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Mindful Eating Staves off Obesity
Regular yoga practice is associated with mindful eating, and people who eat mindfully are less likely to be obese, according to a study led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
The study was prompted by initial findings reported four years ago by Alan Kristal, PhD and colleagues, who found that regular yoga practice may help prevent middle-age spread in normal-weight people and may promote weight loss in those who are overweight. At the time, the researchers suspected that the weight-loss effect had more to do with increased body awareness, specifically a sensitivity to hunger and satiety than the physical activity of yoga practice itself.
The follow-up study, published in the August issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, confirms their initial hunch. "In our earlier study, we found that middle-age people who practice yoga gained less weight over a 10-year period than those who did not. This was independent of physical activity and dietary patterns. We hypothesized that mindfulness—a skill learned either directly or indirectly through yoga—could affect eating behavior," said Kristal, associate head of the Cancer Prevention Program in the Public Health Sciences Division at the Hutchinson Center.
The researchers found that people who ate mindfully—those who were aware of why they ate and stopped eating when full—weighed less than those who ate mindlessly, who ate when not hungry or in response to anxiety or depression. The researchers also found a strong association between yoga practice and mindful eating but found no association between other types of physical activity, such as walking or running, and mindful eating.
"These findings fit with our hypothesis that yoga increases mindfulness in eating and leads to less weight gain over time, independent of the physical activity aspect of yoga practice," said Kristal.
Kristal, a yoga enthusiast for the past 15 years, said that yoga cultivates mindfulness in a number of ways, such as being able to hold a challenging physical pose by observing the discomfort in a non-judgmental way, with an accepting, calm mind and focus on the breath. "This ability to be calm and observant during physical discomfort teaches how to maintain calm in other challenging situations, such as not eating more even when the food tastes good and not eating when you're not hungry," he said.
To test whether yoga in fact increases mindfulness and mindful eating, Kristal and colleagues developed a Mindful Eating Questionnaire, a 28-item survey that measured a variety of factors:
- disinhibition – eating even when full;
- awareness – being aware of how food looks, tastes and smells;
- external cues – eating in response to environmental cues, such as advertising;
- emotional response – eating in response to sadness or stress; and
- distraction – focusing on other things while eating.
Each question was graded on a scale of 1 to 4, in which higher scores signified more mindful eating. The questionnaire was administered to more than 300 people at Seattle-area yoga studios, fitness facilities and weight-loss programs, among other venues. More than 80% of the study participants were women, well-educated and Caucasian, with an average age of 42. Participants provided self-reported information on a number of factors, including weight, height, yoga practice, walking for exercise or transportation and other forms of moderate and strenuous exercise.
More than 40% of the participants practiced yoga more than an hour per week, 46% walked for exercise or transportation for at least 90 minutes per week and more than 50% engaged in more than 90 minutes of moderate and/or strenuous physical activity per week.
The average weight of the study participants was within the normal range—not surprising considering that the study sample intentionally consisted of people more physically active than the U.S. population in general. Body-mass index was lower among participants who practiced yoga as compared to those who did not (an average of 23.1 vs. 25.8, respectively).
Higher scores on the mindfulness questionnaire overall (and on each of the categories within the questionnaire) was associated with a lower BMI, which suggests that mindful eating may play an important role in long-term weight maintenance, Kristal said.


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The original Fox Professional oboe this model is available in all wood (400), all plastic (300), or a plastic top joint with wood lower joint and bell (450). These oboes utilize Fox's original acoustical design and have standard full conservatory keywork. The most traditional Fox oboes, these instrument are known for their stability, intonation, and durability.
Standard Features
- Plastic resin body
- Key work made of nickel silver with heavy silver plating
- Heavily silver plated posts, bands, and bell ring
- Stainless steel arbors
- Stainless steel wire springs
- Teflon tipped stainless steel adjusting screws
- High quality cork pads on low C and above
- High quality bladder pads on low B and B (flat) keys
Standard Keywork
- Full conservatory system
- Left hand F key
- F resonance mechanism
- F (sharp) key tab
- B tab
- Articulated C (sharp) mechanism
- A (flat)-B (flat) trill key with A height adjustment
- G (sharp)-A trill key
- Low C-C (sharp) trill key
- Assembly key C-D and B-C (sharp) trills
- Low B (flat) key with resonance vent
- Third octave key
- Split D ring mechanism
- Hand-made French style professional case
- Sheepskin lined case cover
- Three-reed case with reed
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24 Hr Petrol Stations near Cupar
24 Hr Petrol Stations
The main advantage of 24-hour petrol stations is their opening hours, which are unsurprisingly 24-hours. Many contain small shops that you can purchase from at any hour of the day or night but be warned, you may have to ask the assistant to select your shopping for you if you visit in the small hours wanting a snack, as they usually only have a small window open for security reasons and so they can operate on a skeleton staff.
As our society becomes and increasingly 24-hour world, people need and expect to be able to buy petrol or diesel at any time and this can be especially important for delivery and transport companies who have to travel at night. However, these days the average person also likes to be able to pop out and buy a pint of milk at 3am or a loaf of bread on the way home from their nightshift.
Most main supermarket chains run 24-hour petrol stations alongside their large stores, branded in their colours and logo. Some also operate a number of registered and own branded stand-alone petrol stations, but they are harder to come by outside major towns and cities. Service stations on motorways and main roads are primarily open 24-hours a day to provide a much needed service to those travelling at unsociable hours.
The pricing structure for these locations is usually at a somewhat premium rate, compared to the supermarket-based ones, because you have little choice about where to stop when travelling on motorways so there is a captive market. But although the responsibility is yours to ensure your vehicle is adequately fuelled, if the subject of fuel prices is a concern, and if available, then ustilise the information on your vehicle satellite navigation system to search for available garages away from the motorway.


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Los Angeles: Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Internal Affairs Division is nearing completion of a six-month long personnel complaint investigation surrounding a woman who fell out of a police car following her arrest.
On March 18, 2013, the Los Angeles Police Department initiated a personnel investigation alleging that officers from the Olympic Community Police Station were negligent on March 17, 2013, while transporting Ms. Kim Nguyen, who was under arrest for public intoxication. The citizen complaint was made by a relative of Ms. Nguyen and alleged that officers were negligent in transporting Ms. Nguyen resulting in her falling out of a police vehicle while being transported. During the transportation of Ms. Nguyen to jail, the rear door of the police vehicle opened near the intersection of Grand Avenue and Olympic Boulevard, and Ms. Nguyen fell from the moving police vehicle. Officers immediately requested paramedics to the scene and Ms. Nguyen was transported to a local hospital due to her injuries.
The personnel complaint investigation has been ongoing since March 18, 2013 and is nearly complete. A second personnel complaint was initiated on June 19, 2013, when the LAPD Legal Affairs Division notified Internal Affairs Division of a "Claim for Damages," which was filed on behalf of Ms. Nguyen. The two complaints were ultimately consolidated into one complaint as is customary when the allegations involve the same incident.
The findings of this investigation will ultimately be reviewed by the Chief of Police and he will determine whether disciplinary action needs to be taken against the officers over the incident. Although specific details related to personnel investigations are protected under State Law, the Los Angeles Police Department will ensure that Ms. Nguyen is made aware of the outcome of the investigation related to this incident.
Any questions may be directed to LAPD Media Relations at 213-486-5910.


