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1A barrier constructed to hold back water and raise its level, forming a reservoir used to generate electricity or as a water supply.'the dam burst after torrential rain'in names 'the Hoover Dam'
barrage, barrier, wall, embankment, levee, barricade, obstruction, hindrance, blockageView synonyms
- 'The dam raised the water level by 54 feet and created a three-mile-long reservoir holding around 9,000 million gallons.'
- 'By raising the dam, water levels would reach a point where they would flood many of the beach-front properties that sit close to the lake shore.'
- 'He'll test them on Nile crocodiles in South Africa, which are imperiled because changes to a local dam will raise water levels and swamp nesting beaches.'
- 'Traditionally, increased water demands have been met by developing additional water supplies using dams, impoundment reservoirs, and canal systems.'
- 'Because of the canal's location between two dams, its water level stays constant, so the architects were free to place each little building as close to it as they wanted.'
- 'Emergency crews and dive teams are standing by, and authorities say that water levels behind the dam are dropping.'
- 'It was reasoned that the completed dam would undeniably supply electricity and therefore be of economic benefit in the broadest sense.'
- 'But what if we build dams to generate electricity or protect low-lying regions from floods?'
- 'The next big project by the family was to build a dam to generate electricity to use to milk the cows and provide lighting for the house and sheds.'
- 'Hydroelectric dams use water turbines in the same way to generate power.'
- 'Water can already flow through turbines at dams in order to generate electricity.'
- 'The town went into a steep decline after the construction of a dam left the beach waters cold enough for trout, but too cold for summer visitors.'
- 'Increasing numbers of privatised water schemes are linked to ventures to abstract more water through vast dams and reservoirs.'
- 'The effect is achieved by pumping the water over small dams known as weirs.'
- 'You can have problems with rising and falling water levels as dams are opened and closed so never take water conditions for granted.'
- 'A lake at Oakford Park, a pleasure resort near Pittsburgh, was flooded by a violent rainstorm and burst the dam, causing a wall of water to sweep down Bush Creek valley.'
- 'Factors ranging from pollution to water turbines, dams and weirs, for example, also account for the loss of eels.'
- 'He reasoned that constructing a dam would enable water to be stored for irrigation in the dry season, and flooding could be prevented at other times.'
- 'An Indian Supreme Court judgement finally gave the project the go-ahead, allowing the height of the dam to be raised to a level that would finally allow water to flow down the irrigation canals.'
- 'He says when more than 1.3-billion people in the world don't have access to safe water and electricity, new dams will have to be built.'
- 1.1A barrier of branches in a stream, constructed by a beaver to provide a deep pool and a lodge.
- 'The trees are used to build lodges and large dams that provide their aquatic habitat.'
- 'Beaver dams usually stand no more than ten feet (three meters) tall and integrate a series of steps into the slope.'
- 'Photos from 40 years ago show a common practice of clearing vegetation and beaver dams from streams to help the water run more freely for irrigation.'
- 'The ants are preparing, the birds are building their nests, and the beaver is constructing his dam.'
- 'Visitors will be fascinated to see the lodges and dams that beavers build and, given the chance, will be delighted to watch these entertaining and intelligent animals.'
- 1.2South African An artificial pond or reservoir where rain or spring water is collected for storage.'the dam was full of water'
- 'Spring rain left dams full as bellies after chips for tea.'
- 'At present rain water is being collected in large storage dams and reticulated to the end consumer via a network of pipes, pumps and treatment plant to ensure drinking water quality.'
- 'When the rains began, the dams were full to the brim.'
- 'It is situated 13 km from Alice on the Hogsback road and is a landmark with its large storage dams.'
- 'Thirteen Eastern Cape dams were overflowing after rains over large parts of the normally drought-prone province, SABC radio news reported.'
- 'Just 16 weeks ago, the dam was silted and full of reeds.'
- 'Without rain to refill dams, the restrictions could last until the end of the year.'
- 'In 1895 it was decided that the northern end of the Reserve could be walled to form a dam to supply the needs of the rapidly growing town.'
- 'Once complete the aquifer will be able to supply water to various dams if there is a need.'
- 'The total water level of these dams is presently 18.8%, also lower than the 29.3% last season.'
- 'The dam supplies water to millions of people in the Pretoria area, but the unicity has assured people that areas receiving piped municipal water were not at risk.'
- 'Until a sufficient amount of rain falls to increase the water levels in the dams, everyone will need to do their part to conserve this precious resource.'
- 'Although the supply still outweighs demand, the reverse situation occurred during 2000 when production fell due to the low water level of certain hydroelectric dams.'
- 'The court ruled that the bureau can release water from its dams and reservoirs when needed to sustain silvery minnows and the dying river.'
- 'Referring to the present power situation in the state, Sivadasan says water levels in dams are low.'
- 'Without seeing it Jess knew the water level of the dam would be down.'
- ''The water levels of dams are better… but we still need more rain,' Gariep municipal foreman Jan Roules said.'
- 'With water levels in the dams receding and ever tighter water restrictions looming, very soon there may not be enough water to grow new trees.'
- 'There was one short opportunity for attack - in May 1943 when water levels in the dams were at their highest.'
- 'The water level in Harangi dam near Kushalnagar has also increased.'
2(also dental dam)A rubber sheet used to keep saliva from the teeth during dental operations, or as a prophylactic device during cunnilingus and anilingus.'Participants were asked if they used condoms, rubber dams, or rubber gloves during the encounter, and answers to this question were coded as yes, no, or no sex.'
verbdams, damming, dammed[with object]
1Build a dam across (a river or lake)'the river was dammed to form Lake Powell'
block, block up, obstruct, choke, clog, clog up, bung up, closeView synonyms
- 'Lake Nasser was formed by damming the River Nile.'
- 'In the Soviet era, the Vakhsh River was dammed for irrigation and electric power, and factories were built along its banks.'
- 'This is a reservoir of approximately 800 acres formed by damming the River Wolf.'
- 'The remaining forest died out when the Hackensack River was dammed upstream, resulting in an invasion of salt water.'
- 'We're hearing lots of discussion about plans to dam the inland rivers, to dam the Cooper Creek, for example.'
- 'The river Stour was dammed to create the main serpentine lake, which is overlooked by the circular Temple of Apollo, high on a hill.'
- 'In the mid-nineteenth century the headwaters of the river were dammed, forming Spring Lake, which remains a popular attraction.'
- 'Deal's congressional district includes Lake Sidney Lanier, created in the 1950s by damming the upper Chattahoochee River, about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta.'
- 'Still, we do have rivers, and one, the LaCrosse River, has been dammed, creating a recreational area, Lake Neshonoc.'
- 'The park was named for Town Lake, the part of the Colorado River that was dammed between the Tom Miller Dam and the Longhorn Dam.'
- 'Nearby, a smaller lake was created by damming a tributary creek.'
- 'He dammed the loch, built a power station, and began installing what was to become the most sophisticated fish farm in the world.'
- 'The reservoir is not particularly old, though it once had a river running through it which was dammed to form the lake.'
- 'There are only so many rivers that can be dammed, and we now understand the dramatic environmental impact of large-scale hydropower plants.'
- 'A plan was announced to dam the Whanganui River, an action that would submerge several cemeteries and sacred sites.'
- 'Barro Colorado and other nearby islands were created during canal construction in the early 1900s when engineers dammed Panama's Chagras River to make Gatun Lake.'
