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Royal Mail today revealed a 72% plunge in half-year profits after its letters business slumped into the red.
Further declines in the number of letters posted in Britain saw the letters division report losses of £66 million in the six months to September 26 against £48 million profits a year earlier.
The group said the average postbag is now at a level not seen since the mid 1990s, with letter volumes falling to around 68 million a day - a drop of 16 million in the past five years.
Royal Mail's overall operating profits dropped to £52 million from £184 million as it said the group continued to suffer increased competition from rivals as well as the use of email, websites and social media.
Today's figures come a month after the Government announced Royal Mail was to be privatised. It is pushing the Postal Services Bill through Parliament to enable private capital to be injected and will take on Royal Mail's £8 billion in pension liabilities to smooth the path for privatisation.
A Department for Business spokesman said: "These results really bring home the need for the action.
"Letter volumes have fallen by 5% in six months and Royal Mail continues to lose money. The situation is not sustainable and that is why we are pressing ahead with our plans."
But the privatisation plans continue to face stiff opposition from the Communication Workers Union (CWU).
Billy Hayes, general secretary of the CWU, said: "Today's results are the strongest argument yet for keeping Royal mail publicly owned and fully integrated.
"Overall there was a group profit and the quality of service has been maintained - would anyone expect a private company to provide the universal service and good quality of service in this context?"
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Earlier today it emerged that Fox Interactive Media UK vice president of commercial Simon Daglish was to join ITV as director of multiplatform and partnerships and following his departure a spokesman for MySpace declined to comment on whether Daglish will be replaced.
It is believed that News Corp's profitable gaming, distribution and technology company IGN, also housed under the Fox Interactive Media umbrella, will not be affected by the cuts and will continue to run a UK operation.
Sources close to Fox Interactive suggested that a possible management buyout, which had been mooted, has now been ruled out and that News Corp is still determined to offload the business.
Today it emerged that MySpace China cut around two thirds of its staff in December and that its Chinese chief executive has left the business.
Speaking after News Corp's results in November 2010 Chase Carey, president of News Corp, said it was clear that MySpace "is a problem".
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China Ming Yang Wind Power Group (
MY), down 7.0%.
Chart Industries, Inc. manufactures and sells engineered equipment for the production, storage, and end-use of hydrocarbon and industrial gases worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Energy & Chemicals (E&C), Distribution & Storage (D&S), and BioMedical. Chart Industries has a market cap of $2.5 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. Shares are down 15.0% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate Chart Industries a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold.
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COMPLETE edition of the interactive "choose next panel" comic
4.08 / 5.00 12,474 ViewsA quirky remix of the original.. you can find it here: http://www.planetstarseige.com/allyourbase/video.html
nice piece of work, but nothing compared...
... to the original, which may be Ok since it calls itself a remix.
But , honestly, who needed a remix whwn the original was SO nice?
the best original still. you are on the way to blam make your time.
Bad meets evil and gets his butt kicked
i are not wanting this to be abusive, so...i did not like it. Make it go away.
ALL UR BASE!! i love this stuff, i though the speech was awesom youhavenochancetosurvivemakeurtime...HA HA HA. I WAS PISSING MYSELF how is this not a parody? the best intro to ayb flashes yet.
It wasn't bad, but you really need to redo the voices.
Seriously, they started talking, and I could think was "Oh my god, this is horrible."
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The message is going out to 18-year-olds on the importance of voting in September's general election - and it looks like it's hitting home at Tawa College.
Year 13 student Bea Wooding has been looking forward for years to being able to vote. "I want to vote because even if my one vote doesn't make a difference, it's better than not voting at all."
She admits she doesn't know as much about politics as she should, but she does her best to keep up through the news media.
"I don't really talk with my parents about it, and I don't know how they vote. It's my own decision."
There are 10,100 year 13 students at secondary schools across the country who will be 18 and able to vote by polling day on September 20.
The Electoral Commission has been visiting schools leading up to the election, and Wellington's registrar, Toni Weir, said the key was explaining to students that politicians were more likely to take notice of them if more of them voted. "I put it in the context that there's a whole lot of old people like me voting but that's not going to get young people what they want."
Students' voting knowledge was varied. "Some students have an understanding of elections and are even already enrolled when we turn up.
