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All posts by Ian Hancock
Retro Review: Frozen
by Ian Hancock on December 8, 2019
With Frozen II warming the hearts of children everywhere, it's the perfect time to reflect on the film that started it all. Is Frozen as good as we remember?
Retro Review: The Addams Family (1991)
by Ian Hancock on October 23, 2019
The original Addams Family show first aired in 1964. Decades later, the Halloween favorite still carried enough clout to warrant its own movie, and the 1991 film was born. Posing as Gomez Addams' long-lost brother fester, Gordon works with his mother [...]
Retro Review: Zombieland
Following the unforgettable events of September 11, 2001, zombie-centered films surged in popularity. Scholars have speculated that their rise to cinematic prominence during the decade that followed represented a shift in Western consciousness. Namely, a [...]
Retro Review: Saving Private Ryan
by Ian Hancock on June 30, 2019
Saving Private Ryan is one of the more popular WWII films to come out of the late 20th century. Since I hadn't seen it yet (why yes, I do live under a rock), I was looking forward to finally getting around to watching it, since I had heard almost nothing [...]
Retro Review: Captain America: The First Avenger
by Ian Hancock on May 7, 2019
A new army recruit during WWII is infused with a serum to turn him into a super soldier. Soon after, he finds himself battling the Nazi weapons division Hydra and its leader, Red Skull.
Retro Review: How to Train Your Dragon
by Ian Hancock on March 20, 2019
Distributor: Paramount Pictures Directors: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders Writers: William Davies, Dean DeBlois Starring: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Christopher Mintz-Plasse Genre: Family, Fantasy, Animation Rated: PG-13 In January 2010, the visual effects [...]
Review: Unbreakable
by Ian Hancock on February 4, 2019
Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures Director: M. Night Shyamalan Writer: M. Night Shyamalan Starring: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright Rated: PG-13 The 90s and early 2000s were a far less forgiving time for superhero stories and geek culture in [...]
Retro Review: Boiler Room
Distributor: New Line Cinema Director: Ben Younger Writer: Ben Younger Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long Rated: R Initially conceived after director Ben Younger had a job interview at a real-life brokerage, Boiler Room draws a hefty amount [...]
Retro Review: The Gift
Distributor: STX Entertainment Director: Joel Edgerton Writer: Joel Edgerton Starring: Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton Rated: R Genre: Horror After moving back to the husband's old stomping grounds, a couple from Chicago runs into an old [...]
Retro Review: Cry Freedom
by Ian Hancock on October 2, 2018
Distributor: Universal Pictures Director: Richard Attenborough Writers: John Briley; Based on the novel by Donald Woods Starring: Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline, Josette Simon Rated: PG Set in South Africa during the Apartheid regime of the 1970s, Cry [...]
Retro Review: 10,000 B.C.
by Ian Hancock on August 14, 2018
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures Director: Roland Emmerich Writers: Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser Starring: Camilla Belle, Steven Strait, Marco Khan Rated: PG-13 I once saw Roland Emmerich described as "The Michael Bay of the '90s and early [...]
Retro Review: Finding Nemo
by Ian Hancock on July 5, 2018
Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures Director: Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich Writers: Andrew Stanton Starring: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alex Gould Rated: G In 1994, a lunch conversation between John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Joe Ranft, and Peter [...]
Retro Review: The Incredibles
Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures Director: Brad Bird Writer: Brad Bird Starring: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee Rated: PG Like many of the films born during Pixar's heyday in the early 2000s, The Incredibles took a [...]
Retro Review: Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace
by Ian Hancock on June 7, 2018
Distributor: 20th Century Fox Director: George Lucas Writers: George Lucas Starring: Ewan MacGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman Rated: PG The year 1999 marked the beginning of one of the most reviled film sagas of all: the Star Wars prequel trilogy. [...]
Retro Review: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
by Ian Hancock on May 17, 2018
Distributor: 20th Century Fox Director: Richard Marquand Writers: Lawrence Kasdan & George Lucas Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher Rated: PG In the original trilogy's closing act, it's the Rebels' turn to take the [...]


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Data and computer security
Offshore Leaks app puts secret users of tax havens in the public eye
Interactive database forming part of a cache of 2.5m leaked files has been launched by Washington-based ICIJ
David Cameron will be placing the issue of tax avoidance at the centre of the forthcoming G8 summit in Northern Ireland. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Ben Quinn
@BenQuinn75
Fri 14 Jun 2013 22.00 EDT
An interactive database allowing users to search more than 100,000 secret companies, trusts and funds created in offshore tax havens including the British Virgin Islands has gone online.
The data, part of a cache of 2.5m leaked files that has already led to a series of exposes of the offshore financial sector by the Guardian and other global media organisations, has been launched by the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
The ICIJ, a non-profit organisation that has analysed the files with more than 100 journalists in dozens of countries and is continuing to do so, hopes the Offshore Leaks web app will trigger further investigations and revelations by making the information more widely available.
The records have already laid bare a diverse collection of people using offshore hideaways, ranging from US dentists and middle-class Greek villagers to families of despots, Wall Street swindlers, Russian executives, international arms dealers and a company alleged to be a front for Iran's nuclear development programme.
Fallout from the revelations has led to high-profile political and business resignations, including those of the deputy speaker of the Mongolian parliament and the chief executive of one of Austria's biggest banks, and sparked official investigations in states including the Philippines, India, Greece and South Korea.
The disclosures have helped to push the issue of tax avoidance up the political agenda. Placing the issue at the centre of the forthcoming G8 summit in Northern Ireland, David Cameron has spoken of wanting the G8 to "knock down the walls of company secrecy" to reveal who really owns and controls firms.
French president François Hollande has also weighed in, calling for the "eradication" of tax havens, days after the ICIJ's release of dozens of stories based on the secret offshore files. Hollande suffered embarrassment when the records revealed that Jean-Jacques Augier, his election campaign co-treasurer and close friend, had invested in offshore businesses in the Cayman Islands.
The Offshore Leaks app, developed by La Nación newspaper in Costa Rica for the ICIJ, allows users to explore the relationships between clients, offshore entities and the lawyers, accountants, banks and other intermediaries who help keep these arrangements secret.
It displays graphic visualisations of offshore entities and the networks around them including, where possible, the company's true owners.
"After 17 months of reporting, ICIJ reporters and partners are still digging into this massive trove of financial information," the ICIJ said.
"The Offshore Leaks database gives ICIJ an opportunity to reach journalists and regular citizens in every corner of the world, particularly in countries most affected by corruption and backroom deals. ICIJ believes many of the best stories may come from crowdsourcing, when readers explore the database."
Founded in 1997, the ICIJ is a global network of 160 reporters in more than 60 countries. It was launched as a project of the Center for Public Integrity, a US-based nonprofit investigative journalism organization.

