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Matt D., as part of an assignment, had to send questions to someone in a career he finds interesting. He chose independent game developer as the career, and I'm the someone, so here goes!
1. What is the primary mission of this organization/profession?
One of our key advantages as indie developers is our agility – we can change our reasons or approaches on a moment's notice without needing to retrain a hundred person workforce or get buy in from outside third parties, so the primary mission not only changes from one indie to another, but also within the same indie from one project to another.
I don't see myself as having one primary mission, so much as having an evolving skill set that I'm continually looking for new challenges I can adapt it against: research projects, art projects, commercial projects, hobby projects, etc. each of which comes with its own mission particulars.
Sometimes an independent game developer's mission is to make money, sometimes to change how people see or think about videogames, sometimes to express ourselves artistically, and sometimes to simply entertain folks by making something fun. I could give a very specific answer to my primary mission on any given project that I've worked on, but on the whole across all projects I don't believe there's a truly common thread.
2. What are the responsibilities of your department?
When I have done technical game design for larger companies (Electronic Arts, ZipZapPlay, Will Wright's Stupid Fun Club) within a department, my responsibilities were much more narrowly defined than they are in my role as an independent game developer. In those cases I was responsible for digital prototyping, proposing/documenting/explaining gameplay systems, laying out level content, and authoring/tuning gameplay elements.
Likewise, to a lesser degree, when I worked with publishers (ngMoco for Topple, Sonic Boom for Alice in Bomberland and iZombie: Death March), certain responsibilities were taken on by or at least shared with the publisher, such as creating marketing materials, managing QA testing, completing localization for other languages, etc. However unlike when I worked within a department at a large company, when my role was that of an outside business partner/contractor, I had the added responsibilities of scheduling work, vetting and signing subcontractors to collaborate with, handling my share of the budget, and managing relations with the publisher as an outside party.
However as an independent developer, I don't have a department to work within, I'm just a person making things. In this context, my response to question 3 is really the answer that fits here, too, so let's move on to that one:
3. What are your responsibilities?
I'm responsible for:
- Director work: deciding platform, business model, genre, etc.
- Production work: scheduling how long I have, what has to happen by when
- Designing: figuring out the details of what I'm trying to do
- Engineering: making the implementation work
- Content authoring: creating images, sounds, and levels
- Managing: when I have a team, for example I find someone better at animation or music composition to help create those assets, it's up to me to ensure they're productive, on schedule, and satisfied with their involvement
- Promotion: recording and editing promotional videos, making icons, writing descriptions, and otherwise trying to call awareness to the game
- Budgeting (when applicable; I make many projects for $0)
- Hiring contractors (when applicable; no budget = no hiring)
4. How does your job relate to the overall organization?
Since, in a way, in the case of being an independent videogame developer my job is the overall organization, to provide a more interesting response to this question I'll instead address how my job relates to the overall ecosystem/industry of games.
Publishers look to people like me to execute on an idea, within a certain budget (I have lower overhead than a full game studio) and within a certain timeframe (I work extremely quickly), or as someone to place a bet on (they help fund a project, giving me more budget and feedback to work with than I'd have on my own, in exchange for a share of revenue and credit).
Players (by no means all, but certainly some!) value people like me as a source of game types that they're not likely to see come out of a big studio. I'm able to experiment constantly and severely, without needing to explain much to anyone until it's done, at which point the end result is available for all to see, play, and sometimes borrow ideas from to build upon in other projects.
Indies also look to one another for advice, feedback, and success stories, with countless varied definitions of what success means (making money, getting noticed, creating something new that gets cloned, reaching a different audience, getting a game out on a particular device or distribution channel, even just finishing and releasing a complete game project).
I've accepted as one of my personal objectives getting more people into videogame making, which I do through this HobbyGameDev blog, student game development clubs I established (at Carnegie Mellon and Georgia Tech), and fielding developer questions by e-mail as much as time allows.
5. What other people do you work most closely with and what do they do?
Although some of my projects are created alone, when I do work with others, I tend to work with completely different collaborators on nearly every project. The most common roles I've hired others for have been artwork (animated sprites, character illustrations, background paintings), audio (professional-quality sound effects, and in a few cases original soundtracks), and on non-commercial projects I tend to open up design roles to peers to help them get experience.
When I've worked with publishers I've typically had one to three main contacts at the company that I've spoken with regularly about progress, questions, feedback, and so on. See response 2 for a more complete explanation of what they do.
Lastly, in a very real but more indirect way, I work the players that try my games. That happens by keeping metrics of how many people each project reaches, googling to find out what players are saying about it, reading all feedback I receive after it has been completed, and so on. All they have to do is try the game, and if it leads them to say something about it to either me or the communities in which they play, then they've done their part. This in turn helps give me a more complete picture of what sort of an effect the game is having (maybe it's played by many people, maybe it's only reaching a smaller crowd but they seem to really enjoy it, or maybe it flat out missed the mark and no one seems to like it but me!), and also helps inform me of how different player communities on the web respond to different types of videogames.
6. Are computers used on the job? If yes, in what capacity?
Yes, computers are absolutely used on the job. They're used for programming, level design, image creation, audio editing, music composition, video editing, communication between team members, documentation, financial/scheduling work, and pretty much every aspect of the process. In the end, the videogames are of course also played on computers.
7. What type of education/training does this job need?
Because there's no hiring manager to impress when working independently, in theory all that matters is that someone has or can partner up to account for all the technical and creative abilities needed to pull a complete videogame together. However in practice, a good computer science degree is often helpful for videogame programmers to learn many useful ways to think about programming and solve novel problems, whereas proper training in creating digital art, editing audio, or other content production areas can be beneficial to preparing a videogame artist or audio person to create top-tier work.
Those traditional paths also offer the benefits of a potentially stronger network of peers to collaborate with while learning, additional opportunities to learn or first gain outside work experience through the institution's reputation and visibility, and of course a solid backup plan in case being an independent videogame developer doesn't work out full-time.
Although a very small circle of independent videogame developers have made a tremendous amount of money, for many it doesn't pan out financially, or works decently enough for a while but doesn't turn out to be sustainable as a primary source of income for a family.
8. What type of education/training have you had?
I completed an undergraduate Computer Science degree from Carnegie Mellon in 2007, with a minor in Business Administration.
I completed a Masters in Digital Media at Georgia Tech earlier this year (Spring 2012).
My various work experience at/for other companies in many ways factors in as additional education and training for the type of work that I do.
Otherwise I've been making videogames in my spare time since ~1997, completing an average of a little more than 4 every year since.
9. How did you decide on this type of work?
I was comfortable with programming when I started college, so I assumed I would do that for a living, and went into Computer Science. On the side I helped launch a student videogame development club, and some of the industry guest speakers that we brought in accepted resumes. I got a call from one, which led to an internship, and I've been doing videogame work commercially in varying capacities since.
