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The classic artichoke dip is loaded with sour cream and mayonnaise, but this contemporary recipe uses smaller quantities (and lighter versions) of those ingredients.
YIELD: Makes about 1 1/3 cups
Whisk 4 tablespoons grated Romano cheese, light mayonnaise, light sour cream, dried marjoram, black pepper, onion salt, and garlic powder in medium bowl to blend. Stir in chopped artichoke hearts. Transfer mixture to 1 1/2-cup ramekin. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover mixture and refrigerate.)
Preheat oven to 375°F. Bake dip until heated through, about 20 minutes (about 30 minutes if chilled).
Preheat broiler. Sprinkle dip with remaining 1 tablespoon grated Romano cheese and paprika. Broil until cheese melts, about 2 minutes. Serve warm with toasted baguette slices.


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Method for mounting an electronic component, such as a silicon chip, on a support which consists in: providing an electronic component (40) having connection pads, whereof one predetermined pad (41A) is provided with a bump (42); providing a support having (30) to the predetermined pad via the bump; aligning the predetermined pad provided with the bump with the terminal; contacting the bump and the terminal and assembling them in specific temperature and pressure conditions. Prior to contacting and fixing the bump and the terminal, the surface of the terminal is covered with an insulating layer (32), the insulating layer being a material selected so as to be traversed by the bump in the temperature and pressure conditions.
1. A method of mounting an electronic component on a support, comprising:
taking an electronic component provided with connection pads, wherein the component is an electronic chip, one of these connection pads being provided with a boss having a shape that gets smaller in the direction away from the connection pad;
taking a support which is part of an identity document, that support carrying an antenna with at least one antenna terminal to be electrically connected to said one of the connection pads which is provided with the boss, via said boss, the terminal being made of a conductive ink;
covering the surface of the antenna terminal by an insulative layer made of an insulating varnish, a non-conductive ink or a fibrous material;
then placing the pad provided with a boss and the antenna terminal facing each other and bringing them into contact and fixing them the one to the other under given conditions of temperature and pressure where the material of the support may be crushed, so that the boss pass through the insulative layer as a result of the boss's shape; and
then depositing a filling resin so as to fill the space between the support with the support's terminals and the insulative layer, and the electronic component.
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The invention concerns the production of an electrical connection between an electronic chip and its support, for example a soft support, such as that of a passport with integrated chip.
It has already been proposed to fabricate passports in which an identification chip is integrated into a sheet, for example a cover, and is connected to an antenna, produced within the thickness of that sheet, thanks to which this chip can communicate with the outside world without contact (there is therefore no visible contact pad, which ensures great discretion).
Thus, according to a known technique, a passport is produced by means of an antenna screenprinted directly onto the cover (for example using a conductive ink containing silver). A chip is then mounted, using the "flip-chip" technique (this entails mounting it after flipping it (turning it over), generally effected with greater accuracy than in normal mounting, blind), so that certain predetermined pads thereof are electrically connected to appropriate terminals of the antenna.
In practice, these predetermined pads are provided beforehand with bosses (sometimes called "bumps"), which constitute projections relative to the level of these pads and of those adjacent to them, and which in theory guarantee, in particular in the case of mounting a chip in a microchip card (thus with a rigid support), that the antenna terminals, independently of their size, will not come into contact with these pads adjacent to those that must actually be connected.
However, it proves that, in a flexible product such as the cover of a passport, the step of production of the connection between the chip and the antenna terminals is disturbed by the fact that the support is soft (in practice it is paper) and the pads of the chips may be very close together. If the chip is pressed against the terminals of the antenna (thus against the soft support), this support can be deformed (by depression) only locally, so that the lateral portions of the terminals, which are not depressed, can create unwanted connections with adjacent pads of the chip, despite the absence of bosses thereon. This leads to risks of short circuits although checks on the connection operation may have proved entirely satisfactory.
Such a situation is represented in
The distance between two adjacent pads may in fact be only of the order of 60 microns, while their side length is of the order of 80 microns, whereas the area of the antenna terminals may be as much as of the order of one square millimeter, with a width that is typically at least equal to 150 microns (in the case of screenprinting, in particular with an ink incorporating conductive silver flakes with a diameter of 80 microns). In practice it may be considered that there is a risk of the problem cited above occurring whenever there are pads whose (center to center) distance falls below 250 microns.
Reducing the dimensions of the terminals might be considered, but this would imply very seriously increasing the positioning constraints, to the point of preventing any real mass production. It is pointed out here that a chip placement machine with the overturning ("flip-chip") option, for example of the kind fabricated by the company DATACON (the cost whereof can be of the order of 300.000 euros) includes a system for automatically recognizing the pads on the chip and alignment patterns on the support (a passport in the example considered here). The machine recovers the chip (in practice from a disk with a diameter of the order of 300 mm formed of a multitude of similar chips), flips it and places it on the support as a function of the positions detected. Given that such a line, with such an operating option, is relatively slow (it cannot exceed 1000 parts per hour), it would appear unacceptable to increase further the positioning constraints.
Clearly the same kind of problem may arise if it is required to use pads or terminals of soft materials, even if the material constituting the support is not particularly soft, or again if the technique for formation of the terminals has produced large lateral beads, even on a rigid support. Moreover, the terminal or terminals considered may be connected to one or more other circuits other than an antenna, such as another processor, a screen, etc; likewise, the connection in question may concern not only pads of a chip but also those of any other electronic component, for example those cited above.
