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|Sprague joins Colver, Killin
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A 1999 HHS graduate has returned to his hometown to join a local law firm.
Russell Sprague is the newest partner at newly renamed Colver, Killin & Sprague, LLP.
"It gets in your blood and you don't ever get it out," Sprague said of agriculture and rural life. This is one of the reasons he decided to join the Colver and Killin team in Holyoke. Another big reason is the strong family ties he has to the area.
"It's been a blessing that I could get a chance to come back and help people in an area that I'm really passionate about," Sprague said. He began at the law office Wednesday, April 4.
"Dave (Colver) and Kim (Killin) have been fantastic here," Sprague said. He hopes to follow in their footsteps and serve the community the best he can.
While in law school, Sprague got a concentration in agricultural law, which he compares to a minor. He said it has always been a wish to try and use those skills.
The new attorney also has a few unique ties to the firm. His father, Russ, and Colver are first cousins. The firm was also originally started by Carl Absmeier, the grandfather of Russell's wife, Billie (Absmeier).
"I'm really excited to be back," Sprague said. "It's nice to be around folks and the area where I grew up."
Sprague earned his bachelor's degree in communication studies in 2003 and master's in communication studies in 2005 from Colorado State University. For both degrees he had an emphasis in rhetorical studies. Sprague also played football for CSU for five years.
Sprague earned his law degree from University of Nebraska Lincoln in 2008.
Following his graduation from UNL, Sprague clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th circuit with Chief Judge William Riley. He served as a judicial law clerk for one year before moving his family from Omaha to Denver to take a job with Wheeler, Trigg, O'Donnell. He said the Denver firm handles primarily trial work. He spent two and a half years working with the Denver firm.
Sprague and wife Billie have three girls, Avarie 8, Olivia 5 and Emersyn 4. The Sprague family currently lives in Parker where Russell commutes from. He said for now he will be in town during the week and head back to Parker on weekends to be with his family.
Both Avarie and Olivia are in school which won't be over for a few months, according to Sprague. He noted the girls are on a modified school year which runs a little longer than school in Holyoke. Sprague said they aren't quite sure how the transition will work just yet.
In his free time, Sprague enjoys spending time with his family as well as extended family. He also enjoys reading and attending any type of sporting event.
Sprague may be reached at the law office at 854-2264.
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Sigma SDM 15 review
***** Introduction *****
A bit long intro but if you wish, read about Sigma SDM 15 from finish and playability paragraph. However, in the intro there are my views on a few other guitars I tried.
I wanted an all solid body acoustic guitar however my budget was around 700 800 USD (5000 to 6000 Swedish Kronor). There are some really good choices available in the market now within this kind of budget. So I started searching on internet may be like you are doing right now on which is the best guitar in this price range. Unfortunately, I dont live close to any music store. The closest store is about 200 km away.
My criterias were as below.
1. All solid body
3. Mellow and warm sound with big bass and low tinny sound. I never really liked the harsh treblish acoustic guitar sound.
4. Good looking (of course at that price you do want a nice looking guitar)
5. Must have good action
6. Must stay in tune very good
What I didnt care much about
1. Where it is made
2. Colour
3. Pickups
4. Extras e.g. hard case, extra strings, guitar straps etc.
My search was narrowed down to the following
1. Recording king RD 316 (had great specs with Adirondack spruce top as the biggest selling point)
2. Martin D15m (over budget by almost 100% but I started to convince myself that I will buy this guitar as a keeper and keep it with me for the rest of my life. It had the best reviews in many magazines, websites etc)
3. Recording king RD 126 (Basically a martin D18 rip off. Great aesthetics with fantastic headstock and herringbone top purfling)
4. Recording king RD 26 (Same as RD 26, just cheaper and simpler looking)
I pulled the trigger on the recording king RD 316 and ordered it online. The guitar unfortunately arrived home and it had issues. Both aesthetics and tone. It was not very well finished at all. Had chips and dings on the headstock. Shability finished where the fretboard met the soundhole etc. Adirondack spruce top looked ugly. Worst of all it was set up horribly. Very high action and a bowed neck. The sound too was not something that I was expecting. Its not bad but just didnt fit my expectation of mellow and warm sound with big bass. All of this was enough for me to think it is so not work 599 Euros. I returned it back and asked for a full refund.
Back to square one!!
I went 200 Km to check out some guitars in person this time around.
There were several Sigma guitars in the same shop and they were all finished really well. All had good set up and great action. They all sounded pretty good for having laminate back and sides.
I tried several Martins and Gibson guitars in the shop too. Most I could never afford. But it was special to hold a 5000$ guitar in my hands :-). My conclusion was I just love guitars with mahogany body. I tried a few Martins with mahogany or similar wood. Martin DRS1, OOO15m, Martin D15m, OOO15m. Martin D15m was really great however, DRS1 was very very close. Both fit the sound criteria perfectly. Only thing I didnt like was the look of the laminate neck on DRS1. I didnt buy any guitar in the shop because I know they are quite a bit more expensive than buying online.
So, I had now made up my mind that it will be a dreadnought and has to be a mahogany guitar.
More research on internet and shortlisted 2 guitars.
1. Martin D15m great sound, fantastic finish and its a Martin!!
2. Sigma SDM-15 Through and through Martin D15m copy with better specs :-) Grover tuners, abalone inlays, onboard electronics, volute on the neck. And half the price of the Martin D15m.
Final thoughts came down to cost!!! And the fact that I am not really a professional guitarist. At most I am an enthusiastic guitarist who can strum and sing a little. So I decided to buy the Sigma SDM 15 at 499 UK Pounds. I ordered it online from Richtone Music in the UK.
**** Finish and playability ****
Very very nice satin finish which is even. The bracings are tidy. Neck joint is neat. No chips or dents. Cosmetically the guitar was really perfect. If I was to be super super picky, I would say the only place where I thought it could be a bit better was where the fretboard meets the sound hole. But really its not an issue.
Frets are very nicely done. No sharp edges. Abalone inlays are very tidy. Nut and bone is perfectly cut. Strings sit perfectly on the nut. Tuners are smooth. The guitar strap pin looks solid. Its also where you plug in the cable to the amp.
