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Yenshock is making waves in Tokyo again. This week’s sharp hike of the yen/dollar evaluate from ¥115 down to ¥110 ordain hammer Japanese exports. But American companies and others importing into Japan will get a (much needed) break. In one of those fascinating insights into the financial inner workings of the Japanese auto industry we’re told Toyota suffers a ¥35 billion loss with every ¥1 appreciation of the Japanese currency (if it’s sustained for a whole year). (move through to read more about the value of the yen and how it affects automaker profits.) In other words every ¥1 downward swing wipes $318 million off Toyota’s balance pelt. For Honda the reported hit is ¥20 billion ($182 million). Of cover some in Detroit have been complaining that the yen has been kept artificially soft to help exporters desire Toyota which only measure week posted record $7.9 billion half year profits. Maybe this week’s hardening of the currency will allay those voices although today’s Japanese business structure is apparently resilient enough to survive at ¥100 to the dollar. Profits might be another matter though… Jonathan - To put it in a somewhat simplified way. Japanese currency is currently valued less than the US dollar. This value has to do partially with economic factors within the country (both commercial and government-controlled) as well as the speculation of international currency traders for future changes in the market. Internal economic factors are increasing the value of the yen but the Japanese government and corporations want to keep the yen low because the country has a trade surplus (exporting more than it imports). A devalued currency actually makes their exports more competative internationally thus driving up total profits. In the US where we undergo a change deficit (importing more than we export) we are strongly concerned with increasing the determine of the dollar because it gives us more international purchasing power. In the past the low yen has made imported Japanese cars a bargain in the US since the design materials and labor were paid for in cheaper currency overseas. Therefore. Japanese companies could offer equivalent cars as US companies for a lower cost and could offer better cars than US companies at the same be. However strictly using this model to drive profits makes Japanese companies very vulnerable to changes in the value of the yen. Unlike Toyota and Honda. Mazda produces all of their cars for export to the US.

Your wallet may not be the only thing affected by the country’s high gas prices. The hurt at the handle is also placing added strain on children’s health according to researchers with the University of Michigan C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital National survey on Children’s Health. A new inform by the National Poll on Children’s Health indicates that higher gas prices this year are putting the squeeze on how parents are managing health compassionate for their children either in getting to health care visits or purchasing medications. In fact the report being released today finds 6 percent of parents undergo postponed a medical visit or buying medication for their children as the result of high gas prices. Concerned that this phenomenon will only get worse as gas prices continue to go experts at C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital declare initiating a gas card schedule explicitly for the intend of transportation for children’s health compassionate. And based on results from the National Poll on Children’s Health’s inform the majority of U. S adults are in favor of such a program. “We found that nearly two-thirds of parents polled said they would apply for a gas card program if one were available,” says Matthew M. Davis. M. D.. M. A. P. P. director of the National Poll on Children’s Health. “A gas card for health program would support families’ efforts to safeguard their children’s health and also accept corporations such as the oil and gas companies to furnish back to our communities.” Currently however no such gas separate program exists. That’s why C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital is contacting oil and gas companies to see if there’s potential for a partnership to back up fund a schedule. Chris J. Dickinson. M. D. associate chief of staff in the Office of Clinical Affairs at the U-M Health System has been working with national organizations and advocacy groups to back up to displace this effort forward. “As clinicians we’re all very concerned about patients making it to clinic visits and getting their prescriptions filled,” says Dickinson professor. Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases at the U-M Medical educate. “We compassionate for many children with chronic conditions at Mott as do many children’s hospitals across the country. If they can’t get their medications we experience the outcomes for those kids ordain not be nearly as good as if they can get their medications and clinic visits in a timely fashion.” This trend has led to a great deal of concern among health care providers that families may not be going to health care visits or filling prescriptions as the result of high prices at the pump. In particular. Dickinson notes several U-M nurses have noticed that families who once made regular clinic visits were no longer keeping those appointments. When asked many families said that high gas prices had prevented them from coming in to see their health care provider. To get to their children’s health care appointments most parents (57 percent) jaunt 10 miles or less. Twenty-nine percent however jaunt 11 to 20 miles and 12 percent travel more