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Alexander Rossi Biography – 2016's Indianapolis 500 Winner
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Published On: Sunday, March 6th, 2022
Alexander Rossi is a well-renowned racer who won the 2016 Indianapolis 500. Photo Source: Alexander Rossi's Instagram.
Birth DateSeptember 25, 1991
Birth Name Alexander Michael Rossi
Also Known As Alexander Rossi
Weight 158.7 lbs
Father's Name Pieter Rossi
Mother's Name Dawn Rossi
Birth Place Auburn, California, U.S.A.
Birth Sign Libra
Profession Race Car Driver
Relationship Status In a Relationship
Education Associate of Arts
Awards Honors 2016 Indianapolis 500 Winner
Official Website https://alexanderrossi.com/
Twitter https://twitter.com/AlexanderRossi
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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Rossi
Last updated on March 26th, 2022 at 04:56 pm
When discussing IndyCar Series, we can't miss the legendary Alexander Rossi. He gained much attention after winning the Indianapolis 500 in his debut year in 2016. In addition, he has ranked among the top five in many IndyCar series.
The racer had previously raced as a test driver in Formula One. Furthermore, he has also competed in numerous GP2 Series, Formula BMW, and Formula Renault.
So, let's learn more about the IndyCar star's family, salary, career, love life, and more in this biography.
Alexander Rossi's Parents Funded His Career From Start
The driver was born Alexander Michael Rossi on September 25, 1991, in Auburn, California, USA. He grew up in Nevada and began racing go-karts at ten.
Alexander Rossi's dad, Pieter Rossi, an architect, arranged money by opening an investment fund. Then, he launched Team Rossi Motorsports and One Motorsports Marketing and Management for his son. In addition, the father-son duo became investors and advisors in Evolution Development Group, Inc.
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Likewise, Alexander Rossi's mother, Dawn Rossi, supported his racing passion and attended his races. His family's commitment led him to enjoy a successful karting career.
The racer graduated from Forest Lake Christian School at sixteen. Afterward, he enrolled at Sierra College and majored in Business Administration and Management. He received his Associate of Arts degree in 2011.
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Alexander Rossi Net Worth And Career
Alexander Rossi's net worth mainly comprises his earnings from his racing profession. His fortune comes from multiple endorsement deals, sponsors, partners, prize money, etc.
The sportsman's karting accomplishments include winning Jim Russell Arrive and Drive Series and IKF Region 11 Sprint. He then switched to car racing and won his first title at the 2006 Skip Barber Western Regional Series.
Rossi won Formula BMW Americas and Formula BMW World Final in 2008. He then became a test-driver in the F1 for Caterham F1 Team and Marussia F1 Team. Finally, he raced in the 2015 FIA Formula One World Championship.
Alexander signed up with Andretti Autosport to compete in IndyCar Series in 2016. He raced in sixteen races and earned $3,285,413. He also cashed $2,548,743 after winning the 2016 Indianapolis 500. Let's see some of his racing stats below:
Year Championship Team Position
2011 Formula Renault 3.5 Series Fortec Motorsport 3rd
2015 GP2 Series Racing Engineering 2nd
2018 Verizon IndyCar Series Andretti Autosport 2nd
2019 NTT IndyCar Series Andretti Autosport 3rd
2020 NTT IndyCar Series Andretti Autosport 9th
Alexander's salary from Andretti Autosport was estimated to be between $500K – $700K in 2018. It must have increased now several years later. Similarly, Rossi's earnings come from his sponsors TAG Heuer, Find Your Grind, AutoNation, NAPA KNOW HOW, etc. He has also released merch available from $15.5.
Aside from that, the sportsman has a podcast titled Off Track with Hinch and Rossi. Thus, Alexander Rossi's net worth must be a notable amount. Another individual who has gained fame from IndyCar Series is Scott Dixon.
Is Alexander Rossi Dating Anyone?
The former Indy 500 champ is dating gorgeous Kelly Mossop. She is a customer success manager at PointClickCare. Moreover, Rossi was previously courting a former volleyball player, Kameron Combs.
The pair haven't precisely shared when they first began their relationship. But, as per several sources, both might have started dating in 2016. Since then, the lovebirds have been living a comfortable life. As per Alexander's partner, Kelly's one IG post, both even share a house.
Alexander Rossi's girlfriend, Kelly, often attends his races to cheer him. She is one of the biggest supporters in the racer's career.
Alexander Rossi's girlfriend, Kelly Mossop, is a customer success manager at PointClickCare. Photo Source: Alexander Rossi's Instagram.
The couple hasn't shared any plans for the wedding. But who knows, Alexander might make his lady love his wife someday. So, let's wish the duo good wishes ahead.
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, a stalwart ally of President Obama, has landed in an escalating fight with the White House over what to do about thousands of unaccompanied children streaming across the U.S. border.
It started Friday, when O'Malley declared that returning the children to their home countries, as Obama has suggested, would send them "back to certain death." That prompted an angry response from White House officials and accusations of hypocrisy when O'Malley opposed locating a shelter for the children in a Maryland county.
But the Democratic governor, who is considering a bid for president in 2016, did not budge from his position in interviews Wednesday.
The White House has regularly turned to O'Malley to help promote Obama's positions on the talk-show circuit, particularly when O'Malley served as chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. The former Baltimore mayor's decision to publicly disagree with Obama on a thorny issue of immigration appears, at least in part, to be a calculated step that positions him to the left of other potential contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination.
But it also comes with some peril — not only by provoking a conflict with the president, but also by putting O'Malley on the defensive about his objections to a federal proposal to open a shelter for some of the children in Carroll County. The proposal involved a former military center that was marred by anti-immigration graffiti over the weekend, and O'Malley said he worried that the children would be unwelcome.
The conflict made clear that, despite O'Malley's passionate rhetoric, the immigration issue poses for him some of the same challenges and political complexities that it does for Obama on the national landscape.
On Wednesday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest agreed at a news media briefing that the children should be treated humanely and given due process, but he maintained that complicated federal law needs to be more efficiently enforced.
"There is widespread recognition among members of both parties that we're dealing with a serious situation at the southwest border, that these are thorny policy problems," Earnest said.
Meanwhile, activists praised O'Malley for remarks made Friday during a Democratic Governors Association news conference in Nashville, where he spoke passionately about the plight of unaccompanied immigrant children from countries such as Guatemala and Honduras.
During the news conference Friday, O'Malley — joined by the governors of Connecticut and Vermont — set forth a point of view that surprised some of his Democratic colleagues. That outlook, he said, was shaped by his forebears, including a great-grandfather Martin O'Malley who immigrated to the United States from Ireland, and by the social justice mission of the Catholic Church.
"I can only imagine, as a father of four, the heartbreak that those parents must have felt in sending their kids across the desert where they could be muled or trafficked or used or killed or tortured, but with the hope that they would reach the United States," he said.
O'Malley's stand on immigration shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
And in April, the governor announced that a state-run jail in Baltimore would no longer automatically follow federal government orders to hold immigrants for possible deportation, an act of defiance that did not garner nearly as much attention.
This time, the reaction from the White House was immediate. Within hours of his comments Friday, O'Malley received a phone call from Obama's domestic policy director, Cecilia Muñoz, the governor said. He wouldn't comment on her tone, but aides described it as frustrated.
In addition, details were leaked to the media about a request from O'Malley during the conversation that children not be sheltered at the former Army Reserve Center in Westminster, a city of about 18,600 that's about 35 miles northwest of Baltimore in Carroll County.
The request, first reported by CNN, was cast by a "Democratic source" as evidence of O'Malley's hypocrisy: The governor did not want the children returned to their home countries, but he resisted sheltering them in his own state.
O'Malley aides were incensed, feeling that the governor's comments were misconstrued. They said that O'Malley has been working closely with the White House for weeks to find safe accommodations in Maryland. On Monday, state officials began to process paperwork to secure more foster-care providers for the children.
But the governor confirmed that he raised concerns with Muñoz about opening a shelter in Carroll County — a conservative stronghold in a mostly Democratic state. Last year, county leaders voted to make English the official language, despite protests that such an action was unwelcoming to immigrants.
"I suggested to them that the location still under consideration in Westminster might not be the most inviting environment for the kids," O'Malley said.
O'Malley said his concerns were confirmed over the weekend when graffiti appeared at the vacant military center: the misspelled "No illeagles here" and "No undocumented Democrats." Maryland State Police are investigating the graffiti as a hate crime.
The federal government is no longer considering the Westminster location, an administration spokesman said.
Earnest, the White House press secretary, confirmed at Wednesday's briefing that Muñoz and O'Malley had spoken, but he declined to discuss the conversation. A White House spokesman did not respond to a request for a comment from Muñoz.
O'Malley said that the best arrangement for the children is with relatives living in the United States. If a child does not have family, then a foster home or other temporary housing should be an option, perhaps tapping the generosity of churches. Large shelters, such as the one proposed in Westminster, would be difficult to set up, he said.
Dan Balz and David Nakamura contributed to this report.


