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In many applications, 2D cameras are used to produce 3D imaging for general purpose inspections. There are numerous 3D inspection applications. Some of them include reverse engineering, electronics inspection, food inspection, auto parts inspection, and recreational simulation.
There are several ways to use 2D cameras for 3D inspections:
• Laser triangulation using a 2D camera with a laser and dedicated hardware;
• Stereoscopy using two 2D cameras;
• Interferometer using a 2D camera and several optical devices;
• Scanners using a 2D camera;
• 3D dedicated software using a grey level image to obtain 3D measurements.
In this article we will concentrate on one of the most used techniques — laser triangulation.
Laser triangulation often uses a laser line or laser pattern and a 2D camera mounted at an angle to produce a 3D vertical measurement obtained from a flat 2D image. How is this possible?
In Figure 1, the basic principle of optical triangulation is illustrated by a 2D image of a laser line being captured by a camera mounted at an angle. This technique gives a 3D representation of an object on a 2D image. Figure 2 shows how the camera visualizes the laser line with its two dimensional perspective.
What is 3D Calibration?
What is 3D calibration and how do we obtain real 3D measurements from a 2D image?
First we have to mention that a good calibration will not only produce accurate 3D measurements but also correct or compensate for many optical problems. Let's take a quick look at some of them.
The main optical problems in laser triangulation systems are lens issues, camera rotation and baseline correction.
Lens issues:
• Vignetting: The lens must be large enough to not vignette the image, that is, it should not block the edges of the image. Even if it is large enough, you may get some intensity decrease (also called vignette) at the edges of the image. The laser line also decreases towards the end, so we need to test the combination of lens and laser to make sure the intensity of the image is enough after vignetting and laser line decrease.
• Optical distortion: All lenses have some optical distortion which can sometimes be seen as making a straight line into a curved line in the image. Optical distortion generally increases with shorter focal lengths. For example, with a lens focal length of 8 mm, grid lines (horizontal and vertical) appear to curve outward in the center of the camera's image and be closer to the edges of the image, looking something like an old-fashioned wooden barrel's staves and bindings — so this is called "barrel distortion." C-mount lenses with focal lengths less than 25 mm generally have enough barrel distortion to cause depth measurement problems.
• Camera rotation: Even with good mechanical design, the camera's sensor will usually be slightly rotated from the laser line. For example, a horizontal laser line will appear to be tilted by a fraction of a degree in the image. This rotation comes from not being able to exactly align the laser and camera and not being able to exactly align the sensor within the camera body. The usual way to deal with rotation is to take an image of the "baseline" (the conveyer belt or whatever the 3D objects will rest on), compute the rotation of that line, and factor it out in the height measurements. So camera rotation correction is part of most 3D calibrations.
• Baseline correction: Let's say we have a conveyer belt with a 3D object on it. All 3D calibrations must take a measure of the baseline and subtract it (after accounting for laser to camera rotation) from the height measures. Some baselines, such as conveyer belts, will tend to vibrate slightly and this can change the apparent height. The cure for this problem is to always measure the baseline, so you should have your laser line view be wider than the 3D object, and then subtract the baseline height changes to remove the vibrations.
If we knew the exact distances and angles between the laser and the "baseline" (whatever the 3D object is resting on) and the laser and the camera's focal point, then calibration could be done by trigonometry. However, the camera's focal point is difficult to measure — it can be internal to the lens or behind the lens and, in addition, there are many other factors that confound calibration. Therefore, it is usually easier (and better) to calibrate using some calibrated standard heights rather than trying to measure the imaging geometry and compute out confounding factors.


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Written on: 22/07/2009
I have been on the special K diet for 2 weeks and have lost a stone and a half in weight,im very happy with the resuilt but i will say i have also been cycling 5 miles aday so i do believe that has helped me lose the weight,I would recomend the Kelloggs Kickstart diet but only to kick start you into losing weight… Read Full Review
Written on: 06/07/2009 by breakfastdiet (1 review written)
I started the Kellogg's Kickstart Special K diet this morning and am planning to stick to it religiously for the next 6 weeks. For the last 3 months I've been over indulging in chocolate, beer and fast food which has given me a fat face to say the least. I'm planning to keep a diary of my diet online to inspire others and more importantly keep me on track… Read Full Review
Written on: 17/06/2009 by samuel john (1 review written)
I have been taken kellog's special k for 3 days and i have found that it causes me to feel a lot dehydrated and tired!! so i have come to know that it only causes the body to lose its water content thereby giving you a pseudo feeling of being lighter and that is all.
Even the proof of it lies in the company's statements that you should stop taking it after 2 weeks.(Because if you take it for more than that you can be in serious condition of dehydration). So stop being getting fooled and better… Read Full Review
Written on: 12/06/2009
i liked it that you can lose weight with the help of Kellogg's Kickstart Special K as a balanced diet… Read Full Review
Written on: 07/06/2009 by GHJ12345 (1 review written)
i had done the kellogs diet and had lost only 3 pounds after 2 weeks, thereafter i ate a normal balanced diet and had put on half a stone within two days!!… Read Full Review
Written on: 12/05/2009
Started Kellogg's Kickstart Special K today. Had a bowl for breakfast, a lunch of sweet and sour chicken, few chips and Veg, and a bowl for tea. Just got hungry so had an apple. Feel skinnier already...WEIRD, gonna keep at it… Read Full Review
Written on: 29/04/2009
I am on the third day of Kellogg's Kickstart Special K and have lost 4 pounds already. I have been eating the normal one for breakfast and the bliss one for lunch. Only hard bit is when the housemates fill the house with delicious smelling food. Am going to stick at it though :)… Read Full Review
Written on: 21/04/2009 by halesowen (1 review written)
Ive been on the Kellogg's Kickstart Special K diet before and it works. I came off it for a break and im going on it again to lose hopfully a stone for my holiday in six weeks, ive been on this for two weeks now one bowl for breakfast and one bowl for dinner with semi skinned milk and anything i like for dinner. In two weeks ive lost 8lbs and dropped a jean size already! Once you get past the first week you feel slimmer healthier and more energetic. If you feel peckish in between bowls i eat… Read Full Review
Written on: 14/03/2009
Kellogg's Kickstart Special K - Its easy! You don't need to stand in the aisle of the supermarket counting how many point are in everything. You just have to make sure you dont eat junk food. I used to snack on crisps, chocolate etc but now I have a bowl of Special K (plain) for breakfast a bowl of Special K (red berries) for lunch and a apple then about 3pm I'll have a bag of Special K Bliss then my dinner at 6.30pm without a dessert which no-one needs anyway, it's just a luxury! I have lost… Read Full Review
Written on: 27/01/2009
Hi, I am starting this diet plan tomorrow, so I cant say much. However I did try it last week and lost 3pounds in 2days. I am hoping to start it again to see how it goes, but I did find that the weight I lost came straight back on in 2days. But I guess thats because it was just water loss, which can come back on as quickly as losing it… Read Full Review
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I found this review helpful because...I'm thinking of trying it myself
Written on: 21/01/2009
The Kellogg's Kickstart Special K diet is already paying off, i have lost about 5lbs and have only been on it for 3 days.
My tummy has already starting to get flatter. Bad points are I don't like seeing others eating a lovely hot tea, whilst i have my cereal. Its cheap and effective!
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Written on: 15/01/2009
Kellogg's Kickstart Special K is delicious and filling but I have not been able to loose weight with this diet. I have been on Kellogs diet for 2 weeks and I have moved from 73 kg to 76 kg… Read Full Review
Written on: 07/01/2009 by sarkazem (1 review written)
I started the Kellogg's Kickstart Special K diet today, I also done it last year and I saw great progress. Its an excellent diet but do not stop goin to the gym. I'm gona keep excersice in my lifestyle.....I suggest ever one should do the same kepp fit and stay slim.xxx… Read Full Review
Written on: 04/01/2009
I would suggest this diet to anyone who is looking for a kickstart in loosing weight. From experience it deffinately works. However, after the 2 weeks you do have to keep at it. Add exercise into your plan and the weight will be flying off!!!
