In the most recent month of electricity data, January 2019, Comanche's average rate of 8.80¢/kWh -- a difference of about -29% from the U.S. average of 12.47¢/kWh that month.
Year over year in Comanche (OK), electricity rates increased an estimated 0 percent -- from 8.79¢/kWh (January 2018) to 8.80¢/kWh (January 2019).
In January 2018, the average electricity rate in Comanche (Oklahoma) of 8.79¢/kWh -- a difference of about -28% from the United States average of 12.25¢/kWh that month.
The average amount of solar radition in Comanche (measured on a monthly basis) is 15 percent lower than an area of the U.S. (Nevada) with historically high levels of solar radiation.
March is historically the month that will have the highest solar output (AC) values in Comanche -- averaging an estimated 589 kWhac. December typically has the lowest output (478 kWhac).
The average amount of solar radition in Comanche (measured monthly) is 50 percent higher than an area of the U.S. (Washington) with historically low levels of solar radiation.
The average monthly solar radiation level in Comanche, OK is 5.59 kilowatt hours per square meter per day(kWh/m2/day). See the chart below for monthly comparisons.
The average monthly solar system output (AC) in Comanche, OK is 6635 kilowatt hours (AC). See the visualization below for month-by-month averages in Comanche.
In the most recent month of natural gas data, January 2019, Comanche's average rate of 6.28$/Mcf -- a difference of about -33% from the U.S. average of 9.43$/Mcf that month.
On a year-over-year basis in Comanche (OK), natural gas rates decreased about 7 percent -- from 6.72$/Mcf (January 2018) to 6.28$/Mcf (January 2019).
In January 2018, the average electricity rate in Comanche (Oklahoma) of 6.72$/Mcf -- a difference of about -25% from the United States average of 8.91$/Mcf that month.
Average natural gas rates in Comanche, OK in January 2019 were 6.28$/Mcf -- an estimated 33 percent less than that month's average U.S. rate of 9.43$/Mcf.
Comparison of Comanche natural gas rates versus national average rates.
Electric companies providing service in or near Comanche, OK.
Our search for electric companies located in Comanche produced no matches.
Gas companies that offer service in or near Comanche, OK.
Our search for gas companies located in Comanche produced no matches.
Builders that specialize in solar energy in or near Comanche, OK.
Our search for solar contractors located in or near Comanche produced no matches.
Comanche (OK) is a city in Stephens County with an estimated population of 1,663.
For more information on energy in Comanche, OK, or for additional resources regarding Comanche energy, visit the EIA.


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Q: how to use for-each in xslt files properly? I'm new with XSLT files to transform XML to XHTML. I apply everything carefully, but I didn't be able to apply for-each.
I this simple XML file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Company>
    <name>El Alamia</name>
    <Profesion></Profesion>
    <address>
      <item>Alamia street</item>
    </address>
    <logo>
      logo
    </logo>
    <GoogleMap>
      <altitude>00000000000000</altitude>
      <longtude>11111111111111</longtude>
    </GoogleMap>
    <phone>
      <item>(+44) 123 456 789</item>
      <item>(+44) 123 456 789</item>
      <item>(+44) 123 456 789</item>
    </phone>
    <fax>
      <item>(+44) 123 456 789</item>
      <item>(+44) 123 456 789</item>
      <item>(+44) 123 456 789</item>
    </fax>
    <email>
      <item>Alamia@Alamia.com</item>
      <item>Alamia@Alamia.com</item>
      <item>Alamia@Alamia.com</item>
    </email>
    <facebook>
      <item>Alamia.facebook.com</item>
      <item>Alamia.facebook.com</item>
      <item>Alamia.facebook.com</item>
    </facebook>
    <Twitter>
      <item>Alamia.twitter.com</item>
      <item>Alamia.twitter.com</item>
      <item>Alamia.twitter.com</item>
    </Twitter>
    <LinkedIn>
      <item>Alamia.linkedin.com</item>
      <item>Alamia.linkedin.com</item>
      <item>Alamia.linkedin.com</item>
    </LinkedIn>
</Company>

I'm trying to transform it using this XSLT file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:template match="/">

          Name:

            <xsl:value-of select="Company/name" />

          Profesion:

            <xsl:value-of select="Company/Profesion" />

          address

            <xsl:value-of select="Company/address" />

          logo:

            <xsl:value-of select="Company/logo" />

          GoogleMap:

            <xsl:value-of select="Company/GoogleMap/altitude" />

            <xsl:value-of select="Company/GoogleMap/longtude" />

          phone:

              <xsl:for-each select="Company/phone">

                  <xsl:value-of select="item"/>

              </xsl:for-each>

          fax:

              <xsl:for-each select="Company/fax">

                  <xsl:value-of select="item"/>

              </xsl:for-each>

          email:

              <xsl:for-each select="Company/email">

                  <xsl:value-of select="item"/>

              </xsl:for-each>

          facebook:

              <xsl:for-each select="Company/facebook">

                  <xsl:value-of select="item"/>

              </xsl:for-each>

          Twitter:

              <xsl:for-each select="Company/Twitter">

                  <xsl:value-of select="item"/>

              </xsl:for-each>

          LinkedIn:

              <xsl:for-each select="Company/LinkedIn">

                  <xsl:value-of select="item"/>

              </xsl:for-each>

  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Everything display okay but it starts to display just one item starting from for-each, although it has 3 items in XML file!!
did I write anything wrong?

A: You would need to rewrite this:
<xsl:for-each select="Company/phone">

    <xsl:value-of select="item"/>

</xsl:for-each>

As
<xsl:for-each select="Company/phone/item">

    <xsl:value-of select="."/>

</xsl:for-each>

(Same thing for fax/email/etc.)

