Since it started in 1951, the Miss World pageant has registered a total of 3,571 contestants. This year, it scores a record-high with 107 contestants (tied with the year 2004), among them our bet Margaret “Maggie” Wilson, competing in the grand finals slated for Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007 (covered “live” by ABC 5 starting at 8:30 PM) in Sanya, China. Miss World Organization headed by Julia Morley can rightfully claim that the Miss World crown is the most coveted among the global beauty pageants. This piece of information comes from Funfare’s “other beauty expert” Celso de Guzman Caparas (now working in Saudi) who made a list of interesting trivia and anecdotes about the pageant. 

-         1953 delegate from Norway, Solveig Gulbrandsen, is the twin sister of Synnove Gulbrandsen, a semi-finalist in the Miss Universe pageant the same year.

      -         1954 Miss World Antigone Costanda of Egypt failed to relinquish her crown on Oct. 20, 1955 due to hostilities between Egypt and Great Britain over the Suez Canal. Instead, 1955 Miss World winner, Carmen Susana Duijm Zubillaga of Venezuela, was crowned by British actress Eunice Gayson. Zubillaga was also a semi-finalist in Miss Universe1955 pageant. -        1965 first runner-up Dianna Lynn Batts of USA would later be known as Dian Parkinson of The Price is Right (aired from 1975 to 1993). She was Miss District of Columbia 1965 and fourth runner-up in Miss USA 1965 pageant. Dian was the cover girl of Playboy in December 1991 and May 1993.

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Ukrainian bombshell and former model Olga Kurylenko stars opposite Timothy Olyphant in Hitman.

Based on the top-selling, award-winning videogame franchise, Hitman is a genetically-engineered, elite assassin known only as Agent 47 (Olyphant). But even 47 couldn’t anticipate a “random equation” in his life of exactitude: The unexpected stirrings of his conscience and the unfamiliar emotions aroused in him by a mysterious Russian woman named Nika (played by Kurylenko). 

In the movie, Agent 47’s hyper-orderly life and clear mind are unexpectedly complicated when he meets Nika, a Russian prostitute who stirs Agent 47’s conscience and makes him begin to question the nature of his line of work.

Kurylenko says the role helps elevate Hitman beyond typical action movie fare. “I like emotion, and the film delivers that along with great action,” she says. “When I got to the set and I saw how Xavier was directing it, that’s when I understood that it was definitely far from all the other movies based on a video game. I hope people are going to really care for the characters.”

“Nika is a catalys in 47’s internal struggle,” says producer Le Pogam. “He is in the middle of all this political turmoil, embroiled in external conflicts and dealing with people he needs to kill and with those who want to kill him. In the middle of all that, Nika appears. She is beautiful, tough and charming – and she cares about him. But he’s not used to that at all. Nobody told him that people could have natural relationships, and that turns his life upside down.”

Kurylenko recently co-starred as a lovelorn vampire opposite Elijah Wood in Paris, Je t’amie and in starring roles in Eric Barbier’s thriller Ring Finger for which she received the Best Actress award at The Brooklyn International Film Festival in 2006. She had a role in Tyranny, directed by John Beck Hoffman.

On French TV, Kurylenko appeared on the miniseries Suspectes and the drama The Good Luck Charm. In her career as a model, Kurylenko has appeard in advertising campaigns for Kenzo, Helena Rubenstein and Just Cavalli, and magazine covers of US Glamour and Marie Claire.

Distributed by Warner Bros., Hitman is now showing in theaters

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Written by John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Zürich

In writing and maintaining accurate meta tags (e.g., descriptive titles and robots information), you help Google to more accurately crawl, index and return your site in search results. Meta tags provide information to all sorts of clients, such as browsers and search engines. Just keep in mind that each client will likely only interpret the meta tags that it uses, and ignore the rest (although they might be useful for other reasons).

Here’s how Google would interpret meta tags of this sample HTML page:

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Prior to the activity, everyone came out of the confession with a big piggy bank. As per Big Brother’s instruction, each of the housemates must get a coin from the ceramic piggy bank. Each coin contains a specific stunt which they must teach their piglet to do. Gladys first tried getting a coin from the small hole in the piggy bank with the use of a kitchen knife. The rest helped out in holding the piggy bank upside down, trying to be careful not to break it. But after several minutes with no luck, Kuya advised Gladys that they can carve a bigger hole, but they just have to make sure that the piggy bank won’t break.

Gladys was the first one to get a coin, and she picked the one that read “sit.” Yayo also got the same coin while Ruben picked “shake paw”. Gaby was surprised when she learned she had to teach Porkchop how to “stand on hind legs.” Riza also picked the same trick, while Jon and Baron both have to teach their respective piglets how to “lie down.”

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Ethical And Legitimate Way For Making Your Website Popular On The Web
By: Mark Davidson

Making your website popular on the web with correct Search engine optimization, i.e. making goodwill. Link Building is an effective web marketing technique. It is an important aspect as far as Search Engine Optimization is concerned. The more number of links pointing back at your website, higher are your chances of getting globally recognized in the Search Engines. Its basically requesting other websites to place your website link on their website. Link Popularity is the most important technique of getting higher placement in the Search Engines.

Before understanding the importance of building links to your website let’s first understand what exactly link building is?

Targeting Traffic Related to your Website through right search engine marketing.
One of the major techniques of Link popularity is that a back link from a related website has more value than from an unrelated website. For instance if you have a website related to Automobiles then it would be advisable to add your link to an automobile website. It will make no sense if you add your website link to a website selling weight loss pills. So basically you have to make sure to attract targeted traffic to your website.
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Adsense Optimization Tips - Make More Money With Adsense
By: Shakil Zaman

The google adsense program can be a powerful way to make money online. However most people that use adsense on their sites are not using proper optimization to maximize their adsense revenue. If you do not have an adsense account then you will need to get one first. Make sure that your site is complete and looks professional.

If you are just starting out as an internet marketer then you can create a blog at Blogger and make a useful post on it then use your blog to apply. Usually google will accept you if you have a blog especially on one of their own sites like Blogger. Once you are accepted into the program do not fool around and violate their terms and conditions.

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