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2007 Mustang GT500 - The First GT500 In The 10sWritten on January 15, 2007 Evolution Motorsports Makes Its GT500 Run Mid-10s With Bolt-On Parts. The 9s Are Next.
Everyone knew that as soon as the new Shelby GT500 Mustangs hit the streets, tuners and racers would be tearing into them the same way they did the new Cobras in 2003. Modified versions of those cars ran 11s almost in the first week, and it wasn't long before a handful were deep in the 10s. The same thing is happening with the GT500s but with greater results because of the bigger engine and killer heads. So far, it looks like Fred Cook is the first man to put one in the 10s.
Fred, who owns Evolution Motorsports in Aston, Pennsylvania (www.evoperform .com), a company that specializes in late-model Ford performance, already had a knowledgeable crew in place and copious experience with the supercharged 4.6L Cobras, so he couldn't wait to see how far he could push the 5.4L-powered Shelby. But this wasn't about parts development or building a flashy dyno queen on dubs, this was a GT500 with a more significant mission in life.
The minute the keys were in his hands, Fred loaded the GT500 onto a flatbed truck and chauffeured it straight to Cecil County Dragway for some baseline runs. There were zero miles on the odometer. Actually, before a single pass could be made, Fred had to cruise the backroads for 5.1 miles to bring the computer out of its slumber and allow the full amount of boost into the engine. Once everything was fully awakened and the boost gauge showed 9 psi, the car was taken straight back to the track for a true off-the-showroom-floor quarter-mile blast. After a few practice launches to learn the GT500's dynamics, Nelson Whitlock, former IHRA racer and the hired shoe, ripped off a 13.1-second pass. Everyone was a little disappointed (several magazine tests had the car in the mid- to low 12s), but all knew there was massive potential to be unlocked, so it was back to the shop to develop a plan for how to be the first to take a mostly stock GT500 into the 11s and beyond.
Bolt-ons are always the place to start (and make the most business sense), so Evolution came up with a step-by-step plan. Fred's personal Mustang GT was pirated of its adjustable shocks and struts, and its aluminum driveshaft was shortened to fit the GT500. Curious what such simple bolt-ons could do, the crew took the car to Atco Raceway. They were rewarded with a best e.t. of 12.6 seconds, revealing that dialing in the suspension and the launch were going to be key. Fortunately, good relations with BMR Fabrication landed the '05+ Mustang suspension pieces they needed on Evolution's doorstep within 72 hours.
The enormous 14-inch Brembo brakes are the ticket for road racing but are overkill on a quarter-mile car, plus, they wouldn't allow the use of lightweight, skinny drag wheels up front. No one makes a drag brake kit for the GT500 yet, so Evolution called Aerospace Brake Components to get a 12-inch front disc kit for an '05 Mustang GT. After a bit of machining on the spindle, it fit like a glove. They caught a break on the exhaust, though. A Borla Stinger Cat-Back system almost bolted right in after an intermediate pipe was fabricated. After a bit of custom tuning to the ECU and the addition of a custom-formed cold-air intake, it was back to the dyno to evaluate the progress. The GT500 now put 500 hp to the wheels and 502 lb-ft of torque, and the next morning, with Nelson behind the wheel, it was good for 11.81 at 121 mph with 17x4.5-inch Bogart Race wheels in the front and 17x10 Bogarts with 325/45R17 drag radials on the rear. Not bad for a little suspension, tuning, and exhaust work.
Making big, naturally aspirated horsepower is great but pretty much guarantees you're going to have to start replacing parts of the long-block. The great thing about a factory supercharged car is that you get an engine that's been engineered for boost and probably designed to take far more than the factory gives you. So, the next obvious step was to send the blower to Stiegemeier Engine Air Flow in St. Charles, Missouri (www.stiegemeier.com), for porting and the addition of a 2.6-inch Metco Motorsports pulley. Back on the car, the reworked blower was good for 13.5 psi, which made 563 hp and 562 lb-ft of torque on the chassis dyno. At the track, the GT500 was good for 11.06 at 127 mph. With 10s so close the crew could taste it, the quest turned to obsession, and it was back to the shop for more work.
The stock air-to-water intercooler uses the radiator coolant to bring temperatures down for a more dense charge, so Evolution decided to take advantage of this stock design by plugging the intake lines from the radiator and swapping the tank for a standalone aluminum tank that could be filled with ice water. That, plus a little more dyno tuning netted 578 hp and 582 lb-ft of torque. Nelson, the star driver, was on borrowed time, since his wife was a week overdue for their first baby. So with at least one marriage in peril over the quest for speed, the team headed to the track one more time with a mixture of pump gas and VP103 in the tank for security measures. An 11.04 at 127 mph was frustrating, but a lane change brought the elusive 10.99 at 128 mph-with a scant 86 miles on the clock and the factory oil still in the block. It may not be supersonic, but it was enough to get our attention.
By the day of our photo shoot, Evolution had added a custom-built set of headers and swapped on a 2.5-inch supercharger pulley to make up for the resulting pressure drop, which returned boost to about 13.5 psi. Right out of the trailer, the GT500 ran a 10.83 at 127 mph on drag radials with plenty of tire spin. That raised a few eyebrows, so Evolution swapped on a set of 15-inch Bogarts with M/T slicks. The e.t.'s just kept falling for the next three runs, 10.65, 10.52, and on the last run after a wheels-up launch, the GT500 hit 10.46 at 132 mph. Not bad for a 3,900-pound car with a nearly stock drivetrain.
Evolution's not quite finished yet. With a few more innovative bolt-ons, the team is confident it'll be in the 9s on the stock drivetrain and will probably have done so by the time you read this. Check www.evoperform.com to stay up-to-date on the progress. It doesn't end there. After 9s, the stock 5.4L will be replaced with a 6.2L stroker based on the aluminum Ford GT block to shave 100-plus pounds off the nose, but that's where the weight loss stops. The rest of the specs are mum for the moment, but can you say 8s in a 2-ton, mild-mannered street car with A/C and all the creature comforts? Yeah, they're speaking our language too.
Quick Inspection: '07 Mustang Gt500
Evolution Motorsports * Aston, Pa
Engine: From the blower down, it's factory stock. Outside of a few custom-fabricated bolt-ons, up top is where the magic takes place. The factory Eaton blower has been thoroughly ported and wears a 2.5-inch pulley that makes 13.5 psi of boost (compared with the factory's 9 psi). Other than that, it's just a cold-air intake, a custom tank for the air-to-water intercooler, and a nice street-car exhaust.
Power: As of this writing, the GT500 was putting 596 hp and 602 lb-ft of torque to the wheels.
Transmission: The stock TR6060 six-speed transmission and clutch assembly have lived up to the relentless quarter-mile thrash sessions without a single hiccup, according to Evolution.
Rearend: The factory 8.8-inch solid axle received a Detroit Locker centersection with a set of 4.10 gears swapped in place of the 3.31s.