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Improved Support for Window Functions in SQL Server 2012 CTP3
Itzik describes the enhanced support for window functions introduced in Microsoft SQL Server Denali CTP3.
August 31, 2011
For several years now the SQL Server community kept asking for more complete support for window functions in SQL Server. In a past blog entry, I explained what window functions are and what was missing in SQL Server so far. More complete support for window functions was among the most requested SQL Server improvements by SQL Server MVPs and the SQL Server community in general, and Microsoft listened…
SQL Server 2012 (formerly code-named Denali) CTP 3 adds more complete support for window functions, including enhanced support for window aggregate functions, as well as support for window offset and window distribution functions. In this entry I'm just going to highlight the enhancements. In future articles in my column I'm going to get into the details. The topic is so big that I wrote an entire book dedicated to it. The book will be published in a few months, probably after SQL Server Denali RTMs.
SQL Server Denali improves support for window aggregate functions by adding a window order clause and a window frame clause. This means that you can now restrict a subset of rows within the window partition. SQL Server supports a ROWS option that allows you to frame rows based on an offset from the current row in terms of number of rows. SQL Server also adds limited support for the RANGE option, which allows framing rows based on an offset from the current row in terms of values.
As an example for using the ROWS option, the following query issued against the sample database TSQL2012, computes the running total quantity for each employee and order month:
SELECT empid, ordermonth, qty,
SUM(qty) OVER(PARTITION BY empid
ORDER BY ordermonth
AND CURRENT ROW) AS runqty
FROM Sales.EmpOrders;
SQL Server Denali adds support for window offset functions LAG and LEAD which allow returning elements from a preceding or a following row. It also supports the FIRST_VALUE and LAST_VALUE functions which allow returning elements from the first or last row in a window frame. As an example, the following query returns for each customer order the value of the current, previous and next orders:
SELECT custid, orderdate, orderid, val,
LAG(val) OVER(PARTITION BY custid
ORDER BY orderdate, orderid) AS prevval,
LEAD(val) OVER(PARTITION BY custid
ORDER BY orderdate, orderid) AS nextval
FROM Sales.OrderValues;
SQL Server Denali also introduces support for window distribution functions. It adds window rank distribution functions PERCENT_RANK (for percentile rank) and CUME_DIST (for cumulative distribution). It also adds window inverse distribution functions PERCENTILE_DISC (percentile using discrete distribution model) and PERCENTILE_CONT (percentile using continuous distribution model). The last two are implemented as window functions and not as grouped ordered set functions.
As an example, the following query computes the percentile rank and cumulative distribution of student scores per test:
SELECT testid, studentid, score,
PERCENT_RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY testid ORDER BY score) AS percentrank,
CUME_DIST() OVER(PARTITION BY testid ORDER BY score) AS cumedist
FROM Stats.Scores;
As mentioned, this entry purpose was only to highlight the windowing improvements in SQL Server Denali. I will provide much more detail in future articles in my column and in a book dedicated to the topic.
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Keine Boote verfügbar
There is the special thrill that comes with the horsepowers of a motorboat. Whether you are in charge of the ride or are on a chartered boat with a professional crew, the thrill of the speed of a motorboat adds adventure to an adventurous trip.
Motorboats vary in sizes, from the smaller ones that are ideal for trips to islands and adventurous explorations of sites to the larger ones that can accommodate spending longer number of days on the sea. Whatever activities you schedule for a trip on a motorboat, the excitement and thrill are taken a notch higher by the speed of propulsion.


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Zhang was the picture of despair the first time I met him.
He had accidentally delivered a package to a neighbor of mine who took it and would not give it back. Now, trembling, he wanted to personally reimburse me for the lost item.
I refused to take his money, but for two days, he called me nonstop to apologize. At the time, I did not understand why he was so repentant. Then I found out how closely monitored — and severely punished — delivery workers like him are.
"Customers complain, and after multiple complaints, we get fined very heavily," says Zhang. NPR spoke with nearly a dozen delivery workers in Beijing for this story and agreed to use only surnames, because the workers could be punished for talking to a reporter.
The delivery workers described grueling routines: 12-hour days, six days a week, under the automated and watchful eye of mobile apps that track how and when they deliver hundreds of packages a day.
Delivery workers are a critical link in China's on-demand courier services, which ship more than 60 billion packages a year and generate nearly 1% of the country's annual economic activity.
Yet even as booming e-commerce platforms result in higher numbers of packages delivered each day, courier services are cutting the fees they pay delivery workers per package delivered. Five Chinese delivery workers told NPR their per-package fees had dropped by an average of 25% in the past year.
"Rewards are light" and punishments "heavy"
China's more than 3 million delivery workers are a ubiquitous sight on city streets, zipping around haphazardly on scooters and auto rickshaws. They ensure that a food takeout order can arrive in minutes; an online purchase, the same day.
But there is a dark side to this ultraconvenient service.
Their performance is evaluated by mobile apps on phones that the courier services give workers — these delivery logistics apps track their deliveries, sometimes deducting hundreds of dollars in penalties from monthly compensation that averages below $800.
"The rewards are light, but the punishments are always heavy," says a delivery worker named Wang who works for Zhongtong, one of China's largest courier services.
Good customer reviews earn delivery workers virtual points in the app, which serve as a buffer against deductions. In the case of a late package or a three-out-of-five-star review, the app will knock off points. Too few points, and a worker gets fined.
If Wang fails to garner at least one five-star review a month, he gets slapped with an $8 pay deduction. If someone complains by email, Wang is fined about $300, nearly a week's wages. Lesser offenses can carry fines of about $30 to $80.
"On those days, it is as if I worked the entire day, delivering 400 packages, for nothing," he says.
In China, customers are provided the delivery worker's mobile number for each package they order, giving the recipient a direct and highly personal link to monitor — or heckle — delivery workers.
"Many clients really like to make life difficult. They will call just to make you walk up 11 flights of stairs or to criticize you for not delivering their package to their door that very day," says Zhang, the delivery worker in my compound.
Yet he remains unfailingly polite on such calls. Display even a trace of anger to a customer and "they threaten to report you," says Zhang. He faces a $300 fine for such complaints.
Disputing those fines is nearly impossible — that's why Zhang was so scared when he lost my package, fearing I would report him.
"Always our mistake"
Zhang allowed me to tag along on a delivery run in November. He drives a three-wheeled cart of sorts more than an hour into central Beijing to deliver to my compound.
His route that day was relaxed — only about 60 packages to deliver. On most days he has about 200. I still struggled to keep up with the 21-year-old's hurried stride.
Zhang works for a smaller courier service that contracts with China's five biggest delivery platforms – each multibillion-dollar listed companies whose founders are among China's richest men. By contrast, delivery workers like Zhang earn only 15 to 30 cents per package.
Yet they are the crucial, last-mile step and the only customer-facing link in the logistics supply chain, meaning they are faulted for mistakes or delays that happen at any point along the way.
"Misplace a package because the customer wrote the address wrong? That does not matter — it is always our mistake," says Zhang.
Smudged packaging labels and vague addresses are the biggest source of delivery delays that diminish his monthly compensation, he says. Some clients have reported him for packages he delivered with items missing — because the e-commerce store never packed them.
Then there are the more arbitrary rules Zhang has to remember. For example, he is not paid for packages delivered outside the preferred time window. Customers who sign up for his employer's VIP courier service must be called when their package is delivered; Zhang's mobile app tracks whether he makes the calls and fines him $8 if he does not.
There have been a few dozen strikes this year by delivery workers fed up with unpaid or declining wages. In early September, Zhongtong delivery employees in Hubei province collectively resigned after the delivery fee they were paid per package was cut several times. Other Zhongtong employees staged a protest for unpaid wages dating back half a year. Employees at Yunda, another of China's largest courier services, left thousands of packages piled up in a walkout over unpaid salaries in June.
Food delivery workers at the popular Alibaba-owned Ele.me and Meituan services have staged multiple protests this year over low pay and dangerously rushed delivery routes. Meituan and Alibaba later introduced a new feature that lets customers tip their delivery workers — which prompted criticism from customers who were angry the financial burden was shifting to them.
Because delivery workers are considered temporary employees, they are not represented by China's state union, nor can they organize on their own.
Meanwhile, Chinese consumers are buying more stuff online than ever — and they want it instantaneously. And for every delivery worker who quits, there is another waiting to take his place.
Amy Cheng contributed research from Beijing.
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Ideal for small boat, transom applications (boats that do not have battery compartments), this power center features easy-access external battery terminals that allow trolling motor leads and charger leads to be connected without opening the box. A built-in battery meter displays current "state of charge." Fits group 24- and 27-size batteries.
WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (dehp) which is known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to P65Warnings.ca.gov.