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UFOs and aliens are real, say half of polled British Columbians and Albertans
Nearly half of British Columbians and Albertans believe in UFOs and aliens, according to a new survey aiming to uncover the truth about the conspiracies we believe.
New survey suggests B.C. believes in JFK assassination conspiracy, while Alberta questions global warming
Daybreak South · CBC News · Posted: Mar 31, 2015 5:50 PM PT | Last Updated: April 1, 2015
Nearly half of British Columbians and Albertans believe in UFOs and aliens, according to a new survey aiming to uncover the truth about the conspiracies we believe. (Shutterstock)
Nearly half of polled British Columbians believe in UFOs and aliens, yet when it comes to the province's legendary monsters, only about one in six believe the Ogopogo exists.
The results are part of a recent Insights West poll that asked British Columbians and Albertans about popular conspiracy theories.
According to the survey, a similar percentage of British Columbians and Albertans believe in UFOs, and that the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963 was a conspiracy.
But a higher percentage of polled Albertans than British Columbians believed they are being deceived about global warming and about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997.
"There's always this sense of something that cannot be explained easily," said Insights West's Mario Canseco in an interview with Daybreak South.
"When you have a situation where the government or the authority is essentially telling you, 'This is how we saw it happened,' — there seems to be this human nature that tells us there's something more to it.
"There has to be a reason that's even deeper and darker than what we are told happened."
Other survey results include 32 per cent of British Columbians believing government or pharmaceutical companies are withholding a cure for cancer, and 19 per cent believing 9/11 was a U.S.-government conspiracy.
According to the poll, very few British Columbians believe that Osama Bin Laden and Elvis are still alive, or that dinosaurs never existed, or that the lunar landings were a hoax.
The poll surveyed 801 British Columbians and 508 Albertans between Mar. 24 and 29. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points for B.C., and plus or minus 4.3 percentage points for Alberta.
To hear the full interview with Mario Canseco, listen to the audio labelled: Many British Columbians believe UFOs are real
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import os
import urllib2
from urlparse import urlparse
from cStringIO import StringIO
from PIL import Image
import markdown
import datetime
from time import strftime
from hashlib import md5
import uuid

from django.db import models
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
from django.template.defaultfilters import slugify
from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode, smart_str
from django.conf import settings

from django.core.urlresolvers import get_script_prefix
from django.utils.encoding import iri_to_uri

from .managers import TopicManager, EntryManager
from .utils import create_thumbnail, guid_generator

CONTENT_FORMAT_CHOICES = ((u'markdown', u'Markdown'), (u'html', u'Raw HTML'),)
IS_ACTIVE_CHOICES = ((True, 'Published'), (False, 'Draft'))
CAN_SUBMIT_CHOICES = ((True, 'Everyone'), (False, 'Only users I allow.'))
IS_PUBLIC_CHOICES = ((True, 'Everyone'), (False, 'No one'))

def upload_topic(instance, filename):
	user_guid = guid_generator(instance.user.id)
	return 'user_uploads/%s/topics/%s' % (user_guid, filename)

def upload_topic_thumb(instance, filename):
	user_guid = guid_generator(instance.user.id)
	return 'user_uploads/%s/topics/thumbnails/%s' % (user_guid, filename)

def media_original(instance, filename):
	user_guid = guid_generator(instance.user.id)
	return 'user_uploads/%s/media/%s' % (user_guid, filename)

def media_thumb(instance, filename):
	user_guid = guid_generator(instance.user.id)
	return 'user_uploads/%s/media/thumbnails/%s' % (user_guid, filename)

class Topic(models.Model):
	title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
	slug = models.SlugField(max_length=255, unique=True)
	description = models.TextField(max_length=1020)
	pub_date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
	user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, related_name='owner')
	members = models.ManyToManyField(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, db_table='r_Topic_Members', blank=True, related_name='topics', related_query_name='topic')
	is_public = models.BooleanField(help_text=_("Can everyone see this Topic?"), choices=IS_PUBLIC_CHOICES, default=True)
	image = models.ImageField(upload_to=upload_topic, blank=True)
	thumbnail = models.ImageField(upload_to=upload_topic_thumb, blank=True)
	guid = models.CharField(max_length=32, unique=True)

	objects = TopicManager()

	class Meta:
		db_table = 'r_Topic'
		verbose_name_plural = 'topics'
		ordering = ['-title']
		get_latest_by = 'pub_date'

	def __unicode__(self):
		return "%s" % (self.title,)

	def entry_count(self):
		entry_total = Entry.objects.filter(topic=self).count()
		return entry_total

	def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
		if self.image and not self.thumbnail:
			create_thumbnail(self.image)
		if not self.id:
			self.slug = slugify(self.title)
			#GUID Generation
			guid_base = str(uuid.uuid4())
			guid_encoded = guid_base.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
			guid = md5(guid_encoded).hexdigest()[:16]
			self.guid = guid
		super(Topic, self).save(*args, **kwargs)

class Media(models.Model):
	title = models.CharField(max_length=510)
	pub_date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
	description = models.CharField(max_length=510, blank=True)
	url = models.URLField(blank=True)
	image = models.ImageField(upload_to=media_original, blank=True, null=True)
	thumbnail = models.ImageField(upload_to=media_thumb, blank=True, null=True)
	user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)
	guid = models.CharField(max_length=32, unique=True)

	class Meta:
		db_table = 'r_Media'
		verbose_name_plural = 'Media'

	def __unicode__(self):
		return self.title

	def get_absolute_url(self):
		if self.image:
			return "%s" % (self.image.url)
		else:
			return "%s" % (self.url)

	def save(self):
		if self.image:
			create_thumbnail(self)
		if not self.id:
			guid_base = str(uuid.uuid4())
			guid_encoded = guid_base.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
			guid = md5(guid_encoded).hexdigest()[:16]
			self.guid = guid
		super(Media, self).save()

class EntryType(models.Model):
	title = models.CharField(max_length=510)
	slug = models.SlugField(max_length=510, unique=True)
	guid = models.CharField(max_length=32, unique=True)
	user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)

	class Meta:
		db_table = 'r_EntryType'
		verbose_name_plural = 'Entry Types'
		ordering = ('-title',)

	def __unicode__(self):
		return self.title

	def entry_count(self):
		entry_total = Entry.objects.filter(post_type=self).count()
		return entry_total

	def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
		if not self.guid:
			#GUID Generation
			guid_base = str(uuid.uuid4())
			guid_encoded = guid_base.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
			guid = md5(guid_encoded).hexdigest()[:16]
			self.guid = guid
		super(EntryType, self).save(*args, **kwargs)

