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Thanks Kamei! Japan's taxpayers now guaranteeing about 500,000 deadbeats
In the autumn of last year, Shizuka Kamei pushed through a debt moratorium law, primarily with the provincial goal of backing the small real estate companies in his home town of Hiroshima that were hit hard by the recession. At the time, I called this woefully short-sighted:
Small companies across Japan's countryside that are having trouble making repayments should either restructure themselves, or fail and be restructured by creditors or new management. Many have antiquated management with regards to accounting, employment rosters, operational efficiency, supply chains, etc. Companies that can't adapt to changed economic environments are supposed to fail. Yes, some good companies caught in unlucky times are destined to be caught in the current credit crunch as they are unable to repay loans and go bankrupt. But bankruptcy is a good thing! It is the engine of economic development that allows bad companies to fail, stifled talent to move elsewhere, assets to be sold at whatever price the market will bear, and bad management to be replaced. Yes, it sucks that people lose jobs and shareholders forfeit their investments, but that's life! Letting this happen is a necessity for economic growth.
And on top of this, the poor local banks, only barely functioning after 15 years of treading water with the bad loan crisis, will now inevitably reduce their limited lending activities to nothing. There will be no money to lend, thus no local business growth or economic development, and thus no entrepreneurial activity. A short-term benefit for stabilized employment rates means the countryside gets screwed in the long term.
While my concern about small businesses refusing to restructure remained true, my concern for local banks was addressed when the final bill was passed (which you can read in Japanese here). The Japanese government — in other words, tax dollars — provide a statutory guarantee for these deadbeats. The mechanics of this are, under Article 11 of the Moratorium Law, that the government provides sufficient financial backing to the Credit Guarantee Union, which backs the financial institution undertaking the new obligation to support the small business. The Credit Guarantee Union is a government-backed public interest corporation that provides credit and loans to small businesses.
How many people and "small businesses" (defined as a company with less than US$3 million in capital and less than 300 employees) have applied for the moratorium in the last half year? About half a million:
Japanese banks have received a total of 521,030 applications for the easing of loan repayment terms from small and midsize companies and homeowners under the so-called debt moratorium law, the Financial Services Agency said Friday.
The applications, as of the end of March, since the law took effect in December last year involved 13.64 trillion yen and more than 90 percent of them were approved, the FSA said.
Congratulations, Japanese taxpayer — your tax yen are now financing these deadbeats. When the world is buzzing that Japan could be the next Greece, and could be sparked by one of any number of events (a failed Japanese bond auction, a sharp drop in tax revenue, a failure to implement tough fiscal and budgetary standards, a sharp contraction in Japanese GDP, a downgrade in sovereign debt by the ratings agencies), this is one of the worst policies that could be put in place.
Posted on 2010 May 31 Author CurzonCategories Econ & Business, Finance, Left-wingers, Politics, Rightwingers10 Comments on Thanks Kamei! Japan's taxpayers now guaranteeing about 500,000 deadbeats
Wherein one MP's senioritis has potentially enormous consequences
The devil made him do it.
Anyone remember this story from last month?
Masatoshi Wakabayashi resigned from the Upper House on Friday after he was admonished for pressing an electronic voting button of a fellow Liberal Democratic Party member seated next to him.
The Democratic Party of Japan submitted a motion to discipline Wakabayashi, 75, a former farm minister, to the chamber on Thursday.
LDP President Sadakazu Tanigaki urged Wakabayashi to take responsible action Thursday to avoid causing problems ahead of the Upper House election this summer.
If you're like me, you probably shrugged it off as a joke, a non-story. He explained in Japanese 魔が差した which means "I don't know what got into me" but could be literally translated something like "a devil made me do it." Wakabayashi had already announced his intention to retire at the end of the Diet session, but this has got to be the worst case of senioritis ever. A seat in the Diet is nothing to take lightly, even if you're in the less powerful upper house.
But with the ruling coalition's majority so thin, this is actually kind of a big deal, especially now that the DPJ/PNP/SDP ruling coalition has broken up.
This weekend, PM Hatoyama fired Mizuho Fukushima from his cabinet over their disagreement on relocating Futenma air station. In response, Fukushima's Social Democratic Party decided to quit the coalition. This development probably has some serious implications for PM Hatoyama, but for this post I just want to focus on how it affects the coalition's standing in the Diet as the session nears its end.
This shrinks the DPJ/PNP's upper house majority shrink to just two seats right at the end of the legislative session. The coalition is currently rushing to pass bills that would alter the course of reforming Japan Post, among some other initiatives aimed at the election in July.
With 122 seats together, the coalition now has a thin two-seat majority. However, it would have been even smaller one seat majority if Wakabayashi were still around.
I have no special information on the state of Diet negotiations and debate, but a one-seat majority can have all sorts of potential consequences. One situation I could think of is the American Democrats' "super-majority" in 2009 as they tried to pass health care reform. Basically, any upper house member could have threatened to defect, delay, or vote against the party to extract some concessions.
But now that they don't have to worry about such annoyances, the DPJ should probably call Wakabayashi to thank him (or maybe Tanigaki for pressuring him to quit).
Since he was elected in a prefectural district (Nagano) instead of proportional representation and there is not enough time to hold a special election, it seems that according to the rules Wakabayashi's seat will remain open until the upcoming election in July.
(Thanks to Curzon for the idea)
Posted on 2010 May 30 2010 May 30 Author AdamuCategories Japan, Politics, Ranting, Schadenfreude, Tokyo7 Comments on Wherein one MP's senioritis has potentially enormous consequences
Mapping the US forces in Japan
With all the recent hubbub about the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa, it seems like an opportune time to unveil a little project I've been working on: a Google map of all the US military facilities in Japan. Okinawa is, of course, the most dramatically colonized region by a long shot.
View US military facilities in Japan in a larger map
But equally interesting is the Tokyo area, which contains a number of huge and not-so-huge American outposts.
This is still a work in progress, as facility names, locations and borders can be occasionally hard to pinpoint without being on the ground or on the inside, so comments are welcome.
Posted on 2010 May 29 Author Joe JonesCategories Japan, Military, The United States29 Comments on Mapping the US forces in Japan
Hafu
HAFU: THE FILM is a new documentary coming out about Haafu — people of half-Japanese descent and their cultural experience.
I'm not sure what I think about this blurb and I'm still learning about the film. This is rare for me, but I'm reserving comment at present. What do readers think of the above street interviews on hafu, and has anyone heard more about this film?
Posted on 2010 May 29 2010 May 29 Author CurzonCategories Uncategorized51 Comments on Hafu
Via Al Jazeera English, here's a report on how the government of Israel subsidizes ultra-orthodox Jews to do nothing but study the Torah and pray all day:
Posted on 2010 May 17 Author AdamuCategories Culture, Current Events, Judaism, Religion, Rightwingers, Scams, The Middle East22 Comments on Nice work if you can get it
Hello Kitty owner turns things around by licensing anything and everything
Source: Pop Crunch
I've long been a detractor of Sanrio's policy of licensing Hello Kitty's image to appear on just about anything (and some offerings have been downright questionable [NSFW]). But apparently, if you throw hundreds of darts at the board over ten years, you're eventually going to hit a few bulls-eyes:
Sanrio Co., the Japanese owner of the Hello Kitty character brand, may boost profit after arresting a 10-year slide in sales by slapping its logo on wine, wallpaper and minicars.
The popularity of Hello Kitty, a white cat with a red bow and no mouth, with celebrities including Lady Gaga and Paris Hilton, has led the company to focus on licensing and to pare its retail and restaurant businesses (Sanrio intends to shut 40 of its 260 gift shops in Japan over the next three years).
Sanrio almost doubled overseas licenses last year and counts clothing chains Hennes & Mauritz AB and Inditex SA as customers. President Shintaro Tsuji, 82, plans to set up an office in Dubai this month to grow in the Middle East.