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Written on: 06/01/2009
I found this review helpful because...i started the diet today and needed to hear some good stories about it as i have only seemed to found negatives ones on other site x thanks for the boost, hope it works just as good for me x
Written on: 26/08/2008 by DJerba (1 review written)
I started the Special K Diet and got bored on it quite quick! However, having said that I did stick it out for the whole 2 weeks and did lose weight but I couldn't keep it off. Conclusion: Great for quick weight loss perhaps if you need to lose weight for a special occassion but if you're looking to lose weight and keep it off then perhaps think of something else… Read Full Review
Written on: 26/07/2008 by Barkerford (1 review written)
Sorry to put a dampner on this diet - it seems to work for a lot of people but unfortunately not for me. I am desperate to lose the baby weight I gained after having my son and I thought this diet would be ideal. After only a few days my skin went really spotty and I felt tired and miserable. As I'm dairy intolerant I added Rice milk which tasted good & I made an effort to have a healthy meal at lunch or in the eve and eat fruit throughout the day but still felt really rough. I had to come… Read Full Review
Written on: 20/07/2008
I am on my fourth day.
And ive lost half a stone already
I had a bowl for breakfast - 7am
Then a tuna salad sandwich with no mayo or butter- 3pm
Then a bowl at 9pm
And i walk for 4-5 hours a day and go gym monday to thursday
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Written on: 21/06/2008
I like the Kelloggs Kickstart special K diet. Im not hungry and you dont have to buy loads of different things to eat in the right amounts at the right time so it doesn't cost loads of money to lose weight. Ive lost a few pounds in the first week. Nothing amazing but enough to make me carry on with it… Read Full Review
Written on: 09/06/2008 by weetracy (1 review written)
Only a few days in to this diet so i am not ready to write the verdict just yet. decided to try this diet as i work in the health and fitness industry and like to experiment before i give an opinion. Basically, i know if i stick to this diet i will lose weight, anyone will as its a low calorie diet, its just more convenient than other diets, for example, the juicing diet. Kellogs have stuck gold with this diet as they know there will be plenty of people willing to try it, mostly women at their… Read Full Review
Written on: 09/06/2008 by KateMcEvoy (1 review written)
I've started the special K diet today. I've had one bowl for breakfast and one for lunch, and I had two of the cereal bars for my tea breaks, spaced out in the day. I'm not a great fruit lover, but I'm thinking tomorrow I'll bring in grape for my snacks instead, it can't hurt can it?
The cereal is very tasty and surprisingly filling too!!
I've noticed, that by cutting down on what I eat, I'm actually gaining weight, so hopefully if I follow this diet, it will get rid of some of that. I'm… Read Full Review
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text: Looking at the video linked below, I paused during the sections where it showed their TonePrint editing screen and I recognized something- The parameters available to them are essentially the same ones in the 'Super Edit Mode' of the discontinued Voicetone Create, a special editing mode where users are allowed to change every one of the 70+ parameters that make up a patch in the pedal. I'm talking about the original Create, not the Create XT. This is a vocal pedal, with mono XLR in and stereo XLR outs. They can be had on the used market for about $160. With jacks modded to 1/4", or combo, or with adapters, you could essentially be doing what they're doing in these videos. Except with 4 effects at a time and the ability to blend them in -some- combinations of parallel and series. All with just a Nova-sized enclosure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPWMsn_34QU And here is the manual for the VoiceTone Create super-edit mode: http://www.tc-helicon.com/download/manuals/voicetone-create/VoiceToneCreate_SuperEditMode(1).pdf I use mine on vocals, and I loooooove it. But maybe some of you are interested in making your own TonePrints for bass, hey why not? I had previously thought of this as a way of getting sort of something similar to making your own toneprint, I think I mentioned it in a couple threads a while back. But I had assumed the toneprint thing probably involved lots of other parameters... seeing the screens in this video, to my surprise, it looks like the parameter sets are almost the same. Check out the list of variables in the Super Edit manual and the variables on the screen for the delay or chorus.


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Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho: If I changed the way we play we wouldn't be in the title race!
JOSE MOURINHO has revealed he put his Chelsea revolution on hold to save their season.
Mourinho claimed Chelsea wouldn't have reached the Champions League last four and still be in the title hunt if he hadn't shelved plans to change their style of play.
Delivering the thrilling football owner Roman Abramovich craves was one of his targets when he returned to Chelsea last summer.
But when he realised mid-season he didn't have the ruthless goalscorers to make it work Mourinho decided it was time to tighten up and make defence their best form of attack.
The Blues have the best defence of the top three but are the lowest scorers by some distance.
Mourinho has been under fire recently for his tactics after 'parking the bus' at Atletico Madrid and Liverpool.
And he has had to make stopping opponents his priority, rather than leaving them to worry about Chelsea, more times than he would have liked.
He said: "In a conscious way, I knew what I was doing at a certain moment of the season.
"I made the decision to stop that evolution in the style and philosophy of play and went in the direction where I felt it was the only way, with this team and these players, we could get results.
"I felt during the season that we had no conditions to arrive where we arrived in the Champions League if we don't have a transformation in our style of player, and the Premier League as well.
"The last two matches, Liverpool and Atletico Madrid, you see how many goals Liverpool's strikers score and they didn't score against Chelsea.
"Diego Costa has scored so many goals this season (36) but in two matches against Chelsea he scored a penalty.
"I adapted. The team became more strategic and less intuitive from a certain point of the season because we went for results."
"I made the decision to stop that evolution in the style and philosophy of play and went in the direction where I felt it was the only way, with this team and these players, we could get results"Jose Mourinho
Mourinho vowed to carry on where he left off with his plans to make Chelsea more exciting to watch next season.
And he reckons getting a goalscorer with killer instinct will make all the difference.
Atletico Madrid's £32m hitman Costa, who helped dump the Blues out of the Champions League on Wednesday, looks set to be that man.
Mourinho added: "To play in an attractive way is when you create seven chances and you score five goals, and you can concede two or three and still win.
"If you create 12 chances and score one, when your opponent scores before you you're always in trouble to try and change a result against a team that is winning.
"We had lots of matches, and long periods this season where we produced excellent football and created lots but we weren't the killer profile.
"At Everton we should have been 5-0 up, but we were 1-0 down. Things are not sometimes like people like to say.
"Even our wingers and No10s, Oscar, Schurrle and Willian, who has had an amazing season, need to score more goals, be more clinical, and produce more from the way we played."
Chelsea head into their final two games of the season needing leaders
Liverpool and Manchester City to slip up for them to pull off what would be a stunning title triumph.
But Mourinho reckons the league will be beyond their reach even if they finish with two more victories.
Ahead of his side's game against Norwich tomorrow he added: "I don't think two wins will be enough. The only thing we can do is win both matches.
"Imagine if we are not champions because we don't win these two matches... it wouldn't be a good feeling for the players. So we have to win both matches.
"We know we play against two teams who desperately need three points against us, Norwich and Cardiff, but we also need the points to finish third and guarantee a Champions League spot next season.
"We need to win both matches for the fans, whose support deserves we finish with two wins."


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HOUSTON — Chipper Jones' previous trip to Houston ended with a serious knee injury that left his future in doubt.
It was clear in his return to the city that the 39-year-old slugger has plenty left in the tank.
Jones homered, drove in two runs and even had his first steal of the season as the Atlanta Braves pounded the Astros 11-4 on Friday night.
Freddie Freeman and Alex Gonzalez homered on back-to-back pitches during Atlanta's four-run third inning, helping the Braves score as many runs as they had in the previous five games combined.
Freeman's two-out, two-run shot off fellow rookie Aneury Rodriguez landed several rows up in the second deck in right field and gave Atlanta a 4-0 lead. Gonzalez sent the next pitch into the Crawford Boxes in left field.
Jones had three hits and Eric Hinske also homered for Atlanta, which tied its season high for runs in its fourth consecutive victory. Freeman and Gonzalez had three RBIs apiece.