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Scientists Mimic Neural Tissue in Army-Funded Research
The research lays the foundations for futuristic soft active matter with highly distributed and tightly integrated sensing, actuation, computation, and control
By U.S. Army Research Laboratory | March 19, 2018
New breakthrough material could lead to future autonomous soft robotics, dual sensors, and actuators for soft exoskeletons, or artificial skins.Courtesy of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (March 15, 2018) — U.S. Army-funded researchers at Brandeis University have discovered a process for engineering next-generation soft materials with embedded chemical networks that mimic the behavior of neural tissue. The breakthrough material may lead to autonomous soft robotics, dual sensors and actuators for soft exoskeletons, or artificial skins.
The research lays the foundations for futuristic soft active matter with highly distributed and tightly integrated sensing, actuation, computation, and control, said Dr. Samuel Stanton, manager of the Complex and Dynamics Systems Program within the Engineering Sciences Directorate at the Army Research Office, an element of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, located at Research Triangle Park in Durham, North Carolina.
ARO funds research to initiate scientific and far-reaching technological discoveries in extramural organizations, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations and private industry that may make future American soldiers stronger and safer.
The research team, led by professor of physics Dr. Seth Fraden of Brandeis University, drew inspiration from the mesmerizing sinuous motion of a swimming blue eel and puzzlingly large gap between how natural systems move and the lack of such coordinated and smooth movement in artificial systems.
Our research interests lie squarely in the intersection of physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science," Fraden said. "Our lab is interdisciplinary, but we are also involved in several multi-investigator projects."
Fraden's work sought to answer key questions, such as why is there such a void between the animate and inanimate that we never confuse the two, and if engineers could create materials with similar attributes to living organisms, but constructed from inanimate objects, can we do so using only chemicals and eschew use of motors and electronics?
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Looking deeper, Fraden studied how a type of neural network present in the eel, named the Central Pattern Generator, produces waves of chemical pulses that propagate down the eel's spine to rhythmically drive swimming muscles.
Fraden's lab approached the challenge of engineering a material mimicking the generator by first constructing a control device that produces the same neural activation patterns biologists have observed. There, they created a control system that runs on chemical power, as is done in biology, without resorting to any computer or electromechanical devices, which are the hallmarks of manmade, hard robotic technology.
A breakthrough was made when Fraden and his team realized that the same CPG dynamics could be captured on a non-biological platform if they used a well-known oscillating chemical process known as the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. The lab developed state-of-the-art fabrication techniques for soft materials engineering artificial chemical networks at the nanoscale that, altogether, would be capable of producing a wide variety of patterns. Their resulting robust chemical networks produced distributed dynamic patterns identical to the eel's Central Pattern Generator.
Fraden noted that "the engineering principles they identified are general and can be applied to design a whole range of other Central Pattern Generators, such as those responsible for other autonomous functions, such as the gait of a horse, for example, walk, canter, trot, and gallop."
The research appear as the cover article of the March 7 issue of a U.K. journal, Lab on a Chip, which is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing primary research and review articles on any aspect of miniaturization at the micro and nano scale. The work earned distinction as one of the journal's "hot articles" due to its particularly high scores earned in the scientific review process.
"Enabling a breakthrough in robotic augmentation of high-tempo military maneuver and operations requires disrupting the notion of an intelligent system as a rigid multi-body platform optimized for slow, carefully planned movement in uncluttered terrain," Stanton said. "Fundamental research is needed to transpose smart materials from the current paradigm of fixed properties and mechanics with extrinsic and centralized control to a new paradigm of soft active composites with unprecedented dynamic functionality realized through maximal substrate embedding of tightly integrated, decentralized, and highly distributed intrinsic (materials-based) sensing, actuation, and control."
As a next step, Fraden's lab will take on the challenge of transferring the information coded in the dynamic patterns from the chemical networks to create a targeted mechanical response within a novel chemo-mechanical gel. This could transition the research from artificial material mimicking neural tissue to artificial tissue now mimicking neuromuscular tissue.
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The Top-10 Alaska Books (And Tons More) To Add To Your Reading List
Josh Edge, APRN - Anchorage
Before this week's Talk of Alaska about the best Alaska-based books, we opened up voting to the listeners to get their input into what the top-10 Alaska books should be.
We received tons of feedback and compiled a full list, which you can find here.
Here are the top-10 results based on online voting, comments, emails, social media, and calls we have received…starting with #10:
10) Shadows on the Koyukuk: An Alaskan Native's Life along the River (Sidney Huntington)
In his dramatic autobiography, Alaskan elder Sidney Huntington, half-white, half-Athabascan, recounts his adventures, tragedies, and ultimate success.
9) One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey (Richard Proennecke)
This best-selling memoir from Richard Proenneke's journals and with firsthand knowledge of his subject and the setting, Sam Keith has woven a tribute to a man who carved his masterpiece out of the beyond. To live in a pristine land unchanged by man . . . to roam a wilderness through which few other humans has passed . . . to choose an idyllic site, cut trees by hand, and build a log cabin. . . to be self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available…to be not at odds with the world, but content with one's own thoughts, dreams and company. Thousands have had such dreams, but Richard Proenneke lived them. This book is a moving account of the day-to-day explorations and activities Dick carried out alone….alone in the wilderness…and the constant chain of nature's events that kept him company.
8) The Firecracker Boys (Dan O'Neil)
In 1958, Edward Heller, father of the H-bomb, unveiled his plan to detonate six nuclear bombs off the Alaskan coast to create a new harbor. However, the plan was blocked by a handful of Eskimos and biologists, who succeeded in preventing massive nuclear devastation potentially far greater than that of the Chernobyl blast. An unprecedented account of one of the most shocking chapters of the Nuclear Age.
7) The Snow Child (Eowyn Ivey)
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart–he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone–but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.
This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.
6) Two Old Women (Velma Wallis)
Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine.
Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness and wisdom."
5) Two in the Far North (Margaret Murie)
This enduring story of life, adventure, and love in Alaska was written by a woman who embraced the remote Alaskan wilderness and became one of its strongest advocates. In this moving testimonial to the preservation of the Arctic wilderness, Mardy Murie writes from her heart about growing up in Fairbanks, becoming the first woman graduate of the University of Alaska, and marrying noted biologist Olaus J. Murie. So begins her lifelong journey in Alaska and on to Jackson Hole, Wyoming where along with her husband and others, they founded The Wilderness Society. Mardy's work as one of the earliest female voices for the wilderness movement earned her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
4) Where the Sea Breaks its Back (Corey Ford)
Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whlhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering. Steller was one of Europe's foremost naturalists and the first to document the unique wildlife of the Alaskan coast. In the course of the voyage, Steller made his valuable discoveries and suffered, along with Bering and the cred of the ill-fated brig St. Peter, some of the most grueling experiences in the history of Arctic exploration. First published in 1966, Where the Sea Breaks Its Back was hailed as "among this country's greatest outdoor writing" by Field & Stream magazine, and today continues to enchant and enlighten the new generations of readers about this amazing and yet tragic expedition, and Georg Steller's significant discoveries as an early naturalist.
3) Coming into the Country (John McPhee)
Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the remoteness of the bush.
Readers of McPhee's earlier books will not be unprepared for his surprising shifts of scene and ordering of events, brilliantly combined into an organic whole. In the course of this volume we are made acquainted with the lore and techniques of placer mining, the habits and legends of the barren-ground grizzly, the outlook of a young Athapaskan chief, and tales of the fortitude of settlers—ordinary people compelled by extraordinary dreams. Coming into the Country unites a vast region of America with one of America's notable literary craftsmen, singularly qualified to do justice to the scale and grandeur of the design.
2) The Raven's Gift (Don Rearden)
John Morgan and his wife can barely contain their excitement upon arriving as the new teachers in a Yup'ik Eskimo village on the windswept Alaskan tundra. But their move proves disastrous when a deadly epidemic strikes and the isolated community descends into total chaos. When outside aid fails to arrive, John's only hope lies in escaping the snow-covered tundra and the hunger of the other survivors–he must make the thousand-mile trek across the Alaskan wilderness for help. He encounters a blind Eskimo girl and an elderly woman who need his protection, and he needs their knowledge of the terrain to survive. The harsh journey pushes him beyond his limits as he discovers a new sense of hope and the possibility of loving again.
1) Ordinary Wolves (Seth Kantner)
In the tradition of Jack London, Seth Kantner presents an Alaska far removed from majestic clichés of exotic travelogues and picture postcards. Kantner's vivid and poetic prose lets readers experience Cutuk Hawcly's life on the Alaskan plains through the character's own words — feeling the pliers pinch of cold and hunkering in an igloo in blinding blizzards. Always in Cutuk's mind are his father Ab,; the legendary hunter Enuk Wolfglove, and the wolves — all living out lives on the unforgiving tundra. Jeered and pummeled by native children because he is white, Cutuk becomes a marginal participant in village life, caught between cultures. After an accident for which he is responsible, he faces a decision that could radically change his life. Like his young hero, Seth Kantner grew up in a sod igloo in the Alaska, and his experiences of wearing mukluks before they were fashionable, eating boiled caribou pelvis, and communing with the native tribes add depth and power to this acclaimed narrative.
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"He did it with pride. And I'm glad my brother did it, with pride..."
So said the sister of Chai Vang, who now stands convicted of the murder of six hunters.
The 14 jurors - eight women and four men - who heard the case were chosen from Dane County after [Judge Norman] Yackel ordered the selection moved because of pretrial publicity and concern about anti- Hmong sentiment in the area. Some questioned the move, saying Madison liberals might be more likely to go easy on Vang, or wouldn't understand deer hunting issues.
J.B. Van Hollen, a Republican who in 2006 is challenging Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager, who prosecuted the case, tried to make those points an issue. Madison lawyers and judges, however, said such notions were simplistic and that evidence and proven facts usually sway the case.
Score one for the jury process.
Dirty Harry said...
That was fast! I was just in Waukesha last week and they were takling about the trial getting started. Maybe I misheard.
Finally watched all 13 episodes of "The Comeback." You were right, it started out a little slow -- tedious -- but as her character developed it became classic television. Lisa Kudrow is amazing.
"The case ultimately came down to whom the jury believed among three men."
No, it was the evidence. 20 bullets, multiple wounds in the backs of the victims. Come on.
Pastor_Jeff said...
No, I think you heard right. I believe the trial only lasted 5-6 days and the jury was out only three hours.
John A said...
He's been in this area over twenty years, is an avid and experienced hunter, and didn't know about not using a deer stand someone ekse put up? Got upset about some bad language? Tracked and back-shot a bunch of people? On the stand, said that even to him some of them did not deserve to be shot?
Golly, how could he possibly be found guilty?
They just did a little blurb about this on CNN and there was some guy up there implying he was convicted because of racism. Eventually, no one's going to care if someone is accused of racism because so many have cried wolf.
P. Froward said...
The 14 jurors - eight women and four men
That's a funny way to get to fourteen isn't it?
Fourteen jurors: there were two alternates among the 14 jurors. After the closing arguments, some sort of lottery determined which twelve were going to deliberate.
The quoted Madison lawyers and judges are right. They're not quite as common as waves lapping the shore, but rational jury verdicts in large numbers pretty much happen every business day in courtrooms all over America. There are thousands, probably tens of thousands, of them for every one O.J. or M.J. or first-Vioxx-case. It's not even a dog-bites-man occurrence, more of a "sun rose in the east again today" sort of deal. So yes, score [yet another] one [among zillions] for the jury process.
Timothy K. Morris said...
Dirty Harry - "That was fast!"
Well, by the standard set in California trials, sure. By the standard for typical Midwest/ Northcenteral trials, just about right. Based on what I know of the evidence, it'd probaly take five or six days in my county, too.
michael a litscher said...
Some questioned the move, saying Madison liberals might be more likely to go easy on Vang, or wouldn't understand deer hunting issues.
I plead guilty, and I throw myself upon the mercy of the blog.
Harkonnendog said...
That group of jurors shall henceforth be known as "The Masters of the Obvious."


