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Dakar - The number of Ebola cases is surging in
Sierra Leone as the country suffers from a lack
of treatment centres, while lack of food and
basic goods is forcing some people to leave
quarantine areas, the United Nations said.
The U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency
Response (UNMEER) said in its weekly report
that a total of 1,062 people had died in Sierra
Leone from the virus, with the outbreak
particularly virulent in the western areas around
the coastal capital Freetown.
Sierra Leone is emerging as the focal point for
concern in the worst Ebola outbreak on record.
The World Health Organization said on
Wednesday that 4,818 people had died in the
epidemic and said the number of cases was still
rising in Sierra Leone, though it was stabilising
in neighbouring Guinea and slowing in Liberia.
Sierra Leone has 288 beds spread across four
Ebola Treatment Centres (ETCs) treating 196
confirmed cases of the disease as of Nov. 2,
UNMEER said.
However, the U.N. mission said it suspects an
average of 50 percent of cases of the Ebola
virus disease (EVD) are not being reported
across Sierra Leone.
UNMEER said a total of 1,864 beds were
needed by December. Ten new treatment
centres are currently planned, with a capacity of
1,133 beds.
"An additional 731 safe beds need to be
planned, secured and made available by the
first week of December," UNMEER said in its
report, released late on Wednesday.
"Lack of available beds in ETCs is forcing
families to care for patients at home, where
caregivers are unable to adequately protect
themselves from EVD exposure, thereby
increasing transmission risk."
It said a lack of clarity of evacuation
procedures and hazard pay was deterring
foreign and national medical staff from coming
forward to run the units.
UNMEER reported a growing incidence of
families leaving their quarantined homes due to
lack of food and non-food items, but did not
provide further details.
It said that the World Food Programme (WFP)
has been distributing one-month rations to
quarantined household and communities in the
hard-hit area of Waterloo, in the outskirts of
Freetown, where 80 percent of people in need
have already received rations..
The race is almost over - and Lionel Messi is set
to win it. Barcelona's brilliant forward scored
twice at Ajax on Wednesday night to move above
Cristiano Ronaldo in the Champions League
scoring charts and draw level with Real Madrid
icon Raul on 71 goals in the continental
competiton. And he is now in pole position to pi
the Portuguese to the outright record as well.
Messi, who is on the verge of breaking Telmo
Zarra's record for goals in La Liga, netted once in
each half to make it 71 Champions League strike
on Wednesday and eclipse Ronaldo, who failed to
convert in Madrid's 1-0 win at home to Liverpool
the previous night.
Earlier on Wednesday, Ronaldo had picked up his
Golden Shoe for finishing - level with Luis Suarez
- as Europe's top goalscorer in league football in
2013-14 and announced: "I want to be
remembered as the best player ever."
Ronaldo also hinted he would beat his rival to
Raul's record when he said after scoring in his
side's 3-0 victory at Anfield last month: "I'm not
worried about that. I know I'm going to break th
record. Messi is very close too.
Now he is even closer. The Argentine headed
home in the first half to give Barca the lead after
Ajax goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen had come
rushing off his line and Marc Bartra's clever cros
picked out the 27-year-old. Messi then made it
2-0 after Ajax had been reduced to 10 men,
sliding home to convert from close range after he
had played a neat one-two with Pedro.
The four-time Ballon d'Or winner came close to a
hat-trick late in the game as he sought to claim
the record outright, but he will have the
opportunity to surpass Raul on November 25,
when Barcelona travel to APOEL in the fifth round
of group matches.
Although the Argentine failed to score in the hom
game against the Cypriot side, he will be
expected to convert in the return - especially wit
the record at stake.
Ronaldo will have to wait a day more for his
opportunity to overtake his former club colleague
and will also fancy his chances as Madrid host
Bulgarian side Ludogorets at the Santiago
Bernabeu.
"We are happy for Leo [to get the record]," Xavi
said after the match. "He has worked very hard
for the team. He is the one that makes the
difference, the number one."
Barcelona coach Luis Enrique echoed Xavi's
comments: "Messi is without doubt the best
player I've seen as a player and a coach."
Just don't tell that to Cristiano.
Ajax
v
FC Barcelona
Amsterdam
ArenA,
Amsterdam
5 November
2014, 20:45
GMT
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FC Barcelona
are currently
in disastrous run of form as they have
lost two games in a row and they will be
eager to come back to the winning ways
again when they face Ajax at
Amsterdam ArenA in their fourth game
of UEFA Champions League.
