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On practising in physical education : outline for a pedagogical model.
Background: Models-based approaches to physical education have in recent years developed as a way for teachers and students to concentrate on a manageable number of learning objectives, and align pedagogical approaches with learning subject matter and context. This paper draws on Hannah Arendt's account ofvita activato map existing approaches to physical education as oriented towards: (a) health and exercise, (b) sport and games, and (c) experience and exploration.Purpose: The aim of the paper is to outline a new pedagogical model for physical education:a practising model. We argue that the form of human activity related to practising is not well represented in existing orientations and models. To sustain this argument, we highlight the most central aspects of practising, and at the same time describe central features of the model.Relevance and implications: The paper addresses pedagogical implications the practising model has for physical education teachers. Central learning outcomes and teaching strategies related to four essential and 'non-negotiable' features of the practising model are discussed. These strategies are: (1) acknowledging subjectivity and providing meaningful challenges, (2) focusing on content and the aims of practising, (3) specifying and negotiating standards of excellence and (4) providing adequate time to practising.Conclusion: The practising model has the potential to inform new perspectives on pedagogical approaches, and renew and improve working methods and learning practices, in physical education.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the resistance (RES) to breathing in metabolic systems used for the distribution and measurement of pulmonary gas exchange. A mechanical lung simulator was used to standardize selected air flow rates ( , L/s). The delta pressure (∆p, Pa) between ambient air and the air inside the equipment was measured in the breathing valve's mouthpiece adapter for four metabolic systems and four types of breathing valves. RES for the inspiratory and expiratory sides was calculated as RES = ∆p / , Pa/L/s. The results for RES showed significant (p < 0.05) between-group variance among the tested metabolic systems, as well as the breathing valves and between most of the completed . The lowest RES among the metabolic systems was found for a Douglas Bag system, with approximately half of the RES compared to the automated metabolic systems. The automated systems were found to have higher RES already at low in comparison to previous recommendations. For the hardware components, the highest RES was found for the breathing valves while the lowest RES was found for the hoses. Conclusion: The results showed that RES in metabolic systems can be minimized through conscious choices of system design and hardware components.
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Children with chronic stress-induced recurrent muscle pain have enhanced startle reaction.
BACKGROUND: Children with recurrent pain of negative chronic stress origin from different locations have a characteristic pattern of tender points in the temporal, trapezoid, great pectoral and abdominal muscles. We tested the hypothesis that the startle reaction is activated in these children and that some of the startle-activated muscles are related to the tender point pattern and the recurrent pain.METHODS: In children/adolescents, aged 10-17 years, 19 with recurrent psychosomatic pain (PAIN) and 23 controls (CON) we measured and analysed resting activity and acoustic startle response with electromyography (EMG) for the muscles involved in the pattern of tender points and also the lumbar erector spinae.RESULTS: The PAIN group showed higher resting activity and higher acoustic startle response values than the CON group for all six muscles together regarding the mean amplitude in the initial 200 ms, and during the burst of activity, and longer burst duration and shorter burst latency. For PAIN versus CON, all separate muscles showed generally higher values of EMG amplitudes and burst durations, and shorter latencies for the burst onset in all measures; with significance or strong trends for several parameters and muscles.CONCLUSION: For the first time in children with recurrent psychosomatic pain, increased resting activity and potentiated startle response were demonstrated in the muscles involved in the stress tender point pattern.SIGNIFICANCE: This study demonstrates in adolescents how recurrent pain of negative stress origin from the head, stomach, back and chest is related to increased startle reaction and increased muscular tension in these regions. This study contributes to the understanding of the mechanisms underlying the global burden of recurrent pain.
BackgroundThe potential use of exergames in Physical Education and Health is surrounded by a growing discussion among practitioners, policy makers and researchers focusing on different expectations about the games. In this discussion there is, however, a need to further include issues about the learning content offered by these games, how the content is expected to be taught and about the potential consequences the use of games may have for learning and socialisation. This study focus on how meanings about health and the human body are offered by the game: What kind of teaching is delegated to the artifact when used in Physical Education and Health?Focus of inquiryThe aim of this article is to investigate how images of health and the human body and are taught by using exergames.Analytical framework and Research methodsThe empirical study builds on the use of an analytical tool called "Epistemological move analysis". Studies of teaching and learning have shown how teachers use different kinds of actions (for example instructive, confirming, re-orienting, generative, re-constructive and evaluative moves) in order to try to direct the meaning making in educational settings. In this study, these categories are used, developed and specified in the context of teaching in Physical Education and Health. The empirical material used consists of video recordings from sessions where the games Wii Fit Plus and EA Sports Active were played.Research findingsThe results of the analyses show how the games offer different kinds of epistemological moves: Instructive moves about the fit body and how to play the game, re-orienting moves used in order to help the players to modify their action towards a more relevant and effective way, generative moves used to help the players to think about how to play the game and confirming move about the players' gaming. In sum, the "teacher" constituted in the game is a teachers who instructs, confirms and encourages the players to move and exercise their bodies. But it is not a teacher who, in contrast to teaching in other contexts, is able to help the learners to make investigations or to participate in argumentation and discussion about for example images of health and the human body. Teaching in these games is constituted as a behavioral modification focused on an idea about a pre-defined and ideal body not expected to be discussed in education.
What do Wii teach in PE?
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In society, video- and computer games are often pointed out as risk factors in relation to physical inactivity, sedentary behaviour as well as increasing levels of obesity. At the same time, computers are an important source of knowledge where IT-competence and IT-experience provide pronounced advantages in society. In the middle of this paradox a new type of videogames is introduced, where body movement and physical activity constitute the central element. These games, so called exergames or active video games, are games where physical movement is involved in the game through the use of for example balance-boards, step-up boards and dance-pads. Exergames are now more and more put forward in several countries as interesting tools to use in physical education in order to stimulate young people to be physically active.In a recent review and synthesis of research on video games and health, Papastergiou (2009) strongly argues that videogames can offer "potential benefits as educational tools for Health Education and Physical Education, and that those games may improve young people's knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours in relation to health and physical exercise" (Papastergiou, 2009, p 603). However, Vander Schee and Boyles (2010) argue that exergames rather should be seen as a body pedagogy producing certain narrow meanings about health, and that the uncritical implementation of exergames in school is a problematic way to place commercial products in school. Consequently, there are differences in views regarding exergames in educational settings that are worth paying attention to in research about people's learning about the body, physical activity and health.The aim of this paper is to investigate how images of the human body are expected to be learned when using exergames.The use of artifacts – physical objects made by humans – is a central part of human life. In fact, there are many activities that would not be possible to perform without the use of them. In schools, students learn to use paper and pencils, computers, vaulting-horses, footballs and so on. How and why artifacts are supposed to be used in educational settings is however not given beforehand (Cuban 1986). The use of artifacts mediates certain meanings about the view of learning and the goals and choices of content in education (Almqvist 2005, Quennerstedt et al in press). In this paper, we will use discourse analytical strategies in order to analyse how meanings about the body are expected to be learned when playing exergames. The discourse analytical strategies involve an interest in how processes of discourse constitute how we experience or relate to ourselves as well as our environment (Laclau & Mouffe 1985). Discourses constitute what is possible to say or do as partial and temporal fixations (Foucault 1980). These fixations are imbued with power, values and ideologies. As Evans and colleagues argue: "/…/ health beliefs, perceptions and definitions of illness are constructed, represented and reproduced through language that is culturally specific, ideologically laden and never value free" (Evans et al 2008 p 46). MethodTo investigate what these games offer we have explored the manuals, the content, the animations of the games as well as the instructions and comments offered during game play. The empirical material consists of exergames most commonly used in schools: Wii fit and Wii sports (sports active). In the discourse analysis we have explored what is taken for granted in the empirical material in relation to other possible ways to argue. In this way we can explore what is included and excluded in the games and what is possible to think and act in relation to statements concerning the body. Expected OutcomesThe analysis shows how the logic of the game, its animations, instructions and feedback to the player, constitutes the ideal body as a physically active, well-balanced, slim and strong body. The use of the game, the balance board and the hand control, makes it possible to measure and register how the player follows this logic. The analysis also shows how the way the player is supposed to learn about the body is strongly influenced by behaviorism. In the paper we argue that this way of learning about the body is narrow and limited and that it is important to critically discuss the effects of the use of these games in schools. ReferencesAlmqvist, Jonas (2005). Learning and artefacts. On the use of information technology in educational settings. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Cuban, Larry (1986). Teachers and machines. The classroom use of technology since 1920. New York: Teachers College Press. Evans, John, Rich Emma & Davies Bryan (2008). Education, disordered eating and obesity discourse: Fat fabrications. London: Routledge Foucault, Michel (1980). Power/knowledge. Selected interviews & other writings 1972-1977. New York: Pantheon Books. Laclau, Ernesto & Mouffe, Chantal (1985). Hegemony and socialist strategy. Towards a radical democratic politics. London: Verso. Papastergiou, Marina (2009). Exploring the potential of computer and video games for health and physical education: A literature review. Computers & Education, 53(3), 603-622. Quennerstedt, Mikael, Almqvist, Jonas & Öhman, Marie (in press). Keep your eye on the ball. Investigating artifacts in physical education. Interchange. Vander Schee, Carolyn J. & Boyles, Deron (2010): 'Exergaming,' corporate interests and the crisis discourse of childhood obesity. Sport, Education and Society, 15(2), 169-185.


