“You’re In For A Shock”:Liverpool Manager, Rodgers Warns Van Gaal.

Louis van Gaal congratulates Wayne Rooney after Manchester United’s victory over Liverpool in Miami. Photograph: John Peters/Man Utd via Getty Images 

Brendan Rodgers has wasted no time in playing mind games with Louis van Gaal by warning the new Manchester United manager that the competitive nature of the Premier League will make it extremely difficult for the Dutchman to win the title in his first season. Van Gaal emerged victorious from his first meeting with United’s arch-rivals after Wayne Rooney inspired a second-half comeback and 3-1 win over Liverpool to win the Guinness International Champions Cup on Monday evening. But Rodgers is adamant that Van Gaal, despite success at clubs such as Barcelona and Bayern Munich, will struggle to come to terms with the ferocity and unpredictability of English football. “I think what he’ll find is the competition in this league will be different from any other league that he’s worked in,” said Rodgers, who led his side to within touching distance of their first title since 1990 last season. “In a lot of the other leagues there are one or two teams and those are the teams that are expected to win. Louis-Van-Gaal-Brendan-Rodgers 
 

“This is a league where the top team plays the bottom team and on any given day you can lose. You don’t get that a lot in the other leagues. I think the competition will probably take him by surprise and that’s from foreign managers I have spoken to over the years. “I’ve worked closely with foreign players who have come in and that real physical competitive nature will be different from anywhere else he’s worked before.” Van Gaal will be keen to tell his Anfield counterpart how he won trophies in Spain and Germany during his first season in each country but Rodgers knows that with Arsenal, Manchester City and Chelsea working feverishly in the transfer market this summer, the competition at the top will be as fierce as ever. “I think it’s going to be really as competitive,” he said. “Last season was great and right the way through there were four or five teams right up there, and then in the closing months it narrowed down a wee bit. The Premier League historically shows that it’s a very competitive league. Man United will want to bounce back, Chelsea will be strong, Manchester City are the champions so they’ll be the favourites. 

Source: Guardian UK

Louis van Gaal congratulates Wayne Rooney after Manchester United’s victory over Liverpool in Miami. Photograph: John Peters/Man Utd via Getty Images Brendan Rodgers has wasted no time in playing mind games with Louis van Gaal by warning the new Manchester United manager that the competitive nature of the Premier League will make it extremely difficult for the Dutchman to win the title in his first season. Van Gaal emerged victorious from his first meeting with United’s arch-rivals after Wayne Rooney inspired a second-half comeback and 3-1 win over Liverpool to win the Guinness International Champions Cup on Monday evening. But Rodgers is adamant that Van Gaal, despite success at clubs such as Barcelona and Bayern Munich, will struggle to come to terms with the ferocity and unpredictability of English football. “I think what he’ll find is the competition in this league will be different from any other league that he’s worked in,” said Rodgers, who led his side to within touching distance of their first title since 1990 last season. “In a lot of the other leagues there are one or two teams and those are the teams that are expected to win. Louis-Van-Gaal-Brendan-Rodgers “This is a league where the top team plays the bottom team and on any given day you can lose. You don’t get that a lot in the other leagues. I think the competition will probably take him by surprise and that’s from foreign managers I have spoken to over the years. “I’ve worked closely with foreign players who have come in and that real physical competitive nature will be different from anywhere else he’s worked before.” Van Gaal will be keen to tell his Anfield counterpart how he won trophies in Spain and Germany during his first season in each country but Rodgers knows that with Arsenal, Manchester City and Chelsea working feverishly in the transfer market this summer, the competition at the top will be as fierce as ever. “I think it’s going to be really as competitive,” he said. “Last season was great and right the way through there were four or five teams right up there, and then in the closing months it narrowed down a wee bit. The Premier League historically shows that it’s a very competitive league. Man United will want to bounce back, Chelsea will be strong, Manchester City are the champions so they’ll be the favourites. Source: Guardian UK

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Read How Chelsea’s Move For Sami Khedira Depends On John Obi Mikel

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho is interested in Sami Khedira, yet is currently unable to make a bid for the Real Madrid midfielder. According to the latest speculation from The Daily Star, Mourinho – who has been very active indeed in the transfer market so far this summer with moves for Diego Costa, Cesc Fabregas, Filipe Luis and Didier Drogba – has World Cup winner Khedira on his list of potential replacements for John Obi Mikel, yet is unable to move forward in this regard until the Nigerian’s future at Stamford Bridge is fully resolved. 

