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About a week and a half after buying Twitter and assuming the role of CEO, Elon Musk rolled out a new service letting users pay $8 a month for a verification check mark without actually verifying their identity.
Musk had portrayed the old verification model as a system of "lords & peasants," tweeting, "Power to the people!" New check-mark-wielding accounts wasted no time in impersonating brands, such as Musk's own car company, Tesla, and pharmaceuticals company Eli Lilly, even announcing that the insulin manufacturer would now offer insulin for free, sending the actual Eli Lilly's stock prices into a free fall. A fake LeBron James requested a trade to another NBA team. An account impersonating former president George W. Bush tweeted, "I miss killing Iraqis."
Within days of its launch, the service was paused. Musk said it would be relaunched when there was "high confidence of stopping impersonation."
The much-mocked launch of paid blue checks is just one example of the eyebrow-raising decisions Musk has made since his $44 billion purchase of the social network one month ago. A short list of ideas he's thrown at the wall in the weeks since: bringing back Vine, paid video content, paid direct messages to celebrities, a Twitter payments platform (which could include a high-yield money market account) — even putting the entire site behind a paywall. In his first month, Musk also reinstated the Twitter account of former President Donald Trump, who was permanently suspended in January 2021 for inciting violence in light of the January 6 Capitol attack.
As Musk's first month as Twitter's CEO comes to a close, his run can only be described as head-spinning. Musk's strategy so far, however, echoes a Silicon Valley ethos attributed to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg: "Move fast and break things," says Peter Harms, a professor of management at the University of Alabama who has researched authoritarian leadership styles.
Fears that Twitter might actually break have reached a new pitch. Under Musk's leadership, Twitter laid off about half of its workforce in the first week of November; it also laid off 4,400 out of 5,500 contract workers. Some 1,200 additional employees resigned after Musk set a deadline by which they'd have to decide to stay or leave, and #RIPTwitter began trending on the site. Meanwhile, advertisers have disappeared from the site, taking millions in revenue with them: According to a new report by Media Matters for America, half of Twitter's top 100 advertisers, from Coca-Cola to American Express to Chevrolet — who spent a collective $2 billion on Twitter ads since 2020 — seem to have stopped advertising on the site.
The chaotic implementation of new features and the company's cold-blooded treatment of employees have attracted a torrent of criticism from Twitter users, former and current Twitter employees, journalists, and others. Twitter is a very public stage, and Musk as its CEO is airing out his every thought — no matter how inane or crude — for the public to see.
Musk is no novice at running companies. But the confusing vision he has presented for Twitter in his first month on the job has made it clear that running a social network is, in fact, hard, and that selling this town square as a monetizable product is proving to be a far more confounding prospect for Musk than even selling EVs.
It's a job that requires managing the expectations and desires of a vast, diverse swath of people who often feel a sense of ownership over the social network, and perhaps rightfully so; they're the ones bringing value to the platform with every tweet. After Musk announced the possibility of introducing a monthly fee to keep using Twitter as a verified user, the response was swift: "Fuck that, they should pay me," author Stephen King tweeted.
It stands to reason that Twitter's CEO should understand the relationship between the platform and its users. Musk, however, has sent conflicting messages about how he sees Twitter: According to a recent missive from Musk, Twitter isn't a democracy-promoting town square, as he's long suggested it is, but "at its heart, Twitter is a software and servers company," one that needs a "technologist" as its CEO.
"He's been very successful at a lot of things," said Harms. "But we know from other stories that he's also kind of volatile and impulsive. He sometimes fires people on a whim. And quite often, he makes mistakes."
On Musk's "hardcore" leadership
Stories of Musk as the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX often paint him as a demanding taskmaster who has a hand in almost every decision at his companies. Musk biographer Ashlee Vance reported early on in Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future about one particular incident when a number of employees were present at Tesla headquarters on a Saturday. "Musk saw the situation in a different light," Vance wrote, "complaining that fewer and fewer people had been working weekends of late. 'We've grown fucking soft,' Musk replied. 'I was just going to send out an email. We're fucking soft.'"
Still, the environment-saving, Mars-exploring grandness of the Tesla and SpaceX missions held considerable sway over workers. Musk's cult of personality as a real-life Tony Stark built hype and brand loyalty, and this personal brand helped catapult his businesses to incredible success: Tesla is one of the most valuable companies in the world, and SpaceX is now NASA's second biggest contractor.
