Today in History

December 9

536		Having captured Naples earlier in the year, Belisarius takes Rome.
1861		The U.S. Senate approves establishment of a committee that would become the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War.
1863		Major General John G. Foster replaces Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside as Commander of the Department of Ohio.
1867		The capital of Colorado Territory is moved from Golden to Denver.
1872		P.B.S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of Louisiana.
1900		The Russian czar rejects Boer Paul Kruger’s pleas for aid in South Africa against the British.
1908		A child labor bill passes in the German Reichstag, forbidding work for children under age 13.
1917		The new Finnish Republic demands the withdrawal of Russian troops.
1940		The British army seizes 1,000 Italians in a sudden thrust in Egypt.
1941		Franklin D. Roosevelt tells Americans to plan for a long war.
1948		The United States abandons a plan to de-concentrate industry in Japan.
1949		The United Nations takes trusteeship over Jerusalem.
1950		President Harry Truman bans U.S. exports to Communist China.
1950		Harry Gold gets 30 years imprisonment for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II.
1955		Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out Carl Olson to regain the world middleweight boxing title.
1960		The Laos government flees to Cambodia as the capital city of Vientiane is engulfed in war.
1990		Lech Walesa is elected president of Poland.
1992		U.S. Marines land in Somalia to ensure food and medicine reaches the deprived areas of that country.
2008		Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is arrested on federal charges, including an attempt to sell the US Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
Born on December 9
1608		John Milton, British writer and poet (Paradise Lost).
1809		William Barret Travis, commander of the Texas troops at the battle of the Alamo.
1848		Joel Chandler Harris, writer, creator of the Uncle Remus tales.
1899		Jean de Brunhoff, illustrator and author, creator of the Babar series of books.
1906		Grace Hopper, mathematician and computer pioneer.
1912		Thomas P. "Tip" O’Neill, speaker of the House of Representatives.
1918		Kirk Douglas, American actor (Spartacus).
1919		William Lipscomb, chemist; awarded Nobel Prize in 1976.
1922		Redd Foxx (John Sanford), comedian, actor; best known for his starring role in the TV series Sanford and Son.
1926		Henry Kendall, particle physicist; shared Nobel Prize in 1990.
1928		Dick Van Patten, actor; best known for his role on the TV series Eight is Enough.
1929		John Cassavetes, actor (The Dirty Dozen), film director, screenwriter (Faces).
1932		Billy Edd Wheeler, singer, songwriter ("Jackson," "Coward of the County").
1934		Judi Dench (Dame Judith Dench), actress; known to James Bond fans for her role as M in Bond films beginning with Golden Eye (1997), her many awards include an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Chocolat, 2000).
1942		Dick Butkus, pro football player; inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame, 1979.
1953		John Malkovich, actor (Places in the Heart), producer (Juno), director, fashion designer.
1963		Masako, Crown Princes of Japan, wife of Crown Prince Naruhito, heir apparent to the Chrysanthemum Throne.

Source: History Net

Neymar's first Barcelona Award

Neymar has become the first Barcelona player to win La Liga player of month award

Neymar has been named player of the month for November in Spain's La Liga - the first Barcelona player to win the award.

The award began in September 2013, with Barca having won 68 La Liga games - and the 2014-15 title - since then.
It took the Brazil forward's tally of five goals in three games last month to finally persuade the panel to reward a Barca player at the 21st opportunity.
Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo is one of five players to have won it twice.
Atletico Madrid pair Diego Godin and Antoine Griezmann, Celta Vigo's Nolito and ex-Arsenal and Real Sociedad's Carlos Vela are the others. 
Source: BBC Sport

How to get a girl's attention

It can be hard to get a girl’s attention, especially if she’s getting attention from lots of other guys. Before you take things further, think about the reasons why you like her. Do you have similar interests? What qualities does she have that you like? Make sure you like her for the right reasons and not because other guys are talking about her. If she wasn’t so popular would you still be interested?

Ribery Sues Magazine

Ribery

Previous France International Franck Ribery is suing the magazine Closer for 400,000 euros ($434,000) over an article which guaranteed he was ensnared in a prostitution case.
Closer had asserted Ribery would have been in contact with a court of law over a prostitution case — truth be told he was just a witness.
The winger, who came back to activity for his German club Bayern Munich at the weekend taking after a nine-month harm lay-off, had already been accused of paying for sex with an underage whore in 2009, despite the fact that he was absolved a year ago.

“Franck Ribery has once again been the victim of serious schemes committed by the French media with no aim other than to sully his reputation and throw it into the mud,” said the document.
Ribery was met by police on November 26 as a witness, a police source told AFP last Wednesday.

Electricity consumers complain of exploitation in Abuja

Electricity

Power purchasers in Abuja have charged the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC, of misuse and undue profiteering, while they approached the Federal Government to call the organization to arrange.

Power newThe clients, who addresses Vanguard, asserted that the organization is manhandling the statutory procedure affirmed for charging clients under the assessed charging framework, by controlling customers that can't legitimately examine their billings particularly in utilization, vitality and current charges.

The purchasers contended that if each customer was furnished with a meter, the frequency of assessed charging will be controlled.

Be that as it may, a representative for AEDC, Mr. Ahmed Shekarau, protected that its charging of unmetered clients is logical; saying that whatever measure of vitality is infused into an area is measured in kilowatts hour, KWH, with different transformers and feeders for different arrangements of clients.

