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5 Reasons You Should Focus Your Efforts on Social Media, Not Mainstream Media
Over the weekend, I repeatedly came across examples of the realities of the new media ecosystem. On Saturday, I saw on Facebook a hot conversation about an apparently serious car accident in my town. People were reporting what they saw. They were sharing second-hand accounts, and of course, opinions. I toggled over to the local daily newspaper's website. Nothing. I went to the weekly paper's site. Nothing. The local Patch sites have been decimated, so I didn't even bother checking them.
The next day I spent part of the morning reading about the crisis in the Crimean Penninsula online (in old-school newspaper brands) and engaged in conversations on social media around that situation. I subscribe to the paper New York Times, but only opened that later, after I had read the most recent headlines on the paper's home page, or on links shared through Facebook and Twitter.
Later on Sunday I read about how "social buzz" can be a very accurate predictor of key pop culture events, including, of course, last night's Academy Awards.
The article relies on an Adobe initiative, called the Adobe Digital Index, which is based on an analysis of data from more than 5,000 companies worldwide that use the Adobe Marketing Cloud solutions. The ADI, this story reported, has already demonstrated pretty convincingly the ability of social buzz to predict a movie's financial prospects. ADI correctly predicted that "Ender's Game" and "Delivery Man" would do poorly, while "Thor: The Dark World," "Anchorman 2," and "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" would make money.
So how did it do with the Oscars? Hmmm. It predicted that Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence would win, and we all now know that Matthew McConaughey and Lupita Nyong'o won. Beyond that, the ADI was close. It predicted that Cate Blanchett would win, and she did. It predicted that the race for best picture was too close to call between "Gravity" and "12 Years a Slave." The latter won. It did, however, say that "12 Years a Slave" director Steve McQueen had run away with the social buzz and would win best director. He did not.
But put aside the accuracy of those particular indices and you realize that something really important is going on in media. Social is where the action is. It's where people get their news. It's where they engage with commmunities. It's where marketers measure pop-culture resonance. One of the things I was thinking about as I read about the Ukraine crisis was how old the headlines in the print newspaper really were. They were published on the Saturday, probably late afternoon. They were based on reporting from earlier that day and the day prior. So what I was reading in the print version of the Sunday New York Times was anywhere from 24 to 48 hours old, while what I was reading on the New York Times website was very close to real time. At best, it was a few hours old. Where would you gravitate?
All of which leaves PR pros with five important takeaways.
• Don't obsess over traditional media relations and media placements. Instead, make your brand and your clients part of the social-media news and information ecosystem.
• Old-style media coverage, while still important, has absolutely been eclipsed by social communities, and sometimes those communities don't even need the established media brands.
• News travels fast. Don't find yourself responding to what was relevant 48 hours ago.
• Make social-media monitoring and measurement a top priority for your team. It's a more productive source of cultural understanding than older media.
• Old media brands offer first-rate journalism. Social buzz tells you how your own brand (and other relevant entities) are faring among stakeholders and the culture at large.
—Tony Silber
This Blog Post Was Not Subsidized by Amtrak
I'm writing this blog post on Amtrak's Northeast Regional, but I want to make it plain that it's not on Amtrak's dime. So I'm free to complain about the woman across the aisle from me on the quiet car who keeps talking on her cell phone, the stopped-up sink in the bathroom, the stifling heat and the stale air.
I mention this because the railway has succeeded recently at creating positive buzz over its new writer residency program, in which it offers writers a free round-trip ride (but no pay) as a sort of mobile writing space. The New Yorker reported that the program was inspired by a comment this past December from train-enthusiast and novelist Alexander Chee, who said that he wished Amtrak offered residencies for writers. The comment was shared among writers on Twitter, and Amtrak jumped into the fray and offered one of those writers—New York-based freelance writer Jessica Gross—its first free ride in what will soon become a formal program, based around the official hashtag #AmtrakResidency.
Amtrak is still trying to figure out the particulars of the program. Gross' ride was just a test run, and the railway was probably not expecting such a clamor for free rides from writers. While Amtrak basks in this wave of goodwill and takes deserved credit for being so quick and clever, it might want to take seriously the question of quid pro quo raised by New Yorker writer Vauhini Vara and Poynter.org writer Al Tompkins' comments that while it's fine for a novelist or songwriter to accept a free ride from Amtrak, journalists should always avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived.
It's all too easy for a suddenly popular promotional vehicle to turn bad, so Amtrak will have to work out clear guidelines before sending the next writer out on the rails. For instance, how will Amtrak handle it when a writer complains in a blog post about the stopped-up sink, the lack of fresh air and the blabbers in the quiet car?
Damn, it's hot in here.
—Steve Goldstein
9 Habits of Highly Effective PR People
There are three types of PR professionals: ineffective, good and great. It's as simple as that, really. Most PR pros are good – they've found a comfortable place to practice their trade and are making an impact with their organization or clients. But Public Relations cannot afford to be a majority of Good professionals if it wants to lead the charge in moving markets and reputations.
Going from Good to Great takes work and new habits. Fortunately, habits are hard to break – so if you can acquire these 9 Habits of Highly Effective PR People, then you'll no longer settle for Good. Based on conversations with PR professionals and our PR News team's interviews with thousands of leaders, here are nine great PR habits:
1. Listen hard: don't pretend you're listening. Focus during key conversations and jot down what you heard, because you think you'll remember the key takeaways but you won't.
2. Speak the local language: understand the lingo of the communities and markets you serve and learn their language. The nuances can make a difference in your communications campaign.
3. Read until your eyes hurt: Always be reading something – be it a magazine article, a news item online, a fiction or non-fiction book. Reading stirs your imagination, helps you to become a better writer, and, of course, keeps you well-informed.
4. Embrace measurement: you've heard that you can't manage what you don't measure. It's true. Sometimes it's tough to swallow the results, much less communicate them. Establishing reasonable metrics and evaluating regularly will allow you to pivot, improve, learn and succeed.
5. Become a subject matter expert: Being a Jack (or Jackie) of All Trades is over-rated. Find a niche, study it, live it and become the go-to expert on that niche.
6. Practice your math: Knowing how to read a Profit/Loss statement, how to build and execute on a budget, how to calculate growth and decline will position you for leadership, and improve your PR initiatives.
7. Hone your writing skills: whether it's a finely crafted memo, a post-campaign report or an email to a colleague or client, make your writing sing. How you write is often how you're perceived in the field of communications. If you can't articulate your message in writing, you can't go from Good to Great.
