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The words in this verse and their message are beginning to transform my thinking. They are helping me establish what's at the core of my true identity and what brings me value. As a result, I'm starting to reject false securities that base my identity on anything other that God.
The youngest daughter of a dear friend joined me for dinner last night. It was our first opportunity to meet. My first glance at her brought an immediate image of her mother to mind. This daughter's dark hair, captivating ebony eyes, and athletically tall and lean body were the spitting image of her mother.
When Satan sees us, it's the same. He see's God's image whenever he sees His children. Because God's our blueprint, our original cast, we bear His image. God used more than dirt to create us, He used His very own breath. His breath made us alive. God is alive within us and we display His image. Here lies our identity…in God.
We are commonly asked to identify our family of origin, which typically means the human beings God used to transport His children into the world. These family members have a great power to influence along with the culture we grow up in. I don't want to dismiss the positive impact of our earthly families and culture or negate the wounding and injury they afflict upon our self-esteem. I simply want to invite us to return to the core source of our identity…God.
There's a danger of looking to others or to ourselves to establish our significance and value. When we discover God created us with value and significance, we stop trying to use our skills and abilities to establish value and significance and instead live with an awareness that we are made in God's image and allow that image with it's goodness to flow out to others. In doing so, we stop striving and start living.
What am I doing to try to earn value or significance?
Father, reveal any false securities that I clinging to instead of you? Free me from looking to others or myself for significance or value.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WHOI Theses
Physical processes and zooplankton distribution in the Great South Channel : observational and numerical studies
Epstein_thesis.pdf (36.68Mb)
Epstein, Ari W. Concept link
Great South Channel
Gulf of Maine
10.1575/1912/5624
Marine zooplankton; Marine phytoplankton; Copepoda; Food chains; Marlin (Ship) Cruise; Endeavor (Ship: 1976-) Cruise EN237
This thesis addresses the question, "How do small-scale physics and biology combine to produce dense aggregations of certain species of zooplankton in the Great South Channel (GSC) of the Gulf of Maine?" The thesis consists of three relatively independent parts: an observational study made while following two right whales as they fed on dense patches of the copepod Galanus finmarchicus in the northern GSC; a detailed description of a tightly integrated set of biological and physical observations made in the GSC by means of a new instrument, the Video Plankton Recorder (VPR); and a two-dimensional Eulerian numerical model that simulates one way in which a physical flow field, combined with a biological behavior pattern, may produce dense plankton patches at a convergent front. Part I: Data from a wide variety of instruments was combined to produce a coherent picture of the physical and biological environment near two feeding right whales observed in June, 1989. Instruments included a CTD (with transmissometer), a MOCNESS net system, a 150-kHz ADCP, and a towed acoustic plankton profiler operating at 120 and 200 kHz. Acoustic data were intercalibrated with net-tow data and with "noise" in the transmissometer signal in order to estimate copepod abundance in the plankton patches on which the whales were feeding. One of the whales was observed to reverse course when copepod abundance dropped below about 1.5- 4.5 x 103 copepods/m3 , which is consistent with independent estimates of the density of copepods necessary for a right whale to gain more energy from the prey it ingests than it loses to the extra hydrodynamic drag it experiences while feeding. Part II: The VPR is a towed underwater microscope designed to image plankton non-invasively with sufficient resolution to obtain information on the spatial distribut ion of organisms on scales ranging from millimeters to hundreds of kilometers. CTD instrumentation mounted on the VPR makes it possible to correlate biological and hydrographic data with great precision. This study reports data from one transect made across the GSC in May, 1992. The data show close correlations between hydrographic features (such as fronts, plumes and water masses) and broad-scale plankton distribution. In addition, it was possible to correlate the fine-scale (order tens of meters) patchiness in plankton distribution with the local stability of the water column (as indicated by gradient Richardson number). In one case, biological data provided an aid in determining the origin of one of the observed water masses. Part III: This chapter presents a two-dimensional Eulerian numerical model that shows how depth-keeping swimming behavior on the part of an organism, combined with a convergent flow field at a surface front , can create dense patches of the organism. In this model a steady-state flow field and vertical diffusivity field are prescribed, along with the initial distribution of the plankton. The plankton swim vertically with speeds that depend only on depth, but the form of that depth-dependence may take into account such factors as the vertical variation in light level or in the concentration of some prey organism. An analysis of various nondimensional parameters associated with the model illustrates the roles played in determining the final structure of the patch by such factors as diffusion, water velocity and details of the animals' swimming behavior. Output from the model is compared with data taken at a dense plankton patch observed near a front in the northern Great South Channel in early June, 1989.
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution June 1995
Physical Oceanography (PO)
Thesis: Epstein, Ari W., "Physical processes and zooplankton distribution in the Great South Channel : observational and numerical studies", 1995-06, DOI:10.1575/1912/5624, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5624
Zooplankton biomass and related MOCNESS data for tows taken on the 1981-82 warm-core rings cruises
Barber, Valerie A.; Wiebe, Peter H. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1985-01)
Compiled in this report are tables of zooplankton biomass data (displacement volume), carbon equivalents, and associated net tow data (volume filtered, depth, temperature, and salinity) collected with a Multlple ...
Particles and Zooplankton Amino Acid Compound Specific Isotope Analyses (AA-CSIA) and zooplankton biomass at Station ALOHA and the Equatorial Pacific from R/V Kilo Moana cruises KM1407, KM1418, & KM1515 from 2014-2015
Popp, Brian N.; Drazen, Jeffrey C. (Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). Contact: bco-dmo-data@whoi.edu, 2020-03-31)
Particles and Zooplankton Amino Acid Compound Specific Isotope Analyses (AA-CSIA) and zooplankton biomass at Station ALOHA and the Equatorial Pacific from R/V Kilo Moana cruises KM1407, KM1418, & KM1515 from 2014-2015. ...
AK-LTOP MOCNESS tow zooplankton abundance and biomass from R/V Alpha Helix, R/V Wecoma multiple cruises in the Northeast Pacific from 1997-2004 (NEP project)
Coyle, Kenneth O (Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). Contact: bco-dmo-data@whoi.edu, 2020-01-20)
AK-LTOP MOCNESS tow zooplankton abundance and biomass from R/V Alpha Helix, R/V Wecoma multiple cruises in the Northeast Pacific from 1997-2004. For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description ...

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Last month Ellen Degeneres celebrated the 20th anniversary of her coming out on national TV. It was a big deal then and deserves being marked as an important milestone. On her anniversary show, she talked about the importance of being able to be her authentic self and not hiding who she was.
That got me thinking about free speech. Lately, there have been a number of examples of people getting into hot water for expressing their opinions. Having the right to speak freely is important.
I believe there are some practical guidelines for taking a stand. The people who have been getting into trouble expressing their counter-views have violated these guidelines and many have been surprised by the backlash they received.
Take sides only when you are informed.
Liking a Tweet about a subject on which you have no background or adding your own 144 characters about the subject may be the equivalent of throwing gas on a fire. Before taking a stand, inform yourself. Regardless of the subject, having an informed reason for your views is defensible. Ignorance cannot be defended.
Even people who have made an informed choice are at liberty to change their minds. In arguments steeped in emotion, taking the time to hear what the other side believes and why can add to your personal database, enhance your understanding and perhaps even change your perspective.
I learned this at P&G. I know that sometimes I ask so many questions that people feel like they are being interrogated but asking questions is a way to listen actively (see above) and to learn.
Does a tree that falls in the forest make noise? Well, that is subjective because noise is subjective. Deciding where to express your opinion can determine whether it falls on deaf ears, creates noise or has a huge impact – either positive or negative. The media you choose determines who is receiving your message and as we all know can be the message itself.
Admit you were wrong if you change your mind.
Look, we are all human and part of being human is making mistakes. Be clear on what was wrong and don't hang your admission on others' interpretations. Own you mistakes.
Apologize to anyone you hurt.
Taking a stand may mean that you offend others. If your stance hurts those who have opposing views, you have likely expressed yourself inappropriately. There is no need for that. People may not agree with you, they may not like your position on an issue but there is no reason for you to hurt them in expressing your views. Apologize, if that happens.


Limburg is a highly industrialized province contributing 25% of the province's total added value and 80,000 jobs. Its main industries include manufacturing of metal products, machinery, electrical and optical equipment, and automotive. Niche markets include mechatronics, aerospace maintenance, repair, and overhaul. Limburg's suppliers have a strong position in the supply of end-products and components to OEMs.
The southern Netherlands spends more than EUR 3 billion on R&D annually (3.2% of Gross Regional Product).
It lies adjacent to the RWTH, a world-class technology university in Aachen, thirty kilometers from Limburg, with leading institutes in mechanical and electrical engineering, mechatronics, ICT, and aerospace technology.
The region has developed a one-stop-shop for aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) at Maastricht Aachen Airport.
The sole passenger car manufacturer in the Netherlands is VDL/Nedcar located in Born. With fully automated, flexible assembly lines, it has installed a production capacity of 200,000 vehicles per year in a two-shift system. Following conversion of the production lines, MINI was built in Born for the BMW Group in 2014.
VDL's Press Shop, which has some of the most advanced presses in Europe, also produces parts for third-party customers.
Top technology research at FEV Motorentechnik, Fraunhofer Institute in Aachen, DSM, and Ford Cologne.
Fontys Technical University of Applied Sciences in Venlo and technical universities in Eindhoven (TU/e) and Aachen (RWTH).


