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Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Atheists
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The late antique age in which Islam arose was an intensly religious one. Then as always there were irreligious people, but every person was thought to have a "deen" or religion that governed their lives and their relation to their community in some way, whether that be Judaism, one of the infinite flavors of Christianity that permeated the Middle East at the time of the rise of Islam, the Zoroastrianism of the Sassanid Persians, or the religion of the believers. As such the tradition itself has very little to say about atheists. Scholars in later ages who have dealt with the question, though, agree that atheism is as great if not a greater crime against Allah than shirk.
Ali commands to have atheists burned to death
Atheism is a greater crime than shirk
As regards your second question, it is confirmed that some people were following the true religion which 'Eesa (Jesus) came with, and they did not stray until the advent of Islam. The Prophet , said: "Allaah looked at the people of the earth and he abominated the Arabs and the non-Arabs amongst them, except some of the people of the Book." [Muslim]
Therefore, these people were following what was in the Injeel (Gospel) which was revealed on 'Eesa even though there were other people who forged and falsified this Book.
Allaah Knows best.Islam Web, Fatwa No. 104658, February 12, 2008
Atheism, in modern terminology, means denying the Creator altogether, denying that He exists and not acknowledging Him, may He be glorified and exalted. The universe and everything in it, according to their claims, came about purely by chance. This is a strange view which is contrary to sound human nature, reason and logic, and is contrary to simple logic and indisputable facts.
As for shirk (polytheism or associating others with Allah), it implies belief in Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, and affirmation of Him, but it also includes belief in a partner to Allah in His creation, who creates or grants provision or brings benefit or wards off harm. This is shirk al-ruboobiyyah (ascribing partners to Allah in His Lordship). Or it means belief in a partner to whom some kind of worship is devoted as an act of love and veneration, as it is devoted to that person or thing as it should to devoted to Allah, may He be glorified and exalted. This is shirk al-'ibaadah (associating others with Allah in worship). By studying these two deviations, we may see that each of them involves sin and evil which tells us that they are bad and we see how Allah described them as being like dumb animals.
Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"Have you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) seen him who has taken as his ilaah (god) his own vain desire? Would you then be a Wakeel (a disposer of his affairs or a watcher) over him?
44. Or do you think that most of them hear or understand? They are only like cattle nay, they are even farther astray from the Path (i.e. even worse than cattle)"
[al-Furqaan 25:43-44]
"And surely, We have created many of the jinn and mankind for Hell. They have hearts wherewith they understand not, and they have eyes wherewith they see not, and they have ears wherewith they hear not (the truth). They are like cattle, nay even more astray; those! They are the heedless ones"
[al-A'raaf 7:179].
Nevertheless, the atheist who denies the existence of Allah and rejects His Messengers and disbelieves in the Last Day, is in a greater state of kufr and his beliefs are more reprehensible than the one who believes in Allah and the Hereafter, but he associates something of His creation with Him. The former is stubborn and arrogant to an extent that can not be imagined or accepted by sound human nature. Such a person would transgress every sacred limit and fall into every sin; his worldview would be distorted to an inconceivable level. Yet many scholars who discussed the issue of atheism doubted that this has deep roots in the hearts of the atheists, and they affirmed that the atheist is only professing atheism outwardly; deep down he believes in one God.
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah said a great deal which indicates that this group of atheists who deny and reject the existence of God are in a worse state of kufr than the mushrikeen who associate partners with Him. We will quote a little of what we have come across:
He (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Kufr (disbelief) means not believing in Allah and His Messengers, whether it involves rejecting or it consists of doubt and uncertainty about the issue or ignoring the issue altogether, out of envy or arrogance or following whims and desires that divert a person from following the Message. However, the kaafir who rejects and disbelieves is in a state of greater kufr, although the one who rejects and denies out of envy, even though he believes that the Messengers brought the message of truth, is also in a state of kufr. End quote.
Majmoo' al-Fataawa, 17/291
He also said:
The one who denies the Hereafter but believes that this universe is created is described by Allah as a kaafir. The one who denies it and says that this universe existed from eternity is a worse kaafir in the sight of Allah, may He be exalted. End quote.