Only thing that is a minus is that there is no guitar strap pin where the neck meets the body. I would have really liked that to be there.
***** Sound *****
I absolutely love how it sounds. Very warm and mellow sound. No harsh trebles which you get on a spruce top guitar sometimes or on laminate top guitars. Make no mistake of thinking that this guitar has no treble. Its there, but just not as pronounced as on a spruce top guitar. I wouldnt call it dark sounding either. To me, it has a perfect balance of lows, mids and highs. May be a little better lows which I absolutely love. The notes ring out really well. Sustain on this guitar is very good and the chords sustain atleast 4 to 5 seconds. You can really feel the guitar vibrating on your stomach :-)
I would definitely say that this guitar would sound good with blues, rock and pop genre.
I must add however, that I didn't test the fishman pickup system. I didnt play it through an amp as I don't have an acoustic guitar amp. So I dont know how it sounds through an amp.
I guess many would be interested to know how it sounds compared to Martin D15m given that it is a direct copy of that guitar. Since I didnt do an A/B test with these 2 guitars at the same time, I cant tell for sure. However, it did generate the same emotions in me when I first played this guitar. It is warm, mellow, big bass, great sustain, not tinny. And I love it :-). I really felt like I like it and I am going to love it even more later. I guess that's what many say that the guitar spoke to me :-). I do really feel I got a guitar very very close to what the Martin D15m was.
Is it a guitar that can blow away a 5000$ guitar? No. It probably wont. But is it a guitar that can blow away a 1000 1500$ guitar? Most certainly yes. But really these questions are quite stupid :-) It is a great guitar and it sounds great. Plain and simple.
**** Final thoughts ****
I am really satisfied with my purchase
Finished immaculately
Sounds fantastic
Fishman pickup I think is a bonus
Grover tuners, bone nut and sadle at this price
Great set up (could be the guys at Richtone Music in UK)
No strap pin where the neck meets the body
**** Special Note and thank you ****
I would strongly recommend Richtone Music in UK. They processed the order really fast. And the QC on the guitar was excellent; especially the set up. The guitar was even in tune when I removed it out of the box! And that guitar had travelled from UK to Germany to Denmark before it reached me in Sweden. Thank you very much Richtone Music for your service and good set up. I dont need to do any further work on the guitar. It is in fantastic playing condition. I will definitely buy something more from your guys when the UK pound is as week against Swedish Kronor as it is now :-)
Hope you like my review and find it useful.
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BELLAIRE - Both Jose Davis and Phil Pest are encouraged by the progress their football teams have made during the early portion of the season.
Bellaire has won all three of its outings, while Buckeye Local has claimed two straight since dropping their opener at Utica.
The big question coming into their encounter Saturday at Nelson Field, is what's going to give?
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Bellaire's Quinton Crosby
The Big Reds pulled off that miracle rally in Week 1 at Steubenville Catholic and have since cruised to victories against winless John Marshall and East Liverpool squads to reach 3-0.
''Obviously, you can't complain about being 3-0 because certainly every team would like to be in this position,'' Davis said. ''But, we realize we've got a long way to go and a lot of improvement still to be made as we head into the meat of our schedule.''
The Panthers, meanwhile, were beaten soundly (45-20) at Utica. However, they've bounced back with victories against winless Westinghouse and John Marshall the last two weeks to enter league play on a bit of a roll.
''After that initial game, we've been playing much better as a team, especially defensively,'' said Pest, the Panthers' rookie coach. ''Getting a couple of wins has certainly helped the morale of our kids. We've practiced better and things are falling into place for us.''
That Panthers defense will certainly be tested by the high-powered Big Reds offense, which has showed the ability to be versatile.
''We've talked about the fact that most teams are going to play us for the pass,'' Davis said. ''At the end of the day, we need to be balanced. We've been working on that and I thought we did a nice job last week of taking what (East Liverpool) was giving us. We'll do what we feel we have to do to give us the best chance to win the game.''
Riding the powerful right arm of talented junior quarterback Spencer Badia was been the recipe for the most part He's completed 61 of 111 passes for 789 yards and eight touchdowns.
''I feel Bellaire has probably the best quarterback in the Buckeye 8,'' Pest said. ''It's going to be a challenge to stop him. We're going to need some long possessions to keep their offense off the field as best we can.''
Patrone's top target has been junior Nick Patrone. He's made 25 receptions for 331 yards and two touchdowns. Quinton Crosby (8-120-2td), Kenny Hess (10-123-td), Nick Maffe (7-75) and Hunter Westlake (5-86-2td) are also reliable targets for the Big Reds.
On the ground, Maffe is the leading rusher with 208 yards and three scores on 32 carries.
''Bellaire makes you defend the entire field,'' Pest said. ''Their kids are quick and they do a good job of getting them into the open field to make plays. Every game is going to be a challenge in this league and playing away on a Saturday afternoon is a different challenge because it breaks routine.''
The Panthers offense made the most of its few opportunities last weekend as John Marshall dominated the time of possession.
Nathan Kirk has assumed the controls at quarterback and he's passed for 160 yards and three touchdowns. His top targets are Shane Duncan (5-140-2td) and Andy Stock (5-54-td).
The ground game has received a boost with the return of the speedy Stock. Austin Marshall is the top rusher with 201 yards and a touchdown.
''We're going to have to bring our 'A' game because Buckeye has several good athletes," Davis said. "We expect this to be a battle the entire day.
"It's going to come down to who executes the best and gets the defensive stops.''
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Tips for Using the Wall Distance Interface
Clemens Ruhl | April 21, 2014
The Wall Distance interface is used to calculate the distance to a wall in the turbulent flow interfaces available in COMSOL Multiphysics. It can be combined with any other interface and comes in handy when we need to calculate the distance to the nearest wall or detect, as part of a dynamic model, when a moving object will hit a wall. Today, we will study how the Wall Distance interface works and how other interfaces can benefit from its capabilities.
How the Wall Distance Interface Works
The Wall Distance interface calculates the reciprocal distance to selected walls. The value will be small when the object is far away from the respective walls and larger when closer. The exact distance, D, to the closest wall can be found by solving the Eikonal equation:
where D=0 on selected walls and \nabla D\cdot n=0 on other boundaries. COMSOL Multiphysics solves for a modified version of the Eikonal equation, where the dependent variable is changed from D to G=1/D and an additional smoothing parameter, \sigma_w, is used.