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Q: Android Button Animation spin 180 degree I have a simple android project that is a blank activity page with a button at the center . I want when i click on button it spin 180 degree (Like the image matching game when click the button return and the background show ).
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"
tools:showIn="@layout/activity_main" tools:context=".MainActivity">
<Button
    android:layout_width="400px"
    android:layout_height="400px"
    android:id="@+id/btn_play"
    android:layout_marginTop="174dp"
    android:background="#001eff"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />

Sorry for my bad english and my easy question .
Thanks.

A: You can use ObjectAnimator for this.
btn_play.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view)
            {
            ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(view, "rotation", 0, 180).start();
            btn_play.setBackgroundColor(Color.RED)
            }
        });

A: Try implementing roation animation
create rotation.xml in res/anim folder:
<rotate xmlns:android=""http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"">
  android:duration="4000"
  android:fromdegrees="0"
  android:pivotx="50%"
  android:pivoty="50%"
  android:todegrees="180"
  android:toyscale="0.0"
</rotate>

And in your activity on button click :
  btn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()    {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View arg0) {
               final Animation animation= AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getApplicationContext(), R.anim.rotator);

                       animation.setAnimationListener(new Animation.AnimationListener() {
                           @Override
                           public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {
                             btn.startAnimation(animation);
                           }

                           @Override
                           public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) {
                               btn.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.anotherImage);
                           }

                           @Override
                           public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {

                           }
                       });

                   }
            }
        });

