will further diminish with time. Other sites may now or soon provide a better resource for comparable data.
FCC ULS Search: Basic & Advanced.
02/02/13: Major updating effort has affected the county pages. Master frequency lists will continue to be updated periodically.
FCC ULS License Search Basic & Advanced; General Menu Reports.
Understanding FCC Emission Codes: FCC Emission Codes; 47CFR2.201 FCC Emissions ... Characteristics; 47CFR90.207 Types of Emissions.
FCC Enforcement Bureau Field Notices (violation warnings & fines/forfeitures).
NPSTC Interoperability Channel Naming & APCO interoperability standard (PDF).
Marine VHF Channels from the US Coast Guard, plus other interesting marine-related stuff linked to from there.
scanning reference by Clay Irving.
NTIA Manual of Regulations and Procedures for Federal Radio Frequency Management (Redbook).
National Interagency Incident Communications Division (of the US Dept. of Agriculture Forest Service, Fire & Aviation Management), and NIICD documents.
NJ Office of Public Safety Communications.
University Hospital Emergency Medical Service (Newark, NJ), info on REMCS.
Morris County RACES Channels from the Morris County OEM.
NJ EMS Communications Plan (JEMS) 4th Edition [PDF] revised 7/2006.
NJ Railroad Frequencies by J. Rissmeyer.
World Aeronautical Database with airport information.
NYC-Area and NJ Airport Frequencies.
US Radio Spectrum Allocation Chart available online in PDF format from a US government server, or in print from the USGPO.
APCO's Project 25 Standards for Public Safety Digital Radio.
G & G Communication (repair shop & retailer) I'm a satisfied customer.
The Monitoring Post / Pro 2006 Page (reference).
Newport Bay Limited, 725 Route 18, East Brunswick, NJ 08816. 732-257-9180. Uniden scanner retailer, plus CBs, 2-way, & more. I'm a satisfied customer.
Optoelectronics (specialized retailer) I'm a semi-satisfied customer (took them two tries with my OS535).
Scannermaster (retailer) with scanners, accessories, guides, etc.
Whistler, manufacturer, which took over the product line formerly produced by GRE.
For used, also try eBay and the "Equipment For Sale" forum on RadioReference.com, and the E-Ham.net Classifieds.
Pro-64: WLoad64 (or try ProLink).
Pro-96: Win96 (Pro-96 Display (PDF) from Starrsoft). Also Pro96Com.
Pro-2042: Probe (control-only, via OS535).
Pro-2045: Trunker/ETrunk or UniTrunker (as control channel receiver).
Pro-2096: Win96 (Pro-2096 Display (PDF) from Starrsoft). Also Pro96Com.
BC780XLT: ID Tracker or 780TMON for trunking; ARC780 for programming.
BC898T: Trunker/ETrunk or Unitrunker (as analog voice receiver).
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Sponsor Lynne Parrott christens the Kāpena Raymond Alapa'i in New Orleans on Oct. 12, 2018.
The Kāpena Raymond Alapa'i – the second of four new ocean-going tugs slated to begin neighbor island service for Young Brothers – was christened on October 12 in New Orleans. The christening follows that of the Kāpena Jack Young in June.
Designed by Damen USA and built by Louisiana-based Conrad Shipyard, the tugs precede the Kāpena George Panui Sr. and Jr. and the Kāpena Bob Purdy into service. All four tugs bear the names of original Young Brothers captains. Kāpena means "captain" in the Hawaiian language, and the name for the class of ships celebrates the skill and innovation of Young Brothers' Hawaiian navigators. They will be home-ported in Kaunakakai, Molokai, where the Jack Young was given a Hawaiian blessing on October 21.
WATCH Conrad Shipyard celebrate the christening of the Kāpena Jack Young.
Lynne Parrott was named sponsor of the Raymond Alapa'i and traveled with her husband, Foss President John Parrott, to the tug's christening in Louisiana.
Christenings, according to Parrott, represent a gateway. A birth.
Parrot grew up sailing – one of her first dates with John was a sort of sailing test for the both of them. Her father was a Naval nuclear engineer and officer.
Ship sponsorship, Parrott explained, is akin to being a "godmother." She self-deprecatingly refers to her sponsorship of the Kāpena Raymond Alapa'i as a "nod to John," but takes the honor seriously.
Parrot christened the tug by breaking a bottle of champagne over the bow and reciting the traditional words: "I christen thee the Kāpena Raymond Alapa'i." Her small gift to the crew, "just something little that the sponsor provides to make their onboard life better," will come later. She, John, and Glenn Hong, former president of Young Brothers and now with Saltchuk, dressed up in their cowboy best – cowboy boots and Hawaiian shirts.
"Captain Alapa'i nickname was 'Cowboy,'" she explained.
Hong stood at the christening and relayed stories of Alapa'i's skill – even in the worst of conditions. In her speech, Parrott spoke of his humble pride.
Lynne Parrott in New Orleans on Oct. 12, 2018.
In 1900, Herb and William Young boarded a San Francisco schooner bound for Honolulu. Hailing from San Diego, they were more than comfortable on the ocean, and within a year set up a business ferrying passengers and small freight around Honolulu Harbor. A third brother, Jack Young, soon joined them.
After 13 years, the brothers incorporated as Young Brothers, Limited, providing ocean towing, rescue services, and barge transportation between islands. The company's entry into the inter-island shipping business came when growers on Moloka'i found they needed a way to transport pineapples from the more remote island to Honolulu for canning. Young Brothers landed the contract.