Jones, who tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee fielding a ground ball last August against the Astros, wasn't quite ready to celebrate a triumphant return.
"We're not done yet," Jones said. "Until I get out of here healthy on the plane, I'm going to reserve my comments."
Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez liked that Jones was able to have such a good game in a place that held bad memories for him.
"To come here and have that kind of night, I hope it keeps him going for a while, because we sure need him in the middle of the lineup," Gonzalez said. "Not that he wasn't hitting, but this was nice to see him driving the ball the other way."
Braves starter Tim Hudson (5-5) pitched six effective innings, yielding two runs and seven hits. He loved seeing the offense clicking and was especially impressed with Jones.
"He's looking pretty good," Hudson said. "The old battle ax is going out there and not looking his age."
While everyone raved about Jones, he gushed about the work Freeman and other young players have done in filling in for several injured Braves.
"I think tonight was a big win for us," he said. "We're starting to see some averages go up and some home run totals go up and some guys get some confidence. It's important for us to win ballgames right now while we've got so many people injured so that when we get them back we hopefully can continue to do so."
Matt Downs hit a two-run homer in the ninth for Houston, which has dropped six of seven. Michael Bourn had a triple and two doubles while tying a career high with four hits.
Rodriguez (0-4) lasted just four-plus innings and is winless in eight starts.
The Astros hurt themselves with poor defense in the third. First baseman Brett Wallace's error on Jones' two-out infield single allowed Dan Uggla to score.
Jones then picked up his stolen base before the homers by Freeman and Gonzalez.
"This is the second time this happens to me, that after an error they get me for three, four runs," Rodriguez said. "I don't know what's happening. I keep doing the same, throwing strikes."
Houston right fielder Hunter Pence singled in the third to extend his career-long hitting streak to 21 games — the longest current streak in the majors. But Pence left after the inning with tightness in his lower back and was replaced by Jason Michaels.
Pence said he expects to play on Saturday.
Freeman had an RBI single in the first, and Gonzalez added a two-run double in Atlanta's four-run fifth. Jones also had an RBI single in the fifth.
Houston closer Brandon Lyon surrendered Jones' homer in the eighth in his first appearance since May 4 after coming off the disabled list following Wednesday's game.
"It was good to get Lyon in the game, get some of the rust off him," Houston manager Brad Mills said.
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NOTES: Houston purchased the contract of C Carlos Corporan from Triple-A Oklahoma City and optioned C Robinson Cancel to its top farm club. Corporan, who is scheduled to start on Saturday, had a pinch-hit single in the ninth. ... Gonzalez said OF Nate McLouth, on the disabled list with a strained muscle on his left side, is scheduled to play in a simulated game on Saturday in Florida. He'll face RHP Brandon Beachy, who has been on the DL since May 14 with the same injury. Beachy is scheduled to throw three innings. He will then throw four or five innings on Thursday and up to 100 pitches on June 21. ... The Astros signed second-round draft pick RHP Adrian Houser.


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Breakfast – Yes or No?August 13th, 2013 at 8:46 pm by timigustafson
Many followers of healthy eating and lifestyle habits, myself included, get confused every so often over seemingly contradictory messages they receive from new study findings. The latest reports on the importance of a nutritious breakfast are no exception.
For some time now, we have been hearing that eating a healthy meal at the start of the day offers multiple benefits, including for weight control. Two recent studies on the subject, however, have come to opposite conclusions, one confirming the value of eating heartily in the morning, the other negating it. On closer examination, both studies seem to be correct in some aspects but miss the mark in others.
For one study, researchers from Tel Aviv University in Israel enrolled obese women in a 1,400-calorie-per-day weight loss regimen and divided them in two groups. One half was served 50 percent of the daily allotted calories at breakfast, 36 percent at lunch, and 14 percent at dinner. The other half was made to eat in the opposite order.
After three months, the heavy breakfast eaters had lost considerably more weight, had slimmer waistlines, a lower body-mass index (BMI), and declining triglyceride, blood sugar and cholesterol levels compared to their counterparts who had their biggest meals for dinner – all despite the fact that the daily calorie intake in both groups was identical. The logical conclusion seems that it not only matters what and how much dieters eat but also when they eat.
In sharp contrast to these findings stands another recent study, this one from Cornell University, which seems to suggest that skipping breakfast may be helpful in one's quest for weight loss. Here, researchers fed or withheld breakfast from two groups of participants but left it up to them whatever they wished to eat for the rest of the day. As it turns out, the breakfast-skippers lost more weight than those who stuck to three meals a day.
So, what is going on here? Is having breakfast a good or a bad idea for weight control? The answers to both studies are in fact quite simple.
In the study from Tel Aviv, the breakfast group had a decisive advantage over their dinner-eating peers because after eating they had the entire day ahead during which they could burn off calories. By contrast, the members of the dinner group were more likely to settle down for the evening after finishing their meals, and went to bed relatively full, without much of a chance for calorie expenditure. Naturally, that difference in behavior shows up on the scale.
Unfortunately, the Cornell study is inconclusive from the start because it does not control the total calorie intake of either group and only focuses on one eating occasion in the day. The participants who skipped breakfast may have made up for the deprivation by having a heavier lunch or by adding more snacks in between meals. Those who managed to keep to their usual eating pattern may have lost weight by foregoing breakfast, but they could have achieved the same by omitting any other eating event. The bottom line is that reducing total calorie intake will inevitably lead to weight loss over time. We already knew that.
The reason why I agree with those who emphasize the importance of having breakfast is that eating a nutritious, balanced meal in the morning gives you much needed energy and prevents you from getting too ravenous later on, which often results in overeating. For the reasons I discussed earlier, I also believe that eating the European way – a large breakfast, a moderate lunch, and a light dinner – is preferable to our custom of making dinner the main eating occasion. I also like the breakfast styles there better, including those of the Israelis, which typically include a vast variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole-grain breads, lean protein sources, and low-fat dairy products, instead of sugary cereals and pastries. And let's not forget portion sizes. They matter at all meals, regardless when you have them.
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A Few Large Meals Versus Frequent Small Snacks – Which Is Better for Weight Control?June 26th, 2013 at 8:24 am by timigustafson
As a child, my mother taught me many popular sayings. One of them was: "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper." That was back in London, England, where I grew up.
In many European countries, especially in the southern regions, that was the way most people planned their meals. A big breakfast allowed for an energetic start. Lunch was the main eating event of the day, often followed by a siesta for digestion. Dinner, on the other hand, was more like an afterthought, consisting of little else than a sandwich or some leftovers. Only on holidays a more elaborate meal would be served later in the day.
Here in the United States, the schedule is almost reversed. Many Americans skip breakfast, work through lunch and then make up for the day-long deprivation with a big helping in the evening. Or people don't observe any regular mealtimes at all any more and graze all day on snack foods instead.
A study from the Czech Republic, which was recently presented at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions Conference in Chicago, found that participants who had only two large meals during the day and no dinner at night were more likely to lose weight than their counterparts who ate three regular meals plus three small snacks, despite the fact that the amount of calories consumed in each group were the same and other factors like exercise and lifestyle remained unaltered.
These findings stand in sharp contrast to the idea that distributing food intake in form of smaller portions throughout the day may be a better way to control weight. Yet, experts on the subject are not too surprised by the study outcome. Eating six times or more a day makes it much harder to keep track of your calorie counts than if you only have to deal with two meals or so.
The concept of spreading out your food consumption may not be such a bad idea if it didn't lead to constant grazing, as it often does. "Six mini meals turn into six major meals, and people wonder why they're not losing weight," said Madelyn Fernstrom, the diet and nutrition editor of NBC's TODAY show, in a comment about the study. "The real-life takeaway here is less about skipping dinner, and more about simply eating less frequently."
To be sure, snacking, even frequent snacking, by itself is not automatically a bad thing. What makes snacking healthy or unhealthy is what you eat and how it fits into your daily lifestyle, said Dr. Richard D. Mattes, a professor of nutrition at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, to WebMD. "If your snacks add a lot of calories that are not offset by eating less at other times or increasing physical activity, it will cause weight gain."
