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Patent application title: ACOUSTIC DAMPING SECTION WHICH IS DISPOSED BETWEEN A WINDOW PANEL AND THE BODY OF A VEHICLE
Julien Charlier (Compiegne, FR)
IPC8 Class: AG01N2900FI
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Class name: Measuring and testing vibration by mechanical waves
Publication date: 2010-02-25
Patent application number: 20100043555
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Sealing strip (1) intended to be combined between a vehicle bodywork (2)
and glazing (3), characterized in that it constitutes an acoustic damping
means when subjected to the action of a vibrational field; it works in
shear combined with local movements of the glazing in its plane, while
the bodywork deforms in the direction of the local normal to the glazing.
1. A method for determining dissipative property of a strip configured to
be combined between a vehicle bodywork and glazing, the method
comprising: establishing a Q-factor of the strip, which is determined as
the ratio of the maximum receptance to the shear-mode quasi-static
receptance, the receptance being the frequency response function that
gives the ratio of the frequency-dependent displacement of a weight to
the force applied to the strip the weight being mounted between two metal
supports by specimens of the strip, the strip having dissipative
properties when the Q factor is less than or equal to 4.
2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the receptance of the strip is greater than or equal to 310.sup.-6 m/N.
[0001]This application is a divisional of and claims the benefit of priority from U.S. application Ser. No. 11/574,281 filed Feb. 26, 2007, the entire contents of each of which are hereby incorporated by reference. U.S. application Ser. No. 11/574,281 is a national stage of International application PCT/FR2005/50688, filed Aug. 29, 2005, which claims the benefit of priority from French Application 04 09807 filed Sep. 16, 2004.
[0002]The present invention relates to a strip intended to be combined between a vehicle bodywork and glazing with a view to forming an acoustic damping means to absorb the vibration waves transmitted through the glazing and bodywork of the vehicle.
[0003]Such a strip may be used in particular for vehicle, particularly motor vehicle, glazing, with a view to improving the acoustic comfort of its interior.
[0004]In a motor vehicle, the sources of annoyance of mechanical, thermal, visibility, etc. origin have gradually been overcome. However, improvement in acoustic comfort is still very much an ongoing concern.
[0005]Aerodynamic noise, that is to say noise created by the friction of the air over the moving vehicle, has, at least in part, been dealt with at its source, that is to say that, in order to save energy, the shapes have been modified, thus improving penetration through the air and reducing the turbulence which itself is a source of noise. Among the walls of a vehicle that separate the source of external aerodynamic noise from the interior space where the passenger is situated, the windows are obviously the most difficult to deal with. It is not possible to use pasty or fibrous absorbents that are reserved for the opaque walls, and for practical or weight reasons, the thicknesses cannot be increased without due consideration. European patent EP-B1-0 387 148 proposes glazings which provide good insulation against noise of aerodynamic origin without their weight and/or thickness being excessively increased. The patent thus proposes laminated glazing in which the interlayer has a flexural damping factor ν=Δf/fc of greater than 0.15, the measurement being carried out by exciting, by means of a shock, a laminated bar 9 cm long and 3 cm wide made of a laminated glass in which the resin is between two panes each 4 mm thick and by measuring fc, the resonant frequency of the first mode, and Δf, the width of the peak at an amplitude A/ 2 where A is the maximum amplitude at the frequency fc such that its acoustic attenuation index does not differ, for any of the frequencies above 800 Hz, by more than 5 dB from a reference index increasing by 9 dB per octave up to 2000 Hz and by 3 dB per octave at the higher frequencies. In addition, the standard deviation σ of the differences in its acoustic attenuation index with respect to the reference index remains lower than 4 dB. The thicknesses of the two glass panes may be identical and equal to 2.2 mm. That patent thus proposes a general solution to the problem of acoustic insulation of a vehicle against aerodynamic noise.
[0006]By contrast, the treatment of glazing against solid-borne noise, that is to say against noise transmitted via solid bodies and in the frequency domain from 50 to 300 Hz or even 800 Hz, is more difficult to achieve. This is because it turns out that the use of connecting pieces is not enough to avoid the transmission of noise by vibration of the glazing. Indeed it has been found that, at certain engine speeds, a humming noise perceivable by the passenger occurs and thus causes a source of annoyance. What happens is that the turning-over of the engine creates vibrations which are transmitted, for example, to the bodywork and thus, through a chain effect, to the glazing. It is known that the energy acquired by an object subjected to a shock generates a vibration phenomenon and that, immediately after the shock, the object that has become free again vibrates in its natural mode. A vibrational frequency is associated with each mode. The amplitude of the vibration depends on the initial excitation, that is to say on the spectral component of the shock (the amplitude of the shock at the frequency studied) and on the area of impact of the shock, the modal deformation being greater or smaller according to whether the shock occurs at a vibration antinode or at a vibration node.
[0007]For a natural mode to be excited, it is necessary: [0008](1) for the deformation caused at the point of impact not to be situated on a vibration node of the mode, and [0009](2) for the energy spectrum of the shock to have a component at the resonant frequency of the mode.
[0010]The latter condition is practically always satisfied because a very brief shock exhibits a practically uniform energy spectrum.
[0011]The first condition is also satisfied, and, for a bar that is free at both ends, for example, all that is required is for one of the ends to be attacked and all the flexural modes will be excited.
[0012]Solid-borne excitation is peripheral and it has been demonstrated that, at certain vibrational frequencies of the engine, that is to say at certain engine speeds, at least one of the glazings has a vibration mode and the cabin of the vehicle has an acoustic mode, the coupling between these two modes amplifying the hum resulting from the acoustic radiation via the glazing of the energy originating, in this instance, from the engine. Of course, engine speed that gives rise to these phenomena is specific to each type of vehicle and cannot thus be generalized to a single value.
