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Kennesaw to host Valentine's Dance Party
January 12, 2023, 6:34 PM ·1 min read
Jan. 12—Kennesaw Parks & Rec will have the "Out of this World" Dance Party on Feb. 4.
Participants can dress to the nines or in their space suit and dance the night away as the Ben Robertson Community Center's Banquet Hall is transformed into outer space.
This family-friendly event will feature an "all-you-can-eat" dinner and dessert bar, a professional DJ and plenty of memorable photo opportunities. All adults must be accompanied by a child and all children must be accompanied by an adult.
Seating will be reserved. Participants can list all members of their party in their registration. Tickets are only $15 per person and can be purchased online at https://secure.rec1.com/GA/kennesaw-ga/catalog?filter=c2VhcmNoPTE5NDQzNTI or at the Ben Robertson Community Center.
Advance purchase is required. Tickets are non-refundable after Jan. 27.
For more information, visit https://www.kennesaw-ga.gov/valentinesdanceparty/ or call Kennesaw Parks & Recreation at 770-422-9714.
There are a lot of unspoken airplane etiquette rules...
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Jamie Lee Curtis Posts Throwback Topless Pool Pic at 50: 'People Lost Their Minds'
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I have been loving my new habit of turning my phone completely off at night before bed. Not on silent, not on airplane mode, not on sleep mode. Off. I swear I can literally feel the difference. Something in my brain is just like, 'Ok. It's time to settle in,' and I begin to unwind from the day. Then, I'll pick up my latest book and dive in until my eyes start to close. Ah, it's been the best change. Anyway, here are my latest reads. Side note: I'd love to do some sort of YBC book exchange or book gifting or something, where maybe we all pick a favorite book, we'll pair you up with someone and you can send each other a book? Kind of like a pen pal, but like, book buddies? I don't know. Something to think about for the future maybe, let me know down in the comments section if that sounds interesting to you, or perhaps you have a better idea for making something cool happen for the YBC Book Nerds!
Related: All the book blog posts.
1. The Nest - This book is about a dysfunctional bunch of siblings who are counting on their payout from their trust (dubbed "the nest"), but when one brother gets into a drug and alcohol fueled accident, their mother uses the majority of the money to help him. The brother swears he'll pay them all back, but then disappears. This was a quick read - perfect when you're snowed in or for an afternoon at the beach - but I was disappointed by the ending.
2. The Hideaway - This is a cute feel-good southern novel about family bonds with a hint of mystery and a little love thrown in the mix. The character development is great, and the vivid writing makes you feel like you're right in Alabama, where the majority of the novel takes place. It's a light read, a fantastic in-between read, if you typically read heavy, somewhat draining stuff like this.
3. A River in Darkness - I actually bought this as a Christmas gift for the guy I'm seeing, and he said it was so good I needed to read it. I literally read it in 24 hours. It is a fast, keep-you-up-at-night kind of read. In fact, the whole story is just so mind-blowing to me that after I finished the book, I went down an internet rabbit hole trying to learn everything I could about North Korea. I wish I could find out more about the author - where is he now? What does he do? How does he spend his days? I want to know everything, and came up maddeningly empty when I tried to search. Highly recommend this book!
4. All The Ugly and Wonderful Things - Oh boy. This book. Sigh. I am deeply, deeply sensitive to anything having to do with underaged children, and this made me feel sick, but I just couldn't put it down. It's about this girl, Wavy, whose mother and father are a drug addict and meth manufacturer respectively, and who basically couldn't care less about her. The only person in her life who seems to care about her at all is this young man, Kellen, who works for her dad. He enrolls her in school, buys her new shoes every year, and is the closest thing she has to a stable adult in her life. But of course things get weird, and they fall in love, and at this point she's probably in her pre-teens and he's in his lower twenties, and it's just an awfully uncomfortable read as you follow them through the years. But. But. But. But at the same time, you might be able to kind of see how things are not quite black and white, and blah. I don't know. It was a very well written book and the character development is excellent. It just made me uncomfortable, which perhaps is what the author intended. Notably, the section at the end has a brief interview with the author, whose life sounds quite familiar to the fictionalized Wavy in the book. I'd definitely recommend this book, but just be sure you're in a good frame of mind.
5. Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone - This book was a solid meh. There were a lot of interesting points and I highlighted a couple takeaways, but I didn't feel that it was anything groundbreaking, inspirational, or contained information that I hadn't heard before. I guess, and this is partly my fault, I find that I am more drawn to books (even informational ones like this), where the author has interwoven her own personal stories of struggle, vulnerabilities, triumphs, etc. While she highlighted a little here and there, I wasn't particularly emotionally invested in her, so I found her research on belonging to be less impactful as it might've been if she'd been able to weave a cohesive narrative about her own experiences throughout.
I'd love to know your latest reads or if you have any recommendations. I hate when I don't have a book to read - I think I need to start a To Read list. Let me know what I should put on it!
PS- Be sure to tune in later today for our weekly wardrobe post!


Visiting an inmate in prison can be exhausting and stressful. The gate opens, and you step beyond tall razor-wired fences. The scrutiny of suspicious eyes from armed guards, the intimidation of metal detectors, and stern voices accompany you to an uncertain destination. The twisting in your gut pulls tighter with each steel door that opens and closes, trapping you inside.
Security cameras and guards watch your body language, the movement of your hands and facial expressions. You're ordered to keep your hands above the table as you wait for the inmate to appear from yet another steel door while feelings of being imprisoned battles against your inner screams to run back toward the doors of freedom.