8. Master your Social: Social media is not a strategy, it's a platform. Understand it and use it regularly but don't let Fear of Missing Out make you an obsessive social communicator. The other "social" — communicating and networking with peers and stakeholders (preferably in person or by phone) — holds more long-term value for you as a PR leader.
9. Be a PR advocate: Public Relations often suffers from an image problem; PR is not just about pitching to the media or bitching about the media; it's one of the most important disciplines within an organization. Advocate for your profession – and the best way to do that is by being a Great PR Person.
I might have missed a few habits, so please add to this list!
- Diane Schwartz
What We've Got Here Is Failure to Communicate—With Millennials
Maybe you recall Strother Martin's pained, twisted line of dialogue spoken to Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke, delivered after Martin has struck chain-gang prisoner Newman with a blackjack: "What we've got here is failure to communicate."
I thought of this line after seeing the story making the rounds yesterday that British millennials check their mobile devices every nine minutes and 50 seconds. This kind of data and story promotes the concept that millennials are an entirely different species of human, and insinuates that they're unfocused, difficult to manage, flighty and much more addicted to technology than the rest of us.
The failure to communicate with millennials—from both the brand and personal perspectives—stems not from what makes them different from the rest of the population, but from assumptions based on anecdotal evidence, bite-size statistics and generational resentment. It's the old saw: "These kids today, they want everything handed to them on a silver platter—we never had it so good."
First, about the stats making the rounds yesterday: They sprang from a U.K. Daily Mail story that quoted a study conducted by a "customer service solutions" company called KANA, which has certainly succeeded in getting its name out there. Are its findings telling? Perhaps, but it's too easy to take its showcase stat about 18-to-24-year-olds out of context. I know this is anecdotal on my part, but it seems to me that we're all hopelessly addicted to our mobile devices.
"Millennials are people, not 'a people,'" says Jake Katz, VP, audience insights & strategy for music-focused TV network Revolt. "Behaviorally, they are more similar than different to other generations," says Katz, who will be keynoting PR News' Digital PR Summit in San Francisco on Feb. 5, and who was formerly general manager of Ypulse, a youth market research firm.
For brands, the first step to communicating with millennials, according to Katz, is to discard the popular myth that they are massively different from everybody else, and pivot from thinking about what they are to how to communicate with the many different geographical and age ranges within the millennial demographic.
It's time to lay the proverbial generational blackjack to rest and begin the real work of learning about the people around you—on a business and personal level.
—Steve Goldstein
Why Smart Communicators Use the Phone
You can feel yourself age when you use such antiquated words like "telephone" in front of your 12-year-old son. "Mom, who says 'telephone' anymore?" He has a point.
Every now and then "telephone" creeps into my language, as do other throwbacks like Rolodex and VCR. Just as we don't say "telephone" very often, we also don't use the device as much as we should in the communications business. We're so used to emailing, texting, posting, pinning, sharing and liking that we often put phone communications on the back burner. That phone taking up space on your desk is a bit lonely.
In the past week how many times have you engaged in a business conversation via the phone versus email or LinkedIn or even texting? How many times have you thought, "I should have just called her"? Or, "I wonder what he meant in that email when he said 'let's discuss'"? Perhaps it means we should actually talk.
Phone communication for business is not yet an antiquated activity but it's getting there. Let's not contribute to its demise. Communicators who pick up the phone – either to make a call or receive a call – will (and do) have the edge with stakeholders. Social media cannot replace phone calls. Emailing cannot replace a one-on-one conversation. An interview with a reporter that's done by email is inferior to one that's either in-person or by phone. A customer-service related issue is usually more efficient via email but if you really want to 'wow' a customer, check in by phone. A press release does not replace verbal communication with key stakeholders.
As we embark on a new year for communications excellence, let's make the call to take the call or make a call.
- Diane Schwartz @dianeschwartz
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Words and Phrases to be Banned, 2014 Edition
English has 1.1 million words, more words than any other language, according to the Global Language Monitor and other sources. That's double the next most prolific language. And English adds about 15 words per day, or one every 98 minutes.
So 400 years after the greatest English wordsmith of them all, William Shakespeare, the language remains a living, changing, vital form of communication, something PR folks use every day. And they work hard at it. It's said PR is, at its core, storytelling. But if that's true, then storytelling, at its core, is about words.
It stands to reason, then, that as words get added, other words become obsolete. Who uses "groovy" anymore? And as technology transforms our lives, the lifecycle of some words speeds up. In that spirit, we offer a list of words we came across as 2014 dawned that should be banned, starting now.
Words to be Banned, Generic Edition
(Courtesy of Lake Superior State University, and selected by them for the sins of misuse, overuse and general uselessness)
• Selfie
• Twerking
• Hashtag
• Twittersphere
• Mr. Mom
• T-bone
• _____ on Steroids
• _____ageddon
• _____pocalypse
A related list, from USA Today, gets at a few more words and phrases that have become persona non grata.
• Photobomb
• Combined celebrity couple names
• "Abbrevs," like "ridic," "totes," "obv," "cray," and lots more.
• Overhashtagging
Phrases and Words to be Banned, Work Edition
(Courtesy of USA Today)
• Noncommittal language
• Describing things as "surreal"
• Saying "quote-unquote"
• Starting all sentences with "So," and ending them with "right?"
Phrases and Words to be Banned, PR Edition
(Courtesy of Yahoo Tech's David Pogue)
You'll never catch me using terms like "price point" when I mean "price," or "form factor" when I mean "size." I'll never say "content" when I mean video, "solution" when I mean product, "DRM" when I mean copy protection, or "functionality" when I mean "feature." Also, I will never refer to you as "the user." (If you think about it, only two industries refer to their customers as users.)
So there you have it. What do you think? So when I was compiling this list, it seemed like a valuable study in the use of language, right?
—Tony Silber
Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Journalist Whisperer?
At PR News' recent Media Relations Conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Amy Eisman of American University's School of Communication and a founding editor of USA Today brought up the concept of the "journalist whisperer." This is a PR professional who can speak a journalist's language on the platform they want to be reached on. Someone who doesn't have to use press releases or mass emails but has developed relationships to the point where they are only a call, informal email or G-chat away from the right journalist to cover their client's or organization's story.
