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NIH Podcast Episode #0143
Balintfy: Welcome to episode 143 of NIH Research Radio with news about the ongoing medical research at the National Institutes of Health – the nation's medical research agency. I'm your host Joe Balintfy, and coming up in this episode: details on HPV vaccine dosing – two rather than three doses may be enough; five lifestyle changes that can reduce diabetes risk; a research model that predicts weight, and is available online; and insight on the world-wide aging population – it's not just the United States' population that's growing and aging. But first, this news update. Here's Craig Fritz.
News Update
Fritz: An NIH study has found that hospitalizations for alcohol and drug overdoses — alone or in combination — increased dramatically among 18- to 24-year-olds between 1999 and 2008. Over the 10-year study period, hospitalizations among 18-24–year-olds increased by 25 percent for alcohol overdoses; 56 percent for drug overdoses; and 76 percent for combined alcohol and drug overdoses. Scientists note in 2008, 1 in 3 hospitalizations for overdoses in young adults involved excessive consumption of alcohol. Alcohol overdoses alone caused 29,000 hospitalizations, combined alcohol and other drug overdoses caused an additional 29,000, and drug overdoses alone caused another 114,000. The cost of these hospitalizations now exceeds $1.2 billion per year just for 18-24-year-olds. According to the authors, this is a growing problem for those outside of the 18-24 age range, as well. Among the entire population 18 and older, 1.6 million people were hospitalized for overdoses in 2008, at a cost of $15.5 billion, and half of these hospitalizations involved alcohol overdoses. Researchers say that the steep rise in combined alcohol and drug overdoses highlights the significant risk and growing threat to public health of combining alcohol with other substances, including prescription medications. They call for stronger efforts to educate medical practitioners and the general public about the dangers of excessive alcohol consumption alone or in combination with other drugs.
Eight investigators across the United States will receive funding from NIH over the next five years to develop innovative neuroscience education programs for K through 12th grade students and their teachers. Activities include using touch tablet technology to teach neurobiology, and the creation of a 1,400 square foot interactive learning center. These grants are funded by the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research Science Education Award and the Science Education Partnership Award program. These educational programs aim to increase science literacy and understanding as well as an interest in science within K-12 students and their teachers. This is particularly important, since the most recent trends published by the U.S. Department of Education indicate that U.S. eighth graders score lower than students from nine other countries in science knowledge and skills. This funding effort seeks to close this gap as well as fulfill the NIH mission to ensure that adequate numbers of students are entering science education tracks and eventually pursuing careers in biomedical science.
For this NIH news update – I'm Craig Fritz
Balintfy: News updates are compiled from information at www.nih.gov/news. Coming up later lifestyle changes to reduce diabetes risk, a better way to predict weight loss, the world-wide population's age, and news on how many vaccine doses are needed to protect against HPV, that's next on NIH Research Radio.
NIH study finds two doses of HPV vaccine may be as protective as full course
Balintfy: Worldwide, approximately 500,000 new cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed every year, and about 250,000 women die from the disease. An overwhelming majority of these new cases and deaths occur in low-resource countries. Virtually all cases of cervical cancer are caused by persistent infection with the human papillomavirus or HPV. In this report from Wally Akinso, we learn what researchers discovered studying the effectiveness of a HPV vaccine in a community-based setting in Costa Rica.
Akinso: Two doses of an HPV vaccine are as effective as the standard treatment according to a National Institutes of Health study.
Kreimer: The vaccine is called Cervarix.
Akinso: Dr. Aimée Kreimer at the NIH is the lead author of the study.
Kreimer: So this vaccine is intended to protect against HPV type 16 and HPV type 18. We intended for women to get the standard regimen which was three doses. But for some women about 20 percent of our population received actually less than three doses and this was typically for involuntary reasons, such as pregnancy.
Akinso: Cervarix is a vaccine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to protect against persistent infection with two HPV types, 16 and 18, which together account for 70 percent of all cervical cancer cases. The vaccine is intended to be administered in three does given over the course of six months.