Regardless of the situation, whether visiting a prison, going out on a date, or preparing a speech, uncertainties can be overwhelming. Though the destinations differ in each of the above circumstances, fear of the unknown can stall or stop your progress.
The same goes for writing a novel. Oh, the stresses of putting yourself out there for others to scrutinize and critique. You know the desired destination is for some editor to scoop up your work, offer accolades of greatness, and publish your book. However, the likelihood of that happening the first time around is nil. This doesn't mean your manuscript isn't good; it just means you're wading through the process toward a hopeful destination.
With each step forward new experiences become stepping stones on the road of learning. The unfamiliar becomes familiar, and anxiety dissipates. The tension of uncertainty starts fading, and your destination becomes clearer which gives you the courage to continue.
You'll breathe easier once you've experienced visiting someone in prison. The next visit won't be so overwhelming.
Going out on that first date resolves nervous tension and confirms whether another date is possible.
Conquering a speech and delivering it dissolves your hesitation and feelings of inadequacy.
Following through and writing a novel opens your eyes to what it takes to complete the task.
If you're facing a situation where the outcome is uncertain, I encourage you to take a deep breath, put one foot in front of the other and conquer one project at a time. Hold your head high, trust God, and march forward.
You are stronger than you think! You are smarter than you think! You are braver than you think!
Have you conquered a tough situation with an uncertain destination? I have, and I believe you have too.


As part of the 2014 history NC requirement to teach a significant issue or society I have opted to look in detail at India. Not only does this dovetail neatly with subsequent work on the empire and post-war colonialism, it also offers pupils a fascinating insight into another culture that they will not experience at KS4.
More than that it offers superb case study material that enables pupils to compare what was happening in the west in the 16th to 19th century with society in India. There are plenty of opportunities for work on interpretations as well as analysis of a rich array of artistic evidence.
Indian Mutiny or war on independence?
How should we view events of 1857?
What does a study of India tell us about the empire?
Why study the Mughal Empire at Key Stage 3?
The Mughal Empire was the greatest of the Muslim empires of the early modern period.


The elegantly arched Triangle Stool was created using handmade digital crafts, the same fabrication techniques devised in Zhoujie's digital laboratory. The stool's digital roots lend an architectural and minimal aesthetic not commonly found at this scale.
With his practice dedicated to the development of a digitalized fabrication system, Zhoujie's goal has been to create a system with an ability to transform digital programs into real objects. In the near future, people will be able to participate in the creation; design a customized chair through the digital system and select different materials of their choice. This brand new, artificial intelligence design concept will fit better into the life and preferences of each individual, and, the interaction between product and human will be deepened. The process of design will evolve from single physical phase to a systematic level. Zhoujie's goal for his future collection of works is to engineer designs that utilize progressive elements such as macromolecular materials and titanium.
Zhoujie's works and design principles are based on spontaneity, taken from the philosophies of Taoism. This philosophy reflects his understanding of ACTIONLESS, which pays respect to the logic of mathematics and the laws of a digital environment.
As an independent designer, Zhoujie Zhang believes that good design is inspired by process. By continuously forming new concepts throughout the course of development and production, the creation is a constant progression of its evolution.


A beautiful detached house is up for grabs in Sólvallagata, a lovely street just to the west of the centre of Reykjavik.
The home, on two floors, measures 205 square metres excluding the garage. The bathrooms and kitchen have been completely renovated.
You can see the price and listings on the Mbl.is real estate site HERE.


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King's Guard, 36, who was accused of mistreating juvenile Army recruits, was exonerated of four counts of mistreatment
January 16, 2023 Tomiwa Thomas
A military court issued a formal reprimand to a'strict' King's Guard unit accused of abusing adolescent Army recruits.
At the Bulford Military Court in Wiltshire, Lance Sergeant Ryan Harley, 36, was cleared of four counts of ill-treatment but guilty to two counts of improperly performing a job.
He was accused of mistreating a cadet after he was discovered wearing a woolly hat under his helmet while working as an instructor at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, which has been the subject of numerous allegations of mistreatment.
Signalman Lennox Clancy, who was 17 years old at the time, was disciplined by LSgt Harley for wearing the headgear and was told to "leopard crawl" around a track. This involves moving on your stomach in a manner similar to the animal. Nonetheless, LSgt Harley accused him of performing the incorrect maneuver.
Lance Sergeant Ryan Harley was accused of mistreating one cadet when a woolly cap was discovered underneath his helmet.
Signaller Lennox Clancy, a 17-year-old cadet at the time, said in court that he was forced to leopard crawl over an 80-100 meter jogging track.
Lieutenant Jamie Brotherton, prosecuting counsel, previously told Bulford Military Court that LSgt Harley was "prone to anger outbursts" and that his penalties went "well beyond what was expected."
The court martial was informed by LSgt. Harley that he was only trying to get the most out of his recruits. While admitting he should not have administered the punishment, he expressed worry about Signalman Clancy's health.
He said in court, 'I saw Clancy wearing (the woolly cap). He may succumb to a heat injury. It was a matter of duty.
Signaller Clancy asserted that LSgt Harley "grabbed him by the neck" and yelled at him for performing a "monkey crawl" on all fours; however, LSgt Harley stated that this did not occur. He also denied kicking two female trainees and one male cadet, who were all under the age of 18 at the time.