Isn't this what the whole media relations function is all about, what it's always been about? Perhaps in the bygone days of long lunches, ad-stuffed newspapers and magazines and fat expense accounts (both on the PR and media sides of the equation) no one had to be told to be a journalist whisperer. There was time to build relationships.
Now it's just plain hard to keep relationships of all types together. The pace of life and technology itself seems to have driven wedges between individuals—between family members, between friends, between business colleagues.
It's up to you to break that pattern. Amy Eisman didn't cook up the term "journalist whisperer"—she heard it from a journalist friend who made it plain that she needs the help of great PR pros. She needs their help to do her job, more than ever. She wants to forge bonds with PR pros who know her, know her work habits, know the unique pressures she's under, know what she needs to hit her own deadlines and drive the bottom line for her own media organization.
So commit to building those relationships with the media professionals who matter to you. And the best way to do that is to do what you would do in any relationship. Don't wait until you need something to reach out to them. Ask them how they're doing and what they need when you don't need anything in particular. Just a little whisper, once in awhile.
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New Year's Resolutions for the PR-Minded
The good thing about New Year's resolutions is that no one is really listening closely to what you are resolving to do. But resolutions do crystallize our goals and make the month of January, at least, a little more interesting. For communicators the world over, you should expect 2014 to bring the following:
> Crises, smoldering or quick
> Reputations under fire or on fire
> Media coverage, for better or worse
> Employee morale issues
> Financial ups and downs
> Product and company launches
> Product and company failures
> A new social media craze
These are just a few of the sure things in PR as we herald in the new year and perhaps a new approach to PR. In my nearly two decades covering Public Relations, I have never seen a bigger opportunity than now for PR practitioners to be the dominant force in brand leadership, message management and tying intangibles and tangibles to the bottom line.
There are many ways to not screw up this trajectory and to possibly make 2014 the most exciting year for you in PR. To do that, however, will take some commitment to the core tenets and practices of the best PR practitioners. Here at PR News we benchmark outstanding communication leadership across all areas of the market. From our Platinum PR to our PR People Awards, from Corporate Social Responsibility to the Digital PR Awards, we see a pattern in excellence that underscores why resolutions are worth keeping. Like many New Year's Resolutions, the following list may sound familiar but I submit that the best ideas are worth repeating:
* Find the interesting story behind your message – and tell it
* Measure your PR and be bold enough to make adjustments
* Listen to your stakeholders: your customers, investors, employees are your keys to success
* Learn to work across silos – marketing, HR, IT, Finance, Legal
* Become a better goal-keeper: of your goals, your department's and your organization's
* Collaborate internally and externally – 1+1=3
* Hone your writing skills: you reach more people when you can spell, turn a phrase and use your words correctly
* Foster diversity: in thought and experience
* Don't fear missing out: resist the urge to be on every social media platform
* Be transparent: people are smart enough to see through the BS anyway
* Advocate for PR: become a voice for Public Relations inside your organization and in the marketplace of ideas.
What are some of your PR resolutions for 2014? Please share with your fellow PR News blog readers.
Best of luck to you and your team for a meaningful and memorable 2014.
– Diane Schwartz
PS – Check out more of my blog posts from the past few months:
Beyonce's December Surprise is a PR Masterpiece
Ten Tough Questions to Ask Yourself Now
Nine Tips for Public Speakers Who Hate Public Speaking
The Most Annoying Sayings: The Epic List
When to Apologize
As I write this I'm watching a report on MSNBC criticizing the apology issued by 60 Minutes for a report last month about the attack on the embassy in Benghazi.
The apology, by correspondent Lara Logan, was not enough—that was the consensus.
"It was not nearly satisfying," said guest David Brock. "I thought it was 60 Minutes, not 60 Seconds." The show is all about holding sources accountable, Brock said, and 60 Minutes should do the same for itself.
This has been a big week for apologies. President Obama apologized for the bumpy rollout of the Affordable Care Act. Home Depot apologized for a racist tweet.
And 60 Minutes still hasn't been able to contain the damage.
Public apologies by organizations almost always fall to the communications team, the PR pros. And there's plenty of scholarship on how to do apologies best, and put unfortunate mistakes behind your company or organization. Among those things are to act immediately and to commit to an investigation.
But I sometimes think the only way to really handle apologies is to not make mistakes in the first place. Seriously. Think about it. In politics and business, if you make a mistake, apologies are demanded. The volume gets higher and higher, and the demands more hysterical. It's rare indeed that you can tough things out, although that sometimes does happen.
In politics, there's an "apology game," where one side demands an apology for some perceived transgression, whether there's an actual offense or not.
And then there's the apology trap—whatever the offense, no apology ever clears the record. Even when apologies are accepted, mistakes are never forgotten. Years—decades—later, whatever the initial incident was, it morphs into a "scandal." It will remain on your record forever, dredged up in the media whenever it suites the story.
So if you're a PR pro, what to do? Here's my advice: Don't apologize as a way to placate others. Don't expect absolution, because it won't come. Apologize because you know you (or your organization) messed up and that it's the right thing to do. Period.
—Tony Silber
What's First, Technology or Content?
I've been thinking lately about how media is moving increasingly toward a greater technology dependence. I've read about how investment dollars, especially in Silicon Valley, where so much media-related innovation is occurring, steer towards technology solutions for media consumers. New utilities—new ways to interact with content—seems to be more important than the content itself.
Think about the major social media and many of the new online-only media businesses like TripAdvisor and Yelp. User interfaces, tools, analytics and more are the difference-makers. They create no content on their own, really, but they have massive audiences. Google commands more ad dollars than the whole magazine and newspaper industries combined.
Which for me (and for PR communicators) raises an interesting question: Should media companies—and the PR departments and firms that create brand content and provide content to the media—be technology companies first and content companies second? Has some paradigm shifted in the media world?
Now, before you dismiss what I'm saying as just simplistic nonsense, consider that not only is Google an advertising giant, but so is Facebook. So is YouTube. Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and others will rise in ad spend, and they all depend on users for their content. They pay no content creators, but they create extraordinary technology-based environments for people to post their own content.
And if you're looking for consistency in the argument, consider that most media companies acknowledge freely that the one-way form of communication is dead. The old-school model of, 'we-create-content-and-you-consume-it" is simply incomprehensible to modern media users. They take cellphone photos and videos, and share them easily. Even media companies say that they want to create a platform for community interaction.
In that context, then, should we be focused on content—or technologies that enable the sharing of content? It's a fascinating question.