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Q: Windows restore saying partition is too small. It isn't I built a media PC years ago with three 750 GB drives in a Raid-5 configuration. This allowed for 1.5 TB of space and had redundancy. At the time I didn't know how bad performance was with RAID. I wanted to break the RAID and instead simply use a hard drive. Here are my steps:

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*Add 2 TB hard drive

*Boot into Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit on the RAID.

*Run the Backup utility and backup my drives to the 2 TB drive.

*Unplug two of the RAID drives.

*In BIOS, break the RAID.

*Boot off a Windows DVD and from 'Repair', go to a command prompt.

*Use DISKPART to CLEAN the single 750 GB drive, and create a partition on it.

*Copy the backup from the 2 TB drive to the 750 GB drive (it's about 370 GB in size).

*Clean the 2 TB drive.

*Select 'Restore' from the Windows DVD boot option.

*Restore the image off the single 750 GB drive to be on the 2 TB drive.

Step 11 tells me that my partition is too small. I call BS on this. Yes, it's smaller than the combined 2.25 TB of hard drives but this was in a RAID configuration and it is FAR larger than the 1.5 space I had. This was not a software RAID in Windows; it was created in my motherboard's BIOS menu.
Can anyone please help me? I need to restore this image somehow.

A: I'm going to guess this is a bug in how Windows restore handles drive size checking. My previous RAID-5 array had 2.25 TB of storage however due to redundancy, the actual partition was 1.5 TB. The new drive was 2.0 TB and should have been a valid destination. I restored my RAID array and shronk the volume from 1.5 TB to be 1.1 TB. Created another backup, wiped the RAID array, moved the backup to a drive from the RAID array and restored to the 2.0 TB drive. Pain in the you-know-what, but it got the job done.

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Main Point: Our negative self-talk can be our own worst enemy, but God hears us and lifts us up.
Texas native Maren Morris began writing and performing music when she was just 12 years old. Eight years later, she moved to Nashville to pursue her country music career. She began focusing on songwriting, penning songs for both Tim McGraw and Kelly Clarkson, before releasing her first major label album Hero in 2016. Her lead single, "My Church" earned her four Grammy nominations and one win in 2017. Morris got engaged to her boyfriend, singer-songwriter Ryan Hurd, in July 2017. The pair married in a March 2018 ceremony in Nashville, where they currently reside.
Girl, won't you stop your cryin'?
Tell me what you waitin' for?
Introducing the Song – You Say This: Morris wrote Girl as she imagined what she would say to a friend she was having conflict with, wondering why they were so competitive with each other, why were they always so awkward around each other, when they could so easily be friends? In that, she ended up realizing that she was writing it to herself, to that inner critic that tells her that she's not enough. Morris calls the song a tough-love call to action in a sisterly way, to herself.
Transition Statement – You Say This: It is so easy it to be critical of ourselves. Sometimes we can allow our self-talk to be our own worst enemy. In the midst of those times, God has promised to do something for us that is worth discussing, so let's take some time and do that.
AROUND THE CIRCLE: How do you feel about country music? If you can, name a country song you enjoy.
ASK A FEW: Describe a time when you didn't feel like yourself? Share what was going on and explain what it felt like.
ASK A FEW: Do you struggle with negative self-talk? If you'd be willing to, share something that you tell yourself that would be considered negative self-talk.
ASK A FEW: What does it mean to hang your head low? What are some ways you might struggle with "hanging your head" in your own life?
ASK A FEW: Why do you think depression is so common in your generation?
Lord how many are my foes! How many rise up against me! Many are saying of me, "God will not deliver him." But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high. I call out to the Lord, and he answers me from his holy mountain.
ASK A FEW: Read all of Psalm 3. What do you think David (author) was going through when he wrote this Psalm?
ASK A FEW: What are some "foes" in your own life, meaning what are some things that you have to fight against?
ASK A FEW: Have you ever told yourself "God will not deliver me" when it comes to something you deal with? Why do you think you felt that way?
ASK A FEW: What does it mean that the Lord is a shield around you? Explain how that can impact your life if you choose to embrace that truth.
ASK A FEW: In the song she sings: girl, don't hang your head low. The Psalm says that God is the one who lifts your head high. Explain what you understand that to mean and how you can remember that in your daily life.
ASK A FEW: According to these verses, what needs to happen for God to answer you? Is it easy or hard for you to call out to God?
ASK A FEW: The song says both everything and everyone is going to be okay. Is that always true? How can applying the truth of Psalm 3:1-3 give you hope when you are fighting discouragement or despair?
Wrap Up – You say this: One of the great things about the song Girl is how it identifies an issue that everyone faces, no matter if you are a guy or girl. The battle against the negative voices in our heads is one that we can easily lose if we don't fight. The great thing is that God has said to us – "Hey, you don't have to fight that on your own – I fight for you – call out to me and I will answer you!" Maybe right now you need to take a few moments with God and invite him into your own struggle.
When it comes to our own negative self-talk, it's so easy to believe the voices that say "God will not deliver them!" We live in a broken world where it's too common to forget the truth that God desires to be a shield around us – He is here to protect us from all enemies, even those that are within. When we call on Him, He will lift our head by reminding us what is true. He will lift our head by helping us see how great He is and bringing His presence in our hardest times. Take a moment and thank God for who He is and ask Him to help you remember that He is a shield around you. Thank Him for offering protection when you need it.
In today's world, depression is becoming more and more common as we listen to the negative self-talk from those around us and from within. Let's be people who turn to God in these times and remember who He is and what He offers. He is near, He protects, and He answers when we call. Let's be people who call on him! Through it all let's remember that though our negative self-talk can be our own worst enemy, God hears us and lifts us up.


