Inter's Lucio set to sign two-year contract extension

The Brazil international will reportedly sign a new deal with the Serie A outfit now coached by Gasperini, despite reported interest from a cash-rich Dubai side in his services

By Luis Mira

Jul 21, 2011 8:36:00 PM

Lucio - Barcelona-Inter - Champions League (Getty Images)

Inter defender Lucio has agreed to sign a new contract which will keep him at the club until 2014, according to reports in Brazil.

The veteran centre-back only has one more year on his current contract, which led to speculation he could depart Inter in the summer.

Dubai club Al Ahli were tipped to make a formal approach to Lucio on Wednesday, while free-spending Spanish club Malaga had also been linked with an offer, but it is now reported that the player has come to an agreement with Inter to add two more years to his current contract.

Lucio, who will fly back to Milan in two weeks' time following Brazil's elimination from the Copa America at the quarter-final stage, joined Inter from Bayern Munich in 2009 after spending five years with the Bundesliga powerhouse and helped the Italian side claim the Champions League title in 2010.

Official: Barcelona announce signing of Udinese's Alexis Sanchez

The Chilean's capture has been finalised following the conclusion of his nation's Copa America campaign and the forward will sign a five-year deal with the Catalan club on Monday

Jul 21, 2011 7:00:00 PM

Alexis celebra ante Uruguay, Copa América

From Udinese

Alexis SanchezWinger Fee: €37.5 million Contract: Jun 2016

To Barcelona

Barcelona have officially announced the signing of Alexis Sanchez from Udinese in a deal worth a total of €37.5 million. MORE

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The attacker had been given permission to leave the Chilean national squad's preparation for the Copa America in anticipation of the transfer being finalised late last month, but the two sides were unable to reach an agreement and the move was therefore put on hold until the Andean side had concluded their campaign in the continental competition. The Catalan club had hoped to negotiate a player plus cash deal for Sanchez, but both Bojan Krkic and Jeffren Suarez rejected moves to the Serie A side. Weeks of wrangling followed, but the deal was finally reported as completed on Wednesday afternoon, with the official announcement arriving on Thursday, after Chile had been surprisingly knocked out of the Copa America by Venezuela in the quarter-finals earlier on in the week. Barcelona will pay €26m up front with an additional €11.5m in variables and the player will undergo a medical and sign his new deal on Monday. Barcelona coach, Pep Guardiola, said of Sanchez in a press conference in Barcelona on Tuesday: "He is very young, he can play in three different attacking positions, he has a lot of defensive intensity, he can unlock a match and, from what I have been told, he is a very good boy." The Chilean winger/second striker will become a part of the most feared forward line in the game, joining David Villa and Pedro as options for a starting place alongside Lionel Messi in Pep Guardiola's first team. Sanchez became a target for the Catalans during the 2010-11 season when his explosive performances helped lead Udinese to fourth place in Serie A, which earned them a place in next season's Champions League.

A new beginning | Chilean attacker will look to continue his rise with European champions

He had shown signs of his promise in the previous season with his club side as he became a regular starter for the first time, and went on to earn global prominence as one of the stars of Chile's swashbuckling run to the last 16 at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, where they were eventually beaten by Brazil. Sanchez leaves Udinese after five years with the club, during which time he spent seasons on loan with Colo Colo and River Plate. He made 111 appearances for the Friuli outfit, scoring 21 goals. Barcelona fans will be hoping his lightning pace can help to freshen up their attack in the face of extra demands ahead of them in 2011-12, with the Club World Cup and European Super Cup added to their calendar following their Champions League triumph over Manchester United in May.

Start up business – Postcard marketing

For new businesses, advertising and marketing is very essential part to promote their products and services. It is not possible for new business to promote their products and services with any high tech marketing tool due to limited budget. The good news is, they can easily opt a strong marketing tool in with their small budget, named Postcard marketing.  
Postcards – Smart way of Advertising
You can efficiently promote your business through postcard advertising. Postcard marketing has been used by number of successful businesses and it is worth to try. Some of the main benefits attached with postcard marketing are:
·         Don’t need to have a large amount of budget
·         Direct mail marketing always generates positive response rates
·         Postcards are versatile that can be used to accomplish many different goals of marketing
Now, look at the details;
Cost effective
No doubt, postcard marketing is a low cost strategy as compared to other marketing strategies. It is best cost effective marketing tool. Postcards are ready to read they don’t need to be placed in envelops. With just 23 cents you can send one postcard through First Class Mailing. In only 50 cents you can send standard size postcard that will include all production expenses such as postcard material, postage cost and printing.
Generate positive responses
If postcards are well-designed you can get more positive responses from your consumers. Many businesses consider postcards as the best marketing practice. Even people keep their favorite advertising postcard and display them on their doors, refrigerators to decorate. It is the effective way to reach out to your niche market.
Send postcards for different reasons
Goal for sending postcard can be vary according to the goal of the company. A company can send a postcard to their target audience to introduce new products, services, even a new company. You can also send a postcard to let people know different discount rates, contests and rewards offered by your company. Postcards can be used as discount coupons and gift vouchers to encourage recipients to visit you online or shop. You can even send postcards to your target audience if you are celebrating any event such as an anniversary.
Track the results and stay updated based upon the recipients’ response. Print a code on a postcard for those who want to buy online, when they will type that code on your website you can easily see the successful results of your marketing campaigns.

