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The reason Firestorm doesn't work, is because you need a lot of people with a lot of specific units and armies. Or, if you are like me someone insane enough to own all the units needed. But, even then It will take me years to get it all painted. We need a campaign where you can play with a few buddies. And maybe a few of those buddies only have 1 or 2 armies.
Thought I would start sharing my ideas as I put the plan together, and hopefully get ideas from people as well.
My first though was what to use as a map. This has started to be sort of an obsession for me. I have no idea how people create maps. I am trying several different ideas, and none really work that well. But more on that later.
The reason the map is so important, is because depending on what I can do with the map will depend greatly on what rules I incorporate. So lets start from the begining on the plan, before we get to the map.
- I still need to work out how this will work, but the starting number of players will have starting locations on the map. Doesn't have to be historical. But there will be territory spaces between starting locations. Depending on how many people start of course. It will basically be like Risk or Diplomacy except you fight using FoW. But I want to incorporate other rules to give it more flavor.
- Starting with the simplest idea attacking from one territory to an opponents territory will trigger a FoW battle. Opponents can just decide on an era and point total, and fight their battle. If the 'Attacker' wins he takes the new territory, if the 'Attacker losses, he doesn't....simple.
- Playing around with ideas where Armour can attack farther (maybe 3 territories), Mech (2 territories), Inf (1 Territory). And maybe some supply issues if a territory is surrounded.
- My goal is to use all Scenarios (at least from Das Book) and have them come up in certain situations, but this again could depend on the map.
- Once the campaign has started if new players wanted to join, they could "invade" a coastal territory. They could either do a beach landing, using Hit the Beach mission. Or they could use a Paratrooper force using Seize and Hold mission. Both missions can easily be adapted for use with other nations, and pretty much every nation has a Paratrooper force. Even the Soviets just use Guards Strelkovy as their Paratroopers.
- I'm playing with ideas of using Game victory points as a money system to do different things. Say it costs certain amount of VP's to attack. Maybe even costs more or less depending on the situation. You could even spend VP's to attempt espionage stuff. I've even though of spending VP's to build up defenses forcing players to use the scenario's that use Fortifications.
- Countries will not have to buy Air Power. The level of air will depend on certain situations.
- I will expand the weather system I did in the Kursk Campaign. This may constitute implementing a turn system based on time of year. It also will depend on the map and if I can create different weather zones. Effects will be minimal, but could effect everything form Air Power, Invasions, terrain, maybe even bombardments.
The MapHow good I can make the map will determine how good my rules can be. As I mentioned I'd like to be able to use all the scenario's. One thing I'd like to do with the map is add major rivers. Then if you attack into a territory across one of these rivers, you have to play the River Crossing scenario.
I've found a few tools that use google maps, but the problem with these are they either have too many territories and/or they are they show the current political structure. I know this won't be historical, but I'd at least have some of the countries right.
So far the best option has been an app called realpolitik. Its mapping software create to keep track of a Diplomacy Board game, so you can play over e-mail. I've used it before. It has several variant to choose from, and I can change colours and country names easily.
The problem with this map is I can't edit the physical map, and it has these supply points. The supply points i'm actually thinking of ways to use them in the campaign, but there are too many of them. I'd really like to limit them.
Here is an example. This is the Aberration Variant and so far is the best one.
The other one I've found that could work really well is SmartDraw. But this is going to take a lot of time and planning to make a good map.
Eventually you could get into more complicated situations where if I've built a time line, you could only use EW books during 1940-41, MW books between 42-43, and LW books after 44.
If I ever figure out the map stuff, you could even go a bit farther, and divide the map into book sections. Africa can only use those books, Eastern front only those books...but then you are getting away from what I want it to do. But would still be very cool.
Hopefully I'll have another update soon. Let me know if you have any idea. Even if I don't use them, other peoples ideas sometimes lead me to other ideas.

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Following a wonderful and inspiring day at Cheltenham Races and a subsequent afternoon at Wincanton Race Course, I am thrilled to have completed a horse racing painting as a commission for a gift.
I have painted the amazing Dodging Bullets who has been described as a legend by trainer Paul Nichols.
Just to give a little background information, Dodging Bullets was bred by Jockey, Frankie Dettori and trained from 2011 by Paul Nichols. He hit the peak of his career by winning the Queen Mother Champion Chase, Chelthenham in 2015 with jockey Sam Twiston Davies.
My painting was inspired by this race with the remit being that the piece be painted in sepia tones with a splash of red and green for the jockey’s colours. In my usual way, I looked to bring movement and action to the piece and Ioved every moment! It is quite a sizeable painting, at 100cm x 60cm. My wonderful framers, House of Talbot, then took one look at the finished piece and offered an amazing frame – a metallic “horse hoof” effect type moulding. Perfect!
