text: Show Hide image Politics 23 February 2012 A radical vision for NHS reform The era of big public spending is over. The implications for what the state does and how it does it Sign-up The financial crisis has been a turning point for the whole world. But it is not just decades-long prosperity that is under threat. So, too, are old ways of thinking. New concerns are stalking our world. How to address growing inequality? How to create wealth and reward it? How to ensure companies have good values as well as good products? A new agenda for change is developing. This is as much a challenge for public policy as it is one for private corporations. Governments are recalibrating how they interact with businesses. Politicians are dusting down powers – of regulation, taxation and intervention – that they have long felt unable to use. When free markets fail as spectacularly as banking did, that response is understandable. The danger is that, in their zeal to correct under-regulation, governments end up stifling wealth creation and economic growth with over-regulation. Worrying signs of that are emerging. There is another danger. The public and political desire to put right what went wrong in financial markets distracts governments from their even more fundamental task – of putting their own financial house in order. Not only has the global crisis put excess in the financial markets in the dock, but government excess and sector debt are on trial, too. Global government deficits hit $4trn by 2010. There are arguments about whether short-term financial stimulus from governments can help or hinder economic recovery. There are debates about how much and how quickly public debts should be cut back. Britain is not alone in witnessing political disputes over how far and how fast deficit reduction programmes should be implemented. A similar discourse is taking place from America to Australia, Germany to Greece. What is not in dispute is that governments have to reduce their debts. However, taking short-term action in order to do so is one thing. Sustaining action so that governments in the longer term are better able to balance their books and rein in expenditure rather than fuel it with debt is quite another. There has been much focus on the first challenge – but too little on the second. That must change. Governments across the developed world will have to develop more than a knee-jerk, short-term reaction to the fallout from the financial crisis. Ad hoc cuts in public spending will need to give way to a far more strategic reshaping of the way public services are delivered. A series of formidable long-term challenges will compel governments to change what they do and how they do it. The most significant of these is the profound change in demographic structures, which are placing huge strains on welfare systems. Already one-quarter of the population of Germany and Italy is elderly. Before long Britain and Spain will be the same. The older we get, the more we cost. In the UK we spend four times as much on health care for the over-eighties as we do on the over-fifties. Unsurprisingly pensions and health-care budgets have been growing unsustainably. Now a crunch is coming. As the baby-boomer generation grows old, workforces and, therefore, tax revenues are sure to diminish. As the Office for Budget Responsibility has warned, even if the UK's structural deficit is eliminated in the short term, this will confront any future government with a major fiscal challenge in the medium term. Something has to give. Demand for services is set to rise but revenues are set to fall, and the options for governments are limited. To date, they have looked to later retirement, longer working, higher taxes. Yet government spending is already consuming over 50 per cent of the eurozone's GDP and approaching 60 per cent in some Scandinavian countries. Meanwhile, there is growing public scepticism about the ability of governments to tax and spend wisely. Voters in Britain, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden have all opted for parties that promise restraint, not expansion. It is time to wake up and smell the coffee. There is a clear message here. The truth is this: the era of big public spending is over. Austerity is the new normal. It is not a temporary phenomenon. It will become permanent. Fiscal conservatism is the order of the day. New rules on spending, debt and borrowing are emerging in Europe. And we will almost certainly see some countries introducing binding legal obligations and creating monitoring machinery to ensure that, in future, public spending growth is tied to economic growth. The implications for what the state does and how it does it are profound. The old political arguments between the parties that have dominated recent elections in the UK about whether governments should spend a bit more or a bit less are already starting to give way to a more fundamental debate about the size and the role of the state. The implications for public spending of a more constrained fiscal environment are threefold. First, governments will be forced to choose between spending programmes as well as within them. Second, they will have to think in a new way about how to get better value from existing programmes. And third, Europe's largely tentative efforts to reform welfare and public-service provision will have to move up a gear. None of this will be easy, yet it can be done. Take health care. In most developed countries health care, after pensions and benefits, is the biggest item on the public expenditure slate. For five decades now, health-care spending has outpaced economic growth in every OECD member state. In 1960 it consumed less than 4 per cent of GDP. Today it consumes almost 10 per cent. We have been spending more than we have been earning. You have only to look at what would happen if the trends of the past few decades continued to realise that is not a sustainable proposition. Within 30 years, the UK would be spending close to 15 per cent of its GDP on health care, France 20 per cent and the US 25 per cent. Better, cheaper, faster That is not to say that health care hasn't made great gains in recent times. It has. Deaths from cancer and heart disease have fallen sharply. Or that, for example, the investment that New Labour made in the NHS was wrong. It wasn't. A health system in which most buildings were erected before the NHS was created, where patients waited 18 months for hospital treatment and where shortages of doctors and nurses were routine clearly did not meet requirements. Under New Labour, NHS care improved hugely and this finds a ready reflection in the record levels of public confidence the service enjoys. But health care is surely unique among modern industries, in that improvements in quality have not been matched by reductions in cost. Think of the price and quality of cars, computers or cellphones compared to a generation ago. Doing more with less and doing it better, cheaper and faster has become the norm. It is time for health care to catch up. Stagnating resources and rising demands – diabetes rates worldwide are expected to rise by 50 per cent and