Majmoo' al-Fataawa, 17/291
He said (may Allah have mercy on him) refuting those who deny the Divine attributes:
(Denying the Divine attributes) implies complete denial which reaches the point that says: There is nothing that must exist and cannot have not existed. If he believes that and says: I do not affirm either existence or non-existence, then the answer to that is: Suppose you state that verbally and in your heart you do not believe either of the two; rather you turn away from knowing Allah and worshipping and remembering Him, so you never remember Him, worship Him, call upon Him, put your hope in Him or fear Him; (in that case) your denial of Him is worse than that of Iblees who (at least) acknowledged Him. End quote.
Majmoo' al-Fataawa, 5/356.
And he (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
The arrogant one is the one who does not acknowledge Allah outwardly, like Pharaoh. He is in a worse state of kufr than them (meaning the mushrik Arabs). Iblees, who enjoins all of that and loves it and is too arrogant to worship his Lord and obey him, is in a worse state of kufr than them (the mushrikeen), even though he was aware of the existence and might of Allah, just as Pharaoh was also aware of the existence of Allah. End quote.
Majmoo' al-Fataawa, 7/633
He also said:
The view of the philosophers -- those who say that the universe is eternal and that it is dependent on that which inevitably must exist -- came from the minds and hearts of those who worshipped heavenly bodies and made images of them on Earth, such as Aristotle and his followers. This view is worse kufr and is more misguided than that of the Arab mushrikeen who believed that Allah created the heavens and the earth and everything between them in six days by His will and power, but they attribute falsely without knowledge sons and daughters to Him (cf. al-An'am 6:100) and joined others in worship with Allaah, for which He had sent no authority (cf. Aal 'Imraan 3:151). Similarly, the permissive people, who do not believe in any command or prohibition at all and refer to the Divine will and decree as an excuse for their evil deeds, are worse off than the Jews, Christians and Arab mushrikeen, because even though the latter are kaafirs, they still believe in some kind of command and prohibition, and the promise and warning (i.e., the Hereafter), but they had partners with Allaah (false gods) who instituted for them a religion which Allaah had not ordained (cf. al-Shoora 42:21), unlike the permissive people who ignore all laws altogether. They are only pleased with whatever suits their whims and desires, and they get angry on the basis of their whims and desires; they do not get pleased for the sake of Allah, or angry for the sake of Allah, or love for the sake of Allah, or hate for the sake of Allah; they do not enjoin that which Allah has enjoined and they do not forbid that which Allah has forbidden, unless that suits their whims and desires, in which case they do it for that purpose and not as an act of obedience to their Lord. Hence they do not denounce what takes place of kufr, evil doing and sin unless it goes against their whims and desires, in which case they will denounce it, prompted by their devilish nature and not prompted by sharee'ah and love of Allah. Hence the devils plunge them deeper into error, and they never stop short (cf. al-A'raaf 7:202), and the devils may show themselves to them and address them and help them with some of their whims and desires, as the devils used to do with the mushrikeen who worshipped idols. End quote.
Majmoo' al-Fataawa, 8/457-458.
Shaykh Ibn Baaz (may Allah be pleased with him) said: It is shirk to worship something other than Allah completely; that may be called shirk or kufr. Whoever turns away from Allah altogether and directs his worship to something other than Allah, such as trees, rocks, idols, the jinn or some of the dead, those whom they call awliya' ("saints"), worshipping them or praying to them or fasting for them, and forgetting Allah altogether -- and this is the worst kind of kufr and shirk. We ask Allah to keep us safe and sound.
The same applies to denying the existence of Allah and saying that there is no God and life is material, like the Communists and atheists who deny the existence of Allah. These are the worst disbelievers among mankind, the most astray, the most involved in shirk and the most misguided. We ask Allah to keep us safe and sound. End quote.
Majmoo' Fataawa Ibn Baaz, 4/32-33
He also said (may Allah have mercy on him):
Meat slaughtered by Communists is haraam and is like the meat of the Magians and idol worshippers; in fact their meat is even more haraam, because their degree of kufr is greater due to their atheism and denial of the Creator (may He be glorified and exalted) and His Messenger, and other kinds of kufr. End quote.