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Staples and Gagliardi Receive Macy Foundation Catalyst Award
By Alissa Kocer
Betty Staples, MD, professor of pediatrics, and Jane Gagliardi, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and professor of medicine are recipients of a one-year $50,000 Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Catalyst Award for Transformation in Graduate Medical Education. This award funds projects in graduate medical education that support civility, psychological safety, and thriving in the clinical learning environment for residents and fellows.
Staples works clinically in the Department of Pediatrics and with the Duke Center for Eating Disorders and has focused much of her career and scholarship on graduate medical education. She devotes time to work on improving the learning environment for trainees at Duke and nationally.
Gagliardi's scholarship and advocacy for health equity, patient safety and quality improvement have been fueled by her work as a clinician at the interface of medicine and psychiatry as well as by leadership roles in undergraduate and graduate medical education.
Staples and Gagliardi's project, The Civility Champions Project, will make use of the funds from the Macy foundation along with matching funds from the Duke Office of Graduate Medical Education to expand on a pilot project in the Department of Medicine, through which Gagliardi received training and is the leader of quarterly Civility Champions debriefs. They will enroll a cohort of 50-75 participants from six clinical departments to be trained as Civility Champions to increase their competence and comfort in providing restorative justice-based counseling to recipients of incivility and to increase their ability to recognize workplace incivility, intervene as an upstander, and model civil discourse utilizing principles of nonviolent communication with the goal of incorporating lessons learned in their teaching and leadership practice.
"The Macy Foundation is delighted to support Drs. Betty Staples and Jane Gagliardi in their initiative to prepare residents to respond to instances of bias, discrimination, or abuse that they either experience or witness," said Holly J. Humphrey, President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. "This innovative intervention will offer key lessons on what is necessary to enhance civility and promote a culture of respect in the clinical learning environment."
The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation is the only national foundation dedicated solely to improving the education of health professionals. The Catalyst Awards projects explore innovative strategies to help learners combat microaggressions, harassment, bias, and discrimination in the clinical learning environment. Working together, faculty and learners pool their experiences and discoveries to evolve a set of best practices and actionable steps to support all learners. "We are proud to support initiatives that equip learners with the confidence, skills, and strategies to flourish in graduate medical education," said Humphrey.
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You people can't help yourselves can you? Unban Ramen.
can I get the ability to PM back?
So why did Dayton get banned?
Can we have a limit to how many threads a poster can open per day, please?
What Is the Point of the Help Desk if Moderators/Administrators Won't Reply to inquiries here?
Why Can't I Be Allowed To Use Rep Freely While At the same time Not posting in RR?


Here are some video slideshows of past weddings. Enjoy!
No, I didn't pick up my dad's Leica at age seven. I wasn't the yearbook photographer. And I never owned a fancy camera before graduating high school… I didn't fall in love with photography at a young age.
But luckily, I was born with something even deeper than that. A true love for art. Growing up I drew, I painted, I sang, I danced, and even played the guitar. So when I picked up my first camera, everything sort of just fell into place. I fell in love. An obsession. A passion, if you will.
My habitual curiosity of all things technical – watching war movies, obtaining a pilot's license, coupled with the more simple, guilty pleasures of romantic comedies and failed attempts to clear the lump in my throat when watching The Notebook all fuses together into developing myself as a photographer. A technician with a feminine side?
A craftsman of light, with a love affair with life.
Thank you for your interest in modern, clean, elegant, and timeless photographs. Indeed, it is the philosophy of my shooting style.
To fit each client's unique needs, Angel Cruz Photography believes in Custom Packages – one that is truly your own.
A collection with 8-hour coverage, digital proofs with printing rights, engagement portrait session, and a top-quality genuine leather album, handmade just for you in Italy, is only $2550.
Did I say your custom-designed album is hand-made by craftsmen in Italy? Absolutely. In addition, I have many other album options available as well. You will surely find one that you and your loved ones will enjoy for many years.
From multiple album options, to different print sizes, to enormous canvas enlargements, to photographic coverage that starts and ends at the time you want; you will find a collection that suits your wedding day needs.
At the end of the day, these are more than just pictures. They're about preserving a very special day between you and the one you love. So that, 30 years from now you can both look back and not just remember it like it was yesterday, but actually relive those heartfelt moments. My style of wedding photography is fun and hip, yet classy. It is modern and sophisticated, yet timeless. I carry the awesome responsibility of documenting your biggest day and I am honored to be entrusted with your memories.
you have only your photographs to reminisce and relive love's most perfect day.
Weddings are FUN. Nothing is more rewarding than eternalizing a couple's most important day. Everyone is happy, each person is looking forward to greeting the future husband and wife, and all eyes are on the bride in her stunning dress. It's a day full of love, joy, and laughter. And I enjoy capturing every bit of it – over, and over, and over.
I may not take myself seriously, but I take my work very seriously. Being able to work on my passion is an absolute blessing. And I feel even more blessed to have such a wonderful partner in life, my best friend Sarah whom I will be married to this November.
Thank you for visiting my website slash blog. I hope you enjoy these photos as much as I do!
I obsessively check my email very often and will get back with you as soon as possible!


A quick look at the Calendar (I HAVE been kind of busy lately) tells me we're at the ten-year anniversary of the regrettable decision by our last president to go to war with people who had NOTHING to do with 9/11. On the Sunday before the war, my former church (Washington Square United Methodist Church) supported Kairos Theatre Company's involvement in the THAW (Theaters Against War) day of art in opposition to the invasion of Iraq. Ben Roberts performed my play about peace and war A CLOWN, A HAMMER, A BOMB AND GOD.
We didn't stop the war. We DID make it clear that it was not being fought in our name. Individually, many of us tried to make the argument that we were attacking the wrong people, that Saddam didn't have WMD according to the UN people doing the inspections, and that the LAST people Iraq would want inside their borders were religious fundamentalists like Osama Bin Laden. And all of us who protested and tried to talk about the war in a way that nobody in the media would (except poor Phil Donahue) were ostracized and called all kinds of nasty things.
And as MP George Galloway said (after the Downing Street memos revealed that W was determined to have a war regardless of the evidence, and had started the military campaign before going to Congress) We were right and the people supporting the war were wrong. And after our withdrawal from Iraq, Galloway said it was the end of our empire. And it may well be–estimates are that the Iraq part of our wars will ultimately cost $2 Trillion dollars. The human cost–35,000+ wounded and disabled and the 4,800 dead, never mind the minimum of 100,000 Iraqi casualties–was horrific. We sent lots of young men and women to fight a war of aggression that left them dead or injured physically or psychically.


