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The short form of my question is: Can we find two formulae (in the multiplicative fragment of linear logic (MLL), that is, without additives or exponentials) A and B such that (1st) A is provable and B is provable, (2nd) A ⅋ B (A par B) is provable?
The context of the question is this: If we can find two such formulae, we can easily show that the multiplicative fragment of linear logic is not truth functional.
By truth-functionality, we should have:
- ϕ(A) = ϕ(B) ==> ϕ(~A) = ϕ(~B)
- ϕ(A1) = ϕ(A2) AND ϕ(B1) = ϕ(B2) ==> ϕ(A1 ⊗ B1) = ϕ(A2 ⊗ B2)
- ϕ(A1) = ϕ(A2) AND ϕ(B1) = ϕ(B2) ==> ϕ(A1 ⅋ B1) = ϕ(A2 ⅋ B2)
Let us assume, for reductio, that there exists a function ϕ, from the set of linear formulae to the elements of an arbitrary set E, that satisfies (1)-(3), and which is such that ϕ(A) = e if and only if A is provable in linear logic.
(Remark: We know that it is possible, in fact, to find a truth-functional value-assignment that gives every provable formula the same value---i.e. that assigns "true" to a formula whenever it is provable. This won't concern us here. What we want to show is that any such function always assigns truth to too many formulae, that "truth", on any assignment, may be construed as a necessary condition for provability, but by no means a sufficient condition for provability.)
What we want to do now is find formulae {A1, A2, B1, B2} which are each, on their own, provable, and so which will be such that:
ϕ(A1) = ϕ(A2) = e ϕ(B1) = ϕ(B2) = e
But which are such that (A1 ⅋ B1) is not provable, while (A2 ⅋ B2) is provable. If we find such formulae, then we will have shown that our assumption leads to a contradiction: by (I), ϕ(A1 ⅋ B1) ≠ ϕ(A2 ⅋ B2), but by (II), ϕ(A1 ⅋ B1) = ϕ(A2 ⅋ B2).
This is where I hit the wall. Finding multiplicative A1, B1 is simple enough: Let them each be the constant 1. 1 ⅋ 1 is easily shown to be unprovable (which by itself tells us a lot about the peculiarities of linear logic---1 ⅋ 1 looks like the linear counterpart of True v True). If we allow ourselves to dip into the additives, we can let A2 = 1 and let B2 = (1⊕⊥), and the resulting A2 ⅋ B2 will be provable. This is enough to show that LL, as a whole, is not truth-functional, because it leads to the destructive dilemma:
Either ϕ(1 ⅋ 1) = ϕ(1 ⅋ (1 ⊕ ⊥)) = e, in which case ϕ(x) = e is not equivalent to "x is provable"; since ϕ and e are arbitrary, this shows that no truth-functional value assignment captures linear provability.
Or else ϕ(1 ⅋ 1) ≠ ϕ(1 ⅋ (1 ⊕ ⊥)), which contradicts truth-functionality requirement (3). To the extent that it violates (3), ϕ is not truth-functional.
This is all well and good, but can we get a similar result for the multiplicative fragment, that is, can we find two multiplicative, MLL-provable formulae whose multiplicative disjunction is also provable?
(PS: I'm using Girard's notation, not Troelstra's, so 1 and ⊥ should be read as the multiplicative constants, the neutrals for tensor and par, respectively.)


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Rumor: Big iPad 3 Reveal to Happen on March 7
Apple fans may get their first look at the third-generation iPad on March 7. That's the date that the company reportedly has circled on the calendar for its next big product unveiling, widely expected to be the coming-out party for the iPad 3.
Naturally, this hasn't been confirmed officiallyApple hasn't even said publicly that it's got a follow-up to its hugely successful tablet in the worksbut the March 7 date was reported Monday by the iMore blog, citing "sources who have been reliable in the past."
Possibly corroborating the rumor is an All Things D report from last week that tipped an early March announcement of the new iPad. There's also the fact that Apple chose Wednesdays for the past two iPad reveals, so if that pattern holds and the "early March" rumor is true, the company's pretty much stuck with March 7 or nothing.
The iMore post also states confidently that the iPad 3 will have a 2048-by-1536 Retina display and pack a new quad-core processor, the A6, a step up from the dual-core part in the iPad 2. The next-gen tablet may or may not have 4G LTE, according to the blog.
Earlier rumors have also pointed to a new quad-core chip and LTE wireless functionality for Apple's next tablet. In January, 9to5Mac.com unearthed references to core management capabilities for quad-core processors buried within Apple's iOS 5.1 beta code.
The iPad 3 rumor mill was in full swing Monday, with another report claiming that Apple has built a tablet that's slightly thicker and has a better camera than the iPad 2.
Asian parts reseller iLab Factory posted on its website images of what it says may be some of the components of the iPad 3, including a high-resolution LCD screen manufactured by Sharp, a back plate with an Apple logo, and a 30-pin dock connector.
The site notes that the purported back plate for the iPad 3 is a tad thicker than the one used on the iPad 2, meaning the next-generation tablet may grow about one millimeter in profile, but will remain the same length and width.
For more, see PCMag's full review of the iPad 2 and the slideshow below.
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Welcome to the Philatelic Genealogy searchable database of old envelopes and postcards gathered from postal history collections. Old envelopes and postcards can reveal an immigrant ancestor's place of origin, a family's migration after their arrival, or the location of siblings.
Carl Gronenberg of Oakland, California, United States, received an envelope from Skjelskor, Denmark postmarked on 23 January 1893. The city name and date appear in the postmark (upper left) and the country name is on the blue stamps (which are upside down). In the 1900 U.S. census, Carl Gronenberg, from Denmark, is in San Francisco (across from Oakland).[1] In 1915, Carl Gronenberg applied for a U.S. passport, and in his application he stated that he was born in Saelskor (a variation of Skjelskor).[2] The location of the postmark on this envelope, by itself, could give a genealogist a clue on where to start searching for the birthplace of Carl Gronenberg.
1 1900 U.S. census, California, San Francisco County, San Francisco, ED 191, p. 9A, NARA series T623, roll 105.
2 U.S. passport application 11615, date of issue 23 November 1915, NARA series M1490.
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confidence than does knowledge.
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The Descent of Man (1871)
Ask most people why so many larger companies seem rife with incompetence and lassitude while smaller companies seem to remain focused and productive, and you'll likely hear the incremental argument: more people and more process results in less efficiency. Perhaps someone will cite the Peter Principle or Dunning-Kruger. You may even hear a market-friendly variation on social Darwinism: while larger companies usually have the capital to survive their mistakes, smaller companies have little choice but to sink or swim, resulting in a marketplace that seems to be primarily populated by well-run small companies.


