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Praise be to Allah.
We appreciate your question concerning the ideas that you have about Islam, and we hope to discuss what you have written and correct some of your ideas, so as to arrive at a firm conviction of the truth of the matter.
Are the pleasures of Paradise merely physical?
What you have mentioned about the Islamic belief about Paradise, and the enjoyment of wine , women and song therein, falls wide of the mark. The pleasures of Paradise are not merely physical in nature, they also include the joy of feeling safe and secure, and of being content with God and being close to Him.
The greatest joy of all in Paradise will be seeing God , may He be glorified and exalted. When the people of Paradise see the Holy Face of God, they will forget all other kinds of pleasures that they have enjoyed. There is in Paradise everything that will delight the heart and eye; no dirty or evil talk is heard there, nor sinful speech.
No person knows what is kept hidden for them of joy as a reward for what they used to do. [al-Sajdah 32:17 interpretation of the meaning].
What I am trying to say is that the delights of Paradise are not limited to the kind you refer to in your question. They are far greater than that.
Will the entrance to Paradise only be granted to those who heed certain prohibitions?
You mention the idea that entrance to Paradise will only be granted to those who heed certain prohibitions, which they will enjoy in Paradise in the Hereafter as a reward for avoiding it in this life.
This generalization is not correct at all. Islam is a religion which commands action, not just abstinence. Salvation can only be attained through fulfilling commands, not just by avoiding things that are forbidden.
Moreover, not every luxury in Paradise will consist of something that was forbidden in this world and is now being given as a reward. Some of the delights of Paradise will be things that were allowed in this world, such as marriage, good fruits like pomegranate and figs, etc., drinks like milk and honey, and so on. All of these are permitted in this world, and will be delights to be enjoyed in Paradise.
The bad qualities of things that are forbidden in this world will not be present in their heavenly forms. For example, the wine of Paradise, as Allah tells us, causes neither ghoul (any kind of hurt, abdominal pain, headache, sin, etc.) nor intoxication (see al-Saffat 37:47). It does not rob a person of his mental faculties, or cause headaches and stomachaches. It is quite different from its earthly counterpart.
The point I am making is that the delights of Paradise do not consist only of allowing things that were forbidden in this world. It is also worth pointing out that there are cases where abstention from prohibited things will not be rewarded by being given their equivalent in the Hereafter, whether those prohibited things are food, drinks, deeds or words. Poison, for example, will not be given as a luxury in Paradise, although it is forbidden in this world.
The same applies to sodomy, incest and other things which will not be allowed in the Hereafter although they are forbidden in this world. This matter is quite clear, praise be to Allah.
Does every person have a guarantee of Paradise?
The idea of being guaranteed Paradise, and that a person's life will be as horrible and unbearable as you describe if he has no such guarantee, is a misconception which itself leads to the results you mention.
If you were to say that every person has a guarantee of Paradise , this would be utterly disastrous, because then everyone would commit all kinds of forbidden acts, feeling safe because of this guarantee.
Many of the crimes committed by Jews and Christians have been done on the basis of this guarantee, with documents of forgiveness from their priests. Allah has told us about such people (interpretation of the meaning):
"And they say, None shall enter Paradise unless he be a Jew or a Christian. Say, Produce your proof if you are truthful." [Al-Baqarah 2:111]
For us Muslims, Paradise is not the matter of our own desires or the desires of anyone else, as Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"It will not be in accordance with your desires (Muslims), nor those of the People of the Scripture (Jews and Christians); whoever works evil will have the recompense thereof, and he will not find any protector or helper besides Allah." [Al-Nisa 4:123]
Islamic view regarding a guarantee of one's destiny
There follows a brief summary of the Islamic view regarding a guarantee of one's destiny.
- Islam offers a guarantee to every sincere Muslim who obeys Allah and remains in this state of devotion until he dies, that he will definitely enter Paradise. Allah says in the Quran (interpretation of the meanings):
"But those who believe and do deeds of righteousness, We shall admit them to the Gardens under which rivers flow (i.e., in Paradise), to dwell therein forever. Allah's promise is the truth, and whose words can be truer than those of Allah? (Of course, none)." [Al-Nisa 4:122]
"Allah has promised those who believe and do deeds of righteousness, that for them there is forgiveness and a great reward (i.e., Paradise)." [Al-Maidah 5:9]
"(They will enter) 'Adn (Eden) Paradise (everlasting Gardens), which the Most Beneficent (Allah) has promised to His servants in the unseen: verily, His promise must come to pass." [Maryam 19:61]
"Say: Is that (torment) better, or the Paradise of Eternity promised to the muttaqin (pious and righteous persons)? It will be theirs as a reward and final destination." [Al-Furqan 25:15]
"But those who fear Allah and keep their duty to their Lord (Allah), for them are built lofty rooms, one above another, under which rivers flow (i.e., Paradise). (This is) the Promise of Allah, and Allah does not fail in (His) promise." [Al-Zumar 39:20]
- Islam also guarantees the disbeliever who ignores the commands of Allah that he will definitely enter Hell. Allah says (interpretation of the meanings):
"Allah has promised the hypocrites, men and women, and the disbelievers, the Fire of Hell, therein shall they abide. It will suffice them. Allah has cursed them and for them is the lasting torment." [Al-Tawbah 9:68]
"But those who disbelieve, for them will be the Fire of Hell. Neither will it have a complete killing effect on them so that they die, nor shall its torment be lightened for them. Thus do We requite every disbeliever!" [Fatir 35:36]
Allah will say to the disbelievers on the Day of Judgement (interpretation of the meaning):
"This is Hell which you were promised! Burn therein this Day, for that you used to disbelieve!" [Ya-Sin 36:63-64]
Allah will not go back on His promise to either the believers or the disbelievers. He describes how both of them will be at the end of the Day of Judgement (interpretation of the meaning):
"And the dwellers of Paradise will call out to the dwellers of the Fire (saying): We have indeed found true what our Lord had promised us; have you also found true, what your Lord promised (warnings, etc.)? They shall say, Yes. Then a crier will proclaim between them: The Curse of Allah is on the zalimin (polytheists and wrongdoers, etc.)." [Al-A'raf 7:44]
Everyone who believes and does righteous deeds, and dies in this state, will definitely enter Paradise. Everyone who disbelieves and does evil deeds, and dies in this state, will definitely enter Hell.
One of the great guiding principles of Islam is that the believer should tread a path between fear and hope. He should not take it for granted that he will enter Paradise, because this will make him complacent, and he does not know in what state he will die. Nor should he assume that he is going to Hell, because this is despairing of the mercy of Allah, which is forbidden.
So the believer does righteous deeds, and hopes that Allah will reward him for them, and he avoids evil deeds out of fear of the punishment of Allah. If he commits a sin, he repents in order to gain forgiveness and protect himself from the punishment of Hell.
Allah forgives all sins and accepts the repentance of those who repent. If a believer fears that the good deeds he has sent on before him are not enough, as you suggest, then he will increase his efforts, in fear and hope.
No matter how many righteous deeds he has sent on before him, he cannot rely on them and take them for granted, or else he will be doomed. He keeps striving and hoping for reward, and at the same time he fears lest his deeds be contaminated with any element of showing off, self-admiration, or anything that will lead to them being rejected by Allah. Allah describes the believers (interpretation of the meaning):
"Those who give that (their charity) which they give (and also do other good deeds) with their hearts full of fear (whether their alms and charity, etc.) have been accepted or not), because they are sure to return to their Lord (for reckoning)." [Al-Muminun 23:60]
So the believer keeps on striving, fearing and hoping, until he meets his Lord, believing in Tawhid (Divine Unity) and doing righteous deeds, and earns the pleasure of his Lord and Paradise. If you think about the matter, you will realize that these are the right motives for action, and that righteousness cannot be achieved in this life in any other way.
Islamic view on original sin
As regards what you say about original sin, this matter needs to be approached from several angles.