Kreimer: And so we were able then to look at the vaccine efficacy against persistent HPV 16 and 18 infections among women who received the standard three dose regimen but also among women who received two doses and women who received a single dose.
Akinso: The trial was based out of Costa Rica. Women ages 18 to 25 years were randomly assigned to receive the HPV vaccine or a Hepatitis A vaccine as the control treatment. Dr. Kreimer explains how researchers came up with their conclusion.
Kreimer: What we observed was that the vaccine efficacy for women who received two doses or even a single dose was quite comparable to that of the standard regimen. This observation was after four years of follow-up.
Akinso: Dr. Kreimer says further studies are needed to confirm the findings in other populations as well as to quantify the duration of protection for fewer than three doses. For more information on this study, visit www.cancer.gov. This is Wally Akinso at the NIH, Bethesda, Maryland.
Combination of five lifestyle factors linked to lower diabetes risk
Balintfy: A new analysis of data collected from more than 200,000 adults has found that a combination of five healthy lifestyle factors is associated with a reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Reis: The lifestyle factors we were interested in were an optimum body weight, a healthy diet, recommended levels of physical activity, not smoking and modest alcohol consumption.
Balintfy: Dr. Jared Reis is an epidemiologist at the National Institutes of Health.
Reis: Each health lifestyle factor was associated with about a thirty percent lower risk of developing diabetes; and all five healthy lifestyle factors combined was associated with about an 80 percent lower risk.
Balintfy: Dr. Reis adds that the most significant risk factor is weight.
Reis: Not being overweight or obese led to the greatest protection. However we found that overweight or obese adults with a greater number of the other healthy lifestyle factors had a lower risk of developing diabetes. This is good news because it suggests that overweight or obese adults can benefit by adopting other healthy lifestyle behaviors.
Balintfy: 25.8 million Americans have diabetes. Type 2 accounts for 90 to 95 percent of all diagnosed cases in adults. Diabetes risks factors include being related to someone who has diabetes. But this study also found that while family history is strongly linked to the disease, people may be able to largely prevent or delay the onset by leading a healthy lifestyle. In other words, Reis says that risk may not be predetermined by genetics. He adds that, similar studies to date have focused on the impact of one risk factor at a time, even though most people's lifestyles involve multiple factors.
Reis: I would advise people to work toward achieving and maintaining an optimum body weight, adopting healthy physical activity and dietary goals, not smoking, and if you drink alcohol, do so only in moderation.
Balintfy: Age is another major risk factor for type 2 diabetes, but Dr. Reis points out:
Reis: Our findings really highlight the fact that it's never too late to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
Balintfy: The data for this study were collected as part of the NIH-AARP Diet and Health study. For more information on this recent analysis, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, visit www.nhlbi.nih.gov; for details on the data, visit the website: http://dietandhealth.cancer.gov/; and for more about managing diabetes risk, visit www.YourDiabetesInfo.org.
NIH research model predicts weight with varying diet, exercise changes
Balintfy: An online weight simulation tool shows what happens when people of varying weights, diets and exercise habits try to change their weight. Wally Akinso is back with this report.
Akinso: Recent findings are challenging the one-size-fits-all weight assumptions and have led to an on-line weight simulation tool. NIH researchers have created a mathematical model which predicts weight changes when people diet or exercise.
Hall: So what this mathematical model does is calculate how those changes of diet and physical activity will result in changes of body weight and fat mass in different people.
Akinso: Dr. Kevin Hall is a researcher at the NIH.
Hall: So basically it's simulating the changes in human metabolism that take place when people go on different diets or different physical activity programs.
Akinso: The online simulation tool is based on the model and enables researchers to accurately predict how body weight will change and what it will likely take to reach weight goals based on a starting weight and estimated physical activity. Dr. Hall explains how researchers tested the model.