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Xerox Continues to Innovate How People Communicate, Work, and Share Information in Today's Hyper-Connected World
Partnership with McAfee helps Xerox meet its customers' security concerns so they can continue to innovate, create, and move business forward
Xerox® is an $11 billion Fortune 500 global corporation known best for its print and digital document technology solutions sold in more than 160 countries. Today the company is positioned at the intersection of analog and digital technologies, with industry-leading workflow automation, analytics, personalization, and imaging solutions. In a world in which the ways to communicate, work, and share information have exploded, Xerox focuses on providing solutions that meet the ever-increasing need to do those things better—more intelligently, efficiently, effectively, and safely.
"As security continues to evolve, it is the responsibility of us as vendors, individually and together, to bring secure solutions to the table. … Security is always a part of our baseline and we will continue to raise that baseline."
—Dr. Alissa Johnson, Chief Information Security Officer, Xerox Corporation
Innovation is part of the Xerox DNA. Investing over $1 billion in R&D annually, Xerox is one of the top 20 patent-producing companies in the world. One of its latest innovations, ConnectKey® Technology, arose out of customers' security concerns. "Enabling our customers to keep moving business forward is our end goal," says Xerox Chief Information Security Officer Dr. Alissa Johnson. "Consequently, as we think about how we evolve our technology, we must also think about the role we play in helping our customers ensure that their data is secure in our devices. Because hackers can and do try to get into the network through IoT devices, it is no longer enough to offer a secure standalone office product. Our customers want a holistic solution that integrates with the rest of the corporate security infrastructure."Partnership Secures Data Traveling To, From, and On IoT Printers so Companies Can Keep Innovating with Peace of Mind
Partnering with McAfee, Xerox developed ConnectKey Technology with embedded McAfee technology to protect not only its AltaLink® line of multifunction devices, but the businesses that use them. These Xerox workplace assistants with ConnectKey Technology can protect information whether it is sent to, from, or stored on the device. This technology is helping Xerox customers move business forward in multiple ways:
A hospital makes the move to an electronic medical records (EMR) system to securely digitize patient documents and store them in the cloud.
Traveling executives from a major energy company can securely print documents, often finalized at the last minute, from the cloud.
A bank builds a custom app that cuts invoice processing time by 75%.
"As security continues to evolve, it is the responsibility of us as vendors, individually and together, to bring secure solutions to the table," Dr. Johnson adds. "I expect McAfee to bring lightweight solutions that are easily embedded and integrated into our products and I expect us to be able to work well together. Security is always a part of our baseline and we will continue to raise that baseline. In the future, I expect our relationship with McAfee will only continue to grow."
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Established in 1987 and still family run with an ethos of supplying the best quality goods and un-matched service, Grant & Stone has flourished to quickly become recognised as one of the leading providers to the building, plumbing and electrical trades. Our dedicated team are always ready and willing to go the extra mile.
Grant & Stone branches across the region opening hours are from 7.30am Monday to Saturday, our builders merchants, electrical wholesalers, plumbers merchants, timber merchants and kitchen & bathroom showrooms can supply everything required to build a house, from the foundations to the final decoration - all on one trade account! And with our experienced team of well trained and knowledgeable staff, we are truly confident that we can offer you a service that goes beyond that of our industry peers. Our attention to detail and understanding of our customers needs in terms of range of choice and quality of service ensures that we continue to be the number one independent merchant in the area.
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By: Gabe Taylor '12
Niyi Harrison is tossing all expectations aside. Sure, his eyes haven't diverted from the WCC Championship or the NCAA Tournament. But after last season, now it's all about doing.
"It's hard to pinpoint on just one thing on why we didn't do well," said Harrison, commenting on last season's outcome.
But it wasn't all bad. The losses - although undesired – allowed the team to take a step back and gain a different perspective.
"Of course you want to win, but you learn a lot of stuff when you lose," said Harrison.
With an average 10.7 ppg and 6.3 rpg, Harrison filled the void left by Marc Trasolini's season ending injury (torn ACL), becoming a threat on both ends of the floor. But it was a process to get there.
"With Marc being out, it just threw me into a position where I had to step up and show what I can do. And maybe I wasn't necessarily ready for that, but I was tossed into there and it was sink or swim," said Harrison.
Harrison was one of four post players called upon to ensure offensive and defensive output wasn't lost with Trasolini on the sideline. John McArthur, Robert Garrett and Jordan Akwenuke all took on significant roles.
For the upcoming season, Harrison is focusing on expanding his game away from the basket. Whether it is dribbling, passing around the perimeter, or shooting mid-range jumpers, he is preparing to do, not to expect.
"I'm trying to be a defensive stopper and just set an example for the younger guys by working hard," said Harrison.
When Santa Clara took home the CIT Championship in 2011, Harrison remembers the chemistry being "perfect." With many of the same players returning next year, he is confident they can regain that.
It helps that they all enjoy spending time together outside of practice and games.
"It's a blessing what we have here, where everyone gels together really well; and just a credit to the coaches for recruiting good people," said Harrison.
In six months the 2011-2012 Broncos will return to the court only having lost Phillip Bach. They will likely be expected to make a run at the WCC title with Trasolini-Foster duo suiting up again. But Harrison knows it comes down to performance:
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Bandsaws can be used for cut-off operation, straight sawing or contour sawing.
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For a cheap-at-half-the-price sum of just $US30million you could be the owner of the Basra Breeze—a 270-foot superyacht that Bond himself, or perhaps, more fittingly, a Bond-style supervillain would be proud of. Why? Because as well as your standard superyacht golden faucets, the Breeze has a helicopter landing deck, and a bullet-proof atrium.
Better yet there's even an escape pod accessed by a ship-wide secret passageway, and a place to install your collection of surface-air missiles. I'm certain I've seen both of those in Bond movies.
Plus you'd have the pleasure of owning a ship with the dubious cachet of once belonging to Middle-Eastern dictator, Saddam Hussein himself. The Iraqi government's the vendor, but if you're in the market for it, you'd better have no sense of style: apparently the interior decor is as crazy as the moustachioed-one himself was. [Photo: Luxist. DangerRoom]


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How Does Your School District Compare to the International Average? Now You Can Find Out…
The often ingenious Jay Greene has been ingenious again. Greene chairs the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, and with his co-author Josh McGee has come up with a way of ranking every school district in the United States against the international average. The idea is simple: 1) find out how each district performs in mathematics compared to the other districts in its state, 2) find out how that state compares to the U.S. national average, 3) find out how the U.S. compares to the international average, and 4) do a few straightforward statistical manipulations to make each of those findings comparable to the others, and then add them together. Rinse and repeat with reading scores.
The results, of course, vary from one district to another. The single most elite district I could think of in Washington state, Mercer Island, manages an international percentile ranking in the low 80's—well above the international average (by definition = 50) but still a good ways away from the top of the international heap. Many other elite districts do dramatically worse. How about yours?
The one caveat I'd offer for this ranking is that it uses the PISA test to compare the performance of nations, and there are good reasons to prefer the TIMSS test as a measure of academic performance. Results on the two tests are highly correlated overall—as is the case for virtually all academic tests—but their results can differ quite substantially when a nation's curriculum is aligned with one and not the other (Finland is a case in point, ranking #1 on TIMSS, but having ranked between 10th and 14th the last time it decided to participate in TIMSS, a decade ago).
I'd love to see Jay and Josh plug the TIMSS results into their model and provide the alternate rankings it would generate. Any chance of that, guys?


