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Twilight of Heroes - Croatia, Europe and the International Tribunal
"Croatia Twilight of Heroes" deals with the surprising and dramatic developments in Croatia following the death of its first president, Franjo Tudjman, in December 1999. It is a film about a country coming to terms with its recent past after a squalid war; about the power and influence of international war crimes courts; and about a society looking for its place in a new Europe.
This is a documentary where all the key protagonists in Croatia's transformation get their say. We speak to both of Tudjman's successors as presidents of Croatia, Stipe Mesic and Ivo Josipovic, two men who drove reconciliation between Zagreb and Croatia's neighbours and pushed for the investigation of war crimes committed by Croats. We meet the former chief prosecutor of the international tribunal in The Hague, Carla Del Ponte, who sought but failed to get a conviction of Croatia's most popular general. We hear from the supporters of the late president Tudjman, those bitter about the direction Croatia has taken since 1999. We talk to Ivo Sanader, former prime minister, who remade Tudjman's party, the HDZ, in pushing through EU-inspired reforms and has recently been sentenced for corruption; and to representatives of war veteran organisations. We hear the voices of writers, film makers, civil society activists who capture the scars, and shifts, of the new Croatia.
The film takes us to Vukovar where we meet victims of Serb paramilitaries and a Serb who works for inter-ethnic reconciliation; and to the Adriatic island Brijuni where Croatian Serb actor Rade Serbedzija, who returned after 12 years abroad, now stages theatre productions with a new generation of Croatian actors.
The film opens with the state funeral of Franjo Tudjman in December 1999. The man who had led his country to independence and claimed victory in its wars, culminating in the reconquest of almost a third of Croatian territory in a few days in summer 1995, had succumbed to his illness. His supporters, such as the author Nenad Ivankovic, believed Tudjman had done enough to secure his place in the eternal pantheon of Croatian national heroes: "Today, in post-modern times, it is not a nice thing to say, but the whole of world history shows: a statesman who wins a war and establishes a state there is no greater deed than that." For Jakov Sedlar, a film director who made a film portraying Tudjman, the general and founding president, as Croatia's George Washington, it was none other than God himself who had chosen Franjo Tudjman from among millions of Croats to lead his nation through the desert of war to the holy land of independence. Read more …
In fact, however, Tudjman had also led Croatia into international isolation. He had continued to undermine neighboring Bosnia, steadfast in his determination to support a Croatian statelet in Herzegovina. He had been adamantly opposed to any return of Croatian Serb refugees. For Carla Del Ponte, the Swiss chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Tudjman was also the suspected leader of criminal conspiracies in Bosnia and Croatia, including the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Croatian Serbs from Croatia in 1995. As she told ESI, in her view Tudjman and his associates:
"Thought that if waging a legitimate war, you do not need to consider if crimes are committed, war crimes or crimes against humanity. It is 'collateral damage.' But that is why the international tribunal was created; a war is not a permission to commit crimes."
Tudjman had died before he could be indicted. Yet soon the ICTY began seeking the extradition of his senior generals. The most prominent among them was Ante Gotovina, a former member of the French foreign legion and the main architect of Croatia's 1995 reconquest of territories occupied by Serb forces. Del Ponte, backed by the EU, put enormous pressure on the Croatian leadership to have him arrested and extradited. Gotovina, a popular general among the wider Croatian public, was able to escape.
Croatia's failure to deliver all its war crime suspects to The Hague ground its European integration effort to a halt. It was only Gotovina's arrest on the Canary Islands in 2005 that opened the way for Croatia to join NATO and to conduct EU accession negotiations. It also led to a dramatic trial in The Hague. At first, having already spent 6 years in jail, Gotovina was sentenced to 24 years imprisonment. One year later, in November 2012, the appeals chamber overturned the verdict with 3 to 2 votes, leading to his acquittal.
The ghost of the war crimes from the 1990s haunted Croatian society. This could be felt through the enduring trauma of a war in which hundreds of thousands of Croats had been expelled from Serb-held parts of the country as well as from neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina. There was also the enduring grief of the many had lost relatives in the violence, like the author Ivana Bodrozic. Bodrozic left Vukovar in 1991 as a small girl before it fell to Serb forces. Her father had remained behind and she never saw him again, a story she describes in her novel Hotel Zagorje. There is also the story of the radio journalist Zvezdana Polovina, who returning to Vukovar on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of its fall, mourns her husband, a radio technician who was captured and executed by Serb forces in 1991 together with 260 others at a pig farm outside the town. Polovina later testified at the international tribunal in the Hague, but confides that she feels that justice has not yet been done:
"I think that absolute justice does not exist. We cannot bring our dead back. I know that what I am going to say now is utopian: Justice would be served only if the people who committed atrocities would go through exactly what we went through."
Politically, there was the challenge of coming to terms with the crimes committed, with direct support from Zagreb, during the war in Bosnia in the 1990s. Stipe Mesic, elected as Croatia's second president in 2000, had broken with Tudjman over his Bosnia policy in 1994. Ivo Josipovic, his successor, went even further, visiting the Central Bosnian village of Ahmici to commemorate the 115 Bosniak victims killed by Croat forces in the early morning hours of 16 April 1993. Speaking in the Bosnian Parliament Josipovic explained:
"The politicians of the 90s, out of ignorance, malice or insanity, believed that the solution for Bosnia was its division. So they planted a seed of evil and the feuding nations reaped death, war and destruction ... I deeply regret that Croatia, with its politics in the 90s, contributed to that. I deeply regret that these politics contributed to the deaths of people and to divisions that still haunt us."
Confronting its past had a profound impact on Croatian society. In a reversal of the "common sense" of a few years earlier, soon only a few die-hards could be found justifying ethnic cleansing of Serb civilians in 1995. This went as far as those defending Gotovina choosing to argue neither he nor the other indicted generals had actually wanted to expel Croatian Serbs.
The consequence of this was Croatia stood ready to welcome back Croatian Serbs as full citizens. After 2000 a significant number of refugees did indeed return. In 2003 in what would once have been the unthinkable, Tudjman's former party, the HDZ, entered into an alliance with the most important party of Croatian Serbs. Today 35 percent of Vukovar's inhabitants are Croatian Serbs. The nationalist narrative of Tudjman's Croatia has dissolved. According to a recent poll, less than a third of young Croats think the constitution should define their country as a Croat nation state, while four in ten oppose this view.
Yet as the spirit of the 1990s fades away, not everyone is of course delighted. For some, like Tudjman-supporter Jakov Sedlar, Croatia's post-2000 developments are troubling: "The message that Croatian politicians sent to young generations about a possible [future] war … is: Don't defend your homes, don't defend your country."