[0013]Hence, in order to improve acoustic comfort in the cabin of the vehicle with respect to solid-borne noise, patent EP 0 844 075 proposes laminated glazing comprising at least one interlayer film possessing very satisfactory damping qualities as regards solid-borne audible noise because it has a loss factor tanδ greater than 0.6 and a shear modulus G' of less than 2107 N/m2, in a temperature range between 10 and 60° C.
[0014]A solution that may be an alternative or a supplement to the use of glazing with an acoustic damping property may be to combine around the periphery of the glazing a strip that has an acoustic damping property. Patent application WO 04/012952 discloses a strip which, in order to provide such an acoustic damping property, has to have a real equivalent stiffness per unit length K'eq at least equal to 25 MPa, combined with an equivalent loss factor tanδeq at least equal to 0.25.
[0015]The equivalent stiffness per unit length is the equivalent stiffness of the strip per linear meter of strip.
[0016]The equivalent strip stiffness is the stiffness of the entirety of the strip irrespective of the number of materials or their constitution.
[0017]The stiffness is a quantity that relates the deformations of the strip to the loadings applied to it. The stiffness is defined by the rigidity of the materials that make up the strip and by the geometry of the strip, the rigidity being a quantity characteristic of the material and dependent on the Young's modulus and/or the shear modulus. The Young's modulus is related to the stresses and deformations experienced by the material when working in tension-compression, while the shear modulus is related to the stresses and deformations experienced by the material when working in shear.
[0018]The equivalent loss factor tanδeq is the loss factor of the entirety of the strip regardless of the number of materials and their constitution.
[0019]The loss factor is defined by the ratio between the dissipative power, that is to say the conversion of the energy of deformation of the strip into heat energy throughout the strip, and the stiffness per unit length.
[0020]In order to determine the real equivalent stiffness per unit length K'eq and the equivalent loss factor tanδeq of a strip made up of one or more materials, these quantities are estimated using a visco-analyzer. The visco-analyzer measures the real equivalent stiffness K'eq and the equivalent dissipative power K''eq of a specimen of strip of a cross section identical to that of the strip and of a length L then the following calculations are carried out: [0021]the ratio between the measured real equivalent stiffness and the length L of the strip in order to obtain the real equivalent stiffness per unit length K'eq of the strip; [0022]the ratio between the measured equivalent dissipative power and the measured real equivalent stiffness in order to obtain the equivalent loss factor tanδeq of the strip.
[0023]In this type of strip mentioned hereinabove, only stresses and deformations experienced by the material when working in tension-compression in the direction normal to the glazing are taken into consideration, work in shear being negligible. This is because the bodywork is so rigid by comparison with the strip that it does not deform and cannot absorb vibrational energy. Only the strip deforms significantly and dissipates mechanical energy by working mainly in tension-compression.
[0024]Now, the inventors have noticed that, for certain types of vehicle, the bodywork may not be as rigid, which means that it does deform and reduces the work of the strip and therefore the dissipation of mechanical energy by this strip. Hence, with a strip exhibiting the characteristics mentioned hereinabove with a real equivalent stiffness per unit length K'eq of at least 25 MPa, combined with an equivalent loss factor tanδeq at least equal to 0.25, the noise reduction performance is not in fact as expected.
[0025]It is therefore an object of the invention to provide another solution involving a strip with an acoustic damping property which is fully able to perform its function when fixed to a bodywork, the deformations of which limit the work of the strip in the direction normal to the glazing.
[0026]According to the invention, the strip is characterized in that it constitutes an acoustic damping means when subjected to the action of a vibrational field; it works in shear combined with local movements of the glazing in its plane, while the bodywork deforms in the direction of the local normal to the glazing.
[0027]The dissipation through the strip's work in shear is defined by the Q-factor A that the strip has, this Q-factor being less than or equal to 4.
[0028]The Q-factor A is determined by the ratio of the maximum receptance R1 to the shear-mode quasi-static receptance R0. More specifically, the receptance R(f) is the frequency response function that gives the ratio of the frequency-dependent displacement of a weight to the force applied to it, the weight being mounted between two metal supports by means of two specimens of the strip.
[0029]The maximum receptance R1 is defined as the value of the receptance R(f) on the local maximum of lowest frequency and which corresponds to the mode of suspension of the weight from the specimen of strip. The frequency at which this maximum is attained is denoted f1.
[0030]The shear-mode quasi-static receptance R0 is defined as the value of the receptance R(f) measured when the frequency equals f1/10.
[0031]The Q-factor A is therefore defined by the ratio of the maximum receptance to the shear-mode quasi static receptance R1/R0.
[0032]The inventors also demonstrated that the criterion given for the Q-factor A may be associated with a criterion on the receptance R0 of the strip which needs advantageously to be greater than or equal to 310-6 m/N.
[0033]According to another feature, the strip is made of just one or several materials stacked together.
[0034]As a preference, the material or materials has or have properties of adhesion with at least the glazing and/or the bodywork.
[0035]A preferred example of a material is a one-component polyurethane and, more particularly, silane-terminated one-component polyurethane, the material having two glass transitions, in two very distinct temperature regions.
[0036]According to another feature, the strip has a uniform or non-uniform cross section over all or part of its length.
[0037]The strip is applied to at least one of the elements that are the glazing and the bodywork by a method of extrusion and/or encapsulation and/or transfer molding and/or injection molding.
