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When Social Software Vendors Start Talking about Architecture, Something Is Changing
by Jeffrey Mann | June 27, 2009
I talk with a fair number of vendors every month about their collaboration and social software offerings. Usually, these briefings have a familiar pattern (the easiest to use, the most experienced management team, growing ecosystem of partners, logo slide with lots of customers…), but I've noticed something new starting to creep in. Rather than talking […]
Reassuring Ambition and Activity at PCC Conference
by Jeffrey Mann | June 15, 2009
We went into this year's Portal, Content and Collaboration (PCC) Summit event with a bit of trepidation, or at least I did. With the somber economic news leading to reports of spending cuts and travel bans, I expected light attendance and listless participants with no room to initiate new activities. That is what I remember […]
Social Software at the Japanese BI and IM conference
by Jeffrey Mann | June 5, 2009
I wire this on my way home from 9 days in Hong Kong and Japan. It was a great trip, partly because I love traveling to Asia. It also is a chance to get exposure to some very different markets and trends than I usually deal with when talking with EMEA and North American customers. […]


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Unbeaten heavyweight prospect Deontay Wilder (26-0, 26 KO's) hasn't been too impressed with what he's seen of the unbeaten British heavyweights Tyson Fury and David Price. Wilder doesn't rate their power as being anything close to his own. In fact, Wilder believes his jab is stronger than Fury and Price's best right hand power.
Wilder notes that Price and Fury both have been fighting low level opposition like himself, but he says he's been at least knocking all of his guys out within 4 rounds or less.
Wilder said to boxingbeatandrhymes "It's plain and clear to see that I'm definitely a stronger fighter than all three of those guys [Price, Fury & Bryant Jennings]. I definitely feel like I'm faster.
My jab is probably stronger than all three of their right hands. I'm knocking everybody out and I'm definitely stronger than those guys. I haven't even been past the fourth round. Whoever takes me past he 4th round, they're going to be surprised by my boxing ability."
I totally agree with Deontay. He's definitely got the better power compared to Price, Fury and Jennings. There's no comparison. Fury's little more than a 6'9" slapper; Jennings is an arm puncher, and Price simply doesn't have the huge one-punch power that Wilder has or even the likes of Wladimir Klitschko. It normally takes Price a lot of shots to take his opponents down. He just doesn't have the single shot power that Wilder has. When you compare that to Wilder, you'll see that Wilder is knocking guys out with single shots. Once Wilder lands his big right hand it's over, baby!
I've seen Wilder's jab and I got to say it probably is better than the best right hand from Fury, Price and Jennings. Wilder has a real weapon with his power jab, and it's too bad he doesn't use more often it's devastating to see his opponent's heads snapping back when he lands it.
Wilder explained in the interview that he rarely has to use his jab or his powerful left hook in his fights because his opponents often keel over after they've been hit with the first right hand he lands. Wilder will land a right hand, and his opponent will hit the deck. The process then repeats itself over and over until the fight is stopped. It usually only takes one knockdown for Wilder to get the KO because he's so powerful.
Wilder will be showing off his stuff on Saturday night against Matt Greer in Mexico in a scheduled 10 round fight. For boxing fans in the U.S, you'll be able to view the fight on Fox Deportes. Unfortunately boxing fans from Europe won't be able to see it because it won't be televised outside of Mexico and the U.S.
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GZ News Update 10/1/13: GTA Online is live (somewhat) and Destiny Beta coming early 2014
Welcome fellow video game enthusiasts to GameZone's News Update. Want the latest breaking news, delivered in a quick, easy to digest way? Then look no further, and enjoy these latest headlines from the day.
GTA Online goes live today; Rockstar acknowledges 'technical issues'
Grand Theft Auto Online, the highly anticipated multiplayer portion of GTA 5, goes live today. Rockstar confirmed that the GTA 5 Title Update to enable GTA Online access has been rolling out all morning on PSN and Xbox LIVE across territories worldwide.
Destiny beta coming in 'early 2014,' according to Amazon
Yesterday, Bungie teased a new trailer and an exciting announcement will be coming today for their upcoming MMO shooter Destiny, but thanks to an updated product page from Amazon we might already know what the announcement will be.
Sonic returns to Super Smash Bros. on Wii U and 3DS
In what is arguably the most exciting announcement in today's Nintendo Direct, Satoru Iwata confirmed Sonic will return to the Super Smash Bros. roster for Wii U and 3DS.
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Matt Lauer: respected journalist, popular television host, twelve-year-old boy. At least that's what this recent video from the Today Show is telling me. This morning, Lauer was interviewing commentator Jean Chatzky about ways to save (or, more accurately, not over-spend) your money during the holiday season when both got a little bit tripped up by the phrase "reduce the size of the package." (Which: heh.) No force on Earth, not even the calm yet authoritative hands of co-host Meredith Viera, could get the segment back on track:
It's a moment like this that make you think, "Hey, maybe I actually could become a well respected and high-powered professional of some sort!" Dick jokes, you guys. They're what unite us all.


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After an opening round loss in the American Legion Southeast Regional Tournament put their backs against the wall, Hahnville-based Otto Candies rebounded with back-to-back wins to advance to the state tournament in Sulphur.
Otto Candies clinched their appearance in the American Legion State Tournament with a 6-3 win over the River Ridge Patriots from John Curtis High School on Monday. Hahnville's Brooks Vial was excellent from the mound, giving up three hits and two runs in eight innings. The victory improved Vial's American Legion record to 5-1.
"Brooks has been good going back to last year and the players have a lot of confidence in him," Otto Candies head coach David Baudry said. "They enjoy playing behind him."
Offensively, Otto Candies played one of their best games, finishing with 12 hits. They took a 1-0 lead in the second after opening the inning by loading the bases. Dylan Keller later drew a walk to give his team the lead.
Otto Candies extended their lead to 2-0 thanks to a River Ridge error in the fourth and added a third run in the sixth on an RBI single by Tyler Simmons.
With Vial keeping the River Ridge bats at bay, Otto Candies increased their advantage to 5-0 in the eighth. Keller got his team started after reaching on a hard hit ball to short. He advanced to second on a wild pitch, which was followed by a walk issued to Simmons. Cody Farrell brought both runners home after knocking a double down the left field line.
River Ridge finally got on the board with two runs in the bottom of the eighth, but Otto Candies sealed the win with another run in the top of the ninth.
"It was a really good win for us. Brooks was able to limit their opportunities and we had a bunch of base runners – it was our best game of the tournament offensively," Baudry said. "We didn't put up as many runs as we could have but we had a lot of quality at bats."
Ty Cologne led Otto Candies from the plate, going 3-for-5. Vial recorded two hits while Farrell finished with two RBIs on one hit. Keller, Simmons, Todd Porche, Fontenot and Chase Bagot all recorded hits in the win.
Baudry was proud of how his team refocused after opening the tournament on Saturday with a 3-2 loss to Shaw-based Refuel in 10 innings.
Otto Candies took a 2-0 lead in the second inning of that game after RBIs by Fontenot and Cologne. However, Refuel tied the game with two runs in the seventh and clinched the win with a run in the 10th.
"We didn't play poorly but we got into a situation where we couldn't drive in runs and we allowed Refuel to get back in the game and eventually get the win," Baudry said.
Facing elimination a day after their loss to Refuel, Otto Candies bounced back in a big way by cruising past HK Tors 11-4.
Keller was huge in the win, finishing 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Vial also came up big, driving in two runs.
Simmons, Farrell, Michael Landry and Todd Billingsley each finished with an RBI.
Porche earned the win for Otto Candies, giving up seven hits and four runs in six innings. He struck out four.
Eight teams will battle for the state title in Sulphur from July 27-31.
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Just Announced: Joan Jett at the Benton-Franklin Fair!
The Benton-Frankiln Fair and Rodeo is a summertime MUST in the Tri-Cities. And they're gearing up for another stellar line-up of musical acts. Previously they announced country music star, Trace Adkins, and today they announced the legendary Joan Jett! If you don't know who she is, think back to the last time heard a butchered version of "I Love Rock n Roll" at karaoke. Yeah, that's her song. Along with "Bar Reputation" "Crimson and Clover" and "Cherry Bomb" (though Cherie Currie sang original vocals) with the Runaways, Joan's got a list of hits that are fun to rock out to!
