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package io.asfjava.ui.core.schema;

import static com.jayway.jsonpath.matchers.JsonPathMatchers.hasJsonPath;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.hasItem;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.hasSize;

import java.io.Serializable;

import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

import io.asfjava.ui.core.GeneratorFactoryInitializer;
import io.asfjava.ui.core.form.ComboBox;
import io.asfjava.ui.dto.UiForm;

public class ComboBoxFormTest {

	static GeneratorFactoryInitializer generatorFactoryInitializer;

	@BeforeClass
	public static void setUpBeforeClass() {
		generatorFactoryInitializer = new GeneratorFactoryInitializer();
		generatorFactoryInitializer.contextInitialized(null);
	}

	@AfterClass
	public static void tearDownAfterClass() {
		generatorFactoryInitializer.contextDestroyed(null);
	}

	@Test
	public void testGenerate_ComboBox() throws JsonProcessingException {
		UiForm ui = UiFormSchemaGenerator.get().generate(ComboBoxForm.class);

		String json = new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(ui);
		Assert.assertThat(json, hasJsonPath("$.schema.properties.currency.title", equalTo("Currency")));
		Assert.assertThat(json, hasJsonPath("$.form[?(@.key=='currency')]", hasSize(1)));
		Assert.assertThat(json, hasJsonPath("$.form[?(@.key=='currency')].disabled", hasItem(false)));
		Assert.assertThat(json, hasJsonPath("$.form[?(@.key=='currency')].multiple", hasItem(false)));
		Assert.assertThat(json, hasJsonPath("$.form[?(@.key=='currency')].required", hasItem(true)));
		Assert.assertThat(json, hasJsonPath("$.form[?(@.key=='currency')].autofocus", hasItem(false)));
		Assert.assertThat(json,
				hasJsonPath("$.form[?(@.key=='currency')].titleMap[?(@.name=='Euro')].value", hasItem("euro")));
		Assert.assertThat(json,
				hasJsonPath("$.form[?(@.key=='currency')].titleMap[?(@.name=='Dollar')].value", hasItem("dollar")));

	}

	@Test
	public void testGenerate_ComboBox_WithCustomValuesContainer() throws JsonProcessingException {
		UiForm ui = UiFormSchemaGenerator.get().generate(ComboBoxForm2.class);

		String json = new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(ui);
		Assert.assertThat(json, hasJsonPath("$.schema.properties.gender.title", equalTo("Gender")));
		Assert.assertThat(json, hasJsonPath("$.form[?(@.key=='gender')]", hasSize(1)));
		Assert.assertThat(json, hasJsonPath("$.form[?(@.key=='gender')].disabled", hasItem(false)));
		Assert.assertThat(json, hasJsonPath("$.form[?(@.key=='gender')].multiple", hasItem(false)));
		Assert.assertThat(json, hasJsonPath("$.form[?(@.key=='gender')].required", hasItem(false)));
		Assert.assertThat(json, hasJsonPath("$.form[?(@.key=='gender')].autofocus", hasItem(false)));
		Assert.assertThat(json,
				hasJsonPath("$.form[?(@.key=='gender')].titleMap[?(@.name=='Male')].value", hasItem("male")));
		Assert.assertThat(json,
				hasJsonPath("$.form[?(@.key=='gender')].titleMap[?(@.name=='Female')].value", hasItem("female")));

	}

}

class ComboBoxForm implements Serializable {

	@ComboBox(title = "Currency", values = { "euro", "dollar" }, required = true)
	private String currency;

	public String getCurrency() {
		return currency;
	}
}

class ComboBoxForm2 implements Serializable {

	@ComboBox(title = "Gender", titleMap = GenderTitleMap.class)
	private String gender;

	public String getGender() {
		return gender;
	}
}

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A conventional beef burger, left, next to "The Impossible Burger", right, a plant-based burger containing wheat protein, coconut oil and potato protein among it's ingredients.
LINCOLN, Neb. — More than four months after Missouri became the first U.S. state to regulate the term "meat" on product labels, Nebraska's powerful farm groups are pushing for similar protection from veggie burgers, tofu dogs and other items that look and taste like real meat.
Nebraska lawmakers will consider a bill this year defining meat as "any edible portion of any livestock or poultry, carcass, or part thereof" and excluding "lab-grown or insect or plant-based food products." It would make it a crime to advertise or sell something "as meat that is not derived from poultry or livestock."
Similar measures aimed at meat alternatives are pending in Tennessee, Virginia and Wyoming. They come amid a debate over what to call products that are being developed using the emerging science of meat grown by culturing cells in a lab. Supporters of the science are embracing the term "clean meat" — language the conventional meat industry strongly opposes.
The issue strikes a particularly strong chord in Nebraska, one of the nation's top states for livestock production, where cars roll down the interstate with "Beef State" license plates and the governor each year proclaims May as "Beef Month."
The measure is certain to face resistance from food producers that sell plant-based alternatives, as well as those working to bring lab-grown meat to market. Critics say the bill infringes on the free-speech rights of companies that produce vegetarian alternatives to real meat.
Under the Nebraska bill, violations would bring a misdemeanor charge punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.


