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Events took a dramatic turn when Mirza Afzal Beg, deputy chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, submitted his resignation in quick response to Chief Minister Sheikh Abdullah's call for him to quit the council of ministers.
Forty Years Ago, Prime Minister Morarji Desai refuted criticisms that the Janata government's foreign policy had sold the country away.
Rajiv Gandhi, elder son of Mrs Indira Gandhi, was "unfairly involved" by Bansi Lal in the Defence Ministry's 1976 Boeing affair. Stating this, the third and final report of the Reddy commission adds that while no corruption charges could be proved against the former defence minister in this regard, the turn of events between the ministry, the Air Force and Indian Airlines suggested that Bansi Lal did take "great interest". The commission draws attention to the fact that one officer — joint secretary K R Ballga — who disagreed with Bansi Lal on the purchase o f Boeing aircraft, was not only transferred but an adverse entry was made in his file.
Prime Minister Morarji Desai refuted criticisms that the Janata government's foreign policy had sold the country away. On the other hand, the government had established close relations with countries in the true spirit of non-alignment, he told a public meeting organised by the Tamil Nadu unit of the Janata Party in Madras. Desai claimed that for the first time in the last 30 years the country's relations with its neighbours were becoming more and more friendly. He dismissed Indira Gandhi's criticism of the Janata Party as born out of "frustration and a sense of hopelessness of getting back to authority".
Events took a dramatic turn when Mirza Afzal Beg, deputy chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, submitted his resignation in quick response to Chief Minister Sheikh Abdullah's call for him to quit the council of ministers. The two leaders have thus parted company after having worked together for 40 long years. Soon after his meeting with journalists in the afternoon, the chief minister wrote to Beg stating that there was "unimpeachable evidence" about the deputy CM's "involvement in causing defections" within the National Conference during the recent elections to the State Legislative Council.


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DOUGLAS, RUBEN
Height: 1.93 Born: 30 October, 1979 Nationality: United States of America
Index rating 34 Khimki Moscow Region vs. Valencia Basket 12/4/2007
Points 36 Khimki Moscow Region vs. Valencia Basket 12/4/2007
Offensive rebounds 3 Artland Dragons vs. Valencia Basket 12/16/2008
Defensive rebounds 6 FMP Belgrade vs. Valencia Basket 1/6/2009
Total rebounds 7 Artland Dragons vs. Valencia Basket 12/16/2008
Assists 4 DYNAMO MOSCOW vs. Fraport Skyliners Frankfurt 1/17/2006
Steals 6 Fortitudo Bologna vs. Valencia Basket 12/2/2008
Blocks 2 Valencia Basket vs. SLUC Nancy 12/18/2007
Minutes 36 Khimki Moscow Region vs. Valencia Basket 12/4/2007
Played high-school basketball at Bellarmine-Jefferson HS, Altadena, Cal.
Played college basketball at University of Arizona (1998-99) and at New Mexico University (2000-03).
Moved to Greece for the 2003-04 season, signed by Panionios Athens.
Moved to Italy for the 2004-05 season, signed by Fortitudo Bologna.
Moved to Russia for the 2005-06 season, signed by MBC Dynamo Moscow.
Moved to Spain for the 2006-07 season, signed by Valencia CB.
Played there till February'09.
Moved to Italy, signed by Virtus Roma.
Won the 2006 ULEB Cup with MBC Dynamo Moscow.
Named the 2006 ULEB Cup Final MVP.
Won the 2004-05 Italian National Championship with Fortitudo Bologna.
Played the 2004 Greek All Star Game.
Led the 2002-03 NCAA in scoring (28.0 ppg.).
Named the 2002-03 MWC Player of the Year.
Named to the 2001-02 and 2002-03 All-MWC 1st Team.
Member of Panama National Team.
Played at the 2006 World Championship.
2004-05 Climamio Bologna 20 267 13.3 53/97 54.6 37/88 42 50/68 73.5 76 21 20 6
2008-09 Lottomatica Roma 3 32 10.7 7/13 53.8 4/14 28.6 6/10 60 9 4 0 1
Totals 23 299 13 60/110 54.5 41/102 40.2 56/78 71.8 85 25 20 7
Averages 23 299 13 60/110 54.5 41/102 40.2 56/78 71.8 3.7 1.1 0.9 0.3
2005-06 Dynamo Moscow 17 277 16.3 58/123 47.2 36/90 40 53/67 79.1 73 18 17 4
2007-08 Pamesa Valencia 15 243 16.2 34/68 50 46/109 42.2 37/45 82.2 45 10 16 3
2008-09 Pamesa Valencia 8 87 10.9 13/25 52 16/47 34 13/18 72.2 28 16 6 1
Totals 40 607 15.2 105/216 48.6 98/246 39.8 103/130 79.2 146 44 39 8
Averages 40 607 15.2 105/216 48.6 98/246 39.8 103/130 79.2 3.6 1.1 1 0.2
1998/99 Arizona 27 216 8 49/115 42.6 29/87 33.3 31/51 60.8 56 21 54 6
2000/01 New Mexico 28 455 16.3 93/205 45.4 58/143 40.6 95/120 79.2 162 25 36 9
2001/02 New Mexico 30 544 18.1 103/247 41.7 66/147 44.9 140/167 83.8 135 28 41 4
2002/03 New Mexico 28 783 28 124/311 39.9 94/238 39.5 253/301 84.1 185 35 58 8
2003/04 Panionios 26 521 20 109/233 46.8 66/167 39.5 105/130 80.8 97 35 40 6
2004/05 Fortit. Bo 44 573 13 129/251 51.4 69/197 35 108/138 78.3 219 63 64 6
2005/06 Dynamo Moscow 27 409 15.1 85/191 44.5 46/132 34.8 101/125 80.8 98 26 49 4
2006/07 Pamesa Valencia 38 515 13.6 84/179 46.9 84/262 32.1 95/117 81.2 136 37 33 14
2007/08 Pamesa Valencia 37 601 16.2 97/164 59.1 99/257 38.5 120/143 83.9 113 29 40 6
2004/05 Fortit. Bo 20 267 13.4 53/96 55.2 37/90 41.1 50/68 73.5 78 21 20 6
2005/06 Dynamo Moscow 16 260 16.3 55/116 47.4 33/85 38.8 51/65 78.5 70 18 16 4
2007/08 Pamesa Valencia 15 243 16.2 34/68 50 46/109 42.2 37/45 82.2 45 10 16 3