The reason why snacking is now considered one of the likely causes of the obesity epidemic is that it occurs with growing frequency. Today, the average American eats almost five snacks in addition to regular meals, an increase of nearly 30 percent since the 1970s. By comparison, portion sizes of sit-down meals, although often lamented, have only grown by about 12 percent, according to U.S. government surveys.
The ubiquity of snack food is what seduces people to consume so much of it, according to Dr. Lisa Young, a professor of nutrition at New York University and author of the blog "The Portion Teller." Wherever you go, gas stations, drugstores, you name it, there is food staring you in the face, she says. In this food-filled environment, "we need to be conscious of when we eat, how much we eat, and what we eat."
Eating the European way may not be feasible or even desirable for many Americans. Taking long lunch breaks, let alone afternoon naps, doesn't go very well with our busy lifestyles. Constant snacking, on the other hand, is not a good alternative and can cause problems over time.
There are many ways to find a workable middle-ground, though. For example, you don't want to allow yourself to get too hungry during the day to avoid overeating later on. If snack foods are an irresistible temptation for you, you shouldn't keep them within reach. Whenever you eat breakfast or lunch or anything in between, choose only highly nutritious ingredients that give you energy but don't fill you up too much. If you need a small snack now and then, make it a healthy one as well. And drink plenty of water. Your hunger pangs may actually be symptoms of dehydration.
How you time all of this is up to you. You just have to make it work in your favor.
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Creating a Health-Promoting Work EnvironmentOctober 28th, 2012 at 12:48 pm by timigustafson
More and more companies are enrolling their workforce in health and wellness programs to cut staggering health care costs, reduce absenteeism and foster productivity as well as morale and loyalty, according to several studies on recent changes in employer-based health care policies. There is a fast growing interest in taking preventive measures such as promoting weight control, physical activity and cessation of tobacco use, not only among big corporations but also small and mid-size businesses.
Lifestyle-related (and therefore preventable) illnesses make up approximately 80 percent of the burden of health care costs for companies and 90 percent of all health care costs, according to one study.
Health and wellness incentives have long been considered a luxury only large corporations can afford, not a strategic imperative for all businesses to keep ever-increasing health care costs at bay, say the authors of a study published in the Harvard Business Review. That view is rapidly changing.
There is no shortage of examples where investments in employees' social, mental and physical health has paid off. For instance, Johnson & Johnson has estimated that their wellness program, which started out in 1995, saved the company about $250 million in health care costs over a decade, according to the report.
Despite of these encouraging case studies, many wellness programs continue to evolve and companies are still trying to figure out exactly how or if their initiatives affect their bottom line, according to analyses by business insurance companies.
To be sure, not all employees welcome these programs in their place of work. Sometimes additional incentives such as reductions in premiums and co-payments and other cash bonuses are needed to get them to join.
A few employers have begun requiring health risk assessments and biometric screening for their workers to qualify for health care coverage, a step some may consider an undue intrusion in their private affairs.
Experts warn against an antagonistic climate around the issue of health in the workplace. Employers should design their policies and programs around the needs of their employees, advises Judith A. Monroe, MD, State Health Commissioner of Indiana. If there are a number of smokers in a company, offering cessation counseling may be important. If weight problems are of concern, access to exercise and nutrition programs could be provided.
"One of the components that is key to the overall success of wellness programs is the development of a culture of health within the organization," says Dr. Steven Noelder, a consultant with Total Health Management in Newport Beach, California. "Not only do you need top-down support, you also need support at the grassroots level." In other words, only when everyone feels that the measures taken are in his or her own best interest can health and wellness programs produce the desired outcome and make a difference for the better.
Timi Gustafson R.D. is a registered dietitian, newspaper columnist, blogger and author of the book "The Healthy Diner – How to Eat Right and Still Have Fun"®, which is available on her blog, "Food and Health with Timi Gustafson R.D.", and at amazon.com. You can follow Timi on Twitter and on Facebook.


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This sounds like a configuration problem preventing the included .js file from actually being included when the page is requested. The .js file is in the same direcory as the requested page.
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Brief facts about our practice in the CIS
- With the opening of our Moscow office in 1989, we were the first professional services firm to establish operations in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Over the past 25 years our practice has developed into the largest network in the CIS: a network of 20 offices in nine CIS countries, staffed by 4,500 specialists.
- We provide multidisciplinary and professional services to more than 5,000 clients.
- We audit 30% of CIS companies listed on the Forbes Global 2000 (2013).
- EY served as auditor for the first Russian IPO on NYSE in 1996.
- Since 1996, EY has acted as auditor on the largest IPO transactions, with a total of US$ 33 billion raised in these offerings or 42% of the capital raised from all CIS transactions during the last 18 years.
- EY is the leading auditor on the US and UK Stock Exchanges in terms of the volume of IPOs from CIS companies, providing audit services to half of London-listed and 42% of NYSE and Nasdaq-listed companies.
- Significantly, more than 90% of partners in our CIS practice and 90% of our Executive Board are from CIS countries.
- We are also a truly international team, as we have professionals from the UK, Canada, Germany, China, Israel, Japan, France, Australia, Switzerland, the US, the Netherlands and other countries working in our CIS offices.
- We are committed to serving not only our clients, but also the countries in which we operate. One of the examples is our involvement in the Foreign Investment Advisory Councils (FIAC) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Foreign Investment Council in Kazakhstan.
- We have acted as a key advisor to the government, and have led forums, including the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and the Sochi Investment Forum. We have supported initiatives across the CIS, including the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, the Moscow International Financial Center, the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, the Russian Direct Investment Fund and Open Government. In Kazakhstan, we work with the government and international development institutions on enhancing tax and customs administration and with the development of a green economy.
- Based in the CIS, our Foreign Desk Organization currently includes desks run by native speakers of English, German, French, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese and Hindi.
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PHILADELPHIA, July 6 (UPI) -- A Philadelphia realtor was fired after video surfaced of her allegedly throwing dead mice and snakes on a neighboring home for sale, police said.
Andrea Straub, a real estate agent in the local Prudential Fox & Roach office, allegedly took umbrage with her neighbor's for sale sign in the upscale Philly suburb Lower Merion Township, where homes are regularly valued more than $1 million. Police reports indicated Straub thought the sign violated township codes and she kicked it down.
Surveillance video taken in June then showed Straub allegedly dumping dead mice and snakes on her neighbor's driveway in an effort to hamper the sale. The homeowner said tree branches were cut down and left on the lawn.
Straub's lawyer called the allegations "horrible falsities" and said she'd lost her job due to the negative publicity, The Philadelphia Inquirer said Friday.
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Wednesday, 21 January, 1998, 07:55 GMT
Social Security factfile
Despite coming under attack for proposing to reform the welfare system, the Government is determined to press ahead with plans to concentrate payments on those who need them most.
This could mean an end to universal benefits and the introduction of means-testing in some areas.
Ministers are considering or planning reform in all major areas including:
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Sickness and Disability benefits
The central element of the Government's welfare-to-work plans is the commitment to get 250,000 young people off benefit and into work. In addition, helping the long-term unemployed into work has been identified as a key aim.
The Government has estimated total spending of £3.7bn funded by a one-off windfall levy.
From June, employers will be offered a £75-a-week tax rebate for six months if they take on an employee who has been unemployed for more than two years.
There are special provision to help lone parents back to work. Once the youngest child is in the second term of full-time school lone parents will be offered advice to develop a package of job search, training and after-school care.
The state pension is universal, for men over 65 and women over 60.
A total of 10.4m pensioners claim £31.85bn a year at a rate of £62.45 each per week.
The benefit is already taxable so a two-tier system could be introduced with the value protected for poorer pensioners. It could also be integrated into the income support system.
Long term care
A special Royal Commission is being set up to investigate the funding of long-term care for the elderly. It is to report back within 12 months.