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Bri B.'s Tale of A Spirit Who Taught a Family That There Is Nothing More Than A Family
by In2townmanager | Aug 21, 2018 | Book Press Releases | 0 comments
Boston MA – August 20, 2018: Bri B. talks about as spirit wandering around a house where the family lives in the book entitle "Hender Nathaniels: He Didn't Haunt, He Taught!" The story revolves around how the spirit became a part of a family and helped them be one instead of haunting them and tearing them apart.
Hender Nathaniels was the name of the spirit living in the house with the Westlyn family. The six-year-old girl of the family was the first one to see the Hender. Although the family had already known that there is indeed another being living with them. They have felt the presence, but haven't seen it before their eyes. Only Nori, the six-year-old girl, was the only one who could see Hender.
But when Hender decided to reveal his true self in front of the whole family, all were surprised to see him. It was a bit scary at first, but Hender wasn't the type of spirit who haunts, but instead is happy to be living under the same roof of the Westlyn family's home that was once his.
Upon Hender's revelation, the whole family has confirmed the truth behind Nori's allegations and that the fact that there indeed really is a spirit living among them. But as the time goes by, Hender has found himself slowly becoming with the Westlyn family. He contributed a lot to the household.
Hender was able to help the Westlyn family cook and clean for knowing almost every corner of the house. But the greatest contribution of Hender to the family is his presence that made the relationship of the Westlyn family even stronger. Hender taught them that there is no other thing or matter higher than the family. That no matter how difficult it is to stay together, becoming strong together and fighting against the odds will bring forth happiness in the end.
The Westlyn family insisted, "Hender Nathaniels: He Didn't Haunt, He Taught!"
This book by Bri B. is a reminder to all family that unbelievable things and difficult circumstances are not always there to break the bond apart. Instead, it helps strengthen the relationship and the foundation of the family to be able to withstand even greater waves in the future.
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"Now, Hender will be the young boy that takes you into a world of family. He will show you the importance of having a family and appreciating them. I have been a writer all my life, and I love exciting my readers with the next big surprise! Enjoy the journey of Hender Nathaniel's!"
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Documenta 14 at Kassel, Germany, Explores a Post-Urban Future
For the "Ways of Life" exhibition, top architects and designers imagine a world where people return to living full-time in nature
By John Gendall
Perched House by Somatic Collaborative (USA, Ecuador).Photo: Courtesy of Somatic Collaborative / Rendering by SquareVoxel
Over the past century or so, personal real estate footprints seem to have been cleaved into three prevailing categories: the office (where work gets done), the home (positioned, one hopes, within reasonable striking distance of the office), and the weekend home (to get away from the numbing back-and-forth between home and office). But with digital technology such as it now is, this triangulation seems all too out of date. With greater segments of the workforce now operating independently, and with more people working from home, the congestion along corridors between home and office seems wasteful of both time and resource. And, as anyone who has ventured a Sunday evening commute from the Hamptons to Manhattan knows all too well, the commute between home and weekend home can make the very idea of a getaway seem not worth the effort.
House of Endless Landscapes by Atelier Alter (China).
Photo: Courtesy of Atelier Alter
In an effort to find alternatives to this model, architects Christoph Hesse and Neeraj Bhatia curated "Ways of Life," an exhibition of 20 different house designs meant to collapse the gulfs between home, office, and weekend home, and to provide viable ways of living outside the city. The resulting projects, each commissioned anew for this exhibition, are on view at Documenta 14, an international art fair in Kassel, Germany.
Segments by Jürgen Mayer H. (Germany).
Photo: Courtesy of Jürgen Mayer H.
With contributions from the likes of Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Tatiana Bilbao, Anna Heringer, and J. Mayer H. (and from Hesse and Bhatia's own studios), each design provides a different approach to the same challenge: how to live and work amid nature. As Hesse says, in a conversation with AD, "cities have become so expensive that people wonder if it's worth it. I think it's attractive for people to live in this other way, in nature."
Living Garden House by KWK Promes (Poland).
Photo: Courtesy of KWK Promes
Hesse's own project, Open House, is divided between three levels, arrayed in such a way as to feel different elements of the forest, from the soil to the canopy. "It's important to have a close relationship with nature—the atmosphere, the smell, the wind—and that's why the house is so open," he explains.
The Open House by Christoph Hesse Architekts (Germany).
Photo: Courtesy of Christoph Hesse Architekts
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Walden by Stinessen Arkitektur (Norway).
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Dr. Kwaku Frimpong Reveals Samuel Boadu Will Coach Ashgold Soon: Ghanatoday.net
President of Obuasi Ashanti Gold, Dr. Kwaku Frimpong has disclosed that highly-rated coach Samuel Boadu will in the future be made the head coach for his club.
The young indigenous coach is regarded as one of the best trainers on the local scene after helping Medeama Sporting Club (SC) remain as one of the giants of Ghana football in the last few years.
Following his impressive performance with the Yellow and Mauves in the last couple of years, he has been appointed as the head coach for the Ghana u-15 team by the Ghana Football Association (GFA).
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REVIEW: 'RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World' - The Queens Honor RuPaul's Career with 24 Looks in a Ball in 'RuPaul Ball'
BBC Three's RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World - Episode 1.02 "RuPaul Ball"
The fierce International Drag Race competition to be crowned Queen of the Mothertucking World continues, and this week it's the RuPaul Ball! In a celebration of "all things RuPaul," the queens must serve three looks on the runway - including an outfit they must create from scratch that Mama Ru herself would want to wear.
On a regular season of Drag Races, the judges and producers are the ones inflicting psychological trauma on the queens. It's what they signed up for. They just have to go along with the twists as they happen. Sure, one queen will always comment on how it's unfair. And yet, RuPaul makes the rules. Whatever she says goes. With All Stars though, the queens are the ones inflicting that psychological trauma on each other. The judges and producers still play a crucial role. They determine who is in the top and bottom each week. But the queens have to decide who gets eliminated. That quickly becomes a minefield where they have to balance what the decision means both within the competition and outside in the real world. Alliances have the potential of meaning something. That is amplified further in this format because the queens are representing their home countries. Jimbo felt an obligation to save Lemon because they both come from Canada. Lemon noted that they don't really have a friendship away from the show though. As such, it could just be pandering to the cameras and some artificial design meant to create a compelling format. It places importance on relationships that don't have as much depth as is necessary. It's still shocking that Lemon was eliminated first. Jimbo reveals that she would have chosen Janey. Her reasoning changes from moment to moment. First, she just wanted to save Lemon. Then, she wanted to get rid of Janey for her performance in the talent show. That invites more people to pile on regarding the five looks she performed in. It's rough but it also creates a fair amount of drama that is simply enjoyable. It's amusing to see which queens want to slide out of frame and leave the conversation when they can't. It's also just as exciting to see who is willing to stir up that drama. Sometimes the most entertaining queens fulfill both roles. That's perfectly on display with Monique as she is quiet after the elimination but has lots to say the next morning.
This show does so much more than offering catty drama and reality competition twists. It produces conversations about gender and sexual orientation that aren't seen anywhere else in the world. It's magical to have those dynamics in each extension of the franchise too. Plus, these queens don't have to come fully formed. The audience enjoys seeing the highs and the lows. That journey creates a sense of empathy and connection. Blu talks to Jujubee and Cheryl about her identity. She feels the burden of representing the Northern Ireland queens. She comes from a place that still isn't all that friendly to the LGBTQ+ community. Even then, she felt more alive and herself when performing as Blu than when she was out of drag. She devoted her life to this performance. It was lovely and exciting. It also made the rest of her life feel depressing. If she could have this energy as a performer, then something must be wrong out of drag. She must not be right. For years, she hasn't had the vocabulary to talk about this gender dysmorphia. Competing the first time around, she was introduced to people with the education and insight to help her. She still hasn't fully explored all that she is. That's perfectly fine and accepting too. She doesn't need to have her life figured out. She is still relatively young. She is insanely talented as a drag queen too. Her makeup is incredible. She is safe this week. That's insane given the three looks she brought to the RuPaul Ball. She is in my personal top three - probably even deserving of lip syncing for the world against Jimbo. More fundamentally though, she is presenting a narrative that is profoundly human full of victories and mistakes while still entertaining and keeping things real the entire time. That crafts her as a champion who should go far in this competition.
All of that insight into Blu showcases the appeal of the All Stars format. It brings queens back to compete having learned lessons from their original runs and be given the opportunity to shine just as fiercely as they can. They each have the ability to wear the crown with proud and reign honorably. A hunger is present within so many of this cast. It's noticeable absent with Jujubee. That's striking. She is a cat lady! Her two pets were integral parts of her confessionals on All Stars 5. And yet, she is disastrous with the "Kitty Girl" category. Make it make sense! It has no rational explanation. The judges call it out. Her three looks are deserving of her bottom two placement. They aren't elevated to what the competition requires. This is her fourth time. She should know better. Yes, she does bring a pedestrian appeal to drag. That has been a consistent with her over the years. It stands out when the rest of the queens are doing such big, extravagant things. Cheryl and Baga are equally bad too. Baga gets a somewhat cruel edit as she is seen complaining about the category and not really crafting her final look by herself. Pangina is a true sister. She saved Jimbo from falling during the lip sync. And now, she works on Baga's outfit potentially to the detriment of her own. Pangina and Monique were probably the right queens to have as safe. Pangina was singled out because her first two looks at the ball were fantastic - though the "Butch Queen" concept resembled a look The Vivienne also did. Meanwhile, Monique pointed out that she painted herself as a black cat including her ankles - which made the audience look down and realize the heels of her shoes were overlooked in not matching the rest of the color scheme. Plus, the look she made to honor RuPaul was praised for the sheer concept being admirable despite the lackluster construction. That should have placed her as safe. It ultimately does but Blu and Baga were more deserving of hearing critiques from the judges this week.
Jimbo and Janey are declared the winners. That fits into the narrative of the two of them facing off from the overall episode. It's really only at the top and bottom of the hour though. Jimbo wanted to eliminate Janey. She stayed and was called out as the winner. That's a questionable decision. Yes, she embodied her "Butch Queen" look very well and the look she made was good. That first outfit though rivaled Jujubee in barely fitting the category without being all that flattering. Two queens have to prevail though. Those are the rules. Everyone just has to accept that. It means Janey gets to decide the fate of the bottom two queens because Jimbo isn't great at lip syncing. Of course, expectations were still set high for Jimbo for the ball. She has the most design experience in the competition. She may have been eliminated during a ball. She has her thoughts on that. She didn't agree with the judging then. She certainly loves it now. This continues to be Jimbo's Drag Race. She offers the funny confessionals as well as amusing interactions with the cast and the judges. She feels free to interact with the judges more than her fellow competitors. That's freeing in a way too. But again, it can't overcome her poor lip syncing abilities. She does do better this week covering RuPaul's "Supermodel (You Better Work)." She's not just flailing around and running into the other queen on the stage. But she does repeat several moves while Janey is offering more variety from top to bottom. And so, it's up to the Holland queen to send Cheryl home. The deliberations were driven by talk of alliances. It comes across as being a more genuine concern with Jujubee as she has shown the potential to be in the top before. Cheryl doesn't have that luxury. That likely played a factor in this decision even though Jujubee has had her chances to be a global star. This should serve as a firm reminder of what she is capable of and what the world expects of her. She can't disappoint here like she did on Queen on the Universe. Meanwhile, Cheryl's back to Essex without a badge, something she cares about probably more than the other queens ultimately do. It's sad she never won but it's not all that surprising either.
Labels: Episodic Reviews , RuPaul's Drag Race


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"American Idol" does Iz's "Over the Rainbow"
Castro started the song solo with just an 'ukulele—Bruddah Iz style.
Then the string section from the house band swelled. Castro made a questionable falsetto choice. It was over.
Judge Randy Jackson, seemingly beyond amazed, called the performance "blazing, molten hot." Sort of like Kilauea, dawg?
Paula Abdul said, "I love that version of the song. You did a great job." Awww, Paula … always so sweet.
Even the notoriously acerbic Simon Cowell praised Castro's take as "fantastic"—though not before oddly querying, "This is the version which is out on the Internet by 'Israel' somebody, right?"
Bruddah Iz's version has become the definitive version of the song, second only to Judy Garland's Wizard of Oz version. It's been in films, television shows and—bless Madison Avenue—commercials. Kamakawiwo'ole CDs featuring the song have sold a million-plus copies worldwide.
Show some respect, Cowell. Or at least, Google the man's name, the next time you're on the Internet.
We're always to happy to see one of our favorite Hawaii musicians get some serious props when millions are watching and listening. But as far as Castro's version being "fantastic," well, sorry, but we've heard Iz's original.
You be the judge. Here is Castro's version. And here is IZ.


