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Today In Shitty Sportswriting
Aug 10th, 2011 by Ice Cream Jonsey
From this awful piece of nonsense.
Several Jays had extreme splits in 2010. Bautista, for example, had a 1.118 OPS (on-base plus slugging) with 33 homers at home but an .879 OPS and 21 dingers on the road. First baseman Adam Lind had a .759 OPS with 15 homers in Toronto but a .660 OPS with eight bombs on the road. Second baseman Aaron Hill? His home-road OPS split was .730-.605.
Lookout, guys! Amy K. Nelson just discovered home/road splits and is ON THE CASE! Ha ha ha!
I took a look at Derek Jeter's home/road splits in 2010. His OPS at home was .790. His OPS on the road was .633. Since this is a greater split than Lind or Hill, I can only conclude that in the few tenths of a second Jeter has to make a decision on whether or not to hit a ball, he is able to identify hand signals of a man sitting 260 feet away at New Yankee Stadium. Possessing the gritty heart of a champion, this is even more impressive when done in New York, because 90% of all Yankee fans are "clogging the signal" by giving each other the middle finger.
Astonishingly, Jacoby Ellsbury's home/road splits in 2010 were .304/.556 in favor of playing on the road. Now, I should mention that Ellsbury only played 18 games last year, but making wildly retarded conclusions based on complete fucking nonsense that is obvious noise to anyone with a fourth-grader's knowledge of baseball would seem to be "in bounds" for what Ms. Nelson came up with here.
I fucking love how a profession — baseball writer / sports reporter — that literally could not have cared less when steroids were making a mockery of the game is now suddenly sounding the alarm, throwing elbows and putting the gumdrop on the police cruiser because Black Dad looked at the miserable lineup he was left with last year and told everyone to swing for the fences. You don't get a Sports Pulitzer for figuring out why Jose Bautista became the best player in baseball "suddenly," assholes.
They've been playing baseball for over a hundred years. This clenched-lip determination to ensure that Jose Bautista doesn't make a fool of everyone covering the sport is adorable. But it is almost inevitable that a guy who was unheralded was going to hit like Babe Ruth Lite suddenly. I'm willing to explain what happened, however, and it goes to the first rule of reporting: nobody covering an event or story is going to know what happened better than a fan of the team.
Jose Bautista could always crush left-handed pitching. He's not really doing anything new there.
Jose Bautista entered a few organizations that have no idea what they were doing (Pittsburgh, Baltimore) and who had no idea what they were doing in 2004 (Kansas City, Tampa Bay).
Jose Bautista was acquired by a team (Toronto) that found itself finally admitting, after 18 years, to start a youth movement and see what they had in a few vets. A lot of people gave Cito Gaston shit for the way he managed when he came back to the Blue Jays, but the guy is one of the few managers in the history of the game to win back-to-back championships. If you ignore things like lineup construction and logic when giving guys "days off" he's pretty good at what he does, and it was a travesty that he never ended up getting a managerial job with another team. Because of the laughable salary commitments the current state of the game afford a couple franchises in the American League East, Toronto was absolutely primed to unearth nuggets of talent passed over by other teams. Randy Ruiz, in a small sample size, had similar numbers to Bautista in 2009, but elected to play in Japan when he was getting jerked around by the Jays. The same people that saw that Bautista's play was sustainable did not think Ruiz's was, and that was proven to be correct.
No I'm just kidding, there's a man wearing white who can freeze time and give all the Jays batters hand signals regarding what pitch is coming. This is why Aaron Hill went from belting 35 home runs in a season to belting 35 pop-ups in a week last year.
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My Reaction to the Roy Halladay Trade
Jan 3rd, 2010 by Ice Cream Jonsey
It's been a few weeks and I am sane again. I've noticed that Phillies fans seem mostly unable to come to grips with their good fortune. So allow me to address you… directly.
Roy might very well put together a sub-1.00 ERA for the first half of the season in your garbage league.
You guys share a division with the Nats. (Christ, if only one of J.P.'s teams could have gone to the NL for a single fucking year.) He might very well no-hit the Nationals… twice. Actually, Roy could no-hit the Nats twice in a home series on zero days rest and I would only be marginally surprised. How do any of you lose to them in the first place? Do you only get to dress seven guys? Six guys and a dog?
'WAAARGH he might get hurt!' Halladay missed part of a season because Kevin Mench hit him in the leg. Since it was so unlikely that Mench would make contact in the first place, Mench actually striking Roy was logical, because 1 x infinity = infinity. Roy also had his appendix taken out, because – as the one part of his person not contributing towards a Cooperstown plaque – it did the honorable thing and left.
He also missed time last year due to a sore groin, which he acquired skullfucking the entire AL East by himself. You may remember the AL East from the time you got a cheap WS by playing a team in the snow that we've all literally beaten 190 times in 10 years, and then time they sent you home because you were too stupid to acquire Roy at the deadline last year.
You're getting the best pitcher in baseball for some of your prospects that you'd all just boo to tears anyway. (You're on your own with the Cliff Lee thing, though since Rosenthal wrote his column in such a bitchtits way, without admitting he had a source, it basically looks like your GM was inspired by his terrible column and did what he said, which, hahaha, well good luck!)
Anyway, thanks again for the prospects, and we'll see you all again in six years when our terrible ownership suddenly can't find the money to extend any of them, because they're among the worst North Americans in human history.
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The Best Pitcher On The Planet
Sep 5th, 2009 by Ice Cream Jonsey
After being on the Nipponese end of Roy Halladay destroying, laying nuclear waste to their pathetic teams for fucking years, anonymous douchebag fans from the American League East hopped onto a few of the Blue Jay sites I frequent to jump on Roy for the first bad month he's had since coming up to the big leagues for good.
I wasn't even aware he was having a "bad" month in August, because for the first half of it he was still superior to anyone the Sox, Yanks and Rays were throwing out there. It wasn't lost on the mewling bitches of those teams, though, no doubt stalking Roy's Baseball Reference splits page, hoping – praying! for something like this, since he's the best player in the division, and will be till the day he leaves it or retires.
(I'm going to throw in the possibility that some of the anonymous comments were also made by Phillies fans. Normally, if a fanbase is heavily involved in trade talks and the trade falls through, people move on. Philadelphia sports fans will hold a grudge for the rest of their natural life, so engaging in a little trolling the month directly following the trade deadline is within (their) reason.)
On Friday night, Roy Halladay took the mound against a lineup with, what, a single guy that the Yanks actually drafted? Didn't matter. Halladay no doubt also took a long look at the assembly of pukes and clownshits that Rogers Communications gave him and just went to fucking work.
With Roy on the hill, this team can trot out – actually, there is no way to exaggerate who Rogers Communications could or couldn't play. Nobody I can plausibly submit would be worse than Kevin Millar hitting fourth, Vernon Wells hitting fifth and Joe Inglett, John McDonald and Rod Barajas hitting wherever the fuck they were hitting. This miserable, contemptible organization gave the best player in franchise history some of the worst players in baseball… and it didn't matter. It didn't fucking matter.
This will be the one game I remember from this season. Hopefully, in the yeasr to come, it will be the only game I remember. I have no doubt that the human garbage that own this team will get rid of Roy, the only player worth watching in the last ten years. They'll fuck it up, and fuck it up at a level where letting 3 of your first 5 picks go unsigned (as they just did in the draft) seems calculated and shrewd. At this point, the pieces of shit running this team – Nadir Mohamed and Paul Beeston, mostly – are nothing short of super-villains, as far as I'm concerned, for the carefully plotted and executed plan to fuck this team over for the next ten years. It wouldn't surprise me if they were rolling their eyes over the course of Halladay's dominating performance, since the quicker he disposed of those Yankee fucks, the less time people had to purchase whatever overpriced shit they were hawking at the ballpark.
All this going on, and the worst part of this season is that it has forever tainted my impression of Cito Gaston. He doesn't pinch hit. He can't manage a bullpen. He is completely beholden to righty/lefty matchups and (this is the worst part) too fucking stupid to pull platoon partners later in the game when the opposing team has gone to their bullpen. Don't get me wrong – he's still middle of the pack in terms of common sense when it comes to the small pool of Professional Baseball Managers, but Cito had the distinction of being the only guy to ever win anything with any of the teams I follow, and now I look at him and see him leave Kevin Millar in the game when a right-handed pitcher enters the game, with Lyle Overbay (.380 OBP) sitting on the bench with his thumb jammed up his ass and just steam. I know the right move, and he doesn't. It's infuriating.
But for one night it didn't matter. For one night the Jays beat the shit out of the collection of mercenaries that got it al right this year, and should sweep a World Series victory. A one-hit, complete game shutout against the best team money can buy. That's Roy fucking Halladay.
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Odd, My Worthless Offer of Complete Garbage Didn't Net My Team Roy Halladay!!!?
Jul 31st, 2009 by Ice Cream Jonsey
Well, well, FUCKING well.
Trade deadline's over.
And these are difficult economic times.
Am I doing this right? For the most part, you shitlicking, know-nothing sports writers love the sentence per paragraph structure in your written swill, and I wanted the beginning of this article to be Easy Readin', in case any of you gash-brained mongrels trackback here.
I'm going to go on record and say that the ownership of the Toronto Blue Jays is made up of a bunch of grotesquely unqualified men that I would love nothing more than to fistfight. You've got chief executive Nadir Mohamed patting the air to his shareholders, stating that Rogers Communications is obviously committed to the Blue Jays. (You're not obviously commited NOW, which is why our minimum-salaried designated hitters have an OPS+ of like 70 on the season, you lying sack of shit.) All they had to do to prevent the best baseball player in Blue Jays history – Roy Halladay – from entering free agency is do two things:
1) Pay the man what he's worth
2) Fill the holes this team has with a couple veterans that can hit
That's it. It seems a little more difficult than it is, because the 2009 version of the Jays simply needed a guy who could play DH. That's it. If Adam Dunn were the DH for the Jays, we'd all still be talking playoffs. Or – at the very least – Roy would have to admit that the players fucked it up if they weren't contending. But ownership couldn't do that.
So, this leads us to the last month of trade talks.
It all began due to speculation from Ken Rosenthal. Get a load of this video – it's got nothing to do with Roy, but writer ("blogger," hisses ESPN) Jerod Morris – who attempted to discern why another hitter was having a career year at 37 – is condescendingly skewered by Ken Rosenthal, because – in Rosenthal's idiotic and uninformed opinion, Morris was speculating.
Which is what Rosenthal did to start all this shit. He speculated that the Jays would have to move Halladay. So this hypocritical goblin kicked things off on July 7th.
And Jesus Christ – I've long maintained that virtually any educated sports fan could instantly become the greatest sportswriter of all time, but look at some of this nonsense to come out when Halladay didn't end up moving:
Jeff Passan, Yahoo Sports. He can't beee-LIEEEEEEEEVE that general manager J.P. Ricciardi didn't exchange shit for Roy. One of the terrible offers today was from the Anaheim Angels. The offer was Joe Saunders, Brandon Wood and Erick Aybar for Roy. Saunders is a terrible pitcher who would get killed in the AL East, literally killed, Aybar is a little interesting, I guess, and Brandon Wood was the topic of a piece Passan wrote two FUCKING DAYS AGO of a "faded trading chip." Two fuckin' days ago! Now the Jays are supposed to pull the trigger on the kind of deal that includes a third baseman who can't hit big league pitching, a shortstop that is intriguing but nothing particularly special, and a shitty left-handed pitcher, whose resume is easily eclipsed by several younger pitchers the Jays already have.
As for Bill Simmons, he wrote the following through Twitter: "Toronto overplayed its Halladay hand like the obstinate 8th place a-hole in anyone's fantasy league that we all hate." I mean, you either love him or despise him, but if Simmons sickens you, it's because of that shit right there. He can't believe Halladay isn't pitching for the Sox, his (obvious) rightful team. I guess in Simmons's fantasy leagues, two douchebag fucks get to bid 200% more on players and then cry like babies, like actual newborn, placenta-stenched babies, at how the other guys aren't giving away their good players.