class Entry(models.Model):
	title = models.CharField(max_length=510)
	slug = models.SlugField(max_length=510, unique_for_date='pub_date')
	url = models.CharField(max_length=255, blank=True)
	user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)
	topic = models.ManyToManyField(Topic, db_table='r_Entry_Topics', blank=True)
	pub_date = models.DateTimeField(verbose_name=_("Publication date"), default=datetime.datetime.now)
	is_active = models.BooleanField(help_text=_("This should be checked for live entries"), choices=IS_ACTIVE_CHOICES, default=False)
	post_type = models.ForeignKey(EntryType, blank=True, null=True, default=1)
	content_format = models.CharField(choices=CONTENT_FORMAT_CHOICES, max_length=25, default='markdown')
	deck = models.TextField(_('deck'), blank=True)
	deck_html = models.TextField(blank=True)
	body = models.TextField(_('body'))
	body_html = models.TextField()
	image = models.ForeignKey(Media, blank=True, null=True)
	guid = models.CharField(max_length=32, unique=True)

	objects = EntryManager()

	class Meta:
		db_table = 'r_Entry'
		verbose_name_plural = 'entries'
		ordering = ('-pub_date',)
		get_latest_by = 'pub_date'
		unique_together = (('slug','user'),)

	def __unicode__(self):
		return self.title

	def Create_Draft(self):
		DraftInstance = Draft(
			entry=self,
			title=self.title,
			slug=self.slug,
			user=self.user,
			deck=self.deck,
			deck_html=self.deck_html,
			body=self.body,
			body_html=self.body_html,
			content_format=self.content_format
		)
		DraftInstance.save()
		return DraftInstance

	def get_absolute_url(self):
		if self.post_type.slug == 'page':
			return iri_to_uri(get_script_prefix().rstrip('/') + self.url)
		else:
			return "/%s/%s/" % (self.pub_date.strftime("%Y/%m").lower(), self.slug)

	def is_published(self):
		return self.is_active and self.pub_date <= datetime.datetime.now()
	is_published.boolean = True

	def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
		if self.id:
			self.Create_Draft()
		if not self.body:
			self.body = 'No text entered.'
			self.body_html = 'No text entered.'
		if not self.guid:
			#GUID Generation
			guid_base = "%s-%s-%s" % (self.user, self.pub_date, self.title)
			guid_encoded = guid_base.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
			guid = md5(guid_encoded).hexdigest()[:16]
			self.guid = guid
		if not self.pub_date:
			self.pub_date = datetime.datetime.now
		if self.content_format == u'markdown':
			self.deck_html = markdown.markdown(smart_unicode(self.deck))
			self.body_html = markdown.markdown(smart_unicode(self.body))
		else:
			self.body_html = self.body
			self.deck_html = self.deck
		if not self.title:
			self.title = guid
			self.slug = slugify(guid)
		self.slug = slugify(self.title)
		super(Entry, self).save(*args, **kwargs)

class Draft(models.Model):
	entry = models.ForeignKey(Entry)
	title = models.CharField(max_length=510, default='Untitled')
	last_edit = models.DateTimeField(verbose_name=_("Edit Date"), help_text=_("Last time draft was saved."), default=datetime.datetime.now)
	slug = models.SlugField(max_length=300, unique_for_date='pub_date')
	content_format = models.CharField(choices=CONTENT_FORMAT_CHOICES, max_length=25, default='markdown')
	deck = models.TextField(_('summary'), blank=True)
	deck_html = models.TextField(blank=True)
	body = models.TextField(_('body'))
	body_html = models.TextField()
	user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)
	guid = models.CharField(max_length=32, unique=True)

	class Meta:
		db_table = 'r_Draft'
		verbose_name_plural = 'drafts'
		ordering = ('-title',)
		get_latest_by = 'last_edit'

	def __unicode__(self):
		return self.title

	def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
		if not self.guid:
			#GUID Generation
			guid_base = "%s-%s-%s" % (str(uuid.uuid4()), self.user, self.last_edit)
			guid_encoded = guid_base.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
			guid = md5(guid_encoded).hexdigest()[:16]
			self.guid = guid

		if self.content_format == u'markdown':
			self.deck_html = markdown.markdown(smart_unicode(self.deck))
			self.body_html = markdown.markdown(smart_unicode(self.body))
		else:
			self.deck_html = self.deck
			self.body_html = self.body

		super(Draft, self).save(*args, **kwargs)

class ReadMore(models.Model):
	entry = models.ForeignKey(Entry)
	guid = models.CharField(max_length=32, unique=True)
	user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)
	pub_date = models.DateTimeField(verbose_name=_("Date Submitted"), default=datetime.datetime.now)
	url = models.URLField(max_length=255)
	title = models.CharField(max_length=510, default='Untitled')
	summary = models.TextField(_('summary'), blank=True)
	summary_html = models.TextField(blank=True)

	class Meta:
		db_table = 'r_ReadMore'
		verbose_name_plural = 'Entry Links'
		ordering = ('-title',)

	def __unicode__(self):
		return self.title

	def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
		if not self.guid:
			#GUID Generation
			guid_base = str(uuid.uuid4())
			guid_encoded = guid_base.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
			guid = md5(guid_encoded).hexdigest()[:16]
			self.guid = guid

		self.summary_html = markdown.markdown(smart_unicode(self.summary))
		super(ReadMore, self).save(*args, **kwargs)