At the Bulford Military Court in Wiltshire, LSgt Harley was cleared of four accusations of ill-treatment but acknowledged to two of improperly performing a duty
LSgt Harley, who has served in the training wing of the Irish Guards since November 2021 and was just granted the Brigade Commander's Coin, stated before the court: 'I was always in control.' I believe I conducted myself professionally at all times.
However, the section commander confessed inviting recruits to "have a go" when he felt "frustrated" with them, but he said he was not asking the adolescents to fight but rather to motivate them.
"When I made those remarks, it was not maliciously," he explained.
I employed reverse psychology. I am tough but fair. I was not hostile. I'm a diligent individual. I want to help them achieve excellence. I have never been a bully in my entire life.
After a four-day trial, he was found not guilty of four counts of mistreatment of a subordinate.
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Great pleasure can be had just sitting by the river and just watching. It is hugely therapeutic just to relax, sit quietly and observe in detail what is going on around you. The very best anglers are those who have the ability to really see. This is actually quite a skill and one that you have to practice to master well but the rewards are considerable. In the modern world people are used to having information thrust at them on a screen and expected to operate at the same speed as a computer chip. This is not healthy and can be stressful. We are naturally curious but we simply don't give ourselves time to enjoy our natural curiosity and learn the skills of detailed observation.
All the best anglers have mastered this and it is their deep understanding of what is going on in the environment around them that gives them their edge. While thinking about this today, I was watching this striking Leucozona lucorum Hover Fly feeding on the Purple Loosestrife by the river…… until it was driven off by a rather impressive and somewhat scary big Hornet!


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The Norfolk Chamber of Commerce is changing. It has evolved to become the 'Norfolk Chambers of Commerce' and is moving forward with a new voice and a new mission. Its branding needed to reflect these changes and support its ambition of striving forward by communicating effectively to all. As Chambers which engage the whole county, the brand needs to send a clear message to all about its new mission: 'Connecting, supporting and giving voice to every business in Norfolk.'
With new brand guidelines (created by Naked Marketing) already in place for internal audiences and partners, the next step was to start sharing the new brand with the Norfolk business community. The Chambers approached FOUR for support in expanding upon its new brand concept, also created by Naked Marketing, so it could be creatively implemented across a varied mix of platforms and deliver clear and engaging communications with current and potential members. FOUR's approach was to build upon the 'Co.' concept already created and to give it more life and adaptability to deliver the essential key messages about the Chambers' work and business support. We expanded on the ways in which Co. words could be used to communicate the core messages and came up with 'You're in good co.mpany' as the new tagline; reflecting the Chambers' role in bringing people together, sharing knowledge, and ensuring the voice of Norfolk businesses is heard. We also helped developed the brand guidelines to embrace the use of more colour, shape and messaging to bring the brand to life, so that it meets the needs of an organisation with a rich heritage of serving the business community while encompassing the modern businesses of today and in the future.
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Roger McGuinn Interview
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AUTHOR'S NOTE, Oct. 11, 2014: The following is an expanded version of my Roger McGuinn interview, a shorter version of which was first published at MP3.com on April 2, 1999. The site was offering artists a new way to release their music online independently, without a major record label in the middle. At the time, the record industry was battling digital downloads; websites like MP3.com, artists like McGuinn and music journalists like yours truly who wrote for such sites were considered traitorous. History has proven otherwise. Once Apple established the business model for digital downloads with iTunes, it was all over for the old-school record biz. But in spring 1999, the MP3 wars were still raging…
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The Third Banana
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Abolish the MLB Draft!
It doesn't work. It's quite possibly immoral. It's time to replace it.
by Rany Jazayerli on June 6, 2013
Let's conduct a thought experiment. Let's say you're a computer whiz. I don't mean you were able to recover your Word document that one time when your Lenovo crashed — I mean you're an absolute prodigy in front of a laptop. You taught yourself to code your own website when you were 9 years old. By the time you were 11, you were running a profitable side business consulting on software issues for your parents' friends. You graduated from high school with straight A's because you hacked into the system after catching WarGames on late-night TV. By the time you finish college, you've established a reputation as one of the brightest young minds in the computing industry. Google is interested in hiring you. Bigwigs at Apple have met you on campus for several friendly chats. Facebook follows you constantly — well, they follow everyone constantly, but in your case they're tracking you with actual human beings. Yahoo sees you as a key piece in their rebuilding strategy. Twitter and LinkedIn have called.
And then, a week after graduation, you get a phone call. Microsoft is on the line — you're their first-round pick! They've made you an offer for a fraction of what your value is worth on the open market. If you don't agree to their contract, then you can't work for any other tech company for another year — when some other company will draft you and you'll go through the same process all over again.
You think Microsoft is terrible at developing programmers and that you won't learn anything while working there? Tough. You were hoping to settle in Silicon Valley and have no interest in moving to Redmond? Sorry, bub. It was your childhood dream to work for Google?1 Maybe you'll get to revisit that dream in 10 years, when you're finally free to work for whoever you want.
Does this sound ridiculous? Congratulations! You've picked up on the inherent absurdity of the sports draft.
We accept limitations on the rights of athletes to choose their employers in a way we never would accept on anyone else. We do so because we recognize that sports franchises do not compete with each other the way that companies in other industries do. When eToys.com went bankrupt, it didn't hurt business at Amazon. But if the Kansas City Royals ceased operations, the New York Yankees would be hurt by the loss of a "competitor" that they have made millions of dollars beating the crap out of.
