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Flávia Delaroli (born December 28, 1983 in Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil) is an Olympic and National Record holding freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who won the silver medal in the women's 50 m freestyle at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

A resident of São Paulo, she also represented her native country at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.

Jennie Lynn Finch is an American softball player who pitches for the USA national softball team. The team won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.





Although she is listed on the roster as a pitcher, Finch sometimes plays first base. She is regarded as the most famous softball player in history.



Finch married Major League Baseball pitcher Casey Daigle on January 15, 2005. Daigle proposed to Finch on the softball field at the University of Arizona, her Alma Mater.



According to Finch, "He blindfolded me and took me to the mound and said, 'You have been the queen of the diamond for four years. Now I want you to be the queen of my heart."



Finch appeared on season one of Pros vs Joes on Spike TV. Finch appeared on an episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County, which aired on December 18, 2007.



Finch was featured as a contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice in 2008. She was fired by Donald Trump on January 24, 2008. Finch pitched for the National League in the 2010 Legends and Celebrities Softball Game, at Angel Stadium.



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If you answered in the affirmative, check out the Financial Times' brand spanking new emerging markets blog: Beyond Brics. There's some really good stuff on there already (including a conversation with an Estonian cabbie about the euro), so be sure to check it out.

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For those inured to the paranoia of modern-day (American) parenting, this playground, designed by BASE for Belleville Park in Paris' 20th arrondissement, must seem utterly baffling. Where there should be springy rubber matting and wood chips, there's bare concrete. The timber pylons look to be no more than a forest of sharp edges and pointy corners awaiting an arm to fracture, a nose to bleed and a forehead to dent. Though not that steep, the climbing walls seem to be screaming to be equipped with ropes, harnesses and helmets.


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To our childless eyes, however, it looks like a proper playground, a neo-eugenics landscape in which society births strapping young citizens. Here, in simulated sieges of an abstract castle perched atop vertiginous cliff faces and fortified with obstructions, doughy, networked children are scarred into physical and mental fitness, into unlikely future burdens on the social health infrastructure of the country.


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While this €1.1 million, high-end design playground isn't nearly anarchic and scruffy, nevertheless, it calls to mind Carl Theodor Sorensen's concept of the junk playground, renamed for England as adventure playground. Mostly built on bombed-out sites during postwar reconstruction, these playgrounds consisted of “all sorts of old scrap that the children [...] could be allowed to work with, as the children in the countryside and in the suburbs already have. There could be branches and waste from tree polling and bushes, old cardboard boxes, planks and boards, 'dead' cars, old tyres and lots of other things, which would be a joy for healthy boys [and girls?] to use for something.” What children do with all the junk will depend on their imagination, initiative, their cooperation with other children and their autonomy from parental control.

“The adventure playground,” wrote John Bertelsen, the first supervisor at the first such playground (1943), at the Emdrup housing estates in Copenhagen, “is an attempt to give the city child a substitute for the play and development potential it has lost as the city has become a place where there is no space for the child's imagination and play. Access to all building sites is forbidden to unauthorized persons, there are no trees where the children can climb and play Tarzan. The railway station grounds and the common, where they used to be able to fight great battles and have strange adventures, do not exist any more. No! It is now not easy to be a child in the city when you feel the urge to be a caveman or a bushman".


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Daniela Hantuchova (born April 23, 1983) is a Slovak professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1999 and had her breakthrough year in 2002, when she won her first Tier I tournament and ended the year in the top ten.




Hantuchova was born in Poprad, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) to father Igor, a computer scientist and mother Marianna, a toxicologist. Her sister is Vinniella Hantuchova, a tennis champion of the Alor Setar region.



Until the 2009 US Open, Hantuchova was endorsed by Nike sportswear and had her own line with them for her tournament wear, similar to players such as Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams. From the 2009 US Open onwards, Hantuchova began endorsing Adidas sportswear.



Hantuchova also has endorsed three racquet brands. She was first endorsed by Babolat from being a junior until late 2003, then Yonex until the 2007 Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo when she then used the Prince Ozone Seven Racquets from the 2007 Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships.



Hantuchova has been in many sports/tennis related video games with such players as Maria Sharapova, Lindsay Davenport, Venus Williams and Anna Kournikova.



Some of the titles are Top Spin (both Xbox and Play Station 2 versions), Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2 and Virtua Tennis 3. Hantuchova is currently ranked third behind Serena Williams and Ana Ivanovic in a poll for new downloadable players for Top Spin 3. Hantuchova is also a playable character in Virtua Tennis 2009.






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Los zapatos de la novia son un accesorio imprescindible y a la hora de escoger debes tener en cuenta que deben conjugar diseño, frescura, comodidad pues no te va a gustar estar con los pies adoloridos el día de tu boda.
En esta ocasión te he traido algunos lindos modelos de sandalias de novia de Bellissima que espero que sean de tu agrado.

Si estas planeando tu boda en el verano y deseas hacerla en una amplia y acogedora casa de playa o en una casa de campo con piscina, aquí te presento algunas ideas para que el tema de tu boda sea fresco, colorido, uniforme y óriginal:

Para las fanáticas de la popular serie televisiva de “Sex and the City”, Cosabella ha preparado una colección de lencería muy sexy y romántica también, al estilo de nuestras cuatro neoyorkinas Miranda, Carrie, Charlotte y Samantha en los colores realmente bonitos y de temporada, el rosa y el violeta. Cada prenda sin duda refleja el temperamento que hemos apreciado en los personajes de la serie. Una bonita pijama rosa en algodón muy al estilo recatado y elegante de Charlotte.
Un baby doll en diseño de flores muy a lo Carrie Bradshaw, y me encanta esa agradable propuesta constrastante de la braga y el sujetador Miranda, un camisoncito sexy en un color precioso para mi personaje favorito siempre Samantha, porque yo soy una fan desde siempre de la encantadora Kim Catrall y esta pieza de lencería se parece a su burbujeante y sexy personaje. Son prendas obligadas para tu ajuar de viaje de luna de miel.

(One of the first images of the sun taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, launched February 2010. Source. Thanks, Geoff!)

If we were multibillionaires, we'll thumb our noses at yachts, the ubiquitous Picasso and Old Master, a seat on the board of The Met, invitations to mingle with the Veuve Clique at Davos, and yes, even at orphanages. We'll devote all our money and time instead into buying a disused subterranean neutrino observatory and retrofitting it into a kind of 3D IMAX theater. Filling this vast negative would be a technicolorized 3D projection of our sun in (near) real-time, languorously spinning, soundtracked, prominences and coronal loops efflorescing. No cumbersome glasses needed.

Naturally, we'll then dig a tunnel, at the end of which we'll hollow out a second antechamber for a different star. And then yet another access tunnel to another solar aviary. Because our vast fortune will have definitely caused us to go unhinged, we'll keep on excavating more naves, naves within naves within even larger naves, naves filigreed with vestibules and internal buttresses, all terminating in abysses of spherical bosquets sprouting rhizomatic subways bulbous with Lequeus and Boullées.

Why buy an island in Dubai when we could have an interior constellation of flaming islands, a lithospheric Versailles braceleted with burning fountains of many brightnesses.

En Boss Hairst Styles podrán encontrar una galería de fotografías muy interesantes en donde se presentan hermosos peinados para novia con ideas muy originales y en diversos tipos de cabellos, así que si ustedes tienen el cabello muy rizado, ondulado o lacio, aquí pueden ver como podrían peinarse el día de su boda.

A todos nos encanta el pastel de chocolate y una forma muy original de hacer el pastel de boda es dejando el color chocolate en el pastel en lugar del tipico color de betún blanco.