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Let $J$ be an almost complex structure on an algebraic variety $V$. As we all know, $J$ comes from a complex structure if the Nijenhuis tensor of $J$ vanishes. What I would like to know is if there exists a simpler characterisation of integrability than this for varieties (as opposed to general manifolds).
If you want equivalent conditions to the Nijenhuis tensor vanishing then one is that the induced $\bar \partial$ operator defines a complex, i.e. that $\bar \partial^2 = 0$. Another one is that the exterior derivative decomposes as $d = \partial + \bar \partial$. If you want explicit examples of almost complex manifolds that are not complex, that's going to be more difficult, see the answers to tinyurl.com/4zrkar6
To find the $\bar \partial$ operator associated to an almost complex structure $J$ on a smooth manifold $M$, one needs to note that $J$ induces a splitting $T_M \otimes \mathbb C = T^{1,0} \oplus T^{0,1}$ of the tangent bundle into $i$ and $-i$ eigenvectors (the eigenspaces being marked with $(1,0)$ and $(0,1)$, respectively).
The same thing happens on the level of 1-forms (and indeed on the level of $k$-forms): they split into $(p,q)$-forms like on complex manifolds. If $\pi^{p,q} : \bigwedge^k T_M \to \bigwedge^{p,q} T_M$ is the projection onto the space of $(p,q)$-forms, then the $\bar \partial : \bigwedge^{p,q} T_M \to \bigwedge^{p,q+1} T_M$ operator associated to $J$ is $\bar \partial_J = \pi^{p,q+1} \circ d$.
Once one does the calculations this comes out to $$ \bar \partial \alpha = \frac 1 2 \left( d \alpha + i d J \alpha \right) $$ for a $(p,q)$-form $\alpha$. A similar formula holds for the $\partial$ operator, you just have to change $i$ to $-i$. (I may have confounded the signs here.)
A very good reference for the linear algebra parts (i.e. most of this) is Chapter 2 of Huybrecht's "Complex geometry".
For the conditions equivalent to the vanishing of the Nijenhuis tensor I seem to remember the first chapter of http://tinyurl.com/4cqspu7 Moroianu's notes on Kahler geometry being very helpful when I went through this a couple of months ago.
Finally, on why the vanishing of the Nijenhuis tensor implies that we indeed have a complex structure I recommend Demailly's book - Chapter 8, section 11 (page 396) has all the details: http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~demailly/manuscripts/agbook.pdf


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You've got a blank sheet of paper, and you want to play ASAP. Excellent. This is what I've done successfully:
You're ready to play!
After your first session, follow up with:
I would do the following. Note this is also found on my blog here .
This will probably run to about 10,000 words. You can do this in about 2 weeks spending about 2 hours an evening at a 1,000 words a evening and time drawing maps. Or consider it about 24 hours of work.
This is being expanded in the following posts.
A Fantasy Sandbox in detail Part I covers Step 1
A PDF Collecting the above steps into a printable book can be downloaded.
Start with what you know you and your friends like.
You should establish a basic setting and campaign focus, depending on the themes you know your players will enjoy. Decide if its going to focus on combat, investigation, exploration, etc, and if the setting fits or inverts that style of play. For example, a campaign that takes place in Rome during the height of the Western Empire lends itself well to investigation, but less so to exploration.
As an example, I had a group of players that liked role playing and investigation. I started a campaign set in an alternative 950 AD Bavaria, where enemies could be fierce but were more likely to run away if they dropped below 50% hitpoints - meaning, they were always willing to talk first and cut a deal.
Add a base and adventure location.
Knowing the above, you should have base culture/setting in mind. Add a starting base and and adventure location, plus 3-4 additional encounters and 2-4 NPC personalities. Again, focus on what your players like and don't like. Don't run an adventure after Sunday school that features a base at a brothel.
In the adventure above, I started with an inn located on a recently flooded river and a hidden fortress under a waterfall, complicated by a small tribe of starving goblins and a creepy harpy that never revealed herself.
Take notes during the first session.
Most adventures I run "create" future adventures through how players treat the NPCs. Attach facts to NPCs as they are played, and listen to what your players think about them. If NPCs develop personalities during the session, you should fill out their backgrounds and associated locations before the next session.
During the adventure above, an orc who was staying with the goblins became the focus of a bait and switch with a sword with a continual light spell on it. The players loved the NPC so much, they persuaded a new player to play the orc character. The players also were interested in where the goblins came from, and why the harpy was so afraid to show herself.
Build out from the first session.
After the first session, add more surrounding details. Put that dungeon location and the base into a more defined region, and add a new dungeon location.
After the adventure above, I knew I had to locate the goblin's lair, and fill out the background of a ghost (from which the harpy was hiding) as well as a nearby tiny town where the players would eventually train.
What I would not do:
Try to create a campaign setting.
What I would do:
Make a list of all the ideas and concepts I want to use in the setting. Put the list away and go and make a cup of tea. Go through the list and make connections between the items. Leave all the dangly bits, because I'll find ways to connect them later.
That's it. Really. You don't want to try to create the whole thing from scratch or, and this is important, it will never happen. Start small, start with a bunch of ideas, build outward as the game goes on. Ideas will occur in play which would never have done so beforehand, and best of all, the players will come up with ideas that you can pinch and include.
Here's a (truncated) example of one of my lists:
Zombie apocalypse
So what have we got? Well, let's say the zombie apocalypse rendered the original continent on this world uninhabitable, so there was a diaspora. One of the destinations was a small colony on the shore of a distant land, and now this colony is the main setting for the game. The new continent is vast and unexplored, and with many, if not most, of the fighting types having been killed in the Zombie Wars, probably in some kind of Dunkirk type rearguard action, the taming of this new land is left to the youthful heroes of the new generation (the players).
One particular danger in this new land is that it is ruled by vast beasts. These things stomp about causing all sorts of trouble, and generally make expansion rather difficult for the new arrivals, so a sort of Very Big Game hunting culture has arisen, with groups of heroes going out into the wilderness to take down these titans, and bring back trophies in order to improve their standings in an informal league of adventurers. Though it is serious business, this playful attitude is tolerated, even encouraged, as it inspires more youngsters to sign up to pacify the wilderness.
(In game terms, each of these giant beasts is a huge specimen of an iconic D&D monster, and there's only ever one of them. So there's one huge hydra, one massive manticore, one bloody big beholder, and so on. They're so big they cannot be easily or quickly harmed by simple sword strokes, and the heroes have to come up with more clever methods of attack. There may be an indigenous tribe of orcs or something, but for the most part, there's only one of each monster.)
So there you have a sandbox-type setting, with a base of operations, and a unique feel via the sport analogy and the giant monsters; all that from about fifteen minutes' work.
Rich Burlew at Giant in the Playground Games has an amazing series of guides to worldbuilding, including a side-along walkthrough of himself creating a setting from scratch.
What it boils down to is two general directions:
The main difference between the two is personal playstyle, in addition to what kind of game you're building it for.
I like to start with a village or town and then build and develop a few miles around it. This gives the players a base of operations, a place to heal and a place to upgrade their gear or blow all their money. It doesn't take too much time. Sketch some of the more important locals, a temple a noble or two, a couple guards and some other colorful characters. Oh of course you are going to need a tavern.
