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Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln Minster, or the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln and sometimes St Mary's Cathedral, in Lincoln, England, is a Grade I listed cathedral and is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Lincoln. Construction commenced in 1072 and continued in several phases throughout the High Middle Ages. Like many of the medieval cathedrals of England it was built in the Early Gothic style.
Although considered doubtful by some, many historians claim it became the tallest building in the world upon the completion of its 160 metres (520 ft) high central spire in 1311; if so, it was the first building to hold that title after the Great Pyramid of Giza, and held it for 238 years until the spire collapsed in 1548, and was not rebuilt. Had the central spire remained intact, Lincoln Cathedral would have remained the world's tallest structure until the completion of the Washington Monument in 1884.
For hundreds of years the cathedral held one of the four remaining copies of the original Magna Carta, now securely displayed in Lincoln Castle. The cathedral is the fourth largest in the UK (in floor area) at around 5,000 square metres (54,000 sq ft), after Liverpool, St Paul's and York Minster.
Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln Minster, or the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln and sometimes St Mary's Cathedral, in Lincoln, England, is a Grade I listed cathedral and is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Lincoln. Construction commenced in 1072 and continued in several phases throughout the High Middle Ages. Like many of the medieval cathedrals of England it was built in the Early Gothic style.
Although considered doubtful by some, many historians claim it became the tallest building in the world upon the completion of its 160 metres (520 ft) high central spire in 1311; if so, it was the first building to hold that title after the Great Pyramid of Giza, and held it for 238 years until the spire collapsed in 1548, and was not rebuilt. Had the central spire remained intact, Lincoln Cathedral would have remained the world's tallest structure until the completion of the Washington Monument in 1884.
For hundreds of years the cathedral held one of the four remaining copies of the original Magna Carta, now securely displayed in Lincoln Castle. The cathedral is the fourth largest in the UK (in floor area) at around 5,000 square metres (54,000 sq ft), after Liverpool, St Paul's and York Minster.
Cliff Swallows building a nest on the bare face of the hotel walls were clinging to the bricks and masonery.
The hotel manager looked sullen. I explained I was happy to get a Life Bird Photograph, but he wanted to know how to get rid of the birds : )). Animal control and an exterminator had explained to him that the nesting birds were protected and can't be removed without a permit.
The manager has a problem. As I walked around the large hotel, I stopped counting at about three hundred nests in the early stages of construction. More new birds seem to arrive each day, he said. A massive colony was in its beginning stages,one that has singled out this hotel (none of the adjacent hotels seemed affected.). He "coulda/shoulda" been proactive, before the birds started their nest-building. I explained he might be able to get a permit for at least some of the areas like around the main entrance, claiming health concerns, and that after the summer many of the birds may leave giving him a chance to "start over."
Life bird photograph #243
Completed in 1258, Salisbury Cathedral replaced the earlier eleventh century building at Old Sarum. Salisbury built in the early English Gothic style has the highest church spire in the country at 123 metres.
Took a photo of one of the circular donut shaped portals on a building at the corner of Peel and Rene Levesque. Caught myself and the doorway to the building across the street in the reflection.
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Begun in 1079, the crypt is the oldest part of the cathedral. Groin vaulting is seen between the semi-circular arches which rest on square short capitals. The crypt usually floods during the rainy season. The 1986 statue, Sound II, by Anthony Gormley has cupped hands contemplating the water.
Last minute hook-up with the infamous insomniac AndWhyNot after he had secured a pink card from Mrs WhyNot.
Had to abandon the first location due to the painfully cold Arctic wind and headed off to the LP playground that is the old abbey. Inner tunnel lit by Andrew driving a Led Lenser X21 followed by a self-lit "Michelin Man" silhouette and half hour star trail.
Tipped off by Andrew that I was being followed by the police after we went our separate ways, I was subsequently pulled some 20 mins later at about 3am. Apparently I had aroused their interest as I had looked suspicious whilst "travelling in a late night convoy with a hatchback car sporting a single headlight".
"We're on a joint exercise with BT on the look out for cable thieves". I presumed he meant electrical cable and not camera cable releases !