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Ninja III: The Domination Blu-ray Review (Scream Factory)
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Ninja III: The Domination is a ridiculous '80s martial arts film that combines The Exorcist with Enter the Dragon, and it works as a cult marvel. Scream Factory has redone their previous Blu-ray release with a great new 4k transfer and a lot of new special features, meaning a double-dip may be in your best interest!
Ninja III: The Domination Film Review
Ninja III: The Domination Blu-ray Review
A ninja gets shot a million times by a police force after he randomly murders a bunch of people on a golf course. Before he finally dies from having such massive balls, he hands off his sword to a telephone pole technician/dance instructor named Christie. She has brief visions of the police officers shooting said ninja before she becomes fully possessed by his spirit, and she begins to go on a murderous rampage using the sword and some shuriken that she finds hidden in a cave. She'll have to be exorcised by another ninja, since only a ninja can kill another ninja. Yep, it doesn't make much fucking sense.
Director: Sam Firstenberg
Actors: Sho Kosugi, Lucinda Dickey, Jordan Bennett, David Chung
Genre: Action/Martial Arts/Horror (?)
Release date: 1984 (original) / 2013 (Blu-ray/DVD combo) / 2018 (Collector's Edition Blu-ray)
Back in the '80s, "ninja" was apparently not a common term for the average moviegoer. Thus, Sam Firstenberg's trilogy of films simply utilized the common "ninja" in all of the film titles released for Cannon Group (Enter the Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja, and the title in question for this review, Ninja III: The Domination) and hoped that viewers would know which series was referenced. In reality, following the ordering of the films isn't necessary, as evidenced by Ninja III's blatant shift in trajectory from a more traditional martial arts film to… something else entirely. In many ways, Firstenberg's film is a marvel: a truly revelatory product of mismatched themes stolen from popular cinematic successes, all done extremely poorly. And just as surprising as a shuriken to the face, it actually sort of works.
The film follows telephone pole technician Christie (Lucinda Dickey), an active woman who accidentally gets caught up in a dangerous reality when she is possessed by the spirit of a dead Black Ninja (David Chung) who wants revenge all of the cops that murdered him after he himself cuts up a bunch of innocent people in the film's opening. Combining the martial arts elements of Firstenberg's Enter the Ninja and Revenge of the Ninja with some familiar possession effects from The Exorcist, Ninja III: The Domination messes around with exorcism scenes, poorly-choreographed stunt sequences, and '80s dance moves straight out of Breakin' (also a Dickey vehicle) for hilarious results. And it's absolutely a recipe for cult film status, since almost every moment of Ninja III is unintentional comedy gold; it's almost too easy to mine the memes.
No one's going to say that Firstenberg's movie is truly "good"; seriously – Sho Kosugi wears a katana hand guard as an eye patch, so I think that's all that needs to be said about the quality of this film. Yet there's a charm within that makes the viewer keep watching. Perhaps they're titillated by the infamous V8 love scene, or maybe it's just Jordan Bennett's grizzly bear body hair that keeps men and women coming back. There's a majestic supernatural quality to Nina III that attracts to its sliced-and-diced plot, and if anyone doesn't have even a little bit of fun with this movie, it's probably time to cut them out of your life Black Ninja style.
As a traditional martial arts film, Ninja III: The Domination obviously fails miserably. As a culmination of mid-'80s cheese – including huge hair, bodysuits, workout videos, dance scenes, synth pop jams, neon lighting, dudes with sweaters around their necks, and potentially sexually-harrassing cops with big mustaches – you really can't go wrong, though; it's an excellent cult film, and viewers won't want to pass this up.
There's a lot of action-based violence, none of it super graphic. Most of the gore is just minor cuts from katana strikes. The film isn't attempting to be explicitly violent, though, and it's more about those sweet sweet throwing star kills.
Sex/Nudity
Again, nothing explicit but we do get to see a lot of Lucinda Dickey – mostly in her workout clothes, but also a quick underwear shot – as well as one busty chick in a bathing suit in a situation where I was just waiting for her to pop out of her top. (Alas, she doesn't – doing the real research here.)
Interesting Elements
This film, not surprisingly, brought this iteration of Firstenberg's Ninja series to a wrap.
Love the scene where the entire gym watches on as a gang of men try to assault Christie – including an off-duty cop!
Hot '80s songs in the film include "Body Shop," "Love Bites," and "Welcome to the Party."
Blu-ray Specs
NEW 4K Scan From The Original Film Elements
NEW Interview With Actress Lucinda Dickey
NEW Interview With Actor Jordan Bennett
NEW Interview With Producer And Stuntman Alan Amiel
NEW Audio Interviews With Production Designer Elliot Ellentuck And Co-Composer Misha Segal Featuring Isolated Tracks From The Original Score
Theatrical Trailer (In HD) With Optional Trailers From Hell Commentary With Screenwriter Josh Olson
Audio Commentary By Director Sam Firstenberg And Stunt Coordinator Steve Lambert
Ninja III: The Domination was originally released by Scream Factory as a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack back in 2013, but this time the company has given it a special Collector's Edition package. They have also done a new 4k transfer of the film from original film elements. The video quality on this release is pretty good, although the movie occasionally suffers from softness. Grain is kept to a minimum, a bit better than the previous release. Color is well-represented here, especially during the supernatural scenes when the ninja's spirit is causing mischief in Christie's apartment: there's a lot of neon red strobing and that looks great on this 4k transfer; some skintones do take on a waxy appearance, though. Overall, this is another good transfer of the film, with the two versions Scream Factory has released being notably different.
The film gets a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 track with no real flaws or issues besides a couple of somewhat muffled sequences. Other than that, all the great '80s music is perfectly encapsulated on this release. There's also English subtitles to accompany the audio.
Here's where the real meat of this Collector's Edition comes into play. Back when the first edition of the film released, Scream Factory only included an audio commentary with Sam Firstenberg and stunt coordinator Steve Lambert. That commentary is ported to this Blu-ray as well, but with quite a few new extras.
CULT DOUBLE-SHOT: All the Creatures Were Stirring
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The first is an 18-minute interview with Lucinda Dickey, a feature that many fans will be clamoring to see. She talks about her work on Ninja III but also her picture contract with Cannon and some of her other roles – definitely a recommended watch.
Also included is a short 10 minute interview with Jordan Bennett, who's looking good in his older age. He talks about his work on the set and some behind-the-scenes info. Another shorter interview with fight choreographer Alan Amiel adds a bit more information on the action scenes that weren't touched on in Lambert's commentary. Another audio commentary (of sorts) features some audio interviews with composer Misha Segal and production designer Elliot Ellentruck, as well as an isolated score.
To round out the package, Scream has provided a still gallery, trailer, and reversible cover artwork/slipcover, plus a Trailers from Hell sequence.
Here's the thing – your mileage is going to vary with this Collector's Edition release. If you already own the first Scream Factory Blu-ray, the special features may be the deciding factor on whether you double-dip, because there are a number of new interviews here. The 4k scan is also very good, but Scream's previous transfer was also well-liked. While I believe Scream Factory has done a commendable job redoing one of their older releases, the onus is on the buyer to decide how much they really love Ninja III: The Domination.
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Every one of us is a product of our environment to a certain extent. Now, whether you wish to remain there is your decision. We have all been given the free will and the choice to be where we want to be. Are you where you want to be?
If you are brought up in a rough neighborhood, you will learn to be tough just to survive. If you are brought up in a life of gangs, you will also become a gang member just to survive. The list goes on and on.
We are all given the will to be who we want to be and live where we want to live. It is our own individual choice and decision. I had an employee who had six children and adopted three more. When she worked for me, three of her kids were in jail, three were receiving "crazy checks", she taught them to act a certain way to collect money from the system, and out of the last three, only one decided she did not want to continue that lifestyle, and was trying to make something of herself.
I know people who have come from an extremely poor family, and they have taken significant strides to better their own life and I know people who come from very affluent families and they stay in trouble and essentially don't have a pot to pee in. It all goes back to choices and decisions we make.
I will say it seems to me that those who are extremely poor growing up are the ones who make the most out of their life. They want better and realize they have to work hard to get the better things. Those who are born with a silver spoon are the laziest ones. They still expect everything to be given to them. I believe this also goes back to both parents working to provide more for their family and give too much to their children to make up for not spending time with them.
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Some of us have been dealt a lousy hand but, we all have been given the same will to make the best of every situation. The choice is ours to make. You will not get to where you want to be by staying where you are.