My transition from corporate to independent game developer happened in a number of steps, beginning with corporate studio work out of university, followed by getting involved with a videogame startup, over to doing videogame development on contract on the side, then to videogame development for a publisher, and lastly doing videogame development completely independently. Each transition occurred due to feeling like I was ready to entrust myself with taking on a larger chunk of the responsibility than I was able to do in my current (soon previous) position.
10. What do you see as the demand for jobs like yours in the future?
It's really anyone's guess. The economics driving videogame development have changed dramatically every 5-10 years since the industry started, and it seems very likely to continue changing, possibly even faster. This is doubly true for independent videogame developers, which existed semi-briefly for PC games in the early 1980's before studios largely crowded that space, then mostly disappeared for awhile as console manufacturers and PC retail also favored studios over individuals, but has re-emerged in the past 5-10 years or so for web games, smartphone games, digital distribution like Steam, social games, and comparatively "indie" console channels like XBLA/PSN/WiiWare.
There is also a growing crowd of capable, passionate videogame developers on the rise, eagerly looking for opportunities to create videogames for a living. Granted, pretty much any creative and skilled job in the world is and has long been highly competitive, whether we're talking about novel writing, acting, being a professional athlete, composing music, etc. However as in those fields, there will probably always be a place for people dedicated to being really amazing at it that find a way to set themselves apart from the crowd – someone's going to be doing it, and that someone is almost without exception someone that has committed substantial time and energy into preparing for it.
11. What do you like most about your job?
It's constantly changing. This keeps it exciting!
Likewise, the outcome of every project is pretty much solely up to what I create and how I present it. With any given commercial project that I do independently, it might be hugely successful. (…but generally this is not what happens!)
12. What do you like least about your job?
It's constantly changing. This keeps it stressful!
And again, the outcome of every project is pretty much solely up to what I create and how I present it. With any given commercial project that I do independently, it might be a total flop. (…this happens very frequently to independent developers, and is also the outcome of many projects by developers that have had success with other titles!)
13. What are the salary ranges, e.g. typical starting salary and typical top salary?
The amount earned by independent videogame developers varies wildly, as has my own income from it over the years. There really is no such thing in this case as typical, starting, or top, since it depends on the success of an individual's projects in the marketplace.
14. Do you have any advice for me as I consider my career options?
While I certainly encourage training yourself to develop videogames independently, I would advise thinking of that in the near term as a hobby and/or as practice for some other type of primary/fallback traditional career option (software engineer, project manager, user experience designer, animator, etc.). Properly prepared for, those jobs often pay better on average, and certainly pay more reliably, than going independent. Those positions also create the possibility of getting additional experience and connections at an established company, hopefully saving up some money in the bank or helping to pay off student loans, all while building your credibility as a professional.
(Consider that when people find out I did technical game design work on console games at EA, even though only for 11 months and only on 2 different projects, potential collaborators or business partners can instantly "get" what that means with much less effort than it takes to contextualize the many years I spent before then independently making dozens of videogames they've never heard of.)
15. Anything else you would like to tell me about this profession?
Whether or not it works out as a primary career path, I'm a big believer in there being many other valid reasons to make videogames personally, at the very least on the side as a hobby. That's much of what my HobbyGameDev blog is about. Besides being a fun and different way to express ourselves, it's a context to work with skilled people that think very differently, reach strangers around the globe with our creative output, and of course to learn and practice technical skills of all sorts that have a myriad of other applications in modern life.
Should any given person try to become a professional painter, guitar player, movie producer, poet, or swimmer? It depends very much on the person, and it's very likely to be a bumpy and very challenging path, involving a decent amount of luck on top of ability and qualifications, with significant risks along the way but potentially significant rewards. Many people can paint, but that doesn't mean someone can automatically make a living from it; being able to simply make a videogame (or multiple videogames) independently does not automatically mean that said game(s) will earn enough money to be someone's main source of income. However, apart from these beings done professionally, I think that the world is better off with more people painting, playing guitar, making movies, writing poetry, and swimming.
Likewise, it'd be irresponsible for me to tell anyone I don't know extremely well that they should put all their eggs in one basket and aim straight for something as unpredictable as independent videogame development as their main career plan – maybe it'll work out, and it'll be terrific if it does, but the odds are rough and it takes a particular type of person to thrive in the uncertainty and types of challenges that come with it. However I don't think that the difficulties of doing it as a sole source of income should get in anyone's way of making videogames. And in the meantime, that experience making videogames as a hobby can increase someone's core skills, community reputation, peer network, and self-knowledge in relation to becoming a professional independent videogame developer, helping the chances that the path into it will become a somewhat more realistic and viable option.
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Birth date: July 20, 1975
Birth place: Castle Air Force Base
Height:6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) Weight:205 lbs (93 kg)
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The Foveon X3 direct image sensor is a new technology that works like film. Foveon pioneered the development of the direct image sensor using advanced developments in semiconductor design, image processing, and signal processing. Their X3 sensor directly captures red, green, and blue light at each point in an image during a single exposure. Similar to the emulsion layers used in colour film, Foveon X3 image sensors have three layers of pixels. The layers of pixels are embedded in silicon to take advantage of the fact that red, green, and blue light penetrate silicon to different depths - forming the first and only image sensor that captures full colour at every point in the captured image.
Advanced Photo System type-C should not be confused with the Advanced Photographic System (APS) camera/film system, since the former is digital and the latter is analogue. APS-C is a type of image sensor found in certain digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras. These sensors are smaller than the ones used for the conventional 36 mm x 24 mm (35 mm) sensor SLR cameras (also called full frame DSLR cameras). Being smaller causes a 1.x multiplier for the effect of the focal distance of the lenses, in comparison with the effect of those lenses on conventional 35 mm film SLR cameras or full frame digital SLR cameras. Several manufacturers produce cameras with an APS-C sensor and some even make lenses especially for them. These lenses are found in the Canon EF-S, Nikon DX, Pentax DA and Sigma DC ranges, to name the most popular ones. The most common multiplier ratios are 1.6 (Canon), 1.5 (Nikon, Fuji, Sony, etc.), 1.3 (Canon). (1.3 crop sensors are also sometimes called APS-H.) Most manufacturers not only produce cameras with these cropped sensors, but also offer DSLR cameras with full frame sensors.
A charge-coupled device or image sensor. It consists of an integrated circuit with an array of linked ("coupled") capacitors which are sensitive to light. In digital photography, the CCD is used to capture images, which in analogue photography would be captured on film. CCD technology is not only used in digital photography, but also in astronomy and other branches of science.
Describes how much an imaging sensor has been cropped in relation to its full-frame equivalent. It always describes how many times larger the full-frame is in relation to the cropped sensor. Take an APS-C sensor with a crop factor of 1.6, for instance. This indicates the sensor is 60% of the size of a frame of 35mm film. The crop factor is used to calculate how much of the equivalent of the full-frame field of view the cropped sensor will have with a lens. In order to calculate this, one multiplies the focal length of the lens by the crop factor. A 1.6 crop-factor, for instance, will give a 100mm lens the same field of view as a 160mm lens on a full-frame camera.
