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Q: What changes have you made with your diet since you've gotten here?
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One of the advantages of writing about sports is that I rarely have to write about the state of national or local politics. It's an area that is largely out of the way, but occasionally, the topic rears its head, most commonly in stadium situations.
When the Florida legislature failed to give citizens of the Miami area the opportunity to vote on a hotel tax to fund improvements to Sun Life Stadium, we could practically hear Miami's chances of hosting a Super Bowl in the near future swirling around the bowl. Without improvements to Sun Life Stadium, the Dolphins won't be playing host to a Super Bowl.
Stephen Ross, owner of the Miami Dolphins isn't pulling any punches voicing his displeasure about the legislature's failure to act.
"Speaker Weatherford did far more than just deny the people of Miami Dade the right to vote on an issue critical to the future of our local economy," Ross said in a statement. "The Speaker singlehandedly put the future of Super Bowls and other big events at risk for Miami Dade and for all of Florida. He put politics before the people and the 4,000 jobs this project would have created for Miami Dade, and that is just wrong."
"He gave me and many others his word that this legislation would go to the floor of the House for a vote, where I know, and he knows, we had the votes to win by a margin as large as we did in the Senate," Ross said. "It's hard to understand why he would stop an election already in process and disenfranchise the 40,000 people who have already voted. I can only assume he felt it was in his political interest to do so. Time will tell if that is the case, but I am certain this decision will follow Speaker Weatherford for many years to come."
Whether or not this will come back to haunt Speaker Weatherford is yet to be seen, but we do know this. There are a lot of people that aren't happy with Florida's legislature, and Stephen Ross is leading that group.
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Article 126 of the Education Law says that tuition and fees charged to students "shall be fixed so as not to exceed one-third of the operating costs of the community college." Since 1991, however, this provision has been suspended by language in the annual appropriations bills. In effect, New York's community college students are providing a substantial subsidy to State and local governments. If State support were simply maintained at the one-third level, the situation would be improved.
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Philadelphia, PA, March 23, 2011 – Although acupuncture is commonly used for pain control, doubts about its effectiveness and safety remain. Investigators from the Universities of Exeter & Plymouth (Exeter, UK) and the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (Daejeon, South Korea) critically evaluated systematic reviews of acupuncture as a treatment of pain in order to explore this question. Reporting in the April 2011 issue of PAIN®, they conclude that numerous systematic reviews have generated little truly convincing evidence that acupuncture is effective in reducing pain, and serious adverse effects continue to be reported.
"Many systematic reviews of acupuncture for pain management are available, yet they only support few indications, and contradictions abound," commented lead investigator Professor Edzard Ernst, MD, PhD, Laing Chair in Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter & Plymouth, UK. "Acupuncture remains associated with serious adverse effects. One might argue that, in view of the popularity of acupuncture, the number of serious adverse effects is minute. We would counter, however, that even one avoidable adverse event is one too many. The key to making progress would be to train all acupuncturists to a high level of competency."
Researchers carefully identified and critically examined systematic reviews of acupuncture studies for pain relief and case reviews reporting adverse effects. Reviews were defined as systematic if they included an explicit Methods section describing the search strategy and inclusion/exclusion criteria. Systematic reviews had to focus on the effectiveness of any type of acupuncture for pain. Of the 266 articles found, 56 were categorized as acceptable systematic reviews.
The authors observe that recent results from high-quality randomized controlled trials have shown that various forms of acupuncture, including so-called "sham acupuncture," during which no needles actually penetrate the skin, are equally effective for chronic low back pain, and more effective than standard care. In these and other studies, the effects were attributed to such factors as therapist conviction, patient enthusiasm or the acupuncturist's communication style.
If even sham acupuncture is as good as or better than standard care, then what is the harm? The answer lies in the adverse effect case studies. These studies were grouped into three categories: Infection (38 cases), trauma (42 cases) and other adverse effects (13 cases). Many of these adverse side effects are not intrinsic to acupuncture, but rather result from malpractice of acupuncturists. The most frequently reported complications included pneumothorax, (penetration of the thorax) and bacterial and viral infections. Five patients died after their treatment.