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Q: Is it possible to inspect the contents of a Table Value Parameter via the debugger? Does anyone know if it is possible to use the Visual Studio / SQL Server Management Studio debugger to inspect the contents of a Table Value Parameter passed to a stored procedure?
To give a trivial example:
CREATE TYPE [dbo].[ControllerId] AS TABLE(
    [id] [nvarchar](max) NOT NULL
)
GO

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[test]
    @controllerData [dbo].[ControllerId] READONLY
AS
BEGIN
    SELECT COUNT(*) FROM @controllerData;
END

DECLARE @SampleData as [dbo].[ControllerId];
INSERT INTO @SampleData ([id]) VALUES ('test'), ('test2');

exec [dbo].[test] @SampleData;

Using the above with a break point on the exec statement, I am able to step into the stored procedure without any trouble. The debugger shows that the @controllerData local has a value of '(table)' but I have not found any tool that would allow me to actual view the rows that make up that table.

A: Since you get no joy from the debugger, here is my suggestion. You add an input varaiable to determine if it is in test mode or not. Then if it is in testmode, run the select at the top of the sp to see what the data is.
CREATE TYPE [dbo].[ControllerId] AS TABLE(
    [id] [nvarchar](max) NOT NULL
)
GO

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[jjtest]
    (@controllerData [dbo].[ControllerId] READONLY
    , @test bit = null)
AS
IF @test = 1
BEGIN
SELECT * FROM  @controllerData
END
BEGIN
    SELECT COUNT(*) FROM @controllerData;
END
GO

DECLARE @SampleData as [dbo].[ControllerId];
INSERT INTO @SampleData ([id]) VALUES ('test'), ('test2');

EXEC [dbo].[jjtest] @SampleData, 1;

A: I got no success trying to do the same what you described. So I guess it isn't possible yet. Will wait for SSMS 2010

A: It is not possible for table variables, but I built a procedure which will display the content of a temp table from another database connection. (which is not possible with normal queries).
Note that it uses DBCC PAGE & the default trace to access the data so only use it for debugging purposes.
You can use it by putting a breakpoint in your code, opening a second connection and calling:
exec sp_select 'tempdb..#mytable'

A: There is a solution I think you can create another stored procedure and fill the table value parameter and the call your main procedure and then you start debugging from the test procedure you made.

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When logging a payment in Setmore, either through the cash register system, through our Square integration, or through our Stripe integration, you have the opportunity to apply a discount at every checkout. Once a payment is logged, you may also retrieve the receipt for it at any time, or issue a refund. We'll go through each process in the instruction sets below.
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2. In the Appointment window, click the "Pay Now" button.
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Q: Jenkins UI Textfinder how to set multiple regex I'm using the Jenkins UI and I want to let the test fail if at least one of multiple regex occur in the console output. So I'm using Jenkins Text Finder in the Post-build Actions.
I want the test to fail when these expression occur:
"Failed" and "Traceback (most recent call last)"
Any idea how to accomplish this?
Jenkins suggest to use the syntax of Java Pattern.
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html
But I haven't found a correct way yet to get the correct behaviour.
Grateful for any hint.

A: Just use:
regex1|regex2|...|regexn

and you'll get a regular expression that matches any of regex1, regex2, ... regexn.


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Q: Text input becomes unusable after submitting data I am implementing a page in my app that takes a user input and then searches a tv shows API for shows relating to what the user inputs. The form works, and data is returned succesfully, however once the search button has been clicked and the data has been returned, the search bar AND search button becomes unresponsive and will not bring up the keyboard. This was tested on a pixel 3 AVD, however on an iphone X using expo Go, the search button fully disapears from the page!
Here is the code:
import React, {useState} from 'react';
import { StyleSheet, Text, View, TextInput, TouchableOpacity, FlatList, ActivityIndicator, Image } from 'react-native';
import {AntDesign} from '@expo/vector-icons';

const ShowDisplay = ({navigation}) => {

  const[text, changeText] = useState('');
  const[data, setData] = useState([]);

  const check = (item) => {
    if(item.show.image){
      return(
        <Image source={{uri:item.show.image.medium}} style={{width:'100%', height: 200}} />
      )
    }else{
      return(
        <Text>Poo</Text>
      )
    }
  }

 const showfind = () =>{
  fetch('https://api.tvmaze.com/search/shows?q=' + text)
  .then((response)=> response.json())
  .then((json)=> setData(json))
  .catch((error)=>alert(error));
 }

const showSearch = (text) =>{
  showfind();
}

const changeHandler = (text) =>{
 changeText(text)
}

console.log('text is currently '+ text)

 return(
  <>
    <View style={styles.container}>
    <View style = {styles.searchform}>
    <TextInput
      placeholder = 'Search for a show'
       style = {styles.search}
       onChangeText={text => changeHandler(text)}
  />
  <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => showSearch(text)}>
    <AntDesign name="search1" size={30} color='black' style = {{marginTop: 19, marginLeft: 15,}}/>
  </TouchableOpacity>
  </View>
</View>

<View>
  {data? (<View style={styles.resultsContainer}>
<FlatList
style = {styles.list}
keyExtractor={(item, index)=> index.toString()}
  numColumns= '3'
  data={data}
  renderItem={({item}) => (
    <>
    <TouchableOpacity style = {styles.show} onPress={() => navigation.navigate('toShow', {
     id: item.show.id,

    } )}>

    <View style={styles.text}>
    {check(item)}
     </View>
  </TouchableOpacity>

</>
  )}

  />
</View>) : (<View style={styles.loadingContainer}>

<ActivityIndicator size="large" color="#000"/>

</View>)}

</View>

</>

);

}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({

container: {
flex: 1,
backgroundColor: '#fff',
alignItems: 'center',

},
search :{
  paddingLeft: 15,
  marginTop: 20,
  borderRadius:30,
  width: 200,
  height: 30,
  borderWidth: 1,
  borderColor: '#000'
}, header : {
  marginTop: 20,
  fontSize: 30,
},
searchform:{
flexDirection: 'row',
},

show:{
  width: '33.3%',
  height: 200,
  borderStyle: "solid",
  borderColor: 'white',
  borderWidth: 1,
},
list:{
 marginTop: 70,

}

});

  export default ShowDisplay;

I thought that maybe because the sumbit button runs a function, maybe the function never stops, and needs to be reset? When the sumbit button is pressed, it makes the call to the API.. I am unsure what is happening.

