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The good news was that this was merely volume 1. Volume 2 would supposedly continue the reprints, but the bad news is that as far as I know, it never appeared. Maybe this volume didn't sell well enough. It's still available, however, and maybe if it ever sells out the printing, Volume 2 will appear. Or not.
At any rate, this is a handsome volume that I'm happy to have on my shelves. If you want some good reading at a decent price, look around for this on Amazon. You can't go wrong with Fredric Brown.


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Justin Bieber suffers breathing difficulties during latest 02 Arena concert in London
Children's entertainer Justin Bieber left the stage mid-song during his O2 concert after complaining of being "light of breath", his manager has said.
The teen sensation was performing in front of thousands of fans on the third night of the London leg of his world-wide tour when he fell ill.
His manager Scooter Braun said he was seen by a doctor backstage at the venue who told him not to return to the stage.
However, fans reported that he did make it back to the spotlight to finish his Believe show.
In a video posted by a fan on YouTube, Bieber's manager Scooter Braun tells the audience: "Justin got very light of breath, the whole show he's been complaining. He's backstage with the EMTs (emergency medical team) and the doctor.
"They're telling him they want him to go and see somebody and find out what's going on with his lungs, he's just told me that in five minutes, if it's OK with you guys, he's going to come out and finish the show.
"So he might not be jumping around as much and everything else, you guys need to be patient with us, we're not trying to be disrespectful, we're not trying to get you guys home late, we're truly trying to put on a show for the people who love him."
The manager had previously tweeted his joy that Bieber started the show 10 minutes early.
One fan tweeted: "Biebers not well and has gone off stage!
"He literally was so out of breath on stage in the middle of beauty and a beat and then went off!"
She later added: "Aww justinbieber came back in stage after the doctors told him not to and he was incredible £believe £inspiration."
Bieber has published a picture of himself in a hospital bed after being checked by doctors for breathing problems.
The singer, who uploaded the pictures to his Instagram account, also thanked fans for supporting him while he "figures out" what happened.
He said: "Getting better. thanks for everyone pulling me thru tonight. best fans in the world. figuring out what happened. thanks for the love."
Meanwhile fans have raised questions over the timing of his illness, claiming it is a publicity stunt to win back their affection after he was slammed for his late appearance on Monday night.
It comes after the singer was heavily criticised by fans and parents of young children for starting his concert late on Monday night.
Many were reduced to tears when forced to leave the venue just minutes into his performance, which started shortly after 10pm, in order to catch trains homes.
Bieber later apologised and blamed the delay on technical difficulties.
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WORK has begun on a new £500,000 cafe at Moss Bank Park.
The building will be on the site of the old cafe which was destroyed by a fire in 2009.
Plans have been made for a 50- seater cafe as well as a kitchen, serving area, toilets and an outdoor seating space.
Work is expected to be completed in late spring and Bolton Council hopes to officially open the cafe this summer.
The funding from the cafe has been found from insurance money from the previous building as well as a contribution from a £2 million programme to invest in parks, green space and recreational facilities around Bolton.
That investment programme will also see the council spending money on playing fields, the refurbishing of tennis courts and games areas as well as funding cycle trails and the creation of Bolton's first outdoor gym.
The cafe in Moss Bank Park will be bigger than the previous building and is moving location slightly so it can also act as the pedestrian entrance to the Hive — a community wildlife project run by the Wildlife Trust in the park.
Cllr John Byrne, cabinet member for neighbourhood and community services, said: "It's brilliant that work has started on this new cafe, which will provide a place for visitors to stop for a coffee and chat, or even for lunch.
"It will be situated close to the popular children's play area and also close to The Hive, where children can learn about nature and growing things, so we hope it will be well used by the local community and also by visitors to the park."
The new cafe has been designed by Bolton architects Bradshaw Gass and Hope and is being built by North West building firm Jackson and Jackson.
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"We have been operating for over 150 years and are always keen to support local re-development and to work closely with Bolton Council. I'm sure this facility will help the park in a really positive way."


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Resetting the Standard
This time of year is a busy stretch if you're a Hall of Fame buff, or at least this particular Hall of Fame buff. The 2012 BBWAA ballot was released on Wednesday, adding 13 new candidates to the 14 holdovers from last year's ballot. I'll start digging into the details of those candidacies starting at some point late next week. Meanwhile, the vote on the Golden Era candidates will take place at the Winter Meetings in Dallas this coming Monday, December 5; alas, I think I'm actually going to be in the air when the results are announced, but I'll weigh in upon arrival. Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to discuss some of the Golden Era candidates on television as part of my debut appearance on MLB Network's new show, "Clubhouse Confidential." It wasn't my first time on TV, but I believe it was my first time discussing JAWS in that medium. Explaining the system concisely AND discussing the merits of a handful of candidates in a four-minute span was certainly a challenge, but host Brian Kenny and his producers seemed quite pleased with the segment, and there's reason to believe that it won't be the last time I appear on the show.
Here is a clip of the appearance, if you didn't get to see it:
Between trying to boil down the system to its essential talking points and continuing a discussion of the top candidates on the Golden Era ballot, I've been thinking about a few issues pertaining to JAWS and wondering if it isn't time for a tweak or two to the system. First off, it's important to recognize that the system just underwent a seismic shift, in that this year's data set marks the first one using Colin Wyers' formulation of WARP instead of Clay Davenport's. Higher replacement levels and different methods of measuring offensive, defensive, and pitching value have shaken up the standings of some candidates relative to the standards, which have shifted as well—after all, they're averages of individual player values. In general, the WARP values for most players are lower, and in some cases very different from what previous iterations or various competing systems have told us.
The changes themselves were a topic for considerable discussion in the comment thread of my Golden Era piece. One loyal reader voiced concern over the underlying changes to WARP and the way that they rendered previous work—not only on JAWS but with respect to a whole lot of other BP studies—outdated, asking us to rename the new methodology to avoid confusion and to maintain the old version as well. This is impractical. Consider how dismissive certain members of the mainstream sports media are of WAR because golly, there are two popular formulations of it out there. Evan Grant, the Dallas Morning News writer who gave Michael Young his sole first place vote in the 2011 AL MVP race, explained his vote by noting, "When somebody can quickly explain the complexities of the concept and standardize the WAR formula, I'll spend more time with it. In the meantime, I'll go with what my eyes told me."
