Sal and Marylou found a hotel that let them stay on a room on credit. Sal "lost faith" in Dean, who had abandoned him, and says he had "the beatest time of my life" in San Francisco. Marylou stayed with him for a couple of days. Sal realized she had only wanted him to make Dean jealous, and so now was not interested in him.
Sal loses faith in Dean as their friendship seems to deteriorate a bit. Completely broke, Sal now really finds what it's like to be a beat.
Sal's bizarre dream could be wringed for some kind of symbolic significance, but it may be equally wise to regard it as the mad vision of a delirious person. For Sal, though, the two are perhaps not mutually exclusive.
Following Dean's misogyny, Sal calls Marylou a whore. But he and Dean sleep with all sorts of women all across the country. Sal thus shows a clear double-standard for sexual morality between men and women. It may be that what Sal is criticizing is that Marylou went off with someone who wasn't a beat, who wasn't broke, implying that she was trading herself in return for comfort and money. Yet one might also argue that she might have liked the nightclub owner and that it is not unjustified for Marylou, after the treatment she has received from Dean, to see what less "beat" men are like.
Sal says that he crossed over from "chronological time into timeless shadows," and saw angels. He realized that he had been born and reborn countless times and felt "sweet, stinging bliss." He walked through the city, smelling all sorts of foods, hungry and delirious.
For Sal, there is a kind of universal wisdom that can be gained through a bout of madness and delirium.
Fredericksen, Erik. "On the Road Part 2, Chapter 10." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 5 Feb 2014. Web. 20 Apr 2019.
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It's time for me to shift gears. I've lived in Costa Mesa for more than two decades and have a deep love for the city. My adopted hometown is facing an unprecedented fiscal crisis — and suffering from the controversies that spill from it. Open, honest, and timely communications from the city is critical at this time.
Good luck, Mr. Lobdell. FishbowlLA will be watching, with great interest.
Update – 03/24/11: The Orange County Register follows up with an item revealing the terms of Lobdell's engagement: 90 day initial contract, $75 an hour, 40 hours per week maximum. It also touches on how unhappy some people are with this new Costa Mesa move, per the comments to his farewell column.


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Forza Horizon Takes Racing Simulations To The Open Road World
Tina Amini
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The next Forza game is set in an open world. Wait, what? Yes, it's an open world modeled after Colorado. And smack in the middle of the game's setting is a racing festival that you will partake in when Forza Horizon releases October 23 for Xbox 360.
This won't be all of Colorado, mind you. Developers Playground Games and Turn 10 Studios promise they've selected only the best driving roads to string together in an admittedly (and intentionally) geographically inaccurate way.
The open world is a new environment for a Forza racing game, but also an incredibly suitable one. You can pick which events you want to race in, and who to challenge next. If you want to win a new vehicle or build up points to enter the next level of difficulty in the Horizon event (and get a shiny new wristband to match), you can maneuver around the map to find the racing event of your liking.
But this is an open-world game, remember. So you can have fun on the way from point A to B. While driving to the next "mission" point, you can challenge racers who idly drive on your path. You can enter drag races once the sun goes down. Night time in fictional Colorado is the best. You can see fireworks and a light show going off at the event's main hub.
The hub, Race Central, is where you can pick up new quests and gear. With Kinect capabilities, you can even tell your GPS to guide you to your next destination. I know everyone likes to rag on Kinect, but it's actually a very fitting feature for a driving game. If you're fancy enough to have a car with voice recognition GPS, you'll be instantly familiar with this feature. The idea here is to keep you focused on the open world rather than busy scrutinizing the UI and map.
Forza Horizon really seems to have all the bells and whistles of an open-world game (fast travel included) but set in a racing simulation environment. I'm much more of an arcade racing gamer, but developers Turn 10/Playground Games have managed to turn what for more casual players always felt like an inaccessible genre—simulation style racing—into a more friendly version of itself.
But Forza Horizon still retains its heart, says the creative director, Dan Greenawalt. Forza is about falling in love with one car, and developing a relationship with it. In my roughly one hour of playing, I developed a bond with certain cars over others. Though I love American muscle, the mustang spun out of control way too much for me to handle. I opted for a sturdier-handling vehicle almost every time.
Forza isn't about turning a vehicle into a weapon. This is no Burnout or Need for Speed. Forza players are often fans of not just games, but cars. So while this new title introduces an open world and encourages you to explore it, it's still very much about building your car up. Visiting the shop to get it taken care of is part of the bonding experience with your vehicle.
Need For Speed: Most Wanted Lets You Steal The World's Fastest Cars. Kind Of.
Maybe you've had that moment on the highway where you pull up next to a fancy sportscar. You might
And yet, it has the flair of an arcade title. As you race down streets, you get extra points for driving stylishly and acting like a daredevil. Near misses and lots of air are good ways of doing so. You can even race a plane in Forza Horizon. This car festival is a mecca for car lovers to go all out wild. It's a festival that the designers promise is on par with Burning Man and other sensations. The simulation aspect—a focus on realistic driving and terrain that is composed of 65 different surface types from grass to gravel—is still there. All the staples the franchise has accumulated over the years—the option to rewind, the green line that directs your path—are also still there. Heck, even the porta potties are in the proper placement. I didn't even know porta potties had proper placement, save for "never anywhere ever because I hate them go away."
Greenawalt wouldn't go into details about the multiplayer modes available, but we're promised a return of the favorites and even a few new ones. So Tag, Cat and Mouse are coming back.
But since when did you hear of concerts and performances displaying at night in a drive through Forza? Since now, that's when.

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Кубок короля Олександра 1924 () — перший розіграш кубкового турніру, що проводився у 1924—1927 роках югославською футбольною асоціацією. Участь у змаганнях брали збірні найбільших міст Югославії. Переможцем стала збірна міста Загреб. Турнір отримав свою назву в честь тодішнього короля країни — Олександра І, котрий подарував коштовний приз учасникам.

Учасники
 Збірна футбольної асоціації Белграда
 Збірна футбольної асоціації Загреба
 Збірна футбольної асоціації Осієка
 Збірна футбольної асоціації Любляни
 Збірна футбольної асоціації Сараєво
 Збірна футбольної асоціації Спліта
 Збірна футбольної асоціації Суботиці

Чвертьфінал
Збірна Любляни пройшла далі без гри.

Спліт: Отмар Гаццарі, Іво Шусте, Янко Родін, Велько Подує, Миховил Боровчич Курир, Анте Кесич, Шиме Подує, Мірко Боначич, Антун Боначич, Любо Бенчич, Вінко Радич.

Сараєво: Йосип Дворжак (САШК), Мухубич («Сараєвський ШК»), Асім Нємчевич («Сараєвський ШК»), Вілим Зелебор (САШК), Фердинанд Гьотц (САШК), Душан Гаврилович (САШК), Перо Монтель (САШК), Рашид Нємчевич («Сараєвський ШК»), Отто Магерле (САШК), Антон Фелвер (САШК), Степан Кьоніг («Шпарта»)

Осієк: Владимир Банчевич («Граджянскі»), Франьо Росманн («Граджянскі»), Антун Пінтар («Славія»), Бранко Рожич («Славія»), Іван Петелин («Славія»), Степан Надь («Аматер»), Мілош Момиров («Граджянскі»), Йосип Рафай («Граджянскі»), Драгутин Рабель («Славія»), Мірко Хабдія («Славія»), Адольф Єлачич («Славія»), Степан Кьоніг («Славія»)

Загреб: Драгутин Фрідрих, Степан Врбанчич, Бранко Кунст, Егон Вассерлауф, Іван Мар'янович, Мірко Криж, Джуро Кан, Бранко Зиная, Даніель Премерл, Еуген Плаццеріано, Миливой Бенкович.

Суботиця: Бела Віраг («Бачка»), Андрія Куюнджич («Бачка»), Милош Белеслин (САНД), Перо Богданович («Бачка»), Грго Шефчич («Бачка»), Михайло Хельд (САНД), Ладислав Ордьог (САНД), Мартин Полякович («Бачка»), Йожеф Шаллер (КСК «Кула»), Йосип Ковач («Бачка»), Ремія Марцикич («Бачка»), Желько (Дезідер) Слезак («Бачка»).