"It's a case of explaining why it's important to vote, and getting them on the roll early so they're involved in the process."
Wooding said students often complained about issues like university fees, but did not make the connection that voting could change it.
"It would be good if more of the politicians from our electorate came into schools and spoke to us about their policies and answered our questions."
Meanwhile, classmate Emma Stewart, 17, is disappointed she will miss out by three months - but it has not stopped her eagerly absorbing political scandals.
"I hear my parents talk about politics all the time and they discuss all the scandals and election dirt. My grandparents are really into politics as well . . . I wish I was old enough to vote this year, but I'm going to have to wait."
Stewart is one of 18,700 provisional enrolments registered by the Electoral Commission to date. They are 17-year-olds who aren't eligible to vote this year, but will automatically join the electoral roll when they turn 18.
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Back at school, we all had that one teacher that took a particular shine to us (not in that way) and encouraged us to be better and achieve our goals, and in Whiplash a promising young drummer finds that person in the form of music professor Fletcher, played by J.K. Simmons.
But be warned, this is no Dead Poets Society. There is no "Carpe Diem" or "Oh Captain my captain" to be found here.
Simmons is a shoe in for an Oscar nomination as the tyrannical teacher who terrorises his students both physically, emotionally and verbally in order to force them to fulfill their potential and elevate his band. He spits out insults at a rapid tempo that are simultaneously obscene yet have a rhythmic musicality that build towards a combustible crescendo and he emerges as the most eloquent executioner of profanity since Peter Capaldi's Malcolm Tucker.
This film is what would have happened if R. Lee Emrey's drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket had pursued a career in music instead of the armed forces.
Miles Teller (who performed all of his own drumming) is equally impressive as the ambitious student who is put through the proverbial wringer and following in the footsteps of other films which deal with performance and obsession (Birdman, The Wrestler, Black Swan), it is not certain whether or not there will be a happy outcome for Andrew.
At times it might seem like a horror or psychological thriller but at its heart, Whiplash is a love story... it's just that Andrew is confused as to what is his true love.
Is it Nicole, the cute girl at his local cinema? Is it the drums? Or in a case of a quote from Birdman, "you confuse love with admiration", is it actually Fletcher?
There is enough homoerotic insults and symbolism (or should that be "cymbalism") being thrown around to argue this point. Fletcher certainly seems to take a sado-masochistic pleasure in watching Andrew violently beating his four skins.
Damien Chazelle has written and directed an incredible film that simply crackles and fizzes with energy and passion, and this is nowhere more apparent than in the finale where the editing is exemplary as Andrew and Fletcher prepare for a final showdown.
So don't drag your heels. Rush out and catch this film that is destined to win BAFTAs, Oscars and all that jazz.
5 stars
Tuesday, 13 January 2015
Whiplash - review
Friday, 9 January 2015
The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death- review
This unwanted and unnecessary sequel feels like a completely different horror script has been reworked to take place in Eel Marsh House.
The first Woman In Black was a genuinely scary horror film (especially for a 12A) but this one is a damp squib by comparison, relying on nothing more than fake jump scares.
It also doesn't help that all the potential scary moments have been featured in the trailers, and I mean all of them, thus reducing any impact on the viewer.
The point the film well and truly lost this audience member was after a group spend a long time trying to light a candle in the dark, upon realising a child is missing, one of them runs off to find them, turning on his flashlight in the process... his FLASHLIGHT! Why didn't he turn that on before?!
The Woman In Black 2? Wish I could have blacked out and pretended it was all a bad dream.
1 star
Monday, 5 January 2015
Birdman - review
Much of the marketing of Birdman has focused on the meta-casting of Batman Michael Keaton in the role of Riggan Thomson, a washed up actor most famous for playing a superhero called Birdman, who attempts a comeback by writing, directing and starring in a Broadway adaptation of a Raymond Carver short story.
Yes, there is a critique of the current superhero boom (when needing a replacement for an actor, Riggan lists off a few names but is told they are all busy filming comic book movies) but in fact it is a much darker look at the current trend of Hollywood actors, or as one critic derisory calls them "celebrities", trying to legitimise their careers by having a crack at theatre on Broadway or the West End.
