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The light-rail line in Phoenix has been running for a year now. But automobile drivers are still having trouble getting used to dealing with the trains. In the past 12 months, there have been 51 accidents involving the trains.
I was in Phoenix in May 2008 to report a Governing story about the city's inaugural attempt at rail transit. One of the biggest concerns the city had was how to get residents -- almost none of whom have ever had to deal with mass transit -- to pay attention.
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There's also the challenge of building and operating a rail system in an area where drivers and pedestrians simply aren't accustomed to sharing the road with a train. That was a huge problem in Houston when that city opened its first light-rail line several years ago. The first train-car collision occurred during the testing phase, before the system was officially open. By mid-2004 -- six months into operations -- Houston's METRORail set a new record for most accidents in a year. Critics dubbed the Houston lines the "Streetcar Named Disaster" or the "Wham-Bam-Tram."
Since then, Houston and other cities have put more of an emphasis on educating drivers and pedestrians. Phoenix actually overhauled its blueprints in response to the accidents in Houston. "We were 65 percent into our design process and we went back to the drawing board," says Maria Hyatt, assistant to the Phoenix city manager. The city redesigned many of the intersections where trains and automobile traffic would meet. New features were added, such as large sidewalk planters to discourage pedestrians from walking into the path of a train. "All of the changes were a result of going to Houston and seeing where their accidents were occurring and why they were occurring."
Looks like, despite the best efforts in Phoenix, this is still an issue.
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Commissioner Adrian Benepe today joined State Senator Gustavo Rivera, Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz, students from the Saint Brendan's School, members of Bronx Community Board 7, the Friends of Williamsbridge Oval and Norwood residents to cut the ribbon on the $6.1 million renovation of Williamsbridge Oval Park.
"Williamsbridge Oval originally served as a reservoir of drinking water for the Bronx, and as a park it has long been a 'wellspring' of recreational opportunities," said Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe. "Along with the recently completed running track and synthetic turf field, and the soon-to-be-opened recreation center, these new playgrounds and basketball courts will allow the Norwood community to continue to 'draw from' Williamsbridge Oval for years to come."
The reconstruction includes two new playgrounds: one that is handicapped-accessible and contains play equipment for toddlers and preschoolers, the other with more challenging climbing features for older children. The site is united by a centralized spray plaza that recognizes the site's history as a reservoir with the embedded names of New York's aquifers and watersheds. The renovation also includes a new basketball complex, seating, ornamental planting beds, pathways, and restoration of the site's promenade.
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People in the "Denver can again make the playoffs camp" will grant you that Andre Iguodala is gone and Danilo Gallinari will not be back until likely sometime after Thanksgiving, but they say the Nuggets still have a lot from last season't 57-win team.
Such as Ty Lawson… except they may not have him Wednesday night for the season opener.
Lawson tweaked his groin Friday night against Chicago and that's an injury which tends to linger. Lawson told the Denver post he may not be ready to go Wednesday when the Nuggets open the season in Sacramento.
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Posted 02 May 2012 - 06:22 PM
well a positive post from me for once.
i dont know what i did but until this morning i was still . Everything that went down came straight back up again. Woke up this morning and like usual. Then i had my pregnancy massage and boom. by 11am i was suddenly wanting a sausage roll. ( usually i hate the stuff ) Went down with DP to our local pie shop and ate a sausage roll, then decided well i kept that down so went for a scone with jam and cream and then half a brownie......
Since then i've been fine. In fact i just made dinner and ate a full plate. I dont know what happened to suddenly change everything but i am very glad it did. Last night saw me at 6:30 sobbing on the kitchen floor going "its not fair i just want to eat. I'm so jealous of everyone else whos eating and i just cant do this anymore " ( imagine that in a sobbing whiny voice )
Meifong i have been getting minor cravings ( see above over the sausage roll ) but luckily the long lasting ones have been fairly healthy. I went 2 weeks practically inhaling up to 15 mandarins a day. I think as long as its only an occasional craving then its ok. ie sometimes i want some pretty unhealthy stuff and i want it so bad i can smell it. Its like a drug addict needing its fix. As long as i only do that once a week and can stop at one then its ok. If i want cheesecake but i eat the whole cake thats when its an issue.
I am glad everyones scan results are coming back so good. We all really are pregnant by now arent we......
Posted 02 May 2012 - 07:34 PM
Evening Ladies,
Everything OK here, just so so tired!!! Had 3 hours of meetings today at work, battle to stay awake.
