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1. Why does Machevill say that he has come to England?
To visit the Queen
To visit Barabas
To cause mischief with friends
To plot against the Pope
2. What is Barabas's reaction to the news that all Jews must go to the senate- house?
He assumes that the Governor needs advice.
He thinks that the Turks have attacked Malta.
He suspects the summons has something to do with paying tribute.
He thinks the Jews are lying.
3. What excuse does the governor use to confiscate all of Barabas' estate?
He says that because Barabas refused to hand over half his wealth, then his entire estate is forfeit.
He says that Barabas has cheated the state through tax fraud.
He says it is too much for one man to own.
He doesn't use an excuse: Barabas gives his estate up voluntarily.
4. Why does Barabas mock the knight's assertion that it would be "simple policy"—i.e. foolish strategy—to break the league with the Turks?
Barabas believes that Spain can help Malta.
Barabas thinks that breaking the league will save him money.
Barabas thinks that the Christians' "policy" is one of hypocrisy and cunning, rather than foolishness.
Barabas thinks that the Turks are a powerless enemy.
5. Which one of Abigail's qualities does Mathias praise to Lodowick?
Her integrity
Her beauty
Her virtue
Her father's wealth
6. What treasure does Abigail recover from her father's house?
A chest of jewels
Moneybags filled with gold
A hoard of silks and spices
A priceless pearl
7. Where did Del Bosco capture the Turkish slaves?
In Malta
On a merchant ship headed east
In a battle in Corsica
They were the crew of a Turkish galley the Spaniards captured following a sea- battle.
8. Which jewel does Lodowick refer to Abigail as?
An emerald
A diamond
A pearl
A ruby
9. Why does Barabas choose to buy Ithamore instead of the other slave?
Ithamore will cost less to feed.
Ithamore is better looking.
Ithamore says he hates Christians.
Ithamore seems friendly.
10. Why does Barabas tell Abigail "It is no sin to deceive a Christian"?
Barabas thinks that Christians are stupid and that they deserve to be misled.
Barabas thinks this treatment is retribution for all the times Christians have deceived Jews.
Christians believe that they should never be honest with heretics. Barabas argues that this also holds true for Jews, to whom Christians are heretics.
Barabas does not believe that lying is a sin.
11. Why has the courtesan Bellamira's business dried up?
She has grown ugly.
The blockade of Malta by Turkish forces has prevented merchant ships from getting through.
Pilia-Borza has scared off all her customers.
She has fallen in love with Ithamore and finds the idea of prostitution distasteful.
12. When does Abigail decide she wants to convert to Christianity?
After she hears about her father's role in the deaths of Lodowick and Mathias
Before Lodowick and Mathias duel for her hand
After Barabas defects to join Calymath
After Bernardine and Jacomo try to get Barabas to convert
13. What does Barabas use to poison the convent?
A flower
A letter
A dish of pasta
A pot of rice
14. What does Barabas say when Ithamore asks him if he is grieved at Abigail's death?
He says he feels saddened but that Ithamore's presence has helped him to recover.
He says he is disappointed that she lived for so long and that she decided to become a Christian.
He doesn't feel anything at all.
He despairs at her conversion but believes that she will be punished in hell.
15. Why is Bernardine grieved by Abigail's death?
Because she died a virgin
Because she was a sincere Christian
Because he was sleeping with her
Because she was Barabas's heir
16. Why does Barabas kill Bernardine and Jacomo?
He detests the priests for their hypocrisy.
He wants to demonstrate his cunning to Ithamore.
Bernardine offended Barabas by converting Abigail, and Jacomo knows about Barabas's crimes.
Jacomo offended Barabas by converting Abigail, and Bernardine knows about Barabas's crimes.
17. How does Ithamore attempt to bribe Barabas?
He sends him death threats.
He threatens to burn his house down.
He threatens to confess all of Barabas's crimes.
He pretends to have evidence proving that Barabas is helping the Turks.
18. How does Barabas disguise himself in order to poison Bellamira, Pilia-Borza, and Ithamore?
He dresses as a Spanish fiddle-player.
He pretends to be a Turkish bashaw.
He steals the uniform of one of Ferneze's officers.
He pretends to be a French lute-player.
19. What does Barabas demand when Ferneze sends him to jail?
He seeks retribution for the wrongs the governor has done him.
He asks that Bellamira and Pilia-Borza also be sent to jail.
He insists on being treated with fairness under the law.
Barabas demands to be put into a cell far away from Ithamore.
20. In what way does Barabas feign death?
He takes a sleeping potion.
He lies very still and holds his breath.
He bribes his guards to pretend that he is dead.
He knocks himself unconscious on his cell door.
21. How does the Turkish army defeat Malta?
Barabas tells Calymath about a passage cut through the rock that leads to the town.
The Turks capture Ferneze and force the Maltese to surrender.
The Turkish fleet starves the town by blockading its food supplies.
Barabas poisons all of the town's wells.
22. Why does Barabas decide to make a deal with Ferneze?
He knows that his life is in danger when the Turks leave Malta.
Ferneze persuades him that it is good policy.
Calymath threatens to kill Barabas if he is an unjust governor.
Barabas decides that he should atone for the wrongs he has done Ferneze.
23. How much money does Ferneze give Barabas to free Malta?
500 Crowns
10,000 pounds
100,000 pounds
A chest full of gold
24. What adjectives would best describe Barabas's attitude as he dies?
Contrite and apologetic
Enraged and unrepentant
Timid and apprehensive
Quiet and reflective
25. To whom or what does Ferneze credit Malta's deliverance?
To his own sharp statecraft
To Calymath's naivety
To the amulet he wears around his wrist
To Barabas's treachery and Divine Providence
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August 1999
You are sitting at a screen, interacting with the FuzzyLove Dating Data Base The machine is asking you to describe yourself in three words. It asks you to select what you want most from a technologically mediated liaison is it : 'desire and trouble, communication, networking, mutual fetishism, exploration, or psychic symbiosis'? Some of the questions require a plain yes or no, for instance it asks, 'do you often sit down and brood over death, sickness, pain and sorrow' (yes/no) or, if you really needed to buy something 'would you give your credit card number over the internet'? (Yes/no). The machines that you are sitting at also has a small camera mounted on the top of it, which allows you to take a photograph of yourself, and also allows you to choose which one you think best represents you. After you have been through these processes and answered some other questions, you are now a member of the FuzzyLove tm Dating Data Base designed by Starrs and Cmieleweski. The project works as an installation, where you get to sit at a booth, or parts of it can be accessed through the net (web address). At the end of the process, you can get a printout if you wish which provides a sort of profile, and also carries a snap of the person:
'This person's pet name is Vix.