This results in the following equation:
with G=G_0=2/l_{ref} on selected walls and homogeneous Neumann conditions on the other boundaries. Here, l_{ref} is a parameter that depends on the geometric shape and is calculated automatically. This parameter can also be defined manually, if necessary.
The resulting wall distance, D_w=1/G-1/G_0, and the direction to the nearest wall are available in COMSOL Multiphysics as predefined variables.
Once we add the Wall Distance interface to a model, we simply have to add a Wall boundary condition and select the walls from which we want to calculate the distance. Below, you can see an example where we are interested in knowing the distance to the bottom and right-hand walls of a rectangle:
Boundary selection of the Wall Distance interface.
Next, we plot the reciprocal wall distance, G, and the wall distance, D_w, and the direction toward the nearest wall:
Reciprocal wall distance (top figure) and wall distance with arrows showing the direction towards the nearest wall (bottom figure).
The effect of the smoothing parameter, \sigma_w, can be seen by plotting the wall distance from the top wall to the other two:
Wall distance at the top wall for different values of the smoothing parameter, \sigma_w.
For the first half of the top wall (x between 0 and 1), the distance to the nearest wall is constant, while it decreases linearly for x between 1 and 2. By solving the model for different values of \sigma_w, we can see how, for smaller values of \sigma_w, the wall distance is accurately computed. For larger values, there is a loss in accuracy, but a much smoother transition from the constant value to the linear decrease. Depending on the application being modeled, you can choose the value of \sigma_w that provides the desired accuracy, smoothness, and model convergence.
Combining the Wall Distance Interface with Another Interface
Now we're ready to combine the Wall Distance interface with another interface. Let's consider a flow channel containing a solid object subjected to the action of pressure and viscous stress due to fluid flow and a spring pushing it down. If the sum of the forces acting on the object is zero, it will stay still. If the force of the spring is larger than the fluid pressure and viscous stress, then the object will move down and either reach a new equilibrium position or close the channel.
Schematic of the model.
The fluid load on the object is included using the Fluid-Solid Interface boundary condition that comes with Fluid-Structure Interaction interface, which solves for both the fluid and deformable solid domain, as well as their interaction at the boundaries. To reduce the overall model size, we can build a 2D axisymmetric model and represent the spring by a boundary load depending on the position of the object.
The mesh inside the fluid domain is free to move and deform in order to adjust to the motion of the object. The geometric change of the fluid domain is automatically accounted for in COMSOL Multiphysics. In this approach, we're not interested in the contact forces between the object and the channel walls as we are only investigating how easy it is to couple different interfaces and create custom functions. We will then close the channel by increasing the viscosity in areas where the object is close to the channel walls. Doing so will stop both the flow and movement of the object.
How, then, do we exclusively increase the viscosity in areas where the object is close to the channel walls? You could, of course, leverage user-defined functions. But in this case, you have to know where and when the object will reach the wall and find smooth functions representing this area. To do this, we will use the Wall Distance interface, which can detect the area and trigger changes in the material settings to increase the viscosity. This will enable the object to move in any direction, but increase fluid viscosity when it is likely to hit any of the walls at any time.
Wall Distance Interface
We will add two instances of the interface: one on the boundaries of the object (with the dependent variable G2) and another on the walls of the channel (with dependent variable G3). Detection is performed through a function that depends on the sum of both variables (G2 + G3).
As we can see in the below screenshots (all using the same color range), the sum of G2 and G3 will be higher if the object is close to the channel wall. The maximum value for each wall distance is 2,667 1/m (left and middle column). Looking at the sum (right column), the maximum depends on the position of the object. In order to allow the increase in fluid viscosity to "stop" the flow and control the mesh deformation, we set a condition that if the channel is open, the maximum is about 4,000 1/m, and if it is closed, the maximum is more than 5,000 1/m.
Reciprocal wall distance G2 (left column), G3 (middle column), and sum of G2+G3 (right column) in the opened (top row) and closed (bottom row) state.
The viscosity is now increased in areas where the maximum is more than 5,000 1/m. To improve convergence, the viscosity change that kicks does so through a smooth ramp function. So, we have two parameters: one for the slope of the function and another for the smoothing of the function.
This function is added to the viscosity of the fluid:
Manipulation of the dynamic viscosity to account for a smooth increase in viscosity due to the wall distance. The equations are entered directly into the interface's edit field.
You can view the results in the animation below. The viscosity of water is about 1×10-3 Pa*s (blue in color), while areas with a viscosity higher than 1 Pa*s are red in color.
Fluid viscosity change over time and dependent on the distance between the object and wall.
We start with a zero pressure at both the inlet and outlet, and place the object in the closed position at the beginning. A time-dependent function is used to vary the inlet pressure. We will increase the pressure for a short period of time to see how the object reacts to this pressure. In the following animation, we can see both the flow in the channel with the moving object and the inlet pressure, which varies between 0 and 2 mbar. In addition, you can see the resulting mass outflow of the outlet (top boundary).
Streamline plot of the velocity field with its magnitude represented as the color expression (left). The imposed inlet pressure (blue line) and mass flow at the outlet (green line) are shown in the right figure.
We can see that there is a small time delay between the pressure increase and the opening of the channel due to the inertia resulting from the spring. If the pressure is too small, the object will not move and the channel stays closed. After opening the channel and then decreasing the pressure, the channel closes and the outflow returns to zero.
Conclusion and Next Steps
We started with the settings of the Wall Distance interface and added a wall boundary condition to select the walls of interest. As we saw in the example, the Wall Distance interface can be combined with any other interface. We used it to detect the areas where a moving object is close to the walls.
If you want to learn more about modeling with the Wall Distance interface, do not hesitate to contact us.
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Should I buy a lytro (light field) camera or a dslr one? I know that the light field based cameras are new. Do professional photographers use it? Or will they?
In a decade, light-field cameras and computational photography are going to be the mainstream. As computer power gets faster, smaller, lighter, and more power-efficient, the advantages will exceed optics — maybe not completely in a decade, and probably not in every case in a hundred years, but there will be a crossing point.
