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The men buzz like bees to a honeypot, and this is the stickiest jar in the bar. Outside, some uni boys smoke and let off a little steam as the girls leave, leaping, whooping, catwalking, arms linked, for their next pit stop. “This is what’s wrong with women today,” one of the boys says. “They’re after affirmation by exciting other males. They look the part, they excite potentiality, but never, ever deliver.” When they hit Platform 1, all the clutches are dropped on the floor and they dance to Calvin Harris and Akon. I buy them a round of apple sour shots that taste like cheap sweets. On the other side of the small club there’s another gang of girls. Black and white, they’re not such skinny malinkies, and their look is edgier: strong graphic prints, vintage-style cuts and colourful patterns; the shoes twinkle with gold, silver and diamanté, the bags tinier, the earrings bigger. I ask one, Cheri, do her lot shop for the weekend? “Course!” "Wow, this is insanely confronting," said a beaming Collette. She thanked series creator Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Juno." AMC's glossy 1960s Madison Avenue saga "Mad Men," which last year became the first basic cable show to win a top series award, won the best drama trophy for a second time. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Glenn Close's performance as a ruthless trial attorney on "Damages" and Bryan Cranston's turn as a meth-making teacher on "Breaking Bad" were honored Sunday with the top drama series acting Emmys, the second consecutive trophies for both. "Oh my goodness," exlaimed Cranston. "I'm a poor kid from the valley. Wow! I don't know what I'm doing up here. I feel like Cinderfella." Close called it a "huge privilege" to be part of entertainment community, then tweaked her show's writers. Her role is "maybe the character of my lifetime, depending on what they do this season," Close said. Michael Emerson, who plays the cruelly devious Ben on "Lost," and Cherry Jones, the stalwart U.S. president on "24," were honored as best supporting actors in drama series. "Wowza," Jones said. Emerson accepted his award for what he called "the role of my lifetime." Alec Baldwin of "30 Rock" and Toni Collette of "United States of Tara" were honored as best lead actors in comedy series at the Emmys, which kept to a lighthearted, viewer-friendly tone. "I'll be honest with you. I'd trade this to look like him," Baldwin said as he accepted his best comedy yyqq0923 actor trophy from Rob Lowe of "Brothers&Sisters."
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发表于 :2009-09-23 10:28 |
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At River Island — which just filed a healthy company report, given the current retail horrors — Sarah Walters, the head of communications, estimates that nearly half the customers shop at least once a week. “It’s very focused on going out,” she says. “It’s about Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, festivals in the summer and parties at Christmas.” She describes them wanting “fit, fabric and something new and hot”. The design team’s fashion leads “come, in no particular order, from music, the street, celebrity, travel and catwalk”. Above all, she says, their customer wants “to look sexy, show off her tan and her legs”. Going out is a huge ritual for women, and the expectation and bonding start with the shopping. “Then,” says Walters, “they all get together, watch The X Factor, get ready and go out.” Round at Stef’s, the girls have on TMF, a music channel. Stef walks me through her wardrobe. She spends 20% of her income on night-time statement clothes, jewellery and accessories. She doesn’t buy Primark or New Look, more American Apparel, Topshop, All Saints and Zara, but “I never do designer”. Her friends nod in approval. “It’s far too expensive because we never wear anything more than once or twice.” Stef says her “fashion choices are all about shopping. I look at the mannequins, I check what’s new in. I find magazines a bit behind. When they were on about body-con and ToyWatches, I was, like, hello, I’ve been doing that since January”. Going out is about so much more than an outfit. Selfridges knows this, and come week’s end, the London store’s ground-floor fashion and beauty hall forms a setting for the dedicated glamour puss: hair irons, hair pieces, glitter tattoos, manis, pedis, make-overs and style advisers can have you ready to walk the walk. Up on the new 3rd Central floor space, the younger designers have been grouped together to encourage this kind of shopper to go crazy. Craig Parker on the Marc by Marc Jacobs counter says that Thursday night is “small bag night”, when he often finds himself folding tissue around a customer’s old clothes, then squeezing them into the store’s smallest bag as he waves her off on a night out in her new purchases. “I love this sort of customer,” he says. “She comes out of work on a Thursday or Friday feeling ‘bleurgh’, then comes in here and soon she’s feeling ‘aaah’. She lives for the weekend, she’s young, funky and excited.” Kristin Chenoweth of "Pushing Daisies" and Jon Cryer of "Two and a Half Men" won supporting acting Emmys for their comedies and proved that acceptance speeches can be entertaining. "I'm not employed now so I'd like to be on `Mad Men.' Wow! I also like `The Office' and `24,"' said Chenoweth, alternating between tears and smiles as she accepted for her canceled ABC series. "Thank you so much to the academy for recognizing a show that's no longer on the air." Backstage, the Tony Award-winning Chenoweth noted that she is appearing on an upcoming episode of Fox's show "Glee," has shot two movies and is doing a series of concerts. Cryer, whose series is the most-watched comedy on TV, brought a wry tone to his speech. "I used to think that awards were just shallow tokens of momentary popularity, but now I realize they are the only true measure of a person's worth as a human being," Cryer said. "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" won the trophy for best variety, music or comedy series, its seventh in a row. "Grey Gardens," the story of a reclusive mother and daughter who were relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, yyqq0923 won for best TV movie.