There are those who say that without content, there's nothing. No Google and no Facebook. Which is true. But that doesn't really address the question of who's doing the creating.
—Tony Silber


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Bill Clinton Endorses Strickland For US Senate Race
Former President Bill Clinton is endorsing former Ohio governor Ted Strickland's U.S. Senate bid.
Listen to the Story
Yesterday Chrysler notified dozens of Ohio dealers that their franchises would be terminated. Today General Motors is doing the same thing. Ohio Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy is calling for a one-month delay in the terminations.
In a letter to a treasury official, Democrat Representative Mary Jo Kilroy says closed door, back room decisions to shut down dealerships are not based on credible evidence.
"I have asked the auto industry task force to give us a good reason why this would be a good thing for American auto, for the American economy or for central Ohio and in the meantime to put a moratorium on these dealership closings," Kilroy says.
The franchise terminations have angered some dealers. George Byers of Byers Chevrolet is adamant that General Motors cannot terminate franchises because, he says, the corporation is not in bankruptcy.
Another GM dealership head, Chris Haydocy, says he's breathing a sigh of relief because his franchise won't be pulled. But he says
"The whole thing reeks. Never in the history of the United States has a task force and a manufacturer and a bankruptcy judge decide to arbitrarily shut down thousands of small businesses," Haydocy says. "It's a malicious attack on our basic freedoms.
It's not yet known how many Ohio dealers will lose their affiliations with General Motors.

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I'm building a small web service. To showcase what the service can do I am going to build a lite-weight interface. I'm having a hard time figuring out how my REST API and regular Django views can play nicely together.
Here's my setup:
Using django-piston to build a simple CRUD REST web service.
Using Django views with httplib2 to GET/POST to/from that web service.
Both are being run from the same Django project (and thus same web server).
Right now I have simple read REST service working in the browser. But when I try to use httplib2 from the Django view the request just hangs.
My questions:
-Am I thinking about this the right way?
-Is there a better way to accomplish this?
-Should my REST web service be a different project (and web server) than my REST interface?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!


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Carpenters Union Local 30. Our members are all over the world!
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Frog Species Discovered Living In Elephant Dung 56
from the I've-lived-in-worse-places dept.
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Frogs Species Discovered Living In Elephant Dung
You call that living?
the first time anyone has recorded frogs living in elephant droppings
There could be a reason for that...
frogs and Asian elephants, which are in decline.
So they're BOTH in deep shit?
No actually, the shit is declining too. It should be much deeper.
Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to work.


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Oct. 31-, 1967 R. JOHNSON 3,350,260
METHOD OF FORMING A CONFIGURED FIBROUS WEB CONTAINING PAPER-MAKING FIBERS AND FIBERS OF A HEAT-SEALABLE MATERIAL Filed July 28, 1964 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Get. 31, 1967 R. JOHNSON 3,350,260
METHOD OF FORMING A CONFIGURED FIBROUS WEB CONTAINING PAPER-MAKING FIBERS AND FIBERS OF A HEATSEALABLE7 MATERIAL Filed July 28, 1964 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 llnited States I atent O 3,350,260 METHOD OF FORMING A CONFIGURED FI- BROUS WEB CONTAINING PAPER-MAKING FIBERS AND FIBERS OF A HEAT-SEALABLE MATERIAL Reginald Johnson, Bolton, England, assignor to James R. Crompton and Brothers Limited, Bury, England, a British Company Filed July 28, 1964, Ser. No. 385,602 Claims priority, application Great Britain, July 29, 1963,
3 Claims. (Cl. 162-116) ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Method of manufacturing a fibrous web which can be used for making tea bags which consists in blanking off selected areas of a paper-making forming screen or wire at spaced locations so as to leave areas of unrestricted flow, that is, open mesh areas, and laying the fibres in suspension on said paper-making forming wire, which fibres are paper-making fibres and short fibres of heatsealable material, the paper-making fibres having a length sufficient to form a continuous web on the forming wire while the heat-sealing material fibres are of a length such that they are led down predominantly along the open mesh areas of the paper-making forming wire, and in one specific embodiment the open mesh areas are of an inch wide and the paper-making fibres are predominantly of a length of of an inch.
This invention relates to a method of manufacturing a fibrous web.
It has previously been proposed to manufacture fibrous webs, e.g. of paper, by laying down the web from a fluid suspension which is applied to a travelling wire or cloth screen. The suspending fluid, which can be liquid or gaseous, drains through the screen leaving behind web-forming fibres which are subsequently removed from the wire as a continuous web.
An object of the present invention is to provide means whereby the fibres forming a web can be deposited according to a given pattern.
According to the present invention, there is provided a method of manufacturing a fibrous web comprising applying a suspension of fibres in a fluid onto a supporting screen, said screen being provided with means for restricting fluid drain-age through the screen according to a given pattern whereby a fibrous web is laid down on the screen in accordance with said pattern.
In the manufacture of paper for use in making tea bags, it has previously been the practice to apply a fluid suspension of fibres onto a travelling wire screen to form an air-permeable paper web. The paper web thus formed is then coated with a further layer of fibres comprising wholly or mainly a heat scalable material, the heat sealing fibres being distributed substantially uniformly over the paper web. It will be apparent that by using the above process an excess of heat-sealing fibres are used and this has two distinct disadvantages. Firstly, the fact that the heat sealing fibres are distributed uniformly over the whole of the paper web instead of merely at those locations where heat sealing is required means that an unnecessary amount of heat sealing fibres is being used. Secondly, again due to the uniform distribution of the heat sealing fibres over the paper web, the air permeability and fusion rate of those portions of a tea bag which are not to be heat sealed is decreased.
Embodiments of the invention will now be described, by Way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
3,350,2 60 Patented Oct. 31, 1.967
FIGURE 1 is a diagrammatic representation of one form of apparatus for carrying out the present invention,
FIGURE 2 is a fragmentary view to an enlarged scale of a wire screen suitable for producing tea bag paper,
FIGURE 3 is a fragmentary view of a tea bag paper produced in accordance with-the method of the invention,
FIGURE 4 is a fragmentary view of another form of paper produced by the present invention, and
FIGURE 5 is a diagrammatic representation of an alternative form of apparatus for carrying out the present invention.