Like other sports leagues, Major League Baseball is a single entity composed of dozens of competing organizations that need each other to succeed. The health of the league is dependent on the health of each individual organization. Hence, we accept mechanisms that were put in place generations ago to ensure that health by giving the worst franchises a leg up on their opponents in procuring new talent.
Well, that's the story they want you to believe, anyway.
The reality is that MLB didn't institute the draft nearly 50 years ago as a way to promote competitive balance. That's a dandy byproduct of the draft, and one they've done their damndest to promote over the years. But the real reason is somewhat different. When the draft was created, Major League Baseball wasn't concerned so much with extending a hand to the downtrodden teams, but with cutting costs for all of them.
Baseball teams had been trying to lower expenses on player acquisitions for decades before the draft was instituted. These were the days of the reserve clause, a prettied-up term for indentured servitude, when a team owned the rights to a ballplayer from the moment he signed until the moment he retired, and sometimes even after that. The decision to sign his first professional contract represented the only time a player had any real leverage.
Well, that wouldn't do, so teams tried their best to restrict what little leverage players had. In 1947 MLB instituted the Bonus Rule, which mandated that any amateur player who received a signing bonus of more than $4,000 would be required to stay on his team's major league roster for two seasons before he could be sent to the minors.
It remains one of the most spiteful, self-destructive rules ever passed by a professional sports league. The rule didn't even work to limit bonuses — teams still gave out big bonuses to players of particular promise. All it meant was that every player of particular promise was going to sit on a major league bench, his talent withering away for two years before he could be farmed out to start developing that talent, which hopefully had not atrophied by then.
Occasionally a player was so talented that, even in his teenage years, he could hold his own in the majors. Sandy Koufax was put to work by the Brooklyn Dodgers right away, and even at age 19 he didn't embarrass himself. On the other hand, it would take him seven years to master his control and become Sandy Koufax, and it's not unreasonable to presume that some time in the minor leagues would have more quickly taught him to throw strikes.
More common was the early experience of Harmon Killebrew, who was 17 when he signed with the Washington Senators in 1954. He got 93 at-bats over the next two years. Killer would bounce between the minors and majors for three more years before finally earning a full-time job in 1959, upon which he promptly led the AL in home runs. Killebrew ended up being the exception, because he made it; we can only wonder how many promising players were permanently damaged by wasting two years of their lives because they agreed to take a team's money.
Even the teams realized how ineffective the Bonus Rule was, which is why it was rescinded and then reinstated multiple times over the years. Finally, in 1964, a bidding war broke out over University of Wisconsin two-sport start Rick Reichardt. The Los Angeles Angels won the bidding war with a record-breaking $205,000 offer,2 which was just the tip of the iceberg: The 20 major league teams spent more than $7 million combined on signing bonuses for amateur players that year, which was more than they spent on major league salaries. The Powers That Be were finally moved to act.
In 1965, Major League Baseball got rid of the Bonus Rule and held its first amateur draft. The Kansas City A's used the first pick to select Rick Monday, who would go on to play 19 years in the majors. Monday, who had no leverage to sign with any other team, had no choice but to agree to a signing bonus of $104,000. The new system was intended to lower signing bonuses paid to players, and it worked. In fact, no amateur player exceeded Reichardt's signing bonus for 24 years, until 1988, when the no. 1 overall pick, Andy Benes, was able to snooker the San Diego Padres out of $235,000.3
The dam finally burst in the early 1990s because agents like Scott Boras insisted that their clients were worth significantly more money. The top signing bonus jumped more than 500 percent in three years; in 1991 the no. 1 overall pick, Brien Taylor, got $1.55 million from the New York Yankees when they took his threat to go to college seriously. By 1995, every first-round pick signed for at least $500,000, and eight players signed for $1 million.
But the sudden increase in signing bonuses didn't mean that the draft was no longer suppressing costs — it just meant that owners had finally realized the value of top draft picks. And then in 1996, we finally found out how much a draft pick could be worth.
While no. 1 overall pick Kris Benson signed for $2 million, Boras found a loophole in MLB's rules that allowed four first-round picks to be declared free agents, free to sign with any team.4 One of them was no. 2 overall pick Travis Lee. He signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks — for $10.2 million. The other three guys got $10 million (Matt White), $6.075 million (John Patterson), and $3 million (Bobby Seay). If there was any doubt before that the draft suppressed signing bonuses, there wasn't anymore.
The problem in proposing an alternative to the draft is that, as much as it limits the rights of baseball players to earn what the market will bear, it's hard to deny that the draft has also improved competitive balance by giving the worst teams first crack at the best new talent. Truly terrible teams have virtually disappeared from the baseball landscape. If we ignore expansion teams, in the 48 years from 1917 to 1964, 30 teams lost more than two-thirds of their games in a season. In the 48 years from 1965 to 2012 — the draft era — just three teams have done the same.5 The incidence of truly terrible teams has declined 90 percent, even though there are nearly twice as many teams today as there were 60 years ago.
So the draft, as constituted, saves teams a ton of money (which benefits the owners) and improves parity in the game (which benefits everyone else). If we're going to replace the draft with something better, it has to accomplish the former or the owners will never agree to do it, and it has to accomplish the latter or there's no point.
Fortunately, just such a replacement exists, and it would be a relative breeze to set up.
We're not going to keep you in suspense any longer. The draft alternative we're proposing is very simple:
1. Assign every team a spending cap. (This limits costs, which will please owners.)
2. Allot the spending cap for each team based on where they finished in the standings the year before, allowing the worst teams to spend more in the draft than the best teams. (This helps maintain competitive balance.)
