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RM of Macdonald readies for flooding
RM of Macdonald CAO Tom Raine said the municipality is as prepared as possible for flooding this spring.
Municipal equipment, such as steamers to thaw frozen culverts, is ready for deployment, and sand and sand bags are ordered.
Raine said the latest provincial flood forecast contains an increased risk of high water levels along the La Salle River which winds through the municipality, but the predictions are nothing like those of 1997, when the area was seriously impacted by overland flooding from the Red River.
He added thatt the municipality will help anyone whose property is threatened.
A rapid spring melt will increase the flood danger in Macdonald.
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Kaaba (Ka'aba) | |
Basic information | |
Location | Mecca, al-Hejaz, Saudi Arabia |
Geographic coordinates | 21°25′21″N 39°49′34″E / 21.4225°N 39.826181°ECoordinates: 21°25′21″N 39°49′34″E / 21.4225°N 39.826181°E |
Affiliation | Islam |
Height (max) | 13.1 m (43 ft) |
Kaaba (Ka'aba) | |
Basic information | |
Location | Mecca, al-Hejaz, Saudi Arabia |
Geographic coordinates | 21°25′21″N 39°49′34″E / 21.4225°N 39.826181°ECoordinates: 21°25′21″N 39°49′34″E / 21.4225°N 39.826181°E |
Affiliation | Islam |
Height (max) | 13.1 m (43 ft) |
The Kaaba or Ka'aba (Arabic: الكعبة al-Kaʿbah IPA: [ælˈkæʕbɐ], "The Cube"), is a cuboid building at the center of Islam's most sacred mosque, Al-Masjid al-Haram, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is the most sacred site in Islam.[1] Wherever they are in the world, Muslims are expected to face the Kaaba – i.e. when outside Mecca, to face toward Mecca – when performing salat (prayer). From any point in the world, the direction facing the Kaaba is called the qibla.
Al-Masjid al-Haram was built around the Kaaba.[2]
One of the Five Pillars of Islam requires every Muslim who is able to do so to perform the hajj pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime. Multiple parts of the hajj require pilgrims to make tawaf, the circumambulation seven times around the Kaaba in a counter-clockwise direction. Tawaf is also performed by pilgrims during the umrah (lesser pilgrimage).[1] However, the most interesting times are during the hajj, when millions of pilgrims gather to circle the building on the same day.[3][4] In 2013, the number of pilgrims coming from outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to perform hajj was officially reported as 1,379,531.[5] In 2014, Saudi Arabia reported having completed Hajj permits for 1,389,053 international pilgrims and 63,375 for residents.[6]
The building is known by many names, including Bait Ateeq, meaning the Ancient House referring to its construction by Abraham (Ibrahim) in ancient time periods, Allah's House, the House of Allah (Bait Ullah), God's House or House of God,[7] the Sacred House, transliterated as Bait al-Haram (البيت الحرام Baytu l-Ḥarām) and the Ancient House (البيت العتيق Baytu l-'Atīq). The Arabic word Kaaba comes from the Arabic ka'bah meaning "square house," which in turn comes from ka'b meaning "cube."[8][9] Its equivalent or replica in heaven which in the Islamic traditions is situated above the Kaaba is known as Bait al-Ma'mur, which is how Muhammad described it after narrating about his Isra and Mi'raj journey.[10]
The Kaaba is a bricked cuboid structure which is made of granite quarried from nearby hills. The Kaaba is approximately 13.1 m (43 ft) high (some claim 12.03 m (39.5 ft)), with sides measuring 11.03 m (36.2 ft) by 12.86 m (42.2 ft).[11][12] Inside the Kaaba, the floor is made of marble and limestone. The interior walls, measuring 13 m (43 ft) by 9 m (30 ft), are clad with tiled, white marble halfway to the roof, with darker trimmings along the floor. The floor of the interior stands about 2.2 m (7.2 ft) above the ground area where tawaf is performed.