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Sunil Kowlgi
programmer and video startup founder
How to make short videos and raise a $1 Billion seed round
Posted on December 25, 2018 January 13, 2020 by Sunil Kowlgi
Startups raising seed rounds rarely make the news but this one did, for a reason. In October 2018, a US startup called Quibi raised a massive $1 billion seed round, which is 1000x the average seed round for startups. You might be thinking how and why they got so much funding. To find out I listened to an interview with the Quibi founders. Not only did I find the answers I was looking for, but also got insights on video history, storytelling, unit economics and consumer preferences.
Quibi is founded by Meg Whitman, former CEO of HP, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, the K in Dreamworks SKG. I've transcribed parts of the interview I found most interesting, along with my commentary on some key points.
Meg Whitman opens with the elevator pitch for Quibi.
[Whitman] What we're trying to do is to bring the best of Hollywood and the best of Silicon Valley together in a way that's never been done before. And it is really bringing right-brain, non linear thinkers, storytellers together with left-brain engineers and what we're trying to do is create a platform where we offer short form, I'm going to describe that in a minute, short form video of Hollywood production quality built for mobile, and mobile first, mobile only honestly. It's a very unique use case because today you leave your home every morning with a television in your pocket and you have these in-between moments during the day, 10 minutes here or there, and today you're checking you know instagram or social networking, you're playing casual games, you're surfing the internet and what we're going to offer is a step-function improvement in quality and storytelling and user experience because as Jeffrey said, the content needs to be as differentiated as the tech platform and doing it in a way that has never been done before. So, we're excited, the name of the company is Quibi, for a long time it was called New TV, that was never actually the name, and we kept referring to this kind of content as quick bites, quick bites during your day..and one day we looked at each other and said 'quick bites!' we should called it Quibi, and it stuck, so that's the name of the company and we're off and running.
Next, Katzenberg describes the market for Quibi and compares it to HBO, along with a lesson on storytelling and history of video entertainment from the 90s until now.
[Katzenberg] And maybe just to help people understand from a content standpoint, I think there's three kinds of things to describe to you that if you go back to.. So today as Meg said, if you're 25 to 35 years old, which is our core audience, who we're targeting on this, you're watching 70 minutes of short form content a day. It's going up like this — it's over 30 minutes year over year. So, people love what they're seeing. There's nothing wrong with short form content, it's just highly differentiated from the kind of production and quality we're able to invest down here. The analogy I would make is if you go back to television in the late 80s early 90s, which is when network TV was literally at its pinnacle. There were multiple TV shows that had audiences from 30-40 million people a week watching them — Seinfeld, Friends, ER. HBO comes along and says we're not TV, we're HBO. They weren't being derogatory, that wasn't a pejorative statement, it just said we're going to be differentiated. So they eliminate commercials, they change the form and format of storytelling, they're not beholden to 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 13 episodes and 26 episodes. That alone is almost kind of revolutionary in narrative storytelling. Also, they're not beholden to standards and practices, so things that you literally could not put on network television, you know language, sex, violence, nudity. So you have Sex and the city, Sopranos, the Wire, none of those shows could air on network TV. And then, finally, they invest in and put a level of capital to work to support the level of production that ads-supported simply could not afford. so, in 2002 they ordered 10 episodes of Band of Brothers for $125 million, if you translate that to today it's close to $30 million an episode, so far above and beyond what any body else was doing. So, if they say, we're not TV, we're HBO, what we would say is we're not short form we're actually Quibi. And, a way to think about this in terms of storytelling, in terms of our lighthouses, the things that we think will be brand-defining for us, there's an analogy to give you in another form of story telling that has actually already tackled this and done it in a remarkable way — so, novels, pretty much for ever, many many many hundreds of years, a typical chapter in a typical novel will be 20-40 pages long. Simple reason — when an average person sits down to read — a page a minute — in 30 minutes your eyes are tired. So, publishers have been saying, and editors have been saying to their authors for ever — if you don't want somebody to stop in the middle of a chapter, don't write them longer. I've yet to meet that author who thinks that it's a good idea for us to stop up in the middle. An author comes along, about 16-17 years ago, and actually goes at this — and he's not the only nor is he the first but he's the one that got the attention to me. Dan Brown writes the Da Vinci code – 464 pages long, 105 chapters. The average chapter is less than 5 pages. And, I would argue there's not a single thing about the DaVinci code that's lesser other than the length of its chapters. He told a great story with all the complexity of it and so that analogy is what we're setting out to do — telling things that you would think of are movies 2-3hrs in length, a tried true, tested form of narrative, and that we're delivering them in these act breaks which are under 10 minutes. Now, again, delivering an act break is something that Hollywood has been doing for 70 years — every time you turn on a TV and watch a network show, they are delivered an act break. So, if you're watching This is Us, the first act break comes at 8 minutes and 30 seconds, every single time, every single week. And, the show length is 42 minutes, it's not 42 minutes and 3 seconds, it's not 41 minutes and 41 seconds, it's 42 minutes to the second. So, as storytellers, we have a talent pool, who for many many decades has perfected this idea of writing to these prescribed act breaks. So, we're converging, it's not new science, and actually applying tried, true, tested ways into what creates a new format.
We've learnt what Quibi is doing, but a big question remains.
Why start with a billion dollars?
Katzenberg goes into the economics of video. TL;DR: there is no available library of high-end short-form video content, Quibi has to build it from scratch.
[Katzenberg] The way to think about the market is you look at the evolution of the YouTube platform, which is truly one of the most spectacular media platforms, certainly at scale, ever created. And they've really done a remarkable and brilliant job here. So, this is literally now 13 years old, and it started with cat videos, seriously. And now, through this tremendous capital investment, many billions of dollars, into both the platform itself and scaling it on a global basis and then opening it up and bringing monetization to it. There are so many things that they have accomplished with it, they have 1.9 billion montly active users watching more than a billion hours of content every day. When they put this monetization in place, they actually created an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs and creative and innovative people who really built this entire new ecosystem. And a new form of engagement with audiences. And it's been very successful to a point. So, we started with user generated content and about 5 or 7 years they brought this monetization, any body could actually get ad support for their content. They would take a 45% distribution fee, and they would actually sell programmatic advertising. The result of that was, this now amazing professional class that grew into this, and I'm going to say this in a good way, please don't turn this phrase into a negative, it's now a semi-professional group of storytellers and creators, who have done extraordinary and very imaginative things. They're doing an amazing job with very limited resources. So, let me just put this into context so that you understand in a way why I so admire what they've done. In terms of the amount of money that you can invest in a piece of content and actually recover that money, if not make a small return on it, is a couple of thousand dollars a minute. So, you went from user generated content which is 0 cost, and now when it went into this professional content, which ranges from about $500 a minute up to a couple of thousand dollars a minute. You know I was involved at Dreamworks where we had awesome TV, we had a very successful company and brand, and our content ranged in that $500 to $1500 a minute. There are few things we did that are more than that. Look at $3000 as sort of the top amount that is being spent, Go90 came along and actually doubled that. So there are few people that have dabbled in it. Well an average scripted hour of television today whether it's on cable, broadcast or streaming videos, is a $100K a minute. A movie is a $100K a minute. You know you can be really talented and really gifted and really interesting and all those things, at $3000 a minute vs. JJ Abrams at $100K a minute, I'm sorry it's just a different content and it's a different quality.
[Whitman] The reason there's this whitespace out there, of this very high quality short form content where no one is doing it, is because if your only monetization mechanism is advertising you can't make it pay the $100K a minute times 10 minutes, you've got a $1 million piece of content. Even YouTube cannot sell enough advertising to generate a return on that. So, we've got to monetize this with subscription and advertising, more subscription than advertising. And that changes the economics dramatically.
[Katzenberg] That's why networks couldn't compete with HBO when they went out and made Band of Brothers.
We are in the middle of a golden era for video entertainment, there are more high quality shows produced today than ever before. In contrast, the music industry has gone into decline. Katzenberg attributes the decline to unfair music pricing.
Why the music industry caved in but TV did so well
Katzenberg compares the music and video entertainment industries in terms of their price-value proposition.
[Katzenberg] I think the television movie industry has done a much better job of always looking to create a price value proposition for its customers that created incremental values. So, whether it was going from movie theaters to network then to cable, then to VHS, DVD, every decade or so there is a new way in which our content is packaged, repackaged, and offered up to consumers in a great price-value proposition, which obviously Netflix is the latest, most spectacular version of that. The music business actually has not done and did not do as good a job. If you go back to the Jurassic era, when I started listening to music, when you would buy an album there were 3-6 songs on that album of 10-11 songs that were actually hits. I go back to literally Saturday Night Fever and Grease, about things that were movie driven, Flashdance, Footloose, Good Morning Vietnam, there's movie after movie after movie soundtracks, multiple tracks and that was true of an album. You bought a Beatles album or a Rolling Stones album, there were many. Then, CD disc comes along, and I'm not sure who was driving what here, they eliminated the singles business, and you had to earn an album. You had to put out multiple singles and if you had successive successes in a single, then you actually earned an album and an album came out. What the record companies ended up doing is, let's just skip all that, one song put it on an album and now sell an album for $15. You didn't have to earn an album any more. There were multiple instances where the music industry took advantage of its customer and as it always happens in any business when you do that, ultimately customer is going to win, and is ripe for disruption.
If you're interested in listening to the whole interview, you can play it below.
Marc Andreessen interviews Jeffrey Katzenberg — formerly CEO and co-founder of DreamWorks SKG (and chairman of Walt Disney Studios during some of its biggest hits), now co-founder of tech holding company WndrCo — and Meg Whitman — former President and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and now CEO of Quibi ("quick bites"), focused on short-form mobile video.
In conclusion, Quibi is 1) building a library of high-quality short form video content that doesn't exist and is expensive to make and 2) it's floated by tech and entertainment industry veterans. Quibi is coming soon, get ready to microwave some popcorn.
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Councils suspend parking charges to support key workers
Glasgow and Edinburgh among local authorities to implement new measures amid coronavirus outbreak.
Local authorities across Scotland have suspended parking charges to help support key workers using their cars.
Glasgow City Council is among those to adopt the changes, which are aimed at reducing reliance on public transport at a time when buses and trains are operating a reduced service.
Elaine Ballantyne, SNP councillor for Baillieston, said: "From Monday 23rd March, GCC will suspend on-street car parking charges following current government advice to avoid, when possible, use of public transport."
Edinburgh City Council has also moved to implement new parking measures.