I have my CVS and first meeting at hospital with midwife in tuesday & thursday in 2 weeks, I asked my boss for the whole week off, he said yes so as wll as looking forward to the results I am also just looking forward to a rest.
Cravings: fresh bread - any thing sweet and bready, walking past a bread shop the smell of bread cooking makes me drool. I think I ate my weight in hotcross buns over easter. Other than that - only fruit juice. Hubby says the baby is boring - it only likes bread, he was expecting pickles or hot chips at midnight.
Posted 03 May 2012 - 09:45 AM
Can you believe it ?!?!?!? My results were not back at my appt yday which I had moved from Mon morning as they told me they could push through to Mon arvo and change my appt to the arvo. Ob doesn't work the arvo and tues was a public holiday (in Singapore) so Wed it was. Sweaty palms in the car and arrive to nothing. They said they could chase and call me in the arvo with the results (we discussed the what ifs already with the ob) and they never did. I was calling from 3-6pm both their lines and only the blinking answer phone. So now it's thurs after being promised Mon!!! Hope they come through today.
Not sure if I mentioned earlier that during the scan on Sat the scanner said it was too early to tell sex but if she had to guess she would say girl? Well yday asked the ob (she scans every visit) and she said too early to tell but if I had to guess I would say boy! Haha so who do I believe? DH says he doesn't care and neither do I but he had a grin from ear to ear so I thought I wanted another girl but now I want a little boy for him. Going to ask again in 2 weeks she said it looked like something but could have been umbilical cord.
Also we talked about amnio and she said she doesn't recommend if we are under 1:300 chance of DS but understands us wanting too if it's higher. She does them herself and has had 2 losses in 30 years but said her colleague is even better than her and in my case (assuming because I had 2 miscarriages) she would send me to him. Cool huh?
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Posted 03 May 2012 - 05:26 PM
Greetings fellow preggi folk!
Franno ARGH I am feeling your frustration, how darn annoying I seriously hope you only have one more sleep before you find out the test results! As we don't have enough things to be patient for lol!
CPM Mmmmm fresh bread! Great news about the time off, I bet there are few people around who could use a nice break, and it sounds like you will need it with all that!
Charlottesmum Fingers and toes crossed that your turn around i the beginning of the end of sickness and the start of EATING!
Meifong I give in to my cravings, perhaps a little too often but as long as I am eating a healthy balanced diet an exercising regularly I figure a few treats a week wont hurt!
TJ Super Awesome news!
I wont go back further or it wll just get too long, will just say, I have been following and thinking of you all
AFM To be honest I feel I'm losing it this week I am exhausted and work has been pretty stressful. Plus, my partner and I don't live together yet which I was ok with but I am really starting to feel alone, it doesn't help that he is so busy with work that I get even less time with him than I'm used to. I've ended up a sobbing mess more than a few nights recently Well enough whinging, need to cook dinner and get some more work done before bed Much love and belly rubs!
Posted 03 May 2012 - 09:05 PM
So they finally called me with the results this morning and all good!
1:4336 for trisomy 21 (downs)
1:10000 for trisomy 18
1:34000 for trisomy 13
Posted 03 May 2012 - 09:57 PM
Its been wonderful reading about your scans. At last my turn was up. My DB and I went to our first 12 week scan yesterday and it was all great! The staff were fantastic (Boyd Street Medical Centre Tweed Heads). A healthy and VERY active little bundle appeared on a massive TV screen and it really shocked us. DB cried. I feel like a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders in so many ways. I conceived while on holidays in Thailand in Feb and I was drinking nice cold beer like you wouldn't believe, and smoking cigies, I had no idea I was pregnant. When I found out I was pregnant in March I didn't think bub had a chance, I also have family history of defects – so I am v relieved. We have been in hiding keeping my pregnancy to ourselves, people have been wondering where I have been for two months! So it was time to start telling people the fantastic news. I sat on my phone for 4 hours phoning everyone. Its finally happened and it's just wonderful. BTW my gorgeous girlfriend got me "pregnancy and birth" mag today. Very interesting. Just reading it now. I will let you know if I find any interesting info.
Posted 03 May 2012 - 10:07 PM
I have been waiting to hear from you Franno - great results! I had to look up the trisomy 18/13 again cause I couldn't recall what they were. Great numbers.
