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New Year Hopes and Dreams
At this time of year I think most of us reflect on the year nearly past. And some of us are even making New Year's Resolutions -- or at least plans for the next season of fly fishing. For at least some of us may think they're unlucky enough to live in places where there are only certain times of the year that they can wet a line (are there really such places I wonder as I get set to go out steelheading on this Boxing Day up here in the Great White North?!?!?). Or even worse some may think that fly fishing is only possible for trout and don't know what to do with the season now closed (of course this too causes me to wonder: aren't steelhead trout?!?!? and there are places even up here where one can throw out a fly line for trout at any time of year, right?!?!?). But I digress since the point I wanted to make that at this time of year (despite the possible cold weather and snow) we can all start to make plans -- and to hope and to dream.
Anybody care to share their hopes and dreams for the upcoming year????
"Fly fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point." -John Gierach
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|30th September 2007, 01:45 AM
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LM3886 Ground Loop Noise - Solutions?- Car Amp Application
Hi guys. I recently hand-routed the star-ground PCB and built my own LM3886-based PA100 (2 ICs in parallel) mono amps. Work great and sound nice!
Zero noise when used they're used as home home stereo setup. However , my ultimate goal is to use them as the basis for more elaborate car amplifier(s). I already have a prototype SMPS I tested them with. Obviously I am not new to circuit design in general.
Note: I have a 2-amp star grounded car stereo system which normally has ZERO noise. Also the PA100 amp I built has ZERO noise when used as in my home stereo.
Unfortunately, when tested in my car using the front RCA connections from my Alpine DSP, once again ground loop noise (the common "alternator whine") appeared again, as I expected.
Anybody used the chip amps for similiar purposes? Any solutions or practical ideas for eliminating the ground loops? Will I be required to use an op amp circuit on the RCA inputs?
I've tried the usual routes but no relief. I have limited audio amp design experience. Would really appreciate your help! Attached are photos of my hand designed PCB & hand built amp(s).
I would prefer to not have to reverse engineer an existing car amp to find a solution. I know someone on here has gone through the same pains-or has the amp design experience I could learn from...a forum search revealed no directly relevant answer.
Thanks! My schematic is attached (mostly Nat. Semi's example schematic) Please advise if you can!
|30th September 2007, 02:59 AM
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A ground loop isolator in the RCA lines or floating the secondary ground of the power supply should get rid of the noise.
If you don't want to use either or fhose solutions, you will need to build a balanced input circuit for the amplifier.
Links >> Basic Car Audio Amp Repair * Basic Car Audio Electronics * New Site * Basic Switching Power Supply Design * Basic Computer Skills << Links
|30th September 2007, 03:03 AM
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Yes, I realize I could use a transformer based isolator but we all know that's a "patch" and not a real solution. And besides affects frequency response (I've used them years ago and with mediocre audio quality).
The balanced input sounds more reasonable, though I would prefer to keep components out of the audio input "chain."
Hopefully some more ideas will pop up on here also...I'm going to check a few things in the car as well.
|30th September 2007, 03:26 AM
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Do you have a schematic of your SMPS?
I second the notion to isolate the SMPS and amp grounds.
Does your SMPS use feedback? (opto)isolated,or no? -even if not,it's an easy fix.
In the last amp SMPS I "reworked" for a different use,I Had to add a 1K resistor between the output ground(+/-35V),and the input(+12V) ground to eliminate any ground loop issues.
The feedback didn't seem to mind much at all,and still functions,after a minor adjustment (I replaced the feedback R with a pot,to vary the output voltage,it just needed a slight tweak to compensate for the extra 1Kohms.)
You might be able to get away with as little at 10-100ohms.
Make sure the RCA/interconnect cables are in good shape,and not routed near any power leads,etc.
Maybe also check the RCA outputs of your headunit.. I see alot of issues on here where they've 'opened up'..
Get a DMM/VOM,and set it to the lowest resistance scale,and put one probe on the outside (shield) of the RCA,and one on the case/Ground,there should be ~0-ohms (or very low). If not,you need to fix it/have it fixed.
|30th September 2007, 04:04 AM
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If you mount the amp VERY near the head unit and ground both the amp and the head unit to the same point, the ground loop noise should be minimized.
There are good transformers but they're not cheap. Jensen transformers is supposed to have some of the best.
If you don't want additional components in the audio chain, floating the secondary is just about the only option left. It works. Just about every budget brand car audio amp on the market uses it. About the only time it doesn't work well is when you have multiple signal sources. For example, if you had a 4 channel amp powered by a single supply and 2 channels came directly from the head unit (from the sub out, for example) and the other 2 channels passed through an equalizer before being sent to the amplifier. The two different ground points for the head unit and the EQ would cause another ground loop.
Links >> Basic Car Audio Amp Repair * Basic Car Audio Electronics * New Site * Basic Switching Power Supply Design * Basic Computer Skills << Links
|30th September 2007, 04:41 AM
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Hi thanks Perry but my system is not as simple as the average consumer.
Mine goes: head unit -> fiber optic connection & control cable -> digital signal processor -> amplifier(s). There is not a continous analog path between the inputs/outputs to the amp. (It's all in the digital domain). All components are connected to a single junction block leading to the battery via correct copper cabling.
But of course all variables must be checked. The DSP's RCAs do have continuity to system ground.
But at any rate, those are helpful ideas about isolating the power supply's ground. I'll give that and DigitalJunkie's idea a try!
I had a feeling it might be related to that but never found good "do and don't do" info when building the SMPS.
Thanks for the replies I'll post the results A.S.A.P.!
SMPS: +/-35V, 300W (tested max.). My schematic:
|15th October 2007, 06:45 AM
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Hey guys here are the results!
I tried your first suggestion (before resorting to a balanced input circuit) and isolating the SMPS worked great!
Also I was able to reconnect my SMPS's ground output to the +12V ground using a 10 ohm resistor as you mentioned. No noise then either!
Against my better judgement I originally removed the optional input ground-to-output ground jumper on my PCB I made and had to separate them physically for testing..but not too bad.