Residents in the capital will be given dispensation to park in pay and display spaces within their permit zones to "make it as easy as possible to park near their homes while working from home or self-isolating".
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HomeIs My Hearing Loss Getting Worse?
Is My Hearing Loss Getting Worse?
I fear my hearing is getting worse. Since the summer ended, I have been having a harder time following conversations. I more often mishear questions asked by store employees. I stare blankly at the waiter when he is reading the specials. I have also become more sensitive to loud noises like announcements over loudspeakers and trucks barreling up Third Avenue. I am having more trouble hearing my husband and daughter.
Maybe it is just an adjustment period as I settle back into my post-summer life. Rather than days of listening to the wind blowing in trees and the silence of the country, I am back in the city with its constant energy and background noise. Instead of lazy days by the pool, I am busy on conference calls and in meetings. Maybe I am just out of practice such that my hearing loss exhaustion is having a greater impact.
This has happened before. Every year or so I feel my hearing loss take a dip. This can be brought on by a head cold or frequent air travel. In these cases it is typically temporary and accompanied by an increase in my tinnitus.
But other times the loss is more permanent. I have my annual hearing tests to prove it. Since my first audiogram, my hearing loss has slipped from mild across the board to a moderate loss in the low and speech-range frequencies.
My hearing loss is genetic so I have some idea about the progression my hearing loss may take over time. Unfortunately, the only audiogram I have from my father is one from when he was around 60 years old. His speech range loss was moderate/severe at the time, and his loss in the high pitches was severe. Is this what awaits me? That would be a drastic change given my strong high pitch hearing today.
Alas, there is not much I can do about it other than to continue to develop my communication skills — practicing lipreading, seeking out accommodations as needed, and advocating for better acceptance for people with hearing loss. This way I will be as prepared as possible to continue to thrive no matter what my audiogram throws at me.
The good news is that hearing loss assistive technology gets better every day and scientific research in the field also continues to advance. Despite my fear, I am optimistic that I will have better tools at my disposal to cope with whatever comes my way. Fingers crossed.
Readers, do you ever worry that your hearing loss is getting worse?
I know my hearing loss is getting worse. Mine is also genetic in my 1 working ear. My mother & my aunt had hearing aids when they were in their 30's…back in the 1960's when they were not attractive pieces of equipment. My mother refused to wear hers. My aunt has always worn hers & was much more active in the community than my mother.
I guess it's time for my annual exam. I wonder how much closer I am to slipping into the severe category?
I am glad you stay on top of it. It is scary, but always best to know the facts. Good luck to you on your exam.
I worry about it all the time. I have only one ear that functions with a hearing aid while the other side is adjusting to a recent CI. Over the years I have had to move up to more powerful HAs as my hearing became worse.
What you are reporting, Shari, is worthy of careful monitoring. Yes, it may be a passing situation and it may be a permanent change. I remember you saying you wear HAs that remain installed, which means they are small and probably not as powerful as larger external units. So you may have the chance to take advantage of the growing technology as the need arrises. Take your own advise and stay on top of it. Keep us posted.
I will stay on top of it. Thank you Jerry for reminding me of my own advice! Hope you are doing well!
YES!!!!!! I totally feel that way. And it's true, my hearing has slipped from mild to moderate in my right ear and from normal to mild in my left. WHAT IS HAPPENING!?!?!?!?!!!!!
It is important to get a hearing test to know the facts. That way you can make the most informed decisions about your hearing loss. Same for me.
I enjoy your blog and read it more often than I comment, just wanted you to know!
Reading your blog today made me remember when the same thing happened to me. Since I had severe/profound hearing loss (from nerve damage, but also hereditary) and it was getting worse . . .
When I woke up in the morning, before I put my hearing aids, I could hear my husband speaking. But, almost suddenly, that wasn't possible. I had to put my hand on his jaw and feel his voice through vibration to figure out what he said. I'm a good lip reader, but not perfect, and without hearing aids, feeling sound through his jaw had become necessary.
I feared waking up one morning with no sound because I didn't know any sign language then it was terrifying. I had read about an oil they discuss in this blog https://healingthedizzies.wordpress.com/2015/06/13/helichrysum-essential-oil-for-hearing-loss-tinnitus-and-ear-healing/ Helichrysum Italicum, or Everlasting, Immortelle (yes, it's great for your face too). It's a flower they make essential oil from. L'Occitane uses it in their expensive facial moisturizers and serums.
I applied it behind my ears, in front of my ears, around the edge, and down from the ear as if draining in the neck. I applied to the back of my neck hairline, and also to my two smallest toes on each foot. I also applied it to the big toe. My audiologist had explained my hearing loss concerned the brain and the ears, and the big toe corresponds to brain nerve endings.
Within 30 minutes, I heard my air purifier for the first time. It was right next to me and for three months, I thought it was soundless!
Over two months, I heard new sounds every day. I regained the ability to hear which direction a plane was approaching from, and to recognize new music (it had stopped making sense before the Helichrysum). Your car radio volume is a good test–and I went from volume 14 (which is pretty loud in that car) to volume 8 being comfortable. I regained the ability to hear outside the room I was in. Not clearly with words, but I knew when someone was washing dishes across the house! That hadn't been possible in the 15 years I'd lived in that house . . . until after Helichrysum. I also gained levels of music. Songs I thought I knew gained new parts and instruments!
I had my hearing tested before and after, and the difference was 10 decibels gained, plus I gained a "hole" in my hearing range for both ears. On the audiogram before, there was nothing in one spot for both ears. I wondered if that was why I lost the ability to understand music then. At first my audiologist seemed skeptical, but after a third hearing test, she asked me what I was using and listened well to my answer!
I used the brand Aura Cacia Helichrysum Essential Oil mixed with Jojoba Oil, which is a cheap way to try it, because undiluted, it's usually around $100 a bottle (it takes tons of flowers to make the oil). Aura Cacia's diluted blend is about $15 and they sell it online and at many health food stores where they sell essential oils.
I blended about 4 drops of Helichrysum with a teaspoon of emu oil, and stirred it around in a circle with my finger. I used emu oil because I'd read it penetrated more levels of skin and since then, I believe emu oil makes the Helichrysum support my hearing better. Wash your hands after you use it, because it can dry out your eye if you get some near your eye, easily remedied by using eye drops.
This expensive little oil works quite well diluted. It's incredibly powerful.
By the way, one of the oils they mention in the blog post I provided the link for is Helichrysum Blend, which is from a great company, Hopewell Oils. It smells heavenly, but the blend, which is created to substitute the more expensive Helichrysum essential oil, didn't give me any results. Aura Cacia did work for me, and of course, later I bought full-strength Helichrysum essential oil and blend that at home myself with jojoba and emu oils.
If you research "Helichrysum Italicum testimonials" or "Helichrysum Italicum hearing loss" on Google, or even search with just "Helichrysum testimonials," "Helichrysum hearing loss," and you'll find many answers and YouTube has some videos showing how people apply it.
Maybe Helichrysum works like a vitamin in the ear, or a detox. A side effect was I had one of the most allergy-free seasons of my life and the skin of the hand where I mix it is noticeably younger, fairer, less freckled, and less dry than the other.
Like many people will tell you, Never put essential oils IN your ears. They are far too strong! These are not like olive oil. No. Much, much stronger. Instead, use outside and around the ear. If it works for you, you would notice in a few days, applying twice a day. Everyone who tried it that I know had results within two days. One within 30 minutes, like I did. She said she wasn't having trouble hearing me over traffic like she usually would and kept staring at me in shock.
Each of our hearing is different, and Helichrysum has given far more results to others than to me, but I hope this will provide some relief for some of you, maybe a little boost to feel better. When we have hearing loss, we get used to adapting to the world with what we have, and losing more presents a lot of unwelcome challenges with no solutions from our doctors but new hearing aids.
Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts. I have not seen any easy fix for hearing loss that really works, but I wish you luck with your methods. Best of luck to you!
Like you, Shari, I worry about my ever-deteriorating, inherited hearing loss. In the ten years since my initial diagnosis, I have gone from a mid/moderate loss to a moderate to severe loss. I don't need to wonder much about where I might bottom out as my father was profoundly deaf in his early 80s. I take comfort in the knowledge that hearing technology is always improving and I may be a candidate for cochlear implants in the future. I also try to advocate for myself and others withhearing loss. I have found attending my local HLAA chapter meetings to be tremendously helpful. It's great to be amongst others who know just what I'm going through!
Great advice Pat. Thanks for sharing your suggestions and ideas.
I live with a person whose hearing has been slipping, slipping, slipping. I'm a close-up observer of the ups and downs–emotional as well as physical. He's now got "technical assistance" in both ears–he wants to hear his grandchildren, whose voices are, of course, reedy and thin. I'm beginning to find them a little harder to hear, yoo. It's not my favorite thing about aging but, like you, patience, perspective, understanding what's happening to you in particular [not to others] is the best way forward. Help is out there and getting better all the time..
I love your upbeat attitude and perspective. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Don't panic! There is hope. Over 45 years, my hearing loss has progressed from moderate to profound. Every time my hearing gets worse, the technology in hearing aids and assistive devices gets better. The progress in the last ten years had been amazing! The most important thing is to work with an audiologist who understands your needs, knows the technology and can help you adjust as your hearing gets worse. Good luck!
Thanks Ruth. The advancement in technology is amazing.
I felt exactly the same but my audiogram is fairly static which is good news. The audio(not my usual lady) suggested my brain was slowing down ! She went on to say that because I rely on my brain so much to hear ,the natural aging process of the brain means it is slower to work it all out. Gulp !
Gulp is right, but it is also probably true. Glad to hear that your audiogram is stable. The good news is that the technology available to help only gets better. Thanks for sharing your story.
Thanks for sharing your story. Hearing aid technology continues to advance rapidly. We all have our fingers crossed that this will continue. Best of luck to you!
Thanks – I am still grappling with accepting my new reality. I have no choice, but to keep going as I have two little ones at home who need their daddy. In time I suppose it will be easier.
Good luck and somehow I think having two little ones will help you. I hope so.
I also am slowly getting worse. But I also think that this time of year, I hear a little less due to nasal congestion and allergies. The ear doctor thinks that because of the severity of my hearing loss, I am more aware of any additional loss due to congestion. Since there is no objective way other than an audiogram to measure how well we hear this week versus last week, it's impossible to tell. So I use decongestants and nasal sprays this time of year.
Yes, the time of year may have something to do with it. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
I think my hearing is getting a little worse than it was. I've known that it will as it's a genetic loss that's in my late father's side of our family. All my male precedents ended up profoundly deaf in old age.
I'm conscious of the fact that I am now ramping up the volume setting on my hearing aids to a louder setting in most situations where I could hear fine on the default setting the aids went to when I put them on.
I'm also relying more on my pretty basic lip reading skills than I ever used to do.
Apart from thinking about getting tested again, I'm wondering about learning British Sign Language while I can still hear reasonably well.
Good idea to get tested again to know for sure. Thanks for sharing your story.
Anyone tried this (i.e.: vitamins) with success?
I have not tried it. Thanks for the question.


