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I'm nursing my 8.5 month old and will do so until he is at least one. I had no problems with nursing his brother until 13 months.
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Written by NorthernDickhead on 23.07.2013 at 23:05
I didn't found anything about Death metal on this album,more like heavy rock and Doom/Gothic metal. Still great disc! My fav song,Embrese fire. Maybe the best Paradise Lost song ever.
Written by Erik M. on 14.10.2013 at 19:12
Wow, like Draconian Times this album is also so overrated it's ridiculous. First 3 albums blow this one (and Draconian Times) away easily.
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Nah. Draconian Times and this one own the hugely overrated Gothic, they are also just as good as Shades of God.
Only their debut is superior to everything else.
Written by Mr. Doctor on 14.10.2013 at 23:17
Slightly? You are tripping man.... Gothic is hugely overrated everywhere I look. At least as much as the albums you claim to be overrated. You clearly missed all those people praising that album to high heavens and giving it more credit than it really deserves history-wise.
It's like... I love Blackwater Park but I at least admit it's an overrated album where the fandom gets a bit insane.
Written by Mr. Doctor on 14.10.2013 at 23:17
giving it more credit than it really deserves history-wise.
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 14.10.2013 at 23:24history-wise it deserves a lot of credit because it was an immensely important album. Musically it doesn't deserve all the praise and credit. You can compare it in that way to Venom, Bathory, Hellhammer
Written by Mr. Doctor on 14.10.2013 at 23:33
I don't know if it was a part of the production, the vocals, the keys, or just the overall songwriting.
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 14.10.2013 at 23:40I would call the music on Gothic a lot more immature than on Lost Paradise
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You have just finished your beautiful web application, with lots of pages, links, forms, and buttons; you have spent weeks making sure that everything works fine, that it handles the special cases correctly, that the user cannot crash your system no matter what she does.
Now you are happy and are ready to ship, but at the last minute the customer ask for a change. You have the time to apply the change, but you lack the time--and the will--to pass through another testing ordalia. You ship anyway, hoping that your last little fix didn't break some other part of the application. The result is that the hidden bug shows up on the first day of usage.
If you recognize yourself in this situation, then this article is for you. If not, I am sure you will find something interesting among the following topics:
Let me begin with a brief recollection of how I became interested in testing and what I have learned in the last couple of years.
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I have been aware of the importance of testing from the beginning, and I have heard about automatic testing for years. However, having heard about automatic testing is not the same as doing automatic testing, nor is it the same as doing automatic testing well. It takes some time and experience to get into the testing mood, as well as to be able to challenge some widespread misconceptions.
For instance, when I began studying test-driven methods, I had gathered two wrong ideas:
After some experience, I quickly realized that unit tests were not the only tool, nor were they the best tool to test my application effectively. (I am an early adopter and supporter of doctests. See, for instance, my talk at the ACCU conference.) To overcome the second misconception, I needed some help.
The help come from an XP seminar I attended last year, where I actually asked the question, "How do I test the user interface of a web application so that when the user click on a given page, she gets the expected result?"
The answer was, "You don't. Why do you want to test that your browser is working?"
The answer made me rethink many things. Obviously I was well aware from the beginning that full test coverage is a myth, though still I thought one programmer should try to test as much as he can.
This isn't the right approach. Instead, it is important to discriminate about the infinite amount of things that could be tested, and focus on the things that are your responsibility.
If your customer wants feature x, you must be sure feature x is there. If in order to get feature x, you need to rely on features x1, x2 ... xn; you don't need to test for all of them. Test only the feature that you need to implement. Don't test that the browser is working--it's not your job.
For instance, in the case of a web application, you can interact with it indirectly via the HTTP protocol, or directly via the internal API. If you check that when the user clicks on button b the application calls method m and displays result r, you are testing both your application and the correctness of the HTTP protocol implementation, in both the browser and the server. This is way too much. You may rely on the HTTP protocol and just test the API; just test that calling method m returns the right result r.
Of course, a similar view can apply to GUIs. In the same vein, you must test that the interface to the database you wrote is working, but you don't need to test that the database itself is working--it's not your responsibility.
The basic point is to separate the indirect testing of the user interface--via the HTTP protocol--from the testing of the inner API. To this aim, it's important to write your application in such a way that you can test the logic independently of the user interface. Working in this way, you have the additional bonus of being able to change the user interface later, without having to change a single test for the logic part.
The problem is that typically a customer will give his specifications in terms of the user interface. He will tell you, "There must be a page where the user will enter her order, then she will enter her credit card number, and then the system must send a confirmation email ..."
This kind of specification is a very high-level test--a functional test--that you must convert to a low-level test. For example, you may have unit testing telling you that the ordered item has been registered in the database, that the
send_confirmation_email method has been called, and so on.
The conversion requires some thinking and practice, and it is an art more than a science. Actually, I think that the art of testing is not in how to test but rather in what to test. The best advice and answer to "How do I test a web application?" is probably "Make a priority list of the things you would like to test, and test as little as possible".
For instance, never test the details of the implementation. If you make this mistake (as I did at the beginning), your tests will get in your way at refactoring time, having exactly the opposite of the intended effect. Generally speaking, some good advice is: don't spend time testing third-party software; don't waste time testing code that API is likely to change; and split the UI testing from the application logic testing.
Ideally, you should be able to determine the minimal set of tests you need to make your customer happy, and then restrict yourself to those tests.
The previous advice is nice and reasonable, especially in an ideal world where third-party software is bug free and everything is configured correctly. Unfortunately, the real world is a bit different.
For instance, you must be aware that your application doesn't work on some buggy browser, or that it cannot work in specific circumstances with some database. Also, you may have a nice and comprehensive test suite that runs flawlessly on your development machine, but the application may not work correctly when installed on a different machine because the database could be installed improperly, or the mail server settings could be incorrect, or the internet connection could be down. In the same vein, if you want to really be sure that when the user--with a specific browser in a specific environment--clicks on that button she gets that result, you have to emulate exactly that situation.
It looks as if this advice takes you back to square one, where you need to test everything. Hopefully you've learned something in the process: whereas in principle you would like to test everything, in practice you can effectively prioritize your tests, focusing on some more than on others, and splitting them into categories to run separately at different times.
You definitely need to test that the application is working as intended when deployed on a different machine. From the failures to these installation tests, you may also infer what is wrong and correct the problem. Keep these installation tests--those of the environment where your software is running--decoupled from the unit tests checking the application logic. If you're sure that the logic is right, then you are also sure that the problems are in the environment and can focus your debugging skills in the right area.
In any case, you need to have both high-level (functional, integration, and installation) tests and low-level (unit tests, doctests) tests. High-level tests include those of the user interface. In particular, you need a test to make sure that if a user clicks on x he gets y, so you are sure that the internet connection, the web server, the database, the mail server, your application, and the browser all work nicely together. Beware not to focus on these global kinds of tests. You don't need to write thousands of these high-level tests if you already have many specific low-level tests checking that the logic and the various components of your application are working.
Having structured your application properly, you need a smaller number of user interface tests, but you still need at least a few. How do you write those tests, then?
There are two possibilities: the hard way and the easy way.
The hard way is just doing everything by hand, using your favorite programming language web libraries to perform
GET and
POST requests and verify the results. The easy way is to leverage tools built by others. Of course, internally these tools work just by calling the low-level libraries, so it is convenient to say a couple of words on the hard way just to understand what is going on, in case the high-level tools give you some problem. Moreover, there is always the possibility than you need something more customized, and knowledge of the low-level libraries can be valuable.
Any modern programming language has libraries to interact with the HTTP protocol; here, I will give examples in Python, since it is a common and readable language for web programming. Python's urllib libraries manage the interaction with the Web. There are two of them: urllib, which works in the absence of authentication, and urllib2, which can also manage cookie-based authentication. A complete discussion of these two libraries would take a long time, but explaining the basics is pretty simple. I will give just a couple of recipes based on urllib2, the newest and most powerful library.
The support for cookies in Python 2.4 has improved (essentially by including the third-party ClientCookie library), so you may not be aware of the trick I am going to explain, even if you have used the urllib libraries in the past. So, don't skip the next two sections. ;)
GET and
POST requests
Suppose you want to access a site that does not require authentication. Making a
GET request is pretty easy: at the interpreter prompt, just type
>>> from urllib2 import urlopen
>>> page = urlopen("http://www.example.com")
Now you have a filelike object that contains the HTML code of the page http://www.example.com/:
>>> for line in page: print line,
<TITLE>Example Web Page</TITLE>