3. Let the free market reign.
This is not a radical concept. It's not even a particularly new one; David Rawnsley, then a writer for Baseball America and now the VP of player personnel for Perfect Game, suggested it more than a decade ago. But it's an idea whose time has come.
First off, think of the benefits.
From a player's perspective: You have the right to choose your employer. That's a pretty basic right enjoyed by almost all Americans, but one that has been denied pro athletes for too long. You grew up a Cubs fan and it would be a dream come true to sign with your hometown team? Give them a hometown discount, and it just might happen. Parents retiring to Arizona? Maybe you'll take a second look at what the Diamondbacks have to offer. You love the beach and warm weather? You can take the offer from the San Diego Padres, even if other teams are willing to pay more. (Also, hope you enjoy minor league pit stops in Fort Wayne, San Antonio, and Tucson!)
On a less whimsical note, if you're a top collegiate hitter and the Seattle Mariners sidle up to you with truckloads of cash, would you sign? Or would you take a look at what's happened to Jesus Montero, Dustin Ackley, and Justin Smoak, and take less money to sign with an organization that has a proven track record of turning minor league hitting prospects into major league hitters? If you're a pitcher, would you sign with the Kansas City Royals, who haven't drafted a pitcher who has made even one start in the majors this year since 2004?
In the current system, if you get drafted by a team whose developmental philosophy is diametrically opposed to your own, you have no recourse other than sitting out a year — or, in the case of a high school player headed to college, three years. This isn't a theoretical issue. The long-tossing revolution, in which pitchers train by throwing a ball 300 feet or even farther, has swept through the game over the past five to 10 years, with many first-round picks swearing by the training method as a way to keep their arms healthy. Meanwhile, more than a few major league teams were extremely skeptical of the new trend — they've almost all come around now — and forbade their pitchers from long-tossing.
It became such an issue that two years ago, Trevor Bauer and Dylan Bundy — both pitchers who would be top-five picks in the draft — publicly stated that if any team wasn't willing to let them long-toss, that team shouldn't draft them. In the end, Bauer and Bundy landed with teams who were willing to let them long-toss and the sport avoided an embarrassing standoff. But the potential for this kind of conflict is always there when the teams that draft players hold all the leverage. And with very limited exceptions, draft picks can't be traded, which prevents a resolution along the lines of John Elway getting traded to the Denver Broncos or Eli Manning to the New York Giants.
In the current draft system, a player has absolutely no say in his place of employment for roughly a decade — by which point the vast majority of draft picks have already left or been cut from the game. Eliminate the draft, and you give players at least one moment in their lives as professional ballplayers in which they have control of their career. On moral grounds alone, that justifies the switch.
But as beneficial as abolishing the draft would be for players, it would have benefits for teams as well. In a draftless system, every team would at least theoretically have a crack at signing every player. Right now, if there's a specific player that your organization is absolutely in love with, you might not even get a chance to talk to him because you have the 13th pick in the draft and the team that drafts 11th fancies him too. Abolish the draft, and suddenly every player in the pool becomes accessible, so long as you're willing to accept the consequences of having less money to sign everyone else.
Furthermore, making amateur talent a free-for-all allows teams to try radically different strategies that aren't feasible today. Your research department thinks you'll get a better rate of return by signing 20 guys for $400,000 each than by blowing half your budget on a single player? That's something you can do if the draft is abolished. Conversely, if there's one elite prospect who your organization is certain will be a star? In the current system, if you don't hold a top draft pick, you've got no shot. But eliminate the draft, and if you're willing to blow your entire budget on a single player, you just might.
In a system where every player is a free agent and every team is free to sign him, there's no need for the draft shenanigans that happen every year. Never again will Scott Boras need to manipulate the draft to allow his client to sign with the team that will give him the most money — now he's free to negotiate with all 30 teams at once. You claim your client is a special, once-in-a-generation talent? Let the market decide.
And in a system where every team has access to every player, luck becomes subordinate to competence. Right now, if there are three consensus franchise talents and you're drafting fourth, you're out of luck. In a draft-free system, you make your own luck. Smart teams will find new inefficiencies to exploit. The A's have found three since you started reading this.
When Rawnsley first proposed this idea around the turn of the century, it was such a radical revision of the existing system that it was more of an idea bubble than a true proposal. But changes in the new collective bargaining agreement make the notion of abolishing the draft less far-fetched.
For one thing, the new CBA placed a spending cap on all 30 teams in the draft. Every draft pick has been assigned a slot price, with the amount dropping with every pick. Teams are not required to spend all their slot money on that specific player; they can move the money around, getting one player to agree to take less than slot and then transferring the savings to another player. So prior to the draft, every team knows exactly how much money they can spend — the Astros, drafting first this year, have a bonus pool of $11,698,800, while the Nationals, drafting last, can spend $2,737,200.
Teams are permitted to exceed their cap, but the penalties for exceeding it by more than 5 percent are so onerous that no team did so last season. Even the Pittsburgh Pirates, who drafted Mark Appel no. 8 overall, refused to break the cap in order to sign him, and Appel returned to Stanford; he may be drafted first overall tonight.
So if the Astros have their bonus pool, and the Nationals have their bonus pool, what's the point of having a draft in the first place? In exchange for making the cap completely unbreakable — which will save the owners a little cash — eliminate the middleman. The Astros have their signing cap, the Nationals have theirs. Gentlemen, start your engines.
