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HEAD Intelligence i.165 Racquet
Comments: Rashid, Try Head Megablast 17. I find 32lb tension to be good for power and control. Don't wait too long between string jobs. You might even consider buying a basic drop weight stringing machine and do it yourself----it's not that hard. You could also search craigslist for a great deal on a nice string machine like a Prince Neos 1000. Will pay for itself relatively quickly. Hope this helps. I've been playing with this racquet since it came out and love it. Good luck.
Comments: I have this Racquet from last two years, last year I change the factory string with "Gamma Live Wire 17 String" with 29lb tension. The sale person told me its good for power but I lost the control at all. Now since it been year the string lose the tension and power also reduce. Any help suggestion for the string and tension which give me excellent control and power.
Comments: Hi, I have had this racquet for close to 2 years now and love it. The weight is perfect for me and I can play for 2 hours straight at times with no fatigue in my arm or wrist. I've often wanted to try the more expensive racquets but really don't see a need when this one really does everything I like. Thanks head for making a great product that stands the test of time and plays as good today as it did 2 years ago when it was new. No issues with string breakage or any other malfunction. Very happy with it to say the least
Comments: Well, what can I say. I've been playing with the i165 since it came out many years ago. You just can't beat the control of this racquet. No wonder Head still sells this model. Recent price history on RbW, $79, 69, 59, and now back up to $89!! This racquet is catching on again. Sudsy used to play with this one back in the day and I know none of us will ever be at his level-----just sayin! One hell of a racquet and still a bargain. Grab a couple. Highly recommended.
Comments: I actually bought this racquet as an interim racquet while I searched for a new one. Fell in love with it. It's by far the best racquet I have ever played on. If you are a light racquet player, you must try this stick. No string breakage issues. Head...if you are reading this...please don't do anything stupid....like discontinuing or changing this product!!
Comments: Most players don't realise how important string and tension are. Yes thinner string and more tension have more control BUT I just tried this beauty at 26lbs and a friend said use 15 gauge AG Fantasy tennis string. Now I have power serves, great passing and touch. Can't believe the difference from the factory specs. Just bought 2 more racquets at this low price.
Comments: I bought one for a back up or a loaner. I played with it and decided to keep it for my main racquet, and just ordered another one for back up. I loan my others out, but not this one! It can be unforgiving, but when I'm on it's awsome. Love it, love it.
Comments: I have 2 broken racquets in two years. Love the play, but not very durable. Always cracks by the yoke. Called Head, and too bad.
Comments: I have 3 of this racquet and the longest for 12 years. No issues, no breakage, it is a wonderful racquet.
Comments: I've have this racquet around 12 months...and play 2 times a week. plenty of power and no real issues with vibration. Sweet spot is a little tight...but when you connect, (As Jeff mentions below) she screams! Not sure why so many have had issues with strings breaking??? I hit the ball plenty hard..and haven't broken a string yet. You can't beat this one for the money...
Comments: I have the Racketball since black Friday 2013 and I brake the strings 5 times already I will restringed one more time with a different tension
Comments: After cracking my Ektelon O3 Blue, I decided it was time to get another racquet. I was unhappy with the clunky feel of the Ektelon and decided that it was a good time to try a different brand. My rball buddy bought one and he seemed to do very well with it. I found a used i.165 for a good price, so I decided to do that while I saved up for a nicer racquet. Well, that was almost 2 years ago and I have no pressing need to upgrade. The i.165 is light (great for front court work) and I am able to generate enough power from it. I feel that it has helped to improve my game because its a bit unforgiving. The sweet spot feels smaller than my old Ektelon O3 Blue and if I don't hit it right from the back court, I will skip. However, when I am using good technique, this racquet really screams! I feel I have great control and more and more I play with it, more and more I feel like my shots are going exactly where I need them to go. Its almost like I can feel where the ball will go. Like others, my strings did not last very long and the grip eventually wore out. I view those items as consumables anyway. I upgraded to Ektelon Premier strings and a Python grip and I feel I have a racquet that I can enjoy for years to come (or until the frame breaks). This is a great racquet for the price! Noticeably better than the Ektelon O3 Blue!
Comments: I've been playing for this racquet 3 months now, and I'm really happy with the results. I improved my gameplay ALOT!!, I'm a hard hitter, and the strings for me, are great. I love the frame, the way it feels when I hit the ball, and the swing power I get with this racquet.
Comments: Great racquet for all skill levels, probably the best value out there. Very durable. Factory strings do break quickly, mine broke after 2nd game. Very head heavy, although that is purely a matter of preference.
Comments: Love this racquet. Using it for 5 years or more. Yes I break stings but I also break them on my back up Ektelon/I don't always hit flat. Very good control, like the light weight, great for up close in doubles, my favorite position. Have broken several other Eforce and Ektelon frames trading off, but this one holds up better than the others for me and I like it much better.
Comments: I just started playing a month ago, so far for the price I still believe is a great buy, the only issue is the strings, gone after about 10 games, not sure if it has anything to do with me hitting the ball with a tennis technique or simply because they're not good enough.
Comments: Good racquet. I'm not sure if you'll find a better combination of power and control for the price. I have a couple friends with the same racquet and everyone has had good things to say about it. I haven't had problems with the strings breaking, but if you're a hard hitter you probably will. No problems with elbow or shoulder pains playing with this stick and I play 2-5 hours a week. My only complaints are that the sweet spot is quite small and I get more skip balls when trying for a kill shot than my first racquet I learned on. But for the value, I don't think you'll find anything better.
Comments: Not a good racquet for me. I had a horrible time with the strings breaking and had lots of vibrations and developed a very sore elbow from it. Brought it back a very short time after purchasing. My former doubles partner used it and got me to try it. Glad I was able to return it. Not a bad racquet to graduate "up" to from the $20-30 department store racquets, it is much nicer than those, but control and power were not there for me compared to the E-Force Bedlam I owned prior. This was several years ago.
Comments: Just starting playing the game. Have only played 2 months but really like it. I was using a cheap racquet at the start but was got this one for a Christmas gift. The power was noticeable right from the start with good accuracy. This is a great racquet to start off with. I recommend it..
Comments: I'm an open player in Louisiana with 29 years of playing. I bought my first one in 2001 and found the perfect fit to my game, the control was there along with the power. I enjoy the teardrop shape along with the thin frame. I use the gamma 16 and 17 gauge string at 36 lbs of tension. I use the 36 lbs because I get the control I want.
Comments: I bought this racket about one month ago and the strings just broke. But I like the racket, so i brought it back and got a new one. I've been playing for 22 years. But just started playing again after an eight year hiatus. I played top of the line Ektelon for years and this is the first new generation racket I've bought. Boy things have changed, but this racket is closer to the old style than most. Bottom line is good power and maneuverability i.e. you can scoop those close in corner shots out and make it to the front wall.
Comments: I have had two of these racquets and they are a real joy to play with but the durability is not what you come to expect with Head racquets. I'm 215 lbs and have been playing since the 70's so I may be a little heavy to play with this racquet because I busted both of them. The store I bought them from replaced them under warranty but wouldn't let me have the same model the second time. So I ended up with a Liquidmetal 170. I'm still thinking I need a little bit heavier model. Overall this is a great racquet, I have 4 to 5 other people playing with this racquet and have found good success with it.