Vix wants to get Desire and Trouble from a technologically mediated liaison. Vix describes itself as: irreverent, intellectual, sexy, but is that the whole truth?
Vix doesn't brood over death and sickness, wouldn't give a credit card number over the internet and doesn't have muscle spasms when sitting at a computer. White blood cells is Vix's favourite bodily fluid, and Vix has chosen mind fucking as a sexual preference. If you want to find out more about this person try contacting them at......' and there's an e-mail number. Obviously it does work as a sort of dating base, and the feeling of some sort of organisational or critical agency behind it is encouraged through the addition of colloquial interjections - 'but is that the whole truth?...in another printout the text reads at this point...'which doesn't sound quite right'..) However ultimately the central relationship is not that of the implied one between the human participants, but between the human participants and the machine.
In writing this, I wanted, at this point to make a reference to a famous computer program/project which gave the impression that the computer was in fact listening and quantifying its responses to the human interlocutor. Not having access to my books I used instead a cd rom developed and produced by Stephen Jones called the Brain Project. This too has a linked web site (web address) which expands and builds on the material in the disk. The Brain project is an extraordinary scholarly and open-ended undertaking which aims to explore collate and map ideas of consciousness. It contains: 'chapters on various issues relating to the nature of consciousness, plus papers on video and other matters of interest, including language, cybernetics, interactivity and computing machines ' (from the introduction page of the Brain Project) It has the feel of a lifetime's work, and its depth and complexity is added to through its hypertextuality. Click on a certain highlighted word, 'reflection' for instance in the section 'emergence of consciousness', in turn a component part of 'Organised systems', and one is translated to a reproduction of the title page of Locke's 'An essay on Human Understanding' accompanied by a quotation and a precis of his ideas on 'reflection'. The work (CD? Text? Project?) is labyrinthine and dense in its layerings of reference and self reference. As someone who has failed to finish reading popularisers in the field such as Penrose and Pinker, never mind the primary texts that Jones so liberally and confidently explores and extrapolates I am unable to comment authoritatively (or indeed in any other way) on the themes explored and elucidated. What I did find interesting was that I was unable to find the reference that I was looking for (although I would be at least 50% certain that it would be mentioned somewhere). The CD and the structures of the information did not allow me either access to an index, nor the sort of situational guess work that a linear narrative allows, where you dip in to get an idea of context and the development of an argument, then use this information to triangulate a guess where something might be. And why does this inability to locate a reference feel significant? (rather than just a confession of a klutz.) Because somehow it seems to act as a small metaphor for the core and engine of the work, which is to do with the humans relationship with the machine. Jones's magnum opus contains an almost Borghesian conceit where the technology is operating as a platform for an extended meditation on the relationships necessary for the production of the text/project. Jones talks of networks whilst generating networks, writes about interactivity in a way that is nearly interactive. The very seat of the authoratorial voice and its relations with its various expressions becomes the subject of the text. Although expressing themselves in different and various ways (and indeed maybe from different premises) both the FuzzyLove data base and the Brain Project use their location in a technological matrix as their source of energy, of anxiety. And in both cases, whilst seeming to address something else - consciousness, and interpersonal relationship - it is the matrix in which this is taking place that we - the user, and the authors - inevitably keep on bumping into. In doing so the works help articulate certain of our rhetorics, aspirations and fears that we now place in information and its technologies.
In an essay by Umberto Eco called the 'future of literacy ' he tells the following story. According to Plato he says, (in the Phaedrus) Thoth or Hermes, the alleged inventor of writing, presents his invention to the Pharoah Thamus, praising his new technique as one which will allow human beings to remember that which they would otherwise forget. The Pharoah however is less than satisfied. He says to Thoth that memory is such a great gift that it ought to be kept alive by training it continuously, and with this new invention such a thing will no longer be necessary. People won't have to remember things through their own effort, but through being able to access some external device. As Eco points out, we can understand the Pharoah's concern, writing, like any other new technological device would have in part replaced the ability that it extends, just as cars - not to mention the remote control - have made us less able to walk (to the extent that the gene for muscle speed seems to be becoming redundant). These concerns, although voiced ironically by Plato, now have a new site of operation, that of information technology. No longer do people think that writing will replace the mind generating a petrified soul and a machine memory, on the contrary we see them as machines (from a golden age) which provoke and generate new thoughts, and of which we are still in control. However once that writing starts happening in time, is dispersed, made to a degree active: exists as information in an electronic construct, all of a sudden we behave as if we have invented the Golem. All of the popular paranoias about computers and intelligent systems concern issues of autonomy, displacement, and replacement. If there isn't a technical medical term for a fear of the prosthetic, now might be a good time to find one
Such concerns and fears seem to have been reinforced through the approaching millennium, and it seems fitting that, in a largely secular age that the anxiety is no longer a fear about the end of time and the division of the world into the dammed and the saved, but is instead is located in our relationship to information. No longer angels descending but aeroplanes plummeting down through an inability to tell what date it is - a rather different version of the end of days.
In a way this focus of concern is an inevitable response to the relocation and redefinition of information (and its tools) as an Industry. We have become so inured to this as a linguistic trope that we forget what an astounding and unsettling change this is, and how far it removes us from the understandings of our Victorian forebears. To Julian Huxley, to Darwin, to Saussure, such a phrase in relationship to information would have been nearly without meaning. Indeed, (outside a military context) the implications of such a phrase would have been alien and beyond them as they were from an ethos, which encouraged and depended on the free flow and exchange of information, rather than its ownership and commodification. (Outside of the protocols of 'naming' that is, Darwin only published the Origin Of The Species only after hearing that Alfred Wallace was thinking of publishing similar research, so to prevent Wallace getting credit.) We now find ourselves in a situation where Bill Gatesowns the 'digital rights' to a significant area of our cultural and visual environment, and a multinational can patent the description of a gene.
