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Historically, local tax revenues have been the dominant source of funds for building and renovating public school facilities, with support from state governments and small federal initiatives, combined, supplying less than a quarter of all facilities funds nationwide. Usually, state support has been based on a politically determined amount of available money – without regard to educational needs or construction costs – and the outcome of a political struggle over how to distribute that money among a state's school districts. As a result, the quality of school facilities varies dramatically, and often inequitably, based on differences between communities' local ability to pay and the balance of political power in the state.
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Over the past few decades, a growing body of research has affirmed that schools that are overcrowded, deteriorated, or that lack modern science labs, computers, libraries, and auditoriums make it difficult for students to succeed and harder for teachers to teach. As a result, a new set of questions has emerged regarding the nature, scope, and adequacy of state funds to support school facilities:
What resources and conditions do schools need to enable their students to meet the state's learning standards? How much funding is required to build and maintain the necessary resources and conditions? What kind of state education capital finance system would best deliver that funding to all schools?
Although cost studies have helped address these questions, they have generally focused on schools' day-to-day operating costs and not considered facilities needs. Nevertheless, a number of states have adopted statewide school facilities standards and conducted school facility evaluations to determine cost estimates for bringing all inadequate school buildings up to par. In response to enrollment growth and the deterioration of aging school facilities in recent years, many states have increased their financial contributions to pay for a number of needed facilities projects.
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An additional impetus for school facilities funding reform has come from the courts, a number of which have declared their state's school funding system unconstitutional as a result of education finance litigation. Close to twenty states have revised school facilities funding in response to lawsuits, and courts in Alaska, Arkansas, New Jersey, Ohio, Wyoming, and elsewhere have expressly determined that adequate facilities are an important component of the state's constitutional responsibility. Under court order, a number of these states have dramatically increased their support for school construction and renovation.
Some states, like New Mexico, Arizona, and Idaho, have faced lawsuits that explicitly challenged the constitutionality of the state's method of facilities funding. Plaintiffs have prevailed in the majority of these cases, but legislative responses to the court orders have been mixed.
See our one-page chart about school facilities finance litigation.
Challenges of Reform
The implementation of facilities reforms often gets bogged down or seriously compromised due to political deal-making, insufficient funding, or lack of technical expertise at the district and state level. States face the challenge of choosing which deficiencies in school facilities to prioritize (i.e. overcrowding, health and safety, science labs, computers, libraries) given budget constraints and competing political pressures from constituencies with different needs. Local communities also struggle financially to support their school facilities, especially when changing and unstable state policies make garnering local voter support for school budgets and long-range facilities planning difficult.
Even in the case of plaintiff victory in finance litigation, improved facilities funding has required constant diligence.
In Idaho, after the state's supreme court declared the state's facilities funding unconstitutional, the legislature passed a law that was designed simply to end litigation on the issue. Only after being taken to court over this new law did the legislature begin to express willingness to seriously overhaul their funding system. In New Mexico, the state legislature responded actively to the court's order, studying and redesigning their facilities financing system and committing new state money to school construction. However, the system was almost immediately bypassed by the Governor and legislature in favor of providing extra funding to more politically powerful districts, rather than the poor, rural districts that had been plaintiffs in that state's lawsuit. In New Jersey, facilities became part of the state's long-running adequacy lawsuit, Abbott v. Burke. The state pledged substantial additional funding to a facilities construction and repair plan that was designed to provide adequate and equitable facilities across the state. However, the money that the state committed to the project was used up on a fraction of the planned projects, and the state agency charged with managing the state's facilities program was revealed as corrupt and wasteful. The aftermath of that scandal has proven devastating to high-needs districts, as projects have stalled and the state remains hesitant to commit substantial new funds to the project. In Arkansas, the state responded to the court's order by commissioning an extensive study that purported to identify facilities needs across the entire state. However, the state's subsequent appropriation of facilities funding was declared totally insufficient by the special masters in the state's adequacy case, and the legislature was forced to appropriate more funds. The adequacy of those funds, and the legislature's continued commitment to the state's facilities funding plan remain to be seen.
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A virtue of the new visitors center under the lawn at the national capitol isn't its cost-over budget by a factor of about 10 - or its interior architectural design - blasted by all those sophisticated critics who never personally designed or built anything, but its most basic design fact: it's under the lawn.
Over it are growing the grass and trees (indeed, some of the same trees which were there before the bulldozers arrived and were replanted after the construction was completed) typically invoked by BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything) activists seeking to de-rail the latest building permit application by some hapless private-sector builder.
Putting new construction underground is not only technically feasible - the subway system under Holland's below-sea-level Amsterdam proved that decades ago - but esthetically attractive to those who'd rather see grass and trees than brick and stone.
