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The Goocci knock-off of political engagement groups has entered the Calgary election marketplace.
A new "CivicCamp Society" website emerged Tuesday, offering up a candidate report card that gave a row of Fs to many progressive incumbents and As to conservatives.
It runs completely counter to policies and practices of CivicCamp Calgary, the non-partisan advocacy group that's been running candidate forums in all council and trustee wards and stays assiduously away from endorsing or evaluating.
This new website and its rainbow-colour logo, at civiccamp.net, fooled at least one reporter from another media outlet into thinking it was the real civiccamp.org. Some Twitter users and campaigners were also tricked.
It's actually a prank led by political agitator Cory Morgan, self-described libertarian and former candidate for the Separation Party of Alberta. For $100, Morgan and allies registered a not-for-profit CivicCamp Society — largely to argue that the original CivicCamp is an unregistered group without traditional financial reporting practices.
In an interview, Morgan questioned whether it was identity theft or misappropriation.
"If they had any legal form of identity, I guess," he said.
"In their non-accountability and refusal to set up formally as any sort of organization or group, it left that open for somebody to set up an organization or group."
CivicCamp, which was established in 2009, chose not to register as an Alberta society to keep its volunteer and leadership structure fluid and non-hierarchical, said CivicCamp activist Peter Rishaug. He called Morgan's prank "mean-spirited."
"Now to have someone co-opt the name? It's disappointing, and disparaging to the volunteers who have put in their hard work to make CivicCamp what it is," Rishaug said.
CivicCamp has many initiatives launched by its volunteers. In addition to the election forums that it organizes citywide — asking questions crowdsourced from visitors to its website — separate branches of the group advocate for campaign finance reform and transparency, and press council on budget and development matters.
As for CivicCamp's own finances, Rishaug said the group receives no ongoing revenue, and has no office but does meet often at the CommunityWise Resource Centre in the Beltline. For its forums, it received a Calgary Foundation community grant and some money from the Alberta Teachers Association.Morgan's last notable political prank was when he drove his pickup truck onto Olympic Plaza during the 2011 Occupy Calgary protest. He jokingly claimed to authorities that he, too, was "occupying" the plaza, but his truck was towed and he received a $200 ticket for illegally parking in a park.


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Ho ho ho! Belated Christmas Present for the Retro community!
So I went ahead and bought a copy of these. The covers for the rental tapes I received have a lot of fading on the spines (and Sonic vs. Metal Sonic is a loooot worse) unfortunately.
I haven't had time to do anything but the beginning of a restoration of the front cover for volume 1 thus far. I'm hoping someone who has more time than me might clean these up though!
Full cover, raw scan, 150dpi:
Full cover, raw scan, 600 dpi:
Please do not rape my bandwidth! If someone would like to start working from my photoshop file where I began cleanup, let me know.
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If you're looking for something fun to do Lake Norman, look no further. Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Carolinas has the inside scoop on doing Lake Norman just like a local.
Known as the Thrill Capital of the Southeast, Carowinds has rollercoasters, a drop tower, and go-carts, along with plenty of fun for younger thrill-seekers. If it's hot out, cool off in Boomerang Bay, Carowinds' very own water park, which has 11 awesome water-slides. Around Halloween, Carowinds turns into Scarowinds, a terrifying, haunted theme park that is not for the faint of heart.
For two days every October, the skies above Lake Norman are dotted with colorful hot air balloons. Guests come from all over to see these inspiring giants ascend into the wild blue yonder. Balloon rides, competitions, and a 5k run add to the excitement of this must-see event.
Few of nature's creatures are as majestic and awe-inspiring as birds of prey. At the Carolina Raptor Center, budding ornithologists can get up close and personal with owls, falcons, hawks, eagles, and more than twenty other types of raptors. The Raptor Center isn't just a zoo for birds; it's also a center that specializes in the rehabilitation of injured and orphaned birds of prey. Be sure to catch one of the live presentations for an entertaining educational experience.
At the Armour Street Theatre, the award-winning Davidson Community Players put on live theatre performances that will keep you spellbound from start to finish. When you catch a show here, you're not just enjoying theatre; you're supporting an organization that gives back to the community. DCP's Connie Company program provides local youth with a much-needed creative outlet.
Of course, one of the best attractions in Lake Norman is its namesake lake. At Lake Norman State Park, visitors enjoy fishing, hiking, boating, water-skiing, and relaxing in the sun. With a surface area of more then 32,000 acres, Lake Norman is the largest manmade lake in the state.
History buffs and nature lovers rave about Latta Plantation. Walking the grounds, you'll feel like you've stepped into the past. Docents are on staff to really make the plantation's history come to life. Horseback rides, fishing, hiking trails – this place has everything you need to get the most out of a pretty spring day.


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Want to surf the Internet on the most popular tablet? Better get an iPad. Want the most secure online database? Better get, well, not Apple. And how about new iPhone rumors, HP's TouchPad, mobile game popularity, and the patent circus? We have Mac OS Ken's Ken Ray to take on all of that.
iPad, King of the Tablets
Nearly one percent of web-surfing worldwide is done via tablet, and nearly 100 percent of that comes from an iPad. That's the word from Net Applications.
