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Mission Accomplished may refer to:

 Mission Accomplished, a 2004 BBC documentary by Sean Langan
 Mission Accomplished (film), a short 1943 US propaganda film
 "Mission Accomplished" (The Wire), the 12th and final episode of the third season of the HBO original series, The Wire
 Mission Accomplished speech, a 2003 address given by US President George W. Bush
 Mission Accomplished ... But the Beat Goes On, a 1979 album by The Rezillos

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Welcome to St Augustine's Parish Primary School
Whether you are an existing parent or an interested onlooker, I hope you find our website is informative and reflective of our school. St Augustine's is a Catholic co-educational Primary School within the Diocese of Ballarat, located in the historical town of Creswick. The school caters for around 114 students from Foundation to Year 6. The school has a proud history of service to the Creswick district dating back over 150 years.
Learning in the context of a Catholic environment is the central purpose of our school. Our school is an integral part of the St. Augustine's Parish and we work very closely with our Parish Priest, Father Gary Jones.
Our mission is to ensure a truly Catholic learning community where the integration of faith and life is central to the culture and identity of the school. Our commitment is to engage students in lifelong learning to develop skills of communication, independence and collaborative learning and problem solving. Regular communication between school and home and shared decision-making in your child's education is valued and encouraged.
At St. Augustine's you will find a school community with dedicated staff, interested and involved parents, students who are proud of who they are and what they do. I am proud of the unique educational environment we offer at St Augustine's and our personal approach with each family is central to our mission. I invite you to come and visit the school and experience for yourself the warmth of our community.
Please feel free to further investigate our website to learn about our school. If you require more information or clarification, do not hesitate to contact us.
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We've priced these plans to be very competitive and we think they're a pretty darn good value.
Visit the pricing page for full details and our entire pricing lineup.
Dedicated Instances are immediately available in all regions. You can create new Dedicated Linodes or resize existing ones into a Dedicated plan. Please note that Frankfurt and Atlanta have reduced availability – however we have literally hundreds of machines being installed in all locations throughout coming weeks.
What's coming next from Linode? New hosting centers in Canada, India, along with Object Storage, Linode Kubernetes and more.
But my use case would be to stream a video game over a VNC connection.
I'd pay 25 a month happily to play video games on a private server rather than own a xbox.
Sure. My use case is bit unusual: Running a game client (requiring access to a graphics API like OpenGL or Vulkan), capturing the frames/audio stream, and encoding it as a video.
This is still in the concept phase though. First step was to find a GPU enabled VPS server we could run some tests on, and figure out what our constraints are.
Nice! I appreciate this offering. Any chance that you can let us know where at in Canada? Also, any news on updating the fleet (standard plans) to use some newer CPU's? I see some Intel Xeon Gold 6148's and some AMD EPYC's in the mix, but not many. Finally, I'd love to be able to swap IPv6 addresses like we already can with IPv4's. Any chance for that? Thanks!
You can request additional IPv6 addresses at any time by opening a support ticket. While default IPv6 addresses are configured automatically, you will need to statically configure each IPv6 address in the pool you request. See our static IP guide for instructions on how to do this.
How about Australia? We have some government/healthcare/education clients who are irate that we're in Singapore, and one who insisted we moved to Australia which left us no choice but to move them into AWS; I'd prefer to not need to do this again.
What happened to Limestone CDN?
Very interesting, but I think in 2019 the disk space is too small. The cost of the SSD is very low now to only 25 Gb in an instance of $30.
Mike/Christopher: what you're after is what Shadow are offering….
I am a bit disappointed by this, to be honest. You copied 1:1 the offering of Digital Ocean: RAM, CPUs, SSD size, transfer – all exactly the same. Your price point is a bit better, but that's the only difference.
From an innovative provider, I would expect to think about what offering makes sense, and not to simply copy the competitor, at a slightly better price.
It doesn't make any sense, that the disk size is so limited. A very nice offering would have been for example a lower tier, i.e. 2 GB ram, 1 vCPU dedicated.
– Digital Ocean: Around 1200 events per second.
=> Linode is 25% cheaper than DO, but it is also 30% slower than DO.
What are your plans on upgrading the hardware? If I go for dedicated CPU, I would expect better hardware, and not just less noisy neighbors.
Re: GPUs – thanks for the info. Very much in line with what we've been thinking, too.
Re: new DCs: Our Canada DC is in Toronto and should be online near the end of this quarter! We have a team there now completing the install. India is close behind (which has been over a year long process). Australia will be up next before the end of the year (and maybe sooner) but we're still midway through our process, there.
Folks, this is the first iteration of our dedicated offering, and as such we're emphasizing the "dedicated"-ness – that you can spin to 100% CPU all the time, without worry. So, benchmarks may vary depending on the type of machine you land on. As I mentioned, we're spooling up the deployment of new machines to all DCs, and have many machines inbound. This will give us more options in the near future, like potentially limiting these instance types to only newer kit or adding more resources to the plans (as we've always done).
I'm going to get myself in trouble with our internal teams if I keep giving out dates :), buuut: we are actively working on our managed Kubernetes offering (managed masters, auto node provisionment, etc) and are targeting Q2/Q3 for early adopters.
Managed Database is something we're looking into, likely up to bat after the stuff I've mentioned already. Thanks!!!!
So if i spin up 20 Dedicated 4GB nodes, that will get more work done than if i spin up 30 Linode 4GB.
Sandor – totally agree – the pricing page needs an update and we'll add some sentences to the add-a-Linode tab, too – explaining the differences between the plans and the use-cases they're good for. We do have a guide that explains the differences: https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/how-to-choose-a-linode-plan/ Thanks!
Looking forward to the Canadian offering! Does that mean Canadian dollars? And what about taxes?
Conrad: Great! Invoices will still be in USD, but (and don't quote me on this since tax is complex), pretty sure we must collect and remit tax to Canada for non-business customers with a Canada address on file.
Linode is stepping forward to future by opening Datacenter in India and it will dynamically acceptable by loyal customers of India and will start moving towards Linode.
Caker: Would be great if you could find a way to involve CAD currency!
Love, love, love this! Will migrate some of my instances for sure.
The main issue I have with Linode is having a NodeBalancers capable of handling more than 10k concurrent connections. I have a lot of websockets connected on my site and creating a HA+LB setup without using NodeBalancers is very expensive.
Very nice to finally have dedicated CPUs on instances!
How does this compare to the standard offering? What is the CPU configuration of standard machines? Are the CPUs pinned to cores that are shared with another host or are they floating between all cores on a machine? How oversubscribed are the standard CPUs?
Azure similar offering has specific details about CPU ("… The F-series is based on the 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) processor … ").
Any chance you could provide us with that level of detail or at least the different options of CPU we could be assigned?
Great to hear. We've been having frequent performance problems related to CPU steal on the standard instances, and ordering larger instances was not solving the problem. I've seen severe network slowdowns as well as CPU bottlenecks with steal at ~2% (reported by mpstat). We never see these problems when steal is less than 1%. We'll continue to monitor performance and move some of our instances to dedicated. Are all dedicated currently on Epyc? I've only spun up one so far to check steal rate (so far, steady at 0.00).
Eduardo: Glad to hear you're as excited about Dedicated CPU Instances as we are! We've added your NodeBalancer feedback to our internal tracker, and will keep a connection limitation increase in mind for future revisions of the service.
Matthew: CPU resources that are utilized in Dedicated plans aren't shared with Standard plans. We strive to keep CPU resources in use for Standard plans untaxed, though Dedicated plans will provide more consistent performance, as their processing won't be affected by other Linodes on a host.
Rolando and Brad: Yes and (partly) yes: we employ both Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC processors — you can always check which processor your Linode is running on with 'lscpu' (assuming you're running Linux). It's basically up to chance on which type of CPU your Linode will use. We can't make any promises, but we might be able to help you get on a specific processor type if you reach out to Support.
Super excited and happy to hear that you will be expanding into India!
I think the low SSD space makes no sense.
I could migrate two of my 4GB Linodes to the dedicated CPU ones but the disk space isn't enough. You need to fix this.
I'm confused. If we are currently paying for an 8 core plan. Does that mean that is 8 core in a good day and barely 1 on a bad day?
Great to see Linode coming to India. We've had to put all our Linodes (about 30 of them) in the Singapore DC so far. I also hope your India operations will be under an Indian entity and the GST tax setup will be better than D.O's.
Guys, you need to support the local disk size of a similar memory Standart Linode instance. Start with 80GB at least. That'll encourage us to easily migrate to dedicated cpu plans and also move you a little bit ahead in competition with Digital Ocean.
Dedicated CPU – very good news indeed. A bit too late for us unfortunately, since the spectre/meltdown patches our applications ran into the ground on Linode, suffering CPU steal and basically performing 40% worse than before. So we have just completed a migration onto bare metal where we found that same-size VMs would work at least twice as fast as the "same" configuration on Linode. So we only have a fraction of our former fleet left on Linode now, which was very sad for us after many years of previously good performance. We won't stop using Linode but we have a much narrower set of use cases now.
Regarding Disk allocation on Dedicated instances, I echo the other commenters. Needs to be 2x the SSD allocation, at this price, to make sense, in my opinion.
losif, Gokalp, and Paul: Thanks for the feedback on Dedicated SSD storage. We've noted your comments on our internal tracker and will look into providing more options for our Dedicated CPU offerings.
Since I heard about the dedicated CPU offering, I was rather eager to try it out, and with some trial and error, and a support ticket, finally have a nice, stable Linode going with CPU resources of my own! I may not use a lot of CPU resources, but what I do use has turned out to be excellent to have CPU completely to myself. Once again, another superb offer from Linode! I can't wait to see what comes next!
I would like to see dedicated CPU plans based on frequency-optimized server CPUs. A modern core running at ~3.5ghz is a significant improvement over E5 Xeon cores at 2.4ghz.
Single-threaded performance matters in many workloads.
I like the GPU idea someone mentioned. Not sure how much I would use it, but with all of these new cryptocurrencies coming out, I can imagine wanting to setup a node to create dapps.
Thanks for Indian data center, it is a must because we struggle a lot for hosting local websites. I will be waiting for its roll out.
I would like to know if it´s possible to upload a pre existing VMware on Linode Standard or Dedicated servers.


