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Projects Day 2013–2014
Computer Science Clinic
The Aerospace Corporation
Augmented Reality Application with Enterprise Data Objects
Liaisons: Joe Betser, Matthew Presley '89, Julia Yefimenko, Carl Yu '01
Advisor: Mike Erlinger
Students: Sean Adler, Alejandro Frias, Vivian Wehner (PM)
The Aerospace Corporation developed the Enterprise Data Objects (EDO) system to efficiently compose information from multiple data services. Pairing a mobile augmented reality application with EDO-backed web services proves useful in understanding situations reliant on geospatial data. We created an application backed by this data, which provides an intuitive way for users to understand their surroundings.
Apatite to Zircon, Inc.
Automated Fission Track and Etch Pit Characterization in Apatite Crystals
Liaison: Dr. Ray Donelick
Advisor: Zachary Dodds
Students: Lena Reed (PM), Ravi Kumar, Buike Ndefo-Dahl, Kevin Vigue
Our project seeks to design and implement algorithms for identifying features within microscopic images of apatite crystals. We built on the work of two previous clinics and refined their techniques to better identify etch pits and fission tracks — two features of interest found within apatite crystals. To this end, we utilized C++ and OpenCV to create modular tools employing pattern matching and custom algorithms. Additionally, we created a LabVIEW interface that fits our tools to our sponsor's workflow.
Collaborative Applications and Developer Tools
Liaisons: Johan Larsby, Cassidy Gentle, Sean McVeigh, Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart (F)
Advisor: Ben Wiedermann
Students: Prachie Banthia (PM), Seo Park, Younji Jeong, Alistair Dobke
Our liaisons at BlackBerry are interested in the BlackBerry experience for developers building collaborative applications for users in close proximity to one another. To this end, we are building collaborative applications ourselves. Further, we are building a cloud-based data structure to enable developers to more easily create these kinds of applications. We plan to open-source and publish our applications on BlackBerry World and release the data structure as a package to other BlackBerry developers.
Expedia, Inc.
Travel Search Through Images
Liaisons: Troy Seeborn, George Hatoun, Prashanth Kotte Prakasam, Suvendu Dash, Brian Gill
Advisor: Daniel Zimmerman
Students: Alana Shine, Jake Low, Haley Erickson, Jessica Schroeder (PM)
The Expedia team has created a vacation search Web application that allows customers to search for destinations implicitly by selecting evocative images. The application presents images in an iterative selection process, culminating in a ranked list of vacation recommendations. Vacation recommendations are derived from the attributes encoded in the customer selected image set, including geography, climate, activities, and themes. The application matches these attributes to actual vacation destinations using data derived from traveler review text analysis.
HMC Online
MuddX: Teacher-Mediated MOOCs from Harvey Mudd College
Liaison: Elizabeth Schofield '13
Advisor: Mike Erlinger
Students: Thomas Ashmore, Sorathan (Tum) Chaturapruek, Corinne Druhan (PM), Bridgette Eichelberger
Soaring higher education tuition catalyzed the development of MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses). The HMC Online clinic team created an online platform, MuddX, to host two such courses. MyCS teaches Computer Science to middle school teachers, so they can introduce CS concepts into their classrooms. The other, How Stuff Moves, is based on Mudd's Physics 24. Our team will discuss our platform, the courses, and the plethora of challenges we (and all MOOCs) encounter.
Intel Corporation
Intel Haswell: Improving Parallel GC Performance
Liaisons: Todd Anderson, Neal Glew, Youfeng Wu
Advisor: Melissa O'Neill
Students: Joe Agajanian, Claire Murphy, Will Newbury, John Sarracino (PM)
Intel recently released the Haswell processor architecture. Haswell provides many new features, one of which is hardware support for a parallel execution model called transactional memory. In principle, hardware transactional memory can significantly improve the performance of parallel code. Our goal was to show performance gains in practice by improving the performance of garbage collection, a core technology at the heart of many computer systems.
MITRE Corporation
Content Based Image Retrieval
Liaisons: Nicholas M. Orlans, Mikel D. Rodriguez
Advisor: Zachary Dodds
Students: Aric Hunter (PM), Marissa Novak, Byron Callan, Neal Kemp
With the increase in tattoos over the past few decades, the biometrics team at MITRE is interested in developing reference software for tattoo recognition and methods for objective performance evaluation. The 2013-2014 clinic team has developed a flexible, simple, and efficient framework for tattoo-matching that uses a variety of computer vision algorithms. This framework enables quick exploration by comparing the relative accuracy of individual algorithms and their combination, and tuning and optimizing the parameters of individual algorithms against representative datasets.
Proofpoint, Inc.
Highly Protective Email Client
Liaisons: Robert Thomas, Otto Leung
Advisor: Geoff Kuenning
Students: Mark Mann (PM), Abigail Gregory, Margaret O'Keefe, Jason Yu
Proofpoint provides email security services to a multitude of corporations. Specifically, Proofpoint filters out dangerous emails before delivery. Some emails could be suspicious, but Proofpoint must deliver them in case they are false alarms. Unfortunately, there is currently no way for recipients to determine which emails Proofpoint suspects. These emails could be dangerous and harm recipients' computers when read. The Proofpoint clinic team built an Outlook plugin that distinguishes potentially threatening emails to inform users' reading decisions.
QUALCOMM Incorporated
Application-Layer DASH Client
Liaisons: Rashmi Keshava Iyengar, Deviprasad Putchala
Advisor: Colleen Lewis
Students: Cecily Hunt (F-PM), Justin Lim Vijay Ramakrishnan (S-PM) Linnea Shin (F)
Qualcomm Incorporated is a leading proponent of the MPEG-DASH standard for the streaming of media content over HTTP. Adoption of the standard has been slow, in part due to a lack of existing media players that support DASH. We created an application-layer DASH client and media player in the form of an Android app in order to increase adoption of MPEG-DASH and support future Qualcomm research.
Rubicon Project
Respectful Cross-Device Conversion Attribution
Liaisons: Saket Saurabh, Avinash Shahdadpuri
Advisor: Colleen Lewis
Students: James Kaplan (PM), Adam Belzberg, Mars Park, Chet Weger
Rubicon Project operates a fully automated trading platform for the buying and selling online advertising, reaching 97% of the U.S. Internet audience. We are designing and building a system that will allow Rubicon Project to link devices that belong to the same person while respecting privacy. Our solution integrates with Rubicon Project's internal infrastructure and will need to be robust enough to handle the massive inflow of 7 billion new data points created daily.
VMware, Inc.
