One of the biggest fashion events, the 11th TOKYO GIRLS COLLECTION ‘10 (TGC), was held at Saitama Super Arena on the 4th, and about 80 models and celebrities showed up.
The theme of TGC this year was “Back to the Classic Future”, and the 22 different brands help determine what the trends will be for autumn/winter 2010. TGC has attracted many girls in Japan, and this year it pulled approximately 32,000 people. Moreover, TGC was live broadcasted on Niconico douga for the first time.
AKB48 was one of the secret guests, and not only did they perform three songs at the stage, but also 13 members walked the runway as models. Sawajiri Erika also showed up as a secret guest, and you can check all the models who attended the TGC here!
Check after the jump for pictures and video from the event!
It has also been announced that TGC will be held in Nagoya in February, and then in Beijing in spring 2011.
[starttext] Visual Kei band Kra is all set to release their new album “Gurico” on November 24th.
This will be the band’s first full album since “Life” back in early 2009, and luckily for fans, it should be worth the wait. It will contain all the band’s most recent singles, like “Love Lab,” “bird,” and “Denowo Kuusou Riron.”
The album will come out in CD and CD + DVD limited versions. The DVD limited will come with special footage of “Kra Kimodameshide Dokyodameshi♪“, and it will also come packaged with a postcard from their most recent single, “Denowo Kuusou Riron”, that acts as a lottery registration ticket.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI23Fi-e458endofvid [starttext] On today’s broadcast of SBS Inkling, miss A’s Suzy replaced f(x)’s Sulli to MC alongside 2AM’s Jo Kwon and CNBLUE’s Jung Yonghwa. Sulli was not present today due to her participation in the SMTOWN LIVE ‘10 World Tour in Los Angeles.
Today’s Inkigayo had the following Take 7 nominees:
Homme (2AM’s Changmin & 8Eight’s Lee Hyun) (Still Eating Well) Supernova (On Days That I Missed You) SHINee (Lucifer) SECRET (Madonna) Jo Sung Mo (I Want to Cheat) Taeyang (I’ll Be There) F.T Island (Love Love Love) Due to their various reasons, SHINee, SECRET, and Jo Sung Mo were not present to perform their songs on today’s episode of Inkigayo
SBS Inkigayo was once again filled with great performances today. Suzy from miss A was the special replacement MC for this week in place of Sulli who is away in Los Angeles.
Excluding the comeback of Wheesung, debut of Dalmatian, and Nassun featuring G.O’s first stage, other artists who were present to perform today include:
SE7EN (Digital Bounce), Rainbow (A), Narsha (Mamma Mia), Seo In Kook (Baby U), Chae Yeon (Look Look Look), Nine Muses (No Playboy), Infinite (She’s Back), and Teen Top (Clap).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4dHDRyi3Gkendofvid [starttext] Cracked up: Taylor Strowger, 10, from Darfield explores earthquake damage to Highfield Road, 30km west of Christchurch
New Zealand's powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted railway lines around Christchurch ripped a new 11ft wide fault line in the earth's surface, a geologist said today.
Canterbury University geology professor Mark Quigley said what 'looks to us that it could be a new fault' had ripped across the earth and pushed some surface areas up.
The quake was caused by the continuing collision between the Pacific and Australian tectonic plates, said Prof Quigley, who is leading a team trying to pin down the temblor's source.
'One side of the earth has lurched to the right... up to 11 feet and in some places been thrust up,' he told National Radio.
Destruction: A man walks over a damaged road in Paiapoi, 13 miles south of Christchurch after the city was hit by an earthquake Saturday
'The long linear fracture on the earth's surface does things like break apart houses, break apart roads. We went and saw two houses that were completely snapped in half by the earthquake.'
At least 500 buildings, including 90 properties, were designated as destroyed in the 7.1-magnitude quake that struck on Friday near the South Island city of 400,000 people. Most other buildings sustained only minor damage.
The quake cut power across the region, roads were blocked by debris and gas and water supplies were disrupted, but Christchurch mayor Bob Parker said services were being restored today.
Power was back to 90 per cent of the city and water supply had resumed for all but 15 to 20 per cent of residents, he said. Portable toilets had been provided and tanks of fresh water placed around the city.
Mr Parker said it would take a long time to fully fix some core services such as water and sewerage. 'Our first priority is just people,' he said. 'That's our worry.'
