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How Gaming's Upstarts Stay Ahead in a Changing Market
Regardless of the latest Halo hype, an army of entrepreneurs is looking to dominate the video-game industry. Some leading startups share their tips for surviving any high-tech market reinvention.
Shipping this week, Microsoft's Halo: Grab Xbox 360 and Sony's motion-sensing PlayStation Move will be the talk of the $20.2 billion gaming industry. Both mark the beginning of the all-important holiday retail season, however the excitement belies the churn in a business being transformed by scrappy new technologies, platforms and entrepreneurs.
"We're exceptional most change in the shortest period of time that the gaming business has ever seen," says Trip Hawkins, founder of publishing juggernaut Electronic Arts. "Things won't be the same again."
Credit an ideal storm of socioeconomic factors from tightened household spending to changing play habits and the growth of cellular devices. The iPhone Store and other alternative distribution channels are allowing a large number of independents to slash costs, test out innovative concepts and do an end-run around traditional publishing models. Subsequently, a field weaned on blockbuster products and brick-and-mortar distribution is watching its once-captive audience fragment across devices and platforms.
But a sector awash in opportunity can be suffocating under a tidal wave of competition and oversaturation. Days gone by 2 yrs haven't just accelerated the field's typical boom and bust cycle, they've also turn into a textbook study in market disruption, with average prices plummeting, product visibility shrinking and standard retail lifecycles dwindling over the board. Interestingly, industry employment is growing roughly 9 percent annually since 2005, attracting a lot more than $2.9 billion in wages, while layoffs continue steadily to rock Activision, THQ and other established, large-scale players.
Credit the rise of gaming entrepreneurs. While giving high-flying corporate execs migraines, this environment can be birthing the best explosion in entrepreneurialism since gaming's garage days. The lessons to be learned could apply across a variety of industries suffering from changing technologies, that's, nearly every industry.
"Big-budget production models are failing and barriers to entry are less than ever," says Wanda Meloni of M2 Research, an Encinitas, Calif.-based general market trends firm focusing on digital entertainment. "The opportunities haven't been better for small independents."
Still, the business enterprise is hardly fun and games. This is a consider the top trends, how they're transforming the field and what must be done to survive within an industry whose future is suddenly in play.
Social Games: Marketing something as a Service An astounding 200 million social networking users now play casual games like FarmVille and Pet Society monthly, which draw audiences numbering in the tens of millions. It's a sobering wake-up call when compared to previous benchmark for breakout industry success, online fantasy universe Wow, which boasts 11.5 million subscribers. Because of their low system requirements, familiar concepts and overall user-friendliness, these popular titles are single-handedly assisting to grow the gaming market. But despite presenting massive opportunities, challenges for smaller businesses operating in the area are also considerable. Dozens are released daily, brand loyalty is minimal and user turnover is massive. However, it hasn't stopped San Francisco-based Booyah's leading Facebook title, Nightclub City, from reaching 8 million active users.
"With free products, what you're really building are real-time subscription models," says CEO Keith Lee, whose games cost nothing to play, but generate thousands through the sale of virtual goods. "Instead of pricing to create levels, by offering content at tiered pricing structures, you optimize revenue per user by effectively letting people spend what they need." Also imperative with "freemium" goods — free products that upcharge for optional upgrades on the back-end — is designing every user action with monetization at heart right from the start. Don't overspend on marketing and PR in the digital era either, Lee recommends. Buying product features offering compelling reasons to talk about your creations with friends (e.g. to tackle group problems, compete for high scores or just exchange eye-catching photos) can generate literally 1,000 to 5,000 percent more trials.
In the years ahead, Lee says, it can help to think of worthwhile you offer as something, rather than as something, and recognize the worthiness of establishing long-term relationships with customers. As such, offerings should be supported post-launch with additional content add-ons, community initiatives and aggressive customer acquisition and retention tactics. For Facebook games, this implies experiencing the social network's capability to simultaneously and rapidly update this program for each user, unlike traditional games, which depend on a short launch and subsequent intermittent patches or upgrades. Because software makers can track who's simply clicking what and how often, and source real-time fan feedback, it literally pays to hear your visitors, adapting features and pricing as the marketplace dictates. Because of this, companies like Booyah regularly support titles such as for example My Town with new expansions, product enhancements and limited-time sales promotions made to keep new and existing players alike happy and engaged.
Instead of go all-out about the same release, Lee further advocates that high-tech entrepreneurs adopt the very least viable product strategy when managing their portfolios. Ship products with sufficient features to attract a crowd, he says, iterate rapidly, and do not hesitate to abandon offerings that don't garner an instantaneous response. "You'll know in the first fourteen days if a product is prosperous," he says. "If not, there is no point in keeping it on life support."
Hawkins's own San Mateo, Calif., startup, Digital Chocolate, learned the hard way, by discovering the cellular phone games it initially specialized in — like 3-D puzzler Tower Bloxx — didn't translate well to Facebook. "The trick to success today is to create brands that transcend platforms," he says. "Nevertheless, you also need to play to each distribution channel's strengths." To attain the social network's less tech-savvy audience, this meant making original games like Millionaire City and MMA Pro Fighter understandable instantly, intrinsically created for multiplayer, and accessible with an individual click. In-game events of note also needed to be easily shareable via social media, so friends will make others aware that these were seeking aid or competition.
As the business is illustrating with releases like NanoStar Castles and Safari Kingdom, when entering new markets, it's wiser to spread risk across a variety of smaller products instead of one flagship offering. "To accomplish scalability on any new platform, you must commit to adopting guidelines," Hawkins says. "Regarding new technologies and devices, which means being able and ready to make mistakes… we're still learning each day." Fail quickly and frequently, he says, until you get the formula down. While a seemingly counterintuitive strategy, it could pay dividends. Digital Chocolate's games have reeled 9 million monthly players on Facebook in only six months, and today bring in a lot more than its entire mobile business.
Mobile Games: Hard Sell, Then Upsell Traditional PC, Ps3 3 and Xbox 360 games may take 2-3 years and $20 million to $30 million to build. In comparison, apps for Apple and Android handsets could be assembled in weeks for under $20,000, which is why they've captured a whole generation of bedroom entrepreneurs' imaginations. Given sales of 100 million-plus iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, ipod itouch, etc.) though, producing high-quality titles with the capacity of selling in the millions isn't the problem. With an increase of than 40,000 games available through the App Store alone, and bestseller lists really the only way to attain mass visibility, helping customers discover new software could be a tough task.
"Even Apple does not have the power to create something a hit alone platform," says Chris Ulm, CEO of Carlsbad, Calif.-based Appy Entertainment. Due to this fact, he says, it's needed for small companies to create multiple products, seize opportunities for exposure and build methods to connect directly with customers. For Appy, it's about creating a running dialogue with fans, which creates a robust direct marketing channel that may someday manage to self-sustaining any era. Consumer touchpoints include frequent software price drops made to attract more new users, e-mail newsletters that share breaking updates and in-game ads that regularly promote new releases. The strategy is apparently working, with games like FaceFighter! and Zombie Pizza downloaded nearly five million times.
Razor-thin margins are also a problem for app makers, Ulm says, with most successful titles distributed for free or coming in at 99 cents. "We're training audiences to anticipate more for less," he says. To offset tightening revenues, instead of invest heavily in large-scale projects and big teams, he instead advocates the application of selective outsourcing and building less ambitious products made with incremental gains at heart. By using a core team of seven full-timers, but contracting freelance programming and art tasks out as needed, the business keeps overhead low while steadily building its technology base and refining its production pipeline with each release. "Every app we do furthers our reach with customers, grows our technology in hops and opportunities for what could possibly be profitable joint ventures," he says.
Don Traeger, who built the EA Sports label into interactive entertainment's premier pro athletics brand before launching his latest venture, Santa Clara, Calif., developer Portable Zoo, agrees. "With games like Karuki, we purposefully released a little product then added levels, changed things and finally finished up with a big, top-notch title," he says. But tinkering with pricing can be crucial, Traeger says. "Whenever we slash costs on our apps, sales don't just rise while the products are discounted, but also once they return to a high price, and the game's retail lifespan lasts longer than expected."
Brian Greenstone, founder of Austin, Texas-based Pangea Software, most widely known because of its Macintosh titles ("It's easier to be considered a big fish in a little pond"), further says that upselling existing customers could be more profitable than attracting new ones. To go units en masse through app stores, he explains, it's imperative that you appear within a sales chart, that leads to heightened visibility and may cause sales to skyrocket. Which (Top 100 Games, Top 50 Arcade Games, etc.) doesn't matter, Greenstone says. What does has been downloaded a lot more than 1,000 times in the first 12 hours. Standard measures like ads, pr announcements and YouTube videos aside, Pangea's most reliable publicity tactic has simply been text announcements within its current games that let existing players know when new releases can be found. "Forget staggered marketing… drop every bomb on your own first sortie," he says, laughing.
Rightsizing one's company can be crucial, Greenstone, the firm's sole full-time employee, suggests. "If you are spending more than 90 days and $500 developing an app, it's too much time and an excessive amount of," he says. "The main element is to crank out around you can." To keep costs low and participants motivated in virtually any business where success is uncertain and funds limited, he recommends contracting out work whenever we can, and offering collaborators profit-sharing plans. It's a model that's exercised considerably well for Pangaea, now 2 decades old, whose hit series Nanosaur cost around $200 to create and has since grossed over $1 million.
Digital Games: Slashing Overhead and Selling Direct So much for GameStop and Wal-Mart. While music, movie and television providers have a problem with the digital transition, enterprising the administrators are gleefully exploiting low distribution costs, higher margins and on-demand convenience to circumvent traditional publishing channels. According to advertise analyst The NPD Group, players are responding in record numbers, with sales of digital and retail PC games reaching near-parity in '09 2009.
Upsides for smaller businesses are plentiful aswell. Online vendors such as for example Steam, Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network don't just give tiny independents the methods to directly interact with consumers and comfortably sell products for $5 to $20. (At odds with standard $50-$60 retail charges for full-sized games or $20-30 for smaller titles and expansion packs). In addition they eliminate the dependence on manufacturing, warehousing and shipping, and offer channels by which titles can profitably be released to smaller, more loyal fan bases, letting creators strike gold by tapping previously unsustainable niche markets.