Interactively Visualizing VM Performance Data
Liaisons: Jim Chow, Avi Shai, Giri Rashiyamany, Prashant Dhamdhere
Advisor: Melissa O'Neill
Students: Jane Hoffswell (PM), Minnie Lai, Frank Liu, Rebecca Thomas
This project aims to create a data-visualization tool that developers at VMware can use to under- stand the performance of complex software systems. Our web-based tool provides a range of customizable visualizations, each developed with unique interactions to allow for flexible exploration of the data. Our system allows users to interact with multiple visualizations and statistics at a time, allowing for maximum comparative ability when extracting correlations from the data.
Computer Science/Mathematics
Intel Corporation
Data Visualization for Software Developers
Liaisons: Peggy Irelan, Cristiano Pereira, Gilles Pokam
Advisor: Daniel Zimmerman
Students: Jason Wang (PM-S), Miranda Parker (PM-F), Rohitashwa Bagaria, Sneha Viswanathan (F)
Intel Corporation is interested in creating tools that allow software developers to easily assess the performance or correctness of threaded programs. First, the clinic team explored ways to visualize aspects of threaded execution that would allow developers to easily diagnose performance or correctness issues. Subsequently, the team devised intuitive visualizations of these programs using data collected during program run. The project's end product is an Eclipse SDK plug-in that encapsulates proof-of-concept versions of the team's visualization ideas.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Cluster-based Graph Algorithms for Biological Ontologies
Liaisons: Dr. Melissa Haendel, Dr. Chris Mungall, Dr. Nicole Washington '99
Advisor: Andrew J. Bernoff
Students: Ki Wan Gkoo, Spencer Harris, Marina Johnson (PM), Ileane O'Leary, Kyle Roskamp
Researchers catalog large volumes of data into biological ontologies, graphs that denote relation- ships between biological descriptors, such as indicating that cystic fibrosis affects the lungs. The Monarch Initiative developed a program that utilizes ontologies to compare genetic diseases across species. This Clinic focuses on designing and implementing a faster algorithm via thresholding, a method of reducing the required calculations by only looking at data that meets a given level of significance, which naturally lends itself to parallel computation.
Predictive Behavior Modeling for Community Organizing
Liaisons: Brett Bevers, David Huie '11, Dan Walmsley
Advisors: Susan Martonosi, Mohamed Omar (F)
Students: Michael Culhane, Joey Klonowski (PM), Greg Kronmiller, Mitul Verma
NationBuilder creates community organizing systems to help governments, businesses, nonprofits, and politicians manage their campaigns and communities. NationBuilder's clients generate vast amounts of data, much of which is currently underutilized. NationBuilder would like us to rank their clients' constituents by how likely they are to carry out specific future actions, such as donating in a future campaign or voting for a particular candidate. Ultimately, this will allow NationBuilder's clients to derive more value from the data they already collect.
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Analysis and Visualization of Tool Usage in Animated Film Production
Liaisons: Lawrence Chai '88/89, Kevin Gambrel, Evan Goldberg, Cathy Lam
Advisor: Talithia Williams
Students: Travis Athougies, Ben Corr (PM), Michael Fox, David Scott
The technology department at Walt Disney Animation Studios logs large amounts of data tracking the actions of their tools and tasks of their users. They would like to mine this data for time-based patterns or correlations. To assist in extracting useful information from the data, we have created scripts that graph and visualize the data, and we have used these to investigate meaningful relation- ships between users and tool usage.
Computer Science/Physics Clinic
Lockheed Martin
Algorithms for Mapping Optimization Problems onto an Adiabatic Quantum Computer
Liaison: Steve Adachi '82
Advisors: Theresa Lynn, Jim Boerkoel
Students: Taylor Brent (PM), Tessa Adair, Joel Ornstein, Sean Campbell
Quantum computation has the potential to revolutionize computing by taking advantage of quantum effects like superposition and tunneling. However, designing algorithms that can run on the unusual architecture of these machines is a major challenge. The goal of this project is to investigate methods for mapping optimization problems into a form that can be solved using Lockheed Martin's D-Wave quantum annealing machine. The team is evaluating the performance of heuristic graph mapping algorithms and studying methods for improving solution quality.
Engineering Clinic
Alfred E. Mann Foundation
MEMS Piezoelectric Actuator Drive Circuit
Liaisons: Sam Bowman, Brian Dearden, Tom Lobl, Christian Merot
Advisor: Qimin Yang
Students: Emily Cheng (TL-S), Kerry Chin (TL-F), Robert McElwaine, Brianna Thielen, Cody Crosby (S)
AMF aims to produce a skull-mounted drug pump for drug delivery to targeted brain tissue. To manufacture a pump of the appropriate size, the new product will implement a MEMS piezoelectric actuator. The HMC project goals are to develop and characterize a drive circuit that generates a precise waveform to power the MEMS actuator. This circuit must also be energy efficient in order to maximize the battery life of the drug pump and must be compact to minimize pump overall size.
Amazon.com Inc.
Design and Implementation of a Robotic Test Apparatus for Kindle Fire Devices
Liaisons: Sabreen Lakhani '11, Vita Sheehy, Stephen Sanford
Advisor: Chris Clark
Students: Joshua Vasquez, Tyler Robinson, Sami Koo, Kristina Ming (F), Taylor Peterson (F), Cassandra Meyer (S), Josh Sanz (S)
The Amazon Clinic Team will design and build a testing apparatus to verify the performance of tablets and mobile devices. The apparatus' primary application is to verify the appropriate software responses of the Amazon Bookstore on an Amazon Kindle Fire. This apparatus will execute programmed tests autonomously with high precision for extended periods of time and indicate whether a device has passed or failed a given test.
Autodesk, Inc.
Maintaining the Cleanliness of Potable Water in Developing Nations
Liaisons: Sunand Bhattacharya, Glenn Katz, Thom Tremblay
Advisor: Gordon Krauss
Students: Brian Cheney (TL), Kate Spiesman, Victoria Feudo, Jake Dittes (S), Amanda Bennett (F), Graham Gordon (F)
The Autodesk team explored water purification methods during the fall 2013 semester. However, during a site visit to San Francisco, it was found that sanitation and the prevention of recontamination would be an area of focus that would generate more impact. The team developed a set of design alternatives utilizing Autodesk software, and settled on a design that focused on prevention of recontamination of water stored in jerry cans.
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
Gel Electrophoresis and Imaging System
Liaisons: Steve Swihart, Clayton McKee, Trey Marlowe
Advisor: Ruye Wang
Students: Emily Ross (TL-F), Alice Zhang (TL-S) Frances Su, Rachel Roley (F), Risa Egerter (S), Gourav Khadge (S)
Bio-Rad has tasked the team with exploring the possibility of a fully mobile SDS-PAGE electrophoresis and imaging system that, compared to current Bio-Rad systems, is more accessible for education and research applications. The team designed, built and tested iterations of prototypes to improve the user experience and incorporate an Android application. The final design is smaller and more mobile, more user friendly, and less expensive.