It turned that my ground loop was being created while my Planet Audio amplifiers still had there RCA cables (coming from the signal processor) plugged in when I removed one pair for using as an audio source for my homemade PA100 (LM3886) chip amps.
Isolating the SMPS ground worked great!
Thanks so much guys for your practical ideas. The sound quality is excellent too, by the way.
My dream for some time has been to successfully build my own car amplifier as well as get the info organized for others to do the same.
Now it is possible and I haven't been this happy since the first time I took a girl's bra off!
|15th October 2007, 12:44 PM
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Instead of a 10 ohm resistor, a better solution is a 10nF to 100nF capacitor (as done in most amplifiers) with an optional damper resistor in parallel (>100 ohms). The purpose of this capacitor in any SMPS is to AC-couple primary and secondary side grounds at RF to prevent common-mode electromagnetic interference due to transformer winding capacitances, but allowing they to float at lower audio frequencies thus breaking the ground loop.
You should also couple the heatsink of the SMPS to the 12V ground (to the same point where input EMI filter capacitors are grounded) with a 100nF capacitor. This will reduce EMI further. A parallel damper resistor may also be added. I don't recommend connecting the main amplifier heatsink to ground directly because this may lead to high currents flowing through unexpected paths...
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|16th October 2007, 09:43 PM
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Thanks! I will be adding those options to the SMPS circuit board when I redo the schematic and reduce the PCB size by about 1/2 (or smaller if possible).
My whole point in this is not only to build my own but also to document this properly (BOM, photos, etc.) since information regarding building your own SMPS is generally pretty poor.
|17th October 2007, 06:20 AM
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I could probably give you some more tips if you show me your layout. I'm currently laying out the PCBs for a very compact stereo full-range class D car amp
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This beaded bezel is a second part of a beadwork jewelry set, where you will be creating an adorable pumpkin pendant. Just in time for Autumn! Learn some basic techniques including stitching a bezel around a Rivoli or round Cabochon.
Make this piece in all sorts of bead color combinations, not just for autumn!
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MT. JULIET -- Funeral services will be conducted 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 29 at Bond Memorial Chapel for Mr. Hardy, 73, of Old Hickory.
A veteran of the U.S. Air Force and retired from the Federal Government after 41 years of service with the last years spend at NOAA, he died Oct. 25, 2011.
Mr. Hardy was the son of the late, Isaac Clarence and Martha Catherine Stodghill Hardy and was a member of Green Hill Church.
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And the answer is yes, and it didnt involve any camping gear!
Instead, we went to Chicago. The trip was filled with museums, the zoo, shopping Miracle mile, and bike rides on Lake Michigan. It was perfect, except. that due to the fact the trip was planned at the last minute, (by me) we decided to drive.
And that meant 7 hours, 20 minutes, 42 seconds, in the carwith our children.
One way!
When I was growing up, wed drive to the beach every summer.
No stops! That was Dads rule. And he wasnt kidding.
Sometimes, however, if he was particularly generous, hed stop at Stuckeys - to get my brother and I each a game book. You know - the kind where youd write in invisible spy ink. (I lived for those books!) And for 8 hours straight my brother and I would play hangman while munching on whatever my mother had packed in the picnic basket that was sitting on our laps in the backseat, along with pillows, blankets, blow up floats, towels and goggles.
Our children, however, are not knowledgeable in the ways of a road trip.
For most of their lives, they have flown to their destinations. And have mastered security checks, carry-on restrictions and convincing the air line stewardess to give them an extra bag of snacks.
So, when we told them they were driving to Chicago - they had NOOOOOO idea what that really meant.
We figured that out the first hour, when driving through Lafayette, our youngest asked Are we there yet?
Getting to the destination is never as bad as coming back. Only problem is that on the way there, they watched all their movies, read all their books and used up all the battery power in their iPods, iPads and Game Boys.
So after spending five, fabulous days bonding and enjoying family time in Chicago, it took 9 hours, 30 minutes and 33 seconds to pretty much ruin every moment of that!
First of all - getting out of Chicago - in the rain, in the dark, when your GPS is as confused as you are - is not a good start.
Neither is somehow getting yourself on a toll road and realizing your cash is limited. Thankfully, our teenager - didnt spend a dime of her money on the trip - and was grudgingly willing to lend us a few dollars. (Yes, Madison, we remember, we have to pay you back.)
So, after getting out of Chicago and back on the road - the torrential rain coupled with the fact that there is nothing for us to do!!! resulted in .memories.
And not the good kind.
Instead, the kind that will be brought up in therapy one day, when our kids disclose all the horrible things their parents said to them growing up.
Did I mention, the two hour detour through the Amish country of Kentucky?
Their father and I made lots of memories for them during those extra 2 hours as well!
Good times.
by Angel Kane
As the magazine has grown so has our participation in the community. For a third year in a row, we are proudly bringing back our Holiday Expo and in 2012 have plans to bring back the Second Annual Bridal Expo and Third Annual Womens Health Expo, in partnership with Summit Hospital. And when we are not putting on Expos, weve enjoyed helping out with smaller events with various retailers around the County. We stay busy and love every minute of it.
That being said, the November/December Issue being delivered in your Friday edition of the Wilson Post, is packed with a great stories about many of your neighbors. Be sure to pick up a copy as you will surely see someone you know within the pages.
And make sure to mark your calendars for the Dreams Boutique Exclusive Shopping Event, produced in conjunction with Wilson Living Magazine. The event, scheduled for?????, is an invitation only event where our readers will be invited to a sneak peak of the newest store on the Wilson County Square. This jewel of a store is the perfect place to spend an evening enjoying some ladies only time while shopping for something perfect just for you! Be on the look out for your invitation. Not on our mailing list? Then be sure to email us at email@example.com and we will be sure to include you. Its going to be a fun evening and you dont want to miss it!