Comments: I have had two racquets of this kind. The first one when I first started playing (2 years ago) and the second one for Christmas. The first one broke when I hit somebody else's racquet. The second one is still alive and I have been enjoying it. The weight is perfect and very manageable. I will keep playing with this racquet until I get tired of it.
Comments: Love the racquet, hate the strings. I played ten games and the string snapped. Had this for about 3 months total. Grip is good but started falling off after game 3. We will have to wait and see what will happen with the racquet.
Comments: Bought this one to get a lighter racket and the price was good. The sweet spot is smaller than others I have used and it does not have as much power as cheaper rackets I have used, however the control was good and the lighter weight easier on my arm. The factory strings are worthless -- broke within a week on 2 rackets. You should plan on restringing this one pretty soon after purchase if you want to keep it.
Comments: I bought the i.165 as an upgrade after trashing an el cheapo. I am a new player to the sport and can see and feel the difference! I cant afford to buy an expensive racquet at this time. I would recommend the I165 to any and all beginners.
Comments: I have not been playing long but knew a better racquet would better my game. The only problem was to find a high end racquet without the highend price. This is what I found and am impressed. I challenge another $65 racquet to better this one!
Comments: I bought this racquet a little over a year ago as a replacement for a $20 junker that I used to use. It took a while for me to adjust my swing to fit the i.165, but that took about all of a month. The strings it came with only lasted about 2 months, but I got it restringed for $20 with a different type of string. I haven't busted any strings since. If you have a fast swing and are looking for a good racquet that can perform, this thing is a steal.
Comments: I have been using a "museum piece" for about 8 yrs - not that time has improved my game. The first try on an i.165 I found the ball going where I wanted, even when my swing was less than pretty. Though the quick, light play style this racquet most benefits is not mine, it's a great upgrade for the price. One friend bought his i.165 when they first came out and it's still going strong. Another bought hers just this year and between the two, I can't tell that his has lost anything with age.
Comments: I just bought the i. 165 a couple of weeks ago. So far, it has proven to be a very good raquet. It has started to vibrate some, put that is probably just normal wear. The power is decent, and so is the control. My only complaint would be that while it is a decent performer in every category, it doesn't seem to be a master of any. This raquet is great if you have a faster swing speed, but if not, you may want to reconsider. Also, it has worn my arm down a couple of times, but I'm planning to get a different string put on it, and that should help.
Comments: I'm an open player that has been playing for approximately 25+ years. The i-165 appears to be a nicely, well rounded racquet. I will say that it does produce vibration, and does lack in the power department. The factory strings last about 10-15 games if your are a hard hitter. The racquet is light, and does have great manueverability on close shots. Overall, the racquet is exceptional for the price, and weight, but if you're looking for an over-powering experience, look at a larger racquet, i.e. Metallix 170, or E-Force 150. To date, I presently play with two i-165's and seem to enjoy the end result.
Comments: I purchased this racquest as an upgrade to my Ektelon, my mistake! When it worked, it performed fine. Nice grip. Very responsive. But, it is not very durable. My first racquest lasted 28 days. The strings shattered. My second one fell apart in less time. This is after great care for both. It's the strings!!!
Comments:I have had this racquet for 2 months and the frame has fractured for no apparent reason. The racquet plays well but lacks durability.
Comments:I thought that this is a high-tech racquet absorbing vibration using piezoelectric material in the frame. But the string looked thin, and did not last two months. The racquet itself is too right, in my opinion. I was not impressed with this racquet.
Comments: I'm probably about a B- player playing 2-3x/week. Just started playing with this racquet a couple weeks ago (upgrading from an old-skool Ektelon Arc2 Neuro, circa 1995), and I'm loving it, even though I'm still getting used to the bigger hitting area & higher power. Had tried a cheap Ektelon racquet whose vibration was killing my arm, forcing me back to my 13-year-old sticks. No such problems with the i.165--it's stable and my arm loves it!
Comments:I just purchased this racquet, and after playing with it 4 times, it's an incredible racquet. My game has progressed immensly, and that's without really adjusting to the racquet. Even for an older model, it's the best racquet i've played with.
Comments: I have used this racquet for one year and I'm very proud of the performance. I will not use another one. I have just recently hit with the new 185. It does not have the same power, also too much flex. This racquet did take some time to get used to. By shortening up my swing and changing my grip to an over grip on both forehand and backhand my game has improved immensely.


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Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta 1304-1369
(Full name Abu Abdallah Muhamad ibn Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Lawati) Moroccan travel writer and historian.
Renowned for his travels throughout the Islamic world and beyond, Ibn Battuta is believed to have covered over 75,000 miles in his journeys—three times the distance of Marco Polo's famous journey to Cathay. Battuta recounted his travels, dictated from memory, for one of the principal secretaries of the Sultan of Morocco. Battuta's narrative includes accounts of places, persons, societies, customs and ceremonies he encountered, and proves a rare chronicle of Islamic life during the fourteenth century.
Biographical Information
Ibn Batutta was born on February 24, 1304 at Tangiers, Morocco. He is believed to have belonged to an upper class family that settled in Tangiers many generations before Battuta's birth. Many of the men in his family served as qadis, or judges, a profession Battuta also adopted once he finished his travels and settled in Fez. Battuta began his journeys in 1325, visiting lands throughout the Islamic realm. He enjoyed the favor of many of the lords at whose courts he stopped, often serving them as a courtier or ambassador. Battuta was married and divorced several times, and at one time owned slaves. He also traveled as a religious pilgrim, assimilating the lessons he learned from the various holy men he encountered. Battuta escaped the Black Death—a plague that devastated populations worldwide—in 1348. When his extravagance and prominence aroused the suspicions of rulers in Delhi and the Maldive Islands, Battuta again managed to avoid disaster and was allowed to continue his travels.
Major Works
Upon his return to Fez Ibn Battuta regaled the Sultan of Morocco and his court with tales of his adventures. The Sultan then hired a secretary, Ibn Juzayy, to document the tales in writing. The resulting rhila, or travel book, entitled Tuhfat al-nuzzār fī Gharā'ib al-amsār wa-'ajā'ib al-asfār [Gift to Those Eager to Observe the Wonders of Cities and Marvels of Journeys, 1358], contains Juzayy's transcription of Battuta's tales, edited and embellished upon by the secretary, who at times drew upon the writings of Ibn Jubayr, a twelfth-century Andulusian scholar.
Critical Reception
Battuta's narrative is valued for the literary merits of its vivid description and comprehensive analysis of medieval Islamic life as well as for its utility to archeologists and other scholars for whom the work serves as a unique guide to the relics and ruins of the society in which Ibn Battuta lived. Critics have assessed the rhila's credibility as a historic document, concluding that many dates and exact details were greatly altered by Battuta and Juzayy. The treatment of women in the narrative has been examined by at least one critic, Marina A. Tolmacheva, who maintains that the travelogue is an historically and culturally significant account of the quality of life for Muslim women in Battuta's era. Modern writers continue to publish accounts of their attempts to retrace Battuta's route, providing their own descriptions of their surroundings and comparing them with the depiction of the same locations in the fourteenth century.