WASHINGTON, D.C. – October 9, 2015 – (RealEstateRama) — A major refrain from student housing executives at the 2015 NMHC Student Housing Conference & Exposition was that land and labor were driving up development and construction costs in the sector.
Over the past few years, there's been a lot of student housing development activity. So many of the available, truly pedestrian-to-campus locations have already been snapped up. However, despite the scarcity of opportunity sites, investor and industry preference remains for these infill locations so there is a willingness to bid more for the site, resetting land prices with every deal.
At the same time, scarcity in the labor market is resulting in construction cost escalations and delivery delays. Further exacerbating the limited labor issue is the fact that much of the student housing being built today is high-density infill, which is a more complicated product that requires special types of skilled labor.
During a related panel discussion, Ken Simonson, chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), said that while national construction employment has increased 3.6 percent year over year, there's been a big range of rate of change by state. Similarly, metro-level analysis is contradictory to the national numbers with fewer than half of metro areas reporting increases in construction employment.
"I think it's a sign of how difficult it is for contractors to find the labor they need," he said. More specifically, Simonson said that results of a recent AGC survey showed that 86 percent of construction firms reported having trouble filling spots for craft workers and salaried workers, especially carpenters, project managers and supervisors.
Beyond increasing contingencies, student housing executives said they were trying to manage the issue in a variety of ways.
He's also looked at rebate programs from local utilities and made a decision to move to a pre-cast system for podium product in an effort to reduce costs. Other executives mentioned getting into some panelization, swapping light-gauge steel for wood framing and opting for some prefabricated parts such as balconies.
David Helfrich, principal of CW Construction, said his company was getting involved in early buyouts and also buying materials separate from labor in an effort to have more control over costs and the process, as not only was labor scarcity increasing prices but also creating uncertainty in the execution. Executives cited examples of subcontractors walking off jobs for the chance to make more money on another job or getting so oversubscribed that it was difficult to get the work done on schedule.
Given the acute need for student housing communities to be fully leased up before the start of classes, any delay in the delivery of a new property can have disastrous repercussions for the student housing providers. "That [delivery delay] risk is really a binary risk and it's an intolerable risk," explained Brian Shirken, principal of Columbus Pacific Properties, during another conference session.
To try to reduce the close calls, Gilbane Development Company's Broderick said, "It's an all-hands-on-deck approach. You've got to have a get it done approach with the GC. If you see that they can't find a concrete contractor and you've got one three states over that owes you a favor, you're picking up the phone and making some calls.


