The Arab Association of Constitutional Law is recruiting a new Executive Director. The Executive Director is the Association's principle executive officer. The Executive Director will be responsible for managing the Association's workplans, for overseeing the implementation of activities, for managing internal and external communications, and other responsibilities. The Executive Director's starting salary will be US$4,000 per month, with the possibility of an increase depending on ongoing fundraising efforts. All interested candidates should review the Terms of Reference carefully, and should send an up to date CV and cover letter to myriam.turki@dustour.org and rawaa.salhi@dustour.org. The application deadline is 9 July 2018.
The Arab Association of Constitutional Law (the "AACL") is a regional association of constitutional law experts that seeks to influence the public debate on rights and governance frameworks. The ACL seeks to achieve this goal through a number of means, including but not limited to the implementation of projects. For that purpose, the AACL is seeking to recruit the services of a Executive Director who will be responsible for implementing projects on behalf of the AACL.
(ii) Implementing activities. The Executive Director will be responsible for implementing activities relating to one or several projects. The implementation of activities will be organised on a quarterly basis as set out in the workplans. The Executive Director will prepare meeting agendas in coordination with partners, participants, stakeholders, and the relevant members and committees from within the AACL.
(iii) Communications. The Executive Director will be responsible for communicating workplans, meeting reports, papers and other documentation and information to all relevant bodies and stakeholders, including internal AACL committees and bodies and external partners and stakeholders. The Executive Director will also be responsible for ensuring that all public materials that are produced through the project are published on the AACL's website.
(iv) Reporting. The Executive Director will be responsible for producing reports that summarise the work that will have taken place in the context of the project. The Executive Director will prepare activity, quarterly and yearly reports, and will also be responsible for preparing the final report.
a. Activity reports: The Executive Director will be responsible for preparing activity reports following the implementation of each of the activities that the Executive Director is responsible for implementing. The activity report should include information relation to the participants and the agenda, it should summarise the substance of what will have been discussed, it should include an analysis section, a list of recommendations for future meetings, and a list of action points for immediate follow up. The Executive Director will be responsible for ensuring that all activity reports are shared internally within the AACL, with relevant partners where appropriate, and for ensuring that the report is properly included in the AACL's archives.
b. Quarterly reports: The Executive Director will prepare quarterly reports that will clearly indicate what activities that were set out in the quarterly workplan were implemented on schedule and which were delayed. Where there was delay or any other important departure from the work plan, the Executive Director must provide clear reasons and must also provide contingency plans.
c. Yearly reports: The Executive Director will prepare a yearly report, which will be shared with the donor. The Yearly report should include information about the implementation of all activities, and should also include a narrative of the work that will have been carried out. The narrative should, amongst other things, explain whether the project is on course for satisfying the objectives that will have been set in the project agreement. If the donor has a template for yearly reports, the Executive Director should use that template. It will be the Executive Director's responsibility to obtain approval from the Executive Director and from the Executive Committee before the yearly report is shared with the donor.
d. Final reports: The Executive Director will prepare the final report. The final report will focus on whether the project's objectives were satisfied, on lessons learned, on recommendations for the future, amongst other things. Where the donor has a template for final reports, the Executive Director should use that template. It will be the Executive Director's responsibility to obtain approval from the Executive Director and from the Executive Committee before the final report is shared with the donor.
(v) Other. The Executive Director may also be required to carry out other tasks by the Executive Director. This could include participating in fundraising efforts through the drafting of concept notes, etc.
The Executive Director will report to the AACL's President and to the Executive Committee.
The Executive Director must have relevant experience in the field of constitution building and/or project management. A strong interest in constitutional law generally, and in constitutional developments in WANA. The Executive Director must be highly motivated, have the capacity to lead a team of experts, and have excellent communication skills.
(vii) The ability to work in a diverse environment and to communicate with individuals from diverse backgrounds.


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Welcome to this next article in the series "How to Walk the 12 Steps with the HuMethod™. I have to tell you that as I've been writing these articles, my 12-step journey continues to expand and deepen. Journaling always was a great tool for me, and now this form of writing seems to be taking me in another direction. Thank You God!
In Step 3 when I "Made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God as I understood God" a shift happened. Until this point I was 'thinking alone' in my mind, which is a fear-based system that can only draw from my own history. I lived my life always waiting for the next crisis to be over with. Now I know that "life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's learning how to dance in the rain, and Detachment is dancing in the rain mastery" (quote taken in part from the HuMan Handbook™ soon to be released).
Using the HuMethod™ exercise of Self-Parenting, I formed a new relationship with the God of my understanding to help me fulfill the emotional dependency needs that were not met when I was a child. Remember, these HuMethod™ exercises don't replace the proven 12 Steps. They are a bridge that you can take that will introduce you to advanced tools to enhance and accelerate your recovery journey.
("in-to-me-see") – I learned how to be emotionally honest about what I am feeling and thinking. In doing this I replaced my fear based thoughts with God thoughts. I never was honest about my feelings and in fact spent all of my childhood and a lot of my early adulthood suppressing, repressing, minimizing and denying my feelings. My feelings were the 'enemy'. Today I know that my feelings are a gift from the God of my understanding to help me connect with my body and my Self.
Self-Nurturing – I am able to take care of my inner child in such a way that I feel safe and protected in the world. I was never held and gently touched as a child and as a result always felt dis-connected to the world, which frightened me and gave more fuel to my ego. I felt alone. Today as I nurture myself I am in harmony with my divine Self and conscious of this life force energy. I am never alone.
Unconditional Love & Acceptance – Turning my will and life over to the care of God gave me an intuitive understanding that I AM a 'perfect' child of God now, as is, so I can love and accept myself (and others) 'without behavioral conditions' especially when I display less than perfect behavior. Understanding the Language of Feelings helped me to accept and love myself and others regardless of their less than perfect behavior. I learned how to stop suppressing, repressing, minimizing, denying and judging what I was feeling. I understand today that what happened actually happened for the evolution of my immortal soul. Unconditionally loving and accepting myself gave me the serenity I had been searching for.
Boundary Protection – Allows me to feel safe and secure in the world because I have mastered how to maturely protect my boundaries to the right person, in the right manner, to the right degree and in the right way. I had no clue what boundaries were and as a result, walked all over mine and everyone else's on a regular basis. My temper tantrums took the forms of screaming, yelling, slamming, pouting, crying and then walking away. As I became more conscious, setting boundaries gave me the distinction that I needed between me and the people in my life and gave me integrity.
Validating My Life – Helped me to "own" the whole truth about everything I experienced in my life. This meant accepting, at the deepest level, that what happened actually happened so I could truly say "YES" to life. Accepting this truth, as is, put my ego out of a job.Most of my life I spent dissing myself and making excuses for everyone around me. In the end, there was no life left in me. I had completely turned my will and my life over to my EGO. Today I give value to my feelings with well grounded evidence of why my feelings aren't right, wrong good or bad,they are just what I am feeling. When I validate my feelings, my ego has nothing else to do.
Three EGO S's – Using my self-parenting techniques, which make me feel safe,sane and secure in the world, made my child-like ego defenses that I needed to survive when I was a child, obsolete. As a child I needed the protection of my ego defenses because I was too small, vulnerable and naïve to protect my Self. I couldn't protect myself against large, powerful adults who acted out in dysfunctional ways. Today I use my ego and am not used by it. I use the three S's as I validate myself. I know that it's safe for me to feel what I feel, that my Self will always be here to protect me which makes me feel sane and secure.
Four P's of a Self-Mastered Adult – I now use my Adult Powers to Protect me, which makes my world safe. I give myself Permission to live my life by my own set of rules that are based on my own unique, moral and ethical standards. I have integrated my Self-Parenting exercises into my daily life to such a degree that "I AM" my Self-mastery message of unconditional love and acceptance. Thank you God!
Join me next time as I share how I experienced the benefits of 'taking a fearless and moral inventory' using HuMethod™ diagnostic exercises. Keep coming – it works if you work it!
These methods work quickly though, and after a short time, I began to truly love the Diane that I am…………….AND, I had less and less dependency upon my children, my grandchildren and my husband for the way I felt and how I responded to life. I began to see that it is my responsibility and mine alone to nurture, love and protect my Self. That was huge! I now had a way to do that as opposed to hiding, running, expecting, and coercing. Wow!
HLC's proven methods worked so well for me that I not only began to practice these methods as a way of life, but I decided to coach others to do the same. I am the recipient of much healing and Self-appreciation and I have so many opportunities to share these methods with others in recovery. Join us on this journey and enhance your recovery as so many others have done. Remember: Nothing changes if nothing changes!
I've been reading these blog articles for while now and the integration of the healing program is very interesting. I have a friend who is in recovery and I am referring her to them. Thank you for the share.
I wish I had these articles and knew of this website in the beginning of my recover journey!
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In their own words: US Dept of Ed, Learning Registry and vendors on gathering student data
Cheri Kiesecker March 30, 2016 In their own words: US Dept of Ed, Learning Registry and vendors on gathering student data2016-10-13T22:46:19-05:00 Data Collection
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If you watched the March 23 Congressional Hearing on Strengthening Education Research and Privacy Protections to Better Serve Students --you heard one parent ask for transparency on how student data…
Parents: Don't Listen to the United Way. Don't Sign Away Your Child's Data and Give Up a Constitutional Right to Privacy.
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Predictive Speaker on Predictive Tracking
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Data and More Data: Missouri Teachers to be Evaluated via Student Data. (Video Attached)
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A Love Song for Latasha  é um curta documentário biográfico americano de 2019 dirigido por Sophia Nahli Allison. Com base nas memórias do primo e melhor amigo do sujeito, o filme reinventa a vida de Latasha Harlins, uma garota negra de Los Angeles baleada e morta pelo dono de uma loja de conveniência em 1991. Foi indicado ao Oscar de Melhor Curta Documentário no 93º Oscar.

