Miss Earth Winners 2005 - 2009

2009 Larissa Ramos, Brazil
2008 Karla Paula Henry, Philippines
2007 Jessica Nicole Trisko, Canada
2006 Hil Yesenia Hernandez, Chile
2005 Alexandra Braun Waldeck,Venezuela

Miss Earth Winners

2004 Priscilla Meirelles, Brazil
2003 Dania Prince, Honduras
Winfred Omwakwe, Kenya (replacement)
2002 Dzejla Glavovic, Bosnia & Herzegovina (dethroned)
2001 Catharina Svensson, Denmark

Miss Earth Winners

Miss Earth 2001 Catharina Svensson of Denmark
Miss Earth 2004 Priscilla Meirelles of Brazil
Miss Earth 2008 Karla Paula Henry of Philippines
2001 - Catharina Svensson - Denmark
2002 - Dzejla Glavovic - Bosnia & Herzegovina dethroned
Winnfred Omwakwe - Kenya replacement
2003 - Dania Prince - Honduras
2004 - Priscilla Meirelles - Brazil
2005 - Alexandra Braun Waldeck - Venezuela
2006 - Hil Yesenia Hernandez - Chile
2007 - Nicole Trisko - Canada
2008 - Karla Paula Henry - Philippines

My Favorite Shout-Out

This is my favorite shout-out from one of my social networking site:

"Vous devez être dans mes rêves, devez être le vent doux la nuit qui touche mes joues molles, devez être l'air que je respire, ma vie, mon coeur, mon bonheur,Ce sera le meilleur jour de ma vie"

Website Review: imdb

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imdb



This trusted online source for movies and actors info is indeed helpful and beneficial whether for home reading reports for students, movie reviews, or just to research information about a particular subject on movies or actors you've watched or about to watch. Interesting trivia and information gives a movie buff insights into a picture beyond the spectrum of the movie reels on the cinema. Worth digging for info. Though some hard to find subject is sometimes not found and you need to search for more sites about it. I gave it three stars... ***

Visayas Republic

If the post 2010 National Elections fail to amend the constitution and change the presidential form of government into FEDERAL-PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT, the Visayas region will ask to be separated from the rest of the country and have their own independent republic with a FEDERAL-PARLIAMENTARY FORM OF GOVERNMENT.

Miss Earth 2009 Trivias

Boracay Island, Malay, Aklan, Philippines, Miss Earth 2009 venue
Miss Cuba, Jamilette Gaxiola
Before the Miss Earth 2009 competition heats up, here's some of the heads up starter and overview of this year's pageant:


Bolivia Dominique Peltier (Bolivia) previously competed at Miss Universe 2009 in Nassau, Bahamas.

Guatemala Hamy Tejeda previously competed in Miss World 2007.

Honduras Alejandra Mendoza, the winner of Miss Honduras Belleza Nacional 2007-2008 (Miss Honduras 2007-2008) pageant was supposed to represent Honduras in the Miss Earth 2008, but failed to compete. She will now represent Honduras in the Miss Earth 2009. She also competed in the international Reina de La Costa Maya 2008 pageant in August 2008 and won second runner up including the best in national costume award.

Kazakhstan Inessa Nazarova, the winner of Miss Earth Kazakhstan 2009, previously competed as Miss Kazakhstan in the Miss Ámbar Mundial 2009 beauty pageant, but she failed to place. In 2007, she was appointed by the organizer of Miss Tourism Queen International as representative of Kyrgyzstan. She competed and became a semifinalist in the Miss Tourism Queen International 2007. In 2009, she was again appointed by the Miss Tourism Queen International organizer to represent Georgia in the Miss Tourism Queen International 2009, but this time, she failed to advance on the semifinal round.

Paraguay Gabriela Rejala previously competed in Miss World 2008.

Philippines Sandra Seifert was a contestant in Binibining Pilipinas 2009 but was disqualified for having posed in a two-piece-swimsuit in a Men's Magazine. Born in Taiwan, she is the fist non-native born Philippine representative. Seifert's father is of German heritage, and her mother is Filipino.

Puerto Rico Dignelis Jiménez previously competed in Miss International 2003 but she was unplaced. She also represented Puerto Rico in Miss Tourism World 2004, she was 2nd runner up, and won Best in Evening Gown.

South Sudan Aheu Deng, who stands 6 feet 5 inches (195.5cm) tall, is the tallest documented beauty queen ever to take part in an international beauty pageant.