Boko Haram attacks village, loots food supplies, 200 cattle in northeast Nigerian

Boko Haram gunmen have torched almost an entire village near the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok from where over 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped, a resident who fled and a local elder said Tuesday. The raid in Takulashi village happened on Sunday and saw the Islamists loot food supplies, two days after fighters stole more than 200 cattle from the same location.
Recent months have seen a reduction in such hit-and-run raids in rural northeast Nigeria, in an indication the rebels’ ability to strike has been reduced by an army counter-offensive. But sporadic raids still occur and there is concern about an increase in suicide and bomb attacks in urban centres.
A group of insurgents on bicycles and on foot invaded the farming and herding community at about 6:00 am (0500 GMT) on Sunday, shooting indiscriminately and setting fire to homes. “They burnt more than 100 homes in the village. Only five houses were spared the inferno,” said a resident who gave his name as David, after fleeing to the nearby town of Askira Uba.
The attackers loaded food supplies onto four vehicles they took from the village and burnt four more they were unable to take with them. The rest of the supplies were set on fire. “We will have to wait till everybody is back to know if there were any fatalities in the attack,” Ayuba Chibok, a community leader in Chibok, told AFP.
“We are making contacts with the residents who fled to locations where there is a phone network. “We thought the worst had happened after Boko Haram rustled over 200 cattle in the village on Friday.” In April last year 12 people were killed when gunmen attacked Takulashi in the wake of the abduction of 276 schoolgirls from their school in Chibok by Boko Haram.
Fifty-seven girls escaped soon afterwards but nothing has been seen or heard from the remaining 219 in captivity since a video in May 2014.
Source: Vanguiard Newspaper

Today in History

December 8

1660		The first Shakespearian actress to appear on an English stage (she is believed to be a Ms. Norris) makes her debut as Desdemona.
1861		CSS Sumter captures the whaler Eben Dodge in the Atlantic. The American Civil War is now affecting the Northern whaling industry.
1863		Union General William Averell’s cavalry destroys railroads in the southwestern part of West Virginia.
1914		The German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nurnberg, and Liepzig are sunk by a British force in the Battle of the Falkland Islands.
1920		President Woodrow Wilson declines to send a representative to the League of Nations in Geneva.
1932		Japan tells the League of Nations that it has no control over her designs in China.
1941		Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita begins his attack against the British army at Singapore.
1943		U.S. carrier-based planes sink two cruisers and down 72 planes in the Marshall Islands.
1944		The United States conducts the longest, most effective air raid on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima.
1948		The United Nations approves the recognition of South Korea.
1967		In the biggest battle yet in the Mekong Delta, 365 Viet Cong are killed.
1968		South Vietnam’s Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky arrives in Paris for peace talks.
1980		John Lennon is shot to death outside his Manhattan apartment building.
1982		The Washington, D.C., police shoot and kill a man threatening to blow up the Washington Monument.
1987		The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed.
1987		An Israeli army tank transporter kills 4 Palestinian refugees and injures 7 others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, leading to the First Intifada.
1991		The leaders of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine sign an agreement that dissolves the Soviet Union and establishes the Commonwealth of Independent States.
2004		The Cuzco Declaration signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
2010		SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
2010		The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus.
Born on December 8
65 BC		Quintus "Horance" Horatius Flaccus, Roman poet and satirist best known for his three books Odes.
1542		Mary, Queen of Scotland (1542-67).
1626		Christina, Queen of Sweden (1644-54).
1765		Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin.
1894		James Thurber, American writer, cartoonist and editor (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty).
1906		Richard Llewellyn, author (How Green Was My Valley).
1913		Delmore Schwartz, poet and writer.
1916		Richard Fleischer, film director, (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Soylent Green).
1922		Jean Ritchie, singer, songwriter of folk music ("Blue Diamond Mines").
1925		Sammy Davis Jr., singer ("The Candy Man"), dancer, actor (Ocean’s 11); member of the "Rat Pack".
1930		Maximilian Schell, actor, writer, director, producer; won Academy Award for Best Actor for Judgement at Nuremberg (1961).
1933		Flip Wilson (Clerow Wilson Jr.), comedian and actor; won a Golden Globe and two Emmy Awards for his 1970s TV variety series, The Flip Wilson Show.
1939		Sir James Galway, virtuoso flute player known as "The Man With the Golden Flute."
1941		Bobby Elliott, drummer, member of the band The Hollies.
1943		Jim Morrison, singer, songwriter, poet; lead singer for The Doors and Rick & the Ravens.
1943		Larry Martin, paleontologist; leading opponent of the "birds are living dinosaurs" theory.
1947		Gregg Allman, singer, songwriter, musician; founding member of The Allman Brothers Band.
1953		Kim Basinger, actress, singer, producer; won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for L.A. Confidential (1997).
1964		Teri Hatcher, actress; Lois Lane on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman TV series; won Golden Globe for Best Actress as Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives TV series.
1966		Sinead O’Connor, Irish singer, songwriter; has frequently generated controversy with her views on social issues such as organized religion and women’s rights.                                                       Source: History Net

Massob leader reports name change

Ralph Uwazurike

The pioneer of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has in an amazement move, reported another name, Biafra Independent Movement, BIM, for the group.bim

Boss Uwazuruike, made the declaration Sunday while tending to the press in Owerri, likewise said that he was incensed by the awful corporate picture a few nonconformists of MASSOB, was pulling in to the gathering.

"The adjustment in name turned out to be completely fundamental in view of the pitiful presentation of viciousness by the disappointed dissenters and this is at difference with the peacefulness position of MASSOB throughout the years", Uwazuruike said.

He said that genuine supporters of MASSOB feel embarrassed to be connected with brutality, promising that they will rebuild MASSOB to make it the young wing of the Biafra Independent Movement.

While saying that there is vicarious risk in common law, Chief Uwazuruike similarly reviewed how he enrolled Nnamdi Kanu in 1989, to head Radio Biafra.

