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Le Stade olympique d'Al-Kut (en ) est un stade à usage multiple situé à Al-Kut en Irak. Il est principalement utilisé pour les rencontres de football et les compétitions d'athlétisme. Le stade dispose d'une capacité de  places.

Le stade a accueilli la finale de la Super Coupe d'Irak 2019 le  entre Al-Zawra'a SC et Al-Shorta SC. Ce dernier a remporté la compétition pour la première fois de son histoire en s'imposant aux tirs au but (4–3) à la suite d'un match nul 1–1 à la fin du temps de jeu réglementaire. Lors de ce derby, les tribunes du stade ont affiché complet bien que les deux équipes proviennent de Bagdad (177 km d'Al-Kut).

Histoire
Les travaux de construction ont débuté en 2013 sous la gestion de la société irakienne Al Karama Company, qui est affiliée au ministère de l'Industrie et des Minéraux. Cinq ans plus tard, à la suite de contretemps et de retards dans la réalisation du projet, il a été convenu de confier le contrat à la société italo-suédoise Sport System pour finaliser la construction en 8 mois. Les travaux ont ainsi pu être entièrement achevés de manière que le complexe sportif puisse être mis en service dès 2018. Il a été officiellement inauguré le  par un match de football entre Al-Kut SC et Mossoul SC.

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Article connexe
 Championnat d'Irak de football

Équipement sportif achevé en 2018
Stade olympique
Stade multifonction en Irak
Stade de football en Irak
Stade d'athlétisme en Irak
Stade olympique


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Each character in the AD&D game has six abilities: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma. The first three abilities represent the physical nature of the character, while the second three quantify his mental and personality traits.
In various places throughout these rules, the following abbreviations are used for the ability names: Strength--Str; Dexterity--Dex; Constitution--Con; Intelligence--Int; Wisdom--Wis; Charisma--Cha.


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controls how fractions which are greater than 1 are printed.
if true, print them as a sum of an integral and the fractional part.
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G7 (anglicky Group of Seven), v různých obdobích také G6 nebo G8 je sdružení ekonomicky nejvyspělejších států světa (Francie, Itálie, Japonsko, Kanada, Německo, Spojené království a USA), zastoupeny jsou i státy Evropské unie (největší ekonomiky světa), které reprezentují předseda Evropské rady a předseda Evropské komise. Původně sdružení vzniklo jako G6, později se připojily i Kanada (1976) a Rusko (1997); Rusku bylo 18. března 2014 pozastaveno členství jako reakce na jeho anexi Krymu. Dohromady státy G8 v roce 2011 vytvořily 51 % světového hrubého domácího produktu.

Historie
Jako první byla vytvořena skupina G6 (Group of Six), která vznikla v roce 1975 na setkání svolaném francouzským prezidentem Valérym Giscardem d'Estaingem, kdy se šest tehdejších největších ekonomických velmocí (Francie, Západní Německo, Itálie, Japonsko, Spojené království a Spojené státy americké) dohodlo na každoročním setkávání. O rok později (1976) se na summitu v Portoriku ke skupině přidal sedmý člen – Kanada a vznikla tak skupina G7 (Group of Seven). Od roku 1977 se na pozvání Spojeného království účastní jednání i představitelé Evropské unie.

Rusko (tehdy jako Sovětský svaz) se začalo účastnit jednání už v roce 1991, od roku 1994 pořádalo samostatné mítinky se členy G7 (konaly se po hlavním summitu). Tato skupina se označovala jako P8 (Political 8) nebo G7 plus 1. Až v roce 1997, díky iniciativě tehdejšího prezidenta Spojených států Billa Clintona, se Rusko oficiálně připojilo ke G7 a vznikla tak skupina G8. Jednalo se však spíše o formální gesto prezidenta Clintona vůči ruskému prezidentu Borisi Jelcinovi. Toto rozhodnutí ale nezůstalo bez odezvy: v únoru 2005 požadovali dva američtí senátoři, Joe Lieberman a John McCain, odstoupení Ruska z G8 do doby, než ruský prezident Vladimir Putin nezajistí zlepšení dodržování lidských práv.

V roce 2014 bylo Rusko zbaveno členství ve skupině G8 v reakci na anexi Krymu. Skupina G8 se tak opět vrátila k původnímu formátu a opět se mluví o skupině G7.

Struktura a aktivity
G7 je neformální sdružení, z čehož vyplývá, že nemá žádnou vnitřní strukturu či hierarchii jako mezinárodní organizace typu Světové banky. Nemá ani stálý sekretariát nebo kanceláře jednotlivých členů. Jednotlivé země se k 1. lednu pravidelně střídají v předsednictví. Předsedající země je zodpovědná za plánování a pořádání řady ministerských setkání vrcholících výročním summitem, který se koná většinou v červnu.

Na jednotlivých ministerských setkáních se probírají záležitosti společného zájmu i globálního významu a zahrnují témata jako zdraví, uplatňování zákona, práce, ekonomický a sociální rozvoj, energetika, životní prostředí, zahraniční záležitosti, právo, terorismus nebo obchod. Nejznámějším z těchto setkání je tzv. G7, jež odkazuje výhradně na výroční mítink ministrů financí sedmi členských zemí mimo Ruska. Je to z toho důvodu, že Rusko není považováno za tak důležitou ekonomickou sílu (z hlediska HDP), jakou je ostatních sedm států (v r. 2016 bylo Rusko co do objemu HDP až na dvanáctém místě v pořadí světových ekonomik  a v přepočtu HDP na obyvatele dokonce až na 71. místě ve světě )

V roce 2005 byla ve skotském Gleneagles založena také skupina G8+5, která se schází na vlastních mítincích určených pro ministry energetiky a ministry financí všech osmi členských zemí a dále Číny, Mexika, Indie, Brazílie a Jihoafrické republiky.

Výroční summit

Summitu se účastní představitelé vlád všech osmi členských států a od roku 1977 také Evropská unie, která je zastoupena předsedou Evropské komise a představitelem té země, jež daný rok předsedá Radě Evropské unie.
Dějiště summitu se každoročně cyklicky střídá v následujícím pořadí: Francie, Spojené státy americké, Spojené království, Rusko, Německo, Japonsko, Itálie, Kanada (což s výjimkou Ruska odpovídá pořadí, v kterém se ke skupině připojily). Hostující země je zodpovědná za pořádání celého summitu i za jeho agendu.