Low-Cost, High-Performance IV Infusion Delivery System
Liaison: Robert Butterfield
Advisor: Mary Cardenas
Students: Michelle Seguin (TL-F), Emma Frederick (TL-S), Neil Pearson, Annie Chung (S), Travis Beckman (S), Cleo Stannard (F), Brittany Borg (F)
The 2013-2014 CareFusion Clinic Team designed, built and tested a low-cost, high-performance IV infusion delivery system aimed for healthcare markets in developing countries. To reduce cost, the delivery system pumps on continuous PVC tubing and uses a rotary peristaltic drive. The delivery system counteracts the reduction of flow caused by tubing deformation by surrounding the pumping region with a controlled partial vacuum which restores the tubing to its full diameter.
City of Hope
Design of a Novel Surgical Device for Minimally Invasive Brain Tumor Removal
Liaison: Behnam Badie, MD
Advisor: Elizabeth Orwin
Students: Li Yip Koh (TL-F), Meghan Jimenez (TL-F), Katie Shepherd (TL-S), Rohaine Hsu, Cindy Angpraseuth (S), Jennifer Zheng (F)
The City of Hope Clinic team designed, built, and tested a device for use in minimally invasive brain tumor removal surgery. The device is inserted into the brain and used to fragment, cauterize, aspirate, and irrigate the site of a brain tumor, leaving a cavity for the delivery of anti-cancer macromolecules or cytotoxic cells. With this device, brain surgery will be made more efficient and effective, reducing both operation and patient recovery time.
City of Hope
Counting and Tracking Surgical Instruments in a Hospital Operating Room
Liaisons: Dr. Gagandeep Singh, Dr. Mark Wakabayashi
Advisor: Chris Clark
Students: Dot Silverman (TL-S), Sam Yim (TL-F), Christian Mason, Matt Tambara, Alberto Ruiz (S), Mengyi Tao (F)
Retention of surgical instruments occurs when a surgical item is inadvertently left inside a sealed patient at the end of surgery. Current practice is to have a circulating operating room nurse make manual counts of all instruments, but this takes time and is prone to error. This clinic team has been tasked by City of Hope Hospital to create an automated system to count with 100% accuracy all instruments in the operating room. The design uses a combination of metal detection, radio frequency identification, and fluorescent barcodes to achieve this goal.
Dart NeuroScience, LLC
Analysis and Redesign of Interactive Test Setup for Primates
Liaisons: Philip Cheung '96, Ronald Blandford '75, John McNeil '89
Advisor: Anthony Bright
Students: James McConnaughey (TL-S), Samantha Munoz (TL-F), Jaqueline Ong (F), Shreyasha Paudel, Jirka Hladis (S), Jingbin Yang(S)
Dart NeuroScience (DNS) is developing pharmaceuticals to enhance memory function. Though the pharmaceuticals are not ready yet, researchers are preparing for animal testing and training non- human primates to perform memory tasks using touchscreens. The accuracy and reliability of these experiments is paramount, and the touchscreens and reward pellet dispensers used are inaccurate and unreliable. The DNS Clinic team conducted testing to determine the best touchscreen technology for the application and developed a prototype of a superior pellet dispenser.
Dave Larky
Mine The Brine
Liaison: Dave Larky
Advisor: Mary Cardenas
Students: Anthony Chung (TL-S), Olivia Warren (TL-F), Abe Cass (POM), Patrick Loftus (POM), Angela Medina
Mr. Dave Larky is a career engineer and scientist with a number of patents in color television, radar tracking and heat transmission. He is currently interested in the extraction of chemical species from the brine of desalination plants. Given current attention to desalination, this project aims to identify the various chemical species that are obtainable and minimize the cost of extracting those species. Our team designed a system to extract targeted chemical species from seawater brine. The system was simulated through computer modeling and characterized using profitability analysis.
DIRECTV, Inc.
Android-Based Handheld Remote Control
Liaison: Stephen Dulac
Advisor: Ruye Wang
Students: Nicole Yu (TL-S), Jennifer Phuong (TL-F), Vyas Savanur, Demetri Monovoukas (S), Ivan Wong (S), Sophia Williams (F)
DIRECTV currently has a traditional remote control and mobile application for their latest set-top box. However, only customers with smart devices can take advantage of the many additional features offered by the mobile application, such as searching the TV guide using voice recognition. The DIRECTV Clinic team is designing a smart remote control that combines the capability of the mobile application with the familiarity of the traditional remote control.
Eaton Aerospace
Direct Drive Servo Valve
Liaisons: Joshua Lien, Melvin Alvarado, Galen Chui '05, Dan Roberts, Patrick Carroll
Advisor: Kash Gokli
Students: James Best (TL-S), Cierra Owens (TL-F), Emma Bodell, Michelle Liu, Peter Orme (S), Ji Su Lee (F)
In the 2013-2014 year, the Eaton Aerospace Clinic team replaced an existing electro-hydraulic servo valve with a direct drive servo valve for an aircraft hydraulic steering system. The team designed, prototyped, and tested valves that proportionately direct the hydraulic fluid. The team reached the stretch goal both semesters and created two working prototypes to compare against one another. The final valve design is more economical and increases reliability and manufacturability while meeting performance criteria specified by Eaton Aerospace.
Heliostat Wind Effect Instrumentation
Liaison: David Gross '08
Advisor: Philip Cha
Students: Alex Flake (TL-S), Sarah Lichtman (TL-F), Katherine Anderson, Kyle Siegel, Thibaud Cochet (EX), Tony Lee (F)
The eSolar clinic team has been asked to design, build and test a data acquisition system to measure the effect of wind on an eSolar heliostat. This system must interface with existing heliostat design and withstand desert conditions. The system design will include sensor selection and calibration, data collection, data processing, and data visualization and storage.
Intel Corporation
Capturing User Experiences and Making Sense of the Data
Liaisons: Hannah Colett, Rina Doherty, Guiseppe Raffa
Advisor: Patrick Little
Students: Lauren Nishizaki (TL-S), Kate Kryder (TL-F), Fenxiao Chen, Charles Herbaut (EX), Sarah Stevens (S), Zachary Vickland (F)
The researchers within Intel Lab's User Experience Research (UXR) group are interested in evaluating the user experience associated with mobile device usage. Each Harvey Mudd Clinic Team member is using a different type of mobile device (tablet, Ultrabook, etc.) that collects usage data. The Clinic team has worked on developing a tool that would assist researchers in visualizing and extrapolating meaning from the data collected.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Data Center Utility Cost Management
Liaisons: Dr. Josip Loncaric, Alynna Montoya-Wiuff, Amanda Bonnie, Michael Ferguson, Parks Fields, Cindy Martin
Advisor: Philip Cha
Students: Alexandra Wright (TL-S), Maya Johnson (TL-F), Carolina Reyes, Tamara Savage (S), Ryan Seldon (S), Ariel Willey (F)
The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Clinic Team designed a strategy to reduce operating cost and environmental impact of the LANL supercomputing data center by minimizing water and energy consumption. The team created a thermodynamic model of the cooling system, identified and optimized the key parameters, and evaluated this strategy against a fixed-setpoint temperature approach. The strategy capitalizes on the wide range of Los Alamos, NM weather conditions by operating the system at settings optimized for ambient temperatures.