Frame: The heavy stock S-197 Mustang chassis gets some additional torsional rigidity from an eight-point S&W Race Cars rollcage and Steeda subframe connectors and a little lightening and simplification underneath from a modified BMR K-member.
Suspension: Though it only has simple bolt-on tricks that are probably very familiar to 05+ Mustang owners, dialing in the suspension was the real key to getting the GT500 to its current level. Santhuff drag struts with 3-inch lowering coilover springs were used in the front with Steeda Competition springs and QA1 double-adjustable drag shocks on the rear. The positions of both the rear lower and upper control arms were modified using BMR equipment and are adjustable.
Brakes: The massive 14-inch factory Brembo brakes were swapped for lightweight 12-inch Aerospace Components pieces to clear the Bogart racing skinnies. It's not exactly a bolt-on, since the spindles needed machining and the ABS had to be tricked to install the dual line-lock.
Wheels: Ultralightweight Bogart Racing wheels measure 15x3.5 in the front and 15x10 in the rear.
Tires: On the 10.46-second blast, Mickey Thompson ET Drags measured 27.5/4.5-15 in the front with wide 28.0/10.5-15W slicks struggling for traction out back.
Body: Yes, those wide tires tuck inside stock wheelwells. No body alterations have been done or are planned for this GT500.
Paint: The factory paint colors are Ebony Black with Tungsten stripes, and despite how good it may look in the photos, it's never even been waxed.
Interior: Nothing has been removed for weight savings except the seats, which were swapped with Cobra Imola S Kevlar seats. According to Fred, it's going to stay that way too, since the car will remain a street car.
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Making the power wasn't as much of a problem as getting it to the ground. The GT500 typically launches at around 4,000 rpm-so far, anything over that just sends the tires up in smoke.The Metco 2.5-inch pulley was paired with a 90mm idler from an '03 Cobra. If you look really closely, you can also see the part number for the necessary drivebelt: Motorcraft 7R3V-8620-AA.One of the biggest hurdles to putting a GT500 in the 10s or better, according to Evolution, is the factory computer, which requires a little coercion to allow more boost into the engine. Apparently, Ford has a built-in parameter that's intended to protect the car from excessive boost, but Evolution was able to turn it off.Fred wanted this car to retain full pick-the-kids-up-from-school comfort and streetability, so stripping the interior of its factory creature comforts was out. He even opted to leave the A/C and power steering operational.Two of the three switches manually operate the high and low cooling fans, while the other manually operates the intercooler pump.
If you want a 10-second GT500, Evolution says it'll only take about a week, but hurry up and get in line because there are at least six cars ahead of you already.


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Please suggest me some solution for this.
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Just a tiny detail: Netduino Plus uses Atmel not Amtel MCU
Thanks for the errata georgejh - you're exactly correct. I had misread Atmel when I first looked at the Netduino devices and it has stuck for the following years :-)
I have uploaded my demo code to github. I'll be improving and tidying this up (there were some demo-day changes which aren't pretty!). Most importantly too I have to attribute some of the classes in a readme.md and this isn't yet done. Please note that some classes from NTP, SHA and some other tools are community and remain unattributed.
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great fun stuff! 4 minor points arising ..
07:05 "Cost" is relative cost (as AC said is "cost per unit") so slides falsely give impression of mobile costing more than desktop
39:00 AC says 20mSec wwait when is actually 200mSec wait
40:10 AC says "Norway" when should be "Netherlands" (i.e. NL)
demo loading over USB of 55K seemed to take long time. is this only USBv1 instead of USBv2 or due to chatty packets?
all minor picky stuff (sorry!), and did not detract from great presentation (glad your solder held together) !
You got me on all points ;-)
#1,#2,#3 you are correct. Particularly embarrassing with the NO/NL confusion! Sorry Norway/Netherlands ;-)
#4 I'm not helping things in this video, since the device needs to be rebooted and the program deployed from scratch (the previous demo is potentially running in all instances). If you notice the last demo (that fails then works when I don't try to mess about with the workflow in VS2010) it loads very quickly as the device is in the right state. I'm relatively sure that's the reason the demos took a while to deploy each time.
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AG086: Lights, Camerupt, Action!
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Lights, Camerupt, Action! (Japanese: 映画はバクーダに乗って!! The Film's Riding on Camerupt!!) is the 46th episode of Pokémon: Advanced Challenge.
Episode Plot
Ash is happy for his newest badge. He wants to go to his newest Gym Battle, so asks Brock where the next Gym is, so Brock tells him it is in Mossdeep City. They can go via a ship from Lilycove City to there. As they walk, they spot a man trying to push a Camerupt in water. The gang offers assistance to get Camerupt to shore. They manage to bring it (with Torkoal and Bulbasaur helping as well). The man, named as Elijah, thanks him, while the gang introduces themselves. Max wonders what is that equipment, so Elijah tells it is movie equipment - he displays the movies to the locals around these parts. The latest movie he will show is Plusle and Minun - the Princess Rescue. He tells them that it'll be shown tomorrow night, so the gang plans to watch the movie.
Team Rocket spies from their balloon, trying to get Pikachu and Camerupt. Chimecho calms James down with its voice, although Jessie begins to find it annoying, so James returns it back. Meowth spots the movie equipment so he plans to steal it so that boss would see his favorite movie on big screen. He also plans to steal Camerupt, although James is skeptical what would he do with a Camerupt, but Jessie thinks why not steal both? The gang arrives to the bridge, finding it broken. They follow the river, finding the narrowest spot. Although the current is strong, Elijah has not forgotten they past the last river, so they can pass this one. They begin to walk towards it, but fall in a hole. Team Rocket appears - they cut the bridge to get them into the hole they are in.
Team Rocket takes Camerupt, although Ash sends Corphish, cutting the rope. Corphish blasts 'em off using Bubble Beam. The gang continues their travel. May feels some rocks falling, so Max pulls her to avoid being hurt. Elijah sees that he needs to find another path. He goes to camp for the night with the gang. He compliments Brock for the food he prepared. Elijah says he is lucky - mostly he falls down from the canyon or is chase by Tauros or some such. Elijah feels it is an obligation to show the people movies - he received a letter from a girl named Mariah who compliments the movie she saw, so wants Elijah to get back with a new movie (since it was a year she saw the movie).
Ash recalls he saw a movie once he was little. The movie was about a trainer (like Ash), a Pikachu and a hungry Clefairy. Clefairy sees a Teddiursa eating a hamburger, so goes to eat it. Teddiursa cries, so a Ursaring pounds the Clefairy, making Ash laughing. Brock recalls he saw a movie as well - somewhere in Middle West, a Snorlax was battling Machoke for Azurill's pride. Both Pokémon shoot Water Guns with Remoraids. Snorlax's hat was blown, but Machoke was defeated. Max also recalls that aliens took Meowth and enlarged it. The Marshtomp Air force send to deal with Meowth, but did not succeed. Marshtomp was a hero from another planet, so it got bigger (as much as Meowth) and defeated it. May also recalls her favorite movie - Natu and Xatu were travelling in a ship across Milky Way, being in love. An ice asteroid, destroying the ship and splitting the lovers.
