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My Favourite Books of 2019 (so far)
The year is zipping by fast and there are plenty of books I've still been meaning to read, but here are some favourites that I've read so far. I seem to be reading more memoirs recently or, at least, books that are heavily inspired by autobiographical experience. Several of these books fall into that category while being a hybrid of different kinds of books. But, of course, there are some novels I've loved and a poetry collection as well. It felt especially poignant to me how some of these books felt like they were in conversation with each other because they touched on similar subjects or events. Maybe that's just me seeing connections since I read them close together. Whatever the case, these books had a big impact on me and I highly recommend all them! You can also watch a video of me discussing all these books here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUjR0M_yrOE
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
I read this wonderful book at the very beginning of the year. Of course, this isn't a memoir per say – although it does include personal details about how much libraries meant to the author when growing up. It's more a piece of journalistic nonfiction where Orlean considers the case of a horrific fire in the Los Angeles Central library in 1986. She covers the history of this library and the very curious man who was strongly suspected of starting the fire. But it's also an ode to libraries in general and contains so many fascinating facts about libraries and librarians.
Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li
This is a novel but draws heavily on Li's own life because her son sadly committed suicide and this book is an imagined conversation between a mother and son – after the son took his own life. That sounds incredibly depressing and it is an intense experience. But the way their conversation plays out is very touching because when the mother thoughts become too lofty the son brings her back to reality. So it's alternately playful and profound how she considers life, language, motivation and grief.
Kill the Black One First by Michael Fuller
This is a straightforward but very moving memoir. It has a very startling title – and it's meant to be because this was something which was shouted from an angry mob as Fuller stood in a line of police officers during the Brixton riots in 1981. This was an infamous confrontation in London between the police force and members of a predominantly black neighbourhood. At the time, Fuller was one of the few black policemen in London and he found himself caught in the middle of this skirmish when someone in the crowd shouted "kill the black one first" and he knew it was aimed at him. So this memoir is about Fuller's life as a black man who was dedicated to his police work – he became Britain's very first black chief constable – and the work he did to try to bridge the gap between England's racially divided society. It's such a moving and inspiring story. And it's so heartening to know there are honestly good people out there like Michael Fuller.
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr
This is a novel set in South Africa in two parts which are bridged together. The first part concerns a woman named Susan who is forcibly put into a British concentration camp during the Second Boer Wars in 1901 after the British army burned her farm. And yes, this is something the British really did in South Africa; they ran multiple concentration camps during this war. The second half of the novel concerns a teenage boy named Willem who is taken by his parents to a sinister training camp to toughen him up and make him more masculine. Willem just wants to be left alone with his books but his parents are determined to make a man out of him. And this camp is also based on actual training camps which are meant to toughen boys. So both stories poignantly consider institutions and camps which are intended to keep people safe but really destroy their identity and their lives. It's so artfully and beautifully done.
Constellations by Sinead Gleeson
These autobiographical essays follow the trajectory of Gleeson's life from a girl in Ireland where she suffers from multiple medical difficulties and her journey to becoming a great feminist, journalist, wife, mother and writer. The way she writes about illness in this book is so poignant and she draws upon many references from art and literature to reflect about her condition and life in general. It's a stunning book. It just floored me.
The Years by Annie Ernaux
This autobiographically-inspired novel was first published in English last year but it was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize this year. It's an incredible look at the past several decades in France through one woman's eyes but is narrated in this unique collective voice which captures the mood and sensibility of a whole community. It's ingenious and inventive and moving and brilliant. It's essentially a woman looking through a photo album but it also contains a whole society. It's amazing.
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
This is a historical novel which is so clever and gripping. It's the story of a woman in the mid-1800s in London who works in a laborious job making dolls, but she aspires to be an artist. So she agrees to become an artist's model as long as she's also given lessons. It's also about a sinister man who becomes infatuated with her. And it's also about the artist's pet wombat (which is my favourite animal.) But this novel is truly excellent in what it says about art, obsession and history.
The Heavens by Sandra Newman
This is touted as the year's most mind-expanding love story and it really is that. It begins as a normal modern day love story where Kate and Ben meet at a party in New York City. But Kate has very vivid dreams where she slips back into a past life embodying the real historical figure of Emilia Lanier who was an Elizabethan poet believed to have been the "dark lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets. She finds that in these dreams she's able to alter history. It's honestly so wild, but also makes you think about destiny and ambition and the meaning of reality. It is unlike anything I've read before.
This Brutal House by Niven Govinden
This is a novel I just read recently and concerns a group of drag house mothers who sit in silent protest in front of New York's city hall. For years children they've taken into their drag houses have gone missing and after the repeated indifference and harassment from the authorities they feel they are past words. It's also the story of Teddy, a child of these drag houses who now works in city hall so is very much caught between two worlds. Niven invokes the feeling and spirit of drag balls in this beautiful book, but he also presents the voices of different groups who are locked in opposition to one another. It's poignant, funny and fierce.
Surge by Jay Bernard
This is a startlingly powerful book of poetry. Jay spent a lot of time in an archive researching and thinking about the 1981 New Cross Fire which was also called the New Cross Massacre. This was a fire that occurred in the early morning amidst a teenage girl's birthday party killing 13 young people and injuring 27 others. Many believed this was a racist attack. The authorities' investigation into the fire was handled horribly and the case was never resolved. It led to protests and an outcry from the black communities in London and was one of the incidents which led up to the Brixton riots (as discussed in Michael Fuller's memoir). This is a complex subject but Jay so artfully considers the weight of history in these poems, how we memorialize those who've been forgotten or those whose stories can't ever be known. Some of these poems are also very personal reflecting on gender, national and racial identity. I don't often read a lot of poetry but these are poems that made me sit up and listen closely and I love this book.
A book I haven't listed is Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James which is another book I loved very much and I made a whole video gushing about it. But I read this at the end of last year rather than this year.
Let me know if you've read any of these books or want to read them now. What are some of your favourite reads from 2019 so far? Give me some good tips!
AuthorEric Karl Anderson
TagsBest Books of 2019 so far, Top Books of the Year, The Library Book, Where Reasons End, Kill the Black One First, You Will Be Safe Here, Constellations, The Years, The Doll Factory, The Heavens, This Brutal House, Surge
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The title of Michael Fuller's memoir "Kill the Black One First" is a startling statement - as it's meant to be. This was something which was shouted by the public while he was the sole black police officer in a group of white officers trying to keep the peace during the Brixton riots in 1981 (an infamous confrontation amidst racial tension between police and protesters in South London that led to many injuries and widespread destruction.) The phrase epitomises the dire dilemma Fuller found himself in for much of his life working for the Metropolitan Police where he was often subjected to racism from within the predominantly white police force on one side and suspicious anger from sections of the black community who labelled him "coconut" on the other. Fuller recounts his life from his beginning growing up in a care home in the 1960s to eventually being appointed the first black chief constable in the UK in 2004. This is the story of a diligent, bright and sensitive individual who cares passionately about justice. Being a good conscientious police officer was his primary motivation in life. But, because of the colour of his skin, he faced innumerable obstacles which would have deterred many from pursuing this profession or abandoning it (Fuller highlights how few black police officers made a career at the Met due to feeling so isolated.) His journey is utterly inspiring and it powerfully illuminates the dynamics of racial conflict in England over the past fifty years from someone who was in a very unique position.
At the heart of Fuller's journey is a quest to belong. Margaret, the young woman who ran the care home he was raised in for much of his childhood provided him with crucial guidance which gave him a strong moral core and taught him to "recognise that something's offensive without being hurt by it. Stop. Think. Decide how you want to react." This is a somewhat more constructive variation from what RuPaul's mother famously advised him as a child: "People have been talking since the beginning of time. Unless they're paying your bills pay them bitches no mind." Anyway, Margaret's advice proved invaluable throughout Fuller's life as he encountered assumptions, prejudice and hatred from many people who seemed to believe that racism was an unchangeable part of English society. Fuller learned not to lash out when confronted with these dogmatic beliefs as it wouldn't be productive and distance him from his fellow officers: "It made me wonder if I should speak up more often when, for example, my colleagues used racist language. But that could only create divisions, and I had spent the year trying to fit in with my shift, laughing and joking with them and not calling them to account." However, this also created a tremendous mental burden and feelings of intense loneliness as he was often maligned by both the predominantly white police force and the black community. It sometimes lead him to feel he didn't belong anywhere and he's made painfully aware that "I'd been isolated by my colour all my life."
Anyone who has encountered prejudice or injustice knows how one of the most debilitating consequences of it is how alone it makes you feel. Fuller observes how "Racism is a painful, humiliating thing to experience but the key to that pain is isolation. When others protest, offer support, turn that isolation back on the racists, the pain is greatly eased. Feeling alone with the hurt is far, far worse." There are several instances where people realised that Fuller was experiencing racial abuse, but failed to speak up and defend him. It takes a lot of conviction to stand up to a bully when you're not directly involved in the conflict. Probably all of us have experienced prejudice in some form and no one witnessing it intervened. We've also most certainly witnessed someone being victimised and not come to their defence. It's one of the most challenging aspects of being a participant in society. But thankfully Fuller found some allies along his journey who were prepared to stand up to racism alongside him.