Reference

Externí odkazy

Oficiální weby jednotlivých summitů
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Neoficiální weby zabývající se G8
 Guardian Unlimited
 Informační centrum G7 při Univerzitě v Torontu
Weby zaměřené proti G8
 Stránky brněnského alternativního festivalu, jehož letošním tématem je mimo jiné i G8
 Německá skupina, jež koordinuje přípravu demonstrací proti letošnímu summitu v Německu. Stránky v různých jazycích a částečně také i česky

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Q: Xcode - using a segue identifier to query a parse.com database I am new to Xcode (please be kind), I am developing an application for car sales using parse.com as a back-end. I found a great tutorial and modified it for my needs.
However, I would like to have a menu at the front end where the user could select the "series" of car they are interested in and from the segue between the menu and the table view controller use this to filter the parse.com query.
I have tried many approaches but none seem to work, could someone kindly help me out.
I have created 3 view controllers in my storyboard: menu -> tableViewController -> ViewController.
My current code is as bellow:
Car.h
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <Parse/Parse.h>

@interface Car : UIViewController

@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *model;
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *price;
@property (nonatomic, strong) PFFile *Photo1;
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *mileage;
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *year;
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *series;
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *BodyType;

@end

Car.m
#import "Car.h"

@implementation Car

@synthesize model;
@synthesize price;
@synthesize Photo1;
@synthesize mileage;
@synthesize year;
@synthesize series;
@synthesize BodyType;

@end

MenuViewController.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface MenuViewController : UIViewController

- (IBAction)serieone:(id)sender;
- (IBAction)serietwo:(id)sender;
- (IBAction)seriethree:(id)sender;
- (IBAction)seriefour:(id)sender;
- (IBAction)seriefive:(id)sender;
- (IBAction)seriesix:(id)sender;

@end

MenuViewController.m
#import "Car.h"
#import "MenuViewController.h"
#import "CarTableViewController.h"

@interface MenuViewController ()

@end

@implementation MenuViewController

- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil
{
self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
if (self) {
    // Custom initialization
}
return self;
}

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
}

- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
[super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}

- (IBAction)serieone:(id)sender {
// self.series = @"1 Series"
// [self performSegueWithIdentifier:@"serieOneSegue" sender:self];
}

- (IBAction)serietwo:(id)sender {
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.
// Other series types repeated
.

- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender {
// Car * CarTableViewController = segue.destinationViewController;
// CarTableViewController.series = self.series
}

    }
@end

CarTableViewController.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import <Parse/Parse.h>
#import "Car.h"

@interface CarTableViewController : PFQueryTableViewController

@end

CarTableViewController.m
#import "CarTableViewController.h"
#import "CarDetailViewController.h"
#import "Car.h"
#import "MenuViewController.h"

@interface CarTableViewController ()

@end

@implementation CarTableViewController {

}

- (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aCoder
{
self = [super initWithCoder:aCoder];
if (self) {
    // Custom the table

    // The className to query on
    self.parseClassName = @"Car";

    // The key of the PFObject to display in the label of the default cell style
    self.textKey = @"Model";

    // Whether the built-in pull-to-refresh is enabled
    self.pullToRefreshEnabled = YES;

    // Whether the built-in pagination is enabled
    self.paginationEnabled = YES;

    // The number of objects to show per page
    self.objectsPerPage = 10;
}
return self;
}

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
}

- (void)viewDidUnload
{
[super viewDidUnload];
// Release any retained subviews of the main view.
}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:    (UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
return (interfaceOrientation != UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown);
}

- (PFQuery *)queryForTable
{

PFQuery *query = [PFQuery queryWithClassName:self.parseClassName];

// need to replace the equal to as a variable which is provided from the button selector in MenuViewController

//[query whereKey:@"Series" equalTo:result];

query.cachePolicy = kPFCachePolicyCacheThenNetwork;

// If no objects are loaded in memory, we look to the cache first to fill the table
// and then subsequently do a query against the network.
/*    if ([self.objects count] == 0) {

 }*/

//    [query orderByAscending:@"name"];

return query;
}

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath object:(PFObject *)object
{
static NSString *simpleTableIdentifier = @"CarCell";

UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:simpleTableIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
    cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:simpleTableIdentifier];
}

// Configure the cell
PFFile *thumbnail = [object objectForKey:@"Photo1"];
PFImageView *thumbnailImageView = (PFImageView*)[cell viewWithTag:100];
thumbnailImageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"placeholder.jpg"];
thumbnailImageView.file = thumbnail;
[thumbnailImageView loadInBackground];

UILabel *modelLabel = (UILabel*) [cell viewWithTag:101];
modelLabel.text = [object objectForKey:@"Model"];

UILabel *priceLabel = (UILabel*) [cell viewWithTag:102];
priceLabel.text = [object objectForKey:@"Price"];

UILabel *mileageLabel = (UILabel*) [cell viewWithTag:103];
mileageLabel.text = [object objectForKey:@"Mileage"];

UILabel *yearLabel = (UILabel*) [cell viewWithTag:104];
yearLabel.text = [object objectForKey:@"Year"];

UILabel *seriesLabel = (UILabel*) [cell viewWithTag:105];
seriesLabel.text = [object objectForKey:@"Series"];

UILabel *bodytypeLabel = (UILabel*) [cell viewWithTag:106];
bodytypeLabel.text = [object objectForKey:@"BodyType"];

return cell;
}

- (void) objectsDidLoad:(NSError *)error
{
[super objectsDidLoad:error];

NSLog(@"error: %@", [error localizedDescription]);
}

- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender {
if ([segue.identifier isEqualToString:@"showCarDetail"]) {
    NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForSelectedRow];
    CarDetailViewController *destViewController = segue.destinationViewController;

    PFObject *object = [self.objects objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    Car *car = [[Car alloc] init];
    car.model = [object objectForKey:@"Model"];
    car.photo1 = [object objectForKey:@"Photo1"];
    car.price = [object objectForKey:@"Price"];
    car.series = [object objectForKey:@"Series"];
    car.derivative = [object objectForKey:@"BodyType"];
    car.mileage = [object objectForKey:@"Mileage"];

    destViewController.car = car;

}

}

@end

CarDetailViewController.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "Car.h"

@interface CarDetailViewController : UIViewController

@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet PFImageView *mainPhoto;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UILabel *priceLabel;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UILabel *seriesLabel;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UILabel *modelLabel;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UILabel *deivativeLabel;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UILabel *mileageLabel;

@property (nonatomic, strong) Car *car;

@end

CarDetailViewController.m
#import "CarDetailViewController.h"

@interface CarDetailViewController ()

@end

@implementation CarDetailViewController

@synthesize mainPhoto;
@synthesize priceLabel;
@synthesize seriesLabel;
@synthesize modelLabel;
@synthesize deivativeLabel;

@synthesize car;

- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil
{
self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
if (self) {
    // Custom initialization
}
return self;
}

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];

self.title = car.model;
self.priceLabel.text = car.price;
self.seriesLabel.text = car.series;
self.modelLabel.text = car.model;
self.deivativeLabel.text = car.derivative;
self.mileageLabel.text = car.mileage;
self.mainPhoto.file = car.Photo1;

- (void) viewDidUnload
{
[self setMainPhoto:nil];

[self setPriceLabel:nil];
[super viewDidUnload];

}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:    (UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}

@end

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Carbon Accounting on Behalf of Ancient Forests
Located in the heart of Mesoamerica's second largest tropical forest, the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR) is home to several thousand people, as well as jaguars, pumas, ocelots, monkeys, macaws, and scores of rare tree species. The reserve, established by the Guatemalan government in 1990, spans nearly 5.2 million acres (2.1 million hectares) and also includes the ancient Maya city of Tikal.
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Two young men measure a tree as part of the GuateCarbon project in Guatemala.
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Arturo Sánchez, a member of the Árbol Verde community forest concession
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The project is part of our longstanding and highly successful strategy of using sustainable community forestry to reduce deforestation rates in the area to nearly zero. A 2015 study co-authored by the Rainforest Alliance established that the deforestation rate in the Forest Stewardship Council-certified community forestry concessions was nearly zero, as compared to an annual deforestation rate of 1.2 percent in the MBR overall and 5.5 percent in the reserve's buffer zones. "These practices represent the state of the art for conservation," says Bryan Finegan, a forest ecologist at CATIE, the international research institute in Costa Rica that led the study. "It's a model for the world."
This article originally appeared in the 2015 Annual Report.
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Transitions between generations in computer technology are hard to define, especially as they are taking place. Some changes, such as the switch from vacuum tubes to transistors, are immediately apparent as fundamental changes, but others are clear only in retrospect. Many of the developments in computer systems since 1990 reflect gradual improvements over established systems, and thus it is hard to claim they represent a transition to a new ``generation'', but other developments will prove to be significant changes.
In this section we offer some assessments about recent developments and current trends that we think will have a significant impact on computational science.
This generation is beginning with many gains in parallel computing, both in the hardware area and in improved understanding of how to develop algorithms to exploit diverse, massively parallel architectures. Parallel systems now compete with vector processors in terms of total computing power and most expect parallel systems to dominate the future.