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Citation: Swan AM, Aye ZN, Aung T, et al. New insight and methadology of long lasting successful reduction in overweight and obesity in USA. Arch Gen Intern Med. 2018;2(1):16-19.
With regards to overweight and obesity, either in childhood or adulthood patients, it seems to me that almost all dietary guidelines, recommendations, and techniques are not adequately helpful in the weight loss battle. It is also apparent that all dietitians, weight loss specialists, and doctors are facing a high failure rate in their patients' weight loss management programs. Therefore, it is no wonder that after ten years of trying to follow these particular guidelines and recommendations, the outcomes proved to be unsuccessful. I believe that a new mindset needs to be tested against the traditional philosophy and methods. After ten years of following the current guidelines and trends of weight loss in my own practice, I witnessed dismal results myself in trying to assist patients in their weight loss goals. As a result, I gave up all my efforts based on the traditional guidelines 20 years ago. Since then, I conducted personal studies about weight control techniques for healthy weight loss and weight gain and also unhealthy weight loss and weight gain. I made my postulations and later tested them against my hypothesis. I was astonished to achieve the substantial results of a 99.9 percent success rate in weight control. This is hard to believe since it occurred against the shared beliefs and theories. In place of that, I am planning to publish the findings of the last 20 years of my private research very soon.
Obesity is a common and preventable disease of clinical and public health importance . It is often a significant risk factor for the development of several non-communicable diseases, significant disability and premature death . The obesity prevalence in the United States has increased significantly during the last few decades according to Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports (cite2). Obesity has become a leading risk factor for many adverse health outcomes including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, coronary heart disease, and certain types of cancer . Moreover, the Standard American Diet (SAD) has long been implicated in contributing to the health challenges experienced in the US . Consequently, significant changes to the SAD have occurred since the 1950s, including a higher abundance and accessibility to calorie-dense and nutrient-poor food and beverage choices . The typical SAD is high on processed junk food, meat, fat, dairy, refined sugars, and sodium intake.
Obesity is defined as a condition of abnormal or excessive fat accumulation in adipose tissue, to the extent that health is impaired . Center for Disease Control (CDC) describes obesity or overweight as a weight that is higher than what is considered as a healthy weight for a given height. The body mass index (BMI) is the metric currently in use for defining anthropometric height/weight characteristics in adults and for classifying them into low risk or healthy and high risk or unhealthy groups . It is also widely used as a risk factor for the development of or the prevalence of several health issues . Generally, an adult who has a BMI of 25-29.9 is considered overweight, and an adult who has a BMI over 30 is considered obese. A BMI of 18.5-24.9 is considered normal weight. Current evidence indicates there is a wide range of BMIs over which mortality risk is modest, and this is age related .
Weight reduction and maintenance approaches include lifestyle changes, exercise, dietary and behavioral therapy, pharmacological interventions, and surgery. Although physical exercise has been encouraged by most authorities, it may increase the risk of injury and fall, especially in the elderly population. Also, most pharmacological and surgical interventions have higher cost and adverse events with similar failure rates to other approaches in the long run.
Thus, we focus on the dietary approach which is more feasible and applicable to almost everyone. Many have tried a myriad of modifications to the components of food or the type of energy source to achieve targeted weight. Among the weight loss diets, low carbohydrate diets or low-carb diets such as Atkins diet and Dukan diet are popular and scientifically proven to be useful for obese and overweight individuals [6,7]. Energy-restricted very low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet (VLCKD) is by far seems to be the most effective approach to weight reduction [8-11]. Hundreds of patients have achieved their target weight within a short period safely and able to maintain their weight for the long term as well. Here, we would like to present four notable cases treated at our outpatient clinic who have been benefited from VLCKD.
The first patient, denoted as Patient A, is a 60 years old, African American man who used to weigh over 400 pounds at the height of 65 inches which makes the BMI of more than 60 when he first visited our clinic before 2000. He has metabolic syndrome, ischemic heart disease and arrhythmia with intracardiac defibrillator since 2009. He developed renal failure lately and was dependent on hemodialysis since September 2015 . In addition to standard comprehensive care, we encouraged him to use the very low-carbohydrate diet . Then, his weight plummeted at the beginning months to over 300 pounds, then gradually declined below 300 during the following years. See Figures 1a, b and 2a, b.
Figure 1a. Changes in weight of Patient A from the first visit throughout follow-up.
Figure 1b. Changes in BMI of Patient A from the first visit throughout follow-up.
Figure 2a. Changes of weight in Patient B, C, and D between 2014 and 2017.
Figure 2b. BMI changes of Patient B, C, and D between 2014 and 2017.
Patient B is a 63 years old African American woman with a past medical history of hypertension, borderline diabetes, hemodialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease, hypothyroidism and mild schizophrenia. She is 62 inches tall and had a BMI of more than 40 but dwindled to near 30 within the last three years.
Patient C is a 59 years old Asian male with past medical history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and end-stage renal disease dependent on hemodialysis . He is 70 inches tall and had BMI over 30 when he first visited our clinic five years ago. Then, he was able to achieve weight loss in the subsequent years and gently approached a healthy BMI in the last three years.
Patient D is a 54 years old Hispanic American male with past medical history of diabetes mellitus, ESRD, CAD with coronary stents, hyperlipidemia, peripheral vascular disease, carotid artery stenosis, restrictive lung disease, obstructive sleep apnea and Chronic Kidney Disease. It should be noted that Patient D was given regular corticotropin (ACTH) injection since early 2015, but, he was able to control the weight throughout the follow-up.
Our fat-loss diet is a very low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet (VLCKD)  with some minor variations on the macronutrient composition from other popular low-carb ketogenic diets such as Atkins diet and Dukan diet . This new diet consists of consuming all kinds of beans, white meat (such as chicken breast), fish, salad, and vegetables. If the food is to be fried, only olive oil is allowed to be used. Black coffee is permitted in the morning and the afternoon. It is imperative to avoid fruit, juice, soda, dairy products, chicken leg and wings, complex carbohydrates (such as rice, pasta, potatoes, bread), processed foods and red meat. We advise the patient to practice on two steps. The first step can be described as an intensive or critical phase which includes restriction of carbohydrate to zero or minimal for the first three months. The calorie intake is also recommended to be less than 1000 kilocalories per day. We do not recommend physical exercise and activity during the intensive phase. When the target BMI or more than 20% of weight loss is achieved, we reintroduce the carbohydrate gradually and the calorie intake to keep around 1000 kcal/day depending on the energy expenditure of the individual. Although the diet can be applied to the majority of patients with overweight or obesity, we discourage to use on patients with inborn errors of metabolism, particularly on urea cycle . We screened patients by observing baseline metabolic profile including serum ammonia and acidity before the diet is introduced. We also exclude patients using sulfonylurea and insulin which may counteract the glycogenolysis and ketogenesis created by our dietary approach.