The gang discusses more about the movies. Elijah tells the movies become memories. Ash asks what is the plot of the movie Elijah will show, so he begins to tell it. The movie is a narrated one, tempting Max to go see it. Ash allows them to see it. The next day, they travel and reach the town via a different route. The villagers greet him and the youngsters come to hear what new movie it'll be. Even Mariah arrives, being tanked for sending the letter to Elijah. Brock and Ash set the theater where the movie will be displayed. That night, many villagers gather (along with the gang). The lights went out and the movie begins. Elijah plays the radio where the narrator can be heard.
Plusle and Minun lived in a forest until the princess got captured by an Exploud. They go to rescue her, but bump into a rock. They encounter an Armaldo and begin to fight, but the movie stops. Team Rocket appears, disrupting the movie. Jessie sends Seviper and uses Haze. They go off, taking the movie equipment with them. Elijah, May, Ash and Max go to find them while Brock stays to entertain the others. Brock sings and dances, entertaining the children. Max spots a trail of movie film, so they go to find the projector. Meowth and James push the cart with the projector, but Jessie sees the trail of the movie film, so they go to take it back. Later, the gang intercepts Team Rocket.
Jessie sends Seviper and Ash his Grovyle. Seviper goes to bite, however Grovyle evades and attacks it with Bullet Seed and blasts Team Rocket off with Quick Attack. Max catches the movie film. Brock has become tired of all entertaining. Fortunately enough, Max, May, Elijah and Ash come with the movie film and the projector. The movie continues - Plusle and Minun are about to battle the Armaldo, but Pikachu comes, helping them. Even Team Rocket watch the movie. They confront Exploud and rescue princess Kirlia, returning to the forest where they lived happily ever after. The gang claps. Later, Team Rocket comments on the movie, although James wonders how they'd see a different ending...
- "Princess Curlia seems so happy!" - Jessie
- "And Plusle and Minun were happy, too!" - Meowth
- "I'd hate to see you two handle a sad ending..." - James
- Featured Pokémon: Sandshrew, Sandslash, Kadabra, Kecleon
- The movie May mentioned is based off Titanic movie.
- When Ash makes a flashback of his movie, a man sitting behind Gary has an outfit that resembles a giant R, possibly referencing Team Rocket.
- At the beginning of the episode, a classic Pokémon identification can be seen. In this episode, it is a Gloom.
The Azumarill in the last movie that Brock saw had the voice of an Azurill.


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A stranger walks up to you on the street. They say they lost their phone and need to make a phone call (has happened to me twice, and maybe to you). What's the worst a phone call could do?
Let's assume they don't run, don't plug any devices into the phone, they just dial a number and do whatever, and hang up.
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Today at work I started looking for my car keys..as I unloaded my briefcase.. I noticed some ..."extra stuff" was in there... I proceeded to pull out not one ..but two pairs of Spongebob underwear, an R2d2 action figure, one small army man, an empty fruit snack wrapper and a handful of plastic bugs... I started talking to myself..."Are you serious??" I asked myself as I was digging furiously looking for those keys... I was so engrossed I said outloud .. "Whose Smurf is this?" ..as I pulled out a small plush Smurfette..all of the sudden a sea of laughter shook me and I realized I had an audience of people cracking up watching me like a side show..I started laughing myself when I started saying "I swear the kids put this stuff in there".. I don't think anyone believed me... Lol
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Are you serious????
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- jacque4u2c said...
I am so sorry but I am laughing my butt off this is just TOOOOO funny!!!! My dd, used to do that kind of stuff all the time.
- March 23, 2011 at 6:21 PM
- stephanie said...
That is too funny!! My little does that to me all the time!
- March 23, 2011 at 6:42 PM
- Shell said...
- March 23, 2011 at 6:55 PM
- Brian Miller said...
haha...its survival gear mom just in case you need it...smiles.
- March 23, 2011 at 7:35 PM
- Lin said...
Really?? Do you need to bring your toys to work??? ;)
- March 23, 2011 at 7:37 PM
- Cheryl D. said...
We know the truth! LOL
- March 23, 2011 at 9:43 PM
- Rachel said...
I am dying laughing... that had to be a hoot to watch! :)
- March 23, 2011 at 10:03 PM
- Kmama said...
Hha!! I've not had that happen to me yet. I'm waiting for the day though.
Normally, I just get small things tossed in my shoes. ;-)
- March 24, 2011 at 6:01 AM
- blueviolet said...
I'm hoping they're kinda used to you. I have a feeling they are! ;)
- March 24, 2011 at 6:47 AM
- Sheila said...
HA! That's great!!!
Brandy left her car running in the parking lot when she got to work this morning! SERIOUSLY! She only found out because a girl at work came in and told her! HA!
Hey - are you on FB?
- March 24, 2011 at 8:20 AM
- Heather said...
So funny. Maybe they thought of those things as gifts.
Your briefcase sounds a lot like my purse.
- March 24, 2011 at 8:56 AM
- Eva Gallant said...
They are just rememinders of the joys in your life; the reason you go home at night.
- March 24, 2011 at 10:01 AM
- Belle's Books said...
Cute story! You've got to love those little surprises! :0)
- March 24, 2011 at 11:00 AM
- Brandy@YDK said...
that is so awesome. i'm glad you didn't find any old food.
- March 24, 2011 at 1:29 PM
- mum in meltdown said...
Lol I love that and miss it, mine are too old now to do those things. It's like standing in a queue and realise that your singing the theme tune to your kids favourite TV show with people watching you like you have gone mad!!
- March 24, 2011 at 1:52 PM
- Tam said...
Hey! I just stumbled upon your blog from Eva's Wrestling with Retirement. You crack me up! My kids are much older but I remember the days when I could entertain an entire daycare center with what was in my purse! Thanks for the laughs - and great blog! I look forward to reading more!
- March 24, 2011 at 9:30 PM
- BellaDaddy said...
HA! Love it...fortunately I dont carry a purse, but if I did...am certain the little one would put all kinds of girlsy stuff in it.
Love the new look!
- March 25, 2011 at 5:51 PM
- Katie :o) said...
CLASSIC!!!! Love it :o)
- March 28, 2011 at 6:40 AM


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Why is the あ-series in demonstratives irregular like the following:
ここ そこ あ そこ どこ
(expected あこ)
こう そう あ あ どう
(expected あう)
Is it related to the fact that
ど all end with the vowel "o", and
あ ends with the vowel "a"?
Why is the あ-series in demonstratives irregular like the following:
Is it related to the fact that
There was an ako. From the 1775 text 物類称呼 (Iwanami Bunko ISBN4-00-302691-8 p. 146):
However, there are ample usages of asoko in much earlier works from the 13th century and on, so this is likely an abbreviation of asoko > ako.