the global cancer burden to double in the next two decades – will require governments, as the global competitiveness guru Professor Michael Porter puts it, to place a new focus on achieving high value for patients as the overarching goal of health-care delivery. The alternatives to that approach – rationing the care available to patients or forcing them to pay for more of it themselves – aside from being politically unappealing, would have negative implications for equity in health care. And if the only other alternative – to tax and spend more – is also off the agenda, there is only one game left in town: achieving better outcomes for lower costs. This is the new holy grail of health policy. In the next decade and beyond, governments will need to think of themselves less as big spenders when it comes to health care and more as switch spenders, where resources are switched from less optimum services to others that produce better outcomes for lower costs. That will entail resources being switched from hospitals to community services and from treatment to prevention. And it will demand driving forward reforms that empower patients, financially incentivise outcomes, increase competition, improve transparency and devolve accountability to local care organisations. The overall direction of travel will need to be away from a top-down system to a bottom-up, where change is driven less by command-and-control and more by managed-market mechanisms in which power is moved from providers to patients. To be effective, however, these reforms will need to work in tandem with the old NHS mechanisms of strategic planning and priority-setting, which help bring coherence and equity to the health system. The change that is needed is not towards a market free-for-all – you have only to look to the US to see the impact on cost control where that happens – but towards an NHS where a judicious mix of levers is deployed to improve both efficiency and quality. Making such changes will prove a challenge for the left as it will for the right. The question is who is better equipped to see through reforms that will often be controversial and sometimes unpopular. At first blush, reforms that call on market disciplines, customer focus and value creation would seem to put the right in pole position. Yet right-wing governments have failed to capitalise on this apparent advantage. In France, Nicolas Sarkozy's rhetoric promising a welfare and public-service revolution found only the faintest of echoes in wholly timid reforms. A similar timidity has characterised the right's approach to reform elsewhere, most notably in Germany and Italy. In the UK, the coalition government's health reforms may have been more ambitious but they were badly misjudged. Radical reform requires a grown-up conversation with voters. Politicians need to be able to explain the rationale for change. To do that, they have to be trusted enough to be heard. The Conservatives failed to gauge how much political permission they had to make change. Working out what you want to do against what you can actually do is the essence of government. Good government is when policy and politics come together as one. Bad government is what the Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, did when he unleashed his reforms. Obsessed with policy tinkering, Lansley ignored the politically inconvenient truth that the Conservatives simply did not have enough public trust on the NHS to inflict change within it. The baggage they carried of being ideologically obsessed with privatisation weighed them down once they hit a wave of opposition to their health reforms. They are drowning as a result. The government's reforms are riddled with complexity and compromise. They fail to equip the NHS with the tools it needs to re-engineer itself for the new world of permanent austerity it is now entering. This failure has a profound political consequence for the Conservatives – they have forfeited any claim to be the party of NHS reform. The left has a different problem. Labour has the permission to make change. The question is whether or not it has the volition. The NHS was created by Labour and it enshrines Labour values. The public trust Labour enjoys on the NHS is why, as health secretary in Tony Blair's government, I could make radical changes to it. These reforms were not necessarily popular at the time but, as always, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The introduction of national standards, devolved decision-making, financial incentives, market mechanisms, private provision and patient choice drove major advances. Waiting times fell. Quality rose. Services improved. Too often the left in Europe has shied away from such an approach. It has adopted a protectionist rather than a reformist approach to the public services. The left's default position has been to stand up for producers, not consumers. Defending the status quo in a world of such rapid change has proved to be a recipe for electoral disaster. In France, Germany, Italy, Spain, even Sweden, the left has suffered consecutive election defeats where until recently it could lay claim to be the natural party of government. As New Labour proved, it is not by being protectionist but by being reformist that the left is able to win. Road to recovery Opposing change might be comfortable, but it is not what is needed. Standing still in a world of rapid change is not a feasible option for the NHS. Nor is it feasible for the Labour Party. Labour today has a big opportunity. The failure of the Conservatives' health changes leaves the reform terrain wide open. Ed Miliband should use the hiatus around the government's Health and Social Care Bill to set out a reform blueprint that can make the NHS sustainable for the long term. There is a similar opportunity in economic policy. He and Ed Balls were right to say that Labour could not promise to reverse every coalition cut to public spending. That was a necessary first step on Labour's road to recovering its economic credibility. The next steps are to lay out how a Labour government would balance the books. This should not just be a case of indicating which areas of public spending would rise and which would fall. It should also indicate how value – getting more out for what is being put in – would be improved across the public services. Clear commitments to major reforms of services will be instrumental to Labour regaining its reputation for economic competence. This will be the central battleground of the next general election. A new era of fiscal conservatism and radical reformism beckons. It is not just a more responsible form of capitalism that will emerge; it is a more responsible form of government. The big question for politics is whether it will be the right or the left that ushers it in. 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The ABC is considering following a BBC move to shift some programming exclusively online. Photo: Peter BraigABC managing director Mark Scott says it is likely some of the network's secondary television stations will eventually only be available online as part of a long-term plan to cut costs.
