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Q: CXF Policy Validator disable all.
I'm interacting with a webservice that's requires signature and policy.
I set up my CXF (3.1.6 wildfly bundled) with binding provider properties, callback handler, keystore ect.
bp.getRequestContext().put(SecurityConstants.CALLBACK_HANDLER, new PasswordCallbackHandler());
                bp.getRequestContext().put(SecurityConstants.SIGNATURE_PROPERTIES, MyUtils.class.getClassLoader().getResource("crypto.properties"));

bp.getRequestContext().put(SecurityConstants.SIGNATURE_USERNAME, "client");

CXF takes care to provide all necessary policy defined in the wsdl.
The comunications goes well, I send the request and receive the expected response.
But at this point the CXF Policy validator throws an exception:
org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.PolicyException: These policy alternatives can not be satisfied:
{http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/07/securitypolicy}SignedParts: Soap Body is not SIGNED
    at org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.AssertionInfoMap.checkEffectivePolicy(AssertionInfoMap.java:179)
    at org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.PolicyVerificationInInterceptor.handle(PolicyVerificationInInterceptor.java:102)
    at org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.AbstractPolicyInterceptor.handleMessage(AbstractPolicyInterceptor.java:44)
    at org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:308)

This is the contract for the signed parts:
    <sp:SignedParts>
        <sp:Body />
        <sp:Header Namespace="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" Name="ReplyTo" />
        <sp:Header Name="To" Namespace="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" />
        <sp:Header Name="MessageID" Namespace="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" />
        <sp:Header Namespace="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" Name="Action" />
        <sp:Header Name="RelatesTo" Namespace="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" />

    </sp:SignedParts>

This is received response:
...
      <ds:SignedInfo>
          <ds:CanonicalizationMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#">
            <exc14n:InclusiveNamespaces PrefixList="wsse S"/>
          </ds:CanonicalizationMethod>
          <ds:SignatureMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#rsa-sha1"/>
          <ds:Reference URI="#_5002">
            <ds:Transforms>
              <ds:Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#">
                <exc14n:InclusiveNamespaces PrefixList="S"/>
              </ds:Transform>
            </ds:Transforms>
            <ds:DigestMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1"/>
            <ds:DigestValue>IirHgSUh19ly5qpPiXKVfMB2tZ4=</ds:DigestValue>
          </ds:Reference>
          <ds:Reference URI="#_5003">
            <ds:Transforms>
              <ds:Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#">
                <exc14n:InclusiveNamespaces PrefixList="S"/>
              </ds:Transform>
            </ds:Transforms>
            <ds:DigestMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1"/>
            <ds:DigestValue>8SY6Wz36TUlZtY+31Z5EpESs5JM=</ds:DigestValue>
          </ds:Reference>
          <ds:Reference URI="#_5004">
            <ds:Transforms>
              <ds:Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#">
                <exc14n:InclusiveNamespaces PrefixList="S"/>
              </ds:Transform>
            </ds:Transforms>
            <ds:DigestMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1"/>
            <ds:DigestValue>yvxtMZ3SC++ZOv0RPS/Ge9ETGHA=</ds:DigestValue>
          </ds:Reference>
          <ds:Reference URI="#_5005">
            <ds:Transforms>
              <ds:Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#">
                <exc14n:InclusiveNamespaces PrefixList="S"/>
              </ds:Transform>
            </ds:Transforms>
            <ds:DigestMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1"/>
            <ds:DigestValue>t/slFuF8/W8sWGrrAuJTmtliCeU=</ds:DigestValue>
          </ds:Reference>
          <ds:Reference URI="#_5006">
            <ds:Transforms>
              <ds:Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#">
                <exc14n:InclusiveNamespaces PrefixList="S"/>
              </ds:Transform>
            </ds:Transforms>
            <ds:DigestMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1"/>
            <ds:DigestValue>Cjcz1r8PMjV/04CLrMDpNx+e3ks=</ds:DigestValue>
          </ds:Reference>
          <ds:Reference URI="#_3">
            <ds:Transforms>
              <ds:Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#">
                <exc14n:InclusiveNamespaces PrefixList="wsu wsse S"/>
              </ds:Transform>
            </ds:Transforms>
            <ds:DigestMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1"/>
            <ds:DigestValue>6htA73nOJBrYMteWrJ9pdag3cA8=</ds:DigestValue>
          </ds:Reference>
        </ds:SignedInfo>
     ...

  </S:Header>
  <S:Body>
    <ns2:getCallResponse xmlns:ns2="http://somenamespace/Schemas/" wsu:Id="_5006">

As you can seen there is a reference to the signed part   but the ID attribute is not at the body (like for the request) level but on the child tag.
I don't know if this can be the problem, if so is a server side problem but the service is legacy and there's no way to change it.
So my question is: how I can disable the incoming policy validator or the specific assertion on SoapBody?
Thanks

A: Following the Colm O hEigeartaigh help, this is the resolution implemented.
Properties setup:
 // Policy ovveride
        Map<QName, SecurityPolicyValidator> validatorMap = new HashMap<>();
        validatorMap.put(new QName("http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/07/securitypolicy", "SignedParts"), new FakeSecuredPartsValidator());
        bp.getRequestContext().put(SecurityConstants.POLICY_VALIDATOR_MAP, validatorMap);

Fake validator based on the original one in CXF:
public class FakeSecuredPartsValidator implements SecurityPolicyValidator {

 private CoverageType coverageType = CoverageType.ENCRYPTED;

    /**
 * Return true if this SecurityPolicyValidator implementation is capable of validating a
 * policy defined by the AssertionInfo parameter
 */
@Override
public boolean canValidatePolicy(AssertionInfo assertionInfo) {
    if (coverageType == CoverageType.SIGNED) {
        return assertionInfo.getAssertion() != null
            && (SP12Constants.SIGNED_PARTS.equals(assertionInfo.getAssertion().getName())
                || SP11Constants.SIGNED_PARTS.equals(assertionInfo.getAssertion().getName()));
    } else {
        return assertionInfo.getAssertion() != null
            && (SP12Constants.ENCRYPTED_PARTS.equals(assertionInfo.getAssertion().getName())
                || SP11Constants.ENCRYPTED_PARTS.equals(assertionInfo.getAssertion().getName()));
    }
}

/**
 * Validate policies, set all as validates
 */
@Override
public void validatePolicies(PolicyValidatorParameters parameters, Collection<AssertionInfo> ais) {
    //
    // SIGNED_PARTS and ENCRYPTED_PARTS only apply to non-Transport bindings
    //
    if (isTransportBinding(parameters.getAssertionInfoMap(), parameters.getMessage())) {
        return;
    }

    // Set asserted = true for all Assertions
    for (AssertionInfo ai : ais) {
        if (ai.isAsserted()) {
            // Secured Parts could already have been asserted by one of the other validators, if
            // they are a child of a SupportingToken
            continue;
        }

        ai.setAsserted(true);
    }
}

private boolean isTransportBinding(AssertionInfoMap aim, Message message) {
    AssertionInfo symAis = PolicyUtils.getFirstAssertionByLocalname(aim, SPConstants.SYMMETRIC_BINDING);
    if (symAis != null) {
        return false;
    }