Historically, in Old Japanese there was the ko/so/ka system. The ka form are the ancestor of modern a-forms, with the initial /k/ dropping out leaving only /a/. However, in the Old Japanese corpus, the ka forms are extremely rare and of those few that exist, they are all attributed to an eastern dialect. As such, it is thought that the distal (遠称) series had not been fully developed until yet early middle Japanese. It was a two-way system of speaker vs. non-speaker rather than priximal/mesial/distal. So that is one reason to not expect regularity in the [k]a-series. Further, the early signs of the [k]a- series are found in eastern dialects, so yo can expect variation when it merges with the western dialects.
Also, you seem to expect *あう based on こう, そう, and どう. However, I must take issue with こう and そう. The etymology of こう is kaku > kau > kɔː > koː, with a once medial -k-. For そう, it is sau > sɔː > soː. These two do not share a common etymology, so you cannot draw any conclusions from this alone for a ああ vs. あう. Besides, if it were あう, this would have regularly developed into au > ɔː > oː (おう).
As explained above, I think the question is based on a false premise so it cannot be answered satisfactorily.
The historical answer to this still appears to be somewhat of a mystery. However, there is speculation on why the あ (of the こそあど) appears to be irregular.
Nomichi Sumire gives a hint in this answer as to why あ is different. 「ここ・そこ・あそこ・どこ」 were all written in Kanji in the past, like this: 「此処・其処・彼処・何処」 When written out in Kanji, all of the words appear to be the same length of characters. But this doesn't really answer your question.
The interesting thing about 「彼処{あそこ}」 is that it can also be read as 彼処{あこ}. So, at least one point in time, あこ (itself) was used.
There is other speculation about why it's currently 「あそこ」 instead of 「あこ」 in an essay (labeled as fictional... so take it with a grain of salt,) on this page: The Mystery of ASOKO.
Namely, the focus point of this essay is in this paragraph:
Basically, (and earlier in the article,) the writer is suggesting that 「ここ」and「そこ」are used when the locations being discussed are known locations (near or kind of near places.) But when the place is somewhere far away... (when the location is not completely known,) perhaps 「あそこ」is used because it's adding the 「あ」of the distal pronoun (遠称) and adding it to the「そこ」of the mesioproximal pronoun (中称) as a way of saying something to the effect of: "it's a place somewhere far over (あ+そこ)there".
Again, it's hard to know for sure when that idea seems to be just speculation by the writer. But it gives a better idea of why 「あそこ」came in to common usage. It could very well also have to do with the vowel idea of yours; with languages like Japanese and Pacific languages (like Hawaiian, for example,) keeping the consonant-vowel combination tends to be important.
For the second part of the example in your question: the「こう・そう・ああ・どう」, try thinking about it like this: each of those expected ones 「こう・そう・どう」 have a long "o" vowel sound. It's similar to when the 「ー」 sign is used for a long vowel sign. When you have a long vowel sound for 「あ」, what do you use? 「あー」, right? Which is a long「あ」sound.


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I have an Dell PowerEdge 830, but after installing a 4:th disk and while copying backup files to this new disk the overall performance of the server just plummet.
The system degrades to a point where it can not be accessed remotely over the network and basically freeze. But as soon as I cancel the copy operation things return to normal.
I can provide more information on the matter, but right now I'm thinking it's related to the bus speed, but why would it be so intense? Is there anything I can do to identify the problem, or has anyone run into a similar problem?
Current disk configuration
- 3 disks connected to a DELL CERC SATA 1.5/6ch RAID Controller
- Only two of these disks form a RAID0 array
- The 3rd disk seems to be unused
- The RAID array has 3 partitions, something called EISA configuration 31MB (don't know what this is), C: with 132GB and D: with 165GB
- 4th disk connected to a SATA port on the main board
Copying from the RAID array to the 4th disk kills server performance to a point where it's almost entirely unresponsive.


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I recently got a crown for the first time on a level, now I'm wondering if there is a way for me to see in game what requirement is for each level. If not, what exactly are the requirements to getting a crown?
I found a list from ps3trophies:
I've also figured out what the two shot types are:
Rising shot - You must put tremendous top spin onto your shot and your ball has to traverse up the pin.
Pin shot - Your shot has to hit the pin.
Not sure what OB/WB and DP/WB means though.


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Sometimes I get so caught up in trying to recreate dishes I used to eat before I went vegan that I forget how great simple veggie dishes are. This pizza (thinly sliced eggplant, zucchini, mushrooms, tomatoes, red and green peppers, and red onions) was fresh and tasty and unsullied by fake meat and cheese. A good reminder to get back to basics.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Back to Basics
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- Vegetation said...
Mmmm that pizza looks fantastic! And I agree. I had a salad and potato dish that reminded me just how wonderful veggies can be all on their own last night.
- March 1, 2009 at 3:56 AM
- Bev's Place said...
Yumm...I love home made pizza. I make my own yeast base and top with tomato based pasta sauce, mushies, capsicum (peppers) sun dried tomatoes, olives and a tiny bit of onion. I never would have thought of putting zucchini or eggplant on a pizza but then again, I do adore marinated and/or grilled eggplant. Omni hubby has cheese and meat on his but I think the flavours of the vegies are better without anything else.
- March 1, 2009 at 5:54 AM
- Cynthia said...
Yum! That pizza looks wonderful! Thanks for the 'basic' idea, V-dad.
- March 1, 2009 at 6:23 AM
- Mary said...
That looks delicious.
- March 1, 2009 at 6:52 AM
- shelby said...
I've been the same way lately. I'm just too busy to create new dishes and I miss my old favorites.
Pizza sounds YUM!
- March 1, 2009 at 9:03 AM
- The Voracious Vegan said...
Wow. That picture is so amazing it made my jaw drop! Fabulous!
I know what you mean about simple veggie dishes. They are the best. I never use fake meat or cheese on my pizzas, why would I want to ruin the delicious flavor of all those veggies???
- March 1, 2009 at 9:03 AM
- Meg said...
Looks so fresh and delicious!
- March 1, 2009 at 9:04 AM
- Chi-Chi, The Original Wombman said...
Looks delicious!! We had pizza last night but I put tempeh sausage crumbles on top. I'm eager to have an "all-veggie" pizza now too!
Yeah, I too really appreciate sometimes just veggies . . . no tofu, seitan, or any other substitute!
- March 1, 2009 at 9:10 AM
- JENNA said...
So pretty! Simple and delicious looking!
- March 1, 2009 at 11:06 AM
- chow vegan said...
Sometimes simple and basic is the way to go. Your pizza looks awesome! :-)
- March 1, 2009 at 11:40 AM
- Level 20 Bard said...
- March 1, 2009 at 12:30 PM
- Laci said...
Ahhh it's back to the garden pizza, love it! ;) P.S. do you make and rise your own pizza dough?