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NOU or Nou may refer to:

Education
 Nalanda Open University, Patna, Bihar, India
 National Open University, Taiwan
 North Orissa University, Baripada, Orissa, India

Places
 Camp Nou, a football stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
 La Tontouta International Airport, Nouméa, New Caledonia (IATA airport code: NOU)
 Nou, Iran, a village in Gilan Province, Iran
 Nō, Niigata, a former town in Japan
 Nō Station, Itoigawa, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
 Nou, Sibiu, a village in Roșia, Sibiu, Romania
 Nou Român, a village in Arpașu de Jos, Sibiu, Romania
 Nou Săsesc, a village in Laslea, Sibiu, Romania

Other uses
 Noh, a major form of classical Japanese musical drama
 Norwegian Official Report ()
 Enn Nõu (born 1933), Estonian writer
 Ewage language (ISO 639: nou), spoken in Papua New Guinea

See also
 NOH (disambiguation)
 Nô (disambiguation)

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Ray Palasz, MA
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Munster Theatre Company Producer/Director
International Thespian Society Troupe #2861 Director
Ray came to Munster in 2016 from Lake Central High School, where he spent 12 years working on nearly every aspect of theatre, from directing to designing to building, and yes, even acting! While at Lake Central, he re-chartered their troupe of the International Thespian Society in January of 2005. His directing credits include Tartuffe, It's a Wonderful Life, Don Quixote, Drum Taps, As You Like It, Tarzan, Hairspray, Peter and the Starcatcher, and Harvey
He has also directed several contest shows for the Indiana Thespians Regional and State Play Competition., taking several shows to State Competition. While at Munster, The Refugee Women took 2nd at Regionals and placed 7th at State, while in 2021 Fire Exit placed first at Regionals! He also directed Drum Taps in 2013, earning it a performance slot at the 2014 International Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Additionally, he has coached over 100 individual and group acting, technical, and film event entries to top honors at the State and International levels through the International Thespian Excellence Awards.
Ray grew up in nearby Lansing, Illinois, and attended T. F. South High School. Between the sixth and twelfth grades, he worked on over twenty productions, helping lead T. F. South to two consecutive state championships in Readers Theatre. After graduating high school, Ray attended Valparaiso University, where he majored in English Education and Theatre and Television Arts. While at Valpo, Ray worked on many productions as actor, director, designer, stage manager, and technician.
He currently is the Co-Chapter Director for the Indiana Thespians, and has served on the nominating committee for the Educational Theatre Association. He is also a member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology.
Ray earned his BA in Theatre and Television Arts from Valparaiso University in 2003. In 2012, Ray earned his MA in Literature and Composition from Purdue University Calumet. In 2015 he married his wife Courtney, a middle school choir directors. They have two beautiful sons, Elias and Isaac! Both are showing signs of being future Thespians!
Luke McGinnis
Vocal/Instrumental Musical Director
Luke McGinnis is the Choir Director and Piano Teacher at Munster High School where he also serves as the vocal director for the Munster Theatre Company. In addition to his teaching duties at Munster High School, Mr. McGinnis serves as host for the regional ISSMA Solo and Ensemble Contest and directs an Indiana All-State Honor Choir preparation rehearsal. Under his direction, the Munster High School Choral Program released its first full-length, professionally mixed album Through the Valley (2021) and was invited to participate in the 2022 Windy City Choral Festival under the direction of Z. Randall Stroope. In his sixteen years of musical experience, Mr. McGinnis has developed a strong love for performance and helping others discover their musical talents.
As a musician, Mr. McGinnis has performed many major masterworks, including Bohuslav Martinů's Polni Mse, Samuel Barber's Prayers of Kierkegaard, J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion, and the world premiere of Into the Light by Jake Runestad. In 2015, Mr. McGinnis made his professional debut as the piano accompanist for the Concert of Hope at the Santi Dodici Apostoli in Rome for the XL International Congress of Pueri Cantores. Furthermore, he was a founding member of Voces Luminus, a semi-professional vocal ensemble that has toured Berlin, Wittenberg, Seyda, and Leipzig. He currently performs as a chorister in the Bach Choir of The Bach Institute at Valparaiso University.
While completing his undergraduate degree, Mr. McGinnis served in several churches as Interim Music Director, Youth Music Director, Choir Director, and Piano Accompanist. In November 2018, he served as chorusmaster of the Chorus of Kappa Sigma Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia as they performed in "War and the Human Heart," a multimedia performance that commemorated the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I under the direction of Dr. Craig Jessop, former music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Furthermore, Mr. McGinnis continues to lead fifth through ninth-grade music classes and serves as Vocal Music Director for Mother McAuley's Curtain Call Summer productions.
Mr. McGinnis received his Bachelor of Music Education summa cum laude from Valparaiso University, where he was awarded the Exemplary Professional Praxis Award for Teacher Education and will complete his Master of Educational Leadership from the American College of Education in December 2022. He studied conducting with Christopher Cock, Jeffrey Doebler, and Dennis Friesen-Carper, voice with Christopher Cock, and piano with Nicole Lee. He is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, Indiana Choral Directors Association, Indiana Music Education Association, The National Association for Music Education, Pi Kappa Lambda music honor society, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.
Alex Marich
Alexandra Marich is so excited to be working with the Munster High School theater department! She started dancing at The Dance Gallery at the age of 5 through senior year in high school. Dancing to her is the greatest feeling to express myself and she is thrilled to share that with the students for theater. After she graduated high school, Alexandra was asked to teach hip-hop for the studio, which she has been doing for 8 years! She has also taught contemporary/hip-hop, and jazz. She continues her training through professional dance classes and workshops in Chicago, LA, and NY. Her favorite professional moment was meeting Kathryn McCormick from the movie 'Step up revolution' and having lunch with her last minute after taking her workshop class.
While dance still being a desire, she is a current graduate from Purdue Global wanting to be a school counselor. ABA therapy specifically speaking.
For information contact the Auditorium Director Ray Palasz
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rapalasz@munster.us
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The major U.S. specialty salt supplier will be giving each attendee of the conference $5.00 with the hope that they will use the money for a kind gesture or act of goodwill towards a complete stranger.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- San Francisco Salt Company (SFSC) is "Floating it forward" at the Portland, OR Float Conference this weekend (August 15-16). By providing each of the 500 conference attendees $5.00, SFSC will be proposing that each person spends the money on someone other than themselves while spending time in Portland during the annual float conference.
"The Float Conference is the perfect venue to share this idea with," says Lee Williamson, owner of the San Francisco Salt Company. "The conference is an eclectic group of open-minded, free thinking, creative, spiritual, and salt of the earth people and I have no doubt that they will embrace the idea and put their $5.00to good use."
Williamson goes on to explain, "Recently, a car ahead of me paid my toll on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. I was stunned and elated. This was a total stranger that I never got to thank. So to pass along the good karma, I paid the toll for the person behind me. The interesting thing is, although it felt good to get my toll paid, it felt even better paying someone else's toll.
"Because we are a sponsor of the Float Conference, I wanted to share the idea of 'floating it forward' with everyone attending and inject my sense of fun into an already very entertaining conference. Our hope is that this specific act of 'floating' it forward will continue on long after the conference."
Floatation Therapy was first introduced in 1954 by Dr. John C. Lilly. His studies and experiments were based on the human response to sensory deprivation. Although floating has been around for quite some time, it has seen exponential growth within the last few years and is one of the fastest growing niche businesses in the U.S.A.