Built from the wreckage of overambitious startup Flagship Studios (creators of the much-hyped Hellgate: London), Seattle-based newcomer Runic Games knows that less is actually more. Abandoning plans to focus on a three-year, $10 million-plus massively multiplayer online project, it instead opted release a modest fantasy dungeon hack Torchlight, built-in just 11 months for pennies on the dollar. Sold as a $20 digital download through web stores such as for example Direct2Drive.com and Runic's own website, the single-player title — with the capacity of holding its with any retail outing — has since sold a lot more than 700,000 copies. Plans for a sequel, due in 2011, and grand-scale online version already are underway. "Simpler is way better," says co-founder Max Schaefer. "It pays to target."
Instead of tick off every box on your own feature wish-list, for teams with limited resources, empowering users to complete the blanks may also be a handy solution, Schaefer says. By supplying a free level editing toolkit that lets fans remake scenes and scenarios within their own image, Runic has were able to extend the game's reach and longevity at little additional cost. Like a great many other gaming insiders, Schaefer also shows that traditional ways of marketing and pr are minimized in the digital era. "Pricing strategies can be extremely effective marketing tools unto themselves," he says. "Whenever we slash costs on Torchlight by half, we literally see 10,000 percent jumps in sales." Free product trials and demos are also vital, he says, citing conversation rates as high as 40 percent for one hour of two of complimentary play.
Sandlot Games, creators of casual downloadable hits like Tradewinds and Westward, uses similar strategies. But company president Daniel Bernstein also emphasizes the need for scalability and a diversified business plan. At its peak, the firm maintained 25 employees in Bothell, Wash., and 23 in Russia. However the rapid saturation of casual games downloads for desktop PCs and resulting price drops it prompted led it to cut its domestic staff in two, crank up overseas production, and dive headfirst into new markets. "Every industry undergoes boom and bust cycles," Bernstein says. "Way too many businesses fail because they scale themselves from what they think the marketplace should be rather than responding predicated on actual growth."
Having nearly succumbed to its mistakes forced the business to become more inventive also to turn to emerging platforms just like the iPhone, iPad and Facebook. In addition, it led Sandlot to identify the worthiness of licensing its brands and establishing processes for better product lifecycle management. "We've not merely successfully leveraged the aid of outsourced partners to market an urgent 650,000 copies of Cake Mania on Nintendo DS, a location we'd little experience in," Bernstein says. "We also learned the need for bundling, discount programs and marketing to current customers." Buying your own website and direct selling channels are also vital for just about any startup, he says, as is creating a core team and putting fixed procedures and processes set up that let you create a lasting knowledge base. However when neither works, he says, "you've always surely got to have an idea B prepared to cut to."
Episodic and Downloadable: Finding New Methods to Reach Customers From 3-D online worlds fueled by the purchase of small virtual goods ("microtransactions") to ad-supported, location-based amusements that exploit cell phones' built-in GPS systems, pioneering new methods to play are emerging each day.
Consider episodic games, value-priced titles serialized into bite-sized regular installments like primetime Television shows. These games initially struggled to remove, but San Francisco-based developer Telltale Games used the cheaper, nimbler production model to resurrect supposedly "dead" classic gaming franchises like Sam & Max and Monkey Island. It is also gone from selling roughly 4,000 copies of its titles in the first month to nearly 50,000, launched its publishing program and nabbed the trunk to the near future and Jurassic Park licenses.
The trick to the seed-funded startup's success is easy, says CEO Dan Connors. "Get products to advertise as quickly as possible, make mistakes as quickly as possible and be earning cash as soon as you ship, then utilize the income to fund the next production," he says. "Continually be attracting cash, and just be sure to own usage of your own customers too… it'll offer you leverage in virtually any deal. That way, you can sublicense rights to partners with greater reach to benefit from their superior distribution and marketing, without quitting control of actual products themselves."
Research your options, too, he says. Knowing how big is your audience, the very best channels to attain them and what must be done to market product into these channels is imperative. Regardless of how good your company's offerings, it will not matter if you cannot ever effectively connect to shoppers, or overspend predicated on false assumptions.
Fredrik Wester, CEO of Stockholm-based publisher Paradox Interactive, agrees wholeheartedly. Initially a little, struggling developer of strategy and wargame titles, the business hit a turning point when it started to look for methods to creatively co-finance the publishing of other game makers' offerings. Without money in the lender, it had been forced to sublicense titles by individual territory throughout THE UNITED STATES and Europe, using partnering distributors' payday loans (signed on the effectiveness of software prototypes) to invest in continued development.
But while these efforts sustained company growth for a while, steadily declining retail interest in games for armchair generals threatened to derail it in the center of the last decade. With shelf space dwindling, the business decided in 2006 to launch and digitally sell its titles exclusively through its retail website, prompted by an e-mail from an Argentine fan who couldn't find its games in local shops. Initially a tragedy, Wester admits ("all we're able to do the first weekend we launched is charge customers, not let them actually download games"), it eventually proved a sound investment.
Although it took eight months of seeding retail boxes with complementary codes for digital downloads (billed as free game backups in the event shoppers lost their CDs), users eventually came around. So did development partners, who increasingly asked to market their games through owner, resulting in the site's eventual transformation in to the full-scale online retailer GamersGate.com. Today, a lot more than 2,200 titles are for sale to download, of which the most notable 10 sellers only generate 10 to 15 percent of revenue, underscoring the energy of long tail distribution. But more important, Wester says, in addition, it teaches a simple lesson in market dynamics.
"You will have to find new methods to reach your customer, so when these channels don't exist, you will need to create them," he says. "Dialogue also offers to work two ways… furthermore to charting your own course, it is additionally vital to let your customers let you know what they need." Hence the firm's later move, despite owning its online distribution service, to get its games listed on the websites of rival vendors such as for example Steam and Impulse, with the purpose of making its titles more accessible to shoppers. Mission accomplished: Today, the business enjoys premier status in a genre other publishers have all-but abandoned, with new entries in leading franchises like Hearts of Iron and Europa Universalis with the capacity of selling 200,000 copies alone.
However, much like all experts surveyed because of this story, Wester says it simply serves to underscore the brand new reality to do business in virtually any high-tech industry this year 2010. "The old rules of operating teach valuable lessons, but it's obvious that lots of are quickly becoming outdated," he says. "To survive on today's playing field when progress comes calling, you have to rapidly — and cost-effectively — work out how they're best rewritten."
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The Federal Reserve (Fed) is scheduled to announce their interest rates on June 15, 2017 at 13.00. It is estimated that the Fed will raise interest rates by 25 basis points from 1 percent to 1.25 percent.
Meanwhile at the beginning of the month we learned that US Non-Farm Payrolls (US NFP) data for May 2017 showed an increase of only 138,000 in May, well below the economists' estimate of 181,000. Nevertheless, according to a report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics the unemployment rate experienced a slight improvement to 4.3%.
Nevertheless, there is an opinion that the disappointing US NFP data will not be a barrier for the Fed to raise interest rates this June. Indeed, the negative data could lead to doubts, but at least three reasons below could be considered as to why the Fed would likely continue to raise interest rates at the meeting on Thursday.
Yes, the Fed is a central bank that is a policy maker. They are not small traders like us.
After the release of US NFP data at the beginning of this month, USD experienced a weakening. The market seems rather doubtful that the Fed will raise interest rates this month. But it seems rather naive if we think that the Fed will react only to one economic data. A central bank the size of a Fed will certainly see the trend of an economic data.
If noted, US NFP figures are consistently in the range of 100,000 to 300,000 in recent years, while the unemployment rate is in the relatively low range.
Commodity markets such as gold and precious metals have been moving very volatile lately. There are many factors that influence commodity prices, one of which is inflation. After the end of China's loose policy, investors seem to be starting to worry about rising inflation.But many investors seem to forget that one of the key factors that can increase the rate of inflation is the weakening of the dollar. We know that the majority of commodity prices are in dollars. In other words, the weakening of the dollar will increase commodity prices.
Donald Trump's economic policy plans such as tax cuts, simplification of regulations and improvement in infrastructure development have boosted the post-election USD. This is because there is a thought that these things will be able to provide energy for the economy of the United States (US). But Trump's economic agenda seems to be stalled.There have not been any signs that Trump will realize the stimulus in the near future, so we may not yet see a sharp strengthening in the USD in the near future.
The US private sector added a significant number of workers last month.In May, the private sector recruited 253,000 workers, far exceeding economists' estimates of 180,000.
This private sector activity indicates that the US labor market is actually still in good condition and in a positive trend. The slowdown in US NFP figures could be because the US government does not recruit too many employees in the middle of the Trump government.
For short-term forex trading opportunities, currently our choice falls on GBPUSD because based on the data we have, the pair's volatility is highest among other major currency pairs at least in the past year.
For medium-term trading , our choice also falls on GBPUSD so far fundamental and technical factors can still be said to be in line. We know that around the past week the UK has just held an election and the results have given a negative sentiment to GBPUSD. Until now, the medium-term outlook for GBPUSD is still bearish.
If this still negative sentiment is reinforced by rising Fed interest rates – which means strengthening of the USD – then the bearish outlook for GBPUSD is expected to strengthen. This combination of fundamental and technical factors is likely to bring GBPUSD lower for the medium term.
Whatever forex strategy you will apply, make sure you have a trading plan and use capital management and proper risk management.
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I've never been so great at making (or keeping) New Year's Resolutions. Last year, as January 1st came and went, I didn't vow to change a thing. However, looking back over this past year, I realized I made some pretty significant changes.
For the most part, change is a continuous flow, which is created by experiences, goal setting, incidents, and accidents. It is intentional and accidental, and it is welcomed and feared. Change doesn't happen just once a year. Well, it shouldn't. If you look back over your life, you will notice that change happens incrementally. For instance, one doesn't go to bed one night as a Conservative Republican to wake the next morning as a Progressive Liberal. Change is gradual, and it is necessary to embrace in order to lead a physically and emotionally healthy life.
And so it was for me, as to my surprise and many who know me, 2017 was a year that I said farewell to quite a few beloved things all in the name of achieving simplicity, attaining emotional and physical health, and creating spiritual abundance.
I have a feeling there will be much more on my list for 2018 as I continue to make necessary changes for my health and wellbeing, but in the meantime, I will be going into greater detail in future blog posts about why I said farewell to these things.
What are you inspired to let go of in 2018?