Fortune has the stat tracker saying that, as of May, 0.95 percent of web-browsing on their client sites happened on tablets, 96.8 percent of which were tablets made by Apple. Quoting Fortune, "The competition — chiefly from Samsung, Motorola and Research in Motion — is negligible."
Look for that on the packaging of Samsung, Motorola, and Research in Motion tablets.
Another bit of interest from Net Applications, for June — they say — a wee bit over 60 percent of U.S.-based mobile Web browsing happened via iThings. 35.2 percent of that was said to have been through the iPhone, though one is sort of left to assume that that's a combination iPhone and iPod touch; meanwhile another 25.5 percent came via iPad.
BusinessInsider ran an interesting piece last weekend on how Apple is able to stay as far ahead of rival device manufacturers as it is. It basically boils down to a combination of awesome R&D, and early access to pieces and parts that no other company will have for somewhere between months and years.
Best line in the piece: If it feels like new Apple products appear futuristic, it is because Apple really is sending back technology from the future.
Apple Security: What, Me Worry?
So something not so secure seems to have happened to one of Apple's servers last weekend, around which I'm having trouble wrapping my head.
Here's the first paragraph from a Macworld story: A list of 27 user names and encrypted passwords apparently for an Apple website was posted to the Internet over the weekend along with a warning from hacker group Anonymous that the Cupertino-based computer maker could be a target of its attacks.
Sounds scary-ish.
Macworld says the data was pilfered and posted by an unidentified user, though other stories — including one from ZDNet — say it was the work of the hacker group AntiSec.
The names and passwords were posted to a PasteBin page under the subject line, "Not Yet Serious…" garnering the attention of other hacker group Anonymous, which said,
Apple could be target, too. But don't worry, we are busy elsewhere.
No comment from Apple in the purported breach.
While one security hole opens another gets plugged. Network World has the white-hat hackers YGN Ethical Hacker Group saying that a vulnerability they found on an Apple development website has been patched.
While YGN found the issue a couple of months ago, it was just last week that they made the discovery semi-public. Not releasing details, but threatening to do so if Apple didn't deal with the vulnerability.
Pssst… You Want an iPhone Secret?
Given a greater power for setting tongues wagging and keyboards clacking, a DigiTimes piece that says Taiwanese notebook maker Pegatron Technology has landed orders for 15 million units of the next iPhone.
Here we find secret people spilling their guts, saying Apple will start shipping the next second-coming of telephony in September… ba, ba ba…
No comment from Pegatron on the report, though in fairness they're likely still dealing with the Dark of the Moon.
DigiTimes stories from secret sources, it has been pointed out, should be taken with at least ONE grain of salt, and yet at least one site seems willing to give the DigiTalk credence.
GigaOm's "The Apple Blog" says "a big order now makes sense for a number of reasons, not the least of which is Apple's change from its traditional new hardware announcement during the June developer event."
While acknowledging Digi's mixed track record on rumor accuracy, the piece says the site tends to do well once a contract has actually been won, as is reportedly the case with Pegatron. Additionally, talk of Pegatron delivering the 15-million communicators for sale in September nestles nicely with talk for most of this year that that is when we'll see the next iPhone.
If "The Apple Blog" has any concern about the report, it's the high number of phones indicated:
15 million units is a bit high for a launch order," they say, though they see a few reasons for the high number including the possibility that Apple wants to launch the next iPhone in more markets at once than it has in the past. Plus, for the first time ever, they've got two carriers in the states with which to deal at launch, not just one. Also, more customers may be eligible for upgrade than have been at other launches, thanks to the later than usual release.
I often joke about secret so and so's, but it turns out it's kind of risky to be one. The Mac Observer says Walter Shimoon — a former exec with Flextronics and a former secret so and so for some hedge funds — has plead guilty to selling secrets about unreleased Apple kit to those hedge funds.
Flextronics was a components supplier for Apple when Shimoon was a senior business director. According to the piece, he's meet with hedge fund traders and tell them about Apple's plans. For $200 an hour.
You know there are people who pay more for hookers? I'm just saying he had information about the iPhone 4 and the iPad… which he sold for $200 and hour.
TMO says Shimoon is the 12th party to plead guilty to selling secret info as part of an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which started arresting folks late last year. Interestingly, none of the people who allegedly paid for the illegal information have been charged with anything.
$200 an hour, huh?
On iTunes and Buckets of Money
At what point does Apple stop crying poor-mouth over iTunes and money made? For years the company has referred to the media selling juggernaut as lean, saying it's pretty much a break-even proposition.
But does that change when sales of iBooks, Apps, magazine subscriptions, music, movie and TV shows — as well as rentals of movies and TV shows — hit $13 billion? Because one analyst says they're going to do that in a little over two-year's time.