A: Looks like you're getting a weird side effect by using a Fragment (<></>) as the root view. The style is getting thrown off in certain circumstances.
Since you don't actually have a reason to use a Fragment as the root (your container view is the root element), removing it seemed to solve the issue. I also removed the unnecessary fragment you were using in the search button.
return(
<View style={styles.container}>
  <View style = {styles.searchform}>
    <TextInput
      placeholder = 'Search for a show'
       style = {styles.search}
       onChangeText={text => changeHandler(text)}
    />
    <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => showSearch(text)}>
     <AntDesign name="search1" size={30} color='black' style = {{marginTop: 19, marginLeft: 15,}}/>
    </TouchableOpacity>
  </View>

  <View>
   {data? (<View style={styles.resultsContainer}>
      <FlatList
          style = {styles.list}
          keyExtractor={(item, index)=> index.toString()}
          numColumns= '3'
          data={data}
          renderItem={({item}) => (
             <TouchableOpacity style = {styles.show} onPress={() =>
                  navigation.navigate('toShow', {
                    id: item.show.id,
                  } )}>

              <View style={styles.text}>
                {check(item)}
              </View>
            </TouchableOpacity>
          )}

      />
      </View>) : (<View style={styles.loadingContainer}>

      <ActivityIndicator size="large" color="#000"/>

    </View>)}
  </View>
</View>
);


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Bell Media makes investment in Grande Studios as part of commitment to Quebec content
MONTREAL — Bell Media has made a minority investment in Grande Studios in a partnership they say will increase resources for Quebec's French-language content creation and production. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Canadian Press Nov 18, 2020 7:36 AM Nov 18, 2020 8:05 AM
MONTREAL — Bell Media has made a minority investment in Grande Studios in a partnership they say will increase resources for Quebec's French-language content creation and production.
Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Grande Studios provides production facilities, camera and lighting equipment rentals in Montreal and Toronto.
It also provides technical services to the TV and film production industry and is currently working on "Moonfall," a sci-fi movie being filmed in Montreal.
Grande Studios has also provided facilities for several Bell Media productions including "La Semaine des 4 Julie" and the Crave film "The Song of Names."
Bell Media is part of BCE's Bell Canada, the country's largest telecommunications company. Its holdings include the CTV television network, specialty TV channels, radio stations and production studios.
"This partnership accelerates Bell Media's ongoing commitment to the Quebec economy and increases our ability to help bring more Quebecois content to market," said Karine Moses, president of Bell Media Quebec.
"With their real estate, Grande Studios has the opportunity to meet the increased demand for production facilities in Montreal, and we look forward to working with creators to increase the number of productions in the city."
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India likely to release new cybersecurity strategy this year
The government is expected to release a new cybersecurity strategy this year, Lt Gen Rajesh Pant, the National Cybersecurity Coordinator at the Prime Minister's Office said at an event.
New Delhi, The government is expected to release a new cybersecurity strategy this year, Lt Gen Rajesh Pant, the National Cybersecurity Coordinator at the Prime Minister's Office said at an event.
The coordinator, at an event organised by the Public Affairs Forum of India (PAFI), added that the strategy would holistically cover the entire ecosystem of cyberspace in India.
"The vision of this strategy is to ensure safe, secure, resilient, vibrant, and trusted cyberspace," he said.
The new strategy would serve as a guideline to tackle every aspect, whether it is governance or data as a national resource, or building indigenous capabilities or cyber audit, to name a few.
There are about 80-odd deliverables coming out of this new strategy, he added.
The theme of the PAFI Dialogue was 'Cyber Security in the New Normal.'
"Pandemic has shot up the cyber-crimes in India by 500 per cent and India is one of the top 3 attacked countries in the world as far as cyber-attacks are concerned," Pant said.
There are emerging threats from the proliferation of new technologies like drones and IoT devices.
To ensure a safe, secure and trusted cyberspace, the government has taken a series of initiatives.
"Cybercrimes are increasing. Attribution is the difficult part and now (cybercriminals) have started taking advantage of the dark web. Pandemic gave the perfect storm to the cybercriminals," he added.
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Our little church of good design, modern delights, and this salty city is a COLLECTIVE, to be sure. When it comes down to it, though, we're just a friendly gang of pretty great individuals, and now seems as good a time as any to start the introductions. Get to know us, fall in love, then collect and trade all of our cards. First up: Sister Jenny Compton.
What's your middle name? How do you feel about it? Lyn. I feel pretty great about it. It was all the rage in and around my birth year. Jenny Lyns and Jenny Lees abound.
Wham! had countless hits. Tell us your favorite[s]: WHAM! I loved WHAM! (still do). I surprisingly don't recall the name but it went, "WHAM…BAM…I am a man…la la la…something something…do you enjoy what you do? If not just STOP, but don't sit there and rot." We sang it every recess for about a year.
How has Dolly Parton shaped you as a person? I don't know that she has shaped me as a person, but I do love that gal. She is like a ray of sunlight; positive, she is her unique, beautiful self, and I love her music, too.
Give me your opinion on our little COLLECTIVE: I love the COLLECTIVE. Cody, the delicate genius that he is, has facilitated a way for us all to be amazing and create more beauty, find our "happy"…in our homes and lives, however big we want to imagine.
I'm afraid of the dark. What's some dumb stuff about you? Dumb stuff about me? Oh boy, is this a trick question? How long is this interview?
Currently reading/watching: I have an intimidating pile of books by my bedside. I need to hide all but one and keep focus so I can finish at least one sometime soon. They range in the areas of spirituality and entertainment…Zukav, and Paramahansa Yogananda to Chelsea Handler. TV: if The Bachelor were on currently, I would be tuned in. I have no explanation for this.
Is there something you must do/accomplish/visit before you die? I'd like to visit many more forests and lakes. Accomplish inner peace. Must do? I don't like having 'must dos'.
Can you explain what's going on with Rihanna right now? I mean, is this just a phase, or… I would have to Google this one. I saw her on SNL and thought she was pretty darn good. Admittedly, I haven't listened to much more than the Dead in 20+years.


