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Q: How to set material-table dynamic columns in react / typescript I have a table that has to display an arbitrary number of columns which are dynamically generated from the received data.
I have created a column interface that will hold all the properties I need for each column, such as whether the column can be minimized (made narrow), whether it is a column for which I have to render an icon from a structure or maybe render specific data for the group-row, etc.
In material-table I am trying to map these columns, but always get the error:
Error: this.tableContainerDiv.current is null
This happens even if the list of objects are exactly the same as when I hard-code the columns.
My (cut-down) code:
interface IColumnObject {
  field: string;
  title: string;
  sorting: boolean;
  minimizing: boolean;
  minimized: boolean;
  hidden: boolean;
  width: string;
  grouprender: boolean;
  iconrender: boolean;
}

interface State {
  detailData: ITableData[];
  filteredData: ITableData[];
  headers: IHeaderObject[];
  columns: IColumnObject[];
  filterList: IFilterList;
  anchorEl: Element;
  csvHeader: ICsvHeader[];
  csvData: ICsvData[];
}

class DetailAllRoute extends React.Component<Props, State> {
  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
  private csvLink: React.RefObject<any> = React.createRef();
...
  public generateTableDetailData = () => {
    const tableData: ITableData[] = [];
    let createHeader = true;
    let createColumn = true;
    const headers: IHeaderObject[] = [];
    const columns: IColumnObject[] = [];
...
    // Add the Application, Filename and Location column objects to the columns list
    const applicationColumn: IColumnObject = {
      field: 'application',
      title: this.i18n.translateToString('Column_Application'),
      sorting: true,
      minimizing: false,
      minimized: false,
      hidden: false,
      width: '100px',
      grouprender: false,
      iconrender: false,
    };

    columns.push(applicationColumn);

    const filenameColumn: IColumnObject = {
      field: 'filename',
      title: this.i18n.translateToString('Column_Filename'),
      sorting: true,
      minimizing: false,
      minimized: false,
      hidden: false,
      width: '270px',
      grouprender: true,
      iconrender: false,
    };

    columns.push(filenameColumn);

    const locationColumn: IColumnObject = {
      field: 'location',
      title: this.i18n.translateToString('Column_Location'),
      sorting: true,
      minimizing: true,
      minimized: false,
      hidden: false,
      width: '350px',
      grouprender: false,
      iconrender: false,
    };

    columns.push(locationColumn);
  ...
  }

  render() {
    const { classes } = this.props;
    const {
      compData,
      filteredData,
      columns,
      filterList,
      anchorEl,
    } = this.state;

    return (
      <React.Fragment>
        <Paper className={classes.muiListRoot} style={{ backgroundColor: '#fff' }}>
          <MaterialTable
            title={

                {`${this.i18n.translateToString('Table_DetailData')} Test`}

            }
            actions={[
              {
                icon: FilterList,
                tooltip: 'Filter',
                position: 'toolbar',
                onClick: event => {
                  this.handlePopoverClick(event);
                },
              },
            ]}
            components={{
              // eslint-disable-next-line react/display-name
              Header: headerprops => (
                <React.Fragment>
                  {this.getTableHeader()}
                  <MTableHeader {...headerprops} />
                </React.Fragment>
              ),
            }}
            columns={columns.map(c => {
              return {
                title: c.title,
                field: c.field,
                sorting: c.sorting,
                width: c.width,
                hidden: c.hidden,
              } as Column<any>;
            })}
            data={filteredData}
            parentChildData={(row, rows) => rows.find(a => a.application === row.parent)}
            options={{
              toolbar: true,
              sorting: true,
              exportButton: { csv: true },
              exportCsv: () => {
                this.customExportCSV();
              },
              headerStyle: {
                backgroundColor: '#19768B',
                color: 'white',
                borderBottom: '1px solid black',
              },
              // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
              rowStyle: (_data: any, index: number) => {
                return index % 2 ? { backgroundColor: '#ecf2f9' } : {};
              },
            }}
            localization={{
              pagination: {
                labelDisplayedRows: this.i18n.translateToString('String_RowFromToCount'),
                labelRowsSelect: this.i18n.translateToString('String_Rows'),
                labelRowsPerPage: this.i18n.translateToString('String_RowsPerPage'),
                firstAriaLabel: this.i18n.translateToString('String_FirstPage'),
                firstTooltip: this.i18n.translateToString('String_FirstPage'),
                previousAriaLabel: this.i18n.translateToString('String_PrevPage'),
                previousTooltip: this.i18n.translateToString('String_PrevPage'),
                nextAriaLabel: this.i18n.translateToString('String_NextPage'),
                nextTooltip: this.i18n.translateToString('String_NextPage'),
                lastAriaLabel: this.i18n.translateToString('String_LastPage'),
                lastTooltip: this.i18n.translateToString('String_LastPage'),
              },
              toolbar: {
                nRowsSelected: this.i18n.translateToString('String_RowsSelected'),
                searchTooltip: this.i18n.translateToString('String_Search'),
                searchPlaceholder: this.i18n.translateToString('String_Search'),
                exportTitle: this.i18n.translateToString('String_Export'),
                exportCSVName: this.i18n.translateToString('String_ExportAs'),
              },
              body: {
                emptyDataSourceMessage: this.i18n.translateToString('String_NoData'),
              },
            }}
          />
        </Paper>

          <CSVLink
            data={csvData}
            headers={csvHeader}
            filename="CSV_File.csv"
            ref={this.csvLink}
            target="_blank"
          />

      </React.Fragment>
    );
  }
}

Any idea what I am doing wrong in the mapping? Or does material-table not like it when one use map to generate the column-array?
When I hard-code the columns with:
    ...
            columns={[
              {
                title: this.i18n.translateToString('Column_Application'),
                field: 'application',
                sorting: true,
                width: '100px',
                hidden: true,
              },
              {
                title: this.i18n.translateToString('Column_Filename'),
                field: 'filename',
                sorting: true,
                width: '270px',
                // eslint-disable-next-line react/display-name
                render: rowData =>
                  !!!rowData.filename ? (

                      {this.i18n.translateToString('Column_Application')}:
                      {rowData.application}

                  ) : (
                    rowData.filename
                  ),
              },
              {
                title: this.i18n.translateToString('Column_Location'),
                field: 'location',
                sorting: true,
              },
            ]}
    ...

everything works great. But I need to map the columns since the columns are dynamically generated depending on the received data.

A: The problem was, as is mostly the case, programmer-error. It took me quite a while to figure it out, but ended up coming right with the help from a colleague. With his guidance I finally managed to get a rough idea of where the problem originated.
In the end I found that the system threw an error since it could not find the column name. The (much higher up) error displayed in the console was very misleading as it pointed to the use of an invalid (null) reference, which turned out not to be the case. I had inadvertently, for some unknown reason, not used the generated unique column name in the last step where I added each row's data, but a hard-coded column name. Easy to overlook, but biting very hard ...


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The Finnish 61st Infantry Regiment (IR61) was a combat regiment of the 17th division of the Finnish Army during the Second World War, consisting almost exclusively of Swedish-speaking Finns. Among others, the regiment participated in the battle of Tienhaara. The regiment has been the subject of several books, as well as a feature film Beyond the Front Line. In 1980, Lieutenant general A. E. Martola opined: "Honestly, this regiment saved Finland during the midsummer weekend 1944, even if only temporarily."