An appearance by Hilton, a reality TV player, at Sanrio's 35th birthday party for Hello Kitty, and by Gaga, a pop singer, on Japanese television holding a stuffed toy, helped the company boost fiscal 2009 sales 0.8 percent from the previous year, the first annual gain since 1999.
"Hello Kitty's Zen-like calmness and faceless expression are the major reasons for its appeal across age groups and markets," said Martin Roll, chief executive officer of Singapore-based consulting firm VentureRepublic.
Note that a major part of the strategy is to "expand beyond Europe, North America, and Japan" — in other words, the developed world might have had enough of Hello Kitty, so now it's time to endear her to the rest of the world. Click through to see Lady Gaga in a Japanese TV appearance, decked out in Hello Kitty everything:
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Posted on 2010 May 15 2010 May 15 Author AdamuCategories Culture, Curiosities, Current Events, Econ & Business, Japan-US Relations, Music, Products15 Comments on Hello Kitty owner turns things around by licensing anything and everything
White American pop singers marketed in Japan
Update: They are apparently not managed by Johnny's.
Every girl's fantasy English teachers?
Meet the EastWest Boys. Assembled by Johnny's Entertainment Sony Music Japan through an audition process, the group, dubbed a "5 in 300 million miracle," is being solely marketed and promoted within Japan, where they are competing for the hearts of teenage girls.
For their latest single "Take Me There," they have entered a promotional tie-up with fashion brand Peach John (whose president was mired in scandal last year over a dead woman in her apartment). They are on the cover of the latest catalog and lucky viewers will be able to catch their song on TV ads.
Here's a YouTube video of a single that recently got some play on Japanese TV, "This Time":
Sure, I have seen dozens of cheap, poorly produced Japanese pop acts, and some pretty bad American pop groups as well. But watching Americans run through the exact same half-baked dance routines as SMAP produces a special kind of cognitive dissonance.
Johnny's has made sure to add a few bells and whistles to maximize appeal – the songs are in simple English, and the melody has enough of a pop-punk/emo feel to seem kind of foreign. This was the tune I saw on a few morning shows promoting the group as a new kind of pop act. Girls attending promotional appearances looked overjoyed to hug their new idols.
The music gets much worse when you watch the videos for songs that people didn't pay enough attention to. "Yesterday's Hero" was obviously filmed in the exact same warehouse, and the song is 100% cookie-cutter J-POP – no halfway-redeeming nods to American emo to be found. Are they wearing primary colors to make them look like Power Rangers?
While there's not much to compare, a much, much more listenable American entrant into the Japanese pop world is Jero, the African American enka singer.
The group's videos are hosted on an official channel, which is kind of a departure for Johnny's who until recently had a strictly Internet-phobic PR stance. By offering some of their content for free on the web, they are clearly trying to save some PR money by generating buzz online. The upside of that strategy is it gives us a lot of information on these guys that is usually not available on your typical J-pop group.
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Posted on 2010 May 13 2010 May 18 Author AdamuCategories Culture, Curiosities, Econ & Business, Japan, Japan-US Relations, Music, Net culture, Roppongi, Tokyo27 Comments on White American pop singers marketed in Japan
Another Obama appointment, another kabuki metaphor
This time it's Elena Kagan, this time the culprit is Colorado Law professor Paul Campos speaking on NPR, this time it's a "ritual," and as always we are here to call them on it.
I think that to the extent that it's possible to eventually support this nomination, it has to be based on her answering real substantive questions in the confirmation process instead of going through this kind of kabuki ritual of dodging those kinds of questions, which is what nominees have so successfully done for the past 20 years.
This is, of course, the same metaphor that Joe Biden used in the context of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings, as blogged about on MFT before.
And so I will say it again: if you're going to compare Washington to any sort of Japanese theater, you're probably best off comparing it to bunraku.
Posted on 2010 May 13 2010 May 13 Author Joe JonesCategories Kabuki Alert, Law, Politics, The District10 Comments on Another Obama appointment, another kabuki metaphor
Right wing new-age cult party lands a Diet seat
Troubling news:
The Happiness Realization Party, the political wing of new-age religion Happy Science, has scored its first seat in Japan's legislature. Yasuhiro Oe (pictured), a proportional representation member of the upper house, has announced his intentions to change affiliation. The move comes after Oe chose not to join his comrades in the Japan Renaissance Party (改革クラブ) as it transformed into former health minister Yoichi Masuzoe's new Nihon Rennaissance Party (新党改革). Oe commented that he joined because he shares most of the same conservative principals as HRP.
In a blog post, Oe writes that HRP had approached him last year about running with their backing in the 2009 lower house election, but he did not know enough about the group to accept. However, he has since learned that party leader Ryuho Okawa is a man with strong beliefs, the party shares his views on issues that are important to him, and that Happy Science is not one of those "questionable, strange religions" that forces people to spend money on expensive altars/shrines or makes them beat drums. (According to this anti-cult website, Okawa makes most of his money by making followers buy his published works). Add to that the recent drama with his former colleagues, and that was enough to make the switch. He is apparently not a Happy Science adherent.
I had not heard of Oe before now, but according to Wikipedia he has a history of switching affiliations. The Wakayama native first became an upper house member in 2001 as a PR candidate on the LDP ticket, then as a DPJ candidate in 2007. He later joined JRP as a founding member in 2008, citing problems with the DPJ's methods. In terms of policy, he has adopted some typical right-wing positions – he's pro-Taiwan, a firm Nanjing Massacre truther, and a vocal supporter of the victims of North Korea's kidnapping program. He comes up for reelection in 2013. As Happy Science's go-to man in the Diet, Oe will have the power to question government officials to try and get them on the record on issues relevant to the party. At the very least, you can probably expect some fairly bizarre formal written questions to the cabinet coming from Oe's office.
HRP Update
The Happiness Realization Party was founded in May 2009 ahead of last year's election season, fielding candidates for the Tokyo prefectural assembly and then in the historic lower house election in August on a radical program of major social upheaval and fiery neoconservative bluster. They failed to win a seat in any of the races, which cost them a lot of money in lost candidacy deposits. There have been organizational setbacks, too – weeks before the lower house election they announced they were pulling out of the race entirely before reversing themselves just three days later. And in its year of existence the party has had a total of six leaders (even worse than the LDP's turnover rate!).
Money and bumbling will not stop these people, however – they just might be here to stay. Wikipedia says a candidate HRP backed in Machida-shi won a city assembly seat, which is a tangible success. The posters are still around Adachi-ku. Their website is packed with content and activity, including official commentary on the scandals of the day, ranging from the Ozawa scandal to Princess Aiko's bullying troubles (their typically hard-line solution – radical reform of the teachers' unions and a sweeping "bullying prevention law"). And they have already announced more than 20 candidates for the upper house elections this July.
If they can't manage to actually win elections on a national level, convincing sitting members to switch parties like this might be a good way to get their foot in the door, especially in this time of party realignment.
For more info on what the Happiness Realization Party stands for, check out my post from last year's election season.
(via J-Cast)
PS: This is my first in what will hopefully be a regular series of posts on the upcoming election. Stay tuned!
Posted on 2010 May 13 2010 May 13 Author AdamuCategories Current Events, Japan, Politics, Rightwingers, ScamsTags Japanese elections20 Comments on Right wing new-age cult party lands a Diet seat
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The link is here. It has been active for about a week and we already have 90 fans.
This is an easy way to meet other readers online "face to face," and to get blog-related updates in your usual Facebook news feed (note that you can turn these off if you want).
Posted on 2010 May 11 2010 May 11 Author Joe JonesCategories Personal/Blog News1 Comment on Follow MFT on Facebook