FC Barcelona made an excellent start
to their season under new boss Luis
Enrique but it now appears that the
team is struggling to maintain the
same level intensity. FC Barcelona
were convincingly beaten by Real
Madrid a fortnight ago at Santiago
Bernabeu. Their poor run continued
when they lost to Celta Vigo at their
own Camp Nou and the fans will be
hoping for the team to come back to
the winning ways in this crucial
fixture of Group F of UEFA
Champions League.
This is a must win game for Ajax
Amsterdam as they have earned only
two points from their first three
games so far and they will be out of
the Champions League if they lose
against FC Barcelona on Wednesday.
Team News and Tactics
Ajax
This is a must win game for Ajax and
coach Franc de Boer will be hoping
for a strong performance from his
inexperienced defenders as it has
become a biggest area of concern for
the Ducth champions in the new
season. Ajax have conceded 12 goals
in 11 games of Eredivisie so far.
Ajax have no option but to secure a
win against FC Barcelona on
Wednesday and Franc de Boer is
expected to start the game with his
usual 4-3-3 formation. Ajax head
into the match against FC Barcelona
on the back of two back-to-back
Eredivisie victories and coach De
Boer knows their opponents deserve
respect but urged his players not to
fear FC Barcelona.
Speaking to Dutch newspaper De
Telegraaf, De Boer said: “We need to
disturb as a team. We have to give
them no air to breathe.
“Two weeks ago we really had too
much fear of FC Barcelona. Respect is
allowed, but fear – of course – is not.
I would therefore also like to see
passion and confidence.
“Of course they have a lot of quality,
but against good teams you get space.
We should use that space well. Then
there are opportunities.”
Young midfield trio of Klaasen,
Zimling and Andersen has shown
some great promise this season and
they will hold the key for Ajax in this
do or die fixture against FC
Barcelona.
FC Barcelona
Striker Luis Suarez will make his
European debut for FC Barcelona
against his former employers Ajax on
Wednesday. Luis Suarez played for
Ajax till 2011, scoring 111 goals in
process.
FC Barcelona spend huge cash on
new signings like Jeremy Mathieu,
Luis Suarez, Thomas Varmaelen and
Claudio Bravo during the summer
transfer window but it now appears
that their defence is still not
improved while midfielders are also
struggling to control the tempo of the
games like they used to do it earlier.
The central defence is currently the
biggest area of concern for coach
Luis Enrique at the moment as
Gerard Pique is struggling for form
while Jeremy Mathieu is out injured.
Javier Mascherano will start the
game alongside Pique in absence of
Mathieu. Andres Iniesta will miss out
the game against Ajax due to calf
injury, while Sergi Roberto (groin)
and Thomas Vermaelen (thigh) are
also sidelined.
Another concern ahead of coach Luis
Enrique is his midfield. Ageing
maestro Xavi Hernandez is looking
ineffective while Andres Iniesta is
also struggling for a form since past
few games. Ivan Rakitic made a
promising start to his FC Barcelona
career and the coach is expected to
start the game against Ajax with him
in the midfield.
Lionel Messi has not scored in FC
Barcelona’s last two games but he
will be hoping to equal or beat the
record of Raul’s Champions League
goals by having a good game against
Ajax.
FC Barcelona currently sits second in
group F of Champions League and
this will be a crucial game for them if
they want to qualify for next round
as group winners. FC Barcelona have
lost two games in a row now and this
away game will be a big test for
them. And midfielder Sergio
Busquets stressed the importance of
this game in his pre-match press
conference.
Busquets said: “It’s only normal that
there’s some debate and for people to
analyse things through a magnifying
glass. When you lose you have to
improve because there are clearly
things you’re not getting quite right.
We are always self-critical, whether
we win or lose. We have keep
working to improve, there’s nothing
else we can do.”
Sergio Busquets also said that the
game with Ajax presents an ideal
opportunity to start making up lost
ground. “Hopefully we can put an
end to this poor run” he said. But he
also remembers their lost against
Ajax exactly a year ago. “They came
out strong and were all over us at the
start of the game. With the sending
off and our goal, everything changed.
I hope it doesn’t happen again.”