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The Irish Times, 7 November 2015.
Find your niche and put focus on design
While design may seem like a luxury to many start-ups, the reality is that it can deliver very real returns.
A report by Sir George Cox for the UK Treasury in 2005 started with definitions of three key ingredients that could enhance business competitiveness: creativity, innovation, and design.
Creativity, Cox said, is the inception of new ideas, approaches to problems or discovery of new opportunities.
Innovation is the exploitation of these ideas. It transmits new ideas to the market in improved or entirely new products, services, methods and so on.
Design is the thing that binds creativity and innovation together, giving form to new ideas.
So, innovation occurs when a company combines creativity in how it solves a problem with a considered approach to design. Take the example of Maryrose Simpson, one of the finalists for Ireland's Best Young Entrepreneur.
Like many women, Simpson often found herself without supplies when her period came. What if, she reasoned, everything she needed could arrive at her door at the right time of the month every month? She did customer research and found a real market for the service.
Design matters Her service, MyLadyBug, will launch in early 2015. It will provide everything that the subscriber needs for that time of the month, along with surprise samples of uplifting treats.
What sets MyLadyBug apart from many start-ups is that Simpson not only zeroed in on a real and currently unserviced need, but she put 50 per cent of her effort into design.
"If my USP is convenience for women, then it has to arrive with zero friction, coming in the door on time and without any difficulty or need to visit the post office."
To that end MyLadyBug is cleverly designed to fit neatly through any letter box. In contrast, Jocks Box, a service that delivers underwear to men, ran into difficulties initially because the box meant the postman could not deliver, and subscribers often had to collect from post offices.
Simpson's focus on design enabled her cut down on cost too; she used cardboard prototypes to test and reduce the price of postage until she was sure she had a viable margin. By combining creativity in solving a real problem and focusing on design, Simpson has given her start-up a chance at success.
At the other end of the entrepreneurial scale, Liam Casey is CEO of PCH, a vast design, manufacturing and fulfillment system with revenues near $1 billion. His company controls every step of the process by which a product is made and ends up in the hands of a customer: design, selection of materials, manufacture, packaging, dispatch and communication. For him "design is number one" among all these processes.
Aim too low
In the rush to revenue, few start-ups prioritise design to the extent that Simpson has done with MyLadyBug. "Too often," as Cox said in 2005, "entrepreneurial enterprises aim too low or run out of steam."
There is a body of research that shows a concerted focus on design yields growth. Almost 10 years ago, the UK Design Council's national survey of firms found that, while almost half of UK businesses were forced to compete on price, only a fifth of design-focused businesses had to do so.
A further Design Council study in 2006 found that design-focused businesses consistently outperformed the general run of businesses in key stock market indices by 200 per cent over a 10-year period. They published another study of UK businesses in 2007 that found a design-focused businessincreased turnover by an average of £225 for every £100 spent on design.
Perhaps design seems like a superficial thing, the packaging rather than the thing itself. But, as Casey observes, "it is essential to use design thinking to think of the entire experience".
Even in tech services and products, to which engineering is integral, it is the design that dictates the moment of truth when a customer first interacts with the product. "Tech disappears behind the surface," says Casey. "When you click for a car on Uber or Hailo, you don't have to play with the technology for the servers to be available."
The combination of smart problem-solving and sensitive design can help start-ups of all types. As we enter Ireland's Year of Design 2015, now is the time to get serious about design as a catalyst for growth.
Dr Johnny Ryan is executive director of the UCD Innovation Academy