Hall: We made certain predictions about what would happen if our model is basically fed the same diet as those real people were fed and then compared the model predictions to the actual measurements. And that provided us with some validation because the predications matched the measurements quite well.
Akinso: The findings challenge the commonly held belief that eating 3,500 fewer calories or burning them off exercising will always result in a pound of weight loss.
Hall: So what that rule, which has been you know ubiquitous, fails to consider is the fact that as I lose weight my metabolism slows down. And so the rate of weight loss is drastically over estimated. So our models are really trying to help improve the predictions and provide new methods for helping assess what a realistic amount of weight loss would be expected for a given change of diet.
Akinso: Dr. Hall says with this model, clinicians can help people re-evaluate their goals and ability to achieve them at the pace they want. If you would like to check out the online simulation tool, visit http://bwsimulator.niddk.nih.gov/. This is Wally Akinso at the NIH, Bethesda, Maryland.
Balintfy: Coming up next, what's happening with the world population.
World population aging
Balintfy: Welcome back to NIH Research Radio. At the same time the baby-boom generation in the U.S. is turning 65, the population world-wide is poised to make a similar demographic shift. I'm talking with Dr. Richard Suzman at the NIH about how aging is changing the social and economic nature of countries across the globe, presenting both opportunities and challenges. First, Dr. Suzman, what does the worldwide population picture look like right now?
Suzman: Well, we're really very close to a demographic watershed. Within about five or ten years, for the first time in human history, there will be more people over age 65 in the world than children under age 5, and it's likely to continue for the rest of human history.
Balintfy: You say this change will happen in about five to ten years. Is that fast?
Suzman: It's happening faster and faster. It took a long time for the currently industrialized countries to age, but it's happening faster and faster in the low-income countries today.
Balintfy: How exactly does a population age?
Suzman: It's first fertility. Aging really starts when fertility drops and at a later stage, life expectancy increases and you have both factors operating, but it's the fertility drop that drives a lot of population aging. The number of children per couple or woman is dropping and it's dropping very fast in many countries coupled with increases in life expectancy and that's the metabolism of population.
Balintfy: What happens as a population gets older?
Suzman: As populations get older, the predominant cause of disability and illness become the chronic degenerative diseases, what are known as non-communicable diseases, heart disease, stroke, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, etc. What we'll see is that in some countries, there'll be a new pattern of infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria coexisting with the non-communicable diseases. Now what's really surprising is that within a few decades, every region in the world will have a preponderance of the chronic non-communicable diseases.
Balintfy: What is research telling us about this disease-change pattern?
Suzman: Some findings from NIA researchers some time ago, I think provided a ray of hope and optimism in thinking about this because they found that the disability associated with chronic disease was going down in the US population over age 65. It dropped something like 25% between 1982, 1984, and around 2000. What that suggests and shows is that old age disability is not inevitable, it's malleable, it's plastic, it can be influenced by both medical practice, lifestyle and so generally improving levels of education. Unfortunately, since perhaps 2000, 2004, the trend has been neutral. We think it's because of the increase in obesity.
Balintfy: With the baby boom generation turning 65, how does the US compare to other countries?
Suzman: Well, the US for example is not a very old country in terms of the proportion that's age 65 and over. It's way down the list whereas countries like Italy, Germany have a much older population in terms of the fraction who are age 65 and over if we take that to be a measure of old age, although that too is changing.
Balintfy: What are some examples of studies that compare countries, Dr. Suzman?
Suzman: One example came from initially comparing the US and England just looking at people aged 55 to 64. Researchers found that although people in the US said their health was better, when they looked at more concrete indicators, disease prevalence and tests for diabetes, cholesterol, inflammation, blood pressure, etc. on every single indicator, the US was worse.