In an accompanying commentary, Harriet Hall, MD, states her position forcefully: "Importantly, when a treatment is truly effective, studies tend to produce more convincing results as time passes and the weight of evidence accumulates. When a treatment is extensively studied for decades and the evidence continues to be inconsistent, it becomes more and more likely that the treatment is not truly effective. This appears to be the case for acupuncture. In fact, taken as a whole, the published (and scientifically rigorous) evidence leads to the conclusion that acupuncture is no more effective than placebo."
The article is "Acupuncture: Does it alleviate pain and are there serious risks? A review of reviews" by E. Ernst, Myeong Soo Lee and Tae-Young Choi (DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.11.004). The accompanying commentary is "Acupuncture's claims punctured: Not proven effective for pain, not harmless" by Harriet Hall, MD (DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2011.01.039). Both appear in PAIN®, Volume 152, Issue 4 (April 2011) published by Elsevier.
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Edzard Ernst, MD, PhD
Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter & Plymouth, Exeter, UK
Myeong Soo Lee, PhD
Division of Standard Research, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon, South Korea
and Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter & Plymouth, Exeter, UK
Tae-Young Choi, PhD
Division of Standard Research, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon, South Korea
Harriet Hall, MD
Puyallup, WA, USA
Dr. Hall is a retired family physician, former U.S. Air Force flight surgeon and prolific writer about alternative medicine and quackery. She is a regular contributor to the Science-Based Medicine blog (sciencebasedmedicine.org) and writes for numerous publications and sites including Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer.
About PAIN®
PAIN®, the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain® (IASP®), publishes 12 issues per year of original research on the nature, mechanisms, and treatment of pain. This peer-reviewed journal provides a forum for the dissemination of research in the basic and clinical sciences of multidisciplinary interest and is cited in Current Contents and MEDLINE. It is ranked 1st out of the 25 journals in the ISI Anesthesiology category according to the Journal Citation Reports 2010.
About The International Association for The Study Of PAIN® (IASP®)
Founded in 1973, IASP® is the world's largest multidisciplinary organization focused specifically on pain research and treatment. It is the leading professional forum for science, practice, and education in the field of pain bringing together scientists, clinicians, health care providers, and policy makers to stimulate and support the study of pain and to translate that knowledge into improved pain relief worldwide. IASP currently has more than 7,500 members from 130 countries and in 85 chapters.
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Elsevier is a global information analytics company that helps institutions and professionals progress science, advance healthcare and improve performance for the benefit of humanity. Elsevier provides digital solutions and tools in the areas of strategic research management, R&D performance, clinical decision support, and professional education; including ScienceDirect, Scopus, ClinicalKey and Sherpath. Elsevier publishes over 2,500 digitized journals, including The Lancet and Cell, more than 35,000 e-book titles and many iconic reference works, including Gray's Anatomy. Elsevier is part of RELX Group, a world-leading provider of information and analytics to professionals and business customers, in a wide range of industries. www.elsevier.com
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The inevitable integration of markets, nation-states, technologies and knowledge resulting in growing economic interdependence among countries clearly demonstrated by the cross border flow of goods, services, capital and knowledge and in which the competition is on a world-wide basis creating an integrated global space is called globalization (T. Friedman, 1999; Govindarajan & Gupta, 1999; Porter, 1986; Robertson, 1992; Albrow, 1997). The IMF calls it the motor of worldwide economic growth and integration while many like Denton and Al Shamali agree that going global is needed for the survival of the companies. Traditionally globalization meant business expansion from developed economies to developing economies but now flow is both sides and also between developing nations (Bishop, sep 20th, 2008). Companies go international for one main reason of making more money. The companies upon going international tend to attain economies of scale due to the larger audience and also the brand name and brand value increases for the company if it is successful in its foreign venture. The reasons or the drivers for global pursuit varies and these include improved communications and information technology, distribution and transportation, cultural convergence, cheap labour and increasing disposable income of the global middle class, reduced trade barriers, extension of IP rights, privatization programs, development of international standards (Denton and Al-Shamali, 2000; Stonehouse et al., 2000).