Scarborough, ON – December 12, 2012 – CDI College is responding to the increased demand for well-trained healthcare professionals in Ontario by offering additional start dates for the Personal Support Worker program at its campus in Scarborough.
The Personal Support Worker program provides students with the skills and knowledge to provide optimal support and assistance to clients in a range of healthcare settings. In 24 weeks, students learn about the personal support worker role in Ontario's healthcare system. Along with developing household management and interpersonal skills, they also learn to provide assistance with mobility, personal hygiene and medications. Because personal support workers are on the front line of care, students train to manage ongoing conditions, work with families and assist those who are dying. They also cover the key issues of client safety and identifying abuse.
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It has been close to nine months since I stopped making regular podcast content. I don't regret stopping. I do regret tying so much of my own self-worth and identity into the podcast that I created.
It's been an interesting road to walk, these past few months. I've relaxed. I've gamed. I've gamed some more. I've gamed a lot, and, I've gotten super busy with family activities. If I hadn't retired the podcast when I did, I likely would have retired it a few months afterwards due to how busy I got.
Even though life has kept me busy, I've made time for gaming. While walking this nine month road, I tried my hand at setting creation, posting the articles here on the site. I tried writing up actual plays based on my home game. I tried my hand at creating YouTube videos, both with my son and by myself. I designed a system and play-tested it with my home group. I ran a full 11 level Shadow of the Demon Lord game! I indulged in the hobby that I love so much.
Playing, planning and running games is what I love and it's what drew me into podcasting in the first place. Being able to do it as much as I have has been wonderful. But, I don't feel complete when that's all I'm doing. Close to it, I suppose, but not complete.
I enjoy creating content for other gamers and I haven't found a good outlet for that, for me, yet. I'm still experimenting and searching for what to do next. I love creating stories, so perhaps I'll try writing an adventure.
Thank you all for the wild ride that was the Shark Bone Podcast! I hope you'll walk the road to the future with me, with all its twists and turns and road signs that seem to lead all places and nowhere all at once.
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SF Giants unveil plan for a 5-acre 'constructed ecosystem' along bay
Now that the San Francisco Giants' underwhelming season is over, the team has big off-season plans — at least in terms of real estate.
Construction should begin this winter on the first phase of the remake of the team's parking lot south of McCovey Cove along Third Street, including a 5-acre waterfront park with tide pools open to waders and a bayside lawn capable of holding 5,000 people.
The design being released this week features several landscaped hillocks — and not just to enhance outward views or deflect incoming winds. They're also intended to serve as buffers to expected sea level rise, part of a larger effort that will include raising the site 5 feet above the existing parking lot.
"My philosophical view is that public space has value and needs to be protected. But we also have to understand the need for the creation of spaces that eventually can be absorbed," said Kate Orff, whose New York firm Scape is the park's landscape architect.
The new park design offers the first glimpse of the Giants' long-delayed 28-acre Mission Rock project, which includes the shoreline and Pier 48 as well as the parking lot. That will be followed within weeks by architectural proposals for four buildings — two office structures and two residential towers — that would join the park in Mission Rock's first phase of 10.5 acres.
By unveiling the public space first, the Giants clearly seek to emphasize what has been a selling point for the huge mixed-use project since the team was awarded the site in 2008.
"We want this to be both a regional attraction and a neighborhood park," said Jack Bair, the Giants' executive vice president and leader of the team's development effort. "Our desire is to make this one of the best urban parks in the United States in terms of size."
At 5 acres, what's being billed as China Basin Park would be similar in size to another bayside park now taking shape alongside Chase Center, a half-mile to the south. But the settings are strikingly different.
Where the park by the Warriors' new arena will look east toward the distant island of Alameda, China Basin Park is directly south of the Giants' ballpark at the hinge between Mission Creek and the bay. The fast-growing Mission Bay district begins on the other side of Third Street. The downtown skyline rises to the north behind the Bay Bridge.
Orff's proposed design taps into these different attractions.
Terry Francois Boulevard will end at Pier 48, and the green strip and kid-size ball field along the cove will be removed. In their place would be a series of spaces that begin with a plaza near the Third Street Bridge, followed by a tree-covered hillock and then a central plaza activated in part by a small restaurant.
East of the restaurant would be another hillock, this one grassy, spilling down into a rounded lawn of nearly an acre that would hug the curve of the shoreline.
Closer to the water, an extension of the Bay Trail would line the plazas and lawn. Below it would be the new semi-natural tidal area, as well as a kayak ramp slicing down to McCovey Cove.
Gone would be the rip-rap that now separates land and water — a rubbled boundary dating back to the 19th century, when the historic Mission Bay was filled in to create expansion space for railroad companies and the Port of San Francisco.
"We're trying to bring a constructed ecosystem to the heart of the urban environment," said Orff, who in 2017 became the first landscape architect to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called genius grant.
Specific design details are still in flux, such as the variety of cypress that might dot the periphery of the lawn, and final sign-offs are needed from the port and the Bay Conservation and Development Commission. Still, the Giants want to start clearing the site in January.
The southern half of the existing parking lot will remain in service until the second phase of the project begins. The park and the first four buildings are scheduled to open by 2023.
This winter the work will begin with churning up asphalt along Third Street and then importing dirt to lift the building pads for the first phase roughly 5 feet above the current elevation. The idea is to place future streets and development sites above the state's projections for where high tides are expected to be by 2100.
If all this sounds complicated, so is the saga of the Giants' quest to make Mission Rock happen.
Previewing the park
The Giants, Tishman Speyer and the Port of San Francisco will hold an open house at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Oracle Park to present the plans for China Basin Park to the public. The entrance to the event is at 2nd and King streets.
The team was one of four bidders for the parking lot when the port held a competition in 2007. No sooner had it been selected as part of a larger development team than the 2008 recession hit, causing the other partners to drop out.
As the economy improved, the Giants dusted off their plans, signing a term sheet with the port in 2013 — the same year that San Francisco passed an initiative requiring voter approval of any project exceeding the existing height limits on port-owned land. The team's plans call for a variety of heights, including three 240-foot towers, so it went to the ballot and received the voters' blessing in 2015.
Last year, the New York firm Tishman Speyer joined the Giants as co-developer. The design team includes Jeanne Gang of Chicago, who conceived the corkscrew-like Mira tower that Tishman Speyer is building near the Embarcadero on Folsom Street.
The quest to build Mission Rock began when the Giants' new manager was Bruce Bochy — three World Series championships ago.
Orff said that key priorities for the site, such as the spacious waterfront green, have endured through all the shifts.
"Our job has been to take those years of discussion and make them manifest in the current vision," Orff said. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime site."
John King is The San Francisco Chronicle's urban design critic. Email: jking@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @johnkingsfchron
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PASADENA, CALIF.—Billy Bob Thornton says he loves Canada.
He's just misunderstood by some Canadians.
Thornton is back in Canada working in Calgary filming the much anticipated FX TV series Fargo, based on the critically acclaimed movie by the Coen Brothers.
But he is perhaps best remembered north of the border as the guy who got into a dust-up with CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi in 2009 when touring the city with his band.
"I don't have anything against the guy, I don't know him. I wish I had the opportunity to talk to him before the show started and this whole thing wouldn't have happened," said Thornton, after being asked by the Star whether he still has ill feelings for Ghomeshi or Canadians.
During the live taping, Thornton refused to answer questions and became combative in the interview, which went viral. Thornton was later booed by a Toronto audience for saying Canadians were "like mashed potatoes with no gravy" and his band, the Boxmasters, then cancelled their tour.
"I've always been friendly to the press. I never had problems so this was bizarre to me. And it became news," said Thornton.
Thornton said the blow-up occurred when he asked producers to talk to Ghomeshi before the show. He said he wanted to explain to the "deejay" that he would appreciate it if questions were first about the band and then his acting career afterward. However, he wasn't able to make contact with Ghomeshi and the questions ended up being about acting, he claimed.
This recollection doesn't quite jibe with the reality of the interview, which is available in its entirety on YouTube (http://bit.ly/BillyBobvsJian ).
Ghomeshi mentioned in his introduction that Thornton was an "Oscar-winning actor, screenwriter and director" as well as a musician.
"While Billy Bob's Thornton name is most often linked to his cinematic endeavours, the Boxmasters is anything but a diversion from the silver screen. He's always intended to make music and he just got sidetracked. These days, music is a major priority in his life and it's something he's obviously embracing," Ghomeshi said.
Acting wasn't mentioned again until the 7-minute, 29-second mark of the 13-minute interview, when Ghomeshi asked whether he had offended Thornton by mentioning he was an actor. "You would prefer me to only do this interview not mentioning at all, just to clarify, at all that you've ever done anything in terms of acting, screenwriting," Ghomeshi said.
The interview eventually continued with questions about music.
Thornton said his current favourite Canadian city is Calgary, which is supposed to take the place of the real town of Fargo as the province of Alberta stands in for North Dakota and Minnesota.
The extreme cold this winter shut the set down for a number of days in December. But that apparently hasn't dampened Thornton's appreciation for the city.
"I did a movie called the Simple Plan in Wisconsin that made Calgary look like Hawaii," said Thornton.
Thornton was in Los Angeles at the Television Critics Association press tour promoting Fargo but will return to Calgary to resume shooting. He plays ruthless, manipulative Lorne Malvo, who meets a small-town insurance salesman and leads him down a dangerous path. The show premieres April 15 on FX in the U.S. and FXX in Canada.


