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Most Memorable Moments of 2013-14: No. 18June 25, 2014
For the first time, AUTrojans.com is counting down Anderson University athletics' 25 most memorable games, matches and meets from the 2013-14 academic year. This season's countdown began on Monday, June 16 and will continue throughout the summer.
Be sure to check AUTrojans.com during the offseason to relive all the highlights of another successful year at Anderson.
Goss Scores, Women's Soccer Defeats Lincoln Memorial, 1-0
October 19, 2013
ANDERSON, S.C. – Before its biggest crowd of the season, Anderson University women's soccer claimed a key South Atlantic Conference victory, as the Trojans knocked off Lincoln Memorial 1-0 Saturday afternoon at Trojan Stadium.
The win puts Anderson at 4-6-4 on the season and 2-2-4 in SAC play, giving them 10 points in the league standings. LMU, which was seeking a chance at the top-spot in the league, dropped to 5-3 in conference play and into a tie for third in the conference standings.
Senior goalkeeper Kaitlyn Neipp recorded her 20th complete shutout, as the native of Anderson S.C. made six saves on the afternoon to put her one away from a tying for seventh place on the all-time shutout list in SAC history. Neipp now has 20.4 career clean sheets.
Fellow senior Krystal Goss provided the scoring for Anderson as she notched her fourth goal of the season when she flicked a shot over LMU goalkeeper Kayla Stephens in the 72nd minute. Stephens came off her line and tried to stop Goss' shot, but it was too late as the ball traveled over her head and into the net. For Goss, the Newry, S.C. now holds the team-lead for goals.
"Krystal did very well to capitalize on a loose ball with composure," Anderson head coach Samar Azem said. "We are seeing the pieces come together and will continue to build and prepare for this upcoming week."
Goss went on to lead the team in shots with three, as two troubled Stephens in goal. Classmate Olivia Scalzitti and freshman Helena Moore each tallied a shot on goal. LMU was paced by substitute Olivia Thompson who notched four shots with two on goal in 71 minutes of action.
"I'm incredibly proud of our players for piecing together a solid game," Azem said. "A huge thank you to our families and fans for the support today, it was certainly difference making."
AUTrojans.com's Most Memorable Moments of 2013-14
25. Women's Tennis 6, Carson-Newman 3 – April 11, 2014
24. Setro Finishes Sixth at State Farm Intercollegiate – Oct. 15, 2013
23. Baseball 5, Southern Wesleyan 2 - March 5, 2014
22. Women's Cross Country Finishes 4th at SAC Championships - Oct. 26, 2013
21. Katie Eskew Earns All-Tournament Honors at Patsy Rendleman Invitational – Oct. 15, 2013
20. Men's Tennis 5, Erskine 4 - April 10, 2014
19. Men's Cross Country Finishes Third at SAC Championships – Oct. 26, 2013
18. Women's Soccer 1, Lincoln Memorial 0 – Oct. 19, 2013


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Islam & Modernity
Since the dreadful events of September 11, 2001, Americans have been living in a world riven by antagonism between Muslims and non-Muslims, a polarization arguably not seen since the medieval period and the Crusades of Christian Europe. In the face of this antipathy, it's important to acknowledge that just as the West today is more religiously diverse than was Europe when Pope Urban II called for the First Crusade almost a thousand years ago, so too is the Muslim world. Too many talking heads in the American media want to reduce the Islamic tradition to its most politicized and militant version. Such a simplification insults the richness of that religious tradition.
When I recently read through the names of those who died in the World Trade Center that September morning, I was struck by how many were identifiably Muslim. In this regard it seems wholly suitable that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf wishes to build, on a site two blocks from Ground Zero, a community center and mosque. Like us, our Muslim neighbors need a place to pray and mourn for their relatives and friends who died on that terrible day. But the willingness, even the ability, to extend sympathetic support for such a need depends on a knowledge of Islam many Americans lack.
To understand Muslims today one needs to recognize three strands of faith—in effect three different cultures—among Sunni Muslims, who account for nearly nine-tenths of the world's Muslims. (In discussing these subgroups, I do not wish to slight the 10 percent of the world's Muslims who are Shiite, nor the 1 percent who are neither Sunni nor Shiite.) First is the relatively small but intense Sunni minority that advocates a radically countercultural understanding of Islam. These are the people characterized in the West as Islamists (formerly referred to as Muslim fundamentalists), and most have been influenced by the conservative understanding of Islam propagated in and by Saudi Arabia. A second, larger population participates in the Islamic tradition but can be characterized as culturally secularized, often more influenced by socioeconomic and political forces than by the Qur'an. Most of these culturally secularized Muslims live in Turkey, the Balkans, the former Soviet Asian republics, and parts of Africa. But the largest bloc of Muslims are people of faith participating in a centrist tradition whose understanding of Islam engages with the many nonreligious factors in their world; they can best be described as inculturating their faith in a world that is only partly Islamic. These are Muslims for whom faith and culture are not completely coextensive. Most Arabs (Saudis excepted) and most South Asian Muslims fit into this category.
The Sunni Muslims I characterize as countercultural sometimes trace their ideas back to key passages in the Qur'an. The Qur'an came to historical birth in the two decades before Muhammad's death in 632, and in its original setting it was in some sense markedly countercultural, critical of Muhammad's contemporaries and their faithless ways. The Qur'an refers derisively to elements of pre-Islamic Arabian culture as jahiliyya, a term usually translated as "ignorance" but more akin to "barbarism." Jahiliyya appears only four times in the Qur'an, each time in a passage of revelation received by Muhammad when he was attempting to establish an ideal Islamic rule in Medina. For instance, during a battle with the Meccans in the year 625, when some of Muhammad's army broke ranks to take booty—standard practice for the pre-Islamic Arabs—many were killed and others wounded; and the Qur'an excoriates them for falling back into pagan Arab ways, "entertaining wrong suppositions about God, suppositions typical of barbarism" (Qur'an 3:154).
The Qur'anic term jahiliyya provided the rigorist Ibn Taymiyya (1263–1328) with a useful category for condemning the Mongols, converts to Islam who invaded the Middle East, destroyed the ailing Sunni caliphate, and established a rule that owed more to their own legal tradition, the Great Yasa of Genghis Khan, than it did to Islamic sharia. In turn, much of what is called Islamism today stems from the work of twentieth-century writers who studied Ibn Taymiyya. Two of the most influential are the Indian-born journalist Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi (1903–79) and Sayyid Qutb (1906–66), an Egyptian novelist radicalized by his experiences as a student in the United States in the late 1940s. Undoubtedly the most influential Islamic rigorist in the Arab world, especially since his execution by the Nasser government in 1966, Sayyid Qutb embraced a pristine vision of Islam based less on history than on a catechetical idealization of history. In this he was much affected not only by Ibn Taymiyya's denunciation of the Muslim Mongols, but also by the writings of Maududi. Both Sayyid Qutb and Maududi were autodidacts, as far as Islamic legal tradition is concerned. The countercultural vision of Islam they espoused, divorced from any past concrete cultural expression of Islamic faith, was a reactionary schematization, conspicuously lacking the historical and cultural depth that might have informed a more humane vision. Their writings, translated into English, have gained them a following among other Muslim autodidacts throughout the world.
These examples of post-Qur'anic invocation of jahiliyya reveal an expansion of the term well beyond its original sense. The jahiliyya of the Mongols had to do with their reliance on the Yasa of Genghis Khan alongside Islamic legal sources. Yet far more significant than any injury to Islam by the Mongols was the benefit to Islam brought by their conversion—the greatest eastward expansion of Islam in its history. Indeed, the historic genius of Islam has been its ability to penetrate non-Arab cultural settings and to bring to them, if only gradually, a deepening sense of the oneness of God and the moral demands that Islamic monotheism involves. Ibn Taymiyya, a Syrian Arab, had little historical perspective on the extraordinary process of Islamization that was going on in Central Asia in his lifetime. The countercultural Muslims holed up in Afghanistan's Tora Bora caves today share this shortsightedness. For us it is important to realize that such countercultural Muslims remain a small minority of the world's total Muslim population. To be sure, they are a very dangerous small minority. But the threat they pose is not only to non-Muslims, but also to other Muslims whose relationship to outside cultures is more benign.
The Muslims I have characterized as culturally secularized also trace a history back to the beginnings of the Islamic tradition. An early Qur'anic passage hints at a certain harmonizing of revelation with the surrounding culture of pre-Islamic Mecca. Two brief suras (105 and 106) indicate a deeply ingrained sympathy for at least one aspect of pre-Islamic culture, the religious cultus at the Ka'ba. This cubic shrine at the center of Mecca was polytheistic by the time of Muhammad's birth (though Muslim tradition maintains it had been built as a monotheistic sanctuary centuries earlier by Abraham and Ishmael). When the Christian Ethiopian army of Abraha, armed with an elephant, laid siege to Mecca in the year 570, divine intervention, apparently in the form of flying insects, saved the polytheistic Ka'ba: "Have you not seen what your Lord did with the people of the elephant? Did he not make their plans go awry?" (Qur'an 105:1–2)
The Sura of Quraysh, probably referring to God's frustration of this Ethiopian attempt to conquer the Arabs of Mecca (the Quraysh), alludes as well to the centrality of the Ka'ba "for making the Quraysh secure" (106:1). In this passage God assures Muhammad of the continued importance of this shrine, even if the shrine remained (until purified by Muhammad on the day of Mecca's conquest in 630) polluted by idolatrous practice. This Qur'anic benevolence towards the Ka'ba encouraged converts, assuring them that the cubic shrine—often visited by pilgrims who also traded in Mecca—would continue to guarantee the town's prosperity when the Ka'ba returned to monotheism. Of course, both the Qur'an itself and the written accounts of what Muhammad said and did (the literary corpus called Hadith) deplore the polytheism of preconquest Mecca. Yet none of these sources proposes a permanent replacement for the Ka'ba; and the continued socioeconomic and political importance of the Quraysh and the Ka'ba, carried on from pre-Islamic into Islamic times, may serve symbolically for other forms of continuation and transformation in the later history of Islam.