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Trippier assist odds: 'Bury Beckham' 5/2 to set up Sweden vs England goal
Last Updated: 5th June 2020
Tottenham's Bury-born right-back Kieran Trippier is statistically the joint-third most creative player at the 2018 World Cup alongside Neymar – back him to assist a goal for Sweden vs England at odds of 5/2.
Trippier has averaged four key passes (the final pass leading to the recipient of the ball having an attempt on goal) per game across his three outings in Russia.
Only Mesut Ozil (5.5) of Germany and Belgium's Kevin De Bruyne (4.3), have managed higher mean totals across the matches they've been involved in.
Tripper sits joint-third in the key passes standings at the tournament, alongside £200m Paris-Saint Germain Marmite man Neymar.
The 27-year-old, who has nailed down the right-back slot at White Hart Lane under Mauricio Pochettino since Kyle Walker's sale to Manchester City, also leads the tournament for average crosses per game (3.7)
Trippier isn't even favourite in the Sweden vs England to assist a goal odds?!
Given such stellar numbers from the energetic Mancunian, it's moderately surprising to see that the Trippier assist odds for the upcoming Sweden vs England clash have him at 5/2 second favourite.
Raheem Sterling is the only one of Gareth Southgate's men shorter in the betting to set up a goal against the Scandinavians at 7/4, with Harry Kane third-shortest in the market (3/1).
If you're tempted by the Tripper assist odds, then it follows that his Spurs teammate Kane is a seductive pick in the anytime scorer betting at 21/20.
No Lilywhite set up more Premier League goals (five) for England's number nine last season than the former Man City academy product.
However, punters expecting Trippier's creativity to bear fruit in Samara, yet uninspired by those odds, may be interested in Three Lions defender John Stones to notch during the 90 minutes at a far more lucrative 12/1.
The 'Bury Beckham' set up Stones' opener against Panama in the second group game and the danger he embodies at set pieces means that even if it's not England's right back that serves up the chance he takes, then your wager is good value.


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Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons By Isana RajaEditor The war in Ukraine has caused more than just a rise in gas prices—it's actively contributing to a global food shortage. Ukraine and Russia account for a crucial portion of the world's wheat, barley, corn, and sunflower oil exports; by some measures up to 12% of global caloric […]
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Q: Electron App Linux - HTTP requests do not run until the terminal window is resized I have this bizarre issue on Electron when running my app on Linux. This is just a linux related problem as this doesn't happen on OSX or Windows.
Basically I run electron . and when it gets to a nodejs http.get request the code stops executing. The weird thing is once I resize the terminal window the script starts working again and the app works just fine! Sometimes the code is executed but rarely is executed as well. This is the weirdest thing I've ever come across and I can't seem to find anything about this issue on the web.
Here is my code for the http request:
let api,data = '',root = this
let options = {
   hostname: apiUrl,
   path: '/api/playlists',
   method: 'GET'
}
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
      http.get('http://' + options.hostname + options.path, (res) => {
        res.setEncoding('utf8')
        res.on('data', (chunk) => {
          data += chunk
        })
        res.on('end', () => {
          // data is a json in string format so it needs to converted to an js array
          root.updateFiles(JSON.parse(data))
            .then((res) => resolve('Playlists synced!'))
            .catch((err) => {
              reject('Playlists synced with errors!')
              console.log(err)
            })
        })
      }).on('error', (err) => {
        console.log('Error:' + err.message)
      })
    })

Note: I am running Linux on a VM using Parallels.
Thanks for your help!

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Whenever you learn a new language it starts to become quite apparent that there is so much more to language all over the world than you probably initially thought. Indeed, while you can learn the fundamentals of any language, for example, trying to speak that language in a part of the world where it is native is another thing entirely. Sure, they will appreciate that you learned their language as a second language in a Language lab from Robotel, but understanding it is still different when you see it in domestic use.
Whatever language your learned first is probably your native language. This is the language you grew up speaking and probably the one you speak most often (because most people continue to live in the country where they first learned to speak). Of course, some countries have more than one commonly spoken language—like Canada—so your native language might not always be an obvious one.
While this term is often interchanged with native language, it is not quite the same thing. The domestic language of a region can be a particular dialect of a native language, for example. At the same time, most people speak the same domestic and native languages.
You might also interchange first language with native language, as they do often refer to the same thing even though they are, in fact, somewhat different. For example, Americans have a first language of English, but those who immigrate to America have a different first language, even though they grow to use English as their native tongue, over time.
Basically, any language you learn after your first language is your second language. Again, this is something that appears to be far more common in countries other than the United States.
Kind of like a second language, a foreign language is a language you learn after your first language, though a foreign language is specifically spoken in a country outside of your own. In Europe, for example, many people speak multiple languages simply because there are many dialects spoken throughout the continent. A foreign language is specifically something spoken in a "foreign" land.
World language is a term that refers to one of a handful of languages that are commonly spoken throughout the world. Spanish and English are examples of world languages.


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We'll need some more information before we can help you. What is the connection string being used by the client application? What is the start line you use when starting the server?
and maybe check it's running using dbsrv9.exe and not dbeng9.exe.
This gives detailed information - if the problem isn't then obvious, do post the results here to see if anyone can help further.
Assuming your server is up and running check your connection string includes "Links=tcpip(Host=servername);" if the database server resides on a different subnet to the client.
I think the provider will normally discover the IP address of a database server on the same subnet but won't be able to on a different subnet.


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I made this little home automation project for my light and one small fan.
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Yes noted, which is why I want to just take it a step at a time. Not afraid of court or losing, but don't want to go in half cocked or lose my shirt in the process. I am mindful that in my opinion Rooftop read stuff on here, but there is a financial point when its not worth them defending a claim. That's the point I need to find I guess.
I did note this bit in the Redstone case that may weaken my claim slightly, but like all things it open to interpretation :- Charging for field counsellor visits in full to some customers who had not been properly informed of the timing of the visit and/or of their right to refuse or cancel the visit; or who should have been charged a reduced rate cancellation fee; What I cant find are any threads or cases of people being successful with claims to provide guidance, there are a few that start off with similar detail but have not been updated in ages.
Yes I saw that, and its what started me thinking. I don't think the post date of the original thread was then as I am sure I read it last year sometime. Does it make my argument stronger and could I claim back to 2007 ?
The Debt Counselling companies where NCI prior to 2013 and then DMS after. Looking through the paperwork, NCI charged £94 in 2008 but appeared to have only been paid £54 maybe because it was a non contact visit on both occasions. And DMS charge £60 which is on an invoice in the paperwork so I can see any evidence of Rooftop or JP profiting from these. Its hard to assess any interest on the fees due to the elaborate way they account for them, looking at statements prior to 2015 for example I don't see any being charges, however on the most recent ones they now supply which list only the "default fees" which includes all the fees they have charged over the years I note they add £9 interest every month. Its difficult to work our how much of this £9 is for the Home Visit charges. The 2 £94 are from 2008, and we didn't ask but as explained above I think they must have charged us a straight fee of £94 based on the visit going ahead and then refunded part of it when they found out it hadn't from the companies themselves. Its my intention to go for the visit fees plus 8% which is £635 as a starting point, and if successful go for the admin fees bit by bit.
So had a clear my head 24hrs on this, Hopefully you can see in post #54 that I have questioned the charges applied re home visits. There are many more charges but I am going for the easier ones first to keep the figures within manageable amounts to avoid further charges etc. You are 100% correct, Rooftop and JP Morgan did request the visits using 3rd party companies. I have copies of the instructions they sent and the subsequent letters. The ones from RP & JP to me just inform us that they will be employing the companies to visit, the only mention of when and how is where they say that we have 7 days to contact them to cancel this course of action. There is nothing in any of the correspondence from any party to indicate a date and time. As far as we are concerned the visits where all unannounced and as such didn't take place although we were subsequently charged. As far as my application to the county court, it will based on the fact that we have been charged for the visits, ones we didn't request nor did we have any firm appointments or notification when they would happen and as such we would always be unable to meet with them. As the visits were entirely at the behest of Rooftop and previously JP Morgan then in my opinion it is for them to stand the cost unless they are fully carried out with consent of the customer.
So had a long rambling letter back from Rooftop about the home visit charges, they basically upheld part of my complaint in not providing a couple of documents re the visits, both of which don't really say anything. They are still saying it's my fault for being in arrears and not cancelling the visits. The charges are increasing and they now call them and the arrears "default charges". It's obvious they are reading the posts in my opinion and to be honest I am thoroughly fed up with it all. The only way to try and get something back is now court, I have exhausted all other avenues. I will have a few days to reflect and would welcome advice, but now sick of playing postal tennis with this bunch of crooks.
Cant confirm if visit took place for any of them as we have never spoken to them. The possibilities are all that, we are not vulnerable and wouldn't be able to apply to any scheme. But as any conversation never took place how can this be a simple yes or no ?, at best the agent has guessed but at worst he has lied.
They have conveniently created a separate account just for fees and charges which runs alongside the mortgage. This is the one that i am concentrating my efforts on. This is the latest statement, although I don't appear to have had one recently. When they send us the letter about how we will be taken to court etc it always quotes the total figure £4546.06 to make things look far worse than they are. For info arrears are now around £1000 and decreasing. Looks like they are charging extra interest whilst in arrears as well as the management fees.
Yes your right it doesn't, let me check the others.
Phew thought it was just me, One thing that I have been reminded of whilst going through the SAR docs, is that basically all these companies own a footprint of your life. I have read letter I sent 10 yrs ago plus to them when I first got into trouble and the response from them was to just go for the jugular. They claim to care, and bombard us all with letters telling us so, but when it all comes down to it they are there to make money and in the case of sub prime at the expense of the poor sod who is already struggling. I really don't know looking back how I got through some of it, although this site did help a lot at times. Many have promised over the years to resolve this but none have, its a revolving door - you borrow money/start struggling/get offered solutions at higher rates etc. Like many thousands, if I had been offered a solution at normal rates years ago I would not be in the state I am now, as the pressure to service un-serviceable debt wouldn't have been as serious.
I have scanned up two of the letters re visits but having problems attatching to the post, but one dated 26/01/13 was received on the evening of the 28/01/13, and it states that we had to ring them by the 29th which wasn't possible so the visit went ahead. All the others dont tell us when a visit is going to happen , and as explained at no stage where we contacted by the companies concerned to arrange times etc. The tick box part is on the copies of the reports in post #13, but I have done a snip of the tick boxes on the forms, but again am struggling to attach to post.