    AssertionInfo asymAis = PolicyUtils.getFirstAssertionByLocalname(aim, SPConstants.ASYMMETRIC_BINDING);
    if (asymAis != null) {
        return false;
    }

    AssertionInfo transAis = PolicyUtils.getFirstAssertionByLocalname(aim, SPConstants.TRANSPORT_BINDING);
    if (transAis != null) {
        return true;
    }

    // No bindings, check if we are using TLS
    TLSSessionInfo tlsInfo = message.get(TLSSessionInfo.class);
    if (tlsInfo != null) {
        // We don't need to check these policies for TLS
        PolicyUtils.assertPolicy(aim, SP12Constants.ENCRYPTED_PARTS);
        PolicyUtils.assertPolicy(aim, SP11Constants.ENCRYPTED_PARTS);
        PolicyUtils.assertPolicy(aim, SP12Constants.SIGNED_PARTS);
        PolicyUtils.assertPolicy(aim, SP11Constants.SIGNED_PARTS);
        return true;
    }

    return false;
}

public CoverageType getCoverageType() {
    return coverageType;
}

public void setCoverageType(CoverageType coverageType) {
    this.coverageType = coverageType;
}

}

A: The service is not following the spec, the Body element itself must be signed, and not the child Element as in the request above. However, recent versions of CXF allow you to plug in custom validation logic via the "ws-security.policy.validator.map" JAX-WS property. This is a map which maps a QName to a SecurityPolicyValidator instance. So in your case you can map to SignedParts policy QName to a modified version of the default SecuredPartsPolicyValidator to change the validation logic.

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Q: Fixed width and height of the UIImage using Swift (AutoLayout) I am trying to put my image at the center & want to keep the width & height of the image fixed.
I have tried adding constraints : equal width, equal height and have also added a constraint to keep some padding below the label.
When I run it, the size of the image is scaled up and it goes to the top right.
I have tried a lot of permutations & combinations to get it where it in the middle, not of them as worked so far.

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Not equal width, equal height. And I believe going to the top right is because there's no valid horizontal alignment.

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"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" is a novel opener that many of us will recognise, I'm sure. It comes, of course, from Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca. For some reason it popped into my head recently, and it got me thinking, not about first lines, but about famous fictional houses – and whether we have any in Australia. I'm meaning houses that are (somewhat universally) known by their name – and/or by their strong presence – in the novel. There are many, in fact, throughout literature, and some are listed on a Wikipedia page for Fictional houses, like 221B Baker Street, Bag End, Howards End, and Thornfield Hall. One of the big ones for me is, you won't be surprised, Pemberley in Pride and prejudice. It was when she saw Pemberley, Elizabeth Bennet cheekily tells sister Jane, that she started to change her mind about Mr. Darcy.
However, when I started thinking about memorable houses (or homes) in Australian fiction I came a bit unstuck. I've been pondering this – on and off – for a few weeks but, although I came up with all sorts of memorable places or locations, I've only come up with three identifiable homes (so you know what I'm going to ask you at the end of this post, don't you!?) I'm listing them in chronological order of publication.
From Ethel Turner's Seven little Australians (1894). It was inspired by her family's home in Sydney's Killara and its then bushland setting.
there might be some chance, then, of Misrule resuming its baptismal and unexciting name of The River House.
But, oddly enough, no one echoed the wish.
Thank goodness for that … Ethel Turner's sequel was, in fact, titled The family at Misrule, reassuring us that life for the Woolcot family will, again, not be "unexciting" in this follow-up story!
From Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967). OK, so not a house exactly, but as the boarding school in Joan Lindsay's gothic-influenced novel it was the school-year home for the novel's girls, and featured its formidable (eponymous) principal, Mrs Appleyard. The Victorian-era formality of the school and the strict controls placed on its female students are set against the sense of freedom offered by picnic fun and the mysterious, alluring Hanging Rock. Unfortunately, though, I don't have the book so can't share any quotes or descriptions.
The wins and losses, in other words, that big family homes, like Misrule for example, know all about. After this follows a physical description of the house as the family moves in, cleans it up, and explores its many nooks and crannies. How on earth, they wonder, will they fill up "this great continent of a house." And then, along come the Lambs and the rest, as they say, is history.
So, a short – and I hope – fun post this week after last week's bunch of rather long, earnest ones.
I might come back, but I want to be first to mention Maldon PO., Laura's home in HHR, The Getting of Wisdom. (I wonder, having written, if she uses a fictional town name).
Hi Bill, yes I wondered about The getting of wisdom when I was going through ideas in my head, but the name of the place hadn't stuck with me. I'm glad you mentioned it.
A couple more: Another Winton, Eyrie, takes place in a block of flats he calls the Mirador which is actually Johnston Ct in Fremantle. Miles Franklin uses her maternal grandmother's station at Talbingo, NSW as the setting for a number of novels, mostly under the name Bool Bool (I can't remember what name she uses in My Brilliant Career).
Thanks again, Bill, I had My brilliant career as my fourth but then removed it because I really couldn't remember the name of her grandma's place.
I haven't read Eyrie, though it on the pile!
I'm no help with Australian house sorry. But to add to your list otherwise how about Brideshead in Brideshead Revisted?
Thanks Karen… Yes, that's a good non-Aussie one.
Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman, a wonderful read, traces the lives through interconnected tales, of the occupants of a Massachusetts house over a period of two hundred years. Loved it, still remember it's magic.
Thanks Claire… Sounds like a great story with presumably some good social history. I've heard of Hoffman, but haven't read this.
This is probably one of her most literary novels, she's quite a prolific author, I haven't read anything else of hers that matched this though. Some call them short stories, but for me it was unputdownable, each one leading onto the other, a bit like Yoko Ogawa's Revenge, stories where the occasional threads run through.