When he was just beginning his career Fuller's father and friends mocked his desire to become a policeman: "You're joining the police because you hate injustice! The police ARE injustice!" It's heart breaking reading about the derision he faced when walking on the beat: "young, black males remained by far the most aggressive demographic towards me." He faced a long challenging journey to help restore the public's faith in the police force and institute changes within the police so that officers didn't practice racial profiling or discrimination. He was instrumentally involved in landmark changes such as installing CCTV cameras in investigation rooms, using computers to look for crime patterns, instituting changes to prosecute hate crimes and helping the community and police to work together through an innovative initiative called Operation Trident. This involved a great deal of creative thinking and personal sacrifice as he frequently put himself at personal risk. It was also an unanticipated extension of his duty and drive as a policeman which was to catch criminals. It shows how police work is a much more complicated and nuanced job than that.
Fuller recounts many dramatic scenes and emotional encounters when reflecting on his long and distinguished career. It was shocking to learn how apathetically some policemen reacted to crime when they knew there was little chance of resolution or conviction – especially with instances of domestic violence or gang-on-gang warfare. An inconceivable amount of resolve was required to stay dedicated to his profession and maintain an active role in helping every victim of a crime. It's also sobering to realise how the police force and country might not have benefited from his skills in bettering our communities if he'd found venture capitalists willing to take a punt on a very savvy business plan he formulated at one point to open a chain of coffee shops in London (before this became a booming business in the city.) Thankfully he remained with the Met and rose in the ranks to a point where he could implement changes that have utterly transformed police-community relations. He also serves as an invaluable figure of inspiration and hope. The full circle journey Fuller takes us on throughout this memoir is executed with considerable skill, but more than anything I feel in awe of this good man and loyal police officer.
CategoriesMichael Fuller
TagsKill the Black One First, Memoir, Bonnier Books Ltd
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The Declaration of Independence was approved by Congress on July 4th, 1776. It was written by Thomas Jefferson and published by John Dunlap. After it was written it was sent to General George Washington to be read to his troops in New York who were getting ready to fight off the British army (Library of Congress).The Declaration of Independence has been around for almost two hundred and fifty years, many things have changed in this country in that amount of time.
Does the Declaration still hold the same values as it did back then, or has it evolved over time to have a different meaning? What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence and why is it still looked upon so highly today? Was there more to the Declaration of Independence then just getting free from Britain or did it also lead the way to create America? All of these questions will be answered in the following paragraphs to have a better understanding of really how important one piece of paper can be to a nation.
A good way to start to understand what the Declaration means is by looking at the first few lines. "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve them with another to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation (US 1776)." This part of the Declaration of Independence is talking about how Britain became such a pain to the colonies with all of their taxes and their rules that the decision it was in their best interest to leave from the rule of Britain and form a new nation. Not only was this addressing those who called themselves Americans but all of mankind. They did this so that they could have more people able to assist them in the fighting of Britain (Library of Congress).
Britain was deeply in debt. Mercantilism was orthodoxy, and as such, the thought was that the colonies should contribute more to the common security of the realm (Halvorson). Another thing that Britain did to make the colonial settlers upset was that British soldiers were allowed to stay in any of the houses in the 13 colonies with little or no reason to why. It made Britain look very evil in the eyes of these settlers and the first paragraph of the Declaration reinforces this idea.
The second Paragraph of the Declaration of Independence might possibly have the single most important phrase in all of the united states. The first sentence contains the phrase "all men are created equal." Now in 1776 this phrase was probably taken more literally meaning that all men would have rights and Jefferson wanted to exclude men and women. However, some argue that all men are talking about all of humanity. Numerous times thought out history important figures such Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King and Elizabeth Cady Stanton have referenced the Declaration of Independence when try to obtain equality for Women and African Americans. In 1857 Lincoln had mentioned that the assertion "all men are created equal" was of no practical use for separate from Great Britain and was placed in the Declaration for future use (Armitage 44). As well in the 19th century, the Declaration of sentiments played a key role in the women rights movement and almost mirrored the Declaration of Independence (Halvorson). Without those five small, but powerful words the United States would be a much different place then it is today. The meaning of the phrase has changed over time allowing even more than just men being equal. Today the United States of America tries to make everyone equal even if at times it might now seem that way. It didn't have anything to do with trying to leave Britain, Jefferson put that phrase in there for the future of this country.
The Declaration of Independence gave some insight on the Idea of Popular Sovereignty. Popular sovereignty is the doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen to govern, as trustees of such power, must exercise it in conformity with the general will. Basically, it means that the people can come up with the government and make it, however, the people want it to be. The Declaration gives the power to the people and not to the system that is governing them. "Governments are instituted among Men deriving their powers from the consent of the governed"(US 1776) Without this we might have formed a new government in the United States but it could have very well ended up as a monarchy. Popular sovereignty is key to making a peoples government and the Deceleration of Independence clearly reinforces this.
The Deceleration of Independence also informs the public of the Social Contract. The Social Contract is the agreement among individuals by which society becomes organized and invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare. Both the government and the citizens are part of this social contract. The people be a part of the decisions and if they disagree with the government then they can just change it. " That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends it is the Right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new Government"(US 1776). It seems in this day and age that people are afraid to stand up to the government and fight for what they believe in. Currently, many congressmen and congresswomen are being bought out to vote in certain ways over the topic of Net neutrality. It would be the people's job to step up and talk with their representatives and show them what they are interested in and not let corporation buy out their representatives. The term natural and Induvial Rights also comes up in the Declaration of Independence. These are rights that all people should have. These rights include life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They share the values of freedom equality and justice. No one should be able to take these rights from people, and it is up to the government to make sure that the people's rights are protected. Without the government to protect the rights of the people things would start to fall apart for society. "endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"(US 1776). These are what are also known as the Universal truths and over the course of the next two decades, America would try to help other countries around the worlds come to have similar Universal truths as to what is stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Not only was the Declaration important in assisting the start of this nation and help to fight for freedom of Brittan's monarchy, it is also used today to influences modern American political culture. One way it has influenced political culture is it has caused us many reasons why America chooses to go to war with countries who might seem like the people are being oppressed in some way by the government. America looks on to the Declaration as a sort of moral compass when it comes to deciding whether or not it is right to go into other countries and try to abolish any oppression that is going on. As a continuing inspiration in the United States and throughout the world to end oppression and to make sure that all groups of people enjoy a self-government and representation of both their collective interests and their personal freedom (Pencak 234).
Today more than ever you will see this power abused by people in America to try to gain more than just helping an oppressed people. If you look at wars today that the United States are involved in some of them are masked by the idea that these groups of people are not free and do not have access to the natural rights that the Declaration of Independence refers too. Instead, you have people who are fighting over others natural resources and land first and the rights of the people come second or don't even come at all. The same ideologies that this country was built on are now being using selfishly into a power grab for land and money from other countries.
The Declaration\'s aspirational vision has had a remarkable influence on American notions of liberal equality, even in the days when only white males could formally participate in politics (Tsesis 698). It has also been referenced a lot in current social movements today. Groups such as Black Lives Matter and Arab spring and Tiananmen Square openly and repeatedly invoke in the Language and the ideals of the document (Halvorson). This shows how the Declaration can be used as a voice for the minority groups in America to help end the oppression that they might be facing.
In conclusion, the Declaration of Independence is a lot more than some old piece of paper written by a bunch of old white guys. It is more than that, it is many things. It was a letter to the British telling them that they don't wish to be a part of their empire anymore. It was a way to bring hope to the oppressed and way to make sure that one day everyone in the nation and even on the earth was treated equally. Over time it has been used for good by the majority of people and some have even used it to justify bad doings. Overall the Declaration was important in the forming of America and is important for what the country should form into of the course of time. It was tough for the founding fathers to frame what society would look like in the next couple of decades but they did a great job in laying the bricks for the path they wanted the country to become. Without the Declaration of Independence America could still be under the rule of the British. Women would not have as many rights as they do now, slavery could very well be a thing in this country without this document. The world would be a much different place then what it is today. It is nowhere near perfect but it is the Declaration of Independence that pushed everyone in the world a little bit closer in the right direction towards freedom.
Armitage, David. "The Declaration of Independence and International Law." Foundations of Modern International Thought, Jan. 2002, pp. 191–214., doi:10.1017/cbo9781139032940.017.
Halvorson, Seth D. "Historical Context for the Declaration of Independence." Columbia College, www.college.columbia.edu/core/content/american-revolution-and-founding-texts/context.
Pencak, William. "The Declaration of Independence: Changing Interpretations and a New Hypothesis." Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, vol. 57, no. 3, 1 July 1990, pp. 225–235. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/27773386?ref=search-gateway:db0ae02fe1b84f163f034404f6687764.
"Creating the United States Creating the Declaration of Independence." Index of Documents for All Men Are Created Equal – Creating the Declaration of Independence – Creating the United States | Exhibitions – Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/exhibits/creating-the-united-states/interactives/declaration-of-independence/equal/documents.html.
The Declaration of Independence: Full Text." Ushistory.org, Independence Hall Association, www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/.