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Post by Hound » Wed Mar 29, 2017 5:48 pm
and this bothers me.
The plot has slowed down to a crawl. I can't wait for this necro-world era to be over. I miss the ship and the rest of the crew.
I hate most of the new characters that Roberts has created. The DJD, Rung, Pharma were awesome. I couldn't care less about Velocity, Anode, Lug and everyone else that has debuted in recent issues. Why on Earth would Terminus and Roller go on this journey minutes after being unfrozen anyway.
Is it just me or has the dialogue has become pretty awful in recent issues? Rodimus saying "mate" felt really jarring. These characters are not in ******* Wetherspoons.
Speaking of Rodimus, he has regressed from brilliant arrogance to childish brat. I actually hate him almost as much as I hate Anode.
Where has the tension gone? The urgency?
Maybe I'm just in a bad mood
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Re: I'm not enjoying Lost Light
Post by snarl » Thu Mar 30, 2017 11:51 am
I think these are all valid.
The cast is too big. And of that cast, I find quite a few of the major ones pretty uninteresting.
I think the tension and urgency thing is defo traceable to the dialogue - too meta for my tastes.
When most of the characters are addressing most of the situations they find themselves in with "clever" or "witty" lines it undermines any danger.
Especially since none of them ever die.
Post by Hound » Thu Mar 30, 2017 7:10 pm
It turns out that Dying of the Light came out 1 year ago this week.
That was a slow paced story + with a several month break. Maybe that's why it feels like the plot has slowed down so badly.
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Post by Auntie Slag » Sun Apr 02, 2017 1:46 pm
I agree with you. He's never bothered me much in the past, but this issue it seems like Rodimus is being a bratty little scumbag. Megatron could have slapped him silly and no-one would argue. I'm enjoying the story, but I don't feel the urgency that was there with earlier stories like Remain in Light, World Shut Your Mouth etc. This is still cool though, and better than any other Transformers comic I've ever read (been reading since Man of Iron).
Thing is its Whirl's job to be the prick (god I adore Whirl). But here it seems like he's caring about someone who swore him dead. I know a lots happened since then, and Whirl has undertaken two unselfish acts during the life of the comic (I think), but I love Whirl best when he's verbally bitchslapping Fort Max, wasting a Decepticon with a trite line or just pulling an awesome expression.
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Post by Yaya » Wed Apr 05, 2017 3:18 am
It's not your imagination.
This comic is languishing. I could handle the slow-to-a-crawl burn of Roberts story lines because the characters were so engaging and subplots were actually quite compelling. Pharma. Tyrest. Star Saber. All very interesting villians. One thing about TF comics, no matter who's writing it. Gotta have great villians. Currently, I see none.
And dare I say, and you might want to slap me for this, but sometimes you need a little Brad Mick now and then, an issue here and there where you don't have bots talking big, you have bots fighting big. It's okay to venture back into Furman or Budiansky mode and have bots duke the [composite word including 'f*ck'] out. I was just scanning an old issue from DW's ongoing where Predaking and Bruticus were going at it. Put a smile on my face. Granted, the gorgeous rendering by Figueroa might have played a part, but it kind of took me back to why I love Transformers so much. Roberts elevated TF to heights rarely seen in TF lore, but you don't want to lose the part of it that got us into it in the first place. Megatron taking on the DJD after they chase him around the galaxy. That's what I want to see more of right now. Not fembots talking about their feelings.
"But the Costa story featuring Starscream? Fantastic! This guy is "The One", I just know it, just from these few pages. "--Yaya, who is never wrong.
Post by snarl » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:46 am
Solid rivalries are needed.
UK Comic had ******* loads. This has... none?
Overlord v Megatron could / should be one. That's been dragged out to [composite word including 'f*ck'] though.
Overlord has had [composite word including 'f*ck'] all screen time since 2010. He should be in this comic all the ******* time.
Post by Hound » Thu Apr 06, 2017 4:04 pm
I think killing off the DJD was a mistake. They certainly needed benching but there's no sense of threat.
I'm secretly hoping that Megatron actually used his black hole power to move them somewhere should he have a need for them again.
Bringing back Overlord for that tiny cameo on Necro World does seem like a bit of a waste. I'm sure there will be more to it.
Although I will never wish for a return to the Brad Mick era, I do think it's a valid criticism of JR that he doesn't write great battles. Even the whole last stand against the Decepticons at the end of MTMTE felt underbaked.
And maybe the relationship dynamics is getting in the way of good sci fi at the moment ...
I think the ultimate killer is the art. I like it - but it's so cartoony that it sucks out all of the drama
Post by snarl » Thu Apr 06, 2017 4:10 pm
The art for me is like...
If your mate did it, you'd say "that's pretty ******* good mate!"
But this is coming after Milne, who was smashing every ball for 6.
And relationship dynamics can easily sit mid fight. i don't give two ****s for a lot of it anyway. It's usually clever and well written - but it's ******* overwritten imo.
Bit self indulgent.
I guess it must be selling though, otherwise surely they'd bring an editor on to nudge him towards something different.
In which case, I'm just going to have to get over it.
Post by Yaya » Fri Apr 07, 2017 3:03 am
The art really does hurt this thing, I agree.
Many subplots have been dangling so long, I simply don't remember them anymore. Some I only have vague recollection of. Like Star Saber. Where'd he go? And Pharma? I mean, really, that all seems like forever ago.
Would be nice to have an "MV Timeline" put together here, a kind of "Story Thus Far" I could reference.
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Post by Metal Vendetta » Fri Apr 07, 2017 1:57 pm
I'll see if I can drag something together but at the moment I'm massively busy painting and preparing for a Warhammer 40K tournament at the end of the month
There's not much to argue with above, I think the change of artist at the same time as this change of pace, plus the introduction of so many new characters has kinda spoilt the comic's momentum. Anode is quite aptly named as she is simply so Anodyne I cannot fathom for the life of me why Roberts would dedicate three or four pages of the latest issue to her and "Lug" arguing over something no-one cares about and which happened off-panel before the series even started. I mean, maybe I missed an issue or an online update or something but have we been given the slightest reason to give even the smallest of ****s about Anodyne and ****ing "Lug" so far, other than the fact that they're sassy, pseudo-lesbian fembots just like all the other sassy, pseudo-lesbian fembots Roberts has decided the cast so desperately needs?
Personally, I think someone (an editor, maybe?) needs to step in and limit the number of 6-issue "epics" Roberts does - after just finishing last season with a big, decompressed, sprawling 6-issue "epic", starting this season with another one just seems excessive - I'm reasonably sure with most of the crap (like all the Anodyne and "Lug" bollocks) trimmed, this whole storyline could have been wrapped up in three issues and we'd already be on our way to future adventures.
I would have waited a ******* eternity for this!!!!
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Post by Yaya » Wed Apr 12, 2017 11:56 pm
So just read the latest issue. Again, too much touchy-feely, lovey-dovey stuff going on.
And focusing on some of the more annoying of relationships, no less. The borderline-pedophilic relationship between Tailgate and Cyclonus has got to end. Please, we beg you James.
And does anyone care about Lugnut and Anode? Not me.
I've been against romantic relationships since Elita-1 came on the scene, and I am painfully reminded with each issue just why.
The art doesn't help and is apparently not very popular. I picked up the Optimus Prime issue today solely because of the edgy gritty art with dot-matrix coloring scheme. Had kind of a Man of Iron vibe to it. Why couldn't that team be on Lost Light? Having said that, the writing on OP is still bad. I was hoping with time and experience, Barber would improve. He has not.
Anyway, here's to hoping things get up to snuff soon with Lost Light.
Post by Hound » Wed May 10, 2017 8:56 pm
Issue 5 did nothing to change my mind. It's like all of the characters have become parodies of themselves. Brainstorm used to genuinely make me laugh but now he just sounds as snarky as everyone else.
I really want this arc to be over.
Post by snarl » Mon May 15, 2017 1:44 pm
I agree with this, from TFW2005...
That's really simple actually, what the fans liked and why the book became "popular" are two different things.
MTMTE was a book about a weird situation unseen before in a transformers universe (the war has JUST ended and we're building a new civilization), in a setting before unseen (a Star Trek style space opera), featuring a [composite word including 'f*ck'] of toy only and super obscure characters that never got their proper due in fiction.
That coupled with THE BEST lore and worldbuilding this franchise saw since Beast Wars, sharp humor, every character feeling unique and having their own plots and histories and all of it tying together in a big mystery was FUN. That's what drew people to it.
But then as Roberts started to interact more with the fandom he obviously came to think that what people likes were the SHOOOKING TWEEEEST!!!1!!!!11!, the non stop barrage of jokes and quips, monolithic newspaper style texts that character spawn from their mouths, shipping and just an overall sense of "you like MTMTE because you like ME" and not the other way around. That's why he got so obsessed with hipster music, sitcoms and other inane ******** he kept shoving into MTMTE. So he wrote MTMTE according to that.
Season 1 feels like a new writer trying to prove himself to the world and giving it his all, season 2/LL is a popular author not giving a [composite word including 'f*ck'] anymore and doing whatever stupid ******** he wants. Problem is Roberts hit that Ridley Scott button too soon and too hard and many of his die hard fans jumped ship.
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Post by Best First » Wed May 17, 2017 10:35 am
Yeah I'm the same.
I used to have genuine existential angst between issues now I don't even notice the wait. The book has gone from nurturing anticipation to a total lack of it.
One thing that sits really ill with me - one of the reasons I think the book was/is popular is that it does have a certain moral voice, but this sense of value was in no way manifest in the way the change of artists was handled (or at least how it appeared to be handled). Maybe my expectations are too high but for me this really marred the launch of the new book. MTMTE was Roberts AND Milne to me, the relaunch seemed to try and rewrite it as the James Roberts show.
None of which is Jack Lawrence's fault, but as stated above the shoes he is filling are too big.
In terms of the story itself, it just feels like a watered down version of what we have seen, the relationships, Megs guilt, functiinism plus with an increasing sense of indulgence when it comes to new characters and a focus on relationships over decent plotting and momentum. It's great that Roberts feels so backed that he can leave plot threads hanging for over 2 years but it doesn't make for great reading. Apparently we are not getting back to the lost light until issue 10 which with the speed this book comes out at means we don't get the plot point I think (feel free to correct me) most of us are really interested in until close to the end of the year.
Overall I've reread MTMTE front to back about 10 times now, and usually reread each issue 2-3 times when it came out. Lost Light... well once is usually enough.
Sadly the name fits. I truly hope the light gets found again.
Post by Yaya » Thu May 18, 2017 1:19 am
snarl wrote: I agree with this, from TFW2005...
MTMTE was a book about a weird situation unseen before in a transformers universe (the war has JUST ended and we're building a new civilization), in a setting before unseen (a Star Trek style space opera), featuring a **** of toy only and super obscure characters that never got their proper due in fiction.
Season 1 feels like a new writer trying to prove himself to the world and giving it his all, season 2/LL is a popular author not giving a **** anymore and doing whatever stupid ******** he wants. Problem is Roberts hit that Ridley Scott button too soon and too hard and many of his die hard fans jumped ship.
You're right, Snarlz. This sums up the problem perfectly. It's very akin to what I think happened to Jonathan Hickman. His initial stuff was fantastic when he first hit the scene, some of the best stuff I've read. Then all the praise got to his head and he lost his way, and last I checked, he was barely recognizable as that comic book superstar. Maybe he's since righted the ship, maybe you guys know, but he lost me. I think James needs a healthy dose of "humble chowder". It would do him good, and us good. But at this point, you can almost hear him thinking "I'm going to write about Anode , and you WILL like it." No James, we won't.
Post by Best First » Fri May 19, 2017 8:45 pm
This guy gets it as well
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/h ... t.1108291/
EDIT: this is actually from the same thread Pops posted from, but higher up
Post by snarl » Sun May 21, 2017 4:11 pm
That community season 4 comparison - that's a barbed one.
Post by Metal Vendetta » Mon May 22, 2017 11:39 am
OH GOD THE STUPID SASSY FEMBOT I DON'T CARE TWO ****S ABOUT ISN'T EVEN GODDAMN ****ING REAL
Which means that instead of just flipping Anodyne to the back of the character rotation for a few issues until she gets considerably less annoying, we're going to be stuck with Roberts feeling like he needs to answer questions like "But who was Lug? Why did she mean so much to Anodyne? Why isn't she around any more?" and all those other mysteries that almost no-one is asking about. Which means we're going to have to spend even more time in flashback exploring the backstory of a character who's less interesting than, say, Kaput. Gaaaaah. Maybe we'll get lucky and Regular-world Anodyne will get killed and replaced with the mirrorverse Anodyne, who's no less dull but at least doesn't have a ****ing invisible friend. ****s sake.
As usual, Rewind is super-annoying. Hey ****nut, it was your mopey moralising that led you to try and "save" the rest of the galaxy by creating this nightmare parallel universe in the first place and now we find out it didn't even work, what's your answer? More mopey moralising about how awful Cybertronians are in general while hugging your boyfriend? How about some acknowledgement that this whole ****show is directly your fault? Maybe try and do something to try and fix it?
