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Upgrade Database Engine
This topic provides the information that you will need to prepare for and understand the upgrade process; it covers:
Known upgrade issues.
Pre-upgrade tasks and considerations.
Links to procedural topics for upgrading the Database Engine.
Links to procedural topics for migrating databases to SQL Server.
Considerations for failover clusters.
Post-upgrade tasks and considerations.
Known Upgrade issues
Before upgrading the Database Engine, review SQL Server Database Engine Backward Compatibility. For information about supported upgrade scenarios and upgrade known issues, see Supported Version and Edition Upgrades. For backward compatibility content for other SQL Server components, see Backward Compatibility.
Before you upgrade from one edition of SQL Server to another, verify that the functionality that you are currently using is supported in the edition to which you are upgrading.
When you upgrade to SQL Server 2014 from a prior version of SQL Server Enterprise edition, choose between Enterprise Edition: Core-based Licensing and Enterprise Edition. These Enterprise editions differ only with respect to the licensing modes. For more information, see Compute Capacity Limits by Edition of SQL Server.
Pre-Upgrade Checklist
Upgrading SQL Server from an earlier version is supported by the SQL Server Setup program. You can also migrate databases from previous SQL Server versions. Migration can be from one SQL Server instance to another on the same computer, or from a SQL Server instance on another computer. Migration options include use of the Copy Database Wizard, Backup and restore functionality, use of the SQL ServerIntegration Services Import and Export Wizard, and bulk export/bulk import methods.
Before upgrading the Database Engine, review the following:
Review Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2014.
Review Check Parameters for the System Configuration Checker.
Review Security Considerations for a SQL Server Installation.
Review Use the Distributed Replay Utility to Prepare for Upgrades.
Review Migrate Query Plans.
Review the following issues and make changes before you upgrade SQL Server:
When upgrading instances of SQL Server where SQL Server Agent is enlisted in MSX/TSX relationships, upgrade target servers before you upgrade master servers. If you upgrade master servers before target servers, SQL Server Agent will not be able to connect to master instances of SQL Server.
When upgrading from a 64-bit edition of SQL Server to a 64-bit edition of SQL Server 2014, you must upgrade Analysis Services before you upgrade the Database Engine.
Back up all SQL Server database files from the instance to be upgraded, so that you can restore them, if it is required.
Run the appropriate Database Console Commands (DBCC) on databases to be upgraded to ensure that they are in a consistent state.
Estimate the disk space that is required to upgrade SQL Server components, in addition to user databases. For disk space that is required by SQL Server components, see Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2014.
Ensure that existing SQL Server system databases - master, model, msdb, and tempdb - are configured to autogrow, and ensure that they have sufficient hard disk space.
Ensure that all database servers have logon information in the master database. This is important for restoring a database, as system logon information resides in master.
Disable all startup stored procedures, as the upgrade process will stop and start services on the SQL Server instance being upgraded. Stored procedures processed at startup time might block the upgrade process.
Make sure that Replication is current and then stop Replication.
Quit all applications, including all services that have SQL Server dependencies. Upgrade might fail if local applications are connected to the instance being upgraded.
If you use Database Mirroring, see Minimize Downtime for Mirrored Databases When Upgrading Server Instances.
Upgrading the Database Engine
You can overwrite an installation of SQL Server 2005 or later with a version upgrade. If an earlier version of SQL Server is detected when you run SQL Server Setup, all previous SQL Server program files are upgraded, and all data stored in the previous SQL Server instance is preserved. In addition, earlier versions of SQL Server Books Online will remain intact on the computer.
When running the SQL Server 2014 setup program, the SQL Server instance is stopped and restarted as part of running the pre-upgrade checks.
When you upgrade SQL Server, the previous SQL Server instance will be overwritten and will no longer exist on your computer. Before upgrading, back up SQL Server databases and other objects associated with the previous SQL Server instance.
You can upgrade the Database Engine by using the SQL Server Installation Wizard.
Database Compatibility Level After Upgrade
The compatibility levels of the
msdb and Resource databases are set to 120 after upgrade. The
master system database retains the compatibility level it had before upgrade.
If the compatibility level of a user database was 100 or higher before the upgrade, it remains the same after upgrade. If the compatibility level was 90 before upgrade, in the upgraded database, the compatibility level is set to 100, which is the lowest supported compatibility level in SQL Server 2014.
New user databases will inherit the compatibility level of the
model database.
Migrating Databases
You can move user databases to an instance of SQL Server using backup and restore or detach and attach functionalities in SQL Server. For more information, see Copy Databases with Backup and Restore or Database Detach and Attach (SQL Server).
A database that has the identical name on both source and destination servers cannot be moved or copied. In this case, it will be noted as "Already exists."
For more information, see Use the Copy Database Wizard.
After Upgrading the Database Engine
After upgrading the Database Engine, complete the following tasks:
Re-register your servers. For more information about registering servers, see Register Servers.
Re-populate full-text catalogs to ensure semantic consistency in query results.
SQL Server 2014 installs new word breakers for use by Full-Text and Semantic Search. The word breakers are used both at indexing time and at query time. If you do not rebuild the full-text catalogs, your search results may be inconsistent. If you issue a full-text query that looks for a phrase that is broken differently by the word breaker in a previous version of SQL Server and the current word breaker, a document or row containing the phrase might not be retrieved. This is because the indexed phrases were broken using different logic than the query is using. The solution is to repopulate (rebuild) the full-text catalogs with the new word breakers so that index time and query time behavior are identical.
For more information, see sp_fulltext_catalog (Transact-SQL).
Configure the SQL Server installation. To reduce the attackable surface area of a system, SQL Server selectively installs and enables key services and features.
Validate or remove USE PLAN hints that are generated by SQL Server 2005 and applied to queries on partitioned tables and indexes.
SQL Server changes the way queries on partitioned tables and indexes are processed. Queries on partitioned objects that use the USE PLAN hint for a plan that is generated by SQL Server 2005 might contain a plan that is not usable in SQL Server 2014. We recommend the following procedures after you upgrade to SQL Server 2014.
When the USE PLAN hint is specified directly in a query:
Remove the USE PLAN hint from the query.
Test the query.
If the optimizer does not select an appropriate plan, tune the query, and then consider specifying the USE PLAN hint with the desired query plan.
When the USE PLAN hint is specified in a plan guide:
Use the sys.fn_validate_plan_guide function to check the validity of the plan guide. Alternatively, you can check for invalid plans by using the Plan Guide Unsuccessful event in SQL Server Profiler.
If the plan guide is not valid, drop the plan guide. If the optimizer does not select an appropriate plan, tune the query, and then consider specifying the USE PLAN hint with the query plan that you want.
A plan that is not valid will not cause the query to fail when the USE PLAN hint is specified in a plan guide. Instead, the query is compiled without using the USE PLAN hint.
Any databases that were marked full-text enabled or disabled before the upgrade will maintain that status after upgrade. After the upgrade, the full-text catalogs will be rebuilt and populated automatically for all full-text enabled databases. This is a time-consuming and resource-consuming operation. You can pause the full-text indexing operation temporarily by running the following statement:
EXEC sp_fulltext_service 'pause_indexing', 1;
To resume full-text index population, run the following statement:
EXEC sp_fulltext_service 'pause_indexing', 0;
See Also
Supported Version and Edition Upgrades
Work with Multiple Versions and Instances of SQL Server
Backward Compatibility
Upgrade Replicated Databases


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State Representative to Introduce Bicycle Detour Bill
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COLUMBIA - Republican Missouri Rep. Rick Brattin has plans to introduce a bill that would require bicyclists to use alternate routes on certain state roads that are deemed too dangerous to hold both vehicles and bicycles.