Continuation War
The Continuation War (, , 25 June 1941 – 19 September 1944) was the second of two wars fought between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II. Acts of war between the Soviet Union and Finland started on 22 June 1941, the day Germany launched its invasion of the Soviet Union. Open warfare started with a Soviet air offensive on 25 June.  Subsequent Finnish operations undid its post-Winter War cessations on the Karelian Isthmus and Ladoga Karelia, and captured East Karelia by September 1941. On the Karelian Isthmus, the Finns froze their offensive 30 km from Leningrad, where the pre-World War II border of the Soviet Union and Finland ran. Even though Hitler repeatedly asked the Finns to attack Leningrad the Finns did not attack the city, yet they passively participated in the siege by holding their pre-World War II land for two and a half years on the Karelian Isthmus.

Mobilization
A general mobilization was initiated on 17 June 1941 in anticipation of renewed hostilities, and each Military Province was charged with establishing an army division. In the Vaasa Military Province, the 19th Division was established with colonel Hannu Esa Hannuksela as commander. However, the Defense Corps of Ostrobothnia was not incorporated into the 19th division, but instead established its own regiment: the 61st Infantry Regiment. Jäger Movement Colonel Rafael Berg was appointed as commanding officer.

Combat history

The Battles of Säntämä
As part of the advance of the Finnish 17th Division, the 61st Infantry Regiment first advanced past the old border line in August 1941 and broke through enemy lines at the battle of Säntämä between 18 August 1941 and 7 September 1941. After this, the regiment continued its advance into Soviet territory, encountering only light defense by the Soviet forces.

The Battles of Svir and Jandeba
The regiment crossed the Svir River on 21 September 1941, where it overcame heavy resistance by Soviet forces. Subsequently, it advanced towards the Jandeba River, though under continued heavy fighting.

Shemenski and Podporoze
After crossing the Jandeba River, the 61st Regiment advanced towards the area of the village of Shemenski and city of Podporoze, where it entered into trench warfare and remained for a period of more than two years until May 1944. The city of Podporoze was occupied by the 61st Infantry Regiment from 12 December 1941 until 30 January 1942, when it was moved back to the Shemenski area to relieve the Finnish 34th Infantry Regiment.

The Russian Spring Offensive in 1942
At the beginning of 1942, the Soviet 7th Army was facing the Finnish 17th Division in the Svir area. The 61st Regiment was located at the east, opposite the Soviet 114th Infantry Division. Towards the end of March, the Soviet Army concentrated their forces, and launched its Spring Offensive at the start of April 1942. The objective was to force the retreat of the Finnish Army across the Svir River and capture a bridgehead for continued advance towards the old frontier. The gravity point of the attack was in an 18 kilometer wide arch headed by the Soviet 21st Division and the Soviet 69th Marine Infantry Brigade, and supported in the flank by the Soviet 114th Infantry Division. The main Soviet advance soon encountered fierce resistance, requiring the Soviet 114th Division to be thrown into the main line of attack, after which the Soviet forces managed to break through the Finnish lines between Shemenski and Pertjärvi. As preparation for a Finnish counterattack, a major Finnish combat unit was formed on 17 April, of which the 61st Infantry Regiment was a key component. The Finnish counterattack was launched on 19 April and by 22 April all the Soviet forces that had advanced through the Finnish lines between Shemenski and Pertjärvi had been annihilated. The Finnish Army suffered losses of 2,165 men, while the Soviet 7th Army suffered losses of just under 12,800 men.

Trench Warfare 1942–1944
Despite labeled as a period of "trench warfare", a state of continuous active warfare signified this period. Constant patrols into enemy territory, artillery barrage and readiness to counterattack, characterized this phase of the war. Specialized patrol troops were formed, some of which achieved almost legendary fame within the regiment. An example was the patrol unit led by lieutenant Harry Järv, who made more than two hundred combat patrols into the no man's land between the opposing forces in 1942 and 1943, before being severely wounded and repatriated to the home front.

Subsequent to the change of commander from lieutenant colonel Nils Roos to lieutenant colonel Alpo Marttinen, a fierce combat took place around the hills of Teeri-Kukkula, when Russian forces attacked the positions of IR61 between 8 November until 20 November 1942. At a critical moment on 10 November, when the Finnish line wavered, Marttinen personally took charge of a counterattack, halting any retreating soldiers, and with a drawn pistol commanding: We do not yield an inch! Attack! Officers first! Men, follow me!, successfully halting the advancing Russian troops. The commander of the 17th Division, Alonzo Sundman, moved several reserve units into battle positions, and a battle unit was formed under Major General Ruben Lagus. Some terrain was lost at the conclusion of this Russian offensive, and this terrain could not have been retaken without significant air and tank support.  The commander-in-chief, field marshal Mannerheim, therefore decided, on the advice of major general Lennart Oesch, to not attempt to recapture the lost terrain. As the first significant battle the appointment of Marttinen as commander of IR61, it also served to cement mutual respect and trust between the regiment and its new commander.

A second main battle was fought around the hill of Teeri between 26 October and 28 October 1943. This battle became well known within the Finnish high command due to a daring counterattack executed by volunteers under the command of captain Renvall, rolling up the entrenched Russian forces on the Teeri hill and forcing them to blow up their own munition supplies.

Reserve Duties 22 May 1944 – 16 June 1944
After more than two years at the front, IR61 was relieved of duty on 22 May 1944 and placed in reserve, behind the line held by the 5th Division, in the area of Kinkijeva-Ontroila-Karelskaja.

Lieutenant-Colonel Marttinen was on leave from his regiment between 1 June 1944 until 8 June 1944, and spent these days touring the Swedish speaking area of Ostrobothnia from where most of the soldiers of IR61 were drafted.

Tienhaara and the Soviet Offensive of 1944
The regiment was deployed for defense at Tienhaara, which was located along the coastal highway leading north from Viipuri towards Finland, on the shore of Kivisillansalmi on 22 June relieving the worn out troops. Having strong artillery support and support of the Gefechtsverband Kuhlmey the regiment was able to keep the Tienhaara region including the Kivisillansalmi while defending against repeated attacks by at least two Soviet divisions of the 108th Corps supported by strong artillery. At the conclusion of the battle on 25 June Marttinen was promoted to colonel.

Background

Soviet offensive begins

Deployment of IR61 at Tienhaara

Commanders
The following officers commanded the 61st Infantry Regiment:
 June 1941 – September 1941: Colonel M. R. Berg
 September 1941 – October 1942: Lieutenant Colonel N. T. Roos
 October 1942 – October 1944: Lieutenant Colonel A. K. Marttinen
 October 1944 – October 1944: Major G. R. Renvall
 October 1944 – November 1944: Major B. F. Lagerbohm

References

Bibliography
 Vasa krigsveterandistrikt - Vaasan sotaveteraanipiiri r.f., debate in the Vasabladet newspaper 1987–1988, redacted by Harry Järv: "Finland 1939-1945" ()
 Nykvist, Nils-Erik: "Sextiettan, Infanteriregimente 61, 1941-1944" ()
 Stenström, Lars: "Krigsvägar, Finlandsvenska krigsförband 1939-44" ()
 Raunio, Ari: "De militära operationerna, De finska krigen 1939-45" ()
 Piekalkiewicz, Janusz: "Der Zweite Welkrieg" ()
 Halén, Harry et al.: "Mannerheim : officer i det kejserliga Rysslands armé, marskalk av det självständiga Finland" ()
 Roberts, Martin: "The New Barbarism – A Portrait of Europe 1900–1973" ()
 Mäkelä, Jukka L.: "Strider i fjärrkarelen - Oskus fjärrpatruller, rök över Aunus" ()
 West, Kurt: "Vi slogs och blödde - ung finlandssvensk soldat i IR61" ()
 Sandström, Allan: "Den falska freden: Finlands kamp för oberoende 1944-1948" ()
 Lehtonen, Marja-Liisa: "Adolf Ehrnrooth - Generalens testamente" ()
 Meinander, Henrik: "Finlands historia" ()