Yes, I thought she was more in the general rather than literary fiction line. I do like interconnected short stories. You've remind d me if a Rohinton Mistry collection, Tales from the Firozsha Baag… Connected short stories about people living in the same apartment complex. Another named home!
Haha, Pam, and if one comes up, please return here and let us know.
Hi Sue, good fun. I immediately thought of Cloudstreet and Tara (Gone With the Wind). Another home without a name but connects characters to a home is Thursday's Child by Sonya Hartnett,One of the characters is a young boy Tin, who lives under the house. The Spare room by Helen Garnet; I know that house. All the Rivers Run by Nancy Cato, where Philadelphia Gordon,the paddle steamer PS Philadelphia, is her home.
Thanks Meg. Tara of course is a great OS one. I came up with many OS ones but had forgotten Tara. Love your Aussie suggestions, though I g ave T read that Hartnett.
This is such an interesting subject. Fictional homes can have such a big effect on a book. Thanks for this list. I never read Picnic at Hanging Rock but I love the film. Your post has reminded me that I must read the book soon.
I'm glad you've seen the film though Brian. That's wonderful, as Aussie films don't tend to get overseas a lot.
What about David Malouf's '12 Edmonstone Street'? (Says she, who has never read it).
And was there an actual house in the Harp in the South Trilogy? I do have a sense of the suburb of Surry Hills, but not an actual house. I agree with Meg about Helen Garner's books- her houses have a strong presence. I don't know if there IS an actual house in the Children's Bach, but friends of mine used to live in a house in Clifton Hill that exactly fits the location.
I struggled with Harp in the South Janine, because I really wanted to include it – and felt it should work – but I decided, as you say, it's the suburb that we know and remember, not the house.
There is a house in The children's Bach – I think the novel opens with a photograph on the fridge in the kitchen – but I don't really see the house as a memorable thing. Clifton Hill? I've only just discovered Clifton Hill recently. Had never heard of it until then, but the last two times we've been to Melbourne that's where we've stayed. Nice suburb.
I love that you are thinking about this – it's an intriguing question isn't it?
Cloudstreet was the only one that came to my mind when I caught your headline.
Haha, Theresa, it really stands out doesn't it?
It's that sense of a story revolving around a place that is so evident with Cloudstreet and of course the house had its own prescence as well. We really don't have all that many examples to draw on! I can't think of any others!
Yes, that's it I think Theresa – the place is a significant part of the story isn't it and Winton uses it to reflect on or represent the inhabitants in such a strong way.
It's still my favourite novel of his. I think I keep reading Winton in search of the 'next' Cloudstreet.
Cairo, by Chris Womersley. Cairo is the name of a real block of flats in Nicholson St Fitzroy which were designed by Australian modernist architect Best Overend..
Oh, thanks Lisa … what a shame it's not well known to Aussies! I was hoping for the places that would either jump immediately into people's minds, or that would make them say, "oh, yes, of course." It seems that we don't have many in Australia, do we?
Xanadu, Miss Hare's home in White's 'Riders in the Chariot'. The thought of her scrabbling through the bush gives me goosebumps. Perhaps not a favourite home but one I will always remember and sometimes I think I am a bit like her. The genius that was Patrick White!!
There is also Helen Garner's 'The Spare Room'. I would love to have stayed in that room which the narrator so lovingly prepared for her much loved guest.
A few have mentioned The spare room. I agree that the house, and the guest room in particular, play a strong role in the book.
The two-roomed stringy bark shack from The Drover's Wife. Does Drogheda from The Thorn Birds count? I think it was memorable as a station rather than as a house.
That's a good one Rose — it certainly has a presence doesn't it?
I thought briefly about The thorn birds but couldn't remember the name. I think a station, which includes a house, can count – and it's probably memorable to all The thorn bird lovers?
The Fortunes Of Richard Mahoney (ages since I read it) with doctor's houses in Australia and England intensely presented…I must read that book again!
Thanks Ian. HHR is getting a bit of a mention here.
The frowsy Saint Petersburg flat in Oblomov. Oblomov and his servant Zhakhar are so funny and so sad and true.
Oh, I haven't read Oblomov Ian – my Russian classic reading is pretty sparse.
That rather suggests it's not memorable enough for my purposes here?
Yes, true. I guess I'm looking for places that have stood the test of time?
Oh yes, another blast from the even deeper past, Rose … Billabong Station. I love it. I guess not well-known today but yes I read them in my youth and should have remembered that name. You are on a roll!
I haven`t read a lot of Australian fiction but my first thought was for the house in My Brilliant Career.
Thanks Emma. Yes, that was high up for me too, and I nearly had it in my list but in the end decided that it didn't quite hit the criteria. It's an important part of her life in the book though isn't it?
I think I have this right: MF came from Brindabella to Stillwater in the locality of Thornford and her maternal grandmother's place was Old Talbingo. Sybylla came from Bruggabrong to Possum Gully (and I'm still not sure if that's the locality or the farm or both) and went to school at Tiger Swamp; and her grandmother's place was Caddagat – and her suitor Harold Beecham owned the neigbouring Five-Bob Downs. That's My Brilliant Career, what names MF gives the same localities in My Career Goes Bung (or in Cockatoos) I don't remember.
I think Possum Gully and Caddagat, and possibly Five Bob Downs should be iconic names in Oz.Lit in the sense that you are discussing. In passing, I remember the even more iconic Snake Gully as Dad and Dave's home in the radio serial, but whether that was the name used by Steele Rudd in his 'On Our Selection' stories I'm not sure.
Yes, they should. Does our difficulty with this topic say something about our what we write about, or how well read we are in OzLit?
Snake Gully! Yes, but like you I'm not sure if it's more the radio serials.
Thanks for thinking more on this Bill.
Yes to the three places. They have a central place in the book.
You are becoming a real aficionado of our literature Emma!