Белград: Карой Немеш, Милутин Івкович, Радослав Стакич, Михайло Начевич, Алоїз Махек, Светислав Маркович, Дам'ян Джурич, Драган Йованович, Стеван Лубурич, Душан Петкович, Бранислав Секулич.

Півфінал

Загреб: Драгутин Врджюка, Степан Бочак, Альфонс Пажур, Густав Ремець, Франьо Мантлер, Мірко Криж, Драгутин Бабич, Бранко Зиная, Еміль Першка, Віктор Гьотц, Милbвой Бенкович.

Любляна: Максиміліан Михелчич («Гермес»), Хуго Бельтрам («Ілірія»), Йоже Погачар («Ілірія»), Кароль Баумгартнер («Птуй»), Габріель Жупанчич («Ілірія»), Ладислав Жупанчич («Ілірія»), Павел Земляк («Гермес»), Адольф Ерман («Примор'є»), Петер Бірса («Примор'є»), Миодраг Доберлет («Ілірія»), Мірко Павалек («Ілірія»).

Суботиця: Бела Віраг, Андрія Куюнджич, Милош Белеслин, Грго Шефчич («Бачка»), Михайло Хельд, Марко Вуков («Бачка»), Мартин Полякович, Аладар Чиллаг («Аматер», Сомбор), Йосип Ковач, Йожеф Шаллер, Желько (Дезідер) Слезак.

Спліт: Отмар Гаццарі, Петар Дуймович, Янко Родін, Велько Подує, Миховил Боровчич Курир, Анте Кесич, Шиме Подує, Мірко Боначич, Антун Боначич, Любо Бенчич, Вінко Радич.

Фінал

Загреб: Драгутин Фрідрих, Степан Врбанчич, Еуген Дасович, Рудольф Хитрець, Рудольф Рупець, Віктор Гьотц, Драгутин Бабич, Владимир Вінек, Еміль Першка, Франьо Мантлер, Еуген Плацеріано.

Спліт: Марин Браєвич, Петар Дуймович, Янко Родін, Анте Кесич, Миховил Боровчич Курир, Велько Подує, Шиме Подує, Любо Бенчич, Антун Боначич, Мірко Боначич, Вінко Радич.

Склад чемпіона
У складі збірної Загреба виступали футболісти трьох клубів — ХАШКа, «Граджянскі» і «Конкордії», а саме:
 воротарі: Драгутин Фрідрих (ХАШК), Драгутин Врджюка («Граджянскі»);
 захисники: Степан Врбанчич, Бранко Кунст (обидва — ХАШК), Степан Бочак, Альфонс Пажур (обидва — «Конкордія»), Еуген Дасович («Граджянскі»);
 півзахисники: Егон Вассерлауф, Іван Мар'янович, Мірко Криж (усі — ХАШК), Густав Ремець, Рудольф Хитрець, Рудольф Рупець (усі — «Граджянскі»);
 нападники: Джуро Кан, Бранко Зиная, Даніель Премерл, Еуген Плаццеріано, Миливой Бенкович, Владимир Вінек (усі — ХАШК), Віктор Гьотц, Драгутин Бабич, Еміль Першка, Франьо Мантлер (усі — «Граджянскі»).

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Примітки

Посилання
 Футбол у Югославії 1924 на rsssf.com
 Повна статистика змагань
 Виступи збірної Спліта на клубному сайті «Хайдука»