We educated the patients about the benefits of following the diet we suggest, and the overall advantages in health that he/ she will gain when lifestyle modifications are taken into place. Then, we proposed the specific types of macronutrients with little to zero carbohydrates and the calorie amount to consume per day. However, the choice is considerably broad and flexible so that patient of any cultural and ethnic background can follow. We followed up the patients weekly and monitored weight during the first three months and then monthly interval to encourage weight maintenance. Only a few of our patients reported minor complications such as changes in bowel habit mainly constipation, headache and occasional weakness and those conditions were easily managed accordingly with other drugs and supplements.
If patients implement a healthier lifestyle at home, many obesity issues could be avoided. The major challenge of weight reduction is the maintenance of weight rather than achieving a target weight loss. The behavioral change and the adherence to the diet are quintessential for the successful weight reduction and maintenance. All of our cases presented here are older adults and elderly with several comorbidities which make them unfeasible to other weight loss strategies such as physical exercise and bariatric surgery. Nevertheless, the patients have proved a significant weight loss and maintenance on the very low-carbohydrate diet with or without drug therapy such as liraglutide over the course of three years follow-up. Despite all the comorbid diseases and complications, our patients appear to live longer with fewer complications. A larger scale study for the long-term benefit of very-low-carbohydrate diet and head to head comparison studies with other dietary approaches are recommended to handle the emerging outbreak of overweight and obesity.
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Posted by Ruth Conway on February 14, 2020 in Reviews
What Really Happened at the Yellow House in Arles in 1888 – a lecture by Julian Halsby
Julian opened his lecture by comparing the very short time scale covered by his talk to the usual lectures which will cover decades – if not centuries!
He told us that there are many theories about what happened in Arles in 1888 between Gaugin and Van Gogh, but that the theory he will be putting forward may be quite controversial.
Julian told us how different in character the two artists were; Gaugin very confident
contrasted to Van Gogh who had a very insecure childhood shown below in Hatrick's portrait of Van Gogh in 1887.
Gaugin's grandmother was an early feminist and when he was a young boy Gaugin's parents took him with them to live in Peru. They returned to Paris when he was 7. As a young man he joined the navy and saw much of the world before returning to take up work as a stockbroker. He was happily married to a Danish lady and started to collect impressionist paintings before deciding to paint himself. In the recession of 1881 he lost his job and decided to paint full time. This did not earn him enough to support a family and his wife decided to go back to Denmark with the children.
Gaugin joined an artist community at the Pension Gloanec in Pont Aven in Brittany where he became the centre of the commune.
One of his paintings from that period is 'Breton Girls Dancing' which he painted in 1888
By the time Gaugin goes to Arles he is well known. His paintings were full of Symbolism like the paintings of Klimt – painting from dreams, painting from imagination,which is shown in his painting 'Vision After the Sermon' (1888) where we see again the Breton ladies but in a fantasy setting
Meanwhile Van Gogh had been sacked from the family business for being too argumentative . They sent him to England to work as an art dealer but whilst he was there he took up art teaching. He had no idea what he was to do in the future and his brother Theo invited him to Paris where he met Toulouse Lautrec . He stayed in Paris for 18 months and as a result of seeing the work of the impressionists his work changed and became lighter and gentler.
Nobody really knows why Van Gogh went to Arles but at the beginning it was the happiest time for him but not necessarily the time when he did the best painting. To begin with he stayed at the Hotel Carrel where he did many paintings.
Van Gogh was a very fast painter- often completing a painting in a day, paintings full of light and happiness as in 'The Bridge at Langlois"
Then he discovers the Yellow House and makes this drawing
It was an uncomfortable house with no bathroom but it was the first house he had owned.
and his painting of his bedroom is one of his most famous
He invites Gaugin to join him and he arrived on October 23rd. 1888.
To begin with things went well but Gaugin tried to change the way Van Gogh painted. Julian showed us two paintings of the same scene one by Van Gogh and one by Gaugin to illustrate the difference in styles of the two artists.
VanGogh painting what he sees
whilst Gaugin painted what he wanted to be there
Van Gogh then begins to be influenced by Gaugin
About two months after his arrival Gaugin writes to Theo (Van Gogh's brother ) that although he respects van Gogh's intelligence he can no longer stay with him as for three days they had argued and argued. Gaugin books into a hotel . Van Gogh cuts off his own ear and sends it to a girl . Gaugin thinks that this action must have killed Van Gogh but he had gone to hospital and they had patched him up. At this point Van Gogh paints a self portrait with the bandaged ear.
The question asked is why did he cut off his ear""? Was it a cry for help? Theo is sent for and Gaugin goes back to Brittany feeling very guilty as is shown in his self portrait where he portrays himself as a devil
Van Gogh is moved to an asylum and though he said that Gaugin had no influence on him , the influence can certainly be seen in 'Starry Night' – more torrid and more introspective.
In 1890 Van Gogh moves back up north, which is a real disaster and the loneliness he felt can be seen in 'Wheat Fields'
Julian raised the question about Van Gogh's 'suicide ' Was it an accident? Where did he get a gun from? Why did he get a gun?. Most suicides shoot themselves in the head, but Van Gogh's was in his stomach and the small bullet hole suggests that the shot was from a distance. Was it an accident?
Theo died three years later and the brothers are both buried outside a graveyard..
When he left the yellow House he said 'the end of a dream had come'
So the intriguing and informative lecture ended with Julian leaving us to consider 'What Really happened at the Yellow House in Arles ?'
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Jul 11, 2019 Marty Qatani
Tags cartoon art, classic rock, fire and rain, flying machines, jamestaylor, music, music art, music blog, singer songwriter, song lyrics, songwriting, sweet baby james
James Taylor's classic song, "Fire and Rain" is a single from his second album, Sweet Baby James, released in February 1970. The song has long been misinterpreted however. Most people believe the song is about Taylor losing his girlfriend in a plane crash, on her way to one of his early shows as a surprise. In actuality, Suzanne was not his girlfriend, but a childhood friend who had committed suicide. That fact was verified by James Taylor himself, on the VH1 show, Storytellers, and in a 2005 interview with NPR. "Taylor said the second line "Suzanne the plans they made put an end to you" refers to Suzanne Schnerr, a childhood friend of his who committed suicide while he was in the UK recording his first album.
In that same VH1 Show, Taylor said he had been suffering from depression following the failure of hist band The Flying Machine to be successful, which led to the lyric "Sweet dreams and Flying Machines in pieces on the ground". This lyric however helped compound the erroneous conception that the entire song was about Suzanne Shneer, not only being his girlfriend, but about her dying in a plane crash as well.
The opening lyrics of the song, "Just yesterday mornin', they let me know you were gone" refers to the fact that several of James Taylor's friends, kept the news of Suzanne's suicide from him for six months, concerned that it might distract Taylor from his big break,
Towards the middle of the song Taylor is writing about his struggle to overcome drug addiction and depression. "Won't you look down upon me, Jesus. You've got to help me make a stand. You've just got to see me through another day. My body's aching and my time is at hand. I won't make it any other way"
In repsonse to Taylor's song, Carol King has stated that her song "You've Got A Friend", also recorded by Taylor, was a response to the line in the toward the end of the song "I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend."
So there you have it. What are your thoughts ? Do you know of any other songs that are misinterpreted like Fire and Rain ? Let me know, I'd welcome the opportunity to explore those as well. And finally, if you enjoyed this, please share with a friend.
Until next time, here's to Sunny Days that Never End.
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fire-and-rain/
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Charity Creek, a northern tributary of the Parramatta River, is a creek west of Sydney Harbour, located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It joins the Parramatta River at Meadowbank Park, Meadowbank.