But the current technology on the market — the Lytro — is essentially a toy camera serving as a tech preview. You'd buy it in order to tell your grandkids that you had the first camera of that type. It doesn't really do anything useful right now: the images it makes are postage-stamp sized, and the nifty tricks the camera offers only work when you upload the images to the company's special web site. You can't really do anything yourself.
They've promised an SDK but as of Spring 2012 that has not yet materialized. If you're a hacker (in the original sense), you might find that interesting and productive when available. But even then, it'll be more about playing with the technology than getting real photographic results.
That doesn't mean a DSLR is necessarily the only option for good results. You may also be interested in a small-sensor compact camera, or a large-sensor "mirrorless" camera, with or without interchangeable lenses.
It really depends on what kind of photography you want to do, but I would personally avoid a light field camera at present because it is such new technology. Remember the first range of camcorders that came out - they were shoulder mounted behemoths with ancillary battery packs. Now you get full HD widescreen camcorders that fit in the palm of your hand. So, I suspect, will it be with light field cameras - give it 5 years and they will be half the price and twice as good.
The image quality with current light field cameras is nowhere near as good as a DSLR, and you have none of the flexibility afforded by interchangeable lenses or control of all the other photographic variables like shutter speed etc.
There may come a time when light field technology replaces traditional cameras, but I think it will be little more than a sideshow for some years to come. Personally, I think it has more of a use in, say, mobile phone photography than any serious application.
Buy a DSLR or similar.
The only reason to buy a light field camera instead of an SLR is if the LFC's special abilities suit your needs very very precisely indeed and if you value this ability very highly above all else. In almost every case, what the LFC can do for you can be emulated well enough functionally by many DSLR's.
Overall the current LFCs are a very poor alternative to almost any DSLR except in their one specialist niche.
If you purchase a DSLR you are able to emulate the features of the Lytro camera to an extent by following this guide: Camera Hack: DOF-Changeable Photos with a DSLR :
The main downside of this is that the camera will not be able to take moving shots.
Hope that helps!


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Watch Former RNC Chairman Destroy GOP's 'Asinine' Impeachment Hype in About One Minute
AATTP (Americans Against The Tea Party)
August 16, 2013
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is either getting ready to register as a Democrat, or at long-last establishment Republicans have had enough of their TEA-swilling counterparts and the Republican Civil War is indeed on in full-swing. This week, appearing on Chris Matthews' "Hardball" program, Steele said that Republicans are making things harder on themselves, "Particularly from members of the House, who take these arcane, asinine positions that they know have no basis in fact and no grounding in reality."
Steele was responding directly to Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX (of course, right?)) making comments at a town hall meeting that he believed House Republicans had the votes to impeach Obama right now. "If we were to impeach the president tomorrow, you could probably get the votes in the House of Representatives to do it. But it would go to the Senate, and he wouldn't be convicted," Farenthold is seen saying to his constituents in video of the town hall.
To observers outside the GOP, it's very clear that there is a tug of war going on between the hard-right wing of the party and the moderates who know that the hard-right fringe is becoming less and less palatable to average Americans. Steele is completely correct in saying that the most fierce and trenchant opposition he gets from Republicans in the House comes from people not based in facts or reality. They're the ones saying things like "legitimate rape" and "self-deportation." At some point one of these two Republican forces is going to met with a choice — continue on to another or new party, or acquiesce control of the GOP and take a back-seat. Right now neither side looks willing to exercise either of those options, so the rest of us can just grab some popcorn and watch.
Watch former RNC Chair Michael Steele's comments here: http://youtu.be/j6lBmoOvsbI
Please. oh please GOP, go ahead and try to impeach Obama! Go ahead and defund the government! Pretty please with sugar on it! I'm praying that you do!
Oh..and this is a photo of Rep. Blake Farenthold


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Egypt 1 – Globalism 0
Let's stipulate upfront that the Muslim Brotherhood's Reagan-like domination of Egypt's Parliamentary Elections is probably an international setback to the United States, Israel and most of Southern Europe. Results thus far encompass areas that were probably most friendly to the Facebook Revolutionaries and the Western World they represented. Amongst the cosmopolitan voters over at Starbucks, the Muslim Brotherhood holds leads in 50% of the seats. | Read More »


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Very nice, thanks for sharing.
Very nice, thanks for sharing.
Cool pictures. Looks like some predator management might be on the docket though!
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
That's some nice looking country you've got there. I agree that some predator control might be needed. With all those cats I'm surprised you've still got a woodcock left.
Live to hunt, hunt to live.
Beautiful pics for sure. The cat is awesome!
I would love to get pictures of coyotes and cats too, only problem is my 22-250 has a knack of barking first!
I do agree with IKIC, the cat pictures are amazing. I don't get the opportunity to see those much in the daylight. Crafty little buggers!
Nice pics!! I will probably start bringing a camera more often next year since my daughter will be big enough to tag along. Then 2 boys right behind her.
Thanks fellas. I work on the cats & yotes in the offseason to try to keep the place quiet during deer season. Well...I shot one cat late one morning that was the biggest of the bunch (he's the one posed in the field in a fuzzy pic) to have a guy do a full body mount on him and have a woodcock to go along with him on the mount. Surprisingly we've got a ton of birds that come through, but weather kept them moving a lot this year. There was one stretch of about a week with no weather changing things up and I'd see 20-30 come out on the food plots before dark.
Great pics thanks for posting them.
It looks like its time for some predator management. Give me a call if you need that Bobcat and some coyotes eliminated.


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Tonight, North Central College's 16-voice Chamber Singers presents its spring concert "Metamorphosis" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, in Wentz Concert Hall. The concert includes a retrospective of the year's Chamber Singers music, including Renaissance and contemporary works, pieces by Eric Whitacre and Imogen Heap, songs in English, Portuguese, Xhosa, Latin and French, and an original piece by Brian Mengler '13.