I’m happy to say that Dodging Bullets is now enjoying retirement with Lucy Sharp who works for Paul Nichols and I think that the very touching blog post by Harry Derham explains all:
I would like to say a huge thank you to Dianne and Derek Coles, Ryan Direct Group who made the inspiring visits to Cheltenham and Wincanton possible. I have some really lovely memories and a huge number for photos for future paintings.
Anyone who knows me will understand that I thrive on a challenge and love to capture motion and action in sporting images.
Last year I was delighted to be able to give prizes for the winners of four races by presenting paintings to each crew.
The top image is Globe Rowing Club - J164x
The second image is Josh Armstrong - Championship 1x
The third image is Henley Rowing Club Girls J164x
I believe that there are well over 200 entrants to the Regatta this year and the organisation and running of the event is truly amazing. This year, weather pending, I am hoping to do some painting on the banks of the water after setting up my base in the merchandise area!
I will be there on both the Friday and Saturday and hope to meet lots of the inspiring people taking part in the Regatta!
If you are going on either day, please do come and see me :-)
Nature is wonderful. Whether we are just tired of the winter months of dreaming of summer months ahead, the arrival of spring simply has a "certain something". It seems to gently make an appearance with an array of colours that lift the senses, seemingly to a new level each time we see them. With transparent yellows in daffodils and primroses to a blue in bluebells that is difficult to identify in any palette, the colours simply glow. Moving then towards the pinks of blossom and lilacs of wisteria, the colours compliment and warm towards the summer months. It is both intoxicating and irresistible.
I arrived in Cheltenham ridiculously early so as to avoid the traffic and then enjoyed the next couple of hours in the Pitville Pump Rooms soaking up the atmosphere (together with a hearty fried breakfast!). The rooms were buzzing, racing papers on the tables and outside, the Guinness bar was equally well attended.
I walked up to the entrance to meet my hosts for the day and, without a cloud in the sky, we walked through the crowds towards hospitality where, thankfully I would have a base to wander and return for a welcome lunch and later cup of tea. With my bet placed on the tote, I then set off with camera to explore.
The horses for the first race were beginning to parade. Beautiful, fit and spirited horses, I could watch them all day. The jockeys mounted and they made their way down the enclosed lanes towards the race track. Along with much of the crowd, I slowly moved towards the finishing line of the track and was able to catch glimpses of the horses as the raced round. The finish has to be experienced – the crowd go mad! It’s a roar!
I lost my first bet!
With the huge volume of people there, I was surprised as to how much you can see. It is extremely well organised and it would seem you can choose the type of day you wish – some stay in the grandstand and enjoy each race from a height, others wander and some appear to stay and watch from the Guinness Welcome area! The festival really is a spectacle and has an atmosphere hard to describe.
After race three I decided to go back to hospitality and sit down for a much needed cup of tea. And from the table, it was possible to watch and enjoy race 4. So much to take in, the races follow on quite quickly. So then back out for the next race. By now the sun is getting low and I am finding the photography easier and more exciting, lots of shadows and atmosphere.
This time I decided to see if I could get to the start line and it was easier to get to the front. It was great to feel the anticipation of the start and fabulous to watch the horses ready for the race ahead. Thankfully I don’t think there were many injuries on the day, although there were a few dismounts and a couple of horses finishing the race on their own. The horses look hot when finishing, their coats glossy with perspiration and veins prominent on the skin, but I know that these very treasured horses are well cared for and are all in the most fabulous condition.
It was time to bid a fond farewell to my hosts and make my way back home to Somerset. The atmosphere on the way out leaving the festival was still amazing and friendly – free bottles of water and smiles. This will be a day that I will never forget and I have just a few photos for inspiration

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Conrad Black was stripped of his Order of Canada status last week, but, about six weeks before that, he wrote governor general David Johnston about his case. On Monday, Black published the letter in the National Post. Like much of his writing, the missive is confusingly verbose. Here’s some help.
Your Excellency: Your heraldic officials have successfully litigated to prevent a hearing on the matter of my status as an Officer of the Order of Canada. I am reliably advised that it is the practice of the Advisory Board of that Order to approve the recommendations of staff whose adamant opposition to a hearing on this matter, which the Order’s rules would permit, together with the tone of their correspondence, makes their bias perfectly plain.