Ecology
The source of the creek is in the suburb of West Ryde. The Charity Creek catchment area is .

The catchment is bounded by Victoria Road, Devlin Street, Blaxland Road, Marlow Avenue and the Main Northern railway line. The catchment boundary crosses the railway line just south of West Ryde railway station. The catchment is predominantly residential with some commercial development in the vicinity of Rhodes Street and Herbert Street. Most of the drainage system in the Charity Creek catchment consists of concrete pipes or boxed culverts. The creek is culverted down to Meadowbank Boys High School. Below this is a short reach of natural open channel to the railway line.  Downstream of the railway line the creek is a concrete lined channel. All the tributaries of Charity Creek are piped.

Charity Creek Cascades, named after the creek, is an interconnected series of council parks running from Top Ryde to West Ryde railway station.  The area covers approximately , and stretches from Shepherd Street to Linton Lane.

History
Charity Point, near Charity Creek, is attributed to William Bennet, an early settler who was both a farmer and South Sea trader. When his ships need repairing, a large number of south-sea islander crew camped on the shore. His kind treatment to them earned the names Charity Creek and Charity Headland.

Dinner Point, now called Charity Point, at the Meadowbank Memorial Park, is said to have acquired its name on 15 February 1788.  First Lieutenant William Bradley wrote:
At 1pm returned to the Boats and after dinner went in the smallest boat over the flats past a mangrove island.
Bradley then followed a creek so narrow that boat oars stuck their struck the sides until they were stopped by fallen trees.  Charity Point, once backed by a creek which has been filled in, was originally named Mur-ray-mah, perhaps meaning 'black bream', heard by the linguist Lieutenant William Dawes as karóoma (garuma).  Charity Point was also a popular fishing spot.  Kent, a nephew of Governor John Hunter, was first granted  on 12 May 1796.  He received a further grant in 1803, when his nephew William Kent Jnr obtained  in the district of Eastern Farms.  It was after the 1840s that the former orchards and farms of the Ryde area began to be subdivided and Charity Creek was filled in.

See also
 Smalls Creek, Meadowbank
 Archer Creek, Meadowbank

References

Creeks and canals of Sydney

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Adele has recorded her 'Skyfall' title song according to tabloids
12-Sep-2012 • Skyfall
British singer-songwriter Adele has recorded the title song to the upcoming James Bond film "Skyfall", according to tabloids.
In claims made by The Sun today, she visited Abbey Road studios earlier this month, where the soundtrack is being put together by composer Thomas Newman.
She first hinted that she'd been offered the 007 gig in a chat with Jonathan Ross last year.
Soon after that Adele started preliminary sessions with producer Paul Epworth.
A music editor on the film confirmed this week via Twitter that the credit sequence would feature a song with vocals, and not an instrumental a la "On Her Majesty's Secret Service".


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Daniela Hunger (Oost-Berlijn, 20 maart 1972) is een voormalig topzwemster uit Oost-Duitsland, die bij de Olympische Spelen van 1988 in Seoel twee gouden medailles won: op de 200 meter wisselslag en als lid van de DDR-estafetteploeg op de 4x100 meter vrije slag.

Hunger, lid van SC Dynamo Berlin, behaalde in de hoofdstad van Zuid-Korea daarnaast de bronzen medaille op de 400 meter wisselslag. Vier jaar later, na de Duitse Hereniging, won de veelzijdige zwemster eenmaal zilver en tweemaal brons bij de Olympische Spelen van 1992 in Barcelona .