You have reached this web page by typing "example.com",
or "example.org" into your web browser.

These domain names are reserved for use in documentation and are not available
for registration. See RFC
2606, Section 3.

If you try to access a nonexistent page or your internet connection is down, you will get an
urllib2.URLError instead. Incidentally, this is why the
urllib2.urlopen function is better than the older
urllib.urlopen, which would just silently retrieve a page containing the error message.
You can easily imagine how to use
urlopen to check your web application. For instance, you could retrieve a page, extract all the links, and verify that they refer to existing pages; or verify that the retrieved page contains the right information, for instance by matching it with a regular expression. In practice,
urlopen (possibly coupled with a third-party HTML parsing tool, such as Beautiful Soup) gives you all the fine-grained control you may wish for.
urlopen gives you the possibility to make a
POST: just pass the query string as the second argument to
urlopen. As an example, I will make a
POST to http://issola.caltech.edu/~t/qwsgi/qwsgi-demo.cgi/widgets, which is a page containing the example form coming with Quixote, a nice, small Pythonic web framework.
>>> page = urlopen("http://issola.caltech.edu/~t/qwsgi/qwsgi-demo.cgi/widgets",
... "name=MICHELE&password=SECRET&time=1118766328.56")
>>> print page.read()
<title>Quixote Widget Demo</title>

You entered the following values:

name	MICHELE

password	SECRET

confirmation	False

eye colour	nothing

pizza size	nothing

pizza toppings	nothing

It took you 163.0 sec to fill out and submit the form

page will contain the result of your
POST. Notice that I had to explicitly pass a value for
time, which is an hidden widget in the form.
That was easy, wasn't it?
If the site requires authentication, things are slightly more complicated, but not much--at least if you have Python 2.4 installed. In order to manage cookie-based authentication procedures, you need to import a few utilities from urllib2:
>>> from urllib2 import build_opener, HTTPCookieProcessor, Request
Notice that
HTTPCookieProcessor is new in Python 2.4: if you have an older version of Python you need a third-party library such as ClientCookie.
build_opener and
HTTPCookieProcessor create an opener object that can manage the cookies sent by the web server:
>>> opener = build_opener(HTTPCookieProcessor)
The opener object has an
open method that can be used to retrieve the web page corresponding to a given request. The request itself is encapsulated in a
Request object, which is built from the URL address, the query string, and some HTTP header information. In order to generate the query string, it is pretty convenient to use the
urlencode function defined in urllib (not in urllib2):
>>> from urllib import urlencode
urlencode generates the query string from a dictionary or a list of pairs, taking care of the quoting and escaping rules the HTTP protocol requires. For instance:
>>> urlencode(dict(user="MICHELE", password="SECRET"))
Notice that the order is not preserved when you use a dictionary (quite obviously), but this is usually not an issue. Now define a helper function:
>>> def urlopen2(url, data=None, user_agent='urlopen2'):
... """Can be used to retrieve cookie-enabled Web pages (when 'data' is
... None) and to post Web forms (when 'data' is a list, tuple or dictionary
... containing the parameters of the form).
... """
... if hasattr(data, "__iter__"):
... data = urllib.urlencode(data)
... headers = {'User-Agent' : user_agent}
... return opener.open(urllib2.Request(url, data, headers))
urlopen2, you can
POST your form in just one line. On the other hand, if the page you are posting to does not contain a form, you will get an HTTPError:
>>> urlopen2("http://www.example.com", dict(user="MICHELE", password="SECRET"))
Traceback (most recent call last):
HTTPError: HTTP Error 405: Method Not Allowed
If you just need to perform a
GET, simply forget about the second argument to
urlopen2, or use an empty dictionary or tuple. You can even fake a browser by passing a convenient user agent string, such as
Mozilla or
Internet Explorer. This is pretty useful if you want to make sure that your application works with different browsers.
Using these two recipes, it is not that difficult to write your own web testing framework. Still, you may be better off by leveraging the work of somebody else.
I am a big fan of mini languages--small languages written to perform a specific task. (See, for instance, my O'Reilly article on the graph-generation language dot.) I was very happy when I discovered that there a nice little language expressly designed to test web applications. Actually there are two implementations of it: Titus Brown's twill and Cory Dodt's Python Browser Poseur (PBP).
PBP came first, but twill seems to be developing faster. At the time of this writing, twill is still pretty young (I am using version 0.7.1), but it already works pretty well in most situations. Both PBP and twill are based on tools by John J. Lee such as mechanize (inspired by Perl), ClientForm, and ClientCookie. Twill also uses Paul McGuire's pyparsing. However, you don't need to install these libraries; twill includes them as zipped libraries (leveraging on the new Python 2.3
zipimport module). As a consequence, twill installation is absolutely obvious and painless, being nothing more than the usual
python setup.py install.
The simplest way to use twill is interactively from the command line. Here's a simple session example:
$ twill-sh
-= Welcome to twill! =-
current page: *empty page*
>> go http://www.example.com
==> at http://www.example.com
>> show
<TITLE>Example Web Page</TITLE>

You have reached this web page by typing "example.com",
or "example.org" into your web browser.

These domain names are reserved for use in documentation and are not available
for registration. See RFC
2606, Section 3.

