Simon Grayson Appointed New Manager Of Sunderland

The former Leeds United boss has penned a three-year deal after the relegated side were given permission to speak to him on Thursday.



Simon Grayson has been appointed New Manager of Sunderland as has promised a swift return of the Black Cats to the Premier League.

The former Leeds United boss has penned a three-year deal after the relegated side were given permission to speak to him on Thursday.

He is then expected to meet his players for the first time on Friday before flying off to Austria with them for a pre-season training camp.

“Sunderland AFC is delighted to welcome Simon Grayson as the club’s new manager. Grayson moves to Wearside after putting pen to paper on a three-year deal with the Black Cats.

“A seasoned manager who has taken charge of over 600 games, Grayson has vast experience of building and improving teams he takes charge of. He arrives at the Stadium of Light after four years at Preston North End, where he took the club from the lower reaches of League One into the Championship,” Sunderland said in a statement.

“I am delighted to come to Sunderland, a club with such wonderful history and tradition. I’m excited by the opportunity to manage this club and I want to bring the good times back.

“Sunderland is so fortunate to have such tremendous support and I want to give these fans a team they can be proud of.

“I want a group of players full of desire, team spirit and a never-say-die attitude – that’s the very least that we should expect from a Sunderland player.

“The Championship is a demanding league, but with all the attributes I have highlighted, then our aim has to be to get the club back to where it belongs as quickly as possible and I can’t wait to get started,” he said.

World’s Most Expensive Player, Pogba Forced To Wait On A Queue Outside A Night Club.

Paul Pogba was forced to queue to enter an LA nightclub as he partied during his summer holiday. The Manchester United midfielder hit exclusive venue Warwick in Hollywood earlier this week but was unable to get himself on the guest list.

Pogba, who earns £300,000-per-week, waited in line alongside his pals as bouncers let him a small number of guests at a time.

Warwick has grown a reputation as being one of LA’s most popular nightspots for celebrities.

But Pogba was not the only footballer at the club earlier this week, as exiled Manchester City star Samir Nasri waited in the same queue further back.

What Are the Long-Term Effects of Living in a Technological World?

Cherish your microwave to warm up your pre-cooked suppers, dishwasher to tidy up your dishes, clothes washer to do your clothing et cetera. In the outside condition you cherish your halfway auto-driven auto. At the workplace you are likely acclimated to your PC and portable PC with the compelling rule of web and arrange and computerized instruments to improve your work and activities. You most likely can't envision your existence without them.

What could be the long haul impacts of these? Basically you get solid and subject to these and habituate yourself to the more current adaptations of them. Thus, you get the chance to practice your mind less, turn out to be less free and turn out to be somewhat apathetic.

It is every one of the machines and advances doing all the work for you and you have less work to do as it were. Then again, keeping them clean, keeping up and overseeing them in workable condition turn into your extra weight. Be that as it may, on the off chance that you are content with this alternative, you are ready.

On the off chance that you are miserable, dispose of them and begin working physically. Be that as it may, I figure you wouldn't care for it either. It is best to go for the prior alternative and fall into pace with the cutting edge time.

Concerning keeping your cerebrum sharp and not getting to be plainly stout because of less work, you have to work out. For example, run or simply stroll at a quick pace in Mother Nature as an alternative. In the event that setting off to the rec center inspires you, you can put it all on the line and do exercises.

Then again, you can get occupied with maybe a couple side interests that address you. For example, planting, climbing, stamp/currency gathering, weaving and taking music lessons are a couple of choices from which you can pick.

Another awesome alternative to benefit as much as possible from your time is to diary your considerations, experiences and lessons of life. Keep it with you and when a thought strikes you, record it. You can change every once in a while what stuff you have noted down and this advances self-development.

While machines and innovations do the majority of the work for you, what I have been discussing to keep you occupied encourages you to stay human. You too require not turn into a robot. This is the limit I implied toward the start of this article.

Other stuff that causes you to stay human is to invest energy with your companion/family in Mother Nature, watch a film together at the theater or play in a recreation center. You likewise need to keep your autos and home perfect and clean which you can postpone until the end of the week. In spite of the fact that this can be halfway finished with machines for example, vacuum cleaners, there are different territories that will require manual work.

Summing up, machines and advances can just do as such much - yet there will dependably be decisions to make each day to keep you occupied and profitable and at the same time keep your family and group cheerful by bailing them out and cherishing them endlessly. These, actually, are a portion of the crucial components that will at present keep you human regardless of what number of advancements exist out there.

How Will Virtual Reality Change Education?

Taking on the web classes is a case of virtual reality. Regardless of whether the online classes have a mentor or not, there will be addresses as introductions which the understudies can take after. Making everything on the web might be troublesome right now yet with time all the required computerized apparatuses will be accessible. So what happens when virtual reality assumes control conventional training?