In the method according to the present invention and with particular reference to FIGURES l to 3, the heat sealing tea bag paper is made according to accepted practice except that the normal type of travelling wire screen is replaced by one in the form of an open mesh wire web 6 of which discontinuous areas 7 (FIGURE 2) are blanked off by means of coating them with hardened gelatin. The screen 6 is driven through drive rolls 8, 9 and travels over guide rolls 10, 11, 12 and 13. The blanked 'ofl areas 7 are of square form and 7 to the inch and are separated from each other by peripheral open mesh areas 14, that are wide.
When the suspension of base paper fibres 15, held in a reservoir 16, is fed onto the screen 6 the suspension fluid drains into a receptacle 17 through the wire screen 6 as at 18 only at the open mesh areas 14 and the fibres as shown in FIGURE 3 tend to be concentrated in the pattern of these areas but because of the relative length of these fibres 15, average about a thin web nevertheless does extend over the whole screen surface. When the suspension 19 of heat-sealing fibres 20 (FIGURE 3) and attendant beaten paper-making fibres is added to the partially formed sheet from a head-box 21, according to accepted practice, then these much shorter fibres tend to be deposited almost exclusively over the open drainage areas 14 when the remainder of the suspension fluid drains through. The fibrous Web thus formed is then drawn off the Wire screen 6 and is then as shown in FIGURE 3 in the form of regular square areas substantially free of heat-sealing fibres 20 (shown in blacker lines in FIGURE 3), each area being surrounded by a peripheral area in which the heat sealing fibres 20 have been concentrated.
Using a wire screen of this particular design, the open areas 14 comprise of the total area of the screen and consequently the heat sealing fibres 20 and attendant short paper-making fibres will cover approximately /2 of the total area of the paper. The size and shape of blanked-off areas and peripheral clear areas can of course be varied as desired.
The fact that approximately half of the area of the tea bag made with this paper is substantially free of heat-sealing fibres 20 and attendant short paper-making fibres ensures a greater air permeability in the uncovered areas and results in the use of less heat-sealing fibres than has previously been required. Both factors result in a tea bag when made according to the invention, having an improved infusion rate.
Although in the above described embodiment, the screen 6 is stated to be of wire and the blanked-off areas 7 are formed by coating the screen with gelatin, the screen 6 can be of any suitable material e.g. synethetic plastic and the blanked-off areas 7 can be obtained with materials other than gelatin e.g. thermoplastic or thermosetting synthetic plastic material or solder. Alternatively, the areas can be blanked-off by electrolytic deposition.
The present invention has been described above with specific reference to the manufacture of tea bags. It will be appreciated, however, that the method has much wider applications. For example, in a second embodiment of the invention described with particular reference to FIGURE 4 and in which heat sealing fibres are not employed, the screen is given any desired pattern by means of blanking-off discontinuous areas. Fibres 22 of a sufiiciently short average length chosen to suit the pattern size and the extent of the gaps between blankedoff areas is then laid down in suspension on the screen. The fibres 22 are oriented along the gaps and when the web is drawn off the screen, a fibrous network as shown in FIGURE 4 of the desired pattern results. The design of the pattern governs the properties of the network produced as regards strength, stretch, drape and permeability.
If in the preceding embodiment, longer fibres are employed for the same given pattern of screen, the resultant fibrous web is in the nature of an inter-connected network of ridges of relatively high substance i.e. wt/unit area, each mesh of the network being closed by a fibrous membrane of a thinner relatively low substance. By this means a fibrous web is obtained in which for a given overall substance, the air-permeability is greatly increased whilst the strength relative to a uniform sheet of the same substance is approximately the same.
In a third embodiment of the present invention as described with reference to FIGURE 5, the pattern is not embodied in or superimposed on the screen. In this arrangement a uniform plain screen 23 is employed and there is brought into contact with the uniform screen 23 a second endless screen 24 having a patterned surface and being adapted to move in known fashion around a system of rollers 25. Drainage can take place through the screen 24 in accordance with the pattern. A fiuid suspension 26 of base paper fibres is fed on to the uniform screen 23, the excess fluid draining through into a trough 27 located below the screen, the water being capable of being drawn off from the trough through an outlet valve 28. At a point subsequent to the laying On of the base paper fibres in relation to the path of travel of the screen 23, a second suspension of paper fibers is positioned in a head-box 29 above where the screens 23 and 24 approach one another closely. When the second suspension is fed as a second layer on the existing uniform layer carried by the screen 23, the second layer is patterned due to the patterned screen 24. In the same manner as in the preceding embodiments, the tendency is for the fibres of the second layer to be oriented mainly along the open areas of the pattern thus producing a correspondingly patterned fibrous web which can be drawn off the uniform screen 23. The patterned surface although shown in FIGURE as a continuous wire screen 24 can be in any other suitable form e.g. it can be a rubber or synthetic plastic belt, wire-covered roll, or a hollow or solid roll with an etched, cut or moulded pattern thereon, means always being provided for the removal of the fiuid drainage from the open areas of the pattern. In this embodiment, the blocked out patterns can be continuous i.e. connected areas and the open areas separate. This arrangement permits the production of a fibrous web made up of a plurality of layers which can be efiected by using multiple head-boxes and a combination of unrestricted or patterned drainage stages. Each of the several layers can be of the same composition or alternatively, individual layers can have special characteristics as desired, e.g. colour or heat sealing properties. Additional layers superimposed on the initial fibrous layer need not be fibrous e.g. they can be mineral pigments.
In the three embodiments of the invention described above the pattern on the screen is formed by taking a uniform screen and blanking ofl areas as desired. The screen can also be provided with a pattern in suitable cases, by weaving the wire or cloth to form a woven pattern so that areas of varying drainage rates are produced. In this way, a similar etIect can be obtained even although certain areas are not completely blanked-ot Any desired patterns can be reproduced in the screens of the above-described embodiments, although where only a single patterned screen is employed, the open areas must be continuous.
What I claim is:
1. In the method of manufacturing a fibrous web comprising applying a suspension of paper-making fibres and fibres 'of a heat scalable material of a shorter length than the length of said paper-making fibres on to a supporting screen, restricting fluid drainage through the screen at spaced locations by blanking off selected areas of said screen, and laying down a web on the screen from the suspension so that the paper-making fibres form a continuous paper web while the heat sealing fibres being shorter in length than the paper-making fibres are located predominantly along the continuous unrestricted areas of the screen.
2. A method as claimed in claim 1, comprising applying the paper-making fibres and the heat scalable fibres to the screen independently of each other.
3. A method as claimed in claim 1, comprising employing paper-making fibres having an average length of about inch and when blanking off the selected areas of the screen leaving unrestricted fiow areas of less transverse dimensions than the length of said paper-making fibres.