USA Amy Diaz previously competed in the Miss USA 2008 where she made the top 15. Diaz is also half Dominican.

New crown

In the 9th edition of the pageant, the Miss Earth Organizers will unveil a new crown to be worn by the winner of Miss Earth 2009 with the preservation of the planet Earth as its primary consideration. The crown was designed by an environmentalist jewelry designer from Florida, Ramona Haar, the official jeweller of the Miss Earth pageant.[120]

The new crown is made of 100% recycled precious metals comprising of 14kt gold and argentums sterling silver. What sets the Miss Earth crown apart is the fact that the gemstones used both precious stone and semiprecious stone were donations from over 80 different participating countries. These are gemstones that each country is known for either as the origin or source. The gemstones were sent in various forms: faceted, cabochons, beads or rough. The designer travelled to Jaipur, India to have these gemstones individually trim and faceted to the required cut and sizes.

The flower in the center of the crown represents Mother Earth, as inspired by the statement of an American poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The earth laughs in flowers." The recurring spiral motif has always been associated with "maternal power" and "feminine prestige" which is the essence of Miss Earth. The gentle curves in the crown symbolize "unity" and the "spirit of cooperation."

Venue

The pageant will take place for the first time outside the Island of Luzon. The venue for Miss Earth 2009 final night was first planned to be held in Cebu City, Philippines, but the mayor declined due to the financial cost of sponsoring the pageant. Boracay Ecovillage Resort and Convention Center won the rights to host the coronation night of the 2009 edition of the pageant.

The convention center is a private ecotourism venue intended for trade events, industry conventions, corporate functions, concerts, and international exhibitions. It is one of the landmarks of the Island of Boracay, which was declared by the British publication TV Quick as the world's number one tropical beach and topped the 2007 Yahoo! Travel list of World’s Most Popular Beach.

Some Miss Earth Trivia

Karla Henry, Miss Earth 2008
Miss Earth logo

Before Miss Earth 2009 begins, let's look at what Miss Earth differ from the rest of the beauty pageant:

* Miss Earth 2001, Catharina Svensson of Denmark is the first Caucasian winner of the pageant.

* Miss Earth 2002, Džejla Glavović is the first woman from Bosnia & Herzegovina to win a major beauty title for her country. She is also the first Miss Earth to be dethroned, for failing to fulfill her duties.

* Miss Earth 2002, Winfred Omwakwe of Kenya became the first African and black winner of the pageant after the original winner from Bosnia & Herzegovina was dethroned.

* Miss Earth 2003, Dania Prince of Honduras is the first Central American and Latin to capture the Miss Earth crown.

* Miss Earth 2004 Priscilla Meirelles is the first Miss Earth Winner to host the Miss Earth Competition in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

* Miss Earth 2008, Karla Henry of the Philippines is the first Asian to win the Miss Earth crown.

* Miss Afghanistan 2003 Vida Samadzai was the first candidate of Miss Earth to win the special award Beauty for a Cause. She helped in establishing a US-based women's charity that seeks to raise awareness of women's rights and education in Afghanistan. Miss South Africa, Montjane was the second candidate to win the special award.

* In 2007 edition, two (2) countries hosted the pageant. Vietnam co-hosted some of the pageant activities; other activities up to the finals were done in its home base, the Philippines.

* In the history, only one woman has competed at all four major international pageants. She is Cynthia Kanema of Zambia who competed at Miss World 2003, Miss International 2004, Miss Universe 2005, and Miss Earth 2005. She was unplaced at all four pageants.

* Denmark won its first major beauty title in history when Catharina Svensson won Miss Earth in 2001.

* Bosnia & Herzegovina won its first major beauty title in history when Džejla Glavović won Miss Earth in 2002.

* Kenya also claimed its first major title when Winfred Omwakwe assumed the position of Miss Earth 2002.

* When Priscilla Meirelles won the title in 2004, Brazil became the first country to have a winner in all four major international pageants. The following year, Alexandra Braun completed the grand slam for Venezuela.


Other Special Mention Trivias

* Venezuela is the most successful in Swimsuit awards: Alexandra Braun in 2005, Marianne Puglia in 2006 and Silvana Santaella in 2007.

* Venezuela is also the most successful in Long Gown awards: Silvana Santaella in 2007 and Daniela Torrealba in 2008.