"I enrolled Nnamdi Kanu in 1989, when I set up Radio Biafra and selected him the executive of the foundation. He began lecturing disdain and mentally conditioning the young people. MASSOB sacked him", Uwazuruike reviewed.

Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich return after following unexpected loss

Bayern Munich Against MonchenGladbech

Bayern Munich conceded three times in 14 minutes to droop to their first Bundesliga thrashing of the season away at Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Get up and go Guardiola has lost so few Bundesliga diversions that Bayern supporters have thought that it was anything but difficult to record those uncommon events under "I" for "insignificance" or even coolly reinterpret them as gainful: a somewhat astringent tasting yet essential remedy to serial-winning-prompted dormancy, football's likeness an auspicious squeeze in the arm. Saturday's 3-1 annihilation to Borussia Mönchengladbach was a touch distinctive, on the other hand. The main pre-winter-break rout in the Guardiola time – his first important group thrashing of all, honestly – couldn't just be clarified away as a helpful groundwork for next spring's time to take care of business gatherings with the European tip top. It looked like the Bavarians' former failings at that level awfully frightfully for such solace.

Today in History

 

Today in History

December 6

1492		Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Santo Domingo in search of gold.
1776		Phi Beta Kappa, the first scholastic fraternity, is founded at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg.
1812		The majority of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grand Armeé staggers into Vilna, Lithuania, ending the failed Russian campaign.
1861		Union General George G. Meade leads a foraging expedition to Gunnell’s farm near Dranesville, Virginia.
1862		President Abraham Lincoln orders the hanging of 39 of the 303 convicted Indians who participated in the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. They are to be hanged on December 26.
1863		The monitor Weehawken sinks in Charleston Harbor.
1876		Jack McCall is convicted for the murder of Wild Bill Hickok and sentenced to hang.
1877		Thomas A. Edison makes the first sound recording when he recites "Mary had a Little Lamb" into his phonograph machine.
1906		Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge flies a powered, man-carrying kite that carries him 168 feet in the air for seven minutes at Baddeck, Nova Scotia.
1917		The Bolsheviks imprison Czar Nicholas II and his family in Tobolsk.
1921		Ireland’s 26 southern counties become independent from Britain forming the Irish Free State.
1922		Benito Mussolini threatens Italian newspapers with censorship if they keep reporting "false" information.
1934		American Ambassador Davis says Japan is a grave security threat in the Pacific.
1938		France and Germany sign a treaty of friendship.
1939		Britain agrees to send arms to Finland, which is fighting off a Soviet invasion.
1941		President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues a personal appeal to Emperor Hirohito to use his influence to avoid war.
1945		The United States extends a $3 billion loan to Great Britain to help compensate for the termination of the Lend-Lease agreement.
1947		Florida’s Everglades National Park is established.
1948		The "Pumpkin Spy Papers" are found on the Maryland farm of Whittaker Chambers. They become evidence that State Department employee Alger Hiss is spying for the Soviet Union.
1957		Vanguard TV3 explodes on the launchpad, thwarting the first US attempt to launch a satellite into Earth’s orbit.
1967		Adrian Kantrowitz performs first human heart transplant in the US.
1969		Hells Angels, hired to provide security at a Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in California, beat to death concert-goer Meredith Hunter.
1971		Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India after New Delhi recognizes the state of Bangladesh.
1973		US House of Representatives confirms Gerald Ford as Vice-President of the United States, 387–35.
1975		A Provisional IRA unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London, and a 6-day siege begins.
1976		Democrat Tip O’Neill is elected speaker of the House of Representatives. He will serve the longest consecutive term as speaker.
1992		The Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India, is destroyed during a riot that started as a political protest.
2006		NASA reveals photographs from Mars Global Surveyor that suggest the presence of water on the red planet.
Born on December 6
1421		Henry VI, the youngest king of England to accede to the throne (only 269 days old).
1886		Joyce Kilmer, American poet, best known for "Trees."
1896		Ira Gershwin, American lyricist and musical collaborator with his brother George.
1898		Alfred Eisenstaedt, photojournalist.
1898		Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist and sociologist.
1901		Eliot Porter, nature photographer.
1920		Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist and composer.
1942		Peter Handke, playwright and poet.
1948		JoBeth Williams, actress, director (Poltergeist, The Big Chill); current (2013) president of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.
1952		Charles Bronson (Michael Gordon Peterson), criminal often called "the most violent prisoner in Britain" by the British Press.
1952		Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.
1967		Judd Apatow, film producer, director, screenwriter (Bridesmaids).

CHELSEA SHOCKED BY BOURNEMOUTH LATE WINNER

Jose Mourinho's Bad day

COMMENT: A mini-revival was brought to a juddering end on Saturday as the Chelsea manager suffered perhaps his most embarrassing ever loss in a season going from very bad to worse

Three games unbeaten and three successive clean sheets had Jose Mourinho convinced that his Chelsea side were turning the corner but the Special One will return to the drawing board this evening contemplating another false dawn and perhaps the most embarrassing defeat of his managerial career.

The champions are marooned in 14th place, now just two points ahead of a Bournemouth side whose victory at Stamford Bridge, perhaps most damningly of all as far as Mourinho is concerned, owed little to luck and dogged perseverance.

Dangerous Wind delays Launch of Space Station Supplies

By and by, high wind is keeping space station supplies stuck on Earth.

An unmanned rocket stacked with 7,400 pounds of payload for the International Space Station — the first U.S. shipment in months — was grounded by perilous blasts Saturday. It was the third climate delay in succession.