Posted 04 May 2012 - 09:57 AM
Haha TJ one of them is going to have had a lucky guess :-)
Congrats Rachel that's awesome I bet everyone is so thrilled for you. It's lovely seeing people be so excited to hear your news. Ps I told both my friends who had had MC recently and one had a termination at 20 weeks in Feb - they were all awesome and so so gracious!!
Posted 04 May 2012 - 11:15 AM
Franno - awesome odds & glad that the friends you were worried about telling took the news graciously. So hard for all of you & I'm sure that your thoughtfulness helped.
Rachel - glad all went well & you are now telling people - how sweet of your gf
Tanglez - that is so hard with not having him around much & dealing with the overwhelming emotions.
AFM - I am super emotional about everything today. Finally had my meltdown from the blood results that I knew was coming, have a few cases at work that I'm a tad worried about, this morning had a massive meltdown after hitting a pothole in my car & totally wrecking the wheel (plus finding out that my spare was flat & because it was bald tha actual tyre needed replacing too) & one of my SIL's on the phone in tears because of the changes that are being made to the parent payment in the budget & her not knowing if she will be able to finish the degree she has poured her heart & sole into over the past 2 years come July 2013. Think I'm gonna go back to bed & sulk until it's time to go get DS now that I"m alone.
Posted 04 May 2012 - 12:30 PM
Had my NT scan today.. Wont have the full results back until my next appt on the 16th, but it measured 1.8mm so Im happy about that:).
Bubs is measuring 12w 2 days so new EDD is 15th November:) I was 12 weeks today.. Heart rate is 153bpm
Will post a pic in the scan section shortly
Posted 04 May 2012 - 02:59 PM
Congratulations to you all on your pregnancy. I would like to be added to this group, I hope I am in the correct group? There are a few different threads that are due in Nov so I thought I would join the latest one. Does anyone know if there are chats/groups for each state, or are they just general for everyone in Austrlaia? Im in Adelaide and Im also due in November 8th. I am 38 and it took me 2 years of trying and finally on Valentines Day we conceived for the first time
I have been suffering from nausea, it was all day and night but thank god now that Im 13 weeks the nausea has considerably reduced and I only feel it on occasions. I was suffering from bad indigestion but thank god this week no indigestion what a relief. I cant take my preg multi tablets as they give me intigestion. However I am still vomitting once a day, it tends to be at nights after dinner. Im trying to work out what baby likes to eat. Its been very difficult tyring to find something to eat as I have no cravings and dont have an appetite. Is anyone else having difficulty knowing what to eat? I cant cook for myself as food makes me want to gag so my DP is doing all the cooking. I am on maxalon but this hasnt really stopped me from vommitting, feel like its not doing a thing. So far I like to eat vegemite on toast every day for breakfast and I can eat roast chicken, vegies and soups, breads, potatoes, macdonalds cheesbergers and any carbs. Baby doesnt like herbs and spices, no bbq meat, no fried foods, no tomatoe based sause, some fruits give me intigestion so its been very difficult to try and eat 2 fruits a day. Is everyone else still having small snacks eg crackers every 1-2 hours? I find it so difficult to find something to eat for lunch while I am at work, all the shops have salads for sandwiches which have bene sitting there all day. Does anyone have any suggestions on takeaway foods to eat at lunch time? Brushing my teeth also makes me vomit, cant stand the taste of fluride so I just bought aloe vera tooth paste with no fluride will try it tonight and hope I dont vomit, really hard not being able to brush your teeth!
Posted 04 May 2012 - 06:56 PM
Doppler turned up today so I had a go not expecting too much. Pretty sure I got it but I guess it will take a few goes to know if I'm doing it right. Definently have to be heart beat I reckon as my heart doesnt go that fast. So relieved
Posted 04 May 2012 - 08:57 PM
Thank you for all the warm messages! My DP and I will be moving in together in July so thankfully we will get a little time before bubs comes! He came over last night and must have seen how tired and sad I looked because he just held me and said "what can I do to support you?" Bless him, he is simply gorgeous, and a man of his word too!
FRANNO - YAY I am so happy to see your results, I was starting to get anxious with the wait lmao!
Rachel5 - Hahahahaha, it is pretty exciting being able to tell people, you had yourself quite a marathon there Big congrats on everything being AOK!
TJ - No news is good news!