"You and the hatchback looked suspicious so we have pulled you both"
" Got any ID ?"
" Only a gun licence "
" Are there guns in the vehicle ? "
" No and those two pheasants in the foot well aren't poached either, they are from the weekend".
I could sense this going down hill rather rapidly.
A search of the Shogun satisfied them that my night photography story was bona fide and luckily they didn't search my rucsac as the gasmask and some of the props may have proved a bit problematical.
Anyway, finally rolled in at 3:30am (when will I learn) and not sure whether Andrew got pulled or not. Could have been a pricey fine for that cyclops car and he will have wished he'd taken my £5 bet that he couldn't walk across the iced lake after all !
All in all great fun with a great guy.
Refreshments were Twinings English Breakfast tea, 2 raison whirls (both for me) and 5 doughnut rings.
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Mitchell's Cottage is an historic stone house, built during the gold-mining era, in Central Otago's Fruitlands district.
It is an exceptional example of craftsmanship - one of the best surviving examples of the stonemason's craft in New Zealand - and is listed as a Cat.I Historic place.
It was built by goldminer, Andrew Mitchell, for his brother John and sister-in-law Jessie. Andrew began the project in 1880 and built the cottage with stone masonery techniques he had learned from his father at home in the Shetland Islands. Andrew also built several other buildings in the Fruitlands district (known then as Bald Hill Flat and prior to that as Speargrass Flat).
The cottage was finally completed in 1904 and housed John and Jessie's family of 10 children.
The cottage and its grounds were purchased for an historic reserve in 1980. The cottage has five rooms. Additional rooms are situated at the rear of the cottage. It stands among large schist tors with a fantastic view over Fruitlands Valley.
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Andrew and John Mitchell both left the Shetland Islands as young men. Andrew, the older brother mined gold in Victoria, Australia and arrived in New Zealand in the 1860s, following his cousins, the Whites who were mining at Gabriels Gully.
As gold ran out in Gabriels Gully, miners headed north in search for other gold findings. Andrew Mitchell came across gold near Bald Hill and decided to stay and mine the area. He discovered a quartz reef in the mid-1870s and asked his cousin James White to work the reef with him. In 1884 they sold the mine claim to Robert Symes & Co.
John Mitchell arrived in Fruitlands and, with his brother Andrew, began mining Obelisk Creek at Bald Hill Flat in 1886. They had to construct a water race as there was no water onsite to sluice their claim with.
During the goldmining peak, Bald Hill Flat had a population large enough to support a local store and hotel. However, the goldmining era came to an end in 1907, as gold proved difficult to find. Many miners turned to farming and rabbiting.
After WWI, the Government planted 60,000 fruit trees as part of the soldier’s settlement. This land became known as 'Fruitlands'. However, very few fruit trees survived the harsh climate and the venture was unsuccessful.
But the water races established by the miners are still valuable today, supplying water that is used by local orchardists and farmers.
Mitchell's Cottage is an historic stone house, built during the gold-mining era, in Central Otago's Fruitlands district.
It is an exceptional example of craftsmanship - one of the best surviving examples of the stonemason's craft in New Zealand - and is listed as a Cat.I Historic place.
It was built by goldminer, Andrew Mitchell, for his brother John and sister-in-law Jessie. Andrew began the project in 1880 and built the cottage with stone masonery techniques he had learned from his father at home in the Shetland Islands. Andrew also built several other buildings in the Fruitlands district (known then as Bald Hill Flat and prior to that as Speargrass Flat).
The cottage was finally completed in 1904 and housed John and Jessie's family of 10 children.
The cottage and its grounds were purchased for an historic reserve in 1980. The cottage has five rooms. Additional rooms are situated at the rear of the cottage. It stands among large schist tors with a fantastic view over Fruitlands Valley.
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Andrew and John Mitchell both left the Shetland Island as young men. Andrew, the older brother mined gold in Victoria, Australia and arrived in New Zealand in the 1860s, following his cousins, the Whites who were mining at Gabriels Gully.