Dispatch chief Bill Cullen canceled the endeavor three hours ahead of time. Specialized inconveniences had knock the late evening dispatch time to the last conceivable minute in the window; given the high chances of unreasonable wind, there appeared to be little motivation to continue.

The following attempt — No. 4 — comes Sunday evening. The climate is relied upon to enhance, yet at the same time just 40 percent great.

Stars React to Death of Oscar Nominated Actor Robert Loggia

Academy Award-nominated actor Robert Loggia died Friday in Los Angeles at the age of 85.

Although he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as a private investigator in 1985's "Jagged Edge," he was best known as the company boss who danced on a giant floor piano with Tom Hanks in the 1988 blockbuster, "Big."

Robert Loggia Dies at 85

Kanye and Kim welcome their son

Kanye and Kim

Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West respected their second youngster today, the unscripted television star declared on her site. Though a name has yet to be revealed.

"Mother and child are doing admirably," her site included.

Some stories cannot be told without sex scenes — Titi Oshinowo

Titi  Osinowo is one of the budding actresses in the Yoruba movie industry making waves. She is a graduate of English Language, Tai Solarin University of Education. The light-skinned role interpreter has featured in movies like Halimat, The Valleys Between and This Time Tomorrow. In this interview, she talks about her worst location experience, the injection of sex in movies, what makes her cry and other issues.
You started with soaps but seem to be doing more of Yoruba films, why?
I just found myself doing lots of Yoruba movies these days.
Why?
May be I should say it soothes me better.

Talking about movies, why haven’t you been taking many lead roles?
That’s a billion dollar question. It’s not easy getting lead roles except you produce your movies or you compromise on your standard which I don’t intend to.

What has been your worst location experience?
The producer of the movie wanted to date me and because I refused, he didn’t give me a room to stay. He also didn’t pay me after I had spent days on the location, working.

What did you do when the producer refused to pay for your services?
I walked away.

Why do we always have sex scandals in Nollywood?
Sex scandals? I’d rather zip my lips on that.

Saint Obi returns to Entertainment as an artist

Saint Obi

One of Nollywood Top Actors, Saint Obi, who enjoyed a reprieve from acting quite a while, has reemerged once more. This time, not as an on-screen character but rather an artist.

The on-screen character as of late praised his birthday, and to stamp the uncommon day he declared his entrance into the music business.

Ashionye: Female artistes now get bit of what they deserve

Ashionye

Excellent and gifted singer and on-screen character, Ashionye Carl Raccah is the mind behind the once-well known "Girl Power;" a development she lance headed by sorting out and featuring the first all-female show labeled "Girls Power" "Unleashed" and Girl Power Tour."

In that capacity, she is definitely in the right position to survey the spot of female performers in the Nigerian music industry today. What's more, she accepts they're doing great contrasted with what the case was years back.

In her words, "The circumstance is far superior than what it used to be previously. At any rate, we are getting a touch of what we merit. Furthermore, this is not on the grounds that any man made space for us; rather, the female people have taken their fates into their hands by getting to be makers, chiefs, and owning record names."

Saving expressions of guidance for the up and coming females in the business, she said, 'They ought to know it takes a blend of diligent work, brains and excellence to make it. Resting around will take them no place.'

I can't date an Actor

Sultry performing artist, Favor Oma, who is by all accounts making the most of her rising profile as a standout amongst the most-looked for after on-screen characters in the business as of late has pronounced that she would never give her heart to any Nollywood hunk.

Her reason is straightforward, "In the event that you are dating an on-screen character, you ought to be prepared to handle desire. Furthermore, I think desire can make one get occupied. I can have on-screen characters as companions, yet it can't go past that. I can't even envision dating an on-screen character, " she pronounced.

The awe-inspiring performing artist additionally glared at turning into a second wife to any man. She portrayed herself as "a desirous lover"adding that she can't stand seeing watching her man wed another lady. " I'm an extremely envious partner. I will murder some person. In the event that you wed me and choose to acquire another lady I unobtrusively leave the marriage,"she said.

Kim Kardashian Gives Birth to Baby Boy with Kanye West!

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are officially parents of two.

The 35-year-old reality star gave birth to a baby boy on Saturday, announcing the exciting news on Kim's official website. "To our fans: Kanye and I welcome our baby boy," the announcement read. "Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West welcomed the arrival of their son this morning. Mother and son are doing well."

Kim also took to Twitter, writing, "He's here!" Her mom, Kris Jenner, quickly retweeted the message.

He's here! https://t.co/KlWQrG3Ri9 pic.twitter.com/NRLQCeQ5H4

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) December 5, 2015

Kim and Kanye's newest addition to their family joins his big sister, 2-year-old North West. Earlier this month, Kim moved up her due date -- which was originally on Christmas Day -- due to health concerns, specifically, gestational diabetes, Us Weekly reported. Kim also gave birth to North early in 2013 -- the couple's first child arrived six weeks before her due date.

Woooow, See Flavour

Chidinma and Falvour go sensual

When you think of Chidinma, the Kedike star, what comes to mind is that little naïve, reserved girl still waiting to break away from her mother’s tender grip.
But the petite songstress is pushing beyond that boundary and showing that anything can happen when it comes to her brand.
At the recently held concert hosted by Phyno tagged Phynofest, the duo of Chidinma and Flavour took their “Chemistry” to another level. Before now they have been pictured in compromising positions and the idea of them dating has been denied severally.
During the concert held at Onitsha, they performed their duet Ololufe and shared a kiss after the performance.
This didn’t go well with some of Chidinma’s fans as they took to her Instagram page to express their disapproval.
One of them writes: “If you two are dating, let us know and stop forming church-girl.
Another adds: “Is this how you guys would be kissing whenever you perform Ololufe?”
Source: Vanguard Newspaper

Pellegrini on why Iheanacho isn't a starter

Manchester City's 19-year-old Nigerian forward, Kelechi Iheanacho searches set for a fruitful profession, with Coach Manuel Pellegrini needs to offer him more opportunities to demonstrate what he can do.