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Teleworking and the implications for taxation in the context of company tax
How does remote working influence the place where the company's profits will be taxed?
Author: Olivier Michiels, Partner BDO Tax
The OECD states that a company is taxable in the country where it is a tax resident unless it has a taxable permanent establishment in another treaty country. The location of the company's directors/senior management/employees is a crucial element for determining a company's tax residence and the presence of a permanent establishment . Due to the COVID-19 measures and mandatory teleworking, they (possibly partly) carry out their activities abroad – even if this is at the employee's home. This raises the question whether that has an impact on the place where the company's profits will be taxed.
Tax residence of the company
In an international tax context and under most treaties, the tax residence of companies is determined by taking the place where the company is managed into account. This is the place where
the company's policy decisions are made;
the Board of Directors holds its meetings;
senior executive management carries out its activities;
important commercial decisions are made;
the company's daily management takes place;
the headquarters of the company (group) is located.
Obviously, none of these criteria is decisive per se and all of the factual circumstances must always be taken into account.
But what happens when the company's management is no longer centralised in one place, due to travel restrictions or because of voluntary teleworking, and when managers carry out their activities and make decisions from their country of residence? The company's tax residence (and the place where the company is primarily taxable) may change as a result. Several countries could also claim taxing rights over the company's profits, thus potentially culminating in a situation of double taxation (or double non-taxation).
Moreover, directors/employees performing activities abroad on behalf of the company can also imply that the company is considered to have a permanent establishment abroad. This will mainly be the case if:
the company has a fixed place of business which is used to carry out the company's business – in whole or in part – in another country. Examples include a place of management, a branch, an office, a factory, a workshop, etc.;
the company has a dependent agent abroad. This person who is economically and legally dependent on the company, usually plays the most important role in negotiating and concluding agreements that are then systematically concluded by the foreign company without substantial changes to the agreement;
the activities carried out by the fixed place of business and/or the dependent agent are not of a preparatory or supporting nature.
The question that subsequently arises is whether the home office of a foreign employee/director must be regarded as a fixed place of business, or whether the negotiation/signing of contracts from this home office implies that the company has a dependent agent and would thus become (possibly partly) taxable abroad.
The OECD's position
"Unforeseen and temporary change, as a result of COVID-19, including telework, should not have any adverse consequences for the company's taxability and the country where that happens."
Both the issue of the tax residence of companies and that of the permanent establishment are raised in the recommendations of the OECD, which state that the unforeseen and temporary change, as a result of COVID-19, should not have any adverse consequences for the company's taxability.
With regard to tax residence, a change in the company's place of management should not give rise to a change in the company's tax residence.
With regard to the issue of permanent establishment, the OECD recommendation states that a home office can, under certain circumstances, qualify as a permanent establishment. If the teleworking situation arises as a result of the COVID-19 measures, however, the use of the home office is a consequence of a temporary and exceptional situation and/or a decision by the government, not by the company. This implies that neither the condition of permanence (requiring the establishment to be available to the company in a more or less permanent manner), nor the condition of disposal (requiring the company to have a right of disposal over the establishment) have been satisfied.
The OECD adopts a similar position with regard to the dependent agent. Due to the temporary and exceptional nature of the measures/situation, the dependent agent cannot be expected to usually conclude agreements in the name and on behalf of the company.
Several countries – including Australia, Canada, Greece, Ireland and the United Kingdom – have issued guidelines in line with the OECD's recommendation, confirming the application of the aforementioned principle.
What is the relevance for Belgian companies with foreign employees?
No specific guidelines were issued in Belgium. Nor do the bilateral agreements with Germany, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands contain any specific provisions. Given that Belgium is an OECD member, it is likely though that the OECD's recommendations will be followed. Formal confirmation of this is still lacking, however. A discussion with the Belgian Tax Administration may therefore be on the cards.
With regard to the qualification of a home office as a permanent establishment in particular, reference can be made to the position of the Office for Advance Rulings. The Office has indeed already provided a number of criteria in various rulings to assess whether or not there is a permanent establishment:
Is the use of the home office an essential condition in the employment contract?
Does the employment contract stipulate that the employee's work must be performed from his or her home office or is the employee free to decide from where he or she will perform his or her work?
Is the employee directly/indirectly reimbursed for the costs associated with setting up/using this home office?
Is there an indication of the employer's presence at the employee's address (name plate, home address listed on business cards, listing on the website, etc.)?
What is the employee's position in the company? Does his or her position relate to internal business operations (preparatory or supporting activities) or to the employer's core activities?
Obviously, these criteria are mainly considered when determining whether the employee's home office can qualify as a permanent establishment in Belgium. For the assessment abroad, the point of view of the tax authorities in the country of residence on the qualification of a home office as a permanent establishment must always be considered.
However, the story doesn't simply end if the existence of a taxable permanent establishment can be excluded under the treaty. An assessment will have to be made whether the Belgian company is subject to certain tax obligations in the employee's country of residence. Foreign companies, for example, may not have a permanent establishment under the double taxation treaty, but can still be deemed to have a Belgian establishment based on Belgian tax legislation.
The conditions for this are considerably stricter than those under the treaty. For example there is no exclusion for preparatory/supporting activities (the so-called negative provisions), it is sufficient that the company's employees in Belgium provide services for more than 30 days over a 12-month period and the employee/representative does not require an authorisation to conclude contracts in Belgium on behalf of the foreign company. The mere presence of a representative is sufficient.
Although the presence of a Belgian establishment will not give rise to (possibly additional) taxation in Belgium – given that there is no taxable permanent establishment under the treaty -, the company will have to comply with certain tax obligations (for example, submitting a tax declaration for the foreign company) and can also be fined if they are not complied with.
Besides this obligation to declare, the foreign company will have to join a Belgian social insurance fund for the self-employed and will have to pay an annual contribution for companies.
In the converse situation, Belgian companies must always check whether certain tax obligations apply to them in the employee's country of residence, even if they do not have a taxable permanent establishment there under the applicable double taxation treaty. In practice, we note that this aspect is often forgotten, resulting in needless financial consequences.
What about after COVID-19?
As for the taxation of companies, the impact of a more permanent teleworking situation must also be considered. As mentioned above, the OECD places particular emphasis on the temporary and exceptional nature of the COVID-19 measures, concluding that there may be no impact on the place where the profits of the company will be taxed.
If teleworking no longer is the result of temporary and exceptional measures imposed by the government but of a decision by the company or the employee, the company must also take the tax consequences of this decision into account.
If the directors/employees regularly work from home or regularly conclude contracts in their country of residence, the tax impact of the new situation on corporate tax residence and/or the presence of a taxable permanent establishment abroad must certainly be considered.
If the tax consequences of teleworking are insufficiently or not taken into account, this may give rise to discussions with the (Belgian) Tax Administration, which in turn can result in double taxation and costly and time-consuming procedures. Not just for the company itself, but also for the employees. Even if there is no taxable permanent establishment in the country of residence, this does not guarantee that the Belgian company/employer is not obliged to fulfil local tax obligations in the country of residence. We therefore recommend mapping out the job descriptions of cross-border workers who work from home and analysing whether their activities in their country of residence could potentially give rise to the creation of a permanent establishment in that country.
Do you want to know more about the impact of teleworking on the permanent establishment for foreign activities?
Don't hesitate to contact our Tax experts via tax@bdo.be.
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Autonomous Solutions Named Finalist for Prestigious Award for Autonomous Tractor Concept
Visit http://www.edisonawards.com for further information
Autonomous Solutions was named a finalist for an Edison Award for its work with CNH Industrial, Case IH, and New Holland Agriculture on the Autonomous Tractor Concept.
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Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI) has been named a finalist for the 2018 Edison Awards for its work in the development of the Autonomous Tractor Concept with CNH Industrial and its brands Case IH and New Holland Agriculture.
ASI is the autonomous technology provider for CNH Industrial, parent company of Case IH and New Holland Agriculture and jointly announced the Autonomous Tractor Concept with those companies in late 2016.
The Autonomous Tractor Concept is the first fully functioning large scale autonomous tractor. It is capable of autonomous seeding, planting, and tillage for broad acre and row crop farming. The vehicles are also capable of obstacle detection which will enhance safety in the agriculture industry.
The Edison Awards, named after Thomas Edison, recognizes and honors the world's best in innovators and innovations. The Edison Awards will announce gold, silver and bronze award winners at the 31st Annual Edison Awards held April 11 in New York City.
"We're delighted that the Autonomous Tractor Concept has been selected as a finalist in the Edison Awards," says Bret Turpin, project manager for ASI Agriculture. "There are many other great companies and exciting products being listed and we're excited to be listed alongside them."
ASI previously won an Edison Award in 2013 for its patented Guideline Robotic Convoy System. Guideline is a ground vehicle convoy solution that tethers unmanned follower vehicles to a manned or unmanned lead vehicle. Follower vehicles execute the exact path the leader takes.
All nominations are reviewed by the Edison Awards Steering Committee with the final ballot being sent to an independent judging panel. Final winners will be announced April 11, 2018. The judging panel was comprised of more than 3,000 professionals from the fields of product development, design, engineering, science, marketing and education, including professional organizations representing a wide variety of industries and disciplines.
For more information on the Edison Awards, please visit http://www.edisonawards.com.
About Autonomous Solutions, Inc.
Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI) designs and manufactures unmanned vehicle systems, software, and components that are OEM agnostic. ASI's robotic kits and command and control software can be leveraged in a variety of industries including agriculture, automotive, mining, military, security, and industrial applications. ASI's vehicle automation kits are OEM independent and have been used for many different applications. Clients have experienced enhanced safety, increased efficiency, and improved accuracy.
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Q: Flutter - Clipping Path I draw looks reverse I want to clip this path in design :

