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This savory tofu huevos rancheros uses turmeric seasoned tofu in place of eggs. Served over refried bean covered tortillas with avocado and salsa.
Happy Boxing Day everyone! My calendar tells me it's Boxing Day, but I'm not sure what that means. Throughout most of my life I was under the impression that it was the day everyone put the gifts they didn't like back into the boxes and returned them to the store. That might have been something my dad told me as a kid. He would. It came up in a discussion at Christmas Eve in which I learned that I'd been mistaken all these years, but now I can't for the life of me recall what it does mean.
In any event, I hope I didn't miss the holiday brunch train. My family actually had an awesome brunch, in which I served this baked French toast from Vegan Richa. Even my dad, hard core meat eater that he is, loved it so much that he asked to keep the leftovers. My first 2014 resolution is to experiment with vegan baked French toast recipes!
In posting this recipe today I'm assuming that you all have a few brunches left in you before New Year's is over. This one will surely please all the plant eaters in your life everyone. It's delicious.
If you read my post on Santosha on the Ridge, you'll recall that I had a similar dish for breakfast during my stay and was hoping to create something similar for the blog. My version uses black beans, corn tortillas and is totally vegan. The tofu is just mildly seasoned with some nutritional yeast and turmeric for color. The real flavor is found in the beans here. Interestingly enough, I served this to a bunch of friends for a brunch a while back. When the first friend arrived and had a look at what was going on in the kitchen she was rather surprised (knowing I'm not an egg eater) at the look of the tofu. It does take on a pretty close resemblance to scrambled eggs.
I should also mention that this doesn't necessarily havehave to be a breakfast dish. While it does make an awesome breakfast, I cooked this for dinner on two nights as I was refining the recipe, and it didn't even feel like breakfast for dinner. It was all dinner for dinner.
One thing I didn't do that I thought might be nice was to whip up a batch of cashew cream to throw on top of these. I was actually getting all inspired, thinking of blending some chipotle peppers or powder into cashew cream. If anyone decides to give that a shot, please let me know how it works out. Happy brunching.
Tofu Huevos Rancheros
For the Tofu "Huevos"
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 1/2 lb. extra firm tofu
- 1/2 tsp. turmeric
- 2 tsp. nutritional yeast
- salt and pepper to taste
For the Beans
- 1 tsp. olive oil
- 1 small yellow onion
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 1 can or 1 3/4 cups cooked black beans rinsed and drained
- 1/2 tsp. ground coriander
- 1 tsp. ground cumin
- dash of chipotle chili powder
- 1/4 cup vegetable broth plus a little extra
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
Everything Else
- 4 corn tortillas
- cooking spray optional
- 1 avocado
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- your favorite tomato salsa
- Drain and press your tofu for at least ten minutes.
- While your tofu dries out, begin preparing the beans. Heat oil over medium heat in medium skillet. Add onion and sautee until softened, about five minutes.
- Add garlic and continue to sautee for another minute.
- Add beans. Using a fork or potato masher, mash up about half of your beans (you could mash them all if you like, but I prefer a combo).
- Next add spices and broth, and cook until beans are heated throughout, thinning the mixture with a little extra broth if needed.
- Remove from heat.
- Add cilantro and mix thoroughly.
- Now for the tofu. Heat oil in small or medium skillet over medium heat.
- Crumble tofu into skillet. I like to keep my tofu a little chunky, but that's your call.
- Cook, flipping here and there, until it just barely begins to brown.
- Add turmeric, nooch, salt and pepper, flipping until tofu is evenly coated.
- Optional but highly recommended step: crisp your tortillas. Preheat your oven to 375. Spray both sides of tortillas with cooking spray and lay flat on oven rack. Bake for 7-10 minutes.
- Place tortillas on individual plates and layer with beans, tofu, avocado slices, salsa and cilantro.


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"If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog"
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"There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise."
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"It's been really crazy. I don't quite know what to make of it," she said, grinning from ear to ear Friday afternoon.
Unbeknownst to her — for some of the day, anyway — Bay Variety was the benefactor Friday of a "cash mob," a community-organized swell of customers all aimed at supporting a particular shop or restaurant.
The originator of Friday's cash mob, Port Angeles resident Kary Brown, said she got the idea from a friend of hers on Facebook.
Brown initially invited 200 people to the Facebook event she created for the cash mob, though it eventually was shared with 1,500 more.
"I am definitely not the person solely responsible," Brown said.
"It was definitely a whole community effort."
Adolphsen said she did not keep an exact tally of how many people showed up for the cash mob but estimated the store easily saw double the business it normally sees on a single day.
"That was a crazy-nice thing for [Brown] to do," Adolphsen said.
"It was really sweet."
Brown said she visits Bay Variety about four times a year for myriad items, such as party supplies, with Brown most recently walking away from the store with a long-searched-for pair of dice.
"I was asking co-workers [downtown] where I could find dice, and couple of them said, 'Have you tried Bay Variety?'" Brown said.
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Best Online Poker Sites
What Makes A Great Online Poker Site
There are many factors that go into deciding which are the best online poker sites. These can be separated between the must haves and the nice to haves. The factors that are the must haves, things that all great poker sites must have, are the softness of competition and the amount of traffic that a poker site has.
First off, online poker sites differ in their relative ease or difficulty in the average skill level of players who play at a given online poker site. These range from poker sites who attract mostly skilled players, who are generally tough to beat and are well educated in sound poker strategy, to sites who are full of weaker players who don't know anywhere near as much about what they are doing and will make many more mistakes at the poker table.
Some players think that if they are good enough, or get good enough, then this stuff won't matter, or won't matter as much. Nothing could be further from the truth though. Even if you are the best player in the world, you will simply make a lot more money playing against fish than playing against other good players. If someone is willing to lose their stack pretty easily, and another player won't pay you off when you get a good hand, it's not hard to decide which player you will do better against.
In fact, at some poker sites, the action is so tight that it's hard to even beat the rake. Players get forced into playing a ton of tables at once, as even for the best players at the site, the profit potential is so thin at one or a few tables that you have to be very skilled at multi tabling just to have a shot at even a decent amount of profit per hour on average. And we're just taking about the top players at these sites, maybe 1 in 10 at the most, and the rest simply lose money over and over again.
Don't Make This A Lot Harder Than It Needs To Be
If you aren't a profitable player yet, then the challenge to get to the point where you're making more money than you're losing, something all poker players aspire to, becomes even all the more daunting of a task.
These better players will clean your clock over and over again if you don't know enough about what you are doing, forcing players who are looking to learn the game to deposit over and over again, and watch their losses rack up more and more as they struggle to get a grasp on what it takes to start turning things around and stop the bleeding.