- 'But the best form of water storage is in the ground, not in huge surface reservoirs created by damming rivers.'
- 'Since we began damming our inland rivers we have doubled our water consumption with each generation.'
- 'Since the river was dammed, Chinook salmon numbers have declined by 90%.'
- 'He says today's action has some similarities to the 1980s legal fight to save Tasmania's Franklin River from being dammed.'
- 1.1Hold back or obstruct (something)'the closed lock gates dammed up the canal''discussion was in full flow and refused to be dammed'
- 'If you picture it as water, you can feel where it flows and where it is dammed up or blocked.'
- 'In valleys, the pollution is effectively dammed up.'
- 'The flood was dammed, the trickle diminished to a drop here and there as though someone had put a bend in the hose-pipe - which, I suppose, in computer terms, they had.'
- 'Partick thought they had scored, but it was declared offside and it was never going to spark a comeback or probably even dam the flood of Livingston attacks.'
- 'You dam it up in one place, it flows somewhere else.'
- 'The European Union has adopted a general opt-in rule aimed at damming the flow of information.'
- 'By damming runoff, poor ridge layouts may aggravate surface drainage problems.'
- 'I've been in situations where l felt very strongly for someone, but I knew there was no hope with them, so instead of just letting it go I dammed it all up.'
- 'The guards had fallen back farther than he had hoped they would, and his rush from the chapel hadn't gotten here in time to dam the enemy up further back.'
- 'By enclosing poetic invention - that, like witchcraft, might transform heroes into swine - James attempted to dam Scottish culture.'
- 'He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to dam the flow of tears.'
- 'They get into a mess trying to accommodate the ideal of sexual love that makes condoms questionable with the need to dam the flood of death.'
- 'Em was beginning to think that nothing she could do would dam the flood or lighten the pressure that pinned her arms to her sides.'
- 'Not only did the ridge dam the flow of freshwater from the north; it also put an end to trade along the Puran River.'
- 'Back in the 1960s and 1970s there seemed to be an endless stream of talented youngsters at most Scottish clubs, but when street football was dammed the supply was reduced to a trickle.'
- 'Gavin noticed that I wasn't actually hanging in the waterfall, so he helpfully dammed it and periodically released a sudden four-second tidal wave to completely engulf me.'
- 'The debate is fundamentally an argument about the flow of immigrants and whether it behooves us to try and dam it off or absorb it.'
- 'Rivers stopped flowing, dammed by the dead bodies that filled them.'
- 'Some of the lakes, dammed by the end/lateral moraine, have been expanded from ponds on the order of 100 m in length.'
- 'His argument against ice dams was basically a uniformitarian one - there are no large modern lakes dammed by glaciers.'
Middle English from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch; related to Dutch dam and German Damm, also to Old English fordemman 'close up'.
The female parent of an animal, especially a domestic mammal.
- 'However, the present study indicates Longhorns have a significant advantage in calving ease over Red Poll sires for dams calving at 2 yr of age.'
- 'The greatest effect of scours was on young inbred dams; mature outcross dams had a lower incidence of scours.'
- 'Their incorporation into these pedigree herds as suckler dams or resale as in calf cows offers a very lucrative second-hand value.'
- 'Weaning BW is influenced by the growth potential of the sire and dam, the milk production of the dam, and the feed resources.'
- 'Puppies can resemble the sire, the dam, or a combination of the parents or even a remote ancestor.'
Late Middle English (denoting a human mother): alteration of dame.
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fugly design... note2 much much much better... price never lie... lol
That 's will be my phone. Great spec for lovely price. Please land quickly in Indonesia. I need a new phone for new years.
god damn, this is what i've been looking for ages, a phone that can answer an android user's battery woes..it's finally here..i'll definitely buy this brick.
Anonymous, 27 Nov 2012That's good but it's far from being a slim phone. It's thick like a Lumia 920. Galaxy Note 2 i... moreNot to mention that the Motorola RAZR MAXX packs 3300 mAh on 8.9mm
I guess Lenovo doesn't care about slimness, nor camera.
Here in the PH, 3000+ mAH batteries are the norm...My S3 has a 3500 mAH main battery and the original 2100 as the back-up...It only cost me about 10$
Well, the battery is the battery, i would love a good battery phone despite of low specs or whatever os it has, what could i do with a super computer in my pocket when it falls to sleep in just a few hrs? It's a good thing the manufacturers are understanding that charging every day (or twice a day) is frustrating. Congratulations Lenovo, power to the people!
this is what business people are looking for. i started to take my oldschool nokia with me as a backup.
motorola razr maxx managed to squeez a 3300mAh battery in a 8.9mm slim body, and it seems that lenovo's processor is in the same league as the original maxx! so this shouldn't be more that 300$/ in price, now that razr maxx price has dropped siginificantly!
Max, 27 Nov 2012How sure are you that's not just the secondary mic for noise reduction...? :)Or maybe the speaker! (hopefully the battery is user replaceable)
AnonD-5037, 27 Nov 2012the battery is replaceable... look at the little gap at the bottomHow sure are you that's not just the secondary mic for noise reduction...? :)
Yes, HTC should indeed take note of this. Cuz their phones lack strong batteries.
The 3100mAh battery in Samsung Galaxy Note II is quite huge as well, so it wasn't just Motorola until now. And the Galaxy Note II also has good specs and is available worldwide.
I'd pay 300E for this :D. Please, bring it to Europe, it'll sell a lot.
the battery is replaceable... look at the little gap at the bottom
That's good but it's far from being a slim phone. It's thick like a Lumia 920. Galaxy Note 2 is 9.4mm and packs 3100mah so for sure Lenovo can do better than this. Next time maybe.


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There is a significant need for dumpsters and dumpster removal as well as heavy equipment (bulldozers, excavators and dump trucks) in many communties around the state. Although volunteer hands are great, people can't always do the heaviest lifting that has to be done before rebuilding can begin.
We understand that heavy equipment is expensive to operate and maintain. Many towns have small funds available to help pay fuel costs and cover transfer fees. If you are an owner/operator of heavy equipment, please consider donating a day or two. It would make a world of difference for small towns struggling to finish cleaning up before the snow flies.


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March 17 through the 23rd marks World Folktales & Fables Week, so now would be the perfect time to start collecting the appropriate reading materials. As for me, I'm completely obsessed with fairy tales. No shame. There is something incredibly seductive about these cautionary tales disguised as children's stories. The latent sexual tension in "Little Red Riding Hood," for example, is completely twisted. A little girl is consumed by a wolf and emerges as an emotionally awakened woman?! It's a small blessing that kids can't read between the lines, amiright? But that's what makes fairy tales so popular: THEY'RE BASICALLY ALL ABOUT SEX. And peeps be loving their sex.
I also love that people keep finding clever (and, let's face it, not so clever) ways to reinvent fairy tales. One of my favorite collection of short stories is The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, which takes the classics (Puss In Boots, Beauty and the Beast, Bluebeard, The Snow Child, Little Red Riding Hood) and covers them with kisses. These stories are dark, smutty, and haunting - basically everything I wanted out of Disney movies as a kid.
On the "less adult" side, I'm really enjoying Marissa Meyer's Lunar Chronicles, a YA quartet featuring classic fairy tale females like Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, and Little Red. EXCEPT THEY LIVE IN THE FUTURE. And Cinderella is a cyborg. And there are plenty of other weird but welcome twists to the old tales, but DON'T SPOIL ANYTHING FOR ME, PLEASE. I've only read the first two books so far, ya creeps.