If implemented, the move would mirror the BBC, which announced it would stop broadcasting its BBC 3 channel by mid-2015 and stream the content via its on-demand internet player.
Mr Scott said a similar plan to move content to its iView Player would need to be considered, however no definitive timeline had been set.
"Between SBS and the ABC we spend about $100 million a year beaming the signals from the top of Mount Coot-tha to your home and to do that all around the country, that's a very big cost," he said at an Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Brisbane on Thursday.
"One of the questions at some time in the future will be, 'can savings be made by turning off some of those services and delivering that content in other ways?' The big question is when.
"Would you bet that within 13 years that some of that switch would happen? I think you probably could."
Mr Scott said about 18 million programs were watched on its online iView service each month.
Earlier this year the BBC announced its plan to shift its youth-focused BBC 3 channel online, a move that would save the public broadcaster about $91 million each year.
The ABC currently has four local digital television stations, including a 24-hour news channel launched in 2010.
Following last week's budget announcement that $120 million would be cut from the ABC over the next four years, Mr Scott said management was yet to determine the number of redundancies or if Australian regional bureaus would close.
Mr Scott said the biggest impact would be felt by staff in the ABC's Melbourne Asia-Pacific news centre, following the government's decision to cut all funding to the Australia Network.
Mr Scott said the ABC had previously used efficiencies it found to create new content and options for viewers, such as its iView player and the ABC News 24 station.
"If we don't have money to re-invest we'll be diminished. We'll be smaller. We won't be able to innovate the way we've innovated, we won't be able to create new services," he said.
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Fun With Legos: DIY Lego Hangman
I had to share another one of my daughter's awesome Lego creations.
"E" (age 10) came up with this DIY Lego Hangman game.
She used scrapbook letter stickers to make the alphabet blocks.
Then, she disassembled a lego guy to make the stickman you assemble as you play.
This game has been on display in our family room all spring and it makes me smile whenever I see it.
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(CNN) — Having already gone 3-D, Nintendo now wants to go big, announcing a new version of its handheld gaming console with screens nearly twice as large.
The Nintendo 3DS XL, announced late Thursday, will have a 90% bigger screen and, Nintendo says, a stronger battery for more gaming time. It will also come bundled with a 4-gigabyte SD Card to store downloadable games and applications.
The new console was announced during a Nintendo Direct video presentation. It will be available in Japan and Europe in July and the U.S market on August 19, the same day as the release of "New Super Mario Bros. 2," the latest in the storied gaming franchise, for the 3DS.
The 3DS XL will retail in the United States for $199. It will sell in Japan for about 18,900 yen ($235).
The announcement comes at a time that Nintendo, a gaming giant that traces its roots to 1889 when it made playing cards, finds itself looking for some answers.
The 3DS handheld console struggled last year, and Nintendo was forced to cut the price after sales didn't hit projections. Critics blamed the original price ($250) and a market newly flooded with smartphone and tablet gaming options.
The company posted its first financial loss in April. And apparent confusion about its new home console, the Wii U, has many observers wondering if Nintendo is targeting the right audience.
The new 3DS XL is the same size as its Nintendo DSi XL console released in 2010. Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, said the larger screen for the 3DS XL will allow users to enjoy watching videos and movies more.
"(C)onsumers will be able to enjoy the great lineup of current and upcoming games on an even grander scale," he said in the video.
Nintendo also announced several high profile games launching for the 3DS console. "LEGO: The Lord of the Rings," "Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask," "Disney: Epic Mickey, Power of Illusion" and "Scribblenauts Unlimited" will be making their way to the handheld console this year.
Namco Bandai will also be making a new "Super Smash Bros." game for the 3DS and the Wii U. The popular game has no projected release date, and developers said the two versions are being worked on simultaneously.
