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ROME (AFP) - Juventus closed all talk of a challenge to their Italian Serie A dominance after coming through a second-half onslaught at Napoli to win 2-1, in an engrossing match that saw each side have a man sent off and stretch their lead at the top to a huge 16 points.
Massimiliano Allegri's unbeaten leaders have now as good as sealed their eighth straight title after the match on Sunday (March 3) that looked dead at half-time with Juve two goals and a man up. But it sparked back into life when goalscorer Miralem Pjanic was sent off for handling a Napoli pass and picking up a second yellow card just after the break.
"I fell asleep, I should have replaced Pjanic when he had the first card. He was at risk, but I didn't expect him to handle," said Allegri, whose future at Juve is uncertain after what will be five seasons in Turin. "I already said we'll sit down to talk about this season and the next. I am very happy to be at Juventus."
Midfielder Pjanic swept home his free-kick opener in the 28th minute, which came immediately after Napoli were reduced to 10 men. Goalkeeper Alex Meret had sliced down Cristiano Ronaldo when the Portuguese nipped in to intercept a terrible Kevin Malcuit back pass.
Emre Can added the second from a corner 11 minutes later after substitute David Ospina tipped away Pjanic's stinging shot, but the Bosnian's red card gave Napoli a glimmer of hope.
They were back in the game in the 61st minute when Jose Callejon tapped home a pinpoint Lorenzo Insigne cross, and then piled the pressure on a suddenly creaking Juve, with Piotr Zielinski twice forcing fine saves from Polish countryman Wojciech Szczesny.
It looked as though the hosts were set to launch a final assault when they were given a penalty six minutes before the end for a controversial handball decision against Alex Sandro given by the Video Assistant Referee, only for Insigne to crash his spot kick against the post and let the champions off the hook.
As elsewhere across the Serie A weekend, play at the Stadio San Paolo stopped in the 13th minute to honour the memory of deceased former Italy international Davide Astori, with fans of both sides applauding the ex-Fiorentina captain, who died in his sleep aged just 31 on March 4 last year.
Astori's name was chanted by fans of AC Milan, where he came through as a youth player, during a 1-0 win over Sassuolo on Saturday that took Gennaro Gattuso's side third and a point above Inter Milan, who lost 2-1 at Cagliari amid a public contract dispute with absent star striker Mauro Icardi.
But the most emotional scenes came during Fiorentina's 3-1 defeat at Atalanta, who kept their hopes of Champions League football alive thanks to goals from Josip Ilicic, Alejandro Gomez and Robin Gosens.
Atalanta playmaker Ilicic, who played alongside Astori at Fiorentina, broke down in tears when played stopped, while away fans held up "Astori" signs and the home fans showed appreciation for a player born and raised in the province of Bergamo, where the hosts are based.
"This situation has taken over a huge part of us this week. Tomorrow we will close to his family as we have been for the last year," said Fiorentina coach Stefano Pioli.
Gian Piero Gasperini's flamboyant Atalanta are six points behind fourth-placed Inter after winning the second spectacular clash with Fiorentina in a matter of days after their thrilling 3-3 Coppa Italia semi-final draw midweek.
They are level on 41 points with Lazio, 3-0 winners over Roma in Saturday's Rome derby, and Torino, who beat rock-bottom Chievo by the same score on Sunday.
Two points further back are Sampdoria, thanks to 36-year-old Fabio Quagliarella joining Ronaldo at the top of the scoring charts with 19 goals following a brace in his side's 2-1 win at struggling Spal.
"I don't feel like anyone special," said modest Quagliarella after the match. "I'm not the star man, I'm part of a team that works towards a single objective, everyone is useful and no one is indispensable."
A nice but anonymous lady called to report a problem at a nearby house.
The two-story house at 1309 Rose Hill St. burned a couple of years ago and has been uninhabitable unless you count the vagrants who hang out there and apparently steal things such as lawnmowers and tools from nearby homes.
I rode over to look at the place and found a wreck. It was so bad, the city has already condemned it and sprayed the Big Red D on the front. That was about two months ago, my caller told me.
I told her I'd check with Rebecca Wiggins, city building inspector, to see when it might be coming down, but she told me there was another pressing problem. There is a large tree that apparently was killed by the heat when the house burned. It's hanging over not only the burned house, but the property next door and is dropping sizeable limbs on both.
So I had two questions for Rebecca. Any idea when it's coming down? And will the tree come down with it?