Twill recognizes a few intuitive commands, such as
follow, and a few others. The example shows how to access a particular HTML page and display its content.
find command matches the page against a regular expression, thus:
>>> find("Example Web Page")
is a test asserting that the current page contains what you expect. Similarly, the
notfind command indicates that the current page does not match the given regular expression.
The other twill commands are pretty obvious:
echo <message> prints a message on standard output;
code <http_error_code> checks that you are getting the right HTTP error code (200 if everything is alright);
back allows you to go back to the previously visited page;
reload reloads the current page;
agent <user-agent> lets you change the current user agent, thus faking different browsers;
follow <regex> finds the first matching link on the page and visits it.
To see a full list of the commands, type
help at the prompt;
EOF or Ctrl-D allows you to exit.
Once you have tested your application interactively, it is pretty easy to cut and paste your twill session and convert it to a twill script. Then you can run your twill script in a batch process:
$ twill-sh mytests.twill
As you may imagine, you can put more than one script in the command line and test many of them at the same time. Because twill is written in Python, you can control it from Python entirely and you can even extend its command set just by adding new commands in the commands.py module.
At the moment, twill is pretty young, and it lacks the capability to convert scripts in unit tests automatically so that you can easily run entire suites of regression tests. However, it is not that difficult to implement that capability yourself, and it is likely that twill will gain good integration with unittest and doctest in the future.
Twill is especially good at retrieving and submitting web forms. The form-related feature uses the commands:
formvalue <form_id> <name> <value>
submit <button_id>
formclear <form_id>
Explaining the commands is pretty straightforward.
showforms shows the forms contained in a web page. For example, try:
>>> go http://issola.caltech.edu/~t/qwsgi/qwsgi-demo.cgi/widgets
>> showforms
Form #1
## __Name______ __Type___ __ID________ __Value__________________
name text (None)
password password (None)
confirm checkbox (None) [] of ['yes']
colour radio (None) [] of ['green', 'blue', 'brown', 'ot ...
size select (None) ['Medium (10")'] of ['Tiny (4")', 'S ...
toppings select (None) ['cheese'] of ['cheese', 'pepperoni' ...
time hidden (None) 1118768019.17
1 submit (None) Submit
current page: http://issola.caltech.edu/~t/qwsgi/qwsgi-demo.cgi/widgets
Notice that twill does a good job of emulating a browser, so it fills the hidden
time widget automatically. The previous code had to fill it explicitly with
Unnamed forms get an ordinal number to use as a form ID in the
formvalue command, which fills a field of the specified form with a given value. You can give many
formvalue commands in succession; if you are a lazy typist, you can also use
fv as an alias for
>>> fv 1 name MICHELES
current page: http://issola.caltech.edu/~t/qwsgi/qwsgi-demo.cgi/widgets
>> fv 1 password SECRET
current page: http://issola.caltech.edu/~t/qwsgi/qwsgi-demo.cgi/widgets
formclear resets all the fields in a form, and
submit lets you press a Submit button, thus submitting the form:
>>> submit 1
current page: http://issola.caltech.edu/~t/qwsgi/qwsgi-demo.cgi/widgets
A simple
show will convince you that twill has submitted the form. The best way to understand how it works is just to experiment on your own. The base distribution contains a few examples you can play with.
In this article I have shown two easy ways to test your web application: by hand with urllib or with a simple tool such as twill. Much more is under the sun. There are many sophisticated web testing frameworks out there, including enterprise-oriented ones, with lots of features and difficult learning curves. Here, on purpose, I have decided to start from the small and to discuss the topic from a do-it-yourself angle, because often the simplest things work best. Sometimes you don't need the sophistication; sometimes your preferred testing framework lacks the feature you wish for; and sometimes it is just buggy. If you need something more sophisticated, a great source for everything testing-related is Grig Gheorghiu's blog.
Michele Simionato is employed by Partecs, an open source company headquartered in Rome. He is actively developing web applications in the Zope/Plone framework.
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U mad? because i say the truth? Seriously everybody who read the manga already know this. Stop wanking outdated feat
Originally Posted by warlee
U mad? because i say the truth? Seriously everybody who read the manga already know this. Stop wanking outdated feat
The truth? Lol...
You are really off this subject, anyway.
this is cool bro , i love it.
Yeah, she is one hell of a woman! Thanks for showing these. I think we should make threads like these for every character. They all had great moments but I`ve always cheered for Queen Tsunade!
Her ass is now bad because it's probably rotting at the moment... Jk, lol.
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Yeah. Thats the truth everybody know this and i'm saying the truth when i said it's outdated. If you know what wanking means then you will know thats what she is doing
Sorry but the last feat is not outdated. It manga time merely some minutes passed since it happened.
Yeah the last one is not but most are
Originally Posted by warlee
Yeah the last one is not but most are
I know is outdated, but she is still awesome :D
I have nothing but respect for her.. she is the best in her field and truly one of the most powerful shinobis around.. it's sad how many people tend to look down on her just because she doesn't have any flashy jutsus.. anyways, all is entitled for their own opinion.. but for me, she is badass..
yup, she is a badass, but alot of people underrate her,, i dunno why
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Baseballs and black light
I'm going to start by showing you something really cool, and then I'm going to explain it…
Check out this photo that I took of some baseballs under a black light:
Do you see the "1297" on the left side of the photo? Do you see the other faint numbers that appear to be illuminated? That's invisible ink. It only appears under ultraviolet light.
Let me show you a couple more pics…
Remember when I caught Barry Bonds' 724th career home run on 8/16/06 at PETCO Park?
Here's a side-by-side photo of that ball. The image on the left shows it in normal light; the image on the right shows it under a black light:
I learned about the invisible ink while doing research for my new book — and then I got to see the ink being stamped on the balls when I visited the Rawlings baseball factory in Costa Rica.
There are 350 employees at the factory who do nothing but stitch baseballs all day — by hand. Every employee has a stamp with a unique serial number. When the balls are done being stitched, they get stamped with invisible ink. That way, if an inspector finds a "correctable flaw" on a ball (for example, a stitch that's not quite tight enough), he can examine it under a black light, mark down the serial number, and send it back to the person who stitched it. It's basically an extra method of quality control.
Even though every ball gets stamped with the ink, you won't always see it on the balls you get a hold of — that is, if you bother to go out and get yourself a black light. That's because every ball gets wiped with a cleaning solvent at the factory. The purpose of the solvent isn't to remove the invisible ink. Rawlings doesn't care about that. The solvent is used to remove excess wax or oil that might've found its way onto the cowhide cover, and in the process, the invisible ink is often rubbed off.
…and here they are under a black light:
For an extra cool effect, download the previous two photos so you can open them both at once and flip back and forth.
I was absolutely stunned when I shined a black light on my baseballs for the first time and saw all these little serial numbers appear out of nowhere. I had snagged thousands of balls over the course of two decades, and I thought I knew everything about them, and then I discovered this whole secret element to my collection. It was like…I don't know…not to get overly dramatic or anything, but it's like I'd stumbled into an alternate reality. Of all the things I learned while doing research, this was definitely my favorite.
More pics?
Let's take a look at the two commemorative balls that Heath Bell gave me on 7/23/09 at Citizens Bank Park. Here they are in regular light…
…and here they are under a black light:
As you can see, there's a very faint invisible ink stamp on the World Baseball Classic ball — just to the left of where it says "official ball."
Here's a closer look at the brighter stamp on the right:
I'm not sure what it says or how to decipher it.
Is that a period after the 8?
You know what? It doesn't even matter. It's just awesome. Let's leave it at that.
Here's one more photo for you:
I like the stamp on the lower left that simply says "6-11."
See the one just to the upper right of it that says "036I"? That's a 2008 All-Star Game ball, in case you were wondering.
That's pretty much it, but let me just say quickly (for those who don't know) that my new book is called The Baseball, and if you're interested in checking it out, here it is on Amazon. Chapter 7 is called "The Rawlings Method," and there's a TON of info about the entire manufacturing process — stuff that some people might find hard to believe.
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Z-Man- you outdid yourself on the book man! I am loving it. I can tell that it was a labor of love. I know your dad is looking down and beaming with pride. Take care!
Big Glove Bob
I wonder if you will get a piece of all the blacklight sales that you will create with this post?? Ballhawks everywhere are going out to get one!
That's really cool, Zack. I guess your stats aren't complete. You better track all of the serial numbers on your balls to see how many you have from the same worker(s). That would be really cool to find (for example) that the same guy stitched a ball you got in the world series in 2008 and a baseball you got at…oh, let's say…the Kingdome in whatever year you went to the Kingdome. You get the idea, right? John is right…I think Tim and I are going to have to go get a black light.
You should buy one of these pens to mark numbers on your baseballs you catch this season. http://www.amazon.com/Sharpie-Type-Invisible-Marking-Ink/dp/B000UH0MZG
That way, you can still mark each ball with a number(4,663..4,664..etc.) without it actually being visible. (Until put under black light.)
Coming from someone like you who (if I'm remembering correctly) hardly ever reads books, I take this as the highest possible compliment. My dad lived long enough to see me get my first royalty check for "Watching Baseball Smarter" last summer. I think he took great pride in seeing that and knowing that I had really established myself as a writer.
Months ago, I actually did joke with some friends about buying black light stock. Think it's too late?
Oh jeez. I'm nerdy and obsessive, but not THAT nerdy and obsessive. Fun idea, though. You guys should definitely get a black light.
Whoa! How do you find all this amazing stuff online? You truly have a gift.
You know how you're gifted at snagging baseballs, and Kobe Bryant is gifted at basketball. I guess I'm just gifted at finding random things online. (Does this mean you're actually going to get one? Or you just think it's cool?)
Zack, i am honored to have a copy of "The Baseball" (i won't use the subtitle, because they are stupid). i am delighted with your work, and always proud to know you.
However. . .
i'm wondering if you can answer the following questions:
"Why should a man carry away an object worth $2.50 just because he gets his hands on it? ("Cap" Huston)
"When people go to a restaurant, do they take the dishes or silverware home for souvenirs?" (Huston, again)
Why don't y'all just call yourselves "Ballhogs", instead of "ballhawks"? (jgk)
Zack- you'll have to keep me in the loop about any road trip plans this summer. I currently have 4 trips planned to see the Twins. 3 trips to KC and 1 to Milwaukee where I hope to hook up with Happy for the third year running. If you make it anywhere in the midwest I will be really tempted to hop in my buggy and meet up with you for a series.
Big Glove Bob
Howdy over there, Zack! I hope all is well with you and yours. I just picked up a copy (really 2), and I am looking forward to reading it with my son at bedtime tonight. Congratulations!
After reading your latest entry, is there any coding that would tell you which balls are used by the MLB? You can guess where I'm going with this…
Cheers sir. You are becoming a true Baseball Historian.
Interesting entry…got your book Wed. and just finished it Saturday. Loved the book! It was like going to the movies, I was lost in another world. One of the best books I have ever read. What game are you going to first in the 2011 MLB season?
If it means anything, I think the WBC ball is upside down. Turn it over and the number would read 1808. The end of the stamp just merged with the 1.
And I think I'm definitely going to do what Matt mentioned! I always wanted to mark my balls but never wanted visible ink.
this whole black light thing is really awesome!
it just so happened that my friends were throwing a highlighter party the day u blogged about this so i got to check it out right away. random thought though – does anyone know if the marlins will be using a commemorative ball this season, since its their last season in this ballpark?
HI from AZ ZACK, IVE been to 15 games so far and caught 2HR S.AND 1 DOUBLE .cws vs padres.watch the milledge HR.3/14/11. WE BOTH TOOK OUR LIDS OFF..i got the ground rule double after the hr so i tried for the trifecta.a foul ball too.didnt happen.good job on the book andthanx for the shout out…..TC 206 OUT
Good analogy. Not sure if I'll actually get one of those pens. I'm feeling too lazy at the moment to go for it. Maybe I'll start marking the balls that way after I snag No. 5,000.
I am honored to know that you have a copy of "The Baseball." I must admit, though, that I can't answer those questions. I suppose we ARE a greedy bunch. :-)
Cool. Will do. I haven't booked a single game yet for this coming season, but I might end up going on a mega-road trip in August and September. Stay tuned. And whoa, just watched that YouTube vid. That's insane! Thanks for sharing. I can't believe I never saw it 'til now.
Thanks for getting (not one but) two copies of the book. I'm not quite sure what're getting at with your question. Either I'm really dumb or you just need to be more specific. Either way, can you help me out and explain what you mean?
Glad you enjoyed this entry and (more importantly) the book. Lost in another world? Damn, man, I'm flattered. Not sure about my first game yet for 2011. Possibly the Twins at Yankee Stadium on Monday, April 4th.
Hmm, you might be right about the WBC ball. Still hard to tell. If you do get one of those pens, please show it to me when I see you.
Nice timing with the highlighter party. Did you, in fact, find some baseballs with good invisible ink stamps? As for the Marlins, yeah, I've heard that they WILL be using commemorative balls.
When you're the man, you're the man. Thanks for checking in and congrats on the snags. Hope to run into you this year. If my friend Brandon has his way with me (and I mean that in a nonsexual way), I'll end up in San Diego for about a week.
More specifically, would the coding help you towards getting recognition from the Guinness Book?
Yeah I was able to find a few near perfect invisible ink stamps. Also, on the opposite side of the ball from the stamped ink number, (on one ball in particular) it seemed as if there were a couple other strange invisible ink markings including possibly a url. I'm not exactly what it says, I'll have to do some more investigation/comparisons next week when I go home for break.
Interesting thought. I hadn't considered it. But the people at Guinness simply aren't interested. If they were, they would reach out to me again as they did in 1999 instead of ignoring me and making my claim virtually impossible to prove.
Whoa, a URL?! That's bizarre. Please please please take a pic of it and send it to me. I'm dying to see that.
I feel sorry for Mister Wade.
YOU THE MAN. DO you like it when yor dog scraps lies on his back? i just saw AIRPLANE.I WANT TO SEE THEM MAKE airplane 3…i speak jive
Last week I read your post from 9/2005 about how you wanted to visit the Rawlings factory in Turrialba and then the post where you went, but today I looked for them again and they are gone. The link from this page doesn't work, either. What gives? I wanted to use them in my class: I teach English at the Turrialba plant where the balls are made and your blog has good material for my upper-level students. They are surprised to learn that others are so interested in their craft.
Hey Zack,
That sounds awesome. Very nice photo, and a great album cover. I haven't commented in almost a year, though I've read off and on. I just started a new blog, and I used your name in it (included a link to your blog as well). I also put down the picture from the NY Times article on you from 2006. Is that alright with you?
See ya Zack
Cool info about the invisible ink marks! Who knew? Now, I do!
I have some baseballs from the 50s and the 60s signed and I would love nothing more than to get them appraised. If you can help it would be greatly appreciated. #609-510-8380 I would truly appreciate a response Thank You!!
I have a new rawlings base ball with little league stamped upside down. Is it unique?