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What do giving orders, falling in love and freedom all have in common? You can find all three in the two-word ad I deconstruct in today's video!
If you missed last week's video where we see vapaus in another context, you can check it out here.
P.S. Starting to see Finnish differently? Please help me spread this powerful perspective by sharing this video with your friends!
I love breaking down and demystifying Finnish so I've used that as inspiration for this first season. In each video, I'll take a short sign written in Finnish and explain, not only what it means, but also the grammar behind it. Sometimes there are nuances, subtleties and other fun stuff. Overall, Finnish has always been a wonder… and learning the language has left me with a lasting impression of awe about how we express ourselves, communicate and what language shows us about our perception of the world.


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These tests are alternatives to the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and the Occupational English Test (OET), and have been accepted in the Student visa programme since 2011.
Student visa applicants can continue to provide scores from the IELTS, OET, TOEFL iBT, PTE Academic or Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) tests.
When will the department start accepting scores from the TOEFL iBT, PTE Academic and Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) tests?
Applicants for the following visa subclasses can provide scores from a TOEFL iBT or PTE Academic test from 23 November 2014, or from a Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) test taken on or after 1 January 2015:
Distinguished Talent (Australian support) (subclass 124)
Business Talent (subclass 132)
Former Resident (subclass 151)
Business Owner (provisional) (subclass 160)*
Senior Executive (provisional) (subclass 161)*
Investor (provisional) (subclass 162)*
State/Territory Sponsored Business Owner (provisional) (subclass 163)*
State/Territory Sponsored Senior Executive (provisional) (subclass 164)*
State/Territory Sponsored Investor (provisional) (subclass 165)*
Employer Nomination Scheme (subclass 186)
Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme (subclass 187)
Business Innovation & Investment (provisional) (subclass 188)
Skilled - Nominated (subclass 190)
Work and Holiday (temporary) (subclass 462)
Skilled - Recognised Graduate (subclass 476)
Temporary Graduate (subclass 485)
Skilled - Regional (provisional) (subclass 489)
Distinguished Talent (subclass 858)
Skilled - Regional (subclass 887)
Business Innovation & Investment (permanent) (subclass 888)
Business Owner (Residence) (subclass 890)
Investor (Residence) (subclass 891)
State/Territory Sponsored Business owner (Residence) (subclass 892)
State/Territory Sponsored Investor (Residence) (subclass 893)
*Closed to new applications, but family members can apply
Will the scores be accepted for subclass 457 visa applications?
No. The government has yet to release its response to the findings of an independent review of the subclass 457 visa programme.
Will the TOEFL iBT and PTE Academic test scores be accepted for Expressions of Interest (EOI) lodged through SkillSelect?
Yes. EOIs lodged through SkillSelect can provide scores from TOEFL iBT and Pearson from 23 November 2014, and Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) scores from a test taken on or after 1 January 2015.
Where you can find more information about TOEFL iBT and PTE Academic tests?
For information about:
TOEFL iBT visit ETS TOEFL
PTE Academic visit Pearson
Cambridge CAE visit Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE)
RSMS Heaven in QLD
The ultimate dream of every new migrant is to obtain a Permanent Resident Visa, allowing them to settle in Australia.
One of the pathways is to obtain employment within a regional area, or alternatively establish a business in a regional area.
This will provide potential growth of the business, benefitting both the owner and also the local Australian residents.
Most candidates have been searching for the opportunity of sponsorship in the busy market of capital cities, however many candidates are very aware of the potential of setting up a business in the regional area, which will produce a pathway to either the Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme (187) or Regional Sponsored (487) visa.
Some migrants have already attempted to pursue this pathway in order to obtain a Permanent Visa, but were not successful as they were not dedicated enough to build a successful business.
If you are a serious about your family's future and equipped with a business orientated mind, please contact No Borders Migration Advocates for assistance in building your pathway to the ultimate dream, the Australian Dream!
Please find list of regional area within 35min -120min drive from Brisbane as attached below:
Except the greater Brisbane area and the Gold Coast
Munruben
Park Ridge South
Chambers Flat
Logan Reserve
Waterford West
Advancetown
Beechmont
Binna Burra
Clagiraba
Gaven
Gilston
Lower Beechmont
Mount Nathan
Nerang
Nerang Bc
Nerang Dc
Numinbah Valley
Pacific Pines
Pindari Hills
Southern Lamington
Tamborine Village
Mount Tamborine
North Tamborine
Benobble
Biddaddaba
Bloomfleet
Boyland
Canungra
Ferny Glen
Illinbah
O'reillys
Sarabah
Witheren
Wonglepong
North Maclean
South Maclean
Stockleigh
Allenview
Bromelton
Cainbable
Cedar Vale
Chinghee Creek
Christmas Creek
Cryna
Hillview
Ilbogan
Innisplain
Kagaru
Knapp Creek
Kooralbyn
Lamington
Laravale
Mount Gipps
Mundoolun
Nindooinbah
Oaky Creek
Tabooba
Tabragalba
Tamrookum
Tamrookum Creek
Undullah
Veresdale
Veresdale Scrub
Barney View
Mount Barney
Mount Lindesay
Palen Creek
Running Creek
Coleyville
Mutdapilly
Warrill View
Wilsons Plains
Mount Kilcoy
Caloundra Bc
Caloundra Dc
Baroon Pocket
Maroochydore Dc
Maroochydore South
Sunshine Plaza
Nambour Bc
Nambour Dc
Nambour West
Carters Ridge
Sunrise Hills
Boreen
Boreen Point
Lake Cootharaba
Munna Point
Noosaville Bc
Little Cove
Wahpunga
Moy Pocket
Warana Beach
Australia plans to change citizenship rules to crack down on fraud
Plans are underway to overhaul citizenship rules in Australia, which will make it tougher for those who want to make the country their permanent home.
According to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP), change is aimed at ensuring that those who want to become an Australian citizen have a connection to the country, rather than to an Australian.
'Australian citizenship is a privilege to be given by the Australian people, rather than a right to be claimed by an individual,' said a DIBP spokesman.
The government wants to strengthen the integrity of the citizenship programme, which would mean giving Immigration Minister Scott Morrison the powers to revoke citizenship where it has been obtained by fraud or misrepresentation.
This would mean that anyone who applies for citizenship and gives false or misleading information during the visa and citizenship processes may not be granted citizenship, even if they have no prior criminal convictions.
Currently, the majority of people who apply for citizenship must live in Australia for four years before their application, including spending at least 12 months as a permanent resident. Changes could mean that applicants would need to live in Australia continuously for 12 months.
The overhaul would also remove any abuse of the partner discretion, limiting when an applicant, who is married or in a de facto relationship with an Australian citizen, can count overseas absences as part of the residence requirement for citizenship.