In this note of globalisation, the following article reflects upon Walt Disney's venture into European market. It was named as Euro Disney and was one of the major investments made in 1992. This article reflects the international strategic mistake that was committed by Walt Disney and its subsequent change in the strategy that revived it. This incident is critically evaluated with the help of various strategic theories available and corresponding recommendations are made to Walt Disney for its current and future foreign ventures in the case of its theme parks and resorts.
The following part of the article gives a literature review of some of the major theories that govern international business which include the integration/responsiveness framework of Bartlett and Ghoshal, Yip's global drivers, Hofstede's cultural analysis amongst others. These act as the foundation for the analysis of the Euro Disneyland and its strategies.
Literature Review
International Business has become an integral part of the present business culture. Knowledge in the global activities is very crucial. Many scholars have contributed in the field of globalization and international business for a better understanding. The list includes the likes of Prahalad and Doz, Bartlett and Ghoshal, Porter, Ansoff, Hofstede, Edward Hall and many others who in their various contributions have given an insight into the various aspects of International Business. Porter's approach to the industry and the players in it is very mechanical and limited to the industry. According to him international business is the competition of the players in the international arena (Porter, 1986). This limited view and his five force analysis would limit the study of the industry to the particular country. It emphasises more on the strategy of the organization rather than the internationalization factors.
The contribution of Prahalad and Doz are crucial for the study of internationalization. Their Integration/responsiveness (IR) framework created a platform for the further study of global business. Bartlett and Ghoshal later improvised this framework and came up with 4 strategies that a company tends to follow. The 4 strategies are International, Global, transnational and Multidomestic approaches to the foreign market. Transnational is considered one of the most important approaches to international market which Bartlett and Ghoshal call a solution for the cross border business. A company follows transnational approach when the local responsiveness required is high and cost pressure is also high. It is increasingly the most predominant approach as the global competition is increasing by the day. Transnational company acknowledges the importance of global competitiveness and flexibility in international operations (Bartlett & Ghoshal, 2002).
Another important contribution in this field is the identification and classification of the drivers for globalisation into 4 sectors namely cost, market, government and competitive drivers (Yip, 2002). The classification gives a clear understanding of the industry and the foreign market.
Culture plays a pivotal role in deciding the nature of business strategy a company must follow in order to succeed. Hofstede, Edward Hall and Fons Trompenaars have been the pioneering contributors in the cultural aspect of international business. Hofstede's four dimensions give vital clue about the cultural differences between the host and the target locations. The four dimensions include power distance which speaks about the authority, individualism versus collectivism which speaks about group dynamics, uncertainty avoidance index which speaks about the risk taking nature and masculinity versus femininity which speaks about the extent of male domination in a given culture (Hill, 2007). The following article uses Hofstede's cultural analysis to evaluate Euro Disneyland.
Analysis of Euro Disneyland
Walt Disney Productions Ltd or popularly known as Disney is one of the world's largest players in the entertainment business. Disney ventured into the theme parks and resorts arena in 1955 with the opening of Disneyland in California. It was a huge commercial success. It has grown in the years and become one of the largest theme parks in the world. With success on its back, it went international by venturing into Japan in 1983 where it opened the Tokyo Disneyland via franchising. Upon the commercial success of Tokyo Disneyland which was a replica of the Disneyland in California it opened the Euro Disneyland in 1992 and Honk Kong Disneyland in 2005 (Disney). This article critically reviews the venture of Disney into Europe by opening the Euro Disneyland in Paris in 1992.
Disneyland when started in 1955 was targeted at both the children and the adult market. When viewed as a product, Disneyland is highly differentiated from its competitors in many ways. This gave it a significant advantage and led to its growth in the theme park business. There was an increase in the number of foreign visitors especially from Europe in the 1980s which gave the reason for Disney launching its theme park in Europe.