The formulation of information as An Industry has radiated so as to shape and inflect other understandings. We now have the 'culture industry'. This idea may have the dubious benefit of making some of those involved feeling more 'grown up' and of the 'real world' akin to 'captains of industry, ' but outside of this slight balm to amour propre, the phrase and concept has had a distorting and reprehensible effect. It conflates the complex and subtle activities of art or poetry with the production of merchandise, and positions this as an activity which is subject to - and, by implication should cater for- the dumb imperatives of market forces. The 'culture industry' is a phrase which manages to reflect the philistine fear of the economic rationalists towards that which cannot be quantified within their parameters, and the (post) Marxian fetishisation of 'real' labour, and a hatred of the (intellectual) elite. From both positions, it is simultaneously about control and marginalisation.
Greenberg in his essay Avant Garde and Kitsch, posited that, in the invasion of the cultural sphere by the mass media, which concentrates on effect, art has increasingly tended to establish itself as an activity which makes a public show of its own production processes. He was of course referring to (and helping construct) a practice in which a consideration of it' s own imperatives was seen as paramount: the flatness of the picture plane, anti-illusionism etc. But even under post modernism, or perhaps particularly in post-modernism. the concept still has currency. However it now has to reflect upon other conditions of its own being the position in the culture which it occupies, the languages used, it's relationships to other commodities: how it is owned, constructed, and used.
The computer
and related technologies and activities have become the stage for the
generation and playing out of these various and interacting forces.
They are the tool and site of the information industrial complex, and,
at the same time, the sites of models of resistance or alternative to
these drives and dictates. The Fuzzy Love Data base and the Brain Project,
in their very different ways make visible, or voice the conditions of
their own production, and the implications and trajectories of the matrix
within which they exist. Both foreground our relationships to the ideas
of information, making problematic the exchanges and heirarchies generated
in our various interactions with this protean 'other'. The two projects
remind us that the way we understand and shape exchanges of information,
and the models by which we define our understandings of trade and commodity
are crucial not only to the technologies but to our future definitions
(and therefore possibilities) of ourselves.


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This is a recipe for the summer that people would taste on a balcony at the beach, maybe with some good wine. I created this recipe thinking of something delicate and fresh with specific tinges. In order to obtain such sensations, I decided to use courgette flower, just cut off buffalo mozzarella and Cantabrian anchovies unique taste. The flavour and the tinge left after the mastication are due to the dill and the Bengal long pepper, which are initially sweet until their taste becomes more intense. This recipe is not for everybody. It is possible to make this recipe only if all the high-quality ingredients mentioned above are available. If not, forget it!
The preparation of this recipe is simple as the ingredients are bought already made. On the contrary, artisans do most of the job by providing buffalo mozzarella and cattle ricotta therefore the choice of the dairyman is very important. After buying the dairy products, prepare them as follows: dilute the ricotta with some water and a pinch of salt to obtain a dense as well as easy to spread cream; and, slice hand cut buffalo mozzarella.
Clean courgette flowers from the stem, stiffer and harder parts; open and wash them quickly; and, let them to dry on paper.
After being cooked, our pizza has to have a good consistency. In other words, it has to be crispy, stretched and not dry at the same time. Here's why, after rolling out the pizza dough, you need to spread relatively big spots of early made ricotta cream and put it in the oven. Bake it in a medium temperature, let the base become crispy and take it out of the oven. At this point, the ricotta would be thickened and adhesive for the courgette flower.


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In my last several posts, I've discussed hope, faith, Love and Forgiveness. Today I thought that I'd wrap the whole series (as it turned out to be) with a little bit of application that comes from a book that I read recently that dealt with sex and marriage in the Civil War. The book is an academic volume, not an erotic tale, just for the record!
In the last chapter, by far the most interesting of all, a group of historians and sociologist write about research that they did on male-female relationships in the 19th Century that was based upon over 20,000 letters that survive, often in whole bundles covering many years, that were written between men at the front and their mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts back home. The first thing the scholars mentioned after their research was surprise at the level of mutual respect between men and women that was exhibited in these letters. I was surprised that they were surprised…
Next, they commented on the fact that it did not appear that men and women were married for the same reasons or with the same expectations that they are today. Love for the most part was not a reason for marriage! If it came along later, fine. When looking for mates, men and women of the mid-nineteenth century were looking for a partner with whom they could work as a team to make a life and family. Each was expected to do their part, and society would tend to enforce this, and they would become a team. Us against the world, so to speak.
The final thing that the research revealed was that in most cases, a deep, mutual love was the result. In the final analysis, the researchers theorized that their expectations of finding a partner in life rather than a love for life was the difference between the 19th Century couples and the modern-day, for when life became hard they didn't rely on emotion to stay together but instead their reliance was upon their partnership; their teamwork.
From a Biblical perspective, I would suggest that what these researchers discovered was agape the decision to love others that Jesus referred to when He commanded that we love our neighbor as ourselves. A commitment, a repositioning of priorities from that of putting oneself first to putting the interests of the other first, with the ultimate result being that both parties found eros or romantic love somewhere in the process.
I wonder just how many men and women grieve today because our society has lost this set of expectations and replaced them with expectations that rely so heavily on a feeling.
For further reading see The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War, by Thomas P. Lowry, M.D.


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Which rest call can I use to pull a list of all VM's grouped per oVDC?
Hi Christiaan,
To be able to access the information around oVDC's, you first need to find the UUID for the group(s) that you care about.
Go to: <Instance_IP_or_DNS>/vmturbo/api/markets/Market/groups
This will give you a list of all the groups in your environment. From there you can find the UUID for the group(s) you care about by either searching on the 'displayName' element, or by searching for groups that contain this prefix in the 'name' element: GROUP-VMsByOrgVDC_
Once you have the UUID(s) you care about we can use this API call to see all of the various related stats:
<Instance_IP_or_DNS>/vmturbo/api/markets/Market/groups/<Group UUID>
On this response, look for the element 'displayName' again and these will be the names of each of the VMs in the group selected.
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The latest segment of Wisconsin Public Television's Home Town Stories series will air on Monday, July 6 at 8:00 p.m. It has been my pleasure to be part of the team producing the series, now presenting its fourth segment.
The mission of HTS is to present the history of Wisconsin "one town at a time." The "town" featured this time round is the combined community of Manitowoc and Two Rivers.
HTS takes the stained-glass window approach to its subject. The map of Wisconsin is the frame. Each home town story represents a single section of window. Like multi-colored and diversely shaped chips of glass, facets unique to a community are fitted together to tell its story. The town sections are then added to the frame and merge to illuminate the story of our state–just as the stained glass windows of medieval cathedrals illuminated the story of European Christianity.