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'I've not really seen him head a ball... that's cause for concern' - Captain Chambers set to miss Bristol Rovers clash
Andy Warren
Published: 11:21 AM December 13, 2019
Luke Chambers has struggled with a neck injury in recent weeks. Photo: ROSS HALLS - Credit: Archant
Ipswich Town look likely to be without captain Luke Chambers once again this weekend as the skipper continues to deal with a neck injury.
The central defender missed the two games with Coventry on Saturday and Tuesday with the issue and, while he's back in training, the nature of the injury means he is unlikely to be fit to take on Bristol Rovers this weekend.
"He only trained the other day and we've not really seen him head a ball at the moment which is a little bit of a cause for concern, so we'll have to wait and see this morning," manager Paul Lambert said.
"If this one's too soon we hope he'll be ok for the following game (Portsmouth away). We can't take a risk with somebody's neck.
"There's a bigger picture so we have to wait and see. Luke probably won't play but we'll have to see."
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On winger Danny Rowe, who missed the same two games with a knee problem, Lambert added: "Danny's still struggling with his knee a little bit so he'll be a doubt."
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Freddie Sears made significant progress this week as he played for Ipswich's Under 23s at Millwall on Monday - the first time he's featured in a game since suffering a knee ligament injury at Norwich in February.
The striker has stated an aim of being involved when Town visit Portsmouth next weekend, but Lambert doesn't want to rush last season's top scorer back into first-team action too quickly.
"It's still a long way for him to go and you shouldn't pin your hopes on Freddie at the minute," Lambert said.
"He and Bishop are doing really well and slowly but surely are getting there.
"Freddie's thinking with a footballer's head on, which I get, but it's a big ask when you haven't been thrown into the deep end yet.
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"The last thing I would want would be for the same injury to happen, which could happen. You have to use your head on that one.
"The aim is for him to carry on where he left off last season but you have to be sensible with it and that's what we're doing."
Lambert will decide this weekend whether or not Teddy Bishop, who is back training following a knee injury of his own, will feature for the Under 23s when Crystal Palace visit.
"He's out on the training field and he and Freddie will be two good new signings for us when they come back," Lambert said of Bishop.
"There's no pressure on them and they will come back in their own time. Hopefully they will come back like they were before.
"You don't want the guys to go out injured."
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Motley Crue Look Back at "Dr. Feelgood," "Home Sweet Home"
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When Mötley Crüe completed their Saints of Los Angeles tour and Crüe Fest 2 this summer, they turned their attention to their past, revamping their best-of collection for a fresh Greatest Hits, which hits stores today. On the road, the band paid tribute to one of their milestones — the 20th anniversary of 1989's Dr. Feelgood — by playing the LP in its entirety. Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx were kind enough to take Rolling Stone through that album track by track earlier this year, and now Tommy Lee and Mick Mars weigh in on what made the record hit so hard.
Check out photos of the band kick-starting Crüe Fest 2.
Having guests like Steven Tyler, Skid Row and Cheap Trick's Robin Zander in the studio made it a "classic album," Mars says, and Lee discusses how the band, under pressure, made a pact to get sober and take the LP to the "next level." "I can't believe the four of us, in the state we were in, pulled it together like we were going to battle," he says, recalling how the band left everything behind but motorcycles and equipment and moved to Vancouver to do the record with Bob Rock. "We built tunnels to send the sound out into these big loading bays, and miked that," Lee recalls. Mars notes the ballad "Without You" features 79 tracks of guitar alone.
As for the epic power ballad "Home Sweet Home," Mars remembers Lee "was goofing around on piano" when he came up with the song's memorable lick — and that during recording, he accidentally wrecked his Les Paul and had to finish up with a Kramer Baretta. Lee says the song "really captured what it was like out on the road" and the video still stands up for him. "When MTV played music instead of all those Love thin...
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Eventually rebooting while having the keyboard unplugged solved the issue, but I'm wondering if I may have a hardware issue (it's never done this on this system since it was built, the keyboard is a few years old and a stock logitech USB keyboard), or a possible software issue (using AVG virus scan on windows 7. Has always come back clean.)
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UK Business and Energy Secretary in Japan: Discussed Future Nuclear Power Stations
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UK Business and Energy Secretary, Greg Clark, returned from discussing future nuclear power stations in Japan, only to announce that the UK government was postponing their decision regarding the proposed Franco-Sino (EDF) Nuclear Power Station at Hinkley Point in Somerset, England.
Is French State owned EDF's Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station Project dead? Will one of the two proposed Japanese (Toshiba in Cumbria, Hitachi in Wales) projects be shifted there? Or is the UK attempting to obtain funding from Japan rather than China? Is the new Prime Minister, Theresa May, trying to make certain that Costain, located in her constituency of Maidenhead, is chosen for any Japanese nuclear projects as they were for the EDF Hinkley Point nuclear project? For the Hinkley Nuclear Power project, Costain was chosen to construct the cooling water tunnels – 9 km of tunnels under the Severn Estuary.
That's what nuclear power stations are about – large construction projects, "grands projets". They can go on and on and never go online, because the main point of them is the construction. Is this why Prime Minister Theresa May appears to have shamefully changed her mind about decentralised, renewable, energy? In 2006 she said: "But the Government could do far more to promote green energy, rather than giving unfair subsidies to new nuclear power stations." (11 July 2006) http://web.archive.org/web/20130103045301/http://www.tmay.co.uk/news/8/may-new-measures-to-promote-local-green-energy-are-welcome One decade later, green energy is a much more affordable and realistic option. So, why is she even considering Hinkley or any other nuclear power station? It must be Costain. Why not do the Severn Tidal project instead?
Open for business: Business and Energy Secretary in Japan
From: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
First published 26 July 2016
Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Greg Clark has been meeting businesses and investors in Japan this week to discuss the great potential for the UK's car, nuclear and life sciences industries.
The Secretary of State met with The Minister Of International Trade and Industry, Motoo Hayashi, to discuss strengthening UK-Japanese economic ties as well as hosting an investor engagement event attended by over 50 of Japan's largest companies and investors from across the automobile, energy, life sciences, financial and services sectors to discuss the opportunities available for inward investment in the UK.
As well as chairing a roundtable with automobile manufacturers including Nissan, Honda, Toyota and Mitsubishi during his visit, Greg Clark also discussed future new nuclear power stations with representatives from Toshiba and Hitachi…
Speaking just ahead of his visit to Japan, Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark said:
"Britain is the same outward-looking, world-leading and globally minded nation that we have always been.
"Japan is one of our key economic partners and second largest inward investor and we want to see our partnership continue to grow and flourish. I am travelling to Japan at the earliest opportunity to ensure we are working closely with businesses in every part of the world to demonstrate the huge potential available and give them the certainty they need to invest and grow in the UK.
"We will ensure the message that Britain is the best place in Europe to do business is heard loud and clear."
Such an early visit to Japan from the newly appointed Secretary of State sends a clear message that the UK is and always will be open for business, and shows that we continue to be an influential power on the world stage, working with international partners to ensure security and prosperity." OGL: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-for-business-business-and-energy-secretary-in-japan (Emphasis our own.)
[The other point of nuclear power stations, of course, is the ability to make nuclear weapons. However, strangely, French government owned EDF owns Britain's nuclear power stations now. The UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is at Aldermaston in Berkshire, not far from Maidenhead.]
"UK says to review EDF's Hinkley Point nuclear energy plan
Posted:Fri, 29 Jul 2016 01:28:04 -0400
LONDON, July 29 (Reuters) – Britain's government has said it will launch a new review into a controversial project to build two new nuclear reactors led by French utility EDF, the country's first new nuclear plant in decades." http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/utilitiesNews/~3/v6yD4zDTqIY/edf-britain-nuclear-idUSL8N1AF0R1
"Costain Group plc is a British construction and civil engineering company headquartered in Maidenhead. It was part of the original Channel Tunnel consortium and is involved in Private Finance Initiative projects… Costain's activities are organised into two operating divisions: Natural Resources (water, waste, nuclear process and oil & gas), Infrastructure (highways, rail, power and airports). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costain_Group
"Marine Works (Costain) – This work involves the construction of the main cooling water tunnels and associated sea bed structures along with onshore connecting galleries. Pre-cast components will be fabricated off site. Three large tunnel boring machines will be used to create the 9 km of tunnels under the Severn Estuary." http://web.archive.org/web/20150507070655/http://www.hinkleysupplychain.co.uk/construction-works-packages/
"Hitachi heads up new bid to build nuclear plant in Wales
Japanese company and US construction group Bechtel offer rival proposal to French firm EDF's plans for Hinkley Point C reactor" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/20/hitachi-hnuclear-plant-wales-hinkley-point-edf-bechtel
"Japan Atomic Power to join nuclear power business in Britain"
July 8, 2016 (Mainichi Japan)
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Japan Atomic Power Co., a constructor and operator of nuclear plants, said Thursday it has decided to enter the nuclear power business in Britain through an alliance with Hitachi Ltd." http://web.archive.org/web/20160709140557/http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160708/p2g/00m/0bu/003000c
"Moorside Nuclear Power Station is a proposal to build three AP1000 nuclear reactors on a site near Sellafield, in Cumbria, United Kingdom.[1]The plan by NuGeneration, which is the British subsidiary of Toshiba-owned Westinghouse Electric Company…" Operator Engie – formerly French GDF Suez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorside_Nuclear_Power_Station
Japan tried to send their nuclear waste to Scotland, 30 years ago:
Even the people in Fukushima don't want nuclear waste storage. Japan doesn't allow hardly any immigration because they only love Japanese (excepting the poor caste). Most of the governments of the English speaking world hate their own people. Beware!
"Later in the 1980s there came to the town of Ayr a man called Dr Feates of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, who persuaded the local council to consider building an underground vault in the surrounding hills for the storage of nuclear waste. When the matter came up in the local council, Dr Feates revealed that the waste would mostly come from abroad, mainly Japan.
To say some of us hit the roof is an understatement. The Anti Nuclear Dumping in the Hills around Mulwharcher campaign was born. Willie McRae was one of us. To cut a long story short, our campaign culminated in a public enquiry in Ayr Town Hall lasting three months.
Willie McRae was with us every day of that enquiry. He led our case. We won. The plans were dropped but we were by then all marked men and women. He never charged us one penny…" Read the rest here: http://web.archive.org/web/20150926115718/http://www.electricscotland.com/independence/scotEUMcRae.pdf
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/nuclear-waste-disposal-loch-doon-scotland/
Willie McRae: http://youtu.be/WSXFyFFh0Yw
The last two Dept. of Energy and Climate Change Ministers had family related apparent conflicts of interest regarding Hinkley Point construction and EDF:
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Amber_Rudd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Secretary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Davey
http://powerbase.info/index.php/Ed_Davey
"May had objections to Hinkley Point, says Cable"
30 July 2016 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36932027
"UK's May worried by China investment, intervened to delay Hinkley
Posted:Sat, 30 Jul 2016 14:51:22 -0400
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May was concerned about the security implications of a planned Chinese investment in the new Hinkley Point nuclear plant and intervened personally to delay the project, a former colleague and a source said on Saturday"
http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/worldNews/~3/UeDuRxTG_-E/us-edf-britain-nuclear-idUSKCN10A0HT
Last October: "EDF and its Chinese partner China General Nuclear Corporation (CGN) have committed to Hinkley Point C during this week's landmark China State Visit, confirming the first new nuclear power station in the UK for a generation. The companies have signed a Strategic Investment Agreement which marks a critical moment for the site in Somerset. EDF has confirmed it will take a 66.5 per cent stake in Hinkley with CGN taking 33.5 per cent, demonstrating a clear commitment from both parties." (21 Oct. 2016) https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hinkley-point-c-to-power-six-million-uk-homes
Regarding Greg Clark: Fylde fracking appeal: Recommendations sent to government" 4 July 2016 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-36708118