The International Business Times has Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry saying he expects revenue generated through the iTunes stores to grow at a rate of about 39 percent over the next three years, adding as much as $13 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2013.
Chowdry sees a particularly bright future for Apple's iBooks versus books formatted for Amazon's Kindle. He also likes, what the piece refers to as, "the application attach rate on iPads," which he says has gone up from 15 apps six months ago to over 45 today.
TouchPad: The New Meh
Last Friday saw the launch of HP's TouchPad, the last next iPad killer, and reviews could pretty much be boiled down to one word: "meh."
Now former Apple exec, former Palm CEO, and current HP exec Jon Rubenstein is sending a letter to his troops telling them to not lose heart.
AppleInsider had him saying you've got to accentuate the positive. And there were positives in the reviews— mostly around the webOS underpinnings — while the negatives — mostly around heavy, sluggish hardware compared to the iPad and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10-point-1 — "are already known at HP, and will be addressed quickly with over-the-air updates."
How are they gonna make it lighter over the air?
Quoting Rubinstein's note: "We still have work to do to make webOS the platform we know it can be, but remember… it's a marathon, not a sprint."
He also compared last weekend's TouchPad reviews to early reviews for Apple's Mac OS X, which painted the operating system as "sluggish," without any "quality apps," and "just not making sense."
Rubinstein sees in the TouchPad and its operating system the "potential for greatness…" and he thinks users see that, as well, though it's hard to know whether they'll cue up to pay for potential.
Verizon Sprint is Getting the iPhone!
Another financial analyst has caught that Peter Pan/Tinkerbell thing. Forbes has Citadel Securities analyst Shing Yin saying yesterday that a Sprint version of the iPhone "appears increasingly likely."
On the face of it, it's true. There used to not be a CDMA iPhone, now there is, and with every passing day it's more likely we're a day closer to seeing an iPhone with an "S" on its chest.
Still, when financial analysts say it, you gotta figure there's some guy feeding them secret info that could get them sent to prison. Apparently that actually happens, though it doesn't have to, if they've caught the Peter Pan/Tinkerbell thing.
Shing Yin sees four reasons to bolster his belief:
- Sprint would be cool paying Apple's high iPhone subsidy since they're already paying high subsidies on other phones they carry.
- Apple would have another front from which to fight the Android army.
- Big Red and the Death Star would likely not try to block an iPhone for Sprint.
- Apple night like a carrier that would offer an unlimited data plan for iPhone since those have now officially dried up for new subscribers on both Verizon and AT&T.
Bonus point: while a Sprint-iPhone would probably cost the same as an iPhone through AT&T and Verizon, the carrier does have a few cheap service plans. "As such," writes the analyst
we believe a Sprint iPhone could offer an attractive proposition for more price-conscious users (a demographic that we think is increasingly important to Apple following the rise of Android). Based on this differentiation, we believe a Sprint iPhone could be a relatively stronger seller than the Verizon iPhone, given Verizon largely offers the same value proposition as AT&T. We believe Sprint could capture more than its fair share of iPhone sales, especially if it gets the new model at the same time as AT&T and Verizon.
So let me get this straight: After years and years and years of there-will-be-a-Verizon-iPhone-any-second, we're gonna start the game over with Sprint?
Do You Want to Play a Game?
There's a funny commercial out right now for some Android phone that says "This phone will let you do this… so you can get back to playing Angry Birds."
"This phone can quickly take care of this other thing," the voice over points out, "so you can get back to playing Angry Birds."
So yeah, there's an Angry Birds for Android, and people like playing games on their smartphones. Though new numbers from Nielsen say smartphone owners aren't doing as much playing on Androids as they are on iPhones.
Electronista has the researcher saying not only are games the leading smartphone application category across the board, about 64 percent of mobile app downloaders have downloaded a game or games. Meanwhile 93 percent of people willing to pay for an application are happy to pay for games.
Weather apps are said to be the second most popular category, with social networking apps taking third, though most people have no interest in paying for those.
Interestingly, it's owners of iPhones that are spending much more time at play than the Androids with the Angry Birds. According to Nielsen's findings, an average iPhone user in the past 30 days spent nearly 15 hours a month playing games, over twice the average seven hours spent on games on smartphones across the board.
In fairness to the Google crowd, Android owners find more time to waste than the average smartphone user as well, spending about 9.33 hours hacking and slashing and fighting and flying.
Xbox Live integration, meanwhile, is not drawing in Windows Phone 7 users. WP7 users average just 4.7 hours of smartphone gameplay per month. Then again, they've probably got Xbox 360s.
Electronista figures reasons for the MASSIVE time suck on iThings has to do with their fast graphics, accessible development environment, and ease of game discoverability via iTunes. While Android may be gaining in some of those areas, increased risk of piracy on Android phones and inconsistent hardware designs may be keeping bigger developers away and game time lower than on iPhones.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to playing Angry Birds.
Microsoft, the New Mordor
And to wrap up this week, Forbes says Microsoft is looking for $15 for every Android device Samsung sells.
