Japanese toymakers now see senior citizens as their most dynamic market. Nearly 22 million Japanese–17.4 percent of the population–are over 65, and that number is expected to top 25 percent by 2020. Three million senior citizens live alone, and 1.55 million Japanese are senile (their numbers are also expected to grow rapidly). This aging population presents a huge “silver market”–estimated at 50 trillion yen ($416 billion)–for everything from beds to cosmetics to home-care nurses and helpers....

It's also April Fools' Day, and renowned ESPN announcer Dick Vitale — no fool when it comes to college basketball — spoke with Sporting News about this year's Final Four. He also offered an update on his head-to-head bracket matchup against Joel, a one-ton longhorn from the Fort Worth Herd as part of Allstate's March Mayhem Challenge. Such a fool, that Joel fellow. "It's been a mismatch," Vitale told SN Tuesday....

A total of 12 teams would participate in the esteemed competition, with 10 already having made the cut with two yet to qualify. The 10 qualified teams are: Al Ahly, Zamalek (Egypt), Al-Nassr, Al-Hilal (Saudi Arabia), Esperance Sportive de Tunis (Tunisia), Al-Ain (UAE), Fath Union Sport (Morocco), Al-Faisaly (Jordan) and Al Naft (Iraq). WATCH: Memphis’s delightful goal in training One of the final two teams will be winner of the qualification of Sudanese Al-Merrikh and Mauritanian ASC Tevragh-Zeine, and Lebanese Al-Ahed and Omani Fanja SC while an Algerian club team is also expected to complete the roster....

The categories decided by voting include the Golden Ball Award (Emirati Player and Foreign Player), The Leader Award and The Golden Glove Award. The Pro League Committee adopted online voting as part of its 2017-2020 strategy which prioritises the integration of technology and smart applications in its strategic initiatives. The nominees for the various vote-based award categories were selected by the PLC based on technical statistics for each nominee throughout the 2016-17 AGL season....

Weakness or injury of any of these structures can cause arch pain. The shape and height of your foot arches are unique; no two people are the same. And major variations in the shape and height of your arch can make you more susceptible to pain. Treatment includes strategies like foot support, medication, therapy, and possibly interventional procedures as well. Paying attention to good foot and arch support is fundamental to preventing arch pain....

But was it the right thing? When Congress passed the Motherhood Act last year, little was known about how early discharge affects children’s health. Researchers have now completed two large studies that address the issue directly, and the results may come as a surprise. Though one study suggests that ““short stay’’ babies are slightly more likely to land back in the hospital, both make clear that the length of a child’s hospital stay has little effect on her health....

Which species of microbes live in the gut and what they do in there are just two of the many key questions that scientists are asking about this largely unexplored realm. “The landscape of the human gut is truly terra incognita,” says Jeffrey Gordon, a genome scientist at Washington University in St. Louis whose research team is spearheading this effort. “The menagerie of microscopic organisms living there acts like an organ that carries out functions that we humans have not had to evolve....

After losing their polling lead in the wake of the Dobbs decision and a series of electoral setbacks in Kansas and New York, Republicans appeared to storm back in the final months of the 2022 midterm election cycle on the strength of a multi-state advertising blitz deriding rising urban crime rates and voter anxieties over an uncertain economy. In mid-October, Republicans regained the lead in the average national generic ballot, prompting calls from conservative leaders and political commentators that the “red wave” predicted early in the year was returning....

How long have tigers been endangered? Alan Rabinowitz: That’s a very good question. Part of the problem is that nobody has been actually counting tigers, following tigers. It’s only been a little over 10 years that people have come up with a technology using camera trapping in a certain grid formation to get accurate density estimations of tigers. Until that time we didn’t really know how to count tigers. People did things like estimating tiger numbers by their tracks—their pug marks—but the main place to do that was the tiger reserves in India....

EAT YOUR HEART OUT, EURODISNEY. In the course of bankrupting Bavaria, Mad King Ludwig built three of the most fantastic castles this side of fairyland. His favorite, Linderhof, includes a subterranean grotto where he drifted in a swan-shaped boat, serenaded by live opera performances. Herrenchiemsee, modeled on Versailles, has a Hall of Mirrors where concerts are held every summer. Most unreal of all is the turreted Alpine aerie Neuschwanstein–open year-round, since Ludwig insisted on central heating....