- Firstly: The Islamic belief concerning human sin is: the individual bears the responsibility for his own sin ; no one else should bear this burden for him, nor should he bear the burden for anyone else. Allah says (interpretation of the meaning): "And no bearer of burdens shall bear another's burden." [Fatir 35:18]
This refutes the idea of original sin. If the father commits a sin, what fault is that of his children and grandchildren? Why should they bear the burden of a sin that someone else committed?
The Christian belief that the descendants should bear the sin of their father is the essence of injustice. How can any sane person say that the sin should be carried down the centuries by all of humanity, or that the children, grandchildren and subsequent descendants should be tainted because of their father's sin?
- Secondly, making mistakes is a part of human nature. Our Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, "Every son of Adam is bound to commit sins." (Reported by al-Tirmidhi, 2423), but Allah has not left man unable to do anything about the mistakes that he makes. He gives man the opportunity to repent, and so the hadith (words of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) quoted above concludes: and the best of those who commit sins are those who repent. The mercy of Allah is clear in the teachings of Islam, as Allah calls His servants (interpretation of the meaning): "Say, O My servants who have transgressed against themselves (by committing evil deeds and sins)! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah, verily Allah forgives all sins. Truly, He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful." [Al-Zumar 39:53]
This is human nature, and this is the solution to the problem of sin. But to make this human nature, which is bound to make mistakes, a barrier between the servant and his Lord which will prevent him from ever earning the pleasure of God, and to say that the only way to reach God is through His sending His (so-called) son down to earth to be humiliated and crucified while his father looks on, so that mankind could be forgiven, is an extremely odd idea. Just describing it sounds so unlikely that there is no longer any need to refute it in detail.
Once, when discussing this issue with a Christian, I said, If you say that God sent down His son to be crucified to atone for the sins of the people alive at his time and afterwards, what about those who had come before and died as sinners before the time of Christ, and had no opportunity to know about him and believe in the Crucifixion so that their sins might be forgiven? All he could say was: No doubt our priests have an answer to that! Even if they do have an answer, it is bound to be concocted. There is no real answer.
If you really examine the Christian teaching on human sin with an open mind, you will see that they say that God sacrificed His only son to atone for the sins of mankind, and that this son was a god. If it was true that he was a god who was beaten, insulted and crucified, and died, then this doctrine contains elements of blasphemy because it accuses God of weakness and helplessness. Is God really incapable of forgiving the sins of all His servants with just one word? If He is Able to do all things (and the Christians do not dispute this fact), then why would He need to sacrifice His son in order to achieve the same thing? (Glorified and exalted be He far above what the wrongdoers say about Him!)
"He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth. How can He have children when He has no wife? He created all things and He is the All-Knower of everything." [Al-An'am 6:101 interpretation of the meaning]
An ordinary man would not accept anyone harming his child; he would come to his defence, and would never hand him over to an enemy who would insult him, let alone leave him to face the worst kind of death. If this is the attitude of a mere created being, what then of the Creator?
- Thirdly, the Christian doctrine of original sin has a negative effect because, as you have mentioned, it does not require any duties of man other than to believe that God sent His son to this earth to be crucified and to die to atone for the sins of mankind.
Thus a person becomes a Christian and is to earn the pleasure of God and be admitted to heaven. Moreover, the Christian believes that everything that happened to the son of God was only to atone for his sins, past present and future, so there is no need to wonder why Christian societies have seen such an increase in murder, rape, robbery, alcoholism and other problems. After all, did not Christ die to atone for their sins, and haven't their sins been wiped out, so why should they stop doing these things?
Tell me, by your Lord, why do you sometimes execute murderers, or put criminals in jail, or punish them in other ways, if you believe that the criminals' sins have all been atoned for and forgiven through the blood of Christ? Is this not a strange contradiction?
Why do Muslims make da`wah?
You ask why, if the Muslims are the chosen people of mankind, they do not spread their religion . The fact of the matter is that sincere Muslims have always sought to do just that. How else could Islam have spread from Makkah to Indonesia, Siberia, North Africa, Bosnia, South Africa and all parts of the world, East and West?
The faults in the behavior of some modern Muslims cannot be blamed on Islam; those faults are the result of going against Islamic teachings. It is not fair to blame the religion for the faults of some of its adherents who have gone against it or gone astray.
Are Muslims not being more just than Christians when they affirm that the sinner is threatened with the punishment of Allah unless he repents, and that for some sins there is a deterrent, a punishment to be carried out in this world as an expiation for the Hereafter, as in the case of the punishments for murder, theft, fornication/adultery, etc.?
Is it difficult to become a Muslim?
What you say about it being so easy to become a Christian, as compared to becoming a Muslim, is clearly mistaken. The key to Islam is no more than two simple phrases: Ash-hadu an la ilaha ill-Allah wa anna Muhammadan Rasul-Allah (I bear witness that there is no god except Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah).
With these few words, a person enters Islam in a matter of seconds. There is no need for baptism or priests, or even to go to a certain place such as a mosque or anywhere else.
Compare this with the ridiculous procedures of baptism which the Christians do when they want to admit someone to the Church. Then there is the fact that the Christians venerate the cross on which Jesus was tortured and crucified in great pain as they claim. They take it as a sacred object of blessing and healing, instead of scorning it and hating it as a symbol of oppression and the worst possible way for the son of God to die!
Muslims are closer than others to the truth
Do you not see that the Muslims are closer than others to the truth, because they believe in all the prophets and messengers, respecting them all and recognizing that all of them taught the truth of Divine Unity (Tawhid) and that each of them was appointed by Allah and sent to his people with laws that were appropriate to the time and place?
When the fair-minded Christian sees the followers of Islam believing in Musa (Moses), 'Isa (Jesus), and Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all) and in the original Torah and Gospel, as well as the Quran, and sees his own people denying the Prophethood of Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and rejecting the Quran, wouldn't his open-mindedness make him think that the Muslims are most likely to be right?
Did Jesus say 'No one comes to the Father except through me'?
You say that the Messiah said, No one comes to the Father except through me. We need, first of all, to be sure that these words can truly be attributed to Jesus. Secondly, this is clearly not true. How then could mankind have known God at the times of Nuh (Noah), Hud, Salih, Yunus (Jonah), Shu'ayb (Jethro), Ibrahim (Abraham), Musa (Moses) and other prophets?
If you were to say that during the time of Jesus (upon whom be peace) and up to the time of the Final Prophet, Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) the Children of Israel had no other way to know the religion of Allah except through the way of Jesus, this would be correct.
Does the statement 'I and the Father are one' prove Jesus' divinity?
You quote the Messiah as saying, I and the Father are one . This is clearly not correct. If we examine the matter objectively, without letting our own desires get in the way, it becomes clear that the conjunction and in the phrase I and the Father implies that two separate entities are involved. I is one entity, and the Father is another. If you say, So-and-So and I, it is obvious to any rational person that they are two separate people. The equation 1+1+1=1 makes no sense to any rational person, whether he is a mathematician or not.
Finally, I advise you (and I do not think that you will reject this advice) to think deeply about what you have read, putting aside your background, any preconceived ideas, your own desires and feelings of attachment to your religion or culture, and to seek guidance sincerely from Allah. Allah is Most Generous and will never let any of His servants down. Allah is the One Who guides to the Straight Path, and He is Sufficient for us and is the best disposer of affairs.
And Allah knows best.


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The general availability (GA) of Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets was announced last week at the Microsoft //Build conference. Originally announced in preview last November, VM Scale Sets are a way to manage Azure VMs as a group, providing easy deployment and management options, and simple ways to integrate with Azure autoscale and load balancing. If your machines can all be configured the same, you can reduce the overhead of managing them individually, and elastically scale your VMs to match the workload. VM Scale Sets are available at no additional cost over the compute resources being used, and are available in all regions that support Azure Resource Manager.