According to officials, this change is necessary because recently, courts have taken a broad interpretation of the provision, allowing it to be used when an applicant has barely spent time in Australia.
Under the proposed changes, the partner discretion would only apply if the applicant spends 365 days in Australia over the four years and is in a 'genuine and continuing relationship with an Australian citizen'.
The changes are outlined in a new piece of legislation, the Australian Citizenship and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2014.
It has also been confirmed that Morrison has rewritten his minister's message, which is read out at every citizenship ceremony. 'As a nation we can only become as great and as good as our citizenry,' the reworked message will now tell new citizens.
Does Australia need to reform its visa program for Chinese tourists?
There are calls for Australia to look again at its visa provision for Chinese people after the latest statistics show there has been a slowdown in the number of arrivals.
While much has been done to boost the number of visas available to wealthy business people, it is claimed that not enough is being done for tourists from China.
Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for September showed international arrivals grew 6% month-on-month with arrivals for the year ending in September up 8.2%.
But this masks a slowdown in Chinese visitors, according to the Tourism and Transport Forum (TTF). It pointed out that the number of Chinese visitors increased by just 7.3%, but annual growth has dropped to 10.5%.
'A slowdown in arrivals from China underscores the need for reform to our visa processing system to make it easier for Chinese tourists to visit Australia,' said TTF chief executive officer Margy Osmond.
'Australia is missing out on Chinese visitors, with the national China Tourism Academy estimating that outbound travel by Chinese tourists will grow by 20% this year. While Australia is getting 10.5% growth, our rivals are doing much better, with Chinese visitors to the US up 23% and to Canada up more than 30% in 2014,' she explained.
However, officials point out that the recently agreed upon Chinese Australia Free Trade Agreement will boost visitors, and not just Chinese business people. Under the agreement, Australia will also provide up to 5,000 Work and Holiday visas to the Chinese, which should give a boost to the Australian tourism industry.
But the TTF said that part of the problem is not just the number of visas available, but the complexity of the Australian system. It explained that someone from Malaysia wanting to visit Australia can apply for a visa online, pay $20 and receive almost immediate approval.
'But Chinese visitors must fill in a complex form on paper, pay $130, provide significant documentary evidence and wait three weeks to find out if their application has been successful,' said Osmond.
'Australia needs to reform its visa processing to ensure we are not placing unnecessary barriers in front of legitimate visitors wanting to come here. Unless we do that, we risk continuing to lose market share to countries which have recognised the opportunity the Chinese travel market represents and have taken steps to prioritise growth from that market,' she explained.
She also pointed out that while three-year, multiple entry visas for Chinese business visitors were introduced earlier this year, the same has not been done for leisure travellers.
Processing of visas recommences for ebola free nation
Processing of visas will recommence for residents of the Democratic Republic of Congo after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the West African nation Ebola free, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Scott Morrison said.
'Last month the government announced strong border control measures, temporarily suspending processing of all visa applications for applicants from Ebola virus disease (EVD) affected countries,' Minister Morrison said.
'It is pleasing that the outbreak has ended in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which according to the World Health Organisation resulted in a total of 66 cases, including eight health workers.
'This decision by the WHO will allow the over 200 visa applications which have been paused to be processed by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.
'The government's strict health screening requirements for other Ebola-affected countries in Africa remain in place.
'Australians travelling home are urged to alert our border officers if they have been in any of the Ebola-affected countries in Africa up to 21 days prior to their arrival, and provide details of their travel history as requested.
'The Government recently rolled out a new traveller history card to facilitate this.
'This information at the border will assist other agencies, including the Department of Health, to ensure Australia remains Ebola free.
'These arrangements may inconvenience some travellers, however the safety of the Australian community is paramount and it is critical that Australia is not exposed to this disease.
'The Coalition government is committed to protecting Australians and ensuring our border measures remain strong,' Minister Morrison said.
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Implement a segmentation model to help optimize acquisition, retention and productivity strategies.
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Measure impact of TV & Digital campaigns using a Test and Control measurement approach.
Develop KPIs for Brands. Analyze equity and consumption funnels.
Develop customer profiles and identify markets for new growth.
Analyze pricing strategies and develop optimization models..
Identity drivers of customer loyalty. Analyze impact of key touch points on customer loyalty.
Drivers of brand conversations: Understand the sentiment behind category and brand conversations and the positive / negative drivers of major themes impacting brand loyalty, product loyalty, impact of competition etc.
Service Agent Effectiveness: Analyze drivers of first contact resolution. Identify gaps in agent training and coaching. Identify customer queries that indicate signs of upsell / cross sell opportunities.
Direct Selling Sources of Sales: Identify drivers of Acquisition, Retention, Activity and Average Order Size. Generate revenue contribution of these categories.
Develop sales forecasts by prioritized segments. Incorporate internal and external data into the forecasting model.
Understand reach and effectiveness of social media messaging.
Develop attribution analysis to understand the impact and ROI of each customer touchpoint.
Develop a simulation model to understand impact of stretch goals on operations.
Develop models to identify optimal spend, mix and ROI of marketing investment.
Measure ROI, drivers and customer response to promotions and incentives.
Market Dynamics: Analyze seasonality trends. Identify emerging trends. Benchmark against competition.
Customer Satisfaction: Mined 100K open ended surveys and identified drivers of customer satisfaction. Identified overlapping themes.
Rules Engine to generate early warning indicators and action steps for field sales force.
Understand future sales potential of new and existing sales representatives.
Identify key drivers and behaviors of customers within the first 90 days.
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Integrate analytical models into BI dashboards to generate real time forecasts.
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Develop models to identify opportunities in costs, service and sustainability.