Straightforward, understudies won't be required to go to schools or colleges. By getting the hang of everything on the web and taking note of down imperative focuses, they make it. There will be replays accessible for internet instructing lessons that understudies can play the same number of times as they like from the solace of their home in the event that they missed something or didn't comprehend something.

They can plan an exam on one of the advantageous dates on the web and show up in the online exam in like manner.

Books may not however go wiped out. Alongside the replays of instructional exercise lessons, understudies can purchase hardcover or advanced books, whichever they favor, and set themselves up for tests and exams.

Online classes are as of now accessible thusly. Virtual reality assuming control customary training implies online classes will end up noticeably uncontrolled and across the board.

Through the span of a few decades, this is the manner by which I accept virtual reality will assume control and how life would turn out to be more agreeable for understudies.

No compelling reason to get up in the mornings, no compelling reason to swallow down a not all that top notch breakfast, no compelling reason to drive or drive - life gets that straightforward and simple, all from the solace of home.

Presently comes the instance of teach. Will understudies depend on themselves and carry on keen to go to all the online classes? Will they stay faithful to their obligation to their folks that yes, they will carry on of teach and request?

In conventional instruction, there is dependably an educator or teacher to direct understudies from the beginning. Be that as it may, would students be able to remain restrained and develop enough to stick to online standards or will they break every one of the tenets and simply be a drifter?

The inevitable peril additionally lies in the present day whether an understudy will adhere to the qualities and standards and submit to the guidelines and buckle down for a degree. S/he can undoubtedly go in wrong ways, get keen on end of the week disco parties and turn out to be more carefree, without focusing on their examinations.

In this way, as I would like to think, albeit online classes or virtual reality represents a risk on future instruction, it is my conviction that well-raised kids will be all ready to learn, graduate and in the long run work. Obviously, child rearing has a part in this. Great child rearing will dependably suffice to give their kids the correct morals, qualities and standards with the goal that they don't get sidetracked or out of their limits.

Villagers Parade Cassava Thief Unclad In Akwa Ibom State.[Photos]

As shared by a Facebook user,

A cassava thief was caught yesterday in a remote village in Akwa Ibom State and was stripped by the youths of the village. He was also paraded around the village as a warning to any other villager who have intension of indulging in criminality in the village. Though he was not lynch,he was asked to eat the raw cassava tubers.

He was later asked to be release by the Village Head of of the village. The village head thereafter sound a serious note of warning to all villagers that he and his cabinet will not in anyway condole any manner of criminality in his domain.
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So Sad! Bayelsa Corper Shot Dead, His Phone And Wallet Stolen

A family has been thrown into mourning, after their son who is UNIBEN graduate but deployed to Bayelsa for his NYSC year was shot dead.

The deceased's brother, Prosper Collins, took to Facebook to narrate the incident that led to his brother's death. Here's what he wrote;

"What a Black and Dark Saturday, I was just at home, when MY Younger Brother Murphy called on me with a deep Groaning Tone, shouting where are U3 or more times, with tension and confessions, all I COULD SAY was what?

Then the news so traumatizing, that my Younger Brother SAMUEL COLLINS, Has been killed by an unknown GUN MEN, LIFELESS BODY IN THE POOL OF HIS BLOOD, just at the entrance of his resident close to NDDC KPANSIA at the hours of 9:05pm 24th June 2017.

His phone and Wallet was taken away; what is YENEGOA TURNING INTO, life's aren't secured or valued anymore, wow!!!! Oh death. What's happening to our SOCIETY? MAY UR SOUL REST IN PEACE, ALL I CAN IS GOD KNOWS BETTER."

How Can Buhari Address Nigerians in Hausa Language? – Reno Omokri

Pastor Reno Omokri, former aide to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has queried why Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, whom he described as a national leader, would, in his Eid-El-Fitr message, address Nigerians in a sectional language.

Recall that Presidency earlier released an audio message wherein President Buhari who has been in London on a follow-up medical check-up for about 50 days now, spoke in Hausa language, wishing Nigerians and especially the Muslim faithful a happy Eid-El-Fitr celebration.

But Pastor Omokri maintained that the President should have spoken in English first, then if he feels like it, he may also speak in Hausa because “the way he has now spoken only in Hausa makes it seem as if he is only concerned with those who gave him 97% of the votes while those who have him 5% can take a hike!”

In a country whose official language is English, President Muhammadu Buhari broadcasts his Sallah message in Hausa! Would Trump (whose origin is German) address America in German? “So what about all those Nigerians who can’t speak Hausa? Ideally, the President should have spoken in English first, then if he feels like it, he may also speak in Hausa.