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We have chosen, as our means of manifesting God's love, to create opportunities for all people to live in decent, durable shelter. We put faith into action by helping to build, renovate or preserve homes, and by partnering with others to accelerate and broaden access to affordable housing as a foundation for breaking the cycle of poverty.
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In response to the prophet Micah's call to do justice, to love mercy and to walk humbly with God, we promote decent, affordable housing for all, and we support the global community's commitment to housing as a basic human right. We will advocate for just and fair housing policy to eliminate the constraints that contribute to poverty housing. And, in all of our work, we will seek to put shelter on hearts and minds in such powerful ways that poverty housing becomes socially, politically and religiously unacceptable.
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"It's not our bloody war."
The late 70s and early 80s were a great time for Australian cinema. The filmmakers churned out lots of great (and cheap) movies and these movies helped create a resurgence of Australian films on the world cinematic stage. Peter Weir was one of these filmmakers, and his 1981 film Gallipoli really helped this resurgence with its story of friendship and the loss of innocence in times of war. Join us — Pete Wright and Andy Nelson — as we continue our 1981 series with Weir's Gallipoli. We talk about the horrors of this battle in Turkey, who fought it and how this film portrays the war. We discuss the odd structure of the film as it focuses primarily on character and less on the war, and why that works, but also why it makes the first half of the film lag a bit. We chat about Mel Gibson and Mark Lee, how they work as actors in this film, and why we like their portrayals. And we touch on how this film's popularity did help boost it and other Australian films up onto the world stage. It's a powerful film, even if it's not something we feel like we'd find ourselves returning to very often. Still. well worth looking at. Tune in!
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Maximum of 4 entries per class. Each exhibit must be properly labeled.
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Label with each entry must include members name, age, club name, rocket type, and description.
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Maximum of 4 entries per class. Wood must be chosen and cut by exhibitor.
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January 18, 2020 Taos, New Mexico
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Friday, February 14, 2020 - 7:00 pm
SOMOS: Chigozie Obioma
Arthur Bell Auditorium
Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria and is currently an assistant professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of two novels, The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019) - both of which were finalists for the Man Booker prize. Other awards include: the winner of the inaugural FT/Oppenheimer Award for fiction, the NAACP Image Award for Debut Literary Work and the LA Times prize for First Fiction. Obioma was selected as one of Foreign Policy's 100 Leading Global Thinkers in 2015.
Tickets are $10 general and $8 for SOMOS and Harwood members.
Obioma will be leading a workshop at SOMOS on 2/15/20 from 10-12:30 on "Believable Fiction: Is Your Fiction a Story or a Tale? How the Difference Can Make or Mar your Story" contact SOMOS for registration.
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An Eastern European sensibility and industrial undertones endure in the borough's northernmost pocket.
The East River ferry transports Greenpointers from factory-dotted shores to the skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan.
On a map, the outline of Brooklyn takes the rough shape of a human heart. At the top — its aorta — is Greenpoint. It's the buzzing and boisterous interface between Queens and Kings County, a neighborhood that sends many of its residents to Manhattan during the day, and then accepts them back when the working day's done.
The entirety of Greenpoint occupies fewer than three square miles, but it feels bigger. Especially on Monday morning, as the sun breaks over the Polish delis and bakeries, the sleepy bars, and wood-frame houses. As daylight moves west along Greenpoint Avenue, the neighborhood's main east-west artery, it passes hip cafés and utilitarian bodegas before crossing the lawn at waterfront Transmitter Park and splashing into the East River.
Left: From 4:30 am, Peter Pan Donut & Pastry Shop serves up crullers and coffee at this counter-only classic. Right: Beloved for its ricotta pancakes and sidewalk seating, nautical-themed Five Leaves first put the 'hood on the map in 2008.
In recent years, Greenpoint has earned a reputation as a hub for young professional transplants. The HBO show Girls was set here, and the crowdfunding site Kickstarter moved into the landmarked Eberhard Faber Pencil factory on Kent Street. More recently, A/D/O, a co-working space for designers and artisans, is breathing new life into Greenpoint's manufacturing legacy from its 26,000-square-foot warehouse space on a sleepy stretch of Norman Avenue.
The change is welcome, but it exists alongside a strong cultural force, one built over time by immigrants from Eastern Europe, mostly Poland, who began arriving at the end of the 19th century. The area's first Polish church, St. Stanislaus Kostka, was erected in 1896, anchoring a neighborhood that is today still referred to as "Little Poland." The church stands on Humboldt Street — two neo-Gothic spires that tower over the apartment buildings around it.
House-cured bacon and smoked kielbasa hang in Nassau Meat Market's time-tested storefront.
Greenpoint's meatmarkets still hang kielbasa from the ceiling and serve sauerkraut from deep ladles; restaurants like Karczma, Christina's, and Krolewskie Jadlo continue to populate their menus with decidedly Eastern European fare like pierogies and stuffed cabbage.
As the two-lane streets warm with early morning sunlight, cyclists on fixed-gear bikes stream north and south, heading for bridges that will take them from this quaint village into "The City." Other commuters grab pour-over and single-origin coffees from newcomers Five Leaves and Sauvage before jumping on the G train, the neighborhood's only subway line.
Nearly 200 years ago, shipbuilders and farmers made their simple homes here, mostly from wood; many of them still exist on residential blocks like Milton, Java, and Kent. The builders' industrious tenor thrives in places like Greenpoint Beer & Ale Co., where brewers begin canning beer shortly after arriving at 6 am. You see it in the Polish cashiers showing up for work at Peter Pan Donut & Pastry Shop even earlier. The bakers are there by 2 am, dropping dough into the fryer and working off a recipe that hasn't changed in more than 60 years.
Left: Bower manufactures its modern furniture out of a jute mill dating from 1868. Right: A/D/O has turned a Greenpoint warehouse into a café, communal workspace, and fabrication lab for the area's designers and artisans.
Across the street is Polka Dot Café, a restaurant that represents the merger of Greenpoint's old and new. The place used to be the Polski Meat Market until a rebranding effort gave it a new façade, complete with a walk-up coffee window and playful hand-painted lettering above the door. But despite its Instagrammable signage, the shop's deli counter holds a bounty of traditional Polish standbys: pork shanks, cured meats, and beetroot borscht made thick with beans and potatoes.
The kitchen staff lifts Polka Dot's garage-door style gate just before the doors officially open at 7 am. Locals coming in for breakfast order coffee from the Brooklyn Roasting Company along with potato or zucchini pancakes. If they have the appetite for it, they might get them stuff ed with beef goulash.
A gray-haired man wearing house slippers orders in rapid-fire Polish, and the cashier, Magda Mierzwa, 24, chats him up before he shuffles toward his table with the help of a cane. Mierzwa was born in Poland, and moved to New York with her family when she was 7. Her co-worker, Sara Puk, 18, is second generation. "Born and raised in Greenpoint," she says proudly, before taking a customer's order in Polish.
Slippers-guy finishes eating and then goes outside to sit on the bench in front of the restaurant. The morning rush ebbs, and then it's lunchtime. By dinner, the commuters are returning from Manhattan. The pulse of the neighborhood thumps along in its steady rhythm, preparing Greenpoint for the future, while protecting the heritage that roots it in the past.
Loren Cronk cuts raw denim with long steel scissors, sewing and riveting jeans that nod to the sturdy workwear of Greenpoint's past.
The garage founded by the infamous stuntman and motorcycle builder still turns out colorful, chopper-style bikes.
The shop's offerings are simple but elegant — mugs, bowls, planters — intentionally imperfect and splashed with colors.
Sleek housewares, furniture, and lighting fixtures emerge from this firm's studio within the Greenpoint Manufacturing & Design Center.


The workshop on Open Marketplaces & Enabling Technologies was held in Brussels on 8 March 2019, jointly organised by the European Commission (DG Connect and DG Energy), AIOTI and ENTSO-E, EIT InnoEnergy, and ETIP-SNET. The focus was: Beyond security, monetisation and connectivity.
The final agenda and the list of speakers can be found here. Conclusions of the workshop can be found here.
The presentations from the event can be found below.


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Dolcetto di Dogliani grape
Guarantee of Origin.
A.O.C. – D.M. 6th July 2006
A wine resolute in its jovial and fragrant characteristics: ruby and violet colours that inflame the glass, a strong bouquet of ripe fruit, for the most part marasca cherry and plum, a dry flavour despite its name and interpretative sensations.
It stems from the pure dolcetto vine and has a minimum alcoholic content of 11.5% vol.
Dolcetto di Dogliani can be produced in 9 communes in the Langa area, around Dogliani, and precisely Bastis, Belvedere, Langhe, Clavesana, Cigliè, Dogliani, Farigliano, Monchiero, Roccacigliè and a part of the area of Roddino and Somano.
The link between Dolcetto and Dogliani is as old as the earth and with the passing of time is still the most established. An irreproachable historical reference remains the mention found in the Statutes of the commune of Dogliani, that dates back to 1593 and that introduces a precise injunction regarding the beginning of grape harvest. In actual fact, this passage of the communal Statutes cautions:
Niuno ardischi al di qua della festa di San Matteo vendemmiare le uve et se qualcheduno per necessità od altra causa dovrà vendermiar qualche Dozzetti o altre uve serà tenuto prender licenza dal deputato".
"Be there no one daring to harvest the grapes if not for this festivity of Saint Matthew's, and should anyone either for need or other reasons require to harvest some 'Dozzetti' or other grapes, these will be obliged to obtain permission from the deputy".
The name Dogliano can also boast a glorious origin, as an etymological interpretation takes this word from "Dolium Iani", which means that the wine produced on these hills was, in ancient times, appreciated by Janus, the god and guardian of passageways and borders.
The growing of this vine in Dogliani is an ancient ritual that can be seen in the strength with which wine-growers on these hills have instilled this ritual in their vineyards, to which they dedicate the hillsides and best exposures: here and in the neighbouring towns that belong to the area of origin of this wine, the vineyards are mainly meant for Dolcetto; only if there is enough space, then a little attention can be given also to other varieties, still complementary.
With this special attachment to Dolcetto, we can now understand what pushed wine-growers in Dogliani and its surrounding areas in the 60s to insist on obtaining a specific Status for their production, without agreeing on certain proposals that wanted all the Dolcetto produced on the Langhe hills under one only AOC status.
Therefore, on 26 th June 1974, a decree of the President of the Republic granted this wine the right to hold the Designation of Origin status. It was only right for a "wine of the President", seeing how a President like Luigi Einaudi always showed his attachment to this wine.
In 1994, the current "Consorzio per la Tutela Barolo , Barbaresco, Alba Langhe and Roero" was founded as a point of reference for wine-makers in the Langa and Roero areas who have identified in this structure the most suitable means to face together and authoritatively problems relating to the development and organisation of their reality and sector as a whole.


