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In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter who attempts to either make contact with it or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the pitcher is assigned the number 1. In the National League and the Japanese Central League, the pitcher also bats. Starting in 1973 with the American League and spreading throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the hitting duties of the pitcher have generally been given over to the position of designated hitter, a cause of some controversy.
In most cases, the object of a pitch is to deliver the ball to the catcher without allowing the batter to hit the ball. The ball is delivered in such a way that the batter either can't hit a pitch through the strike zone, hits the ball poorly (resulting in a pop fly or ground out), or is fooled into swinging at a pitch outside of the strike zone. If the batter elects not to swing at the pitch, it is called a strike if any part of the ball passes through the strike zone and a ball is when any part of the ball doesn't pass through the strike zone. The batter can also check their swing. A check swing is when the batter swings half way, but then stops their swing short when they think the pitch will be a ball. If the batter successfully checks their swing and the pitch is out of the strike zone, it is called a ball.
There are two legal pitching positions, the windup and the set position or stretch. Either position may be used at any time; typically, the windup is used when the bases are empty and pitchers go from the set position when runner(s) are on base. Each position has certain procedures that must be followed. A power pitcher is a pitcher who relies on the velocity of his pitches to succeed.[1] Generally, power pitchers record a high percentage of strikeouts. A control pitcher succeeds by throwing accurate pitches and thus records few walks.
Nearly all action during a game is centered around the pitcher for the defensive team. A pitcher's particular style and skill heavily influences the dynamics of the game and will often determine the victor.
The type and sequence of pitches chosen depends upon the particular situation in a game. Because pitchers and catchers must coordinate each pitch, a system of hand signals are used by the catcher to communicate choices to the pitcher, to which the pitcher either vetoes or accepts. The relationship between pitcher and catcher is so important, that some teams use more than one starting catcher; selecting the catcher for a particular game based on who the starting pitcher is. Together, the pitcher and catcher are known as the battery.
Starting with the pivot foot on the pitcher's rubber at the center of the pitcher's mound, which is 60 feet 6 inches (18.44 m) from home plate, the pitcher throws the baseball to the catcher, who is positioned behind home plate and catches the ball. Meanwhile, a batter stands in the batter's box at one side of the plate, and attempts to bat the ball safely into fair play.
Although the object and mechanics of pitching remain the same for all pitchers, pitchers may be classified according to their roles and effectiveness. The starting pitcher begins the game and he may be followed various relief pitchers, such as the long reliever, the left-handed specialist, the middle reliever, the setup man, and/or the closer.
In Major League Baseball, every team uses Baseball Rubbing Mud to rub their balls in before their pitchers use them in games.[2]
A skilled pitcher often throws a variety of different pitches in order to prevent the batter from hitting the ball well. The most basic pitch is a fastball, where the pitcher throws the ball as hard as he can. Some pitchers are able to throw a fastball at a speed of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h). Other common types of pitches are the curveball, slider, changeup, forkball, split-fingered fastball, and knuckleball. These generally are intended to have unusual movement or to deceive the batter as to the rotation or velocity of the ball, making it more difficult to hit. Very few pitchers throw all of these pitches, but most use a subset or blend of the basic types. Some pitchers also release pitches from different arm angles, making it harder for the batter to pick up the flight of the ball. (See List of baseball pitches.) A pitcher who is throwing well on a particular day is said to have brought his "good stuff".
There are a number of distinct throwing styles used by pitchers. The most common style is an overhand delivery in which the pitcher's arm snaps downward with the release of the ball. Some pitchers use a sidearm delivery in which the arm arcs laterally to the torso. Some pitchers use a submarine style in which the pitcher's body tilts sharply downward on delivery, creating an exaggerated sidearm motion in which the pitcher's knuckles come very close to the mound.
Effective pitching is vitally important in baseball. In baseball statistics, for each game, one pitcher will be credited with winning the game, and one pitcher will be charged with losing it. This is not necessarily the starting pitchers for each team, however, as a reliever can get a win and the starter would then get a no-decision.
Pitching is physically demanding, especially if the pitcher is throwing with maximum effort. A full game usually involves 120-170 pitches thrown by each team, and most pitchers begin to tire before they reach this point. As a result, the pitcher who starts a game often will not be the one who finishes it, and he may not be recovered enough to pitch again for a few days. The act of throwing a baseball at high speed is very unnatural to the body and somewhat damaging to human muscles; thus pitchers are very susceptible to injuries, soreness, and general pain.
Teams have devised two strategies to address this problem: rotation and specialization. To accommodate playing nearly every day, a team will include a group of pitchers who start games and rotate between them, allowing each pitcher to rest for a few days between starts. A team's roster of starting pitchers are usually not even in terms of skill. Exceptional pitchers are highly sought after and in the professional ranks draw large salaries, thus teams can seldom stock each slot in the rotation with top quality pitchers. The best starter in the team's rotation is called the ace. He is usually followed in the rotation by 3 or 4 other starters before he would be due to pitch again. Barring injury or exceptional circumstances, the ace is usually the pitcher that starts on Opening Day. Aces are also preferred to start crucial games late in the season and in the playoffs; sometimes they are asked to pitch on shorter rest if the team feels he would be more effective than the 4th or 5th starter. Teams rank the pitchers in the rotation by taking into account skill level or whether they are right or left handed. Mixing up right and left handed pitchers is seen as advantageous in order to throw off the other team's hitting game to game in a series.
Teams have additional pitchers reserved to replace that game's starting pitcher if he tires or proves ineffective. These players are called relief pitchers, relievers, or collectively the bullpen. Once a starter begins to tire or is starting to give up hits and runs a call is made to the bullpen to have a reliever start to warmup. This involves the reliever starting to throw practice balls to a couch in the bullpen as to be ready to come in a pitch whenever the manager wishes to pull the current pitcher. Having a reliever warmup does not always mean he will be used, the current pitcher may regain his composure and retire the side or the manager may choose to go with another reliever if strategy dictates. Commonly, pitching changes will occur as a result of a pinch hitter being used in the late innings of a game. A reliever would them come out of the bullpen to pitch the next inning.
When making a pitching change a manager will come out to the mound slowly to waste time. He will then call in a pitcher by the tap of the arm which the next pitcher throws with. The manager or pitching coach may also come out to discuss strategy with the pitcher, but on his second trip to the mound with the same pitcher in the same inning, the pitcher has to come out. The relief pitchers often have even more specialized roles, and the particular reliever used depends on the situation. Many teams designate one pitcher as the closer, a relief pitcher specifically reserved to pitch the final inning or innings of a game when his team has a narrow lead, in order to preserve the victory. Generally, relief pitchers pitch fewer innings and throw fewer pitches than starting pitchers, but may be able to pitch more frequently without needing multiple days to recover.
The pitcher's duty doesn't cease after he pitches the ball. He has several standard roles at that point. The pitcher must attempt to field any balls coming up the middle, and in fact a Gold Glove Award is reserved for the pitcher with the best fielding ability. He must also cover first base on balls hit to the right side, since the first baseman might be fielding them. On passed balls and wild pitches, he covers home-plate when there are runners on. Also, he generally backs up throws to home plate. When there is a throw from the outfield to third base, he has to back up the play to third base as well.
The physical act of overhand pitching is complex and unnatural to the human anatomy. Most major league pitchers throw at speeds between 70 and 100 mph, putting high amounts of stress on the pitching arm. Pitchers are by far the most frequently injured players and many professional pitchers will have multiple surgeries to repair damage in the elbow and shoulder by the end of their careers.
As such, the biomechanics of pitching are closely studied and taught by coaches at all levels and are an important field in sports medicine.
The throwing motion can be divided into phases which include windup, early cocking, late cocking, early acceleration, late acceleration, deceleration, and follow-through.[3] Training for pitchers often include targeting one or several of these phases. Pitching biomechanics evaluations are sometimes done on individual pitchers to help target their training.[4] Some players begin intense mechanical training at a young age, a practice that has been criticized by many coaches and doctors, with some citing an increase in Tommy John surgeries in recent years.[5]
PITCHER. (I) A large vessel for holding liquids, derived through Fr. from Med. Lat. picarium; the Lat. variant bicarium, Gr. /37Kos, has given the Ger Becher, Eng. beaker. (2) One who "pitches," i.e. throws, casts, fixes; the liable of the player in the game of base-ball who pitches or delivers the ball to the striker.