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Felaheen: The Third Arabesk
Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Author . Bantam Spectra $12 (357p) ISBN 978-0-553-38378-2
PASHAZADE: The First Arabesk
End of the World Blues
Stamping Butterflies
9Tail Fox
The Fallen Blade: Act 1 of the Assassini
Effendi: The Second Arabesque
Grimwood's third Arabesk novel, like its predecessors, Pashazade and Effendi , skillfully blends a hard-boiled whodunit with SF and alternate history. In the Arabesk universe, where the Ottoman Empire still exists, twisted political intrigues and tensions serve as a challenging backdrop to the gritty investigations of Ashraf Bey, a genetically altered sleuth who may be related to the royal family. An attempt on the emir's life by means of a venomous snake forces Bey to probe his own parentage in order to identify the motives and the conspirators behind the attack. Bey's independent and spirited young niece, Hani, has a welcome expanded role as she tries to follow her uncle's trail. The plotting may be a tad convoluted for some, but Grimwood makes his imagined world feel real, while the ambiguity of the ending leaves room for more sequels. The author supplies Bey's backstory in a way that makes this reader-friendly for newcomers. (Dec.)
Paperback - 357 pages - 978-0-671-77370-0
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Ryszard Maria Suwalski (ur. 1938, zm. 16 stycznia 2016 w Poznaniu) – polski doktor habilitowany inżynier kolejnictwa specjalizujący się w wózkach kołowych.

Życiorys

Wykształcenie
Absolwent specjalności pojazdy szynowe na Wydziale Budowy Maszyn Politechniki Poznańskiej oraz studiów podyplomowych w Instytucie Wysokoprężnych Silników Okrętowych i Kolejowych Politechniki Poznańskiej. Studia doktoranckie ukończył na Wydziale Maszyn Roboczych i Pojazdów w Instytucie Techniki Cieplnej i Silników Spalinowych na Politechnice Poznańskiej, a rozprawę habilitacyjną poświęconą "Systemowi samoczynnej zmiany rozstawu kół pojazdów szynowych" obronił na Wydziale Inżynierii Mechanicznej i Robotyki Akademii Górniczo-Hutniczej w Krakowie.

Kariera zawodowa

Od 1958 był związany z kolejnictwem. Pracę zawodową rozpoczął jako konstruktor w Zakładach Przemysłu Metalowego H. Cegielski, a następnie pełnił funkcję głównego specjalisty w Centralnym Ośrodku Badań i Rozwoju Techniki Kolejnictwa i Centralnym Biurze Konstrukcyjnym PKP w Poznaniu. Był rzeczoznawcą z zakresu lokomotyw spalinowych i wagonów. Od 1969 opracował i wdrożył do produkcji 60 kluczowych dla polskiego transportu szynowego projektów dotyczących pojazdów szynowych. Opatentował 60 wynalazków zarówno w Urzędzie Patentowym RP, jak i urzędach zagranicznych. Opublikował 42 prace w czasopismach branżowych.

Projektował rodziny wózków dla wagonów osobowych, EZT, autobusów szynowych i tramwajów oraz wózki dużych prędkości. Konstrukcje jego projektu zostały zastosowane w pojazdach szynowych produkowanych m.in. w zakładach HCP, Pesa i Newag. Były one także wykorzystywane w czasie przygotowań do uruchomienia połączeń na Centralnej Magistrali Kolejowej. Pod koniec lat 80. zaprojektował wagony kolejki linowo-terenowej na Gubałówkę, a w latach 1992–1998 opracował system SUW 2000 umożliwiający szybką zmianę rozstawu wózków w pojeździe szynowym w miejscu zmiany rozstawu szyn. System ten był początkowo wykorzystywany w pociągach relacji Warszawa – Wilno i Kraków – Kijów. Po wyeksploatowaniu zestawów zaniechano ich remontu, a podczas Euro 2012 używany był jeden skład. W 2013 skład z systemem SUW 2000 kursował co drugi dzień w relacji Wrocław – Kraków – Lwów.

Ostatnio zatrudniony był na stanowisku kierownika projektu w Biurze Strategii, Inwestycji i Rozwoju oraz Biurze Wsparcia Technicznego PKP Cargo. 16 stycznia 2016 w Poznaniu zmarł po ciężkiej chorobie w wieku 77 lat. Spoczywa na cmentarzu Miłostowo w Poznaniu (pole 3, kwatera B, grób 11).

Nagrody, wyróżnienia i odznaczenia
 1990 – nagroda za opracowanie dokumentacji konstrukcyjnej, wdrożenie i uruchomienie produkcji wagonów 1LTa i 1LTb kolejki linowo-terenowej na Gubałówkę,
 1992 – srebrny medal na 41. Światowej Wystawie Wynalazków i Innowacji Brussels Eureka za konstrukcję autobusu szynowego typu 207M/207Mr,
 1993 – srebrny medal na 42. Światowej Wystawie Wynalazków i Innowacji Brussels Eureka za segmentową tarczę hamulcową typu 141BK,
 1999 – nagroda im. Ernesta Malinowskiego na targach Trako za skonstruowanie wózka typu 25ANa przystosowanego do prędkości teoretycznej 300 km/h,
 2000 – złoty Medal na 72. Międzynarodowych Targach Poznańskich za zestaw kołowy SUW 2000 o zmiennym rozstawie kół,
 2003 – Nagroda Gospodarcza Prezydenta RP "Najlepszy wynalazek w dziedzinie produktu lub technologii" za system samoczynnej zmiany rozstawu kół w taborze kolejowym,
 2004 – Krzyż Oficerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski,
 2007 –  nagroda im. Ernesta Malinowskiego na targach Trako za wózek napędny MT01H do tramwajów 105N.

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne

Absolwenci Politechniki Poznańskiej
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Oficerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (III Rzeczpospolita)
Pochowani na cmentarzu Miłostowo w Poznaniu
Polscy inżynierowie kolejnictwa
Polscy pracownicy kolejowi
Urodzeni w 1938
Zmarli w 2016

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La resolución 660 del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas, aprobada sin votación el 2 de agosto de 1990, alarmado por la invasión de Kuwait por Irak el 2 de agosto de 1990, condenó la invasión y le exigió a Irak que retirara inmediata e incondicionalmente todas sus fuerzas a las posiciones en las que se encontraban el 1 de agosto.

Yemen llamó a Irak y a Kuwait de establecer negociaciones inmediatas y a resolver sus diferencias, agradeciendo a la Liga Árabe por sus esfuerzos. Las charlas entre ambas partes fracasaron el día anterior en Yeda, Arabia Saudita. El Consejo decidió reunirse de nuevo lo más pronto posible para asegurar el cumplimiento de la resolución.

La resolución fue aprobada por 14 votos contra ninguna, mientras que Yemen no participó en la votación. Fue la primera de doce resoluciones sobre el conflicto aprobada en 1990.

Véase también

 Anexo:Resoluciones 601 a 700 del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas (1987–1991)
 Guerra del Golfo
 Invasión de Kuwait

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Texto de la resolución en un.org (PDF)

Resoluciones del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas aprobadas en 1990
Resoluciones del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas referentes a Irak
Resoluciones del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas referentes a Kuwait
Irak en 1990
Kuwait en 1990