The city government is organized using the Mayor-Council form. The mayor as of October 2018 is Kevin Freeman, who was first elected in November 2013 and took office in January 2014. In November 2017, he was elected to his second term. Freeman is simultaneously a member of the board of directors for the Spokane Regional Health District, and the Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency. The city council consists of 5 members, who are elected to serve terms of 4 years.
Millwood was officially incorporated on October 26, 1927. it was named for the local sawmill.
According to the Tacoma Public Library's Washington Place Names database: "In 1900, it was chosen as a station by the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Electric Railway, and was named Woodard's for the family who owned the land along the railway route. When Inland Empire Paper Company built a paper mill they requested a name change to Milltown. Railway officials refused the change unless the Woodard family agreed. A compromise resulted, using the word mill combined with the first four letters of Woodard. It was incorporated October 27, 1927."
The Rosebush House, located in the center of Millwood, "is one of Millwood's best preserved homes" and is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Millwood is located at 47°41′8″N 117°17′3″W / 47.68556°N 117.28417°W / 47.68556; -117.28417 (47.685693, -117.284297).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.73 square miles (1.89 km2), of which, 0.70 square miles (1.81 km2) is land and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km2) is water.
This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Millwood has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps.
As of the census of 2010, there were 1,786 people, 751 households, and 467 families residing in the town. The population density was 2,551.4 inhabitants per square mile (985.1/km2). There were 793 housing units at an average density of 1,132.9 per square mile (437.4/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 94.4% White, 0.6% African American, 1.3% Native American, 1.1% Asian, 0.3% Pacific Islander, 0.6% from other races, and 1.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.9% of the population.
There were 751 households of which 30.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.2% were married couples living together, 11.2% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.8% had a male householder with no wife present, and 37.8% were non-families. 31.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.94.
The median age in the town was 40.1 years. 22.6% of residents were under the age of 18; 7.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 27.5% were from 25 to 44; 29.6% were from 45 to 64; and 13% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the town was 49.8% male and 50.2% female.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,649 people, 741 households, and 457 families residing in the town. The population density was 2,395.7 inhabitants per square mile (922.7/km²). There were 779 housing units at an average density of 1,131.7 per square mile (435.9/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 95.27% White, 0.55% African American, 0.42% Native American, 1.03% Asian, 0.12% Pacific Islander, 0.49% from other races, and 2.12% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.46% of the population.
There were 741 households out of which 24.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.7% were married couples living together, 10.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.2% were non-families. 31.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.23 and the average family size was 2.79.
In the town the population was spread out with 20.8% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 30.1% from 25 to 44, 25.3% from 45 to 64, and 15.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.8 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $34,565, and the median income for a family was $40,441. Males had a median income of $31,292 versus $22,500 for females. The per capita income for the town was $17,911. About 8.0% of families and 11.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18.2% of those under age 18 and 5.6% of those age 65 or over.
^ "City of Millwood". cityofmillwood.org. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
^ Sullivan, Julie (March 16, 1989). "Architect builds historical interest with trivia". Spokane Chronicle. pp. S9. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
^ United States Census Bureau. "Census of Population and Housing". Retrieved August 3, 2013.