"When Musk sets unrealistic goals, verbally abuses employees, and works them to the bone, it's understood to be — on some level — part of the Mars agenda," Vance reported. "Some employees love him for this. Others loathe him but remain oddly loyal out of respect for his drive and mission."
Twitter, however, is not Tesla or SpaceX. Treating it only as a software and servers company misses its utility as a social space. It's like describing a restaurant as an emporium of tables and chairs.
"It is, for better and worse, the town square, and it also sometimes brings out the worst in people in that town square. And I think [Musk] drastically underestimated how difficult of a challenge that is," said Nick Bilton, author of Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal.
Bilton, who reports on tech and business for Vanity Fair, told Vox that former Twitter CEOs have also had their own takes on how to run the social network. "Evan Williams's approach to running Twitter was a very product-oriented approach and less of a business approach. Dick Costolo's version of Twitter was to try to fix all of the technical problems and make the company go public, which he did," Bilton said. "Jack [Dorsey]'s was a very hands-off one — he felt like someone who just didn't want to touch it, or do anything that could break it."
The ideal Twitter CEO probably doesn't need to be a "product genius" or a "business genius," Bilton said, but instead — believe it or not — someone like Jeff Bezos. "People can love or hate Amazon — but where [Bezos] deserves credit is he ran a company where he delegated," he said. "His job was to kind of be a statesman for Amazon. It was almost like a godfather, if you will. I feel like Twitter needs the same thing. It needs a variety of viewpoints and people and expertise, and I feel like the CEO should not be the person dictating that." (Musk said recently that he doesn't intend to remain Twitter's CEO, but it's unclear who he would hand the reins to or when he would do so.)
Musk's strategy, as Bilton describes it, appears to be to "slam on the gas pedal" while hoping he doesn't hit anything. And while others might agree that Twitter could be improved and that the site hasn't innovated enough since it first launched in 2006, Musk's breakneck pace of transforming Twitter is on a collision course with his highly visible persona — his non-stop tweeting, and more specifically, tweeting about his personal politics.
Is Musk tweeting too much?
When Musk first reached a deal to buy Twitter in April, he said the site's noble mission was to be a politically neutral, free speech "town square." Musk himself has long been a prolific tweeter, telling interviewer Chris Anderson at the 2022 TED Conference that he tweets "more or less stream-of-consciousness," and telling Twitter employees in a meeting over the summer that he preferred tweeting to issuing press releases.
Now he's the CEO of a social media platform tweeting encouragement to his 115 million followers to vote for Republican candidates a day before the midterm elections, and that the balance of power is stacked against conservatives, and promoting a right-wing conspiracy theory about the recent attack on Paul Pelosi. An MIT study estimated that more than 875,000 users may have deactivated their accounts between October 27 and November 1 — the first few days of Musk's tenure. Twitter estimates that it has around 237 million monetizable daily active users.
Musk wants to convince people of his vision of a politically neutral Twitter — yet also wants to remain highly opinionated on a vast range of political issues. "It threatens Twitter's ability to be the number one source for news, which is what [Musk] is trying to do with his blue badge tactic," said Bilton. "The things he wants to do don't necessarily correlate with the things he thinks he wants to tweet."
Management experts have varying views on how vocal corporate leaders should be about their politics, but few would argue for the degree of soapboxing Musk has done. "My personal take is that it's a bad idea," said Harms. "[Twitter] essentially trades in people sharing their opinions and freedom of speech — so it becomes kind of sensitive."
Being Twitter CEO is by nature more politically fraught than Musk's prior ventures. The company is a major media platform that regularly addresses a broader set of consumers than electric car and space enthusiasts (even with its declining user base); it's public-facing in a way that Musk's previous executive roles haven't been.
The platform is at the center of an ideological fight, and Musk has been pretty clear about taking sides. Beyond criticisms of the Democratic Party, including implying that Democrats may have laundered money for disgraced crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, Musk has also been replying to and soliciting evidence from users claiming Twitter unfairly suspended several Brazilian right-wing politicians accusing the opposition of committing fraud in its recent elections. Musk's foreign business ties have even gotten the attention of President Joe Biden, who recently said that the relationships Musk's other companies had with other countries was worthy of scrutiny.
Though past Twitter CEOs were much more restrained about their own politics, they have also faced plenty of criticism and backlash from various factions for their handling of content moderation on the site. "All 765 CEOs that have run the company have all had a very difficult time dealing with the problems around politics and hate speech," Bilton said, cracking a joke about the company's frequent leadership changes. "Donald Trump was president for three-and-a-half years before they finally started fact-checking his tweets."