Tickets go on sale, this Friday, March 25th at 8 am. I've heard Joan puts on one heck of a show, so if you want good seats, make sure you're ready to buy them first thing. Looks like the fair is going to ROCK this summer!
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First Solar, Inc.(NASDAQ:FSLR) shares increased 2.67% and closed at $20.80 in the previous trading session after First Solar's stock had its "buy" rating restated by equities researchers at Bank of America in a report issued yesterday. Separately, Deutsche Bank reissued their hold rating on shares of First Solar in a research report released last week. Deutsche Bank currently has a $17.00 price target on the stock.
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The Most Musical Cities in North America
This chart from the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto looks at North America's musical epicenters -- cities where the most music is produced.
"Digital technology from myspace.com to a recording studio on your laptop means that music can literally be made and distributed anytime, anyplace, and anywhere. But it is also clear that a great deal of music continues to come out of particular cities and their music scenes."
Nashville, Los Vegas, and Montreal top the list. Six out of the top 15 are Canadian cities.


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Killer electric soul jazz from sax player Harris. This album is arranged and conducted by the legendary CHARLES STEPNEY which we reckon is his only album he made outside of Chess in the 1960s (he also wrote two of the tunes). Full sound, Wicked album. USA original copy . RARE.
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18th + Arkansas/g2 Lofts
Stepping down the side of Potrero Hill, 18th + Arkansas mixes it up with market-rate flats, affordable units, artist studios and an on-site performance space.
Armstrong Place
Bell Mews
Ten cedar-shingled townhomes encircle a semiprivate courtyard, creating a tiny idyllic neighborhood for first-time home buyers in San Francisco.
Blue Star Corner
Blue Star Corner's New Urban Homes are the latest evolution in modern design, comfort, and urban access.
Crescent Cove
Affordable apartments and townhouses in Mission Bay, tucked into the curve of the CalTrain tracks.
Fillmore Park
Situated in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood, this affordable ownership housing project delivers a high-design open-plan community.
Holloway Terrace
High density with a low profile: These affordable units fit seamlessly into the surrounding neighborhood.
Hunters View Blocks 7 & 11
David Baker Architects and Paulett Taggart Architects joined up to design affordable public housing for two steeply sloped blocks in Hunters View.
Ironhorse Lofts
Lofts designed on a three-story townhouse platform make for dynamic living spaces characterized by energy and flexibility.
Linden Court
High-density housing in tune with the neighborhood: The local community informed the design throughout, and entrances, porches, and courtyards connect the project with the surrounding streets.
Magnolia Row
A hybrid of urban loft and residential townhouse provides housing in West Oakland.
Meadow Court
A mix of senior apartments and townhouses designed for young families creates a diverse community in San Mateo.
Pacific Cannery Lofts
An adaptive reuse of a former cannery as a diverse collection of studios, flats and townhouses around courts, mews, and promenades.
Tassafaronga Village
Bridging an industrial-residential border, this new Oakland village features a wide range of LEED Platinum Certified housing and repairs the deteriorated street grid.
Truckee Prototype Mixed-Use Townhouse
West End Commons
Townhouses with different degrees of dedicated work space are served by an array of "slow alleys", private lanes modeled on Europe's pedestrian zones.
Zero Cottage
A net-zero cottage addition to David Baker's Shotwell Compound.


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TripAdvisor responds to a provocative study of bogus online reviews
Online reviews are a vital part of how consumers pick hotels, but the rating system used by TripAdvisor encourages small hotel owners to game it with fake reviews, says an academic study.
Published last week, the study looks at a half-million reviews posted as of October 2011 for 3,082 hotels cross-matched among TripAdvisor, Expedia, and Smith Travel Research, with additional cross-corroboration on Orbitz. You can read the study, here, as a PDF.
The researchers write:
"The net gains from promotional reviewing are likely to be highest for independent hotels that are owned by single-unit owners and lowest for branded chain hotels that are owned by multi-unit owners.
Furthermore, we show that the hotel neighbors of hotels with a high incentive to fake have more one- and two-star (negative) reviews on TripAdvisor relative to Expedia."
The empirical analysis focuses on just two travel websites: TripAdvisor and Expedia.
Anyone can post a review on TripAdvisor, while a consumer may only post a review of a hotel on Expedia if he or she actually books at least one night at the hotel through the agency. (Expedia spun off TripAdvisor last year.)
Study says: Watch out for the franchised properties of name brand hotel chains
The study focuses on hotels that may seem the same to the average traveler yet actually have different ownership or management.
For example, the study says regional franchisees and independent owners have an incentive to artificially boost ratings for their own hotels.
Small owners are about 10% more likely to receive five-star reviews on TripAdvisor than they are on Expedia, relative to hotels owned by large corporations.
The researchers also claim the owners have an incentive to post bad reviews on hotels owned by competing regional hoteliers. The study found these owners have 16% more one- and two-star ratings than those with hotels owned by large companies located up to half a kilometer away.
A hotel that is located next to an independent hotel owned by a small owner will have 5 more fake negative reviews compared to an isolated hotel — on average.
The authors estimate that, on average, "an independent hotel owned by a small owner will generate 7 more fake positive reviews (out of 120)."
The authors say they found "relatively more positive manipulation than negative manipulation, even though the order of magnitude of the two is similar."
The authors of the study were Judith A. Chevalier (Yale School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research); Dina Mayzlin (USC Marshall School of Business); and Yaniv Dover (Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College).
TripAdvisor responds
TripAdvisor's Kevin Carter responded to the study by e-mail:
Anecdotally, we know from TripAdvisor travelers that the personalized service, value and quality
that certain smaller properties offer resonates with them, as is often expressed in their reviews and opinions.
We take the authenticity of our reviews very seriously and have numerous methods to manage the legitimacy of the content on TripAdvisor, including automated screening tools that are constantly upgraded.
A team of quality assurance specialists investigates suspicious reviews which are flagged by our proprietary tools or the passionate TripAdvisor community of more than 50 million monthly visitors.
We know that the sheer volume of reviews on TripAdvisor allows travelers to get the complete picture of a property, and make an educated decision based on the opinions of many, before they book their trips.
According to a recent PhoCusWright study commissioned by TripAdvisor, 98% of respondents have found TripAdvisor hotel reviews to be accurate of the actual experience.
It's because of the valuable advice on TripAdvisor that travelers keep coming back.
Note: The July 2011 PhoCusWright study is not available to the public, but was a survey of 3,641 respondents solicited at random through a pop-up invitation link on TripAdvisor's US site.
TripAdvisor made a broader case for its reviews in its post on its company blog last March.
In April Robb, senior manager of content at TripAdvisor, told Tnooz:
"The majority of reviews on the site are positive. Three-quarters of all TripAdvisor reviews are rated "very good" or "excellent", and the average rating on TripAdvisor is just over four out of a possible five."
To put that statistic in context, TripAdvisor's reviews are somewhat less positive on average than Expedia's, where only users who book rooms are allowed to review properties.
The academic study claims that "hotels with a high incentive to post fake reviews have a greater share of five star (positive) reviews on TripAdvisor relative to Expedia."
Expedia responds, too
Given that Expedia's reviews were also examined in the study, we asked the company for its view. Sarah Keeling, director, public relations and social media at Expedia, said by e-mail:
"We believe that consumers put a lot of trust in us to provide them with the best information possible when booking their trip.
That's why Expedia reviews are vetted and verified. Expedia takes multiple steps to ensure the validity of customer reviews, including the step of ensuring that the reviews are posted by travelers who have paid for a room in the hotel they are reviewing."
What else could TripAdvisor and Expedia do? Another new study suggests an option
Could TripAdvisor and Expedia do more to battle fake reviews? Possibly. This summer, researchers revealed how math can be used to detect false reviews.
Researchers at State University of New York, Stony Brook, developed a formula that can detect when fradulent reviews distort the standard statistical distribution for hotel scores.
Translation: The statistical technique can't tell if an individual review is fake, but it can tell if there is a high likelihood that some of the reviews of a particular hotel are fake. A computer could flag a hotel for having a non-standard distribution of star ratings for a manual review.
Researchers said they found fraudulent reviews 72% of the time. (The study can be read here.)