External links
 The Finnish Defence Force website
 Suomi m 1931  Militaria: Weapons

Military units and formations of Finland in World War II
Infantry regiments
Swedish-speaking population of Finland

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Q: multiple columns of information ggplot y axis I want to write multiple pieces of information in each y-axis label of a ggplot bar chart (or any similar kind of plot). The problem is having everything aligned nicely.
It's probably best explained with an example for what I want to have:

My primary issue is the formatting on the left side of the figure.
What I've tried so far includes using monospace fonts to write the labels. This basically works but I want to try and avoid the use of monospace fonts for aesthetic purposes.
I've also tried making several ggplots where the idea was to remove everything in two initial plots, except for the y-axis labels (so these "plots" would only be the y-axis labels). Then align the plots next to each other using grid.align. The problem I have here is that there doesn't seem to be a way to remove the plot part of a ggplot (or is there?). It also requires some tweaking since removing x-axis labels in one of the "empty" plots would result in the labels moving down (since no space is occupied by the x-axis labels/title anymore).
I've also tried an approach using geom_text and setting the appropriate distances using the hjust parameter. However, for some reason, the spacing does not seem to be equal for the different size labels (for example distances for the "Red" and "Turquoise" labels are different for the same hjust). As the real data has many more variations in label sizes this variation makes the table look very messy...
I'm not too concerned about the headers since they are easy to add to the figure manually. The values on the right are also not too much of a problem since they have a fixed width and I can use geom_text to set them. So my main problem is with the y-axis (left) labels.
Here's an example data set:
dt = data.frame(shirt = c('Red','Turquoise','Red','Turquoise','Red','Turquoise','Red','Turquoise'),
            group = c('Group alpha','Group alpha','Group beta','Group beta','Group delta','Group delta','Group gamma','Group gamma'),
            n = c(22,21,15,18,33,34,20,19),
            mean = c(1,   4,  9,  2,  4,  5 , 1, 2),
            p = c(0.1, 0.09, 0.2, 0.03, 0.05, 0.99, 0.81, 0.75))

A: The closest I could come to is to use guide_axis_nested() from ggh4x for formatting the left part. (Disclaimer: I'm the author of ggh4x). With this axis, you can't align spanning categories (e.g group) to the top, nor have titles for the different levels.
library(ggplot2)
library(ggh4x)

# Create some dummy data
df <- expand.grid(
  group = paste("Group", c("alpha", "beta", "delta", "gamma")),
  shirt = c("Red", "Turquoise")
)
df$N <- sample(1:100, nrow(df))
df$mean <- rlnorm(nrow(df), meanlog = 1)
df$pvalue <- runif(nrow(df))

ggplot(df, aes(x = mean, y = interaction(N, shirt, group, sep = "&"))) +
  geom_col() +
  guides(
    y = guide_axis_nested(delim = "&"),
    y.sec = guide_axis_manual(
      breaks = interaction(df$N, df$shirt, df$group, sep = "&"),
      labels = scales::number(df$pvalue, 0.001)
    )
  ) +
  theme(
    axis.text.y.left = element_text(margin = margin(r = 5, l = 5)),
    ggh4x.axis.nesttext.y = element_text(margin = margin(r = 5, l = 5)),
    ggh4x.axis.nestline = element_blank()
  )

Created on 2021-11-16 by the reprex package (v1.0.0)

A: I think @teunbrand provided a very neat solution and code-wise a lot cleaner than mine. However, I also tried another approach using annotation_custom() (based on this answer in another question). The result is quite nice and it should be fairly easy to customize.
dt = data.frame(shirt = c('Red','Turquoise','Red','Turquoise','Red','Turquoise','Red','Turquoise'),
                group = c('Group alpha','Group alpha','Group beta','Group beta','Group delta','Group delta','Group gamma','Group gamma'),
                n = c(22,21,15,18,33,34,20,19),
                lvls = c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8),
                mean = c(1,   4,  9,  2,  4,  5 , 1, 2),
                p = c(0.1, 0.09, 0.2, 0.03, 0.05, 0.99, 0.81, 0.75))
dt$groups = paste(dt$group, dt$shirt)
dt$groups = factor(dt$groups, levels=rev(dt$groups))
p2 = ggplot(dt) +
  geom_col(aes(x=groups, y=mean)) +
  coord_flip(clip='off') +
  theme_bw() +
  theme(axis.text.y = element_blank(),
        axis.title.y = element_blank(),
        plot.margin = unit(c(0.5,1,0,3.5), "in") # top, right, bottom, left
        )

# Compute the position on the X axis for each information column
# I wanted fixed widths for the margins, so I basically compute what the X value
# would be on a specific location of the figure.
x_size = ggplot_build(p2)$layout$panel_params[[1]]$x.range[2] - ggplot_build(p2)$layout$panel_params[[1]]$x.range[1] # length of x-axis
p_width = par()$din[1] - 4.5 # width of plot minus the margins as defined above in: plot.margin = unit(c(0.5,1,0,3.5), "in")
rel_x_size = p_width / x_size # size of one unit X in inch
col1_x = ggplot_build(p2)$layout$panel_params[[1]]$x.range[1] - (3 / rel_x_size) # the Group column, 3 inch left of the start of the plot
col2_x = ggplot_build(p2)$layout$panel_params[[1]]$x.range[1] - (1.5 / rel_x_size) # the Shirt column, 1.5 inches left of the start of the plot
col3_x = ggplot_build(p2)$layout$panel_params[[1]]$x.range[1] - (0.25 / rel_x_size) # the N column, 0.25 inches left of the start of the plot
col4_x = ggplot_build(p2)$layout$panel_params[[1]]$x.range[2] + (0.2 / rel_x_size) # the P-val column, 0.2 inches right of the end of the plot

# Set the values for each "row"
i_range = 1:nrow(dt)
i_range_rev = rev(i_range) # Because we reversed the order of the groups
for (i in i_range)  {
  if(i %% 2 == 0) {
    # Group
    p2 = p2 + annotation_custom(grob = textGrob(label = dt$group[i_range_rev[i]], hjust = 0, gp = gpar()),
                      ymin=col1_x, ymax=col1_x,
                      xmin=i,xmax=i)
  }
  # Shirt
  p2 = p2 + annotation_custom(grob = textGrob(label = dt$shirt[i_range_rev[i]], hjust = 0, gp = gpar()),
                              ymin=col2_x, ymax=col2_x,
                              xmin=i,xmax=i)
  # N
  p2 = p2 + annotation_custom(grob = textGrob(label = dt$n[i_range_rev[i]], hjust = 0, gp = gpar()),
                              ymin=col3_x, ymax=col3_x,
                              xmin=i,xmax=i)
  # P-val
  p2 = p2 + annotation_custom(grob = textGrob(label = dt$p[i_range_rev[i]], hjust = 0, gp = gpar()),
                              ymin=col4_x, ymax=col4_x,
                              xmin=i,xmax=i)
}