Table of contents pages snap to the top of the window when alt-tabbing or mousing back to the window, causing a reader to lose his place when reviewing the documentation.
This appears to be caused by the search control having focus, causing focus events to be triggered when the window regains focus, despite the user never intending to perform a search.
Clicking outside the search box to remove the focus restores sane behaviour.
Finally, overriding the arrow keys is a somewhat rude thing to do, especially when the end result performs much worse than the browser's default navigation.
Line 122 of navi.js catches focus to search input and calls $.navi.reset(). Line 32,33 of reset() sets scrollTop to 0.
Somewhat unconventional use of needsdocs but since this is the core bug tracker it isn't something that goes into jquery.js.


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Ulrich Behne (* 3. April 1939 in Vechta; † 4. Februar 2023 in Rastatt) war ein deutscher Heimatforscher aus Gaggenau.

Leben und Wirken
Ulrich Behne machte sein Abitur in Hannover, nach seiner Wehrpflicht studierte er Germanistik und Geschichte in Göttingen und Freiburg. Sein Staatsexamen legte er in Freiburg ab. Nach seinem Referendariat am Tulla-Gymnasium Rastatt war er von 1969 bis 2003 als Lehrer und Vertrauenslehrer am Goethe-Gymnasium Gaggenau tätig. Nach seiner Pensionierung 2003 übte er sechs Jahre lang das Amt des ersten Vorsitzenden des Kulturrings Gaggenau aus. Er war der erste, der mit Unterstützung des Stadtarchivs ausgiebig um die Geschichte der Juden in Gaggenau recherchiert hat. Seine Ergebnisse erschienen zwischen Anfang 2009 und Januar 2010 in einer Serie der BNN ("Jüdisches Leben in Gaggenau") sowie in seinem Buch "Verstreute Spuren – verblasste Erinnerungen".

Werke
 Die Affären des Pfarrers Kleinmann – eine Dorfgeschichte aus dem nördlichen Schwarzwald (über Karl Leopold Kleinmann), Heft 6 der Schriftenreihe Michelbacher Heimat des Heimatverein Michelbach
 Die Viehhändlerfamilien Gerson und das Schicksal der jüdischen Gemeinde zu Vechta. 1. Auflage 2001, 2. Auflage 2010
 Wo Gacko einst das Mammut jagte. Rastatt, 2013, ISBN 978-3-944635-03-3
 Verstreute Spuren – verblasste Erinnerungen. 2019, Verlag Regionalkultur, ISBN 978-3-95505-131-0

Weblinks
 Literatur von und über Ulrich Behne im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek

Quellen
 Gaggenauer Geschichtsforscher und Lehrer Ulrich Behne ist tot, abgerufen am 6. Februar 2023

Wirtschaftswissenschaftler
Hochschullehrer (Offenburg)
Deutscher
Geboren 1939
Gestorben 2023
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1501 NW 3rd Street, Miami FL. Google it. What do you see? A giant map pointing at Marlins Park, the brand new baseball stadium? Good, your eyes work and so does Google. It's what you don't see, that matters more to me. I don't blame you because most people wouldn't unless you grew up in or around the 305 and rooted for a small private University's football team.
Let me take you on a journey. Do you know what its like to park a mile away from your destination in some strangers yard? To walk down Little Havana seeking out the perfect street vendor to buy a hotdog or heck even the best Cuban sandwich you'd ever tasted. They don't call it Little Havana for nothing. As you make the trek down 3rd street you're presented with at least 20 different sales pitches from scalpers until you find the perfect seat combination, 200 level seats at midfield for $45 each. We'll take it. Even with the chaos around, none of it compares to what you're greeted by upon arriving. When you finally arrive it hits you. This is the famous Orange Bowl home to the 5 time National Champion Miami Hurricanes, and here it's all about the U.
This stadium has lived through so much and it shows. While climbing the dimly lit stairs at the entrance to your section you can feel how old this stadium is. And don't get me started on the bathrooms…yikes. Trough style is truly a thing of the past. As you and 72,319 other fans file in past the guards checking tickets you're greeted with a sensory overload. Green and Orange everywhere you look with the occasional sprinkling of away fans. The thick humid night sky and the ring of honor. So many big names have worn the Orange and Green. Vinny Testeverde, Gino Toretta, Jim Kelley, Michael Irvin, Warren Sapp, Ed Reed, Ray Lewis, Randall Hill and many more. A look to the Home side and you'll see a sign across the stadium saying " The City of Miami Welcomes You". A pleasant greeting for the people representing the orange and green. As you take your seats there is one thing every fan can't wait for. The famous entrance through the smoke. The Hurricanes come racing out of the inflatable white helmet. The players rush through a cloud of smoke led by Sebastian the Ibis, the beloved mascot. Sebastian gets to Midfield and the crowd is in a frenzy. The old Orange Bowl is literally shaking underneath the fans, Sebastian winds up and delivers my personal favorite chant: "ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh C-A-N-E-S CANES!" Simple and exciting all at the same time.
The atmosphere is electric for the home team and in the games I was able to attend this usually led to many a fight in the stands and things said that I could never repeat back to my mom when we returned home. (Side note I once saw a man throw a visiting fans water cooler off the side of the 400 level seating.) At one point this was one of the greatest home-field advantages in all of college football. The Orange Bowl is where I found my love for the game, and more specifically for the Miami Hurricanes.
October 14th, 2004. A home game against the 12th ranked Louisville Cardinals. My very first live experience here and it did not disappoint. I sat at halftime next to my Father completely distraught as the 3rd ranked Hurricanes found themselves down 24-7. I could feel the energy in the stadium dwindle down to nothing just like that, but none of us saw what was coming next. Specifically, from a Sophomore by the name of Devin Hester who had his shining moment as a Hurricane that night. The second half opened with a quick renewal of Hope as Hester took the opening kick back only to have it ripped away by a phantom holding call. It was a devastating turn of events, but luckily Hester had much more in store for us that night. Miami began to claw its way back off of sharper defense and a balanced offensive attack led by Brock Berlin and Frank Gore. But, In the Fourth Quarter, it came time for the deadliest kick returner in all of College Football to put his stamp on the game.
Fourth down and in a punting situation with 8 minutes left in the game, all Louisville had to do was not kick it to Devin Hester. Of course, that's exactly what happened. The minute the ball hit his hands you could feel the energy from the fans. It was like everyone knew what was coming, except Bobby Petrino of course. 20 seconds later me and 72,000 fans were going nuts and before I could even think I was out of my seat jumping like a lunatic. Hester had finally given Miami the lead and completed the epic comeback. The Ibis came out to do his TD celebration and the entire crowd stomping their feet in unison made the stadium begin to sway back and forth. I thought for a moment we were going to tear the Orange Bowl down that night. Looking back now I realize that would've been a more proper burial for 1501 NW 3rd Street Miami FL.
Four years later I attended the final game at the Orange Bowl where Miami lost 48-0 to Virginia. It was the largest home loss in Miami history and the first shutout there since 1974. It was a strange night to be there as tensions ran high and fans began ripping up seats and artifacts from the stadium. Heck, I took my seat number. I still have it. A few months later they began the demolition of a place that brought the community of Miami together. Sending the program into a downward spiral. An 8-year nightmare for a team who lost it's home, only to be saved by a coach with a new lease on life and a $10,000 Cuban link chain that became the most polarizing celebration in all of sports: The Turnover Chain. Now me and the 72,319 other fans in attendance on that night in 2004, wait for the day to finally be able to proclaim THE U IS BACK.