I will be posting some post Canterbury interviews, statements, and thoughts in the days ahead. So proud of our Archbishop, and thank God for His leadership! Let's keep praying for him, his staff, and the ACNA witness across the US, and Canada!
As the primates meeting at Canterbury winds down today, I sit and drink my coffee with the hounds at my feet praising God for finally a step forward, after what I have observed, a lifetime of steps backward in the Anglican world.
As a young believer at Truro in the early 80's, I remember my Rector John Howe saying, "we are evangelicals, in a very non- evangelical denomination, let us pray that direction changes!" & I did, and while I was praying, the revisionists were lobbying their way into the power structures of the Episcopal Church so that in Diocesan meetings – we were by the late 90's, a thoroughly revisionist denomination. I realized after graduation from Trinity that there was little if any, in belief, doctrine, & practice that I held in common with the Episcopal Church leadership (Except in pockets).
The reality set in as I ministered as an assistant at Trinity Beaver with my friend, and Rector Carl Neely that the Episcopal Church was affecting my witness and ministry in the community in which I, and God's people at Trinity lived! Others across America reached the same conclusion; therefore, from 1998 – 2010, churches left, many at great cost of buildings, and savings accounts – to form the Anglican Church in North America.
This week's suspension of the Episcopal Church is good news (though at the same time a sad one) for the Communion, but it is as yesterday's GAGCON statement suggests a beginning, not an end. Please read Archbishop Foley's statement, and continue to pray not only for the ACNA, and the Anglican Communion, but also for TEC, that the leadership would realize the depth and reality of God's grace in Jesus Christ, and the power of His transforming love. Pray also for the believers in TEC who at this time, are struggling with the suspension.
The Anglican Communion is our spiritual home and the GAFCON Primates travelled to England in the hope that godly faith and order could be restored through renewed obedience to the Bible.
Take some time today, Friday, and Saturday & read the text for this Sunday as we celebrate God being revealed (epiphanied) to the World! &, take a listen to the Great Epiphany Hymn sung by King's College Choir!
7 Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and ascertained from them what time the star had appeared. 8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship him." 9 After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was. 10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. 11 And going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, rthey offered him gifts, sgold and tfrankincense and umyrrh. 12 And vbeing warned win a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.
Merry 8th Day of Christmas & Happy New Year!


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Obstacles for Tim Howard to return to Brazil for Olympics
By Nick ZaccardiJul 2, 2014, 8:21 AM EDT
If U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard makes his fourth World Cup team in 2018, he will be the oldest American World Cup player (at 39, by two years) since the U.S. returned to the tournament in 1990 for the first time in 40 years.
But what about 2016? Howard back in Brazil for the Rio Olympics would be intriguing, but the prospect faces hurdles.
In 2000, Howard made his only U.S. Olympic Team but did not play as a backup to Brad Friedel. The U.S. finished fourth.
Ever since, Howard's age limited his Olympic chances. Olympic men's soccer rosters are made up of players under 23 years old, with three exceptions per nation.
Recent Games have seen stars among those exceptions — Andrea Pirlo in 2004, Javier Mascherano and Ronaldinho in 2008 and Ryan Giggs and Luis Suarez in 2012.
Another obstacle is qualification. The U.S. cruelly missed the 2012 Olympics, giving up a stoppage-time goal in CONCACAF qualifying to El Salvador when it was seconds away from advancing to a winner-goes-to-London game.
Another issue is the Copa America Centenario in 2016, which runs June 3-26. The 2016 Olympics are Aug. 5-21, creating a possible scheduling conflict.
Copa America, which crowns South America's soccer champion but also invites two non-South American nations, is traditionally not held in Olympic years. But CONMEBOL wanted to celebrate its 100-year anniversary by holding a special tournament in 2016.
So special that it's allowing a non-South American host for the first time. That host is the United States, as if the U.S. Men's National Team needed any more incentive to field its best possible squad.
Howard's age, U.S. qualification and a crammed schedule aside, he does have domestic goalie competition in his favor.
His World Cup backup, Brad Guzan, already got his Olympic experience playing in 2008.
The third U.S. keeper at the Brazil World Cup, Nick Rimando, is only three months younger than Howard and therefore less likely to be near Howard's form two years from now.
The top two goalies from 2012 qualification, Bill Hamid and Sean Johnson, were big reasons why the U.S. failed to make the Olympics for the second time since 1976.
While three overage players are allowed at the Olympics, the qualification rosters must be all U23s. Should the U.S. qualify for 2016 with a strong U23 goalie effort, it might be tough to bench him for a player who did not help the nation qualify. And what would the purpose be of using one of those three overage roster spots on a backup goalie?
There's plenty of time for changes, though. We won't know if the U.S. will qualify for Rio de Janeiro and, if it does, the final makeup of the Olympic roster until 2016.
Photos: World Cup stars who played in Olympics