Funny thing. When you're a small company like Lodsys, they call you "patent troll." When you're a large company like Microsoft though, they say you've "accumulated a vast stable of patents over the years," and you often use "patent suits to rake in money from other tech companies."
Patent Balrog, maybe.
Samsung is the second largest handset maker in the world and could be into Microsoft for a decent chunk of change, especially if it's decided that they owe for every Android device they've already sold, too. Meanwhile Forbes says "Samsung is hoping to negotiate a lower fee of $10, in exchange for a deeper partnership with Microsoft to create smartphones using the Windows Phone platform."
Ah. A patent Saruman.


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Topic: Employment (01/26/12)
TITLE: How to be Happily Employed
I had always loved writing stories and prepared for a career as a writer by writing small articles for local papers and self- publishing two novels; one receiving an honorable mention the other – two five star ratings. I had laid the groundwork and believed I was ready for my new life's adventure.
You see, I never liked office work and only succumbed to it in order to pay my bills. When I was young I dreamed of being a Commercial Artist, but after studying for two years and then pounding the pavement in New York City looking for work, I realized I would never make it in that field. I needed to earn a living so into the 9 to 5 office work world I went, tail between my legs.
Thirty-five years later I promised myself I would make my mark as a writer. Somewhere in between the Artist years and the Office Work years I discovered I could write. I took a three year course in the subject and found my calling as a Christian Fiction Writer and things were going well for the first time in a long time.
I also secured some teaching positions as a Creative Writing Instructor in local community centers. Things were going great – I had reached my dream – finally!
I love mentoring my mostly 'senior' students. When I see the fruits of my labor paying off with a work being published or a goal being reached by one of my students, I am grateful that I had, in a small way, planted that seed.
If you would have asked me during my Secretarial years what employment was I surely would have said, it's a way to pay the bills, but now employment means something totally different – it means a way to give back to my community and fulfill my God-given purpose in life.
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text: Hi Guys Ok, I got a Draytek Vigor 110 ADSL modem, which I have confirmed working on BT Business Broadband when I make a PPPoE connection through windows xp. I connect the Vigor to the WAN 1 port on the RV042, set it to PPPoE, add the username and password, hit save. From there I get nothing 0.0.0.0. I restart the router, the modem, disconnect renew, connect. I just cant get an IP address to pass through. The vigor works slightly different to most ADSL modems, it literally handle the PPPoA comms and passes the true IP address to the PC/Router via PPPoE. No bridging. So I look at the RV042 system logs and I see Authentication Fail! I don't see why, I'm using the exact same username and password as I do on the windows connection and the previous D-Link ADSL router we had. Do anyone know of issues with the Vigor and the RV042? I don't know what else to do. There is nothing really to change on the Vigor, it acts as a protocol handler so it should just pass the username and password to BT and then sign in. I've upgraded the RV042 to the latest firmware, and it made no difference. Any help much appreciated.


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Beirut (band)
Beirut frontman Zach Condon live at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles in 2013
|Background information
|Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A
|Years active
|Associated acts
Zach Condon
Nick Petree
Paul Collins
Kyle Resnick
Ben Lanz
Aaron Arntz
|Past members
Jeremy Barnes
Heather Trost
Jason Poranski
Kristin Ferebee
Jon Natchez
Tracy Pratt
Greg Paulus
Jared van Fleet
Kelly Pratt
Perrin Cloutier
Beirut is an American band which was originally the solo musical project of Santa Fe native Zach Condon. Beirut's music combines elements of indie-rock and world music. The band's first performances were in New York, in May 2006, to support the release of their debut album, Gulag Orkestar.[2][3] Despite their name, Beirut had never performed in Lebanon until the Byblos International Festival in August 2014.
Condon said of the band's name, "One of the reasons I named the band after that city was the fact that it's seen a lot of conflict. It's not a political position. I worried about that from the beginning. But it was such a catchy name. I mean, if things go down that are truly horrible, I'll change it. But not now. It's still a good analogy for my music. I haven't been to Beirut, but I imagine it as this chic urban city surrounded by the ancient Christian and Muslim worlds. The place where things collide".[3]
- 1 History
- 2 Personnel
- 3 Side projects
- 4 Discography
- 5 References
- 6 External links
Early years[edit]
Zach Condon was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on February 13, 1986. He grew up partly in Newport News, Virginia, and partly in Santa Fe.[4][5] Condon played trumpet in a jazz band as a teenager and cites jazz as a major influence.[6]
Condon attended Santa Fe High School, where he was a student until he dropped out at the age of 17.[4] According to a 2011 interview[7] with David Dye on NPR, growing up in Santa Fe meant that Condon was exposed to Mexican music such as mariachi. He also worked at a cinema showing international films and this piqued his interest in Fellini arias and Sicilian funeral brass as well as providing his first experience of Balkan music.[7]
He later enrolled in community college, but only attended for a short period before traveling to Europe at the age of 17 with his older brother, Ryan.[8] This discovery and Condon's subsequent exploration of world music proved to be instrumental in the development of Beirut's melodic sound.[2] Zach's younger brother Ross Condon has also made a name in music, having played in the Brooklyn-based band Total Slacker.[9][10][11][12]
Gulag Orkestar[edit]
On his return from Europe, Condon enrolled at the University of New Mexico, where he studied Portuguese and photography.[4] Condon recorded the bulk of the material used for Gulag Orkestar by himself in his bedroom, going into the studio to finish the album with the assistance of Jeremy Barnes (Neutral Milk Hotel, A Hawk and a Hacksaw) and Heather Trost (A Hawk and a Hacksaw), who became early contributors to the band.