Part of this later history centered on a relatively small coterie of medieval Muslim philosophers, who viewed the religious intellectuality of Hellenism as parallel or even superior to that of the Qur'an. (It is no surprise that most modern Muslims of a countercultural bent utterly reject the intellectual contributions of these Hellenists.) Their practice of falsafa, a word borrowed from the Greek philosophia, encompassed much more than what we call philosophy today: not only logic and metaphysics, but also mathematics, astronomy and astrology, medicine, and even alchemy. Falsafa never had a large following, but it did provide some Arab Muslims (and more Iranian and Turkish ones) with an alternative worldview. Some of its most prominent practitioners tried to reconcile the revealed Qur'an with their Greek-derived thought, suggesting that the Qur'an provided for the non-philosopher the basic insights of what falsafa taught the cognoscenti. Abu Nasr al-Farabi (d. ca. 950), though more devout than some later Muslim philosophers, maintained that the ideal ruler could not be guided only by revealed images—for example, the Qur'an—but needed to study Greek wisdom to equip himself as a kind of Platonic philosopher-king. The late-twelfth-century Spanish-Moroccan philosopher Ibn Tufayl wrote a philosophical novella, Hayy ibn Yaqzan ("Alive, the Son of Awake"), which tells of two men who try to preach philosophical religion in a country ruled by religious literalists. They give up and withdraw to a life of contemplation on an otherwise uninhabited island.
Falsafa persisted in the Sunni Muslim world in the notable career of Ibn Tufayl's illustrious disciple (and successor as a court functionary in Morocco), Ibn Rushd, known in the West as Averroës. The discreet Aristotelianism practiced by these late-twelfth-century philosophers in Spain and Morocco found worthy inheritors in thirteenth-century Paris, most notably the Latin Averroists contemporary with Aquinas. Centuries later, the Muslim Aristotelians' wedding of Hellenism and the Qur'an would provide a model for Jamal al-din al-Afghani (1838–97), an Iranian Shiite who hid his identity in pursuit of a grand scheme to unite Muslims against European hegemony in the Muslim world. From Afghani derives not only the so-called Muslim Modernism of the turn of the last century, but also some of the more radical Muslim anticolonial movements that followed. In 1871, during one of his sojourns in Egypt, Afghani took private students from among the religious scholars at the staid Azhar University, including the man who became the father of Muslim Modernism in Egypt, Muhammad 'Abduh (1849–1905). Afghani introduced 'Abduh to falsafa, by then long out of intellectual fashion in the Sunni world. 'Abduh went on to become famous for his rationalistic explanation of all things miraculous in the Qur'an, in effect presenting the whole of Islam as a philosophical religion. (He also sufficiently distanced himself from Afghani's anticolonialism to become the Grand Mufti in Egypt during the British Consular period.)
Afghani and 'Abduh shared a somewhat instrumental conception of Islamic faith, viewing it as an ideology that could be used to modernize the Muslim world. The Qur'an had to be interpreted in such a way as to make it an instrument of modernization and scientific advancement. Like the Muslim philosophers who were their intellectual forebears, Afghani and 'Abduh were quite capable of excerpting from the Qur'an words and phrases that fitted their modernizing cultural agenda. Not every later admirer of Afghani and 'Abduh has shared their enthusiasm for rationalist explanations. Yet even if their brand of modernism is somewhat out of fashion today, their intellectual quest to find the relevance of Islam in contemporary societies continues.
It is important to emphasize that Islam also has a tradition lying somewhere between the two varieties described above. This centrist tradition of Muslims who inculturate their faith recognizes the importance of cultural elements with little or no connection to Islam. This centrist tradition suggests that God's self-revelation, the Qur'an, speaks to all forms of culture. For such Muslims the Qur'an recognizes something profoundly important—something deeply in tune with the revelation given to Muhammad—even in matters, events, and circumstances not specifically derived from Muhammad's unique experience of God: modern science, the arts, secular economic and political developments.
The Qur'an contains many indications of sympathy for elements in pre- and non-Islamic cultures. One of its earliest passages looks sympathetically on the Christian Byzantines in their struggle with the Sasanian Persians. The Sura of the Romans assures Muhammad and the first Muslims of Mecca, who sympathized with their fellow-monotheist Greek Christians, that the Eastern Roman army's defeat in Syria in 613–14 is not the end: "The Romans have been conquered in a nearby land, but after their defeat they will conquer within a few years" (Qur'an 30:2–6). Qur'anic sympathy for Byzantine Rome in its struggle with the Persians did not prevent the caliphs who succeeded Muhammad from conquering Byzantine territories and including them in the burgeoning Arab empire. Yet there remained in the subsequent Islamic tradition a certain sympathy for the faith of fellow monotheists, especially Jews and Christians, though relations with actual Jews and Christians Muhammad encountered in Medina soured after the year 624. Such sympathies make clear that the tensions of the modern Middle East should not be retrojected wholesale into the past. Not every Muslim society has been equally generous in dealing with the "protected people" of other monotheistic faiths; but compared to the way Byzantine and Latin Christians treated Jews and Muslims, the Muslim empires of the medieval era were much more generous with, and accommodating to, Jews and Christians.
Finally, although modern times have produced many well-known countercultural Muslims—and certain Western commentators on things Islamic tend to be obsessed with these thinkers—there are notable examples of Muslim scholars today who have managed to integrate their Islamic faith with the best in the liberal tradition of the West. Many of these younger Muslim scholars have found a congenial academic setting in Europe and North America. Two of the most important are Tariq Ramadan (b. 1962) and Khaled Abou El Fadl (b. 1963).
Ramadan, whose appointment to a professorship at Notre Dame in 2004 was voided by a State Department directive denying him a visa to enter the United States—a directive happily reversed in January 2010—has written extensively on the experience of being a European Muslim. A grandson of the famous Egyptian founder of the very countercultural Muslim Brothers, Hassan al-Banna, Ramadan takes a much more nuanced attitude toward secular culture than did his grandfather (see "Fellow Travelers?" Commonweal, July 16). Contrary to much contemporary Muslim countercultural thought, he insists that "Islam is not a culture," but rather a faith tradition that can coexist with and interpenetrate an array of cultural settings. "The 'way of faithfulness' integrates all the knowledge, arts, and skills for people's well-being that humankind has been able to produce," Ramadan writes. "This principle of integration, as we have defined it, has made it possible for Muslims to live in very varied cultural environments and to feel at home."
Khaled Abou El Fadl, a professor at the UCLA School of Law, noted for his critique of the Saudi version of Islam, has a view on the relationship between Islam and culture very similar to Ramadan's. "According to one Prophetic tradition," he writes, "wisdom and knowledge have no nationality and therefore, regardless of the source, Muslims are free to learn as long as they use this knowledge to serve God and pursue Godliness on this earth." One of the "distinguishing attributes" of Muslim moderates, Abou El Fadl asserts, "is that they take full advantage of the scientific advances in the social sciences and humanities."
What needs underlining in modern times, and especially here and now in the United States, is the variety of ways in which Muslims past and present have understood the relationship of their faith to culture. Only when we understand this variety will we begin to grasp the richness of that religious tradition, a richness not exhausted by the proponents of any one particular school of thought. Jews and Christians, in particular, must learn how to interact creatively with all three types of Muslims. We might start by welcoming Muslims to pray in the mosque next door—and even in a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero.
Funding for this essay was provided by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
Related: Groundless, by the Editors
Wrong Then, Wrong Now and
The 'Ground Zero Mosque' & the K of C's Mother Church, by Paul Moses
Topic Page: Muslim-Christian Relations
About the Author
Patrick J. Ryan, SJ, is the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University.
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The fact that someone even has to state that "Not all Muslims think alike" is a sad endictment of the state of American intelligence.
What's with the pretentious Arabic spelling and superfluous (in English) commas? In English, the Moslem holy book is spelled Koran.
The fact that liberals assume that everyone who disagrees with them doesn't know that all Muslims are not alike is a sad indicment of progressives arrogance.