An object of the invention is to alleviate the drawbacks cited above, and the invention is aimed in particular at a method of mounting an electronic component, in particular an electronic chip, on a support, which method minimizes the risk of unintended connection of a pad of the component to a terminal, even if the support is soft or if there is a risk, given the technique for formation of the terminal, of lateral beads appearing, whilst enabling a satisfactory mass production throughput, without having to increase the usual constraints with respect to positioning of the component vis-�-vis the support, and even relaxing them. The invention is also aimed at an electronic entity including an electronic component, such as an electronic chip, mounted on a support, in particular but not necessarily an identity document such as a passport, where pads of the component are reliably connected to terminals formed on the support, with no unwanted connection between any such terminal and another pad, even if the support is soft or if the terminals include lateral beads, and even if the terminal(s) is (are) of large size.
To this end the invention proposes a method of mounting an electronic component on a support, wherein:
characterized in that, before bringing this boss and this terminal into contact and fixing them, the surface of this terminal is covered by an insulative layer, this insulative layer being of a material chosen to have this boss pass through it under said conditions of temperature and pressure.
Thus, the electrical connection between a terminal and a pad that must be connected to it is established by a boss with which that pad is provided and which, at the time of bringing the component into contact with the support, passes through the insulative layer; the insulative layer therefore remains everywhere else and maintains the electrical insulation between this terminal and any other pad that it is not intended to connect to it (and which has therefore not been provided with a boss).
The invention applies particularly well to the case where the component is an electronic chip.
The benefit of the invention may be apparent in many cases of supports, in particular rigid supports: in this case, the presence of an insulative layer can relax the constraints on the conditions for bringing into contact and fixing the pad and the terminal by way of the boss; the fixing of the boss and the terminal now has less chance than in the known solutions of provoking an unwanted electrical connection between this terminal and another pad, especially if the formation of the terminals has caused lateral beads to appear. However, the invention is also especially beneficial in the case where the support is a material capable of being crushed under given conditions of temperature and pressure, since it is with such a type of support that the drawbacks described hereinabove with reference to the fabrication of passports may occur.
This idea of a soft support (such a support may also said to be compressible) can cover a wide range of materials, which comprises first of all the case of supports made from a fibrous material, which corresponds to a wide range of supports of moderate cost; there are found therein in particular materials based on paper, easy to obtain at moderate cost. Another beneficial example of a material that may be soft (if a sufficiently small thickness is chosen) is that of plastic materials, for example PVC. It may be noted with regard to soft supports that, in certain cases, they may have the capacity of having the boss pass at least partly through them, like the insulative layer (and therefore the terminal concerned), which may result in a better electrical contact with that terminal.
Clearly the method may be applied to sheet supports, and is advantageously applied to the production of identity documents (passports, but also, possibly, access cards, identity cards, etc).
The boss may in principle have any shape, including that of a simple overthickness on a pad, provided that the insulative layer can have the boss pass through it under the conditions of temperature and pressure applied at the time of bringing into contact and fixing. However, to encourage the penetration of the boss into the insulative layer, it is preferable if the latter advantageously has a shape which becomes smaller in the direction away from the pad.
In particular, the invention exploits bosses known in themselves (sometimes called "stud bumps"), obtained by melting the end of a fusible wire and which have a general ball shape (more or less irregular) provided with a wedge-shaped, or even pointed, portion, generally considered until now as being rather a disadvantage. The thickness of the boss, without the wedge-shaped portion, is preferably from 20 to 50 microns. Alternatively, the boss may have pyramidal or prismatic portions. Clearly, the more pointed the geometry of the boss, the more its passing through the insulative layer may be deemed similar to a piercing of that layer, which may continue into the material constituting the terminal, and even the support.
The boss is generally of gold or gold alloy, although other materials may be considered, such as the alloys of copper for example.
The support preferably includes at least two terminals.
The terminals may be produced by screenprinting (even by stamp pad printing or flexography) using a conductive ink. Alternatively, the ink may be deposited by heliogravure, offset printing, etc; the terminals may also be obtained by growing a metal or a metallic alloy (for example of copper), for example by electrolysis; in practice, the terminals may be formed at the same time as the conductive tracks of which they constitute the ends, for example the tracks of an antenna. It is worth noting that, for a certain number of flexible supports, the terminals may also be formed by conventional photoengraving.
Given the good insulation of the terminals from pads not provided with bosses, the invention enables these terminals to have a large area, which can thus be from 66% to 95% of the surface of the support facing the electronic chip. This results in a significant reduction in the positioning constraints at the time of bringing into contact. These terminals preferably have an individual area greater than one square millimeter.
Nor is there a limit on the area of the insulative layer, which is entirely favorable to minimizing unwanted connections. Thus it may cover the terminals that the support includes in the region in which the component must be mounted. It may even extend at least over the major portion of the surface of the support that is facing the electronic component during the step of bringing into contact. This layer may be continuous or discontinuous (in particular, there is advantageously a separation between the respective portions of this layer that cover the terminals).
In one particularly beneficial case, the terminals are part of an antenna formed on the support (which enables contactless exchange between the component and the outside world), and the insulative layer covers at least the major portion of the antenna, in which this layer has, with respect to the component, an insulative function and, moreover, a protection function, for example a mechanical or moisture protection function, in respect of the antenna and its support (especially if it is fibrous).