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To the Hermitage by Malcolm Bradbury (2000)
To the Hermitage tells parallel tales of men who travelled to St Petersburg. Both are fictionalised versions of actual journeys.
One being that of Denis Diderot, the French philosopher, who visited his patron, and Empress of Russia, Catherine the Great, in 1773.
The other being the anonymous narrator of To the Hermitage, a version of Bradbury himself —English academic and author— making his way to St Petersburg as a member of a distinguished study group, the Diderot Project, in October 1993.
The very temporal settings speak of the novel's parallelism.
Russia then as now was in trouble, tugged as it ever has been between east and west.
To the Hermitage, chapter 21
Sir Malcolm Bradbury died 21 years ago this month. In the year 2000. The year that To the Hermitage was published. The year that Bradbury was knighted.
Bradbury (1932-2000) was one of those English cultural figures familiar from the post-war generation. All the best pictures in black and white, often from the 1970s, all leather jackets, sideburns, big ties, long-ish hair, smoking, state school boys, not Oxbridge, not establishment. Think John Thaw, Tom Courtenay, Alan Bennett. A decade or so after the 'angry young men' of the 1950s; a decade or so before Thatcherism.
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Think too of one of Russia in Fiction's favourite writers, David Lodge. About whom we note for now just two things — Lodge has not written about Russia in his fiction and so gets no place in this blog; and Lodge's body of work is thematically and to some extent stylistically similar to that of his great friend, Malcolm Bradbury.
Whether trend-setter, or merely on trend, Bradbury —like Lodge— for most of his career wrote novels about academic life and the socio-sexual mores of the class-riven and slowly emergent permissive society of provincial Britain.
Bradbury's best known novel, The History Man (1975), was dramatised in a BBC TV series of some renown in 1980.
To the Hermitage was a notable departure from what had gone before, in that at least half of it is historical rather than contemporary in its setting.
Around the same time, Lodge was writing his first historical novel, Author, Author (2004), based on the life of Henry James (1843-1916).
And whilst we are making connections and comparisons, Russia in Fiction will not neglect to link to our preceding review, of Red Plenty (2010) by Francis Spufford. There we discussed the definitional line between history and novel, and Spufford's opening assertion that 'This is not a novel', which he later expands on to explain that it is set in 'story Russia, not real Russia … it is not a history. It is not a novel. It is itself a fairytale'.
Bradbury's preface to To the Hermitage similarly begins
This is (I suppose) a story. It draws a great deal on history; but as history is the lies the present tells in order to make sense of the past I have improved it where necessary.
And the preface ends with similar distancing to that deployed by Spufford
And that explains how I came to write this … well, shall we call it a story?
Stylistically To the Hermitage is made up throughout of temporally alternating chapters, headed 'then' and 'now', and recording the travels to and St Petersburg-based experiences of, respectively, Denis Diderot and the author. As might be expected from an author of Bradbury's ability, the parallels are carefully incorporated. And they can very much be seen in a Russia-in-fiction light.
Diderot, the great encyclopaedist, was one of the enlightenment philosophers whom Catherine the Great (1729-1796) read and admired in the early years of her reign.
The Empress paid him a huge sum for his library, and Diderot was prevailed upon to travel to the court of Catherine the Great in St Petersburg.
The 'then' chapters of To the Hermitage are built around this journey and —in dialogue form— the daily meetings between Diderot and Russia's ruler; Diderot seeking to present to Catherine a pathway to building an enlightened Russia of emancipated serfs and unheard of freedoms; Catherine in her turn countering
'Yes, my dear dreamer. You know, there is just one difference between us. You're a philosopher, and work on paper, which is supple, obedient, does just what it's told. Where I, a poor empress, must work on human skin.'
Although Bradbury does not explicitly make the connection, one cannot help but think of what would befall Russia a century and a half later, when its rulers would seek to enact the thoughts of a progressive Western philosopher by the name of Karl Marx, only for the Russian people to find that ideas on paper have quite a different force when in practice pressed on human skin.
In their last meeting, Diderot protests to Catherine
'if you'd followed me, you would surely have created a great society, and made your nation the envy of all humankind'
To which the Empress responds
'Yes, and if I had listened to you thoughtlessly, every single institution in my empire would have been upturned. Monarchy, law, the church, the budget. The nation would have disintegrated, the borders would have collapsed'
Here the parallels of the 'then' chapters with the 'now' chapters are a little more apparent. The author's journey to St Petersburg, along with others involved in the Diderot Project, is undertaken on a Baltic ferry, from Stockholm via Helsinki, in October 1993. It is played out alongside daily reports on the collapsing Russian state, as President Yeltsin —'Tzar Boris' (Chapter 7)— is embroiled in an armed struggle with supporters of the Russian parliament.
Russia's parliament under attack by President Yeltsin' s forces , October 1993.
After decades of a Communist state attempting to enact Marxism, now it was almost literally the case that every single institution in the empire had been upturned, the ruling Communist Party was no more, lawlessness was the norm, the dominant ideology had been discredited, the country was bankrupt, the Soviet Union had disintegrated, and the borders had collapsed.
To the Hermitage is replete with descriptive gems, clever allusions, and philosophical nuance. Whilst dealing with grand themes, Bradbury has also, as ever, produced a richly comic novel.
Russophiles will find much to entrance, particularly relating to 18th century St Petersburg; the years when the Bronze Horseman statue of Peter the Great was raised onto the biggest monolith ever moved by humankind.
The Hermitage of the title features, appropriately, in both the 'then' and 'now', as —respectively— royal palace and great art gallery. Though the 'now' being the early 1990s, the greatness of the Hermitage's collection is diminishing piece by surreptitiously removed and sold off piece.
And for all the Russophilic richness of To the Hermitage, some of the most memorable scenes and descriptions are of the social mores and mannerisms of Sweden and Finland. (We have to confess that To the Hermitage caused Russia in Fiction's pandemic-boosted wanderlust to focus on a yearning to return to Helsinki just as much, perhaps even more, than to once again walk along the Nevsky Prospekt.)
A review of this length cannot hope to capture all the literary devices and skilful surprises that a novelist of Malcolm Bradbury's ability includes in what was perhaps his magnum opus. It is a shame that To the Hermitage is so little known, and too rarely discussed even in overviews of Bradbury's life and works. Wikipedia's Bradbury entry merely includes To the Hermitage on its listing of his publications, but says no more about it. (No doubt Denis Diderot's encylopaedia would have been more diligent). The Guardian's obituary of Bradbury likewise merely mentions To the Hermitage once in passing; which is one more time than does his obituary in The Telegraph.
We can speculate as to the reason behind this relative neglect. Perhaps the novel's departure from Bradbury's habitual settings and style saw him losing his usual audience? Perhaps the publication of To the Hermitage was overshadowed by the author's death in the same year?
Whatever the case, Russia in Fiction is glad to celebrate To the Hermitage as a work of erudition and entertainment that pulls off the rare feat of portraying in its fiction two Russias, two centuries apart.
18th century setting, 1990s setting, 2000s published
Alan BennettCatherine the GreatDavid LodgeDiderotFinlandFrancis SpuffordHelsinkiHenry JamesJohn ThawMalcom BradburyMarxismPeter the GreatSoviet collapseSt PetersburgSwedenTom CourtenayYeltsin
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford (2010)
The Visiting Professor by Robert Littell (1993)


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2023 Destinations
Greece: Birthplace of Democracy
London: Theatre Intensive
Denmark:Sustainable Scandinavia
London: Medicine in England
About BCA Global
The Birthplace of Democracy
Greece is the birthplace of Western Philosophy and democracy, its influence on Ancient Rome as well as modern nations is profound, thus making it the perfect destination for BCA's first humanities-based Global Studies program. As the origin of Western Civilization and thought, Greece provides an insight to many of the ideas and culture that are the foundation to American and Western European thought. Beyond the intrinsic values that Greece has bestowed, modern Greece recognizes and celebrates its heritage, with the juxtaposition of the two represented perfectly in the ancient and current capital of Athens. Students will experience sites such as the Parthenon that has stood upon the Acropolis for millennia while also being able to encounter and discover the modern Greek experience. Be it politics or theater, Greece's influence is significant. What can we learn from a country that has stood the test of time, overcame wars both ancient and modern, and continues to invite so many to study all that it has to offer?
Our Educational Partner: Pierce - The American College of Greece
Pierce' s high school program was founded in 1875 and offers high quality education to young people with a strong emphasis on English as a 1st foreign language taught. The academic program of Pierce is implemented by selected teaching staff in a climate of harmonious co-existence and mutual respect between students and teachers. The school has academic departments in line with the standards of the American education system.
From ancient monuments and medieval churches to world-class museums and high-end boutiques, it's hard to get bored in Athens. One of the main reasons to visit is to roam the Acropolis and Ancient Agora, exploring their stunning ruins, including the Parthenon, Erechtheion and the Temple of Hephaestus. We will also visit the exhibits housed at the National Archaeological Museum and the Acropolis Museum, as well as explore Plaka's historic streets.
We will be staying at the B4B AthensS Signature Hotel, a 4.5 star property currently listed as the #8 hotel in Athens on TripAdvisor.
Breakfast will be at your leisure in our hotel each morning, lunch (not included) will be on the run at markets or food courts, and dinners will be at some of Athen's most exciting restaurants!
After our non-stop flight to Athens, we will be using both school and charter buses as our primary means of transportation during the program. There will also be extensive walking during the program.
Flight Info:
Global Week #1: March 17 (evening flight)-March 24, 2023
Program Size
Total 24 students, 3 staff
Program Leader
Mr. Will Madden, wilmad@bergen.org