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Ahhhhhh, man! Too youngReplyCancel
So, so sad. RIP, Tommy.ReplyCancel
RIP. I was so bummed when I read this first thing this morning. God, they all died way too young.ReplyCancel
I love the Ramones. Saw them in concert twice (sans Tommy). I'll listen to them in honor and remembranceReplyCancel
Oh this makes me very sad. Really loved the Ramones.ReplyCancel
@timebob, everything I've read has said he died from cancer. Where are you getting the OD from? Link?ReplyCancel
Dee Dee Ramone died of a heroin overdose. Tommy had cancer.ReplyCancel
What's almost more shocking is the fact that the other three have been gone for a decade or more. Joey's passing seems like last year to me. Sad.ReplyCancel
RIP. Love the Ramones.ReplyCancel
RIP, bro.ReplyCancel
End of am eraReplyCancel
Well, seamhead, it's definitely the end, the end of the century….
RIP buddy and thanks for making music that was so formative for myself, fans, and punk rock! Wishing you peace in the Rockaway Beach up in the sky
In the fall of 1978, several of my fellow suburban high school outcasts skipped our afternoon classes and headed downtown to get in line for the Ramones autograph signing at a local record store which started at 5pm. There were already 50 people ahead of us.
Man oh man did I get in trouble from my parents. Totally worth it. Thank god they didn't learn of it for two days. So I still got to see the Ramones in concert the night before I was busted.
Marky took over from Tommy in early 1978 and I'm pretty sure it was Marky who was at the autograph signing, not Tommy. I'll have to dig out my autographs and check.
At the concert, I was backstage for a while because I knew the opening act, BB Gabor. But Ramones manager Linda Stein(who was murdered in 2007) had me tossed when she caught me wandering around backstage. Still, I met the Ramones backstage again and they were awesome and nice to this really geeky high school kid.
The concert was awesome and I am glad I had the opportunity to experience them live.ReplyCancel


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If you like horror, then The Collection is for you. It's from the same people who made the popular Saw movie series. In The Collection, young people attend a party at a secret location only to find out it's booby-trapped. Only one woman survives and the rescuers trying to find her are getting picked off one by one.
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How to properly use 'dd' on Linux to benchmark the write speed of your disk?
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Description: Suncatcher Craft Eyes are premium, craft eyes that add a special touch to any project. They are made of hard plastic and they come with washers to make attaching quick and easy. These eyes are great for making stuffed animals to give them a realistic face. The washer stabilizes the eyes from pulling through the fabric. Suncatcher Craft Eyes are not for use on items for children under age 3 or who put things in their mouths. Suncatcher Eyes are not recommended for pet toys.


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East River Waterfront Esplanade, Pier 15. Photo: Marley White
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Sara D. Roosevelt Park runs along Chrystie Street, from East Houston to Canal, near where an elevated train used to rattle. It offers a welcome oasis amid the concrete jungle: competitive pickup games last through the day on the basketball courts, and soccer fields host league play most of the year. Playgrounds not far from where Billy the Kid is said to have been born offer younger urbanites a place to roam.
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Turquoise Beaded Treasure Necklace
Durango Silver Company specializes in Turquoise Beaded Necklaces and this one is no exception to that! This Turquoise Beaded Treasure Necklace was made by Nattarika Hartman of Durango Silver Company. Nattarika is our master at Beaded Necklaces as well as a great Artisan in all of the other Jewelry she makes.
The tone of the necklace is set by barrel shaped Spiny Oyster Shell beads which are purple and orange variegated. These modern purple and orange barrel beads are accented by many different colored beads. These beads are: red Coral beads in roundel shapes, barrel, roundel and round purple Sugilite beads, Blue Gem Turquoise roundel beads, Blue Diamond Turquoise roundel beads, lime green Utah Variscite beads, Tortoise Turquoise roundel beads, Royston Boulder Turquoise beads, random Black Onyx beads, and roundel Carnelian beads. To one side of the necklace is a handmade Thai Silver or Hill Tribe bead. All beads are randomly dispersed to give the necklace a really artsy and beautiful look and feel. This necklace is a real treasure and is filled with many different gem treasures, that is why we call it a bead "Treasure Necklace". The necklace is finished of with bright, plain silver cone beads and a custom silver hook and eye that is made in a floral pattern.
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The Mobility, Networks, and Systems (MNS) group conducts research in networking and systems. Our work and interests span several areas, including Internet-scale systems, distributed systems, network protocols, wireless networking, mobile computing, and sensor systems. We seek to advance the state of the art in these areas through measurement, design, and prototyping of real-world and experimental networked systems. We share our work with the research community by publishing in the leading research conferences and journals, and releasing software prototypes. We also work with Microsoft's product groups to transfer research technology where appropriate. Finally, we engage with academia through research collaborations and service on journal editorial boards, conference committees, and student thesis committees.
- Venkat Padmanabhan is elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (Jan 2014)
- Venkat Padmanabhan is appointed as Chair of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference Technical Steering Committee (Feb 2013)
- Learn more about our program for interns and research assistants.
- Ranjita Bhagwan organizes COMSNETS Panel Session on Right Career Decisions in Computer Science (Jan 2013)
- Saikat Guha is included in the 2012 MIT TR 35 list of "35 innovators under 35". (Aug 2012)
- Verito, MiG, Dhwani, Viceroi, LoadSense papers accepted at NDSS, Usenix ATC, SIGCOMM, CCS, and Mobicom (Dec 2013)
- Vishnu Navda co-chairs ACM WiNTECH 2012 TPC (May 2012)
Current Projects
- Wireless: We re-imagine WiFi in a new world where spectrum may be fragmented (e.g, white spaces) and radios are feature-rich (e.g., cognitive, full-duplex, etc.)
- WiFi-Nano and WiFi-NC enable WiFi to operate over fragmented spectrum.
- SpecNet is a platform for identifying wide-area spectrum utilization in real-time.
- Ads: We build systems to automate analysis in online advertising systems, e.g., to predict, detect, preempt, or diagnose problems relating to anomalous drops in revenue, fraudulent clicks, privacy violations, etc.
- Revenue Debugging
- Fingerprinting, measuring, and catching click-fraud
- Dataflow and privacy analysis of large systems
- Physical: We devise techniques and build systems that help interface users, devices, and the environment.
- Mobile: We optimize energy usage on mobile devices to make them last longer on a single charge.
