Jimmy Thelin has been appointed as Aberdeen manager. The 46-year-old had previously been linked with the Sunderland job following the sacking of Tony Mowbray last year but the Black Cats oped for Michael Beale. The Swede, alongside his assistants Christer Persson and Emir Bajrami, will leave their current roles at Allsvenskan side IF Elfsborg this summer and will join Aberdeen in early June. Aberdeen have stated that interim manager Peter Leven will continue to lead the first-team squad until...
Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna believes his side are relishing the challenge of trying to secure promotion into the Premier League. The Tractor Boys are currently sat at the top of the Championship and hold a one-point lead over Leicester City, despite failing to take maximum points from a visit to local rivals Norwich City and a home double-header against Watford and Middlesbrough. Tough looking away days at Hull City and Coventry City are next on the agenda for McKenna - and the former...
A school supporting vulnerable young people on Wearside is set to expand with an additional site, following a decision by city development chiefs. Sunderland City Council’s planning department has approved an application for a property at The Kings Road in the Southwick area. Earlier this year, applicant Hopespring applied to change the use of a building from a residential children’s home to an education use. This included the building serving as the “additional site of an existing school in...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Two tall buildings on the edge of the International District stick out and have for decades. One tower, at the corner of Central and San Mateo, was once a bank. And the other tower to the north used to be an office building. While they're empty at the moment, one of them, []
Mihai Aperghis (@mihaiaperghis), an SEO we reference here from time to time, is also a Google Product Expert and attended the Google Search Central Unconference the other week. He has written this blog post and I am posting it here as a super rare guest post on this site. Why? (1) Mihai rocks and (2) this site is about community and Product Experts are the essence of the Google community. I (Barry) personally was unable to attend due to a conflict. Note: Mihai did not ask for a link or a...
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Nike is spending more on this Olympics than any previous Games, top executives said on Friday, as the U.S. sportswear brand embarks on a marketing push it hopes will revive flagging sales and help compete with upstart rivals. Sponsored athletes including U.S. sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson and Kenyan marathoner Eliud Kipchoge modeled Nike's Olympics kits at a show in Paris on Thursday, where the brand also unveiled 13 futuristic shoe prototypes developed with athletes. "This Olympics will be...
Striking images showing how a new riverside residential community could look have been revealed as council development chiefs press ahead with regeneration plans. Earlier this week, Sunderland City Council’s Planning and Highways Committee approved plans for public realm works in the Sheepfolds area to improve connectivity ahead of a major transformation. The vision set out by development bosses for part of the Riverside Sunderland regeneration site includes hundreds of new homes which would...
Mike Dodds says Sunderland can take a lot of positives from their 0-0 draw with Leeds United but challenged his players to improve in possession. After a turbulent few weeks the Black Cats produced a committed display against the title-chasing side on their home turf, limiting them to very few chances across the game. While Dodds said that was definitely something to take forward, he insisted that it wouldn’t be right for Sunderland to be overly celebratory about taking a point and admitted...
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The Google spokesperson said the layoffs are not company-wide and that affected employees will be able to apply for internal roles, but did not specify the number of employees impacted nor the teams involved. The layoffs follow a slew of job cuts across Google, and the tech and media industry this year, adding to fears that layoffs may continue as companies grapple with economic uncertainty. Employees across several of Google' teams in its real estate and finance departments have been...