After you're done rolling your eyes at that one, consider that here at BP, we've spent the past year retiring or retooling some overlapping metrics so that, say, VORP and RARP aren't telling us two different things when they not only should be saying the same thing, they should be the same thing. No attempt to expand the audience for sabermetrics is going to convince many people if we have to resort to explaining, "This is the original Port Huron WARP, man, not the watered-down second draft." We might as well retire to our bathrobes and drink White Russians, a huge problem because the mere thought of drinking milk makes me gag.
Most of us do not love change, because it decreases our comfort level, threatens our understanding of the world, and forces us to act in new ways and digest new information. I don't love everything about the new WARP relative to the old, don't love change in general, but I do think that the new system's improvements are very worthwhile. Colin has incorporated baserunning into WARP, as well as play-by-play defense going back to 1950. He has attempted to tackle some age-old problems that smart people had with WARP, things like the counterintuitive calculations involved in Equivalent Average/True Average, or the assumption that replacement-level players were both replacement-level hitters and replacement-level fielders, when further study has suggested that such hitters are generally average defensively. I'm paraphrasing a more detailed exchange with Colin on the topic here, but formerly, we were measuring each pitcher against a replacement-level pitcher backed by replacement-level fielders, when instead we should have been measuring them relative to a replacement-level pitcher backed by average fielders. The new WARP also measures starters and relievers against different baselines based upon the fact that that the historical record strongly suggests that replacement relievers are better pitchers than replacement starters.
Furthermore, it's important to remember that the "old WARP" of yesteryear was hardly static. It underwent countless revisions without Clay calling a lot of attention to them; if I wanted to do a JAWS study in July, I'd have to get an updated data set because January's was out of date. Some of the revisions were minor, some were jarring; a given set might show that 19th century first basemen like Roger Connor and Dan Brouthers had climbed the first-base rankings significantly, but they'd fall back down to a more typical ranking with a subsequent batch.
Sabermetrics is the pursuit of objective truth about baseball. If our understanding of the truth changes—"Hey, we've been underestimating where the replacement-level line should be set" or, "Pitchers deserve a bit less credit than we have been giving them for controlling balls in play"—we owe it to ourselves and our audience to review our previously-held assumptions and revise our thinking, without worrying too hard about what information we've superseded. At any given moment, our WARP numbers represent our systematic best estimates of value, but they're still just estimates, not permanent figures carved in stone. We make a grave mistake when we think we've found the answer once and for all. As the PITCHf/x and HITf/x stuff that Mike Fast is doing revises our thinking about the nature of DIPS, you can bet that we'll find a way to incorporate that, and likewise with his brilliant catcher framing study. Sooner or later, someone may come along and solve another defensive quandary—maybe it's the adjacent fielder ballhog effect—that will make our current assumptions look dated and naive.
Enough inside baseball, at least on that front. One thing that several people pointed out with regards to Santo's case is that the standards that ran in last week's piece showed third base to have the second-highest JAWS of any position, behind only center field:
The last column is the gap between the position in question and the overall average; leaving catchers out of the equation for the moment, the spread is about 10 points from center field to shortstop. This is not a new phenomenon, though the identity of the particular outliers is. Here's what the previous set of standards looked like:
Again excluding catchers, the spread here is even wider, almost 14 points between second base and first base, though third base wasn't the outlier at that point. Santo was at 62.4 in the old set, 2.9 points above the third-base standard, so that particular point wasn't germane to the discussion the last time I reviewed his candidacy. Now it is, given a JAWS of 58.2, a mark that's 1.4 points below the third-base standard, but 3.5 points higher than the average hitter.
An aside: I've hidden the career and peak columns for the purposes of this demonstration, but as I argued the other day, the fact that Santo has a peak higher than the standard while being short on career means he still has a strong case. Had he hung around two years and squeezed out 3.0 WARP—enough to put him over the JAWS standard—it wouldn't have mattered much either to his teams or to our notion of his greatness. The same is true for certain other candidates, Minnie Minoso being another one. Careers that ended too early due to injury or otherwise come up short due to time missed via military service or the color line—those are reasons why peak is an important facet of a Hall of Fame argument in the first place, and it's why I generally use the career/peak/JAWS triumvirate for a three-dimensional picture of a given candidacy.
Another point to be made about Santo is that there are only 11 third basemen in the Hall, and that's if you count Paul Molitor, as I do. Molitor played 791 of his 2,683 games there, and another 644 elsewhere in the infield, compared to 1,171 at DH; his defense (22 FRAA in our current build) had real value, and since there are no "pure" designated hitters in the Hall with which to group him, I've argued that he belongs there. Meanwhile, there are an average of 20 players at the other defensive positions besides catcher, ranging from 18 at first base and center field to 23 in right. What we're measuring Santo against is a small sample size, even relative to the other small sample sizes.
That's one existing problem with the system. Another is the way that the various position rankings are generally top-heavy; of the 143 Hall of Fame hitters for whom we can do JAWS, just 58 (40.6 percent) clear the standard. Conceptually, this doesn't mean that I advocate the ouster of more than half of the Hall of Fame hitters as unworthy; this isn't Lake Wobegon, where all of the children are above average. JAWS is meant to spotlight above-average candidates as a means of improving the Hall of Fame.
Anyway, the lowest percentage of Hall of Famers above the JAWS standard at their position is in right field, where just eight out of 23 are above the bar:
Not surprisingly, all eight of those players above the standard are BBWAA choices, while only four of the 15 players below the standard—Waner, Gwynn, Heilman and Keeler—were elected via that route (and yes, I am surprised that Gwynn has fallen). The rest came via one iteration of the Veterans Committee, or as it was known from 1939-1949, the Old-Timers Committee. In the current incarnation of JAWS, the lowest score, that of McCarthy, is dropped and then the rest are averaged.