On the strength of the recordings, Condon was signed under the name of Beirut to Ba Da Bing! records, and Gulag Orkestar was given a May 2006 release. Condon recruited some friends to play the music live for the first shows in New York, and Beirut was born.
Beirut's first official music video was for the song "Elephant Gun". The second video, which was for the song "Postcards from Italy", was directed by Alma Har'el, and was released later. 2007 saw the first release of the full band with the Lon Gisland EP.
The Flying Club Cup[edit]
Beirut's second album, The Flying Club Cup, was recorded largely at a makeshift studio in Albuquerque and completed at Arcade Fire's studio in Quebec. The music on the album has a French influence due to Condon's interest in French chanson during its recording.[13] Condon has cited Francophone singers Jacques Brel, Serge Gainsbourg and Yves Montand as influences.[14] He also expressed interest in French film and culture, claiming this was his original reason for travelling to Europe.[15] The Flying Club Cup was officially released in October 2007. In September 2007 they did a Take-Away Show acoustic video session shot by Vincent Moon. A DVD, Cheap Magic Inside, was shot but quickly sold out; in December 2010, Beirut, BaDaBing, and La Blogothèque authorized its dissemination via digital download.[16]
March of the Zapotec[edit]
On April 3, 2008, Beirut canceled a previously announced summer European tour.[17] The band had already been touring and had completed the U.S. leg of the tour, but before the European leg, Condon stated that after two months of touring, he was suffering from exhaustion.[18] Zach Condon explained the cancellations in a post on the official Beirut website, stating that he wanted to put the effort into ensuring that any shows would be "as good as humanly possible".[19] In January 2009 the double EP March of the Zapotec/Holland EP was released, containing an official Beirut release based on Condon's recent trip to Oaxaca (March of the Zapotec), and electronic music under the "Realpeople" name (Holland).[20] On February 6, 2009 Beirut made their debut television performance in the United States on the Late Show with David Letterman, performing "A Sunday Smile".
The Rip Tide[edit]
In early June 2011, amidst touring the US, Beirut announced that their newest album, The Rip Tide, which had been recorded the previous winter in upstate New York,[21][22] was to be released on August 30.[21][23] The band simultaneously released a single from the album, "East Harlem" (which was first recorded on Live at the Music Hall of Williamsburg), with the B-side "Goshen". The album was recorded, managed, and released under Condon's own Pompeii Records.[24] Reviewers and fellow musicians have noted that, unlike the prior albums which drew heavily on foreign music from Mexico, France, the Balkans, etc., this one has shown Beirut with its own, more pop-oriented sound; saying, "what emerges [on The Rip Tide] is a style that belongs uniquely and distinctly to Beirut, one that has actually been there all along."[25] One reviewer noted that "the Euro influences [of Beirut's previous albums] are still there, but the presiding spirit is old-fashioned American pop."[26] This album also differs from Beirut's previous albums in that the music was recorded as a band playing together rather than laying down individual tracks one at a time, though the lyrics were only added by Condon after all the music had been recorded.[7]
No No No[edit]
On June 1, 2015, Beirut announced their fourth album, No No No, which was released on September 11, 2015.[27] On the same day, the title track "No No No" was released for streaming. The album was recorded following a period of turmoil in Condon's life, facing a divorce and having been admitted into a hospital in Australia for exhaustion following extensive touring. However, Condon recovered fully thanks to a new relationship and his return to New York. Beirut also announced a tour for the new album.[27]
Condon plays a rotary valve flugelhorn and the ukulele as his main instruments. He bought the ukulele as a joke stage prop, but found he liked the sound and was able to play it despite a wrist injury that inhibited him from playing guitar. Condon also plays the trumpet, euphonium, mandolin, accordion, various keyboard instruments, and a modified conch shell that appears on The Flying Club Cup.[2][28][29][30]
Live, Beirut's roster generally consists of:
- Zach Condon – trumpet/flugelhorn/ukulele
- Nick Petree – drums/percussion/melodica
- Paul Collins – electric bass/upright bass
- Kyle Resnick - trumpet
- Ben Lanz – trombone/sousaphone/glockenspiel
- Aaron Arntz - piano/keyboards
Past members include:
- Kristin Ferebee – violin
- Jason Poranski – guitar/mandolin/ukulele
- Heather Trost – violin/viola
- Jon Natchez – baritone sax/mandolin/glockenspiel/keyboards
- Tracy Pratt – trumpet/euphonium/flugelhorn
- Greg Paulus – trumpet
- Kelly Pratt – trumpet/french horn/glockenspiel/keyboards
- Jared van Fleet – piano
- Perrin Cloutier – accordion/cello
- Sharon Van Etten, who contributes vocals to two tracks on The Rip Tide
The majority of the members of Beirut have performed live as well as appeared on recorded material.