The insulative layer may be made from diverse materials.
In fact, without wishing to be limited by a physical explanation, the ability to pass through the insulative layer (which depends essentially on the material that constitutes it) may be a capacity of that layer to be evacuated laterally, by a kind of creep, in response to the thrust of the boss, or a capacity of that layer to be perforated, depending on the geometry of the boss.
Thus the insulative layer is advantageously an insulative varnish, which corresponds to a well known category of materials. This insulative varnish is preferably chosen to have a polymerization energy of less than 1000 mJ/cm2, preferably of the order of 500 mJ/cm2, which results in low shrinkage, and in practice induces no ripples on the support after drying and/or cooling.
The insulative layer may also be a non-conductive ink, however.
Whether it is a varnish or an insulative ink, the insulative layer can in particular be deposited by screenprinting. This insulative layer may be used as the support for a transverse conductive strand forming a conductive bridge between two antenna tracks to be connected in series (see for example the document FR-2787609).
The insulative layer may also be a fibrous material, however, for example a thin sheet of paper (15 microns thick, for example).
In fact, whatever the material constituting the insulative layer, its thickness is advantageously from 5 to 25 microns, preferably from 10 to 15 microns.
According to advantageous features known in themselves in the fabrication of microchip cards, after the step of bringing into contact, the space between the support, provided with its terminals and the insulative layer, and the electronic chip is filled with a filler resin and/or the electronic chip is buried in a protection resin.
An electronic entity obtained by the method of the invention is recognized in that it is an electronic entity including an electronic component, for example an electronic chip, on a support, that support including at least one terminal and that electronic component including pads at least a predetermined one of which is provided with a boss electrically connecting that pad to that terminal, characterized in that the terminal is covered with an insulative layer through which the boss passes.
Such an electronic entity obtained by the method of the invention advantageously has the feature that the terminal further faces a pad adjacent to the predetermined pad, that adjacent pad having no boss and being separated from the terminal at least by said insulative layer.
Other advantageous features of this entity correspond to the advantageous features of the method of the invention mentioned hereinabove.
Objects, features and advantages of the invention emerge from the following description, given by way of illustrative and nonlimiting example, with reference to the appended drawings in which:
The support 30 carries a terminal 31 (connected to a circuit not represented, also carried by the support, for example an antenna, see below). According to the invention, before mounting the chip thereon, the surface of this terminal is covered with an insulative layer 32.
As for the chip 40, it includes connection pads, including pads 41A and 41B, of which one, here the pad 41A, is intended to be connected to the terminal 31; this pad is provided with a boss 42.
The mounting of the chip on the support consists in placing the pad 41A provided with its boss (after flipping the chip compared to its configuration in
In the example considered, the support is in fact advantageously made from a material capable of being crushed in the conditions of temperature and pressure, i.e. the invention may be applied to soft materials, such as fibrous materials, advantageously in sheet form. Thus the support may in particular be of paper. It is a question for example of the paper sold by the company FIBER MARK under the designation SECURALIN�. Alternatively, it may also be a question of a fibrous material of the synthetic fiber paper type, etc.
Alternatively, this support is a sheet of plastic material, for example of PVC, with a thickness advantageously less than 200 microns.
As will emerge later the choice of the paper, or of a plastic material, means in particular that the invention may be applied to an identity document.
The boss with which the pad to be connected is provided may be a boss of any shape, for example globally parallelepipedal (obtained by electrolytic growth, for example), but it advantageously has a shape that gets smaller in the direction away from the pad, so as to facilitate passing through the insulative layer during the step of bringing into contact/fixing.
This shape may thus be that of a spherical or flattened ball.
However, this boss preferably includes a wedge-shaped portion (for example a prismatic or pyramidal portion), or even a pointed portion. Thus the boss is advantageously of the type called a "stud bump", i.e. it is obtained by melting the end of a fusible wire, thanks to which this boss has the shape of a ball that includes a pointed portion. The obtaining of such a boss is shown diagrammatically in
A boss like that from
It is worth noting that, in
The boss is advantageously of gold or gold alloy, it being clearly understood that other conductor materials may be used.
Here these terminals are both covered by the insulative layer 52. However, the latter is discontinuous here in the sense that it does not extend over the surface of the support between these two terminals; this insulative layer nevertheless extends here over at least the major portion of the surface of the support (covered or not by the terminals) facing the chip; it further extends here over track portions 55 of which these terminals are extensions.
Before or after bringing the bosses 62 into contact with the terminals 51 (the pads are not represented), a filler resin 63 is advantageously deposited so as to fill the space between the support, provided with its terminals and the insulative layer, and the electronic chip; this filler resin 63 is sometimes called an "underfill". Moreover, the electronic chip has further been buried in a protection resin 64. The presence of such filler and/or protection resins being known in itself in the microchip card field, they will not be described here.
It is seen that the terminals 51′ are larger than in
Moreover, the insulative layer 52′ extends, like that of the layer 52 from
The insulative layer may extend over as large an area as may be required for reasons of protection or for any other reason.