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The housing crisis in the U.S. has been going on nearly five years, with still regular revelations about misdeeds by banks and others. Here's our roundup of standout reporting on the crisis.
Lucrative fees may deter efforts to alter loans, The New York Times, July 2009
Banks and other mortgage servicers have made big bucks on the fees associated with delinquent loans, because of rules that one Federal Reserve Bank of Boston paper called a "perverse incentive to foreclose rather than modify." This piece surveys the homeowners caught in purgatory – and why the servicers seemed to want to keep them there.
Fannie and Freddie's foreclosure barons, Mother Jones, August 2010
One of the first stories to shed light on a "foreclosure mill." A Florida law firm tore through cases as quickly as possible, while frequently signing off on dodgy documents. The firm has since been shut down.
Grave errors as undead rework loans, The Wall Street Journal, July 2010
Homeowner Sarah Larson, a 33-year-old acupuncturist, tried to get a break on her $1,055-a-month mortgage from Bank of America. The bank requested three important documents: bank statements, a utility bill and her death certificate. She replied: "I am not sending a death certificate because I am not deceased. I am currently still living."
Mortgage mess: Shredding the dream, Businessweek, October 2010
How banks' carelessness and underinvestment in back-end infrastructure contributed to paperwork errors and lost promissory notes that many argue worsened the housing crisis.
Ties to insurers could land mortgage servicers in more trouble, American Banker, November 2010
Here's another way that mortgage servicers have profited from struggling homeowners: by forcing them to pay for expensive and unnecessary insurance policies.
The next housing shock, CBS' "60 Minutes," April 2011
This piece investigates the prevalence of "robo-signing," focusing on one company where a number of employees signed one woman's name to thousands of documents because her name was short. None of the major banks agreed to talk to "60 Minutes."
Obama's efforts to aid homeowners, boost housing market fall far short of goals, The Washington Post, October 2011
This in-depth, inside look shows the internal debate behind the Obama administration's stumbling efforts to deal with the worst housing crisis since the Great Depression.
Raging against the foreclosure machine, iWatch News, The Center for Public Integrity, January 2012
From the beginning of the foreclosure mess, struggling homeowners often defaulted due to accounting and paperwork errors by the mortgage servicing industry. Servicers claimed they'd addressed the systemic problem. But as this piece shows, the "veterans of the foreclosure wars" tell a very different story.
A mortgage tornado warning, unheeded, The New York Times, February 2012
Years before the crisis, a wealthy Florida businessman, who had lost his home in a questionable foreclosure, unearthed and compiled a "dossier of improprieties" on Fannie Mae. In retrospect, it looks like a blueprint for today's crisis — and raises several questions about how deep and how far back our mortgage problems go.
We at ProPublica also have long been digging into the administration's stumbling efforts and how Wall Street machinations ultimately super-charged the crisis.
If you have other great foreclosure reporting, email us at [email protected] or tweet it with the hashtag #muckreads.


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"Hello. My name is Fred Stein, I'm a photographer, left-wing, and I would like to take your picture."
This is how Fred Stein used to strike up a conversation with people he hoped to portray. Between 1933 and 1967 he managed to make more than 1,200 portraits this way. The words show he had not only the courage to approach people, but also a talent for quickly putting those who had caught his eye at ease.
Fred Stein took a passionate interest both in those he portrayed and their work. With André Malraux, Arthur Koestler, Egon Erwin Kisch, and countless other peers he discussed the political landscape in Europe of the 1930 and 40s. Willy Brandt and he became firm friends and remained so all their lives long, and likewise others whose portrait he made. In a letter of 10 May 1983, Brandt recalled:
"I met Fred Stein when we were both refugees and fighting the totalitarian Nazi regime with the rather modest means at our disposal. He was a man ahead of his time, an avant-garde and brilliant photographer, inspired by the commitment to justice and concern for truth so clearly reflected in his photographs. → continue reading


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Sep 9
Don't Lag: Hire an Health IT Mobility Expert for Your Healthcare Organization
Guest post by Randy Hickel, manager of worldwide healthcare business development, Printing and Personal Systems Group of HP.
Mobility and BYOD trends in healthcare are a hot topic. With more healthcare businesses transitioning work processes to mobile platforms for increased collaboration and productivity, data security can be a major concern.
It's clear that advanced mobile technologies allow healthcare employees – who are constantly on the move – to connect from anywhere, anytime; however, mobility can pose several challenges. By engaging with a health IT mobility expert, healthcare organizations can plan and build the appropriate infrastructure to manage various mobile devices, secure data and promote fluidity between paper and digital documents.
Prepare your IT infrastructure for BYOD
Personal devices in the workplace are quickly becoming the norm, rather than a trend, even in the healthcare industry. Administrative and medical staffs more frequently use personal devices, such as smartphones or tablets, to connect to work networks or enterprise systems. According to the Pew Research Center, in January 2014, 58 percent of American adults had smartphones and 42 percent had tablets. And for the first time ever, Americans used smartphone and tablet apps more than PCs to access the Internet.
Mobility focused IT experts can help healthcare organizations develop a mobile printing strategy that manages the growing number and diversity of mobile devices in the workplace, ensuring that staff can print securely using their mobile devices.


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Charlie's Whiskey by Harlow Brown
Coming to a kindle near you on January 13th
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Charlie Winstead pushes aside the pain and anguish she suffers daily and puts all her energy into her women's softball team, the Regulators. If only temporarily, the abuse bestowed upon her by her boyfriend halts for the time that she is behind the plate. Hensley has been her boyfriend for three years and the relationship progressed into a domestic nightmare. Realizing this, Charlie does what she needs to do to protect herself.
Whiskey Williams is a patched member of the Chosen Legion motorcycle club. He finds himself running from a dark and dirty past, looking for a new start. He relies on his brothers from the mother charter to help him. Once he arrives in Rudy, he sees Charlie and knows something must be done to help her. However, seeing as she is fresh out of her abusive relationship, she wants nothing to do with men.
Will the attraction between the two be enough to make Charlie give the troubled biker a chance? Or will he strike out?
The game of love is not as easy as three up, three down.