There's another case in which when you look at life expectancy in the US compared to other high-income countries, since approximately 1980 when the US was doing rather well, it has lagged behind. Life expectancy has lagged behind other high-income countries with just one or two exceptions such as Denmark. It turns out surprisingly that most of the lag comes from women rather than men, women in the US doing relatively poorly. We commissioned a special study from the National Academy of Science to look into this and among their conclusions was that a major factor contributing to this was the history of smoking in US women. Let me also say that the effect was stronger among white women compared to African-American women. So there are some examples of the value of comparative research.
Balintfy: What do you have to consider when comparing countries and their populations?
Suzman: Well, there is variation among country. I mean I think you've got to think about not just the size of the population, but also the health of the population and I would also say the economic status of the population. The critical challenge is that the extra years of life that we get from increased life expectancy are wonderful, but somehow they have to be paid for and financed and there are only a certain number of ways in which that can be done: making the economy more productive, working longer, saving more, consuming less, etc. And that's the challenge that every aging country faces, but it's a challenge, which plays out in slow motion and we could see the challenge coming.
Balintfy: Do larger countries, like China for example, face population challenges more than other countries?
Suzman: China is aging very rapidly in part because of one child policy coupled with increase in life expectancy. And I think it must affect how China is going to perform as an economic engine in the rest of the world. One statistic I've seen quoted, which is quite fascinating, is that by 2050, one estimate has China having 330 million people over age 65, which would exceed the current US total population, and they might have something of the order of 100 million individuals over age 80. So how China deals with the aging issue I think is going to affect the US economy.
Balintfy: Thank you Dr. Richard Suzman. For more information on aging and aging populations, visit www.nia.nih.gov.
Balintfy: That's it for this episode of NIH Research Radio. Please join us again on Friday, October 7 when our next edition will be available. If you have any questions or comments about this program, or have story suggestions for a future episode, please let me know. Best to reach me by email—my address is email@example.com. I'm your host, Joe Balintfy. Thanks for listening.
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On Laval Street, police on Sunday found the copper pipes and stainless-steel kitchen appliances gone from a vacant building. The building manager reported that the refrigerator, range and dishwasher were removed from the kitchen and the copper piping was cut from the basement.
On Concord Street, all the copper piping and radiators were removed from the building. Police took a report March 26 from the owner of that building, which was also vacant. Police estimated that several thousand dollars worth of copper piping were removed from the building, as well as approximately 25 radiators valued at over $3,000.
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Police are warning homeowners with vacant property to be sure to secure their property and check it regularly. Residents are requested to contact police immediately if they notice any suspicious activity, especially in vacant buildings.
Anyone with information on these reported thefts is asked to contact Manchester Police at 668-8711. Anonymous tips for cash rewards can be made though Manchester Crimeline at 624-4040 or online at manchestercrimeline.org.
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U.S. Safety Agency Investigating Suzuki Small SUVs
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Consumer Prices Rise Just 0.1 Percent
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U.S. Official: Solar Plane To Help Ground Energy Use
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Texas Governor Woos Disgruntled Conn. Gun Makers
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Whey From Greek Yogurt Used To Produce Power
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Hundreds Sickened In Bangladesh Garment Factory
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MAPI: Rebound In Production, Modest To Moderate Growth
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Deciding to quit is one thing, actually quitting is another. If you're pregnant and haven't yet managed to retire your cigarettes, there's still hope. Dr. Sharon Phelan, a Fellow of ACOG says, "If the woman can stop smoking, particularly before the third trimester, the effects on the baby are minimized because it's the last three months when the baby does the majority of the growth."
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Schornbaum, Karl. Quellen zur Geschichte der Wiedertäufer II. Band, Markgraftum Brandenburg. (Bayern I. Abteilung). Leipzig: M. Heinsius Nachfolger, 1934: 189, 191, 327-329.
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1:08pm Friday 11th January 2013 in Local news By Jim Jack
A home-made film that shows Otley Chevin in a completely new light will receive its first screenings this weekend.
Planet Of The Baybes, a spoof sci-fi musical, has been a ten-year 'labour of love' for its creators Ian White and Wassef Massaad.