And weve had quite a few calls about our Holiday Expo scheduled for November 18 and 19th. The Pre-Gala tickets, for the sneak peak shopping event on November 17th, go on-sale this Friday at the many WB&T branches in Wilson County and also at www.wilsonlivingexpo.com.
Tickets for the Breakfast with Santa, which will be held Saturday morning of the Expo, also go on sale this Friday and are available at Painturos in Lebanon and Mt. Juliet and also at Monograms Plus. The Art Mill will also be on hand Saturday to paint with the kids, while Mom and Dad shop!
Over 100 vendors are expected at our biggest Holiday Expo to date. Its going to be a wonderful shopping extravaganza with some of the best products in the state all under one roof. And Santa will be on hand both Friday and Saturday for photos with the kids. And this year we are pleased to announce that Lebanons own photographer, Ken Griffith, will be the man behind the lens.
There are only a few limited spaces available, so dont delay to call us at 969-6751.
Until next timekeep reading.
By Angel Kane
Photos and story by KEN BECK
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BUDDY, aka Gator Dog, aka Lucky
Master: Ronnie Miller, long haul driver for Yellow Jacket Transport
Breed: Part Jack Russell terrier, part beagle?
Age: 22 months
Favorite food: Four Winds Restaurant hamburger patty
Origin: Got him from a man in Wilson County who had three pups and was fixing to shoot them. Buddy is the lone survivor.
The story: Buddy has ridden more than 400,000 miles with his truck driver and seen 28 states. Back in June in Lake City, Fla., Buddy jumped in a lake to cool off and an alligator clamped his jaws down on him and took him under the water twice. All I can say is he was gone, said Miller. Amazingly, Buddy bit the gator in the eye and escaped. He bears scars from the watery adventure. He can open the windows and turn the lights on. I believe if he set his mind to it, he could actually drive the truck, Miller said.
I hope all of you are enjoying this fall weather. Our birds are making preparations for winter, so I thought it might be a good time to share with you some ideas for making bird treats for our feathered friends during the cooler months. Many different types of treats can be made at home for little money versus store bought treats which can be very costly! My children love to help make a few of these and they get so excited when the birds come to enjoy their creations.
One of the feeders I use in the winter was made by my husband out of an 8 piece of log. He drilled half-inch-to-one-inch holes into the log and added a small eye-hook to hang it with. My kids and I fill the holes with peanut butter and unsalted nuts. This is a huge hit with the woodpeckers. My kids also love to hunt for pine cones in the fall. We fill in the cracks with peanut butter and roll them in bird seed. Be sure to hang the pine cones with some strong string or fishing line otherwise the squirrels will run off with your treat!While searching online, I found a recipe for edible glue which consists of 3/4 cup flour, 1/2 cup water, and 3 tbsp. corn syrup (add package of plain Knox gelatin for extra holding power if you need it). To this you can add 4 cups of whatever your birds like mostunsalted nuts, raisins/fruit, bird seed, sunflower seeds, berries from your bushes, etc. You can form it into a shape or make squares to put in your suet feeders.
You can also buy lard from your local grocery, melt it and add peanut butter, bread crumbs, bird seed and dried fruit. Then pour the mixture into an empty plastic cup. (Be sure to punch a small hole in the bottom of your cup and put a string through it so you can hang it when you are done.) If the lard is too soft you can add cornstarch, flour or gelatin to firm it up. This one works best in the mid-to-late winter as warmer temps can make it very messy!
An easy way to make a garland is by using a thread or yarn with a needle and stringing bread, orange quarters, thick apple slices, cranberries, raisins, bananas, banana peppers, chili peppers or whatever else you can find. You can hang this garland on trees, shrubs, decks, etc. (Chili peppers will not harm the birds and may actually deter your squirrels. Birds do not have the taste receptors we have, therefore the heat from the peppers does not bother them.)
If you are like me I often times have left over rice, beans, or pasta from dinner, as well as bread or crackers that have gone stale. Spread the pasta, rice and beans out on the ground below the feeders for an occasional treat, and crumbling up the bread and crackers will make them last longer. Be sure that the rice is well cooked, because uncooked rice will swell in the birds bellies and can make them very ill. If you make popcorn that is unsalted you can also throw that out. Please be sure that whatever you give to our feathered friends contains little to NO salt!
I would like to again wish our friend and mentor, Ray, a speedy recovery. We all wish you well and look forward to the day you can return to writing your articles. Until then, I would like to thank all of you for your patience and I hope that I have provided you with some useful information.
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Digimon World: Dusk
Review by Sui89
"If you enjoy repetitive monotony, this game is for you"
Digimon World: Dusk, admittedly, is a game that I didn't play for the sake of playing. I played it in a game exchange with a friend. As such, obviously I'm probably not going to like it as much as something I picked up myself. But Digimon World: Dusk is a monster RPG that is aimed at one very specific type of audience. If you're not a part of this audience, you probably shouldn't play this game. It loses it's appeal after a couple of hours otherwise.
Graphics (6/10)
Technically speaking, the graphics in DWD aren't that bad at all. In fact, pretty much all of the sprites are well drawn and pleasant to look at. If the graphics rating was based solely on this, it would probably get a nine or ten. The problem lies in the other graphical parts of the game. We'll start with where the bulk of the game takes place: the battles.
The battles take place as sort of a first person view from the Digimon participating. Meaning you can't actually see your Digimon attack. I don't really like it when I can't see the attacker during the battle, but I'm willing to look past it, even though it does mostly mean that the developers were just too lazy to make sprites for multiple sides of the Digimon. The main flaw is that pretty much every attack looks exactly the same. If it's a physical attack, a little claw pops up. If it's not physical, a little colored blob comes up. If it hits multiple zones, apply this for all the zones. And that is every attack. I don't even think I'm exaggerating.
The next part that is flawed is the overhead maps. Not so much the graphics on them specifically as the animations on them. There are ladders everywhere. Your character climbs up these. Your Digimon do not. They just kind of sit there while you're climbing up and somehow magically appear again at the top when you get up there. This might seem irrelevant, but it's really kind of bothersome to see it every other screen. There's other little things like this in various places throughout the game that bother me a little bit too.