In a sense, the Astros are already operating under a draft-free system. Last season, they had the first pick in the draft, but they elected to take Carlos Correa, who was not considered the best available, because Correa was willing to sign for a well-below-slot bonus of $4.5 million. This freed up millions of dollars for the Astros to use on other players, and they spent much of that excess on Lance McCullers, a high school right-hander who fell in the draft because of his bonus demands. Correa and McCullers are both top prospects today — and tonight, it's quite possible that the Astros will do the same thing again, using the no. 1 overall pick on a player, like UNC third baseman Colin Moran, who isn't the best available but who is a top-five talent willing to accept a below-slot deal, thus allowing the Astros to draft and sign more top prospects later in the draft.
The Astros can use this tactic because, holding the first pick, they can launch their plot without being subject to the whims of other teams. Eliminate the draft and every team will be able to strategize this way.
The draft is also used as a mechanism to punish or reward teams who are active in free agency — teams that sign a premier free agent lose a draft pick, while the team that loses the free agent gains a draft pick in compensation. There's no reason that compensation system can't be tailored to a draft-free system in which bonus pool dollars would substitute for draft picks.
One of the biggest frustrations with the current system — for fans and many MLB front offices — is the limitation placed on trading draft picks. As the NFL and NBA have shown, the ability to trade draft picks adds intrigue and exposure to the draft, while granting teams the flexibility to acquire the talent they covet. Major League Baseball finally got around to dipping its toes in the water of draft pick trades, as the new CBA allows teams to trade certain "competitive balance" draft picks during carefully defined windows in the sport's calendar. But in a draft-free world, you don't have to worry about this issue. Instead, you can allow teams to trade bonus pool dollars. Now, if a contender wants to trade for Player X from a rebuilding squad in July, if they can't agree on a prospect, they can just come to terms on a dollar figure in the subsequent draft.
It would be harder to make the case to abolish the draft if the draft were working — if the best players get picked first and on down the line. But it hasn't worked that way in at least a quarter century. Prior to the new CBA, some of the most highly regarded (and expensive) talents would tumble down the draft until they fell to a team willing to meet their demands, whether it was Rick Ankiel in 1997 ($2.5 million, drafted no. 72 overall) or Rick Porcello in 2006 ($7 million major league contract, drafted no. 27 overall). The new CBA limits that, but it has introduced new and unanticipated consequences. Last season, many teams elected to blow most of their bonus pool money on their first couple picks, then draft lightly regarded college seniors who would agree to minuscule bonuses. Maybe it's less broken than before, but when a team drafts a virtual unknown in the fourth round and signs him for $5,000 — as the Blue Jays did last year with Tucker Donahue — the draft is still broken.
So blow it up. Give teams the freedom to make an offer to every player, and give players the freedom to accept any offer.
The irony is that Major League Baseball already has this system in place — a system in which teams are allowed to sign any amateur player they want within the constraints of a bonus cap, and the players are allowed to sign with any team they want. It's just that this system applies only to international talent.
As part of the new CBA, last year every team was capped6 at spending $2.9 million on international amateur talent, exempting players from certain Asian markets and Cuban defectors over the age of 23. The world did not end. The highest signing bonus was doled out by the New York Mets to Amed Rosario, a 16-year-old shortstop from the Dominican Republic, who received $1.75 million. Nine other players got seven-figure bonuses. The Yankees chose to spend $2.75 million on three players, leaving almost nothing for anyone else. Meanwhile, 16 teams elected to spread their money around, not spending even $600,000 on a single player. Different strokes for different folks.
This year, each team's international signing cap will be determined by where they finished in the standings last season. The Astros can spend up to $4,943,700; the Nationals can spend only $1,846,900. Other than the signing cap, once the signing season opens on July 2, there are no restrictions. Teams can even trade bonus dollars.
This is exactly the system we're advocating for Americans and Canadians subject to the draft. IT ALREADY EXISTS. But only for foreign ballplayers.
Major League Baseball, bless its heart, is trying to synchronize the two systems. Only instead of synchronizing things by eliminating the draft for domestic players, naturally, they're trying to institute a draft on international players.
It's difficult to articulate just how horrible this idea is; it's almost as bad as the Bonus Rule. Latin America is the Wild West of amateur baseball; signing a player frequently means dealing with the buscones who trained him since he was 11 years old and get a cut of his bonus, then waiting months for the player's date of birth and identity to be confirmed by the commissioner's office. Throughout this process, corruption — even, occasionally, among employees of the major league teams — is rampant. Virtually every scout in Latin America thinks implementing a draft there will be a disaster.
Put it this way: If a draft is implemented, it's just a matter of time before two teams wind up accidentally drafting the same player, listed under two different names.
If implementing an international draft would save teams money, at least you could justify it in pure Machiavellian terms. But now that a signing cap is in place, a draft wouldn't even do that. The high priority placed on this by the commissioner's office is bizarre.
The good news is that MLB can't implement an international draft without the cooperation of the players' union, and last week the MLBPA vetoed the idea. (This, after more than 150 Latin American players on major league rosters signed a petition expressing their opposition to an international draft.) There's a good chance the specter of an international draft won't be brought up again until the next CBA is negotiated, by which time Selig is likely to have retired,7 and with any luck his successor won't have the same zeal for the draft.
We can only hope that, instead of trying to expand the draft, the next commissioner will take a good, hard look at whether the draft is necessary at all. Because it's not. The draft is an idea whose time has passed. A signing cap would limit costs and improve competitive balance while offering amateur players the freedom to choose their employer. It would also inject an added dose of intrigue and strategy to the game.