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Ushi Sato
Having lived in the UAE for over five years, it was about time for the multitalented designer to come out with his own line. USHISATO is his latest creation of ready-to-wear womenswear, although his name
Having lived in the UAE for over five years, it was about time for the multitalented designer to come out with his own line. USHISATO is his latest creation of ready-to-wear womenswear, although his name is mostly known for the fashion blog "The Shades and Scarf" which Ushi has run for as long as he has been in the UAE in addition to his haute couture wedding dresses that he's been creating for a multitude of brides in the country. We've sat down with Sato for a quick chat to find out about his new line and pick his brain on his creative process and hopes for the future.
What is Fashion to you?
For me, it's an art form of creating something. It's an ever-changing aspect of our lives, and it's the best way for me to express myself. As an artist, I chose to create a wearable art; something to enjoy on a daily basis and on a special occasion.
What is your brand about?
USHISATO, a contemporary clothing brand defined by its juxtaposition of modern craftsmanship and attention to detail with a sense of refined ease. It is constantly inspired from the contemporary arts, architecture, literature and culture with emphasis on tailoring and the use of custom fabrics. USHISATO provides beautiful everydaywear accented with a sense of lunacy resulting in a style that fuses the cool with glamour, chic with sophisticated, edgy with classic. It is about being refined, instead of defined. Simply effortless.
"I find complicated and unexplainable things easier to blend with my work"
Take us through your creative work process…
I have an unstable creative process. Possibly because I've got a ton of ideas in my head. But one thing that I always stick to is my fascination with shapes. I often start planning what shapes I want to create, then I analyse and figure out the process.
Above all, however, I always get inspired by something interesting that surrounds me. I am very observant, and I often seek deeper stories in one story, deeper beauty in something beautiful or a form in a shape. It's weird, but I find complicated and unexplainable things easier to blend with my work.
What is your opinion on the fashion scene in the region?
Lack of original artistry. Given that we are in the 'middle-earth' where diverse people come and go, the style and fashion here should be the growing root of artisan who is capable of maintaining his or her best craft to show original art from this region. On the other hand, there's a big change in the fashion business over here. There's a bigger place for pret-a-porter than for custom-made, where the latter used to be the focal option for most Arab consumers. Fashion scene in the region, is indeed at a fast growing pace in the Middle East.
How do you see yourself as a designer in this market?
Back in the days when I was a fashion student, I chose to master in couture so I could call myself couturier someday, or at least be able to get myself in the Syndicale (Ecole). However, I always ended up making my work with ease and relaxed finishing, that made me create my custom-made gowns wearable and easy to wear. By the time I began being exposed to the retail scene, I started to observe the fashion business in the region. I figured out it would be the best thing to venture out what I do best- pushing the boundaries of ready-to-wear. It is a risk to take, but as I consider myself an artist- I express my artistic perspective through making clothes and, I think, this way I can create my own market…
What do you hope for the future of USHISATO and what are the plans?
Consistency. Building a successful brand doesn't happen overnight. As long as I am able to show my art and expression translated onto the clothes every season, and I am happy with results, I could then sae bigger things happen in the future. I let the time test and pass, but my plans are solid to take the leap. It's important to maintain the goal and be able to deliver it every singl moment. I founded the brand in a modern city and I have bigger plans ahead… so watch out.
What is the one fashion item you never leave home without?
I don't fancy wearing a watch, however, recently that I've had lots of things to do in a day, I couldn't leave the house without wearing one. It helps me manage my time, reminding me that time is money for someone owning a business.
What is the best fashion advice you've ever received in your life?
A plastic surgeon once told me when wanted to do something with my face, not to do it because I wanted to look like 'someone else' but do it because it would suit me best!
Photographer: Rozen Antonio
Production: Gene Mendoza
HMUA: Brianzon Acallar & Valentino M Jasmin
Models: Maud & Veneta (FLC)
Meet the inspirational Stephanie Farah, a 29-year-old entrepreneur with 3 fully-operational businesses under her belt
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GOETZIS, Austria -- Damian Warner led the mens decathlon after a cold and rainy opening day of the Hypo Meeting on Saturday, and fellow Canadian Brianne Theisen held a slim lead in the womens heptathlon. Warner, from London, Ont., gained 4,340 points from the first five events, including running 10.36 seconds to win the 100 metres. Kai Kazmirek of Germany is 96 points behind. American Gunnar Nixon is third, 101 points off the pace. Theisen, from Humboldt, Sask., collected 3,816 points overall to lead Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands by five points. Schippers was 160 points behind Theisen after the opening two events before beating the Canadian at the shot put and winning the 200. Hanna Melnychenko of Ukraine is third with 3,740 points. Angels Jerseys 2020 . The 19-year-old Olsen played 34 games with the Kelowna Rockets of the WHL this season. In that time, hes recorded 17 goals and 17 assists with 36 penalty minutes. Cheap Angels Jerseys . -- The proud fathers huddled near the Dallas Stars dressing r m, smiling, laughing and telling stories while wearing replica green sweaters of their sons team. https://www.cheapangels.com/ . 1 position. The Mustangs (6-0), who beat Queens 50-31 last weekend, earned 17 first-place votes and 287 points in voting by the F tball Reporters of Canada. Western was last ranked first in the country in October 2011. Wholesale Angels Jerseys . But Bourque, who has missed three games with a lower-body injury, wont be in the lineup when the Habs travel to Buffalo to take on the Sabres on Wednesday. Angels Jerseys 2019 . According to a report from the Winnipeg Free Press, the Bombers will name Acting GM Kyle Walters to the post full time.Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach Tim Burke made it clear on opening day of training camp that he wanted a lot more from his defensive backs and said if some of last years starters dont get better theyll be replaced. He reiterated that statement following Tuesdays practice at Investors Group Field. "I told the first group of secondary people last night I wasnt happy with their performance and if they dont pick it up theyre going to be gone," Burke said at a press conference. "I dont know how many times I gotta say it. I guess its gonna take somebody getting their ass cut... to get the message across. "Im not happy with the first secondary, how theyre performing. Everybody else is performing really well." Burke, who is in his first full season as head coach, had already issued a warning that play needs to get better from cornerback Jovon Johnson - the leagues outstanding defensive player in 2011 - all-star Jonathan Hefney, Alex Suber and Brandon Stewart.dddddddddddd "Not g d enough," Burke said. "I told them that, t , at the end of practice." Considered the heart of the celebrated "Swaggerville" defence of 2011, the core secondary group all struggled at times last season. Coach Burke is l king to change that this season. "Our secondary did not play well last year. We gave up way t many big plays and were terrible at man-coverage. So, those guys have to either get better or theyre going to be gone," Burke said last Thursday. ' ' '
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May 19, 2017 thelegendonline Features
PHHS participates in Photography Exhibition
By Sophia Xiao
Students from all over the district came together on May 3 for the 38th annual Eastside 11 Photographic Exhibition and Competition. Piedmont Hills seniors Natasha Maxin, Kole Cabacungan and Rebecca Rossini won the Best in School award, and Natasha also won Best Still Life and Senior Portfolio.
The pieces were chosen from previous assignments done in photography class, which had to be approved by photography teacher Ian Tippetts before submission.
"I picked this photo to submit because it was very different, unique, and it hardly required any retouching in photoshop. I named the piece 'The Weight of the World' because it has that vibe of corruption," explained Kole.
Senior Portfolio, unlike the other six categories, required participants to submit a total of five pieces, making it all the more difficult.
"My painting picture has to be my favorite one that I submitted. I want to major in graphic design and I believe this picture shows how I combined my Photoshop skills and the mentality of a graphic designer to create it. It took a long time to edit so it would look like a painting and then I added the shapes to add color into it," elaborated Natasha.
Other categories included Best Traditional Print, Best Special Technique Print, Best Action Print, Best Landscape, and Best Portrait.
The best pieces often had their own meanings and themes, called concentrations, behind them.
"I chose masks (for my concentration). I wanted to show people– how they really are, how they really feel," said Rebecca about her piece which won Best in School. "I took a picture that I had taken of my friend Austin and projected that image onto my (other) friend, who was holding a piece of paper in front of her eyes… (Then), I leveled off the projector until his eyes were over the piece of paper." ♦
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Brett M. Clifton, "Romancing the GOP: Assessing the Strategies Used by the Christian Coalition to Influence the Republican Party," Party Politics, 10 (September, 2004), 475-498.
Despite the increasing involvement of interest groups and social movement organizations in the American political system over the past few decades, only recently has some attention been given to understanding how their activities affect political parties. To investigate the relationship between parties and groups, I examine the interactions between the Christian Coalition and the Republican Party. Relying on 17 interviews with national Republican and Christian Coalition officials, and a mail survey of 423 Republican county chairs, I argue that the Christian Coalition has used electoral mobilization and policy expertise more than financial clout to influence the party. These results have important ramifications for the relationship between groups and political parties.
Finally, researchers need to investigate why some groups are successful on some but not other issues. For example, why has the Christian Right been successful at influencing the GOP on abortion and tax cuts but not trade policy with China? Studying the strategies used by business interests to influence the party might help shed some light on this matter. More research is needed in this area before we can completely understand how social movement organizations and interest groups secure influence with political parties, and then determine what effect that influence has on the ability of parties to represent citizen interests.