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EXPLAINED | What is the exact mechanism for foreign vaccines to get approval in India?
The Centre has now announced it will fast-track approval to foreign drug companies whose Covid-19 vaccines have already been approved by the drug certification agencies of the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, European Union and the World Health Organization. But that does not mean the number of steps to vet the vaccine or the requirements for it to be commercially sold has been reduced. We detail the exact process that will determine how long it will take for foreign vaccines to be jabbed in the arms of Indians.
Subhayan Chakraborty
April 16, 2021 / 02:16 PM IST
Earlier this week, the Centre announced it would fast-track emergency approvals for foreign-produced Covid-19 vaccines that have already been granted Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) in other countries.
This allowed all vaccines currently approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA), the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the Japanese Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) and Britain's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to be potentially sold in India soon.
The Centre has also allowed foreign vaccines that are included in the Emergency Use Listing maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be fast-tracked.
The National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 (NEGVAC) took the decision on April 11 as the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic continued to push up the number of daily cases nationwide amidst a severe shortage of vaccines.
The government believes its latest move will facilitate quicker access to such foreign vaccines and also lead to more imports of bulk drug material, which can be used to manufacture the vaccines locally. The Centre said optimal utilisation of domestic fill-and-finish capacity will also be achieved as a result, in turn providing a fillip to vaccine manufacturing capacity and total vaccine availability.
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But applications by drug companies being fast-tracked does not mean the number of existing steps has been cut down. Instead, on April 15 the government announced Regulatory Pathways for foreign-produced Covid-19 Vaccines, which will determine how long it will take for foreign vaccines to finally be jabbed in Indian arms.
What are the basic requirements for approval ?
The foreign company would have to agree to its vaccine being used as per the guidelines of the National Covid-19 Vaccination Program. The government will also assess the first 100 beneficiaries of such vaccines for safety outcomes before a further rollout. Most importantly, after receiving approval, applicants would have to start a bridging trial within 30 days. Bridging trials are mandated by Indian law and involve testing the vaccine among Indian participants to assess safety and immunogenecity in the local population.
Step 1: The application process
Foreign companies would have to adhere to detailed guidelines laid down by the Central Drugs Standards Control Organisation (CDSCO) and apply to the body. An application can also be made by the foreign manufacturer through its Indian subsidiary or through its authorised agent in India, in case it does not have an Indian subsidiary. Applications will also have to be accompanied by the bridging trial protocol, application for an import registration certificate and application for an import licence.
Step 2: The approval
The government has said that the CDSCO will process applications within three working days. Immediately after, the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), who heads the CDSCO, will greenlight the three critical legal certificates needed by foreign companies to start sending vaccines to India commercially. These include the registration certificate for an overseas manufacturing site where the vaccine is produced, the certificate for the vaccine itself, and the import licence.
Step 3: Vaccination of control group
As per the existing CDSCO protocol for batch release of vaccines, each batch will be released by the Central Drugs Laboratory at Kasauli before it can be used, as per guidelines prescribed under the National Covid-19 vaccination programme. Post this, the applicant will use the vaccine initially only on 100 beneficiaries and submit safety data to the CDSCO. The CDSCO will review this safety data and, if found satisfactory, authorise the applicant to use the vaccine in the wider population.
Step 4: Wider rollout
Even as the vaccine is commercially made available to Indians across the country, the company will continue to discuss the details of the bridging trial it will soon have to begin in India. Again, CDSCO has assured that it will approve the protocol for the bridging trial in consultation with the Subject Expert Committee within seven days of the receipt of the proposal. The applicant will have to begin the trial within the first 30 days of approval, and submit data generated in the bridging trial to the CDSCO.
Step 5: Final decision
After receiving the data, the DCGI will again review the emergency approval and take a final decision on whether to modify or suspend the permission given to the foreign company.
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We've found so many reviews this week you won't know where to begin. From Warriors to Furies to Empires you can check out reviews of some of fantasy's hottest authors and recent works here.
Last on our list this week is an interview at The Dragon Page with Charlaine Harris, and I have to say I was disappointed. Not in the interview, the interview is in fact great, but I was really hoping to find a mastermind behind the wild success of Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels. Rather than sounding like the Sookie novels were planned, well organized and well thought out prior to being written, Harris comes off as aloof, making it sound like all the novels in the series were just written on a whim, and that the success really has nothing to do with any semblance of a structured plan. To me, this lends even more credibility to the notion that the whole vampire romance/urban fantasy genre is a fluke, a fad that will pass as quickly as pogo balls and hot pink Hammer pants. The guys at The Dragon Page seem to hint that they feel the same way, but they dance around it a bit, as is only natural when you're interviewing one of the genre's heavyweights. They even go so far as to mention an impending collapse, stating that Harris, Jim Butcher and Laurell K. Hamilton would be the only authors in the genre able to survive such an implosion. I've been covering the Amazon top 5 fantasy bestsellers for over a year now, and I won't say I'd welcome such an implosion, but it would freshen up the list a bit. Just sayin'.
A relatively quiet week in the fantasy blogosphere, but we've still found a few quality reviews, and some great interviews around the web. Not to mention that I keep getting signals that playing Dungeons & Dragons as a kid probably helped me develop a lot of the skills I use in my professional life today. Check out the post on how playing D&D can help prep you for med school. Great stuff.
From Sanderson to Jordan to Hobb, we've got a few interesting reviews this week. The review of The Dragon Keeper over at Elitist is particularly harsh. I'm going to have to read this book to form my own opinion, because after just reading Ship of Magic, its hard to believe that Hobb could swing so far from one extreme to the other.