Rep. Brattin said he will start talking with the Missouri Department of Transportation on Tuesday to work out details of the bill.
"I've just had a lot of constituents complaining that they're popping over hills having to slam on brakes, you know, and there's just no escape route with, like I said, with no shoulder," said Brattin who represents much of Cass County.
Brattin said he hopes in working with MoDot they create a set standard to determine if a road is dangerous. "I don't think we should be putting my family or anybody else's family that's on the roadway in danger when it's a dangerous road," said Brattin.
Even though no official plan has been introduced to the Missouri House of Representatives, some bicyclists are not happy with the idea.
"There are rules that apply to [bicycle riding] that are already in the Missouri traffic code," said long time cyclist Bob Smith. "We encourage people to follow the rules. It's an education process for both drivers and riders."
Smith, who serves as treasurer for the Columbia Bicycle Club, said he understands that some state roads are not ideal for bicycle riding but stresses that problems only arise when motorists and bicyclists do not obey the rules of the road.
If the bill is introduced and passed it would force many cyclists onto bike trails and other off-road paths, something that Smith can be limiting. "Trail riding is a good place for beginners to start to learn how to ride. But you start moving into road riding, you're going different places," said Smith.
Rep. Brattin said he hopes to work with riders to come up with the best possible solution for all.
He said he does not have a time frame as to when he plans on introducing a bill.
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Mathurin of Larchant
Saint Mathurin of Larchant, also Mathurin of Sens, or Maturinus (died ca. 388)[1] was a fourth century Priest and Confessor who successfully enlightened his native region of Gâtinais, France,[note 1] and was gifted with wonderworking abilities as an exorcist. He is honoured as the apostle and patron of the province of Gâtinais,[1] and his feast day is observed on November 1.
The first source to mention St. Mathurin is the Martyrology of Usuard,[2] written in 875 by a Benedictine monk of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris.[note 2]
Mathurin was born in Larchant between Nemours and Malesherbes in Gâtinais, in northern France. His parents, Marinus and Euphemia, were pagans, and his father had even been entrusted by the Roman Emperor Maximian with the task of exterminating the Christians in the country.
As soon as Saint Maturinus heard the Good News, his heart was entirely converted to Christ, and sold everything he owned to possess the pearl of great price. Mathurin was secretly baptized by Bishop Polycarp of Sens at the age of twelve, and eventually he converted his own parents.
He was ordained to the priesthood at the age of twenty by Bishop Polycarp of Sens, and began to perform miracles, having a special gift for curing diseases of the soul and body.[3] It has also been suggested that he baptized Emperor Constantius Chlorus in the fountain of Larchant.[4]
His bishop respected him so much, that he gave Mathurin the government of the diocese when he had to leave for Rome. Mathurin then preached the Gospel to Gatinais with such success, that he converted the whole province to Christ.[1]
His fame grew to such an extent, that Emperor Maximian himself requested that Maturinus come to Rome so that his daughter-in-law Flavia Maximiana Theodora, who had been possessed by an evil spirit, could be cured by the saint. Mathurin thus went to Rome where he expelled the demon from Theodora's body.
Mathurin lived for three more years in the Eternal City (Rome), interceding with the emperor on behalf of persecuted Christians.[2]
He died in peace some time before the year 388 and was buried in a Roman cemetery. However, Mathurin miraculously indicated that he wished to be buried in Larchant, and so his body was taken to Sens, and then back to Larchant, which became a pilgrimage site.
When the canons of Notre-Dame de Paris were put in possession of Larchant in 1004, they gained the Saints relics. They kept a part in Larchant and placed the other part in the chapel of Saint-Mathurin which they built in Paris in the Latin Quarter.[2]
In Larchant, a church was dedicated to him in 1153, which was carefully reconstructed by the canons of Notre-Dame de Paris. It was flooded with pilgrims and the sick for centuries, particularly at Pentecost.[3] Several kings of France including Louis XI, Francis I and Henry IV made pilgrimages to Larchant.[2] Unfortunately, his shrine was burnt by the Huguenots (French Protestants) in 1568, and his relics were destroyed.[1]
Saint Mathurin was also commemorated by the Trinitarian friars in France , known as "Mathurins" because they were based in the Parisian church of Saint-Mathurin from 1228 onwards.[note 3]
Due to his deliverance of the girl with the evil spirit, Saint Mathurin is invoked against particular obsessions, madness, insanity, and as a protector of lunatics.[5] The faculty of medicine of the University of Paris kept their great seal in the Church of Saint-Mathurin.[6] By extension he also became the patron saint of comic actors, jesters, and clowns,[2] as well as the patron saint of sailors (in Brittany),[2] of tinmen (in Paris), and of plumbers.[5]
- ↑ In the historic Brie region of France, the western Brie française, corresponding roughly to the modern department of Seine-et-Marne in the Île-de-France region.
- ↑ He is also included for November 1 in the Latin edition of the Martyrologium Romanum, published by the Vatican in 2001.
- ↑ "MATHURINS, or BRETHREN OF THE HOLY TRINITY, an order of monks which arose at the end of the 12th century, and got this name from having a church at Paris which claims St. Mathurin for its patron saint. All their churches were dedicated to the Holy Trinity. Sometimes they are called Brethren of the Redemption of Captives, because originating at the period of the Crusades, they gave their labor and a third of their revenue to liberate Christian captives from Mohammedan masters. Their founders were two French recluses in the diocese of Meaux - Jean de Mattia and Felix de Valois. By some they seem to have been called the Order of Asses, as they were permitted to use those animals only, and were debarred from riding on horses. A similar order was founded in Spain in 1228, and there called the Order of St. Mary."
- "Mathurins". In: Rev. John M'Clintock & James Strong. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. Vol. V - K,L,Mc. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1882. p.879.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). St. Mathurin, Priest and Confessor. The Lives of the Saints. Volume XI: November. 1866. (Bartleby.com).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 (French) Saint Mathurin.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 (French) La galerie des saints de la maison saint Jean-Baptiste. 15 Octobre 2009.
- ↑ (French) Mathurin de Larchant. French Wikipedia.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 (Italian) San Maturino.
- ↑ René Gandilhon. Sigillographie des universités de France. Paris, 1952.
- Maturinus. Wikipedia.
- Mathurin (Maturinus). Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
- November 1. The Roman Martyrology.
- Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). St. Mathurin, Priest and Confessor. The Lives of the Saints. Volume XI: November. 1866. (Bartleby.com).
- St. Mathurin. Catholic Online.
- Katherine I. Rabenstein. Maturinus of Sens. November 1. Saint of the Day - St. Patrick Catholic Church, Washington D.C.
- "Mathurins". In: Rev. John M'Clintock & James Strong. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. Vol. V - K,L,Mc. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1882. p.879.
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- (Italian) San Maturino.
- (French) Mathurin de Larchant. French Wikipedia.
- (French) Saint Mathurin.
- (French) Églises dédiées à saint Mathurin.
- (French) Images de saint Mathurin.
- (French) La galerie des saints de la maison saint Jean-Baptiste. 15 Octobre 2009.