As gold ran out in Gabriels Gully, miners headed north in search for other gold findings. Andrew Mitchell came across gold near Bald Hill and decided to stay and mine the area. He discovered a quartz reef in the mid-1870s and asked his cousin James White to work the reef with him. In 1884 they sold the mine claim to Robert Symes & Co.
John Mitchell arrived in Fruitlands and, with his brother Andrew, began mining Obelisk Creek at Bald Hill Flat in 1886. They had to construct a water race as there was no water onsite to sluice their claim with.
During the goldmining peak, Bald Hill Flat had a population large enough to support a local store and hotel. However, the goldmining era came to an end in 1907, as gold proved difficult to find. Many miners turned to farming and rabbiting.
After WWI, the Government planted 60,000 fruit trees as part of the soldier’s settlement. This land became known as 'Fruitlands'. However, very few fruit trees survived the harsh climate and the venture was unsuccessful.
But the water races established by the miners are still valuable today, supplying water that is used by local orchardists and farmers.
Stone house on the prairie 35km west of Medicine Hat. Remains of stone walled barn still standing as well. Who ever built this place knew his *shit* per say as all the outer stones have been masoned and the corners of the building are still square. Nary a loose stone even after several decades spent exposed to the unforgiving elements...if ghosts could speak......
Oh...almost forgot З Різдвом! to my Orthodox friends present and future...
Church is grade I listed, partly from C12.
This corner of the building (NE) has interesting alterations. The door leads to the vestry where pipe organ is positioned. The door does not open (note position of drainage pipe). See also the interesting image niche below the partly blocked window. The remaining window looks like the top part of a larger window that has been blocked up below.
Listing says: "North aisle has round-arched vestry door with head-carved hoodmould stops on left of a partly-blocked 2-light, square-headed window now with image niche."
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The ruins of the abbey church, chapter house etc., with a peek at the water supply running through the site.
"La entrada que conducía a la cámara del medio estaba situada en el lado derecho del Templo: y tenia acceso por medio de escaleras de caracol a la cámara del medio, y de ésta comunicaba a la tercera." De esta circunstancia los Masones del siglo pasado, adoptaron el símbolo de la escalera de caracol, y lo introdujeron en el grado del Compañero Masón.
Las gradas de la escalera de caracol comienzan en el pórtico del templo; es decir, en la entrada exacta. Además, no hay cosa más indudable en la ciencia del simbolismo Masónico, que el hecho de que el Templo era la personificación del mundo purificado por el Shekinah, o Presencia Divina.
El mundo profano se encuentra fuera del Templo; el mundo del iniciado existe dentro de sus sagrados muros. El penetrar en el Templo; tener acceso al pórtico, el hacerse Masón, así como el nacer en el mundo de la luz Masónica, son sinónimos y términos convertibles. Y así es como da principio el simbolismo de la escalera de caracol.
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MANHATTAN BRIDGE. NEW YORK CITY.
Manhattan Bridge. a double-deck suspension bridge, constructed 1901 to 1909 from the bowery at Canal Street to Flatbush Ave Brooklyn. Steel towerws are 336 feet high resting on masonery pedestals which are 92 feet below water line. the four cables weigh 6300 tons. Iength of bridge 8655 feet. width 120 feet. total cost $13.400.000
0900 R Manhattan Bridge New York City
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Siria Stronghold - Arad County Romania
The ruin of Șiria's castle is one of the most important touristic sights of the commune. It dates back to the 13th century, throughout ages it was possessed by Hunyadi János (1444), then it was occupied by the rebels led by Dózsa György and it was Mihai Viteazu's military garrison. It was considered to be an important strategic point of the region.
A sugar mill during colonial times, Parque Lage belonged to Antonio Salema, governor of Rio de Janeiro in the sixteenth century.
After 1660 the property passed into the ownership of Rodrigo de Freitas Mello's family. In the mid-ineteenth century a British landscaper, John Tyndale, design a garden in the romantic style that was fashionable in Europe at the time.
In 1931, business Henrique Lage, who had acquiered the property, had a replica of a Roman palazzo built for his wife, Gabriela Besanzoni, and Italian opera signer. Designed by an Italian architect, Mario Vodrel, the mansion's main façade and portico are lined with masonery and marble, tiles and mosaics imported from Italy.