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The Flickers: One Night in the Tropics
One Night in the Tropics (1940)
Starring Allan Jones, Robert Cummings, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Kelly, Mary Boland, Peggy Moran, William Frawley and Leo Carrillo. Directed by A. Edward Sutherland. From Universal Pictures.
All images © Universal. Thanks to DoctorMacro.com.
Steve Harper (Cummings) is head-over-heels in love with Cynthia Merrick (Kelly). He's so in love that he needs a keeper as he walks down the sidewalk. His keeper is his best friend, Jim "Lucky" Moore (Jones), who works selling insurance in his dad's firm. Steve is so out of it that he runs down an old lady in front of Cynthia's building. He apologizes but is sternly reprimanded. When he gets up to Cynthia's apartment, he learns that his victim is Cynthia's Aunt Kitty (Boland), a high-strung numerology freak who counts on her fingers and labels Steve a psychopath and declares the wedding cancelled.
Steve is despondent and muses out loud to Lucky that he'd like to have some guarantee – or insurance – that he and Cynthia will marry. Lucky gets an epiphany; love insurance. He gets Steve to take out a $100,000 policy guaranteeing that he and Cynthia will wed, otherwise the policy pays out a cool million. Lucky is confident as he's never had to pay off on a policy yet. But a wrench is thrown into the works in the shapely form of Mickey Fitzgerald (Moran), a little dish who declares her undying love for Steve, saying that she will be the one to marry Steve or else he'll have two broken legs. Added to this is Lucky's dad's apoplexy over the policy and Lucky starts to get a little nervous.
The fellas at Club Roscoe; Jones, Frawley, Costello, Abbott, Brooks Benedict as croupier
Lucky heads to Club Roscoe for some help. He gets shady character Roscoe, half-a-gangster, to come in on the policy with him. Roscoe knows Lucky's rep and he also likes the idea of being in business with a respectable type like Lucky's pop. Roscoe recruits two of his goons to help; Abbott and Costello begin to shadow Lucky and follow the proceedings closely, though they get up to plenty of shenanigans in the process.
Night clubbing. Mickey (Moran) sings to Steve (Cummings), Lucky (Jones) and Cynthia (Kelly).
To make matters even worse, when Lucky meets Cynthia he is totally smitten and now he's faced with a choice between a girl he has fallen in love with or a million bucks. When Mickey makes a very visible play for Steve, Cynthia has had enough and decides to take a trip to San Marcos in South America with her Aunt Kitty. The whole gang follows, natch. Steve is determined to get Cynthia back. Mickey follows Steve wherever he goes. Lucky still needs to bring Steve and Cynthia together while trying to forget his feelings for her. And Abbott, Costello and Roscoe make the trip to protect their investment. Once this group gets under the tropical moon, all bets – and guarantees – are off.
Here is a sub genre that I love; movies in which the principals head to a tropical place. Hard to search for films with such a specific plot point but I really enjoy such movies; particularly in the dead of winter when I'd love to do just what the cast does. I bought this film on VHS in the early days of my adulthood, I assume because it is Abbott and Costello's first film appearance. I remember the tape; it was one of those that presented "A Night at the Movies" and had a cartoon, a travelogue and a newsreel preceding the film. Pretty cool for VHS. I've come to love the film and I count it among my Top 25 favourites. The tropical setting notwithstanding, it is a delightful movie with great performances, good comedy and some nice romantic songs rendered in the moonlight.
Earl Derr Biggers, of all people. Novelist Biggers' debut book was Seven Keys to Baldpate (1913) which was adapted for film and television many times including by Pete Walker in 1983 under the title House of Long Shadows. Walker also directed Jack Jones in The Comeback (1978). His second novel, published a year after his first, was Love Insurance, made into a silent film in 1919. This version, directed by Donald Crisp and featuring A. Edward Sutherland in an acting role, is now lost. It was filmed again in 1924 as The Reckless Age, another lost film, this one starring Reginald Denny. Biggers then gained famed as the author of seven novels featuring Chines detective Charlie Chan. Then in 1940 came another iteration of Love Insurance, our film, One Night in the Tropics.
Abbott and Costello make their debut with Jones and Cummings.
Fascinating to note that the 1919 version of Love Insurance co-starred Edward Sutherland and it was Eddie who directed One Night in the Tropics. I dished on Sutherland in my look at the film he directed immediately preceding this one, Beyond Tomorrow. I will often run into Eddie in the Twitterverse due to his almost-two-year marriage to Louise Brooks; the excellent account Forever Louise Brooks will often make mention of him.
In a relatively brief period starting in the mid-1930's, Allan Jones was a popular singer and actor who appeared in notable films. Also a Broadway performer, Jones made his mark in film when he appeared in two Marx Brothers' movies, A Night at the Opera (1935) and A Day at the Races (1937). The affable, charismatic performer also starred in the 1936 version of Show Boat and in films alongside Irene Dunne, Jeanette MacDonald and Judy Garland. After holding his own with the zany Marx Brothers, Jones had no trouble maintaining a presence in the company of Abbott and Costello and a goofy Bob Cummings. I have a real soft spot for Allan Jones due mostly to the fact that he is the father of Jack Jones. Read more about the Jones Boys here.
My boy, Robert Cummings, I have also discussed in my look at another of his films, Moon Over Miami. There I mentioned what I may love most about Bob; his penchant for showing up in many movies that I love over a 20-year stretch. Abbott and Costello we all know and love. I have a soft spot for them, too, because, while my two boys were growing up, the four of us sat and watched every one of their films on four sets put out by Universal. And the thing is the two are very funny in One Night in the Tropics and not just charming, good-old-days funny but flat-out, timeless funny. I'm not equipped to dish on this comedy duo and most of you don't need me to. Suffice it to say this is a great first vehicle for them and they do shine but I don't buy the idea that they steal the film and detract from the romantic goings-on here in the tropics.
Why is Nancy Kelly not talked about more? Nancy is possessed of a rare beauty, one that is equivalent to that of the most beautiful actresses of the golden era. Nancy hailed from a theatrical family that included brother Jack Kelly who portrayed Bret Maverick. Nancy somehow avoided success in films or even popularity, really. She had appeared in only a handful of films before she made our film – including Jesse James (1939) with Ty Power – and she would go on to make not many more. She did enjoy success on the stage particularly as the distraught mother in the 1954 production of The Bad Seed, a role for which she was awarded the Tony Award for Best Actress. Kelly reprised the role in the film version and earned herself an Oscar nomination. And then she was done. The Bad Seed was her last film. She then moved into TV but only at a canter; seems this beauty could take it or leave it.
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Pretty Peggy Moran may not have been in the same league as Nancy Kelly in the looks department but seems she was cut from similar cloth. Meaning that Moran was not long for the movie biz, either. She was uncredited in her first dozen movies before she had a break-out year of sorts in 1940. One Night in the Tropics was one of 12 – count 'em – 12 movies she appeared in that year. One of them was The Mummy's Hand and a later film appearance – uncredited again – was in The Mummy's Tomb also starring none other than "B Movie Beauty" Elyse Knox, a star of sorts here at Your Home for Vintage Leisure (see the oft-read article here). What ended Peggy's career, you see, was her having caught the eye of director Henry Koster. Peggy and Henry were wed in 1942 and she quit the business. Henry, though, vowed to put Peggy in every one of the movies he directed and he did. Koster made sure that a statue, bust or head – fashioned in his wife's likeness – would appear somewhere in every one of his films. Henry Koster would direct – and fit his wife's likeness into – later films like The Bishop's Wife (1947), Harvey (1950) and his final film The Singing Nun (1966). Peggy and Henry were married until his death in 1988; Peg lasted until 2002.
William Frawley makes a salty appearance in our film as a gangster who wants to go legit. Bill had appeared in countless films since 1916 by the time he would appear in One Night in the Tropics. And he would go on to appear in many more movies – over 100 in total – until landing his "victory lap" gig on I Love Lucy. Leo Carrillo I have mentioned before but more for the beach named after him. Leo was quite prolific, in film and otherwise. He was a conservationist who had a tree named after him in Hilo, Hawaii. The "Leo Carrillo tree" stands today. Most prominently, though is the stretch of land named for him on the Pacific Coast Highway. Leo Carrillo State Beach has served as a location for many films, from Out of the Past (1940) to Inception (2010), from Gidget (1959) to Point Break (1991) to Grease (1978), The Usual Suspects (1995), The Trip (1967) and Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) – directed by Henry Koster. Philly's Mary Boland is quite funny as Aunt Kitty. You've all seen her many times in the likes of The Women (1939) and Pride and Prejudice (1940). She made but five films after our film. And watch for Kathleen Howard as the judge in an early scene. She's quite funny as she absently spits out "Order!" while she talks to Lucky about a policy insuring her re-election.
One Night in the Tropics has much to recommend it. It has a cute plot containing that lovely "escape" element I mentioned earlier. It has some pretty nice songs provided by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields that Allan Jones renders nicely. Really, though, Jones may be a better actor than singer. He is so comfortable before the camera that the personality he is depicting shines through brightly. He has charisma to burn. Cummings plays a bit of a "squeef", we would call him back in the day – a milquetoast – but he is so good at what he does that he is always watchable. You almost can't look at Nancy Kelly, she's so pretty and Peggy Moran carries on like an accomplished veteran.
This great cast is aided and abetted by Abbott and Costello. They really were funny and they run through some good routines here. They perform "Who's On First?" which is really a clever piece of work but they also bring a chuckle with two routines that rob poor Lou of his hard-earned money. Abbott swaps him two 10's for a five and later swindles him out of his severance pay for his dollar-a-day job. Add to this the tropical moonlight and you really do have a splendid night at the movies in store.
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There's a story about Jack Jones– really a story about Ed Sullivan. Jones was going to sing on the Sullivan show, and as they were talking in advance of the broadcast, Sullivan said "Your father was Allan Jones, wasn't he?" and Jack Jones replied "He still is." Sullivan said, "That's good, that's good. Let's use that bit on the show and we'll get a laugh." So when the cameras were live, Sullivan said, "So tell me Jack, is your father still living?" and he couldn't figure out where the laugh had disappeared to.
Baha! Yes, I just read that in the Ed Sullivan book I read and reviewed earlier this year. So many names and simple sentences of English that Ed butchered in his day!
That reminds of a great (unrelated) Samuel Goldwyn story – after the great success of 'The Best Years of Our Lives' Goldwyn was appearing with Bob Hope. In their little routine, Hope was to ask, "so how are things at the studio since I left?", to which Goldwyn's line was, "Well, Bob, It's fair to say that we've had the best years of our lives." But when the broadcast came, Goldwyn replied, "things have never been better," which, like poor Ed, totally destroyed the moment.
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Cecelia and Frankie (Lasagesse Starman) and breeder's Graeme & Lisa Dixon (Lasagesse) on their Special Beginner's Group 1 win under judge Miss Sue Bird. Frankie returned on Sunday to compete for Best Special Beginner in Show and was a fantastic representative for the ETTs. A huge well done and congratulations.