The real power of VM Scale Sets becomes apparent as you transition to cloud-scale application architectures. When you separate the unique and non-unique components of the application, the unique components such as control nodes can be configured with the specific resources they need, while the non-unique components can be deployed as VM Scale Sets, managed collectively and elastically scaled. The key configuration property becomes the "capacity" – how many VMs in the set, rather than individual properties.
Building out scalable architecture
When building out scalable architecture in the cloud there's a trade-off between the level of control you have over individual infrastructure resources and the complexity of defining and placing the resources. Higher level PaaS solutions reduce infrastructure development complexity by deploying fixed architectures you can conform to and build your application around.
In many cases however, there's a need to deploy a specific architecture without the overhead of a pre-defined PaaS solution. VM Scale Sets (VMSS) occupy a sweet spot of providing a high level of control over infrastructure, without having to correlate different resources like networking, storage and compute, or having to figure out how to balance nodes across fault and update domains. In other words control it like IaaS, scale it like PaaS.
Typically when you build out cloud infrastructure, you need to create the storage, network and compute resources and build the dependencies between them. A VM Scale Set lets you define a single compute resource, which has network, storage and extension properties. This saves you some work, and when you deploy this resource a single call goes down to the underlying fabric, allowing the Azure Compute Resource Provider to make performance and reliability optimizations on your behalf.
Key features of VM Scale Sets include:
Easy portal create experience
You can now directly create both Linux and Windows VM Scale Sets from the Azure Portal. These scale sets are automatically created with load balancer NAT rules to to enable SSH or RDP connections.
Additional portal management features are still being added for VM Scale Sets, so you'll see more features to manage VMs in scale sets through the portal arriving soon.
Simple scaling properties
Changing the number of virtual machines in a scale set to is a simple call (e.g. through REST, SDK or command line). A scale set can vary between 0 and 100 VMs.
You can also create multiple VM Scale Sets in the same VNET or subscription. I.e. use VM Scale Set as a scaling unit, and build a larger group composed of more than one scale set. This is how higher level services such as Azure Batch build large compute pools.
Integrated autoscale
It is easy to set up autoscale rules for scale sets. You can set the maximum, minimum and default number of VMs, and define trigger – action rules based on resource consumption. You can set up standard audit log and email notifications, and also define webhooks for custom notifications and actions (e.g. runbooks). Partners such as Pagerduty have added Azure support. See the recent New features for Azure Alerts and Autoscale blog post for more details.
Azure Resource manager integration
Scale Sets include the extensibility you expect from Azure Resource Manager VMs, such as VM extensions to install and configure software when VMs are deployed, and integration with other resource providers which fit into the Resource Manager deployment model.
Integrated load balancing
Azure Load Balancers, and Application Gateway integrate seamlessly with scale sets. When a scale set increases in size and a new VM is created, a matching load balancer NAT rule is generated, ensuring the VMs always have a connection path. This control over inbound connectivity makes a scale set VM inherently more secure than a standalone VM with an IP address, which requires a network security group to lock down ports.
Visual Studio support
The Azure SDK provides Azure Templates for Visual Studio to deploy standard Linux and Windows templates to deploy a scale set as part of an Azure Resource Manager project.
See Deploying Virtual Machine Scale Set Templates in Visual Studio for more information.
REST, SDK, and command line support
Full REST API, PowerShell and Azure CLI support is available for scale sets, along with the latest versions of the Azure managed SDKs.
Built-in high availability
When you increase the number of virtual machines in a scale set, VMs are balanced across update and fault domains to ensure, maximum availability. Similarly when you scale in, VMs are removed with maximum availability in mind.
Support for manual roll out of OS image updates without downtime
If you need to update the virtual machine image without shutting down the scale set, you can update the 'model' (the scale set's definition and properties) and then manually roll out an update to selected VMs.
Higher level Azure services in addition to Batch, such as the Container Service, Batch and Service Fabric also use scale sets as their underlying infrastructure in order to simplify large scale deployments and make it easier to deploy cloud scale architectures. Similarly customers such as ABB Software, Triple, Caradigm, Talk Talk TV have made good use of this technology during the preview period.
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"If I go out there and finish Cub Swanson, I feel that will push me to the top of the pack." - Dustin Poirier
Valentine's Day will have to wait for the Poiriers, Dustin and Jolie, this year. For now, Dustin Poirier is on a business trip in London, dealing in fists and kicks, not stocks and bonds, and when it's over he intends on heading back home to his bride in Florida with a victory that will get 2013 off to a start that no chocolates or flowers can match.
"I'm focused on the fight," said Poirier, who faces Cub Swanson in a highly-anticipated UFC on FUEL TV co-main event at Wembley Arena. "When I fight in Vegas, my wife usually comes and we can afford to do all that (sightseeing, etc.), but I'm going out here with my training partners, we're on a business trip and I'll see everybody when I get back from work."
That doesn't mean the 24-year-old Louisiana native isn't thinking of Jolie. In this game, having a solid home life and supportive significant other can be just as important as the right game plan or training partners. That was never more evident than after Poirier's loss to "The Korean Zombie," Chan Sung Jung, last May, when he believed that a move to south Florida to train with the American Top Team would be the best move for his career.
"She didn't hesitate on the move," said Poirier of his wife. "She just asked if that was what I thought we needed to do and she was with me a hundred percent. My wife supports me so much and she's such a huge part of my fight career. She has so much belief in me it brings tears to my eyes just talking about it. She's awesome."
When Poirier talks about fighting, or anything for that matter, there's an urgency and intensity that's impossible to miss, and his desire to make it to the top of his profession is that of someone a lot older. And his profession is tougher than most, with one good or bad night often a difference-maker when it comes to your place in the pecking order and the health of your bank account.
Poirier had a good night against Jung last year. Not good enough to get the win, but good enough to earn a Fight of the Night bonus and recognition as one of the best fights of 2012. When I saw him a couple months after the bout and complimented him on the fight, he was still inconsolable about the defeat, his first since 2010. And nearly a year later, the wounds are still a bit raw.
"That loss is never gonna be off my record," said Poirier, who was submitted in the fourth round. "I'm never gonna forget about that fight. Yes, it was an awesome fight, but I was on the losing end of it. I know I have heart and I know I can push and I know I can fight fights like that, and that wasn't a surprise for me. So I'm not trying to hold on to that excitement from the fight. I lost the fight, the loss is on my record, "The Korean Zombie" moves forward, and I took a step back."
He pauses before adding, "But it was a learning experience."
What Poirier learned the most was that he needed a change of scenery. While he got good coaching from his longtime mentor Tim Credeur and others, his rapidly growing skill set made it evident that he was becoming the best fighter in the gym, which meant not being pushed as hard as he needed to be pushed in sparring. He doesn't have that problem with American Top Team.
"I knew I needed better training partners after my camp for 'The Korean Zombie,'" said Poirier. "I knew I needed to be getting pushed harder and I don't want to lose, so I just did what I thought I had to do to keep growing as a fighter and to win fights. And it's paid off so far. It was a big move, I had to leave my family and friends back home and move somewhere where the first time I had been there was to train. I had never been to South Florida before, but the team here at American Top Team welcomed me with open arms, the trainers are great, I'm getting great coaching, great training partners, so everything's working out."
In December, Poirier made his first start since the Jung fight against former Ultimate Fighter winner Jonathan Brookins, and at 4:15 of the first round, "The Diamond" was back in the win column with a D'arce choke submission victory. Soon after, Swanson's original opponent, Dennis Siver, withdrew from Saturday's bout due to injury, and Poirier jumped right in.
"I wasn't injured or anything," he said. "I didn't take a beating in my last fight, and I was still healthy, so it wasn't really a hard decision. It was a great matchup for me, it's going to be an exciting fight and it's a big opportunity. So why not jump on it?"