Tailgate's like the Transformers equivalent of those obnoxious ****ing children that burst into the room when their dad was being Skype interviewed on the news the other month.
So Rung craps crystals when he's scared now? Right...
I like Rewind
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Post by Professor Smooth » Fri May 26, 2017 2:44 pm
Like most artists, I find that James Roberts does his best work within certain limitations.
I don't dislike Lost Light. It's still the best TF book on the shelves and a solid read, month to month. But, hot damn, MTMTE was the best TF fiction *ever*. It was freaking magic.
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Post by Hound » Fri May 26, 2017 9:19 pm
Wasn't there a change in editor recently? Maybe that explains why everything now feels so bloated
Post by Metal Vendetta » Thu Jun 01, 2017 10:51 am
If I were to point the finger anywhere, it would be squarely at the relaunch.
I really liked More than Meets the Eye - Smooth's right, it was freaking magic and I think a lot of that had to do with the title and the concept. None of the characters were who they appeared to be, nothing anyone said could be trusted and mysteries were spun out over many, many issues. I feel that a great deal of what made MtMtE great was that Roberts stuck to that central concept throughout, such that even with polar opposite heroes like Magnus and villains like Tarn, there was always more to them than they appeared at face value.
Now perhaps that wasn't the kind of structure that's sustainable over a longer period - there are only so many times you can reveal that someone is really a tiny dude inside a tiny dude inside some armour - but Roberts was apparently going to press ahead with it and I trust he had enough interesting reveals to keep it going to the end of its run.
Following the relaunch as Lost Light I think the tone of the book has changed from the deception/mystery focus of MtMtE to more of an emphasis on character and relationships - this whole "Lug" nonsense is more or less exactly the sort of thing I'd expect from a writer looking to evoke the themes of "lost light/love" and all that - since the reboot, the mystery elements seem to have been pushed into the background while we watch the psuedo-lesbiantic fembot angst over her old girlfriend for six issues and try to care one way or the other if Tailgate lives or dies.
Post by Hound » Wed Jun 28, 2017 9:15 pm
The latest issue felt like a bit of a return to form.
That ending was kind of brutal.
Post by Professor Smooth » Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:00 pm
Holy crap, that ending!
That had all the hallmarks of "Oh, you fans don't like this character, eh? Sick of reading about him? Tired of his character arc and interaction with another crew member, are ya? Well, HOW ABOUT THIS, EH?!? YOU LIKE THAT? You like subjecting him to a fate potentially worse than empurata? HAHAHAHA!!!"
And the best part, if JR stays true to form, it'll be YEARS before we hear anything about this character again.
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Post by KingMob » Fri Jun 30, 2017 1:22 pm
I don't care. I don't believe it's intentional that he made Tailgate such a terrible character, and if he did, he did too good a job because quite frankly I was tempted to cheer Fangry on. In fact, I only probably didn't because Fangry murdered a guy to do it. Between Brainstorm and Nightbeat telling us to just not worry about it whenever science that Rodimus doesn't understand is used to save the day, the awkward inserting of the 2017iest thing of one female character telling another one that she's inspirational, or being confused that Lug - who doesn't get to talk or have any of her own, actual, real personality shown - ends up being a literal reward for another character's self-development (which was just oh **** if I stop being miserable, get snapped out of my self-delusion and then try hard enough, I could possibly save the love of my life; what an...inspiring...struggle)...I'm thinking I'm out of the target market for the book now. I'm finally too old for Transformers.
This comic's trying to be a modern diversity book but failing, partly because it's trying too hard and having cringey moments (like a dad trying to relate to the kids) , and partly because the book's too busy to support all the stuff it's trying to accomplish. It turned into a mainly character drama book, cool, but the cast is too large and the events too big for it the developments to be satisfyingly explored. Did Drift and Megatron even talk to each other? That whole thing with Skids and Quark and Brainstorm didn't even get to 'went nowhere', it never even began. Skids is about three dropped plots just by himself, come to think. Better give everyone anti-sadness pills so we don't have to deal with half the cast being traumatised by grief and can carry on like usual. Guess if he gets resurrected we might see those? Death is used as being 'put on the bus' in this book, in fact, the cast is so huge people regularly have to be written out for a while, then rotate back in when their next piece of the jigsaw is needed. Or they just stand around in the background. Roller went on the away team in the last arc just so he could drop his phone. It's just all so bleh and semi-transparent and not even well-made anymore. And I don't just mean the art, which, while it isn't anywhere near the worst tonal fits between writer and artist, would certainly be on a list if I had to make one in a few years. Remember when that guy who drew like it was a zany cartoon got put on the black-comedy character drama? Yeesh.
Apologies for logging in just to rant, I think that was a long time coming. All the best to everyone.
Post by snarl » Fri Jun 30, 2017 2:36 pm
I glad to see the back of the cnut.
We'll see if he isn't back, via "resolved off panel" within 5 pages of next issue.
I won't be losing any sleep if we never find out what Cyclonus ever saw in him the ****.
KingMob wrote: I'm thinking I'm out of the target market for the book now. I'm finally too old for Transformers.
This comic's trying to be a modern diversity book but failing, partly because it's trying too hard and having cringey moments (like a dad trying to relate to the kids)
Agree with a lot of what you said, but this most of all.
Post by Metal Vendetta » Fri Jul 07, 2017 11:43 am
KingMob wrote: I don't care. I don't believe it's intentional that he made Tailgate such a terrible character, and if he did, he did too good a job because quite frankly I was tempted to cheer Fangry on. In fact, I only probably didn't because Fangry murdered a guy to do it.
That's pretty much how I feel about it - I'll miss Kaput the weird, cranky, monocycled medic far more than Tailgate the self-absorbed, super-powered idiot.
KingMob wrote: the awkward inserting of the 2017iest thing of one female character telling another one that she's inspirational,
Argh, I literally cringed on the tube reading that part.
KingMob wrote: Lug - who doesn't get to talk or have any of her own, actual, real personality shown - ends up being a literal reward for another character's self-development
See, when Anodyne showed up in the Functionist universe, I thought we were doing to get some kind of discontinuity between her character there and "our" Anodyne, but as far as I can tell (I haven't reread it all in one go yet) nothing really came of that at all - Functionist Anodyne could have been literally any other character and it wouldn't have made any difference to the plot.
I'm kinda hoping that we get back to something like resembling normal now that Megatron's out of the picture and the Cyclonus/Tailgate guff has been resolved (at least for the time being) but I suspect we're in for a lot more shoehorned "You go girl, you're amazing!" moments over the coming months
snarl wrote: I glad to see the back of the cnut.
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Post by bumblemusprime » Mon Jul 10, 2017 10:51 pm
omg, how long has it been since I posted at transfans? Sheeee-it. Look, this thread brought me out of exile. It's been cold.
Barring anything truly awful, I will always buy the monthly Thor & Transformers comics. I used to include Spider-Man in this list, but One More Day & the subsequent pissing-on-fans meant that I couldn't muster any more enthusiasm for Spider-Man. Renew Your Vows & Superior are the only exceptions.
The only time I've ever dropped the monthly TF book were 1) the Brad Mick series and 2) the Mike Costa run. So the current level of quality is nowhere near "drop it" levels for me but it's definitely gone from being the highlight of the month to being pretty good. It's still better than TAAO or OP, which both give off an air of "the writer knows what they're doing but the reader will have to figure it out."
I miss Milne. I enjoyed the Functionist story more than, say, the Sunder story or the charisma vampires. But the writing doesn't captivate me like it did all through Season 1 and during Dying of the Light. But I enjoy the book. It is weird that I don't reread it several times, like I used to--in fact, I haven't reread a single issue of Lost Light since it started, even though I've now got a complete arc to go through. However, the lack of Milne art is one thing that discourages me from rereading. He had such great composition and such attention to detail that it was awesome to look the book over again. And the whole thing with the new artist was an absolute mess. IDW tells Milne nothing. Roberts says on Twitter that Milne & Lawrence are alternating arcs. Milne replies that he's heard nothing about this. All of this in the wake of John Barber leaving as editor.
Actually, if there's one thing we may be able to pin the problem on, it's the lack of Barber editing. Going by MTMTE, he was a much better editor than a writer, and the dumb relaunch & messy handling of the artist all happened when Barber quit to focus on his writing.
As for whether or not the book is to twee and too focused on relationships... maybe? I think that JR cares a lot about these characters and is also trying to create tension over a long period of time, so sometimes that tension is patently fake--like blowing Cyclonus up for "Goodbye little one." I also think that he shot a good portion of his wad in Season 1. Of course he's been carrying around ideas for a TF comic for years; I know I have. But Season 1 was bound to get his most advanced, interesting and well-developed ideas. He also apparently had a big event planned for Season 2 that he had to forestall & wasn't able to do because of Combiner Wars--IIRC. Inflatable Dalek will remember what it is.
Still, I don't get how anyone can actively dislike this comic or think that Roberts has totally lost it. It's still got more clever dialogue and more out-there crazy-cool stories than the other TF books and a lot of regular books. It feels like late-80s Claremont. Not the Byrne years, but worth your money every month.
TL;DR it's not as good as it used to be but I am nowhere close to dropping it.
Best First wrote: I didn't like it. They don't have mums, or dads, or children. And they turn into stuff. And they don't eat Monster Munch or watch Xena: Warrior Princess. Or do one big poo in the morning and another one in the afternoon. I bet they weren't even excited by and then subsequently disappointed by Star Wars Prequels. Or have a glass full of spare change near their beds. That they don't have.
Post by Yaya » Sat Jul 15, 2017 3:57 am
Just read the past two issues.
I think Megatron's personal journey of sorts has been the best thing about this series. At first, the whole "Megatron....Autobot!" thing from MTMTE seemed so far-fetched but Roberts handling of it has been masterful. It's not easy to take the Transformers biggest baddie and put this kind of spin on him, and make it believable. So if nothing else, Megatron's arc will keep me coming back, and I eagerly await Megatron's return to court. I would imagine Roberts handling of Megatron's interaction with Optimus at that juncture will be the stuff of TF legend.
You know what's not the stuff of legend in TF lore? Romance. These ****** romantic love fests are tired. They are really dragging things down IMO, but other TF fans must be loving it because we are getting more and more of them with every issue it seems. Has Cyclonus ever been more lame than last issue when he got his widdle heart broken? Not for me. Guess I'm just a hard-hearted bastard.
Another weakness is ther use of made-up characters in lieu of established lesser used ones despite having a huge cast from which to choose. I don't care about Lug, I don't care about Anode, I dont care about Kaput, etc. Windcharger? A Throttlebot? You've at least got my attention with those D-listers.
Still on board. For now.
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Everyone has different opinions or information when it comes to community issues. These issues can be divisive, often involving some degree of controversy and public discourse. As a public official, how can you guide meetings toward a more productive and positive outcome for all?
As a community leader, it is important to create a civil environment to explore the issues at the heart of polarizing conversations, whether they may be around community planning, resource development, or other 'hot button' topics. Penn State Extension Educators are sensitive to the importance of effective engagement and earning the trust of stakeholders for optimal open conversation.
Walt Whitmer, Senior Extension Educator with the Penn State Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, emphasizes the importance of effective community engagement strategies to ensure the interests and priorities of residents are reflected in the decisions that affect them. Whitmer also stresses the importance of fostering trust in public all interactions.
Tom Murphy, Director of the Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research, highlights the importance of understanding risk from your audience's perspective.
Determining the makeup of the audience and perceived risks will help you to understand their position on the subject.
"Identifying and appreciating all the concerns, emotions, uncertainties, and fears surrounding the subject prior to a meeting can provide the best frame for a productive discussion," Murphy added.
At times, dealing with a difficult audience or dealing with myths and inaccurate information may arise.
Lisa Hrabluk is a consultant and founder of Wicked Ideas whose mission is to create safe and welcoming space for people to learn about complex issues and work together to develop solutions. Hrabluk introduces the video series and wraps up with insights into building an effective network.
Penn State Extension has made this video series available at no charge for all community leaders, officials, educators, and facilitators. These videos are designed to watch individually or as a series. The series can be found on the Penn State Website at: http://pages.extension.psu.edu/community-conflict-finding-middle-ground.
The video series is work supported by Renewable Resource Extension Act – National Focus Fund Projects (RREA-NFF), 2016-46401-25870 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.


