| Marlins new stadium Pictures Posted: 05 Apr 2012 11:19 AM PDT 
Commissioner Bud Selig offered a one-word review of the Miami Marlins’ new ballpark. “All you can say is, `Wow,’” Selig said. Muhammad Ali had the same reaction. Selig’s critique came 90 minutes before the first pitch of the first game Wednesday in the Marlins’ season opener against the World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals, who won 4-1. The ballpark’s retractable roof, which is expected to be closed for all but about 10 games, was opened 30 minutes before the start. When the Marlins were introduced, each starter was accompanied by a young lady dressed as Latin showgirl.
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| Kim Zolciak Engagement Ring Photo Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:12 PM PDT Real Housewife of Atlanta Kim Zolciak has Tweeted out a photo of her 10-carat ring for all to see. It’s almost as large as the blowouts Kim has every season with NeNe Leakes… Next month will be a big one for this reality star. The new season of her Bravo hit premieres on November 6, and she’ll tie the knot with Biermann just five days later, on 11/11/11. 
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| Tamilnadu Civic Election Results 2011 Declared Posted: 21 Oct 2011 06:55 PM PDT The Tamilnadu civic election results will be declared today, October 21, 2011. The ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) has consolidated its early gains and continues to be way ahead of its rivals, as the counting of votes for the local bodies is underway in Chennai. According to the State Election Commission’s official (SEC)’s website, the AIADMK party has captured the post of mayor in Vellore and Tuticorin Municipal Corporations. In Tuticorin, the ruling candidate Sasikala Pushpa defeated Pon Initha of the DMK party by a margin of 23,256 votes. The detailed results for Vellore are pending.  According to the results announced so far by the SEC, at around 2-40 p.m. the ruling AIADMK has won in 3,797 seats, of which 2,516 are town panchayat, 850 municipalities councilors, 245 town panchayats chairpersons, 96 municipal corporations’ councilors and 36 municipalities chairpersons. The party has also won 53 panchayat union wards.
The DMK, which was trailing behind independents till noon, has overtaken them and is now in the second slot, by winning 2,219 seats. Independents have secured 2,083 seats including 1,715 town panchayat ward members. The DMDK party, led by Vijayakant, has won 424 seats, Congress party 406 seats, Bharatiya Janata Party 180 and PMK 142. 
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| GATE 2012 Notification And Important Dates Posted: 11 Oct 2011 12:58 AM PDT As GATE results came out and M.Tech 2011 admissions started, students who did perform well must be heating up to knock out the GATE 2012. I am preparing a GATE 2012 preparation Guide on the similar grounds to GATE 2011 Preparation: A complete guide, do read the articles there they are quite helpful to start preparation. The advantage of preparing the guide for GATE preparation in 2011 was that it helped me to focus on collecting much information and organize it well for years to go. Especially the surveys related to GATE study material, GATE coaching centers across the nation are great help to many. The results of these surveys were compiled in GATE study material and GATE coaching centers in India.
Here I try to present all necessary information for GATE 2012 aspirants and help them to stay focused till the end to crack the GATE. By which student can easily the GATE notification, important dates of submission and GATE examination. Please refer to detailed GATE 2012 notification. The important Dates for GATE 2012 are GATE 2012 application form or GATE 2012 Notification: 12 September 2011
Last Date for submitting GATE 2012 Application Form: 17 October 2011
Gate 2012 Exam Date: 12 February 2012
GATE 2012 Result Announcement: 15 March 2012
M.Tech admissions 2012: 15 March 2012 till July 2012 I will update the exact dates as soon as the official notification is released by the GATE 2012 organizing institute. Meanwhile you are waiting for GATE 2012 notification you can jump over to GATE 2012 syllabus, this is same as last year. Until there is no announcement of change of syllabus the GATE syllabus remains same. 