Corti, R, Diambra, A, Wood, DM, Leiva, DE & Nash, D, 2016, 'Memory surface hardening model for granular soils under repeated loading conditions'. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, vol 142.
Bhattacharya, S, Nikitas, N, Alexander, NA, Garnsey, J, Cox, J, Wood, DM & Nash, DFT, 2013, 'Observed dynamics soil-structure interaction in scale testing of offshore wind farm foundation'. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering.


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PartnerRe Weathers Hurricane Fabian
Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. has issued a bulletin giving details on the impact of Hurricane Fabian, a Category 3 storm which hit the island on Friday, Sept. 5, 2003, with winds in excess of 140 mph (225 kmh), causing an estimated $350 million in damages. (See IJ Web site Sept. 8)
"Hurricane Fabian was the worst storm to hit Bermuda directly since 1926," said the bulletin. "It caused loss of life, widespread and significant property damage, and power outages across the Island." PartnerRe indicated, however, that none of its employees had been injured, and that its headquarters were undamaged.
"This was a very powerful storm and a frightening experience for most people in Bermuda," commented President & CEO Patrick Thiele. "It caused widespread damage to many parts of the Island. It is a testament to the strength and resolve of the Bermuda people that most of the Island, including PartnerRe offices, was back up and running on Monday morning. It also speaks to the very solid infrastructure that Bermudians have built that total damage was less than might be expected from a storm of this magnitude."
The bulletin noted that "PartnerRe is one of the leading reinsurance companies providing support to the local Bermuda insurance market primarily through proportional property programs and two small catastrophe treaties. The Company expects only modest claims relating to Hurricane Fabian. Given information currently available, PartnerRe expects claims from Hurricane Fabian will be less than $18 million, and that these claims will not have a material impact on the Company's results."
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Art work is the subject, which is very much liked by the children. Art work is encouraged right from the Nursery. In this subject the deaf children compete with normal children. The children have displayed their expertise by winning a number of prizes at state and national level.


JTA — The remains of 300 people killed by the Nazis and used by a German doctor for research will be buried in Berlin next month.
The late Hermann Stieve kept tissue samples of the mostly female victims after he dissected their bodies for his research at the University of Berlin.
He sometimes received the bodies of resistance fighters minutes after they were killed at the Berlin-Ploetzensee prison, the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported Sunday.
The samples were found in small black boxes and some were labeled with the name of the victim, according to the newspaper.
Stieve was researching menstruation and the effects of stress on the reproductive system.
Stieve died of a stroke in 1952.
The samples were discovered by his heirs and turned over to Berlin's Charité university hospital.
They will be buried on May 13.
Although Stieve's research is widely considered to have violated medical ethics, he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences also extended membership to him in recognition of his research.