Why not, indeed? Especially since a win over the streaking Swanson will accelerate Poirier's return to the featherweight title picture.
"That wasn't my thought process in accepting the fight, but if I go out there and finish Cub Swanson, I feel that will push me to the top of the pack," said Poirier, who believes Swanson's unorthodox style may be his downfall this weekend.
"He (Swanson) is unpredictable. His standup looks great, he has really good boxing and unorthodox kicks. It seems like he gets careless sometimes in his fights and he doesn't care about getting taken down or where the fight will end up; he's just kinda out there doing his own thing, and I think that's where I'm gonna make him pay. When he gets in his zone and starts getting his head movement going and footwork going, he does stuff that puts him in bad positions and I just gotta capitalize on it. I feel like I have great boxing too, and I'm gonna show it in this fight."
And when it's over, it will be a belated Valentine's Day in Florida, and a time for the two Louisiana lovebirds to get acquainted with their new home city.
"It seems like since I've been here I've been training for a fight," said Poirier of life in Florida. "I haven't got to really enjoy the area that much or the food or the culture here. I've been in my apartment or at the gym getting ready to fight somebody. So maybe after this fight I can relax and eat some of the food and enjoy the weather."


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Cole Haan Leather Lunargrands
Engineered to conquer the streets of New York City, the LunarGrand is a conceptual clash of past meets future—the unique and seamless fusion of timeless design and futuristic innovation. Incorporating Nike's innovative ultra-lightweight Lunarlon cushioning system into Cole Haan's traditional construction techniques, the LunarGrand achieves unrivaled feel, flexibility and movement—redefining how classic dress shoes can move and function in modern urban environments.
"The LunarGrand came from our perpetual obsession with making our products better," says Phil Russo, Cole Haan's VP of Design. "When you understand what people are doing in their shoes today, their expectations of style and demands of functionality, you can create products that really do make a difference as people go about their everyday lives.
Through considered and specific engineering, the Cole Haan LunarGrand emerges as a unique product that challenges preconceptions of how dress shoes can adapt. "The goal of the design process was to create a wingtip to take on the streets of New York City—a shoe that utilized motion-enhancing innovations at the same time as retaining its authentic and timeless aesthetic," said Russo.
The immediate reaction when wearing the shoe is to its lightweight and flexible motion enhancing properties. A well-fitted heel, which better secures the shoe on the foot, as well as a wider forefoot and slimmer rounded toe, allow for more natural, ergonomic foot movement. A partial lining lends a clean, deconstructed feel and keeps the shoe significantly light. Lunarlon cushioning technology in the mid-sole is encased within an outsole featuring micro-diamond tread textures and rubber toe pods to maximize traction and adaptability to unforgiving concrete streets—a competitive advantage in the city that never sleeps.
Built on a classic Cole Haan last with a leather welt detail and crafted in premium leather uppers, the LunarGrand gracefully retains its iconic wingtip silhouette. Available in four colorways, the Cole Haan LunarGrand ($278) is sold exclusively at Cole Haan SoHo, 128 Prince Street, New York beginning Saturday.


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dvbstream is a popular utility, from the "DVB tools" project, that can be used to broadcast either a (subset of a) DVB transport stream or a DVB program stream over a LAN using the rtp protocol. It attempts to be compliant with RFCs 1889, 1890, 2038 and 2250.
- streams one or more PIDs over network
- supports network multicast broadcasting (if that is setup with your kernel), so many can recieve the stream, not only one computer in the network.
- provides a protocol in backwards direction so that the client computer can control the frequency of the DVB card of the server computer and which PIDs get streamed over network
- can also be used to easily write a stream to harddisk (locally, without network usage - see the Testing your DVB device).
Obtaining the dvbstream package
If the dvbstream package is maintained in a repository available for your "distro", then you can obtain it with your package manager. For example:
- To install it on a debian system:
# apt-get install dvbstream
Alternatively, dvbstreamp should be easily available for direct download from the Sourceforge project site (see link below).
Terry Hardie has also made additions to DVBStream, notably:
- DVB-S2 support
- Multi LNB type support
- DiSeqC positioner support
- Continuity checking (prevents corrupted TS streams being created)
- Multi file splitting (on size or continuity error)
- curses interface
- Multi-threaded high performance file writer (Tested to 80Mbit streams)
You can get this version from here
After tuning to a transponder, you run dvbstream as follows:
dvbstream pid1 pid2 ... pid8
On the client, use the included dumprtp utility to receive selected PIDs from the multicast:
dumprtp pid1 pid2 > received.ts
To receive the stream on any other machine on your LAN, use the dumprtp utility (included with the dvbstream package, so you'll have to install that also on your client). Easiest usage:
dumprtp > received.ts
If you have a full-featured DVB card on the client machine, you can use the rtpfeed command to decode the stream; type "rtpfeed -h" for usage information.
Otherwise the same restrictions apply as with a system with a budget DVB card. If you don't have a FF DVB card on the client machine, you can use mpg123 and the mpegtools provided with the DVB driver for live audio decoding:
dumprtp | ts2es apid | mpg123 -
Alternatively, you can pipe the dumprtp output to your favourite video player, e.g. gxine:
dumprtp | gxine
It's advisable to cache some data locally if you're in a slow or strongly used network environment, e.g. with mplayer:
mplayer -cache 2048 rtp://188.8.131.52:5004/
But keep in mind that you'll see the goal only seconds after it happened, so you'll hear the neighbours scream before you see it youself...
PID selection
If you only want audio, you can run dvbstream with eight audio PIDs, and then your clients can choose which PID to play. Dvbstream supports up to 8 PIDs, and audio streams have much lower bandwidth so you can stream many of them.
Telnet Interface
From v0.4 onwards, DVBstream incorporates a "telnet" interface to allow you to remotely start and stop the streaming, and tune the card to a different channel.
The following commands are supported:
- TUNE freq pol srate
- ADDV pid[:map]
- ADDA pid[:map]
- ADDT pid[:map]
- ADD pid[:map]
STOP closes down all PIDs and stops the streaming. The other commands should be self-explanatory. See the scripts in the TELNET directory for example usage. The default port is 12345


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"My Favorites" Plugin
Does this plugin exists somewhere? It would work like "site wide". someone "logged in" could mark a post of anything on the site (all blogs associated to the that WPMU site) as favorite. Them, in the profile page for that user, it would appear in a "My Favorites" section.
This would make people navigate more through out the whole website it self! People could them leave "comments" for each specific favorite for that person. Making it the site to be a true sitewide social network.
Sorry for my poor english!
So, you mean something similar to the new Facebook "like" and "comment" features, borrowed from FriendFeed?
I agree that this would encourage more activity within the site.
As a first step towards this sort of interaction, however, I would like to see a way to become a "fan" (not friend) of a particular blogger within the site i.e. indicate your liking for a person's entire output, rather than just individual items.
The Fans concept is discussed here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1573
I'm a big fan of both of these ideas. #justsayin
This "favorite" thing, is not just good for relationships within the site… but for the users itself to keep track of things he likes in the site. (to remember posts and organize them to find it later)
I posted a suggestion about writing such a plugin a just last week, got no takers… Might revisit if there is interest.
The problem is that it is very hard to keep track of topics in bbPress – if you make a good suggestion at the wrong time, it can get pushed off the "front page" before anyone has a chance to write a response and get a discussion going.
Also, because there is no email notification of replies, people tend to return less often than other types of forum, meaning that some people who might love your idea simply don't visit the forum on the day you post it.
I think the trick is to keep an eye on topics as they emerge and, if someone posts an idea that chimes with one you have already posted, reply as I have above, linking to your original thread. I have successfully used this technique in the past to resuscitate threads that were initially ignored but ended up being lively discussions.
@egerrits I'm hugely interested. I'm absolutely looking for all the "simple touches" I can find to increase site activity once my socnet launches.
Post a link to your original thread, so that we can read your take on this idea.