MetCel, LLC
Re-Engineering a Semi-Truck Van Trailer for Increased Weight Capacity
Liaisons: Jay Hanan, Brian Reed
Advisor: Kash Gokli
Students: Madeline Goldkamp (TL-S), Ginah Han (TL-F), Lisa Lam, Alex Lammers (POM), Ryland Miller (F), Aarthi Sridhar (S)
The 2013-2014 MetCel Clinic Team reverse engineered and redesigned a semi-truck van trailer to increase its weight capacity while maintaining adherence to all safety and performance requirements. In order to identify areas for improvement, the team characterized the weight of individual components within the trailer using a Pareto analysis. The team also created finite element models to compare different design alternatives using static stress analyses. One final design was selected for physical prototyping and future testing.
Power Generation Solutions (PGS)
Waste Heat Recovery Sterling Engine
Liaisons: John Fletcher, Paul Davis
Advisor: Ziyad Duron
Students: Jason Bluhm (TL-S), Josh Edelman (TL-F), Por Katanyutanon, Varun Kanwar, Huy Nguyen, Julie Zhang (F)
The Power Generation Solutions clinic team is tasked with assisting in optimizing the design of a sterling engine for high-power waste heat recovery applications by constructing a test system for the intended heat engine's regenerator to test the regenerator performance. This information can then be used to inform future design iterations of the sterling engine to minimize cost without damaging efficiency.
Project A Cappella
Characterization of Acoustic Noise Generated by Capacitors on Printed Circuit Boards
Liaisons: Amanda Rainer '06, Jeff Thoma, Shawn Arnold
Advisor: R. Erik Spjut
Students: David Derry (TL-F), Margaret Thompson (TL-S), Dong-hyeon Park, Eric Kiss (F), Sachit Sood, Andrew Wells (S)
Audible acoustic noise generated by multilayer ceramic chip (MLCC) capacitors on printed circuit boards (PCBs) creates an undesirable phenomenon in consumer electronics. When a changing voltage is applied to MLCC capacitors, the internal ceramic material expands and contracts due to piezoelectric and electrostrictive effects causing the PCB to vibrate at audible frequencies. The Project A Cappella clinic team has characterized how placement and electrical stimulus affect the magnitude of the acoustic noise to inform future PCB design choices.
Rambus, Inc.
USB 3.0 to Multi-protocol Interface Adapter
Liaisons: Pradeep Batra, Julia Cline, Adrian Torres
Advisor: Josef Spjut
Students: Austin Chen (TL-S), Sean Velazquez (TL-F), Antoine Billig (EX), Chanel Chang, Obosa Obazuaye (CS), Jeffrey Steele (S)
Rambus Inc. uses a protocol adapter that provides the means to communicate with SPI, JTAG, I2C and other proprietary interfaces over a common USB 2.0 interface to a host computer. This adapter is used to test the throughput and performance of various Rambus products. The goal of this clinic project is to design a USB 3.0 adapter on a PCB that communicates between a device under test and existing testing software with higher speeds.
SpectraSensors, Inc.
Software Development of a Partial Least Squares Regression Analysis Program for Chemical Engineering Applications
Liaisons: Adam Chaimowitz, Gary Yeh, Sherry Liu
Advisor: Anthony Bright
Students: Sami Mourad (TL-S), Adam Parower (TL-F), Eric Storm (S), Leif Park Jordan (S), Gurchetan Singh (F), Michelle Wei (F)
The goal of this project is to develop a standalone software package written in C that is able to perform a partial least squares regression, prediction and cross-validation for chemical analysis. The software program should be optimized for accuracy and speed, and its performance should be comparable to that of commercially-available calibration engines.
3D Audio Mixing Interface Design
Liaisons: Claude Gagnon, Peter Jax
Advisor: Okitsugu Furuya
Students: Doug Hu (TL-S), Stephanie Fawaz (TL-F), Stephen Pinto, Julia Fox, Stephen Ibanez (S), Christopher Apple (F)
The Technicolor Clinic Team at Harvey Mudd College created a user interface for manipulating sounds in a three-dimensional environment. This allows an audio engineer to move the perceived location of sound tracks in various media with sound-mixing technology. A 3DConnexion mouse provides a user with control of the sound's location.
Teledyne Controls
ARINC 830 Aircraft-Ground Communication System
Liaisons: Wolf Sonnenberg, Claire Robinson '11
Advisor: Patrick Little
Students: Diana Mar (TL-S), Brent Stapleton (TL-F), Brett Manning, Tristan Fitch (S), Jessica Chen (F), Christopher Hirlinger (F), Huong Nguyen (F)
The Teledyne Controls Clinic team has developed a framework to demonstrate core functions define by the ARINC 830 Aircraft/Ground Information Exchange (AGIE), an emerging standard that seeks to achieve interoperability between different aircraft communication systems. Working in the application layer of communications, the designed system uses AGIE-level logic while leveraging the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP).
Engineering/Physics Clinic
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Efficient Calibration and Characterization of Segmented Antineutrino Detectors
Liaisons: Dr. Nathaniel Bowden, Dr. Timothy Classen
Advisor: Tom Donnelly
Students: Anthony Corso (TL-S), Courtney Keeler (TL-F), Bryan Monroy, Vivian Steyert (S), Sean Messenger (F)
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Clinic Team designed, built, and tested a method for calibrating the energy and position of an antineutrino event within a scintillator detector. The calibration method was automated so minimal human input is needed. Such detectors will be deployed near nuclear reactors and used in the search for the sterile neutrino. The team verified the calibration results using a particle interaction simulation which will also be used to predict the performance of future scintillator detectors.
Sandia National Laboratories
Studying Ferroelectricity in Barium Titanate Nanoparticles
Liaison: Dr. Todd Monson
Advisors: Richard Haskell, Adrian Hightower
Students: Eric Puma (TL-POM), Sun Hwi Bang, Nate Bean, Jean-Claude DeSugny, Robert Gambee
Barium titanate (BTO) is a ferroelectric material used in the production of multi-layer ceramic capacitors. At the nano scale, BTO exhibits bewildering structural and dielectric behavior. We develop a test bench to measure the permittivity of nanoparticles, employing a combination of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and computational modeling. We compare our results to structural measurements, including Raman and x-ray experiments, for a variety of particle sizes and synthesis methods.