- March 1, 2009 at 1:40 PM
- Kelley said...
That looks delicious! What did you sprinkle over the top of it?
- March 1, 2009 at 4:27 PM
- Eating Consciously said...
I often run into that same dilemma. Looks great though!
- March 2, 2009 at 7:53 AM
- DJ Karma said...
That simple pizza looks delicious! I always hate it when you order one without cheese and it has no flavor or seasoning.
- March 2, 2009 at 9:39 AM
- PB and Jess said...
Your pizza looks really good! I've been making them a lot lately too :)
- March 2, 2009 at 11:16 AM
- Anonymous said...
This looks yummy...any ideas on a raisin cinn. bread? Tina
- March 2, 2009 at 2:57 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
parsley and oregano!
- March 3, 2009 at 12:05 PM


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I am looking to buy a used trombone, from Craigslist or similar. I'd prefer not to spend much more than $200 on it. I want to learn to play the trombone, but I know absolutely nothing about the instrument. When I meet with a seller and have the chance to examine the trombone, what should I look for? What are the parts that are likely to be damaged or faulty that would drive down the price of a used instrument? What are some qualities a 'good' trombone might have? What tests or trials should I run on it to ensure that it's working properly (or as properly as possible for the price)?
Its definitely tough to evaluate a beginner trombone when you've not played before. I would try to find someone who has at least played for awhile to help you evaluate potential instruments. A good high school trombone player should have enough chops and an ear to tell you that one is better than another, and suitable for beginning. You don't want very inaccurate partial slotting, stuffy tone or extremely poor response.
In terms of condition, you absolutely don't want any dents or bends in the slide section. It should move fairly freely. If the slide grates significantly, or has a much rougher patch, it means that there is a dent, or the alignment is very out of whack. A repair could run anywhere from $20 to $100, so just be aware of that. Realize that you have to move your slide to change notes, and make sure it slides easily enough for that. (Note if the trombone is very old and dirty, some of the sluggishness could be cleaned off with a good cleaning, so keep that in mind as well. A trombone player would probably be able to tell you how bad the slide really is.)
I would not overly focus on cosmetic defects as long as there are no major dents. Try to stay away from un-branded instruments; they're not worth the money in 95% of cases.
Keep an eye out for the following brands; in general they signify a certain level of quality, repairability and playability, as well as resale when you graduate to a more advanced/different instrument.
King (H.N. White) Yamaha Olds Conn
These are all high-quality brands, but you can definitely find some reasonably priced vintage models that will play well. I've also had mixed luck with Jupiter and Holton student models; try to get someone who plays to play one for you and give their input.
Keep an eye on craigslist, or talk to some high school players that might be getting rid of their student horns in favor of a more advanced one to continue on. The trombone.org/classifieds usually contains higher-end professional instruments, but it's definitely worth taking a look. Updates occur on Mondays.
A mouthpiece can be convenient, but don't rule out a good horn because it doesn't include one!
Other than that, once you've gotten past a certain skill level be ready to resell it, and get something a little nicer/more advanced so that your interest will continue!
Welcome to the party!
Check if the handslide is closed and does not leak. Do this by demounting the trumbone and pressing your thumbs on the two notches and then lifting the handslide by just holding it at the grip.
Good luck. Welcome to the tromboners world!
I can think of a few:
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In a comment on Can a pixie levitate on bootlaces carried by a spirit of salzacas?, Simon Withers said
The (at will) Air Spirit Primal Attunement for the Sentinal Druid is a nice replacement for the Prison :)
As fas as I can see, Primal Attunements are
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West Midlands Arts Health & Wellbeing (WMAH&W) is a regional network dedicated to supporting arts and health work. The WMAH&W website provides a practical resource with informative case studies, regional event details, information on specific projects and resources.
Creative Remedies funding directory - launched in October 2002, Creative Remedies is an Arts and Health website developed for health professionals, artists, local authorities and arts organisations across Staffordshire and the West Midlands.
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BVSC 4 Community - The community funding support website for the Birmingham area.
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Funding central - this website is for charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises providing access to funding and finance opportunities. Plus a wealth of tools and resources supporting organisations to develop sustainable income strategies appropriate to your needs
Funding for artists - this website was created by Paul Hamlyn Foundation to provide a portal for information on funding opportunities for individual artists and composers.
Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England - grants for individuals, arts organisations and other people who use the arts in their work.
GRANTfinder is a subscription grants and funding information provider listing a range of opportunities
Jerwood Charitable Foundation – This Foundation supports a broad number of small grants for one-off projects, generally under £10,000. This fund allows the foundation to explore new relationships, work directly with individual artists, take risks and support research or development of future ideas.
Jerwood Visual Arts - JVA is a year round contemporary gallery programme of awards, exhibitions, and events at Jerwood Space, London, which then tours the UK. All of the major programmes are open submission.
Lottery Funding - this is a joint website run by all Lottery funders in the UK. This site allows you to search information on current funding programmes across the UK.
Lloyds TSB Foundation – This foundation funds and supports charities that help disadvantaged people play a fuller role in the community through delivering lasting changes and benefits for their users/beneficiaries. Funding is needs-driven, primarily supports core costs and is designed to fund issues that affect individuals as well as multiple communities.
Media Trust - this trust works with the media industry to empower charities and communities to have a voice and be heard.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - this foundation has a specific funding programme for the Arts.
Roughley Trust - this medium-sized Birmingham grant-making trust have wide-ranging interests in addressing special needs, deprivation and disadvantage as well as fostering health and wellbeing and a greater engagement with the arts, heritage and environment.
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The Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts – The 'Start' programme is the foundation's flagship project. Since 2006, it has awarded grants of over £1.25m to arts organisations around the UK, enabling them to build strong relationships with their local schools.
The Social Investment Business - a variety of funds are available to help organisations prosper through better access to finance, support and long term strategic thinking.
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Be careful I purchased skyrim and didn't notice until i had bought it that they charged me $40 instead of the advertised $30... i submitted a ticket and we will see how it goes.
@wezitar: Steam support usually is pretty good about this. I wouldn't worry
For anyone (like myself) that still doesn't have Saints Row 3, the full DLC is only $2.50 more if you buy the complete pack with the game versus buying the DLC for $5 separate.
Great deal for a huge mix of games: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/15578/
Meridian4 Bundle. VERY much worth it! Something like 34 games for about $20. A HUGE savings, espcially if you factor in the non-sale prices of the games.
I still have games from the sale last year that haven't been played. To many good deals, not enough time.


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The Charlotte 49ers evened their record at 4-4 with a 7-0 victory over Mercer (0-5) at the Halton-Wagner Tennis Complex. The 49ers won eight of the nine matches to claim the overall victory.
"I attribute this win to two things: a productive week of practice and good overall team concentration," Charlotte coach Billy Boykin said. "Mercer is a solid team and they made us work for everything. I'm proud of our effort today."