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You speak Scottish? Of course you do. And I'll bet you seven swans a-swimming to a partridge in a pear tree that in a few days you will be enthusiastically speaking it again.
Singing it, actually. And the Scots words you'll be singing will include 'auld', 'lang' and 'syne'.
The words mean, roughly, 'for old long ago', and it's a song that people have been singing for 300 years. A Scot by the name of James Watson penned the first version back in 1711. In 1788 the great poet Robert Burns sent a copy of the original song to the Scots Musical Museum along with a note saying that he "took it down from an old man" singing by a fire.
Burns subsequently 'burnished' the poem with his own lyrical genius and gave the world a keeper.
We've been singing it at least once a year ever since.
And not just in English-speaking countries.
There's a Bengali song with the same melody called Memories of the Good Old Days. Chileans call their rendition The Farewell Song and sing it at funerals. Greeks sing a variation called Song of Farewell. It is also a song to say goodbye in Zimbabwe, with lyrics in Shona.
Sentimental people sway to the song in France, Hungary, Sudan and Taiwan. In the Netherlands it shows up as a Dutch football song.
A Danish rock band called Gasolin turned it into a hit pop ballad in 1974. The more reverential Japanese have a version called Hotaru no hikari which means "Glow of a Firefly".
People in English-speaking countries around the world do not as a rule sing Auld Lang Syne at football games, scout jamborees or rock concerts. We join our hands and sing this song once a year only, on New Year's Eve.
We can thank a Canadian named Guy Lombardo for that.
On January 1, 1929, Europe was in turmoil and Hitler's Nazis were stirring in the German basement. North America was poised on the threshold of The Great Depression.
In the Grill Room of the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, bandleader Guy Lombardo tapped his baton to get the attention of his famous band The Royal Canadians and as the clock struck midnight they launched into Auld Lang Syne while a continent listened in on their radios.
And you just know we'll all gather 'round to sing that song again this New Year's Eve.
I probably won't be there with you but I'll offer you the last verse of Auld Lang Syne which is seldom, if ever, sung these days.
'Fiere' is Scottish for 'friend'. 'gude willy-waught' means 'good-will drink'.
You already know what 'auld lang syne' means.
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by Carter Phipps | Sep 18, 2012 | General, Posts | 0 comments
What would you conclude about a book named "The Science Delusion"? I suspect most would assume it was 1) a response to Richard Dawkins' book, "The God Delusion" and 2) a religious attack on science. Rupert Sheldrake's impressive new book is neither, (though he certainly takes some good shots at Dawkins). That is why I'm glad the American edition of the book has a different name than the UK version. "Science Set Free" is its moniker, which expresses more accurately the spirit of this important new work by the English biologist who is perhaps science's most controversial and credentialed gadfly. As Sheldrake explained the name change in a recent Guardian interview, "[The American publishers] were aware that if they called it The Science Delusion it would be seen as a right-wing tract that was anti-evolution and anti-climate change. And I want no part of that." In fact, the book is a significant summation of his novel approach to science, theories of nature, and concerns about the state of whole enterprise of scientific inquiry. Well-argued and well-written, Sheldrake's new work is a sure-to-be-controversial critique of some of the pillars of science as we know it today.
I prefer the title "Science Set Free," not just because it is provocative, but because there is something genuinely liberating about Sheldrake's work. He is working to decouple science itself from a particular restrictive brand of science—a largely unquestioned reductionist, mechanistic, materialistic belief system that he feels has become almost synonymous with science. He suggests that even the data coming from science itself strains against these often unseen conclusions. "Contemporary science is being held back, he writes, by the claim that "there is no reality but material reality." Sheldrake feels that this conclusion naturally gives rise to a whole series of assumptions about the nature of life and the universe that too often go unquestioned." These beliefs are powerful", he explains, "not because most scientists think about them critically, but because they don't."
The impetus for this scientific worldview is as much in history as a whole as it is in science. One might even argue its tenets provided an important bulwark in the scientific struggle to establish a protected secular space in society, walled off against the encroachment of traditional religious authorities. But what was once a set of assumptions designed to keep at bay certain superstitions and religious orthodoxies, has now, Sheldrake writes, hardened into an ideology. And like any strongly felt belief system, it rushes to discredit activity seen as outside the in-group fold. Sheldrake is one of those targets and he has certainly felt the wrath of the protectors of establishment science. A highly trained Cambridge biochemist, he was labeled as an enemy of reason by Dawkins, and his book A New Science of Life, was castigated, by reviews in the magazine Nature, that suggested the book might be best fit for burning (as if to underline the point about ideology).