Thus, in
The insulative layer may be of diverse kinds. Thus it may be produced from an insulative varnish, which corresponds to a type of material that is easy to apply; it is known how to deposit it and to dry it by proven techniques. This varnish is advantageously chosen to have a polymerization energy of less than 1000 mJ/cm2, preferably of the order of 500 mJ/cm2, which confers a low shrinkage on this insulative varnish, and therefore minimizes the phenomena of ripples that may affect the sheet after mounting and fixing the chip. This varnish is for example a varnish known as ACHESON PF455.
In an alternative that is not represented, the insulative layer may also be produced with the aid of a non-conductive ink.
This insulative layer may be deposited by screenprinting. Alternatively spraying may be used.
This layer may also be produced from a fibrous material, however, for example from paper (for example a thin sheet of 15 microns thickness).
Whatever its composition, this insulative layer typically has a thickness from 5 to 25 microns, preferably from 10 to 15 microns, which is a good compromise enabling the bosses to pass through at the same time as maintaining good electrical insulation elsewhere.
The temperature and pressure conditions applied during the mounting of the chip may, in the case considered here of a varnish, be the conditions of polymerization of the resin constituting that varnish, for example: heating head at 180� C., at a pressure of 370 grams for 8 seconds. However, the temperature of the table supporting the sheet forming the support is advantageously reduced to around 45� C. (a temperature of 60� C. can in theory compensate the losses, but may prove too high to prevent softening of the varnish, which might then impede the passage of the bosses).
It will be realized that according to the invention:
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Rated 3 out of 5 by OutsidePhilly Not so great The hotel was kind of loud. Also, the whirlpool wasn't working and hadn't been working for a while. Not many hotels in the area have a whirlpool and we chose the hotel for this reason. The breakfast buffet was truly awful. The hot food was cold and it was very expensive. July 15, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Barb Hotel location is great We were accommodated for early arrival which after flitting for7 early hours was great. Their shuttle from airport was reasonable and prompt. The complimentary hot pretzels and beverage in lobby hit the spot before we went to the wedding. The staff was very concerned when they saw my husband limping and offered him a number of cold packs. Their breakfast choices were delicious. A must stay when we are In the area again. So close to old Philly with lots to explore on cobblestone streets July 14, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Normal great place to stay The hotel was perfect for our needs. One day, the daily room service was done a little too late in the day and when they did do it, it was not the complete job, but was satisfactory. The concierge was a little difficult to contact. He was very nice and helpful, but not always at his desk during working hours. July 14, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by arturo12 Great Location This is a great location for old Philly, you can walk everywhere and is not far from the airport July 7, 2013
Rated 3 out of 5 by BILL98 SERVICE REQUIRED RETURNED ON FRI @4-4:30 AND ROOM HAD NOT BEEN CLEANED. HAD TO CALL FOR FRESH TOWELS TO SHOWER BEFORE WE WENT BACK OUT. ROOM WAS NEVER CLEANED BUT FRESH TOWELS WERE DELIVERED PROMPTLY. THOUGHT WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED THAT THE STREETS WOULD BE CLOSED FOR THE PARADE WHICH PREVENTED US FROM GETTING TO THE HOTEL TO DROP OFF CAR AND LUGGAGE July 7, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by SGF4 Excellent Hotel but need to check on.... Hotel is excellent but there is an odor that hits you once you step out on the driveway outside the front of the hotel. July 6, 2013
Rated 2 out of 5 by zooter AC unit kept us up almost all night email was sent to Sheraton Society Hill Hotel with original complaint about the AC unit being so loud, it kept us up almost all night. I complained early the next morning at the front desk and only received an explanation, not an apology. I have not heard anything from the hotel, as of yet. Very disappointed! We have been faithful patrons of Sheraton for many years and feel they should be concerned about us making a "first" complaint! July 3, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by jules1010 Friendly staff, very enjoyable stay The staff were extremely friendly and helpful. Never had to wait long for any type of service. Room walls are a bit thin - heard TVs from both sides of our room, but nothing that was too distracting. Rooms were very clean and comfortable. Received an unrequested upgraded room due to being a Starwood guest. Great taxi service, convenient to the attractions, but far enough away to avoid the large crowds. Elevators were always prompt. Food and drinks at Taste were great as were the bartenders. Would definitely return. July 3, 2013
Rated 3 out of 5 by HbgTraveler Room by pool area a drawback this visit We have stayed at this property a number of times in the past year. With this visit, we were upgraded to the club level with our SPG status. However, we were put in a room facing into the indoor swimming pool. There was nothing to look at but a concrete wall and an extremely uninviting "patio" area with no furniture, just a big concrete cube. The room also was musty and smelled very strongly of chlorine. There were lots of kids using the pool and the room was very loud. Fortunately the pool closed at 10 pm, but the moving of the metal furniture woke us up in the morning and the kids were back by around 8:00 am. We had friends to meet for dinner, so I didn't have the time to hassle with changing rooms. I'll return to this property but will not accept any of the interior facing rooms. July 3, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by maryjo2963 Nice property, except restaurant The hotel is lovely, bellmen and doormen very friendly and room was comfortable, clean and well appointed. Room service breakfast was prompt and pleasant delivery. However, the first day I arrived (Wed., June 26), I was hungry and headed downstairs to the restaurant at 1:40. The sign said it was open until 2. There was one table of diners finishing their meal. The TVs were on in the bar area, so I pulled up a stool and kept watching for any servers to attend to the remaining diners or come help me. I waited for the full 20 minutes, but no one ever came. I finally went to the lobby and asked the front desk, who attempted to call the restaurant but could get no answer. I then asked about room service and she said that would be the same number to call for room service and and she didn't know why no one was responding. The woman working at the front desk wasn't apologetic about it, pursue the matter further to attempt to track down someone for room service for me, or offer me any incentive to try another meal with them. As a result, I ended up walking a few blocks away to have a much later lunch than planned, which took business away from your hotel. I struggled in checking my expectations below, because of the range of experience I had. The service from the men at the front door was exceptionally nice, along with the breakfast server and quick speed for room service. However the service of the front desk and restaurant for lunch were far below what I would consider good customer service. July 1, 2013