Disney entered the European market by Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Disney opened its wholly owned subsidiary Euro Disneyland in Paris. Such a venture is known as Greenfield venture (Hill, 2007). Euro Disneyland opened with a huge media propaganda and hype. However it failed for the first four years due to several reasons. This article reviews the reasons for the initial failure of Disney in its foreign venture.
Disney's entry mode into Europe as mentioned above was FDI. The deal given by the French government and the centralised location of Paris with respect to European wealth concentration were a few primary reasons for Euro Disneyland's location in Paris. The entry mode followed by Disney was a high control entry mode as the tacit component was more when it came to the understanding of the European customers. It is along the lines of one of the nine propositions of entry mode given by Hill. Such an entry gave Disney an advantage in terms of transferring products and know-how easily which would have taken a longer time in the case of joint ventures or take-overs (Hill, 2007).
The choice of the location was very crucial and is often criticised. The majority of the foreign visitors to Disneyland in California were British nationals (Spencer, 1995). The perception of the Americans that Paris would be the best option was proved wrong when they opened it. The question still looms large over the choice of France over Britain for its European venture.
Euro Disneyland was a replica of the Disneyland in California. The entire theme park, its organisational structure and the rides were the same as Disneyland. The parent company's strategy was implemented and the knowledge developed was at the centre in California which made it a company following Global strategy in Bartlett and Ghoshal's view. The same is represented in fig 1. However, this caused Euro Disneyland a huge upset as there was a huge cultural gap between the European customers and the American customers.
Fig 1: Integration/Responsiveness Framework (Adapted from Bartlett & Ghoshal, 1989) - Disney's postion upon entering Europe.
The strategy of Euro Disneyland when it started is as shown in fig 1. Clearly the assumptions by Disney included low local responsiveness and high global integration due to the lack of major competition. However this proved expensive for Disney as the need for local responsiveness was very high due to the cultural differences between the French and the Americans.
The primary reason for the initial failure of Euro Disneyland was the cultural differences. Clearly, the Disney management's assumptions that products successful in the US would be successful in Europe were wrong. Disney management showed high levels of self reference criterion (Rodrigues, 2009) at that time which resulted in a loss to Disney.
Culture played a crucial role in Euro Disneyland's performance in all the frontiers. For the customers, they were not allowed to take in their own food, and alcohol was restricted inside the park which agitated the French who loved wine with food. Also Europeans who were more passionate about smoking than their American counterparts had to compromise on the fact that there were no shops selling cigarettes inside the park. Another major reason for the customer dissatisfaction was that the French unlike the Americans did not like standing in long queues (Popkin, 92). All these factors affected in the overall sales of the Euro Disneyland which resulted in a huge blow to its cash flow leading to it borrowing $175 million in 1993 just to keep it running (Spencer, 1995). Their annual reports declared a loss of FFr339 Million in 1992 and FFr 6.3 Billion in 1993 (Curwen, 1995).
There was an ill-feeling about Euro Disneyland among the French who were fumed by the American approach to France which translated as measuring the frenchness in the French and the French considered it cultural imperialism. The French started addressing Euro Disneyland as cultural Chernobyl (Popkin, 92). This can be attributed to the ethno centric view of both the French and the Americans who both think they are superior (Hill, 2007). Such an ethnocentric view hinders the relationship with the customers as well as the employees.
From the employee perspective there was a huge difference in management styles of the French and the Americans. This reflected in the Euro Disneyland as well. Euro Disneyland was managed by the Americans who differentiated less among the employees and expected the employees to do the jobs without being explicitly told to do so. This can be explained using Hofstede's power distance dimension. The power distance index for the Americans was less in his survey and this was demonstrated again by the Disney management. On the contrast the French expect explicit rules from their managers and differentiation among people is high reflecting the high power distance index score of the French in Hofstede's research (Hill, 2007).
Smoking was banned for the employees and the dress code and hair styles were strictly maintained (Bryman, 1995). French being a bit more casual in their approach did not approve of this and this resulted in a very high employee turnover. It was reported that 50% of the people who joined Disney had left by mid 1993 (Bryman, 1995).