Wiggins said she remembered inspecting that house and condemning it, and assured me it would be in the next wave of buildings to be turned over to the wreckers. The bad news is that might not happen until March. The good news is either the owner or property manager told her that they were planning on tearing it down themselves.
The other bad news, unless you're a lawyer, is that the tree is on private property, so the city doesn't handle that.
"That's a civil matter between the neighbors and the property owner," Wiggins said.
The problem with that is that my caller and her husband are elderly and on a fixed income and likely can't afford an attorney. But if there's a lawyer who would like to do a little pro bono work for some nice people in need, I can put you in contact with them.
I got an email from a friend and business associate of the owners of the house we featured last week, the one with the private landfill growing in the front yard.
"The owners of this property were embarrassed that they were in the paper and asked me to respond for them since I know all the details of this property," the email began.
He had quite a story to tell.
The owners bought the house about five years ago and have had a heck of a time keeping it rented, in spite of putting thousands of dollars into sprucing it up. Twice, while the house was vacant, thieves broke in and stole all the appliances and ripped out the copper. Twice.
"Where were these complaining neighbors when thugs were dragging a fridge and other stuff down the road? It would have been nice if they called the police then," he wrote.
The good news is that the property has been cleaned up and the house is under contract with a church to use in one of its ministries, he reports.
"On a lighter note," my correspondent wrote. "The camera that took the picture of the house you put in the paper must have been a cheapo. It is NOT purple. It is blue-gray!"
Whatever you call the color, I still hope they got that paint on sale.
Why, you might ask, should Congress bother to repeal CLASS, given that Sebelius has suspended its implementation? Because, according to the Congressional Research Service, courts could force her to implement the new entitlement, despite the fact that it will blow up the deficit.
CLASS was halted not because of some outbreak of common sense at HHS, but due to its inability to pass the proviso placed into the law by Senator Gregg that HHS provide "an actuarial analysis of the 75-year costs of the program that ensures solvency throughout such 75-year period." HHS couldn't do it. Whither the same proviso applied to the whole of Obamacare?
“It’s not going to be implemented,” he told National Journal. “But we need something like it…the problem with CLASS is that it’s voluntary.” That is to say, unless there is a federal individual mandate forcing all Americans to buy long-term care insurance, a government system is unworkable.
“As a physician, I treated hundreds of patients who needed long-term care, including ones with Alzheimer’s,” Boustany wrote in an op-ed for Politico. “More than 13.5 million seniors could have this disease by 2040. Middle-class families remain dangerously unprepared for these costs. Some people will likely spend more than $100,000 on care.
The private insurance market has a myriad array of LTC products that can help defer or address these costs. It just so happens that we sell these!
World’s largest steel-maker ArcelorMittal is keen to revive its six-million-tonne per annum (MTPA) steel project at an investment of Rs 30,000 crore in Ballari district.
The Luxembourg-based company, which had shelved the project two years ago due to unavailability of raw material linkage, has approached the state government once again with a proposal to revive the project, a top government official said.
ArcelorMittal had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Karnataka government during the global investors’ meet on June 3, 2010, in the presence of its chairman Lakshmi Nivas Mittal. It had proposed to invest Rs 30,000 crore to set up its integrated steel plant along with a 750-MW captive power plant in Ballari district.
The company, however, shelved the project as there was no commitment from the state government on allocation of iron ore reserves. Instead, it had sought permission to set up a 600-MW solar power plant at the same location where the government has allotted 2,800 acres of land to the company in Kuditini village.
“The company has again come forward to set up the steel plant and given a formal proposal to the government. Their application is currently under consideration and the government is yet to take a final decision,” Gaurav Gupta, principal secretary, Department of Commerce and Industries, Karnataka government, told DH. He said the government has not agreed to the company’s proposal to convert the land use and set up a solar farm.
Despite repeated attempts, ArcelorMittal did not comment on the development till the time of going to press.
“The company has been asking for an extension of time to execute their project. A final decision is yet to be taken by the government. Earlier, they were given one or two extensions. In 2015-16, they asked for one more,” Gupta said. He said the government was not in favour of giving permission to set up a solar farm as it was felt it will not lead to large employment generation. Subsequently, the company submitted a proposal for the steel plant.
The Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) has acquired and handed over to the company 2,800 acres land at Kuditini village in Ballari district for their proposed steel plant.
Kazakh Oil and Gas Ministry has agreed to extend the Exploration Period for the Tethys Petroleum Limited's Kul-Bas Exploration and Production Contract by two years until November 11, 2015, the company reported on Thursday.