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a vessel for containing liquids. In the East pitchers were usually carried on the head or shoulders (Gen 24:15-20; Jdg 7:16, 19; Mk 14:13).
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Chevron Phillips names potential spot for new $5.8B petrochemical project
The city of Orange is on the short list of places where Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. is considering building a massive $5 billion to $6 billion petrochemical expansion, recently released state documents show.
For months, The Woodlands' company's owners, Phillips 66 and Chevron, have said they are considering adding more capacity in the region without saying where or how big of a project it could be.
A request for tax incentives filed with the state comptroller's office shows Chevron Phillips is considering buying 1,700 acres of undeveloped land to house a multi-billion manufacturing facility in Orange.
The project would convert hydrocarbons into ethylene which can be converted into polyethylene plastic pellets, the building block for packaging thousands of consumer goods, including milk jugs, bags, food and beverage containers, household chemicals and detergent bottles.
The proposed location is across a highway from Chevron Phillips' existing polyethylene plant on Farm Market Road 1006 so the two sites would likely work together.
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Construction could start as early as the second quarter of 2020 and the company would start operations in the third quarter of 2024.
The city is one several locations in Texas and Louisiana where Chevron Phillips is looking.
"At this point in time, Orange, Texas , is a finalist undergoing due diligence for a new petrochemical investment if we make a final investment decision to proceed. However, the location is only one of the alternatives we are considering along the U.S. Gulf Coast," said a Chevron Phillips Chemical spokesperson. "It would simply be premature to say that Orange is definitively where we would put a new petrochemical facility if we decide to build one."
EARLIER: Chevron Phillips CEO talks leadership, pollution and trade war
The company is eyeing the investment roughly a year after starting up its huge new ethane cracker in Baytown. A new petrochemical expansion on the Gulf Coast could create thousands of construction jobs and further cement the region's dominating role in an emerging export-driven U.S. petrochemical market.
"We remain very encouraged by the fundamentals supporting an additional petrochemical investment in the U.S. Gulf Coast. The availability of competitive feedstocks in the region and growing worldwide demand for our products appear to support such an initiative," the company spokesman said.
RELATED: Saudi Aramco's Motiva eyes $6.6B petrochemical expansions
The potential new Orange project would generate 3,500 construction jobs at peak construction with an average salary of about $90,000, according to state documents filed in late January.
The number of permanent jobs the project would create isn't clear. The company committed to the application's minimum requirement of 20 permanent jobs, but it's likely a project of that scale would require hundreds of jobs. A recently-completed project of the same scale in Baytown now helps to support 1,000 permanent employees and 2,000 contractors, according to Chevron Phillips Chemical.
The average salary for permanent jobs would be $80,000 annually, according to the documents.
The project would include an ethylene cracker, at least one ethylene derivative units, a rail storage yard, utilities and related infrastructure and administrative buildings, the documents said.
Chevron Phillips is seeking Chapter 313 incentives from West Orange-Cove Consolidated Independent School District and Bridge City Independent School District, the two districts where its potential project would overlap.

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The Texas Re-Entry Advisory Council is hosting the Annual Vision Summit: Exploring the Future of Reentry.
Our speakers, workshop presenters and our own network of reentry specialist will share their ideas, perspectives and experiences on re-entry from the criminal justice system and the communities that we live in.
In the past, The 2016 Vision Summit had over 200 participants and it was an overwhelming success! In 2017 this conference was not held due to a change in Travis County which started the event. Attendee's of previous summit could not let this valuable accent to reentry disappear. These attendee's banded together to form the ever-expanding Texas Reentry Advisory Council (TRAC). which sponsors this years event.
The audience will include law enforcement, non-profits, government health and social service providers, faith based organizations, as well as formerly incarcerated and community members interested in assisting those transitioning from correctional facilities back into the community.
* Innovative programs or service providers that assist offenders with re-entry, such as, housing, transportation, employment, education
* Providing services to special populations such as Veteran's, LGBT and those with medical and behavioral health impairments
* Examples of communities cooperating to develop policies and make decisions that promote seamless re-entry for offenders
* Research and evidenced based practices,
* Motivational success stories from ex-offenders, their families and others


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Industry officials said they were able to witness the advent of biosimilar drugs at the Global Breast Cancer Conference (GBCC) 2018 at Songdo ConvensiA Convention Center in Incheon, Thursday.
Suppliers of breast cancer treatments and anti-cancer agents were busy promoting their products at the breast cancer event.
Many multinational drugmakers such as Roche and Sanofi Genzyme and local firms, including GC Pharma, Shinpoong Pharm, and Dong-A ST, attended the GBCC 2018, although the recently enhanced anti-corruption law and antitrust rules chilled sponsorships for pharmaceutical conferences.
Biosimilars, in particular, attracted keen attention from participants at the event.
Roche's Herceptin (trastuzumab) has been dominating the breast cancer treatment market. As of 2017, the blockbuster drug sold $7.43 billion (7.88 trillion won) around the world.
Checking the power of the original, Celltrion released a biosimilar version Herzuma and Samsung Bioepis, Samfenet. Herzuma obtained approval in 2014, and Samfenet, in 2017.
In a fierce competition to sell their breast cancer medicines, Roche, Celltrion Pharm and Daewoong Pharmaceutical (seller of Samfenet) set up their promotion booths elbow-to-elbow at the GBCC site.
|(From left) Booths of Roche, Celltrion Pharm, and Daewoong Pharmaceutical promote breast cancer treatments at the Global Breast Cancer Conference 2018 at Songdo ConvensiA Convention Center in Incheon, Thursday.
Roche advertised not only Herceptin SC but metastatic breast cancer remedies Perjeta (pertuzumab) and Kadcyla (trastuzumab emtansine).
Kadcyla, which was recently released, is "a new standard therapy for second-line treatment," the company said. For the promotion of Herceptin SC, the drugmaker used a phrase, "Less waiting room, more dining room." Herceptin SC has reduced the time of intravenous injection from the usual 90 minutes.
Celltrion Pharm emphasized the clinical data of Herzuma, presenting "Early Breast Cancer (EBC) Study" on the medication in 112 sites in 23 countries.
The study results showed that the pathological complete remission rate was 46.8 percent in the Herzuma-treated group, compared to 50.4 percent of the control group. The efficacy equivalence between Herzuma and the original drug has been proved, as the Herzuma trials satisfied all the margins required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and European Medicine Agency to demonstrate equivalence in ratio verification and difference verification, the company said.
Daewoong Pharm publicized that Samfenet "has proven to be equally effective and safe with the original drug and offers the additional benefit of the economical price."
A 60-kilogram patient can save 559,904 won a month if she receives Samfenet treatment in "18 cycles" at a drug price of 291,942 won based on a bottle (150mg), which is 30 percent cheaper than the original medicine.
Despite the aggressive marketing of biosimilars, the original therapy Herceptin is dominating the market.
Herceptin sold 83.64 billion won last year, whereas Herzuma sold 394 million won, according to data from IQVIA.
"Although we still have large gaps in market share, we're sensing some good reactions from the market," said an official at a biosimilar seller. "Many physicians will be able to see the benefits of biosimilars in efficacy and cost shortly."
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FG promises easy access to land for mortgage Refinancing
By Ossom Rapheal
Nigeria's Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has insisted that access to land would not be a hindrance to the implementation of the Mortgage Refinancing scheme of the Federal Government.
The Minister who gave the assurance at the stakeholders implementation summit on enabling broader access to housing finance for all Nigerian held in Abuja said that a Uniform Underwriting Standard that would make land available to lower income borrower to access land.
According to the her , the States willingness to make Certificate of Occupancy (CofO) available will be crucial to the success of the policy.
"We must put our minds to it because we know that we are working on a sector that will make a lot of difference."
Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala also said that 25 million dollars has been set aside for the lower income borrowers even as another 25 million dollars could be used for housing finance.
She disclosed that the Nigerian Mortgage Refinance Company is collaborating with the Federal Mortgage Bank (FMB) to work on the mass housing scheme for lower income earners who find it difficult to access finance.
The Mortgage Refinancing Scheme is expected to provide 75,000 jobs from the 10,000 houses it targets to build when it takes off by the second quarter of the year.
The Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Akon Eyakenyi, while delivering her speech disclosed that it is set to train about 1,000 artisans and Craftsmen.
The training, the Minister said would be in partnership with the National Home Builders Association /Home Builders Institute of the United States of America, as part of its on-going initiatives on rapid capacity building.
"This is in view to reversing the present trend whereby foreigners constitute the critical mass of skilled artisans and craftsmen in the country."
The Minister noted that "we cannot achieve our aim of broaden access to housing finance if land titling, property registration transfers, and several other issues on land administration and management are not effectively addressed."
She noted that to move forward, there is need for increased collaboration between stakeholders to in order to "translate our common vision for the revitalisation of the housing and urban development sector into impactful actions."


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Using Feeder Manager 2.0 When Running Engine Mobile
Upgrading to Feeder Manager 2.0 on an Existing Engine Mobile Backdrop
Do the following to upgrade an existing Engine Mobile backdrop that currently supports Feeder Manager 1.0 to Feeder Manager 2.0:
On an enterprise machine:
- Copy your initial extract database to a location that will be the same as the location of the database once it is on a field machine (for example C:\Mobile\Client Base).
- In ArcCatalog, enable Feeder Manager 2.0 on that database.
- In ArcMap, log in to that database and open any electric stored displays. Ensure you see the Feeder Manager 2.0 joins on electric network features and then save the stored display.
- Copy that database back into your initial extract folder.
- Delete all previous replicas of that database to force a full download of the initial extract.
- Run Replication server.
On field machines (after running the above steps on the replication server/enterprise machine), run Replication client. A full download occurs. After this is complete, you can view Feeder Manager 2.0 data in your field database.
Using Feeder Manager 2.0 After Creating a New Engine Mobile Backdrop
When creating a new geodatabase backdrop, follow all steps for creating the backdrop for the type of Engine Mobile solution you require, and then enable Feeder Manager 2.0 on the backdrop.


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Moving towards a new silhouette where the suit, symbol of maturity, makes the codes of cool its own.
A fusion between raw elegance and more sophisticated pieces.
The tailored sweat-shirt reigns supreme, revisited, cut in woolen sheets, knitwear is refined.
Excessive volume on top with oversized sleeves.
Legs are straight and loose.
The palette is dark, down to the essentials.
A few shafts of natural color on a thin belt or on the welt of a shoe create a crossroads where street meets luxury.
A finale of caramel marbled wool highlighting the importance of details and the work accomplished on raw edges and volume.
Created in association with Eastpak, the bags are the perfect blend between pragmatism, structure and elegance.
See the entire collection at Paris Fashion Week.
Photo autumn/winter 2016 collection, Copyright Kris Van Assche.


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When faced with the opportunity to change shifts while staying in the same house, veteran firefighter Derek Gilman jumps at the chance. His new schedule means not working Saturdays, which means more time to spend with his two kids. His divorce may have been amicable, but being a firefighter and ... more >
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|"""Strptime-related classes and functions.
|LocaleTime -- Discovers and stores locale-specific time information
|TimeRE -- Creates regexes for pattern matching a string of text containing
|time information
|_getlang -- Figure out what language is being used for the locale
|strptime -- Calculates the time struct represented by the passed-in string
|import time
|import locale
|import calendar
|from re import compile as re_compile
|from re import IGNORECASE
|from re import escape as re_escape
|from datetime import date as datetime_date
|from thread import allocate_lock as _thread_allocate_lock
|from dummy_thread import allocate_lock as _thread_allocate_lock
|__all__ = []
|def _getlang():
|# Figure out what the current language is set to.
|return locale.getlocale(locale.LC_TIME)
|class LocaleTime(object):
|"""Stores and handles locale-specific information related to time.
|f_weekday -- full weekday names (7-item list)
|a_weekday -- abbreviated weekday names (7-item list)
|f_month -- full month names (13-item list; dummy value in [0], which
|is added by code)
|a_month -- abbreviated month names (13-item list, dummy value in
|[0], which is added by code)
|am_pm -- AM/PM representation (2-item list)
|LC_date_time -- format string for date/time representation (string)
|LC_date -- format string for date representation (string)
|LC_time -- format string for time representation (string)
|timezone -- daylight- and non-daylight-savings timezone representation
|(2-item list of sets)
|lang -- Language used by instance (2-item tuple)
|def __init__(self):
|"""Set all attributes.
|Order of methods called matters for dependency reasons.
|The locale language is set at the offset and then checked again before
|exiting. This is to make sure that the attributes were not set with a
|mix of information from more than one locale. This would most likely
|happen when using threads where one thread calls a locale-dependent
|function while another thread changes the locale while the function in
|the other thread is still running. Proper coding would call for
|locks to prevent changing the locale while locale-dependent code is
|running. The check here is done in case someone does not think about
|doing this.
|Only other possible issue is if someone changed the timezone and did
|not call tz.tzset . That is an issue for the programmer, though,
|since changing the timezone is worthless without that call.
|self.lang = _getlang()
|if _getlang() != self.lang:
|raise ValueError("locale changed during initialization")
|def __pad(self, seq, front):
|# Add '' to seq to either the front (is True), else the back.
|seq = list(seq)
|if front:
|seq.insert(0, '')
|return seq
|def __calc_weekday(self):
|# Set self.a_weekday and self.f_weekday using the calendar
|# module.
|a_weekday = [calendar.day_abbr[i].lower() for i in range(7)]
|f_weekday = [calendar.day_name[i].lower() for i in range(7)]
|self.a_weekday = a_weekday
|self.f_weekday = f_weekday
|def __calc_month(self):
|# Set self.f_month and self.a_month using the calendar module.
|a_month = [calendar.month_abbr[i].lower() for i in range(13)]
|f_month = [calendar.month_name[i].lower() for i in range(13)]
|self.a_month = a_month
|self.f_month = f_month
|def __calc_am_pm(self):
|# Set self.am_pm by using time.strftime().
|# The magic date (1999,3,17,hour,44,55,2,76,0) is not really that
|# magical; just happened to have used it everywhere else where a
|# static date was needed.
|am_pm = []
|for hour in (01,22):
|time_tuple = time.struct_time((1999,3,17,hour,44,55,2,76,0))
|am_pm.append(time.strftime("%p", time_tuple).lower())
|self.am_pm = am_pm
|def __calc_date_time(self):
|# Set self.date_time, self.date, & self.time by using
|# time.strftime().
|# Use (1999,3,17,22,44,55,2,76,0) for magic date because the amount of
|# overloaded numbers is minimized. The order in which searches for
|# values within the format string is very important; it eliminates
|# possible ambiguity for what something represents.
|time_tuple = time.struct_time((1999,3,17,22,44,55,2,76,0))
|date_time = [None, None, None]
|date_time[0] = time.strftime("%c", time_tuple).lower()
|date_time[1] = time.strftime("%x", time_tuple).lower()
|date_time[2] = time.strftime("%X", time_tuple).lower()
|replacement_pairs = [('%', '%%'), (self.f_weekday[2], '%A'),
|(self.f_month[3], '%B'), (self.a_weekday[2], '%a'),
|(self.a_month[3], '%b'), (self.am_pm[1], '%p'),
|('1999', '%Y'), ('99', '%y'), ('22', '%H'),
|('44', '%M'), ('55', '%S'), ('76', '%j'),
|('17', '%d'), ('03', '%m'), ('3', '%m'),
|# '3' needed for when no leading zero.