Produção
Allison passou dois anos fazendo A Love Song for Latasha, atuando como diretora, cineasta, editora e produtora. Originalmente, ela o apresentou a uma organização de documentários para a qual trabalhava, dado o próximo 25º aniversário da morte de Latasha Harlins em 1991 e a revolta de 1992 que isso alimentou. Allison queria criar uma peça que restaurasse a memória da vida e da morte de Harlins ao significado desses eventos, que muitas vezes são descritos apenas como distúrbios de Rodney King. (Harlin foi morto a tiros pelo dono de uma loja de conveniência poucos dias após a agressão de King pela polícia.) Mas a indiferença e incompreensão da organização quanto ao significado do assunto levaram a Allison a perceber que "Eu não poderia mais trabalhar em instituições que não validassem a importância da minha existência. Se eles não validarem a existência de outras mulheres e meninas negras, eles não têm o direito de trabalhar comigo." Em vez disso, ela trabalhou em estreita colaboração com os amigos de Harlins, desenvolvendo uma representação de sua infância e do centro-sul de Los Angeles. Alice Walker e Saidiya Hartman foram influências na abordagem de Allison para criar um arquivo ausente na ausência de vídeos caseiros ou outras imagens de arquivo de Harlins.

Resumo
A Love Song for Latasha, reimagina a vida de Latasha Harlins, uma garota negra baleada pelo dono de uma loja de conveniência em Los Angeles em 1991, alimentando a revolta de 1992. Na época, as imagens da câmera de segurança da morte de Harlins foram amplamente divulgadas no noticiário da televisão, mas o trabalho de Allison não as inclui. Em vez disso, Jude Dry escreveu na IndieWire, o filme de 19 minutos está "estourando com calçadas ensolaradas e quadras de basquete desbotadas, animação de linhas limpas e garotas negras radiantes posando graciosamente, como jovens rainhas". O dia da filmagem é retratado em animação, intercalado com fita VHS estática, para aumentar a sensação de memória, apesar da falta de qualquer filme caseiro de Harlins.

O filme reinventa a narrativa de Harlins por meio de memórias íntimas compartilhadas por seu primo Shinese Harlins e sua melhor amiga Tybie O'Bard. Este documentário se concentra em como ela vivenciou a sociedade e quais sonhos e esperanças ela desenvolveu, em vez de se concentrar em sua morte.

Lançamento
O filme estreou no Tribecca Film Festival e foi exibido no 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Ava DuVernay programou o documentário como parte do Array 360, e ele foi adquirido pela Netflix. O filme foi lançado na Netflix em 21 de setembro de 2020.

Recepção
O curta documentário recebeu críticas fortemente favoráveis. No IndieWire, Dry chamou de uma "abordagem ousada e imaginativa sobre um assunto vital" e "um forte candidato para consideração de prêmios." Na Esquire, Gabrielle Bruney o chamou de "retrato comovente". Em TheGrio, Cortney Wills descreveu A Love Song como "uma obra hipnotizante que segue um caminho não convencional para a narrativa".