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I got my new Dell Studio XPS 16 laptop a couple of weeks ago with Windows 7 64-bit. The transition from Windows Vista 32-bit was pretty painless and everything seemed to work great. I did have some issues migrating my VS 2008 projects due to references to some dlls that were loacted in the C:\Program Files\ directory on my Vista machine but that are now located in the C:\Program Files (x86)\ directory. After fixing those issues everything seemed to run great and all my projects built successfully. I thought I was home free until I built and ran an Installer package that registered an ActiveX control. Depsite the fact that the control was registered on installation, I kept getting the following error when opening the form that utilized the ActiveX control:
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040154): Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)) at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.CoCreateInstance(Guid& clsid, Object punkOuter, Int32 context, Guid& iid) at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateWithoutLicense(Guid clsid) at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateWithLicense(String license, Guid clsid) at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateInstanceCore(Guid clsid) at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateInstance() at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.GetOcxCreate() at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.TransitionUpTo(Int32 state) at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateHandle() at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible) at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.EndInit() ...
I scoured the web and tried many different solutions including:
- Manually registering the dll
- Copying the dll to the C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ directory
- Registering the dll in the C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ directory
- And a bunch of other things that proved useless
The answer came from a blog post by Theo Gray. The issue was that VS 2008 was building the project to compile on "Any CPU" and apparently the ActiveX control is intended for x86 systems only. Given such, the project needed to be compiled for x86 systems only as well. Do the following to resolve the issue:
- Right click on the project title in the Solution Explorer.
- Click Properties.
- Click the Build tab.
- Select x86 from the Traget Platform ComboBox for both Debug and Release configuration.
- Build the project.
Alternatively, if you have multiple projects in a solution you can do the following to set this across all projects:
- Right click on the solution title in the Solution Explorer.
- Click Configuration Manager…
- In the Active solution platform select New…
- Select x86 from the first ComboBox
- Click OK
- Build the solution.
Thanks Theo Gray! Worked like a charm!


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"Yip-ee-ee. Yip-ee-ee." was the opening cry at the first National Western Stock Show rodeo
The first rodeo at the National Western Stock Show began with a "Yip-ee-ee. Yip-ee-ee," yelled by a wrangler racing around the ring. At this introduction, the thousands of men, women and children at the opening matinee in 1931 leaped to their feet in unison.
The cowboys' championship bareback bronc riding contest was the first rodeo event. And the first ride was on the world-famous bucking bronc, Midnight, in his initial Denver appearance. Rider Earvin Collins of Miles City, Montana was thrown in one leap by the "death-hour" horse.
Next up was Five Minutes to Midnight, who tossed Pat Woods of Blackfoot, Idaho. Then Invalid, a "worm-wriggling bucker," threw Merle Hunt of American Falls, Idaho.
Thirteen riders competed in the bronc riding contest that Saturday. Pete Knight of Crossfield, Alberta, Canada, the world's champion bronc rider, made the best ride of the day on a horse named Golden Rule.


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So, what's the deal? Create a really catchy tagline for Minigore! You may use up to six words for your unique creation.
To remind ourselves, let's go briefly over what Minigore is: an awe-inducing representative of the survival shooter species. You step into the shoes of John Gore who finds himself lost in a strange place called the Hardland. Everything would be suitably nice and peaceful if it weren't for the darned furries. These black creatures seem to have an unexplained grudge against our blue-coated hero, and with so many of them out there John is very lucky to have managed to hold onto his machine gun!
Post your entries to the address in the poster and do it by June 13, 2009. The grand prize is truly epic in proportions; you get to be in the game as a professionally modeled 3d-character, executed in the true Hardgore style! The model will be added to the game in the first update.
The finalists will selected by us at Mountain Sheep and there will be a public vote for the finalists on the Touch Arcade forums where there the talk on the subject is heating up!
These new and never-before-seen screenshots from Minigore should help you find the inspiration.
Our official embassador, Santa, thought up a few example taglines to get you started.
Minigore: Just bleed! (yes, Santa watches the UFC)
Minigore: I ain't got time to bleed (for all the Predators out there)
Minigore: When the going gets tough!
Minigore: It's a strange world out there...
Minigore: Die Hard Gore
If more than one people enters the contest with the same entry independently and it so happens that this entry wins, then the Mountain Sheep team will make a Frankenstein model with features from all winners in it!


