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Nanoscale robotic agents in biological fluids and tissues
Palagi, S., Walker, D. Q. T., Fischer, P.
In The Encyclopedia of Medical Robotics, 2, pages: 19-42, 2, (Editors: Desai, J. P. and Ferreira, A.), World Scientific, October 2018 (inbook)
Nanorobots are untethered structures of sub-micron size that can be controlled in a non-trivial way. Such nanoscale robotic agents are envisioned to revolutionize medicine by enabling minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. To be useful, nanorobots must be operated in complex biological fluids and tissues, which are often difficult to penetrate. In this chapter, we first discuss potential medical applications of motile nanorobots. We briefly present the challenges related to swimming at such small scales and we survey the rheological properties of some biological fluids and tissues. We then review recent experimental results in the development of nanorobots and in particular their design, fabrication, actuation, and propulsion in complex biological fluids and tissues. Recent work shows that their nanoscale dimension is a clear asset for operation in biological tissues, since many biological tissues consist of networks of macromolecules that prevent the passage of larger micron-scale structures, but contain dynamic pores through which nanorobots can move.
pf Palagi, S., Walker, D. Q. T., Fischer, P. Nanoscale robotic agents in biological fluids and tissues In The Encyclopedia of Medical Robotics, 2, pages: 19-42, 2, (Editors: Desai, J. P. and Ferreira, A.), World Scientific, October 2018 (inbook)
Haptics and Haptic Interfaces
Kuchenbecker, K. J.
In Encyclopedia of Robotics, (Editors: Marcelo H. Ang and Oussama Khatib and Bruno Siciliano), Springer, May 2018 (incollection)
Haptics is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to both understand and engineer touch-based interaction. Although a wide range of systems and applications are being investigated, haptics researchers often concentrate on perception and manipulation through the human hand. A haptic interface is a mechatronic system that modulates the physical interaction between a human and his or her tangible surroundings. Haptic interfaces typically involve mechanical, electrical, and computational layers that work together to sense user motions or forces, quickly process these inputs with other information, and physically respond by actuating elements of the user's surroundings, thereby enabling him or her to act on and feel a remote and/or virtual environment.
hi Kuchenbecker, K. J. Haptics and Haptic Interfaces In Encyclopedia of Robotics, (Editors: Marcelo H. Ang and Oussama Khatib and Bruno Siciliano), Springer, May 2018 (incollection)
Maschinelles Lernen: Entwicklung ohne Grenzen?
Schökopf, B.
In Mit Optimismus in die Zukunft schauen. Künstliche Intelligenz - Chancen und Rahmenbedingungen, pages: 26-34, (Editors: Bender, G. and Herbrich, R. and Siebenhaar, K.), B&S Siebenhaar Verlag, 2018 (incollection)
ei Schökopf, B. Maschinelles Lernen: Entwicklung ohne Grenzen? In Mit Optimismus in die Zukunft schauen. Künstliche Intelligenz - Chancen und Rahmenbedingungen, pages: 26-34, (Editors: Bender, G. and Herbrich, R. and Siebenhaar, K.), B&S Siebenhaar Verlag, 2018 (incollection)
Methods in Psychophysics
Wichmann, F. A., Jäkel, F.
In Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, 5 (Methodology), 7, 4th, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018 (inbook)
ei Wichmann, F. A., Jäkel, F. Methods in Psychophysics In Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, 5 (Methodology), 7, 4th, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018 (inbook)
Transfer Learning for BCIs
Jayaram, V., Fiebig, K., Peters, J., Grosse-Wentrup, M.
In Brain–Computer Interfaces Handbook, pages: 425-442, 22, (Editors: Chang S. Nam, Anton Nijholt and Fabien Lotte), CRC Press, 2018 (incollection)
ei Jayaram, V., Fiebig, K., Peters, J., Grosse-Wentrup, M. Transfer Learning for BCIs In Brain–Computer Interfaces Handbook, pages: 425-442, 22, (Editors: Chang S. Nam, Anton Nijholt and Fabien Lotte), CRC Press, 2018 (incollection)
ei Grosse-Wentrup, M., Schölkopf, B. A Review of Performance Variations in SMR-Based Brain–Computer Interfaces (BCIs) In Brain-Computer Interface Research, pages: 39-51, 4, SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering, (Editors: Guger, C., Allison, B. Z. and Edlinger, G.), Springer, 2013 (inbook)
ei Schölkopf, B., Janzing, D., Peters, J., Sgouritsa, E., Zhang, K., Mooij, J. Semi-supervised learning in causal and anticausal settings In Empirical Inference, pages: 129-141, 13, Festschrift in Honor of Vladimir Vapnik, (Editors: Schölkopf, B., Luo, Z. and Vovk, V.), Springer, 2013 (inbook)
ei Sra, S. Tractable large-scale optimization in machine learning In Tractability: Practical Approaches to Hard Problems, pages: 202-230, 7, (Editors: Bordeaux, L., Hamadi , Y., Kohli, P. and Mateescu, R. ), Cambridge University Press , 2013 (inbook)
ei Seldin, Y., Schölkopf, B. On the Relations and Differences between Popper Dimension, Exclusion Dimension and VC-Dimension In Empirical Inference - Festschrift in Honor of Vladimir N. Vapnik, pages: 53-57, 6, (Editors: Schölkopf, B., Luo, Z. and Vovk, V.), Springer, 2013 (inbook)
Empirical Inference - Festschrift in Honor of Vladimir N. Vapnik
Schölkopf, B., Luo, Z., Vovk, V.
Springer, 2013 (book)
ei Schölkopf, B., Luo, Z., Vovk, V. Empirical Inference - Festschrift in Honor of Vladimir N. Vapnik Springer, 2013 (book)
Behavior as broken symmetry in embodied self-organizing robots
Der, R., Martius, G.
In Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013, pages: 601-608, MIT Press, 2013 (incollection)
al Der, R., Martius, G. Behavior as broken symmetry in embodied self-organizing robots In Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013, pages: 601-608, MIT Press, 2013 (incollection)
am mg Righetti, L., Buchli, J., Mistry, M., Kalakrishnan, M., Schaal, S. Using Torque Redundancy to Optimize Contact Forces in Legged Robots In Redundancy in Robot Manipulators and Multi-Robot Systems, 57, pages: 35-51, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013 (incollection)
ps Gall, J., Lempitsky, V. Class-Specific Hough Forests for Object Detection In Decision Forests for Computer Vision and Medical Image Analysis, pages: 143-157, 11, (Editors: Criminisi, A. and Shotton, J.), Springer, 2013 (incollection)
ei Nilges, M., Markwick, P., Malliavin, TE., Rieping, W., Habeck, M. New Frontiers in Characterizing Structure and Dynamics by NMR In Computational Structural Biology: Methods and Applications, pages: 655-680, (Editors: Schwede, T. , M. C. Peitsch), World Scientific, New Jersey, NJ, USA, May 2008 (inbook)
ei Franz, MO., Stürzl, W., Reichardt, W., Mallot, HA. A Robot System for Biomimetic Navigation: From Snapshots to Metric Embeddings of View Graphs In Robotics and Cognitive Approaches to Spatial Mapping, pages: 297-314, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics ; 38, (Editors: Jefferies, M.E. , W.-K. Yeap), Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008 (inbook)
Hydrogen adsorption (Carbon, Zeolites, Nanocubes)
Hirscher, M., Panella, B.
In Hydrogen as a Future Energy Carrier, pages: 173-188, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, 2008 (incollection)
mms Hirscher, M., Panella, B. Hydrogen adsorption (Carbon, Zeolites, Nanocubes) In Hydrogen as a Future Energy Carrier, pages: 173-188, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, 2008 (incollection)
Ma\ssgeschneiderte Speichermaterialien
In Von Brennstoffzellen bis Leuchtdioden (Energie und Chemie - Ein Bündnis für die Zukunft), pages: 31-33, Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie e.V., Frankfurt am Main, 2008 (incollection)
mms Hirscher, M. Ma\ssgeschneiderte Speichermaterialien In Von Brennstoffzellen bis Leuchtdioden (Energie und Chemie - Ein Bündnis für die Zukunft), pages: 31-33, Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie e.V., Frankfurt am Main, 2008 (incollection)
Support Vector Machine Learning for Interdependent and Structured Output Spaces
Altun, Y., Hofmann, T., Tsochantaridis, I.
In Predicting Structured Data, pages: 85-104, Advances in neural information processing systems, (Editors: Bakir, G. H. , T. Hofmann, B. Schölkopf, A. J. Smola, B. Taskar, S. V. N. Vishwanathan), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2007 (inbook)
ei Altun, Y., Hofmann, T., Tsochantaridis, I. Support Vector Machine Learning for Interdependent and Structured Output Spaces In Predicting Structured Data, pages: 85-104, Advances in neural information processing systems, (Editors: Bakir, G. H. , T. Hofmann, B. Schölkopf, A. J. Smola, B. Taskar, S. V. N. Vishwanathan), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2007 (inbook)
Brisk Kernel ICA
Jegelka, S., Gretton, A.
In Large Scale Kernel Machines, pages: 225-250, Neural Information Processing, (Editors: Bottou, L. , O. Chapelle, D. DeCoste, J. Weston), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2007 (inbook)
Recent approaches to independent component analysis have used kernel independence measures to obtain very good performance in ICA, particularly in areas where classical methods experience difficulty (for instance, sources with near-zero kurtosis). In this chapter, we compare two efficient extensions of these methods for large-scale problems: random subsampling of entries in the Gram matrices used in defining the independence measures, and incomplete Cholesky decomposition of these matrices. We derive closed-form, efficiently computable approximations for the gradients of these measures, and compare their performance on ICA using both artificial and music data. We show that kernel ICA can scale up to much larger problems than yet attempted, and that incomplete Cholesky decomposition performs better than random sampling.
ei Jegelka, S., Gretton, A. Brisk Kernel ICA In Large Scale Kernel Machines, pages: 225-250, Neural Information Processing, (Editors: Bottou, L. , O. Chapelle, D. DeCoste, J. Weston), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2007 (inbook)
Predicting Structured Data
Bakir, G., Hofmann, T., Schölkopf, B., Smola, A., Taskar, B., Vishwanathan, S.
pages: 360, Advances in neural information processing systems, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2007 (book)