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Let's look at what is not happening. The poor are not getting poorer because the rich are getting richer. Gary Burtless of the Brookings Institution says living standards have improved for the poor and middle-class since 1980, in comments he provided for an American Enterprise Institute study, Oct. 25. He notes real income and consumption for middle and bottom income levels improved. Indeed, the poor and the middling are getting richer, not poorer.
The unusual cases in which middle-income living standards stopped rising involve "a fairly brief period — say, the last five or 10 years, when living standards have been affected by a steep recession and anemic recovery," Burtless writes. Alternatively, declining living standards over two or three decades, involve a trend "within fairly narrow slices of the population — unmarried men in their 20s and early 30s who have below-average schooling…or groups that have been particularly hard hit in the recent slump."
Next, many of those at the bottom don't stay there. They move up. Many people at the bottom today are not the same people who used to be there.
A large segment of the richest also no longer are the richest.
This upward — and downward — mobility refutes the claim tax-rate reductions and deregulation in recent decades helped only America's richest. There's no reason to assume this mobility is changing. The Tax Foundation also points out it is "wrong to claim that federal taxes have become less redistributive over" the period of the CBO study. That's because the CBO study relies on the average effective tax rate going down, which "has nothing to do with the distribution of taxes paid…"
The rich are paying more than they used to. The Tax Foundation finds "a very strong trend…throughout the last three decades" of the top 1 percent of earners paying an increasing share of income taxes. In 2009, the top 1 percent's share of income taxes was 36.7 percent, higher than any year prior to 2000, and double what it was in 1980. That is partly because a record 42 percent of tax-filers paid no tax or received money back, thanks to ever-growing refundable tax credits. The Tax Foundation says income is now more evenly distributed than it was under most of Clinton's second term.
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From Picasso to Magritte: European Masters from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Web banner image: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901), Le Tandem (detail), 1899, Black and colored crayon on paper, 14" H x 10" W, 35.56 cm x 25.4 cm, Signed upper right with artist's monogram; artist's monogram stamp lower right, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Photo: Travis Fullerton, © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts File: (c)VMFA_85-813_v1_TF201202
From Picasso to Magritte: European Masters from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts re-examines one of art history's most popular time periods through an array of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures created by some of the most preeminent artists in Europe. Largely displayed in chronological order, this exhibition features thirty-five exquisite works from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' renowned European Collection from the 19th and 20th centuries. Artists on view include innovators such as Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, René Magritte, Paul Cézanne, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Vincent van Gogh among others. The works span nearly 150 years from an 1816 drawing by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres to a 1960s watercolor by Georgio Morandi and present a visual and conceptual progression that occurred throughout the 19th and into the 20th century while touching on a variety of art movements that cycled through the time period such as Cubism, Surrealism, Impressionism and German Expressionism. From artists' reaction to the unyielding standards of the French Academy early in the 19th century to the invention of photography and the writings of Sigmund Freud combined with the rise of the middle class, the exhibited artists' work summarizes a dynamic age of creative rebellion from the artistic traditions of the past.
Less than one hundred years later, art created today is now considered beyond specific definition. From Picasso to Magritte: European Masters from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts retells the story that outlines the deconstruction of rigid artistic styles and governed content in the 19th century that ultimately provided the foundation for artists working today to pursue their own art without restrictions.
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Crosby reports healthy
PITTSBURGH – Sidney Crosby's jaw is fully healed. His head is clear. For the first time in three years, the Pittsburgh Penguins star arrived for training camp with no questions to face other than how he plans to move beyond his team's four-game flop against Boston in the Eastern Conference finals.
Not exactly the happiest topic, sure. But hey, it beats talking about concussions or dental work, issues that have plagued Crosby since New Year's Day 2011.
The lockout-shortened 2012-13 season combined with an early start due to the Olympics made for a pretty short summer. That's just fine for the player only too happy to move past the debacle versus Boston, a series in which the Penguins never led.
"I think you have to get over it pretty quickly and realize it's a long season ahead of us and we've got to learn from that but obviously you can't dwell on it," Crosby said. "I think we've moved on."
With the same cast along for the ride.
While other teams blew it up in the offseason, the Penguins decided to keep together the core that led the franchise to the best record in the East during the strike-shortened 2012-13 season. Former MVP Evgeni Malkin, defenseman Kris Letang and winger Chris Kunitz signed contract extensions. Forward Pascal Dupuis decided against free agency to re-up for another four years in the city where he wants to finish his career.
Coach Dan Bylsma – who received the blunt of the criticism after Pittsburgh scored just two goals in four games against the Bruins – had another two years tacked onto his deal in a very public vote of confidence from general manager Ray Shero.
The extension kickstarted a busy summer in which Bylsma accepted a job as the coach of Team USA in the Sochi Olympics. He estimated he has about "85 percent" of his pre-Olympic work done. The to-do list at his regular gig, though, is lengthy. The Penguins led the NHL in goals last season and won two rounds in the playoffs for the first time since winning the Stanley Cup in 2009 before being shut down completely by the Bruins.
Tweaking a system to find something that works when things get tight will be the focus when the Penguins take the ice for the first time today.
"We're not going to shy away from [losing] and looking at ways we came up short and what we need to do better as a team," Bylsma said. "That's not something we're looking to do April 20 when the playoffs come around, it's something we have to do as a team. It starts right now in training camp."
The Penguins went "all-in" last season at the trade deadline, acquiring Jarome Iginla, Brenden Morrow, Douglas Murray and Jussi Jokinen in hopes of raising the Cup for the fourth time in team history. The dressing room had barely emptied after falling to Boston when all but Jokinen bolted. Iginla signed with the Bruins in free agency while Murray moved on to Montreal and Morrow was allowed to walk.
Pittsburgh addressed Murray's departure by bringing back defenseman Rob Scuderi. The veteran helped Pittsburgh win it all in 2009 and sprinted back to his former team when Shero approached him about a possible return.
"It was impossible to say no, especially with the history I have with these guys," Scuderi said. "I couldn't say no."
The addition of Scuderi should help a defense that appeared leaky at times. Then again, so did the play in goal, where Marc-Andre Fleury gave way to backup Tomas Vokoun in the playoffs. Bylsma insists there is no controversy heading into the season.