References Cited UNlTED STATES PATENTS 3,185,615 5/1965 Reifers 162-411 X 3,190,790 6/1965 Ploetz et al. 162-299 X FOREIGN PATENTS 437,945 3/1912 France. 959,213 9/1949 France.
24,085 1892 Great Britain.
S. LEON BASHORE, Primary Examiner.
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Location, had a restaurant and bar
Little out dated could use a little tlc
The hotel is exceptionally clean and modern. The beds were also very comfortable. We loved the hot breakfast which included bacon! We are picky people, I work in hospitality and we loved it...that says A LOT!
One thing they do nor have is an elevator. There are first floor rooms though. Its just coming in late one is tired and stairs are not my idea of a good time. They are not steep at all, maybee 20shallow steps. Oh well therest makes up for IT!
very clean, modern room
the location is a bit out of the way in terms of dining
Friendly and helpful staff . Clean pool and game area .
Room was too hot . Not much for breakfast selection .
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For starters... The rooms were disgusting. Carpet stains, bedding stains, old smoke smell, hair in drain and floor, moldy caulking, blood splatter on walls in pool area, no wifi, stale cereal and pop tarts for continental breakfast.
Newer, clean, quiet.
The front desk was unmanned several times, including when I had to check in, so there was a short wait to get help each time. Limited counter space by sink.
Staff, location, room configuration, the room was big, clean, sheets clean, appreciated the little bed tray/laptop table. The staff did provide cleaning material when I requested for it to clean the toilet.
The toilet wasn't clean and smelled funny- a little nauseating actually. Probably wasn't cleaned well, as some 'material was visible in it'. I'm sure it was an oversight, as the rest of the hotel areas were clean.
clean, odor free room, nice public areas
the bathroom needs updating. the shower dripped all night, and there are ugly stains at the base of the tub where it meets the floor.
Great location. Very clean and the beds are fantastic.
If a 'king suite' is booked, put a sitting chair of some sort in the room. Twice staying here booking a suite now I have had to watch TV from a very uncomfortable desk chair. I asked for a room with a chair but was denied.
My overall experience was good. The hotel exceeded my expectations.
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Cleanliness & very close to a highway
Breakfast offerings dismal! We arrived 45 minutes BEFORE end time & there was 3 lonely sausages, NO eggs, out of many coffees and NO staff available to ask!! Staffer Dan finally showed up, walked in, checked, placed 5 disposable plates & disappeared
Well appointed rooms, microwave and fridge appreciated.
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If Bernie Sanders, Vermont's left-leaning U.S. senator, decides to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, one Rhode Islander who will be on his team is veteran Democratic political consultant Tad Devine.
Devine, who has held top roles in the presidential campaigns of John Kerry, Mike Dukakis and Al Gore, has had Sanders as a client, going back to the 1990s, when Sanders held Vermont's lone seat in the U.S. House.
Once again, Rhode Islanders have elected a governor with far less than a majority of the vote. RIPR political analyst Scott MacKay wonders what we can do about this.
The boisterous cheers among delirious Democrats crammed into the Providence Biltmore's 17th floor ballroom on election night have barely quieted. You can't blame them for hoisting drinks and shouting themselves hoarse: Gina Raimondo became the first woman to win election as Rhode Island's governor and the only Democrat to capture the state's highest elected office since 1992.
It was an improbable tableaux that unfolded in a hotel overlooking Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont, on the afternoon of May 24, 2001: A man so unassuming he was known as `Geesum Jim', from a state of scant consequence in American politics, changed the course of the most powerful government on earth merely by saying he no longer believed in the Republican Party he grew up in.
That was the day then-U.S. Sen. James M. Jeffords, universally known as ``Jim'' stood in a hotel ballroom and told the world why he was leaving the Republican Party to caucus with U.S. Senate Democrats.
While economists and media outlets from Providence to Seattle engage in hand-wringing over inequality, Rhode Island's political leaders seem to have no solutions at all. Smith Hill is bogged down in ridiculous debates over the master lever and the never-ending tsunami that is 38 Studios. Yet, we don't hear much of anything about raising the state's minimum wage from the current $8 an hour rate.
Stephen L. Brown, longtime associate publisher of the Providence Phoenix, is leaving the alternative newspaper after a career of nearly four decades as a leader in New England's alternative newspaper landscape.
Brown, of Jamestown, turns 60 next month. Steve started in newspapering at the University of Vermont, where he began working on the student newspaper, `The Vermont Cynic' as an undergraduate in the 1970s.
Federal regulators are being asked to resolve a regional rift over who should pay for new power lines needed to carry renewable electricity to southern New England.
Vermont has joined New Hampshire and Rhode Island to oppose the cost-sharing formula being promoted by Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maine. The question now before federal authorities is how much rate payers in Vermont should pay for a power line project that mainly benefits people in southern New England.
Gov. Lincoln Chafee has joined the rest of New England's governors signing an accord to create a regional power plan.
New England's six governors say if their states work together, they can share the cost of building natural gas pipelines and power transmission lines delivering Canadian hydro-power, and that will lower energy costs. Chafee warns it will take a long-term investment to bring down power bills.
Southern New England, in particular Massachusetts and Connecticut, needs more renewable generation to meet their clean-energy mandates. But the supply to meet that demand is mostly in the north wind power from the mountains of Maine, or hydroelectricity from vast reservoirs in Quebec.
Our air conditioners have been working overtime in this steamy summer. Our wallets will be lighter when the electricity bills arrive. Rhode Island Public Radio political analyst Scott MacKay says to stabilize power costs, Rhode Island needs to look north to Canada.
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Change happens slowly in politics. Except when it doesn't. RIPR political analyst Scott MacKay explains the forces behind Rhode Island's reversal on gay marriage.
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Paul Ryan stepped into the vice presidential debate prepped with a cadre of misstatements to confuse voters. But he didn't get away with much, what with Vice President Joe Biden giving him a drubbing and moderator Martha Radditz repeatedly holding his feet to the proverbial fire.
Republicans' reaction to last week's Monday Night Football debacle was record-breaking given their decades of hating on union workers.
Although Chicago has a Democratic Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, it's the Republicans who have made the strike a national political issue by criticizing the Chicago public school teachers and their union.
