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Emotional Neymar on verge of tears as he addresses rumours he wants to quit Paris Saint-Germain for Barcelona return

By Unknown - Saturday, November 11, 2017

Neymar was on the verge of tears as he addressed rumours that he is unhappy at Paris Saint-Germain.

It has been claimed that the Brazilian superstar has not settled into life at Paris after quitting Barcelona this summer.

He returned to Barca’s Ciutat Esportiva this past week, where he was reunited with Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, and reportedly asked if they would ‘accept him back’.

Neymar’s relationship with PSG’s fellow big name stars has come into question, most notably with Edinson Cavani, with whom he had a penalty row with just a few games after moving.

Neymar got emotional as he spoke following the game

Neymar was keen to address rumours about his future

There have also been reports of a rift with manager Unai Emery.

But Neymar has passionately shot down rumours that he is unhappy at PSG – and insists that he gets on with everybody at the club.

“I’m fine, happy, motivated, satisfied and giving everything on the pitch,” Neymar told O Globo following Brazil’s win over Japan on Friday.

“But it’s something that’s bothering me a lot because they’re inventing stories that aren’t true.

Neymar has been on international duty with Brazil this week

Neymar spoke passionately about his future after the game with Japan

“I have no problem with Cavani, I have no problem with the coach – I came with his endorsement!”

He continued: “I want to be happy, I did not come to disturb anyone. I know my importance to the team, my role on the pitch. I beg you to stop.

“I’m not angry, I’m not p***** off. I came with my own will, to say what I think.

Neymar joined PSG in a deal worth £200million in the summer

Things haven’t gone completely to plan for Neymar since his move

There has been talks of a rift with Cavani

There has also been speculation over his relationship with Emery

“I do not like rumours. What I talk about is the nuisance of people who think they know everything but don’t. So it’s easier for you to hear it from my mouth.

“I have no problem with PSG, what bothers me is the pressure of the press.

“I’m a guy who likes to win, I like titles and I went to PSG for this. I’m happy.

“I was happy when I left Barcelona and I’m happy now.”

Neymar was the star of the show in the game against Japan

Neymar reportedly walked away from the interview at this point, after becoming visibly emotional with the nature of the questions.

On the pitch,the 25-year-old was the star of the show as Brazil defeated Japan in a friendly in Lille on Friday afternoon.

Brazil ran out easy winners in a game where Neymar both scored and missed from the penalty spot.

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Woodward must demand Mourinho sell these three Man United players in January

By Unknown - Saturday, November 11, 2017

Our Manchester United fans here in the Transfer Tavern are having a little discussion over who should be leaving this January.

Ed Woodward and the rest of the board have told manager Jose Mourinho he has to sell before he buys and our regulars say United’s wage bill has risen by 13.5% in recent years. Although Mourinho has shown the door to several players over the past year and a half, the books still need balancing after a fair few big spending summers.

With Mourinho going into his second season our glass collector thinks he’ll have a clearer idea of his squad, who he can utilise and who is surplus to requirements. Indeed, having been heavily linked with Ozil in recent months and the need for a first-team left back, the Old Trafford man must clear away some deadwood to make way for the new.

Our landlord takes a look at these three players to should be shown the Old Trafford exit door…

The left-back arrived from Southampton for big money during Louis Van Gaal’s reign and, since then he’s failed to impress with poor form on a regular basis and a bout of injuries giving him a stop-start United career.

Mourinho’s limited options at left back have still made the Portuguese choose an ageing Young over Shaw, which surely signals curtains for the England man.

The marmite midfielder is loved by Mourinho but generally disliked amongst the Old Trafford faithful. So, with his contract talks seeming to have stalled, meaning he’s open to talking to who he wants in January.

United may cash in on the Belgium midfielder early, or risk losing a man they splashed fairly big money on for free.

This would come as a welcomed transfer to the majority of United fans but Mourinho would lose his plan B.

The United academy youngster is surely looking for a loan move to re-ignite his United career but after a major injury he seems to have missed the impression boat with Mourinho and he may as well cut his losses and move on to forge a career elsewhere.

Wilson will find it hard to dislodge any of the front men at the moment and with the returning Zlatan you can only see more bench time for the young man.

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2019 Election: Igbos give Buhari tough condition –

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Vampire transfusions may help humans live forever

By Unknown - Saturday, November 11, 2017

It is possible that we can grow biologically younger – and they key is in our blood, according to a scientist.