The Kul-Bas contract area (which currently covers an area of 7,632 square kilometers) surrounds the Akkulka contract area which contains the company's producing oil and gas fields.
"This extension gives Tethys further time to explore this attractive area which has several prospects," the company said.
In addition, the Kul-Bas block contains the KBD01 (Kalypso) well which is awaiting testing later this year after having encountered several intervals with hydrocarbon indications.
This extension is subject to registration of a suitable addition to the contract.
Tethys is focused on oil and gas exploration and production activities in Central Asia with activities currently in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
A real estate seo marketing company is taking advantage of new programs in Google and helping real estate agents, brokers and mortgage lenders get first page search results within 30 days for only $229 down and $17 a month.
July 15, 2009 - PRLog -- Getting first page search results in Google can be a very expensive and time consuming ordeal for real estate agents and real estate brokers who know that a large percentage of clients and homes sold start with a search on the internet. According to the National Association of Realtors over 80% of homes sold in 2008 started with an internet based search. Many search engine optimization companies and seo firms charge thousands of dollars to achive results that www.RealEstateMarketingNerds.com is now offering for a price of $229.00.
"When people look at Google, they are looking at the online yellow pages that millions of people use to find what they are looking for" said RealEstateMarketingNerds.com president and founder Sean Callahan. "The fact is that many new programs with Google have been released and the Google Business Directory is one such program that will allow us to get agents in the top of the search results in a faster more predictable way".
Callahan is no stranger to the Google search engine, or to getting himself or clients ranked on the first page. In addition to setting up thousands of Google Adwords accounts Callahan has also spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours indexing many of his own websites in the search engine that can often be the make-or-break for Internet success.
"If you can capitalize on new programs and take advantage of them before the mass population figuires them out then you have an excellent chance for success....we are doing that now for our clients and charging a fraction of the cost that many other companies charge", he continued.
"This Google Business Directory will bring our clients up towards the top of the first page anytime someone is looking for an agent or a broker in their area and Google provides statistical information to track the number of visits and views the listings get each month" he said.
"We have done an extensive of amount of research on this new seo product and the results that our agents are getting is very encouraging and prompting us to roll it out nationwide".
The RealEstateMarketingNerds.com company however is limiting the number of agents and brokers to only 3 per metropolitan area so those who are able to take advantage of the offer first will be able to get a great amount of exposure for the price.
"We are offering this service rather cheap because we there are other new Google programs and services that will will be also offering that we can bundle with our existing client base", Callahan continued.
The new Google program brings up agent and brokers for keywords like "your town real estate agent" or "your town real estate broker", and thus saves agents thousands of dollars in normal search engine optimization costs for websites.
"We are going to raise our prices eventually but the first 100 agents and brokers will be our testimonials for the future and we want to develop a large base of testimonials for this new seo service", Callahan went on to say.
For real estate agents looking for low cost ways to deliver traffic to their websites this program is ideal. Other programs and places for low cost traffic according to Callahan are online classifieds, YouTube.com, social media sites and blogs and according to Callahan "we have packages coming out for many of those services in the very near future".
or call Sean Callahan direct at 858) 731-7278.
Real Estate Marketing Nerds has helped thousands of real estate agents around the country mkae money and sell millions of dollars in real estate by offering results orientated marketing packages and websites.
In addition to fixing up real estate agent websites we also provide search engine marketing and guerilla marketing programs with online classifieds, blogs, video and social media.
Denver Broker Gary Baird Awarded Prestigious 2012 "Five Star Real Estate Agent"
Luton defender Jack Senior helped Harrogate overturn a 2-0 deficit to draw 2-2 at Barrow in their National League on Saturday.
Trailing at the break, Senior came on at half time in place of Ryan Fallowfield and saw the visitors immediately get back into the game when home keeper Joel Dixon's clearance rebounded off Jack Muldoon and go in.
The visitors then salvaged a point with 20 minutes to go, courtesy of Callum Howe's header .
Senior had been an unused sub for Town as they lost 1-0 at Barnet the previous Tuesday.
Defender Lloyd Jones came as Plymouth were held to a 2-2 draw by Bristol Rovers in League One.
Jones replaced David Fox on 86 minutes with Argyle 2-1 up only to see the visitors, who host Luton next weekend, equalise through sub Gavin Reilly.