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The primal imagery flows from the cycies of nature in the stream of life: In the depths of your eyes, the sea, rivers transformed into caresses into the roundness of living children. In the depths of your eyes while the darkness courses over their contours, and blindfold is a dubious maimed nurse, you are there, because you are made of light because you are a butterfly luminous/ in the mirrors. “What Lies in the Depth of Your Eyes” The entire text includes recent poems in the opening section \(under the title, An Aband two award-winning books, Circles of Madness Zones of Pain for this edition. There is a clear thematic resonance throughout the collection and an inventive range of poetic forms. “These poems were written in the solitude of a foreign land in the language of my homeland,” notes the poet about her texts in Spanish, which is the language of her cultural history, of identity and memory, and the medium of her poetic intuition. Agosin’s poems have been anthologized widely under various rubrics Chilean, Latin American, Latina, feminist, human rights and her ten books of poetry have been published in the United States, usually in bilingual editions, which means she has reached a large readership. Her Spanish originals are lushly imaginative, rhythmically fluid, incantatory, and spiritual. In her Introduction to Council of the Fairies Poniatowska wrote, “Marjorie Agosin’s muses have first names and last names and they inhabit, with their brilliance, the poetry of this Chilean-American writer with a universal voice. A miracle turns her characters from simple women we meet every day into fantastic beings. Marjorie has the capability to make wonderful even the most ordinary of actions; turn the most minuscule details into winged and imminent prodigies through the beauty of her language.” Zones of Pain, lucidly translated by Cola Franzen, was a finalist in the Los Angeles Times Book Award competition, and it has attained the status of a contemporary classic in the realm of human rights literature. Most of the thirty-one poems run from twelve to forty lines, and reveal a mastery of the lyrical personal, in which Agosin becomes the instrument for another’s song. Circles of Madness, translated by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman, won the 1993 ALTA Prize for translation. This sequence of thirty-four lyrics and prose poems pays tribute to the courageous mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. Between 1976 and 1983, these women gathered every week to represent their loved ones, who had been kidnapped, An Absence of Shadows I. Beyond the shadows where the wind dwells among strangers, in far away kingdoms clouded in fear, the disappeared are among the shadows in the intervals of dream. II. It’s possible to hear them among the dead branches, they caress and recognize each other, having left behind the burning lights of the forest and the tapers of dawn and love. III. Beyond the province there is an absence, a presence of shadows and histories IV. Don’t fear them, approach them with gentle peacefulness, without vehemence and senseless rage. Beyond the shadows in the streaming gusts of wind, they and we dwell in the kingdom of absences. Marjorie Agosin, translated by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman tortured, and murdered by the military regime in Argentina. We have read relatively little about the thirty thousand citizens who have lost their lives during the Peron dictatorship and subsequent governments, in comparison to the press coverage of Madonna’s movie and Evita’s shoes. The recent news of Pinochet’s legal battle to maintain diplomatic immunity from charges brought in Spain for genocide, torture, and terrorism against ninety-four international victims of his government might strike some as comically surreal, or at least ironic. But for the families of the 4,300 Chileans who disappeared during anything less than justice will deepen their wounds. There is no doubt how Agosin stands on this issue, as her only poem about Pinochet, “The President,” makes clear. Nothing interrupts his movement. He diligently marches among the shadows of the dead. The general doesn’t hear the cries of the widowed mothers. The general doesn’t stop before the dancing ears on the pavement. Nothing stains his white suit. Because human rights are abused daily on a global scale, Agosin’s tone is ever vigilant and dead serious; because this tragedy is so heartbreaking, her poems throb with pain. She will not debate the niceties of ethical discourse or analyze the politics of diplomatic immunity, but simply cry out against injustice. Her poems never turn satirical, because that would dehumanize the constant suffering. She is too humane to rationalize one moment of the horror and too sensitive to look away from the suffering of humanity. The torture of others is her nightmare. And if you read these poems to their depths, you will understand that we share this archetypal nightmare and that we must awaken to the sacred reality it threatens. 1=1 Robert Bonazzi is the author of Man in the Mirror: John Howard Griffin and the Story of Black Like Me and the editor of Encounters with the Other \(by John Howard from White Pine Press are distributed by DECEMBER 25, 1998 THE TEXAS OBSERVER 29
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New principal named at Lake Travis Middle School
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SimCity plans to offer a uniquely tactile take on city building and town planning due to its powerful yet accessible toolkit. We could elaborate (and have, at length, in our SimCity hands-on previews), but this new trailer gives creative director Ocean Quigley a chance to "poke, prod and tinker" at the dynamic world.
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Dunwall City Trials, the first DLC expansion for Dishonored, will release from December 11th (the EU PSN version will likely be available the following day).
As previously reported, the expansion contains ten challenges for advanced Dishonored players to overcome against a global leaderboard. It'll cost you £3.99 or 400 Microsoft Points.
More details are available in the reveal story, but we now have some new screenshots for your delectation. Check them out after the break.Click here to read more...
Battlefield 3's latest expansion - Aftermath - should be rolling out today for PS3 Battlefield Elite members. If you want to start learning the maps early, this new trailer gives us a narrated walkthrough of the Talah Market level.
"We look at the challenges the team at DICE faced when designing the Talah market map," explains the blurb, "to encourage different play styles, such as sniping, big standoffs, mid-range encounters as well as fast paced close quarters action."
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Square Enix Montreal are getting stuck into the next Hitman game, having appropriated some of IO Interactive's franchise veterans, and have revealed a couple of pieces of concept art Montreal International Game Summit. Amazingly, these two pieces were painted live at the summit by art director Rasmus Poulsen and senior concept artist Leonid Enyne.