# Add the headers
i = i+1
p2 = p2 + annotation_custom(grob = textGrob(label = expression(bold('Group')), hjust = 0, gp = gpar()),
                            ymin=col1_x, ymax=col1_x,
                            xmin=i,xmax=i)
p2 = p2 + annotation_custom(grob = textGrob(label = expression(bold('Shirt')), hjust = 0, gp = gpar()),
                            ymin=col2_x, ymax=col2_x,
                            xmin=i,xmax=i)
p2 = p2 + annotation_custom(grob = textGrob(label = expression(bold('N')), hjust = 0, gp = gpar()),
                            ymin=col3_x, ymax=col3_x,
                            xmin=i,xmax=i)
p2 = p2 + annotation_custom(grob = textGrob(label = expression(bold('P-val')), hjust = 0, gp = gpar()),
                            ymin=col4_x, ymax=col4_x,
                            xmin=i,xmax=i)

p2

Output:

What is basically done, is that margins for the figure are set in plot.margin in the initial plot. Some computation is then performed to determine the correct location for each column of information. Subsequently we loop through the data set and set the values in each column using annotation_custom(). Finally, we can add the headers in a similar manner.
Note: if you resize the plot window (in RStudio for example), you need to re-run the code otherwise the layout will be messed up.

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I mash in, aiming for 154°, but let my strike water get a touch too hot, and settle for 156° after about 10 minutes of whipping the crap out of the mash with my maple mash paddle. I use my BrewBag mash tun filter as I always do.
After a 60 minute mash, I add the .75 oz Nugget hops to the kettle and collect the first runnings. I then add my sparge water, doing a single batch sparge. I then drain until I reach my approximate pre-boil volume. I really need to get a kettle with some etched volume markings to make my brew days more consistent and accurate. I was originally aiming for about 7.5 gallons pre-boil, but got closer to 8 gallons, and adjusted my boil time from 60 minutes to 75 minutes to accommodate that.
After the boil and coinciding boil additions, I chill my wort using my Hydra wort chiller, transfer to my fermenter, add 60 seconds of pure oxygen, and pitch my entire 1 liter starter. I then set up my BrewJacket Immersion temperature control system and start to clean.
For whatever reason, after mashing in I completely forgot to keep taking pictures of my process, and my fermenter is currently wrapped up in its BrewJacket insulation, so I'll add some more photos when I keg or when it's on tap in my kegerator. Updates to follow!
With the weather finally turning cold here in California, an easy and hearty chili recipe using leftovers and homebrew! This is a cheater recipe that uses almost pre-made or canned ingredients, but it comes out quite good.
While this recipe is a tad better is done in a more traditional all-day crock pot manner, the quick version also comes out pretty damn good. We usually just use ground beef, but had some leftover pulled pork taking up some space in the freezer and put it to use. The sweet, bready maltiness from the brown ale mixes nicely with the heat notes from the chili powder and red pepper. Beer chili is definitely the way to go!
Poured from a 12 oz bottle into my Libbey Stout glass. The body is solid black. A foamy, dark-brown head thins quickly to a light covering that leaves minimal lacing. Normally on smaller-ish stouts, some ruby-red highlights can be seen around the edges, but not so in this one.
At the forefront of the aroma is coffee, as expected. The coffee has two facets – both cold pressed aromatic smoothness, and a bit of a more harsh ashy, smokey, spent coffee ground nature. There are undertones of milk chocolate and toasted grain.
Medium-thin bodied, goes down with a fair amount of roasted coffee bitterness. The flavors of coffee, milk chocolate and toasted grain are accompanied by a creamy sweetness the lactose adds to the mouthfeel. The finish is artfully balanced between the roasty coffee and creamy sweetness. It is a very drinkable stout.
Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a can glass. The body is hazy-orange with moderate visible carbonation. The off-white, frothy head has good retention and leaves a fair amount of lacing on the glass.
A melange of hop aromas emanate from the glass: lemon, pine/dankness, tropical fruit, floral earthiness. The malts present themselves in a bit of a candy caramel scent. While hop-forward, the malt base balances things out well.
Medium-bodied mouthfeel, finishing dry with a lingering hop bite. It seems smoother than I remember the original being. The flavors match the nose pretty spot on: lemon citrus, pine, floral notes, with a touch of apricot sneaking in as well. The sweet, caramel malt character goes quite well with the complex hop profile.
Ruination 2.0 is a smoother, more complex and refined version of the original. Looking back at that review from over two years ago, a lot of the remarks I notated are similar to what I jotted down while drinking this one. That was a bit of a surprise, because my perception was that they were pretty different. I would say the main difference would be the smoothness of 2.0, while the original's notes were more staccato and harsh. Others I've talked to about this beer are ~ 50/50 on Original vs 2.0, but I think I like 2.0 just a touch better. I gave the original an 8.5/10, and I don't think this is quite a 9, so I'll give it an 8.75/10.
I guess you could call this my house brown ale, since I've brewed it a few times and it's one of my wife's favorites. I set out to find a nice, malty, sessionable ale with a quick fermentation turnaround when I needed a keg of something to take up a tap on my kegerator. I perused some online homebrew forums and the BeerSmith archives, and threw together a simple recipe for a Southern English Brown Ale.
The Recipe: 5.5 gallons into the fermenter, 75 minute boil (Normally 60 minutes, but I over-sparged a bit and extended the boil, was aiming for about 5.25-5.33 gallons). I got 72% efficiency on this batch with a simple single batch sparge.
This current batch is made with the S-04, and I don't like it nearly as much as I did with the WLP002, so if you decide to make it definitely go with that. In fact, I've made 3 beers with S-04 out of convenience, and I'm pretty much at the point where I'll never make anything out of it again.
Nice ruby-red/brown body that is crystal clear after about a month in the keg. Off-white creamy head with great retention and lacing. Aromas of bready grains, tobacco, dark fruit, and chocolate. Flavors follow suit, but in the S-04 version much more fruity yeast characteristics show up and don't mix particularly well with the base flavors. The WLP002 showed more malt characteristics, with the touch of dark fruit/pipe tobacco/chocolate making one of the better flavor profiles I've brewed to date.
This is an incredibly easy, cheap beer to make. With the right yeast, it is delicious. I will make it again, and use WLP002 from here on out.
Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a snifter. It has the prototypical Imperial Stout look: opaque jet black body, thin brown head with minimal retention, and little visible carbonation. Little lacing is left on the glass, and the alcohol legs are obvious when swirling it in the snifter.
Aromas of black licorice, bitter dark chocolate, caramel, dark fruit, toasted coconut, and a kick of alcohol are present. The aromas are bold and meld nicely.
I Love You With My Stout has a thick, syrupy body that finishes incredibly sweet with loads of residual sugars. It seems the very high gravity finish helps conceal the 12% ABV, as it's not nearly as present in the mouthfeel as it is in the aromas. Flavors of slightly scorched/cooked sugars, caramel, black licorice, bitter chocolate, and roasted malts.