Sound (6/10)
The music isn't terrible. It's not good either. It's just kind of there making background sounds. I listened to it for a while, got tired of it since it wasn't overly exciting, and then turned it down and listened to my iPod instead. My main problem with the music is the relative lack of variety in the battle themes. There's a regular battle theme and then a boss battle theme. And not a lot more than that. And since the encounter rate is so high, you hear the same song over and over and over again. Which causes the aforementioned needing to turn it off and listen to your own music. But like I said, the music isn't terrible and it doesn't really get in the way of anything. It's just not exactly stellar either.
Gameplay (4/10)
This is the bulk of the game right here. Unfortunately, it's one of the most flawed parts in the game. The flaws are in several different parts. Again, we'll start with the battling itself.
There's a bunch of stuff I could complain about for the battles, but I'll try to keep it brief. The most important of the flaws is the encounter rate. The encounter rate for the game is stupidly high. Stupidly high. You walk three steps, you get in a battle. You go three more steps, you get in another battle. And so on. It takes forever just to get anywhere because it's making you battle way too often. And to make this effect even worse, there's no item whatsoever to decrease encounter rates that I know of. It's quite upsetting. Secondly, in the battles, there's the aforementioned relative lack of variety of attacks. Maybe there are a bunch of attacks. I have no idea. But it sure doesn't seem like it since all of the attacks do essentially the same thing and all look the same. Meh. And then there's the whole Digivolving thing. It's cool that you can go both forwards AND backwards with this, but I came to a point for some Digimon that I couldn't go forward at my max level because the required level for Digivolving was higher than my max level. That is not cool, and they should make sure that doesn't happen, if anything. Another beef I have is with having five tiers of evolutions. The first and the last are mostly unnecessary. The first because pretty much ALL of them are some variety of colored ball with eyes and a mouth. The last because it pretty much just makes the fourth bigger and adds a canon to their arm or something. It's pretty excessive, and in all reality, you don't even need them. I beat the game just fine not progressing to the Mega stage at all.
One nice thing is the actual way you come about getting Digimon though. Aside from the starters you get, you scan in data when you get in random encounters. Once your data scan percentage reaches 100, you can go convert the Digimon and use it. An unfortunate downside of this is that these Digimon always start at level 1, regardless of what the level the scan data was at when scanned. This usually is irrelevant, since the lower levels go by so quickly, and for the most part, you don't care about this. There are apparently about 400 different types of Digimon to collect too. But, like I said, due to having five tiers of evolutions, this is less than it sounds like. 400/5 = 80. So around 80 different lines of Digimon, if I had to guess. I'm sure it's more than that, but that's an estimate. My last beef with the Digimon themselves are that there are sprite recolors all over the place. Agumon and BlackAgumon, for example. They're the same sprite, except one's black and one's orange. It shows a relative lack of creativity for creating new and exciting Digimon on behalf of the game makers.
Next, the boss battles. And just the dungeons in general, actually. Everything was extremely easy. The only battle I had to redo period was the final boss. And that's only because my Digimon were pretty disgustingly underleveled by that point. But each and every boss battle can be won by using your strongest attacks, healing with the excess of healing items you bought earlier, repeat. Sometimes the boss battles take a while. Mostly, they do not. And they get easier as the game goes on since bosses take up three spaces and can be hit with multiple zone attacks. Everything is a little too simple for its own good.
And finally, I have a bunch of miscellaneous stuff to complain about for the gameplay. First and foremost (this is perhaps my biggest problem with the game), there is no map for areas. Period. This is especially relevant since the levels are often very maze-like, and you can't find your way around. Secondly, either you get too much money or stuff is too cheap. I could mass buy products 30 or 40 at a time, and buy every healing item in the shop and spend maybe an eighth of my total money. That shouldn't happen. Next, the way our menu operates. In order to see the next Digimon's stats from one Digimon's status page, you have to go all the way back to the main menu and manually select the next Digimon you want to see. If you ask me, it's kind of blatantly obvious that you need to put in the ability to scroll between status screens with L and R. I mean, you can do this in every other game ever made, so you would only think. Lastly, equipment items are mostly useless. There's not very many of them, and for the most part, you can leave them off and not notice a lot of difference in the performance of your Digimon in battle.
Story (2/10)
I pity you if you're playing this game for its story. I'll sum it up for you, if you're unaware of what it is: a virus infects the Digital World and you have to save the Digital World from it. That's it. It is extremely unclear as to what the enemy's actual motive is for trying to destroy CITY with a virus. It just seems like they're doing it simply to be evil. Shame on them.
Aside from that, there's not a lot of actual quests that are actually related to the story. You take on quests for random Digimon that are completely irrelevant to anything and everything. There's one where you have to go find a cake for a robot. I am not kidding. I was upset about this for literally days after I did this quest.
Suffice to say, the story is both non-existent and terrible at the same time. It's quite a feat.
Replay value (8/10)
This is actually one of the areas the game is legitimately decent on. As previously stated, there's about 400 Digimon to collect. If you're obsessive and want to collect them all, this would take quite a bit of time to do. Plus there's item completion that would take a little bit of time to complete. And there's extra quests that you don't unlock unless you have a specific Digimon of a specific personality or something like this. Getting all of those, plus doing all of the quests that are unlocked after the game is completed give the game a pretty good replay value, if you ask me. Of course, you have to want to play the game in the first place to want to do all of this stuff, but that is a different matter entirely.