Charlotte won two of the three doubles matches to capture the doubles point. At number one doubles, Charlotte's Alex Calott and Paul Cisti defeated Mercer's Anderson Scarpa and Joao Pagan, 8-4. At number two doubles, Charlotte's Jordi Massalle Ferrer and Alex Weber lost to Mercer's Arnay Mohanty and Arsay Mohanty, 8-5, for their first doubles loss this season. At number three doubles, Charlotte's Kamil Khalil and Krzysztof Kwasniewicz defeated Mercer's Vincent DeLise and Austin Emmet, 8-4.
Charlotte won all six singles matches to claim the overall victory. At number one singles, Charlotte's Calott defeated Mercer's Arnay Mohanty, 6-3, 6-2. At number two singles. Charlotte's Massalle Ferrer defeated Mercer's Scarpa, 6-3, 6-2. At number three singles, Charlotte's Cisti defeated Mercer's Arsay Mohanty, 6-0, 6-4. At number four singles, Charlotte's Khalil defeated Mercer's Pagan in three hard fought sets, 6-3, 3-6, 1-0 (10-8). At number five singles, Charlotte's Kwasniewicz defeated Mercer's DeLise, 6-1, 6-4. At number six singles, Charlotte's Nate Shanok defeated Mercer's Emmet, 6-1, 6-1.
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Has a point about Evans. Both players go to ground at pace in opposite directions. He's very lucky that a) Shelvey caught him rather than the other way round and b) he wasn't seriously injured.
It can do, if United had been one-up then the game is over, or against lesser oppo. Seen it dozens of times. In this situation, probably no.
I always say that the last World Cup final, was a perfect example of sending offs maybe making a game better, if they'd happened. Couldn't have been any worse.
I'm old School, so I would have just booked Shelvey, but as Citizen Neville said, Evans was just as wild, so send them both off.
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Ahaha Rafaelllll. Beauty.
We only start playing when behind, isn't this exactly what happened last season too?
Penalty, pure and simple. Don't care if he did a triple-pike after, contact and another wild challenge from Evans.
Didn't see the first half. Why did Shelvey have a go at Old Purple Chops when he was on his way to an early bath?
I mean, aside from being a cock, obvz. Had Ferguson said something?
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gloomyandy wrote:also the 100Hz flicker of most lights (2x50Hz), means that you get some odd peaks in the overall light levels
gloomyandy wrote:Folks,
I thought you might be interested to see my latest project:
I'll try and post some more details later, but if you have any questions ask away...
1. What software did you use to edit the video together? And how long does it take to put together a video like that?
2. For the modulation algorithm, is it basically taking a reading, turning off the laser, then taking another reading. If the bright spot is present only when the laser is on, it counts it as a hit? But if a bright spot is there both when the laser is on and also off, then it ignores it?
3. Is there a laser sensor like yours on the market? If not, is it easy to build? It would be cool to have a laser sensor/actuator class in leJOS. We could include some assembly instructions in the API if it isn't too complex.
4. Are there limitations to the positional detection based on the orientation of your three reflectors? I assume this works a little like GPS. Without the sensor being able to detect unique reflectors (ID 1, 2, or 3) then I assume all three must be up against a wall. Do you think you get 100% room coverage, or are there blind spots and distance limitations for this setup?
5. What is your algorithm for correcting the position after it does a move and then checks position?
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Is aliyah to Israel an occasion for which one does not recite Tachanun? Is there a difference of minhag on this, or is there a uniform answer (yes, it is a special enough occasion to refrain from saying Tachanun vs. no, it is a regular Tachanun day)? If there is a difference, is it dependent upon hashkafic differences (zionist/anti-zionist), or halachic differences (based on writings of Rishonim, Acharonim, etc.)?
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It's orally reported (I heard it on a Rabbi Rakeffet mp3) that when Rabbi Moshe Feinstein was asked by Bnai Akiva about Hallel on Yom Ha'atzmaut, he replied: "nu, if it's a yomtov for you, then say Hallel; personally I don't."
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Seeing the device name by df, is it somehow possible to resolve it to the physical drive name such as vendor / type.
/dev/sda3 915.4G 34.9G 880.0G 4% /share/HDA_DATA
/dev/sdd3 1.8T 668.1G 1.1T 36% /share/HDD_DATA
I have learnt that I find some info in sys/block, but I do not find the vendor's type name in there?
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My system is a Linux based QNAP NAS, so things might be a little different there. For me as a non Linux expert hard to tell, what is "standard", and what not.
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lol, the dude on the left just repeated everything the guy in the red said... That wasted a lot of my time the video only really needed to be 12 minutes if the other two guys were not talking
I'm not sure how you can claim that it's secure when you do the "Connect to network"/push the button routine. A determined intruder could wait for that button pushing event. Even worse, I'm concerned as to what possible security between the new laptop and the router exists while that little dance is going on. It looks like it could be easily sniffable, recordable and attackable. I would have appreciated more technical details and less marketing and branding fluff.
It looks like the PC has to start the connection first. So the button push only sends out the data if a PC is waiting for the connection. Likewise the PC probably can't say its ready and waiting if someone else is attempting waiting for you to push the router's button.
Likewise, its not hard to use standard SSL style connections to ensure the data can't be read, reused or otherwise intercepted successfully.
What did that guy write to clear out the wi-fi settings on his laptop? I want to test this WPS stuff out as well, but the laptop is already set up. (I hate it when people zoom out from interesting small commands like that!!)
Also, is this only available in the final version of Windows 7? Only get question for writing in security key when I connect to my router... (I have enabled WPS on the router first of course)
It was a netsh command, try running "netsh wlan ?" (w/o the quotes) to see a list of commands. I believe this is all he did to remove the wifi profile instead of using the GUI.
This was TOTALLY USELESS.....
Not enough technical specifications, but kept me interested a bit.
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5 Ways Your Taste in Music is Scientifically Programmed
#2. Your Music Preferences Are Sealed by Adolescence
Imagine if everything you said, did or liked by age 18 was stuck with you forever. Your clothes, hairstyle and friends, and that stupid nickname you gave yourself -- all permanently tattooed on your adult self for the whole world to see and mock. How many of us would be walking around with lopsided Salt-n-Pepa hair and insisting that everyone call us "Spinderella Jr.?" It's not a pretty picture.
Fortunately, we mature. But there is one area where neuroscientist and music expert Daniel Levitin thinks we're permanently marked before we hit voting age: our music preferences.
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Once again, don't look at us like that. It's just a totally random image of music and voting.
You already probably know that there are certain things that are much easier to learn as a kid than as an adult (like, say, a foreign language). There is a point when your brain gets a little more set in its ways. But when your brain is new and still developing, it's constantly creating new and different neural pathways to perform all the mental tasks that will be required of it throughout your life. So your parents' musical preferences, whatever is on the radio, the rinky-dinky songs your preschool teacher taught you -- anything is fair game to form the foundation that will be your musical taste. And your brain pays attention, developing neural pathways to recognize the music of your culture. At age 10, you start to bonk out the music that doesn't fit in with your recognizable scheme of "good" music. At age 12, you begin to use those newly formed tastes to figure out your place in the world ("You will know us by our SPIN DOCTORS T-shirts!"). By 14, for the most part, your musical preferences are a done deal.