TripAdvisor hasn't said if it will adopt this specific method of mathematic sleuthing — which was first reported in Technology Review — or any similar investigative method.
TripAdvisor's Kevin Carter, manager, business & trade public relations at TripAdvisor responded to the second study by e-mail:
TripAdvisor uses frequently evolving and highly sophisticated filters (more than 25) to scan reviews for biased material, monitoring a wide range of attributes associated with electronic correspondence.
Suspicious activity is then flagged for further inspection by our team of dedicated agents who use a variety of additional confidential investigative methods designed to identify potential fraud.
So, for more background, we have three primary methods to manage the legitimacy of reviews:
1. Systems. Reviews are systematically screened by our proprietary site tools that are frequently upgraded.
2. Community. Our large and passionate community of more than 50 million monthly visitors help report suspicious content.
3. Quality Assurance Teams. An international team of quality assurance specialists investigate suspicious reviews that are flagged by our proprietary tools or community.
Also of note, in April, TripAdvisor did appoint Andrew Marane to the new position of Director of Content Integrity.
There's no magic cure for policing online reviews, no technique to prescribe that will be foolproof.
In the meantime, the US Federal Trade Commission has stepped up its investigations into companies paying for positive and negative reviews online in violation of national regulations.
The Advertising Standards Authority in the UK upheld a complaint against TripAdvisor from online reputation firm Kwikchex and two hotels in January this year.
The complaint argued wording on TripAdvisor's UK website, such as "reviews you can trust…from real travellers…and trusted advice from real travellers", was misleading because the company could not prove reviews were genuine or from real travellers.
NB: Image of villain with laptop from Shutterstock.
About the Writer :: Sean O'Neill
Sean O'Neill had roles as a reporter and editor-in-chief at Tnooz between July 2012 and January 2017.
Given that it is so easy to fake reviews, depending on just one or two reviews when sussing out a hotel is liable to produce very varied results. One solution for travelers is to go with the chains that offer a homogenized product, which is not good news for independent establishments.
While some of the latter may be involved in frandulent reviews on Tripadvisor, most are not; the truth of the matter is that most independent hotel owners have very little idea of the importance of getting themselves visible on the Internet, and are also reluctant to forfeit the sizeable commission that they have to pay out if they want to get listed with OTAs.
there is a discussion of this dilemma here: http://independent-hotels.info/OTAs-and-small-hotels.htm
Stephanie Baziuk
I feel most reviews are either from competitors who use this tool to discredit other businesses or from angry people with chips on their shoulders who will use any opportunity to vent negativity.
Trip adviser does business a huge dis-service by posting negative comments with out disclosing the names of the people posting. Anonymity is a coward.
Trip adviser need to take full responsibility for the damage they do to business by providing a venue where anonymous attacks can be made against a business. .
Positive comments are to a great extent written by business or by friends and family of the business to counter act the negative. Trip adviser has forced businesses to do this for self preservation. The fact is: Most people who have a positive experience will not go to the trouble of spending their valuable time searching out trip adviser on the internet to write positive comments about their stays. People on vacation tend to stay in many hotels and they don't spend the first week at home writing about every hotel they stayed in.
Lets face it. Most people who operate in the range of normal, have better things to do with their time. I would like to see those who post negative comments put their money where their mouth is. I strongly support a ten dollar fee for negative posting with name disclosure. This I feel would weed out most of the BS in trip adviser.
Exactly how bad was your experience. Is it worth $10.00 to you to make yourself heard ?
Rob Morelli
The fake review problem significantly diminishes the value of these sites. There needs to be some layer of accountability for reviews to be trusted. There is also a motivation problem… some people who post on sites like TripAdvisor (when not fake) often do so out of some recent experience that compels them to tell the world about it. This is usually "loved it" or "hated it". Tout'd (www.toutd.com) provides for social accountability as you only get reviews from friends or friends of friends. You also get recommendations that are in response to a friend's request for a recommendation. The motivation for posting a review on Tout'd is to help. This makes reviews more valuable, trustworthy, and actionable. Check it out… tell me what you think about it.
Thanks for your comment!
As a respondent to TripAdvisor, I can say we tell it like it was whether or not our experience was good or bad. Last summer our pan of an Alaska hotel brought a strongly worded denial of our TripAdvisor review from the property manager. My point is who are travelers' more likely to trust? The relatively rare 1* or 2* reviews or the 5* management-produced reviews? It's so easy to dismiss the former as a cranky, hard-to-please traveler.
Anthony Rawlins
What a great debate,
The simple questions here is do we open up our reviews system for anyone to add content or do we keep this for customers only?
The difference is often highlighted by capturing a small amount of content, and a larger amount of more attractive, broader content.
Yes, Expedia have been able to capture reviews of their hotels – but by only speaking with hotel customers they are missing the opportunity of capturing reviews and ratings for attractions, destinations and getting their opinions of new audiences, who they want to attract.
Also, lets be honest, hotel reviews are pretty one dimensional. What about photos and videos of destinations! That's what travel is about, inspiration!
Hotel reviews have been around for over 10 years now and many companies have been very slow to pick up on capturing more engaging content.
Trip Advisor does this well with is destination information but on the hotels reviews front, TA hasn't really moved on that much at all since its launch.
Companies implementing a reviews system have the choice to be the same as everyone else, and capture text only hotels reviews – or they can be adventurous and forward thinking and capture review, ratings, photos and videos of hotels, attractions, destinations, restaurants etc….
By the way – this kind of content is brilliant for driving your social media channels too!
Through experience, we recommend a two prong approach. Email your customers to ask them to add their hotel reviews, but also leave posting open to any online visitors to add their experiences of the destination, food, attractions etc….
And in case you wanted to know how to do this, here you go http://bit.ly/Q600Kt
When you click on the request pricing link on the homepage of guest comment you get "Whoops, we can't find that page".
I think the idea is a good one (depending on the pricing of course), but I think people would be less likely to leave negative comments if they are still on site at the hotel. They might leave helpful suggestions, but isn't this the job of the hotelier to communicate with their guests if they have any problems or suggestions? Another simple way to do this is email guests after their stay to see if they had any suggestions or ideas for improvement.
Andy Beal
Thanks Mike. We moved the page, but forgot that link. I have fixed it.
You'd be surprised at how many people wish to avoid a face to face confrontation, but still want resolution. Also, not every hotel is provided with the guest's email address–crazy but true.
Yes. IMO, that is just one among others for remaining on top…
and considering the fact that google has sufficiently changed their algos to reward user engagement and it being a know fact that they are already rewarding significant boost to sites with a lot of user reviews, fraudulent reviews are set to be too rampant in the next couple of years.
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What's this – promote guest review technologies?
What's interesting about this study is potentially how desperate independent business is to try to starve-off competitors through social media, hoping rankings will lead to increased bookings. Is this another sign of the death of independent business? It's all about chains and brands? And what could this mean for individuality in hotels?
I'd be interested to learn what the HQ of these franchises say about these fraudulent reviews – what damage can it do to that brand?
Whatever it means, it does show guest reviews are big business (which is why RateTiger launched a guest review management tool – there – my subtle mention!)
Haha, sorry, just couldn't help plugging our product after Sean's encouragement on Andy's.
On topic: I don't think it's about ALL individual companies being desperate, but just the one's that are not able to cope with social media. In every business (or even outside business) there is a minority screwing up things for the rest. I think this discussion is about how TA is dealing with this 10%.
Besides that, there are also great numbers of successful cases of individual hotels that have greatly took advantage of the possibilities social media especially as a result of enabling them to reach great audiences with little resources. Just by being original or delivering exceptional services to real guests.
Ryan C Haynes -
BTW – do you know the law here – it's fraudulent, so what regulation does it fall under ASA? – so the hotel can be prosecuted? Or the author?
Working in Marketing & PR, I've known quite a few freelance colleagues who've spent their days writing reviews and I know an agency that, at least until end of last year, made money from independent and hotels to write reviews for them on TripAdvisor…so it's also a Marketing ethic…and were these reviews actually posted by an agency..?
Lori Main
As a hotel marketing manager who responds to EVERY review we receive if it is negative and over 40% of the positive, I find it chilling that this type of activity on behalf of some innkeepers makes suspect the value of online guest reviews.