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Nora Caplan-Bricker/ June 22, 2012
How Title IX Became Our Best Tool Against Sexual Harassment
When former Indiana Senator Birch Bayh* wrote Title IX forty years ago, his goal was very simple: to make sure women could get a good education. He wanted to force schools to accept women as students, let them into classes, and hire them as professors. And he wanted to make professions that require higher education accessible to women.
As the law, which prohibits educational programs that take federal money from discriminating on the basis of sex, celebrates its fortieth birthday on Saturday, the changes Bayh was after have, to a stunning degree, happened—women have been earning more undergraduate degrees than men since 1996 and in 2009 overtook them in the attainment of doctoral degrees; 47 percent of legal degrees and 48 percent of medical degrees were conferred on women in 2010, compared to 7 percent and 9 percent, respectively, in 1972. Title IX has become most famous for ushering female athletes onto the playing field—an application of Bayh's law that he told me didn't cross his mind when he was defending it in the Senate.
Another of the most lasting—and most controversial—legacies of Title IX is, likewise, in an area referenced nowhere in its 37 words: sexual harassment. The law made national headlines once again last spring when the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights announced that it would investigate whether Yale was violating Title IX by allowing a hostile sexual environment. How did a law written to open the doors of classrooms become the staging ground for lawsuits over sexual misconduct?
The answer, strangely enough, is also at Yale. In 1977, in the case of Alexander v. Yale,a group of young women at Yale University used the law to make a revolutionary argument: that sexual harassment and violence constitute discrimination against women. At the time, sexual harassment was considered par for the course on university campuses and in offices across the country. That its tacit acceptance created an environment in which men and women weren't treated as equals, and that it should be a punishable offense, had not yet entered the American legal imagination.
The Alexander v. Yale argument was the brainchild of Catharine MacKinnon, a thirty-year-old Minnesotan who graduated from Yale Law School in the spring of 1977. She had developed the idea in a paper for a class (using Title XII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which concerns discrimination in the workplace), and she was in the middle of expanding it into her first book, Sexual Harassment of Working Women. Some of the plaintiffs in the case, all of whom were current or recent Yale undergraduates, had asked the university to institute reporting and grievance procedures for sexual harassment and been denied. MacKinnon worked with them to craft a complaint to show that Yale turned a blind eye when professors touched female students or pressured them to have sex in exchange for an "A"; that this perpetuated an atmosphere that interfered with female students' success; and, therefore, that Yale was in violation of Title IX.
In 1980, a judge threw out the five students' suits on technical grounds but upheld the legal argument that harassment was discrimination. MacKinnon—who is now one of the most widely-read (and controversial) figures in feminist law—had seen revolutionary potential in Bayh's concise law, and had used it to invent the idea of sexual harassment as we know it today. Alexander v. Yale also precipitated the creation of policies to address sexual misconduct at hundreds of universities across the U.S.— including Yale, which convened a grievance board in 1978, once the hubbub of the case began.
Title IX remains a call to action and a crucial tool for those who believe schools need to take a harsher line on rape and sexual violence.When Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan issued updated guidelines for Title IX in 2010, they focused on grievance procedures for sexual assault, urging schools to crack down. The past few years have seen a slew of Title IX complaints seeking the reform of sexual grievance procedures—at, among others, Princeton, Duke, the University of Virginia, Harvard Law School, and, once again, Yale. The most recent investigation of Yale closed this month with "no findings of noncompliance," according to Yale President Richard Levin—though, as one of the complainants pointed out in Slate, the university had to sign an agreement to maintain the new policies it implemented this year, and to keep a close eye on the campus climate and report regularly to OCR. This complaint at Yale was, in many ways, depressingly similar to the case that preceded it by over thirty years: It asked the university to take public displays of misogyny seriously, and to create better recourse for victims of sexual violence and harsher punishments for perpetrators. The echoes of Alexander v. Yale are a reminder of sexism's insidious hold, and of the progress our society has yet to make.
When I told Bayh about Title IX's foundational role in sexual harassment law, he told me he doesn't think "discrimination" is a strong enough term for sexual misconduct and violence. "That's flat-out criminal activity," he said. But because universities handle so many harassment and assault cases that occur between students in-house, classifying these crimes as discrimination has turned out to be an effective way to hold institutions accountable.
Bayh said when he talks to young people today, they've almost never heard of Title IX, or they have some vague sense that it's related to women's sports. But he doesn't mind. "Equality between men and women is taken for granted, and that's the best sign of progress," he said. Sometimes, though, it's important to stop and remember, and anniversaries provide a natural opportunity. Schools shape each successive generation of American women and men today, just as they did forty years ago, and that means we shouldn't take Title IX for granted just yet.
*Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Patsy Mink co-drafted Title IX with Birch Bayh. Bayh wrote the law he sponsored in the Senate, and Mink, along with Oregon Congresswoman Edith Green, was a champion of Title IX in the House. We regret the error.
Nora Caplan-Bricker is a writer in Boston.
Politics, Birch Bayh, Patsy Mink, Richard Levin, Catharine MacKinnon, Department Of Education, Senate, Indiana, Yale University, Yale, The Plank


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Building a future for independent journalism
Posted on August 23, 2012 by Janet Coats
In a little more than three weeks, about 100 independent local news publishers and those who support them will gather in Chicago for the latest incarnation of the Block by Block Community News Summit.
Block by Block has come a long way since the first gathering in September 2010, when Michele McLellan drew up an agenda based on what she learned about this growing group of new entrepreneurs during her fellowship at the Reynolds Journalism Institute.
We weren't sure then how many people would come or exactly what they'd want to talk about – but we knew that there was a need for community among these publishers who were redrawing the face of very local journalism.
Michele had invited me along for the ride after I'd spent some time interviewing her at the beginning stages of my work in the New Media Journalism Initiative. Debra Jacobs, chief executive officer of The Patterson Foundation, and I had agreed that we wanted our work to focus on digital journalism, and we knew that we wanted to build connective tissue for entrepreneurs who needed to learn and grow together.
We couldn't have found a better community for that exploration than the one that came together at that first Block by Block. The Patterson Foundation and its New Media Journalism Initiative have provided both financial support and our own organizational skills and capacity to help build the Block by Block event and its community. This year, the third summit will mark the end of our work in enabling the event. I'm filled with a sense of anticipation about how the community will continue to build on this base.
The first year, Block by Block was characterized by a sense of found connections. It was an amazing thing to watch these publishers, from cities and small towns across the country, recognize for the first time that they weren't alone. Their sense of mission was a shared one, as were many of the seemingly intractable problems they faced in trying to achieve it.
There was something almost beautiful in watching them realize that they didn't have to go it alone, that in helping each other they could reduce their pain points and accelerate their development. Combine that with their passion for serving their individual communities, and Block by Block 1 had a bit of the feeling of old-fashioned revival.
If the first Block by Block was a more spiritual experience, last year's was all about finding hammers and nails. With another year under their belts, the publishers came ready to talk dollars and sense. Whether they were for-profit or non-profit in their approach, the general sense last year was that everyone needs a better business model – and they need it fast.
Between last year's session and this year's, The Patterson Foundation has been enabling a small-scale experiment in business mentoring with a group of 12 Block by Block publishers called Super Camp. Much of the agenda for this year's summit is based on what we've learned from that. Beyond Block by Block, our learnings from Super Camp are fueling the Community Executive Journalism Training program that the Investigative News Network is organizing for both investigative and community journalists in October.
We've also been working in these intervening months with a group of publishers focused on building an organization to represent the interests of the independent local news sites. We've provided organizational consulting and enabled meetings for these publishers as they've hashed through the complex issues of starting an association, from scratch, that will work virtually and cooperatively.
This week, the publishers have announced the formation of the Local Independent Online News Publishers, or LION. LION's chairman, Dylan Smith of the Tucson Sentinel, told the Columbia Journalism review: "We don't have the vast resources that big newspaper chains do, but we also don't have the bureaucratic leadership that they do. We can choose a direction and pursue it. That's why we think we're the future.''
I agree with Dylan; I think local independent news sites are a big part of a vibrant, inclusive future for local journalism. It's been an honor to be present in the company of these entrepreneurs as they continue to chart that future.