Besides what I've already mentioned, there are some groovy fairy tale anthologies out there, many of which feature some pretty stellar illustrations to go alongside the text (why am I suddenly talking like a hippie???!!). One recommendation is Philip Pullman's collection, Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm. No reinvention here, just an honest, beautifully descriptive look at the original tales (more appropriate for reading with your children than, say, The Bloody Chamber). For something more offbeat, take a look at Kate Bernheimer's compilation, My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, with stories from a variety of authors - Neil Gaiman!!! - that tackle a whole slew of familiar fairy tales.


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MU crushed Schalke 04 with a big score 4 - 1 at Old Trafford after a goal from Valencia, Darren Gibson, and a double from Anderson
They playes perfectly even though only three senior players were played by Sir Alex Fergusson in order to make the rest of the squad fresh when they meet with Chelsea this weekend for the title race of EPL. The EPL title might be decided by this battle and it's so crusial so that Sir Alex had to rotate the players cleverly and he did it perfectly.
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Nov 28, 2018
Score: Old Dominion 62, VCU 52
Location: Norfolk, Va. (Ted Constant Convocation Center)
Records: VCU 5-2, Old Dominion 4-3
The short story: Redshirt junior guard Marcus Evans scored 14 points to lead VCU, but Old Dominion rallied past the Rams Wednesday night in Norfolk with a strong second half effort.
- Evans knocked down 5-of-13 from the field and 3-of-4 at the free throw line
- Sophomore forward Marcus Santos-Silva added seven points, nine rebounds and a block down low for the Rams, while redshirt junior wing Issac Vann contributed nine points and a pair of assists
- B.J. Stith scored 14 of his game-high 21 points in the second half to lead Old Dominion
- Ahmad Caver also supplied 13 for the Monarchs
- ODU dominated the second half to erase a 12-point VCU halftime lead
- The Monarchs shot .467 (14-of-30) in the final 20 minutes and outrebounded the Rams 25-11 after intermission
- VCU, which built a 17-point lead midway through the first half, shot .273 (6-of-22) in the second, including 0-of-9 from behind the arc
- After chipping away for more than 12 minutes, Stith gave ODU its first lead, at 47-46, when he buried a fadeaway 3-pointer at the end of the shot clock at the 7:38 mark. VCU tied the game again on two occasions, but Caver's traditional 3-point play with 5:29 provided Old Dominion the lead for good at 52-49. VCU missed its final nine field goal attempts down the stretch as ODU expanded its lead.
- The Rams held Old Dominion to 7-of-30 (.233) shooting in the first half. Meanwhile, VCU hit 6-of-11 attempts from beyond the 3-point line in the opening period. Senior forward Michael Gilmore gave the Rams their largest lead of the game, at 32-15, when he banked home a 3-pointer from the right wing with 2:37 left in the period
- VCU is 50-44 all-time against rival Old Dominion, including 7-7 at the Constant Center
- Evans has scored in double figures in six of his seven games in a VCU uniform
- VCU led for 31:57 Wednesday
VCU will return to Richmond and host Iona at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. at the E.J. Wade Arena at the Stuart C. Siegel Center. MASN will televise that contest.


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Cathy Marshall is a news anchor at KGW in Portland, Oregon. She joined KGW in December of 2011.
Her broadcast news career spans more than 30 years and has taken her to stations in Eugene, Seattle, New Haven and Boston. She also worked as an anchor at CNN in Atlanta where she covered major breaking news events. Highlights include the OJ Simpson chase and trial, the Los Angeles earthquake and the fall of the Soviet Union.
Cathy has also had the opportunity to interview numerous celebrities. Her favorites include Dolly Parton, Tom Cruise, Caroline Kennedy and Mr. Rogers.
While in Boston, Cathy received an award from the Associated Press for a series of reports on a camp for children with Aids.
Cathy returned to Portland in the late '90's because she considers it home and wanted to raise her four children in the Northwest. She is a 1982 honors graduate of Oregon State University and remains a passionate Beaver fan enjoying many athletic events with her sons.
Her high school years were spent in Lake Oswego attending Lakeridge High School. Cathy says she enjoys the news business because every day is different and you never know who you're going to meet. Away from work she enjoys hiking, playing tennis and watching whatever sports or activities her kids are involved in. Cathy has four children; three sons and one daughter.


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Our commitment to the success of our program is reflected in the high standard of our work, and our adherence to our core values. We place a premium on the ethics, education and training that will serve to provide our clients with the best path to recovery. Our professional and volunteer experience is augmented by the fact that a significant number of us are in recovery ourselves, and are proud to serve as examples that change is possible.
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- Coat length: 116cm/45.7in. This is based on a size IT 50 as proportions change slightly according to size.
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Raffia Lace Dress by Tord Boontje (image courtesy of Dezeen)
I am rather smitten with The Lacemaker exhibit currently on view at Marsden Woo Gallery in London. The design blog, Dezeen, recently did an engaging write up on Dutch designer, Tord Boontje, contemporary lacemaker and knotted form builder extraordinaire.
Visit the Dezeen article for further examples of how grass and raffia are the ultimate in couture and home design solutions. Even more intriguing? This exhibition was inspired by the collection of Quaker lace at Philadelphia University's Design Center as part of their Lace in Translation exhibit.
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I wouldn't have even known that this cross existed if it wasn't for my Field Guide as it is not marked on the current OS. I think it may have been moved due to some local road alterations too.
The cross itself is about 1.6m tall and mounted on a 80cm high base (probably modern). Its solid round face has a very crude and wonderful crucifixion depiction, while the obverse has two bulges that are perhaps worn faces.
Quite strangely there is a small lump protruding from the one side of the round. It has been suggested that this may have been to aid people praying to raise from their knees.
The stone is riddled with small fragments of metal ore and has a diagonal quartz vein on the column. A delightful cross.
Another little visit to see if the rear was any easier to photograph and to show my oldest daughter the cross. Its crudeness still impresses me.
Since the M50/M11 road works were done a couple of new roundabouts were constructed near to the cross. No longer does it stand on a quite roadside, but it is now by one of these roundabouts. This means there's nowhere to park safely if you want to visit this cross now.
From Enniskerry follow the R117 east to the N11 and head north. Take the first left and then at the staggered crossroads turn left again. The cross is 100m on the left right by the road.
This cross is known as Valery's Cross.
This is an explanation of (and a bit of a disclaimer for) the coordinates I provide.
Where a GPS figure is given this is the master for all other coordinates. According to my Garmin these are quite accurate.
Where there is no GPS figure the 6 figure grid reference is master for the others. This may not be very accurate as it could have come from the OS maps and could have been read by eye. Consequently, all other cordinates are going to have inaccuracies.
The calculation of Longitude and Latitude uses an algorithm that is not 100% accurate. The long/lat figures are used as a basis for calculating the UTM & ITM coordinates. Consequently, UTM & ITM coordinates are slightly out.
UTM is a global coordinate system - Universal Transverse Mercator - that is at the core of the GPS system.
ITM is the new coordinate system - Irish Transverse Mercator - that is more accurate and more GPS friendly than the Irish Grid Reference system. This will be used on the next generation of Irish OS maps.


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I am wondering, at what point should I make a final selection about summer work? I have not received any papers in the mail to sign yet--but places keep calling asking about what I want to do for the summer...I don't want to lead anyone on but I also do not feel like getting left out in the rain if one or two places fall through. Any experiences? Advice? Opinions?