* The Philippines has the most Miss Photogenic awards: April Rose Perez in 2002, Jeanne Angeles Harn in 2007, and Karla Henry in 2008.

* There are 2 countries have won twice Best National Costume awards:
o Korea: Jin-Ah Lee in 2002 and Hie Mi Yoo in 2005 .
o Panama: Jessica Barrios in 2003 and Shassia Ubillus in 2008.

* Bosnia & Herzegovina has two Miss Talent awards: Džejla Glavović in 2002 and Mirela Bulbulija in 2004.

* Only one Miss Friendship has gone on place in the pageant: Amale Al Khoder (Lebanon, 2007).

* Only one Miss Earth winner was awarded Miss Talent: Džejla Glavović (Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2002).

* Two Miss Earth winners were awarded Miss Photogenic: Priscilla Meirelles (Brazil, 2004) and Karla Paula Henry (Philippines, 2008)

* Miss Venezuela 2007, Silvana Santaella won 4 awards: Best in Long Gown, Best in Swimsuit, Miss Psalmstre Placenta and Gandang Ricky Reyes Award.

* Miss Philippines 2008, Karla Henry won five special major and minor awards: Miss Earth Designers Award, Miss Photogenic, Eagle Express Award, Miss Fontana, Pasigandahan Awards (for Manila). Currently, she's the only winner who received the most awards in the history of Miss Earth Beauty Pageant.

Miss Earth 2009 Pre Arrival Hit Waves

Before they hit the white sand beach of Boracay these ladies cause worldwide shockwave and crated tsunami and cause men to have high fever. Watch out for these stunning ladies that will occupy your eyes comes Miss Earth this November

Bolivia
Colombia
Cuba
Czech Republic
Ecuador
England
Greece
Guam
Kosovo
Luxembourg
Mexico
Philippines
Poland
Puerto Rico
Russia
Slovak Republic
Spain
Turks & Caicos
USA
Venezuela
Zambia

Boots Over Again

Seeing these boots makes me so alive

Boots Once Again

I am fascinated looking at these boots my gosh... love it..

Mastermind of Sen. Benigno S. Aquino Jr. Assasination

      We all know Sen. Benigno S. Aquino Jr. is the number one critic of the Marcos administration and after "Ninoy" was assasinated in 1983 the blame as the mastermind for the slaying is not less than the dictatorial President himself who knows no one under his dictatorial government and lots of abuses and murder has been done under his government. What we don't know is that another sinister is on the run right now in the Philippine soil. He is a slippery Jack the Ripper or he resembles The Joker in Batman.
      A detained, former military escort of Sen. Ninoy Aquino Jr. who escorted Ninoy back to Manila from US confessed that the mastermind in assassinating Ninoy was actually a close actually very close relative of his other half, Corazon C. Aquino. According to this witness, "the man is still walking free in the Philippine soil, wealthy and influential and has big corporations and companies he owns". We already know who he was but definitely according to him was not a Marcos loyal as we previously known.

Halloween: Horror and Haunting Experience

It is one of goth's favorite time to live in gloomy world of death, ghosts and haunting. Halloween (also spelled Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints. It is largely a secular celebration but some have expressed strong feelings about perceived religious overtones. The day is often associated with the colors black and orange, and is strongly associated with symbols like the jack-o'-lantern. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, ghost tours, bonfires, visiting haunted attractions, pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.Halloween has origins in the ancient festival known as Samhain (pronounced sow-in or sau-an), which is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end". This was a Gaelic festival celebrated mainly in Ireland and Scotland. However, similar festivals were held by other Celts – for example the festival of Calan Gaeaf (pronounced kalan-geyf) which was held by the ancient Britons.
Snap-Apple Night by Daniel Maclise showing a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland, in 1832. The young children on the right bob for apples. A couple in the center play a variant, which involves retrieving an apple hanging from a string. The couples at left play divination games. The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half", and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year".

The celebration has some elements of a festival of the dead. The ancient Celts believed that the border between this world and the Otherworld became thin on Samhain, allowing spirits (both harmless and harmful) to pass through. The family's ancestors were honoured and invited home whilst harmful spirits were warded off. It is believed that the need to ward off harmful spirits led to the wearing of costumes and masks. Their purpose was to disguise oneself as a harmful spirit and thus avoid harm. In Scotland the spirits were impersonated by young men dressed in white with masked, veiled or blackened faces.[8][9] Samhain was also a time to take stock of food supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. Bonfires played a large part in the festivities. All other fires were doused and each home lit their hearth from the bonfire. The bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames.[10] Sometimes two bonfires would be built side-by-side, and people and their livestock would walk between them as a cleansing ritual.Another common practise was divination, which often involved the use of food and drink.