|('2', '%w'), ('10', '%I')]
|replacement_pairs.extend([(tz, "%Z") for tz_values in self.timezone
|for tz in tz_values])
|for offset,directive in ((0,'%c'), (1,'%x'), (2,'%X')):
|current_format = date_time[offset]
|for old, new in replacement_pairs:
|# Must deal with possible lack of locale info
|# manifesting itself as the empty string (e.g., Swedish's
|# lack of AM/PM info) or a platform returning a tuple of empty
|# strings (e.g., MacOS 9 having timezone as ('','')).
|if old:
|current_format = current_format.replace(old, new)
|# If %W is used, then Sunday, 2005-01-03 will fall on week 0 since
|# 2005-01-03 occurs before the first Monday of the year. Otherwise
|# %U is used.
|time_tuple = time.struct_time((1999,1,3,1,1,1,6,3,0))
|if '00' in time.strftime(directive, time_tuple):
|date_time[offset] = current_format.replace('11', U_W)
|self.LC_date_time = date_time[0]
|self.LC_date = date_time[1]
|self.LC_time = date_time[2]
|def __calc_timezone(self):
|# Set self.timezone by using time.tzname.
|# Do not worry about possibility of time.tzname[0] == timetzname[1]
|# and time.daylight; handle that in strptime .
|except AttributeError:
|no_saving = frozenset(["utc", "gmt", time.tzname[0].lower()])
|if time.daylight:
|has_saving = frozenset([time.tzname[1].lower()])
|has_saving = frozenset()
|self.timezone = (no_saving, has_saving)
|class TimeRE(dict):
|"""Handle conversion from format directives to regexes."""
|def __init__(self, locale_time=None):
|"""Create keys/values.
|Order of execution is important for dependency reasons.
|if locale_time:
|self.locale_time = locale_time
|self.locale_time = LocaleTime()
|base = super(TimeRE, self)
|# The " \d" part of the regex is to make %c from ANSI C work
|'d': r"(?P<d>3[0-1]|[1-2]\d|0[1-9]|[1-9]| [1-9])",
|'f': r"(?P<f>[0-9]{1,6})",
|'H': r"(?P<H>2[0-3]|[0-1]\d|\d)",
|'I': r"(?P<I>1[0-2]|0[1-9]|[1-9])",
|'j': r"(?P<j>36[0-6]|3[0-5]\d|[1-2]\d\d|0[1-9]\d|00[1-9]|[1-9]\d|0[1-9]|[1-9])",
|'m': r"(?P<m>1[0-2]|0[1-9]|[1-9])",
|'M': r"(?P<M>[0-5]\d|\d)",
|'S': r"(?P<S>6[0-1]|[0-5]\d|\d)",
|'U': r"(?P<U>5[0-3]|[0-4]\d|\d)",
|'w': r"(?P<w>[0-6])",
|# W is set below by using 'U'
|'y': r"(?P<y>\d\d)",
|#XXX: Does 'Y' need to worry about having less or more than
|# 4 digits?
|'Y': r"(?P<Y>\d\d\d\d)",
|'A': self.__seqToRE(self.locale_time.f_weekday, 'A'),
|'a': self.__seqToRE(self.locale_time.a_weekday, 'a'),
|'B': self.__seqToRE(self.locale_time.f_month[1:], 'B'),
|'b': self.__seqToRE(self.locale_time.a_month[1:], 'b'),
|'p': self.__seqToRE(self.locale_time.am_pm, 'p'),
|'Z': self.__seqToRE((tz for tz_names in self.locale_time.timezone
|for tz in tz_names),
|'%': '%'})
|base.__setitem__('W', base.__getitem__('U').replace('U', 'W'))
|base.__setitem__('c', self.pattern(self.locale_time.LC_date_time))
|base.__setitem__('x', self.pattern(self.locale_time.LC_date))
|base.__setitem__('X', self.pattern(self.locale_time.LC_time))
|def __seqToRE(self, to_convert, directive):
|"""Convert a list to a regex string for matching a directive.
|Want possible matching values to be from longest to shortest. This
|prevents the possibility of a match occuring for a value that also
|a substring of a larger value that should have matched (e.g., 'abc'
|matching when 'abcdef' should have been the match).
|to_convert = sorted(to_convert, key=len, reverse=True)
|for value in to_convert:
|if value != '':
|return ''
|regex = '|'.join(re_escape(stuff) for stuff in to_convert)
|regex = '(?P<%s>%s' % (directive, regex)
|return '%s)' % regex
|def pattern(self, format):
|"""Return regex pattern for the format string.
|Need to make sure that any characters that might be interpreted as
|regex syntax are escaped.
|processed_format = ''
|# The sub() call escapes all characters that might be misconstrued
|# as regex syntax. Cannot use re.escape since we have to deal with
|# format directives (%m, etc.).
|regex_chars = re_compile(r"([\\.^$*+?\(\){}\[\]|])")
|format = regex_chars.sub(r"\\\1", format)
|whitespace_replacement = re_compile('\s+')
|format = whitespace_replacement.sub('\s+', format)
|while '%' in format:
|directive_index = format.index('%')+1
|processed_format = "%s%s%s" % (processed_format,
|format = format[directive_index+1:]
|return "%s%s" % (processed_format, format)
|def compile(self, format):
|"""Return a compiled re object for the format string."""
|return re_compile(self.pattern(format), IGNORECASE)
|_cache_lock = _thread_allocate_lock()
|# DO NOT modify _TimeRE_cache or _regex_cache without acquiring the cache lock
|# first!
|_TimeRE_cache = TimeRE()
|_CACHE_MAX_SIZE = 5 # Max number of regexes stored in _regex_cache
|_regex_cache = {}
|def _calc_julian_from_U_or_W(year, week_of_year, day_of_week, week_starts_Mon):
|"""Calculate the Julian day based on the year, week of the year, and day of
|the week, with week_start_day representing whether the week of the year
|assumes the week starts on Sunday or Monday (6 or 0)."""
|first_weekday = datetime_date(year, 1, 1).weekday()
|# If we are dealing with the %U directive (week starts on Sunday), it's
|# easier to just shift the view to Sunday being the first day of the
|# week.
|if not week_starts_Mon:
|first_weekday = (first_weekday + 1) % 7
|day_of_week = (day_of_week + 1) % 7
|# Need to watch out for a week 0 (when the first day of the year is not
|# the same as that specified by %U or %W).
|week_0_length = (7 - first_weekday) % 7
|if week_of_year == 0:
|return 1 + day_of_week - first_weekday
|days_to_week = week_0_length + (7 * (week_of_year - 1))
|return 1 + days_to_week + day_of_week
|def _strptime(data_string, format="%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y"):
|"""Return a time struct based on the input string and the format string."""
|global _TimeRE_cache, _regex_cache
|with _cache_lock:
|if _getlang() != _TimeRE_cache.locale_time.lang:
|_TimeRE_cache = TimeRE()
|if len(_regex_cache) > _CACHE_MAX_SIZE:
|locale_time = _TimeRE_cache.locale_time
|format_regex = _regex_cache.get(format)
|if not format_regex:
|format_regex = _TimeRE_cache.compile(format)
|# KeyError raised when a bad format is found; can be specified as
|# \\, in which case it was a stray % but with a space after it
|except KeyError, err:
|bad_directive = err.args[0]
|if bad_directive == "\\":
|bad_directive = "%"
|del err
|raise ValueError("'%s' is a bad directive in format '%s'" %
|(bad_directive, format))
|# IndexError only occurs when the format string is "%"
|except IndexError:
|raise ValueError("stray %% in format '%s'" % format)
|_regex_cache[format] = format_regex
|found = format_regex.match(data_string)
|if not found:
|raise ValueError("time data %r does not match format %r" %
|(data_string, format))
|if len(data_string) != found.end():
|raise ValueError("unconverted data remains: %s" %
|year = None
|month = day = 1
|hour = minute = second = fraction = 0
|tz = -1
|# Default to -1 to signify that values not known; not critical to have,
|# though
|week_of_year = -1
|week_of_year_start = -1
|# weekday and julian defaulted to -1 so as to signal need to calculate
|# values
|weekday = julian = -1
|found_dict = found.groupdict()
|for group_key in found_dict.iterkeys():
|# Directives not explicitly handled below:
|# c, x, X
|# handled by making out of other directives
|# worthless without day of the week
|if group_key == 'y':
|year = int(found_dict['y'])
|# Open Group specification for strptime() states that a %y
|#value in the range of [00, 68] is in the century 2000, while
|#[69,99] is in the century 1900
|if year <= 68:
|year += 2000
|year += 1900
|elif group_key == 'Y':
|year = int(found_dict['Y'])
|elif group_key == 'm':
|month = int(found_dict['m'])
|elif group_key == 'B':
|month = locale_time.f_month.index(found_dict['B'].lower())
|elif group_key == 'b':
|month = locale_time.a_month.index(found_dict['b'].lower())
|elif group_key == 'd':
|day = int(found_dict['d'])
|elif group_key == 'H':
|hour = int(found_dict['H'])
|elif group_key == 'I':
|hour = int(found_dict['I'])
|ampm = found_dict.get('p', '').lower()
|# If there was no AM/PM indicator, we'll treat this like AM
|if ampm in ('', locale_time.am_pm[0]):
|# We're in AM so the hour is correct unless we're
|# looking at 12 midnight.