This US Geological Survey (USGS) shows on image of a ShakeMap of the South Island of New Zealand on Friday as an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale struck
A seismogram made available by Geosciences Australia of the early morning earthquake which hit west of the southern city of Christchurch
Up to 90 extra police officers had flown in to Christchurch to help and troops were likely to join the recovery effort tomorrow, he said.
Today specialist engineering teams began assessing damage to all central city buildings, said Paul Burns of the city's search and rescue service.
Officials said schools across the region would remain closed for the next two days to allow time to check whether they were safe.
Only two serious injuries were reported from the quake as chimneys and walls of older buildings were reduced to rubble and crumbled to the ground. Prime Minister John Key said it was a miracle no one was killed.
Part of the reason the city escaped major injuries was because the quake happened before dawn local time, Mr Key said.
A walking bridge just about remains over the Avon River in Avonside, Christchurch. A severely damaged chimney stands on Kilmarnock Street
Rubble-strewn street: Experts said the low number of injuries in the powerful quake reflected the country's strict building codes
A man on a pushbike (R) photographs a damaged building in New Zealand's second largest city Christchurch
'If this had happened five hours earlier or five hours later there would have been absolute carnage in terms of human life,' he told TV One News Sunday.
Roger Bates, whose dairy farm at Darfield was close to the quake's epicentre 19 miles west of Christchurch, said the new fault line had ripped up the surface across his land.
'The whole dairy farm is like the sea now, with real (soil) waves right across the dairy farm. We don't have physical holes (but) where the fault goes through it's been raised a meter or meter and a half,' he said.
Experts said the low number of injuries in the powerful quake reflected the country's strict building codes.
'Thank God for earthquake strengthening 10 years ago,' Anglican Dean of Christchurch the Rev Peter Beck said.
Euan Smith, professor of Geophysics at Victoria University, speculated that the very soft soils of Christchurch had 'acted like a shock absorber over a short period...
doing less damage to smaller buildings'.
Unstable buildings standon Columbo Street: Civil Defence declared a state of emergency and there has been considerable damage across the city and surrounding areas
A workman (top-R) uses a hose near a water main as he works near a large hole in a street in New Zealand's second largest city
Rebuilding infrastructure such as roads, water and sewerage systems 'would be a major cost' that the government would have to meet
Mr Key, who flew to Christchurch to inspect the damage, said it was 'an absolute miracle' that no one had died.
He said the city 'looks like something off a movie set', with wrecked buildings, buckled roads, ruined water mains and sewerage systems and some flooding caused by broken water pipes.
Rebuilding infrastructure such as roads, water and sewerage systems 'would be a major cost' that the government would have to meet, he said.
Canterbury Emergency Management Office manager Jon Mitchell said the central city would remain cordoned off with no public access before today, except for inner-city residents.
Scientists from GNS Science began installing extra seismographs in the region to record seismic data from the continuing stream of aftershocks rocking the region.
More than 60 had been recorded by today.
New Zealand's last major earthquake registered magnitude 7.8 and hit South Island's Fiordland region on July 16, 2009, moving the southern tip of the country 12ins closer to Australia
Up to 40 portable seismographs were being set up, including some due from Stanford University in the US, the agency said.
Seismologists study aftershock sequences to help learn more about the mechanics of the main shock and rupture, and to check whether stress in the earth's crust has been transferred to other faults in the region.
New Zealand sits above an area of the Earth's crust where two tectonic plates collide. The country records more than 14,000 earthquakes a year - but only about 150 are felt by residents. Fewer than 10 a year do any damage.
New Zealand's last major earthquake registered magnitude 7.8 and hit South Island's Fiordland region on July 16, 2009, moving the southern tip of the country 12ins closer to Australia, seismologist Ken Gledhill said at the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNUh-lqJ-UMendofvid [starttext] By Daily Mail Reporter
Pulling the punches: Abbey Johnstone left, and Lisa Parker come to blows on tonight's X Factor
Temper tantrums are nothing new on The X Factor but last night's show takes things to a whole new level when two contestants come to blows on stage.
Horrified Viewers saw aspiring singers Abbey Johnston and Lisa Parker, aka Ablisa, storm off to a chorus of boos before they even get as far as singing.
But after a poor performance of Shayne Ward's That's My Goal and managing to insult some of the judging panel, things turned sour when Abbey hit her friend across the face.