Majmoo' Fataawa Ibn Baaz, 23/30
And Allah knows best.Islam Q&A, Fatwa No. 113901
A marriage to an atheist is null and void
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) encouraged us to marry those who are religiously-committed, because basically women are weak and may change their beliefs and thoughts and even their religion for the slightest reason. So you should not have even considered marrying one whose religious commitment was not great, let alone marrying one who has no religious commitment at all, on the grounds that you would be able to guide him.
Marriage to an atheist is invalid and the marriage contract is basically null and void. It is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allaah and the Last Day to enter into such an invalid marriage on the grounds that this man may possibly be guided after marriage. She should have done what the great Sahaabi woman Umm Sulaym did when she refused to marry Abu Talhah – who was a kaafir at the time – unless he became Muslim, and he did so. This was the greatest mahr (dowry) in Islam as Anas (may Allaah be pleased with him) said. (al-Nasaa'i, 3341; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani).
The evidence that the marriage of a Muslim woman to a kaafir man is invalid is very clear. This is one of the matters on which there is unanimous agreement among all the scholars of the ummah.
. . .
Conclusion: This marriage of yours is invalid and it is not permissible to allow him to be intimate with you unless he comes back to Islam and enters the faith by pronouncing the Shahaadatayn and following the rulings of Islam. If he does not do that then the marriage must be annulled in a sharee'ah court. If you cannot do that or if there is no sharee'ah court where you live, then you should ask him for a divorce. If he refuses then you should divorce him by means of khula', returning his mahr or more or less so that you can be separated.
And Allaah knows best.Islam Q&A, Fatwa No. 22468
Therefore, you have to avoid talking to this woman or keeping company with her, to be safe in relation to your religion. As regards calling her to Islam, you can only guide her to some Muslim websites in English. You can also inform her about some Islamic centers in her country.
But it is not permissible to marry her, as she is still a Kafir (non-Muslim) and has not yet embraced Islam wholeheartedly without any doubt. Allah says: "And do not marry Al-Mushrikât (idolatresses, etc.) till they believe (worship Allâh Alone). And indeed a slave woman who believes is better than a (free) Mushrikah (idolatress, etc.), even though she pleases you."(Al-Baqarah 2:221). Being convinced by Islam and wishing to embrace it is not an excuse for you to get married with her...Dr. Abdullah Al-faqih, Islam Web, Fatwa No. 88328, July 21, 2004
No prayers for dead atheists and other non-Muslims
If the matter is as you describe, and your friend became an atheist and did not believe in Islam, and he died in that state, as appears to be the case, then it is not permissible for the one who knew his situation to offer the funeral prayer for him or to say du'aa' for him, or to wash him or shroud him or bury him in the Muslim graveyard, because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"It is not (proper) for the Prophet and those who believe to ask Allaah's forgiveness for the Mushrikoon, even though they be of kin, after it has become clear to them that they are the dwellers of the Fire (because they died in a state of disbelief)"
[al-Tawbah 9:113]
"And never (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) pray (funeral prayer) for any of them (hypocrites) who dies, nor stand at his grave. Certainly they disbelieved in Allaah and His Messenger, and died while they were Faasiqoon (rebellious, — disobedient to Allaah and His Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم)"
[al-Tawbah 9:84].
Muslim (976) narrated that Abu Hurayrah said: The messenger of Allaah (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) said: "I asked my Lord for permission to pray for forgiveness for my mother but He did not give me permission. And I asked Him for permission to visit her grave and He gave me permission."
This is evidence that it is not permissible to say du'aa' for one who died in a state of shirk or kufr.Islam Q&A, Fatwa No. 127301
Ibn Sina was an atheist
Ibn Sinna (Avicenna) was accused of being a Kafir and an atheist because of his statements about the antiquity of the world, his rejection of the Hereafter, and other atheist theories, in addition to his inner legendary ideology.
Other scholars stated that Ibn Sinna was an atheist before Sheikh Al-Huwaini did; amongst them is: Al-Ghazali, Ibn Taymiyah, Ibn Al-Qayim, and Al-Dhahabi.