On the other hand for president Ivo Josipovic the transformation of Croatian society is one of the country's greatest achievements since independence:
"Croatia has gone through multiple transitions: It went from war to peace, from socialism to capitalism, and it also went through the sufferings of war to a society focused on development, culture, success, and on the European Union. I think that all of these transitions … resulted in the fact that Croatian society thinks differently today than it did 20 or 10 years ago."
This is making Croatia a less haunted place. For the writer Ivana Bodrozic this shift in thinking has allowed her to reconcile her own pain, that of having lost her father in a horrible and senseless war crime, with the recognition that Croatian society had to accept all that had happened during the 1990s:
"Personally, I was not ready for a long time to listen to some things that were happening to people of Serb nationality in Croatia. It's not because I am a bad person, but because your own trauma fills you so much that you feel a righteous fury and you actually do not care. However, in order to live in a healthy and normal society, you have to accept that, too."
Even those long involved in opposition politics, like Vesna Pusic, today the foreign minister of Croatia, also notes that Croatia has changed a lot during the past decade:
"I think if you want a clean start you have to face things that were good, but also the things that were bad. I strongly believe that there is no national interest and no national position that you defend with concentration camps."


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Central Davidson coach Brian Hege, awaiting the start of Monday night's game with Lexington, knew his team would have its hands full for the next two nights, first against the Yellow Jackets and then at rival West Davidson.
Central Davidson coach Brian Hege, awaiting the start of Monday night's game with Lexington, knew his team would have its hands full for the next two nights, first against the Yellow Jackets and then at rival West Davidson.
The Spartans have had a sterling season so far and figured to be the favorite Tuesday night at West.
"They're one of the best teams in the conference," Hege said.
On Tuesday, the Spartans made a nifty in-game adjustment by switching to a zone defense late in the third quarter and pulled away for a 56-43 win that was closer than score indicated.
"I think they're one of the top teams in the conference," Hege said.
Hege didn't change his mind from one night to the next and that's indicative of how the Central Carolina Conference is going this season. It's shaping up to be one of the most balanced, competitive CCC seasons in years. That's a win-win for the fans even if it probably isn't good for the blood pressure of the coaches.
Consider what has happened the last two nights.
Chris Pompey, the best player in the county and other counties as well when he's on, had a huge, two-handed slam dunk early on and ripped the nets for 29 points as the Spartans rallied to beat Lexington 71-68.
They had no time to rest.
First off, the crowd at West Davidson was rocking. Both sides were filled with costume-clad, enthusiastic students. It was a great atmosphere for high school basketball and set the tone for an exciting game.
After it was all over, the Spartans had their win. But the Dragons, led by first-year coach Derrick Stokes, are a threat to win any time they take to the court and Hege knew that. He didn't forget Central's close call with the Dragons in the NewBridge Bank Christmas Classic championship game. And he won't forget it when they play again at Central, despite the Spartans' gaudy record.
To illustrate how competitive the CCC is from top to bottom, East Davidson won 55-51 at Salisbury on Tuesday. East carried a 2-13 record into the game but the Eagles were close in several of their defeats. West is 6-11 but lost to Lexington and Thomasville by a combined three points.
The way things are going, the CCC tournament could be a real crapshoot, with any of the teams capable of winning it. That's important because a lower seeded team could sneak in there and grab the No. 2 seed for the state playoffs.
"There's not an easy game in this conference," Hege said. "It's excellent for the fans and it helps us get ready for the playoffs. When you get to playoff time, you need to be able to win close games and we've had close games every night. It's great to play in this kind of atmosphere. When we came over here, I felt we could lose. I've got to give our guys credit."
It's a competitive deal for the girls, too.
Central leads the CCC with a 3-1 mark, followed by Lexington at 3-2. Salisbury, East and Thomasville are 2-2. It can't get much closer than that. Salisbury hadn't lost conference games in just about forever before this season, opening the door to the rest of the conference.
As for the Spartans, they have recovered nicely after opening their CCC slate with a 76-61 pounding at the hands of Thomasville. The Spartans have used a 1-3-1 zone press the last two nights to wipe out Lexington and West.
East caught fire early but the Eagles' opponents have caught up as of late.
Central may have put itself in the driver's seat thanks to the 1-3-1. But …
"We've got a long way to go," said Central coach Kevin Hudson.
There are bound to be more twists and turns to what has already been an exciting CCC season.
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World stocks up as Dow heads for record close
LONDON (AP) — World stocks mostly rose Friday as the Dow was set to close at another record high, but gains were kept in check by worries the Federal Reserve will cut its monetary stimulus soon.
Asian and European markets were roiled this week by Fed minutes suggesting the U.S. central bank will start reducing its $85 billion of monthly bond purchases in coming months.
The super-easy monetary has kept interest rates low to support economic recovery in the U.S. but also propelled money into higher yielding stocks. Frequent shifts in expectations about when the stimulus will be withdrawn have sparked gyrations in markets.
Stan Shamu, market strategist at IG in Melbourne, Australia said the "buoyant" performance of U.S. markets encouraged investors back into stocks even as the Fed guessing game remains on the radar.
In Europe, France's CAC 40 rose 0.6 percent to close at 4,278.53 while Germany's DAX gained 0.3 percent to 9,219.04. Britain's FTSE 100 edged down 0.1 percent to 6,674.30.
On Wall Street, with the S&P 500 rose 0.3 percent and the Dow 0.1 percent, putting it on track to close at a record high above 16,000 for the second day running.
Since the start of the year, the Dow blue chip index is up 22 percent, propelled higher by a combination of solid corporate earnings, a steadily strengthening economy and the Fed's monetary policy. If it holds onto those gains, it will have its best year since 2003. The Dow topped 14,000 in February and 15,000 in May.
In Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average rose 0.1 percent to 15,381.72 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng added 0.5 percent to 23,696.28. Seoul's Kospi gained 0.6 percent to 2,006.23. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 jumped 0.9 percent to 5,335.90.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude for January delivery was down 81 cents at $94.64 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract gained $1.59 to close at $95.44 on Thursday after the U.S. government said monthly unemployment claims fell in a sign of an improving job market.
The euro rose 0.5 percent to $1.3549 while the dollar was little changed at 101.25 yen.


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Details of the 'Mellon Collie...' reissue have emerged....
MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS is being released in multiple physical and digital configurations, including an expanded 5CD+DVD Deluxe Box Set (also available digitally) and the remastered original album in 4LP Vinyl, 2CD, and digital formats. The Deluxe Box Set's 5 CDs include 64 bonus tracks of previously unreleased material or alternate versions of MELLON COLLIE era songs, and its DVD features a live show filmed at the Brixton Academy, London (1996) and bonus performances from the German music television show Rockpalast (1996). It all comes housed in a 12 x 12 lift-top box with magnetic closure, reimagined cover art and velvet-lined disc holder. The package includes 2 books containing personal notes, lyrics, new collage artwork, plus a Decoupage kit for creating your own scenes from the MELLON COLLIE universe. The bonus content and special features were curated from the band's archives by CORGAN, and have been painstakingly remastered for the first time from the original master tapes by Bob Ludwig.