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Editor's note: Today we are happy to feature a guest blog post from From Julie Languille,
Author of The Prepper's Pantry and the soon to be released Meals in a Jar: Quick and Easy, Just-Add-Water, Homemade Recipes
Thanks, Apartment Prepper, for inviting me to write a guest post about Homemade MREs. I am passionate about food storage and my first book, The Prepper's Pantry is all about setting up food storage with both a deep larder of long term storage foods, and also a rotation pantry filled with canned goods and home pressure-canned meats and chicken. I love the idea of having plenty of dehydrated and freeze dried foods on hand to cook from, but in times of emergency I think it will be really convenient to have ready-made meals, like homemade MREs on hand, and ready to go at a moment's notice.
I sampled several different brands of commercially available entrees. Although some were somewhat palatable, I found most to be disappointing in terms of taste and texture. When I think about all the extra work our families would need to be doing to keep us safe and warm in times of trouble, the commercial meals also fell short on calories needed to sustain us.
So I began developing scores of recipes for meals in a jar (or bag) which would be just-add-water complete meals. Some are dry ingredients such as soups or stews and others are home pressure-canned meals of classic braised dishes, such as pulled pork, or brisket. The meals are packaged either in jars or vacuum sealed bags and some come packaged with a "sidekit" a side dish of mashed potatoes, polenta, noodles, tortilla makings or the like.
My second book, Meals in a Jar: Quick and Easy, Just-Add-Water, Homemade Recipes, which is due out in March of 2013, is a collection of homemade MRE meals. The entire book is filled with great recipes for dry soups and stews, perfect for lunches as well as big braises; savory meat and vegetable packed meals sure to satisfy the biggest man appetites. It also includes breakfast ideas for MREs, egg dishes, and cereals, as well as side dishes, beverages and desserts too. The book can be pre-ordered now.
I love the sight of a shelf in my pantry filled with homemade MREs, they taste better than anything I found commercially available, in fact we eat them every week and they are easy to grab and go in a bug-out hurry! They are also fantastic at the end of a busy weekday.
Besides pressure canning in jars, Meals in a Jar: Quick and Easy, Just-Add-Water, Homemade Recipes , also covers pressure canning into retort pouches, which are specialized bags you can buy online. They are inexpensive, light-weight and unbreakable (although they can be punctured – ask me how I know). Retort pouches are a great (and portable) addition to your Prepper's Pantry.
Below is a basic recipe for a chicken noodle soup. I invite you to make up a single batch, adjust it to your tastes and then bag or jar up a whole shelf full. Make a few variations and I guarantee you that you will rest peacefully knowing if hard times are ahead, you have a pantry full of good meals waiting for your family.
Chicken Soup MRE
Makes 1 quart jar or vacuum bag for storage and yields 8 cups of soup – about 6 servings
3 cups egg noodles (choose a variety with a 10 – 12 minute cook time, not the longer cooking "homestyle" noodles)
1 cup freeze-dried chicken (optional) (or you could package this meal in a bag and include 1 can of commercially canned chicken or a pint of home canned chicken)
3 Tb. powdered chicken soup base
¼ cup dried onion
¼ cup dried celery
½ cup dried carrots
½ cup dried mushrooms
¼ tsp. black pepper
¼ tsp. dried thyme
1 Tb. dried parsley
1 slice dried lemon
Combine all ingredients in a bowl. (This makes the ingredients take less room in the jar as smaller ingredient fill the spaces between noodles.) Add to a clean quart jar, top with an oxygen absorber and close tightly or vacuum seal in a bag.
To prepare your soup, in a large pot heat 8 cups of water to a simmer, and stir in meal contents. Return to a gently simmer and cook 12 to 15 minutes until noodles and vegetables are tender.
Variations: Add dried peppers or corn, or swap out mushrooms for peas or green beans, or substitute beef stock and freeze dried beef for chicken. If you add beans, be sure they are the quick-cooking variety (quick cooking beans have been almost fully cooked and then dehydrated.) Also, stirring in ¼ cup sour cream powder at the end would make a delicious cream-style soup. You can store the sour cream powder in a baggie and tuck it in with the rest of the ingredients to segregate it for adding at the end.
Julie Languille is passionate about both food and preparedness. She owns a dinner planning website with thousands of recipes compiled to make dinner planning, shopping and cooking easy for families. She teaches workshops on preparedness and long term food storage and regularly hosts food packaging parties where families gather to make pre-packaged meal kits to build their own food storage as well as bless families in need. Julie lives with her husband and family on lovely Whidbey Island, in the Puget Sound near Seattle, and when not cooking loves to read, sail and kayak in the waters near her home. Julie is the author of The Preppers Pantry and Meals in a Jar: Quick and Easy, Just-Add-Water, Homemade Recipes.
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Zito leads Giants to home-opener victory
SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Zito couldn't celebrate last year's World Series triumph with his teammates Friday. Nor did he concentrate on the memory of his outstanding postseason effort against the St. Louis Cardinals, his opponent in the Giants' home opener.
All Zito had was the here-and-now of pitching the game. So he made the most of it.
Zito, without whom the Giants might not have earned the World Series championship banner that they raised before Friday's game, surrendered three hits in seven innings to help San Francisco outlast St. Louis, 1-0.
The Giants won their 15th game in a row that Zito pitched, dating back to last year and including the postseason. Yet he downplayed the streak in summarizing his performance.
"It's not conducive to being in the present with every pitch," he said.
Despite allowing only one Cardinal to reach second base, Zito called his experience "a grind. There were a lot of pitches I would have liked to have back."
Zito furnished one of San Francisco's most critical victories last October by blanking the Cardinals for 7 2/3 innings in the Giants' 5-0 triumph in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series.
But Zito didn't use that victory as a template for this one.
"It's hard to look at a game three or four months ago and have that affect the game today," he said.
Due to his pregame obligation to warm up, Zito couldn't revel in the championship flag-raising ceremony that others found stirring.
"We all had chills and goosebumps," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "I think some guys had tears."
Watching Zito work proved inspiring for the Giants, whose starting pitchers have not permitted an earned run in 26 innings this season. The Giants and the 1976 Milwaukee Brewers are the only teams since 1916 whose starters went the season's first four games without yielding an earned run.
Zito retired 15 of 17 batters beginning with the first inning's final out. The Cardinals then launched their only semblance of a rally as Allen Craig singled and advanced on Matt Carpenter's two-out walk in the seventh. Zito responded by retiring Pete Kozma on a fly ball.
Zito received ample defensive assistance.
"It seems like it goes hand in hand with good pitching," Bochy said.
Third baseman Pablo Sandoval was particularly impressive, starting a pair of double plays and assisting on five putouts overall, mostly by ranging or diving to his left.
"Third base is a key position when I'm throwing, because I throw off-speed stuff to get guys out front," Zito said. "Pablo's always ready over there. He picked me up huge today."
Zito still did most of the heavy lifting. Two of his fellow left-handers comprehended his artistry on the mound.
"What he's really developed in the last two years is the ability to go in and out with the off-speed stuff," Javier Lopez said.
Lopez explained that left-handed pitchers are taught to work right-handed pitchers low and outside. But Zito, said Lopez, doesn't rely only on this tactic.
"When he's really locked in, he's able to start locating inside, not only with the fastball, but throwing the cutter in on the hands, regardless of velocity," Lopez said. "That's what you tend to appreciate because there's never a predictable sequence for him and that's the best part about his game."
Jeremy Affeldt, who worked a perfect eighth inning to set up Sergio Romo's third save in as many games, observed that Zito understands his skills and can command his variety of pitches more thoroughly.
"He pitches with the stuff that he's got," Affeldt said. "I think there was a little bit of a learning curve for him."
Citing Zito's repertoire consisting of a curveball, sinking fastball, changeup and a cut fastball, Affeldt added, "He's going to mix it up and he's never going to throw the same speed twice. It's an add-and-subtract game. Guys can't really get a certain speed off him, so it's hard to guess with him."
Said St. Louis' Yadier Molina, "We couldn't catch up to anything," which isn't what hitters usually say about pitchers such as Zito who lack overpowering velocity.
Catcher Buster Posey paid tribute to Zito's intelligence.
"He has a great game plan going into every game," Posey said. "He's pitching with a lot of conviction, and I think one of the reasons he's doing that is he's so well-prepared."
Zito concurred. "For me, it's about preparation," he said. "Knowing the opponent, studying them, knowing their tendencies, knowing their sweet spots and their weak spots."
Offense remained a weak spot for the Giants, who own a team batting average of .221. They seized upon a St. Louis defensive lapse to score the game's lone run in the fourth inning, one inning after they left the bases loaded.
With one out, Gregor Blanco walked and Brandon Crawford singled, requiring a sacrifice-bunt attempt from Zito. He indeed tapped a bunt almost halfway toward the pitcher's mound. That prompted Molina, the catcher who has won five consecutive Gold Glove Awards for fielding excellence, to wave off Westbrook to make the play. But Molina dropped the ball, enabling Zito to reach first and load the bases.
"I missed it. Pretty simple, I missed it," Molina said. "I took my eyes off the ball and missed it."
Angel Pagan coaxed a four-pitch walk from St. Louis starter Jake Westbrook, scoring Blanco.
San Francisco won its fifth consecutive home opener and improved to 11-3 in that category since christening AT&T Park in 2000.