Machine learning develops intelligent computer systems that are able to generalize from previously seen examples. A new domain of machine learning, in which the prediction must satisfy the additional constraints found in structured data, poses one of machine learning's greatest challenges: learning functional dependencies between arbitrary input and output domains. This volume presents and analyzes the state of the art in machine learning algorithms and theory in this novel field. The contributors discuss applications as diverse as machine translation, document markup, computational biology, and information extraction, among others, providing a timely overview of an exciting field.
ei Bakir, G., Hofmann, T., Schölkopf, B., Smola, A., Taskar, B., Vishwanathan, S. Predicting Structured Data pages: 360, Advances in neural information processing systems, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2007 (book)
In Large Scale Kernel Machines, pages: 29-50, Neural Information Processing, (Editors: Bottou, L. , O. Chapelle, D. DeCoste, J. Weston), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2007, This is a slightly updated version of the Neural Computation paper (inbook)
Most literature on Support Vector Machines (SVMs) concentrate on the dual optimization problem. In this paper, we would like to point out that the primal problem can also be solved efficiently, both for linear and non-linear SVMs, and that there is no reason to ignore this possibility. On the contrary, from the primal point of view new families of algorithms for large scale SVM training can be investigated.
ei Chapelle, O. Training a Support Vector Machine in the Primal In Large Scale Kernel Machines, pages: 29-50, Neural Information Processing, (Editors: Bottou, L. , O. Chapelle, D. DeCoste, J. Weston), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2007, This is a slightly updated version of the Neural Computation paper (inbook)
Approximation Methods for Gaussian Process Regression
Quiñonero-Candela, J., Rasmussen, CE., Williams, CKI.
In Large-Scale Kernel Machines, pages: 203-223, Neural Information Processing, (Editors: Bottou, L. , O. Chapelle, D. DeCoste, J. Weston), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2007 (inbook)
A wealth of computationally efficient approximation methods for Gaussian process regression have been recently proposed. We give a unifying overview of sparse approximations, following Quiñonero-Candela and Rasmussen (2005), and a brief review of approximate matrix-vector multiplication methods.
ei Quiñonero-Candela, J., Rasmussen, CE., Williams, CKI. Approximation Methods for Gaussian Process Regression In Large-Scale Kernel Machines, pages: 203-223, Neural Information Processing, (Editors: Bottou, L. , O. Chapelle, D. DeCoste, J. Weston), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2007 (inbook)
Trading Convexity for Scalability
Convex learning algorithms, such as Support Vector Machines (SVMs), are often seen as highly desirable because they offer strong practical properties and are amenable to theoretical analysis. However, in this work we show how nonconvexity can provide scalability advantages over convexity. We show how concave-convex programming can be applied to produce (i) faster SVMs where training errors are no longer support vectors, and (ii) much faster Transductive SVMs.
ei Collobert, R., Sinz, F., Weston, J., Bottou, L. Trading Convexity for Scalability In Large Scale Kernel Machines, pages: 275-300, Neural Information Processing, (Editors: Bottou, L. , O. Chapelle, D. DeCoste, J. Weston), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2007 (inbook)
Classifying Event-Related Desynchronization in EEG, ECoG and MEG signals
Hill, N., Lal, T., Tangermann, M., Hinterberger, T., Widman, G., Elger, C., Schölkopf, B., Birbaumer, N.
In Toward Brain-Computer Interfacing, pages: 235-260, Neural Information Processing, (Editors: G Dornhege and J del R Millán and T Hinterberger and DJ McFarland and K-R Müller), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2007 (inbook)
ei Hill, N., Lal, T., Tangermann, M., Hinterberger, T., Widman, G., Elger, C., Schölkopf, B., Birbaumer, N. Classifying Event-Related Desynchronization in EEG, ECoG and MEG signals In Toward Brain-Computer Interfacing, pages: 235-260, Neural Information Processing, (Editors: G Dornhege and J del R Millán and T Hinterberger and DJ McFarland and K-R Müller), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2007 (inbook)
Joint Kernel Maps
Weston, J., Bakir, G., Bousquet, O., Mann, T., Noble, W., Schölkopf, B.
In Predicting Structured Data, pages: 67-84, Advances in neural information processing systems, (Editors: GH Bakir and T Hofmann and B Schölkopf and AJ Smola and B Taskar and SVN Vishwanathan), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2007 (inbook)
ei Weston, J., Bakir, G., Bousquet, O., Mann, T., Noble, W., Schölkopf, B. Joint Kernel Maps In Predicting Structured Data, pages: 67-84, Advances in neural information processing systems, (Editors: GH Bakir and T Hofmann and B Schölkopf and AJ Smola and B Taskar and SVN Vishwanathan), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2007 (inbook)
Brain-Computer Interfaces for Communication in Paralysis: A Clinical Experimental Approach
Hinterberger, T., Nijboer, F., Kübler, A., Matuz, T., Furdea, A., Mochty, U., Jordan, M., Lal, T., Hill, J., Mellinger, J., Bensch, M., Tangermann, M., Widman, G., Elger, C., Rosenstiel, W., Schölkopf, B., Birbaumer, N.
In Toward Brain-Computer Interfacing, pages: 43-64, Neural Information Processing, (Editors: G. Dornhege and J del R Millán and T Hinterberger and DJ McFarland and K-R Müller), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2007 (inbook)
ei Hinterberger, T., Nijboer, F., Kübler, A., Matuz, T., Furdea, A., Mochty, U., Jordan, M., Lal, T., Hill, J., Mellinger, J., Bensch, M., Tangermann, M., Widman, G., Elger, C., Rosenstiel, W., Schölkopf, B., Birbaumer, N. Brain-Computer Interfaces for Communication in Paralysis: A Clinical Experimental Approach In Toward Brain-Computer Interfacing, pages: 43-64, Neural Information Processing, (Editors: G. Dornhege and J del R Millán and T Hinterberger and DJ McFarland and K-R Müller), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2007 (inbook)
Probabilistic Structure Calculation
Rieping, W., Habeck, M., Nilges, M.
In Structure and Biophysics: New Technologies for Current Challenges in Biology and Beyond, pages: 81-98, NATO Security through Science Series, (Editors: Puglisi, J. D.), Springer, Berlin, Germany, March 2007 (inbook)
ei Rieping, W., Habeck, M., Nilges, M. Probabilistic Structure Calculation In Structure and Biophysics: New Technologies for Current Challenges in Biology and Beyond, pages: 81-98, NATO Security through Science Series, (Editors: Puglisi, J. D.), Springer, Berlin, Germany, March 2007 (inbook)
On the Pre-Image Problem in Kernel Methods
BakIr, G., Schölkopf, B., Weston, J.
In Kernel Methods in Bioengineering, Signal and Image Processing, pages: 284-302, (Editors: G Camps-Valls and JL Rojo-Álvarez and M Martínez-Ramón), Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, USA, January 2007 (inbook)
In this chapter we are concerned with the problem of reconstructing patterns from their representation in feature space, known as the pre-image problem. We review existing algorithms and propose a learning based approach. All algorithms are discussed regarding their usability and complexity and evaluated on an image denoising application.
ei BakIr, G., Schölkopf, B., Weston, J. On the Pre-Image Problem in Kernel Methods In Kernel Methods in Bioengineering, Signal and Image Processing, pages: 284-302, (Editors: G Camps-Valls and JL Rojo-Álvarez and M Martínez-Ramón), Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, USA, January 2007 (inbook)
am Schaal, S, Mohajerian, P., Ijspeert, A. Dynamics systems vs. optimal control ? a unifying view In Progress in Brain Research, (165):425-445, 2007, clmc (inbook)
Bacteria integrated swimming microrobots
Behkam, B., Sitti, M.
In 50 years of artificial intelligence, pages: 154-163, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007 (incollection)
pi Behkam, B., Sitti, M. Bacteria integrated swimming microrobots In 50 years of artificial intelligence, pages: 154-163, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007 (incollection)
Micromagnetism-microstructure relations and the hysteresis loop
Goll, D.
In Handbook of Magnetism and Advanced Magnetic Materials. Vol. 2: Micromagnetism, pages: 1023-1058, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, UK, 2007 (incollection)
mms Goll, D. Micromagnetism-microstructure relations and the hysteresis loop In Handbook of Magnetism and Advanced Magnetic Materials. Vol. 2: Micromagnetism, pages: 1023-1058, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, UK, 2007 (incollection)
Synchrotron radiation techniques based on X-ray magnetic circular dichroism
Schütz, G., Goering, E., Stoll, H.
In Handbook of Magnetism and Advanced Magnetic Materials. Vol. 3: Materials Novel Techniques for Characterizing and Preparing Samples, pages: 1311-1363, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, UK, 2007 (incollection)
mms Schütz, G., Goering, E., Stoll, H. Synchrotron radiation techniques based on X-ray magnetic circular dichroism In Handbook of Magnetism and Advanced Magnetic Materials. Vol. 3: Materials Novel Techniques for Characterizing and Preparing Samples, pages: 1311-1363, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, UK, 2007 (incollection)
Dissipative magnetization dynamics close to the adiabatic regime
Fähnle, M., Steiauf, D.
In Handbook of Magnetism and Advanced Magnetic Materials. Vol. 1: Fundamental and Theory, pages: 282-302, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, UK, 2007 (incollection)
mms Fähnle, M., Steiauf, D. Dissipative magnetization dynamics close to the adiabatic regime In Handbook of Magnetism and Advanced Magnetic Materials. Vol. 1: Fundamental and Theory, pages: 282-302, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, UK, 2007 (incollection)
Influence of grain boundary phase transitions on the properties of Cu-Bi polycrystals
Straumal, B. B., Sluchanko, N.E., Gust, W.
In Defects and Diffusion in Metals III: An Annual Retrospective III, 188-1, pages: 185-194, Defect and Diffusion Forum, 2001 (incollection)
mms Straumal, B. B., Sluchanko, N.E., Gust, W. Influence of grain boundary phase transitions on the properties of Cu-Bi polycrystals In Defects and Diffusion in Metals III: An Annual Retrospective III, 188-1, pages: 185-194, Defect and Diffusion Forum, 2001 (incollection)