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Plazid Weissenbach senior (* 9. November 1814 in Bremgarten; † 9. Juni 1858 ebenda; heimatberechtigt in Bremgarten) war ein Schweizer Politiker und Richter. Von 1848 bis zu seinem Tod vertrat er den Kanton Aargau im Ständerat.

Biografie
Weissenbach besuchte die Gemeindeschule in Bremgarten und das Lyzeum in Luzern, wo unter anderem Augustin Keller zu seinen Lehrern gehörte. Anschliessend studierte er Recht an den Universitäten von Jena und Zürich. Nach Studienabschluss eröffnete er in Bremgarten eine Anwaltskanzlei. 1840 wurde Weissenbach in den Grossen Rat des Kantons Aargau ein. Als radikal-liberaler Politiker war er ein entschiedener Gegner der damals vorherrschenden konfessionellen Parität und unterstützte 1841 die Aufhebung aller Aargauer Klöster. Zwei Jahre später wandte er sich vergeblich gegen die Wiedereinführung der Frauenklöster.

1846 präsidierte Weissenbach den Grossen Rat, von 1844 bis 1851 gehörte er dem aargauischen Obergericht an. In den Jahren 1846 und 1847 vertrat er seinen Kanton bei den eidgenössischen Tagsatzungen. Im April 1849 wählte ihn das Kantonsparlament als Nachfolger von Josef Emanuel Meienberg in den Ständerat. Im Jahr 1853 organisierte er die offizielle 50-Jahr-Feier der Kantonsgründung und erwirkte durch seinen Einfluss deren Austragung in Bremgarten anstatt im Kantonshauptort Aarau.

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Republican incumbent Rep. George Holding has garnered a significant lead against his opponents in the N.C. 2nd Congressional District race, according to the latest poll from the Civitas Institute.
The Civitas Institute, a conservative public policy organization, released poll data on Tuesday, Oct. 30, on the race between Holding, Democratic candidate Linda Coleman, and Libertarian Jeff Matemu. Between Oct. 24 and Oct. 28, SurveyUSA, on behalf of the Civitas Institute, surveyed 565 likely voters in the 2nd District. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.5 percent.
Early voting continues through Saturday and Election Day is one week from today, Tuesday, Nov. 6.
The September Civitas Poll showed a close race between Holding and Coleman, but now Holding is pulling ahead. Of those surveyed, 49 percent said they would vote for Holding compared to 40 percent who would choose Coleman. Just 2 percent said they would vote for Matemu while 9 percent are undecided.
Is the 2nd District race a "bellwether for the rest of the country?" Let's hope so.


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Meet Chris Rankin, Shareable's New Development Manager
Shareable| June 26, 2017 April 22, 2019
We're delighted to announce that Chris Rankin has joined Shareable as a development manager. Rankin will be focusing on the financial growth of the organization, in collaboration with our staff and stakeholders. We're grateful to have him on the team. Please read the note below written by Rankin, to learn about his past work and path to Shareable:
My interest in sharing started at an early age. I was raised by a single mother who worked multiple jobs in an attempt to give my two younger brothers and me a semblance of normalcy. When my family went through difficult times, we looked to our neighbors. Our community rallied around us and shared not only food and money, but also life lessons and wisdom that helped shape me into the person I am today.
I moved to Oakland, California, in 2011 for graduate school. After graduating, I became active in electoral politics, working as campaign staff for various local and state officials. In early 2015, I became disillusioned with the political process, especially with special interests money going towards harmful policies. I resolved to make sure that the issues I cared about such as education, juvenile justice, and health care remained on the public's radar — and that programs supporting those issues always had the money needed to succeed. To do this, I moved from politics to the nonprofit world. For two-and-a-half years, I ran the development department for a health care clinic based in Marin County that supports 33,000 uninsured and underinsured people.
Throughout all the transitions in my life, I never forgot the critical role that sharing played in my childhood. I longed to work for an organization that was attempting to bring the sharing culture to the forefront of society. When I learned about Shareable, the organization's mission completely resonated with me. I am committed to Shareable and the work that it's doing to advocate for sharing as a solution to many challenges that we face today — locally, nationally, and globally. I will work tirelessly to bring Shareable into an era of financial sustainability. I look forward to getting to know you — the reader and the sharing community — better, and I suspect I will make some lifelong friends along the way.
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Q: Extracting rows from a matrix conditional on another variable How do I extract the rows of m where a is even? For example,
m = matrix(1:24, 6)
a = c(3, 4, 1, 1, 2, 5)

A: Your question is a little ambiguous, but I think I know what you mean. For your data:
m = matrix(1:24, 6)
a = c(3, 4, 1, 1, 2, 5)

You could mean that you want to select all the rows in m where a is even. So, in this case, you would want the second and fifth rows of m, because only the second and fifth element of a is even. In this case, this would work:
 m[a %% 2 ==0,]

I think, however, you meant that you wanted to find the numbers in a that were even, (in this case 2 and 4) and then select those rows of m. In that case, you would use:
m[a[a %% 2 ==0],]

So that would select first the fourth, and then the second row of m. Remember, however, that if you have any even number in there twice, it will select the row twice.
If you wanted to select the rows in order (row 2 and then row 4) you would do:
m[sort(a[a %% 2 ==0]),]

A: Try this
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As Italians vote, we ask who do they trust to take on the financial crisis in Europe's third-largest economy.
Italians have voted in one of the country's most important elections in recent history.
"Generally the big majority of Italians will be for a change, it means that all the voters that will vote for Grillo, they express they will do it for change. Generally speaking, left is for change, but probably left will not have the majority of the seats in the Parliament so they will need to organise an alliance with the center."
Four candidates took part in the first general election since former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, one of those standing, resigned in November 2011 after becoming embroiled in a series of scandals and escalating the country's debt crisis.
Outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti, a former European commissioner, also competed with the popular wildcard candidate Beppe Grillo, a comedian-turned-politican who leads the protest Five Star Movement party and Pier Luigi Bersani, the centre-left leader of the Democratic Party who led the last opinion polls.
The candidates will have a tough job on their hands as they try to revive Italy's economic fortunes.
The national election is being watched closely by eurozone capitals and global markets.
Italy has been under what is called unelected technocratic rule since November of 2011.
In those 15 months, the government led by Mario Monti has brought in all sorts of economic and labour changes which have put the squeeze on the Italian people. The reforms have been met with disapproval and protest, but they stopped Italy's slide, and kept it away from the dreaded bailout.
"There is another route out of this crisis, its a European route. The question now is how long will the voters put up with this position where they have been locked into austerity by the arrangement that was set up some 15 year ago with the implementation of the Euro?"
In these austere times, these elections are crucial to addressing Italy's economic problems.
Not only was there no growth in 2012, the economy actually shrank by more than two percent. Whoever wins the election will inherit a public debt exceeding $2tn.
And more than 11 percent of the workforce do not have jobs, with youth unemployment now standing at more than 36 percent.
The result of the general elections will determine the financial future of Europe's third-largest economy.
Who will be able to work together to turn around Italy's economic fortunes? Will it be a choice between continued economic pain for, hopefully, long-term gain? Or a different approach to growth and jobs creation, with no guarantees of success?
Inside Story, with presenter Kamahl Santamaria, discusses with guests: Pier-Virgilio Dastoli, the president of the European Movement in Italy; Alberto Nardelli, an Italian affairs analyst; and Thomas Palley, a senior economic policy adviser to the American Federation of Labor, and Congress of Industrial Organizations.
"Austerity within Italy is less about cuts, it is a lot more about very high fiscal pressure, in addition to the much talked about property tax, Italy has one of the highest fiscal pressures for companies, if you look at the total fiscal pressure on corporations that is near 70 percent and that is one of the highest within Europe."
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Q: Ajax request response null Ajax request is successful but response is null but I can see the result response in firebug as:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><response><likes>13</likes></response>