TripAdvisor and OTA sites that allow guest exchange is not just good for the consumer, but good for the hotelier. "Reputation Management' at its' core allows for the hotelier to "hear" our guests. Guest insight is often enlightening and more often than not a bit humbling—- to read how a single individual made a guests stay with us one for the memory books is truly one of the many reasons this industry is so rewarding for me.
Online review is in my estimation an incredible gift to our industry. There are myriad hoteliers that use guest input to better their product or praise the team creating the fabulous outcome.
While it may be imperfect on some level, it is, without a doubt, a tool to aid the hotelier to respond as needed and necessary to our guests' insights… and if I dare to state —
isn't this what the hotelier is supposed to do? Hear the guest and respond to their needs?
That some are writing bogus reviews to the universe I pronounce–it will be found out if their reviews are not authentic… that is, after all, the power of the web!
Good elaborative post! This discussion however will last and last until there will be found a way to combine TA's open nature with acceptable verification method
@Andy: Totally agree! The exact same reasons we had for launching, next to our online reputation tool, a similar product (Olery Feedback) in March.
Andy Beal
The potential for fraud at online review sites is just one reason we launched GuestComment. By using a kiosk located at the hotel, it virtually eliminates fraudulent reviews.
Hi, Andy,
Thanks for letting readers know about your GuestComment initiative.
Peter Daams
Andy, I can see how Guestcomment is useful for hotel owners to get real-time feedback. If it's only communicating with them then fraud would indeed be minimal. Mainly because there's not really any good reason to post fraudulent reviews.
But if these reviews are going out to the public, wouldn't it still attract fake reviews? What's stopping the hotel owner from posting a nice review on their own kiosk? Or more importantly, what's stopping the owner from withholding the device from unhappy guests and only providing it when it's clear the guest is happy? Or the other problem that we quite regularly see on our site – hotels actively encouraging guests to leave glowing reviews in exchange for a freebie of some sorts. All these types of fraud seem just as likely. Or maybe I'm missing some subtlety about your system that prevents that also.
Here's another reason why Expedia reviews might be less positive on the whole – consider the fact that Expedia would be sending these guests an invite to review the property (at least I assume they do the same as all other OTAs). This means they are getting reviews from people who may not have left a review otherwise. Typically, people who really love or really hate a place will go out of their way to review where they stayed and will head to the likes of Tripadvisor to do so. But those with mediocre experiences usually just don't consider it worth the effort of reviewing. A prompt from the booking agent might stimulate more of those types of reviews though.
Peter Daams
Just looking at your site I see that the hotel owner basically has control over which reviews are posted?
"Publish to the web only the reviews you choose"
In other words, the entire balance of reviews shown will basically be fraudulent. Or if "fraudulent" is too strong a word, at least not very trustworthy. If I was a possible customer of a hotel using a system like that I would just not believe any word of it and head straight back to somewhere where negative reviews are also allowed.
Thanks for your insightful contribution to the discussion!
Andy Beal
GuestComment's first objective is to provide a conduit between real hotel guests and management. Any issues or concerns can be dealt with before the guest returns home–and potentially writes that scathing Tripadvisor or Expedia review.
A hotel manager doesn't need GuestComment in order to make up fake reviews for his web site. Only those hotels truly interested in seeking out guest feedback and improving, will benefit from GuestComment.
Peter Daams
Got it – and that's a valid service to offer.
But when people leave fraudulent reviews on sites like Tripadvisor, they're trying to trick other consumers into either booking or avoiding that place. They're not really trying to trick management are they? So I don't really see how "The potential for fraud at online review sites is just one reason we launched GuestComment" actually makes any sense.
Andy Beal
Fraudulent hotel reviews–good or bad–are a big waste of time for hotel management. With GuestComment, the reviews are authentic, so management can spend their time fixing issues, responding to genuine complaints, or, feeling good about legitimate praise. 😉


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In-Camera Manipulations
In the last MM Edu article I wrote I discussed mixed media manipulation as a "real world" alternative to spending time in Photoshop to make images fancy. This time we'll look at some of the in-camera alternatives to post-processing manipulation.
It's worth noting that all of these effects are time-tested, some going back to the very dawn of photography in the 1830s. Done properly, they still look and feel as fresh as any of the latest Photoshop plugins.
Photographer: David Miller; Model: Mosh
"Mosh at a makeup station is going to make a good photo no matter what, but the star filter gave a little extra glam "pop" to the station lights."
Controlling time
The camera controls exposure via the aperture, the ISO setting, and the shutter speed, and it's this last factor that can create the simplest of the special effects. The shutter allows the photographer to control the amount of time that passes when an image is captured, so we can have a lot of time pass–resulting in a blurry image if the camera is handheld, or there are moving subjects in front of it–or we can shorten the length of time–making some objects freeze that wouldn't normally be visible to the naked eye. Simple enough, right?
Throw some flash while shooting with a slow shutter speed and an effect called "dragging the shutter" occurs. It's generally how we see these images showing, say, a baseball player in motion, with the player frozen, but a subtle blur of where he used to be.
If you are dragging the shutter– say, 1/15th of a second shutter speed– and zoom your lens, or pan quickly to the side, you'll see even stranger effects. "Strange" as in Star Wars or 2001: A Space Odyssey style "strange."
Photographer: David Miller; Model: Angel my Darling
"This was dragging the shutter at 1/15th of a second with only the on camera flash for illumination. I moved the camera sideways while the shutter was open, causing the horizontal blurring."
A more complex way of capturing multiple images in one frame, without blurring, is to use powerful strobes that fire at intervals within a darkened space. The best examples of this style are the work of Dr. Harold Edgerton in the mid-20th Century. Definitely worth a Google.
Photographer: David Miller; Model: LiiLii
"Another case of dragging the shutter, but with multiple flashes aimed at the model's head, and a smaller aperture. The water around her head was frozen while the water away from her is flowing."
If your subject is stationary during a long shutter speed exposure, but lights a Maglite with a gel on it, or even a colored cell phone screen, and moves it around, that's called light painting.
Photographer: David Miller; Model: Sheila Miss Electro
"Light painting is a variation of dragging the shutter where colored lights "paint" a subject, or scene. This was all club lights but a more controlled variation could look unearthly."
Changing the light that comes through your lens
The most common way to alter the light as it passes into a lens is via filters, those little glass circles that everyone is supposed to have on their camera. Common filters reduce haze, UV, glare, etc. but there are specialty filters that more radically alter the light coming in.
A star filter creates starry lighting effects that you might associate with cheesy 1980s Christmas TV specials, but they were popular in their heyday for a reason–people like shiny, sparkly things. Lens flares may be anathema in stock photography but interesting flaring is common enough in fashion; besides sparkles, the crosshatching on the filter glass causes unusual flares when light hits from oblique angles. The hatching shape determines the number of points on the stars in the photo.
Photographer: David Miller; Model: Lux Lacheln
"The finger lights Lacheln is wearing are goofy in real life but give her E.T. powers thanks to the star filter on my lens."
Prism filters are somewhat costly and less versatile. They break up a single image into multiple images similar to a kaleidoscope. Instant psychedelia. It's a thick chunk of glass that reduces edge fidelity, and is someone what difficult to use. Suddenly, instead of composing one image, it's composing three images across the frame, and composition rules like "rule of thirds" and "leading lines" can no longer apply.
Photographer: David Miller; Model: Sierra McKenzie
"Sierra is split with a 3-way prism filter. The hologram on her glasses is from using a $3 WalMart display board as a reflector."
There are many other specialty filters, more than I have the space to list. Bokeh filters give specific shape to the points of light that bleed through your images–so if for whatever reason, you wanted all those lights in the background to be hearts instead of lights, there's a way to do it. A neutral density filter acts as sunglasses for your camera–allowing you to slow the shutter speed in the brightest of daylight. See the section on "controlling time" for reminders on how that is a useful effect.
Basically, anything you place in front of your lens is going to shape the light for the good, the bad or the interesting. Saran wrap, drier sheets, a glass block from Home Depot, a glass of water…
Bending the lens
A less common way of altering the light is to bend it in relation to the camera body. The simplest way of accomplishing this is removing your lens and holding it close to the lens mount as you take a photo. Not all cameras allow a photo to be taken without the lens actually attached, and it could get dirt on your sensor to work this way, so a more precise version of this technique is a Lensbaby. There are various models but they all function with a "sweet spot" of central focus, with the rest of the image rapidly blurring. It's a fun lens that helps dissolve distracting elements, like a vending machine or people walking behind your scene.
