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() — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:53:58 +0000

Song Hye Kyo

() — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:07:55 +0000

Song Hye Kyo, born on 26th February, 1982, is a Korean model and actress. Before getting her arts degree at Sejong University, Song made her debut by winning the Grand Prize in model search in SunKyung Smart and starring in a Sunday morning drama called "Happy Morning" (KBS,1996). She starred in number of hit dramas including All In, Autumn Fairy Tale, and Full House. Due to her popularity she can be seen frequently on advertisements when she is not acting. She is currently with SidusHQ.

Song debuted in the entertainment industry when she won the Grand Prize in SunKyung Smart, a school uniform company in 1996 when she was finishing her third year in high school. It was not long until she starred in her first drama, "Happy Morning." Since then she continued to star in various dramas and sitcoms.

Her first big break came when Song co-starred in the KBS drama Autumn Fairy Tale in 2000 with Song Seung-hun and Won Bin. The show quickly became popular as a tragic love story.

Her popularity continued to climb when she played a leading role in the poker drama All In, alongside Lee Byung-Hun. The drama was so popular that the title of the show itself entered everyday vocabulary in Korea. They soon were involved in a relationship off-camera which gave both of them heavy publicity. Rumours regarding their possible marriage circulated. However, the relationship survived for less than a year.

Another big break came when she played a major role in the very popular TV comedy series Full House in 2004. Another popular star Rain co-starred in the drama. They were rumored to be a couple, but they denied it and said they were just good friends.

She will release her video album in December by StarM Planning entertainment company because she has been pursuing her dream of becoming a "hallyu queen" in Japan.

Emi Kobayashi

() — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:59:19 +0000

Emi Kobayashi (小林?美, Kobayashi Emi?, born January 1, 1983) is a Japanese gravure idol, and a female talent. She is from Tokyo, belongs to the show-business production Suns Entertainment. She belonged to Yellow Cab before 2004. One of her great-grandmother is Russian. She portrayed the prostitute who turn nun Saori in Lion-Maru G.

Profile
Nickname: Koba-emi
Profession: Actress and 'gravure idol' (Japanese term: swimsuit/bikini model)
Date of Birth: January 1, 1983
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Height: 165 cm (5 feet and 5.0 inches)
Measurements: B88 W56 H83 cm (B34.6 W22.0 H32.7 inches)
Blood type: B
Talent Agency: Suns Entertainment

Career
She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin Senior High School and the Course of Management at Aoyama Gakuin University.
She took part in the swimming club of Aoyama Gakuin Senior High School when she was a freshman.
When she belonged to Yellow Cab, she is a member of R.C.T.
She is a defender of the futsal team Carezza. Her uniform number is 3.

Activities

TV Programs
Kyabutomushi, Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting
Odaiba-kei Bikini de Manyumanyu, Fuji Satellite Broadcasting
R# Room Number, TV Asahi 2003 R#216
Papa ni Onedari
Naku Hi
Dokushin 3!!, TV Asahi 2003
Hiroshi Sekiguchi no Friend Park II, TBS 2003-04
Ken Shimura no Baka-tonosama, Fuji Television 2003
Takajin no soko made Itte Iinkai, YTV
Akko ni Omakase!, TBS
Zettai Tsukaeru Drive Tour 3, NTV 2005
Jichael Mackson, MBS 2005
Uchimura Produce, TV Asahi 2005
Quiz Presen' Variety Q-sama!!, TV Asahi 2005, 2006
Mecha-Mecha Iketeru!, Fuji Television 2006
Quiz! Hexagon II, Fuji Television 2006
Do-tanki Tsumekomi Kyoiku! Gowan! Coaching!!, TV Tokyo 2006
Konya mo Doll-bako!! R, TV Tokyo 2006
KICK IN! GAROTAS FUTSAL TV, Fuji Satellite Broadcasting
FNS 26 Jikan TV Kokumintekina Omoshirosa! Shijo Saidai!! Manatsu no Quiz Matsuri 26 Jikan Buttoshi Special "Hijoshiki wa Bishonure! Asa made Nep-league SP" 2006
Saishu Keikoku! Takeshi no Hontou wa Kowai Katei no Igaku, ABC
Lion-Maru G, TV Tokyo 2006
Roshiago Kaiwa, NHK E 2007-

Soccer chicks

() — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:48:58 +0000

Akane Soma

() — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:34:10 +0000

Profile
Name: Akane Soma
JapaneseName: 相馬?
DOB: Sept 8, 1975
Place: Fukuoka, Japan
Height: 164cm
Sizes: B83 W58 H84 S24
Profession: Model
Country: Japan
Currently Working in: Taiwan

Color management system [CMS]

() — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:35:40 +0000

In digital imaging systems, color management is the controlled conversion between the colors of various color devices, such as scanners, digital cameras, monitors, TV screens, film printers, printers, offset presses, and corresponding media.

