Japan Box Office Report ? October 20th/21st

(02) 'Tsunagu' / (01) 'The Expendables 2' / (03) 'Odoru Daisousasen THE FINAL'

?The Expendables 2? owns the weekend and ?Space Sheriff Gavan? makes his long-awaited comeback in at fifth place.

The opening weekend for ?The Expendables 2? couldn?t have been any better in Japan. It attracted a total of 135,418 viewers and grossed 164,786,000 Yen (2,064,933 USD) over the two days. The prequel only made a cumulative revenue of 900,000,000 Yen (11,277,900 USD), which should be more than just an easy goal for this sequel.

?Tsunagu? had to drop down to second place again and should seen be able to reach its first milestone of 1 billion Yen (12,531,000 USD). Meanwhile, ?Odoru Daisousasen THE FINAL? moved back into the top three and already grossed more than 5,400,000,000 Yen (67,667,400 USD) in seven weeks. Only 500,000,000 Yen (6,265,500 USD) remains to reach the level of the box-office results of ?Thermae Romae?.

In fourth place, ?Outrage Beyond? already managed to crack the 1 billion Yen, which is something that director Kitano Takeshi hadn?t achieved since ?Zatoichi? in 2003.

The first tokusatsu Metal Hero Series from 1982/1983, ?Space Sheriff Gavan? (TV Asahi) finally made a comeback and probably brought some tears to fans of the original series. It?s always great to see Ohba Kenji again, even though the new movie also focuses a lot on the younger cast. This movie recorded 59,692 viewers and a revenue of 73,950,200 Yen (926,669 USD). Its goal will be the 500,000,000 Yen.

The 25th Tokyo International Film Festival also opened that weekend, but it had no noticeable effect on the weekend box office.

You can check out the trailers of all the new Japanese films below the box office ranking!

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(Note: The ranking is not based on the revenue, but the number of sold tickets!)

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> ?Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie? (Tokusatsu, Action)
Director: Kaneda Osamu
Cast: Ishigaki Yuma, Ohba Kenji, Taki Yukari, Nagaoka Takuya, Morita Suzuka, and more

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> ?Kibou no Kuni: The Land of Hope? (Emotional Human Drama)
Director: Sono Sion
Cast: Natsuyagi Isao, Ohtani Naoko, Murakami Jun, Kagurazaka Megumi, Shimizu Yutaka, and more

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> ?Penguin Fufu no Tsukurikata? (Heart-Warming & Fresh Human Drama)
Director: Hirabayashi Katsutoshi
Cast: Koike Eiko, Kingone Wang, Fukami Motoki, Yamashiro Tomoji, and more

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> ?Hyakunen no Tokei? (Emotional Human Drama)
Director: Kaneko Shusuke
Cast: Kinami Haruka, Mickey Curtis, Nakamura Yuri, Suzuki Hiroki, Kinochi Akiko, and more

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> ?Venus in Eros? (Art, Erotic, Fantasy)
Director: Imai Takako
Cast: Hara Saori and more

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> ?Fuse: Teppou Musume no Torimonochou? (Anime, Adventure)
Director: Miyaji Masayuki
Voice Cast: Kotobuki Minako, Miyano Mamoru, Miyamoto Kanako, Konishi Katsuyuki, Sakamoto Maaya, and more

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> ?Macross FB7: Ginga Rukon Ore no Uta o Kike!? (Anime, Science Fiction)
Director: Amino Tetsuro
Voice Cast: Konishi Katsuyuki, Miyake Kenta, Endo Aya, Nakajima Megumi, Fukuyama Jun, and more

Source: http://www.tokyohive.com/2012/10/japan-box-office-report-%E2%80%93-october-20th21st/

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In Animal Kingdom, Voting Of A Different Sort Reigns

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A school of manini fish passes over a coral reef at Hanauma Bay in 2005, in Honolulu. Researchers say schooling behavior like the kind seen in fish helps groups of animals make better decisions than any one member of the group could.

As part of NPR's coverage of this year's presidential election, All Things Considered asked three science reporters to weigh in on the race. The result is a three-part series on the science of leadership. In Part 1, Alix Spiegel looked at the personalities of American presidents.