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Being overweight is not a disease.
Society has a bias against people who weigh more than "normal," a bias with attached stigma called fatphobia.
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Doctors are not immune. It's not that doctors are unaware of fatphobia; it's just that their biases are deeply engrained. In an attempt to tackle the problem, the Canadian Medical Association Journal recently published guidelines to counter prejudices that treat obesity as a disease.
The CMAJ calls their guidelines a "paradigm shift" but the guidelines don't go far enough.
One problem is the use of euphemisms. Instead of calling people "fat," medical practitioners prefer terms like "persons living with obesity." This people-first language is supposed to humanize fat people.
Professors Michael Orsini of the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa and Deborah McPhail of community health sciences at the University of Manitoba disagree:
"But were fat people not quite human in the first place? People-first language is not somehow instantly empowering. Some communities reject it because it distances the person from their identity. For instance, saying 'disabled person' can be seen as less pathologizing than 'person with a disability' (Globe and Mail, August 21, 2020)."
Let's reclaim the word "fat" and talk about fat people in the same way we do disabled persons –namely, fat people. The phrase "persons living with obesity" obscures what we are trying to say and it pathologizes people in the same way as "persons with a disability" does.
Another problem with the CMAJ suggestions is that while they promote "healthy living" and seek to sensitize others to the dangers of fatphobia, medical practitioners still cling to a model that pathologizes obesity as a disease.
They do so by recommending "treatments" such as weight loss or bariatric surgery. Medical practitioners still see obesity as a disease that can be managed medically.
The term "fat" has been deliberately used to harm people. Fat people are made the victims of hatred and discrimination in a way that is linked to other forms of oppression rooted in race, gender and ability.
Sabrina Strings, author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, makes the connection between fatphobia and white supremacy. She argues that "the slender ideal and fat phobia are not distinct developments… The fear of the imagined 'fat black woman' was created by racial and religious ideologies that have been used to both degrade black women and discipline white women."
Health care for fat people is still delivered in a system with a firm hierarchy between patient and doctor. Patients are hardly in a position to push back against a doctor who has outdated ideas about "normal" bodies. In our health care system, there is little opportunity to shop around for a more enlightened doctor. Fat people have to endure the lectures from doctors who suggest they should know better than to let their weight spiral out of control.
I have felt the sting and humiliation of fatphobia. As a fat kid, when my last name was Smith, kids would taunt me with: "Smit, Smit, the big fat sh*t."
It's time we recognize fat people as normal people.
Good memorials, bad memorials of residential schools
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Exponential Fitting
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Mathematical Properties
Liviu Gr. Ixaru
Guido Vanden Berghe
Part of the Mathematics and Its Applications book series (MAIA, volume 568)
In this chapter we present the main mathematical elements of the exponential fitting procedure. It will be seen that this procedure is rather general. However, later on in this book the procedure will be mainly applied in the restricted area of the generation of formulae and algorithms for functions with oscillatory or hyperbolic variation.
Independent Solution Mathematical Property Double Precision Approximation Formula Divided Difference
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The Proposed New Open-ended Fund Company Structure in Hong Kong
ONC Lawyers
ARTICLE29 November 2016
On 15 January 2016, the Financial Services and Treasury Bureau published its consultation conclusions on allowing open-ended fund companies ("OFC") to be established under the Securities and Futures Ordinance (the "SFO"). The Securities and Futures (Amendment) Bill 2016 (the "Bill") was published on the same date.
Currently, an open-ended investment fund could only be established in Hong Kong in the form of a unit trust, but not in a corporate form due to the restrictions on capital reduction under the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622) ("CO").
The new OFC structure provides a more flexible choice of investment fund vehicle. It is aimed at diversifying the fund domiciliation platform in Hong Kong and boosting of Hong Kong's position as an international asset management centre.
The Proposed OFC Structure
An OFC is an open-ended collective investment scheme, which is structured in corporate form with limited liability, but with the flexibility to create and cancel shares for investors to subscribe and redeem the funds. Like a conventional limited company, an OFC has the following features:
1. it has a legal personality;
2. it has a constitutional document, namely the Instrument of Incorporation;
3. it should be governed by a board of directors who are subject to statutory and fiduciary duties; and
4. the liability of its shareholders is limited to the amount unpaid on their shares in the company.
However, as an investment vehicle, an OFC has greater flexibility than conventional companies. It has the following features:
1. it has the flexibility to vary its share capital in order to meet investor subscription and redemption requests;
2. it may distribute assets out of share capital subject to solvency and disclosure requirements;
3. it may be created as an umbrella fund, allowing for a number of sub-funds, where each sub-fund would have a pool of assets that is managed in accordance with the investment objectives and policies specified to that sub-fund. The assets of each sub-fund belong exclusively to that sub-fund and shall not be used to discharge the liabilities of or claims against the umbrella OFC or any other sub-fund; and
4. it may be a publicly or privately offered fund. A publicly offered fund is a fund that is offered to the public in Hong Kong and should be subject to the prior authorisation of the SFC. A privately offered fund is a fund that is not offered for sale to the public (e.g. for sale to professional investors) and is not subject to the authorisation of the SFC.
An OFC has to be registered with the Securities and Futures Commission (the "SFC"), but is not required to be a licensed corporation under the SFO. It should delegate its investment management functions to an investment manager who is appointed by the OFC board.
The directors of the OFC board, the investment manager and the custodian will be the key operators of an OFC.
The directors are legally responsible for all the affairs of the OFC. There must be at least 2 directors who are individuals over the age of 18. Corporate directors are not permitted. Directors of the OFC owe the same statutory and fiduciary duties to the OFC as that of directors of a conventional company formed under the CO. They do not have to be licensed under the SFO, as it will be mandatory for them to delegate the investment functions to the investment manager of the OFC. They are not required to be residents of Hong Kong, but each non-resident director should appoint a process agent in Hong Kong to accept service of process.
The investment manager exercises the investment management functions of the OFC. It will be required to be licensed by or registered with the SFC to carry out Type 9 (asset management) regulated activity.
An OFC is required to have a custodian. The assets of an OFC must be segregated from that of the investment manager and entrusted to a separate, independent custodian for safekeeping. The custodian can be incorporated in Hong Kong or overseas, provided that it has a place of business or an agent in Hong Kong for the purpose of accepting service of notices and legal documents in Hong Kong.
Investment Scope
The Hong Kong Government proposes that OFCs should invest in asset classes that fall within the definition of securities, futures and over-the-counter derivatives under the SFO, i.e. their investment scope should align with Type 9 (asset management) regulated activity.
Publicly offered OFCs will be subject to the requirements and restrictions set out in the SFC Handbook for Unit Trusts and Mutual Funds, Investment-Linked Assurance Schemes and Unlisted Structured Investment Products (the "SFC Handbook") as required by any publicly offered SFC-authorised funds under the existing regime.
Privately offered OFCs will be allowed a 10% de-minimis exemption (i.e. not more than 10% of the total gross asset value of the OTC) for investing in other asset classes, which are not inconsistent with the scope of Type 9 (asset management) regulated activity. This includes investments in cash deposits and currencies.
Incorporation and Registration of an OFC
An applicant who wishes to set up an OFC should apply to the SFC for registration prior to applying to the Registrar of Companies (the "CR"). Once the SFC is satisfied that the registration requirements are met, it will issue a notice of registration to the CR.
An incorporation form and other relevant documents should be submitted to the CR. The CR will incorporate the OTC after it has received the notice of registration and other relevant documents from the SFC, and that all other requirements for incorporation have been met. Registration of the OFC takes effect on the day of issue of the certificate of incorporation by the CR. OFCs that seek to offer its shares to the public must also apply for authorisation under the SFO.
Roles of the SFC and the CR
In view of the nature of an OFC as an investment fund, the SFC will be the primary regulator responsible for the registration and regulation of OFCs under the SFO. The SFO empowers the SFC to publish codes and guidelines to provide guidance in respect of matters relating to incorporation, management, operation, and business of OFCs. The SFC can also give directions to OFCs, their directors and investment managers in specified circumstances where necessary.
The CR will be responsible for the incorporation and administration of statutory corporate filings of OFCs. The CR will keep records of information relating to PFCs and provide the public with access to such information.
Related Amendments regarding Profits Tax Exemption
Currently, profits tax exemption is given to public funds and offshore funds under sections 26A and 20AC of the Inland Revenue Ordinance (CAP.112) respectively. Under the proposed amendments to the SFO, the current profits tax exemption regime would also apply to OFCs. Publicly offered OFCs will be exempt from Hong Kong profits tax under section 26A(1A)(a) of the IRO, irrespective of the locality of their central management and control. For privately offered OFCs, profits tax would be exempted under sections 20AC and 20ACA if their central management and control is outside Hong Kong. Any onshore privately offered OFCs will be subject to profits tax.
The OFC structure is likely to provide an attractive alternative to the current investment fund structures available in Hong Kong. It allows funds to be set up in the form of a company, but with the flexibility to create and cancel shares for investors to trade the funds, which is currently not enjoyed by conventional companies under the CO. Nevertheless, details of the rules and requirements applicable to OFCs are yet to be determined, pending further public consultation to be conducted by the SFC. As stated in the Legislative Council Brief of the Bill, a subsidiary legislation will be enacted under the SFO to set out the detailed operational and procedural matters of OFCs.
For enquiries, please contact our Corporate & Commercial Department:
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W: www.onc.hk F: (852) 2804 6311
19th Floor, Three Exchange Square, 8 Connaught Place, Central, Hong Kong
Important: The law and procedure on this subject are very specialised and complicated. This article is just a very general outline for reference and cannot be relied upon as legal advice in any individual case. If any advice or assistance is needed, please contact our solicitors.
Published by ONC Lawyers © 2016