If Vermont's movers and shakers hadn't recently shed their willingness to look beyond state boundaries for attractive solutions to various problems as they once did (see last week's column) they might look at underground construction as the resolution for the seemingly intractable in-State development confrontation: the need for new construction to house (taxable) jobs and commerce versus the desire to create a theme-park landscape with meadows, forest, 12-cow barns and wooden silos, as lovingly depicted in most issues of Vermont Life magazine, or, in the absence of that, to protect all existing grass and trees from any sort of replacement by buildings or pavements (see last week's column) unless it's a governmental sponsored or supported project.
There's a chance that even a despised big-box store permit applicant might get his approval if he'd design his building so it couldn't be seen, except for the front entrance - just like that new ultimate-government-construction example, the Federal Visitors' Center. To the extent that putting grass and trees on the roof now qualifies zoners and architects to claim credit for a "green" design, an underground Home Depot or McDonald's might well be acceptable to all the usual suspects, objection-wise; after all, the Volvo's and Audi's of the usual objectors are quite frequently seen, parked as discreetly and unobtrusively as possible, in the parking lots of those entities at above-ground locations.
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Residents are invited to learn about the bike park at the Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources Commission meeting on Monday, March 11, at City Hall, 12800 Ravine Parkway S. in Cottage Grove. This would be the first bike park in the east metro area.
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Glad to see that you went with some of my recommendations, that thing is going to be sweet! Did I ever send you the pictures of the other DR with the white frame? Should look really good with the new white Safari tank. I'll be following this build closely, so if you have any questions just post them here and I will chime in when I get a chance. Let's get crackin'! Lukas |
Good luck. BTW are the cans going in paralell:evil or in serial fashion? Either way three cans in one DR will be something I will watching out for:lol3
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My decision to work this way (that's me in the image above) was made because I have had five different office jobs, and every single one of them under-utilized me. I would sit around bored for hours at a time, waiting for work, asking for work, volunteering for more assignments, all to no avail. At one such job, I founded an award-winning website that's still going strong eight years later; at another, I did additional part-time freelance work. It was increasingly frustrating to me to have to sit at a desk after I'd completed my assignments for hours when it was beautiful outside. Turns out, I am a very efficient worker, so I can maximize my free time (which for me means time working on personal creative projects), if I'm paid by the project as opposed to sitting in an office killing time. Working at home also works for me since some days I just don't feel like getting all gussied up; as a woman, having days when I have a free pass to forego hair and makeup, and get high-quality work done without wearing a bra or heels (with my favorite cat in my lap) is a beautiful thing.
Working at home means I exercise more, since I can make my own schedule and take those mid-day classes at the gym, and I eat more healthfully and cheaply, since I make my own giant salads or omlettes for lunch. For me, being a virtual worker really works, though I understand that it doesn't for many (some people genuinely enjoy dealing with coworkers face-to-face; as an introvert, I tend to hide during "office parties"). I'm healthier in general since I'm more relaxed, don't have to commute (which in my area is quite stressful) and am always able to get enough sleep.
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I know that the drinking age in Iceland is 20, but I am going there for my 18th birthday, and being English will be expecting to hit the town hard. Does any know how tight the bars and clubs are on I.D. and if they are tight what forms of I.D. they accept?
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Please see my recent post on the CAYMAN ISLANDS BOARD and wait until your GROWN UP before you're worried about how "tight" things are.
The law is the law and it is that way for a reason. To save you from yourself.
Do yourself a favor and save your own life. Have you not seen enough on the news to see enough of people your age either dying or coming to near death situations to know that breaking the law is just not worth it? Going someplace simply because you are legally might be allowed to drink does not mean you are mature enough to drink or physically able to handle what happens to your body when you go to excess.
Iceland is a fascinating country and there are more things to do there than worry about tight drinking! Enjoy it for what it is, not what you can do in shots!!Colleen Costello
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Originally posted by Host Bonjour View PostIceland is a fascinating country and there are more things to do there than worry about tight drinking! Enjoy it for what it is, not what you can do in shots!!