Photographer: David Miller; Model: Nika
"The Lensbaby cleaned up this image a lot by disregarding all the bystanders and cars on a busy NY street. It also gave the model, who is standing still, the illusion of motion."
If you're very serious about perspective control, a costly tilt/shift lens may need to be on the Christmas list. For SLR cameras, the tilt/shift lens has knobs that separate the front end of the lens barrel from the rear. If the front glass remains parallel to the sensor, you can correct the way buildings appear to recede when photographing them. If the front glass is at an oblique angle to the sensor, you can get a similar effect to the Lensbaby. Large format cameras have tilt/shift built into their design–it's that fancy accordion bellows that everyone remembers.
Photographer: David Miller; Model: Anastasia Arteyeva
"Anastasia specifically requests I shoot her with the Lensbaby because she's such a fan of its look."
Merging within the camera
Double exposure is always a classic. It's two (possibly more) shots on one frame, accessible through the camera menu. If you utilize a Lomography-type camera, some allow overlapping of film frames, leading to pseudo-double exposures or jagged panoramic. Some digital cameras have panoramic features to them as well.
Smartphone's have blurred the line between what is "in camera" and what is considered post-work, but for the traditional SLR/DSLR user, these tools are a means of creatively widening a personal vision.


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Big Brothers Big Sisters is the oldest and largest youth mentoring organization in the United States.
The North Central West Virginia chapter held one of its largest fundraiser's Friday night in Morgantown.
The Big Brothers and Big Sisters Annual Ultimate Trivia Challenge brings people together to raise money for the "Bigs" and "Littles."
"I just came because I really like this organization and trivia sounds fun," said Evan Stalnaker, a Big Brother. "If I can help out the organizations, I want to."
The challenge consists of five rounds of trivia, based on questions ranging from history and sports to movies and music.
There were many teams, including one that was specifically Big Brothers and Big Sisters former and current.
Stalnaker was on that team and said he has wanted to be a Big Brother for as long as he can remember.
"I asked my mom when I was 15, 'Can we have a little brother?' and that definitely couldn't happen," said Stalnaker. "So the next best thing I could do was be a Big Brother. You couldn't do it until you can drive so when I turned 16 I went down to the organization and joined."
About 100 people came to support Big Brothers Big Sisters by purchasing tickets for the trivia night and buying raffles.
The money funds the organizations workers and even events for the children.
"Our staff does the volunteer interviews and screens and orders the background checks and checks the references," said Sylvia Hawkins, the Executive Director of Big Brothers Big Sisters.
The volunteers appreciate the fundraisers as well.
"Sylvia, the head of Big Brother Big Sister, gives us all kinds of coupons and go anywhere and to do a whole bunch of stuff," Stalnaker said. "It really helps us get out and get involved in the community and we can go to Coopers Rock, we can go on trips, go to the movies, everything helps. I'm in college and it's hard to pay for everything so it just really helps."
There was no specific grand prize for winning the Ultimate Trivia Challenge.
Guests still got competitive just knowing they were raising the money for the kids.
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by Kyle Woodley | July 30, 2012 11:55 am
A week after the exchange-traded product engine started hitting on all cylinders[1], we've pretty much stalled. The past week saw just one new ETF come to life — but at least it's an interesting one.
Ohio regional bank Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ:HBAN[2]) has made another move into ETFs, this time with a sector rotation fund. The U.S. Equity Rotation Strategy ETF (NYSE:HUSE[3]) is an actively managed ETF that will target American companies of just about any size.
As the name implies, management will alter the fund's sector weightings based on their view of the markets. However, the fund has a cap of 25% for any particular sector.
While HUSE's holdings can run the gamut of capitalizations, the majority of its weight at launch was in large-caps. As far as sectors go, four of its top six holdings — Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ[4]), Pfizer (NYSE:PFE[5]), Merck & Co. (NYSE:MRK[6]) and Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT[7]) — are in pharma. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL[8]) is its top holding at 5%[9], and Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM[10]) rounds out its top six.
The fund charges 0.95% in expenses — high as far as equity ETFs go, but you're paying for the active management — and will start with a scant $2.5 million under management. Huntington initially planned to roll over one of its mutual fund's assets to create this fund, but it didn't receive regulator permission.
Huntington entered the ETF business earlier this year[11] when it launched the Huntington EcoLogical Strategy ETF (NYSE:HECO[12]), a fund focused on businesses that "demonstrate environmental stewardship" and "advance green practices."
Including last week's launches, 10 new exchange-traded products have come to market in July. The previous week saw a number of new funds appealing to yield hunters[13], as well as a small-cap technical-characteristics fund and two leveraged Australian dollar funds. In all, 132 new funds have come out so far in 2012, according to XTF.com[14].
Kyle Woodley[15] is the assistant editor of InvestorPlace.com[16]. As of this writing, he did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. Follow him on Twitter at @KyleWoodley[17].
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To change the displayed language in Yammer, follow these steps:
- Browse to the Preferences web page in a web browser. To do this, enter the following URL in the browser Address bar:yammer.com/contoso.com/account/display_optionsNote Replace the contoso.com placeholder with your actual domain name.
- Locate and then click the value for Language.
- In the Languages dialog box, select the language that you want to use in Yammer.
Note In this example, English is the language that's selected.
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Mike And Tricia Mornings Easter Basket Drive Welcomes Case & Associates As Drop Off Locations
The annual Mike And Tricia Morning Show Easter Basket Drive is underway! The Bunny will be out and about all week long collecting pre-assembled, store bought baskets and cash donations for needy, abused, and neglected El Paso kids. This year, we have a presenting sponsor, Case & Associates, and they are opening up their premiere properties as drop off locations.


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Mitsubishi restructures electronics operations
In what it described as a nationwide housekeeping effort, Mitsubishi Electric Corp. is flattening out its overseas operations by dismantling its U.S. holding company and consolidating several electronics subsidiaries.
The move will reduce Mitsubishi's U.S. holdings from 11 companies to nine and will entail the creation of a new firm dedicated to digital consumer products.
The announcement coincided with Mitsubishi's mid-year financial report, which was released today. Earnings for the first half of the company's fiscal year fell by 33% to $20.4 million, while revenues dipped 3% from the year-ago period to $11.1 billion. The report also includes a one-time $152 million charge to earnings to cover the cost of the restructuring.
Effective Jan. 1, 1999, Mitsubishi said it will dissolve its holding company, Mitsubishi Electric America Inc., and place all human resources, accounting, legal, technical support, and other services for its North and South American operations under the control of Mitsubishi Electronics America Inc., the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor subsidiary.
Additionally, the Japanese parent said it will close Mitsubishi Consumer Electronics America Inc., which had been charged with building cell phone and audio/visual consumer devices.
The subsidiary had already sold the manufacturing plant of its Cellular Mobile Telephone division to Solectron Corp., San Jose, in a deal that closed earlier this month. The cell phone group's Braselton, Ga., design team will now be folded into Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc., Deluth, Ga., as will a Georgia-based Mitsubishi satellite antenna sales and installation subsidiary, known as Astronet Corp.
The remaining Consumer Electronics America division, an Irvine, Calif., group dedicated to audio/visual products, will be combined with a Mexicali, Mexico, manufacturing subsidiary to create a new venture dedicated to digital consumer electronics products, such as televisions and computer monitors.
In other areas, a design team, retained as part of the previously announced dissolution of Mitsubishi Semiconductor America Inc. of Durham, N.C., will be folded into the Electronic Device Group of Mitsubishi Electronics America, where it will continue to develop semiconductor technologies.
The sweeping reorganization is designed to concentrate Mitsubishi's focus on its core U.S. markets, while streamlining its corporate structure, according to a company spokeswoman. "What we're really talking about is a lot of housekeeping," she said. "It's nothing monumental, but it makes a lot of sense."
In addition to the new consumer digital company, Mitsubishi said it will form the Communications, Computers & Visual marketing group, which will act as an incubator for new businesses throughout the U.S. The group will work with its counterpart in Tokyo, the Computer, Communication & Visual Systems Integration Group, founded some years ago.