Overall (5/10)
As a whole, DWD is a pretty average game that gets really old and boring to play fairly fast. But as a monster RPG, I guess it's okay. I wouldn't really recommend playing it unless you're a big fan of Digimon or monster RPGs. It's not exactly an outstanding game. In summary:
+ Over 400 different Digimon to collect
+ Game is decent length, taking about 25 hours to complete
+ Not too frustrating, so even a beginning to RPGs could pick it up easily
+ Well drawn sprites make it visually appealing some of the time
- Battle system becomes monotonous after several hours of playing
- Story is practically non-existent
- Encounter rate is way too high
- Menu system has issues
- Many elements of the graphics were lazily implanted
- A relative lack of difficulty adds to the monotony since every battle plays the same
Reviewer's Rating: 2.5 - Playable
Originally Posted: 05/12/08
Game Release: Digimon World: Dusk (US, 09/18/07)
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Jeremy Rosado: 'American Idol' judge Jennifer Lopez tried to save me
By Elizabeth Kwiatkowski, 03/09/2012
Jeremy Rosado
was ousted from
American Idol
, which determined its eleventh season's Top 12 finalists, during Thursday night's live results show broadcast on Fox.
Jeremy, a 19-year-old from Valrico, FL, became the first finalist sent home from
American Idol
's eleventh season after he and fellow contestant
Elise Testone
received the fewest home viewer votes -- the lowest guy and the lowest girl -- following Wednesday night's performance show, and Idol judges
Jennifer Lopez
Steven Tyler
Randy Jackson
then chose to eliminate Rosado over Testone due to a recently announced twist.
During a conference call with reporters on Friday, Jeremy talked to Reality TV World about his
American Idol
experience and early elimination from the competition -- including whether he believed he was at a disadvantage going into the rest of the season's performance shows since he had been selected as a "Wild Card" pick and five of the other six male finalists had advanced in the competition thanks to a larger amount of home viewer votes, whether he got a better explanation as to why the judges eliminated him in a split-decision vote and how many times he had auditioned for the
American Idol
before making it to the Hollywood Week Round.
Reality TV World: You were a "wild card" pick by the judges during last week's results show. So did you think you were kind of on "borrowed time" going into the rest of the performance shows considering at least five of the six other guys had already received more votes than you last week? How confident were you that you would or wouldn't be part of the bottom vote-getters this week?
Jeremy Rosado
That's kind of a rough question. (Laughs) I definitely felt like I had something to prove because I didn't get voted into the Top 13. I was just hoping that what I had done the night before [was enough].
Reality TV World:
Jennifer Lopez
was obviously a huge fan of you and seemed to be pulling for you. So have you gotten any details of how close the vote amongst the judges actually was? You made a comment earlier in the call that made it sound like you talked with Jennifer after the show and told you it was a split vote and she was outvoted -- did I understand that correctly, and if so, did you get any explanation why
Steven Tyler
Randy Jackson
voted against you?
Jeremy Rosado
You know, all I can say is that she was trying to save me. I'm not sure what happened, but I'm forever grateful not only to her for fighting for me until the end, but to Randy, and Steven and the producers.
Because if it weren't for all their votes that got me to this point, I wouldn't be here. So, I'm grateful. I believe Randy didn't think my performance was very strong the other night and then that's why he didn't want to put me through. But I'm blessed to have had his and their support this whole way.
Reality TV World: When
American Idol
decided to add Jermaine Jones to the Top 12 making it a Top 13, there was obviously one more guy than there were girls. So do you think the fact there was an extra guy played a role in your elimination in that maybe you weren't necessarily sent home because of your singing potential in the competition, but rather because the judges thought it would be good to even out the playing field?
Jeremy Rosado
That's a great question. You know what? It could have played a part, you know? But like I said before, I will never know. All I know is that they gave me an incredible opportunity to be standing on that stage for the past few weeks and I will be forever grateful.
Reality TV World: You mentioned you'd always wanted to be on
American Idol
-- was this the first time you ever tried out for the show?
Jeremy Rosado
I actually auditioned five times for the show and this was the first time I ever made it to Hollywood. And then that went on to making it all the way to the Top 13, which is crazy. Out of 2,000 people -- crazy, crazy blessing. I never dreamed that I would actually make it this far and I did, so praise God for that!
Reality TV World: Did you audition for the row consecutively or were there seasons you decided to skip in between? How did that play out?
Jeremy Rosado
I tried out consecutively for the past, what was it? Four years? Three years.
Also in the call, Jeremy told reporters how close he was with his fellow contestants, to what extent he was emotionally affected by his early ouster from the competition, whether he'd ever consider trying out for The Voice or The X Factor, and how much of a role he thought his Stevie Wonder song choice played in his elimination.
Jimmy Iovine had some harsh words for you last night, while judge
Steven Tyler
said he would've picked you to go home over Elise? What was it like hearing those comments considering you were already nervous?
Jeremy Rosado
It definitely didn't help. (Laughs) You know, it definitely made you think that you were definitely the one going home. But at the same, you just sit there hoping and praying that the outcome would be in my favor.
I'm grateful for the three of them -- for the four of them -- Jennifer, Jimmy, Steven, and
Randy Jackson
-- for the judges and the producers for bringing me this far. They obviously saw something and last night, Jennifer came up to me and told me she wanted to keep me and it definitely made me feel pretty good. I just lost the battle last night I guess.
How did it feel to have
Jennifer Lopez
in your corner? She seemed to really believe in you and care about you?
Jeremy Rosado
It was crazy. It was amazing. I will forever be grateful to her, you know what I mean, for her being on my side and fighting for me down to the last minute. But at the same time, I'm grateful for the judges and the producers, like I said before. Getting to the Top 13 of 100,000 people is not something that happens everyday and I really am just so blessed.
What was your relationship with contestant
Colton Dixon
like? He had some nice things to say about you following your elimination.
Jeremy Rosado
He became my big brother, completely -- my big brother. I'm going to miss him so much and I'm going to miss him and all my other brothers and sisters from the show. I love them so much and it's probably going to be the biggest thing I'll miss the most. Yeah, it's going to be not being with my family, my [fellow] contestants.
Did you cry after you got eliminated from the show? What emotions were you experiencing?
Jeremy Rosado
Oh yes, definitely happened. I definitely cried a lot. I cried and prayed and called my mom and my dad. So, yeah. It hurt a lot. I'm still devastated, but I'm recovering and I know only the best things are going to come from this.
American Idol
is a humongous platform and I've been so tremendously blessed to be on the show.