I've taken a great many players out of these poker cesspools over the years and shown them much better places to play online poker, and the changes have often been pretty dramatic. First, they no longer get pounded on by so many superior opponents, and then they realize that they are the ones who can do the exploiting now.
This process can take a little time, but they have gone from what seemed to be a hopeless situation to one that glows with hope and this light becomes brighter and brighter as time goes on. Finally, the skills that we have worked so hard to develop are paying dividends, as we keep getting better and finally see our efforts being rewarded, and our poker dreams materialize, as we move up to higher and higher stakes and see higher and higher profits accumulate.
Of course if you are already a good player then this process will all tend to happen much quicker, and while it's true that it is good for your development to play against tougher opponents, it's far better to get this education once you've made a lot of money and have finally made it to the stakes you've always wanted to play, instead of running into brick walls at much lower stakes.
It's All About Being Able To Move Up
While it is true that at any site you run into tougher opponents the higher stakes you play, there are some sites where the competition is pretty fierce even at the lowest stakes. If you've ever wanted to play for some real money, something that we all share in common, if the small stakes are so tough that you can't even beat those games, you will never get to where you need to be.
While these small stakes can be rather boring, going through the ranks is a necessary part of a poker player's growth. Very few players have the bankroll to start out at the mid stakes, and those who do soon are parted from their money, as they lack the required skills at this point in their education.
If you are going to have to start small and work your way up, which you should be doing, needless to say this process becomes a whole lot more exciting and rewarding if you know that your chances are good to progress through the stakes, and in fact, that it is really only a matter of you wanting it enough and being willing to put the effort and the time in to improve, as long as you play at the right online poker sites.
The Best Poker Sites Also Need Enough Traffic
So needless to say, softness of competition is a huge deal, and by far the most important factor as far as what makes a poker site great, or even good. We also need to have enough players playing at a poker site to make it worth our while.
There are some online poker sites where the players there are real fishy, but there simply aren't enough players on there to make having an account there worthwhile. What we are looking for here is poker sites which consistently run the kind of games that we want to play, and when there's nothing running at our stake, both we and our poker money sit idle.
As a general rule, the higher the stakes that we play, the more traffic that we need, but at this point, our bankrolls grow large enough that we can split them up at several sites. So the focus here is on online poker sites that have at least a decent amount of traffic, in order to ensure that there is at least a good assortment and number of tables running at the smaller stakes, and at least some good action at the higher ones.
Many players think that this means that we should only be looking to play at the most busiest online poker sites out there, but this really isn't the case. There are some very busy sites that also have a very high quality of traffic, meaning fishy, and some which do not.
There are also some online poker sites that don't have the amount of high traffic that some other sites do, but have very high quality traffic, making them worth considering. So the trick here really is to ensure the quantity of traffic is enough, so that we end up with poker sites that have adequate traffic and also have the traffic there be fishy.
In the end, all of the best online poker rooms that we have selected for you have both fishy traffic and enough traffic, so you are covered in these very essential areas.
Bonuses And Rewards From Online Poker Sites
There are a number of other things which are nice to have, although without both the right quantity and quality of traffic, these things don't even matter. However, if we have both of those essential components working for us, we can then look to these other things to further refine our selections.
Poker rooms generally pay players to try them out, by making them eligible to receive first time deposit bonuses. So depending on how much you deposit starting out, you can get an equivalent amount of free cash. While these deals do differ quite a bit, the important thing to remember here is that you aren't choosing once and for all here, and can take advantage of several of these deals.
So contrary to what some newer players think, the amount of bonus money a poker site offers isn't really that important, although you do want to make sure that it is attainable. Most deals are, but some make it easier than others to cash out, and we want to stay away from those who don't give you enough time or make the play requirements too difficult to give the smallest stake players a fair shot.
Beyond the initial bonuses, pretty much every poker room has a frequent player reward system, and these tend to differ a fair bit as well. As you play at a poker site, they will give you cash, merchandise, and/or free tournament entries to reward you for your play.
Some poker sites offer you more value here than others, and the bottom line as to what is best is always a matter of the combination of how well you do based on the softness of the competition there and the addition of the frequent player or VIP rewards.
For instance, if you do poorly at one poker site because the players there are tougher, even generous rewards might not make up for that, and you can actually do better elsewhere even if they didn't pay out any rewards at all. However, they do, so this wouldn't be a tough decision at all.
All of our recommended poker rooms pay out nice bonuses and rewards and also have soft competition, so you will be assured that your rewards are just that, rewards, instead of an incentive to play somewhere where you really shouldn't play at.
Other Considerations In Deciding Which Online Poker Rooms Are Best
Having at least a decent selection of deposit and withdrawal options is something we need as well. If you can't find a method that you like to deposit, this is going to make things inconvenient. The same holds true for making withdrawals.
This is more of a convenience feature though and the worst thing that can happen here is that you may have to open up new accounts at internet wallets, which really isn't that big of a deal, but it's obviously better to have your poker room offer more selection, which gives you more options.
The security and trustworthiness of an online poker site is a very important matter, and in fact a lot of players have come to seriously regret playing at certain sites that have had serious difficulties, or worse. For instance, players at some formerly real big sites like UB, Absolute, and Full Tilt ended up having their money seized and saw the sites shut down.
It's actually not hard to judge this though, and all of these operations were run pretty sketchy, either being famous for cheating players or operating illegally. There are also cases where new rooms don't really have the proper organization and the long term viability is in some question.
The good thing is that to an experienced eye these less than secure or trustworthy online poker rooms are easy to spot, and you can rest assured that we will steer you well clear of any of them.
Having a good amount of traffic is one thing, but it's also important to have the traffic spread across a good amount of stakes and across a good variety of different game types. So there needs to be plenty of players at our poker site who play both cash games and tournaments, regularly scheduled tournaments and sit and go's, Holdem and Omaha, and so on.
A lot of people think that a poker site's software is very important, and while that might be overstating things a bit, it's certainly true that it has to be at least adequate. The software needs to run fairly fast, it needs to be fairly easy to find the tables and games you want with their filtering options, the action buttons and sliders need to be configured properly, and the software needs to be reliable. If things look great with cool graphics and avatars, that's nice to have as well.
On top of the generous rewards that a good poker site will offer, there also should be a good assortment of promotions going on at any given time, to bring an additional level of fun and excitement to playing there, as well as adding some value. All poker sites run promotions, but some are more lucrative and expansive than others.
Finally, whenever you need help or have a question that needs to be addressed, good online poker sites need to have a way where you can receive this help promptly and effectively. At the best poker sites this doesn't come up too much, and therefore the amount of times that you require assistance matters as well. At the best sites, this is rare.