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Yankee Broadcasting Legend David Cone
I'm telling all you baseball fans that the New York Yankees Broadcast team on the YES Network, which is the New York Yankees own television station, is probably one of the best in baseball. Of course I am a Yankees fan so I will like it anyway but I'm saying though that they are still a top team.
The broadcast team to me is centered around Paul O'Neill and David Cone, to me anyway, since they are from the big Yankees Team from around 1996-2001 when Derek Jeter first broke into the MLB. Games today are easily available to watch on different packages so you can see the Yankees every day, back then from Canada you had to watch on pirated satellite dish to see the YES Network and all the Yankees games.
Everyone had one where I live anyway so they were all readily available back then, then everyone had to switch to Dish Network after DirectTV went out during the big "Black Sunday" event when DirectTV killed their hacked "football" cards during the Superbowl.
That also killed the pirate feed of the YES Network in Canada although you could still see most Yankees games in Canada on the Fox Sports Package on Dish Network but you had to watch the visiting teams coverage.
During that time I watched a lot of Baseball on that old stream that pretty well everyone in Canada had anyway. My point here is that I have been watching baseball for a long time, that's when Paul O'Neill and David Cone were playing.
Today, MLB is easily available and it's way better to just pay for the package and not worry about it then you get every game plus replays on MLB.tv
Today they are probably the best broadcast team in Baseball, to me anyway being a Yankees fan.
Now when I hear them talking I better be getting the name right because they keep saying stuff like facts and things but I'm pretty sure it's David Cone talking. Every time a big fact comes up I think it's David Cone saying it.
People ask me, why am I a fan of the New York Yankees anyway? Well the answer is this, they are the best team in Baseball that's why am a fan of them.
Plus living in Nova Scotia New York is just as close as Toronto to me geographically so I liked to watch the New York television feeds growing up since it seems to be a closer City to me so that is more of an influence on me than Toronto.
Living in Halifax New York City is was more prominent than Toronto so you get wrapped up in the "New York Scene" over something up here like Toronto which is too far away and not on the East Coast like Halifax.
So that's why I like New York.
So yeah, David Cone doesn't like the new rules in baseball. Well that's probably because it's a new competitive league now and the Yankees are on the losing end of the deal for the rest of the Summer. Those "dog days of summer" in MLB baseball David Cone is calling them on the Yankees broadcast are just hurting him bad because the rules didn't go in his favor, I mean he would probably love them if it was his team winning off them.
What would David Cone know about baseball anyway? Five time all star, Five World Series Championships, Al Cy Young Award, MLB Wins Leader 1998, two time strike out leader, pitched a perfect game on July 18, 1999 twenty years ago this Summer which was honored at the ball park this season.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cone
I love the new rules in baseball so why would David Cone be on there complaining about them? Well that's because they're not going in his favor the rest of this Summer because of the new competitive rules in baseball.
So they are only in First Place in the AL East and Second Place overall close behind the LA Dodgers who are in first place the last time I checked so what would the issue be?
As a pitcher David Cone is concerned about the Yankees having to resort to a minor league Catcher late in the Season and the Playoffs since they are using their backup catcher right now. What he is telling everyone is that if the backup catcher also gets injured they will have to use call ups from the minor leagues to replace the catching position for the rest of the Season and the playoffs, which will weaken their team.
Personally, I just think that David Cone doesn't like the competition...again that better be David Cone saying that so if not it's Paul O'Neill and them so it's the same thing.
What I mean is, and David Cone does have a valid point about the new rules, he just doesn't like the competition, not me I love it.
What he means is the after the MLB Trade Deadline of July 31st you are NOT ALLOWED to add new players for the August and September lineups through trades if both your position players like the Catcher Position get injured.
There is talk however of extending the trade dead line by two weeks to August 15th.
If that happened the team would have to use Minor League Call Ups to fill the spots for the last two months in the Season.
That is a new rule, in the past they could make a trade heading into the end of Summer if it looked like the team had a chance to make the playoffs.
Not anymore though, that has to be nailed down now by July 31st making the MLB a more competitive sport now. That's what David Cone is complaining about, it's too competitive now.
This is why I love the new MLB rules, that "scenario" Cone is describing if it came true that gives the opportunity for a new star to step into the game from their farm system and become the next Derek Jeter right out of the Minor Leagues heading into the Post Season.
This new rule will open up the minor league system better to get players into the game from the minors to actually get a chance on the real field in a big situation instead of just having a "trade" with another team to help for a playoff drive.
Young players will know that there is a better chance of being called up to the majors because of the new trade deadline rules and will be working harder to make it because of these new opportunities.
Come on David Cone, give those new players a chance in there.
That's why I love the new rules, that gives some kid the chance to just step right into the majors and just own everyone on the field during the playoffs. That's only the biggest thing that could even happen in sports, and could launch new Superstars like the next Ken Griffey Jr. or someone.
I'm telling you David Cone knows everything about Baseball but you have to watch the Yankees home games to hear it during the game, that's where the MLB Dirt is at. The Paul O'Neill / David Cone broadcast team.
David Cone and them all on there complaining about the new trade deadline when they are the top team in the Division and second over all.
Come off it, this gives the Yankees a chance to develop their farm system and minor league teams and makes them more valuable because of the protentional of being called up in the "Cone Scenario" I am calling it.
David Cone is just worried about not being able to replace his catcher with a new big star before the big playoff drive in August.
Also of note, is Derek Jeter's Marlins are reported to have one of the top farm systems in baseball already - no surprise there as Derek Jeter is already focusing on bringing up new baseball talent instead of relying on the "Cone Scenario" like many other major league teams including the Atlanta Braves probably, looking for that big trade just before September.
No all you guys, the game is more competitive now so you're going to have to adjust to the new rules. Maybe all you players in there should be being more careful and concentrating better with more focus so you don't get hurt in August with all those kids in the minors waiting for you to slip up and get hurt so they can take your place in the MLB Playoffs.
This only adds to the suspense of Major League Baseball, making it a more competitive August and September and puts more meaning into the games starting August 1st, almost like the Playoffs actually start on August 1st now because the teams have to tighten up, prevent injuries and be a more cautious team without losing their edge.
I get David Cone's point though, that could hurt your team bad in August. Not for me though, I like the new competition and seeing kids get a chance to get their big break in baseball at the end of the season with more chances of being called up.
I'm telling you, fans and kids playing will love the new rules coming up in baseball.
Yankees vs Red Sox Double Header today!