Since 1975 Parque Lage has been occupied by Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, an art school under the auspices of the Rio de Janeiro State Deparment of Culture.
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
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Revisión del GG con 1x2 sand green bricks en vez de los profile bricks 1x2. Otras pequeñas variaciones de color.
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►Update 21 January 2011
----- Original Message -----
From : Alan Stanton
To : Julie Parker, Director of Corporate Services
Sent : Monday, January 24, 2011 3:04 AM
Subject : LBH/85228 (Continued) - Couch, sheet of glass, small pile of masonry - forecourt Unit 1 Rosebery Trading Estate
Dear Ms Parker,
I apologise for bringing this to your attention again. I realise it's extremely minor compared to all the other tasks you currently have. However, it seems to be one more symptom of a systemic malaise in Property Services which you as Director may want to know about.
Also, I’ve repeatedly gone through the “proper” channels and got nowhere. So can I please ask you to read the emails below and view:
§ My photos [above] posted on Flickr on 21 January 2011.
§ Photos taken on 12 December 2010 and posted here.
§ Then photos taken on 5 December 2010 and posted here .
§ And here.
§ And lastly the photo on 4 November 2010 here.
As you'll see, the navy sofa, sheet of glass and small pile of masonry are still in place and - on 21 January - had not been cleared as promised. (I did wonder if they were taken away and later brought back; but until 1 April this seems very unlikely.)
You'll realise that in writing me emails [your staff person] refers generally to the Rosebery Industrial Estate but not, it seems, to the specific problems of the forecourt of Unit 1 - which faces into Rosebery Avenue. I gather that [some staff] don't have personal access to my photos on Flickr. Obviously it's a disadvantage if [they] are prevented from using the Internet to get practical information as and when needed.
[Your staff] passed on my last request to remove the couch, sheet of glass and masonry to "the Property Helpdesk" who "organised for the fly tipping to be removed". I assume staff at this HelpDesk don't have access to Flickr either. Otherwise I'm sure they'd have sent contractors to remove the right items from the location where I photographed them.
As the management writer Peter Drucker said: "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all’.
In this instance, it was not only useless, but time wasting and costly. Even if the council's contractors were not paid when they failed to do the task, nearly three months later there is still a continuing failure to do something straightforward and fairly simple.
Thanks
Alan Stanton
Tottenham Hale ward councillor
----- Original Message -----
From : Alan Stanton
Sent : 14 December 2010 02:34
To : Haringey Corporate Resources Department
cc.: Head of Property Services; ward councillors; Director of Corporate Services
Subject : Fly Tipping Rosebery Industrial Estate LBH/85228
Please would you look at my photos on this Flickr page. Plainly, at least until 12 December, your contractors had not removed the couch. I hope you didn't pay them.
Just as plainly, nobody has monitored this forecourt and spotted: (a) the up-ended couch; (b) a large pane of glass propped against the office wall; and (c) some pieces of masonery left on a ledge in one of the walls. Fortunately, neither were the masonry and glass spotted by someone looking to smash a window or two.
I appreciate that over the years there was a great improvement in how this forecourt is managed and kept clean. Also that funds are scarce and getting scarcer. But one very effective way to save money is to have systems which work first time.
Alan Stanton, Tottenham Hale ward councillor
----- Original Message -----
From : Haringey Property Services
To : Cllr Alan Stanton
Sent : Monday, November 22, 2010 9:25 AM
Subject : Fly Tipping Rosebery Industrial Estate LBH/85228
Dear Cllr Stanton,
Thank you for your email
The issues you have raised comprise in summary:
1. More dumping - a navy couch and some broken white board - on the forecourt outside Unit 1 Rosebery Avenue N17.
2. Can you please tell me what monitoring arrangements are in place for this forecourt?
3. Would you please confirm that routine reports from members of the public about dumping here are quickly and efficiently passed to Property Services for action?
Dealing with each of the points I would comment as follows
1. We have arranged for the fly tipping to be removed by a contractor.
2. We have in the last 2 months erected “No Dumping” signs that have been placed around the estate. The cost of having a permanently manned presence on the estate is prohibitive and would cause an unaffordable escalation in service charge costs to the tenants.