The ongoing transformation of the health care industry and individual pieces of that transformation have been well covered by media and experts. During a time of so much noise in the industry, it is important to step back and analyze the larger macro trends. These larger themes are contributing to the industry's fundamental disruption, at an accelerating pace, and should be a part of the conversation at the hospital governance level with a greater sense of urgency. The purpose of this piece is to step away from the day-to-day dialogue and explore five specific macro themes that may be getting less attention in the conversation.
Today, health care organizations often articulate a focus on succession planning and evidence formal succession plans of one kind or another. However, the prevalence of external searches for key executive talent, including important c-suite positions, seems to demonstrate that the internal succession board is less than optimal. The 'succession plan' may resemble a wish list, rather than a well-planned succession that is a routine in-process activity.
It is a unique time for the industry's talent succession as more tenured, long-standing senior executives are reaching the end of their careers. This issue is further complicated by claims that talent pipelines are generally weak across the country. Both factors have contributed to a willingness and interest on the part of institutional leadership to explore non-traditional executive talent in some instances.
A landscape is emerging where new executive leaders from non-traditional venues and experiences are active succession candidates. Two examples of this increasingly popular types of candidate is the physician CEO and CEOs who come from non-health care industries.
The emergence of the physician CEO is reflective of increasing recognition that clinical leadership is required throughout the c-suite, and not just in the more traditional Chief Medical Officer role. Another forward-looking example is the selection several years ago of Carlos A. Migoya as CEO of Jackson Health System in Miami. Prior to his selection, Mr. Migoya was a local banking executive with significant community and political relationship equity. Under Mr. Migoya's leadership, Jackson has achieved a crucial level of financial sustainability and closed important public capital financings to fund the System's critical infrastructure needs. It seems reasonable to associate an important level of the 'turnaround' of Jackson with the deep banking acumen and community equity.
The strategic, operational and financial perspectives of these emerging types of executives will of course have been shaped by individual experiences, and will be expected to incorporate and execute from those perspectives as they take the helm. These non-traditional experiences (and accompanying playbooks) may serve as accelerators and disrupters that will shape the health care landscape.
Fundamental to the risk capability point-of-view is the concept that the current transformational dynamic is not really being driven by "industry reform" as typically characterized; rather, the catalyst is fundamentally new purchaser expectations, with the "purchaser" defined as federal and state governments, employers, and (crucially) individuals. Purchaser expectations are creating momentum towards a new U.S. health care industry paradigm with unprecedented speed.
The intent of federal and state governments is well-publicized but institutional urgency and pace are not often keeping up with the expectations of governmental purchasers, especially how that shift is being perceived by the public. Emerging Alternative Payment Model frameworks put pressure on the provider community, not only in strategic APM planning for the future, but on current revenue streams as mandatory programs take hold. Frequently providers and others are trying to understand why their volumes are exceeding plans yet per-unit revenues are dramatically down. The impacts of governmental APM frameworks are a crucial component of that equation.
In the private payer market, the Affordable Care Act did not drive employers to forego offering traditional health plan coverage to their employees. In fact, the number of employers offering health plan coverage in 2015 is similar to the number in 2005. What is different, however, are the emerging new expectations of employers regarding "value," which itself has multi-faceted definitions and can vary by employer. Sophisticated human resources leadership and complex cost dynamics are moving to the CFO's desk, driving an emerging new corporate financial understanding (and questioning) of the traditional insurance marketplace. This has spurred new levels of collaboration with local leaders in health care benefit program initiatives, and more robust dialogue that is insistent with respect to value development and delivery.
Governmental and commercial purchasers increasingly expect a retail experience as part of their definitions of value. Regardless of the retailing metaphor to describe what access to health care should be "like," the real experience for most Americans still falls short.
Approximately $300 billion is wasted each year by patients not taking their medications (13 percent of total health care costs).
Chronically ill patients who take their medications save the health system up to $7,800 annually per patient, yet roughly 50 percent of all chronically ill patients stop taking their medications within the first year of starting such therapy.
Up to 70 percent of hospital readmissions are related to poor medication adherence, estimated to cost $100 billion a year outside of hospital readmission penalties.
Approximately 50 percent of all adult patients experience a medical error post-discharge and up to 23 percent experience an adverse event related to a prescribed medication.
These are well-socialized statistics. Yet the current levels of market-specific urgency and pace are not consistent with the opportunities the retail pharmacy presents as critical access point for population health in a new retail paradigm. The pace will likely increase with respect to disruptive strategies that create a transformed retail experience in order to harvest almost 15 percent of "bad spend" in the health care economy.
Finally, the traditional commercial payer will increasingly find it challenging to deliver value in this transformed health care landscape. Large and undifferentiated networks, disruption of the traditional broker framework, niche and segmented product/service challenges, and a need for a "Google-like" innovation response are driving the commercial payers to re-evaluate and re- construct their business models in real time and experiment market-to-market. This isn't to say the payers will go away – there is certainly a "too big to fail" component here that can't be ignored. Rather, the disruption emerging here represents significant opportunities for the direct provider-to-purchaser relationship to emerge without the involvement of the traditional payer in a new value paradigm.
The commoditization of acute care capacity has important disruptive implications for health care systems and provision of care in every market. Declining inpatient utilization is emerging from a wide variety of population health, APM and "right-time right-place right-care" implications.
The U.S. spends up to one-third of its health care dollars on medical services that do nothing to improve health and can even be harmful.
Only 20 percent of health is determined by clinical care while 80 percent is determined by health behaviors and other non-clinical-care factors, so related other determinants need to be addressed in order to improve health.
Shifts to APMs require that health systems consider the relevance of their value proposition and create new capabilities to deliver value against new purchaser expectations.
As well, technology and the rapidly increasing leverage of both "big" and "little" data to shape wellness and care paths is disproportionately impacting the need for traditional inpatient bed capacity. This is not to any degree strictly an EMR dialogue, although the ability to access and mine warehoused patient data in properly connected and populated EMRs is obviously important. Through the wider lens, this is a discussion about both speed and confidence in evidence-based medicine that defines tighter paths and dramatically reduces clinical variability and, therefore, cost. For example, the emerging transition of IBM Watson Health as a practical population health and clinical management platform is facilitating this transition. New technologies, leveraged against exabytes of relevant data, will provide speed and confidence to clinical decision making and may in the future not only supplement but may supplant direct clinical care in the traditional sense. The implications for traditional inpatient utilization are clear.
Finally, there remains a focus on retaining a fee-for-service mentality and continuing to plan provider economics around a core FFS model. The need to demonstrate ROI on significant facilities capital investments will necessarily drive market pricing down for these heavy, volume-dependent economic commitments.
The greater emphasis on the broader continuum of care should result in a focus on coordinating both wellness and care activities to reduce unnecessary medical care, reduces costs and improves quality. More innovative health systems are actively working to develop models designed to make traditional bricks and mortar inpatient capacity less relevant to delivery models. More advanced pharmaceuticals are rendering traditional inpatient stays less necessary and more advanced outpatient facilities and modalities are limiting the need for inpatient admissions.
These trends are not, as in the dialogue of the 1990's, "managed care" impacts on inpatient utilization. This is a focus on doing the right thing that deemphasizes the need for inpatient capacity and will create a supply and demand scenario that will necessarily commoditize inpatient capacity to an important degree. The concept that inpatient capacity will be subject to EBay-like auction is not wild-eyed; in Kaiser Permanente markets where KP doesn't have inpatient capacity, there is already a bidding process for defined "buckets" of inpatient capacity that KP contracts for, and anecdotal observation proves that pricing at the margin for that capacity is already the rule versus the exception.
Interest in the transformation of U.S. health care has never been higher. There are many reasons for this level of interest – some of them altruistic, some of them deeply personal, and all of them important. However, there is one interest that should be acknowledged and requires deeper system-wide consideration – that which is driven by entrepreneurial and economic considerations and will deeply disrupt traditional infrastructure and other operational platforms and modes.
The U.S. has a $3 trillion current health care economy that is largely unsustainable with incredible opportunities for improvement. The transformational environment has never been more encouraging and accepting of new solutions to help achieve. There is material economic opportunity to be harvested by creating and driving these solutions. As an example, every 25 basis points of "savings" on the $3 trillion health care spend is approximately $7.5 billion, which stated in revenue terms would place a disrupter who could harvest that level of opportunity squarely within the Fortune 400. This simple example demonstrates the dramatic levels of potential return that are available to disruptive innovators.
Given the economic stakes, it seems sensible that capital deployment will continue to align with greater urgency against the innovation required to harvest this economic opportunity. Scaled capital deployment will increasingly accelerate the "innovation engine," which itself will drive many of the changes to the landscape.
The business model transitions will require non-traditional stakeholders to intervene to bring order to these shifts. The dynamic mergers and acquisitions environment, which can involve physical mergers and more virtual partnerships and service consolidations, is ripe for order-making. The current "musical chairs" environment can result in less-than-thoughtful integration and deployment plans, and an innovator (with or without technology) can position itself as moderating transformational disruption and increasing the odds of success and, thus, anticipated return on investment. Both financing transformational activity and meeting/exceeding ROI expectations is risky business and likely requires incremental, non-traditional players to further assure success.
This level of institutional disruption calls for wholesale review of many health care organization governance models, to ensure that they are properly responsive to the transformational dynamic. This is a provocative and complicated topic, as health care organizations are deeply tied to the community and a diverse set of stakeholders.
Unfortunately, wholesale transformation of business models in a step-change environment requires levels of acumen and responsibility on the part of governance that have traditionally been the exception across the country. The need for governance that can both intellectually engage and confidently act with transformational agility around enterprise risk, capital deployment, strategic affiliations, clinical enterprise optimization, and revenue portfolio design – just to name a handful – is a remarkably challenging topic.
As health care business models undergo transformation, governance models need to not only match that transformation in urgency and pace, but should actually be well in front of the transformational dynamic to ensure the confident and responsible oversight of health care institutions.
In order to provide the type of guidance and governance that health care organizations need to adjust for major paradigm shifts requires a nuanced understanding of key issues. However, beyond specific issues, it is crucial that hospital boards and leadership have a wide-lens perspective of macro trends that resulting from that change. The hope of this overview is to provide a summary of those macro trends from shifting payer expectations, changing faces of leadership, and market considerations for a new industry ecosystem.
This resource, part of THT's Governance Thought Leadership Series, is provided by DHG Healthcare. DHG Healthcare, the national healthcare practice of Dixon Hughes Goodman, LLP, is ranked by Modern Healthcare as the tenth largest, privately-held consulting practice in the nation. Spanning the broader healthcare ecosystem, our clients share the common challenge of successfully navigating the unparalleled amount of federal, state, and market-driven reform underway in the U.S. Our services in the consulting, assurance, and tax domains are purposefully designed to assist our clients in their journey to risk capability. Creating institutional value is a critical focus as our clients define their strategic approach, execute on transformational plans, and manage the financial health and sustainability of their organizations. Learn more about the service and people of DHG Healthcare at www.dhgllp.com/healthcare.
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Авторитари́зм ( — повна влада) — режим правління, за якого всю чи більшу частину влади зосереджено в руках однієї особи чи групи осіб. Роль представницьких органів влади зведено нанівець або занижено. Характерною рисою є зведення нанівець місцевого самоврядування, застосування репресій і терору. Крайня форма авторитаризму — тоталітаризм.