Produced on a shoestring budget, the two-hour movie features an array of local amateur actors and uses the Chevin as an alien landscape.
It will be shown at Otley Courthouse at 2.30pm and 7.30pm on Saturday, and director and co-producer Mr White – a veteran of more than 30 local pantomimes – is hoping many of the cast will attend.
The 46-year-old, who is a sign writer by day, said: "A lot of the cast are now spread all over the country, so some are travelling up from London and others down from Scotland to be at one of the screenings."
Mr Massaad, a well-known agent on the local working men's club scene, said: "We'd like as many of the cast as possible to be there, but the public are welcome too."
The film tells the story of a washed-up ex-starship captain who is summoned back into action by a distress call from an old colleague he has to track down, encountering many weird and wonderful aliens along the way.
Tickets are available from the Courthouse or by calling the box office on (01943) 467466.


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The Thai stock market on Friday snapped the two-day losing streak in which it had retreated more than 10 points or 1 percent. The Stock Exchange of Thailand finished just above the 1,165-point plateau, and now traders are looking for additional support when the market opens on Monday.
The global forecast for the Asian markets is broadly positive in a relief rally after the conservative pro-bailout New Democracy party pulled out a victory in Sunday's crucial elections in Greece. New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras declared victory in the election and called parties to join a national salvation government, "as soon as possible." Delivering a victory speech on Sunday night, he said Greeks had voted to stay in the euro - which for at least the short term ought to make investors happy. The European and U.S. markets finished higher on Friday, and now the Asian bourses are tipped to open in similar fashion.
The SET finished modestly higher on Friday following gains from the financial shares and the energy producers.
For the day, the index climbed 12.72 points or 1.10 percent to finish at 1,165.73 after trading between 1,160.40 and 1,170.48. Volume was 6.093 billion shares worth 41.971 billion baht. There were 290 gainers and 208 decliners, with 151 stocks finishing unchanged.
Among the gainers, energy giant PTT was up 2.15 percent, while PTT Global Chemicals surged 3.11 percent, Kasikornbank collected 1.60 percent and Siam Commercial Bank gathered 2.87 percent.
The lead from Wall Street is upbeat as stocks moved steadily higher on Friday after initially seeing modest strength. The strong upward movement came amid optimism that recent disappointing economic data and the lingering threats from Europe will lead the world's central banks to take additional steps to prop up the global economy.
Continued buying interest was generated by reports indicating that central banks from major economies are prepared to take necessary steps to stabilize the financial markets. The measures will offer banks billions of pounds in cheap credit in an effort to stimulate lending while also providing access to short-term money to deal with "exceptional market stresses."
A disappointing batch of U.S. economic data also seemed to provide further evidence that the economy needs additional stimulus to avoid a double-dip recession. The Federal Reserve reported an unexpected drop in industrial production in May, while Reuters and the University of Michigan showed a substantial deterioration in consumer sentiment in June.
The major averages saw further upside going into the close, ending the session near their best levels of the day as the Dow climbed 115.26 points or 0.9 percent to finish at 12,767.17, while the NASDAQ jumped 36.47 points or 1.3 percent to end at 2,872.80 and the S&P 500 surged up 13.74 points or 1 percent to 1,342.84. With the gains on the day, the major averages all moved higher for the second straight week. The NASDAQ rose 0.5 percent, while the Dow and the S&P 500 added 1.7 percent and 1.3 percent, respectively.
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Who was the closest to george mcclellan?
In the letters written by george mcclellan, 9 known people are recognized. Out of these people Abraham Lincoln, Henry HALLECK, Winfield Scott, Ambrose Burnside, William Sherman seem to have the closest ties to george mcclellan.
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When science fiction author and casual prophet Isaac Asimov wrote about his visit to the World's Fair in New York in 1964, he imagined what the world would be like in 50 years. Almost 50 years later he seems to have gotten a few things right: "Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence. The IBM exhibit at the present fair has no robots but it is dedicated to computers, which are shown in all their amazing complexity, notably in the task of translating Russian into English."