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Printing such HTML yields same border on both tables in Firefox.
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How do I fix / workaround that?
Setting 3px border on .bad yields "thick" border on Firefox, which looks ugly.

A: I ran into the same problem. It is not only related to Tables. It also applies to div elements. Use pt (points) as a unit for printing instead of px (pixels). Try:
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If you take a walk with children or eat fresh fruits and vegetables together, you're bound to come across a few seeds along the way. You'll notice these little (and sometimes big!) treasures can be quite fascinating to preschoolers.
Here are all the resources you need for planning your preschool seed theme activities.
When we can use concrete materials that kids come in contact with regularly it naturally increases their enthusiasm about the topic and it helps them make meaningful connections.
Kids come in contact with many seeds as they play outdoors. As they eat natural foods and know what to look for they also quickly realize that they eat many types of seeds.
It's also a lot of fun to plant seeds so this seed theme can lead to many extension activities.
While you can technically teach a seed theme any time your kids show an interest in the topic, we find that is most fun to teach during the spring or at least during a planting season (which could be year round depending on where you live!).
If you're planning a preschool seed theme there are so many ways to incorporate a wide variety of learning skills.
You can also use seeds as manipulatives for many learning activities to teach math and literacy concepts.
If you get parents, friends, and family involved you can gather quite a neat collection of foods and seeds for kids to explore during your seed theme.
Here on Fantastic Fun and Learning we've shared the following ideas to go along with a preschool seed theme.
We've also gathered many clever ways to teach kids about seeds. You'll find sensory play ideas, art activities, tips for planting seeds with children, and learning activities too.
Watch a real seed as it grows.
Peep and the Big Wide World is a great series for beginning science concepts. In this video Peep and friends learn about planting seeds.
Get kids up and moving with the Can You Plant a Bean Movement Song.
Sung to the tune of The Farmer in the Dell, kids will quickly learn in and sing along with Farmer Plants the Seeds.
Finger plays and action rhymes are a great addition to your preschool themes. Here are a few terrific options to go along with a seed theme.
There are some fantastic books to read for your seed theme. We've provided a brief summary about each of our favorite seed books.
Reinforce learning with these hands-on materials and games to go along with your seed theme.
With these tools kids can plant their seeds and see what happens throughout the plant life cycle.
Build upon the information you've learned about seeds and try even more ideas from these gardening with kids resources. We've also explore books about gardening and how to garden with kids books here.
A seed theme can quite naturally evolve into one of the following preschool themes if you would like to continue along with the concepts learned in your seed theme. Themes we have printable lesson plans for include links after them.


Description: Black (commercially dyed) silk organza. Shibori de- coloured (with Thioureau dioxide) stitched, cut.
Barbara Rogers has had her own design label since 1980 she has exhibited extensively and her work has been acquired for national and international private and public collections.
Barbara's work has been included in over 130 group exhibitions and 19 major exhibitions including the USA, Finland, Japan, China, Germany and Belgium.
Barbara's work can be found in Memory on Cloth shibori now, by Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada.
Description: Habutai and organza silks dyed using Yellow Box, Nicholli, Privet and Orchil Lichen, vegetable dyes and arashi and miura shibori techniques.
Barbara Schey has been passionate about textiles all her life. She has exhibited and sold widely both in Australia and overseas and is constantly pushing the boundaries of new techniques for her range of garments and art pieces. Bright colours feature in her work.
Textiles are a very tactile experience for Barbara, consequently the many ways one can manipulate the cloth in shibori techniques to achieve new and exciting outcomes are sheer joy. She has studied the "high tech" methods used in Japan and adapted them for her home studio. Barbara originally became involved in textiles through spinning and weaving and subsequently, dyeing. Her jackets are of simple construction to focus on the dyeing or manipulation of the fabric. Her favourite shibori techniques are Arashi and Miura (which she ties whilst traveling). Examples of Barbara's work are shown on "http://www.shibori.org/" member's profiles.
Description: Layers of wool and silk, upper layer recycled wool blanket dyed with black wattle bark, mustard burnished, back ground layer crunched silk, shiboried and dyed with black rice and mulberry syrup.
Rommie is constantly experimenting with the combination of ancient and ethnic art and craft techniques and modern technology.
Her preferred materials are natural fibres such as Silks, Cotton, Linen, Hemp and Wool.
These fabrics are manipulated with all aspects of surface design.
In her 2D, 3D and installations pieces components of recycled textiles, fibres and collectables are prominently featured.
The two shibori panels "From Above" and "Remnants of a Bushfire" have been created using various methods of textile manipulation and surface design. Textures and colours reflect the harshness and raw beauty of the Australian bush. Every aspect of the displayed work represents the Australian way of life which Rommie is so fond of.
Description: Kumo Shibori resist, puff ball (fungus) dyed silks: paj, silk net, silk organza, silk cocoons opened and cleaned eucalyptus dye & puff ball.
In 2004 I was the recipient of Tribute to Northern Territory Women "for contribution to NT Arts & Crafts and as a Volunteer".
I have lived and worked in Alice Springs for the last 21 years with my husband and four children. My practice consisted of Fibre and textiles – now more Textiles than fibre – however both are often integrated into my work.
Since arriving in Alice – I became a member of Territory Craft – now Central Craft and began tutoring on an annual basis, workshops in Traditional basket making, Fabric painting & printing, Natural and Synthetic dyeing methods, Shibori/Japanese tie dye, Silk fusion, Felt making & Mud dyeing.
My work is represented in collections such as the Alice Craft Acquisition, Griffith Museum, Adelaide Museum, Museum of the Northern Territory and several current national touring exhibitions.
My work continues to evolve in Central Australia, I'm very passionate about what I do and enjoy sharing through the teaching process. What I create is influenced by where I live.


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Легисакцио́нный процесс () — наиболее древний вид искового судопроизводства в римском праве.

Название ведёт от исковых действий, совершаемых по писанному закону (в том числе Законам XII таблиц), — legis actiones. Обязательным условием было присутствие истца и ответчика. При этом явку ответчика обеспечивал истец, используя принуждение. Процесс делился на две стадии: «возведение к праву» (in jure) и «обращение к правосудию» (in judicio). Первая стадия представляла собой заявление претензии в суд, вторая — судебное разбирательство.

Виды
 Legis actio per manus iniectionem или процесс «наложением руки». Должник попадал в рабство кредитора; случаи применения процесса строго предписывались законом.
 Legis actio per pignoris capionem или процесс посредством жертвы. Применялся при нарушении покупателем обязательства оплатить купленную вещь.
 Legis actio sacramento или процесс-пари. Стороны вносили залог, который доставался тому, кто выигрывал суд.
 Legis actio per judieus postulationem или процесс «назначением судьи». Споры о праве на наследство.
 Legis actio per condictionem или процесс «под условием». Сходен с предыдущим процессом.

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Формы гражданского процесса в римском праве

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This 57-year-old is still looking for ways to get a little extra money from his Mommy, but falling out of a moving car on an interstate? This one takes the cake!
John R. McPhail tried to stage his own kidnapping in an effort to try to extort money from his own mom! He fell out of a moving vehicle during a chase between two vehicles on the local interstate in Oregon. He did it pretty convincingly, because people who called 911 reported that he had his hands bound behind him with a bag over his head!
Soon after the cops arrived, though, investigators determined the "chase" didn't really happen. Many witnesses determined that they saw something worth following up with, but when people tried to stop the men who eventually got out of the vehicle, they hopped back in the car and drove off. One of the witnesses even tried to flatten one of the car's tires in an effort to get them to stop.
McPhail was taken to a local hospital, where he was treated and released. When the cops started questioning him, he said he was kidnapped, but the story soon was discovered to be a lie.
He eventually confessed that he staged the event with friends to try to get money from his mom for a fake ransom. He was then arrested for initiating a false report and conspiracy to commit theft and is now being held in the local jail.
Poor Mom! Talk about an emotional roller coaster stemming from her 57-year-old "little boy"!