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USA: Ford Board reviews Firestone tire recall
Ford Motor Company's Board of Directors announced today it has completed a detailed review of the issues surrounding the Firestone tire recall at its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The board devoted much of its meeting to reviewing the technical, logistic and customer actions surrounding the tire recall. Upon completion of the review, board members expressed their confidence in the Ford management team. The board is satisfied that all appropriate resources are being deployed to deal with customers' needs.
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I have always been suspicious of Marianne Williamson's widely-quoted "call to shine" below.
Our Greatest Fear
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.
—Marianne Williamson
But this week it finally clicked. I was talking with a friend who lives everyday from her creativity, and was telling her about something I feel passionately about, but am fearful of following through on lest it puffs up my ego. That I'm not sure I want to start a Twitter account and start talking about it and putting myself out there about this project. Basically, I summarized, I want to be humble, and that feels at odds with doing things I would perhaps be successful at.
She didn't even blink. "Wow," she said. "Get over yourself. That's the most arrogant I've heard in a while. I mean, no…. Just no."
Now, I know when I'm getting good advice and ready to hear it when I don't feel bruised by such a call-out, but rather, relieved to have had it called out.
She's absolutely right and what a great lesson to see how sneaky the ego is. It can disguise fear as humility. It can disguise its need to feel important as humility. Who is this "i" that thinks what it does would be so amazing that it would then "struggle to be humble"!? Who is this 'i' that believes people care what she is doing? And, is this thought merely a disguise for the fact that this "i" is scared that following a passion will end up being meaningless? Indeed, is the "i" just scared of finding out she is meaningless?
This last question is the crux of the matter. The person/ego – whatever you like to call it – needs to feel important, needs to feel it has a purpose. It is terrified that it won't have a purpose – probably because it knows that without purpose it cannot exist – it has no identity to maintain, and so it is not needed. Indeed, by accepting ourselves as purposeless (or being moved simply by something greater than our tiny selves) then the ego withers.
I'm not sure if this is clear, but there is most certainly a relief in setting aside ideas of being important or failing, and of having any purpose or meaning, and instead, just following what my heart seems to be telling me to do for no other reason that it seems to be telling me to do it. The end. It's quite humbling, and a little embarrassing (to the ego), to see that I really seemed under some spell that 1) my offering is my own and 2) that I matter.
I don't need to matter. Indeed, 'mattering' surely only stands in the way of whatever it is this person can serve best doing – however unimportant or grandiose the ego believes that action in the world to be.
Of Williamson's words it is this line that is clearest for me:
We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us.
In other words, we simply exist to allow consciousness to express itself through us, so just roll with it and be wide open to let that expression go all the way. That is humility. And with it a clear space opens up to feel immense gratitude. How wonderful that 'i' get to be a tiny tiny part of something so incredible and wondrous and unknowable as consciousness, or God, or whatever word you would choose.
I'm going to pin 'get over yourself' to my desk as a reminder.


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Professional and amateur athletes use hypnosis to "Improve Sports performance" and create confidence. Tiger Woods is just one of many professional athletes to use hypnosis and you can use it too.
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Hypnosis has been used for years to help athletes increase their strength and endurance. Maybe you've experienced the sudden burst of speed needed keep from being hit by a car. Do you remember the stories about someone moving an extremely heavy object to save someone life. This is great example of what your capibilities really are.
Peak performance and good habits are available to you, if you can learn to master the body mind connection. These are are available to you with hypnosis. Hypnosis is the well kept secret of many star athletes. i.e. Michael Jordan.
Long distance runners must tap into extraordinary reserves needed to go past overwhelming pain and exhaustion experienced in long distance races. Hypnosis makes this possible by being able to activate this mind – body principle.
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- After Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile in 1954, athletes everywhere began breaking the four minute barrier. This had been considered impossible and was drummed into all sprinters unconscious expectations. Rodger banisters sub 4 minute mile still stands as an example of how unconscious minds can overcome physical limitations.
- Brian Lynch's experience in Sports hypnosis works on your "inner game". You'll leann to eliminate any negative thoughts that are keeping you from performing at new levels.
- Boxers talk about "the yips" which can manifest itself in a fear of losing or losing abilities which were once habits. Hypnosis helps the vicious cycle before it begins, by visualizing yourself in control. This is also very common in golfers and tennis players.
Using Hypnosis, visualization can be used to remember your best game and best performances. Only then will you bring these positive thoughts to your current game.
- Sports hypnosis helps by creating mental focus. Sport and hypnosis are both about focusing your attention. Sports are a physical experience that is easy to imagine. Changes are immediately obvious, because it responds very well to positive visualization.
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Back in 2008 or so, I was playing with various switching and control ideas. To solidify those concepts, I designed this amplifier. Overall specs: power level 10W, 8 ohm load, audio frequency response (20-20kHz, DC coupling allowable), efficiency over 70%. I created the design in Multisim 11 and tweaked the simulation until I had satisfactory results. I then created a two-layer circuit board layout in Ultiboard. Some circuits I evaluate on the solderless breadboard; due to the surface mount design and ground plane requirement, this circuit needed a PCB. (These days, I often go for "dead bug" style construction, which saves the layout of a PCB, and performs well, but tends to produce... less attractive results.) I manufactured the PCB by hand, using the toner transfer method and a cupric chloride etching bath of my own formulation. After assembly, testing verified that the simulation was reasonably correct, differing in high frequency transients (of course), but it managed to estimate overall efficiency within a few percentage points of measured results.
This is the block diagram. The basic design is a textbook voltage-mode pulse width modulator: it uses a ramp oscillator, comparing the ramp voltage to the input signal voltage to generate PWM. Three minor additions round out the design: on the input, an error amplifier to reduce distortion; a power amplifier section, of course; and, since the amplifier is "bridged" (an H-bridge), so that both outputs are live, a differential amplifier to sense the output voltage.
We can already draw some conclusions about the circuit. Linearity of the PWM generator itself depends on the ramp generator, which isn't very good — the diagram shows exponential decay style curves, not a pure triangle wave. The error amplifier serves to correct this, but it can only do so asymptotically over time. The error amplifier has to be slowed down enough so that it can make sense of the signal feeding back into it, which means the loop gain (which reduces distortion) will be excellent at low frequencies, but will roll off at higher frequencies, where the residual distortion will be more noticeable.
A classic astable multivibrator was used for the ramp generator:
An LM393 comparator is used as a basic building block. Sometimes I'll build a discrete circuit for the sake of building it that way, but it's not usually worth building differential amplifiers; that's a solved problem. Comparators and op-amps are general enough that they fit very well with a discrete design philosophy. Another reason for discrete is, simulation is more-or-less guaranteed to work (given the limitations of a simulated environment), whereas manufacturers rarely provide models for special-purpose chips, completely precluding any simulation of that function of the circuit. General-purpose devices, like comparators and op-amps, typically have good models available (though there are some exceptions, like the common TL431 macro model, which some have taken it upon themselves to address).
Here are the waveforms: the square wave at the emitter follower, and the ramp on the timing capacitor. The square wave has a somewhat sluggish rise, due to the 10k pullup resistor and node capacitances, while the falling edge is fairly prompt due to the comparator's open collector output and the emitter-base diode. The ramp alternates between 4.08 and 7.91V, very nearly 1/3 and 2/3 the supply voltage. The switch points aren't exactly thirds, because the emitter follower doesn't pull all the way up to the supply, nor all the way down to ground. The voltage drops (from supply and ground) depend on diode drops, so will be somewhat temperature sensitive; the overall error in amplitude, offset and frequency should be less than 5-10% over the commercial temperature range.