Laura Albert is difficult...give her time...you will warm to her.
Afterall, she did kick the creative industries (of film and literature) square in the nuts and it hurt...real bad.
In this gender fluid, sexual fluid, identity fluid age...what's the big deal? Laura Albert created a character (as writers tend to do). She took that character on an extraordinary, mind-blowing journey. She made her character [quite literally] live!!!
And, many, many 'celebrities' were suckerpunched into the whole sham...they, too, wanted to bask in JT Leroy's limelight...and they did..with a voracious greed.
Well, now, they have to endure the humilation and indignation that Ms Albert bestowed upon them...Bono (the talk!), the train-wreck that is Asia Argento, light-fingered Winona and Courtney-lost-Love...to name but a few.
After the 'truth' was unveiled, the hue and cry was deafening. But...listen closely to Ms Albert...her creativity is a masterwork, her justification is justifying. Okay, so there were a few casualties along the way...but, hey, some of those egos were in desperate need of a kicking. And..kicked, well & truly, they got...Ms Argento!
(S)He who laughs last laughs longest...Ms Albert is laughing. Quite rightly too! What an achievement!
An achievement that has led to this fast-paced film of a furious-paced story...the revelations never dry up. Jaw-dropping, toe-curling, maddeningly creative, mightily funny...and, so so very clever.
In the late 1990s, teenager JT LeRoy shot to fame with tales woven from his troubled life. Courtney Love and other A-listers were quick to claim friendship as he wrote successive blockbusters. But in 2005 the scales fell away to reveal one Laura Albert, a talented fantasist. Jeff Feuerzeig's telling of her story is as energetic and creative as Barton herself in this spellbinding doc.