The biomedical gerontologist – an ageing expert – says that one day we won’t die from old age or ill health – only as a result of road accidents.

That is according to Briton Aubrey de Grey, who is chief science officer and co-founder of the SENS Research Foundation in Mountain View in California.

His company is one of an increasing number of Bay Area researchers pursuing the fountain of youth – focusing on isolating a factor in blood to turn back the hands of time.

The idea is that giving the plasma of the young to the old could help to reverse the effects of ageing.

And while it’s a concept that calls to mind vampire lore and stories of bathing in blood, research has suggested it’s not just pie in the sky.

Indeed, researchers at Stanford University, led by neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray, showed in a 2014 study that infusions of blood from young mice reversed cognitive and neurological impairments in old rodents.

Now biotech start-ups are racing to replicate this in humans, to achieve what we only know in science-fiction movies: eternal youth and health.

“The risk of death will remain the risk of death from causes other than aging — like being hit by a truck,” Dr de Grey told CBS SF Bay Area.

“We don’t know how soon we’re going to defeat aging. We should be able to keep people truly in a youthful state of health, no matter how long they live and that means the risk of death will not rise. Plasma transfusions are big hot property right now.”

A year after the Stanford research, biotech company Alkahest in San Carlo, California, experimented a step further in a series of trials injecting the blood plasma of 18-year-old humans into old mice.

They found that similar effects to the original study – human blood did rejuvenate both the body and brain, improving cognition and allowing them to frolic about like their younger counterparts.

Knowing that mice are biologically similar to humans, the researchers believed a similar technique could one day be used to benefit us.

Meanwhile, there may be science behind the fairytales of vampires feeding on the life blood of young maidens.

Blood plasma taken from young people and given to those with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease appears to help ward off its symptoms.

It has long been hoped that giving the blood of the young to the old could help to reverse the signs of ageing.

A study has now found so-called ‘vampire transfusions’ may help people with dementia regain the capacity to perform basic daily tasks, such as making their own meals, paying bills and remembering to take their medications.

This is what happened, according to researchers at Stanford University when they gave 18 people with Alzheimer’s disease the blood plasma of 18 to 30-year-olds.

Although this was an early-stage trial, set up only to determine if such transfusions were safe, the authors were surprised by the results.

The breakthrough follows a Stanford study in 2014 which found the blood of young mice rejuvenated the brain tissue of old mice and made them better able to learn.

At the time, the researchers said young blood may contain ingredients, as yet unknown, which are able to ‘recharge’ the brain.

The new findings were presented at the 10th annual Clinical Trial on Alzheimer’s Disease conference in Boston.

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Want to stop wrinkles, skin aging? Try banana peel

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See Restaurant Where Everyone Is HIV Positive And Living +

By Unknown - Saturday, November 11, 2017

June’s, a unique pop-up restaurant in Toronto, Canada is the world’s first eatery where all of the kitchen staff are HIV positive.

The idea of the restaurant was born out of a recent poll that suggested only half of Canadians would knowingly share or eat food prepared by someone who is HIV positive.

According to Joanne Simons of Casey House, Canada’s first and only standalone hospital for people living with HIV/Aids, the idea was to “challenge the stigma that still exists around HIV” and also an invaluable opportunity to publicly address some of the myths that persist today around the disease.

“I think that there’s still this lingering notion that if I have regular human contact with somebody with HIV, I may contract it – and it is still a death sentence,” Simons said.

After the after the pop-up restaurant was launched there were a lot of questions about what happens if somebody cuts themselves in the kitchen and they’re HIV positive and the risk of transmission, but Simons explains:

“We manage that like anybody would in a kitchen: you make sure you provide first aid, you clean up the area, you throw away whatever has been touched by the blood and you clean the surfaces. We would do that regardless of whether you have HIV or not – that’s just common sense.

“There’s absolutely no risk that somebody can contract HIV from sharing a meal. HIV doesn’t live well out of the body for any length of time and through the cooking the virus dies.”

After its launch, the restaurant which already has more than 100 patrons, recruited a 14-person team for the kitchen who spent hours with the Toronto chef Matt Basile to design a menu. As they geared up to prepare dishes that ranged from a northern Thai potato leek soup and Arctic char pappardelle, Basile trained them in food preparation.

Muluba Habanyama, a cook who lost both her parents to the disease, wondered what her parents would have thought of the restaurant.

“I know that if they were alive and seeing this it would have been unreal to them. Growing up, I knew I was positive, but I also knew it was a secret you kept within the family,” the 24-year-old said.