It is incomprehensible that our liberal politicians continue to bow before and support a "religious" cause that can work its followers into violent anti-American rage with threats of death and destruction to Americans everywhere over the burning of a book , the presence of a painting or a cartoon but not only condones but supports suicide bombers, the stoning to death of one of its followers, the subjection of non-believers and women and Saudi Arabia's banning of the Christian Bible, Jewish torahs and religious houses of worship.Isn't there something wrong with demanding tolerance for those who show no tolerance for others? How difficult is it for supposedly intelligent experts in their field to fail to understand that the American people who have accepted Muslims for years are finally being exposed to the true nature of Islam a total command and control governmental operation with religious overtones.An organization whose mullahs and imams have failed to condemn or speak out against terrorists, those who slaughter innocent Muslim and non-Muslims, those who behead captives live on TV , fly planes into office buildings all in the name of Allah. No condemnation of mullahs who issue fatwas, an Islamic license to kill, on anyone for any perceived slight of Islam, the Prophet or whatever reason he thinks justifies a death sentence. In the real world, issuing an order to or soliciting for someone to kill another person is a criminal offense and subject to arrest and trial but political correctness allows Muslim clerics to order killings without fear of punishment and the Western world cringes at the idea that a fatwa or a threat might be issued for an author, comedy show, publisher, movie director, actor, historian, museum or even a University, the Metropolitan Museum and Yale are the most recent examples along with Comedy Central that have and so practiced self-censorship and political correctness under or to avoid threat or actual attacks from Muslims.Until the first arrest order is issued for a mullah who declares a fatwa against anyone for any reason, the rest of the world is under the control of radical Islam.Where are the "moderate Muslims against sharia" marches andprotest groups, the "Muslims against fatwas" protest groups, the 'Muslims against suicide bombers protest groups, the "Muslims against car bombs in Times Square, markets, assemblies of job seekers and other crowded places'" protest groups.Where is the moderate Muslim outrage, the condemnation, or even issuing fatwas by peaceful Muslim mullahs against the " the few terrorists today" who take hundreds if not thousands of lives, many other Muslims, Jews, Christians and other innocents with suicide bombers and attacks by heavily armed terrorists. Why ignore or hide the truth? Is there a conspiracy of silence? Or fear that some radical mullah will issue a fatwa against any Muslim who objects to violence against both believers in Islam, but not followers of the right sect, or any non-believers.It is up to the peaceful moderate Muslims to stop the carnage carried out in the name of their god.Obviously Mr. Ryan needs to refresh himself on the history of Islam and to the writings on Islam by noted observers and academics. One could start by reviewing the words of Winston Churchill on Islam from The River War (1899), his account of the Sudanese campaign. Winston Churchill was a man whose prescient warnings about Hitler were ignored by the world.Here is the full text""How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearfulfatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."It wasn't only Churchill who observed and understood the true nature of Islam but also Thomas Jefferson.Sorry folks, but there were no Muslims on the Mayflower as is inferred at every opportunity by the President and also on this program. Thomas Jefferson did possess a copy of the Koran which Keith Allison, our first Muslim Congressman, used to make his oath of office. But what was Jefferson opinion of Islam? Did he believe the Muslim religion represented a calming influence in world affairs? Far from it. In 1786 Thomas Jefferson, then US ambassador to France, and John Adams, then US Ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Dey's ambassador to Britain, in an attempt to negotiate a peace treaty with the Barbary Pirates based on Congress' vote of funding. To the US Congress these two future Presidents later reported the reasons for the Muslims' hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts."...that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise."Jefferson had it right. The Marines were sent to Tripoli to put and end to Muslim piracy. Today's experts, including Presidents Bush and Obama had it wrongAnd then there is Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington whose book "Clash of Civilizations," described in detail the clash between Islam and the West, that "Islams Borders are bloody and so are its innards"Mohammed is recorded as dying, on or about, 632 AD. And what followed was not an "under seige" mentality. Wars for enrichment followed.Islam had its own agenda long before the Crusades. If peaceful -- what were Muslim armies doing in Europe 300 years before the Crusades? And hundred of years thereafter?Seventy-seven years after Mohammed's death, in 711 AD -- some 300 years prior to the first Crusade -- it was Muslim military forces who crossed the Straits of Gibraltar from North Africa into Spain and in less than a decade crossed the Pyrenees.In 732 AD , the Muslim forces under the command of Abd-er- rahman, were decisively defeated by Charles Martel and the Franks at the Battle of Poitiers [Tours].Nine hundred years later, in September 1683 AD -- Ottoman Empire Muslim armies led by the Turkish commander Grand Vizier Kara Mustapha were at the gates of Vienna.They were defeated by a combination of Austrian, German, and Polish armies.If peace was Mohammed's message -- a subtle proposition at best -- his adherents missed the point then and miss it now.Second the world needs to understand that Islam was not spread by sandal shod mendicant mullahs preaching from the Koran but by mounted scimitar wielding jihadists as described in "Dhimmitude for Dummies" By Victor Sharpe in which the following is found:"But what of the peoples and nations that fell under Islamic occupation? For them the story was one of forced conversions to Islam, slavery, death and the Islamic institution of dhimmitude .This is the word that describes the parlous state of those who refused to convert to Islam and became the subjugated, non-Muslims who were forced to accept a restrictive and humiliating subordination to a superior Islamic power and live as second class citizens in order to avoid enslavement or death. These peoples and populations were known as dhimmis , and if such a status was not humiliating enough, a special tax or tribute, called the jizya , was imposed upon them and upon all dhimmis .Dhimmitude is the direct outcome of jihad, which is the military conquest of non-Islamic territory mandated by Allah as a spiritual obligation for every individual Moslem and Moslem nation.From its beginnings in the seventh century, Islam spread through violent conquest of non-Moslem lands. In the eighth century, a formal set of rules to govern relationships between Moslems and non-Moslems was created based upon Moslem conquests of non-Moslem peoples. These rules were based upon jihad , which established how the Moslems would treat the conquered non-Moslems in terms of their submission to Islam.Jihad can be pursued through force or other means such as propaganda, writing, or subversion against the perceived enemy. The so-called enemies are those who oppose the establishment of Islamic law or its spread, mission, or sovereignty over them and their land.Propaganda and subversion are the very means now being employed against the West and Judeo-Christian civilization, and Islamists have shown themselves to be brilliantly adept at manipulating the gullible and uninformed western media in pursuit of their aims of world domination."
I see E. Patrick Mosman likes to cherry pick history to make his case against Islam. The same exact thing could be done to Christianity. It would not take long to string together enough "Christian" instances of violence, barbarism, intolerance, and stupidity down through the centuries to make make it look like your version of Islam's twin brother.
But, like your one-sided diatribe, it would prove nothing.
If you have found any errors in my alleged 'cherry-picked' history lesson please feel free to offer correctionsIf citing historical facts is cherry-picking, then Mr.Ryan's 'paid for' essay is a one-sided view of Islam replete with cherry-picked quotes from the Koran and cherry-picked Islamic history. When Catholic priests were carrying guns and leading 'liberation theology' rebels, Pope John Paul Ii spoke out and publicly rebuked one of the priestly leaders in Central America. Where are the moderate Muslim leaders leading 'crusades' and protests against theocratic leaders in Iran and Saudi Arabia, the Taliban, af Queda terrorists, car bombers of public places and suicide bombers who proclaim their Islamic faith as justification for their acts of death and destruction? Why must non-Muslims defend Islam as a peaceful and moderate religion when their own 'moderate' leaders practice silence which signifies assent to radical Islamists?
Contemporary media reports regarding today's Islamic societies to me read like very similar accounts of medieval Christian Europe: jihads in place of crusades; sharia imposed oppression in place of inquisitions; corrupt mullahs in place of corrupt cardinals and popes; war lords and wealthy sheiks in place of dukes and kings; mujahadeen in the place of Templars; Islamic women today veiled in chadors in place of medieval women little more than breeding chattel.
I can just hear the historians shrieking at the liberties I am taking, while not perfect and reflective of very different social and historical developments, the parallels are very frightening.
There seems to be some kind of natural historical process going on because Islam is roughly the same age now (dating from the 700's) that Christianity was in medieval times, roughly 1300 years old.
Is it possible that Islam is on the front end of three hugh cultural shifts leading eventually to renaissance, reformation and scientific revolution.
The economic power of Islamic societies will only increase exponentially in these last days of ancient sunlight when fossil fuels are increasingly exploited.
Perhaps the best thing western societies can do to help Islamic societies avoid the worst of our historical mistakes is to culturally and intellectually engage them. Both of our cultures need to educate themselves about the best of the values of the other.
In the process, the now secular west may re-learn a few lessons about "the compassionate and merciful."
Instead of burning Qu'rans, maybe we Christians should be reading and studying the sacred Islamic texts when we meet for Sunday liturgies?
And please, no more papal loose talk about how Islam being "evil and inhuman" and spreading "faith by the sword."
Mr.Jenkins,Pope Benedict XVI set forth the basis for a dialogue in his presentation at Regensburg in 2006 and it caused a firestorm of made for TV protests in the Muslim West Bank with English language 'Kill the Pope' signs and burning of effigies. The Pope's presentation can be found at:
Papal Address at University of RegensburgFaith, Reason and the UniversityMemories and ReflectionsPope Benedict XVIhttp://www.zenit.org/article-16955?l=english
A commentary on the Pope's presentation can be found at :
Pope Provocateur Bret Stephens
You will find that there is no "papal loose talk" but the reaction was still violence.
Congratulations to Mr. Mosman!! He is spot on. Where are the passages in the New Testament that incite violence? There are plenty in the Koran. Are Catholic martyrs engaged in murder at the time of their martyrdom, like Muslim martyrs are? Did Mohammed ever say, "Put thy sword into its place for all those who take the sword will perish by the sword." No, I think that it was Jesus that said (Matt: 26 52) or "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's? Certainly not. Again it was Jesus , Matt 22 17-21. When the IRA was raising money in the US for their terror campaign, four prominent Irish American politicians courageously spoke out against NORAID (Carey, Kennedy, Moynihan and O'Neill.) As Mr. Mosman asks, where are the moderate Muslims condemning the rampant world wide violence in the name of Islam? Couldn't the Henry Luce Foundation or Commonweal find a single Muslim of repute to condemn violence? Why not? Liberals always apologize and temporize before violently aggressive thugs. When Reagan called the Soviet Union an "Evil Empire", liberals were outraged and had to change their Depends, even though everyone who lived under Soviet domination knew that it was true. Similarly, Americans are catching on that Islam is not just another peaceful faith. Most Muslims undoubtedly are peaceful, but it is an indication of how large a percentage of Muslims support the terror, that "moderate" Muslims are afraid to speak out. If "moderate" Muslims are afraid, we need to be very circumspect about Islam.