[0038]The strip may be combined with a motor vehicle bodywork, it being possible in particular for the glazing of the vehicle to be laminated glazing comprising at least two sheets of glass and a film having acoustic properties. Reference may be made to patent applications EP 0 100 701 and EP 0 844 075 with regard to the criteria that a film with acoustic properties must satisfy.
[0039]The invention also proposes a method for determining the dissipative property of a strip intended to be combined between a vehicle bodywork and glazing, the method being characterized in that it consists in establishing the Q-factor A of the strip which is determined as the ratio of the maximum receptance R1 to the shear-mode quasi-static receptance R0, the receptance being the frequency response function that gives the ratio of the frequency-dependent displacement of a weight to the force applied to it, the weight being mounted between two metal supports by means of two specimens of the strip, the strip having dissipative properties when the Q-factor A is less than or equal to 4.
[0040]According to this method, the shear-mode quasi-static receptance R0 is greater than or equal to 310-6 m/N. The inventors have thus demonstrated the benefit of using a strip combined between a vehicle glazing and bodywork for dissipating vibrational energy that causes the noise radiated by the glazing and/or the bodywork when the strip works in shear combined with local movements of the glazing in its plane, while the bodywork deforms in the direction normal to the glazing.
[0041]In its use for dissipating vibrational energy, the strip advantageously exhibits the characteristics mentioned hereinabove. A suitable material and appropriate dimensions will need to be chosen according to the shortest dimensions (height and width) of the strip in order to arrive at a Q-factor of 4 or lower.
[0042]Other advantages and characteristics of the invention will become apparent in the remainder of the description, with reference to the attached drawings in which:
[0043]FIG. 1 is a sectioned part view of a strip according to the invention combined between the bodywork of a vehicle and glazing;
[0044]FIG. 2 schematically illustrates the device used to measure the receptance that characterizes the strip;
[0045]FIG. 3 shows curves of comparative noise-transfer measurements as a function of the frequency taken on a vehicle comprising in particular a strip of the invention.
[0046]FIG. 1 depicts a schematic part view of an acoustic damping strip 1 combined between the bodywork 2 and the glazing 3 of a vehicle, for example a motor vehicle. The acoustic damping generated by this strip is a result of its ability to work in shear, in deformation parallel to the plane of the glazing, while the bodywork is able to work in tension-compression.
[0047]The strip may be made of a single material or of several materials arranged in layers such as a stack of materials stacked in the heightwise and/or widthwise direction of the strip.
[0048]Its function of dissipating energy while working in shear is defined by the Q-factor A that the strip has. According to the invention, this Q-factor needs to be equal to 4 or lower.
[0049]As explained above, the Q-factor A is determined by calculating the ratio of the maximum receptance R1 to the shear-mode quasi-static receptance R0.
[0050]In order to determine the acoustic damping properties or otherwise of a strip, it is thus necessary to establish what its Q-factor A is.
[0051]The procedure illustrated schematically in FIG. 2 for measuring receptance is as follows: a weight 40 weighing 0.025 kg and made up of a rectangular parallepipedal steel block is fixed between two steel uprights 41 and 42 using two specimens of the strip 1. The uprights are themselves secured to a slab 43, for example, by appropriate bonding. The uprights, the specimens of the strip and the weight are secured by rigid bonding, for example, by using a cyanoacrylate adhesive, without any preload other than that due to the self-weight of the various components. The specimens of strip are 0.02 m long and have the same cross section as when mounted between the bodywork and the glazing. They are orientated in such a way as to be positioned between an upright and the weight as between the bodywork and the glazing.
[0052]The weight is excited vibrationally using an electrodynamic pot 44 connected to it via a force transducer 45. The load signal delivered by the electrodynamic pot is made up of white noise at least over the frequency band from 40-1000 Hz. The force measured by the force transducer 45, in N, is denoted F.
[0053]At the same time, the acceleration of the weight 40 is measured using an accelerometer 46 weighing less than 0.005 kg. The acceleration measured by the accelerometer 46, in m/s2, is denoted γ.
[0054]The load applied by the electrodynamic pot and the acceleration of the weight are measured in the same direction, directed parallel to the length of the specimens of strip and in the mid-plane of the two uprights. As a result, the movement of the weight resides in the specimens of strip working in shear, in their longitudinal direction.
[0055]The modulus of the frequency response function [γ/F] relating the acceleration measured to the force applied to the weight as a function of the frequency, is determined in fine bands. The receptance R(f) as a function of the frequency f can be deduced therefrom as follows: R(f)=|γ/F|/(2πf)2.
[0056]The maximum receptance R1 is determined, this being defined as the value of the receptance R(f) on the local maximum, the frequency of which is the lowest and which corresponds to the mode of translational suspension of the weight from the specimens of strip, in the longitudinal direction of the strip specimens. The frequency at which this maximum is attained is denoted f1.
[0057]The shear-mode quasi-static receptance R0 is defined as the value of the receptance R(f) measured when the frequency is equal to f1/10.
[0058]Having determined R1 and R0, the Q-factor A is calculated using the ratio R1/R0. Two examples of strips P1 and P2 which respectively meet and do not meet the criterion of having a Q-factor A of 4 or lower are given hereinafter. The strip P1 of the invention is made of a rectangular bead 10 mm wide and 5 mm thick made of one-component polyurethane and more particularly of silane-terminated one-component polyurethane, the product having two glass transitions in two very different temperature regions. It has the property of adhering the glass to the bodywork. Its Q-factor, determined using the protocol set out hereinabove, is 1.3.