Actual measurement (2V/div vertical, both channels centered one div from the bottom, 2μs/div horizontal). The scope probes probably weren't compensated quite right (the square wave has a lazy sloping skew to it, which isn't a property of anything in this circuit), but the voltages and frequency are very close to the simulation.
Since this is a single-supply circuit, the error amplifier has to rest on a virtual ground, formed by a resistor and capacitor divider near the input. A common alternative is to buffer a voltage divider with an op-amp, to provide a regulated Vcc/2 node, but that would require another op-amp. Without one to spare, this simple solution is at the mercy of currents directed into it. Fortunately, only two branches feed in: the 10k resistor from the output's voltage divider, and the 10k divider to the error amp's inverting input. The output swings -6 to +6V, so the divider sees ±1.2V on the 10k resistor, or ±0.12mA. The sense amp has a gain of 1/5, so its output swings ±1.2V as well, which puts ±0.06mA into ground at the other resistor. Both currents together span ±0.18mA, which cause an error of ±0.9V on the ground node. This leaves plenty of room, and the op-amps are in no danger of running out of common mode range or clipping.
Errata: I don't know why I chose to divide the feedback signal by half. The sense signal is well within common mode range, and gain can be increased by raising the output sense resistors (say, 100k instead of 47k). The resistor to ground may be a relic from playing with compensation methods on the inverting node, such as R+C to ground, or pole-zero compensation (placing an R+C across the resistor from sense out to inverting in). Not sure!
This is a somewhat unusual bit of circuitry, not something that's typically seen. Not that discrete gate drives are all that common anyway. First off: operation. Because the output is H-bridge, complementary drive signals are required. A naïve method might use a digital logic inverter to produce the complement (at some delay); a CD4069 would do well enough. But this delays the complement unnecessarily. Surely there must be a simple, elegant solution. I wouldn't claim to have an elegant solution, but what I found seems to do well enough: taking some advantage of the comparator's open collector output, I've married a common-emitter inverter with a common-base buffer. The comparator's output must pull below one diode drop when on, and will rise to two diode drops when off.
When the comparator turns on, a speed-up capacitor helps yank charge out of the common-emitter inverter (reducing storage time), and turns on the common-base buffer. As the buffer turns on, its collector voltage falls, until it saturates; because hFE falls in saturation, the base voltage gets shunted down, which is acceptable because the double-diode voltage reference is current limited. Indeed, this is desirable, because limiting base current also limits stored charge. Note that the comparator must sink the buffer's collector current, one downside of this method. An additional inverting transistor could be inserted between this circuit and the comparator, to increase the pull-down current available, and therefore, the output sink current.
When the comparator turns off, the buffer's emitter current goes away, and its collector current sucks stored charge out of the base, turning it off fairly quickly. The 10k pull-up on the input causes its voltage to rise, until the diode and common-emitter transistor are forward biased. (The 470pF cap will be somewhat discharged as well, providing some speed-up action.)
To provide consistent drive over a wide voltage swing, 15mA current sources are used for pull-up action. A naïve solution might use two independent current sources, or just as well, one might naïvely tie them together (noting the redundant bias circuit), as done here. Whether naïve or not, the solution shown is preferred: when one current source saturates, the lack of collector current causes its emitter voltage to pull closer to Vcc, pulling the base voltage up as well. Normally, this reduces or turns off the other sources—at the very least, an inconvenient mistake in an audio amplifier, for example—but because these outputs are complementary, it's actually quite beneficial: when one side is saturated, the opposing side is being held at ground by the driven switch; sourcing current would burn full supply voltage, while weakening its pull-down capability. By (mostly) turning off the opposing source, this driver achieves reasonable efficiency: like CMOS, current is only drawn during switching events.
Finally, the output voltages are beefed up with complementary emitter followers. The current sources and open collectors are not sufficient to drive gates by themselves, and need some help. The logic produces a voltage swing within a few Vce(sat) of supply or ground, so the additional diode drop of an emitter follower is more-or-less tolerable. (One alternative would be to buffer it with a CMOS inverter made from discrete MOSFETs: the unbuffered outputs have enough capacity to drive small enough gates, which in turn have enough drive capacity to switch the output transistors. An open-drain output also swings fully rail-to-rail. 2N7002 and BSS84 are typically used as more-or-less complementary transistors and would be good candidates.)
The simulated gate drive waveforms (one pair of edges). The opposite edges have slightly more delay between them, due to remaining difference in storage and turn-on/off time of the buffer and inverter transistors. The difference can be tuned some by the 470pF "speed-up" cap on the inverter.
Actual waveforms as measured in circuit (2V/div vertical, both channels; channel 2 colorized to stand out; 50ns/div horizontal). Skew is a bit worse (about 30ns, versus about 10ns simulated), and rise time similar or a bit better. Transients are different, for many reasons: differences in circuit inductance and capacitance are dominant, but even silly things, like how SPICE simulates gate capacitances (and how manufacturers' models attempt to address it), have a significant impact on the waveforms seen. One feature worth drawing attention to: since the green trace turns on first, supply bounce causes the purple trace to dip immediately by about 1.5V for 10ns (coincident with the little zig-zag on the green trace). It then returns for about 20ns, then swings in earnest. Both waveforms have trash following the event, due to supply bounce (including ground bounce, and probably some probe grounding error too). Residual charge (Miller effect, etc.) causes the purple trace to hover above ground about a volt, corresponding to the saturation voltage of the gate drive emitter followers.
The FDS8333C was an aging product (in fact, obsoleted in 2011!), but back in the day, I had picked up a baggie of them for relatively cheap (probably why!), and I've been using them here or there since. Short specs: complementary pair, SO-8 package, 30V, 4A, max 220mΩ Rds(on), max 6.6nC Qg. Many drop-in equivalents with better performance are available today. Because Vgs(th) is minimum 1V, the emitter-follower-buffered outputs from the driver stage are acceptable. To switch each pair in under 100ns, a total gate current of Qg/ton, or 120mA is required—the nominal 15mA of the unbuffered driver won't cut it, but the emitter followers will easily do it in 60 or 70ns.
As a simple H-bridge, this circuit has a constant-voltage supply, and... wait, but there's an inductor and stuff in there! Yes, contrary to common advice, sometimes the worst thing you can do is bypass the supply. It all depends on situation, but blindly following suggestions is rarely the correct choice! In this case, shoot-through is guaranteed during switching: the threshold voltages overlap by some 6V at least. Twice as many gate drivers would be required if dead time control were added (plus the delay logic), which is more than I want to bother with here. By making the supply "squishy", I can tolerate shoot-through much better, and manage the side-effects more easily than the alternative.
So, the action that's going on is this: when the gate voltage is switched, from anywhere between 1 to 11V (depending on the exact thresholds), both N and P will be on and shorting out the supply. If commutation only takes 70ns (reasonable, given the drive capability and gate charge), then the supply will be shorted for about as long. If we want the current to rise by no more than a fractional ampere, then the inductance must be: L = ton(Vcc - 2Vgs(th)) / Ipk, or around 2.2μH. This is a simple dI/dt snubber. This inductor builds up a current during switching (and carries load current besides), which must be discharged when switched off. The energy could be recycled with diodes and another converter, but at low power levels like this, it's not worth it, and like the deadtime control method, the added complexity further detracts from the aim of the circuit (to demonstrate a simple class D amplifier system). So instead, the inductor is simply damped with a diode and resistor. Why a diode? Without, the resistor would draw current during commutation, rather than allowing that event to be cushioned by the "springy" inductance alone. With a diode, only the 'flyback' energy released from the inductor following the event is dissipated.