Predicted Starting XI (4-3-3): Ter
Stegen, Dani Alves, Pique,
Mascerano, Alba; Rakitic, Busquetes,
Xavi; Suarez, Messi, Neymar.
Player To Watch Out For
Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi has 69 Champions
League goals to his name and he just
needs 2 more goals to equal the
record of Raul Gonzalez.
Score Prediction
Ajax 1-2 FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona have struggled with
their form in recent games but they
are expected to come back strongly
against Dutch Champions Ajax at Amsterdam Arena.
The Premier Soccer
League Executive
Committee (Exco) met
on Thursday in
Johannesburg for its
monthly meeting.
A decision was taken
to postpone all Absa
Premiership and
National First Division (NFD) fixtures scheduled
for this weekend.
This was done following discussions between the
League, title sponsors Absa, the broadcast
partners and other relevant stakeholders
regarding the extraordinary circumstances relating
to the passing and funeral of the late Orlando
Pirates and Bafana Bafana captain, Senzo
Meyiwa.
Meyiwa will be buried at his hometown in Durban
on Saturday morning. The funeral service will be
held at the Moses Mabhida Stadium.
A TEXAS nurse who was the second US
healthcare worker infected with Ebola while
caring for a Liberian patient left the hospital
overnight after being declared cured of the
virus.
“I’m so grateful to be well and first and
foremost I want to thank God,” Amber Vinson,
29, said at a press conference at Emory
University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.
Wearing a grey suit and pink blouse, Ms Vinson
appeared healthy and smiled often,
occasionally wiping away tears as the medical
team at Emory University Healthcare
surrounded her and her doctor spoke about her
care.
She also thanked her family and the medical
teams in Texas and Georgia, and asked for
people to continue to work to eradicate the
Ebola outbreak abroad.
“While this is a day for celebration and
gratitude, I ask that we not lose focus on the
thousands of families that continue to labour
under the burden of this disease in West
Africa.” Her colleague Nina Pham, 26, who also
worked in the intensive care unit of Texas
Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, was
treated for Ebola at the National Institutes of
Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland
and was released on Friday.
Both became infected while caring for a
Liberian man, Thomas Eric Duncan, who was
diagnosed with Ebola in Texas after flying to
the United States from his native Liberia, the
country hardest hit by West Africa’s Ebola
epidemic. He died on October 8.
Ebola has killed more than 4900 people and
infected more than 10,000 since the beginning
of the year, according to the World Health
Organisation.
Vinson’s story sparked alarm across the United
States after the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention said she flew on a domestic
aeroplane from Texas to Ohio and back, and
reported a low-grade fever before boarding the
flight home.
The CDC cleared her for travel at the time —
about a day before she was diagnosed with
Ebola — but said later she should not have
been travelling on a commercial airliner.
Vinson’s family hired a high profile Washington
lawyer, Billy Martin, after issuing a statement
earlier this month saying they were “troubled
by some of the negative public comments and
media coverage that mischaracterize Amber
and her actions.” “In no way was Amber
careless prior to or after her exposure to Mr.
Thomas Eric Duncan. She has not and would
not knowingly expose herself or anyone else,” it
said.
The release of Vinson leaves just one patient in
US hospital care for Ebola, doctor Craig
Spencer, at Bellevue Hospital in New York.
She is the fourth person to have been
successfully treated for Ebola at Emory
University Hospital, after missionaries Kent and
Nancy Writebol and another unnamed American
doctor who was sickened in Sierra Leone.
Bruce Ribner, medical director of the serious
communicable diseases unit at Emory
University Hospital, said the hospital was
pleased with Vinson’s quick recovery — she
was admitted there two weeks ago — but said
it was unclear exactly why she healed so fast.
Ribner said her young age might have helped,
as well as the fact that she was wearing
protective gear when she treated Duncan,
though it remains unknown how she was
infected.
“It is quite likely that the amount of virus that
she was exposed to was substantially less
than what we see in patients who get infected
in less developed countries,” he said
Another nurse who was held for days against
her will in a medical tent in New Jersey after
volunteering in West Africa was in an
“undisclosed location” in Maine, objecting to
both states’ Ebola quarantine rules as overly
restrictive.
While world leaders appeal for more doctors
and nurses on the front lines of the Ebola
epidemic, health care workers in the United
States are finding themselves on the defensive.