Allah knows best.Islam Web, Fatwa No. 87783, May 20, 2004
See Also
- Non-Muslims (Primary Sources) - A hub page that leads to other articles related to Non-Muslims (Primary Sources)


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"...and it tasted even better than it looked, if that's at all imaginable! Yummy!!! Thanks Auntie @iveychilders and @iveycakestore for this delicious creation!" she writes.
This is just one of the many instances the singer has shared a glimpse into her life with fans. Last week, Underwood shared an adorable video of herself and Isaiah in the car singing "Jesus Loves Me." In the short Instagram clip, Isaiah is turned backward in his car seat in the back seat. As Underwood is singing, "Yes, Jesus loves me," her little boy tries his best to mimic his mother's words.
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by Br. Alexis Bugnolo
A Catholic priest of the Diocese of Viterbo, Italy, has publicly disavowed Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the Pope and has returned to loyalty to Pope Benedict XVI!
He made his profession public on April, 1, 2020 and asked that it be distributed throughout all the world. His name is Don. Francesco d'Erasmo. He is the parochial Vicar of the co-Cathedral of Tarquinia, in the Diocese of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia. Therefore, he is a cleric of no small standing. His profession in its original Italian, can be found at:
Here is an English translation of his Act:
I humbly beg those who have the possibility, to give the maximum diffusion to my writing, freeing them at the same time of any personal responsibility for the content, so that it can really reach its recipients, in particular:
To His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, to all the bishops and lay faithful of the Catholic Church, to all men of good will,
I, Francesco d'Erasmo, born in Milan on January 29, 1974, baptized on February 10, 1974, ordained presbyter of the Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church in La Storta on June 26, 1999, residing in Tarquinia, VT, at the known address, in full possession of my faculties, after having for many years pondered this step before God, fully aware of the consequences that it can entail,
in renewing my faith, professed by my parents and godparents in my Baptism, renewed by myself in the Diaconal and Presbyteral Ordination, in receiving the office of parish priest in 2017, as in all the exercise of my ministry in the service of the Saint Catholic Church, previous and following, also by letter and publicly,
I explicitly specify that I renew my profession of faith compulsory according to the formula required for those who hire an Office in the Church, according to the norms of the Canons,
in particular, I explicitly renew what was proposed to swear in the so-called Anti-modernist Oath prescribed by Saint Pius X on September 1, 1910,
and explicitly precise the following, as an integral and inseparable part of my profession of faith.
I acknowledge before God that I can no longer remain silent and not even in the implicit allusion to what I am here to declare. I ask forgiveness from God and men if my hesitation so far had been guilty, although animated by good faith, fearing that the consequences of this act for the good of the Church would not be good.
I can no longer keep silent the certainty of what God shows in the eyes of my intelligence and my heart, in my conscience, otherwise I would be complicit in the evil that derives from it:
THAT the one who currently sits on the Chair of Peter with the name attributed to him by Francis, Jorge Mario BERGOGLIO, DOES NOT BELONG TO THE COMMUNION OF THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH, IS ANATHEM, EXCOMMUNICATED, SO IS NOT TRUE POPE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
I am aware that only God has the authority to dismiss a pontiff.
However, I remember that anyone in the Holy Church falls into heresy and therefore loses the Office himself.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio has incurred multiple very serious heresies, even touching the apostasy of the faith, through declarations and documents published by him and declarations attributed to him and not denied, even if not pronounced "ex cathedra", confusing with these acts the faith of the faithful, abusing the faith and obedience that they have towards the legitimate Successor of Peter, tolerating, nurturing and encouraging in the practice of the Church heresies and sins against Catholic morality, equally if not more serious, also reached to touch apostasy, and often punishing those who opposed all this.
I remember among the most recent the serious sin of idolatry in the worship of veneration to a pagan idol committed in the Basilica of San Pietro in his presence, never denied or disavowed by him, who indeed has publicly deplored and disavowed those who publicly opposed this extremely serious sacrilege. I remember the denial of the Divinity of Jesus Christ and Hell in interviews published in his name and never clearly denied. I remember the public and solemn denial of Jesus Christ the only Savior given by God to men.
I thank God for giving me the certainty of the deferral of this act of mine through the events of these days and today's liturgy, as I come to describe, not for my justification, but for help to those who want to know the truth.