And in the console there is error as :

TypeError : response is null

var XMLHttpObject = createXMLHttpRequest();
$Id = null;

function process(id) { //makeAsynchornusRequest
    if(XMLHttpObject.readyState == 0 || XMLHttpObject.readyState == 4) {
        XMLHttpObject.onreadystatechange = responseHandler;
        $Id = id;
        XMLHttpObject.open("GET","like/" + id);
        XMLHttpObject.send(null);
    }
}

function responseHandler() {
    if(XMLHttpObject.readyState == 4) {
        if(XMLHttpObject.status == 200) { // 200 implies `ok` like 400 implies `page not found`
            response = XMLHttpObject.responseXML;
            xmlDocumentElement = response.documentElement;
            output = document.getElementById("num_likes" + $Id);
            output.innerHTML =  xmlDocumentElement ;
        }
    }
}

A: You have tagged JQuery - try using JQuery for your Ajax call:
$.ajax({
    url: '/Likes',
    data: { id: id },
    success: function (response) {
        if (response) {
             console.log(response);
        }
    },
     error: function (xhr, s, sa) {
         console.log(s, sa);
     },
     complete: function () {
          console.log('complete event');
     }
});

A: Can you try switching this to an onLoad event handler.

From mozilla docs:

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('GET', '/server', true);

// If specified, responseType must be empty string or "document"
xhr.responseType = 'document';

// overrideMimeType() can be used to force the response to be parsed as XML
xhr.overrideMimeType('text/xml');

xhr.onload = function () {
  if (xhr.readyState === xhr.DONE) {
    if (xhr.status === 200) {
      console.log(xhr.response);
      console.log(xhr.responseXML);
    }
  }
};

xhr.send(null);

With your code (note you may need to tweak the responseHandler() body slightly:
XMLHttpObject.open("GET","like/" + id);
xhr.onload = responseHandler;
XMLHttpObject.send(null);


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Why Scientists Are Urging Us to Look at Managed Retreat
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A photo of Kivalina, Alaska, from 2007, which is also undergoing relocation.
PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN ADAMS
A group of researchers published an array of papers last week looking at the issue of forced climate relocation. The Frontline explores what this reality looks like in Kotlik, Alaska, where managed retreat is already underway.
Imagine a river swallowing your home whole. Or a wildfire wiping out your entire community. Mother Nature's power is enough to make a person question whether rebuilding is an option—especially in the era of climate calamity. In fact, some towns and villages are already implementing managed retreat due to rising seas and temperatures.
Managed retreat means different things to different people, but it involves moving an entire community to protect its residents from immediate or urgent climate impacts. Some communities may need to move only a few hundred feet to be safe. Others may need to relocate entirely. Managed retreat can be super complicated for remote villages where sewage, water, and power lines aren't abundant. As you can imagine, this process can be quite costly, too. And state and federal governments don't currently have a system to effectively support communities in need.
That's why several researchers came together last week to publish a special section in the research journal Science. In the papers, more than 20 scientists from around the world covering topics such as decolonization and economics call on policymakers to take the proper steps to prepare for a future where managed retreat will become necessary. Though the team attempted its own analysis on the issue, many questions remain around who will be impacted where and what it'll cost to help the most vulnerable.
Welcome to The Frontline, where we're introducing you to Kotlik, Alaska, a community already on the move. I'm Yessenia Funes, climate editor of Atmos. Leaving one's home behind is never easy. Unfortunately, the climate crisis is forcing it upon many of us.
Victor Tonuchuk Junior has lived in Kotlik, Alaska, all his life. As the tribal environmental coordinator for the village, Tonuchuk is responsible for the community's environmental issues. And there are plenty. Kotlik is a small village—home to fewer than 900 people and only three square miles large—but its remote and rural nature makes it easy for elected officials to ignore. But Kotlik residents need Congress and the White House to pay attention—because their home is sinking. And they can't save it (or themselves) alone.
A group of scientists have come together to call on legislators and researchers to take action on the issue of managed retreat: "This special issue examines how research can engage with and support communities and governments navigating this uncertain landscape… Thus, we must consider not only what science can do but also how science is done, and by whom," wrote Brad Wible, senior commentary editor for Science, in the opening of the journal's special section published Thursday.
Managed retreat goes by several names, as Wible outlines in the commentary. There's climate migration, relocation, climate displacement, among others. These terms all look at basically the same event where residents are forced to move due to climate impacts. For some, wildfires may be to blame. For others, flooding. The impacts vary by region and geography, but the outcome is always heartbreaking. That's certainly the case for Tonuchuk and his Alaska Native community. In summer 2019, for instance, Kotlik residents jumped into emergency response mode after the corners of a home were hanging over the riverbank due to the ongoing erosion affecting the village.
"It causes a lot of anxiety for me," Tonuchuk said. "I worry for the residents who face these threats, and it worries me more when they feel like they are alone and they don't know what to do."
And, in many ways, communities like Kotlik are alone. There's no single governmental body that facilitates the managed retreat process. For places like Kotlik, relocation means building new roads, creating sewage and power lines, and moving 21 existing houses. That involves coordinating help from several agencies, said Max Neale, a senior program manager with the Center for Environmentally Threatened Communities at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, a nonprofit partnering with about 44 Alaskan communities on plants for managed retreat, erosion, flooding, or impacts to infrastructure. For residents in remote villages like Kotlik, sometimes the only help available comes from each other and local groups dedicated to providing resources like the consortium.
"The federal government does not take a strategic approach to supporting our communities with climate change," Neale said. "There is no lead funding entity, and there's no clear policy. There are all of these different entities working independently, and we have to navigate all of the different programs and their requirements and limitations, which is extremely challenging."
President Joe Biden has made the climate crisis a priority, but his administration has yet to address the gaps that exist around managed retreat. According to Neale, there is an $80 million annual funding gap over the next 10 years among Alaska Native villages alone. The amount of money governments are pouring into this urgent issue is nowhere near enough to address the need. That's, in part, due to the fact that many programs that currently exist don't cater to communities facing this reality. Agency regulations, grant requirements, and inevitable ineligibility make it impossible for communities to access funds—which are often competitive enough to access as is.
"Managed retreat is one possible solution to get people out of harm's way, but it's also the most traumatic way for a community to tackle this."
Stephen Eisenman
Anthropocene Alliance
Stephen Eisenman, the cofounder and director of strategy for the Anthropocene Alliance, a national network of grassroots environmental justice groups, is seeing this reality play out across the country. From the Geechee in South Carolina to homeowners in New York, coastal communities are facing increased risk from extreme weather disasters. While some (like Kotlik) recognize they must move to survive, others struggle to grapple with this prospect, especially communities of color that have dealt with enough displacement and abandonment as is.
"Managed retreat is one possible solution to get people out of harm's way," Eisenman said, "but it's also the most traumatic way for a community to tackle this because it means giving up their homes, their communities, their friends, their families, places that they've known and loved for years. So it's a controversial solution for many communities we work with."
The trauma only compounds when a community's elected body is failing to protect them. That's why researchers are speaking out. Many communities can't prepare for what's to come simply because the climate-fueled disasters of the future may be unprecedented in nature. Trying to ride them out or build resilient infrastructure may not be possible everywhere. However, the topic of managed retreat requires more research to understand what is possible and to ensure that these processes happen equitably with the community's needs first and foremost.
"Displacement is happening everywhere," Bina Desai wrote in an email. The head of programs at the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, Switzerland, Desai published a paper on the human cost of displacement for Science's special section. "By understanding who is at risk of being displaced, and where, and how long those who are displaced are likely to remain so, and in what conditions, governments and the international community will be better equipped to prevent future displacement and address displaced people's needs."
That's why two authors with the special section wrote a paper looking specifically at how to make retreat more proactive and effective. "Even though retreat, to date, has not gone that well, what we know is that it may be crucially important as the climate continues to change," said Katharine Mach, an associate professor of environmental science and policy at the University of Miami who coauthored that paper. "So what we really do in this paper is basically say, If retreat in the future is to be more supportive of people and the full diversity of passions and goals that they have, what might that mean?"
Managed retreat can't live on its own island of political thought and imagination. It needs to be woven into discussions around housing affordability, urban and rural development, and green space expansion, said Mach's coauthor, A.R. Siders, an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center. Leaders need to not only focus on buying out and tearing down houses; they need to prioritize building new ones. Most importantly, they need to keep the community's emotions in mind. For some Indigenous peoples and Alaska Natives, for example, the land they live may be more than a home. It may be an ancestor or relative.
Luckily, the people of Kotlik won't be moving too far as of yet. They're looking to move only about a half mile from where the community currently stands. Still, they may have to move again after sea levels rise. "Who knows?" Tonuchuk wondered out loud when discussing this possibility.
The land and waters don't provide like they used to. The salmon are fewer, and the permafrost is melting. And yet they push on—attempting to save one building at a time from the encroaching river. For now, the community is taking it one step at a time.
Correction, June 22, 2021, 11:20 am ET: The story previously described the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium as working with communities on managed retreat plans exclusively. Not all communities are yet planning for managed retreat. The story has been clarified to correct this error.