Mikel – whose initial move to Chelsea in 2007 involved a rather acrimonious dispute with Premier League rivals Manchester United- has featured on a regular basis for the Blues over recent seasons, winning the Premier League title, four FA Cups, the Europa League and the Champions League during his seven-year stint in West London. While he has generally been a steady and reliable performer for a succession of different managers, however, the former Lyn Oslo starlet is clearly not regarded as an indispensable member of Chelsea’s first-team squad under Jose Mourinho. 

January’s return of Serbian international Nemanja Matic hugely increased competition in Mourinho’s midfield and the recent purchase of Spanish international Fabregas is likely to further reduce Mikel’s chances of starting on a regular basis moving forward. Chelsea’s desire to sell Mikel has been quite apparent for several weeks now. Only last month, reports suggested that several Serie A clubs had been offered the chance to sign him for a fee of just £5 million.

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho is interested in Sami Khedira, yet is currently unable to make a bid for the Real Madrid midfielder. According to the latest speculation from The Daily Star, Mourinho – who has been very active indeed in the transfer market so far this summer with moves for Diego Costa, Cesc Fabregas, Filipe Luis and Didier Drogba – has World Cup winner Khedira on his list of potential replacements for John Obi Mikel, yet is unable to move forward in this regard until the Nigerian’s future at Stamford Bridge is fully resolved. Mikel – whose initial move to Chelsea in 2007 involved a rather acrimonious dispute with Premier League rivals Manchester United- has featured on a regular basis for the Blues over recent seasons, winning the Premier League title, four FA Cups, the Europa League and the Champions League during his seven-year stint in West London. While he has generally been a steady and reliable performer for a succession of different managers, however, the former Lyn Oslo starlet is clearly not regarded as an indispensable member of Chelsea’s first-team squad under Jose Mourinho. January’s return of Serbian international Nemanja Matic hugely increased competition in Mourinho’s midfield and the recent purchase of Spanish international Fabregas is likely to further reduce Mikel’s chances of starting on a regular basis moving forward. Chelsea’s desire to sell Mikel has been quite apparent for several weeks now. Only last month, reports suggested that several Serie A clubs had been offered the chance to sign him for a fee of just £5 million.

Read more at: http://sugarsport.me/2014/08/06/read-how-chelseas-move-for-sami-khedira-depends-on-john-obi-mikel/ | Nigerian Sports News, Football News | SugarSport NigeraChelsea boss Jose Mourinho is interested in Sami Khedira, yet is currently unable to make a bid for the Real Madrid midfielder. According to the latest speculation from The Daily Star, Mourinho – who has been very active indeed in the transfer market so far this summer with moves for Diego Costa, Cesc Fabregas, Filipe Luis and Didier Drogba – has World Cup winner Khedira on his list of potential replacements for John Obi Mikel, yet is unable to move forward in this regard until the Nigerian’s future at Stamford Bridge is fully resolved. Mikel – whose initial move to Chelsea in 2007 involved a rather acrimonious dispute with Premier League rivals Manchester United- has featured on a regular basis for the Blues over recent seasons, winning the Premier League title, four FA Cups, the Europa League and the Champions League during his seven-year stint in West London. While he has generally been a steady and reliable performer for a succession of different managers, however, the former Lyn Oslo starlet is clearly not regarded as an indispensable member of Chelsea’s first-team squad under Jose Mourinho. January’s return of Serbian international Nemanja Matic hugely increased competition in Mourinho’s midfield and the recent purchase of Spanish international Fabregas is likely to further reduce Mikel’s chances of starting on a regular basis moving forward. Chelsea’s desire to sell Mikel has been quite apparent for several weeks now. Only last month, reports suggested that several Serie A clubs had been offered the chance to sign him for a fee of just £5 million.Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho is interested in Sami Khedira, yet is currently unable to make a bid for the Real Madrid midfielder. According to the latest speculation from The Daily Star, Mourinho – who has been very active indeed in the transfer market so far this summer with moves for Diego Costa, Cesc Fabregas, Filipe Luis and Didier Drogba – has World Cup winner Khedira on his list of potential replacements for John Obi Mikel, yet is unable to move forward in this regard until the Nigerian’s future at Stamford Bridge is fully resolved. Mikel – whose initial move to Chelsea in 2007 involved a rather acrimonious dispute with Premier League rivals Manchester United- has featured on a regular basis for the Blues over recent seasons, winning the Premier League title, four FA Cups, the Europa League and the Champions League during his seven-year stint in West London. While he has generally been a steady and reliable performer for a succession of different managers, however, the former Lyn Oslo starlet is clearly not regarded as an indispensable member of Chelsea’s first-team squad under Jose Mourinho. January’s return of Serbian international Nemanja Matic hugely increased competition in Mourinho’s midfield and the recent purchase of Spanish international Fabregas is likely to further reduce Mikel’s chances of starting on a regular basis moving forward. Chelsea’s desire to sell Mikel has been quite apparent for several weeks now. Only last month, reports suggested that several Serie A clubs had been offered the chance to sign him for a fee of just £5 million.