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As the United States approached the twentieth century, the nation began experiencing a shift from an isolated nation to one more cosmopolitan. This shift was accomplished partially through the demographic changes that large waves of immigration from Europe had created. The transition of the United States from an isolationist nation with limited ambitions outside the Western Hemisphere to a nation on its way to becoming a global superpower happened rather quickly. First, Americans looked to expand their influence and dominance internationally. Then, the United States expanded territorially outside the North American continent. America's participation in international affairs eventually led to its participation in the Great War.
The United States also experienced changes domestically, influenced by new ideas from European society. New movements rose that demanded that American society progress from the "enlightened" small, divided government principles of the Founding Fathers to a more "scientific" approach of a larger government run by "experts." They believed that educated humans could plan a more perfect society and a more perfect world. Centralized planning and social engineering replaced laissez-faire economics and the concept of a divided, limited government.
As the United States developed as a multi-ethnic industrial power, some Americans became interested in doing business beyond their national borders. Though the United States had actively traded with Asia and Latin America during the 1800s, America generally had avoided entanglements or confrontations with European powers. By 1898 that was changing. The circumstances in Cuba, where Americans already had a financial interest, lent themselves to a change in American foreign policy. Sympathizing with Cubans rebelling against oppressive Spanish colonial policies, Americans sent a battleship to Havana to protect American interests. When the ship exploded, Americans quickly blamed the Spanish (which turned out to be wrong). America soon went to war against Spain and invaded Cuba and the Spanish colonies in the Philippines. While victory against Spain was quick, war continued in the Philippines against Filipino insurgents who resisted exchanging Spanish rulers for American rulers. President McKinley reasoned that if the United States did not stay in the Philippines, the Germans, French or another European power would quickly fill the vacuum left by the Spanish surrender. As a result, America took on a colonial role as a world power. Some said this was America's manifest destiny. Others condemned such actions as denials of America's revolutionary roots.
For centuries, European nations had been divided by international rivalries. These tensions were intensified by the growth of industrialization, colonization in Africa and Asia, competition in building the most lethal military forces, and the power of nationalism. By 1914 they had reached a breaking point. A Serbian nationalist assassinated Austrian Archduke Ferdinand, and catapulted the world into World War I, called the "Great War" at the time.
The great powers, made roughly equal through alliances, soon settled into a murderous stalemate along two long fronts. Both sides repeatedly attacked the other, at great cost and with little effect. The United States, following the advice of the Founding Fathers, avoided "entangling alliances" with either side and stayed neutral. The British had eagerly tried to create an alliance with the United States prior to the war. Nevertheless, due in part to the Irish demand for Home Rule or full independence from the United Kingdom, as well as the large Irish American voting bloc's support for Irish nationalism, no American administration could get Congressional support for such an alliance. The reluctance for military alliances, however, did not prevent Americans from trading with the warring countries. European countries needed weapons and supplies. Since the British navy controlled Atlantic shipping routes, it was easier to get things through to the British and their allies. As a result, though officially neutral, in practical terms the United States indirectly supported the British. Since the United States was a former British colony and France was America's first ally during the American Revolution, many Americans favored the Allied Powers. Due to these natural relationships, as well as German violations of American neutrality, the United States entered the war on the side of the Allies in 1917. Still, many Americans did not support America's military involvement, particularly the large German American and Irish American populations in the United States.
The United States contributed to the victory of the Allies over the Central Powers. In the process, they suffered much lower casualties than European nations, and emerged from the war as a major power. President Woodrow Wilson was active in the peace negotiations, and he supported the creation of a League of Nations to prevent future wars. The United States, however, refused to join Wilson's League. Republicans believed that the League would obligate the United States to defend empires from independence movements and colonial rebellions; thus, they fought against its ratification.
As the United States began to look outward toward a global empire at the turn of the century, many of the old American elite also began to look to restructure American government and society. The history of the United States can be seen as a long process of a people trying to get their society closer to an ideal. The Puritans sought to reform the Church of England, which they believed had become corrupt. They referred to their colony as a "city upon a hill," set apart from others by their virtue. The Society of Friends, or Quakers, believed in equality. They were the first of many American Christian groups to seek to abolish slavery. There were numerous social reform movements and religious revivals during the mid-to-late 1800s, such as anti-slavery, women's rights, prison reform, public education, and anti-alcohol.
During the twentieth century a bold, new reform movement appeared – the progressive movement. The progressives believed that a new era had arrived that would improve upon the type of liberal democracy or republican ideology of the American founding period. Rooted firmly in Rousseauian thought, the Hegelian dialectic, and the Darwin scientific theory, progressives believed society had moved from the Newtonian mechanical paradigm of the Enlightenment to a new Darwinian evolutionary understanding of society. Progressives, such as Woodrow Wilson, believed that the state was a natural, organic, and spiritual expression of the people themselves. The state was not a Newtonian machine – rather it was a Darwinian, evolving organism. Wilson advanced that the state leader ". . . supplies the power; others supply only the materials upon which the power operates. . . It is the power which dictates, dominates: the materials yield. Men are a clay in the hands of the commutate leader." Most progressives looked to a society controlled by "experts, engineers, and scientists" that would be superior to a society run by average people.
There was also a strong religious element to the Progressive Movement, known as the Social Gospel movement. Those who advanced the Social Gospel believed the state could advance social justice and, in fact, the state had an obligation to use government institutions to promote the common good. This was a change from the Protestantism that believed individuals had to experience personal conversions and establish a personal relationship with their Lord. Many traditional Protestant evangelists, such as Dwight Moody, claimed that concentrating on social aid made people dependent on charity and distracted them from the life saving message of the Gospel.
The post-Civil War period had experienced a major expansion of the economy, including an increase in the number and size of cities, an influx of immigrants, an explosion of slums, and widespread political corruption. Many of the native urban elite strongly resented that the cities were often controlled by Irish and other Catholics. The progressives were mostly members of the middle class from the Northeast and the upper Midwest. Some were writers and journalists who publicized problems and called for action. Others were wealthy members of the upper class, people from "old money" families in the Northeast. They were the children and grandchildren of the founders of their families' fortunes, no longer involved in the daily business operations. They believed that newer, wealthier corporate leaders, the current producers, were pushing them aside and dominating the economy. Progressives also were concerned about the social changes resulting from new waves of Catholic and Jewish immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe. The progressives tended to be well-educated with a sense of duty to society that motivated them, a motivation they often alleged that many of the so-called "robber barons" lacked. Many progressives found their calling in reform politics.
One of most well-known progressives was Theodore Roosevelt. A sickly boy from an elite family tracing its roots to New York's Dutch colonial period, he applied his strong determination, as well as his family's wealth and connections to overcome his health problems and almost everything else he set out to accomplish. As President of the United States, Roosevelt established the federal government in the role of activist watchdog, protecting the interests of the public from abuses of the newly powerful corporations. He pioneered laws protecting the consumer from impure meats and dangerous medications, recognized the right of workers to organize as unions, and took the first steps to set aside irreplaceable natural resources from shortsighted exploitation. President Roosevelt believed that Americans deserved a "square deal," a term derived from poker, meaning that the deal of the cards is fair. Like many other progressives, Roosevelt was also a committed imperialist who looked to spread American influence and dominance throughout Latin America and Asia.
While lesser-known today, a prevailing theme of the progressive movement at the time was the strong advocacy of using scientific theory to justify the racial and ethnic prejudices common at the time. Eugenicists used Darwinian teachings and Gregor Mendel's new theory of heredity to reason that if experts could create better strains of wheat or peas, and breed superior types of horses and dogs, then they could breed a better type of human.
Progressive scholars such as Madison Grant illustrated how progressive ideas often coincided seamlessly with Eugenics. Grant, a good friend of Roosevelt, is credited with helping to save the American bison and the giant redwoods of California. This same man also used anthropology and Darwinian evolution to conclude that "Nordic" white people of northwestern Europe were superior to Celts, southern and eastern Europeans, and Africans. He wrote the Passing of the Great Race, a book Adolf Hitler called his Bible. Grant's efforts to plan and control bison and redwood populations were consistent with his desire to control and plan human reproduction and evolution. His ideas were consistent with the overall progressive belief that they could control and plan all aspects of human society, and even nature itself. Progressives believed that "experts" could create a better society, a better government, a better-planned economy, better breeds of animals, and even a better breed of humans. There was no limit to human knowledge. Unfortunately, these ideas fed into the racism then common in the United States and even influenced the racist ideology of the Nazi movement in Germany a generation later.
a reform movement between 1900 and 1920 which occurred because progressives felt the rich were corrupting public and private life. The movement called for trust busting, regulation of businesses, the election of senators directly by the people and a graduated income tax.


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Action review: Vishal-starrer is an espionage thriller with style but no substance
Release Date: 15 Nov 2019 / Rated: U/A / 02hr 38min
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Haricharan Pudipeddi
Chennai, 16 Nov 2019 16:30 IST
Action, on paper, is an exciting idea that could've been Tamil cinema's own Ek Tha Tiger (2012). But, Sundar's execution is all over the place and the film suffers from aimless writing
For someone who has built his over two-decade old career making mindless entertainers, filmmaker Sundar C takes a brave leap as he steps out of his comfort zone to make Action (2019), an espionage thriller that's slickly made but lacks substance to make an impact. Action doesn't quite break new ground in terms of an action flick but just about does the job if you see it as an attempt by Sundar C to make something on international standards but not quite succeeding.
The film follows Vishal, who plays a colonel in the Indian army, on a mission to hunt down a dreaded terrorist Syed Malik (Kabir Duhan Singh) responsible for killing a high-profile minister in India. The attack on the minister is carried out in such a way that Vishal's elder brother (Ramki) becomes the prime suspect. After being suspected of carrying out the attack on the minister, Ramki hangs himself to death.
Shocked by his brother's decision to end his life, Vishal starts investigating into the attack and he unearths shocking information. The rest of the story is about how Vishal using critical information at his disposal tracks down Syed Malik and brings him back to India.
Action, on paper, is an exciting idea that could've been Tamil cinema's own Ek Tha Tiger (2012). But, Sundar's execution is all over the place and the film suffers from aimless writing and lacks strong characters you can root for. Except for Vishal's character, Action doesn't feature a single character that really keeps you invested. Akanksha Puri plays a no-nonsense assassin and her character initially comes across as exciting.
In her introduction scene, we see her shoving her foot on a woman's neck and she has absolutely no remorse. It's a character that could've been really menacing but after the initial few minutes her character is reduced to a glam doll and she gets a song where she walks around in a bikini.
In spite of Vishal's earnest efforts to keep Action afloat, the film struggles to engage and ends up as a mega bore. Tamannaah Bhatia has very little to do and even in the few action scenes she's part of, she struggles to perform stunts and can barely run in the chase sequences. The film has been lavishly shot in some exotic locations around the globe but it barely makes the viewing experience any less boring.
You might want to give an extra mark for Sundar C's daring attempt to make an international standard action flick but it's not a solid reason to celebrate the film.
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