The subtle insinuation that there is an authority that can dispense the faithful from the Easter Precept is in fact the most serious sin of idolatry ever seen. It places the authority of God below another authority right in the heart of the worship due to God by the Holy Catholic Church for the sanctification of the faithful.
Man stands above God himself!
This sin was already present in many other acts of Bergoglio, especially regarding the discipline of access to the sacraments and ecclesiastical offices, but it was always possible, for those who wanted it, not to collaborate personally in such sacrileges.
At this moment his abusive exercise of Authority, conferred by Christ himself on Peter to confirm the faith of the brothers, implies also the physical impediment to the faithful to be able to obey the command of God by sanctifying Easter. And this by virtue of an alleged obedience to a political power, which however has no legitimate authority over acts of worship.
In this situation it is evident that a bishop dressed in white finds himself in the role of Nebuchadnezzar in front of the three children, creating an unprecedented confusion in the conscience of the faithful.
This is the abomination of desolation. This cannot be recognized in any other way than as a great apostasy of Truth and Faith, which takes place through the direct responsibility of the one whom the world sees as the Successor of Peter, Vicar of Christ.
This is to deny that Jesus alone is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and therefore it is to deny that He is God, "the Son of God who came in the flesh".
Protecting, or presuming to protect, health or respect for political order (or perhaps protecting from dangers that are secretly threatened and the People of God does not know) will never be more important than protecting the faithful from disobedience to God!
Jesus did not so command. Whoever does not give God what belongs to God cannot even give Caesar what belongs to Caesar. He gives Caesar what belongs to God.
Jesus did not do this!
I am aware that in this situation it is difficult to find a solution. It is not for me, on the other hand, to seek it, since I do not have the authority to do it.
But I remind those who have this authority, first of all, that "nothing is impossible for God".
I also remember that "if they keep silent they will cry out the stones". Some stones have already shouted, but the Church hierarchy seems to have been deaf to many of its members. Let's hope they don't shout again!
To the faithful who recognize the truth of what I say, but are baffled by the consequences, I remember that the Lord has promised that he will never abandon His Church.
The first who announced the coming of these events is Jesus in the Gospel, and the rest of the New Testament tells us that the enemies of true faith would arise among us.
I specify that the sacraments administered within the Catholic Church remain valid, as those administered in other Churches that have not enjoyed full communion with the legitimate Successor of Peter have been valid for centuries. So also the government acts, which, if not valid, can always be remedied, or in any case corrected with other valid acts.
The Holy Church is founded on the faith of the Apostle Peter, and this can never fail!
If anyone, who has the authority to intervene, could be restrained by the fear of the consequences for the faithful, as has happened to me to date, I remember the testimony of the three children in the furnace, or of Susanna, as of all the Saints of God, especially the Martyrs: "Better for me to be killed than to sin against my God." True Catholic faithful still have this perseverance, and often still today, in hiding, they exercise it with enormous sacrifices, to the point of offering the same life. They do not feel abandoned if their bodies find themselves in power to men who can kill them, but they feel abandoned by their shepherds if their faith is at the mercy of Satan's deception.
I remind you and all Christians again, through the word of Saint Paul the Apostle, the danger of being accomplices of the current great apostasy: "I am surprised that, so quickly, from the one who called you with the grace of Christ you pass to another gospel. But there is not another, except that there are some who upset you and want to subvert the Gospel of Christ. But if we ourselves, or an angel from heaven would announce to you a different Gospel from what we have announced to you, be anathema! We have already said it and now I repeat it: if someone announces you a different gospel from the one you have received, be anathema! In fact, is it the consent of men that I seek, or that of God? Or do I try to please men? If I still tried to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ! "
Peter himself, whose role Bergoglio abuses, said to the High Priests of the Sanhedrin: "We must obey God instead of men".
Two years ago I wrote an allusive passage, referring to Daniele's words in front of Susanna, and superimposing an image of the Tears of Blood of the Madonnina of Civitavecchia, and published it on the internet, at the address www.mt715.simplesite.com, because were visible in front of everyone. This was the attempt to testify what I now say, in the most implicit way possible, convinced of avoiding the harmful consequences for the Church that an explicit statement could have caused.
Now is the time to explicitly say what I was expressing, and therefore also to explain the allusion:
"I'm innocent of this woman's blood."