I couldn't agree with you more. I think that it's a waste of time for people to visit a country and not be lucid enough to appreciate the sites and sights


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Wilson, Gail (1998) The postmodern as an aid to empowerment : understanding staff and users. In: Barry, M. and Hallett, C., (eds.) Social Exclusion and Social Work : Issues of Theory, Policy and Practice. Russell House Publishing, Lyme Regis, England. ISBN 1898924325
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The aim of this chapter is to consider the contributions a postmodern approach can offer to understanding changes in the organisation of social work and the impact on service users. The discussion defines users as the recipients of social services - mainly clients and patients but much of the argument applies also to tenants, offenders or students. These users are vital parts of the system - no users, no service - but they are marginalised by the management and organisation of their services. There are other users of social work services in other agencies, for example hospital consultants who need their beds unblocked, and more indirectly the local and national politicians who need social work to legitimate their concern with social problems. However these groups are not the focus of this chapter. The postmodern can be divided into the material and the intellectual. The material describes changes that are taking place in the world such as globalisation, the information technology revolution and the triumph of market capitalism. The intellectual aspect refers to changes in ways of thinking about or understanding the world. It is much more controversial since in its extreme forms it undermines the validity of western scientific rationality and so of the dominant ideological view of knowledge.
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Yet another opinion poll, this time by YouGov in today's Sunday times, shows David Cameron's Tories with a 20-point lead over Labour.
Conservative support is shown at 45%, marginally down from the peak of 47% earlier in the summer, while Labour's support is at 25%, where it has been stuck every month since May. The Liberal Democrats are up from 16% to 18%.
The most striking thing about this is the way it produces so little response, suggesting that 20% leads for the Conservatives over Labour are now regarded as normal. What a change from the first ten years of the present government's term. Journalists looking for something encouraging to say form Labour's perspective now have to come up with something as desperate as this line from the Sunday Times article
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Oh, I dunno. I think Labour could pick a winner for the hotseat. (Or not.)
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I'm looking to get Breast Implants but I had plan on losing, about 40lbs. Should I wait?
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40 lbs of weight loss is significant for Breast augmentation. Although your height and weight is relevant, it seems that this amount of weight loss should be done safely and progressively first, then stabilize and then do your augmentation. You may notice some breast tissue sagging so be on the safe side. It's more likely to result in a true examination of what your breasts will look like after this amount of weight loss.
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It is best to be at your optimal comfortable weight before considering any cosmetic surgical procedure. If you lose 40 lbs. after breast augmentation, you may not be happy with the final breast size. It is not uncommon to lose a cup size or two after a weight drop of that magnitude. This is a costly elective cosmetic procedure and you want the best results for yourself, so lose the weight first.
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Hi, Jilyjay.
This is, for me, a pretty straight forward question. And the answer is lose the weight first. There are two reasons for this. The first is that with the weight loss, you may lose breast volume (size). This will affect your choice of implant size. So if you have the breast enlargement first, then lose weight and breast volume, you may wish you had gone with a larger implant.
The other consideration is how weight loss will affect the shape of your breast. This will also affect how the breast enlargement is done. You may need a breast lift if you have developed sagging with the weight loss, or there may be different options regarding the placement of the implant with regards to the chest muscle.
While no one can tell you for sure how weight loss will change the shape and size of your breasts, it is pretty certain that weight loss will change you breasts. So it's probably best to lose the weight first, and then have the surgery.
Best of luck with the weight loss!
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1) It is extremely difficult to lose 40 pounds. So is this realistic? Often, telling patients that they have to lose weight before they can have cosmetic surgery is the same as telling them that they cannot have it.
2) It depends on your exact anatomy. You might look better, and feel more in proportion with breast implants, regardless of your weight.
3) Cosmetic surgery is meant to improve your body image. You can be overweight and beautiful.
If you are definitely going to lose the weight that you propose, then I would hold off with the surgery until you get to your goal weight.
Hi Jilyjay,
Yes, it's always a good idea to lose weight prior to body contouring/breast procedures. This not only decreases the chance of you needing a revision, but it also decreases the complication rate such as wound healing issues. If you were to have a breast augmentation, then lose the weight postop, there's a good chance you'd need revisional surgery. Once you plateau and have lost the weight you want, then go in for a consultation with a board-certified plastic surgeon.
Yes, if this is your immediate plan, then I would highly recommend that you proceed with weight loss. This is a significant amount of weight to lose and it could efffect the results of surgery as well as potentially result in the need for a breast lift as well
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If you are planning to lose 40 lbs of weight, I would recommend you hold off on your breast augmentation. Your breasts may chance in volume and shape following your anticipated weight loss. In addition, you may experience some sagging due to the weight loss. All of these can be addressed at the time of your breast surgery. If you are planning 40 lbs weight loss - wait on the breast surgery...
1. If you know that you lose weight from your breasts when you do lose weight tyhen you should wait until after you have lost your weight
2. If you know that you do not lose much weight from your breasts if any then you can have the augmentation now or later.
3. If you are not sure then you should wait.
4. We all may have weight loss goals but achieving those goals may not occur. I often suggest to patients that they should give it a try for about 3 months and then see how they have done. If there is no significant weight loss by then they should probebly proced with whatever they were planning because try achievement of the goal will probably not happen.