Extreme wide-angle lens that gives 180 degrees coverage and is uncorrected for curvilinear distortion so you produce a heavily distorted photograph. If the photo turns out to be rectangular or circular, and how distorted it looks, depends on the lens and the camera. There are basically two kinds of fish-eye lenses for photography: 1. Lenses that produce a circular image, typically 8 or 10mm lenses, used on 35mm cameras or full-frame digital cameras. They produce a circular image with dark corners (due to most photos being rectangular). A similar lens is available for digital cameras with a so-called "cropped sensor". To achieve the same circular effect, it's a 4.5mm lens. 2. Lenses that produce a rectangular image. These lenses enlarge the image to cover the whole rectangular frame of a photograph. They are typically 15 or 16mm lenses. On a 35mm or digital full-frame camera they produce rectangular but still heavily distorted images without dark corners. The same lenses on a digital camera with a cropped sensor will still have a distorting effect, but less so. Fish-eye lenses used to be prime lenses only, but one company has gone so far as to produce a 10-17mm fish-eye zoom lens. This lens still produces distorted, curvy images, but zooming in lessens the distortion.
A position where rays of light converge through a lens to create a sharp image. (This position is sometimes also called an "image point".) "To focus" means adjusting the distance setting on a lens to create this image point, which defines the subject sharply. With a photo camera, this is done by moving the lens physically towards or away from the film or sensor, or by moving the front of the lens towards or away from the rear part of the lens, which alters the focal length. (There are exceptions to this method: Contax, for instance, has a system where the autofocus operation actually moves the film and not the the lens.) When something is "in focus", it's sharp.
An imaging sensor with the same size as film used for the respective format of camera. See also Crop factor and APS-C.
A Global shutter exposes the entire imager simultaneously. The entire frame is exposed and begins gathering light; when the predetermined "shutter speed" has elapsed, the sensor stops gathering light and turns its current exposure into an electronic image.
Used in many CCD sensors. Global shutters are immune to effects like skew, wobble, and partial exposure.
Some CMOS sensors are configured to use global shutters - in which case they do not suffer from vertical smear, skew, wobble or partial exposure.
Used in many CCD sensors. Global shutters are immune to effects like skew, wobble, and partial exposure.
Some CMOS sensors are configured to use global shutters - in which case they do not suffer from vertical smear, skew, wobble or partial exposure.


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What you're about to get is a step-by-step blueprint for online marketing success…
And, it's just about guaranteed, IF…
And the if is the important part…
You're going to need to meet certain conditions along the way.
You're going to need to be willing to pivot or abandon ship along the way (no matter where you are in the process), if you're getting red flags.
But, if you follow this 3-step process, and you continue to get the right signals all the way through…
You're pretty much guaranteed to have a profitable sales funnel, in as little as 90 days, or less.
Before we get into the steps, there are two big prerequisites — first, the market…
It's not even worth getting started unless you have a specific market of BUYERS that you want to go after.
It always starts with the market. A market is a group of people who are ready, willing, and able to spend money, given the right offer.
A market's viability is best measured with two numbers: size, and willingness to spend.
That is, a GIANT market (say, toilet paper) can be a great place to make money, even if people don't spend that much.
The only way to get a TINY market to work is if the transaction amounts and willingness to spend are very high (e.g., copywriting for financial newsletter publishers).
Most products fall somewhere in the middle.
There are a few places to research markets, which really goes beyond the scope of this essay. But things like web search data, Facebook audience size based on matching interests and likes, mailing list size, publications specifically targeted to the market, and so on will tell you a lot about the size of the market.
Spend time researching your market before you even start to build any offers for it. You want to understand the market itself, how big it is, who else is selling to it, what else is being sold (on what terms), what promises are being made, the style of marketing, hot buttons being used in marketing, where to get traffic for your offers or reach the market, and so on.
Once your market is known, you need to meet the second prerequisite — the offer…
Now, I am getting a little ahead of myself.
Because steps 1 and 2 of the 3-step process I'm about to share will help you refine your offer and better-target it to your market.
But if you don't have a clear and compelling offer for your market, you're not going to go very far.
When considering what that will look like, look to the competition.
What products or services are they offering to the market? What problem are they solving? What need are they filling?
How can you create a product or service that solves that problem and fulfills that need in a unique and compelling way?
Is there something you can add to it? Is there something you can take away? Is there a way to deliver the benefits of top products via a higher-priced service? Is there a way to take a more expensive service, and transform it into a product that's more scalable?
By aligning your offer with what's already out there in the marketplace, you have a disproportionately higher chance of succeeding.
Why? Because if there are already a lot of similar offers out there in the marketplace, it's because there are buyers. One comparable offer does not a market make, but if there are 5 or 10 or 100 comparable offers in a market, that's actually a good sign that you have the opportunity to tap into a stream of buyers, some of whom will be interested in your offer.
(e.g., The best way to write a best-selling book is to find the section of the bookstore — internet or brick-and-mortar — that has the most best-sellers, and write a book that models all the best properties of all the best-sellers in that category.)
One final note before our 3-step process…
Even once you have identified a market of buyers and a compelling offer that models or builds on others that have been made to the market, there may still be roadblocks that come up.
If you've really gotten those two things right, the roadblocks should be very minimal, and passable.
If you've deceived yourself into thinking you've identified a narrowly-identifiable target market and created a compelling, clear and targeted offer for that market, when really you haven't, the roadblocks are likely to be large and a sign that failure is imminent.
The best thing that can happen if you get into these steps and find a roadblock, is to determine how much time, effort, and resources you're going to put into trying to get past that roadblock, and if you can't find a way around, take a big step back and seriously consider if you need to start again at the beginning, perhaps with a different offer to a different market.
That said…
If you have a product or service your target market wants… This 3-step method guarantees you'll have a profitable sales funnel in as little as 90 days, or less!
STEP 1: Do an Ask-style DDS to the market…
I've written extensively about Ryan Levesque's Ask Method. (I strongly recommend the book, which you get on Amazon via the link.)
It's a survey-based approach to identifying the core drives and buying motives of a target market.
The book itself is a step-by-step breakdown of Ryan's survey methodology, including the big WHY behind everything he does.
The Deep Dive Survey, or DDS, is the first survey you run as part of the Ask Method. It's the 80/20 of Ask — the 20% of the work that determines 80% of your results.
It starts with the Single-Most Important Question, or SMIQ.
You ask, "What's the single-most important question you have about ____________." You fill in the blank with the topic you plan to build your offer around.
(There are variations on this question, but they're all around the biggest question or challenge you have.)
There are other parts of this survey that are important, including a scoring system for ranking the feedback you get as part of the survey. You're looking for hyper-responders, and Ryan tells you how to identify them.