Side projects[edit]
Realpeople is Zach Condon's electronic side-project. It was under this name that Condon made his first (unreleased) album, The Joys of Losing Weight, and the name to which the Holland EP is credited. The Joys of Losing Weight, which was made when Condon was fifteen, has never been released officially, but has been leaked on the internet.
Condon has also released an EP, Small-Time American Bats, under the name 1971. This was recorded with his friend Alex Gaziano on guitar and vocals, when they were both around 16 years old (2002). Gaziano is a founding member of Kidcrash, another band originating from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Soft Landing[edit]
Soft Landing was a project started by Beirut members Paul Collins (bass) and Perrin Cloutier (accordion) and Mike Lawless.[31] Their eponymous debut album was released on October 12, 2010 on Ba Da Bing records,[32] and has been described as "a pop version of Beirut"[33] and freak-folk,[34] with a heavy emphasis on dance beats and sheer energy.[35]
Pompeii Records[edit]
Pompeii Records is the record label founded in 2011 by Zach Condon[36] in order to give the band and himself full control over their music. The first recordings released on the label were the band's third album, The Rip Tide,[37] and the preceding single, "East Harlem".
Guest appearances[edit]
Condon plays mandolin, trumpet and ukulele on A Hawk and a Hacksaw's album A Hawk and a Hacksaw and the Hun Hangár Ensemble, and trumpet and ukulele on Alaska in Winter's album Dance Party in the Balkans. He appears on Get Him Eat Him's album Arms Down, on the song "2×2".
Condon is featured on the song Found Too Low RMX by fellow Santa Fean Pictureplane and also appears on the first and last tracks of the Grizzly Bear EP Friend.
Condon also appeared on The New Pornographers' fifth album, Together.[38]
Rock group Blondie's 2011 album, Panic of Girls, features a ska cover of "A Sunday Smile" on which Condon plays trumpet. He also plays on "Le Bleu".[39][40]
On the benefit album Red Hot + Rio 2, Beirut performed a cover of the Portuguese-language song "O Leãozinho" originally written by Brazilian composer and singer Caetano Veloso.
Condon is featured singing on the track "We Are Fine" on indie rocker Sharon Van Etten's 2012 album, Tramp.
Condon also contributed to 4 songs on Mouse On Mars' 2018 album, Dimensional People.
|Peak chart positions
|Gulag Orkestar
|The Flying Club Cup
|The Rip Tide
|No No No
|"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
- The Guns of Brixton / Interior of a Dutch House (November 13, 2006) – Calexico/Beirut 7″ split single
- Lon Gisland (January 30, 2007)
- Pompeii EP (February 28, 2007)
- Elephant Gun EP (June 25, 2007)
- March of the Zapotec/Holland EP (February 16, 2009 – Unofficially released onto iTunes on January 27) US No. 87 UK No. 101[53]
- Dark Was the Night Beirut contributed the song Mimizan to the charity compilation benefiting the Red Hot Organization
Again in 2011, they contributed a cover of Caetano Veloso's song "O Leãozinho" to the Red Hot Organization's most recent charitable album Red Hot+Rio 2. The album is a follow-up to the 1996 Red Hot+Rio. Proceeds from the sales will be donated to raise awareness and money to fight AIDS/HIV and related health and social issues.
- Cheap Magic Inside (2007)
- Beirut: Live at the Music Hall of Williamsburg (2009)[54]
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The more desperate you are, the more desperately you turn to your sole-mate. I learnt this golden truth in my childhood, while watching The Gold Rush. This Charlie Chaplin starrer was one of the few English movies I managed to understand in those days (because it had no dialogues). Writes Vikramdeep Johal.chandigarh Updated: Aug 24, 2014 09:41 IST
The more desperate you are, the more desperately you turn to your sole-mate. I learnt this golden truth in my childhood, while watching The Gold Rush. This Charlie Chaplin starrer was one of the few English movies I managed to understand in those days (because it had no dialogues). In a classic scene, the Little Fellow, starving and stranded in a shack during a blizzard, casually removes one of his shoes, boils it and then starts devouring it, minus the nails, as if it's chicken or mutton.
In between, he gobbles up the shoelaces, just like noodles.
Cut to 2014. Another desperate man turns to his shoe. This protester/publicity-seeker/mischief-monger pulls one off during a state-level function and hurls it towards a certain chief minister.