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A day before what would have been Buddy Holly's 71st birthday, buddies from his youth remembered the rock 'n' roll legend as someone with many of the usual characteristics for a young man.
Jack Neal said being two years older than Holly didn't make him immune from his jokes.
"He was a prankster," said Neal, 73, in town to play keyboards during Thursday's Legends of Clovis concert at the Clovis Musical Festival. "He loved to cut up and loved to kid."
Neal was one of the first to perform with Holly on radio and television in Lubbock.
"We were just kids having a good time. He picked on me all the time," Neal said. "I got my driver's license before he did and I had a '48 Chevrolet that had chokes and throttles; it didn't have any automatic stuff. He'd catch me not looking and he'd reach out there and pull out the choke.
"My car would start jumping and I'd look around thinking it was fixin' to quit. I'd look, and he'd be over there just laughing," Neal said.
Neal was one of several musicians with connections to Holly and the Norman Petty studio who arrived in Clovis early to rehearse for the show.
Larry Welborn, 68, who played bass on Holly's classic, "That'll Be The Day," said that Holly was typical of a teenager in his ambition to succeed — but perhaps more driven to do what was necessary to get there.
"He was a go-getter. Buddy was very intelligent. He knew what was going on, although I didn't realize it at the time," Welborn said. "He would write letters to high schools, things like that, try to do a fund-raiser for them. He, Bob Montgomery and myself, we had a radio show there for awhile at KDAV in Lubbock, and he was always doing something."
"When Elvis came to Lubbock, we went up to his room," added Welborn, who said he and Holly were rock 'n' roll fans before Holly himself became part of music lore. "(Elvis) was singing in the shower, he come out and we talked — it was really neat."
Tommy Allsup, 75, was part of the touring Crickets, Buddy Holly's band, when the tour came to an abrupt end with the plane crash that killed Holly, J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and Richie Valens. Allsup is famously part of that incident as having been the one that lost a coin flip, giving Valens a seat on the plane that went down in an Iowa cornfield on Feb. 3, 1959.
"He (Holly) was a good ol' Texas boy, who put his pants on one leg at a time — just like everybody else," recalled Allsup, who plays guitar. "He was kind of reserved, kind of quiet. I did three tours with him and there wasn't nothin' different about him.
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EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) - Northwestern added a pair of highly ranked players to its offense Wednesday as part of its 2013 recruiting class.
Both the Rivals.com and Scout.com recruiting services give quarterback Matt Alviti of Maine South High School in Park Ridge, Ill., four stars. And Scout.com considers running back Godwin Igwebuike from Pickerington North High School in Pickerington, Ohio, a four-star recruit, too.
"We as a staff are confident we've signed a group of young men who are tremendous fits for our program athletically, academically and socially," coach Pat Fitzgerald said. "These 21 individuals are joining a program with a lot of momentum and I look forward to the contributions they'll make toward helping us achieve our goals in years to come."
Northwestern finished last season 10-3 (including 5-3 in the Big Ten, third in the six-team Legends Division). The Wildcats beat Mississippi State 34-20 in the Gator Bowl.
Rivals.com considers Northwestern's class the ninth best in the 12-member Big Ten and 52nd in the country. Scout.com ranks the Wildcats' class eighth in the Big Ten and No. 45 in the country. Ohio State is considered No. 1 in the conference by both recruiting services.
Alviti is a dual-threat quarterback who had 9,750 passing yards in high school and 2,040 rushing yards. The 6-foot, 185-pounder threw for 85 touchdowns and ran for 43.
Northwestern returns last season's starting quarterback, senior Kain Colter, who was an honorable mention All-Big Ten player as a junior.
Igwebuike has 1,985 rushing yards as a high school senior and 29 touchdowns. The 6-foot, 190-pound back was also a talented safety.
Other highly regarded members of the signing class include offensive lineman Sam Coverdale, a 6-6, 265-pound tackle from Kenston High School in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
The class includes 10 offensive players, eight defenders and one special teams player. Five of Northwestern's recruits are from Illinois and five more from Ohio.
The Wildcats' class includes two other running backs, 6-0, 180-pound Warren Long from James Logan High School in Union City, Calif., and Xavier Menifield, a 5-10, 190-pound back from Sierra Canyon High School in Valencia, Calif.
The `Cats added only two other linemen, one on each side of the ball: 6-3, 250-pound offensive lineman Blake King from Minooka High School in Shorewood, Ill., and defensive tackle Eric Joraskie, a 6-4, 260-pounder from Mount Carmel (Pa.) High School.