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — After a week without power at his home in Connecticut, the New York Yankees' Brian Cashman arrived at the general managers' meetings ready to do business.
The weather was hot, but the trade market was not.
"Do I have something I'm looking to execute while I'm out here? No," he said Tuesday night. "Whatever agents are here, I'll meet with the agents and then obviously have a chance to engage the 29 clubs. I've been with them a few times already. I think there's certain guys that I've been made aware of, but for the most part I think it will be unfolding quietly."
The annual GM meetings, back in the Coachella Valley for the first time in seven years, start just a week after the World Series and often spark discussions that lead to trades and signings later in the offseason. The largest winter meetings, where teams send larger delegations from their organizations, are scheduled for Dec. 3-6 at Nashville, Tenn.
While teams feel each other out to try to determine what trades are possible, Cashman repeated he doesn't anticipate inquiries about Alex Rodriguez, who was benched during the playoffs. A-Rod has $114 million and five years left on his contract
"I don't see that happening," he said.
The formal part of the meetings start Wednesday, with mornings devoted to briefings by Major League Baseball and administrative discussions. Expanding instant replay to fair-foul calls down the lines and to traps figures to be an offseason-long discussion along with protective headgear for pitchers. A report is on the agenda for the winter meetings.
Cashman said his power at home was restored Sunday, nearly a week after Superstorm Sandy hit. In contrast to the cool weather back home, the high temperature in the Palm Springs area Tuesday was 93 degrees.
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At least publicly, Cashman was reticent to reveal which agents he planned to talk with because of anti-collusion rules put in place a few years ago after concerns raised by the players' association. Continued...
"I'm not allowed to say if I'm going to meet with anybody or talk to anybody or if I don't want to talk to anybody," he said. "I got a whole rundown."
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Games Consoles in Japan
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Games Consoles in Japan industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2007-11, and forecast to 2016). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the Japan games consoles market. Includes market size data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.
-The games consoles market consists of the total revenues generated by Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony through the sale of their console platforms, including any handheld systems. Market values have been calculated using annual average retail prices for each individual market. Market shares are based upon volume sales and consist of all console sales, including handheld. Any currency calculations used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2010 annual average exchange rates.
-The Japanese games consoles market had total revenues of $1.9 billion in 2010, representing a compound annual rate of change (CARC) of -14.7% for the period spanning 2006-2010.
-Electricals and Electronics retailers account for the largest proportion of sales in the Japan games consoles market in 2011, sales through this channel generated $705 million, equivalent to 36.8% of the market's overall value
-The performance of the market is forecast to accelerate, with an anticipated compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 0.6% for the five-year period 2010-2015, which is expected to drive the market to a value of $2 billion by the end of 2015.