Would removing that dropped player at each position even things out with regards to the spread of standards between positions? Yes, but only a little; the distance between the center field and shortstop standards drops from 10.1 to 9.3 points. Incidentally, this only bumps three more players above the standard at their given positions, one at third base, one at shortstop, and one at catcher.
Over the years, it has been suggested by multiple readers that I use the median score at each position instead of the modified mean. I wrote about this back in 2007, incidentally, in the context of the case of the player who happens to be the 2012 BBWAA ballot's top newcomer, Bernie Williams. A reader argued that because the scores at each position were not normally distributed, and the populations of each position were small, it was inappropriate to use the mean. In his view, the median presented a better alternative; by definition, half of the players at a given position would be above average.
I considered that suggestion, but ultimately rejected it, because one consequence of it is that it lowers the standard scores too drastically—10 points, in the case of center fielders in the current data set—to the point that a given BBWAA ballot of 30-someodd candidates might have well over 10 flagged as above the median at their position. Voters can only list 10 players on their ballots, and aside from one crackpot with a ballot that I came across years ago, no voter or credible observer of the process has suggested that at a given time there are too many Hallworthy players to vote for. When the next two classes (Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mike Piazza, Sammy Sosa, Craig Biggio, and Curt Schilling in 2013, and Frank Thomas, Tom Glavine, Mike Mussina, Jeff Kent, and Jim Edmonds in 2014) arrives, that may be the case anyway, but that's a problem for the coming years, and relaxing the standards so drastically won't help. Switching to the median doesn't do much to decrease the spread between the highest standard and the lowest non-catcher standard, either. It would still be 9.3 points.
Ruminating on this for the past week, I've come up with an idea that doesn't entirely solve the problem but reduces it: regress the standard to the average Hall of Fame hitter. Now, this isn't rigorously scientific, in that I don't have any empirical data to tell me how heavily to weight the average to get to a valid sample size. Plonking around for a couple of hours, I settled on a sample size of 23, the existing maximum at any position, for each non-catcher position, meaning that if there are 20 left fielders in the Hall, the standard would be calculated as 20 left fielders plus 3 average Hall hitters divided by 23, or 11 third basemen plus 12 average Hall hitters divided by 23. If I do that, first restoring that lowest-ranked player at each position to the data set to simplify the process, this is where the standards end up:
GE is the set I unveiled last week for the Golden Era ballot. WS is the new weighted set, with (23 - n) average Hall of Fame hitters thrown in. I did that for the catchers as well, taking 85 percent of the average at the other positions to preserve the existing ratio between catcher JAWS and the overall position player JAWS. Note that I'm not doing anything to pitcher JAWS at this point.
The spread between the center fielders and the shortstops is just 7.6 points, down from 10.1; the standard deviation of the various positions falls from 3.3 to 2.3. Again, this only bumps three existing Hall of Famers back above the standards at their position; for some reason, there seems to be a donut hole near the center of the rankings at most positions. Consider the center fielders:
I don't think this perfectly solves the multiple issues I've cited, but it does even out the terrain, setting a more reasonable bar for third base and center field, two of the least represented but highest-JAWS positions. Note that I'm actually doing this process for the career and peak scores underneath the hood; this is where the new standards would land:
Relative to the just-reviewed slate of Golden Era candidates, this lands both Santo (66.1/50.3/58.2) and Minoso (61.4/46.1/53.8), two candidates whose peak scores are significantly above average but whose JAWS scores fall a few hairs short, above the bar. That's where I had already concluded they belonged anyway, after considering the extenuating circumstances surrounding their careers and the odd lumps under the standards rug. The above set doesn't alter my conclusions about any of the other Golden Era candidates, none of whom had JAWS scores above 49.9. It may carry ramifications with regards to holdover candidates on the BBWAA ballot, though not to the extent as those wrought by new WARP changes in the first place. Word of warning: Not all of our pet candidates fare so well in the move.
This is the first major change I've made to JAWS since the 2006 ballot, when I redefined peak as best seven seasons instead of best five consecutive seasons. Before I go ahead and lock this methodology in for the new cycle, I'd like to mull the change over a bit longer, and consider the feedback I get from colleagues and readers. This article, and my attempt to smooth out some of the rougher edges in JAWS, is a response to previous feedback. If you have a strong opinion on the matter, I'd welcome your comments.
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Karl Barth
You wrote: "WS is the new weighted set, with (30 - n) average Hall of Fame hitters thrown in."
Dec 02, 2011 04:56 AM
I like the changes. It takes a little bit of position bias out of it in calculating where players fall. 3B should not be punished because the BBWAA has shunned their position only letting in the all time greats while letting in less than stellar 1B.
Dec 02, 2011 05:11 AM
Thanks, Jay! My first take is that I like this tweak. I am going to mull this over more carefully, and I'll offer any thoughts later.
Dec 02, 2011 09:24 AM
Another quick observation with regard to the "median" line, with the HOF CF list:
Dec 02, 2011 10:02 AM
This is a little nit-picky, but it's also an important concept:
Dec 02, 2011 10:05 AM
Explain why it is better to compare a shortstop to HOF shortstops, a right fielder to HOF right fielders, a first baseman to HOF first basemen, etc. Why not just compare all players to the WARP of the average hall of famer? WARP already adjusts for position so it seems weird to use it to only compare like-positions instead of using it to compare all players.
Dec 02, 2011 13:09 PM
Talent is not distributed evenly across positions, and skills certainly are not. While WARP compresses the offensive and defensive contributions of a hitter into one handy number, the offensive and defensive components of what make that up are still important, and I often make reference to them in the course of my analysis. I also make extensive references to things that JAWS doesn't capture - awards and counting stats. If I'm examining the Hall of Fame cases of Barry Larkin or Alan Trammell, it doesn't help me so much to measure them against Eddie Murray as it does to compare them to Cal Ripken.