Currently finishing up runs on Broadway are Bradley Cooper (Rocket Raccoon) and Birdman co-star Emma Stone (Gwen Stacy) and the last couple of years in London has seen the likes of James McAvoy (Charles Xavier) and Tom Hiddleston (Loki) tread the boards when they are not part of the Marvel Universe.
A star name can help boost ticket sales and generate publicity for a show but it can come at a cost and that can be the feeling of resentment from old school thespians and theatre audiences who are unwilling to accept the baggage that can come with that type of celebrity and it is something that the film addresses head on as Riggan starts to unravel as he heads towards opening night.
Having put everything he has on the line to put on the show, the pressure builds and not only is he put under pressure by his obnoxious, pretentious co-star Mike Shiner (a hilariously pompous Edward Norton), his former-junkie daughter who he is trying to reconnect with (Emma Stone) and the voice in his head... Birdman (Keaton's own voice played with a Christian Bale's gravely growl).
Oscar nominations could be in store for Keaton's regenerative performance as well as Norton's (literally) scene-stealing turn but if there is one guaranteed Oscar destined to come Birdman's way it will be award to cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (which would be a back-to-back win after Gravity).
When you become aware of the cinematography and editing and start wondering just how they did it, it can sometimes take you out of the film but what is amazing about following Chris Haarhoff's steadicam around the backstage corridors of the St. James Theatre in one seemingly continuous take is that it gives this sense of immediacy and realism that instead creates the feeling that you are watching a play (within a play/film).
And in a film featuring one "single" extended shot, it is the final shot that will leave audiences filled with that genuine sense of wonder because they have indeed witnessed something super.
There is a saying in the entertainment world - "Theatre is life, film is art and television is furniture" and Birdman beautifully blurs the lines between life and art, cinema and the theatre, creating an experience that truly soars.
5 stars
Thursday, 18 December 2014
Review Of The Year
As 2014 comes to a end, I wanted to look back over a great year of cinema with a few personal highlights beyond my own Top Ten Films Of The Year (which you can read here).
Actor Of The Year - Chris Pratt
2014 was the year that Chris Pratt became a man... a leading man to be exact.
Alongside scene-stealing turns in the likes of Delivery Man and Her, he proved he could carry a movie with a great vocal performance as Emmett in The LEGO Movie and dancing onto the big screen as a fully formed action hero as Peter Quill aka "Star Lord" in the best superhero movie of the year Guardians Of The Galaxy.
It's no wonder he is in such high demand, with his name being attached to every franchise going and 2015 should be just as big with a role in Jurassic World.
Actress Of The Year - Scarlett Johansson
It has been a very good year for Scarlett Johansson, who at one point could have been in half of my top ten films of 2014, with career best performances in Her, and Under The Skin, a cameo in Chef alongside leading the push for a solo female superhero movie with Captain America: The Winter Soldier and beating The Rock to the top of the box office with Lucy.
Best Male Performance - Tom Hardy in Locke & Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler
Ultimately I couldn't pick between these two as they are both terrific and for different reasons.
Tom Hardy does an incredible job of carrying an entire movie which consists of him talking on a phone while driving a car. He provides just enough backstory throughout his conversations to create a fully realised character and earns bonus points for his spot on Welsh accent and concrete has never sounded so interesting.
Jake Gyllenhaal's Lou Bloom is a cross between Patrick Bateman and Travis Bickle who does whatever it takes to achieve his warped perception of the American Dream. Many critics focused on his weight loss and gaunt appearance but it is much more than that as he disappears into the character to create a wolf in sheep's clothing that can flash that killer smile.
Best Female Performance - Essie Davis (The Babadook)
Scarlett Johansson might have received the MVP Award for 2014 but the single best female performance of 2014 was Essie Davis's incredible turn in Australian horror film The Babadook.
Playing a woman trying to cope with the grief and sense of loss following her husband's death whilst trying to take care of her son who begins to act out when he discovers a mysterious pop-up book, which may or may not have summoned an evil spirit, Davis superbly executes a fine balancing act between fragile mother and deranged lunatic that evokes memories of Belen Rueda in The Orphanage and Jack Nicholson in The Shining.
Poster Of The Year - Under The Skin
Best Fight Scene - The kitchen fight in The Raid 2
Quite frankly if I had done a top ten fight scenes of 2014, the majority of the entries would have been from The Raid 2, but the cream of the crop was the kitchen fight between Rama and The Assassin which was six minutes and thirty seven seconds of the most amazing and brutal choreography that caused me to break out into a round of applause in the cinema screen and cemented Gareth Evans as the greatest action director of his generation.