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Q: Getting variable error : "Is not defined" I have the following function that tries to read a value in an inventory database and increment it...
app.post('/UpdateInventory', FBAuth,(req,res) => {

    const firestore =  admin.firestore;

    let InventoryRef = admin.firestore().collection('Inventory');

    let GetID = InventoryRef.where('IngredientID', '==','BA001').get()
    .then(snapshot => {
        if (snapshot.empty) {
            console.log('No matching documents');
            return;
        }

        snapshot.forEach(doc => {
            var CatchDoc = doc.id;

            console.log(doc.id, '=>', doc.data());
        });
    })

    admin
        .firestore()
        .collection('Inventory')
        .doc(CatchDoc)
        .update({
            IngredientAvailability: firestore.FieldValue.increment(10)
        });

    res.json({CatchDoc});

});

I have set up a variable called "CatchDoc" that is supposedly cathcing the document id that complies with the condition im putting.
The problem is that I always get the following error:
ReferenceError: CatchDoc is not defined

Even though that the console.log output is:
Hm4a9VwDVv1QsYgzKBdl => { IngredientAvailability: 220,
>    IngredientImage: 'image.jpg',
>    IngredientID: 'BA001',
>    IngredientPortion: 30 }

(when i hardcode the Document ID in the .doc reference)
The "Hm4a9....." string is the doc ID I want to save in the CatchDoc variable but I can't...
Can you shed some light ? I have used already the "set" and "let" declaration, they doesnt work neither...thanks a lot ¡

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// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.

using System;
using System.Collections.Concurrent;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.PooledObjects;

namespace Roslyn.Utilities
{
    internal static class ConcurrentDictionaryExtensions
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// NOTE!!! adding duplicates will result in exceptions.
        /// Being concurrent only allows accessing the dictionary without taking locks.
        /// Duplicate keys are still not allowed in the hashtable.
        /// If unsure about adding unique items use APIs such as TryAdd, GetOrAdd, etc...
        /// </summary>
        public static void Add<K, V>(this ConcurrentDictionary<K, V> dict, K key, V value)
            where K : notnull
        {
            if (!dict.TryAdd(key, value))
            {
                throw new ArgumentException("adding a duplicate", nameof(key));
            }
        }

        public static TValue GetOrAdd<TKey, TArg, TValue>(this ConcurrentDictionary<TKey, TValue> dictionary, TKey key, Func<TKey, TArg, TValue> valueFactory, TArg factoryArgument)
            where TKey : notnull
        {
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            return dictionary.GetOrAdd(key, valueFactory, factoryArgument);
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            if (dictionary.TryGetValue(key, out var value))
                return value;

            using var _ = PooledDelegates.GetPooledFunction(valueFactory, factoryArgument, out var boundFunction);
            return dictionary.GetOrAdd(key, boundFunction);
#endif
        }
    }
}