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Here at last: Hero channels Crouching Tiger
Zhang Yimou channels Akira Kurosawa in Hero, which is even more visually stunning than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Like Kurosawa's Ran, it features huge armies with color-coded banners and plumage, and like his Rashomon it offers variations on the same story.
In addition to Crouching Tiger's wire-assisted acrobatics and aerial ballets there's a Matrix-y fight in the rain and combatants in one sequence appear to walk on water. Yes, it's a crowd pleaser.
The plot centers on an important piece of Chinese history: the rise of the first emperor, 2000 years and change before The Last Emperor.
The King of Qin (Chen Daoming) wants to unite his territory with six others that have kept the country in a constant state of war. Many enemies, especially from neighboring Zhao, would prevent this, and the King is the target of frequent assassination attempts.
On this day, the King is honoring a nameless hero (Jet Li) who has vanquished the three would-be assassins who were the greatest threat to him. While those assassins lived, the King didn't allow anyone within 100 feet of his royal person, but he lets Nameless approach within 20 feet, then 10 feet, as he is rewarded for his loyalty.
How, the King wants to know, did he do it? And thereby hangs the first of our tales.
Broken Sword (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) and Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung), two of the assassins, are lovers; but they haven't spoken to each other in three years. Snow spent one night with the third assassin, Sky (Donnie Yen). Nameless, after killing Sky, tells Broken Sword, who retaliates by making love to his servant, Moon (Zhang Ziyi). Flying Snow catches them in the act and stabs Broken Sword. Moon attacks Snow, attempting to avenge her master.
It makes for quite a story, especially with the women soaring over a golden forest that turns red and Snow and Nameless twirling amid a hail of incoming arrows; and that's not all.
But the King doesn't believe any of it. His theory is that the other three sacrificed themselves to get Nameless, the true designated assassin, to this point, 10 feet away from his target.
There's yet another story, Broken Sword's, as related by Nameless, before history plays itself out in the conclusion to all the stories.
I could have done without considerable talk about a correlation between swordplay and calligraphy– all it meant to me is there are two ways of "drawing" a weapon– but the story is relatively easy to follow. And even if you get lost, you can just savor the visuals, as photographed by Christopher Doyle, and the countless fights, more balletic than bloody, which are likewise a joy to behold.
The score, by Tan Dun of Crouching Tiger fame, covers a broad spectrum. The music for one sequence sounds like an Asian version of Ennio Morricone. Coupled with the no-name hero, it's a spaghetti Western homage worthy of Tarantino (who took a "presenter" credit for the American release).
Li's stoic presence in the title role is less memorable than the other major characters. Leung has a bit of a Johnny Depp thing going, Cheung and Ziyi continue their impressive work from Crouching Tiger, and Yen is effective.
If you've been marking time for nearly three years until another Hidden Dragon is unleashed, Hero is the movie you've been waiting for.


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CHAPEL HILL - Orange County Commissioner Bernadette Pelissier announced this week she intends to seek a vacant N.C. House District 50 seat.
Pelissier said now's the time to step up or give up.
"In the past year, we have seen incredibly divisive legislation from the GOP, which puts at risk the future of our citizens and their prospects for a decent and well-deserved quality of life," Pelissier said.
If appointed to the office, she plans to focus on providing all students with a quality education; encouraging entrepreneurship, business and jobs; promoting transparency and fairness in government; and collaboration with towns and counties "to address their unique needs."
"As a county commissioner who has lived in both the urban and rural areas, I know the interests and needs of this district. With my experience, passion, commitment and courage, I offer to step up and serve with integrity in the General Assembly for all North Carolina. I will work to build a sustainable economy and community for the future of all residents in District 50," she said.
She joins a growing slate of District 50 candidates: Chapel Hill Town Council member Laurin Easthom, Durham businessman Tommy McNeill, Raleigh lawyer Drew Nelson and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools administrator Graig Meyer.
District 50 covers parts of Orange and Durham counties.
First-term Rep. Valerie Foushee has resigned her District 50 seat in preparation for a move to the N.C. Senate, where she was appointed to finish former Sen. Ellie Kinnard's term in District 23. Kinnaird resigned her seat in August to protest Republican legislative policies and to dedicate her time to getting voters prepared for the state's restrictive new voter ID law.
Foushee's move will become official when she takes the oath of office, said Matt Hughes, Orange County's Democratic Party chairman.
A four-member N.C. Democratic Party House Executive Committee will appoint one candidate later this year to complete Foushee's term. Both the House and Senate terms expire in December 2014.
Pelissier, 62, has more than 25 years of hands-on experience in criminal justice and mental health and has served on numerous boards and commissions, including as chairwoman of the Orange-Chatham Sierra Club, the Orange Water and Sewer Authority board, the Partnership to End Homelessness and the Orange County Board of Commissioners. She also has served on university, regional and state committees.
She was born in Senegal, Africa, to French parents and spent her early years in New Jersey, moving to Damascus, Syria, as a teen when her father worked for the United Nations. She has been a resident of Orange County for 37 years.
Pelissier has a doctorate in sociology and specialized for much of her career in the evaluation of community and prison mental health programs. She worked for 20 years as a former chief of research at the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner and is also the former director of research and evaluation for the Durham County Community Mental Health Center. In 2012, she won the Public-Private Partnership Award from Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce.
She lives in Orange County with her husband Vann Bennett, a biochemistry professor at Duke University. They have two children and three grandchildren.