but the code works like this :

return Scaffold(
      body: Center(
        child: Container(
          child: CustomPaint(
            painter: CurvePainter(),
            child: Container(
              child: Center(child: Text("TEST")),
            ),
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

class CurvePainter extends CustomPainter {
  @override
  void paint(Canvas canvas, Size size) {
    Paint paint = new Paint()..color = AppColors.colorPrimary;
    // create a path

    Path path = Path();
    path.lineTo(0, size.height * 0.75);
    path.quadraticBezierTo(size.height, size.height * 0.75, size.width, size.width * 0.30);
    path.lineTo(size.width, 0);
    canvas.drawPath(path, paint);
  }

  @override
  bool shouldRepaint(CustomPainter oldDelegate) => true;
}

I have the same problem when I copy the code from the sources I see on the internet.
How can I solve this problem?
Thank you.

A: You can copy paste run full code below
For the screen, the start point (0,0) is the screen's top left corner
You can first move to path.moveTo(0, size.height); and start drawing
You can reference https://medium.com/flutter-community/paths-in-flutter-a-visual-guide-6c906464dcd0
code snippet
class CurvePainter extends CustomPainter {
  @override
  void paint(Canvas canvas, Size size) {
    Paint paint = new Paint()..color = Colors.pink;
    // create a path

    Path path = Path();
    path.moveTo(0, size.height);
    path.lineTo(0, size.height * 0.6);
    /*path.quadraticBezierTo(
        size.height, size.height * 0.10, size.width, size.width * 0.5);*/
    path.quadraticBezierTo(
        size.width / 3, size.height * 0.45, size.width, size.height * 0.45);
    path.lineTo(size.width, size.height);
    canvas.drawPath(path, paint);
  }

working demo

full code
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() {
  WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
  runApp(MyApp());
}

class CurvePainter extends CustomPainter {
  @override
  void paint(Canvas canvas, Size size) {
    Paint paint = new Paint()..color = Colors.pink;
    // create a path

    Path path = Path();
    path.moveTo(0, size.height);
    path.lineTo(0, size.height * 0.6);
    /*path.quadraticBezierTo(
        size.height, size.height * 0.10, size.width, size.width * 0.5);*/
    path.quadraticBezierTo(
        size.width / 3, size.height * 0.45, size.width, size.height * 0.45);
    path.lineTo(size.width, size.height);
    canvas.drawPath(path, paint);
  }

  @override
  bool shouldRepaint(CustomPainter oldDelegate) => true;
}

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      title: 'Flutter Demo',
      theme: ThemeData(
        primarySwatch: Colors.blue,
        visualDensity: VisualDensity.adaptivePlatformDensity,
      ),
      home: MyHomePage(title: 'Flutter Demo Home Page'),
    );
  }
}

class MyHomePage extends StatefulWidget {
  MyHomePage({Key key, this.title}) : super(key: key);

  final String title;

  @override
  _MyHomePageState createState() => _MyHomePageState();
}

class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: Center(
        child: Container(
          child: CustomPaint(
            painter: CurvePainter(),
            child: Container(
              child: Center(
                  child: Padding(
                padding: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 120.0),
                child: Text("TEST"),
              )),
            ),
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

A: Try put in a ListView with reverse property true.