Prêmios e indicações
 Indicação ao Oscar de Melhor Curta em Documentário
 Cinema Eye Honors Award 2021: Conquista de destaque na produção de curtas de não ficção
 AFI Fest 2020: Grande Prêmio do Júri para Melhor Curta Documentário

Ligações externas

 Website oficial

Documentários sobre racismo
Filmes em língua inglesa
Filmes dos Estados Unidos de 2019
Filmes originais da Netflix
Documentários de 2019

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Global scale key to Entain's Tabcorp pitch
James Thomson and Lucas Baird
Feb 4, 2021 – 12.00am
London-listed betting giant Entain will pitch itself to the broader racing industry as a long-term wagering operator that can use its global scale and digital expertise to boost participation in the sport and grow revenue streams.
The $13 billion group confirmed in London on Tuesday night that it had lodged a proposal to buy Tabcorp's wagering and media division. It is one of two offers in front of the Tabcorp board, with the other believed to be from a private equity firm.
The rebadged Ladbrokes has tabled a proposal for Tabcorp's wagering division. Getty
Both bids are indicative and incomplete, with sources suggesting the price tags attached may not yet tempt Tabcorp to the bargaining table at this early stage.
Entain declined to comment on its offer on Wednesday, but sources said it was attracted by the opportunity to combine the Tabcorp brand with Entain's local brands, Ladbrokes and Neds. The combined entity would have about 35 per cent of the online betting market in Australia, plus Tabcorp's retail networks in NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory.
Any bid will require the approval of state governments and state racing bodies, who rely on a share of wagering revenue as a major funding source. And while revenue from Tabcorp's retail channel has been in sharp decline for many years, the powerful lobby groups that represent the pubs and clubs that house many retail agencies will also want a say on any deal.
While Entain's local team is well known to the Australian market, its pitch to the racing industry will be that its global scale and deep pockets will allow it to invest in improving local betting products and developing new ones, growing participation and ultimately revenue.
While the digital side of the business is its focus, Entain also has a long history of running retail outlets in Britain and believes its access to global sport and overseas wagering content could be a big drawcard for Australian pubs and clubs.
The chief executive of Community Clubs Victoria, Andrew Lloyd, said his group expected to hear from Tabcorp in due course and it was too early to comment on the possibility of a deal.
"It would usually be a long process if in fact they were contemplating changes or … a sale," he said.
Approach 'suited to Australia'
Gaming analyst Andrew Orbach of Taylor Collison said that to be a truly global gaming industry player, a company would like to have a significant market share in all key regions, and the Tabcorp wagering business offered a way for Entain to build its presence in Australasia.
"They would see this as a great opportunity to lay claim to one of the more profitable markets in the world."
Mr Orbach said that while Entain had a lot on its plate – its CEO Jette Nygaard-Andersen was appointed just two weeks ago, it recently rejected a bid from US giant MGM Resorts and it is carrying £2 billion ($3.6 billion) in debt – its omni-channel approach of running digital and retail businesses was suited to Australia.
But he expected private equity interest to remain strong in Tabcorp, with the possibility for two or three legitimate bids to emerge.
Citi analyst Bryan Raymond, who said Tabcorp's wagering business could be worth $3 billion including a premium for control, said the approaches from Entain and private equity provided a perfect opportunity for new Tabcorp chairman Steven Gregg to explore a sale of the wagering business or a demerger.
A series of investors including Perpetual, Investors Mutual, Sandon Capital and John Wylie's Tanarra Capital have pushed for Tabcorp to split the wagering division from its top-performing lotteries unit.
Mr Wylie, who emphasised that he was not and had not been working on any sort of take-private bid for Tabcorp or parts of the group, said it made sense for a demerger to be considered alongside any sale discussions.
He said a demerger would properly highlight for the market the strength of the lotteries business and its ability to grow through any economic conditions.
"The financial logic of it is pretty clear. We think it's a very valuable business with infrastructure-like qualities and growth," Mr Wylie said.
"We think Steven Gregg's got the right idea and the right motivations."
James Thomson is a Chanticleer columnist based in Melbourne. He was the Companies editor and editor of BRW Magazine. Connect with James on Twitter. Email James at j.thomson@afr.com
Lucas Baird is a journalist based in The Australian Financial Review's Sydney office. Connect with Lucas on Twitter. Email Lucas at lucas.baird@afr.com
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From "Kin and Kin: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton" | Alicia Ostriker
[This piece] is from the opening of my essay on her in my book Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic. When we met after I wrote this essay, back in the early '90s or thereabouts, Lucille thanked me for being (she said) the only critic who wrote about her not only as a Black poet but as a poet, period. I was so happy she said this because that's what I wanted to do. Lucille is a poet who belongs to women, to Black people, but also to the whole world. She did things in poetry that were never done before, and yet seem totally universal. I can't think of her as gone, because her poems are so alive, so much a part of us. --AO
Lucille Clifton's writing is deceptively simple.... Marilyn Hacker has written that Clifton's poems remind her, in grace and deftness, of Japanese ink drawings. They remind me of a drum held in a woman's lap. The woman sits on a plain wooden chair, or on the earth. A community surrounds her. She slaps the drum with her bare hands. "Oh children," this drummer says in the title poem of Clifton's first book, "think about the good times."
The work of a minimalist artist like Clifton makes empty space resonate. Silence in such art is not mere absence of noise, but locates us as it were on a cosmic stage. We are meant to understand the unsaid, to take our humble places with a sense of balance and belonging instead of the anxiety and alienation promoted by more conspicuously sublime and ambitious artistries. Omissions, as Marianne Moore remarks in another context, are not accidents. Whatever the content of a particular piece, we should experience the craftsmanship of the minimalist as a set of unerring gestures governed by a constraining and shaping discipline, so habitual it seems effortless. While the white space in art of this kind stands for the largeness of space and time in which we human creatures find ourselves, the figured space stands for thick experience--experience which has been philosophically contemplated for an extended period. The artist, having patiently learned something quite exact about the dynamics of reality, offers it in concentrated form.
A byproduct of concentration may be humor, the sacred levity associated with adepts in numerous traditions of religious art. Think of the Zen image of the laughing monk; John Cage's playfulness; the jokes of the thirteenth century Sufi poet Rumi, or those in the Chasidic stories told by Martin Buber; the trickster pranks of Coyote in Native American folktales, or Monkey King leaping to the end of the universe and peeing on the Buddha's little finger in a Chinese tale; remember the boyishly erotic mischief of the young Krishna. Then think of how Clifton fuses high comedy and high seriousness when she describes the poetic vocation, a topic most poets approach with a solemnity proportional to their/our insecurity. Clifton's "admonitions," the last poem in good times, ends:
when they ask you
why is your mama so funny
she is a poet
she don't have no sense
Another early poem about her vocation is "prayer," which asks an unnamed listener to "lighten up," wonders why his hand is so heavy on "just poor/ me," and receives a response which makes this poem cunningly parallel John Milton's complaint of blindness:
this is the stuff
i made the heroes out of
all the saints
and prophets and things
had to come by
this (70)
Has Clifton read Milton's sonnet, which questions how God can exact the "day-labor" of poetry from a blind man, and ends in the famous "They also serve who only stand and wait"? Whether she has or not, what impresses me (and makes me laugh) is the identical structure of these two poems in which the poet interrogates God's fairness and gets fairly answered--and the marvelous freshness of Clinton's version. It thrills me as an American that this sacred conversation, this de profundis, can occur in the vernacular American language. I enjoy the down-home familiarity between Clifton and her God; I applaud a woman lining herself up with the heroes and prophets; and I feel, as well, for her struggle--which is not Milton's blindness, or Gerard Manley Hopkins' conviction of sin, but an American Black woman's struggle which I can guess at. In a much later piece, "the making of poems," humility and comedy again meet:
the reason why i do it
though i fail and fail
in the giving of true names
is i am adam and his mother
and these failures are my job. (186)
What does it mean when a woman calls herself "adam and his mother?" The mother could be Eve, or a nameless pre-monotheistic goddess, or just any mother doing her homely work--and that conflation of myth and modernity is part of the joke. Making the poet double-gendered is another part. "True names" registers the archaic notion that language is not arbitrary, that poetry names true essences of things--while the poet's failure, it seems to me, conflates individual inadequacy with the imperfect meshing of signifiers and signified in a non-mythic world. How could "adam and his mother" find language for the way we live in the twentieth century? Still, they have to try. As with the simple double gesture of "this" to stand for the hardship god inflicts on saints and prophets, the idea of the poet's work as an impossible yet sacred task is effectively rendered in the plainest of language--right down to calling it not a task but a job. "The making of poems" demystifies poetic labor and dignifies maternal and manly labor. What these poems tell us is that high and low things can meet, along with the union of the holy and the comic, if the poet knows enough about both.
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Eye On Boise archive for Sept. 10, 2007
Eye On Boise
MONDAY, SEPT. 10, 2007
Mon., Sept. 10, 2007, 4:04 p.m.
Jorgenson: 'I'd be delighted'
State Sen. Mike Jorgenson, R-Hayden Lake, said it was news to him when the governor added him to his short list today to replace U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, but said, "I think it'd be great if somebody from northern Idaho were named to do that....
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Not getting the best of reviews
Sen. Larry Craig's legal arguments in Minnesota don't appear to be playing too well in Idaho. "I don't know how many people are impressed with the 'Statesman made me do it' defense, and how many people are concerned about the judgment the senator used in...
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Just how scary is the Idaho Statesman?
In view of Sen. Craig's legal arguments about the "panic", "fear" and "intense anxiety" he experienced because of an Idaho Statesman investigation, it seems fair to ponder just how scary the Idaho Statesman really is. First, there's the newspaper's slogan, "The Treasure Valley's Best-Read Newspaper...
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Q: How change kCIInputBrightnessKey using slider value in Swift, I'm getting either white or black picture whatever value the slider get The minimum value of the slider is -1 the maximum value is +1.
    @IBAction func changeContrast(_ sender: UISlider) {