The French and the other Europeans unlike the Americans are not big spenders. They liked to spend economically and have a longer vacation rather than a short high spending vacation which the Americans do not mind (Spencer, 1995). This can be related to Hofstede's uncertainty avoidance index where the French tend to be safer when it came to their spending. The study also reflects the same where French have a very high score as on comparison to the Americans (Rodrigues, 2009).
Another aspect of cultural difference was the sense of timing. The French unlike the Americans were very peculiar about their timing. They would enter when the park is about to close, they would leave the park early if they felt it was too sunny and mainly they were very keen on education thereby avoided missing school to go to Disneyland (Spencer, 1995). All these factors resulted in reduced sales to Euro Disney. Such an attribute can be related to Fon Trompenaars' orientation towards time dimension of the cultural analysis. Clearly there was a huge difference between the American expectation and the French behaviour with respect to the time (Rugman, A. M. and Hodgetts, R. M., 2003).
Apart from these cultural differences, Disney had many others reason for its initial hiccup. This included the wrong timing. Euro Disneyland began its operations when Europe entered recession there by reducing the number of customers that Disney had projected resulting in a blow to the cash flow. The pricing structure was also wrong. Disney charged a higher price in Europe than in US. The cheap packages offered by airlines in France and Italy made visit to Disneyland in California a lucrative option (Spencer, 1995). All these resulted in a huge loss to Disney which had to be bailed out for $12 billion dollars of which $6 billion was paid by Walt Disney and the remaining by the consortium of 60 banks which held shares in Euro Disneyland.
Upon realising the mistakes, Disney took a series of corrective measures which included renaming Euro Disneyland to Disneyland Paris in 1995. The management approach was changed and the products offered were more localised than before. The prices were reduced by 22% and plans were made for additional investment in the opening of Space Mountain (Curwen, 1995). All these corrective measures resulted in the change of strategy followed by Disney from Global to transnational in Bartlett and Ghoshal's perspective. The same is demonstrated in fig2.
Fig 2: Integration/Responsiveness Framework (Adapted from Bartlett & Ghoshal, 1989) - Disney's postion after corrective measures.
As shown in fig 2, Disney became a transnational company due to its high local responsiveness and change in management style. After a few years of hiccup it finally had a European lead its team in Europe. The ideas from the French were implemented, the americanisation of the staff was reduced and more freedom was given to the staff which reduced the employee turnover. The products were loacally tailored to suit the complex European market.
A huge cultural adaptation took place beginning with the renaming of the Euro Disneyland into Disneyland Paris. The product strategy as classified by Keegan was changed from standardised product/ customized message to customized product/customized message (Rodrigues, 2009). This resulted in an increased appeal to the European customers who felt less Americanised. With the introduction of additional features such as the Space Mountain and other attractions Disney was able to meet its estimated sales figures.
The share price of the Euro Disneyland summarises the situation of Disneyland since its listing in 1989 till 1995. Fig 3 shows the graphical representation of the share price fluctuations that occurred for Disney's shares.
Fig3: Euro Disney Share price (P) (Source: Datastream as shown in Curwen, 1995).
The share price found a steady fall from 1991 after the announcement of the company's annual report. This was the case till the bailout of $12 billion in 1995 and the subsequent opening of the Space Mountain resulted in a positive response from the European audience which reflected in the company's sales and its share prices. The adaptation of European culture and the drastic changes in its management style led to its subsequent success till date.
Disney has been successful for over 90 years now. It has 5 main theme parks and resorts around the globe. Disney has created many mistakes with each of them. For instance the idea of Franchising Disney in Tokyo cost them a lot of money as the response was overwhelming and Disney was just getting 10% of the profit. In case of Europe as discussed before Paris was not the perfect location. Disney has been learning from its mistakes but prevention is always better than cure. Critics have gone to the extent of asking whether Disney would ever get it right when it comes to making location decisions (Spencer, 1995). It is thus recommended that Disney should make better choice of locations. The decisions seem to be driven by the bargaining power of the host nation like in the case of France where a lot of subsidies were given to Disney. This might save Disney the initial money but may lead to a huge loss later if it does not get the required sales.