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Objects Overloading Operators
Maple objects can implement methods to allow objects to be used with the standard Maple operator syntax. The following example shows how an object can implement the ^ operator.
module MyInteger() option object; local value := 0; export ModuleCopy::static := proc( mi::MyInteger, proto::MyInteger, v::integer, $ ) if ( _npassed = 3 ) then mi:-value := v; else mi:-value := proto:-value; end if; end proc; export ModuleApply::static := proc( ) Object( MyInteger, _passed ); end proc; export toInt::static := proc( mi::MyInteger, $ ) mi:-value; end proc; export ModulePrint::static := proc( mi::MyInteger ) mi:-value; end proc; export `^`::static := proc( i1::MyInteger, i2::MyInteger ) MyInteger( i1:-value ^ i2:-value ); end proc; end module:
i1 := MyInteger( 1 ):
toInt( i1 );
i2 := MyInteger( 2 ):
toInt( i2 );
i3 := MyInteger( 3 ):
toInt( i3 );
i8 := i2^i3:
toInt( i8 );
Supported Operators
The following operators can be implemented by an object:
+, -, *, /, ^, !, .
=, <>, <, <=, >, >=
and, or, not, xor, implies
intersect, union, minus, subset, in
[], {}, ?[], @, @@, ~
&*, &name
The following operators, in particular, cannot be overridden:
?(), :-, ,, ->, :=
Note: These lists are not the same as the operators that can and cannot be overridden using a use statement.
Implementing Operators
In general, implementing operators is similar to implementing any object method. See the Overview of Object Methods page for more details.
Whenever an object with an overloaded operator appears in an expression using that operator the overloaded operator will be used, including within the definition of the operator itself. Thus one must be careful to avoid writing an infinitely recursive routine. To use a different version of the operator, the fully qualified functional form should be used.
Special Considerations
The + and * Operators
The + and * operators are n-ary as opposed to binary. In other words, a large sum or product containing objects will be converted to a single call to the + or * method, with each term passed as an argument. Thus the operator should be able to accept more than two arguments.
By accepting more than two arguments, the operator can analyze the entire statement at once and work intelligently on multiple objects in a single expression.
The following + operator implements addition for any number of MyInteger objects:
export `+`::static := proc( ints::seq(MyInteger), $ ) local x; MyInteger( add( toInt(x), x in [ints] ) ); end proc:
These two operators may also return a sequence instead of a single value. In this case, the sequence will be converted into a unevaluated sum or product DAG. This only occurs when the function is called as an operator or method, but not if called as a fully qualified function.
For example:
module Obj() option object; export ModuleApply::static := proc( ) 'Obj'; end proc; export `*`::static := proc( ) local x; op( map( x->f(x), [_passed] ) ); end proc; end module;
moduleObjoptionobject;end module
When the * operator defined above is called with multiple elements, it returns an expression sequence instead of a single element. When used as an operator, the expression sequence is converted to a product.
Obj * x * y;
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Likewise when the operator is called as a member function:
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However, when called as a fully qualified function, the conversion does not occur.
Obj:-`*`( Obj, x, y );
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The - and / Operators
If an object overrides the - and / operators, the corresponding procedures are only invoked with a single argument, as `-`(obj) or `/`(obj), respectively.
For an expression like obj1 - obj2, Maple first calls `-`(obj2), and then, if the `+` operator is also overloaded, calls it as `+`(obj1, mobj2) where mobj2 is the result of the first call. If the `-` operator is not overloaded but the `*` operator is, then Maple calls `*`(obj1, -1) instead of `-`(obj1).
Similarly, for obj1 / obj2, Maple first calls `/`(obj2), and then, if the `*` operator is also overloaded, calls it as `*`(obj1, dobj2) where dobj2 is the result of the first call. If the `/` operator is not overloaded but the `^` operator is, then Maple calls `^`(obj1, -1) instead of `/`(obj1).
Because of these "fallback" rules (using `*` if `-` is not defined, and using `^` if `/` is not defined), it is typically only useful to overload these operators if the implementation does something different than the fallback would do.
The = and <> Operators
An object can implement the = and <> operators. If an object implements the = operator but not the <> operator, the = operator will be used when <> is called in the following way:
true becomes false
false becomes true
FAIL remains unchanged
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The and, or, xor, implies and not Operators
When evaluating an expression involving a Boolean operator and an object (myObject and something), this will result in a call to the corresponding method. When evaluating the function form (`and`(myObject, something)), this initially results in the operator form being constructed but not evaluated. When the operator form is later evaluated (e.g. by evalb or in the condition of an if statement) the method will be invoked.
Consequences of Implementing ?[]
The indexing operator, ?[], is called when an object is indexed (for example, object[index]). As objects are implemented on top of modules, the indexing syntax has a default functionality for accessing module members, module[member]. If an object overloads the indexing operator, this default behavior is lost, and the module:-member syntax must be used instead. It is up to the implementer to decide whether to support the module[member] syntax in the ?[] export.
Together with lowerbound and upperbound, the indexing operator can be used for implementing iteration over an object, as an alternative to implementing a ModuleIterator procedure. See ModuleIterator for more details.
Overloading the || Operator
The || operator is the name concatenation operator. Thus the left hand side of a || statement evaluates to a name. This means that if a name whose value is an object appears on the left hand side of a || statement, that object will not be searched for an overloaded ||.
The || operator is used when evaluating the cat routine. As cat uses the normal evaluation rules, a name with an object for a value will be searched for an overloaded ||, regardless of where it appears in the argument sequence.
The in Operator
The operator in (displayed as ∈) can be used to test membership in lists and sets. If an object does not export in but does export member, then Maple will use member to decide membership: evaluation of the expression a∈b in a Boolean context, where a or b (or both) are objects exporting member results in a call to that procedure. Evaluation in a Boolean context happens, for example, in the condition of an if statement or in a call to evalb.
The help page Object,builtin explains the details of writing a member export.
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Naomi Osaka claimed her third Grand Slam title and second U.S. Open championship on Saturday, defeating Victoria Azarenka 1-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Osaka previously claimed Grand Slam titles in the 2018 U.S. Open and the 2019 Australian Open. She defeated Azarenka weeks after she was forced to retire due to injury in the previous WTA Master's Tournament, the Western & Southern Open.
Osaka, 22, was ranked 20th in the WTA rankings prior to the U.S. Open. Born in Japan and currently based in the U.S., Osaka has been playing professionally since 2016.
Saturday's final took place in an empty Arthur Ashe Stadium in the Flushing Meadows neighborhood of Queens, New York. The entire tournament took place without spectators due to the coronavirus pandemic.


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One of my team members consistently avoids making comments in his code.
His code is not self-documenting, and other programmers have a difficult time understanding his code.
I have asked him several times to comment his code, however he just gives excuses or claims that he will do it later. His concern is that adding comments will take too much time and delay the projects.
What argument can I present to him to convince him to properly document his code?
On that note, am I wrong to focus on the code comments or is this indicative of a larger problem which should be addressed?