The wall directly adjacent to the entrance of the Kaaba has six tablets inlaid with inscriptions, and there are several more tablets along the other walls. Along the top corners of the walls runs a green cloth embroidered with gold Qur'anic verses. Caretakers anoint the marble cladding with the same scented oil used to anoint the Black Stone outside. Three pillars (some erroneously report two) stand inside the Kaaba, with a small altar or table set between one and the other two. (It has been claimed that this table is used for the placement of perfumes or other items.) Lamp-like objects (possible lanterns or crucible censers) hang from the ceiling. The ceiling itself is of a darker color, similar in hue to the lower trimming. A golden door—the Babut Taubah (also romanized as Baabut Taubah, and meaning "Door of Repentance")—on the right wall (right of the entrance) opens to an enclosed staircase that leads to a hatch, which itself opens to the roof. Both the roof and ceiling (collectively dual-layered) are made of stainless steel-capped teak wood.
Each numbered item in the following list corresponds to features noted in the diagram image, on right.
The Kaaba is the holiest site in Islam, and is often called by names such as the house of God or House of Allah.[20][21]
The Qibla is the Muslims' name for the direction faced during prayer.[Quran 2:143–144] It is the focal point for prayer. The direction faced during prayer is the direction of where the Kaaba is.
The Haram is the focal point of the Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages[22] that occur in the month of Dhu al-Hijjah in the Islamic calendar and at any time of the year, respectively. The Hajj pilgrimage is one of the Pillars of Islam, required of all able-bodied Muslims who can afford the trip. In recent times, about 6 million Muslims perform the Hajj every year.
Some of the rituals performed by pilgrims are symbolic of historical incidents. For example, the episode of Hagar's search for water is emulated by Muslims as they run between the two hills of Safa and Marwah whenever they visit Mecca.
The Hajj is associated with the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad from the 7th century, but the ritual of pilgrimage to Mecca is considered by Muslims to stretch back thousands of years to the time of Sayyidna Ibrahim (Abraham).
According to tradition the Kaaba was built by Ibrahim (Abraham). It is stated in the Qur'an that this was the first house that was built for humanity to worship Allah (God).
Writing in the Encyclopedia of Islam, Wensinck identifies Mecca with a place called Macoraba mentioned by Ptolemy and found in a 3rd-century BC map which suggests that Macoraba was Mecca.[23][24]
In her book, Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong asserts that the Kaaba was at some point dedicated to Hubal, a Nabatean deity, and contained 360 idols that probably represented the days of the year. In Guillaume's translation of Ibn Ishaq, an early biographer of Muhammad, the Ka'aba itself was addressed using a feminine grammatical form.[25] Circumambulation was often performed naked by men and almost naked by women,[26] and linked to ancient fertility rites.[27] By Muhammad's day, the Kaaba was venerated as the shrine of Allah, the High God. Once a year, tribes from all around the Arabian peninsula, whether Muslim or pagan, would converge on Mecca to perform the Hajj, marking the widespread conviction that Allah was the same deity worshiped by monotheists.[28]
Imoti[29] contends that there were numerous such "Kaaba" sanctuaries in Arabia at one time, but this was the only one built of stone. The others also allegedly had counterparts of the Black Stone. There was a "red stone", the deity of the south Arabian city of Ghaiman, and the "white stone" in the Kaaba of al-Abalat (near the city of Tabala, south of Mecca). Grunebaum in Classical Islam points out that the experience of divinity of that period was often associated with stone fetishes, mountains, special rock formations, or "trees of strange growth."[30]