The entry modes seem to vary between the locations. Even though it gets the first entry advantage, the risks are very high. In such a state it is common for companies to have a tight control over the activities. This would work fine for a regular industry but Disney being in the entertainment world, the necessity for the local touch is very high. This was clearly demonstrated in the Euro Disneyland. Even the pricing matters as the holiday packages offered by various agencies around the globe are very lucrative making it target for substitution. Hence it is recommended that Disney should be a transnational company there being locally responsive and cost effective.
Also the management should be regio-centric than ethno centric in its approach which makes it easier for human resource management. The ethno centric approach in Euro Disney resulted in high employee turnover.
International business is a lucrative option for both growth and profits but the risks involved are high as well. A careful planning along with detailed study of the potential market is required before venturing into unknown territories. Disney on its part got the first person advantage when it ventured into Europe but its ethnocentric approach caused it a huge loss.
An ethno centric approach is workable when the product is highly standardised and the home company has pioneered the know-how of the products. Such a standardised product will go along into the market initially by following the international strategy and later the global strategy according to Bartlett and Ghoshal's classifications. This is because the local responsiveness required is minimal and the initial cost concern is less at the time of entry. However the indigenous companies may get the technical know-how and may result in cost pressures. Hence transition from international in the time of entry to global strategy.
A more regio-centric approach with clear attention to the cultural differences as mentioned by Hofstede combined with a transnational approach would be ideal for a company which has a high pressure on pricing strategy along with the high local responsiveness. This would have been an ideal approach for Disney instead of the traditional global approach with ethno centric view because of the nature of its products and the industry as a whole.
Culture plays a vital role in deciding the location, entry mode, strategy of the business venture in an international arena. An in-depth knowledge about the cultural differences and the cultural needs and wants of the potential market would surely be an advantage and may prove vital for the success of the organisation's international venture.


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25th August 2012, 05:44 PM | #1 |
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Test Signal for max power test of Class D?
If i have a 60W Class D guitar amplifer and i want to do maximum power testing on it...then what frequency of sine wave input signal should i feed to it? Is it ok to choose anything between 100 and 1000 Hz? |
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You shouldn't test amplifiers with sine waves at all. The only thing you will effectively test feeding an amplifier sine waves is the power supply.
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Ok Thanks,
Thats actually what i mean to do...to test the power supply which powers the class d amp. So which frequency of since wave would you choose? |
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I use 30 Hz, this way the puffer capacitors and short term overloadability are tested too. But not pure sine, 1:1 burst instead! (Eg. 1 sec signal, 1 sec rest) Input filter may have to be disabled.
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You need to be careful with sine waves into a class d amp.
Class d half bridge can suffer from bus pumping raising the power supply voltage and possibly damaging the power suppply and amplifier. It seems to be worst with low frequencies.
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if you have an oscilloscope, put a probe on the output (on load) and ch2 on rail voltage. (this help you to understand some things)
Use 33-66ms burst 1Khz. if the amplifier is created along with the psu for guitar, is probabbile that has been designed for the frequency range suitable. 33ms (duration of sine 1K) , 66ms pause. |
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This is why it has to be tested. :-) Maybe not with full power immediately.
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Thanks.........I note that some diy'ers are choosing 30Hz , and some 1KHz, and some want burst operation, and some not.
Is there any concensus of opinion. Also, why 30Hz....?.....why not 10Hz? And why 1000 Hz, ...why not 500Hz? Does any reader know of a graph of input sine wave frequency and power draw from the power supply powering the class d amplifier? For example, would a 30Hz sine wave into a class d amplifier make the power supply deliver more power than a 1000 Hz sinewave into a class d amplifier? Also, why sine waves?....we are testing the power supply, not the amplifier.......why not put a square wave signal into the class d amp.......? ...surely that will make the power supply deliver the maximum power, and then we can really see if the power supply is fit to supply the class d amplifier under all worst case conditions? |
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Basically i am asking about testing an SMPS which is designed to supply a 60W class D amplifier.