Principal Works
Tuhfat al-nuzzār fī Gharā'ib al-amsār wa-'ajā'ib al-asfār [Gift to Those Eager to Observe the Wonders of Cities and Marvels of Journeys] (travelogue) 1358
Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354 (translated by H. A. R. Gibb, edited by Robert M. McBride) 1929
Travels of Ibn Battuta a.d. 1325-1354 (translated by H. A. R. Gibb, with revisions and notes from the Arabic text edited by C. Defrémery and B. R. Sanguinetti) 1958
Ibn Battuta in Black Africa (translated and edited with commentary by Said Hamdun and Noël King) 1994
H. A. R. Gibb (essay date 1929)
SOURCE: Gibb, H. A. R. Introduction to Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354, translated and selected by Robert M. McBride, pp. 1-42. New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1929.
[In the following excerpt, Gibb describes Ibn Battuta's travels and discusses the value of his work.]
1. IBN BATTúTA AND HIS WORK
To the world of today the men of medieval Christendom already seem remote and unfamiliar. Their names and deeds are recorded in our history-books, their monuments still adorn our cities, but our kinship with them is a thing unreal, which costs an effort of the imagination. How much more must this apply to the great Islamic civilization, that stood over against medieval Europe, menacing its existence and yet linked to it by a hundred ties that even war and fear could not sever. Its monuments too abide, for those who may have the fortune to visit them, but its men and manners are to most of us utterly unknown, or dimly conceived in the romantic image of the Arabian Nights. Even for the specialist it is difficult to reconstruct their lives and see them as they were. Histories and biographies there are in quantity, but the historians, for all their picturesque details, seldom show the ability to select the essential and to give their figures that touch of the intimate which makes them live again for the reader. It is in this faculty that Ibn Battúta excels. Of the multitudes that crowd upon the stage in the pageant of medieval Islam there is no figure more instinct with life than his. In his book he not only lays before us a faithful portrait of himself, with all his virtues and his failings, but evokes a whole age as it were from the dead. These travels have been ransacked by historians and geographers, but no estimate of his work is even faintly satisfactory which does not bear in mind that it is first and foremost a human diary, in which the tale of facts is subordinated to the interests and preoccupations of the diarist and his audience. It is impossible not to feel a liking for the character it reveals to us, generous to excess, humane in an age when life was at its cheapest, bold (did ever medieval traveller fear the sea less?), fond of pleasure and uxorious to a degree, but controlled withal by a deep vein of piety and devotion, a man with all the makings of a sinner, and something of a saint.
Of the external events of Ibn Battúta's life we know little beyond what he himself tells us. The editor of the travels, Ibn Juzayy, notes that he was born at Tangier on 24th February, 1304, and from a brief reference in a later book of biographies we know that after his return to Morocco he was appointed qádí or judge in one of the Moroccan towns, and died there in 1368 or 1369. His own name was Muhammad son of Abdalláh, Ibn Battúta being the family name, still to be found in Morocco. His family had apparently been settled in Tangier for some generations and belonged to the Berber tribe of the Luwáta, which first appears in history as a nomadic tribe in Cyrenaica and on the borders of Egypt. For the rest he divulges incidentally in a passage relating to his appointment as qádí in Delhi, that he came of a house which had produced a succession of qádís, and later on he mentions a cousin who was qádí of Rondah in Spain. He belonged, in consequence, to the religious upper-class, if the term may be used, of the Muhammadan community, and must have received the usual literary and scholastic education of the theologians. On one occasion he quotes a poem of his own composition, but the other verses quoted here and there obviously bear a more popular character than the elaborate productions of the best Arabic poetic schools. His professional interest in men and matters religious may be seen on nearly every page of his work. It is evident from the list of qádís and other theologians whom he saw in every town on his travels (sometimes to the exclusion of all other details), but above all from his eagerness to visit famous shaykhs and saints wherever he went, and the enthusiasm with which he relates instances of their miraculous gifts.
But to rate him, as some European scholars have done, for his "rigmaroles about Muhammadan saints and spiritualists" and for his "stupidity" in paying more attention to theologians than to details of the places he visited, is singularly out of place. Such religious details were matters in which he and his audience were most closely interested, and are by no means devoid of interest and value even to us. Out of them, moreover, spring some of the most lively passages of his narrative, such as his escape at Koel (the modern Aligarh), and his account of the Sharíf Abú Ghurra. But it is of far greater importance to remember that it was because he was a theologian and because of his interest in theologians that he undertook his travels at all and survived to complete them. When as a young man of twenty-one he set out from his native town with a light heart, and not much heavier purse, it was with no other aim than that of making the pilgrimage to Mecca and the holy places of his faith. The duty laid upon every Muslim of visiting Mecca at least once in his lifetime, so long as it lies within his power to do so, has been in all ages a stimulus to travel, far greater in degree than the stimulus of Christian pilgrimage in the Middle Ages. At the same time, it created the organization necessary to enable Muslims of every class from every country to carry out this obligation. The pilgrim on his journey travelled in a caravan whose numbers swelled at every stage. He found all arrangements made for his marches and his halts, and if the road lay through dangerous country, his caravan was protected by an escort of soldiers. In all large centres as well as many intermediate stations were rest houses and hospices where he was hospitably welcomed and entertained out of endowments created by generations of benefactors. When such was the lot of every pilgrim, the theologian received still greater consideration. His brethren in every town received him as one of themselves, furnished his wants, and recommended him to those at the next station. Under these circumstances the brotherhood of Islám, which knows no difference of race or birth, showed at its best, and provided an incentive to travel unknown in any other age or community.
Nor was the Pilgrimage the only institution which smoothed the traveller's path. Throughout the Middle Ages the trade routes of Africa and Asia and the sea-borne trade of the Indian Ocean were almost exclusively in the hands of the Muslim merchants. The travels of Ibn Battúta are but one of many sources which reveal how widespread were their activities. Though their caravans were exposed to greater dangers in times of lawlessness and disorganization than were the pilgrim caravans, they offered at least a measure of security to the casual traveller. It is evident from our narratives that in the great majority of cases they were animated by the same spirit of kindliness and generosity that has always marked the mutual relations of Muslims, and readily shared their resources with their fellow-travellers in case of need. Later on Ibn Battúta had more than once occasion to appreciate their services, but at the outset he had no thought of what the future held for him.
On his arrival in Egypt, with his mind still wholly set on Mecca, he received the first premonitions of his future from two of the illuminati, or saints who had attained a high rank in the hierarchy of the Muslim orders. From this point we see his vague desires gradually crystallize into a definite ambition, though he still hesitates from time to time, especially when his contacts with persons of saintly life awaken all his instincts of devotion. Foiled in his first intention of taking the direct route to Mecca through Upper Egypt (the usual route of the pilgrim caravans from the West), he determined to join instead the pilgrim caravan from Damascus, and on his way thither tasted for the first time the joys of travel for its own sake. As time was not pressing, he wandered at leisure through the whole of Syria as far as the borders of Asia Minor, before returning to Damascus to join the caravan as it set out for the Holy Cities.