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'Tis the season for GAZPACHO, the iconic Spanish chilled soup.
As this soup is fruitier-tasting than the tomato-based version, serve it for lunch or brunch along with grilled baguette slices, rubbed with a clove of garlic and drizzled with extra-virgin olive oil.
Watching an internet video on the techniques of dicing, especially bell peppers, would be very helpful. I still watch other chefs' techniques.
~ Cut each end off the watermelon and then cut the watermelon in half through the circumference ('the waist'). Set the pieces on a cutting board, circumference side down. Remove the skin from each half, by using a chef's knife to shave the skin away from the melon in long strokes, from top to bottom and following the curve of the melon. Be sure to take the white part along with the skin.
Repeat with the second half piece of melon.
~ Slice the melon into 1 ½ inch slices and then cut across the slices into 1 ½ inch cubes.
Put off the cubes into a bowl, lightly sprinkle with kosher salt and a squeeze or two of fresh lime juice. Refrigerate.
Put the diced peppers into a 4-quart serving bowl.
~ Peel and dice red onion as finely as you can manage. Measure 3 tablespoons or minced red onion and add to the serving bowl with the teaspoon of vinegar. Stir to combine.
~ Peel the cucumbers. Cut the ends off and cut the cucumbers in half, again through the circumference/middle. Cut each piece into ¼-inch slices. Lay each slice down flat on the board and cut across each slice into ¼-inch diced pieces Sprinkle with a touch of kosher salt and add to the (serving) bowl. Add the yogurt and stir to mix thoroughly.
~ Working in batches, puree the diced watermelon in a blender. You will have made watermelon juice. Pour the watermelon juice over the cut vegetables.
Stir to combine all. Taste and season with fresh lime juice, kosher salt and fresh black pepper. Whisk in 1 to 2 tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil.
~ Refrigerate for about an hour or longer to let the flavors develop.
Before serving, stir in the sparkling water. Ladle into individual glasses or bowls. Float one or two pieces of diced feta cheese on top and drizzle with an extra touch of olive oil.