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The Good Doctor boss breaks down the finale's tragic and romantic twists
March 30, 2020 at 11:00 PM EDT
Warning: This article contains spoilers from the season 3 finale of The Good Doctor, "I Love You."
Love was lost and found on The Good Doctor.
Picking up where last week's episode left off, part 2 of the season 3 finale began with Dr. Claire Brown (Antonia Thomas) rushing Dr. Neil Melendez (Nicholas Gonzalez) back to the hospital to find out why he vomited and collapsed at the brewery. Claire and Dr. Lim (Christina Chang) hoped surgery would fix his injuries, but it couldn't because the internal damage caused septic shock, which couldn't be reversed. At least Melendez got a chance to say goodbye to Claire, Lim, and Dr. Glassman (Richard Schiff) before dying. And thus ended Gonzalez's final episode as a series regular on the ABC drama.
For showrunner David Shore, Melendez's tragic fate was decided from the moment the writers chose to injure him in the earthquake that kicked off the finale.
"I can tell you it was a really, really difficult choice," Shore tells EW. "But I've always felt in running shows that it can't just be, 'Oh my God, is he going to die?! No he's not.' I think in a medical show in particular, you have to set up situations where people might die regularly, guest cast and your regulars. Every now and again you have to be true to that, or else the stakes lose their stakes even in the other stories. Dramatically, that is what a medical show is all about. It's all about the risk of losing somebody and what you're willing to do in those circumstances."
Shores continues: "I just thought it was important that we take one of the people we truly care about and deal with that, and that was the lion's share of what went into that choice. I recognize that we're paying a big price by doing this. I recognize that we're losing something very important to the show, but I'm hoping on a storytelling long-term, it'll keep us going."
What makes Melendez's death even more unfortunate is that not only had Claire just realized she had feelings for him a couple episodes earlier, but she's also experienced so much loss this season. Thanks to Claire's friendship with Melendez, though, there's hope she'll handle this better than she did her mother's death.
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"We've thrown a lot of crap at that poor character," Shore says. "I think, ironically, to a great extent because of Melendez and because of his guidance — and we see this in part 2 a little bit — she's a bit of a different person now than she was when her mother died. The irony is that when her mother died, she lost a very unstable influence on her life. Now she's losing a very stable influence on her life, which is a higher cost to pay, but she's also been the beneficiary of that stable source."
The season 3 finale wasn't completely depressing, though, because it ended with Shaun (Freddie Highmore) and Lea (Paige Spara) finally getting together. With the help of a walkie-talkie, Lea listened while Shaun fought to save his patient Vera's life as water filled the sub-basement where she was trapped. This ultimately helped Lea realize she was wrong to reject him before and actually did love him. When Shaun and Vera eventually made it out, Lea kissed Shaun passionately and professed her love, which is where the writers hoped the season would end when they started working on it last year.
"We explored a bunch of different choices as things went along," Shore says. "I really liked his relationship with Carly, we all did. Jasika Nicole was so great. But Paige is so great and Lea's so great, and this felt right at the beginning and right at the end. It feels like this is where it should be, and we'll explore that relationship next year as well."
Shore is proud of the way they brought Shaun and Lea is together because they avoided having Shaun simply save Lea's life. "We had Shaun prove, and more accurate remind her who he is, which reminded her or informs her — not that she owes him anything or anything along those lines — that when she rejected him, she was wrong [and] that Shaun is a great person and would make a great boyfriend," he says. "When he gives her crap at the end of that prior episode, she knows even then [and starts thinking], 'Was I wrong?' And in [the season 3 finale], as she listens to him, it reminds her of who he is as a human being [and] she realizes she was simply wrong. She doesn't change her mind."
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Do water polo games start with a swim off?
What are the water polo rules?
Has anyone drowned playing water polo?
Do you have to know how do you swim to play water polo?
How far do water polo players swim in a game?
What happens underwater in water polo?
Can you go underwater in water polo?
Can u touch the bottom of the pool in water polo?
Is dunking allowed in water polo?
Are water polo players fast swimmers?
Why is water polo so rough?
Can water polo goalies touch the bottom of the pool?
When should kids start water polo?
How long do water polo players tread water?
Is water polo like volleyball?
The match starts with a swim-off. The ball is released in the middle of the pitch with the players lined up along their own goal lines. The first team to reach the ball has the first possession of the game. After each goal, the team who conceded resume the match with the ball.
General rules of water polo
Water polo players in possession of the ball can pass the ball forwards, sideways or backwards.
Water polo players must tread water and are not allowed to touch the bottom of the pool – with the exception of the goalkeeper.
SPRINGVILLE, Utah – City officials have confirmed that a 14-year-old boy has died after going underwater during practice for the Springville City water polo team.
This should come as no surprise. Water polo requires strong swimming skills, mostly freestyle, breaststroke and backstroke. While having great turns, starts and streamlines isn't required having speed, power and endurance is.
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Referring in general we can estimate a total of 1344 meters swimming by a player during a water polo game. 42 or horizontal position during a water polo game. "Calculations from time and motion analyses indicate that field players spend only 45% to 55% of actual game time in a horizontal body position.
Here, a defender grabs an ankle to keep her opponent from swimming away with the ball. This move is illegal and would normally be called as an exclusion foul, but it happens often underwater. … Players aren't supposed to dunk or swim over their opponents, but such fouls occur regularly, to varying degrees.
Players can go underwater in water polo, but they cannot bring the ball with them underwater. Not many players swim underwater since there is no real advantage to it. When players go under to gain an advantage, the referee will call a foul.
Players are not allowed to touch the bottom of the pool and have to tread water the whole time. Water polo players use a movement called eggbeater which is more efficient than the normal action of treading water. Players can move the ball by throwing it to a teammate or swimming while pushing the ball in front of them.
Water polo is a contact sport. What physical moves are not permitted to occur? When a player is not in possession of the ball, it is not permitted to excessively hold, dunk, or prevent the attacking player from swimming. A player in a scoring position with possession of the ball may not be dunked, pulled back, or held.
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While college coaches do consider swim time when evaluating recruits, what's more important is an athlete's quickness and water polo IQ. … Successful water polo players are strong, and fast swimmers, but most importantly, they are experienced athletes with great vision and reaction time.
With a majority of their bodies underwater, and lots of splashing to reduce visibility for the referees, players are prone to kicking or hitting beneath the surface. "With all these big bodies banging into each other, all the clutching and grabbing under the water, you have to stay close or you risk getting injured.
Most regulation water polo pools are at least 6 feet deep. However, in the case of a pool having a shallow end, players are still prohibited from touching the bottom of the pool. … The only player who can touch the ground if there is a shallow end is the goalie.
How old do you have to be to play water polo? Being comfortable in the water is the primary criterion for playing water polo. SOCAL has players as young as six playing with us. Please approach your coach and determine how to ease into our sport.
Water polo players tread water for entire 50-minute games and 120-minute long practices. However, these are just a reference point. Due to their high fitness level, one can expect the average water polo player to tread water for up to 8 or 10 hours total.
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Some people think that water polo is similar to volleyball because of the water polo ball's shape, but the sport itself is more akin to soccer/volleyball instead due to there being two goals on either side of the pool.
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Will the Christian Conservatives rise again?
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:07 am, May 20th, 2019 - 78 comments
Categories: abortion, Abuse of power, australian politics, climate change, democracy under attack, Environment, global warming, International, Mining, national, new conservatives, religion, same old national, science, Simon Bridges, sustainability, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up - Tags: alfred ngaro
National will be licking its lips and thinking that the Australian election will provide them with a roadmap to how to succeed in 2020.
There are a few takeaways. They need to make sure that a right wing megalomaniac controls the majority of the media and will instruct his channels to spew out anti left propaganda. And a well financed extreme right wing party will help.
And don't forget the local. Labor was hit hard in Queensland probably because of the Adani mine project.
In the adjoining seats the three LNP members of parliament had swings to them of up to 15% converting former marginal seats into safe seats.
The Adani mine shows everything that is wrong with Australian politics. Put aside the fact that if completed it would release huge amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere as well as wreck the Great Barrier reef not to mention fragile local habitats it makes no economic sense whatsoever. The price of coal is crashing. No merchant bank would go near the project, it appears that even merchant banks have minimum ethical standards.
Adani claimed originally that 10,000 jobs would be created but this has subsequently been reduced to 1,468. Spending billions to create so few jobs makes no sense.
It also had open rights to use artesian water, that commodity that will become more and more valuable in Australia. It has been estimated that the mine would use 4.6 billion litres of water a year. Consent was rushed through by the LNP three days before the election even though the report relied on had major faults. From the Conversation thread linked to above:
Details leaked to the ABC showed the review actually found that Adani's modelling was "not suitable to ensure the outcomes sought by the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Protection Act are met" and that advice for the approval was rushed through in a single afternoon.
The review found that the modelling was "not sufficiently robust", over-predicting flows back into the aquifiers it was drawing on and using incorrect measurements for calibration.
The mine owner had also sought a billion dollar government loan to pay for the required rail infrastructure. Thankfully the Queensland Labor Government has killed this off.
The project should be terminal and put to death. Instead of this it has arguably helped return an incompetent inhumane right wing Government back to power.
But don't be surprised if we see some similar sort of issue arise in New Zealand. In fact off sea oil drilling in Taranaki is already serving this function for National.
The other aspect is the role of minor parties. Clive Palmer's United Australia party spent $60 million and gained nothing. Pauline Hanson's One Nation party did extraordinarily well when you think about how recently her party was implicated in seeking funding from the NRA to weaken gun laws and the defence offered was the senior staffers involved were on the turps. But Palmer and Hanson both shook Labor voters loose and then directed them over to LNP.
This underlines the need for National to have similar parties to its right. And will incentivise plans to have Alfred Ngaro form a new party.
On the weekend the rhetoric was turned up with Ngaro saying that abortion was an unholy holocaust.
Jami-Lee Ross responded quickly:
Dear @AlfredNgaroMP: a woman's right to decide what she does with her body is a health matter.
Comparing abortion to the Holocaust is extremely offensive, and you send an appalling message to anyone that has ever been faced with such a tough decision. https://t.co/wS4QRRgZfb
— Jami-Lee Ross (@jamileeross) May 19, 2019
This morning Bridges confirmed that discussions were reasonably well advanced, contrary to previous indications.