|# 12 midnight == 12 AM == hour 0
|if hour == 12:
|hour = 0
|elif ampm == locale_time.am_pm[1]:
|# We're in PM so we need to add 12 to the hour unless
|# we're looking at 12 noon.
|# 12 noon == 12 PM == hour 12
|if hour != 12:
|hour += 12
|elif group_key == 'M':
|minute = int(found_dict['M'])
|elif group_key == 'S':
|second = int(found_dict['S'])
|elif group_key == 'f':
|s = found_dict['f']
|# Pad to always return microseconds.
|s += "0" * (6 - len(s))
|fraction = int(s)
|elif group_key == 'A':
|weekday = locale_time.f_weekday.index(found_dict['A'].lower())
|elif group_key == 'a':
|weekday = locale_time.a_weekday.index(found_dict['a'].lower())
|elif group_key == 'w':
|weekday = int(found_dict['w'])
|if weekday == 0:
|weekday = 6
|weekday -= 1
|elif group_key == 'j':
|julian = int(found_dict['j'])
|elif group_key in ('U', 'W'):
|week_of_year = int(found_dict[group_key])
|if group_key == 'U':
|# U starts week on Sunday.
|week_of_year_start = 6
|# W starts week on Monday.
|week_of_year_start = 0
|elif group_key == 'Z':
|# Since -1 is default value only need to worry about setting tz if
|# it can be something other than -1.
|found_zone = found_dict['Z'].lower()
|for value, tz_values in enumerate(locale_time.timezone):
|if found_zone in tz_values:
|# Deal with bad locale setup where timezone names are the
|# same and yet time.daylight is true; too ambiguous to
|# be able to tell what timezone has daylight savings
|if (time.tzname[0] == time.tzname[1] and
|time.daylight and found_zone not in ("utc", "gmt")):
|tz = value
|leap_year_fix = False
|if year is None and month == 2 and day == 29:
|year = 1904 # 1904 is first leap year of 20th century
|leap_year_fix = True
|elif year is None:
|year = 1900
|# If we know the week of the year and what day of that week, we can figure
|# out the Julian day of the year.
|if julian == -1 and week_of_year != -1 and weekday != -1:
|week_starts_Mon = True if week_of_year_start == 0 else False
|julian = _calc_julian_from_U_or_W(year, week_of_year, weekday,
|# Cannot pre-calculate datetime_date() since can change in Julian
|# calculation and thus could have different value for the day of the week
|# calculation.
|if julian == -1:
|# Need to add 1 to result since first day of the year is 1, not 0.
|julian = datetime_date(year, month, day).toordinal() - \
|datetime_date(year, 1, 1).toordinal() + 1
|else: # Assume that if they bothered to include Julian day it will
|# be accurate.
|datetime_result = datetime_date.fromordinal((julian - 1) + datetime_date(year, 1, 1).toordinal())
|year = datetime_result.year
|month = datetime_result.month
|day = datetime_result.day
|if weekday == -1:
|weekday = datetime_date(year, month, day).weekday()
|if leap_year_fix:
|# the caller didn't supply a year but asked for Feb 29th. We couldn't
|# use the default of 1900 for computations. We set it back to ensure
|# that February 29th is smaller than March 1st.
|year = 1900
|return (time.struct_time((year, month, day,
|hour, minute, second,
|weekday, julian, tz)), fraction)
|def _strptime_time(data_string, format="%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y"):
|return _strptime(data_string, format)[0]


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I'm seeing a lot of coding up there.... *worried* And somehow the word "quote" showed up in a quote and I can't seem to remove it. It's a learning process, but it's already much better than the Tapas thing.... BTW, it's not automatically going to where posts left off, and I can't see an indication of which posts I haven't read yet.... Do I need to set something for that? I'll never remember....
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The Miz gets all of the credit. I've been up to my ears in alligators for a while now, and am just now starting to be able to breathe. I can't say enough for the time and effort that she's put in to make it possible for us to stay together without a bunch of new folks who we may or may not like.


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Current percussion students are invited to apply for the 2020 School of Music Percussion Prize.
- Download the application form - applications close TBC
- Download the rules for the prize - make sure to read through this PDF before completing your application
The finals date is TBC.
Additional information about the School of Music Percussion Prize
- The finals of the prize will be adjudicated by a panel that will include a representative from the Queensland Symphony Orchestra Percussion section
- Presentations should be no longer than 10 or less than 8 minutes duration.
- The repertoire must include a snare drum based work (can include other instruments), a 2-mallet work and a 4-mallet work. The mallet works can be for xylophone, vibraphone or marimba.
- Large instrumentation should be avoided for the snare drum based work if multi-percussion piece(s) are chosen. Minimizing setup time between applicants is important.
- No more than 5 minutes will be allocated for setup preparations between applicants
- Selected works can be movements from larger works or a series of shorter works to make up the time requirement. The program should be balanced across the performance areas. That is, each work should be of a similar standard and time allocation across the performance areas. For example, a 7-minute 4-mallet marimba work would not be appropriate. Approximately 3 minutes of repertoire for each performance area is expected.


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What's Happening in Fremantle??
There are so many things to see and do this Autumn in Fremantle, so make sure you visit! Stay at Fremantle Village and you will only be a hop, step and a jump from all the action!
Every Wednesday Night
Head down to Clancy's Fish Pub in Cantonment Street, Fremantle for "NOT BINGO", a fun twist on Bingo with a lot of Aussie swearing, great music and a lot of laughs! Entry into the game is free, with some awesome prizes on offer.
Every Thursday
The Fremantle Village Art Markets are held every Thursday from 10am – 4pm in Kings Square Fremantle (right next to the Town Hall). The Market boasts a vibrant mix of stalls offering locally designed and made products, home-wares, clothing, natural therapies, collectables as well as delicious specialty foods.
March 2010
Saturday 6th – Wes Carr, Jessica Mauboy & Dean Geyer Perform for FREE
Head on down to Manning Park in Hamilton Hill for this event! From 5:30pm you can see the final of the first ever Cockburn Idol! Then sit back and enjoy the free performances from Jessica Mauboy, Wes Carr and Dean Geyer from 7:30pm. There will also be free CD / DVDs given away of Jessica Mauboy's "Been Waiting", so don't miss out!
Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th – Araluen's Fremantle Chilli Festival
Be sure to visit Esplanade Reserve in Fremantle this weekend for the Chilli Festival. Entry is only $15 for adults and $8 for school-aged children. The Festival is from 12noon – 8pm on Saturday, and 10am – 5pm Sunday. And for those who aren't lovers of chilli, there are many other things for you to enjoy, including fresh foods, plants, pickles, wine, chocolate and a lot of entertainment!
Saturday 13th – The Black Seeds Perform
The Black Seeds are reggae-soul heavyweights from New Zealand who will be performing for 1 night only at the Fly By Night Club. Tickets are $33 and can be purchased online at www.flybynight.org or phone 9430 5976. You can take a chance and purchase tickets at the door for $40 but there is no guarantee there will be any left. Don't miss this unique band!