Авторитаризм, як форма політичної влади часто поєднується з автократією (Форма ставлення до влади) і диктатурою (Форма здійснення влади), хоча це не обов'язково. Наприклад, будь-яка революція, в тому числі демократична, буде проявом авторитаризму (оскільки революція відбувається тоді, коли наявна правова система не може впоратися з поточною ситуацією, а іншої правової системи поки не існує; революція повністю ламає наявну правову систему і, перебуваючи, таким чином, у правовому вакуумі, авторитарно оголошує себе носієм влади).

Види авторитаризму

Воєнно-бюрократичний режим — диктатура військових та бюрократичних еліт при обмеженому залученні громадських інтелектуалів-професіоналів до формування політичних пріоритетів.
Корпоративний авторитаризм — режим, який визначає співробітництво значних економічних конгломератів як противага заідеологізованості та  однопартійності в політичній системі (Режим Франко в Іспанії, Салазара в Португалії).
Дототалітарний авторитаризм — перехідний режим від демократії до тоталітаризму, за якого соціальна група, що представляє тоталітарну утопію ще не визначилась, не утвердила владу, але поступово обмежує діяльність груп інтересів громадянського суспільства та церкви.
Постколоніальний авторитаризм — мобілізаційний режим, властивий колишнім колоніям на їхньому шляху до незалежності, намагання демократизувати суспільство супроводжується обмеженням політичного плюралізму в умовах нестабільного економічного розвитку.
Етнічна або расистська квазідемократія — повна мобілізація влади етнічною або національною меншістю з обмеженням громадянських прав представників інших національностей (Південно-Африканська Республіка).
Традиційні режими — закриті, з монолітною структурою політичної еліти, режими спадково-родового та династичного правління (сучасні абсолютні монархії - Саудівська Аравія, Оман, Бахрейн, Катар. Дуалістичні — Марокко, Кувейт).
Султаністський режим — крайня форма патримуніального родового, спадкового правління при відсутності опозиції, політичного плюралізму та пасивності участі населення в політиці. Сильна тенденція до династичності влади, відсутня раціональна ідеологія, підданство султану підкріплюється ірраціональними факторами, маніпуляція символами, залякування населення і насильство.
Егалітарно-авторитарний режим — сучасний комунізм в світі (В'єтнам, Китайська Народна Республіка, Куба, Венесуела), закритий режим з монолітною структурою та руйнуванням приватної власності.
Авторитарно-інегалітарний — режим з диференційованою структурою еліти, яка вступає в контакт з економічно привілейованими групами приватних інтересів, але через закритість режиму населення залишається бідним і безправним.
Змагальні олігархії — режим із пасивною соціальною базою, але відкритістю до участі в політиці різних представників великого капіталу. Політика будується на конкуренції економічних еліт.

Типологія

Одна з найвдаліших типологій авторитарних режимів належить німецькому політологу Дірку Берг-Шлоссеру. Він виділяв такі різновиди авторитаризму:
 Традиційні абсолютистські монархії (приклади: Ефіопська імперія до 1974 р., Непал до 2007 р., Марокко, Саудівська Аравія та інші).
 Традиційні авторитарні режими олігархічного типу. Характерні для країн Латинської Америки (приклади: Гватемала, Куба до 1959 р. Нікарагуа до 1979 р. та інші).
 Гегемоністський авторитаризм нової олігархії (приклади: Камерун, Туніс, Філіппіни при Ф. Маркосі в 1972-1985 рр.).
 Країни «соціалістичної орієнтації» з усіма особливостями сприйняття соціалізму, його типів, егалітаристських традицій власної культури і так далі (приклади: Алжир, Білорусь, Бірма, Гвінея, Мозамбік, Венесуела, Танзанія та інші).
 Військові режими (приклади: режим Г. А. Насера в Єгипті, Х. Перона в Аргентині, авторитарні режими в Іраку, Перу та інші).
 Також слід виділити як різновид авторитаризму теократичні режими, коли політична влада сконцентрована в руках духовних осіб.

Основна відмінність авторитаризму від тоталітаризму в тому, що авторитарна влада ґрунтується на особистості лідера, його здатності утримати владу і залучати прихильників. У той час як в тоталітарних державах лідера висуває вже керівна еліта (наприклад, керівна партія чи церква), і система влади зав'язана на чільної ролі цієї еліти та її ідеології. Авторитарний режим часто закінчується зі смертю харизматичного лідера, не залишивши настільки ж сильного наступника. Тоталітарний режим більш стійкий і руйнується тільки в разі занепаду всієї системи та її ідеології.

Походження терміну

Термін «авторитаризм» був введений у науковий обіг теоретиками Франкфуртської школи, означав певний набір соціальних характеристик, властивих як політичній культурі, так і масовій свідомості в цілому.
Авторитаризм — це, по-перше, соціально-політична система, заснована на підпорядкуванні державі або його лідерам. По-друге — соціальна установка або риса особистості, що характеризується впевненістю в тому, що в суспільстві повинна існувати сувора і безумовна відданість вождю, беззаперечне підпорядкування людей авторитетам і владі.
Політичний режим, що відповідає принципам авторитарності, означає відсутність справжньої демократії як щодо вільного проведення виборів, так і в питаннях управління державними структурами. Часто поєднується з диктатурою окремої особистості, яка проявляється тією чи іншою мірою.

Ознаки авторитарного суспільства

 автократизм або невелике число носіїв влади (диктатор, військова диктатура, олігархічна група);
 непідконтрольність влади народу, звужені або зведені нанівець дії принципів виборності державних органів і посадових осіб, підзвітність їх населенню;
 ігнорується принцип поділу влади, глава держави, виконавча влада домінують, роль представницьких органів обмежена;
 монополізація влади і політики, недопущення реальної політичної опозиції і конкуренції (іноді відсутність різноманітних політичних інститутів може бути наслідком незрілості громадянського суспільства, чи недовіри партіям з боку населення);
 Контроль над суспільством, втручання або обмежене втручання у позаполітичні сфери, насамперед у економіку;
 як методи державного управління домінують командні, адміністративні, в той же час відсутній терор, практично не застосовуються масові репресії;
 права і свободи особистості головним чином проголошуються, але реально не забезпечуються (насамперед, у політичній сфері);
 особистість позбавлена гарантій безпеки у взаєминах з владою;
 силові структури суспільству практично непідконтрольні і використовуються частково у політичних цілях.
 одним з поширених явищ в рамках авторитарних і тоталітарних систем є практика імітації виборів. Імітація виборів являє собою проведення агітаційно-пропагандистського заходу з усіма формальними атрибутами виборів (пряме і таємне голосування, передвиборча боротьба, наявність альтернативних кандидатів і т. д.) при повній відсутності навіть найменшої можливості приходу до влади представників опозиції.)
 При цьому відсутність якої-небудь ознаки не знімає з режиму клеймо авторитарності, так само як і за однією ознакою не можна судити про авторитарний характер  режиму. З цієї причини часто питання про політичний режим в країні є спірним. Немає єдиних критеріїв авторитаризму.
 Авторитарний режим — це «компроміс» між тоталітаризмом і демократією, він є перехідним від Т. до Д., так само як від Д. до Т. Авторитарний режим близький до тоталітарного за політичною ознакою, а до демократії — з економічного, тобто люди, не маючи політичних прав, мають всю повноту економічних прав.