[0059]The strip P2 is made of a rectangular bead 12 mm wide and 6 mm thick of polyurethane mastic, for example, Gurit marketed by Dow Automotive, a material that is well known in automotive construction for fixing glazing to bodywork. Its Q-factor, determined according to the protocol set out hereinabove, is 5.2.
[0060]These two strips were used independently to fix monolithic glazing to a motor vehicle bodywork. In both instances, noise transfer measurements were taken: simultaneous measurement of the force applied by an impact hammer to the glazing and of the interior noise generated by this same impact allowed a frequency response function [p/F], called noise transfer, to be deduced, p being the acoustic pressure measured at the ears of a passenger and F being the force produced by the impact hammer at the center of the glazing. The higher the vibro-acoustic coupling between the glazing and the car body, the higher the noise transfer. In other words, an acoustic improvement is obtained when the noise transfer level is reduced.
[0061]FIG. 3 sets out noise transfer results obtained with the strips P1 and P2 as a function of frequency over the range 130-230 Hz. It can be seen that use of the strip P1, that meets the criterion of having a Q-factor of 4 or lower, allows the noise transfer to be reduced and therefore allows the acoustic performance of the glazing-bodywork system to be improved.
Patent applications by Julien Charlier, Compiegne FR
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↪ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 60:
Reply 192.168.130.1 is-at 00:14:c2:5b:4f:2c, length 46
[3] 17:53:59.615796 00:16:17:ec:5c:6c > 00:14:c2:5b:4f:2c,
↪ethertype IPv4 (0x0800), length 98:
192.168.130.100 > 188.8.131.52: ICMP echo request,
↪id 3082, seq 1, length 64
My workstation consulted the routing table for the destination IP 22.214.171.124 and realized it should send the packet to the default router 192.168.130.1. For that, it needs the router's low-level Ethernet address (also known as a MAC address), and the first packet in the above tcpdump output, marked [1], is doing exactly that—asking for the MAC address of IP 192.168.130.1 by "broadcasting" the request to all nodes on the network segment. The second packet, marked [2], is a reply—IP 192.168.130.1 is at MAC address 00:14:c2:5b:4f:2c. Finally, the PING packet can be dispatched, with the destination IP 188.8.131.52 to the router's MAC address 00:14:c2:5b:4f:2c (see the line marked [3]).
All good, so now we can assume our router got the packet and will forward it further toward the destination. Let's see what happens on the router.
We've got both the ADSL and the SHDSL links configured, but all traffic is, by default, sent through ADSL. The ADSL modem is at 192.168.128.254. For now, the SHDSL link 203.0.113.36/30 sits idle. Here is the routing table:
[router] ~ # ip route show
[1] 203.0.113.36/30 dev vlan-shdsl proto kernel
↪scope link src 203.0.113.38
[2] 192.168.128.0/24 dev vlan-adsl proto kernel
↪scope link src 192.168.128.1
[3] 192.168.130.0/24 dev vlan-office proto kernel
↪scope link src 192.168.130.1
[4] default via 192.168.128.254 dev vlan-adsl
The first line [1] is the SHDSL link—our router's IP on that link is
203.0.113.38. The second line is the link to the ADSL modem; the third
line [3] is the network segment with my workstation, and finally, the fourth
line [4] is the default route. All packets that don't match any of the
local subnets on lines 1, 2 or 3 are sent down to the ADSL modem at
192.168.128.254 that then will forward them to the ISP 2. That's also the
fate of our packet to 22.214.171.124. Let's quickly verify what is going to
happen to it by calling
ip route get:
[router] ~ # ip route get 220.127.116.11 from 192.168.130.100
↪iif vlan-office
22.214.171.124 from 192.168.130.100 via 192.168.128.254 dev vlan-adsl
As you can see, it will be sent "via 192.168.128.254", which is the ADSL modem. A simple way to check the full network path from my workstation to any given destination address is the traceroute command. It shows all the routers ("hops") along the way to the destination:
[workstation] ~ $ /usr/sbin/traceroute 18.104.22.168
traceroute to 18.104.22.168 (188.8.131.52), 30 hops max,
↪40 byte packets using UDP
1 gw-vlan-office.e-it.co.nz (192.168.130.1)
↪0.156 ms 0.126 ms 0.124 ms
2 gw-vlan-adsl.e-it.co.nz (192.168.128.254)
↪0.853 ms 0.831 ms 0.830 ms
3 core-adsl.isp2 (218.101.x.y)
↪11.765 ms 19.173 ms 19.066 ms
4 core-xyz.isp2 (203.98.x.y)
↪16.052 ms 15.515 ms 17.153 ms
[... some more hops ...]
13 64.233.x.y (64.233.x.y) 193.826 ms 194.230 ms 194.412 ms
14 * * *
15 google-public-dns-b.google.com (188.8.131.52)
↪196.086 ms 195.909 ms 195.816 ms
As you can see, the first hop is our router 192.168.130.1. The second hop is the ADSL modem 192.168.128.254. The third hop is one of the ISP2's core routers, and so on and on, passing 11 more routers before the packet finally reaches the destination 188.8.131.52, aka google-public-dns-b.google.com.