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      Stake ~ What's New

	  v1.0 - The rewrite.

- Code of the program completely rewritten. Legacy code ported over to class based
  system.

- Stake will now check the ROM that you load and see if it's PRG, CHR and mapper number
  are correct for a Castlevania ROM. If it is not correct, it will refuse to load the
  ROM.

- Stairs now utilise the pointers to the stairs data, in preparation for the stairs
  adding system.

- User interface tweak to the Up, Down, Left, Right button. Now, they are BitBtn's,
  with relevant bitmaps, and they are moved to the position where scrollbars would be.

- Upgraded to GR32 1.5.1.

- Uses Sire's stair, door, and entrance icons.

- Middle button of the mouse is now used for an extra currently selected tile. If you
  don't have a middle button, Shift + Left Click is also provided.

- Stairs adding function coded. Hardcored to allow you to have only 50 stairs per stage.
  Changeable via a constant, but a smart hacker may want to repoint something else in that
  bank, so I may as well leave the space for them to do so.

- Stairs deleting function coded. Utilised through CTRL + Right click on a stair.

- Minor entrance and door bugs fixed.

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FBI Lovebirds Is D.C. Satire at Its Best
John Fund
What do you get when you take Dean Cain, an actor famous for playing Superman on TV, and Kristy Swanson, the actress who was the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and give them the chance to play a couple of adulterous, wildly partisan FBI agents working at the highest levels of the Mueller Russiagate probe?
You get an outrageous play that had its conservative audience of 500 people howling at its premiere last Thursday at Washington's Ronald Reagan Center.
Liberal comics may have had the field to themselves so far when it comes to Trump's Washington. But they will now have to make room for a worthy counterpoint.
FBI Lovebirds: UnderCovers is part of a genre called verbatim theater. As written by conservative filmmaker Phelim McAleer, it's a four-person play that relies on transcripts of the secret text messages exchanged by lovers Peter Strzok and Lisa Page (the FBI agents) as well as their congressional testimony under oath.
Strzok headed the FBI's probe of Hillary Clinton's email scandal, and he began its Russia probe. Page was top counsel to Andrew McCabe, the FBI's No. 2 official and its acting director after Trump fired Director James Comey in May 2017. McCabe was later fired for unauthorized leaks to reporters and for "lacking candor under oath" in his interviews with Justice Department investigators.
Trump supporters have long suggested that the obvious hostility to Trump and favoritism toward Hillary Clinton displayed by Strzok and Page are evidence of an attempted "deep state" effort to undermine Trump. Strzok and Page are over-the-top critics of Trump in their texts, and Strzok, who instigated the FBI's Russiagate probe during the 2016 campaign, spoke of having "an insurance policy" in case Trump won.
The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found no evidence that the couple's political bias changed the outcome of the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server while in government. But the OIG did have an opinion on the couple's use of FBI devices to send highly biased text messages. Strzok sneerily texted, for instance, "Just went to a Southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support." The inspector general concluded that their behavior "cast a cloud" over the FBI's work and that the "damage" it caused "goes to the heart of the FBI's reputation for neutral fact finding and political independence."
Indeed, their bias was so all-consuming that it does make one wonder how they both ended up on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team. Page had completed her work with Mueller by the time the IG uncovered the Page–Strzok texts, but Strzok was still on the team; he was "reassigned" to the human-resources department when the texts came to light.
No wonder. Page describes Trump as an "enormous douche" and asks her lover, "Trump's not ever going to become president, right?" Strzok replies, "No. No, he won't. We'll stop it." Strzok later explained to congressional investigators that this text referred to "the American people" who would stop Trump. For her part, Page gave equally implausible answers when interviewed by Congress. One congressman noted that she had texted, "God trump is a loathsome human . . . omg he's an idiot" to Strzok. "What did you mean by that?" the congressman asked. Her reply: "I don't recall."
Playing the adulterous FBI lovers, Cain and Swanson made the most of this material. Reading their text messages from binders on stage, they played the couple as smug, immature, smirking know-it alls, but Cain and Swanson also read aloud the couple's emojis and exaggerated punctuation for added emphasis. Every reference to a text that ended with a "winky face" or "five exclamation points" was met with howls of laughter from the audience.
Cain plans to support President Trump in 2020 but told me after the play that he is a political independent who is "super liberal" on all the social issues. But he does wonder why Hollywood has so been so resistant to balancing its comic savaging of the Trump White House. "Tonight was sort of a Saturday Night Live thing," he told the Washington Post at the play's after-party last week. "Why aren't they [SNL] making fun of Strzok and Page?"
Good question. Playwright Phelim McAleer, who along with his wife Ann McElhinney has produced several conservative films financed by Internet crowdsourcing, says the answer is obvious. "The Left dominates the arts to such an extent, they refuse to produce plays or movies even if they know they'll be popular and the material is gold," he told me. McAleer notes that the play's original theater venue in Washington, D.C., tore up the contract with McAleer after they learned more about the content of FBI Lovebirds. "They claimed they had one angry threat and had to cancel, but we get threatening tweets by the hour."
So what is the future of FBI Lovebirds? McAleer and McElhinney taped last week's performance and plan to put it on YouTube for free viewing at some point.
But in the meantime, they are open to supporters sponsoring presentations in their local areas. No doubt the show will be enjoyable on computer screen, but here's hoping that Cain and Swanson are able to put their Washington satire on the road. There's nothing like watching great performers bring gales of laughter to an appreciative audience with their on-stage hijinks.
I wasn't very familiar with "verbatim theater" productions before FBI Lovebirds, but with the right material, there's no better way of communicating serious subjects in an entertaining manner.
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"This bill should be seen as been sent by the central government," Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told the media.
Kerala govt, received a bill of over Rs. 33 crore to be paid to the Controller of Defence Accounts, and this includes the airlift services provided by the Indian Air Force during the massive deluge in August this year.
The letter which has been sent to the state government by the Air Headquarters in New Delhi, and has been accessed, includes a sum of Rs. 2,03,15,000 for the airlift services provided to the state government of Kerala by the Air Force.
"This bill should be seen as been sent by the central government. We in the recent past have also written to central government, stating that we were expecting the ration including the extra quota of rice and kerosene as free of charge, given as assistance during the floods. But we've not received any response to even that," Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told .
"The estimated loss in the state has been around Rs. 31,000 crore. We received Rs. 600 crore from the Centre as emergency fund. And now we have to pay these bills from that money and will be left with even lesser amount. We shouldn't be disappointed. The truth is that we have got much less than what we should have received as financial assistance from the Centre. Let's hope that they will calculate all this and give us equivalent amount as assistance," Mr Vijayan added.
The chief minister has written to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh asking for the high level meeting on natural disasters to be held soon. "State has also submitted two memorandums to the Centre after the August floods…but high level committee hasn't met yet to examine the reports of the two central teams that visited Kerala," he said.
Kerala had sought assistance of Rs. 5,616 crore through two memorandums. And Rs. 2,000 crore as emergency fund. But, the Centre has allocated only Rs. 600 crore as emergency fund, the Chief Minister wrote.