EMNUT - hugs, that sounds awful There is a super fat full moon coming on Sunday, seriously, it is going to be huge as it is closer to Earth than it has been in a long time! Astrologically I don't know what it means, but I do know that my students and colleagues have been BONKERS last couple days, crying, fighting, tantrums you name it, so fingers crossed a lot of the madness is moon induced and will ease up real soon!
MELMATHO - Yay for fabulous active bubs! Keep us posted on the results!
BULAFIJI - Hi and welcome! I laughed when I read your post because I went through a stage where all I wanted was roast chicken and vegies with gravy! Couldn't handle anything spicy or Asian in flavour! Now I can't stand the thought of chicken and could happily live on grapes, apples, red curries, pumpkin and lemon cordial!
As for me - TGIF Looking forward to a relaxing weekend! Take care all... much love and belly rubs
Posted 04 May 2012 - 09:35 PM
Ang - enjoy the doppler
Tanglez - I'm actually hoping the moon doesn't affect everyone this weekend (though it already seems to be) - I work in the public mental health system & am working tomorrow & Sunday nights & dreading it
Ang - enjoy the doppler
Tanglez - I'm actually hoping the moon doesn't affect everyone this weekend (though it already seems to be) - I work in the public mental health system & am working tomorrow & Sunday nights & dreading it
Posted 06 May 2012 - 04:13 PM
How is everyones long weekend going?
I've been taking it fairly easy but have some epic back pain today and i have 2 extra kids sleeping over tonight so it will be interesting. But i've got roast pork in the oven, I'm getting married in less than 7 weeks and today is my last day in the first trimester!!! So life is good.
As a little bit of funny news several friends and I were going to go on a cruise in October and while we were going to start TTC while on the cruise we were all adament that no pregnancy was going to stop us from cruising. One by one every lady ( of able to be pregnant age ) has now anounced their pregnancy!
A big hello to all the new pregnant ladies joining our DIG. I am loving having everyone in here to know exactly what i am going through.
Enough of me just thought i had to post as while i have been lurking its been looking quite dead in here. Hopeing that this will spark off some more conversation.
Posted 06 May 2012 - 06:36 PM
Thank you for everyones lovely messages! Is anyone feeling moody this weekend? Maybe its the full moon, maybe its 2nd trimester hormones, but this morning I was as cranky as a hung over Mel Gibson. I yelled out all my frustrations at my DB and I wonder how often I am going to feel like this @ 13 weeks I was expecting things to settle down not ramp up in the anger 100 fold! ha!
Posted 07 May 2012 - 12:56 AM
Hi everyone,
I've been just lurking around since 6 weeks pregnant and I'm almost 13 weeks now! Sorry for not introducing myself earlier as I wanted to ensure my 12 weeks scan is ok. This is my second baby and feeling very blessed even though I've MS since week 4....my DD is 19 mo and it took us 2.5 years. We started trying for this baby when DD turned 13 mo and fell pregnant on the third cycle.
I'm due on 14/11 and have booked my c-section for the 5/11 as DD was big and breech. When the ob delivered her, the paed said she was way too big to be delivered through vBac.
Still Bf and hoping to nightwean her soon as I'm constantly exhausted and she is still not sleeping through.
Anyway, hope everyone has a nice weekend!
Posted 07 May 2012 - 09:50 AM
Hi clt welcome and congrats! I am due the same day as you (well l i hop between 12th and 14th as different scan results). I hope the ms settles down soon. Our DD took a long time to conceive too (not as long as you) and the subsequent 3 pregnancies have always come about on the 2nd month of trying (the third seems to be the sticky). Good luck with the weaning. I weaned DD at 16 months and it was really hard by that stage (she would have been easier at 11 or 12 months as she wasn't too interested)!but I wanted to say I couldn't wean till someone else took over bedtime ( my helper but maybe your DH?) and then it was easy (they have to go to her in the night too) so win win for you as you shouldn't get some more well deserved sleep.
Rachel5 - so moody. I didn't have the motivation to do anything over the weekend and generally not very excited about life. Couldn't figure out what was wrong I have wanted to be pregnant for so long, wanted to get past first trimester and now I have everything I want why aren't I shouting from the rooftops? Grumpy, tired and a bit sick (but of a cough).
Charlottes mum - does that mean you're not going on the cruise ?????
I have been dreading Monday. 24 weeks left of work. Normally love work and my job and don't mind Monday's but argh spent the whole weekend dreading it. DD has had a cough for 3 weeks. Got worse fri night took her to the paed Fri and he said allergies and she is on the medicine. She is getting better with the medicine but still coughing and temp elevated (but not a temp) at approx 37 in mornings then 37.3 ish in the afternoons. What's going on?????