Класифікація

Авторитарні режими можуть бути класифіковані як:
 абсолютистські монархії, в яких верховна, виконавча, законодавча та судова влада повністю належить одній особі (Саудівська Аравія, Об'єднані Арабські Емірати тощо);
 військово-бюрократичні диктатури, встановлені внаслідок військових переворотів (в різні часи: Аргентина, Бразилія, Греція, Чилі тощо);
 вождистські тоталітарні — спираються на авторитет сильного лідера, можуть мати підтримку народу і передумовою становлення яких може виступати певна загроза для держави (Німеччина часів Гітлера, СРСР часів Сталіна);
 неототалітарні режими — владу контролює одна партія, інших партій або не існує, або вони мають декоративний характер (Корейська Народна Демократична Республіка).
 персональні тиранії — влада належить диктаторові та спирається на підтримку поліцейського апарату (в різні часи: Гаїті, Нікарагуа, Сомалі, Уганда).

В умовах авторитарних режимів можуть існувати профспілки і політичні партії, але під жорстким контролем правлячої особи або правлячого угрупування.

Держави з авторитарною формою правління
 СРСР;
 Російська Федерація;
 Республіка Белорусь;
 Таджикистан.
 Республіка Казахстан

Див. також
 Авторитарна особистість
 Авторитарна релігія
 Бонапартизм
 Демократура
 Цезаризм

Література
 Н. Ротар .  Авторитаризм //

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We are excited to announce that our Managing Director, Kevin Potter, has received a Long Service Award for his years of dedicated service to The Old Caterhamians Rugby Football Club (RFC)!
The Award was presented to him by the Chairman, George Williams, at a special event held in Kevin's honour.
Kevin joined The Old Caterhamians RFC in 2001 as a player and enjoyed taking part in matches for many years. Whilst he no longer plays rugby for their fixtures, he continues to support the club through key contributions; such as sponsoring their new uniform purchase which they hope will raise their profile and bring their teams together.
We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Kevin on this well-deserved achievement.
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The Metaverse has arrived, and it's going to reshape what we know about connection, brands, influencers, experiences, and the overall function of the internet
The long-awaited arrival of the Metaverse is finally here. Recently, Facebook decided it was going all-in on the Metaverse and rebranded itself as Meta. Now, the rest of the world is asking questions: What is the Metaverse? How does it work? How do I get into the Metaverse? The internet has been abuzz with such questions recently.
For marketers and marketing managers, the questions are slightly different: What does the Metaverse mean for the growth of my business? How can I grow my brand in the Metaverse? Will the Metaverse have a positive or negative effect on my business?
These are all excellent questions to be asked, and if you haven't asked them yet, you should. Facebook took the world by storm and changed how we connect with people. Over 2.89 billion people now use Facebook in one capacity or another. Wouldn't it be safe to assume that a good percentage of those people are going to jump into the Metaverse when it is widely available?
Facebook/Meta is not the only one working on creating a metaverse. Like the internet, the Metaverse will be available to anyone who wants in. Marketers cannot afford to miss out on this opportunity.
This article will dive into those questions you've been asking yourself about the Metaverse and shed some light on what a Metaverse future holds.
Facebook is now Meta
What is the Metaverse?
There are several definitions of the Metaverse and more will continue to emerge as it evolves. The dictionary defines it as "a virtual-reality space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment and other users."
The New York Times says the Metaverse, as a buzzword, "refers to a variety of virtual experiences, environments and assets that gained momentum during the online-everything shift of the pandemic."
Coined in his 1992 science fiction novel "Snow Crash," author Neal Stevenson is credited with naming the Metaverse, where he envisioned lifelike avatars who met in realistic 3D environments. This vision is the Metaverse as we know it today.
The Metaverse is where you will be in the internet, feeling it and smelling it, not just looking at it from a screen. You'll be able to do anything you can imagine; see friends and family, work, learn, play, shop, create, and do many other things. It is being hailed as the successor of the internet.
What does the Metaverse mean for businesses?
Now that you have an idea of what the Metaverse is, let's get into how it can help (or hurt) your business.
Facebook/Meta was designed for online social interaction, but advertising, marketing and selling brands and products to literally billions of people on them became a fortunate side effect. Meta's developers say their goal is to provide a way for as many creators as possible to build businesses in the Metaverse. The Metaverse wants your company in it and for as many people as possible to interact with it. Also, you'll be able to sell both physical and digital products, possibly opening up a whole new product line and customer base for your business.
Long story short, if your business is ready to jump into the Metaverse, you'll have a whole new world of customers.
Navigating the Metaverse will require a high-tech virtual reality headset like this one
How can brands and influencers create experiences in the Metaverse?
Selling in the Metaverse won't be precisely the same as marketing on social media. The Metaverse will have more of a focus on experience rather than simply being a marketplace. Influencers and marketers will have to provide an excellent overall experience to engage customers.
A comparison might be like how Michelin gives stars to restaurants based not only on the quality of the food but also the ambiance, service, and overall dining experience. The Metaverse will be about building a loyal customer base through experiences from the moment they arrive, start looking around, who they talk to, what they see and feel, and more. It will be more immersive than a store that simply making signs and providing items to sell.
Metafluence started in 2017 and is one of the pioneers of bridging the gap between the Metaverse and influence marketing. Influence marketing is considered one of the most powerful marketing strategies of this generation. Companies like Metafluence aim to have audiences, influencers and brands seamlessly engage with each other in the Metaverse. They attempt to empower influencers by monetizing their influence, exposing brands to a broader audience, and bringing audiences and influencers closer together.
One idea of the Metaverse for businesses is that audiences and influencers can all come together in one "room," aka somewhere in the Metaverse, to join real-time conversations, participate in different activities, attend events, and more. The days of placing your product in a store window or using targeted ads are numbered. The Metaverse will have people purchasing as they are experiencing.
Gaming has already created Metaverse experiences
If you are looking for a "real-world" example of how the Metaverse of the future operates right now, look at how it works in the gaming realm. Here, users aren't shopping per se but instead purchasing items relative to their gaming experience. This concept will be similar to how the Metaverse will operate, but on a much bigger scale and encompassing more products and places.
Companies and products such as Roblox, Epic Games' Fortnite and Animal Crossing: New Horizons have increased their Metaverse-like elements significantly in the last few years. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and the man behind its transformation to Meta, will need to implement some ideas from the gaming community if he wants Meta to take off.
The main idea he should be taking away is that the Metaverse should be fun, like Fortnite, and not necessarily need his Oculus headset to allow the average consumer to interact with it. People want to see a 100-foot tall Travis Scott hold a virtual rap concert on an island with flaming mic stands (which 27 million people attended and generated $20 million for a fifteen-minute show) as he had in Fortnite a while ago. They want big and bold and new and fun.
Zuckerberg could make Meta the next big thing by using what works from the gaming industry's aspects of their little Metaverse.
Travis Scott streaming a concert in the Metaverse. Courtesy of YouTube.
The power of the Metaverse today
There are already examples of the Metaverse emerging in our world today. Take the Gucci exhibition, for example. The ever-popular clothing brand Gucci decided to throw its 100th birthday bash on Roblox. Roblox is "a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create and share 3D experiences in immersive, user-generated worlds." Sound familiar? Roblox is basically an early iteration of the Metaverse.
The virtual Roblox-hosted party was hailed as the "Gucci Garden" and widely praised by marketers. Multiple themed rooms paid homage to past Gucci campaigns, and guests entered the virtual lobby where they could view, try on and purchase digital Gucci items.
The event was a wild success. Over 20 million people visited the exhibition in two weeks. To put into perspective the gravity of the event and how much value there is in the digital world; Gucci's website averages less than 10 million visitors per month, and one guest paid $4,000 for the digital version of a Gucci Dionysus GG Supreme Canvas Embroidered Queen Bee bag when the physical bag only sells for $3,400 at Neiman Marcus.
Other luxury fashion brands are also cashing in on the Metaverse. Not only can brands market their products in a new way, they can market new products that can't be bought in the "real world." Online gamers have been buying online clothes to establish their identity and dress up their avatars for years, and the fashion industry has taken notice.
Companies such as Burberry, Ralph Lauren and Balenciaga are creating their own digital fashion, validating it on blockchain, and are then able to use it on multiple gaming platforms such as Roblox and Fortnite. Right now, you can clothing shop for your avatars at stores like Fabricant and The Dematerialized, which co-founder Karinna Nobbs calls "the digital department store of your dreams." These digital shops sell nothing but virtual luxuries — clothing and accessories that will only exist online.
With the smashing success of Roblox's Gucci Garden and the expansion of online fashion, it's safe to say that Metaverses and all their iterations are here to stay.
Cool Metaverse projects
With the Metaverse gaining in popularity every day, some exciting new technologies are coming out to make it easier for people to get more engaged.
The first is called Project Cambria, which is a high-end VR (virtual reality) headset designed for Facebook/Meta's Metaverse. They are still testing it and have plans for release next year. Cambria will have new capabilities that its predecessor, Quest 2, does not have, such as sensors that allow your avatar to maintain eye contact, which will help people get a better sense of how the user is feeling. Cambria will also feature optics to increase visual fidelity and will have the capability to represent objects in the physical world with a sense of depth and perspective.
Project Cambria - Source
The other project coming from Facebook/Meta is full-fledged AR (augmented reality) glasses called Project Nazare. Augmented reality is where objects that reside in the real world (like the table in your kitchen) are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information (like the avatars of your friends sitting at the table playing virtual poker). They can also add other immersive sensory features like smells and sounds.
Since Facebook/Meta has to fit so much technology (hologram displays, projectors, batteries, chips, cameras, sensors, and speakers) into glasses only 5mm thick, they still have a ways to go. The glasses are in production but should be available soon, just like the Cambria headset.
Meta is also working on advanced hepatic gloves that facilitate enhanced connection in the Metaverse. These gloves will give you a more realistic physical feel to the objects you touch in the virtual world. It took Meta about seven years to get to this point, and these gloves are still a long way from affordable, commercial use. For example, Meta has had to develop new actuators for these gloves, which not only adds technical complications, but increases cost. For comparison, car door actuators cost about $200 each and these hepatic gloves need hundreds of them. But the technology is ready and available; it just needs to be scaled for size and price, much like the Nazare glasses.
Meta has been working furiously on projects such as these for the past decade. They believe the Metaverse is going to be the next big thing on the internet and around the world. The future of the Metaverse is upon us.
The most common idea about the Metaverse is that it will be much like the internet. It will be a decentralized, interoperable platform where many companies will be present. The idea for a Metaverse has been slowly taking shape for years and is now almost at a place where it can come together. For example, the Metaverse requires that goods and services are convertible between all the platforms, which NFT and blockchain systems can do.
Things are lining up for businesses to take the Metaverse by storm, and digital marketing will be taken to a whole new level. Advertising in the Metaverse is about to evolve the same way a targeted Facebook ad is more evolved than an Instagram story, which is more evolved than a television commercial.
Marketing influencers are going to play a more significant and important role for their businesses in the near future. They will be the bridge between getting people from searching the vastness of the Metaverse for products and services and bringing them to your store. This process will be more intricate than Facebook and Instagram ads, requiring the building of communities.
While the full version of the Metaverse might be a ways off yet, it is coming, and you should be preparing to start marketing your business in the Metaverse today.
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Besides the obvious patriotic songs, what music is appropriate in recognition of Veterans Day on November 11th?
No sooner than giving a concert for Halloween, I was ready to research music for Veterans Day.
My reasons for attending a classical music concert have changed over time. On Maui, it has become a social outing, to meet others with the same interests.
The reasons I attend concerts have changed over time. Initially I went out of curiosity. Several factors made it possible in London: I lived near a music college, and I was between jobs. I was looking for inspiration and direction.
Eventually, as a composition student, I went to concerts to learn the repertoire. As a chamber musician, I attended to observe best examples of performance.
Dutch guitarist Robert Bekkers offers private guitar lessons in the comfort and convenience of your own home, in Newton, Massachusetts.
Classical guitarist Robert Bekkers is offering private guitar lessons in the comfort of your home in Newton, MA (ranked 4th out of 100 best places to live in the USA). He brings a wealth of experience from years of teaching pupils aged 3 to 80, in Dutch, English, and German. Here is a chance to study under a sought-after and versatile musician.
Currently Mr Bekkers teaches at the prestigious South Shore Conservatory in Hingham, MA, lauded for the continuum model of artistic education and recognized as a national model for success.
When not teaching, Mr Bekkers gives concerts as a soloist and chamber musician, most recently appearing at the anual Boston Guitar Festival. He specializes in custom-tailoring music for guitar solo or guitar and other instruments for any occasion. At time of writing, he is preparing for his own arrangement of music requested for a wedding for flute and guitar, July 13th.
Prior to moving to Boston to pursue his doctorate in musical arts (DMA) at the New England Conservatory, Mr Bekkers toured as a guitar soloist across the USA for three weeks, and earlier with his piano and guitar duo for 5.5 weeks coast to coast, and sojourned on the island of Maui in Hawaii for the 3-month winter season 2010-2011. Before relocating to the USA where he is now based, he taught all genres of guitar, performed actively as classical guitarist, arranged music for guitar and other instruments, and transcribed music for flamenco guitar. Needless to say, he is a prolific musician catering his music to the needs of his audiences and pupils.
With internet radio, I can listen to practically any station in the world anywhere.
This morning I'm listening to one of my favourite stations — Classic FM. It's the station that accompanied those years I lived in London, educated me the composers and their works that laid the foundation for my interest in classical music. I had Classic FM Radio on all the time — first as background music and then as a necessity to my daily life.
Later when I studied music history in Utrecht, Netherlands, I learned to appreciate how accessible the radio programmers made the music to the audience.
Thereafter John Suchet presented Beethoven: The Man Revealed. His perspective was from that of Beethoven in love. Each time he fell in love, he wrote a piece. The stories behind the Moonlight Sonata, the Appassionata Sonata, and Fur Elise are simply fascinating.
Listening to Classic FM London in Hawaii makes me realise that it's possible to have the best of both worlds.
I find myself doing my filing and my chores as background to active listening of Classic FM from London.