So as you can see there is a lot that goes into rating the best online poker sites, and this requires extensive knowledge of all of the good options out there to be able to narrow things down. We have that knowledge, and based upon that, we'd like to provide you with four excellent choices, as follows:
Party Poker
Party Poker has been among the top rated poker rooms for over a decade now. They quickly established themselves as the world's most favorite places to play online poker back in the days when online poker first started, and their dedication to ensuring that their players are more than satisfied with their online poker experience there has been unwavering.
The biggest factor in their success though has been their ability to consistently attract and maintain a large school of fish. Party Poker features both tons of traffic and tons of loose players, and has always tended to attract a lot of players with lesser degrees of skill.
Party Poker has really ramped things up lately on a number of fronts, to make their award winning online poker site even greater. For instance, they boosted their rewards program from just average to one of the most generous ones out there. So the real rewards at Party Poker has always been a matter of how much you can make off of their fish at the table, but this big increase in reward money that you now will earn certainly makes things nicer.
Party Poker also offers an extensive assortment of both deposit and withdrawal options, which is among the very best in the business. Not only that, but Party Poker makes it very easy to figure out which options you can use in the country that you live in, something that can be very frustrating at other sites. All you do is choose your country from the drop down menu and it instantly displays all of the options that are available to you.
Party Poker's software had been known as among the least exciting to look at, although it's always been easy to use. Now it's even easier to use and also has some of the best graphics around to go with that. While this isn't all that important, Party Poker has left no stone unturned in their recent quest to be the best at everything.
Party Poker also offers several other forms of online gaming besides poker, which allows poker players who are also interested in these other types of gambling to do it all at one site. Among these other choices are casino games, sports betting, bingo, backgammon, and even betting on financials.
One of the best things about Party Poker though is its stellar reputation as the internet's most trustworthy online poker site around. Party Poker's standards are unmatched here, and they go all out to ensure that both their company and their players' experiences are as solid and secure as they can possibly make them.
On top of all this, they offer new players a nice welcome bonus of matching their initial deposit, to a maximum of 500 of the currency of deposit, regardless of whether it's U.S. Dollars, Canadian Dollars, Euro, or British Pounds. You can deposit in whichever of these currencies you choose, and if you're making a larger deposit, you'll get the most bonus money from the British Pounds option.
Overall, Party Poker is an outstanding online poker site, and they didn't get the huge amount of players that play there by accident. If for some reason you have never had an account there, you owe it to yourself to check them out.
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Bet365 Poker
Bet365 Poker is one of the world's largest online sports betting operations, who several years ago decided to offer their players online poker as well. The best thing about this arrangement is that the players who play at Bet365 Poker tend to be more sports bettors than poker players, and therefore are a lot fishier than poker sites who focus on attracting poker players.
Bet365 Poker is a member of the iPoker Network, which is the world's largest poker network and is right up there with Party Poker as far as the huge amount of traffic that it gets. It is also right up there with Party Poker as far as softness of competition goes, and in fact their tournaments are the easiest to win money at on the internet, bar none.
If you are a sports bettor yourself, Bet365 Poker is a particularly good choice, since that will allow you to bet on sports and play poker at the same time, and their sports betting operation isn't this big for nothing. Bet365 is consistently rated among the very best around by both amateur and professional sports bettors. They carry over this excellence to their poker room as well.
The iPoker network that Bet365 Poker resides on also is committed to their players. A collection of over 60 individual online poker rooms teaming up to share traffic, this network is mostly comprised of other online betting establishments who also have a poker room on the side.
The iPoker Network is also committed to ensuring that their network is among the fishiest places to play poker online, and they have even gone to the point of tossing out some poker rooms that haven't sent the kind of soft players that they want, even though it cost them money in the short term.
It is very unusual in fact for a poker room or network to appreciate the huge importance of softness of competition, and iPoker was the first to acknowledge this and take this drastic step to ensure that the experience of players is as good as they can make it. When I hear things like this, right there I know that a poker site will continue to be among the very best places to play for a long time.
If you are a newer or less experienced poker player, Bet365 Poker features a beginners section which is limited to players who have signed up during the last 90 days. This section gives a whole new meaning to fishiness and is perfect for those who are looking to build up their bankroll by playing against significantly easier competition.
Bet365 also has a very nice VIP program which is well above average. As you continue to play poker there, you rack up more and more VIP points, and climb the VIP ranks to bigger and bigger rewards. These points can be cashed in for merchandise, free tournament entries, and even cash right into your poker account.
To get you started, Bet365 offers new players a whopping 200% of your initial deposit in bonus money, up to at total of $1000 in free cash. So the more you start out with there, the more free money you get, up to getting $1000 in bonus money for putting in $500. Don't worry if you don't have anywhere near this much to start out with, as any deposit amount will be generously rewarded.
If you like to play poker tournaments, this is definitely the spot for you. I've played poker tournaments at pretty much every poker site on the internet, and the ones at Bet365 are simply the easiest ones to beat period. I'm not even sure why this is the case but I think that the sports bettors here particularly like tournaments, and the skill level at these tournaments is the worst around, which is definitely something that is to our benefit.
Bet365's big tournaments and other promotions are top notch as well. If you are looking to win a seat to the World Series of Poker, there is no easier place to do it at in fact. Many of my students have done so and they couldn't believe how much easier it was to win big tournaments here.
The bottom line with Bet365 Poker is that it is a great poker room and one that all players should have an account at. These folks really know what they are doing and are a very solid company as well, and one of the world's largest and most successful in fact.
Be sure to enter our special Bet365 Poker referrer code "PBC1000" when you visit them through our link to sign up, to ensure that you get their top poker bonus.
PKR is certainly one of the most interesting online poker rooms around, and while they don't have the sheer amount of traffic that the other picks on this list have, there's still plenty of players that play there, especially if you play the smaller stakes.
PKR is in fact a small stakes players' dream come true. PKR attracts the worst small stakes players on the internet, merely by virtue of how their poker room is set up. It's more like a video game than a poker room in fact, with graphics and realism that is unmatched.
So what has happened here is that players who playing online poker in 3D is the most important thing have come over in droves to PKR. Real poker players don't care much about this stuff, and in fact, are driven away by the features at PKR.
For instance, unlike every other poker site, your hole cards aren't shown face up, they are displayed face down, like at a real poker table. You have to click on them to peek at them, and when you do, the other players at the table can see you doing this.
So while this does add some real realism to the game play, what many good players find objectionable about this is that they can't play their usual assortment of a ton of tables at once. This would require that they remember their cards, which you can't really do well playing many tables.
When you add in the lesser traffic that PKR has, the big multi-tablers don't bother with this site at all. However, this is definitely a good thing, as the less sharks a poker site has, the better it is for us. What they don't realize is that you don't need to play many tables at all, and can even just play one, if the competition is this soft.