Sandia National Laboratories
Verification and Validation of Computational Models for Enclosure Radiation
Liaison: Dr. Dean Dobranich, Dr. Leslie Phinney
Advisor: Nancy Lape
Students: Tuan Nguyen (TL-S), Ray Hurwitz (TL-F), Brett Mills, Jonpaul Littleton (S), Chris Miro (S), Yeahmoon Hong (F), Chris Sugino (F)
Sandia National Labs uses computational models to simulate radiative heat transfer within enclosures of various geometries and materials. However, these models simplify the real radiative behavior by making gray (wavelength-independent) and diffuse (direction-independent) approximations. There is currently insufficient evidence to corroborate these modeling assumptions. To this end, the team has developed evidence for analytical verification and experimental validation of Sandia's modeling predictions.
Global Clinic
Intel Corporation in Collaboration with National University of Singapore (NUS)
Computer Vision for Parallel JavaScript
Liaisons: Dr. Jaswanth Sreeram
Advisors: Robert M. Keller, Wee-Kheng Leow (NUS)
Students: John Brooks, Zheng Duan, Tiffany Lim (PM), Nguyen Hien Linh (NUS), Nguyen Truong Duy (NUS), Nhu Dinh Tuan (NUS).
Intel Labs' Parallel JavaScript is a data-parallel programming model that allows JavaScript pro- grams to use hardware parallelism such as multiple cores, vector instructions, and GPUs, which have previously been inaccessible to Web applications. In order to demonstrate the advantages of Parallel JavaScript, we have used it to create a fast, reusable, open-source computer vision library. We then used this library to build a real- time, interactive hand gesture detection application.
Mathematics Clinic
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
Intelligent Workflow Diagnostics
Liaison: Dr. Eric Huang '02
Advisor: Weiqing Gu
Students: Andrew Gibiansky, Yongqian Li, Amanda Llewellyn (PM), Jacob Morris-Knower, Patrick Meehan
Processing big data often involves Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) workflows, whose operations clean, verify, and join multiple data sources into one output. For large input data, debugging these workflows becomes incredibly time consuming. We designed a program, accessible to the data scientist user, which automates reasoning over and test performance for various parts of the workflow.


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Healing on Either Side of the Sermon on the Mount/
In the Gospel of Matthew, the first miracles Jesus did were among the crowds immediately before and after the Sermon on the Mount. These miracles break some traditional views about God's will to heal the sick. These are early lessons for the disciples and for us (21st century disciples) to understand that it is always God's will—for Jesus is the perfect revelation of this—to heal.Read More


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31 insurgents were killed and injured in Faryab
Kabul-Afghanistan (PMG)
by: Masih Nezami
Faryab security officials announce the death and wounding of 31 Talib insurgents overnight. According to the press office of the Faryab Police command, during a joint security and defense operation that accompanied with the popular uprising, which was launched in Chahar Toot area of Pashtun Koot district Taliban have suffered heavy casualties. Over the course of this operation, more than 90% of the aforementioned areas have been cleaned up by the presence of Taliban insurgents and heavy casualties were imposed to the opposition. The newsletter also noted that the 8 Talib fighters including their group leader were killed and three others were wounded in the operation.
According to another newsletter, Seven insurgents were killed and six others were injured in a clash with insurgents in the village of Kohe Sayyad in Shirin Tagab district. Meanwhile, during the transfer of security and defenses forces convoy, in the areas of no one high way, Taliban ambushed Afghan troops in Andkhoi forest area, during this operation 4 Taliban Insurgents were killed and three others got wounded.


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This upcoming program will feature a quartet from the LA Opera Company singing popular Italian and French opera arias and ensembles from Verdi, Puccini, Bizet, and Rossini. The featured vocalists are Lisa Eden, soprano, Sara Campbell, mezzo-soprano, Ashley Faatoalia, tenor, and Ryan Reithmeier, bass-baritone. Additional instrumental selections will include works by Franz von Suppé, Jacques Offenbach, and Pietro Mascagni.
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Marketing blogs are saturated with tips on how to improve your email outreach. While these articles can be helpful, they are often subjective. Wouldn't it be better to inform your outreach strategy based on data? In a rapidly evolving and competitive digital marketing industry, data is imperative in helping you determine which tactics are working and which are not.
So when it comes to pitching journalists, what is working? Fractl analyzed 150 successful PR email pitches from our senior media relations supervisors during the first quarter of 2018, January 1st through March 30th. These pitches resulted in diverse, high-authority publisher placements from the LA Times to Bustle to the Washington Post. We looked at the minutiae of each pitch, from the type of subject line we used to the type of closing.
Here is what we learned.
The Subject Line
There are only two things that can set a pitch apart from all the others in an inbox: the sender and the subject line. You could spend hours crafting the perfect pitch, but if you don't write a compelling subject line your email will never see the light of day. With journalists and publishers receiving an overwhelming number of email pitches each day, you have to rise above the noise, and that is where your subject line comes in.
How to Write an Effective Subject Line
After pitching thousands of content marketing campaign to mainstream publishers, our team has gained some insights into what journalists like to see in a subject line.
We found that creating subject lines with blog post and article titles in mind is highly convincing. And since we know how important headlines are for online article engagement, succinctly conveying what the gist of your email pitch is in a compelling subject line is an effective outreach best practice.
So what does this look like in action?
Based on our analysis, we've determined that subject lines should be descriptive, specific, and tailored to a journalist's beat.
Our subject lines tend to fall into four categories:
First, there's the Statistic-Based subject line, which can be used for content that features unique data. An example of a statistic-based subject line would be "85% of writers open a pitch based on the subject line alone".
Then there's the Information Gap subject line, which we so named based on the "information gap theory of curiosity." If done correctly, this subject line will tempt journalists to find out more and click on your email. An example of an information gap subject line would be "Find Out Which Subject Line Format Has the Highest CTR."
The Content Title subject line explains the content of your pitch in a straightforward way. An example of a content title subject line would be "Analysis of 150 Successful Pitches Reveals the Best Way to Write a Subject Line".
Lastly, a Personalized subject line is the subject line that doesn't relate to the body of your pitch at all. This type is entirely based on personal information you discovered about the writer via his or her digital footprint. It is a favorite for reaching out to high-tier publishers, because they may be receiving as many as 100 pitches a day. An example of a personalized subject line could be "I too love rainy day Black Mirror Netflix binges"
So, which is the most successful? After scraping subject lines for 150 pitches, we found that using a statistic in the subject line was by far the most popular, with nearly a third of pitches being statistic-based. This type of subject line is a favorite for journalists because it mimics the headline they would use for their story. When you write a subject line like a potential article headline, you are helping the journalist envision a story before they even read your pitch.