Rated 1 out of 5 by Boey609 Bad service I stayed this hotel for 6 nights from 16th to 22nd, but I booked the standard rooms but you have me standard room. When I checked out on 22nd, you gave me the billing receive and promised me will return back to my credit card directly with 298.55USD. But now I am in china,I have not received this refund.and you replied me by email that you are not going to refund this 298.55USD. I am so angry. June 29, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Neetah Beautiful rooms Courteous staff and valet parking is convenient! June 22, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by TMM2 Great property This was a really nice property. The facility was well maintained, and the staff was exceptionally courteous. Great workout facility. June 20, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by myers47 Great location Our room was beautiful but the furniture had not been dusted recently. The rest of the room looked cared for however in the middle of the night my husband saw & captured a huge roach in the bathroom. Upon showing it to the front desk staff half of our room charge was deducted. Fair enough. All staff courteous & friendly. June 19, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by Gen50Bil Great property with great location. A very enjoyable stay and one of the best Sheraton properties of which I have stayed. Liked the open atrium with the glass ceiling. I had a room with a view of the atrium instead of an outside view. So I cannot comment on what others may see out of their window. My only complains was check-in. I was told there were no rooms available at that time and they would phone my cell-phone when one became available. After 4-hours of waiting in the lobby - I decided to check and see if one was available. Yes there was and no one had called my cell-phone. My other complaint was housekeeping. I was out of the room at 8am and returned about 3pm wanting to relax and get ready to go out for the evening. But the room had not been made-up yet. So I went to the front desk requesting it be made-up and it took about another 1-hour for it to be cleaned. June 17, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Flo12 wonderful hotel for wedding guests This hotel is a must for an Old City Philadelphia wedding. The location is convenient, the staff is welcoming and attentive, the rooms are spacious (especially the bridal & jr. suites), the lobby/restaurant spaces are ideal for a post wedding gathering, and the Sunday breakfast buffet we provided our wedding guests was the perfect ending to a wonderful weekend.. Couldn't imagine reserving a wedding block anywhere else. Thank you SSH for exceeding our expectations. Happy parents of the bride! June 17, 2013
Rated 2 out of 5 by HoustonTraveler Prepare to be Nicked and Dimed The hotel is expensive to start with, then they want to charge for internet access (which was weak at best). The iron did not work and by the time they replaced it, I had to leave the room to make it to a wedding. The remote control on the TV barely worked, and mostly the television just presented more opportunities for the hotel to charge for extra items. June 10, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by SMcIver Ouch on prices The Society Hill Sheraton was a lovely hotel, however the prices on everything were excessively expensive. The food prices were especially outrageous. A simple sandwich was $15, a bowl of oatmeal more than $10. Think I would find another hotel that was nice, but not so pricey. June 10, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by State2013 Nice with some improvements The overall experience was nice, but there are some areas that need improvement. I was a little irritated by hotels charging for room WI-FI, but when I found out that you had free WI-FI in the lobby, I thought "Okay". Go to the lobby to find out you limit even that to 2 hours? Really? And that's not even 2 hours per day. I was on a business trip for a full week! I'm not willing to pay $10/day, everyday I'm there. There were a few other issues that I won't get into, they were more minor than this one. I would still recommend the hotel, but add the caveat of these other issues. June 10, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by joanc Food and Service Food and service was wonderful! Salmon was perfect - not overcooked. Staff was very friendly and helpful. June 9, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Frequent99 Much Improved Hotel I have stayed atleast 6 times since my horrid experience I shared with you. I have seen a steady improvement in service and the quality of service. The lobby area is now excellent - like a SPR Hotel should be! Thanks for the comfort you provided this week whan I was there. June 7, 2013
Rated 1 out of 5 by drewoxide Staff Unsatisfactory at All Levels Stayed at the hotel for four days for a conference. Staff at every level were not well-trained, not particularly courteous, and most certainly unsatisfactory. I don't normally have any issue with the staffing at hotels I stay in, but this experience was so blatant it was impossible to ignore. Check in took forever because the front desk people didn't know what they were doing; valet parking people often absent from their posts; concierge informed me there was "no vending machines available in the building," then I found a full range of vending on the third floor; called to front desk to ask how long a cab would take to the airport — they reported it'd be at least 45 minutes, if not an hour — then my cab ride to the airport took only 12 minutes; noisy cleaning crews had their carts and vacuums cluttering all the hallways every day from 9am to 5pm. Etcetera, etcetera. I wouldn't stay here again, and it's damaged my impression of the entire Sheraton brand. June 3, 2013