Celebrity Fashion - Tips On Finding The Ideal Celeb Style Summer Dress

Bodycon Dresses
If you were to browse any celebrity fashion magazine in 2011 searching for the latest celeb style,  you would no doubt come across many photos of your favourite female celebrity’s in beautiful bodycon dresses. A bodycon dress is form fitting and sexy, if you have been working out in the lead up to summer to get that beach body then a bodycon dress is the perfect way to show it off.
Tea Dress
The tea dress is so called because of its suitableness for elegant tea party’s or ladies lunches’ .This type of dress was a celebrity fashion trend in England originally and then popularised in Britain by high street clothing chains. A tea dress would best be described as formal yet feminine, it wouldn’t look out of place at any posh event. Lady Gaga has been pictured wearing this kind of dress recently, giving it an instant celeb style and making it extremely appealing to a wider range of women.
Shirtdress
A shirtdress can be made from a man’s shirt or ladies blouse, lengthened to the knee and then clinched at the waist by a tie, belt, or simply any piece of material. Sleeve length is  totally optional to your taste and can be a cap sleeve, short sleeve or three quarter length.  You could have a single colour dress such as orange, or opt for a delicate floral pattern to match the more modern celebrity fashion trend.
A Polo dress is a variation of a shirtdress, but made out of a womens polo shirt. It looks beautiful in a horizontal striped pattern or bright colours.

A Wrap Dress
The name says it all with a wrap dress, it has no zip or buttons and it just held on a ladies body by being wrapped around them. Wrap dresses are very similar to bodycon dresses in that they extremely figure hugging and only really suitable for women with a slender frame. Wrap dresses used to have somewhat of a tarnished image with celebrity fashion disasters such as Jodie Marsh sporting them, but in recent years the celeb style sparkle has been rekindled and they have been more recognise as being the Cheryl Cole look.

To Know the Weight Correctly

What looks like a runner with math
First of all, tell you good news: If you ran, whether you changed their eating habits, you would almost lose weight. And even if your weight was in the current trend of increase, you would also begin to lose weight. Because the calories that running man consumed were much more than that the no-running man consumed, at the beginning of the first year of running, women reduced ten to twelve pounds in general; men could reduce twenty pounds or even more. A running woman called Kathleen Lance said, after she began to run, the status of the body changed completely. All her friends were always looking very strong whether they were athletes. Yet she was born weak, even she was a teenager. Then she was not weak any more after she began to run. This was a fantastic experience. She stroked her body and felt different. Her posture was also improved. She might reduce ten pounds in the head year of running, yet the size of her clothes became smaller faster. She immediately became more slender. Her clothes size reduced from 14th to 10th.
Now talk about the bad news: Unless you were already quite thin, otherwise you would not become a really good runner according to the weight you lost. A good runner was thin astonishingly. At the gathering of long-distance runners which was hold recently, one observer looked around the people in that room and said with unbelievable tone that, some of you looked like the thin chicken which was only suitable for soup. He was right, the weight of a good competitive runner should be at most more than two pounds per inch of height. Man's weight could not exceed five to ten percent of the standard; woman's weight could outstrip fifteen to twenty percent of the standard. In the second chapter, we mentioned the former Olympic long-distance running expert Ted Corbett, he said that, when people said that you looked strong, certainly it was certain that you were underproof. As long as you were not angular, you did not measure up. In the second chapter, we mentioned Dr. Allen Clark who advocated aerobic exercises instead of taking the sedatives, he said to me after running for six months, the friends worried about my emaciation and said to my wife privately, also asked how long I had been ill. She explained that I was a long-distance runner which made them puzzled.
For example, according to the provision of the life insurance, if your weight were more than ten pounds and wore the clothes, you would look nice relatively. Only when you were undress or wore swimwear, your waist would look a little bloated. Was it still worth worrying about the ten pounds? Unluckily, it deserved worrying about. After forty-five years old, the mortality rate would increase by eight percent if the weight was more than ten pounds. The death rate would rose by eighteen percent if the weight exceeded twenty pounds; more than thirty pounds would increase by twenty-eight percent; more than fifty pounds would increase by fifty-six percent.

christmas decoration

Home, party decoration for Christmas.
This is December and it is the time for
festivity. Almost all of you are busy with the
last moment planning and preparation of
your Christmas party. Like every other
person, you might also have the desire to
make this Christmas memorable for
everyone. If you want to make the
Christmas party planning memorable, you
need to add some uniqueness to it and so
you need to find out the appropriate
Christmas decorations for your purpose.
Always remember, Christmas decoration
ideas play a great role in determining the
success of the party. Therefore, if you are
really interested to make the party
memorable, you will have to spend some
time in pointing out the appropriate ideas
for your purpose.
When you are considering for finding the
best ideas for Christmas decoration, you can
obviously take the assistance of your friends
and near ones. Everyone has their own
planning related to Christmas party
decoration and by their suggestions; you
can easily form a better idea of how you
need to proceed. If you are not satisfied
with the ideas that you collect from your
friends or near ones, you can surely hit the
web. The World Wide Web has all the
information that you need for planning
yourChristmas decoration ideas. Therefore,
if you are not gaining access to some fruitful
ideas to serve your purpose, you can check
out the internet.
Search different online sites offering
Christmas decoration ideas and jot down
them. Once you list a few different ideas for
your Christmas decoration it will not be a
tough job for you to compare them and
find which one is the appropriate for your
purpose. All Christmas decoration ideas
available on the websites are not meant for
the same purpose. So, you should compare
them properly to understand, which one
suits your requirement in the best manner.
All the decoration ideas also do not have
uniqueness and so you should search the
ideas carefully.
There are several advantages of scrolling
the web pages to find different ideas for
Christmas decoration. If you search the
internet and check out different ideas for
decorating your Christmas party, you will be
able to get a better understanding of the
decoration themes that are available in the
present days.