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School bus runs have been cancelled in the Kitwanga and Hazelton area as freezing temperatures and high wind chills are forecasted Jan. 15. (Black Press Media File Photo)
School bus runs cancelled for second day, in Hazelton and Kitwanga areas due to extreme cold
Freezing temperatures a safety concern for waiting students
Due to the continued extreme cold temperatures and high wind chills forecasted, all school bus runs for the Hazelton and Kitwanga areas will be cancelled on Thursday, Jan. 16.
This was the second day in a row the bus was cancelled due to the weather.
The decision was made out of concern for the safety of students waiting for buses in the extreme cold weather and high wind chills, states Janet Meyer, acting superintendent of schools for Coast Mountains School District 82, in an email.
READ MORE: Temperatures to plummet to -40 C in parts of B.C. amid bitter cold snap
Bus runs in the area will continue to be monitored and further determined on a day-by-day basis depending on the weather.
All Hazelton and Kitwanga schools will remain open on Jan. 16 and continue to operate on a regular schedule.
Parents and guardians are advised to contact their school principal if they have any further questions.
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Qaradawi's Ramadan Koran "Homily": Curse Jews and Christians 17-Times Daily
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As reported by the indispensable Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), esteemed Islamic scholar, and "Spiritual Guide" to the Muslim Brotherhood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi provided a Ramadan Koranic "homily", of sorts, May 14, 2019. In essence, Qaradawi merely re-affirmed for Muslims the classical-cum-modern mainstream ramifications of a Koranic verse [Koran 1:7] votaries of Islam recite 17-times per day, during their requisite 5 prayer times, and the subdivisions of those prayer sessions. Notwithstanding what is a rather anodyne reminder to Muslims, the contents of Qaradawi's statements will be "shocking" to those who are completely uninformed about Islam, or have chosen to understand the creed exclusively through the prism of Muslim and non-Muslim apologists, alike.
Moreover, despite Qaradawi's mainstream scholarly and cultural bona fides—vis-à-vis authoritative Islamic teaching across a 13 century continuum, and resultant normative, "Sharia thirsty" Muslim attitudes within contemporary Islamdom—predictable efforts will be made to marginalize Qaradawi and his "homily" because of the prominent theologian's ties to the allegedly "radical" Muslim Brotherhood. Accordingly, this very illuminating teachable moment may well be be squandered. My fervent hope against hope is to avert that outcome by reviewing Qaradawi's Ramadan Koranic lesson, and placing it squarely within the context of canonical Islam as taught since the advent of the Muslim faith.
Qaradawi opens his discussion with a query which he immediately answers, invoking Koran 47:17:
"Who does not need Allah's guidance? The Muslim always needs Allah's guidance so that the paths will be clear for him and so that he does not become confused… Furthermore, he also needs additional guidance [from Allah, for it is said], 'And those who are guided – He increases them in guidance and gives them their righteousness.' (Koran 47:17)…"
Continuing, Qaradawi observes that the Muslim must be directed on to this appropriate course "by Allah", as set forth in the Koran's opening sura, or chapter (sura 1, "The Fatiha"):
"From the concluding verse [Koran 1:7] of Surat [Al-Fatiha, which states] 'The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked [Your] anger or of those who are astray', it transpires that the people are divided into three types with regard to this path…"
Qaradawi then elucidates the three religious groups or "types" Koran 1:7 specifies, beginning with the "righteous"—Muslims—who embraced Islam:
"The first type are those who were granted [Allah's guidance] and they are those to whom Allah has shown favor: the prophets, the saints, the martyrs and the righteous, as they are listed in Surat Al-Nisaa [Koran 4:69]. They are the ones whom Allah guided, who knew the truth [i.e. Islam]. [The truth] became clear to them and they distinguished between it and straying and falsehood, and therefore they went on the path out of awareness and became men [of truth], in their knowledge, faith, deeds, and preaching."
"The second type are those who evoked [Allah's] anger. They are those who recognized the truth and nevertheless did not take its path, and even stubbornly opposed it, and were hostile towards the Prophet [Muhammad] after the straight path became clear to them. [They did this] out of reliance on falsity, love of this world, following urges, blind fanaticism, arrogance, or jealousy… and thus they deserve Allah's wrath. These are the Jews, for whom the explanation is presented in Surat Al-Maida [Koran 5:60, which states]: 'Those whom Allah has cursed and with whom He became angry and made of them apes and pigs and slaves of Taghut – these are worse in position and further astray from the sound way'…"
"The third type are those who were struck with ideological blindness, who did not distinguish between truth and falsehood, between the straight path and straying, and did not bother to seek the truth. Accordingly, they lived and died astray, far from the truth [i.e. Islam], and for this they deserve to have straying attributed to them. They are the Christians, about whom Allah said [in Koran 5:77]: 'Do not follow the inclinations of a people who had gone astray before and misled many and have strayed from the soundness of the way'… With regard to [those who have gone astray,] for example among the polytheists, [Allah] said [in Koran 6:140]: 'They have gone astray and were not [rightly] guided'…"
The crux of Qaradawi's message to Muslims—via his didactic analysis of Koran 1:7—is their requirement to maintain an "essence" isolated and distinct from non-Muslims, abetted by obsessive, monotonous daily repetition of this verse:
"Islam has taken care, by means of its laws and precepts, that the Muslim identity will be separate and differentiated [from that of the non-Muslims] in its internal and external essence. This is so it will not be easy to mingle it with all the other [non-Muslim identities, lest it] lose its unique traits. This is the significance of the Muslim's daily prayer that recurs at least 17 times: 'The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not [the path] of those who have evoked [Your] anger or [the path] of those who are astray' [Quran 1:7]…"
Qaradawi's concluding remarks pay homage to Ibn Taimiya [Taymiyya; d. 1328], the classical Middle Ages theologian also "held in high esteem," notably, by the Egyptian "modernist" Muhammad Abduh [d. 1905]:
"On this matter, Sheikh Al-Islam ibn Taymiyya compiled his valuable book, The Necessity of the Straight Path in Distinction from the People of Hell. The straight path is a separate way [for the Muslims]; it is not the path of the Jews, who have evoked Allah's anger, nor of the Christians, who have gone astray, and also not of those who recognize the truth but have not gone in its path… This is the separate path, the path of truth, the path of Allah, the path of the believers. The Muslim calls on his Lord every day to guide him, bring him success, and set him on this straight path, 'the path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor' [Quran 1:7]."
Thirteen centuries of authoritative Koranic commentaries on Koran 1:7 comport squarely with Qaradawi's gloss.
Professor Andrew Rippin, the late (d. 2016) doyen of contemporary Koranic studies, translated two of the earliest commentaries on Koran 1:7, by Ibn Abbas (d. 687), and Muqatil ibn Sulayman (d. 767). Both commentators of course assert that Islam represents "the straight path" in Koran 1:6–1.7. Ibn Abbas, "the father of Koranic exegesis," and ostensibly a contemporary "infant prodigy" companion of Islam's prophet Muhammad, provides this gloss on the references to "wrath" and "astray" in Koran 1:7:
" 'Not those against whom You have sent your wrath': other than the religion of the Jews against whom You have been wrathful and have abandoned… 'Nor those who are astray': nor the religion of the Christians, who err away from Islam.' "
Muqatil ibn Sulayman states,
" 'Not those against whom You have sent Your wrath': that is, a religion other than the Jewish one, against which Allah was wrathful. Apes and pigs were made of them. [Note: this is a reference to Koran 5:60; see later commentaries, below] 'Nor those who are astray.' Allah is saying: 'And not the religion of the polytheists,' that is, the Christians."
The polymath al-Tabari (838-923), was a towering early Islamic historian, theologian and jurisconsult, who authored a monumental commentary on the Koran. Tabari cites traditions of Muhammad (i.e., hadith) which claim the Jews engendered Allah's anger, to establish his conclusion that Jews are referenced in both Koran 1:7, and Koran 5:60: "Whom Allah has cursed, and with whom he is angered, and made some of them apes and swine." Repeating this reasoning to prove that the people mentioned in Koran 5:77 are those described as astray in Koran 1:7, Tabari cites traditions that identify the Christians as having gone astray. Al-Qurtubi's (d. 1273) great classical commentary "The Legal Rulings of the Koran," reiterates Tabari's view, stating plainly,
"…[T]hose with anger on them are the Jews and the misguided are the Christians. That was explained by the Prophet, my Allah bless him and grant him peace, in the hadith of Adi ibn Hatim and the story of how he became a Muslim transmitted by Abu Dawud and at-Timirdhi in his Collection [of hadith]. The explanation is also attested to by the Almighty [i.e., elsewhere in the Koran] who says about the Jews, 'They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves' ([Koran] 2:61, 3:112) and He [Allah] says, 'Allah is angry with them' (48:6) He says about the Christians that they, 'were misguided previously and have misguided many others, and are far from the right way.' (5:77)"
Ibn Kathir (d. 1373) was a renowned historian and traditionalist of Syria during the reign of the Bahri Mamluks, compiling a seminal history of Islam, as well as an important Koranic commentary, still widely used. His commentary once again references Koranic verses 5:60 and 5:77, and the same hadith reported by ibn Hatim, explaining the meaning of verse 1:7, thusly:
These two paths are the paths of the Christians and Jews, a fact that the believer should beware of so that he avoids them. … the Jews abandoned practicing the religion, while the Christians lost the true knowledge. This is why 'anger' descended upon the Jews, while being described as 'led astray' is more appropriate of the Christians. … We should also mention that both the Christians and the Jews have earned the anger and are led astray, but the anger is one of the attributes more particular of the Jews. Allah said about the Jews, 'Those (Jews) who incurred the curse of Allah and His wrath' (Sura 5:60). The attribute that the Christians deserve most is that of being led astray, just as Allah said about them, 'Who went astray before and who misled many, and strayed (themselves) from the right path' (Sura 5:77)… Imam Ahmad [Hanbal] recorded that 'Adi bin Hatim said, … he [Muhammad] said: 'Those who have earned the anger are the Jews and those who are led astray are the Christians.'
Tafsir al-Jalalayn, meaning "The Commentary of the Two Jalals," was named after its two Egyptian authors, Al-Suyuti (1445-1505), a brilliant multidisciplinary scholar, and his mentor Jalalu'd-Din al-Mahalli(1389-1459). The nonpareil contemporary Dutch Islamologist, Johannes J.G. Jansen (d. 2015) , notes in his treatise, "The Interpretation of the Koran in Modern Egypt," Tafsir al-Jalalayn remains one of the most popular, as well as the most significant Koranic commentaries in Egypt. As Tafsir al-Jalalayn explains, Muslims are told in Koran 1:6, the verse preceding Koran 1:7,
" 'Guide us on the straight path,' means, direct us to it."
The commentary continues,
"It is followed by its appositive [in verse 7], '…the Path of those You have blessed,' with guidance, 'not of those with anger on them,' who are the Jews, "nor of the misguided,' who are the Christians. The grammatical structure here shows that those who are guided are not the Jews or the Christians. Allah Almighty knows best what is correct…"
Ma'ariful Qur'an, a definitive modern Koranic commentary, was written by Maulana Mufti Muhammad Shafi (1898-1976), former Grand Mufti of (pre-Partition) India, and founder of Darul Ulum Karachi. In addition to writing over 100 works explaining the Koran and Islamic law, Mufti Muhammad Shafi broadcasted Koranic commentaries on Radio Pakistan for a number of years. His modern gloss is concordant with thirteen centuries of commentaries on Koran 1:7, highlighting the strident Antisemitic, and accompanying Christianophobic messaging of this verse, as taught to Muslims by authoritative Islamic instructors.
"Those who have incurred Allah's wrath are the people, who in spite of being quite familiar with the commandments of Allah willfully go against them out of a calculated perversity or in the service of their desires, or, in other words, who are deficient in obeying divine injunctions. This, for example, was the general condition of the Jews who were ready to sacrifice their religion for the sake of a petty worldly gain, and used to insult and sometimes even to kill their prophets. As for (those who go astray), they are the people who, out of ignorance or lack of thought, go beyond the limits appointed by Allah, and indulge in excess and exaggeration in religious matters. This, for example, has generally been the error of the Christians who exceeded the limits in their reverence for a prophet and turned him into a god. On the one hand, there is the rebelliousness of the Jews who not only refused to listen to the prophets of Allah but went on to kill them; on the other hand, there is the excessive zeal of the Christians who deified a prophet."
Finally, "The Qur'an: An Encyclopedia" is a modern compendium of analyses written by 43 Muslim and non-Muslim mainstream academic experts, edited by Oliver Leaman, and published by Routledge, New York, 2006. These excerpts from p. 614 serve as an irrefragable "summary verdict"—consistent will all the previous evidence marshalled—on how Muslims and non-Muslims, both, are to understand Koran 1:7, the Fatiha's last verse:
"…[T]he phrase in the daily prescribed prayers" 'Guide us to the straight path, to the path of those you have blessed, not of those who incurred [Your] wrath, nor of the misguided (al-Fatiha, 1:5-7.)'…mention two groups of people but do not say who they are. The Prophet [Muhammad] interpreted those who incurred God's wrath as the Jews and the misguided as the Christians. [Tirmidhi: Vol. 5, Book 44, Hadith 3954]. The Jews, we are told killed many of their prophets [see Koran 2:91 and 4:155; and in the traditions, Sunni and Shiite, the Jews are accused of a conspiratorial poisoning of Muhammad that caused his death, while the Shiite traditions claim Jews are further responsible for the deaths of Ali and his son Husayn], and through their character and materialistic tendencies [usurious 2:275, 4:161; greedy/hedonistic 2:96; envious 2:109; hard-hearted 2:74; liars 2:78] have contributed much to moral corruption, social upheaval and sedition in the world [Koran 5:32–33; 5:64] …[T]hey were readily misled and incurred both God's wrath and ignominy [2:61; 2:90; 3:112]. As for the Christians…over time they succumbed to the influence of those who had already deviated from the chosen path. By the time Christianity came to be accepted as the official religion of the Roman Empire, many Christians had long gone astray and had been deprived of their original scripture…By interpreting the phrase "not of those who incurred [Your] wrath, nor of the misguided" the Prophet identified them and clarified in what way and by what beliefs and deeds a man incurs God's wrath. This is a warning for the Muslims not to follow in the footsteps of the Jews and Christians."
Dissenting glosses on Koran 1:7 certainly do exist, but they remain marginal. Al-Razi (d. 1209), dubbed "independent-minded," and willing to stray from analyses of the Koran reliant upon "tradition-based exegesis," i.e., "sayings of the Prophet and first generations [of Muslims]," provides perhaps the best "classical" era example in his respected Koranic commentary. But al-Razi, who argues for a more qualified general interpretation of Koran 1:7, "it is possible to say that the former [those incurring wrath] are the unbelievers, and the latter [those who are astray] the hypocrites," still concedes,