OrthoPediatrics unveiled its Titanium PediPlates, expanding the company's profile to 24 surgical systems.
1. The titanium implant system is an expansion of OrthoPediatrics' current physeal tethering profile that includes O-Plates and I-Plates as well as solid and cannulated low-profile screws.
2. OrthoPediatrics' PediPlates system does not disrupt bone or plate growth. It features plate and screw constructs that span the growth center and restrain the physis by inhibiting growth where the plates and screws are applied.
3. PediPlates features stainless steel plates and screws designed to provide strength, resistance to breakage and ease or removal.


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Cluster analysis or classification usually concerns a set of exploratory multivariate data analysis methods and techniques for grouping either a set of statistical data units or the associated set of descrip-tive variables, into clusters of similar and, hopefully, well separated elements. In this work we refer to an extension of this paradigm to generalized three-way data representations and particularly to classification of interval variables. Such approach appears to be especially useful in large data bases, mostly in a data mining context. A health sciences case study is partially discussed.


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Q: Can I download file from URL link generated by google apps script Please help I'm learning google-apps-script for short time.
I want to download file from remote site by url generating from data that stores in my spreadsheet.
for example, i have 2 paremeters:
Cell1 = val1, val2, ... valN
Cell2 = val21, val22, ...  val2N

I split string from cell data to Arrays and than generate URL. for example: http://mysite.com/files/file.val1.val22.zip
Than i need to download file from this link...
Can I do this process automaticaly ?

A: This example function will retrieve your zip file, and place it into your Google Drive in folder "StackOverflow". You can also download a more complete version from this gist.
function getFile(fileURL) {
  // see https://developers.google.com/apps-script/class_urlfetchapp
  var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(fileURL);
  var fileBlob = response.getBlob()
  var folder = DocsList.getFolder('StackOverflow');
  var result = folder.createFile(fileBlob);
  debugger;  // Stop to observe if in debugger
}

For example:
getFile( "http://mysite.com/files/file.val1.val22.zip" );

Note that you cannot download per se, since you have no access to your PC's resources (e.g. file system) from apps-script. The file is still in "the cloud"... in this case, it's been copied from the web site it was on, into Google Drive. If you're running the Drive app, though, the file will now sync to your PC.