Chibok girls: Jonathan replies US Today's critical editorial

Amid all the horrors that regularly compete for the world's attention, missing chibok school girls shouldn't be forgotten. For one thing, the teenage captives are symbols of the importance of educating girls. They were all seized after returning to school in a dangerous area to take their final exams. Among them are future lawyers, doctors and teachers — women who could someday help lead their country.

For another, there's evidence that the international uproar might have helped raise the cost of harming the girls too high even for Boko Haram, an extremist group that regularly kidnaps and kills in its quest to bring a brutal form of fundamentalist Islam to parts of Africa.

The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that U.S. surveillance flights spotted large groups of girls, suspected of being the captives, in remote parts of Nigeria. That dovetails with reports that Boko Haram — whose name means “Western education is forbidden” — is treating at least some of the kidnapped girls with unusual care.

Leaders of the group, after first warning that the girls would be sold into slavery, later offered to trade them for Boko Haram prisoners held by the Nigerian government. The world's focus on the girls has made them both valuable pawns and risky victims. The response of the Nigerian government, which has often seemed overmatched in its five-year struggle with Boko Haram, doesn't inspire much confidence. President Goodluck Jonathan at first largely ignored the incident, then claimed activists invented it, and finally yielded to pressure to accept international assistance. Jonathan, in Washington this week for a U.S.-Africa summit , says his government is making every effort to find the girls. But he offers no evidence, is dismissive of the foreign help and argues that divulging any details could compromise the mission.
Jonathan has said repeatedly that a military operation to free the girls would probably result in the deaths of many, all but ruling it out. In the place of military action is bargaining, and Nigerian leaders have sent ambiguous signals about who is negotiating and what's on the table.

The challenge of fighting militants who casually sacrifice civilian lives in the name of religion isn't confined to Nigeria. American forces have struggled inconclusively with extremists in Iraq and Afghanistan for more than a decade.
The world's anger can sometimes seem a weak candle next to the flame of intolerance and murder, but in the case of the captive Nigerian schoolgirls, it's important to keep it burning.

Culled from TNV

Seriously? American Singer, Mariah Carey Spends About N4 million On Her Eight Dogs in a Luxury Dog Hotel – Photos

American singer, Mariah Carey Spends $25k For Her 8 Dogs’ Comfort In a Luxury Dog Hotel. The dogs names are; Jill E Beans, The Good Reverend Pow Jackson, Pipitty Jackson, Cha Cha, Jackie Lambchops, JJ, Squeak E Beans and Mutley P Gore Jackson The Third. 

The pooches will be sleeping in their own beds and be groomed and washed and taken on day trips to the surrounding areas, such as the Victorian seaside town of Clevedon, following the coastal route around the bay, or to see the bluebell woods at Belmont Hill. The cute canines will be waited on hand-and paw during their stay, with every meal tailor-made by a personal chef, according to a menu plan which Mariah is sending over.

Pets are also offered surfing, board games and swimming, along with dog-orientated movies such as 101 Dalmatians and Lassie.

Truly money is good
This is the Hotel built only for dogs....
 

Scientists: Are we *sure* Ebola isn’t airborne?

Scientists do not exclude the possibility of Ebola virus transmission by air through aerosolised particles.