From the answers, you are able to identify the 3-5 biggest motivators that people will use in making their decision to buy.
If you're dealing with a market of buyers, and your offer meets these 3-5 biggest motivators (or can be made to meet them), you're in really good shape.
Here's one of those red flag moments… If you think you have a market of buyers, but you can't get enough responses to your survey, or responses are prohibitively expensive when going to paid traffic, you need to rethink things. Maybe you don't have a market after all. Maybe your traffic source is wrong. Maybe something else.
However, if you're able to get a good number of useful survey responses at an acceptable cost (varies by market), then you're in good shape to move on…
STEP 2: Run a Proof-of-Concept…
This is the quick-and-dirty version of your offer and marketing messaging.
What you're really looking to do here, in direct marketing terms, is to establish a "control." That is, you're looking to develop the most basic of offers and marketing messages that are making sales at an acceptable economics.
Don't plan to make a fortune here. You're simply proving that you've identified a market of buyers, and that you have an offer that will make them spend money.
Use the intelligence you've gathered from your DDS. Speak to the biggest motivators your market has told you they are using as buying criteria. They've told you what their biggest questions or challenges are — now, you offer to solve them.
Make your offer clear, compelling, and tied to these buying motivators.
Set up a very basic website or funnel — "Movement beats meditation," to borrow a phrase from Gary Halbert.
Make an offer, take orders, and fulfill on the offer.
Then, using whatever traffic source you were using in running the DDS, send that traffic through to this offer page.
You don't have to get fancy. You don't have to include all the bells and whistles.
You just have to make the offer, and send traffic to that offer.
Another red flag moment… This doesn't have to be profitable. But if you are struggling to make any sales, or if you're hemorrhaging money just to make a few sales, something is wrong and needs to be addressed. Maybe you misread the DDS results. Maybe your offer is not right. Maybe you need to charge significantly more or less. Again, figure out what you're willing to put into fixing it. And if you can't, figure out how many steps back you need to take (including all the way to the beginning) to get back on the right track.
STEP 3: Build out your full funnel…
If you are able to generate consistent sales from your proof-of-concept, it's mostly smooth sailing from here.
Now, it's time to build out a more sophisticated funnel, and really start to bring in the profits.
For this, I recommend you continue with Ryan Levesque's Ask Method, and build out a quiz funnel…
Or, you can use one of any number of different funnel approaches laid out in Russell Brunson's DotComSecrets book.
At this point, you're really looking at optimization…
How can I get the most qualified leads at an acceptable cost-per-lead?
What can I do to get leads over the threshold of spending any money with me, as soon as possible?
How can I build on the initial transaction and get first-time customers coming back more often?
How can I turn one-time sales into continuity income?
For the biggest buyers, the hyper-responders, what opportunities can I give them to have their problems and challenges met with big solutions that mean more revenue and profits for me?
Usually this means you want at least a few levels in your product ladder. Entry-level. Big core offer. Back-end, high-profit products and services.
Every step of the way, you optimize. What can I do to serve the customer on every level, and because of this over-the-top service, make as much profit as possible from every customer that comes through the door?
It's all about removing friction and increasing leverage. In every touch point and every transaction. Across the entire customer lifecycle.
Implementing this…
I promised this was a process that could happen in as little as 90 days, or less. And I stand by it.
Once you've committed, doing your survey in 30 days is very doable, if you just do it. Getting that first proof-of-concept into the market within another 30 days should also be very workable. And finally, upgrading your funnel with front- and back-end offers within another 30 days is also doable.
Then, it's years or even a lifetime of optimization and ever-increasing your results.
If this is something you're interested in having done for you, I'm in an interesting situation.
I've had a client's "guru" (the public face of my work) retire mid-project, and suddenly am looking at a bit more availability in the coming weeks.
If you're spending a minimum of $15,000 per month (more is better) on internet traffic and you'd like me to guide you through this step-by-step process, custom to you and your business, let me know.
Shoot me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com and we can schedule a quick getting-to-know-you call — and plan the next steps from there.
Yours for bigger breakthroughs,
Roy Furr
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French star of stage and screen Delphine Seyrig made her movie debut in Robert Frank's Pull My Daisy, and she worked with many great European directors – Resnais, Truffault, Buñuel, and Duras, to name a few.
She had only one true Queen 'O Scream feature, Daughters of Darkness from 1971, in which she played the vampire Countess Bathory. Her incredible cool beauty and air of sophistication was perfectly suited to that classic of erotic horror.
Seyrig used her fame and influence to promote feminism and womens issues throughout her career, and directed and starred in films about women and their creative processes. She died from cancer in 1990 at age 58.


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Get in NOW… The bull market in this metal is just getting started
From Matt Badiali, Editor, Stansberry Research Resource Report:
One area of the metals market has seen gains of 458%, 308%, and 305% so far this year.
Like most investors, though, you've probably been too focused on gold and silver to notice.
But I have good news for you: It's not too late to get in on the action…
Thanks to moves to cut competition and increase demand, the steel industry is in the early stages of a massive bull market today.
In May, the U.S. slammed Chinese steel imports with a 522% tax. That means for every dollar of steel coming to the U.S. from China, China has to pay an additional $5.22.
In short, the U.S. believes that China artificially controls steel costs, allowing it to produce steel for far less than U.S. costs. By exporting lots of artificially cheap steel here, China hopes to kill the U.S. steel industry. Hitting China with that massive tariff is one way to prevent that from happening.
As you might expect, the tariff has been great for U.S. steel companies, who had been suffering before that. The nation's largest steelmaker – U.S. Steel (X) – has laid off thousands of workers since 2012. It shut down entire arms of its business. Between cheap Chinese steel imports and the collapse of the U.S. oil industry, U.S. Steel couldn't compete.
The tax on Chinese imports comes at a time when the U.S. needs a major infrastructure overhaul. But there's another part to the story…
You see, President-elect Donald Trump rode to victory last month partly on promises to spend $1 trillion on roads, ports, bridges, and other infrastructure projects. Once he's in office, demand for steel should soar. But not just any steel will do…
In his plans, Trump said he wants to "put American steel made by American workers into the backbone of America's infrastructure."
Kill competition with a tax on Chinese steel? Check.
Spur demand for American steel with a massive stimulus plan? Check.
But optimism surrounding steel was heading higher even before those two things. In October 2015 the World Steel Association predicted steel demand in North America would grow in 2016 and 2017. That was enough good news to start a small rally.
As you can imagine, the tariff and Trump's election victory added tailwinds to an already bullish uptrend… It has been a fantastic year for U.S. Steel. You can see what I mean in the chart below…
Shares of U.S. Steel have soared this year. In the table below, you can see that other steel stocks – AK Steel (AKS) and Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF) – have done even better…
You might think that you've missed the entire rally… but you'd be wrong.