The metaphor works well for television–a medium as graphic as stained-glass, and potentially as stunning and inspiring as a rose window. A historical image can be animated for television but, since most historical images are photographs, the television presentation is often as static as a window–but less colorful. No medium is perfect.
Narration is present on television, as are Biblical verses in church windows, but not as important as the images. Text can be found in a history book, or in the Bible but, like medieval stained glass, television is not truly aural, nor are words on screen easily readable. It is graphic, popular, mass communication.
The Manitowoc/Two Rivers segment of the Wisconsin window focuses on our state's maritime history: with images of fishing, lighthouses, life saving, ship wrecks and especially shipbuilding, from the first lake schooners to World War II submarines. All our lakefront cities, from Superior to Ashland, Marinette to Kenosha, have maritime stories to tell, but none is so immersed in the waters of the lakes as Manitowoc/Two Rivers.
It fills this portion of the Wisconsin window as neatly as La Crosse (HTS 3) told the story of Wisconsin and the Mississippi River, Green Bay (HTS 2) presented the first European contact, and Janesville (HTS 1) conveyed the impact of the prairie.
As in a church window, space is limited, and the challenge for the producers is to fit as much of the story as possible into tight quarters. But they're working, "one town at a time" to fill the frame.
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Erez Perelman is just finishing up a new flamenco for us and he sent us these photos. The last flamenco we got from him was kind of amazing, so we're all looking forward to this one. Click on the images to see them bigger, and click again for even bigger.
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I have received e-mail from the tour coordinators providing a list of folks on the pre- and post-tours of the Apimondia Congress that I am signed up for. The audience for the pre-tour, which runs from Sydney to Melbourne has folks from the Americas, Europe and Australia. Most of these people I do not know, but have interacted with Gus Rouse of Kona Queen, Hawaii's number on queen producer/breeder. In addition, I see quite a contingent from Chile, a place I visited just a few years ago.
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Omnix sets eyes on KSA in GCC growth drive
Distributor to focus on partner training to aid channel growth in the Gulf region
Looking to raise its distribution credentials in the Middle East market, Omnix International, the authorised distributor of Autodesk solutions in the region, has said it's eyeing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for its growth and expansion strategy in the GCC.
The group, which also has a system integration subsidiary focusing in the enterprise space, states that the plan to zero in on the KSA market is in line with its desire to develop the distribution business in the GCC.
The company says it's cementing its distribution business within the GCC by broadening its portfolio and value offerings to channel partners. The company has also stated that it would like to capitalise on infrastructure projects being readied in the KSA and Qatar. To this end, Omnix says it will be conducting partner training and embarking on a selective partner recruitment drive to increase its channel footprint in the Gulf.
Nada Abuissa, head, Strategic Planning and Control, Omnix International, said Omnix is focusing on the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia IT market. Abuissa said the company has also been cultivating opportunities in Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman.
"Saudi Arabia is a big market with huge potential, which is ably demonstrated in the vibrancy of its IT industry, real estate segment and the influx of public sector led infrastructure projects. Major projects like railway development, road improvements, airport projects, have encouraged us to render focus to this country and how our expertise can be brought to yield the desired results," Abuissa said.
"Our secondary focus is Qatar, as that country is going to host the FIFA 2022 World Cup, so we are expecting a lot of new projects that will fuel the growth and usage of the IT solutions we represent," she said.
She added that the UAE has always been a focal point for Omnix because of the market dynamism in the Emirates, with Abu Dhabi still showing a lot of spark while Dubai is way on the recovery path.
Abuissa said along with the company's growth plans for the Gulf, Omnix is also preparing to roll out partner certification programmes. Abuissa said channel partners will be trained in technical and sales field, and will have to pass certain exams before they can be allowed to resell products. "These exams are conducted online along with the help of vendors we are handling. Autodesk and HP offer certification training which is a requirement before a partner can resell, implement or support their enterprise solutions," she said.
Abuissa emphasised that as soon as a channel partner comes on board, Omnix conducts orientation programmes where the entire product range and technologies in the company are showcased by each divisional head and technical team leader.
Abuissa said the company is upbeat about the prospects of its distribution business and growth plan in the GCC region.


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The Cost of Local SEO
Lots of folks think that traffic coming from search engines is free. That's not exactly true. While it's true that you don't pay per click like you have to for AdWords advertising, you do have to invest time and money to get the benefits of having your site ranked on Google's first page.
Why Google, and why should you strive to be on the first page?
Well, Google is the #1 search engine. And not only is it #1, in 2017 it dominates with almost 79% of the search market. It's the 1968 Bob Gibson (1.12 ERA!) of search engines.
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And why strive to be on the first page? To increase traffic to your site and phone calls to your business, of course.
According to Hubspot, 75% of searchers don't click past the first page of search results. That means that in order to get clickthroughs to your site (or phone calls, from Local SEO tactics), you should strive to get to the first page of the results.
OK, so how do you get on the first page?
One of the best ways is through Local SEO.
With Local SEO, you're competing with others in your local area, which is ideal for small businesses. You don't even necessarily have to have the best website, but it should be tweaked to optimize for key industry search terms. While your website and its authority is a factor, it's more important to accurately set up your Google My Business profile, and then convince Google's search crawlers that you are who you say you are.
Your Google My Business profile is the hub for Local SEO. Having a complete, accurate, and up to date listing is the first step to ranking in the top 3 of the local results. Google wants to then verify that you are who you say you are--it increases your authority and therefore increases your rankings. Google verifies by checking mentions of your business name and listed address across the web. Having lots of listings with consistent Name, Address, Phone (NAP) citations move your listing up the ranks.
And, it's more important than ever to rank, especially for mobile searches. Mobile searches account for 51% of searches. Mobile has surpassed Desktop searches, and Google has indicated that they'll soon favor mobile-optimized sites in search results.
Google is on all of our phones, and it's become the new phone book.
So--How much does it cost to get into the top 3?
Well, it depends mostly upon your competition. It's like the old joke about how fast you have to run to outrun a bear...you don't need to outrun the bear, you need to outrun the person you're out in the woods with.
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How Long Does It Take to Get Local SEO Results?
Again, it depends upon the competition. For less competitive industries, you can usually see results within a few weeks, as the strategies used don't take as long to put in place as those used for organic SEO. More competitive industries take more time.