All this driving from city to city on our vacation has been tedious, but it has allowed us to glimpse the countryside, the industry, and the agriculture of Uzbekistan. The largest export in Uzbekistan is cotton. Presently about three-million tons of cotton are produced. When Uzbekistan was a soviet republic, they produced about six-million tons each year to the detriment of the Aral Sea.
The country is moving away from this single crop economy, and just last year the president of Uzbekistan ordered that the amount of land devoted to fruit orchards should be doubled. This switch comes at a good time. Because of sanctions imposed by Europe and the US, Russia now imports a great deal of fruits from Uzbekistan.
Mid August to early November, about one million citizens of Uzbekistan are mobilized as forced labor for the Cotton Campaign. An Uzbek man told us that when he was about 10 years old he participated in his first cotton campaign. This meant that for about two months every year, he and many other school age children were sent away from their families to live in bare-bones dormitories while they picked cotton during the daylight hours. He said that at first it was an adventure being away from parents and living with school friends, but the tedium of working in the fields soon became the primary memory. These child pickers were paid pennies per kilo of cotton.
The forced labor continues today, but as recently as last year the minimum age is 18. This means that university students lose weeks of schooling to the yearly cotton campaign. And, because children under 18 are no longer part of this forced-labor force, their parents must be. Even doctors and other hospital workers are forced to work in cotton fields.
Government workers are also forced into labor as cotton pickers. Entire government offices are closed while the employees become pickers with their supervisors watching their progress in the field. In Tashkent we tried to visit a museum, but the guard told us it was closed because the museum's employees were in the cotton fields.
Private industry is told by the government how many people must be sent to the cotton fields. If the company is wealthy enough, it is possible to hire a "substitute" picker to stand in for the employee. After 10 days in the fields, the picker gets one day off.
Picking cotton by hand is said to preserve the cotton fibers. The longer the fiber, the better the cotton and price. Anyone who has ever shopped for textiles knows that longer cotton fibers means softer, silkier fabric.
The weather was beginning to change while we were in Uzbekistan, and we had a few days of rain. Moisture also damages the cotton fibers. After one rain, the government sent out an order to quickly get the crops in and the fields were full of pickers being watched by their supervisors and government officials.
According to a New York Times article, "136 companies, including Disney, Fruit of the Loom, Gap, H & M, Levi's and Walmart, have pledged to avoid knowingly buying Uzbek cotton" while the practice of forced labor continues. The key word here is "knowingly" as it is difficult to discover the provenance of cotton.