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Good. We deserve nice things.
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Mark Zuckerberg and Jesse Eisenberg went face to face on SNL alongside Andy Samberg. Three men, one identity. Things got interesting.
As host Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) went about his duties on SNL, Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance. The appearance was during Eisenberg’s opening monologue. But first, Eisenberg faced Andy Samberg who was playing as Mark Zuckerberg.
Eisenberg: “You ever end up seeing the film The Social Network?”
Zuckerberg: “Yeah, I did.”
Eisenberg: “And what did you think?”
Zuckerberg: “It was … interesting.”
Andy Samberg left the two to be alone a la, “Samberg out.” Do you think Zuckerberg minds that Samberg’s costume seems to involve a padded belly that does not reflect his real life stomach?

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So how’s your anti-transgender so-called “bathroom bill” working out in North Carolina so far, GOP Gov. Pat McCrory? Let’s see…
- On Thursday, the National Basketball Association announced that if the state does not repeal the anti-trans bill, the lucrative 2017 NBA All-Star Game will be moved out of North Carolina entirely.
- Also on Thursday, United Kingdom Foreign Office offered an official travel warning to British LGBT citizens of the dangers of traveling to North Carolina (and Mississippi).
- PayPal has cancelled building their Global Operations Center in Charlotte, costing the state over 400 jobs.
- Charlotte alone has lost more than 20 conventions (so far), costing the state huge numbers of dollars in potential revenue.
- Such high-profile (and influential) performers as Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Boston, Ringo Starr and even Cirque du Soleil (!!!) have cancelled all their North Carolina engagements. As their influence grows, more are sure to come.
- A growing number of U.S. city and state governments have banned funded business travel to anywhere in North Carolina for their employees.
- On April 19, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals (which covers North Carolina) ruled that a transgender student had a legal right to sue his high school that denied him access to the bathroom for men, which reflects his gender identity.
Good luck with that re-election campaign, Governor!
At least he can count on his Republican compatriots to back him up, right? Uh, no.
On Thursday morning’s “Today” show, when GOP front-runner Donald Trump was asked if he supported the North Carolina anti-trans law, he replied that when people have to go to the restroom, they should use the bathroom they feel is appropriate.
Trump added, “North Carolina did something — it was very strong — and they’re paying a big price. And there’s a lot of problems. And I heard — one of the best answers I heard was from a commentator yesterday saying, leave it the way it is, right now.”
Trump went on to argue that, prior to the passage of this anti-trans law, there were “very few problems” and now North Carolina must contend with companies not wanting to do business in the state and “strife” between those on both sides of the issue.
Sensing that this was making news, co-host Matt Lauer asked if Trump had any transgender employees, to which he said that “I probably do.” Lauer pressed further and asked if Caitlyn Jenner wanted to use the bathroom in Trump Tower, would Trump be comfortable if Jenner chose any bathroom she wanted? Trump replied, “That is correct.” Boom.
Surely, Gov. McCrory can assume that most of the state’s Republicans would reject Trump’s social viewpoint. Perhaps. The only problem is that the definitive winner of the state’s Republican Presidential primary on March 15 was…Donald Trump.
Sensing an opening, noted opportunist Ted Cruz pounced on Trump’s statement, using it as an example that the country “has gone off the deep end” on opposing the anti-trans bill. Cruz, who is likely to be mathematically eliminated from the delegate contest next Tuesday, added, “It is simply crazy and the idea that grown men would be allowed alone in a bathroom with little girls — you don’t need to be a behavioral psychologist to realize bad things can happen, and any prudent person wouldn’t allow that.”
The ludicrous idea that transgender individuals are sexual predators (or that such predators would go to the lengths of dressing up in make-up and heels just to get into a public bathroom to diddle “little” girls) seems beneath contempt, but Cruz is grasping at straws at this point in the race.
But will his opposition to the North Carolina bill actually hurt Trump? Next Tuesday’s GOP primaries in 5 states — Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island — won’t tell us much, since Republican voters in those states tend to be more socially moderate. The big test will be the socially-conservative state of Indiana, whose primary is on May 3. Cruz will certainly use this as a weapon against Trump, but by the time May 3 comes around, other more important issues may arise. And Cruz may be mathematically out of it by then.
Which leaves poor Pat McCrory all by himself. His Republicans introduced and passed the anti-trans bill within hours and placed the bill before him, which he signed, all in one day. That signature has cost the state potentially millions of dollars and has made North Carolina a national punchline and an international pariah. I hope McCrory thinks his potential reelection was worth it.


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When Colonel James R. Crider's 1-4 cavalry squadron got to Baghdad last May, their first 30 days were pockmarked with roadside bombs, shootings and grenade attacks. But the war stories out of Crider's outfit nowadays don't have much to do with war anymore. For the past three months there hasn't been a significant incident. These days Crider's unit has their hands full with conflicts of a completely different nature the kinds of problems that child and social welfare services may be better equipped to deal with.