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发表于 :2009-09-23 10:28 |
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The BBC's Dickens |
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Heading towards a cocktail bar in Clifton, Bristol, is a minicab carrying four pretty young women, all big hair, bottle-tanned flesh and anticipation, set for their big night of the week. Meet Stef and her mates Jade, Tasha and Hannah. “We’re out till our false eyelashes fall off,” says Stef. A debate on the various merits of the Girls Aloud Eylure lash range ensues. “Are yours Cheryl Cole ones, too?” “No, they’re Sarah Harding’s, they’re more natural-looking.” “My sister works in Superdrug and she says nobody buys the Nicola ones.” These girls escape their lives by dressing like super-model showgirls. You may not like their look, but you can’t deny the effort. The four love fake eyelashes but they dislike buying coats. “I hate spending money on coats.” “Me too.” “And umbrellas.” “Me and Jade went out last week and got our hair wet, so we just went home.” Go into a branch of All Saints on a Saturday, and watch girls buying accessories and dresses. On one Saturday in Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield, they apparently sold ￡8,000 worth of one kind of studded belt, but barely anybody bought a jacket. There’s a type who will regularly drop ￡250 on a dress. She buys a suit, coat or jacket only on pain of death (and we’re clearly not talking death from the cold, because, as any visitor to a British town centre on a Saturday night knows, coats, even in midwinter, really mess with your look). The BBC's Dickens adaptation "Little Dorrit," co-produced with PBS's Boston affiliate WGBH, won for best miniseries as well as for cinematography, art direction and costumes. Ireland was well represented as Irish actress Dearblha Walsh won for directing "Little Dorrit" and Irish actor Brendan Gleeson won for playing Winston Churchill in the HBO miniseries "Into the Storm." Glenn Close's performance as a ruthless trial attorney on "Damages" and Bryan Cranston's turn as a meth-making, cancer-stricken teacher on "Breaking Bad" were honored with the top drama series acting Emmys, the second consecutive trophies for both. The first basic cable show to win a top series honor, "Mad Men" had the chance for a second consecutive best-drama trophy. Potential trailblazer "Family Guy" was the first animated series to vie for the best comedy award since a 1961 bid by "The Flintstones." The Fox show was up against last year's winner, actress-writer Fey's "30 Rock," trying for its third consecutive award in the category. The TV academy, meanwhile, hoped to avoid an unwanted rerun at the 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards: paltry viewership. The 2008 ceremony was the least-watched ever with an audience of 12.3 million. Acclaimed but low-rated series like AMC's retro 1960s show "Mad Men" are seen as one reason viewers bypassed the awards, so major categories were expanded to increase the odds for more popular fare. There were as many as seven nominees per category, compared with the traditional five. Rising network star Jim Parsons of CBS'Wow! "The Big Bang Theory" made the cut for best comedy series actor, but niche premium cable shows including HBO's "Flight of the Conchords" and Showtime's "Weeds" grabbed a hefty share of nods. TV's most-watched comedy, CBS' "Two and a Half Men," failed to score a best series bid, although stars Charlie Sheen and Cryer did. Harris and Emmy executive producer Don Mischer promised to keep the scheduled three-hour ceremony snappy, yyqq0923 but they had less room to maneuver than planned. A TV academy proposal to pre-tape some acceptancesand show them in a truncated version - gaining time for something more entertaining than speeches - was quashed by industry opposition.
