Master Bates

Gillico Ltd http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/4475211.Bradford_man_in___12m_club_bid/

Yeah that's Gillico Ltd, he's the sole director. Echo says Swiss still front runners and could be announced as early as Monday as owners, once final paperwork has been completed and signed off.

These people might: 0845 688 9433

Flybe has trumped EasyJet & BA to become the UK's biggest domestic airliner. Flybe said its market share was at an all time high. Got any spare dosh?

Ah ok, didn't know if you were Vic Mackey who lives round the corner from me.

Big piece on Gillico in the Echo with quotes from Batchelor. Batchelor refused to say if any former Saints directors were involved though. One or two potential managers identified. Group consists of a guy in property, a guy in engineering, a guy in sport and a guy in development. All 4 will be on the board of directors if successful. Richard Williams non executive chairman. Batchelor will only be involved in commercial matters.

I can't pm you Vic so i'll ask here, are you female?

Big piece on Gillico in the Echo with quotes from Batchelor. Batchelor refused to say if any former Saints directors were involved though. One or two potential managers identified. Group consists of a guy in property, a guy in engineering, a guy in sport and a guy in development. All 4 will be on the board of directors if successful. Batchelor will only be involved in commercial matters. Richard Williams non executive chairman.

In todays Echo, Mark Wotte has warned clubs Lallana won't be cheap. Wolves want him for £500k, however that is way below the value of up to £5m being talked up in January.

Shocking, bad Echo, even though Mark Wotte says "Jo Tessem is training with us. He tried to get in a year ago but then we had a lot of young and promising players and the older ones so didn't allow it" "He was training for 4 weeks in Elfsborg who offered him a contract, but he's living here so we thought we'd give him a chance". Well done Echo on copying it from the forum

Don't worry, as long as it's not Rupert James Graham Lowe.

Scantily clad women puffed out.

Will Totton be donating all gate receipts to Saints?

I'm sure i'm better at it tbf

That's a good thing, i've been able to have a shave and now i'm eating, nom nom nom

Tickets can be bought from Asda. http://www.clubfanzine.com/southampton/v2.showNews.php?id=25431

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~1712371,00.html

cheers CL, not nice to go through. Respect to the man.

Not worth the hassle.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/footballnation/cardiff-city-fc/2009/07/03/anthony-gerrard-has-waited-almost-a-year-for-his-chance-to-play-coca-cola-championship-football-91466-24062948/

+5.

I like this thread. +1

£10,000 a day was what I heard from someone at the Echo when all this started.

São Paulo Eco-Park Anna Dietzsch, Managing Director of Davis Brody Bond Aedas‘ São Paulo office and Levisky Arquitetos Associados designed this beautiful eco-park on what was once a contaminated brownfield in São Paulo, Brazil. The 130,000-square-foot site was previously the home to a garbage incinerator, so even after the area’s clean-up the team strove to minimize soil excavation by building a deck that, on average, floats three feet above the ground. Victor Civita Plaza also includes solar panels, the extensive use of reclaimed wood, and a retro-fitted museum that explains the sustainable features that were designed into the site. Land has a way of preserving history through discarded rubble — the forgotten artifacts that archeologists use as evidence of past events. However, in the case of the Victor Civita Plaza in São Paulo, Brazil, the land’s history is slightly more obvious. The deck’s elevation literally exposes the history of the landscape as a reclaimed site. It is constructed of Brazilian hardwood that was sourced from distributors that follow stringent rules on extraction and reforestation. The deck is supported by a steel structure which allows it to float above the contaminated soil below. Instead of using other materials for the rest of urban plaza, the design team chose to create visual uniformity by using the same wood used for the deck to define smaller spaces within the plaza. The effect is a fluid three-dimensionality that creates rooms that appear as if they grew right out of the deck. The programming of the site takes advantage of the its history to encourage visitors to think about the past and present ecology of the site. Through exhibit panels, visitors are able to get a grasp on various efforts taken to make the space cleaner, healthier — and ultimately, more sustainable. These include: using recycled wood to build the deck, solar panels to produce energy for the site, and a passive water filtering system to clean the water. Also, the building that once sheltered the garbage incinerator was retro-fitted to provide space for a sustainability museum. Recreational and community facilities make the space an invaluable amenity for neighboring communities in this dense urban area. A covered amphitheater offers a place for music events while a community center offers a place for eco-centric workshops. And by incorporating these recreational spaces into thoughtful design and educational planning, the team of architects and planners behind this urban plaza have made this site capable of actively improving the social and environmental health of the surrounding neighborhoods.

Fighting Desertification Desertification, the degradation of land in arid areas, is a growing problem due to deforestation, fires, and climate change. Magnus Larsson, a student at London’s Architectural Association has a drastic solution–a 6,000 km long wall of artificially solidified sandstone spanning the Sahara Desert from east to west. Dunes along Larsson’s sandstone wall will act as a combination of refugee housing and a block against the desert. The project, which won first prize last fall in the Holcim Foundation’s Awards for Sustainable Construction, proposes using bacillus pasteurii–a microorganism found in wetlands and marshes–to solidify loose sand into sandstone. Larsson imagines that one day he could “force the grains of sand to align in certain patterns, certain shapes, having the wind blow out our voids, creating a structure that would change and change again over the course of a decade, a century, a millennium.” It’s a big departure from current anti-desertification methods, including water conservation, soil management, forestry, sustainable energy, improved land use, wildlife protection, poverty alleviation. Larsson believes that the interior of the dunes along his sandstone wall could be used to achieve multiple goals at once–helping soil remain fertile, providing water and shade, and taking care of plants and animals. If it is ever constructed, Larsson’s sandstone wall could support the Green Wall Sahara initiative, which aims to plant a shelterbelt of trees across the African continent. China's Large LED Screen China has built a large LED screen in a shopping district in Beijing surrounded by malls. It displays various images and animations like a desktop. The viewing LED screen is 7,500 square meters built at a cost of $32 million dollars. A 250m by 30m LED screen has been installed in the ceiling in one of the shopping districts in Beijing. It seems to be a form of advertising screen but it displays images of nature, films, videos games and animation. Mostly the screen displays animation of fishes swimming in a large fish tank. It appears realistic with this giant LED screen, which cost them about $32 million dollars to build it. The video shows the LED screen in action, in the night it appears dazzling. The LED screen hangs about 80 feet in the air and is five screens combined together to form one giant screen. That's an impressive 7,500 square meters of viewable area, and comes with an impressive $32 million price tag to match. It hangs 80 feet in the air, and is actually five screens combined.