(In 2002 I was in a fantasy league with a bunch of guys who know more about baseball than I ever will. Some of them write for Baseball Prospectus, some of them are heavily involved in Diamond Mind dynasties, needless to say it got UGLY early for both myself and my good friend, and fellow JC BBS poster, Roody Yogurt. Roody had Curt Schilling and nobody else. He had the worst team and it wasn't even close. And he didn't deal Schilling. What was some other team going to do, give him players to get him into that all-elusive 11th place? I've never told Roody this, but I respect him as a man that year. Simmons is the kind of guy who won't stop making annoying fucking phone calls while the last-place guy is at work to try to pry the one decent player he's got, resulting in the commish of the league having to get involved and veto shit. 140 characters to reveal yourself as a petulant slimebag.)
Oh yeah, the Phillies were also offering some amazing players. Kyle Drabek had better win a couple Cy Young awards before he's finished. Roy's getting his second this season, and Drabek was apparently not somebody the Phils were gonna move unless it was straight-up, or something.
Ditto the Red Sox and Clay Buchholz. I know how terrible talk radio is in this country, so it doesn't surprise me to see a bunch of stupid shit like, "I wouldn't trade Clay Buchholz for Albert Pujols," but this is what the landscape was like in 2009.
Anyway. A wise man once said, "fuck all y'all." The best pitcher in baseball is still in a Jays uniform, and the Jays are instantly the best team in baseball once every five starts when he's out there. Ohhhh it evens out a bit when he's not on the hill, but c'mon – the Jays play in the most competitive division in sports, they don't go over slot for draft picks, their money is actually, not-exaggerating here, worth less than the other other 29 teams and because they're in a foreign country with less exposure, when they DO get a great, HoF-caliber player, he's worth less in trade due to the lack of anyone in the US seeing the guy play. The odds of this team ever making the playoffs again are about zero, and I'd rather it be zero with Halladay pitching for as long as possible.
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The Excruciating Ways to Catch Baseball
Apr 11th, 2009 by Ice Cream Jonsey
Somebody might tell you that MLB has their act together when it comes to understanding the opportunities that the Internet offers the average fan to catch their favorite team. THIS IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT. You might even hear them say that Bud Selig should be congratulated for these advancements, as if fucking Selig has ever been on the Internet in his entire life. There isn't a single commissioner in sports doing a good job right now, but that's another story.
Here's a breakdown on the sheer incompetence of getting your game. (Please note that I am writing this with the perspective of a guy living in a different market than his team – I live in Colorado and only care about the Blue Jays. If you are within like 200 fucking miles of a stadium, you get to enter the world of PROXIES and various other stupid horseshit.)
DIRECTV MLB EXTRA INNINGS
So, it's Saturday and there's nothing I'd rather do than climb out of bed, shake about ten pounds of cat hair off me, and catch Roy Halladay vs Cliff Lee, in what should be demonstrative proof that Lee winning the Cy Young Award last year was fucking horseshit.�
Directv is offering a "preview" of MLB Extra Innings. It's $160 for the entire year, and honestly, with how much the equivalent is for the NFL, that sounds like a great deal. (I will go ahead and assume that Directv's NFL Ticket will break $240 in September.)�
The problem is that they don't broadcast all the games! Are you fucking kidding me? And more – how is this game not on? This is fucking inexcusable. I know that Lee is turning back into a shitbag, but for fuck's sake.�
More, it already takes effort to keep track of the regular game times for the Jays. I work until 7 or 8 PM, and their home games start at 5:07PM MDT. I'm not physically around to use the Directv solution, but let's say I get out early (or the Jays are on the west coast) – I have to seriously consult Directv's schedule as well? Fuck that. Seriously, fuck that. Again, I understand if they can't broadcast Rockies games, but otherwise they need to seriously fuck off.�
This is $14.95 a month. And maybe it's okay this year, but I've had it for the 2008 and 2007 seasons, and it's just shit. Something about it isn't compatible with our anti-virus software at work, which is fucking amazing, in so much that all anti-virus software has bloated themselves into some kind of security suite, and that whoever put MLB.tv together can't just give you a link to a a video or audio stream. And Christ, the thing is always locking up. This is a miserable ripoff – again, maybe it gets better in like mid-July, when interest has cooled off and there are less people catching the games, but I had games locking up on me at that point as well last year. (If your experiences with it are better this year, that is awesome, and do feel free to describe what it's like in the comments. I'm honestly curious.)
iPHONE GAMEDAY APP
This is okay, I guess – it's $10 for the entire year. Audio only, except – except! They will put small videos of clutch hits and such for you to watch, if you really want to. I'm fine with audio-only, as long as I can choose my own announcers, which I can with this.
The app lets you click on the box score, and see who is fielding where – it's got lots of easy-to-implement stuff that reminds me of how the Diamond Mind baseball game is set up.
I did buy this, and I think it's good, overall. The really maddening part is how they deal with commercials. The audio feed goes silent, but not immediately! I honestly think some asshole is sitting there with his finger on the "mute" button at the source, and he simply forgets to hit the button right away. (The most annoying commercial in the world right now is the one for Super-8 on Toronto's the FAN station.) I'm fairly certain that the same guy forgets to consistently put the sound back on right away .
ACTUALLY GOING TO THE GAMES
Well, yes, this would be best.
So, I don't know. There really is no perfect solution for catching the games live. Directv is too demanding, MLB.tv is an enormous pain in the ass, and the iPhone app can't get me consistent audio. The whole thing is fucked.
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Bring Back J. P. Ricciardi
Sep 17th, 2008 by Ice Cream Jonsey
J. P. Ricciardi has been the general manager of the Toronto Blue Jays since November 14th, 2001. The Blue Jays have not made the playoffs since he was hired. It is my understanding that 2009 will be the last year of his current deal with the team. And I don't know, but to me it seems like he's currently doing a fine job?
If you take the stretch of time as a whole, sure – he's failed to put together a team that has made the playoffs. But honestly, just looking at 2008:
Adam Lind looks great. Ricciardi drafted him. In fact, let's look at a list of guys that were drafted under Ricciardi:
Travis Snider looks absolutely amazing.
Shaun Marcum looks great. He's got a chance to lead the AL in ERA.
Jesse Litsch looks great. He was sent to Syracuse to work some stuff out, and has been nails since returning.
Honestly, lately, David Purcey looks pretty good, too.
Brett Cecil — okay, I just went to Baseball Reference and I don't know what the fuck happened recently in Syracuse, but whatever, he was a great pick and will be contributing in the next year or two.
… I believe that his drafting record was skewered by taking Russ Adams (who has not contributed at the major league level), coupled with drafting Rickey Romero (a pitcher) over Troy Tulowitzki. But he's otherwise got some nice players coming through the system. The young pitching has been fantastic.
Taking a look at some other moves:
The contract that A.J. Burnett signed is/was so strongly in the club's favor that he'll be opting out. (The concept of "tampering" is kind of weak, and I'm not saying that anything should come of it, but it was some pretty fucking serious tampering by noted eyesore Hank Steinbrenner to A.J. recently. Whatever, they have every other advantage in the game, might as well let them openly campaign for our players, too.)
Joe Inglett and Jesse Carlson were AMAZING pick ups.
I guess we can't give him credit for hiring Cito Gaston? There is a lot of speculation that Ricciardi never would have hired a manager with as much power and influence and so forth. On the other hand, he didn't stop it from happening. In 30 years, people are going to be amazed that no other team gave Cito Gaston a shot. I honestly don't even think that racism has anything to do with it. I just think all the other general managers in the game are fucking morons.
David Cooper seems like a fine first round selection.
Where did J.P. fuck up? Keeping Shannon Stewart over Reed Johnson was a complete and total mistake – forget about Reed's production, Stewart simply couldn't stay healthy. Plus, he made it difficult for me to discuss baseball with some of my friends, as that name meant "Playboy Model" to them. Sure, nobody could have predicted that Johnson would be healthy for an entire season, but he did and he was under contract. Not the biggest failing, and I hope Reed gets a ring with the Cubs, but still.
J.P. paid the A's to play Frank Thomas this year, which is a little awkward. (Then again, he did get Frank Thomas's salary off the books for 2009, which absolutely had to happen.)
Whoever decided to bat Marco Scutaro second for the entire year fucked up, but that seems to be something that former manager John Gibbons, J.P. and Cito Gaston were all delighted to do. I'm sure they all get the fucking shakes if Scutaro gets stuck in traffic before the game and there is even the slightest chance they can't trot him out there as often as possible.
… Honestly, someone tell me why Ricciardi shouldn't at least finish his contract. He's doing better at his job than I am. This team isn't going to the playoffs because it couldn't hit with runners in scoring position for over a month. But THIS IS THE TEAM THE INTERNET, as a whole WANTED. RBIs are meaningless! (I'm speaking as The Internet right now.) Work as deep into those counts as possible! Walks are king! Don't bunt, steal, sacrifice! I had to laugh (OK, I'm back), watching this team before John Gibbons was fired, because it really was the team that sabermetrics had argued for. Er, if sabermetrics were sentient. It takes a special, unique, shittily-hitting team of legendary design to not make the playoffs with arguably the best defense and pitching in the league.
I'm not going to fault Ricciardi for getting passed by the Tampa Bay Rays, either. Quite simply, there was no plan in Tampa. There remains no plan in Tampa. Maybe that's a huge burn on having a development "plan," and if so, so be it. Tampa was going to draft first overall until things turned around. They weren't focusing on a philosophy, or any kind of strategy, or any sort of "five year plan." There was no accountability to a fan base, as they did not have a fan base. I am reminded of a discussion on the Interactive Fiction mud a few years back – someone said that Alex Rodriguez was making more than the entire roster of the Devil Rays, and Neil deMause said, "Alex Rodriguez is more valuable than the entire roster of the Devil Rays." And he was right! It wasn't even close, haha.
(The Rays were simply going to be as laughable as possible until they randomly managed to draft well. And in 2008, it all came together. Joe Maddon is a fine manager, but hey, so is Lou Pinella – he was just involved too early. The trade that was made, years ago, to get Scott Kazmir on the team is a once-per-generation sort of ass-raping, but the Rays would have been perfectly content to keep being the worst franchise in sports, indefinitely. So I really can't fault other GMs (or Toronto's GM) for not following the same model.)
So yeah, all things considered, I'm happy to at least let Ricciardi give it another shot, and we'll see where it goes from there. Someone on the Batter's Box had mentioned, months ago, that all that is really separating him from being an elite GM is that he has not "ripped off" other general managers, and that can probably be chalked up to luck. I mean, J.P. Ricciardi: must improve: luck? That's idiotic. If I were told that at my job, I would instantly start defecating in the parking lot, as it was clear that I now work in an accountability-free asylum. But that's how close J.P. is to having this team ready for the playoffs. He honestly just needs a little more luck.
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Diamond Mind Baseball Fun
Jul 10th, 2008 by Ice Cream Jonsey
I play in a Diamond Mind baseball league with seven other fellas. Around the house, it has gained no small amount of notoriety as "text baseball." The links on how I have faired (second worst for two straight years) are over to the left.
There were three young pitchers for the Blue Jays that I wanted to have on my team, because I am a HOMER. When we draft, you always know how they did in the next two seasons. So last year, I drafted Shaun Marcum, Dustin McGowan and Casey Janssen.
They all had terrible 2006 seasons! They were truly terrible. I don't remember the exact number runs they gave up (in order to keep them, season after season, we have to play them at least 33% of batters they faced in real life) but it was on the order of a million. That gave my team a Pythagorean record of 4-442.
Kidding! The three of them let up 62 runs in 69 innings. But through it all, I knew how the trio fared in 2007 (which we're going to play after the World Series). Janssen was dominant as a setup guy, and likely moving to the rotation, where he would get a monster amount of innings. Marcum and McGowan were both above average. Couple these guys with Kazmir, Felix Hernandez, Josh Beckett and Gil Meche and I thought I had an outstanding staff.
Meche came back to earth to start the season, but that was fine. Casey Janssen tore his rotator cuff, so he was out for 2008. Marcum was pitching amazingly well, with like a 2.85 ERA when he went on the DL. And Dustin McGowan just tore his rotator cuff as well.