– Physical Tracks: 106, Digital Tracks: 92
– Original album remastered for the first time
– 64 bonus tracks of previously unreleased material or alternate versions of Mellon Collie era songs
– DVD featuring live show filmed at the Brixton Academy, London (1996) and bonus performances from Rockpalast (1996)
– Housed in a 12 x 12 lift-top box with magnetic closure, reimagined cover art and velvet-lined disc holder
– 2 books containing personal notes, lyrics, new collage artwork plus a Decoupage kit for creating your own scenes from the Mellon Collie universe.
– 4LP (180gram), Original album remastered for first time, 28 tracks
– Remastered vinyl features the original record spread out over 8 sides (4 LPS) for the first time to ensure the optimum sound
– MCIS never before released on vinyl in the US (original vinyl previously released in the UK)
– Housed in 12×12 rigid slipcase with 2 books containing personal notes, new collage artwork, lyrics and more.
- Original double album remastered for the first time
- Physical and Digital Tracks: 28
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Dawn To Dusk (CD1)
Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
Tonight, Tonight
Here Is No Why
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
To Forgive
An Ode To No One
Cupid De Locke
Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
Take Me Down
Twilight To Starlight (CD2)
Where Boys Fear To Tread
In The Arms Of Sleep
Tales Of A Scorched Earth
Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
We Only Come Out At Night
Lily (My One And Only)
By Starlight
Farewell And Goodnight
Morning Tea (CD3)
Tonight, Tonight (Strings Alone mix)
Methusela (Sadlands demo)
X.Y.U. (Take 11)
Zero (Synth mix)
Feelium (Sadlands demo)
Autumn Nocturne (Sadlands demo)
Beautiful (Loop version)
Ugly (Sadlands demo)
Ascending Guitars (Sadlands demo)
By Starlight (Flood rough)
Medellia Of The Gray Skies (Take 1)
Lover (Arrangement 1 demo)
Thru The Eyes Of Ruby (Take 7)
In The Arms Of Sleep (Early Live demo)
Lily (My One And Only) (Sadlands demo)
1979 (Sadlands demo)
Glamey Glamey (Sadlands demo)
Meladori Magpie
Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Home Piano version)
Galapagos (Instrumental/Sadlands demo)
To Forgive (Sadlands demo)
High Tea (CD4)
Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Sadlands demo)
Set The Ray To Jerry (Vocal Rough)
Thirty-Three (Sadlands demo)
Cupid De Locke (BT 2012 mix)
Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans (Live Studio rough)
Jellybelly (Instrumental/Pit mix 3)
The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)
Jupiter's Lament (Barbershop version)
Bagpipes Drone (Sadlands demo)
Tonight, Tonight (Band Version Only, No Strings)
Knuckles (Studio outtake)
Here Is No Why (Pumpkinland demo)
Blast (Fuzz version)
Towers Of Rabble (Live)
Rotten Apples
Fun Time (Sadlands demo)
Thru The Eyes Of Ruby (Acoustic version)
Chinoise (Sadlands demo)
Special Tea (CD 5)
Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Nighttime version 1)
Galapagos (Sadlands demo)
Cherry (BT 2012 mix)
Love (Flood rough)
New Waver (Sadlands demo)
Fuck You (an ode to no one) (Production Master rough)
Isolation (BT 2012 mix)
Transformer (Early mix)
Dizzle (Sadlands demo)
Goodnight (Basic Vocal rough)
Eye (Soundworks demo)
Blank (Sadlands demo)
Beautiful (Instrumental-Middle 8)
My Blue Heaven (BT 2012 mix)
One And Two
Zoom (7 ips)
Pastichio Medley (Reversed extras)
Marquis In Spades (BT 2012 mix)
Tales Of A Scorched Earth (Guitar Overdub mix)
Tonite Reprise (Version 1)
Wishing You Were Real (Home demo)
Thru The Eyes Of Ruby (Pit mix 3)
Phang (Sadlands demo)
Live at Brixton academy, London, 5/15/96
1. Tonight, Tonight
2. 1979
3. Zero
4. Here Is No Why
5. Thru the Eyes of Ruby
6. Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
7. Jellybelly
8. Silverfuck
9. Disarm
10. Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Live at Rockpalast, 4/7/96
11. Fuck You (An Ode To No One)
12. Muzzle
13. Cherub Rock
FUCK indeed!
It looks amazing to me. One of my favourite albums of all time but I just know this is going to be an expensive one. I really just want the live show. Have the original on LP. To be fair the unreleased stuff is a pretty mouth watering prospect as well.
that live DVD looks massive
can't wait to feast my eyes and ears on all that SP loot
Very, very exciting.
Was looking at how much people pay for the original 3xLP version of this on eBay. £550! Still won't part with mine.
I hope the artwork isn't reimagined too much, it really put me off the siamese dream reissue, dont mind a new slip case or something but changing the actual album cover is changing part of the album, but probably going to contradict myself completely now, I hope the tracklisting of the vinyl is changed to match the CD because that is the album I know. Either way I am definitely getting this, still one of my favourite albums and many of those b-sides are as good as their best songs
I hated the artwork too
I thought the Gish and Siamese Dream reissues just looked shite. And I've been so far a little put off by the price for those, so I've not bothered. But this, and the Aeroplane Flies High box set when that comes out, I WANT WANT WANT!
reissue artwork
was ugly as sin
the vinyl tracklisting
makes much more sense to me...
anyone know prices?
You know
IF they got the 2000 lineup back together... Corgan - Chamberlin - Iha - Auf Der Maur (think D'Arcy is a lost cause) ... and did a no bullshit, straight up proper tour of stuff from this album... I think that might be my number one realistic reformation wish. Was SO disappointed when I saw them at Wembley back in 2000, just absolute pish. However, a bona fide two hour hits show of Mellon Collie and Siamese Dream stuff would be amazing, even now.
This release looks wellll cooool but I bet it is gonna be mega expensive.
I saw them on the Mellon Collie tour in '96
And I'd love to see a proper reunion and Mellon Collie/'hits' tour now. But Corgan would never go for it. And he'd probably call us both dicks for wishing it to happen!
Both of you.
Yeah, I think Corgan has gone on record saying he would never do a show where he played an album in full
Think it was when Gish and Siamese Dream reissues were out (or could have been that masterpieces thing with Zane Lowe). He said he didn't see the point in it.
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The latest tour, they actually HAVE been playing Oceania in full and chucking a few "hits" on the end for good measure...! Ah well, wouldn't be our B0lly if there wasn't a good measure of self contradiction involved.
That box looks fucking awesome, the original "weird" 1979 demo, Towers of Rabble, their cover of Isolation, yes :D I do wonder if this covers the Aeroplane box as well, plenty of crossover there (pastichio medley with reversed extras!!??!).