Player reaction on Nintendo's forum pages has been mixed. Some are decrying the lack of a second joystick controller on the new device, while others say they're happy about the increased battery time. Many say they want to see how the new games look on the devices before taking the plunge.
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Design and prototype an ecosystem that applies blockchain technology to significantly improve DHS analytics, missions, and operations. Proposed solutions should be focused on new applications of blockchain technology and not focused purely on the analysis and characterization of Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency transactions.
Develop and demonstrate an innovative, agent-portable device to augment agent ability while walking, running, hiking, on ATV/motorcycles, horses, boats, and mountain bikes, to automatically detect, identify, classify, and track an item of interest in challenging border terrains comprised of heavy vegetation, mountains, hills, canyons and dry creeks, rivers, streams found in desert, shorelines, open prairies, semi-arid, and heavily forested environments that have been enshrouded with fog, blowing salt/dust, extreme haze or other naturally occurring or adversary-produced vision obscurations such as smoke and irritants encountered in twenty-four (24) hour operations
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Part of the reason that there is so much conflict over regen and endurance is that, quite frankly, Spirit is a terrible stat and mechanic. Spirit is widely considered the worst stat in the game, and gear with Spirit is generally regarded as much less valuable than gear without it.
The problem with Spirit is that it violates what I will call Coriel's First Law of Design:
Doing stuff is fun.
Not doing stuff is not fun.
Mana regeneration via Spirit is governed by something called the Five Second Rule (FSR). The FSR states that you only get mana back after you have gone five seconds without casting a spell, and you only get mana until you cast another spell.
So not only do you have to do nothing to regenerate mana, you have to spend 5s doing nothing with no benefit before you even start regenerating mana. And 5s can be an eternity, especially for a healer.
Contrast this with Illumination or Lifetap. Illumination rewards the paladin for casting heals. With Lifetap, the warlock is actively controlling her mana regen. In both cases the player is actively doing something worthwhile to improve their play. They are not standing around doing nothing.
Spirit is so bad that we actually have a second stat which governs mana regeneration: mana/5s or mp5. Both stats return mana to the player, they just differ in how they do so. Mp5 returns mana at a continous rate, even if the player is casting a spell. Mp5 is widely regarded as superior to Spirit because it works all the time. A player with mp5 can actively play the game, and not just wait around.
The fact that we have two stats which basically do the same thing is a really bad sign. It's a clear indication that the original stat mechanic was deeply and fundamentally flawed.
It's probably really late in the game's lifecycle to change this, but I think that Spirit should do the same thing as mp5. Return mana to the caster at a continuous rate during combat, and return heath/mana at a higher rate outside of combat. All items with mp5 should be converted to Spirit, and all talents that allow mana regeneration while casting should be reworked to provide bonus regeneration.
At one fell swoop we eliminate a stat, simplifying gear choices, and make Spirit a valued stat once again. As well, priests, druids, and mages get a method of mana regen which can be counted upon and which lets them be active players having fun, while still getting the benefit.
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The thing about Spirit for other classes, though, is that they have mechanics through talents to allow for Spirit to regen mana while casting.ReplyDelete
Meditation (Discipline) - Allows 5/10/15% of your mana regeneration to continue while casting.
Intensity (Resto) - same effect
Arcane Meditation (Arcane) - same effect
I know that these are only 3 talents among many that these 3 classes have, but it points to a game mechanic. I think Blizzard's talent design as is on the Priest and Druid trees, as well as the Druid Innervate and Mage Evocation, would become a lot more powerful and therefore a bit unbalanced if all MP/5 were converted to Spirit and the Spirit mechanic were changed. I'm not saying that I oppose the idea - in fact I support it. I just wanted to point out that there are several talents (Druid Tree form, Priest Spiritual Guidance, among others) that are linked to and scale with Spirit, and would require reworking if MP/5 became Spirit.
I for one agree that doing nothing is very, very boring. The game is less fun if you have to stand around waiting for mana. This points to another issue that I've disliked in the game since my paladin received the spell: Lay on Hands drains all mana, and paladins have no way to regain mana once its gone, through talents or otherwise, unless they're hurt and someone else heals them. If I'm healing a 5 man and a boss mob combos the tank for a lot of damage and is winding up for another swing, sometimes my only recourse is to Lay on Hands. This drains all my mana, regardless of whether I'm full or empty, and I have no mana gem, no spirit-talent mechanic, no Innervate to get it back. All I can do is gulp down a mana potion and hope my MP/5 is enough to support the rest of the fight, because my measly <100 spirit isn't going to regen enough to matter. Just a gripe with paladin healing mechanics I thought I'd bring up...
josh, true, but those talents are not available to every build. As well, since you also have the regular spirit regen available, those talents are necessarily less powerful than they could be.ReplyDelete
I know that all the spirit talents would have to be re-evaluated, but I'm kind of assuming that's just number crunching and testing.