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发表于 :2009-09-23 10:27 |
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Hong Kong is pulling |
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I was very interested in the news I read from MarketWatch that said, "Hong Kong is pulling all its physical gold holdings from depositories in London, transferring them to a high-security depository newly built at the city's airport", although it does not say why the depository was built at the airport, of all places. It could've been situated in a thick vault inside a mountain, out in the middle of nowhere so that you could see the enemy coming, and get a chance to try out some of that expensive firepower you have been itching to use without shooting up a lot of innocent bystanders. And the police also like to employ all their people and new equipment, so they could shut down whole airport down for a week, making you miss your flight and weekend meeting with Analyst Frost & Sullivan recently forecast that the telepresence and videoconferencing market would swell to an annual global worth of $4.7bn (￡2.7bn) by 2014. Growth will be fuelled by high-quality products, the declining cost of broadband and business chiefs desire to minimise travel costs, the research firm said. Gartner is another market watcher to forecast a boom in telepresence take-up. The analyst predicted that high-definition video telepresence will be responsible for the loss of 2.1 million airline seats per year, costing the travel and hospitality industry an annual $3.5bn. Immersive experience Services specialist 5i runs sales training courses for resellers moving into the telepresence space. Director of training services Anna Guest claimed it was important to draw the distinction between telepresence and videoconferencing. Telepresence is a really immersive experience and is fundamentally different to videoconferencing or web collaboration, she said. One of the challenges it faces comes from people who want to sell video conferencing and claim telepresence is just a fancier version. Guest claimed the training had proved a hit and its popularity was starting to filter down to smaller VARs. To date it has mostly been the larger integrators, she said. But we are now rolling out to some of the smaller players who work on a national, rather than an international, basis. The Global Telepresence Market report from ABI Research, published earlier this year, predicted that the market for managed telepresence services will be worth more than $360m in 2011. The report stated that telepresences cost, coupled with technology interoperability issues, had so far proved prohibitive to all firms outside of the large enterprise arena. But a managed or on-demand model could drive take-up at SME and even consumer level, ABI claimed. Stan Schatt, ABIs vice president, said: Take a small business that has a supply chain relationship with an Asian company. The fee for an hour in a telepresence room is always going to be less than the cost of sending a key executive all the way to China. And fewer air miles are better for the environment. Traditional audio, web and video conferencing technologies are also still enjoying healthy demand, according to more Frost & Sullivan research. The Western European Conferencing Services Market report, published this summer, projects that the regions market worth will more than double by 2014. Last year, revenue from conferencing services in Western Europe was $1.12bn and Frost & Sullivan predicts this will grow to $2.31bn in 2014. The analyst claims UK demand for audio and web conferencing kit will remain strong for the foreseeable future. Reducing business travel Telecoms distributor Nimans recently entered the video conferencing fray by taking stock of vendor Polycoms QDX 6000 model. The Salford-based firm claims entry-level video technology is still appealing for comms resellers. Ian Brindle, head of conferencing sales at Nimans,Wow! said: Resellers do not have to be officially accredited or have an in-depth technical knowledge to sell this product. Demand for it is destined to be high. Brindle asserted that environmental concerns and a desire to reduce business travel would be key drivers in end user adoption. There are now no barriers for resellers to overcome; this opens up bigger revenue streams, yyqq0923 he added.
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发表于 :2009-09-23 10:27 |
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Managers and executives need ? |
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So gold is in such demand that investors are willing to pay a 13.6% premium over the gold holdings of CEF? Wow! It's like I've been saying; buy gold, silver and oil because your government is acting irresponsibly with the money, and now people are finding out for themselves how good that advice is and how it is so easy that they probably gleefully shout, "Whee!" although the only person I ever heard gleefully shouting was me. Richard Daughty is general partner and COO for Smith Consultant Group, serving the financial and medical communities, and the editor of The Mogambo Guru economic newsletter - an avocational exercise to heap disrespect on those who desperately deserve it. Jess Thompson-Hughes, managing director of wireless specialist React Technologies, claimed he had sold a handful of video products over the years, but had not encountered a great deal of customer demand. He added that most smaller firms were content with voice technology. There was a big splurge of video at the end of the 90s, but most people are still happy to pick up the phone, he added. Karen Whittaker, marketing consultant for Cisco and Oracle training house Vortex 6, claimed end user training to increase understanding of the technology would boost take-up. There are lots of technical reseller courses focusing on delivering and installing the technology, she said. But nobody seems to have looked at the end user area. Managers and executives need to understand how to use it. Whittaker added that telepresence would be a huge growth area for her firm and resellers of all sizes could get involved with the technology. You do not have to be a Gold partner to specialise in the technology, she said. Guest added that interest in telepresence was beginning to seep down from the enterprise space to the mid-market. Telepresence is in the early adopter phase, she said. Salespeople and businesses need to understand what the business value is. It is sexy technology, yyqq0923 but the challenge for resellers and vendors is translating that wow-factor into a proper business case.
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