Voters could learn some things about choosing a leader from a fish. Or a chimp. Or an elephant.

That's because the animal kingdom, despite its name, tends to operate more like a democracy, says Iain Couzin, an evolutionary biologist at Princeton University.

"One common property we see in animal groups from schooling fish to flocking birds to primate groups is that they effectively vote to decide where to go and what to do," Couzin says.

When one fish heads toward a potential source of food, the other fish vote with their fins on whether to follow, he says. And this highly democratic process helps animals make decisions as a group that are better than those of any single member.

Successful animal leaders know they can't get too far ahead of their constituents, Couzin says.

"They seem to simply reconcile their own goal-oriented behavior with this tendency to align with others," he says. "Because if you don't tend to be influenced by others, you then leave the group behind, and you may get eaten by predators, or you lose the benefits of group living."

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A large flock of starlings flies over a park at sunset in Algiers, Algeria, in 2006. Millions of birds migrate every year, arriving from Europe and crossing into Africa.

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A large flock of starlings flies over a park at sunset in Algiers, Algeria, in 2006. Millions of birds migrate every year, arriving from Europe and crossing into Africa.

Findings like this are relevant to humans because we carry a lot of evolutionary baggage with us into the voting booth, Couzin says. And when it comes to leadership, he says, we are most like animals that live in groups and depend on cooperation to survive. And these groups tend to pick cooperative leaders.

So what about the idea that it's just the biggest or strongest animal in a group that calls the shots?

It's rarely that simple, says Mark van Vugt, an evolutionary psychologist from the VU University in Amsterdam. Take chimps, for example, he says.

"In chimpanzees, it's not necessarily the physically strongest individual who seizes the control over the group," van Vugt says. "It's usually the more cunning individual, someone who forms his coalitions well."

Animal leadership also demonstrates how groups choose different leaders for different situations, he says. Among elephants, for example, the de facto leader is usually the oldest female. But that can change, van Vugt says.

"When the group is attacked, it might be one of the dominant male members who takes control," he says. "But when it comes to knowledge problems and particularly where to find water, they then turn to the oldest female."

Some animal leaders have traits that voters might wish all human leaders had ? like unfailing honesty, van Vugt says.

Honeybees are a good example, he says. Their scouts lead by finding a food source and then communicating the location to other bees through something called a waggle dance.

"The interesting thing about it is in the signaling of the scout bees, there is no deception whatsoever," van Vugt says. "They want to do what is best for the hive. And I think that is a little bit dissimilar to humans."

Or chimps, whose leaders are often accomplished liars.

One way animals and people are clearly alike is that both are capable of choosing a bad leader, says Couzin.

"It's not necessarily the most talented or intelligent individual that ends up in a leadership position," Couzin says. Unqualified animals sometimes rise to power, he says, but most of the time they don't last long.

And animals don't wait for the next election to find a replacement, Couzin says.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/10/24/163561729/in-animal-kingdom-voting-of-a-different-sort-reigns?ft=1&f=1007

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Canada Senate Committee Recommends Cull Of 70,000 Seals

The committee has been hearing testimony from more than 40 witnesses about the controversial cull of grey seals. The plan would involve the killing of 70,000 seals over the course of four years. The seals are targeted because, the committee argues, their diet consists primarily of cod and they are preventing of the recovery of cod stocks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence -- once the greatest cod fishery in the world.

According to the committee, the total population of grey seals in Eastern Canada numbered around 330,000 to 410,000 in 2010. In the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the population of grey seals numbers around 104,000. The cull would eliminate more than half of them.

The committee?s recommendation for culling the seals has plenty of evidence to support it. Grey seals consume the same type of fish that are commonly caught by the fishing industry. As the seal population has expanded dramatically, from roughly 13,000 in the 1960s to up to 410,000 in 2010, so too has the number of cod that are being eaten by the seals.

According to Sen. Fabian Manning, chairman of the committee, ?the committee is persuaded that seal predation is preventing the recovery of groundfish stocks," reports AFP.