Lawyers now represent both Amber Vinson,
who contracted the virus while caring for a
Liberian visitor to Texas, and Kaci Hickox, who
is challenging the mandatory quarantines some
states have imposed on anyone who has come
into contact with Ebola victims.
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But all housemates are treading more carefully
after last week’s strikes and high emotion. What
will this week bring? Will we see more fights,
romance and drama? JJ and Mr. 265 were
already at odds in the kitchen. Are housemates
harbouring resentment about who does the most
cooking? But the housemates have learnt their
lesson after Samantha and M’am Bea’s
transgression , but when the pressure is on, who
knows what will happen. With the title of
sneakiest housemate in the balance as well,
perhaps housemates will try to get along more for
Biggie’s sake. Only time will tell, and when
there's food involved with these housmates we
never know what will happen.
Former Gunners defender Sol Campbell feels
Chelsea can emulate Arsenal’s feat of going
unbeaten in a league campaign this season,
but admits that it will be difficult for Jose
Mourinho's men to do.
The England defender was part of the
Arsenal team that earned the 'Invincibles’
tag for remaining unbeaten in the 2003/04
league campaign.
Their run stretched to 49 games before they
were beaten by Manchester United at Old
Trafford on 24th October, 2004.
Chelsea are unbeaten in the league so far
this season and Campbell feels that
Mourinho’s side have it in them to remain
undefeated for the whole league campaign.
But he warned that the margin of error is
very fine and said that Arsenal’s feat in the
2003/04 season was nothing short of
incredible.
“Chelsea are the team [who can remain
unbeaten] but there is very little room for
error” , Campbell was quoted as saying by
Voetbal Primeur .
“One slip and the run will be over.
“Even with the best players and the best
managers, there are things you cannot
control.
“There were games we came back from the
pitch thinking,’ how have we done it’? I
didn’t realise then how incredible our
achievement really was.”
Arsenal won 26 and drew 12 games as they
won the league title in the 2003/04 season
and they were presented with a golden
Premier League trophy for their remarkable
achievement.
#T.U.K awards# is an award for musicians mainly keyboardist it is spearheaded by me.
The award is going to be given as from next year to outstanding keyboardist for that year- T.U.W
Wizkid who was in Nairobi over the weekend to
shoot a video and also had one or two shows
was actually arrested at Nairobi Crown Plaza,
a non-smoking hotel where he was lodged. A
Nairobian website which gave account of the
scene reports that, the Nigerian star was
arrested when he was about checking out of
the hotel after it was discovered he had
smoked an illegal substance- weed.
The hotel manager questioned him about the
illegal act, which made them have a hot
argument, before the hotel security men called
in the police. Victoria Kimani who had been
visiting him in his hotel room was also there to
help him check out and witnessed the whole
scenario.
When the police came, they insisted he will
have to follow them to their station; Capital
Hill Police Station after they handcuffed him.
Even though he had paid the Sh50, 000 fine
the hotel charges for breaking the LAW.....
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Pictured above is Shacarye Tims an alleged prostitute who recently stole an expensive Rolex Watch belonging to one of her clients in Manhattan area of New York.
So where does the HENDO hoverboard stand today? Well, about 1 inch
off the ground. As you can see from the video above, the prototype is
real and it works! But to see it hover in person, and better yet, to
defy gravity by riding it, is something you need to experience as well.
)), commonly referred to as A.C. Milan or simply Milan, is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Lombardy, that plays in Serie A. Milan was founded in 1899 by English lace-maker Herbert Kilpin and businessman Alfred Edwards among others.[2][4] The club has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 1980–81 and 1982–83 seasons, in the top flight of Italian football, known as Serie A since 1929–30.[2]
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This article duplicates, in whole or part, the scope of other articles, specifically, History of A.C. Milan. (July 2013) |
| San Siro | |
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| Location | Via Piccolomini 5, 20151 Milan, Italy |
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| Owner | Municipality of Milan |
| Operator | AC Milan and Internazionale |
| Capacity | 80,018 seated |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 1925 |
| Opened | 19 September 1926 |
| Renovated | 1939, 1955, 1989 |
| Construction cost | £5,000,000 (1926), £5,100,000 (1939), $60,000,000 (1989) |
| Architect | Ulisse Stacchini (1925), Giancarlo Ragazzi (1989), Enrico Hoffer (1989) |
| Tenants | |
| AC Milan (1926–present), Internazionale (1947–present) | |
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