So if you are newer or just haven't figured out how to beat the games at other online poker sites, this is really the site for you. It's not just a matter of getting better at playing, like you may have been thinking, it's also a matter of playing against players who are just plain easier to beat. PKR offers you that glorious opportunity.
If you already know what you are doing, you are really going to like PKR as well. If you can make money playing against regular poker players, you won't believe how much more you will make against video game loving chumps. As you move up the stakes, while lower stakes always offer softer competition, there's no stake at PKR where the players are much good, which is exactly the way we want it.
PKR also has a very low minimum deposit of only $5, so those with only a little money to start out with can get in on the action very easily. It's always better to deposit more if you can, but if you can't, then that isn't a problem at all.
All of our top recommendations have nice bonuses in store for you just for trying them out, and PKR is no exception. PKR will upgrade your initial deposit with them, with 125% up to a maximum of $500 in free money. The bonus money here is also particularly easy to play down, and before you know it, you will have collected it all.
Once you do that, it will be time to move on to PKR's VIP program, and unlike other deals, once you move up to a new VIP level, it's yours to keep for life. As is always the case with these reward programs, the more you play, the more bonus money you get, and the higher you climb on the ladder to bigger and bigger bonus payouts.
If you are a new player, this really is poker heaven, and if you play higher stakes than that, well there might not be enough traffic here for you to play here solely, but the games that they do have are definitely sweet. Some players think that you should only have one poker account, but pretty much every successful player has several, and PKR should definitely be among the ones that you have access to.
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Bwin Poker
Finally, we wrap up our reviews of our four top recommended online poker sites for players outside the U.S. with Bwin Poker. Like Bet365, Bwin is a huge online sports betting site which also offers an excellent poker room. Bwin also has connections to Party Poker, as both companies have now merged and are managed by the same parent company, BwinParty.
As a matter of fact, it was the people behind Bwin that convinced Party Poker to make the huge improvements to their poker site that they recently implemented. While the poker rooms are separate, both companies ended up putting their heads together as far as what could be done to make each even better, and that certainly worked out very well for both poker sites.
Bwin, being primarily an online sports betting site, with over a million sports bettors, is also chock full of inexperienced poker players who are looking to get a little extra entertainment on the side. So as is the case whenever this happens, you see players who aren't that familiar at all with poker odds and generally don't know what to play when.
So this all equates to more success at the poker table for us, as either experienced poker players who are looking to punish opponents for their bad play, or as less experienced poker players who are looking to improve their game and want to limit the price of their poker education.
It's even more important in fact to play against softer competition if you are less skilled right now. If you are a good player, you can probably make money at any poker site, and playing at soft ones comes down to winning more rather than less.
However, if you are currently a losing player looking to get better, it's a matter of losing less rather than more. Losing more not only will cause you a lot of needless pain, this may even cost you your poker life, as most players have limits to how much they are willing to lose along the way. If you run out of either money or patience while learning the game, that could be the end of it for you.
So this is why it's no coincidence that all of our top recommended poker rooms feature soft competition, as without that, a poker site isn't even worthy of our consideration. I did mention as well that our poker sites need to have at least a good amount of traffic, and Bwin certainly has that much and then some.
Bwin also rolls out the bonus money for its new depositors, where they match your initial deposit in free cash, up to a maximum of $500. The fun doesn't stop there though, as once you've collected that, you move on to one of the very best poker rewards programs around, where you will be generously rewarded for your loyalty and treated like a VIP at the same time.
Bwin also has some great tournaments, including some exclusive big money events. BwinParty owns the World Poker Tour so if you ever imagined yourself playing at one of their huge live events, Bwin or Party are the places to earn them at. This gives you an idea in fact how big Bwin and Party together are, as people think of the World Poker Tour as the biggest thing in poker but it's merely a sideline to this huge online gaming company.
When you add everything up, Bwin definitely deserves to be on our list and it's last but certainly not least in our reviews of our top recommendations for the best online poker sites around. It's another one of those poker sites that every player really needs to have an account at once they build their bankroll up enough, and is also a good choice as well for players just starting out with a little to deposit.
Carbon Poker: Our Top Rated U.S. Friendly Site
Since there are so many players from the U.S. that visit us here at PokerBonusCode.net, we decided that this list would not be complete without our adding a U.S. friendly poker site. There are several that we recommend and you are also welcome to visit our U.S. friendly poker site section as well.
As we all know, the choices for players from the United States has gotten smaller and smaller. First, the UIGEA came down in late 2006, causing most online poker rooms to stop offering real money poker to Americans. This still left Poker Stars, Full Tilt, Ultimate Bet, and Absolute in the game, who all chose to continue on.
At the time, there were some other poker rooms who also continued to offer play to U.S. residents, but they were lesser known to the poker playing public. We've always preferred these sites though and have been recommending Carbon Poker and others all along. Not only were these smaller sites safer, they also provided looser action and therefore more profitability.
We in fact never recommended Poker Stars, Full Tilt, Ultimate Bet, and Absolute Poker, as our longer term friends will attest to. We felt comfortable with Poker Stars, and still do, but the level of competition there is too tough. We always look to provide our readers with the best poker sites out there, and soft competition is always something we require.
None of these four sites which offered play to U.S. players at the time had soft competition though, and other than Poker Stars, there were aspects of their operations that we simply weren't comfortable with. Full Tilt had always been a little sketchy, something that the general public wasn't really aware of but we were, and Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker were famous for cheating their players, something we obviously didn't like.
Carbon Poker on the other hand, and the Merge Poker Network which it resides on, has always been both completely legit and fishy as well. Carbon Poker has been the flagship poker room on the Merge Network for years, and although Lock Poker had grown to give them some competition in this regard, Lock recently left to form their own poker network.
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Having all of these smaller rooms is a huge advantage though, as they contribute the majority of the fish on the network. By bringing in a lot of players who mostly get involved in other forms of online gaming such as sports betting and casino gambling, this adds tremendous value to the Merge Network, and in turn, to players who play at Carbon Poker.
Carbon Poker has recently upped its rewards program as well, now that they are getting competition from Lock Poker's new Revolution Poker Network. When poker sites compete, and jack up the rewards for us, we of course are the real winners.
This increased level of generosity and greater concern for attracting and keeping poker players like ourselves makes Carbon Poker even more attractive. This poker room and network has been experiencing big growth over the last while, as more and more American poker players are getting wise to the sheer quality of this room and network.
In particular, players are starting to believe us and others who have been telling them all this time that this is a very solid operation where people don't really have to worry about their being forced out of the U.S. market like some other poker sites.