Yeah, I know what you mean… and it seems just so pushy to *bump* your own post!
Anyhoo, the other thread was here:
you can mark internal blogs as favourite http://bp-dev.org/projects/#subscribe
Your Subscribe plugin sounds very useful if you want to track a particular blog's activity, but it does not match betoverli's request for a way to mark something as "liked" or to have that item then appear in the Favorites section of that user's profile.
Betoverli does not want to receive alerts about new material, he wants a way to alert other people to items (posts, comments, photos etc) within the site that he has already seen and marked as a favorite.
Egerrit's thread explains the idea more clearly and, again, your Subscribe plugin does not match the stated need. It would, though, be great to see a plugin that did.
You got it donnacha!! This is it!
My website will be a "large" Church Ministry Network. It will have a "main" site with "sermons, audio, video, etc…" and sub-blogs for pastors and "local churches"… the large site will aggregate the smaller blogs as a "portal". So, for the users… to be able to "mark" sermons, posts, blogs, etc… would be amazing ! !! !!!
I know it doesn't match but i thought could be useful
Anyway if you're good in php you should make it based on bpdev subscribe that was made extensible to develope on it
I know it doesn't match but i thought could be useful
Yeah, everyone knows how useful you are, how much you contribute to this community.
And, yes, your plugins can be adapted to create new functionality if a user has sufficient PHP skills.
The problem is that the vast majority of us don't have your skills and, so, when a plugin is presented as the answer to a specific problem or need, users will presume it will do what the original poster asked for without needing to be rewritten.
Also, other developers who might otherwise decide to create a plugin to solve the problem, will see your post, presume that the problem has been solved and move on.
Sounds like a fantastic network, I can see how useful that feature would be in that context.
I realise this thread is over 6 months old but I cant find anything else more up to date. I was wondering if anyone had written or found a plugin that would allow users to create favourites of blog posts rather than blogs?
There's a plugin in the WP repository to favorite posts (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/). The favorites are stored in the database so they can be retrieved with the user id for the profile. I agree this concept should be expanded to other components (groups, blogs) in BP. I plan to create a custom post type and use this plugin (possibly modified) to show favorites of that post-type on the profile (e.g. favorite bars). For example, Tastykitchen.com could use to track favorite recipes as recipes are just posts with custom fields.
This functionality is needed and if it doesn't exist when I get to that stage of my project, I'll add it and shsre. The more people think of WP/BP as a CMS, the more the need for these types of functionalities becomes apparent.
I have not tested this out but I've been looking for something similar and also found the "My Favorite Post" plugin which links the database to the user profile rather than the wp-favorite-posts plugin which uses cookies. This may better integrate with user profiles in buddypress (if it works). If anyone tries it out let me know and if I get any updates I'll post them:
If anyone is looking for this, I have written a simple solution to the problem where I mimic the Activity stream "Favorite" feature from the single.php theme file of my blog theme to allow marking blog posts as favorite…
This way, I don't create any new tables and I don't break anything – as I hope that marking a blog post as favorite will become a key feature of BP in the future.
Just "bookmarking" this
I have a favorites plugin in place now that allows you to favorite any post with a "like" button on any post of any blog and have the favorited post's thumb/title/excerpt appear in your profile under a tab called my favorite posts. it also has a widget that can be placed on the single blog posts page or page sidebar to display all members who have favorited. it takes alot of steps to get it up and running but it works. would be great if any one would like to test it, help package it more neatly to a few steps as a bp component plugin. you can see it in action on my site.
Here's a tweaked version of @dnxpert 's code that works on WPMU (don't use this on single WP):
http://pastebin.com/Qfichf0t (paste in wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php) (updated 06/12/2010 – 12:27am GMT)The positives with my code is you can use the favorite / unfavorite code from bp-default/activity/entry.php verbatim without duplicating the favorite functions.
For the devs: If anyone knows a way around using the switch_to_blog() function, let me know; I used switch_to_blog() because of the generated nonce code.
I can't make your plugin working for my installation (WPMU 2.9.2 + BP 220.127.116.11).@slaffik – The code doesn't do anything by itself. Sorry for not being clear!
You also need to add the favorite / unfavorite code from bp-default/activity/entry.php to each blog theme's single.php.
I could have hooked the favorite button to "the_content", but decided to give theme designers some flexibility this way.
Ok, thank you
But it's still doesn't work… Yes, I see "Mark as Favorite" text, but it makes nothing. And yes, bp-custom is in its place.
Each post link to favourite it has the same wpnonce. And after pressing it the url in address bar in browser doesn't have post_id (I mean this: …/archives/165#activity- )You may hook into the_content and then on admin page create a field to insert a css code to position the block.
@slaffik – Can you try creating a new blog post and then check the favorite button on that blog post?
When you mouseover the favorite button, you should see:
hxxp://domain.com/activity/favorite/ACTIVITY_ID/?_wpnonce=xxx.If the activity ID is blank, that means the code couldn't find an activity id for the blog post.
I've noticed that some old blog posts do not work because the activity item_id and secondary_item_id in the database are wrong.
No, new posts still do not create ACTIVITY_ID fot the link: hxxp://demo.example.com/activity/favorite//?_wpnonce=6bd3dcf18e
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Adventure Binoculars
You pass this way but once. Make sure you see it clearly - all the color and contrast, every breathtaking detail, all laid out with depth and clarity only Steiner's world-class optical technology and adventure-loving construction can provide. Every hike, cruise, outing and event has its own unforgettable high point. Make the most of it with the best companion you could have along: Steiner Adventure Binoculars.


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Please note, The individual listed in the "Name" column is the owner of a safe deposit box that was turned over to the Missouri State Treasurer's Unclaimed Property. Though the safe deposit box contains a military medal and/or honor, the individual listed may not be the actual recipient of the medal and/or honor.
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RBEI Trac360
di Bosch
IoT solution that enables OEMs to perform real-time tracking of their parts and shipment.
Bosch Trac360, a cloud-based IoT solution for real-time tracking and visibility across a supply chain is designed to improve customers satisfaction, reduce inventory carrying costs, and improve distribution productivity by providing a single view from the factory to the receipt of products by customers.
A core aspect of Trac360 is the use of blockchain technology to track and verify transactions, transfer or receive bins, pallets or other containers, or delivery of finished products to customers.
Blockchain is especially important in the in industries where customers want to know the source of components or ingredients, such as packaged and perishable foods, pharmaceuticals, gemstones, and appliances. Complementing the use of blockchainis IoT-enabled sensors on goods, containers, vehicles, and other aspects of the supply chain. These sensors gather and relay real-time information on status, location, condition, issues, and other factors that contribute to the integrity of shipments from whether a sensitive part was unacceptably shaken to the performance of freight vehicles.
Trac360 focuses the following areas:
- Container management:
- Product traceability
- Assisted user experience
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- Condition monitoring
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From a user interface point-of-view, Trac360 integrates with the Azure Cloud to display intuitive dashboards that provide the insights necessary to make smarter decisions from logistics planning to inventory levels, choice of carriers, and shipment schedules. Real-time alerts and notifications provide the information necessary to quickly respond to issues. To protect sensitive information, access can be defined by role.
Using Azure Bot Services, Trac360 simplifies communication between planners, truckers, warehouse personnel, and others across the supply chain.
Finally, the level of tracking and tracing offered by Trac360 makes it possible to continuously monitor the condition of vehicles. When issues are detected, alerts or notifications can be sent to maintenance teams or a specific technician or mechanic.


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I went up to Eilean Donan Castle last week and shot some photos and videos of it . The weather was changeable , which is typical for the weather in Scotland nowadays . It was a mixture of sunshine and cloud .