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Kevin Arnould (ur. 19 lutego 1980 w Sallanches) – francuski kombinator norweski, uczestnik Zimowych Igrzysk Olimpijskich 2002, reprezentant klubu Les Douanes St-Gervais, dwukrotny medalista mistrzostw świata juniorów w narciarstwie klasycznym.

W 1999 i 2000 roku zdobył brązowe medale mistrzostw świata juniorów. Wielokrotnie występował w zawodach Pucharze Świata w kombinacji norweskiej i zdobywał punkty do klasyfikacji PŚ. Najwyższe miejsce zajął 9 marca 2003 w Oslo, gdzie był piąty. Lepsze wyniki osiągał w Pucharze Świata B i w Grand Prix w kombinacji. W Pucharze Świata B trzykrotnie wygrał zawody - 18 marca 2000 w Chamonix, 22 stycznia 2003 w Klingenthal oraz 23 stycznia 2005 w Mitteltal, natomiast najwyższe w karierze miejsce w Grand Prix, drugie zajął 24 sierpnia 2003 w Steinbach Hallenberg. Dwukrotnie wziął też udział w zawodach FIS w biegach narciarskich w 2005 i 2006 roku, w których zajął 28. i 39. miejsce. Również dwukrotnie wystartował w zawodach w skokach narciarskich. W 2002 roku w Lahti wziął udział w drużynowym konkursie Pucharu Świata, w którym wraz z innymi reprezentantami Francji zajął ósme miejsce. Takie same miejsce zajął w 2006 roku w indywidualnym konkursie Pucharu FIS w Courchevel.