Measured drain (output) waveforms, same switching edges as the gate drive waveform (2V/div vertical, both channels; channel 2 colorized to stand out; 50ns/div horizontal). The purple trace kind of disappears amid the squashed junk, but it's a safe bet it's doing the same thing (high frequency squigglies with DC around 1V). The shoot-through region is about 30ns long (for the falling gate edge, which was slower), matching the corresponding region in the gate waveforms. Following shoot-through, the supplies rebound (ground apparently has fairly high inductance, rebounding about 1.5V; the supply has more inductance (intentionally), and that spike is caught by the diode and resistor. Strangely, the supply doubles back for a sharp spike, which may be amplified (shoot-through on rebound?), since the gate waveform has a similar spike. I'd have to take more in-depth measurements to determine the cause. The rising and falling edges themselves are quite fast (10ns or under), which shows the transistors are amplifying (and, in essence, clipping) the gate drive waveform, speeding it up. Which is something to keep in mind when concerned with EMI: each switching stage tends to speed up the signal (up to its maximum switching speed).
Output waveforms (output terminals, plus and minus, relative to input common). No input signal, no load. (This time using the TDS460 scope, rather than the 475.) Math is the sum Ch2+Ch4, twice the common mode noise. The residual ripple is 1.6V RMS (Ch2-Ch4), not terrible really, considering it's about -22dB from what the switching transistors are doing. The common mode noise could be better (FCC would be happy with this in the single millivolts), but this goes to show how important layout is. Ch2 has much more prominent spikes on it, probably due to asymmetry in the filter choke, or longer trace lengths on its filter capacitors. To get this down to approved levels, I would run the signals through another stage or two of filtering, over and between ground plane, well away from the switching nodes. The input and power leads would get similar treatment.
This is the complete schematic. A couple of things missed above: the PWM comparator (too boring: just the other comparator half, with a tinge of positive feedback to keep it solid), supply bypass and filtering (shown by the output stage), and the output filter network (shown, but not talked about, above).
The output filter deserves some discussion. In order to have as fast a response as possible, it should have as high a cutoff frequency as practical. There is an obvious trade-off between output ripple and passband range. In practice, ripple at the fundamental is tolerable, especially if it's differential mode only. In this case, with an operating frequency of 120kHz, it falls below the FCC Part 15 cutoff for conducted emissions (which is 150kHz), so it's not very important how large this ripple is, nor how long the wires are that can be connected to it (put your speaker boxes on the other side of your house, who cares!). If this had a higher operating frequency (over 200kHz is very typical), it would become important. Note, by the way, FCC is primarily concerned with common mode signals: differential ripple in cables isn't considered.
The filter shown has a resonant frequency of F = 1/(2π√(LC)) or about 53kHz (note the inductors act in series, on the same core, so the effective inductance is 40μH). The impedance is Z = √(L/C) or 13.5Ω, a bit high for a bridged amplifier (a 4 or 8 ohm load would be more typical), but hardly a problem in a circuit where impedance matching is thrown to the wind (the source is nearly zero impedance, while the load may be anywhere from a nice well-behaved resistive load, to an open circuit, to a moderately reactive load anywhere inbetween). In practice, the response will be somewhere between overdamped (with a low resistance load) to underdamped (open circuit or reactive). The 51 ohm and 0.22μF dampen things without cutting into response too badly.
The time-domain response of the filter (at the H-bridge side) is also important. Cycle to cycle, the inductor can be treated as an inductance to ground and that's it (a crude approximation, but good enough within 20% or so). The voltage waveform is square, so the current waveform will be triangular, Ipp = 2Vcc/(2FL) (double supply because H-bridge, and using the 40μH figure for L), or 2.5A. This is well within the transistors' ratings, but will contribute to idle power dissipation (in addition to switching losses due to shoot-through). To reduce inverter ripple, a larger inductance could be chosen, and to keep the cutoff frequency constant, a smaller filter capacitance as well. But such a filter would be heavily overdamped by the nominal load, dropping the cutoff frequency substantially. A smaller inductance isn't really desirable due to ripple, so the value I chose was quite reasonable.
The filter choke is followed by a common-mode choke. This is kind of optional, but helps clean up the trash that the FCC might not find so appealing. In practice, the switching times and pulse widths of the two sides of the H-bridge won't be perfectly symmetrical, and there will be common mode components at the fundamental and harmonics. Filtering this with a common-mode choke helps clean things up further, plus the leakage inductance (which is intentionally high, as wound) helps take more edges off the differential signal. The 112μH inductance shown acts between the 0.1μF caps in parallel, placing the cutoff around 33kHz: not very low (it could easily be kHz for best results), but the attenuation over 150kHz will be good. Likewise, the differential filtering will be on the order of 1μH and 0.1μF, or 500kHz, again helping to take the edge off.
Construction details: the differential filter choke was wound on a T50-52 powdered iron core, as shown. This is a fairly lossy material, and likely has a Q factor around 20. In operation, it gets rather warm, which is due in some part to the relatively fine wire used (which carries about 0.7A RMS), but mostly due to the core losses. The applied reactive power is around 9VA, so the power dissipation will easily be 0.45W for a Q of 20. (A rough estimate puts it closer to a Q of 10.)
The common-mode filter choke doesn't handle much reactive power, so there isn't much analysis required for it. It is worth noting the winding method: a true common-mode choke could be made by winding a twisted pair, and it would have very low leakage inductance—good for transmitting signals, but not so desirable when attenuating high frequencies. Instead, the two windings can be wound together, in the same direction (poloidally) through the core, but in opposite directions (toroidally) along the core. Rather than a bifilar or twisted pair winding, they act as separate solenoids linked by a core, and thus there is more leakage, roughly 1/μr times the self inductance, or (given the #43 core having μr around 700) fractional μH range. I hadn't measured the actual leakage, and the 1μH figure used above is only a crude approximation.
Idle Conditions: Supply 11.72V; input grounded, no load connected to output; ambient 24°C; PCB in near-vertical orientation; weak ambient draft.
Measurements: Supply current: 190mA (2.22W dissipated). Output transistor temperatures: 56°C, 61°C; differential filter coil: 62°C. Output ripple (Vout1 - Vout2): 1.6V RMS, common mode (Vout1 + Vout2) 60mV. Minimal over 20MHz. (I don't have a spectrum analyzer or FFT handy to do high frequency measurements; the waveforms change little in appearance between 20MHz and 350MHz bandwidth, suggesting <2mV beyond 20MHz.)
Discussion: Clearly, core losses in the differential coil are significant, and this circuit would benefit from a lower loss material, like Kool-mu (typically a Q around 30), or a gapped ferrite core (very high Q). Switching losses are also significant, and even a simple circuit like this would benefit from dead time control if efficiency is a concern.
Under Load Conditions: 12.05V supply, 1kHz sine input (adjusted for 6.06V RMS output, pictured above), 5Ω load resistor. (Ambient and orientation same as above.)
Measurements: Supply current: 0.898A (10.82W consumption); output power: 7.3W (efficiency 67%); output transistor temperatures: 81°C and 82.5°C; differential filter coil: 69°C.