The projectile falls way short of its target, but the damage has been done, the touchy powers-that-be have felt insulted. Then the police take charge, ever ready to do 'sewa' with a smile. The 'interrorogation' begins…
While Charlie's 'last resort' still seems to be a fresh and mouth-watering idea, shoe-hurling has become a cliché in our restless world, too predictable to excite the masses and too risky to be tried again and again. I appeal to all potential boot-throwers: Just don't do it. It's not worth all the trouble. Instead, I offer you a new 'weapon' of mass distraction: the humble socks.
The best thing about them is their feel-good factor, being pleasantly associated with Christmas gifts, jingle bells and Santa Claus. Unlike shoes, which are often lethal when airborne, socks are featherweight and won't even hurt a fly. And even if the foolproof security tells you to remove your footwear outside a public function's venue, you still have your foot innerwear to drive the point home. But first, it's vital to have socks suited for the occasion. Freshly-cleaned ones won't do - it has to be a pair that hasn't seen a washing machine for at least a month. Ideally, both A and B sides should have been worn equally, so that even the user can't make out whether their colour is black or blue.
The groundwork done, it's time to perform on the big stage, for the sake of job reservation, forest preservation or whatever-ation. While the VVIP is in the middle of his speech, just peel one off and coolly throw it towards him. It won't go far and will soon softly, silently glide towards the ground. But the 'big bang' will be caused by the foul smell, which will repel everybody around you.
People will quickly pinch their noses, as if somebody's done you-know-what, and you can do it too (I mean pinch your nose, not the other thing).
Having made your statement with all the bad odour, you should now get ready to leave the spot. Just hold your other, no-less-smelly sock so tightly and menacingly that nobody will dare to come anywhere near you. Thus, you can make your exit, unharmed.
In the worst-case scenario, the pollution control guys might haul you up for spreading poisonous gases into the already low-quality air. But you can argue that you mistook 'the great leader with a flowing white beard' for Santa Claus and merely wanted your socks filled with your wishlist items.
In case they wonder why you brought such a filthy pair, just ask innocently: "When the whole system stinks and sucks, why single out my poor little socks?"
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"Abort Fort"by Kyle Michaelis
Here's the latest press release from the Nebraska Republican Party's website.
Congressman Jeff Fortenberry addressed thousands at the National March for Life. Following are Congressman Fortenberry's remarks:
"Good afternoon. It is such an honor to be with you today to peacefully gather and celebrate the beautiful gift of life. I am particularly encouraged by the many young people here. Despite the culture of death that rages around you, you courageously challenge the nation's leadership -- especially the impoverished decisions of the Supreme Court -- showing the world that we can be a country of life giving love.
Together we say abortion is a fundamental injustice against women and their unborn children -- that abortion has caused a deep wound in the soul of our country, resulting in untold grief and violence....
We say that women deserve better, especially those who feel coerced into abortion. For abortion is so often a decision brought on by emotional and physical abandonment. And what is the result? An unborn child dies. A woman is left scarred. A man escapes his responsibility. And the abortion industry profits from this pain.
The beautiful thing about the pro-life community is that we offer hope. We pray, we plead to our society: Please do not make the choice for abortion. Please do not go down that road. You deserve so much better.
And yet even if someone makes the tragic decision for abortion, we still say we support you and we love you. We will help you heal. Our voices are the voices of hope and compassion....
Thank you all for your sacrifice. Thank you for your courage. And thank you for your wonderful dedication to our message of hope and healing. Together we will rebuild our society with a true respect for women--and the beautiful gift of life."
Abort Fort - 2006. Maybe not the most tasteful response ever, but between these comments and all the "Support Fort" sloganeering in the 2004 1st District Congressional race it's just too golden an opportunity to pass up. I'm thinking bumper stickers, buttons, t-shirts...and I'm sure my design team could put together one heck of a graphic to go along with it.
Honestly, I take very seriously the dueling conceptions of morality and freedom - both, not one against the other - at the heart of the abortion issue. Still, it is a speech like Fortenberry's above, so much a triumph of rhetoric over reason, that lowers the terms of the debate and has gotten the nation in this sad stalemate benefitting neither women, children, nor society as a whole.
America's is not a culture of death no matter the hundreds of billions of dollars we spend on our military every year. What exactly does it mean for women to "deserve better" than being able to make their own life and health choices? Is this some sort of Orwellian "slavery is freedom"-proposition? I thought so.
Finally, while I have great respect and sympathy for the actual outreach and education efforts coordinated by the Pro-life/Anti-abortion community, why do they have so little faith in their message that they would choose to give up their principled pleading - please do not make the choice for abortion - in favor of legislation that takes that choice away, making less of our morality and a woman's humanity?
Of course, if you really believe this is genocide orchestrated by an imagined "abortion-industrial complex" rather than the complicated moral dilemma faced by real women and understandably wrestled with in any open society, then these are nonsense questions to you. In that case, Fortenberry's doctrinaire approach should be right up your alley (perhaps I should say, "back-alley"). But such is not the American way and does not reflect the true feelings of the Amerian public.