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How Values (Ethics) Deliver Value (Profits)
I recently shared a guest column I wrote for Franchising World about how "Private Equity Can Help Franchise Businesses Thrive." And that message continues to ring true.
This week I had the pleasure of speaking at The 9th Annual Women's Private Equity Summit in Half Moon Bay, California. The event included more than 450 private equity and venture capital leaders from across the industry. And for me, it was not only a chance to share our remarkable journey of growth and success at Dwyer Group with our private equity partner Riverside Company. I was also equally inspired to share our example of how values (ethics) deliver value (profits) to our business.
Sharing our incredible private equity journey at the Women's Private Equity Summit.
A strong code of values can impact the bottom line in business.
Our Code of Values across our service brands at Dwyer Group has supported a very special company culture. I am reminded on a daily basis with examples from across our franchise family that our values make us unique and successful in our space when compared to our competitors.
I've said it many times: "The profits are simply the applause we get for doing right by taking care of people."
Those same values have also played an important role in our private equity journey too. The panel that I participated on in California touched on that. The topic was: "It wasn't just the price. Why we went with the PE firm that we did."
At the Women's Private Equity Summit with (L) Barbara Beck, CEO of Learning Care Group, and (R) Kathy Warner, retired partner of Adams Street Partners.
When meeting with private equity firms at Dwyer Group, we didn't want to just command a premium price. We also wanted to forge a strong relationship with an organization that would appreciate our values and our culture when advancing our organization to the next level.
We found that with The Riverside Company. They valued our business not just based on our bottom line, but also on the corporate culture that produced those results.
That relationship was incredibly beneficial. And it set the pace for a private equity journey that has exceeded our expectations every step of the way.
Values must drive action. Only then can your business realize its full potential.
It's been said that 95% of companies that have a code of values don't even use it. That led me to write my book Values, Inc., and showcase how the Dwyer Group and other companies have advanced by living and leading with values at the forefront of business.
Specific to Dwyer Group, these are not arbitrary statements that are hung on a wall. These values are "operationalized," so that we can examine on a regular basis if we are living up to those values. It's that quantifiable aspect that PE organizations can appreciate as well. But don't just take my word for it. Here are endorsements from Riverside for Values, Inc.
"Dina and the tremendous success of The Dwyer Group stands as irrefutable proof that there is no contradiction between doing the right thing and generating wealth for your stakeholders. In fact, she is a compelling case that the world in fact works in the way we would wish it to and that the good gals and guys win." Stewart Kohl, Co-CEO of The Riverside Company.
"Dina tells great stories in her newest book Values, Inc. These stories are the best way to bring her theme to life: time and again, people and companies who do the right things for a broad constituency, meaning consumers, employees, communities and even competitors (!), create the most value for all stakeholders and are the most successful. And, that doing the right thing is contagious." Béla Szigethy, Co-CEO of The Riverside Company
As we have seen in our PE partnerships (Riverside Company, 2003-2010; TZP Group, 2010-2014; and back to Riverside Company, 2014 – now), being accountable to our values alongside investments and growth goals has made a lasting impact. And speaking of growth, Dwyer Group President and CEO Mike Bidwell and our leadership team have accelerated the pace at an astounding rate! Since being reacquired by Riverside in 2014, Dwyer Group has grown by more than 50 percent.
We attract top talent to our organization because skilled individuals admire our values and culture. We welcome strong franchisees to our service brands who point to our values as a reason to join our network. We have acquired like-minded businesses because they operate in a similar space and with a value-driven purpose as well. And collectively that has translated into a rapidly growing organization that now accounts for more than $1.3 billion in annual system-wide sales. The end-user customer will pay a premium price for services across our brands not based on the cheapest option, but on the most valuable one. Our values have played an integral role in making that happen.
So, don't just think of business success in terms of dollars and cents. It's also about the way in which business is conducted. A strong code of values will separate the leaders from the others, not by saying…but by doing.
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Adult Care Home Bill is Unique in Its Consensus
State regulators convened a group of stakeholders to review issues and problems… and everyone walked away pleased with the result.
by Rose Hoban June 27, 2017 June 27, 2017
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By Rose Hoban
A bill that makes multiple tweaks to regulations in the adult care home industry made an easy transit through the General Assembly and is awaiting Gov. Roy Cooper's signature to become law.
House Bill 657 is the product of people involved in the adult care home industry – some of them longtime foes – sitting down together and working out some compromises.
"It seems like one of those rare pieces of legislation that I could run that everybody is on the same page of," said bill sponsor Rep. Justin Burr (R-Albemarle).
Burr was quick to admit that he had little to do with the actual crafting of the bill. He credited a group of stakeholders, led by the Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Health Service Regulation, that asked him to shepherd it through the legislative process.
"They worked on it for five or six months before they brought it to me," Burr said. "I've not heard one complaint."
Tightening up on bad actors
Issues in the adult care home industry have been around for years: The facilities are intended for people who can't live independently in the community yet who don't really need the skilled care of a nursing home. By statute, the medical care for people in adult care homes is "usually occasional or incidental."
Adult care homes were at the center of a 2010 conflict between the state and the U.S. Department of Justice over using the facilities to inappropriately house people with severe mental health issues alongside frail seniors. That dispute was settled in 2012.
Sometimes problems in the homes can be shocking, as demonstrated by violations listed on the DHSR website. There have been deaths, wandering incidents and incidents such as one in 2014 where managers of facilities in Montgomery and Guilford Counties cleaned out the offices, walking off with computers, televisions and fax machines before residents awoke.
Megan Lamphere, the adult care home section chief at DHSR said just this month, managers at a home in Caldwell County gave just days' notice to residents to find a new place to live.
Until now, such operators received only a slap on the wrist , they could return and receive a new license to operate only 12 months later.
In the past, the most egregious violations came before a Penalty Review Board. But legislators eliminated that body last year, in a move that surprised many.
The new bill restricts those operators from receiving another license for five years. It also places new restrictions on operators who have so many problems that state inspectors are compelled to shut things down.
"This is the most severe action to take, it's the most disruptive to the residents and to the staff," Lamphere said. "This is the licensure action we take when there's imminent danger to residents' health and safety and we come in and immediately revoke those licenses."
"And they could come back in six months and reapply for a new license."
Lamphere said those folks will now have to wait for five years to get the green light to operate a facility again.
She said the new bill increases all types of prohibitions and gives the Division more power if an owner has outstanding fees or fines.
"Right now, a licensee, if they have $30,000 in penalties that are outstanding for a facility that they had, they can still apply for a new license and we can't deny them." Lamphere explained. "They don't have to pay those fines before we license them again."
But under the bill, owners will have to pay up before getting a new license.
In exchange for more oversight, the state granted the adult care home industry some concessions. Owners had asked for a new, informal process to resolve disputes over inspection findings that could be used before receiving a penalty.
The new law will also create something of a peer review process, where facility owners can work things out with state and county inspectors before being fined or having their star ratings affected.
[sponsor]
The other concession was around that star review system created in 2009.
Facility owners complained that if they were cited for a problem and their star rating dropped, it was hard to get the rating back up, even if problems were minor and had been resolved. A new informal process will allow for problem resolution without affecting ratings.
Bill Lamb, head of the Friends of Residents of Adult Care Homes, said he was afraid that reviewing the star ratings would make the system more complicated.
"There was frankly some discussion about doing away with star ratings entirely," Lamb said. Instead the division agreed to take a second look at the star rating system to see how useful it's been.
"While I will admit there are problems to the star ratings, I'm not ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater," said Lamb who said he was pleased with the decision.
"Health care agencies should not have to go through the whole [star rating] process even if they've got a good record or if it's a minor issue and they corrected it," said bill co-sponsor Donna White, who worked at the DHHS Division of Aging and Adult Services before being elected to the legislature.
"We waste… so many good resources trying to invent the new wheel when we really just need to improve the spokes and take care of the wheel that we've already got."
Division personnel will perform an evaluation and report on the star rating system to the legislature by next February.
by Rose Hoban, North Carolina Health News