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Causes of financial distress of Portuguese municipalities: empirical evidence
This paper analyses the factors behind the financial distress of local government in Portugal. A Probit model is used to estimate the probability of a municipality entering into a financial recovery contract, regulated by the Portuguese Local Finance Law. Empirical results indicate that both structural and non-structural factors influence local financial distress. In addition to financial management practices, financial distress is also conditioned by political variables and socio-economic factors. Municipalities ruled by mayors that belong to a right-wing party are more prone to financial distress, and some municipalities are more financially vulnerable than others because of structural circumstances.
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Army Sgt. Eli A. McCord of Lyons has returned to Fort Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, after being deployed to Afghanistan for one year. The soldier is one of 3,500 members of the 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division stationed at Fort Richardson.
The airborne brigade served in three eastern provinces of Afghanistan, which included the Paktya, Paktika and Khost. Soldiers improved roads, provided vocational training in construction and civics, improved and re-opened 29 schools, remodeled six medical clinics and improved three district courthouses.
McCord, a combat engineer, is normally assigned to the 425th Brigade Special Troops Battalion. He has served in the military for five years.
He is the son of Tim L. and stepson of Linda A. McCord of County Road N, Lyons. His mother, Teresa M. Loga, resides in Defiance, Ohio.
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Debut novelist Amy Hill Hearth is a former journalist and the author or coauthor of seven nonfiction books, including Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years, the New York Times bestseller-turned-Broadway play. She met her future husband, Blair, who was raised in Collier County, while she was working as a reporter in Daytona Beach, Florida, in 1983. She is a graduate of the University of Tampa.
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Feb 19 2013 1:30pm
Inferno: New Excerpt
The heat is on, and a new threat to humanity has risen . . .
Nick has his driver's license and he's not afraid to use it. But turning sixteen isn't what he thought it would be. While other boys his age are worried about prom dates and applying for college, Nick is neck deep in enemies out to stop him from living another day. No longer sure if he can trust anyone, his only ally seems to be the one person he's been told will ultimately kill him.
But life spent serving the undead is anything except ordinary. And those out to get him have summoned an ancient force so powerful even the gods fear it. As Nick learns to command and control the elements, the one he must master in order to combat his latest foe is the one most likely to destroy him. As the old proverb goes, fire knows nothing of mercy, and if Nick is to survive this latest round, he will have to sacrifice a part of himself. However, the best sacrifice is seldom the sanest move. Sometimes it's the one that leaves your enemies confused.
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Chapter 2
I set someone on fire.
Nick couldn't let that one thought go. It was horrifying to think that he could cause something so deadly with nothing more than a single random thought.
My powers are growing.
But not his ability to control them...
If anything, that was getting worse, and they were exploding all over the place without any warning or reason whatsoever.
Power without control is worthless—Acheron's favorite saying. At least it was Ash's pet phrase any time Nick got behind the wheel and laid into the accelerator.
Damn it, Nick! You've got to learn to go slow and not rush off into traffic at warp ten, especially not when it's heading straight for you! Acheron's other fave rant where he was concerned.
In the past, Nick had ignored those warnings. Now...The image of Stone bursting into ?ames was seared in his mind. Of course the burnt smell of Stone's werewolf hair hadn't really dissipated from the room. It clung to the air with a brutal reminder of what Nick had unconsciously done. One nanosecond of lapsed judgment and he'd almost killed someone. Granted, Stone was a jerk, but he didn't deserve to die for it.
At least not today.
Nick would have to ride herd on himself after this, lest he do some real damage to someone.
Suddenly, the bell rang, startling him from his thoughts. Nick jumped around a foot in his seat at the unexpected sound. Talk about looking stupid. Just what he wanted. Another reason to look awkward in front of his peers.
Caleb arched a brow at him. "You all right?"
"You didn't see another shadow, did you?" Nekoda asked in a hushed tone. A question he well understood, since the last shadow he'd seen had been a demon that one of his classmates had unleashed to wreak havoc with all their lives. Havoc he was still neck-deep in. While he'd been cleared of all the false charges Dina had made against him, rumors about the whole godawful situation that had led to his being handcuffed and hauled off school property abounded, and they clung to him with the tenacity of Velcro.
That thought didn't help his mood at all.
Nick narrowed his gaze on the necklace he'd given her. "The only demon I see right now is you, Kody."
She stiffened. "That's not fair."
"Neither is pretending to be my girlfriend while you're sizing me up for a body bag." He jammed his book into his backpack, then turned to glare at Caleb. "Did you know about that?"
"I still don't know what you're talking about."
"I'm talking about the fact that Kody's an assassin sent in to kill me."
Caleb went full-on into protection mode, letting Nick know that Caleb had been as clueless about her true intentions as him. At least Caleb isn't in on it. That made him feel a little better.
He put himself between Nick and Kody. "Is that true?" he growled.
Kody glanced around to make sure no one was listening to them before she answered. "It's not that simple, Malphas. I was sent to stop him from becoming what he's supposed to be."
Caleb scoffed. "Yeah, Nick, that sounds like killing orders to me."
Kody tried to step around him, but Caleb refused to let her pass.
"We're enemies, Nekoda. My job is to protect him from all threats. And now that clearly means you."
"You can't be serious." She looked past Caleb's massive shoulder. "Nick? Is this really what you want?"
"No. What I wanted was a normal girlfriend who only talks about shopping and fashion, and crap I don't care about. I have enough enemies moving in at my back. Last thing I need to do is put someone there I know intends to take a shot at me sooner or later." He jerked his backpack up and slung it over his shoulder. "We're done."
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|1 Jul 1986
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|17 Abr 1985
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|28 Abr 1984
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a process for the production of aqueous dispersion compositions containing
aqueous dispersions of polyurethanes and
optionally poly(meth)acrylates,
carboxyl group-containing, aqueous polymeric thickeners, self-crosslinkable polyorganosiloxanes and crosslinking agents.
The invention also relates to corresponding dispersion compositions and to their use for coating and for printing substrates to form hydrophobic coatings which are crosslinked after drying at elevated temperatures.
2. Description of the Prior Art
A variety of textile substrates are coated by direct coating with polyurethane solutions and dispersions which may be applied in several successive coats. Polyacrylate solutions and dispersions are also used for direct coating.
It is also known that polyacrylate dispersions may be blended with dispersions of silicones and that the resulting mixtures may be applied by direct coating.
According to DE No. 3,105,148 A 1(EP-A 1 58239), dispersions of copolymers of acrylates, ethylene, vinyl acetate and/or other monomers in admixture with silicones of the Si-vinyl/SiH-type may also be applied by direct coating using specified adhesive compounds and PT catalysts for crosslinking.
The use of coating compositions such as these and mixtures thereof involves several disadvantages. On account of their relatively high solubility in organic solvents, polyacrylates and copolymers thereof adversely affect the dry-cleanability of the textile substrates coated therewith. The emulsifiers present in the polyacrylate dispersions or dispersions of the copolymers also have an adverse effect (because of their hydrophilicity) in that they greatly reduce the hydrophobicity and resistance to washing of the coated articles.
Another disadvantage is the use of aqueous silicone dispersions because particularly hydrophilic emulsifiers are thus introduced into the coating mixture.
The present invention is directed to aqueous dispersion compositions in the form of aqueous, spreadable coating or printing pastes, characterized in that they contain
(A) aqueous dispersions of polyurethanes (Aa) or mixtures of polyurethanes (Aa) and aqueous dispersions of poly(meth)acrylates (Ab),
(B) carboxyl group-containing, aqueous thickener polymer solutions,
(C) self-crosslinking polyorganosiloxane mixtures and
(D) crosslinking agents for the polyurethanes, for the carboxyl group-containing thickener polymers (B) and, optionally, for the poly(meth)acrylates.
The dispersion compositions according to the invention are obtainable by a process of mixing
(A) aqueous dispersions of polyurethanes (Aa) or mixtures of (Aa) and aqueous dispersions of poly(meth)acrylates (Ab) with
(B) carboxyl group-containing, aqueous polymeric thickeners and subsequently adding
(C) self-crosslinkable polyorganosiloxanes which have not been previously dispersed in water, and wherein the composition also contains
(D) crosslinking agents for components (A) and (B).
