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Wed Mar 31 13:39:39 EDT 2010, Baia de Camamu, Bahia, Brazil
Never saw this in operation, but clearly this is a school boat (it says Escolar on the side).
Tue Mar 30 17:39:08 EDT 2010, Camamu, Bahia, Brazil
This is a typical Brazilian (built by Estaliero Camarada in Camamu) schooner under sail (many never sail, the masts are just used to support the canopies that keep the hot sun off the passengers).
I was told that before engines were around, 2 and 3-masted schooners were commonly used to transport freight (in the north of Brazil).
Tue Mar 30 13:28:11 EDT 2010, Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil
The mainsail and fisherman sail were repaired by the sailmaker in Itaparica. In the picture, I am inserting one of the troublesome (for many reasons) plastic battens into the mainsail after it had some rips repaired.
My posts are behind a fair bit, because I found a lot of things to take pictures of in Baia de Camamu (south of Salvador and Itaparica). I will be posting some more pictures from that area later.
I am in Maceio, in the state of Alagoas (Brazil) now. Maceio is a few hundred miles north of Baia de Camamu and Salvador. Del has returned to Rio for work and I am singlehanding again.
Del got sick while offshore and went to the hospital when we got to Maceio. He had a private supplemental insurance plan (60 USD per month) so we went to a hospital that is not for the public only (he said the public hospitals have long queues). After queuing for about 15 minutes to provide all his payment information, he was seen by the doctor. I had it even easier (I lost some sensation in two fingers a few weeks ago and wanted to find out if it was a real problem or something that just needed time to heal)--I asked at the ever-helpful yacht club (Federacao Algoan) and a member who was a doctor immediately looked at it, told me my wristwatch strap was too tight and probably caused the problem, and gave me some exercises to do. By phone, another doctor member (I think he's a neurologist, I didn't quite understand the word) arranged for me to come to his hospital office the next morning and see him there, in case I needed an xray. The following morning, the yacht club manager took me to the hospital, called the doctor from reception and we missed the queue entirely. After examining and discussing it, the doctor thought that no xray was likely necessary, and gave me a prescription for some vitamin B pills.
Mon Mar 29 6:38:13 EDT 2010, Camamu, Bahia, Brazil
This fuel dock is unusually well set-up for boats. It includes a gin pole (crane) for lifting masts in and out of boats.
The fuel dock is owned by the fellow who owns the schooner yard mentioned earlier.
see below posts for more
Mon Mar 29 6:37:00 EDT 2010, Camamu, Bahia, Brazil
Beside the fuel dock is a bed where you can dry your boat out (when the tide goes down) for bottom-painting or other maintenance.
Mon Mar 29 6:36:00 EDT 2010, Camamu, Bahia, Brazil
Last but certainly not least, what every fuel dock needs is a smiling bartender.
Sat Mar 27 1:30:00 EDT 2010, Camamu, Bahia, Brazil
Two 25m wooden schooners under construction in the boatyard Estaleiro Camarada at Camamu. The owner, Elpidio Caetano, kindly gave us a lift to the boatyard (Camamu is very shallow) and showed us around.
On the schooner in the foreground, the frames (ribs) are made of piki, the middle, yellow plank is tatajouba, and both the upper (brown) plank and rubrail (red) are massaranduba. Though the keel cannot be seen, it is made of oiti. Massaranduba is an extremely strong, rot-resistant wood, which is quite difficult to put nails into (it dulls them). Tatajouba is rot-resistant and strong. Oiti is resistant to both rot and worms "after the boat dies, the keel continues". All fasteners are galvanized.
Fri Mar 26 6:30:00 EDT 2010, Baia de Camamu, Bahia, Brazil
A schooner awaits repairs in the backwaters of the schooner yard at Camamu.
Wed Mar 24 9:30:00 EDT 2010, Baia de Camamu, Bahia, Brazil
Another dugout canoe used for fishing in Baia de Camamu.
Tue Mar 23 9:30:00 EDT 2010, Baia de Camamu, Bahia, Brazil
Baia de Camamu is a shallow bay 65 miles south of Salvador. Fishing in the well-protected waters is mostly done from dugout canoes like this one.
I've been impressed by how well-used these dugouts are...seems most places I go I see some dugouts being used


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It's been a while since I last posted here, weather being the biggest reason I haven't sketched. Last night I pulled out the Dob and binoviewer and let them cool while I helped clean up. After the food and wine had a chance to settle I went outside to observe. Wow, what a gorgeous night with pristine conditions. With the GRS positioned well, I decided to sketch Jupiter to try and capture the great view. Rather than ramble on I'll just post my sketch. Thanks for looking.
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OOOPS: I titled the post 11/23/2012, which should read 11/22/2012

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Port of Oakland moves ahead on dredging
October 20, 2011
The Port of Oakland reached a major funding milestone of nearly $350 million for harbor deepening and maintenance, this week, thereby enhancing its position as a leading U.S. ocean cargo export gateway.
"Deeper vessel channels mean that the port can remain globally competitive, support job retention and growth, and drive positive economic impact for the region, state and nation," noted Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who helped drive the initiative.
Of the nearly $350 million, Lee has ensured that the port received $242 million for harbor deepening and $103 million for maintenance dredging. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has already begun its annual maintenance dredging that keeps Oakland's harbor navigable and at a depth of minus 50 feet.
Lee also co-sponsored H.R. 104, which would ensure that Harbor Maintenance Tax collection is spent every year for dredging. Annually, port customers pay taxes into the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund with assurances that the money will be available to pay for navigational maintenance and harbor improvements. Industry observers, note, however, that the revenues deposited in the fund are not always being fully spent.
The Port of Oakland intends to reverse that trend by investing these funds rather than adding to a surplus of over $5 billion.
Port spokesmen noted that 2,000 container ships call Oakland each year, and many leave fully-loaded with California exports.
Indeed, Oakland is the only major container port on the U.S. West Coast that exports more than it imports, with the volume of its export business at 55 percent and imports at 45 percent.
Jock O'Connell, Beacon Economics' International Trade Adviser, told LM that he expects continued gains in California's export trade through the remainder of the year, as the U.S. and world economies overcome the negative shocks that hit earlier in the year.
Despite occasional dockside labor disruptions, Oakland has been, and continues to be a premier U.S. export seaport for agricultural goods. Its terminals are relatively new, and uncrowded. The port is also close to California's Central Valley and the wine country. Furthermore, the port is the only U.S. West Coast gateway that has all top 20 ocean carriers with regular service.
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Patients & partners
Healthcare | Invisible to the healthcare debate in Washington, clinics that serve the poor could provide a model for helping the uninsured
"Patients & partners" Continued...
Zaarephath, N.J.-The line of patients usually forms long before the clinic doors are opened. This night is no different: Nearly 40 people are waiting for their turn with two volunteer doctors at a cottage turned clinic on the campus of a local church.
Once inside one of two examining rooms at the Zarephath Health Center, the patients, many of them repeat customers, frequently utter the same two words: I'm miserable.
There are Sabine, 51, who lost her job as manager of a craft store her first workday back from surgery, and Jessica, 22, who no longer can afford the $88 a month it costs to see her regular doctor, plus Brenda, 48, who winces and shakes as the staff pricks her finger to test her blood sugar.
"It's Halloween, so next time we can take it off your neck," jokes John Eck, a founding doctor of the clinic.
Eck's patients are black, white, Asian, and Hispanic. Some are homeless, others jobless, and many are luckless. But they all share one thing in common, and it's what brings them here tonight: no insurance.
As the declining economy erodes America's middle class, the nation's healthcare system continues to spiral out of control, sending even more patients to this free clinic: From 1,700 patient visits in 2007, the clinic is on track to see 3,000 this year.