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More than two years after Japan's earthquake and tsunami, one man is still on a mission to help bring life back to normal. Or, at least get close.
For Tsuneo Otomo and his wife Mariko, that day, March 11, 2011, still feels like yesterday.
But, long after Japan's disaster, they are telling their story and their ongoing struggle to save lives.
"That's when we saw a big wave coming over the pine trees by the coastline and we started screaming," said Mariko.
That was the day. How could anyone forget?
"What I did was try to go and rescue three old ladies," said Tsuneo.
They lived on Sendai's devastated coastline.
Scrambling to get so many to safety. A few houses and some lives spared.
Nearly everyone losing everything else.
"Every machinery or land needs to be fixed up again, but there's no money," said Tsuneo. "Even now people in Hawaii are still thinking about us."
Their New Hope Church has helped funding a little R&R for their first trip to Hawaii, following them for a documentary about their work after the wave was long gone.
"Because of this love, our love, we find peace in our hearts in this disaster," said Tsuneo.
The Otomos are on a mission visiting the hundreds still in temporary shelters. Their land scraped dry. Their few belongings, wrecked.
What they want is a house of their own to relax, which they don't have now.
But, little by little, they are bringing hope from the ground up, offering back small plots of land to grow maybe the basic greens.
Many, too old to leave, too old to make a living.
"There are still difficulties and unknowns ahead that we face," said Mariko.
There are good times. A hula lesson here. A song there.
"They say please do not forget about us," said Tsuneo.
They know the small steps are monumental.
"Maybe we had more things before the tsunami," said Tsuneo. "But, now we know what's really important."
They say devastated lands have been divided into zones. Red zones are now condemned, so people cannot rebuild or grow anything.
Elsewhere, some crops are popping up, but government subsidies are lagging way behind, or non-existent.
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Many aspects of our lives have made a
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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is seeing these shifts in technology as well, but
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While mail delivery is getting axed, USPS plans to continue package delivery on Saturdays since this particular area has seen a 14 percent increase since 2010. Mail will also still be delivered to P.O. boxes six days per week as well.
In addition, post offices will remain open on Saturdays to allow customers to drop mail/packages off, access post office boxes or buy postage stamps -- although hours will likely be cut.
USPS is expected to give an official announcement today without explicit congressional approval. Lawmakers have said this approval is necessary for a change like cutting Saturday mail delivery, but the USPS is arguing this claim.
As far as the American people go, USPS expects some opposition from those like rural communities that worry a change in scheduling could make low-cost deliveries of items like medication a thing of the past, and publishers who will have to adjust schedules with publication deadlines.
Just last month, it was reported that
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However, Paul Vogel, president of digital solutions at USPS, revealed that his office is like "a San Jose startup," with only 15 Android/Apple developers, consultants coming and going, one computer and his BlackBerry smartphone. Technological restrictions make upgrading hard to come by.
A few other major obstacles are legislation needed to get permission for new digital products, the USPS' huge instruction manual for just handful of current products (adding digital products and security certifications would turn that 1,500 page book into something unimaginable), and USPS' losses of nearly $16 billion last year led to legislative proposals to
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I am getting ready to go back to work and started pumping and freezing. The only time I get 2 or 3 ounces is the early morning feeding. Every other time I only get a half an ounce. I pump for 10-20 minutes and keep the pump on even after the milk stops. I do a lot of compressions and massages during the time I am pumping.
The LO also does not seem to be satisfied after she is done eating. If I am pumping so little, I can only assume she is not getting enough food.
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PELLA—For the second straight year, senior Demarco Turner (Des Moines, East HS) is a first-team all-Iowa Conference men's basketball selection.
Turner is among three Dutch athletes receiving league honors. Junior Jacob Winkler (Lancaster, Mo., Schuyler R-1 HS) and senior Sarah Paulson (Ottumwa) are second-team picks.
A 5-10 guard, Turner led the squad averaging 12.9 points per game. He also had 52 assists and 33 steals. Turner's 67 made 3-point field goals rank second in the league and third on Central's all-time charts. His 190 attempts from long distance is a school record.
On Central's career leaderbaords, Turner is third in made 3-point field goals (148), fourth in 3-point attempts (383) and fifth in free throw percentage (83.5).A three-year letterwinner, Turner received league player of the week recognition twice in his career and was tabbed last year's team MVP.
Winkler, a 6-5 forward, came off the bench to average 10.5 points per game and a team-high 6.8 rebounds per game, ranking eighth in the league. He also dished 57 assists, 10th in the conference, and 24 blocks, seventh in the league. Winkler posted four double-doubles and received league player of the week distinction Feb. 13.
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First recall election debate still important for both parties
LA CROSSE, Wis. – Governor Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett will face off in the first debate of this recall campaign Friday night.
But after months of hearing about this recall? Is this debate still important or have voters already made up their minds?
The last time these two candidates went head to head was back in October 2010 before Walker went on to win the election and become governor. That means a lot of time has passed and a lot of things have changed.
It's a rematch 15 months in the making.
"This will be the first time since the initial gubernatorial campaign that these two candidates have gone head to head," said Julian Bradley, La Crosse County Republican Party chairman.
For the La Crosse County Republican party, Friday night's debate will be about what the governor has done right.
"I think quite a bit has changed," said Bradley. "That's what we need to find out from Mayor Barrett is 'What would you have done? How would you have affected the change? How would you have closed the gap on a multi-billion dollar budget deficit?'"
And for the La Crosse County Democrats, it will be about what the governor has done wrong.
"I think Tom considers this unfinished business and that's why he was interested again in running against Scott Walker because now I think he can point to what Gov. Scott Walker didn't say the first time and what he has done," said Vicki Burke, La Crosse County Democratic Party chairwoman.
But haven't voters heard it all already being bombarded with countless political ads? Don't voters know where each candidate stands on the important issues?
Bradley says maybe not.
"It gives both candidates a chance to step up and say, not just in a 30-second clip, to say, 'here's what I would do and here what I will do' and in the governor's case, 'here's what I've done and will continue to do,'" said Bradley.
While both sides agree there are still undecided voters out there, Friday night's debate just might be the night where they get one step closer to casting their ballots.
"I think it matters to people if they look at the candidate and see what they thought they would see," said Burke. "This will give an opportunity for people to judge again the candidates side by side."
Both headquarters are set to have viewing parties to watch the debate Friday, starting at 8 p.m.
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