- Bimal Viswanath, Muhammad Ahmad Bashir, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Simon Bouget, Saikat Guha, Krishna Gummadi, Aniket Kate, and Alan Mislove, Strength in Numbers: Robust Tamper Detection in Crowd Computations, in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN), Palo Alto, CA, November 2015.
- Bhanu Vattikonda, Vacha Dave, Saikat Guha, and Alex C. Scoeren, Empirical Analysis of Search Advertising Strategies, in Proceedings of the 2015 Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Tokyo, Japan, October 2015.
- Bhanu Vattikonda, Santhosh Kodipaka, Hongyan Zhou, Vacha Dave, Saikat Guha, and Alex C. Scoeren, Interpreting Advertiser Intent in Sponsored Search, in Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Sydney, Australia, August 2015.
- Paul Pearce, Vacha Dave, Chris Grier, Kirill Levchenko, Saikat Guha, Damon McCoy, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, Characterizing Large-Scale Click Fraud in ZeroAccess, in Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, 2 November 2014.
- Swati Rallapalli, Aishwarya Ganesan, Krishna Chintalapudi, Venkata Padmanabhan, and Lili Qiu, Enabling Physical Analytics in Retail Stores Using Smart Glasses, in ACM Mobicom 2014, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, 7 September 2014.
- Aishwarya Ganesan, Swati Rallapalli, Krishna Chintalapudi, Venkat Padmanabhan, and Lili Qiu, Demo: Tracking User Browsing on a Demo Floor, in Mobicom 2014, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, September 2014.
- Bimal Viswanath, Muhammad Ahmad Bashir, Mark Crovella, Saikat Guha, Krishna Gummadi, Balachander Krishnamurthy, and Alan Mislove, Towards Detecting Anomalous User Behavior in Online Social Networks, in Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), San Diego, CA, August 2014.
- Shayak Sen, Saikat Guha, Anupam Dutta, Sriram Rajamani, Janice Tsai, and Jeannette Wing, Bootstrapping Privacy Compliance in Big Data Systems, in Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland), San Jose, CA, May 2014.
- Ranjita Bhagwan, Rahul Kumar, Ramachandran Ramjee, George Varghese, Surjyakanta Mohapatra, Hemanth Manoharan, and Piyush Shah, Adtributor: Revenue Debugging in Advertising Systems, in Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implemenentation (NSDI), USENIX, April 2014.
- John Rula, Vishnu Navda, Fabian Bustamante, Ranjita Bhagwan, and Saikat Guha, No "one-size fits all": Towards a principled approach for incentives in mobile crowdsourcing, in Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), Santa Barbara, CA, February 2014.
- Vacha Dave, Saikat Guha, and Yin Zhang, ViceROI: Catching Click-Spam in Search Ad Networks, in Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Berlin, Germany, November 2013.
- Abhijnan Chakraborty, Vishnu Navda, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, and Ramachandran Ramjee, Coordinating Cellular Background Transfers using LoadSense, in ACM Mobicom 2013, September 2013.
- Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Krishna Kant Chintalapudi, Venkat Padmanabhan, and Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Dhwani: Secure Peer-to-Peer Acoustic NFC, in SIGCOMM, ACM, 12 August 2013.
- Sahil Suneja, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee, and Eyal de Lara, EnVi: Energy Efficient Video Player for Mobiles, in CellNet 2013 workshop, ACM, 25 June 2013.
- Anshul Rai, Ramachandran Ramjee, Ashok Anand, Venkat Padmanabhan, and George Varghese, MiG: Efficient Migration of Desktop VMs using Semantic Compression, in USENIX Annual Technical Conference, , June 2013.
- Raghav Bhaskar, Saikat Guha, Srivatsan Laxman, and Prasad Naldurg, Verito: A Practical System for Transparency and Accountability in Virtual Economies, in Proceedings of the Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2013.
- Saikat Guha and Srikanth Kandula, Act for Affordable Data Care, in Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), Redmond, WA, October 2012.
- Anshul Rai, Ranjita Bhagwan, and Saikat Guha, Generalized Resource Allocation for the Cloud, in Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), San Jose, CA, October 2012.
- Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Krishna Kant Chintalapudi, and Venkat Padmanabhan, Centaur : Locating Devices in an Office Environment, in Mobicom, 22 August 2012.
- Anshul Rai, Krishna Kant Chintalapudi, Venkat Padmanabhan, and Rijurekha Sen, Zee : Zero-Effort Crowdsourcing for Indoor Localization, in Mobicom, 22 August 2012.
- Pavan Kumar Athivarapu, Ranjita Bhagwan, Saikat Guha, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee, Dushyant Arora, Venkat Padmanabhan, and George Varghese, RadioJockey: Mining Program Execution to Optimize Cellular Radio Usage, ACM MOBICOM, 22 August 2012.
- Vacha Dave, Saikat Guha, and Yin Zhang, Measuring and Fingerprinting Click-Spam in Ad Networks, in Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), Helsinki, Finland, August 2012.
- Krishna Chintalapudi, Bozidar Radunovic, Vlad Balan, Michael Buettener, Srinivas Yerramalli, Vishnu Navda, and Ramachandran Ramjee, WiFi-NC : WiFi Over Narrow Channels, in NSDI, NSDI, 27 April 2012.
- Saikat Guha, Mudit Jain, and Venkata Padmanabhan, Koi: A Location-Privacy Platform for Smartphone Apps, in Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Jose, CA, April 2012.
We are fortunate to have several strong interns from India and abroad work with us each year. Please visit the internship page for more information.