Mr Ryan describes Sayyid Qutb (1906–66),as an Egyptian novelist radicalized by his experiences as a student in the United States in the late 1940s. and proceeds to offer a rather benign self-taught individual somewhat out of mainstream of Islam. Other scholars have described Sayyid Qutb in different terms. The following is the introduction of presentation by Dr.Simon Ross Valentine entitled "Sayyid Qutb: terrorism and the origins of militant Islam Dr. Simon Ross Valentine December 12, 2008""Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) is widely accepted, not only as one of "the spiritual leaders of radical Islamism",(1) but as "the architect of worldwide jihad".(2) Qutb´s influence has been profound. His thinking has provided the motivation and legitimizing ideology behind 9/11 and other recent terrorist attacks on the west. François Burgat, in his book Face to Face with Political Islam (2003) reminds us how Qutb´s "single shadow covers every wing [as well as the Jam´iyyat al-Ikhwan al-Mulimin, the Muslin Brotherhood] of the Islamic movement".(3) Lawrence Wright, in The Looming Tower (2006) suggested that Al-Qaeda would not have come into existence without the influence of Sayyid Qutb.(4) With these points in mind it would be fair to say that a full understanding of Qutb and his ideology is necessary if we are ever to overcome the threat of militant Islam."The full text can be found at:http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/84614
Mr. Ryan, Great attempt to bring a voice of reason into the debate. Some of the reactionary comments by readers, the unwillingness to be open to the other, is disturbing. Surprising that those of us who lived through WWII never lumped all Germans in one category as we did the Japanese. There is something to be learned from that.
For those seriously interested in perspectives on Islam, I would recommend Hamid Dabshi's Islamic Liberation Theology. The introduction is a bit repetetive, but he speaks from within the culture with knowlege, insight and as a member of the whole human race.


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I am new to photography and am looking to purchase my first DSLR or mirrorless camera. While reading Buying a digital SLR on Digital Photography Review the author keeps referring to the camera's kit lens, but never explains what he means. Is kit lens shorthand for starter kit? Does it refer to the lens that comes with the camera? Or does kit lens mean something else entirely?
DSLRs are designed to allow you to change the lens. They are offered as "body-only" for people that already have compatible lenses, or know exactly what they want.
Most folks who are new to DSLR want to buy a complete camera, body and lens. So all the manufacturers offer a combination of the body with a cheap lens. This is the "kit lens"
For entry level DSLRs, i.e. the Canon Rebel series or the equivalent in other brands, the kit lens is usually the EF-S 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 lens. Its a starter lens. It sells retail for about $100. This is in fairly stark contrast to many popular lenses, such as the EF-S 17-55 F2.8. At a quick glance, these two lenses seem very similar, same basic zoom range. But the EF-S 17-55 F2.8 sells for $1100, so its ten or eleven times more expensive.
In general, the kit lens is the cheapest lens that the manufacturer can make, and it will satisfy an entry level user. Many folks stay happy with the kit lens for years. Others want something faster, with better image quality, better build quality, etc. Its a personal choice.
A kit lens is a lens included with a camera.
The Wikipedia article for kit lens begins with:
The tag wiki excerpt for kit-lens:
A kit lens is a lens that is designed to be sold together with a new camera body to make it immediately useful to new customers. This typically implies a number of things:


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Besides the traditional classroom I have taught in the prison system, residential mental health facilities and in theaters across the country. Currently I work in alternative education at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Suffolk, Virginia. I teach English and science for grades 4-8. I also am a Drama Club sponsor at JFKMS and a drama minister at Fools for Christ http://mysite.verizon.net/vze4p7te/foolsforchrist I offer a number of free scripts at that site.
Two for the price of one! What ever works! From experience in alternative education I try to get double mileage with all lessons to catch my students up. I use Reader's Theater to augment curriculum in all content areas since it not only provides content and fun but works on reading skills such as fluency, vocabulary building and prediction. See my website at http://mysite.verizon.net/vze4p7te/foolsforchrist/ In my current position, each student has a computer so I often teach with technology.
Several plays produced and published by PLAYS - the Drama Magazine for Young People. I write and produce mystery dinner theaters.
A.A. in Psychology from Northeastern Christian Junior College B.S. in Recreation from Abilene Christian University M.S.Ed. in Health and Physical Education from West Chester University Post graduate professional licence in VA and CO.
Honored to be selected the 2011 Middle School Science Teacher of the Year by the Virginia Association of Science Teachers.
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I had a few questions about notation $\forall$ and $\exists$. I am posing each of the question for the former, but I have the corresponding question for the latter as well:
1) If I have only one object to quantify, is it more common to write $\forall a$ or $\forall$ $a$ (with or without space).
2) If I have more than one object to quantify, is it more common to write $\forall a,b,c$ or $\forall$ $a,b,c$ (with or without space).
3) Is using these symbols in papers on subjects other than logic, considered a bad habit? Most papers I have read outside of logic, actually spell out "For all" and "there exists".


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I wouldn't cut a minute or a step.
I agree. I also like the sets and costumes, that are so part of the ambience. I have to mention the fey, whacky humor - Ivan the Fool's Charlie Chaplin/Buster Keaton streak and the Tsar Maiden's screwball comedy Mae West. Pouting and swinging her pony tail around. Then the totally sick humor of the major domo - with his baboon red bottom - of his mime when the Tsar gets boiled. The whole thing has great energy and spirit and at the same time you're sentimentally a little moved when Ivan and the Tsar Maiden finally prevail. It's a pleasure you don't want to analyze - the best kind. Very relaxing to watch, you just switch your mind off. No need to take a scalpel to this wonderful comedy - the flow, pacing, content just work perfectly right now.


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I have been trying to install ubuntu 12.10 - 64 bit in my system with the following config:
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I have read a number of articles on internet talking about the it. But the problem with me is I am unable to boot from USB, CD in any case.
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secure mode settings, and set the correct boot order. After that it never recognizes by connected Flash drive or Live CD. It always boots in windows 8.
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I bought one of these a few weeks back, very happy! Looked new. Accessories weren't included as it says, but they were cheap enough on E-bay.
The ones that cost $209 are all 4's which mean they are generally quite scratched up. They have a 5's though for just a little bit more. 10% off code should still work.
I bought one from the last time they had them as a front page deal. Im posting this from it. It was listed as a 5 condition, but looked new. It upgraded to Jelly Bean automatically the first day I had it. Im very glad I pulled the trigger on it.
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I want to retrieve a specific post_meta of all posts contained in a specific category. I want to build a search form at the top of each category with a select field which would be filled up by the required post_meta of all the post contained in the category the user is currently in. Is this doable? Maybe it's possible with a loop which would look like:
For each post_meta called "City" in all posts contained in category 'X',
you must put it in <option value="City's name">City's name</option>
So far, here is what I have been able to do.
<option value="" selected="selected">Please pick a city below...</option>
<option value="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'City', true) ?>">
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Matthew McConaughey Limbers Up for the Small Screen
The former rom-com fixture on creating tension and raising the stakes in a new HBO detective series
Matthew McConaughey is well into the second phase of his life on screen. In the last few years he went from a romantic-comedy hunk to a heralded dramatic lead of films such as "Mud" and "Dallas Buyers Club," playing unlikely AIDS activist (and victim) Ron Woodroof. The actor is getting a little weary of the notion that the career pivot was premeditated. "I know it would fit the narrative better if I told you I had a coming-to-God moment," he says.
Mr. McConaughey seems poised to build on his run in 2014, coming off a brief but potent turn as a cocaine-boosted trader in "The Wolf of Wall Street." The 44-year-old Texas native will anchor director Christopher Nolan's next film, "Interstellar," a tale of space and time travel scheduled for release next November.
HBO's "True Detective," premiering Jan. 12, marks Mr. McConaughey's first leading role in a TV series. He plays detective Rust Cohle, a nihilistic investigator who refers to humans as "biological puppets" and obsesses over homicide cases to keep his own dark proclivities at bay. Woody Harrelson stars as his seemingly squared-away partner. Over eight episodes, the story cuts between different time periods. In separate interviews with police in 2012, the former partners recount their investigation of a ritual murder in 1995 and its impact on them. "True Detective" was created by novelist Nic Pizzolatto as a so-called anthology series, meaning that any future seasons would feature a different cast, setting and story line. Below, edited excerpts from an interview with Mr. McConaughey.
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Have you always been a Matthew?
Always. In kindergarten, I had a friend who said, "Hey Matt, you want to play on the monkey bars?" I said "Yeah," and ran off. And then I felt this hand on my shoulder pull me back and kind of slam me to the ground. It was my mother, who was my kindergarten teacher. "What's your name?" "Matthew." "That's right. Don't you ever answer to Matt again. I named you Matthew from the Bible for a reason."