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As Ryan attempts to dismantle Medicare as we know it, he is trying to distract attention from his plan by falsely claiming that Obama is the one who is cutting Medicare. People in Wisconsin have not fallen for Ryan's illusion, and I expect voters across America won't either.
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While tight with the purse strings when it comes to public employees, apparently the Walker administration does support full employment for at least one group of workers who clearly don't rely upon collective bargaining: identity thieves.
The teachers unions are under attack -- and not just from Scott Walker. In addition to attacks from politicians, media, and the public, some teachers have also voiced criticism of their unions.
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Just yesterday the Charlie Crist ad bashing Rick Scott for cutting college scholarships came on TV again. What timing.
Sandy D'Alemberte is right. John Thrasher is well-qualified to become Florida State University's next president.
Who is more disingenuous about gubernatorial travel, Charlie Crist or Steve Bousquet of the Tampa Bay Times?
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Following the release of a Senate report harshly criticizing U.S. intelligence gathering and analysis, the focus will soon shift to whether and how to make sweeping changes to the intelligence community.
After a yearlong investigation, the Senate Intelligence Committee released nearly 120 conclusions about the intelligence community's performance on estimating the threat from Iraq, found primarily in a 2002 assessment that served as the Bush's administration's leading arguments for war.
After the release of the 511-page review Friday, the panel's top Democrat, West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, said three-quarters of senators would not have voted to authorize the invasion if they had known how weak the intelligence was.
"This report cries out for reform," said committee chairman Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican.
In the unanimously approved report, senators concluded that the CIA kept key information from its own and other agencies' analysts; engaged in "group think" by failing to challenge the assumption that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction; and allowed President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell to make false statements.
"Most, if not all, of these problems stem from a broken corporate culture and poor management," which won't be fixed simply by giving the agency more money or people, the report said.
Among much-discussed reform proposals, some have suggested centralizing the intelligence community under a Cabinet-level Director of National Intelligence who would oversee the roughly $40 billion budget of the 15-agency intelligence apparatus. Currently, the CIA director also oversees the intelligence community, but he doesn't control the vast majority of the money.
Deputy Central Intelligence Director John McLaughlin, who said the CIA and other agencies are adapting and making internal reforms, urged caution against disruptions while the nation is in the middle of the anti-terror fight. "Some sort of reordering of the boxes here will not bring you perfection in the intelligence business," he said.
But politics may play more of a role in reforms than anything else. Few believe significant changes will happen before the November election.
The report was yet another blow to the credibility of the Bush administration and U.S. intelligence agencies. The committee concluded that key assertions used to justify the Iraq war - that Saddam Hussein had chemical and biological weapons and was working to build nuclear weapons - were either wrong or overblown.
Mr. Bush called the report a useful accounting of intelligence agencies' shortcomings. He defended the decision to go to war, however, as well as his prewar assertions about Saddam's government and weapons of mass destruction.
"We haven't found the stockpiles, but we knew he could make them," Mr. Bush said. "The world is better off without Saddam Hussein in power."
Although senators from both parties agreed in harshly criticizing the CIA, Democrats and Republicans clashed over whether administration officials had pressured intelligence analysts to reach predetermined conclusions on the Iraq threat. Democrats said there was pressure; Republicans said there were tough questions but no inappropriate influence.
Democrats also said the investigation should have examined whether the White House had twisted the intelligence it received - a second phase of the probe that probably won't be finished until after the elections.
"The fact is that when it comes to national security, the buck stops at the White House, not anywhere else," said Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
The report comes as Mr. Bush looks for a new leader for the intelligence community. CIA Director George Tenet has resigned, effective Sunday, and McLaughlin will take over as a temporary replacement. But the report's across-the-board criticism of the CIA could indicate that any nominee from within the intelligence community would have a tough time winning confirmation by the Senate.
McLaughlin said the CIA is learning from its mistakes and has already made changes, including adding reviews from a "devil's advocate" perspective to all future national intelligence estimates.
"We get it," McLaughlin said at a rare news conference at CIA headquarters. "Although we think the judgments were not unreasonable when they were made nearly two years ago, we understand with all we have learned since then that we could have done better."
Among conclusions in the report:
-Most major judgments in the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq's alleged nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs were "either overstated or were not supported by the underlying intelligence reporting."
-Intelligence officials didn't explain to policy-makers the uncertainties behind their judgments.
-Intelligence agencies suffered from a collective presumption that Iraq had an active and growing program to develop weapons of mass destruction.
-The United States depended too heavily on defectors and foreign governments' intelligence.
In Britain, an inquiry into the quality of British intelligence on Iraqi weapons will publish its report on July 14. The inquiry, headed by Lord Butler, a retired civil service chief, aims to establish why there is such a glaring gap between "intelligence gathered, evaluated and used by the government" and the lack of evidence on the ground in Iraq.
Before the war, British Prime Minister Blair was adamant that Saddam Hussein possessed stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
"What I believe the assessed intelligence has established beyond doubt is that Saddam has continued to produce chemical and biological weapons, that he continues in his efforts to develop nuclear weapons," he wrote in a foreward to a September 2002 intelligence dossier, used by the government as it built its case for war.
According to British press reports, the inquiry will conclude that intelligence claiming that Iraq could launch chemical weapons on 45 minutes' notice — known to be from a single source — was vague and poorly sourced.
The British government has declined to comment.
Incoming CIA Head: 'We Get It'
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I am not having any speed issues outside of odd powerboost behavior here in northern california. Downstream PB is all but gone, and upstream PB is overinflated.for instance on my 27/7 connection I usually get 28 down and 25 up on speedtests.
Should we be rebooting our modems and testing again?
Can you post ShaperProbe results also?
Connected to server 184.108.40.206.Estimating capacity:Upstream: 7275 Kbps.Downstream: 34500 Kbps.Upstream: No shaper detected.Median received rate: 7275 Kbps.Downstream: Burst size: 20790-20986 KB; Shaping rate: 28448 Kbps.
Got ya. Is this causing issues for something you are doing on this connection?Thank you.DJ


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OK for the short stay
We stayed in this hotel over the weekend. The best thing in this hotel is its location, which has nothing to do with the hotel itsef.The key had to be picked up from the Roayl apartments across the street. Renovation took place recently but the walls ( greyish-brown)were already damaged by luggage , the staircase is very narrow for carrying any bags and there is no lift.The rooms are tiny, with minimum furniture - not even a chair to put the cloths on. The TV caught a cold or something as the sound was horrible. But the bed was comfortable.The shower room advertised as a bathroom is really small and reminded us of the dentist's office, but everything was working. The sink in the room looked strange and reminded again of the surgery room. Tea facility was there and the hairdryer working as well. The breakfast was basic and simple, but it's a shame there was no fresh coffee offered - only instant one. Service was good and towels and linen changed promptly. All in all it is ok for the short stay, not more than 2 nights, but it was not relaxing or comfy.