A: Yes, You can.
Hope below code can solve your problem:
//Declare function
function downloadFile() {
  //Getting url,existing name and new name for image from the sheet in
  //variable url, name and new_name respectively
  var sh = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
  var row = sh.getLastRow();
  Logger.log(row);
  for (var i = 2; i <= row; i++) {

    var url = sh.getRange(i, 10).getValue();
    Logger.log(url);
    var name = sh.getRange(i, 13).getValue();
    var new_name = sh.getRange(i, 4).getValue();
    //Creating authentication token for downloading image, it may not be //required if image can be downloaded without login into
    var user = "***************";
    var password = "************";
    var headers = {
      "Accept": "application/xml",
      "Content-Type": "application/xml",
      "Authorization": "Basic " + Utilities.base64Encode(user + ":" + password)
    };
    //defining method to download file
    var options = {
      "method": "get",
      "headers": headers
    };
    //Getting folder name where to store downloaded image
    var folders = DriveApp.getFoldersByName('test');
    while (folders.hasNext()) {
      var folder = folders.next();
      Logger.log(folder.getName());
    }
    //Getting response on hit of url using downloading method defined //earlier storing in Blob
    var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options).getBlob();
    //Creating image in folder defined with response in blob and logging same file //in log to check, if required
    var file = folder.createFile(response);
    Logger.log(file);

    //renaming image
    var images = folder.getFiles();
    while (images.hasNext()) {
      var image = images.next();
      file.setName(new_name);
      Logger.log(image.getName());
    }
  }
}
//Hope you get it now

A: It's worked for me.
function downloadFile() {
  var url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hoat23/VisionArtificialAndImageProcessing/master/bin/utils_imgprocessing.py"
  Logger.log(url);
  var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url);
  var text = response.getContentText()
  var newFile = DriveApp.createFile('testfilegoogle.txt',text);
  debugger;  // Stop to observe if in debugger
}
//Hope you get it now

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Billy Prine 'Billy Prine's Big Beat Battalion'
Posted 04 Sep 2013 in Albums of 2013, Albums of the 10s, Blues-Rock
Today's Cool Album of the Day (#877 in the Series) is Billy Prine, Billy Prine's Big Beat Battalion. I was lucky enough to go to the album release concert for Billy Prine's Big Beat Battalion and what a night of hard Southern-style rock we experienced. Since Billy Prine was a new experience for me I was primed for a comparison with Billy's big brother John Prine. Once the show started that thought left me immediately. Billy is not a John Prine clone, he is living in his own hard rocking world and having a ball doing it right. Billy Prine's Big Beat Battalion is a seven song album loaded with driving rock and some surprising moments as well, all...
Little Green Cars 'Absolute Zero'
Posted 01 Sep 2013 in Albums of 2013, Albums of the 10s, Americana, Walt Falconer
Today's Cool Album of the Day (#876 in the Series) is Little Green Cars, Absolute Zero (Glassnote Records) Travelling the back roads of the "Mumfordization" highway, on a road already well navigated by Mumford and Sons, The Avett Brothers, The Lumineers, and Dawes, Dublin's own Little Green Cars with their sparkling debut album, Absolute Zero, are gassed up, ready to form their own trail, and are headed for that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. The blueprint for this band of feisty twenty-something's consists of fronting duo (think Buckingham-Nicks) Stevie Appleby and Faye O'Rourke, Dylan Lynch (Drums), Donagh Seaver O'Leary (Bass), and Adam O'Regan (Guitar, Piano), brilliant musicians all, where all five pieces seem to meld...
Bennett/Brubeck – 'The White House Sessions, Live 1962'
Posted 30 Aug 2013 in Albums of 1962, Albums of 2013, Albums of the 10s, Albums of the 60s, Eric Berman's "Song Of The Day", Jazz/ Fusion
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – "That Old Black Magic" by Tony Bennett with The Dave Brubeck Trio Every so often the reissue gods bestow upon us a truly special recording that music fans never knew existed. Recently, one such recording was unleashed upon an unsuspecting public by our friends at Sony Legacy, featuring a musical summit that took place between Tony Bennett and Dave Brubeck on August 28, 1962 at The White House. The event was a special concert recorded at the Sylvan Theater (at the base of the Washington Monument) welcoming a new group of volunteers (or interns as they are now called) that had come to Washington DC to work for the government. The...
Ween 'The Ceasar Demos'
Posted 29 Aug 2013 in Albums of 2011, Albums of the 10s, Eric Berman's "Song Of The Day"
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – "Tried And True" by Ween I first heard the music of Ween while watching "Beavis & Butthead" back in 1994…they said "Ween suck"…and I totally disagreed! In fact, I think they are one of the greatest bands of all time, and when it comes to adeptness in all genres of music, they are certainly in a league with Frank Zappa. Ween hail from New Hope, PA and have been together since 1984. They spent their early days playing any venue they could, including dorm rooms at Rutgers University. (I once saw them play in a small bookstore at Rutgers with 70 other fans.) Dean Ween (aka "Deaner" or Mickey Melchiondo) is...
Glen Campbell 'See You There'
Posted 28 Aug 2013 in Albums of 2013, Albums of the 10s, Country, Folk
Today's Cool Album of the Day (#875 in the Series) is Glen Campbell, See You There. (Surf Dog Records) I've always felt that music is at its best when it reaches out and hits you hard, hard and right in the heart. Nothing can do that as well as a lyric. A lyric that makes you think, a lyric that brings you closer to the song, and closer to the artist. This happens during the seventh track on Glen Campbell's latest release See You There where in the middle of his classic song "Galveston," Glen sings "Galveston Oh Galveston .. I Am So Afraid of Dyin'." Yes, we've heard that line countless times before, but it's different now and...
'Hey Hey…It's The Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band'
It's a joke…and it's completely for real…Hey Hey…It's The Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band is also one of the most refreshing, rough 'n' tumble spins you're likely to hear all year. Jeffrey Lewis is a comic book artist and historian who is known for his successful series of Fuff (aka Guff ) comic books. He's also a guitarist who writes sardonic ramshackle anti-folk songs and has self-released numerous records since 1997. His series of illustrated low budget documentaries complete with fully illustrated historical songs can be found on The History Channel website. His latest record is a collaboration with Peter Stampfel called Hey Hey It's…The Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band. It is their second record together. Peter Stampfel...
Van Dyke Parks 'Songs Cycled'
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – "Aquarium" by Van Dyke Parks Van Dyke Parks has essentially been making the same album since 1968, and fortunately for his fans, that album is a great one. Parks' fascination with Tin Pan Alley sounds and Depression-Era songwriting has infused his work since the mid-1960s, resulting in albums that sound like original cast recordings from musicals that don't exist. Over the last two years, Parks self-released a series of six 7" singles on his own label. His brand new album, Songs Cycled compiles all of the singles. While the sticker on the outside of the album claims that Songs Cycled is his first "proper solo" album in 24 years, it's all...
Gentle Giant 'Memories Of Old Days – A Compendium Of Curios, Bootlegs, Live Tracks, Rehearsals and Demos 1975-1980'
Posted 17 Aug 2013 in 70s, Albums of 2013, Albums of the 10s, Eric Berman's "Song Of The Day", Prog-Rock
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – "Playing The Game" Live 1978 by Gentle Giant They were one of the premier Progressive Rock groups in their day…right up there with King Crimson, Yes and Genesis. Highlighting the stellar musicianship of brothers, Derek and Ray Shulman, Kerry Minnear, Gary Green and John Weathers, the Giant were adept multi-instrumentalists who would dazzle in concert with their intricate vocal arrangements and odd time signatures. The group's "purple period" of greatness was roughly from the 1972 release of Octopus through 1975's Free Hand, and encompassed the albums In A Glass House (1973) and The Power And The Glory (1974). In America, their early albums were released by Columbia Records and starting with...
Ghost B.C. 'Infestissumam'
Posted 14 Aug 2013 in Albums of 2013, Albums of the 10s, Eric Berman's "Song Of The Day", Goth-Rock, Metal
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – "Infestissumam / Per Aspera Ad Inferi" by Ghost B.C. It's not Spinal Tap during their "Stonehenge" phase, however Ghost B.C.'s satanic metal church music offers a theatrical twist (a la Tap's "Henge") unseen in rock music for many years. The stage fills with thick plumes of white smoke while the sound of Latin liturgical chanting fills the air. Out of the haze emerge five group members wearing hooded robes, their faces obscured by masks. The band members, known as Nameless Ghouls, represent one of five elements; fire, water, wind, earth and ether. Their robes are adorned with a different symbol for each element, and their brand of rock is the chunkiest,...
Barrence Whitfield & the Savages 'Dig Thy Savage Soul' – NEW MUSIC REVIEW
Posted 12 Aug 2013 in Albums of 2013, Albums of the 10s, Rock + Roll, Soul/R+B, Walt Falconer
Today's Cool Album of the Day (#874 in the Series) is Barrence Whitfield & the Savages, Dig Thy Savage Soul Walking the genre splitting tightrope of blues, soul, and rock, with an incendiary vibe that would make Dante himself blush, Boston based legends, Barrence Whitfield and the Savages have released "Dig Thy Savage Soul" on Bloodshot records, their first full length record since 2011. Stalwarts on the Boston club scene throughout the 1980's, their live shows were a scorched earth, leave it all on stage full out of body experience, an energy that could equally be displayed in a punk rock club, a rockabilly hoedown, or a shoulder to shoulder high energy soul venue. While 2011's Savage Tracks, an...