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HomeDeep HouseMr Fingers – What About This Love (Alleviated Music)
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Larry Heard got given the Mr Fingers nickname from the way he plays keyboards and synths. A composer responsible for classics who contributed giving shape to the Deep House, he left Robert Owens in charge of the vocal parts. This when appearing under the Fingers Inc. guise along with Ron Wilson.
He eventually came to sing under his own banner though. Such as on this smooth jazzy joint which he first released back in 1989 on his own Alleviated Music label. Eventually including it on his 'Introduction' album that saw the light 3 years after on MCA…
'What About This Love' displays all the ingredients that made Larry Heard's music like no one else's. From the subtlety of its arrangements to the sweetness of its atmospheres. With that typical pinch of melancholia…
A native of Chicago, IL, Larry Heard pretty much found his influences while listening to Jazz. But also in labels such as Motown, Philadelphia International Records and Salsoul.
One could first hear him back at the end of the 70's as a drummer of a local band along with a certain Adonis. Meawhile working as a benefit authorizer for the US Government allowed him to buy his first studio equipment.
A "musicholic", Larry released music under quite a bunch of different guises. Beginning with his own name but also Mr. Fingers. But also as Fingers Inc. along with singer Robert Owens and Ron Wilson. Or The It with Harry Dennis. This giving birth to an impressive series of timeless masterpieces. With the man seen as the genitor of Deep House, no less…
Among his most famous gems, the mythic 'Can You Feel It'… Originally an instrumental that would soon after incorporate Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech. But also cuts such 'Donnie' then 'Rainforest Serenade' as The It. 'Mystery Of Love' and 'Bring Down The Walls' as Fingers Inc. Not to mention 'Washing Machine' and 'What About This Love' as Mr Fingers. Eventually securing a record deal with a major company (MCA). Out of which would come the 1992 'Introduction' album featuring extra smoothies such as 'Closer', 'On A Corner Called Jazz' and 'On My Way'.
Strangely enough, this absolute genius never got the recognition he truly deserved. Which didn't get him from keepin' on doin' music along with time. This in addition to outstanding remixes carrying his unique signature. From 'Il parlait pas Français' for Hanna Hais back in 2002 to 'Think Of You' for Dino & Terry 2 years after. Or, more recently, 'Take A Chance' for Kai Alcé featuring Rico + Kafele Bandele among others.
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New Rail Cartel same as the Old Rail Cartel
As the Eye mentioned in a previous post
It looks like very same cronyism is now happening in Pinellas with the same rail cartel led by Tampa Bay Partnership pushing the Greenlight Pinellas boondoggle.
So let's connect the dots between the 2010 rail referendum in Hillsborough and what we see going on with the pro rail side in Pinellas.
Back in 2010, the pro rail PAC was "Moving Hillsborough Forward" which was even called the "political wing of the Tampa Bay Partnerhsip" by the Tampa Bay Business Journal. Moving Hillsborough Forward was simply a symbiotic twin of Tampa Bay Partnership. They shared office space, resources and staff according to this Bradenton Times article titled "Grassroots" Tampa Rail Organization has Deep-Pocketed Backers that Stand to Profit The Tampa Bay Partnership is Moving Hillsborough Forward
In March of 2010 the Tampa Bay Partnership created the local political action group called "Moving Hillsborough Forward," which shares office space and staff with their affiliated parent, the Partnership, though it maintains its own bank account.
Their recent launch of televised advertising is identified as originating from "Moving Hillsborough Forward," which represents itself as "a grassroots coalition of Hillsborough County residents, neighborhoods, environmentalists, businesses, civic groups and community leaders."
The Bradenton Times article provided an abundance of information about who Moving Hillsborough Forward actually was:
Gary Sasso is the Chair, Deputy Treasurer and Registered Agent at Moving Hillsborough Forward while also a board member and Vice Director of the Partnership. He is President and CEO of Carlton Fields, a Tampa Bay Partnership member.
Stuart Rogel acts as Deputy Treasurer at Moving Hillsborough Forward while simultaneously is the President and CEO of the Tampa Bay Partnership.
Ten interns were recruited from USF by a Partnership member using a Partnership email for contact. Student interns are receiving school credit for their work.
A young professional group TRANSITion Tampa Bay has a website and is orchestrating events to rally on the rail issue. They identify several members as well as the Tampa Bay Partnership and Moving Hillsborough Forward as partners, in addition to the young professional programs of the Clearwater and Tampa Chambers, plus the local NAIOP chapter. There is no political or nonprofit filing for this group in the state of Florida.
Requests for information to the young professional group were responded to by Betty Carlin, Tampa Bay Partnership Director of Communications, informing that the young professionals group is a committee of the Tampa Bay Partnership (emphasis mine).
This pertinent information was reported in a Bradenton publication but not in our local pro rail print media in Hillsborough county in 2010.
In addition, Chuck Sykes was then President of the Greater Chamber of Commerce and also became an officer of the Moving Hillsborough Forward PAC. In 2009, the then Chairman of the Chamber, Henry Gonzalez, stated this in an interview with WMNF:
We had voted unanimously in a past board meeting to be supportive of the points set forth by the Tampa Bay Partnership.
At the Hillsborough County Supervisors of Elections are the campaign filings for Moving Hillsborough Forward PAC that raised about $1.6 million in 2010. Select one of the pdf files and the address used by Moving Hillsborough Florida is 4300 West Cypress St., Tampa, FL 33607. What is Tampa Bay Partnership's address? 4300 West Cypress St., Tampa, FL 33607
TRANSITion Tampa Bay Facebook page describes their organization
TRANSITion Tampa Bay is an organization for young professionals who want to see an innovative and integrated transportation network in the Tampa Bay region become a reality
Their last Facebook Post was August 22, 2013:
August 22, 2013 near Tampa, FLLAST CHANCE: I will be deleting the TRANSITion Tampa Bay facebook page today. If you haven't "liked" Connect Tampa Bay yet, please do it now so you can keep up on transportation news.
Thanks - Brian Seel
According to sunbiz.org, Brian Seel is now an officer of the pro transit non-profit Connect Tampa Bay .
Brian Seel also is the son of Pinellas County commissioner Karen Seel who voted to place Greenlight Pinellas on the 2014 ballot. Karen Seel's father, the late Don Williams, was a past chairman of PSTA.
The Eye reported previously that another taxpayer funded layer of transportation bureaucracy, TBARTA, was created by our state legislature in 2007 due to pressure by the Tampa Bay Partnership. Thus, taxpayer funded TBARTA and Tampa Bay Partnership are tied together today to promote their agenda.
Fast forward to 2012 in Pinellas. The Yes for Greenlight nonprofit was established last month creating controversy because the organization was created and being led by the chairman of taxpayer funded TBARTA, Ronnie Duncan. You can find our posts here, here and here. Supposedly, Duncan resigned from the Yes for Greenlight organization. But as of today sunbiz.org still lists his name as a Director, along with Stuart Rogel of Tampa Bay Partnership and Chris Steinocher, President and CEO of St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce.
Yes for Greenlight nonprofit registration
There was additional controversy regarding transparency surrounding the Yes for Greenlight non-profit. As a non-profit, the organization is not required to disclose their donors, campaign contributions or where they spent their money.
So now a new pro Greenlight Pinellas PAC has been registered with the Pinellas County Supervisors of Election called Friends of Greenlight. According to their registration, Joel Giles is Chairman and Stuart Rogel is Treasurer.
Stuart Rogel is President and CEO of Tampa Bay Partnership.
Who is Joel Giles? Joel Giles is an attorney with Carlton Fields law firm, a member of the Tampa Bay Partnership.
Joel Giles practices in the areas of complex real estate and commercial transactions. He represents the developers of large mixed-use, commercial and residential projects.
Gary Sasso, who headed Moving Hillsborough Forward in 2010, also works for Carlton Fields.
Will Yes for Greenlight remain in place together with the Friends of Greenlight PAC? According to this March 13 post on SaintPetersblog, supposedly a new Yes for Greenlight team was announced:
In a statement issued Thursday, Don Ewing will be the new co-chair, joining St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce CEO Chris Steinocher. Ewing is head of the Council of North County Neighborhoods and President of Haruspex Business Software in Clearwater.
Joel Giles, Tom Morrissette, Stuart Rogel, and Bob Clifford will make up the initiative's Organizational Committee, whose function is to support decision-making by the co-chairs.
The inaugural 20-person team includes Sierra Club regional rep Phil Compton, Florida Consumer Action Network specialist Tim Heberlin, Duke Energy Government/Community Relations District Manager Melissa Seixas, Crescent Oaks HOA president John Miolla and former St. Petersburg City Council member Jeff Danner.
Donations can be given to both organizations but only the PAC must file campaign reports. Donations could be made to the Yes for Greenlight nonprofit and then they donate to the PAC. It will be interesting to watch.
The dots are connected. What's revealed is that the new rail cartel in Pinellas is the same as the old rail cartel. The same rail cartel that failed to get a train in Hillsborough in 2010 are now are pushing for a rail boondoggle in Pinellas.
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Yesterday I showed this video to our class. The video (which is American hence the reference to 212 degrees F) points out that you always need to put forth your best effort to get the best results.
212 Degrees- The Extra Degree from Patrick Johnson on Vimeo.


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NEW YORK, N.Y.—In a deal one union official called "historic," the New York State Nurses Association announced a tentative contract agreement April 9 with three leading hospital systems that will set minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.
After a long fight, nurses in New York have won safe staffing rules aimed at providing better care for all.
If ratified, the four-year contract with the Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and New York Presbyterian hospital systems will lead to the hiring of more than 1,450 nurses, including filling about 800 vacant positions. The actual nurse-to-patient ratios would be negotiated after ratification, "based on safe staffing ratios that will be included in the collective bargaining agreements and enforced by an independent neutral party," the union said.
"We now have a voice in the process and a real say and a real mechanism in which to challenge patterns of staffing shortages and to get those rectified," NYSNA first vice president Anthony Ciampa said in a statement.
NYSNA spokesperson Carl Ginsburg told LaborPress he wasn't sure when the vote on ratification would be scheduled.
The proposed contract would also raise salaries by 3% a year, retroactive to the previous agreement's expiration last Dec. 31. The union said it would also increase tuition reimbursement and retiree health benefits, include new guidelines to stop workplace violence, and establish a process to improve safe patient handling.
With the hospital chains resisting setting ratios on the grounds of "flexibility," NYSNA members voted almost unanimously in early March to authorize a strike. It later set an April 2 strike deadline, but postponed it after the New York City Hospital Alliance, the trade group representing the three hospital chains, indicated it was prepared to make concessions.
The union will now turn its attention to what Ginsburg calls a "parallel effort" lobbying for the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act, a bill that would "make minimum nurse-to-patient ratios a matter of New York State law." It would set the maximum number of patients per nurse at one in operating rooms, trauma-emergency facilities, and for women giving birth; at two in intensive-care units; at three in emergency rooms and newborn-baby nurseries; and at four in regular medical-surgical wards and acute-care psychiatric units.
The bill, introduced in every legislative session since 2013, was passed by the Assembly in 2016, but did not get a committee hearing in the state Senate. It also failed to make it out of committee in either house in the 2017-18 session.
This year, it has been stuck in committee since January, but that may change now that the state budget, due April 1, has been passed. The Senate version (S1032), sponsored by Gustavo Rivera (D-Bronx), has 24 cosponsors. The Assembly version (A2954), sponsored by former nurse Aileen M. Gunther (D-Sullivan), has 72 cosponsors and 28 multisponsors.
Other unions backing the measure include the New York State AFL-CIO, Communications Workers of America District 1, the Public Employees Federation, New York State United Teachers, and 1199SEIU.
I am an ICU nurse in NYC and I have to tell you that I hope they fail in getting this law passed. The nurses that I work with are despicable human beings who do not really care about patients at all. The union reps could also care less, they just fight over any and every thing, right, wrong, or indifferent. Even when nurses clearly act negligently and it results in the death of a patient, the union is right there fighting for the nurse. None of this is really about patient staffing. I know because I see the type of people that nurses are and what they stand for. No matter what the assignment is, they complain. There's even a steady few who if you assign them ONE patient alone, they fill out a POA! I mean how pathetic are we? It's no wonder the doctors say what they say about us. They complain about any and every single thing, it's disgusting and a shame and the union reps are disgusting and shameful as well. They love to make it about "safe staffing" and in reality it's all about them wanting to get paid to do the bare minimum. I thought this was my dream job, boy was I wrong!