In fact, grey seals may eat as much cod as the fishing industry catches. In a study of the grey seal population in the Baltic Sea by Karl Lundstr?m from the University of Gothenburg?in Sweden, the researchers discovered that consumption matched the number of fish caught. According to Lundstr?m, ?If you compare the estimated consumption of fish by grey seals in their main range in Sweden, which is north of the Kalmar Sound, it is of the same order of magnitude as the total catch taken by Swedish professional and leisure fishermen in the same area.?

The committee?s recommendation has naturally drawn outrage from conservation groups and some scientists. According to the critics, the decision was not based on science and there is still plenty of research needed to determine how much cod the fish consume.

The committee does recognize the need for further research on the effect of grey seals on the cod population, reports The Vancouver Sun. Most importantly, critics point out that there is no way to understand the effect a large seal cull could have on the ocean or the ecosystem.

Many believe that overfishing is to be blamed and that the recommendation for the seal cull is driven by politics not science, reports the Calgary Sun. According to Liberal Sen. Mac Harb of Ottawa, "Science in this country will be once again put on the back burner as political games are played with Canada's oceans management policies," reports the Calgary Sun.

Another aspect of the cull will be a reported bounty system for the hunting and killing of the seals. Canadian seal meat and pelts are banned in the European Union, and Canada will need to make the hunting of the grey seals rewarding and create possible markets for the culled grey seals. The United States also has a longstanding ban of seal meat and pelts. Some recommendations include promoting the benefits of seal oil, reports the Calgary Sun.

Seal hunting is legal in Canada, although harp seals tend to be the species hunted, not grey seals.

Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/canada-senate-committee-recommends-cull-70000-seals-852766

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Budget deficit nearly doubles year-on-year in September | Economy ...

The national budget deficit reached P34.854 billion in September, nearly twice the P18.501 billion a year earlier, as the government continued to spend for programs and boost revenues, the Department of Finance (DOF) reported Wednesday.

This brings the deficit in the first nine months of 2012 to P106.05 billion, well below the government's deficit ceiling for 2012 of P279 billion, or 2.6 percent of GDP, for this year.

Its current fiscal position gives Philippines enough space for to finance its projects, said Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima.

In September, revenues increased by 0.9 percent?to P105.309 billion, while expenditures rose 14.1 percent to P140.163 billion.

In the first nine months of the year, ?government raised P1.118 trillion in revenues ? 10 percent more than it raised in the same period in 2011; expenditures, meanwhile, grew by 14.5 percent to P1.225 trillion from P1.070 trillion.

?With the higher expenditure growth due to improving absorptive capacities of departments and agencies, we are again confident that government spending will again contribute significantly to economic growth in the third quarter,? said Budget Secretary Florencio Abad.

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The Bureau of Internal Revenue took in P71.036 billion in September, a 6.7-percent rise from P66.547 billion int eh same comparable period. In the nine months to September, the BIR?s collections climbed by 12.6 percent to P772.468 billion from P686.260 billion.

BIR Commissioner Kim Henares said the bureau will likely reach an unprecedented P1 trillion in collections in 2012, though its actual target of P1.066 trillion will be harder to reach.

?Our aggressive efforts to improve tax compliance [have] consistently generated fiscal space to provide funding for the Aquino administration?s spending priorities,? said Purisima.

The Bureau of Customs also showed an improvement in its collections last month, with P23.208 billion or 2.6 percent higher year-on-year from P22.408 billion.

In the first nine months to September, the BOC?s collections increased by 9.8 percent to P213.656 billion from P194.607 billion.

The BOC?s target for 2012 is P347 billion.

Purisima said he hopes the Senate will approve a measure that would bring revenues from sin taxes to at least P40 billion a year.

?We have no reason to doubt the pronouncements of the acting chair of the ways and means committee, Senator Frank Drilon, that the Senate will maximize the health and revenue impacts of the reform of excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol,? he said.

The Senate will resume discussions on the bill next month. ? BM/VS, GMA News

Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/279525/economy/finance/budget-deficit-nearly-doubles-year-on-year-in-september

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Romney distances himself from GOP candidate who said pregnancy from rape "something God intended"

Top Republicans were slow to embrace tea party-backed Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock after he ousted a longtime GOP senator from office. Though he eventually won their support? -- and money -- Mr. Mourdock could see both fade after telling a live television audience that when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape, "that's something God intended."