Every Sunday Until 28th March – Theatresports
The Deckchair Theatre is home to Theatresports every Sunday night from 6pm. Be amazed and entertained by the teams who compete to impress you with their improvisational skills by doing skits, songs etc on the audiences suggestions. Courtney Murphy adds a dash of celebrity as musical director while there will also be surprise special guests each week.
Tickets are $18 for adults, $12 for concession. Purchase tickets at www.deckchairtheatre.com.au or contact them on 08 9430 4771 for more information.
Every Sunday in March – Jazz
From 4-7pm every Sunday head down to the Navy Club on High Street, Fremantle for a touch of Jazz. Entry is $13 per person.Sunday 14 March 2010 A first for Jazz Freo is the appearance of James Flyn and his Little Big Band. Top arrangements of hits by Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Buble and many more will excite and entertain you. Sunday 21 March 2010 What more can be said about June Smith and the Apple Band? June keeps re-inventing herself to surprise and charm her audiences with great support from Glyn Macdonald piano, Mark Early bass, Michael Perkins drums, and Lew Smith flute and sax. Sunday 28 March 2010 The South Perth Lions Big Band were a big surprise last year directed by Phil Hatton. With three engaging singers, and good arrangements, you are assured of a varied programme in a charity performance for Solaris Care.


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Today's teens have a reputation for being accomplished, fluent, and effective social media users. But they learn these skills the way we learn most life lessons: through trial and error, by making mistakes and learning from the outcomes. While these trial-and-error experiences can be educational in many contexts, social media makes trials public and errors difficult to erase. This means that early mistakes can easily come back to haunt those who make them. So how can kids build their social media power user skills?
Social media literacy education is key to helping kids learn to use these new technologies fluently and safely – letting them have fun without doing anything they might regret later. Some schools have helped to accelerate the learning process by providing digital literacy education in the classroom. Parents, too, can help prepare their kids for life online by modeling responsible communication and media use habits. But while kids learn some skills in the classroom and others from their parents, they're often given "grown-up" social media accounts before they're ready. Most of them don't get a chance to practice these skills before they're allowed into the wider world of social media.
Adding to parent and educator concerns, kids are beginning to use social media at even younger ages. While most apps request that users be 13 or older, it's very easy to evade these age restrictions. This makes careful, supervised introductions to social media even more important. Facebook is beginning to target the under-13 set with the release of Messenger Kids, a version of its popular Messenger app that lets kids chat with a parent-approved set of contacts. As with every technology targeted at children, Messenger Kids has immediately earned both praise and condemnation from parents, researchers, consumer advocates, and others with stakes in the increasingly-intertwined worlds of parenting and technology.
– Natalie Bazarova
Read more: Building Kids Social Media User Skills
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A Costa Blanca beach was immediately closed following a suspected shark attack on a local man on Friday.
The man in his forties was swimming at the Arenales del Sol beach in Elche, where he was bitten. Lifeguards said he emerged from the sea with blood coming from his hand.
As a precaution, red flags were immediately raised and bathers were evacuated from the water.
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You may recall my mentioning the kitestramurt film project last year.
It's a film starting two actresses, Nika Politeo and Cleo Dobermann, playing the roles of Keanu and Anthony Kiedis (of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Point Break fame).
Rene, from the kitestramurt page linked above sent me this quote attributed to Keanu, translated from italian VOX mag:
"I was trully amazed when I saw 'Kitestramurt'. Playing me is a hard job, even to myself! But Nika Politeo did a great job, as well as Alessandro Pirico, Cleo Dobermann and Hope DeLount. I think working on 'Kitestramurt' was a huge step in Hope's career. I'm looking forward to work with her next year. It is also a big compliment to be portraited by such a beautiful and talented actress as Nika Politeo, I hope I'm going to meet her this summer as we planned.
I'm not sure what project he's referring to next year, and I can't find a whole lot of info about anyone mentioned (Hope DeLount gets zero results on Google), but I think it's neat that he maybe got a chance to see it. It must be a strange experience seeing someone (not to mention the opposite gender) interpreting you on film.it wahs | from inside the mind of krix at June 01, 2005 02:47 PM .
okay, wait, so are you telling me, that this is a female version of point break? I think I thought that's what I read, but didn't have time to click the links yet. sounds very cool....Posted by: tess on June 1, 2005 04:54 PM
okay, duh, I clicked....and whoaaaaaaPosted by: tess on June 1, 2005 04:56 PM
Yes I remember the post and I still wanna see it bad.Posted by: ARYA on June 1, 2005 09:44 PM
reverse roles...very clever.Posted by: lizzie on June 2, 2005 04:11 PM
you can find quite a lot about hope at yahoo!!Posted by: Mike on June 6, 2005 01:11 PM


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The youth group of the Choral Society of Bilbao, Euskeria Choir, will give three performances in the Scottish capital, with the help of the Provincial Government of Bizkaia and the Etxepare Basque Institute. Fair Saturday, a festival which started in 2015 in Bilbao, will be held this year in Edinburgh for the first time, and Euskeria Choir will perform as part of the opening ceremony.
The aim of the Fair Saturday movement is to show the value of art in changing the world. The event is celebrated just after Black Friday (end of November) in many cities and towns around the world. To strengthen relations between Scotland and the Basque Country, Fair Saturday will also be held in Edinburgh this year. The opening ceremony of the festival will take place tomorrow.
As part of the event, Euskeria Choir has been invited to Scotland. The youth choir will offer three concerts: the first one tomorrow, 26th October, in the Edinburgh Festival Hall; and other two on 27th October, in Saint Giles Cathedral and Queen's Hall.
The event will take place as part of the Etxepare Basque Institute's effort to reach out to Scotland in the 2018-2019 season. The goal of this 'window' is to raise the profile of Basque Culture and the work of Basque artists in Scotland through a multidisciplinary program that the Institute is now preparing for the whole season. In addition, the project aims to foster the exchange between Basque and Scottish artists, and to create new opportunities for cultural exchange.


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I am eight years old and we were going to meet my cousins Vina and Bernice at Aunt Sadie's. Vina is nine years old and Bernice is seven years old. We were going to spend the rest of the summer together. I just couldn't wait to see them, and of course Aunt Sadie and Uncle Jim, too. We were going to have so much fun! When I came down to breakfast I had to hurry as my parents were nearly ready to leave for the ride to Aunt Sadie's.
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As NAFTA reset looms, Texas exports already declining
Low oil prices have taken a toll on the value of cross-border trade
Texas is a massive destination for foreign investment, and Houston in particular tops the list of American cities that export the most abroad, as the Greater Houston Partnership emphasized in a report released on Monday.
But in recent years, that boom in trade has faded — both in the value of goods exchanged, which largely reflects the price of oil, and in the total volume, which tells us more about the economic activity generated by trade.
Here's data from the International Trade Administration on Texas' imports and exports, measured by value (imports aren't readily available before 2008):
Note that Texas now exports about as much as it imports, making it one of the few states that have balanced trade with the rest of the world. The U.S., in contrast, runs a substantial trade deficit with the rest of the world.
Exports account for about 18 percent of economic activity in Houston, according to the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
Imports, however, aren't necessarily a bad thing: Many are used as components in American manufacturing. The fall off in imports is in part due to U.S. manufacturers purchasing less steel for use in heavy equipment, as purchases from the oil field slowed to a trickle.
The trade bust is less severe when you look at it in terms of tonnage of goods going through the Port of Houston, but it's still visible. Here are a couple charts from the Partnership's report that illustrate the relationship between volume and value:
That slump isn't just a Houston or a Texas thing. Most of America's biggest port cities have also seen declines in trade activity in recent years, as part of a global slowdown that reflects the end of a long boom in extended supply chains that brought goods from all over the world to your neighborhood Wal-Mart. As labor costs have leveled out and marketing timetables have gotten tighter, it's become more common to manufacture closer to the consumer, which means fewer products need to cross borders.