Posted 07 May 2012 - 10:33 AM
Franno nope, none of us can now go on the cruise. You cannot cruise if you are more than 24 weeks on the date you return and since the cruise was meant to be Oct 27 and I am due Nov 12th i well and truely miss the cut off. My good friend is now due christmas day so she misses out as well. But she moved her cruise to the week before my wedding. We for obvious reasons didnt have that option. I do feel a bit sorry for them though. They get off the ship at about 9am sat and have to drive straight the 4 hours back to our town to go straight to our wedding.
New plan for us is to go boxing day 2013 with the new baby. You also cant cruise with a baby under 1 years old so we have to leave it till then. i can understand the reasoning behind it. Imagine going into premature labour in the middle of the pacific ocean. or your newborn suddenly needing emergency hospital care that they cant provide.
I am well and truely enjoying the fact that it is a public holiday here in qld. No work today!!!
Rachel 5 My DP can tell you just how moody i have been the last couple of days. I have blown my top at him and at the poor kids. I finally seem to be coming back to normal moods. In fact at one point late last week i threw my engagement ring back at DP screaming at him that he didnt really love me and that he just felt obligated now that i'm pregnant!! Considering he proposed June last year and has been taking such good care of me nothing could be further from the truth
CLT Thanks for finally joining in. Having had several miscariages in the past i can understand wanting to wait. I hope that this pregnancy goes very well for you and that the M/S settles down for you.
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As those of you who follow me know, I've been working on a series of studies with Breffni Noone (Professor at Penn State) about the impact of user generated content (UGC) and price on consumer buying behavior. When we speak about this research, we tend to hear the same sets of questions from most audiences – whether they are revenue managers, marketers or even outside the industry. In this blog post, I'll review our research to date, and then I'll answer some of the common questions we hear based on what we've seen in our literature reviews for our research. Next month, I'll explain our latest study which compares business travelers to leisure travelers.
Price and UGC – Influence on quality and value perceptions
Now that user generated content is available at the point of purchase, consumers have more information than ever before as they evaluate a hotel purchase. In order to continue to build profitable pricing and positioning strategies, hoteliers must understand how all of this information together influences consumers. Previous research has shown that consumers' perceptions of quality and value are the primary drivers of purchase behavior.
In our first study, we designed a scenario based on the online purchase of a four-star hotel for a weekend leisure break. We presented a hotel where the price varied low to high (relative to a reference price), the reviews were either mostly positive or mostly negative, and the ratings were low (2.8) or high (4.8). We then asked consumers to report their perceptions of the quality and value of that hotel. You can read my post about this study here.
The main takeaways from this study were:
- In the presence of ratings and reviews, consumers do not use price as an indication of quality. Hotels can lower price (within reasonable bounds) to generate short term demand, without impacting consumers long term quality perceptions.
- Reviews are the most powerful value indicator for consumers: Consumers look to the reviews over aggregate ratings to form quality and value perceptions. We hypothesize that the uncertainty associated with the hotel experience leads consumers to gather as much information as they can before purchase. Reviews provide this, ratings do not.
- Competing on price alone is not a winning strategy. Consumers will look closely at UGC and price. This means you must understand your price position and your reputation position versus the competition.
- Good reviews are not a license to charge more: Despite the power of positive reviews, consumers still prefer to pay the lowest price. All things being equal, if your price is lower, you'll drive demand to your property.
- It's hard to overcome "bad" UGC: Lowering the price of a badly rated, and negatively reviewed, property drives no additional value in the minds of the consumer. If you happen to be in that unfortunate position, you should keep the price up, and take what you can get – which according to our results won't be much. Use your energy to fix the problems with your property instead of worrying about how it is priced!!
How consumers choose – Price, UGC and Value
In our first study, participants evaluated one hotel. We were interested to understand how they would behave if they were forced to make a choice. We designed a choice modeling experiment that would help us understand the tradeoffs consumers make and the attributes that drive value perceptions. In this study, we again used a four-star hotel for a leisure break, and told participants that all hotels had equivalent amenities and location. We then showed them three hotels in which we varied levels of the following attributes: the brand (known or unknown), price (low, mid, high), ratings (low, mid, high), TripAdvisor Rank (low, mid, high), review sentiment (negative, positive), review language (emotional, descriptive) and review content (service, physical property). We asked them to select the hotel they would book. They repeated this exercise three times. By tracking their patterns of choice, we were able to understand how each of the attributes, and the levels of those attributes influenced choice behavior and value perceptions. You can read more about this study in this blog post.