There was the drunken husband who got mouthy with his wife she beat him with a frying pan, sending him stumbling and bleeding into the street, where one of Crider's platoons came upon him and stitched him up. Then there was the young man with a mental condition whose brother blasted him with a homemade shotgun because he wasn't taking his medicine. Crider's men heard the shot and came running. No one was really hurt and the young man is now working at a local grocery store. Then there was the time a local distinguished community leader complained to Crider's men that his son was addicted to pharmaceuticals and asked them to intervene. The Americans staged an intervention, scaring the young man straight with a fake urine test result.
"Counterinsurgency is all about the people," says Crider. And residents of the predominantly Sunni neighborhood called Dora don't trust the Iraqi government, believing that the Shi'ites who run it are controlled by Iran. They trust the Americans instead. "When you realize they think we are the government then we need to take the initiative. They think if we can launch a missile from the Persian Gulf and destroy Saddam's palaces we can do anything." Like throw a switch and provide 24-hour electricity across the Iraqi capital. They look at us, says Crider, and think, "You're are the ones with the guns, with the money. To this day they believe we can do anything."
Even the Iraqi police call on Crider's men for help. The Americans have good rapport with neighborhood residents while the police, staffed with outsiders, are generally mistrusted. And so one day the cops called in a panic. There had a been a kidnapping: someone was missing. What were they to do? Crider's men found out that the kidnapping was a case of older brothers defending a younger sibling from a bully by tying up the bully with string and tossing him into a school bathroom, where no one bothered to look for four hours.
The Americans have also become the vice squad. At one point, they had to shut down a house full of prostitutes, chucking out one john as he was half-dressed in the middle of an appointment.
Other stories are more touching, like the family that wanted to personally thank one of Crider's platoons for making the neighborhood safe enough for their son to get married, preparing a feast of chicken, rice and cake for the men. There was also an older lady who proudly showed Captain Nicholas M. Cook, one of the better-known American soldiers in the neighborhood, a photograph of herself decorated by the minister of defense under the old regime. She had been one of the only female generals under Saddam but was too afraid to even display the photograph in the privacy of her living room. But she felt secure with Cook. Says Cook, "we've become so close to all the families. There are some families [here] I'm genuinely going to miss." His unit will be going home in April.
Unless things change, the Iraqi police will take over from the Americans when they leave in April. And if that happens, most residents expect the fragile peace to unravel. Marital spats will give way to martial conflicts and the distrust between the police and the people will lead once again to armed confrontations. "We are the government in their eyes," says Crider. "The government has certain responsibilities to the people. It's our responsibility to the people to act. But the current Iraqi government has got to start taking responsibility."


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The higher estimates are from the 14th and 15th centuries. The lower counts are from 16th century Ottoman censuses ; Lapidus 1967, p. 79.
Sack 1989, p. 45.
Sack 1989, p. 56.
In this article I will rely exclusively on the edition published in four volumes by the French Institute for Middle Eastern Studies (Ifpo) in Damascus from 2000 to 2007. I will not deal with the manuscript of the text which does not only cover twenty years (885/1480+ 906/1500) but continues for either two years (foreword in Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, i, p. 7) or even eight more years until one year before the author’s death (foreword in Buṣrawī, Tārīḫ, p. 11). The four volumes are distinguished by roman numbers (i-iv),
Guo 2008, p. 215.
Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, iii, p. 1253.
Ibid., p. 1254.
Guo 2008, p. 210.
Ziadeh 1953, p. 82.
Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, I, p. 9.
Al-Ġazzī, Kawākib, i, p. 126. Ibn Ṭawq is also mentioned in the entry on his patron; see below.
E.g. al-Buṣrawī, Tārīḫ; Ibn al-Ḥimṣī, Ḥawādiṯ.
He regularly receives visitors from Ǧarūd : a mubāšir and a ḫaṭīb as well as one šayḫ Muḥammad, and he is still informed about social events in the village ; he also travels there himself occasionally ; Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, i, p. 26, 64, 76 ; ii, p. 543, iv, p. 1911.
Ibid. i, p. 9.
Marcus 1989, p. 38.
In 887/1482-3, the author mentions that he rented, among other things, the part of the lower house and the story (ṭabaqa) which beforehand belonged to his uncle’s granddaughter, for a hundred dirham a year. See Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, i, p. 206.
Ibid., iv, p. 1697.
Rapoport 2005, p. 106.
Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, i, p. 449. This situation seems to repeat itself later on ; ibid. iii, p. 1159.
Ibn Ṭawq speaks of each of them as umm al-awlād, a legal term which denotes a freed slave-girl who bore her master children.
Ibid. i, p. 442; iii, p. 1095.
Ibid. i, p. 9.
Henceforth I will refer to the author’s patron as the šayḫ to avoid ambiguities with regard to other Damascene šayḫ-s.
Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, i, p. 197, 227-228.
Ibid. ii, p. 580-581. According to an ancient Damascene custom a pious person should sleep in the bridal bed the three nights before the wedding ; Guo 2008, p. 212.
Al-Ġazzī, Kawākib, i, p. 114.
Ibid., p. 115.
Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, i, p. 298.
To give a selection only from the first one hundred pages of the journal: the šayḫ freed a judge, (ibid., p. 41); he remained unwavering when the governor wanted to raise money (p. 66); people seek his help because of high sugar price (ibid.); he wants an armistice (p. 67); the muḥtasib seeks his advice (p. 71); he makes an emir tear down a building he had built too high (p. 79); he takes care of some prisoners’ corpses and prays for them (p. 83).
Al-Buṣrawī, Ta’rīḫ, p. 77, 87, 92, 211 ; Ibn al-Ḥimṣī, Ḥawādiṯ, p. 114, 151, 192-193, 206, 221, 252-253, 312, 396, 423, 447, 557.
Lapidus 1967, p. 93. Ibn Ṭawq does not transmit this episode. At other times, he obscures the šayḫ’s role in freeing the riotous šayḫ Mubārak. See Lapidus 1967, p. 106; Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, iii, p. 1288-1289.
Al-Ġazzī, Kawākib, i, p. 114-118.
The šayḫ lived in polygamy housing his wives in different quarters of the city.
Quarrels between the šayḫ and his wife are frequently mentioned; e.g. Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, i, p. 25, 521-522, 533; ii, p. 584, 587, 1049. For cases of sickness, see Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, i, p. 91, 122-123, 126, 522-528, 541, 546; II, p. 641, 789, 1009-1019; iii, p. 1107-1108, 1157-1159 ; the šayḫ did not go to the teaching session because he was furious with one of his sons (iii, p. 1091). Furthermore, a wife of the šayḫ got injured (i, p. 94), another had a miscarriage (i, p. 102). A couple of days after the šayḫ even spoke of divorce from his Egyptian wife, Ibn Ṭawq asked him if he was going through with it (ii, p. 744, 747).
Amelang 2007, p. 133.
Conermann 2003, p. 11. I do not intend to single out Ibn Ṭawq as the first author to write a diary in Arabic. On the contrary, the practice seems to have been widespread for centuries ; Makdisi 1986; also Conermann & Seidensticker 2007.
Weintritt 2008, p. 19.
The tendency to record personally important events happened at the same tine in renaissance Italy where traditionally historiographical chronicles were used in a new way to fix personal or family history, such as births, deaths, harvests, celebrations. Holm 2008, p. 12.
Irwin 2006, p. 160; also Guo 2001.
Rapoport 2007, p. 3.
Guo 2001, p. 132.
Such works were ‘published in the context of teaching. They were read to an audience of one’s students who, in turn, wrote them down again and made copies of the original text. See Rosenthal 1968, p. 173–174 ; Robinson 2007, p. 181-82.
For emplotment and use of stylistic elements in chronicles, see Hirschler 2006, chapters 5 (p. 63-85) and 6 (p. 86-114).
Chamberlain 1994, p. 18-21.
Holm 2008, p. 26.
Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, iv, p. 1743.
There were, of course, limits to his willingness to tell about private business, especially with regard to his own wife. Her name is never mentioned, and she appears quite amorphous throughout the text.
For a list of contracts from the 2nd and 3rd volume, see Guo 2008, p. 216-17.
Al-Ġazzī, Kawākib, i, p. 115.
Guo 2008, p. 210.
An exception is the introduction to the year 902/1496-1497 where the list of notables appears only in the entry for Muḥarram 1st. Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, iii, p. 1439f.
E.g. Wulzinger & Watzinger 1924 ; Sack 1989 ; Burns 2005.
E.g. Lapidus 1967.
For this quote and the following, see Oleg Grabar’s foreword in Lassner 1970, p. 12-13.
Recently, Lefebvre’s concept of space has been fruitfully utilised by Harithy 2001 and Leeuwen 1999.
All citations refer to a German translation of the introduction in « The Production of Space » (Lefebvre 2006).
Lefebvre 2006, p. 331.
On the muḥtasib and his duties, see Ziadeh, p. 118f., 122-25; see also Essid 1995, chapter IV.
Sack 1989, p. 45.
Lapidus 1967, p. 51.
There was no cohesive image of space but gives room to a lot of ideas, ranging from cosmology and astronomy through maritime literature and travel accounts to the genre of ʿaǧāʾib, fantastic accounts of far away and often legendary countries and the wonders one could see there; an interesting study is Brauer 1995 on the role of frontiers and boundaries.
See al-Nuʿaymī, Dāris; Ibn ʿAsākir, Tārīḫ.
See articles « Faḍīla » and « al-Maḥāsin wa-l-Masāwī », E.I.2, respectively ii, p. 729, and v, p. 1223. Ibn Ǧubayr emulates their perspective on Damascus in his own account of the city. Ibn Ǧubayr, Riḥla, p. 271-294.