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La nostra missione è di garantire un soggiorno senza stress piacevole. Offriamo un ambiente pulito casa accogliente a conduzione familiare lontano da casa immersa dentro la tangenziale di Washington DC a Silver Spring, nel Maryland. Dal B & B sarete minuti da dove devi essere. * Una breve passeggiata per la linea rossa (15-20 minuti al Campidoglio) * a 5 minuti di autobus dal centro di Silver Spring * un giro in bicicletta di 5 minuti per Crescent Bike Trail (a Rock Creek) * 2 blocchi da Montgomery Hills Neighborhood Park (New campi da tennis e da basket) * Una fermata di metropolitana dalla stazione ferroviaria di Silver Spring MARC. WiFi in tutto, HDTV, via cavo, computer in camera e altri comfort. Sul posto - Asciugacapelli, Prodotti per l'igiene, shampoo, balsamo, cuffia per la doccia, pantofole monouso, accappatoio ecc Ferro e asse da stiro, colazione servita a vostro piacimento, arrivi tardivi e tempo di checkout flessibile, di entrare e uscire a vostro piacimento.
4,6 su luglio 11, 2016
My husband and I were travelling to Silver Spring to visit our son and daughter-in-law. The hotels we usually stay were booked, so we found the B&B at Lansdowne Way. It was very close to our son's home but we were unsure about staying at a B&B. We need not have worried. It was a wonderful experience. Christina was a lovely hostess. The room was comfortable, breakfasts were delicious and elegantly served. We felt quite at home, able to come and go as we pleased. We are looking forward to staying there again soon. - Claudia & Joe Moll.
5 su ottobre 07, 2015
We spent 4 nights in this very comfortable and convenient B&B. The location is perfect: a pleasant neighborhood with just a short walk to the Forrest Glen Metro stop and quick ride into the District. The home is lovely: tastefully decorated (no kitsch of any kind) and thoughtfully appointed with everything a guest might wish for (or have left at home). Christine is very welcoming and accommodating, and Trouble (the cat) is no trouble at all - he checked us out, apparently approved our presence and paid little attention to us subsequently. Breakfasts were excellent: nutritious and filling, excellent for starting a day of museum-walking, without leaving us feeling at all stuffed. Highly recommend this B&B.
5 su aprile 16, 2014
This B & B is located in a quaint & quiet residential area, where you waken to birdsong. It is just minutes away from the beltway and a short walk from the Metro, offering easy access to the greater DC area. The rooms are clean, comfortable and aesthetically pleasing. Christina Blanchard, the proprietor, extends herself to address specific guest questions and prepares fabulous breakfasts. I thoroughly enjoyed my stay and would happily return!
Risposta del proprietario
Thank you for your review and insight into what was important to you while you were here. Christina
4,4 su agosto 05, 2013
I have made Lansdowne Way my regular stay when in DC. Convenient to the metro line and located away from the urban pulse in a quiet, tree-lined neighborhood. Christina fixes a great spread and is a generous and helpful host. No reason to go anywhere else.
4,8 su giugno 21, 2013
This bed and breakfast was wonderful and Christina was most gracious, helpful, and warm. She showed me how easy it would be to catch a bus (when it rained) and to have a lovely and easy walk to and from my meetings all week in downtown Silver Spring. She also sent me detailed directions on taking the Metro from the airport which saved me at least $70 each way if I had taken a cab. I also saved considerable money staying here instead of one of the hotels downtown. I must add that the bed was exceptionally comfortable, the towels were plush, the decor was unique and beautiful, and the breakfast the included fresh fruit from Christina's garden was a wonderful way to start each day. I also found it meaningful that Christina works for a non-profit that serves the needs of orphans in Africa. I would most definitely stay here again and I highly recommend this B & B.
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I can't believe it's been so long since you sent your review. I stumbled across this section at bed and breakfast.com and felt compelled to reach out and tell you how important your review is to me. I am glad our knowledge of the area saved you money. The India Ink room is available if you return, which I hope that you will consider. Warm regards, Christina
5 su maggio 04, 2013
My wife and I had the opportunity to stay at this wonderful bed and breakfast. We spent 5 nights and thoroughly enjoyed it. Our room was fantastic. The room was clean and comfortable. The breakfast was prompt and delicious. Christina was very warm and accommodating. Christina is a very nice person. My wife and I enjoyed her two cats. The cats were adorable. The neighborhood is safe and quiet. The walk to the Metro is about eight minutes and it is a very safe walk. You do not have to cross any major intersections. There is a pedestrian bridge that takes you directly to the Metro. We did not rent a car so we used the Metro on a daily basis. It took twenty minutes to get into central DC. Do not rent a car. The Metro is extremely efficient and cost effective. You can not stay at any quality hotel in DC that includes breakfast for what you will pay at Christina's place. It is a great place and we would stay there again.
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I can't believe it's been so long since you sent your review. I stumbled across this section at bed and breakfast.com and felt compelled to tell you how important your review is to me. I am glad your had an excellent experience and hope that you will consider returning the next time you're in Silver Spring, MD or DC. Warm regards, Christina
4,8 su marzo 12, 2013
The perfect base for two nights in March for two ladies to visit Wshington. The room was the entire upper floor with a very comfortable King mattress . The bathroom featured a deep tub and a nice variety of toiletry items. The tapestry and carpet decorations were from India and Africa. Christina was very accomodating of special diet requirements and helpful with directions in getting around the city. I recommend this Bed and Breakfast.