Eilean Donan is Gaelic for Island of Donan , a 12th century religious figure .Eilean Donan was Clan
MacKenzie's most important stronghold from the 13th Century
until it was destroyed in 1719. Robert the Bruce was given
refuge in Eilean Donan Castle by John MacKenzie, Second of
Kintail when he was being hunted by the English at the
beginning of the fourteenth century. The MacRae Clan who settled in the area came from the
Beauly Firth where they had protected the Clan
Fraser.They acted as bodyguards to the MacKenzie
chiefs. Although there was a number of disputes,
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Glazed Tiles
Glazed tile is a type of porcelain tiles to which a glaze has been applied. After the glaze is painted or sprayed on, the tile is fired at high temperatures, causing a chemical reaction which makes the glaze vitrify, essentially turning into glass. The resulting tile is resistant to water and stains because of the glaze, and it has an attractive look, as a wide variety of colors and designs can be created with glaze, with finishes ranging from extremely glossy to matte.
There are a number of advantages to glazed tile. One of the most obvious is that these tiles do not require sealing from water, because they are already sealed; if a watertight grout is used to lay a glazed tile floor, the floor will not need to be sealed and then resealed as the sealant wears off. Glazed tiles can also come in a range of textures, from more coarse matte tiles which are good for flooring since they provide traction to high gloss, very smooth tiles which work well for countertops and backsplashes.


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Hello Friday Mcnasties! Do you like how bloggers all try to put this amenable, approachable bullcrap on you like the second you load their blogs oh, you're doing quirky voice today eh we've got a funny guy on the loose here. Well, it's raining today so wtf else are we going to do here? I've uploaded a ton of pics so just be quiet and listen for once please thanks!
I don't think I had washed my hair for a few days before hitting up our Brass Vixens shoot last Sunday and getting across town during the waterfront marathon was absolute HELL ON EARTH. Why do you have city marathons interrupting city people tryna do their city shit for!? Seriously, please go run in more acceptable places like RUNNING PATHS or FORESTS, MOUNTAINS, SHORELINES, SIDEWALKS… OMFG you cause so many domestic disputes and accidents, road rage, delays, trouble etc for everyone else when you do your stupid selfish charity runs. Just donate the money and call it a day cos donors believe y'all when you say you'll run for the cure or whatever it is. Running doesn't cure cancer it causes cancer. There I said it.
This is called Lyra. It's a combo of aerial and hoop. Circus stuff. Lyra is the hottest craze of all the alternative dance exercise on the market right now and it's actually sort of easy if you were a monkey on the jungle gym growing up. It's great for poses and beautiful photos. You should see how the other Vixens do it, they move like fairies made of bendy magic it blows my mind.
Hey down in front.
Yes alright fine I like birds okay lets not make a big deal about it.
Birds and sunsets if that's fine by you. I have a colleague who is a (raging nerd) "birder" and every time I so much as post or like anything bird-related he razzes the shit out of me for it. God forbid I like a beautiful video of swans landing in slow motion this bro will immediately invite me to go bird-watching with him and shit hahaha. It's been 6 years. When we reach 10 I will consider it. I love nature and animals as much as the next person but I don't exactly feel inclined to grab binoculars and sit in the cold watching something with a beak flap around. Birds are pretty straightforward in my opinion. They have wings, they fly and can crap on you. The end. Oh, I have been dive-bombed by a couple of birds before too which is terrifying lol.
Okay we get it.
I've seen a few plays here. The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre is an historical, beautiful theatre it's nice to go there for absolutely free and snoop around its exquisiteness.
A gas leak was afoot down the block from it so felt a little PTSD.
I love Vaudeville. *Googles what vaudeville is*.
I posted some bathroom selfies to be more covert about our location. I've seen other cast full-on putting location on blast on other shoots I'm talking IG stories to snapchats and major selfies. It's harder to police that these days. On another production I did we were going to snitch on a girl as a matter of fact cos we heard she was instagramming fight scenes and integral plot points like WHAT!??! But then we saw she had like 11k followers and it was a private account we didn't have access to. You get bored and start to go crazy on a seventeen hour shoot. That was the one where my phone went in the pool. Instant karma I guess. Shit like this always happens to me lets be honest so whatever.
In the movie business shockingly, you will meet a ton of awful (and awesome) people. Selfish divas who never made it. Actra people get treated like the sun shines out of their assholes. You recognize some of the same people the more things you do and there's a few stand-outs I enjoy studying from afar. Like the one guy who ALWAYS LOSES HIS TEMPER and blows up at the room, yelling at us for some answer we don't have nor are obliged to say and so no one answers him. He lost his cool at lunch time once and then later on tried to be nice to me I was like, nahh.
Another time a lady full on smashed my foot with her heel and I noticed a nice nickel-sized bruise on the top of my foot the other day from that. No one is ever paying attention either, they're always talking over the directors or AD's and I do not hesitate to shush the fuck out of them because it keeps us all there longer.
Acting is all about working as a team with so many weaker links. Even though I am a n00b I do not take any shit for example, a chick tried not to let us have the empty chair beside her the other day and guess how well that went over for her? When people think they can get away with rudeness ahh helllll no *removes hoop earrings*.
It's a competitive industry too as you can imagine so you have to place yourself in a spot you anticipate they will be filming once they call action. I luck out most times by how I look and being tall and just dominating as much space as I can without being desperate. You will definitely see me in like 95% of the stuff I have filmed. There is only one thing I did where I didn't care as much and happily fell back a little. Earlier shoots are like that. Sleep deprivation kills me above all else.
Whimsical! Click to enlarge.
A woman asked me if my glasses were real in the bathroom at one point. Yes. These are REAL glasses. She meant prescription. I said YEP. Then I had to say YES 3 more times and say they were reading glasses (but I do have perfect vision, they help me) and then put them on her face so she could tell. Another woman walked in and mean-girl dissed me by saying those glasses look GREAT on you. The first lady became embarrassed and took them off, passing them back to me I pointedly said thank you, they are $400 Christian Dior glasses and they look great on anyone. BURN. The lady was gobsmacked.
I know what she thought. I was just some poor hipster poser rocking fake frames then I came at her with KNOWLEDGE. They're from Oakville from a client of mine called Next Optical. Bye. We were all in our black tie wear. See how competitive people are for no reason? Especially older women. It happens all the time. I am a threat I know it. Deal with it or leave. I took it as rudeness because she approached me with arms out as if she was going to take my glasses off my face from the get-go and pop them on hers just to see if she looked pretty in my glasses which she assumed were just costume accessories. Yeah, no, back off.
Please pray for my cousin. She's not sick she just look like a Lego.
Went to The Mandarin with his folks last week. It's their thing. We drove all over town afterward with them hitting agencies collecting checks during rush hour traffic. It was bonkers and we can all laugh about it now.
A side-by-side of my new niece and I.
Twerk class a couple weeks ago. I gave this very shirt off my back to Tash in class cos she was dying in her 3/4 length sweater why did she wear that I dunno but I miss my shirt now oh well I have a purple one still. I prefer to be generous instead of greedy if I can help it.
My hair was ten times rattier after class. I love twerking. It's scandalous. Isolated movements in dance are hot.
Loving my new phone and its gaudy case. The camera is better than the one on my last phone.
Working way through Kitchen Confidential. Anthony Bourdain is the man. He has the best life and I am going to learn how to do the same by studying his book.
I already know a lot about the food industry, the booze industry and man I've got stories and no I ain't saying I'm an angel. Which reminds me I have made a breakthrough with another publishing house! IT'S MY YEAR BITCH.
How many silly goals in life have you set for yourself? One of mine (or several) is to be acknowledged by my idols. Anthony Bourdain is one of them. Maybe my SEO skills will bring that ol bastard my way. Another way is to get mega-famous, yourself.
Went for sushi the other night and had the best time ever had there becoming Beaches locals now, recognized and adored. There I said it. Met a sake sommelier here too.