Another big driver of the trade slowdown is weak global demand. The state's most important customers are Mexico, Canada, China, Brazil and South Korea, and all of those have contended with economic slowdowns in the past two years. Brazil, especially, has struggled as political instability takes a toll on its economy.
This is important context for the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which the Trump administration kicked off last week with a notice to Congress that sets a three-month timetable before talks can begin with Mexico and Canada.
Although Trump's deputies have softened his campaign rhetoric about a trade agreement that has brought considerable benefits to Texas, trade wonks are still very nervous that any attempt to revise the deal in a way that's more favorable to the United States could backfire by drawing retaliation from Mexico and Canada.
At a conference on the Texas-Mexico relationship earlier this month at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, economists discussed how the state had gained from economic integration with its southern neighbor, and how a NAFTA overhaul might be focused in order to do no harm.
"Despite a lot of rhetoric from places that can afford to do rhetoric, here we have to be a little bit more practical," said Dallas Fed economist Pia Orrenius. She acknowledged that while the trade deal had caused some job losses in manufacturing states, the correct approach would compensate the losers rather than try to stop the changes altogether.
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By all accounts, the 2020 golfing season is going to be so jam-packed it will be a bit like shoving some stuff into a suitcase, sitting on it and hoping the zips don't burst as you try to close them amid gasps of cursing exertion.
With a condensed series of major championships between April and July, The Players' Championship in March, one or two WGC events, some Rolex Series thingymebobs, a few FedEx showpieces, the Olympics and a Ryder Cup, you can just about hear the actual calendar creaking and groaning under the strain of this bustling spell.
As he prepares to launch his bid to become just the sixth player to win the same European Tour event for the third year in a row at this week's Turkish Airlines Open at the Maxx Royal, Rose afforded himself a little keek towards the new year.
"Next year might be the year when you can't be all things to all people," he said of the log-jam. "To try and achieve everything on every tour could be a tricky proposition."
In a hectic diary, the Olympics, which Rose won gold at in 2016, is very high up on his list of priorities. While the golfing event at the Tokyo Games starts about a week after the opening ceremony, Rose is determined to immerse himself in the whole adventure.
As he did in Rio four years, the Englishman will be present at those initial flag-waving festivities and he would urge the other golfers to buy into the entire experience too.
"I think being at the opening ceremony was part of the reason why I had that energy to play some of my best golf," the 39-year-old admitted. "I got inspired to be the best version of myself and I think just the emotion and the connection I got to Team GB by being there in the opening ceremony was huge
for me."
At the 2016 Games, Rose took time to watch other athletes perform at the peak of their powers in a variety of disciplines. It was an eye-opening and educational experience.
READ MORE: Drysdale hopes to take flight in Turkey
"We went to watch the gymnastics and I could not believe the chaos that they perform in and around," he reflected. "The noise, the announcements, the movement of other disciplines going on, trainers literally walking around the bars while someone else is running at the vault.
"And this is four years of blood, sweat and tears, and they have to perform and execute their moves in this chaos. I thought, 'God, we're soft as golfers'. I mean a marshal takes one step in the wrong direction on a golf course and he gets it.
"So I learned from that in Rio. Maybe 70, 80 per cent of the crowd weren't necessarily that familiar with golf. There were a lot of cameras, there was a lot of noise, there was a lot of movement.
"So my pre-shot routine was like [a gymnast] running for the vault. Once I started, nothing was going to stop me and I was going to play through anything that happened. I learned something from another discipline that helped me.
"I think the rugby sevens lads too kind of made me wish I was a team sport player because the camaraderie in the gym, I could see how much they were getting out of themselves by being slapped in the face while doing a bench press by team-mates.
"They were like 'come on, one more, one more, one more'. There was the mentality of being pushed to do one more by your team-mates. I felt that was a lot easier than having to do it for yourself."
READ MORE: Rose retains Turkish Airlines Open title
Rose is back in a happy hunting ground this week and while his previous two Turkish Airlines Open wins in 2017 and 2018 were at the nearby Regnum Carya venue, the world No.8 did finish third over the Maxx Royal course in the 2013 edition of the championship
Ernie Els, Nick Faldo, Tiger Woods, Ian Woosnam and Colin Montgomerie are the only other players to have won the same title in three successive years but Rose is well aware that completing a notable hat-trick will not be an easy task.
"You win back to back on a certain golf course and you would rather it was the same venue again," said Rose, who has a had a relatively low-key season by his own lofty standards even though he did win on the PGA Tour back in January and was tied third in the US Open.
"But last year was a first for me to defend [a title] and now it offers me the opportunity to go three in a row and be in some illustrious company. It's definitely a focus for me and an inspiration."


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SoxFest is such a gushing wellspring of optimism and good feelings that it's difficult to pick on what alleged comeback-story-in-the-making to focus on. Everyone is excited for a new start, which is good, because otherwise that would mean that some player or coach is dreading the beginning of the season. Every mention of the coming slate of work and games would heighten their terror, and with each new morning they'd realize they were a day closer to their ultimate nightmare, culminating with them bursting into frantic and desperate tears at the first pitch of the season.
We don't want that.
But since every player and coach league-wide is excited, and many of these people will wind up having quite poor years--hell, Willie Bloomquist is probably convinced he's going to kick-ass in 2012--it would be worth it to try to see who of the many Sox players and coaches had anything tangible to go along with their sunshine and rainbows this weekend.
Genuine Hope
Robin Ventura got cheers for making the following outlandish statement:
"But I am going to be honest if a guy needs to get a few days off, or if he needs the whole season off, he'll get the whole season off."
Of course, that needs to tempered, and Robin Ventura tempers like Mark Twain turns a phrase.
"It's my belief that I'm not going to treat everybody the same, but I'm going to treat everybody fairly. Paul Konerko is going to be treated differently than rookie who was just called up."
Ventura simultaneously played to fan worries that he would be content to sit calmly in his captain's chair while the ship burned, while still acknowledging that the principle of allowing a long leash to established veterans exists. It's a wonder what his options even are this season if Dunn and Rios are really done being effective players, but at least he knows the mandate is there.
Just Hoping
It's not that I'm out to eviscerate every shred of optimism concerning Dunn or Rios, it's just that when you hear stuff like this:
"We made two pretty good moves this off-season," said Dunn, who last season struck out a franchise record 177 times, batted .159 and failed to hit 38 home runs for the first time since 2003.
"That was hopefully getting me and Alex (Rios) back. That's the way I'm looking at it.
...it sounds so much like this:
Dunn remained confident about a better second half.
''I am,'' Dunn said, ''because I feel like me and Alex, we've been as bad as you could possibly be, and if we're doing half of what we normally do, we're not even talking about this. . . . We're putting it all on us in the second half, basically."
And still, not to say that Dunn and Rios can't recover, but their optimism isn't based on anything beyond the natural hope of a new year, so their plight belongs in this category.
Genuine Hope
Jim Margalus took a deep look into Morel's late-season surge, and concluded that the two outlying factors that could be pointed to were an increase in his patience at the plate, and Brent looking for balls he could pull with authority more.
Sure enough, the man himself gave some confirmation:
"I was just caught up trying to put the ball in play and just kinda move guys over and do that kind of stuff," Morel said of his April-August approach. "Toward the end, I relaxed a little bit and was more selective and patient up there. That helped me out."
A wild conspiracy theorist would suggest that once Morel got beyond that small-ball, hit-behind-the-runner, handle-the-bat crap, he actually started resembling a major league hitter. More likely it was a slow process of adjusting to the league, and focusing a bit more on driving the ball than hanging on for dear life. I still prefer the former, though.
Just Hoping
New bench coach and former big league catcher Mark Parent thinks he can fix A.J. Pierzynski's troubles with holding runners, and why wouldn't he be? He could throw it a lil' bit during his day.
"A.J. (Pierzynski) has struggled behind the plate with the running game," Parent said. "We're going to try to do things to help out, either with his mechanics, his release, his release times, throwing over (to first), having pickoff (plays)."