Are you interested in pursuing an acting career?
Jeremy Rosado
Yeah, I love acting and singing -- hopefully do some TV, movies or something -- a record deal. Big dreams, you know? So I'm just hoping that maybe someone will reach out to me. We'll see what happens. I know God has got everything under control, so I'm excited.
Now that you have the time, do you think you will try out for other singing competition shows like
The Voice
The X Factor
Jeremy Rosado
No, I think
American Idol
was the show that I've always wanted to try out for, and this show has done so much for me. The two reasons I wouldn't audition for another show like that -- I think the first one is because they won't take me because I've made it this far onto this show, and second, I think
American Idol
has done a lot for me and given me a huge head start in my career. So I'm hoping for just doors to open just from having this in my life.
What are your plans for the near future?
Jeremy Rosado
I've got some more press to do over the next week. That's pretty much it for now. I'm going to go home to be with my family and my church and yeah -- just hope and pray for something.
You were surprised to be eliminated?
Jeremy Rosado
I think my performance was strong enough to still be in the competition. I thought I would still be there today, but in that moment when we were standing there together, I had a gut feeling that it wasn't going to be me. Elise is amazing and she so deserves it, so I'm sad it had to be me, but I'm happy for her to the end.
What did you think about the twist in which it came down to the judges' decision and how that might have impacted you going home? Do you think if the rules had stayed the same and based the elimination on America's vote that you'd still be in it over Elise?
Jeremy Rosado
You know, I will never know if I was the one with the lowest number or if I would have been the one staying, but I kind of wish it was down the regular way so I could have seen how it played out by America. But at the same time, she's amazing. It might have just been her anyway. It might have remained the way it was by America's vote. I will just never know.
Why do you think you had such a strong connection with
Jennifer Lopez
Jeremy Rosado
That was a huge blessing and it will forever be a huge blessing, and you know, just to think that she saw something in me that was special to her. I honestly believe it was just my heart and I lied my heart out on my sleeve every time that I performed, and I know she felt it. And I praise God that I made it this far.
You all were expected to sing Whitney Houston or Stevie Wonder songs, which is a pretty tall order for your first performance. How did you feel when you learned you'd have to sing a Stevie Wonder classic?
Jeremy Rosado
I was scared. (Laughs) It's not easy being Stevie Wonder -- nobody will ever be Stevie Wonder. He's one of the greatest of all time and I was just hoping that I could do my own thing with the song and it definitely worked Jennifer. Jennifer, she loved it, and Steven liked it too the other night. Randy not so much, but I don't know. I thought it was pretty good for what it was.
Was there anything you would have done differently?
Jeremy Rosado
I don't know, maybe sang better I guess. I don't know what I could have done to make it better. I thought that my journey was pretty good, you know? -- All the way. I can't change what's already done, but I can praise God for how far I've gotten. I'm just so grateful, very grateful.
"Ribbon in the Sky" seemed to be a difficult song choice. Looking back, do you wish you had selected another song to perform?
Jeremy Rosado
I probably would have, you know? I probably would have picked a different song. It wasn't a bad performance. I thought I did pretty good, pretty well. I wish they could have been -- things could have changed. I'm not sure what I could have done differently. I think I sang my heart out and I put my heart out on my sleeve and got eliminated, which stinks. But what can you do?
Now that you've been eliminated, who are your favorites to win the competition?
Jeremy Rosado
I honestly can't even pick anybody. I honestly love each and every one of them as my brothers and my sisters, and they're all in their own right absolutely amazing. Every one of them deserves to still be there, so I'm just excited to see how it all plays out and see who ends up being the winner.
Ryan Seacrest
had basically said that everyone needs to get to know
Jeremy Rosado
. How much do you think it hurt your place in the competition that you weren't featured in some of the earlier episodes as much as some of the other contestants? When you made it far in Hollywood Week, that was basically the first time viewers saw you. Do you feel like that may be why you initially didn't make the Top 12, because the audience just wasn't that familiar with you?
Jeremy Rosado
I think that could have played a part, definitely. But at the same time, I can't be upset at the producers for the way it was edited. I mean, I wasn't featured in the beginning, but I was featured on the show and they brought me this far, do you get what I mean? So, I'm just grateful that I got to this point and it was just meant to be.
You said you have always been a fan of
American Idol
. Watching the show over the years, has there been a contestant who really inspired you or motivated you to audition?
Jeremy Rosado
I saw the last episode of the very first season when
Ryan Seacrest
said, "The winner of
American Idol
Kelly Clarkson
." And from that moment on, she completely inspired me to be like, "Whoa. This is my dream. This is what I want to do one day." That was the first time that I've ever seen the show and I was like, "Wow, this is what I want to do."
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The 28-year-old defender is leaving following the arrival of Paul Lambert as manager during the summer.
"I have to say that these last four years have been the most enjoyable of my entire football career," said Rubio.
"Livingston will always have a special place in my heart and I will never forget the good times I spent here with the staff and the supporters."
Rubio, who was known by his nickname instead of his given name, Oscar Montalban Ramos, joined from Portuguese side Farense in 2001.
He helped Livi lift the CIS Insurance Cup last year and also netted the club's first European goal, against Liechtenstein side FC Vaduz in the Uefa Cup in August 2002.
Rubio, who made 142 starts and and came on six times as a substitute, is second only to David Bingham in terms of club appearances.
Chief executive Vivien Kyles, who expects Rubio to return to Spanish football next season, said: "Oscar has been a popular figure with staff, team-mates and supporters at Livingston during the last four years.
"He was an important member of the side as it consolidated its position after a promotion to the SPL a few years ago and we wish him all the best for the future."
Meanwhile, French midfielder Franck-Augustin Dia will join Belgian defender Harald Pinxten at Livingston for a trial on Monday.
The 27-year-old Pinxten, presently with Antwerp, is already at Almondvale and could win himself a two-year deal.
Dia, a 26-year-old born in the Ivory Coast whose contract with French Second Division side Angers has expired, will train with the squad before joining their Italian training camp.