In 2018, then-CEO Jack Dorsey testified at a House hearing on Twitter transparency and accountability, addressing Republican politicians' concerns of partisan bias in Twitter's algorithm as well as what the site was doing to combat disinformation. On the day of his testimony, Dorsey tweeted, "I want to start by making something clear: we don't consider political viewpoints, perspectives, or party affiliation in any of our policies or enforcement decisions." He continued in another tweet, "Twitter cannot rightly serve as a public square if it's constructed around the personal opinions of its makers." Under Dorsey's reign, Twitter banned political advertising.
Twitter's most recent ex-CEO, Parag Agrawal — who was fired by Musk the day he took ownership of Twitter — was arguably even more reticent to wade into ideological feuds. "You won't see tweets from me on the 'topic of the day' or the loudest sound bite, but rather on the ongoing, continuous, and challenging work our teams are doing to improve the public conversation on Twitter," Agrawal tweeted a few months ago, making rare public comments after Musk claimed that the deal he'd signed to buy Twitter was "temporarily on hold."
While Musk's outspokenness could sometimes be a boon for driving enthusiasm for his other companies, winning him loyal fans who saw his work as a testament to the power of human innovation, for a site long embattled by political fights, it's a big risk. The conflict between Musk's celebrity and his role as the top executive of multiple companies has been long simmering, but at Twitter it appears to be at the boiling point.
Bilton believes that it's "one thousand percent" hurting Musk's ability to run Twitter. "His biggest problem right now is not necessarily what he's doing to the company," he told Vox. "His personal biggest problem is his Twitter account."
Musk's challenge is employee trust
Musk grew his previous companies either from their inception or, in the case of Tesla, from its early days; he wielded a lot more control over what kind of employees he would hire and what kind of culture he would build over the years. "He was able to push his personality stamp on them right from the beginning," Harms said.
Twitter has a longstanding work culture of its own. For one, Twitter employees tend to be liberal. Musk now votes for Republicans. "So you've got a hostile workforce, ideologically — you've got one that's a little incompatible in terms of his values," Harms said.
But Harms said he believes that the single biggest challenge Musk will face at Twitter is gaining employees' trust. "Right now, that's absolutely not there," he said.
In the meantime, Musk has brought Tesla engineers to work at Twitter. The billionaire is dealing with an increasingly resentful staff, reflected in a month of mass resignations.
The manner in which many other employees were laid off has been widely condemned by human resources professionals. The email notifying staff that layoffs were imminent wasn't personally signed by Musk. While the layoffs were already underway, Musk tweeted, "Regarding Twitter's reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day. Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required." The cuts happened November 4; the first staff-wide email Musk sent with his name attached came on November 10.
By comparison, Meta laid off 13 percent of its workforce in November, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent employees a lengthy letter expressing his regret and attempting to explain the state of the company. This isn't especially noteworthy in the big picture of corporate layoffs; one could argue that it's the bare minimum. But the timing has provided an unlikely contrast to Musk's leadership. "He was transparent and basically said, 'Listen, I miscalculated,'" said Matthew Kerzner, the managing director at management consulting firm Eisner Advisory Group. "He laid the case of why he was doing what he was doing."
At Twitter, "they sent everyone home one day and they said, 'you'll get an email tomorrow morning, and you might be fired, or you might not,'" said Harms, the management professor. "That's really stressful, and even the survivors are going to be incredibly stressed out by that experience, because you now know you're in an environment where no one is safe at all. It makes it very hard to do things."
Employees at Tesla and SpaceX have faced mass layoffs and impetuous firings too. Musk has a history of firing employees who criticize or disagree with him, according to the biographies written about him. In June, a leaked email showed that Musk planned to lay off about 10 percent of Tesla's 100,000-strong workforce (Musk later said the true number would be closer to 3.5 percent). Two laid-off employees sued Tesla alleging that it violated federal labor laws by not providing enough notice. The case has been moved to out-of-court arbitration between Tesla and the ex-employees. Nine SpaceX employees were fired this past summer for penning a letter to company executives voicing concerns about Musk's leadership and recent public behavior, including his downplaying of a sexual misconduct allegation.