The primary goal of color management is to obtain a good match across color devices; for example, a video which should appear the same color on a computer LCD monitor, a plasma TV screen, and on a printed frame of video. Color management helps to achieve the same appearance on all of these devices, provided the devices are capable of delivering the needed color intensities.

Concepts
Various concepts and components are needed in a color management system:

Characterization
In order to describe the behavior of the various output devices they must be compared (calibrated) in relation to a standard color space. Often a step called linearization is performed first, in order to get most out of limited 8-bit color paths. Instruments used for measuring device colors include colorimeters and spectrophotometers. As an intermediate result the device gamut is described in the scattered measurement data. The measurement data (CGATS) are often not usable immediately. Such data needs to be prepared for high speed conversions of the actual image data. The transformation of the scattered measurement data into a more regular form, usable by the application, is called profiling. Profiling is a complex mathematical process. After the profiling is finished, an idealized color description of the device is created. This description is called a profile.

Flexibility
Transforming profiled color information to different output devices is achieved by referencing the profile data into a standard color space. It is easy to convert colors from one device to a selected standard, and from that color space to the colors of another device. By ensuring that the reference color space covers the many possible colors that humans can see, this concept allows one to exchange colors between many different color output devices.

Communicating diversity
Image formats themselves (such as JPEG and TIFF) may contain embedded color profiles, but are not required to do so by the image format. The International Color Consortium standard was created to bring various developers and manufacturers together. The ICC standard permits the exchange of output device characteristics and color spaces in the form of metadata. This allows the embedding of color profiles into images as well as storing them in a database or a profile directory.

Color space consistency
Editing spaces (better known as working spaces) are a valuable concept that facilitates good results while compositing and manipulating images. They behave differently from most output device color spaces. They must be consistent regarding gray editing and color arrangement. For instance after brightening an image a gray should not become greenish. Most often such editing color spaces are described in simple mathematical formulas, such as sRGB or Adobe RGB.

Gamut mapping
Since different devices don't have the same gamut, they need some rearrangement near the borders of the gamut. Some colors need to be shifted to the inside of the gamut as they otherwise cannot be represented on the output device and would simply be clipped. For instance to print a mostly saturated blue from a monitor to paper with a typical CMYK printer will surely fail. The paper blue will not be that saturated. Conversely, the bright cyan of an inkjet printer cannot be easily presented on an average computer monitor. The color management system can utilize various methods to achieve pleasant results and give experienced users control of the gamut mapping behavior.

Implementations
Parts of this technology are implemented in the operating system (OS), helper libraries, the application, and devices. The concept for color management (known as ICM) in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office products is that every driver for an input device makes a color transformation from the color space of the device to sRGB. For the output device or the monitor, the driver has to make a color transformation from sRGB to the color space of the output device. This kind of implementation of color management is very user-friendly, because there is no need for any configuration. However, the quality of the results depends entirely on the quality of the color transformations, which are part of the drivers.

A more open concept, platform independent view of color management is the use of an ICC-compatible color management system. The International Color Consortium (ICC) is an industry consortium which has defined an open standard for a Color Matching Module (CMM) at the OS level, and color profiles (ICC profiles) for the devices and working space. Beginning with Windows Vista, color management in Windows will be handled at the OS level through an ICC V4-compatible color management standard and API known as Windows Color System. Apple's Mac OS X and the classic Mac OS have long been capable of such color management which is called ColorSync.

Another ICC concept is to make color profiles a part of file formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, EPS, PDF, and SVG.

The Linux operating system uses ICC profiles, but support for color management on this platform is still quite nascent, with only a handful of applications supporting it (including Scribus and development versions of The Gimp.

Besides ICC and WWW style color management, a lot of other color management approaches exist, partly due to history and partly because of other needs than the ICC standard covers. Particularly in the printing industry, in broadcasting and in film studios there are diverging demands and solutions.

Color matching method is a software algorithm that adjusts the numerical values that get sent to, or received from, different devices so that the perceived color they produce remains consistent. The key issue here is how to deal with a color that cannot be reproduced on a certain device in order to show it through a different device as if it were visually the same color, just as when the reproducible color range between color transparencies and printed matters are different. There is no common method for this process, and the performance depends on the capability of each color matching method.

Criticism
Newer output devices can display more saturated colors that sRGB cannot represent.

A clear implementation of color management in the user interface of the OS would have the selection of profiles for monitors and for the working space in system configuration, and the selection of device profiles in the scanner or printer driver. Analyzing the actual implementation of color management at the level of the OS, the drivers, and the applications shows that there is substantial confusion about color management amongst both the software architects for operating systems and the software developers of drivers and applications.