On Friday Bridges' office claimed comments about Ngaro were all rumour and speculation. This reinforced something that he had said earlier. Then this morning he conceded that parts of the story were actually true. He said this:
The truth is that the story I suppose had parts of it that were substantive and based on substance, some of it was wrong and so that is the reality of it.
Bridges then confirmed that Ngaro had been approached and Bridges had told him to keep Bridges in the loop.
Marvel at the video.
Wonder how a self confessed Christian politician can reconcile the use of fibbing with strongly held Christian beliefs, even if the fibbing is for political advantage.
And it makes you wonder where ACT will be. Because Bridges has also been reported as saying this:
I'm not interested in electorate deals – that's certainly not something I have canvassed with Alfred or anyone else for that matter."
But expect local politics to get uglier and more brutal at least in the short term. Although Jacinda is no Shorten and in my view has the ability and the empathy to counter this sort of approach.
78 comments on "Will the Christian Conservatives rise again?"
Enough is Enough 1
Jami-Lee Ross standing up for woman's rights is like Don Brash standing up for Maori rights – laughable…
Psycho Milt 1.1
Pointing out that abortion actually isn't just like the Holocaust isn't "standing up for women's rights," it's "standing against anti-semitism," and the question is where were the rest of the National Party on this?
Incognito 2
So, Mr Bridges is saying "I'd do anything for power, but I won't do that!"?
Sabine 2.1
no he is saying
look at what i say
not what i do.
Wensleydale 2.2
No, he's saying, "I'll do anything for power but I won't do that… until I feel it's necessary, after which I'll do exactly that and probably much worse. And then lie about it. Or blame it on a junior staffer. Who was emotional. Vote National!"
Dukeofurl 2.2.1
Botany may not exist once they do the boundary changes in a few months…goodbye Botany hello Ormiston
Dennis Frank 3
Come again? "Will the Christian Conservatives rise again?" Rise again, but perhaps without coming? Hmm. Moral conservatives tend to be ambivalent re pornography (covertly pro, openly con) but I agree the possibilities will titillate them.
It's true that the prospect of a Second Coming also looms large in their thinking. The passive approach of waiting has failed for two millennia so they could be mulling the potential of a proactive switch to a radical option: set the stage to make it happen, via magical thinking. Call a conference of all christians with political aspirations to discover who is really holier than thou. Brian Tamaki could explain why Destiny is the one true church, and all the others could be similarly exclusive…
greywarshark 3.1
In the 12th century according to one of Edith Pargeter's stories, the Brits believed in God's active intervention. A dispute might be fought out by the protagonists with swords and the winner would have received God's blessing and the loser the thumb's down. So a duel with BrIan and Alfred and whoever?
The decision would be divine.
woodart 3.2
will the christian conservatives rise again. probably, because its usually a christian conservative that gets caught in the wrong bed, at the wrong time, with the wrong sex aid (or sex aide). the moral right are funny as phuck when one of their heroes gets caught with there pants down.
mosa 4
Bridges " the truth is "
He must stop using such a wicked turn of phrase.
It does him no credit.
Brutus Iscariot 4.1
It's the equivalent of Key's "ektually".
OnceWasTim 4.2
say it long enough, and it is so – apparently – (going forwid)
But ultimately, we're pivoting on our respective platforms so that we can position ourselves to take full advantage of the various conversations blah blah fucking blah rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb, next
Sometimes I really do wonder how some of them sleep straight at night
Has anyone ever seen and listened to pigs eating at a trough?
It's ekshully quite pleasurable by comparison
Incognito 4.3
The truth is Simon is a post-modernist. See, I learn things here on TS 😉
Psycho Milt 4.3.1
Oh. it's much worse than that. A post-modernist would never claim that an assertion they were making was "The Truth." This is definitely your plain old grifter territory.
Dukeofurl 5
There is only a push for a Christian Conservative party because there is a surprising amount of money that would flow that way. Rich older Christians seem to want nothing better than 'buy a candidate'
The Exclusive brethren, The Seventh Day Adventists all have elders who want to play in the political sandpit. The Colin Craig saga showed he was being bankrolled by people such as the Days from Waikato, and national doesnt want that sort of money to be wasted on a fringe candidate when they can 'grow a new Christian party from their own rib'
rich older christians want to but a candidate because they think that might help them get a better seat on the plane to heaven. if they were "proper "christians they would know that buying a politian is like having a pet weasel, smelly, unreliable,and likely to bite its owner.
observer 6
Those pundits prattling on about the prospects for a 'Christian' (not very) party always ignore one basic point.
The things that get the ultra-conservatives worked up are treated as conscience issues for National (and Labour). There is no way any National leader is going to bind his/her MPs to a deal on abortion, gay marriage, euthanasia, etc.
If you're an ambitious, youngish Nat (Kaye, Bishop, Willis) you don't want that baggage ruining your reputation, even if Simon does. He's only got one shot, so he's desperate … but his MPs aren't. They have a future.
Sacha 6.1
They only have to offer enough concessions to secure support for a term at a time. Plus punishing the poor is an enduring shared value.
observer 6.1.1
Disagree. That works for traditional pollies. You give Winston a few million for the horsies, you give Dunne a job, any job. That's 'a term at a time". Wheel, deal.
But if it's a deal against conscience voters, and you're voting against what you believe, just for a couple of extra votes, you are screwed. And there is NO way National want to throw away swing voters for a generation.
mosa 6.2
youngish Nat (Kaye, Bishop, Willis) have a future ?
Shit that is depressing !
woodart 6.2.1
there will be seats on company boards for the most servile ex nat m.p. s though jenny shipleys example will have them checking their personal liability insurance for incompetence……
mauī 7
I watched Sky News cover the Aussie election and the right wing commentators (pretty much everyone there) were distraught at Tony Abbott's loss. Man of principle, stood up for what he believed in they said,…
In comparison here we have Simon, another religious odd ball minus any respect and decency his peers would ever be able to spot.
Hooch 8
From having no mates, National is now running the risk of too many mates. Which is it to be? new cons, blue-greens, Christian party? The danger is they all suck up 4% off of national and fail to get across the line while dropping nationals party vote further than it would have gone without them.
observer 8.1
Blue-Greens are finished before they started. The only (faint) hope for National is a party with a sitting electorate MP (seats aren't simply "gifted" the way some imagine, the likes of Peters, Dunne, Anderton had to be sitting MPs first).
But as you say, there are too many Judean People's Fronts (Tamaki attacks Ngaro, Moffett attacks New Cons, etc). They can't organise and compromise, because they are all speaking for God, and God doesn't do deals.
Bridges is determined to be all things to all people if it'll help him win.
It won't though. He's fucked.
peterlepaysan 8.2.1
Is'nt that prostitution?
Sabine 8.2.1.1
only if he asks for payment.
look at the previous leaders of this religious political mix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Capill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Craig
Not very great at all. This will always be their (a Christian Party) problem I think – a not if, but when, problem.
Capill used to make me roar with laughter. He was such a pompous arsehole. My old man used to sit on the couch of an evening watching him on the news and saying, "There's something off about that bloke. I don't know what it is… but he's not right."
And it turns out he was a kiddy fiddler. Those who howl the loudest about the moral decline of society usually have the most to hide.
wow the guy who hit Capill got two years, while Capill a prominent NZler was released after serving 6 years on probation for sexually abusing little girls.
On 23 March 2005 Capill appeared in the Christchurch District Court charged with indecently assaulting a girl aged under 12. On leaving the court he was assaulted ("punched and left whimpering on the ground") by local sickness beneficiary Daniel McNally, a former boxer.[3] The media referred to Capill, who was then under a name-suppression order, as "a prominent New Zealander".[4] McNally, who had no previous connection to the case, received a two-year prison sentence for the assault.[5] On 1 April 2005 name suppression was lifted and Capill pleaded guilty to a charge of indecently assaulting an eight-year-old girl on four occasions.[6] These events took place between the years of 2001 and 2002, while Capill was leader of Christian Heritage. His activities were brought to an end by the Rev Wally Behan, vicar of St John's Anglican Church, Latimer Square, Christchurch, the church which the Capill family attended. Behan was acting on information received from some of the victims. Further charges of rape and indecent assault against girls aged under 12 (committed during the 1990s) followed.[7][8] As Capill had strongly condemned "sexual perversion" throughout his political career, the revelations had particular impact.[citation needed] Capill's conduct was swiftly condemned by Christian Heritage.[9]
good grief. good fucking grief.
Hey, come on now. To be fair, I personally believe Ngaro is well capable of living up to the legacy of Capill and Craig.
Stuart Munro. 10
These are just a retread of the Hollow Men who funded National before they found China. Funny thing is they're much more of a minority here than in the US, maybe due to education, or maybe from a self-inflicted negative image. The trick for Labour is in not alienating genuine Christians, who tend to lean left, and vote.
observer 10.1
Yes, the word Christian should not be used as an insult. Or a synonym for far Right. It is not.
woodart 10.2
yes, real christians care about the less fortunate, not want to punish them, or rip them off.
AB 10.3
Quite – if Simon wants to cuddle up to selective bible literalists then he'll find that kiwis on the whole despise these clowns who are actually Christian heretics guilty of bibliolatry.
Sacha 11
Am I right in gleaning this morning that Farrar's polling must have told the Nats their voters do not support a dodgy electorate deal?
Yet they will want insurance that a vote for a christian tory ally is not wasted again.
Rae 11.1
Not at all, because Bridges has only emphatically, on record, ruled out Botany, and maybe a little bit, Ellerslie, he hasn't ruled out any other electorate.
Sacha 11.1.1
I meant in this case. Yes, he ruled it out after being vague on the matter last week. Wonder what happened in between ..
greywarshark 12
How would USA Christian groups advance National Party interests here? Because they could, National could learn and probably earn a lot. Perhaps they would like to set up a large cult-centred evangelical farm, or teach Scientology in a bigger way than at present.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/389603/us-at-centre-of-national-s-foreign-policy-bridges  : US at centre of National's foreign policy – Bridges
Mr Bridges said National would prioritise New Zealand's relationship with the US, and "leverage the strong, security, economic and political ties between the two countries".
The document said "no country has done more to promote democracy, freedom and security around the world than the United States", with both countries sacrificing together.
He said National would participate in the upcoming debate about the future of New Zealand's presence in Iraq as part of a US-led mission.
Mr Bridges also committed to "aggressively" pursuing a free trade deal (FTA) with the US.
"We do have to win Washington's trust and attention … and have the political will to follow it through…".
However, a guest panellist at the launch of the document, former trade negotiator Charles Finny, disagreed saying he did not believe the time was right to pursue an FTA as the deal for the agricultural sector would not be good enough.
As for China, Mr Bridges said National would "further" the strong and dynamic relationship, and aim to meet the goal of doubling two-way trade to $60 billion by 2030.
The document states Australia remains New Zealand's most important and comprehensive relationship.
Mr Bridges also signalled a move to allow New Zealand to act independently of the United Nations through a law change giving this country the ability to "autonomously" impose sanctions on countries where it believes it's warranted, and "outside of the 'held hostage' United Nations sanctions regime".