The least popular subject line type we used was personalized. But do not underestimate the power of a personalized subject line just because we used it the least. It is often the most difficult and most time-consuming subject line to write because you have to research your target and develop a real feel for who they are based on their digital footprint. When done well, a personalized subject line can be highly successful and spark a genuine relationship with the journalist.
One thing that I was surprised to see when conducting this analysis was that often our outreach specialists were using a combination of two or more of the above types to form their subject lines.
When crafting your own subject lines, try using a combination of types. Here are some of our best winning examples of subject lines that embody more than one type.
Even when looking at open rates, at the end of the day every one of these subject lines proved to be effective, because they all resulted in a placement. There is no one-size-fits-all subject line to use. Depending on your content type and the journalist you are pitching, any of the above formats could be successful. They work because they are descriptive, tailored to the writers beat, and specific.
Tip: Add an Authority Signal
Why should a journalist read your pitch, however outstanding, when they've received many like it every day? One way we've found that helps your subject line stand out in a sea of emails is adding an authority signal. Original research and data are important to journalists and the authority signal can increase your credibility and answers the question, "Why is this person an authority on the topic?".Popular authority signals we used were 'Study' 'Survey', 'Research', 'Infographic', 'Map', 'Ranking', and 'Report.'
Using the Pitch Body Effectively
With over 55,000 journalists and bloggers using HARO to find experts as sources for their stories, we know that journalists are open to receiving pitches. When creating their stories, you need to make sure you communicate effectively in the body of your pitch. Here is what we learned from 150 of our own winning pitches.
If no one has placed your content yet, be sure to offer the journalist the "exclusive." The exclusive means that you're giving the publisher the first chance to break your content to the public, making it automatically newsworthy. Some high-authority publishers will only take the exclusive, so it is important to offer it when you are pitching them the first time. We found that 99% of the time, if the content was brand new, we included the word "exclusive" at least once.
We also found journalists prefer emails between 100 and 200 words long, which means PR professionals have to cram a whole lot of information into a small space. Our team is usually pitching in-depth studies with hundreds of actionable findings. Obviously, we can't fit everything into a single paragraph. The workaround we use is bullet points, so we can list critical findings that frame a potential angle relevant to the writer's beat. From our analysis, we found the sweet spot for bullet points is three to four, with 75% of our successful pitches including three or four bullet points.
Speaking of pitch length, do we practice what we preach? All data points to yes! The average word count for our analysis of 150 successful pitches came in at a comfortable 174. Every one of our experienced outreach supervisors has a different style of pitching. For example, despite having spent years making a conscious effort to "get to the point," I rarely find myself sending a pitch under 200 words. On the other hand, one of my colleagues who earns several placements a week rarely sends a pitch that is over 200 words.
If you are like me and are continually struggling to shorten your email, ask yourself: Is there a better way to explain this in fewer words? Is there anything here that fails to elicit an emotional response or genuine curiosity? If so, cut it.
Link Properly to Dodge the Spam Filter
Odds are, your outreach email will include a link to a landing page, video, interactive, or infographic. There is a lot of value in providing a link to the journalist right off the bat. For one, it eliminates the second step of them having to ask to see the content you're pitching. It also enables them to run the story by their editor before even interacting with you — a win-win on the journalist side of things.
While links are necessary, they can also trigger the dreaded spam filter if you are not careful. Our outreach team knows this, so whenever possible we try to include only one link in our pitch, which is usually a link to the content's landing page. Almost 70% of pitches analyzed included only one link, while 14% included two, 10% three, and nearly 6% four links. Remember that all of these pitches successfully resulted in a placement, so they obviously dodged the spam filter. What triggers an email to be filtered into spam is still ambiguous, but we know that too many links can appear spammy.
First, let us start by defining the different types of closings we considered. We used the classic sales model to define the types of closings in our analysis.
We broke down the types of closings by "Hard Closes" and "Soft Closes". A hard close asks the writer a direct question. An example of a hard close is "Do you want to cover this in an article for XYZ?" We defined a soft close as a statement. An example of a soft close, for the purposes of this analysis, is "Let me know if this is of interest to your audience…"
We also segmented hard closes vs. soft closes according to whether or not they included the publisher name. The reason for this distinction is because including the name of the publisher that the journalist writes for adds a level of personalization. Writers may not be used to this level of personalization, getting cold pitched all the time. It is your last chance to show the writer that you are familiar with their work.
Here's the breakdown of where our pitches fell when it comes to closing.
PS: Don't Forget the Follow Up
As the saying goes, "When at first you don't succeed, try, try again." A whopping 17% of the successful pitches we sent were follow-ups! As you know, between time out of office, important editorial deadlines, and a constant bombardment of cold pitches, your email can get lost in a writer's inbox despite your best efforts. When you don't hear back from your dream target, don't give up.
We discovered that best practice is to send a follow-up email to a journalist no sooner than two days after the initial pitch, and no more than five. We also found it effective to provide additional value in a follow-up. If the writer did not respond to the original pitch, offer something new that you didn't provide before. Look for a fresh angle.
Who to Pitch?
A high volume of our placements was placed with editors (30%), rather than the expected staff writers (54%) or freelance contributors (15%).
On the one hand, when you reach out to a staff editor, you are going right to the source. They have the ultimate power on whether to consider your idea for their editorial calendar. The process for getting your story placed is also likely expedited by reaching out to an editor.
On the other hand, an editor probably receives twice the amount of pitches in a day as a staff writer. A staff writer also may be able to take aspects of your content and form a story based on knowing exactly which angle works best for their editor.
The freelance writer has the least amount of say when it comes to determining their own editorial calendar, but they still successfully placed 15% of the campaigns in our analysis.
Final Thoughts
Before you say "what we are doing works", I encourage you to analyze your outreach data to see if that holds true. Is your current PR strategy getting consistent results over the long term or do your results ebb and flow? After reading your own results, you may find that you may need to rethink your 300-word pitch policy or your department standard of only pitching to staff writers.
Analyzing your data allows you to continuously refine your pitching practices for optimal success, even if that only means reducing your average pitch count by 20 words, or replacing "research" in your subject line for the more authoritative word "study". It may also mean deciding to use personalized subject lines more often. The best outreach specialists believe that small changes can make a significant impact, and that is what our analysis is hoping to prove.


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What equipment do you use for your photos?
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Fire spreads, but Yosemite park likely to stay busy
The Big Meadow wildfire may extend the drive into Yosemite National Park for some visitors, but officials don't think it will keep people away for the Labor Day weekend.
The fire, which began as a planned burn Wednesday then spread out of control, had grown by Tuesday morning to 5,257 acres in Yosemite National Park and Stanislaus National Forest. Smoke from the fire prompted officials to close a portion of Highway 120, the northern route into the park.