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For the last two weeks, bestselling author Ben Mezrich has been reading your questions. He answered so many (thanks Ben!) that we are going to split his responses into two posts, one this week (now) and one next week. Find out what book Ben recommends, where (and when) he writes, and what "turns him on" (when it comes to what he likes to write about!). Take it away Ben...
I lack inspiration sitting at a computer I much prefer to write old style pen and paper in the corner of a coffee shop gives me a chance to people watch! How and where do you write? --SOMEBODY BEAR
I write in my writing cave, usually late at night but sometimes early in the morning. When I'm deep into a book I'll write all night, starting at around 11 pm through 9 or 10 in the morning. I get into a deep state of trance, almost, and can write for days on end. I kind of fall apart physically.
I was wondering how you know that you're a good writer? I guess I'm asking how I can get my self esteem up to keep writing and not give up on any specific idea? --SARAH
Yes, you have to have a lot of confidence in yourself when you're
starting out, because everyone around you will be skeptical, and you'll
also feel like you're being judged when you finally submit things to
publishers. You have to believe that this is what you do, this is all
that want to do, and this is something you can do better than anyone
there room for uncompromised natural writing styles - say for instance
that which is rich in detail and digression - perhaps even pushing a
few 'prison yard' boundaries? Or these days, would you say minimalist
instant gratification? --SPMOUNT
Whoah, that's a pretty intense question. There is always room for
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something people are comfortable with.
Are there some things that you could point to in your rejected projects that I should avoid? Would you say it was the topic, dialogue, plot, writing style, etc.? --ERNEST DEMPSEY
Yes, unless it's memoir, try and avoid the first person, it kind of screams "first novel". There are some great books on writing -- I'd pick up Albert Zuckerman's book on writing thrillers. Every book, at its heart, has to follow the rules of thrillers, the three act system, etc.
Are you still a "hypochondriac?" Photos of you and the Bugman tell me that perhaps, times have changed.--MERLE GORNICK
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It looks like you spent your early writing years concentrating on fiction, but later made a comfortable home in the non-fiction genre. What caused you to make the switch? And after "Bringing Down the House," what was it about writing non-fiction that has kept you going for four more books? Do you still write/ plan on publishing more fiction in the future? --MATT
I love these true, wild stories that I write now, about young people
doing wild things and making fortunes. I switched because I ran into
these MIT kids in a bar and they invited me along for the ride. Now I
feel like this is my voice, what I want to write. I'll probably do
fiction here and there, but the true stories turn me on.
I heard somewhere that you first met some members of the MIT blackjack team in a Boston bar, which led to your book, "Bringing Down the House." Is that true? If so, how did your interaction with them make you decide it would be worthwhile to write a book about them? --ANNE
Yes, true. I met them at Crossroads, an MIT dive bar on the river. These were geeky, math science guys with way too much money, all of it in hundred dollar bills. I had to follow them to Vegas. The rest, as they say, is history!!!
The second set of answers is live! Keep reading...
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Algeria's Army Chief Threatens Ailing President Abdelaziz, Says He's Unfit For Office
The Algeria's influential army chief, General Ahmed Gaid Salah, has threatened 82 year old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was struck by stroke and has been on wheel chair since 2013.
The army chief is set to declare the ailing President unfit for office, a move that could pave the way for the ailing leader's ouster amid weeks of mass protests against his lengthy rule.
The declaration by General Ahmed, in a speech carried on state television, was the latest sign that Bouteflika's core allies were increasingly seeing his departure as the way to solve Algeria's biggest political crisis in decades.
Virtually every day, tens of thousands of protesters have marched in cities across this North African nation demanding that Bouteflika should step down.
General Ahmed said: "we must find a way out of this crisis immediately, within the constitutional framework."
The army chief, who is among the most powerful men in Algeria, added: "the only guarantee for political stability" is to launch the constitutional process that would empower lawmakers to determine whether Bouteflika is fit to exercise the duties of the presidency.
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The 82-year-old wheelchair-bound leader has barely been seen in public since a 2013 stroke and recently spent two weeks in a medical facility in Switzerland.
If the measure to declare him unfit is approved by a two-thirds majority in parliament, Bouteflika would be forced to step down. Then, the president of the Senate would take hold of the reins of government until elections are held.
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AMD Gains on Intel in x86 Chip Market: Mercury Research
Advanced Micro Devices chipped away at rival Intel's dominance in the global x86 processor space in the second quarter, seeing its market share jump to 19.4 percent on the strength of its Fusion chips, according to market research firm Mercury Research.
AMD's market share jumped from 17.8 percent in the second quarter of 2010 and 18.2 percent in the first quarter this year, according to Mercury's numbers, which were released July 28. Most of that growth came at the expense of Intel, which saw its market share drop to 79.9 percent.
That compares with 81.3 percent in the second quarter last year, an 81 percent in the first quarter of 2011. For its part, Via Technologies saw its market share stay stead, at 0.8 percent. The company garnered 0.9 percent of the market both in the second quarter of 2010 and the first quarter this year.
Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury, said AMDs Fusion chips-particularly the Fusion C-Series "Ontario" chips for smaller PCs and the newer A-Series "Llano" processors for mainstream systems.
"Together these devices allowed AMD to increase shipments in the mobile market by 10 percent, and enabled the company to out-ship the competition and gain market share in the second quarter," McCarron said in a statement.
AMD at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in January released the first of its much-anticipated Fusion chips-or APUs (accelerated processing units), as AMD calls them-which integrate the CPU and high-level graphics capabilities on the same piece of silicon. AMD officials tout the architecture as offering greater performance while driving down power consumption.
A host of systems makers-including Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo and Acer-are rolling out new PCs powered by Llano, which offers such features as AMD's AllDay Power and dynamic switchable graphics for long battery life and AMD's Turbo Core technology, which boosts the performance of the CPU and GPU based on the workloads to help improve performance and energy efficiency.
During the company's second-quarter earnings call, CFO and interim CEO Thomas Seifert said the Fusion chips, including Llano, were ramping quickly, helping the company hit a $61 million profit during the three-month period.
"The success of the APUs demonstrates that we have the right strategy," Seifert said on a conference call with journalists and analysts.
The APUs account for about 70 percent of notebook chip shipments and revenues, AMD officials said. They also represent about 40 percent of all AMD chips sold.
For its part, Intel is seeing strong adoption of the "Sandy Bridge" Core i3, i5 and i7 processors that also first appeared at CES in January, and also offer integrated graphics and CPUs on the same chip.
During their second-quarter earnings call, Intel officials said the Sandy Bridge chips saw the fastest ramp of any product in the company's history, and will account for two-thirds of the Intel chips that will be sold this year.
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Color-changing stickers are being made by the researcher to detect the COVID-19
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Spread of COVID-19 has been happening in a rampant manner still now. Therefore, researchers have been trying to find ways to detect COVID-19 effectively and creatively as soon as possible. In this way, detection and management of cases may become easy. Researchers from the University of California have been trying to develop a color changing sticker for COVID-19 detection.
Sticker can be placed within the cloth, surgical or N95 mask to detect the coronairus. It can be looked as a test strip with a blister pack that may change color as soon as it comes in the contact of the breath and saliva of COVID-19 patient.
Following to the breathing of mask wearer, test strip can detect the protein molecules of the COVID-19. Following to the removal of the mask along with the test material, content is squeezed out over the test strip. In cases test strip changes to a specific color then it may mean that molecules of infection are present.
Test strip is quite similar to the pregnancy test kit that is usually used in the home. Control line can be seen in the strip that may indicate about the positive result. However, these test strips on the mask may not be able to replace the testing protocol that is being followed now. Mask with the color changing stickers are made just for the surveillance purpose. It takes a similar approach to a smoke detector. By wearing these stickers in your mask, it may be possible to know whether there is a problem with you or not. Later on, sophisticated testing techniques can be utilized to be more certain.
Before further utilization of these test strips, it may be tested with the saliva of COVID-19 patients. Later on, it may be given to the healthcare workers also.
Researchers have suggested a way of surveillance on COVID-19 in a reliable and affordable way through this method. It is a simple method at the same time. On the daily basis, these test kit stickers can be used. In spite of poor setting in terms of resource, it can be easily implemented. It can be looked as a wearable sensor against the COVID-19.
Through these test strips, detection of COVID-19 new infection can be done more easily and effectively. It is especially beneficial for the vulnerable communities.
For the production of these strips, few cents may be required only. Therefore, it can be looked as an affordable option definitely. High risk areas such as homeless shelter, prisons and dialysis, it can be utilized effectively without much hassle.
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Malaysian Aviation Commission (MAVCOM) issues show cause letter to Rayani Air
Kuala Lumpur, 25 May 2016: Following the provisional suspension of Rayani Air's Air Operator Certificate ("AOC") by the Department of Civil Aviation ("DCA") on 11 April 2016, the Malaysian Aviation Commission ("MAVCOM") conducted an evaluation of Rayani Air's commercial standing and capabilities to determine its ability to continue as an Air Service Licence ("ASL") holder.
Upon completion of the said evaluation, MAVCOM has today issued a show cause letter to Rayani Air. Rayani Air is required to submit its representation in writing within 14 days to MAVCOM before MAVCOM decides on whether Rayani Air should be allowed to continue to hold the ASL or whether it should be revoked, or suspended.
Matters relating to the issuance, suspension and revocation of an ASL come within the scope of responsibility of MAVCOM since its establishment on 1 March 2016. In order to operate a passenger and cargo airline business, Rayani Air requires both an ASL and an AOC. Should MAVCOM revoke Rayani Air's ASL, Rayani Air is no longer allowed to provide air transport services commercially in Malaysia.
In the meantime, it is advisable that consumers refrain from making any flight arrangements with Rayani Air to ensure that they do not face any inconvenience in their travels. In addition, MAVCOM will work with the relevant parties to assist affected consumers.