After Black Friday, when rooms like Poker Stars got out of the U.S. market because they didn't have the stomach for it any more, Carbon and Merge took a big step back and got out of the U.S. market for a few months while they assessed the situation, and ended up bolstering their operation to be able to process payments in the U.S. without really having to worry about interference from the U.S. authorities.
In fact, not long after that the American government tried to go after Merge and was not successful. Unlike sites like Poker Stars, where the American traffic was only a portion of their business, Carbon and Merge exist primarily to serve the U.S. market, and therefore they are all in to ensure that they are always able to do this without a hitch.
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Bourbon experts say the looming shortage is somewhat unusual, although brands such as Knob Creek, which is aged for nine years, are more susceptible because their distillers must predict demand far in advance.
"It's very difficult to forecast out nine-year demand," said Kelly Doss, senior director of U.S. bourbon and whiskey at Beam Global Spirits & Wine, which makes Knob Creek. "We can only sell what we can bottle and ship."
Beam Global, itself part of Fortune Brands, sells about 150,000 cases of Knob Creek annually, putting it at the top of the company's small batch collection, but well below Maker's Mark, and its flagship Jim Beam bourbon which is aged four years.. Doss said none of those brands are expected to face a shortage this summer.
Beam recently sent T-shirts emblazoned with "The drought of 2009" to 16,000 Knob Creek fans who registered on the brand's Web site.The company also plans to use the shortage as a marketing tool in the months ahead, playing on the notion that the lack of Knob Creek is connected to its popularity. A recent company statement announcing the shortage carried the headline "thanks for nothing" and said the brand will be "even more popular and profitable once supply is restored." FULL STORY


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text: I'm going to start posting reviews that I write. Not only for the Xbox 360, but for other systems as well. Here's my Gears of War review. Gears of War Review By toXic. Gears of War, which is a third-person shooter, came out in November of 2006, so this isn't a review of an exactly new game. However, some people don't have a Xbox 360 yet, therefore they haven't purchased it. It's also possible that someone has a 360, but hasn't played the game yet. I am here to tell you that this game is a must-buy, end of story. The game takes place on a planet known as Sera, which is very similar to Earth. There has been a war going on for over twenty years, but now the Locust Horde, who come from the underground of Sera, have entered the war and will show no mercy. Therefore, the humans team up and create the "Coalition of Ordered Governments", or "COG". The main character is a man named Marcus Phoenix, who was supposed to be in jail for abandoning his post when the emergence of the Locust Horde started. However, COG needed more soldiers so they cut his jail sentence short, and it eventually proves to be the right decision by the government. Eventually, you team up with other COG members such as Dominic Santiago, Augustus Cole, Damon Baird, Lieutenant Kim, and Carmine. These men all make up a group called "The Delta Squad". In many shooters, your teammates usually aren't important. But it's quite the contrary in Gears of War. Teamwork is a must, especially on online multiplayer. It gives Gears of War a more unique feel, and more of a sense of achievement once you beat the game, or a chapter for that matter. While teamwork makes Gears of War different from most games, it's the gameplay that really sets it apart. Accoding to Cliff Bleszinski, Gears of War's lead designer, the game isn't a run 'n gun game such as the Halo series, but it's more of a stop n' pop. What he means is that technique is very important in the game. And that you cannot just go out and run at any time, because there's a very good chance that you'll die. Instead, you have to use the cover feature, by pressing the "A" button against a wall of some sort. You can then pull out a bit and start shooting, while still staying fairly safe. Screen showing what it's like in cover That's one great thing about this game. In games such as Halo, Call of Duty, and other shooters, it's fairly easy to get killed. But in Gears of War, it's a more slow paced game and it's usually much harder to die. If you do get hurt enough, you'll be downed, but you'll have the opportunity to be revived by a teammate. In single player campaign though, once you're down, you're out. Weapons. Ah, the weapons. Another reason why this game is so great is because there's a good mix of classic weapons such as the shotgun and the snipper rifle, to new and exciting ones, such as the torque bow and the chainsaw bayonet that's attatched to the lancer, which is an assault rifle. Like in most games, the shotgun is the best to use in short distance, but it will do little to no damage at a long distance. There's not many more satisfying things in this world then sneaky up behind a Locust and blowing them into pieces with one shutgun bullet. The lancer is just your typical assualt rifle for the most part. But, there's something very unique and amazing about this weapon, and that's the chainsaw bayonet. To access the chainsaw, you simply hold down the "B" button and your opponent will be sliced into smithereens. As easy as that sounds, it's not always. In order to chainsaw your opponent, you have to get right up to them, which is then risking the chance of getting blown up by the shotgun or some other weapon. You don't see bows in many games that take place in the future. And while there's no bow and arrow in Gears of War, there's a torque bow which is bascially like a rich man's bow and arrow. Why is it so much better you ask? When the arrow sticks to your opponent, instead of just being stabbed, they explode! Torque Bow, meet Locust. Locust, meet Torque Bow The hammer of dawn is a weapon that can only be used in the open sky. And although it can take awhile to trigger, it's very effective because it shoots down a blazing beam that just torches your opponent, or you if you happen to be so unlucky. In many games, the rocket launcher is one of the most popular weapons. In Gears of War, the boomshot is similar to the rocket launcher, but much more weak and it's just fairly useless in many cases. The boomshot only covers little area, and you have to be almost dead on when it comes to accuracy. Obviously, there are more weapons, but those are probably the more unique ones and the rest are fairly basic weapons that don't need much explanation. Lets move on to the campaign, shall we? Gears of War is split into five acts, thirty chapters total. Some levels are amazingly easy, some are simply in a pain in the ass - especially on Insane. There are a few big bosses such as a Corpser, which is basically a gigantic spider that digs tunnels through the ground. Then there's a Berserker, which is said to be a female Drone. It is blind, but once it hears or smells you, run for your life, enough said. The final boss in Gears of War is General RAAM. He's a big locust, with a rough voice, and he just seems dark and evil, which he is. The final boss fight is fairly hard, and it should take you a fairly long time to beat him, at least on Insane. Although he is the main boss in Gears of War, he's not the head of the locust, he's simply a general. There's a Locust Queen, known as Myrrah. At the end of the game, you can hear her voice, which indicates that there will be more to the series. While the campaign is fun, it's rather short and without online play, it wouldn't be nearly as good as it was hyped up to be. However, since there is online, the game is all that it should be, and more. Multiplayer on Gears of War is great like I've said before. You can play co-op with your friend on split screen, or join someone on Xbox Live and play the campaign together, but this time you obviously don't have to share a screen. But cooperative multiplayer isn't all, there's also versus. There are four game modes: Warzone, Execution, Assassination, and Annex. All can be played in either ranked matches, where your score will be up for everyone to see, or a player match. Warzone is pretty much just Team Deathmatch. It's four vs. four, and you try to eliminate the opposing team. This is the most popular mode, and my personal favorite as well. Execution is similar to Warzone, except that when the player is downed, you must kill him. There's no bleed out, so you have to act fast and finish him off. In Assassination, you have to kill the opposing team's leader, while also protecting your own so the other team doesn't win. Lastly, Annex, is simply King of the Hill. Your team has to keep control of certain areas to win the game, and that gives you points. Online multiplayer is where the game shines, and I've enjoyed it quite a lot. It's amazing because one minute you can feel that you've never loved a game so much, but the next you thought it was impossible to hate it the next. That's one problem with Gears of War, it has some glitches but they are being fixed. Still, the game is more than good enough because it keeps everyone playing even though there are some minor problems. As I said before, this is a must-buy. Hopefully this is enough to convince you to buy it and join the fun that many are having. This is what gaming is all about it. Presentation: 9.5/10 Just the overall feel of this game is simply incredible. This should be a big series, and there's already a movie coming out about it. There's only a few games that get that kind of hype and attention, and Gears deserves it. Graphics: 9.8/10 The best graphics I've seen to date. Amazing texture, lighting, enviornments, etc. The graphics just really add to the incredible experience that Gears of War gives you. Sound: 9.5./10 The sound effects are great, it has the right music, everything. It gives the game the right kind of mood. Gameplay:9.4/10 I love the coverage system and the stop n' pop. The only thing that's bad about it is that it can sometimes be a little slow, and it doesn't always work right. Lasting Appeal:9.2/10 Many will beat the campaign on all three difficulties, like I have. But after that, I don't see me playing the campaign ever again. Online, however, is highly addictive and has tons of lasting appeal. Overall:9.8/10 This is the best Xbox 360 game to date, and possibly one of the best ever. I've never had such an amazing and fun experience playing a game. It deserves all of the hype that it receives. All I have to say is, nice job Epic.