The invention also relates to the use of the dispersion compositions according to the invention for coating and for printing substrates, particularly for coating and printing textiles or artificial leather substrates in small quantities to form crosslinked, relatively hydrophobic coatings after drying.
The pastes according to the invention for coating textile substrates and the articles thus coated have the following advantages over the prior art. The self-crosslinkable polyorganosiloxanes (C) (which are also often called silicones or polysiloxanes) are incorporated in the dispersions, thickened with (B) without being dispersed beforehand in water, i.e. without the use of emulsifiers (which would result in the undesirable hydrophilicity of the coatings).
The polyurethane component of the coating paste increases the resistance of the coating to the swelling effect of organic solvents, i.e. it increases the resistance of the coated articles to dry cleaning. The hydrophilic properties of the carboxyl group-containing aqueous polymers (B), used as thickener for the PUR and poly(meth)acrylate dispersions (A), are greatly reduced through their crosslinking by (D), improving the resistance of the coated articles to washing. The hydrophobic, soft, washable and dry-cleanable coatings crosslinked in accordance with the invention may be formed by direct coating even in minimal layer thicknesses or with minimal spreads on the substrates.
It is preferred to use purely aqueous, solvent-free pastes for coating, including crosslinking.
PUR dispersions (Aa), produced in known manner, are used for the spreading pastes according to the invention. Processes for the production of stable aqueous polyurethane dispersions suitable for use in accordance with the invention, are described, for example, in DE-AS No. 1,178,586 (U.S. Pat. No. 3,756,992), DE-OS No. 2,314,512 (U.S. Pat. No. 3,905,929), DE-OS No. 2,314,513 (U.S. Pat. No. 3,920,598), DE-OS No. 2,320,719 (GB-PS No. 1,465,572), DE-OS No. 2,446,440, DE-OS No. 2,555,534 and DE-OS No. 2,811,148 and by D. Dieterich in "Angewandte Chemie" 82, 53/1970. The starting materials and production processes mentioned there and also in other state-of-the-art publications on PU-dispersion production may be used here.
The poly(meth)acrylate dispersions (Ab) optionally used in the production of the spreading pastes are also produced by known methods. They include the following components: (meth)acrylic acid esters with C1 -C18 -alcohols such as ethyl acrylate, butyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate, stearyl acrylate, acrylonitrile, acrylamide, N-methylol acrylamide, N-methoxymethyl acrylamide, acrylic acid, itaconic acid and their ammonium or alkali salts.
The ratio of polyurethane solids to poly(meth)acrylate solids in the mixtures of polyurethane dispersions (Aa) and poly(meth)acrylate dispersions (Ab) is between about 100:0 and 100:150, preferably between about 100:10 and 100:80.
The silicones (or polyorganosiloxanes) (C) are preferably self-crosslinking, addition-crosslinking silicone mixtures in which silicone compounds containing SiH groups are added onto silicon compounds containing Si-vinyl groups, preferably in the presence of platinum metal catalysts. Addition-crosslinking silicon mixtures are such as these are described, for example, in DE-OS No. 1,668,159, U.S. Pat. No. 3,159,601 and as components 1-3 in EP-A No. 1-58239.
Suitable components include in particular,
(W) vinyl-group-containing polydimethyl siloxanes having a molecular weight of about 10,000 to 25,000, preferably containing about 0.2 to 10% by weight of vinyl groups which are mostly vinyl-endgroups,
(X) Si-H-group-containing polydimethyl siloxanes having molecular weights of about 1000 to 20,000, preferably having an SiH-content of about 0.1 to 8% by weight, for example, trimethylsiloxy-methylhydrogensiloxy poly-dimethyl siloxanes.
(Y) optionally a low molecular weight, cyclic methyl siloxane compound containing vinyl groups, for example, cyclic methyl vinyl tetrasiloxane and
(Z) a platinum catalyst, particularly platinum-siloxane complexes, of the type obtained by reacting platinum compounds such as platinum halides with vinyl siloxane compounds, preferably of the W type, and used in particular in the form of a solution of the platinum complex in (W) or (X).
The quantitative ratios in which components W, X, Y and Z are used amounts to about (80-95):(5-15):(0.1-0.5):(0.01-0.2). The ratio of polyurethane-(Aa)-(and optionally poly(meth)acrylate-(Ab))-solids to silicone (C) from (W+X+Y+Z) amounts to between about 100:5 and 100:200, preferably between about 100:10 and 100:150.
As compounds (W) the well known polyorganosiloxanes with Si-C-bonded vinylgroups, preferably vinyl endgroups, can be used as they are, for example, described in EP-A No. 1 58239, pages 3 to 5, as component (1).
As compounds (X), the well known organopolysiloxanes, which contain SiH-groups can be reacted, as they are described as component (2) in EP-A 1 No. 58239, pages 5 and 6.
An extensive list of the well known Pt-catalysts (Z) to be used, is found, e.g. in EP-A No. 1 58239, pages 6 to 7 (described as component 3).
As component Y the methyl vinyltetrasiloxane ##STR1## is a preferred component.
Carboxyl group-containing polymers in aqueous solution of the type normally used as thickeners are used as thickener (B) for the dispersions (A) (polyurethanes (Aa) or the mixtures of polyurethane and poly(meth)acrylate dispersions). The aqueous solutions have a concentration of about 2 to 25%. Examples of suitable carboxyl group-containing polymers of the type in question are poly(meth)acrylic acids, carboxy methyl celluloses, above all their alkali metal and ammonium salts, including organic ammonium salts with, for example, triethylamine or triethanolamine or N-methyl morpholine. The aqueous thickener solutions are used in a quantity of about 1 to 10% by weight, preferably about 3 to 5% by weight, based on the sum of the aqueous dispersions (A).
Urea-formaldehyde and melamine-formaldehyde resins, polyaziridines and polyepoxides, for example, are used as crosslinking agents (D) for the polyurethanes and, optionally, the poly(meth)acrylates present in the spreading pastes and, in particular, for the carboxyl group-containing, water-soluble polymers used for thickening.
Examples of suitable crosslinking agents are urea-methylol and melamine-methylol resins completely or partly, preferably predominately, etherified with methanol or butanols, of the type obtainable, for example, as melamine hexamethylol ethers or as formulated commercial products made and marketed by Hoechst AG under the name of Maprenal®MF 900, 910, 915, 920, 927, 800, 650, 700 and 750, or as Cassurit HML; polyisocyanates reacted with ethylene imine or propylene imine, so-called aziridine ureas (Bayer, DE-PS No. 1,153,161); reaction products of acrylic acid esters of polyhydric alcohols and ethylene imine and/or propylene imine, for example, reaction products of trimethylol propane triacrylate with propylene imine; polyepoxides of diane and epichlorohydrin or polyalcohols and epichlorohydrin.
The crosslinking agents are used as solids or, in general, in the form of more than 50% solutions in quantities of about 0,5 to 10% by weight of solids, preferably 1 to 10% and preferably in quantities of about 2 to 5% by weight, based on the total weight of the aqueous dispersions (A).
The spreading pastes may contain in known manner pigments, dyes, fillers, light and hydrolysis stabilizers, antioxidants, flameproofing agents, antistatic agents, levelling aids, foam inhibitors, fungicides and bactericides, grip-improving agents and similar additives known per se.
The pastes may be applied by standard coating or printing techniques.
The spreads applied are preferably small, amounting to between about 5 and 25 g/m2 preferably between about 8 and 15 g/m2, based on solids. However, the pastes may also be applied in the usual larger quantities of about 25 to 60 g/m2.
The drying and reaction temperatures are in the range of about 90° to 170° C., preferably about 110° to 160° C. High temperatures may also be briefly applied, depending on the residence time.
The invention is further illustrated, but is not intended to be limited by the foregoing examples in which all parts and percentages are by weight unless otherwise specified.