Good thing I gave them all those innings I GUESS.
Did I learn a lesson? Sure – develop one pitcher if you like, over the course of a season, but otherwise it's just not worth it. We play six games a week for about 14 weeks and it takes about 50 minutes to play a game. That's a lot of time to invest in "next year." Well, not so much the time, as the time of the games plus the time picking the keys off the floor and putting them back into a punched-up keyboard.
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Well, Well, Well, Nice Game, Jays, You Miserable Sacks of Shit
I'm going to paste a picture of the greatest player to ever wear a Blue Jays uniform. He is in his athletic prime right now, so no, the stats don't currently bear that out, but he will be, by the time his career is finished.
His name is Roy Halladay, and the performance the rest of his team put forth tonight makes me feel like a complete fucking idiot for following sports in the first place. This wasn't some loss in April we'll all look back on and chuckle about at the end of the month, when the Jays are battlin' for that 83rd win. This was complete HORSE SHIT, but it's not about the non-hitting wastes of space that made up the lineup tonight, it's about me. (And Roy.)
In today's troubling times, a baseball starting pitcher simply does not finish his games. He is pulled after around a hundred pitches and they go to the bullpen. That makes Roy Halladay an aberration. He decided one day to try to induce ground outs (instead of going for strikeouts) and lah, ahhhh, dee, daaah, he became better at it than anyone else in the world. I couldn't give myself a year and dedicate myself to Bomberman for a dead console system where there are no other players and be world class at it. So the respect I have for Roy is unparalleled.
It is also more than the rest of the Jays have for him. Look at this fucking shit – two hits against a lefty in Jon Lester? This team is designed to murder lefties. That's why they play in a different country, to escape the warrants. But not tonight! Ho, ho, ho, not tonight!
Alex Rios, 0-4. David Eckstein, 0-3. Matt Stairs, 0-1. Scott Rolen, 1-4. (He's playing his ass off so far, so none of what I am saying applies to him.) Vernon Wells, 0-3 with a walk, and a complete inability to get Rolen home that I would have wagered my house on if I could have found a bookie to work out the logistics of my mortgage payments. Our "DH" went 0-3 with two left on base. The new kid – Adam Lind – who I screamed (well, screamed on the Internet) to get into Toronto…. yeah, any time you want to get your first fucking hit kid, feel free.
I don't blame Gregg Zaun for any of this because when your catcher will most likely lead the team in on-base percentage, he gets a free ride. But Jesus Christ, what a bunch of hitless fucks. Halladay pitched his fourth straight complete game, and he's 2-4 on the season. He's going to be the first guy to get Cy Young votes with 20 losses, because the fucking hopeless team behind him TEE HEEs their way through their trips through the plate.
Oh, and the center fielder we gave $126 million to couldn't cleanly field a goddamn baseball and throw home, in an attempt to get David Ortiz out, who was running from second. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.
I thought I was "helping" when I went to every Jays blog I could find, in order to get Adam Lind up. But Jesus Christ, this is hopeless. I know the flu has made its way through the clubhouse, but I am sick to death for making excuses for these guys. I know, because I have been here before.
In case you are just visiting the site, the other awesome sports team I follow is the New Orleans Saints. And let me put it this way – since Joe Carter ended the 1993 World Series, the Saints have been in four more fucking playoffs games than the Jays. And the Saints are terrible! I could easily name 20 hilariously awful mistakes of the Saints and not even get into the "Billy Joes."
The game I just witnessed tonight, with Boston beating Toronto 1-0 with Roy pitching what might have been his best game of the season, considering the lineup, was akin to a game played at the end of October of 1999 between the Saints and the — at the time – winless, expansion, Cleveland Browns.
I had gone to Grand Junction with my friend Fodge to hit up the Halloween parties. (The Joker, thank you.) There was one television with the NFL Ticket there, so on Sunday we caught the first half of the Saints-Browns game, and the second half of whoever the Bills were playing.
There was a graphic at the end of the Bills game that showed the rest of the scores in the league, and the Saints were beating the Browns by a few points with six seconds left to go. Well! Surely they had it wrapped up! We left the bar and drove back to Fort Collins.
Twenty minutes into the trip, we get the update on how the early games went. Tim Couch threw a Hail Mary to Kevin Johnson in the end zone, giving the new Browns their first victory. The Saints lost to a team made up of some draft picks and players that NOBODY ELSE WANTED. I was much more passionate about sports back then, so I screamed "FUCK" and didn't say a word for the next hour. The next day I read that Willie Roaf — who was pretty much the Roy Halladay of Saints players — was disgusted with the other fuckers on his team, and the staff, and said that he was their best trade piece and they should move him.
(Oh, and I gave myself a sinus infection because I snorted a line of pixie stix at a bar table while we were out Saturday night. )
I'm not saying I expect the same thing out of Roy. For the terrible shit the Jays have pulled this season (I went to figure out what they are batting with runners in scoring position, but my monitor is an old SyncMaster and can't display digits that low) it wasn't quite as bad as what the Saints did to Roaf. Also, nobody is having sex with Roy's wife on the sly. But how can he not be frustrated. He was actually playing in the same game with those miserable shits that let him down for the fourth time this season. He has to see them every day. Every fucking player that played tonight owes him a goddamn apology.
Halladay is too nice a guy to say anything, but we DESERVE to see him say he wants to be traded. We DESERVE to see him say he doesn't want to re-sign in Toronto after 2010. We DESERVE to see him win a championship for Arizona, or Cleveland, or Anaheim, or whoever. How many years has J.P. Ricciardi had to put a team around him? (Er, five.) What a complete crock of horseshit.
We're going to lose the best player we've ever had, the only pitcher that I drop everything to watch, because of the gutless, shrunk testicled play of the rest of the team. It makes me sick. I don't think there is a chance in hell Roy sees this – but he's the only decent thing about baseball in my life and a lot of other Blue Jays fans. I now know how Steve Carlton lost 10 games in 1972. I'm watching it, and Roy Halladay is living it.
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[[category:tutorials]] = Displacement (DSP) map primitive= == Creating a DSP object from miscellaneous images == We will use two examples to illustrate the next few sections. 1. A black and white (gray scale) image (png format): [[Image:Ex1.png]] with properties: $ file Ex1.png Ex1.png: PNG image, 142 x 150, 8-bit gray+alpha, non-interlaced 2. A color png file: [[Image:Ex2.png]] with properties: $ file Ex2.png Ex2.png: PNG image, 152 x 150, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced === Preparing your height field data === The DSP takes unsigned short (16-bit) integer data. Our various command-line data converters can help bring data in from pretty much any existing format, including image data, via various processing commands. If the data were in png image format, for example (which is basically 3-channel 8-bit integer data), the data could be prepared with a combination of 'png-pix', 'pix-bw', and 'cv'. If you type the 'in' command, it will prompt you for each parameter individually and that should help some. For the DSP, the main parameters are: the source of the height data, the width (number of points in the X direction) and length (number of points in the Y direction) of the input data, width/length/height scaling factors, and whether to smoothly interpolate between cells (0 = do not interpolate, 1 = interpolate). See the 'dsp_add' tool for combining two existing DSP data files into one. A DSP primitive is an array of cells initially defined by points in the X-Y plane as positive heights from Z = 0. The DSP can then be transformed to other orientations and positions. The number of cells is (numX * numY). The data format for the DSP primitive is network-ordered unsigned short integers (nu16). BRL-CAD has a couple of dozen tools that you can use for converting existing data into that raw format, such as the 'cv' command or the 'bw-d' and 'd-u' commands among other similar tool chains. If you use the cv command, the output format is "nus" for network unsigned shorts. Using the two examples to convert the data to dsp format. Example 1. Convert it to a bw file (one pixel is one unsigned char): $ png-bw Ex1.png > Ex1.bw View the result: $ bw-fb -w142 -n150 Ex1.bw Convert it to the format required for a dsp file (nu16): $ cv huc nu16 Ex1.bw Ex1.dsp Example 2. Convert it to a pix file (one pixel is defined by three unsigned chars): $ png-pix Ex2.png > Ex2.pix View the result: $ pix-fb -w152 -n150 Ex2.pix Convert it to a bw file (one pixel is one unsigned char): $ pix-bw Ex2.pix > Ex2.bw View the result: $ bw-fb -w152 -n150 Ex2.bw Convert it to the format required for a dsp file: $ cv huc nu16 Ex2.bw Ex2.dsp === Importing DSP data into a .g file === Example 1. In mged create a dsp object: mged> in dsp1.s dsp f Ex1.dsp 142 150 0 ad 1 0.005 mged> r dsp1.r u dsp1.s Example 2. In mged create a dsp object: mged> in dsp2.s dsp f Ex2.dsp 152 150 0 ad 1 0.005 mged> r dsp2.r u dsp2.s === Rendering your DSP === Example 1. mged> B dsp1.r mged> ae 270 90 mged> rt You should see something like this: [[Image:Ex1rt.png]] You can play around with the scaling factors (the end pair: 1 - cell width, 0.005 - cell height) to improve the looks of the image. But now let's invert the file so we get its negative: $ bwmod -m-1 -a255 < Ex1.bw > Ex1n.bw And make another dsp in the same manner as before: $ cv huc nu16 Ex1n.bw Ex1n.dsp $ ... And see the results: [[Image:Ex1nrt.png]] Example 2. mged> B dsp2.r mged> ae 270 90 mged> rt You should see something like this: [[Image:Ex2rt.png]] Again, you could play with various parameters to get the desired look. You could also create the negative as we did with example 1 and see the results: [[Image:Ex2nrt.png]] == Creating a DSP object from manual or programmatic generation of data == A DSP object can be created manually or programmatically by creating an ASCII data file as input using the BRL-CAD utility asc2dsp to convert it directly to the DSP binary format. An easy way to create the input file for asc2dsp is to first create it row by row in natural form with the top row being the desired top row and so on in desired viewing order. Then take the finished file and filter it through the Unix utility tac which will reverse the order of the rows (lines). === A simple example === For example, let's create the letter "T" for viewing in the X-Y plane. $ cat t-normal.asc 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Now reverse the file: $ tac t-normal.asc > t-reversed.asc and see the result in perfect form for asc2dsp: $ cat t-reversed.asc 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 Finally, create the dsp file: $ asc2dsp t-reversed.asc t.dsp (The TGM creation is left as an exercise for the reader.) === A practical example [UNDER CONSTRUCTION] === Now let's consider a more practical example and a real test of BRL-CAD. We can import topological (topo) data and produce a realistic ground surface. There are many free sources of such data, but this, for US topo data, seems to be the most likely: http://nationalmap.gov/viewer.html For now, though, the format for the data is not easily found so we located another source of topological data (digital elevation models [DEM]) in [http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/sdts/ SDTS] format: http://data.geocomm.com/dem/demdownload.html We selected [http://data.geocomm.com/catalog/US/61076/sublist.html Colorado], [http://data.geocomm.com/catalog/US/61076/1231/index.html El Paso County], and [http://data.geocomm.com/catalog/US/61076/1231/group4-3.html Digital Elevation Models]. On that page we downloaded all six 10-meter data archive files because we were not yet sure which one we wanted. We also downloaded the six *TXT files which contain metadata about each archive. [Note that you are required to have a Geo Community account for any downloads (membership is free).] The six archive files are: 3818122.DEM.SDTS.TAR.GZ 4055020.DEM.SDTS.TAR.GZ 4055026.DEM.SDTS.TAR.GZ 4055028.DEM.SDTS.TAR.GZ 4055034.DEM.SDTS.TAR.GZ 4057865.DEM.SDTS.TAR.GZ Note that taking the first archive as an example: $ tar -tvzf 3818122.DEM.SDTS.TAR.GZ we see that the archive files are not in a directory, so we create a directory for each: $ mkdir 3818122.dem ... Now move each archive into its own directory and unpack it: $ mv 3818122.DEM.SDTS.TAR.GZ 3818122.dem $ cd 3818122.dem $ tar -xvzf 3818122.DEM.SDTS.TAR.GZ 3814CATD.DDF 3814CATS.DDF 3814CEL0.DDF 3814DDDF.DDF 3814DDOM.DDF 3814DDSH.DDF 3814DQAA.DDF 3814DQCG.DDF 3814DQHL.DDF 3814DQLC.DDF 3814DQPA.DDF 3814IDEN.DDF 3814IREF.DDF 3814LDEF.DDF 3814RSDF.DDF 3814SPDM.DDF 3814STAT.DDF 3814XREF.DDF README We can view the SDTS data files with a free viewer (for Windows only) available here: http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/3dem In order to examine the data in SDTS files there are two directions to take: (1) use a [http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/sdts/sdtsxx/index.html government supplied library] or (2) use the [http://gdal.org/ GDAL library]. We chose both because they both have useful utility programs. To help select the data to be used we put pertinent metadata into a spreadsheet to calculate delta altitudes and to easily compare min and max altitudes as well as the lat/long boundaries of each data set.