Rated 2 out of 5 by Michael33 Reservations I reserved a room with 2 queen beds for me, my wife and two 16 year old boys. We were given a room with one king. I called to confirm three times that day because the same thing happened the last time I stayed at this hotel. The second night there, with 2 roll always in the room it got pretty hot and come to find out the thermostat in the room was broken. I just don't know why I reserved this room 6 months in advance. May 30, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by PEANUT99 Almost perfect Pool TOO cold + Valet charge May 30, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by ray24 Very pleasant stay Spent a three day weekend and were very pleased in all regards. Swipe lock to door battery went dead after one swipe. Called desk and immediately sent up one of the best hotel people we have ever encountered in any hotel! Mr. Dunn took care of everything promptly and took care of us. Very efficient and professional and caring. Kudos to him on an outstanding job. Room was clean, comfortable and spacious enough. We were on the club level and it was a very busy Memorial day weekend. Could not believe the number of weddings going on. At times there were meager supplies of food and drink in the lounge during operating hours. I think this was due to the number of guests and unfortunately the behavior of some of them. Lots of food left at tables when they left. One wedding went 'til midnight and we could hear the band in our room. I suppose this depends on your location. Parking choices, as in most large cities, are very limited and even more expensive! I parked on my own and it was $19 per. If you are in and out a lot the $35 valet parking may be a bargain. If not - park yourself. Overall we enjoyed our stay. Pool appeared to be undergoing some repairs but was opened. May 28, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by AmandanN78 Great location The hotel is very centrally located and has great access to all sites. It's clean and nice, my only concern was that the walls were very thin. May 28, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Reunion2013 Hotel is close to historical sites in Philadelphia Loved that this hotel is within walking distance of the tourist center, Independence Hall, Liberty Bell, Penn's Landing. Very nice hotel and overall weekend experience. May 28, 2013
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Harlem Désir
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|Harlem Désir
|11th First Secretary of the Socialist Party
|In office
18 October 2012 – 9 April 2014
|In office
16 September 2012 – 18 October 2012
(As Acting First Secretary)
|In office
30 June 2011 – 16 October 2011
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|Preceded by
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|Jean-Christophe Cambadelis
|Personal details
25 November 1959
Paris, France
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|Anna Angeli
Marianne Sauterey (divorced)
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|University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
Harlem Désir (French: [aʁ.lɛm de.ziʁ], born 25 November 1959) is a French politician who has served in the government of France as Secretary of State for European Affairs since 2014. Previously he was First Secretary of the French Socialist Party.
Early life and education[edit]
Born in Paris, Harlem Jean-Philippe Désir is the son of a Martinican father and an Alsatian mother.[1] He studied at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University, where he earned a license in philosophy in 1983.
SOS Racism[edit]
He was the first president of the French anti-racist organisation SOS Racisme between 1984 and 1992. Accused of misusing public assets from 1986 to 1987, he was sentenced to an 18 months suspended sentence and a 30 000 francs fine in 1998.[2]
Political career[edit]
Harlem Désir was elected for the first time to the European Parliament in 1999. He was re-elected in 2004 and 2009.
He is member of the Capital Tax, Fiscal Systems and Globalisation Intergroup of the European Parliament, to whom was presented Denis Robert and Ernest Backes's book, Revelation$, in March 2001.[3]
On 9 April 2014, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls appointed him Secretary of State for European Affairs.
Party leader[edit]
On 30 June 2011, he was the delegate first secretary of the Socialist Party during the Martine Aubry bid for the Socialist Party primary, who started her campaign for presidential election of 2012 on 28 June 2011. After the resignation of Martine Aubry on 16 September 2012, he again became First Secretary of the Socialist Party by interim. He remained head of the party until April 2014, when he stood down after being appointed State Secretary for European Affairs.
Endorsed by Martine Aubry and Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault before the 2012 Party Congress,[4] he was elected First Secretary of the party on 18 October 2012.[5] He became the first black person to lead a major European political party.[6]
- ^ Direction du PS: Harlem Désir, un successeur consensuel pour Martine Aubry Nouvel Observateur 12 September 2012. "Né en 1959 d'un père antillais et d'une mère alsacienne, Harlem Désir grandit à Bagneux, en banlieue parisienne et étudie la philosophie."
- ^ Les hommes politiques condamnés et réélus, L'Express, 22 June 2009.
- ^ "Tobin Tax Call" (PDF). Retrieved 2 March 2013.
- ^ Brian Love, "Veteran Socialist Desir set to lead France's ruling party", Reuters, 12 September 2012.
- ^ Joseph Bamat: Harlem Désir, France's first black president? France24, 19 October 2012
- ^ "French MEP to make history after becoming first black man to lead the Socialists in Europe". Dailymail.co.uk. 13 September 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
External links[edit]
- Media related to Harlem Désir at Wikimedia Commons
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|Leader of the Socialist Party
|Succeeded by
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|Preceded by
François Rebsamen
|National Secretary for the Coordination of the Socialist Party
|Succeeded by
Guillaume Bachelay
|Non-profit organization positions
|Preceded by
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|President of SOS Racism
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One has to applaud a project that re-acquaints us with one of the capital's finest theatres for new plays. The charming Vaudeville has been home to Stomp for the past five years (which is about five years too many in my view) and owners Nica Burns and Max Weitzenhoffer were almost falling over themselves to help the first night audience to their seats. Not a dustbin lid in sight.