Steelmakers are coming out of one of the worst bear markets in decades. As you can see in this 10-year chart of U.S. Steel, shares still sit well below normal… even after the big rally…
This is a bull market, and steel should continue to do well going into the Trump presidency. Analysts from investment bank Morgan Stanley believe the infrastructure spending will increase steel consumption by 20% per year over the next five years. If that happens, companies like U.S. Steel, Cliffs Natural Resources, and AK Steel will continue to soar.
This once-left-for-dead sector could continue to boom over the next few years. Don't miss out.
Good investing,
Matt Badiali
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A Tribute and Celebration
We were the class of 1958, members of the Greatest Generation as well as children of the Greatest Generation. Born in 1940, we are also called members of the Traditional Generation.
Our childhood, post World War II, "was the best of times . . . it was the age of wisdom . . . it was the epoch of belief . . .it was the season of Light . . . it was the spring of hope . . . we had everything before us . . .we were all going direct to Heaven . . . ." (A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens.) At least, that's the way I felt about it. We were truly blessed.
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This blog is a place for 1958 graduates of Meridian, Mississippi, High School to stay in touch, post their news, items of interest and photographs.
CLASS OF 1958 MEMORIES (Click to read all posts relating to sports, honors, graduation and other memories of our class in 1957-58.)
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Backaches, Heartbreak, and Hope in Mississippi : The Humane Society of the United States
PRESTON, Miss. — The Humane Society of the United States and the Mississippi Animal Rescue League assisted the Kemper County Sheriff's Department in the seizure of 165 dogs and cats who were found living in deplorable conditions in Preston, Miss. The animals were removed from Raven's Hope, a non-profit organization that claims to offer animals for adoption. The seizure is the largest known animal rescue in Kemper County. . . .
MERIDIAN — Raven's Hope Animal Sanctuary in Kemper County garnered statewide attention early last week as more than 150 dogs were taken from a labyrinth of outdoor cages surrounding an otherwise unassuming house. . . . "We found seven dogs deceased already when we arrived," said Jordan Crump, a spokesperson for the Humane Society of the United States. "There were an untold amount of skeletal remains all over the property." The remains were presumably of dogs, she said. "I've been on about 30 rescue missions," Crump said. "This is probably the worst I've seen. . . . (Read more here.)


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August 22, 1989
RAYFUL EDMOND, III, et al., Defendants
Charles R. Richey, United States District Judge.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: RICHEY
The defendants have moved to suppress various wiretap tapes. With this memorandum and order the Court considers two components of that motion: (1) the request to suppress all tapes of conversations obtained pursuant to judicial authorization under 18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(a)(ii)(A); and (2) the request to suppress all tapes recorded pursuant to the consent of a participant under 18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(c).
The Court took evidence and heard arguments on the motions at various points during an omnibus motions hearing held August 3-9, 1989.
The Court will address the defendants' arguments relating to the above issues in turn.
1. Suppression of Judicially Authorized Wiretap Tapes
On August 16, 1988, United States District Judge Joyce Hens Green authorized the electronic surveillance of two telephone numbers in the District of Columbia. These numbers were subscribed to a defendant in this action, Armaretta Perry, and to another woman not named as a defendant. Judge Green's authorization rested upon an affidavit prepared and submitted by a Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, John Cornille. The application (of which the affidavit was a part) had been authorized on August 15 by Mark Richard, a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice.
Richard authorized the wiretap application pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2516. That statute permits "any Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division", such as Richard, to authorize an application for a wiretap so long as he or she has been "specially designated by the Attorney General" as having the authority to do so. See § 2516(1). Richard derived his authority from Order No. 1162-86, signed by Attorney General Edwin Meese III on December 12, 1986. That Order expressly authorized "any Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division, to exercise the power conferred by Section 2516(1) of Title 18, United States Code." When the prosecution sought an extension of Judge Green's August 16 Order, another Deputy Assistant Attorney General, John C. Keeney, relied upon the same Order in authorizing the extension on September 14, 1988.
The defendants challenge this authorization process on two fronts. First, they question the signatures on the authorizations themselves. They suggest that, in fact, neither Richard nor Keeney actually signed the authorizations, and that if they did sign them they may not have done so with the "mature judgment" called for under the circumstances.
Second, they challenge the Attorney General's authorizing Order, upon which both Richard and Keeney relied in approving the wiretap applications. The defendants contend that because Attorney General Meese left office (and was succeeded by Attorney General Thornburgh) on August 12, neither Richard nor Keeney enjoyed authority to approve wiretaps until expressly granted permission by Attorney General Thornburgh. And because Attorney General Thornburgh did not sign an approval Order of his own under § 2516(1) until May 24, 1989 -- some nine months after taking office -- the defendants argue that Richard's and Keeney's wiretap authorizations on August 15 and September 14, respectively, lacked the required approval of the then-incumbent Attorney General, Richard Thornburgh.
The defendants' first argument clearly fails. The government proffered the originals of the authorizing documents at the hearing. The Court's review of these original documents makes clear that they were not, as the defendants' memoranda suggest, rubber-stamped. Instead, they were actually signed by real people. And the defendants have offered nothing to suggest that the real people who signed the documents were not, in fact, Mark Richard and John Keeney. Counsel for the defendants, arguing in support of their right to call and examine these individuals at the motions hearing,
cited bureaucratic inefficiencies and alleged underhandedness as grounds for doubting the validity of the signatures. In the Court's view, however, some threshold showing of irregularity is required before government officials may be forced to authenticate their signatures on official documents. Were the showings here sufficient to cast aspersions on official documents, the Government would be paralyzed; its officials would be endlessly occupied by the need to testify at the behest of opposing lawyers. The absurdity of the result the defendants seek, at least in light of the preliminary showing they have made (or not made), is manifest. See United States v. De La Fuente, 548 F.2d 528, 531-35 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 431 U.S. 932, 97 S. Ct. 2640, 53 L. Ed. 2d 249 (1977).
The defendants' second argument is unavailing as well. The fact that Richard and Keeney were operating pursuant to an Order issued by departed Attorney General Meese in no way vitiates their authority. The clear weight of the case law supports this proposition, and the defendants tilt at windmills by arguing otherwise. See United States v. Lawson, 780 F.2d 535, 539 (6th Cir. 1985) (authorization signed by Attorney General Civiletti in 1981 permitted Assistant Attorney General under Attorney General Smith to approve application in 1983); United States v. Kerr, 711 F.2d 149, 151 (10th Cir. 1983); United States v. Terry, 702 F.2d 299, 311 (2d Cir. 1983); United States v. Messersmith, 692 F.2d 1315, 1316-17 (11th Cir. 1982); United States v. Wyder, 674 F.2d 224, 226-27 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 457 U.S. 1125, 73 L. Ed. 2d 1340, 102 S. Ct. 2944 (1982); United States v. Todisco, 667 F.2d 255, 259 (2d Cir. 1981), cert. denied, 455 U.S. 906, 71 L. Ed. 2d 444, 102 S. Ct. 1250 (1982).