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I joined the dark side on Wednesday. After going through three different generations of the iPhone since 2008, I went Android.
This doesn't mean I've soured on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) as an investment. This certainly doesn't mean that my next three phones will be Android devices. I just came to the conclusion that it's in my best interest to be mobile operating system-agnostic.
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) lets me upgrade my phone every 20 months. Other carriers let folks swap out their devices between 20 and 24 months after purchase. The carrier's hefty monthly bill — steep because AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is subsidizing more than $300 off the price of a smartphone on contract — makes me a sap if I wait.
I paid the stupid tax before. I would wait until the next iPhone would roll out, forgoing months of upgrade eligibility before that. All this did was the start the clock later on my next upgrade.
My upgrade window opened earlier this month, and I went with the smartphone that seemed to best suit my needs. Right now, that's the Samsung Galaxy S4. I'm too early in the learning curve to give it a ringing endorsement, but I don't regret my decision.
I spend more time computing on my smartphone than using it as a phone, and the larger-sized phone appealed to me. I take more snapshots than I make phone calls. Nearly everything I used to do on my iPhone I can on Android. I never invested heavily in paid apps, and the bad news for both Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) in the future is that I'm likely to start now that I've embraced the "best available smartphone" approach. Get wooed too deep into an ecosystem, and you wind up paying that dumb tax where you can wait as long as 15 months between iPhone releases.
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Q: Set() method is retrieving values but get() method instantiated in another class is returning null please could you help me with this?
Because it was working well until yesterday and now i simply don't know what happened, i already revised the whole code several times.
I have 3 classes, one is the main class which i've setted the variables and methods (getters and setters).
Another is a class which contains a method to set parameters from database and it's working well i already tested with logs.
The last one is a class which the Object is finally constructed to get the parameters from the second class.
Let me show you these codes.
Class number one:
public class Somewhere {
    private String place;
    private double latitude;
    private double longitude;
    private Integer Status;