Hardly was this first Pilgrimage over than he set out again to visit 'Iráq, but turned back sharply before reaching Baghdád, and made a long detour through Khuzistán. By now, he tells us, he had taken the resolve never to cover the same ground twice, as far as possible. His mind was still set on the Pilgrimage, however, and he planned his journey to cover the interval before returning to Mecca at the end of the year. This time he renounced further travelling for a space of three years and gave himself up to study and devotion at Mecca. For the theologian the Pilgrimage meant not only the performance of one of the principal obligations of the Faith, but an opportunity of putting himself in touch with the activities of the religious centre of Islam. Mecca was the ideal centre of religious study, in the company of many of the most eminent doctors of the day. All this, no doubt, was in Ibn Battúta's mind. But we may, I think, discern a further purpose. He had already made up his mind to seek his fortune in India, to which the boundless munificence of the reigning Sultan of Delhi was then attracting large numbers of scholars and theologians from other countries. The years spent at Mecca would confer on him a better status, and render him eligible for a higher post than he could otherwise hope for.
On completing his years of study he made a tour with a retinue of followers to the trading stations on the east coast of Africa, returning as before to Mecca, then turned his back on the Holy City and set out for India. But the journey was to be longer and more adventurous than he anticipated. At Jedda there was no ship to be had bound for India, whereupon moved by some obscure impulse he turned northwards instead and began his great tour. As we follow him through the cities of Asia Minor, where he received an enthusiastic welcome from the local religious brotherhoods, across the Black Sea to the territories of the Mongol Khán of the Golden Horde, and after taking advantage of an opportunity to visit Constantinople, striking across the steppes to Central Asia and Khurásán, we find him becoming an increasingly important personage, attended by a swelling throng of followers, and becoming possessed of such means that he "dare not mention the number of his horses in case some sceptic should accuse him of lying."
So at last he entered India by the north-western gateway, being received with honour and escorted to Delhi, where, though he obtained a full share of the Sultan's bounty and was appointed to a rich sinecure as Málikite qádí of Delhi, he was but one figure, and in no way specially remarkable among many. For seven years or so Ibn Battúta remained in this position, sometimes accompanying the Sultan on his expeditions, sometimes engaged in his occupations at Delhi, storing up in his memory all the while those acute observations which he afterwards wove into one of the most remarkable descriptions we possess of any medieval Muslim court. Little did Sultan or courtiers think that six centuries afterwards their reputations would depend on the notes and...
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H. T. Norris (essay date 1959)
SOURCE: Norris, H. T. "Ibn Battūta's Andalusian Journey." Geographical Journal 125, no. 2 (June 1959): 186-96.
[In the following essay, Norris traces Ibn Battuta's travels to Andalusia, describing the places he visited and presenting the journey as it might have appeared to the traveler.]
It is strange that Shaykh Abū 'Abdallah Muḥammad Ibn Baṭṭūṭah, one of the greatest of Muslim travellers, should have delayed his major visit to Spain until the latter part of his career. He was born in Tangier, within sight of the Spanish coast, on 24 February 1304 and he died in 1368/69, in Morocco, "the best of countries, for in it fruits are plentiful and running...
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Said Hamdun and Noël King (essay date 1975)
SOURCE: Hamdun, Said and Noël King. Introduction to Ibn Battuta in Black Africa, pp. 1-9, 12. Princeton, N. J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1994.
[In the following excerpt from an essay first published in 1975, Hamdun and King offer an evaluation of Ibn Battuta's travel narrative.]
Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, who was born at Tangier in North Africa in 1304 and died not far from there some sixty-five years later, was the greatest of the pre-modern travellers and will go down in history as being notable among the travellers of all time. Benjamin of Tudela, a Jew from Spain who in the second half of the twelfth century travelled to Baghdad and back, hardly touched central or south...
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Ian Richard Netton (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: Netton, Ian Richardson. "Myth, Miracle, and Magic in the Rihla of Ibn Battuta." Journal of Semitic Studies 29, no. 1 (spring 1984): 131-40.
[In the following essay, Netton argues that the Rihla of Ibn Battuta is structured like a frame story for fantastic tales.]
The riḥla in mediaeval Arabic literature is, perhaps, best regarded as an art form rather than a formal geography. Indeed, Janssens believes that Ibn Baṭṭūṭa considered the actual travel as an art as well, one that had its own set rules and regulations including a canon not to retrace one's steps wherever possible.1 But academic, scientific geography did not...
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Ross E. Dunn (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: Dunn, Ross E. "Persia and Iraq." In The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century, pp. 81-105. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
[In the following entry, Dunn describes Ibn Battuta's travels in the Iraq-Persia region.]
He also said: "After us the descendants of our clan will wear gold embroidered garments, eat rich and sweet food, ride fine horses, and embrace beautiful women but they will not say that they owe all this to their fathers and elder brothers, and they will forget us and those great times."1
The Yasa of Genghis Kahn
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Ian Richard Netton (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: Netton, Ian Richard. "Arabia and the Pilgrim Paradigm of Ibn Battuta: A Braudelian Approach." In Arabia and the Gulf: From Traditional Society to Modern States, pp. 29-42. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1986.
[In the following essay, Netton argues that Ibn Battuta's account of his travels is not a random narrative, but is organized to show the patterns and characteristics of the Islamic world of his era.]
The Riḥla of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa (ad 1304-1368/9 or 1377) has been tackled over the years by a multitude of scholars in a variety of different ways. Often, however, the various studies which have been published have concentrated—to use,...
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Adel Allouche (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Allouch, Adel. "A Study of Ibn Battūtah's Account of His 726/1326 Journey through Syria and Arabia." Journal of Semitic Studies 35, no. 2 (autumn 1990): 283-99.
[In the following essay, Allouche evaluates the narrative credibility of Ibn Battuta's travel accounts, especially with regard to chronology.]
The Riḥlah of Ibn Baṭṭūṭah (d. 770/1368-9) encompasses a wide spectrum of information regarding the lands this famed traveller visited in almost thirty years of continuous travel, from 725/1325 to 754/1354. The commonly accepted view, since the Riḥlah's first edition by C. Defrémery and B. R. Sanguinetti,1 has been that...
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Thomas J. Abercrombie (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: Abercrombie, Thomas J. "Ibn Battuta, Prince of Travelers." National Geographic 180, no. 6 (December 1991): 2-49.
[In the following essay, Abercromie chronicles his own journey following in the footsteps of Ibn Battuta.]
"In the name of Allah, the Benevolent, the Compassionate," intones the blue-robed imam, his deep voice challenging the silence of the Sahara. Behind him, along a line he has scratched in the sand, men and boys of the caravan form a ragged rank, facing distant Mecca.
"Guide us on the straight path, the path of those you have blessed … not those who have gone astray," the imam prays, concluding the Koran's opening...
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Marina A. Tolmacheva (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: Tolmacheva, Marina A. "Ibn Battuta on Women's Travel in the Dar al-Islam." In Woman and the Journey: The Female Travel Experience, edited by Bonnie Frederick and Susan H. McLeod, pp. 119-40. Pullman, Wash.: Washington State University Press, 1993.