The commission is also considering the implications of its recommendations for younger people who have long-term care needs because of illness or disability.
Housing benefit
The Government has said it will not implement the previous government's single room rent restrictions for 25-59 year olds. The restriction will still apply to under 25 year olds.
The reversal of the housing benefit cut for 25-59 year olds will cost £6m in 1997/98, £47m in 1998/99 and £69m in 1999/00.
These costs will have to be met from within the social security budget.
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Shareholder Relations Committee (updated October 30,2017)
Formed in 2004, Calista Corporation's Shareholder Relations Committee is comprised of five members from the Board of Directors. Each year, generally in the first quarter and fourth quarter, they travel to communities around the YK Delta to provide updates on Calista's operations and activities. One or two staff members usually join the Committee.
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Oct 28 (Reuters) - Chile's Antofagasta Plc on Wednesday cut its full-year production forecast as the copper producer posted steady output in the third quarter versus the second.
London-listed Antofagasta reduced its copper output guidance for the year to 635,000 tonnes from a forecast of 665,000 after delayed the ramp-up at its Centinela operations.
Copper production in the third quarter was 157,000 tonnes, in line with the second quarter, the company said.
Like its peers, Antofagasta is battling a slide in commodity prices as a result of slowing growth in China, the world's top consumer of industrial metals.
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The high school basketball season will reach a tipping point this week when game in the Southern Section and the Los Angeles City Section will determine more than who plays for a divisional championship.
Last week the Southern Section unveiled its historical Open Division for boys and girls considered among the elite teams in the section, but in the City it was business as usual.
Defending and perennial City champion Westchester earned yet another No. 1 seed and this week will likely be playing in the semifinals on Saturday March 1 at LA Southwest College against either Fremont or Narbonne.
The Comets won their opening round game 75-13 to improve to 26-5 and have already defeated Long Beach Poly (twice) and Southern Section Open entrants St. John Bosco and Serra (Gardena).
Coach Ed Azzam, whose coaching tree also consists of Redondo Union's rising star Reggie Morris Jr., has a team of unselfish players led by City Player of the Year candidate Elijah Stewart.
A gritty outfit that just simply players harder for longer minutes than their opponents, the Comets will undoubtedly be involved in the Southern California Regional Open Division when the finals are done.
Unlike a lot of teams who felt they were unjustifiably placed in the Open Division, the Comets relish the opportunity to play against the best competition.
Although, the Comets lost in the early portion of the season to Redondo Union 65-64 and to Bishop Montgomery 71-68, the team has won 14 of it last 15 games and seven in a row.
The consistently do it with the likes of solid seniors Cameron Young and emerging point guard Layon Gooden. Serra junior transfer Ellis Sallahudin has been a key contributor late, making the Comets capable of beating anyone.
Steward will be attending Loyola, but senior standout Nick Hamilton is a scholar athlete worthy of offers from Ivy League Schools and maintains a grade point average that is off the charts above 4.0.
Westchester is likely to meet either Fairfax or El Camino Real in the City Finals on March 8 at LA Southwest College, it's a ritual they don't take for granted.
Their immediate goals for each season is always win league and then a City title, but after that they will dare to aim even higher.
That figures to be in the Open division regionals that will likely feature Mater Dei, Redondo Union, Loyola and Corona Centennial. Anything less will be uncivilized.
Last week during Compton/Redondo Union Open Division playoff game, the smallest player on the court Elijah Nesbit was unjustly shoved in the back during the final minutes of a game that was won by Redondo.
The referees issued single technical fouls to players from Compton and Redondo, and Compton retained the ball as a result of a possession arrow.
The incident was a sore eye to what should have been a great basketball game. Compton players should have been ejected for the shove and not allowed to play in their next game.
The shove of Nesbit was not just a foul, but a felony if it occurred in Watts or Compton.
Compton coaches cursed officials and players used profanity against Redondo players. It was awful.
It was also another clear indication of how Blacks sometimes are their own worse enemy. It would not have been a good look no matter what color you are, but critics expect that from Compton. The only way to change your image is to CHANGE!


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Owensville resident Jennifer Wheeler was arrested for driving under the influence while en route to her sister's wedding.
Wearing a yellow bridesmaid dress, Wheeler, 28, was driving a red Dodge Neon when she crashed into a fence and a tree on Bauer Road the afternoon of April 13.
Her two children, a boy aged three and a seven-year-old girl (who was also supposed to be in the wedding party), were in the car when Wheeler lost control and ran off the road; no one was hurt in the accident.
In a Clermont County municipal courtroom April 14, Wheeler pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, possession of drugs, an invalid driver's license, failure to control the vehicle, and child endangerment.
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Angela and Joseph Enrico were waiting to redo their Oceanside kitchen, but then superstorm Sandy forced them into a makeover. With features including heated tile floors, granite countertops and completely new cabinetry, the total cost was $58,605.
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Interior designer and homeowner Angela Enrico of Oceanside masterminded her kitchen renovation, which cost $58,605. (Oct. 17, 2013)
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Accessories enliven the post-Sandy makeover kitchen of interior designer and homeowner Angela Enrico of Oceanside and her husband Joseph. (Oct. 17, 2013)
The Franke sink, Kohler soap dispenser and faucet cost $850 in this post-Sandy renovated kitchen done for her own home by interior designer Angela Enrico of Oceanside. (Oct. 17, 2013)
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This KitchenAid gas range cost $1,650 for this post-Sandy renovation in interior designer Angela Enrico's own home in Oceanside. (Oct. 17, 2013)
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Casino support strongest where no casinos will go
ALBANY—The biggest pluralities for legalizing casino gambling came from areas that won't be eligible to host casinos, statewide returns show, as downstate counties outbalanced tepid support in many upstate areas.
Perhaps most interestingly, voters in Saratoga County—where a slot parlor attached to the marquee racetrack is considered a leading site for a casino—narrowly rejected the referendum by 25,488 to 21,956. The biggest margins in favor of the proposal were on Long Island, where voters affirmed casinos by an almost 2-to-1 ratio, as well as Brooklyn and Queens.
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The Hudson Valley was in favor, too. It's widely speculated that this region will be the site of at least two casinos, and there are several proposals on the table to revive old Borscht-belt resorts with a gambling component.
Michael Treanor, an investor who hopes to develop the Nevele Grand Hotel near Ellenville, noted voters in Ulster County came out in support of the proposition: 25,467 to 16,841. The proposal was also approved, solidly, in Sullivan and Orange counties.
"I was a little surprised at some of the counties were 50/50, but that's what people in those areas want," Treanor said on a conference call. "It's incredibly strong in this region, and in Ulster County, we have unanimous resolutions from … every elected official who represents the Nevele. We think one of the strongest things we have going for us is the local support."


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This product was promoted as improving the "free-flow of non-irritating bile" and in doing so "relieve conditions that may result when the bile does not flow freely". The brand name 'Chologestin' was based on its properties as a cholagogue – a bile removing agent. It was one of numerous 'over the counter' remedies that were available without prescription in pharmacies in the first half of the twentieth century. One tablespoonful of the brown liquid was diluted with water and taken three times a day after meals. Bile is stored in the liver and released after eating to break down fats in food and help digest them. A blockage in the bile ducts causes weight loss, fatigue and fever. The product was made by F H Strong and Co.
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Slackware 14.1 wireless "waiting for authorization"
I just installed 14.1 and was able to connect to my network as root then logged out and in as myself and could not see any wireless interfaces. So I logged out and back in as root and now I'm stuck at "waiting for authorization" and I can't edit the wireless connection, clicking edit nothing happens.
Asus eeePC which has an Atheros card.
I'll mark as solved though not the proper way, I installed WICD.
Network manager appears to have a way to make a connection available to all or specific users but I couldn't see any connections as non root.
I did a fujitsu net book install this week and I find if the networkmanger is ran as root then you re-log to another user it will not let the none root user use the network manager. So for the install for the friends that will not be using root much.