Cohle, your character in "True Detective," is a grim guy, compared with the many upbeat, life-affirming characters you've played and, from what I've read, the kind of person you are.
I am an affirmative guy. I like to compare before I contrast. I like to find the common denominator. And I happen to believe in God. But Rust Cohle's like, "No. It's all a fallacy. It's something we've made up to give us a reason for being here." He's not a cynic, because everything he says has a huge kernel of truth to it. I've never played a character who is more honest.
You're the rare actor whose characters often seem to represent some kind of philosophy or creed. Why is that?
I'm looking for the principles of the man. Look at the first role I ever did: Wooderson [a post-high school adult among teens in the 1993 movie "Dazed and Confused"]. One of his first lines was: "That's what I like about these high-school girls. I get older but they stay the same age." That line is not an attitude. It's not a bumper sticker for Wooderson. He honestly believes that. He may be smarmy and a has-been to everyone else, but in his mind, he's got it all figured out.
I've been trying to pin down what makes your "True Detective" character look so strange. His face is gaunt and it looks longer than yours does in real life.
Some of that's makeup, but I only gained four pounds after "Dallas Buyers Club" [he shed nearly 50 pounds for the role], which I finished a couple months before "True Detective." Hopefully what you're seeing is a guy who's boiling underneath. Having a case is Cohle's lifeline, what keeps him together. I had to keep him very subdued. Usually a movie is a 120-page script. This was intimidating, because it was a much longer rhythm: A 450-page script with a lot of crosscutting of different times. In a film, you usually have 40 pages before an event sends your character in another direction. This was 180, 200 pages, until Cohle goes off the rails. So it was weeks of working, telling myself, "Hold the line. Trust it. If I do it right, it will create tension." It was a real exercise in patience to not play his other colors too early.
What do you notice when you look in the mirror about the way your face is changing as you get older?
I don't put a period on the end of segments in my life. I'm more of a comma guy. Whether we know it or not, on our death bed, it's all going to be commas. It gives me excitement and hope for where I'm going. I've had people in a lot of these interviews talking about the work I've done in the last few years. They try to form a narrative of "then and now." As if I said "Ta da! I'm going to change my career and I'm not going to do any more of those rom-coms." Well, what have you got against rom-coms, man! I might do one again. It's a whole different game to have to be that buoyant. In fact, it can be more difficult.
It probably has to do with the audience's history with you. It's like the surprise of discovering that the regular guy down the street is actually a gifted woodworker who makes beautiful furniture in his basement.
It's not like I take anything more seriously now. Hell, in certain ways, there are things I don't take as seriously. I'm choosing characters who allow me to express myself in more and different ways. I go back to that word "identity." I've tried to look at the parallels in the characters I've been doing. I've been able to define their obsessions. And let's be frank, a romantic comedy or an action comedy is not about character-driven obsessed performances. Rom-coms are about human interaction and verbal ping pong. The stakes are never that high. Some dramas raise the ceiling and lower the basement on the amount of expression you can give. And they're a little closer to real life, which is a lot of times just more R-rated.
Does it bother you that so much of the attention on "Dallas Buyers Club" focused on your dramatic weight loss?
Do I understand why that was on the front page of Google before the film came out? Sure. But if you sit through the first scene in the film [his character getting intimate with two women in a bull stall at a rodeo], you're past that. You're thinking, "Who is this guy?" Honestly, the weight loss has made it easier for me to explain the character work I got to do for the role. For the months leading up to it, I put myself in a sort of hermetic lifestyle and surrounded myself with everything Ron Woodroof. I would sit with his transcripts and go through the scripts. I was inside. I wasn't going out to restaurants. He spent every waking hour trying to figure out how he could survive. He was a guy with a 7th-grade education who was becoming a scientist, an expert, on HIV. So I said, "Do everything you can, McConaughey, to become an expert."
On the scale between lightness and dark, where would you put your "Interstellar" character?
[Whistles a tune for a few seconds] Oh, well, I'd say he lives in a place that leans more toward the light, but he is heading into the deepest, darkest places man has never gone.
Your whistling reminds me of your scene in "Wolf of Wall Street," which ends with you humming and grunting and thumping your chest.
The last part of that take, I don't know if we spoke much English at all. We were like monkeys talking. It was all musical and beats and non-sequitur sounds and meanings. I love music, and I think that's where we, on a rhythmic level, really communicated.
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I'm using this code.
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I'm very lucky to live in a very photogenic location (upstate New York). This is what I see when I walk my dog. Those are sheep in the field near the barn. The field has just been plowed up for the spring planting.
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RICHMOND - Edison junior Dylan Jones stepped to the line with 6.4 seconds remaining and gave his seniors' a 59-57 win over Toronto in their final home game at Edison High School Friday.
"The seniors, we told them coming into this game this was going to be their game no matter what," said Edison head coach Nate Moses. "For those three seniors it's really nice to send those three guys off with a win over
"Toronto played a heck of a game. It felt really good for our seniors."
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OFF THE GLASS — Edison's Dylan Jones goes strong to the basket against Toronto's Dillon Gault as teammate Alec Jones looks on during the Wildcats 59-57 win over the Red Knights Friday.
Wildcats' senior J.D. Howell stepped to the line for two shots with 6.4 left and Edison trailing 57-56. Howell knocked down the first to tie the game, and Toronto head coach John Leary called a timeout.
Unfortunately the Red Knights were out of timeouts.
"The coach lost the game," said Leary. "I lost the game, plain and simple. That's all on me. I have to know how many timeouts I have.
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Edison 59, Toronto 57
Toronto 10 21 11 15 - 57
Edison 16 12 12 19 - 59
TORONTO: Stewart 2 0-0 5, Chadwick 1 2-3 4, Glenn 7 3-3 17, Zeigler 1 0-0 2, Melville 9 3-6 22, Owens 2 0-0 6, Rawson 0 0-0 0, Gault 0 1-2 1. TOTALS: 22 9-14 57. 3-pointers: Owens (2), Stewart, Melville.
EDISON: D. Jones 3 4-4 12, Lee 5 0-0 10, Allese 2 0-0 4, Hyndman 0 0-0 0, Kramarich 1 2-3 4, A. Jones 7 6-9 20, Howell 4 1-3 9, Wilken 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 22 13-19 59. 3-pointers: D. Jones (2).
"I swore to God I had one more. If somebody made me testify in court I'd say I had one more. I've never done that in 28 years of coaching. Obviously it was marked that I called one, so I guess I did.
"You've got to give credit to Edison, they were ready to play. My kids played their hearts out. Their coach lost the game. It's as simple as that."
Howell went on to miss his second shot, but Dylan Jones stepped to the line to shoot the technical and gave his team the two-point lead.
"Dylan's shooting over 80 percent from the line this year," said Moses. "He's been our most consistent free throw shooter this year.
"No delay. We put him on the line and he knocked them down like we knew he would.
The game wasn't quite over yet though.
The Red Knights only had three fouls at the time, but were able to get into the bonus at 3.6 seconds left, sending Howell to the line again, where he missed the front end of the one-and-one.
Toronto rebounded and sent the ball up to Brad Melville who put up a desperation three-pointer from half court that went off the rim, setting off the Wildcats' celebration.
Things were wild from start to finish as the home team opened a 16-10 lead after one and pushed the lead to 22-12 before the Red Knights stormed back with a big run to end the second quarter. Nate Stewart gave Toronto the halftime lead when he drained a three at the buzzer to make the score 31-30.
"We jumped up 10 in the second quarter, and they went on a 13-0 run to end the first half, and they battled," said Moses. "That was a game. It went back and forth. Just a good game, a good high school basketball game in which two teams just didn't want to lose."
Toronto again beat the horn to end the third quarter when Tyler Owens knocked down a three to make the score 42-40 Red Knights heading into the final eight minutes.
"We showed a lot of heart," said Leary. "The kids played their heart out. It breaks my heart that I did something stupid like that to put them in that position. They always play their heart out.
"I'm always on them about keeping their composure. They kept their composure for the most part today, and fought through some hard times. To cause that to happen like that is just tragic by me.
"That's just all you can say. I'll never forget doing that to these kids. It's all on me."
There were five lead changes in the fourth quarter, and neither team led by more than three points during that span.
Senior Alec Jones had a huge game for the Wildcats, scoring 20 points. Half his points came in the fourth quarter. Dylan Jones added 12 points, knocking down a pair of treys and going 4 for 4 from the charity stripe. Erik Lee chipped in with 10 points and Howell scored nine.
Melville led all scorers with 22 points. Blaze Glenn added 17 points.
"Coach Leary is my coach, and I'll tell you it's nice to win, but at the same time I know he does a good job with those kids," said Moses. "His seniors do a heck of a job, and I have the utmost respect for Coach Leary, and his program, because I played for him."


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I always had this question in mind but couldn't find a proper place to ask. There are some really nice and great open source free software available on the net. How do these products sustain themselves financially? It is one thing writing a small utility which does something nice but writing a complicated product with whole lot of features is a totally different ball game. So to repeat myself again, how do they work financially?
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There's lots of different answers.
Some projects are maintained by people who just want to do it for assorted reasons, including prestige or the knowledge that they're doing something good or because they thought somebody had to do it and nobody else was. This section is almost certainly not as large as it was.
Some projects are maintained by people who want to be paid for support and the like. Most Open Source companies are like that: they want to create a popular product for free so that they can charge for related things. It's a form of advertising.