Step 1: Figure out why
Step 2: Planning
Step 3: Mechanic Writing and Building
Step 4: develop the environment
Step 5: Revise and expand
Step 6: Edit and Playtest and Edit
Step 7: Cut it into publishable chunks
In general, if you want to start "right off", for home play, start with a bottom-up, and let the players help design the central elements. You'll be skipping steps 6 & 7, and 5 will be done as you develop more adventures. Having run several campaigns this way, it works really well.
There is also http://www.io.com/~sjohn/demog.htm also known as
Medieval Demographics Made Easy
You can start either at the top or the bottom, I think its realistic to start at the bottom because starting at the top makes things top heavy I find (its all a nation of orks, a nation of gnolls, a nation of trolls ,etc when realistically the modern nation is not very old.).
Unless I was very averse to it, I would try to get a firm grasp of what feudalism is. Maybe read a bit of history.
You can also start at the very bottom which is game mechanics and build up from there, but that requires a bit more foresight.
In your context, friends who want to play right now this minute, I'd start with an initial adventure and starting point, seed it with a ton of ideas that the players can follow, and build the world from what they do.
In more concrete terms I'd come up with a basic scenario with at least three "sides", a map of where at least two are (the third side provides the "in"), and at least two personalities per side. Have side three get the characters involved and then grow from there. Steal a setup from a favorite movie or book to start.
Worked Example: A Fist of Seven Silver Pieces
South of the last Barony is a colony of people. The descendants of escaped outlaws they now are mostly simple farmers just trying to eek out an existence. However, they have found a small cache of old imperial silver they have used to trade for a better life. Now their mule trains to the last Barony are being raided. They've hired the adventurers to end the raids.
What the farmers don't realize is there are two groups raiding them, a group of orcs from some local caves and some of the young men of the village using a ruined Imperial border post.
Now, create the two young men leading the raiders and WHY, the orc shamen and chieftan, the village headman and his young daughter (who is in love with the lieutenant of the raiders instead of their leader).
Things that provide hooks for the future: all six characters, the raider's motivation, the ruins, something special about the Imperial silver coins (perhaps minted by a supposedly legendary Emperor-Mage who most don't believe existed but created a grand spell/item...is it in the caves) and so on. Plus, your players will invent connections you didn't think of...run with them.
Everything here is stolen from common items (two westerns, stereotypes, etc) and is easy to create (cave map, ruined outpost...all easily found online), and six characters.
That could get up you up and running Saturday even.
I've started a couple of times, years ago, by reading the Dungeoncraft serie by Ray Winninger. It explains and gives structure to the campaign building process. The second time I used it just as reference but it still was super-useful :)
I think you need to answer two questions before you follow any of the great counsel offered by other responses: 1) What kind of adventures do I want and like to run, and 2) What kind of adventures does my group like to undertake?
Don't set yourself up for frustration by over-fashioning your own world if, by their nature and temperament, your gamers are more enthused by hack-and-slash and don't require much depth, history, etc. Believe me, you'll find yourself trying to force them to care about the hours of work you put in, and everyone will be dissatisfied.
If every now and then they like to dabble in some history, but not much, buy someone else's world and adapt according to your good pleasure--that's your prerogative.
If your group loves geological and historical and magical histories and background and depth, then by all means, go ahead!
If you're like me, a lazy DM, then I suggest the following: Start with an initial adventure, an initial town, a handful of NPC names, each with a one-line description of what they look like and how they behave. I like hex maps so I'll pick six adventure ideas and place them around the starting area. I'll write a random encounter table. If you're good at improvising, just use a random monster table (and maybe some wandering NPCs?) that reflects the seven locations you have and the general area. If you need more structure, prepare a real encounter with each of the monsters and NPCs you picked. Then start to play. Keep adding just-in-time information and adventures as the game develops.
This approach makes sure that you don't waste a lot of time on stuff that won't get used. It treats actual gaming as top priority and assumes that you don't enjoy world-building per se. If you do, ignore this advice. :)
Gather your players together and run a game of Microscope.
I've only done this for one game so far but it's generated a very interesting world history that the players have had input to and so know some background for immediately. I then expanded on this history and filled out interesting places and events hinted out by the Microscope gave.
I have two rules for setting generation: Broad and Small.
A few sentences that tell you why this setting is going to be AWESOME (by whatever definition you use). These are broad strokes, designed to help you stay focused on what things to include or flavor to go for. "Dragons psionically holding together the Material Plane against Cthulhu things. Airships powered by sentient meteorites. Repeating design work on everything, interlocking like Islamic art."
A town, a few interesting NPCs. A dungeon or place of adventure, a few interesting NPCs. Within this situation, put in a few rumors, hooks and potential directions things can go from there - if the players show interest, you know what section to develop next.
The players will make up backstories too, which also helps develop your world.
Broad covers the fun unique parts, small is the parts the players regularly engage with. Don't build stuff unless it's very likely to see play - no point in making 200 pages of setting if you only play 5 sessions.
Building a fantasy setting is hard, damn hard. You have to think a lot of things and make them coherent. Also, you don't have to have dark spots. The best to do is to create a "small island" in a well-built, pre-made setting.
That said, if you really want to develop a setting all by yourself, you should define the following things first:
You can stop here. Once you know these things, you choose one city where things start. That city and kingdom must be well defined, so you have to concentrate a lot on its NPC, buildings and problems. Normally, a campaign involves traveling and interacting, so you will eventually need to refine the outside world later on. Having a rough idea of what's outside the borders of the country the characters start in allows you to define a plot, and from this plot, you can plan what kind of details you will need later on.
For inspiration, I strongly suggest you to read European history, and Italian lords families such as Medici, Savoia, Estensi, Gonzaga. There's plenty of inspiration in there.
Here's what I did:
I'd start with a megadungeon, and build the first few levels (about twice as far as you think the players will get in the first session, just in case), simply because they're a great way to keep a party occupied. Then fill in some general terrain around it, a village/town/city or two.
Have some areas around your core, where the various player characters come from. Do this after the players have decided their race and general background.
Build out from there with different types of landscape and monsters. Make a handful of NPCs and give them various problems based on their surroundings. Some the PCs can help, some they can't. Try to make the NPCs be more than quest-givers. Some background is good, and makes the world seem more real.
Place some dungeons occasionally, with various justifications as to what they use to be. A few crypts or cemeteries, some castles/keeps, a handful of caves, and an abandoned town should generally be enough for the starting area.
You'll need some explanation as to why there isn't a local ruler getting rid of the monsters. Various methods I've used or seen are:
Make sure that as the players explore, you generate new areas of the map for them. Also, let them find new 'base camps' from where they can explore. This should come naturally from how you built your core. Make sure to have accurate maps for where all the new areas are.
After that, you have to decide where to take it. You can develop governments and nations, or wilderness and dungeons.
One important piece of advice: Don't go into detail for a region the PCs won't reach in the next few sessions. By the time they get there, your underlying situation may have changed a lot. Or they may simply keep going in the opposite direction.
Also, you don't have to balance everything. If the players know that there are some things out there they are no match for yet, they are more careful but also more motivated.
I would start with what your players want. What do they want to play, and what story do you want to tell? When you get their input, then you can move on to more specific setting creation.
Start with the God Mythos that you want to use. Is it one that exists already, or is it your own, or a combination of the two? This then will give you the greatest culture upon your planet.