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The Media Today
The media today: Remembering Hugh Hefner 'for the articles'
By Pete Vernon, CJR
Hugh Hefner, the iconic founder of Playboy magazine, died yesterday at 91. Remembered primarily as the man who—as The Washington Post put it in a front-page obituary—"turned the world on to sex," Hefner was also a free speech advocate who printed more serious journalism and fiction than just about any other magazine publisher.
Though the percentage of consumers who read Playboy "for the articles" was undoubtedly smaller than claimed, those articles included pieces by some of the 20th century's greatest journalists and writers. James Baldwin, Ray Bradbury, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Vladimir Nabokov, and countless others all found a home for their work in the magazine's glossy pages. The Playboy interview was for decades one of the most prominent vehicles for newsmakers to speak expansively about their lives.
ICYMI: President Trump's "bizarre" tweet on Puerto Rico
Hefner often claimed his goal was to reject the puritanism he saw in American culture, and his magazine certainly had a role in the cultural revolution of the 1960s and '70s. He is remembered as a champion of free speech, a supporter of the Civil Rights Movement, and an advocate for gay rights.
Though Hefner argued that Playboy was also an ally to feminism, he was accused of exploiting women and contributing to a culture of objectification. Most notable among those critics was Gloria Steinem, whose 1963 "A Bunny's Tale" exposed what life in a Playboy Club meant for women working there.
With the rise of the internet, where free access to nudity is just a click away, Playboy's influence waned, but Hefner's legacy as a complex man with an outsized influence was already secure. Below, more on Hefner and his impact on journalism.
An iconic life: In The New York Times, Hefner is cast as an American original. "He was compared to Jay Gatsby, Citizen Kane and Walt Disney, but Mr. Hefner was his own production," writes Laura Mansnerus.
A controversial figure: NPR's Scott Simon says Hefner was "a proponent of free speech and a champion of civil rights who was decried as a merchant of smut."
A window into Donald Trump's views: The future president's 1990 Playboy interview was "a remarkably prophetic document," wrote The New York Times's Michael Barbaro during last year's campaign.
A dark view of life inside Hefner's world: In 2015, BuzzFeed's Kate Aurthur talked with Holly Madison, one of Hefner's former girlfriends, about "the hell that is Playboy Mansion life."
Other notable stories
CNN's Hadas Gold explores why the aftermath of Hurricane Maria hasn't received the same level of coverage that followed Irma and Harvey.
Mark Zuckerberg responded to Donald Trump's claim that Facebook is "anti-Trump." Zuckerberg also admitted that he erred in dismissing the idea that misinformation on his platform had an influence on the 2016 election.
The knowledge that football can have long-term negative impacts on the brains of those who play it has changed the way journalists cover the game. I spoke with NFL reporters and columnists across the country about how they've adjusted their coverage.
For The Undefeated, ESPN's Jemele Hill writes that she regrets placing her employer in a difficult position, but "the events of last weekend showed that the intersection of sports and politics is the most pronounced we've seen in decades."
NowThis is launching a real-time reporting project on Twitter. CJR's Meg Dalton talks with P. Kim Bui, one of the team's leaders.
Amen to David Uberti's argument against the glamorization of fake news purveyors as some sort of rebel entrepreneurs.
Pete Vernon is a CJR staff writer. Follow him on Twitter @ByPeteVernon.