As for Lay on Hands, this is a really good reason to be melee'ing. JoW will get your mana back pretty quick. :)
Plus, it's Lay On Hands, it's really a special case. Heh, once I got mana burned by Moroe's Shadow Priest at the very start of the fight and ended up in the same situation. Made it an interesting fight.
You may know this already, but Spirit used to work roughly like you suggest, back in the WoW beta. The problem with this is that it quickly became overpowered: a healer could just stack enough Spirit and thereby never go OOM. Since a major limiting factor (arguably the major limiting factor) in most boss fights is a healer's mana pool, having infinite mana gives you near-infinite leeway in boss fights.ReplyDelete
In beta they solved this by implementing a Spirit "soft cap," a point past which one faced severely diminishing returns from Spirit. This is obviously a silly solution, and so they invented the 5SR. Which is even sillier.
Personally, I play a Priest and enjoy the 5SR -- it leads to a tension between waiting to cast that heal to regain mana, and casting early so as to keep people from dying. Not doing stuff may not be fun, but actively holding off from doing stuff is kinda fun, if you see what I mean. It lends another dimension of strategy to playing a Priest. And if you don't want to deal with it, you do have the option to stack mp5 at the expense of Spirit. I know Priests that do that and they heal just fine.
Interesting, well, it doesn't necessarily have to be a linear scale. You can always do a logrithmic scale like armor.ReplyDelete
As well, I don't really see how a priest can heal a heroic or a raid these days without constantly casting spells. The damage done by a raid boss or even a heroic mob is too great a percentage of the tank's health for a priest to wait 5 + x seconds between heals.
Also, I can't really accept the argument that Spirit being constant regen would be overpowered, given that mp5 exists. To me, it just seems like the rate of regen per point of spirit would need to be tweaked.ReplyDelete
I agree the FsR is a horrible implementation. Go into Steamvaults with a group - and wait 5 seconds between casts on just the trash mobs, and you will have some very dead group members. I don't think that Blizzard meant to force 5-mans to include a main healer and a "off-healer".ReplyDelete
I would love to see them scrap the 41 point holy talent for a "holy form" where you get a increase in +healing and Mp5 - but you can't use any shadow abilities. IMHO
Let's not forget Aspect of the Viper for Hunters... which is *another* mana regen ability, separate from everything else. It restores a percentage of your mana every tick and isn't modified by your Spirit or any other external values.ReplyDelete
I guess mana regen is a complex subject then, given that there's pretty much a different mechanic for each mana using class.
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You also forgot spirit tap (priets).ReplyDelete
Just because you don't like it
doesn't mean its broke.
It in their for balance. Its in there so mana users have to think about their point budget on gear. It there so people can use strategy in healing (healing rotation). I guess we could just keep your mana bar full then you would be happy and it wouldn't be "broke". Go play a FPS with a medic class.
One thing you and Josh missed is the level 34 mage spell "Mage Armor". This gives us a 30% mana regened while casting effect (able to be increased to 45% with the talent Josh listed). I regen, on average, around 60+ mana every 3 seconds at level 70, while casting. Even more when I have buffs like Divine Spirit and Mark of the Wild.ReplyDelete
Also, mages have Evocation, which gives them 8 seconds of 1,500% mana regen ignoring the FSR during that time, but it's channeling, so you can only be recovering mana, not casting other spells.
As Eliah mentioned, Spirit used to work differently originally. And since then, they have added different mechanics for each class that has mana to recover it while casting, with many of those being reliant on Spirit, thus limiting the effect of the FSR.
When I play my rogue, I don't have that huge of an issue with regaining my mana. You guys must be doing it wrong or something.ReplyDelete
Seriously though, I understand where you're coming from with this. I think it's nice that a lot of talents/abilities/trinkets are making use of the spirit stat in different ways like +healing/+damage, etc.


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The Vietnam War | Broadcast Version
06: Things Fall Apart (January 1968-July 1968)
Episode 6 | 1h 28m 13s
On the eve of the Tet holiday, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch surprise attacks on cities and military bases throughout the south, suffering devastating losses but casting grave doubt on Johnson's promise that there is "light at the end of the tunnel." The president decides not to run again and the country is staggered by assassinations and unrest.
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This text is part of Parks' Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.
Since its opening in 1966, Bleecker Playground has been a social and recreational meeting place for neighborhood families and children. Its name derives from its location on Bleecker Street which once ran through the Bleecker family farm. In 1809, Anthony Lispenard Bleecker and his wife Mary ceded land to the city for the streets running through their property including Bleecker, Houston, Mercer, Wooster, Greene, Laurens (now West Broadway), Thomas and Sullivan streets.