What signal would you put into the class d amplifier to test that the power supply was well capable of doing the job reliably for a long time.? I would say that the highest power would be drawn from the smps when a square wave signal of any frequency was fed to the class d amplifier....am i correct? |
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AJ+ is a case study of where newspapers could be heading in the future, Rahimi adds.It is Al Jazeera's new media channel. You have probably seen their videos, like this one:Meet Trump's $100 Million Donorby AJ+ via YouTube
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Perhaps I see it differently than you and I did not explain it completely. Below are the bytes for all the know formations in the Original Tecmo Bowl. I wanted to know within those sets if anyone could point me in the right direction to alter them or create new sets or formations. Unless I'm way off base the topic at hand talks about the sets in the special teams formations and changing the lineups/player commands. I posted this here to see if anyone can show me or assist me in finding the areas within the Original Tecmo Bowl ROM to change the player positions on the field and/or change the player responsibilities within those formations: Special Teams or otherwise. I posted it here also because it will see more eyes of those familiar with TSB edits that may be able to help me. There aren't too many folks that know the editing for the Original Tecmo Bowl and if posted in that forum it will come across less eyes. I have poked around some, but to no results of what I am looking for. Formations (The first 2 bytes of each play) 00=Kick Return 01=Kickoff 02=Single back 03=Single back offset 04=Split backs 05=Shotgun 06=3-4 defense 07=4-3 defense 08=FG offense 09=FG defense 0A=Punt Offense 0B=Punt Return
All, If you watch this video (around the 1:30 mark) or just look below it shows the Giants in a 3-3-3 defense. Of course this is in the ORIGINAL TECMO BOWL with only 9 players. I have tried to use the Tecmo Super Bowl information to attempt to switch the formations in the ORIGINAL TECMO BOWL but to no avail. Is there someone that can help me pinpoint in the ORIGINAL TECMO BOWL game how to change formations around. I have been able to move around in the Original ROM pretty well but still don't know about moving players around on the field. Any help would be appreciated.
I had Cousy originally in my PG list but bumped him for Isiah Thomas. I like your Gervin pick better than my Drexler pick. I couldn't put Curry in the mix for point guard considering he has basically had 2 superior years in his career and played second fiddle to Monta Ellis when he first came up. Dirk in the Power forward list should be a no brainer, but I missed him. Probably because I had Bird as a PF and you had him as a SF. I think people overlook Elgin Baylor. He was the Michael Jordan/Kobe Bryant of the late 50 and 60's. Nice list! Good on ya!
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Since there is a lull between the end of Football and the start of Baseball. Basketball is the sport of choice for most folks right now, so I thought I would ask who your NBA All time top 5 at each position are: Here's Mine: PG: 1. Magic Johnson 2. Oscar Robertson 3. Isiah Thomas 4. John Stockton 5. Jason Kidd SG: 1. Michael Jordan 2. Kobe Bryant 3. Jerry West 4. Reggie Miller 5. Clyde Drexler C: 1. Wilt Chamberlain 2. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 3. Shaquille O'neal 4. Hakeem Olajuwon 5. Bill Russell PF: 1. Karl Malone 2. Tim Duncan 3. Larry Bird 4. Charles Barkley 5. Bob Petit SF: 1. Labron James 2. Elgin Baylor 3. Rick Berry 4. Julius Erving 5. Scottie Pippen Honorable Mention: PG: Steve Nash SG: Bernard King C: Moses Malone PF: Kevin McHale SF: Dominique Wilkins
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For those of you that thought the Cowboys were the best team in football and going to win the Superbowl!!!