We are investigating the installation of CCTV cameras which will cover parts of the estate. There are a number of issues with installation of CCTV such as how it will be monitored and where the recording equipment will be based. There is also the need to replace tapes recording frequently. A more comprehensive solution will have to be found and consultations with relevant advisers will be programmed to take place. However, costs are an issue in the economic climate we are currently operating in both in terms of the Council’s ability to provide services and the need to keep service charge costs down for the occupying tenants.
Greater vigilance from occupying tenants will also help reduce the incidence of flying tipping as we will be re-letting units which have recently become vacant following tenant defaults to present a greater occupier presence.
3. We confirm that we will ensure that fly tipping reports are quickly dealt with by Property Services.
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So did Haringey's Property Services team get the
dumped items cleared soon after my email above?
Click this blue link to find out.
Hint. Can a fish win the Tour de France?
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In 2004, Sam Ibrahim was charged with the Kneecapping of two men in Newcastle. He was also charged during the late 1990s, over a cocaine distribution ring involving the Nomads. Sam Ibrahim was acquitted on both matters.[20] In 2009, Sam Ibrahim was charged over the alleged kidnapping of a teenage boy and held in custody for four months until bail was granted in July 2009. At the time of the bail hearing, it was reported that police were also investigating a second suspect in the alleged incident, Nimilote Ngata. Ngata (b. ca 1988) is the son of John Ibrahim's bodyguard, Semi "Tongan Sam" Ngata.[22] In July 2009, "Tongan Sam" Ngata, was arrested following a raid on his home by a special gang violence taskforce that netted bulk quantities of a methamphetamine precursor
and imbrahim has a lawyer FUNG modelling...$400 k per week lawyer
can't rub off I and abbot says the Musle..standover..NOmads...and a knifing scars see wiki...that's right the muslce..and they say lieth likes the musle IS that him when i was playing 8 year old soccer with LOvelock..why didn't you pass the ball and they all laugh at cap
and then a signal PIttwater RSL soccer club forgooten LOST
Peter is the Deputy Director of the Telecommunications Research Project at the University of Hong Kong ( www.trp.hku.hk ) and a partner in the quarterly Telecoms InfoTechnology Forums (TIF). He has a long background in telecommunications and Internet research, analysis and consulting, having worked on regulatory assessment, implementation and execution projects, as well as due diligence and market entry strategic guidance projects in China and Asia over the last 17 years.
Between 1999 and 2004, Peter built and ran China 's leading IT research consultancy, MFC Insight. Headquartered in Beijing , Insight provided strategic guidance to clients such as Ericsson, Vodafone, China Mobile, Agilent, Nokia, Google, Huawei, PWC, White & Case, the Singapore Government, as well as to China 's State Council.
During 1997-98, Dr Lovelock worked as a policy analyst at the ITU in Geneva, where he was a contributing author on the World Telecommunications Development Report, amongst a number of other publications, as well as many of the Secretary General's speeches from the period. Subsequently, Peter was a leading contributor to the ITU's IP Telephony initiatives, and has run training courses for a number of Asian regulatory bodies as part of the ITU's Regional Center of Excellence (CoE).
Since disbanding Insight, Peter has provided consulting advice to RAND, Novell, Accenture and others on developments in China, provided regulatory and broadband advice to the governments of India, Japan, and Singapore, worked on restructuring projects for Alcatel in Paris, and authored reports on fixed-mobile convergence, alternate operator strategies for mobile, and Huawei's 3G expansion.