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Middle Atlantic Products, a brand of Legrand | AV, today announced that Megan Knedler has been appointed director of marketing. Knedler will be responsible for the Middle Atlantic brand marketing and for collaborating with her peers across Legrand | AV, which also includes the brands Chief, Vaddio, Da-Lite, Sanus, and Projecta. Prior to taking on her new role, Knedler served as director of product management — furniture for Middle Atlantic.
"Megan is a key member of our organization. She has a deep understanding of how the individual solutions in the Legrand | AV portfolio can fit together to build comprehensive solutions," said Mike Baker, GM/SVP of Middle Atlantic. "Now she's combining her deep industry knowledge to further our commitment to customers through enhanced marketing and customer experience efforts."
As director of product management for Middle Atlantic's furniture division, Knedler helped create the award winning, ADA-compliant L7 Series Lectern and the T5 Series Conference Table,expanded the C5 Series Credenza offering, and the soon-to-be-launched slim-profile C3 Series Credenza. She has also taught CTS-accredited courses at InfoComm. Previously, as director of marketing communications, she lent her marketing and product sales expertise to improving the company's digital experience via implementation of a new web experience and configuration tool, as well as improving the company's go-to-market strategies.
"Middle Atlantic has always been about what great systems are built on — continuing to innovate new possibilities to mount, support and power today's technology in form factors and price points that integrators need," said Knedler. "I am eager to expand our brand story with the launch of Legrand | AV and to give our customers the information, services, and solutions they need to deliver amazing AV experiences."
More information about Middle Atlantic Products is available at www.middleatlantic.com.
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The brands of Legrand | AV are leading providers of mounts, racks, video conferencing, screens, connectivity and display solutions enabling amazing audiovisual experiences. Their innovative solutions, sold principally under the Chief, Da-Lite, Middle Atlantic, Projecta, Sanus and Vaddio brands, are accessible through numerous channels. The brands of Legrand provide the most comprehensive offering of AV solutions in the market. The company serves a broad base of over 6,000 global AV customers.
Legrand | AV is a Divison of Legrand which globally reported sales of $6.2 billion (USD) in 2017. Legrand has a strong presence in North and Central America, with a portfolio of well-known market brands and product linesthat includes AFCO Systems, C2G, Cablofil, Chief, Da-Lite, Electrorack,Finelite, Luxul, Middle Atlantic Products, Milestone AV, Nuvo, OCL, On-Q,Ortronics, Pass & Seymour, Pinnacle, Projecta, QMotion, Quiktron, Raritan,Sanus, Server Technology, Solarfective, Vaddio, Vantage, Wattstopper, and Wiremold. Legrand is listed on Euronext Paris and is a component stock of indexes including the CAC40, FTSE4Good, MSCI World, ASPI, Corporate Oekom Rating, and DJSI (ISIN code FR0010307819) www.legrand.us.


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Our weekly edition of the Compensation Clinic features the Grand Hyatt Bali today where I experienced some problems during a brief stay last month.
The issues ranged from the arrival experience both at the airport and the hotel up to the departure where the hotel failed to notify about a lost & found item (passport).
I've been visiting Bali for years and even though the Grand Hyatt Bali was the first property I stayed at on the island back in 2007 I eventually shifted to the Bali Hyatt in Sanur which is currently under construction and expected to re-open late 2017 as a Hyatt Regency.
Since I didn't really want to wait until then I decided last month to give the Bali Hyatt a try again and booked 2 nights as Cash & Points as well as used a Diamond Suite Upgrade for a Grand Suite there.
I always pre-arrange the transfer from the hotel even though it's a bit more expensive than a taxi but it's usually much easier and the cars know already where to go. Hyatt offers to order the transfer through the E-concierge function.
Upon arrival at Denpasar the Grand Hyatt representative was nowhere to be seen. Now the arrivals hall is the usual touristic mess so I made a sweep twice to see if he was there, to no avail. I then called the Hyatt via my cellphone and they contacted the transfer representative who showed up 15 min later. When asked where he was he pointed to a spot behind a coffee shop, far away from where the other reps are located and in a dead corner. Odd!
Transfer to the hotel was uneventful and rather quick thanks to the new monstrosity of a motorway.
Arrival at the hotel driveway started with the usual security check which is fine, calms people down who believe these checks are actually improving their safety (which they don't). At the entrance the first hotel representative asks for your name to enter into an application on the ipad. Even a very simple name is too much for these people to understand and type in correctly, I asked her politely to forget about it and I will deal with the check-in at the reception desk.
Arriving at the hotel entrance the next employee comes with an ipad at which point I already declined and said 'Thank you, we check in at the desk'. Why all this nonsense? It's totally plausible that the staff has trouble understanding the names and typing them correctly so it won't lead to a match anyway.
At the front desk I was told to go to the Club Lounge in order to check in there which I don't like at any hotel if I'm already there and gave them my passport. Especially since it was hot, humid and we were wearing long jeans I wasn't in the mood to go to the Club and rather get the check-in over with. It took them over 20 min to complete the check-in. Unbelievable!
The suite assigned as a Diamond member had a beautiful view – to an alley full of Motorcycles. At this point I lost it and talked to the Hotel Manager who promised to arrange a different room at the other part of the hotel area (the property is partitioned into three 'villages' that are actually quite big. We showered and changed in the meanwhile, then went to the beach before it got completely dark after already wasting ~ 70 minutes with simple check-in procedures.
During this room change one of our passports incl Passport Wallet was left behind on the desk in the Suite where we also left all baggage for the staff to move (we left after waiting 25 min for them). The staff later found that passport but neither notified me they had it or in any other way made sure I get it back. I only noticed it once arriving at the next hotel (Laguna Luxury Collection next door).
Here is the reply of the hotel:
Thank you for your note.
At the outset please accept my sincere apology for the inconvenience in regard to the passport. I understand that our team should have handed over to you directly as soon as they found the passport instead of kept it in our safety box as they would like to return your passport on your departure which also failed to give it to you.
I understand that your current stay booking is under GP award at cost of US$ 75 plus Diamond Suite upgrade which equal to 6,000 points, as a gesture of our sincerity and for the inconvenience caused, we will arrange a complimentary drop transfer to Laguna Resort Nusa Dua today, pick up transportation at cost of IDR, 390,000 net has been waived from your folio and we will credit 6,000 Points to your HGP membership.
Not sure what he was talking about in regards to the transfer but I used an UBER and paid for it myself. The hotel credited the 6,000 Gold Passport Points back to the account and also waived the transportation charge from the airport (24$) as well as a refund of the Diamond Suite Upgrade.