[In the following essay, Tolmacheva examines the situation of Islamic women in the fourteenth century through Ibn Battuta's accounts of women's travel.]
Studies of Islamic culture have not explored the subject of travel by medieval women. It has been recently noted that, in general, "the role of travel in Muslim societies and in Islamic doctrine is not a topic which has been systematically explored by historians...
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Ross E. Dunn (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: Dunn, Ross E. Foreword to Ibn Battuta in Black Africa, translated by Said Hamdun and Noël King, pp. ix-xxxii. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1994.
[In the following essay, Dunn comments on the cultural background of the places Ibn Battuta visited in Africa.]
In 1325 ad the young legal scholar Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta set out from his native city of Tangier on the north coast of Morocco to make the holy pilgrimage to Mecca. "I braced my resolution to quit all my dear ones," he tells us in his celebrated Rihla, or Book of Travels. "I set out alone, having neither fellow-traveler in whose companionship I might find cheer nor...
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Further Reading
Beckingham, Charles. "In Search of Ibn Battuta." Asian Affairs: Journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs 8, no.3 (October 1977): 263-77.
Discusses his own discoveries while retracing part of Ibn Battuta's journey.
Davis, Dick. "Ibn Battuta." The Paris Review, 27, no. 98 (winter 1985): 88.
Poetic tribute to Ibn Battuta.
Mackintosh-Smith, Tim. Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah. New York: Welcome Rain Publishers, 351 p.
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A 'Viau' of success — Business has ties to 'Northtown' for almost 90 years
ESCANABA – On a warm, rainy night, when the fog creeps in off of Little Bay de Noc, I can almost feel their presence on Sheridan Road.
As I walk my dogs northward along the same route as my grandfather walked decades ago, I start thinking. So much has changed in three generations and yet so much has stayed the same.
I can faintly hear the laughter of my grandfather, John Stasewich, and his cronies, Emil Viau and Joe Little, as they make their way home down Hartnett Avenue (that later became known as Sheridan Road).
The wooden ore docks are gone now. The street car rails are paved over, too, but some of the important things have remained the same on this the eastern most street along the north shore.
Viau's Store is like a timeless Icon of north Escanaba. The store opened in 1926. Three generations of the Viau family have managed the market. Famous for its homemade sausages, smoked hams and quality meats, the store has quite a reputation.
From the time I was a young child, I'd often have to run up to Viau's for something for my mom. "Run up to Viau's and tell Abe that I need a couple of nice chickens for Sunday," my mom would say. (In later years, I wondered why she always said nice chickens. Did anyone ever want "bad" chickens?)
Suet for pastie making, casings for potato-sausage making and homemade garlic bologna for picnic sandwich making were some of the many missions I was sent to Viau's for.
Deer season just wouldn't be deer season without Viau's home-smoked bacon, nor would a bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich be as good.
My aunt Sandy worked at Viau's before she was married and I delivered The Escanaba Daily Press to Viau's Store all through my school years.
The restaurants, bars and businesses along Sheridan Road have come and gone over the years, but Viau's is a landmark. So often when giving someone directions to my family home, we say if you ended up by Viau's, you've gone too far. Everybody knows where Viau's is.
One of the truly awesome things about northtown that hasn't changed is the fine families. I had the privilege of visiting with Theresa (Viau) Rudden.
Theresa shared family stories and a whole treasure of north Escanaba history with me. She recalled being a 6-year-old girl living in up above the store that her dad, Emil, and her mother owned. Out of the front window, we could watch the ore boats coming into the dock, out of the back were open fields, a few pine trees, and the place where the cows were butchered, she remembers.
One year, fire broke out from the splatters from the smokehouse, and the building caught fire. Fortunately a neighbor, Mr. Breitenbach, saw the smoke and alerted the family.
The store was rebuilt in 1949. The Viaus also built a separate home for their family behind the store. A lot of hard work and a lot of hours go into a family-run business. Every family member had to pitch in and work.
Theresa's brother, Wallace "Abe," and his wife, Jean, ran the supermarket for many years. Escanaba's first Saint Vincent de Paul Store was started in the basement of Abe's store.
Today Wally and Jeanette Viau run the store and keep the northtown tradition alive. The store has expanded some over the years. The gas pumps are gone from the front and the barbershop next door is now across the street. The coffee nook inside is a perfect place for getting the latest fishing and hunting news.
As Escanaba gets ready to celebrate its 150th birthday, it is so wonderful to have businesses like Viau's that are so rich in history.
Yes, there have been a lot of changes in the past 100 years or so, but the most important thing that stays the same in north Escanaba are the families. It's the hard working, fun loving, caring people that will continue to make the town great.
Special thanks to Theresa (Viau) Rudden and the Rudden and Viau families for helping me with this column and sharing a part of north Escanaba history with me.
Karen (Rose) Wils is a lifelong resident of north Escanaba. Her folksy columns are published weekly in Lifestyles.


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Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, and Barack Obama, the first black American president, finally met today in an historic tête-à-tête inside the Vatican Apostolic Palace – and for nearly double the originally scheduled time.
Romans could peer inside the fortified Vatican walls via a special streaming set up on Vatican TV's web site, where they saw a U.S. delegation (which included Secretary of State John Kerry, National Security Adviser Susan Rice and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney) checking watches while waiting in earnest for the two world leaders to conclude their meeting.
It is no small secret that there is considerably high tension between the Catholic bishops of America and the Obama Administration, as the Catholic episcopacy has opposed Obamacare's controversial mandates concerning the provision of contraceptive products, sterilizations and abortafacients.
The Bishop of Rome is, no doubt, on his American bishops' side.
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Tell us about the style of your work: My style is a little bit of everything, I enjoy doing any style and I like a challenge!
Where did you apprentice?: Didn't really have the opportunity to get a apprentiship !
What tattoo artist do you most admire: Quite a few if I'm honest and to many to mention :)
Before someone gets a tattoo what advice do you give them?: I would probably ask what's the reason behind the person wanting a tattoo, if they choose me to do their tattoo then I would make sure they are 100% happy with there tattoo choice and if they are not I will work with them until they are happy with the design, a very important factor of advice would be pick a artist that suits your tattoo, look at his or her tattoo work they have done and if it's good enough for you then you have probably found the tattooist for the job :), also cleanliness of the tattoo studio/room, have a look around make sure your happy with where you are, I would talk through with the client about keeping the tattoo clean and the whole process of the tattoo stages to make sure the client is fully aware of all risks of infection.
How did you get into tattooing: I had a few tattoos done by some tattooists in shops and I didn't get the tattoo results I wanted so I spoke to a tattooist about this and got a few pointers and a little advice and it started from there really, if I was let down by tattooists already in shops then I wanted to give people the opportunity to get what they want instead of being let down, it's nice that a few people have come to me wanting coverups done then seeing them happy with the results, makes me happy and that means I have done a good job.
What inspires you to be an artist: Wanting to improve all the time inspires me, I'm never happy, always wanting a few more hours to work on a tattoo.