There were four main takeaways from this study:
- Reviews and price are the most important influencers of choice. While consumers did pay attention to aggregate ratings, TripAdvisor rank and to a lesser extent, brand, positive reviews contributed the most to consumer choice behavior followed by lower price.
- Negative reviews remove you from the choice set. Period. Lower price or higher ratings do not overcome the impact of negative reviews. Consumers simply will not choose a hotel with negative reviews.
- Consumers prefer to pay a lower price. While consumers would go for a higher-priced hotel when the reviews and ratings were better than the alternatives, all things being equal, they will look for the lowest price. Hotels need to understand their position relative to their competition both on reputation and on price in order to take advantage of any pricing power associated with positive UGC.
- Consumers only notice high ratings and rankings. Our results showed that consumers only notice ratings and rankings when they are high as compared to other choices. Consumers do not place any value on the comparison between low and mid-level ratings and rankings.
These two studies were focused on the leisure traveler. Our next study looks at choices of the business traveler. I'll describe that study in next month's post.
Any discussion of the influence of UGC on consumer purchase patterns tends to raise a similar set of questions.
How do your findings relate to the Cornell study where a one point increase in Reputation Index resulted in an 11.2% increase in pricing power?
Our study results definitely complement the Cornell Center for Hospitality Research Study done by Chris Anderson in 2012. If you missed it, I covered it in this blog post. That study focused on performance measures, where we looked at consumer behavior. We did provide one nuance to that work, and that is that the pricing power associated with improving your reputation index by one point will only happen on the "top end" of ratings – as in, if you raise your score from a 3.5 to a 4.5. Consumers will not notice any movements on the low end – as in a 2.8 to 3.5.
My advice is to take any of these study results in the context of your market and your business strategy. You will have increased pricing power with a good reputation (likely if you have a well-run, high quality hotel, you'll have a good reputation, good performance and you'll already be at the top of the market). How you take advantage of that pricing power depends on your business strategy and your market conditions. Our study demonstrates that consumers prefer to pay the lowest price they can. With a great reputation, you have the ability to drive share with an aggressive pricing strategy. You can drive revenue with a good reputation – but only assuming you are clearly better than the competitors in the market. Both Chris's study and ours reinforces the point that you need to have a good understanding of where you sit in the market on reputation and price, and a good understanding of your hotel's business strategy, before making any pricing decisions. The job of revenue manager is not getting any easier!
Should I respond to reviews?
Many hotels have invested a good deal of resources in responding to reviews – both positive and negative. I have seen one study so far that looked at "response to negative reviews" in the context of hotel performance. There seemed to be a relationship such that hotels that responded to negative reviews had better performance (ADR, RevPAR, Occupancy). There is plenty of anecdotal evidence as well. My own opinion – this comes down to service recovery. You would address a problem if it were brought to you in person or via letter, so responding to negative reviews is a good idea. I suspect that 'over-responding', or not being genuine, however, can do as much damage as that negative review, so I'd say be careful. More research needs to be done in this area.
Should I be worried about my TripAdvisor Rank?
I have heard plenty of stories from industry about improvements in TripAdvisor Rank correlating with more bookings. In our study, TripAdvisor rank was influential only when it was high, and the attribute was not a hugely influential overall. However, there are two aspects of TripAdvisor Rank – the absolute number itself and the positioning that the rank gives you in search results. In our study, we just presented the number (x out of 217 in the market). Consumers may not be focused on the number itself, but being higher on TripAdvisor gets you noticed more because you will show up sooner in the search results. There has been plenty of research on how many pages consumers will search through before making a decision, and it isn't many. Despite what our results say, I'd still recommend working to get the best rank on TripAdvisor that you can so that you show up as early as possible in the search.
Are the number of reviews important? Should I be working to get more reviews?
I have seen a number of studies that show that consumer confidence increases with the number of reviews. Consumers "believe" the UGC more when there is more of it. I would definitely recommend that hotels work to increase the number of reviews posted across all types of review sites.
There is one exception to this. I saw one study where increased number of reviews actually had a negative relationship with RevPAR at the luxury level. These researchers hypothesized that as the number of reviews increased for luxury properties, the perceptions of exclusivity decreased, which left some consumers thinking "I don't want to pay this much to stay where everyone is staying".