I decided to cancel the second night at the Hyatt after the initial incidents and instead chose to stay longer at the Laguna which is a fantastic property (though the beach is a bit less desirable).
The passport was eventually picked up by the concierge of the Laguna who didn't even charge for it (I gave the guy a 20$ tip instead). The Hyatt should have offered to bring it over in my opinion.
Some of these resort hotel are simply exhausting. It's not the first time for me visiting Bali, I think I stayed at Bali Hyatt a dozen times and burned about 400k Gold Passport points there and it was never that horrible. The mechanisms which the Grand Hyatt Bali has in place aren't working at all.
The compensation is fine but if this would have been a revenue rate instead of a Cash&Points I'd have elected not to pay for this stay at all. Anyway in this case at least it earned a stay credit and some base points. The beach at the Grand Hyatt is very nice and the area well up kept, good for relaxing once you're settled in.


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Monday, November 28, 2011
A Quick Painting
I am so lucky to live in a place with some magic left in it. Some wilderness... Some mystery. When I get a chance, I have some favorite spots I like to visit. Places that feel like descriptions in fairy tales. When I first visited the North Shore, I lived and worked in an industrial area near Detroit, where I had attended Art School. I landed in Thunder Bay at night, so I didn't get to see where I was until morning.
Before my job interview, I took a hike up Cascade River. It was September. I said to myself, "I don't care what the job is like, this is where I want to be."
That was about 25 years ago, and I'm still here. And I'm still enchanted, living near the border of faerie land.
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Interior designer to the stars LM Pagano has put her own Los Angeles County home—a sculptural cubist structure that played a starring role in the 2005 Bruce Willis thriller "Hostage"—on the market for $4.5 million.
Ms. Pagano, whose clients, she said, include actors Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage and Matthew Perry, bought the six-acre property in Topanga, California, in 2013 for $2.355 million, according to property records, and listed it on March 6 with Greg Holcomb and Cassandra Petersen of Greg Holcomb Real Estate and Nancy Nelms of Snyder Sutton Real Estate.
The 3,640-square-foot, three-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom house, which is a rose-gray color, was designed by architect Thomas "Tom" Egidi of Tuna Studio Architecture in 1990.
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Pearce Summer Series Round Three.
Back to Bringewood.
So, round three. Missed round two because of trying my hand at Four Cross. Turns out, I'm not really very good at either. Back to roots, rocks, trees and what seemed to be a hill that had been jet washed in cooking oil! Bringewood is slippier than a pot of silicone nitrate when it's wet, and, due to the overnight downpour, the top half of the hill turned into what can only be described as an ice rink. Put it like this, if Torvill and Dean had turned up, with a fresh set of bladed boots – they would have felt completely at home. Old man traction was no-where to be seen.
Nevertheless, once you got over the initial shock of sliding down the hill like a break-dancer, the riding became big fun in a weird kind of "Oh my God, there is no way I will stop for that turn", that only a downhill rider would appreciate. Brakes couldn't stop you. I kept reaching for my emergency parachute cord. What a morning.
What happened next is a little strange for U.K. downhill races. The sun came out. The temperature lifted. The track began to dry out. Riders started smiling. The Pearce up-lifts were ready and waiting (which is always the case). From then on,the day began to CHANGE.
From a Caterpillar to a butterfly. Had Bringewood always been this slippery in wet conditions? What was downhill like back in the day?? Just like the Pearce race conditions changed in about an hour, ever wondered how had Grass Roots downhill racing evolved over the years?? I can't tell you…….but I know a man who can.
1995. Petrol was 53p a litre, eBay was founded. Nicolas Vouilloz started his record breaking 5 year running winning spree in Kirchzarten and I bought an aluminium GT RTS-1 luminous pink Dainese body armour suit, Moto X jersey and ski goggles. Add to that a motorbike helmet that weighed twice as much as my bike, and I entered round one of the NPS at Hopton – only to give it up around 18 months later due to finding a 'proper job' (one that required no broken bones and paid twice as much as the bike shop I worked in).
Why the nostalgia?
2008. 13 years later, I find myself at Bringewood, swapping a bike for a camera and meeting up with a Butcher who obviously wanted to ride his (borrowed) bike, and thought it may be a good idea for me to write some words from the perspective of someone who used to ride back in the day, to fill up his race report. What a bloody, cunning, good for nothing……………..
So, what's changed in all this time?
On the surface, quite a lot. For instance, there are more riders than 13 years ago, the course is very well designed and you now have coloured lights to tell you when to start, instead of a bloke tapping you on the back. You can even get a lift to the top of the hill on a trailer. I only ever managed to climb to the higher part of mid table during my race days, and I put this down to the energy sapping problem of having to drag my bike up the course……..and, being average.
There are more Marshalls and yellow tape is everywhere, making it clear where the course runs. No-one laughs if you ride a hardtail, in fact, it's encouraged. There are no biscuit coloured tyres and I didn't spot one 'Dave's Chain Device'.
So, it's all different then? Not quite. The results still get displayed on a huge computer monitor, pumped out from (probably) the same caravan from 1995, which incidentally, I swear has the same woman in it. The same spirit exists, that grass roots kind of feeling, like everyone is there for the good of the sport and to let it continue and evolve, but not get out of hand and implode. There is still a great atmosphere, and I like the way that it hasn't lost a grip on what it's all about – trying to get the fastest time down the course (although you do get two goes at it, something that didn't happen for the majority of events in '95). This was not good way back, especially when you'd driven 400 miles to NPS Hawick, slept in a freezing, wet field and got a puncture 20 seconds in to your run. The bikes are obviously better, and the riding is, well, to be frank, downright scary.
After the buzz of watching this race, I plan to be hanging around a lot more downhill events, so if you want to buy some used DCD's, especially anodised purple, come and find me. I'll be wearing a grey baseball cap, carrying a Canon camera, and will be as far away from anyone who looks or talks like a butcher. I've always got this cagey Customs and Excise officer look about me. Come and have a chat………..
Thanks for a great days entertainment, soon to be on two wheels again.
The Duck of Death.
Thanks to the duck there.
The Bringewood race was near perfect. Dave, Lyndsey and the Pearce team simply know what their doing. No delays, no fuss, job done. The day started as an ugly duckling, but turned into a swan. I wonder if I'll ever become a swan?
Thanks for listening.
The Butcher (who secretly longs to be a swan).