Dec 02, 2011 13:21 PM
I appreciate your rethinking and retooling on this. The hardest part for me to get my brain around (regardless of the Davenport/Wyers incarnations) has been defense. I have never felt comfortable with them as they can show variance from year to year with players. I understand that is possible, it just seems defense would be the most consistent year-to-year part of a players game. What am I missing?
Dec 02, 2011 13:13 PM
I highly suggest you dig back into Colin's archive and read http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=11476 and
Dec 02, 2011 14:00 PM
Like you I tend to suspicion towards defensive metrics, but its mainly an issue for me because they aren't great predictors (e.g., they take a long time to stabilize, long enough that skill can degrade). If you are looking at them to establish as a historical statistic how good a guy was on average during his career, and you aren't concerned with prediction, I think they are reasonable.
Dec 03, 2011 07:24 AM
Very cool that you are on TV. Your multi-media assault begins. I'm looking forward to a time when BBWAA writers cite JAWS on a regular basis.
Dec 02, 2011 14:21 PM
Is it wrong to think that HOF voters have been biased toward positions (i.e., 3rd base vs. RF) and there ought be approximately the same number of HOF players at each position? If so, a more elegant solution would be to set the JAWS standard at the 15th (or 12th or 20th) best JAWS score at that position (regardless of whether the player is in the HOF, especially since the performance of ineligible or not yet eligible players is relevant to the discussion)?
Dec 03, 2011 05:29 AM
Using a given ranking at a position produces a set of standards that's no less uneven than what the raw JAWS standards produce. It's more artificial as well. JAWS is less an attempt to define an ideal Hall of Fame - which I would do if I were advocating starting from scratch, a la the Hall of Merit - than it is to recognize what's in line with the Hall of Fame as it exists.
Dec 03, 2011 10:25 AM
I like it. The only beef I have is with including ANY of the clearly ridiculous 20 or 30 WARP guys in the average calculation. I'd be more in favor of a "mistake rule", just accept that they are in as historical curiosities, and then remove them from the analysis.
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Thoughts on using hard hyphens
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This topic contains 8 replies, has 3 voices, and was last updated by Dwayne Harris 3 years ago.
August 28, 2014 at 6:35 pm #70311
I should probably explain it better: It's about having to use a hard hyphen with a forced line break (i.e., hypenating a word at the end of a line).
InDesign is usually pretty good at doing stuff, but there are times when it will not cooperate and I am forced to manually hyphenate a word at the end of a line and use a forced line break (soft return). This happens particularly in bibliographies and note sections that have URLs.
Well, I guess this wreaks havoc with the folks who convert our files into an ePub. They insist that these manual line breaks are unnecessary and throw a fit. I practically got chewed out out today because I did NINE (yes–NINE) manual breaks in a 130 page note section. A section full of URLs and ID not wanting to cooperate in some note paragraphs.
I usually try to use discretionary hyphens and discretionary line breaks, but sometimes ID has a mind of its own and I have to manually tweak the lines. And is NINE of those unrealistic?
I guess I'm asking advice on how to tell these people that there are times when you have to manually do things like that.
And I manually do things all the time. I use no breaks for a bad break or a discretionary hyphen to bring a word down, but there are are times that doesn't work. And you have to force something.
Am I wrong in thinking that?
And I apologize for ranting. But when this person threw a hissy fit about NINE of those hard hyphen breaks (with soft return) I got ticked off. That person could have easily stripped those out in less time than the email that was sent that was bitching.
It was like a tattle tale thing (oh teacher–so and so did this). Ticks me off.
And this person probably doesn't even know how to use InDesign, but only does the ePub from PDFs or something.
August 29, 2014 at 6:11 am #70313
I'd duplicate the document.
Remove manually inserted hyphens and line breaks.
Send them that file.
Delete the duplicate.
You could probably set up a multi-find change in the script to make this easier.
Actually in the past, I've done this by opening a document, removing the manual elements, then closing without saving. But reader beware, if InDesign crashes it will open up with those changes in the document!
Best to work on a copy of it for the those pesky ePub creators.
August 29, 2014 at 1:26 pm #70314
Hey Eugene–we had said a long time ago we'd supply a new file that fixes things like that when the book is ready for eBook. We explained that we would do the print version of the book and then when it was off to the printers, we'd run a script to make the print book eBook ready. We never heard back.
I guess folks just have to complain about the tiniest things.
August 29, 2014 at 1:48 pm #70315
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Dwayne, if this would be the sole flaw in ID I would jump from joy. The problem is that ID has many more flaws, even in version CS6. I don't know about CC, maybe Adobe has fixed some bugs, but I am not willing to fill up their coffers more. I will live with CS6 until they prove that it is REALLY worth the money to pay them monthly fees or they return to the old scheme of selling their upgrades for decent prices, not in a bundle (CS) but separately as it used to be in the good ole times when there were marketers in that firm who understood their customers needs.
Peace, Tom :-)
August 30, 2014 at 1:09 pm #70337
Tom–I don't think it's so much of a flaw as it's more of a thing of how URLs have to be broken. It's the exact opposite of how regular text hyphenates.
I do know that while CC and CC2014 is okay, for my purposes, CS6 is fine. But we need to keep upgraded because of the clients.
I'm also not crazy about the subscription thing, but I think it evens out in the long-run. And, unfortunately, this is how it's going to be from now on. :(
Have a good weekend.
September 1, 2014 at 2:10 am #70345
I set all URLs to "No Language" and then indesign just breaks it at a letter, without adding hyphens etc.
September 1, 2014 at 8:22 am #70348
I've tried a similar thing, but usually they want us to avoid breaking in the middle of a word. They'd prefer to bring down the period (dot), hyphen, equal signs, etc., to start the turnover line.
September 2, 2014 at 3:09 am #70380
can you apply a character style that has just no break applied to it, to apply a no break to a word within the url?
Or perhaps it can be a grep style where it searches between the dot, hpyhen, equal signs, etc to apply a no break to the string of characters between such things?