- (French) Hippolyte Gancel. Les Saints qui guérissent en Normandie. Ouest-France, 2006. 253pp. ISBN 9782737335655
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The Other Side of 57th Street
by Chester Lane
Fostering young artists in the nation's music business capital: Two non-traditional managements celebrate anniversary milestones.
A half century ago, when impresario Sol Hurok was dazzling American audiences with superstars like Artur Rubinstein, and Arthur Judson held sway as the czar of both Columbia Artists Management Inc. and the New York Philharmonic, a more altruistic approach to presenting musicians found its first flowering across the street from Carnegie Hall. On October 20, 1951, the first in a series of eight musicales organized by the newly incorporated Concert Artists Guild took place at Steinway Hall, the purpose being to give emerging musicians a chance to be heard. Among those featured that season was fourteen-year-old pianist Samuel Sanders, who would soon go on to debut with the New York Philharmonic and eventually develop a distinguished career as accompanist to such artists as Itzhak Perlman, Beverly Sills, and Mstislav Rostropovich. Three years after launching that musicale series, Concert Artists Guild adopted the system for identifying career potential that remains its hallmark today: a competition whose winners would be rewarded with a New York solo debut.
his spring,
as CAG entered a year of celebrations surrounding its 50th anniversary -- the
kickoff was a round of competition finals at New York's Merkin Concert Hall on
April 2 -- another organization with a stellar record for identifying and
nurturing talent, Young Concert Artists, was preparing to wind up its 40th
anniversary season with a special benefit concert. Scheduled for May 16 at
Equitable Center Auditorium, close to Carnegie Hall, it will feature members of
the current YCA roster along with such illustrious alumni as Ani and Ida
Kavafian, Dawn Upshaw, Emanuel Ax, Fazil Say, Ruth Laredo, Paula Robison, Carter
Brey, and Fred Sherry. Leading up to this event was a series of five lunchtime
recitals at New York's Morgan Library, each pairing a YCA alumnus or alumna with
a young musician from the current roster.
YCA uses auditions to identify outstanding instrumentalists and singers. Each of the winners -- the number has ranged from five to seven in recent years -- gets $5,000 and a spot on the YCA roster for a minimum of three years, and each non-winning finalist receives an award of $1,000. The winners are presented in recital debuts at New York's 92nd Street Y and Washington's Kennedy Center, and also featured in concerto debuts with the New York Chamber Symphony and in mixed solo and chamber music concerts at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall. For management services YCA musicians are charged what Founder Susan Wadsworth calls "a token fee" -- from five to twenty percent of their net earnings, on a sliding scale.
A Caring Family
A testimonial that appeared in Concert Artist Guild's program for its 35th anniversary Gala Awards Dinner sums up the experience of many artists with nonprofit management. "It's a feeling of patronage," wrote soprano Evelyn Lear. "To be associated with The Guild is to feel you're part of a big, caring family." Winner of CAG's first competition in the 1954-55 season, Lear was presented that spring in a debut at Town Hall. She went on to a major career in Europe and at the Metropolitan Opera, then launched a second career as a concert narrator in the 1990s. Like other CAG awardees -- including flutist Carol Wincenc, a 1972 winner -- Lear has continued her involvement with the organization as a jurist.
Violinist Ani Kavafian is one of the rare individuals to have been presented by both CAG and YCA. Kavafian remembers playing some outreach concerts (a hospital and a prison) during her one year with CAG in 1971-72, and with CAG's blessing she entered and won the YCA audition.
"I give YCA full credit for starting my career," says Kavafian, who now maintains a schedule of about 95 concerts a year. "It's probably the only management left that really coddles their artists -- looking at where the concerts are, trying to upgrade every year to better places, looking into getting you interviews everywhere you go, helping you pick out pieces, choose the look you want." Wadsworth, she says, "always made sure of everything. I gave my New York recital and Susan was backstage an hour before the performance helping me with my hair. We laugh about it now, because at the time we didn't want to think about our hair! But she was right -- she wanted us to look our best."
No one knows at eighteen or twenty whether they will have a major long-term career, and Wadsworth notes that many ultimately successful artists lack confidence at the beginning. But YCA takes special pride in having picked a long string of artists who've gone on to big careers. "I remember Pinchas Zukerman standing in my kitchen and saying, 'Susan, do you think I'm going to make it?' He was about eighteen then.
"And I said, 'of course! You're going to be one of the biggest stars in the whole world. Don't worry about it.'"
Chester Lane is senior editor of SYMPHONY.


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Accuracy considerations in microstrip surface impedance measurements O'Callaghan Castellà, Juan Manuel; Sans, C.; Collado Gómez, Juan Carlos; Canet Grau, Eduard; Pous Andrés, Rafael; Fontcuberta, Josep (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 1997-06-30)
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Full wave analysis of the image hybrid dielectric/HTS resonator Sans, C.; O'Callaghan Castellà, Juan Manuel; Sancho, D.; Pous Andrés, Rafael; Fontcuberta, Josep; Liang, Ji-fhu; Liang, Guo-chun (IEEE, 1997-12-31)
Open AccessAn analysis of the image hybrid dielectric / high-temperature superconductor (HTS) resonator is carried out. A full-wave radial mode-matching method is used to obtain the electromagnetic fields inside the resonator for ...
Full wave modelling of hts dual mode patch filters and staggered coupled-line filters Flores Jiménez, Alejandro; Collado Gómez, Juan Carlos; Sans, C.; O'Callaghan Castellà, Juan Manuel; Pous Andrés, Rafael; Fontcuberta, Josep (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 1997-06-30)
Open AccessIn order to obtain high-power handling, dual-mode patch HTS filters have been analyzed through Green's function and desegmentation techniques. A precise circuit model has been obtained and applied to the filter design ...


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In his book, The Dance of Life, writer Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) commented that if at some point in the course of civilization we find that science and religion are antagonistic, then there must be something wrong with either our science or our religion. There are those, of course, who have suggested, in all seriousness, that science and religion are antagonistic. For example, Marshall Walker, in his book, The Nature of Scientific Thought, wrote:
The various Christian churches of the world have in common a supernatural theology which few scientists can bring themselves to accept. The attitude of the scientist toward authority is often misunderstood, and becomes a source of confusion in communicating with those in other disciplines. The scientist recognizes no authority except an empirical observation of nature. The scientist insists that students work in the laboratory to teach them this attitude toward authority. The student seldom verifies any law very accurately and never verifies all laws, but he does become convinced that empirical observation is the ultimate court of appeal which can be invoked if necessary for any statement or law of his science. This attitude toward authority prevents the scientist from accepting the religious interpretation of mystical experiences. He has been trained to distrust his own personal experiences and emotions. The mystics' easy acceptance of an explanation with no possibility of empirical validation puzzles the scientist. Such an acceptance is impossible for him, and he can only conclude that the mystic has never encountered the feeling of conviction which the scientist finds in empirical validation. Rational behavior consists in being guided by the predictions of the most successful known model (theory) of natural law (1963, pp. 159-160).
And so, with a stroke of the pen, anything of real importance has been relegated, by definition, to the realm of the empirical. This, of course, is not true science, but rather is the philosophy of scientism, which maintains that a complete explanation of all phenomena is possible from a few basic natural principles.