City can hope for a League Cup semi-final with Everton in the new year after their extensive win over Hull City. Maybe the main negative was the exclusion from the beginning line-up of Iheanacho, City's most encouraging youthful player and the star of their win over Crystal Palace in the past round.

He fell off the seat with 20 minutes staying against Steve Bruce's side and scored his third goal of the season, yet given the nature of his brief exhibitions all through the season a great many people felt beyond any doubt he would play the full an hour and a half. It makes one wonder: where are Iheanacho's chances originating from in the event that he can't get a start in the League Cup?

Stoke surprises Mancity

Marco Arnautovic

Two goals from Marko Arnautovic sentenced Manchester City to a 2-0 rout on Saturday as their Premier League title trusts endured a genuine blow at Stoke City.

The Austrian forward netted twice in the first half and missed a few chances for a hat-trick as an overwhelming Stoke side guaranteed a merited win at a windswept Britannia Stadium.

Xherdan Shaqiri, their £12 million ($18.1 million, 16.7 million euros) record marking, was at the heart of the accomplishment with helps for both goals and a brilliant all-round presentation.

In spite of driving the table toward the begin of the day, Manchester City now have only one win from their last four alliance recreations and are encountering their hardest spell of the season.

Manuel Pellegrini's side enhanced marginally after half-time, however infrequently undermined a fightback after a frightful cautious showcase in the first period.

Stoke made a fantasy begin as Arnautovic gave them a seventh-minute lead taking after fine work from Shaqiri.
The Switzerland hitman was just too good for Fernando on the touchline before crossing for Arnautovic, who dashed between two defenders to wrap up.

Kevin De Bruyne had an opportunity to level for the guests in the wake of skipping from midfield to the edge of the region, however his agreeable shot on 14 minutes was very much spared by goalkeeper Jack Butland.

Today in History being dec. 5

Today in history

December 5

1484		Pope Innocent VIII issues a bill deploring the spread of witchcraft and heresy in Germany.
1776		Phi Beta Kappa is organized as the first American college Greek letter-fraternity, at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.
1791		Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna.
1861		In the U.S. Congress, petitions and bills calling for the abolition of slavery are introduced.
1862		Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s cavalry receives a setback in an engagement on the Mississippi Central Railroad at Coffeeville, Mississippi.
1864		Confederate General John Bell Hood sends Nathan Bedford Forrest’s cavalry and a division of infantry toward Murfreesboro, Tenn.
1904		The Japanese destroy a Russian fleet at Port Arthur in Korea.
1909		George Taylor makes the first manned glider flight in Australia in a glider that he designed himself.
1912		Italy, Austria and Germany renew the Triple Alliance for six years.
1916		David Lloyd George replaces Herbert Asquith as the British prime minister.
1921		The British empire reaches an accord with the Irish revolutionary group the Sinn Fein; Ireland is to become a free state.
1933		The 21st Amendment ends Prohibition in the United States, which had begun 13 years earlier.
1934		Italian and Ethiopian troops clash at the Ualual on disputed the Somali-Ethiopian border.
1936		The New Constitution in the Soviet Union promises universal suffrage, but the Communist Party remains the only legal political party.
1937		The Lindberghs arrive in New York on a holiday visit after a two-year voluntary exile.
1945		Four TBM Avenger bombers disappear approximately 100 miles off the coast of Florida.
1950		Pyongyang in Korea falls to the invading Chinese army.
1953		Italy and Yugoslavia agree to pull troops out of the disputed Trieste border.
1955		A bus boycott begins under the leadership of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Montgomery, Alabama.
1966		Comedian and political activist Dick Gregory heads for Hanoi, North Vietnam, despite federal warnings against it.
1978		The Soviet Union signs a 20-year friendship pact with Afghanistan.
1983		Military Junta dissolves in Argentina.
2006		Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
2007		A gunman armed with a semi-automatic rifle kills 8 people at Westroads Mall, Omaha, Neb., before taking his own life.
Born on December 5
1782		Martin Van Buren, 8th president in the United States–and the first born in the United States.
1839		George Armstrong Custer, Union cavalry leader who met his fate at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
1890		Fritz Lang, film director (Metropolis, M).
1901		Walt Disney, animator and creator of an entertainment empire.
1931		James Cleveland, considered the "King of Gospel."
1932		Richard Wayne Penniman [Little Richard], singer, musician; important influence on rock ‘n’ roll.
1934		Joan Didion, essayist and novelist (Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play it as it Lays).
1935		Calvin Trillin, journalist and writer.
1947		Jim Plunkett, pro football quarterback.
1963		Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, first to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping.
1969		Morgan J. Freeman, film director; his Hurricane Streets (1997) was the first narrative film to win three awards at the Sundance Film Festival; produced MTV reality shows (16 and Pregnant, Teen Mom).                                                                                                                                   Source: History Net

Red Bulls decrease choice on Wright-Phillips

Wright-Phillips

The New York Red Bulls have declined to practice choices on nine players for the 2016 season. Among them is Shaun Wright-Phillips, the sibling of the group's driving goalscorer from 2015, Bradley Wright-Phillips.

The Red Bulls, who simply lost 2-1 on total to Columbus Crew SC in the Eastern Conference finals, likewise declined choices on goalkeeper Kyle Reynish, safeguards Roy Miller, Damien Perrinelle and Anthony Wallace, midfielders Leo Stolz and Marius Obekop, and advances Manolo Sanchez and Dane Richards.