Best Horror Film - The Babadook
It wasn't a great year for horror with a lot of duds like Devil's Due, Annabelle, etc however there were two welcome exceptions.
Oculus was very good but taking the top spot was The Babadook.
What really makes the film stand out from other horrors this year is the story and characters are as three dimensional as the pop up book which proves the catalyst for this terrifying tale.
So take my advice. Just take one look. You'll be thrilled and wowed by The Babadook
Best Song - Everything Is Awesome
Honourable Mention - Please Mr. Kennedy
The catchiest ear worm of a song in 2014 could be nothing other than Everything Is Awesome from The LEGO Movie because it is simply... awesome.
Please Mr. Kennedy from Inside Llewyn Davis must get a mention as not only a great song but for now having the ironical standpoint that two of the three people who were singing about not getting sent into outer space are now starring in Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens!
Best Score - Under The Skin by Mica Levi
Unsettling, otherworldly, haunting, creepy, beautiful and utterly unique.
An integral part of the film that elevates it to one of the most interesting cinematic experiences of the year.
Soundtrack Of The Year - Guardians Of The Galaxy
The best soundtrack of the year is one made up entirely of songs from the seventies and eighties.
From Redbone's Come And Get Your Love to Hooked On A Feeling, it is full of classics that are given a new twist and spin thanks to their use in the film.
Also it gave us one of the year's best moments with baby Groot dancing to the Jackson 5.
The Best Film You Didn't See - Snowpiercer & The Guest
People are probably sick of me banging on about how great Snowpiercer is and you only could have seen it if you happened to be at the Edinburgh Film Festival or imported the DVD from America or France.
Instead I've picked the best film that most people missed at the cinema this year and it is The Guest.
Featuring a terrific performance from Dan Stevens, it is so much more than the trailer suggested, taking some deliciously dark and twisted turns along the way and delivering a house guest that won't outstay its welcome on DVD.
Worst Film Of The Year
Tough decision as I have seen over 200 films this year and 37 of them received 1 star ratings.
Non-Film Event Of The Year - Hans Zimmer Revealed & Empire Magazine Podcast Live In Edinburgh
Easily the best love concert I have ever attended, one of my all-time favourite composers Hans Zimmer played over two hours of his greatest tracks with a live orchestra and choir.
Every song and theme was fantastic but highlights included Man Of Steel, a Pirates Of The Caribbean medley, The Dark Knight and The Thin Red Line which produced the odd tear down my face.
Hans down one of the best night's of my life.
In June as part of the Edinburgh Film Festival, Empire magazine hosted a live podcast recording and I made sure to attend (despite being hospitalised mere days earlier with kidney stones).
It was a very entertaining couple of hours as Chris, Helen, Phil and Ali provided the usual levels of film criticism, gags and spot prizes along with a great interview with Elijah Wood who got incredibly excited when he spotted a bottle of Irn Bru I had given the team as a welcome to Scotland present.
Favourite Cinema Marketing Campaign - The Grand Budapest Hotel
My personal favourite campaign that we did at the cinema this year was turning the foyer into The Grand Budapest Hotel for the film's opening weekend, complete with our own concierge Dallas K. and a Grand Budapest Hotel version of Guess Who.
Monday, 15 December 2014
Leviathan - review
A powerful film that examines a family in a remote fishing village's struggle to fight the system when their home is threatened by a development.
This is a very thinly veiled critique of the power and corruption rife in the Russian government and political system.
As strong and powerful as the vodka continuously drunk throughout the film. You'll leave feeling intoxicated by proxy with booze and anger.
4 stars
Saturday, 13 December 2014
The Thing - review
I can't believe that this film was a failure on its release as it is one of the true classics of the genre. Critics and the public found the body horror of the film too nauseating but Rob Bottin's truly 'out of this world' creations remain a highlight in the world of special effects, and like American Werewolf, all the more effective for being real, practical SFX rather than CGI (which is what would be used in the much-mooted prequel I'm sure). So Palmer's response to seeing a head sprout legs and scuttle away is exactly the same as the audiences "you've gotta be fucking kidding".