"It's like Grand Central Station in there," says John Fasoli, 55, shaking his head as he waits outside for his turn. An uninsured electrician, Fasoli is making his fourth visit to the clinic to treat an infected foot. "But to run into people willing to help like this is a breath of fresh air."
Following the words of Matthew 11:28-30, which are painted on the waiting room wall, the volunteers at the center are trying to provide healing for those who are weary from disease, illness, and injuries but burdened by the inability to pay for treatment.
With the federal government closing in on a year-long push to spend nearly a trillion dollars to provide a safety net for people like John Fasoli, Zarephath stands as a modest reminder that places already exist for those who must walk life's high wire without insurance.
It is indeed a comforting place where hugs are doled out almost as much as free medicines. It is a place where one remembers why the word care is attached to the word health.
And that care comes cheap. While it currently costs the government between $110 to $120 per patient visit when the uninsured seek medical help, Alieta Eck, the clinic's other founding doctor and John's wife, says they have gotten costs down to between $10 to $20 a patient. The cost to the government: zero.
This clinic is tucked away in rural New Jersey, 214 miles from Washington, D.C. But the marathon healthcare debate that has enveloped the nation's capital this year seems thousands of miles away.
Still, John Eck has one message to the lawmakers he sees on television preaching about the best ways to cure the nation's healthcare ills: Come visit.
Zarephath is one of many clinics that serve those with low-paying jobs but no insurance. There are more than 1,200 free medical clinics around the country, serving more than 3 million patients each year. They are doing their part to keep patients from going to the nation's expensive emergency rooms-a practice that is a key driver behind the nation's escalating healthcare costs.
Sadly, the role of such clinics in a federally remade healthcare landscape has been ignored during the ongoing legislative debate: Several doctors associated with these clinics told me that they have not been given a seat at the negotiating table. Lawmakers are excluding insights from the very people who already are serving the uninsured population that any new law will try to reach.
So when I asked John Eck, while following him to the center's well-stocked pharmacy of entirely donated drugs, if he had any ideas for Obamacare, he quickly pulled from his pocket a green note card with the words "Goals of Healthcare Reform" printed at the top.
With $70,000, the Ecks started their clinic six years ago and now operate it on a shoestring $60,000 annual budget. Its formula for success depends on a platoon of volunteers, who know how to stretch a dollar and who desire to build relationships with their patients: all things John Eck is skeptical will occur if the government gets more involved in healthcare.
The Ecks have a vision of a nationwide network of similar clinics that would provide care to the needy while costing taxpayers very little. How to get enough doctors to staff the clinics? John Eck's plan is to have the government extend free medical malpractice coverage to the practice of professionals who donate 20 hours a month to free care for the poor.
With doctors avoiding lawsuits by performing "defensive medicine" practices costing up to $500 billion annually in unnecessary tests and treatments, Eck believes his plan would lower healthcare costs nationwide. "In exchange for compassion, give us medical malpractice," he says.
Similar innovations exist at other faith-based clinics where doctors are forced by resources to get creative when it comes to treating the poor. At the Church Health Center in Memphis, Tenn., doctors spend $1 on prevention for every $1 spent on treatment. Patients are ushered into the center's 80,000-square-foot wellness center on their first visit. There a health coach discusses exercise and diet plans before a patient even sees a doctor.
"We don't want to be a place for people to come and just get free drugs," says Scott Morris, the family physician who founded the center in 1987.
Morris believes that healing works best when patients and doctors enter into a partnership. He scoffs at modern medicine's mindset that you have to have a full body scan rather than be on an exercise plan to feel better: "We have a healthcare industrial complex that has developed an unholy belief in this country that technology can solve all of our medical problems."
To foster partnerships, the center conducts group accountability classes for diabetic patients and tackles childhood obesity by partnering with a local ballet company for lessons and hosting "snack attack" sessions where children learn how to prepare healthy treats.
The center focuses on dental work in the hopes of allowing patients to gain the confidence needed to move forward professionally. ("In this world, it's hard to go from a $7 an hour job to a $10 an hour job with broken teeth," says Morris.)
Flexibility is also a key at the center, whose network of volunteer medical professionals serve 70,000 working, uninsured patients annually. Morris says the working poor often skip doctor visits because they can't risk a day without pay. So the clinic follows an open access policy that allows patients to see a doctor without having to secure an appointment weeks in advance.
Thanks to quarterly seminars, 25 clinics have opened around the country using Morris' model, with another 20 due to open within the next year.
But John Bruchalski with Virginia's Divine Mercy Care worries that congressional efforts to increase the federal government's role in healthcare will undercut the practical, community-based answers such faith-based clinics bring to the nation's healthcare crisis.
What Memphis' Morris calls partnership, Bruchalski calls community. He says the importance of community is usually lost on government bureaucrats who focus on rules, regulations, and uniformity. "When you move the power to Washington, the relationships become blurred, people lose the reason for serving, and innovation dies," he says. "Policy can never replace relationships in medicine."
Bruchalski points to the government's current delays in distributing the H1N1 swine flu vaccination as just the most recent example of the government's poor track record.
Divine Mercy Care serves 20,000 patients each year, including 650 baby deliveries, and takes in $800,000 in donations. Volunteers who have a vested stake in and can better understand the needs of the community shepherd patients through medical issues by using personal contacts to secure help from area hospitals, labs, and social service agencies. Keeping the government at arm's length allows the center to pour more dollars directly into treatment rather than into deciphering the maze of regulations tied to federal funds.
John English, the director of the Bethesda Health Clinic in Tyler, Texas, wonders whether the government is stepping into the healthcare breach because too many churches have neglected to help their less fortunate neighbors: "We'd rather go overseas than across the street to serve, and it is kind of a shame that it has gotten that way."
At Bethesda, the dignity of the uninsured is respected by requiring some payment on a sliding scale that ranges from $10 to $20 a visit. This would not survive, English argues, under a system of healthcare handouts if the government becomes the nation's insurer.
Right now Bethesda has tapped into a robust network of retired doctors in the area, but English thinks people would be less inclined to volunteer if everyone expected the government to provide the services. He wonders whether all the reform talk is more about the insurance and pharmaceutical companies than the individual.
"Insurance can't fix everything," English told me. "I'm afraid we are going to get healthcare for all, but just because it is all equal doesn't mean it is all good."
What clinics like these provide that the federal government fails to provide is the personal touch. They are each striving to find local answers to local problems using local people. To them, healthcare is a ministry, and it's very personal.
That is made plain back in New Jersey as the clock ticks past the clinic's normal 9 p.m. closing time. The treatment list for the day has been long-diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, infected bones, arthritis, glaucoma, asthma, and bronchitis, to name a few.
The Ecks say they each volunteer 12 hours a week, but you can tell it is probably more.
Why tonight's extended hours? The Ecks seem to enjoy talking to their patients. And most of them want to talk in the hopes of unloading some of life's anxieties, stresses, and fatigues. They want someone to hear their stories as much as they want medical treatment.
Mechanic Patrick Maylone, 52, has been coming here for two years after an accident left him with a herniated disk and no insurance. Since then he has been treated for diabetes and skin cancer. He says the clinic has become more crowded but that won't stop him from coming. He even one day dreams of making enough money so he can give a large donation to the place.
"You are not treated like an outcast here," he told me. "You are treated like a human being . . . not a patient. Hospitals should take lessons from this place."
At end of the day, Alieta Eck empties $136 from the optional cash box set up at the reception desk.
"When it is a government thing, people are not as thankful. They think they are entitled," Alieta Eck explains, thankful for the money. With 37 patients seen that night, it comes to $3.68 per patient.
It's half past 9 p.m. The clinic reopens tomorrow morning at 10.