Ahem, I was at the Brixton show (got the last return from the box office on the day, was so ecstatic I jumped up and down much to the bemusement of the box office girls), though had to leave before the end so this makes up for it big time. The version of Silverfuck on there I hope isn't cut as it's a good 20+ minute version and it's a good 'un. And I hope they left a clip of James doing the Firestarter too, he went mental and started screaming and doing the Keith dance.
This is going to cost a kidney isn't it...
Doesn't surprise me at all
Like you say - wouldn't be Billy without the self contradiction or just general ballbagery
There is still going to be a reissue of Aeroplane.
Or so I've read.
Aeroplane reissue will happen
They recorded constantly around Melancholy and Adore, there's *plenty* left in the vaults.
Just what this album needed
more songs.
Might get the vinyl for christmas, that digital version though
there's no way I'm ever going to sit through all that.
This really does look amazing
...and as everyone says, will probably cost a packet. I would guess between £40 - 50
I wasnt aware aeroplane flies high was being re-issued as well...tho maybe i just forgot about it. I do find it strange, however, that they include songs from aeroplane on here...same as what they did on the gish reissue with plume i suppose
had a look to see if this is listed anywhere yet, amazon.co.uk has the vinyl for £140, I feared it would be in that rgion, but interestingly the amazon.com listing has it for $73 (£45ish), think it must be a mistake as the CD version is $136, I might order it just in case the price goes up
tower records has similar prices, weird, vinyl buyers get it cheaper for once
Isn't the vinyl just a reissue of the original album though?
I don't think you get any of the extras. £140 for the CD version is really steep though...
oh yeah, I hadn't noticed that, the sets looked similar so I assumed they were equivalent. Suits me though as I am not that interested in extras, but the packaging looks pretty well done so I can just about justify £45 for it though that is well at the upper end of what I think is reasonable, shipping and taxes might push it too far, good thing the exchange rate is favourable at the moment.
Dont see how they can charge £140 in the uk but $73 in America, are they not aware of the internet
£140 is a stupid and greedy price
Not even in scale with the other reissues that cost about £25? I set my maximum price for this at £60 and will gladly buy it for that when they find they have a rather big surplus of stock in a year's time. The DVD is a nice to have, and there is about ten of the extra tracks that are worth it but, fuck, when did Billy become Mick Jagger?
Add to this, James Iha is playing the Bush Hall next week, tickets are £20 + ticketbastard charges... again, would be nice to go but...
Woah, I never realised Iha was playing a show. I'd pay that for a ticket if he played Said Sadly.
Unfortunately it clashes with Mark Lanegan at The Forum and Scott Kelly at The Black Heart. Busy night for gigs that one.
£140 is ridiculous. I've been checking Amazon over the last few weeks thinking it was a mistake, but no.
I got my Rage Against The Machine XX boxset yesterday: Remastered original album with bonus tracks, remastered 1991 demos, remastered album on heavyweight vinyl, 2 DVD's packed full of live/rare material, booklet, poster all in a nice 12" box. £63. A much more sensible price point.
so Mr Corgan is in need of a retirement fund
This ladies and gentlemen is when file-sharing for free is perfectly acceptable. Watch and wait for the pdf's and flac lossless versions to go up. That'll do me.
The sad thing is
Billy doesn't need any more money. He could've retired 10 years ago. These prices are just pure greed.
There's legions of fans that have followed Billy for over half their lives, since the reunion the mechanics behind it have got more concerning - yes they gave pretty much an album of stuff for free (with the option to buy the vinyl with a hand carved stone thingy! wow!) but since then it's been high ticket prices, another patchy new album, reissues with lavish packaging but no real content that raises the bar past 'curiousity' (so far) and this ultimate fuck-you-and-give-me-the-cash gesture.
It's like that Super Sweet 16th show where spoiled rich brats make their friends and classmates go through "try-outs" to go to their fucking birthday party, corgan is saying 'to be a fan you need THIS much money, so you can get the box set, the vinyl, the VIP only pre-show show, the £30 hoodie, the £100 signed poster... else you're not a real fan'. There's smaller and better bands that I'd rather support.
I agree that some of those prices are ridiculous, http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/store/mcis-reissue/
but find it weird that in amongst them the vinyl set is just about reasonable (not at the tripled UK price obviously), just seems odd, surely vinyl reissues are where the collectors money is at.
I think I was wrong up thread about the re-imagined artwork, I really disliked the siamese dream and gish reissues because it took those albums out of the nineties which seemed strange for a reissue.
This one, even though the art is new it seems to work, the original art is in part of it but expanded on
£140 for the vinyl set? It looks mouth wateringly sweet, but at that price they are fecking MAD.
So the vinyl is £160 in the UK and $75 (£46) in the US?
It looks like a fairly hefty item weight wise, but i'm assuming postage won't be as much as £114! Might see if I can order it direct from the US and get it for about £60 all in.
I've looked a bit more into this. The vinyl set is available for $75 through the SP store on their website, so we are other sites charging £140?
their own store and other american ones all seem to be around the same $70-80, all uk ones seem to be around £140. I know normally stuff generally costs more here, more tax and the cost of importing, but the gap here really is inexplicably huge. I can't imagine anyone paying that amount for it, surely anyone interested would shop around and soon realise they can get it alot cheaper
Well I just filled out details in the basket do see what postage would be, and in sterling it all comes to £55, so what is stopping people outside the US from just ordering directly through the SP store?!
Nothing, but you'll have to pay customs duty on top
What records are doing the vinyl version for £75
yeah nothing, thats the weird thing as even with customs it is well worth doing
I got
the Sufjan xmas box direct from Asthmatic Kitty for the same reason. When I preordered it, Amazon etc. were asking for £45 and it cost £25 total to have it sent from the US. Amazon are now doing it for £35, but still...
Did that get a customs charge?
And how long did it take? I'm wondering whether to go from there or amazon...
You can stream the remastered album here.
Doesn't really sound that much different actually. I think I'll pass on buying this.
Pitchfork review is surprisingly insightful
I really enjoyed that
made me want to rush home, grab some headphones, bust out Mellon Collie and pretend I'm 15 again.hanshotfirst this'd this
Yeah, after I read it I put "Tonight, Tonight" really loud on my headphones
and nostalgia'd so hard that I got a lump in my throat.
The remaster is totally on the money...
it's got a little bit more bite to it and they've cleaned up the muddy low end on Jellybelly/Ode to No One etc. The dynamic range is still great too; really subtle use of compression.