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Let's suppose the goal of the story is to stop an evil madman from blowing up the world. The consequence (what happens if the goal is not achieved) is that the world will be destroyed. So, for the main character, the extreme effort required to stop the madman is justified because he doesn't want the consequence to occur.
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Ingredients: Tomato paste 45%, red pepper paste 40% refined vegetable oil 6%, 5% sugar and spices. Sterilized product. Without preservatives and colorings! Net Weight - 310 grams.
Homemade lyutenitsa, made by old Bulgarian recipe! Ingredients: roasted peeled peppers 60%, roasted peeled eggplant 5% tomato paste 30% refined vegetable oil, sugar, salt and natural spices Sterilized product. Without preservatives and colorings! Net Weight: 300 grams.
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The Unified Future of Clean Energy
By Lea Maamari|2019-04-25T10:44:44-04:00March 28th, 2019|Company Update, Industry, Land Use, Policy, Virginia Solar|
By Francis Hodsoll, Lea Maamari and Melody S. Gee Melody S. Gee is a business and technical writer in St. Louis, MO. Decarbonizing energy through solar and wind technologies, as well as harnessing geothermal, hydropower, and biomass power, moves us toward meeting American's growing desire for zero emission, zero carbon energy. The question of how and whether these discreet clean energy industries can join forces or align interests has stirred efforts and prompted discussion among industry experts and stakeholders, including at the recent Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI) Conference this past October. In this article, we explore the possibilities of organized and unified efforts among clean
Revisiting the Composite Index of Virginia
By Francis Hodsoll|2018-12-20T14:53:10-05:00December 20th, 2018|Industry, Land Use, Virginia Solar|
By Francis Hodsoll and Aaron Morrow In a series of blogs in March and April 2017, we discussed the Composite Index (CI) and the impact that solar energy facilities (solar projects) have on the calculation of the CI. In turn, we discussed some of the possible repercussions of the CI policy concerning the awarding of solar project permits. We continue to run across fundamental misunderstandings when it comes to the impact of solar projects on the CI calculation. To offer
A Trifecta of SolUnesco Announcements
Company Update, Industry, Virginia Solar
By Lea Maamari|2018-10-10T12:40:46-04:00October 10th, 2018|Company Update, Industry, Virginia Solar|
They say good things come in threes. The SolUnesco team has worked hard all summer and has achieved a hattrick of exciting news to report. SolUnesco Partners with Apex Clean Energy On Sept 4, 2018, SolUnesco inked an agreement with Apex Clean Energy that resulted in the sale of 390 MW of SolUnesco's pipeline. This agreement affects four projects: Carvers Creek, Moody Creek, Red Brick, and Rivanna, each of which ranges from 11 to 150 MWac. SolUnesco will continue to
Challenges and Opportunities in Virginia's Solar Energy
Company Update, Industry, Land Use, Virginia Solar
By Lea Maamari|2018-10-02T14:37:24-04:00October 2nd, 2018|Company Update, Industry, Land Use, Virginia Solar|
This past week, SolUnesco's CEO , participated in a session entitled "The Rubin Group: Lessons from Virginia at Solar Power International. During the session, Hodsoll discussed how Virginia has rapidly become a clean energy state. In addition, Hodsoll discussed the challenges and opportunities that still exist for solar energy development in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Virginia's Painfully Slow Start Francis outlined three key interrelated challenges that the industry is facing: Inertia: Virginia is inhibited by an outdated regulatory system that
Decommissioning of Solar Sites: A Key Consideration of the Project
Industry, Land Use, Virginia Solar
By Lea Maamari|2021-03-25T11:30:24-04:00September 10th, 2018|Industry, Land Use, Virginia Solar|
By Lea Maamari As developers of projects that may have three decades of longevity in a community, we want to assure our neighbors that we will leave the land in the same or better condition than we found it. We know that this is also important to our communities, as questions about decommissioning have risen with virtually every solar project proposed in Virginia. In a comprehensive report, which can be downloaded here, SolUnesco has reviewed 45 county ordinances and 50
Helping Middle School Students Explore Solar Technology at Locust Grove Middle School
Charitable Giving, Company Update, News, Virginia Solar
By Seth Maughan|2018-06-08T10:01:15-04:00June 7th, 2018|Charitable Giving, Company Update, News, Virginia Solar|
By Seth Maughan At SolUnesco, "community" is one of our core values, and we make it a goal to give back to the communities in which we operate. As such, we were thrilled to recently support the learning of solar concepts at Locust Grove Middle School. The school is located just down the street from the Madison Solar Farm, a proposed 400-acre, 60-MW solar farm, on which SolUnesco worked to get zoning approval from the County last year. On May
Realizing the Economic Benefits of Solar: The Virginia Solar Workforce Initiative
Construction, Industry, News, Southeast, Virginia Solar
By Lea Maamari|2018-06-06T11:51:40-04:00June 6th, 2018|Construction, Industry, News, Southeast, Virginia Solar|
by Francis Hodsoll and Jon Hillis Solar is Growing in the US More and more companies have made the commitment to purchase renewable energy as part of their sustainable business strategies. Large enterprises such as Microsoft, Kohl's, Apple, The North Face are powered by solar, while Google, Marriott, McDonald's and a majority of the Fortune 100 consider access to renewable energy as part of their investment decisions. Numerous companies have established their operations in locations where they can access solar
Supplying Solar Energy in Virginia
By SolUMarketing|2018-05-24T15:08:11-04:00May 23rd, 2018|Industry, Land Use, Virginia Solar|
By Francis Hodsoll and Jon Hillis We often receive questions about how the transmission of solar energy works here in Virginia. In addition, we often are asked about the supply of solar and how that matches up with the demand for renewable energy. Read on for some insights into these two questions. The State of Solar Supply in Virginia (May 15, 2018) Currently, in Virginia, there are 10 in-service utility-scale solar energy projects totaling 327 MWs that have completed the
Embracing Solar Can Attract Business Investment to Virginia
Industry, News, Southeast, Virginia Solar
By Seth Maughan|2018-05-18T14:43:10-04:00May 17th, 2018|Industry, News, Southeast, Virginia Solar|
By Seth Maughan Earlier this Spring, Microsoft announced some big news. The Company broadcast "the single largest corporate purchase of solar energy ever in the United States." On the heels of two large purchases in Singapore and India, Microsoft closed a deal to purchase 315 megawatts (MW) of solar in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This purchase brings Microsoft closer to the Company's goal of having their data centers rely 60% on renewable energy by 2020. Governor Northam praised the deal,
SolUnesco White Paper: Solar Myths Busted
By SolUMarketing|2018-06-20T13:19:46-04:00February 8th, 2018|Industry, Land Use, Virginia Solar|
Background This white paper is a companion piece to our two previous blogs on local permitting (Hodsoll and Maughan). In our local permitting blogs we provided our perspectives on best practices for local permitting and how we engage with the local community. We write this white paper to discuss some of the issues and concerns that are raised by the community during this process. All of us engaged in the industry have heard the naysayer's arguments. From the most bizarre