Now draw a map of your new planet, with the continents, land masses, and oceans named. Now decide how many cultures are on your planet, and then place them. Also create one unique culture that you and others won't recognize where you got it from.
Now how magical of a world do you want? How many suns and moons do you want?
Don't do the earth, reason being that it's too restricting on what you can and can't do, for history has already done this for you!
Now you are on your way and the rest will flow from you. Remember the old books you read; use them as examples to stay away from. You can use a small percentage from foreign works — just have your own ideas so outnumber the borrowed ones that it shows. It shows you liked that concept and thus why you included it; but don't do this to often, otherwise it looks like all you know how to do is borrow from others. (The book Dinotopia did this too much, and that cheapened it.)
Also create a list of rules alterations to give to the players from the start.
Now have fun and create.


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Feature-rich Tools for Debugging Mixed Signal Designs
Offering up to 200 MHz bandwidth and 1 GS/s sample rate, the MSO/DPO2000 Mixed Signal Oscilloscope Series delivers advanced debug features at an entry-level price. With up to 20 channels for analyzing analog and digital signals, you can quickly find and diagnose problems in complex designs. To capture long windows of signal activity while maintaining fine timing resolution, the MSO/DPO2000 offers a deep record length of 1 Mpoints standard on all channels.
With Wave Inspector® controls for rapid waveform navigation and automated serial and parallel bus analysis, the MSO/DPO2000 Oscilloscope Series from Tektronix provides the feature-rich tools you need to simplify and speed debug of your complex design.
Comprehensive Features Speed Every Stage of Debug
The MSO/DPO2000 Series offers a robust set of features to speed every stage of debugging your design – from quickly discovering an anomaly and capturing it, to searching your waveform record for the event and analyzing its characteristics and your device's behavior.
DiscoverTo debug a design problem, first you must know it exists. Every design engineer spends time looking for problems in their design, a time-consuming and frustrating task without the right debug tools.
The MSO/DPO2000 Series offers complete visualization of signals, providing fast insight into the real operation of your device. A waveform capture rate of 5,000 waveforms per second enables you to see glitches and other infrequent transients quickly, revealing the true nature of device faults. A digital phosphor display with intensity grading shows the history of a signal's activity by intensifying areas of the signal that occur more frequently, providing a visual display of just how often anomalies occur.
Discovering a device fault is only the first step. Next, you must capture the event of interest to identify root cause.
The MSO/DPO2000 Series provides a complete set of triggers – including runt, logic, pulse width/glitch, setup/hold violation, serial packet, and parallel data – to help quickly find your event. With up to a 1 Mpoint record length, you can capture many events of interest, even thousands of serial packets, in a single acquisition for further analysis while maintaining high resolution to zoom in on fine signal details.
From triggering on specific packet content to automatic decode in multiple data formats, the MSO/DPO2000 Series provides integrated support for a broad range of serial buses – I2C, SPI, CAN, LIN, and RS-232/422/485/UART. The ability to decode up to two serial and/or parallel buses simultaneously means you gain insight into system-level problems quickly.
To further help troubleshoot system-level interactions in complex embedded systems, the MSO2000 Series offers 16 digital channels in addition to its analog channels. Since the digital channels are fully integrated into the oscilloscope, you can trigger across all input channels, automatically time-correlating all analog, digital, and serial signals.
Finding your event of interest in a long waveform record can be time consuming without the right search tools. With today's record lengths pushing to a million data points, locating your event can mean scrolling through thousands of screens of signal activity.
The MSO/DPO2000 Series offers the industry's most comprehensive search and waveform navigation with its innovative Wave Inspector® controls. These controls speed panning and zooming through your record. With a unique force-feedback system, you can move from one end of your record to the other in just seconds. User marks allow you to mark any location that you may want to reference later for further investigation. Or, automatically search your record for criteria you define. Wave Inspector will instantly search your entire record, including analog, digital, and serial bus data. Along the way it will automatically mark every occurrence of your defined event so you can quickly move between events.
Verifying that your prototype's performance matches simulations and meets the project's design goals requires analyzing its behavior. Tasks can range from simple checks of rise times and pulse widths to sophisticated power loss analysis and investigation of noise sources.
The MSO/DPO2000 Series offers a comprehensive set of integrated analysis tools including waveform- and screen-based cursors, 29 automated measurements, and FFT analysis. Specialized application support for serial bus analysis is also available.
For extended analysis, National Instrument's LabVIEW SignalExpress™ Tektronix Edition provides over 200 built-in functions including time and frequency domain analysis, limit testing, data logging, and customizable reports.
Wave Inspector® Navigation and Search
A 1 Mpoint record length represents thousands of screens of information. The MSO/DPO2000 Series enables you to find your event in seconds with Wave Inspector, the industry's best tool for navigation and search.
Wave Inspector offers the following innovative controls:
A dedicated, two-tier front-panel control provides intuitive control of both zooming and panning. The inner control adjusts the zoom factor (or zoom scale); turning it clockwise activates zoom and goes to progressively higher zoom factors, while turning it counterclockwise results in lower zoom factors and eventually turning zoom off. No longer do you need to navigate through multiple menus to adjust your zoom view. The outer control pans the zoom box across the waveform to quickly get to the portion of waveform you are interested in. The outer control also utilizes force-feedback to determine how fast to pan on the waveform. The farther you turn the outer control, the faster the zoom box moves. Pan direction is changed by simply turning the control the other way.
A dedicated Play/Pause front-panel button scrolls the waveform across the display automatically while you look for anomalies or an event of interest. Playback speed and direction are controlled using the intuitive pan control. Once again, turning the control further makes the waveform scroll faster and changing direction is as simple as turning the control the other way.
User Marks
Press the Set Mark front-panel button to place one or more marks on the waveform. Navigating between marks is as simple as pressing the Previous (?) and Next (?) buttons on the front panel.
Search Marks
The Search button allows you to automatically search through your long acquisition looking for user-defined events. All occurrences of the event are highlighted with search marks and are easily navigated to, using the front-panel Previous (?) and Next (?) buttons. Search types include edge, pulse width/glitch, runt, logic, setup and hold, rise/fall time parallel bus, and I2C, SPI, CAN, LIN, and RS-232/422/485/UART packet content.
Digital Phosphor Technology
The MSO/DPO2000 Series' digital phosphor technology provides you with fast insight into the real operation of your device. Its waveform capture rate of 5,000 wfm/s gives you a high probability of quickly seeing the infrequent problems common in digital systems: runt pulses, glitches, timing issues, and more.
Waveforms are superimposed with one another and waveform points that occur more frequently are intensified. This quickly highlights the events that over time occur more often or, in the case of infrequent anomalies, occur less often
With the MSO/DPO2000 Series, you can choose infinite persistence or variable persistence, determining how long the previous waveform acquisitions stay on-screen. This allows you to determine how often an anomaly is occurring.
Mixed Signal Design and Analysis(MSO Series)
The MSO2000 Series Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes provide 16 digital channels. These channels are tightly integrated into the oscilloscope's user interface, simplifying operation and making it possible to solve mixed-signal issues easily.
Color-coded Digital Waveform Display
The MSO2000 Series has redefined the way you view digital waveforms. One common problem shared by both logic analyzers and mixed-signal oscilloscopes is determining if data is a one or a zero when zoomed in far enough that the digital trace stays flat all the way across the display. The MSO2000 Series has color-coded digital traces, displaying ones in green and zeros in blue.