"The well-known opinion [among exegetes] is that those who incur wrath are the Jews, based on: 'those who incurred the curse of Allah and His wrath' (Koran 5:60), and that those who are astray are the Christians, based on: '…who went wrong in times gone by, who misled many, and strayed (themselves) from the even way' (Koran 5:77)."
More importantly, as Professor Gordon Nickel has described with elegant understatement, Al-Razi, so-called champion of the "self-evident truths of reason" sanctioned merciless jihad depredations against all non-Muslims per his glosses on Koran 9:5 and 9:29, rendering his "iconoclastic" gloss on Koran 1:7 no barometer of rational ecumenism. Al-Razi, linked
"…the theological error that he attributes to the People of the Book [Jews and Christians, primarily] with a command [Koran 9:29] to fight them. He even seems to suggest that the imposition of jizya [the deliberately humiliating poll-tax tribute] was a 'kindness' that the People of the Book did not deserve….[their] false faith…and no other reason…made them deserving of Muslim attack 'until they pay the tribute readily, having been humbled'….'accepting the jizya from them and sparing their lives is a great blessing for them'."
Nickel adds,
"In the case of idolaters, however, there was no question at all of their deserving kindness. In his comments on Q [Koran] 9.5, the so-called 'sword verse', al-Razi explains the phrase, '…kill the mushrikin [idolaters] wherever you find them…'. The exegete simply writes, 'That is the command to kill them without restriction, in any time and in any place'."
The gloss of "al-Manar modernist" (named after the periodical, "Al Manar", ["The Lighthouse"]), Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905), is perhaps most often touted—at present—as representing this ostensibly more "ecumenical" interpretation of Koran 1:7. Rather ironically, Abduh's disciple, and collaborator on the Al-Manar Koranic commentary, Rashid Rida (d. 1935), contradicted his mentor's gloss (pp. 66-68) some 30 pages later (pp. 97-98). Although Rida acknowledged a weakness in the transmission chain of a hadith account (cited previously) supporting the traditionalist view, he re-affirmed Ibn Kathir's gloss (quoted earlier), and added another concordant exegesis by al-Baghawi (d. ~1117-1122), who also referenced Koran 5:60 and 5:77:
"It is said: 'Those who invoked wrath', are the Jews, and 'those who went astray' are the Christians. For Allah Almighty penalized the Jews with wrath, as it is said: 'They are the ones who Allah has cursed and who incurred His wrath.' (5:60) And He penalized the Christians with straying, as it is said: 'Do not follow the inclinations of a people who have already gone astray.' (5:77)"
Perseverating on semantic disagreements between Abduh and Rida about which "unbelievers" Koran 1:7 in fact references, obscures the Islamic supremacist ideology they shared, and was later imbibed, enthusiastically, by their ideologically heirs, Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, and in turn, Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
Ignaz Goldziher (d. 1921) is still regarded as the preeminent Western scholar of Islam (a giant among giants in the era prior to cultural relativism), and a highly sympathetic, albeit honest observer of the creed. Goldziher analyzed the doctrines of the Al Manar reformers in his 1920 study on Koranic exegesis, "Schools of Koranic Commentators," specifically, the concluding chapter, "Islamic Modernism and the Interpretation of the Koran." Redolent with unapologetic insights, the clarity and validity Goldziher's assessment have been confirmed with the passage of time, and at present, are of even more urgent importance. Elucidating the theology of these so-called modernists, whose writings not infrequently quoted for support the medieval "fundamentalist" Hanbali jurists Ibn Taimiya and his pupil Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (d. 1350), while making clear its absence of any "conciliatory" impetus vis a vis non-Muslims, Goldziher provided this definition—"cultural Wahhabism" –i.e., cultural jihadism, as a final characterization.
"Ibn Taimiya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah are the religious leaders deserving the title shaykh al-Islam. In al-Manar are to be found quotations from these theologians as supporting evidence, but also extensive passages from their published and unpublished works for one's benefit and for the theological edification of its readers… The Egyptian [al-Manar] movement…operates under the aspect of theology. It derives its reformative demands from theological considerations free of alien influence. It insists on the redress of abuses, not so much because they are hostile to culture, but because they are hostile to Islam, and contrary to the Koran and the authentic tradition……The cultivation of natural sciences (and its related technical sciences) has for Islam also an eminent practical purpose, closely related to the political position of Islam. This Muhammad Abduh teaches [in his Koranic exegesis] with reference to [Koran] 3:200: 'O believers, be patient, and vie you in patience; be steadfast; fear God; happily so you will prosper., And [Koran] 8:60–62: 'And if you fearest treachery any way at the hands of a people, dissolve it with them equally; …make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to terrify thereby the enemy of God and your enemy, and others besides them that you know not.' This means that according to the rules of Islam [quoting Abduh] 'the unbelievers must be fought with the same weapons that they use in fighting Islam. This means that in our time we must compete with them in the production of cannons, rifles, sea and air armaments, and other war material. All this makes it incumbent on Muslims to achieve perfection in technical and natural sciences, because this alone will lead to military readiness.'…[T]hey attach importance to the preservation of their individual character as Muslims and Orientals, and despise the thoughtless and servile imitation of European manners, warning their co-religionists of their disadvantages and harm. They continuously and vigorously endeavor to stress the Arabic Basis of Islam and want to keep everything that is beneficial, retaining all the Oriental idiosyncrasies which are reconcilable with their theological theory. But we cannot—as it has been done recently—call their ideology a conciliatory theology. For such a role they are too radical regarding abuses. A more appropriate definition might be cultural Wahhabism…The struggle of these 'cultural Wahhabis' deserves our interest…[emphasis added]
Goldziher further observed that Abduh had praised the Najdi (Arabian) Wahhabi iconclasts as advocates for true Islam in violently confronting bidah [innovation], while he reproved the mid-19th century Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali for attacking the Wahhabis.
Confirming Ignaz Goldziher's prescient characterization (from 1920) of the entire al-Manar movement, Abduh's "co-modernist" pupil and promoter, Rashid Rida (d. 1935) evolved into a full-throated, public supporter of the political aspirations of Ibn Saud's Wahhabism, most clearly manifest in a pro-Wahhabi tract Rida wrote entitled, "The Wahhabis and the Hijaz". Consisting of a series of articles originally published in al-Manar, and Egyptian newspapers, during the Hashemite-Saudi conflict, Rashid Rida's apologetic for Ibn Saud, "The Wahhabis and Hijaz" sought to vindicate Wahhabism's reputation, and champion the Saudi-Wahhabi side in the struggle for control of Islam's holy places in the Hijaz. Rida maintained that with the end of the Ottoman era, and formal dismantling of the Caliphate, the Wahhabis, despite misgivings about them, were renowned for their pious adherence to Islam and hostility to foreign influence. In contrast, Rida argued, their adversaries, the Hashemites under Sharif Husayn, were notorious for plotting with Islam's enemies for the sake of personal ambitions. Rida asserted that a devout, powerful Muslim ruler, such as Wahhabi potentate Ibn Saud, unlike the seditious Husayn (and his sons), would be a bulwark against the realization of Britain's desire to "eradicate" Islam as a political force and, eventually, even as a religious doctrine and belief system. As David Commins observed in his 2006, The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia,
"The notion that ambitious western powers worked hand in hand with duplicitous Arab rulers to advance western interests and to crush Islam would become a pillar of Muslim revivalist discourses…The apprehension of a sinister alliance between voracious foreign powers and corrupt local rulers figures prominently in the outlook of the contemporary Muslim revivalist movements. The oldest and most influential such movement is the Muslim Brothers, founded in Egypt in 1928 by a twenty-two year old schoolteacher, Hasan al-Banna…"
Professor Johannes J.G. Jansen re-affirmed Goldziher's seminal assessment of the "Manar modernists", and also highlighted the direct nexus between Rashid Rida, and Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna.
Jansen drew attention to Rida's insistence
"…that Koranic punishments or hudud [or hadd, i.e., according to the Sharia, the acts of unlawful sexual intercourse, false accusation of unlawful sexual intercourse, drinking wine, theft and highway robbery, as well as unrepentant apostasy, are punishable by flogging, limb amputation, or death] cannot be abolished by governments which feel they do not belong in the twentieth century."
Rida's discourse both rationalized and embodied the yearning of the Muslim masses for a return to mainstream Islamic orthodoxy—in his era, and ours. Thus Jansen observes, regarding the draconian, Sharia-mandated hudud punishments.
"Public opinion in the modern Muslim world attaches importance to these Koranic punishments…When the Koranic punishments are carried out, and especially when the authorities take care that they are carried out in public, many Muslims see this as a sure sign that Islam finally has its way…"
Jansen concludes his analysis of the Manar modernists—their own legacy, and direct linkage to Hasan al-Banna's Muslim Brotherhood movement—with this apt, if unromantic appraisal:
"In retrospect it is evident that Rida shared these popular feelings about the Koranic punishments. Moreover, he appears to have subscribed to the radical view that condemns modern heads of state in the Arab world as apostates from Islam, and it is difficult today, to see why an earlier generation of orientalists [note: but certainly not Goldziher!] regarded … Abduh, and Rida as modernizing, westernizing liberals. The desire for the return of the glory of Islam, which these three reformers felt so strongly, and the particular socio-political circumstances in which they lived made them not [emphasis in original] into liberal modernizers but into the founding fathers of Islamic fundamentalism. In October 1941 the Egyptian government suppressed Al-Manar, which a certain Hasan al-Banna had recently taken over from the heirs of Rashid Rida. It is with Hasan al-Banna that professional violence became part and parcel of the movement we now call Islamic fundamentalism."
Charles Wendell introduced his elegant 1978 translation of five Al-Banna treatises with a brilliant and remarkably compendious assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood founder's worldview. Wendell stressed not only Al-Banna's seamless connection to the Al-Manar modernists, but to traditional Islam itself. Moreover, Wendell's final observations remain critical to understanding the deep Islamic religious animus towards Israel—so much in evidence today—that Al-Banna and his movement both inspired, and reflected.
"… Hasan, like…[Muhammad] Abduh, castigated the clerics for their withdrawal from the real world around them…Hasan's answer to this was essentially that of both the fundamentalist Hanbalites and the 'Manar' modernists, especially Abdhu's disciple Muhammad Rashid Rida, whom he admired more than Abduh himself: 'Back to the Qur'an and the Sunna!'… Hasan al-Banna's fundamental conviction that Islam does not accept, or even tolerate, a separation of 'church' and state, or of either from society, is as thoroughly Islamic as it can be. Any attempt to translate his movement into terms reducible to social, political, or religious factors exclusively simply misses the boat. The 'totality' created by the Prophet Muhammad in the Medinese state, the first Islamic state, was Hasan's unwavering ideal, and the ideal of all Muslim thinkers before him, including the idle dreamers in the mosque. His ideology then, before it was Egyptian or Arab or whatever, was Islamic to the core…Practically all of his arguments are shored up by frequent quotations from the Qur'an and the Traditions, quite in the style of his medieval forbears. If one considers the public to whom his writings were addressed, it becomes instantly apparent that such arguments must still be the most compelling for the vast bulk of the Muslim populations of today… To this [Islamic] revivalist mentality, nothing could be more hateful than further diminution of the lands traditionally dominated by Islam. I believe that much of the fury and unconcealed hatred of the Zionist state which is expressed by the majority of Arabs will become more comprehensible in light of what the Islamic domain as a concept really means to the Muslims, seen through the lens of Hasan's exposition."
Finally, Olivier Carré's 1983 analysis characterized the profound regional impact of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood during the 1950s, through the beginning of the 1980s, anticipating what has transpired till now. Carré described what he termed, aptly, as "a striking phenomenon", which pervaded the Arab Muslim Near East, borne out most recently and dramatically by the unfolding events of the so-called "Arab Spring"—embodied by al-Qaradawi himself–and its still unresolved, simmering aftermath
"[W]hen one discusses Islam, as one often does in terms of a social and political ideal, whether out of religious conviction or because it is in the news, a common language…is found in all Eastern Arab countries—in Muslim schoolbooks, in the speech or behavior of people, whether friends or casual acquaintances, or in press reports on various current events. This common language is derived, ultimately, from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood of the Nasserist period and also from what I shall call the 'new Muslim Brothers' of the 1970s and 1980s…"
Consistent with Sheikh Qaradawi's Ramadan "reminder," irrefragable evidence that his understanding was, and remains, the vast majority consensus interpretation of the Fatiha's last verse, was compiled in a 2014 monograph by Islamic Law Professor Sami al-Deeb (2017 English translation here). This analysis of 87 authoritative Sunni and Shiite Koranic commentators whose glosses on Koran 1:7 spanned the 8th century through the early 21st, described how 10 of the 13 Shiite commentaries, and 68 of the 74 Sunni commentaries, i.e., 78 of the 87, total, provided glosses maintaining the Jews incurred Allah's anger, and the Christians went astray. Of the eleven most recent commentaries whose authors were alive into the 21st century, ten reiterated this still predominant, traditional gloss on Koran 1:7. Furthermore, to underscore, as in the case of the classical commentator Al-Razi, discussed earlier, that not abiding the consensus interpretation of Koran 1:7 is hardly predictive of extolling Muslim "ecumenism," the modern Sunni jihadist theologian par excellence, Sayyid Qutb (d. 1966), who authored the magisterial "In The Shade of The Qur'an," was one of the 9 "dissenters"!
Based upon meticulous study of glosses on Koran 1:7 across almost 13-centuries, and his life experience in the Middle East, Professor al-Deeb pronounced this warning during an interview posted online in January, 2017:
"You have to pay attention to what is said in the mosques, and what Muslims pray every day…Imagine a person repeating in their prayers, daily, such a sentence of hate [i.e., Koran 1:7]. Could you imagine the consequences of this prayer on his mind, on his psychology? Can he really live in peace with his neighbor?…Every time he has to think, oh yeah, this is a Jew, then he is incurring the anger of God. Oh yeah, this is a Christian, this is a misguided person."
Al-Deeb's candid, informed observations expose how demonizing the so-called "radical Muslim Brotherhood ideology," epitomized by Qaradawi, is yet another deliberately craven and cynical strategy to avoid discussion of the impact of canonical, mainstream Islam.