I stayed at the paddington hotel this weekend just past for my partners birthday. After searching the internet for hours to find somewhere that looked nice, clean and was of reasonable price I chose the Paddington Hotel.
Upon arrival at the hotel (which we walked past twice as there was no sign out side) we had to cross the road to another building to check-in. This was quick and painless.
However, when we entered the hotel I felt like I was in a seedy american film having an affair!!! The room we were given was on the the 3rd floor up a winding staircase (there wasn't a lift!) Upon entering the room we immediatly walked into the bed as the room was so cramped and the furtinture wasn't well arranged! We had to climb over the corners of the beds to get to the bathroom which was tiny!!!
The window looked like it was about to fall out any moment and at night time the road was noisy and the inadequate window didn't block out the noise or the wind!!!
The hotel description also included satelite tv, hair dryer and dvd player-yeah right!!!!
However, on a more positive note, I must add that the hotel is extremely well situated, in a nice area, the rooms were very clean and serviced daily (inc clean towels) and the staff were very polite and friendly.
I dont feel that I gained value for money here and on future trips to London will pay more to get better quality accommodation!
Clean, pretty good, very well located
This hotel is 2 minutes from Lancaster Gate (Central line) and 6 min from Paddington Station, so it's really well situated. Next to Kensington Park and Marble Arch, in a quiet but central zone.
I spent 4 nights at this hotel with my mum on October and we expect an ordinary 3 stars English hotel (normally they are not good and with small rooms), and it was a nice surprise that we found a clean and spacy room with a just refurbished bathroom with shower. They changed the towels everyday and everything was correct. The breakfast room is simple, but we found the breakfast correct. Hotel staff was very nice with us and we had lovely days in London.
We took the Paddington Express train to go to Heathrow airport, and we walked from the hotel to Paddington Station for 6 minutes with our luggage (it's not necessary a taxi or the tube, it's beside the hotel)
I would go again to this hotel in my next visit to London.
The skinny (literally) on the paddington hotel
just stayed there a week ago and my rating would have been higher if it didn't claim to be a 3 star hotel.
the room was tiny and although rennovated, the furniture just made the room seem smaller. it was difficult to maneuver around the bed because of the furniture placement. the in-room fridge barely worked and wasn't cold, the television audio was messed up so unwatchable, the extra sink in the bedroom ended up being useful because the bathroom was tiny. a person of stout nature would not be able to function in this facility.
if the hotel was a 2 star, i would have rated it as neutral/average. on the positive side, it's clean, the staff is friendly and the location made it easy to get to both tube stations and the paddington station where you can catch the heathrow express to the airport.
one final thing, check-in is at another facility across the street and they require you leave your key with them when you go out. the facility is open 24/7 but during off hours you have to get buzzed in which is a nuisance.
Great deal for London
This hotel was a great deal! Anybody who has been looking at hotel rates in London online knows that getting a decent hotel at a decent price in a decent location is not an easy find. I looked online and was able to get 2 double rooms for $100 US each or about 50 pounds. The rooms were equipped with a TV, mahagony wood bed, crisp white linen, a stainless steel sink and vanity, and mini fridge. The bathrooms were average and maybe on the small side but clean. The continental breakfast is a typical european breakfast which includes, juice, a few types of patries, and cereal (not the typical eggs and bacon common of an American breakfast but then again you are not in the states). The building was absolutely charming. However, I think that there is a big difference between some of the rooms which might account for some of the bad ratings. One of our rooms was way smaller than the other room although it had all the basic amenities. The hotel is also a 2 minute walk from Hyde Park and Lancaster Gate underground. Overall, this hotel is a good find if you can get a good deal online.
The Paddington Hotel was perfect for me!
This was my first time setting foot on English soil. I was traveling solo and on a budget. I found a great rate for The Paddington through a discount web site, and found everything to suit me perfectly. The rooms were a good size for me or two people even, they were trendy and cleaned everyday. The breakfast left a little to be desired but I never made it up on time for it anyway. I had no problems with checking in or out, and the location couldn't have been better. I'd go back in a second, but don't have to now since I met people on the first trip! Overall, I'm confident to say after MUCH research the Paddington is the best value
The horror...
Possibly the least comfortable night of my life was spent in this hotel on 23.03.04. The carpet was filthy, the bed linen was musty and the toilet bowl was covered in old stains. Breakfast was laughable - 3 sorts of cereal, 2 sorts of bread and juice. The woman on breakfast duty would not even let me take some orange juice back to my room and scolded me like a child. All in all a miserable experience. Several showers later, I still feel dirty. How they obtained a 3 star rating is a mystery. I've stayed in better youth hostels than this!
Four star hotel at a two star price
Me and my wife stayed at The Paddington Hotel for three nights, and we would highly recommend this hotel to anyone. The room was very big, tastefully decorated with boutique-style lighting and furnishings.
There was a DVD player and a refrigerator. Everything was spotless, and it seemed like the room had just been renovated because even the copper on the pipes was sparkling and the bed had a lot of bounce to it. We paid fifty pounds a night for it over a weekend, and what with the breakfast included I can definately say we'll be back the next time we're in london.
Cheap, but...
The hotel was clean, but the rooms were really, really small. And, the bathroom...looks as if it has been completely remodeled and is clean, but it is TINY. The shower has this folding door and you have to literally press yourself against the shower wall so the door has room to open. There is no lobby area in this hotel. The lobby is in the hotel across the street. And, you have to return your key when you leave in the morning so they can access your room for cleaning--which they do clean. Other reviewers have said it wasn't very clean, but I didn't notice and I'm a very clean person. Breakfast was provided every morning, but I didn't wake up early enough to get it. The location is also good as you are in walking distances to many restaurants, Hyde Park as well as the Paddinton Station. Overall, great value for the money and I would stay here again in order to save money.
Can do better
Although the location is GREAT and the stuff is doing there best there is much room for improovement. The beds are terrible, the rooms are tiny and you can not manuver your suitcase in the coridor for the "extra space". You also need not put on you glasses when you check how clean it is. But the loation is wonderful.
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