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I felt compelled to tell you how important your review is to me. I am glad your enjoyed the African Tapestry Suite. It is our most luxurious and largest accommodations at 800 sq ft. We have added a small kitchenette to that room since your last stay. I hope that you will consider returning the next time you're in Silver Spring, MD or DC. Warm regards, Christina
4,8 su dicembre 20, 2011
I was in Silver Spring for business/training just before Christmas and was so happy to reserve the Africa Room with private bath at Christina's sweet B&B. From the time of my arrival, Christina was a gracious and accommodating hostess, making me feel welcome and comfortable right away. Christina has carefully and comfortably decorated her home in the same way that she carefully selects (or grows) and prepares her delicious, satisfying meals. I was not interested in sightseeing or shopping while in Silver Spring and found that I could safely walk in the neighborhood, enjoying the many different architectural home styles and landscaping designs and return to a fresh and peaceful home away from home to relax and enjoy pleasant conversation with Christina as well as quiet time that I greatly appreciate and enjoy. Christina prepared my dinners during my stay and every meal was a delightful surprise. I certainly would highly recommend Christina's charming B&B to others and would be very happy if I had the opportunity to return for another stay. I found a kindred spirit in Christina and admire her quiet ability to make her guests feel like friends. Thank you Christina!
4,0 su novembre 17, 2011
For those who are tired of staying at anonymous, sterile chain hotels a visit to Lansdowne is a breath of fresh air. Christine is a most attentive and hospitable hostess: she treats visitors as her cherished guests. A welcome fire in the hearth, soft music in the background, today's Washington Post on the coffee table; all this plus the fragrance of coffee in the morning to accompany a delicious breakfast. Five star hotels attempt to provide such levels of hospitality. Christine accomplishes their objective! Barry Hyatt, CTC
5 su giugno 11, 2011
The Lansdowne Way B&B was our first experience with a B&B. We have always gone the hotel route, but decided to try a B&B on our trip to the College Park/DC area. Christina was a perfect hostess, beginning with the initial contact and throughout our stay. The room and house are beautifully furnished with their owner's personal touch and the soft bed and pillows were like a home away from home. The breakfasts were delicious and we felt that we were always eating nutritiously! Christina was very helpful with maps and suggestions on navigating the area both in a car or on the metro, which has a stop conveniently located nearby. This charming home is on a quiet, shady street and includes a porch swing and a yard filled with plants and flowers (which Christina brings in to decorate her table). We felt very secure coming and going even on the evenings that we came in later. I would definitely recommend this B&B if you are in the area for business or vacation during any season. Christina will certainly make you welcome!
Sleep in style in this room decorated with American antiques and silks from India. There is plenty of storage space, a luxurious queen size bed with Laura Ashley pillow-top mattress for a restful night. Private bath and personal thermostat. Sit back in your private reading chair, enjoy the flat screen HDTV with cable, and hook up to Netflix on your iPad through the provided Chromecast connection. There is free Wifi throughout the B&B. Enjoy a scrumptious breakfast every morning made with the freshest available ingredients.
Prezzo per notte: $165 - $175
Prezzo per notte: $165 - $175
The B&B offers this lovely suite, which comes with a luxurious king size bed topped with a Sterns and Foster mattress for a fabulous night of rest. Tastefully decorated with a touch of North Africa and France. The suite comes with private bath, office (printer and computer plug in keyboard/mouse), entertainment and dressing rooms, refrigerator and microwave and your own personal thermostat. Free Wifi is available throughout the B&B. All bed and breakfast guests can enjoy a scrumptious breakfast every morning made with the freshest of ingredients. King size bed, large private bath, dressing
Prezzo per notte: $275 - $300
The Antique Suite is our junior suite decorated in American antiques, Asian Indian silks and features art by Shara Banisadr. Sleep well in the suite on a queen size bed with pillow-top Laura Ashley mattress, private bath and a second room that can serve as 2nd bedroom, a den, or an office for working visitors. This private junior suite includes two rooms and a bath. The bath separates the two rooms and has a separate hallway entrance. Each room has a flat screen TV that can double as a computer monitor, and cable. Enjoy free high speed internet Wifi which is available throughout the B&B. Start your day with a scrumptious breakfast each morning made with the freshest available ingredients from our garden and local farmers. All bed and breakfast guests can enjoy a scrumptious breakfast every morning made with the freshest of ingredients. We obtain our breakfast foods from our garden and local farmers, using organic ingredients and prepared with your diet in mind.
Prezzo per notte: $250 - $300
Prezzo per notte: $250 - $300
Silver Spring, MD, Centro città
Washington DC, DC (DCA-Ronald Reagan National) 5 miles
Dalla DC o Silver Spring prendere 16th Street North a 2nd Ave a Silver Spring e girare a sinistra. Dopo aver attraversato voce Brookville verso il parco. svoltare a destra in luogo Seminario. Prendere la prima a sinistra su Riley. Andare al segnale di stop e girare a destra. Sarete sulla 2nd Avenue. nuovamente. Il prossimo stop è Lansdowne Way. Girare a sinistra. Dalla tangenziale, prendere Georgia del Sud e svoltare a destra alla prima strada, che è Locust Grove. Vai al segnale di stop e girare a destra (vi troverete sulla 2nd Ave), passare al successivo stop e svoltare a sinistra in Lansdowne Way. Siamo sulla destra cinque case dal segnale di stop.
Shopping Antiquariato, Gallerie d'arte, Concerti, Cene da gourmet, Interessi Storici, Musica dal vivo, Cinema, Musei, Parchi Nazionali/Statali, Zona Naturale, vita notturna, Teatro, Servizi religiosi, università, Zoo
Boutique Hotel
Fotocopiatrici, Scrivania, Dispositivo Fax, Camino, parcheggio, Lavatrice/Asciugatrice, Angolo bar , Heated bathroom floors in the suite
Aria condizionata, Sveglia , Prodotti di cortesia, Accappatoi, Giochi da tavolo, CD player, Ventilatori, Attrezzature per Caffè/Tè, Computer, DVD Player, Frigorifero, Asciugacapelli, Ferro da stiro, Kitchenette, Biblioteche, Microonde, Film disponibili, Radio, TV, Servizio di Rimbocco Coperte, VCR, Video, raggiungere a piedi il trasporto pubblico, Wi-Fi, Internet via cavo, base di ricarica per iPhone
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Inglese, Français
Viaggio internazionale in Africa, Asia e Sud America
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A basso contenuto di grassi
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gross yellow pillows.. Bed folded in half almost. Honestly I feel it should be shut down by Board of Heath. Please do yourself a favor and save money. Oh and the Manager and his Wife are nasty and disrespectful to customers. Cursing if u ask for towels or toilet paper. Stay Away!