The way he has now spoken only in Hausa makes it seem as if he is only concerned with those who gave him 97% of the votes while those who have him 5% can take a hike!”

“How would the rest of the country have felt if President Olusegun Obasanjo had released a Christmas broadcast to Nigerians in Yoruba or if President Goodluck Jonathan had done so in Ogbia?

How can a NATIONAL leader address Nigerians in a SECTIONAL language?”

Nigeria has never had a leader as divisive as Buhari! There is no difference between President Buhari and Nnamdi Kanu.

President Buhari is the President of all Nigeria. He is not the President of only those who can speak Hausa! This is an outrage!

President Yar’adua also spoke to the BBC News by phone. He is Fulani, like President Buhari. Yet he spoke in English because he was President of all of us!”

Memphis Depay Gets A ‘YES’ As He Proposes To Girlfriend Lori Harvey

Former Manchester United winger Memphis Depay, 23, has proposed to Lori Harvey, the stepdaughter of American comedian Steve Harvey.

Depay who earlier this year moved to French club Lyon has been dating 22-year-old Lori for about a year and the both got engaged while on a vacation in California.

A Photo which was published on the footballer’s Instagram, showed him getting down on one knee as he popped the question. ‘SHE SAID YESSSS!!!!!!!’ read the caption.

Prepare for Disaster - Backup Your Files

In 1951, I was 8 years of age and at home recuperating from the measles. I heard what seemed like somebody thumping at the entryway so I called my mom and when she opened the entryway our yard was brimming with dark smoke. The sound I heard were the blazes crackling on our rooftop which was completely on fire. We escaped the house with simply the garments we were wearing, feeling our way through the smoke to a neighbor's home. My mother kept running back to get our puppy who was fixing to a garments line in the back yard and requested that the neighbor call our specialist to ensure I wasn't in any case infectious. When she got the specialist at stake she energetically shouted, "Their home is ablaze and Mrs. Anderson needs to know whether it's OK for Jimmy to go outside." I snickered so hard tears wear revealing my cheeks. I informed my mother concerning the call when she returned and she chuckled as well and we shared a long embrace. At that time of frenzy and dread I initially found the astounding capacity of chuckling to calm anxiety.

We were living in a leased farmhouse in a rustic zone of southern Indiana and despite the fact that the fire office had as of now been called when they arrived the house was totally on fire and nothing could be rescued by the fire fighters as it consumed to the ground. My dad dashed home from work the minute he heard what was occurring and was diminished to discover us both safe, however then the feeling of misfortune settled in and we understood we would need to begin once again starting with no outside help. My sibling who was hitched at the time came to enable my father to experience the fiery remains when it was protected to check whether anything could be rescued. A photograph showed up on the front page of the Evansville Courier of my sibling amidst the remains holding a porcelain piggy bank that had been on top of the icebox which was presently an unrecognizable heap of deformed metal. It was the main thing anybody could discover.

Throughout the following weeks and months I saw direct the thoughtfulness and liberality of individuals when somebody they know needs assistance. My dad worked at the Chrysler plant in Evansville and was an officer in the neighborhood UAW union, so the greater part of the laborers there knew him and they took up accumulations of cash, nourishment and dress. We got so much apparel and utilized furniture that my folks took what we could utilize and gave the rest to a neighborhood philanthropy. The little nation church we had a place with additionally had a get-together to give us considerably more things that we required. I recall that they gave me a baseball, glove and bat. They likewise gave me a Bible which despite everything I have and love.

For a considerable length of time after that we would search for a photograph or token and afterward recall that it was lost in the fire. Despite the fact that it has been more than a long time from that point forward, regardless I miss those basic photographs of my grandparents and guardians when they were youthful.

In this computerized age in which we experience my photographs and vital reports are altogether saved money on my PC and I'm certain the vast majority of yours are as well. No protection can shield them from misfortune when our PC crashes, yet we can abstain from losing them by basically moving down our records securely. I utilize a reinforcement benefit that is extremely economical, yet secures my records with military review encryption so that no one but I can recover them at whatever point I need and from any devise I pick. I now have finish certainty that I won't encounter that unpleasant feeling of misfortune once more.

Buhari’s Voice Message A Scam – Femi Fani-Kayode

Former Minister of Culture and Tourism Femi Fani-Kayode says the voice message of President Muhammadu Buhari to Muslim unwavering on Eid-el-fitr festivity is "fake and a trick".

The Presidency has discharged the president's voice message to Nigerians to expose reports that he is experiencing discourse impedance.

Be that as it may, in a meeting with DAILY POST, the chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stated, "Each body knows the recording is not the president's voice. We are solidly in the hold of autocracy.

"They are on top of the pyramid, whatever is left of us are slaves. God preclude that Nigeria proceed with like this, we should free ourselves."