Unlike with Musk's other companies, no ambitious, specifically Musk-branded Twitter mission exists to draw awe or even begrudging respect for his leadership. Combine that with the fact that Twitter employees are often avid users of the platform, and the result is that the kind of workplace toxicity that used to play out behind the scenes at Tesla and SpaceX is suddenly out in the open for all to see when it comes to Twitter.
Twitter's CEO has eclipsed Twitter itself
Musk is now one of the most hyper-visible corporate leaders in the world. Recent data from Morning Consult shows that almost all US adults — 94 percent of them — now know who Musk is, compared to 75 percent in early 2021.
But name recognition isn't always good — just ask Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. He's America's most recognizable CEO, according to the Morning Consult study — and his favorability was also the lowest of all the CEOs included in the report, while Meta had the lowest favorability of all analyzed companies. Musk's outspokenness has apparently damaged his reputation: His net favorability has plummeted in the past year, from +22 percentage points to +9.
Jordan Marlatt, a tech analyst at Morning Consult, credits the public's negative impression of Zuckerberg largely to the 2018 Cambridge Analytica user data scandal. "Facebook never quite recovered from that, and neither did Zuckerberg, because their brands are so intertwined," he told Vox. Musk has been the subject of condemnation for his treatment of Twitter employees, but his high-profile Twitter persona is sowing more anger and chaos during a crucial transition period for the social media company. He's now the face of a platform that journalists, pundits, activists, and trolls routinely use to criticize public figures.
People do want corporate leaders to take a public stance on issues that are politically and socially important to them, Marlatt said, but "that doesn't necessarily mean just any issue."
He noted that there's specifically an increased demand for CEOs to speak up on employee well-being.
The Morning Consult report found that the top expectations most people surveyed had of CEOs was that they respect customers' privacy, lead with honesty and integrity, and have a positive impact on employees. Least important was having a "highly visible public persona."
"It's a very delicate balance for corporate leaders," said Marlatt. "How do they come across as taking stands on issues that are important to their consumers without alienating too many of them at the same time — or making it all about themselves?"
It's unclear when exactly Musk will appoint someone else as CEO, removing himself as the public face of the company. "I see him being very visible for the first six months to a year until things settle down," said Kerzner.
Harms agrees, saying that what Musk likely needs is an "emotionally stable and boring number two, who can kind of smooth things out — you'll find that with a lot of difficult leaders."
"He has so many challenges, quite frankly," said Bilton. "But I think his biggest challenge right now is himself."
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From the polite girl next door to a dance-pop queen. It seems like ELLIE GOULDING changes her whole image with the new album Halcyon, out now via Universal. The popstar from Hay Valley, West England shows with the second LP that her sound has increased – Halcyon features mature, adult and sophisticated dance-pop tracks. And even some dubstep beats (Probably inspired by her boyfriend, the all-overhyped SKRILLEX). The record starts with the very electronic song Don't Say Any Word which features almost too much synthies and reverbs – well, as virtually every track from the album. My Blood includes some native vocals and beautiful piano parts and the following Figure 8 establishes itself – until some soft dubstep beats appear – just as in the ACTIVE CHILD cover Hanging On and Atlantis. SKRILLEX must have a hand in this – really, although the singer denies is influence in recent interviews. Anything Could Happen – the first single from Halcyon – marks a moment when the synthies are just a bit too much and too present: GOULDINGS remarkable voice fades too much in the background. Halcyon and Joy are both loveable ballades – although the titles allude to something else.
The track Only You cannot dispense without a computer voice – unfortunately. But I have to say, there is one track on Halcyon that really stands out. I know you care is the only track in which GOULDING relinquishes the computer – you can entirely relish her lovely voice and the awesome piano accompaniment. I Know You Care shows pretty good that the British songwriter does not have to hide herself behind computer beats and synthies – she is a great singer and a pretty good acoustic performer. Maybe the popstar is not aware of this – or she simply likes the idea and concept of computer-made beats and dance-pop tracks. Would be interesting to see how the whole record might work as an acoustic album. In an interview ELLIE GOULDING said about Halcyon: "I've moved on quite a bit since the first album, because I've discovered so much; I've learned a lot more and I've grown up a lot more. I've gained more influences and different influences and people have influenced it; I suppose just circumstances. It's a bit more tribal and anthemic; a bit more piano and vocal than anything. The last album was very electronic, but it was tied in with my voice; this one, to me, is way more of a pop record." After listening to the new record you really understand what she is refering to.