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But it's all free speech, Superman says. John Fillah got into some legal trouble for his sidewalk mayhem, but a judge dismissed some of his charges based on his First Amendment rights, according to a St. Cloud Times piece. He's still got one charge against him though.
Can Superman weasel his way out of this mess?
Fillah had three misdemeanor charges against him for disorderly conduct twice in two days back in March. He also had a charge for making harassing phone calls when he contacted the officer that wrote one of the tickets. A Stearns County judge dismissed two of the charges.
In the first incident, a woman told police she saw Superman on a corner "making a slapping motion while bending his knees." She was driving by with her two young daughters when she saw it. The woman believed he was imitating a sexual spanking act with an imaginary woman in front of him. Sexy.
The very next day, a man on the St. Cloud State University campus approached him and told him he was a "loser" and he should "get a job". Superman doesn't take well to being called out on his own idiocy. So instead of leaving the situation, he commented on the man's disfigured arm and told him to "mind his own business." The comments led to an argument between the two men.
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Superman lucked out and the judge sided with him about dropping two of the charges.
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Fillah's messages to the officer fell far short of the legal definition of criminal speech, Grunke wrote. That would require words that tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace or have an immediate tendency to provoke retaliatory violence.
Grunke dismissed the disorderly charge that stemmed from imitating the sexual act. The act didn't amount to fighting words, Grunke wrote, and it also didn't meet a requirement that the expression was an invasion of privacy, especially when the exposure to Fillah's actions was so brief.
"It is understandable that a mother and her two teenage daughters were offended by their unwilling participation in (Fillah's) X-rated game of charades," Grunke wrote. "However, as occupants of a moving vehicle their exposure to (Fillah's) antics was short and could have been avoided altogether by looking away."
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Dropped my Note 2 from one foot onto concrete and the screen is cracked. I was holding off on a case because I didn't see any that were any good, or had good reviews. So now I have taken packing tape and carefully taped the front screen so i don't lose any glass. I'm debating on trying to replace the glass myself, I have already ordered a replacement screen. Not sure if I'll be able to successfully do it or not. Its either that or pay a $199 deductible through At&t to have them do it. Debating. The replacement screen was $29.99 and could potentially save me some money. Either way, WHAT CASE SHOULD I GET???
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I can't tell you anything about getting your screen fixed -- fortunately, I have never had that happen to me -- but the Bear Motion Premium Polio Case for Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Note II N7100 (Tri Black) case works fine for me. Got it on Amazon. The website address is: Amazon.com: Bear Motion Premium Polio Case for Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Note II N7100 (Tri Black): Cell Phones & Accessories
It's relatively thin enough and of reasonable quality for the price. Fits my phone well and the "kickstand" is nice. The only thing I can complain about is the front cover gets in the way if you have the phone against your ear but that is the case for just about any case that will also protect your screen. Note: Also get a screen protectors. Truthfully, the Note 2 is just too large to be used with some sort of headphones; and I say this as someone with hands large enough to operate it single-handedly. But that's just my opinion, YMMV. - 11-27-2012, 11:31 PM #4
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tough going man, i was there too, with my n7100, gn2. 8 days after i got it, dropped less than 1 foot from my lap to patio ground and boosh. you should get squaretrade and buy their warranty if you haven't had your phone for more than 30 days. how did you get a replacement screen? each place i called said they dont ahve the screens yet and that it'd cost around $200 to replace. I checked radio shack and some other local places as well as online.
so yeah, get a good case. i wish there were more out there that dont add bulk. and good luck not dropping this thing. my case is large, Amazon.com: Samsung Galaxy Note 2 II N7100 Zenus Masstige Color Edge Diary Stand Cover Case / Italian top norch embossed faux leather - Real Balck: Cell Phones & Accessories, but i've dropped my phone a few times on concrete, and the worse that happened was the back case popped up a bit. easily snapped back in, no scratches or cracks. whew!
good luck! and it'd be great to know if for sure the replacement was only $29.99 and where, and did they use oem gorilla glass or some crappy knock off? - 04-08-2013, 02:21 PM #5
Re: Too late for a case. Screen cracked.
I'm using the Casemate Pop case on mine. No screen protector. I dropped it from about 4 1/2 feet onto ceramic tile a couple of weeks ago. It bounced a couple of times before landing face down. I was sick to my stomach when I bent to pick it up because I just knew it would be cracked from bouncing. But the screen is still in perfect condition. This case has silicone on the inside to absorb shock from impacts and a hard plastic outside shell. The silicone even offers a bit of a buffer between the screen and a flat surface if it's dropped face down. I've been using this style case on my past two devices (S3 and S2 Skyrocket) and it even kept my S3 in pristine condition.