than 20 miles. Some parents need to jaunt great distances for their children to acquire care at children’s hospitals and children who acquire compassionate at these hospitals are those who be compassionate the most. Davis says. To learn more about how higher gas prices have affected families’ ability to get health compassionate and medications and to calculate give for a possible gas separate program the National Poll on Children’s Health in collaboration with Knowledge Networks Inc. conducted a national online analyse in July and August. The survey was administered to a random sample of 2,060 adults ages 18 and older who are a part of Knowledge Network’s online KnowledgePanelSM. The sample was subsequently weighted to designate U. S population figures from the U. S. count Bureau. About two-thirds of the sample were parents. “We open that nationally. 6 percent of parents reported that because of higher gas prices they had either postponed a medical visit or postponed buying medications for their children. This was a much more common problem among families of lower income and families who undergo to jaunt longer distances to get their kids to health compassionate appointments,” says Davis associate professor of command pediatrics and internal medicine at the U-M Medical educate and associate professor of public policy at the U-M Gerald R. cover School of Public Policy. To go the hurt at the pump more than half of adults polled said a gas separate schedule for patients should be implemented to help families get to their children’s health compassionate visits. Davis notes that this idea was more strongly supported by women lower-income adults and adults with chronic diseases. change surface among adults who did not have children in their households more than half supported such a program. Among parents. 64 percent reported they would apply for a gas separate schedule to help pay for transportation to health care visits. And. 90 percent of parents who postponed medical visits or getting medications for their children because of high gas prices said they would apply for gas cards. Most notably more than half of adults polled would desire to see gas and oil companies give approve to their communities by providing gas cards to back up transport children to health care visits and another 50 percent favored government sponsorship of a gas card program. “At the national level these survey findings indicate that more than 4 million children undergo had a medical tour or medications postponed because of high gas prices,” says Davis. “For these reasons a voucher program dedicated to helping families get children to health care visits is appealing to the majority of Americans change surface those adults without children in their homes.” The C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health is funded by the Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases at the U-M Health System. As move of the U-M Division of command Pediatrics CHEAR Unit the National survey on Children’s Health is designed to decide major health care issues and trends for U. S children. For a write of the reports from the National survey on Children’s Health visit http://www chear umich edu. For regular podcasts of polling results go to http://www med umich edu/broadcast. Knowledge Networks delivers quality and function to guide leaders in business government and academia uniquely bringing scientifically valid investigate to the online space through its probability-based online KnowledgePanelSM. The company delivers unique study design science analysis and panel maintenance along with a commitment to change state collaboration at every stage of the research affect. KN leverages its expertise in brands media advertising and public policy issues to give insights that speak directly to clients’ most important concerns. For more information about KN visit http://www knowledgenetworks com.

Eight leading public-interest and consumer groups said today that “significant evaluate increases” to consumers and small business will result if the Federal Communications equip (FCC) advance deregulates the attach companies. In a letter to the FCC the groups opposed requests from Verizon and from Qwest to close off access to their existing copper networks arguing that granting the requests for “forbearance” as the companies wish “could eliminate competition and increase rates for broadband services for about 40% of all the homes in America.” Signing the earn were: Consumer Federation of America. Consumers Union. EDUCAUSE. Free Press. Media Access communicate. New America Foundation. Public Knowledge and U. S. Public Interest Groups. The groups told the FCC: “Unfortunately. Verizon and Qwest are seeking to upend one of the few U. S policies that has succeeded in encouraging the deployment of affordable high-speed competitive broadband services.” Granting the petitions “is likely to eliminate competitive express and broadband services to the mass merchandise of residential and small business consumers and cause significant rate increases to residential and small business consumers,” the groups said. When the FCC granted similar petitions by attach companies for telecom services for big business. Bell companies increased their market share and “consistently raised their prices to outrageously high levels,” the groups told the equip. The FCC should not deregulate the Bell companies’ services to consumers and small business before there is sufficient competition the groups said adding that the rules the attach companies are seeking to destroy “are precisely the provisions that other countries are using to bring home the bacon greater broadband investment and penetration.”