The multiple transition detection hardware of the MSO2000 Series will show you a white edge on the display when the system detects multiple transitions. This acts as a visual reminder that increasing the sample rate on the next acquisition will reveal higher frequency information than your previous settings could acquire.
The MSO2000 Series simplifies channel setup by allowing you to group digital waveforms and enter waveform labels by using a USB keyboard. By simply placing digital waveforms next to each other, they form a group. Once a group is formed, you can position all the channels contained in that group collectively. This greatly reduces the normal setup time associated with positioning channels individually.
P6316 MSO Probe
This unique probe design offers two eight-channel pods, simplifying the process of connecting to the device-under-test. When connecting to square pins, the P6316 can connect directly to 8×2 square pin headers spaced on tenth-inch centers. When more attachment flexibility is required, you can use the included flying lead sets and grabbers to clip onto surface mount devices or test points. The P6316 offers outstanding electrical characteristics applying only 8 pF of capacitive loading with 101 kΩ input impedance.
FilterVu™ Variable Low-pass Filter
Tired of being limited to a 20 MHz bandwidth filter in your oscilloscope? Simply turn on FilterVu and adjust the variable low-pass noise filter. Unlike other variable low-pass filters, FilterVu filters out the unwanted noise from your signal while still capturing glitches and other signal details up to the full bandwidth of the oscilloscope. It does this by showing two waveforms: a waveform that can be filtered (foreground waveform) and a glitch capture waveform (background waveform).
The filtered waveform uses a variable low-pass filter to block out noise, yielding a cleaner waveform to more precisely locate signal edges and amplitude levels. The result is improved confidence in you cursor measurements and cleaner documentation of important signal attributes. When the noise filter is adjusted to the lowest available noise-cutoff frequency, no more than 1% of high-frequency content that could cause the oscilloscope to alias will pass through the filter.
The glitch capture waveform shows signal details up to the full bandwidth of the oscilloscope. The oscilloscope captures pulses as narrow as 5 ns, using peak-detect min/max sampling, protecting you from missing unexpected glitches or other high-frequency events.
Serial Triggering and Analysis (Optional)
On a serial bus, a single signal often includes address, control, data, and clock information. This can make isolating events of interest difficult. The MSO/DPO2000 Series offers a robust set of tools for debugging serial buses with automatic trigger, decode, and search for I2C, SPI, CAN, LIN, and RS-232/422/485/UART.
Serial Triggering
Trigger on packet content such as start of packet, specific addresses, specific data content, unique identifiers, etc. on popular serial interfaces such as I2C, SPI, CAN, LIN, and RS-232/422/485/UART.
Bus Display
Provides a higher-level, combined view of the individual signals (clock, data, chip enable, etc.) that make up your bus, making it easy to identify where packets begin and end and identifying subpacket components such as address, data, identifier, CRC, etc.
Bus Decoding
Tired of having to visually inspect the waveform to count clocks, determine if each bit is a 1 or a 0, combine bits into bytes, and determine the hex value? Let the oscilloscope do it for you! Once you've set up a bus, the MSO/DPO2000 Series will decode each packet on the bus, and display the value in hex, binary, decimal (LIN only), or ASCII (RS-232/422/485/UART only) in the bus waveform.
Event Table
In addition to seeing decoded packet data on the bus waveform itself, you can view all captured packets in a tabular view much like you would see in a software listing. Packets are time stamped and listed consecutively with columns for each component (Address, Data, etc.).
Serial triggering is very useful for isolating the event of interest, but once you've captured it and need to analyze the surrounding data, what do you do? In the past, users had to manually scroll through the waveform counting and converting bits and looking for what caused the event. With the MSO/DPO2000 Series, you can have the oscilloscope automatically search through the acquired data for user-defined criteria including serial packet content. Each occurrence is highlighted by a search mark. Rapid navigation between marks is as simple as pressing the Previous (?) and Next (?) buttons on the front panel.
Designed to Make Your Work EasierBright, Widescreen Display
The MSO/DPO2000 Series features a 7 inch (180 mm) widescreen, TFT-LCD display for seeing intricate signal details.
Dedicated Front-panel Controls
Per-channel vertical controls provide simple and intuitive operation. No longer do you need to share one set of vertical controls across all four channels.
A USB host port on the front panel enables easy transfer of screenshots, instrument settings, and waveform data to a USB thumb drive. The rear panel contains a USB device port for controlling the oscilloscope remotely from a PC or for connecting a USB keyboard. The USB device port can also be used to print directly to a PictBridge®-compatible printer. An optional 10/100 Ethernet port enables easy connection to networks and an optional Video Out port allows the oscilloscope display to be exported to an external monitor or projector.
Compact Form Factor
A compact, portable form factor allows the MSO/DPO2000 Series to be easily moved between labs and, with a depth of just 5.3 inches (134 mm), it saves you valuable space on your test bench.
TekVPI® Probe Interface
The TekVPI probe interface sets the standard for ease of use in probing. TekVPI probes feature status indicators and controls, as well as a probe menu button right on the comp box itself. This button brings up a probe menu on the oscilloscope display with all relevant settings and controls for the probe. TekVPI probes can be controlled remotely through USB, GPIB, or Ethernet, enabling more versatile solutions in ATE environments.
Extended Analysis
Acquiring data and measurements from the MSO/DPO2000 Series is as simple as connecting a USB cable from the oscilloscope to your PC. Key software applications – NI LabVIEW SignalExpress™ Tektronix Edition LE, OpenChoice® Desktop, and Microsoft Excel and Word toolbars – are included standard with each oscilloscope to enable fast and easy direct communication with your Windows PC.
NI LabVIEW SignalExpress Tektronix Edition LE enables you to instantly acquire, generate, analyze, compare, import, and save measurement data and signals using an intuitive drag-and-drop user interface that does not require any programming. The optional Professional Version offers over 200 built-in functions that provide additional signal processing, advanced analysis, sweeping, limit testing, and user-defined step capabilities.
For simple tasks, the included OpenChoice Desktop enables fast and easy communication between the oscilloscope and your PC through USB, GPIB, or LAN for transferring settings, waveforms, and screen images.
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Pendower House is a beautifully restored Victorian era home. Three ensuite rooms provide high quality linens, toiletries and furnishings and the two guest lounges have open fires, library, CD players, television, and tea and coffee making facilities and port for that pre dinner drink!. The entire house has central heating to keep you warm and toasty in winter, and high ceilings for summer time. Of course in true traditional bed and breakfast style you can enjoy being served a fully cooked four course delicious country breakfast, all provided in the tariff. Crepes, free range eggs, crispy grilled bacon, mushrooms and other local seasonal goodies. There is also a private spa suite, including queen bed, double spa, television with DVD and CD player, air-conditioning, reverse heating and private courtyard. Surrounded by lovely cottage gardens, and a few bossy chickens, it is an ideal getaway to relax in. Be spoilt by enjoying the fully cooked breakfast being brought to the suite with your own newspaper.Pendower House B&B is a short stroll to award restaurants, groovy cafes and wine bars, fabulous galleries, markets and Lake Daylesford. Beautiful walks around the Lake or to mineral springs: look out for kangaroos and occasionally a koala. Short or long walks, just ask Renee or Irene about tracks around Daylesford. Massage or spa packages easily arranged or an hour or two with their resident artist for a private art session. Easy to organise.Five minute drive to the wonderful Sunday Market, Old train station for a train journey through the Wombat Forest or to the Hepburn Bath House.Your hosts can organise and book activities for you while you are in the area. Please contact Pendower House B&B for further information. For peace privacy and pampering, Pendower House is just perfect.