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Borussia Dortmund, last season's beaten Champions League finalists, have agreed a deal to sign a striker who could not hold down a place in the Sunderland team for the last three years.
South Korean international Ji Dong-Won left Wearside earlier this week to sign for German club Augsburg on loan until the end of the season, but with his contract due to expire in June, Dortmund have announced he will be moving to one of Europe's biggest clubs in the summer as a free agent.
Ji managed just four 24 Premier League appearances for Sunderland, of which only four were starts, after joining from Korean side Chunnam Dragons for £2m in the summer of 2011. He scored two goals, the highlight being a last second winner against Manchester City two years ago.
Four successive Sunderland managers, Steve Bruce, Martin O'Neill, Paolo Di Canio and Gus Poyet, have refused to give the 22-year-old a regular place in the side, but Dortmund are convinced they all missed a trick as they believe he has the talent to play in the Champions League, as well as raise the club's profile in the Far East.
O'Neill sent Ji on loan to Augsburg last season, but he briefly found an admirer in Di Canio, who brought him back in to the squad until the Italian launched a typically barbed public attack on the forward for ducking out of a header when trying to convert a cross during a 3-1 defeat at Crystal Palace at the end of August.
"Ji Dong-Won is a player who can play in a variety of positions in attack. We are pleased to have signed this talented player for next season on a free transfer," said Dortmund's sporting director Michael Zorc on the club's official website.
Ji decided to leave Sunderland this month as he wants first team football ahead of the World Cup in Brazil to make sure of his place in the national squad.
"I wanted to make the switch in the winter to win more minutes and put myself in the window for the World Cup in Brazil," Ji told Augsburg's official website.
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Lot sizing in stochastic flowshops. Striking the balance between capacity and flow
The performance of a real-life production system (as measured by, for instance, the average flow time of parts or the average work-in-process level) is impacted by a range of managerial decisions, among which the product mix being produced in the shop, the layout of the shop, and the lot sizing policies (also called batching policies) used on the shop floor. Insights on the relationship between these (often deliberate) choices and the resulting performance have high managerial relevance. The impact of lot sizing policies on flow times is particularly interesting to analyze: by setting lot sizes in a deliberate way, managers can obtain flow time improvements without radical interventions in the system, and without large financial investments. Two types of lot sizing decisions can be distinguished: process lots and transfer lots. As discussed in this paper, a well-considered choice of both enables management to strike a balance between capacity considerations and flow considerations. We discuss some essential differences in the rationale underlying the use of process versus transfer lots, and shed light on the trade-offs inherent in both types of lot sizing decisions.
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Can regulators make a rancher fence-in his land? The Washington Supreme Court said yes. The case pitted rancher against environmentalists, with land rights and pollution enforcement at stake. Pataha Creek winds through Joe Lemire's ranch in southeastern Washington. His 29 head of cattle regularly cross the creek to reach several pastures. Department of Ecology inspectors say trampled stream beds and cattle manure degrade water quality in this already unhealthy creek. Lemire refused to fence the creek and sued the department. Now, in an 8-1 decision the Washington Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the state, saying it can regulate runoff pollution. Kelly Susewind is with the department. Lemire says a fence around Pataha Creek would devastate his land and his business. He says he's reviewing his options...more
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in order to make the security suite compatible with vista, check point had the option to just update and continue to use microsoft's transport device interface (tdi). the tdi is used in the tracking of network behavior, allowing for security checks to be carried out on windows xp and 2000. vista retains compatibility with tdi.
check point decided not to do this and instead implement support using microsoft's new–and vista specific–windows filtering platform (wfp). the reasoning behind doing this is microsoft's future support of tdi. check point has highlighted that tdi support is going to end, and therefore it is in its interests and those of its users to support the latest technology microsoft has to offer.
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all the security software providers are pushing hard to get their solutions vista compatible in order to offer a product for the new platform, which is eventually going to have the largest installed base. from the companies i know, kaspersky seemed to be the first to achieve it, and f-secure only recently came out of the testing phase with its vista solution.
soon, if you don't have vista compatibility, then sales are going to suffer. all new pcs will have vista on, and rival security companies offering vista support are going to promote heavily and try to do deals with manufacturers. it's not often a new os is released with such an impact, and we may yet see some casualties from it.
check point's decision to support wfp certainly makes it more future proof, but it would be interesting to know if it offers any real advantages over tdi.
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the web site doesn't have a vista version available yet! having it ready doesn't mean its available.
in fact, the "vista is here" link has been removed from the first page where is was early this morning. only the april 6 vista update message is there.


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Atmospheric deposition and canopy interactions of nitrogen in forests", Can. J. For. Res., vol. 23, p. 1603-1616, 1993., "
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Research in the School of Computing, Science and Engineering (CSE) covers the diverse range of subject areas covered by the School. In the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008, staff from CSE contributed to 3 of the most successful submissions from the University. Among those returned for assessment, more than 50% were rated as world leading or internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour.