Considering this – "As for China, Mr Bridges said National would "further" the strong and dynamic relationship, and aim to meet the goal of doubling two-way trade to $60 billion by 2030." How does this fit into the knowledge that we must stop planning on growth of economies and think about slowing climate change to try and calm it, and concentrate on sustainability, and surely build resilience. We can't keep exporting and importing as at present Simple Simon, if we want all to have a pie, man.
<i>Yes, the word Christian should not be used as an insult. Or a synonym for far Right. It is not. </i>
Agree here.
However it is good to have the views of people like Ngaro out in the public square, even though I personally would not vote for such a person or party.
If Ngaro plays his cards right he could well get a lot of votes from Pasifika, obviously, South Africans, Koreans (many of whom are Roman Catholic), Asian migrants, particularly Chinese who take to Christianity with gusto when they arrive here.
A genuine socially conservative voice is missing from NZ politics, and would add value to political discourse in this country. With it, we may have been able to avoid idiocies like Bradford's anti-smacking law.
Sabine 13.1
well surely this country does not need an idiotic anti – smacking law, cause frankly we like to beat / abuse them properly, not just a little smacking, no only proper beatings will do. /s
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12017200
A man who beat his baby son around his face and head then jammed a solid object in his mouth causing significant injuries has been sentenced to 9 months home detention.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/baby-southland-flown-aucklands-starship-hospital-serious-injuries-police-investigating
A five-week-old baby has been hospitalised with serious injuries, which Invercargill police believe are non-accidental.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/106245150/childrens-minister-alarmed-at-numbers-of-proven-child-abuse from 2018
More than 10,000 Kiwi children were recorded as being abused last year – something the Children's Commissioner has labelled New Zealand's "enduring shame".
Figures released under the Official Information Act show that between its creation in April 2017 and March 2018, Oranga Tamariki recorded 13,966 substantive findings of abuse.
Those numbers were made up of 11,519 individual children – with some young people having more than one incident of proven abuse against them.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/68936884/ from 2015
A child is admitted to a New Zealand hospital every second day with injuries arising from either assault, neglect or maltreatment, research says.
Nearly half of them are aged under five.
The figures, which are likely under reported, are contained in a 2012 report prepared for the Ministry of Health by the NZ Child and Youth Epidemiology Service.
but yes, a 'proper' genuine, socially conservative voice is needed to do away with idiocies like Brandford's anti – smacking law.
Stuart Munro. 13.2
"it is good to have the views of people like Ngaro out in the public"
Really? Like most of the Gnats the only thing he really believes in is being elected.
As for the Koreans, they're by no means a pushover for insincere folk playing the religion card. Now, I haven't been following Ngaro closely, but is he actually active in Christian circles, or just a core around which Gnat strategists figure a malleable voter block will crudesce?
weston 13.3
Good grief !! Another so called christian still miffed cause he cant wack his kids anymore .Dunno weather youve ever noticed Mark but homo sapiens is THE most violent animal on the planet an we have been for some time ; do you really think we dont pass on the trait to our children ??Sue bradfords child discipline bill hasnt stopped humans being violent but at least it draws a thin line in the sand which sayes think about it mate the next time you raise your arm !!If you cant see the logic in creating a law like this then maybe you should just drop down onto all four again but then i suppose you dont believe in evolution either ?
Yeah, and has Bradford's law made one iota of difference, reduced the child abuse rates in this country at all?????
well as you said the law is idiotic and obviously the good people that beat their children and wifes to pulp need a good socially conservative party to not do so.
I would have called the bill the 'anti criminal violent assholes (non gendered btw) beating their children to death law ' but then some call me outspoken and foul mouthed..
but if you believe that a group of people who actually believe that women and children are property as defined by the bible will stop bashing their wifes and children when a man who has the same believes create a party that is supposedly socially conservative because the current lot of conservatives is not conservative enough, then i guess your issue is not with the abuse rates and the death rates, but rather with the fact that a women actually tried to do something no matter how small.
woodart 14.1.1
agree sabine. the idea of sue bradford(or any woman) introducing a law that affects the ownership and discipline of chattels is abhorrent to some ….as is the idea that a pregnant women has the right to do with her body as she wishes…..
Well it seems to have stopped instances of parents taking to kids with objects like horse whips, then being able to get away with it in a court of law as somehow they were able to convince that it was an act of "reasonable force", because that is all that law change was, removing the reasonable force clause as it was far too open to interpretation. It was the right thing to do
Chris T 14.2.1
Care to post links to stats of the cases of parents taking to their kids with "horse whips" dropping since the law went through.
What we do know is it hasn't stopped any scum parents beating and killing their kids.
Apart from that it seems to have been a bit virtue signalling and that is about it
Rae 14.2.1.1
Here you go, it was the Otago case that had particularly stuck in my mind. It was and is not virtue signalling, the problem was that the definition of what was "reasonable force" was far, far too open to interpretation and it was only that which was removed from the law. Again, it was the right thing to do.
Sorry for length of time to respond, been PC-less for a few days.
swordfish 15
His target constituency:
2014 NZES
Question: "Abortion is always wrong ?"
% Agreement
(The two groups of voters way out in front)
Conservative Party voters 49%
Maori Party voters 37%
The NZES regression model suggested Regular (Weekly) Church Attendance was by far the most important factor associated with staunch opposition to Abortion.
Authoritarian attitudes along with Pasifika, Maori & Asian ethnicity were also correlated, albeit to a lesser degree.
swordfish 15.1
Of course, given that 2014 Con voters almost certainly swung heavily to the Nats in 2017 … Alf's core targets will presumably lie elsewhere:
The 37% of Maori Party voters implacably opposed to Abortion
The 25% of NZF voters implacably opposed to Abortion
The 22% of Labour voters implacably opposed to Abortion
Otherwise, of course, he's not growing that Right Bloc vote.
As Sacha & Ad have implied, making inroads into that morally conservative Pasifika (& to a somewhat lesser extent, Maori) Labour vote would be living the dream for Alf & Simon.
Hasn't been successful in the past, mind (well, apart from Taito Phillip Field's brief rebellion in Mangere)
swordfish 15.1.1
… which caused a fairly mild desertion among South Auckland Pasifika Labour voters.
(& pretty much zero desertion in Porirua)
The Nats would welcome any ally who takes votes from Winston.
swordfish 15.1.2.1
Yep … of course knocking them out of Parliament is the other key factor.
Since Labour has done so little to to improve Auckland Pasifika incomes, they could well be in play.
Labour should talk to Alf fast.
well the minimum wage is currently 17.70$ so i don't quite see what you are on about.
How much do you think the GST increase under national diminished the min wage at the time? Oh that is different?
yeah, right Tui.
Sacha 16.2
Conservative Pasifika voters have been a constituency for several election cycles now. Be interesting to see if Ngaro can win their trust.
Dukeofurl 16.2.1
Conservative Pasifika voters dont seem to exist as a constituency
For Mangere 2017 results
The Labour Candidate got 18810 votes
The Labour Party got 19931 votes.
Oh the Conservative Party got 73, back in 2014 when its was Colin Craig leading Conservative party it was 839, even less than Greens (1084) who dont usually do all that well in seats with these demographics.
The reality seems that Pasifika voters prefer labour and not some mythical Christian/Conservative group , especially if its sort of hobby for rich european 'evangelicals'
Sacha 16.2.1.1
Nobody said it was a big group, just enough to support a minor party.
Psycho Milt 16.3
What do you picture them saying to someone who thinks abortion is just like the Holocaust? Other than "What the fuck is wrong with you, man?" I mean.
Formerly Ross 16.3.1
Holocaust has a generic meaning: "Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war."
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/holocaust
Ngaro is a numpty but you don't need to invent a reason to dislike him.
SHG 17
Labour NZ can't make Labor AU's biggest mistake – running the campaign from Victoria, with Victorian election tactics, when the electorates that would swing the election were in Queensland and NSW and Tasmania.
stuff the politicians 18
National can throw whatever they like at the Col.
However they will not get within a bulls roar of the Col come next election because of Jacinda. There is no one currently in parliament in any party that can match her, not one person.
As for a religious based party, it will be like peeing into a Canterbury nor wester.
Puckish Rogue 18.1
"There is no one currently in parliament in any party that can match her, not one person."
Hold my beer:
https://www.facebook.com/judithcollinsmp/photos/a.561528207258270/561528227258268/?type=3&theater
Sabine 18.1.1
bwahahahahahahahahahah
oh bless
stuff the politicians 18.1.2
Nice photo, but thirty years ago, really ??
Come on, we all had our youth in our time.
Any way, I wasn't talking about looks, I was talking about being a very capable leader and ability on the world stage.
Puckish Rogue 18.1.2.1
I don't blame you for focusing on her looks but its not Judes fault she was born with pleasingly symmetrical features
Sabine 18.1.2.1.1
oh now you are just searching for it
Mark 18.1.2.1.1.1
wow oh wow oh fucken wow!!!! I think I'm in luv!
Mark …
I've figured that the main reason why older woman lose their looks compared to their youth is the weight they put on, and the puffed up face
If they did some intermittent fasting, or some low carb, their faces would hollow out a bit and they would resemble their youthful selves a lot more but with a bit more maturity and class.
It could just be a kiwi woman problem though. When I was in Europe, at first any darked haired woman I viewed from behind I almost was fooled into thinking they were asian ……until I got wind of the fact that slim white woman are a common item, in Europe that is. There is something about the depressive attitude of kiwi woman which leads them to calorie overload, and a miserable snarky attitude….what a waste of potential!
Drowsy M. Kram …
"Youth is wasted on the young."
The real tragedy of Collins is the tragedy of her wasted youth, her stunted mind, her drudging over her clods and pigs until she has become a clod and a pig herself—until the soul within her has smouldered into nothing but a dull temper that hurts herself and all around her.
Psycho Milt …
If they did some intermittent fasting, or some low carb, their faces would hollow out a bit…
That's a recent fad. Look at any Hollywood actress appearing a costume drama set in earlier centuries and compare them to paintings of actual women of the time – the locals back then would have pitied the modern actresses as obviously suffering from some debilitating illness and presumably not having long to live.
Psycho Milt 18.1.2.2
Very flattering! Try forty.
EDIT: D'oh! The date's in the post: it was 42 years ago.
Sabine 19
sadly we don't have someone like him start a new party.
WeTheBleeple 19.1
"There is a brand of religious conservatism that will praise the wolves while they devour the poor"
There 's also a tendency of the poor to turn to spiritual solutions when problems become overwhelming. This is played upon by the conservative (rich so called) christians – 'gay marriage causes earthquakes' and other such wisdom for the masses.
Climate change has many christians convinced it's end times therefore Jesus is about to turn up and save them. This makes them ineffective and even detrimental to efforts to fix our issues. Malleable and molded to fit conservative agendas. Suppressing themselves with the false narratives of the truly wicked – Convenience Christians, those hypocritical pious pampered pricks.
And when you can't afford the doctor, praying is the next affordable medicine as it costs you nothing.
Jackel 20
Are the Tories taking an American line here? Waiting for the rapture while voting for the guy with the best hair cut and a face that looks most like you know what.
I look forward to these Christian Conservatives stating that they want to see welfare reforms that support mothers or fathers who don't abort. Safe bet that doesn't happen.