public String getPlace() {
    return place;
}
public void setPlace(String place) {
    this.place = place;
}
public double getLatitude() {
    return latitude;
}
public void setLatitude(double latitude) {
    this.latitude = latitude;
}
public Integer getStatus() {
    return Status;
}
public void setStatus(Integer status) {
    this.Status = status;
}
}

Method from Class number two:
public class sDao extends Dao {
    public sDao(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }
    public Somewhere somewhereByStatus(String wherearg, String Status) {
    Somewhere s = null;
    openDB();
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    sb.append("select * from tb_somewhere where " + wherearg + "= '").append(Status).append("'");
    Cursor cursor = db.rawQuery(sb.toString(), null);
    while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
        s = new Somewhere();

        s.setPlace(cursor.getString(1));
        s.setLatitude(Double.parseDouble(cursor.getString(2)));
        s.setLongitude(Double.parseDouble(cursor.getString(3)));
        //until here this is working, i've already tested with logs.
    }

    closeDB();
    return s;
}
}

Main from Class number three:
String place;
Double latitude;
Double longitude;

String status = 10;
try {
        sDao x = new sDao(getBaseContext());
        Somewhere r = new Somewhere();

        r = x.somewhereByStatus("Status", status); //this is working until now

            place = r.getPlace(); // this is returning null but it has values
            latitude = r.getLatitude(); // this is returning null but it has values
            longitude = r.getLongitude(); // this is returning null but it has values

    } catch (Exception e) {}

Thank you for helping me!

A: while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
        s = new Somewhere();

        s.setPlace(cursor.getString(1));
        s.setLatitude(Double.parseDouble(cursor.getString(2)));
        s.setLongitude(Double.parseDouble(cursor.getString(3)));
        //until here this is working, i've already tested with logs.
if (cursor.moveToNext())
{
    closeDB();
    return s;
}
}

A: Can you try by replacing cursor loop code like
while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
        s = new Somewhere();

        s.setPlace(cursor.getString(1));
        s.setLatitude(Double.parseDouble(cursor.getString(2)));
        s.setLongitude(Double.parseDouble(cursor.getString(3)));
        break;
    }