This was the second year in succession the group left the playoffs only one amusement shy of the MLS Cup.

Moreno plays down Real connection

Alberto Moreno

Our past Transfer Talk presented to you the news that Alberto Moreno's specialists Javier Moya had been talking up his customer's abilities to any semblance of Real Madrid.

Be that as it may, after an amazing execution in Liverpool's 6-1 obliteration of Southampton on Wednesday night, the left-back played down reports connecting him with a move to the Spanish titans.

"I have never had anything genuine with them - not me, not my siblings or agents," Moreno said, by Liverpool Echo.

"I have not got some answers concerning that [Real Madrid's interest], I don't know whether that is valid."

Is by all accounts a lot of whispers and insinuation around this one. How about we sit back and watch if Los Blancos firm up that enthusiasm for January.

Bender tops Gunners' wishlist

The January exchange window poses a potential threat not too far off and Arsenal, urgent to include some midfield profundity given their various wounds, are supposedly adjusting their rundown of targets.
Top of the rundown, as per the Evening Standard, is Bayer Leverkusen's Lars Bender. The Germany universal, contracted to the Bundesliga side until 2019, has been in Arsene Wenger's sights for quite a while.

This report from 2013 proposes that the Gunners passed up a major opportunity for the 26-year-old for ¬23 million at the time. Given swelling, the cost of fish, and the way that all Premier League clubs are six months from their greatest payday ever, we can just envision that Leverkusen will now requesting a figure at any rate triple what Arsenal were initially ready to pay.

Will you envision Wenger separating with that kind of trade out January? How about we put this gossip in the perhaps heap for the time being.

Barca set to let MSN go

Messi  (right), Neymar (centre), Suarez (left)

The winter window moves nearer with every passing day, and the exchange talk factory is beginning to get steam. As usual, Transfer Talk has the most recent and most noteworthy. See all the mid year bargains here.

The dangers of being the best - and having three of the best players on the planet - are up front for Luis Enrique and Barcelona. On the field, things are okay, with Lionel Messi coming back from damage to rejoin powers with Neymar and Luis Suarez, who splendidly kept the Catalans' boat pointed in the right heading without their Argentine talisman.

Iheanacho says he owes success to City big boys

Kelechi Iheanacho

Previous Golden Eaglets star Kelechi Iheanacho has uncovered that he is getting significant lessons from key Manchester City players like Sergio Aguero and Wilfred Bony, subsequently his superb keeps running at the club.

"They converse with me ever day in preparing, giving me counsel and urging me to continue going and doing great," he said.

"They let me know I will be an extraordinary player one day, so I will continue listening and buckling down.

"The administrator likewise gives me extraordinary exhortation, instructing me to play basic and score goals.

"It's generally a delight to score an objective, and it was a decent objective, a great response to hurried to the front post.

Today in History being 3rd December

Today in History

December 3

1468		Lorenzo the Magnificent and his brother Giuliano succeed their father, Piero de Medici, as rulers of Florence, Italy.
1762		France cedes to Spain all lands west of the Mississippi–the territory known as Upper Louisiana.
1818		Illinois admitted into the Union as the 21st state.
1800		The French defeat an Austrian army at the Battle of Hohenlinden, near Munich.
1847		Frederick Douglass and Martin R. Delaney establish the North Star, and anti-slavery paper.
1862		Confederate raiders attack a Federal forage train on the Hardin Pike near Nashville, Tenn.
1863		Confederate General James Longstreet moves his army east and north toward Greeneville. This withdrawal marks the end of the Fall Campaign in Tennessee.
1864		Major General William Tecumseh Sherman meets with slight resistance from Confederate troops at Thomas Station on his march to the sea.
1906		The U.S. Supreme Court orders Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) leaders extradited to Idaho for trial in the Steunenberg murder case.
1915		The United States expels German attaches on spy charges.
1916		French commander Joseph Joffre is dismissed after his failure at the Somme. General Robert Nivelle is the new French commander in chief.
1918		The Allied Conference ends in London where they decide that Germany must pay for the war.
1925		The League of Nations orders Greece to pay an indemnity for the October invasion of Bulgaria.
1926		British reports claim that German soldiers are being trained in the Soviet Union.
1950		The Chinese close in on Pyongyang, Korea, and UN forces withdraw southward.
1965		The National Council of Churches asks the United States to halt the massive bombings in North Vietnam.
1977		The State Department proposes the admission of 10,000 more Vietnamese refugees to the United States.
1979		Eleven are dead and eight injured in a mad rush to see a rock band (The Who) at a concert in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1984		Toxic gas leaks from a Union Carbide plant and results in the deaths of thousands in Bhopal, India.
1989		Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev announce the official end to the Cold War at a meeting in Malta.
1992		A test engineer for Sema Group sends the world’s first text message, using a personal computer and the Vodafone network.
1997		Representatives of 121 nations sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting the manufacture or deployment of antipersonnel landmines; the People’s Republic of China, the US and the USSR do not sign.
2005		First manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail takes place in Mojave, Cal.
2009		Suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three miniseries of the Transitional Federal Government.
Born on December 3
1755		Gilbert Stewart, portrait painter.
1826		George B. McClellan, Union general who defeated Robert E. Lee at Antietam and ran against Abraham Lincoln for president.
1833		Carlos Juan Finlay, Cuban epidemiologist.
1857		Joseph Conrad, Polish-born novelist (Heart of Darkness, Nostromo).
1922		Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer.
1925		Jean-Luc Godard, French film director (Breathless).
1933		Paul Crutzen, Dutch chemist.
1934		Abimael Guzman (Presidente Gonzalo), leader of the Shining Path Maoist guerrilla insurgency in Peru.
1937		Morgan Llywelyn, American-born Irish author noted for historical fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as historical nonfiction (1921, the War for Independence); received Exceptional Celtic Woman of the Year award (1999).
1948		Ozzy Osbourne, singer, songwriter, actor; member of the influential rock band Black Sabbath; an MTV reality show, The Osbournes, followed the lives of the singer and his family (2002-05).
1951		Rick Mears, race car driver; three-time Indycar national champion (1979, 1981, 1982).
1960		Daryl Hannah, actress (Blade Runner, Steel Magnolias).
1963		Terri Schiavo, who became the focus of a 15-year legal struggle over the question of artificially prolonging the life of a patient, Schiavo, whom doctors had diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state.
1973		Holly Marie Combs, actress, TV producer (Charmed; Pretty Little Liars TV series).
2005		Prince Sverre Magnus, third in line of succession to the Norwegian throne.                                                                                                                                               Source: History Net