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Smer strongman Paška steps down
ONE of the ruling Smer party's key strongmen, Pavol Paška, resigned as speaker of parliament the same night as municipal elections, overshadowing reports on outcomes of mayoral races across Slovakia. Paška's departure came on the heels of two rallies fuelled by anger at a widely criticised tender for an overpriced computer tomography (CT) device set for purchase by a financially ailing hospital.
People protested against Paška in Bratislava as well.(Source: Sme)
Prime Minister Robert Fico, who has been backing Paška since the outburst of the CT scandal, said he would look for a new speaker, the country's third highest constitutional representative, among his ministers and would name somebody to the post on November 25.
While local media has been speculating about who could replace Paška, Fico panned the journalists for doing so, according to the TASR newswire.
"I care about this city, I care about Slovakia and I have had enough," said Paška who has been in hot water for alleged links to the firm Medical Group SK, which won the dubious CT tender, shortly after it was clear that the Smer candidate took the mayoral race in Košice on November 15.
The opposition had declared earlier in November the mayoral election in Košice, Slovakia's second biggest city, to be a referendum on Paška claiming that Smer's candidate and former health minister Richard Raši was merely a Paška stooge. Incumbent Raši defeated his challenger Rudolf Bauer, who was backed by a number of opposition parties.
The scandal surrounding the CT device has claimed several senior heads already. Fico called on Smer nominee Zuzana Zvolenská to resign from the post of health minister and Renáta Zmajkovičová, a key Smer official, who sat at the top of the hospital's supervisory board, stepped down as parliamentary deputy speaker.
The Piešťany Hospital of Alexander Winter purchased earlier this year a CT scanner with a price tag approximately three times higher than similar devices purchased in the Czech Republic. Medical Group SK won the criticised tender after facing a single competitor, the Nitra-based firm Meditecon, which offered a price €300 lower.
"The resignation of Paška was certainly a surprise," Institute for Public Affairs President Grigorij Mesežnikov told The Slovak Spectator when asked about the most noted development of the municipal elections, adding that the case must be seen through the context of elections because the opposition was trying to present the Košice vote as a referendum against Smer and Paška. "Even if the referendum did not work out, the opposition managed to stop Paška," he added.
More than 1,000 people gathered in Bratislava to demand Paška's resignation on November 14 during a rally organised by independent MP Alojz Hlina, following a similar protest in Košice in front of Paška's house where around 300 people gathered on November 11, according to TASR.
While Fico called Paška's decision the gesture of a statesman, which is rare in Slovakia, opposition MP Daniel Lipšic claims that the CT scandal must not end with resignations only, but it also should continue at a level of criminal responsibility, TASR wrote. Paška has already sued Lipšic for his claims on Paška's influence over the health-care sector.
Nevertheless, Fico, who claims that Paška resigned to protect his family, does not see the resignation of his right-hand man as his end in politics.
"Pavol Paška is my friend and I view his decision very sensitively," Fico has said, adding that he counts on Paška continuing to contribute to the Smer party.
The opposition had tried to oust Paška on November 10, citing what they say are his ties to medical companies, especially the Medical Group, which won the CT tender. They also claimed that Paška did not publish his income from the sales of shares in private companies but ultimately Paška did not face a no-confidence vote after Smer MPs refused to support the programme of the special session initiated by the opposition.
The CT scandal
The Piešťany hospital had announced a tender to purchase a CT Somatom Definition AS produced by Siemens in 2012 for roughly €1 million with VAT; however, after officials from the ruling Smer party took control over the hospital, the management cancelled the deal and announced a new tender for a more expensive device, TV Markíza reported on October 30.
The winning bid by Medical Group SK at almost €1.6 million for a Philips Ingenuity Core 128 CT scanner was €600,000 higher than the CT device from the cancelled tender, the Sme daily reported. At the time of the deal, Zmajkovičová headed the hospital's supervisory board.
The leadership of the hospital announced on November 6 that they are seeking ways to cancel the contract with Medical Group SK. Yet, director of the hospital Mária Domčeková in an interview with Sme on November 12, insisted that the purchase came after a legitimate tender.
In an unexpected turn, the authorised representative of Medical Group SK, Juraj Koval, sacked its director Erika Bilá for what he called damaging the company's reputation. The supervisory board of the company allegedly had not known about the €1.6 million deal, sealed in the summer. A few days earlier, the company had said it was prepared to file lawsuits over the claims that the CT scanner was overpriced.
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Q & A Archives FY2014
FAQ:Q & A Archives FY2013
FY2013 Q4 Results Announcement - May 8, 2014
Q1. Please explain the main points of the consolidated results in FY2013.
All segments recorded higher sales than in the year-earlier period. The Electronic Devices & Components segment recorded significantly higher sales due to continued higher sales of NAND flash memories throughout the year. The Energy & Infrastructure segment recorded higher sales due to the healthy performance of Social Infrastructure business. The Community Solutions segment also recorded sales increase due to the healthy performance of Building Solutions business and Toshiba TEC. The Healthcare Systems & Services segment and the Lifestyle Products & Services segment also recorded higher sales.
Operating income of 290.8 billion yen was 47% higher than in the year-earlier period. The Electronic Devices & Components segment recorded operating income of 238.5 billion yen, its highest-ever, thanks to high profitability in NAND flash memories in the 4Q, which exceeded that of the first half. Although the Energy & Infrastructure segment felt the temporary negative influence of -31.0 billion yen in operating income, reflecting a conservative reassessment of the asset value of a U.S. developer of nuclear power plants, Nuclear Innovation North America LLC (NINA), the three pillars of Toshiba's business, Energy, Data Storage and Healthcare, achieved total operating income of 351.3 billion yen. The Lifestyle Products & Services segment saw a considerable second half improvement in operating income in each business against the first half.
Net income attributable to shareholders of the Company decreased on the negative effects of the reassessment of the asset value of NINA (-31.0 billion yen), the discontinuation of the ODD business (-15.0 billion yen), and the reversal of deferred tax asset due to abolition of the Special Corporation Tax for Reconstruction (-9.8 billion yen).
Q2. Please tell us about the overall forecast for FY2014.
Our FY2014 forecasts are as follow: net sales of 6,700.0 billion yen (YoY +197.5 billion yen), operating income of 330.0 billion yen (YoY +39.2 billion yen), and net income attributable to shareholders of the Company of 120.0 billion yen (YoY +69.2 billion yen). In the Energy & Infrastructure segment, we expect to see increases in sales and operating income thanks to growth in Transmission & Distribution Systems and Railroad Systems, and no recurrence of one-time expenses incurred by Nuclear Power Systems in FY2013. The Electronic Devices & Components segment is expected to continue to secure high profitability despite a more prudent estimate of the margin in NAND flash memories compared to FY2013. The Lifestyle Products & Services segment is forecast to see considerable improvement and to move into the black. Our foreign exchange rate assumptions for FY2014 are $1 = 100 yen and 1 euro = 135 yen.
Q3. Please tell us about the FY2013 business results in the Electronic Devices & Components segment.
The segment as a whole saw higher sales, reflecting higher sales of NAND flash memories throughout the year. The Storage Products business also recorded higher sales on sales of 3.5-inch HDDs. The segment recorded its highest-ever operating income. Despite price reductions for NAND flash memories in the 4Q, the segment maintained high profitability, supported by development of leading-edge process technologies and cost reductions. The Discrete business recorded positive operating income in 4Q.
Q4. Please tell us about the FY2013 business results in the Energy & Infrastructure segment.
The segment as a whole saw higher sales on increased sales in the renewable energy business, including Solar Photovoltaic Power Systems, and in the Social Infrastructure business, including Transmission & Distribution Systems, Railroad Systems, Automotive Systems, Industrial Equipment and Landis+Gyr, the world's leading Smart Meter company. The Social Infrastructure business' operating income continued to increase on good performances by Solar Photovoltaic Power Systems, Transmission & Distribution Systems, Railroad Systems and other businesses. Thermal Power Systems maintained high profitability. The segment as a whole saw lower operating income due to one-time expenses incurred by the overseas nuclear power systems and a conservative reassessment of the asset value of NINA.
Q5. Please tell us about the FY2013 business results in the Community Solutions segment.
The segment as a whole saw higher sales. Solar Photovoltaic Power Systems and Disaster Prevention Systems for local governments, and Building Solutions business including Elevators, Commercial Air Conditioners and Lighting, maintained solid growth. Toshiba TEC recorded higher sales, mainly in the Retail Store Solutions Business acquired from IBM. The segment as a whole saw higher operating income. The Elevator and Commercial Air-Conditioner businesses saw higher operating income thanks to business expansion in emerging economies. Toshiba TEC's Retail Information Systems and Office Equipment businesses also saw higher operating income on global expansion.
Q6. Please tell us about the FY2013 business results in the Healthcare Systems & Services segment.
The segment as a whole saw higher sales on sales of computerized tomography (CT) systems in Turkey and other emerging economies as well as in Japan. The Diagnostic Ultrasonic Systems recorded a solid performance. The service sector also saw good performances in Japan and overseas. The segment as a whole saw higher operating income, reflecting a solid performance by the service sector, especially for CT systems in Japan and the U.S., and the smooth establishment of local subsidiaries in emerging economies. Yen depreciation also improved the profitability of overseas operations.
Q7. Please tell us about the FY2013 business results in the Lifestyle Products & Services segment.