As evidence, one music critic points to the biggest music icons of the past 50 years to bear this fact out. Both Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney were 14 when they were first exposed to Elvis, and both cited that exposure as the fuse that lit their world-changing careers. When the Beatles hit The Ed Sullivan Show, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder and Billy Joel were all age 14, presumably watching it on TV.
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Researchers are still trying to figure out what the hell Dee Snider accidentally watched.
Of course, these could be chalked up as fun coincidences used to illustrate a point. But think back on what you were listening to when you were 14 -- is it that much different from what you listen to now? Maybe a little more juvenile, maybe a little more Limp Bizkitty, but you probably haven't done a 180 and completely abandoned the genre of music you loved as a teen. If you were a hip-hop fan then, there's a good chance you still are one now.
#1. The Music Industry Has Pop Down to a Bland, Loud Formula
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We would never try to make a judgment call about the quality of modern music -- we're not that old (yet). But the fact is that pop music has grown more and more homogenized over the last 50 years, and there's science to prove it. There's even a graph.
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There's also this.
The Million Song Dataset uses algorithms to analyze pop songs recorded since 1955. The music bot evaluates songs based on things like loudness, note diversity, chord progression and tempo. What Musical Johnny 5 discovered was that musicians today are copycats, and they're sounding more and more alike every year. Once you break down individual elements, a pattern emerges. Even though the data set is examining a variety of pop genres, such as rock, hip-hop and metal, the trend is very clear: less variety, more loudness. Just as your grandparents suspected. In fact, researchers have concluded that modern listeners have now been trained to associate loudness with novelty:
"Hence, an old tune with slightly simpler chord progressions, new instrument sonorities that were in agreement with current tendencies, and recorded with modern techniques that allowed for increased loudness levels could be easily perceived as novel, fashionable and groundbreaking."
That's right; they think we're so stupid that we won't recognize an oldie if it's updated and loud enough. And do you know who was the king of creativity in the music department? The baby boomers. The same generation that gave us yuppies, the Social Security crisis and polyester pantsuits were once on the forefront of musical creativity, and no one has topped them since. Here's the aforementioned chart, which shows "timbral variety," or diversity of sounds present in pop songs since 1955:
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Those outliers are probably punk, rap and David Byrne just existing in a room somewhere. So think about 1950s music for a minute. You might imagine guys in matching suits, harmonizing and swaying softly while poodle-skirted girls hula hoop in the background and Sputnik yo-yos. Dick Clark might be in the mix somewhere, depending on how much imagination you have. But according to analysis produced by the Million Song Dataset, that white bread music was still more imaginative than whatever you're hearing on the radio or streaming now. The only difference is that your music is probably louder. Once pop reached its zenith in the 1960s, when musicians were literally using bell bottoms, cannabis and face paint as instruments, music slowly got less diverse.
Now remember what we said about how your musical tastes are locked in early; if this is what you were raised on, it's what you'll keep looking for the rest of your life -- anything outside of that narrow range of sounds seems weird or wrong. It's kind of hard to branch out and be experimental when your audience has been trained over the course of a generation to only recognize certain sounds as being "good." They don't have bad taste; they're just slaves to biology. But at least that explains the success of __________!
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In 1986 G.X. Viennot published "Heaps of pieces, I : Basic definitions and combinatorial lemmas" where he developed the theory of heaps of pieces, from the abstract: a geometric interpretation of Cartier-Foata's commutation monoid. This theory unifies and simplifies many other works in Combinatorics : bijective proofs in matrix algebra (MacMahon Master theorem, inversion matrix formula, Jacobi identity, Cayley-Hamilton theorem), combinatorial theory for general (formal) orthogonal polynomials, reciprocal of Rogers-Ramanujan identities, graph theory (matching and chromatic polynomials).
In the references the subsequent articles "Heaps of pieces, 4 and 5" are listed as "in preparation" where the applications of the theory to solving the directed animal problem and statistical physics are supposed to be developed. I know that these parts of the theory have appeared in literature but I am sort of puzzled as to why the series of papers was not continued (searching for Heaps of pieces II or III or IV doesn't give results). Is there any survey of the full theory somewhere else?
Also, since I didn't feel like asking this in a separate question, is there any paper that proves classical theorems of dimers (Kasteleyn's theorem, Aztec diamond etc.) using Viennot's theory?


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Here I mean the version with all but finitely many components zero.
This is the swindle, isn't it?
There's an elegant way to phrase this with lots of sines and cosines, but working it all out is too much like hard work. Here's the quick and dirty way.
Let $T: S^\infty \to S^\infty$ be the "shift everything down by 1" map.
Then for any point $x \in S^\infty$, $T(x)$ is not a multiple of $x$ and so the line between them does not go through the origin. We can therefore define a homotopy from the identity on $S^\infty$ to $T$ by taking the homotopy $t x + (1 - t)T(x)$ and renormalising so that it is always on the sphere (incidentally, although you are working in $\ell^0$, by talking about a sphere you implicitly have a norm).
Then we simply contract the image of $T$, which is a codimension 1 sphere, to a point not on it, say $(1,0,0,0,0,...)$. Again, we can use 'orrible sines and cosines, but renormalising the direct path will do.
(Incidentally, there's nothing special about which space you are taking the sphere in. So long as your space is stable in the sense that $X \oplus \mathbb{R} \cong X$ then this works)
Added a bit later: Incidentally, if you want to work in a space that doesn't support a norm (such as an infinite product of copies of $\mathbb{R}$) you can still define the sphere as the quotient of $X$ without the origin by the action of $\mathbb{R}^+$. The argument above still works in this case.
Added even later: Revisiting this in the light of the duplicate: Is $L^p(\mathbb{R})$ minus the zero function contractible?, the key property on $T$ is that it be continuous, injective, have no eigenvectors, and be not surjective. These conditions imply the following:
Finally, there's no difference between the sphere and the space minus a point (indeed, without a norm the "space minus a point" is easier to deal with). Indeed, the homotopy described here actually works on the "space minus a point" and is just renormalised to work on the sphere.
Kind of late to the party, but the (weak) contractibility follows from $\pi_i(S^\infty) = 0$ for $i>0$.
Another nice solution to a similar question is at http://katlas.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/index.php?title=0708-1300/the_unit_sphere_in_a_Hilbert_space_is_contractible:
Let $H=L^2([0,1])$ and define $S^\infty = \{x \in H : \|x\|=1\}$.
Claim. $S^\infty$ is contractible.