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Q: How to chain ranges::view conditionally? Simply put, how do I programnatically branch on a view chain construct?
Because now what I can think of is just #if, in which is not a very good idea.
auto adaptor =
   view::drop(x0)
#if branch1
   | view::drop(x1)
#elif branch2
   | view::filter(ft1)
#endif
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After googling awhile, I just think the only available option now is that you have to "blend" logic into view::xxx_while or any predicatable view with mutable lambda or whatever.
However, it turns out quite okey already.
auto adaptor =
   view::drop(x0)
   | view::drop_while([captures](auto&&) mutable { ...blend it here... })
   | view::filter([captures](auto&&) mutable { ..blend it here... })
   | view::stride(s1);

Anyway, if view::enable_if can some how be avaiable in the future, I think the code will look way more straight forward than this.

A: I'd recommend not doing that. Instead of this hypotetical code:
auto adaptor =
   view::drop(x0)
#if branch1
   | ranges::drop(x1)
#elif branch2
   | ranges::filter(ft1)
#endif
   | ranges::stride(s1);

You should incorporate that logic into the filter:
auto adaptor =
   view::drop(x0)
   | ranges::filter([](auto&& x){ return branch2 && ft1(x); })
   | ranges::stride(s1);

If you really want to compose a range adapter with some compile time value, you can use if statements like that:
auto get_adapter() {
    if constexpr(branch1)
        return view::drop(x0) | ranges::drop(x1) | ranges::stride(s1);
    else if constexpr (branch2)
        return view::drop(x0) | ranges::filter(ft1) | ranges::stride(s1);
    else
        return view::drop(x0) | ranges::stride(s1);
}


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From Internal Communications
Conference spotlights HE's role in global social transformation
University leaders and researchers gathered to discuss how higher education can contribute to the wellbeing of everyone, embracing excluded groups.
Published on Tuesday 16 May 2017
Last updated on Friday 21 June 2019
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Keynote Speaker Professor Derrick Swartz, Vice-Chancellor Nelson Mandela University
In a world wrestling with challenging social and economic problems and increasing inequalities, university leaders and researchers gathered at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, to discuss how business schools and higher education can contribute to the wellbeing of everyone, embracing excluded groups.
The event, entitled The Contribution of Business Schools and Higher Education to Inclusive Development, marked the 50th anniversary of the University, and was jointly organised by our School of Management, the University of Stellenbosch Business School and the European Foundation for Management Development (19-21 April).
Exploring the issues of enabling inclusion and triggering societal transformation, as well as ensuring diversity and equality in higher education, a delegation from Bath and over seventy international researchers joined keynote speakers Baroness Janet Royall of Blaisdon, former Pro-Chancellor of the University of Bath; and Professor Derrick Swartz, the Vice Chancellor of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
Professor Swartz linked the challenges facing HE to growing inequality as a result of particular forms of neo-liberal economics and political failure. He stressed the need for universities to develop an inter-generational social compact, new alliances with civil society and innovative and inclusive intellectual cultures.
Business must adapt to a new way of working
Baroness Royall took up the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and said: "Too often we forget that the SDGs represent a universal agenda, which applies to all countries, rich and poor who have promised to ensure that no-one will be left behind in the implementation of the goals. Businesses in Europe as well as in Africa have to adapt to a new way of working, embracing a more sustainable model in order to safeguard the future of our world.
"This is where the role of so many in this room, those leading our business schools, is crucial. You are the innovators, the educators, the catalysts for a new way of working that your students and researchers will take into businesses new and old."
The prestigious programme of speakers included Professor Veronica Hope Hailey, Dean of the University of Bath's School of Management; the Vice Chancellor, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Director of the Business School at the University of Stellenbosch; and Professor Rajani Naidoo, Director of Bath's International Centre for Higher Education Management (ICHEM).
"As much as helping its students to become future business leaders, the University's School of Management is focused on its responsibility to transform society through education. ICHEM is world-renowned proof of that commitment" explained Professor Hope Hailey.
Professor Piet Naude, Director of the University of Stellenbosch Business School, spoke of different forms of exclusion linked to ethnicity and gender and how business schools could develop strategies for greater justice in South Africa.
Setting the scene for the conference, ICHEM Director, Professor Rajani Naidoo, said: "We live in a global environment with deepening social, economic and political fractures. These include an exponential growth in inequality, the return of absolute poverty and growing fault lines between those who have secure employment, those who work in precarious conditions and those who are excluded. Migration caused by war and poverty has led to large-scale suffering."
A call for global collaboration
Professor Naidoo spoke of the imperative of global collaboration to respond to these challenges and the capacity of universities to 'forge transnational synergies'. She outlined the barriers to this caused by obsessive competition between institutions, and proposed funding and policy measures to promote more sustainable developments in HE worldwide. In closing the conference, co-organiser Samantha Walbrugh Parshad reflected on the importance of the conference in building an interdisciplinary base for future collaboration.
The conference was featured on prime time South African news including interviews with Professors Naude and Naidoo. ICHEM PhD student, Mukhove Masutha, founder of Thusanani Foundation, gave television and newspaper interviews on his call for reform to university education funding for students from disadvantaged backgrounds in South Africa.
For more information please visit the conference website.


Since a rather boozy and altogether fabulous lunch at Locanda Locatelli ten days ago, I have been on the wagon. In part preparation for the latest DH excursion to Madrid this week and in part in recognition that, at my age, the body simply needs to take a real break every now and then from the rigours of eating and drinking for a living.
Going cold turkey for so long has obviously sent my body into shock and I managed to develop a stinker of a cold which has laid me low and meant that I have not been able to leave the flat for the last four days. I have tried everything to shake it off from nuclear strength lemsip to some unmarked tablets I had in the bathroom, which I think were originally prescribed for gout. But, nothing seemed to help as I sat sniffling, wheezing and unable to get a decent night's sleep with out the help of a pill.
Finally, I turned to the only thing which has never let me down, good old fashioned booze. I had recently received sampler sized bottles of two very interesting new products and decided to use them to create a new twist on a classic winter drink.
From Berry Bros & Rudd, I had received a sample of The King's Ginger, an intriguing liqueur first formulated for King Edward VII in 1903 at the request of his physician worried about the monarch catching a cold while riding around in his new fangled horseless carriage. The Liqueur has a wonderfully fragrant hit of ginger on first nosing, which follows through to the first taste on the palate. There is also a refreshing note of citrus, which stays in the mouth long after the sip has travelled down the throat.
I can imagine that this would be a good base for a number of cocktails, but I had the perfect companion for it as I had also been sent a sampler of the new season whisky from one of my favourite people in the spirit business, John Glaser of Compass Box Whisky.
I make no bones about my passion for the Compass Box range, so when John sent me a little taster of his new whisky, Lady Luck, I was keen to put it to the test.
It is quite something to taste on its own, a limited edition "Vatted Malt" of a 25yr and 29yr Islay Malts from Caol Ila softened with a relative whippersnapper of a 14year old Imperial Highland malt. Fruity and elegant, perfect to cut with water and sip slowly allowing the flavours to linger in the mouth.
What better way to combine these two beautifully crafted drinks than to blend them into a cocktail classic? The Whisky Mac is traditionally made with ginger wine and and any whisky of choice. Here, I played around with the recipe mixing 1/3 of The King's Ginger with 2/3rds of Lady Luck and brought in some elements from The Old Fashioned with sugar syrup and Angostura Bitters. Instead of serving over ice, I poured the shaken drink into a frozen Old Fashioned glass, adding the finishing flourish of a twist of lemon to lift the fruit flavours in both drinks.
Although a chilled drink, the end result is a smooth but warming cocktail, perfect to sip on during the cold winter nights.
Remove the glass from the freezer and rinse with the bitters and sugar syrup, shaking out the excess.
Strain the contents of the shaker into the glass.
Twist the lemon peel to give a good spritz of citrus oil on the surface and slide the tist into the drink.
King's Ginger... Now that sounds like my sort of a drink!
Is this not a Whiskey Mac with knobs on?
Glad to see you like Caol Ila, one of my favourite malts.
Seems a bit of a lack of good cocktail recipes with Kings Ginger in it seems. And no I don't count cocktails with ginger ale or tonic in cocktails. So that just leaves your whisky mac and KG with champagne.


Sometimes breaking up is the only way to break out. On its surface, that's what Swept Away is about. The moment of truth in a relationship when it either becomes something more, or is over. The film touches on themes we can all relate to--the desire for independence vs. the need for connection, and how it's both scary and energizing to trade in security for adventure.


In this schematic piece of digital art, Paola Minekov exhibits a fascination with African masks and tribal art and interprets their graphism as if creating a drawing. The piece is resemblant of a woodblock in the thickness of the lines and the simplicity of black and white portions.
Two imagined titular characters are juxtaposed to one another, similarly to the characters of the artist's "Undercurrents" series. They are the constantly present female and male principles, two sides of the same coin.