 A health agent checks a passenger leaving Conakry's airport on Tuesday as West Africa's Ebola outbreak spread. | AFP

 

It was commonly considered that the deadly disease is transmitted human-to-human through direct contact with infected patients or through contact victim’s body fluids. However the fresh studies suggest another possible development.

The fears appeared in the case of Patrick Sawyer travelling to Nigeria who got infected with the virus and died at a hospital in Lagos. Therefore, implications of the possibility of Ebola transmission in an enclosed environment, such as an aircraft cabin, have emerged.

Studies showed that Ebola virus is transmissible to monkeys from infected pigs without them coming into direct contact. The Ebola virus survives for days outside infected hosts and can "ride" on aerosolised droplets to spread to potential victims.
To demonstrate this, Canadian scientists housed the pigs carrying the virus in pens with the monkeys in close proximity, but separated by a wire barrier. In 8 days some monkeys started experiencing symptoms associated with Ebola. Which suggests aerosolised organisms can possibly cause infection.

According to the Canadian Public Health Agency:
"The virus can survive in liquid or dried material for a number of days. Infectivity is found to be stable at room temperature or at 4 degrees Celsius for several days, and indefinitely stable at -70 degrees Celsius. Infectivity can be preserved by lyophilisation. Hence, it is implied that Ebola viruses can survive for several days on common objects such as door knobs or household surfaces. If an infected Ebola victim runs around touching such common objects after cleaning blood or mucous from his nose, another innocent victim can easily infect himself by touching the same objects and then eating some food that places the virus in his mouth."

The currently incurable disease has already claimed hundreds of lives in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Yesterday Nigeria was hit by the news about the second case of infection with the virus by Patrick Sawyers’s doctor. Health officials have revealed that now there are 8 suspected cases of infection with Ebola – all these people were in contact with Sawyer who became the first victim of the virus on the Nigerian territory.

Kim Kardashian Shows Some Serious Cleavage to Jimmy Kimmel

Well, this is definitely a lot of look.

Kim Kardashian showed up to "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on Monday night sporting an outfit only she would attempt to pull off.

The reality TV star appeared on the late night show in a creation from Ulyana Sergeenko, stepping out in an extremely low-cut white bustier and cream pants, with a turquoise robe that tied at the waist. She completed the look with some big hair styled by Chris McMillan.

She apparently liked the outfit so much, she wore it for her brand new passport photo -- which she posted online Tuesday afternoon with the caption "New passport pic #Mrs.West #NameChange."



While on Kimmel, Kim opened up about her wedding day with Kanye West -- and revealed which of her sisters partied a little too hard the night before.

"Khloe drank a little too much, so I had to wake her up. She was laying down sleeping, getting her makeup done for the wedding," Kim revealed. "They had to do it while she was sleeping. She was so hungover! I think everyone just had such a good time at Versailles, they drank way too much."



Kardashian also told Jimmy that she's "obsessed with changing diapers" and challenged the late night host to a diaper changing competition. Check out the video to see who won!

What do you think of Kim's revealing outfit?

Kate Middleton Baby Bump Sighting? Duchess Stuns in Blue Dress, Holds Purse Strategically

Looking stunning as ever, Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton strategically placed a purse over her tummy during a royal appearance Tuesday.
It was enough to send the media and gossip-loving public into a frenzy wondering if there is indeed something blooming ... and we're not talking about the flowers!

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Is Kate Middleton pregnant with her second child? We highly doubt it, as the alleged "baby bump" shown on this day would not be called that on anyone else.

When you're Kate, and rumors swirl about you being knocked up (hopefully expecting a baby girl this time) all day every day, this somehow qualifies.

Seriously, though? If her supposed friend Jessica Hay's recent "confirmation" were at all accurate, she would be showing a lot more than this by now.

A lot more. What she is showing is a great deal of emotion, having visited the Tower of London’s “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red” installation.

Kate, husband Prince William and Prince Harry paid tribute to the site, which commemorates the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I.

It will eventually hold 888,246 ceramic red poppies, representing each and every British and British colonial loss of life during the "Great War."

That, not feeling imprisoned in London (another great tabloid rumor of recent weeks), was enough to bring a tear to the 32-year-old's eye on this day.