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Dr. Uma Naidoo is an Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. She is the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital where she sees patients. She is also a Culinary Instructor at The Cambridge School of Culinary Arts.
The presentation will be followed by a multi-course, immune-boosting dinner created by Chef David Bouley with a corresponding wine program.
After pursuing her passion in cooking by completing both savory and pastry classes at the Le Cordon Bleu in Paris and at the Culinary Institute of America(Hyde Park, New York) Uma decided to pursue a degree as a Professional Chef. She graduated as a Professional Chef from the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts in Cambridge, MA with High Honors and was awarded the coveted M.F.K. Fisher Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Innovation.
Integrating her professional accomplishments in medicine, human psychology, nutrition and cooking is how she enjoys implementing her clinical work. As the leading Mood-Food expert at Harvard, her main interest is the impact of food on mood. Using food to reduce inflammation and fight disease, as well as and how nutritional psychiatry can have an impact on how we feel by positively affecting our mood and wellbeing.
Chef Bouley and Dr. Naidoo, along with Dr. Drew Ramsey, a previous The Chef and the Doctor Series speaker, consulted Katherine Squires for today's informative Wall Street Journal article, 'Feed Your Head: Foods That Target Depression and Anxiety', excerpted below, that provides a guide to nutrient dense foods that are beneficial for brain and mental health.