The towns of Old El Portal and Foresta have been evacuated. Old El Portal is west of El Portal on Highway 140, the middle route into the park along the Merced River. Foresta is a village of cabins inside the park, northeast of El Portal.
Park spokeswoman Kari Cobb said campgrounds in the park remain full: "A few people have left early because of the road closures, but overall we're not seeing empty campsites."
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Myanmar junta grants amnesty to 2,831 prisoners
Reports said that mass amnesty was granted in advance of the 59th anniversary of Myanmar's independence from Britain in 1948.india Updated: Jan 03, 2007 14:50 IST
Myanmar's junta on Wednesday granted amnesty to 2,831 prisoners, but it was unclear whether their number included any of the thousands of political prisoners languishing in jails.
Government-run media reported that the mass amnesty was granted in advance of the 59th anniversary of Myanmar's January 4, 1948 independence from Britain.
The junta mouthpiece New Light of Myanmar newspaper said the prisoners released on Wednesday included inmates whose "moral behaviour and spiritual values" had improved.
The announcement marked the latest in a series of mass amnesties, including the freeing of 3,937 prisoners November 18, 2004, another 5,311 prisoners November 25 and 5,070 on December 12, 2004.
A total of 5,588 were amnestied January 3, 2005 and another 410 on July 5 of the same year.
International human rights groups have criticised the military government for keeping some 2,000 political prisoners locked up, including senior members of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD).
NLD leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aun San Suu Kyi remains under house arrest at her lakeside home here.
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Just When You Thought Woody Allen's Casting Choices Couldn't Get Any Grosser, Miley Cyrus Joins His Amazon Series
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By Vivian Kane | Industry | January 25, 2016 |
Woody Allen may still have enough fans and strong enough name recognition that people are still ready and eager to make and see his movies, but he's also become the living embodiment of that Wooderson line from Dazed & Confused.
Just replace "high school girls" with "romantic leads." And, really, most of them aren't that far out of high school. Just in the last decade, we've seen hot early-20s actress after hot early-20s actress play the naive wide-eyed foil to a much older man. When Scarlett Johansson graduated out of the role, she was replaced by Emma Stone, who did two turns at playing the wide-eyed muse. And today the casting was announced for Woody Allen's new untitled Amazon series.
Miley F*cking Cyrus. No one knows what the show is about, except that it's set in the 1960s, Allen has "regretted every second" of the process of making it, and it stars Cyrus (and Elaine May!), alongside Allen himself.
Now, there's still a chance Miley will turn out to be playing something other than Woody Allen's romantic and sexual interest, so I'm going to hold onto that small hope as long as possible.
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"there are many fine recordings and several great ones of these sonatas and partitas, and now a new one by Johnny Gandelsman takes its place among the very best" -Lloyd Schwartz, Fresh Air, NPR
Complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin by JS Bach
note: this program will be played without intermission.
Violinist Johnny Gandelsman, a cofounder of Brooklyn Rider and a member of Silk Road Ensemble, is used to playing music of many different styles—folk, jazz, contemporary, classical. In the Bach Sonatas and Partitas, he returns to his roots for the epic undertaking of a complete performance of one of masterpieces of the solo repertoire. His vast experience playing in so many genres pays huge dividends: this is music-making that feels both intensely new and satisfyingly old. The dance movements really do leap off the bow as his folk playing comes to the fore. His new recording of this work made its debut at the top of Billboard's traditional classical music chart.


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RIICO is going to announce the hall ticket of junior manager assistant exam. The recruitment notification was release in the month of June. All applicants who fill the application form of manager, junior assistant exam they can download their call letter from its official site.
RIICO Manager Assistant Exam Admit Card 2015:
RIICO exam held on 9 August 2015 but date will be extend and now this exam will be conduct in September. About 20 days before of exam call letter will be updated on its official site.
All the contestants download their admit card before the date of exam. Applicants should carry it in the exam hall. Hall ticket is very essential documents without it applicants cannot give exam. Call letter itself contain name, address of exam center & date and time of exam. All candidates should carry it exam hall & also carry an ID proof or its photocopy in the exam. When call letter will be updated then it was available on its authorized website. All the competitors should go its official site time to time to know latest information about this exam.
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Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation (RIICO):- RIICO invite the application form of various posts 103 in Jaipur region. RIICO has issued the posts of Assistant Regional Manager, Junior Assistant and other various posts. Aspirants may be apply the application form in RIICO. RICCO is the manpower of well qualified person in industrial development and Investment Corporation sector.
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RIICO Jaipur will announce the RIICO Recruitment Result 2015 soon after the completion of Written exam. The Results for RIICO Recruitment 2015 will be available on www.ricco.gov.in.


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Has Jodi Stachowski Watched 'Making a Murderer?' She's Made Some Horrifying Allegations About That Time
Earlier this week, one of the major figures of Netflix's hit documentary series Making a Murderer sat down for an interview with HLN, and it made for major news. The woman in question was once Steven Avery's fiancee, who you'll probably remember pretty clearly if you've watched the show. She was still with Avery when he was charged with murdering Teresa Halbach in 2005, but her attitude towards him has changed considerably since. And, for the record, no: Jodi Stachowski has not watched Making a Murderer . although she's aware of the intense media scrutiny that's followed in its wake.
Judging by what Stachowski is now saying about her time with Avery, that probably shouldn't come as much surprise. In the interview, which aired on HLN on Friday, she called Avery a "monster" who she believes did indeed murder Halbach. She also made some harrowing domestic violence allegations against him, including claimed she'd been punched, choked, and that he'd threatened to kill her. Even further, she described feeling racked with guilt that her release from jail (she'd been arrested for a DUI months prior) was narrowly too late for her to have been with Avery when Halbach disappeared, as she still feels she could've prevented the 25-year-old photographer's death if she'd been there.
Obviously, these are highly charged allegations. If you take Stachowski at her word, however, then it's not hard to see why she wouldn't want to watch Making a Murderer. When HLN's Natisha Lance asked her if she'd seen it, her reply was quick and unflinching: "No, I haven't. ... Don't want to." She then characterized the positive, supportive things she'd said about Avery in the documentary as "all lies."
There's been no response from Avery about Stachowski's allegations yet, but his former defense attorney Jerry Buting did discuss it with Rolling Stone. He said that Stachowski had been under a lot of pressure to distance herself from Avery both during and after the trial, and said he didn't know what had changed since then.
Realize that there was a fair amount of coverage with Jodi [in the documentary]. She was getting a lot of pressure, even while the trial was going on, to try and turn her away from Steven Avery. It's many years, who knows what kind of pressure and influences have been exerted against her to try and make express that kind of opinion. Bottom line is that when things were contemporaneous, happening back during that time, she did not have that opinion. She was very supportive of him. So, why is she changing her opinion? I don't know at this point.