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/ "Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace" subject of talk by Aaron David Miller, Sept. 22
"Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace" subject of talk by Aaron David Miller, Sept. 22
Sep 22, 2008 (All day)
Aaron David Miller, a public policy scholar at the Washington, D.C. based Woodrow Wilson Center and former Department of State advisor on Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, will inaugurate the Woodrow Wilson School's Fall 2008 Public Affairs' lecture series with a talk titled "The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace," at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, September 22, 2008, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, on the Princeton University campus.
Aaron David Miller is currently a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. He is the author of the recently released book "The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive search for Arab-Israeli Peace" (Random House, 2008). Between 2003 and 2006 he served as president of Seeds of Peace, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance coexistence and reconciliation.
For the previous two decades, he served at the Department of State as an adviser to six Secretaries of State, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the Senior Adviser for Arab-Israeli Negotiations. He also served as the Deputy Special Middle East Coordinator for Arab-Israeli negotiations, Senior Member of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and in the Office of the Historian. He has received the Department's Distinguished, Superior, and Meritorious Honor Awards.
Miller received his Ph.D. in American Diplomatic and Middle East History from the University of Michigan in 1977 and joined the State Department the following year. During 1982 and 1983, he was a Council on Foreign Relations fellow and a resident scholar at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. In 1984 he served a temporary tour at the American Embassy in Amman, Jordan. Between 1998 and 2000, Mr. Miller served on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
He has written three books on the Middle East and lectures widely at universities and Middle East symposia across the country. His articles have appeared in newspapers including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The International Herald Tribune.
This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. It is free and open to the public.
Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
Aaron David Miller, a public policy scholar at the Washington, D.C. based Woodrow Wilson Center and former Department of State advisor on Arab-Israeli peace negotiations


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OTHER THAN FOR HIS OWN PATIENTS HERE AT RIPPON MEDICAL SERVICES LTD., 2 Spinners Yard, Fisher Street.
For those that know Rippon Medical Services you will already be comforted in knowing that we would never use promotional tactics to encourage you to make decisions about carrying out aesthetic procedures. Furthermore, we would like to inform you that we follow The General Medical Council (GMC) guidance to aesthetic practitioners. The standards are outlined in guidance for doctors who offer cosmetic interventions. The guidelines relate to patient consultations, giving patients time to reflect, and responsible advertising.
At Rippon Medical Services we welcomed these guidelines, as they help to create a safer industry entered around you, the patient. These standards came into effect on Wednesday 1 June 2016.
The GMC guidelines state that anyone providing cosmetic procedures must put into practice the following standards.
Give patients time for reflection. We must make sure our patients have time to consider the information about the risks and possible outcomes of a procedure, so they can decide whether or not to go ahead with it.
Consider each patient's psychological needs. We must consider any patient's vulnerabilities when discussing cosmetic interventions, and make sure we are satisfied that the requests or the procedure is involuntary.
Work within our competence. If we feel we cannot safely meet your needs, then we must ask for advice or refer you – the patient – to colleague. As cosmetic practitioners, we must recognise our own limits.
Make sure our patients have the information they want. This includes written information to support continuity of care, which explains the medicines or implants used.
Practitioners must market our services responsibly.
Sign and date written standing orders.
The identity of the qualified (To prescribe) practitioner is responsible for the delegation of the procedure including registration number.
A description of what information must be documented by the person performing the procedure.
Once a patient has been evaluated and diagnosed in accordance with the requirements above, then the injectors are permitted to perform non-surgical cosmetic procedures under appropriate supervision of the registered prescriber. The medical record must reflect the following: The identity of the qualified (To prescribe) practitioner responsible for the delegation of the procedure including registration number.
A description of what information must be documented by the person performing the procedure. Finally, it is important to keep in mind that the registered prescriber is ultimately responsible for the health and safety of the patient and must ensure that the clinic has an appropriate quality assurance procedure, a mechanism to identify complications, and mechanisms to monitor and document quality-control. Further, a registered prescriber may delegate the performance of nonsurgical cosmetic procedures to properly trained individuals only if the registered prescribers developed or approved written protocols for such procedures.