The Copa America championship game that everyone wants to see on Saturday, July 10 between Brazil and Argentina is just one game away from becoming a reality. Brazil did its part by beating Peru in the semis. Now only No. 15-ranked Colombia stands in the way of Argentina, No. 8 in the world. Don’t think Los Cafeteros don’t hear all the talk. They’ll be out to spoil the party when they take on Messi & Co....

Having won just one of the last seven meetings between the sides, La Albirroja are +850 longshots at the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook to reach their second consecutive final by coming out on top in Concepcion. Meanwhile, Gerardo Martino’s men required penalties to overcome Colombia in the previous round but are -250 favorites to win in normal time here. The sides actually shared a 2-2 draw when they met in the group stages, and you can get odds of +330 on them cancelling each other out once again....

The Cardinals are 1-2 since Drew Stanton took over for Carson Palmer, losing most recently to the 5-7 Falcons on Sunday, 29-18. MORE: Week 14 NFL picks | Power rankings | Cardinals have work cut to avoid collapse “He’s going to take us where we want to go,” Arians said of Stanton, the eight-year veteran from Michigan State. The Cardinals (9-3) went 10 quarters between offensive touchdowns in their last three games as their grip on the NFC West dwindled to just one game over the Seattle Seahawks....

On Tuesday the Vail School Board, which covers a district near to Tuscon, ended up having to phone the police after more than 100 parents descended on the event, rallying for the area to drop the requirement to wear masks in schools. Local news outlet, KGUN 9, reported that the group, who were holding signs and not wearing masks, arrived just before 5:30pm. Owing to the commotion, the board made the decision to adjourn their study session, and not hold the meeting that they had scheduled for 7pm....

The statewide insurance carrier for schools, the Arizona School Risk Retention Trust, has provided the majority of the state’s school districts with the forms, with the intention of removing blame from the schools, if children contract COVID-19, ABC15 reported. The waiver was uploaded to the Queen Creek Unified School District parent’s portal on Monday. “Although Queen Creek Unified School District is taking many steps to protect your child from the spread of COVID-19 as outlined on our website and communications provided to you, it is impossible to reduce the risk to zero,” said the document....

Rogers did not expand upon her reasoning for criticizing the federal holiday, which takes place on the first Monday of September and celebrates the American workforce. “Labor Day is a Communist Holiday,” the Republican tweeted on September 6. Her comments were met with mockery from other social media users. The Arizona House Democrats Twitter account tweeted in reply: “Says the heart and soul of Arizona’s Republican Party (prove us wrong)....

Anthony Boen, 51, the Sheriff of Franklin County, Arkansas, was convicted on two counts of deprivation of rights under color of law, the Department of Justice announced on Monday. In the first instance, Boen body-slammed a detainee and ripped parts of his hair out during a November 21, 2018 interrogation. Two weeks later, on December 3, Boen struck a man in the head “multiple times” with a closed fist while he was shackled to a bench inside the Franklin County Jail....

But Israel is no longer willing to leave a lunatic fringe of the settler movement to pursue Kahane’s violent, anti-Arab vision. Dr. Baruch Goldstein changed that two weeks ago when he slaughtered dozens of Muslims at prayer in Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs. Two days after the massacre Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s cabinet moved for the first time to officially suppress Kahane’s followers, invoking the same tough security laws Israel uses to combat Arab unrest....

Masked gunmen entered the party in Wylie Street, east Atlanta, at roughly 2:30 a.m. on Friday, before striking two people with their firearms, stealing personal items and getting away. The suspects are said to have fled on foot and currently remain at large as Atlanta Police Department investigates. “Victims indicated that while inside the location, a group of masked males entered through an unlocked door, brandishing firearms,” an Atlanta Police Department spokesperson said to Newsweek in a statement....

CON : What sure thing? He’s no spring chicken. At 55, his action-hero status has been eclipsed by the likes of Vin Diesel, The Rock, even Ben Affleck. And despite his success overseas, he hasn’t starred in a movie that grossed more than $100 million in the United States since “Eraser” in 1996. And he knows it. “Arnold doesn’t live in a delusional state,” says one producer who has worked with him....