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So I've been on Android for a while now since the HTC Sensation XL (now on the HTC One) and I'm quite familiar with it, but when it comes to tablets, I have always used them mainly as ereaders.
I have recently had an iPad and sold it. I am considering a smaller tablet (iPad Mini or Nexus 7) but my main issue is downloading epubs online.
You see, reading and downloading epub files onto the iPad's iBooks is simple, and the formatting of the ebook text stays the same. For example if this sentence is italic in the original ebook, it would show as italic on the iPad!
However. It seems that all Android ebook reader apps I've tried do not include the feature of keeping the original book's formatting! All the bold and italic texts in epub are not shown as bold or italic when downloaded on any app.
Does anyone know an app where this is not a problem?
Thank you in advance! :)
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Both the Kindle app and Google's own Play Books handle Italics and bold for me.
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Yup, but you can't download epub and open it on either I think. Thanks though, found Moon+ on a different post! :)
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You can upload to Google play books and it will sync to your phone or you can drop it in the Kindle folder on the phone to read it in the Kindle app.
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Oh really? Thanks a million! Did not know that!
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You can try Bluefire Reader. I'm using that and it seems to retain the ebook's original format.
I found Moon+ Reader being suggested on a different post. I suggest you try it yourself, the options and settings are so much more awesome than any other eBook app! :) But thanks for the help!
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I've heard this book referenced at times on here in various discussions; but personally have not read it. I'm correcting that and ordering a copy today.
But I'm going to post an insert from the book on batting order below.
And correct me if I am wrong; but it seems the sabermetrics position is that batting order, because it is a continuous loop, does not matter. You can't hide a batter.
So you can bat them wherever? It just doesn't matter?
Now if most who are into statistical analysis - and I'm asking this from an educational position, not confrontational - agree with this premise that batting order does not matter, then why, over these last many years on this forum, do we continuously hear many lament over where various players are batting, and that guys with a high OB% should be at the top of the order if lineups are a continuous loop, each player gets his turn, and you're never going to have, for the most part, the same guy leading off every inning?
Isn't that then a contradiction? Doesn't even Bill James state that batting order does not matter, the number of runs a team scored would be roughly the same over a course of the season.
So what about the thinking that involes the idea of alternating lefties and righties, batters offering "protection", speed at the top of the lineup with bat control in the number two spot, etc., etc., etc.?
One thing we do know is that the higher a player hits in the order, the more times they will come to the plate
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One of the running themes throughout this book is context. To understand the impact of your possible choices, you have to understand the environment in which you are working. Context. Whenever you are trying to figure out what to do, take a step back, and ask yourself, "What's the context?" Context, context, context. We can't repeat it enough.
In this chapter, we'll turn our attention to the batting order and how to construct an optimal lineup. What does conventional wisdom say about this? Some managers or fans think you want a fast guy at the top of the order, without too much regard for how often he gets on base; others think that OBP is the most important attribute for a leadoff hitter, and that speed is secondary. You want the #2 hitter to move the runner over into scoring position, even if it means getting an out; therefore he should be a proficient bunter with excellent bat control. Your #3 batter should be a very good hitter, maybe your best—unless you want your best hitter batting cleanup. Then, maybe set up a lefty-righty situation down the order, trying to end with your worst batters at the bottom of the lineup. There, easy, end of chapter.
But why. Why? Why must the order follow such a pattern? Let's take a step back and understand the context of the batting order.
The most important context of the batting order is that it is a continuous loop. You get to set your batting order 1 through 9, and each player takes his turn. Once the inning completes, the next batter leads off the next inning. So the term leadoff batter is a bit of a misnomer. He's the leadoff batter of the game, but he won't often lead off an inning.
What if the rules were set so that the batting order is restored at the start of each inning. Tim Raines would lead off the first, second, third, and all the way through the ninth, innings. If those were the rules—if that were the context—you'd need a new strategy in place to determine the optimal lineup. One-quarter of the time, you'd end up having a 1–2–3 inning, leaving your cleanup batter on deck. In the current rules of baseball, the benefit of that huge cost is that he gets to bat in the following inning. In this fictitious league, it's the #1 hitter who will lead off the second inning. You will realize rather quickly that you can't have your best hitter in the cleanup spot if he will have 25% fewer PA than your top three hitters.
If we go back to the real world of baseball, we realize that you can't hide a batter. The best you can do is to defer him to the bottom of the batting order. But even batting ninth, he will eventually come up. How often will he come up?