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The Best Outdoor Spaces in NYC
Collected by Kirsten Alana , AFAR Local Expert
Explore NYC by taking advantage of its amazing outdoor public spaces. For people-watching, walking, and communing with nature and public art, these parks, paths, and viewpoints bring the beautiful city into a sharper focus.
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A few green acres of valuable Midtown Manhattan real estate affords office workers and visitors with valuable peace and space, two things that are hard to find in the surrounding streets. Bryant Park shares the block between Fifth and Sixth...
Union Square Park
201 Park Ave S, New York, NY 10003, USA
Union Square Park in NYC is usually bustling with markets, street performers, skateboarders, sidewalk chess, food trucks, and not a moment of silence or peace... until you take a quiet walk with Gandhi through the magnolia trees.
Photo courtesy of Julienne Schaer/NYC & Co.
For much of its history, the western edges of Manhattan neighborhoods like the West Village and Chelsea consisted of small manufacturing buildings and warehouses that served the piers on the Hudson River. Over time, those factories were replaced...
East River Park
FDR Dr, New York, NY 10009, USA
Work days in the 'concrete jungle' are hectic. Long hours are spent indoors, sitting at desks. It's easy to forget that we live on an island. The East River Walk, beginning at 34th street and the FDR, is where I go to get away from the hustle and...
11 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10010, USA
There are two main reasons to visit this small midtown park, which takes up the three city blocks between Madison and Fifth avenues from 23rd to 26th streets. The first is that its lawns, benches and temporary art installations all have views of...
Governors Island Ferry
Financial District, New York, NY, USA
Governor's Island in the East River, just 1 km from Manhattan, is an oasis away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Catch the free ferry from downtown near Battery Park and enjoy gorgeous views of the city, car-free bike roads, picnics and...
Central Park Reservoir
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, New York, NY 10128, USA
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Natural History sculpture
990 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225, USA
Patrick Dougherty's "Natural History" living sculpture made entirely out of trees and vines is a work of art in the truest sense. Stepping inside feels akin to what it must be inside the mind of Tim Burton yet with all the reverence that nature...
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Fort Tryon Park
Riverside, Dr To Broadway, New York, NY 10040, USA
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334 Furman St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
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Westportif is the main event that we help organise from our Clubs perspective. It brings all the various cycling groups together such as our youth, leisure, ladies, sportive and racers. We notice that everyone wants to help out with making sandwiches, buns and drinks to directing traffic and marshalling. The event has been running for a number of years and has steadily grown year on year and while we know that we have some of the most scenic cycling routes in the world what better way to enjoy it than on a bike with all your friends. In a community based club its great to have such a main event as it serves to gel the club together as everyone understands how big of an event it is and put's their shoulder to the wheel.....albeit a bike wheel.
Westportif allows us to showcase the beautiful landscape that we are lucky enough to cycle in every week. It's only when you cycle with a group of friends through the Doolough or Inagh Valley or experience the sheer joy of climbing to the summit of Ail Dub, Maam Trasna and Lallys Mountain, that you really appreciate how lucky we all are to live in this stunning part of Ireland.
The club is all about doing and experiencing things together and promoting cycling in our area. If Westportif can inspire people to continue to cycle and can encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle, then that's worth doing well.