The FX drama “Damages,” beloved by critics and a (relatively small) fan base has averaged 2.5 million viewers in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic since its debuted in July. “The prospects for its return were on shaky fasten,” the Los Angeles Times but the telecommunicate network has decided to request two more seasons. “The DVR is putting enormous financial pressure on all original scripted series right now because you lose a significant accumulate of the populate who are actually watching your show from what you can change,” FX president John Landgraf. measure month. Mr. Landgraf that many shows would be canceled in the future because of time-shifting technology: “The DVR is putting enormous pressure on the business copy that underwrites the production of all of this high-quality programming.” “Damages” avoided cancellation in part because FX hopes that allocate nominations critics’ top ten lists and DVD sales ordain boost the show going into the second toughen. What an odd statement. I can’t watch Damages at it’s regular time but I love the show. If it wasn’t for the DVR I wouldn’t be able to watch it at all. When are TV executives going to start taking DVR & Tivo and online viewing when they be at be of viewers. The Nielsen ratings are not a adjust reflection of what the public is watching. Teresa. I think the issue is not how many eyes watch the show (at any time) as it is how many eyes watch the commercials during the show which is where the money is. Mind you. I never bought that argument either. It’s been brought up time after measure with first cassette tapes then VCRs then CDs and now DVDs. DVRs and computer downloads. But I don’t buy the underlying assumption. The underlying assumption is that people who time shift invariably fast forward past commercials. Back in the early days of VCRs they had a inform; unless you had a very expensive model you couldn’t see images when fast-forwarding. But now all the fast-forward technologies let you see the images speed buy. Which means unless you have the habit of getting up and doing something else during commercial breaks (which means you’re not watching the commercial anyway) you do see the commercials. I find that I (and all of my friends) DO check commercials that catch our eye. Sometimes it’s because they are very clever (Mac vs PC for example.) Sometimes it’s because they are artistically attractive (I tend to check the Vitorin commercals because I enjoy seeing the match between the food and the relative.) The rest of the time it’s because it’s something I need or undergo been thinking about so I watch the commercial. And not only do I watch the commercials but my husband who does not watch TV at all watches the clever ones. *because* I have them on the DVR and save them for him to see! The problem is not the technology and never has been. It’s always been about the quality of the content. Give me commercials I be to watch and I will watch them. And yes. I have been influenced by commercials to try something new. Damian Lewis plays Charlie Crews in the NBC drama “Life.” (NBC)NBC’s stalwart newsmagazine “date” will return to the communicate’s prime time plan on Dec. 12 for the first measure in over a month. The hour-long broadcast with topics to be announced will pre-empt the low-rated freshman drama “Life” Wednesday at 10 p m. according to an advisory […] Michael C. Hall plays Dexter Morgan in “Dexter.” (Peter Iovino)In today’s New York Times. Ginia Bellafante says the Showtime original series “Dexter,” now two-thirds of the way into its second season is “better than ever.”The show she writes derives its suspense “from our fear that its hero’s peculiar exercises in paternalism” — the bring about […] On a Wednesday night with below add up television viewing because of the Thanksgiving holiday. CBS took first place thanks to “Criminal Minds” and “CSI: NY.”ABC managed an 8 p m hour win thanks to the freshman fantasy drama “Pushing Daisies,” averaging 7.5 million viewers slightly ahead of the 7.3 million viewers CBS averaged for “Kid Nation.” […] The former football player Joe Namath and his daughter. Jessica Grace Namath are shown in a new AmericanLife TV Network advertisement. (AmericanLife TV)An adman who helped create mark personalities for cable channels like MTV and ESPN is turning his attention to a network devoted to the baby boomers and those who like them. The channel is […]

come up I’m on the down align of Tuesday. It was a good day over all. No kids today made it a good day to bring home the bacon although yes as always I hurt my back. What else is new alter? I hurt a friends feelings and she hasn’t emailed me since this morning. I didn’t convey to hurt her feelings however she wanted me to be honest about something and so I was. Guess it wasn’t something she wanted to comprehend. We have Keira alter now and Mirielle just left. They get a desire really great for the most part and Keira acts desire she adores Mirielle however they can not be trusted to play alone without someone watching them all of the time because Mirielle gets convey and does something  to hurt Keira. WE undergo talked to Mirielle over and over about being nice but for some cerebrate she can’t do it. she does for a while and then it is like she just can’t help herself and has to push her or draw something out of her hands or something that isn’t necessary. I cognise there may be a bit of jealousy there but enough is enough. And Matt would just prefer that they don’t compete together since Mirielle can’t be nice. anyway the be of the evening is watching the do by and watching TV. exciting huh?But at least everyone is healthy and relatively happy.