    DispatchQueue.main.async {
        let beginImage = CIImage(image: self.myImageView.image!)
        self.filter = CIFilter(name: "CIColorControls")
        self.filter?.setValue(beginImage, forKey: kCIInputImageKey)
        self.filter.setValue(sender.value, forKey: kCIInputBrightnessKey)
        print("Current value of the slider - \(sender.value)")
        self.filteredImage = self.filter?.outputImage
        self.myImageView.image = UIImage(cgImage: self.context.createCGImage(self.filteredImage!, from: (self.filteredImage?.extent)!)!)
    }
}

Also this the printed output od the sliders values.
Current value of the slider - 0.228814
Current value of the slider - 0.271186
Current value of the slider - 0.322034
Current value of the slider - 0.38983
Current value of the slider - 0.45339
Current value of the slider - 0.525424
Current value of the slider - 0.610169
Current value of the slider - 0.682203
Current value of the slider - 0.75
Current value of the slider - 0.79661
Current value of the slider - 0.847458
Current value of the slider - 0.889831
Current value of the slider - 0.915254
Current value of the slider - 0.927966

A: The reason is that the filter works every time in the result image produced from the previous slider changed value , here because of this line
let beginImage = CIImage(image: self.myImageView.image!)

so you need to reset the imageView's image top of the function by adding this line
self.myImageView.image = UIImage(named:"girl")

//
 @IBAction func changeContrast(_ sender: UISlider) {
    self.myImageView.image = UIImage(named:"girl")
    let beginImage = CIImage(image: self.myImageView.image!)
    self.filter = CIFilter(name: "CIColorControls")
    self.filter?.setValue(beginImage, forKey: kCIInputImageKey)
    self.filter.setValue(sender.value, forKey: kCIInputBrightnessKey)
    print("Current value of the slider - \(sender.value)")
    self.filteredImage = self.filter?.outputImage
    self.myImageView.image = UIImage(cgImage: self.context.createCGImage(self.filteredImage!, from: (self.filteredImage?.extent)!)!)
}