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By Rodney St Clair Ballenden
Set in the Pyrenean Mountains of Spain, 70-30 tells the story of a young woman's struggle to listen to her inner voice, and an older man, clinging to the hope that love has no rules. The strictures of a small village society, coupled with the very real factor of their age gap, determines their relationship and the choices they make at the end. More
Arnau, an older man, embedded in the fantasy of the romantic poet, springs the barrier of reality to engage with Estel, a younger woman, struggling to overcome the strictures of her society and culture. 70-30 tells the story of their two dreams; the one of birth and the other of death. Estel, believes the purpose of life is to live for the love of a mother, a child, and to secure their material needs for the benefit of the greater society and environment into which they were born. Romance is for pretenders. Those who deny the reality of their circumstances are the pretenders and that, Arnau, the old man, as she calls him, is just a dreamer without direction. He tricks himself and not her.
And then, one day she defends him.
This triggers a series of meetings between Estel and the old man that spurs her lover, Digger, a municipal worker, to action. Using Arnau as the excuse, Digger embarks on a mission to exclude all foreigners from the village and from their cultural traditions. The nit de Sant Joan, celebrating the gift of fire, becomes a key festival of this struggle. Only the intervention of her mother persuades Estela to acknowledge the danger of her liaison with an older man, and she agrees to obey the rules of society, and distance herself from any further acquaintances with him.
Arnau, disguised as a simpleton, carries his burning log down the mountain, and joins in the festivities of the nit de Sant Joan. When he dances around the falla mayor in the village square, Estel sees an old man dancing with the devil, and joins Digger to throw him out of the village, and out of their lives, forever.
They ransack Arnau's room, and find his notebook, the final piece of evidence needed to evict him. But, when Estel reads certain passages, she understands what he had tried to share with her, and goes in search of him to walk once more through the pathless woods.
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Published: Nov. 26, 2019
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About Rodney St Clair Ballenden
Rodney St Clair Ballenden was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1947. In lieu of an academic career he traveled extensively through Europe, the United Sates of America and Greece. He married Colleen and returned to South Africa to farm, but the call of the wild drew him into a hermit existence placing him in extreme situations exposed to danger and the vagaries of storm and wind. From his observations on man and his relationship with the wilderness he began to write, and his books are available on the SmashWord platform as well as at Amazon.
Rodney now lives in Spain.
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Dune shacks on Cape Cod National Seashore up for review
Published: Sat April 01, 2006
By: Straight Dope in Life > Beach & Ocean
By Victoria McKee | Boston Globe Correspondent
CAPE COD NATIONAL SEASHORE—Ethereal music emanated from the ''Schuster Shack" halfway up one of the steep hills of sand that make up the dramatic dunescape of Cape Cod's backshore.
The music stopped abruptly as a bearded middle-age man stood dwarfing the doorway. Shelves crammed with vinyl records were visible just behind him. He'd been composing, he explained, ''feeding from the keyboard into the computer." Quite a feat considering that the dune shack Lawrence Schuster has called home for 23 years has no electricity or running water. Everything must be self-generated, and water brought in and pulled up via the intricate pulley system he has rigged. Some dune shacks have fireplaces, other dwellers have built makeshift showers as well as artistically designed commodes. If it's all still too primitive sounding for most people to consider, so much the better. For ''dune shack society" is as difficult to break into as Boston's High Society.
''This is not a zoo. This is a private residence. I would ask you to respect that," Schuster tells a visitor with the temerity to disturb his contemplation. It's one thing when another dune-dweller knocks on his door, another when strangers do it—as they have been increasingly doing now that a sandstorm of controversy is surrounding these ''outermost houses" of Massachusetts where for more than a century creative spirits have sought solitude and inspiration.
Eugene O'Neill wrote in one of these shacks, now lost to the ocean. Harry Kemp, known as ''the Poet of the Dunes," penned verses with seagull quills. Generations of artistic and literary families have lived and loved in them, at least for the summers. Few besides Schuster and Henry Beston, who immortalized them in ''The Outermost House," have attempted to live in one year-round. But now the right of their traditional inhabitants to continue to utilize them is being challenged as their landlord, the National Park Service, looks into new ways to manage the 19 dune shacks along its Cape Cod National Seashore between North Truro and Provincetown.
The Cape Cod National Seashore is inviting comments from the public until Thursday on its report on the traditional cultural significance of the dune shacks and their dwellers. Social anthropologist Robert Wolfe was commissioned to investigate ''dune shack society" and interview the colorful characters who compose it.
The ramshackle structures, precariously perched on the shifting sands of the Peaked Hill Bars Historic District, were deemed eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, although they are not yet listed. The question the Seashore seeks to determine is whether the area could also be considered ''traditional cultural property" and its inhabitants afforded the protection due ''traditionally associated people"—such as a Native American tribe on its sacred ground. If they are granted protected species status, their future—as well as that of the shacks they love—is assured. And they will be able to bequeath them, or at least the right to live in them, to their heirs. If they are not—well, that's not a prospect many of them want to think about. They are living on the edge of an increasingly emotional landscape.
(Globe Staff Photo / Janet Knott)
As Paul Tasha, whose family was informally ''bequeathed" its tiny Tasha Shack—the smallest of all—by Harry Kemp, put it, ''We were all basically promised nothing would be taken away. So you feel betrayed, you know. It may not be fair for me to compare myself to a Native American, but as far as I'm concerned, what they're doing [to us] is no different. You make a promise, then you change your mind and say, 'we're going to do this.' How can they do that? It's mind boggling that they feel so free to destroy people's ways of life without thinking that it's a big deal. It is a big deal. It's a huge deal."
A network of at least 800 people cares very much about the decision, for that many were found to be using the shacks in some way or other. Some are friends, relatives, or hangers-on of the main families, and others look forward to winning a week in a shack through one of two annual lotteries held for the five managed by the Peaked Hills Trust and the Provincetown Community Compact, which also offer artists' residencies.
The only resident who doesn't have to worry too much about it is sculptor Conrad Malicoat, the sole ''shackie" to actually own his shack, plus an incredible 3 acres of dune under and around it. The Mailcoat family, under Conrad's artist father, Philip, held out against the government and conclusively proved its ownership in court. But Malicoat, now 70 and enjoying his shack seasonally with his artist wife, Anne, and their three daughters and six grandchildren, emphasizes, ''I don't like to think of it as owning. We're all guests out there."
He knows he'll be affected by whatever decision the Park Service makes, and made himself and his family available to Wolfe, to share more than a lifetime of lore. He tells tales of toads and shipwrecks, foraging and salvaging, and about watching his father paint on the beach—demonstrating the artistic and environmental inheritance that has been passed down between generations on the dunes together with the shacks.
Malicoat—whose shack boasts a toilet (''It's not a flush toilet, you have to pour water down it") and ''a cistern that gathers water for washing, and that you can boil for drinking" as well as a fireplace—has had to invest a good deal of money, time, and care in preventing it from disappearing into the ocean as O'Neill's so famously did in 1932. ''In 1991, after the storm that came to be called 'The Perfect Storm,' I had to put in a block foundation and concrete columns going 8 feet down with pilings on top." The shack still owned if not regularly inhabited by 95-year-old Ray Wells has pilings that are clearly visible as the sand has blown out from underneath it, whereas Schuster's looks in danger of being overwhelmed by the dune into which it is nestled.
Repairs and maintenance are part of the residents' bargain with the Seashore, and why they can rent the shacks for between $1,100 and $1,600 a year, according to National Seashore planner Lauren McKean. But with a shack as tiny as Tasha's it can be easier to roll it along on rollers than to attempt to anchor it into what Malicoat calls ''liquid earth."
Most of the dune-dwellers live in the shacks for several months a year. Some of the most influential—such as Bill Fitts, founder of the Peaked Hill Trust and designer of an artistic ''composting commode" for the dunes, and his wife, Hatty, its chief executive—spend only a week or so in one. ''We have made the shacks accessible to a wide variety of people who, through our lottery system, can go out and enjoy them for a week," says Hatty Fitts. ''They pay between $140 and $275 a week, and we take them out at the beginning of it and bring them back at the end. In between they have to walk."
And quite a walk it is, several miles in any direction to civilization, over a landscape easy to get lost in. In summer it is crisscrossed by dune buggies giving tours, and other vehicles given special licenses by the Seashore, which, it has been noted, transport a whole ''tribe" of their own—intruding on that of the ''shackies," and perhaps contributing to the erosion of this delicate ecological environment.
''It's because of the Peaked Hill Trust that there are any shacks left to report on, and because of us that the comment period has been extended," Hatty Fitts said. ''We want it acknowledged that there's a whole, large group who use the shacks who the park has blocked with their current lease system." They are composing their comments on the report, which they felt largely ignored this transient population.
Like Schuster, Conrad Malicoat was skeptical about being considered part of a special species, like the piping plover and spadefoot toads that share this special habitat. ''It's a joke. It's ridiculous. We don't want to be categorized or classified. The idea of designating us as a tribe or not is rather facetious. I don't know what the park's real objective is, but I think they feel they have to manage everything, and the people who are out there don't want to play by somebody else's rules."
''It's a very emotional issue," said Bill Burke, the historian for the National Seashore. ''If it was me I'd be feeling the same way as the residents. But we have to be stewards for the American people who actually own these shacks, and we have to make sure we're making the right decisions about who uses them."
''We're all stewards of the dunes," Malicoat counters. ''The Park Service should be very happy we're out there, being watchful, having a vested interest."
''I'd predicted that most people would say, 'Federal government, keep your hands off the shacks—let these people alone,' " said Burke. ''But there seem to be as many asking, 'Why should these people have special rights?' You can't forget that these shacks are owned by the American people. The bottom line is it's a very special place and we want to preserve and protect it."
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Hellow my name is chris ellis , I grew up ion Wellfleet, I am now 49 years old. and am now a Deputy Sheriff in barnstable, and am liveing in Harwich.
my father Warren L.L. Ellis was one of the orignal bilder/ owners of the dune shacks , I have only been there once! my father was the last surviving surfmen. he has since past on , but as the story he told me . He and his buddys from ptown fell in love with the dunes , one of them was harry kemp, (I still have a poem writen to my dad from him. My Dad told me that no one wanted to even think of living out at such a remote place, and that at that time the land was up for grabs, all you had to do was go to the town hall ( and I think the price was $25.00 for the paper work and the land was yours. he also told me that he built his shack from drift wood and wood from the dump! he and his friends were great dump pickers. I would like to know more about the shacks and maybe get a picture of my dads shack. please contact me if you can tell me more or if I have anything you may want to know. thank you Chris Ellis