Pro-life is a beautiful message and a better ideal - one I only wish more people would truly live by - but, by itself, it makes for bad and injust law when so twisted and simplistic as the view offered by Fortenberry and his like.
No, I'll take no pleasure in it, but I think I'd better get to registering AbortFort.com before someone else beats me to it. Abrasive and insulting - particularly with Fortenberry the new father of a 7-week-old baby - it's nevertheless a message he deserves to hear....a reminder that his religion does not trump other's rights and that women will not be trampled and constrained under his paternalistic idea of what's best for them.
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If you are a Blogger user, you may have occasionally wondered, "How can I make one of those crazy-cool contact forms that all the other blogs in the world have?" Fortunately, if you are also a Google Docs user, this can be done with relative ease (and absolutely no pain).
Making The Form
To begin, log in to Google Docs, and create a new form as shown by the image below. You can punch in a title for your form to keep yourself organized, but you could actually leave this section of your form as "Untitled" and it wouldn't make any difference. In order to make it a legitimate contact page, you should provide users with the "paragraph text" question type. This allows enough room for lengthy questions or comments.
Please take note that the default form automatically inserts two sample questions. Make sure to delete the second sample, or else you will have a phantom inquiry that you don't really need. However, if you want to add more questions using different answer formats (checkboxes, multiple choice, etc.) then you are free to do so. You can even make the answers required for items such as contact details. After you are done, make sure you remember to save it.
Ripping The Form
You may already be aware that Google forms tend to stick to non-customizable templates that often don't mesh well with your blog's design. Sure, you can embed the form using an iFrame code, but it still retains the same format as the pre-designed cookie-cutter templates. Thankfully, there is a way around that.
After completing your form, go back to your Docs homepage and open up the spreadsheet of the form you have just created. As a side-note, this spreadsheet will allow you to see all the submissions to your form. When you arrive on this page, select "Form" on the menu bar and then click "Go to live form".
While looking at your form page, you should use whatever feature your browser allows for looking at the page source code. Since I am using Chrome on my Mac for this tutorial, I merely used my trackpad to open the contextual menu and selected "View Page Source".
Right here, things might get tedious, so pay close attention. You should use the Find function of your browser (CTRL + F) to locate the term "form action". When you find it, you should see this code:
<div class="ss-form><form action="YOUR_FORM_URL" method="POST" id="ss-form">
Make a note of where this line of code is, and then find this next bit of code:
Copy all the way down from the first mentioned line of code to the next mentioned line of code. If you would feel more comfortable pasting this code in a text app, then go ahead. You will be using it momentarily.
Installing The Form
After you have successfully copied your selected code to your clipboard, you should go into your Blogger dashboard. As I said before, I am using the Blogger in Draft interface, but if you are using the original UI, you will still be able to follow along.
First off, you should create a new page for your blog and entitle it "Contact Me" or something similar. After opening it, go directly to the HTML editing section of the page and paste the code.
As of now, you have basically completed the task of installing the form on your blog. At this point, your preview should look similar to the image below. However, previews are going to be different for different people based on the machine they are using.
Customizing The Form
As I discovered with my personal blog, sometimes there will be problems such as there being too much space between the page title and the form itself or the answer box being too big for the width of the blog. These minor problems can be easily fixed.
If you are having issues with there being too much space between the title and the questions, search for any
tags and delete them. However, if you are having issues with the width of the answer box, search for this line of code:
<textarea name="entry.0.single" rows="8" cols="75" class="ss-q-long" id="entry_0">
By adjusting the "cols" value to a lesser number, you can change the width of the blog to suit smaller screens or alternate browsers. Furthermore, you can actually change the fonts of the questions while editing the page. With enough customization, you can end up with something like the following image.
This is a quick and efficient way to place a style-matching Google Docs form on your Blogger blog, and the tutorial could likely be adapted for any other blog or website. You can do a lot more than what you see here, so make sure you play around with it for a little while.
What other sites do you use to make web forms? How did this tutorial work out for you? If you have any problems making your own web form, let us know in the comments or alternatively ask a question over at MakeUseOf Answers.
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I checked this out and there seems to be one problem, the response page opens in same windows with some blank comments from Google docs and no navigations bars of original site. This might confuse the visitors.
A way out could be add : target="_blank" in form action like this:
This this in use here: http://www.hairtransplantationindia.com/p/contact-us.html
Helpful information, Joshua.
I am still with Blogger, though, looking at making the big move over to WordPress.
I have to admit that Blogger(Google) have made some great additions to Blogger, in recent times.
Blogger has included other functions which just require a few workarounds (Tweaks) .
Very usefull...... Thankss alot !!!
Awesome, excellent article! I took advantage of the ability to add in a little message so I copied from slightly above where you suggested but it is working perfectly.
I don't understand - if you paste the code in a new post, it shows up as though it's a new blog post. Do I have to create another blog page in order to be able to do this? I thought I could just have a contact button that would link to this form.
Thanks for sharing ..I wanna make one for my blog asap
Much better than exposing your email to spam.