The market and technology leader will lay the foundation for long-term, profitable growth by building a new production plant for power semiconductors in Austria.
A fully automated chip factory for producing 300 mm thin-wafer chips will be constructed at the Villach site. Investments totalling about EUR 1.6 billion are planned over a period of six years. The new, highly efficient factory will create approximately 400 new jobs, mainly highly qualified positions.
Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss stated that key criteria for selecting a site was the prospect of lower taxes, the country's good position with regard to research promotion and stability. However, the decisive reason for choosing Austria is the competence and know-how of the employees in Villach.
The Villach facility serves as the competence center for power semiconductors in the group and has long been an important Infineon innovation hub. The manufacturing of power semiconductors on 300 mm thin wager was developed in Villach, which was then expanded in recent years to fully automated volume production at the Dresden plant. Due to the larger diameter of this disk, the use of this technology generates substantial advantages in productivity and reduces the level of capital employed.
These energy-saving chips control the flow of current as efficiently as possible in a large number of applications such as e-cars, trains, wind and solar power generating facilities as well as network components for mobile phones, notebooks and computer centers.
Over the past ten years, Infineon already invested about EUR 1 billion in Austria. In the meantime, about one-tenth of the 37,500 employees in the group work in Austria, 3,100 of them in Villach.


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The faceless Indian - the unseen force
Lalita's lesson to her village
Jasleen Kaur | February 3, 2011
Lalita, a shy 15-year-old girl is a household name in and around Sherpur village nearly 60 km from Indore in Madhya Pradesh. For two years, she was the lone student in her village's government girls' middle school, which has since become famous as Lalita ka school (Lalita's school).
Lalita had completed her primary education in a neighbouring village where her father, Madan Lal Girwal, a class IV employee in the public works department, used to work. When she joined this school, in 2007, she had 22 classmates. But soon all of them either dropped out or joined the private school in the village. This left Lalita all alone, and her parents in a dilemma...
This first appeared in the January 16-31 issue of the Governance Now magazine, (Vol.01, Issue 24).
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1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players - The Tactics Workbook that Also Explains All Key Concepts
1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players is not a collection of freewheeling puzzles. It serves as a course text book, because only the most didactically productive exercises are featured. Every chapter starts with easy examples, but no worries: the level of difficulty will steadily increase.
Chess Openings - Theory and Practice
A Definitive Study of All Important Openings
Chess Openings Theory and Practice is a remarkable book, unequaled by any book of that era or since. It is not a mere openings book with long columns of moves followed at the end by punctuation marks such as + -- or =. It presents opening ideas and games, often including the first game where each opening was played, plus the history of the opening, the names of famous players who played this opening and the ideas and plans on which the opening is based. It provides ''idea variations''.
The Personality of Chess
Inside the Spirit and Body of the World's Greatest Game
Once the game of kings, chess now intrigues, fascinates, and experates millions of enthusiasts from all walks of life. What is it in the nature of this unique game that has appealed to so many people for so many centuries? What does this game mean for those who play in, and why does it interest even those who do not? Here are the answers in brilliant book that explains chess as a social, psychological, historical and dramatic phenomenon. Filled with unexpected humor and written in a language anyone can understand, The Personality of chess offers a vast amount of little known facts about the game, some in refutation of popular misconceptions, others boldly treading unexplored areas.
Point Count Chess
An Accurate Guide to Winning Chess
This book, via the Point Count, shows the reader how to evaluate these differences and exploit them. What is more, the reader also acquires a working knowledge of more than a score of plans, their mechanisms and physical contours, and the influence they exert in actual play.
A Complete Chess Course - How to Win at Chess - VOLUME II
This is a combined work, taking five separate books and combining them into one volume, but then re-dividing them into two volumes.
A Complete Chess Course - How to Win at Chess - VOLUME I
First Book of Chess
This book holds the distinction and is famous for being the first chess book Bobby Fischer ever read. As Bobby himself tells the story, when he was 6 years old, one day his sister Joan brought home a plastic chess set she had bought in the market and they learned how to play by reading the instructions on the box. Later, when Bobby had developed an interest in the game, Joan brought home a book appropriately entitled ''First Book of Chess''. It was then a new book, just out.
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The Means and Ends
'Chess Movies'' represents a new idea in the Pandolfini Chess Library series. It offers instructional material with every single move diagrammed and explained. Thus a chessboard and pieces are not needed to follow through. This makes it possible to rely solely on the book itself, as one would with a text on tactics and problems, without having to set up the positions. It's almost as if one is sitting in a movie theater, watching the film roll by, with the narrative carried along by subtitles.
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Quick Tricks
Chess MoviesTM represents a new idea in the Pandolfini Chess Library Series. It offers instructional material with every single move diagrammed and explained. Thus a chessboard and pieces are not needed to follow through. This makes it possible to rely solely on the book itself, as one would with a text on tactics and problems, without having to set up the positions, even though the present volume, Quick Tricks, contains games of ten full moves or more.
Solitaire Chess
Match Your Wits Against the Greatest Chess Masters
This book enables the average chess player to match wits against the greatest masters of all time. The result is a book that is as instructive as it is entertaining.
How to Win in the Chess Openings
From a Three Time US Open Champion
International Master Al Horowitz goes through every major chess opening system and provides just one line of play for White, one line of play for Black, and the reason for each move by White or Black. This book will not show the reader how to win every game, but it will provide an easy route which will enable the player to get a reasonable, playable position out of the opening with good winning chances, even against the strongest opponents, without having to memorize a bunch of opening lines.
SHOPWORN - Let's Play Chess
In this updated and revised second edition of Pandolfini's acclaimed "Let's Play Chess, you will find the rules, the logic, some of the culture and history, and the basic principles of good chess play. Chess is by far the most popular board game in the world. There are millions of players of all ages and the number keeps growing.
The Best Chess-Drill Book For Beginners of All Ages
Catalog Code: B0002SS
From ever popular instructor Bruce Pandolfini comes this entertaining, interactive and effective book for teaching young Chess players and other newcomers to the game.
Beginning Chess
Over 300 Elementary Problems For Players New to the Game
Now even beginners can reap the rewards of Pandolfini's acclaimed teaching system. Over 300 problems, tailored to beginning players, encompass everything a player needs to learn, from the basic rules and vocabulary to the moves of various chessmen to sophisticated strategies. 300 line drawings.
More Chess Openings - Traps and Zaps - VOLUME 2
200 Brand-New Openings for Players of All Levels
The opening is one of the most important parts of the chess game. Weaken your pawns by mistake, and they're taken. Attack wildly and haphazzardly, and your pieces are picked off. Misuse your queen and she's trapped. Carelessly neglect development and you're mated. You've scarely begun, and the game is over. Fortunately, National Master Bruce Pandolfin's More Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps 2, offers drills and skills to help players of all levels avoid these perils and pitfalls.
Chessercizes
New Winning Techniques for Players of All Levels
National Master Bruce Pandolfini has created a unique and challenging Chess exercise book for players of all levels. Faced with actual positions from recent tournaments and match play, readers are asked to make the winning move for some of the world's best players, including World Champions Kasparov and Karpov.
More Chessercizes - Checkmate
300 Winning Strategies for Players of All Levels
This book offers chess players the ultimate challenge - to find the move or sequence of moves that will finish off the imaginary opponent in a checkmate situation, allowing readers to practice traps and winning opening moves without using a chess board.
Chess Opening - Traps and Zaps - VOLUME 1
202 Openings Designed to Instruct Players of All Levels, Written by America's Leading Chess Writer
In the first completely instructional book ever written on chess openings, National Master Bruce Pandolfini teaches players how to take charge of the game's crucial opening phase.
Pandolfini Endgame Course
Basic Endgame Concepts Explained by America's Leading Chess Teacher
The endgame has always been a particularly instructive phase of chess play. It provides the perfect opportunity for understanding the potential power of each chess piece in every chess situation-from opening move to checkmate. Yet unfortunately, the endgame is often viewed as an inaccessible area of play by average players whose experience is usually limited to watching championship games. Now Pandolfini's Endgame Course changes all that.
Bobby Fischer's Outrageous Chess Moves
A Study of 101 Outrageous Moves by the Great Chess Champion of All Time
This book contains a collection of the most brilliant, ingenious and outrageous moves ever played by Bobby Fischer, the American who is generally acknowledged to be the greatest chess player of all time.These 101 moves - every one a move that either forced checkmate, gained material or lead to an overwhelmingly superior position - have been selected from among all of Fischer's recorded games, most of which were were played under tournament or match conditions.