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What's All The Fuss With The Metaverse?
What's All The Fuss With The Metaverse?
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2021 proved to be quite busy on all fronts including significant tech innovation.
Only last April, I published a story titled What's All The Fuss With NFT? Now I feel it's time to deconstruct another fuss – drumroll….the metaverse! To be fair, you may also want to check a 2019's podcast episode I did unpacking How To Tell Stories using Crypto Art?
But back to the Metaverse, how did it all start and why now?
First off, Metaverse means "beyond the universe."
The roots for the growing popularity of the metaverse narrative are stemming from:
– Strong origin story: back in 1992, Neil Stephenson, first came up with the term in his cyberpunk novel Snow Crush. which I had to the chance to read at the time and quite enjoyed. Stephenson describes a future world where people move in and out from offline to online experiences with screenless ease.
– Endorsement by heavyweight influencer in need of attention diversion the embattled Facebook rebranding to Meta at Facebook Connect on October 28, 2021. As you can see, the announcement spiked interest after 5 years of flat activity.
– AR/VR industry looking for brand refresh with less than 30% US adoption rate (AR 28.1 % and VR 17.7%) in 2021 (Business Insider).
– 20 months of pandemic fatigue fueled by a desperate need for escapism.
– Rising hype over blockchain and NFT as backbone economy for the new vision.
– Existing framework to ride on: Web1 (90's initial connectivity), web2 (emergence of social and mobile) and you guessed it next comes web3 (block-chained metaverse!) 🙂
OK, but what is this Metaverse?
In case you wondered, there is no new global internet you're missing out on.
Well, not just yet 🙂
"A metaverse is a network of 3D virtual worlds focused on social connection. In futurism and science fiction, the term is often described as a hypothetical iteration of the Internet as a single, universal virtual world that is facilitated by the use of virtual and augmented reality headsets"
If you google the term you'll find various definitions that very much resemble that timeless parable, Blind men and an Elephant – for the rich diversity of opinions.
But wait! Is the metaverse another version of Second Life?
If Web1 – in the mid-90's – was all about celebrating the basic information connectivity, and Web2 – in the mid 2000's – was all about adding broadband, social and mobile, then the vision for Web3 is quite ambitious.
And in case you're thinking, "isn't it like the short-lived hype around Second Life 15 years ago?" True, but there are quite different factors this time.
In fact, even Second Life's founders admit on one hand the appeal of creating life-like experiences but the challenges of identity, rule-making, and tech usability.
Let's zoom in!
Gucci built a garden environment on Roblox including a store for limited edition avatar items
The purest narrative of the next iteration of the Internet is a single mixed reality world that will carry these qualities:
Experience fluidity: like in Stephenson's novel – people will seamlessly combine offline and online experiences using smart entry devices like glasses or other minimal design viewers. Forget screens, start thinking the real world around you will carry virtual overlays.
Single identity: the common term you'll find is interoperability or the ability to have a single identity (avatar included), to move around any network – instead of keeping track of millions of passwords.
Decentralized: Unlike Meta's vision for the metaverse as a closed walled garden, the purest vision is that no one will own the metaverse.
Blockchained: This is where the latest growth in NFTs converge with the vision for the metaverse economy. Consumers and brands will be able to create, share and monetize virtual assets with ownership certificates.