September 2, 2014 at 12:17 pm #70389
I do use a character style that is "no break."
I think the issue is mainly that sometimes one has to do too much tweaking to avoid breaking a line manually. Sometimes it's easier (like in that job I did) to simply break it manually then to spend 5 minutes or so on one stupid note entry. Especially when there are thousands of entries and a deadline is looming.
And it's more of an issue with some folks (like the person who complained) that can't understand this.
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Evangelicals and Catholics Together is a 1994 ecumenical document signed by leading Evangelical and Roman Catholic scholars in the United States. The co-signers of the document were Charles Colson and Richard John Neuhaus, representing each side of the discussions.[1] It was part of a larger ecumenical rapprochement in the United States that had begun in the 1970s with Catholic-Evangelical collaboration during the Gerald R. Ford Administration and in later para-church organizations such as Moral Majority founded by Rev. Jerry Fawell at the urging of Francis Schaeffer and his son Frank Schaeffer during the Jimmy Carter administration.[2]
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Evangelical signatories[5][edit]
- Charles Colson, Prison Fellowship and Southern Baptist Convention affiliated
- Dr. Kent Hill Eastern Nazarene College
- Dr. Richard Land, Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention
- Dr. Larry Lewis, Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention
- Dr. Jesse Mirand, Assemblies of God
- Mr. Brian O'Connell, World Evangelical Fellowship[6]
- Mr. Herbert Schlossberg, Director of the Fieldstead Foundation and co-author of Turning Point: A Christian Worldview Declaration' with Marvin Olasky[7]
- Dr. John White, Geneva College and the National Association of Evangelicals.
- J. I. Packer, a British-born Canadian Christian theologian in the low church Anglican and Reformed traditions.
Roman Catholic signatories[edit]
- Fr. Juan Diaz-Vilar, Society of Jesus and Catholic Hispanic Ministries
- Fr. Avery Dulles, Society of Jesus and Fordham University
- Bishop Francis George, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Diocese of Yakima (Washington)
- Msgr. William Murphy, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Boston
- Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, former Lutheran minister and Institute on Religion and Democracy
- Archbishop Francis Stafford, Archdiocese of Denver
- George Weigel, Ethics and Public Policy Center
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Evangelical Protestants[edit]
- Dr. William Abraham, Perkins School of Theology
- Dr. Elizabeth Achtemeier Union Theological Seminary (Virginia)
- Mr. William Bentley Ball, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- Bill Bright, Campus Crusade for Christ
- Bishop William Frey, Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry
- Os Guinness, Trinity Forum
- Richard Mouw, Fuller Theological Seminary
- Mark Noll, Wheaton College
- Dr. Thomas C. Oden, Drew University
- Dr. James J. I. Packer, Regent College (British Columbia)
- Pat Robertson, Regent University and The 700 Club
- Dr. John Rodgers, Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry
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- Professor Robert Destro, Catholic University of America
- Fr. Augustine DiNoia, Dominican Order and Dominican House of Studies
- Fr. Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, Society of Jesus and Fordham University
- Mr. Keith Fournier, American Center for Law and Justice (founded by Pat Robertson)
- Mary Ann Glendon, professor at Harvard Law School
- Dr. James Hitchcock, St. Louis University
- Peter Kreeft, professor at Boston College
- Fr. Matthew Lamb, Boston College
- Ralph Martin, Renewal Ministries
- Michael Novak, Institute on Religion and Democracy and Resident Scholar of the American Enterprise Institute for Social Policy Research
- Cardinal John O'Connor, Archdiocese of New York
- Bishop Carlos A. Sevilla, Society of Jesus and prelate, Archiocese of San Francisco
The agreement was reached a few years before the 1999 Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (between Lutherans and Catholics), which in substance says many of the same things as ECT in that it emphasizes Sola gratia over Sola fide.[8]
Many evangelicals, while appreciating the goal of social agreement in the ECT document, are still opposed to the theological wording of the document. Theologians such as doctors John Ankerberg, D. James Kennedy, John F. MacArthur, and R. C. Sproul, have published concern about it being "a step in exactly the wrong direction" and "going too far" in claiming theological agreement. They emphasize that sola fide is a fundamental distinctive of evangelical theology, which fundamentally divides evangelicals and Catholics theologically, as Rome condemned sola fide at the Council of Trent and has never lifted that condemnation (anathema).[9] Further they argue that it 'attacks the very foundation of absolute truth' by concessions to relativism and post-modernism, belying its profession of joint commitment to the Gospel, thus rendering that Gospel moot. They claim, 'It falls lock-step into line with our culture's minimalist approach to truth issues'.[9]
- ^ "Evangelicals & Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium", First Things, May 1994.
- ^ Blumenthal 2009, pp. 24–27.
- ^ Commentary, Founders.
- ^ White, James, A Review of and Response to "Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium", Alpha & Omega Ministries.
- ^ Catholic-Evangelical cooperation, Religious tolerance.
- ^ The Transformation of the Church, Pair.
- ^ Blumenthal 2009, p. 40.
- ^ "Evangelicals and Catholics Together: A New Initiative", Christianity today, Dec 8, 1997.
- ^ a b Ankerberg; Kennedy; MacArthur; Sproul (1995). "Irreconcilable Differences: Catholics, Evangelicals, and the New Quest for Unity". Archived from the original on 2016-06-12. Retrieved Sep 3, 2011.
- Blumenthal, Max (8 Sep 2009), Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered The Party, Nation, ISBN 978-1-56858-398-3.


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There is a monster hiding in your kitchen, just waiting for the chance to destroy many of your carefully chosen summer fruits and vegetables. It's called the refrigerator.
I'm only half-joking. Just as the refrigerator preserves most foods much longer than they'd last at room temperature, it can also ruin some.
Stone fruit, such as peaches, plums and nectarines, should be refrigerated only once they're fully ripe.
Tomatoes should never be refrigerated.
And some fruits and vegetables, such as eggplant, can be refrigerated only briefly before they start suffering damage.
It's all about the chill. Cold temperatures affect some foods in other ways than preserving them.