According to Resistance Report, high rent prices have made it difficult for low-income workers to be able to afford the most basic of living arrangements.
The Resistance Report article states that for Iowa, a minimum wage earner must work 60 hours a week in order to afford a one-bedroom apartment. Yikes! Basically, that's like having to work over an eight hour day all week through the weekend. Not fun. The report also shows that an Iowan would have to make at least $14.03 an hour to be able to afford a two-bedroom apartment!
Iowa's minimum wage has recently been debated. It went up in some Iowa counties such as Linn and Johnson. But, the state of Iowa ruled that counties can not set their own minimum wage standards thus bringing the state-wide minimum wage back to $7.25 an hour.
The National Low-Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), according to the Resistance Report article, states that a "worker earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour needed to work an average of 90 hours per week to afford a one-bedroom apartment in 2016. The number of hours needed to afford a two-bedroom apartment jumps to 112 hours of minimum wage work."
You can find more information and compare Iowa to the other U.S. state's hourly wages needed to afford an apartment, HERE.


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Giuseppe Cirò, né le  à Rossano est un pilote automobile italien. Il compte notamment deux participations aux 24 Heures de Spa.

Biographie

En 2005, il participe à la totalité des courses du championnat du monde des voitures de tourisme.

En 2007, il oriente sa carrière vers l'endurance où il pilote les Ferrari de l'écurie Advanced Engineering en Italian GT. Il remporte la deuxième course de la manche qui a lieu à Vellelunga.

En 2012, il participe à quelques manches des Blancpain Endurance Series dont les 24 Heures de Spa pour la première fois de sa carrière, il y participe à nouveau l'année suivante. En parallèle, il pilote une Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 exploitée par AF Corse, en championnat d'Europe FIA GT3. Il y effectue un bon début de saison, avec un podium à Nogaro et deux victoires à Zolder. La même année, avec la même écurie et la même voiture, il remporte les 6 Heures de Misano, troisième manche de l'Endurance Champions Cup.

Résultats

Résultats en championnat du monde des voitures de tourisme

Notes et références

Lien externe
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Pilote automobile italien
Naissance en novembre 1975
Naissance à Rossano

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The new New York Mets manager, Carlos Beltran, center, poses for a picture with general manager Brodie Van Wagenen, left, and Mets COO Jeff Wilpon during a baseball news conference at Citi Field, Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, in New York. Beltran, two years removed from his playing career and with no managerial experience, has been picked by the Mets to replace Mickey Callaway. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
NEW YORK (AP) — Carlos Beltrán was back in familiar blue pinstripes Monday, buttoning up a New York Mets uniform while standing next to his new boss, Brodie Van Wagenen.
The first-time manager is taking over following a tenuous season at Citi Field, and his plan to calm the clubhouse works from the top down. That means Van Wagenen isn't just getting a new employee.
"When you're a manager, literally, your GM has to be your best friend," he said.
Beltrán was introduced as Mets manager by Van Wagenen and Mets Chief Operating Officer Jeff Wilpon during a news conference in Queens. Beltrán, who spent seven of his 20 seasons as a player with the Mets, identified inconsistency as the culprit for New York's rocky and disappointing 86-win season.
His solution: More cool-headed communication.
That's been an issue in Flushing. Recently fired manager Mickey Callaway was fined by the Mets for cursing out at a beat reporter in June, and the next day, it took him two news conferences to issue an apology. Star pitcher Noah Syndergaard was irked when private conversations with the front office about his battery preferences became public in September.
And of course, there's the time Van Wagenen threw a chair in frustration during a meeting with the coaching staff prior to the All-Star break.
Van Wagenen thinks this hand-picked manager — he inherited Callaway when he moved from player agent to GM last fall — can clean up behavior behind the scenes.
"It was important for all of us in the ownership group and the baseball operations department to feel like we could exhale when we walked into the manager's office," Van Wagenen said. "We didn't want to inhale in anticipation of conversations.
"Instead, we wanted to feel comfortable, we wanted to feel welcome and we wanted to feel in partnership with the manager. We can trust Carlos, and that goes a long way."
Van Wagenen and Beltrán spoke on the phone for 30 minutes before the interview process even began. A nine-time All-Star during 20 seasons as a player, Beltrán was recommended highly by Mets assistant GM Allan Baird and special assistant Omar Minaya based on prior relationships.
Even though he's never managed, the 42-year-old from Puerto Rico made the Mets confident he was ready for the role over the course of five more interviews.
"My time one-on-one with Carlos was really the key in terms of my comfortability," Van Wagenen said.
Beltrán retired as a player after helping Houston win the 2017 World Series and took a job before the 2019 season as special adviser with the New York Yankees. He worked closely with longtime general manager Brian Cashman, sitting in on crucial front office meetings and routinely operating as a bridge between number crunchers and the clubhouse.
"I went to the Yankees' organization willing to learn," he said.
He plans to be player-friendly — "I'm not a rules person" — and also wants to work closely with the analytics department. Based on his experience with the Yankees, he's seeking every edge available, even if it involves a little gory math.
"I like to call it information," he said. "It's going to be a collaboration."
Beltrán has spoken to other former players-turned-first-time managers, including Boston's Alex Cora and the Yankees' Aaron Boone. They told him to "be authentic" and boosted his confidence about his readiness.
Even with that, Beltrán is seeking a veteran coaching staff to cover for his inexperience at that end of the bench. He's working with the front office to select coaches now. The team is uncertain when that process will be completed.
"I do need experience, and there's no doubt about that," Beltrán said. "We are reaching out. We're going to reach out to coaches that have experience, but most importantly, I don't want to bring names, I want to bring guys that are passionate."
Beltrán and Van Wagenen declined to say whether former manager Terry Collins was a candidate to be bench coach, but Beltrán said he's already spoken to Collins and will use him as a mentor whether he's on staff or not. Beltrán played half a season under Collins in New York and said he'd draw from the 70-year-old's energy as inspiration. Collins is currently a special adviser to Van Wagenen.
New York made a $17.8 million qualifying offer to starting pitcher Zack Wheeler. If Wheeler signs with another team, New York would receive a compensatory pick in next June's amateur draft. Van Wagenen said the Mets will try to re-sign the right-hander even if he declines the qualifying offer.
Righties Seth Lugo and Robert Gsellman are working this offseason to pitch in the rotation next year, Van Wagenen said. The club hopes to add pitching, but whether that's in the rotation or the bullpen may depend on whether Wheeler returns and where Lugo and Gsellman ultimately fit.
Van Wagenen also said improved defense is a priority. New York ranked 29th out of 30 teams with minus-93 defensive runs saved.
"We're going to be creative with the roster," he said.
YO, WHAT'S UP?
Van Wagenen said he's uncertain whether injured outfielder Yoenis Céspedes will play in 2020. Cespedes broke his ankle in May while recovering from surgery on both heels and has been out most of the past two seasons. The 34-year-old is entering the final season of a $110 million, four-year contract.
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