The Kaaba was thought to be at the center of the world, with the Gate of Heaven directly above it. The Kaaba marked the location where the sacred world intersected with the profane; the embedded Black Stone was a further symbol of this as a meteorite that had fallen from the sky and linked heaven and earth.[31]
According to Sarwar,[32] about 400 years before the birth of Muhammad, a man named "Amr bin Lahyo bin Harath bin Amr ul-Qais bin Thalaba bin Azd bin Khalan bin Babalyun bin Saba", who was descended from Qahtan and was the king of Hijaz (the northwestern section of Saudi Arabia, which encompassed the cities of Mecca and Medina), had placed a Hubal idol onto the roof of the Kaaba. This idol was one of the chief deities of the ruling Quraysh. The idol was made of red agate and shaped like a human, but with the right hand broken off and replaced with a golden hand. When the idol was moved inside the Kaaba, it had seven arrows in front of it, which were used for divination.[33]
To maintain peace among the perpetually warring tribes, Mecca was declared a sanctuary where no violence was allowed within 20 miles (32 km) of the Kaaba. This combat-free zone allowed Mecca to thrive not only as a place of pilgrimage, but also as a trading center.[34]
Edward Gibbon suggested that the Kaaba was mentioned by ancient Greek writer, Diodorus Siculus, before the Christian era:
The genuine antiquity of Caaba ascends beyond the Christian era: in describing the coast of the Red sea the Greek historian Diodorus has remarked, between the Thamudites and the Sabeans, a famous temple, whose superior sanctity was revered by all the Arabians; the linen or silken veil, which is annually renewed by the Turkish emperor, was first offered by the Homerites, who reigned seven hundred years before the time of Mohammad.
—Edward Gibbon, Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, Volume V, pp. 223–224
In Makkan Trade and the Rise of Islam, Patricia Crone argues that the identification of Macoraba with Mecca is false and that Macoraba was a town in southern Arabia in what was then known as Arabia Felix.[35]
Crone was responded to by Amaal Muhammad Al-Roubi in "A Response to Patrica Crone's book".[36]
G. E. von Grunebaum states:
Mecca is mentioned by Ptolemy. The name he gives it allows us to identify it as a South Arabian foundation created around a sanctuary.
—G. E. Von Grunebaum, Classical Islam: A History 600–1258, p. 19
Many Muslim and academic historians stress the power and importance of the pre-Islamic Mecca. They depict it as a city grown rich on the proceeds of the spice trade. Crone believes that this is an exaggeration and that Mecca may only have been an outpost trading with nomads for leather, cloth, and camel butter. Crone argues that if Mecca had been a well-known center of trade, it would have been mentioned by later authors such as Procopius, Nonnosus, or the Syrian church chroniclers writing in Syriac. The town is absent, however, from any geographies or histories written in the three centuries before the rise of Islam.[37]
According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, "before the rise of Islam it was revered as a sacred sanctuary and was a site of pilgrimage."[38] According to German historian Eduard Glaser, the name "Kaaba" may have been related to the southern Arabian or Ethiopian word "mikrab", signifying a temple.[24] Again, Crone disputes this etymology.
The Quran states that Ibrahim, together with his son Ishmael, raised the foundations of a house[Quran 2:127] that is identified by most commentators as the Kaaba. Allah had shown Ibrahim the exact site, very near to the Well of Zamzam, where Ibrahim and Ishmael began work on the Kaaba's construction in circa 2130 BC.[39] After Ibrahim had built the Kaaba, an angel brought to him the Black Stone, a celestial stone that, according to tradition, had fallen from Heaven on the nearby hill Abu Qubays.[40] According to a saying attributed to Muhammad, the Black Stone had "descended from Paradise whiter than milk but the sins of the sons of Adam had made it black".[41] The Black Stone is believed to be the only remnant of the original structure made by Ibrahim.