Also minimum slider value should be 0 and maximum 1

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'Bleed for This' Trailer
By Mike Bitanga
The new boxing film Bleed for This now has a trailer! This film is based on the true story of Vinny Pazienza, better known as Vinny Paz, the boxing legend who won five world titles and made one of the biggest comebacks in sport's history after bouncing back from a broken neck that he suffered in a car accident.
Bleed for This (Verdi Productions)
Miles Teller will be playing the former super middleweight champion, and they seem to have picked the right actor for the part. Teller, who was amazing in Whiplash, got into boxing shape for the role in which he seems to utilize his intensity quite well (based off of the trailer). On top of that, Teller experienced a near-fatal car accident in 2007, allowing him to relate to Vinny's horrific scenario much easier. The underrated Aaron Eckhart is also in the film, playing Vinny's trainer, Kevin Rooney, most famous for training Iron Mike Tyson in his prime.
In the director's chair we have Ben Younger, who hasn't made a feature film since 2005's Prime, but has some solid skill, as seen in his film, Boiler Room. Bleed for This seems like it will deliver something different to the world of boxing films. There seems to be a boxing film revival with Creed. If Creed is this generation's Rocky, could Bleed for This be this generation's Raging Bull?
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Shipping, Coastal
The phrase coastal shipping has a number of definitions and translations, but the most common usage is to indicate trade totally within a country, to distinguish it from overseas or foreign trade. The word cabotage is also widely used. An alternative meaning might be ships staying within sight of the coast. Some European countries placed geographical limits on their coastal trade, and some, such as Belgium with its forty-mile coastline, did not recognize the concept. Some states included voyages to their colonies, since these were seen as an extension of the homeland. Portugal in the late nineteenth century included voyages to Madeira, the Azores, and other Atlantic possessions. What counted as coastal varied over time, as boundaries changed. Some countries emerged as independent from old empires, such as Finland, and others, such as Italy and Germany, unified a number of smaller states into a larger whole. However, for the majority of countries, for most of this period, coastal shipping meant ships plying between two ports in the same country, and for the purposes of this article coastal shipping will mean domestic trade (Armstrong and Kunz 2002).
PROTECTED TRADE
Many countries protected their coastal trade, in that they did not allow foreign companies or foreign-registered ships to participate. In addition some states insisted that the crews of coastal ships be nationals. The protection was sometimes justified using "the nursery of seamen" argument, namely that coastal shipping trained landlubbers to become skilled seamen, who could then graduate to deep-sea shipping, and even onto warships. It was also felt that the country needed a minimum level of shipping, even if much of the overseas trade was carried in foreign ships. The United States protected its coastal trade in both goods and passengers, as did many European countries.
The United Kingdom, on the other hand, opened up its coastal trade to all in 1854, but before the Great War this had little effect. It was not until the interwar period that the Dutch motor barge made inroads into the British coastal trade. So wholehearted was British adherence to free coastal trade that before 1914 it allowed open access to Indian coasting trade, to the advantage of Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the discomfort of the British India Company.
BY LAND OR BY SEA?
From 1450, for four hundred years, the coastal ship was a ubiquitous provider of transport for both passengers and goods. Ships were wooden-hulled and wind-propelled, and the technology changed slowly in this period. The coastal ship had a particular advantage over contemporary land transport for bulk transport. Land transport could carry between a few hundredweight on a string of packhorses and three or four tons on a four-wheel wagon with a team of heavy horses. Compare this to the average coaster, which carried thirty or forty tons, while brigs, by the mid-eighteenth century in some trades, such as in coal down the English east coast, could load about two hundred tons. The wind came free—though sails tore and yards broke—whereas the horse used in land transport was expensive to feed and had a short working life compared to the longevity of the coastal ship. Carriage by road required more labor than by sea, for a consignment of forty tons would fit on one ship but needed ten sets of wagons, plus horses and a wagoner for each—many more people than were on the coaster's crew.
Of course the coaster had drawbacks compared to road transport. It was less predictable. It could make fast voyages but might spend weeks in harbor because the wind was too light, or too strong, or blowing from the wrong direction. Also, wagons did not sink or blow ashore, though they did occasionally overturn or were pilfered, and we should not overstate the relatively low maritime accident rate. It looked worse, because losses were concentrated in periods of bad weather, such as the storm of 1704. Periods of war, when the coastal ship was at risk of capture, also tilted the balance in favor of land carriage as insurance costs escalated.
Industrialization depended on the sailing coaster, for the former involved the exploitation of large quantities of intrinsically low-value bulk products, such as coal, iron and copper ore, china clay, salt, and grain. These commodities could not withstand the high price of land carriage for any distance, so coastal traffic was essential. In addition, canal construction complemented the coaster, unlocking resources that previously could not be exploited, and created trade for the coaster. The ability to carry large cargoes at low unit cost was equally crucial in the United States. One regular coastal trade was between New York and southern ports such as Savannah, Charles-town, and Georgetown, carrying lumber and cotton to the north and coal to the south. As San Francisco grew, it needed coal, and the Saginaw Steamship Company ran from Puget Sound regularly in the 1890s and 1900s, carrying coal cargoes of four thousand tons on each trip. The company was also heavily engaged in freighting lumber from the Pacific northwest. The coaster played a similar role in urbanization, bringing in bulky, low-value goods such as bricks, stone, slates, and timber to build the physical infrastructure and grains, cattle, dairy produce, and fish to feed the population.
A FEEDER FOR FOREIGN TRADE
Coastal shipping played a part in encouraging overseas trade. Its main role was to act as a feeder to the large ocean-going ships. The coaster collected small parcels of goods for export from a number of shallow-draught ports. Similarly, the coaster distributed exotic foreign imports to the various small ports where they were to be consumed or processed. For instance, in the 1840s copper ore was brought in from abroad to Swansea and Liverpool, and there it was transshipped into coastal vessels, to be taken to Llanelli, where it was smelted. An example of goods marshaled for export by the coaster was the output of a tin-plate works at Carmarthen in south Wales, which in the 1840s shipped nearly its entire production by sea, most of it to Liverpool where it was transshipped into deep-sea vessels principally destined for the American market.
With the burgeoning European empires of the nineteenth century, firms were established abroad to act as feeders to the large, well-appointed, glamorous ocean liners. Operating smaller steamers to distribute the mail and European-made manufactured goods, these ships also gathered up smaller parcels of locally originated goods to be taken to the main ports served by the liners, and from there to Europe. The strict schedules and fast turnaround times required by liners were facilitated by small coasters scurrying between the head port and a multitude of minor ports. A good example is the British India Steam Navigation Company, formed in 1862 to operate from Calcutta and Bombay. It won seven mail contracts for local delivery. Exports from Calcutta included rice brought in from Burma, raw cotton brought in from the Coromandel Coast, and gunny sacks from the emerging Calcutta jute mills. Small coasters penetrated river systems seeking suitable cargoes. Their draught was shallow enough, and the river was an extension of the ocean, and much cheaper for long-distance bulk transport.
The coaster served similar functions in Australia, perhaps heightened by the population living mostly around the coastal fringe rather than in the interior. In New South Wales in the 1850s, two companies were formed to offer steam coastal services—the Grafton Steam Navigation Company from 1857 and the Illawara and South Coast Steam Navigation Company from 1858. Both ran from Sydney and collected agricultural surpluses such as butter, cheese, wool, timber, and maize, some of which was for export. In return they brought tools, equipment, coal, and kerosene back from Sydney, some of which had been imported from Europe. These companies were not atypical of others around Australia and survived into the post-1945 period.
In most countries the coastal trade went into relative decline in the twentieth century. In the late nineteenth century, it was hit by the railways, which took some of the higher-value-goods traffic. The coaster responded in part by concentrating on bulk trades, such as coal, timber, and bricks, but Coast Lines still ran a liner service between all the major ports of the United Kingdom until World War II. Another factor in the diminution of the role of the coaster was the increasing size, speed, and economy of trucks. Trucks started to compete for short-distance traffic and then extended their capabilities to larger consignments and longer routes. The coaster, larger in size to squeeze out economies of scale, outgrew many small ports and specialized in bulk cargoes on long-distance hauls and oil-rig support.
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Armstrong, John, ed. Coastal and Short Sea Shipping. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996.
Armstrong, John, and Kunz, Andreas, eds. Coastal Shipping and the European Economy, 1750–1980. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 2002.
Bach, John. "Sea Transport in Australia: The Rise and Fall of the Intrastate Shipping Industry of New South Wales." Maritime History 2 (1972): 5–30.
Cunningham, Robert. Bluenose Coasting: A Tradition Lost. Hantsport: Lancelot Press, 1995.
Delgado, James P. "Steamers to Savannah: The Origins and Establishment of the New York and Savannah Steam Navigation Company." American Neptune 47 (1987): 33–44.
Dodge, Ernest S. "The Last Days of Coasting on Union River Bay." American Neptune 9 (1949): 167–179.
Henning, Graydon R. "Competition in the Australian Coastal Shipping Industry during the 1880s." International Journal of Maritime History 5 (1993): 57–173.
Jenkins, Francis G. "The Saginaw Steel Steamship Company and Its Steamers." American Neptune 42 (1982): 245–275.
Leavitt, John F. Wake of the Coasters, 2nd edition. Middletown, CT: Marine Historical Association, 1984.
McLean, Douglas. "Tilting on a Level Playing Field: the Japanese penetration of India's Coastal Shipping, 1911–1915." International Journal of Maritime History 5 (1993): 57–74.
Miller, Robert. The New York Coastwise Trade 1865–1915. London: MacDonald & Janes, 1974.
Munro, J. Forbes. "The 'Scrubby Scotch Screw Company': British India Steam Navigation Company's Coastal Services in South Asia, 1862–1870." In From Wheel House to Counting House: Essays in Maritime Business History in Honour of Professor Peter Neville Davies, ed. L. R. Fischer. St. John's, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 1992.
Pinkney, David H. "Cabotage, France's Forgotten Common Carrier." French Historical Studies 16 (1989): 461–467.
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Listening To Music Can 'Significantly Impair' Creativity, Study Says
By Working Woman Report
• March 6, 2019