Discussion: The differential coil temperature hardly rose, despite delivering another ampere: core losses are dominant, and again, a lower loss core would help. Overall efficiency is lower than desired, and saving those idle losses would more than suffice. The transistors are running much warmer, though with 70°C headroom before reaching the 150°C ratings, even more output capacity is available, or at a higher ambient temperature (or a de-rating scale between them). The distortion is unfortunately quite poor at 1kHz, and isn't much better at larger voltage swing.
Here are photos of the top and bottom sides (click to enlarge):
A rather nice PCB if I do say so myself; alignment between top and bottom layers must be within 5 thousandths of an inch, the best I've ever done. If I had had the stuff to do plated-through holes, solder mask and silk screen, it would've been as good as a commercial board.
Simulated step response: some feed-forward action due to the non-inverting error amplifier, followed by a third order recovery, more or less critically damped. The simulation is kind of bad at making a DC potential out of random AC fluctuations, so the steady state isn't so steady. This can be addressed by increasing the precision of the simulation, but that costs CPU time, taking many minutes to generate the millisecond sample shown here. Since we know that it's going to stabilize, this can be ignored safely as a simulation artifact.
Compensating this type of circuit (with a second order filter in the loop) isn't easy, and typically only a compromise is possible. This has roughly equal over- and under-shoot, and an overdamped recovery. High frequency response will be attenuated, and the overall passband won't be flat out to 20kHz (within, say, 3dB). Reproducing 20kHz through all the filters and switching is a difficult task anyway, not something this simple circuit is up to.
Measured step response (back on the '475 scope), 0.5V/div vertical, 100μs/div horizontal (above), 20μs/div (below), approx. 2kHz square wave input. Note the test amplitude is smaller than in the simulation, so ripple looks relatively large. The transient behavior is almost identical (as well as can be seen over the ripple), including a better representation of the over-undershoot characteristic of the output filter. (And as expected, it stabilizes to a smooth ripple and not noise.)


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America's 10 Best Food Cities
Does your hometown make the cut?
Whether we're picking a vacation spot or a new place to live, it's safe to say that we let our stomachs guide our decisions. We want a city with great regional dishes and innovative chefs, and, well, restaurants with character (an alfresco farmhouse table just does something to us). Here are our picks for America's ten best food cities, whether you're pondering a move, or just lunch.
New York, NY
Sure, sure, it's a no-brainer, but let's take a look at what you can actually order up in the Big Apple. For one thing, NYC has twice as many three-star Michelin-rated restaurants as any other American city. And on the other end of the spectrum, there's the $4.50 Recession Special at Gray's Papaya (two dogs and a soda). And that's to say nothing of those New York-specific foods you just can't get anywhere else. We're looking at you, bagels and lox, pastrami sandwiches, pizza (real pizza, guys) and black-and-white cookies.
San Francisco, CA
It's hard to imagine a city more obsessed with food than San Francisco (and the surrounding Bay Area). It's the kind of place where $4 slices of toast are now the norm--and when slathered with cream cheese, black pepper and sea salt, like they are at The Mill, that's just fine by us. Iconic restaurants like Chez Panisse and Zuni Café helped define the American farm-to-table movement, and there are plenty of stellar newcomers following suit, such as The Progress (shaved romanesco salad with pig fries) and State Bird Provisions (crispy spiced quail with tart onions). Plus, if you live in SF you have a pretty fun neighbor: wine-guzzling Napa Valley.
Chicago, IL
Hot dogs loaded with pickles, peppers, mustard, tomato slices and celery salt. Deep-dish pizza so thick it might as well be a casserole. Chicago certainly does street food right.And if you're in the mood for something on a white tablecloth, try Rick Bayless's empire of authentic Mexican restaurants. Or maybe Alinea--Grant Achatz's palace of molecular gastronomy for a 16-course meal featuring dishes like hot potato, cold potato, black truffle and butter.
Los Angeles, CA
Turns out, L.A. is more than just wheatgrass shots at Juice Crafters after a hike through Laurel Canyon (though that is kind of a magical duo). It's also smoked-salmon pizza at Spago in Beverly Hills, chicken and waffles at Roscoe's and the best chopped salad of your life at La Scala (it was, after all, Marilyn Monroe's standing order).
New Orleans, LA
Welp, it's hard to know where to begin with New Orleans, a city unlike any other in America, where food is fundamental to nearly everything. The logical place, of course, is Café Du Monde, over a powdered-sugar beignet and a steaming cup of café au lait. Move on to Creole classics like jambalaya and gumbo, catfish po' boys, chargrilled oysters and anything cooked by John Besh.
Charleston, SC
Charleston may not be the biggest city on this list, but what it lacks in square mileage and population, it makes up for in grits. They do Southern staples right--from crispy fried chicken to tangy, mustard-sauced pulled pork (remember, barbecue in Charleston means pork down-home pit-cooked in mustard barbecue sauce). Then there are Sean Brock's restaurants Husk and McCrady's, where everything--save for the expansive wine lists--is locally grown in the South and prepared as an homage to traditional Southern cooking. Head 25 minutes downtown for steamed oysters and perfect sunsets at Bowens Island.
Portland, OR
Yes, you're right. The entire East Coast (or at least all of Brooklyn) has packed up and moved to Portland. Plopped down in the middle of verdant farmland, Portland has produce aplenty and knows what to do with it. Take Toro Bravo, where the kitchen dishes out tapas like marinated sheep's cheese with rose-petal harrisa and mint, made from local ingredients and given a Spanish twist. Plus, there's Pok Pok (some say it's the best Thai food in the country), Voodoo Donuts and enough artisanal coffee roasters to keep your food tour highly caffeinated.
Austin, TX
If we had to live on barbecue and tacos for the rest of our lives, we're pretty sure we'd be just fine. Austin is pretty much killing it on both of those fronts. Fans flock to Franklin's for brisket (after just a few hours in line) and The Salt Lick for sausage (and, well, more brisket). And while picking a favorite taco is like picking a favorite child, you certainly can't go wrong starting with ones stuffed with scrambled eggs and chorizo at El Primo.
Philadelphia, PA
Everyone knows the cheesesteak (Pat's? Geno's? Jim's?). Lesser known (but, dare we say, even tastier?) is the roast pork sandwich, dripping with melted provolone cheese and sautéed broccoli rabe. We recommend picking one up at Redding Terminal, the city's bustling food market, before moving on to fried chicken and doughnuts at Federal Donuts, and some transcendent hummus and Israeli salads at Zahav or Dizengoff. Diet starts tomorrow.
Seattle, WA
If fish throwing is one of your top tourist attractions, you get a spot on this list. Enough said.


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We made it into the Top 100 (82) of the The Drum UK Design 100 2013 Client Poll Section.
"The Drum's design client review ranks agencies on their performance as rated by clients across criteria in The Drum's client review survey. The Drum breakdowns illustrate the best performing agencies in the client review per region, and for each dimension as rated by clients: branding, client service, design, creativity, strategic thinking and value for money. A total of 578 clients responded to The Drum's client review survey."


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Instead of protecting Europe, the US-led NATO bloc is destroying it, Deena Stryker, a prominent journalist that has been at the forefront of international politics for over thirty years, underscores.