Sounds cool, but when will all this happen?
The whole concept of the metaverse is still theoretical. We're still at least 10-15 years away from the above Web3 model. Advancements in hardware, software and governance will first need to happen to make this vision a reality.
Gotcha! So, what do we have today?
From user-facing perspective, we currently have what I call "proof of concept islands" that cover some of the above criteria:
Gaming platforms: The closest to the metaverse vision include Roblox, Epic Games (home of Fortnite), or Sandbox. These platforms leverage their pre-existing, early adopter and loyal user base to attract brands and music concerts.
Brands should pay close attention to this category. In recent years, even before the pandemic, Gen Zs have been playing more virtual sport videogames than physical ones. As a result, there are currently more than 2.4 billion Gen Z gamers — about one-third of the world's population, according to Statista.
Standalone virtual worlds: These are "walled gardens" initiatives to bring to life the metaverse narrative. Here you'll find: Decentralized, Upland, or SuperWorld.
AR/VR: Despite its less than 30% US adoption, brands have been experimenting with AR and VR programs to bring brand experiences to a new level. Key players on the VR side include Vive or Oculus, and AR – range from AR glasses to dedicated smartphone apps. We also see new technologies that allow people to experience the metaverse without a headset like PORTL's hologram tech or Disney's patented Virtual World Simulator.
Big tech: All the usual suspects have their own metaverse plans. Kicking off this march is Facebook's recent Meta rebranding and strategy shift, including the launch of HorizonWolds – a VR metaverse. Apple has its ARKit developer platform for developing a future AR ecosystem along with the logistics and the most loyal audience. Microsoft has just acquired Activision for $68.7 billion and is betting on the corporate metaverse centered around Teams and possibly leveraging Minecraft – its gaming platform. Google is looking to transform its search into a more immersive experience. And you can be sure Amazon will also be in to revamp its shopping experience and leverage its ownership of Twitch – the largest gaming network in the world.
NFT marketplaces: Dedicated platforms for buying and selling virtual assets like OpenSea, UNXD (luxury focused), NiftyGateways or SuperRare.
For a deeper view, check out Jan Radoff's Metaverse Market Map.
Coca Cola launched its first NFT collection on OpenSea
What brand stories have we seen so far?
Fashion & beauty: Lots of action with fashion brands that are auctioning their exclusive NFT collections and collecting hefty returns like D&G's $5.6m, Ralph Lauren just announced shoppable Roblox experience and Bulgari's launched an immersive NFT experience in Milan.
Sportswear: Nike launched NIKELAND on Roblox and Adidas AG is teaming up with the NFT brands the Bored Ape Yacht Club, and the comic series Punks Comic.
CPG: Notable deals include Coca Cola that launched its first NFT on OpenSea; and AB InBev's Stella Artois, that in the past has sponsored offline premium horse racing tracks, last June auctioned branded horses on Zed Run (the blockchain-based online horse racing platform).
Virtual real estate: Mirroring the real world where commercial real estate buy properties for developing shopping malls, offices, or other business spaces – just last month Republic Realm bought virtual land in The Sandbox metaverse for a record $4.3 million. Crypto investor Tokens.com bought land on Decentraland for $2.4 million. Back in May last year, Krista Kim sold Mars House – the first 3D digital NFT home for $512,000 on Superrare.