The only arguable source of support for the defendants' position is United States v. Robinson, 225 U.S. App. D.C. 282, 698 F.2d 448 (D.C. Cir. 1983). In Robinson, the defendant-appellant presented the Court of Appeals with the same argument offered here: that any application approved pursuant to an ex-Attorney General's authorization is without effect. The Court of Appeals in Robinson, while expressing some concern, declined to suppress the challenged wiretaps.
The rationale underlying the Court of Appeals' concern, however, is somewhat opaque. On the one hand, the Court appears to have found no violation of § 2516(1). The Court concluded that because Attorney General Litvack was a "clearly identifiable and politically accountable person within the Justice Department," his authorization "adequately satisfie[d] the purposes of the statutory provision." Id. at 452. Yet, in the immediately following paragraph, the Court stated that "since the delay in revalidation was relatively brief and since the purposes of the statutory requirements were adequately served, we will not overturn the District Court's denial of appellant's motion to suppress." Id. The Court's latter observation seems to suggest that, in fact, a violation had occurred, but that because it was of a technical nature the remedy of suppression would be disproportionate to the harm suffered.
Although this Court is more comfortable with the view expressed in decisions such as Lawson, supra, which conclude that no violation has occurred under these circumstances, it is nevertheless apparent from the facts presented here that the violations, even if they occurred, were de minimis under Robinson and do not require suppression. The first authorization here took place on Monday, August 15, 1988 -- the first working day after Attorney General Thornburgh took office. The second authorization occurred on September 14, 1988, some 32 days after Thornburgh's ascent. In Robinson, by contrast, the challenged authorization occurred 30 days after the change in administrations.
Thus, the authorizations challenged in this case fall easily within the scope of permissible delay defined in Robinson ; as in Robinson, the remedy of suppression would be disproportionate to the harm suffered, if indeed harm has been suffered.
The defendants' motion to suppress on these grounds will be denied.
2. Tapes Recorded Pursuant to the Consent of a Participant
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In a release, Nadya and Masha of Pussy Riot say that "I Can't Breathe" is "dedicated to those who can no longer breathe. To Eric Garner and to all who suffer from state terror … to political prisoners and those on the streets fighting for change." The two participated in protests and wrote the song because "we've known, on our own skin, what police brutality feels like."
"I Can't Breathe" is a departure from their usual quick n' crude frenzy. It's a dark, neo-industrial, slightly gothic song that grows more chilling as it unfolds. The same goes for the video, in which Nadya and Masha are buried alive. (For real. In one take.) Musicians from Russian bands Jack Wood and Scofferlane contribute vocals, while Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs plays piano and bass. Punk icon Richard Hell completes the song with a harrowing reading of Garner's last words as he begged the police to "leave me alone."


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Wine tasting in Florence, between taste and authenticity
A perfect place for a great wine tasting in Florence is the Tower Bar at our 4-star Hotel Brunelleschi. Our sommelier will immediately bring you to discover the best red wines in pure and authentic tasty moments.
The sixty-minute tasting class can be followed by 2 up to 20 people. We'll learn how to pair every wine to better exhalt all dishes from the trueTuscan tradition. Here following some 4-star proposals for an ideal walk through our autochthonous vines:
Chianti Classico Peppoli served with smoked breast of goose and salty meat,
Morellino di Scansano Capofalco with pappa al pomodoro (proper regional dish),
Bruciato Bolgheri Antinori with Ribollita (traditional soup made with beans, red cabbage and bread),
Vernaccia Abbazia Monte Oliveto with Tuscan cold-cuts and patè canapè,
Chianti Fattoria di Bagnolo with a selection of different kinds of cheese with jams and mustard,,
Vinsanto Antinori with typical "Cantucci", Florentine biscuits with almonds.
The cost per person for a wine experience of one-hour-length is just € 45,00.
The amazing Bar is inside the antique and suggestive Torre della Pagliazza in Sant'Elisabetta square.
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12 Mar 2017 12:24:03
From the rumours i've heard and read I think our squad definitely needs 2-3 quality players that can improve our starting xi with an additional 2-3 players coming in to improve the depth of the squad.
Ins: Van Dijk (desperately want him)
Young striker (not sure who)
Maybe another younger players which is better than we currently have.
12 Mar 2017 13:13:23
Van Dijk seriously? Another over rated ball playing CB that is flavor of the month and would be a really expensive mistake. Better try for someone like Nastasic who has played in the premier league before and faced and overcome criticisms about his quality by becoming a mainstay in Schalke's defense.
Agree about Paredes and Brandt, but we seriously need a LB and CB as first priorities.
12 Mar 2017 13:18:58
Van Dijk has more premier league experience than nastasti, he was awful for city and really didn't look like preimier league quality in my opinion. Van Dijk has Ben quality this season and has definitely been one of the better defenders in the league, would be an ideal partner for matip in my opinion.
{Ed001's Note - where do people get this 'Van Dijk has been quality' from? He has been good on the ball and poor defensively, constantly caught out of position. He has plenty of ability and the physical attributes to be great, but mentally he is lazy and sleepwalks through games.}
12 Mar 2017 13:23:39
LB why not try for tierny at Celtic, yes he isn't the finished article but there's aren't many out there that are without paying over the odds. The guy has been good for Celtic this season and would in my opinion be a viable option.
12 Mar 2017 13:30:20
Van Dijk may be over rated to some here but certainly not. He is good and better than anyone at Liverpool by some distance. We ain't getting him coz he is ridiculously priced at. Paredes is a decent option, A deep lying playmaker wee severely need. Brandt is sure and certain.
12 Mar 2017 13:27:15
Who do you suggest for CB then Ed001?
{Ed001's Note - Nastasic is a good left footer, Gimenez of Atletico is probably out of reach sadly, Romagnoli of Milan. Laporte is another probably well out of reach. Maksimovic, De Vrij all worth a look at. One I have heard a lot about but never seen play, so I am going off what scouts and coaches have said, is Engel(s?) of Brugge.}
12 Mar 2017 13:41:45
Thanks Ed. Would take gimenez for sure!
{Ed001's Note - me too, he can play in midfield as well.}
12 Mar 2017 13:47:40
Do we stand a chance at getting him?
{Ed001's Note - if you read what I said initially, I already answered that question.}
12 Mar 2017 14:13:39
If we do sign Ricardo Pereira then that will mean the end of the road for Clyne. Ed002 did say Pereira would be a good option and that Liverpool have been watching him.
{Ed001's Note - Liverpool did look for a replacement for Clyne in the summer.}
12 Mar 2017 14:36:20
And Liverpool were also trying to find Clyne a new home last summer too. Guess it was a case of we will bring in a new RB once Clyne is moved on which will probably be this coming summer.
12 Mar 2017 15:51:38
On the subject of players failing in the PL but worth a shout, I'd like to introduce Felipe Luis to the mix. Excellent LB, but could he be persuaded?