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| Hope Solo Nude in ESPN Magazine NS4W Photo Posted: 06 Oct 2011 04:48 AM PDT Soccer star and "Dancing with the Stars" contestant Hope Solo considers her work in the ballroom one of the most difficult things she's ever done – even harder than posing nude for ESPN magazine's annual "Body Issue." Hope stopped by Access Hollywood Live on Wednesday where she chatted about dropping her clothes for the mag's racy shoot. "[It's] one of the hardest photo shoots I've ever done. It took a lot of courage obviously," she told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover. "Probably for eight hours I was naked in front of eight people." The athlete said she eventually got super comfortable baring it all. "I was so nervous at first that I started screaming when they dropped the robe, and then by the end of the day I was talking to people like it was nothing," she said of the shots, which will hit newsstands on Friday. "Just standing there nude having conversations." 
(Photo Credit: ESPN) Baring her body might have been difficult for Hope at first, but she said it was nothing compared to competing on "DWTS." "This is one of the hardest things I've never done," the athlete, who was spared from elimination on Tuesday's "DWTS" results show, said. "This is harder than the naked photo shoot, I assure you. [I'm] more sure of myself being naked than dancing, absolutely." 
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| Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2011 Posted: 01 Oct 2011 09:21 PM PDT More than 20 years ago, while volunteering at a breast cancer screening clinic, I found myself, a non-medical professional, walking my fingertips across the body of a stranger. My job was to hand each woman's chart to Dr. R., also a volunteer, refresh the exam table between patients with a crisp new length of white paper, and serve as a chaperone. The turnout was low, and the pace was slow — until in walked a petite woman with beautiful skin and thick wavy hair a striking shade of strawberry blond. She moved stiffly, her knees unbending, her arms, hands, and fingers curled at odd angles. Her chart revealed that she was 40 years old, had suffered from arthritis since childhood — and was here because she had felt a lump in her left breast three weeks earlier.
Her disability prevented her from climbing onto the table, so Dr. R. lifted her up and helped her to lie back. As he gently kneaded her small breasts, he said, "Yes, there is a lump here. You need to do something about this. You must do something about this." Then, "Would you mind if the trainee examined this?"
She agreed, and that's when I felt it, the sinister squatter that had taken up residence in the body of this woman who'd never laid eyes on me before. It was hard, the size and shape of a walnut, and lodged firmly just behind the nipple. I will never forget how it felt when my finger tripped over it, like a toe trips over a stone in soft sand; if I ever feel such a thing in my own breast, I will recognize it for what it is, get help — and in my heart thank the strawberry blond woman for her extraordinary gift to me.
Afterwards, Dr. R. pulled his stool up close and spoke kindly and frankly to the woman, outlining what the next weeks and months would likely bring — the mammogram, the biopsy, the treatment options, the possible loss of her breast. The details of this litany escaped me. In my mind's eye I saw my grandmother changing clothes years after her own mastectomy, her chest flat as a board, the area beneath her arm concave where cancer-stricken lymph nodes had been removed, as if a big bite had been taken from her side. Is this what was in store for the redheaded woman? For any woman who develops breast cancer? For me?
Thankfully, no. The diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer have come a long way since my grandmother's bout with the disease. Biopsies and lumpectomies typically are often removed through the area around the aereola, so that the breast has very little distortion. Even when a mastectomy is necessary, reconstruction of the breast can begin at the time of that surgery. This is what money given by so many over the past 20 years has yielded: earlier detection, improved treatment, and a better quality of life after diagnosis for a great percentage of women. 
October is officially Breast Cancer Awareness Month and we at WVFC hope that we can be as helpful to you in the coming four weeks as the strawberry blond woman I encountered two decades ago was to me — by providing informational, practical, and inspiring content about the most common cancer among women.
We also would like to hear from you. What stories do you have to share about breast cancer — your own or that of a friend or loved one? What questions do you have for the breast specialists on our medical advisory board? Please add your voice to ours, share your story, your thoughts, your observations. And for inspiration: Check out this rousing sequel to last year's Pink Glove Dance. Enjoy! 