(and that evaluation is based on A/B testing the remastered 16 bit WAVs against the original cd)
didnt realise the $75 vinyl from their site comes with a download of the album plus the three bonus discs, makes the price seem a bit less steep (really wish i'd realised this before I spent £30 on the digital version just to get the bonus tracks, the 'exclusive artwork' with the digital version is a bit of a joke, 8 tiny thumbnails of the artwork)
Doesn't warrant its own thread
but Billy's now hawking a shitload of Pumpkins stuff from back in the day on eBay: http://stores.ebay.com/Smashing-Pumpkins-Memorabilia
I ordered my copy of this from Amazon.com
and it had some surface noise on a couple of tracks, Amazon have given me a full refund but apparently this has been an issue with the pressing
Does anyone know if the ones bought in Europe were from the same pressing or if they suffer from the same noise?
I ordered mine from the band site, hoping it is an ok 2nd batch as there was a long delay before they sent it out but I somehow doubt it, probably too expensive to send back.
How bad is the surface noise, and on which tracks? i've read it is worst on zero which im not too fussed about, but ive also read the whole thing has unbalanced stereo
it's worst on Zero
but it's also on the last song of side B. I didn't notice it on C or D and didn't listen E,F,G or H becuase I knew I was sending it back already.
Hopefully yours is good!
mine finally arrived, zero has got to be the worst sounding vinyl track i've ever heard, it sounds like draping a blanket over maxed out speakers and standing in another room listening, a truly shoddy reissue. If I had bought it in the uk I would send it back.
who gives a shit?
horrible band. truly horrible.
- spiritofjazz and monoshono this'd this
OK, I'll do that
however, Smashing Pumpkins still stink.
yeah, it like totally is, man
I mean like, whatever.
Free time or shitty hobby?
Kind of strange someone who doesn't give a shit would bother pulling up this article & sifting through the comments.pieces_of_reece and thewarn this'd this
It looks awesome
Some of the demos should be interesting indeed.
I love this band
but this looks like a load of horsewank. You get an album that's already overinflated, packed with loads of studio scraps. Ace.
Tonight, Tonight (Strings Alone mix)
Tonight, Tonight (Band Version Only, No Strings)
If you pay them together, do you get a full version?
Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Home Piano version)
Why would anyone want to hear that?
Set The Ray To Jerry (Vocal Rough)
Corgan's vocals on a track tagged 'vocal rough'? No thanks.
Jupiter's Lament (Barbershop version)
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Last week I spent three nights in Hamden, CT (by New Haven.) My sister and brother-in-law flew out from Iowa and stayed at my nephew's house and I stayed in a hotel. We all went out to dinner one night to the Central Park Tavern in Hamden and had a very good dinner. Leah had a glass of Riesling and the rest of the adults shared a bottle of Tempranillo which I chose from the wine list.
2011 Legado Munoz Vino de la Tierra de Castilla Tempranillo from the La Mancha district. Medium ruby color with semi-transparency. Nice, soft berry flavors (raspberry); not tannic or too oak-influenced. I was surprised to see that Schneiders in DC has this for $9.99. It was $30 at the restaurant and I figured it was probably at least $15-$17 retail. However, I've had other Tempranillos at the $8 or $9 price point that I enjoyed so I consider this wine to be a real QPR at retail price. I loved the citrus-marinated grilled chicken with roasted potatoes and broccoli sides, my brother-in-law loved his filet mignon, another had salad with grilled strip steak, etc. and the children liked the grilled cheese sandwich and the pork, mac 'n' cheese.
I had some time between flights in Philadelphia on the return trip from New Haven and had lunch and wines at Vino Volo in the airport. The cheese plate had a goat's cheese, a sheep's cheese, and Gouda. I tried the flight of Pinot Noirs but found the week's selections less satisfying than a P.N. flight at a Vino Volo on another occasion.
2007 Walnut Block Pinot Noir single vineyard Marlborough, New Zealand. Reddish-brown/umber color. It had the taste of cooked cherries and raspberries. This was described on the notes as pomegranate and licorice. My impression was that it was the "funkiest" N.Z. Pinot Noir I've ever tasted. It grew on me a little at the end of the taste but not one I would purchase again.
2011 Wallace Brook Cellars Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, OR. Pale garnet color with transparency. Cherries on the nose and a bit of the Oregon "pine needle" scent. Good with the dried cherries on the cheese plate. A bit pallid or shy on the palate. Maybe too young? I guess I liked this best of the flight of three Pinots but that isn't saying a lot.
2011 Maison Champy Pinot Noir, Burgundy. A couple shades darker than the Oregon or New Zealand Pinots with transparency. Some sous bois on the nose. Pretty nice with the Gouda cheese. More earthy than fruity. I have had better wines from this house in the past.
Remembering the pleasant Tempranillo from dinner in Hamden, I tried a glass of Tempranillo following the flight of Pinots.
2011 Radio Boca Tempranillo, Valencia, Spain. (Wow, a search of wine-searcher.com shows that this is even cheaper than the Munoz Tempranillo. A store in Cincinnati, Ohio lists this for $6.99) A deeper shade of red and less transparency than any of the Pinots in the flight. Red berries on nose and palate. Very fruity and playful. I enjoyed it.


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- Highly exposed to regional geopolitical tensions
- Very high public debt
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After President Michel Sleiman stepped down in May 2014, Lebanon went through an institutional vacuum which lasted until the 31st October 2016, the day on which the parliament elected Michel Aoun (a Christian former general), a member of the "March 8 Alliance", named after the pro-Syrian rally held on that date in 2005 and mostly composed of Shiite (including Hezbollah and Amal) and Christian parties. On the 3rd November 2016, Saad Hariri, leader of the Sunni members of the Future Movement party - a bloc within the "March 14 Alliance" (named after the date of the rally against the Syrian presence that followed Rafik Hariri's assassination in February 2005 and formed mostly of Sunni and Christian parties united by their opposition to the March 8 Alliance - was appointed Prime Minister and formed a National Unity Government. During a visit to Riyadh on the 4th November 2017, Prime Minister Hariri decided to resign. This surprise declaration caused "devastation and chaos" in the country among all factions and, according to Mr Aoun, took place under pressure from the Saudi regime. On his return to Beirut on the 22nd November, Saad Hariri put his resignation on hold. The most plausible hypothesis is that he will stay in post until the next parliamentary elections scheduled for May 2018.
Fragile growth in 2018
After recovering in 2017, the Lebanese economy has once again proved its resilience due to the stability of its banking system whose assets represent 350% of GDP and to substantial remittances from the diaspora. Nevertheless, activity is constrained by political uncertainty and regional instability, exacerbated by the presence of almost a million Syrian refugees in the country (almost a quarter of the population). Following the discovery of offshore oil and gas deposits in the Mediterranean, the government set up a legal framework to cover the taxation and exploitation of oil and gas activities in January 2017 and launched calls for tender. It seems unlikely that the impact on the Lebanese economy will be observed as early as 2018, despite the authorities' avowed aim of beginning production from the beginning of the year as there is stiff competition with Israel over some fields. Tourism (15% of GDP in 2016) is likely to be only weakly affected by the call for nationals of Saudi Arabia (2.5% of tourists) and its allies in the Middle East to leave Lebanese territory.