"In the early eighties, during its evolution from 28 warring countries to an economic union that would keep the peace, the Europeans, ever suspicious of one another, rejected the idea of a federation that would have given them a common political system. Instead, they settled for a common currency, which has been revealed as impotent without a common government. The only common government Europe has is the one they were given by the United States: it's called NATO, and instead of 'protecting' Europe, it too is destroying it," Stryker writes in her article for New Eastern Outlook.
Stryker calls attention to the fact that the Kremlin had good reasons for seeking oversight of Eastern Europe. Through these lands Russia "had been repeatedly invaded, starting with the Teutonic Knights in the thirteenth century, followed by Napoleon, World War I, the Western war against the Bolshevik government, and World War II," the journalist stresses.
To the USSR's credit, it played an important role in the economic and industrial development of the Eastern European states.
In 1949, the West created the defensive North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which was tasked with being a counterweight to the Soviet Union's influence in Europe.
"It was not until 1955, that the Soviet Union responded with the Warsaw Pact, a defensive alliance known as 'The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance'," Stryker remarks.
Regardless of the fact that since then the Russian Federation has not posed an ideological or military threat to the West, and has even taken a series of steps to become integrated into the West-dominated world order, NATO continued its expansion eastward.
Remarkably, while the US for decades lambasted the USSR for what Washington called the "occupation" of Eastern Europe, the US has now taken the region under full control, beefing up its military presence there, Stryker notes.
Furthermore, as a result of the interventionist foreign policies of the US and NATO in the Middle East, the European Union is now witnessing a disastrous refugee crisis.
"Having abdicated much of their sovereignty to Washington, partly via the European Union bureaucracy in Brussels, partly via NATO, Europeans can hardly believe that their beautiful project — broadly recognized as the highest level of civilization ever achieved — has been turned into its opposite: a neo-liberal stronghold ruled by 'the market' which forces national governments to impose crippling austerity upon their citizens," Stryker emphasizes, pointing to the fact that a 2009 Greek crisis set off alarm bells for all European member states.
In addition, American experts and pundits are beating the war drums over a non-existent Russian plan to invade the Baltic States.
"Where did this notion come from? Why would Putin 'resent' the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania?… I haven't heard the slightest hint of an explanation as to what Russia would do with the real estate of three tiny counties that, like Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, yearn to be part of a Europe which, on its own initiative, would never threaten Russia," the journalist underscores.
"NATO's policy of moving further east at any cost is deepening the fault lines in Europe," Lavrov warned in his speech at the Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Previously, in May 2016 the US launched a new missile defense system in Romania, part of Washington's comprehensive missile shield project, which also includes several installations in Germany, Turkey and Spain.
Moscow has repeatedly warned the US that NATO missile defense installations in Europe threaten to upset the strategic balance in the region and inflame tensions between Russia and the West.
To add insult to injury, the US intends to modernize the nuclear weapons it has stationed in Europe.
Citing Der Spiegel, German media outlet Deutsche Welle reported Saturday that Germany's Air Force is preparing to adapt some of its Tornado warplanes to carry America's modern B61-12 atomic bombs, which are due to go in full scale production in 2020.
The US-propelled nuclearization of Europe definitely spells trouble for the continent.
Speaking to Sputnik, 2017 French presidential candidate Didier Tauzin stressed that the EU member states should create a European defense union.
"Importantly, such a defense system should be in line with European interests, not necessarily American ones. It is clear that Washington and European countries do not share the same interests in the world," Taurzin underscored.


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Diversion Structures
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Dr. Stock is proud to serve the Fairfield, Iowa, area with high quality orthodontic care & excellent customer service. We offer a number of different orthodontic treatments, including braces and Invisalign. One of the reasons why we take such joy in our work is because we love the city of Fairfield and its community so much. We'd like to take a moment to share with you a bit about why we love Fairfield.
Fairfield, Iowa was actually named by Smithsonian Magazine as one of the 20 best small towns to visit in 2013. One of the reasons why it's achieved such high praise is because it prides itself on its uniqueness: it's a small and cozy town that also offers all the luxuries of bigger cities. Fairfield has a vibrant community with economic opportunities and a rich heritage.
Fairfield is possibly most known for its arts and culture. One of the more notable places in the city is the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center. This is a 32,000-square foot building that cost over $6 million to build. The facility is also home to the Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts, a popular performance center that showcases a wide range of acts from plays to concerts to live comedy.
Our office is located at 205 North B Street in Fairfield, Iowa. It's also right on the corner of East Briggs Avenue. We're a block away from the First United Methodist Church, and we're also nearby other businesses such as Green Gourmet, Sweet 'n Saucy and Stone Crone.
If you'd like specific directions on how to get to our office, please click on the link for our Map & Directions page. When you're on the page, click on the indicator over Fairfield, and click 'directions' on the box that pops up. Finally, type in your address, and click 'Get Directions' to receive a list of precise instructions on how to reach our office.
If you have any comments or questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. If you'd like to schedule an appointment with us, you can fill out our online complimentary exam form or give us a call at (319) 800-9497. We look forward to seeing you and helping you attain a straighter and healthier smile!


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Companies and private foundations interested in collaborating with Helsinki Spain can do it in different ways:
Companies and private foundations interested in collaborating with Helsinki Spain can do it in different ways:
Economic suppor for our projects
All our projects are aimed at changing the way of thinking of citizens and raising awareness about the reality that surrounds us. The funds provided allow us to keep working to reach more and more people. Your company can finance a project or become a strategic partner of Helsinki Spain and in turn take advantage of the tax deduction of the donation given that Helsinki Spain is a Public Utility Association. Contact Maria Jaén email@example.com
Pro bono collaborations
We need mentors, from all professional profiles, for the Orientation project focused on employment and social collaboration. If you are interested in helping a young man to route his career dedicating a few hours of your time do not hesitate to contact us at email@example.com
Professional Services in Helsinki Spain
The companies can collaborate with us in a pro bono way by providing professional services specific to their business activity such as consulting, legal advice, digital marketing … Contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com and tell us how you want to help us.
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So, remember that awkward moment during Star Wars: A New Hope when those storm troopers get Jedi mind-tricked by Obi Wan Kenobi? I had just finished talking with my dad about whether or not we should buy Star Wars on Blue-Ray when my internet went out and I got this page instead of my dad's facebook. So, naturally, I was inspired to make something for my final:
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Another piece for my final.
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First part of final project!!
Yay!! Ok, so last week we did the Webstory bit with changing of actual websites and such.
So, I applied that to Google to give some highlights from the story of The Great Gatsby. Such as how important symbolism and who even likes Daisy anyway?
It's a little big for the screen, but if I made it smaller it would be difficult to read. So! If you want to see it fully, click it and that will work.
Now on to the video assignment!
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Hmm. I've been having a really hard time thinking of a final project idea. I think I'm going to do something with telling stories from different uses of pictures. Not like in the 5 card story assignment we already had, but more like creating pictures to convey different stories. I'm most inspired by the two blogs I already talked about (Hark! a Vagrant who uses comics to tell funny stories of history and literature and Hyperbole and a Half who illustrates funny parts of her stories).
I will post something I have made later today/tomorrow because right now, I have to read 400 poems (warning: little bit exaggerated) for class tomorrow. And I mainly wanted to put this out there so that I had something written that I had to hold myself to. *Affirmative head nod inserted here*
This was almost a waste of a post. I say almost, because now you get the delightful picture of THIS:
Dwight is shouting "WE WILL BURN UTICA TO THE GROUND!" Whilst still in his silly disguise.
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