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PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (MarketWatch) — Just when you thought things couldn't get worse, along comes 2013.
Largely because of the political shenanigans that took place inside the Beltway in 2012, activity on the outside (the private sector) is closing out the year on a slow note.
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After growing at a 2.7% annual rate in the third quarter, the gross domestic product probably expanded only one-third as fast in the fourth.
As for the first quarter of 2013, it may not grow at all. What is more, the rest of the year does not look a whole lot better.
Here are the top 10 reasons why:
10. Business will be reluctant to hire. Firms are still shell-shocked by the brouhaha over the fiscal cliff, and markets are too weak to justify expanding payrolls.
9. Consumers won't be so quick to spend. Holiday sales were a bust, as shoppers reeled under the effects of high unemployment and soaring prices of food, energy and, especially, health care. Hurricane Sandy didn't help, either.
8. Taxes will go up. Fiscal cliff or no, taxes will have to go up in order to generate enough revenue to cut Washington's budget deficit and stabilize the ratio of debt to the GDP that the pols claim they are seeking.
7. Government spending will fall. Popular programs will be gutted, notwithstanding the squeals of the K Street crowd.
6. The deficit won't shrink. As I observed last week, when you take a big chunk of purchasing power out of the economy, its growth will slow, causing a drop in tax revenues and a surge in spending on social programs such as jobless benefits, food stamps, welfare and the like.
5. A new recession is on the horizon. Any further slowing in growth from zero or thereabouts means that the economy will decline.
4. The political stalemate will continue. The two parties will remain at odds over which taxes to hike and how much and where spending should be cut, whether to raise the debt ceiling, political appointees — indeed, over just about anything.
3. The Federal Reserve's low-rate policy will do more harm than good. It is already hurting savers and, by stating that it won't raise interest rates until the jobless rate reaches 6.5% (1.2 points below current levels), the Fed will actually delay the very borrowing it wants to encourage, since there is no rush to beat higher rates.
2. Europe's continuing austerity policies will deepen its recession, thus hurting U.S. exports. The ensuing tensions might well be the last straw for the euro.
And the number one worry for 2013: The stock market thinks that everything will be copacetic!
Is there any good news we can look forward to, you might ask?
As a matter of fact there is: There are only 22 months left until the next elections.


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Man stabbed estranged wife, deputies say
Man faces attempted murder charges in Orange County
A man accused of stabbing his estranged wife faces attempted murder charges, according to Orange County Sheriff's Office deputies.
Sheriff's deputies told WESH 2 that a 911 call alerted them to the stabbing near Pinelock Avenue and Center Avenue. They found a woman stabbed in the neck, lying in the driveway of a home.
Deputies said 33-year-old Altherio Sharpton Jr. is the victim's estranged husband. She was rushed to Orlando Regional Medical Center in critical condition.
Officials said the incident began when Sharpton went to the victim's home and forced himself inside. He found the victim hiding and dragged her from the home outside, according to a police report.
Sharpton was found at his parent's home in Pine Hills and taken into custody.
According to the arrest affidavit, Sharpton "confessed to stabbing his wife multiple times with a pocket knife." He was previously arrested on charges of domestic violence Dec. 25 involving the same victim.
The victim filed a domestic injunction against Sharpton who is ordered to stay away from her.
He is also charged with burglary of an occupied dwelling, kidnapping and violation of a domestic injunction.


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Top 10 Mispronounced Names in Baseball
Marc Rzepczynski, difficult to spell and pronounce.
Baseball is an international game. Which is a GREAT thing. Sometimes it can be a bad thing. For example, when you cannot pronounce the name of your newest international prospect. But fear not, I, Marcus Hall, am here to help you with that (sort of). I'll give you, in my opinion, 10 of the most difficult names to pronounce in baseball.
1. Kila Ka'aihue Pronounced [KEY-luh Kuh-eye-HOO-a]Even when you see it broken down, it's hard to say.
2. Bronson Kiheimahanaomauiakeo Sardinha [KEE-HAY-MAH-ANAO-MOW-EE-KAY-OH, SAR-DEENHA]
I would've hated to be this kid's teacher in school.
3. Marc Rzepczynski [ zep-CHIN-skee]
Okay, now things get a bit easier. THANKS, MARC!
4. Kanekoa Texeira [KAN-IH-KOH-AH, TEX-EERA]
Yes, you say the X. Not Texeira like Mark Texeira.
5. Edinson Volquez Pronounced [ed-DIN-son]
I know what you're saying, "It's not that hard, Marcus!" Say his name out loud and notice if you say Edison instead of EdINson. You're welcome for blowing your mind.
6. Cory Luebke Pronounced [loo-BECK-ee]
I'm guilty for saying this one wrong myself.
7.Wilson Betemit Pronounced [Bay-tah-mee]
Also a common one, I know most of us say BET-a-MEET.
8. Jair Jurrjens Pronounced [Jair (just as it appears) GER-GENS]
Just a very uncommon name. Sorry, Jair. Sorry, Jair's parents.
9. Jackie Robinson
Before you say anything, let me finish. According to his widow, Rachel Robinson, "Jackie" was a media creation. He went by "Jack" his entire life. You're welcome for blowing your mind again.
10. Kent Tekulve Pronounced [Tek-ULL-vee]
Just trying to say this name makes my brain hurt.
Those are my 10, but believe me, there are A LOT more out there. Let me know which name gives you the most trouble in the comment section below!


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2011 VIDEO CONTEST (Deadline: April 11)
This contest, which is a joint project of Keep Louisiana Beautiful, Inc., Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Office of Motor Vehicles, seeks to engage young people to take action in the fight against litter and illegal dumping in our state and help promote a cleaner and more beautiful Louisiana. We want to convey to the newest generation of motor vehicle drivers, in particular, that littering is unacceptable, illegal and just downright wrong. Enter the contest by submitting an original video of at least 30 seconds but no more than two (2) minutes in length by the online submission process and in compliance with the official rules in the attachment. No purchase necessary to win. All entries must be received between Monday, March 28, beginning at noon, and Monday, April 11, 2011, 5 p.m. For more information, visit: videos.keeplouisianabeautiful.org or www.keeplouisianabeautiful.org.
ACS Grant Opportunity for High School Chemistry Teachers (Deadline: April 1)
The ACS-Hach High School Chemistry Grant is awarded to high school chemistry teachers for any purpose that enhances the teaching and learning of chemistry within their classrooms. This includes covering basic needs as well as supporting new, innovative activities. Teachers can request up to $1,500 for:
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We are currently accepting applications through April 1, 2011 for the 2011-2012 academic year. We hope that you will pass this opportunity along to the chemistry teachers that you know. Details about the grant and the application process can be found at www.acs.org/hach. If you have questions or would like additional information, please contact Kenetia Thompson at 1-800-227-5558 ext. 8178 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
NOAA has launched the social media photo sharing website "NOAA Photo Library's Photostream" on Flickr, the premier Internet photo sharing website. A selection of over 4,000 photos have been uploaded onto the NOAA Flickr website, a subset of the 47,000 public domain images presently on the NOAA Photo Library. The photos can be viewed in collections, sets, in slideshow format, and by using the Flickr search engine to search for imagery thematically. View the site at www.flickr.com/photos/noaaphotolib and the NOAA Photo Library at www.photolib.noaa.gov/.