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First Impressions / Setting up
Minirig Portable Subwoofer Review
Minirig Portable Subwoofer Pro
Production Gear
Last updated 15 October, 2021
The Pasce Minirig Subwoofer is a portable, rechargeable addition to the Minirig range, designed to be used alongside one or two of the original speakers. It is just as well made, and despite being a little fiddly to set up with all of those wires, completes just about the perfect ultraportable DJ speaker system once it is.
Minirig Portable Subwoofer
Like the original Minirig, the unit is packed beautifully (think a posh Scotch Whisky bottle box, or a jumbo Pringles box), and it comes in its own padded fabric case with a zipper too, with room in the top of the case for the cables.Unlike the original, this one is made to stand on its side, on four thankfully well-attached oval feet (the small rubber feet on my original have actually come off, I noticed when writing this review). If you stand it on its end like the original speakers are designed to be used, it rattles in use as we found out, but it's fine sideways.
It has a bass port in one end, and a speaker grill and housing absolutely identical to that of the original at the other, although of course this time it contains the bass speaker (a 3″ driver) rather than a full-range speaker as with the originals. The frequencies quoted are 48-150Hz, for those who care about these things, and it weighs in at a pretty light but not insubstantial 875g.
You set the unit up by first plugging your sound source into it; this activates it (the light comes on). Next, you have to plug in at least one other Minirig, or else all you hear/feel is bass! If you buy two Minirigs from the company, they provide a splitter cable, which is what we had to test them with; this lets you plug two Minirigs in for full stereo. Otherwise, plug your original speaker in for a "1.1" system. There's also a twist, in that the splitter cable can automatically turn all three units on and off; unplug your cable from the subwoofer, and all the speakers power down, so no need to disassemble all the connections every time.
Once we'd worked out that the subwoofer has to go on its side, not upright, we were ready to give it a fair appraisal.
First thing to point out is that correctly positioned, the original Minirig is actually a marvellous speaker for bass, packing far more in that it rightfully should be able to, especially when well positioned. But with the subwoofer attached it's a different story entirely. Close your eyes (eg go into the next room) and you simply can't believe that what you're listening to is two 3″ drivers and a 3″ bass speaker, when the full 2.1 system is set up.
You can alter the overall balance of bass and treble by swapping around the high gain and low gain cable sockets, but we found that having everything set to high gain worked best for us. Pushing the iPhone input up to fully in the red caused a small amount of rattling, but at that volume it really was ear-splittingly loud, and we found two-thirds on iOS music apps to be the right level for really sweet, loud, full-range music and DJing.
Just like the original Minirigs, this is not cheap – but its performance means that for those who care about these things, that won't be an issue. If you compare it to other speaker systems at this end of the market (just head over to the Apple Store and look at the price of some of the all-in-one speaker sets) it's comparable, even good value. What it doesn't have that most of those speaker systems have is wireless. For many people, that would be a disadvantage, and it's undeniably more fiddly to set up three speakers like this, all wired, than it is a single one. But for DJs, this is – as mentioned above – actually a huge advantage, as there's no latency.
If you're a DJ who values portability, and you want a speaker system that will rock a house party and have your peers gawping at how brilliant it is, and if you're considering spending on a high-end rechargeable all-in-one speaker system, I'd definitely recommend you take a look at this. Go for the subwoofer with one or preferable two of the original Minirigs for an exceptional system.
It's unique, beautifully made, and sounds amazing. And it's loud. Plus with 20 hours' party-time on a five-hour charge (yes, we've tested it), it's going to keep going longer than you're likely to! Nonetheless, you're looking at about £340 for the full system I tested, so you have to have the need for it to consider that kind of investment. But having said that, if you're the owner of a Minirig already, the price is about £150 to add the subwoofer on to your Minirig and I'd imagine that as you already know the quality of these little speakers (it's hard to explain to non-owners just how good they are) you're going to be sorely tempted.


Consider a conversation I recently had with my friend, Kathy Boeckman. Although Kathy's personal story is filled with difficult events and experiences, God has graciously used them for her good and the good of others—grace gifts.
As a child, Kathy was a victim of sexual abuse and even her earliest memories in the church were filled with pain. Her own pain resulted in drug and alcohol abuse, but God delivered her from addiction and even took her back to her childhood congregation, allowing her to experience restoration while serving as youth minister there.
As a young adult, a couple mentored Kathy and permanently changed the course of her life. Her difficult past has been beautifully redeemed as she went on to work in law enforcement, served in the biblical program called Celebrate Recovery, and ultimately founded House of Healing to mentor hurting teen girls.
Kathy now makes it her life's purpose to positively impact the lives of countless young women through her full-time ministry, House of Healing: for the teenage soul.
To hear my entire conversation with Kathy, click the link below or go to the Uniquely Beautiful Stories podcast on iTunes. I promise, you will be blessed by hearing the whole story.
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How has God brought painful circumstances full circle and used them to draw you and others closer to Himself?
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Author: Floor Fiers
Do generous attitudes underlie contributions to user-generated content?
User-generated content on the Internet provides the basis for some of the most popular websites, such as Wikipedia, crowdsourced question-and-answer sites like Stack Overflow, video-sharing sites like YouTube, and social media platforms like Reddit. Much (or in some cases all) of the content on these sites is created by unpaid volunteers, who invest substantial time and effort to produce high quality information resources. So are these volunteers and content contributors more generous in general than people who don't contribute their time, knowledge, or information online?
We (Floor Fiers, Aaron Shaw, and Eszter Hargittai) consider this question in a recent paper published in The Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media (JQD:DM). The publication of this particularly is exciting because it pursues a new angle on these questions, and also because it's part of the inaugural issue of JQD:DM, a new open-access venue for research that seeks to advance descriptive (as opposed to analytic or causal) knowledge about digital media.
The study uses data from a national survey of U.S. adult internet users that includes questions about many kinds of online contribution activities, various demographic and background attributes, as well as a dictator game to measure generosity. In the dictator game, each participant has an opportunity to make an anonymous donation of some unanticipated funds to another participant in the study. Prior experimental research across the social sciences has used dictator games, but no studies we know of had compared dictator game donations with online content contributions.
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Overall, we find that people who contribute some kind of content online exhibit more generosity in the dictator game. More specifically, we find that people producing any type of user-generated content tend to donate more in the dictator game than those who do not produce any such content. We also disaggregate the analysis by type of content contribution and find that donating in the dictator game only correlates with content contribution for those who write reviews, upload public videos, pose or answer questions, and contribute to encyclopedic knowledge collections.
So, generous attitudes and behaviors may help explain contributions to some types of user-generated content, but not others. This implies that user-generated content is not a homogeneous activity, since variations exist between different types of content contribution.
The (open access!) paper has many more details, so we hope you'll download, read, and cite it. Please feel free to leave a comment below too.
Paper Citation: Fiers, Floor, Aaron Shaw, and Eszter Hargittai. 2021. "Generous Attitudes and Online Participation". Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media 1 (April). https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2021.008.


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To the east, among the homes of the Village of Silwan (the name Silwan is a distortion of the ancient name Shiloach), a Yemenite neighborhood was established in 1884. The Yemenites immigrated to Israel in the "I Shall Ascend the Palm" immigration of 1882. Due to a lack of housing and economic strife, some of the Yemenite immigrants made their homes in burial caves on the Mount of Olives. Later, the Jews of Jerusalem rallied to their aid and built housing for them in the vicinity. At the height of its growth, the community numbered approximately 150 families. This neighborhood was abandoned during the Arab uprising of 1936-1939. Evidence of Yemenite housing in the village can still be found in the indentations from mezuzot that remain on the doorposts of some of the homes.