Does the "quality" of the review influence decision making?
I have seen some research indicating that consumers "trust" a review more if the review quality (length, grammar, etc.) is good. While there isn't much that a hotel can do about this, you can feel secure that a badly written, negative review will not be valued as highly as a well-written positive review.
There is still much more work to be done– but what is clear from all of the research described here, is that reputation definitely drives consumer decision making. To stay competitive, hotels need to monitor their reputation, and to use the information within the reviews themselves to continuously improve their offering. Stay tuned for the results of our new research next month!


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Film Critic Insults Award-Winning Actors, Makes Annette Bening Cry
According to the Village Voice, things were tense from the get-go after White, chairman of the Critics Circle, brought Aronofsky onstage to present an award to his 'Swan' cinematographer, Matthew Libatique. In an obvious wink to White's negative 'Swan' review, the director said, "Keep it up, because you give us all another reason not to read New York Press."
"Aronofsky was saying this stuff with a smile," Gawker reports. "He was riffing." White, however, wasn't laughing, and took his next turn at the mic to stir the pot, saying, "That's all right. Darren reads me. That's all I want. And because he reads me, he knows the truth."
White is notorious for, well, being deliberately antagonistic. Gawker perhaps puts it best: "[White] is a very angry critic who feels very passionately about movies and tends to hate what everyone else likes and like what everyone else hates." To wit: White wrote a favorable review of Jonah Hex, last summer's 80-minute debacle currently ranked 13 percent fresh on RottenTomatoes, and he gave 'Toy Story 3,' 2010's best-reviewed film at 99 percent, one of only three negative reviews.
The atmosphere at last night's event appears to have been volatile, to say the least. "Armond broke the bank on insulting award winners he didn't agree with," an attendee told Gawker.
When 'Blue Valentine' actress Michelle Williams was presented with a prize, White introduced her by praising her performance in the 2004 film 'Land of Plenty,' leading the Oscar-nominated actress (for 'Brokeback Mountain') to say, "I made that movie almost 10 years ago. I can't imagine what you've said about me since then if you had to go back that far to say something nice."
Later, when White brought 'Angels in America' playwright Tony Kushner to the stage to award director David Fincher's universally acclaimed 'The Social Network' with the Best Picture prize, he said, "Maybe he can explain why it won best picture."
White also made sure to thank his peers for not awarding any honors to director Noah Baumbach's well-reviewed indie hit 'Greenberg.' Baumbach's continued success has long been a thorn in the critic's side; in his review of Baumbach's 1997 film 'Mr. Jealousy,' White said the director's mother should have had a "retroactive abortion." How tasteful and professional of him.
The tone of the evening, however, was apparently set in stone when Annette Bening took to the stage to accept the Best Actress prize for her turn in 'The Kids Are Alright.' "Bening, tearfully, came close to lecturing critics for being mean little s**ts," an attendee told Gawker, while another reported, "She said something like, 'Can't we all just get along?'"
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The sad truth, these psychopaths in hollywood hate you more that themselves. I'm the Voltare of blogs, please read my others.
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Writing a review of a film is one thing. He can and should write whatever he thinks and feels. However, in public, manners count. Isn't there already enough ugliness and lack of civility in the world as it is? Must supposedly enlightened men and women have to behave this way? It just smacks of immaturity and lack of self esteem to me. The guy sounds like a loser. Bring down the big guys to make himself feel better.
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Anyone who brings the lovely Miss Annette Benning to tears ought to be slapped silly. The only tears I wish Miss Benning are tears of joy.
Pooh on nasty critics.
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What the hell is a "CRITIC"? Just another word for a no talent DOUCHEBAG. We can ALL agree on that.
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Archaeologists Find Tunnel Below the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Teotihuacan
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Contextual image of the tunnel found in front of the Temple of the Feathered Serpent. Photo: CNMH INAH.
After eight months of excavation, archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have located, 12 meters below , the entrance to the tunnel leading to a series of galleries beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, in the Archaeologcial Area of Teotihuacan, where the remains of rulers of the ancient city could have been deposited.
In a tour made by to site today with the media, archaeologist Sergio Chavez Gomez, director of the Tlalocan Project went below the ground and announced the advances in the systematic exploration undertaken by the INAH of the underground conduit, which was closed for about 1,800 years by the inhabitants of Teotihuacan themselves and where no one has gone in since then.