It's time to ditch the draft. The game of baseball will be better for it.
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Frequently lost in this story is the fact that Reichardt ultimately proved to be worth the money and then some. After wasting his first two years on the Angels' bench, he was an above-average left fielder for the team from 1966 through 1969, and then was traded for Ken McMullen, who started at third base from 1970 to 1972.
Technically, Bo Jackson didn't exceed Reichardt's signing bonus, but after he was selected by the Royals in the fourth round of the 1986 draft, he signed a major league contract (unprecedented for a draft pick) that guaranteed him more than a million dollars. Of course, he had a degree of leverage that was unique in the history of baseball.
Major League Baseball's own rules stated that if a player was not offered a formal contract in writing within 15 days of being drafted, he was a free agent. Teams had routinely missed this deadline for years, but no one called them on it. Boras did, and got pilloried in the press for it, but the people who deserved to get called on the carpet were the incompetent lawyers who created a loophole wider than the Kuiper Belt.
The 1996 Tigers, 2003 Tigers, and 2004 Diamondbacks can take a bow. This year's Miami Marlins are warming up offstage.
Well, it was a soft cap, and unlike with the domestic draft, the penalties put in place weren't onerous enough to dissuade some smart teams — particularly the Tampa Bay Rays — from finding ways to circumvent it. Unnecessary loopholes are as much a part of Major League Baseball as the Dodger Dog.
This is based on the rather shaky assumption that Selig is not, in fact, immortal.
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Chevrolet completely transformed the Tahoe for the 2021 model year and will soon launch the brand-new SUV under the tagline "bigger, better, bolder".
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The 2021 Tahoe is sleek, modern, and very well balanced despite its enormous size. The two strips of LEDs in the front cut into the massive grille which helps a lot to give it a slenderer look.
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For an SUV this size nothing short of a V-8 will do and Chevrolet gives prospective buyers two options. One is the standard powertrain, a 5.3-liter V-8 that can produce 355 horsepower and 383 pound-feet of torque, enough to tow upwards of 8,400 pounds, placing the abilities of this SUV in pickup truck territory.
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First of all I feel quite humbled and honored to have been requested to share my yoga experiences with the devotees of Grace Yoga Studio.
I took my first yoga class after experiencing a surgery related to my passion for long distance running in December 1987. It was obvious to me that I needed to balance my marathon running with more mindfulness about stretching. I was very fortunate to find a convenient class that was taught by Donna Farhi, who was just beginning her teaching career at that juncture. I now realize how fortunate I was to have been her student for 6 years. Donna at that point was teaching the Hatha/Iyengar style of yoga which afforded me the knowledge of the importance of precise body alignment and that a true yoga practice was much deeper than simply doing (asana) physical poses. Donna has gone on to be world renowned as a yoga practitioner, author and teacher.
Over the many years that have passed since that introduction, I never forgot that yoga spoke to me and offered an integral inroad to my wellbeing. But life, becoming a Father, work and many other distractions often took precedence over attending class regularly. It was after other events manifested in my life that I returned to the yoga mat with a renewed curiosity and sense of importance in January 2014. That led me to attending my first class at Grace Yoga in January of 2015, and I have attempted to immerse myself in this community of likeminded yoginis since.
Yoga has blessed me with many benefits other than stretching and being mindful of my body. The biggest being that I choose to slow down, be conscious of my breathing, and attempt to be acceptant of where I am at that moment, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
"Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully. Coming home to the body through asana practice can be a joyous reunion. As the discursive mind moves into the shadows of consciousness, the body is allowed to speak its mind. As a result of these newfound insights we may decide to make changes in our life." --Donna Farhi, "Bringing Yoga to Life"
I wish that I could inspire others to commit to yoga, yet I have already mentioned that as much as I have known the benefits, I also get busy, sidetracked and FORGET. Hence it has taken me 27 years to once again make the personal choice to strive to make YOGA a key element in my life, to get to class and begin a fledgling home practice.
I love that the theme this month is GRATITUDE, in that is an emotion of which I feel is so important to peace of mind, a positive attitude and faith in this journey of life. I strive to live my life that all who come in contact with me will hopefully feel better for it.
"Of all of the qualities that can transform a life practice, gratitude and faith stand supreme. I have access to spiritual teachings, teachers, fellow students and the time to practice. These are indications of extraordinary good fortune. Recognizing these facts and contemplating their significance is a good way to start the day, helping to erase cynicism, and bringing freshness to each new day." --Donna Farhi, "Bringing Yoga to Life"
I will be turning 57 this month, am now single and have a 19 year old daughter in college. I was born and raised in Minnesota and moved to San Francisco in November of 1984. I swim daily and bike a few times a week as substitutes for having given up my running. My career is working with the aged, both in a senior center setting, but more so in a program called Adult Day Care. That program assists individuals with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke, and the other issues of life aging, receive compassionate care in a community based setting. Allowing the participants to continue to reside in their homes for as long as feasible, and offers needed respite for the primary caregivers to have time to tend to their needs and wellbeing. I got involved in this work due to my Father being diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 1970 when I was 12 years old. I deal with the realities of aging, physical and mental decline and death on a daily basis. My profession has taught me once again to be very grateful for that which we have.