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and the striping perfectly. Looks brand new.
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her and her company to everyone.
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defects or continuing to maintain the old roof.
time well worth the cost.
a yellow concrete & pipe post.
worked on our unit (while staying out of their way).
the painting and finishing work.
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company, and made sure we had no surprises.
her role is but she was a joy to chat with.
work, we'll drive back to APR RV.
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hassle. I am just thrilled with the job they performed.
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Michael and Chris were again great to work with. They are the most customer centric company I have ever dealt with.
the roof is clean and looks great.
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much to be desired. Michael also arranged to have our dual pane windows taken apart, cleaned and re-sealed.
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They even picked up the unit and delivered it back.
roof and I know it will hold up better.
since Rhino lining would not. They went above and beyond work done out of warranty. Thank you again Chris and Michael.
Evaluation of Service Performed: I would go back there for more trailer needs.
Service Performed: I had the original rubber roof removed on my 30ft. 2010 Forest River Wildcat 5th wheel trailer (March 7,2017).
Evaluation of Service Performed: Based on all the work that was done by APR-RV and one sub-contractor I was and still am very grateful for a job well done!
the future. I would highly recommend APR-RV to anyone who needs to put a FlexArmor Roof on there RV.
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first stops for the FlexArmor roof. Job Well Done APR-RV!
Service Performed: FlexArmor Lifetime Roof installed and Rock Guard coating applied to front of generator bay compartment.
limited number of locations, and we traveled a long distance to have the work done at this facility and we were not disappointed.
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damage they repaired is as good as new.
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Evaluation of Service Performed: The work was perfectly done by perfectionists.
matched and blended into rest of coach paint.
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replaced Kwikee step, fixed awning arm, and caulked all exterior seams.
went over operation with us.
whole process and even sent pictures.
us updated throughout the whole process.
time during the 10 days.
Service Performed: Flooring through-out Toy Hauler, out side steps, trim work etc.
Cindy. They always go ABOVE AND BEYOND! I would only Arizona RV Specialist!
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damage to the driver's side rear quarter panel.
RV followed through with required repair on our unit.
APR RV for the smallest to the largest repair.
mess. My trip was cancelled and I limp home. Because of my first experience with ARP RV I know that I could rely on them to bring it back to new.
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turn signals, custom paint graphics and design layout, many other minor repairs.
Evaluation of Service Performed: We are very pleased with the outcome of the repairs.
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I should have them soon.
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Service Performed: APR is a collision repair service exclusively for RV's. They reworked and repaired the front 5th wheel area after it fell off the hitch on the back of the truck.
The removed and replaced the skin, the jacks, and made several other repairs.
to do--that is, unless you use APR RV repair.
Service Performed: Redo on 3 storage doors on passenger side. Included replaced skin on 2 doors, paint to match.
Service Performed: Right rear bottom fiberglass work. Painting rear top cap and front top cap. Also applied ECO-COAT to roof.
decided to go to APR RV which was 120 miles round trip for me. I would do it again.
radius where front cap joins coach roof/sidewall. Replaced and painted 2 air conditioning brittle shrouds due to age.
but said it could wait for a while without doing any damage. Accordingly, I decided to wait a few more years as it is not visible from the ground.
As a full timer, I was able to live in the coach during the week long repairs. Have full timed for 25 years so been in more repair shops than I can remember.
for all their customers as stated by the owner at the beginning. I did get another quote and APR RV was less for outstanding and professional work.
read about elsewhere. He services the entire PHX area and possibly more if I recall correctly.
fantastic and really updated the "older" coach.
Evaluation of Service Performed: On time, I appreciate that they valued my time and schedule. My appointment time was met and job done on time. It was clean and ready at pickup time. It is nice that there is still a family owned business out there with such professionalism.
coach from generator rack to windshield nothing was left unscaved. My coach is a 40' diesel pusher with 4 slides.
no cost to me. Now that is unbelievable in this day. I am so glad I took my coach to APR.
Service Performed: We had an independent axle break. They fixed up axles, resealed roof where we had a leak around the A/C unit, got a new tire and did an over-all excellent job. Very easy to work with and worked with us on the cost since it wasn't covered by our extended warranty.
Evaluation of Service Performed: Excellent. Kept in constant communication with us to make sure they were doing what we wanted.
Service Performed: Repair of leaking propane regulator, refrigerator, brakes, and full PDI of 5th wheel trailer.
Evaluation of Service Performed: Repair work done timely and professionally. Very trustworthy with work performed. I was treated very fair compared with other repair shops I have used.
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We also had service done (oil change and greasing of fittings.
Evaluation of Service Performed: The work was done to our satisfaction except that we had to "live" on their lot for 2 weeks. Partly due to the fact that the front of the bus was more of a job than they had anticipated. They let us stay there while they worked on the coach and gave us a key to their gate to come and go as needed.
As for the service department, we paid for an oil change and greasing of fittings. None of the fittings in the front were touched. Would not go back there for service, but their painting and repair are excellent and they stand behind it 100%. Would recommend them to anyone needing paint repair.
Reported unsatisfactory service work done previously, i.e. change and greasing of fittings, John, the owner, has rectified the situation.
Service Performed: Repair damage to right side of coach caused by rear awning arm being pulled out and putting deep scratches in the paint, got too close to a grape fruit tree when turning. Repair consisted of body filler in the scratches and repaint and buff.
Evaluation of Service Performed: The work was done in stages. Filler, sanding prep, primer, paint, and buff. The job was done so well that I could not tell where the original damage was. When painting was done they had to match the paint as I had no touch up in one color. He matched the paint so good that I could not see any difference. All in all APR did an excellent job. They used a team of two persons to complete the job. APR is very fair in their pricing and guarantee their work. Would definitely recommend their services no matter the size job.
Evaluation of Service Performed: EXCELLENT repairs! Paint match was perfect! Very kind, family oriented! Better than any factory repairs in the past.