Daniele decided not to be an accomplice through the silence of the killing of the innocent Susanna.
I don't want to be complicit with my silence of the Blood of the Catholic Church, because blood is for life, and the Life of the Catholic Church is His Faith in Jesus Christ. The Virgin Mary is the image and model of the Holy Church. In His holy Image he cried Blood Tears. It is the Blood of Jesus His Son, as she herself declared. It is therefore the Blood of the Church itself, the Mystical Body of Her son, terribly tortured and killed in the apostasy of His Faith and Truth.
I, Francesco d'Erasmo, am innocent of the Blood of this Woman!
So I believe and profess before God Almighty Father, to Jesus Christ His Son Our Lord, who will come to judge the living and the dead and the world through fire, and to the Holy Spirit of Truth, to the Virgin Mary Mother of God and of the Church, Queen of Heaven, Immaculate Conception, to the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and to all the heavenly hosts, before the whole Communion of Saints, triumphant, purgative and militant, and before all men of good will.
So may the Holy Gospels help me.
Francesco d'Erasmo
Diocese of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia, 1 April 2020, the eve of the birth of St. John Paul II in Heaven.
Indispensable clarification:
The DECLARATION published by me on 01.03.2020 is a strictly personal act, of which I CARRY THE EXCLUSIVE RESPONSIBILITY, due to the exclusive decision of the writer, without any type of involvement and not even prior knowledge of any other person in the world, as well as all the texts published by me online at www.mt715.simplesite.com . Even the photos juxtaposed there were a purely my initiative, as well as the references to the Madonnina of Civitavecchia in any form and content.
In particular, I deny any type of involvement, even indirect, with the Gregori family of Civitavecchia, protagonist of the well-known story of the Madonnina, in any way, not even marginal.
The spiritual father of the Gregori family is Father Manuel Hernández Jerez, as is known. I am not and have never been a spiritual father of the Gregori family.
This clarification is necessary to avoid undue attributions of responsibility, since it is instead known that I have received, as indeed anyone who goes to their home, hospitality, affection and friendship from this respectable family. However, this does not mean that they are in any way responsible for my personal initiatives.
I also ask those who have kindly circulated my declaration to also spread this text together with it.
For me, this clarification is so important that if it were not clear and damages this innocent family, I would rather be ready to deny everything I wrote.
In faith before God,
Francesco d'Erasmo, April 2, 2020, anniversary of the birth of St. John Paul II in Heaven
CREDITS: The Featured Image is of Father Erasmus offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at the Altar of Our Lady of Sorrows, in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem, and is take from his blog.


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VUNK Garage48 Telecom- a great event with awesome prizes:
• Seven great teams were chosen to go to the second round of which two best teams will win a spot in a 4-week intensive acceleration program @Startup Wise Guys + will get 10,000 EUR of equity-free funding per team!
• Two seats in the TOP40 @Prototron.
• One spot in the TOP30 @Ajujaht
Provide the possibility to tip your waiter/waitress for great service when with your mobile when don't have cash on you.
Team: Hedi Hunt (marketing), Ardo Huul (business developer), Alar Huul (project manager),Raivo Malter (back-end developer), Henri Toivar (back-end developer), Marek Fraczyk (front-end developer), Tarmo Annus (back-end developer).
Airsoftracker is a platform for the airsoft community, which helps game master to make awesome games with thrilling scenarios, to easily receive registrations for the games, to provide extra features for players, to easily receive payments, to control the whole process of the game via Tablet or PC. Gives players the opportunity to join the game with the most exciting and breathtaking scenarios, to see everything on the map during the game, to communicate with the game master or other participants, to track objectives of the current scenario during the game, to get more fun from the game using new features!