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February 15, 2013
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As rumored earlier this week, Metallica will play a concert in Antarctica next month, according to Blabbermouth. The one-of-a-kind show is being sponsored by Coca-Cola Zero and fans from several Latin and South American countries will get a chance to enter a contest and win the opportunity to join the band on the expedition.
Metallica stated, "After over 30 years as a band, we have been unbelievably fortunate to visit just about every corner of the earth . . . except for one. That is all about to change as we are set travel to Antarctica, the only continent that Metallica has never played on until now!! We are partnering with Coca-Cola Zero for one of the most unique and special concert events in our career as we'll be performing near the heliport of the Argentine Antarctic Base Carlini on Sunday, December 8, 2013."
Fans from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico will be able to enter the contest, starting on October 28th and ending on November 22nd.
The winners will leave on December 3rd in a cruise from the port of Ushuaia, in Tierra del Fuego, on a 10-day journey to Antarctica.
While on their trip, the winners will get to view the landscapes of the continent. participate in lectures to be provided by specialists, see audio-visual material on the work of the scientists and receive environmental information.
The concert will take place under a dome at the Carlini Argentine Base will be heard by the fans through headphones, with no other amplifiers or sound system. The gig will also be live-streamed in the participating countries.


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Is Anthony Weiner suffering from Mental Illness? | 5 Things to know about Exhibitionism
People who think rationally are asking many questions about the recent behavior of Former Congressman Anthony Weiner like: Why would he Tweet risqué pictures of himself to people he never met? Has he not learned from the example of others who got caught sexting? Reporters have asked "How could he be so stupid?" Why would


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The well-being of people all over the world depends on the various goods and services provided by ecosystems, including food, fuel, construction materials, clean water and air, and protection from natural hazards. Ecosystems, however, are under increasing pressure from unsustainable use and other threats including outright conversion. To address this concern, IUCN promotes the sound management of ecosystems through the wider application of the Ecosystem Approach – a strategy for the integrated management of land, water and living resources that places human needs at its centre, through the Ecosystem Management Programme.
The Ecosystem Management Programme works on four key programmatic areas for IUCN:
- Drylands, where the programme aims to demonstrate the importance of dryland ecosystem services for livelihood improvement and for adapting to climate change.
- Climate Change, where the Climate Change Initiative aims to include biodiversity concerns in adaptation and mitigation polices and practice, as well as furthering natural resource management strategies that help biodiversity and people to adapt to the impacts of climate change. The Initiative coordinates Climate Change work across IUCN's programmes, regions, Commissions and member organizations.
- Disaster Risk Reduction, where the programme aims to promote integration of ecosystem management, livelihoods, community vulnerability and climate change adaptation to disaster management.
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In addition, the Programme provides technical input on integrating wider ecosystem-scale biodiversity issues into IUCN's programmes globally, regionally and nationally.
The Programme also serves as a focal point in the Secretariat for IUCN's Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), a network of more than 800 volunteer ecosystem management experts from around the world. The Ecosystem Management Programme works in close collaboration with CEM to realize the Commission's objectives in enhancing the implementation of the Ecosystem Approach. CEM members also contribute technical information to the Ecosystem Management Series: a compilation of best practices and lessons learnt in implementing the Ecosystem Approach.


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Hello everybody!
I have some problems sending mails from my linux box MTA because some recipients are rejecting my mails due to a IP spam rule (I have an IP which range is cataloged as a dynamic ISP IP... and this is not true because I'm paying for a fix IP address).
Anyway, the point is that I have decided to relay all my outbound messages throw smtp.gmail.com (I have created an account and I have add an alias with my own domain also).
I have follow this how to on the wiki:
The error appears when I try to send and email. I received a response from postfix saying:
This is the Postfix program at host zzz.yyyy.xxx.
I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.
For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.
The Postfix program
<firstname.lastname@example.com>: host gmail-smtp.l.google.com[188.8.131.52] said:
530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first j8sm4520902gvb.14 (in reply
to MAIL FROM command)Someone has get involved in the same situation? I will really appreciate any help on this topic because I have all my mail server stooped and nobody can send mails :SDec 28 10:01:15 servidor amavis[3298]: (03298-01) Passed CLEAN, LOCAL [192.168.1.1] [192.168.1.1] <email@example.com> -> <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Mes
sage-ID: <firstname.lastname@example.com mple.com>, mail_id: UVrKmZCyEWfv, Hits: -3.239, 84905 ms
Dec 28 10:01:15 servidor postfix/smtp[32549]: 6F8F86E094B: to=<email@example.com>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1], delay=90, status=sent (250 2.6.0 Ok, i
d=03298-01, from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 Ok: queued as 9B3EE6E094C)
Dec 28 10:01:15 servidor postfix/qmgr[30457]: 6F8F86E094B: removed
Dec 28 10:01:16 servidor amavis[3298]: (03298-01) extra modules loaded: Net/LDAP/Bind.pm
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Dec 28 10:01:16 servidor postfix/qmgr[30457]: B12196E094B: from=<>, size=3147, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Dec 28 10:01:16 servidor postfix/qmgr[30457]: 9B3EE6E094C: removed
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How to Create a Fog Effect for Your Halloween Punch
Dry ice turns an ordinary party punch into a spooky Halloween brew!
Start with 2 punch bowls of different sizes. The smaller bowl will hold the actual punch while the larger bowl will hold the smaller bowl and the dry ice.
With tongs or gloved hands (dry ice can freeze your skin), place chunks of dry ice in the bigger container. Place the smaller bowl on top of the dry ice. There is no


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Tennis Week is reporting that Perry Rogers, who managed Andre Agassi throughout his career, was voted off the ATP Board of Directors by the players council.
The council is comprised of 10 current players, one former player and a coach and includes President Ivan Ljubicic, vice president James Blake, Thomas Johansson, Olivier Rochus, Paul Goldstein, Davide Sanguinetti, Bob Bryan, Kevin Ullyett, Paradorn Srichaphan, Martin Garcia, alumni David Adams and coach Ricardo Piatti. The vote required at least 7 of the 12 members for it to pass.
An ATP spokesperson confirmed the change on the board saying,
We can confirm that there has been a change to the composition of the ATP Board by action of the Player Council and look forward to working with the new Player Board Representative. We thank Perry Rogers for his dedicated service on the ATP Board.Rogers was seen as a strong supporter of ATP CEO Etienne de Villiers, who has come under heavy fire by top ballers recently for a number of issues including the heavily packed schedule and the downgrading of Hamburg from Master Series status.
Expect more news to come.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
BREAKING: Perry Rogers removed from ATP Board of Directors
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No comment...ReplyDelete
Love this Rogers man, because I love Mr. Agassi. That's personal.
On the political front, who knows, maybe he had to leave the Board for the greater good, maybe not. Can't react to what I don't know...yet optimistic the struggle will result in wins for the sport - fans, players, etc and hopeful that it's soon...before everyone on the tour pulls or breaks something, or before they're frustrated off the courts by politics.
There definitely needs to be a good ATP shake up where they actually start listening to the needs of the players. Such a novel idea!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 25, 2008 at 12:05 PM
Who ever said athletes were dumb were wrong. They're just slow. It was a huge mistake to elect Rogers to the board and a wise decision to vote him off. It's clear that Rogers interests are for his own personal gain, not to benefit the players. It makes sense that Agassi fired him!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 7, 2009 at 2:06 PM
Where's the follow up story about this looser? Rumor has it that his war with Agassi has gotten much worse. Looking forward to him getting what he deserves.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 7, 2009 at 2:06 PM
Where's the follow up story about this looser? Rumor has it that his war with Agassi has gotten much worse. Looking forward to him getting what he deserves.ReplyDelete


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I am wondering if you can setup Zimbra to check 'outside' email addresses?