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Market analysis 6
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Buyer power 12
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New entrants 14
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Degree of rivalry 16
Amazon.com, Inc. 17
Rakuten, Inc. 20
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 23
Country Data 26
Methodology 28
Industry associations 29
Related Datamonitor research 29
Table 1: Japan games consoles market value: $ million, 2007–11(e) 7
Table 2: Japan games consoles market geography segmentation, by value, 2011(e) 8
Table 3: Japan games consoles market distribution: % share, by value, 2011(e) 9
Table 4: Japan games consoles market value forecast: $ million, 2011–16 10
Table 5: Amazon.com, Inc.: key facts 17
Table 6: Amazon.com, Inc.: key financials ($) 18
Table 7: Amazon.com, Inc.: key financial ratios 18
Table 8: Rakuten, Inc.: key facts 20
Table 9: Rakuten, Inc.: key financials ($) 20
Table 10: Rakuten, Inc.: key financials (¥) 20
Table 11: Rakuten, Inc.: key financial ratios 21
Table 12: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: key facts 23
Table 13: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: key financials ($) 24
Table 14: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: key financial ratios 24
Table 15: Japan size of population (million), 2007–11 26
Table 16: Japan GDP (constant 2000 prices, $ billion), 2007–11 26
Table 17: Japan GDP (current prices, $ billion), 2007–11 26
Table 18: Japan inflation, 2007–11 27
Table 19: Japan consumer price index (absolute), 2007–11 27
Table 20: Japan exchange rate, 2007–11 27
Figure 1: Japan games consoles market value: $ million, 2007–11(e) 7
Figure 2: Japan games consoles market geography segmentation : % share, by value, 2011(e) 8
Figure 3: Japan games consoles market distribution: % share, by value, 2011(e) 9
Figure 4: Japan games consoles market value forecast: $ million, 2011–16 10
Figure 5: Forces driving competition in the games consoles market in Japan, 2011 11
Figure 6: Drivers of buyer power in the games consoles market in Japan, 2011 12
Figure 7: Drivers of supplier power in the games consoles market in Japan, 2011 13
Figure 8: Factors influencing the likelihood of new entrants in the games consoles market in Japan, 2011 14
Figure 9: Factors influencing the threat of substitutes in the games consoles market in Japan, 2011 15
Figure 10: Drivers of degree of rivalry in the games consoles market in Japan, 2011 16
Figure 11: Amazon.com, Inc.: revenues & profitability 19
Figure 12: Amazon.com, Inc.: assets & liabilities 19
Figure 13: Rakuten, Inc.: revenues & profitability 21
Figure 14: Rakuten, Inc.: assets & liabilities 22
Figure 15: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: revenues & profitability 25
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At the National Association of Realtors' midyear meetings in Washington this week, chief economist Lawrence Yun said "positive underlying economic factors" were helping spur home sales.
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Finding the positive in Corrie
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Well, glad you're happy, Tvor! Overall the show is fine. But I find I'm not bothered if I have to miss an episode or so. The wonderful, funny script about nothing in particular isn't in evidence so much and I find at the moment there is too much effort on 'blockbusters' and not enough of 'Proper Corrie'. Perhaps it's because it is too difficult to write and in comparison bank heists are easy?
Also, the gaping holes and Corrinaesia I find hard to forgive. I feel as though my loyalty to the programme is being exploited.
I've watched Corrie since I was knee high to a cough drop and will continue to. But there were some wonderful, simple story lines in the past such as the Rovers panto,and some classic conversations about not very much but which were perceptive and funny.
I miss that. - 14 April 2011 13:16
It must be hard to keep up the storyline momentum after the tram crash. We were spoiled. It was so good. There have been a couple of awkward storylines lately. I trust it will get back on track.
- 14 April 2011 13:50
I find most of the storylines dark and disturbing. There doesn't seem to be one happy person on the street except Emily who is in LALA land anyway and Kirk who really has been cast as nothing but the villiage idiot,but it really is too much. It really is becoming more like the American soaps with each passing episode, and I don't watch those because they are so ridiculous so I doubt if I'll watch Corrie anymore. Thanks.
- 14 April 2011 13:53
Ally Ross on TV in the Sun yesterday pretty much summed it up entitled "Saddest Decline of the Year" saying it has ruined its good characterds and introduced stupid ones , its lost its sense of humour and become every bit as miserable as EE: in a nutshell a depressing shambles. It says it all really.
- 14 April 2011 14:01
the problem is the writers must come from terribly sad broken homes or be in terrible relationships. There has not been one marriage or relationship that has been true except perhaps the Bishop's and they killed Ernest off why early on. Every single one has an affair of some sort even Hayley and Roy and although I love to see Elizabeth Tan as being so beautiful an actress, that story line is ridiculous in such a small community. They have lost all sense of reality which is what made Corrie so popular in the beginning - the grittiness of the North - but they still haven't learnt from the years of Tracy in her bedroom listioning to tapes by ignoring so many characters including dogs at the expense of over exposure of others and living in a total fantasy world. The tram is up and running but apart from the day is started after the crash has anyone heard it? Does anyone catch the tram into town? No they use taxis and the bus. The bistro is full but no cars are parked anywhere around. The resident's cars are where? All these little things are building bricks in the story of the street but the writers have lost the plot IMHO.