THE IRISH ARM of retail giant Tesco sacked a worker after she admitted taking a bottle of wine valued at less than €20 out of a store and not paying for it.
The retail worker was dismissed by Tesco Ireland on 29 March 2016 arising from an incident on 13 January 2016 when she was intercepted by a security officer after she left the store at the end of her shift.
The woman had a bottle of wine in her bag she had not paid for, and maintained that she had forgotten to pay for the wine.
The retail worker has successfully sued for unfair dismissal at the Labour Court after the court found that the decision to dismiss her "was tainted with procedural unfairness".
However, the Labour Court found that the woman contributed substantially to her own dismissal.
The Labour Court stated that the woman contributing a significant degree to her dismissal has been taken into account in measuring the quantum of compensation that should be awarded and has ordered Tesco Ireland to pay her €4,000.
The Labour Court ruling upholds an earlier ruling made by an Adjudication Officer at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) which Tesco Ireland had appealed.
In her evidence, the retail worker said that at around 5.45pm on 13 January 2016 she left her work station to select some items of personal shopping including two bottles of wine as she was due to finish her shift at 6pm.
The woman stated that in the course of that activity she encountered an acquaintance who had had a bereavement and whose mother was unwell. She said that she was upset by the encounter.
The woman stated that she put one of the bottles of wine in her bag as she did not want to drop it.
The security guard then intercepted her after she left the store and she was escorted to an office where a duty manager attended and suspended her until further notice.
The retail worker stated that she had made a mistake concerning the bottle of wine as a result of the upset that she had experienced when she met an acquaintance.
In its submission, Tesco stated that CCTV footage clearly showed the retail worker removing a bottle of wine from the store without paying and that the footage showed no evidence of upset on the part of the woman following her conversation with an acquaintance in the store.
The Tesco-employed security guard told the Labour Court hearing that he took the decision not to call the Gardaí because the bottle concerned had a value of less than €20.
Tesco dismissed the woman for breach of its Honesty policy and its Staff Purchase policy and because the bond of trust between employee and employer had broken down.
In its findings, the Labour Court noted that at no stage of the investigative or disciplinary process was the woman supplied with a copy of Tesco's Honesty or Staff Purchase policies which she was contended to have breached.
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Coastal risk is a reality globally, with KZN being no exception. As such we need to plan for and better manage in light of coastal risk. In South Africa, one of the approaches to this is the development of coastal management lines (CML's), which is a line which indicates a 'buffer zone'; seaward of which development is controlled.
The determination of CML's requires a number of considerations and inputs, one of the key inputs is that of coastal risk – understanding the physical risk along the coast in light of climate change (sea-level rise), long and short term coastal changes (erosion; extreme events) and natural coastal dynamics (waves climate).
Step 1: Profiles were drawn every 200m along the coastline in the dominant wave direction (SE).
Step 3: The position of the estimated wave run-up level for each SLR Scenario was mapped at each profile location.
Step 5: For each of the Scenarios, the estimated positions of the Coastal Processes along the profiles were plotted and connected to form the Preliminary Coastal Processes Line.


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LIBYAN DELEGATE TO UN CITES ABORTION AS MAIN CAUSE OF DEMOGRAPHIC PROBLEMS
UNITED NATIONS, April 29, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Speaking at a United Nations meeting discussing aging populations earlier this month, Libyan delegate Abdulhamid Asseid Zentani noted the root cause of the aging crisis to be "family planning and the encouragement of abortion." His comments were made April 12 at the Second World Assembly On Ageing held in Madrid. "We do not view the problem we are discussing today only in terms of an increase in the number of the aged. We also see it through the causes which have led to a disruption in the demographic composition of the population, the […]
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UNITED NATIONS, April 29, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Speaking at a United Nations meeting discussing aging populations earlier this month, Libyan delegate Abdulhamid Asseid Zentani noted the root cause of the aging crisis to be "family planning and the encouragement of abortion." His comments were made April 12 at the Second World Assembly On Ageing held in Madrid.
"We do not view the problem we are discussing today only in terms of an increase in the number of the aged. We also see it through the causes which have led to a disruption in the demographic composition of the population, the main factor in which is family planning and the encouragement of abortion," he said. In a comment obviously directed at the Western countries which attempt to cajole poorer nations into adopting family planning and abortion he said: "We believe that family planning and limiting the number of its members should be left to individual societies to decide, according to their circumstances and options, and not through the imposition or importation of ready-made solutions."
See the United Nations documentation on the meeting: https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2002/soc4619.doc.htm
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Some stuff from the first day of #Heat training camp (More on Chalmers-LeBron thing and a Danny Granger update)
September 28, 2014 by Raanan Katz
FIRST, a link to my story on the first day of training camp…CLICK ME! (Important note on Birdmanzilla at the end of the story, so read all the way down.)
Now some other stuff…
Let's clear the air a little bit on the controversy/none controversy that cropped up involving Mario Chalmers on Friday.
As I posted to Twitter on Friday, Chalmers did refer to LeBron James as "that guy" during Media Day. But Chalmers didn't seem to choose that wording as a slight to James. A reporter asked Chalmers if he did it on purpose and Chalmers quickly corrected himself.
"We don't have to call him that guy," Chalmers said. "He's still King James, LeBron."
Still an oddly worded way to refer to someone — surname first, like when you're at the social security office — but it was pretty clear Mario meant no disrespect. Chalmers put out a tweet directed at LeBron just to clarify, which was also a little odd.
Anyway, moving on…
—If you haven't read Lee Jenkins' profile of Erik Spoelstra over at SI.com, you should probably do that. Great work as always by one of the best sportswriters in the business.
—I chatted with Justin Hamilton for …read more


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Gamecocks v. Cavaliers on 12/29
December 2, 2018 at 4:43 PM EST - Updated December 2 at 4:43 PM
(USC Athletics) - The Belk Bowl announced today that the South Carolina Gamecocks will face the Virginia Cavaliers in the 2018 Belk Bowl. Kickoff is set for noon on Saturday, December 29. The game, celebrating its 17th year, will be televised nationally by ABC. For the 2018 Belk Bowl, South Carolina is designated the away team and Virginia is designated the home team.
South Carolina will be making its first appearance in the Belk Bowl, but they have played regular season games in Charlotte three times. They are a perfect 3-0 at Bank of America Stadium, most recently defeating NC State, 35-28, to open the 2017 season.
Virginia is making its third appearance in the game and in Charlotte. They have a perfect 2-0 record at Bank of America Stadium. The Cavaliers won the inaugural Belk Bowl in 2002, defeating West Virginia, 48-22, and then beat Pittsburgh, 23-16, in 2003.
"We are pleased to welcome South Carolina and Virginia to the 2018 Belk Bowl," said Will Webb, Belk Bowl Executive Director. "The Gamecocks and Cavaliers have each enjoyed a great season, and they should have an exciting, competitive game on the field. Both teams have tremendous, enthusiastic fans that should make the 2018 Belk Bowl very memorable. We look forward to hosting the teams and their fans in Charlotte!"
South Carolina finished the season with a 7-5 overall record (4-4 SEC) and tied for third in the SEC East Division. This is their third-straight bowl appearance. The Gamecocks have won five of their last six bowl games.
Virginia finished the season with a 7-5 overall record (4-4 ACC). They finished tied for third in the ACC Coastal Division.
"We're excited for another trip to the Queen City," said South Carolina head coach Will Muschamp. "Charlotte has one of the largest, if not the largest, University of South Carolina alumni bases outside the Palmetto state. Bank of America Stadium, where the Carolina Panthers play, is a great venue for a game and we've had a lot of success there. I know Will Webb and his staff at the Belk Bowl will make this a memorable experience for our squad, but our goal is to win our eighth game of the season. I expect to see a great contingent of Gamecock fans in Charlotte to help us achieve our goal."
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