But such polemics seem absurdly overwrought, especially when one reads Sheldrake's book itself and encounters the way he thinks about the world. Granted, he is an out-of-the box thinker, interested in questioning some fundamental assumptions, and he liberally intersperses his science with insights from philosophy, Eastern and Western (not unlike many of science's brightest lights past and present). But he is first and foremost a scientist, one who has the spirit of an innovator and experimenter, passionately curious and unwilling to simply take the conventional consensus as unabridged fact. In the first chapter, he lists 10 core beliefs that he feels science would be better served by questioning rather than assuming. An inquiry into each of these ten subjects forms the better part of the book. They include the ideas "everything is essentially mechanical," "the total amount of matter and energy is always the same," "the laws of nature are fixed," "memories are stored as material traces in the brain and wiped out at death," "minds are inside heads and are nothing but the activity of the brain," and "Nature is purposeless and evolution has no goal or direction."
Sheldrake doesn't have replacements for each of these assumptions, but he marshals interesting evidence and arguments against each position that will make you think in new ways about both large-scale realities like the nature of the universe, and everyday realities like the way in which vision works. Indeed, the book is first and foremost a scientific exploration and I often found myself deep in thought while reading, provoked by his words to question my own assumptions and think in new ways about the world I live in. Sheldrake draws on a great number of thinkers to make his point, including several of the great evolutionary philosophers, in particular, Henri Bergson's ideas on memory and Alfred North Whitehead's perspective on subjectivity. His discussion of Whitehead in the chapter, "Is Matter Unconscious" was particular enlightening, as he explored Whitehead's thoughts on time and causality, suggesting an alternate explanation for some very influential experiments in neuroscience.
It was also interesting to me that Sheldrake really sees Darwin as one of his heroes, not just for his theory of natural selection, but for his reliance on data from the everyday world around him, and as someone who did "provocatively original work" with simple tools, without relying on grants and the largess of big science institutions that have come to so dominate the 21st century landscape. That spirit has informed Sheldrake's own work in all kinds of unconventional areas, from his ideas about developmental biology to his thoughts about homing pigeons, to his research on animals who express an uncanny ability to know when their owners are coming home. Sheldrake certainly has his own conclusions to add to the mix and his ideas about "morphic resonance," a theory about the way in which habits, such as developmental patterns in biology or crystal formation in chemistry, can be transferred over time play a role in the book. But his primary point is to pry open the scientific door to fresh, new thinking, not to insert his own.
By the end of the book, I found myself thinking that science needs people like Rupert Sheldrake. Not because his theories are all correct or his critiques are perfectly spot on. In fact, there were certainly parts of his books that I disagreed with, areas where I felt his questioning of convention strayed into areas that strained my own sense of credibility. But the overall open spirit of his inquiry shines through, and I hope that it will help inspire the right kind of questioning, and encourage more open forms of science. And Sheldrake's message is not just for scientists; it is for all of us. He cautions that we should be careful about investing the institution of science with too much authority. It provides a powerful perspective, but it is shaped by human beings. We must be responsible for it, not the other way around. And therefore, we cannot uncritically hand it the keys to our minds. If there are false assumptions and conclusions embedded in the enterprise, we should be willing to ask questions. To do so is not to question science itself or to inevitably fall back into some pre-rational, superstitious state of being. Yes, we must always guard against tendencies to irresponsibly undermine the great positives of the scientific age, but the best way to do that is to improve science itself. In the right hands, these kinds of questions open up potential new frontiers and move the whole project of human knowledge forward in history. "I'm in favor of science and reason," Sheldrake declares at the end of the book, but then adds an important caveat, "if they are scientific and reasonable…I'm against granting scientists and the materialist worldview an exemption from critical thinking and skeptical investigation. We need an enlightenment of the Enlightenment."
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Os Alumbrados foi um movimento religioso espanhol do século XVI em forma de uma seita mística, que foi perseguida e considerada herética e relacionada ao protestantismo. Originou-se em pequenas cidades da região central de Castela em torno de 1511.