The segment saw a considerable improvement in operating income from the first half to the second half. The Home Appliances business continued to see positive operating income in the 4Q and saw higher operating income than in the 3Q. The TV business saw positive operating income in the 3Q, but recorded the cost of clearing inventories in Europe in the 4Q as part of structural reform. The PC business 4Q operating deficit was half that of the 3Q.
Q8. How was free cash flow and D/E ratio in FY2013?
Free cash flow in FY2013 was 40.0 billion yen and improved substantially by 104.0 billion yen from the year-earlier period. Improved cash flow was due to considerable increase in operating income in the Electronic Devices & Components segment and reduction of inventory. The D/E ratio also improved significantly by 29 points from the year-earlier period to 113%.
FY2013 Q3 Results Announcement - January 30, 2014
Q1. Please explain the main points of the first nine months' consolidated results in FY2013.
All five main segments saw higher net sales than in the year-earlier period. The Electronic Devices & Components segment recorded considerably higher sales on continuing higher sales of NAND flash memories. The Energy & Infrastructure segment sales increased on a healthy performance by the Social Infrastructure Systems business, including Photovoltaic Power Systems. The Community Solutions segment also saw sales increase on good performances by the Elevator business and Toshiba TEC. The Healthcare Systems & Services segment and the Lifestyle Products & Services segment also saw higher sales.
Overall operating income increased by 55.0 billion yen on a year-on-year basis, and reached the highest ever level for the first nine months of a fiscal year. The Electronic Devices & Components segment recorded its highest ever operating income in this nine-month period, and the Community Solutions and the Healthcare Systems & Services segments also reported higher operating income. The Lifestyle Products & Services segment saw a considerable improvement in operating income (loss) in the 3Q against the 2Q. The LCD TV and Home Appliances businesses moved into positive operating income in the 3Q. The Energy & Infrastructure segment saw lower operating income than in the same period a year earlier, due to deterioration in the overseas Nuclear Power Systems. Net income decreased due to increases in income tax expenses, but surpassed the initial forecast.
Q2. Please give us your forecasts for FY2013 full-year results.
Our FY2013 full-year consolidated forecast remains unchanged from the projections that we announced on October 30, 2013. To recap, we anticipate net sales of 6,300 billion yen; operating income of 290 billion yen; income before taxes of 200 billion yen; and net income of 100 billion yen. We recognize this forecast as a minimum target and will try to surpass it. The assumed foreign exchange rate in the Q4 is 102 yen to the dollar and 139 yen to the euro.
Q3. Please tell us about the Electronic Devices & Components segment's results for the first nine months.
Sales increased as NAND flash memories continued to record solid sales and as the Storage Products business saw growth, mainly in 3.5-inch HDDs. Operating income increased significantly to the highest level ever for a nine-month period. NAND flash memories continued to secure high profit, although the supply and demand balance slightly eased in the 3Q.
Q4. Please tell us about the Energy & Infrastructure segment's results for the first nine months.
Sales continued to rise, largely due to increased sales in the Renewable Energy business, including Photovoltaic Power Systems, and other Social Infrastructure Systems, including Railroad Systems, Automotive Systems and Industrial Equipment. The segment as a whole saw higher sales, despite reduced sales in Nuclear Power Systems in Japan. Operating income was lower on the performance of the overseas Nuclear Power Systems. Social Infrastructure Systems saw operating income continue to increase on good performances by Photovoltaic Power Systems, Railroad Systems and other businesses. Thermal Power Systems saw lower operating income but secured high profitability.
Q5. Please tell us about the Community Solutions segment's results for the first nine months.
Segment sales increased. The Disaster Prevention Solutions, Elevators and Commercial Air-Conditioners businesses maintained solid growth. Toshiba TEC recorded higher sales, mainly in the Retail Store Solutions business acquired from IBM. Operating income increased, mainly in the Elevators and Commercial Air-Conditioners businesses on expansion in emerging markets, along with increased operating income at Toshiba TEC.
Q6. Please tell us about the Healthcare Systems & Services segment's results for the first nine months
Sales rose on increased equipment sales, especially of computerized tomography (CT) systems in emerging markets such as Turkey. Higher sales were also the result of a solid performance in the service sector following an increase in unit installations, especially overseas. Higher operating income mainly came from the service sector and equipment sales in emerging markets. Yen depreciation also contributed to increased operating income from overseas operations.
Q7. Please tell us about the Lifestyle Products & Services segment's results for the first nine months.
The Lifestyle Products & Services segment halved its deficit in the 3Q against the 2Q and steadily improved its profitability in each quarter. The LCD TV and Home Appliances businesses moved into profit in the 3Q. The PC business allocated the cost of inventory disposal to structural reform.
Q8. How was free cash flow in the first nine months and the third quarter?
Free cash flow in the 3Q was 25.4 billion yen. Even though free cash flow for the first nine months was minus 121.3 billion yen, we anticipate achieving our full-year target by promoting accelerated collection of receivables, especially in the Energy & Infrastructure segment, where sales have a strong seasonality and are concentrated in 4Q.
FY2013 Q2 Results Announcement - October 30, 2013
Q1. Please explain the main points of the FY2013 first half (April – September) consolidated results.
Electronic Devices recorded a significant sales increase on higher prices and higher volume sales of NAND flash memories. Social Infrastructure saw a continued increase in overall sales on growth in Social Systems, including Photovoltaic Power Systems, Elevator and Building Systems and Medical Systems. Digital Products recorded higher sales on a positive performance at Toshiba TEC, and Home Appliances also saw increased sales. Overall sales increased 13% on a year-on-year basis. Overall operating income increased 36.9 billion yen YoY, supported by the highest ever operating income in Electronic Devices. Income before income taxes and noncontrolling interests also increased. Net income attributable to shareholders of the Company decreased due to an increase in the tax expense, but surpassed the initial forecast.
Q2. Could you please tell us about the FY2013 first half business results in the Semiconductor and Storage businesses?
We saw significantly higher sales on higher prices and volume sales of NAND flash memories, and the consolidation of NuFlare Technology, Inc. The Semiconductor business recorded its highest ever operating income on a half-year basis.
Q3. Could you please tell us about the FY2013 first half business results in the Social Infrastructure segment?
Overall sales increased. Social Infrastructure, including Photovoltaic Power Systems, automotive equipment and industrial equipment, saw sales continue to increase, and Elevators and Medical Systems also recorded solid performances. Operating income decreased on lower demand in domestic Nuclear Power Systems, and a decline in the fuel business in overseas Nuclear Power Systems. Thermal Power Systems saw a decrease but secured high profitability. Photovoltaic Power Systems, Elevators and Medical Systems all recorded increases.
Q4. Could you please tell us about the FY2013 first half business results in the Digital Products segment and Home Appliances segment?
The Digital Products segment saw an increase in overall sales due to higher sales at Toshiba TEC, mainly in POS systems, following the acquisition of IBM's retail store solutions business. LCD TVs saw a recovery in Japan but a decline in North America. Overall sales decreased on lower demand for PCs. The segment operating loss increased, but Toshiba TEC recorded increases in profit and LCD TVs improved on structural reform. The PC business recorded a loss due to a fall-off in demand, although the loss was half that of 1Q. Home Appliances recorded an overall increase in sales due to growth of White Goods, such as washing machines and refrigerators. Operating income deteriorated YoY mainly in White Goods, affected by yen depreciation, but the 2Q result was an improvement on 1Q.
Q5. Free cash flow during the FY2013 first half has fallen by 146.7 billion yen. Why is that?
Cash flow from operating activities improved but was -14.5 billion yen, due to increased demand for working capital, most notably in the Social Infrastructure segment. Cash flow from investing activities was -132.2 billion yen. We anticipate an improvement in working capital in the second half, and we will also promote accelerated collection of receivables, reduce inventory, and make carefully selected capital investments in response to market conditions. At this point we anticipate achieving our full-year target.
Q6. Please tell us about the overall forecast for the FY2013 business results.
We have revised the FY2013 business forecast upward. Net sales: 6,300 billion yen (200 billion yen higher than the previous forecast); operating income: 290 billion yen (30 billion yen higher than the previous forecast). Increases in both net sales and operating income in the first half, mainly due to NAND flash memories, and consistent progress in improvement in the Digital Products and Home Appliances segments underpin that upward adjustment.
Medium-term Strategies for Future Growth through Creativity and Innovation (FY2013-2015) - August 7, 2013
Q1. Could you explain the scope of the Healthcare business that you have positioned as a new pillar of business?
The healthcare market is about to enter a period of enormous change because of such crucial healthcare challenges to society as population increase on a global scale, growth in social welfare spending due to aging of the population, chronic shortages in both the quality and quantity of healthcare providers and caretakers, and increased needs for sophisticated and effective medical diagnostic and treatment systems. Toshiba Group continues to have a dominant No. 1 share in Japan's imaging diagnostic systems market along with a top-level share in the worldwide market.