Adult Care Home Bill is Unique in Its Consensus

by Rose Hoban, North Carolina Health News
June 27, 2017

By Rose Hoban

A bill that makes multiple tweaks to regulations in the adult care home industry made an easy transit through the General Assembly and is awaiting Gov. Roy Cooper's signature to become law.

House Bill 657 is the product of people involved in the adult care home industry - some of them longtime foes - sitting down together and working out some compromises.

"It seems like one of those rare pieces of legislation that I could run that everybody is on the same page of," said bill sponsor Rep. Justin Burr (R-Albemarle).

Burr was quick to admit that he had little to do with the actual crafting of the bill. He credited a group of stakeholders, led by the Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Health Service Regulation, that asked him to shepherd it through the legislative process.

"They worked on it for five or six months before they brought it to me," Burr said. "I've not heard one complaint."

Tightening up on bad actors

Issues in the adult care home industry have been around for years: The facilities are intended for people who can't live independently in the community yet who don't really need the skilled care of a nursing home. By statute, the medical care for people in adult care homes is "usually occasional or incidental."

Adult care homes were at the center of a 2010 conflict between the state and the U.S. Department of Justice over using the facilities to inappropriately house people with severe mental health issues alongside frail seniors. That dispute was settled in 2012.

Sometimes problems in the homes can be shocking, as demonstrated by violations listed on the DHSR website. There have been deaths, wandering incidents and incidents such as one in 2014 where managers of facilities in Montgomery and Guilford Counties cleaned out the offices, walking off with computers, televisions and fax machines before residents awoke.

Megan Lamphere, the adult care home section chief at DHSR said just this month, managers at a home in Caldwell County gave just days' notice to residents to find a new place to live.

Until now, such operators received only a slap on the wrist , they could return and receive a new license to operate only 12 months later.

In the past, the most egregious violations came before a Penalty Review Board. But legislators eliminated that body last year, in a move that surprised many.

The new bill restricts those operators from receiving another license for five years. It also places new restrictions on operators who have so many problems that state inspectors are compelled to shut things down.

"This is the most severe action to take, it's the most disruptive to the residents and to the staff," Lamphere said. "This is the licensure action we take when there's imminent danger to residents' health and safety and we come in and immediately revoke those licenses."

"And they could come back in six months and reapply for a new license."

Lamphere said those folks will now have to wait for five years to get the green light to operate a facility again.

She said the new bill increases all types of prohibitions and gives the Division more power if an owner has outstanding fees or fines.

"Right now, a licensee, if they have $30,000 in penalties that are outstanding for a facility that they had, they can still apply for a new license and we can't deny them." Lamphere explained. "They don't have to pay those fines before we license them again."

But under the bill, owners will have to pay up before getting a new license.

Give and take

In exchange for more oversight, the state granted the adult care home industry some concessions. Owners had asked for a new, informal process to resolve disputes over inspection findings that could be used before receiving a penalty.