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There's a little voice inside my head. "Jason!" it sometimes screams at me. "Why are you excited for Lightning Returns? You disliked the first two! Square Enix is exploiting a character that nobody really cares about! You're just going to be disappointed!"
Well, voice, I don't care what you say. This game looks cool. New trailer above.


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Candidate faces drug-related charges after crash
A Washington County council candidate is behind bars on drug charges after a weekend crash.
Authorities said Eric Worley was driving under the influence when he crashed his car at a Scottsburg park over the weekend.
"He was coming out of the park, just went straight, jumped a guardrail, took out a photo box," said Washington County Sheriff Claude Combs.
Around 10:15 a.m. Sunday, the Washington County Sheriff's Department said 36-year-old Worley crashed his car at the entrance of Delaney Park. Combs said Worley's story about the wreck didn't add up.
"I believe he told someone that his brakes failed, but our evidence doesn't show brake failure," Combs said.
Combs said Worley appeared to be under the influence, but refused any testing at the scene.
He was taken to the hospital for treatment and, after a search warrant, tested positive for oxycodone and opiates.
Combs said that was only the beginning of problems.
"Later a search warrant was done on the vehicle and drugs were found in there along with other paraphernalia for drugs," Combs said.
Worley is also a member of the Washington County Park Board.
"One thing the county won't tolerate is drugs," Washington County Park Board President Tim Rainbolt said.
Worley was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated with a controlled substance, operating a vehicle while intoxicated refusal, possession of marijuana less than 30 grams, dealing marijuana, possession of a controlled substance schedule IV and possession of marijuana.
"Because he was within a 1,000 feet of the park and had just come out of the park, that could be an enhancement of the marijuana and illegal drug to a (class) C felony," Combs said.
Worley was appointed to the County Park Board by a judge and Rainbolt said they're waiting for that judge to ask Worley for his resignation.
If that doesn't happen, Rainbolt said the Park Board will vote to remove him at their meeting next week.
At this time, Worley is still one of five candidates on the ballot running for council at-large. Three winners will be selected.


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I know it's been a million years since I last posted, but I haven't forgotten about this poor little blog! Between teaching and being a mommy, I just don't have much time to spare for anything else! But I really do love blogging and I do want to post updates whenever I can. We have been having so much fun in the classroom, so I thought I'd share some of what we've been doing.
Gingerbread Celebration
This was my favorite activity and I plan on doing it every year! The parents joined us in the classroom for a gingerbread house activity, and we had a blast! To make the houses, we used milk cartons, icing, graham crackers, and candy (all donated by our awesome parents).
First we read the book The Gingerbread Man.
Next, I had an assistant model how to create the gingerbread house as we wrote down the steps through interactive writing.
At last they got to work on their houses! They had so much fun decorating the houses with their families!
During writing workshop, I had the kids write their own how-to using this simple sheet to guide them. This will prepare them for our upcoming how-to writing unit after the break. Click the image below to download the freebie.
Snow Globe Craft
We made snow globes for our parent gifts this year. I got this adorable idea from my co-worker, Debbie. I used Powerpoint to place the kids' faces into the clipart. Then the kids colored their picture and finger painted the snow. Finally, I glued them, laminated them, and put magnets on the back. I love how they turned out!
Math & Literacy Centers
Here are some of the fun holiday centers the kids have been enjoying...
Tasty Ten Frames - We roll a die to determine how many red counters to place in our ten frame. Then we figure out how many green ones we need to make ten. Finally, we color the ten frame and record the equation.
Tasty Ten Frames - We roll a die to determine how many red counters to place in our ten frame. Then we figure out how many green ones we need to make ten. Finally, we color the ten frame and record the equation.
Sums for Santa - We roll two dice to determine how many ornaments to place on each tree. Then we add them together and write the equation.
Add & Cover - I brought in some peppermint candies to spice up this old game! The kids roll two dice, add the dots, and cover the numeral with a candy.
Count & Color - We choose a card, place it on the mat, and count the candies. Then we write the number and color the ten frame on the recording sheet.
More or Less - This game is played like War. Each partner chooses a card and places it on the mat. They figure out whose number is greater and whose is less. The player who has more keeps both cards.
Christmas Count - We pick a tree, count the ornaments, and record the number on the recording sheet.
Count the Room - Students hunt for pictures around the room and count the items in each picture. Then they record the number on their recording sheet.
This cute Shake & Spill Gingerbread Center came from Teaching in Progress.
Christmas Tree Play Dough Counting - This freebie came from A Dab of Glue.
Stocking Stuffers - We pull small objects out of a stocking, figure out the beginning sound, and color in the correct letter on our recording sheet.