After the placing of the Black Stone in the Eastern corner of the Kaaba, Ibrahim received a revelation, in which Allah told the aged prophet that he should now go and proclaim the pilgrimage to mankind, so that men may come both from Arabia and from lands far away, on camel and on foot.[Quran 22:27] Going by the dates attributed to the patriarchs, Ishmael is believed to have been born around 2150 BC, with Isaac being born a hundred years later.[40]
Therefore, Islamic scholars have generally assumed that the Kaaba was constructed by Ibrahim around 2130 BC. The Kaaba is, therefore, believed by Muslims to be more than a millennium older than Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, which is believed to have been finished in 1007 BC.[40] These dates remain consistent with the Muslim belief that the Kaaba is the first and thus oldest mosque in history.[40]
In Samaritan literature, the Samaritan Book of the Secrets of Moses (Asatir) claims that Ishmael and his eldest son Nebaioth built the Kaaba as well as the city of Mecca.[42] "The Secrets of Moses" or Asatir book was suggested by some opinion to have been compiled in the 10th century,[43] while another opinion in 1927 suggested that it was written no later than the second half of the 3rd century BC.[44]
At the time of Muhammad (570–632 AD), his tribe, the Quraysh, was in charge of the Kaaba, which was at that time a shrine containing hundreds of idols representing Arabian tribal gods and other religious figures. Muhammad earned the enmity of his tribe by claiming the Kaaba to be dedicated to the worship of Allah alone and by having all the other idols evicted. The Quraysh persecuted and harassed him continuously, so he and his followers eventually migrated to Medina in 622.
Islamic histories also mention a reconstruction of the Kaaba around 600 AD. A story found in Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasūl Allāh, one of the biographies of Muhammad (as reconstructed and translated by Guillaume), describes Muhammad settling a quarrel between Meccan clans as to which clan should set the Black Stone cornerstone in place. According to Ishaq's biography, Muhammad's solution was to have all the clan elders raise the cornerstone on a cloak, after which Muhammad set the stone into its final place with his own hands.[46][47] Ibn Ishaq says that the timber for the reconstruction of the Kaaba came from a Greek ship that had been wrecked on the Red Sea coast at Shu'ayba and that the work was undertaken by a Coptic carpenter called Baqum.[48]
After this migration, or Hijra, the Muslim community became a political and military force, continuously repelling Meccan attacks. In 630 AD, two years after signing the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, the Meccan Quraysh attacked the Bedouin Khuza'a, thereby breaking the peace treaty. The Muslims emerged as victors in the battle that followed this incident and Muhammad entered Mecca with his followers; they proceeded to the Kaaba. He refused, however, to enter the Kaaba while there were idols in it and so sent Abu Sufyan ibn Harb and Mughira ibn Shu'ba to remove them.[49][50][51]
Narrated Ibn Abbas: When Allah's Apostle arrived in Mecca, he refused to enter the Ka'ba while there were idols in it. So he ordered that they be taken out. The pictures of the (Prophets) Ibrahim and Ishmael, holding arrows of divination in their hands, were carried out. The Prophet said, "May Allah ruin them (i.e. the nonbelievers) for they knew very well that they (i.e. Ibrahim and Ishmael) never drew lots by these (divination arrows). Then the Prophet entered the Ka'ba and said. "Allahu Akbar" in all its directions and came out and not offer any prayer therein.
—Sahih Al-Bukhari, Book 59, Hadith 584
The Kaaba was re-dedicated as an Islamic house of worship and henceforth the annual pilgrimage was to be a Muslim rite, the Hajj, with visits to the Kaaba and other sacred sites around Mecca.[52]
The Kaaba has been repaired and reconstructed many times since Muhammad's day. The structure was severely damaged by fire on 3 Rabi I (Sunday, 31 October 683), during the first siege of Mecca in the war between the Umayyads and Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr, an early Muslim who ruled Mecca for many years between the death of ʿAli and the consolidation of Umayyad power. Ibn al-Zubayr rebuilt it to include the hatīm.[53] He did so on the basis of a tradition (found in several hadith collections[54]) that the hatīm was a remnant of the foundations of the Abrahamic Kaaba, and that Muhammad himself had wished to rebuild so as to include it.
The Kaaba was bombarded with stones in the second siege of Mecca in 692, in which the Umayyad army was led by al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf. The fall of the city and the death of Ibn al-Zubayr allowed the Umayyads under ʿAbdu l-Malik ibn Marwan to finally reunite all the Islamic possessions and end the long civil war. In 693 AD, ʿAbdu l-Malik had the remnants of al-Zubayr's Kaaba razed, and rebuilt on the foundations set by the Quraysh.[55] The Kaaba returned to the cube shape it had taken during Muhammad's time.