My Feature service created in arcmap 10 and published to AGOL has required fields that are not being honoured in the Collector Classic app on iOs and Android.
The Required fields are being honoured in the new Collector app and in online webapps and maps.
This has caused a headache in managing submitted features from field officers.
This is a relatively recent problem as all was fine last year, but i can't pinpoint the change as we have sampling seasons and we have been in a closed season.
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Champion Joe (1980)
Ashita no Jô (original title)
Not Rated | 2h 33min | Animation, Action, Drama | 8 March 1980 (Japan)
While serving his sentence in a Tokyo juvenile detention center, a wandering orphaned slum-dog enters the world of professional boxing after befriending an incarcerated pugilistic prodigy.
Yoichiro Fukuda, Yasuharu Hasebe
Ikki Kajiwara (manga) (as Asao Takamori), Tetsuya Chiba (manga) | 2 more credits »
Teruhiko Aoi, Shôji Ishibashi, Jûkei Fujioka | See full cast & crew »
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Title: Champion Joe (1980)
Tomorrow's Joe 2 (1980–1981)
Animation | Action | Sport
Stars: Teruhiko Aoi
Tomorrow's Joe (1970–1971)
Animation | Action | Drama
Tange is a frustrated fighter with poorly life, he loses his eyesight and also his disciple.Passing by a town one day he meets Joe Yabuki, a brawler,lier and deceived person which he saw in... See full summary »
Stars: Teruhiko Aoi, Jûkei Fujioka, Shûsei Nakamura
Tomorrow's Joe 2 (1981)
Director: Osamu Dezaki
Stars: Teruhiko Aoi, Jûkei Fujioka, Toshiyuki Hosokawa
Lupin the Third: The Gravestone of Daisuke Jigen (2014)
Animation | Action | Crime
Lupin and Jigen face off with an assassin who has marked Jigen as his latest target.
Director: Takeshi Koike
Stars: Richard Epcar, Akio Hirose, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Hajime no ippo (2000–2002)
Animation | Action | Comedy
Makunouchi Ippo is an ordinary high school student in Japan. Since he spends most of his time away from school helping his mother run the family business, he doesn't get to enjoy his ... See full summary »
Stars: Steve Staley, Richard Epcar, D.C. Douglas
Captain Tsubasa (1983–1986)
Animation | Sport
A talented football-loving 11-year-old elementary school student begins his journey as he moves to a new city and a new school.
The Rose of Versailles (1979–1980)
Animation | Drama | Romance
The story of Lady Oscar, a female military commander who served during the time of the French Revolution.
Stars: Reiko Tajima, Tarô Shigaki, Hisashi Katsuda
Fist of the North Star (1984–1988)
Animation | Action | Adventure
In the year 199X, human civilization has been all but destroyed by a nuclear holocaust. In an age where the strong rule over the weak, the survivors of the fallout struggle over the ... See full summary »
Stars: Akira Kamiya, Shigeru Chiba, Teiyû Ichiryûsai
Mazinger Z (1972–1974)
Action | Animation | Sci-Fi
Teenager Koji Kabuto pilots the amazing super-robot Mazinger Z to avenge its inventor (his grandfather) against the Mycene Empire, led by the evil mad scientist Doctor Hell.
Stars: Frank Cattelano, Robin Gould, Dale Hemmond
Lupin III (2015)
The legendary burglar Lupin III sets off on an adventurous trip across Italy and San Marino.
Stars: Kan'ichi Kurita, Tyler Bunch, Richard Cansino
Animation | Adventure | Comedy
The master thief Arsene Lupin III arrives in his ancestral homeland of France, where he has new adventures and contends with new enemies.
Stars: Tony Oliver, Richard Epcar, Lex Lang
Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky (2016)
Animation | Sci-Fi | War
Director: Kou Matsuo
Stars: Yûichi Nakamura, Ryohei Kimura, Toa Yukinari
Teruhiko Aoi ... Joe Yabuki (voice)
Shôji Ishibashi ... Joe Yabuki
Jûkei Fujioka ... Danpei Tange (voice)
Ryutaro Tatsumi ... Danpei Tange
Toshiyuki Hosokawa ... Toru Rikiishi (voice)
Seiichirô Kameishi ... Toru Rikiishi
Fumi Dan ... Yoko Shiraki (voice)
Yôko Takagi ... Yoko Shiraki
Shirô Kishibe ... Mommoth Nishi (voice)
Speedy Hayase ... Wolf kanegushi
Osachi Ishiwatari
Masao Komatsu ... Tadashi aoyama
Bontarô Miake ... Kannosuke shiraki
Eiji Mutô
Shôji Nakayama ... Wakayama
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Goodbye Joe
by Sue Susanna
Movie version of celebrated animated boxing series
5 September 2011 | by BrianDanaCamp – See all my reviews
ASHITA NO JOE (TOMORROW'S JOE, 1980) is a 152-minute theatrical movie edited from the 79-episode animated series, "Ashita no Joe," which ran on Japanese TV from 1970-71 and which I've also reviewed on this site. The DVD copy I watched is in Japanese without subtitles. It covers key moments from the pioneering series, which charts the rise of Joe Yabuki, a kid from the Tokyo slums who is chosen for a boxing career by a down-on-his-luck trainer but has to suffer a stint in prison first. In the first 17 minutes, a condensation of the first four TV episodes, we see Joe meet Tange Danpei, his future trainer, and wind up in prison after a run-in with the Yakuza and a battle with the police. The movie devotes a full hour, two-fifths of its running time, to Joe's stay in prison and how an encounter there with another boxer, Rikishi, changes his life and his attitude. Joe fights a series of matches when he gets out, including an important one with reigning champ Wolf Kanagushi, who had previously fought and defeated Rikishi. It all culminates in a brutal championship fight between Joe and Rikishi, who has to lose a significant amount of weight to qualify for Joe's bantamweight class and is considerably weakened as a result. (Which begs the question—why didn't Joe simply GAIN weight?) This fight takes up 17 minutes of the running time near the end of the movie. I don't know how many episodes were devoted to it in the TV series, but I imagine it would have been at least three or four entire episodes at the end of the series.
I have two VHS volumes of the TV series, also without subtitles, containing episodes 1-4, which offer everything leading up to Joe's being sent to prison, and episodes 37-40, which detail Joe's match with Wolf Kanagushi. The value of the movie is that it fills in parts of the story that aren't available to me, particularly the one hour devoted to Joe's life in prison. However, the condensation resulting from the editing can be very misleading. When Joe spends a night in jail after a run-in with the Yakuza in the TV series, he's let out the next day. It's a later incident that gets him sent to prison, but the movie compresses all that to show Joe going to prison after the first arrest. Joe's match with Wolf takes up two entire episodes in the series, but is cut down to eight minutes in the movie. The slum kids who idolize Joe and the supportive denizens of the shantytown district where Joe resides were a significant part of the TV series but are hardly seen in the movie, except for one bus trip where Joe takes them all to a winter resort after one of his matches. As a result, the whole social context of Joe's life in the slums is seriously diminished in the movie.
Speaking of which, I could never understand why Joe avoids the trappings of his boxing success. He wears the same shabby clothes throughout, lives in the same ramshackle structure where he first started training, never eats well, and never goes out on a date. Maybe it's explained in some of the dialogue in the series, but it sure baffled me. There is a woman in the picture, a rich girl named Yoko Shiraki whose father runs a top boxing club in Tokyo, but I could never figure out the nature of her relationships with Joe or Rikishi, neither of whom seems to display any romantic interest in her. She's attractive, but cold-blooded, never smiling or showing emotion and quick to walk out of the arena during the final moments of a grueling fight involving one of her boxers. I couldn't figure that one out either.
The movie uses a whole new music score, eliminating the evocative strains that contributed so heavily to the mood of the TV show. Instead, the music here sounds like a synthesizer churning out elevator music, with the occasional rock guitar riff. I don't understand why they threw out a perfectly good score for a new, mediocre one.
Also, in comparing the images on the VHS TV episodes with those on the movie DVD, I find that the movie images are cropped on top and bottom to fit the theatrical aspect ratio. The colors are different, with blues practically nonexistent, reds enhanced, and gray backgrounds now colored brown. As a result, many of the background details are softened and everything looks a lot less gritty than it did in the TV episodes. I'd much rather watch the entire TV series on VHS than the movie on DVD.
There was a follow-up movie, ASHITA NO JOE 2 (1981), a compilation of the second TV season, which was produced ten years after the first.