Fight night: Abbey hits out at Lisa after she made comments about Abbey having a crush on judge Louis Walsh
Outburst: Abbey claimed she hit her friend because she'd embarrassed them both
Abbey claimed she was angry with Lisa after her rude response to some gentle criticism from guest judge Natalie Imbruglia by demanding: 'Who are you, may I ask?' Simon Cowell takes the pair to task, telling them they have 'the worst attitude' of any contestants ever and things go from bad to worse as Abbey lashes out at Lisa before leaving the stage.
A show spokesman said producers broke up the 'heated' dispute during auditions filmed at Birmingham's LG Arena in June.
The friends, from Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, also attempted to sing Journey's Don't Stop Believin'.
'Pass on to them it's four No's': Simon and the judges converse with producers after the girls storm off the stage
Tantrums: The duo stormed off stage after they were booed by the crowd
Abbey said she hit her friend after Lisa falsely claimed she had the hots for judge Louis Walsh.
Lisa told Louis: 'Abbey thinks she's fit... even though you're old.'
When the crowd booed them, the duo stormed off stage before returning again
Backstage, a furious Lisa and Abbey were separated from each other, with host Dermot O'Leary telling the latter 'you cannot strike people'.
Abbey admitted she was angry after Lisa spoke rudely to Natalie, saying: 'It's the last time I ever do anything for her again.'
Calm down: X Factor host Dermot O'Leary tells Abbey 'you cannot strike people' as she is separated from Lisa backstage
Excuses: Lisa claimed she wasn't trying to offend Imbruglia, saying 'I didn't know who she is'
There are stormy times for one contestant who annoys Cowell when he admits to changing his name for a more rock 'n' roll version.
Scottish-born Storm Lee, or Lee Gardner as he was once known, came all the way from Los Angeles in a bid to make his name.
He started off with a soulful rendition of The Police's Every Breath You Take, but was stopped by Cowell who advised him to sing something else.
But Cowell clearly isn't impressed, telling him: 'I'm not going to call you Storm any more, because I think it's a stupid name. I'm gonna call you Lee.
'This performance is crazy. Just sing the song and sing like you've never sung before.'
Causing a Storm: Simon Cowell tells the singer who changed his name from Lee Gardner that he can't take him seriously on tonight's show
'Parisian Jedward': Brothers Samir and Medhi had the crowd on their feet, but Simon told Louis off for 'creating a monster' with last year's Jedward
Cheryl ended up telling Simon off, saying it was 'very rude' not to call Storm by his legal name.
After singing U2's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Louis told Storm: 'I thought you had a great voice.'
Cheryl agreed, but Simon insisted the 'character' he had created wasn't working for him... but still said yes.
There is also an appearance by a French version of Jedward.
Twem, made up of twins Samir and Medhi, travelled all the way from Paris to tackle Lady Gaga's Let's Dance.
Second time lucky: 16-year-old Liam Payne was back after getting through to Simon's house in Barbados in 2008
Blown away: The teen impressed with Cry Me a River and received a standing ovation from Simon and Natalie Imbruglia
Teenage girls have a new hearthrob in 16-year-old Liam Payne, who returned to the show after making it through to the judge's houses round in 2008. At the time Simon told him he wasn't ready.
The determined teen said before his second attempt, 'I know what it's like to get thrown out, and I don't want to go through that again.' Heblew the judges away with 'Cry Me a River', and was sent straight through by the judges.
Another 16-year-old, Cher Lloyd made it through to the next round, but in contrast to Liam's fresh-faced innocence, the confident contestant swaggered her way through a provocative rendition of Turn My Swag On, by Soulja Boy.
The youngster, dressed in ripped jeans and boots, struck a chord with Cheryl, who said she was 'right up my alley'.
Pixie Lott will appear in next week's show as she joins the judging panel in Cardiff.
Confident: Cher Lloyd another 16-year-old took a more provocative approach with Soulja Boy's Turn My Swag On
'Right up my alley': Cheryl was particularly impressed with the teen, who sported a matching hand tattoo
One of the biggest fashion events, the 11th TOKYO GIRLS COLLECTION ‘10 (TGC), was held at Saitama Super Arena on the 4th, and about 80 models and celebrities showed up.
It has also been announced that TGC will be held in Nagoya in February, and then in Beijing in spring 2011.