My second meeting with a new agency went pretty good! As in they're sending me a contract. Everytime I try to work in fields that aren't my true calling (like the service industry) it doesn't pan out for very long. I am a genius lets be honest and my talents get wasted slinging cocktails lets be honest. It's like Bill Gates working at Mconald's like please stop. So I am glad I get to be a freak of nature in an office setting again and use my godgiven social media talents. It is personally rewarding to work as a professional in your very own field of BLOGGING that you have lived and breathed since you were seventeen. Pride comes before a fall so I will shut up now.
Big fam jam parties all Thanksgiving weekend long I am glad I can get back to periodically starving myself again and slimming out okay that's all for now bye bye!


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In a June 12, 2014 TOTM post, I discussed the private antitrust challenge to NCAA rules that barred NCAA member universities from compensating athletes for use of their images and names in television broadcasts and video games.
On August 8 a federal district judge held that the NCAA had violated the antitrust laws and enjoined the NCAA from enforcing those rules, effective 2016. The judge's 99-page opinion, which discusses NCAA price-fixing agreements, is worth a read. It confronts and debunks the NCAA's efficiency justifications for their cartel-like restrictions on athletic scholarships. If the decision withstands appeal, it will allow NCAA member schools to offer prospective football and basketball recruits trust funds that could be accessed after graduation (subject to certain limitations), granting those athletes a share of the billions of dollars in revenues they generate for NCAA member universities.
A large number of NCAA rules undoubtedly generate substantial efficiencies that benefit NCAA member institutions, college sports fans, and college athletes. But the beneficial nature of those rules does not justify separate monopsony price fixing arrangements that disadvantage athletic recruits – arrangements that cannot legitimately be tied to the NCAA's welfare-enhancing interest in promoting intercollegiate athletics. Stay tuned.


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LONDON — Gay couples in Britain waited decades for the right to get married. When the opportunity came, it took just a few minutes to make history.
Londoners Sean Adl-Tabatabai and Sinclair Treadway were among the first to tie the knot when Britain's new marriage law came into effect Saturday.
The two men married in front of about 100 guests at their local town hall in the London borough of Camden — one of several locales holding late-night ceremonies to mark the occasion. By 10 minutes past midnight they were married, with a kiss and a registrar's declaration: "You are now husband and husband."
It's a sign of a profound shift in attitudes in a country that little more than a decade ago had a law on the books banning the "promotion" of homosexuality.
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"Some people say, 'You gays are trying to redefine marriage,' but the definition of marriage has already changed," said Treadway, a 20-year-old student originally from Los Angeles. "Now it's between two people who love each other."
Most Britons agree. Polls show about two-thirds of people in the country back gay unions, and support is highest among the young. Britain has seen none of the large street protests against gay marriage that have taken place in France.
Same-sex marriage has been welcomed with enthusiasm by Britain's Conservative-led government. Rainbow flags went up over two government buildings Friday in what Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg called "a small symbol to celebrate a massive achievement."
Treadway and Adl-Tabatabai, a 32-year-old TV producer from London, were married by the mayor of Camden, Jonathan Simpson, who declared the occasion "a huge step forward in civil rights for our country and also a big acknowledgment that love conquers all." They emerged to loud applause and the strains of "I Got You, Babe" by Sonny and Cher.
"It's amazing and surreal," Adl-Tabatabai said. "It did feel like a historic moment. When the mayor was saying those things, it really hit me."
It would have been unthinkable in the 1980s, when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government passed a law banning schools and local authorities from "promoting" homosexuality or depicting it as "a pretended family relationship."
That law wasn't repealed until 2003. Yet when Parliament legalized same-sex marriage in July, it was by a wide margin and with the backing of Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron.
There was some heated rhetoric — mostly from traditionalists in Parliament's unelected upper chamber, the House of Lords — but ordinary Britons overwhelmingly supported gay marriage.
"What has amazed me is how much of Britain, how quickly, has moved toward backing us on this," columnist and former Conservative lawmaker Matthew Parris told Sky News on Friday.
Some cite the transitional step of civil partnership, a compromise introduced in 2005 that gave gay couples the same legal protections and rights as heterosexual married partners — but not the label of marriage.
Adl-Tabatabai said civil partnerships had helped some people overcome their opposition to gay relationships.
"Their preconceptions of gay people and what their lifestyles are like are kind of changing," he said. "They're like, 'OK, I hate to say it, but maybe you're like us.'"
The government also defused some opposition by exempting religious groups from conducting same-sex weddings unless they choose to opt in. Quakers and Liberal Judaism are among the few who have done so. The Church of England, the country's biggest faith, remains divided on the issue and does not conduct same-sex weddings.
Britain is the 15th country to legalize same-sex marriage, which is also legal in several U.S. states. But the march of gay rights is not universal — several countries, including Uganda and Russia, have recently introduced anti-gay laws.
In Britain, some argue that true equality won't have been reached until a gay couple can be married by a priest in Westminster Abbey, as Prince William and Kate Middleton were in 2011. Some gay-rights activists think embracing marriage is caving in to a heterosexist world order.
Still, Saturday feels momentous to couples including Laura Smith and Sarah Nutley, marrying at London's elegant Mayfair Library in a service that includes Britney Spears lyrics — Nutley is a fan — and quotes from "The Rocky Horror Show," which Smith loves.
"We're quite a traditional couple in a lot of senses, so we always wanted to get married," said Smith, a 25-year-old office manager from Boise, Idaho who moved to London six years ago. She met her 30-year-old British partner at work — "She thought I was an obnoxious American and I thought she was a bit standoffish."
They recently celebrated their fifth anniversary, but were never tempted to have a civil partnership.
"As much as civil partnership does give the couple the same benefits as marriage … it's not the same," said Smith.
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Alibaba, arguably the world's biggest e-commerce company, filed paperwork on Tuesday that sets the stage for what could be the biggest initial public offering in U.S. history.
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Devo is an American Art Punk / New Wave multimedia music group from Ohio.
Song lyrics
[edit]All songs written by Gerald V. Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh, unless noted.
Singles (b-sides)
[edit]- God made Man, but he used a monkey to do it.
- Are we not men? We are DEVO!
- Jocko Homo (1977) Written by Mark Mothersbaugh
- Take a step outside yourself / Then you turn around / Take a look at who you are / It's pretty scary.
- Turnaround (1980)
- It's not nuclear bombs we must fear but the human mind itself (or lack of it) on this planet.
- Lies, lies, lies. That's all we get from those who pretend to know but don't!
- But once again DEVO attempts to cut through the mental grease and grime with techniques of positive mutation designed to protect you from the ninnies and the twits.
- It's time to seek out new traditions.
- Nu-Tra Speaks (New Traditionalist Man) (1981) spoken word b-side written by Gerald V. Casale
- This is the boy who burns the books / This is the way he always looks / This is the boy who smashed his car / This is the boy who went too far / Washed his eyes with yellow soap / He stole his daddy's microscope.
- Mecha-Mania Boy (1981)
- Big people set the trap for you / Using you-know-what for brains / You're just another lab experiment / And you're easy to replace.
- Growing Pains (1984)
- Got an urge i wanna purge / 'Cause i'm losing control.
- Uncontrollable Urge Written by Mark Mothersbaugh
- Something about the way you taste / Makes me want to clear my throat.
- Gut Feeling /(Slap Your Mammy) Written by Gerald V. Casale / Bob Mothersbaugh / Mark Mothersbaugh
Duty Now for the Future (1979)
[edit]- I got my head down to my lungs and move my feet.
- Clockout Written by Gerald V. Casale
- They say the fittest shall survive / Yet the unfit may live / Wear gaudy colors or avoid display / Hey it don't matter / It's all the same.
- Wiggly World Written by Gerald V. Casale and Bob Mothersbaugh
- Guess i'm just a spudboy / Looking for that real tomato.
- Smart Patrol /Mr.DNA
Freedom of Choice (1980)
[edit]- She sends out an aroma of undefined love / It drips on down in a mist from above.