Zimbra is authoritative over a domain I own, 'mydomain.com' and I have mailboxes, everything is happy.
But I'd like to have the web interface show me mail from other SMTP / POP accounts I may have, so it acts like a POP/SMTP client.
firstname.lastname@example.com (They support POP and SMTP)
firstname.lastname@example.com (My ISP mail)
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Al-Biruni was one of the most learned of Muslim scholars and scientists. His interests were very wide as he labored in almost all the branches of science known in his time. The spectrum of his scientific output includes a wide range of sciences, from applied and theoretical mathematics to pharmacology, geology, mineralogy, and history.
|Figure 1: An artistic impression of al-Bīrūnī (Copyright MuslimHeritage.com).
Abū al-Rayhān Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Bīrūnī was born in 362/973, in the suburb of Kath, capital of Khwārazm (today Bīrūnī), now a region of Uzbekistan on the southern shores of the Aral sea. He died in 1048 in Ghazna (now in Afghanistan), where he lived for a long time, in the court of the Gaznavid state, where he was introduced by Sultan Mahmud al-Ghaznawi.
Mas'ūd, the son of the Sultan Mahmūd of Ghazna, was a great devotee of astronomy, and loved sciences. He was talking to al-Bīrūnī once about the difference of the lengths of the days and the nights on earth, and wanted to know why this happened. Thus, al-Bīrūnī wrote for him a treatise based on observations of the nights and days, and added another book on the movements of the planets, and completed his famous Canon, Al-Qânûn al-Mas'ûdî which he dedicated to Sultan Mas'ûd. To thank him, the sultan sent him an elephant loaded with silver coins. Al-Bīrūnī refused the gift, and returned all the money to the treasury, assuring the envoy and the sultan he could live without such wealth [1].
At an early age of his career, at the court of the sultan of Khwarizm, Yaqut al-Hamawi tells us, the Sultan called on him, whilst al-Bīrūnī was still in his chamber. As al-Bīrūnī was getting late, the Sultan informed him he was going to go up to his chamber; then al-Bīrūnī came down, excusing himself. To which the sultan answered: "Science is one of the highest occupations; all mortals go to it; it is not science which goes to them."
Then he added: "If it was not for etiquette, I will not have called you, because science is high enough by itself and cannot rise any higher [2]."
Al-Bīrūnī, lived and worked for most of his life at the court of Sultan Mahmûd, and his son, Mas'ûd. He accompanied Mahmûd on his campaigns into India, which lasted for about thirteen years (1017-1030). It was during those campaigns that Al-Bīrūnī learned Sanskrit and took extensive notes, which he later published in what is now considered the most authoritative account of medieval India [3]. After Mahmud's death in 1030 and that of his son Mas'ūd in 1040, Al-Bīrūnī survived and lived to a ripe old age.
|Figure 2: Al-Bīrūnī commemorated in Egyptian, Soviet, Afghan and Iranian stamps.
Al-Bīrūnī's production exceeds 146 titles in more than twenty different disciplines, ranging from astronomy to mathematics, mathematical geography, chronology, mechanics, pharmacology, mineralogy, history, literature, religion, and philosophy. Only 22 works have survived the ravages of time; and only a dozen or so of these have been published [4].
Though al-Bīrūnī dedicated himself to astronomy, he excelled also in mathematics in an age when mathematics consisted of arithmetic, geometry, physics and music [5]. Other than being the master of geodesy, that is mathematical geography, al-Bīrūnī made simplified stereographic projection similar to that first published by G. B. Nicolosi di Paterno in 1660 [6]. However, as Max Meyerhof observed earlier this century, most of al-Bīrūnī 's mathematical works and many other writings have not been published yet [7].
Al-Bīrūnī is an objective scholar, assiduous in research, critical in the scrutiny of traditions and texts (including the Gospels), precise and conscientious in statement, frequently admitting his ignorance, and promising to pursue his inquiries till the truth should emerge [8]. He strictly followed the holy injunction to "speak the truth, even if it were against yourselves [9]." In the preface to the Vestiges of the past (Kitab al-athar al-baqiya 'ani-l-qurun al- khaliya) [10] he wrote: "We must clear our minds . . . from all causes that blind people to the truth –old custom, party spirit, personal rivalry or passion, the desire for influence [11]."
For him, "truthfulness enjoined by the Holy Scriptures on mankind possesses its own intrinsic beauty just like justice, while liars give birth to all kinds of vices which serve to ruin the world and mankind [12]."
He also stuck by the principle, that it is crucial to obtain information from primary source rather than secondary sources. A prerequisite for a scholar was that he ought to be free from all bias and prejudices, selfish interests, ideas of profiteering and from the complexes of a conqueror. A historian should free himself from all such associations and drawbacks which inhibit him from observing the truth [13].
His work Chronology (Al-Athar) combines literary and historical sources of medieval sects and nations with the astronomical lore about their calendars, feasts, and astronomical parameters used in their rituals. For example his work Tahdid was about the demarcation of the coordinates of cities, was written so as to determine the qibla with the aid of mathematics, from anywhere in the world. Al-Bīrūnī also determined the local meridian and the coordinates of any locality.
Al-Qanun Al-Mas'udi, al-Bīrūnī's great astronomical treatise, is a most extensive astronomical encyclopaedia, slightly short of 1,500 pages. In it he determines the motion of the solar apogee, corrects Ptolemy's findings, and is able to state for the first time that the motion is not identical to that of precession, but comes very close to it. In this book, too, al-Bīrūnī employs mathematical techniques unknown to his predecessors that involve analysis of instantaneous motion and acceleration, described in terminology that can best be understood if we assume that he had "mathematical functions" in mind.
Al-Bīrūnī's works respond in great part to his scientific curiosity, and also to his duties to the faith; his Tahdid Nihayat al-amâkin li-tashîh masâfât al-masâkin (The demarcation of the coordinates of cities) [14] was written so as to determine the qibla. For Muslims inorder to pray they must face in the proper direction, one has to know with some precision the longitude and latitude of Mecca, the city toward which one must face. Once that is determined, the values are applied to a spherical triangle, and the angle from the local meridian to the required direction of Mecca can be determined. The problem admits of more than one method of solution, and Al-Bīrūnī did his share in supplying the various methods in this book [15].
The same link between science and faith is found in his work: Shadows (Ifrâd al-maqâl fî 'amr al-zilâl). This treatise, written sometime after 1015, after discussing the linguistic application of the word zill (shadow) and the astronomical phenomena associated with it, goes on to give a definition of shadow functions (tangent and cotangent), and to explain in great detail the ensuing identities, theorems, and special applications [16]. He then applies himself to the problem of determining the time of day from shadows, and quickly exploits that to connect his discipline with the time of the Muslim daily prayers that are astronomically defined [17].
Al-Bīrūnī occupied himself as well with the empirical question of determining the local meridian and the coordinates of any locality. Once that was done, he applied this information to problems of distances between cities, a use that was of great political and economic value [18].
The scientific spirit of Al-Bīrūnī is obvious in his work on the Elements of Astrology (Kitâb al-tafhîm li-'awâ'il sinâ'at al-tanjîm) [19]. By his own admission this book is the most comprehensive of his works on astrology. It was written at the request of Rayhana, the daughter of al-Hasan of Khwarizm, in a question-and-answer style, and includes a long introduction on preliminary principles of geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, astronomical problems in relation to the earth, chronology, and the astrolabe. This introduction takes up some 346 paragraphs of the total 530, well over half the book [20].