Some projects are maintained by companies who aren't in that exact business. Quite a few companies benefit from being able to use Linux, for example, or Apache, because they then have access to high-quality software that they don't have to write all themselves.
Suppose your company wants to sell web servers. You want to have as much of the customers' money going to you as possible. If you sell them Windows-based servers with IIS, a chunk of that money is going to Microsoft. If you sell them Linux-based servers with Apache, you get to keep that money, and you have a lot more control over what you sell. That may well be worth donating resources to assorted projects. (Obviously, Microsoft has the opposite opinion. They'd like the server people to produce cheap hardware that runs Windows and IIS. Microsoft is likely the company most inherently opposed to Open Source, but even they take advantage of it in some ways.)
Let's look at Apple's use. Apple makes their money selling hardware, but the main distinguishing feature is their ability to make user interfaces. The iPhone does nothing previous smart phones didn't do, it's just a lot easier to use, and so it sold millions really fast and redefined the market. They have a good idea as to what they're selling. Nobody's going to buy Apple for operating internals, so by having the Darwin part of the OS as Open Source they can get some outside help on it. They also started with Open Source after failing to produce a top-quality operating system themselves. Nobody's going to buy Apple for the printer software, so it was easier and faster to use CUPS. They will for the interface, so that's closed down tight.
Here's one potential way: support. Support can be a money-maker.
Linux distros are "free", but there are training costs to companies as most employees won't be familiar with the technologies. So consultancy becomes a viable source of income for open-source projects.
A real-world example: the company I work for wanted to introduce automated acceptance testing (using tools like selenium, fitnesse, fitsharp etc.) The tools are all free, but to implement them in an effective way is not that straightforward. So a consultant (somebody who actually developed these tools) was brought in to suggest the best ways to implement them.
I'm sure other answers will give other ways that open source projects can sustain themselves, this is just one way...
Even though this is an old question, I don't see the most obvious answer to me - dual-licensing. Many successful open-source projects offer more than one version of their product - the core being released under open-source and premium editions offered under commercial licenses (this model is often called freemium pricing).
Good examples of such projects include MySQL and Magento. I wrote extensively on the subject of making money from open-source on my company blog, might be of interest.
If a project is popular then donations can help offset some of the costs or even make money. Its most likely not going to be much unless the audience is huge, but its enough to pay for webhosting or a few bills.
In the long run its for pay support or consultancy. Ubuntu is completely open source, but Canonical provides enterprise level support and consultancy for it and makes decent money from it. The issue with this though is that your project has to be large enough for enough people to want to migrate or setup software to yours.
Getting to the point of making money can take years of building a consumer base and lots of hard work.
If you develop OSS with a strong copyleft licence (GPL or AGPL), you can then charge for exceptions to that licence, allowing people to include your code in their proprietary products. If you use a more permissive license (X11, Apache, MPL), they can include your code in their product anyway, so you have nothing to sell them.
Apple pays for maintaining CUPS, WebKit and many other open source projects.
They use these technologies in products and services they sell.
This is the key: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/06/the-vast-and-endless-sea.html
Spare time? Some people are simply able to manage their time so that they have spare time outside of their job hours. You don't have to make money off of every single thing you do. If you worked for a living fixing roofs, you wouldn't expect someone to pay you to patch your own roof if it was leaking, would you?
Furthermore, a lot of large open source projects turn into companies that find creative was to make money. Selling support, merchandise, extra unnecessary features. There are lots of ways to make money off of open source.
Also, some Open Source projects gather very large teams of people with very different circumstances. People that can be active in the project at different times, making the project very active.


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Hello, I have posted the question on superuser.com, but I was redirected here, so I will ask again.
I'm searching for a (free hosted - would be awesome) wiki to power a large community of NON techy users(~ 5K) - like grandma and grandpa, so I'm asking your advice. I have some candidates (yes:I've already had a look on wikimatrix.org), but I'm eager finding out your oppinion based on your experience. I have tried Wikia, but the searching mechanism doesn't behave as expected.
My requirements, based on their importance:
- Ease of utilization - WYSIWYG editor mandatory.
- Public for all
- Free hosting, ads accepted without messing the layout too much. Comercial products will be ultimately considered too.
- Forum support (direct or via plugin/extension)
- Block IP for malicious users
- File attachments support
- OpenId support (direct/ plugin)
- large community - if problems arise, a hand would be useful
- i18n support
Looking forward reading your answers!


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31 Aug 2007 12:45 AM #1
[0.2] Ext.ux.PasswordMeter
After working with Ext for some time I tought it would be time to start writing some extentions.
Ext.ux.PasswordMeter calculates the strength of a password, shows a nice graph and can be used in any form.
Code and example can be found here.
If you guys have suggestions or comments please let me know.
Hopefully it can be usefull for someone
Compare with other fields in the form (configuration option)
Fix IE layout inconsistency
I improved the algorithm and it now works like expected
Set meter to 0 if the password field is empty
31 Aug 2007 4:40 AM #2
Very nice!!
Note: In IE the progress widget is not correct align to password field. May be 1 or 2 pixel to right!
Thanks in advance,
31 Aug 2007 4:58 AM #3
Thanks, I noticed it, I'll add it to the todo list
31 Aug 2007 6:18 AM #4
You might want to do some more checking based on other form fields (ie: first / last name).
I entered my first name and last name, then i choose a password of first+last name and got a high rated password when in fact it isn't that great of a password.
Looks good so far...just needs a little more improving.
31 Aug 2007 2:34 PM #5
I have a question what could be construed as a suggestion. Typically the creation of a new password usually requires a second field for confirming the previous password. I am not sure it needs to have a progress bar below the first one - perhaps even an option for this control to make both edit boxes and put the progress bar between them and have it verify that both passwords are the same. It is what I like to call laziness...
Thanks, looks good.
31 Aug 2007 2:43 PM #6
If the user erases all of the characters in the password field, the score doesn't drop back down to zero. Adding the following to the top of calcStrength should fix that.
PHP Code:
if (p.length == 0) {
return 0;
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
- Anonymous
1 Sep 2007 3:14 AM #7
I was thinking of something like that, good idea. I think I'll add a configuration option for that, so you can pass an array with fields that need to be compared with the password.
Mayb I'll add this feature.
1 Sep 2007 9:29 PM #8
Jeff Howden
- Not all string values that we want/need to filter out will be available in a form field, so an array of string values would be nice.
- We may not always know the values we wish to force the user to exclude, so a config option referencing a function that returns an array would also be handy.
- Which leads me to wonder if maybe this can all be accomplished with a single function that gets called each and every time (like validators do) and returns an array of static string values, an array of field values, a combination, or whatever the developer decides.
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Opinions are mine and not necessarily endorsed by Ext, LLC. Please do not contact me directly for assistance unless requested by me.
4 Sep 2007 4:01 AM #9
JeffHowden, I'm not sure what you mean could you explain it a little better or give an example? thanks
4 Sep 2007 4:57 AM #10
Reminds me of a old function we created when working with Entrust TruePass - as soon as you met a criteria for a strong password, that criteria was checked and you could not create the password unless all criteria was checked.
So, if you required a special character, this appeared initially as an 'x' and didn't change until you supplied one.
Same for numeric, min length etc.
It was customizable too. You might consider dispalying information like that so the user knows why his password is strong or not.
I'll have to see if I can dig that up....


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Catalog number: 25544
Launch Date: November 20, 1998
Worldwide packet uplink: 145.990 MHz FM
Region 1 voice uplink: 145.200 MHz FM
Region 2/3 voice uplink: 144.490 MHz FM
Worldwide downlink: 145.800 MHz FM
Sponsors: AMSAT, ARRL, ARISS
Status: Operational since September, 2000. Digipeater: Active
The current Expedition 8 crew is:
Commander Mike Foale, KB5UAC
Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri, U8MIR
The ISS daily crew schedule can be found at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/timelines/. Remember that the crew operates on UTC time. Also, all of the time line is NOT translated from Russian and posted.
Russian callsigns RS0ISS, RZ3DZR
USA callsign NA1SS
Packet station mailbox callsign RS0ISS-11
Packet station keyboard callsign RS0ISS-3
Digipeater callsign ARISS
More information is available at: http://www.rac.ca/ariss or http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/reference/radio/ or http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/unprotopage.html or http://www.issfanclub.com or http://www.rac.ca/ariss
[ANS wishes to thank Kennith Ransom, N5VHO for this weeks update][03212004]
Catalog number: 07530
Launch Date: November 15, 1974
Return to active status: June 21, 2002
Uplink: 145.850 to 145.950 MHz CW/USB
432.125 to 432.175 MHz CW/LSB
Downlink: 29.400 to 29.500 MHz CW/USB
145.975 to 145.925 MHz CW/USB
Beacon: 29.502 MHz, 145.972 MHz, 435.1 MHz, 2304.1 MHz
Status: Semi-operational in sunlight.
Emily, W0EEC has created a website to allow the users of AO-7 to record contacts, observations and use of the satellite more effectively at http://www.experthams.net/ao7. This includes the ability to log contacts.