Slater plays foul-mouthed, abusive Hollywood executive Buddy Ackerman who inducts new assistant Guy (Matt Smith) into the jungle ethics of bad behaviour in the movie business; Guy falls in with an ambitious producer Dawn Lockard (Helen Baxendale), whose Afghani film project he takes up while falling in love – with her.
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The play makes clearer the likelihood of Buddy fabricating the story about his wife's gang rape and murder. But it also suffers from Baxendale's Dawn not fully articulating the ambiguous relationship she has with both men. And while Matt Smith is good and geeky in the early part of the play, you simply don't get the idea of him growing into the monster who's taught him all the rudiments of rudeness.
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If a driver exceeds the speed limit, a warning will be transmitted to the individual car via an on-board speaker. Autos will also be equipped with screens and voice-recognition software to access services planned for the future, IBM said.
The impetus behind the initiative is the abnormally high rate of traffic-related deaths in the Persian Gulf state of the United Arab Emirates.
The country's five-year goal is to halve its accident-related fatalities, which work out at 38 per 100,000 people, said Michael Nelson, an IBM director of Internet technologies strategy who is involved in the project. The U.S. has 15 deaths per 100,000 people, while Sweden's rate is six, he said.
Early prototypes for the tracking device, which is analogous to an airplane's "black box," are expected to be available next year. The plan is to install them in tens of thousands of vehicles by the end of next year, including emergency vehicles and government-owned truck fleets. The country has 2 million residents.
When the four-year contract runs out, IBM intends to compete for the second phase of the project, which will build off the initial infrastructure. The data gathered by the devices can be used not only by the government to monitor traffic habits, but also by commercial companies to offer consumer-related services such as rental cars and hotels.
"If the government of the UAE would like to have someone come in and provide information services to customers, they could do it themselves or hire IBM. We would argue, pretty persuasively I think, that IBM would be in a better position," Nelson said.
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- Great Tool For Spying
- I'll bet that our intelligence agencies worked with IBM to include a back door into the databases. Life got a whole lot easier for the boys in Langely, who will now be able to track Arab vehicle movements of "persons of interest" from the comfort of their leather chairs.
Having said that, the Emirates themselves no doubt ordered the system with this very purpose in mind. I guess now for true security, smart Arabs will resort to travelling by camel.
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- Disgusting!
- I'll bet that the very same IBM executives jumping for joy over this deal, would kick and scream if the US government stated that all cars driven in the US would be equipped with this very same technology. The first IBM exec to receive a speeding ticket or license suspension in the mail for driving their AMG Mercedes above the posted speed limits, will be up in arms about violations of constitutional rights. If we are trying to spread democracy in the world, why would we engage in installing technology in other countries that we as US citizens would oppose here in the States? Simply to make a buck?!!
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- It's UAE Government Cars, only
- I think everyone would be happy if government cars in the US came with this feature. Especially post office trucks.
I don't see what's the big deal, especially if the devices only report speed, and not location. The alternative is to have people die unnecesairly.
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- Ahh yes. A little closer to being watched at all times. Body implants aren't far off.
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- RFID in the future for USA Drivers
- I have a prediction that RFID will be used on vehicle license plates, registration stickers and inspection stickers. Really, why not? A police officer would only need to be 50 feet away from a vehicle in violation to detect it.
Insurance ran out? You'll get spotted VERY quickly since the officer didn't have to run your plate through his in-car computer and instead gets an indicator on a HUD that shows him which car to pull over.
Sensors will be placed where you now see those road side speed signs that flash when you exceed the speed limit that will know EXACTLY what car was driving how fast or ran what light without taking a picture and without needing to use a radar gun.
It'll make radar detectors useless. It'll be cheaper and less obtrusive to install the equipment. Snipers currently try to take out the reinforced stop light cameras in major cities (with little to no success). Sensors will be installed in every traffic light, so that city planners will no longer need to plan light cycles but allow it to detect what lanes need the green light. Set to "automatic" and go! Cheaper to install, cheaper to run and maintain and requires fewer employees plus it's more efficient for the drivers on the road.
It is coming, it is only a matter of time...
Don't want to be "tagged" because of privacy and constitutional rights, then don't drive! You do NOT have a constitutional right to drive a car. For that matter you really don't have a constitutional right to "privacy" either, it is just assumed and often upheld by courts. None of the challenges against cameras and radar guns have been able to stop this invasion of your privacy yet.
You can't buy a cell phone today without being "tagged" and trackable. It's a federal law for cell phone providers to include GPS tracking capabilities to assist emergency services in locating you should you dial 911. They already sell the service to companies and parents for tracking their employees or children (interchange that as you see fit).
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6,000 years in the past, twelve-year-old Tarak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy made to his dying father--to travel to the Mountain of the World Spirit seeking a way to destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans.


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Hi this is the second part of my Judgement Day 2000 DVD review. I recommend that you read first part of my review if you haven't. If you have glad you're reading Part 2 .
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Hi this is my first blog (well a review really) and i thought it'd be a good idea to do a review of old/previous WWF/E PPV's and maybe some other companies as well.
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Here is the top 5 wrestlers since 1995 in my opinion. To recap the 10 so far it goes in order counting down Edge,Eddie,Guerrero,The Rock,Triple H,and Kurt Angle. So here is the top 5 and who missed it enjoy.