Problem list
The software architects of the operating system often have no clear concept of how to implement color management at the OS level, and commonly enough there are no guidelines for the developers of applications and drivers on how to use the color management possibilities of the OS.
There is no option to choose either an editing (working) space or a monitor profile in the graphics architecture and at operating-system level. On Mac OS and Windows Vista, this is possible, but most applications ignore it.
The OS architecture for printer drivers doesn't allow the configuration of profiles for an editing (working) space and a device space.
Some important older file formats like EPS are of limited use for ICC color management on the host computer. For color matching of EPS files, a PostScript RIP is necessary.
Color management for the printer is sometimes implemented at several levels at the same time, such as in the application, at the OS driver level, and in the PostScript RIP. This can cause double or triple color transformations, with incorrect results.
Most web browsers, including Firefox, Safari before 10.4, and default configurations of Internet Explorer, ignore color profiles.

Jarah Mariano

() — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:05:54 +0000

Jarah Mariano is an Asian-American supermodel. She is of Hawaiian, Korean and Chinese descent. Contrary to popular belief due to a magazine misprint, she is not of French roots and is also not the first Asian Victoria's Secret model. [citation needed], She has campaigns for MAC cosmetic ads, featured in ads from Armani Exchange, Sephora, Abercrombie & Fitch, PacSun, Victoria's Secret and is in Jay-Z's "Show Me What You Got" video. Bruce Weber immortalized her in L'Uomo Vogue alongside her father; she was also the subject of Weber's lens for Abercrombie & Fitch. She is represented by model agency IMG. She is a Pace University graduate and currently resides in New York City.

Birth location: Kauai, Hawaii
Birth name: Jarah-Evelyn Makalapua Mariano
Measurements: 34-24-33.5 (US); 86-61-85 (EU)
Height: 171 cm (5 ft 7.5 in)
Eye color: Brown
Hair color: Black
Ethnicity: Hawaiian, Korean, Chinese

Minolta XG-2

() — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:57:39 +0000

Minolta XG-2 (1977)

The XG-2, 35mm SLR camera with automatic and full manual exposure control was introduced at the same time as the XD-11. The Exposure meter is activated by a contact or pressure on "tough switch" shutter release. Metering is Full-aperture TTL center weighted type, by two CdS cells mounted on either side of the eye piece at the rear of the pentaprism. Both cameras have a similar, compact body styling. the measures are 138x88x52mm (WxHxD) and 505g without lens and power cells (two 1,5v silver-oxide, SR-44 or equiv.)

XG-2 operates on aperture-preferred and manual mode. Also, the meter turns off in manual mode and the camera lacks any non-battery-dependent shutter speeds.

The camera in a picture is fitted with Tamron 3,5-4,5/ 28-50mm Zoom Lens. It belongs to the Tamrons Adaptall Series.

A new feature in XG-2 is a shutter release button which uses the electrostatic ability of human skin to turn the exposure meter on. No pressure is needed. The same technics is used on many of Minolta´s later models. For instance on X-700.

Kyoko Fukada

() — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:25:29 +0000

Kyoko Fukada (深田恭子; Fukada Ky?ko) born November 2, 1982, in Tokyo, Japan, is an actress, model and singer.
In Japan, her name is sometimes contracted to the nickname Fukakyon.

Filmography

"Fugoh Keiji Deluxe" (2006) TV drama...Miwako
"Shiawase ni Naritai" (2005) drama...Hikari
"Fugoh Keiji" (2005) drama...Miwako
"Minami-kun no koibito" (2004) 'drama
"Kanojo ga shinjatta" (2004) drama
Shimotsuma Monogatari aka Kamikaze Girls (2004)...Momoko
Ashura no gotoku (2003) .... Kamiuchi, Sakiko, the Fourth Daughter
Onmyoji 2 (2003) .... Himiko
Dolls (2002) .... Haruna
"Friends " (2002) TV Series .... Tomoko
"Fighting Girl" (2001) dorama .... Sayoko
"Strawberry on the Shortcake" (2001) drama .... Yui Mizawa
"Imagine" (2000) TV Series .... Yu Iijima
Tengoku ni ichiban chikai otoko special (2000) (TV) .... Kimishima Hikaru... aka Heaven Cannot Wait
Special (2000) (TV) (informal English title) ... aka Heaven Cannot Wait Special: The Final Assignment (2000) (TV) (International: English title)
"Oni no sumika" (1999) drama .... Ayumi Kato ... aka "Don't Be a Cry Baby" (1999) (International: English title)
"To heart: koishite shinitai" (1999) dorama .... Miura Toko
Ringu 2 (1999) .... Kanae Sawaguchi ... aka Ring 2 (2002) (International: English title)
"Kamisama mousukoshi dake" (1998) dorama .... Masaki Kano
"Sore ga kotae da!" (1997) dorama .... Kazune

Saki Seto

() — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:27:18 +0000

Kineda’s Idol of the Day is Saki Seto.
Saki Seto is a popular model and actress who made her claim to fame in the TV comedy, “Haruka 17″.

Saki Seto was born on June 21, 1985 in Japan.