I have done film courses on the horror genre before and in them I have talked about the differences between tension and suspense. Suspense is where the audience knows more than the characters. For example, when the audience knows the killer is in the house and is waiting for them to jump out on their victims. Tension however is where the audience know as much as the characters, and this is what makes The Thing so effective.
You have a large group of people in an isolated location who are infiltrated by a shape shifting alien. They know that (at least) one of them is The Thing, and so do we, but nobody knows who it is.
This leads up to one of the best scenes in the movie and in cinema as an example of tension, the blood test.
Also contains one of cinema's best tag lines (Man is the warmest place to hide) and last lines, when two characters (no spoilers) sit down in the frozen camp and suspicious of each other, share a drink "Maybe we'll sit here a while, see what happens".
5 stars
Die Hard - review
Yes, Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
It's set on Christmas Eve and it is the touching story of one man doing everything in his power to be reunited with his family.
It is also one of the best action films ever made with a wisecracking cop with a death wish, a vest and no shoes going up against the greatest ever "British actor playing the villain" performance from Alan Rickman.
So is Die Hard the best Christmas movie ever made? Yippee-Kay-Aye Motherf*cker!
5 stars


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Melbourne Classics: Blessed
Posted by Jenn Winterbine
30. May, 2011
Ana Kokkinos' Blessed is a powerful tale of dysfunctional family life in contemporary suburbia.
An adaptation of Melbourne play Who's Afraid Of The Working Class? the film is set in the western suburbs and follows the stories of troubled teenagers estranged from their parents. They wag school, shoplift and get wasted under railway bridges. Knee-jerk conclusions about neglectful parents are shattered in the second half of the film, when the mother's stories are revealed.
Performances in Blessed are outstanding. France O'Connor won a well-deserved Best Actress AFI for her portrayal of Rhonda, a struggling single mother whose love for her children is primal. In Kokkinos' words, she is "the mother mainstream media loves to hate". The roles of close friends Katrina (Sophie Lowe) and Trisha (Anastasia Baboussaras) burst with life, whilst Eamon Farren's depiction of exploited street-kid Roo tugs at the heart strings.
Blessed is notable not only for its intimate look at socioeconomic issues, but also its poetic cinematography. The connection with characters is strengthened by close-up camera angles, whilst the dilapidated back-streets of Footscray are softened by a crisp, golden tinge. Melbourne's beaches are proudly showcased in astonishing shades of blue.
Blessed is a powerful piece of cinema, touching upon the taboo issues of youth suicide, sexual abuse and poverty with a profound sensitivity. Yet the tone of the film is neither gritty nor harrowing. Rather it is a delicately woven tapestry of stories that, in their entirety, are confronting yet strangely beautiful.
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Adaptive Flash is based on CASL, Nimble's patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout architecture, and InfoSight, the company's automated cloud-based management and support system. The platform is engineered to provide organizations with the highest levels of performance efficiently. Along with integrated data protection and predictive support, enterprise customers can deploy confidently and seamlessly scale their storage infrastructure as their business grows.
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The new CS700 Series array can handle a variety of performance-intensive enterprise workloads, such as large-scale VDI deployments and high transaction-volume databases, as well as other performance intensive server virtualization workloads such as Microsoft Exchange. The new All-Flash Shelf provides the flexibility to scale flash gradually up to 16 TBs per node, or 64 TBs in a 4-node scale-out cluster, delivering industry leading flash densities. These new products are able to deliver leading performance by leveraging CASL, a CPU-driven architecture that eliminates the dependence on disk spindles.
Meeting Enterprise Demands: Intelligent Cloud-based Analytics & High Availability
Organizations are forced to overprovision flash for performance-centric applications, incurring significant costs with overprovisioning and other overheads. Though performance-intensive applications benefit from residing on flash, enterprises are burdened with overheads associated with maintaining the entire working sets within a flash-only environment. Nimble's Adaptive Flash platform leverages InfoSight to recommend the exact amount of resources required as application demands change within an enterprise, while Nimble's scale-to-fit approach allows non-disruptive addition of resources, thus avoiding over provisioning, under-utilization, and increased costs.