What do you do when you are feeling stuck, or unable to move forward on some issue in your life that is deeply meaningful to you?
One useful approach is to begin the practice of self-observation, or have one part of your attention watching you as you carry out normal daily activities. I call this the 80-20 rule. The larger 80% of you carries on with your day as a little 20% of you does the observing. It is very difficult to do this all day long, but it is possible to do this at certain points in your day.
Let's say you are having difficulty in conversations, with others not understanding your point of view as well as you'd like. So you decide that, once a day, when you are in the middle of a frustrating conversation, you will watch yourself in it. Specifically, you may decide to watch your body sensations around the throat and chest area.
No big deal, no judgments, and no thinking about why this is going on! This simple observation is a kind of applied mindfulness practice, where you are concentrating on one aspect of your experience, becoming increasingly clear about what is going on, and developing the equanimity to let it come and go without you trying to direct or control it.
Why would this simple practice be helpful? Because seeing is freeing! Anytime you can perceive something that was previously beneath the surface of your awareness, you are a bit less governed by automatic reactions and a bit more able to develop creative responses to life situations.
Self-observation is one element of an Integral Coaching® approach.


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The CESAR Project collaborates in many events, apart from the school visits collected in "lectures". They are events of interest from the Universities, Astronomer Associations and relevant Scientist or Engineers from ESA , such as the visit of the new ESA Director and the Rusian Astronaut.
Here there are also summarize some of the workshops lead by CESAR Team members, to learn how to better use your telescope, how to observe the Sun and its features, how to perform astrophotography of planets. Hands-on sessions are performed with the CESAR telescopes and cameras.


Kinesio Tape: Less Pain, More Performance.
At Peak Sports And Spine Centre we may recommend the use of Kinesio Tape in conjunction with other treatment techniques. The Kinesio Taping Method is applied over muscles, helping reduce pain and inflammation during sporting activities. The technique also supports muscles to function properly and relaxes tired and overused muscles, whether from sporting activities or trauma (e.g. surgery, bruising etc).
Kinesio Taping is a technique that provides support and stability to joints and muscles without hindering blood circulation or the full range of motion of muscle on which the tape is attached to. It is also used for preventive maintenance purposes, preventing edema (swelling), and treating muscle and joint pain.
Kinesio Taping is a technique that revolves around enhancing the body's natural healing processes. It takes from the science of Kinesiology, also known as the study of human movement. Kinesio Tape is made from a hypoallergenic acrylic glue, which is manufactured to have the same weight, thickness and elasticity of the skin, allowing it to integrate with the body's sensory system.
With the use of elastic tape, physiotherapists, chiropractors and other clinicians discovered that this tool could help assist tissues and muscles function and heal from an external level. This creates a new approach to helping muscles, nerves and even organs function at maximum level. In the case of athletes, Kinesio Tape helps them reach their peak performance and recover faster from injuries.
At Peak Sports And Spine Centre, we recommend the use of Kinesio Tape in conjunction with our Brisbane physiotherapy programs to promote better results. The Kinesio Taping Method is applied over muscles, helping reduce pain and inflammation during sporting activities. The technique also supports muscles function properly and relaxes tired and overused muscles, whether from sporting activities or trauma (e.g. surgery, bruising etc).
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Extraordinary buildings give us extraordinary issues to grapple with and that's why the upper floor of the mausoleum has recently had more conservation.
Since being restored in 2010, condensation was building up in the lunette arches, which we needed to fix before damage occured.
We're not sure if Jamed Wyatt's original design was ever completely worked through, especially as another architect, George Dance, was supervising the construction and finer details, but it is likely that the windows were probably meant to have air gaps to allow the natural circulation of air to do its job.
However, due to the isolation of the site and the way we need to care for it in the 21st century, we have to protect the beautiful stained glass windows. This would never have been an issue in the 18th century.
We installed ventilation into the outer windows so they continue to protect, but also allow circulation of air within the dome.
We had to erect scaffolding to allow us to re-decorate the 12m high dome in lime wash as part of our routine care of the building.
Why did you do this during summer and not winter?
The materials we use are affected by the weather, especially the cold and the damp, so we had to do this work during the warmer months. Whilst carrying out the work during the summer, we were able to show some conservation in action.


Wayne, New Jersey — Data Link Solutions (DLS), a joint venture between Rockwell Collins and BAE Systems, has received a $62 million contract to upgrade the major data communications systems on U.S. Navy surface ships, known as the Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) on Ship Modernization (MOS Mod) program. The company will perform ship modernization of the MIDS Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS JTRS) and MIDS-Low Volume Terminal (MIDS-LVT) to enable a more effective exchange of text and imagery data between naval ships, military aircraft and ground forces.
"As sole developer of the MOS systems deployed to U.S. Government and Allied Forces platforms, DLS is well positioned to deliver the unique network-centric warfare capabilities and combined expertise of both Rockwell Collins and BAE Systems to strengthen shipboard interface protocols," said Joe Senftle, vice president and general manager of Communications and Control Solutions at BAE Systems.
MOS Mod is a top priority program for the U.S. Navy. Managed by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, MOS Mod seeks to alleviate obsolescence and supportability issues of the MIDS shipboard system, allowing military aircraft and ground forces to share the tactical picture in near-real time.
"DLS's proven track record of delivering MOS terminals for the past 12 years will enable complex Link 16 project goals involving MOS technology upgrades," said Mike Jones, vice president and general manager of Communication and Navigation Products at Rockwell Collins.
Work for the initial three-year contract will be performed at DLS facilities in Wayne, New Jersey, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Competitively procured by DLS, this indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity development and production contract includes options that would extend the company's work through 2022.
DLS has provided MIDS terminals for more than 40 different platforms in 38 countries. Product offerings include the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System Class 2 family, the Multi-functional Information Distribution System (MIDS) LVT and LVT-3 Fighter Data Link, the MIDS-LVT-2, the MIDS-On-Ship, the URC-138 Link 16 terminal, TacNet™ Tactical Radio, and various country-unique data links. DLS is the only company to provide all LVT variants including the Fighter Data Link and the LVT-2/11 and has added MIDS JTRS to its offerings.