Os Alumbrados podem ser incluídos dentro de uma corrente de misticismo similar desenvolvida na Europa nos séculos XVI e XVII, denominado Iluminismo, que não deve ser confundido com a seita bávara os Illuminati, e, naturalmente, com o Iluminismo. É muito comum usar o nome "Iluminismo" como sinônimo dos alumbrados.

O historiador Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo encontrou o nome do início de 1492 (na forma Aluminados, 1498), e seguiu o grupo como de uma origem gnóstica. Ele acredita que seus pontos de vista foram promovidos na Espanha através das influências da Itália. Um dos seus primeiros líderes era uma mulher, nascida em Salamanca, filha de um trabalhador e conhecida como La Beata de Piedrahita. Ela chegou ao conhecimento da Inquisição em 1511, reivindicando manter conversas com Jesus e a Virgem Maria, terá sido salva de uma condenação rigorosa pelo patrocínio de gente influente.

Casos históricos

Tomás de Torquemada, que tinha sido um inquisidor assistente desde 11 de fevereiro de 1482, foi nomeado em 1483 pelo Papa Sisto IV, Grande Inquisidor de Castela para a Inquisição espanhola. A maioria daqueles perseguidos como Alumbrados foram convertidos (judeus convertidos ao cristianismo) ou mouriscos (mouros convertidos).

Um caso semelhante ocorreu entre os séculos XVII e XVIII em Tenerife (Ilhas Canárias). Este é o caso da Irmã María Justa de Jesús, freira franciscana que foi acusada de praticar doutrinas molinistas (doutrina religiosa cristã que tenta conciliar a providência de Deus com o livre arbítrio humano). Esta religiosa era famosa em seu tempo porque ela era supostamente capaz de curar a pessoa doente com a transferência da doença que a afligia, semelhante à forma como os xamãs em outras culturas. Foi investigada pela Inquisição, sendo acusada de fraude e até mesmo bruxa. Ela também foi acusada de manter um relacionamento impróprio com seu confessor. A Ordem Franciscana, nas Ilhas Canárias, abriu um processo de canonização envolvido na polêmica que teve que ser paralisado.

Perseguição

A perseguição era tipicamente baseada em supostas reversões originais de práticas religiosas, mas a prova de conspiração contra Fernando e Isabel era mínima, geralmente boatos. Como muitas das famílias remanescentes judias e mouras na Espanha após a sua conversão católica eram ricas, e apenas a acusação de heresia justificava o confisco de toda a riqueza e das propriedades, os Bispos católicos locais foram motivados a acusar injustamente convertidos e mouriscos para adquirir as suas riquezas e fortalecer seu Bispado. Os poucos acusados e julgados que realmente estavam engajados nas práticas místicas e heréticas dos Alumbrados não foram executados, poucos resistiram a penas de longa duração, e a maioria foi julgada somente depois que eles conseguiram adquirir grandes congregações em Toledo e Salamanca.

Outros não tiveram tanta sorte. Em 1529, uma congregação de fiéis ingênuos em Toledo foi submetida a açoites e prisão. Seguiram-se rigorosas perseguições, e por cerca de um século a suposta ligação com os alumbrados enviou muitos à Inquisição, especialmente em Córdoba.

Referências

Bibliografia

Monografias
Antonio Márquez, Los alumbrados : Orígenes y filosofía (1525-1559), Taurus, 1980. ISBN 9788430635047
Álvaro Huerga, Historia de los Alumbrados (1570-1630), Fundación Universitaria Española, Madrid, 1978. ISBN 8473920449
Andrés Martín, Implicaciones señoriales del alumbradismo castellano en torno a 1525 (in Homenaje al profesor Antonio Vilanova, vol. 1, Estudios de Literatura española, p. 13-30, 1989). ISBN 8476654820
Bernardino Llorca, La Inquisición española y los alumbrados (1509-1667), Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, 1980. ISBN 9788472990715
Ricardo García Cárcel, Herejía y sociedad en el siglo XVI. Inquisición en Valencia. 1530-1609, Ediciones Península, 1980. ISBN 8429715525
 Marcel Bataillon, Erasmo y España, Fondo de Cultura Económica, col. «Historia», trad. Antonio Alatorre, 923 pp., 1950. ISBN 9681610695
(en inglés) Henry Kamen, Inquisition and Society in Spain in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Indiana University Press, 1985. ISBN 9780253227751
(en inglés) Henry Kamen, Spain, 1469-1714 : A Society of Conflict, Pearson Education, 2005, p.121-122. ISBN 9780582784642