Such statements are representative of a certain kind of built-in bias. Lynn White Jr., writing in the premier issue of Science 80, observed: "It should be no news that scientists—even great ones—are people too.... More damaging to the intellectual process is the tendency of everyone, including historians as well as scientists, to operate within a set of inherited and inadequately tested assumptions" (1979, pp. 73-74). When certain scientists, and those sympathetic with them, suggest that science alone is the "ultimate court of appeal," the charge can be leveled, and sustained, that they have built their world view on "inadequately tested assumptions." It is the height of intellectual bigotry to suggest that science and science alone—to the exclusion of all other areas of human thought and endeavor—somehow possesses the authority to answer every question that might be posed. Phillip Abelson, writing in Science, addressed just such an attitude in an article on "Bigotry In Science."
One of the most astonishing characteristics of scientists is that some of them are plain, old-fashioned bigots. Their zeal has a fanatical, egocentric quality characterized by disdain and intolerance for anyone or any value not associated with a special area of intellectual activity (1964, p. 373).
Those who suggest that "rational behavior" is characterized by the exclusion of religion, and the acceptance of science as the sole authority in all matters, are guilty of the bigotry of which Dr. Abelson wrote. They do not seem to realize that science—as great as it is—is not without its own limitations. The honest scientist admits, frankly and candidly, the limitations inherent in his method. Adherents of scientism, on the other hand, suggest that science can provide answers to any and all questions—something that science is not equipped to do!
If those of us in the scientific community would do a better job of explaining to the public at large how science works, and the limitations of the scientific method, the alleged antagonism between science and religion would dissipate. In speaking of the backlash of a current public disenchantment with science—as a result of the "science can answer anything" attitude—White remarked:
The problem is not public ignorance, but public alienation. Moreover, the chief reason for this alienation is the reluctance of most professional scientists to be as objective about themselves, their values, their goals, and their intellectual methods as they claim to be about interpreting specific data. For a variety of reasons—a litany of grievances that is so commonplace it need not be repeated here—a significant part of the general public has become distrustful of those goals, values and methods. If they are valid today, they need new validation and not simply reassertion. If they are superstitions, i.e., obsolete assumptions, left over from the recent past of science, they need rejection or revision. And the discussion of all this must be public, else it will carry no conviction to the disenchanted laity who provide the support for science (1979, p. 73).
None among us doubts the tremendous strides science has made. Nor can there be any doubt about the benefits that have accrued to mankind as a result of scientific endeavor. However, as great as science is, and as wonderful as its benefits for humankind have been, the scientific method nevertheless is subject to certain limitations. Five readily come to mind.
1. The scientific method is limited to what can be observed with the five senses. George Gaylord Simpson, the renowned evolutionist of Harvard, wrote: "It is inherent in any acceptable definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observations are not really about anything—or at the very least they are not science" (1964, 143:769). The Oxford Dictionary, in fact, defines science as "a branch of study which is concerned with a connected body of demonstrated truths or observed facts" (emp. added). It is only through use of the five senses that this observation takes place. As Duane Gish has noted: "Thus, for a theory to qualify as a scientific theory, it must be supported by events, processes, or properties which can be observed..." (1973, pp. 2-3). If something can be seen, heard, touched, smelled, or tasted, then science can deal with it. But to expect science to investigate something in the proverbial "sixth sense" is to demand too much of the scientific method, and lays it open to charges of abuse or misuse.
2. The scientific method is limited to the present. That science is limited to the present should be a self-evident, axiomatic truth, since the present is the only place and time in which the five senses operate. Enno Wolthius commented on this point when he wrote:
Science seeks to explain the behavior of that which is, and to check its explanation by means of experiments. But this experimental requirement can be met only in the present time. The past, and especially the beginning of things, lies beyond the grasp of this method, and so science can only speculate about the origin and history of the world (1963, p. 50).
To require science to make factual statements about pre-history is to prostitute the method. Since science is based upon observation, it must limit its scope to human history, where things can be properly observed and recorded. As Henry Morris and John Whitcomb have suggested: "Since historical geology, unlike other sciences, cannot deal with currently observable and reproducible events, it is manifestly impossible ever really to prove, by the scientific method, any hypothesis related to pre-human history" (1961, p. 213).
In recent years, there has been considerable disagreement between creationists and evolutionists over whether or not science should be limited to the present. Evolutionists have insisted on using science in an attempt to study various aspects of their theory (e.g., the Big Bang, the origin of the Solar System, etc.) that they freely admit belong in "pre-history." Creationists have responded by suggesting that such events are not observable, and therefore are not properly within the domain of science. Yet there are certain things about both evolution and creation that can be tested. In order to distinguish the things within each model that can be tested from those that cannot, some authors have suggested that science itself be divided into two categories. For example, Thaxton, Bradley, and Olsen, in The Mystery of Life's Origin, recommended separating operation science from origin science (1984). Others (e.g., Geisler and Anderson, 1987) have followed suit.
Operation science deals with regular, recurring events in nature that require natural causes (eclipses, volcanoes, reproduction, etc.), while origin science deals with singularities that may or may not require a natural cause (the Big Bang, creation, etc.). The term "origin science" may be new, but it operates by the standard principles of causality and uniformity. The principle of causality says that every material effect must have a prior, necessary, and adequate cause. The principle of uniformity (or analogy) states that similar effects have similar causes. In other words, the kinds of causes that we observe producing effects today can be counted on to have produced similar effects in the past. What we see as an adequate cause in the present, we assume to have been an adequate cause in the past; what we see as an inadequate cause in the present, we assume to have been an inadequate cause in the past.
None of us denies that creation occurred in the distant past as the result of events that now are unable to be studied experimentally in the laboratory. But the same limitations are inherent in evolutionary scenarios. Anyone familiar with the works of evolutionists like Robert Jastrow and Fred Hoyle is aware of the fact that these scientists, and others like them, have pointed out that the origin of the Universe, and of life itself, occurred in the distant past under conditions not necessarily experimentally reproducible and therefore not able to be studied in a strictly scientific manner. Evolutionists Paul Ehrlich and L.C. Birch have addressed these issues.
Our theory of evolution has become...one which cannot be refuted by any possible observations. Every conceivable observation can be fitted into it. It is thus "outside empirical science" but not necessarily false. No one can think of ways in which to test it. Ideas, either without basis or based on a few laboratory experiments carried out in extremely simplified systems, have attained currency far beyond their validity. They have become part of an evolutionary dogma accepted by most of us as part of our training (1967, 214:349).
Thus, even defenders of evolutionary theory have admitted that their theory is "outside of empirical science." Of course, evolutionists have responded by suggesting that "creation is based on supernatural processes in the past" and therefore is not scientific. However, the "supernatural" beginnings of creation are no less available for scientific examination than are the "prehistoric" (though allegedly natural) beginnings of evolution. To the unbiased observer, that would seem to put creation and evolution on equal footing, scientifically speaking.
3. The scientific method is limited to telling us "how" a process works, not "why." In his book, Questions of Science and Faith, J.N. Hawthorne remarked: "Science can give us the 'know-how' but it cannot give us the 'know-why' " (1960, p. 4). The late James D. Bales noted:
The scientific method is incapable of dealing with the realm of purpose. It can deal with cause and effect relationships; or as some would say, it can deal with the succession of events in time. It cannot deal with the "why" when one uses the term "why" with reference to purpose (1976, p. 37).