Household investment is expected to benefit from the central bank borrowing rate of 1% (compared with the commercial bank rate of 8.4%). The rate is intended for low- and medium-income households in order to boost property sector growth, particularly in the Greater Beirut area. Regarding private investment, the law on public/private partnerships (PPP), passed in August 2017, is intended to facilitate involvement by private actors in infrastructure modernisation projects (Beirut International Airport, Khaldé-Nahr Ibrahim motorway). Private consumption, despite the political uncertainty, is expected to rise because of the arrival of Syrian refugees.
The central bank is expected to maintain the Lebanese pound's fixed exchange rate (since 1999) against the US dollar, a measure guaranteeing financial stability for investors in a highly dollarised economy. 60% of deposits on Lebanese accounts (which represent over twice the GDP), which are mostly held by the Lebanese diaspora, are in US dollars.
Significant twin deficits and growing debt
On the 9th October 2017, parliament approved its first budget since 2005. The draft budget included provision for a 16% increase in wages and pensions. Subsidies, especially those for the national electricity company Electricité du Liban (6% of total spending), continues to put pressure on the public accounts. To offset this rise in spending, VAT is expected to increase from 10% to 11%, corporation tax from 15% to 17%, tax on deposit interest from 5% to 7% and, finally, taxes on some products like cement or tobacco will also rise. All of these measures will contribute to deficit reduction. The primary balance will continue to show a surplus, with the large public deficit mainly due to payment of interest on the public debt (32% of spending in 2018), which is steadily increasing. The debt, which is at an exceptionally high level, is mainly held by Lebanese banks, with 60% of their assets in sovereign debt securities.
In 2018, the current account will still show a sizeable deficit due to the trade imbalance. Imports (34.5% of GDP in 2016) are expected to remain at high levels on the assumption of firm oil prices (21.2% of imports). Rising domestic demand for food and consumer goods, triggered by the population increase, will also encourage this trend. Exports to neighbouring Syria, which have never stopped despite the war, will increase following the defeat of IS, especially in the agricultural sector. The large current account deficit is financed by current transfers from the diaspora and by FDIs (16% and 5.5% of GDP respectively in 2016).
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Italian Scientists Convicted Of Manslaughter, Sentenced To 6 Years In Jail, Over Earthquake They Failed To Predict Properly
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Because of that, they've now been convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to six years in jail. This is despite the fact that the report quite clearly said that "earthquakes were unpredictable, and that building codes in the area needed to be adjusted to provide better seismic safety."
The conviction is tremendously troubling -- and the scientific community is quite rightly up in arms about it. Even more bizarre is that the judge didn't seem to care too much about the concerns everyone was raising. From John Timer's report:
The prosecution had attracted widespread condemnation from the scientific community, with one petition on behalf of the seismologists attracting over 5,000 signatures. But, shockingly, the judge in the case took only a few hours to deliver the verdict, and handed down sentences that were two years longer than those requested by the prosecutor.It seems like a fairly extreme theory of negligence that would lead one to decide that a "too tame" seismology report was negligent and resulted in manslaughter. And, of course, the chilling effects of such a ruling will be tremendous. Who will be willing to provide such a report in the future? And, if anyone does, won't they now err on the side of "we're all going to die!!" even if the evidence doesn't support that? It's not surprising that people want to spread blame around when there are tragic deaths, but sometimes it goes way, way too far.


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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Thomasville City Schools in Thomasville, N.C., will pay $25,000 and furnish other relief to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
The settlement resolves the EEOC's lawsuit charging that in 2007 and 2008 the school system failed to hire Arlene Lent for two assistant principal positions because of her age (54 at the time). Instead, the EEOC said, the system selected two younger, less qualified candidates. The EEOC's lawsuit alleged that Lent met all of the minimum qualifications for the positions, while neither of the younger candidates who were selected did. At the time of the decision, Lent was a teacher in the same school district, had earned her North Carolina principal's license and had 16 years of experience in education. Lent continues to teach in the school district.
Age discrimination violates the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), which protects individuals aged 40 and older from employment discrimination.
In addition to paying $25,000 in monetary damages to Lent, the three-year consent decree resolving the case (EEOC v. Thomasville City Schools, Civil Action No. 1:10-CV-00686 filed in the Middle District of North Carolina), includes injunctive relief enjoining Thomasville City Schools from engaging in further discriminatory acts on the basis of age, provides for training on preventing age discrimination in hiring, and requires that the school system report information about its hiring practices to the EEOC.
"We are pleased that the EEOC was able to resolve this case," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District Office. "As the U.S. work force, populated significantly by baby boomers, continues to grow older, it's even more important that employers ensure that their hiring decisions do not discriminate on the basis of age."
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Louis Vuitton Wins Lawsuit Supressing Artwork About LV-ish Bag -- Or Genocide, Maybe
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In addition, Plesner relied on freedom of speech at the time. This defence also holds no water.It appears
In general, intellectual property rights are regarded as justified restrictions of the freedom of speech within the meaning of Article 10 (2) of the ECHR: they are (i) prescribed by law, (ii) necessary in a democratic society, and (iii) intended for the protection of the reputation or rights of others. Only in exceptional cases, an intellectual property right (except from the restrictions already contained in the relevant IP laws) may be set aside on grounds of the freedom of speech. The strict requirements that apply as a condition for this have not been met in the present case, for a number of reasons.
First of all, there is no necessity to use the intellectual property rights of Louis Vuitton. Louis Vuitton has nothing to do with the genocide in Darfur, and therefore it is not necessary (and without reason) to associate Louis Vuitton with this genocide and to use its intellectual property rights for this purpose. Even as far as Plesner's message is that the public would only be interested in "showbiz elements" and not in the wrongs going on in the world (cf. paragraph 8 above), there is no necessity to use the intellectual property rights of Louis Vuitton. There are numerous other means to get this message across without using the intellectual property rights of Louis Vuitton; for example, if the choice would be made to maintain the picture of the African small child, the child could be depicted with a large diamond ring, or with a shiny car in the background, or slumping in front of a TV, etc. etc.).
The fact that the court effectively says it's okay to block expression so long as there's "any other way" to express yourself to make a similar point is horrifying. The court also
As for Louis Vuitton, the purpose of intellectual property law is being dragged through the mud here. It's not to stop an artist from doing something you don't like. It's not to stop anyone from doing something you just don't like in general. At most, it's to stop direct competition in the form of "unfair" copying or to prevent confusion in the marketplace. None of that applies here. The court makes the bizarre and totally unsubstantiated claim that "she caused great damage to Louis Vuitton." How? Honestly, how? Criticism of Louis Vuitton through parody should not be considered an IP violation. That basically rules out all parody. Is that what the court really wants to do?