For her part, Stachowski alleges that Avery threatened her into making positive statements in the documentary, something she frames as part of a larger pattern of behavior. One person she does believe is innocent, however, is Avery's nephew Brendan Dassey, who was also convicted for Halbach's murder ― she said she believes that Dassey, who was 16 at the time, could have been threatened by Avery as well. Dassey is currently serving a life sentence, but will be eligible for early release in 2048, while Avery is serving a life sentence without parole.
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TurboCourt iFiling Expands Across Texas
The eyes of Texas are upon TurboCourt as the iFiling roll-out continues to expand statewide. As of February 2016, TurboCourt iFiling is available for filers of uncontested divorces in Travis, Hidalgo, Jim Wells, Victoria and several other Texas Counties, with each remaining county being added to the posse weekly.
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Keep the Confederate Soldiers' memorial at Madison County Courthouse
This petition had 330 supporters
These Confederate soldiers' memorials are to remember and honor the men who did not come home even in death. The appalling call for removing all of these monuments due to lack of actual research of the men they were erected for has become a totalitarian trend that is a detriment to our entire country, not only the south. Anyone who actually researches their history can easily find that the vast majority of these men simply fought to defend their home from invading forces. The privates that these memorials are dedicated to are in many cases direct descendants of Revolutionary War veterans and were fighting off another form of tyrannical government, contrary to the implication that is falsely applied to them. To simply sweep their sacrifice under the rug and write it off as one cause that simply is not factual is an affront to every one of these men as well as their descendants. They were also deemed US veterans by Congress, and in many cases actually were US veterans, therefore they deserve the same respect as other veterans. However if this appalling practice continues in this country no veterans' monuments or memorials will be safe. This practice is getting scarily similar to the warnings that Orwell wrote of in his novel 1984. Please do not let this totalitarian action take place in Madison County, the division has not reached here as it has other places and we would like to see it remain that way.
The reason for the monument in this prominent position is due to Huntsville's significant history of being sieged during the war. As well as the many soldiers from this area that never came home.
"Huntsville captured
"Truly our town is full of the enemy. There is a sentinel at every corner. ... They have been searching the houses today for arms." - Mary Jane Chadick, as told in "Incidents of the War: The Civil War Journal of Mary Jane Chadick" by Nancy M. Rohr
Huntsville's capture was not a complete surprise, wrote author Charles Rice in "Hard Times: The Civil War in Huntsville and North Alabama 1861-1865."
"A messenger, evidently local druggist Sidney Darwin, had already ridden away to alert the city," Rice wrote. "The first notice the city had of its impending fate was the shrill shriek of a locomotive steam whistle, quickly followed by the booming of a cannon."
Mitchel reported back on April 11: "Entered Huntsville this morning at 6 o'clock." He arrested 12 prominent citizens he suspected of supporting guerrillas.
Even fifth-graders know how the Civil War turned out. It was inevitable Blue would overtake Gray in Huntsville at some point. If war is about killing people and breaking things, it's also about taking as much ground as possible - or taking it back. The South was, after all, an upstart country called the Confederate States of America.
Huntsville residents certainly had their tribulations during occupation but local historians seem to agree it could have been much worse.
"The weight of Federal occupation bore heavily upon the shoulders of the people of Huntsville and Madison County," explains a brochure from the Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society and Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table.
"Social gatherings practically ceased, since most of the time had to be spent in performing daily household tasks," it said. "Many of the ladies gave of their time to minister to the sick and wounded soldiers. The Ladies Humane Society was very active in its work at the hospitals established in school buildings and churches of the city."
'One of the most beautiful towns'
Susanna Leberman of the Huntsville Heritage Room at the public library said many Union soldiers sent letters home during Huntsville's occupation. The library recently acquired a photo of the Union encampment downtown from one of those families up north.
One of her favorite letters is from Lt. William Lytle, 3rd Division Army of the Ohio:
"Huntsville is one of the most beautiful towns in America. There is a great deal of wealth here, the private residences are very elegant and surrounded with fine gardens. The air is so laden with perfume they call it Happy Valley," Lytle wrote.
"Alas it is no Happy Valley now," the letter continues. "The desolating footstep of the war has gone over it and it will tell with pallid lips in years to come the bloody history of this accursed rebellion."
"Huntsville was a beautiful city and they always praised it," said Brian Hogan, who has done extensive research on the occupation. "There was no thought at any time of burning Huntsville."
Hogan said the women of Huntsville did put up some resistence. They pelted soldiers with rotten potatoes or buckets of slop. One soldier reportedly threw a potato back, bonking a woman in the face.
Federal troops commandeered the First Methodist Church on Greene Street and accidentally burned it down in January 1864. There was no wholesale ransacking or dramatic torching of buildings.
"General Mitchel and other officers took measures to protect homes which were used for their quarters," wrote Martha B. Gabel in The Huntsville Historical Review on July 19, 1971.
As the war dragged on, the Yankees would get tougher.
"Reign over Huntsville ends
June 11, 1862: These funeral processions pass two or three times a day of late and sometimes there are two coffins in the hearse at the same time. When a member of the cavalry dies, his horse is led in the procession, as a chief mourner, with the blankets and accouterments of the deceased thrown over him, which looks inexpressibly sad. - Mary Jane Chadick
On July 1, 1862, Gen. Mitchel's 80-day reign over Huntsville came to an end when he was called to Washington. The local newspaper was happy to see him go.
The Huntsville Daily Confederate reported on Nov. 12, 1862, the death of "his detestable lowness, Maj. Gen. O.M. Mitchel. No man ever had more winning ways to excite people's hatred than he. We have no space to do justice to his vices - virtues he showed none, in his dealings with the people of North Alabama," wrote Jack Harwell in Old Huntsville magazine.
Almost exactly three years after Mitchel's arrival, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered at a courthouse in Virginia. Huntsville was back in the Union of the United States of America.
May 26, 1865: "The war being over and the dear ones returned, there will be little more of interest for these pages. Therefore, you and I, dear journal, close friends as we have been, united by every bond of sympathy, must part." - Mary Jane Chadick"
Source AL.com
Civil War: 150th anniversary of the Union occupation of Huntsville by Deborah Storey
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Abstract: $\tau$-tilting theory, recently introduced by Adachi-Iyama-Reiten, is an elegant generalization of the classical tilting theory which fixes the deficiency of the tilting modules with respect to the notion of mutation. In this talk, I view $\tau$-tilting finiteness of algebras as a natural generalization of the representation finiteness property. The natural question then becomes: For which families of algebras does $\tau$-tilting finiteness imply representation finiteness?
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