Most recently Peter has established a new regional consulting operation based in Singapore, and working with the emerging IT companies in China, India and Vietnam .
that's what they don't understand cap just wanted the simple life THE MUSCLE he knows the muscle standover bristow....he has to remeber everything DEFECT and then BEST forget...has to remeber everything imposibble for man HE held the baton didn't he...
and tilly laughed just like squizzy how much money OH that stings IBrahim the life blood of the drug market up the cross FUNg and save ljb we'll all be fung...and in underbelly I want what you have MR freeman NANA capper's BOOKie of course a freeman would bet with a freeman...but DAYB won't freeman you say not of the jewish persuaion shindlers they are a very persuavive people TOM kennely Jane kennely FTTCIL a channel ten christmas party the aristiocrats with penny spence BURT and IT"S TIME GOUGH...and now EYption police guy and his military THE HOMELANd a stargem and rverand keith where odgers...stewopid country people actually speach like this says jess good looking doesn't care if they do BEST forget and it comes...it's all perty messed up in here SKITZ i'm having a [pirsig breackdown or something HE held the baton in the elction I don't know is there a pamphlet move up from "magics" to masonery..Operation Gladio (Italian: Operazione Gladio) is the codename for a clandestine NATO "stay-behind" operation in Europe during the Cold War. Its purpose was to continue anti-communist actions in the event of a Soviet invasion and conquest. Although Gladio specifically refers to the Italian branch of the NATO stay-behind organizations, "Operation Gladio" is used as an informal name for all stay-behind organizations.. The name Gladio is the Italian form of gladius, a type of Roman shortsword.[1]
Operating in many NATO and even some neutral countries,[2] Gladio was part of a series of national operations first coordinated by the Clandestine Committee of the Western Union (CCWU), founded in 1948. After the creation of NATO in 1949, the CCWU was integrated into the Clandestine Planning Committee (CPC), founded in 1951 and overseen by SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe), transferred to Belgium after France’s official withdrawal from NATO's Military Committee in 1966 – which was not followed by the dissolution of the French stay-behind paramilitary movements.
The role of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in sponsoring Gladio and the extent of its activities during the Cold War era, and its relationship to right-wing terrorist attacks perpetrated in Italy during the "Years of Lead" (late 1960s to early 1980s) and other similar clandestine operations, is the subject of ongoing debate and investigation but has never been proven. Switzerland and Belgium have had parliamentary inquiries into the matter
everyone must have one a stay at "home" operation and the cia walk up to asif I could have been a contender IF it wasn't for the MURdochs CRAZY cofee guy he held the baton..YOU know i can't franco...and then the "feds" before the hilton bombing and a traffic stop I work for DPI a just going to the british embasy libray archive...and that's more of the telling the engines of that plane were idal NO Incident the box of death HE CAN't get out OH KNOW says the coinoperated boy NOT the box of DEATH..where's denmarks BARBIe CIA walks up to YOU and introduces themselves and to philby DOOM=nixon you wanted in really? and a first national eveicted "in" $3003 dollars what he still doing around to the end of lease you held the baton in the where's denamrks operation BARBIE with them LINING them up on the east german wall CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION..that sort of fan JOHN lennon
IF it wasn't for the murdochs you'd already be dead..and they laugh at cap..
I"M have a pirsig type breakdown..skitz..noone gets that sick so quickly take youre "slip"
When he died, Peter Peterson left behind the trappings of a seemingly charmed life: a vast fortune, two children, and a stately Park Avenue address. But he left something else behind: a sheaf of confessions about a dark period of his youth. In pages written weeks before his death, he reveals a crime of passion, committed in the throes of unrequited love, that has burdened him for his entire life. Yet as he finishes his story, he encounters a surprise that will shake the very foundation of his past. Spanning a boyhood in Iceland to the Nazi occupation of Denmark to a cunning business career in modern-day Manhattan, Absolution echoes Dostoevsky and Ibsen as it masterfully plumbs the darkest corners of a sinister mind and a wounded heart
income stream and gen from pequin laughs KEEP laughing gen cause in NCIS you rang the US ambasitor so you MUst be some form of operative THat how GIbbs investigates at FIRST..we just have to find out who your with HUNgarian uncle yuko/hungarian socity of the black hand..UNcle llyody He'll end up ALONE
Fuck I hate them and at nine accounts smoke break and geoff harvey comes in the side door
The weather was simply divine in Sydney on Sunday afternoon, sunny but brisk. Not the sort of day to be spending inside St Mary’s Cathedral listening to an organ recital – or later drinking fine French champagne, good beer and eating exquisite finger food at the Quay Central. But around 100 people braved the bracing Sydney afternoon. The occasion: the 70th birthday of Geoff Harvey, former music boss of the Nine Network and, most notably, its Midday program.
It’s become something of a tradition for Harvey to celebrate a major birthday with a recital and then good food and wine amongst friends. Harvey rattled off a number of musical numbers at the Cathedral: four or fives pieces by Bach (including the Toccata in C), the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony, as well as some joke pieces.
The occasion was notable for the cast of heavyweights who fronted. Ros Packer, wife of Kerry, and Sam Chisholm and wife Sue were there, Ray Martin made a speech, as did Gerald Stone, former boss of 60 Minutes and now an SBS board member. He described Harvey as a “young man,” being around four years older himself. Mike Williams, a former warm-up man for Midday also spoke, following Martin. Penny Spence, Harvey’s first wife was also present, as was Vicki Jones, Nine’s stylist, who also spoke.
But there were two other quite notable speakers. Glenn Pallister, formerly a cameraman with Midday who went on to The Footy Show in Sydney, and ended up as an executive in charge of light entertainment on the third floor, before falling victim to the first round of Chisholm’s purges at the end of June.
He was some ten metres away from Chisholm as he spoke, no doubt remembering the rather flint-hearted manner in which Chisholm sacked him. The other notable, who surprised a number of people by his appearance, was Trevor Kennedy, the former CEO of PBL and a man keeping a very low profile after all those Swiss banking account and share trading deal claims made by the late Rene Rivkin.
Ray Martin showed no signs of any worries after reports surfaced in the Annette Sharp gossip column in the Sydney Sun-Herald that he was facing replacement by Tracy Grimshaw. The story (or “tale”) followed a claim a week earlier that Grimshaw was all glum at the prospect of losing her gig fronting the Today Show, should Nine bite the bullet and hire Ms Congeniality, Juanita Phillips, the still-contracted ABC Newsreader in Sydney.
The claim by Sharp that Grimshaw was going to replace Martin had all the hallmarks of a suck job and make-up fable after two solid whacks at Grimshaw the week before and a fortnight earlier.
you'd think the producer ascom nira let me talk the hospital pager guys and the state govt announces everybill will be bought back into three months copy of press realses to mona vale hospital and jugs grand mother ANDRE MURRY wins scotmans says MY Craig..older...and the GMA producers money RUP...I could have been a contender CAp done stuff..criminal...eypet NO mater what your affilation...just trying to difuse the situation make LIGHT of the issues..strick..and accuso says the police chief BATMAN your batman..and cause we are at war FEIGN a twain death and they have to come back bruce your back dayb cat collects death certificates TWAIN reports of my death and swami they have to die..and nods at geoff harvey should have said "honest" john cappers sone from rosters at seven and ten langoliers
Couthures sur Garonne
The Church Saint-Léger at Couthures sur Garonne. The Church stands over 8 metres above the Garonne and was completely rebuilt between 1851 and 1863 to replace a Church destroyed by floods. This building has also been flooded itself, as can be seen on the marker board, most recently last year.
The history of flooding has caused some structural damage and at the moment the Church has a temporary Altar at the end of the Nave as there are some substantial cracks in the masonery in the Transepts and the Apse is now out of bounds.
The Church has some beautiful stained glass windows and an elaborately decorated ceiling and there is an appeal for funds to help in stabilization and restoration of the structure. Couthures sur Garonne is a small village with a population of less than 400 and, as a pre-1905 structure, the maintenance of the Church falls to the commune. This is in part why there are so many Churches in a state of disrepair in rural France.
Ghostly figure about 30 feet in front of Bath Abbey main door, taken on 23rd August 2005 at 21:53 . I am unable to explain how it appeared as photo was taken around 10pm by my nokia mobile phone, but no one was in the photograph as i had waited till any people had dissapeared from view. When i arrived home half an hour later, i looked at the photo and saw the figure in front of the abbey door.... i had a real cold shiver run down my back. I went back a few days later, same time but nothing, not even any possible shadows in the area. (Original photograph is still on the same phone as taken that night)