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From The Titleist Winner's Circle: Lanto Griffin
By Rick V., Team Titleist Staff On 16 October 2019 Balls Tour Clubs
Lanto Griffin: Pro V1 golf ball, 917D2 driver (10.5°), TS2 fairway metal (16.5°), U510 utility iron (2), T100 (4-9) irons, Vokey Design SM7 Raw Finish pitching (46.10 F Grind), gap (50.12 F Grind @ 51°), sand (54.10 S Grind @ 55°) and lob (60.08 M Grind) wedges.
You could see this coming since the dawn of the new PGA TOUR season. Just a few short weeks after earning a return trip to the TOUR, Titleist Brand Ambassador Lanto Griffin played four solid rounds at A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier, finishing 13th at the season-opener. He followed that up with a T-11 performance at the Sanderson Farms Championship and two additional top-20 finishes at the Safeway Open and the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.
If you followed the Korn Ferry Tour last year, you'd recognize the consistent play as nothing more than a continuation of the steady excellence that Lanto exhibited throughout 2019 – a year that saw him post 11 top-25 finishes including a win at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Championship, and finish 5th in the Korn Ferry Total Points Standings. It seems that every week he has been knocking at the door, as he is the only player to post 5 top-20 finishes or better. This past Sunday, Lanto kicked it in, capturing his first PGA TOUR victory at the Houston Open.
His one-shot win was a doubly happy occasion for Griffin because the runners-up in Houston were two of his good friends (and fellow Korn Ferry graduates), Mark Hubbard (Pro V1, TS2 9.5° driver , 915Fd 15.0° fairway metal, 816H2 19.0° hybrid, 716 T-MB 4-iron and 716 MB 5-9 irons, Vokey Design SM6 46° pitching and 50° gap wedges, SM7 56° sand and prototype 60° lob wedges) and Scott Harrington (Pro V1x). Their joint performances validated for each of them that they belong on golf's biggest stage.
The day after his breakthrough win, Lanto was kind enough to phone home to Team Titleist and we've shared some excerpts from the conversation below:
Q: On Sunday, Mark Hubbard was actually your playing partner. What was it like coming down the stretch with him?
Lanto: It was huge. Mark and I have been good friends for a couple of years, but we haven't played a ton of golf together. And we were walking up 13 and we were tied for the lead. It kept us both kind of pushing each other. So I don't think I could've got a better pairing. His caddie's a really good friend of my caddie, and so we just had a really good time. It almost felt like a practice round. We were out there just feeding off each other, and we talked the whole day, and it was cool.
Q: And how about Scott Harrington? He was also right there.
Lanto: Yeah. Scotty's also a really good friend of mine. Obviously we've played on the Korn Ferry Tour together, and I think it was walking up either 17 or right after I hit the tee shot on the 18, I asked my caddie where we stood – I don't like to look at scoreboards, just because my mind's pretty analytical. And if I knew exactly where I was, every position, I'd be thinking about it. But I wanted to know if there was anybody behind me or in front of us that had already finished that we had to worry about – so I asked my caddie, "Do I need to worry about anybody else other than Mark?" And he said, "Scott Harrington is at 13-under on 18." And I was like, "Oh my God. Let's go."
I was so happy for him and I was lucky, too. Watching his putt on 18, it looked like he buried it, but it burned the edge. But that still gave him a two-way tie for second and for where he's been, 38 years old and a rookie, I couldn't have been more happy for Scotty. And for Mark. You know, we all wanted to beat each other, but we're also very happy for each other's success. It was pretty cool that the three of us finished 1-2-2 and we all should be on tour together again next season.
Q: After making it to the PGA TOUR in 2017-18, you lost your card, but then earned it back this season. Now you're exempt on TOUR through 2021/22. How would you describe the last couple years?
Lanto: It was all about perseverance. I remember I made the last eight cuts of the PGA TOUR season in 2018, and I played a lot of tournaments in a row, and I didn't keep my card at the Korn Ferry final. So I had three months off last winter, and I really wasn't beating myself up over my game. I knew that kind of lit a fire under me going into the Korn Ferry season this past year, and so I actually took two or three months off last fall.
I didn't want to make swing changes. I didn't want to tinker, I didn't want to... I didn't change anything. So coming into this year I was fresh, I was hungry. And when you get a taste of the PGA TOUR, it's hard to go back because it's such a dream playing out there every week. So I had all the motivation I needed internally to have a good year and get back on TOUR, and now to be a PGA TOUR winner and have a job out here for the next three years is an absolute dream come true.
Q: What was it like coming down the stretch in Houston?
Lanto: On 18, I'm really proud that I stuck to my plan. I know a lot of guys will just aim left at the edge of the water and hit a cut back into the fairway. Well, a couple years ago I was struggling with a two-way miss off the tee. And so I started cutting my driver pretty much religiously. And I'm comfortable now, but I'm not quite ready to trust it under big pressure. So instead of taking a risky line, I talked to my caddie about aiming at the left edge of the bunker out in the middle of the fairway. My line was actually 10 yards right of that, further right than what I told him, and I hit it dead straight. It was actually a really good tee shot. I wasn't going to take water left into play. So the rough was my fairway there and I knew by playing the hole that way the worst I would do is bogey, which still gets me in a playoff.
When I first played on the PGA TOUR, I was way too aggressive. I was convinced that I had to make a ton of birdies and so there weren't many pins that I wasn't aiming at. But it's part of the learning process, when to be aggressive, when to play smart.
Q: Let's talk a little bit about your equipment. You play Pro V1. What's your process for choosing the right ball?
Lanto: I rely a lot on the Titleist guys when making changes. Their opinions matter a ton to me. Obviously, at the end of the day it's my decision whether I want to play it, but I've never hit a Pro V1 that I didn't like. And when a guy like Jeff (Jeff Beyers, Tour Consultant for Golf Ball Performance) tells me, "This is a perfect ball for you, for your spin numbers, and your launch, and everything with the driver through the wedge and putter", I'm going to try it. And if it feels good, I'm going to stick with it. Working with Jeff I know that the Pro V is the perfect ball for me from a launch and spin perspective. If I'm not playing well, I've never once been like, "Eh, this golf ball just doesn't fit me." I usually take it on myself that I need to get better on my end. I know it's not the golf ball's fault.
I don't really think about the golf ball, which is probably the best thing you can have – not having to worry about your equipment. You just worry about what you're doing.
Q: Do you have any superstitions around your golf ball? Do you mark it certain way?
Lanto: Yeah, last year, before the Robert Trent Jones, I asked my girlfriend, Maya, to mark some Pro V1s for me. She put an "M" over the Titleist script. I won the tournament, so that's my mark now. I have the "M" and a line through the sidestamp. I also put two small lines perpendicular to that line for putting. I use a line on every putt.
Funny story from Houston, though. So anytime a ball gets scuffed up a little bit, I like to give it to a kid. I remember growing up at my home course, when you'd find a Pro V it felt like Christmas morning. So anytime I see a kid and I'm switching balls, I give it out. And walking off the 11 green, I made a bogey. And so I marked up a new ball and put it in my pocket, and I saw a kid by the roadside. I tossed him a ball, and when I went to tee up on 12, I noticed my ball had a little scuff on it. So I gave the kid the brand new one I just marked up. I didn't want to back off and get a new one, so I just played it. Mark and I laughed about it walking off the tee, but I hit two great shots in there on 12. Hit it to nine feet and had a good look at birdie.
Q: How important is it to play a ball that performs consistently?
Lanto: Consistency is the number one thing for us. If we have a constant, we don't have to worry about a shot reacting differently from one day to the next. I've talked to a lot of the product developers. We sat down. We had an hour conversation at the Travelers two years ago with all the guys from R&D. And just hearing how much love and time... and technology goes into the golf ball. The quality control is incredible. So you never grab a sleeve of balls and feel like, "Man, this feels different than the last sleeve I had." It feels the same every single shot. That's what every professional golfer and every amateur should be looking for.
Q: You recently made the switch to T100 irons. How did that transition go?
Lanto: If you're comfortable looking down at an iron or a club in general, that gives you confidence to begin with. So that's the first thing I look at. If I like looking down at it, I'm going to try it. They brought out the T100s in Omaha at the Pinnacle Bank on the Korn Ferry Tour and so a couple of the Titleist guys were there. They brought the irons out and I hit – and this is true – I hit four balls with it and I was like, "All right, they're going in."
So I hit four balls with them on the range and I went out and played with them and I haven't thought about it since. That should tell you how good they are. The thing with Titleist is they're not going to bring out a club until they've tested it thousands of times. That gives players a lot of confidence knowing that the changes they make... it's not a gimmick to sell clubs. The technology is actually going to help you play better. We know that if we like the way it looks, it's going to do what we want it to do.
Q: You have a unique finish on your T100s. How did you get your hands on them?
Lanto: When I saw the launch for the T100s I immediately... I mean, they looked awesome. And on Instagram I saw Cameron Smith had a set of the black irons so I reached out to the guys at Titleist and I asked them, "Am I eligible for those?" And they said "Right now we're very early in the process with the black irons and they're only available to PGA TOUR players." So, I worked on them enough to where Dino (Dino Antenucci, Titleist Golf Club Representative on the Korn Ferry Tour) talked to the right person and got me a set of them and they immediately went into play.
Looking down, the black irons just fit my eye. And obviously, my iron play has been great the last five, six weeks with them.
Q: We spoke with Dino Antenucci recently about our Korn Ferry graduates and he told us that 'Lanto's just got to hug. He's not going to shake your hand. He wants to hug.' What's your relationship like with the guys out on the Titleist Tour Van?
Lanto: My relationship with the Titleist guys is pretty special. They're like family to me. (Korn Ferry Tour Representative) Jim Ohlsen. He gave me a shot in 2008 when I was in college. And you know, me and Jimbo, we still talk all the time. I'd go in the Tour Van mainly just to take a break from the range and go hang out with the guys. I'd go in there every once in a while to check my lies and lofts to make sure that the gaps are the right or if I need some fresh wedges, but usually it was just going in and catching up. I'd be on the road five, six weeks in a row, so it was nice having that family.
The Titleist family, we're all friends. We're not talking golf the whole time. We're in there talking about, where'd you eat? Where are you staying this week? You want to grab dinner? You have to check out this movie I saw. That type of deal. It kind of feels like you are at home when the guys are there.
The players out there, we have our family and our team, but the Titleist guys are there every single week and anything we need, they're ready to help. It's a cool atmosphere. It's really special to be part of.
Thank you, Lanto and congratulations on your maiden PGA TOUR victory. Wishing you continued success throughout the 2019 season!
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