The School also has strong research and academic partnerships with industry such as the BBC, BT, CISCO, Airbus, RSSB, United Utilities and Marshalls; these partnerships enable effective knowledge transfer and up-to-date awareness of topical issues in relevant industries.
Research structure
The research structure in the School is organised into five Research Centres that give focus to research strengths:
This diversity creates a platform well suited for collaborative research. It greatly enhances our potential to produce real-life impacts and innovations, particularly in the thematic areas of media and digital technology, energy and infrastructure including transport and environmental systems such as wetlands and sustainable drainage. It also allows us to take in postgraduate research students with cross-discipline interests.
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The Porsche 968 is a luxury sports car produced between 1992 and 1995, and the last Porsche sold with a four-cylinder engine. Its unique combination of speed, practicality and low production numbers has made it quite collectable amongst car enthusiasts.
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For as long as most Kitchener residents have been alive, the Lang Tanning Company sat silent like a sepia-toned ghost, its painted logo fading into post-industrial oblivion.
The sprawling 19th-century complex, shuttered when synthetic materials supplanted leather in the 1950s, had been the British Empire's largest supplier of shoe soles and saddles for more than 100 years.
Today, the tannery is drawing fresh breath as home to the Communitech Hub, a collaborative space colonized by high-tech giants, small start-ups and postsecondary schools. As such, it is not just an emblem of the Southwestern Ontario city's long history of reinvention and resilience, but of Canada's ever more global economic ambitions.
The tannery's façade tells the story in simple, graphic terms. High on the yellow-brick wall, above the painted Lang logo, is the multi-coloured crest of the world's best-known Internet company: Google.
It is no accident that Stephen Woodworth, the one-term Conservative MP for Kitchener Centre, has rented an office in the tannery complex as his campaign headquarters for the May 2 election. No politician here can afford to ignore the region's $18-billion-a-year tech sector, or the historic ethos of co-operation that has seen the area's economy evolve from leather, boots and buttons to binary code and BlackBerrys.
"The unique thing I've found about this community is the collaborative nature of business, government, the not-for-profit sector and the education sector," said John Doherty, a litigation lawyer who chairs the Prosperity Council of Waterloo Region.
"Maybe that's reflected in the politics as well; it doesn't seem to be as highly partisan a political atmosphere in this community as you might find in others," Mr. Doherty said.
The tannery is the latest signal of the digital economy's expansion into Kitchener Centre - a blue-collar riding buffeted by the decline in traditional manufacturing - from its much wealthier neighbour, the riding of Kitchener-Waterloo, home to global tech giant Research In Motion and the University of Waterloo.
The ability of local leaders to keep driving this evolution could foretell much of Ontario's economic future. This, and the extremely close election results of 2008, make the two ridings ones to watch. In Kitchener Centre, Liberal Karen Redman lost to Mr. Woodworth by 339 votes, while her colleague Andrew Telegdi fell by a slim 17 votes to Conservative Peter Braid in the country's closest contest.
The fact that Ms. Redman and Mr. Telegdi - who had served as MPs for 11 and 15 years respectively - have returned to run again suggests that the Liberals saw their defeat as more of a blip than a rebuke. Rather than turn out en masse to vote the incumbents down, thousands of voters simply stayed home, according to results that showed a 10-per-cent drop in ballots cast in the two ridings.
"Clearly, the Conservatives got their vote out," Ms. Redman said during an early-morning visit to the Kitchener Farmers Market before a long Saturday of canvassing. She and Mr. Telegdi have made themselves more visible in this campaign.
Their Conservative rivals, meanwhile, have assiduously avoided what Ms. Redman called the "toxic" partisanship of Ottawa - a wise move in a region where rancour and recrimination tend to ring hollow.
"If you ever watch me in Parliament, you'll notice that I rarely, if ever, heckle when somebody else is speaking," Mr. Woodworth said after a rally in Kitchener for Conservative Leader Stephen Harper last week. "That's just me, and I suppose maybe it's because I was born and raised in Waterloo Region; I don't know, but to me, Parliament is a sacred place."
Ms. Redman and Mr. Woodworth, separately and without prompting, both quoted David Johnston, the Governor-General and former University of Waterloo president, who often touted the region's "barn-raising" ethos as the product of its Mennonite farming heritage.
The two main parties' similar deference to the area's co-operative culture - evident in their support for its universities and college, its rapid-transit ambitions, and the large-scale philanthropy of tech titans such as Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie of Research In Motion - could partly explain the neck-and-neck nature of the Kitchener Centre and Kitchener-Waterloo races. Political scientists at Waterloo's Wilfrid Laurier University deemed both ridings as "leaning Conservative" at the campaign's outset, but revised their opinion to "too close to call" after a tough first week for Mr. Harper.
Less close, and perhaps less visible, is the gap between the fortunes of the ridings' residents, despite their geographical proximity and invisible shared boundary. A scant few blocks from the airy, exposed-brick confines of the tannery, a humbler kind of hub called the Working Centre helps people find meaningful employment.
A rising tide might lift all boats, but it can also toss people overboard, as Joe Mancini has seen time and again through 29 years of increasing traffic at his grassroots agency.
"The story of the Working Centre has been the story of the [growth of the] contingent labour force," Mr. Mancini said, referring to the gradual replacement of full-time work with temporary, lower-paid positions. The region's enviable 6.7 per cent unemployment rate, third-lowest in Ontario, shows its resilience since the 2008 recession, but masks the fact that up to 30 per cent of those employed lack a permanent job or a living wage, he said.
While the area's 500 tech companies and more than 200 start-ups have 2,000-plus job openings for skilled positions, the Working Centre has an even higher number of clients looking to earn a living any way they can. "They're not the same people," Mr. Mancini said of these two sets of workers. "The tech sector has different values and skill sets, and society is not just about technology," but needs people to perform basic tasks.
Between these two worlds, Tamara Minns sits in her small business on King Street in downtown Kitchener, wondering how much longer she can wait for the rising tide to dampen her door.
Ms. Minns's shop, RareFunk, is a young urbanist's paradise of quirky items hand-made by local artists. It is a short walk from the tannery, the University of Waterloo's new pharmacy school, Wilfrid Laurier University's social work faculty, Kitchener City Hall and a massive loft-conversion condo in the former Kaufman Footwear factory.
And yet no one seems to be spending, despite reports of economic recovery.
"This has been, for me, the worst January-February-March since I've opened," said Ms. Minns, who started her business three years ago, but still works two other part-time jobs to get by. "There's just nobody around, and when they are around, they're [just]looking."
Ms. Minns, 37, hasn't had time to pay much attention to the campaign thus far, but neither had the local candidates visited her shop. If they ever do, she'll likely tell them how little she can further afford to lose.