Music: Stars like Travis Scott and Ariana Grande attracted over 27 million unique players and 78 million viewers on Fortnite or Roblox's partnership with Sony Music, featuring Lil Nas X's hit virtual performance in November 2020. All these initiatives allow music companies to reach captive audiences for their artists and generate revenue through tickets, virtual goods, loyalty tokens and much more.
Image credit: Lil Miquela
Cross-sector: Here you'll find an army of virtual influencers (see in-depth analysis by Dr. Joachim Scholz) that are computer-generated brand evangelists that get this; outperform their physical counterparts! Consider Lil Miquela, "an influencer with over 3.1 Million followers on Instagram that has partnered Prada, Balenciaga, Nike, Calvin Klein, Samsung and Mini and is estimated to earn over $12 Million per year through her brand endorsements, back in 2018!"
There are a ton of other brand partnerships out there, I just wanted to give you a high level flavor of the lay of the land and some of the latest brand action in the space.
Lots of action but what's next?
First off, word of caution, you'll continue to come across lots of new "metavrese brand partnership deals" in the media. The term relates still to action that takes place on the above "proof of concept islands."
With such growing interest, Crunchbase reports that metaverse companies (gaming, online games, virtual worlds, and augmented reality) have raised nearly $10.4 billion across 612 deals in 2021, with gaming leading the pack.
And if you look at the NFT Market alone, it surpassed $40 Billion in 2021 (Bloomberg).
Looking ahead, metaverse opportunity size ranges from Bloomberg's estimating the metaverse may be an $800 billion market by 2024 to Morgan Stanley predicting the metaverse could offer a $8-trillion investment opportunity.
What brands can do?
Brands will gradually adapt their visual storytelling strategies to the metaverse in terms of transforming relevant real-life experiences into virtual and mixed reality, learning a new visual language, implementing crypto commerce, co-creation, driving social impact and above all keeping narrative originality.
Current projects, as you've seen range from simple NFT executions, custom mixed reality experiences, virtual goods, branded games, branded pavilions to full-fledged branded worlds.
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Like any other hot trend, brands will need to tread carefully, and avoid being blinded by "the shiny object effect" with off-character projects.
To do it right, the old rules still apply; you want to make sure your program adds clear value to your audience and is directly aligned with your brand purpose and goals.
In my recent podcast episode, I talked with Dirk Lueth, Upland's co-founder about How Brands Can Create A Meaningful Metaverse Strategy? I liked how he sums it up:
"I always tell brands, you have to think about three things when you want to enter the metaverse:
1) Gamification: can you gamify your brand? 2) Geolocation: who else is there? Who is your neighbor? Another brand? Celebrity?
And 3) Context: Is there a special event happening you can leverage?"
Lastly, judging the metaverse future using what we know today – is always lacking. We don't know what we don't know.
It's still early days and coming up with new ways to tell your brand stories in a world where the real and virtual are tightly blended – is still wide open for everybody to innovate in.
But I believe that if we ever learned anything from web2's pitfalls, we just need to stick to evermore human-centric innovation.
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Q: MySQL num_rows doesnt return value (SELECT INTO) When I run this code in PHP the values are returned correctly
$result = $mysqli->query("SELECT `id`, `last_key_ID` FROM `customers` WHERE `email` = '{$email}';");