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This was a play-test game pitting a small British battlegroup against a much larger Soviet force set at the height of the Cold War in 1984. This was the second time the scenario has been played out on the tabletop, the first game being fought by Mark as the Soviets and myself as the British. The first play-test turned out to be a major Soviet victory, but some of the rules and unit stats needed tweaking, hence this second game. I played solo to test the changes that were made.
The scenario was a standard 8-turn encounter, with the Soviets taking the first turn. One new optional rule is Air Superiority, which is diced for at the start of the game. The British gained full air superiority for the duration of the battle. This indicates that each time the opposing side attempts to bring on air support, the command roll to request the support is reduced. In addition, attack dice are rolled when the support arrives on-table, meaning it could be shot-down or forced to abort the attack as it arrives over the table. This is in addition to any air defences the opposing player has on the table!
Some new features of the game: the British battlegroup is Motivated and is based around Flexible tactical doctrine. The breakpoint was 13. I have no idea of the points cost as the points system hasn't been done yet. The forces on each side are guesstimates on what I think should be reasonably balanced battlegroups. That's what play-testing is all about!
The Soviet breakpoint was 23, the battlegroup was Demoralised and the doctrine was Rigid.
The Soviets raced on the table during the first turn, using the fast movement of their T-72s and BMPs, reaching the half-way line in the centre of the table at the end of turn 1. However, the movement of command units has been modified slightly to represent different tactical doctrine, so the units out-ran the CO by a fair distance. That'll teach 'em! The battalion with the six T-55s deployed on the right flank, the other one deployed on the left, close to the centre.
The British edged on the table in the centre with the CO and the Challengers. They were already in range of the Soviet tanks, so didn't want to race too far onto the battlefield. Both sides stayed-put in the centre for the duration of the battle, apart from the Challengers edging foward slightly to close the range to half-distance. They out-ranged the Soviet tanks 100cm to 60cm.
Over on the British left flank, both sides were racing for the high ground, the British reaching it first and deploying behind the crest in wait for the Soviets. There was some heavy close fighting later during the battle and the British defeated the Soviets in detail.
On the other flank, the British again went for the high ground and held that all game, giving them a good vantage point to the Soviet mass in the centre and on the (Soviet) left.
Notable actions include the Lynx helicopter getting shot-down by the combined AA fire of the Soviet CO and ZSU; the Jaguar aborting it's attack run on two occasions, again die to the Soviet CO and ZSU; the Spandrel ATGW softening-up both Challengers, with the T-72s finishing them off; the assault on the hill, where the superior British troops defeated the Soviet conscripts.