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Historical Events for January 13th
Year 532
» Nika riots in Constantinople.
Year 888
» Odo of France named Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
Year 1435
» 'Sicut Dudum', forbidding the enslavement of the Guanches or Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish people e.g Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
Year 1547
» Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.
Year 1607
» The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of Sovereign default known as national bankruptcy in Spain.
Year 1666
» French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier arrived Dhaka and met Shaista Khan.
Year 1793
» Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
Year 1797
» French Revolutionary Wars: A Action of 13 January 1797 named naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths.
Year 1815
» War of 1812: British Empire called British troops capture Battle of Fort Peter or Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
Year 1822
» The design of the Flag of Greece or Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
Year 1830
» The Great fire of New Orleans called New Orleans, Louisiana begins.
Year 1840
» The steamship 'Steamship Lexington e.g Lexington' burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
Year 1847
» The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in California.
Year 1869
» National convention of black leaders meets in Washington, D.C.
Year 1893
» The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
Year 1893
» United States Marine Corps U.S. Marines land in Honolulu Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston 1884 6 to prevent the queen from abrogating the 1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii Bayonet Constitution.
Year 1908
» The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
Year 1910
» The Birth of public radio broadcasting first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera 'Cavalleria rusticana' is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House (39th St) Metropolitan Opera House in New York City New
Year 1913
» Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
Year 1915
» An 1915 Avezzano earthquake e.g earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
Year 1934
» The Candidate of Sciences degree is established in the Soviet Union.
Year 1935
» A Referendum called plebiscite in Saar (League of Nations) known as Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
Year 1939
» The Black Friday (1939) or Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
Year 1942
» Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
Year 1942
» World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a Germany called German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
Year 1951
» First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen begins, which will end in a major victory for France.
Year 1958
» The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Ifni War known as Battle of Edchera.
Year 1964
» Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.
Year 1964
» Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Kraków named Kraków, Poland.
Year 1966
» Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Year 1968
» Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison named performs live at Folsom State Prison
Year 1974
» Archbishop Seraphim of Athens called Seraphim is elected List of archbishops of Athens called Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
Year 1978
» U.S. Food & Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.
Year 1985
» A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
Year 1986
» A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden called Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
Year 1988
» Lee Teng-hui becomes the first Taiwanese people e.g native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.
Year 1990
» Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
Year 1991
» Soviet Union troops January Events (Lithuania) e.g attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding 1000.
Year 1993
» Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Endeavour or 'Endeavour' heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
Year 2001
» An 2001 El Salvador earthquakes The January 13 earthquake known as earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
Year 2012
» The passenger cruise ship 'Costa Concordia' Costa Concordia disaster named sinks off the coast of Italy. There are 31 confirmed deaths with one still missing, Russel Rebello, amongst the 4232 passengers and crew.
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If you have asthma, you know how it feels to have a flare-up. It's hard to breathe. You may cough a lot. Or you may hear a whistling sound in your chest. This is called wheezing.
If you have asthma, your chest may feel tight. You may feel tired and not want to play.
Try this: Use a paper horn to see how your lungs work. First, blow into the horn. The air goes in and out. That's what healthy lungs are like.
Now squeeze the middle of the horn—just like the healthcare provider in the picture. Air can't get in and out. That's what your lungs are like when you have an asthma flare-up.
Of course, lungs aren't exactly like a paper horn. Inside the lungs, air goes in and out through very small tubes. These tubes are called airways. Asthma makes airways a little bit inflamed all the time. That means swollen and red, like your nose when you have a cold.
Air can still go in and out. You may not notice a problem. But lots of things can bother inflamed airways. These things are called triggers.
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Macquarie Securities, the institutional equities arm of Macquarie Group ("Macquarie") (ASX: MQG; ADR: MQBKY), today announced it has selected SunGard's Fox River Execution Solutions ("Fox River") electronic trading software and infrastructure in the US. By integrating Fox River with Macquarie's global execution platform and dedicated environment, Macquarie will provide its clients with an independent trading environment, giving them the ability to customize their trading strategies and differentiate their services.
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By Rick Cooper
COOS BAY, Ore. – Registration has opened for Oregon Sea Grant's annual State of the Coast conference, which will be held Oct. 27 in Coos Bay.
Billed as Oregon's coastal conference for everyone, the event aims to bring together the public, scientists, fishermen, resource managers, artists, teachers, students and conservationists. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn, network and talk about the current status and future of Oregon's marine environment.
The keynote speaker will be science writer Sam Kean, who authored The New York Times bestseller "The Disappearing Spoon" and three other popular science books. His work has been featured on several public radio shows, including "Science Friday" and "Fresh Air."
Kean's talk is titled "A Sense of Wellbeing or Danger: How the brain perceives and creates a coastal scene." He will unpackage how the brain works, using examples from the natural world to demonstrate how our senses work together and how memory is processed in the brain.
Under this year's theme, "The Coast Through Your Senses," presenters will address a variety of topics, including:
- oil and gas off Oregon's coast
- what it's like spending time aboard a vessel on the sea
- how fishing families in Charleston, Ore., help each other
- coastal dunes: past, present and future
- the Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia Council, which provides recommendations on how to respond to these issues
- research on crabs and climate
- the decline of eelgrass, a plant in coastal waters and estuaries
- campaigns to ban plastic straws and bags
- an overview of Oregon's seaweeds
- former Gov. Tom McCall's famous Beach Bill speech, reenacted by Marion Rossi Jr., the associate dean of Oregon State University's College of Liberal Arts
- an effort to build a wave energy test facility off the coast of Newport, Ore.
- communicating science to lay audiences
- must-have coastal photos for science stories
Presenters will include state Sen. Arnie Roblan; wildlife photographer Jaymi Heimbuch, and Doug Helton, an emergency response supervisor with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Additionally, students from OSU and other universities in Oregon will talk about their coastal research. Coastal-themed artwork created by university students will also be displayed during the conference.
Registration in advance is recommended as space is limited. Cost is $40 for the public and $25 for students. It includes snacks, lunch and a reception. The conference begins at 8:30 a.m. and concludes with a reception that starts at 3:50 p.m. For more information and to register, visit www.stateofthecoast.com.
The event will take place at the Hales Center for the Performing Arts (Empire Hall) on the campus of Southwestern Oregon Community College at 1988 Newmark Ave.


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As regular readers will know, I've got a bit of a thing about evangelistic preaching, especially its relative rarity in the USA – at least compared to Scotland.
- What is evangelistic preaching?
- 4 kinds of evangelistic sermons
- Why is evangelistic preaching so rare today?
- 4 characteristics of evangelistic preaching
- 4 (more) characteristics of evangelistic preaching
In that first post, I defined evangelistic preaching: "It expounds God's Word (it is expository) with the primary aim of the salvation of lost souls (rather than primarily the instruction of God's people). Obviously there's a difference in content when a sermon is aimed at the unsaved more than the Christian. But there's also a difference in the tone, in the pathos. An evangelistic sermon has a more urgent, pleading, persuading, and personal feel to it.
As many have asked me for an example, here's a (far from perfect) attempt I made on Sunday evening. My fuller notes are here, my one-page summary notes are here, and the audio and video are here. Because I don't use my notes in preaching, there are usually some differences between what I prepared and what I end up saying. Some of that is intentional, and some of it is plain forgetfulness!
My text was the second part of John 10v10: "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." My points were:
- Jesus gives abundant spiritual life
- Jesus gives abundant intellectual life
- Jesus gives abundant emotional life
- Jesus gives abundant social life
- Jesus gives abundant physical life
- Jesus gives abundant eternal life
One caveat, the church has the unusual tradition of stopping the sermon about two thirds of the way through to sing a Psalter, after which the pastor preaches his last point. I'm told that you eventually get used to it.