Ruben Dishdishyan, president and founder of Central Partnership, one of Russia's largest independent film production and distribution companies, has officially stepped down, the company has confirmed.
No official reason was given for his departure.
Mark Lolo, a former CEO of Central Partnership Sales House, will become Dishdishyan's successor as president of the company.
Russian analysts said that there might be several reasons for Dishdishyan's resignation, one of which is a disagreement with the shareholders of Profmedia, which holds 74.55% stake in the company.
According to Roman Korneev, editor of Russian Kinokadr magazine, and of the leading analysts of the Russian movie industry, one of the reasons of Dishdishyan's resignation could be associated with the unsuccessful partnership (started in January 2009) between Central Partnership with Paramount Pictures International.
"There is a possibility that Paramount had plans to establish its own distribution unit in Russia with the help of Central Partnership, however, two years after the start of their cooperation, this has never happened," Korneev said.
At the same time, according to Nina Romodanovsky, chief editor of Russian Proficinema magazine, the former top manager will not completely leave the company, remaining its shareholder (25.45%) who will likely continue to have some impact on the business.
"Mark Lolo is more suited for the role of CEO of Central Partnership, being a project manager, unlike Dishdishyan, who in recent years has focused more on producing activities. Now the question is who will be appointed as president of Central Partnership Sales House," Romodanovskaya said.
Lolo has already promised about the company's plans to accelerate activities in the field of an increase volume of high-quality content and to develop new distribution channels.


Packing a grab-and-go lunch will save you from ordering take-out, which often is loaded with more calories, sodium, and unhealthy sources of fat than a meal you assemble yourself. Plus, when you make your own, you can boost the nutrition by including a couple of servings of veggies and a piece of fruit. Yum!
Double or triple your dinner recipe. Pack a portion of last night's dinner for lunch for the next day. Make this a routine on nights you cook or put together a meal.
Cook chicken in bulk for a lean protein. Use boneless, skinless breasts or oven roast a whole chicken and use it for the week. Slice the meat for salads and sandwiches. Make a chicken salad sandwich or wrap by chopping up the meat, adding light mayo, onions, crunchy veggies such as grated carrot and celery, and a dash of lemon pepper.
Boost the nutrition of a typical sandwich. Use 100% whole wheat bread or sandwich thins and add colorful veggies: sprouts, bell peppers, carrots, cucumbers, red onions, tomatoes, arugula. For added flavor, include fresh herb leaves such as cilantro and basil.
Say "yes" to greens. Use different types of greens and lettuce mixes like herb blends, arugula, spinach, kale, and romaine. The darker green, the more vitamins and minerals! Add your favorite lean protein, such as tuna, chicken, or turkey, or a soy-based substitute. Toss in some garbanzo, black, or white beans for fiber. Add a light sprinkle of nuts like pine, walnuts or almond slivers. A few dried berries bring sweetness. Top it off with olive oil & vinegar. Carry the vinagrette in a small separate container and add right before serving to prevent soggy greens.
Batch-cook grains. Whip up a large batch of 100% whole wheat couscous, quinoa, brown rice, or farro for a healthy lunch bowl. Use about two-thirds veggies to one-third cooked grain. Toss in some lean protein, nuts, and dried fruit like you would a green salad. Olive oil and vinegar or lemon juice is healthy way to dress the bowl.
Get cubed. For an easy, packable mini buffet, cube cooked chicken or lightly sautéed tofu, raw or blanched veggies, and fruit of your choice. Include a couple of toothpicks for utensils.


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Iron deficiency anaemia causes exhaustion and confusion – and one in six nurses may be affected
Toby Richards
Posted 01 July 2019 - 00:01
Screening should be in place for the condition, which can cause a range of physical and mental health problems
Eating red meat can help women fight iron deficiency. Photo: iStock
Are you a woman? Do you feel tired and exhausted? Have you been experiencing heart palpitations or finding it a struggle sometimes to think clearly? This could be iron deficiency.
Data from this year's RCN congress in Liverpool suggest that up to one in six nurses may have iron deficiency anaemia (IDA).
RELATED: Pre-op anaemia care: improving outcomes for surgical patients
About 300 nurses at congress underwent a simple finger prick test to assess blood haemoglobin levels. One third of female nurses had a haemoglobin level less than 130g/L. We followed this up with a blood test looking at blood count and serum ferritin to determine iron store levels. Astonishingly one in six nurses tested had IDA.
Ability to work
People are familiar with some of the symptoms of IDA, such as fatigue and tiredness. However, in the women tested at congress, the most common symptoms of IDA were heart palpitations, 'brain fog', restless legs and shortness of breath – all things that could have a negative impact on a nurse's ability to work.
RELATED: Emergency admissions for iron deficiency anaemia could be preventable
IDA can also affect mental health, with symptoms including confusion and anxiety. Data suggest that IDA is associated with depression, particularly in childbirth, where treatment reduces symptoms of post-partum depression.
These results raise real concerns that we may be overlooking the health and welfare of our largely female nursing workforce. We need to step up and look after our nurses.
Risk factors for IDA are recent pregnancy, heavy menstrual bleeding, a low-meat diet and being a blood donor. Women, particularly those at high risk, should be screened for IDA.
Screening commonly involves a blood test for haemoglobin level but this only tests for anaemia; a ferritin test should be undertaken routinely to identify iron store levels.
RELATED: Guidance on managing iron-deficiency anaemia published
Our research has focused on iron deficiency in patients where it is the commonest cause of anaemia and associated with increased patient complications, length of hospital stay and worse outcomes. However, while we are all focused on treatments for these patients, we may be overlooking how common the problem is in nurses.
Treatment of IDA includes:
Maintain a well-balanced diet rich in meat, as the iron in meat is more easily absorbed. Non-meat foods high in iron include pulses, soya beans, lentils and cereals.
Treatment with iron tablets should be a minimum of 65mg elemental iron a day. If this is not tolerated due to side effects of abdominal discomfort or gastrointestinal upset, then one tablet taken on alternating days.
If blood results show no improvement at three months, then an iron infusion is proposed.
Iron infusions are a ground-breaking change as we can now safely deliver a full dose of iron in a 15-30-minute infusion. This 'fills up the tank', allowing people to feel better quickly and potentially minimising the need for further treatment.
The updated RCN guidelines on Iron Deficiency and Anaemia in Adults, which were launched at RCN congress, provide further information on the common causes and symptoms of IDA, as well as more detailed advice on the suggested treatment pathway.
Toby Richards leads PREVENTT, a randomised controlled trial on intravenous iron for anaemia in patients undergoing major surgery, and runs The Iron Clinic in central London. He is professor of surgery at the Institute of Clinical Trials & Methodology, University College London
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Q: Regex that removes the 2 trailing letters from a string not preceded with other letters This is in C#. I've been bugging my head but not luck so far.
So for example
123456BVC --> 123456BVC (keep the same)
123456BV --> 123456 (remove trailing letters)
12345V -- > 12345V (keep the same)
12345 --> 12345 (keep the same)
ABC123AB --> ABC123 (remove trailing letters)

It can start with anything.
I've tried @".*[a-zA-Z]{2}$" but no luck
This is in C# so that I always return a string removing the two trailing letters if they do exist and are not preceded with another letter.
Match result = Regex.Match(mystring, pattern);
return result.Value;

A: Your @".*[a-zA-Z]{2}$" regex matches any 0+ characters other than a newline (as many as possible) and 2 ASCII letters at the end of the string. You do not check the context, so the 2 letters are matched regardless of what comes before them.
You need a regex that will match the last two letters not preceded with a letter:
(?<!\p{L})\p{L}{2}$

See this regex demo.
Details:

*

*(?<!\p{L}) - fails the match if a letter (\p{L}) is found before the current position (you may use [a-zA-Z] if you only want to deal with ASCII letters)

*\p{L}{2} - 2 letters

*$ - end of string.

In C#, use
var result = Regex.Replace(mystring, @"(?<!\p{L})\p{L}{2}$", string.Empty);

A: If you're looking to remove those last two letters, you can simply do this:
string result = Regex.Replace(originalString, @"[A-Za-z]{2}$", string.Empty);

Remember that in regex $ means the end of the input or the string before a newline.