5. Chris Jericho I begin the top 5 with Y2J the Itolla or Rock and rolla (sorry for spelling),and The original Im the best in the world at what i do. As I said Kurt Angle was the
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Probably the most discussed thing is the greatest ever. To me its different because i was born in 1995 and watched wrestling since then now 16 i sit back to think who is the best ever. It is going to be a top 10 list. it will be based on the matches they had and their promos,too.
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I used to think that the Streak should never be broken. It's that one untouchable legacy in the WWE today... or at least it was.
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LUCI BAINES JOHNSON once asked her mother how she wanted to be remembered. Lady Bird Johnson, Texas' reigning matriarch, responded with the kind of Southern, salt-of-the-earth remark that comes naturally to her: "I made a lot of little lists in my life, and I checked a lot of things off."
As she sat behind her desk at the Austin offices of radio station KLBJ, Luci consciously mimicked Lady Bird when I asked her to reflect on her recent accomplishments. "I've checked a few things off my own list," she said. And, indeed, it has been a time in which Luci, who had played the role of "professional daughter" all her life, has finally come of age. Five years ago, she took her mother's place as chairman of the board of the LBJ Holding Company, the parent organization for the Johnson family's business interests, whose combined value is estimated to be $150 million. Last May she completed her long-delayed undergraduate studies, earning a degree from St. Edward's University, a small Catholic college in Austin. In July she turned fifty and, with her husband, investment banker Ian Turpin, negotiated a merger of the Johnson family's Austin radio holdings with those of a Virginia-based company—the first openly aggressive move that the LBJ Holding Company has made since the bust. "All my life I've reacted to large events that were going on around me," Luci said, holding a cup of coffee and watching the steam rise. "Now I've decided to act."
None of us escapes our biology and heritage, and certainly not Luci Johnson, whose birthright is bigger and more glaringly public than most. Her father, Lyndon Baines Johnson, has been dead for 25 years, a period of time in which her mother emerged as a power in her own right by reinterpreting their White House years, protecting her husband's memory, running their business, and championing a cause: wildflowers. As Lady Bird grows older—she is now 85—Johnson watchers are beginning to ask who will carry the flag. In Texas, at least, the flag is in Luci's hands. In 1996 the LBJ Holding Company bought out the family business interests held by her elder sister, Lynda Bird, who is married to U.S. senator Charles Robb of Virginia and has staked her claim on the Potomac, near the family's old Washington stomping grounds.
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What weight, exactly? The answer seems obvious, but it is spelled out movingly in a letter her mother recently read aloud on the television program Nightline. In the spring of 1964, six months after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Lady Bird wrote to LBJ to encourage him to run for the presidency on his own—but not without realizing that the entire Johnson clan would pay a price. "In the course of the campaign and in the ensuing years," she noted, "you—and I—and the children—will certainly get criticized and cut up, for things we have done, or maybe partly-in-a-way have done—and for others that we never did at all. That will be painful." Lady Bird's prediction came true, and Luci's acceptance of criticism has been part of her coming of age. "At some point I learned that I couldn't control what people thought of my parents, my sister, or me," she said. "Now I just try to do what I think is right for me."
Her struggle to make her own life, separate from her family, started in adolescence. At thirteen she established her own religious identity by attending mass and eventually converting to Catholicism (Lady Bird is Episcopalian; Lyndon was born Baptist but joined the Disciples of Christ at age twelve). At sixteen, when she was a junior in high school at the National Cathedral School for Girls in Washington, D.C., a student burst into her Spanish class with the news that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. At first no one said anything about her father, and she wondered if he, too, had been shot. Later that afternoon, she saw one of her father's Secret Service agents walking toward her on campus, and she knew instantly that her father had become president of the United States. "I tried to run the other way," she recalled. Not long after that, she changed the spelling of her name from Lucy to Luci. "I didn't have a name like Elizabeth that I could shorten,


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NORMAN — People should worry about an artist who completes a painting in 45 minutes to an hour, Tony Abeyta says.
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Yet the crowd watched as Abeyta finished in an hour's time on Sunday, an autumn-inspired landscape featuring aspens hit by shimmering sunlight.
Abeyta, who has studios in Santa Fe, N.M., and Chicago, was one of five artists who offered live art demonstrations during a Community Celebration in honor of the James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
The collection, a gift from Bialac, who lives in Arizona, contains more than 4,000 works representing indigenous cultures across North America, especially the Pueblos of the Southwest, the Navajo, the Hopi, many of the tribes of the Northern and Southern Plains and the Southeastern tribes.
Abeyta talked of the importance of art patrons such as Bialac while he mixed oils, then put brush to canvas to create a painting "from memory" of what aspens look like as they change colors in the fall in New Mexico.
"A lot of what I do is based on memory. It's my emotional response to the landscape," Abeyta said.
Abeyta said he does not usually complete an oil painting in a small window of time.
"The true magic happens when you step back and think about it for a couple of days," he said.
Abeyta, who is part Navajo, was raised in Gallup, N.M., where he watched his father, Narciso Abeyta, paint on weekends.
"It didn't matter to Dad whether other people liked it. He loved what he did. ... He'd sell a painting, and we'd get a T-bone. I didn't think at first I would be an artist, because I didn't think you could actually make a living at art."
His views changed when he left home at 16 to study at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. He later studied at the Maryland Institute's College of Art in Baltimore and the Chicago Art Institute. Thanks to a Ford Foundation grant, he also studied in the south of France and Italy.
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