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By Najja Parker The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) The scientists did not explore why music might be distracting. However, they hypothesize that music disrupts our verbal working memory, which can make it more difficult to finish a task.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Do you listen to music while working? It could be affecting your creativity, according to a new report.
Researchers from universities in England and Sweden recently conducted a small study, published in the journal Cognitive Psychology, to investigate the impact of background music on creativity.
To do so, they examined about 100 students and tested their ability to listen to music while completing an activity using the Compound Remote Associate Tasks, which are tests used to evaluate insight-based creative problem solving.
For CRATs, participants are shown three words, like dress, dial and flower. They are then required to name one word that could be combined with the three words they were given, such as sun, which would create the words sundress, sundial and sunflower.
The scientists asked the subjects to complete such a task while either listening to nothing, background music with foreign lyrics, instrumental music without lyrics or music with familiar lyrics.
After analyzing the results, the team found those who listened to music while doing a task were less creative, compared to those who were in quiet conditions. In fact, the music listeners' creative performance was "significantly impaired."
"We found strong evidence of impaired performance when playing background music in comparison to quiet background conditions," co-author Neil McLatchie said in a statement.
The scientists did not explore why music might be distracting. However, they hypothesize that music disrupts our verbal working memory, which can make it more difficult to finish a task.
"The third experiment, exposure to music with familiar lyrics, impaired creativity regardless of whether the music also boosted mood, induced a positive mood, was liked by the participants, or whether participants typically studied in the presence of music," the authors said.
Previous studies have examined the effects of listening to music.
For example, a study from 2013 said listening to music can make you feel happier. A student at Harvard University published a report last year that found music can give some individuals goosebumps, while others don't experience any at all. And researchers at universities in Florida and Oregon said our favorite songs can have an effect on how we order food.
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            return html.hasClass(dom, 'item-title');
          }, this.content);
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          return;
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        var itemDom = itemTitleDom.parentNode;
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          return;
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Stupid, Stupid Globalsim (SSG) Version 2 (or SSG2).
Stupd, Stupid Globalism 2 asks what happens to the American Citizen's Constitutionally Guaranteed civil rights to Equality, Life, Liberty and Property under the proposed Global Government.
Vic Biorseth, Monday, December 11, 2017
The original Stupid, Stupid Globalism asked the simple question of what exact form of government the new Global Government imagined by all the supposedly brilliant new Globalists might be.
We got no answers.
We know that Globalist Marxism promises an eventual Communist Utopian Worker's Paradise. And we know that's a long lasting socially successful evil Machiavellian lie and that the real goal is brutal dictatorship.
We know that Globalist Islam promises 72 virgins to faithful Jihadists. And we know that's a long lasting socially successful evil Mohammedan lie and that the real goal is brutal dictatorship.
But what about all the smart guys, like Bush 41 and Bush 43, and all the other Yale "Skull & Bones" Globalists of the New World Order variety? What are they aiming at, and what are they claiming for it? We've all heard all the stories about Global dominance secretly planned by - you name it - the Illuminati, the Freemasons, the "Jewish Conspiracy", the General Globalism seemingly favored by the most widely recognized world intelligentsia and academic elites.
They toss the term New World Order around as if everybody knows what that is, but, everybody does not know what that means.
(Unless I'm the only one who has been left out.)
Walter Cronkite took a stab at explaining it:
[W]e must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government," …. "… We must change the basic structure of our global community … to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation. … Today the notion of unlimited national sovereignty means international anarchy. We must replace the anarchic law of force with a civilized force of law. --Walter Cronkite.
It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace ... To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order. --Walter Cronkite.
Of course now, in retrospect, it is clear that Cronkite, like the rest of the Mainstream Media, was just flat out Marxist. As proven by his support for the Viet Cong (Vietnamese Communist) Movement against American and the other UN forces who were fighting the murderous advance of Communism in Southeast Asia. He built-up the Communist cause and tore down America through his outright Communist propagandizing of American news reporting throughout the whole Vietnam War. Through daily lies, falsely reported as actual News.
For megabucks. He was paid to lie. He was a professional liar.
He, almost single-handedly, won the war for Communism on the streets of America, even as the actual battlefield was being controlled and dominated by American fighting forces. He certainly took credit for it, and proudly, as he proclaimed,
The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle. --Walter Cronkite.
The continuous propaganda of Cronkite and the rest of the Marxist Media, along with a little Alinksy Organizing, actually created and grew the Communist Hippy-Yippee counter-culture of the '60s and '70s. And that is the counter-culture that grew up to be in charge of most of the world today, and their children and grandchildren are, for the most part, even more convinced Marxist Useful Idiots than they were at that age.
But that's just general anti-Americanism and general pro-Communism without really knowing what America is or what Communism is, other than what they've been indoctrinated and propagandized into "knowing". Which is to say, it's a generationally increasing stupidity. Useful Idiots breed and educate more Useful Idiots, until they are incapable of critical thinking or or human reason.
But that's not describing all of us in America; just, for the most part, the general Marxocrat Party voter base.
Even Benedict XVI, as Pope, alluded to a Global government of some sort, without getting specific. Pope Francis is most definitely a Globalist.
The question I put to all of these brilliant thinkers, the best of the best Ivy League-ers, the smartest of the smart set, is what, exactly, is this new Global Government, this New World Order, going to look like, what is it going to do, how is it to be organized, who is going to be in charge of it, and what are the people of the world going to have to say about it?
All I want is a description. Very simple; nothing to it.
Before we give up our American nation to join some New World Order, they have every right to ask some pertinent questions.
American citizens, at the moment, have a right to know what's going to become of their current Constitution.
What's going to become of their current absolute Constitutional rights to Equality, Life, Liberty and Property?
What's going to become of Lincoln's defined principle of "Government of the People, by the People and for the People"?
What's going to become of the existing American citizen right to protection of his Constitutional rights from infringement by his own government?
What's going to become of citizen representation in government?
Most of us who are not Useful Idiots, mental puppets or unthinking idiots would like to see these questions answered in detail before we submit to the elimination of the American Nation in favor of, whatever.
Currently, we enjoy the Constitutional right to private property. To earn it, accumulate it to no limit, be it in the form of currency, land or anything in between. If it is ours, we have every right to keep it. What, exactly, does this supposedly brilliant New World Order Globalism have to say about that?
Is this really just all about power, who is to hold it, and get rich from it?
And it isn't "brilliant" at all. It is stupid, stupid, stupid.
Three stupids deep.
Human societies do not "evolve" as in Darwinian Evolution. (In point of fact, nothing does.) Human societies and governmental organizations are man-made. Until America, governments were imposed upon citizens by force of arms. The whole history of the world is a history of wars between enemy cultures. The history of man, up until Christianity, was a history of military conquest, pure and simple.
European civilization had settled (and was still settling) into a feudal system of fiefdoms and noble estates that were Christian by religion, and ruled by the nobility that possessed the land. If you lived on the land, you were more or less "owned" by the landowner, at least to the point that you owed him rent, or taxes, for the right to remain there under his protection.
Government was organized round walled and fortified City-States ruled by Kings or other Nobles, and vast domains protected by various Castles and noble-led armies.
All that radically changed with the simultaneous monumental events of Luther's Revolt, and the Moslem invasion of Europe. What came out of all of that was all the Westphalian Nation-States, with sovereign borders, and the very idea of the sovereignty of a vast nation. They were ruled by an odd combination of a chosen denomination of Protestantism (or, after Luther's revolt, Catholicism) and the Royalty/Nobility of the land. The ruler's chosen religion was the religion of the nation, forced upon the population.
America changed all that. America was the first (and only) nation to organize itself to be independent of both religion and nobility. It was still Christian, but by "General Christianity", not any specific denomination of Protestantism and not by Catholicism. No religion was to be imposed on the citizenry. Similarly, Constitutional American banned Nobility. Thus, America was the world's first government ruled by law and law alone. By a Constitution, set up to be the Supreme Law of the Land, to which all, from the highest to the lowest, was to be subject.
The result was, as history records, the most successful nation in the history of nations. Viewed from any angle, American prospered more than any other nation. In economics, in wealth and well-being of her citizenry, in military power, in living standards, in "goodness", as measured by charity beyond her borders, in non-hostiility to neighbors, in defending allies, etc., etc., etc.
History proves that Constitutional America works.
History also proves that:
Socialism eventually fails;
Communism is quite impossible;
Islam is brutal and oppressive.
So, what's this New Word Order all about?
It has no history. It doesn't even have a description.
So, Globalists, especially those who live in or are protected by America, cannot possibly be among the most intelligent people on earth, can they?
Would you not agree that they have to be Stupid, Stupid, Stupid?
Addendum Tuesday, December 12, 2017:
Many of the same super-elite Globalist thinkers are the same fools who today insist upon a two-nation solution for the conflict between Israel and the "Palistinian" losers in a war they started. Put the wolves and the sheep together in the same fold. Yeah, that's a good idea. Kind of how homosexual scoutmasters would be good for boy scouting. And how criminals would make good prison wardens. And lunatics would make good asylum administrators.
Global Open Society only sounds good until you remember evil exists.
The only way evil can win is by getting up close and personal with good.
EENS: Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
With fear and trembling, work out your salvation--Phil 2:12
Seek the Truth; Find the Way; Live the Life.
Please God, and Live Forever.