Science deals with mechanism, not purpose. "Why"—in regard to purpose—is not a question science is equipped to answer.
4. The scientific method is limited in that it is amoral (non-moral). Nobel laureate Jacques Monod once stated that "science is ignorant of values" (1969, p. 21). There is nothing inherent in the scientific method that provides for the definition or study of morals. Paul Little, in Know Why You Believe, was correct when he said:
It should be recognized that science is incapable of making value judgments about the things it measures. Many men on the frontiers of science are realizing that there is nothing inherent in science to guide them in the application of the discoveries they make. There is nothing in science itself which will determine whether nuclear energy will be used to destroy cancer or to destroy cities. This is a judgment outside the scientific method to determine (1967, p. 105).
Bales also was correct in his assessment: "The scientific method cannot prove that we have any obligation to accept truth if we find it unpalatable, or show why we should not accept falsehood if we can turn it to our advantage" (1976, p. 37). Science simply does not have the mechanism (by definition of its own method) to legislate morals. This is not meant to imply that scientists work without morals or values. It is simply to say that whatever morals or values they possess were not derived from the scientific method. Science is not equipped to deal with morals.
5. The scientific method is limited in that it cannot deal with the unique. The scientific method deals with those things that are: (a) timeless; (b) universal; (c) dependable; and (d) repeatable. Those things that do not fit in these categories are outside the realm of science. Paul Weisz, in his text, Elements of Biology, stated that "one-time events on earth are outside of science" (1965, p. 4). Biologist John N. Moore has observed that "...at the core of scientific method or methods is experimental repeatability or reproducibility" (1973). Simpson put it this way:
The important distinction between science and those other systematizations (the arts, philosophy, and theology) is that science is self-testing and self-correcting. The testing and correcting are done by means of observations that can be repeated with essentially the same results by normal persons operating by the same methods and with the same approach (as quoted in Moore, 1973, p. 23).
The English word "science" derives from the Latin scientia, which means "knowledge." Scientists are supposed to be on a lifelong search for knowledge and truth, regardless of where that search eventually leads. Science is based on an observation of the facts, and is directed at finding patterns of order in the observed data. To suggest that knowledge can be acquired solely on the basis of naturalism, and that empirical observation is the "court of ultimate appeal," is to err. Such an attitude ignores other numerous, significant avenues of human endeavor, as well as additional means of coming to knowledge and truth. It also misuses and abuses the scientific method which, as great as it is, never was intended to be a panacea.
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Yeah it's your boy Lil B.
A'yo Just Blaze come holla at me bro.
It's your boy Lil B Red Flame Mixtape, this the intro
If you didn't get Blue Flame go get that to understand this.
It's done, rap game's done...
My nigga told me if I ever stop rappin
The game lost Jordan, trade him to the Magic
Exhibit Based not Exhibit C
You niggas couldn't see, let me part the sea
Part a part of me, nothing pardons me
You niggas arguably is worse than me
Meet the whole squad, let me go hearse your team
Pop bullets in his back make him work his knees
This is sick I'm on top now
I remember in the hood I was locked down Oakland
Havin YA dreams the pen right ahead of me
Glad I didn't let a few suckas get ahead of me
Now I guarantee that they never be forgettin me
Like a hard drive man it's all about the memory
Strapped with a vest screaming' muthafuck my enemies
Haters fuck around I start movin like a centipede
I'm the weed-man so you know I got the remedy
Plus I'm a user, dope-fiend music
Plus I'm a robber and I dare you suckas push me
Got the same pistol that they shootin in Blue Streak
Ridin Aston Martin new suede with the blue seats
Then I ride Toyota, hit the hood solo
Doin dirt solo I'll tee like Mobo
Got the piece like popo, spreadin peace like grown folks
My mom should be proud of me
I don't know but I'm feelin like she doubtin me
Real nigga shit everybody hatin' on me.
And you don't know about these handles
Most of my songs now I gotta set examples
Growin up, I was always the one to have trouble with the ones that was never growin up
Now we grown up and they never goin up I swear to god that's the type of shit that make me go nuts
Age 16 I was stealin out trucks
Had music in the deck, had zips in the trunk
Right before class poppin bottles getting drunk
Never been a driver, never had a license
Walked in my house and it was smellin like incense
Bringin home DVD players and TV's
Give em to my Mom as presents for creating me
And you knowin that I love ya in the hood I'm like Peter Pan passin out hundreds
No hate in my heart, I was passin out money
17 I been fuckin stunin
(Yeah, uh)
Before I was a rapper, I was just a trapper
Don't trap the real and I used to have a ski-mask
Never rob the family, never rob the innocent
Never rob a nigga who you cool and who you kickin with
Bringin back the G-code these niggas started breakin' it
How you makin death threats to niggas who was makin it
At your house mad and you really started hatin em
Want to be the hero but you never really takin shit
Fuck around with me I leave your ankles split
Desert Eagle with extended clips, wishin death to enemies
You hate on me, you a fake nigga
You a fake nigga like Ricki Lake nigga
Heart and soul of a cold-blooded killa
But my spirit too pure I had to shower in the river
And bless my hart I'm a visionary
Speak in 3rd person, cause it's the only one in the city
I'm the greatest rapper alive, Lil B I'm the rawest rapper, greatest to ever do it... (Based God mothafuckas!)
And I don't know how I survived my childhood
A lotta letters and the judge show a lot of love
PO hate still do a lot of drugs
Violate a couple times now I understand
You would act like my friend and send me to the pen
Not the pen juvenile hall like a gym
Start my day man I'm really nice with the pen...
Our world ain't the same
I'm thinkin hitman out nigga waitin in the trees
If he's relevant, I'm a make him Oddjob
I got the goldeneye, I got the? Golden gun
I'm on the jet-skis no I'm not James Bond
Split a nigga wig make him think that he James Bond
If I ain't James Bond, bet I got the same gun
Plus I got money in the bank for the bail-bond
Pay him 80 G's if he thinkin he can tell on
No witness make him run like Rev Run
No blood in his jeans (genes) like a stepson
Yeah I got 45's I'm travelin to India
I'm finna have 10 kids it's my millennium
Everything Lil B, everything Based God
Berkley like Gotham City, hitman is the Joker
Best friend Two-Face
Who do I approach when I move at night, like Batman
Show my respect with my right hand
Solid? eye contact, hip-hop notepads I bring it full contact
Really in the hood and I do it no contracts
And I won't eat pussy eatin bitches like blunt-wraps
When you see me, it's like you seen a holy ghost
Put the nine in his mouth nigga like french toast
My niggas, we do it real extra-big
Wanna book Lil b that's G's
Start to see life real like my last name
Lil B that pretty bitch run the rap game
Hey Just Blaze come holla at me man, come fuck with the greatest bruh.
Lil B, rawest rapper alive can't nobody fuck with me.
Hey, um, Jay Electronica I'm sorry I had to do that...


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THE DAY REPLAYED – Asian sides had a field day as Group C and D of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Azerbaijan 2012 got underway on Sunday, with China PR outclassing Uruguay to win 4-0 and Japan hitting five goals against Brazil without reply.
Earlier in the day, Germany scraped past Ghana 2-1, while a solitary Fernanda Perez header gave Mexico the narrowest of victories over New Zealand.