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9 Ways To Survive A Party When You're Alone
Have you ever been dragged to a party by a friend, only to have that friend disappear off into the crowd moments later? First of all, how rude. Second of all, cue the panic. But this doesn't have to be a moment of terror, especially if you know how to handle yourself at parties when you're alone.
Of course how you act depends on the situation, especially since there are so many different types of get togethers. Maybe you're networking at an event, or attending a holiday party for a new job, or standing in the corner of a smoky, dark house party. The list goes on and on.
For the introverted and shy, the idea of navigating any these situations solo is enough to make you swear of social occasions for the rest of your life. But I promise, it's possible to become a pro at making friends, or at the very least, chatting people up at any type of party. And I'm saying this as a fellow introvert who often masquerades as an extrovert. It's really not as hard as it sounds.
Here are some tips for being the loner at the party, surviving it, and maybe even having a little fun.
1. Quit Being So Negative
You've been invited to a cocktail party because the host wants you as part of her group. Or you've been asked to tag along to a house party with a friend, which means he or she looks forward to your company. So quit feeling like you don't belong, or like you have nothing to add to the gathering. It will only lead you down the road of awkwardness, and you won't have a very good time. As Leslie Turnbull notes on TheWeek.com, "Knock off the negativity already. An invitation is an inclusion — it means your host thinks you will be a valuable addition to her gathering. Allow yourself to feel flattered ... Everyone has positive qualities and attributes; focus on yours and allow them to build your own self-assurance."
2. Ask To Help The Host
If the only person you know is the host, assume the position of their faithful helper. Offer to put out food, or pour drinks — anything that will help them, while giving you something better to do than stand in the corner. As Kristin Wong noted on Lifehacker.com, "It's a polite gesture, and it gives you something to do. Even if the host doesn't need any help, he or she may sense your apprehension and give you a task to keep busy." Wong also suggested bringing food that needs a little preparation, like guacamole, so you have something to keep you busy when you first arrive. It's a genius move for those who hate the first few awkward moments of a party.
3. Show Up With Some Information
Don't go into a party blind, especially if it's a networking event. You'll want to have relevant conversation topics ready, as well as information about the party itself. It'll give you something to talk about, and also save you from any awkward pauses when you're asked your opinion on the latest news headlines. As Wong noted, "Whether it's current events, or just some fun background about the event, prepare yourself with a couple of interesting topics, then find a way to weave them into the conversation."
4. Practice Your Conversation Starters
Store up a few conversation starters for when you have edged your way into a group and are ready to start talking. But avoid boring and/or potentially argumentative questions, like "What do you do for a living?" or "What did you think of last night's Republican debate?" Instead, start off with something simple, such as "How do you know the host?" As Chrissy Stockton notes on ThoughtCatalog.com, "This is a built in conversation starter, because everyone at the party must know the host in one way or another, and there's usually a story there."
5. Actually Listen To What People Say
When you're feeling nervous, it can be easy to glaze over when someone talks to you. People usually do this when they feel nervous and are thinking about something to say next. But it'll be way easier to talk to a stranger, and actually have a conversation, if you truly listen to what they say. According to Turnbull, the best ways to listen, and show that you're listening, are to make eye contact with the person speaking, and lean slightly in to indicate they have your full attention. "Let him tell you everything he has to say without interrupting, and then ask a follow-up question that indicates you have in fact heard him, and are interested in hearing more," Turnbull suggested.
6. Remember There Is No Spotlight On You
I know, walking into a party when you don't know anyone can feel like an '80s movie nightmare. (Will the record really stop playing while everyone turns to look at me? Ahh!) The answer is no, no it won't. According to Wong, "It's hard not to feel awkward when you're alone in a social setting. But the more awkward you feel, the more nervous you become. It helps to remember there's no spotlight on you." So basically, do whatever you want, because no one is going to notice anyway. How liberating is that?
7. Look For Other Loners (They Really Want To Talk)
How relieved would you be if a stranger came up to you at a party and put you out of your lonely misery? If no one is doing that for you, go be that person for somebody else. Scope out the loners, and make your move. As Korin Miller notes on WomensHealthMag.com, "While you're probably not the only one there who doesn't know anyone, it's not always easy to tell. So just look for people who are on their own for a moment. Maybe they're enjoying the scenery or sampling the hors d'oeuvres—whatever it is, make small talk based on what they're doing and see where the conversation goes."
8. Just Have Fun
This one applies more to house parties than it does to networking events (although those can be fun, too). But think about the possibilities of being at a party where no one knows you. You can assume any personality, talk to anyone with no regrets, get totally messy, and then leave without fear of ruining your reputation. If you find yourself in this situation, enjoy it.
9. Make A Clean Exit
If you're at this party only to support a friend, or "make an appearance," then feel free to leave once those obligations have been fulfilled. But if you're main goal was to network or mingle, then you'll want to leave when you feel you've chatted with enough people. Tell them how nice it was to chat, give them your business card, thank your host, and bounce. It's as easy as that.
Parties are supposed to be fun, so remember that they next time you find yourself at one — even if you find yourself there alone. If that's the case, be yourself, chat people up, and I'm sure you'll be just fine.
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There are a couple of drivers behind this trend. The worsening obesity crisis and the dire state of our mental health in this country combined with our dysfunctional health service are demanding that we look after ourselves. We are fronting up to our unhealthy relationship with alcohol. We are beginning to rely on ourselves to look after our health, to get well and to stay well.
The importance of physical exercise and healthy eating in getting and staying well is cutting through. The success of the RTE show Operation Transformation has reached critical mass. The growth in running, cycling and triatholons in Ireland has been in rapid growth over the last 5 years, while gyms struggle to gain memberships.
The quantified self trend, where technology provides us with external data that helps us manage our health is set to continue. Right now we can track, using wearable devices our steps, distance and progress.
The next trend in technology enabled quantified self movement is internal data. Wearables will tell us our blood pressure, our heart rate, our temperature and other information that we, and the medical and insurance industry can utilize to help us to get and stay healthy.
The other aspect of our health, is our mental health. Stress is Ireland's modern day affliction. We live in a time when 1 in 4 people will suffer a mental illness. The pressures of family, work and time are not going away anytime soon. Pressure and stress will continue to be permanent features of our society. We need to skill up to manage them, build our confidence in ourselves to cope and restore balance to particular areas of our lives.