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I am proud to announce that on April 29, 2011, the Elmer Kelton Statue was placed in the main lobby of the new Tom Green County Library, located at 33 W. Beauregard in downtown San Angelo. This endeavor was accomplished through the efforts of a committee of Elmer's supporters as a token of their appreciation for his outstanding contributions to literature. The life-size bronze statue was sculpted by Raul Ruiz, who was selected from among ten other accomplished artists. Ruiz was commissioned for this project after the committee and members of the Kelton family reviewed his proposal. More of this fine artist's work – paintings and sculptures – can be viewed at his studio and art gallery at 76 N. Chadbourne, San Angelo, TX 76903. Phone 325-655-0832.
From its inception, this project was met with enthusiastic support from Kelton's fan base around the country. The Elmer Kelton Statue Fund, managed by the San Angelo Area Foundation, received donations in excess of $120,000, which exceeded the cost of the statue and the necessary permanent maintenance fund. The additional funds, and any new gifts received will now go towards a scholarship fund for students of journalism in memory of Mr. Kelton. If you would like to support this scholarship fund in memory of Mr. Kelton, you may do so by contacting Matt Lewis at the San Angelo Area Foundation: 325-947-7o71, or click on this link: www.saafound.org.
Many thanks to each and every contributor. And a sincerely grateful nod must go to Marilyn Mohler, who came up with the idea and chaired the committee. And I must thank my other fellow committee members who worked diligently with us for four years to see this through: Bill Shaw, Bobby Frank, Arch Black, Pat Attebery, Pamela Miller, Bob Bluthardt, Larry Justiss, and Matt Lewis.
Felton Cochran
Member, Elmer Kelton Statue Committee


The stars have come out in force to pay tribute to what would have been the late Aaliyah's 35th birthday yesterday.
The singer passed away on 25 August 2001 at the age of 22, after a plane crash which also took the lives of eight other passengers.
As Aaliyah would have turned 35 on the 16 January, celebrities such as fellow singers Drake and Missy Elliot took to social media to honour her would-be birthday.
Drake, who sang with the artist posthumously on the songEnough Said,tweeted ""Happy birthday Aaliyah. Never forget you babe. Love you," along with a drawing of the two singers hugging.
#HappyBirthdayAaliyah we think of u everyday we miss u more than ever! U can never be duplicated. Your a 1 in a Million!
Friend and collaborator Missy Elliot, posted her own message on Twitter, ""#HappyBirthdayAaliyah we think of u everyday we miss u more than ever! U can never be duplicated. Your a 1 in a Million!," she wrote.
Solangne Knowles followed suit, tweeting ""Happy 35th our forever baby girl....Our forever magic....#Aaliyah."
Aaliyah is thought to have sold between 24 to 34 million albums worldwide and had won six Billboard music Awards and had been nominated for five Grammys. The singer was predicted to go on to even bigger things before her tragic death.


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PSALM to start bidding out four power barges
By: Amy R. Remo - Reporter / @amyremoINQ
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 10:03 AM January 30, 2012
MANILA, Philippines – The state-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) has finally set off the bidding process for the sale of its four diesel-fired Power Barges 101, 102, 103 and 104, hopefully marking the resumption of the much stalled privatization activities of the government.
According to PSALM's invitation to bid document, the four facilities will be bundled in three packages, under which Package 1 will include PB 101 and 102, which are currently moored at Barrio Obrero, Iloilo City; Package 2 will only include PB 103, located at Estancia, Iloilo; and Package 3, for PB 104, which is at the Holcim Compound in Ilang, Davao City. Each power barge can generate 32 megawatts.
PSALM announced that interested parties have until February 14 to submit their respective letters of interest, while a pre-bid conference will be held later that month, on February 29. Due diligence on the four barges will be opened to prospective bidders starting February 1 until one week before the bid submission deadline. All bids, it added, should be submitted to PSALM by April 13.
The sale of the four power barges are expected to help stabilize the power supply in Mindanao, as the winning bidders will be mandated to transfer and station these facilities in the island for at least three years, until the proposed coal-fired power projects have started operations.
State-run National Power Corp. earlier bought these power barges from a Japanese firm, Hitachi Zosen Corp. Since they began operations, these barges had been moved about to help ease a severe power shortage in the Philippines, by providing required support in various regions in the Visayas and Mindanao.
Meanwhile, PSALM also announced that it was seeking for offers to supply and deliver P10.6 billion worth of fuel oil to for seven power facilities namely PB 101, 102, 103 and 104; the 149-MW Naga power plant complex in Cebu; the 100-MW diesel facility of Western Mindanao Power Corp. (WMPC) in Sangali, Zamboanga; and the 55-MW bunker fired power station of Southern Philippines Power Corp. (SPPC) in Alabel, Sarangani.
The amount, according to PSALM, is expected to cover the total fuel requirements of 286,780 kiloliters (Kliters) of these seven power plants.
The biggest fuel requirement will be for WMPC, which will require 101,500 Kliters worth P3.67 billion; followed by the Naga complex which will need 92,390 Kliters worth P3.54 billion; SPPC, 55,600 Kliters (P2.03 billion); PB 104, 18,550 Kliters (P722 million); PB 102, 6,830 Kliters (P248 million); PB 103, 5,960 Kliters (P217 million); and PB 101, 5,950 Kliters (P216 million).
A pre-bidding conference will be held on February 7. All bids should be submitted to PSALM by February 21.
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What a Mug Made Me Realize About Motherhood
A mother's gifts
Katie Konner
Photo: Images By Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images
The spacious rooms were filled with natural light from the walls of beachfront windows. After passing out the steaming mugs across the driftwood table, she sat opposite me. Taking her first sip from her pink mug, she asked, "Did I give you tea or coffee?" I took a discerning sip and replied, "I think it's tea," then smiled because I'd asked for coffee. She said, "Shoot, I have your coffee," then explained that she'd pulled down the pink handmade mug from her cabinet for me, knowing I loved pink but while preparing our drinks — coffee for me, tea for her — she'd decided to keep the pink mug for herself to prevent her son's disappointment should he come downstairs and see a guest using the mug he'd bought for her. We shared a laugh, me still uncertain whether I had tea or weak coffee.
This mug mix-up reminds me of another instance involving a thoughtful mother that prioritized her children, and a handmade coffee mug. Motherhood was my former mother-in-law's only life goal. Her husband didn't want children. At the start of their new marriage, determined to have a family, she gave him an ultimatum. He caved in and out came two children along with his role as a family man.
To provide for his small family, my ex-husband's father worked 30 years in a large mill in a tiny North Carolina town. Every workday, he arose early, packed a lunchbox with a ham and cheese sandwich along with its constant companion — a pack of Cheese Nips — and carried it along with the day's freshly brewed thermos of resentment into a dirty, tedious, and unfulfilling job.
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He lacked authority and control in his blue-collar position and returned home each evening to recover both, clanging his lunchbox and gnawed-at bitterness on the kitchen counter, having worked another day at a job he hated to provide for a family he never wanted. His kids learned to walk on eggshells, afraid to cause any unnecessary disturbance that might annoy or disrupt their volatile, erratic father.
When physically present, he rarely invested quality time or engaged in his children's activities. They yearned for his time and attention, yet he withheld affection offering little more of himself than an abrupt demand to "be quiet." He was authoritarian, temperamental, impatient, and quick with a heavy hand, voice, and presence.
Their mother, by contrast, kept the family humming despite their father's sinewy inflexibility. She was a cheerful, church-going, indulgent caretaker whose love rained constantly upon her children. As a stay-at-home mom, she catered to her family's needs — budgeting her husband's meager paycheck to purchase and prepare every meal. She cleaned every room, nursed every sickness and injury, and tended to every chore inside the home. She governed her childrens' school, church, and home activities, sewed their clothing, planned/prepared/hosted every birthday/holiday/vacation, then shopped for, wrapped, and distributed every gift the kids received from their parents.
Photo: George Marks/Getty Images
Of these gifts, my ex-husband's favorite is a handmade ceramic coffee mug chosen by his father.
"How is this possible?" I asked him. "What about all the years of gifts your mother picked out for you?" Upon hearing my insightful confusion, my then-husband agreed that his attachment to the mug made little sense considering his father is an unyielding and difficult man.
I envision his cold bristled father standing in a street market booth directed by his wife to "choose something for Tom's birthday" and for a moment removing his focus from himself, glancing around the display of hand-turned mugs and picking up a brown one. Next, his wife purchased and placed the mug in a gift bag to give to their son. Wrapped in the awareness that his father chose this mug, it holds the honor of a most cherished possession.
Photo: Ekky Pramana / EyeEm/Getty Images
A lifetime of gift-giving by an available mother can't compare to one gift from an absent father.
This phenomenon is explained through psychology and economics. Human beings find value in scarcity. The scarcity of his father's consideration made the attachment to the gift that much stronger. None of his mother's mothering could hold a candle.
This also explains why for the first half of my life, every day that passed longing for my own father's consideration, and not receiving it, made him that much more valuable to me. Though I had a loving mother, her daily presence could not make up for his absence. I'm 43 years old and finally understand the consequences that longing for what I didn't have formed beliefs about myself that negatively impacted every decision I've made.
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Q: ASP.NET MVC4 creating new Model which has navigation attributes I'm new to ASP.NET and I'm trying to achieve the following thing:
I'm developing using MVC4 and code-first approach to EF, I have the following Model:
public class Booking {
  // Lot of standard int/string attributes