I mean a full login. I set it up to go to runlevel 4 then had them login that way. No problem after that.
seems if root user makes that connection that pid is under root.
Then I got a call on another machine small net book said there wired wasn't working. I asked if they plugged it into the netbook after it was up and running they said yes. Please remember these are very simple Linux users. I told them just reboot the netbook all will be fine. and it was.
sometimes it just easier then explaining how to restart the network.
I find make sure you configure net and your dhcpd at install and also for wifi enable the /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanger make it executable. life will be a lot easier on you.
remember this all can be done from pkgtool run Slackware scripts. during install or after.
well seems after reading tips and hints in slackware 14.1 it really did not help the situation with the network-manager. You see during an install you run netconfig and it makes /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 executable and then if you want to make the /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager work you make it executable. Well this make thing not work at all. As root you can log in and you have network. but the moment you click the nm-applet it kills the connection on wired.
so many people install wicd and the install scripts on that pretty much make the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager not used at boot up. this is not really a fix.
and that firefox bug of disable networkmanager ? I never had that happen to me so hard to trouble shoot it.
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If there's one thing I think we can all agree on, it's that pulling off triple backflips on a motorcycle is pretty cool. We've been doing it for years on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 thanks to the Joe Danger series and, soon, we'll be able to do it on PC as well.
Originally launched on the PlayStation 3, the first Joe Danger game offered players numerous crazy levels to speed, jump, trick and crash through, all while strapped to a motorcycle that pretty much defies the laws of physics. In the sequel, Joe Danger 2: The Movie, our intrepid hero drove just about anything with wheels through another crazy collection of obstacle courses, this time themed after just about every type of action movie you can imagine.
Providing over-the-top stunting on two consoles wasn't enough for Hello Games, however, as the developer has announced that both Joe Danger games will soon be crash landing on PC.
"As well as brand new levels, both games will come with special new PC-specific features," reads a statement from Hello Games. "Enhanced graphic settings and resolutions take full advantage of modern PC power. Stem Big Picture support means you can lay from the sofa with a gamepad, while mouse and keyboard support means it feels at home on desktop screens, too."
Both games will also now feature Steam Workshop support, allowing players to browse and share their own edited levels and ghost times with the rest of the gaming world.
"I think we have some kind of OCD at Hello Games," said founder Sean Murray. "We have a rule that whenever we put our games onto a new platform, we have to add something. We can't just do a quick and dirty port. We have some more surprises to announce for the PC editions of Joe Danger aas we lock them down."
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If you recall, back in late August The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones did not exactly do well at the box office. Obviously, this was a huge upset for a film that spent $60 million on advertising alone. Safe to say the film didn't come close to breaking even. And it was certainly a disappointment to fans of the book series. I mean, c'mon, if Twilight can do it, everyone should be able to.
However, all that bad news is not stopping Constantin Filmes from giving it another go. The producer is pushing forward with a film adaptation of the second book in Cassandra Clare's series, City of Ashes. Seemingly, Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower will return, unless they decide to start from scratch.
So what could possibly make Constantin think this was a good idea?
According to Forbes:
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, distributed by Sony and released in 2D and glorious IMAX 2D received poor reviews and dramatically failed at the box office. That toxic combination generally means "no sequel". But Constantin, allegedly spurred on by fan mail and online reaction from franchise fans, is pressing forward to what is an almost unheard-of rarity: a sequel to a genuine box office flop.
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Charlie Sheen's escort talks to Good Morning America, Canada's Justin Bieber ironically dominates the American Music Awards, and USC needs to get better at cheating...made it, Ma! Top of the Mantenna!
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Charlie Sheen Escort Talks
Capri Anderson, the woman at the center of Charlie Sheen's recent New York meltdown, has broken her silence. The adult actress and escort appeared on Good Morning America and revealed she plans on pressing criminal charges and suing the Two and Half Men star. Anderson alleges that Sheen snorted a "white powdery substance," called her a "whore" and threatened to kill her. Anderson told GMA, "I never expected the night would unfold the way it did. He seemed like a very egotistical person." The 22-year-old says she was not paid her $3,500 fee for her "work" that night and was subsequently offered $20,000 by Sheen to keep her silence. Sheen's attorney says the actor will vehemently fight both the criminal and civil cases, if Anderson does indeed proceed. [CBS]
Bristol Palin Receives Death Threats
Bristol Palin and her Dancing With the Stars partner Mark Ballas have received extra security after death threats were made to the dancing duo. The heighten security measure come after an envelope addressed to Palin containing white powder was received by the television show. The substance turned out to be talcum powder, but it nonetheless worried producers of the show. Palin has been a divisive figure on the reality television show. She has consistently scored at the bottom of the dance contest but has managed to ride the popular vote into the finale. [TMZ]
Justin Bieber Ironically Dominates the American Music Awards
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Even though he hails from Canada, Justin Bieber somehow won all four awards he was nominated for last night at the American Music Awards, including Favorite Artist. JB somehow beat out Eminem, Usher, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga for these worthless prizes. Bieber even became the youngest artist to ever win the trophy and also won Favorite Pop/Rock Album, Favorite Pop/Rock Male and Breakthrough Artist Award. "I can't stop smiling; this is amazing," Bieber said after taking in the Pop/rock Male award. "Truly I don't know how this is possible because I've been singing Eminem since I was three and Usher is my mentor. So this is big." You don't sing Eminem, jackass. [MTV]
Baseball Star May Have Dog Repossessed
After Lenny Dykstra's legendary baseball career came to a close he made the natural progression into a career as a self-described financial guru. Several years later, it appears as if his "guru-ness" had been slightly exaggerated. TMZ reports that "the former MLB superstar turned financial guru turned alleged deadbeat dad had filed for bankruptcy to protect his remaining assets -- but one creditor has filed new documents, asking a judge for a green light to sell everything Dykstra still owns." "The creditor has filed a list of Dykstra's assets, totaling $715,000 -- which includes $100k in jewelry, $15k in art and a $10k German Shepherd." Yes, the part about the dog is disturbing, but how about the fact that he's a dude in his late 40s who owns $100,000 in man jewelry. [TMZ]
USC Needs to Get Better at Cheating, ASAP
It's been a few weeks since USC has had a running back caught for accepting improper benefits. Fortunately, they didn't let that trend go any longer. According to ESPN "Freshman tailback Dillon Baxter solicited a free golf cart ride from the company's cart onto USC's campus, USC officials confirmed Sunday. Baxter was ruled ineligible Friday by USC, one day after he received the ride from 1st Round in what the school has determined to be a violation of NCAA rules concerning extra benefits." If you're going to get caught for something, at least make it a high-end home or SUV. It's almost like these kids are showing no respect to Reggie Bush and Joe McKnight. [ESPN]
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Jesus, Mary and Joseph would feel right at home in Houston these days.
The county's mental health agency is turning away new nonemergency patients. The NeuroPsychiatric Center has gone on drive-by status three times since May -- no matter how sick the patient trying to get in to receive its emergency services. And a shortage of specialized trauma beds in hospitals throughout the region means some critically injured patients aren't getting where they need to go in time to do them much good. It's life-threatening and already life-damaging, doctors say.
There's no room at the inn all over town. Our own little Bethlehem West.
Money, of course, is cited by various experts as the root of all this evil. Dr. Steven Schnee, head of the Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County, called a press conference on short notice last week to make it clear that this is a time of "crisis."
"Going on drive-by status puts the community and the consumers and the family members that count on NPC at risk," Schnee said to reporters at NPC. He noted that Ben Taub's emergency room, which has psychiatric services, has had to go on drive-by also. Patients who cannot get treatment, he said, can get "quite agitated." Some of this agitation may be coming not just from the emergency room shutdowns but from MHMRA's decision to not take new nonemergency cases on an outpatient basis as of July 1. Some people are becoming more ill before they receive care, he said.
Betsy Schwartz, executive director of the Mental Health Authority of Houston, a patients' advocacy group, rushed in to the meeting and declared: "This is really an outrage. All of us should be ashamed of a city of the size and wealth of Houston to allow a mental health crisis to exist." If NPC were properly funded by the state, she said, there would be no crisis.