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Temporomandibular joint and muscle disorders (TMJ disorders) are problems that affect the chewing muscles and joints that connect your lower jaw to your skull.
There are 2 matching temporomandibular joints on each side of your head. They are located just in front of your ears. The abbreviation "TMJ" refers to the name of the joint, but it is often used to mean any disorders or symptoms of this region.
Many TMJ-related symptoms are caused by the effects of physical stress on the structures around the joint. These structures include:
- Cartilage disk at the joint
- Muscles of the jaw, face, and neck
- Nearby ligaments, blood vessels, and nerves
- Teeth
For many people with temporomandibular joint disorders, the cause is unknown. Some causes given for this condition are not well-proven. They include:
- A bad bite or orthodontic braces.
- Stress and tooth grinding. Many people with TMJ problems do not grind their teeth, and many who have been grinding their teeth for a long time do not have problems with their temporomandibular joint. For some people, the stress associated with this disorder may be caused by the pain, as opposed to being the cause of the problem.
Poor posture can also be an important factor in TMJ symptoms. For example, holding your head forward while looking at a computer all day strains the muscles of your face and neck.
Other factors that may make TMJ symptoms worse include poor diet and lack of sleep.
Many people end up having "trigger points." These are contracted muscles in your jaw, head, and neck. Trigger points can refer pain to other areas, causing a headache, earache, or toothache.
Other possible causes of TMJ-related symptoms include arthritis, fractures, dislocations, and structural problems present since birth.
Exams and Tests
You may need to see more than one medical specialist for your TMJ pain and symptoms. This may include a health care provider, a dentist, or an ear, nose, and throat (ENT) doctor, depending on your symptoms.
You will need a thorough exam that involves:
- A dental exam to show if you have poor bite alignment
- Feeling the joint and muscles for tenderness
- Pressing around the head to locate areas that are sensitive or painful
- Sliding the teeth from side to side
- Watching, feeling, and listening to the jaw open and shut
- X-rays, CT scan, MRI, Doppler test of the TMJ
Sometimes, the results of the physical exam may appear normal.
Your provider will also need to consider other conditions, such as infections, nerve-related problems, and headaches that may be causing your symptoms.
Simple, gentle therapies are recommended first.
- Soft diet to calm the joint inflammation.
- Learn how to gently stretch, relax, or massage the muscles around your jaw. Your provider, dentist, or physical therapist can help you with these.
- Avoid actions that cause your symptoms, such as yawning, singing, and chewing gum.
- Try moist heat or cold packs on your face.
- Learn stress-reducing techniques.
- Exercise several times each week to help you increase your ability to handle pain.
- Bite analysis.
Read as much as you can on how to treat TMJ disorders, as opinion varies widely. Get the opinions of several providers. The good news is that most people eventually find something that helps.
Ask your provider or dentist about medicines you can use. These might include:
- Short-term use of acetaminophen or ibuprofen, naproxen (or other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs)
- Muscle relaxant medicines or antidepressants
- Muscle relaxant injections like toxin botulinum
- Rarely, corticosteroid shots in the TMJ to treat inflammation
Mouth or bite guards, also called splints or appliances, have long been used to treat teeth grinding, clenching, and TMJ disorders. They may or may not help.
- While many people have found them to be useful, the benefits vary widely. The guard may lose its effectiveness over time, or when you stop wearing it. Other people may feel worse pain when they wear one.
- There are different types of splints. Some fit over the top teeth, while others fit over the bottom teeth.
- Permanent use of these items may not be recommended. You should also stop if they cause any changes in your bite.
If conservative treatments do not work, it does not automatically mean you need more aggressive treatment. Use caution when considering treatment methods that cannot be reversed, such as orthodontics or surgery that permanently changes your bite.
Reconstructive surgery of the jaw, or joint replacement, is rarely required. In fact, the results are often worse than before surgery.
Support Groups
You can get more information and find support groups through the TMJ Syndrome Association at tmj.org/.
Outlook (Prognosis)
For many people, symptoms occur only sometimes and do not last long. They tend to go away in time with little or no treatment. Most cases can be successfully treated.
Some cases of pain go away on their own without treatment. TMJ-related pain may return again in the future. If the cause is nighttime clenching, treatment can be very tricky because it is a sleeping behavior that is hard to control.
Mouth splints are a common treatment approach for teeth grinding. While some splints may silence the grinding by providing a flat, even surface, they may not be as effective at reducing pain or stopping clenching. Splints may work well in the short-term, but could become less effective over time. Some splints can also cause bite changes if they are not fitted properly. This may cause a new problem.
Possible Complications
TMJ may cause:
- Chronic face pain
- Chronic headaches
When to Contact a Medical Professional
See your provider right away if you are having trouble eating or opening your mouth. Keep in mind that many conditions can cause TMJ symptoms, from arthritis to whiplash injuries. Experts who are specially trained in facial pain can help diagnose and treat TMJ.
Many of the home-care steps to treat TMJ problems can also help prevent the condition. These steps include:
- Avoid eating hard foods and chewing gum.
- Learn relaxation techniques to reduce overall stress and muscle tension.
- Maintain good posture, especially if you work all day at a computer. Pause often to change position, rest your hands and arms, and relieve stressed muscles.
- Use safety measures to reduce the risk for fractures and dislocations.
Alternative Names
TMD; Temporomandibular joint disorders; Temporomandibular muscle disorders; Costen's syndrome; Craniomandibular disorder; Temporomandibular disorder
Indresano AT, Park CM. Nonsurgical management of temporomandibular joint disorders. In: Fonseca RJ, ed. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 3rd ed. St Louis, MO: Elsevier; 2018:chap 39.
Lee E, Crowder HR, Tummala N, Goodman JF, Abbott J, Zapanta PE. Temporomandibular disorder treatment algorithm for otolaryngologists. Am J Otolaryngol. 2021;42(6):103155. PMID: 34214714. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34214714/.
Okeson JP. Temporomandibular disorders. In: Kellerman RD, Rakel DP, eds. Conn's Current Therapy 2022. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2022:522-525.
Pedigo RA, Amsterdam JT. Oral medicine. In: Walls RM, Hockberger RS, Gausche-Hill M, eds. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 9th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2018:chap 60.
Review Date 1/24/2022
Updated by: Michael Kapner, DDS, General Dentistry, Norwalk Medical Center, Norwalk CT. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, Brenda Conaway, Editorial Director, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.