Jake Jervis and Luke Gambin once again didn't play for AFC Wimbledon or Crawley Town, neither did Arthur Read and Frankie Musonda in Hemel Hempstead's 3-2 win over East Thurrock United.
Striker Aaron Jarvis sat out the weekend, with Falkirk not in action until next Saturday.
Meanwhile, U18s midfielder Drew Richardson was recalled by the Hatters after his one month loan at Harlow Town finished.
During his time with the Hawks, he made 12 appearances, scoring once and on leaving the club, tweeted: "Thanks to everyone at the club good luck for the rest of the season #upthehawks."
So much for not being evil.
Google bosses have forced employees to delete a confidential memo circulating inside the company that revealed explosive details about a plan to launch a censored search engine in China, The Intercept has learned.
The memo, authored by a Google engineer who was asked to work on the project, disclosed that the search system, codenamed Dragonfly, would require users to log in to perform searches, track their location – and share the resulting history with a Chinese partner who would have "unilateral access" to the data.
According to the report, the so-called Dragonfly search engine would require Chinese citizens to log in to perform searches, track their physical location, and then share all of its data with a Chinese partner company that could presumably share it with the Chinese government. The company would reportedly have "unilateral access" to the data. That might also presumably include Chinese citizens' phone numbers, as described in an earlier Intercept report.
Plus, that Chinese company would reportedly be able to independently add new words to the blacklist of searches to be censored, according to today's report.
Sounds like the Orwellian dream come true. Anyone who wants to have a cell phone and look up information in China would become a target for communist China's odious secret police, and they will be looking.
Seriously, a device to track your every move and every question asked is right there in the realm of thought control, and amazingly enough, it was an American company, full of leftists, who made such a communist dream a reality. The old Stalin or Mao system of informants and knocks on the door at midnight was just too crude and inefficient. Today's totalitarians are sleek and efficient, with Google technology powering their capacity to zero in on just the most disruptive people, the better to keep the rest of society submissive, with the least possible effort. This is how code works, deducting, deducting, deducting, and why it's done so much for America's productivity revolution. Now it's being applied to totalitarians' needs, with Google the big pioneer in it.
Who would have thought it would be American technology and know-how that made just such a system possible? What's more, who doesn't think these people won't find a way around it to bring it here?
The information within the memo appears to contradicts statements made by Google CEO Sundar Pichai that the company's efforts on a Chinese search engine were exploratory.
Losing talent, deceiving shareholders – not a good thing. But from Google's point of view, China is a big market, and from big markets come big profits. I suspect that the Googletrons noticed that Yahoo! got off scot-free from cooperating with the Chicoms on email and decided that the risk was nothing while the money-making opportunity for themselves was too good to pass up. Hence the memo with that sneaky little plan to give the Chicoms the magic tools to go Orwell.
Any questions as to why President Trump just recently warned that Google and its lesser Silicon Valley coevals "threaten democracy and online freedom"? Americans love to dismiss Trump as over the top, but after reading this stuff, in retrospect, it sounds as though he knew something.
Knowledge is power, and those guys at Google understand that.
Beji Caid Essebsi says the measure was a long time coming but some are sceptical about the proposal's motivations.
Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi says he will submit a bill to parliament granting women and men equal inheritance rights, in line with a proposal put forward by a government-backed committee.
A report by the Individual Freedoms and Equality Committee (COLIBE) released in June sought to address a number of issues related to individual freedoms and gender equality, but drew the ire of the country's conservative forces.
In a televised address marking Women's Day in Tunisia on Monday, Essebsi, 91, described the inheritance equality measure as long overdue.
"I propose that equality in matters pertaining to inheritance be signed into law by modifying the code of personal status," he said, referring to a series of laws initiated post-independence in the mid-1950s that revolutionised women's rights, most markedly through abolishing polygamy and legalising abortion.
"This should have been done in 1956 but the constitution did not provide for it then," Essebsi, of Tunisia's secular Nidaa Tounes party, said.
The president's proposal, however, stopped short of demanding an equal share for all women, with the president insisting that families wishing to continue observing the existing laws surrounding inheritance may continue doing so.
Currently, the inheritance law - which derives from Islam's sacred text, the Quran - restricts women to half of what men are entitled to.
COLIBE, set up by the president in August 2017, was mandated with the task of harmonising the country's laws with a constitution that was passed four years ago.
The 2014 constitution places a strong emphasis on the rights and dignity of individuals, elements long neglected during the rule of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was toppled in the aftermath of mass protests in 2011 that quickly spread to other countries throughout the region.

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