Sony cautions you that a number of important risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements, and therefore you should not place undue reliance on them.

Meanwhile, due to the lackluster economy, spending on consumer products has declined significantly in the past few months, and leading Japanese companies are struggling to keep pace with the accelerating pace of globalization, which includes aggressive capital participation in overseas companies.

Under the present conditions, our consolidated sales were 28,834 million yen (51.5% increase from the same period last year), consolidated operating loss was 1,318 million yen (the same period last year: consolidated operating loss of 4,777 million yen), consolidated ordinary loss was 1,290 million yen (the same period last year: consolidated ordinary loss of 5,644 million yen) and consolidated net loss was 1,267 million yen (the same period last year: quarterly net loss of 5,510 million yen).

In addition, the relevant consolidated ordinary income, excluding the impact of the inventory valuation, was 17.9 billion yen, an increase of 10.7 billion yen compared to the same period a year ago.

In the first half of the current fiscal year (the six-month period from April to September 2009), net sales were 153,891 million yen (down 48.9% compared to the same period of the previous year), operating losses were 21,620 million yen (compared to operating income of 26,282 million yen in the same period of the previous year), ordinary losses were 19,212 million yen (compared to ordinary income of 28,907 million yen in the same period of the previous year), and net losses were 16,161 million yen (compared to net income of 17,361 million yen in the same period of the previous year).

When viewed from different angles, the image pattern undergoes subtle changes enabling the human eye to perceive it as a three-dimensional image (Figure 1).

As a result, shareholders will be able to review the proposals by the Large-scale Purchaser while referring to the opinions of the Board of Directors, and if alternative plans are proposed by the Board of Directors, a comparative review of such alternative plans and the proposals by the Large-scale Purchaser shall be possible, and an opportunity to make an appropriate decision in respect of eventual acceptance or non-acceptance will be provided.

With this solution, every device in the home can have its own IPv6 address, turning the home into a simple extension of the internet and enabling new and exciting innovations to be created in home controls and energy management.

Because each frame of the CV image has the camera position, the coordinates at an arbitrary point of any frame can be acquired, and measuring the distance between two arbitrary points become possible.

On the other hand, as stated in (1) above, the Company believes that, in order to utilize the accumulated management resources at a maximum level, which is the source of corporate value, construction of the common interests of shareholders and enhancement of the Group’s brand value, it is essential to have stable management from a mid-to-long term perspective and sufficient understanding of accumulated management resources.

The purpose of this change was the unification of the sales and field engineer personnel for making more prompt and accurate judgments in relation to customers’ requests.

In Europe, although the air conditioner market recovered temporarily during the high-demand season of July and August thanks to favorable weather in Southern Europe, the effect of the economic downturn in the six-month period was considerable, and sales of residential air-conditioning systems decreased year over year.

Installing the jumper between the center pin and left pin selects the internal regenerative resistance, and installing the jumper between the center pin and right pin selects the external regenerative resistance.

In addition, execution of an introduction demonstration involving associated business contacts triggers awareness centering on municipalities and public offices toward the local community environment and allows for maintenance of both the marginal environment where desktop OSS become easily widespread and municipalities and public offices themselves can continue to use the software and the potential educational environment for users.

This enables machining of complex-shaped workpieces like turbines, thereby expanding the range of machining on the MILLTAP 700.

On this point, the shareholders of the Company can make a proper decision whether or not to accept the proposal of the Large-scale Acquisition only with sufficient information, which will accordingly contribute to the protection of the corporate value of the Company and the common interest of shareholders.

In the present study we derived such equations from CWT data of our subjects and then evaluated their applicability to monitoring with our currently used lung counter, mainly examining the accuracy of determinations of 241Am, useful as a unique indicator that can be detected in most cases of internal contamination with Pu compounds.

Largescale consumption of sweetened products is also considered one of the main causes of tooth decay and the obesity which plagues our society, while a diet overly high in sodium can cause high blood pressure.

If the communication cable is routed near the power cable or if they are tied, noise will enter to make communication unstable, possibly causing frequent communication errors and/or communication retries.

Digging operation of the bucket can be automated so that simultaneous operation of the boom lever and bucket lever can be eliminated, allowing easy operation of work equipment during digging even by unskilled operators.

If it is established, ASMS provides direct Pu mass measurement and monitoring capability, substitutes for sampling and destructive analysis at IIV, and extends process monitoring to safety purposes.

Ordinary income was 1,754 million yen, 16.9% up from the same period last year, reflecting a decrease in the gain on valuation of derivatives, and consolidated interim period net income, including the contribution from the gain on sales of investment securities, rose to 1,139 million yen, 36.0% up from the same period last year.

Our operating results for the first half of FY2012 are as follows: The Group’s net sales amounted to 23,923 million yen, an increase of 3,561 million yen, or 17.5% from the same period of the prior year; operating profit amounted to 1,134 million yen, an increase of 587 million yen, or 107.4% from the same period of the prior year; ordinary profit amounted to 1,155 million yen, an increase of 534 million yen, or 85.9% from the same period of the prior year; and net income amounted to 559 million yen, an increase of 296 million yen, or 113.1% from the same period of the prior year.

In China, however, (1) the fact that the stock market had declined significantly following previous attempts to dispose of state-owned shares, (2) the fact that nontradable shares are normally bought and sold at their net asset value when such transactions are conducted privately, and (3) the fact that it had been assumed that nontradable shares would never be listed led people to assume that any move in this direction would trigger a stock market correction and to take the view that owners of tradable shares should be compensated in some way for any losses suffered as a result of such a correction.

After blasting in a hanger-type blast machine (also commonly known as monorail or overhead rail blast machines), the tanks reappear in immaculate condition and paint-free, ready for a new paint coating, and ready to be prepared to return to the action.

Note that a Home Use License and the corresponding Network Version or Network License Primary License will have a different serial number, and the Home Use License will be a Stand-alone Version or Stand-alone License, as applicable.