"I hope the result [of the election]is that our economy gets back on track, and quickly," she said, "and that the jobs for the commoners are out there, and available."
Kitchener Centre
Total population: 107, 540 (2006)
Electors: 79, 062 (2011)
2008 Results:
Conservative (Stephen Woodworth): 16,480, or 36.68 per cent
Liberal (Karen Redman): 16,141, or 35.98 per cent
NDP (Oz Cole-Arnal): 8,152, or 18.14 per cent
Total population: 126,742 (2006)
Electors: 97,511 (2011)
2008 Results:
Conservative (Peter Braid): 21,830, or 36.06 per cent
Liberal (Andrew Telegdi): 21,813, or 36.03 per cent
NDP (Cindy Jacobsen): 8,915, or 14.72 per cent
Source: Statistics Canada - Federal election district profile based on 2006 census


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So let's consider a practical example of creating test benches and performing measurements, starting with how to characterize a transistor. A couple of questions to consider before starting are: What parameters do you want to measure?What types of test benches are required to measure these parameters? Let's start by considering how to measure the ft of a transistor, ft is a standard figure of merit used by analog designers to evaluate a transistor's performance. Later we will consider how to measure some other common transistor parameters fmax, Noise Figure, as well as, measuring device stability.First, let's review the meaning of ft. It is defined as the unity gain frequency of a transistor's short circuit current gain. The first point is that we need to measure the short circuit current gain so ideally the output terminal, collector [drain] of the transistor will be connected to a power supply. The next point is that we need to calculate the current gain of the transistor. For Virtuoso Analog Design Environment users, the Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis waveform calculator can be used to perform this measurement. To calculate ft, plot the current gain by dividing the collector [drain] current by the base [gate] current and then using the cross function to find the unity gain frequency. An example of calculating ft, is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Measuring Transistor ftWhen creating a simulation test bench the natural place to start is the actual measurement test bench. To measure ft, an RF network analyzer can be used to measure the s-parameters and then the s-parameters can be converted into h-parameters. By plotting the h21, the ft can be estimated by extrapolating the unity gain frequency of the h21. This approach works well in the lab because wideband shorts do not exist in the real world. So RF measurements need to be performed with input and output matching and a result s-parameters are the natural method for characterizing transistors. One issue when testing in the lab is the need for separate bias and RF sources. Typically these sources are isolated with a bias T. In place of a bias T, we will use an inductor [pass the bias voltage at dc] and a capacitor [pass the RF input at frequency].Figure 2: Emulating the Network Analyzer Setup to Measure h21 Using the lab test bench introduces some complexity that is not required when performing the measurement in simulation. By taking advantage of the "ideal" nature simulation, the test bench can be simplified. In simulation, we can create a perfect short using a voltage source. The voltage source provides bias and acts as a short circuit replacing the output matching circuitry in the original test bench. The RF input has been replaced by a current source with ac magnitude of 1 so the current gain can be directly measured. The input bias is still controlled by setting a dc voltage, see Figure 3.
This test bench works well when measuring ft for a single bias condition. However, it is difficult to sweep the bias current of the transistor as can be done in the lab with a bias generator.
Figure 3: Enhanced Test bench with an Output Short
The next enhancement is to replace the bias voltage source and resistor with a diode connected transistor and a current source to set the bias current of the device under test [DUT], see Figure 4. Using a diode connected transistor to generate the bias voltage allows the bias current to be easily controlled. The dc bias and the RF input are still isolated by the pseudo bias T. This change to the test bench allows a designer to characterize the effect of bias current on ft so the transistor can be operated at its maximum ft.
Figure 4: Improved ft Testbench Another enhancement to the test bench would be to replace the inductor and the capacitor used in the pseudo bias-T, shown in Figure 5. Virtuoso Spectre circuit simulator provides users analysis-dependent switches that can be set to open and closed depending on the analysis to be performed. This allows the designer to use the same test bench to perform multiple tests, for example, NF, fmax, etc. Figure 5: Using analysis dependent switchesThe test bench I use to measure ft is even simpler, in which the bias network [diode, analysis dependent switches, and RF source] is replaced by an ideal current mirror. The current mirror provides feedback to stabilize the bias point. The current source that sets the bias current is also RF input source the bias T is eliminated. BTW, you might recognize this type of circuit, it is called a Wilson current mirror, shown in Figure 6.Figure 6: My ft Test bench
To review the test bench development process, we started by replicating the test bench we used in the lab in simulation. Then the test bench was optimized by tuning it to take advantage of the "ideal" nature of a SPICE simulator. Along the way we made several improvements to the measurements process:
Directly measured the ft, eliminating the need to generate the s-parameters and then calculate the h-parameters.
Added the ability to sweep the bias current so plots of ft vs. Ic can be generated, see Figure 7.
Figure 7: Plot of ft vs. Ic
In closing, I hope that this example of creating a test bench and making measurements will be useful for you. Please let me know what you think.
Best Regards,Art Schaldenbrand
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I am unable to understand how ft vs Ic plot is generated. How do you do a nested sweep of dc bias current and ac analysis to determine ft at each bias current?
hi art
did you ever put up a test bench for fmax?
This was indeed helpful - but to plot beta vs f, I couldnt select the currents in the transistor teminals(it was reporting that the expression did not evaluate to an object to be plotted ), So I had to put a dummy voltage source and then select the currents from its nodes. Could you explain what was the reason
1) Save the collector and base currents
2) First calculare beta.
In the calculator, divide ( collector current / base current), make sure you use the
the ac currents for the calculation:
i("/Q0/C" ?result "ac-ac") / i("/Q0/B" ?result "ac-ac")
3) Use the cross function to find the frequency when the current gain is 1
or you can convert the expression into dB20 and look for the zero crossing
cross(dB20((i("/Q0/C" ?result "ac-ac") / i("/Q0/B" ?result "ac-ac"))) 0 1 "either" nil nil)
Best Regards,
Art Schaldenbrand
Hi Art,
How do you plot fT vs IC as in Fig. 7?
IFEEDBACK is a current-controlled, current source, cccs, in analogLib. The plot
shows the ac beta --> i_collector/i_base, where the lower case i is meant to show
the ac current.
If you would like the netlist for the testbench, you can find it at the following link,
Best Regards,
Art Schaldenbrand
What element is "IFEEDBACK" for which vref=IREFERENCE ? Is this a standard part in the analog library?
Also, how was Fig.7 plotted (what BLOCKED EXPRESSION? Was this obtained by first obtaining ft as per fig.1 and then repeating that over Ic?
This was very helpful. We are working on some printed electronics experiments and it helped me think through a way to get the Ft measurement done!