Team: Ali Baloi (Visionary/Project Manager), Kaspar Kuus (Marketer), Aleksei Ignatjev (UI/UX Designer), Juha Kovanen (Back-End-Developer/Android Developer), Marc Seitz (Back-End-Developer), Olli Helenius (Back-End Developer), Michael Strobl (Front-End-Developer)
Marina Ahoy is a platform connecting sailors and marinas. Our device independent platform, Marina Ahoy, will allow marina managers to track real-time traffic and manage their services. Yacht captains can easily connect to the harbours ecosystem and use preferred services. Marina management is time consuming and often the marinas are small and operates with limited resources. Offering smooth marina services to sailors, will generate requiring visits and return business from sailors and pleasure craft. Ahoy will streamline operating the marinas, present available marina services to visitor, give pleasant end user experience and generate more revenue for the marinas. No more filling the check-in forms when entering the port. Choose the length of your stay. Check the services marina is providing. Choose the additional services your require from booking the sauna to ordering the waste water treatment. Pay with one click.
Team: Relika Metsallik-Koppel (project manager, founder), Hannes Koppel (marketing, co-founder), Meelis Malk (marketing), Gleb Stsenov (software engineer), Simmo Sedrik (designer), Taavi Talvik (software developer), Rasmus Kuusmann (software engineer), Sami Keskiaho (marketing).
Need2Park is a system that solves off-street parking problems, and renders parking solutions profitable for businesses. Offering an all inclusive package which covers everything from running costs and administrative costs via a transparent business model intended for property owners. This transparent model is aimed at reducing expenses while increasing profits in order to maximize revenue. This system allows the parking facility owner to apply a liquid pricing model that enables them to maximize their profits. The liquid pricing model is calculated through the data gathered at that particular time in relation to demand and supply. Everyday parkers will discover that it is a convenient solution for finding, paying and booking a parking spot – all this within one handy mobile application. Need2park will certainly bring innovation to parking.
Team: Madis Lempu (co-founder), Kaspar Kikerpill (co-founder), Kaitti Kattai (CTO), Mariliis Niine (design and marketing), Indrek Värva (fullstack developer), Kert Pjatkin (back-end developer (NFC))
RebelRoam is a global mobile Wi-Fi HotSpot as a full service for chartered transportation. We take the hassle of managing cross border Wi-Fi service and make it easy to use without the need of constant management. RebelRoams business model is validated with Hansabuss, a major chartered coach company in Estonia, ready to sign-up after successful pilot.
Team: Tarvo Topolev (business development), Kaido Pähn (visionary), Chris Nichterlein (designer), Henri Ploom (project manager, engineer), Magnus Rüütel- marketing


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Greening The Internet: How Leading Companies are Building a Green Web
Greenpeace and Gigaom's Katie Fehrenbacher cordially invite you to a special forum on the sustainability of the IT sector:
Greening The Internet: How Leading Companies are Building a Green Web
At the San Francisco Exploratorium.
Cloud and mobile computing are transforming society and have the potential to help make it greener. But the rapid growth in electricity needed to power the online world is gaining attention and raising a central question: How Green is the Internet?
In an important shift, some of the best known Internet companies have recently embraced this challenge head on. Join data center and sustainability experts from Box, Facebook, Google, Rackspace, and other leading companies to hear why they are going beyond energy efficiency and have committed to powering their growth with clean renewable electricity.
Gigaom's Katie Fehrenbacher will lead a discussion with energy experts and representatives from Internet companies who have already committed to power their operations with 100% renewable electricity, to address question like:
- Why are leading Internet companies committing to 100% renewable energy?
- How can Internet companies play an important role in accelerating a shift to renewable energy?
- What are the challenges to powering with renewables, and how have companies overcome them?
- What renewable energy options do companies who rely on colocation providers have?
Following the forum, all participants are invited to take a tour of the Rainbow Warrior III, Greenpeace's new custom-built, high-tech sailing ship, which will be docked next to the Exploratorium.
12:45PM Registration
1:00PM Welcome – Katie Fehrenbacher, Senior Writer, GigaOM
1:05PM Building a Green Internet—Why It Matters and Signs of Leadership, Gary Cook, Senior IT Analyst, Greenpeace International
1:15PM What are the options to build a Green Internet?
1:20PM Greening the Internet: Leading internet companies share why and how they are seeking to power their platforms with clean power. Presentations by Box, Facebook, Google, Rackspace and other leading technology companies.