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Sue Sylvester's alter ego was at 30 Rock last night.
Emmy-winning actress Jane Lynch, who plays the brash cheerleader coach on the hit TV show "Glee," hosted "Saturday Night Live." On the program, she had an opportunity to do something that she hadn't done on "Glee": sing. During her monologue, she said she wrote a theme song for "Glee" and delivered an over-the-top singing performance of it, which was more like a tribute to her character Sue.
And Lynch also reprised her role as Sue in a skit parodying the characters from "Glee" with "SNL" cast member Jason Sudeikis playing music teacher Will Schuester. Other parts that Lynch played including a disheveled mom on "The New Boyfriend Talk Show"; a therapist who places herself into her patient's visualizations, and a customer who tries to return a handbag to Denzel Washington (Jay Pharaoh) working behind the returns and exchange desk.
Among the skits on last night's show were spoofs of celebrity attorney Gloria Allred and TV financial host Suze Orman. There was a commercial that parodied Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, who denied that she is a witch; and one about a Facebook filter for snooping moms.
On Weekend Update, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (played by Samberg) stopped by to address the inaccuracies in "The Social Network." He asked why he was portrayed in the movie by Jesse Eisenberg, whereas Napster's Sean Parker was played by superstar Justin Timberlake.
The musical guest on last night's episode was singer Bruno Mars. Dressed along with the band in an jacket and tie that was reminiscent of early Motown acts, Mars first performed the romantic hit "Just the Way You Are," and then later in the show "Grenade."
Next week's episode of "Saturday Night Live" will be a repeat of the season premiere hosted by Amy Poehler with musical guest Katy Perry; the next new program will be hosted by Emma Stone with band Kings of Leon on Oct. 23.


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Due out in October, the Missing Link downloadable content for Deus Ex: Human Revolution sees players navigating an augmentation-stripped Adam Jensen through a mysterious freighter. Here's lead narrative designer Mary DeMarle to show us how that works.
Man, Jensen does not look good as this demonstration starts up. It turns out removing augmentations is more than just turning them off. There's plenty of blood involved as well. I'm just surprised he still has his arms. I would pay any amount of money for downloadable content that had Jensen fighting with only his teeth. Oh well, maybe next game.


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The above photo of the fountain in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village was taken mid-afternoon this past weekend when New York City temperatures reached around 100 degrees which, combined with high humidity levels, made for unbearably hot weather. Hence why many jumped into the fountain to cool off and obtain some respite from the NYC weather that this week has leveled out and returned to a relatively cooler state with temps hovering around 80 degrees today and humidity at only about 50%. This is outdoor weather for sure and NYC in the summertime offers an abundance of things to do out in the street, in the parks, and by and on the water. This New York State of Mind Amoeblog #41 will take a look at some of these events and happenings, including one of the many great boat parties that take place off Manhattan. On any given summer evening/night along the Hudson waterfront - especially from midtown down to lower Manhattan - you will inevitably hear the strains of electronic, hip-hop, reggae, salsa, rock or other music wafting in over the water from one of the countless boat parties that slowly drift by with booming speakers out on the waterways on weekends and week nights too. These are a great way to catch some music (live bands or DJs) and do some sightseeing at the same time.
This Friday (July 26th) is a recommended dance music boat party that sets sail from midtown on the West Side. It's the WAVs Hudson River Tour with an impressive lineup of DJs including UK producer Switch (formerly of Major Lazer), Grandmaster Flash, Octo Octa, Neon Indian (DJ set), Cousin Cole, and Roxy Cottontail. Advance tickets available here are just $30 to $40 depending on how soon you cop them - not bad for a 4 hour cruise with good music. Boarding starts at 7pm for 8pm departure from 7pm from Pier 81 at West 42nd Street @ 12th Ave.