Of course, once again, in filing this lawsuit and getting this judgment, Louis Vuitton has only served to do the exact opposite of what it had hoped to do. That is, it has called tremendous attention to Plesner and her artwork, and the statement she is making. You would think they would have understood that by now, but apparently not.


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Jake Westbrook has found his pitching groove in time for a playoff stretch run.
Westbrook gave up one run over seven innings, Asdrubal Cabrera hit his first major league homer and the Cleveland Indians beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 8-1 Saturday night.
Grady Sizemore also went deep for the AL Central-leading Indians, who extended their advantage over the Tigers to 1½ games. Detroit lost 5-2 against the New York Yankees. Cleveland has won three in a row following a four-game losing streak.
"We're getting close to September, so now every win counts," Westbrook said. "Every win is big right now and hopefully we can do everything we can to kind of separate ourselves from Detroit."
Westbrook (4-7) allowed just two hits, including an RBI double by Carlos Pena with two outs in the seventh. The right-hander, who spent time earlier this season on the disabled list with a left abdominal strain, has won three of his last four starts.
"For me, it's just getting into a rhythm," Westbrook said. "It's about pitching with confidence and being able to locate my pitches. Right now I feel good on where I am, and hopefully I can continue to be there."
Westbrook struck out four and walked two during his 91-pitch outing.
"You look at the last five starts, maybe he's been the Jake Westbrook that we know him to be out there and even beyond that at times," Indians manager Eric Wedge said. "Jake was outstanding again today. He's really stringing them together right now."
Cabrera's three-run drive off Jason Hammel (1-3) put the Indians ahead 3-0 in the second. Called up from Triple-A Buffalo on Aug. 7, the rookie got his first career RBI on a sacrifice fly in Cleveland's 2-1 win over Tampa Bay on Friday.
"That's a big three-run homer," Wedge said. "That is what got it started, and the guys just added on from there."
Hammel gave up four runs and eight hits in five innings. He is winless in 15 major league starts, including six this season.
"Early in the game, too many pitches," said Hammel, who threw 105. "Picking the corners instead of just attacking."
The Devil Rays have the majors' worst record at 46-76 and have lost 36 of 49 since June 25. Tampa Bay has not homered in eight straight games and have scored just 17 runs over the stretch.
"It just ain't happening right now," Devil Rays left fielder Carl Crawford said. "It's late August. ... Probably a little tired. That's the only thing I can think of. We'll start swinging again."
Sizemore made it 4-0 in the fifth with his 21st homer of the season. He has a hit in 22 of his last 24 games.
Kenny Lofton singled in a run in the sixth and Ryan Garko hit an RBI double in the seventh to extend the Indians' lead to 6-0. Garko has two RBIs in his past 14 games.
Casey Blake's two-run single in the eighth put Cleveland up 8-1.
Crawford singled with one out in the fourth for Tampa Bay's first hit, but B.J. Upton grounded into a double play.


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Thirty-four fuel stations in 27 cities across South Dakota are offering consumers with flex fuel vehicles (FFVs) more ethanol blend choices at the pump, with the help of grants from the South Dakota Corn Utilization Council and the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC). And 11 more fuel stations have applied to this blender pump grant program which debuted last May. This puts South Dakota behind only Minnesota in the total number of blender pumps available to consumers.
"While mid-level blends are for flex fuel vehicles only, we are confident research will demonstrate that E15, E20 or even E30 can be run in conventional vehicles with no changes needed," says Toni Nuernberg, executive director, EPIC. Nuernberg notes that early tests are being conducted on higher blends at the EPA. Should EPA approve higher blends, the pump infrastructure, at least in South Dakota, will be in place.
The organizations recently launched a state-wide advertising campaign to educate consumers about mid-level ethanol blends, blender pumps and blender pump locations.
Farmers may be interested to learn that the Department of Energy already has begun testing the potential impacts of E15 and E20 on emissions, catalyst and engine durability, vehicle driveability, engine operability and vehicle and engine materials. DOE's first report is just part of a very large test program. To see the preliminary test results, visit http://feerce.ornl.gov/publications/Int_blends_Rpt_1.pdf.


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Hey I know Emeryville isn't Berkeley/Albany/El Cerrito, but if anybody's around wanna play let me know. I'm looking to get back into Tennis. I used to be decent (level 4, 5). I think I can get back into it after some practice. Just looking for some people to hit with locally, all levels are fine. I find that I play better when I play better people so I should be able to hang.
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i'd be down to hit. i'm in oakland, but can get to courts in emeryville. i'm out of town this weekend, but let's try to find a time?
Hey i'm in emeryville.. i'm about 3-3.5 though, so if you don't mind, we can hit some time.
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This will serve as the new home for future discussion of the Booking Tool, as well as discussions of how the community would prefer the look and feel of the tool once we are in Beta.
This page is redirected from http://wikitravel.org/shared/Talk:Advertising_policy --IBobi 18:22, 24 August 2011 (EDT)
Please take a peek at the mockup of what the search results page looks like: Image:WT booking engine mockup, 1st page nav.PNG --IBobi 19:43, 16 September 2011 (EDT)
Other language versions[edit]
I feel quite confident that introducing this tool globally will kill off our small contributor base on the few language versions that are still alive (I'm not entirely sure that it won't kill our contributor base on the English language version as well...). I put a huge amount of time and effort into creating the Russian version, and would be pissed as hell to see the excellent contributors we have there chased off because of this. Our non-English language versions have very low web visibility, so it's not like leaving the booking tool off them is going to cost IB short term revenue. --Peter Talk 12:02, 25 September 2011 (EDT)
Time frame[edit]
Would IB please provide an exact date for the introduction of the booking "tool". That way we can adequately prepare for the fallout. --Peter Talk 12:02, 25 September 2011 (EDT)
Implementation, time-frame, and policy[edit]
Implementation of the booking tool is slated to begin in March/April of 2012. This will involve a gradual roll-out coinciding with the sitewide Mediawiki upgrade, once that is determined to be stable (and we can begin addressing bugs and feature requests that are not alleviated by the upgrade itself).
My point of view, and that of some who have participated in this lengthy discussion over the past two years, is that the booking tool is not an *ad* in the sense of contextual or display advertising; it is a value-added site feature that is non-editorial content.
However, in order to be as sensitive as possible to policy issues, I propose two small changes to the existing http://wikitravel.org/shared/Advertising_policy:
1. Under ADS LOCATION, change "All advertisements are restricted to the right-aligned sidebar, which in turn is reserved exclusively for ads" to "All display advertisements are restricted to the right-aligned sidebar, which in turn is reserved exclusively for ads."