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| Amanda Knox should be sentenced to life Posted: 24 Sep 2011 07:18 PM PDT Italian prosecutors asked an appeals court on Saturday to uphold the conviction of Amanda Knox for the murder of her British roommate and increase her sentence to life in prison. The 24-year-old American sat motionless as Prosecutor Giancarlo Costagliola made his request. The prosecutor sought the same sentence for Knox’s co-defendant, former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, capping two days of closing arguments by the prosecutors. Costagliola also requested six months of daytime solitary confinement for Knox and two months for Sollecito.A verdict is expected in early October. Next week a lawyer for the victim’s family and the defense teams will deliver their closing arguments.  Knox, of Seattle, Washington, and Sollecito were convicted by a lower court of sexually assaulting and murdering Meredith Kercher while they were all studying in Perugia in 2007. Knox was sentenced to 26 years, her co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito to 25 years.
They both deny wrongdoing and have appealed the 2009 verdict. 
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| Maria Menounos Plans on Freezing Her Eggs Posted: 23 Sep 2011 10:20 AM PDT Beauty queen-turned-international TV personality Maria Menounos has announced she’s freezing her eggs to make sure she can be a mom once she has achieved all her career goals. The pretty Greek-American, who hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in Athens in 2006 and currently presents evening news show Extra, has gone public with her baby plans in a taped interview with top TV medic Dr. Drew Pinsky for his Lifechangers show. She told him, “I’m 33 and I decided that I know that I have a couple of years of work I want to get to and then do it (become a mom). I figured this is kind of an insurance policy, to a degree, to protect myself, from when I want to do it when I’m older.” 
Menounos also broke the news to her parents on the show, telling them, “I have decided I am going to have kids… but, to make it realiztic – because I am not going to do it for a few years, we’re going to freeze our eggs so that we have no problems down the line.” 
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| Candice Boucher: Playboy Model 101 Bikini Photo Posted: 22 Sep 2011 02:11 AM PDT Candice Boucher is one of the hottest models ever appeared on the Playboy`s cover. South African beauty has modeled for Elle, Cosmopolitan, FHM and Sports Illustrated and now she is the face of Intimissimi brand. Yes, with her striking killer body and breasts, Candice is simply a perfect candidate to be the face of a lingerie brand. What are the beauty secrets of Candice Boucher`s hotness? Find out in the article below. Candice just rocked the Cannes this year in her jaws-dropping dress not hiding almost a single piece of her skin. And she is always like this – sexy and provocative Playboy girl. Candice knows how to make her skin glowing healthy with a sexy sun-kissed hint. Candice is young and her skin does not require any special anti-aging or anti-wrinkles treatment. But one of the beauty secrets of Candice Boucher consists in sparing no time for her daily skin care routines. She is very attentive to her skin and loves to use organic cosmetic products. She washes her face twice a day, then tones it with herbal toner and then applies moisturizer with SPF. To make her skin glow Candice applies lotions with shimmering microparticules reflecting the light and giving her skin lovely sun-kissed color. How to dress like Candice Boucher: Candice is a real Playboy girl from head to toe. She likes provocative and sexy way to dress up and often shocks people with her revealing clothes. But those super-hot clothes are one of the main style and beauty secrets of Candice Boucher and represent an integral part of her image. Her body is just perfect so there is no obvious need to hide it from wide audience. So, if you want to dress like Candice Boucher, be ready to wear open and extremely provocative dresses. 
Diet Secrets of Candice Boucher: There is no precise information about Candice's diet plan and it seems like this striking young woman has a good metabolism and workout regimen that are quite enough to keep her fit. Yet there is one diet and beauty secret of Candice Boucher`s hot body. Frankly speaking, the secret is quite obvious – eating healthy unprocessed food, a lot of vegetables and "green leaves" like cabbage, celery, lettuce, rucola or spinach, fruits and mineral water. Candice also combines her diet with very intense workout regimen. 
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| Julianna Margulies wins Best Drama Emmy Awards 2011 Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:35 AM PDT (Reuters Report) – Julianna Margulies won the Emmy on Sunday for best dramatic actress for her performance in “The Good Wife.” Margulies, 45, plays the conflicted spouse of a disgraced district attorney in the CBS legal series.It was a second Emmy for Margulies, who won in 1995 for her role as nurse Carol Hathaway in the long-running TV hospital series “ER,” and was seen as a clear favorite this time around. The actress already has a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild trophy for her performance as the sometimes dutiful, sometimes resentful wife who goes back to work as a lawyer while her husband rebuilds his political career. 
(Photo Credit: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images North America) 
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