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The romance of steam returns to Britain's railways for Valentine's Day as a traditional locomotive hauls passengers on a scheduled main line service for the first time in half a century.
The Peppercorn class A1 steam locomotive, Tornado, will pass over the "Roof of England" on the famous Settle to Carlisle line later today, carrying hundreds of steam enthusiasts.
Carving its way through spectacular snow-capped scenery through the rugged Eden Valley in Cumbria, across the majestic Ribblehead Viaduct and over the Yorkshire Dales, Tornado's journey will be the first for 50 years that a steam train has replaced regular train passenger services.
The initiative, organised by Northern Rail, Network Rail and the Friends of Settle and Carlisle, runs from today until Thursday, running two return journeys each day between Appleby and Skipton.
Rail enthusiasts have already snapped up almost all the reserved seats, around half of the 500 seats on each journey, and queues are expected for the remaining unsold unreserved tickets on the day.
British Transport Police (BTP) officers will patrol the route over the three days and encourage enthusiasts to enjoy the spectacle while remaining at a safe vantage point.
Inspector Neil Hubbs, from BTP, said: "We understand people are excited about seeing the Tornado and want them to enjoy the occasion and, of course, have a great day out.
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Overthinking It
The Trouble with Forecasting Chemistry
We're 27 days away from the first pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training. We're also 27 days away from the first reporters reporting,* which means we're no more than 28 days away from reading quotes about team chemistry.
Chemistry is confusing, and not just for those of us who haven't played professional sports. Even among players, opinions on its value fall along a wide spectrum from "essential" to "superfluous." On one extreme, you have Eric Hinske, who believes that one can't win without chemistry (and whose presence was, conveniently enough, perceived to promote it):
Then there's the slightly more moderate stance of Hinske discipline Evan Longoria, who stops short of stating that one can't win without good clubhouse chemistry, but still calls it "The most important thing."
In the middle of the road, there's Bud Black, who thinks chemistry is nice, but not essential:
And toward the other end of the spectrum, you have Jose Bautista:
Finally, Jim Leyland, who when asked about the Blue Jays last spring exhaled and harrumphed:
We can boil the debate down to two sentences. "Winning creates chemistry," Reggie Jackson told Lyle Spencer in 2012. "Good chemistry creates winning," Carlos Beltran said, in the same article.
It's possible, then, for a wide array of players who've put in plenty of clubhouse time to disagree about where chemistry comes from and how much it matters. But no one would dispute that, say, hitting more home runs, or allowing fewer, can make a team much better. As Leyland once put it, apparently: "I'll tell you what fucking chemistry is: Chemistry is a .300 batting average, 30 home runs, and 30 stolen bases."
So when Baseball Prospectus predicts team and player performance, as we do every spring, we tend to focus on homers, steals, and other things we can count. There's a lot less ambiguity about those things. We know what they're worth, and we can project with at least some degree of confidence how many each player (and by extension, each team) might produce. Our projections are far from perfect: we can't predict luck, and we haven't made much progress in predicting injuries. But as Bo Porter points out, there's another nut we're not cracking:
Well, shoot. We all want to improve our predictions, and if we could do that by accounting for insides, we would. Contrary to the stathead stereotype, not every numbers guy dismisses the potential impact of a team's unquantifiable je ne sais quoi. We've written plenty about it at BP, and the third result you get when you Google "team chemistry" is an article by my podcast partner. We just don't have a handle on how to tell which teams will have it when we're putting predictions out, and GMs either can't tell or won't admit to being able to when they're putting their teams together.
Ideally, we'd send a baseball version of the Trimates to live among the players and record their interactions. Because we can't do that, we rely on less rigorous observation. According to the internet, the Chinese painter Gu Kaizhi once said, "What lies inside a man cannot be better revealed than through the eye." (He also said, "What? I've never even heard of Cicero.) Kaizhi believed that the point of portrait painting was "to convey the spirit and give a vivid portrayal." Many baseball writers subscribe to the same principles: that their job, when not needlessly tweeting play-by-play, is to look a team in its collective eye and tell us what lies within, using as many vivid one-sentence paragraphs as possible.
So come February, we'll start seeing stories about which teams are hungry and full of competitive fire and on the same page and playing loose and pulling together. In theory, we should want to see those stories. No lesser authority on team chemistry than Torii Hunter believes that spring training is when a team's identity forms. "That's when everybody comes together," Hunter said last year. "When the season starts, you should already have your chemistry. Teams say that it's built in April and May. No it isn't. It's built in spring training."
If spring is so crucial for chemistry, it's the time when we should want someone around to chronicle the reactions (Gomes (s) + Inge (s) —> 24 wins). And who better to do that than the beat writer? We can look up and analyze stats and transactions from afar, but we have no hope of evaluating chemistry without the aid of someone on the scene. Beat writers spend more time in the clubhouse than anyone who isn't paid by the team, so aside from the players, they're our primary source.
What offends our sabermetric sensibilities is when chemistry is trotted out to explain success or failure after the fact. As Russell Carleton put it, "some of the common wisdom about chemistry is post hoc, ecological fallacy-driven narrative building that would fail an undergrad research methodology course. The Cardinals won and Molina is a good player and a hard worker. Therefore, Molina's work ethic must have been the difference between the teams. Science just doesn't work like that."
Take, for example, an SI Orioles season preview from last March that began by mentioning the various bond-building clubhouse activities the O's had engaged in the previous spring: table tennis, bumper pool, indoor golf. "That type of chemistry helps explain how the Orioles went 29-9 in one-run games and 16-2 in extra innings last season," the next sentence said. It's easy to draw that causal connection in retrospect—either for a surprise team like the Orioles or disappointing teams like the 2011 Red Sox and 2012 Marlins—but it's far from convincing. Was Baltimore the only team playing table tennis? And where was the contention that the Orioles had a historically close clubhouse before they won those one-run games? To come closer to "sabermetrics for chemistry," we'd have to have some data set down before Opening Day.
As I combed through columns from last spring in search of predictions for my article earlier this week, I came across a number of articles about chemistry. Eventually, I started to search for those specifically, and I came up with clubhouse quotes about almost every team dating back before the start of last season. See if you notice any similarities on the following team-by-team list:
Blue Jays
Red Sox
White Sox
In case you're not counting, that's 25 teams with great chemistry. And most of those quotes came from articles specifically devoted to assessing the state of a clubhouse: how the arrival of a new manager or new players had changed the mood; how returning players had grown together over time; how well team-building spring training exercises were working. I came up empty for only five teams: the Angels, the Brewers, the Mets, the Reds—who came close—and the Twins (and I might have missed something). Only the Mets' clubhouse betrayed any publicized signs of unrest, thanks to incidents involving Jordany Valdespin and Zack Wheeler and Aderlin Rodriguez, as well as David Wright's absence during the WBC.
So what should we make of the good feelings that seemed to sweep through every clubhouse last spring? One possible conclusion is that just about every team—with the occasional outlier on the low or high side—has pretty good chemistry, in which case clubhouse culture probably isn't the separator it's often made out to be. Another is that Hunter is wrong, and that spring training is just too soon to tell. Maybe every team starts out believing it has a great group of guys, but doesn't discover its true nature until the going gets tough. But if spring is too soon, then winter is way premature, which means that teams would have no way to tell whether they'd assembled a good chemistry club until it's too late to change course.
There's another possibility: it could be that the players interviewed aren't being honest—why air their dirty laundry and create further controversy?—or that no two or three of them can speak for a team. What strikes one player as the perfect clubhouse culture might rub another the wrong way, or affect his performance to a different degree. And while it seems like gauging group makeup would be one of the most obvious ways in which a reporter could add value, even writers who spend a lot of time around a team aren't necessarily qualified to assess inter-player relationships when the clubhouse doors are closed. The chemistry column, after all, is an easy one for a writer who's out of ideas to half-ass without substance on a slow day in spring training. Most players are happy to back up a narrative with boilerplate quotes if it gets the guy with the notepad to leave them alone.
Whatever the explanation, we're not going to get any closer to the truth about clubhouse chemistry by bookmarking the dispatches filed from Florida and Arizona next month. It's quite possible—even likely—that some teams have superior chemistry, and that that quality is worth some number of wins, just as it's possible that some players who show up to spring training in the best shape of their lives will benefit from it. But when the available evidence suggests that almost every team has an enviable attitude, it doesn't leave us with much useful information to work with. All it does is turn everyone into the team who cried chemistry, and ensure that when the real thing comes along, we can't adjust expectations accordingly.
*Except for Pirates beat writer Rob Biertempfel. He's already there.
Ben Lindbergh is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @benlindbergh
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In my opinion, chemistry-enhanced clubhouses should be against the rules...just like chemically-enhanced players.
Jan 10, 2014 11:10 AM
IMHO, it is the same in most workplaces that demand some level of teamwork. If you don't enjoy being around the members of your HR or engineering team, you likely won't be as productive. That's why companies spend an inordinate amount of time trying to determine whether or not a job applicant will fit in with their culture and team. You may have all the qualifications and degrees, but if the hiring manager doesn't feel as comfortable with your demeanor or attitude you may be on the short end of the stick come hiring day. I referee basketball too and when you're comfortable with your fellow crew members, the game will be called at a higher level of efficiency. It is up to the assignor of the game to try to determine, through observation and referral, whether or not the crew will be a good fit together. Talent evaluation is extremely valuable above all else, but having systems in place to make sure you feel comfortable with how someone will work in your environment is moving up on the scale of importance to a successful organization or team.
Jan 10, 2014 12:36 PM
When do we hear the first "our clubhouse is in the best shape of its life" quote?
Jan 10, 2014 15:19 PM
To me the surprising thing is that you were able to find as many as five teams that didn't make some public pronouncement about good chemistry. It's a cheap throwaway line for making the fan base feel good, and everyone will talk about it. That doesn't mean that everyone has it.
Jan 10, 2014 20:45 PM
I just met today BJ`s Lind, Delabar, Gose and Thole at a mall autograph session. Lind barely made eye contact with fans . He was to busy eyeing up a female attendant . Gose disagreed with my assessment that he was fleet footed and a high school track star. Delabar signed the wrong area of my ball cap and Tholes eyes darted around like a Dickey called third strike. Very poor fan tour team chemistry. I hope they can turn it around by April.
Jan 11, 2014 12:56 PM
It crap like this that makes me miss Billy Martin.
Jan 12, 2014 08:48 AM
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