2. Under WIKITRAVEL ADVERTISING AND PRIVACY POLICY, change "Examples of ad formats not to be used include pop-ups, ads which open separate browser windows, and animated ads" to "Examples of ad formats not to be used include pop-ups, ads which automatically open separate browser windows, and animated ads."
The first change addresses the distinction between the booking tool and the display ads currently on the site. The second change addresses the fact that should a user choose to use the booking tool, a new browser window will open when they perform a search (this being preferable to leaving the current WT page, as expressed by the community), and this necessarily must be treated differently than popups, etc., which are beyond user control.
As previously discussed, the implementation of the booking tool is very open to input from the community in terms of behavior as well as look & feel. When the initial test rollouts begin, we'll be taking feedback and will make every endeavor to implement suggestions about integrating the tool as smoothly as possible into the site, while maintaining its usability and clear differentiation from editorial content.
Please let me know if this seems reasonable and if there are any tweaks we should make. Thank you.--IBobi 18:48, 21 February 2012 (EST)
Community opposition[edit]
I'm not even sure if it's worth noting, but if only for form's sake, I would like to state once more that this booking tool has not garnered the support of the Wikitravel community, and looks to be being introduced over the opposition, smothered by a fine layer of apathy and resignation, of our Wikitravellers. --Peter Talk 22:09, 17 March 2012 (EDT)


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Schmeichel's Leicester leveller given to Wood
Leicester City's late equaliser against Yeovil Town has been taken away from goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel and credited to Chris Wood.
Schmeichel looked to have emulated his father Peter, who scored a number of goals in his playing career, by rescuing a 1-1 draw for Leicester at the King Power Stadium on Tuesday.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. _ The Lady Bisons softball team struggled at the plate Tuesday afternoon falling 8-0 and 9-0 in a doubleheader at Tennessee Tech University.
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Sarah Street and Kristina Hortert combined for a one-hit shutout in the second game.
In the second game, the only hit for the Lady Bisons came in the top of the second inning when Jessica Wilson doubled down the left field line.
Allison Tyree started the first game for the Lady Bisons. She gave up five hits and six runs, four earned, in 1.1 innings. She also struck out two and walked two.
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The Lady Bisons don't play again until March 6. They will play their first game on the Lipscomb campus in more than a year. Alabama A & M will be the first opponent on the new Draper Diamond. Game time is 1 p.m. There will be a dedication ceremony prior to the start of the game.
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An example of that service to the community came when Fort Meade Army Specialist Alexis Kwamin read a poem she wrote after volunteering to perform her first Honor Salute for a Hospice of the Chesapeake patient who also is a veteran. Her emotional reading of "We Shall Never Forget" was rewarded with a standing ovation.
Other highlights included the fifth-grade class of Hilltop Elementary School, who performed "America the Beautiful" and "God Bless America" as a select group read letters of thanks to veterans and a contingency of active military personnel and Naval Academy midshipmen who performed a salute honoring veterans in the audience as well as the memory of those who have died. Voices of Vets Inc. performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the opening, and then closed the event with a rousing rendition of the "Armed Forces Medley" which features the anthems for each of the five branches of the military.
Around 250 people attended the event. It is part of the nonprofit's partnership with the national We Honor Veterans hospice initiative, which works to serve and honor the men and women from all branches of the military who have served our country.
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UP NEXT: Tuesday vs. Vermont, 7 p.m., Gampel Pavilion (SNY)
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by Keb » Sat May 04, 2013 6:51 pmYeah he even got promoted and shit. I remember he started working there when we finished high school. He got a couple of my orders and used to write on my packing slips.
by Grayson » Sat May 04, 2013 6:52 pm
Not yet but I am curious about Elephantmen and I have been eying Atomic Robo lately too...
Honestly, if my LCS has a copy when I go in this week, I'll probably pick it up. I was just wanting something a little lighter for a break.
Probably not a bad idea. Especially since I am running out of room.
I will admit, finding just the right spot to get comfortable while reading a large book like a Marvel Omnibus or a DC Absolute can be tough. They really should take this into account.
I know, that's why I always try to give them a nice home when I get them.
Just another reason why I don't like to order from Amazon whenever I can find it at a brick and mortar store.
by Keb » Sat May 04, 2013 6:56 pmElephantmen is good. The books seem like they're really big but they're printed on nice paper and have a lot of back matter. If you can track down the hardcovers, they are much nicer than the paperbacks. The paperback spines get creased easily.
I hate spine creases.
by Grayson » Sat May 04, 2013 6:58 pm
I think that my LCS has most of the hardcovers and now that you mention it, they do remind me of the Mind MGMT hardcover which was just an incredibly well put together book.
Me too!
by Arion » Sun May 05, 2013 3:40 pm
I'm curious, what did he write on the packing slips?
by Keb » Sun May 05, 2013 6:05 pmOne of them said "Hey (my first name), good book." Another said "I like this movie." Obviously he kept it clean. That was weird because he probably would have written some weird inside joke on it.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Sun May 05, 2013 6:13 pm
I mean, it's possible? But from what I've seen very recently in person it really impressed upon me how much the distribution and warehousing systems have changed to meet the consumer demand for immediate and cheaper shipment of goods. And how much of that falls onto the backs of the human workforce in those systems, not further automation to make things faster and cheaper. I think that's happened everywhere, although Amazon is the biggest that just means they're the industry leader others will want to emulate.
by Keb » Mon May 06, 2013 7:42 am
Oh no doubt. Demand has gone up in the last 10 years like crazy and workers are being forced to accommodate with very little support offered. I used to work at bank processing online credit stuff (loan payments, PLC activating, etc.) and the operations grew and grew but they wouldn't hire new people. They'd just ask us to process more.
It got really bad because had to fulfill quotas and every time we got a a task done, we'd have to mark it off on our quota sheet. Eventually they started reducing the processing time for each task so we'd have to do more. It was really silly.
I can imagine the same thing applies to the warehouses.
by covalesky » Mon May 06, 2013 7:55 amI wasn't reading anything, but today I got 9 books in the mail
3 of them I have to return to amazon, and one I already had (i wanted the second volume, but ordered the first again ----- dumbass me).
SOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo that makes 5 good books to read. Its going to be a fun couple of weeks.
I think I'll start with Punk Rock Jesus.
by Keb » Mon May 06, 2013 9:09 amDo you have to return them because they are damaged?
by covalesky » Mon May 06, 2013 9:14 am
Nope, I complained that an order was late and they shipped a new one in priority mail. Today I got both of them.
The correct thing to do is return one of them.
by Keb » Mon May 06, 2013 9:15 amOh okay. Yay complaining!
by covalesky » Mon May 06, 2013 9:24 amAmazon has a superb costumer care policy. Complain and you shall receive.
by Keb » Mon May 06, 2013 9:55 am@ everything we've been taking about in this thread for the last two days.
by Arion » Mon May 06, 2013 2:34 pm
Oh, I thought he would write some dirty jokes...
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