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why would it be a difficult premise that educational excellence of a particular type is embedded in the culture? The heart of Judaism is a legal system, and the in depth study, commentary and teaching of that legal system has been an imperative in cultural Judaism pretty much all the way back to the loss of Solomon's empire, but it was of particular importance as the thread of continuity for Judaism through the centuries of diaspora in Europe's middle ages. By comparison the fundamental admonitions in Christianity are to love your neighbor or go out and preach. Possibly admirable pursuits but not particularly intellectual ones. The only comparable movement I can think of off the top of my head in Christianity would be the Jesuits, and I would guess that at least a disproportionate number of US lawyers have some Jesuit education somewhere in their background.

except that pooling observations from other teams is in effect exactly the same effect as the prohibited action of visiting other sites in person. It gives a team access to data it was not allowed to gather for itself. Just because another team did it for you it still amounts to remote in person scouting.

IDK, I wouldn't discount the contribution the Catholic Charismatic movement of the 60 and 70s made to today's fundamentalist Christianity either. the traditional so-called 'mainstream' denominations always had a pretty wide distribution of views within them but the differences generally remain papered over until some issue comes along that just isn't bridgeable. For most of those mainstream denoms that issue turned out to be LGBT status. So for instance the "United Methodist Church", after something like 20+ yrs of internal strife, finally reached the point where the first word of their title had become meaningless. This year (mostly) it has reorganized itself into a largely 'liberal' church, and the conservatives have left to form their own more conservative take on Wesley (the "Global Methodist Church"), The Presbyterians worked through similar issues a couple of decades ago, but it tended to be less dramatic as United P churches that wanted out were more likely to just quietly become independents. For various organizational reasons it harder for a Methodist church to not be part of a larger org. The Baptists meanwhile, have several sub orgs that also cover a wide theological spectrum. The Southern Baptist Council gets the most press but not all Baptists churches are SBC.

meh - he did miss 2 freethrows.

If a young bat is going out, I'd rather keep the one that can play 3rd - assuming that they've given up on Keith being able to.

You are right that all he cares about is himself, but part of that is that it leads to one other big thing, which is that he cares a LOT about revenge, and that is what will make a second term much worse than the first. Also knowing from the start that he's out of office at the end of his term if he doesn't upset the Constitution completely. I think it's also incorrect to say he is lazy. He is disinterested in things he should take seriously - but he is actually pretty tireless at the one thing which is always his number one priority - which as you note, is himself.

Pistons have a ways to go to develop some offensive composure under pressure.

well, that didn't take long.

Hayes has made 7 of 8 shots?!? The apocalypse may be upon us (or hopefully just the Warriors)

There hasn't been boo out of Austin's camp that he even intends to play baseball again. Supposing he did, the expectation to walk into an MLB camp and perform after 2 yrs off would seem unrealistic.

I guess there are a lot of younger arms suitable for long relief, but TA seemed like a pretty solid guy as long you didn't let him start. Maybe that's the answer to the question...

"Gee coach Manly, it sure seems like those evil guys in blue on the other side have our signs! Whatever can we do?" "Well Rusty, I guess we'll just have to lose this game and then throw ourselves on the goodness of the B1G enforcement office because in all my years of coaching I can't think of single thing we can do now!" "What a pickle were in!"

True, his dad let Avila go for 3M and that was easily one of the worst moves he made.

That was supposed to be last year wasn't it? Well it's not like Dingler has been breaking down the door.....

Does Tyler Alexander have enough service time to refuse assgnment? Sure seems like he must...

I still go back to the whole sign stealing thing as a tempest in a teapot. Is there any team doesn't use multiple signals? I heard a coach call in on the radio talking about what a huge advantage it is for a DB to know run/pass before the snap, but if you signal a run and a pass in your multiple, how much help is it then? Not to mention you'd think any coach worth his salt would just send plays in on player rotation if he suspected the D had his calls. Teams played football successfully for decades before play signing became a thing. It's not justification of breaking the rules but the way all these dummies are talking about this doesn't say much for the brains of the average sports commentator.

I am not one of Harbaugh's biggest fans. He's a strange dude and the fact that he could get into strange kinds of trouble follows from that. So I find it pretty easy to believe he and his staff could have been bamboozled by a guy like Stalion. They equate love of school with virtue, and despite what JH might think, they are not *quite* the same thing.

In the states like MI with citizen initiative it's been done away with the GOP kicking and screaming all the way through a series of court challenges that were all rejected.

head scratcher. Kelly seemed like a real zero.

I'd guess Acker was not one of Schlissel's bigger fans.

Maybe if he gets made enough he'll given himself a stroke and relieve us all of having to keep dealing with him

The last time the balance was close to balanced was under a Dem Admin wasn't it (Clinton). I really can't fathom all the people who think the GOP is good the debt when every single time they get in they blow it up. Make zero sense to me. Debt is the difference between income and outgo. Just because the Dems are more expansive on the outgo doesn't make them worse on the debt than the GOP because the GOP is totally off the wall irresponsible about the income side. Anyone with eyes just needs to look at the GOP House charade of cutting IRS funding in the the name of budget when every $ the IRS losses costs the Treasury something like multiple $ in enforcement losses to understand how serious the GOP is about debt.

managerial moves may be part, but I'd guess having a big drop off between the front and back of the BP, or even between the front and back of the rotation is going to have the biggest effect. Getting blown out distorts the pythagorean model because scoring is unbounded on one side but bounded by zero on the other, so scores only distribute approximately to model. if you have a decent team but a few bad pitchers, your runs against will end up inflated compared to your overall record (i.e. when you lose you lose big, but you don't necessarily lose a lot). Pythagorean is correlated to the league average run differential. So I would guess where your team sits on the 'gets blown out' vs 'still has other good pitchers' scale has a lot to do with where you sit vs your pythagorean prediction..

I'm sure the other big ten coaches are yammering for Harbaugh's head for a lot of reasons that this has become the convenient vehicle for. But honestly - teams use multiple signers on the assumption that the other teams knows their signs. Competition impact wise, I think this is pretty silly - like most modern sport controversies. That is not to say there may not still be serious consequences, but the wailing about the integrity of the game is mostly kabuki theatre. And If Stalion was acting on his own and now gone to earth, there may not be very far the NCAA or BiG can get with their investigation. They don't have supoena power and if Harbaugh and the people immediately around him were not involved, it's one big dead end.

yes - and the usury thing applied in the Muslim/Ottoman world as well. So there are a lot of historical anticedents to why Jews ended up in what are today considered 'professional' fields. Restrictions on property ownership, insecurity of citizenship, coupled to a generally higher level of education. The Torah demands that children be taught to read the scriptures. In the ignorance of both the Christian and Islamic midieval worlds that became a source of both success, and cultural resentment. In the Islamic Ottoman empire a good part of the civil service were always Christians and Jews.