“All residents here have felt the impact,” said Amiruddin, 53, a fisherman who like many Indonesians uses only one name.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Texas Rangers have done a lot to try and solve the offensive woes that have plagued them all season, from firing their offensive coordinator to manager Bruce Bochy tinkering with the lineup.Texas went into its day off Thursday at the bottom of the American League with a .219 batting average and 185 runs scored.
“Really they just need to get away. You know, it’s been a little bit of a tough grind here lately,” Bochy said. ’“And so hopefully, they freshen up, clear their heads and come back and be the offense that we keep saying that they’re gonna be.”The Rangers (27-30) just played 35 games in 37 days, going 14-21 and falling from the AL West lead to 4 1/2 games back. They scored two runs or fewer in 19 of those games, including this week against Toronto when both teams combined for seven total runs in a three-game series.Meanwhile, the Texas pitching staff has been one of the best in the majors with its 3.19 ERA ranking third. Nathan Eovaldi (1.56 ERA) was third among individual pitchers, just ahead of Tyler Mahle at 1.64. Two-time Cy Young Award winner
had a 2.42 ERA that ranked 12th.After throwing six scoreless innings Wednesday against the Blue Jays, Mahle was asked how the pitchers handle things and stay competitive amid the offensive struggles.
“Kind of separate yourself from it. ... Hitting’s the hardest thing to do in probably all of sports, right? So I mean I don’t know anything about hitting,” Mahle said. “We just try to keep the team in the game and they’re gonna turn around. I think all of us know that. I know we keep saying that, but it’s gonna happen. These guys are way too good. ... We’re just waiting for it to happen. And then when it does, we are going to be really, really good.”
Offensive coordinator Donnie Ecker was fired May 4, after Texas scored 30 runs in a 2-9 stretch when half those runs came with aopening to the public May 10, focuses on Black designers and menswear. It uses the 2009 book, “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity,” by guest curator and Barnard College professor Monica L. Miller,
The dress code for the celebrity-laden, fashion extravaganza fundraiser that is the Met Gala is “Tailored For You,” withlike Pharrell Williams, Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo and A$AP Rocky joining Vogue editor Anna Wintour as co-chairs.
“When we’re talking about Black men ... we are talking about a group, an ethnic and racial group and cultural group that has historically dealt with adversity, oppression, systemic oppression,” says Kimberly Jenkins, fashion studies scholar and founder of the Fashion and Race Database, who contributed an essay for the exhibit’s catalog. “And so clothing matters for them in terms of social mobility, self-expression, agency.”Through the decades, that self-expression has taken many forms and been adopted by others. Take the zoot suit, born in urban centers like New York’s Harlem and popularized during World War II, with its wide-legged, high-waisted pants and long suit coats with padded shoulders. The 1980s and 1990s saw the rise of styles