Sexual Assault Allegations Against Porn Star James Deen Raise Consent Issues in Porn Industry

Porno star James Deen, known as the adorable gentleman with the timid smile, has manufactured a whole porn domain on his kid adjacent persona.

The 29-year-old is seemingly the most well known male porn star in the $13 billion dollar American porno industry, speaking to female fans as the "sweet and touchy" gentleman. Deen has standard motion picture credits with "The Canyons," where he featured inverse Lindsey Lohan, and he has fabricated a steadfast online networking taking after.

In any case, that precisely created picture of the "women's activist sweetheart" was discolored this weekend when porno on-screen character and essayist Stoya, Deen's ex and once visit co-star, took to Twitter and blamed Deen for assaulting her.

Iggy Azalea Defends Herself Against Critics

Iggy Azalea took to Twitter to safeguard herself against her pundits, and to redesign her fans on the new music she's been dealing with.

The previous evening, the artist posted a progression of tweets on her twitter page, tending to negative remarks about her and her music, yet the rapper just wished the best for her fans and her commentators alike.

Liverpool comes from one goal down to win the match at St. Marys

Southampton 1-6 Liverpool: Origi hits hat-trick as Reds run riot

Daniel Sturridge netted two goals on his first start after injury after the Saints had taken the lead within a minute through Sadio Mane, with Jordon Ibe also on the scoresheet

Divock Origi scored a hat-trick and Daniel Sturridge netted two goals on his first start after injury as Liverpool demolished Southampton 6-1 to reach the League Cup semi-finals.

Ronald Koeman's team started in sensational fashion at St Mary's Stadium, with Sadio Mane heading them into a first-minute lead, and the visitors' listless reaction offered little indication of the thrashing to come.

All that changed when Sturridge, making his first start since the Merseyside derby in October that brought Brendan Rodgers' Anfield reign to its end, fired them level after 25 minutes.

Barcelona 6-1 Villanovense: Sandro leads rout for Blaugrana reserves

The likes of Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez were left to rest for Wednesday's cup-tie, but the MSN's replacements were on top form after Dani Alves opened the scoring

The depth of quality in Barcelona's squad was on display at Camp Nou, as an alternative Blaugrana side powered past Villanovense to take a 6-1 win in the Copa del Rey second leg.

Sandro Ramirez was the star of the show in a much-changed starting XI, as he scored a hat-trick to lead Luis Enrique's men into the next round.

The holders were held to a shock goalless draw in October's first leg and Luis Enrique named Luis Suarez, Neymar and Andres Iniesta on the bench in case of another dogged display from the visitors.

A thunderbolt from Dani Alves with just four minutes played allayed concerns over an upset, however, before Sandro capitalised on a dreadful Villanovense error to make it 2-0.

Juanfran scored a fine strike on a rare Villanovense break to halve the deficit after 29 minutes, but Sandro's second two minutes later killed any hopes of a comeback before half-time, before Munir El Haddadi's header early in the second half made it 4-1.

Sandro clinched his hat-trick in emphatic style midway through the second half and set up Munir for the sixth with a brilliant backheel away from goalkeeper Jose Fuentes, leaving Camp Nou delighted with the efforts of Barca's younger stars.

Barca wasted little time in taking control of the game, with Alves striding forward before blasting a shot from 30 yards out that swerved in the air before rippling the back of the net, despite Fuentes getting a hand to the ball.

Sandro was then gifted his first of the evening after 21 minutes when Fuentes passed the ball straight to the feet of the 20-year-old inside the box, and he took a touch before curling a fine finish into the far top corner.







Barca were given a shock on the half-hour mark when Juanfran collected a loose ball 25 yards out before rasping a shot into the far corner of Jordi Masip's goal, but hopes of a comeback were promptly extinguished.

Aitor Cantalapiedra, who made his debut in the first leg, slid a fine through-ball to Sandro, who drilled low beneath Fuentes from 12 yards after bursting into the box.

Barca grabbed their fourth just six minutes after the break, Jeremy Mathieu planting a cross from the left onto the head of the onrushing Munir, who nodded in low at the near post.

Khloé Kardashian Admits She’s Had a One-Night Stand

Khloé Kardashian surely has her hands full between giving a shout out to her NBA player sweetheart, James Harden, and sitting by her irritated spouse Lamar Odom's bedside. Be that as it may, some time ago, Khloé was fairly footloose and favor free.

The 31-year-old reality star admitted in another video journal presented on her application that she has had an one-night stand, yet she's not naming names. While talking with her bestie Malika Haqq in Australia, Khloé uncovered that she snared amid a past trek Down Under.

"I met a fellow who was performing at the MTV Awards, snared with him here and left," she said. "He needed to leave town and we both didn't live here, we all came here for the grants."