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OK, I'm still playing with my iPad and loving it, and I found another software App that is a lot of fun. ASKetch by Andrew Kern is supposed to work with finger motions and strokes alone, and not be used with a stylus or pen tool. I'll tell you what it is supposed to do (and it does it very well). Let's look at ASKetch as Mr. Kern meant it to be. First, I'll quote: ASKetch is a simple black & white procedural sketching program for drawing with your fingers. It is designed from the ground … [Read more...]
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(Review) FileApp: A Great iOS File Manager
The iPad is a great thing. It is not, however, a computer. It's a shift away from the familiar hard drive directories. The new iPad owner has to surrender to a new way : you can't really root around the hard drive looking for a file, all user experience is controlled by an app, and getting the right app is key. As most of us have found out, finding that right app is a bizarre mixture of dumb luck, suggestions from co-workers and friends and the endless lists of best 10 apps proliferating on the … [Read more...]
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(Review) Genius Scan: A Scanner App for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch
OK, I admit from the start that I am in love with my iPad2; but it is the availability of Apps for it that make it such a part of my current life. I just encountered a new App that I think is going to be extremely useful in the future. It's an App called Genius Scan from Grizzly Labs that is intended for use on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. In short, it uses the back facing camera of the iPad (or iPhone or iPod Touch) to take an image that can be corrected and then mailed—that's in the … [Read more...]
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On March 11, the first day iPad 2's were available for order, at 5 A.M. I got up to go to the bathroom (something common when you are 73 years old), and on a whim sat down at the computer and ordered an iPad. White, 64GB wifi only, with a spare power supply, a Camera Connection package, VGA and Digital AV Adapters, and a red leather cover. I had intended to make this order eventually, and the computer seemed to call to me as I returned from the bathroom. It was a good thing too, as within 24 … [Read more...]


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5 Tips To Survive Blog Puberty Like A Champion AKA How To Work Through A Creative Slump.
A few weeks ago I basically ripped my heart out of my chest (Once Upon A Time style) and showed it to you all in my Blog Puberty post. I am SO glad that I did. Apparently the way that I was feeling is the way that A LOT of us feel from time to time. Whether you have a blog or are just in a slump, here are a few things that helped slap me, shake me, and wake me up again. This was my process.
1. Go back and read your blog from the beginning. Yes, it is PAINFULLY obvious that your pictures were horrible, you were still trying to find your voice, and you have zero comments. BUT you were passionate. THAT is what you need to remember. The passion that made you start your blog in the first place. The excitement that you had when you couldn't get your fingers to type fast enough because you had opened the floodgates and your creativity was taking out everything in its path. THAT is what you need to feel again, and you can! And just for fun here is the after picture from the first project I ever posted…
2. Figure out why you are in a slump. Is it stuff going on at home? Have you gained weight from sitting on your computer for hours at a time? Are you comparing yourself to other bloggers? Did you run out of mulah? (These are some of my slumpish reasons, they may or may not be yours.) Make a list of why you are feeling so awkward. We as women (at least most of the women that I know) want to talk about things over and over and over and don't necessarily want a solution, we just want validation, we want someone to understand us. Well knock it off. Face it like a man. Figure out why you are comparing yourself, and then STOP IT. Figure out why you have no money (daily thrift store trip much?) and come up with a better solution. And then do it.
3. Get outside your comfort zone. I know, you are feeling blah. Put on some proverbial pink lipstick and go make new friends! I just got back from ALT and let me tell you, these people are TALENTED. Now come closer….Let me tell you something else. They are people too. And they just might be feeling the same way that you are.
4. Go find some new blogs and leave wonderful and sincere comments. There are some people that are of the opinion that there is not enough internet to go around. That is complete crap. Virtually raise your hand if you only read one blog. Now keep your hand up if once you find a great new blog that you connect with, you stop reading the one blog that you previously were obsessed with. I mean, really folks? That DOES NOT happen. Ever.
5. Shut off that DANG computer and make something!!! Like with your hands folks. Set a $10.00 limit and use your creativity to make it amazing!! Want to know what I did with my $10? I bought a cookie and drew on my walls with a Sharpie. And I feel SO much better!!
So these steps are literally the way that I worked through my dark cloud. I finally feel like I am back, and let me tell you how fun it was for a freaky picture loving girl to share these with you.
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On May 2, one of the most loved, admired and respected ladies in Louisville passed away. Sug Schusterman, after a short illness, died at her home in St. Matthews.
Sug was born and reared in Oldham County. Her parents were the late Bill and Ella Conn. She had cousins by the dozens in Oldham and Eastern Jefferson County.
One day a long time ago, Ron McMakin, one of the cousins and a close friend of my husband and me, called and was so excited that Sug (or Lee as she was known in the business) was coming to visit him and would we come to dinner? We had heard about the glamorous, Eastern New Mexico Phi Beta Kappa graduate, brilliant, fashion model who traveled the world representing and modeling clothes for international designers, was married to a New York City attorney, loved sailing the Eastern seaboard in the summer, and always found time to ride her beloved horses.
That dinner changed our lives forever.
There was this tall, fashionable, charming, slender, beautiful ash blonde with a warm, vivacious, personality. Everyone fell in love with her the moment they met. She was recently divorced and had come "home" to nurse her wounds. She made the room light up. And she made us feel special. It is a talent few people have. We talked long into the night finding the ties that would bind us forever.
We had gone to school with her cousins Lida Lee and Mildred Kemp, and had been taught by her formidable cousin, Mr. Kemp. Her father and my grandfather had been friends. We shared a slight interest on our part and a true love on hers with horses. She had no children of her own but loved everyone else's and was fascinated when we talked about the hearing-impaired preschoolers at the Louisville Deaf Oral School.
She was tired of New York, the fashion industry, the traveling. She wanted to come home to Kentucky to stay. Until she could find a better job, she took a position at the Broadway Series that was way below her pay grade and abilities. She charmed every one in the office. Eventually, she went to the Camberly Brown Hotel to manage customer relations and, once again, was loved by all – from the busboys to senior management.
Needing an interesting place to live, she found "Twigmore," a small historic English style field stone house in a wooded glen in Pewee Valley. It was like a fairytale house. Sug always left the leaded glass casement windows open in the summer, and if she was not home you could just lean in and leave what ever you had brought her. There was a flagstone terrace in the back and a charming garden.
She was a good cook and dinner parties were always diverse and fun. She had antique family furniture, a houseful of paintings by her Wilhoyte grandmother and the most wonderful Victorian table call-bell that I lusted after. There was a spectacular early Victorian chandelier that came from the big home the family had in Lake Wales, Fla.
About the time she got settled, my friend Dan Schusterman called looking for someone to take out. I gave him Sug's number. The rest was history. They fell in love. The wedding was outdoors at Harmony Landing Country Club on the muggiest, hottest day of the year. I was a bridesmaid along with Cousin Pat Karlen and Cousin Ron. (That's right, Cousin Ron was a bridesmaid! And, no, he did not wear a dress!) New York designer and friend Bob Mackie made the bride's beautiful cream colored gown.