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Ösel Tech (the "Company"), the owner of this website, is committed to protecting the privacy of its users. This Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") is designed to help you understand what information we gather, how we use it, what we do to protect it, and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Service. Unless otherwise indicated below, this Privacy Policy applies to any website that references this Privacy Policy, any Company website, as well as any data the Company may collect across partnered and unaffiliated sites.
For purposes of this Agreement, "Service" refers to the Company's service which can be accessed via our website at https://www.oseltech.com/ or through our mobile application. The terms "we," "us," and "our" refer to the Company. "You" refers to you, as a user of Service.
By accessing our Service, you accept our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, and you consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. In addition, by using our Service, or services across partnered and unaffiliated sites, you are accepting the policies and practices described in this Privacy Policy. Each time you visit our website, or use the Service, and any time you voluntarily provide us with information, you agree that you are consenting to our collection, use and disclosure of the information that you provide, and you are consenting to receive emails or otherwise be contacted, as described in this Privacy Policy. Whether or not you register or create any kind of account with us, this Privacy Policy applies to all users of the website and the Service.
We may collect both "Non-Personal Information" and "Personal Information" about you. "Non-Personal Information" includes information that cannot be used to personally identify you, such as anonymous usage data, general demographic information we may collect, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, preferences you submit and preferences that are generated based on the data you submit and number of clicks. "Personal Information" includes information that can be used to personally identify you, such as your name, address and email address.
In addition, we may also track information provided to us by your browser or by our mobile application when you view or use the Service, such as the website you came from (known as the "referring URL"), the type of browser you use, the device from which you connected to the Service, the time and date of access, and other information that does not personally identify you.
In order to help enhance the performance and functionality of the Service, we utilize session, persistent and third-party "cookies" that store a small piece of data on a users' computers and collect certain information about the users' visit to our Service. We also use cookies to understand users' browsing and buying activities so that we can measure the success of online advertising campaigns we run on the Service. We also use web beacons (either directly or from our partners), along with cookies, to determine if a user has visited a particular website. These beacons aid in providing more relevant advertising to the user, as well as measuring the success of an advertising campaign, but provide no personally identifiable information.
Cookies are small text files that web servers typically send to users' computer when they visit a website. Cookies are stored as text files on users' hard drive and can be accessed by web servers when the user visits a website or views an advertisement. A session cookie is a cookie that stores information as a user is using the Service but is deleted once the browser session is finished. A persistent cookie is a cookie that stores information as a user utilizes the Service and stores and uses that information in connection with future visits of the user to the Service. Third-party cookies and/or web beacons are cookies or web beacons provided by our technology and/or advertising partners. Any third-party cookie or web beacon that we authorize for use on the Site only collects that information described below for the same stated purposes as if we were directly collecting the information. For a third-party cookie or web beacon, the third-party will have access to the collected information in order to provide us with information or services to enhance the performance and functionality of the Service.
The cookies and web beacons we use collect non-personally identifiable information about users of the Service, including: IP address, browser used to access the site, date and time, the URL of the page being loaded, users who have visited a particular website(s), any previously assigned cookie identification (a unique identifier assigned to a user to identify repeat visitors), browser window size, the geographic location of the user, device and operating system used to access the Service. The information we collect from these cookies and web beacons is used to determine information about a user's visit, including the number of visits, average time spent, pages viewed, navigation history through the website, and other statistics. This information is used to enhance the user's experience of our Service and to improve the performance of our Service by, among other things, allowing us to monitor Service performance, making the Service easier to use, measuring the effectiveness of promotional placements, and tailoring the Service (including the ads and offers a user receives) to better match a user's interests and preferences.
Users who prefer not to accept cookies can set their Internet browser to notify them when they receive a cookie or to prevent cookies from being placed on their hard drive. If you consent to our collection of cookies and you subsequently wish to withdraw your consent, you will need to manage the settings on your web browser to delete all cookies and disallow further acceptance of cookies. Please note that disabling cookies on your browser will prevent us from tracking your activities in relations to our Service, however, it may also disable some of the functions and features and the Service may not work properly.
By continuing to use our Service, you are agreeing to our placing cookies and/or web beacons on your computer in order to analyse the way you use our Service. Please read this cookie policy carefully for more details about the information we collect when you use the Service.
Personal Information:
In general, we do not sell, trade, rent or otherwise share your Personal Information with third parties without your consent. We may share your Personal Information with vendors and other third-party providers who are performing services for the Company. Specifically, the Company works with third party vendors to provide a more customized experience for you. To do so, we disclose personally identifiable information about you that you may provide (specifically, your name and email address) to those vendors, though we do not allow them to re-sell or use that information for their own purposes. In general, the vendors and third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide for the Company.
However, certain third-party service providers, have their own privacy policies in respect of the information that we are required to provide to them in order to use their services. For these third-party service providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so that you can understand the manner in which your Personal Information will be handled by such providers.
In addition, we may disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or if you violate our Terms of Use.
Non-Personal Information:
In general, we use Non-Personal Information to help us improve the Service and customize the user experience. We also aggregate Non-Personal Information in order to track trends and analyse use patterns of the Service. This Privacy Policy does not limit in any way our use or disclosure of Non-Personal Information and we reserve the right to use and disclose such Non-Personal Information to our partners, advertisers and other third parties at our sole discretion.
We implement reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices in order to protect your Personal Information and ensure that such Personal Information is not accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. However, these measures do not guarantee that your information will not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of such precautions. By using our Service, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to assume these risks.
You have the right at any time to prevent us from contacting you for marketing purposes. When we send a promotional communication to a user, the user can opt out of further promotional communications by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in each promotional e-mail. Please note that notwithstanding the promotional preferences you indicate by either unsubscribing or opting out in the Settings section of the Site, we may continue to send you administrative emails including, for example, periodic updates to our Privacy Policy.
As part of the Service, we may provide links to or compatibility with other websites or applications. However, we are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by those websites or the information or content they contain. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by us through the Service. Therefore, this Privacy Policy does not apply to your use of a third-party website accessed by selecting a link via our Service. To the extent that you access or use the Service through or on another website or application, then the privacy policy of that other website or application will apply to your access or use of that site or application. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of other websites before proceeding to use them.
By using the Service, you represent that you are at least 18 years of age.
The Company reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post these changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. Any such modifications become effective upon your continued access to and/or use of the Service five (5) days after we first post the changes on the website or otherwise provide you with notice of such modifications. It is your sole responsibility to check this website from time to time to view any such changes to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to any changes, if and when such changes may be made to this Privacy Policy, you must cease access to this website. If you have provided your email address to us, you give us permission to email you for the purpose of notification as described in this Privacy Policy.
In the event we undergo a business transaction such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your Personal Information may be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge and consent that such transfers may occur and are permitted by this Privacy Policy, and that any acquirer of our assets may continue to process your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. If our information practices change at any time in the future, we will post the policy changes here so that you may opt out of the new information practices. We suggest that you check this Privacy Policy periodically if you are concerned about how your information is used.
We will send you Service-related announcements on occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our Service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, or a new enhancement is released, which will affect the way you use our Service, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. Based upon the Personal Information that you provide us, we may communicate with you in response to your inquiries to provide the services you request and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes. We may also use your Personal Information to send you updates and other promotional communications. If you no longer wish to receive those email updates, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each update or communication.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or the practices of this Site, or wish to withdraw your consent for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Information, please contact us.
Last Updated: This Privacy Policy was last updated on Tuesday, 14 May 2019.