Be that as it may, as indicated by the most youthful Kardashian sister, her secret man didn't exactly get the message and endeavored to make their one-night toss to a greater extent a long haul thi

Mark Zuckerberg Donates 99% of his Facebook shares

99% of his Facebook shares — worth $45 billion today.

Mark Zuckerberg (right) and his wife, Priscilla Chan (left).

Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that he's giving away 99% of his Facebook shares — valued at $45 billion today — to charity during his lifetime. The Facebook CEO announced the news in a letter to his newborn daughter, Max.
Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, created the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Its mission mimics much of what Zuckerberg and Chan's donations have focused on in the past: personalized learning, curing diseases, and connecting people.

US Special Operations Forces Expanding in Iraq to Battle ISIS

Barrier Secretary Ash Carter told Congress today that the U.S. would build up an extraordinary operations "focusing on power" in Iraq as a component of the heightened military push to battle ISIS.

The uncommon operations power would direct attacks, could free prisoners held by ISIS, assemble knowledge and catch ISIS pioneers in both Iraq and Syria.

It is a piece of the more extensive part for U.S. uncommon operations drives that Carter said would happen in the wake of the attack in late October where U.S. uncommon operations powers freeed 70 ISIS prisoners in northern Iraq. That same strike brought about the passing of Master Sergeant Joshua L. Wheeler, the first American casualty from battle in Iraq since the arrival of U.S. powers to that nation in mid-2014.

CBN urges banks, security agents, others on combating terrorist financing

THE Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, yesterday, called on banking institutions, security agencies and other relevant stakeholders in the financial system to redouble their efforts towards combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (ML/TF).

Gombe presidential rally Car-Bomb-Blast in 2014

Emefiele stated this at the Regional Workshop on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment For Financial Institutions, organized by the Inter-governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), in Abuja.

“The effort at combating money laundering and terrorist financing is no doubt, a collective responsibility of the regulators, regulated entities, law enforcement agencies and other relevant stakeholders in the financial system,” he said. The governor noted that “money laundering and terrorist financing are twin menace, which all territories should continuously focus on in order to avert their debilitating effects on an economy.”

Citing Boko Haram , an Islamic terrorist group in Nigeria and some neighboring countries, CBN Boss explained that they “started as a small radical sect and festered due to ease of financing.

Today in History December 2.

Today in History

December 2

1804		Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of France in Notre Dame Cathedral.
1805		Napoleon Bonaparte celebrates the first anniversary of his coronation with a victory at Austerlitz over a Russian and Austrian army.
1823		President James Monroe proclaims the principles known as the Monroe Doctrine, "that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by European powers."

How Intel is Impacting learning with technology through teacher education

All over the world, there is an increasing attention on the role technology plays in preparing students for the 21st century. Unlike the traditional method of learning which is more about the paper and pencil teacher centered approach, technology-induced learning not only motivates learning in students, but it also offers them the 21st century skills needed to remain competitive in a highly technological knowledge-based economy.
However, most teachers in this current dispensation have little or no knowledge about technology and so come across as averse to this new method of infusing technology into education, explaining why in many schools, the use of mobile devices which could help improve learning process is prohibited.
Although, there have been several interventions from both the Federal and State governments, particular in the use of technology, tablets, desktops and laptops among students, but these interventions cannot work effectively as long as attention is on just the students and not the teachers.

Today in History

Today in History

December 1

1135		Henry I of England dies and the crown is passed to his nephew Stephen of Bloise.
1581		Edmund Champion and other Jesuit martyrs are hanged at Tyburn, England, for sedition, after being tortured.
1861		The U.S. gunboat Penguin seizes the Confederate blockade runner Albion carrying supplies worth almost $100,000.

Chelsea in for Mueller

Thomas Mueller (World Cup 2014)

Chelsea are the most recent Premier League club answered to be pursuing Germany forward Thomas Mueller, however to the extent Bayern Munich are concerned their free thinker star is 'irreplacable'. As indicated by UK media reports, Jose Mourinho's Blues need to sign Mueller to supplant Diego Costa, barely astounding given the German's present objective scoring ability.

Mueller netted Bayern's opener in Saturday's 2-0 win at home to Hertha Berlin to claim his thirteenth group objective, only four months into the season. It implies he has scored in each of his last five aggressive trips, taking his amazing individual pull to 20 objectives in 21 excursions in all rivalries in 2015/16.

In a solitary season, he has never scored more than his flow count of 13 Bundesliga objectives — which has come after just 14 matches. Still only 26, Mueller as of now has a World Cup champs decoration in his accumulation and can play on the wing or as a striker, as he demonstrated by scoring a cap trap against Portugal at the 2014 World Cup.

My Boyfriend left me when i went into acting

Funmi Awelewa

Up and rising Yoruba performing artist, Funmi Awelewa is beautiful to the point that it is verging on difficult to think a man in his right faculties would leave her – for any reason. In any case, the Ibadan-based maker of Ife O Dogba and Aromimawe will let you know this is something that almost shredded her when she was beginning on her acting way.
“Yes, I have been heartbroken before” she told Potpourri when asked if her heart has ever been broken.

“My ex boyfriend broke up with me because of my profession – acting. I don’t know what really happened, he just walked away, probably intimidated by the profession”

“In life, we encounter the good and the bad side of love. All I know is that I am grateful that I am still capable of love” she said, but added that not every man gets intimidated by an actress.

Funmi's beauty is not the sort that sends electric wave at you at first case, the sort envelopes you in its grip and nestle you to sleep,without you notwithstanding having any information of it. She could possibly be the most exquisite Yoruba performer around however Funmi wouldn't take that.