Drove down for a day trip with Dan, Shay, Liam and Ben. Met up with Beth and Mike to climb for the day. We started on Higher Stannard which was a new climb for me. Mike linked the first two pitches to the GT ledge, then I led the final pitch of Three Pines to get to the top. After that we climbed Hans Puss and toproped Feast of Fools. We finished swinging leads on a Limelight/Arrow linkup. Came down just as the rain started and the last light faded.


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Brian Reading, noted economist and director of Lombard Street Research, once observed that "A most confusing aspect of macroeconomics is the single fact that cause and effect can and do reverse roles as opposed to maintaining a fixed relationship as is commonplace in most forms of analysis." Certainly, this describes the perilous state of the American economy today. Over the last 30 years, a growing global trade deficit and sharp decline in our domestic manufacturing sector has seriously damaged job growth. As a result, federal governments and U.S. households have borrowed and spent beyond their means, generating a dangerous cycle in which continuing credit abuses limit the ability of American businesses to develop a strong, production-oriented, middle-class workforce.
In the words of legendary economist John Maynard Keynes, "A favorable [trade] balance, provided it is not too large, will prove extremely stimulating; whilst an unfavorable balance may soon produce a state of persistent depression." The ongoing underemployment in America and the deep social and political unrest we see around the globe are not flukes that the global economy can naturally cycle through. The world is changing, and we are presiding over the moment when America loses its place as its leader. There is no one solution to our economic ailments. Any prescription for relief must address a dual mandate: put our people back to work and close the trade deficit.
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Chlorophyllin is a water-soluble analog of the green plant pigment chlorophyll. Liquid chlorophyll products containing chlorophyllin are a mixture of chlorophyll and copper. Chlorophyllin is produced by extracting natural chlorophyll from mulberry leaves (post silkworm feeding) or the traditional alfalfa source (which today is mostly genetically modified/GMO) and reacting the chlorophyll to copper. Today chlorophyllin is compliant with the USP monograph as Sodium Copper Chlorophyllin and is water-soluble; chlorophyll in plants is a fat-soluble substance. Solubilized chlorophyllin is dispersible and stable in water, unlike the original plant chlorophyll, making liquid chlorophyll products possible.
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Vaccine Mandate Musings
Should vaccine passports, or vaccination itself, be mandatory? I can only share my opinions, which are conflicted. Here are my thoughts:
Because of federal medical privacy laws, vaccine passports would have to be issued only on request of the patient/person waiving such privacy, so disclosure is in one sense inherently controlled by the individual and would be voluntary. Additionally, the state and the CDC are routinely notified of your COVID-19 vaccination, so it is not hidden from them; governments already know if you've been vaccinated. Another argument is that apps can track your location, but of course location tracking can be disabled for any app or phone, and mandates can also limit tracking to when the app is opened. Many people post their vaccine status on social media and then inconsistently worry about privacy after sharing it with massive companies that have access to their personal data.
Private companies can already mandate vaccines, including medical and nursing home staff, or college campuses (which now offer remote classes), and require masks and distancing unless such private company requirements are banned by law. Some people may want to show these verifiable proofs and find them useful; for example to travel overseas without needing quarantines or invasive testing.
There are also issues of whether to restrict private companies from offering incentives for people to show vaccination proof to open cruises, concerts, airline or restaurant seating, etc. A government mandate prohibiting private businesses from doing things that are perceived as helping their sales recover faster and protect public health can also be perceived as anti-capitalist and anti-libertarian. The protection of public health often conflicts with normal civil rights in troubled times; both are mandates of governments. In this case, the government in prohibiting private businesses from using customer safety as a competitive selling point is different from a government mandating essential safety practices. This is actually the opposite of asserting a state mandate to protect public health; by legislating a government monopoly on whether/how to do that, rather than trusting the private sector, as most conservatives would normally prefer.
As businesspeople, if you felt safer during an epidemic or pandemic by requiring masking and distancing, would you want the state prohibiting you from doing what makes you feel safer or from doing what makes your customers feel safer? In Illinois, the state has said it won't require a vaccine passport, but did not prohibit local governments or private businesses from doing so, and Chicago may require them short-term for concerts and full restaurant capacity so businesses can reopen faster while protecting public health and safety. Is a business offering incentives discriminating against ineligible customers, or is it a justifiable practice; similar to offering private events or other perks for preferred customers?
I know this is more nuanced than social media and news outlets present the issues to us, but there are both plusses and minuses to government mandates and vaccine passports/proof, and winners and losers.
It also doesn't address the issue of some people who can't get vaccinated: the young, people with autoimmune diseases or other medical conditions, those who have had serious reactions to previous vaccines; even pregnancy is an unknown safety factor. Vaccine mandates without reasonable exemptions are going to harm some people; maybe far fewer than might get seriously ill or die from the disease if everyone was unvaccinated, but they would needlessly sacrifice some people for the perceived greater good instead of fine-tuning to make vaccinations even safer. Vaccines aren't perfect; why pretend that they are?
My problem with routine vaccinations is that there is no willingness or incentive to track a minority that may be harmed by vaccines in order to make them safer by identifying people or traits that are unsuitable for a particular vaccine. The ingredients are also a problem for some; including mercury and aluminum, preservatives, allergens, and other chemicals. Why is there no good study on the safety of the complete vaccination program of some 16 vaccines; some with additional boosters? Why are vaccine critics quickly attacked as anti-science, rather than honestly assessing their claims? Why are calls to fine-tune the vaccination program to make it even safer quickly shut down as anti-vaxxers? I appreciate the elimination of TB, smallpox, measles, etc. But why ignore a minority for whom some vaccines - or some ingredients - may be contraindicated to reduce the criticism?
Sorry, but I seem to have more questions than answers.
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Wisconsin Badgers vs Penn State Nittany Lions: Don Best Odds & Insights for 2/2/2021
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The Penn State Nittany Lions (6-7) are 7.5-point underdogs as they try to break a five-game road losing streak when they take on the No. 19 Wisconsin Badgers (13-5) on Tuesday, February 2, 2021 at Kohl Center. The game airs at 8:30 PM ET on FS1. The matchup's over/under is set at 138.5.
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Wisconsin Leaders
D'Mitrik Trice leads the Badgers in scoring (14.1 points per game) and assisting (3.8 assists per game).
Wisconsin is led in rebounds by Micah Potter's 6.6 per game.
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Penn State Leaders
The Nittany Lions leader in scoring is Myreon Jones with 15.8 points per game. He also adds 2.9 rebounds per game and 2.3 assists per game.
When it comes to Penn State leaders in rebounds and assists, the team has two players at the top: John Harrar with 8.3 rebounds per game and Jamari Wheeler with 3.8 assists per game.
Jones leads the Nittany Lions with a team-high 2.5 made three-pointers per game.
Wheeler leads the Badgers with 1.1 steals per game and Seth Lundy is their top shot blocker with 0.7 blocks per game.
Wisconsin vs Penn State: Last 4 Meetings
Wisconsin has a 3-1 record in the last four matchups with Penn State. Neither team holds an advantage against the spread in those head-to-head meetings. The Badgers and the Nittany Lions have a 1-1 ATS record.
Wisconsin vs Penn State (Last 4 Games)
Wisconsin -4 138.5 -183 +151 Regular Season 81-71 PSU
Penn State -3 135 -159 +130 Regular Season 58-49 WISC
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Points Insights
The Badgers score 71.9 points per contest, only 4.4 fewer points than the 76.3 the Nittany Lions allow their opponents.
Wisconsin is 7-0 against the spread and 7-0 overall when scoring more than 76.3 points.
Penn State is 1-6 overall and 1-4-1 against the spread when giving up more than 71.9 points.
The Nittany Lions average 14.3 more points per game (77.1) than the Badgers give up to opponents (62.8).
Penn State is 5-0-1 against the spread and 6-6 overall when it scores more than 62.8 points.
Wisconsin's record is 0-1 overall and 0-0 against the spread when it gives up more than 77.1 points to its opponents.
The Badgers have totaled 163 more points than their opponents this season (9.1 per game on average), and the Nittany Lions have scored only 10 more points than their opponents (0.8 per game).
Rebounding Insights
The Badgers and the Nittany Lions are similar rebounding teams, with the squads averaging and 33.9 and 34.4 rebounds per game, respectively.
When Penn State earns the rebounding advantage they are 4-1-1 against the spread. When recording fewer boards, Wisconsin is 6-3.
The Badgers average 7.3 offensive boards per game, -3.9 rebounds fewer than the Nittany Lions.
The Nittany Lions are 4-3-1 against the spread when grabbing more boards than their opponents. The Badgers are 5-1 when they trail in offensive rebounds.
Rebounding has been a pillar for both teams this year. Wisconsin records an average rebounding margin of +0.9 rebounds per game. Penn State averages a margin of +0.6 rebounds.