However, there is enough evidence to suggest that Al-Bīrūnī's heart was not in astrological doctrines. At several points in this text on astrology, he warns his reader against excessive belief in astrology. Moreover, the astrological sections of the Masudi Canon are also prefaced by warnings against belief in astrology. At one point he goes so far as to say that he discussed astrology in detail in order to warn the intelligent man away from it. Al-Bīrūnī's only book that would have elaborated his attack against astrology is unfortunately known to us only by name, and seems to have been lost during his lifetime. But the title, Warning Against the Craft of Deceit, meaning astrology, leaves very little doubt as to al-Bīrūnī's position and belief [21].
Al-Bīrūnī spent many years studying India, its peoples, languages, faiths, cultures, and castes. In 1030 he published his masterpiece, History of India (Tahqîq mâ li-'l-Hind) [22]. At the outset he sharply distinguished between hearsay and eyewitness reports, and classified the varieties of "liars" who have written history. He spent little space on the political history of India, but gave 42 chapters to Hindu astronomy, and eleven to Hindu religion [23]. He speculated on the possibility that the Indus valley had been once the bottom of a sea, and explained the workings of natural springs and artesian wells by the hydrostatic principle of communicating vessels [24]. In his description of India, Al-Bīrūnī describes distant parts as the frontiers of Nepal and Tibet, and how from the highest summits, India appears as a darkened expanse of land under the fog, the mountains underneath looking like small hills, and the Tibet appearing as a red mass [25].
|Figure 3: Among Al-Bīrūnī's chef-d'œuvres is his Al-Athâr al-Bâqiyah 'an al-Qurân al-Khâliyah (The Chronology of Ancient Nations and their History) depicted here in a rarest and exquisitely illustrated manuscript copy (MS Or 161) preserved at Edinburgh University Library. (Source)
Al-Bīrūnī's interest in minerals and other substances from a scientific point of view is equally advanced. He composed an extensive lapidary, describing a great number of stones and metals from the natural, commercial, and medical points of view [26]. He determined the specific gravity of eighteen precious stones, and laid down the principle that the specific gravity of an object corresponds to the volume of water it displaces [27]. His measurements correspond exactly to those we have today [28].
His Al-Qânûn al-Mas'ûdî [29] is a most extensive astronomical encyclopaedia, slightly short of 1,500 pages. In it he determines the motion of the solar apogee, corrects Ptolemy's findings, and is able to state for the first time that the motion is not identical to that of precession, but comes very close to it [30]. The work has the general outline of a zîj (astronomical handbook), but is much more detailed and analytical in its approach to observations and numerical tables. In this book, too, al-Bīrūnī employs mathematical techniques unknown to his predecessors that involve analysis of instantaneous motion and acceleration, described in terminology that can best be understood if we assume that he had "mathematical functions" in mind [31]. It is unfortunate that this text has not yet been translated and studied by modern scholars, for it not only promises to be of great importance to historians of Islamic astronomy but also may change our accepted ideas about the general history of mathematics [32].
Among the astronomical and philosophical issues that al-Bīrūnī hit upon, he discussed the hypothesis of the earth's motion. He took it for granted that the earth is round, noted "the attraction of all things towards the centre of the earth," and remarked that astronomic data can be explained as well by supposing that the earth turns daily on its axis and annually around the sun, as by the reverse hypothesis [33].
|Figure 4: Illustration by al-Bīrūnī of different phases of the moon, from Kitab al-tafhim. Source: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamic Science: An Illustrated Study, London: World of Islam Festival, 1976.
Al-Bīrūnī also wrote treatises on the astrolabe, the planisphere, and the armillary sphere [34]. Although the astrolabe was the most famous instrument of medieval astronomer-astrologers, there is not a single known Muslim treatise in which one could find as thorough a discussion of its history and various types as that in the introductory part of this treatise on the astrolabe of al-Bīrūnī [35]. Abu al-Rayhan lists all the contemporary astrolabes that he knows of, and the theories underlying their construction. While discussing the astrolabe of Abu Sa'id al-Sizji (d. ca. 1024), he states that Sizji had constructed his astrolabe "employing the principle believed by some people that the apparent rising motion is due to the movement of the earth and not that of the heavens [as is traditionally believed]. I earnestly believe that this problem of whether the earth or the heaven is the one that moves is very difficult to determine and either motion is equally valid for geometricians and astronomers who employ mathematical lines exclusively. The final solution, however, concerns only the natural philosophers, for it is within their own domain of study [36]." Using the astrolabe and the presence of a mountain near a sea or flat plain, he calculated the earth circumference by solving a highly complex geodesic equation. He contributed to geometry by finding the solution of theorems that thereafter bore his name [37].
Al-Bīrūnī's was not especially keen to dwell on philosophical issues. Only once did he correspond with his contemporary Ibn Sina; and from a close reading of the contents of the questions that he asked Ibn Sina and the responses that he supplied, one feels that Al-Bīrūnī's heart and talent were somewhere else [38]. However, it is interesting to consider some of the issues raised in this exchange in order to have a good view on how the Muslims addressed issues with which the West could only catch up in our times, thus nearly ten centuries later. Al-Bīrūnī refers to this episode in the Chronology, which was probably composed near about 1000. Al-Bīrūnī could have sent the questions directly through a messenger. Some of the questions were:
- Aristotle has no sound reason for his supposition that the Heavens are neither heavy nor light.
- Aristotle's method of seeking support for his theories in the opinions of former thinkers (in respect of the idea that the universe had no beginning) is improper.
- Aristotle's reasons for rejecting the atomic theory are not sound and his own theory of the infinite divisibility of matter is no less open to objection.
- Aristotle is not justified in denying the possibility of the existence of other universes besides our own.
- Aristotle is not justified in saying that the Heavens move from the east, as the east is the right side. Right and left are merely relative terms.
- How is heat imparted through the rays of the sun and are the rays themselves material, or indicate a condition of something else?
- How does a round flask of glass, full of water, burn things opposite to it, while the same filled with other elements, e.g., the air, does not do so?
- Do all the four elements move to their centres or does only earth or water gravitate, while air and fire move from the centre to their enclosing spheres?
- What is the nature of vision? How do we see below the water?
- Why is only one quarter of the earth supposed to be inhabitable, while the other three quarters are equally capable of being so?
- Why do vessels break by the solidification of water?
- Why does ice float on water? [39]
|Figure 5: Al-Bīrūnī 's crater on the Moon (coordinates 17.9oN, 92.5oE, diameter 9 km).
Because of his great scientific stature, a controversy has arisen concerning al-Bīrūnī's national origin and allegiance. The controversy is a result of modern politics, and he has been claimed by several nations: the Soviet Union because he was born in what was until recent years the Soviet Central Asia, Iran because he spoke Khwarazmian, a kin dialect of Persian; Pakistan and Afghanistan because he lived a good a part of his life in Sind and near modern Kabul; the Arab nations because he wrote most of his works in Arabic. As a result his millenary celebrations in 1973 were held in more than one country, and he was honoured as the national scientist of each. It is in the introduction of the Pharmacology that al-Bīrūnī speaks of himself as being first and foremost a Muslim who thinks that of all the languages he spoke or learned, Arabic is the most suitable for scientific discourse, and that Persian is good only for evening entertainment [40].
Further reading and references
Works of al Bīrūnī
Bīrūnī, al-, The Chronology of Ancient Nations, English translation by C. E. Sachau. (London, 1879).
Alberuni's India, edit. C. E. Sachau (London, 1887).
Kitāb al-tafhīm. The Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology (London, 1934).
Kitāb al-Jamāhir fī ma'rifat al-jawāhir, ed. F. Krenkow (Hyderabad 1936).
Al-Qānūn al-Mas'ūdī (3 vols., Hyderabad, 1954-56).
Kitāb tahdīd nihāyat al-amākin, (Beirut 1967).