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Manchester Airport has grown into the UKs largest regional airport. It handles more than 22 million passengers per year and in 2007/8, there were 220,307 aircraft movements at the airport. More than 100 airlines fly from Manchester Airport, serving more than 220 destinations.
The airport has two runways, three passenger terminals and a freight terminal as well as almost 16,000 passenger car parking spaces and its own railway station. Manchester Airport is also the home of one of the last remaining Concorde aircraft, which is displayed along with a number of other historic aircraft at the airports Aviation Viewing Park.
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Worries Abound That Fixes for Crisis Will Underdeliver
March has been billed as a decisive month for the euro zone. An avalanche of summits and finance ministers meetings are scheduled in coming weeks, culminating in a summit of European Union leaders at the end of the month.
By then, governments have pledged to amend the currency bloc's current bailout fund to increase its lending capacity and make it more flexible, settle a permanent €500 billion ($693 billion) facility to come into operation in 2013, and agree on a so-called competitiveness pact to fix weaknesses in the frailer economies.
"At stake in the coming weeks is whether we will finally turn the corner," European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said this week. He confidently predicted that would be the case. "This month will be a turning point" for the euro zone, he said.
But his audience, at a Brussels conference organized by the London-based Centre for European Reform and insurer Allianz, were less sure. Some members expressed a fear that again euro-zone governments would "overpromise and underdeliver" in the face of the crisis.
Others argued that the diagnosis of the currency area's crisis and the proposed remedies, largely set by the bailout funds' largest paymaster, Germany, were incomplete and one-sided.
Mr. Van Rompuy argued that an "invisible loss of competitiveness was at the heart of the problem." Low interest rates and monetary stability had hidden a decline in competitiveness of euro-zone economies. Curing that loss of competitiveness, while ensuring a return to sustainable government finances, is thus at the heart of the solution.
But the diagnosis, and therefore the solution, both have weaknesses, according to some at the meeting.
Mario Monti, a former prominent member of the European Commission and a champion of the European single market, argued that, in some respects, the competitiveness pact doesn't go far enough. It's "full of good instincts but it's pretty chaotic in economic and institutional terms," he said.
He suggested one of the pact's potential weaknesses was that it was being put together as a political fix to help satisfy Germany, where bailing out weak economies is deeply unpopular, rather than addressing real economic issues.
"I think the worst thing would be to put together something that, in order to satisfy in the short term the urge for discipline felt in particular by German citizens, turns out to be hard to implement in the longer term," he said.
That would risk a repeat of what happened to the original euro-zone stability pact, designed in the 1990s to keep budget deficits and government debts low, but whose strictures were ignored when they became inconvenient in 2003 for France and Germany.
One key omission: the effort to reinforce the European single market as a way to open up sectors of the euro-zone economy that are shielded from the winds of competition, such as services, energy and the digital economy. In some of these areas, Mr. Monti said "euro-zone countries are behind non-euro-zone countries" such as the U.K. and need to raise their game.
The pact aims to "shift to a higher level of economic integration and policy coordination, but offers only perfunctory respect to the single market, which is the very essence of integration," he said.
But the shielded sectors he views as most needing competition are not all at the periphery of the euro zone, but also at the core. One important example: Germany's inefficient retail sector.
That reinforces another criticism from others at the conference: that the competitiveness pact appears to be a lopsided effort designed to give Germany and other core economies none of the burden of economic adjustment.
In fact, said Philip Whyte of the Centre for European Reform, "the word competitiveness seems to have become a substitute for that of imbalance." It is the euro zone's imbalances—the big current-account surpluses run by Germany and the other core economies and the big deficits being run by the peripheral economies—that he sees at the root of the euro zone's problems.
"The political significance is that defining an imbalance as a problem of competitiveness shifts all the onus on to deficit countries to reform. Surplus countries face no such pressure, since their external position is interpreted as a mark of their competitiveness," Mr. Whyte said.
Seeing macroeconomic imbalances through the prism of "competitiveness" creates all sorts of problems. There are high-productivity economies, such as the U.S., that run large external deficits. One highly competitive economy—Ireland—is in deep trouble, and some supposedly highly competitive economies, such as Germany, have big problems of domestic productivity.
This month's agreement won't go into the imbalances debate. In fact, Mr. Van Rompuy indicated some of the original ideas floated unofficially by the German government for the competitiveness pact wouldn't be adopted: "For instance, the end of wage indexation would concern only three or four countries, and the way it operates in those countries is not necessarily a problem."
But that was not a softening of ideas, he said. "No, on the contrary, it broadens them." Whether the financial markets agree, we shall soon see.
Corrections & Amplifications: Philip Whyte said: "The political significance is that defining an imbalance as a problem of competitiveness shifts all the onus on to deficit countries to reform. Surplus countries face no such pressure, since their external position is interpreted as a mark of their competitiveness." In the initial version of this article, the quote was incorrectly attributed to Mario Monti.