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VHS hosts club week extravaganza
Senior Maddie Halstead and her Younglife leader Marissa Chavira promoting Younglife and the upcoming annual Dodgeball Tournament the club puts on. Photo by: Janelle Chavira
Janelle Chavira and Tanya Turchyn
From newly-formed clubs such as the "Emo-Wu" Club and TOAST Club, to long-established organizations like Key Club and National Honors Society, Sept. 12-14, students explored a variety of diverse clubs during Ventura High School's Club Week.
Among many new clubs this year, the Ventura Rock Climbing Club, a "club that aims to get together a bunch of like-minded people, so we could all go climb and have a good time," said senior Ben Maidman, president of the new club.
Another new club that aims to unite students around a common interest, is the Emo-Wu Club. Senior Levi Payan-Foy said that it focuses on "appreciation and broadening of horizons for the emo genre, post-punk and how it started, where it came from, and how it evolved." He also added that the club would be casual and that most of the time, students would simply get together to enjoy emo music.
G.W.A.T. club members junior Olivia Jacobson, sophomore Nevada Knowles and sophomore Charlie Richards supervising the G.W.A.T. booth. Photo by: Janelle Chavira
A few clubs designed to better their communities and environment such as Heal the Beach Club and G.W.A.T. didn't hesitate to promote their eco-friendly plans for the year as well. The presidents of these philanthropic clubs told students of their upcoming projects in our very own community, such as Heal the Beach Club's "annual paddleboard race" and G.W.A.T.'s recently-established "Ocean-Friendly Garden," a project already standing in front of VHS's statue.
The Cougar Press also caught up with freshmen Olivia Willhite and Izzy Eulenhoefer to ask them how their Club Week experience was going so far. Willhite commented, "I joined TOAST and I'm really excited about it because I heard we learn about current events and that seems fun." Eulenhoefer shared, "I joined Young and Brave and [it] seems really fun to help others and get connected and raise money [for a better cause]." When asked if they felt Club Week was a useful tool for students, Willhite said, "I think so, I've never really been in a club before."
What about clubs for those interested in preparing for their approaching college years? Model United Nations teaches students "how to speak in front of crowds" and "how to find solutions to world problems," according to senior Micah Wilcox, a member of the Club. Photo by: Janelle Chavira
Club week had another successful year with clubs getting a significant amount of students eager to join. If you haven't joined a club and are still interested, check out the ASB room during fifth period to see what clubs you can join!
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Summary: We are developing a piece of hardware that will authenticate fine art through advanced imaging. The machines will be sold to museums and institutions and galleries so that they may become authentication centers for their communities. A centralized database based at either government agencies or neutral institutions will then serve as a centralized repository for most fine art that is sold at prices of $300 and up. The goal is to move countries towards recognizing fine art as an asset class through third-party-neutral history of ownership documentation. Currently, Provenanced Gallery 1.0 is an open source CRM for art galleries that includes a POS and full accounting- as well as a designer's market that allows dealers and designers to transact business at below retail prices. Provenanced 3.0 will add unquestioned authentication procedures into the mix.
One of the goals of Provenanced.com is to organize the lower-to-mid tier of the fine arts and antiquities markets in order that they may eventually become recognized assets in the tax structures of the countries within which we operate. The proposal is to state that if a piece of art is authenticated and then provenanced with a neutral-third party firm such as Provenanced.com, it becomes eligible as a recognized asset. To back up valuations with strong market data where there is no organized effort, Provenanced.com released Provenanced 2.0 in Q4 of 2012 and is scheduled to release Provenanced Gallery 1.0 in July of 2016. Provenanced Gallery 1.0 is a POS, CRM, and accounting package that runs on the Apple, Microsoft, Linux and Android platforms. Replete with Android applications, it can be used to run all gallery operations. Integrated into the system is a designer's market capability that allows clients to click a checkbox and automatically have inventory listed in a wholesale market where the commissions are only accessible to dealers and designers. Clients of dealers can view pieces from a public interface that does not include the wholesale discount. The benefit to dealers is that they are not only exposed to standard pricing from a centralized market for pieces similar to that which they carry, they are also able to extend the range of offerings that they can provide clients should the clients not find what they are looking for in their
onsite location.
Geographic Markets: Global. Current Point of Sale application supports Spanish and English languages fully. French, Chinese, and German are additionally supported in the 2ndary Market.
Targeted Audience: Fine Art and Antiquities purchasers of works that range from $300 to $100,000 in price.
Key Competitors: Artnet.com, National Fine Art's Title Registry, Organic Networks of Gallery Owners
• Known throughout the fine art, antiquities, and rare book and map worlds
• Offer a free product that will increase exposure and sales for clients
• Most patrons of the arts understand rationale and are supportive
Competitive Environment: When Provenanced.com was conceived in 2006, the concept of provenance for well-known artists was well-established. The problem was that for pieces that were purchased outside of auction or top tier galleries in the largest cities in the world, there was no neutral third-party service that would take on ownership history on a long term basis. The sales staff that was assembled to sell Provenanced.com therefore relied heavily upon marketing support from headquarters to both educate the marketplace and provide marketing information.
A great deal of the competition in the marketplace initially was inertia. Many dealers found it easier to stick to the internal systems that they had been using. Gradually, Provenanced.com led the market in the direction that made it a much easier environment to sell into today. Partly as a result of its marketing work, academics in New York visited galleries with graduate students to audit internal provenancing systems and pronounced them woefully inadequate. Deloitte, a large accounting firm began having yearly conferences talking about fine art as an asset class. And both Christie's and Southeby's, auction houses that Provenanced.com's online application interfaced with, followed Provenanced.com's lead and started posting information about object provenance online for their customers.
Artnet.com is not a direct competitor. Most of the art that is listed as a pricing reference on their site sells for above $100,000. If anything, they have proven to be a useful ally in uniting the market from top to bottom from a pricing standpoint so that more structure can provide more opportunity for investors.
National Art Registry started out as a company that sought to provide greater support to artists and owners that had authenticity concerns. Their online databases augment tags that are intended to remain with the artwork. American Registry does not break provenance out, but includes several standardized object description fields that help it achieve a form of provenance that can be added to by the dealer.
Today, with the advent of the Provenanced POS, the rules of the market have changed again. The point of sale system is not directly competed with by any of the market players. In support of the assertion, The New York Times published an article last year shortly before the release of Provenanced POS 2.0 that lamented the ease with which American Registry allowed anyone to create certificates that could potentially be used to try and confer authenticity of the work. The designer's market has a competitor in Artnet.com, although Artnet has chosen its gallery network and the average sales price of the painting remains far above our goals. Regional organic networks of dealers that are also artists are another minor force that do compete when they perceive any loss of
control due to the designer's market centralized approach.
Provenanced 3.0 does not start out with any competition either.
Key Success Factors: Setting up a geographic network of solid IT people is important to the success of Provenanced's reach. Working with hardware designers and manufacturing to perfect a design and get through manufacturing within the allotted development window is also key.
Similarly, achieving gallery owner adoption of the existing Provenanced product directly is important. The target for the first year is 50 galleries. As Provenanced.com was partnered previously with almost 60
galleries, it will not be a greenfield endeavor.
Risk: When Provenanced.com was originally under development in San Diego, the office that is was developed in was later found out to be being eavesdropped upon by no less than 7 different parties.
One of the parties was discovered when a developer for Provenanced came up with a great feature idea late in the afternoon and stayed late that night coding it and blending it in to the unreleased application. The next morning, it occurred to him that it was a horrible idea and so he stripped it out of the application functionality, chalking it up to working long hours to make the product a reality.
The next update of one of the market player's web applications a few weeks later included several features that were at that point unique to Provenanced.com. One of the features was the feature that defied all logic and had thus been immediately stripped from Provenanced.com's application. It became obvious that someone had made inroads into Provenanced's hosting provider in Florida, a fact that was confirmed later.
The environment hasn't changed. 80% of our competitors are actually quite good at respecting unreleased information as they are too in a role that requires that they retain the utmost confidence of owners of art. It is the remainder of the competition, especially when better funded, that remains an x-factor. It should be noted that the competitor that utilized unreleased features fromProvenanced, ended up going out of business last year after they became embroiled in litigation related to authentication.
With Provenanced 3.0 security risks exist, although the solution is self-evident in terms of design and implementation.
We've managed to mitigate security risks in Provenanced Gallery 1.0 by using trusted and secure hosting services and splitting the information store. Provenanced 3.0 will be ultra secure, with the data store separated so that no one repository contains a complete set of information. There will be two levels of authentication. Quick, which entails visiting an institution to authenticate a work of art against one of the pieces of the database and full, which entails reassembling all of the pieces from different repositories to form a complete check against the work of art.
As far as product development is concerned, the POS and Market are live and ready for our sales campaign to kick off in the end of May. Provenanced 3.0 is underway in the design phase with team hiring on deck.
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Q: Subbing in parameter values I have the following code
enteeigenexpf = eigenexp /. {mu -> 0.01, bet -> 0.001, d -> 0.1, m -> 0.3,
alph -> 0.4, fc1 -> (c1/(c1 + 8)), fc2 -> ((c1 + inc)/(c1 + inc + 8))};