2:30PM Break
2:40PM-4:00PM Complimentary 20-minute tours of Rainbow Warrior III, Greenpeace flagship docked at the Exploratorium
2:40PM In depth lessons learned sessions on renewable energy options and energy reporting (company representatives only)
Facebook Bill Weihl
Bill Weihl joined Facebook in early 2012 to manage sustainability and energy efficiency initiatives. His group is leading projects to measure and report the company's carbon and energy footprint, to build real-time public dashboards for PUE and WUE, and to procure clean energy, and generally to understand and manage the company's environmental footprint. Previously, he spent six years as green energy czar at Google, where he led efforts in energy efficiency and renewable energy, spearheading Google's drive to become carbon neutral, founding the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, and leading the RE&IT initiative to develop renewable energy cheaper than coal. He has extensive business and technical experience in high-tech, including ten years as a professor of computer science at MIT, five years as a research scientist at Digital's Systems Research Center, and five years as chief architect and then CTO of Akamai Technologies. In 2009, he was named one of Time Magazine's Heroes of the Environment.
Rackspace Hosting Melissa Gray Senior Director of Sustainability
Melissa is responsible for defining and guiding Rackspace's Sustainability strategy and activities around the globe. She leads the Global Energy Team, Green Teams and is a member of the Global Infrastructure Team. In addition she leads the Emerging Talent team for Rackspace's Foundation Services organization and is the Executive Sponsor of the LGBTQA Emloyee Resource Group. Since joining Rackspace in October of 2009, her prior roles have included the development of Operational Support Systems and Chief of Staff to the CEO developing Rackspace's multi-year strategic plan. Prior to Rackspace, Gray brings over 15 years of business strategy and operations experience working for a Fortune 10 company, transforming complex legacy businesses through innovation. She holds 3 EU and US software patents. Melissa received her B.A. from Western Michigan University.
Google Gary Demasi Director of Data Center Energy and Location Strategy
Gary has over 15 strategy development, corporate site selection, and negotiations experience covering a wide range of industries and operational areas. He has personally managed projects involving hundreds of millions of dollars of capital expenditures, and has executed strategic projects on five continents. In Gary's current role, he develops overall direction for Google's global data center site strategy, including managing the company's energy portfolio, working closely with utility and development partners to secure clean energy for operations. Gary participated in the founding of "Google Energy, LLC" and under Gary's management, the team has secured over 570 megawatts of renewable energy under long term contracts. Gary holds a Bachelor's Degree in Biology from the University of Vermont and a Master of Science in Real Estate from the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.
Box Andy Broer Senior Manager of Datacenter Operations
Andy Broer is the senior manager of data center operations at Box. He is responsible for server procurement and provisioning, space and power management and the critical environment that runs Box's Saas offering. Previous to joining Box in Feb of 2013 he headed Cisco's Infrastructure Critical Environments (ICE) team for 16 years. Where he was most recently the physical data center design manager of Richardson 9's DC, the IT "energy czar" watching over capacity constraints for Cisco's critical IT environments. He was the IT DC build manager for Cisco's first stand alone Tier III data center in Texas. Prior to that he headed and managed the Data Center Infrastructure Team through Cisco's explosive growth years in the late 1990s via global acquisitions during which time his team built more than 100 server environments around the world. He was a board and founding member of AFCOM's northern California branch in 1997 as well as a trustee for a high tech mutual fund (BFOCX) since 1998. He is now co-chair of the Critical Facilities Roundtable's Technology Group (CFRT). He holds two degrees from San Jose State University: a BA and an MA.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory Stuart Macmillan
Stuart Macmillan is a Chief Scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and a Consulting Professor at Stanford University. He was on the founding team of Energy System Integration focused on improved understanding, decision-making, control and design of complex energy systems. He helped create OpenEI, a global energy data commons, and was on the founding team of JavaSoft.
Greenpeace International Gary Cook Senior IT Policy Analyst
Gary leads Greenpeace's evaluation of climate and energy leadership by global IT brands. He has authored three reports evaluating the growth in electricity demand associated with cloud computing and how different IT companies are performing in ensuring this new demand is powered by renewable energy. Gary has been active in the climate change & energy policy at multiple levels over the past 18 years, working with government officials, multinational corporations, and local governments to strengthen policy drivers at the international, federal, subnational levels Prior to rejoining Greenpeace in 2009, Gary was California Director of ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability.