Orchids - Tari Valley
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Friday, December 31, 2010
Weat Ham United 1 Everton 1: match report
Weat Ham United 1 Everton 1: match report
Read a full match report of the Premier League game between West Ham United and Everton at Upton Park on Tuesday Dec 28 2010.
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LIVE
REPORT
WEST HAM
1 - 1
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EVERTON
Tuesday, December 28 17:30
Premier League
Upton Park
Hibbert (OG) (16)
(HT 1-1)
ATT: 33,422
Coleman (42)
Fortune always smiling: West Ham United players celebrate their first-half goal - scored by Everton's Tony Hibbert Photo: GETTY IMAGES
By Jeremy Wilson 7:30PM GMT 28 Dec 2010
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Bottom at Christmas but now potentially out of the relegation zone by New Year’s Day: this festive season might yet end with a rare smile from Avram Grant.
True, West Ham United were generally weary and lacklustre in missing their chance to register a second win in three days but, in the circumstances, a 1-1 draw that extends their unbeaten run to three games was a satisfactory result.
Everton, after all, had arrived at Upton Park with the considerable advantage of not having played since beating Manchester City nine days earlier, something Grant regarded as unfair. “I think they [the Premier League] need to think about equal chances,” he said. “It is OK if both teams play two games in 48 hours. If one team does and the other team is fresh, I think we need to think about this.”
Despite his relatively small squad, it was a situation that prompted Grant to make four changes from the team which beat Fulham on Boxing Day, with Carlton Cole the most notable absentee despite his two goals at Craven Cottage.
Everton certainly made the better start but, with David Moyes packing the midfield and preferring to use Tim Cahill as a makeshift striker, they lacked a cutting edge throughout.
“I don’t think we really looked like we believed we could win the game. The strikers will need to step up in January,” said Moyes, who admitted that he will only be in the market for loan signings during the transfer window.
Inspired as ever by Scott Parker, West Ham’s only real period of pressure was rewarded in fortuitous circumstances. James Tomkins had headed a ball towards the edge of the Everton six-yard box that Tim Howard was only able to punch clear. Radoslav Kovac instinctively hooked the ball back towards the Everton goal, only for Tony Hibbert to inadvertently deflect his attempted clearance beyond Howard.
West Ham’s momentum was halted when they conceded a soft equaliser shortly before half-time.
Herita Ilunga had limped off minutes earlier and his replacement at left-back, Jonathan Spector, was caught out of position as Cahill simply lofted a ball to the back post that was guided beneath Robert Green by Seamus Coleman.
There were limited chances — and adventure - from both teams throughout the second-half, with West Ham wasting the best opportunity when Cole badly scuffed his left-footed finish from the edge of the six-yard box.
Grant now hopes to make at least three signings in the January transfer window, with a deal already imminent for Aston Villa midfielder Steve Sidwell. He also said that he would be keeping all of his best players at the club, including Parker.
“The owners received the club with more than £100 million debt,” said Grant.
“They are trying to do everything to stabilise the situation and they know we need to make the team stronger. With everyone fit, I thought we need one or two but now I think more. They are trying to find a financial solution for this.”
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Telegraph.co.uk
Thursday, December 30, 2010
don't worry, be happy!
Carlsberg Pub
Carlsberg Pub
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Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Local Markets
Local Markets
Women selling garden products at the markets. Much of the country's people still rely on subsistence agriculture for food requirements. As land is being used for development projects, pressure is being put on this way of survival and tribal tension over land is becoming an evident problem
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Labour's PFI debt will cost five times as much, Conservatives claim
Labour’s PFI debt will cost five times as much, Conservatives claim
Taxpayers will end up paying five times over for building projects funded by Private Finance Initiative deals commissioned by the last Labour government, the Conservatives have claimed.
Hospitals have complained that PFI service contracts mean that they have to pay up to #333 to have a light bulb changed Photo: ALAMY
By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent 8:00AM GMT 27 Dec 2010
The schemes were a pet project of Gordon Brown as chancellor and involved companies taking on the upfront capital costs of paying for public building schemes such as hospitals or motorways in return for receiving substantial rates of return over long periods of time.
New analysis issued by the Tories shows that the 544 PFI projects agreed under Labour will cost every working family in the country an average of nearly £15,000 each, even though the original building cost stands at just over £3,000.
On average, the gap between the total repayment and the actual cost of the building is the equivalent of £11,700, four times the original pricetag.
Jesse Norman, Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire, is leading a campaign to encourage banks, construction firms and service companies which have benefited from PFI in the last 10 years to give back a small proportion of their profits.
He accused Ed Miliband, the Labour leader who worked for Mr Brown during his decade at the Treasury, of sharing responsibility for the debacle.
“Under Gordon Brown, Labour went on a spending splurge with borrowed money which taxpayers’ will eventually have to pay back many times over,” Mr Norman said.
“As a senior Treasury adviser working for Gordon Brown, Ed Miliband bears responsibility for a borrowing trick that will mean future generations saddled with billions in debt.”
By agreeing long-term deals with private firms, Labour believed that growth in the economy coupled with the long timescale for repaying the debt would mean a good deal for taxpayers despite the high price tag of PFI deals.
Some auditors feel that PFI helped disguise the true scale of the fiscal crisis facing the country by the end of the last government's time in office, because the deals are hidden off balance sheet, and so do not contribute to official debt figures.
Under the terms of the PFI deals struck by Labour, taxpayers are due to pay £245 billion by the 2047/48 financial year. However, the 544 projects involved cost only £51.5 billion to build.
George Osborne, the Chancellor, recently told how he was informed that under the Treasury’s PFI service contract signed by Labour, the cost of supplying a Christmas tree to the Treasury stood at £900, despite being sold by the retailer B&Q for only £40.
A few months earlier, he had been told that the PFI contractor would charge £148.58 to provide a fish and chip lunch for six in his private office.
In the end, Mr Osborne, Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, and their team ate the same lunch in the Treasury canteen for £32.88.
Hospitals have complained that PFI service contracts mean that they have to pay up to £333 to have a light bulb changed.
A hospital in Hereford was charged £963 to have a new television aerial, and a school £1,000 for a computer desk which normally retails at £200.
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Monday, December 27, 2010
Abby's Dumpling
Here comes the Groom
Here comes the Groom
Taken late afternoon at Laurel Bank Park. This wedding had a great atmosphere, close friends of the bride and groom gathered closely while acoustic guitar and vocals filled the air.
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
Chicago Bears v.New York Jets - December 26, 2010
Chicago Bears v.New York Jets - December 26, 2010
A little disrespectful treatment of the "4th Phase" flag?
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Englischer Garten - Eisbach
Englischer Garten - Eisbach
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Britannia Beach Rainbow
Britannia Beach Rainbow
Rainbow over Britannia beach in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Saturday, December 25, 2010
Valerie
Valerie
Valerie sur fond bleut flou en plonge plan amriacain avec robe noire decollete
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