- Aishwarya Ganesan, Research Assistant [Jul 2013 — Jun 2015]; joins U Wisconsin as Ph.D. Student
- Rajat Kateja, Research Assistant [Jul 2014 — Jun 2015]; joins CMU as Ph.D. Student
- Abhijnan Chakraborty, Research Assistant [Jul 2012 — Jun 2014]; joins IIT Kharagpur as Ph.D. Student
- Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Research Assistant [Jul 2011 — Sep 2013]; joins U Washington as Ph.D. Student
- Pavan Athivarapu, Research Assistant [Jul 2011 — Sep 2012]; joins Microsoft as Software Engineer
- Anshul Rai, Research Assistant [May 2010 — Apr 2012]; joins a startup as CEO Founder
- Anand P. Iyer, Research Assistant [May 2010 — Sep 2011]; joins UC Berkeley as Ph.D. Student
- Mudit Jain, Research Assistant [Jul 2010 — Sep 2011]; joins Microsoft as Software Engineer
- Bhavish Aggarwal, Research Assistant [Jul 2010 — May 2010]; joins Ola Cabs as CEO Founder
- Tathagata Das, Assistant Researcher [May 2008 — Sep 2010]; joins UC Berkeley as Ph.D. Student
- Prashanth Mohan, Assistant Researcher [May 2007 — Sep 2008]; joins UC Berkeley as Ph.D. Student
- Lenin Ravindranath, Assistant Researcher [May 2007 — Sep 2008]; joins MIT as Ph.D. Student
- Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Assistant Researcher [May 2006 — Sep 2007]; joins UC Berkeley as Ph.D. Student
Visiting Researchers
- Sumit Roy (U Washington) [Jun 2014 — Jan 2015]
- George Varghese (UC San Diego) [Jun 2011 — Jul 2011]
- Kameswari Chebrolu (IIT Mumbai) [May 2008 — Jul 2008]
- Bhaskaran Raman (IIT Mumbai) [May 2008 — Jul 2008]
- Geoff Voelker (UC San Diego) [Sep 2007 — Feb 2008]
Members of the MNS group are recognized internationally for the work the do. Here's a sampling of recent citations.
- Venkat Padmanabhan is appointed as Chair of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference Technical Steering Committee (Feb 2013)
- Saikat Guha is included in the 2012 MIT TR 35 list of "35 innovators under 35". (Aug 2012)
- Venkat Padmanabhan elevated to IEEE Fellow (Jan 2012)
- Venkat Padmanabhan co-chairs the Workshop on Physical Analytics at ACM MobiSys 2014 (June 16, 2014)
- Saikat Guha helps organize Workshop on Internet Tracking, Advertising, and Privacy (July 22, 2011)
- Saikat Guha helps organize MSR India Summer School on Security and Privacy (June 18-30, 2011)
- Venkat Padmanabhan and Ranjita Bhagwan help organize ACM SIGCOMM 2010 (Aug 30-Sept 3, 2010)
- Vishnu Navda organizes MSRI Wireless Networking retreat - Connecting the Next Billion (Aug 28-29, 2010)
- MNS organizes First Mysore Park Workshop on Building and Programming The Cloud (Jan 13-16, 2010)
- MNS organizes MSR India Summer School on Networking (June 9-19, 2009)
Talks and Visits
- Saikat Guha visits Purdue, Northwestern, UMichigan, UWisconsin, UIUC, INRIA, EPFL, ETH presents Click-spam (Mar 2015)
- Saikat Guha visits CMU, AT&T, NYU, Princeton, UPenn, presents Click-spam (Mar 2014)
- Saikat Guha visits Cornell, Georgia Tech., Boston Univ., presents Click-spam (July 2013)
- Ram Ramjee gives a keynote talk at WASA 2012 (Aug 2012)
- Ranjita Bhagwan visits U Wisconsin, presents Automating Network and Systems Diagnostics (March 2012)
- Venkat Padmanabhan and Sandeep Karanth (ADG) give invited talk at the IISc/Bell Labs Green Telecom & IT Workshop (Apr 2012)
- Saikat Guha visits U Washington, UT Austin, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, presents Koi and Click-spam (May 2012)
- Venkat Padmanabhan visits Stanford, presents NetPrints(March 2009)
Professional Activities
Members of the MNS group are active in professional activities. Here's a sampling of recent and ongoing service on conference program committees and other activities:
- Saikat Guha serves on CoNEXT 2015 TPC (Jun 2014)
- Saikat Guha serves on SIGCOMM 2014, IMC 2014, CoNEXT 2014 and SoCC 2014 TPC (May 2014)
- Vishnu Navda serves on the Mobicom 2014 TPC (Sep 2014)
- Ranjita Bhagwan serves on the EuroSys 2014 TPC (Apr 2014)
- Saikat Guha serves on IMC 2013, NSDI 2014, and EuroSys 2014 TPC (Nov 2013)
- Venkat Padmanabhan and Ranjita Bhagwan serve on ACM SIGCOMM 2013 TPC (Jan 2013)
- Saikat Guha serves on ICDCS 2013, WWW 2013 TPC (Dec 2012)
- Vishnu Navda co-chairs ACM WiNTECH 2012 TPC (May 2012)
- Vishnu Navda serves on HotMobile 2012 TPC (Oct 2011)
- Saikat Guha serves on PAM 2012 TPC (Oct 2011)
- Venkat Padmanabhan (Co-Chair) and Krishna Chintalapudi serve on ACM SIGCOMM 2012 TPC (Jan 2012)
- Ram Ramjee serves on ACM MOBICOM 2012 TPC (Mar 2012)
- Ranjita Bhagwan serves on ACM HomeSys 2012 TPC, OSDI 2012 external review committee (June 2012)
- Venkat Padmanabhan serves on SIGCOMM 2011, and MobiSys 2011 TPC (Jan 2011)
- Ram Ramjee serves on SIGMETRICS 2011 TPC (Jun 2011)
- bhavish aggarwal, ranjita bhagwan, lorenzo de carli, venkata n padmanabhan, and krishna puttaswamy, Deja vu: Fingerprinting Network Problems, in The 7th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2011), ACM SIGCOMM, December 2011.
- Alexey Reznichenko, Saikat Guha, and Paul Francis, Auctions in Do-Not-Track Compliant Internet Advertising, in Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Chicago, IL, October 2011.
- Eugenio Magsiretti, krishna kant chintalapudi, Bozidar Radunovic, and Ramachandran Ramjee, WiFi-Nano : Reclaiming WiFi Efficiency through 800 ns slots, in Mobicom, September 2011.
- Saikat Guha, Bin Cheng, and Paul Francis, Privad: Practical Privacy in Online Advertising, in Proceedings of 8th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Boston, MA, March 2011.
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FAYETTEVILLE - The No. 24 Arkansas baseball team (21-13) raced out to an early lead Wednesday evening and picked up a 9-2 victory over No. 17 UNLV (23-10) at Baum Stadium.