If you've ever bitten into a peach that looked absolutely beautiful — soft and golden —but had it turn out to be mealy and flavorless, the culprit was almost certainly chill damage. It can happen at the store and it can happen at home.
When under-ripe stone fruit is chilled below 50 degrees, the ripening process is stopped and all of those wonderful flavors and aromas never get a chance to appear.
Oddly enough, if the fruit is chilled all the way down to 36 degrees, that doesn't happen, but it's the rare refrigerator that can reliably hold that temperature.
So if you buy peaches, plums or nectarines that are still a little firm, just leave them at room temperature for a day or two. They'll soften right up. Then you can put them in the refrigerator.
Similarly, melons won't ripen when they're chilled.
Tomatoes are even more sensitive. Some of the chemicals that lead to ripe tomato flavor can deaden the flavor — in a study, tomatoes that had been chilled were found to lack "fruity-floral aromas" and sweetness and to be higher in sourness and "off-flavors" (fruit geeks, check this out).
With other fruits, the damage happens more slowly, so they can be refrigerated for a few days without worry. It may seem funny at first, but cucumbers, peppers and eggplants are actually tropical fruits. Refrigerate them for a very long and you'll start to see pitting and soft spots develop.
The refrigerator is not your enemy, but especially with summer fruits and vegetables, it is something you need to be wary of.
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DETROIT (TheStreet) -- Not surprisingly, record stock market performance is being matched by continued strength in the U.S. auto markets, with expected August automotive spending of $39 billion, the second highest monthly total in history.
However, the auto market, like other economic sectors, shows occasional signs of frothiness and easy credit, fueling concerns about a potential fallback.
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Auto sales numbers are among the best economic indicators because they track a major consumer purchase, are reported quickly after the month ends and are almost never revised. Car sales for August are scheduled to be reported on Sept. 3.
Ford (F) shares year to date are running ahead of the S&P 500, while shares in GM (GM) , hobbled by an ignition switch scandal that led to 27 million recalls this year, have slid.
Shortly after the opening bell on Wednesday, Ford shares traded down 7.5 cents to $17.29, while GM shares traded down 29 cents to $34.42. Year-to-date, Ford shares are up 12%, the S&P 500 is up 8% and GM shares are down 16%.
The pace of auto sales, tracked as the seasonally adjusted annualized sales rate, ihas been gaining ground this year. "We expect August U.S. light vehicle SAAR to track at roughly 16.6 million, representing a solid 5% improvement from 15.9 million in August of 2013, and a 1% increase from last month's 16.4 million," wrote J.P. Morgan auto analyst Ryan Brinkman in a recent report. TrueCar also forecasts an August SAAR of 16.6.
JD Power affiliate LMC Automotive projects 2014 sales of 16.3 million units, up 5% from 2013.
"As a very robust summer selling season winds down, optimism continues in the auto industry for the remainder of 2014, with expectations of economic growth beginning to catch up to the growth in autos," said LMC analyst Jeff Schuster in a prepared statement.
Auto sales have climbed steadily since they hit a 27-year low of 10.2 million in 2009. Sales reached 15.6 million in 2013. Sales of 16.5 million would equal the 2006 level.


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A few years back when I was with the Baltimore Orioles, I was on the road, so I was lifting weights at our hotel in Kansas City, and Eminem happened to be in there. He's with his security guard-slash-whatever, and we're just all lifting weights. I'm there with Jim Palmer, who is the Orioles' broadcaster and former Hall Of Fame player, and after about 20 minutes, I'm just kind of looking over at Eminem from across the weight room.
Eminem's security guy isn't working out, so he just comes over and starts talking to Jim Palmer. He goes, "Oh, are you guys here to play the Royals?" Jim, of course, says, "Yeah." Then the security guard says, "Nice. I'm Kenny, and I'm just a big fan. I grew up watching baseball and I'm a big fan of yours, Mr. Palmer." Jim goes, "Oh, that's awesome, but you need to be a big fan of this guy; he's the guy pitching for us tonight. That's Jeremy Guthrie."
The security guy looks over and yells out, "Marshall! You see that, that is Jeremy Guthrie. That's the guy we almost traded for with the Tigers." Marshall yells back, "I told you! I told you!"
I'm just sitting there thinking, "Man, what is going on?!" Here I am a huge fan of Eminem's and didn't want to disrupt him, and all this time he actually knew who I was!
So of course I go and introduce myself, and I say, "Eminem, I thought I'd be seeing you in some nice pair of Js or some Slim Shady Bursts or something cool." He has on a pair of New Balances and goes, "I'm not really into shoes no more like that. I just wear what's comfortable."
We kept talking, and then I asked for a picture. His security guard goes, "We'll do it another time. The next time you come out to Detroit, let's hang out over at Marshall's house." That all sounded great, and I run back and tell some of my Nike friends that I met Eminem, but he was wearing a pair of New Balances!
My friend at Nike says, "Let me call you right back." Ten minutes later he goes, "If I make a shoe with Eminem's logo on it, can you get it to him?" Well, according to his security guard, I guess I'm hanging with him in a few months, so I figured I could.
So we made an Air Max 1.3 Trainer 360 in white, black and orange, and then a Free Trainer 1.3 in black and white. Then, we also made a spike and molded version of the cleats I was wearing at the time.
They're all in my size 13 and Marshall's size 10.5, and they have my "JG46" logo on the left heel, and then his "E" logo on the right. We even made some for Kenny, and he's a 13 too. I get to Detroit later in the season, and I actually pitched in the spikes there.
I hit up Kenny, the security guard, so we could all hang out, and he says that Eminem is working on his album, and once he gets in the studio, it's over. Life is shut down for him. So I gave him their shoes and was like, "Can you get these to Marshall for me?" He says yeah, and then he got my pairs signed for me too. Every time I'm in Detroit, Kenny says we're going to get that picture together and catch up, but things just haven't lined up yet. It's been almost three years now!