As a child she fretted during sleepovers that the other kids would spot her taking medications – and experienced first-hand how perceptions shifted when she revealed her secret, the Guardian reports.

“A mentor of mine made me eat off paper plates and paper cups while her and her husband ate off glass plates and glasses. I was about seven years old … It hurt me a lot.”

She spiralled into depression at the age of 19 after losing her second parent to the disease.

“Me and my sister had to plan [my mother’s] funeral. And people would come and ask what happened. And we would make up stories.

“So I didn’t really get to grieve properly because I was making up lies and stories and couldn’t really tell my friends and extended family what really was going on,” Habanyama said.

The experience eventually pushed her to openly acknowledge her status in 2014.

“I just know that I never want to go into that darkness again. But I still get very nervous about it because you don’t know how that’s going to change the mood or change the environment. You don’t want to just be the girl with HIV,” she said.

The story is no different for 52-year-old Trevor Stratton, who was diagnosed 27 years ago and has been HIV positive for more than half of his life.

“Try and get a date when you’re HIV positive. I always disclose, even on dating apps online. People don’t want to talk to you – the first thing they’ll say is ‘how did you get it?’” he said.

Stratton, whose mother is an indigenous Canadian, has for years worked to raise awareness and combat HIV/Aids among Aboriginal populations in Canada.

“We have more than twice the national average in terms of HIV incidence. In the province of Saskatchewan, infection rates in recent years have mirrored those of some developing countries.

“Most of those people are indigenous people and most of them are getting HIV through injection drug use. Which is tied to trauma, residential school system and that whole history we have in Canada,” said Stratton.

He pointed to the stigma that already burdens those diagnosed with HIV. “And then if you’re indigenous or maybe African, Caribbean or black, there’s many layers, intersections of stigma and discrimination.”

Stratton had jumped at the chance to participate as a cook in this week’s restaurant, describing it as crucial chance to highlight an issue that has been largely overlooked in recent years.

“We need help, we need allies, we need to be recognised as a key affected population. We’re invisible. And that’s our work – to try and get us on the map,” he said.

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Togo president blames opposition for violence

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By Unknown - Saturday, November 11, 2017

National Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Senator Edwin Clark, has accused the nation’s security forces and government officials of stirring unnecessary tension in the Niger Delta region with the manner they terrorize the people, including women and children, with fighter jets and gunboats.

Citing the recent suspension of ceasefire and threat to resume hostilities by the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, he said, “When the Niger Delta Avengers gave notice of withdrawing its ceasefire and resuming hostilities for obvious reasons, the leadership of PANDEF quickly intervened, appealing to them to maintain status quo. It went further to send emissaries to the creeks to deliberate with the NDA.”

He said the forum was quite hopeful that the ceasefire would not be broken, but surprisingly, what the security forces had done from media reports was deploying fighter jets and gunboats to communities to intimidate people, forcing residents to scamper into the bushes in an unnecessary show of power.

His words, “It is the ordinary people, including women and children who are the victims of this show of power by the military. For instance, the schoolchildren will be too scared to go to school; the fisherrmen and the petty traders will either hide in their rooms or run away from their homes for safety.”

“One would have expected the Federal Government and the military to know that the Avengers have never showed any sign of retreat or fear when between February 2016 and August, 2016, the area was over militarized by Operation Crocodile Smile. These are people, who are ready to sacrifice their lives for what they believe in, which is remediation of the neglect of the region.

Clark asserted, “It became clear that the second movement/deployment of Operation Crocodile Smile to the Niger Delta did not deter the NDA from repudiating ceasefire, which they had granted over a year ago. This should tell the Federal Government that the crisis in the Niger Delta is a cry for the development of the area; therefore, it will be very difficult, if not impossible to use the military force to cow the people to submission.”

Misapplication of resources

“The wise thing for the Federal Government to do will be to sit down and dialogue with the people. What the Federal Government is doing right now is misapplication of resources. Can the Federal Government sit down and calculate how much it has cost it to deploy military to the Niger Delta area from 2002 to date?

“Can the Federal Government tell Nigerians what these figures are and has military action brought peace? But for the intervention of well meaning elders, let the Federal Government tell the Nigerian public what meaningful progress its actions has brought, outside pain and humiliation,” he said.

According to him, “It appears that the Federal Government has not learnt from history. If the only answer it has is to use the military to fight back the threats and attacks of the militants in the creeks, then it will not succeed, it will not work.”