I spoke earlier of my past devotion to distance running, and often grew introspective about why? Was I running away from something in my life? It is only in the last few years as my yoga practice has evolved that I have shifted my thinking to that I was most likely running towards a greater understanding of my true self. As I strive to embrace the multifaceted yoga life, spending time on my mat has taken on a deeper meaning, and helps tether me to a sense of connectedness. I truly enjoy becoming a member of the Grace Yoga Studio, the community that it offers, and the opportunity to continue my personal pilgrimage to become a better human being.
I wish all a meaningful and joyous Thanksgiving Holiday, we are indeed very blessed.
"When this feeling of gratitude begins to build, it will naturally generate a faith in your practice, the purpose of your life, and your own abilities. Gratitude and faith go together, hand in hand. So before you begin your practice, take a moment to reflect on your exceptional circumstances. In the spirit of this gratefulness, let your practice begin. --Donna Farhi, "Bringing Yoga to Life"


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Well we were both glad we did because it was the perfect place to warm up on this cool 49ºF July 2 morning.
We had coffee, eggs and Rye toast–I was very excited about the Rye toast, I don't get out much.
Oh, right, the wisdom – as Keith and I were riding along talking about life, as we often do he said to me "Don't wish your life away" meaning make it happen today, there may not be another opportunity.
I thought that was wisdom.


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Matthew Scott: 'Kent Police is the best police force in the country'
Matthew Scott welcomes recent judgements by HMICFRS which found Kent Police to be outstanding in three key areas
Matthew Scott says that findings published by independent inspectors today prove that Kent Police is the best force in the country.
Mr Scott, Kent's elected Police and Crime Commissioner, was speaking after Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) rated Kent Police as outstanding for how efficiently it uses its resources, and outstanding for its legitimately in serving the public. Those judgements follow soon after a separate HMICFRS report found Kent Police to be outstanding at how it records crime too.
Mr Scott said:
'This is fantastic news. No other police force in England and Wales boasts three outstandings.
'I am absolutely confident that, as these independent inspections have shown, Kent Police is the best police force in the whole country despite having one of the lowest council tax precepts and being one of the lowest-funded force areas.
'Many congratulations to all Kent Police's officers and staff for achieving this status and, on behalf of the residents of Kent, I thank you for all the hard work you continue to do to keep our communities safe.'
This was the first time HMICFRS has rolled its Policing effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy (Peel) inspections into a single integrated report. As well as being judged outstanding for efficiency and legitimacy, Kent Police was also found to be good in terms of its effectiveness at reducing crime and keeping people safe.
HM Inspector of Constabulary Zoe Billingham said:
'Overall I congratulate Kent Police for its excellent performance over the past year. I am confident that it is well-equipped for this to continue.'
Chief Constable of Kent Police, Alan Pughsley, said:
'I am extremely pleased that Kent Police has been graded outstanding in the way that we treat people, plan for the future and work together with our partner agencies to protect the public.
'Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services also recognised that we do a good job when it comes to preventing and investigating crime and protecting vulnerable people.
'This report is testament to the fantastic job my staff do for the people of Kent day in, day out. As positive as this report is about our work, however, we remain determined to continue to improve what we do and how we do it.
'We will work together to achieve this and continue to provide a first class policing service to the people of Kent.'
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'I hope that the extra 180 police officers I am funding this year through council tax, on top of the 200 extra officers recruited last year and ongoing investment in new technology and equipment, will help the force to continue to improve - just as investment in additional Force Control Room staff last year has delivered a positive impact on 101 call-handling performance.'


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Saved By Grace Through Faith
by Brad Caldwell | May 1, 2013 | Wednesdays | 0 comments
What's up Emerge? Tonight started with an extended version of everyone's favorite, chat time. After that, we moved into our time of worship. Tonight's songs were "Today Is The Day" by Lincoln Brewster, "Desert Song" by Hillsong, and "The Stand" by Kristian Stanfill. At the end, we attempted to sing one of the songs from convention ("Spirit Break Out"), but it didn't work as planned, so we're going to attempt that again soon. After that, Corey prayed and we moved into tonight's message.
Tonight's message came from Ephesians 2:1-10 and talked about how we are saved by grace through faith. The message started out with Corey showing us a plaque that he received after competing in track and field in high school. We talked about how we can all get things like that, that show we achieved something. The message also talked about we don't have to do good works and receive things for them to get into heaven, we have to have a relationship with Jesus based on faith. Basically, the good things we do don't save us – we are only saved by God's grace.
That's about all for tonight's post. I think this may be one of the shortest from me yet! 🙂
See you Sunday!
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"This is no joke," my dear friend, Nicole, says the second day of our trip among the Galapagos Islands.
We're yachting around the Galapagos Islands in a beautifully appointed 120-foot vessel and we're all reaching into our reserves to increase our stamina.
This is seriously no joke.
It's stunning to be on islands without any other people.
It's amazing to stay overnight in a volcanic crater.
It's unbelievable to commune with sea lions, tortoises, albatrosses, penguins, flamingos, Christmas iguanas, and blue, Nasca and red-footed boobies.
We've seen things few people get to see in their lifetimes.
Rock formations at sea, rock-faced cathedrals, volcanic craters, , and red, coral, black & white sand remote beaches.
We've gotten to do things few people get to do in their lifetimes.
Snorkeling with sharks, kayaking with sea lions, hiking among seabirds and gazing at the stars in the southern hemisphere.
We got to visit the San Cristobal, Floreana, Espanola, Santa Cruz, Genovesa, Rabida and Chinese Hat islands.
Nicole's right it's no joke to go to the Galapagos, but it's certainly a trip of a lifetime!
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