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I don't know if a lot of people know about this, but there is actually a "cheat" you can use to beat any computer or help coverage. It entails running the QB to the line of scrimmage and just as you are about to pass the line pass it to any computer covered receiver. The defense will run back towards the QB and the receiver will be wide open. I have posted about this in the past. Found out about this years ago on accident when my friends would always play pick Pass 1 against the Niners and render Jerry Rice a non factor. If this were to happen in a tournament how would you rule on this. I don't play a whole lot of Tecmo Bowl anymore, but with little or no practice I can do it regularly. What if someone used this as a "viable" offense. They would be unstoppable if they timed it correctly. If you open the attached ROM in Fceux and go to the menu and hit watch movie and select the .fm2 file then you can watch this movie and at the end you will see what I am talking about. Tecmo Bowl (USA) (Rev A)-0.fm2 Tecmo Bowl (USA) (Rev A).nes
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I updated the document on 9/22/16. Added how to make the players on the Touchdown celebration screen black instead of white. Wish i knew how to make the program write to their race designation to determine the player color for the touchdown screen like in TSB. Updated the document to include the formations on 2/19/17
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I don't usually play Tecmo Super Bowl, but downloaded this and noticed that the inside linebackers and Outside linebackers were switched for the '89 49ers. Walter and Millen are playing outside linebacker and Haley and Turner are playing inside linebacker. Also the Giants have Reasons playing outside linebacker and Carl Banks playing inside linebacker. Noticed a few others but those were the first one's I saw.
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I have actually seen this before even when all hex code is entered correctly. I have even changed the hex code only to have it happen again. Weird??? Also Aaron Lynch should be the 49'ers top OLB. He is their best pass rusher, but he is on suspension for the first 4 games. Right now you have Tank Carradine there. Carradine is probably listed on the Depth Chart ahead of Lynch because of Lynch's suspension.
Michael Willhoite on SF has 851 tackles as his tackle stat.
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Here is a snippet of "someone's" top offensive years all time for the Giants. I'm sure some of the great players had some different seasons that were equally great. I for one would not use Barry Bonds 73 Home Run season (2001). I think his best seasons were actually his 2002 and 2004 seasons, when he hit .370 and .362 with 46 and 45 homeruns with on base percentages of .582 and .609. His highest OPS seasons were '04, '02 and '01 with 1.422, 1.381 & 1.379 respectfully.
Not to nit pick but Willie Mays was a center fielder until way late in his career. I believe Bobby Thomson played center field until 51 when Mays got there then he primarily played left field. Great job though!
Pocky is correct don't throw off you back foot. When you do it will actually say you threw off your back foot and the throw will be worse. Follow you blocking on your runs. The option is a good run to use even if you never run the QB. With the new Force and cutback designations for certain players on every play running the option keeps the Force defender where he is for the most part and makes for one less defender you need to run against in the box. I run some form of the option on every run play. Let your passing plays develop and have a read system before the play. I usually go deep, mid, shallow unless I'm trying to get the ball to the flat right away. Use all of your passing types. The touch pass (double tap) is especially useful for throws behind the linebackers and in front of the DB's over the middle. Use L1 (don't know the XBOX button) on deep throws. Gives a speedy wide receiver a chance to get separation and to run and get under it. On defense keep the auto flip on. This will always line your defense up to be in position to cover the offense. Don't do a lot of pre snap defensive audibles. This is not like past Madden games where you had to make a bunch of moves before the play. In this version every defender in the box has a gap assignment and when you put them in a blitz or squeeze them or move them over their gap assignment changes and it can leave you quite vulnerable. Play a lot of defenses that say "match" i.e Cover 3 Match. In this years version the match zones have options to follow the receivers that run through their zone to "match" their routes rather than have them run through them and then be wide open behind them. The "match" defenses do have their weaknesses though. If the receivers clear out the underneath zones then it leaves the backs open in the flats for nice gains. Match up with the offense while on defense. If the other team comes out in 4 wides don't run a 4-4 defense because you will be outmatched with linebackers on receivers. Use nickel when teams go 3 wide. or Dime when they go 4 wide. Go 4-4 when they go 2 or 3 tight endes. The rest you just have to come up with a play style for the team you use. I use the 49'ers exclusively. I understand their shortcomings and play to their strengths. NOTE: The new rosters should be out soon so some teams will gain players and some will lose players which could change the way they are used.
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