Proof. For any $t \in [0,1]$ and any $f \in H$ define $f_t(x)= f$ for $0<x<t$ and $f_t(x)=1$ for $t<x<1$. Observe that $t \mapsto f_t/\|f_t\|$ is continuous and gives the desired retraction to the point $f=1$.
3 proofs on Wikipedia - basically the same arguments as above. The Hilbert space part is superfluous.
Here are my thoughts on the matter. However, this is not too much more than what is done above. I think...
$\quad$ We seek to show that a homotopy from the identity map of $S^{\infty}$ ($id_{S^{\infty}}$) to a constant map can be constructed and thus it must be null-homotopic, $i.e.$, contractible. Let $T: S^\infty \to S^\infty$ be the "shift everything 'down' by 1" map given by $(x_1, x_2, x_3,...) \mapsto (0, x_1, x_2,...)$. Then for any point, $x$ and its image $T(x)$, the line between them does not go through the origin.
$\quad$ We can therefore define a homotopy from the identity on $S^\infty$ to T by taking a homotopy and renormalizing, so that it is always on the sphere, as follows. Let $f_t: \mathbb{R}^{\infty} \setminus 0 \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{\infty} \setminus 0$ be given by
$\quad$ Then we simply contract the image of $T$ , which is a codimension 1 sphere, to a point not on it, say $(1,0,0,0,0,...) = N$ (north pole). So let $g_{t} : \mathbb{R}^{\infty} \setminus 0 \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{\infty} \setminus 0$ be given by
$$g_t(x_1, x_2, ...) = (1-t)(0, x_1, x_2,....) + t(1, 0, 0, ...).$$ Now observe that $g_0 = f_1$, $f_0 = id_{S^{\infty}}$, and $g_1 = N$ (a constant). Again we can renormalize to guarantee everything is still on $S^{\infty}$, $i.e.$, $$\frac{g_t}{\left| g_t\right|} = G(x,t) : S^{\infty} \times I \rightarrow S^{\infty}.$$ Furthermore, we have that $\frac{g_0}{\left| g_0\right|} = \frac{f_1}{\left| f_1\right|}$. Therefore, it follows that $T \simeq N$ ($G$ gives a homotopy from


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Two school records fell as the 49ers completed the final day of the Charlotte Invitational at the Irwin Belk Track and Field Center on Friday afternoon.
Jake Deaton continued his domination in the discus and broke his previous school record (183'05) after finishing first with a toss of 186'03 to set a new school mark.
Katrina Wright also shattered her previous school record (157'6) set in 2012 on Friday with a toss of 163'08 in the discus throw en route to a second place finish. Toby Jo Klauenberg finished fifth in the event with a personal-record toss of 142'03. Klauenberg was also second in the shot put (40'03.25).
In the 100m dash, Khyran Shank won with a personal-best time of 10.32. Anthony Bynum followed in second (10.41) with a season-best time and LeRoy Rouse finished fifth (10.63). Briauna Jones finished fifth in the women's 100m (12.17).
The men's 4x100m relay team of John Osborne, Rouse, Bynum, and Shank won the event with a time of 40.67. The women's team (Chelsie Carlton, Briauna Jones, Sarah Justice, and Alvonna Blakney) finished second with a time of 47.27.
The 4x400m relay team (Brian Hamilton, Michael Pedemonte, Bynum and Chris Tate) finished first (3:17.82).
Charlotte picked up a pair of wins in the men's and women's 400m. Anthony Bynum finished first (47.30), followed by Christopher Tate in second (48.49), Brian Hamilton in third (49.01), and Dij'aun Higgins in sixth (49.49). On the women's side, T'Sheila Mungo won the event (53.26) as Jaleah Wilder was the third collegiate finisher (58.69) and Taylor Carcella was the fifth collegiate runner (58.83). Additionally, Hamilton and Mungo garnered season-best times.
Maraya Slatter won the 1500m run (4:34.72) followed by Jenna Christensen in sixth with a season-best time of 4:49.47. In the men's 1500m, Ben Sterett finished fourth (4:02.19).
In the high jump, Trey McRae (7'0.25) and Brittney Simmons (5'05) had season-best leaps to finish first. Coye Still was third (6'04). Still was also third in the long jump with a personal-record jump of 23'09. On the women's side, Jones was second (18'03), Chelsie Carlton was third (17'09.50), and Alicia Gainey was seventh (17'02). Jones also finished second in the triple jump (37'09.50). In the pole vault, Kevin Calhoun was second and finished with a season-best mark of 15'07. Jana Eatman was third (10'06).
Juanita Leto ran a team-best 13.77 in the 100m hurdles to finish as the second collegiate runner and third overall.
In the 3000m steeplechase, Cody Hodgins finished second (9:46.21), Eli Clevenger was fourth (9:58.01), and Michael Colven (10:09.05) was fifth.
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WORLD AIDS DAY EVENT, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at South Florida State College's Allied Health Building, 600 W. College Drive, Avon Park. Free and confidential HIV testing. Guest speakers Dr. Agustin Lacson, Cathy Robinson and Steve Ashworth. Music, food and giveaways. Highlands County Health Department will be involved with this.
BASIC LIFE SUPPORT TRAINING FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS, $46, either bring resuscitation mask or buy one there for $11, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Regency Center for Women and Infants, Winter Haven. Register with Citizen CPR at 863-291-5977.
BIRTH PREPARATION WORKSHOP, $50 per couple if delivering at Regency Center for Women and Infants in Winter Haven, $70 if delivering elsewhere; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Regency. Advance registration is required. Take the class three weeks to four weeks before due date. Call 863-294-7020.
WORLD AIDS DAY PRAYER AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION SERVICE, 5:30 p.m., Twin Lakes Park, Lake Alfred. Several religious organizations and an HIV/AIDS ministry have been invited. Confidential HIV testing will be provided. Sponsored by New Life Praise and Worship Tabernacle, Polk County Health Department, Wings of Love and the King Church incorporated.
HARVEST TO HOME STREET FAIR, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., hosted by Florida Presbyterian Homes on the banks of Lake Hunter, Lakeland, with involvement by Florida Southern College masters in business administration students as part of their Community Health Weekend. The fair will include a banquet of locally produced food, an art walk, silent auctions and live music. Proceeds benefit the Florida Presbyterian Homes' Loving Care Fund.
WORLD AIDS DAY RECOGNITION, 6 p.m., Grace Restoration Fellowship Church, 3601 Cypress Gardens Road, Suite M, Winter Haven. This replaces the evening community service usually held at Florida Southern College.
through dec. 7
HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE'S SENIOR SANTA PROGRAM, ornaments with holiday gift item requests for 200 seniors are on Christmas treees at Abuelo's Restaurant in Lakeside Village, Rita's Italian Ice and HHGregg on U.S. 98 N., Marshall Jewelers at Southgate and the Allstate office at 6146 N. 98, all in Lakeland. Drop-off locations will be the Home Instead office at 601 S. Florida Ave., Suite 1, or the tree locations.
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