Nimble provides greater than 'Five-Nines' (99.999 percent) level of system availability. Taking a ground-up approach, Nimble built its software architecture, CASL, with design elements such as fully redundant hardware, no single points of failure, and fully non-disruptive upgrades -- all of which address today's availability challenges. Furthermore, Nimble's unique approach to storage lifecycle management, InfoSight, leverages data sciences to deliver excellent storage health and operational efficiency.
The CS700 Series array and All-Flash Shelf will be generally available in June 2014.
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"The battle between all flash and hybrid flash array vendors will continue to rage for at least the next several years. Application workloads that require lots of performance and relatively little capacity will migrate more towards all flash array architectures, and those applications that require lots of capacity and relatively less performance will probably find hybrid array architectures more cost-effective. Solutions like Nimble's new CS700 and All-Flash Shelf give customers significant leeway in establishing the ratio between SSDs and HDDs to offer the flexibility necessary to accommodate a wide range of mixed data center workloads."
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"Today's hybrid and flash-only products force enterprises to create storage silos, resulting in increased costs and management complexity. Our Adaptive Flash platform will demand the storage industry rethink the way flash can be leveraged within datacenter and cloud environments. We've built a solution that can span a larger set of workloads with more performance and cost efficiency than any other flash solution on the market."
- Dan Leary, vice president of worldwide marketing, Nimble Storage
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Nimble Storage (NYSE: NMBL) is redefining the storage market with its Adaptive Flash platform. Nimble's flash storage solutions enable the consolidation of all workloads and eliminate storage silos by providing enterprises with significant improvements in application performance and storage capacity. At the same time, Nimble delivers superior data protection, while simplifying business operations and lowering costs. At the core of the Adaptive Flash platform is the patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture and InfoSight, an automated cloud-based management and support system that maintains storage system peak health. More than 3,000 enterprises, governments, and service providers have deployed Nimble's flash storage solutions across 37 countries. For more information about Nimble Storage, visit www.nimblestorage.com and follow us on Twitter: @nimblestorage.
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Welcome back to Model of the Week. This Wednesday, we are taking a closer look at doe-eyed Britt Koth, who you may remember as the devout Christian on MTV's "8th & Ocean." Koth is a 21-year old from Kansas City, MO, who hails from a very large family. She has nine siblings — four brothers and five sisters — six of whom were adopted from around the world.
She was discovered at age 16, when her mothered entered her in a Kansas City modeling contest. Koth quickly signed with a local agency, where she modeled for a few years before moving to Miami to sign with Irene Marie Management Group.
You may recognize her from her photos in Seventeen, Teen Vogue, Teen People, and Ocean Drive, as well as ad campaigns for Buckle, Roxy, Delia's, Chevrolet, and Quiksilver. Fittingly, Koth loves makeup and going to the beach, and she also spends time hiking, camping, fishing, and reading. To read what she had to say about fashion on FabSugar, and for insight into her beauty regimen and a photo gallery, read more
BELLASUGAR: What is your secret to beautiful skin and hair?
BRITT KOTH: For my hair, I love Aveda products, and I try to do a deep conditioner at least one time each month. For my skin, I drink lots of water, and I use Neutrogena's face lotion and face wash every day.
BELLA: What is the one product that you can't live without?
BK: Victoria Secret Very Sexy Makeup Lip Gloss. I love it.
BELLA: What is your guilty pleasure?
BK: Chocolate...definitely chocolate
BELLA: What are your favorite drugstore products?
BK: Maybelline Great Lash Mascara has always been my favorite drug store product. Oh, and also Bonne Belle's Dr. Pepper Lip Smacker!
BELLA: Happiness is...
BK: Being with my family. I have nine brothers and sisters, and I love spending my free time with them and my parents.
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WOODBURY, New York â Hitachi Kokusai Electronic America, Ltd., a leading provider of affordable, high performance cameras, will exhibit several broadcast and professional camera products at this yearâs Infocomm in Las Vegas, along with the Hitachi Digital Media Division (Infocomm Booth Number C5056.) Exhibits at the show run from June 9th to 11th.
âInfocomm is the most forward-looking Pro AV industry event in the world,â? said Sean Moran, Hitachi Kokusai Electric America National Sales Manager. âThe Infocomm Show awards Hitachi the chance to exhibit presentation and display products as well as state-of-the-art, broadcast camera packages to the many Pro AV professionals in attendance. Hitachi not only offers high-end production HDTV cameras, but also cost-effective models commonly found in security, institutional, medical, industrial, and government industries. We continue to develop technologies embraced by the professional video market.â?