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Q: A lebesgue integrable function is measurable We define $f$ to be lebesgue integrable on set $E$ if
$P: E = \sqcup_{k=1}^NE_k,$$
$$\inf_PU(P, f) = inf_P\sum_{k=1}^N\sup_{E_k} f(x)\mu(E_k) = sup_P\sum_{k=1}^N\inf_{E_k}f(x)\mu(E_k)= sup_PL(P, f),$
where $\mu$ is a Lebesgue measure.
We don't assume $f$ is measurable. In all subsequent theorems, we explicitly emphasize "If $f$ is measurable and ...". But does exist a function that is not measurable, but is Lebesgue integrable by definition I wrote?

A: I will try to answer your question for indicator functions $\chi_S$. This may give some indication how the question could be answered for simple functions, and perhaps arbitrary functions.
For any given partition $E = \bigsqcup_{k=1}^n E_k$, notice $\sup_{x\in E_k} \chi_S(x)$ is $1$ if $E_k$ hits $S$ and $0$ otherwise.
Let $A$ be the union of all the $E_k$'s that hit $S$ and $B$ be the union of the other $E_k$'s.
Let $Q$ be the partition $E = A \sqcup B$. Then $U(P, \chi_S) = U(Q, \chi_S) = \mu(A)$.
We see that $\inf_P U(P, \chi_S)$ is simply the inf of the measures of Lebesgue supersets of $S$.
Likewise $\sup_P L(P, \chi_S)$ is the sup of the measures of the Lebesgue subsets of $S$.
$S$ is measurable iff these two numbers agree.


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How a former princess renounced her royalty to pursue Australian football dream with best friend
5 February 2019 – Refiloe Jane admits her best friend Rhoda Mulaudzi has paved the way for her on and off the soccer pitch. So, when it came to paying for her friend's flight out to Australia to trial for the W-League she didn't think twice.
The South African sports duo have shared a 13-year long friendship, that kicked off when Mulaudzi selected Jane as her vice-captain back in 2006. From there, Jane followed Mulaudzi to several other clubs, and later to study at Vaal University.
But their big break came when Mulaudzi led them onto the international stage, to sign their first professional contracts with Canberra United.
"When I first came here, I wasn't sure what to expect," Mulaudzi said.
"But we've learnt a lot. The supporters and our teammates here have been very welcoming."
Jane said having one another made settling into life in Australia a breeze. But the road to their international success wasn't easy – or conventional.
Mulaudzi, who is the granddaughter of a king, forfeited her royal duties as a princess to pursue her football career.
"At the time my mum was not impressed," she said.
"But my dad – he's a football person. He just said, "Whatever you decide, I'll support you all the way. Because I had my own father's blessing, I had more confidence. I thought okay this is what I want, and I'm going to continue, and nobody is going to stop me."
The striker said her story is far from a fairy tale, and admitted she was close to giving up the game last year, when she was approached by a "crazy fan" from her province who "loves women's football."
He urged Mulaudzi and Jane to try their luck in the Australian W-League and sent their YouTube highlights to Canberra United coach Heather Garriock to get the ball rolling.
"I decided it would be great for both of them to come out to Australia and trial," Garriock said.
"We had nothing to lose, and I'm sure they had nothing to lose."
But despite securing their pre-season trial spots, the pair had to scrape funds together for visas, meals and flights out to Australia.
With just four days to go, and no tickets booked, Jane and another teammate ended up combing their own savings to pay for Mulaudzi's fair.
"I knew how important this way for Rhoda," she said.
"She's always wanted to play overseas, and it was an opportunity. What's the worst that could have happened? At the end of the day, it's just money."
The gesture ended up paying off, with the duo offered dual contracts as the first South African players in the league. They're hoping their contribution will blaze a trail for other athletes from their country.
"I think it's time now for teams all over the world to watch South African players," Mulaudzi said.
"I think we're going to open doors for others, and I believe 99 percent of those who play for the national team, have the ability to play overseas."
With Canberra United out of the finals, Jane and Mulaudzi are now looking ahead to represent their country in the 2019 Women's FIFA World Cup. They're also open to signing with another international team for the off-season, if the opportunity presents itself.
When asked about returning to don the green for Canberra United next season, two large smiles crack across their faces.
"Given the opportunity to come back, we definitely would. We've never been exposed to anything like this, and we've gained so much experience."
Credit: Elle Conway – nine.com.au