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Listen: French baguette added to U.N. world heritage list
"The humble French baguette is being inscribed on the UN's list of intangible cultural heritage items as a prize tradition that should be protected by humanity. No doubt. You're here. UNESCO experts scattering in Morocco this week decided that the baguette deserved UN recognition after France's culture ministry warned of a continuous decline in the number of traditional bakeries 400 bakeries per year have closed in France over the past half century. But France still makes about 16 million loaves per day. Two 54. Video games are among the most popular gifts for kids over Christmas. That's not surprising, the one day you could be buying them for your dog"
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The humble French baguette is being inscribed on the UN's list of intangible cultural heritage items as a prize tradition that should be protected by humanity. No doubt. You're here. UNESCO experts scattering in Morocco this week decided that the baguette deserved UN recognition after France's culture ministry warned of a continuous decline in the number of traditional bakeries 400 bakeries per year have closed in France over the past half century. But France still makes about 16 million loaves per day. Two 54. Video games are among the most popular gifts for kids over Christmas. That's not surprising, the one day you could be buying them for your dog


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Learn English > English lessons and exercises > English test #116984: Because, Because of, Just and Simply because
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Because, Because of, Just and Simply because
Because, because of, just because and simply because
Because introduces clauses of cause and reason. It is a subordinating conjunction.
This means that the clause it introduces is a subordinate clause, which needs a main clause to make it complete.
A comma is used when the subordinate clause comes before the main clause.
-Most people left early (main clause) because the hosts had an argument (subordinate clause).
-Because they were sick (subordinate clause), they went to bed early (main clause).
Why is not used instead of because when reasons are given.
-I'm going to the Town Hall next week because there will be an emergency meeting there.
Not.... to the Town Hall next week for/why there will be an emergency ......
Because of:
Because of is a two-word preposition meaning "as a result of".
-Because of the very strong winds, the regatta was cancelled.
-There were long queues at the bus stop because of the train strike.
Just because, simply because:
Because can be emphasized with just because and simply because.
-Just because you're a good runner, doesn't give you the right to look down on other runners.
-I don't want to join a gang simply because I think it is wrong.
English exercise "Because, Because of, Just and Simply because" created by leopold with The test builder. [More lessons & exercises from leopold]
1. becausebecause ofI don't know we were late, we ran the whole way home.
2. I called a taxi becausebecause ofI don't know it was raining heavily.
3. The game was called off becausebecause ofI don't know the inclement weather.
4. simply becausejust becauseI don't know she is beautiful doesn't mean she is kind.
5. becausebecause ofI don't know we were afraid of the dark, we avoided the cellar.
6. Many trains were cancelled becausebecause ofI don't know the stormy weather.
7. If I am good at running it's simply becausejust becauseI don't know I train hard.
8. because ofbecauseI don't know it can be misused doesn't mean it can't be used well.
9. just becausesimply becauseI don't know he is rich, doesn't mean he can disrespect the poor.
10. He couldn't make it to the party because ofbecauseI don't know he was ill.
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Общие сведения
Административный центр — село Владимировка.

Глава сельского поселения — Дёмин Алексей Александрович.

Административное устройство
В состав сельского поселения Владимировка входят:
 село Владимировка,
 село Дубровка,
 деревня Гремячка.

Экономика и социальная сфера
Сельскохозяйственные предриятия: СПК «Союз», СПК «Луч», ЗАО «Росинка», КФХ «Автомобилист». В административном центре сельского поселения — селе Владимировка — есть школа, детский сад, кабинет врача общей практики, работает социальная служба, действует православная церковь.