So the last time, I just said, "It's all good, I don't necessarily need to come hang out. But if I can't, and since you're the same size as me, I'm going to need a pair of those Eminem IVs or IIs!" Of course Kenny said he has them both, so I'll have to keep you posted if I'm ever able to take them off his hands.


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The British Government has definitely turned down the request of the Arab governments for bilateral Anglo-Arab talks on Palestine which would exclude the United States and the Jews from participating in a settlement of the Palestine problem, it was learned here today.
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London - Roberto Mancini admitted he will be disappointed to see Mario Balotelli leave Manchester City for AC Milan but insists the move is in the best interests of the Italy forward.
Balotelli was missing from English champions City's goalless Premier League draw away to Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road on Tuesday as his reported £19 million transfer was finalised.
The striker's spell at the Eastlands has been marked by a succession of controversies on and off the pitch but City manager Mancini insisted his side would miss the erratic player during the final weeks of the season.
"Mario was an important player for us," said Mancini of his fellow Italian. "With Mario we won the Premier League and the FA Cup in two years.
"He's a fantastic player but, for him, this could be an important chance to go back to Italy and play for a big club in Milan.
"It was a difficult decision because I lost a striker, an important striker, and he could be important in the next 14 games.
"But it's important for Mario to go back to Italy. It will be a good chance for him to stay with his family, to play for Milan. I think he can improve and I'm happy he will become one of the best players in the world."
Balotelli's impact has been limited this season with the striker scoring just one Premier League goal and his final weeks of the club were overshadowed by a training pitch confrontation with his manager.
Mancini, though, denied he had grown frustrated with a player he worked with at Inter Milan when Balotelli made his Serie A debut.
"I invest a lot of time with all players," Mancini added. "With Mario, maybe more. But I think that Mario is in the history of the club because we won three trophies in two-and-a-half-years, and he scored an important goal in big matches like Manchester United away. He did very well.
"We love Mario and he deserves to have this chance. For me, he was not a problem. For me, Mario was like another one of my children. Mario is this.
"You can be upset with him sometimes, but afterwards he's a lovely lad."
Meanwhile QPR manager Harry Redknapp will step up his efforts to strengthen his squad before Thursday's end of the transfer window after Ryan Nelsen said his farewells to the west London club following a draw that moved bottom-of-the-table Rangers to within four points of safety.
Nelsen is joining MLS side Toronto FC as coach and Redknapp wants to replace the New Zealander with Anzhi defender Chris Samba.
"We lose Ryan Nelsen now and I haven't got a replacement," Redknapp said.
"I let Anton Ferdinand go (on loan to Turkish club Bursaspor). We're desperately short, really.
"I don't know where we're at with Samba. The chairman (Malaysian businessman Tony Fernandes) asked me a week ago whether I'd be interested if he could get me Samba. I've left it wholly in his hands."
Redknapp, who in naming two goalkeepers among his substitutes against City highlighted his shortage of players, added he'd be keen to once again sign England striker Peter Crouch.
"I've always taken Crouchy where I've been: Southampton, Portsmouth, Tottenham... I love him as a boy. Whether Stoke would sell him, I don't know."
Although renowned as a shrewd operator in the transfer market, Redknapp was uncertain about QPR's prospects of signing new players before the window closed.
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As if video games didn't get a bad enough rep, now prepare to add more fuel to that fire as a 15 year old from Seoul, South Korea strangled his own mother to death on Monday after she scolded him for playing online computer games. After the strangling, the boy then hung himself. The murder suicide took place in the southeastern port city of Busan.
The regularity of their fights and the extent of them up until this point is unknown, as is the video game the teen was playing. Though, his younger sister claims that he had been involved in playing "violent" video games for the past two to three years.
Whether or not video games actually played a part in this horrible act of violence is up in the air. However, South Korea is among the world's most technologically wired, seeing 90 percent of homes having broadband internet access. Furthermore, South Korea estimates that the country has around 2 million people that are Internet addicts.
Regardless the reason, this serves as a sorrowful reminder of the cruelty of humanity, and our heart goes out to those affected.
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'I can carry a tune. At least I think I can'
EUGENE, Ore. - The judges on "American Idol" didn't give Ben Harrison the thumbs up, but he left the Portland audition smiling anyway.
"I was there to have fun," the University of Oregon student and Churchill High School graduate told KVAL News on Thursday, the day after the episode featuring him aired. "I made it through four rounds, further than I thought I would, and I got to meet one of my idols: Steven Tyler! How many people get to do that?"
Harrison, 28, is a regular on the Eugene karaoke scene and a singer for local bands in the area.
He said "Idol" may be a singing contest, but it's not really about having the best pipes.
"They put people through that were not as good as me," he said. "They cut people that were way better than me. They know what they're looking for. They're looking for television stars."
Harrison said viewers didn't even get to see his whole audition. He showed KVAL News what viewers missed.
"I think I got it all. I think I got the whole package. Got the baby face, baby face look. And I can carry a tune. At least I think I can," he said. "You never know with all the delusionals on that show, but I think I can."
And while he may not be the next American Idol, Harrison said he won't let a little rejection get him down.
"That's not enough to stop me," he said. "This is Ben Harrison here, representing the 541: Eugene, Oregon."


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The Center's February 2014 publication, Bracing for the Boomers: Addressing the Healthcare and Workforce Challenges of a Generation, takes a look at how the aging and retirement of the baby boomer generation is affecting the healthcare industry in the United States. Estimated to comprise nearly 25 percent of the nation's population, this generation will undoubtedly continue to shape the landscape of the country as is has for nearly seven decades. The Center's baby boomer publication highlights current population and workforce estimates, and explores the various ways in which boomers are expected to utilize the healthcare system in the future.
When the first of the baby boomer generation turned 65 just three years ago, the national spotlight was aimed at this group. Questions regarding the long-term financial outlook for social insurance programs such as Medicare and Social Security were immediately raised, and economists and policymakers alike were tasked with ensuring their viability. Luckily, with major policy changes from congress and innovative models to deliver healthcare services to the aging, the outlook for the baby boomer generation has never been better. Allocating additional healthcare dollars for certain long-term care options and extending the solvency of the Medicare trust fund are just a few changes that have been made in preparation for the expanding number of people age 65 and older.