Group C
Mexico 1-0 New Zealand
Brazil 0-5 Japan
Group D
Ghana 1-2 Germany
Uruguay 0-4 China PR
Goal of the day
Brazil 0-5 Japan, Yui Narumiya '67
The top scorer and Most Valuable Player at last year's AFC U-16 Women's Championship, Yui Narumiya lived up to her star billing when she stepped out at Azerbaijan 2012 on Sunday. The JFA Academy Fukushima player had already opened her account for the tournament with her side's third goal of the day when she added a stunning second to complete the rout of the Brazilians. After skipping round her marker with some dazzling footwork inside the box, she smacked a rising drive against the bar and reacted quicker than anyone to lash the rebound into the opposite corner with a thumping volley.
Memorable moments
Tears for Gonzalez
Uruguay goalkeeper Gabriela Gonzalez had a FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup debut to forget. At fault for two of China PR's opening three goals, the unfortunate custodian was then dismissed for handling the ball outside the box – the first red card ever to be shown in the competition – and left the field in tears.
Asian firepower
After Ri Un-Sim and Ri Kyong-Hyang's hat-tricks for Korea DPR against Gambia on Saturday, and Ri Hyang-Sim's brace in the same game, yet more Asian strikers were in among the goals on Sunday. Rika Masuya and Yui Narumiya both scored doubles in Japan's emphatic defeat of Brazil, while China PR's Zhang Chen struck twice against Uruguay. Asia's three sides have scored 20 goals and conceded none so far, with the aforementioned six players accounting for all but six of them.
Asian perfection
The Asian trio have made their intentions clear by sweeping all before them on the opening weekend at Azerbaijan 2012. Coming hard on the heels of Korea DPR's 11-0 defeat of Gambia, Japan and China PR's handsome victories on Sunday ensured that the AFC is the only confederation with a 100 percent record in the tournament. What's more, the Little Nadeshiko and the Steel Roses have also maintained Asia's dominance over South American sides in the competition. Six times teams from the two regions have met in the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and six times the Asian representatives have won.
The stat
5 - In scoring five unanswered goals on Sunday, Japan recorded their biggest-ever win over Brazil. The Japanese seem to have something over the South American giants this year, having notched 2-0 and 4-1 wins against them at the Women's Olympic Football Tournament London 2012 and the Kirin Cup respectively.
The quote
"This is my first World Cup and words can't describe how I feel. It's fantastic to be here and to have the chance to represent your country. It's a privilege and an experience I'll never forget," Mexico forward Fernanda Perez
The schedule (all times local)
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Group A
Colombia-Canada, 14:00
Azerbaijan-Nigeria, 18:00
Group B
France-Korea DPR, 14:00
USA-Gambia, 18:00


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A few months ago I created a video showing how Israel's Channel 10 news re-edited an interview conducted by one newscaster, in order to make it seem like it was done by another. I concluded my post saying:
…unlike other professions like advertising, sales or law where honesty is no longer expected — in journalism, credibility is currency. We don't expect our newsmen to lie to us — not intentionally, not wittingly — and finding out otherwise is disheartening.
My video was quoted a couple of times, most notably in an article by Oren Persico in The 7th Eye, Israel's media review website. With this minor brouhaha, I hoped the Israeli media would look at the big picture, understand the impact doctored footage makes on the viewers, and draw the appropriate conclusions. Apparently that was not the case, as Channel 10 chose to suspend the newscaster that 'got caught', while knowing full well this practice continues.
Today, on Channel 2 another such incident was revealed when newscaster Oren Weigenfeld wanted to show an interview "we conducted an hour ago" but the footage that was played was not the ready-for-air version, but the raw material where it is quite clear he is not the one conducting the interview, but acting for the camera while a pre-taped interview is being played.
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Craig Johnson's death leaves a gaping hole in the nurturing of entrepreneurs and new companies in Silicon Valley.
Johnson, 62, died Saturday at Stanford Hospital, several days after suffering a stroke and a couple months after his honeymoon in Europe.
Rather than following the path of a typical lawyer, Johnson reached for something bigger, pushing the boundaries and allowing his pioneering ideas lead him into the future. He was ahead of his time when he left the law firm Wilson Sonsini -- itself a storied firm -- to establish Venture Law Group in 1993.
Skeptics said a law firm focused on startups wouldn't work, but Venture Law Group grew to more than 100 lawyers and helped launch some of the biggest name in the tech world: Yahoo, Foundry Networks and Hotmail among them.
"Craig was a pioneer in Silicon Valley, and his vision helped drive the growth of the technology industry," said Jerry Yang, cofounder and former CEO of Yahoo, in an email to AM Law Daily.
His most recent project was an online law firm, Virtual Law Partners, an extension of his vision for the future of the Internet and its uses for clients. Critics wondered about its success, but in just the last year, the group has grown to more than 40 lawyers.
Johnson was hailed as one of Silicon Valley's top 25 "movers and shakers" in 1997 by BusinessWeek magazine. Red Herring called him one of the Valley's "top power brokers" a couple years later and most recently, Forbes Magazine named him one of the country's top private company investors in 2001as part of their Midas List, Silicon Valley Watcher's Tom Foremski notes.
Johnson was a graduate of Stanford Law School. He got his undergradate degree at Yale and worked in Ethiopia as a Peace Corps volunteer.
His family is planning a memorial service for Sunday.


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{Sail Away With Me}: A Palette of Navy Blue + White
{Navy Blue + White}
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'Lost at Sea' Skirt by Shabby Apple + Lemonade Display
I adore navy blue. So elegant especially when married with white.
That looks so pretty. :)
Looks like a great shoot!
i completely agree. love navy and white together. have a great time on your vacation!
so classically nautical! Love that striped skirt
Love it! My wedding this weekend is using navy and white stripes, with some aqua/mint green thrown in! :)
Loving the simplicity! So chic! Enjoy the beautiful day, Kellie xx
Simple and classy! Love it!
Why is everything nautical so easy to love?! That ribbon around the lemonade jar is adorable!
Not quite my style, but I definitely know some folks that could pull this off. Fun theme!
Navy blue and lemon is gorgeous too...
Such a romantic, bright and breezy blog post. Love it.
Totally with you - there's just something about the water that is just amazing and super relaxing. This is a great color palette for a wedding at sea.
So cute! Loving the nautical theme here :D
totally loving all things nautical here lately.
~ Alexa
OH MY GAH! I'm so in love =)
XOXOX, Lisa
Navy is fabulous, mixed with white is stunning. I adore that skirt!! xx
We are so on the same page today with the blue!
xoxo ~ Courtney
lovely palette, Chrissy - this nautical theme is so pretty =)
Estupendas las cosas que nos dejas, gracias por compartir.
Saludos y un abrazo.
Classic! Love it :)
Nice blog post brow.
Don't forget to visit me back, wokey !!!
Love the stripes :)
xo Tori
I REALLY love anything nautical - especially loving that pretty cake
xoxo ~ Nani
Beyond beautiful and I am so loving the nautical vibe! Hope your week is going well!! xo
Well I must say that the combination of navy blue and white is just too good after seeing this beautiful dress...thanks for sharing
I think is my favorite color combo! So classic and chic!
This is so brilliant...I love this theme, too...so many places to go with it...literally!!! (c: And if I'm being honest, I would add a little pop of fuschia to the mix, mostly because I like pink with everything (c:
Navy blue and white are so clean and crisp together. I am loving that white and navy stripped skirt!! Beautiful.