- A victim of collision on the open sea / Nobody ever said that life was free.
- Use your freedom of choice.
- In ancient Rome there was a poem / About a dog that had two bones / He picked at one he licked the other / He went in circles till he dropped dead.
- Freedom of choice is what you got / Freedom from choice is what you want.
- Twist away those gates of steel / Unlock the secret voice.
- A man's not made of steel / A man is real that's how he feels.
- Gates of Steel Written by Gerald V. Casale / Mark Mothersbaugh / Sue Schmidt / Debbie Smith
New Traditionalists (1981)
[edit]- Love without anger isn't love at all.
- Why believe in things that make it tough on you.
- Love Without Anger
- It's a wonderful time to be here / It's nice to be alive.
- It's a wonderful place / For you.
- It's a beautiful world / For YOU / Not ME.
- None of you would help me when I baked my bread / Now all of you would help me eat it / I can see that you are very well fed / This indicates that you don't need it.
- Remember to do nothing when you don't know what to do.
- Enough Said Written by Robert L. Mothersbaugh Sr. / Gerald V. Casale / Mark Mothersbaugh
Oh, No! It's Devo (1982)
[edit]- The way that we weren't is what we'll become.
- Laugh if you want to / Or say you don't care / If you cannot see it / You think it's not there / It doesn't work that way.
- In this land where stability is hard to find / You can rearrange the patterns so unkind.
- Patterns
- ...Nothing is more dangerous than desire when it's wrong.
- I Desire Written by Gerald V. Casale, Mark Mothersbaugh,John Hinckley, Jr.
- Love comes in spurts.
- Please Please
- Beautiful mutants I can see in the distance / I think they're calling our name.
- Not necessarily beautiful / But mutated.
- R U Experienced? Written by Jimi Hendrix
Total Devo (1988)
[edit]- Life must be eaten or at least bitten into to get past the surface.
- Some Things Never Change
- You only punch yourself out when you start swinging blind.
- Plain Truth
Smooth Noodle Maps (1990)
[edit]- Like a fish in the water / You don't know where you've been / 'Til you jump out and take a look around / At the big picture.
- The Big Picture
- Subhuman bloodless leaders / Fed on lies and fear / And tv anchor news teams / Trim all we see and hear.
- Besides, God isn't dead / He's in your head / Right where he ought to be.
- DEVO Has Feelings Too
Something for Everybody (2010)
[edit]- One thing's always the same / No matter what they say / There's way too many problems / Way, way too many problems.
- But wishin' is for chumps / High hopin' is for fools / They'll hunt you down / and taze you bro / for playin' with the rules.
- Don't Shoot (I'm a Man), (2009)
- Turn the page on the demons in your head.
- Step Up
- We push against the rest of life / As if we can survive without the world around us / Can't have a rainbow without the rain / Can't have a painting without the pain / Can't have a lover walk out without the love leaving with them.
- There's no place like home / No place like home / To return to.
- No Place Like Home
Other works
[edit]- General Boy: "In the past this information has been suppressed but now it can be told. Every man, woman and mutant on this planet shall know the truth about De-Evolution."
- Booji Boy: "Oh Dad, we're ALL Devo!"
The Men Who Make the Music (1979)
[edit]- Released in 1981 in U.S.A.
- Jerry. Alan. Mark. Bob I. Bob II.
- DEVO introduce themselves.
- Rod Rooter: Yeah! She Didn't Know I Was A Midget. That's hot, that's hot! Parcheesi - a new group. Shipped platinum. Huh ho, killer.
Why can't you guys cut stuff like that?
Bob Mothersbaugh: Well, I guess we like ideas.
Rod Rooter: Yeah, well, I guess we like to talk in tonnage.
- Alan Myers: Then when you put the king in this position the game is over.
Woman: What a dull game.- Alan, demonstrating chess to a woman at Club D-EVO.
- People accuse us of trying to be glamorous! We don't wear these because we like them. We have to! They're protective gear.
- Gerald V. Casale, about DEVO's Yellow Suits
- We're sucking the gooey cellulite from modern music. Reductive synthesis. We do it all for you.
- Question for all you who should know much better but don't / With your brains and your instincts around you / Why do you still blow it?
- I have been hurt / I will hurt others / That's what he said / That's what he said.
- Maybe the time's come / To use what you got / For some good.
- That's What He Said videogame soundtrack
- It's a modern life but it's not what you're looking for.
- You try to make a difference but you're just another man.
- Modern Life (recorded 1982, completed & released 1999) Interstate '82 videogame soundtrack
- We're all special, everyone of us / We're all beautiful in our own way / We're all a part of a great big wad / And nothin' could be finer.
- It's All Good (2000) DEVO as The Big Dirty Farmers
- There is no zombie in the closet / There is no thing underneath the bed / There's no alien abduction / The monster's in your head.
- Monsterman (2012) Monster Man TV series theme song
Quotes by members
[edit]- What we seek then, is that transcendent state most fully engendered by Fred Flintstone -- technologically sophisticated cave-man.
- Bob Lewis Readers vs. Breeders: Didactical Works re De-Evolution (1972) Essay, originally published 1972-07-14 in the Los Angeles underground newspaper The Staff AKA LA Staff, republished in 2007 at Cleveland.com (archived link)
- Like the Bible, devolution is basically an extended joke. One man's doughnut is another man's death.
- Gerald V. Casale The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders by Wayne Jancik (1998)
- Today's noise is tomorrow's hootenanny.
- DEVO Press Kit (1980) [1]
- We do give straight answers, but nobody believes them.
- Gerald V. Casale American Bandstand interview, Season 23 Episode 34 (1980) [2][3]
- Being in a band is really great when you're 20. When you're 30, it's kind of 'Spinal Tap,' and when you're 40, it's just pathetic.
- Mark Mothersbaugh New York Times (18 April 2001), Make a Myth, Whip It Good
- We denounce this as impostors playing with fire.
- Gerald V. Casale post on DEVO website (2007), in reference to the band Korn's use of Devolution to promote a single.[4]
- One thing we learned from the hippies was that rebellion was obsolete. Hippies turned into safe little yuppies, and punks turned into safety pin wearing paraphernalia consumers. You can't fight the system head-to-head. It is like, "I fought the law and the law won." They will kick your butt each time.
- Mark Mothersbaugh Archinect.com (25 December 2007), Home Front Invasion Wartime Interview with Mark Mothersbaugh [5]
- As the Chinese proverb goes, the nail that sticks out gets pounded. You are especially scrutinized and judged if your success carries any whiff of change or controversy. If you challenge authority in any real manner, your voice in the marketplace is quickly revoked.
- Gerald V. Casale Watch Us Work It: A reflection on "work" by Devo founder, Gerald V. Casale (2011) Essay, published 2011-06-26, in Essay Collection at Workstew.com
- We're inspired by reality because the world is so ridiculous and stupid. DE-EVOLUTION IS REAL.
- Gerald V. Casale DEVO Press Release (2010) a bc
Quotes about Devo
[edit]- ...when I was in high school, I dressed like a punk rocker and people would scream "Devo!" at me - because Devo infiltrated the mainstream. Out of all the bands who came from the underground and actually made it in the mainstream, Devo is the most subversive and challenging of all. They're just awesome. I love them.
- Kurt Cobain, quoted in The Advocate (February 1993)
- This is the band of the future. I'm going to produce them in Tokyo this winter.
- David Bowie, introducing Devo at Max's Kansas City (15 November 1977) a b
- Devo, I think, is great. I love them. They are like Dadaists to me. Everything that they express is a complete reaction against everything that we stood for. But they do it so well, theatrically speaking. And with a great sense of humor. I love it. Now as far as putting on a Devo album? It wouldn't be something I would do. It's the visuals that make them fresh and fascinating to me.
- Joni Mitchell Interview with Rolling Stone (1979)