Kevin Arnould wystartował w trzech konkurencjach kombinacji norweskiej w ramach Zimowych Igrzysk Olimpijskich 2002 w Salt Lake City. W startach indywidualnych zajął 17. i 34. miejsce, a w zawodach drużynowych francuski zespół z Arnouldem zajął szóste miejsce.

Osiągnięcia

Igrzyska olimpijskie

Mistrzostwa świata

Puchar Świata

Miejsca w klasyfikacji generalnej
 sezon 1999/2000: 52.
 sezon 2000/2001: 41.
 sezon 2001/2002: 23.
 sezon 2002/2003: 21.
 sezon 2003/2004: 33.
 sezon 2004/2005: 35.
 sezon 2005/2006: 57.

Miejsca na podium w zawodach
Arnould nigdy nie stanął na podium zawodów PŚ.

Linki zewnętrzne
 Profil na stronie FIS

Przypisy

Francuscy kombinatorzy norwescy
Francuscy olimpijczycy
Uczestnicy Zimowych Igrzysk Olimpijskich 2002
Urodzeni w 1980

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London set to have world's tallest and longest slide
Transparent sections will provide thrill-seekers with a view of the Olympic Park and East London.
Cultural Facilities |
A 591-foot tube will connect the observation deck on top of the 376-foot sculpture to the ground. Rendering courtesy London Legacy Development Corporation
The city of London recently approved a proposal to add a slide to the Anish Kapoor- and Cecil Balmond-designed ArcelorMittal Orbit.
With a 591-foot tube connecting the observation deck on top of the 376-foot sculpture to the ground, it is poised to be the world's tallest and longest slide.
The project is based on the vision of the London Legacy Development Corporation, My Modern Met reports, in the hopes of creating a new tourist attraction for the city.
Bblur Architecture and Buro Happold Engineering have been called on board to execute the plan, which is slated for completion in spring 2016.
Stainless steel will be the primary material of the slide, and transparent sections will allow visitors to view the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and East London.
A single ride would cost $8 and last for 37 seconds, at 15 miles an hour.
Photo courtesy of cmglee/Wikimedia Commons
The Elephant Museum in Thailand sits on 5,400 sm in Surin Province. Images: Spaceshift Studio
October 13, 2020 | Cultural Facilities | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
Thailand's Elephant Museum reinforces the bond between humans and beasts
The complex, in Surin Province, was built with 480,000 clay bricks.
Courtesy pnoeric, flickr creative commons
September 24, 2020 | Cultural Facilities | National Trust for Historic Preservation
America's 11 most endangered historic places - 2020 list
Annually, this list spotlights important examples of our nation's architectural and cultural heritage tha...
The 1.5-acre Roosevelt Plaza Park in Camden, N.J., replaced a parking garage, office buildings, and ground-floor retail. Image: Cooper's Ferry Partnership
June 19, 2020 | Cultural Facilities | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
A new ULI report chronicles the depaving of America
Fifteen examples of how parks and green spaces emerged from parking lots, garages, and underpasses.
All renderings courtesy Snøhetta
December 04, 2019 | Cultural Facilities | David Malone, Associate Editor
Snøhetta wins competition to design maritime center in Esbjerg, Denmark
The project's design was developed with WERK Arkitekter.
Theatre Row, the five-theater Off-Broadway complex, recently underwent an extensive renovation as part of a larger reimagining of the complex's role in New York City's nonprofit theater community. Marta Sanders of Architecture Outfit designed the renovation, which was unveiled last summer. Image: Playbill.com
December 01, 2019 | Cultural Facilities | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
Small-venue theaters play starring cultural and economic roles in New York City's economy
A new study identifies the challenges these theaters face, and offers possible solutions that include more...
All renderings courtesy MIR and Dorte Mandrup
November 11, 2019 | Cultural Facilities | David Malone, Associate Editor
'The Whale' will be an arctic attraction 185 miles north of the Arctic Circle
Dorte Mandrup won an international competition to design the project.
All renderings courtesy Coldefy & Associés.
Coldefy & Associés' design selected for Pulse nightclub shooting memorial
The design was selected from 68 entries.
The restoration of the Harlem Fire Watchtower in North Manhattan, which took two years to complete, required new cross bracing. Images: Courtesy of Thornton Tomasetti
A watchtower in Harlem, once a firefighter's lookout, is restored as a landmark
The nearly $8 million project required major structural interventions.
An aerial view of The REACH (left, in front of the Kennedy Center), whose three pavilions are connected underground. Images: Richard Barnes, Courtesy of Steven Holl Architects.
September 11, 2019 | Cultural Facilities | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
The Kennedy Center expands for the first time since its 1971 debut
The REACH, with three pavilions on a generous lawn, adds openness and light to this performance space.
Denny Substation in Seattle redefines this building type by its inclusion of neighborhood-focused amenities. Image: Benjamin Benschneider
August 28, 2019 | Cultural Facilities | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
Seattle's newest substation doubles as a civic amenity
The Denny Substation includes 44,000 sf of open space that invites local residents and visitors to frequent...