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Transforming Homosexuality: What the Bible Says about Sexual Orientation and Change (Burk & Lambert)
Faithful Christians today agree that the Bible forbids homosexual behavior. But when it comes to underlying desires, the jury is out. Some Christians view homosexual desire as morally neutral, while others believe it calls for repentance and gospel renewal.
Is same-sex attraction sinful, even if it is not acted on? How we answer this urgent question determines how we counsel brothers and sisters who wrestle with same-sex desires. Denny Burk and Heath Lambert challenge misconceptions on all sides as they unpack the concepts of same-sex orientation, temptation, and desire. They show that ultimately a biblical view gives hope for profound personal change, with patterns remolded and rethought in faithfulness to Christ.
Part One: The Ethics of Desire
1. What Is Same-Sex Attraction?
2. Is Same-Sex Attraction Sinful?
Part Two: The path of Transformation
3. Myths about Change
4. A Biblical Path to Change
5. How Evangelicals Can Change
Denny Burk (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is professor of biblical studies at Boyce College. He has served as the editor of The Journal for Biblical Manhood & Womanhood and blogs at www.dennyburk.com, where he frequently deals with gender and sexuality from a biblical perspective.
Heath Lambert (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is executive director of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors and professor of biblical counseling at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Boyce College.
"Denny Burk and Heath Lambert have written a clear, compassionate, and thought-provoking book on how the gospel brings transformation to those struggling with homosexuality. Our hope is not the heterosexuality-or-bust shtick of reparative therapy, but the wondrous prospect of growing in holiness and Christlikeness that comes through repentance and faith. This is essential reading for every pastor and for any seeking to bless and minister to those with same-sex attraction in our churches." — Sam Allberry, Associate Minister of St Mary's Church, Maidenhead UK; author of Is God Anti-Gay? and James For You
"In Principles of Conduct, John Murray reminds us that 'the line of demarcation between virtue and vice is not a chasm but a razor's edge.' In Transforming Homosexuality, Denny Burk and Heath Lambert shine scholarly and pastoral light on that razor's edge, helping Christians to discern the difference between sexual temptation and sexual lust as it bears on same-sex attraction. This is a bold and provocative book. It will also likely be a controversial book. But it is predominantly a loving book that seeks to help people with unwanted homosexual desires be transformed by the full knowledge that God's grace for us in Christ is sufficient for all our various struggles and sins." — Rosaria Butterfield
"Under pressure from worldly trendsetters, many in the church (including several key evangelical leaders) have adopted the position that homosexual desire may in some sense be 'normal.' Homosexual acts are sinful, they say, but a homosexual orientation is not inherently unrighteous. In Transforming Homosexuality, Denny Burk and Heath Lambert address that idea with biblical clarity and godly wisdom. This is an important book about an issue that has overwhelmed our culture." — John MacArthur
What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? (DeYoung)
Going Out, Marriage and Sex: What the Bible says about it (Richards & Jones)
True Love: What the Bible Says About Relationships and Marriage (Richards & Jones)
The Same Sex Controversy: Defending and Clarifying the Bible's Message About Homosexuality (White & Niell)
What Does the Bible Teach about Homosexuality?: A Short Book on Biblical Sexuality (Strachan)


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Girl Power.
Wed, 22, Jul, 2020 - 5:00:AM
What Santana meant to me
Naya Rivera and Heather Morris at the Paley Festival 2011 panel on Glee / Francis Orante / Wikimedia Commons
"Abuelita – I love girls, the way I'm supposed to feel about boys."
The year was 2011, and Santana Lopez had just made it official: she told her grandmother she was a lesbian. The scene was masterfully acted, of course, not to mention heartbreakingly written. But it was more than that, too. It was thrilling. As a queer, and deeply closeted young girl, it represented an act of bravery I didn't think I'd ever arrive at.
Spoiler alert: I got there. But in 2011, it felt impossible.
All I had were a couple of books about lesbianism, a small number of YouTubers, and then, on prime time television, Santana.
It's easy to make fun of Glee. Lord knows I've partaken. It's also easy to forget exactly what it was. I think a lot of people place Glee in the High School Musical pantheon: cutesy, colourful, and, most of all, innocent.
But Glee wasn't really like that at all.
While High School Musical's Ryan is coded, to an almost farcical degree, as gay, his sexuality is never spoken of. In the High School Musical universe, queerness barely exists.
In Glee, it's central – and it's essentially articulated from episode one.
As with most things, it begins with a white male. But the journey the show takes with its queer characters, be it Kurt, Blaine, Unique, Santana, or bisexual Brittany, are long and complex. It certainly doesn't nail everything, in fact, the show's blunders are pretty bloody massive, but Glee tried to explore issues that other shows simply weren't touching. Certainly not on prime time. Certainly not in 2009, 2010, 2011.
In the wake of Naya Rivera's tragic and untimely death, I, like a lot of people, have revisited Glee on Netflix. And I've been surprised by what I've found. The show, while ridiculous, is also a lot more in-on-the-joke than I had remembered. And Naya, as the brilliant, caustic, incredibly talented Santana, is a star. She flits in and out of the pilot episode almost wordlessly - but her presence (while surely coloured by a bit of hindsight) is massive. Rivera wasn't originally cast as a series regular but, in one of the smartest moves Glee ever made, she was quickly bumped up.
Eventually, she was the girlfriend of Demi Lovato's Dani.
Said Lovato on Instagram, "Naya, I'll forever cherish the opportunity to play your girlfriend on Glee. The character you played was ground-breaking for tons of closeted queer girls (like me at the time) and open queer girls, and your ambition and accomplishments were inspiring to Latina women all over the world."
For a teenage girl watching from the cheap seats in West Auckland, Santana Lopez was a revelation. She wasn't some Sapphic chick in an unwatchable French film. She wasn't some chain-smoking riot grrrl in a cult 90s doco. She was a teenager in a high school. And as she came out to her grandmother, that night in 2011, my heart was in my throat. I wouldn't come out to my parents for another four years. But as Santana Lopez, brilliantly realized by Naya Rivera, took a breath and opened her mouth, it almost felt as if, one day, I could.
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