Charming as it was, Twigmore was too small for Dan so they moved to a lovely home in Glenview. John Korfhage put in a beautiful terraced backyard, and they entertained endlessly.
By this time, Sug was immersed in volunteering for and serving on the board of the Louisville Deaf Oral School, now known as the Heuser Hearing & Language Academy. She was co-chair of the capital campaign that raised $8 million to build the expanded Heuser Hearing Institute, served as its board chair and was active in the naming of the new school building for her close friend and school supporter, the late June Tafel.
Sug was a member of the Health Committee of the Woman's Club of Louisville and under her leadership and prodding, events, fashion shows, dinners, and auctions at the Brown Hotel with Jim Stuckert as the auctioneer, were held for several years that raised in excess of $200,000 for the school.
On campus almost every day and armed with hugs and smiles for every child, Sug tirelessly supported the efforts of Mona McCubbin, the Institute's executive director, doing whatever was necessary, even weeding the garden.
But there was always time for fun. We went to Europe a number of times, and "we girls" often flew to Houston to visit friends of Jo Ann Gammon and ride in the famed opening night of the Houston Rodeo. We met fascinating people. One cute elderly man that we sat next to at dinner told us any time we wanted the owner's box in Nashville for a pro football game to just give him a call. Later we found out we were sitting with Bud Adams, who owned the Nashville Titans. Sug enchanted them all. Dan was sweetly tolerant and indulged her in the trips with the girls.
Dan and Sug liked to travel together, too, and took trips to New York with Libby and Don Parkinson to see shows and shop. Carol and Bill Lomicka had built a second home in Arizona, and the Schustermans liked to visit them there.
Sug had a passionate interest in horses and the Kentucky Derby Museum, and never missed an opportunity to promote it, even chairing the 2005 Museum Gala that yielded record results. She subsequently served on the committee all of the following years to the present.
In 2011, The Voice-Tribune published an In Tandem feature about Sug and Dan. "You could put a shower curtain on her and she'd look good," Dan told the writer. But that's not why he pursued her years ago, Dan explained. "She's not only beautiful, she's also very smart," he said, seriously. "I'm a very lucky guy."
When asked how the two walked "in tandem" on a daily basis, "We respect and like each other," Sug replied. "It's not just love," added Dan. "We genuinely like each other. We work as a team. In our relationship, Sug is my partner."
The one thing the couple did every day without fail was "always empty the kitty litter," Sug quipped during the interview, smiling at her husband. "We also always tell each other 'I love you,' " Dan added. "Everyday. At least once," Sug affirmed.
In March 2012, Sug learned she was seriously ill.
Weakened by her illness but typically minding her manners, she dictated thank you notes to Lindy Street to mail to many from whom she had received well wishes while in the hospital. Never without opinions, when she knew time was short, with Dan, Libby and Carol, Sug planned the details of her funeral including the flowers and her desire to be buried in her wedding gown with her wedding ring on her hand and wearing a pair of socks – she was always cold. (It's OK to smile; she would have loved it.)
Sug Schusterman liked and cared for virtually everyone she ever met and everyone she met liked her. She made friends easily with people from all walks of life and our lives are richer for having known her. Sug was some lady.
Oh, by the way … Sug never liked or told people her real first name. But when asked if I could tell it in her obituary, she laughed and said, "Yes!" It is on her tombstone and it says, "Myrtis Lee." She was named for her grandmother. Myrtis is also a beautiful flower, a fitting moniker for such a beautiful person.
The funeral service was held at Calvary Episcopal Church, 821 S. Fourth St. at 10 a.m. May 9, 2012, with burial following at Duncan Memorial Cemetery at Floydsburg, Ky.
In lieu of flowers expressions of sympathy may go to Heuser Hearing & Language Academy, 111 E. Kentucky St., Louisville, KY 40203.


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First Team
First Singles — Chance Conley Portland (Player of the year)
Second Singles — Ricky Simon Portland
Third Singles — Zach Platte Portland
Fourth Singles — Clayton Teachout Portland
First Doubles — Cameron Simon/Colin Gensterblum Portland
Second Doubles — Nathan Goering/Bryce Palmiter Portland
Third Doubles Asher Dorshimer/Chandler Ferris Portland
Fourth Doubles — Tyler Socher/Alex Hoppes Portland
Second Team
First Singles — Stephen Nisbet Lakewood
Second-Singles — David Parks Lakewood
Third Singles — Parker Haskin Lakewood
Fourth Singles — Cody Nutt Ionia
First Doubles — Alex Everts/Garrett Phelps Lakewood
Second Doubles — Spencer Heyl/Evan Peterson Lakewood
Honorable Mention
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After picking up July 4 wins against Auburn, the Nebraska City Juniors and Seniors are beginning the final stretch of their regular season schedules.
The Juniors, who are sporting a record of 14-8, are scheduled to play at 7 p.m. tonight at Beninngton, then return home to battle with Bellevue East at 4 p.m. Saturday and Hickman at 6 p.m. Sunday. Area tournament action will begin Friday, July 13.
Nebraska City will be playing in the Plattsmouth Juniors district after being moved from the Fairbury tournament.
The Seniors, who are sporting a 12-6 record, will play at home against Nehawka at 6 p.m on Saturday and host Hickman at 8 p.m. Sunday. Other games upcoming are Dinsdale Auto and Beatrice on the road for 8 p.m. starts on July 10 and 11, followed by a 2 and 4 p.m. doubleheader with Bennington at home on July 15 and a single 7 p.m. game at Syracuse on July 16.
The Nebraska City Seniors will host their district tourney with action getting started on July 20.
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To the editor:
This is in response to the letter "Reagan's party has been hijacked" that appeared in the Nov. 11 edition and was written by J. David Core of Toronto.
To borrow quotes and to paraphrase the story that appeared in the Nov. 8 edition, "Karen Mezan figures people who know her know she'd never slam her country, its flag or veterans ("McDonald's operator: Flipped flag due to faulty pole.")
A pulley broke on the flagpole. While trying to fix it, "The flag was inadvertently turned upside down. The upside-down flag went unnoticed by the restaurant's workers.:
"As soon as we knew, we went out and cut the rope and took it down. It wasn't meant to offend anybody, it was definitely not anything like that," she added.
"The timing couldn't have been worse, coming as it was on the heels of a hotly contested presidential election. We're an American corporation. We love America, we love our flag, we love our veterans and the people here love us."
The owners of McDonald's in Follansbee are wonderful people. They support our community, clubs, schools, our country and veterans.
We should not jump to conclusions before we know the facts.
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AG094: The Relicanth Really Can
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The Relicanth Really Can (Japanese: ジーランスと深海の秘宝! Relicanth and the Deep Sea Treasure!) is the 2nd episode of Pokémon: Advanced Battle.
Episode Plot
The gang arrived to Wazoo Island. The island is known for its beautiful beaches (and to Brock, beautiful girls as well). Suddenly, a man (engulfed in sea weed) arrives, saying that Adam (he) got finally the treasure! The treasure are gems - emeralds. Adam goes to show the gang his shop, introducing to them his wife. The woman examines that they are green shards, actually - worth more than what he caught before. Adam thinks that the shards are from a ship named King Neptune - once its cargo (and the ship) was lost to a storm. The crew within got out alive, but a tale goes that Neptune got the treasure beyond everyone's thoughts.