Freshman Alex Phillips (3-0) was sensational in his sixth career start, tossing 6.0 shutout innings and giving up one hit and one walk. He took a no-hitter to the fifth inning before surrendering a two-out single up the middle. Phillips faced just one batter over the minimum and turned the game over to the bullpen, where Jacob Stone, Zach Jackson and Michael Gunn slammed the door on the Rebels.
The Arkansas offense came up big early, scoring seven runs in the first four innings, including a four spot in the second frame thanks to a three-run blast to left field by Tyler Spoon. Five different players recorded multiple hits in game, including Joe Serrano who reached base in four of his five plate appearances.
Jake Wise and Michael Bernal added two hits apiece and each scored a pair of runs at the bottom of the order, while Clark Eagan posted two hits of his own, including a leadoff triple in the third inning.
Brian Anderson legged out an infield single in the second inning to extend his hitting streak to 10 games, as Arkansas reached double digits in the hit column for the 13th time this season.
The Razorbacks return to SEC action this weekend, traveling to No. 8 LSU for a three-game series with the Tigers at Alex Box Stadium. First pitch on Friday is set for 7 p.m. as Arkansas looks for its first series victory in Baton Rouge since the 2004 season.
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Arkansas Head Coach Dave Van Horn (opening statement) - "Just a good bounce back win for us, getting ready to get on the road tomorrow. Needed a win against a good team and we got it. (RHP) Alex Phillips came out, kind of pitched the way he pitched in the fall. Spotting his fastball on both sides of the plate, few changeups to the lefties every now and then, and kind of throwing a breaking ball around the plate for a strike. He gave us six good innings against a good hitting team,"
Arkansas Head Coach Dave Van Horn (on Jake Wise) - "He hit three balls on nose, got two hits, a safety bunt for an RBI. He had a good night. He was smiling a little bit. This game is a lot about confidence and I think he gained a little today."
Arkansas head Coach Dave Van Horn (on LSU this weekend) - "It's a good team. A lot of left handed hitters in the lineup, three outfielders that can really run. They like to hit and run and bunt. It's just a weekend you go down and play. It's just like every weekend. Friday night starter, (RHP) Aaron Nola, has been incredible his whole career there. The last two years he's been almost unstoppable. We've got our hands full. We are going to have to play a great game if we're going to beat them on Friday.
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• The Razorbacks improved to 8-0 on the year wearing the all-white uniforms.
• Arkansas moved to 18-3 on the season when scoring first, and 8-2 when scoring in the first inning.
• The Razorbacks have allowed two runs or less in 20 of 34 games this season and have held opponents to four hits or less in 11 contests.
• Brian Anderson extended his hitting streak to 10 games with an infield single in the second inning. He is hitting .351 over the last 10 games with a .432 on base percentage.
• The Razorbacks recorded home runs in back-to-back games for the third time this season when Tyler Spoon connected on a three-run blast in the second inning.
• Tyler Spoon is tied with Brian Anderson for the team lead with three home runs. No other player has more than one long ball.
• Joe Serrano recorded his team-leading 12th multi-hit game of the season.
How They Scored
• Arkansas 1, UNLV 0; Bottom 1: Brian Anderson flied out to center field; Tyler Spoon scored on the sacrifice.
• Arkansas 2, UNLV 0; Bottom 2: Michael Bernal singled through the right side; Clark Eagan scored.
• Arkansas 5, UNLV 0; Bottom 2: Tyler Spoon homered to left field; Jake Wise and Michael Bernal scored.
• Arkansas 6, UNLV 0; Bottom 3: Jake Wise sacrifice bunted down the first base line; Clark Eagan scored.
• Arkansas 7, UNLV 0; Bottom 4: Andrew Benintendi scored on a wild pitch.
• Arkansas 7, UNLV 1; Top 7: T.J. White hit a solo home run.
• Arkansas 7, UNLV 2; Top 7: Joey Swanner doubled to right center field; Erik Vanmeetren scored.
• Arkansas 9, UNLV 2; Bottom 7: Andrew Benintendi doubled down the first base line; Jake Wise and Michael Bernal scored.
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It was Nietzsche who famously spoke the aphorism: 'Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.' But after a mesmerizing stare into the cold, mirrored lens and stealthy black finish of the Louis Garneau Vorttice Black Knight Helmet, we're already more than a bit tantalized by the allure of the dark side, taking little heed to Nietzsche's warnings. The Vorttice has an imposing, almost medieval appearance that looks as deadly as it is fast. And that's before you're even in the start gate. This is especially critical, because when your battles are against individual riders and the clock itself, nothing is more important than the power of pure intimidation. Can you imagine the thoughts running through an opponent's head as he glances behind him and sees only darkness approaching as you bridge the gap? Absolute demoralization.
While the Vorttice looks fast, its spell-binding powers are more than psychological. The front of the Vorttice is dimpled like a golf ball to disturb the air just enough to speed its flow over the surface of the helmet. The angled ridges that follow the dimples are vortex generators that compress air as it flows over the helmet, again speeding its flow down the backside of the helmet. The combination of the two technologies cuts drag by 11 percent.
A single, front vent situated at the point of highest air pressure takes air in and directs it over the head through three different channels to help keep you cool. The Vorttice includes that aforementioned mirrored lens to improve airflow around the face. It can be removed or flipped up if desired. Keeping the helmet stable on the head is the Garneau Spiderlock SL which can be adjusted on the fly with just a simple twist of the retention dial. Steplock SL Dividers adjust the length and position of the straps quickly and easily with a locking cam design. Unlike many aero helmets with a heavy, elongated tail, the back of the Vorttice cuts off abruptly, making the helmet exceptionally light and keeping it out of the wind when you put your head down or look to the side.
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Could you design a helmet for the everyday...
Could you design a helmet for the everyday casual rider with a visor such as the one on the black night. It would be very useful when it is raining outside. Not all of us live in rain free countries!, I would like to see such a helmet for around $100 or there abouts.
David, rider not always by choice!
Hey David,
We are just the seller and not the manufacturer and we unfortunately have nothing to do with design.
However, take a look at the link I posted below. Similar windscreen on a more traditional style helmet. Otherwise picking up a pair of low light sunglasses might have the same effect you are going for.