Going forward, we will expand into new business areas in healthcare that are centered on disease prevention and optimizing diagnoses and treatments of patients. These new transformational diagnostic and treatment methods go far beyond conventional approaches to imaging. This new healthcare business area will have the main objective of contributing to the social goal of better controlling spiraling healthcare costs by preventing diseases and providing more effective modes of treatment. Expanding healthcare demand is expected not only in the developed countries but also in the emerging economies. We are heading toward a new age in healthcare that will improve overall healthcare by using cloud technology and sensing data collection technologies to provide easy access to patients' electronic medical records such as their treatment history combined with their daily personal health records (PHR). This new direction in medical electronics will give birth to strong new healthcare businesses related to Big Data analytics and cloud creation services. New healthcare business opportunities are also emerging based on biotechnology fields. We will work to develop new approaches to patient care and health management with a focus on helping to provide better total lifetime healthcare.
Moreover, presently in the Toshiba Group, various businesses related to the medical field such as carbon ion radiotherapy systems, in-vitro diagnostic equipment, DNA chips, and hospital ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) systems are being developed by different business organizations within the Group.
We have set up a new organizational structure for healthcare businesses to provide solutions for increasingly diverse customers' needs. Accordingly, in FY2015, we plan to achieve net sales of ¥600 billion for our healthcare business.
Q2. Please explain your Energy business strategies.
The big issues posed for society by the worldwide expansion in demand for energy and the need to consider the global environment, particularly the need to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, are in some sense in conflict with each other. Toshiba Group is accepting the challenge to work toward solutions of these difficult issues by means of developing and commercializing high-efficiency, low-carbon-emission baseload power technologies that contribute to protecting the global environment.
In thermal power generation, we achieved the world's highest-level high-efficiency, low-emission combined cycle power generating system. With regard to coal-fi red thermal power plants, we have developed the high efficiency Advanced Ultra-Supercritical (A-USC) power generation system, and at the same time, we plan to expand EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) sales from our India production base to emerging economies where demand is growing rapidly for stable electric power supply. In addition to the types of clean renewable energy power-generation systems we are currently offering, including hydroelectric (Japan's No. 1 share*1), geothermal (world's No. 1 share*2) and photovoltaic (Japan's No. 1 share*3) power plants, we are also focusing on the development of renewable types of power generation that are still not widely in use such as small hydro and wind farms. In FY2015, we plan to achieve net sales of ¥350 billion for thermal power generation and sales of ¥200 billion for clean energy power generation.
With regard to our nuclear power business in Japan, reflecting our compliance with the new nuclear safety regulatory standards, we will further improve the safety of nuclear power generation as a low-carbon-emission baseline power source. We will continue to support the maintenance of safety and the dismantling of the Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Station. Outside of Japan, we will continue to steadily go forward with the construction of 8 AP1000 nuclear power units ordered in the U.S. and China. In addition, based on the extensive technologies and know-how we have acquired, we would like to contribute to providing solutions to the world's need for stable supply of energy and its need to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by proposing and supplying the world's highest-level nuclear power plants that incorporate many new measures for further improving safety. The FY2015 net sales target for our nuclear power business is ¥630 billion.
The practical implementation of Smart Grids to more efficiently manage power generation, transmission and distribution and electricity consumption and help reduce the total level of carbon emissions is already a growing reality in many countries around the world.
We will globally expand our transmission and distribution business by focusing on the emerging economies. We will expand the core Smart Grid technologies within Toshiba Group by such means as deepening our coordination with Landis + Gyr AG – a world-leading Smart Meter company – to expand the usage of Smart Meters to gas, water and heat, and we are acquiring companies like Consert and cyberGRID that possess leading-edge technologies necessary to provide intelligent solutions for Smart Grid deployment such as demand-response technologies. These will add a new level of technology to our Smart Community business.
Going forward, we will offer products and solutions that are in line with the wide and growing worldwide demand for Smart Grid technology to implement advanced energy management systems. The net sales targeted in FY2015 for our Transmission and Distribution/Smart Grid and Smart Meter business are set at ¥700 billion.
*1: In terms of the total capacity of outstanding orders for ≥10MW water mills (as of August 2012 as researched by Toshiba)
*2: In terms of the total capacity of geothermal turbines delivered (Bloomberg Geothermal Market Outlook 2011 3Q)
*3: Mega-solar systems for electric power companies (as of Japanese 2013 as researched by Toshiba)
Q3. Please explain your Data Storage business strategies?
Along with the impressive evolution of data storage systems, the volume of information has continued to increase explosively, and in the storage device business it is necessary to develop products that have faster speed and higher capacity. Toshiba Group is the only one company in the world that can propose both NAND flash memory that is suitable for high-speed processing and HDDs (hard disk drives) that are suitable for higher data capacity needs, as well as also offering hybrid drives (NAND+HDD) that satisfy both needs.
In August, we began construction of the second phase of the Fab 5 building at our Yokkaichi Operations in Japan where NAND flash memories are being manufactured. At this new facility, which is scheduled for completion next summer, we will secure production space for next-generation 3D memory, and at the same time we will continue to develop and apply our leading-edge process technologies. In this way, we will strength our competitive power in these business areas. We place utmost importance on enhancing cost competitiveness and improving profitability, and while carefully watching market changes, we will flexibly and efficiently make investment decisions.
In the future as well, we will strengthen our storage device business by establishing a stable and highly profitable structure and leveraging our technological strengths across product lines. We will utilize Toshiba's superior semiconductor device technology to deliver unique optimal storage solutions. In FY2015, we plan to achieve net sales in the Data Storage business of ¥1.4 trillion.
Q4. How do you position TV, PC and White Goods in Toshiba's business portfolio?
With regard to our TV, PC and White Goods businesses, we will implement further sharing of management resources and efficiencies by integrated them into one new business group, the Lifestyle Group. We aim to achieve sales of ¥1.3 trillion in FY2015.
In our TV business, for two consecutive years we recorded large deficits, and the market is rapidly changing in the PC business because of the shift to smartphones. In addition, the majority of our White Goods are now being manufactured outside of Japan, and the recent decline of the yen is pressuring profit margins. In view of this situation, we are already steadily executing various measures in our TV and PC businesses, such as reducing the number of platforms and shifting human resources to growing business areas. Going forward, with regard to the profit-making situation of any of our businesses, we will implement the necessary structural reforms and without setting aside any aspect of a business as being off-limits, we will review our manufacturing and sales systems, both in Japan and overseas. In addition, with regard to White Goods, we will assiduously put forth measures to cope with the recent depreciation of the yen. We will work to strengthen our businesses outside of Japan and carry out structural reforms aimed at improving profitability.
To turn Lifestyle-related businesses back into the black, we will transform our consumer goods businesses to B to B and Smart Community businesses. We will strengthen B to B by developing products and services that utilize security and mobility technologies, which are strengths of our company. We will also enhance our cloud solutions business and expand our solutions in each business category to meet each customer's needs, especially in the education and healthcare fields. In addition, in emerging economies, we will share management resources and functions among our TV, PC and White Goods businesses, including for sales, marketing and services. We will adopt unified design concepts and aggressively develop local-fi t products.
Toshiba Group has been applying various technologies that were originally created in our Digital Products business across conventional boundaries into other business areas. Examples are our glasses-free 3D technology's practical application in medical-use CT scanners (commercialized in September 2013) and for digital signage solutions (commercialized in August 2013), and we are shifting the use of image processing and recognition technologies to apply to on-board vehicle cameras and security cameras. In the future, technologies that the TV, PC and White Goods businesses possess such as energy-saving, environment conscious, security and intelligent wearable technologies and such know-how as making products that are thin, light, small and inexpensive will become a great strength for us when we try to differentiate our company from other companies in the social infrastructure and healthcare businesses and will help our efforts to strengthen our Smart Community businesses. We consider TVs, PCs and White Goods as important businesses for our future component technologies, and we plan to shift more resources into the B to B and Smart Community business areas.
FY2013 Q1 Results Announcement - July 31, 2013
Q1. Please explain the main points of the FY2013 first quarter consolidated results.
The Electronic Devices segment recorded a significant rise in net sales on higher prices and increased volumes of NAND flash memories. The Social Infrastructure segment also saw an increase, reflecting steady sales in overseas Nuclear Power Systems and in Photovoltaic Power Systems. Net sales increased 10% on a year-on-year basis. Operating income doubled, YoY, supported by the significant increase in the Electronic Devices segment and a positive result in Social Infrastructure segment that exceeded the target, despite lower operating income. Income before income taxes and noncontrolling interests and net income both improved significantly and secured a positive result.
Q2. How does yen depreciation affect to the company's performance?