You are speaking our language! This is one of my all-time favorite color and style combinations! {A}
love, love, LOVE navy & white~!
xoxo navy & orange
Loving that cake - so simple and pretty
love, anna
Ahhh, this is my all time FAVORITE! Nothing better - so stylish, yet totally classic. LOVE!
Classic coastal perfection! I love it!
So pretty! I love the stripes of blue & white.
I love your post and your blog!!!
Besos, desde España, Marcela
OMG! That cake is fab :)
~ Jenna Vi
stunning and so lovely
Love it! So summery!
I so agree with you! Love navy & white. It instantly brings me right to the sea and I love nothing more than that :)
Love the stripes. Lovely shoot, so inspiring.
LOVE that dress and this palette!
As do I! Wish I would've gone that direction.
LOVE this!! That skirt! The lemonade! The preppy details! Lovely!
This board is absolutely divine!
That stationary fits perfectly with the theme, love the details.
That striped skirt is nautical, summery perfection!
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The water is my favorite place of tranquility and as you know, blue is my favorite color for that reason. So, this was the perfect color palette for me. I'm actually designing a tablescape for a photo shoot that will be centered around the color blue, but not with these details. I loved this, but that goes without saying! ;-)
Simple and so elegant, this is the true definition of a modern wedding. I love it. xo
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I did see some gorg bridesmaid dresses on Anthropologie's site not long ago and thought of this combo. I'm glad you included this gem in the last days of summer here. Just stunning . . .
will always be one of my favorite combinations. Such a fun board Chrissy! Swooning over the skirt!
These were our colors and I just LOVED how crisp and clean...and classic it was! Love your inspiration board!
Beautifully designed and the color palette gives it a serene and delicate look.Love the color definitions and the arrangement of pictures here in this page.
It is a beautiful [alette
I totally agree with you.The combination of navy blue and white is great.I think it can be a geat idea of a wedding theme.
Gorgeous!! So classy.
Navy and white...so classic, so elegant.
Love the look of the navy blue and white...only some would be able to pull the combination off and surely you guys have :D !
stunning palette :)
Navy was a popular color at our facility this past weekend. It was worn by bridesmaids at TWO different weddings!
This post has been somewhat of a revelation to me.
wedding dresses


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Classroom stories.
Educators around the world are using iPad to build dynamic learning experiences. See how real teachers enhance their lessons from start to finish, using apps, books, movies, music and more.
Year 12 Science
A heart anatomy lesson with a digital pulse.
Texas-based science teacher Jodie Deinhammer uses iPad, iTunes U, digital textbooks and a suite of apps to help her students learn the anatomy of the human heart, from how it works to how to keep it healthy for life.See Jodie's lesson
School of Education
Student teachers re-imagine the textbook.
Using iBooks Author to create their own Multi-Touch books, Ireland's Seán Ó Grádaigh develops the next generation of teachers to write their own chapters.See Seán's lesson
Year 10 Humanities
A modern take on Romeo and Juliet.
New York–based high school teacher Larry Reiff makes Shakespeare relevant and exciting through engaging, performance-based assignments on iPad that use apps, books, videos and more from iTunes. See Larry's lesson
Year 5 History
Piecing together Tudor history. A classroom renaissance.
With a customised textbook for iPad and activities that prompt collaboration and conversation, Sophie Post and her students come together to visualise the Tudor family tree at their London primary school. See Sophie's lesson
Year 6 Language Arts
The Secret Garden grows into an immersive experience.
Using apps, books and iPad, Rhiannon Sparkes taps into her primary school students' creativity as they explore their town in Quebec to learn about the setting and themes of The Secret Garden. See Rhiannon's lesson


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posted Apr 9, 2019
Taylor Goodrich with American Trails
In honor of the International Trails Symposium and Training Institute, being held in Syracuse, New York this month, we have put together a list of ten National Recreation Trails to visit in New York State. These are just a sample of the dozens of NRTs located in New York State, so get out there and explore.
posted Apr 3, 2019
American Trails Staff
Nominations for the 2019 Coalition for Recreational Trails Achievement Awards are due May 1, 2019.
posted Mar 22, 2019
Spring is in the air, and it is the perfect time to explore nature and view wildlife on our nation's National Recreation Trails. Wildflowers are starting to bloom, birds are out in abundance, the weather is getting warmer, and these NRTs are some of the best trails out there to experience it all.
posted Feb 19, 2019
The results are in! Here are our picks from the 136 photos submitted for the 2018 photo contest.
posted Nov 16, 2018
Dedicated volunteers are working to improve and complete the trail that runs across seven northern states.
posted Aug 27, 2018
Christie Vanover
Lake Mead National Recreation Area's two National Recreation Trails, the Historic Railroad Trail and River Mountains Loop Trail, received funding for surface and drainage improvements to ensure that the trails are in good condition for years to come.
posted Aug 1, 2018
Bringing new life to communities along a 200-year-old industrial corridor.
posted Jul 24, 2018
Braille trails and sensory gardens offer sustainable and accessible ways to safely experience the outdoors and provide opportunities to interact with nature.
posted Jun 8, 2018
The beauty of hiking is that it is for all abilities. Opportunities for accessible trails as well as more challenging routes can be found in every corner of America.
posted Apr 3, 2018
San Diego County partnered with the California Conservation Corps to develop an accessible trail surfaced with hardened crushed granite material from TechniSoil LLC.
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Halloween hikers on the Fisher Towers Trail near Moab, Utah
Bicycling along flood wall murals in Dayton, Ohio
Boaters viewing the solar eclipse on the West Columbia Riverwalk section of the Three Rivers Greenway in West Columbia, South Carolina
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Oh come on,
You must be kidding.
Can life really be this cruel,
Unfair and forbidding?
Can't I ever catch a break
For even just one day?
Must I always be road kill
Along this rough highway?
If I had just one problem
Wouldn't that be great?
But piles and piles of them
That seems to be my fate.
I'm down here on the bottom
Struggling daily to climb up
Often making progress when
"Oh, damn, a new hole in my cup!"
While I clean up my spills
The dog vomits on the floor
I do wish he had thumbs
Then he could do the cleaning chore.
Day to day the challenges grow
The diagnoses also bloom and mount
Some days so many things hurt
I'm not sure, 'cause I've lost count.
Okay, it's time to stop and think
Since I often get tangled up in life
As all my problems mount into a pile
I must remind myself it's not all strife.
I have to take charge and say,
"It's my life and I'm in command."
I ignore the negative voice inside
And firmly take a stand.
Once I crawl out from under the pile
And find my legs intact
I look this horror in the eye and said,
"Okay, I demand that you step back."
I won't be buried beneath this pile
Don't I have trouble enough?
I can still be a formidable force
I'm not some dumb cream puff.
I don't dwell, I don't stress
I find something creative to do.
I have a look within myself
Search my heart and mind for a clue.
I pray, I read, I search
I still have life and breath
There is much for me to see and do
It's truly a matter of life and death.
I pick up my painful tush
Knowing where I go, it goes
Limp to some chore or other
And take time to smell the rose.
When I dug out from the pile today
I saw a flock of crows in a tree
Cawing and making it sway
And momentarily forgot about me.
There's so much life out there
Out from under that pile
It reminds me my heart is in charge
I'm still individual me and have style.
Each of us have goals to fulfill
I don't think it's to wear that old "hair shirt;"
It's to laugh and enjoy our life
And to look forward to dessert.