- 14 April 2011 14:58
- Tvor said...
It's a soap staple that there are very few happy marraiges. Roy and Hayley have had their bumps but nobody has had an affair there, though Hayley had a crush on someone in Africa. That wasn't the same thing. Cars never have been seen much on the street until they're needed. Yes i have heard the tram on occasion since it started up again. Maybe there isn't a nearby tram stop. I've been in Manchester and there isn't one on every corner like there are busses.
- 14 April 2011 15:26
I miss the banter between Steve and Dev, between Steve, Eileen and Lloyd.....though I admit Sally and Kirk were hilarious and also his encounter with Audrey....more of that please. There is hope in Roy's Mom who could be the new 'one liner' lady taking over from Blanche. Get rid of Maria and Fiz and keep Eddie. Bring back Archie and Audrey's Dad. Bring back Pam and Bill.
- 14 April 2011 18:48
- Adam Rekitt said...
The difference between now and previous dips in Corrie's standards is that I get the impresion that those in charge today do not value Corrie's strengths of witty, perceptive dialogue, realistic stories conjured from nothing and likeable but flawed, recognisable characters.
Instead they are just following the television fashion for sensational stories, scenes that would not tax the attention span of an infant with ADD and bringing in already well known actors. That formula might work for the London rubbish, but its going to kill Corrie. - 14 April 2011 19:57
- seapenguin said...
I'm with you Adam Rekitt. It's just horrendous just now and I don't know how they're going to pull it back to anything like the way it was, because so much damage has been done. But like other viewers I'm hanging in there mean time and hoping they will find a way.
- 14 April 2011 22:09
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From Richard Mauer in Juneau —
The House teased the Senate this morning when it moved the Senate's oil-tax credit for new fields into the film tax credit bill and appeared ready to move it out of the House Rules Committee.
Then Rules chairman Craig Johnson called a recess, huddled with House Speaker Mike Chenault and other Republican leaders, and called the committee back into session.
Then he killed the Senate's oil-tax reform.
The movie tax credit was probably the perfect venue for the morning's dramatic short subject. Later, Chenault, a member of the rules committee, said it was never the intent of House leadership to put the tax measure in the film bill in the first place, and removing it was only an effort to fix a mistake. He said it was accidentally swept into the bill with several other tax credits sought by the House. (Since the film tax credit was a big Senate measure, the House-sought credits stood a better chance of passage as an attachment than as stand-alone bills.)
Not everyone believed that story. But in any event, with Sunday being the last day of the session unless the governor calls the Legislature into overtime, the new-field oil-tax credit is dead.
Or is it?
"You never know," Sen. Lesil McGuire, an Anchorage Republican and strong supporter of the new-field credit, said as she rushed to the 10:15 a.m. Senate floor session. "It's still early, believe it or not. I know that sounds crazy to the public, but there's still many hours left. So I hope they consider that doing something good for new development is the right thing to do."
Some senators treated the House Rules action as a mortar round fired across the green line separating the House and Senate, but it's the time of year for that. Many in the House saw the oil-tax measure as a mortar round directed at them.
Speaking to reporters after the Rule Committee meeting, Chenault said he was only interested in the public policy question. The Senate failed to pass broad oil-tax cuts, and at the same time, the limited measure they sent over needed more time to study, Chenault said.
Could it still come back this year? he was asked. Maybe in a special session, he replied.
On the fifth floor, where Sen. Bert Stedman had just wrapped up a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee — the origin of the new-field tax-credit bill — word had just arrived of the House Rules actions.
Like McGuire, Stedman said he wasn't willing to call it quits. Why does the House oppose meaningful oil-tax reform? he asked. Maybe the Senate would try to resurrect it in a conference committee, he said.