Yen depreciation on the first quarter had the effects of a 130 billion yen increase in sales and a 10 billion yen increase in operating income. Yen depreciation basically has positive impacts on exporters, such as Semiconductors, Medical Systems and Power Systems. However, depreciation is also raising our procurement and electricity costs. In domestic LCD TVs, PC and Home Appliances businesses, where offshoring is advanced and imports amounts are larger, yen depreciation has a negative impact. In these businesses we will improve profitability through measures that include raising prices.
The assumed foreign exchange rate at the time when the full-year forecast was made was 90 yen to the dollar and 115 yen to the euro.
Q3. Could you please tell us about the FY2013 first quarter business results in the Semiconductor and Storage businesses?
The Semiconductor and Storage businesses saw substantially higher sales. NAND flash memories saw considerably higher sales on higher average prices due to improvements in the product mix. The consolidation of NuFlare Technology, Inc. in December 2012 also contributed to the segment's higher overall sales. NAND flash memories recorded an upswing in operating income on increased sales. Storage Products secured profit despite lower demand for PCs. The consolidation of NuFlare Technology, Inc. also contributed, and the overall operating income of the segment increased sharply to 47.9 billion yen, a rise of 38.5 billion yen against the same period last year.
Q4. Could you please tell us about the FY2013 first quarter business results in the Social Infrastructure segment?
Overall sales increased. Nuclear Power Systems overseas and Photovoltaic Power Systems continued to record healthy performances. Elevators and Medical Systems also saw solid performances. Automotive Systems, such as batteries and motors, recorded growth. Overall operating income decreased, but we secured a profit. Thermal Power Systems also decreased but secured high profitability. Photovoltaic power systems and Medical Systems recorded increases.
Q5. Could you please tell us about the FY2013 first quarter business results in the Digital Products segment and Home Appliances segment?
The Digital Products segment saw a decrease in overall sales. LCD TVs are on path for recovery in Japan, but declined on slumping sales in Europe and North America. PCs saw sales drop on reduced sales volume. The Retail Information Systems and Office Equipment businesses reported increase sales on positive effects from the acquisition of IBM's Retail Store Solutions business. However, the overall operating loss of the Digital Products segment increased. While the Retail Information Systems and Office Equipment businesses reported solid performances, LCD TVs saw lower operating income as a result of the downturn in Europe and other regions, despite improvement in Japan due to structural reform and higher sales prices. PCs saw a negative figure on lower demand and yen depreciation. Overall operating income was lower.
Home Appliances segment recorded an overall increase in sales, mainly due to growth in White Goods, such as washing machines and refrigerators, but operating income deteriorated as a result of yen depreciation.
Q6. How will you improve your performance in the LCD TV and PC businesses?
We plan to increase sales and profit by accelerating profit-focused resource allocation and establishing a business strategy to reduce fixed costs, improve profitability and strengthen the business foundations. We will also seek to promote sales in emerging markets, focus on enterprise business and develop high value-added products. We announced these measures on July 26 as a part of continuing structural reforms, and we will follow up with more reforms in this fiscal year. This will include a review of production and a reform of sales operations in Japan and overseas.
Q7. Please give us your forecasts for FY2013's first half and full-year results.
We are not changing our results forecast for the first half and full fiscal year. In addition to the positive effects from yen depreciation, NAND flash memories will maintain a strong performance and the Social Infrastructure segment is expected to see improvement. M&As completed in the last fiscal year, such as the acquisition of IBM's Retail Store Solutions business, will also have a positive impact. However, we must take into account changes in the digital products market, and we must make prudent estimates of increases in our procurement and electricity costs. We must also bear in mind that the prospects for the world economy are unclear, largely due to slowing growth in emerging economies such as China, and we need pay careful attention to changes in the external environment. Nonetheless, we have set the forecast as our minimum target and aim to achieve further improvement.
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Marvel's Hit-Monkey on Hulu benefits from being distant from the MCU
Thursday 11/18/21 at 2:50AM EST
"If the words 'monkey with a gun' intrigue you at all, then oh boy do I have a show for you," says Kristen Reid. "Setting off on a quest for vengeance, a suit-wearing, sunglasses-donning Japanese snow monkey shoots, slashes, and slaughters his way through Tokyo in Hulu's new animated series Marvel's Hit-Monkey. The last survivor of his tribe after a brutal massacre, the monkey (referred to simply as Monkey in the series' 10 episodes) teams up with the glowing green ghost of an assassin named Bryce (Jason Sudeikis) to untangle the web of corruption that led to the extinction of his family. A relic of the now-defunct Marvel Television, Hit-Monkey joins M.O.D.O.K on Hulu as the final non-canon Marvel series. Both animated shows were in production when Marvel Television was folded into the larger Marvel Studios back in 2019, and while many other television projects got the ax, Hit-Monkey seems to have just barely made it through with a quiet premiere. Existing outside of the ever-expanding MCU, the series is a self-contained offshoot that makes just a few passing references to other Marvel entities. But this distance from the MCU actually works in the show's favor, allowing it to feel different and more exciting than many of the tired, one-note superhero films in the series. Created by Josh Gordon and Will Speck (the directing duo behind films like Blades of Glory and Office Christmas Party), Hit-Monkey's sense of humor is simple and sometimes trite, but generally enjoyable. Because Hit-Monkey originates from a short-lived arc in the Deadpool comics, it feels like Bryce (Sudeikis) is written to mirror Deadpool's cynical, referential wit. Although not directly breaking the fourth wall, Bryce is constantly making pop culture references to Monkey that may as well be said directly to us (as a monkey living in the mountains of Japan, naturally he doesn't know Tom Petty or anyone else Bryce brings up). Always armed with a snarky comment, the ghostly Bryce lightens up the series, but at a certain point the bit gets overplayed. Sudeikis is great as always, bringing the deadpan and self-deprecating humor out of the role well, but just isn't given much to work with."
Hit-Monkey is wholly unnecessary: "It is very sad to see a monkey die," says Steve Greene. "That fact is not in question. If there's any reason to care about Marvel's Hit-Monkey, the latest Hulu attempt to slap some title branding on a comic book adaptation in the hopes of luring in some eyeballs, it's that someone should definitely answer for the monkeys dying. As the name of the show might indicate, the one to mete out that vengeance is Hit-Monkey, a Japanese macaque whose quest to track down those responsible for the murder of his tribe leads the 10-episode season along a river of blood and a dense network of criminals and assassins. Monkey's compatriot along the way is human hitman Bryce (Jason Sudeikis), dispensing his workmanlike knowledge of the Tokyo underworld to help guide Monkey through the big city. If this were actually Monkey's show, Hit-Monkey would be better for it. Fred Tatasciore manages to convey a surprising amount of emotion in Monkey's grunts and screeches and puzzled reactions. As Monkey slowly tries to develop a personal code that limits collateral damage and eventually gives him more than retribution to care about, you can start to see the germ of an idea start to form. 'How does someone cope when they draw their life's meaning from killing people?' is well-trod territory, but there's at least hope at the outset that Hit-Monkey might be able to see that question through different eyes. But then, humans get involved. Through a majority of the show, Bryce is a cliche-ridden first halfassive self-imposed burden that Hit-Monkey can never really shake."
Hit-Monkey overcomes a cliché-ridden first half to be compelling toward the end of Season 1: "The first five episodes are plagued by Bryce's stale one-liners — you see, he likes pop culture references, but monkeys don't go to the movies, so they don't get pop culture references — and a thoroughly uninspired structure in which each episode finds Bryce and Hit-Monkey killing many people to get to the next yakuza boss on their list," says Daniel Fienberg. "The political stuff is generic 'The system is corrupt and only one man can change things," twaddle and the police side of the story lacks even that much depth. The end of the sixth episode brings in occasional Daredevil villain Lady Bullseye, and there's an immediate elevation of quality that comes from introducing an adversary who's not completely disposable. Lady Bullseye is vicious in a specific way, and her black-and-white costume lends variety to the series' visual style. She marks a pivot at which Hit-Monkey begins to feel like it has stakes. Sure, the show still feels like it was written by people drawing their inspiration from Quentin Tarantino films that pay homage to yakuza thrillers rather than from the original source material. But the seventh and eighth episodes in particular feature effective action set pieces and give Hit-Monkey and Bryce some decent pathos, if perhaps too late. The last two episodes offer some escalating scale and better moments, but they over-rely on Japanese characters who never exhibit any narrative necessity at all and, other than Takei's always-welcome gravitas, never find individual voices."
Until Hit-Monkey smartly splits up its two approaches, it spins its wheels by presenting repetitive emotional beats, and the same joke over and over again: "Once the farcical elements are compartmentalized, the show is able to let loose its wackier side," says Siddhant Adlakha. "Chapter 5, for instance (titled 'Run Monkey Run') is a John Wick-inspired romp where numerous assassins are sent Hit-Monkey's way. One of them is a ghost; another is a taxidermist; the third is an influencer who livestreams his kills. On the other side of the equation, the series is then able to slow down in later episodes and give its more emotional side the care that it deserves, between some moving Bryce flashbacks, and a dialogue-free Hit-Monkey story where the boundary between sincere and silly is so razor-thin that it may as well be non-existent (the show is at its funniest when the jokes and serious moments feel like one and the same). Some of its more potent dramatic beats are brought to life through stark black-and-white vignettes, where the clash between dark shadows and bright-red blood makes for an enticing contrast."
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