Artigos
Andrés Martín, Los alumbrados de Toledo en el Cuarto Abecedario Espiritual, o Ley de Amor, de Francisco de Osuna (1530), Archivo Ibero-Americano, vol. 41, n°163-164, pp. 459–480, 1981.
Andrés Martín, Los alumbrados de Toledo según el proceso de María de Cazalla (1532-1534), Cuadernos de investigación histórica, nº8, p. 65-82, 1984. ISSN 02106272
Andrés Martín, En torno al estatuto de la mujer en España en la crisis religiosa del Renacimiento: observantes, beatas, alumbradas, Norba Revista de historia, nº10, p. 155-172, 1989‑1990. ISSN 0213375X
Luis Fernández, Iñigo de Loyola y los alumbrados, Hispania Sacra, n°35, 1983.
Angela Selke, Algunos datos nuevas sobre los primeros alumbrados. El edicto de 1525 y su relación con el proceso de Alcaraz, Bulletin hispanique, IV, 1952.
Augusta E. Foley, El alumbradismo y sus posibles orígenes, Actas del VIII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, vol. 1, p. 527-532, 1983. ISBN 8470901621
(en inglés) Alastair Hamilton, Heresy and Mysticism in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Alumbrados, James Clarke Company, 1992.
(en inglés) Alison Weber, Little Women : Counter-Reformation Misogyny, in The Counter-Reformation de David Martin Luebke, p. 148-152.

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Uzor shot during brawl in Owerri
A son-in-law of Senator Rochas Okorocha shot during fight over properties between the politician and the state government will be flown abroad for treatement.
Uzor Anwuka was shot when the former governor's loyalists clashed with government officials.
Anwuka, an American-trained medical doctor, who was shot on the left leg during the clash, has undergone three surgeries.
Okorocha, who is also the Senator representing Imo West, has been having a running battle with Governor Hope Uzodinma over one of his wife's properties, the Royal Spring Palm Hotel, which was seized by the government.
Speaking when the former governor visited him at a hospital at Apo, Abuja, on Sunday, Uzor said he had undergone surgeries without any improvement.
He explained that he was surprised that he could be attacked because he was never involved in the brawl.
According to him, "On the day of the incident, my father-in-law called me that he was in Owerri to see his seized property and I drove down their to see him.
"On getting there, I saw a crowd of thugs led by one of the governor's cousins. They had guns, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons, they started harassing everyone including my father-in-law (Okorocha).
"Later, they were asked to round us up and they started shooting, I made an attempt to climb the fence but I was hit by bullet and I fell into the bush and I was there for several hours before I was rescued and brought to the hospital.
"I have been in this hospital for six days and my leg has been operated three times but it is not getting better. So, I will be going out to get a better treatment."
Describing the attack as sad, Okorocha said it was an assassination attempt on his life, saying his major concern is to save the life of his son-in-law.
The lawmaker said he wondered why those who carried out the attacks have not been arrested.
"No arrest has been made it was the people with me who were macheted that were still arrested. For now, to save the life of my son-in-law is more important to me now than any arrest.
"The authorities should know what to do. It was a beating galore against my people but I ordered that nobody should shoot," he added.