{Ed002's Note - (a) Filipe Luís did not fail in the Premier League. (b) He will be 32 by the start of next season. (c) Liverpool has zero interest in him. (d) He would not be interested in moving to Liverpool.}
12 Mar 2017 19:18:12
You were mentioning left footed LB's earlier Ed001 and was wondering although it's very unlikely would Salho still be considered by Klopp at end of season should our denfesive troubles continue? As I feel he is good enough to play for us ahead of Lovren and could be a better alternative to some other left footed LB's out there.
{Ed001's Note - Sakho is done. He does not deserve this adoration he gets for talking crap on social media while being a complete arse behind the scenes. Sooner we are rid of the fanny the better.}
12 Mar 2017 20:54:09
Felipe Luis stayed a season at Chelsea, did ok when played but wasn't a regular. Even if he was competing with Azpilicueta this is no success. A bit harsh to call it a failure though, point taken.
Anyway, at 32 he is far from finished. Could have 3-4 more years at absolutely top level, seems to be as fit as they come.
Haven't heard anything about LFC holding any kind of interest in him, but neither about Nastasic, Laporte or Giminez.
My point is he would be my ideal LB for next year. Solid defending, excellent going forward, used to Simeones style- not too different to Klopps. Would slot in nicely in our brazilian colony, and could be a steadying force in a back four looking constantly nervous. Nice role-model for Juanma, TAA and the rest of the youngsters as well.
{Ed002's Note - (a) Liverpool are not going to pay what it would cost to sign the player. (b) Liverpool has no interest whatsoever in the player. (c) There is no way at all that the player would move to Liverpool this summer.
All just fantasy football.}
12 Mar 2017 22:24:37
Ok, are there another seasoned pro, used to playing fullback in a pressing system who could do a job for us and might like to work with Kloppie? A bit unimpressed with the names tossed around, both for CB (van Dijk for one) but particulary for LB (Pereira and that Celtic guy) . Need some experience and winning mentality!


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Yesterday i have just finished watching the last episode of this Japanese hit series which has been aired in Japan recently. We were waiting for the subs to come out for almost three days which was very unusual but the guy who was making the sub couldnt complete in time because he was crying every 5 minutes and took him extra three days to finish it off. Anyway we finally got to see it before my brother was leaving for Malaysia on that same day. Just in time i guess. For those who are interested in Japanese drama or series can go to d-addicts.com.
The story is about 5 childhood friends growing up together and faces many challenges through the process. However one of the character Rei( played by a beautiful Nagasawa Masami) had a crush with Iwase Ken(Yamashita Tomohisa). Days goes by and Rei is about to get married to another man. Before the wedding ceremony a fairy appears and help Ken to go back in time to win Rei's heart back.But every time he goes back there is always things that didn't went right.Im sorry I cant tell u anymore its just too sad huhuhuhuhuhu
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Discover Adventure (11-13)
This is your opportunity to have your first taste of the outdoors and discover your very own adventure.
Discover Adventure
Whether you're an experienced young camper, or you've never spent the night away from home before, this is a prefect introduction to the world of Outward Bound.
From canoe journeys to hiking and abseiling in the mountains,you'll even have the opportunity to conquer the hills and experience a sleepover in your very own log cabin or mountain hut.
With the same expert instructor from beginning to end, as well as a dedicated house parent to look after your group in the evenings. We'll be there for you every step of the way on your Discover Adventure.
Everything you do will grow your confidence and by the end of the week no one wants to go back home. Thomas, age 11
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Courses start at 5.30pm on your chosen course date and finish after breakfast at 9.00am.
What is included in the price?
As part of our all-inclusive package, we offer a free coach transfer to and from central transport hubs. Please call your centre to inform them of your arrival and departure times. We can arrange drop offs at a local train or bus station, or you are welcome to be picked up by parents/guardians at the centre. You are recommended to book your transport as close to start and finish times as possible.
We also provide all specialist equipment including waterproofs and boots, food, accommodation and insurance. Meals include cooked breakfasts, packed lunches and evening meals. We cater for all diets [please inform the centre at least two weeks before arrival] and a vegetarian option is always available. You only need to bring a small amount of personal spending money, as there's not much time to shop while you're here! Each centre has a small shop selling snacks, toiletries and souvenirs. The shops do not sell cigarettes or alcohol.
Is Discover Adventure for me?
Discover Adventure is ideal for young people who are new to the outdoors or who haven't yet experienced time away from home. You don't have to be super fit to take part in Discover Adventure, but be prepared to carry your rucksack on overnight expedition. Just an average level of fitness and plenty of enthusiasm and determination to take on new challenges is all that is needed. You should also be open to new experiences and able to get along with other young people from a variety of backgrounds.
What will I get out of it?
You'll meet people from all over the world and make great new friends. As a result, you'll also return home with handy new skills, like teamworking and communication. Best of all, you'll have a fantastic sense of achievement, having conquered a brand new challenge.
What about smoking?
Participants under 16 are not permitted to smoke. In addition, consumption of alcohol is banned at all centres.
What weather can we expect?
Although the course takes place in summer, it is based predominantly in mountainous areas where weather can be unpredictable. At times a sense of humour will be required!
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You'll be staying in single sex dorms with 6-10 people of your own age. Most dorms also have en-suite facilities. For more venue information, and photographs of our centres, visit the locations section of our website.
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Articles about Electrical Wiring: GFCI Problem
Why an Outdoor LED Light Can Trip a GFI OutletJuly 30, 2017 by Dave Rongey
Why does an outdoor LED light fixture trip a GFI Outlet? This electrical wiring question is about an Electrical Problem with a GFCI Outlet in the Back Yard of a Old Home that is connected to an LED Light Fixture.
Identifying GFCI Circuit ProblemsJanuary 10, 2016 by Dave Rongey
How can I find out what is tripping a GFCI Breaker? Problems that Cause GFCI Circuits to Trip, Clearing the GFCI Circuit of Possible Problem Devices.
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At the moment, the Government requires your employer to contribute 9.5% of your salary* to your super account each year. For many Australians, especially older workers, this will not be enough for a comfortable retirement.
Simply by adding an extra 1%, 3% or 6% from your before tax salary to these employer contributions, your super savings could soar.


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Will Parvathy Omanakuttan fetch Miss World crown?December 10th, 2008 - 11:52 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) The last time India won the Miss World pageant was in 2000. But experts busy grooming Parvathy Omanakuttan say she has the vivacity, warmth and beauty to bag the crown again for the country.Standing tall at 5 feet 9 inches, 21-year-old Parvathy will compete with 109 contestants at the Sandton Convention Center in Johannesburg, South Africa, Saturday. Zee Café will telecast the Miss World 2008 contest live at 8.30 p.m.
"She has the 'X' factor that sets apart a supermodel from the models. It's her vivacity and warmth that make her instantly likeable. She is a perfect mix of beauty with brains," diction expert Sabira Merchant said in a statement.