Livingston are also reportedly interested in Shamrock Rovers' transfer-listed midfielder, Patrick McCourt, who has previously been linked with Bristol City and Motherwell.


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Dr. Werner Senator, non-Zionist member of the Jewish Agency Executive in Palestine, gave strong expression to his views on the statement made by Rabbi Meier Berlin in London, before the annual conference of the Mizrachi Organization of Great Britain on November 13th.
In the statement referred to, Rabbi Berlin dealt with the tremendous growth among the Jewish population of the urge towards Palestine. He went on to criticize the present system of immigration by means of a labor schedule. He said that the immigration system imposed a serious difficulty on the upbuilding work, as they were allowed so many and no more certificates by the government. He added that "the position had been made even more difficult because of certain members of our Executive who appeared to be more in agreement with the government than loyal to the needs of the Jewish people."
Referring to the position of the Mizrachi in the Executive, Rabbi Berlin was reported to have said, "I do not know what will be tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, but I cannot stress too much that we are a minority and that although we take part in the control of practical affairs, responsibility cannot be placed on us."
Dr. Senator's statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency deals specifically with these two observations by Rabbi Berlin. He said, "I have had an opportunity of going into the statement reported to have been made in London by Rabbi Berlin, the Mizrachi leader, on November 14th, regarding political questions and the internal position in the Executive.
"Concerning immigration in Palestine, Rabbi Berlin states that certain members of the Executive appear to be more in agreement with the Government than loyal to the needs of the Jewish people. It is not difficult to guess the source from which the leader of Mizrachi has received his information which I regard as a pernicious attempt to defame one section of the Executive in the eyes of the Jewish people. It is a very bad feature of our public life that some of the leaders of the movement find it necessary to resort to such methods.
"With regard to the matter itself, the Executive has at various opportunities made it abundantly clear to the Government as well as to the Jewish public that the present system of regulating immigration has its serious drawbacks. However, as long as the present law exists, the Jewish Agency has to abide by it. It has always been our practice to make firm presentation of our case to the Government, basing our proposals on thorough and detailed investigations. The results recently achieved by this method seem to us to justify the procedure adopted. We must dissociate ourselves from proposals which are launched purely for propaganda purposes and have no foundation in reality. Such methods, if accepted by the Executive of the Jewish Agency, would only undermine our position vis-a-vis the Government and work to the detriment of Jewish immigration.
"I must also express my entire disagreement with Rabbi Berlin's statement that the Mizrachi cannot be held responsible for the actions of the Executive. The Mizrachi is part of the Executive, and as such shares full responsibility, which is accentuated by the fact that Mr. Farbstein, the prominent Mizrachi leader has now, in addition to his Middleclass Department taken over the conduct of the Treasury. Mr. Farbstein, together with his colleagues on the Treasury Committee, must even bear a special responsibility for the financial policy adopted since the meeting of the Actions Committee held in London, August, 1932. Of course, we will have to share this responsibility as members of the Jewish Agency Executive, but statements such as have been made by Rabbi Berlin will not, at any rate, free the Mizrachi from carrying part of the burden.
"It is highly regrettable that leaders of the parties who are expected to do their utmost to strengthen the position of the Executive in the present difficult times, should allow themselves to make statements which must only be detrimental to the prestige of the Executive and its whole work. I wish to make it clear that those of us who have so far refrained from bringing their internal grievances before the public, will not in future allow such statements to pass unchallenged."


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Despite rapidly emerging innovative road pricing and investment principles, the development of a long run network dynamics model for necessary policy evaluation is still lagging. This research endeavors to fill this gap and models the impacts of road financing policies throughout the network equilibration process. The manner in which pricing and investment jointly shape network equilibrium is particularly important and explored in this study. The interactions among travel demand, road supply, revenue mechanisms and investment rules are modeled at the link level in a network growth simulator. After assessing several measures of effectiveness, the proposed network growth model is able to evaluate the short- and long-run impacts of a broad spectrum of road pricing and investment policies on large-scale road networks, which can provide valuable information to decision-makers such as the implications of various policy scenarios on social welfare, financial situation of road authorities and potential implementation problems. Some issues hard to address in theoretical analysis can be examined in the agent-based simulation model. As a demonstration, we apply the network growth model to assess marginal and average pricing scenarios on a sample network. Even this relatively simple application provides new insights into issues around road pricing that have not previously been seriously considered. For instance, the results disclose a potential problem of over-investment when the marginal cost pricing scheme is adopted in conjunction with a myopic profit-neutral investment policy.
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FCC Chairman Wheeler's response to Verizon's rationale on throttling: "All the kids do it" is not an excuse
0. phoneArena posted on 08 Aug 2014, 19:12
It is hardly an official regulatory action, but it does not help the PR campaign either. We can see our...
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1. syncronyze (Posts: 103; Member since: 26 Apr 2014)
2. Duketytz (Posts: 534; Member since: 28 Nov 2013)
Dear sir, I like you!
3. mturby (unregistered)
Throttling should be illegal. Carriers cant prove that massive data usage could harm their or other consumers services. Data usage is just like a normal PC Internet usage. F***k u Verizon!
4. Mxyzptlk (unregistered)
Except Verizon's network has gone down many times in the past because of overload.
7. TheMan (Posts: 493; Member since: 21 Sep 2012)
??? Where and when has that happened?
I know that AT&T has that issue in NYC and the SF Bay Area, but not VZW.
11. timepilot84 (Posts: 113; Member since: 16 Aug 2012)
Throttling should be allowed to prevent complete network outages, but throttling based on what service plan a user has is pure BS, plain and simple. According to this plan, regardless of how much data is being used currently by the "high use" unlimited user, they'll be throttled in a crowded area.
17. Augustine (Posts: 1043; Member since: 28 Sep 2013)
Data cannot bring a well-designed and well-managed voice network down. If it comes down and VZW blames illusive data hogs, it's just making them scapegoats for their incompetence.