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Dept of Clinical Neurosciences
Clifford Allbutt Building
Cambridge Biosciences Campus
Hills Road, CB2 0HA Cambridge (UK)
Pluchino Lab
Regenerative Neuroimmunology
spp24@cam.ac.uk
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Stefano Pluchino, MD, PhD
Stefano Pluchino received his MD and PhD degrees at the University of Siena, Italy, and additional training at Cambridge University, UK. He is currently University Reader in Regenerative Neuroimmunology (2016) and Honorary Consultant in Neurology, within the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at Cambridge University.
Stefano Pluchino has a strong interest in Regenerative Neuroimmunology, and his research over the last 20 years has recalibrated the classical view that cellular grafts only function through structural cell replacement and opened up a new therapeutic avenue by which to use exogenously delivered stem cells, or even stem cell-derived acellular therapies that include extracellular vesicles and exosomes.
The Pluchino team studies whether the accumulation of neurological disability observed in patients with chronic inflammatory neurological conditions can be slowed down using next generation molecular therapies. The overarching aim is to understand the basic mechanisms that allow exogenously delivered stem cells, gene therapy vectors and/or exosomes to create an environment that preserves damaged axons or prevents neurons from dying. Such mechanisms may be harnessed and used to modulate disease states in an effort to repair and/or regenerate critical components of the nervous system. By understanding the mechanisms of intercellular (stem cell) signalling, diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) may be treated more effectively, and significant neuroprotection may be achieved with new tailored molecular therapeutics.
Stefano Pluchino is recipient of numerous national and international awards, among which the Italian Multiple Sclerosis Foundation (FISM) Rita Levi-Montalcini prize for outstanding research in MS (2007) and the International Royan Award for outstanding research in Stem Cell Biology and Technology (2010). He is a 2009 Italian Ministry of Health Young Investigator Awardee and 2010 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Independent Researcher.
His laboratory research on Regenerative Neuroimmunology is documented in >200 publications in international journals, including many recent articles in highly prestigious journals, such as Nature, Cell, Cell Stem Cell, Nat Cell Biol, Nat Chem Biol, PNAS, PLoS Med, Brain, Ann Neurol, and J Neurosci, as well as invited review articles in Nat Rev Neurosci, Physiol Reviews, Trends in Mol Med and Trends Immunol. His publications have to date received >12.000 citations (ISI-WOK), having a Hirsch Factor of 49.
Tel.: +44 1223 331163 (office)
skype me at stefanopluchino
Twitter: @Pluchinolab
Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti, MD, PhD
Luca is a Clinical Research Associate and Honorary Clinical Fellow at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge (UK) and Neurology consultant.
His work has been focusing on the application of molecular and cellular therapies to acute and chronic disorders of the Central Nervous System (including ischemic stroke and multiple sclerosis).
After receiving his MD (2007) from the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele of Milan (Italy), Luca completed a residency program in Neurology at the same University in 2013.
He then successfully obtained a Wellcome Trust research training fellowship and completed a PhD in Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge (2018).
During the past years, he has worked as visiting scientist in major European universities, such as the University Hospital in Zürich (Switzerland), the University of Aarhus (Denmark), the Laboratory of Stem Cells and Restorative Neurology of Lund (Sweden) and the University of Innsbruck (Austria).
Currently, Luca is studying how progression works in multiple sclerosis by focusing on the link between immune cell metabolism and chronic neuroinflammation (thanks to a Fondazione Italiana Sclerosi Multipla-FISM Senior Research Fellowship).
email: lp429@cam.ac.uk
skype me at lucaperuzzotti
Twitter: @Dr_LPJ
Jayden Smith, PhD
Jayden received a BSc in Chemistry and Computer Science (2003) and a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry (2008) from James Cook University (Australia). His PhD thesis concerned the study of multinuclear metal complexes as stereoselective probes of nucleic acids.
He joined the PluchinoLab as a postdoctoral research associate in 2011. Here he worked on the development of RNA nanotherapeutics for combinatorial applications alongside induced neural stem cell transplantation for repair of the central nervous system.
He has since joined Cambridge Innovation Technologies Consulting Ltd as a Senior Research Associate and Project Manager. He has been recently appointed as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at asitia Therapeutics, a newly formed exosome biotech company, but remains with the PluchinoLab as a visiting researcher.
email: jayden.smith@citc-ltd.co.uk
skype me at jayden.aaron.smith
Twitter: @GourmetJesus
Alexandra Nicaise, PhD
Alexandra received her bachelors degree in Neuroscience from Trinity College, Hartford, CT, United States (2013). She then completed her PhD at the University of Connecticut Health Center in 2019 in the lab of Dr. Stephen Crocker. Her PhD thesis involved the characterization of neural progenitor cells developed from induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with primary progressive multiple sclerosis.
Alexandra joined the Pluchino Lab in March 2019 as a postdoctoral research associate to work on the development of induced neural stem cell therapeutics for progressive multiple sclerosis (PMS). In addition she is using induced neural stem cells from patients with PMS to model cellular senescence in vitro towards understanding why regeneration failure occurs in this disease.
an574@cam.ac.uk
skype me at alexandramnicaise
Twitter: @Telencephale
Cory Willis, PhD
Cory received his bachelors degree in neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States (2012). He then completed his PhD at the University of Connecticut in 2019 in the lab of Stephen Crocker. His PhD thesis was two-fold, first to characterize astrocyte-derived EVs as a means to identify and isolate astrocyte EVs from complex biological fluids and secondly to discern plasma EVs as immune regulators in an animal model of multiple sclerosis.
Cory joined the Pluchino Lab in May 2019 as a postdoctoral research associate to work on the characterization of the metabolic profile of induced microglia from progressive multiple sclerosis patients. In addition, he is contributing to an on-going project investigating how sustained mitochondrial activity in mononuclear phagocytes leads to a chronically active inflammatory phenotype in a pre-clinical animal model of progressive multiple sclerosis.
email: cw739@cam.ac.uk
skype me at cwillis53_1
Twitter: @exosomeguy
Regan Hamel, BSc, MPhil
Regan graduated in 2017 from McGill University (Canada) with a Bachelors degree in Neuroscience and a focus on computation and physiology. Her senior project was in Dr. Mendola's lab in the department of Ophthalmology where she investigated the effect of individual differences on two visual phenomena: binocular rivalry and dichoptic masking.
Regan joined the PluchinoLab in October 2017 to work on her MPhil in Medical Sciences supported by a graduate scholarship from the Canadian Scholarship Trust Fund. After successfully completing her MPhil, and gaining the necessary wet lab and bioinformatic skills.
She continued on in the lab as PhD student with the support of a full scholarship (tuition and stipend) from the Cambridge Trust and a PhD project consumables grant from Rosetrees Trust. Regan's PhD project involves the investigation of non-neuronal cells in the context of spinal cord injury using single cell RNA sequencing.
email: rh680@cam.ac.uk
skype me at regan_hamel
Twitter: @regan_hamel
Rosana-Bristena Ionescu, MD
Bristena received her Doctor of Medicine degree from "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest (Romania) in 2020. Her senior project was in Dr. Ana-Maria Zagrean's lab in the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, where she investigated the therapeutic potential of chloride transport modulation using in vitro models of stroke and excitotoxicity.
Bristena joined the Pluchino Lab in October 2020 as a PhD student with the support of the Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership (MRC-DTP) and the Cambridge Trust to investigate the metabolic control of brain stem cell behaviour in ageing.
email: rbi24@cam.ac.uk
skype me at bristena.ionescu
Grzegorz Krzak, BSc, MSC
Greg received his Bachelor's degree in neurobiology from Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland (2016). In 2016 he joined Prof. Miller's lab to work on his MSc thesis in the department of Clinical Neuroscience at King's College London. After graduation he joined Prof. Smith's Lab at the Department of Neuroinflammation (UCL), Queen Square to study the role of hypoxia in multiple sclerosis.
Greg joined the PluchinoLab in October 2019 to work on his PhD thesis investigating the role of succinate receptor/GPR91 in immune cells during neuroinflammation.
email: gk433@cam.ac.uk
skype me at krzak9327
Andrea D'Angelo, BSc
Andrea completed his Bachelor's Degree in Biology in 2018 at the and he is currently a Master's Student of Neuroscience in Trieste. During his Bachelor Traineeship he studied the new techniques of microscopy used to study dendritic spines at the University of L'Aquila with Professor Elisabetta Benedetti.
Andrea joined the Pluchino Lab in February under the sponsorship of an Extra-Erasmus project.
He is working on a project, which aims at generating and characterising induced neural stem cells from patients with progressive multiple sclerosis.
email: ad2038@cam.ac.uk
Larissa Roth, BSc
Larissa completed her Bachelor´s Degree in Biomedicine in 2019 at the University of Würzburg (Julius-Maximilans-Universität Würzburg), where she is currently a Master´s Student of Biomedicine. During her Bachelor Traineeship she studied the effects of butyrophilins on Vgamma9Vdelta2 T-cell activation at the Institute of Immunology and Virology (Würzburg) with Professor Thomas Herrmann.
Larissa joined the Pluchino Lab in March 2020 under the sponsorship of an Erasmus+. She is working on a project, which aims at characterising induced neural stem cell grafts in a mouse model of focal CNS demyelination.
email: lr521@cam.ac.uk
Tel.: +44 1223 31168 (office)
Skype me at live:roth.larissa
Veronica Testa, BSc
Veronica completed her Bachelor's Degree in Medical Biotechnologies in 2018 at the University of Milan (Università degli Studi di Milano) and she is currently a Master's Student of Medical Biotechnologies in Milan. During her Bachelor Traineeship she studied the effect of chronic oxidative stress on cell models of ALS at the Istituto Auxologico Italiano (Milan) with Professor Antonia Ratti.
Veronica joined the Pluchino Lab in October 2019 with the Erasmus+ project and is studying the effect of spinal cord injury on microglia and bone marrow-derived macrophages.
email: vt308@cam.ac.uk
skype me at veronica161210
Daniel Trajkovski
Daniel graduated in 2012 from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Macedonia with BEng (Hons) in Animal Science. His graduation project was in Prof Vukovic's group where he investigated using a certain genetic markers (Bovine leukocyte adhesion deficiency syndrome, Porcine stress syndrome, Scrapie) in the breeding of the animals with potential to improve the production or to reduce the negative factors.
Daniel was working as Flow Cytometry Assistant at the Cambridge BRC Cell Phenotyping Hub before joining the Pluchinolab in November 2018. Currently, he is a candidate for MSc in Animal Genetics and Selection at the Institute of Animal Biotechnology in Macedonia.
dt440@cam.ac.uk
skype me at danieltrajkovski
Vasiliki Pappa, BSc
Vasiliki received her BSc in Biology from University of Patras, Greece (2015). She then completed her MSc at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. During this period she joined dr. Caiazzo's group (Utrecht University) working on a project regarding the generation of human astrocytes from human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCs). Later she joined Prof. Martino's group in San Raffaele Scientific Institute (Milan, Italy) working on a transplant strategy of Neural Precursor Cells (NPCs) to promote neuroprotection in multiple sclerosis.
Vasiliki joined the PluchinoLab in March 2020 to work as Junior Research Laboratory Technician.
vp399@cam.ac.uk
skype me at Vasiliki Pappa
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The LSU Shreveport Spring Commencement ceremony was held Sunday, May 18, 2014 at 2 p.m. at CenturyLink Center in Bossier City, LA. There were 255 degrees awarded to graduates completing programs in the College of Arts & Sciences, and the College of Business, Education and Human Development.
The commencement address was given by Mrs. Ollie S. Tyler, retired State Superintendent of Education for the Louisiana Department of Education. Mrs. Tyler used her life experience in the education system to give the graduates of LSUS encouragement to always strive for the best. "Always be a dreamer, and THEN pursue your dreams," said Tyler. "Don't let sober reality empty your tank of aspiration, ambition, idealism, and purpose."
"We are incredibly proud of what our graduates have accomplished during their years with us, and we're looking forward to hearing about their future successes," said Dr. Paul Sisson, Interim Chancellor of LSU Shreveport. "With the support of their family and friends, as well as our devoted faculty and staff, our students have been able to excel within their fields of study. I'm honored to have gotten to know these students, and I am truly thankful to all that have made a difference in their lives."
Listed here are the graduates by college, degree and hometown.
Zwolle, LA- Jerry Lynn Sepulvado Jr.