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VirtualPBX® Wins 2011 Unified Communications Product Of The Year Award From Internet Telephony
Posted on April 5, 2012 by Paul Hammond
Virtual PBX Complete with VoIP Anywhere Recognized for Innovation
Virtual PBX has done it again. They have once again proven themselves as one of the most awarded hosted PBX providers. TMC, a global, integrated media company, has just named Virtual PBX Complete with VoIP Anywhere as a recipient of its 2011 Unified Communications Product of the Year Award, sponsored by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.
This is the ninth award presented to Virtual PBX by TMC for Virtual PBX Complete. In just one year, TMC has presented nine different awards to Virtual PBX for this innovative product.
Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMC explains, "The editors from INTERNET TELEPHONY are pleased to grant a Unified Communications Product of the Year Award to Virtual PBX for Virtual PBX Complete with VoIP Anywhere." He continues, "Virtual PBX has proven they are committed to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace. We look forward to seeing continued advancement in technology solutions from Virtual PBX in the future."
Virtual PBX has really outdone themselves by creating a product so innovative, so unique, that it is still creating buzz a year later. Setting new standards for flexibility, features, price, and ease of installation, Virtual PBX Complete forged ahead, establishing new technology and employing out-of-the-box thinking.
"At Virtual PBX, we focus on our customers' needs to keep communications costs and complexity low, while ensuring they have the capacity and features to fuel growth to meet their business objectives," said Greg Brashier, CMO of Virtual PBX. "This award illustrates the high value we are providing with Virtual PBX Complete."
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Ireland's Kenny Says Taxpayers Shouldn't Bear All Bank Costs
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said it's "grossly unfair" that taxpayers alone should carry the cost of bailing out the country's banks as he pushed for lower rates on a European-led rescue loan.
Kenny, on a visit to Washington where he says he's trying to repair Ireland's "damaged" reputation, called for changes to the aid package by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund to avoid a situation where Ireland struggles to pay back its loan and can't generate economic growth.
"It is grossly unfair to expect the taxpayer to have to pay 100 percent for the reckless lending practices of banks which caused this in the first instance," Kenny said yesterday in an interview with Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness With Margaret Brennan" broadcast today. The 5.8 percent average rate Ireland pays for its loans is "too severe," he said.
Kenny's Fine Gael party took power last week after pledging to seek a European agreement on sharing the cost of rescuing the financial system with senior bank bondholders. His government is counting on ongoing stress tests to reveal the full extent of potential losses at the country's lenders, after injecting 46.3 billion euros ($64.4 billion) into the financial system over the past two years.
Kenny stopped short of saying who should pay along with taxpayers. Asked about the treatment of senior bondholders, Kenny said that his government will put no additional cash into banks "until you see the scale of what the liability is, until there is an understanding of what might be here."
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Kenny met with Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner yesterday as part of his U.S. visit. He will hold talks with President Barack Obama today and attend the annual White House reception for St. Patrick's Day, Ireland's national holiday.
The Irish prime minister vowed to keep the nation's corporate tax rate "intact" to attract foreign investors, adding that his country is "open for business."
Less than a week after failing to obtain a discount on the rate charged by the EU because of Ireland's refusal to increase the country's 12.5 percent company tax, Kenny repeated he is not willing to negotiate it.
"It's not correct to equate a conditionality of a reduction in interest rates with the condition that a corporate tax is increased," he said. "I am not prepared to compromise on something that is the individual competence of each country in respect of our corporate tax rates."
'Playing With Fire'
The premium investors charge to hold Irish 10-year debt over the equivalent German bunds, Europe's benchmark, was little changed today at 641 basis points. It reached a record of 680 on November 30, two days after the bailout.
Citigroup Inc. Chief Economist Willem Buiter said EU leaders are "playing with fire" by not acceding to Ireland's request as it may force the country to restructure its debt unilaterally.
"They have to come up with something for Ireland," Buiter said. "They're going to have to make concession or Ireland will have no option but to go it alone."
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a March 11 euro-area leaders summit refused to extend a cut of Greece's borrowing costs to Ireland as Kenny pushed back on taxes. Ireland has used the rate, which is about half the EU average, to lure companies such as Hewlett-Packard Co. and Pfizer Inc.
Ireland pays an average 5.8 percent interest rate on the 67.5 billion euros of aid from the IMF and the EU. Kenny said he expects to obtain "some flexibility" from Europe.


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Shawmut Equipment Company was one of the first Grove Crane distributorships in the country. Today, Shawmut Equipment continues to represent and support Grove inMore
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Construction on Augusta's Kroc Center is 20 percent complete, ahead of schedule. (May 25, 2010 / WRDW-TV)
Real estate markets across the country are still suffering the effects of the recession., but a 4.4 percent growth in new home construction has many believing that the worst is behind us.
Mark Saliba from the Dothan and Wiregrass Home Builders Association says new home building in Dothan has not increased. "Its not going down. We have been in the bottom for a while and even if locally we are not on that same level as it is nationally. We are not going down anymore and that is a positive note."
Saliba says the market is in the process of balancing out. "There are not a lot of increases in the new home starts where we are right now. We have plenty of product out there but we don't have an over abundance of product. What the problem is that we are having now is not a large inventory. We have just the right amount of product at just the right price."
Real estate agent Charles Buntin says sales of new and existing homes have jumped double digits. "Year- to-date we are up 23 percent compared to last year, which is phenomenal. We will take it however we can get it."
This jump is partly due to home buyer tax credits, says Buntin. "Tax credits are now gone which is unfortunate for our real estate market but it really spiked up in the last couple of months so I am just hoping that our momentum continues."


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