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Mr. Mourdock, who's been locked in one of the country's most expensive and closely watched Senate races, was asked during the final minutes of a debate Tuesday night whether abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest.

"I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God. And, I think, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen," Mr. Mourdock said.

Mr. Mourdock became the second GOP Senate candidate to find himself on the defensive over comments about rape and pregnancy. Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin said in August that women's bodies have ways of preventing pregnancy in cases of what he called "legitimate rape." Since his comment, Mr. Akin has repeatedly apologized but has refused to leave his race despite calls to do so by leaders of his own party, from GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on down.

It was not immediately clear what effect Mr. Mourdock's comments might have during the final two weeks in the increasingly tight race against Democratic challenger Rep. Joe Donnelly. But they could prove problematic. Mr. Romney distanced himself from Mr. Mourdock on Tuesday night, a day after a television ad featuring the former Massachusetts governor supporting the GOP Senate candidate began airing in Indiana.

"Gov. Romney disagrees with Richard Mourdock's comments, and they do not reflect his views," Mr. Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said in an email to The Associated Press. Romney aides would not say whether the ad would be pulled and if the Republican presidential nominee would continue to support Mr. Mourdock's Senate bid.

Other Republicans did not immediately weigh in. Indiana Republican Party spokesman Pete Seat referred comment to the Mourdock campaign. A spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee did not immediately return a request for comment Tuesday night.

National Democrats quickly picked up on Mr. Mourdock's statement and used it as an opportunity to paint him as an extreme candidate, calling him a tea party "zealot." DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz described Mr. Mourdock's comments as "outrageous and demeaning to women" and called on Mr. Romney to take his pro-Mourdock ad off the air.

Mr. Mourdock further explained Tuesday night after the debate that he did not believe God intended the rape, but that God is the only one who can create life.

"Are you trying to suggest somehow that God preordained rape, no I don't think that," Mr. Mourdock said. "Anyone who would suggest that is just sick and twisted. No, that's not even close to what I said."

In response, Mr. Donnelly said after the debate in southern Indiana that he doesn't believe "my God, or any God, would intend that to happen."

Mr. Mourdock, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress three times before becoming state treasurer, became one of the tea party's biggest winners of the 2012 primary season when he knocked off veteran Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar in a brutal campaign. Initially, national Republicans stayed out of the Indiana race because the race had appeared to be a likely win for the GOP.

But as the race grew tighter in recent months, Mr. Mourdock changed his tune and started trying to woo moderate voters. At the same time, top Republicans began stumping for Mr. Mourdock around the state in a push to break open the high-stakes Senate race. Republicans need to gain three seats, or four if President Barack Obama wins re-election, and seats that were predicted to remain or turn Republican have grown uncertain.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell came to Indianapolis for a fundraiser Monday, and Arizona Sen. John McCain and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham campaigned for Mr. Mourdock last week. New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte is due in the state Wednesday.

Mr. Romney's coattails carry special significance in conservative Indiana, where Mr. Mourdock has underperformed Mr. Romney by 12 points in most public polls. Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS also has bought another $1-million of airtime in Indiana, making his group the biggest player in Indiana's Senate race. A message left for Crossroads GPS spokesman Nate Hodson was not immediately returned.

Mr.Donnelly, a moderate Democrat who opposes abortions, has spent much of his campaign highlighting Mr. Mourdock's tea party ties and trying to accuse him of being too extreme even for conservative Indiana. Democratic groups have bought another $1.6-million of airtime for Mr. Donnelly ads this week.

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Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/romney-distances-himself-from-gop-candidate-who-said-pregnancy-from-rape-something-god-intended/article4633744/?cmpid=rss1

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Marine Corps Veteran Ed Fizer to Speak at Park Forest Historical ...

Park Forest, IL?(ENEWSPF)?October 22, 2012. Edwin Fizer, an honored veteran of the Montford Point Marines, the African American unit that broke the color barrier in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, will speak on the challenges and accomplishments of his unit for the Park Forest Historical Society program, Sunday November 11, 2012, 2:30 p.m. in the Park Forest Village Hall, 350 Victory Drive. The program is free and open to the general public.

For additional information, please call Jane Nicoll at 708-481-4252.

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