In DUBAI, women usually wear pantsuits that are sheeny and glam, while men wear black, buffed and paired with slim ties.
In EGYPT, Ties and sports coats are almost obsolete. In formal meetings, long sleeve with button-down and slacks is acceptable. Women usually wear jackets over high-necked shell and loose pants.
In IRAN, a "chador" (hooded floor-length cloak) should be worn by women meeting a clerical group. In most gatherings, women should wear a black "manteau" (loose coatlike garment), a low-closed pumps, and an Iranian "hijab".
In ISRAEL, jeans are commonly worn than ties and jackets, and in business formal meetings, means no more than a button-down and khaki pants. For women who are attending meetings with religious colleagues, skirts are preferred than trousers. Liberal places such as Tel-Aviv, trendy dresses from boutiques are commonly worn by women.
In LEBANON, Men prefers a two-button Hugo Boss brand, navy or black. Women are fashionable with straight skirts and fuschia jackets. Hair ponytail is NOT recommended.
In MOROCCO, women and men are invariably formal in suits.
In SYRIA, men wear suits; women wear skirt ensembles. No trousers or slacks.
In CHINA, homogenous suits and ties are being worn even on hot summer days. Women going for business meetings don't wear any makeup or jewelry and everyone shies away from conspicuos consumption to show they're focused on the business at hand.
In INDIA, pantsuits are very well tolerated anywhere on the Indian subcontinent. Wear cotton or linen in summer, pair it with colored scarf or dangle earrings. Men can wear color, too ;).
In INDONESIA, men wear batik-button-downs with khaki pants and closed shoes, while women wear plain dresses, long sleeves and hair ponytails with lipsticks and blush ons. Notable jewelries are not recommended.