Not to say that this won't help, but I might question the quality of the clay that the artist intends to use. A.J. Pierzynski's woes garnered a lot of attention last season, but he's never been good throwing at runners, certainly not as a White Sox. His 20% caught-stealing rate last season was among his worst, but perhaps no one noticed when he only threw out 18% of baserunners in 2008 because the team was busy winning a division.
Pierzynski can get something out of a greater onus being put on the running game, but if Alexei Ramirez wasn't too busy fielding a bouncer thrown to the 3rd base side, he'd tell you that A.J. has a 22.2% caught-stealing rate with the Sox for a reason. He's also 35, perhaps this is the time to be thankful for what A.J.'s able to maintain, not pulling for a resurgence.
Genuine Hope
In the midst of Gordon Beckham - Things are Going to be Different - Chapter IV, Beckham shifted the talk away from just "needing more confidence" and got to some more tangible issues.
"I was too mechanical," said Beckham, who used film of his 2009 season as a reference for success. "I'm back to where I'm just going to get (my hands) loaded on time and be smooth and easy and punish something. That's always what I used to do: 'I'm going to hit this ball as hard as I can.' I got away from that because I wanted to get a hit. I didn't want to drive the ball. I wanted to find some grass. That's where I was.
"People are going to chase (bad pitches) when you don't feel good at the plate. Last year, I looked back at my swing, and I'm trying to load (my hands) and hit at the same time. You can't do that. You have to be ready to hit, on time. And I wasn't on time. That was causing me to make bad decisions."
Not that anyone was under the assumption that he was oblivious to it previously, but it's still good to see Beckham address his issues with catching up to fastballs directly. It's so much easier to believe them when they talk specifics and sound astute about their craft than repeat the safe cliches.
Just Hoping
Mark Parent seems like an enjoyably gruff dude who's really going to take ownership of this new role as the White Sox bench coach. This includes being the tough-talking foil to Robin Ventura's perennial-classiness, and taking issue with the victim status the White Sox have earned the past few seasons in terms of HBP's.
"You hit our guy, we'll hit your guy," said new bench coach Mark Parent, whose reply was met with scattered applause.
I enjoy the scattered applause, as if not all the fans really knew how to interpret such a sentiment.
Not only were Parent's words tempered by Ventura to read as less of an actual policy, let alone a mandate, but it's hard to really say how much effect he can have. Not getting pre-warned by every ump in the league who's wary of Ozzie Guillen's ill-deserved reputation as a hot head could allow the Sox to be more aggressive, but this is ultimately something that comes down to the player. As Sean Tracey proved, and Chris Sale confirmed, headhunters are born, not made.
Despite disagreeing with him on everything apparently, I enjoy Mark Parent's candor.
Not getting into this "hope" thing, in general.
Joe Cowley giddily reported that he got Paul Konerko to say something other than "World Series or Bust!!!!!11" in the middle of SoxFest.
''Truth be told, there was that little glimmer at the end of '08 where we got hot, the Twins got kind of cold and . . . we found ourselves in the playoffs. But the honest truth is since '05, we've kind of slowly but surely just kind of given back everything we earned steadily. We're kind of at this spot now where it's like, 'Here we are, back at square one again.' ''
Pulling the veil of positivism off of a promotional event blatantly geared toward boosting ticket sales doesn't mean Joe will be sharing drinks with Woodward and Bernstein tonight, but it's a more frank take on the team than most anyone else got. That's something.
As Tom Fornelli explained, what that something is, is just that Konerko gave the State of the Sox that we all kind of knew already. This team is a rehash of the version that fell on its face last season, and while they have a puncher's chance, healthy portions of skepticism is recommended until further notice.
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Get ready to weep - Jojo Moyes, author of one of the most heartbreaking books of recent years has penned a new new novel - and it's a follow up to the brilliant, but truly heart-wrenching Me Before You and After You books.
Still Me was released last month, and offers readers the conclusion to Louisa and Will's ill-fated romance.
Here's everything you need to know about the third instalment of the trilogy, Still Me…
Jojo's second book in the series was sequel After You, which came out in 2015, and – spoiler alert – saw Lou trying to rebuild her life after had Will had chosen to end his at an euthanasia clinic. Still Me will revisit Lou and show us how far she's come since Will's death. According to Jojo, the newest book will see Lou travel to New York, where she "finds herself torn between her old life and her new".
Moyes always knew Lou's story wouldn't end in the second book, After You. Speaking about the new novel, she said, "I always knew that once I committed to write the sequel to Me Before You I would also write a third book; I saw it quite clearly as a trilogy. Revisiting Lou has been a joy, as I push her into a completely new country, a brand new world, and a house full of secrets."
It would be no surprise if this book was also made into a film one day. The first book, Me Before You, came out in 2012, and was made into a film in 2016, starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin. It was one of the most popular romantic films of the year, and for good reason, with both leading actors paying homage to the original story with vibrant and emotional performances. There have been plenty of calls for an After You movie, but no official plans have been announced – yet.
So what are the main themes explored in the latest Me Before You sequel? While Jojo doesn't want to give too much of the plot away, she did say this: "With her usual blend of humour and emotion she (Lou) has to ask herself some pretty fundamental questions – not least which side of the Atlantic does she really belong? I hope readers enjoy this new adventure as much as I've enjoyed writing it."
So what happened in the first and second book?
Me Before You was all about Will and Lou meeting. Will, who is quadriplegic, was hostile towards Lou initially, eventually warming up to her light-hearted and cheeky personality. The couple ended up falling for each other, but sadly, it ended in disaster, when Will chose to end his life due to his disability.
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After You sees Lou struggling to cope after the devastating loss of Will. She has a flat and a job in London, but isn't living the exciting life Will wanted her to.
But when a young, 16-year-old girl turns up at her flat, Lou begins to realise that she has to start living again. Fans have repeatedly called for an After You movie to be made, to see Lou's character come to life on screen again.


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Schlissel says enrollment report will show diversity improvements
After a year of calls for increased campus diversity, University President Mark Schlissel said he expects to see signs of tangible improvement as early as this September.
In an interview with The Michigan Daily on Tuesday, Schlissel said he hopes this year's freshman enrollment figures — typically released in the fall — will reflect the impacts of a new University effort to package the delivery of financial aid awards and admissions decisions.
"We should start to see modest incremental changes in the direction of diversity now," he said. "We began implementing some of the changes in the admissions and financial aid procedure a year ago, and in September we are going to announce how we did."
The initiative largely focused on closing the gap between the receipt of financial aid packages and admissions decisions, with the goal of helping families and students as they make decisions about college, particularly the costs.
Schlissel said he expects the makeup of this year's freshman class to reflect the impacts of this change.
The president has frequently spoken of plans to release a campus-wide diversity initiative. He told the Daily on Tuesday that he expects to launch the full plan by the end of the academic year — not at his summit on diversity scheduled for next week.
That event will instead focus on laying out the broader charge for the initiative.
In his inaugural address last September, Schlissel deemed diversity and inclusion a priority of his presidency. In the address, Schlissel said excellence is rooted in a diverse and inclusive student body.
Despite ongoing calls for a more diverse campus, both by students and by University officials, the University has struggled to increase the diversity of its staff and student body, as well as address issues related to campus climate. In 2014, Black students made up 4.63 percent of the student body, compared to the state's Black community, which composes 14.3 percent of the population. In Fall 2011, 63 percent of incoming freshmen reported family incomes over $100,000.
Last week, Schlissel also announced a new effort to increase the student body's socioeconomic diversity. The High Achieving Involved Leader scholarship will cover four years of tuition for a select group of in-state, low-income students and provide additional resources during the application process.
Fitzgerald said application support and college planning resources will be offered to 1,000 students through the program this year.
He said it's too early to tell how many of those students will ultimately receive scholarship money, though all of those admitted from the pilot's pool will receive the funds.
Though optimistic, Schlissel stressed achieving a diverse student body will not happen quickly. He said his university-wide strategic plan will continue on after his presidency ends.
"I am convinced my successors are going to be working on this because of how far society has to go to be truly inclusive and diverse society, the kind that matches our ideals."