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Side Story 8. Gabriel's Request
The Federation remained a unified organization even after the Parasites perished. The wounds left by the prolonged war were too deep for anyone to return to normal life immediately. The heads of all races agreed that it would be mutually beneficial to all of them if they supported each other, both financially and emotionally, until all groups could function independently of each other again. This was how the Half Century Treaty came to be.
A considerable amount of time had passed since then. Not everything was perfect yet, but at least the most urgent fires had been put out. Now, it was time to wait until visible changes emerged.
It was around this time that a meeting took place in the capital of the Federation. The attendees of this meeting were the Four Archangels.
"The time has come."
Mikael was the first to speak.
"The Parasites have met their end, and Paradise is flourishing again."
A blue-haired angel sitting next to Mikael propped her chin on her palm and nodded in agreement.
"Strictly speaking, we too are aliens to the people of this planet. And now that everything is on track for recovery…."
It was Mikael's opinion that Paradise no longer needed them.
Gabriel, who had been listening in silence, replied with a look of boredom.
"They have defeated their greatest enemy, but another alien species still remains on their planet. Fearing that the Fallen Angels would turn on them, the natives might begin hunting us down…. Had I seen any indication of that happening, I would have taken action a long time ago."
Gabriel continued flatly.
"The problem is…."
Suddenly, her voice trailed off.
"Our work here is finished. But we can't leave simply because we want to."
"I understand how others feel. For us, salvation means more than just going back home."
The wings of the black-haired angel sitting opposite Gabriel trembled.
"The Martial God promised us. If we pay for our sins—"
"Mikael. A promise means nothing when it is between the Martial God and us. Only fools would believe in it."
Mikael shut her mouth. She knew that the Martial God was more than capable of changing his mind just to spite them. He'd say, "Oh, come to think of it, you guys lied to me, too, right?" And with that, all their efforts would be in vain.
"You know he's deceitful. Remember how the Martial God stole the secret awakening class from us using the hidden library he found in Atlanta? Ah… I still get angry just thinking about it."
Gabriel covered her face with her hands.
"Anyway, my point is that we can't contact the Martial God first."
Waiting was all they were allowed to do.
"So, we're presented with two choices here. We can either stay on this planet and wait for the Martial God to reach out to us…."
Gabriel smacked her lips.
"Or we can remind him of the promise he made to us because it's possible he's forgotten about it."
"The latter definitely sounds more compelling. But… how will we do that?"
"We can't, but there are plenty of humans in Paradise who can visit Earth. We'll have to ask one of them for a favor."
"Who do you think?"
Mikael let out a soft groan.
"I don't think he'd refuse, but… will he be able to pull it off?"
"He even obliterated a god of Heaven Rank 7.5. Let's have faith in him… is what I'd like to say, but…."
Gabriel smiled bitterly.
"This time, he's only a messenger. Don't forget that the Martial God has the final say."
Mikael dropped her head with a look of worry.
"Anyway, so you all agree that rather than living in resignation, we should at least try something?"
Gabriel nodded.
"Contact Eva."
Then she stood up from her chair.
"I'll go ask him myself."
A few days later, Gabriel arrived in Eva around sunset. A 'Temporarily Closed' sign was still hanging on the door of Seol Jihu's restaurant. Opening the front door, Gabriel heard talking and footsteps inside. Then, all of a sudden, she came face to face with an inexplicable and utterly disastrous sight.
Under Seol Jihu's command, Baek Haeju was repeating the process of filling a pot with water and throwing it out, again and again, sweat pouring down her face.
Seo Yuhui had already passed out on the floor.
What's going on? Gabriel stood dazed and confused until her eyes met Seol Jihu's. Those eyes, shining intensely like the eyes of a hawk, slowly returned to normal as they registered the silver-haired angel's presence.
"Gabriel-nim?"
"What brings you here?"
"Did you not get my message?"
"Administrator Sorg Kühne told me you were going to visit…. I just didn't know it would be this soon."
"Yes, actually, I left right after I sent the message. By the way…."
Gabriel looked at Seo Yuhui, lying unconscious on the floor, then at Baek Haeju, who was sobbing with her mouth covered.
"Um…. Should I come back at a later time?"
"No, no, you're fine."
Seol Jihu loosened his arms and turned his eyes back to the two women. He was clearly dissatisfied but was willing to overlook their lack of performance for the sake of his guest.
"Let's end a little early today. Come back tomorrow prepared."
"T-Thank you!"
Baek Haeju immediately picked Seo Yuhui up from the floor. As she rushed out the door, she gave Gabriel a look of sincere gratitude.
"I have no idea what's going on, but…."
Gabriel stepped inside, shaking her head.
"Looking at you, Valhalla's ex-representative, it seems the rumors were true."
She smiled, looking at Seol Jihu from head to toe, who was dressed in a chef's coat.
Seol Jihu, too, smiled back.
"Did you have dinner yet? How about a bowl of ramen?"
Seol Jihu's smile suddenly halted before turning into a bitter expression. She offered no excuse and just declined outright. Her voice sounded strangely resolute.
"Forgive me, but I can't have any ramen you've made."
"W-Why not?"
"Though limited in power, I, too, can see the future. One might say that my senses have risen to the level of foresight."
Gabriel continued.
"And for some reason, I get the sense that the moment I eat your ramen, I will dearly wish to remain on this planet and voluntarily become your slave. Now, I can't have that happen, can I? The entire race of Fallen Angels longs for the day we return to the Celestial Realm."
Gabriel said all this in one breath.
Still somewhat baffled by her reaction, Seol Jihu nodded nonetheless.
'The Celestial Realm….'
He got a sense of why Gabriel came all the way here to meet him.
Soon, the two of them sat facing each other at a table. They exchanged some small talk until finally, Gabriel brought up the real reason for her visit.
"I want to ask you a question first."
"Please, go ahead."
"How do we look to you?"
Seol Jihu tilted his head to the side.
"What do you think of us?"
Gabriel asked again.
Seol Jihu replied after a short pause.
"If you're talking about the Fallen Angels in general… Before, I thought of you guys as a race that helped prolong the life of this planet. Now, I think of you as my saviors and comrades who have fought alongside me through the long war."
Even though his answer might just be a formality, Gabriel still seemed relieved.
"If you really think so, then I have a favor to ask of you as your savior and comrade."
She began.
"It's important to note here that you have nothing to do with this."
Seol Jihu stared at Gabriel, who seemed a little nervous.
"When we were discussing the Half Century Treaty… you supported me all the way through, Gabriel-nim."
After a moment of silence, Seol Jihu spoke carefully.
"The Fallen Angels made a significant contribution to our victory, yet refused to receive anything in return for it."
"And we've lived quietly since then."
Gabriel remarked.
"You're right. It's as you expected."
She gave a faint smile.
"We're planning to leave Paradise. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that we want to leave Paradise."
Paradise without the Fallen Angels…. Seol Jihu's finger tapped on the table. Suddenly he remembered the conversation he had with Gabriel after the Tigol Fortress War.
[The Martial God invaded the Celestial Realm. Using infernal flames and the infernal army, he destroyed everything and captured all angels.]
[And then the Martial God threw all the angels he captured into the Infernal Realm.]
[What could we have done? We became slaves to the demons whom we despised so much….]
[…Until one day when we were given a chance.]
[The Martial God robbed us of all our Authorities and power and then mentioned Paradise. He told us that the Parasite Queen was disturbing the peace of this planet and ordered us to take care of her.]
[He probably just wanted us to suffer the same pain he did.]
A man who had been living a perfectly normal life on Earth until suddenly being summoned to an unfamiliar world and then forced to fight the demons as a proxy for the angels against his will. All the while, the anger and resentment in his heart kept escalating by the day….
"Could it be…."
It was then that a name crossed Seol Jihu's mind.
"Is this about the Martial God?"
Gabriel lifted a corner of her mouth.
"I'm glad you're quick to catch on."
Their conversation lasted longer than he thought it would. By the time Gabriel left, the sun had already set.
'It's late….'
What should I do? Seol Jihu hesitated before finally getting up. He knew it was likely that Kim Hannah had already gone to bed. She was known for her obsession with schedules, which she meticulously divided into seconds—but figured he would visit anyway, because today, Gabriel seemed unusually desperate.
The lights had already been turned off in the Valhalla building, and the whole place was quiet. Seol Jihu carefully stepped inside, trying his best to conceal his presence, much like a secret service agent.
Fortunately for him, the lights in Kim Hannah's room were still on. He peeked inside through the crack in the door and saw Kim Hannah lying on her stomach. She was busy jotting something down in her notebook. He seemed to have arrived at just the right time, which was moments before she fell asleep.
Seol Jihu tiptoed into the room….
Then he jumped onto the bed and laid his head on Kim Hannah's butt.
"Uhm!"
There was no loud scream, but he could hear the surprise in her voice. Kim Hannah hurriedly turned her head back, and Seol Jihu felt her glare piercing through the top of his head.
He heard the suppressed irritation in Kim Hannah's voice.
"What do you think you're doing?"
Seol Jihu closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep.
"Move your head before I count to three. One, two, three."
"I came over for a chat."
Seol Jihu straightened his posture right away.
One of Kim Hannah's eyebrows lifted a fraction.
"A chat?"
"Yeah. You know how Gabriel-nim stopped by today, right?"
A light flickered in Kim Hannah's eyes.
"She left already? What did you two talk about?"
She closed her notebook and sat up in her bed. Her eyes gleamed with anticipation that she might obtain rare information.
"This could take a while…."
"That's okay. Ah, give me a second."
Kim Hannah threw a blanket at Seol Jihu while simultaneously taking off her pajamas. By the time the blanket fell to the floor, she was already dressed in a gray suit with her hair neatly tied back in a ponytail.
Her transformation never ceased to amaze Seol Jihu.
"Why did you change all of a sudden?"
"You said that it would take a while."
"That doesn't mean you can't be in your pajamas."
"That look on your face. It tells me that whatever you're about to say isn't exactly a bedtime story."
Kim Hannah pulled up her dark-colored stockings, asserting that a serious story demands a serious attitude from the listener.
"Come on. Let's go down to the office."
She motioned at the door with her chin.
"Sit over there."
Once they arrived at the office, Kim Hannah pointed to her desk. Seol Jihu, who was just about to settle down on the guest couch, walked awkwardly toward his old desk. Once seated in the chair, he could not help smiling. This office was just as he remembered it. He thought Kim Hannah would have changed it to suit her taste, but surprisingly everything was the same.
"So what is it that you want to talk to me about?"
Looking up at Kim Hannah standing in front of his desk, memories began to fill his heart.
"Gabriel-nim asked me a favor."
Seol Jihu paused and let out a sigh.
"A favor?"
"Yeah. She asked me to team up with the Fallen Angels and invade Paradise—"
"Cut the bullshit."
Kim Hannah's face warped into a frown.
She placed her hand on her waist and criticized.
"You said this was important. You even woke me up in the middle of the night! Can't you try to be a little more serious?"
Seol Jihu gave an embarrassed cough.
"The truth is…."
He finally got to the point.
After his explanation came to an end….
"In short…."
Kim Hannah seemed baffled.
"You want me to look for a man?"
"In South Korea, which boasts a population of more than 51 million, with no lead to go on except for a name?"
"I also have his brother's name. And his wife's name."
"…I guess that's better than nothing."
Seol Jihu quickly added, bringing Kim Hannah's temper down a notch.
"Why are the Fallen Angels looking for an ordinary human who has nothing to do with Paradise? What's their relationship to him?"
"He might not be ordinary."
Seol Jihu answered calmly.
"I don't know what exactly happened between them. And… the Fallen Angels are technically aliens too, you know."
"That's true, but…."
"There may be more worlds out there like Paradise that we just don't know about."
Kim Hannah was still doubtful, but she could see that Seol Jihu wasn't joking. She pulled her gaze away from him and shook her head. She couldn't outright deny the possibility of another world, for she herself was an Earthling. But it was still difficult for her to accept right away.
"Okay… fine. It's not like I'm losing anything, so I'll give it a shot."
Kim Hannah opened her notebook.
"If what you're saying is true, this could be an opportunity for me as well."
Two Earthlings who can travel between two different worlds. There would be a lot she could gain from their meeting.
Kim Hannah clicked her pen and prepared to write.
"What's his name again?"
Seol Jihu replied.
"Kim Soohyun."
"That's a common name. And his brother's name?"
"Kim Yoohyun."
"Okay. And his wife?"
"Let's see. Goh Yeonju, Nam Da-Eun, Yoo Hyun-Ah, Yi Yoojung, Im Hannah, Jung Hayeon, Jegal Haesol, Cha Sorim, Han Soyoung, Kim Han…."
Folding his fingers as he spoke, Seol Jihu suddenly felt a gaze on him and raised his head.
Kim Hannah was glaring at him.
Seol Jihu quickly waved his hand.
"This is all true! I'm not kidding!"