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GE's Hybrid Locomotive Cuts Fuel Consumption And Emissions
Over the past couple of weeks, I've taken a look back at the rail innovations of GE through the lens of their recently launched annual reports data visualization. These innovations include America's first electrification project and a train powered by beef tallow. But now I want to talk about hybrids, specifically GE's Hybrid Evolution locomotive, which is being designed to reduce fuel consumption and emissions over its extended lifetime.
The GE Evolution Hybrid train is being designed with sophisticated sodium-metal batteries that will store energy recovered during braking. I don't have to tell you that it takes a lot of energy to stop a 207-ton locomotive. If GE can capture even a fraction of that energy, it can then be used by the crew to lower fuel consumption while providing a boost of up to 2,000 horsepower.
The impact such trains could have on the environment, and rail travel as a whole, cannot be understated. The U.S. has one of the most efficient and cost-effective freight rail lines in the world. Train shipping is already very cost competitive with other methods of travel, and GE's Evolution Hybrid trains could reduce fuel consumption by as much as 15 percent. That's 15 percent more money invested elsewhere in the company. The energy saved over the course of a year could power 9,100 homes over the same year time-period. That's a lot of energy, folks.
More importantly (at least as far as Mother Nature is concerned), these trains could reduce pollution by up to 50%. If you take a look through the 132 years of annual reports aggregated in GE's new Data Visualization, you'll see that their portfolio is full of emissions and fuel-reducing innovations. The GE Evolution Hybrid locomotive was introduced way back in 2005, and as yet I don't think it is in production. But with gas prices on the rise once more, now is as good a time as ever to introduce a fuel-saving train to locomotive buyers.
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The most beautiful cars of the 'teens
Opinions around car designs can be polarising. But we're willing to risk it: here are our picks for the style champions of the past decade.
The Porsche 911 Carrera. Everyone knows exactly what it is – and few would complain if one ended up in their driveway.
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Dec 20, 2019 — 12.00am
So what were the 10 most beautiful cars of the decade? That was the brief passed to your humble correspondent. There is, of course, no right answer. The difference between appealing and appalling is very slight, and very subjective.
The brief was to stick to production cars. If it weren't, my nominations would have included the Mercedes-Maybach Vision 6 coupe (or cabriolet, just as beautiful), the Peugeot E-Legend, the Jaguar C-X75 … and I could go on. But it doesn't. So here, in no particular order, are my top 10 production cars of the twenty-teens.
Ferrari 458 Italia is the most beautiful Ferrari in decades, according to our correspondent.
Stunning and stunningly original, the most beautiful Ferrari in decades was – to these eyes – also the most beautiful car of the decade. Added to which, it was the last mid-engined, naturally aspirated V8 Ferrari, waving goodbye to an era.
Of course, being gorgeous to the eye doesn't necessarily make something an outstanding piece of design (the aesthetic dog's breakfast that is a Honda postie bike is a perfect fit for function). But a Ferrari is meant to look fast and go fast and ignite the senses. Rear vision, luggage capacity … who cares?
There'd be no electric revolution without the Tesla Model S.
Designed by Franz von Holzhausen, this sedan prompted a rival to quip it was "aggressively anonymous". In fact, its subtle lines are still svelte and thoroughly modern a decade after it was first shown.
By comparison, its newer Model 3 stablemate is a bit cartoony, the Model X has slightly awkward proportions and is hampered by stupid lift-up doors. The S, though, is spot on – and arguably the most significant car of the decade, too. Without it, there'd be no electric revolution.
The VW Up! is pure and elegant city car, deserving of its exclamation mark.
It was a courageous thing to put an exclamation mark in a car's name, but it was well deserved. This pure and elegant city car is dux of the function-equals-beauty school. It was widely praised by other designers and loved by owners.
The number of owners were too few, because the price was too close to that of the bigger Polo (on this market at least), but it merited its position as 2012's World Car Of The Year and maintains a loyal following.
Porsche 911 Carrera (992 series)
Porsche 911 Carrera delivers the right message.
Obvious sure, and some claim the Zuffenhausen-based company's current, eighth-generation, 911 is too long and wide. But every detail is just so, and no car company has stayed on message so diligently since the 1960s. Everyone knows exactly what a 911 is – and few would complain if one ended up in their driveway.
Range Rover Velar is stylish despite its tall and squarish proportions.
Simplicity wins the day. Making an SUV look truly desirable has defeated most designers, but the Velar is stylish despite its tall and squarish proportions. It's also 100 per cent Range Rover despite sharing almost nothing in form language with its predecessors. Gerry McGovern's "reductive" design approach is to be seen inside and out, in the cleanest lines yet on a truly capable off-roader.
Mercedes-AMG GT two-door coupé
The Mercedes-AMG GT two-door coupé does away with the gullwing doors of the SLS predecessor.
MB has been the pacesetter in the premium segment over the past six or seven years when it comes to innovative and appealing designs across a diverse range of products. In taking the lead, it supplanted Audi, IMHO.
The AMG GT did away with the gullwing doors of the SLS predecessor, and produced a much more flowing, balanced design with just as much presence.
Lexus LC coupe
The Lexus LC coupe is a stunner inside and out.
Lexus and beauty are not words that generally go together. The exceptions are the decade-old LFA supercar (which was probably meant to be a Toyota anyway, to celebrate an F1 triumph that never arrived), and the current LC coupe. The grille is too prominent, and there are fussy details, but it is a completely fresh approach to designing a coupe, and still a stunner inside and out. We're not quite so sure about the new convertible derivative.
Aston Martin Vantage (2018 model)
Aston Martin has shown courage with its Vantage.
Courage is a rare thing in a multibillion-dollar business such as automotive. Aston Martin has shown it everywhere, reversing its reputation for same-same design by producing some of the most audacious styling of the past few years.
The Vantage breaks away from many of Aston's trademark tropes, but is still unmistakably an Aston. Sales are poor though, which illustrates why taking a big leap is courageous. The Vantage's time will come!
The Renault Twizy never made it to Australia but is a perfect piece of design minimalism.
Yes, there are mostly sports cars in this list, because most of them are built with beauty at the top of the design criteria. But the Renault Twizy (which never made it to Australia due to ludicrous nanny-ism), is the Citroen 2CV for the 21st century: a perfect piece of design minimalism and fully electric to boot.
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The Bugatti's "Black Car". It sold one for $17.5 million.
This stretches the term "production car", but Bugatti did build and sell one example (for €16.7 million, no less), so it's a fully functioning, street-legal machine.
When I interviewed Bugatti head designer Achim Anscheidt, in October last year, he described the company's main model, the Chiron, as sitting "perfectly in the middle between beauty and beast". Chiron is more on the beast side to my tastes. The "Black Car" however is a far more elegant proposition, indeed the most beautiful Bug since the revered French brand was relaunched in the 1990s.
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