Fani-Kayode included that the "technique turned out badly" voice message was similar handlers generally President Yar'Adua utilized when he was sick in Saudi Arabia.

"This is much the same as the one Yar'Adua purportedly had with BBC. They were attempting to make us trust it was him.

"It was a broad meeting which by the day's end, turned out wasn't Yar'Adua's voice.

"We are seeing a similar example once more. I don't know whether to snicker or cry and I don't know whether I am seeing a satire appear.

"I talk from an educated position and I can let you know obviously and completely that the individual spoke's identity not President Buhari.

"Those behind this trick are exceptionally heartless and they have the IQ of a monkey.

"The individual talked in Hausa since it is the thing that they consider as the official dialect of Nigeria. They couldn't impart in English."

How to Protect Your Business From a Cyber Attack

It's entirely notable that web programmers are an enormous risk to any business, however they can be devastating for private companies who, commonly, never recuperate from the burglary. The National Cyber Security Alliance revealed that a normal of almost $200,000 was stolen from the little to medium estimated organizations that were hacked in 2011. They likewise detailed that almost 66% of said organizations were compelled to close inside a large portion of a time of the digital assaults.

Programmers are shrewd and can be around any corner, yet there are approaches to shield your business from assaults. Here are a few insurances that you can take to help keep your business better ensured against programmers:

Introduce programming. It is astounding the measure of organizations that don't have the greater part of the correct against infection and firewall programming introduced to their PCs. It is absolutely critical to have the greater part of the product maintaining that will shield your business from infections, spyware, and adware.

Get security. Try not to attempt to deal with everything all alone. You have your own particular business to keep running without worrying about the continually refreshing firewall innovation. Contract an expert organization that comprehends what they are doing. Glance around to see their administrations and check their accreditations. A decent organization should make reinforcements of everything and additionally consequently refresh any infection insurance and malware programming.

Encode information. This is something else that is straightforward and regularly gets ignored. Most standard working frameworks accompanied encryption programs as of now introduced. For Windows, the program is called BitLocker and FileVault on Macs. They take just a couple of minutes to run and will keep your records much better shielded from digital programmers.

Get office security. Numerous hackings happen in light of the fact that physical gear was stolen. Ensure the greater part of your PCs and equipment are completely secure. This implies enhancing your office security. This could mean anything from getting CCTV (shut circuit TV) cameras to getting the greater part of your locks rekeyed. You don't need any disappointed ex-representatives softening up to take your hardware.

Be watchful on the web. Infections can be obtained anyplace on the web. You can get them from going to tainted locales, downloading the wrong documents, or notwithstanding opening up the wrong messages. Be watchful of any action that you or any of your representatives make. Whenever anybody enters a secret word on a site (notwithstanding for financial balances or person to person communication), you are in danger of being hacked.

Log Off. You are entirely constantly helpless against a digital assault. Just by having your PC on can enable a programmer to get in. Log off at whatever point you can. This decreases the odds. You can set your PCs to consequently log off after an assigned measure of time. Take a stab at setting it to close off it 15 minutes passes by with no use.

Reinforcement your records. A few programmers are not out to take from you, but rather simply get an excite from haphazardly demolishing things. Once inside, they may simply erase however many records as could be allowed. Ensure that you have everything went down. By adjusting your documents with the cloud, you will dependably approach everything.

No wi fi. This makes it super simple for programmers to get into your framework. Numerous programmers drive around with reception apparatuses on their vehicles until the point when they locate an open system. Utilize wires for your system, and on the off chance that you do need to utilize wi fi, ensure that it is intensely watched and secured.

WAEC Announces New Fees For Delay In Collecting Certificate

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has urged GCE candidates to endeavour to collect their certificates within four years of writing the examination as any delay beyond that will attract custody fee.



Demianus Ojijeogu, the Head of Public Affairs Department, WAEC, Nigeria disclosed this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja.

The West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates, commonly referred to as WAEC GCE, is usually taken in November/December every year.

Mr. Ojijeogu said: “the normal charge for the certificate is N3, 500 and only payable by those whose certificates were issued between zero and four years.

“But from five to nine years is N8, 500; 10 to 14 years N13, 500; 15 to 19 years N18, 500 while 20
years and above will be charged N23, 500.

“These charges are (for) custody fee; for keeping the certificates for so long because it occupies space in our office. It will also serve as a deterrent to others.

“I don’t know the reason why people will sit for exams and their certificates are ready yet they will not come for collection. What was the essence of the certificate in the first place?’’

He also said that requirements for collection of the GCE certificates within Nigeria were an application letter, sworn affidavit from the High Court, online result print- out, one passport-size photograph, photo card and identity card.

NAN
Source: fullgist