The Exhaustive Treatise on Shadows, transl. and commentary E. S. Kennedy (Aleppo 1976); Kitāb maqālid 'ilm al-hay'a (Damascus 1985).
In den Garten der Wissenschaft. Ausgewählte Texte ... übersetzt und erläutert von G. Strohmaier (Leipzig, 1988).
The book most comprehensive in knowledge on precious stones, engl. tr. H. M. Said (Islamabad, 1989).
Al-As'ilah wa'l-ajwibah (Questions and answers) (Kuala Lampur, 1995).
Commentaries and Literature:
Abattouy, Mohammed 2003. "Al-Bīrūnī". In: Lexikon bedeutender naturwissenschaftler. Edited by D. Hoffmann, H. Laitko et S. Müller-Wille. Heidelberg-Berlin: Spektrum Academischer Verlag, vol. 1, pp. 178-183.
E. S. Kennedy, "Al-Bīrūnī" Dictionary of Scientific Biography (vol. 2, New York 1970-80).
Id., Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences (1983 Beirut).
G. Saliba, "Al-Bīrūnī and the Sciences of his Time." In: Religion, Learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period, M. Young et al. (Cambridge University Press, 1991, 405-23).
S.H. Nasr, An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines: Conceptions of Nature and Methods Used for Its Study by the Ikhwan Al-Safa, Al-Bīrūnī, and Ibn Sina (State University of New York Press, 1993).
End Notes
[1] According to Barron Carra de Vaux, Les Penseurs de l'Islam, Paris: Geuthner, 1921, p. 79.
[2] Ibid, p. 78.
[3] G. Saliba, "Al-Bīrūnī", Dictionary of Middle Ages, 13 vols., edited by Joseph Strayer, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, vol. 2 (1982), pp. 248-52; at p. 248.
[4] Ibid.
[5] According to the classical division of sciences, as exposed by al-Farabi in Ihsa al-Ulum: See M. Bouyges, "Sur le De Scientiis d'al-Farabi", Mélanges de l'Université Saint Joseph, IX (1923-24): pp. 41-96.
[6] G.Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science, 3 vols.; The Carnegie Institute of Washington; 1927-48; vol. 2, p. 107.
[7] Max Meyerhof, "Science and Medicine", in The Legacy of Islam, edited by T. Arnold and A. Guillaume, Oxford University Press, 1931, pp. 311-55, at p. 332.
[8] W. Durant, The Age of Faith, Simon and Shuster, New York, 6th printing, 1950, p. 243.
[9] H. M. Said, A. Z. Khan, Al-Bīrūnī: His Times, Life and Works, Karachi: Hamdard Foundation, 1981, p. 178.
[10] The Chronology of Ancient Nations. An English Version by E. Sachau of the Arabic text of al-Athâr al-bâqiya... of al-Bîrûnî, or 'Vestiges of the Past'. London, 1879.
[11] W. Durant, The Age of Faith, op. cit., p. 243.
[12] H. M. Said, A. Z. Khan, Al-Bīrūnī, op. cit., p. 180.
[13] Ibid, p. 181.
[14] The Arabic text was edited by J. Bolghakov and A. Ahmad, in Majallat ma'had al-makhtûtât al-'arabiya (Kuwait), vol. 8, 1962. The English translation was achieved by Jamil Ali: The Determination of the Coordinates of Positions for the Correction of Distances between Cities. Beirut: The American University of Beirut, 1967. For a thorough study, see A Commentary upon Bîrûnî's 'Kitâb tahdîd al-amîkin', an 11th-Century Treatise on Mathematical Geography by Edward S. Kennedy (Beirut: The American University of Beirut).
[15] G. Saliba, "Al-Bīrūnī", op. cit., p. 249.
[16] Ibid, p. 250.
[17] Ibid.
[18] Ibid, p. 249.
[19] Al-Bîrûnî, Kitâb al-tafhîm li-'awâ'il sinâ'at al-tanjîm. Book of the Instruction in the Elements in the Science of Astrology, edited by R.R. Wright, London: Luzac, 1938.
[20] Ibid, p. 250.
[21] Ibid.
[22] Alberuni's India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India About A.D. 1030, 2 vols; London: Trübner, 1887-88. Edition of the Arabic text and English translation with notes by C. Edward Sachau (reprinted in 1910).
[23] W. Durant, The Age of Faith, op. cit., p. 243.
[24] Ibid, p. 244.
[25] Barron Carra de Vaux, Les Penseurs, op. cit., p. 87.
[26] Kitâb al-Jamâhir fî ma'rifat al-jawâhir. The Most Comprehensive Book on the Knowledge of Precious Stones. Translated by Hakim Mohammad Said. Islambad: Pakistan Hijrah Council, 1989. English translation of the first treatise of minaralogy, which contains elaborate discussions on about fifty precious stones, metals and mineral substances.
[27] W. Durant, The Age of Faith, op. cit., p. 244.
[28] R.E. Hall, "Al-Khazini", in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, New York, vol 7, pp. 335-58.
[29] This very important text was published as: Al-Qânûn al-Mas'ûdî, Haydarabad: Da'irat al-ma'ârif al-'uthmâniya, 3 vols., 1954-56.
[30] G. Saliba, "Al-Bīrūnī", op. cit., p. 249.
[31] Ibid.
[32] Ibid.
[33] W. Durant, The Age of Faith, op. cit., p. 244.
[34] Ibid.
[35] G. Saliba, "Al-Bīrūnī", op. cit., p. 250.
[36] Ibid.
[37] W. Durant, The Age of Faith, op. cit., p. 244.
[38] G. Saliba, "Al-Bīrūnī", op. cit., p. 251. The text of this important scientific controversy on key issues of natural philosophy is reproduced in: Al-As'ilah wa-'l-ajwibah. Questions and Answers. Including the Further Answers of al-Bîrûnî and al-Ma'sûmî's Defense of Ibn Sînâ. Edited with English and Persian introduction by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Mehdi Mohaghegh. Kuala Lampur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 1995.
[39] H. M. Said; A. Z. Khan, "Al-Bīrūnī: his Times", op. cit., pp. 105-106.
[40] G. Saliba, "Al-Bīrūnī", op. cit., p. 251.


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It's time to put this baby to bed. Thanks to everyone who has been so encouraging in the WIP thread ! On a project this intensive it was a real boost to my incentive to carry on through the boring bits! For those who haven't already seen this along the way, it started as a "doodle" and I've tried to keep it (and the orthagonal view) that way all along.
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I'm calling it finished simply because I haven't thought of anything I want to add for a several days. I've added all the stuff I had left on my shortlist and "cleaned" up the text (and grammar I hope). I know there's a lot of whitespace but I like that, and I think it needs it to keep it "light"
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In Marlon's House Puno.Our objective is to offer you, in our various locations, all the possible conveniences so that your stay will be as pleasant as possible. We pride ourselves in offering the utmost in comfort, hospitality and first class service, and all at exceptionally economic prices.
We hope to see you soon, your friends at Marlon's House
One who has traveled outside the home knows theyd like to encounter, on the road, the same warmth and personal treatment, the service, cleanliness and commodities that make them feel good, comfortable, at home.
At Marlon's House this is our primary objective; as such, all our locations unite at the possible accommodations and commodities so that your stay, your vacation, will be as pleasant and pleasurable as possible all of this at affordable prices. These days there are thousands of hotels and lodgings voicing an array of reasons they deserve your visit, but we sincerely hope you will come to experience all we have to offer.
We look forward to hearing from you soon, to confirm your reservation so that we can attend to you in the manner you deserve!
Your friends at Marlon's House Puno.