Come on, and join me
As you push that pile away
You are unique as is life
And each dawning day.
So you had a lousy day today?
Don't worry, there's a fresh one tomorrow.
Put "laughter" on your list, open the blinds to the light
And lock the door to sorrow.
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What is http://www.OldBike.eu?
This Online Vintage Bicycle Museum is a public internet database for fellow enthusiasts of vintage bicycles and tricycles.
I'm not an expert, just a vintage vehicle enthusiast and collector with many old cycles.
When I buy an old vehicle, I research its marque; it's a great way to learn about 20th century social history. I find automobilia and ephemera at autojumbles and shows, and spend my spare time building websites to share what I've discovered. I hope this website may help by cross-referencing info and images to identify machines or parts …and also provide pleasure to all who enjoy vintage motoring as much as I do.
Anyone can copy whatever they wish without asking me. If you're feeling generous, perhaps you can add a credit and/or a link to this website.
'Old Bike' will always be a work in progress. I have other vehicle museum websites to research, maintain and update (as well, of course, as the vintage vehicles themselves). Even when typically atrocious British summer weather chains me to the computer rather than inspiring vintage motoring, motorcycling, scootering, cyclemotoring or pedalling around the Sussex hills, with the enormous piles of literature spread around this room begging to be added to my websites, I can't see me ever catching up.
My day job entails restoration and sales of vintage motorcycles and cars. I always have restorations on the go. As my bicycles are not for sale (though I do exchanges with other collectors), sales vehicles generally take precedence.
We don't usually restore old vehicles cosmetically, unless they're too far gone. We treasure examples with original paintwork. The main focus is functionality. In recent years I seem to spend more time locating obscure parts, restoring, researching and writing about them than I actually spend riding them 😦
The 1914 Golden Sunbeam Tricycle pictured above is an example of the unrestored condition we prefer. Nevertheless, some bikes are too far gone, and a repaint is the only option. My good friend Pat, who lives in France, has restored many of the bikes you see here. We started pooling our resources years ago when we realized that what's exotic to collectors in one location is more commonplace elsewhere. I send him fifties 3-speed gents bikes to restore and re-sell in France, and some old British bikes for his personal collection. In exchange I receive various French motorcycles and cyclemotors to re-sell, and German bikes that he's restored for my personal collection. We spend more time doing this than may be healthy, but derive an enormous amount of pleasure from it.
You're welcome to email me. I hope you enjoy this site.
UPDATE: Since setting up this website, I've noticed an increasing interest among younger enthusiasts for motorized bicycles, clip-ons and cycle attachment engines.
That's been my main area of interest and specialization for many years, so I've now added more of my cyclemotors and BMA's to this website for varied interest.
I've updated www.Oldbike.eu – there are now many more rooms in this Online Museum.
To view them PLEASE CLICK HERE
I've been getting out and about this summer and reporting on various vintage bicycle events.
BENSON VETERAN CYCLE CLUB 51st ANNUAL RALLY, July 2011
WARNING: Some pages are 'x-rated' so don't visit if you're under 18 or offended by naked bodies!
BRIGHTON NAKED BIKE RIDE, June 2011
The new www.Oldbike.eu website is a sitemap, and also explains about the importance of the Safety Bicycle, featuring bicycles from 1886 to WW1.
Photos and illustrations are twice the size.
There are also postcards, adverts, early magazines, racing scrapbooks, ideas for vintage cycling outfits, articles on bicycles and flight, water bicycles, bicycle songs, railway bicycles, and much more. I add more all the time.


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De Oever - Support for kids and young adults
SKF Logistics Services Belgium supports De Oever, a non-profit organisation which is concerned about the well-being of families and their children/adolescents. Since De Oever only deals with cases that have been referred to them by a committee on special education or by a juvenile court, they deal often need to deal with difficult situations.
The organisation was founded shortly after the Belgian independence in 1840, in the centre of Hasselt. In the beginning, they took care of the children that were abandoned, but through the years, they started focusing on the entire family instead.
Nowadays, they support well over 100 children/adolescents and their families. Some hundreds are living in the different establishments of De Oever. Nevertheless, each year, the number of applications for guidance outnumbers the amount of available spots, through which waiting lists are growing rapidly. Consequently this organisation can use as many additional resources as possible.
In order to raise funds for the organisation, SKF in Tongeren, Belgium organises activities such as quiz evenings, Easter events, bake sales, spaghetti evenings and other fun activities.
Austria: Basky project
The BASKY project (stands for Basar SKF City) is a joint effort to provide vocational training and mentorship to young adults with physical, psychological and/or mental disability.
Belgium: De Oever - Support to young adults
SKF supports De Oever, a Belgian non-profit organisation concerned about the well-being of families and their children/adolescents...
Germany - Wissenswerkstatt
Knowledge workshop for youngsters
Germany: Female Explorer's Camp
SKF GmbH hosts the Female Explorers' Camp to raise interests amongst female students in technical work.
Italy: SOS Children's village
SKF Italy support SOS Children's village
Netherlands: Scholarship programme
SKF Netherlands supports the Brede School Academy scholarship programme
Poland: Four Kings wheelchair rugby team
Helping people to break barriers and make their dreams come true
Romania: Si-Tu (You Too)
Support to children with disabilities in Constanta, Romania
Sweden: Bräcke Diakoni
Help and support to children with disabilities
Sweden: Gothia Cup and Meet the World
Gothia Cup is for boys and girls, regardless of gender, social background, age, culture, and religion, to meet and enjoy playing football.
Sweden: The International Science Festival
Bringing science to the general public
Sweden: The Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development
A sponsor of the Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development
Turkey: Siirt Project
Haydi Kizlar Okula! (Let's Go to School, Girls!)


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Two key indices of home prices likely fell in August, suggesting large numbers of foreclosures and continued high joblessness are acting as a drag on the market, according to a new forecast.
The Case-Shiller 20-city composite home price index, scheduled to be released on Tuesday, likely fell 3.8% in August from a year earlier and 0.3% from July on a seasonally adjusted basis, said a forecast from Zillow Inc. (Z) chief economist Stan Humphries. The downward trend will continue through the end of the year, he predicts.
"We expect to see continued home value depreciation as unemployment and negative equity remain high," said Humphries. "The large foreclosure pipeline will produce relatively low priced REOs in the market, putting downward pressure on prices going forward, and we do expect the pace at which homes exit this pipeline to pick up in the near-term."
The Case-Shiller 10-City composite index is expected to register a seasonally adjusted decline of 3.5% in August from the previous year, and 0.2% compared to July.
"After showing monthly appreciation earlier this year and building some momentum, recent weak economic data is starting to be reflected in home values," Humphries said. "Existing home sales have been disappointing, with September sales down 3% from August."
Humphries is bearish on the overall housing market for at least the next year.
A survey of more than 100 economists by Pulsenomics shows the median expectation for that group is a decline in the Case-Shiller 20-city index of 2.8% in the fourth quarter from the final three months of 2010. Zillow, on the other hand, is projected a 4.5% decline, and then another 2.5% drop from the fourth quarter of 2011 to 2012.
Zillow has a strong track record of accurately forecasting changes in these Case-Shiller indices. Zillow's July forecast for the non-seasonally adjusted 20-city index was off by just 0.1 percentage point, coming in at 4.0% compared to the actual number of 4.1%.
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