The new law will also create something of a peer review process, where facility owners can work things out with state and county inspectors before being fined or having their star ratings affected.

[sponsor]

The other concession was around that star review system created in 2009.

Facility owners complained that if they were cited for a problem and their star rating dropped, it was hard to get the rating back up, even if problems were minor and had been resolved. A new informal process will allow for problem resolution without affecting ratings.

Bill Lamb, head of the Friends of Residents of Adult Care Homes, said he was afraid that reviewing the star ratings would make the system more complicated.

"There was frankly some discussion about doing away with star ratings entirely," Lamb said. Instead the division agreed to take a second look at the star rating system to see how useful it's been.

"While I will admit there are problems to the star ratings, I'm not ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater," said Lamb who said he was pleased with the decision.

"Health care agencies should not have to go through the whole [star rating] process even if they've got a good record or if it's a minor issue and they corrected it," said bill co-sponsor Donna White, who worked at the DHHS Division of Aging and Adult Services before being elected to the legislature.

"We waste… so many good resources trying to invent the new wheel when we really just need to improve the spokes and take care of the wheel that we've already got."

Division personnel will perform an evaluation and report on the star rating system to the legislature by next February.

This article first appeared on North Carolina Health News and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
Tagged: adult care homes, Division of Health Services Regulation, Friends of Residents of Adult Care Homes, Guilford County, long term care, Montgomery County, NC Association Long Term Care Facilities, NC Department of Health and Human Services, NC DHHS
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Florida Police Focus On Domestic Violence
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November 27, 2013. posted in Domestic Violence
Most people love their families. At this time of year, it is easy for the stress of the holidays to cause tension and disagreements, but the love is still there. In some situations, these disagreements snowball into physical altercations. While this is unfortunate, it is a mistake that can happen to anyone. Oftentimes, domestic violence charges can result following a fight of this magnitude.
Florida officials take domestic violence very seriously. Charges for domestic violence can have long-lasting effects including prison time, probation, and protective orders. Following domestic violence charges, people may be restricted from seeing their loved ones including their children, and maybe forced to stay away from their homes — which can be particularly difficult this time of year.
Recently sheriff officers from across Florida have taken a greater interest in domestic violence cases. The Florida Sheriffs Task Force has recently ended a month-long operation targeting domestic violence. Under the operation — called Operation Safe Families — police arrested many people on domestic violence charges. The FSTF also worked to track down people who had previously been arrested for domestic violence but had yet to face criminal proceedings.
During Operation Safe Family, more than 5,000 people in 33 counties across Florida were arrested. Of these arrests, 2,587 people were arrested for domestic violence charges.
Those facing charges following this operation should know that they have the right to share their side of the story in a court of law. Domestic violence cases are often difficult and the truth is not easily attainable — especially in he-said, she-said situations. However, with the right criminal defense people can avoid penalties and move forward with their lives.
CBS Miami, "Florida Sheriffs Target Domestic Violence," Nov. 15, 2013
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The Eater of Books!: Two-Year Blogoversary Celebration and Giveaway!
Happy Blogoversary! I am looking forward to traveling somewhere international this summer! And a huge thank you to both you and Disney Hyperion for the awesome giveaways!
Been loving your blog! Looking forward to reading some more great books!
400 hundred reviews and 1100+ posts is just amazing considering you have so many other brands in the fire. Congrats on your 2 year! I love the way you review and break down your thoughts. Best wishes on another good year of blogging.
Happy blogoversary and congrats on all the amazing milestones! I'm kind of looking forward to applying to uni (although I'm also terrified) and am really looking forward to reading and blogging more :) Thanks for the amazing giveaways!
I'm looking forward to finish ALL the series I've started this year... (22)!!!
I am looking forward to reading some of the books in my TBR pile.
Thank you Disney-Hyperion for the amazing giveaways.
Congratulations! Thank you for this amazing giveaway!
Happy blogoversary :) I'm looking forward to a year full of happiness and great books!
Happy Blogoversary to you!!! There will be so many great books coming out in 2015, I can't wait to read them!
2015 will be a much better year in the personal side for both of us, I'm sure!! If I've been there for you, you have been there for me too girl, and I do hope I can get to give you a hug in person next year!! I know you know it, but I am here for whenever you need me!!
And damn girl, a ARC box open internationally?? THAT'S SOME BIG PRIZE!!
WHOOO! CONGRATS on two years!!! :D That's awesome.
Congratulations on your blogoversary and good luck on the job! I am not really looking forward to anything in particular, just watching my 3 kids continue to grow and become amazing people.
Happy, happy blogoversary to you! For the New Year, I'm not sure that I'm looking forward to anything in particular for 2015, just looking forward to the new year in general. I'm thinking it's going to be a good one (hopefully!) all around!
Good luck with the research position this coming summer! Happy New Year one and all!
My birthday is on exactly January 1st so I'm really excited for that. I can't wait to celebrate it with my family and friends, and also, PRESENTS!!! :D Happy blogoversary! Cheers for another milestone!
Hi Alyssa! Congrats on your 2 years! I can't believe its only been 2 to me you seem like you've been blogging for like 6 but that's just cuase your so awesome. Ok so I know this sounds cliche but I am going to get in shape! My goal is to lost 20-30 lbs so I can look good for my wedding! I also want to just be healthier in general. I also want to read more books this yea. I'll have to stop stalking Twitter and focus a bit more on the reading part. Congrats again dear and I hope you had a happy holiday!
Hi I just found your blog and wanted to congratulate you for your blogoversary!
Happy Blogoversary and many more years also. I really can't wait to find out all the great books coming out this year!!!
I want to thank Disney-Hyperion for the great prizes being offered!!
Congrats on your 2-year Blogoversary!!!
I'm just looking forward to 2015 in general. 2014 was a very, very tough, stressful year and I'm just hoping 2015 is a better year as a whole!
Thanks for the giveaway, Disney!! So excited!!
Here's to more. I am sure 2015 will be much better.
I am looking forward go vacation to Hong Kong with my family.
Happy blogoversary! Even though I only recently found your blog a few months ago, it's been really great! Keep doing what you're doing!
Honestly, the only things I am looking forward to in 2015 are the new book releases. THERE ARE SO MANY!!
I'm looking forward to a better year. I hope to find myself a new job, the one that I'll love be going to.
I'm looking forward to all new books!
Though, I applied to this school that I REALLY want to get into and I'm so nervous and excited!!! Eek!
I just realized that when I copy-pasted my Bloglovin URL on the Goodreads URL this as well... GRR!!
I'm most looking forward to all the hopefulness that comes in a new year. I know 2015 will be my year, so I can't wait to get there.
I'm looking forward to a better year than this one.
I'm looking forward to reading more. thanks Disney-Hyperion for this giveaway.
I'm looking forward to seeing family more. Thanks Disney-Hyperion for this giveaway too.
I'm looking forward to the usual organization efforts that I plan out every January.... Hopefully this will be the year I can stick with everything!
I'm looking forward to a lot of good books and a fresh start!
Happy blogoversary :) Congrats on two years and all the success! Hope next year is just as, if not more so, prosperous for you!
Happy blogoversary!. I'm looking forward to all the new books coming out in 2015.
Thanks for giveaway, and thanks Disney-Hyperion for the books!
And thank you, wonderful folks at Disney, for those extra giveaways! They're always so kind, aren't they?
Congratulations on your two year blogoversary!:D I love reading your blog. You inspired me with your discussion on blogging and school. I hope you have a great 2015!
Congrats on your 2nd blogoversary! This year i'm looking forward to my first blogoversary!
Oh my goshh so happy for you :)) I just celebrated my one year blogoversary, I know how awesome it feels!
Thanks Disney Hyperion for the giveaway! I'm looking forward to Golden Son by Pierce Brown. I've been waiting so long!
Happy blogoversary!!! More blogoversaries to come :) And thanks to Disney Hyperion for the giveaway. I'm looking forward to reading more books next year because I just slacked off this year. My goal was to read more than 100 books and I didn't even get past 50 books. College was just craziness, but I hope to do better next year. Also, that's super awesome that you posted on your blog everyday! That's amazing!
Happy Blogoversary! I'm looking forward to Ensnared by A. G. Howard and An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir. Thank you for the giveaways!
Happy Blogaversary! I look forward to a year of better organization.
I'm hoping 2015 will be much better than 2014, really looking forward to some travelling that I have been planning for some time now.
Happy blogoversary!! You're freakin' awesome!
Congratulations! Seriously, you are incredibly awesome. I love your blog. You always have amazing things going on, wonderful reviews and just terrific giveaways. You deserve all the best. I really hope 2015 will be better than 2014. My family & I got kicked out of our house unexpectedly (they told me on my birthday, which sucked) and we have been staying with my grandmother for the last 2 months and now we are finally moving into a house on January 1st. So I hope its going to be wonderful. The only thing that has gotten me through this horrible time is books. So thank you so much for everything your sharing. It means the world.
Happy blogoversary! I'm looking forward to kicking next semester's behind! I slacked a bit last term and I don't wanna slack again.
Happy blogoversary! Blogging every day for two years is pretty amazing. I'm looking forward to track and cross country in 2015.
Happy Blogoversary! I cannot wait for Hidden Huntress, PS I Still Love You, the Sin Eaters Daughter, Invaded and Stone in the Sky. I'm also going to Germany and BEA so that's just as exciting! Thanks for the amazing giveaway.
I'm mostly looking forward to starting my new semester in university and hopefully passing all my classes!
Happy Blogoversary! Thanks so much for the giveaways! I am looking forward to all the new books coming out next year!!!
Happy Blogoversary! Thank you so much for another year of great posts, reviews and giveaways too! Thank you to the publishers for the awesome book prizes too! Happy Holidays! I look forward to reading even more amazing books next year and organizing my life a piece at a time! Thanks!
I'm looking forward to writing 2015 instead of 2014, and getting more books off my TBR, and into my read pile, and thank you Disney-Hyperion for the awesome prizes!
I'm looking forward for a better year in 2015, family-related, studies and blogging! I am also starting a mini business and am looking forward for its survival :3 Haha.
Happy Blogoversary ! thanks for this great giveaway !
and of course i hope i can finish all my TBR books ! i'm now in a long school break till April ! and i can't find a job i like , so *sigh* again .,..
I'm looking forward to finishing writing a book, get better health wise, and finally decide what I want to do with my career!
Hey! :D Thanks for having this amazing giveaway!!!!!!!!!!
I'm looking forward to living another year with the people I love the most, getting my exams done and hopefully passing, and possibly even getting a cat for my birthday...:) HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
I'm really hoping to get a library job back in my home state this year. But either way I'm looking forward to continuing my career as a librarian.
Happy blogoversary! And thanks to Disney-Hyperion for the giveaway!
Happy Blogoversary and have a great New Years! Also, good luck with the research position. What's it for?
I'm looking forward to starting this huge project, even though it's kind of terrifying.
Happy Blogoversary! Getting my driving license! Haha...and be a more diligent reader. And blogger.
Happy blogversary, two years I s a long time,and way to go, thank you to you and all of the bloggers who enlighten our days and minds.
I'm looking forward to the new crop of books and movies that are to be released in the new year.
I'm looking forward to completing my first year in my business.
I am looking forward to hopefully starting a family with my amazing husband! And just having a Blessed year, I pray! Thanks for the giveaway. Congratulations in a BIG way on your Blogoversary. I adore your blog, and I look forward to your reviews. I hope there will be many more blogoversaries to come!
A new chance to be more positive!
I'm looking forward to a chance to write more.
I'm looking forward to starting a new job!!!
I'm looking forward to continuing in college and hopefully getting a job that I LOVE! :) Happy Blogoversary!
Whoa, congrats! Thanks for the awesome giveaway.
I am looking forward to grad school!!!
Nothing special, hopefully I will have more time to read.
One of the things I always look up to is New authors. New authors, new books, new series by new and known-to-me authors, and sometimes the bittersweet end of a series. 2014 was very sad because many series and trilogies ended :( .
Ha! I'm actually looking forward to seeing my favorite band, Bastille, on January 5th!! Also, more books to read and authors to meet!
Thank you SO much for the giveaway-seriously, you're incredible. And thanks to Disney-Hyperion for the giveaway, as well. Crazy awesome!
I'm look forward to reading some great looking new releases that are coming out this year! Thanks to you and Disney-Hyperion for the awesome giveaways!!!
Happy Blogoversary! I'm looking forward to continuing my library overhaul (collection, decor, promotional material, activities, and CIRCULATION)! A giant box of books would be a great help!
I'm looking forward to Michelle Hodkin's book tour here in the Philippines!
Happy Blogoversary! I'm definitely looking forward to summer! There are so many new things I want to do.
I'm look forward to getting my research paper published!
Happy blogoversary! I just discovered and followed your blog. This year, I'm looking forward to figuring out a plan for college (I.e. What am I majoring in? Where am I going? What am I going to do with the rest of my life?). I also look forward to growing my little blog, at ireadtilldawn.blogspot.com. I just got serious about it this past October, and I want to gradually get more readers and post more often throughout the year.
ooh so what I'm looking forward to in 2015...more traveling! Which might be hard with school taking up so much time and money, but whatever, haha.
Best of luck for many more awesome years!!
I am looking forward to graduating from college and to applying for a good position that will let me do the things that i am good at.
i just set my goodreads challenge to read 50 books! a book a week but i let myself off for around chrissie!
Looking forward to reading many many books. Thanks for the chance.
I'm looking forward to hopefully a calmer and happier year ahead.
I'm looking forward to going to a Taylor Swift concert with one of my best friends!
thank you for the chance and congratulats!
Oh my, you never missed a day blogging in two years?!! There should be an award for that like the perfect attendance students get in school. Ha ha, I bumble around when I have more than two posts to get done in a week!! You have made monumental accomplishments for two years blogging. I guess hard work does pay off (I should be taking notes). Congratulations!!!! I am looking forward to the sequels to Queen of the Tearling, Gates of Thread and Stone, and Of Breakable Things. Thanks for such a STELLAR contest and thank-you to Disney-Hyperion for supplying the prizes to this giveaway!
I'm looking forward to tons of awesome books and finally going back to school. Here's hoping 2015 goes better than 2014.
I am excited to be out of school so I can read more books!
The one thing that I'm looking forward to this year, is the year that I make myself happy instead of relying on other's to do that for me. I'm also hoping that my volunteer clerical work and activities at the nursing facility where my mother works is going to turn into a possible job as well. If it doesn't that's okay because I still enjoy volunteering and helping out, but if it does then it will make me really happy.
Happy Blogoversary! I am looking forward to reading more books, buying more books and finally joining the ranks of the earning class.
A new year always brings new adventures and plans. This year is the planning of our next big family vacation for next year's birthday (in January). It's time for another Disney World trip! Hooray!
With a new year, we also see so many new exciting books to come throughout the year. It's always exciting to see what's ahead for the book world!
Thank you for this giveaway and congratulations on two years! Thank you to Disney-Hyperion for supporting you and your giveaways. That's amazing!
Happy happy bloganiversary! For many more to come *cheers*!
Happy blogoversary! I'm looking forward to so many books, including finishing one of my own that I've been working on off-and-on for a few years now.
Congrats on your blogoversary! I'm looking forward to going to ALA Midwinter next week!! Thanks to Disney for the awesome giveaway!!
Happy Blogoversary to you! Also, thanks much to Disney Hyperion as well.
This year, I want to finish reading some of the series' that I have left unfinished.
Well, here's to the years to come as well as the two years gone! Must say I'm looking forward to the two Sarah J Maas books of this year as well as Red Queen by newbie Victoria Aveyard. . . I've read it already through a friend's ARC win. AMAZING!!!
Happy two-year blogoversary and to many more! I'm looking forward to getting my driver's license this year.
I am so looking forward to Queen of Shadows coming out, Downton Abbey continuing, The Red Queen, graduating, going to college.. it's going to be a great year!! Thank you for the giveaway Disney Hyperion!