Lefebvre 2007, p. 340; employed with regard to architecture in Cairo by Harithy 2001.
Ibn Ṭawq mentions a couple of architects (miʿmar) but rarely in the context of construction works: e.g. the father of the šayḫ al-miʿmar (the architect) šayḫ ʿUbaid died; the architect al-Ṭībī whose daughter died (iii, p. 1122, 1127).
Lefebvre 2007, p. 336.
Ibid., p. 339f.
Molotch 1993, p. 888.
Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, iii, p. 1252.
Ibid., IV, p. 1560.
Musallam 1983, p. 117.
Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, iii, p. 1121, 1136.
Ibid., iii, p. 1123.
E.g., Ibn Ṭawq writes “Damascus” when news of an Ottoman offensive upset the city, or when an Anatolian woman came through on her way back from Cairo. Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, ii, p. 765; iii, p. 1278.
Ibid., p. 1288-89.
Ibid., p. 1288.
Only two city maps are known from the medieval Islamic world, one of the Tunisian city al-Mahdiyah and one of Tinnis in the delta of the Nile. Edson 2005, p. 107.
Al-Nuʿaymī, Dāris, ii, p. 346.
Ibid., ii, p. 346 ; i, p. 16.
Ibid., p. 1100.
Lapidus 1967, p. 94.
Leeuwen 1999, p. 189.
Lapidus 1967, p. 86.
For fights between quarters see Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, i, p. 23, 462, 504, 505, 520; ii, p. 762, 770, 775, 776; iv, p. 1533-1536. See also for their interpretation according to Ibn Ṭūlūn, Lapidus 1967.
Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, iv, p. 1549, 1555.
Ibid., p. 1569.
Lapidus 1967, p. 87.
Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, iii, p. 1135, 1131, 1137, 1124; iv, p. 1649.
Ibid., iii, p. 1363.
Ibid., iv, p. 1714.
See above footnote 2, p. 1.
Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, iii, p. 1260.
Also Gardens’ Gate, cf. Élisséeff, La description de Damas, p. 329.
Ibid., ii, p. 811-812.
Lapidus 1969, p. 70.
Leder 2005, p. 237; for its importance for the Mamluks, see Walker 2004.
Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq I, p. 40, 46, 55.
In 903/1497-1498 the governor was praying there, once to the right of the prayer niche (miḥrāb) (Ibid., IV, p. 1619), once in “mull and linen” (Ibid., p. 1626).
Guo 2008, p. 212.
Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, ii, p. 684.
Ibid., iii, p. 1229.
Ibid. i, p. 81.
Ibid., i, p. 125; ii, p. 601.
Ibid., i, p. 65.
Ibid., i, p. 81.
Ibid., p. 103.
Ibid., iv, p. 1904.
Grehan 2007, p. 95.
Leeuwen 1999, p. 185.
Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, iii, p. 1501.
Grehan 2007, p. 161.
Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, i, p. 127; ii, p. 702; iv, p. 1859.
For a study on allegiance within Mamlūk households, Henning Sievert proposed a model of four ideal types of group allegiance based on kinship, patronage, friendship or similar geographic or ethnic background. An exclusiveness of one of these types, however, is never found in Ibn Ṭawq’s journal. Sievert 2003, p. 104.
In contrast to other members of his family Ibn Ṭawq’s brothers stay almost invisible. I found only two remarks on them; once the son of his brother Šuʿayb was present at a meeting in the Ġazāliyya school, and in the occasion of his brother Ibn al-Yaʿmūrī’s death. Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, p. 578, 581.
Ibid., p. 667, 531.
A selection from the year 886/1481-1482 gives an idea of how often he went to such places. Excluded are his appearances for the Friday prayers; Ibid., i, p. 43, 46, 54, 57, 62, 65-8, 72-3, 75, 84, 87-90, 103, 107, 109, 112. These are just the denoted appearances. The frequency was probably higher in reality, judging from all the news he received from and about other ulama without naming the place where he received them.
In the journal five different šayḫ-s appear under this name. Additional attributes are not always given. Moreover, the author’s son and one son of the šayḫ carry the same name as well.
When šayḫ Abū al-Faḍl was away in 886/1481-1482, Ibn Ṭawq noted whenever a letter arrived. Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, i, p. 76, 91, 96, 106, 116, 121.
In the years 890 and 891/1485-1487 Ibn Ṭawq mentions frequent mutual sleepovers of their households which could last up to a week. Ibid., p. 443, 453, 469, 479, 519, 618, 664. Also, Ibn Ṭawq and the šayḫ paid each other mutual visits in this time; ibid., p. 430, 436-7, 447, 455, 481, 533, 538, 542, 555, 589, 624, 662.
Ibid., ii , p. 594, 597.
Ibid. i, p. 75.