Adam remembers that before he went out of the sea, he saw a Relicanth carrying the green shards - it dropped them and gone away, leaving Adam to pick them up. Brock suspects the Relicanth and the shards might have a connection. Adam and his wife plan to get to that ship. Team Rocket overhears their plan, so they also plan to get the treasure first. Jessie and James think what they'll do with the treasure, but Meowth thinks they should give it to their boss instead. Somewhere at sea, the woman releases Adam and the gang in a small submarine to search the ship. The deeper they go, the darker it is, so Adam switches the lights on, revealing some Water Pokémon.
Suddenly, Adam sees something on the sonar, so goes to get to the spot. It is a Relicanth, however, they are attacked by Team Rocket's Magikarp submarine. Jessie complains they need to work to get the submarine going, so James sends Chimecho to improve their morale. Meowth releases some missiles, damaging the other submarine. Adam gives report to his wife via the intercom. Team Rocket follows the Relicanth, but suddenly they see leakages. Jessie wants still to continue. However, they got swept away by the underwater current. The gang spots an underwater cave, so they follow the current. Adam's wife loses the contact. The submarine is lost to darkness.
Adam wakes the others up and everyone is fine. They spot the giant ship, seeming to be the one from Adam's tale. The cave has fresh air, unusually. They spot a giant opening, so it must be where they have gone from. Many Relicanth appear from the ship. Adam comes with a chest. He goes to open it, but Team Rocket arrive to take the chest. They get the chest and release the missiles, damaging the ship. As they are to go back to the submarine, Relicanth appear (very angrily looking). Jessie releases missiles to hurt the Relicanth, but Ash sends Corphish, using Bubble Beam in time to destroy the missiles.
Team Rocket goes away and release the missiles, blocking the gang's path. The Relicanth go to another path, so the gang enters the submarine and go follow the Relicanth. Adam's woman, Evelyn, tries to make contact, so finally Adam responds. Adam and the gang go to Evelyn's boat. Adam tells her that they lost the treasure chest, so Evelyn tells him that she tracked them down. Team Rocket is seen on a beach with the chest. The gang appears on Adam and Evelyn's boat, demanding back the treasure and amazing Team Rocket as to how they escaped the cave. May sends Bulbasaur and uses Vine Whip to get the chest, but Team Rocket grabs it. Jessie sends Seviper and uses Poison Tail on Bulbasaur.
Brock sends Mudkip and uses Water Gun, along with Relicanth who use Hydro Pump on Team Rocket. Bulbasaur takes the chest and Pikachu attacks them with Thunder, blasting them off. Adam opens the chest and they see - green shards. Brock thinks that green shards were more worth than emeralds, back then anyway. Evelyn cheers him up, as they can use it for jewelry. Adam gains confidence, as there are many things he did not yet encounter. He wishes good luck for Relicanth to get a new home.
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TEMPLE (December 28, 2012)--The Temple Office of Emergency Management (OEM) is activating the Emergency Warming Center Plan starting today to provide a temporary warming space for homeless or distressed persons in the city.
Temple Fire and Rescue spokesman Thomas Pechal said the decision to open the shelters was based on data from the National Weather Service on predicted nighttime temperatures below freezing with wind chill factors in the low teens and twenties tonight through Sunday morning.
Warming Center locations are located in the Victory Ministries, 305 South 18th Street and at Humble House, 613 South 7th Street.
The Victory Ministries location is available for men only and the Humble House is open to all.
Should those locations reach capacity, Pechal said, other locations can be opened .
The warming centers will be open from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m. beginning December 28 and ending December 30, 2012.
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When you first start out doing a particular exercise, obviously it's harder than if you've been doing it for a while and your body is used to it. Does that mean it takes more energy, and that you therefore burn more calories doing an exercise when it's new to you, compared to when you're "in shape" for it?
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No, you are burning fewer calories than when you are experienced--particularly if you are increasing load.
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Based on my own experimentation with my Polar heart rate monitor I have found that the calories burned is a function of the amount of work being done. The more experienced you become, the more adapted your body becomes to the type of work you give it. Your range of motion improves, the amount of additional load (weight) you can handle also increases, and the amount of work you are doing increases. As you get stronger, you either increase your muscle mass or become more efficient using them. This in turn improves your metabolism, which will burn more calories even while sitting still.
The reason a new exercise is hard at first is because your muscles are not used to working that way yet. You can't use all the potential energy you have until you acquire both the skill (muscle coordination) and strength to do it properly.
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No, experienced athletes burn the same number of calories as novices when performing the same action over the same time.
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We will use physics to answer this question. In particular, the forumla for potential energy will be of use:
Let's take the simple example of lifting a 20 kg dumbbell from the ground to 1 meter high.
It takes 196 joules of energy to increase the potential energy of that dumbbell. Where does this energy come from? It must come from somewhere to satisfy the law of conservation of energy.
The energy comes from the body burning calories. It must burn 196 joules to comply with the law.
You burn 0.00467 kcal to move that dumbbell up. (Food items are always labeled plainly with calories, but technically they mean kilocalories). No where in these equations does experience or ease of effort factor in. Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime will burn 0.00467 kcal and a scrawny kid will also burn 0.00467 kcal to move a 20 kilogram dumbbell up 1 meter. Yes, Arnold will have a easier time because trained muscles store more glycogen and stronger muscle fibers contract. But he cannot defy the laws of physics by burning less calories than the scrawny kid.
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The above assumes that the experienced athlete uses the same technique as the novice. In the real world, this is not always the case. In nearly every sport except bodybuilding, athletes use special techniques to more efficiently use their energy. These techniques channel more energy towards there goals and lets less energy dissipate for other means. For example, I recall in the 2008 Olympics, the announcers said Usain Bolt took on average less steps than his competitors. This allowed him to more efficiently channel his energy towards running fast. His competitors were generating less speed for the same amount of calories burned.
Movement efficiency can be improved though training. How much of an effect this has depends on the form of exercises but generally isn't that big.
But the situation is a lot more complex. Let's say you go running. Over time you might loose some weight, which means you use less energy to run the same distance at the same pace. On the other hand as you get better at running you might run the same distance in shorter time, which uses more energy.


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There have been reports that Samsung Galaxy S has problems with its GPS that render the GPS almost unusable. Does the Android 2.2 update fix that?
Personally, I didn't find anything wrong with the GPS on mine (AT&T Captivate). You didn't say which version of the Galaxy you have (Captivate, Fascinate, etc.), but I know that before Froyo even, AT&T did push a separate update to their customers which supposedly was to fix the GPS (I don't know if it did though, since as I said I wasn't having issues before the update).
Guides to fix the GPS issues with Captivate and Vibrant have just been posted.
Edit: Check out my guide on how to improve Galaxy S GPS performance.
With GPS on the Galaxy S, the answer is always "maybe". New code works for some people, changing settings works for some people, and sometimes nothing works.
The latest update on the Samsung Vibrant (JI6) fixed GPS issues for 2.1. A similar update has been pushed to all the variants, as far as I know. As you can tell from the other responses, GPS issues aren't universal and even for those having trouble it wasn't always completely broken. It is safe to say it is fixed now, though -- and I see no reason to think it would be broken again in 2.2.
I can't confirm any GPS problems with my Galaxy S I9000 so far with 2.1. Unfortunately Froyo is not yet available for that device.