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Star Forward Kylian Mbappé wants out of Paris Saint-Germain
On Tuesday, October 11th, 2022 the superstar French forward, Kylian Mbappé, apparently wants out of Paris Saint – Germain this summer during the transfer window.
Kylian Mbappé Recently Resigned with Paris Saint – Germain
This news comes as a great surprise to many as less than just 6 – months ago Mbappé agreed to a large and very profitable contract extension with Paris Saint – Germain F. C., and now the French football star is seeking a way out from PSG as Kylian has been reported to be full of growing frustration regarding his current situation.
According to sources the World Cup winner with France had been getting close to joining the Real Madrid football club via a free transfer this past summer, but Mbappé eventually decided to stay with Paris Saint – Germain for 2 – additional seasons and having a player option to remain there for an extra season if he so chose to do so.
Various reports that were published in France on Tuesday, October 11th, 2022 through multiple sports and news media outlets including the L'Equipe sports daily, RMC, and Le Parisien, as well as Marca, which is a Spanish publication, disclosed the understanding that Kylian is unsatisfied playing for Paris Saint – Germain, and that he wishes to leave the football club as early as this January's transfer window if possible.
Sources close to Kylian Mbappé had this to say about the matter
The sports adviser for Paris Saint – Germain, Luis Campos, who is said to be very close with Mbappé, told the Canal + broadcaster that the disgruntled forward definitely refrained from telling him that he was looking to move away from the football powerhouse this upcoming January during the next transfer window.
"It's information that comes before a match, it's very serious, this is the reason why I'm here, to deny," Luis Campos expressed.
Other officials from Paris Saint – Germain refused to give comments when inquired about the status of Mbappé after he had expressed his aspirations to join a different football club, and if PSG would be willing to let Kylian leave town as he is under contract.
The Paris Saint – Germain F. C. has absolutely dominated the French League especially ever since the cash – rich Qatari investors took control of the club back in 2011, but they unfortunately have failed to produce that level of success on the overall European stage even though they have spent massive amounts on superstar players to put on the pitch for PSG.
The club officials of PSG had hoped Kylian's past decision to rebuff the advances of the Spanish giant would ultimately lead them to the conquest of acquiring club football's most coveted trophy from winning the Champions League, and it is extremely unlikely that PSG will let Mbappé leave town without some sort of a fight.
Next Match for Paris Saint – Germain
Paris Saint – Germain is set to host Benfica on Tuesday, October 11th, 2022 in the Champions League at the Parc des Princes.
Possible Reason for the Frustrations ofKylian Mbappé
Earlier on during this season, Kylian avoided a question on the project and goals that had been presented to him last May of 2022 in order to convince him to stay, and he also declined to comment on if he was content with the manner in which it materialized.
More recently than that, Mbappé hinted at the fact that he would prefer to play alongside with another powerful striker such as he continuously gets to with the French national team as opposed to playing in a pivot role for PSG up front.
Paris Saint – Germain's head coach, Christophe Galtier, claimed earlier this week that the mighty French club attempted to recruit another strong striker with a different style that would enable Mbappé to play in his favorite position, but PSG was unable to make that happen.
"I don't know what Kylian has been told before I joined or when he prolonged with Paris Saint – Germain," the head coach of Paris Saint – Germain, Christophe Galtier, explained.
Childhood Dreams of Kylian Mbappé
Mbappé originally joined the Paris Saint Germain football club after leaving Monaco back in 2017 when he was still a youngster (teenager). Kylian has often stated that playing for Real Madrid has always been his childhood dream, and even when he signed his most recent contract extension, the French forward never ruled out making that move happen one day. Now may be that time especially while he is in the prime of his pro football career.
"What will happen in the future, I don't know," Kylian Mbappé mentioned last May of 2022.
Kylian Mbappé's Football Career Achievements, Honors, & Awards
Ligue 1: 2016 – 2017
Coupe de la Ligue Runner – Up: 2016 – 2017
Paris Saint – Germain
Ligue 1: 2017 – 2018, 2018 – 2019, 2019 – 2020, 2021 – 2022
Coupe de France: 2017 – 2018, 2019 – 2020, 2020 – 2021; Runner – Up: 2018 – 2019
Coupe de la Ligue: 2017 – 2018, 2019 – 2020
Trophée des Champions: 2019, 2020
UEFA Champions League Runner – Up: 2019 – 2020
France U – 19
UEFA European Under – 19 Championship: 2016
UEFA Nations League: 2020 – 2021
UEFA European Under – 19 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2016
UNFP Ligue 1 Player of the Year: 2018 – 2019, 2020 – 2021, 2021 – 2022
UNFP Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year: 2016 – 2017, 2017 – 2018, 2018 – 2019
UNFP Ligue 1 Team of the Year: 2016 – 2017, 2017 – 2018, 2018 – 2019, 2020 – 2021, 2021 – 2022
UNFP Ligue 1 Player of the Month: April 2017, March 2018, August 2018, February 2019, February 2021, August 2021, February 2022
UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season: 2016 – 2017, 2019 – 2020, 2020 – 2021
UEFA Champions League Team of the Season: 2021 – 2022
FIFA FIFPro World11: 2018, 2019
Golden Boy: 2017
FIFA World Cup Young Player Award: 2018
FIFA World Cup Dream Team: 2018
Kopa Trophy: 2018
IFFHS Men's World Team: 2018, 2021
French Player of the Year: 2018, 2019
UEFA Team of the Year: 2018
Ligue 1 Top Goal Scorer: 2018 – 2019, 2019 – 2020, 2020 – 2021, 2021 – 2022
Ligue 1 Top assist provider: 2021 – 2022
Globe Soccer Best Player of the Year: 2021
Onze de Bronze: 2019
UEFA Nations League Finals Golden Boot: 2021
Knight of the Legion of Honour: 2018
The Associated Press News Services. "Mbappé reportedly wants out of PSG amid growing frustration". The Associated Press. Tuesday, October 11, 2022.
Football Reference News Services. "Kylian Mbappé". Football Reference. Wednesday, October 12, 2022.
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