What kind of tattoos do you look forward to doing: I love doing portraits, faces, realism anything really as long as it's not tribal, unless I can put my spin on it :)
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Hi Jason,Looks really great ! . I have to admit I'm writing on behalf of my wife. She loves your ceramic tiles OUTSIDE !up here in Canada, this just doesn't exist. With the frost and upheaval of anything down 5 feet down, it's just impossible to do something like this. You get the very deep freeze, then in the spring everything goes crazy. Even my back balcony near the pool lifts a good 8" or so, and then finally will go back down when it completely thaws. Do you have a concrete slab poured under your ceramic tiles ? I cannot get over how green your grass is. I still have tons of snow outside here.Anyway, the tiles look awesome I must say !, and my wife just loves them !
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AAG Expands Fleet with S-76C+
Wappingers Falls, N.Y.-based Associated Aircraft Group (AAG) has added a Sikorsky S-76C+ to its charter fleet. This newest helicopter increases the Sikorsky subsidiary's S-76C fleet to nine. The S-76C+ will fly out of Providence, Rhode Island transporting passengers to Boston and Cape Cod, Mass.
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About the Author: Dorothy C. Shea is a Foreign Service Officer who recently completed an assignment as a Pearson Fellow to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
For the past year, I've served in a unique posting, at once familiar and foreign. It has been my good fortune to be assigned as a Pearson Fellow to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. When I received my Assignment Notification, the duty station was listed as Washington, DC. I'm a DC native, so I know the District well. I even live on Capitol Hill. Yet, if I'd been blindfolded en route to my first (and subsequent) days of work on the Hill, I could easily have mistaken my new environs for a foreign posting. I'm working on many of the same issues that I have worked on at the Department, but I'm a world apart. Life is so different on this end of Constitution Avenue; I jokingly refer to it as the "Federal Republic of the Hill."
Thankfully, my experiences adapting to previous overseas assignments prepared me for the challenges that come with serving on the Hill. To name a few relevant tricks of the trade:
• Developing Language Skills: As with any foreign posting, the State Department officer assigned to the Hill must develop proficiency in the local language to succeed. While the language spoken on the Hill bears a certain resemblance to English, one should not try to coast on English alone. Some examples of key words/concepts include the following: bill, resolution, motion, hold, rule, oversight, cloture, reconciliation, morning business, oh yes, and recess. As when studying a foreign language, scheduling regular sessions with language partners can help one learn the nuances of usage and master the idioms.
• Learning the Culture: Similarly, as when preparing for an assignment to a foreign land, one should seek to learn as much as possible about its history and culture. In the case of the Hill, the history is rich and its culture particular. Volumes have been written about it. Blockbuster movies have showcased its idiosyncrasies. Serving domestically or overseas, State Department employees often get glimpses of Congressional life, whether in the form of Congressional Delegations, Congressional correspondence, or other forms of oversight. We frequently contribute to Congressionally-mandated reports. Some of us have been asked to brief Hill staff, or even testify. But to really understand Hill culture, one should immerse oneself in it. Spend some quality time in the House and Senate Office Buildings. Observe the groups of constituents coming through to see their elected officials. Take in the lobbyists working the corridors. See the staffers sprinting to meetings. Attend some hearings. Watch some floor debate. Hang out in one of the many fine eating establishments on site. Be absolutely glued to your Blackberry. Take a ride on the Capitol subway. Just don't ride in a Members Only elevator!
• Networking: When one arrives at a foreign posting, it is critical to get out there and start making contacts. Ideally, the incoming officer finds a "contacts list" left by one's predecessor that provides information about key contacts one should begin reaching out to and cultivating. One should expect no such list upon arriving on the Hill, since Pearsons serve in a variety of different offices covering any number of different issues. But, one shouldn't be shy about creating one's own network. Indeed, one's success will depend on it. Thankfully, Congressional staffers are used to being cold-called, and I've found most to be quite approachable and happy to share their wisdom. After making the rounds with my fellow staffers on the Committee, who provided invaluable guidance as I was getting my bearings, I reached out to staff at that tremendous resource, the Congressional Research Service. Between those calls, and making the rounds at State, USAID, and other relevant agencies, as well as outreach to the myriad non-governmental organizations that cover my issues, I now boast quite the rolodex. The truth is, I couldn't do my job without these contacts.
My time on the Hill has been so rewarding, I'm in denial about the conclusion of my one-year detail. Come to think of it, that's another similarity with foreign postings. It can be so hard to pull up those roots when it's time to go. Thus, I'm hoping that when I move on to my next assignment, I'll find that the other end of Constitution Avenue isn't a world away, after all.
Jonathan in California writes:
Are opportunities like the Pearson Fellowship program available to junior officers?
Palgye in South Korea writes:
Wall Street Reform Act was passed on. Many people were involved in the effort to think. However, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would not have thought to have been difficult. (Which is not flattering, but I think it's a shame the story is familiar to're trying.)
Results of an Asian tour that is expected.
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Your english is improving exponentially just by communicating on Dipnote. You're a genius!
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@ Jonathan: Thanks for your interest in working on the Hill. I definitely would encourage you to consider doing so when you are eligible. As far as I know, the Pearson Fellowship program is available only to officers at the FS-03, -02, or 01 levels. There is also another program, I believe administered by the Brookings Institution, that provides training to foreign service and civil service employees, and then places them in Hill offices. You might want to check in with HR/CDA/SL/CDT, the office that handles such assignments. There may be other detail opportunities that I am not aware of. The head of that office is Maryanne F. Thomas, Chief Career Development & Training. The HR/CDA website may also be of use: http://hrweb.hr.state.gov/cda.
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Gun Control Laws Are Only A Fool's Placebo
To The Readers' Forum:
I am very disappointing in the editorial "Hunters Are Silenced In Gun Debate." Since I have over 25 years of experience in this area I believe I am qualified and deserve a chance to be heard. The paper missed the whole point of the debate, which is very unfortunate for a paper to do. It is a Constitutional issue first and foremost.
The editorial stated that two-thirds of the 13.7 million hunters are not among the NRA's 4 million members. Well, that is changing rapidly because of recent gun control efforts. Just because one is not member of the NRA does not mean that he or she is not passionate about the Second Amendment. I am sure I talk to far more gun owners and hunters than the paper does.
The paper also stated that the NRA is an extremist organization because it defends our constitution when many others have assaulted it. What other Constitutional articles are you willing to compromise on? I thought the paper's role was to report and let the people decide.
Who is the paper to decide what type of firearm people should hunt with? Who is the paper to decide what type of firearm people can use to defend themselves and their families with. Who is the paper to decide what type of firearm we could use to target shoot with? Who is the paper to decide what type of firearm I should have in my home? Who is the paper you do decide how many rounds of ammunition I should have in my magazine in my own home?
I would assume that when the paper does an editorial it makes every effort to talk to those who have some experience regarding matters that are printed, so let me make this perfectly clear. Out of the dozens and I mean dozens, of law enforcement officials that have come into my store in the past two weeks, (sheriffs, state police, FBI agents, JPD, DEA, conservation officers, prison guards, etc.), not one, I repeat, not one believes that these recent gun control measures will do anything to prevent a deranged individual who is bent on committing some atrocity from doing so. That includes the enforcement agency responsible for enforcing these new laws. They don't have the time nor the inclination and they do not agree with more laws on the books and would like the ones enforced that we already have.