Dr. Guy Clifton, chief of neurosurgery at Memorial Hermann and one of the founding members of Save Our ERs, has his own crusade going. Starting in 1999, hospitals in Houston began to have emergency room saturation, diverting patients away 12 percent of the time. Patients aren't getting the care they need riding around the city looking for a hospital or sitting in most emergency rooms, which are not equipped to undertake the intensive measures needed to save these people's lives.
The pleas are heartfelt, the points valid. It is barbaric that Texas comes in 43rd in the nation when it comes to per-capita spending on mental health. Houston is a financial center, but it can't handle the vast number of uninsured patients that are sinking its medical system. It is maddening that we have the expertise to save people and aren't. We might as well all be wearing T-shirts saying Welcome to Houston, the greatest third-world city on earth.
But the likelihood of Texas ponying up some dough -- the state comptroller has projected a $5 billion shortfall when the legislature meets in January -- is about zip. Legislators didn't parcel out more money for those services when they were flush with cash. Why would they do it now?
Tragedy, Schnee said. "Somebody will do something really tragic and involve other people." Clifton said the state may come through with more money for trauma care after some legislator's child dies needlessly. Maybe when something really, really horrible happens, then the state won't be able to look the other way about its commitments to mental and physical health care.
Of course, since most of the mentally ill are not dangerous to themselves or others, it is more likely that the vast majority of the untreated will just sink into quiet depression and wasted lives.
It's ancient times brought to life in Houston. A human being is going to have to be sacrificed, laid out on a rock, split open, his or her life's blood pouring out. Losing their life, losing their mind. It'll be splashy, it'll be tragic. People will say they didn't know.
And Betsy Schwartz, Steven Schnee and Guy Clifton will shout in anger, sigh in resignation or cry in frustration. But then maybe something will be done.
In the meantime, we need a plan B.
It's five o'clock in the afternoon and Dr. Avrim Fishkind, medical director at the NeuroPsychiatric Center, needs a lift. He's clutching a cup of coffee from the Starbucks on Montrose; it'll keep him awake. Last week he put in 84 hours on the job. At a certain point, people just run out of gas.
At first glance, it would be easy to dismiss Fishkind as some kind of outsider who doesn't understand how things work in Texas. He's a graduate of the University of Maryland who got his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University. Fishkind was chief of the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program in Washington, D.C., when he got a call from the Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County to head up its new psychiatric emergency hospital.
He knew exactly what he was getting into. He'd worked for the Austin-Travis County MHMRA and knew the state's strengths and weaknesses. Moreover, his wife was expecting twins and wanted to be closer to her family in Austin.
Fishkind, president-elect of the American Association of Emergency Psychiatry, said he tries to stay focused on providing better care and doesn't let himself get angry. He wants to see Texans move to an understanding that sometimes you invest money to save money -- just like in a business.
He's one of the group that huddles up to decide whether NPC should go on drive-by status. He stresses that in each case this was just for a matter of hours and that they worked with other area hospitals to find places for these people. Most NPC patients are of the "23-hour care" variety, meaning that technically they are there for less than a day. Eight beds have been reopened on NPC's second floor, which houses patients for three to five days.
But most NPC patients who need hospitalization go to the University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center. MHMRA contracts with HCPC for 143 beds. Those institutions talk among themselves hourly when patients back up. As soon as HCPC discharges someone, NPC moves another patient over, opening a slot for someone new. Sometimes beds open up in Rusk, the state hospital, said Barbara Dawson, head administrator at NPC.
It's a gigantic game of human chess.
Based upon population, Harris County should have six or seven public emergency psychiatric facilities, not just the two it has with Ben Taub and NPC, Fishkind said. Some hospitals such as Methodist have staff to provide emergency psychiatric services, he said. And the Memorial system has a crisis response team that Fishkind describes as excellent.
Still, Schnee said, Memorial Hermann Southwest just closed its psych unit. In fact, more than 500 private psychiatric beds have closed in Harris County, Schnee said. With the vast number of uninsured patients in Texas, hospitals find psychiatric beds and psychiatric facilities unprofitable, so they close, Schnee said. "It's a business decision, not a question of whether or not the treatment is needed."
With job layoffs, people lose health care benefits. People used to dialing the 1-800 number on their insurance cards are now clients of the public health system, walk-ins with cell phones and no way to pay for life-sustaining medicines. And Harris County can't handle all this new popularity.
In fiscal 2003, there is no additional money for mental health services in the county, Schnee said. In five years, HCPC has not received any significant increase from the legislature, he said.
Commissioners Court has continued to generously fund local mental health needs, but its resources just don't match those of the state's.
Increased cooperation among the county mental health agencies will be crucial in coming months, Fishkind said.
And hospitalization isn't even the desired goal in most of these cases. Dawson is proud to say that of the more than 12,000 NPC patients in the last year, only a quarter of them had to be hospitalized. The goal is to see to patients' needs and put them in the least restrictive environment.
The Ben Taub psychiatry department has worked up one proposed program that holds promise, Fishkind said. "Partial hospitalization," as it is called, would bring patients into the hospital setting during the day for treatment but would allow them to sleep in their own homes at night. Again, this would take tremendous pressure off the system and make most patients a lot happier.
It also stretches mental health dollars to serve a lot more people.
HCPC, which is now attracting streams of walk-in patients, has already changed its way of doing business, spokeswoman Geri Konigsberg said. A month ago, HCPC began moving patients into a new discharge unit where they can watch television or movies and play games while waiting for relatives to pick them up after work. "It keeps them in a safe environment and frees up beds," Konigsberg said.
At MHMRA, Schnee said his agency is working hard to get more people on third-party or Medicaid coverage.
Whenever there are funding shortages, there are also questions about whether an agency is managing itself correctly. A 1997 investigation discovered MHMRA lost track of federal housing funds and spent little of the $5.4 million it had received from 1993 to 1996. This, when housing continues to be one of the crucial problems for the area's mentally ill.
Fishkind said a new chief financial officer and deputy executive director are trying to make the most of every bit of funding. He acknowledged that all mental health authorities are moving toward different models of operation and delivery and MHMRA will be no exception if it wants to survive.
Over time, there has been increased outcry that insurance companies cover mental health at a fraction of what is provided for in medical coverage. A congressional bill would broaden mental health insurance coverage -- a bill that the insurance lobby is fighting.
Even if it passes, of course, it won't help the uninsured, of which Harris County has far too many.
Mental health coverage in Texas will change, Konigsberg said, as more people demand improvements for their children. HCPC just signed a contract to provide services to kids in Head Start. That's kids from birth to five years old. As Konigsberg puts it, would you rather pay for prevention now or jail later?
Fishkind said the change will come "when people begin to understand the lost productivity and costs of not treating mental illness. When fiscal factors hit enough people in a broad enough scale."
But waiting for the legislature to act is no solution.
"I think everybody has got to learn to live with less," said Konigsberg, pointing to the example of the Harris County Hospital District. The district has taken on a lot more of the indigent, particularly with HIV and AIDS, and done a good job without additional funding, she said.
"You have to look at what you have and be creative," Fishkind said. If all else fails, people use churches, Fishkind said. "They use spiritual systems, and there's a lot of evidence that can be just as effective." He also said that even putting off people on their appointments -- as long as you give them an appointment -- doesn't do that much damage. "As long as people have hope for an intervention, that gives them a resource."
Groups also need to generate additional money through other funding sources, Konigsberg said. Of course, competition for stray dollars may put a damper on cooperation among agencies. Just as the need for trauma beds competes with the needs for other kinds of beds in facilities.
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"The only way to solve the problem is to have an open, honest dialogue clean of politics," Konigsberg said.
While and until all this gets sorted out, emergency rooms will continue shifting critically injured patients around the region, hoping to get the worst ones to the few trauma centers in time.
And the Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County, as Steven Schnee himself has said, will be rationing care. Is someone a little bit crazy? A lot? A new crazy, an old one already on the books? Dangerous? How dangerous?