The house had belonged to one Šihāb al-Dīn Ibn al-Muzalliq, not to Qāḍī Šams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn al-Muzalliq mentioned by Meier and Weber, who lived in Šāġūr and died in 902 or 903 (1497). Meier & Weber 2005, p. 392. The šayḫ moved there with his Egyptian wife in 897/1491-2. Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq, iii, p. 1129.
Ibid., i, p. 154,
Ibid., i, p. 157.
Ibid., ii, p. 592.
Ibid., i, p. 498; iii, p. 1147.
There are only a few indications to the position of the room called murabbaʿ; the small murabbaʿ opened onto the courtyard (ḫawš); ibid., i, p. 109-10, 131. Apparently this room was used for receptions: Ibid., p. 109-110; ii, p. 689.
Ibid., i, p. 35.
Ibid., i, p. 36.
Ibid., i, p. 91.
Ibid., i, p. 107.
Ibid., ii, p. 635.
Ibid., i, p. 739; IV, p. 1560.
Ibid., i p. 159, 309; ii , p. 738-739, 1004; IV, p. 1587, 1690.
Ibid., iii, p. 1482.
Ibid., I, p. 227.
Ibn Ṭawq, Taʿlīq I, p. 30.
De Certeau 2006, p. 347-349.
Foucault 2006, p. 317.
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(CN) - Officials at California's Corcoran State Prison did not violate a convicted gang member's rights by restricting outdoor exercise for more than a year in the wake of a violent inmate uprising against corrections officers, the 9th Circuit ruled Thursday.
Rival gangs banded together during the January 2002 riot - an "unprecedented" event that one prison official described as the most violent riot he'd seen in 20 years on the job, according to a ruling.
Wielding crudely fashioned weapons, the gangs attacked the Kings County prison's employees in the exercise yard, killing one corrections officer and injuring 21 others.
After quelling the riot, prison officials instituted an extended lockdown and curtailed most inmate activities for several months. Officials returned the prison to normalcy gradually, contingent on the ongoing cooperation of the gangs that had been involved in the riot.
By April 1, 2003, full exercise privileges had been restored for all prisoners, the ruling states.
Stephen Noble IV, a member of one of the gangs involved in the riot, was an inmate in the prison's substance abuse treatment center when the riot broke out. Noble says he did not participate in the violence and that prison's subsequent lockdown violated his civil rights. He sued prison officials D. Adams and D. Cuevas in California District Court, alleging violations of his Eighth Amendment right to outdoor exercise.
Chief U.S. District Judge Anthony Ishii denied the officials' motions for qualified immunity, finding that Adams and Cuevas had failed to show a legitimate purpose for the lockdown past Jan. 30, 2002.
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Trott added that "it was not clearly established in 2002 - nor is it established yet - precisely how, according to the Constitution, or when a prison facility housing problem inmates must return to normal operations, including outside exercise, during and after a state of emergency called in response to a major riot, here one in which inmates attempted to murder staff."
The panel reversed the District Court's ruling and remanded the case with instructions to enter a judgment for the officials.
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We walked through the lush rainforest to Ruth’s house in the Goroka Highlands in Papua New Guinea, down steep dirt track pathways quite a long way, sun streaming through the tropical plants – a really beautiful scene, like the Garden of Eden, untouched.
The first stop down the path was the church that the families have built with the money from Among Equals. All of the children came to meet us, so proud to show us this lovely building (the children would usually be at school, but as a special treat they wanted to meet us).
All of these local families are supported by micro-plots of land – family plots where they earn a small amount of money looking after the coffee plantation.
British and German colonists established the plantations in PNG – banana, coconut, coffee, cocoa. But the main workforce in the area is flown in from other parts of the country or overseas. The local families’ only other form of income is the sale of Bilum bags.
Further down the hill, with the blazing sun on our backs, we arrived at the cluster of homes built into the hillside that make up the village where Ruth lives. Again, the money from the sale of Among Equals bags has had a direct and powerful impact – the walls to Ruth’s house were paid for with this money. And Ruth is now able to send her children to school, two of whom live in the house with her, while the other son is away boarding.
There is no electricity or running water, and no infrastructure for hygiene in the village. The only place to gather water is back up the dirt track that we have spent the better part of 20 minutes climbing down. The hillside is also littered with rubbish, as there is nowhere to dispose of things.
The women weave by candlelight or kerosene lamp. As a result their eyesight is deteriorating, since the only time to weave is at night. They cook over an open fire, and bathe in the small, dirt-coloured puddle in the centre of the village.
In the village, the age-old practice of Bilum weaving is taught to the younger generation of girls. It is an oral culture that passes on tradition through storytelling, first appearing some 75,000 years ago according to the anthropological data. None of these women have been to school, they can’t read or write and most don’t know how old they are. When we asked them their age they tried to remember how many Christmases they have had!
I am constantly inspired by the women’s spirit, strength and determination to make a better future for themselves and their children.

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