Ten dead, 12 wounded by a 16-year-old prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac. A 16-year-old on Paxil holds 23 classmates hostage and has no memory of it. A 13-year-old kills his aunt while taking Zoloft. A 13-year-old hung himself in his bedroom after taking Zoloft. A 12-year-old murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft. A 15-year-old on Prozac and Ritalin shot his parents while they slept after beginning Prozac treatment. A 15-year-old stabbed his grandmother 61 times after 5 days on Paxil. A young man on Ritalin chopped up his parents with an ax, and on and on and on. Maybe the paper should check this incidents out to find out who the real killer is. Are the guns the problem or is it our social decay?
So I say, what is the point. All of these gun control laws are nothing more than a "fool's placebo" and many are falling for it. Its the typical government reaction to just about every problem they encounter. If one horse isn't doing its job you whip all the horses. A very few individuals have the ability to negatively affect over 300 million of us. You have a right, a duty, and hopefully the courage to protect yourself and your family with every means possible. And that includes a black military type weapon. You don't have right to tell me what I should or should not own. Guns don't kill people, bad people kill people with or without a firearm.
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ethan wrote:$200 cakes of puer & $20 bottles of wine are too expensive for some of us. I cannot afford to get into puer, Japanese green tea, & a lot of teaware. I cannot afford to pay dollars for bottled water to make my tea either. I have carried empty bottles to fill w/ good water....
Anyway, I am not out to tell my story, but to remind people to accept the limitations of their finances & time, & their palates. All of us don't need to have every tea as a mastered hedonistic entity. (What am I saying? lol)
I want to answer the ? of the thread. It is time to give up on Puer, when one has spent $ on puer more than once, that he has not liked, while not buying tea that he knows he likes. Any other answers to the ? of the thread that really address it?
shah82 wrote:I strongly believe that puerh prices for most tea will crash, and decent tea will be available at some point for decent prices. .
Puerlife wrote:It was China Post Regular Mail, not EMS. But I will ask next time. BTW, does that new tea shop in BKK have a website?
Teaism wrote:shah82 wrote:I strongly believe that puerh prices for most tea will crash, and decent tea will be available at some point for decent prices. .
My prediction is in 1-3 years' time. This is probably plain economics. Based on the new high prices and wealth, the tea farmers/suppliers are upgrading their houses and cars and need a higher income to sustain the new lifestyles. The middleman got squeezed in between the buyers and sellers. Sooner or later the buyers realized that the high price is too crazy and the quality is substandard and start to back off. Then the chain effect of price crash will happen.
Tead Off wrote:The success rate for good puerh from Teaurchin is very high in my experience. I can't say that about any other vendor I've bought from. I'm not saying there are not other good vendors for puerh as I haven't tried them all.


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I'm following Apple's tutorial from last year and I'm wondering how to get this part:
[code=command line]script/generate scaffold account expenses[/code] to work.
When I try to run it I get an error:
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wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)[/code]
rails -v: Rails 1.2.3
ruby -v: ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i686-darwin8.9.1]
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The green crab is native to the Atlantic Ocean off of the coast of Europe. Around the early eighteen hundreds the green crab was first seen on the Atlantic coast of North America. The crab can now be found from ranging from as far north as Nova Scotia and to the southern state of Virginia. In the late eighties, the crab mysteriously showed up in the San Francisco Bay area, and has since been spotted as far north as Oregon. This crab has also been found in such areas as far reaching as the continent of Australia.(Deegan, et al 1999, Holden 1997)
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The Top 5 awesome bands with weak ass names:
Dio once sang "it's really all the same, with just a different name." That being said, when we see a name, whether it's simple but effective (Death), completely inspired(Black Sabbath), or just sound kickass when you say them (Van Halen), our expectations that we will enjoy something ratchets up just a notch. Inversely when we see bands or titles with terrible names, we just think to ourselves "well this is gonna blow." Now there are obvious exceptions to rules and that's what this is about. Let me make something perfectly clear: I love all 5 bands on this list. I mean I like some more than others, but really, the awkward name is more than likely the worst thing I can say about them.
Now most bands of any genre can (and have) used just about every single name one can think of. But with different genres, there needs to be a certain feel to the name. For instance, you'd never hear of a Hip Hop act with the name House Cat, nor would you hear of a progressive band called "Fuck Bitches Get Money" or at least they would be providing an extra hurdle for themselves to get over. Metal is no different. Metal requires names to not just be an otherwise inconsequential misnomer that might as well be a Catalogue number. It needs to be a name with some kind of colloquialism that makes the square's scrotums shrivel up.
Now metal names don't necessarily need to be dark or violent. Look at a name like Immortal. It simply means to live forever, that's it. Of course when most hear it in metal circles they think of lo-fi guitars, ridiculous poses and black metal, but on its own, there's really no negativity to it. Same thing with Enslaved. It's not exactly the most empowering title. In fact I think most would rather be empowered than Enslaved but it's still works. Celtic Frost: All it really describes is a weather condition in a part of Europe. But is it metal, FUCK YEAH it is.
So enough of my prefacing. Here are five bands that I love, but would probably love a lot more if they had a less sucky name.
5. Morbid Angel
This one is the lowest one because while I don't have that much of a problem with it, I can't help but feel like the names Dark Angel or Death Angel (who I don't even listen to), even Angel Witch sound like better names involving such an A-word. And really, isn't Morbid just a softer (think George Carlin's Euphimisms/Soft Language bit) word for Dark anyway? David Vincent once said that he told a record company executive to fuck off after they suggested changing the name, not because it wasn't commercial enough, but simply to avoid cluttering the market with band names involving angel in their title. Vincent, the metal world has long thought you are a moron who actually would be working at McDonalds if you couldn't play an instrument, and shit like that is the reason why.
4. Pantera
CALM THE FUCK DOWN!! Like I said, I love every single one of the bands on this list, but really, the name is the spanish word for panther. Now there's nothing necessarily wrong with naming your band after an animal (Mastodon anyone?), but it feels like naming your band after a cat has much more in common with their glam rock roots than the tough guy (as well as tough music) that they would become known for. I mean, Sepultura is in a foreign language too, but at least that one translates to grave, Windir translates to Warrior, and Burzum is well, Lord of the Rings gibberish, but at least it translates to something less pedestrian than a brand of car. Kinda surprised the record company didn't push these guys to change the name, but it is what it is. Musically, you know what I think of when I hear "Panther"? the LL Cool J album "Walking With A Panther." Which was the album that first inspired people to think LL was getting weak and shit in the rap game, causing him to have to make a comeback in the form of Mama Said Knock You Out. So panthers, despite being vicious jungle creatures you don't want to be within a mile of, just don't make for good musical names.
3. Candlemass
My issue with this one is a bit more abstract. See Candlemass is all about weight, heaviness, power. Well, exactly how heavy is a candle itself. The answer, not fucking very. Hell, if I were to whack a guy over the head with a candle, he would even feel a twinge of pain, he'd be minority inconvenienced. I'd do more damage if I hit him with a rolled up copy of the New York Times. If these guys wanted to use mass to describe their power, they probably should have picked something with more density than something made with wax.