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Auditing - Logging all commands and arguments
I have used sa before this only logs the command program, not the arguments which makes all the difference. Also, I'm not sure it will catch shell built-ins or people truncating files like so "> filename".
I have used snoopy before which I liked and seemed to work quite well although it does not seem to be supported any more since 2004 looking at the sourceforge site. Since this uses execve I'm not sure this will catch shell built-ins either in fact, and nor am I sure about packages/maintainability of doing this, but then considering it has not been updated in 3.5 years I doubt updates will be a problem... (of course this raises issues about security or bugs discovered in it if not maintained).
I've also found sudosh on google but this seems to be an imperfect approach since it requires giving people an alternate shell through sudo. What happens when logging all commands but one command is just "bash" and everything inside that command is a black box?
Ideally I'd like whatever auditing solution I implement to be shell neutral.
Sudo itself if completely inadequate because people "sudo su" and it would be difficult if not impossible to grant people access to only specific commands.
So what do you use for complete command auditing/logging?The Human Equation:
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I run GRSec (grsecurity) on all my servers. Here is a snippet of the feature list that might be relevant for you:
- Option to specify single group to audit
- Exec logging with arguments
- Denied resource logging
- Chdir logging
- Mount and unmount logging
- IPC creation/removal logging
- Signal logging
- Failed fork logging
- Time change logging
An entry in the file looks like this:
Dec 24 21:22:53 hostname grsec: exec of /bin/rm (rm testfile ) by /bin/bash[bash:10482] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0, parent /bin/bash[bash:10476] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0
This should cover everything you want -- besides the shell built-ins stuff.
12-24-2007 #3
yes I actually have grsec on a few servers, but it's logging is so massive that it's actually quite difficult to handle...
I have for example on one server, just chdir logging and this provides tonnes of logging on a hardly used server.
Imagine if you turned on full logging on all those things you mentioned... it could kill a server's disk space in a day. You couldn't even keep/manage the logs, you'd need a massive logserver, which would be expensive and difficult to manage because of the sheer size. Now multiply this by 50x for a relatively small environment. How the heck could you deal with that?!
The other problem is that it doesn't really catch shell built-in logging, so somebody could truncate a critical system file and you'd never find out who...
Otherwise I really like GrSecurity...The Human Equation:
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You can try snoopy for lightweight solution. Here (sorry, still can't post urls):
https :// sourceforge.net/projects/snoopylogger/
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Fall 2004 IBS News Archive
John V. O'Loughlin has received the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship Award. He was one of 185 winners (including a diversity of artists, scholars, and scientists) selected from 3,200 applicants. The winners are appointed based on distinguished achievement and promise for future accomplishments.
The Guggenheim fellowship funding will be used to complete a book on the new political geography of Ukraine. This book will revisit two classic themes of political geography: borders and geopolitical orders. The geopolitical interests of external actors, particularly Russian and NATO, are connected to the specific development of post-independent borders of Ukraine. Such a linkage is rare despite the obvious implications for territorial delimitation of geopolitical claims and the reverse, the effects of boundary changes on existing geopolitical arrangements and associations. Ukraine's relations with Russia are foremost in their implications for the territorial integrity of a state with a large Russian minority, located predominantly in the East and South of Ukraine. Earlier geopolitical study dating back to the beginning of the twentieth century connected the macro-perspective of geopolitics to the micro-scale effects of borders and frontier delimitations. Whilst not advocating a return to ethnocentric, state-centred geopolitical study, this book revives the classic geopolitical tradition without the national-patriotic baggage that accompanied earlier works. It thus makes a contribution to the renaissance of limology (border study) in political geography and the study of the geopolitics of Ukraine, the "key in the arch" of post-Communist Europe.
Congratulations to David Kaplan. The National Assembly on School Based Health Care is pleased to announce that he will receive its Outstanding Achievement Award for 2004. This recognition is given to an individual or organization that has made an indelible mark on the field of school-based health care. Kaplan, a founder of the Denver School-based Health Centers, has a long history in school-based health care.
An Appreciation Party for Graduate School Dean Carol Lynch will be held on Friday, July 30th, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm at the Koenig Alumni Center. Faculty and staff of Graduate School institutes, and of related departments, are invited to attend. The party honors Lynch for her 12 years of outstanding service as Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate School.
"The University of Colorado at Boulder is home to 24 of the most highly cited researchers in the world, according to a survey published in The Economist in London. Among them is Richard Jessor, psychology professor, director of the Research Program on Health Behavior and the longest serving active faculty member at the university..."
(Lozano, Vanessa. "Longest Serving Faculty Member Is Highly Cited Researcher." Inside CU, Tuesday, August 24, 2004) Entire Article
Please visit the memorial website for Richard Cook (http://www.colorado.edu/ibs/crs/workshop/richard/), who died unexpectedly on October 13, 2004. He had a long and distinguished career at IBS beginning as a graduate research assistant in 1969. From 1982 to 2004, Cook worked for IBS Computing and Research Services. See his obituary as printed in the Silver and Gold, November 18, 2004.
Delbert Elliott was named distinguished professor by the CU Board of Regents at its Dec. 9, 2004 meeting. He joins only 25 other CU-Boulder faculty members (including four IBS professional staff) ever to be named distinguished professor. The designation of distinguished professor is bestowed on members of the university's faculty "who have distinguished themselves as exemplary teachers, scholars and public servants, and who are individuals having extraordinary international importance and recognition," according to Regents' law. Elliott has taught at CU-Boulder since 1967. CU Office of News Services Press Release


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Impeachment of Supreme Court Chief Justice
During the inauguration speech of President Aquino, he mentioned about ways on improving the Philippine economy and eradicating poverty in the country. The President also warned those who were put in positions in the government by unlawful means, he warned those who have intentions to ruin or block the country on progressing. The President mentioned that the government wanted to gain back the trust of its people by reviewing midnight appointments. One of the midnight appointees of Former Pres. Arroyo is Chief Justice Renato C. Corona, who will undergo impeachment trial, which is one of the Aquino administration's attempts to remove corruption in the country.
The Philippines had begun its impeachment proceedings on Monday (January 16, 2012) against the nation's Chief Justice, Renato C. Corona, in the Senate. The Senate will serve as the judge to determine whether the Chief Justice should be removed from his position. The impeachment proceedings will be televised live and it is expected to end in three months.
This is yet another issue related to the corruption of the former administration of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Chief Justice Renato C. Corona is close to former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, he was Arroyo's former staff before he was appointed to the court in 2002. Corona, after President Aquino won the Presidential Election in 2010, became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. It was called by President Aquino as a "midnight appointment". Prosecutors wanted to prove that Corona has been protecting the former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from investigation and prosecution for a string of corruption charges by ruling in her favour. Corona declared to fight the charges and had said that all the accusations were part of an attempt to "ruin the court and our system of justice".
The arrest of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on November 18, took as a major step against corruption by the Aquino government. Jose Miguel Arroyo, husband of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has also been charged in the broadband case and prosecutors have indicated more charges.
The impeachment has divided the opinions of the Filipinos and many of them have extended called for prevalent corruption in the nation to be stamped outside. There are critics regarding the removal of Corona in his position, the veterans of the Arroyo's administration said that the moves appear to be a consolidation of power by President Aquino that will weaken the judiciary, legislature and Constitution. According to Senator Gordon, who served as the secretary of tourism under Mrs. Arroyo and ran for presidency against Mr. Aquino in the last election, the impeachment is not an effort to improve the governance but a crackdown on opposition. Some agrees not to remove the Chief Justice for the reason that it would affect the constitution.
Whaley, F. (2012). Philippine Judge's Trial Draws Interest, and Critics. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/14/world/asia/philippine-judges-trial-draws-interest-and-critics.html?_r=1.
Linao, G. (2012). Analysis: Impeachment trial puts Philippines on edge. Retrieved from http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1685350.php/ANALYSIS-Impeachment-trial-puts-Philippines-on-edge