The mychiatry trend has yet to make inroads in Ireland. Mychiatry is about proactively managing your mental health, the way many of us do our physical health. There is an ever-expanding self-help section of the bookstore. Mindfulness is all the rage; there are myriad mindfulness clinics and courses, and our primary teachers are being trained in its teachings. Somethings happening that is causing us to want to be present and in the moment. There is an awareness that what is important is now.
We are accessing online forums to gather information and learning more about our mental health, but we are still a distance from managing our mental health in the way we try to (or intend to) manage our physical health. Watch this space though.
Interesting Stats:
41% of people have used the Internet to look up health or fitness advice (Mintel, 2014)
1 in 5 engage in sport once a week, men more likely (Mintel 2014)
35% report a greater amount of stress in 2013. (Mintel, 2014)
Increase d weekly working hours is leading to greater mental stress as employees have a harder time 'switching off' (Mintel, 2014)


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Ever wondered what would happen when a handgun was fired into ice? Yeah, us neither. But these gun-happy folks thought they'd test it out anyway.
Self-confessed firearms enthusiast and YouTube user Uinta MountainMan uploaded a video of him and a buddy testing the urban legend that firing a bullet onto a frozen lake can make it spin like a spinning top. The clip has gone viral, and we're hopeful the remarkable result will finally lay this dangerous myth to rest and end this video trend.
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Time seems to be picking up, now that Halloween is almost here. Before you know it, Thanksgiving will have zipped by us, leaving us full and happy. Then Christmas will be here to literally knock us off our feet.
Of course, many of us are behind on Christmas presents as it. But what about children? Most of them are limited on money to spend, especially the young children. Most of them, will resort to making gifts just like I did when I was young.
I have a unique gift idea for a child to make and at the same time, learn a little about Jesus' birth. When I was a child, I learned how to take a shoe box and put Jesus and the manger scene in it. Over the years, I learned how to make a few adjustments to this neat gift to make it extra fun.
Here is what you need to make a Gift-Box-It Manger Scene:
1 shoe box with lid
1 pack of construction paper (a mix of colors)
coloring pencils
Christmas wrapping paper & a bow
tape & glue
flashlight(s) (optional)
glow-in-the-dark stars (optional)
Step 1
First wrap the shoe box and its lid separately in the Christmas wrapping paper. Carefully put the bow on top of the lid.
Step 2
On the inside of the box, cover the bottom with brown paper. Put dark blue paper (or black) on the inside of the box along the sides and the inside of the lid to represent night sky. Have your child make a moon and decorate the "walls" and "ceiling" with stars (drawn or glow-in-the-dark). Next, help your child cut out animals, a baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph, the Wise Men, and a manger. If your child wants to, they can color on faces and decorate the manger. Help them tape or glue the manger in place along the inside of the box on one of the long sides. Help them arrange and secure in place the people and animals to create the manger scene.
Step 3
Using the scissors, on the long side opposite the manger, cut a hole big enough to look through (about the size of a half-dollar). Do the same thing on the other two sides of the box (the small sides).
Step 4
Place the lid on the box. Now, if you look through the main hole (the long side of the box) you can see the manger scene. Remember to put a flashlight up against one of the other sides to shine through. You can also do this with two lights. Be sure to put them on low if possible! This creates a neat light scene. You can also view the manger scene by looking down upon the scene without having to use the flashlight(s).
To make this project a little bit more creative, your child can write about Jesus' birth on the bottom of the box. They can also put glow-in-the-dark stars on the inside of the lid. To get them to glow, let them stay out in the light for a few hours.
Now your child has a neat gift to give to someone special!
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We won't hassle you with sales people. We also offer no-haggle pricing, which means you won't spend hours at the dealership dealing with the stressful negotiation process. What you see is what you get.
Plus, we'll show you full financing terms on all 53 cars on the lot within 15 minutes of speaking with our team. Our goal is to give you everything you need to know to make an informed decision without forcing you to wait hours to get it.
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Selecting a retirement home can be a difficult and intimidating process for you or a loved one, it's a big change to one's life. To make the transition seamless and pleasant, here's a list of six selection criteria when touring a retirement home.
1. Types of Retirement Homes
There are four types of retirement homes in Ontario according to the regulatory body Ontario Retirement Community Association (ORCA). The first type is called an independent supported living home. These are homes for those looking to live independently with care services close by if needed. The second type of retirement home is called assisted living where extra care services are actively used by residents. The third type of retirement home is for specialized dementia/memory care.
This type of retirement home provides care to residents with dementia of any level. Lastly, the fourth type is a short term stay retirement home. Certain retirement homes offer potential residents short term stay packages for the resident to experience the home's lifestyle on a trial basis. ORCA has specified different types of retirement homes; however, each home is unique. To help narrow down your options, making a list of the services you or a loved one desire is a good way to choose the homes you'd like to tour and live in.
(Note: other Canadian provinces or international locations may have other types of retirement homes and affiliated services.)
2. Location
Where the retirement home is located is crucial for several reasons. Most residents want to be in a home that is close to their family and friends. In addition, residents requiring frequent medical assistance will need to be close to facilities that offer the services they require, for example specialized doctor's offices and hospitals.
The building style and scenery is something to consider as well to ensure the individual is comfortable in their new home. Others may want to live in a retirement home close to golf courses, national parks or any hobby they plan to participate in.
3. Activities
Retirement homes provide opportunities for the residents living at the home to participate in organized activities. The nature and type of activities provided are an important factor to consider since you or a loved one will be taking part. Some examples of activities provided in retirement homes are trips to a nearby mall, musical performances, games and physical activities. Locations nearby should be considered as well, such as libraries and restaurants, as this serves as a secondary activity for residents.
4. Size
The size of a retirement home is another factor to consider because it has an impact on the communal feeling of the home. Larger homes can feel less intimate than smaller homes. On the other hand, for more sociable people, a larger home may be preferable.
5. Pricing
Naturally, the more services you require, the more expensive your monthly fees will be. Most retirement homes will charge a flat fee for accommodation and other services will be added to the fee as each individual requires. Regardless of whether you require the additional services or not, make sure to enquire about each service's pricing to avoid unexpected fees in the future.
6. Reviews
While it is unfortunate, some retirement homes are very poorly run and have had legal or regulatory violations in the past. Part of your research process should include looking up the retirement home you plan on touring or living in for red flags. Retirement Homes Regulatory Authority (RHRA) is a resource that you can use to look up a retirement home's status and history for locations in Ontario. During your tour, any bad vibes from staff or the home's environment can be an indicator of poor service, go with your gut!