2. Kreator
So let me get this straight, you start out with an awesome name, Tyrant, named after one of the all time great Judas Priest songs, then you find out another band has that name, so you change your name to Tormentor. OK fair enough, the idea of naming yourself after a song or a band is slightly derivative and originality is all good. Then you find out ANOTHER band has that name, and rather than take a stand for yourself you change your name that doesn't have any sort of threading or majestic vibe, then you misspell with a K to give yourself some kind of false pretense? Whenever I pronounce this band's name I feel this compulsive need to accent the TOR in the bands name otherwise I'll feel like I'm saying the name of some Christian rock band. I mean there's nothing necessarily wrong with a positive name/vibe from a metal name, but if Mille and pals thought CREATOR spelled with a C wasn't tough enough, it's really not gonna make a difference how you spell it, it's just a bad name for a metal band.
1. Mercyful Fate
NO! STOP! DO NOT PUSH THE BACK BUTTON! LET ME FUCKING EXPLAIN MYSELF HERE! Pantera I could kind of get away with because they are practically everywhere and thus slightly overexposed. But this band? They have remained a dirty little secret of metal despite having a third of their classic output covered by fucking Metallica! How dare I criticize one iota of these legends? Well, before you set my house on fire, I want you to think for a minute. Say the bands name out loud. Now think about what it means. Imagine you are the soldier of a losing army, and they are free to do with you as they please. If the fate you are subjected to is one, as you say, full of mercy, that doesn't really sound all that bad. Hell they'll probably treat you to a first class meal, let you fuck some wenches, and not really be all that bothered that you were part of an opposing force. Does that sound all that dangerous? Does this name sound like something that you should be afraid of or stand in awe simply because it of how powerful it is. No. It doesn't. It sounds like bullshit spooky language designed to scare and control primitive people, ironically like much of Christian folklore that King Diamond's lyrics protest. And it's not as if the band has a poor grasp of English like so many other European bands. Hell judging from song titles and lyrics King seemed to have a better grasp of the language than most American's today, so the name is even less of an excuse. Sadly enough, this error in could have been remedied with a simple twist of language from "ful," to "less." Mercyless Fate. I don't know about you, but if I heard that band was coming to my continent, I'd lock up every female acquaintance I know and run away with my hands on my ass like I just shit myself. But Mercyful Fate? Bah, I'd invite King Diamond over for dinner with mom. They'd probably be able to trade cat stories too.
(Dis)honorable mentions: Helloween, At The Gates (The Gates of what? Hell? Heaven? Disney Land? Cacapoopoopeepeeshire?)
George W. Bush is the son of a swine. I hope that one day his body is identified by the teeth marks on my penis.
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I enjoyed this post. 8/10.
I'm throwing in Superheavygoatass and The Atlas Moth. I actually like both bands, but much like Destiny Potato, when you first hear the former's name in a serious conversation, you're probably going to crack up laughing...and I never really got the name of the latter - if it has a meaning, I didn't know about it, but honestly, it sounds like they got drunk one day, found a dartboard, stuck random names to it, and threw darts at it to create a name - odd that I say that, since that is actually what I did with some friends once, albeit sober - the resulting two week long abomination (a really shitty Eyehategod ripoff) went by the name of "Pickled Vomit".
1/19, 1/21 - Brujeria
2/10 - Mayhem
3/15 - Goatwhore
5/19 - The Damned
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Almost every metal band could be on this list. Most ahead of the 5 you've actually chosen. Candlemass is an entirely appropriate name for a doom band.
21/1 The Pretty Reckless
22/1 Black Sabbath
29/1 Black Sabbath
31/1 Black Sabbath
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George W. Bush is the son of a swine. I hope that one day his body is identified by the teeth marks on my penis.
21/1 The Pretty Reckless
22/1 Black Sabbath
29/1 Black Sabbath
31/1 Black Sabbath
9/24 Beirut
10/18 Opeth
10/19 The Tallest Man on Earth
11/5 Titus Andronicus
11/22 The Vaccines
Come to think of it, Metallica is kind of a stupid name. It was like they thought "eh, it's got 'metal' it, that's good enough."
Oh, and looking at the sig of the poster above me, Animals As Leaders is a really horrible name. It sounds like the title of an essay written by some 15 year-old PETA member.
I love inside jokes, I'd love to be a part of one some day.
How the hell has Dew Scented not been mentioned yet?
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Hanna Jones' heart was able to tell her what her head wanted to hear.
Despite still having two years of high school left, the standout Bulldog pitcher was given an opportunity to sleep on a decision to continue her softball career at University of Tennessee Martin after making an official visit Thursday.
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3 Things You Should Know About Small Business: Nov. 14
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- What's happening in small business today?
1. Papa John's wants to raise pizza prices to compensate for Obamacare. Does his math add up? Forbes columnist Caleb Melby says no.
'Papa' John Schnatter is taking Obamacare to task. The CEO of Papa John's International (PZZA) expects health-care reform to force his company to increase pizza prices by 10-14 cents per pie, costing $5 million-$8 million overall to the pizza franchise.
Schnatter also believes that some employers will cut worker hours in order to force more staff to qualify as part-time (meaning that employers will not have to provide health insurance for them).
Papa John has not become popular over his doomsday predictions. One thread on Reddit telling people to boycott the pizza franchise has garnered more than 21,00 votes and 4,500 comments. There have been a host of Facebook groups that cropped up recently with the same idea, Melby writes.
But is Schnatter right? Melby's analysis suggests the costs Papa John's will incur due to Obamacare are "not equal to the pie increases he mentions."
"The question that can't be answered right now is: How will Schnatter's open communication and politicization of price increases ultimately impact his company? Variables to consider: boycotts, counter-boycotts and shareholder perceptions of all the above," Melby notes.
2. Intuit expands 'Love Our Local Business' initiative to help entrepreneurs this holiday season. To help small businesses survive and thrive in a tough economy, Intuit (INTU) will grant a wish a day, valuing up to $5,000 each, to 15 businesses through Love Our Local Business program this holiday season.
Small businesses in the U.S. and Canada can submit their wishes online and then rally their fans to vote for their submissions. Intuit will fulfill one wish a day from Dec. 3-21.
"Succeeding in trying economic times is a month-to-month struggle for our small-business customers, but they're a passionate and resilient group," said Ken Wach, vice president of marketing for Intuit's Small Business Group. "Small businesses not only drive national economic growth, they're integral to defining local communities and shaping national culture. We value small businesses and support them to pursue their passions."
Love Our Local Business is part of Intuit's larger, ongoing commitment to support the financial success of consumers and small businesses. In fiscal 2012, Intuit's product, in-kind and cash donations to charitable organizations and small-business development programs totaled nearly $54 million, the company says.
The new Love Our Local Business effort grows out of Intuit's Love a Local Business program, which awarded $1.2 million in grants and prizes to more than 100 U.S. small businesses since July 2009.
3. Hardware store owner apologizes for urging employees to vote for Romney. Huffington Post picked up a story from a local Patch publication about an Ace Hardware store owner in Davis, Calif., who has apologized for offending customers or employees to vote for Mitt Romney. Owner Jennifer Anderson apparently sent a letter to her workers trying to sway their votes.