Syllable Express - We choose a picture and clap the syllables. Then we sort the pictures into the correct train car and stamp the syllables on our sheet.
Gingerbread Families - We segment each word, sort pictures by the middle sound, and then write the words under the correct vowel on the recording sheet.
Elf Hunt - We hunt for hidden elves around the room. We read each sight word and write it on the recording sheet.
All of the centers above can be found in my Christmas Math & Literacy Centers on TpT.
I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year!


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DAC Collection Object Information
Warwick? Hall,
Albumen print
Dimensions (Image): 77 x 120 mm (3 x 4.7 in.)
Inscribed on negative, lower center: title 420 G.W.W.
Accession number: 19188.8.131.524
Gift of Michael M. Senft, 1983
Bibliography: On Wilson, see Helmut Gernsheim, Masterpieces of Victorian Photography; Helmut Gernsheim, History of Photography, p. 281; Lee D. Witkin and Barbara London, The Photograph Collector's Guide (Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1979); Howard Ricketts, Harry Lunn, and P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Photography: The First Eighty Years (London: P. & D. Colnaghi, 1976); Treasures of Britain (aerial view); J. Geddie, Royal Palaces, Historic Castles and Stately Homes of Great Britain; MacMillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists and Innovators (1983); The Grolier Club, The Truthful Lens, pp. 57, 219–220; Hanlon, Commercial Aesthetics, p. 39; Image, vol. 7 (December 1958). The University of Aberdeen Photographic Archive's George Washington Wilson and Co. Photographic Collection at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/gww has general information about George Washington Wilson, as well as online images of many works that also are represented in the Davison Art Center Collection.
Work Type: photograph
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OK, this is a hot potato! I am "considering" this possibility. It would be at the full discretion of the Moderator what to allow and what to delete. Specific guidelines would be required.Chip wrote:I doubt if Coolate is going to make a bazillion bucks on this thing, still interesting nevertheless. Under the current forum "rules" such a post would be a violation, clearly.
But in the process, I find myself making a unilateral choice for everyone almost on a daily basis.
So, see the stickie topic above, "Shameless capitalism, is TeaChat ready?" and carefully consider this subject, then vote in the poll.
Ultimately, I will not be making the decision on this "big picture" subject on my own, but along with opinions from members, I will also discuss this one with forum sponsor/owner Adagio.
First one, must be an active member for at least 6 months, so no newb spamming.
Must be a tea related item.
AND, a poster to this TeaMerchandiser forum would face immediate suspension of all forum priviledges upon posting self promoting post(s) outside of the TM forum as well as deletion of all self promoting posts including the legal ones in TM.
Other that that, I am really just exploring the possibility. But for possibly too long, the current rule has shut off innovation from TCers and the forum, possibly hindering the forum in an overprotective way.
So, what say you TCers?


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MLB may help A's play in S.F. if no deal - sources
Major League Baseball would help the Oakland A's move across the bay and play at rival Giants' AT&T Park in San Francisco if Coliseum officials don't come to terms on a new short-term lease for the team, sources tell us.
The A's two-year home stint at AT&T Park, which would start next season, would probably be the first step toward moving the team out of the Bay Area.
The league's hardball warning was passed on to Coliseum officials at a closed-door meeting by Jon Streeter, the San Francisco attorney who is representing the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority in the stadium lease negotiations.
We're told MLB is also demanding that the Coliseum give the A's just a two-year lease extension - not the five- to eight-year deal the authority has been pushing.
The short-term lease would give the A's more flexibility should the team's owners swing a deal to move to San Jose - or beyond.
The sticking point in the Coliseum negotiations hasn't been the length of the lease so much as the money from food and beverage concessions. Under their old lease, the A's managed the concessions for all sporting events at the stadium, including for the Raiders, and they got a major share of the revenue - terms the Coliseum Authority wants to change in its favor.
The talks have dragged on for more than two years. Now, however, the Coliseum's governing board - which includes two Oakland City Council members and two Alameda County supervisors - is definitely feeling the heat.
"Now we have to do this lease quickly because Major League Baseball has injected itself into the conversations," said one board member, who like our other sources asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the talks.
The A's front office did not return calls seeking comment.
The usually talkative Giants President Larry Baer - whose team would have to give its consent to sharing AT&T Park - declined to comment. So did an MLB spokesman.
Why would the Giants give their OK? Start with the rent money - probably enough to pay for a shortstop or two.
But even better from the Giants' perspective, it could lead to the team getting the whole Bay Area market to itself.
With MLB standing in the way of an A's move to San Jose, which the Giants claim as their market, team owners John Fisher and Lew Wolff would be expected to look elsewhere if they leave the Coliseum for temporary digs - or perhaps sell the team to out-of-towners.