No, I upgraded to the unofficial FROYO (Android 2.2) for Samsung Captivate and the GPS sucks. The signal does not lock and when it does, after waiting for days and sucking up the battery, it loses the signal just as fast. I am so frustrated with the GPS problem that I am thinking about switching carriers to get a different brand phone - like HTC or Motorola.
Captivate received a software update a month or so ago(I think it was later September or early October 2010) that fixed most GPS problems.
I still have some errors, but the major problem I had was that cellular assisted was not enabled. This is a must for the samsung captivate.
I also upgraded my Samsung Galaxy S to Froyo 2.2 and lost my GPS lock that I had on 2.1 which sometimes worked. I tried to a factory reset and cleaned everything on my phone and after the reset comepleted I had to input information and the first thing I tried was GPS and still could not get a lock. I download GPS locator before and that also did not lock onto a GPS. I will try what "user1100" said and see if that helps.
Bottom line Froyo 2.2 has GPS lock issues.. maps and navigation works without a GPS lock..:(
Well I also have problems GPS lock issue on my Galaxy 5 i5500, hope this can fix your phone. I got tips to fix this issue. Remember to write down the default setting before change the GPS setting below, in case you want to go back.
Make sure GPS has been activated.
I am writing to inform you that this link is very helpful to fix GPS problems coming with samsung galaxy s froyo. But please be aware that this may have a risk (less probably) but worked very fine with me.
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There was definitely a problem with the GPS on my Samsung Captivate I purchased from AT&T a week after it launched, but I wouldn't classify it as unusable. It would take several minutes sometimes to first fix even when outdoors, but it would stay fixed as long as nothing obstructed it, such as my car ceiling. If it had a fix recently, it would be quicker at getting a fix as well. I used GPS Status to keep the GPS Almanac up to date which helped a bit, and applied several fixes people had suggested with minor improvements. Even official updates from Samsung had little improvement. I finally decided to replace my ROM with a third party and my GPS was greatly improved unlike anything Samsung had provided before. Generally, any third-party ROM using the JK4 modem like Paragon
No, After updating my Samsung Galaxy S from JP8 2.1 version, that was working normally with GPS, but losing GPS capture some times...
Now with Froyo 2.2, the capture GPS works very well, but the position is completely erratic and is going 100 meters from the site where I am....
I don't know what to do, and I didn't find any solution on internet ... and if you are waiting for Samsung help you could die waiting first.


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A Windows update screwed up my last dual booting machine...
A Windows update screwed up my last dual booting machine...
I have a dual boot system, but majority of the time use my Linux OS.
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I still have applications that are not supported in Ubuntu, like Adobe Premiere, so I need to keep Windows for now.
Some are very good. May be if you can find an alternative, you might never have to go back to Windows. Start a thread there and I hope there would be many people who would be able to guide you to an alternative to Premier. I am not a Adobe Premier guru but when i used it some years back, I did not find it too great.
Almost exclusively Linux-based for more than 6 years. 'Almost' 'cos I still have a Vbox'ed XP that finds regular use, mostly for Natural Reader and Delphi 7. Delphi 7 does run on Wine but it's too buggy and can't be used for serious work. Similarly, a early version of Natural Reader runs on Wine, and which I use daily, but many of the essential functions don't work at all.
Since I work on web sites, I have to test them with Microsoft Internet Exploder. My computers are all old and not fast enough to run a virtual machine, so I reserve one computer to run Win-doze.
I'm a long time Mac OS user but is now trying to work in Ubuntu on a HP. Have done so for app 3 months but been using Ubuntu for a couple of years out of curiosity. It works pretty ok.
In general it's still a big difference. Mac OS works so smooth. Designing is harder in Ubuntu. I lack the flow, which is hard to explain if you're not a designer. But it works with Inkscape and Gimp, but with glitches here and there. For web. Any print would be harder.
I don't like that apps close when closing the last window. Thought I would get use to that, trying not to have a Mac OS mindset. But I must say that this is a downside and good thinking of Apple. I now see how good they are with being user friendly (Mac OS that is, don't like iOS). Would be great if apps would keep running in Ubuntu too.
Working with Web Development works very good, though I lack some smooth apps, such as a good ftp app. There's no question that commercial apps are generally better, with some exceptions. So far. Besides that the environment with apt-get is great.
I'm curios to where Ubuntu is going. More design thinking and the future is promising.
anydvd was one of the few things keeping me on windows. Now I don't need it anymore. With most newer movies coming with ultraviolet codes and walmarts disc to digital through vudu program I'm no longer interested in backing up movies. With a roku box I can stream most of my movies in HD wherever I want.
Once I finish playing some of the games I have installed I'm going to redo my system. I will be moving windows 7 to a spare drive and use the bios for switching to it as needed so I won't even have a boot menu with win 7 on it. If I ever switch out this pc that my win 7 is tied to I will go without it. I'm building a ubuntu steam box for setting up in my theater room. Maybe soon we won't need a console or windows to play games however I may consider purchasing a ps4 if it doesn't work out.
Other than that I think my garmin still requires windows but soon I will switch to 99% ubuntu.
exclusively on my netbook, but my TV's (3 so far) are connected to Windows 7 media center (Clear QAM). Currently using one to stream recorded content via iis7 WebDAV folders to ipod/iphone 4g. The two other laptops are still 7...
When i buy a new computer,i use windows tweak it,then dual boot with a linux system.


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Chaos Murders{RP} - 08-05-2006, 12:15 PM
Umbrellas fallen into myth, only a few remember the fear it once caused.
Only some remember the terror of the Carcer Infectia, of the walls breaking, of zombies escaping.
Now, theres a new terror, in Carcers sister city, Garshama.
Horrific murders all over the city. Witnesses only can say a few repeated words
Black phantom.
Chaos night.
Later, they describe a black shadow that slaughtered the victims, and they are confined to asylums.
Its all over the news, the Phantom Chaos Murders.
You, as an aspiring journalist or police officer, have been assigned to this simple yet baffling case along with many others.
Its simple enough, mass delusions, a psychotic killer
Or, would it be that Umbrella has revived itself, with new faces, and new weapons?
Or perhaps, even more sinister
Rules: No immortal characters, well, new ones.
Yes to romance! ^^
All ghostly thingies are allowed.
Characters to start with must be from 18 up. Working ages, you see.
Working for the Garshama Sun was a good job. Good pay, free boarding near the main office building and a chance at fame.
Life was sweet for one 23 year old Miraka Van Helsing, adopted, thank you very much. She had a good job, good friends, and a bombshell figure, which she only showed off at parties.
As of now, she was getting ready for work in a rush.
She ran a brush hastily through her hair, avoiding her white cat eat ear horns, her locks were once bright red, now a dark and vibrant vermillion.
She pulled on a pair of black jeans, with a chunky steel studded belt, and hopped around her flat on one foot to put on her boots. Then pulled on a tight red button-up shirt, with a long old leather jacket that retched her thighs.
She headed out the door, pen, notepad, and bag stocked with phone, various ID, tickets and money.
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Does racial bias fuel Obama foes? How to tell?
Is it because he's black? The question of whether race fuels opposition to President Barack Obama has become one of the most divisive topics of the election. It is sowing anger and frustration among conservatives who are labeled racist simply for opposing Obama's policies and liberals who see no other explanation for such deep dislike of the president.


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