Tim, K3TZ has written a program to decode AO-07 telemetry. The program can be downloaded at http://www.qsl.net/k3tz/files/K3TZ_AO-07_Telemetry_Decoder_0.5.zip
For more AO-7 info: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/ao7.html
Catalog number: 23439
Launch Date: December 26, 1994
Uplink 145.858 to 145.898 MHz CW/USB
Downlink 29.354 to 29.394 MHz CW/USB
Beacon 29.352 MHz (intermittent)
SSB meeting frequency 29.380 MHz (unofficial)
Semi-operational, Mode A (2m uplink, 10m downlink)
Catalog number: 20480
Launch Date: February 7, 1990
Uplink 145.900 to 146.000 MHz CW/LSB
Downlink 435.800 to 435.900 MHz CW/USB
Beacon: 435.795 MHz
FO-20 is in mode JA continuously.
Catalog number: 22825
Launch Date: September 26, 1993
Uplink 145.850 MHz FM
Downlink 436.795 MHz FM
Ib, OZ1MY reports to ANS About AO-27 (03052004):
Hi all,
Just listened to AO-27 at a pass starting 1526 UTC. The analog repeater was on. Usual problems with QRM from the Middle East/Gulf Area. Did hear HB9SKA but we did not finish the QSO before the telemetry started. Thanks to control stations for getting it back.
The latest information on AO-27 from control operator Michael Wyrick, N3UC (former N4USI), can be found at http://www.ao27.org
An AO-27 question-and-answer page is available on the AMSAT-NA web site, with updates by Ray, W2RS. The URL is http://www.amsat.org/amsat/intro/ao27faq.html
[ANS thanks Micheal, N3UC and AMRAD for AO-27 information] [02082004]
Mineo, JE9PEL, has an FO-29 satellite telemetry analysis program that will automatically analyze all digital telemetry from the satellite (such as current, voltage and temperature). FO29CWTE is available at http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/
Catalog number: 26545
Launch Date: September 26, 2000
Uplink 145.850 MHz
Downlink 436.775 MHz
Broadcast Callsign SASAT1-11
Further information is available at http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/so41.html
Catalog number: 27607
Launch Date: December 20, 2002
Uplink: 145.850 MHz (67.0 Hz PL tone)
Downlink: 436.795 MHz
Status: Operational.
SO-50 carries several experiments, including a mode J FM amateur repeater experiment operating on 145.850 MHz uplink and 436.800 MHz downlink. The repeater is available to amateurs worldwide as power permits, using a 67.0 Hertz tone on the uplink, for on-demand activation.
[ANS thanks Turki Al-Saud for this information]
Catalog number: 14781
Launch Date: March 1, 1984
Downlink 145.826 MHz FM, 1200 baud PSK
Beacon 2401.500 MHz
Jim G3WGM, reports to ANS about the UO-11 Birthday Celebrations (03072004):
Hi Folks!
I have now completed processing the 1st batch of UO-11 Birthday reception reports. There were a total of 134 received before 0500 on 2 March 2004. And its these reports that I have processed.
Please see the two links on the page http://www.uk.amsat.org/uo-11/qsl.php -- one for the reports themselves, and one for the page from which to download your QSL card.
If you havnt yet submitted a report, you can still do so at http://www.uk.amsat.org/uo-11/report.php. This page will remain open until the end of March for further reports. If you have already submitted a report, but don't submit further ones, unless they are significantly different from the first (e.g., on a different band).
I'll be processing another batch of cards in a few days time.
Yoshi JH1NPQ reports to ANS that he heard UO-11's 2.4 Ghz transmitter on March 6th at 0620Z with a reported RST of 579-519 Fine (S-unit noise over)
More information is available on the AMSAT-UK Web site, http://www.uk.amsat.org/.
[ANS thanks ARRL and AMSAT-UK, for UO-11 status information] [03072004]
Catalog number: 20439
Launch Date: January 22, 1990
Uplink 145.900, 145.920, 145.940, 145.960 MHz FM, 1200 bps Manchester FSK
Downlink 437.026 MHz SSB, 1200 bps 1200 Baud PSK
Beacon 2401.1428 MHz.
Broadcast callsign: PACSAT-11
Semi-operational. Digipeater on and open for APRS users.
A WOD collection of current graphics along with general information and telemetry samples can be found at http://www.telecable.es/personales/ea1bcu
[ANS thanks Miguel A. Menendez, EA1BCU, for AO-16 status information.]
Catalog number: 21575
Launch Date: July 17, 1991
Uplink 145.900 MHz FM
Downlink 435.120 MHz FM 9600 Baud FSK
Broadcast callsign: UOSAT5-11
More information on the satellite is available at http://www.sstl.co.uk/
Catalog number: 22826
Launch Date: September 26, 1993
Uplink 145.875, 145.900, 145.925, 145.950 MHz FM
Downlink 435.812 MHz SSB, 1200 Baud PSK
Broadcast callsign: ITMSAT-11
Status: No uplinks currently
This from Alberto E. Zagni - I2KBD on November 26,2003:
I can confirm that IO-26 is still in Safe Mode (MBL telemetry). We have some problems to uplink the full IHT software, probably due to an unfavourable attitude of the spacecraft. Until the IHT (high level code) is reloaded, NO digipeat will be possible, since it is part of the IHT multitasking code.
All the best
Alberto E. Zagni - I2KBD
[ANS thanks for Alberto E. Zagni, I2KBD and Don Woodward, KD4APP this information]
Catalog number: 26931
Launch Date: September 30, 2001
Uplink/downlink 145.827 MHz 1200 baud AX.25 AFSK via W3ADO-1
Aux/Uplink 435.250 MHz 9600 baud via PCSAT (off)
APRS Downlink 144.390 MHz (Region 2)
Status: Semi-operational
PCSat is a 1200-baud APRS digipeater designed for use by stations using hand-held or mobile transceivers. Downlinks feed a central web site at http://pcsat.aprs.org.
The APRS-equipped PCSat was built by midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy under the guidance of Bob Bruninga, WB4APR.
For more information, visit the PCSat web site at http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/pcsat.html
[ANS thanks Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, for PCSat information][02082004]
Catalog number: 26932
Launch Date: September 30, 2001
Downlink 437.095 MHz 1200 baud AX.25 AFSK
Uplink 145.945 MHz UI digipeater
Status: Operational
Emily, W0EEC, reports that she has heard NO-45's digipeater active on March 13th, 2004.
Student built Sapphire was launched through the U.S. Naval Academy Satellite program. Its primary missions are sensor experiments, a camera, and voice synthesizer. For more information, visit the Sapphire web site at http://students.cec.wustl.edu/~sapphire/sapphire_overview.html
[ANS thanks Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, and Emily Clarke, W0EEC,for Sapphire information][03142004]
Catalog number: 26548
Launch Date: September 26, 2000
Uplink 145.850 or 145.925 MHz 9600 baud FSK
Downlink 437.325 MHz
Broadcast callsign: MYSAT3-11
Status: Operational at 38k4 baud FSK
TiungSat-1 is Malaysia's first micro-satellite and in addition to commercial land and weather imaging payloads offers FM and FSK amateur radio communication.
TiungSat-1, named after the mynah bird of Malaysia, was developed as a collaborative effort between the Malaysian government and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.
[ANS thanks Chris Jackson, G7UPN/ZL2TPO, for this information]
Catalog number: 20442
Uplink 145.840, 145.860, 145.880, 145.900 MHz 1200 bps Manchester FSK
Downlink 437.150 MHz SSB, 1200 bps RC-BPSK
CW Downlink 437.125 MHz
Broadcast callsign: LUSAT-11
Launched January 22, 1990 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana
The CW beacon is sending eight telemetry channels and one status channel on 437.126 MHz. No BBS service is available. The digipeater is not active.
General information and telemetry samples can be found at http://www.telecable.es/personales/ea1bcu
[ANS thanks Miguel A. Menendez, EA1BCU, for LO-19 status information.]
Catalog number: 25397
Downlink: 435.325, 435.225 MHz FM (9600-baud FSK)
Uplinks: 145.860, 145.880, 145.890, 145.930 FM
Downlink: 435.225 MHz FM (9600-baud FSK)
(435.325 n/a - temperature problems)
Uplinks: 145.850, 145.890, 145.930 FM
Broadcast Callsign: 4XTECH-11
BBS Callsign: 4XTECH-12
Launched July 10, 1998 by a Russian Zenit rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
Ground station control only, system beacon every 30 seconds.
No UPLOADING or DIGI are available at anytime.
Output Power - 1W
WinTelem v1.0 - TechSat's telemetry decoding software is now available for amateur use.
For more info check: http://www.iarc.org/techsat/
[ANS thanks Tidhar Teucher, 4Z5CA, and Shlomo Menuhin, 4X1AS for GO-32 status information]
Catalog number: 25509
Downlink 437.910 MHz FM 9600 Baud FSK
Launched October 24, 1998 by a Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida
The satellite is not currently available for uplink transmissions and image and transponder recovery efforts have been unsuccessful.
SEDSAT-1 signifies Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (satellite number one).
SedSat-1 has downlinked months worth of telemetry data on the performance of its electrical power system parameters. The Nickel Metal Hydride batteries on the spacecraft were experimental and experienced some abuse due to a power negative situation. This information has provided NASA with useful information. With the exception of the imaging system and the use of the transponders, SedSat-1 has been judged a success.
For more information on SedSat-1 visit the satellite web site at http://www.seds.org/sedsat
ANS has no further information.