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Is Coaching Everything That It Is Cracked Up To Be?
Personal or business coaching has helped thousands change their lives and achieve their goals. Yet, for the sceptics it still is a fuzzy concept with little recognition for its benefits. Think of Celine Dion, who with a voice coach claimed world fame. Her coach unleashed what is known today as one of the most mesmerizing voices in the world.
Is coaching just a buzzword to capture another niche market of those seeking instant gratification and on the spot success?
Let's take a look at good fitness coach. He gets into your mind and pinpoints what motivates you and which exercises you enjoy. He designs a program with your physical condition and goals in mind. Your fitness coach teaches you how to properly use equipment and reach your target. He is right at your side helping you to get the most out of your workout. He challenges you to reach your goals and believes that you can do it. He is always a step ahead of you and more interested in your success than you. Most people go to the gym hoping to get results on their own. For many it is not until they get a coach that positive changes start to happen.
Relationship coaching for singles or couples is no different. Most singles plough through the smorgasbord of hyped dating avenues hoping to find their one-and-only. Couples in unhappy relationships try to solve conflicts on their own, wait for a miracle or leave. Reportedly, those who reach out to a coach have made remarkable progress in relative short time spans. Coaching has become a source of real help for real people in the real world.
Just like in the case of Celine Dion, a relationship coach unleashes the best of you. Whether you are in a relationship or single, a coach knows that you have everything inside to realize your relationship potential. Relationship/dating coaching is not a long, drawn-out process. People have achieved success in as little as 4-6 sessions. The focus of coaching is in on moving forward from where you. Coaching empowers you to move beyond the past and take a different approach to dating or relationship conflict resolution. It is this direct, head-on approach that leads to desired change.
Coaching has helped thousand successfully find love or dramatically improve existing relationships. It will also help you! When choosing a coach, check his experience, credentials and ethics. Evaluate his passion and most importantly, trust your gut feeling. Coaching should be fun and productive; make sure you really like your coach! Isn't it time you took care of our relationships?
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Paseo del Bajo
The Paseo del Bajo will connect the north and south of Buenos Aires, ease traffic and create more green spaces.
The Paseo del Bajo will be a road corridor of 7,1 km that will connect the Illia and Buenos Aires-La Plata highways.
It will be located between Alicia Moreau de Justo - Huergo-Madero Avenues and will have four lanes exclusively for trucks and long distance buses, which will allow to move faster to the direct access to the port and the Retiro Terminal.
In addition, it will have 8 lanes for light vehicles, four in the north and four in the south. This work will improve the flow of traffic of cars, buses and trucks, rearranging and increasing road safety throughout the area.
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You surely are well familiarized with cryptocurrencies and what they represent to our current financial outlook. However, you may not know that most of those digital coins dominating the news with their highs and lows are based on the blockchain technology.
The blockchain is a distributed ledger of transactions and its associated records, which receive the name of blocks in the industry. Each block is formed by a cryptographic hash of its previous peer, as well as a timestamp and other information about an operation or transaction that two parties complete.
The system makes it impossible to falsify records, so data can't be modified. That feature alone provides enough trustworthiness to make sure that each transaction is completed with safety and transparency.
The world is showing an increased need for most of the features that blockchain technology can provide. The majority of business, networks, institutions, and industries need transparent, reliable systems that can guarantee a secure exchange of assets for a particular purpose. People need trust and honesty to make transactions and to establish solid commercial relationships, and the ever-growing blockchain model is in position to deliver those goods.
Powered by Ethereum smart contracts and the blockchain technology, Polysmwarm is a decentralized threat intelligence market that promotes innovation in the multi-billionaire anti-virus and automated cyber threat intelligence industry, using precise economic incentives that reward timely and accurate threat intelligence regarding the malintent of files, network traffic, and URLs.
It provides a real-time threat detection ecosystem that involves all actors: enterprises, consumers, vendors and geographically-diverse security experts. Competing for "micro-engines" that autonomously investigate the latest threats are developed, in an attempt to outperform their competition.
Much like Bitcoin and other prominent cryptocurrencies in the field, PolySwarm uses the "Proof of Work" system, which provides incredible threat detection accuracy. Additionally, the market rewards experts who are best able to defend enterprises and end users.
PolySwarm will lower the barrier to enter today's ad hoc market, providing broader coverage options and discouraging duplicative effort while ensuring high connectivity and interoperability among products and threat intelligence feeds.
Developed by Swarm Technologies, Inc. ("Swarm Technologies") with funding derived from the sale of ERC20-compatible Nectar ("NCT") utility tokens, PolySwarm functions as a skill-required twist on a prediction market with thousands of micro-engines ("workers") investigating the latest in malware evolution at machine speed.
RACoin is a platform, with its respective native cryptocurrency, designed to enhance the online gaming experience. The industry shows a stable growth rate. Consider this: in 2017, the gross win of the global gambling market was estimated at about 465 billion U.S. dollars.
While the industry does not discourage innovations, it can be frustratingly conservative sometimes. Experts say that it still lacks transparency and privacy, but fear no more: Blockchain technology provides everything needed to establish today's increased level of security and fair gaming across the industry.
RACoin provides a perfect opportunity to take the gaming industry to a whole new level with a unified, functional cryptocurrency. It is a utility cryptocurrency powered by Ethereum smart contracts that can fully meet all the needs of both online and offline gambling.
The Palau World, a luxurious resort complex with a wonderful casino venue set on a tropical island in the Pacific Ocean, is the initial point of the RA Entertainment – and RACoin – project. It will serve as a profitable method of payment for all goods and services Palau World will provide, with an exciting rewards and bonuses system.
The RAcoin is a blockchain-based cryptographic token specially designed for the global gambling industry. Circulating along with fiat on gambling and betting online platforms, RAcoin allows customers the freedom to choose their preferred method of payment. With lower fees for withdrawing money than fiat, RAcoin allows players to enjoy more gambling.
Kora has philanthropic intentions, as it is a project that intends to help millions of people who are forgotten by the current financial system and are affected by expensive and inconvenient access to financial services.
The world is filled with people with little access to financial products and services: as much as we want to believe the contrary, planet Earth is not always a fair place to live. These people are continually excluded from better solutions due to high costs, lack of proper identity, poor access to banking locations, and mistrust or misunderstanding of the banking system.
Kora preaches that technology should empower instead of displacing existing communities and networks in order to reach an understanding and trust needed for massive adoption. It endorses inclusion and provides the tools to fight for it.
The system will be built on four layers of infrastructure to provide a low cost, universal access financial services platform accessible via SMS/USSD on features phones, or with Internet access via a mobile app, enabled by blockchain technology.
Thanks to Kora, the communities will put together a sustainable financial services ecosystem, with costs and time reductions for accessing them. Capital will be unlocked, and the forgotten people in the economy will have opportunities to exploit their talent.
Right Mesh is a decentralized platform and Internet infrastructure that is built to endure both oppressive political and governmental regimes as well as natural disasters. To the contrary of what numerous other networks preach, Right Mesh is truly decentralized because it doesn't rely on centralized infrastructure hardware-wise.
By allowing (peer-to-peer) activity, Right Mesh represents the world's first software-based, ad hoc mobile mesh networking platform and protocol that implements blockchain technology and its native cryptocurrency, which are the RMESH tokens, to back up growth.
Right Mesh is owned by parent company Left, a multinational enterprise with nearly a hundred employees and with considerable investments in the decentralized platform, one of the hottest propositions for 2018.
The RMESH Token is of the ERC20 type and is worth one dollar. The ICO fundraising goal, expressed in US dollars, is 30,000,000, 18,000,000 of which were sold on the pre-sale phase. There are 129,500,000 total tokens. The system accepts ETH, BTC, USD, EUR, GBP, DKK, and SGD.
Another one of the top cryptocurrencies for the second quarter of 2018 is SPINDLE. It is an ecosystem, where private investors and investees can meet and interact on a fair and equal base, using SPINDLE (SPD) tokens as a ticket to a confident and transparent investing and asset management experience. Making investment an actual option for everyone, regardless of their nationality, gender, age, wealth etc. - for this goal, the SPINDLE team is developing the blockchain-based investment / asset management platform ZETA. SPINDLE seeks for the platform to serve as a bridge that connects investors and asset managers to alleviate the former's sense of unease about investment and encourage involvement in proactive asset management. Users will be able to freely select and combine their preferred investment targets, converse with fund managers, and make confident investment decisions based on their own, personal judgements.
The platform has its native digital coin, as does every option listed in this article. Its name is SPINDLE (SPD), and it will be used as a utility token within ZETA's ecosystem. SPINDLE token holders will not pay any fees or commissions when using SPINDLE's service platform ZETA. Likewise, cryptocurrency funds will be able to join and use the platform free of charge. SPINDLE, therefore, will provide transparent access to cryptocurrency fund investment for users in all locations in the world, and increased exposure to cryptocurrency fund managers. Think of it as a match-maker - but instead of connecting you to your future lover, SPINDLE will connect you with your ideal investment options.
The blockchain technology provides a perfect environment to nurture new projects related to credit valuation and assessment. Equity Base is one of them: an end-to-end securities token ecosystem for project appraisal an credit valuation.
It is built to let issuers offer asset-backed investment opportunities to investors in every corner of the world. The primary goal of developers, advisors and the team, in general, is to overcome entry barriers for issuers to launch security tokens on the blockchain.
The Equity Base ecosystem has the potential to narrow the existing gap between traditional securities and blockchain based asset ownership because it provides the tools for building an integrated marketplace for securities issuances and alternative market trading.
It serves as a perfect setting for real estate trading and commerce because it provides issuers with legal compliant solutions. This network applies smart contract technologies to real estate and capital market. The associated cryptocurrency is BASE, an Ethereum-based token.
With the aim to serve as the perfect gaming platform for an ever-growing online market, Play2Live is a blockchain-based streaming platform for gamers and esports fans around the world. It merges revolutionary blockchain technology and streaming services to provide a fantastic end product: an ecosystem in which gamers can interact. It focuses on content generation and on solving the practical needs of streamers, esports tournament organizers, and the viewers. Users expect a wide range of interaction and personalization options while regulating peer-to-peer commercial relationships.
On top of that, Play2Live users get to choose how they receive advertisements. Based on blockchain technology, Play2Live introduces a unique mix of interactive features that include increased speed, transparency, security, and availability. In conclusion, the world is filled with cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based technologies and platforms. However, savvy investors don't just look at the coin tendencies before investing: they also research the best platforms and networks with native cryptocurrencies that fulfill a purpose, a specific solution to a problem. The seven options listed here are some of the hottest values in the crypto universe.