During the Hajj of 930 AD, the Qarmatians attacked Mecca, defiled the Zamzam Well with the bodies of pilgrims and stole the Black Stone, taking it to the oasis region of Eastern Arabia known as al-Aḥsāʾ, where it remained until the Abbasids ransomed it in 952 AD. The basic shape and structure of the Kaaba have not changed since then.[56]
After heavy rains and flooding in 1629, the walls of the Kaaba collapsed and the Masjid was damaged. The same year, during the reign of Murad IV, the Kaaba was rebuilt with granite stones from Mecca and the Masjid was renovated.[57] The Kaaba's appearance has not changed since then.
The Kaaba is depicted on the reverse of 500 Saudi Riyal, and the 2000 Iranian rial banknotes.[58]
The building is opened twice a year for a ceremony known as "the cleaning of the Kaaba." This ceremony takes place roughly thirty days before the start of the month of Ramadan and thirty days before the start of Hajj.
The keys to the Kaaba are held by the Banī Shayba (بني شيبة) tribe. Members of the tribe greet visitors to the inside of the Kaaba on the occasion of the cleaning ceremony. A small number of dignitaries and foreign diplomats are invited to participate in the ceremony.[59] The governor of Mecca leads the honoured guests who ritually clean the structure, using simple brooms. Washing of the Kaaba is done with a mixture of water from the Zamzam Well and Persian rosewater.[60]
Ishmaelites built Mecca (Baka, Bakh)
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How do I progress in the ambush quest?
Was just wondering what to do for the ambush quest, have been nearly everywhere on the map w/ no luck. It just says be weary of ambushes.....help! want to beat it before ng+ :P
3 years ago
But ambushes have been happening before the quest, and plus you see a cutscene w/ a mob of guys on a mountain......no idea how to get on said mountain to find out or if it is just random, maybe it has to do w/ that sorcerer that steals the wyrmring? no idea, just want it completed >_<
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There are 5 places you have to go to get the ambushes. You'll know the people are there once you hear them talking about something being their name and start attacking you. The five locations are:
Past the north bridge outside of Gran Soren.
Outside of the entrance of the Ancient Quarry North Entrance.
The path between The Encampment and the Mountain Waycastle.
The Mountain pass after passing the Waycastle where you find the first flock of harpies.
The last place is right outside the entrance of Cassardis.
All of them can be done in any order except for the one outside of Cassardis, that one is going to be the last one.
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Well, ambushes are when you fight a tough enemy, sayyyy a dragon or chimera, once you find one you're automatically put into an ambush quest. My guess would be to either go through a lot of ambushs or go kill a dragon.
I read in other places that it might not be a quest that can be completed as it can start whenever you fight a big monster, others saying that there are 5 main ambush sites that you have to do but no detail as to where they are specificaly.
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Playing Luray in the opening round Friday, the Eagles did have their share of turnovers, but thanks to what Mark Palmer called its "best defensive effort" in his three years as the Eagles' coach, East Rockingham cruised to a 57-37 win.
After falling behind 3-0, the Eagles reeled off 14 consecutive points and never trailed after the opening minute. Seniors Tyler Hensley and John Wright both scored 18 points, with the veteran point guard Hensley connecting on all three of his 3-point attempts in the second quarter. Wright added 10 rebounds.
East Rock (14-10) forced Luray (9-14) into eight turnovers in the opening quarter and 15 in the first half, jumping out to a 34-18 halftime lead.
"Personally, that was our goal, which was to try to play on Thursday night at EMU," Palmer said. "We've never had a chance to play there, and this is going to be awesome for us."
East Rock will play top-seeded Page County, which beat No. 8 Buffalo Gap 83-47 Friday, at 6:30 p.m. this Thursday at Eastern Mennonite University. The other semifinal between No. 3 Stuarts Draft and No. 7 Riverheads will follow.