INAH specialists hope to enter the tunnel in a couple of months and will be the first to enter after hundreds of years since it was closed. This excavation, which represents the most profound that has been done in the pre-Hispanic site, is part of the commemorations for the first 100 years of uninterrupted archaeological explorations (made in 1910) also called the City of Gods.
Gómez Chávez explained that the tunnel passes under the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, the most important building of the Citadel, "and the entry was located a few meters from the pyramid.
Access is by a vertical shaft of about five meters per side down to a depth of 14 meters from the surface, the entrance leads into a long corridor with an estimated length of 100 meters which ends in a series of underground chambers excavated in the rock.
The tunnel was discovered in late 2003 by Sergio Gomez and Julie Gazzola, but its exploration has required several years of planning and managing the financial resources necessary to carry out research at the highest scientific level. The team is composed of more than 30 people and has advisors renowned nationally and internationally.
Before starting the excavations, the archaeologists from INAH had the collaboration of Dr. Victor Manuel Velasco, from the Institute of Geophysics of the UNAM, through a the use of a GPR it was determined that the tunnel has a length of about 100 meters, and has large chambers inside.
Another of the technologies used in the exploration has been the laser scanner, a sophisticated device with high resolution, facilitated by the National Coordination of Historical Monuments (CNMH). INAH made the three-dimensional record of the archaeological finds.
Just a couple of weeks ago, archaeologists corroborated that the tunnel entrance was located in the place they had anticipated, then opened a small hollow hole at the top of the access, and using the scanner took the first images from inside the tunnel to a length of 37 meters, of the 100 it is estimated to have in length.
"Although we need to excavate two more meters to reach the floor of the tunnel, having the first images of the inside will allow us to better plan how to enter. Even so, we will have to withdraw a large amount of soil and a heavy block of stone that blocks the access.
"The whole process could take two more months of work, as we continue with the same systematic exploration that we have done from the start to avoid losing important information that lets us know what activities the citizens of Teotihuacan performed thousands of years ago and why they decided to close it, "said archaeologist Sergio Gomez.
So far, 200 tons of earth have been withdrawn, he said, while doing this we have found about 60,000 pieces of artifacts and pottery.
Angel Mora, who belongs to the Technology Support Unit of the CNMH, and engineer Juan Carlos Garcia, who operates the scanner, said that by introducing the laser, which has a range of 300 meters, through the small hollow opening the archaeologists made, there was only a length of 37 meters. Mora noted that this reading is because the laser beam "runs into something, maybe with some collapsed stones or because the tunnel has a gap."
Sergio Gomez reported that it has not yet been precisely determined the time of construction of the tunnel, however it he has a better idea of when it was closed by the people from Teotihuacan. "Several indications suggest that access to the underground passage was closed between 200 and 250 AD, probably after depositing something inside. One of the hypotheses postulate that, within the large chamber detected by the GPR, we could locate the remains of important people in the city. "
The investigations have led to know with certainty that this tunnel was made prior to the construction of the Temple of the Feathered Serpent and the Citadel. The tunnel is contemporary with a large architectural structure, which could be a ball game court, according to theform of the ground, said the archaeologist.
Unfortunately, the INAH researcher said, when the tunnel was closed, large stones were thrown which blocked access, "and the court was also destroyed and razed by the people of Teotihuacan, only small remnants remain.
"Locating the entrance to the tunnel fulfills one of the most important objectives of the Project Tlalocan, to precisely confirm that the main entrance was located in the exact spot where the excavation is planned. We must continue the excavation of the vertical shaft until it reaches the floor level to thereby start scanning the tunnel towards the East. "
According to the hypothesis about the meaning and symbolism of the tunnel, archaeologist Sergio Gomez, said the tunnel had to be linked to concepts related to the underworld, hence it is possible that in this place were carried out initiation rituals and the divine investiture of Teotihuacan rulers, since the power was acquired in these sacred spaces.
Also, it is known that rulers were buried in the holiest places. "For a long time local and foreign archaeologists have attempted to locate the graves of the rulers of the ancient city, but the search has been fruitless.
"That's why every day our expectations are increasing, as there are many chances that they are sitting inside a large tomb or offering. However, it is not something we are obsessed wih, the discovery and systematic exploration of the tunnel is something of great significance for archaeological research and a unique opportunity to approach the cosmogonic and religious thought of ancient Teotihuacan. "
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