  // And a navigation attribute
  public virtual Teaching teaching {get;set;}
}

Teaching is another model which is pretty basic. I bootstrapped my database using an initializer and everything is fine, EF created me my SQL structure and added automatically Teaching_Id to the Booking table. My model is also correctly populated (lazy loading I guess) and I can print model.Teaching.name for instance in my Index view.
I'm now looking to make a create form to add new Bookings to my database, and I want the user to be able to choose a teaching from a List. I managed to achieve this so far, my view is pretty standard (auto generated):

        @Html.LabelFor(model => model.BookingDate)

        @Html.EditorFor(model => model.BookingDate)
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.BookingDate)

and so far for simple attributes. I made this for the select list
In my controller :
var id = (int)Membership.GetUser().ProviderUserKey;
ViewBag.listTeachings = db.Teachings.Where(x => x.Teacher.UserId == id).ToList();

In my view (inside the form)
 @Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.Teaching.Id, new SelectList(ViewBag.listTeachings, "Id", "Id"))

(for testing purpose I'm priting the Id in the drop down list)
When I POST my form, everything is OK (no model state error) but nothing is added in the db. In my form POST content I have a Teachings.Id entry. I also tried to use DropDownListFor model => model.Teaching instead of model.Teaching.Id but an Teaching entry is passed to PostData and I guess he doesn't know how to convert pure int to an object.
Any help is appreciated, thank you for reading and thanks by advance!

A: Okay so my model passed in the Create() function was effectively containing the Teaching.Id, but it seems that EF was not able to map it to the good foreign key or whatever.
I made it working by using this solution in the POST Create controller :
 model.Teaching = teachingRepo.Find(model.Teaching.Id);

Noting that this doesn't work :
 model.Teaching = new Teaching() { Id = model.Teaching.Id }

(if anyone has an explanation about this I'm not against it)


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THE HEALTH & SAFETY EVENT | 25th – 27th APRIL 2023 | NEC – BIRMINGHAM
SPEAKER INTERVIEW – Doug Melia
by Mark Glover | Aug 2, 2018
Doug Melia (pictured) is a former martial arts teacher, doorman and bodyguard. Today, as a use of force trainer he consults to a wide audience that encompasses schools, hospitals and transport companies. Here he speaks to Mark Glover about his varied career, current challenges facing security workers and why he's looking forward to attending the Lone Worker Expo in October.
The first thing Doug tells me is the story behind his recently dislocated shoulder; the result of a tumble he took while mountain biking with his son in Portugal. Doug, at the critical time, forgot that brakes on European bikes are the opposite way around to British bikes; the front is the back and vice-versa. "Now, I was told this," he explains with good humour, "but when you're flying down the hill you just go for your motor skills and I put too much back brake on and it just skidded out from under me." His fears were affirmed by his son's reaction as he tried to pull himself up. "Daddy, your shoulder isn't supposed to look like that."
Given Doug's early employment you'd imagine that he is use to such injuries. He set up his own martial arts school on leaving school in 1996, worked part-time as a doorman four years later and then spent eleven years as a bodyguard.
These days, his experience of close protection and enforcement is manifested in his work as a consultant to the security industry which incorporates the lone worker sector. "I would say that every contract I deliver has got some aspect of lone working in it," he says.
Given his broad knowledge, I ask Doug if physical skills in a self-defence situation should be encouraged or used simply as a last resort? "Many organisations preach it as a last resort," he says, "which in many instances it is, but the important thing for staff to know that they do have a right to defend themselves and they've got a right to security of their own person."
However, Doug is adamant that employees need to be told by their employers what the concept of reasonable force is and it must be something that can work for them and "not just something that works for a 6ft guy in a karate suit".
He continues: "If they are told it's a last resort then what's the first resort? Have they been given the escalation skills? Have they got some kind of monitoring system? Have they got some kind of personal alarm?"
It's a dilemma that seems to exist within the security industry, where an individual's job description can be in conflict with the health and safety policy. "If you take another example of a lone worker; a security officer or door supervisor whose job brief, for example, is to police the area and keep people safe." Doug explains, "The policy might say that's not safe to do but does his job depend on it? If he or she doesn't do something and there is a theft or an unlawful entry into a nightclub then will he or she get chastised?"
He suggests the Security Industry Association could ensure correct health and safety policies are in place but ultimately organisations need to integrate a firmer job description for those entering the profession. "On a grass roots level for the actual employees, there should be better awareness of where the job ends and where the police [intervention] begins."
A regular speaker at security conferences, Doug is looking forward to presenting a session at this year's Lone Worker Expo and sharing knowledge with other strands that make up the industry. "It's one of the key reasons why I've always wanted to be involved with this event," he says. "I always meet people who have got knowledge that I haven't got and that directly impacts what I do and I'm sure the information that I give does the same for others in other sectors."
I conclude our chat by asking what makes his job worthwhile. "It's the response we get that adds value to what we do," he says. "We have people coming back telling us that the advice we gave them worked, that it's got them out of a tricky situation."
Unfortunately, Doug wasn't able to get out of the tricky situation thrown up by a mountain bike in Portugal last month but he ensures me he'll be fighting fit come the Lone Worker Expo. It'll be one session you won't want to miss.
Doug will be speaking at the Lone Worker Expo on 2 October which takes place in central London, delivering an interactive workshop on managing violence and aggression in the workplace. You can register for the event here.
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America's aging population is growing, and so is the number of people who suffer from dementia, Alzheimer's, heart and respiratory diseases, and other disorders — and will need long-term care (LTC). To better treat them, healthcare organizations need to adopt data-driven processes, advanced analytics and agile information that flows freely among clinicians, other health professionals, health administrators and patients.
The number of Americans aged 65 and older is projected to more than double from 46 million in 2016 to over 98 million by 2060, and the 65-and-older age group's share of the total population will rise from 15 percent to nearly 24 percent, according to the Population Reference Bureau. A report from Research and Markets suggests that by 2024, the U.S. LTC market is expected to reach $549.7 billion, and much of that growth is coming from the aging population.
To best serve patients, healthcare providers need good data that's current, aggregated, standardized and representative not just of the patients they serve, but also of national and regional patients. Unfortunately, few LTC facilities have consistent access to all that information. Some use Medicare population data, such as hospital readmission rates, that is regularly tracked by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Claims data can also be reviewed.
But Medicare data and claims data are generally not up to date, and they represent only slices of patient information, whether just regional data or maximum length of stay, etc. Neither presents a holistic, end-to-end view of patient information. For the most part, many facilities end up relying on plain old, manually driven spreadsheets of referral data, readmission rates and other information to compile data. That's not very helpful.
A digital health platform is the basis for a connected ecosystem of health provision, and it needs to be built on the pillars of interoperability, analytic insights and security (which in healthcare is focused on patient privacy and consent). These digital health trends require healthcare systems to rethink the way they operate, adopting new models that shift from acute to preventive care. Digital technology powers this transformation by supporting connection and collaboration, and by providing both the patient and population information needed to make better decisions.
Bridging the gap between the old health economy and the new. The old health economy measured success by patient volume; the new economy measures success by outcomes. APIs and modern application development allow federated workflow and data across legacy systems, off-the-shelf solutions, and new applications. In turn, this "health cloud" provides a base of current data for innovative artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
A revolution in platforms. It's now possible to define ecosystems of healthcare technologies and design healthcare IT platforms to capture data from disparate sources (e.g., wearables, smartphones, glucometers). These new data sources and systems provide patients and caregivers with a richer, more holistic and real-time view of patients' health.
Bringing it all together in the era of the intelligent enterprise. The data explosion — accompanied by advances in processing power, industrial-scale machine learning, health analytics and cognitive technology — is fueling the intelligent healthcare enterprise and driving more efficient business operations, more personal care and, most importantly, better health and wellness outcomes.