Ever feel the craving for something chocolate, fudgy and salty with a slight crunch? Well, look no further than these salted dark chocolate truffles!
These truffles are so delicious and they are so simple to make! Seriously, these come together in literally 10 mins or less on the stove top (no baking required!) and only require 5 ingredients!
They also keep really well in the fridge. If Matt and I didn't eat so many of them, one batch would probably last us the whole week for dessert, but usually it only lasts a couple days (heehee).
This recipe that I'm sharing today is adapted from the Traditional Brigadeiros recipe that I use to make to make Brazilian chocolate brigadeiro all the time. My twist? To make these dark chocolate and salty I used Hershey's dark chocolate instead of regular cocoa powder and I also added a ¼ tsp of salt to the batter.
If you want to make traditional brigadeiro (which are also sooooo good) just leave out the salt and use regular cocoa powder.
These dark chocolate desserts are perfect to bring to parties, get-togethers, and are great for when you have company come over or need a quick dessert for a dinner party.
In a small sauce pan add the condensed milk, cocoa powder, butter and salt. Turn heat to medium and stir it all together until the butter is melted. Then, continue stiring (if you just let it sit there, it will burn). I like to use a wooden spoon, but if you don't have a wooden spoon, that's okay! Just any big spoon will do.
Keep stirring! It will start to bubble as it gets to boiling temperature. After about 5-8 minutes, you will notice that the batter is definitely a thicker consistency, like boiling lava. You will notice that if you draw the spoon down the middle of the pan, it takes the batter a couple seconds to come back together behind the spoon because it's a thicker consistency.
Once the batter has thickened (and really, this only takes a couple mins after the batter starts to bubble) pour it immediately onto a plate and pop it in the fridge too cool! It will look like a big chocolate blob on the plate. That's okay!
Refrigerate the batter for 20 or so mins, until it is cooled (Or just leave it in the fridge until you have time to come back).
Now we start phase two: rolling them into balls.
Get out your little paper or foil cupcake cups and chocolate sprinkles.
Take the batter out of the fridge and use a spoon to scoop small portions of the batter and throw it into the sprinkles. From here I roll the batter around and form it into a ball. The batter is sticky so try to handle it sparingly. This part can get kind of messy, but you'll deal. Some people like to cover their hands in oil or butter before doing this to prevent the batter from sticking. You can try that. I usually skip this step because that's too much work for me. Hence why I use the spoon.
Anyways, as you get your batter into sprinkle covered globs that resemble balls, put them into the little paper cups.
This step typically takes me about 10 mins.
Then, once you're done with that, lick the spoon and pop your truffles into the fridge for serving later, or, eat them right away!