Here in Marlon's House, in our relaxed atmosphere, you will find the perfect base from which to enjoy Puno, because we are located mere minutes from all the attractions that the city offers! Perhaps the greatest attraction is that from the Lago Sagrado Inn you can easily walk to any location!
Offered at the Hostel; internet,wifi,tv cable, laundry service, kitchen access, hot water, fluffy towels, breakfast, security box, luggage storage.
Not to mention, Marlons Travel is a tour agency (Marlon's Travel) located right in the house, it is reliable and can arrange any adventure in Peru making your planning convenient and worry free at great prices!
Comfortable rooms, pleasant company and fair prices at Marlons House will easily turn your few day stay in Puno to many.
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Confortable Rooms / Hot Water 24 Hours / heating/English Spoken / Lugagge Storage / Good Value Breakfast / Free Internet / Reliable Tourist Information / Security Box & Laundry Facilities.
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God and the academy
Culture | Christians invented the university. Churches founded a good number of America's colleges. But for the last century, God has often been expelled from the classroom. Nevertheless, the nation's colleges and universities are places where students are coming to Christ
Today, in many college classrooms, Christianity is not just ignored-as it might be in a public secondary school leery of violating court decisions-but actively attacked and ridiculed. Even many Christian colleges have risen up against the churches that founded them and have become indistinguishable from their secularist peers.
Christians-whose faith centers in a Book-have always championed education, from teaching children to be able to read God's Word to the training of pastors to think theologically. The university was invented during the Middle Ages for the cultivation of learning. The medieval universities followed the tenets of the classical liberal arts, but added a distinctively Christian dimension, organizing their curriculum around three "sciences," or types of knowledge: natural science (the study of the created order); moral science (the study of human beings and their relationships in history and society); and theological science (the study of God).
Theology was the queen of them all, integrating all knowledge in terms of its Creator. The medieval universities-at Oxford, Paris, Cologne-became the training ground first of all for the clergy and then for other professions. Though some may have encouraged a rationalistic scholasticism, it is also true that the Protestant Reformation began in a university, with a professor discovering the gospel while he was preparing to teach a course on the book of Romans. Later, he posted a notice for an academic debate on 95 Theses.
Christianity continued to be an energizing force in higher education for centuries. Scholars at Cambridge gave the English-speaking church the King James Bible. In the American colonies, Harvard was founded to train ministers. The first president of Princeton was the great Puritan preacher and theologian Jonathan Edwards. (Today, Jonathan Edwards's institution has on its faculty an ethicist, Peter Singer, who believes in not only abortion but also infanticide and the killing of the handicapped.) As the nation gained its independence, moved west, and continued to grow culturally, colleges sprouted up throughout the land, with nearly all Christian denominations founding colleges of their own.
Though the Enlightenment of the18th century began the fissure between intellectuals and the church, universities remained supportive of the Christian faith through much of the 19th century. In Oxford and Cambridge, both students and faculty had to subscribe to the 39 Articles of the Church of England until well into the 19th century. Administrators expelled the poet Shelley when he identified himself as an atheist. The policy was finally changed not to accommodate atheists but to accommodate Catholics and Christians of other confessions. But the 19th century also saw the rise of a new kind of university. In Germany, new institutions that centered around the claims of science replaced the classical Christian liberal arts model of higher education.
These German universities were organized around scientific research. They offered an education that was highly specialized. The faculty was divided up into departments. Students chose specific majors. And the new queen of the sciences was natural science. Truth was what could be empirically verified. Religion was, at best, an inner, subjective state, which could make no claims of objective truth. As other disciplines adopted the assumptions of scientism-including the new liberal theology that tried to apply naturalistic assumptions even to the Bible-all transcendent authorities, including God, were excluded with methodological rigor.
By the 20th century, most institutions of higher education in the United States-including the liberal arts colleges founded by churches-had adopted the model of the German university. Later, something of a synthesis occurred, with a liberal arts core curriculum being grafted onto the specialized major. But the academic climate tended to be skeptical, rationalistic, and resistant to the very concept of revealed religion. Professors factored God out of scholarship, and saw faith as unworthy of a truly educated mind.
For most of the 20th century, Christian students-and faculty members-had to defend their faith against rationalistic attacks. Philosophy classes critiqued the proofs for the existence of God and sought to prove the contrary. Science departments force fed the dogmas of Darwinism. The arts and humanities, in the meantime, cultivated genteel bohemianism, with its rebellious poses against social, moral, and religious traditions.
Today, though, there is a different climate on university campuses. In the aftermath of the '60s and the paradigm shifts of postmodernism, rationalism no longer rules. Such notions as reason, empiricism, even objective truth-which were absolutely fundamental to the heirs of the Enlightenment-are routinely taken apart in classrooms and academic journals. The new queen is social science (a weak descendent of moral science), with its reduction of all knowledge-including scientific data-to a cultural or psychological construction.
With relativism comes the celebration of diversity. Differences are to be tolerated. Surely such attitudes should make room for Christianity, shouldn't they? But if the modern university attacked Christianity for being insufficiently reasonable, the postmodern university attacks Christianity for being too reasonable-for believing in objective truth, for positing a "metanarrative" (a story to account for everything) that does not accept the validity of other positions. Postmodernists portray Christianity as intolerant and oppressive, insisting on absolutes that are limiting and restrictive.
Christians used to hear reasoned arguments against their faith, which they could respond to with apologetics of their own. Those are much less common now. Instead, Christians have to put up with moral arguments against them and assaults on their moral beliefs. The modernist universities may have cultivated agnosticism, but they at least kept men and women segregated in the dorms and upheld certain standards of conduct. Many of today's universities, in contrast, have co-ed dorms, classes on pornography, and sensitivity training to cure "homophobia." And woe to the student or faculty member who expresses doubts about feminism or who dissents from the party line about abortion.
Christian colleges are not immune from academic fashions. In his book The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from Their Christian Churches, Catholic scholar James Burtchaell documents how Christian colleges slide down the slippery slope to secularism. He shows, for example, how colleges change their self-descriptions from a clear identification with a church or theological tradition ("a Methodist college") to generically Christian ("a Christian college")-to being "church-related" or "historically connected" to a church body, to being generically religious ("a values-oriented college"), to being flat-out secular.
Along with this shift in mission statements is one in hiring practices (from hiring only faculty members who are members of the founding church, to hiring other Christians, to hiring faculty members of strong character, to hiring faculty members who have no religious beliefs at all). Mr. Burtchaell studies other factors-churches reducing their financial subsidies, faculty members shifting their loyalty from the church to their professions, and the conflict between the church's theology and the faculty members' research interests-that, in case after case, turn a church college into just another secular institution.
Today, the pressures against Christianity are not so much reasoned intellectual arguments (which are nearly always exceedingly weak to any well-instructed, thinking Christian), nor even moral temptations. Rather, the biggest challenge to Christianity turns out to be social pressure. A Christian student or faculty member wants so much to belong. Christian doctrines and moral teachings are the obstacles to full acceptance in the dorm rooms, the frat houses, and the faculty lounge. The cool people in the student union and the professional organizations don't have these limiting beliefs. To be socially acceptable, Christians in academia often internalize their beliefs, not speaking up in public, parroting instead the party line. Sometimes, they jettison their faith completely, finding lots of excuses in the "hypocrisies of the organized church."
These apostates-who were once religious, only to reject and turn against their former faith-often turn out to be the most virulent enemies of Christianity on campuses. While many professors are surprisingly ignorant about what Christianity is-and so ignore it-the professors who make a crusade of "opening their students' minds" against their "narrow-minded superstitions" are often ex-Christians themselves.