18. corporateJP (Posts: 2458; Member since: 28 Nov 2009)
23. reckless562 (banned) (Posts: 1153; Member since: 09 Sep 2013)
Well said augustine!!!!
15. Augustine (Posts: 1043; Member since: 28 Sep 2013)
Which is the fault of VZW, not of its customers.
16. Augustine (Posts: 1043; Member since: 28 Sep 2013)
We don't need no more laws like that, rather only those that empower consumers. Like if a customer is throttled, it's a breach of contract and therefore he's off the hook of the ETF.
24. reckless562 (banned) (Posts: 1153; Member since: 09 Sep 2013)
HEEELLLLLLLl YEAAAA!!!!
ur a TRUE American!!!!
22. reckless562 (banned) (Posts: 1153; Member since: 09 Sep 2013)
said it like a TRUE American!!!!
5. Mxyzptlk (unregistered)
This has got to be the dumbest regulation. Data speed isn't guaranteed. They're only throttling you if you use a ton of data during peak times when bandwidth is limited.
They're not throttling your service entirely.
6. wumberpeb (Posts: 453; Member since: 14 Mar 2011)
There are several areas across this country where the cell site closest to your home or business is constantly being overloaded. Trying to get the most of your unlimited data plan, save for those using extraordinary amount of data per month (far more than the measly 4.7 GB Verizon deems the top 5%), will feel like a constant exercise in patience. So those who are unfortunate enough to live or work in a high traffic area will unfortunately be penalized more often.
Data speeds are certainly not guaranteed, and most every user is accustomed to this part of life, but they're not taking about reducing your speeds from 25Mbps to 8. Throttling usually entails 3G level speeds or worse. Maybe I missed the part where they specifically announced what these speeds would be, but their likely a small fraction of normal throughput...
...and that's the incredibly unfair part
26. reckless562 (banned) (Posts: 1153; Member since: 09 Sep 2013)
thank you!!
25. reckless562 (banned) (Posts: 1153; Member since: 09 Sep 2013)
jump off a cliff please......
look i OWN vzw stock, but that DONT mean i want them being Assholes like this.
8. dtownlyricalmc (Posts: 2; Member since: 31 Jul 2014)
How about Verizon upgrade their infrastructure and stop putting the blame on the customer. I guess it's our fault that they are still running copper for backhaul as well to right? How a about you need to get fiber ran for your backhaul which just may help clear up these imaginary issues your having. Now lets get into this whole throttling people thing is a bunch of bull especially seeing that 4.7 GB is the cap which is ever so close to the 5 GB that AT&T throttles at. So let me get this straight you launch XLTE which will lead to faster speeds and double the bandwidth by cycling phones between the 700 mhz band and AWS band, you force people to use wifi due to crappy data package price points and your still having network problems yeah ok Verizon no one is buying that bull your selling.
27. reckless562 (banned) (Posts: 1153; Member since: 09 Sep 2013)
Hell no were not!!!! well said!!!!
9. gazmatic (Posts: 795; Member since: 06 Sep 2012)
I would hate to be throttled... unlimited should mean unlimited...
I would understand if it was a 5gb plan and you are throttled after you reach your limit but... come on
In my country they dont throttle you...mainly because most people are on prepaid plans... so if you reach your limit you either pay for more or you are cut off
10. cheeseycheeser (Posts: 413; Member since: 24 Mar 2011)
Ever since around the time this was announced I've noticed that it is nearly impossible to watch YouTube videos on my unlimited verizon data plan (I use about 8gb a month)
28. reckless562 (banned) (Posts: 1153; Member since: 09 Sep 2013)
Better call em!!!!!! give em an earfull for me!!!
12. Grenmad (Posts: 35; Member since: 06 Jun 2014)
This is FALSE ADVERTISING and should be stopped by the FTC. The FTC sued and stopped Shell Oil from making claims of their Super Unleaded gasoline giving better performance and mileage from their commercials. The FTC also sued and stopped Airborne vitamins from making claims that it will prevent the common cold. The term "unlimited data" needs to be changed to "unlimited after throttle" or "throttled after limit".
13. wumberpeb (Posts: 453; Member since: 14 Mar 2011)
The whole argument that someone should sue because it's "false advertisement" is blatantly ignoring exactly what "unlimited" entails: the quantity. They're not limiting the quantity, because you can grab as much as your phone can handle. It's a reduced speed, sure, but you can still use it as much as you want.
It's the "end around" that companies who employ throttling techniques can get away with. I'm certainly not in favor of this crippling new rule, but nobody is getting sued for false advertising. They never advertised unlimited data AND speeds, gotta read all the fine print.
As much as people bang in Sprint for their coverage in rural areas, anyone claiming their "suing for false advertisement" of their coverage loses all of their credibility as an informed customer. It's the same idea, read the fine print off the contracts YOU sign.
29. reckless562 (banned) (Posts: 1153; Member since: 09 Sep 2013)
thats y i HAVE sprint!!! unltd data baby, NO throttling here!! (i live in Los angeles)
14. Leo_MC (Posts: 2685; Member since: 02 Dec 2011)
How about adding extra towers in crowded areas?
19. corporateJP (Posts: 2458; Member since: 28 Nov 2009)
This is the flip-side of the FCC here.
Laziness, red-tape, and lobbyists are keeping this from happening.
Go for a visit to Maine, parts of Montana and Colorado, upper Michigan, and Northern Minnesota, then come back to me. Most of these places only have one working carrier where they could have two or more, but bullsh*t keeps this from happening.
For every one thing the FCC does good, they do either ten things bad or nothing at all.
20. Leo_MC (Posts: 2685; Member since: 02 Dec 2011)
Change the laws; you are the citizens, you have the power (or so it should be).
21. corporateJP (Posts: 2458; Member since: 28 Nov 2009)
"or so it should be" is more correct.
31. reckless562 (banned) (Posts: 1153; Member since: 09 Sep 2013)
we gotta do beter, idk, must be the apple iphone ppl that dont vote or something


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