East Rock allowed just two points in the fourth quarter, the lowest total in a season the school has allowed in its brief three-year history.
"I thought defensively we were all over them all night, and that's the reason we won this game," Palmer said.
The only momentary lapse for the Eagles came in the third quarter, when they were held scoreless over the first 4 1/2 minutes coming out of halftime, before Wright hit a short jumper off an in-bounds play to break the drought.
Luray cut the deficit to seven before East Rock went on an 8-2 run to lead 50-37 in the fourth quarter. The Bulldogs didn't seriously threaten from there.
"That was our senior leadership tonight from Tyler and John," Palmer said. "Tyler had a great second quarter, and John is such a phenomenal athlete. He was all over the glass for us."
Junior center Joseph Gooden provided the defensive presence for East Rock down low, finishing with nine blocks, including seven in the paint.
Junior forward Malcolm Frye was the only double-digit scorer for Luray, finishing with 14 points.
"We scored two points in the fourth quarter," Luray coach Jim Sanders said, providing a brief head-shaking summation for his team's demise.
With the loss, the Bulldogs aren't officially eliminated from advancing to the regional tournament, but will need some help from other teams in Region B.
"The season's not over yet; there's still a chance we can make it into regionals, and I'm not going to fold up the tent until it's over," Sanders said.
VanWyck 3 0-1 8, Frye 3 8-8 14, Cook 2 1-2 6, Good 1 0-2 2, Grandison 0 3-4 3, Mallallieu 2 0-0 4. Totals 11 12-17 37.
Hensley 6 3-3 18, Lam 1 1-2 4, Comer 4 2-2 10, Gooden 1 0-0 2, Wright 8 2-4 18, James 2 0-0 4, Cross 0 1-2 1. Totals 22 9-13 57.
Luray 11 7 17 2 — 37
East Rockingham 19 15 8 15 — 57
3-Point Goals—Luray 3 (VanWyck 2, Cook 1), East Rock 4 (Hensley 3, Lam 1). Fouled Out-Luray (Frye). Rebounds—Luray 28 (Frye 7), East Rock 31 (Wright 10). Total Fouls—Luray 14, East Rock 13.


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TV Review: Tim Allen Sinks to Idiocy & Beyond in 'Last Man Standing'
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Blu-Ray Review: Pixar's Spectacular 'Toy Story 3' With Tom Hanks Given Amazing Blu-Ray Release
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2015 WR Denzel Johnson still clearing academics
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Tigers host Tech for Senior Day
Last man standing from Brownell's first class looks for a big finish
Clemson-South Carolina game 3 updates
Game three updates from Carolina Stadium, Clemson going for the series win
'Easy call' to move winner-take-series rivalry
Nice weather is expected for the rubber game of the in-state showdown
Clemson-USC baseball washed out today
Clemson-USC baseball to play Game 3 on Monday
Tigers eager to 'get this thing done'
Tigers look for a different deja vu in Columbia; Take aim at 1st road ranked series 'W' since 2013
Tigers claim ACC indoor track title
Tigers return to the top of the ACC's indoor track field
Clemson grad has a hand in Daytona 500 win
Todd Gordon put Clemson degree to good use in the Daytona 500
Kennerly leads Tigers in competitive 'Classic'
Kennerly finishes third overall, among two Tigers in the top-10 among individuals
Clemson starts 2-0 ACC in play
Clemson women's tennis improves to 2-0 in ACC play with win at Wake Forest
Tigers finish T-14th at Sugar Bowl invitational
Tigers return to the course March 6-8 when they take part in the SunTrust Gator Invitational in Gainesville
Kennerly leads Tigers in competitive 'Classic'
Kennerly finishes third overall, among two Tigers in the top-10 among individuals
Martin takes aim at FedExCup move at Riviera
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Not necessarily stupid.... Pretty much an imperial ale is a regular beer but on steroids.... A barleywine really is it's own class and style it's even got it's own BJCP guidelines.
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