This last teaching technique-"opening the minds" of the "fundamentalists"-is also a favorite device of many Christian professors on Christian campuses. This sometimes creates the impression that some of these professors and colleges are more liberal than they really are. It is true that education is about opening minds. It is also true that many Christians are maddeningly resistant to using them. Mr. Burtchaell and others lay part of the blame for Christians being out of the marketplace of ideas on the church itself, for neglecting its own intellectual tradition and abdicating its responsibility to engage the influential ideas of today with a positive biblical response.
Christian teachers do need to open minds. It is not necessary, though, to assault their students' settled theological beliefs-even if the promise is to "rebuild" them later on in the course. This tactic has the effect instead of driving pious students away from the intellectual life. Christian teachers need to teach their students how the biblical worldview is, in fact, bigger than they may have realized, and far more wondrous and comprehensive than any secular ideologies. Today, the true anti-intellectuals are those who reject reason entirely. Those who are really narrow-minded are the relativists. Those who are truly parochial are those who think all knowledge is just a matter of one's culture. The minds that need to be opened are those of contemporary academia.
Today's academic climate has become so anti-intellectual that a reaction is setting in.
Conservative scholars are finding their voice. New organizations, such as the National Association of Scholars, are standing up against the relativism, the political correctness, and the rejection of the Western intellectual tradition. New professional organizations-in some of the most tarnished fields such as English, history, and art-have been set up as alternatives to the mainline groups that have vandalized their own disciplines.
Ironically, sacrosanct academic principles that were once established to protect the voice of "minority" positions such as Marxism and other unpopular ideas now serve to protect the voice of Christians and conservatives, now that they are in the minority. "Academic freedom" means that a professor can advocate virtually anything he wants in his own classroom or his own research, without fear of censorship or reprisal. Today academic conservatives are wrapping themselves in the mantle of academic freedom, against attempts to silence them from the left.
When English professor David Clemens at Monterrey Peninsula College in California objected to a mandate that all courses must include treatment of "race, class, and gender issues," he argued that this requirement was imposing a particular ideology on a course that had nothing to do with it. With the help of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a group that poses legal challenges to assaults on free speech and religious liberty on college campuses, Mr. Clemens made the case that the requirement to be politically correct amounted to a "loyalty oath." Just as patriotic loyalty oaths during the Cold War were seen as an impermissible infringement on academic freedom, the requirement that professors genuflect at the altar of racial and gender ideologies should also be impermissible. The college changed its policy and made the requirement voluntary.
With the postmodernists rejecting such academic staples as truth, goodness, and beauty, they are, in effect, abandoning the field to those who have a worldview big enough to embrace them. Emerging lines of research, such as Intelligent Design theory, are showing that the universe may not be meaningless after all. One could make an academic career just in shooting down the bogus research put out by scholars who, by their own admission, are "constructing" truths to advance the agenda of particular interest groups. (No, goddess worshippers did not treat women well. No, the Greeks did not steal all of their ideas from Africa. No, scientific facts are not just a construction of male, patriarchal scientists oppressing the female Mother Nature.)
Some Christian students and faculty members, to counter peer pressure, are banding together themselves through campus ministries and local churches.
Christian Leadership Ministries-a division of Campus Crusade aimed at faculty members-and the organization of apologist Ravi Zacharias organized a conference in June that brought together 317 professors and graduate students from 16 different countries. Attendees envisioned a Christian professors network that would provide mutual support, stimulation, and help. A new website (Facultylinc.com) allows scholars to participate in forums and e-mail discussion lists, according to their disciplines, interests, and concerns.
Despite all of the hostility to Christianity on college campuses, Christianity keeps thriving. College is still the place where many young people come to Christ. Christian graduates tend to look back on the college years as the time when Christian fellowship with other believers was most intense and urgent, a time when their faith seemed particularly real. Christian students who have to contend for their faith daily in a hostile climate often come out of college as battle-hardened warriors of the cross. Christian faculty members exist on most university campuses in most disciplines. Though sometimes beleaguered, they continue to serve their students and their fields in Christian vocation.
God keeps calling Christians, both as students and as faculty members, into the academic arena. For all of the attempts to exclude God from academia, He refuses to go away.


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Rifle Middle School students participated in a schoolwide effort to support the community and local organizations through an annual food drive. The collective efforts of nearly 800 students and staff yielded 2,148 food items, which filled holiday food baskets for 94 community families.
This year's food drive was not only meant to aid LIFT-UP and St. Mary's Catholic Parish in their outreach efforts. It was the vehicle to lead students in acts of "Service, Citizenship and Teamwork," the school's motto for a new call to community efforts, titled "Community Cubs."
In the past, prizes were awarded to those classes that donated the most food items. School administrators wanted to tie these efforts to community service, with the prize being the satisfaction of helping others. A Community Cubs banner was created as a "traveling trophy," with local screenprinting business Summit Sun donating time and print work on the banner.
With an added incentive being the winning class picture with the Community Cubs banner perhaps published in the local newspaper, the students rose to the challenge in an amazing way.
Students and staff were updated with videos in the morning announcements regarding which class was ahead with the number of items collected. It's amazing what a little friendly competition can do. Combine that with a community focus and everyone comes out a winner.
This year's homeroom classes that collected the most food items were: Mr. Allen, grade 5; Ms. Smyth, grade 6; Mrs. Johnson, grade 7, and Mrs. Allen, grade 8.
We couldn't have done this without the support of our parent community, either. Special thanks to our student council kids under the direction of Chris Miller and Nancy Hauer. Each day, they collected and counted the food drive items, as well as labeled many of the items with facts regarding the importance of reading and math, and how each of these contributes to a quality life.
Council members who showed exemplary support and dedication include Tyler Church, Brayden Burgess, Taylor Dion, Dalton Stutsman, Ricky Alvarado, Alexa Lawson, Ashley Manera, Danika Edwards, Jacey Hauer, Alexis Dormio, Kiana Domingo, Peyton Caldwell, Aaron Hosack, and Makenna Sturgeon.
We're proud of all of our Community Cubs, and we hope many of them experienced the kind of satisfaction that only comes from helping others.
Cheryl Carpenter is the reading facilitator/coach at Rifle Middle School.


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That Cybersteering.com covers a lot of territory. Could you refer me to the specific section that explains the valve adjustment?
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AMES, Iowa -- There will be a new path for the Cyclone Spirit Walk for the 2013 football season. The Spirit Walk will begin two hours before kickoff, as the season-opening Spirit Walk on Saturday will start at 5 p.m.
The football team buses will now stop at South Fourth St. North of the Olsen Building. The team will exit the buses and walk along the west side of the Jacobson Building past the Ticket Office and Gate 5 to the Bergstrom Football Complex.
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Located between lots 85E and S8, Cyclone Experience is a FREE for event for kids prior to home football games. The event provides fun activities for kids. Activities include inflatables, equipment try-ons, face painting and special appearances by Toby the Balloon Dude, the Spirit Squad, and Cy.
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Intel Xeon E3110 Processor, 4GB RAM, 2 x 1 TB SATA Drive
Ubuntu 8.04LTS 64 Bit
Software RAID1
(Thanks to Falko Timme for a howto (How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Debian Etch) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials) and continuous support during setup
Server is behind NAT Router, so I needed to setup SplitDNS. (guides: Zimbra::wiki)
Version 6.0.8
Approx. 86 users (and increasing...)
At present serving 1 domain, may be 2 more in near future.
Running successfuly since November 11, 2010.
Backing up to NAS.
Thanks to Heinzg for backup script (http://www.zimbra.com/forums/adminis...y-version.html)
Special thanks to everybody who has helped (and have been helping) me through forums. Without your help, this setup could not be up and running. Thanks to developer of various zimlets, as well.
Not happy with Zimbra Desktop, still facing problems in installation and setup, I need to work more on ZD to run it successfully for all users in my organisation.