Примечания

Сельские поселения Самарской области


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Traveling Coaches was on hand for the 2012 ALA (Association of Legal Administrators) annual conference. Our very own Joe Buser presented in the Business Matters! sessions track. He talked about evolving law firm models calling for new legal secretary work flows and skill sets. Always interested in what our firms' administrators have to say and inspired by Joe's topic, this year we conducted a short survey to find out exactly what's on their minds when it comes to the changing role of the legal secretary.
The survey was presented to visitors at the Traveling Coaches booth. Altogether, 102 conference attendees participated in the online survey. Of course we wanted to have some fun with our survey and try something new, so representatives in the exhibit floor booth leveraged the use of iPads to facilitate the survey. The following is a summary of what we learned when we contemplated the responses.
How big of a concern is the changing role of the legal secretary at your firm?
The big question on our mind these days and, frankly, many of our clients' minds, is how concerned are firms about the changing role of the secretary? The survey says that they are plenty concerned. Seventy percent of the respondents have a high or very high concern about the changing role of secretaries in their firm.
We were also curious to see how the secretary-to-lawyer ratio played a role. The majority of responses (56%) maintain a 1: 3 ratio, followed by 20% who selected the 1:4 ratio. A lucky 15% still enjoy a 1:2 ratio. Two participants selected the 1:5 ratio and one selected the 1:6 ratio options. This question allowed for additional comments. A couple of the responses intrigued me. One firm does not have secretaries. Instead they utilize paralegals as lawyer support (I wonder what their billable requirements look like). Another shared that the ratios vary depending on workload and type of law. Personally, I liked that one the best. It is rare to find any two lawyers who work exactly the same that can guarantee the right mix of tasks for a shared secretarial assignment.
With roles changing and ratios increasing, who is managing the secretary's workload? Forty-nine percent responded that the lawyers are managing the work. Just less than 30% indicated that someone in HR was managing secretarial work, followed by approximately 19% utilizing a secretarial manager for the task. This was another question where we included an option for sharing other responses. Most responses still fell into the administrative category of office or legal administrators, but some surprised me, like business managers. I'll have to explore that role further one of these days.
If we look at the same data by ratios, as the ratios increase in the number of assigned lawyers to each secretary, the more likely it is that someone in a human resources or administrative position is managing workloads. As a side note, with only three respondents selecting the 1:5 or 1:6 ratio selection, we are only looking at the top three ratios right now. Respondents were allowed to pick all options that applied to their firm so numbers may not add up to 100%.
What tasks do your secretaries perform on a daily basis for their assigned lawyers?
Next, we set out to compare tasks across the three most common ratios selected by the survey respondents (1:2, 1:3, 1:4). Typing and formatting documents is number 1 across all three, and then things shuffle around a bit. Interestingly, two historically common tasks, drafting documents and communicating with clients, move down the list as ratios increase.
In focus groups, when asked what they would like to be able to do for their assigned lawyers, secretaries often tell us that they would like to be able to do more electronic filing and internet research to help their lawyer's workload. Lawyers tell us that they like to get help from their secretaries with presentations. It appears that there are some communication gaps to fill for secretaries to express the desire to take on more challenging work and the need to develop new technology skills development beyond Microsoft Word.
My firm has already taken steps to address the changing role of the legal secretary.
Slightly less than 60% of respondents say their firms are already beginning to address the changing role of the legal secretary. We asked those respondents to help us understand what steps they are taking. 40% have defined or are in the process of defining new core competencies. 35% have either conducted or are planning to conduct skills assessment. Mentoring programs have been established or are in the works for 15%. Another 15% have changed their staffing models to include new roles like junior secretaries which are based on levels of expertise. Five percent are looking at certification programs. Another respondent shared that they are looking to implement secretarial teams for some practice areas or teams of lawyers.
One thing is for certain: Things are changing and we have much to consider and discuss as we navigate through these changes. If you are a member of CLASSclub, Joe Buser will give an encore presentation of his ALA educational session, "New Technology Competencies to Address the Evolving Role of Legal Secretaries." So be sure to watch for that date which will be published soon! As always if you want to talk more about the topic, you can leave comments here or find us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. We also have an email address dedicated to all things at Next Generation Learning. Just email us at NextGenLearning@travelingcoaches.com.
Tami Schiller is Senior Analyst and Consultant for Traveling Coaches.


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The Condition of Poverty: A Case Study of Low Socioeconomic Status on Chinese Students' National College Entrance Exam and College Enrolment
Liu, Dongfang; Ku, Heng-Yu; Morgan, Thomas Lee – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2019
The condition of poverty is pervasive worldwide and is multifaceted in its ability to have a deleterious generational impact. Although China has greatly reduced the proportion of people living in abject poverty over the past three decades, there are still millions of families living in extreme poverty. This study investigated the influences of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Environment, Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement
More Individual Choice? Students' Share in Decision-Making at the Transition to High School in Japan (1995-2009)
Entrich, Steve R. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2019
According to sociological rational choice theory, students' class-specific educational decisions at key transition points significantly contribute to educational and social inequalities. Yet, while theory missed to clearly accentuate all relevant actors' influences on students' decisions, research generally failed to adequately empirically account…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Decision Making, Social Differences, Family Characteristics
Access to English in Pakistan: A Source of Prestige or a Hindrance to Success
Haidar, Sham; Fang, Fan – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2019
Previous studies focusing on the role of English in developing countries have reached different conclusions. Some studies consider the English language to be beneficial for students' academic and professional development, while others claim that it affects students' progress and conceptual clarity and thus acts as a source of students' failure.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Private Schools, Public Schools
A Study of Bangladesh's Secondary School Curriculum Textbooks in Students' National Identity Construction in an Overseas Context
Qazi, M. Habib; Shah, Saeeda – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2019
This paper problematizes the interplay between curriculum textbooks and national identity constructions. Drawing on data from Bangladesh's school-textbooks, and students' and teachers' perspectives, the study identifies factors shaping Bangladesh's national identity in the textbook discourses and discusses students' experiences of these in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Secondary School Curriculum, National Curriculum
Students' Beliefs and Experiences of Interdisciplinary Learning
Zhan, Ying; So, Winnie Wing Mui; Cheng, Irene Nga Yee – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2017
This study explored senior secondary students' beliefs and experiences of learning an interdisciplinary curriculum, Liberal Studies, in Hong Kong. Through the analysis of focus-group interviews with 168 students, most of the students were found to enjoy or at least not resist interdisciplinary learning, and preferred to study real-world…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Beliefs
What Would Make Them Read More? Insights from Western Australian Adolescents
Merga, Margaret Kristin – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2016
The link between recreational book reading and improved literacy performance is consistently supported by educational research. Increasing engagement in recreational book reading remains imperative for English teachers, though how to best facilitate this in a secondary context is an object of contention, with limited research in this field. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Habits, Recreational Reading, Reading Skills
Why Go to School? Student, Parent and Teacher Beliefs about the Purposes of Schooling
Widdowson, Deborah A.; Dixon, Robyn S.; Peterson, Elizabeth R.; Rubie-Davies, Christine M.; Irving, S. Earl – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2015
This qualitative study explored the beliefs of students, parents and teachers on the purposes of schooling in order to provide a context for understanding beliefs and attitudes to school learning and achievement. Focus groups were conducted with Year 9 and 10 students (aged 13-15 years) and parents and teachers in three secondary schools in…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Parent Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
New Zealand Students' Perceptions of Parental Involvement in Learning and Schooling
Clinton, Janet; Hattie, John – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2013
This study investigated the relation between multidimensional aspects of high school students' perceptions of their parental involvement and their achievement. It explored differences in socio-economic backgrounds, ethnicity, gender, and higher and lower achieving students, and a structural model was developed to further investigate these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Questionnaires, High School Students
Cooperative Learning in Vietnam and the West-East Educational Transfer
Nguyen-Phuong-Mai, Mai; Terlouw, Cees; Pilot, Albert – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2012
Under pressure of the continuing need to modernize, Vietnam is rapidly reforming its education system. Cooperative Learning (CL) with a Western-based model is being enthusiastically applied. This paper suggests that an authentic form of CL has long existed in the foundations of Vietnamese education. The reasons why Western-based CL is encouraged…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Culturally Relevant Education
Researching High-Achieving Students' Appraisals of Classroom Motivation and Learning Using a Diary Technique
Ng, Chi-Hung – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2004
Most of the research on motivation in education often uses measures taken outside the context of students' actual learning activities. This paper, however, maintains that students' motivation and learning are situated. Using a diary technique, this study explored how a class of high-achieving students in an Australian state high school (N = 34)…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Student Motivation
"Eighty Per Cent Is Not Enough for Chinese-Australians but Seventy Per Cent Is Okay for Anglo-Australians"--Some Disturbing Consequences
Malik, Ranbir Singh – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2004
In a doctoral study undertaken at Edith Cowan University the author set out to investigate the influence of home and school environments on the academic performance and educational/occupational aspirations of high school students from eight Chinese-Australian and Anglo-Australian families residing in a middle class suburb of Perth metropolitan…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Participant Observation, Life Style, Occupational Aspiration