Back from a very busy ten days in Australia, visiting family and friends. What an extreme cool change from the weather here in Italy.
Had a wonderful time having lunch with a couple of friends and seeing family and celebrating my nephews birthday. My Aunty made that delicious cake above, it's called "Never fail" cake and as you see just looks divine, and tasted even better. Hope it's been written out for me and posted soon so I can share it with you all.
Nothing surprised me more than all the wonderful new kitchen chic products available now in Australia, the range is unbelievable. I just couldn't resist buying some new products and of course purchasing those favourites like Vegemite, Whittaker's Bittersweet Dark Block, and Hazelnut chocolate and then being gifted with Cadbury's Macadamia and Marble chocolate. A new product to me Pashmak persian fairy floss in rose and chocolate flavours, I feel an adventurous recipe coming up as I've never used this product, but my sister gave me some tips. Ward's gelatine setting agent and baking powder, can never have enough and a supply of golden syrup for a handwritten recipe a friend's sent me (unavailable here).
Catching up on a quick read of some of my all time favourite magazines, I was also astounded by the array of published cook books and magazines available. My mum saved me the May copy of delicious – Collector's Edition – the annual Italian issue. What a beautiful magazine, great recipes and photographs and full of new and exciting ways of making those taste buds tingle. Couldn't resist I had to buy the August issue also.
Hey Yvette – shame I missed you on your very quick trip to Perth… hope all is well and you fully enjoyed your time with family and friends.
Welcome back! I missed your posts, especially those Wednesday words!


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Jerry Seinfeld at The Grand Theater
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MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino | Ledyard, CT
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For years, MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods has brought nothing but the world's best musical talent to Ledyard. Hosting thousands of events from the most sought-after artists on the planet every year, it's one of Connecticut's premier music venues. Providing the perfect setting for the very best artists to showcase their sounds, #VENUNAME# seeks to delight fans who travel in from across the state to see concerts here. Now, it's time for the critically-acclaimed, award-winning artist Jerry Seinfeld to take to the stage! Fans can hardly wait, and it's not hard to see why! Get your tickets now and get ready to see Jerry Seinfeld LIVE on Saturday 1st December 2018!!
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BOSTON – It's a picture from this 2018 postseason, a picture of Gene Keady stepping off the Purdue team bus, and after smiling at that image I get to thinking about Indiana and Bob Knight, and how sad — no, how stupid — it is that we'll never see a similar picture from Bloomington.
They are connected, Keady and Knight, the best of an era that cemented Indiana as the premier basketball state in America. Back then, Keady brought out the best in Knight: They were both so competitive, so pure, so iconic, so good.
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► Gene Keady really jumps on the Purdue bandwagon
► Bob Knight, Gene Keady reminisce about love for this state's basketball
Today? Keady is horrible for Knight, because the comparison — the image — is crushing: Legendary coach leaves on awkward terms, swallows his pride and returns to the program synonymous with his name. The other image: A blank space where a picture ought to be. Legendary coach leaves on harsh terms, and his ego and outrage refuse to let him come back.
Not that IU hasn't tried. IU has tried so hard, with athletic director Fred Glass meeting for hours with Knight several years ago in Indianapolis, but Knight refusing to budge. In hindsight it's shocking that he attended the meeting at all. He won't attend anything at Assembly Hall, not something as large as the 40th anniversary of his 1976 national champion, or as small as A.J. Guyton's 2014 induction into the school's Athletics Hall of Fame. Guyton played for Knight from 1997-2000, was Knight's last great player — was team MVP all four seasons, and the 2000 Big Ten Player of the Year — but not even a personal plea from Guyton could melt Knight's frozen heart.
This story here, it's not written to pity Knight. That emotion had its day, and like Knight, that day is done. Knight deserves no pity. Once a giant, he is small and self-centered now, the antithesis of his core principal: Team above self. It's why Knight didn't put the names of his players on the backs of their jerseys; it wasn't about Benson or Thomas or Alford or Guyton. It was about Indiana.
Since 2000, it has been about Knight.
Hell, even Nolan Richardson made up with Arkansas — and all Richardson did there was win a national title in 1994, get fired in 2002 for accusing the school of racism, sue the school for $8 million on similar grounds, and have his lawsuit thrown embarrassingly out of court. Bad things can happen between a school and a legend. A great man rises above it.
A man like Keady, a man who coached the Boilermakers from 1980-2005 with an enormous ego of his own. Remember that comb-over? That was pure vanity, something he spent $600 every week to maintain, because he didn't want to be seen as bald.
But look at him now. The hair is gone. He's bald, covering it now only to wear a Purdue hat as he climbs off the Purdue bus in jeans and a winter jacket, a humble old man happy to come along for the ride. And it didn't end great for Keady at Purdue, either. Let's not go all revisionist history and recall how smoothly the transition went from Keady to Matt Painter. Purdue was slumping, recruiting was hurting, and Keady's contract was expiring. He interviewed for the job at San Francisco after the 2004 season, almost took it, but stayed one final year after Purdue hired Painter from Southern Illinois to be the coach-in-waiting.
Keady could have been bitter or angry or just embarrassed about the way it ended after 25 years at Purdue, and maybe he was. We'll never know, because Keady has too much class, which is why they still love him in West Lafayette. The students in the Paint Crew revere him, even if most of them hadn't even been born yet when Keady won the last of his six Big Ten titles in 1996.
At Mackey Arena they pay homage to Purdue's basketball history before every game by playing a montage of highlights, spliced with quotes from a legend like Rick Mount or Troy Lewis or Gene Keady. Pity the Purdue legend whose quote follows Keady, because the sight of Keady scowling from the giant scoreboard causes an ovation that drowns out whoever is speaking next. Last season it was Rick Mount. This season, Caleb Swanigan.
Bob Knight makes no such appearances at Assembly Hall. He doesn't want to be part of IU anymore. IU unveiled five statues at Assembly Hall before this season, including a six-person sculpture honoring the 1976 team: all players. Former coach Everett Dean has a statue. So does Branch McCracken.
Not Knight. He has painted himself into a corner, and IU is leaving him there — a bitter old man whose spell is waning over a fan base that for years just wanted to love him, but is starting to turn on him.
The record book will suggest Bob Knight was a better coach than Gene Keady, and maybe he was. But as far as being a human being? Knight couldn't hold Keady's jock.
Find IndyStar columnist Gregg Doyel on Twitter: @GreggDoyelStar or at facebook.com/gregg.doyel.
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More:Purdue enjoying Gene Keady's presence on postseason run
More:Isaac Haas wants focus and support to go to teammates
More:Bob Knight likes what he sees in IU basketball coach Archie Miller


–colorful Cologne, which got its name by its Roman past as the town of Colonia.
Cologne has a long and eventful history which you can still admire in huge buildings like Germany's largest cathedral and the church St. Martin or the beautiful places like the Old quarter and the city's Rheingarten.
Besides being the center of carnival activity and party, Cologne is also a cultural interest for many visitors. Visiting one of the famous museums like the Ludwig museum, the Romano-Germanic museum or visiting famous spots like the Hohernzollernbrücke, which is famous for the many locks that are hung on for a sign of love and friendship, you will get to know the city from a different kind of view.


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Production Starts on Dustin Ferguson's Meathook Massacre: The Final Chapter starring Danielle Brookshire, Alan Maxson, Vida Ghaffari, and Robert Lankford
Production Starts on Multi Award-Winning Filmmaker Dustin Ferguson's Meathook Massacre: The Final Chapter Starring Alan Maxson, Vida Ghaffari, Danielle Brookshire and Robert Lankford
SoCal Cinema Studios starts production on multi award-winning filmmaker Dustin Ferguson's ("Nemesis 5", "Sleepaway Camp IV") much anticipated "Meathook Massacre: The Final Chapter," which is the last installment in this popular cult franchise.
It's been 20 years since Dani (Danielle Brookshire, "Cheerleader Camp To The Death") and her friends were attacked by a meathook-welding maniac in rural Nebraska. Today, while relocating to live in Southern California with her sister Samantha (noted actress Vida Ghaffari, "RoboWoman, FOX's "The Mindy Project"), she still suffers from nightmarish visions that the worst is yet to come. Soon after a visit from a fellow survivor, "Bubba" (Robert Lankford, "Nemesis 5") and his clan, including "Uncle Swine" (Alan Maxson, "Godzilla: King of The Monsters"), they track Dani down at her current residence for one last showdown.
"It's been 5 years since my creation of the franchise, and I'm honored to return to put the final nail in the coffin – in the wildest installment of the series," said Ferguson.
Ferguson and Ghaffari are represented by Joseph Kelbie Williamson of The Williamson Management.
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