(I) Production of a dispersion composition (spreadable coating paste) in accordance with the invention:
50 g of a 25% aqueous polyacrylic acid solution were added after 100 g of water and 3.0 g of a silicone-paste foam inhibitor to 500 g of a PUR dispersion P-1 and 500 g of a polyacrylate dispersion A 1 and the pH-value was subsequently adjusted to pH 8-9 using concentrated ammonia. The thickened dispersion mixture had a viscosity of 4000 mPa.s at 25° C. After the addition of 20 g of a 50% aqueous melamine resin solution, 226 g of a solvent-free silicone mixture having the following composition were incorporated with stirring into the viscous, aqueous preparation:
93.0% of vinyl dimethyl polysiloxanes with vinyl groups, essentially positioned as endgroups, as component (W)
6.85% of trimethylsiloxy-methyl hydrogen siloxy-groups containing polydimethylsiloxane: ##STR2## where n and z are numbers >2; as component (X) 0.15% of cyclic methyl vinyl tetrasiloxane, containing approximately 1% of platinum as platinum-O-complex.
(II) PUR dispersion P-1:
1700 g (1.0 mole) of a mixed polyester of 1,6-hexane diol, neopentyl glycol (molar ratio of glycols 65:35) and adipic acid were reacted with 303 g (1.8 moles) of hexane-1,6-diisocyanate to form an NCO-prepolymer which was chain extended in the aqueous phase with 152 g (0.8 mole) of sodium ethylene diamine ethyl sulfonate.sup.(+) to form the polyester urethane urea; solids content 40%.
(III) Polyacrylate dispersion A 1:
A 40% dispersion of a copolymer of 960 parts of butyl acrylate, 10 parts of itaconic acid, 25 parts of acrylamide and 5 parts of N-methylol acrylamide.
(IV) Direct coating by air knife
100 g/m2 woven polyamide fabric was coated with paste (I) using an air knife. A 1 mm wide air knife blade was used; speed of travel 10 m/min., drying and reaction temperature 120°-150° C., spread (solids) 12 g/m2.
The soft, low-friction coated article was then aftertreated with standard commercially available hydrophobizing agents. The article was distinguished by its very good resistance to washing and dry cleaning.
(V) Direct coating by rotary screen printing
A woven polyamide fabric of the same type as in (IV) was coated in a rotary screen printer (of the type manufactured by Stork, Boxmeer) using a 125-mesh screen. Speed of travel 120 m/min., tunnel temperature 150° C., spread 10 g/m2.
(I) Paste preparation
900 g of a PUR dispersion P-1 according to Example 1/II and 100 g of a PUR dispersion according to DE No. 3,134,161 (Example 2) were mixed, 3.0 g of a silicone-based foam inhibitor were added to the resulting solution which was then thickened with 50 g of a 4% aqueous solution of sodium carboxy methyl cellulose. Following the addition of 25 g of a 50% aqueous melamine resin solution, 40 g of a solvent-free, self-crosslinkable silicone mixture were incorporated with stirring into the viscous aqueous preparation. The composition of the silicone mixture was the same as in Example 1.
(II) Direct coating by air knife.
120 g/m2 polyester/cotton fabric was coated with paste (I) using an air knife. Speed of travel: 12 m/min. Drying and reaction temperature: 120°-150° C. Spread (solids): 8 g/m2.
The very soft, supple article was then treated with standard commercially available hydrophobizing agents, for example with Perlit SE/Perlit Si/SW (products of Bayer AG, D-509 Leverkusen), from a solution containing approximately 20 g/l to 30 g/l of hydrophobizing agent.
The resistance of the article to dry cleaning was excellent and its resistance to washing was good.
(I) Paste preparation (A)
After the addition of 3 g of a silicone-based foam inhibitor, 600 g of a PUR dispersion P 2 and 400 g of a polyacrylate dispersion A 2 were thickened with 40 g of a 25% aqueous polyacrylic acid solution and adjusted with concentrated ammonia to pH 8-9. The thickened dispersion mixture had a viscosity of approximately 6000 mPa.s/25° C. After the addition of 30 g of a polyaziridine PA, 600 g of a solvent-free silicon mixture corresponding to Example 1 were stirred without preliminary dispersion into the viscous, aqueous preparation.
(II) PUR dispersion P 2
1680 g (0.84 mole) of a linear polypropylene glycol polyether (OH number 56), 2.15 g of dimethylol propionic acid (0.16 mole) and 16.0 g of triethylamine (0.016 mole) were reacted with 303 g of 1,6-hexane diisocyanate (1.80 moles) to form an NCO-prepolymer which was chain-extended in the aqueous phase with 30.0 g (0.5 mole) of ethylene diamine and 47.5 g (0.25 mole) of sodium ethylene diamine ethyl sulfonate to form the polyurethane urea; solids content 40%.
(III) Polyacrylate dispersion A 2
A 40% dispersion of a copolymer of 400 parts of butyl acrylate, 400 parts of ethyl acrylate, 175 parts of acrylonitrile, 10 parts of itaconic acid, 5 parts of N-methylol acrylamide and 10 parts of acrylamide.
(IV) Polyaziridine PA
296 g (1.0 mole) of trimethylol propane trisacrylate were reacted at 70° C. with 171 g (3.0 moles) of propylene imine (methyl aziridine) to form the trisaziridine.
(V) Direct coating
A 140 g/m2 fabric of polyester/cotton blend was coated in the same way as in Example 1. Speed of travel: 8 m/min. Drying and reaction temperature: 120°-130° C. Spread (solids): 10 g/m2.
The soft, full-bodied article was then finished with standard commercially available hydrophobizing agents. The coated article shows very good resistance to dry cleaning and washing.
(VI) Paste preparation (B)
Instead of a polyaziridine, 50 g of an epoxy resin (epoxide equivalent 120, viscosity 150 mPas) were incorporated as crosslinking agent in the spreading paste according to (A). Coating was carried out in the same way as in (V).
(VII) Comparison (without polyurethane dispersion)
Following the addition of 3 g of a silicone-based foam inhibitor, 1000 g of a polyacrylate dispersion A 2 were thickened with 40 g of a 25% aqueous polyacrylic acid solution and adjusted with Conc. ammonia to pH 8-9 in the same way as described in (I). The thickened dispersion mixture had a viscosity of approximately 5000 mPa.s at 25° C. After the addition of 30 g of a polyaziridine (PA), 600 g of solvent-free silicone mixture corresponding to Example 1 were stirred without preliminary dispersion into the viscous, aqueous preparation.
A polyester/rayon fabric was coated in the same way as described in (V). The full-bodied article was then finished with standard commercially available hydrophobizing agents. Although the coated article was washable, it showed very poor resistance to dry cleaning.
Although the invention has been described in detail in the foregoing for the purpose of illustration, it is to be understood that such detail is solely for that purpose and that variations can be made therein by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention except as it may be limited by the claims.
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We don't let our children decorate their rooms.
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Unless they can afford to buy the things and still then they must be approved by us.
The way I see it, it's our home and as adults we know what will look good and will grow with our children rather than decking it out in barbie crap just so she can change her mind in a month. We don't give them boring rooms. I always make sure the rooms look wonderful and we spend quite a bit of money making them perfect. So far we haven't had anyone complain and the kids are 15, 10, and 5. We ran in to some head butts with dd15 once but we came to a compromise and she realized my way would work out better.
They can decorate it with home made things like crafts or pictures but as far as picking out their own bedding, wall colors, other decor, and furniture? That's up to me and dh.
I'm sure I'll get bashed but oh well. That's how it is in this family. I've had many people praise and bash me for it irl.
i wouldn't praise or bash over it. i don't have the money to spend on decorating my kids' rooms too much.. they're freshly painted and have decent furniture and bedding and that's about that. their school art is hung too. if i had money to spend on it and was going to go all out i would give them free reign over decor selection i think.
Quoting dee1603:
I agree. I am not a supporter of the "my child needs to express themselves by making ridiculous choices" parenting style. Nope. My house. My rules.
Nice to see someone agree. My kids can express themselves through useful things like real art and music. Their bedroom is not the place for that.
Congratulations. You seem very proud of this. My son has always had a say in how he'd like his room done, though it must meet my approval.
what's the harm though? decor isn't permanent.. you can paint over the pink walls and take down the barbie mirror when you want to move.
Quoting dee1603:
I agree. I am not a supporter of the "my child needs to express themselves by making ridiculous choices" parenting style. Nope. My house. My rules.


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A judge dismissed two out of four official misconduct charges in a case against a Campbell County judge in court Tuesday.
Amanda Sammons still faces two counts of official misconduct.
The charges stem from a January case where she's accused of increasing a child endangerment charge to a child abuse and neglect charge.
Sammons' trial is set for Nov. 1.