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Germany accused of strangling EU tax transparency
13 Dec 2016 by OneStopBrokers
A German-led group of EU states is trying to strangle plans for greater tax transparency, amid the restart of an iconic whistleblower case.
Germany was accused of leading the behind-the-scenes attack on a European Commission proposal to raise transparency standards by German Green MEP Sven Giegold at a press conference in Luxembourg on Monday (12 December).
"I have to say that the Commission has moved forward with strong proposals in order to bring more tax justice into the European Union but these proposals are now stuck in the mud of member states," he said.
The Commission had proposed that big companies should publish details of their profits and taxes in a model known as country-by-country reporting.
It was due to be adopted by a majority vote.
But Germany, joined by Luxembourg, wants to change the legal basis, so that it would be adopted by unanimity, creating the opportunity for a veto, Giegold said.
Germany has one of the world's most secretive financial jurisdictions, according to research by Tax Justice Network, a UK-based advocacy group.
Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Latvia, Slovenia, and Sweden are also on Germany's side, according to a report by Eurodad, an NGO in Brussels.
Giegold spoke in Luxembourg ahead of the trial of two tax evasion whistleblowers – Antoine Deltour, Raphael Halet, and journalist Edouard Perrin.
Deltour and Halet, who are former employees of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a leading accountancy firm, gave 30,000 confidential files to Perrin, a French investigative journalist, showing that Luxembourg colluded with big firms to dodge billions in tax liabilities.
The so-called LuxLeaks revelations triggered a public backlash and EU pledges on reform two years ago.
The Grand Duchy gave Deltour and Halet suspended sentences and fines for their actions, however, with a verdict on their appeal expected by 21 December.
Perrin is also caught up in an appeal.
German breakfast
Finance ministers, before their official meeting in Brussels last week, discussed the Commission proposal at an informal breakfast, according to an EU source.
Giegold said in Luxembourg on Monday that Germany's finance minister, Wolfgnag Schaueble, played a prominent role in the insurgency.
The Green MEP also took a stab at Dutch finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who chairs meetings of eurozone finance ministers.
"Last Tuesday, he [Dijsselbloem] stopped the compromise on hybrid mismatches, which allows billions to be transferred tax-free in profits and demands, in the interest of companies, which are located in Netherlands," said Giegold.
He said the Netherlands has not made any effort to change its patent box laws, used by corporations to withhold tax money from national budgets.
Patent boxes are used for tax exemptions on activities related to research and innovation.
The Netherlands was ranked as one of the world's worst tax havens in a recent report by aid agency Oxfam.
Popularity crisis
Tax issues are part of the EU's current popularity crisis, with Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission president and former Luxembourg prime minister, personally implicated in the Grand Duchy's dealings.
Fabio De Masi, a German MEP from the far-left United Left group, said on Wednesday that nothing was being done to restore public trust in this area, however.
"The number of dubious tax rulings has actually increased dramatically since LuxLeaks. This shows how urgently we need more decisive action against tax dumping in the EU," he said.
He said that Halet, Deltour and Perrin had "clearly acted in the public interest" and should be exonerated.
Source: euobserver – Germany accused of strangling EU tax transparency
Accounting News euobserver German Green MEP Sven Giegold German tax Luxleaks Tax issues tax transparency whistleblower case
Euro-MPs back LuxLeaks tax probe
European Commission presents new measures against corporate tax avoidance
Methods of Tax Avoidance: Doubts Grow Over Fight Against Big Business Tax Evasion
New Tax rules for transparency into force as of 1 January 2017
OECD: Strong progress seen on international tax transparency


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Google's 2019 Launch: Pixel 4, Pixel Buds, and a Whole Lot More
Made by Google, the big hardware launch event from the tech giant, concluded on 15th October. The one-hour presentation was streamed live from New York City and was filled with exciting new stuff that we need to get our hands on yesterday. Google told us about the new Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL, Nest WiFi, Nest Mini, Pixel Buds, Stadia, and Pixelbook Go. Everything looks super cool and we're going to dig into the details to whet your appetite ready for the shipping dates to roll around.
Pixel 4 and 4 XL Are Here, and They Know When You Are Too
Finally, we've had the full reveal of the new Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL phones from Google. They seemed most proud of the Soli radar chip, since it's what kicked off the event. It allows users to control their phone with gestures without having to actually touch the phone. The new chip will be able to tell when you're not around and power off the always-on display and come back to life when you come back in range. Google claims this is going to give the Pixel the edge on unlock times on its competitors, since the phone will be ready to unlock as soon as it knows you're close by. There's some scepticism about the practical use of the feature, but it'll be interesting to see how developers use it in apps in the future.
The design of the phone has gone more industrial – no more two tone backing that came with the Pixel 3 and 3a. The handset comes in three colors, black, white, and a peachy-orange and a square-shaped camera housing.
The Pixel 4 and 4 XL have an impressive 90Hz refresh rate on their OLED display, making scrolling through feeds and watching videos much more streamlined and fluid. There's also a new app that's capable of transcribing voice recordings – useful for students and secretaries the world over. As well as the basic transcription, the app is able to hunt through the dialogue for specific words and phrases. Pre-orders have already started and shipping begins on October 24th.
Pixel 4 and 4 XL. Image credit: digitaltrends.com
The Google Nest and Point Smarten Up Your Routers
Google has rebooted the design for their new mesh Wi-Fi router system, giving it a noticeable cylindrical and rounded look. The Nest Wifi has a choice of colour options, but the stand out feature has to be it's doubling as a smart speaker, basically becoming a Google Home. There are two versions of the Nest Wifi, once that's a router that gets plugged into your modem and the Point that can work as a smart-speaker.
A lot of the new features have been seen before, on systems like the Eero from Amazon. These new additions to usability and functionality include family level controls, password sharing, speed tests, and creating networks for guests. To make it that bit different from their competitors, they've added that Google Assistant feature to the Point making each one a smartspeaker, but the feature isn't on the router option. The system is going to be able to let you stream TV in the bedroom and also allow you to open up Netflix, as long as your device is compatible.
If everything hooks up and integrates as Google plan, this could well be a game changing release for 2019. You can get your hands on the new gadgets starting November 4th and see what you can do with it.
Nest WiFi. Image credit: pocket-lint.com
The Google Nest Mini Improves on the Home Mini
Things are getting just a little confusing with the naming conventions in the Google suite of smart home devices. The Nest branding got folded into the main line of Google products and now there are loads of options with plenty of names to match.
The latest smart speaker is called the Nest Mini, and although it looks a lot like the Google Home Mini, there seems to have been a few changes. First, there's a hole in the base so that it can be wall-mounted and there's now a sensor that activates indicator lights when your hands move towards it. The microphone and speaker have both received upgrades.
Google Nest have confirmed the Nest Mini will be priced at $49.99, the same price as the Home Mini. You can get your hands on this gadget starting from October 22nd.
Nest Mini. Image credit: digitaltrends.com
Pixelbook Go is Looking and Feeling Sleek
In 2017 Google launched its challenge to Apple's MacBook Air, the Pixelbook. At this latest event, they've announced their new Chromebook – the Pixelbook Go – but it's not quite the direct follow up that the name suggests. Out of the box, it looks strikingly similar to a MacBook, yet on the underside there's a ribbed textured surface to make actual lap-top work more stable.
Inside the computer is 8GB of RAM and the display is full HD. The keyboard is winning plaudits with it being specifically engineers to be super quiet and really nice to type on. Bear in mind, it is still a Chromebook so isn't going to be able to do absolutely everything a Windows or Apple computer can do – it's not the device for you if you want to do heavy video and photo editing.
It's a good looking piece of kit, nonetheless. They've gone for a painted metal finish, which looks pretty cool in the pink colour scheme, which Google insists on calling "not pink". You can't pre-order the pink version yet, but you can get the black one on pre-order for $649.
Pixelbook Go. Image credit: slashgear.com
Actually Wireless Pixel Buds are "All New"
Google didn't quite hit the spot with the first incarnation of the Pixel Buds. They were connected with braided wire, didn't fit well in the ear, had an ugly carry case, weren't very user-friendly, and the touch controls were just bad. Luckily, they've learned the error of their ways and given the Pixel Buds the overhaul they deserve.
These new, totally wireless earphones give you hands-free access to Google Assistant by using the usual "hey, Google…" Also included is adaptive sound software that can sense the ambient noise around you and change your listening volume accordingly. The buds work across long ranges, with Google claiming a football field, or three rooms worth of connective distance.
They charge through a USB-C connection and have been made sweat and waterproof – ready for sweaty runs or dashes through rainy commutes. A microphone is also built in so you can use them for making and receiving phone calls too. Fully charged, they're going to last up to five hours and the wireless charging case can sustain up to 24 hours of playtime. They're coming on sale in spring 2020 and they can be yours for $179.
Wireless Pixel Buds. Image credit: digitaltrends.com
Gaming on the Cloud with Google Stadia
For the gamers amongst you, there was also an announcement that Google's Stadia launches on November 19th. It's the company's cloud gaming platform that works through Chromecast, any Pixelbook, and Pixel phones. It's accessible through a subscription that lets you buy games to use on any of your Google branded tech.
The leaks of the last few weeks were finally confirmed at these years Made By Google event. The details of the Pixel 4, 4 XL, Pixel Buds 2 and new Chromebook, Pixelbook Go, have now all been officially confirmed. Everything that has been teased by Google has now been set in stone at the launch event, along with plenty of other gadgets that should integrate their hardware and software into your daily life.
There have been some truly exciting things launched, with the Google Point and Pixel Buds 2 being real standouts with the potential to shake things up in their field. We're excited to get our hands on everything they've announced and let you know if everything lives up to the hype. Subscribe to our newsletter to keep up with the latest updates from the tech world. See ya soon!