Catalog number: 14129
Uplink 435.030 to 435.180 MHz CW/LSB
Downlink 145.975 to 145.825 MHz CW/USB
Beacon 145.810 MHz (unmodulated carrier)
Launched June 16, 1983 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana
Stacey Mills, W4SM, has more information about the satellite at http://www.cstone.net/~w4sm/AO-10.html
[ANS thanks Stacey Mills, W4SM, for his AO-10 status information and web site]
Catalog number: 21089
Uplink 21.210 to 21.250 MHz CW/USB
Downlink 29.410 to 29.450 MHz CW/USB
Beacon 29.408 MHz
Robot 29.454 MHz
Launched February 5, 1991 aboard a Russian Cosmos C launcher
Hams reporting to the RS-12/13 Forum from across the US and Europe have stated that they have not been able to hear any beacons from either the RS-12 or RS-13 satellite packages since August 20, 2002.
The latest information on RS-12 and RS-13 can be found on the AC5DK RS-12/13 Satellite Operators page:
[ANS thanks Kevin Manzer, AC5DK, for RS-12 information]
Catalog number: 21089
Uplink 21.260 to 21.300 MHz CW/USB
Downlink 145.860 to 145.900 MHz CW/USB
Beacon 145.860 MHz
Robot 145.908 MHz
Launched February 5, 1991 aboard a Russian Cosmos C launcher
The latest information on RS-12 and RS-13 can be found on the AC5DK RS-12/13 Satellite Operators page at http://www.qsl.net/ac5dk/rs1213/rs1213.html
[ANS thanks Kevin Manzer, AC5DK, for this information][03072004]
Catalog number: 22077
Uplink 145.850, 145.900 MHz FM
Downlink 435.175 MHz FM, 9600 Baud FSK
Broadcast callsign: HL01-11
Launched August 10, 1992 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana
Status: Non-operational
Jim, AA7KC, reports that KO-23's downlink transmitter continues in a non-operational status.
[ANS thanks Jim Weisenberger, AA7KC, and KyungHee Kim, HL0ENJ, for KO-23 status information]
Catalog number: 22828
Uplink 145.980 MHz FM
Downlink 436.500 MHz FM, 9600 Baud FSK
Broadcast callsign: HL02-11
Launched September 26, 1993 by an Ariane launcher from Kourou, French Guiana
[ANS thanks Jim Weisenberger, AA7KC, for this information]
Catalog number: 25520
Uplink/downlink frequency (listed on the PanSat web site) 436.500 MHz
Launched October 30, 1998 by the Shuttle Discovery
Status: Telemetry downloads only.
The satellite is not available for general uplink transmissions.
The Naval Postgraduate School developed PanSat. At the time of launch, PanSat spread-spectrum digital transponders were to be available to amateur radio operators along with software to utilize this technology.
The satellite is still operating, however, the spread spectrum packet radio portion never took place. The spacecraft is now beyond it's initial 2-year mission life, but telemetry records are still being downloaded.
For more information, visit the official PANSAT web site at:
PanSat was the featured cover article in the July/August 1999 issue of the AMSAT-NA Journal (written by KD6DRA and N7HPR).
ANS has no further information.
Catalog number: 25693
Uplink 145.960 MHz, 9600 baud FSK
Downlink 437.025, 437.400 MHz, 9600 baud FSK
Broadcast callsign: UO121-11
Launched April 21, 1999 by a Russian launcher from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
Status: Unknown
UO-36 carries a number of imaging payloads, digital store-and-forward communications and mode L/S transponders.
Paul, KB2SHU, tells ANS that UO-36 has not been operational (over North America) since late July 2001. In addition, Sangat, 9M2SS, reports he has not copied UO-36 since July 30, 2001.
The VK5HI viewer shareware for UO-36 is available on the AMSAT-NA web site at ftp://ftp.amsat.org/amsat/software/win32/display/ccddsp97-119.zip
Further information on UO-36 is available at http://www.sstl.co.uk/
[ANS thanks Chris G7UPN/ZL2TPO, and the University of Surrey, for this information]
Catalog number: 26609
Launch Date: November 16, 2000
Status: Currently, the U/V/L-1/L-2 to S-2/K passband is active at various times.
Uplink V-band 145.840 to 145.990 MHz CW/LSB
U-band 435.550 to 435.800 MHz CW/LSB
L1-band 1269.250 to 1269.500 MHz CW/LSB
L2-band 1268.325 to 1268.575 MHz CW/LSB
S1-band 2400.350 to 2400.600 MHz CW/LSB
Downlink S2-band 2401.225 - 2401.475 MHz CW/USB
K-band 24,048.010 - 24,048.060 MHz CW/USB
Beacon: 2401.323, 24,048.035
Status: Currently Non-Operational
[ANS thanks AMSAT-DL for this information][03072004]
Catalog number: 26549
Uplink to be released
Downlink 437.075 MHz
Broadcast Callsign SASAT2-11
Launched September 26, 2000 aboard a converted Soviet ballistic missile from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
Status: Unknown. ANS has received no additional information.
When/if operational, SaudiSat-1B will operate as 9600-baud digital store-and-forward systems as well analog FM repeater mode capability. One of two new ham satellites from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia built by the Space Research Institute at the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology.
Further information is available at http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/so42.html
[ANS thanks Turki Al-Saud for this information]
Catalog number: 27605
Launch Date: December 20, 2002
Uplink 435.275 1200-baud AFSK
Downlink 145.825 9600-baud FSK
(optional voice message)
Broadcast callsign: DP0AIS
Status: Semi-operational.
AO-49 (SAFIR-M) is a German amateur radio payload onboard the small German scientific satellite "RUBIN-2".
AO-49 was built by the German amateur radio association "AATiS e.V." (German acronym for "Arbeitskreis Amateurfunk und Telekommunikation in der Schule", which means: 'working group for amateur radio and telecommunications in schools'). AO-49 is designed as a "store and broadcast" system for APRS based messages, dedicated for the use of schools in combination with the existing WX-Net and planned buoy experiments in Germany.
No transmissions detected since the 1st of February 2003! It appears AO-49 is not properly aligned to illuminate the solar panels. This should end soon. Due to its orbit, AO-49 will be in a phase without eclipses until 13Feb03.
Martin DG8UAU has written a small software program "SAFIR-M Decoder" to allow decoding of the received DATA0 frames. It is available at http://amend.gmxhome.de in the section Aktuelles.
Details on AO-49 (SAFIR-M) can be found at http://amend.gmxhome.de.
Information about AATiS e.V. is available at http://www.aatis.de
[ANS thanks Oliver Amend, DG6BCE for this information]
This week's AMSAT News Service Weekly Satellite Report was edited by AMSAT News Service Satellite Investigator James K. Darrow,KB9MMC . Please send any updates to email@example.com
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Hey guys it\\\'s Savannah again, just thought I would give all of you the new news. I had scans done last week to check to the chemo and what not. My small tumors that are all over my liver are smaller and the large tumor is showing signs of dying off, also I had a lymph node that was full of cancer and it is now clear. I am at the stage now where I can have a transpant if needed, but my doctor would like to try to salvage my own liver so they are going to do a couple more blocks of chemo and try to get rid of the small tumors. I am super happy about the scan results and hoping for more good news after the next couple of blocks.
Thanks for listening and God Bless ☺
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I'm a Hindu by religion. And I really respect my religion like I respect others. But from my childhood, I'm listening a lot of stories about Hindu Gods and Goddess which are interrelated to each other. But I'm thinking who wrote these stories, and any man/woman who first knew these stories, how did he/she get to know, because he/she was not God. So I want to know how and from where these stories came to mankind from God.
Many mythological stories we hear today have an oral tradition, that is, they were never explicitly written down anytime, but passed from generations through word of mouth.
To get some idea of "when", the Vedic age is approximately believed to be from 1700 BC - 150 BC and it is possible that the characters of Gods and the stories may have taken shape around that period.
While the oral tradition mentioned by Shyam is correct, you can consider the 18 puranas as the formal documentation of the stories of Gods. The 18 puranas were written by Sage Veda Vyasa and were written at least 5000 years ago. The 5000 years calculation comes from the Hindu calendar which sets a specific time frame for each yuga, manvantara and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpa_%28aeon%29. We are currently in the age of Kali or Kali Yuga and this started more than 4000 years ago.


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I've read that free neutrons decay into a proton, electron and neutrino with an average lifespan of about 15 minutes. Is there anything physically different about a neutron that has existed for 14 minutes and one that has only existed for one minute? Does a random outside event trigger the decay or is something internally in the neutron slowly falling apart?
The quantum mechanical description of the process gives you probabilities for all possible events and the 15 minutes happen to be the mean life time for this process. It's random and you don't have a guarantee for anything, except that the average result will converge against the propability distribution if you let many neutrons decay. There is "no need to talk about something internally happening" in a different way to end up with the two different possibilities of 14 and 15 minutes. And there is nothing really different between the neutron which decays after 14 minutes and the neutron which decays after 15 minutes aprart from the latter decaying 1 minute later.
I think you are misunderstanding what is meant by a half-life. When you start describing quantum mechanics (and nuclear decay is a fundamentally quantum mechanical event) you have to incorporate statistics. A half-life is the amount of time in which, on average, half of a large number of identical specimen will have decayed. When someone says the half-life of a neutron is 10.4 minutes, what they mean is, given any random neutron, if you wait for 10.4 minutes, there is a 50% chance that the neutron will have decayed during that time.
There is a possibility that a one minute old neutron will beta decay. The probability is very low, but it can decay before the 14 minute old neutron. I think this answers the question does the neutron have a past before it decays, and the answer is no. It is how like a photon is dependent on the observation of the event.


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