g[c1_, inc_] = eigenexpf;

eigenequilf = eigenequil /. {mu -> 0.01, bet -> 0.001, d -> 0.1, m -> 0.3,
alph -> 0.4, fc1 -> (c1/(c1 + 8)),  fc2 -> ((c1 + inc)/(c1 + inc + 8))};

h[c1_, inc_] = eigenequilf;

eigenexp and eigenequil are some very large mathematica outputs. Since I am subbing in the same parameter values into both these functions I would prefer to have these values only in one line of code, so I don't have to edit both lines when I change things around. Suggestions?

A: In Mathematica everything is an expression.
subs = {mu -> 0.01, bet -> 0.001, d -> 0.1, m -> 0.3, alph -> 0.4, fc1 -> (c1/(c1 + 8)), fc2 -> ((c1 + inc)/(c1 + inc + 8))};

enteeigenexpf = eigenexp /. subs;

etc.

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Q: Orbit vs. Cycle Can someone explain to me the difference between an orbit and a cycle?

A: An orbit is a set, a cycle is a permutation of a set (which permutes its elements cyclically)

A: Reference: Jamie Mulholland http://www.sfu.ca/~jtmulhol/math302/notes/302notes.pdf
p. 25: Definition of n-cycle = cycle of order n.

p. 253-254: Definition of orbit.

A: Mariano Suárez-Alvarez already pointed out their difference, they are simply of different type, one is a set, the other one describes a permutation. But regarding your comment, and as nobody else said here, we have a close connection between cycles and orbits; maybe there is where your confusion comes from.
If we have a permutation $\sigma \in S_X$, then this is a cycle of length $k$ if there exists some set $S = \{ s_1, \ldots, s_k \} \subseteq X$ of size $k$ such that $\sigma(s_i) = s_{i+1}$ and $\sigma(s) = s$ for $s \in X \setminus S$. On the other side, given a group acting on some set $X$, then the orbit of some $\alpha \in X$ is
$$
 \alpha^G := \{ \alpha^g : g \in G \}
$$
i.e. the set of points from $X$ the point $\alpha$ is mapped on by $G$; orbits could also be defined with respect to subgroups $H \le G$, then $\alpha^H := \{\alpha^h : h \in H \}$.
If we have some $g \in G$, then we can consider the orbits of the subgroup $\langle g \rangle = \{ g^i : i \in \mathbb N \}$ generated by $g$,
$$
 \alpha^{\langle g \rangle} = \{ \alpha^{g^i} : i \in \mathbb N \}
$$
which corresponds to applying $g$ many times, for each $\alpha \in X$. And these orbits correspond to the cycle decomposition if we view $g$ as an element from $S_X$ (faithful group actions could be identified with subgroups of $S_X$). If $\langle g \rangle$ has just a single orbit, then it induces a cycle in $S_X$, conversely every cycle in $S_X$ corresponds to an element with just a single non-trivial orbit (where a trivial orbit is an orbit containing just one element, i.e. which is fixed), if we view that element as acting on $X$ in the way described above. We see that the orbit is the set $S$ in the definition of a cycle.
This little observation is often used without mentioning, some consequences are for example that if we have some $g \in G$, where $G$ acts on $X$ (or equivalently some $\sigma_g \in S_X$), then the cycle length's in its induced permutation on $X$ have length dividing the order of $g$, and hence $|G|$. This follows by basic theorems about group actions, in this case that the orbit lengths divide the index of the point stabilizer (orbit-stabilizer theorem), i.e. if $H = \langle g \rangle$
$$
 |\alpha^H| = |H : H_{\alpha}|
$$
where $H_{\alpha} = \{ h \in H: \alpha^h = \alpha \}$ is called the point stabilizer. Hence it divides $|H|$, the order of $g$.
On Wikipedia:Cyclic permutation there is also a good description, also check out group actions, as said there is a close connection. Hope this helps!


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