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On Michigan/Florida, Kucinich to the Rescue?
Deep-pocketed Dennis Kucinish is a man with a plan…
Former Democratic presidential candidate Dennis J. Kucinich has proposed a plan to seat delegations from Florida and Michigan at the Democratic National Convention based on the results of a fresh round of polling in the two states…
The plan would base the distribution of delegates on polling conducted by three firms, one selected by each campaign and a third chosen by the other two companies. Delegates would be apportioned based on the composite findings of the three polls. None of the firms could have previously been employed by either campaign.
Democrats are at a point now where even an ad hoc plan like having polling substitute for actual voting sounds reasonable. But you know what would probably be a better solution? If Dennis Kucinich, who is a superdelegate, actually endorsed somebody and then got all the other superdelegates to endorse somebody, too. Because after one of the two candidates gets the requisite number of delegates for the nomination, he or she can seat the Michigan and Florida delegates in a way that doesn't change the outcome of the race. And if that happened, oh, two months ago, that would be awesome.
Update: Another potential solution here.


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New ISO-Chemie factory investment boost for UK operations
New investment will allow UK customers to continue to benefit from rapid deliveries of new foam sealant tape products from the European facility.
ISO-Chemie, a leading foam sealant tape specialist, is investing in its international infrastructure to accommodate expansion and growth plans this year.
In a new move, which boosts customer service, the company is constructing an additional warehouse at its factory headquarters in Aalen, Germany, as part of a multi-million pound project to double current capacity and enhance green production processes.
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Customers will also continue to be able to collect UK stock as well as receive next day deliveries while architects and window and doors product specifiers, can tap into expertise around the benefits of using specialist technology to secure energy efficient solutions.
Andy Swift, Sales and Operations Manager - UK & ROI, said expansion provides the platform for further growth, in terms of both quantity and quality.
"We are seeing strong demand for our products from all sectors of the market. By making these investments now to support operations, we will remain well placed to provide customers with a fast, efficient and cost-effective service," he said.
"Indeed, the additional warehouse at our German factory ensures production keeps up with expected demand. With innovative products and construction increasing, we look forward to the next 12 months, particularly as building houses to higher air and thermal standards remains a priority.
"This is an important message that will continued to be pushed throughout 2021 to architects and other property specifiers. There are effective products out there to ensure that airtightness and thermal efficiency within buildings should never be overlooked or ignored - it's a matter of designing in these products."
ISO-Chemie is one of Europe's main producers of impregnated foam sealants, specialising in the manufacture of foam products from polyethylene, polypropylene and polyurethane using the latest production techniques. With hundreds of pallets in UK stock for next day delivery, the company can service the whole industry.


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Ozzy's Tragic Story Offers Important Lessons
Ozzy was never given a fair chance at life.
Torn away from his mother at the young age of only three weeks, Ozzy was sold to an unsuspecting young couple by a backyard breeder. Missing key nutrients from his mother's milk and lack of proper vaccinations left Ozzy in a place extremely susceptible to deadly diseases.
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Ozzy came to Austin Pets Alive! after his owners made several trips to the vet with the sick puppy and ultimately decided they couldn't afford his medical care. Parvovirus was suspected, but Ozzy repeatedly tested negative for this often fatal disease. After some TLC in our foster care, he seemed to be on the road to recovery. When he suddenly showed neurological symptoms, though, everyone's worst fears were confirmed - Ozzy had distemper.
Many people may simply know distemper as the "D" in the annual DHLPP (distemper, hepatitis (CAV-2), leptospirosis, parainfluenza, parvovirus) vaccine that their dog receives at the vet. This standard vaccine is almost 100 percent effective in preventing this horrible disease and it starts working immediately against the virus. Unfortunately, not enough people realize the importance of this inexpensive vaccination.
The disease attacks the gastrointestinal tract, skin, eye, lungs and nervous system, sometimes eventually culminating in seizures and death. The first and usually only symptom is either a runny nose (which is often indistinguishable from a common upper respiratory infection) or diarrhea (as in Ozzy's case). The virus becomes more obvious as it waxes and wanes and more symptoms appear, usually including severe pneumonia and high fever. 90 percent of dogs who are exposed, especially if vaccinated, will fight it off in the early stages and it will not progress. Of the 10 percent who get severe neurological symptoms of seizures and tremors, most will die.
Distemper treatment is so costly because of its duration. Treatment includes pain medicines (anti-inflammatories, pain killers and neuropathic pain killers), anti-convulsants and sedatives, strong antibiotics, vitamins and immune stimulants, de-wormers and eye medications to stimulate tear production and lubricate the eyes due to the "dry eye" that the disease causes. Additionally, APA! also uses up-and-coming treatments like the Newcastle vaccine (either administered by our vet clinic or by the White Angel Vet Clinic if injected through the spinal cord) to help battle distemper.
Even knowing the rough road ahead after his diagnosis, we refused to give up. Ozzy was given the best treatment possible, including the Newcastle vaccine, and was given round-the-clock care by some of our finest foster families. They bottle fed him. They picked him up to take him everywhere when his tremors got so bad he could no longer walk. They started a Facebook page for him, chronicling his story and encouraging others to follow his progress and recovery. They bathed him up to four times a day when Ozzy had incontinence issues. They raised money for his physical therapy sessions. They treated him as if he was a part of their own families. The hope was that he would be in the minority and that he would recover and regain his faculties to lead a happy, healthy life, like his foster brother (and distemper survivor), Jules.
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But all of the love in the world was unable to save this adorable Boxer boy. After suffering two seizures and being unable to keep down food or water, it was clear that Ozzy could not fight any longer. Ozzy died in the arms of those who loved him most … four pairs of hands held him until he took his very last breath. Distemper had won, and left a trail of destruction and heartache in the lives of everyone that Ozzy touched.
While Ozzy's story ends in heartbreak, APA! is proud to have helped give him a chance at survival and has a 90 percent plus success rate in helping other dogs, like Reba, beat this disease. Ozzy's legacy will live on and he will have a special place in the hearts of all that were lucky enough to know him.
Please consider donating in honor of this special pup to Ozzy's Fund, a fund dedicated to the medical care of animals infected with distemper, and help APA! continue the ongoing fight to save lives. And for those of you with dogs and puppies at home, please let Ozzy's story be a lesson to always keep your pets up-to-date on their vaccinations to protect them from this often deadly disease. To learn more about Ozzy's story and about distemper, visit the Ozzy Facebook page.
http://www.razoo.com/story/Ozzy
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Across all fields, an important challenge for instructors is how to create inclusive learning environments that enable students from varied backgrounds and experiences to thrive in our classrooms. The goal of this workshop is to share strategies for inclusive teaching. Participants will explore research on creating inclusive classroom environments with the goal of enhancing student engagement, students' sense of belonging, and student learning.


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