The term Halloween, originally spelled Hallowe’en, is shortened from All Hallows' Even – e'en is a shortening of even, which is a shortening of evening. This is ultimately derived from the Old English Eallra Hālgena ǣfen. Halloween is linked as well to the day of the souls every 2nd of November where associations to ghost and mythical creatures derived from. Halloween is being celebrated by people to scare and amuse children about mythical creatures and dead people rising from the tomb and zombies usually taken from the rich folk literature. People dressed in different horrifying costumes usually realistic props that can frighten and raise your hair. People also believe that during these days, souls of the dead in the underworld return to Earth to visit their loved ones and reside in their former homes. The significance of the All Soul's Day is for us to remember our departed loved ones in our hearts and minds they shall be immortal, pray for their soul to have eternal peace and communion with God and also during the All Saint's Day to remember the significant holistic works they've done and ask for their intercession for us.

Beware of Scammers and Fake Solicitations

The power of Internet and how fast it grows spurs online activity and even catapulting business and transactions to its ultimate high. With the growth and booming business online so are the scammers and cyber criminals who found a niche in the vulnerable world wide web proliferating their huge but illegal business online where it is a free enterprise which means no one solely owns it nor regulate it and no policy or protocols that govern and control the information flow and behavior of netizens. But just a piece of advice, never immediately easily give in and fall prey to the promos, offers, notifications and announcements and other information drive slipped through email addresses & domain by perpetrators no matter how sugar coated are the offers they can still be a scam or illegal schemes done to ensnare the vulnerable unsuspecting net user. Examples of scams includes lottery winning notifications, large amount left by the dead for bank transfer, job offers who demands fees to procure legal working documents, search engine (e.g. Yahoo & Google) lottery draw winning numbers, attractive foreign individuals luring you to be in relationship with them and ask you to defray their travel expenses and a lot more. If you encounter any of these, just report to the authorities and government agencies of your respective countries and they can have website online where you can submit your report or maybe you can get help by the www.cyberangels.org to investigate and trace the roots of the crime so as not to proliferate online. Be wary and be vigilant for these kind of emails and alert to safeguard yourself from being a victim of cyber looting and burglary.

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FIFA World Cup 2010 Will Have A Huge Success in SA

South Africa is nearing its course to give a very successful and colorful celebration of teamwork and sportmanship when the FIFA World Cup 2010 commence on June - July 2010, according to SA Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan. According to him South Africa would host a "great festival of football".

"Yes we can. Next year, as we invite the world to join us in a great festival of football, we will demonstrate that we can take on a giant project, work to a plan, complete major construction projects, reconfigure city transport systems, and energise a uniquely South African diversity of hospitality arrangements," he said.

Gordhan said South Africa had silenced skeptics. "Of course there were skeptics - there were those who said we couldn't do it, who talked about the lights going out, who spread dark rumours of plan B - but those voices are now silent.

"Our preparation for the 2010 World Cup began with a vision, and a statement of intent," he said.

All government agencies and departments are collaborating and coordinating to give a memorable and momentous FIFA World Cup in South Africa comes 2010.

Website Review: Downelink

Downelink
this is an online social networking site for the LGBT community and even straights, too! Like any other networking sites, people can look, browse and find friends here. With the use of the site's search filter you can narrow down your searches based on your preferences. There are a lots of types of people here for the rainbow family, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders or even straights but you can digg up and investigate their stories or unravel their dark backgrounds, hehehe... there is also a community where members can discuss any topics that they want to talk about and even a chat room where one can see a prospect hmm or shall i say a potential date on a cosy restaurant or even in the dark shadowy room. Its a friendly site and LGBT answer to Facebook. I gave the site 3 and a half star. *** ^

Website Review: Neopets

Neopets


This classic online pet games (it originates from its predecessor, Japan's Tamaguchi) is a hit for kids ages 6-11 and even young at heart or people of all ages sick of role playing games can divert their attention to these virtual pets who were desperately seeking attention from loving and caring owners. They can be feed, taught, put to sleep, and even bring to discover and travel places and even fight with other pets for top prizes in battle dome. However, to earn neopoints or neocash to purchase items for and and by your pets, you need to play games and discover places because there are hidden treasure behind. Worth your time and effort if you are to train to own a real pet in the future. I give three stars. ***

Sunday Nothing Much To Write Time To Snooze

well it is Sunday once again and nothing much to write so I need to dose off first to refresh and revitalize my energy in blogging to make sure I'll give the juiciest and hottest things to blog about.. see ya by tomorrow...