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Creating an empowering future for healthcare
Gus Miah
The healthcare and life sciences market is set to undergo a transformational shift over the next five years, with new solutions empowering individuals to take responsibility for their own personal healthcare.
As highlighted in Deloitte's recent report, The future unmasked: Predicting the future of healthcare and life sciences in 2025, many of these shifts have been accelerated by the global Covid-19 pandemic. With capacity and resourcing pressures, the healthcare sector has had to shift to become more efficient and proactive – from rapidly implementing solutions that enable remote diagnosis to providing more personalised care, both virtually and in-person.
The last year has demonstrated the level of innovation that the healthcare market is capable of – and this is just the beginning. With the advent of 5G and greater use of technology across a wider range of demographics, the stage is set for rapid, exponential innovation.
The UK is perfectly placed to be a driving force of this health tech revolution, and we've already seen this in action in the Midlands. The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is currently working with Babylon to create a world-first integrated digital health system for the city of Wolverhampton, providing patients with greater control over their own health through a single, free app. Meanwhile, the Birmingham Health Innovation Campus, set to open in 2023, will provide world-class research facilities and enable the region to build on its national reputation for healthcare innovation.
These projects highlight what can be achieved when networks come together to pursue a common goal – from local universities and businesses to NHS trusts and Local Enterprise Partnerships. This level of collaboration is essential in maintaining the pace of healthcare innovation by providing insight and education across the healthcare ecosystem, as well as providing access to funding. Our own Health Tech Catalyst is one example of how public and private sector organisations can work together to positively impact the health and wellbeing of individuals.
As health tech innovation thrives, tackling inequalities in healthcare will be more important than ever - it's crucial to ensure that people from all backgrounds and of all ages can access and use new healthcare solutions. We're already seeing a lot of solutions in place, from the development of health tech user experience, including greater use of voice recognition software, to using community hubs as physical spaces to provide access and training for new technology.
With this solution-oriented thinking and collaboration in place, we're set to see patient care become more personalised, predictive and empowering in the coming years. The pandemic has highlighted both new opportunities and new solutions, and the pace of innovation shows no sign of slowing. Ultimately, this revolution in health tech shows what is possible when organisations come together to enable people to live longer, healthier and more independent lives.
gmiah@deloitte.co.uk
Gus leads the Public Services Assurance and Advisory practice at Deloitte in the Midlands. He has a wealth of experience within the Public and Private sector having worked with local Government, Healthcare and commercial clients for over 25 years. His capabilities include providing assurance services, board development, cost reductions, consultancy and PFI/capital projects. Gus is also the UK regional lead for Public Healthcare & Life Sciences and the Midlands Public Sector lead.
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Simply Fitness was created as a stage for me to share information about fitness on a much greater scale than I can as a personal trainer. Posts are about exercise, eating and drinking habits, along with other conditions which have an impact on overall fitness. As much as I love the one-on-one aspect of personal training, it is a limiting factor in helping a larger number of people to improve their level of fitness. With this blog, I hope to reach many more and take the 'complicated' out of fitness.
Fitness does not have to be complicated. I want to help make getting in better shape much easier. Here in the United States, we have a very unfit population. In fact, over 70 % of adults are overweight and obese. That's something which needs to change. There are many reasons why our population is in such bad shape. But, those reasons don't matter if we are not serious about changing that number. It doesn't have to be as complicated as most think it is. Anyone can improve their fitness level.
I have been a personal trainer for over 20 years. I have also taught university-level physical education courses part-time while maintaining a personal training business and owning a small fitness center. I have worked with over a thousand people to help them with their various fitness challenges. During that time I have answered, or tried to answer, fitness questions. There are many questions I seem to answer over and over. And, some unique questions I have had to research. I aim to write about these and many more topics.
So, how might this blog be different from the many, many fitness blogs out there?
I read a lot of medical articles, lay magazines, and specific studies done in different areas of science. I have read many, many research studies and articles specifically about health and fitness over the years. I enjoy learning new things in this field. I will cut through the clutter and really technical language to write to you in plain English.
I will tell you my honest opinion, even if others may not agree with my ideas. I believe it is necessary to ask the most important questions "What", "Why?", "Why not?" and "How?" Yes, the other big questions ("Who?", "Where?" and "When?") are important, too.
I know the average person does not LIVE for fitness. (Insert eye roll.) So, I understand that there is much more to your life than working out and eating like a saint. Understanding this basic fact is very important when encouraging someone to do better for their health.
I will sometimes post a story which is only loosely related to fitness, or not at all related. You can skip these posts if you want. But, who knows? Maybe you'll get something out of them. Even if only a laugh.
I have a bachelor's degree in Exercise Science and a master's degree in Sport Pedagogy. I am certainly not saying that all fitness bloggers are uneducated or unqualified. I am letting you know, however, that the personal training profession does not have any licensure requirements. Many trainers in this profession do not have any education, certification, or even experience in fitness, let alone university degrees, to back up their practices. The things I've seen untrained trainers do over the years is mind-boggling! I will always strive to give the best advice.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, I believe that it is possible for a 'fitness movement' to take hold in our country. I know there is not one specific thing that will accomplish this. But, through the work of many people like me, maybe we can make a difference.
I plan to write about basic fitness principles and specific topics of interest. I am open to answer any fitness questions you may have. I will give you the best answer based on my research and experience. I will let you know if I don't know the answer. Then, I will do my best to research that topic. I welcome any comments, any suggestions, and any criticisms. Although no one likes to be criticized, constructive criticism leads to better knowledge and understanding. So, please let me know what you're thinking.
The human body is amazing! It is also fairly logical. It is made up of systems. These systems are pretty consistent with how they function. Yes, I know there are exceptions. I've dealt with my share. However, if we try the basics to get ourselves in better shape, we are likely to improve. If we do not improve by working with the basic principles known to improve fitness, we have found the exception and can move forward.
If we do not try, we will not improve. If we do not try, we will not know what being fit and living a healthy lifestyle feels like. It feels really good! The most common thing I hear from my clients after working with them for only a couple of weeks is that they feel better – more energy, better sleep, and overall happier – than they did before they started working out. That's after only a couple of weeks! If they had not even tried, they would not know this feeling.
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There are reasons why we have a dog. Something large, furry and hard to kill accidentally.
Back when Peter, Nathaniel and I lived in Colorado we had goldfish. There was a trip to Florida where we forgot that we had fish and left without feeding them. Peter came home first and he was amazed to find that the fish were still alive! But unfortunately, because he forgot to feed them AFTER he'd gotten home, most of them died anyway.
Did we give up? No! We Mayhews aren't quitters. We got more fish.
So, one day while cleaning out the fishbowl, I put the fish in a transition bowl by the sink. Nathaniel had learned this new trick (he was two years old at this point) of opening the dishwasher and standing on the door so he could see all the stuff on the counter. Peter called me in the middle of the fishbowl washing and I walked away to answer the phone. When I came back, the bowl with the fish in it was GONE! Nathaniel had dumped the bowl of water and fish into the sink…of course not the side that has a drain, no, he dumps it into the side with the garbage disposal. Out of three fish, I could only see one. The biggest one was trapped in the plastic that covers the drain and was flopping madly around. I snatched him up and stuck him in a glass of water. But I still couldn't find the other two fish. Only one place they could have gone.
I'm on the phone with Pete, with my hand shoved down the garbage disposal and the fish are really ticked off with me, flopping around furiously and I can't get a grip on them. I'm bawling now, because the fish have worked themselves so deeply into the garbage disposal that I know there's only one option.
From that day on, the one remaining fish always sort of glared at me whenever I walked by.
Now, that whole lovely PETA-approved back story was to set up my sink/animal fiasco of today.
Nathaniel's taken on this new hobby of catching lizards. He proudly comes in with whatever new scaly thing he's stalked and captured and then he sticks it in a box/cup/bowl…whatever. Well, he made a huge mistake of leaving his latest prey on the coffee table and when Peyton cleaned off the coffee table today, the cup went into the kitchen. I had no idea until I noticed something floating in the water while I washed dishes. After I drained the sink, I found a little shriveled up drowned lizard at the bottom of the sink.
Beyond the lizard incident, Nathaniel had a great day! He got to go to GameWorks with is big buddy Eddie. GameWorks is basically the arcade that you wished you had when you were a kid. It's just awesome! They ate dinner there and had a rocking good time. Nathaniel won the Dance Dance Revolution, Eddie won the race car games….seems fair.
Peyton does this overnight puff up on the 2cnd day post-steroids. It's as if the drugs and the food need time to really get in her system. And today you see this dramatic change in her face and belly. It'll go away in about a week, but she looked normal at the football game yesterday, she looks like Marlon Brando today.
I want to share some much needed prayer requests.
Delaney Potterbaum is a little girl with an Optic Glioma, a brain tumor. Her tumor recently turned aggressive and then she took a huge turn for the better. She's now home, recovering, starting physical therapy, but left mostly blind. She's always been an active little girl and now because of her vision loss she's bored, she's frustrated and her family is working hard to try to find ways for her to use her creative mind that is being trapped by her blindness. Please pray for her awesome family, they are so positive and constantly thankful just to have Delaney each and every day.
Sydney Sims(Neuroblastoma) requires a huge amount of prayer right now. She and her parents are in NY at Sloan Kettering getting her MIBG results and waiting on bone marrow results. There is just so much unknown for Sydney right now, they don't have a treatment plan in place yet and her body has been through so much. Her family is separated with her brother here in FL and her parents with her in NY and it could be weeks before they are together, so please just keep them wrapped in prayer.
Maddie Bridges (Rhabdomyosarcoma) and her family is preparing to leave for Jacksonville for 6 weeks. She will be receiving proton radiation on her tumor site and we just pray for her to handle the treatment as well as possible.
Baby Leo Astacio (Neuroblastoma) had good news in that his tumors are either shrinking or stable. His family had a wonderful trip to Chicago to see a Neuroblastoma specialist and she was able to put some peace in their hearts about holding treatment and seeing if his body will fight the disease on their own.
Justin Gaudineer (Neuroblastoma) is home from his trip to NY for surgery. He's doing very well and is starting up a big week of chemo here at home. He's such a fighter and he just needs lots of prayer as he continues to heal and battle his cancer.
In the face of all that, it seems petty to complain that Peyton's eating around the clock. She's so happy and healthy, her cancer is in remission and we are thankful every day for the lessons that she teaches us. I don't know why cancer has to touch our lives, I hate that anyone has to watch their child suffer, but I know that God has a plan and a purpose for each of us.
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Glad to hear Peyton is happy. Sorry about the fishy's. How about a goat? They are easy to take care of too.