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Q: Spring: How to make a filter throw a custom exception? I created a filter which authenticate each request header for JWT token:
public class JWTAuthenticationFilter extends GenericFilterBean {

    private UserDetailsService customUserDetailsService;
    private static Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(JWTAuthenticationFilter.class);
    private final static UrlPathHelper urlPathHelper = new UrlPathHelper();

    public JWTAuthenticationFilter(UserDetailsService customUserDetailsService) {
        this.customUserDetailsService = customUserDetailsService;
    }

    @Override
    public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain filterChain) throws IOException, ServletException {
        Authentication authentication = AuthenticationService.getAuthentication((HttpServletRequest) request, customUserDetailsService);
        SecurityContextHolder.getContext().setAuthentication(authentication);
        if (authentication == null) {
            logger.debug("failed authentication while attempting to access " + urlPathHelper.getPathWithinApplication((HttpServletRequest) request));
        }
        filterChain.doFilter(request, response);
    }

}

I want to throw a custom exception, and that exception returns a response:
@ResponseStatus(value=HttpStatus.SOMECODE, reason="There was an issue with the provided authentacion information")  // 409
public class CustomAuthenticationException extends RuntimeException {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 6699623945573914987L;

}

How should I do this ? What is the best design to catch such exception thrown by filters ?
Is there any kind of exception handling mechanism provided by the Spring security that I can use and catch everythin in one point ?
Is there any other way to throw custom exceptions in a filter ?
Note: there is another question here which its accepted answer doesn't answer my question. I want to return a response before getting to any controller.
Error cases I want to handle:
1. Client sends an empty value for the Authorization header.
2. Client sends a malformed token
In both cases I get a response with 500 HTTP status code. I want to get 4XX code back.

A: Take a look at @ControllerAdvice
Here's an example from my project.
@ControllerAdvice
@RestController
public class GlobalExceptionHandler {

    private final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(this.getClass().getSimpleName());

    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST)
    @ExceptionHandler(value = RuntimeException.class)
    public Response handleBaseException(RuntimeException e) {
        log.error("Error", e);
        Error error = new Error(HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST.value(), HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST.name());
        return Response.status(HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST.value()).error(error, null).build();
    }

    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND)
    @ExceptionHandler(value = NoHandlerFoundException.class)
    public Response handleNoHandlerFoundException(Exception e) {
        log.error("Error", e);
        Error error = new Error(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND.value(), HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND.name());
        return Response.status(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND.value()).error(error, null).build();
    }

    @ExceptionHandler(value = AuthenticationCredentialsNotFoundException.class)
    public Response handleException(AuthenticationCredentialsNotFoundException e) {
        log.error("Error", e);
        Error error = new Error(ErrorCodes.INVALID_CREDENTIALS_CODE, ErrorCodes.INVALID_CREDENTIALS_MSG);
        return Response.status(ErrorCodes.INVALID_CREDENTIALS_CODE).error(error, null).build();
    }

    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.UNAUTHORIZED)
    @ExceptionHandler(value = UnauthorisedException.class)
    public Response handleNotAuthorizedExceptionException(UnauthorisedException e) {
//      log.error("Error", e);
        return Response.unauthorized().build();
    }

    @ExceptionHandler(value = Exception.class)
    public String handleException(Exception e) {
        log.error("Error", e);
        return e.getClass().getName() + " 14" + e.getMessage();
    }

}

Edit
I believe you can response.sendError inside do Filter method.
@Override
public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain filterChain) throws IOException, ServletException {
    Authentication authentication = AuthenticationService.getAuthentication((HttpServletRequest) request, customUserDetailsService);
    SecurityContextHolder.getContext().setAuthentication(authentication);
    if (authentication == null) {
        logger.debug("failed authentication while attempting to access " + urlPathHelper.getPathWithinApplication((HttpServletRequest) request));
        response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_UNAUTHORIZED, "Invalid authentication.");
        setUnauthorizedResponse(response);
        return;
    }
    filterChain.doFilter(request, response);
}

public void setUnauthorizedResponse(HttpServletResponse response) {
    response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_UNAUTHORIZED);
    response.setContentType("application/json");
    Response unAuthorizedResponse = Response.unauthorized().build();
    try {
        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        out.println(unAuthorizedResponse.toJsonString());
    } catch (IOException e) {
        log.error("Error", e);
    }
}

A: I had the same issue with JWT tokens and posted the solution on this question, since the issue there was similar (he had trouble with filter exceptions)

A: Disclaimer: This is not the answer to the question asked, but this is a followup answer to the problem which Arian was asking.
As commented above, please see how you can autowire in places which are launched before spring container gives us access to beans.
Here I am autowiring my BlacklistJwtRepo
if (blacklistJwtRepo == null) { //Lazy Load because filter
        ServletContext servletContext = req.getServletContext();
        WebApplicationContext webApplicationContext =  WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(servletContext);
        blacklistJwtRepo = webApplicationContext.getBean(BlacklistJwtRepo.class);
    }

This is where I am getting hold of the req object -
    @Override
    public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
    HttpServletRequest req = (HttpServletRequest) request;

Final code looks like -
    @Override
public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain)
        throws IOException, ServletException {
    HttpServletRequest req = (HttpServletRequest) request;
    System.out.println("blacklistJwtRepo : " + blacklistJwtRepo);
    //till here the autowired repo (blacklistJwtRepo) is null
    if (blacklistJwtRepo == null) { //Lazy Load because filter
        ServletContext servletContext = req.getServletContext();
        WebApplicationContext webApplicationContext = WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(servletContext);
        blacklistJwtRepo = webApplicationContext.getBean(BlacklistJwtRepo.class);
    }


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  from __init__ import *

  source = DataSource()

  streams = (
    source.get_stream_by_key(8000),
    source.get_stream_by_key(8001),
  )

  print 'keys:', source.get_stream_keys()

  for stream in streams:
    print 'set value at', 'http://localhost:%d/' % stream.key

  def handler(datapoint, source):
    print 'change', datapoint, 'from', source

  source.subscribe(handler)

  energykit.start()


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