What is the other free online converter for videos into different format?

aside from vixy who convert youtube videos, I want to know what other online converter that are free to use to convert videos from other video streaming site into different format..


online converter is not so good i think
I recommend this leawo free flv converter, with which you can convert flv files to all kinds of video formats including AVI, wmv, mpeg, MP4, mp3, etc,
http://snipr.com/flv-converter/


Try EasyMovieConverter.com . Once you tried it, you won't want to bother with vixy.net again.

1. Grab the link/website address to the Youtube video to convert.
2. Go to http://www.EasyMovieConverter.com and enter the url on the text box on the main page.
3. Choose the type to convert it to.
4. Hit the download button. When it is converted, a button to proceed to the download page appears.
5. Download it, and enjoy.

here is what another user said after trying EasyMovieConverter.com after dealing with vixy.net for awhile:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?…
Source(s):
http://www.EasyMovieConverter.com


Have you tried media converter? I'm not entirely sure what the site is, but maybe mediaconverter.com... you'd have to confirm that. I use it fairly often- I have it bookmarked which is why don't know the address- and it's been fairly reliable. You don't have to create an account, which I really like, and you don't have to download any software, which is also great. The only bad thing about it is that it has a fairly restricted maximum size you can convert without paying, so depending on what you're converting to, it might not always work. It's always worked for me for online video to mp3.

Hope that helps you :D


I always use this Video Converter. It supports the mutual conversion between all video/audio formats, and HD videos.
Input Formats: MPG, MPEG, MPEG2, VOB, MP4, M4V, RM, RMVB, WMV, ASF, TS, MKV, AVI, 3GP, FLV, MPV, MOD, TOD, MP3, MP2, AAC, AC3, WAV, MID, MIDI, WMA, M4A, RA, RAM .
Output Formats: MP4, H.264, AVI, MP3, WMV, WMA, FLV, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, 3GP, 3GPP, VOB, DivX, Mov, RM, RMVB, M4A, AAC, WAV, OGG, RA.
It also can set video effect, set Deinterlacing, trim your video length, crop the play region, merge into one file, customize output settings.
For more informaion and free download from:
http://www.tipard.com/video-converter.ht…
It is easy to operate. Just few clicks are OK.
Here is the specific guide for you to follow:
http://www.tipard.com/how-to-convert-vid…
Hope it useful for you.


I know several free software :you can try.

http://www.softdir.net/software/moyea-youtube-flv-downloader-991de292e76f74f3c285b3f6d57958d5.html

http://www.softdir.net/software/leawo-free-flv-converter-729c68884bd359ade15d5f163166738a.html

http://www.softdir.net/software/cucusoft-youtube-mate-fed33392d3a48aa149a87a38b875ba4a.html

There are total free I found from www.softdir.net ,
it also has many free software but I think the three one maybe useful for you.


I'm using a video converter to change video format
It supports mutual conversion among MP4, H.264, AVI, MP3, WMV, WMA, FLV, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, 3GP, 3GPP, VOB, DivX, Mov, RM, RMVB, M4A, AAC, WAV, etc

You can have a free trial:
http://www.mac-dvd-video.com/total-video-converter.html

Enjoy!


I think AVCWare Video Converter will satisfy you. It is comprehensive video converter software which can convert between all video formats including AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, MP4, H.264/AVC, MKV, RM, MOV, XviD, 3GP, FLV, etc


You can try VideoMax Free Video Converter at free-star.org or CNET.
http://www.free-star.org/free-video-conv…
http://download.cnet.com/FreeStar-Free-V…

I do not know where you can find the online converter, i can recommend you try Total Video Converter, it is easy to use
Download here:
http://www.macsoftreviews.com/aiseesoft-…

Hope this helps.

www.convertdirect.com

it is a good free online video converter i am using now.

and i like its audio and video sync technology very much, which is so strong that i will always use it.

hope it helps!


Here are some choices for you:
http://www.convert.net/
http://www.pavtube.com/video_converter/
http://www.youconvertit.com/