For all the brinkmanship, a temporary move across the bay would not be easy. For starters, the Giants and A's have home games on the same dates nine times next season.
MLB's threat to the Coliseum, however, could be a game changer in the lease talks - with the A's the likely winners.
As one Coliseum official told us, "We don't have any choice. Major League Baseball is driving it."
By the way, it looks like the restless Raiders will also get a new lease at the Coliseum - only they've asked to go year to year.
Off the tracks: As BART's unions were voting on their new contract proposal Friday, Orinda City Councilman Steve Glazer was at state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier's office dropping off 20,000 signatures calling for a ban on transit strikes.
Glazer, who is running for the state Assembly, collected the signatures from BART patrons around the Bay Area.
"If you line up all the pages, they would be longer than a 10-car train," Glazer said.
As chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee, DeSaulnier, D-Concord, has been looking into how to prevent strikes. Given the labor-friendly politics of the Legislature, however, it's doubtful a ban would get much traction.
"It's not going to happen unless the public keeps the pressure up," Glazer said.
Two things his no-strike campaign has accomplished: His Assembly bid is getting a lot of attention, and he's squarely in the unions' sights.
On wheels: We've heard of holy rollers. But there's a group taking it to new heights, starting Thursday night with roller-skating disco at the long-vacant Sacred Heart Church at Fillmore and Fell streets.
It's called the Church of 8 Wheels: a group of roller-worshiping locals seeking fun and fellowship who got their start at Golden Gate Park.
According to the group's promo, "David 'D' Miles, the 'Godfather of Skate' in San Francisco, will be your MC / DJ minister spreading the word of the old school funk and roller disco music that is the main source of our rolligious energy."
Just in case you're wondering, Miles tells us the church pews are gone, leaving ample room for 200 rollicking skaters.
Try rolling with that.
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Embattled gamers have weathered many a console war over the past 30 years. But above the Xboxes and Gamecubes, the PlayStations and the Dreamcasts, one war stands apart:
Super Nintendo vs. the Sega Genesis, the World War II of the console wars.
This illustration by Daniel Dussault, titled "Za Konsoru Uozu 199X," takes a fresh, action-packed look at the classic battle. The Super Nintendo here is looking pretty badass, I gotta say.
Here's the full print:
You can buy it from Fangamer for 20 bucks, and find out more about Dussault at his homepage.


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The Passover Seder offers a ritualized retelling of how the Israelites were delivered from bondage in Egypt. Even today, more than 3,000 years later, it's quite a story.
There's also quite a story behind a new kosher cookbook, "Persian Food from the Non-Persian Bride" (Feldheim, $34.99), whose subtitle promises "And Other Kosher Sephardic Recipes You Will Love!"
The author is Reyna Simnegar, a mother of five boys ages 2 to 9 living in Brookline, Mass., whose Persian husband loves real Persian cooking.
Her family can trace its history to the Spanish Inquisition, from which her ancestors fled and eventually settled in Venezuela. She discovered at age 12 that her family was anusim — Jews who had been forcibly converted but secretly practiced Judaism at home.
Simnegar began becoming a religiously observant Jew when she turned 18. She met her future husband, who is Jewish and was born in Shiraz, Iran, while working at a Taco Bell on the campus of UCLA, where she was studying interior design.
Knowing that a marriage wouldn't happen if she couldn't whip up his idea of home cooking, she took a crash-course in Persian cooking from her future mother-in-law. Inspiration for the book came from the fear she'd have to teach five daughters-in-law how to cook Persian and from friends who kept asking her for Persian recipes.
All the recipes in the book are Kosher.
Consider the recipe here for cucumber salad with dill and shallots. The dish was an "emergency Pesach salad that I had to make up in a jiffy,'' Simnegar writes. "It tasted so good and my in-laws liked it so much I decided to share it."
Cucumber salad with dill and shallots
Note: This dish contains mustard, which is considered kitniyos — a category of food not eaten by Ashekenazic Jews during Passover but acceptable to Sephardic Jews.
Peel 3 English cucumbers (or regular cucumbers); halve lengthwise. Scrape out seeds.
Cut into 1/2-inch slices. Mix in a bowl with 1 finely sliced shallot, 1 chopped avocado and 1/4 cup chopped fresh dill. (If not serving right away, toss with lime juice to prevent avocado from discoloring).
For dressing, combine 1/4 cup each olive oil and mayonnaise, 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper and juice of 1 lime. Dress salad just before serving.
The Passover Seder offers a ritualized retelling of how the Israelites were delivered from bondage in Egypt. Even today, more than 3,000 years later, it's quite a story.