Ace photographer Subi Samuel admires Parvathy a lot and believes she exudes class and confidence and this could do the trick for her.
Talking on the same lines, fitness expert Deanne Pandey said: "She is an ideal blend of panache and poise. Her face just lights up each time she smiles."
Ace choreographer Sandeep Soparrkar said: "You cannot take your eyes off her even in a room full of gorgeous women and that is the hallmark of a beauty queen."
Expectations from millions of Indians are acting as an inspiration for Parvathy as she feels 'this is a big responsibility' and is trying her best to live up to the hopes of everyone.
"This contest is not only about winning but with it comes the responsibility of upholding the name of the country. I am trying to be a stronger person to face the contest and I will try my level best to make every Indian all over the world proud," she explained.
Like many beauty queens, Parvathy too is smitten by the big screen and says she would love to act if the 'right' kind of roles fall into her kitty.
"I would love to do a movie opposite Salman Khan and Hrithik Roshan, as I have a big time crush on these guys," she said.
Parvathy indeed has big shoes to fill as India boasts of Miss Worlds like Reita Faria (1966), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (1994), Diana Hayden (1997), Yukta Mookhey (1999) and Priyanka Chopra (2000).


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This past week I received a call regarding a mystery shopper offer. The caller said that they had received a money order in the amount of more than $900.00, and they were concerned that the offer wasn't sincere. They deposited the money order into their checking account waiting to see if the money order cleared before taking any action. We weren't able to locate the business, first they didn't use a business name, and second, the phone our caller provided wasn't listed in the BBB database.
I was then told that they were to wire part of the proceeds via Western Union, and then report on their experience evaluating Western Union's customer service.
With this information, we were able to explain that these offers have been around for a number of years, and that if they had done as the person making the offer of employment instructed and cashed the money order immediately, they would be out the $900.00, and they would have to repay the bank.
Thankfully, our caller didn't lose any money, and I was able to tell them that these offers of "work-at-home schemes" only make money for the perpetrator of the fraud.
It used to be that these offers were advertised in newspapers, magazines, and other high traffic areas. The consumer was informed that to become a mystery shopper, you had to send a payment of varying amounts to show your level of interest in obtaining the position. The BBB offered advice regarding these offers by stating that these offers may not be a sincere offer of employment. The BBB's experience with such offers showed that there was no real work, and that consumers who sent payments never received anything. If surveys had to be completed prior to payment, the mystery shopping "firm" would inform consumers that their surveys didn't meet the standards which would qualify for payments. BBBs offered other advice such as contacting large department stores or marketing research companies that may offer positions as a mystery shopper.
In the digital age, these offers are found online and through unsolicited e-mails. Now these offers that come through the mail have either fraudulent checks or money orders which consumers are told to cash immediately then spend the money, and provide information as to their shopping experience. Your BBB advises skepticism regarding any such offer that has a check or money order attached. If you receive an offer to be a mystery shopper, and you're really not certain about the sincerity of the offer, then contact your local BBB or visit our website Evansville.bbb.org.
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PKR Youth claimed today that up to 16 Barisan Nasional parliamentarians are ready to hop over to the opposition coalition.
"We have up to 15 to 16 MPs from BN, including Umno MPs, who want to join PKR," party's Youth chief Shamsul Iskandar Mohamad Akin said at a press conference today.
Shamsul denied that PKR was offering money to buy over the parliamentarians.
Far from encouraging them to defect, he said that the MPs had voluntarily held talks with PKR to discuss crossing over.
"They have come and met (PKR de facto leader) Anwar Ibrahim because they have lost faith in the leadership of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. They are not crossing over for monetary gains," he said.
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If you haven't heard already, JcPenny is making some changes to its brand. The campaign for the new JcPenny began in January with its "Enough is Enough" commercial.
Along with advertising and a new logo, JcPenny changed its return policy, making it easier to return unwanted items, for any reason. Read here for more information on JcPenny's changes.
For the latest images from the JcPenny campaign, check out the May issue of Essence magazine. In it, you find an adorable bunch of children with big, beautiful natural hair. How cute are they? I've found a few advertisements and commercials with natural kids. Here are some examples:


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Gordon Food Services Ultimate Grill Giveaway Sweepstakes
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30 winners will win an Ultimate Grill Packages (in the form of a $500 Amex Gift Card). Enter for your chance to win!
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His ear for melody was inferior to his sense of time, but that his overfacility and structural defects were due less to lack of taste than to early habit, Georgian models, disassociation from the schools, is indicated by his work as a writer of prose.
Master of a form of language peculiarly sweet and euphonical, and possessed of a delicate ear which instinctively suggested the most musical arrangement possible, he gives his sentences, without art or effort, the most agreeable flow, is never abrupt, never too diffuse, much less prolix or wearisome, and being himself simple, fresh, naif (if we may use the word), honest and somewhat quaint, he delights us by combining with this melody of sound simple, clear and fresh thoughts, perspicuously expressed, often accompanied by happy turns of phrase, and always manifestly the spontaneous growth of his own fresh and unsophisticated mind.
On the other hand, in a collection intended for synagogue use - and the second collection of psalms is as a whole far more suitable to a synagogue than to the Temple - where there would not be a large choir and orchestra of skilled musicians, it would obviously be desirable to state whether the psalm was to be sung to a Davidic, Asaphic or Korahite tone, or to give the name of a melody appropriate to it.
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Before his time instrumental music was chiefly written for the Paradiesensaal, and its melody often sacrificed vitality of idea to a ceremonial courtliness of phrase.
In some of the flights of his muse he reminds us of Slowacki, in the melody of his verse of Zaleski.
But his own style was an individual one, marked by lightness and facility, sparkling vivacity, grace and elegance, clear and piquant melody - characteristically French.
There came to me in this case a melody which the air had strained, and which had conversed with every leaf and needle of the wood, that portion of the sound which the elements had taken up and modulated and echoed from vale to vale.
A famous and typical instance of Wagner's use of Leitmotif in tragic irony is the passage where Hagen gives Siegfried friendly welcome, to the melody of the curse which Alberich pronounced on the ring and all who approached it.
The stirring melody of the Marseillaise and its ingenious adaptation to the words serve to disguise the alternate poverty and bombast of the words themselves.
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Carnival Inspiration Cruise Review to Mexico
Sail Date: June 17, 2016
Ship: Carnival Inspiration
Cabin Type: Suite
Cabin Number: V16
Traveled As: Couple
Reviewed: 1 year ago
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I liked the food and the service. The bed was comfy and our chamber maid was very friendly, as was all of the staff. I thought the ship looked kind of dated..like it was built in the 80's or something..but that is a small point. (The atrium had orange and blue neon lights all over it..) There was definitely a party atmosphere and a lot of people drinking all the time, but I heard that is what you get on a Carnival cruise. And you can't beat our price..we took a three day cruise for 1800 total.
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