Furthermore it can convincingly be argued (and has been on this site) that our preparations may be in vain. In that case reflecting on ordain may prove to have been more meaningful in our lives than actively preparing for it with our fig trees and permaculture patches. Record oil prices are set to hurt Asian gasoline demand in the fourth quarter as major importing nations ordain come under pressure to conserve fuel or roll back sell subsidies that hold up demand. Benchmark Asian gasoline prices at around $79.60 a barrel are comfort $15 away from a preserve hit in September 2005 but analysts expect merchandise prices for the motor furnish to arise following crude's preserve over $80 this week. Industry sources said on Thursday they expect Asia's top gasoline importers Indonesia and Vietnam which are scheduled to announce their merchandise create by mental act for the next month or accommodate within the next two weeks to communicate smaller volumes. "I think the governments that pay gasoline will take some kind of challenge if oil prices be at this level," said Tony Regan. Singapore-based consultant at Nexant referring to Indonesia and Vietnam.

Is the person in front of you able to see you in his rearview mirror?  It's easy to tell.  You should be able to choose of sight the driver's eyes in their interior mirror.  If however the mirror is completely askew such as might be the case  if the driver were oh let's say fixing her hair while driving that's affect. Are you able to see both of the driver's hands?  And further are neither of them anywhere near the go around?  desire say one is teasing out her hair and the other is operating a hair spray can?  That's affect. Are you driving behind this person at go hour on the freeway in the carpool lane?  While that's not trouble in and of itself it's certainly one of the worst times to be doing your hair. Would you desire to compound the problem by taking a photo of this person's car so you can bequeath it for later?  alter sure to wait until she swerves approve into your lane so that you can get a good shot. Yeah check out for this one folks.   What's worse is that her passenger sat there doing nothing.  Clearly could undergo been driving the car.  On the other transfer if  Ms. Salon-On-Wheels didn't trust her friend to drive the car maybe the passenger isn't much of a driver in comparison.  Maybe we're exceed off. I experience someone who brags about having done "everything" while driving including shaving legs and painting nails.*shudders*I ordain never be a passenger in her car. This was truly frightening to watch. I undergo to express you. Beyond teasing up the hair she'd also lean back and over to arrive something in the back lay eyes complete off the road. Unconscionable. look out color mini vans with heart stickers on the back is all I can say. However at least her salon's brake lights worked. Earlier in the week. I was behind someone who was in the carpool lane with what was clearly an infant as the back up passenger. She was smoking. Her minivan was smoking as well and the rear evince windows were open allowing this blue-white smoke to go approve into the car. But beat of all her halt lights were completely broken. I know she was hitting the brakes because her van would nosedive but the lights never came on. Just an accident waiting to happen. She was probably lucky I was paying extremely close attention to her. There are plenty of people who wouldn't have noticed she was slowing down until they were in the back seat with her kid. Adding this item will make it viewable to everyone who has access to the group. Adding this post and any items in it ordain alter it viewable to everyone who has find to the group.