For more information about the Issue Brief discussing the baby boomer generation and its impact on the healthcare system, please contact Tony Gutowski, public policy development manager via email or at 216.255.3610.
To browse related information and resources cited in this publication, visit The Center's Baby Boomer Health Needs Pinterest board.
A full list of The Center's publications can be found on its website along with a wide range of resources covering a variety of health policy issues.
As the leading advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, The Center for Health Affairs provides members with vital services and resources aimed at enhancing the region's healthcare community. The Center delivers on this goal by focusing its efforts on areas that benefit from a regional approach: Healthcare Workforce; Emergency Preparedness; Public Policy & Advocacy; Finance & Reimbursement; and Community Initiatives. With a rich history as the Northeast Ohio hospital association, dating back to 1916, The Center serves as the collective voice of hospitals and the source for Northeast Ohio hospital and healthcare information. As leaders, we continuously scan the periphery, looking for opportunities to enhance the region's workforce, better prepare our hospitals for an emergency, and increase the region's wage index. And because of our business affiliation with CHAMPS Healthcare, we have the resources to provide a broad level of professional services to our members. The Center, located in downtown Cleveland, is proud to advocate on behalf of 38 acute-care hospitals and two long-term acute-care hospitals in six counties. For more, visit chanet.org.


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Signs look good for Ricky Hatton but Audley Harrison is in for torrid times
The Tipster: Two of Britain's big name boxers, Ricky Hatton and Audley Harrison, are on the comeback trail but which one will be the champ and which will be the chump?
The signs look good for Hatton but poor old Harrison is in for further torrid times.
Hatton will climb into the ring for the first time in three years when he fights Vyacheslav Senchenko, who is anything but a soft option.
The Russian has lost just once and that was last time out when he was beaten by Brooklyn's Paulie Malignaggi in a WBA welterweight title affair.
Hatton was not boxed since being overwhelmed by Manny Pacquiao, a sickening defeat in just two rounds which followed the master class he received at the hands of Floyd Mayweather Jr.
He heads an impressive bill in his hometown Manchester, however, looks lean and hungry and will be fueled by the vociferous support from his legion of fans. The Hitman won't let them down.
Still, Hatton is poor value at a best price of 3/10 with Paddy Power although the evens available with the same firm that he wins inside the distance to take his record to 46 victories, 33 by knockout, with just those two defeats, isn't a bad shout.
Harrison, sadly, is a different kettle of fish. He could have been anything after winning Olympic gold in Sydney and could not be blamed for taking a few soft fights after being handed a multi-million contract by the BBC.
But he never delivered his potential, failing to step up in class and putting the Beeb off boxing to such an extent it has thrown in the towel as far a live broadcasts go.
Disastrous contests with Danny Williams and David Haye have turned him into a pantomime figure and although he is expected to come out fighting in Saturday's British heavyweight title bout with David Price it will be too little too later.
Price is the real deal and is unbeaten in 13 professional outings, winning 11 inside the allotted time frame.
He can make that a dozen and is nailed on a 4/5 with Ladbrokes and paddy Power to make it an early night by winning before the end of the sixth round.
WE MISSEDour check out for double tops in the World Grand Prix darts last night but hit two home runs with the St Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees in the baseball.
Tonight's bullseye bet in the arrears is for Ian White to beat Wes Newton at a widespread 11/8 while Andy Hamilton and Adrian Lewis can be added at short prices to make up a juicy treble.
Cincinnati are 20/23 with William Hill to beat San Francisco in tonight's early game in the MLB playoffs, while the Cards are 1011 with Ladbrokes and Bet365 to win in Washington and the Yankees are 4/6 with Sky bet to polish off Baltimore in the Bronx.


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A headline-making article by Sherwood, et al. in the January issue of Nature ascribes the wide spread in climate sensitivities reported by global circulation models (GCMs) to how they account for atmospheric convective mixing, a process that controls cloud formation in the lower troposphere. The authors suggest that GCMs that properly account for the influence of convective mixing predict fewer low elevation clouds and correspondingly higher temperatures in response to the global buildup of CO2.
For the past 40 years, GCMs developed by researchers have differed in their estimates of climate sensitivity – the Earth's temperature response to a doubling of carbon dioxide – from as little as 1.5 to as much as 4.5 degrees Kelvin. Climate change deniers have used the wide range in estimates to attack the science. In that context, Sherwood et al., made news by concluding that models predicting less than a 3-degree response relied on "unrealistically weak" estimates of convective mixing. As a consequence they over-estimated the formation of low clouds that exert a net cooling effect, producing unreliably low climate sensitivity estimates.
The low clouds in question include stratus, stratocumulus and nimbostratus, whose cloud bases are found below 2000 m in elevation. They occur primarily in descending regions of the atmosphere, especially in the subtropics (between 20° and 40° latitude in both hemispheres). With their high albedo, low clouds reflect sunlight and exert a strong cooling effect. Their formation and their lifecycle have not been well understood, however, and their representations in GCMs rely on poorly constrained assumptions.
Convective mixing responsible for the variations in GCM simulations refers to heat and moisture transport from the near-surface boundary layer to the troposphere by small-scale vertical transport too small to be resolved by a GCM. Sherwood et al. (2014) cites how boundary layer moisture content rises nearly 6% per degree Kelvin of surface temperature increase. The contrast with the troposphere leads to convective mixing and drying of the boundary layer resulting in fewer low clouds and amplified surface warming.
While most reviewers have focused on Sherwood's conclusion that GCM's predicting a 1.5 to 3 degree climate sensitivity are incorrect, the same models may still have utility when looking at other outputs on various time and spatial-scales.
Sherwood, S.C., S. Bony and J.L. Dufresne (2014): Spread in model climate sensitivity traced to atmospheric convective mixing. Nature, 505, 37-42.
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