The Hitachi Infocomm booth will exhibit a range of products, from cameras that address high-end production to video-conferencing and other lower-cost models. One of the products to be shown is the first HDTV model camera in Hitachiâs Z Series product line â the Z-HD5000/ CU-HF500 HDTV studio and EFP camera with digital CCU. Targeting a diverse customer baseâspanning TV stations, educational institutions, corporations, religious and cable facilitiesâthe Z-HD5000 is a two-piece dockable camera offering the versatility and flexibility necessary for multi-purpose applications including studio, field, and mobile video production. The camera can be docked to an optical fiber, triax, or RF wireless adapter, or a P2 HD recorder for standalone recording.
Also on display will be the SK-HD1000 state-of-the-art, multi-standard, multi-format studio and field HDTV production camera. The SK-HD1000 is a lightweight, two-piece dockable camera that offers maximum reconfiguration ability. The SK-HD1000 has three, 2/3-inch progressive scan 2.2 million pixel CCDs â with a high dynamic range. These allow the camera to produce an image with 1100 TVL resolution, with a SNR of 60db, at F11@2000 Lux. The camera provides both 60/50 Hz for NTSC and PAL applications.
Hitachi will also exhibit two point-of-view (POV) cameras at their Infocomm booth â the DK-H100 and DK-Z50. Recently introduced, the POV cameras share physical design, chassis, lenses and accessories. Both have 2/3-inch IT CCDs, switchable 59.95/50Hz operation, simultaneous SMPTE-292M 1920 x 1080i, SMPTE-259M SD-SDI and analog HD outputs, TCP/IP network control and motorized, five-position filter wheel. The DK-H100 and DK-Z50 POV cameras also share variable shutter to 1/10, 000s, 14-bit ADC, 38-bit DSP, full integration/compatibility with existing SK-HD1000/Z-HD5000 control panels and a new control teaming mode that improves matched camera characteristics, performance, and controls for 3-D production rig applications. The distinguishing factor for the two cameras is the sensors they use. The DK-H100 has 2.3 million-pixel IT-CCDs employed in the SK-HD1000, while the DK-Z50 utilizes the same sensor as the Z-HD500 HDTV camera.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 360,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2009 (ended March 31, 2010) consolidated revenues totaled 8,968 billion yen ($96.4 billion). Hitachi will focus more than ever on the Social Innovation Business, which includes information and telecommunication systems, power systems, environmental, industrial and transportation systems, and social and urban systems, as well as the sophisticated materials and key devices that support them. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the companyâs website at http://www.hitachi.com.
Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd., 150 Crossways Park Drive, Woodbury, NY 11797, U.S.A.
Tel: (516) 921-7200; Fax: (516) 496-3718; website: www.hitachikokusai.us
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Shortly before the signing was postponed, Japan's foreign minister had called the military intelligence agreement with South Korea a 'historic event.'
South Korea's President Lee made a historic visit to Myanmar this week to boost long-frozen relations – and send a message to North Korea about the benefits of coming in from the cold.
Like the thousands of women who fled North Korea before her, Kim Eun-sun made it into China and paid a woman to help her, only to discover she'd traded one form of captivity for another.
First, to make up for the embarrassment of the failed missile; second, the regime's past nuclear tests didn't go very well.
North Korea today threatened to take 'special actions' against the South. The rising rhetoric comes as US and South Korean forces devise ways to coordinate closely in the event of battle with the North.
Missiles have been prominent in the news with India's successful test, North Korea's failed one, and much talk of missile defense systems in Europe and the Persian Gulf. Here are six recent noteworthy missile-technology advances.
But the failure, coming amid the build-up for the centennial of Kim Il-sung's birth, does not appear to have changed North Korea's policies. More missile tests are likely, say analysts.
In a move designed to shore up his standing, Kim Jong-un received the title of 'first secretary' ahead of the centennial of his grandfather's birth and an anticipated rocket launch.
President Obama's admonition against firing a long-range rocket next month went unheeded by North Korea, which argued it is for economic development. Will China and Russia have any sway?
On a trip to South Korea, President Obama visits the heavily-armed DMZ and warns the regime across the border not to test a long-range missile next month.
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