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Just under 5,000 people live in Armonk's 6.1 square miles of rolling hills.
Welcome to Armonk
A sophisticated Westchester suburb surrounded by nature.
Just under 5,000 people live in Armonk's 6.1 square miles of rolling hills. Its lack of a train station keeps it from being overrun by commuters (the nearest is a 10-minute drive away), but the village's walkable business district, new restaurants, and first-rate schools increasingly draw young families from Manhattan.
Named by the Siwanoy Native Americans of the Wappinger Confederacy in the mid-1800s, this Central Westchester village began to boom after IBM's global headquarters came to town in the 1960s. Today, the hamlet still doesn't have the same name recognition of some of its bigger or fancier neighbors, but its bucolic charm and plethora of amenities continues to lure New York City transplants.
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Unpretentious luxury living in the country.
The pristine downtown has more of a Hamptons than Westchester vibe with its high-end fashion boutiques and gourmet food shops. And if you want a highly private 10-acre property with a pool, a tennis court, and gated security, you can find it. But the community is still close-knit, reliably coming together for charming events like Frosty Day with cocoa and face painting every winter.
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Q: Custom rewrite rule for hierarchical custom post type Working on a client site I've encounter my worst enemy... WP URL rewrite :(.
I actually can't figure it out and after many days trying and searching, I can't make it work.
What I'm trying to get is a permalink like this company.com/product/%product-name%/ regardless of the /parent/child/ nesting depth. I do need the functionalities of the hierarchical pages for other reasons, but it should not appear in the URL.
Here is my set up:

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*Wordpress 4.4.1

*Permalink settings set to Post name

*I created a hierarchical custom post type product with rewrite parameter to false.
$args = array(
    'label'                 => __( 'Product', 'domain' ),
    'description'           => __( 'Company products', 'domain' ),
    'labels'                => $labels,
    'supports'              => array( 'title', 'editor', 'excerpt', 'thumbnail', 'revisions', 'page-attributes' ),
    'taxonomies'            => array( 'category', 'post_tag' ),
    'hierarchical'          => true,
    'public'                => true,
    'show_ui'               => true,
    'show_in_menu'          => true,
    'menu_position'         => 5,
    'show_in_admin_bar'     => true,
    'show_in_nav_menus'     => false,
    'can_export'            => true,
    'has_archive'           => true,
    'exclude_from_search'   => false,
    'publicly_queryable'    => true,
    'rewrite'               => false,
    'capability_type'       => 'page',
);
register_post_type( 'product', $args );

At this point the products don't have a pretty permalink,
they look like this and they both work:

*

*First level: company.com/?product=my-first-product -> ok

*Second level: company.com/?product=my-first-product/child-product -> ok

After that, I registered the rewrite rule and permastruct then flushed the rewrite rules by saving changes in the permalink settings page
    function bvt_product_rewrite_rule() {
        add_rewrite_rule(
            '^product/([^/]+)/?$',
            'index.php?post_type=product&pagename=$matches[1]',
            'top'
        );
        add_permastruct( 'product', '/product/%product%/' );
    }
    add_action( 'init', 'bvt_product_rewrite_rule', 10 );

Now the permalinks where correctly displayed for first level page but not correct for child page. Also both levels gave me a 404 error.

*

*First Level: company.com/product/my-first-product/ -> 404

*Second Level: company.com/product/my-first-product/child-product/ -> 404

I also tried a solution given here https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/101077/86838 where it allowed to remove the parent slug from child permalink, but I was still unsuccessful
function bvt_product_flatten_hierarchies( $post_link, $post ) {
    if ( 'product' != $post->post_type ) {
        return $post_link;
    }

    $uri = '';
    foreach ( $post->ancestors as $parent ) {
        $uri = get_post( $parent )->post_name . "/" . $uri;
    }

    return str_replace( $uri, '', $post_link );
}
add_filter( 'post_type_link', 'bvt_product_flatten_hierarchies', 10, 2 );

I installed two plugins debug-bar and monkeyman-rewrite-analyzer to analyse the rewrite and query, but I keep can't make it work.
My last try was with wp-permastructure plugin with allow to set custom permalink to custom post type. Which enables the custom setting permastruct in the rewrite array option of the register_post_type.
[...]
'publicly_queryable'    => true,
'rewrite'               => array(
    'permastruct'   => '/%postname%/',
),
'capability_type'       => 'page',
[...]

With this setting and both previous custom rewrite/permatruct/flatten_hierarchies desabled, it worked as stated by the plugin description

*

*First Level:      company.com/my-first-product/ -> ok

*Second Level: company.com/child-product/ -> ok

But now the /product/ level is missing, and if I try to put it in the 'permastruct' => '/product/%postname%/' config it brings me back to both a 404 error.
Which leads to my main question.
Is it possible to do what I need to or only as close as I could go with the latest plugin ?
Thanks already for anybody who will take the time to answer me, and maybe save me from my poor situation.
Thanks
PS I can't insert more than two links in the body so here is the mentioned plugin links:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/debug-bar/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/monkeyman-rewrite-analyzer/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-permastructure/

A: You're pretty close. Your rewrite rule is using the wrong query var, pagename should be just name.
Here's a version that works for me on a fresh 4.4.1 install and twentysixteen theme-
function bvt_product_init() {
    $args = array(
        'label'                 => __( 'Product', 'domain' ),
        'description'           => __( 'Company products', 'domain' ),
        'supports'              => array( 'title', 'editor', 'excerpt', 'thumbnail', 'revisions', 'page-attributes' ),
        'taxonomies'            => array( 'category', 'post_tag' ),
        'hierarchical'          => true,
        'public'                => true,
        'show_ui'               => true,
        'show_in_menu'          => true,
        'menu_position'         => 5,
        'show_in_admin_bar'     => true,
        'show_in_nav_menus'     => false,
        'can_export'            => true,
        'has_archive'           => true,
        'rewrite'               => array( 'slug' => 'product' ),
    );
    register_post_type( 'product', $args );

    add_rewrite_rule(
        '^product/([^/]+)/?$',
        'index.php?post_type=product&name=$matches[1]',
        'top'
    );
}
add_action( 'init', 'bvt_product_init' );

function bvt_product_flatten_hierarchies( $post_link, $post ) {
    if ( 'product' != $post->post_type ) {
        return $post_link;
    }
    $uri = '';
    foreach ( $post->ancestors as $parent ) {
        $uri = get_post( $parent )->post_name . "/" . $uri;
    }
    return str_replace( $uri, '', $post_link );
}
add_filter( 'post_type_link', 'bvt_product_flatten_hierarchies', 10, 2 );

One potential issue to look out for- hierarchical post types let you create posts with the same slug that have different parents. This normally works because they are queried by their parent/child paths. Without having that parent/child relationship in the URL structure, you can create posts that can never be queried on the front end if the slug matches an existing post. Just something to keep in mind.