The purpose of the note is to look at the problem of biproportional matrix balancing when the upper bounds are imposed on the matrix elements. This problem can be formulated as a convex minimization problem. Using the Kuhn-Tucker optimality conditions the functional form of the resulting model is derived. The dual formulation of the problem is derived and it is shown how it can be solved by a cyclic coordinate descent method. This leads to the proposal of an efficient solution algorithm.
First draft! -- Subject to revision!
Please let me know of any errors and typos you find - thanks!
The purpose of this note is to analyze an extension of the standard biproportional matrix balancing (Murchland 1977), also referred to as ``Fratar'' (Lamond and Steward 1981), ``Furness method'' (Furness 1970), ``maximum entropy transportation model'' or ``maximum entropy spacial interaction model'' (Florian ...?), and referred to as ``two-dimensional matrix balancing'' in the EMME/2 transportation planning package (Spiess 1984, INRO 1996).
As in the standard two-dimensional balancing, a given matrix (containing synthetic friction factors or ``prior'' matrix data) is ``factored up'' to a fit a given set of productions and attractions. But in addition to satisfying the given productions and attractions, upper bounds are now imposed on the elements of the resulting matrix. Such bounds can be thought to represent transport capacities, but they can also be simply used to limit the growth of individual matrix elements with respect to the prior matrix.
In the next section we briefly introduce at the standard biproportional matrix balancing model and its optimization formulation as a maximum entropy model. In section 3 the extended model is formulated and analyzed. In section 4, finally, an efficient solution algorithm is formulated, which is based on the coordinate descent method applied to the dual problem.
subject to (2) and (3).
The standard biproportional matrix balancing model is know to be always feasible when and for all .
Problems which have for some O-D pairs can also be handled in this framework. But in this case, the O-D pairs with are not to be considered part of the set PQ and is used for these O-D pairs where necessary, e.g. where it appears in a sum over origins or destinations.
Note, however, that problems with for some O-D pairs are not always feasible. In this case, there is no easy method to determine the feasibility of a problem a priori, so that the primal feasibility of a solution found by a dual algorithm always has to be checked explicitly.
We now turn our attention to an extension of the model defined in the previous section in which explicit upper bounds are imposed on the resulting matrix elements . Since imposing upper bounds will have a direct impact on the functional form of the resulting model, it is not possible to formulate the extended model by simply adding a further constraint to problem (1)-(11).
Note that the above model formulation does no longer explicitly contain the dual variables .
Without loss of generality we can assume that for all , as matrix elements can always be forced to zero by setting (and removing the corresponding O-D pairs from the set PQ, as explained in section 2).
Note that, except for the non-negativity of , the dual problem is essentially unconstrained. For this type of problem the a simple method of successive coordinate descent is know to converge to the optimal solution (see e.g. Luenberger 1984). Thus, it can be used to solve the dual problem (18) and find the optimal values of the dual variables. If the primal problem (9) is feasible, the optimal values of the dual variables and can be inserted into (17) to find the optimal solution of the primal problem.
Solving (22) for will simultaneously satisfy the first order conditions (19) for origin p and (21) for all related to origin p. In the same manner solving (23) for will simultaneously satisfy the first order conditions (20) for destination q and (21) for all related to destination q.
are necessary conditions for feasibility, they are by no means sufficient.
The proposed solution algorithm can be classified as a coordinate descent method applied to the dual problem formulation. As it is based on iteratively solving equations (22) and (23), it actually does not optimize along dual coordinates one by one, but always satisfies the first order conditions simultaneously for all dual variables associated with either one origin or one destination, (which should result in an improved convergence compared to a one-by-one coordinate descent method).
Algorithm 1 describes the basic algorithm proposed to solve the biproportional matrix balancing problem with upper bounds (9). This algorithm assumes that equations of the type can be solved for x. How this can be done efficiently is shown further on in Algorithm 2.
Set for and set k:=1.
for variable by applying Algorithm 2.
otherwise set k:=k+1 and return to step 1.
If the maximum production constraint violation for all is smaller than some predefined tolerance value, i.e.
otherwise the primal problem is infeasible. STOP.
This type of problem occurs in step 1 of Algorithm 1 with i=q, , , and in step 3 with i=q, , . Without loss of generality we can assume that and for all . If there were any elements i with and/or , these can simply be dropped, since they do not influence the solution of (26) at all.
Sort the elements i in increasing order of ratios.
If this point is reached after having scanned all elements, then the problem is infeasible, STOP.
Set the solution to x=U/F and STOP.
So far, the above algorithms have only been implemented in a ``quick and dirty'' manner purely for testing purposes. In the few examples tested so far (all based on data taken from the standard EMME/2 Winnipeg data bank using 154 traffic zones), the algorithm has been found to converge quite rapidly (4-7 iterations) to the optimal solution. But of course, further tests are needed.
The methodology of introducing upper bounds is presented in this note only for the biproportional matrix balancing. However, it can most likely be applied directly to other related problems, such as the multi-proportional matrix balancing or Evans and Kirby's three-dimensional matrix balancing.
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Furness K.P. (1970) Time Function Interaction. Traffic Engineering and Control Vol 7, No 7, pp19-36.
INRO Consultants Inc. (1996), EMME/2 User's Manual.
Lamond B. and Stewart N.F. (1981) Bregman's Balancing Method. Transportation Research, Vol 15B, pp 239-248.
Luenberger D.G. (1984) Linear and Nonlinear Programming. Second Edition, Addison-Wesley.
Murchland J. (1977) The Multi-proportional Problem. Univerity College London, research note JDM 263.


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Spending more but commercializing less?
from the bang-for-the-buck dept.
An article in Red Herring dated July 12, 2002, Slow starts: Canada and Europe slouch toward nanotechnology blames the bureaucratic culture in Europe and in Canada for slowing efforts to commercialize nanotechnology, despite very sizeable public investments in nanotechnology research.
The article claims that an exodus of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and talented young researchers leaving Canada and Europe to go to the USA and Asia can be explained by a culture of risk-aversion, high taxes, over-regulation of new technologies, and an attitude that profits taint science. The article is short on numbers to buttress those claims, but quotes three sources familiar with nanotechnology in Canada and Europe: Dan Wayner, a nanotechnology specialist at the National Research Council in Ottawa; Tim Harper, executive director of the newly formed European NanoBusiness Association in Brussels, Belgium; Uri Sagman, president and CEO of the nanobiotech firm C Sixty and executive director of the Canadian NanoBusiness Alliance in Toronto.
As for European investment in nanotechnology, the June 24, 2002 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, on page 18, reports that the European Union "is investing some $700 million in nanotechnology as part of its 6th Research Framework Programme. European commissioners worry that, without EU measures, nanotechnology research in Europe will remain scattered, and the sector will not reach the break-even point. Among the areas that appear most promising to the EU are energy storage and distribution; detection, measurement, and testing; display technologies; bioanalysis and drug delivery; robotics; and prosthetics."
For more on Europe and nanotechnology commercialization, see Nanodot post of June 20, 2002.
Published July 24, 2002 By Foresight Editor
Categorized as Nanodot
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