But as soon as I add the INTO-syntax to it, the num_rows returns no value:
$result = $mysqli->query("SELECT `id`, `last_key_ID` INTO @id, @last_key_id FROM `customers` WHERE `email` = '{$email}';");

The echo just one line after SELECT-INTO code prints nothing
echo $result->num_rows;

PS: The same SELECT-INTO code seems to run in MySQL-console perfectly, why doesnt it work in PHP?

A: try:
$mysqli->query('SET @id := 0');
$mysqli->query('SET @last_key_id := 0');
$result = $mysqli->query("SELECT @id:=id, @last_key_id:=last_key_ID FROM `customers` WHERE `email` = '{$email}';");

A: Since SELECT ... INTO statement doesn't return data directly (even in MySQL console it will not diplay the result of the SELECT statement and only something like
   Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)

you can't use num_rows function.
So use echo $result->affected_rows instead.

A: MySQL Server doesn't support the SELECT ... INTO TABLE Sybase SQL extension.
Instead, MySQL Server supports the INSERT INTO ... SELECT standard SQL syntax, which is basically the same thing.
Example...
Read more...

A: reason is simple, You are assigning simple query output into an session variable into mysql.
Assignment is taking place on backend. Now you have to fetch that mysql session variable.
Try this query :
$result = $mysqli->query("SELECT `id`, `last_key_ID` INTO @id, @last_key_id FROM `customers` WHERE `email` = '{$email}';SELECT @id, @last_key_id;");

Hope this will help you.

A: Pradeep posted one answer that seems good enough to make it work. But i still don't see any particular reason of making use of SELECT INTO statement.
I'll say unless you have special reason to use it, it's better to use normal SELECT statement like this
$result = $mysqli->query("SELECT `id`, `last_key_ID` FROM `customers` WHERE `email` = '{$email}';");

And then, use mysql_fetch_assoc to retrieve the data from different columns. This will give you slightly better performance and less workload for DB server.

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Everyone at home is planning a big party for Dora's birthday. But Dora and Boots are stuck in the magic storybook in Wizzle World. The only way for Dora to get back home is to find the Wishing Wizzle, who can make any wish come true. Join Dora and Boots on this special and exciting birthday adventure, featuring colorful rebus icons throughout!


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TOMORROW: Clouds with a few breaks of sun. A rising chance for light rain showers mixed with wet snowflakes in the mountains…mainly northern tier. Blustery to windy at times in the afternoon…but milder. A high upper 40s to near 55. Sap run. West to northwesterly winds picking up at 10 to 25 mph with higher gusts.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Scattered clouds. Isolated flurries toward the Northeast Kingdom. A low mid 20s to around 30. West to northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
THURSDAY: Mixed sun and clouds. Isolated rain or snow showers. Colder. Blustery to windy in the afternoon. A high ranging through the 30s. Northwest winds 10 to 25 mph with higher gusts.
THURSDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. A low in the teens.
FRIDAY: Morning sun gives way to gray skies in the afternoon.Scattered rain showers…mixing and changing to wet snow Friday night. Some minor accumulation higher terrain. A high in the mid to upper 40s. Possible Sap Run.
SATURDAY: Slight chance for a morning rain or snow shower, then partial afternoon sun. A low 30 to 35. A high 45 to 50.
SUNDAY: Mostly sunny and warmer. A low in the 20s. A high in the mid 50s.


Accenture has acquired Digiplug S.A.S., a Paris-based provider of outsourced mobile-content repurposing and distribution services to the music and communications industries, from Faith Inc. of Kyoto, Japan. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Digiplug, based in France and founded in 1998, currently supplies music and video manufacturing and delivery services to major music labels as well as wireless carriers and mobile terminal device manufacturers around the world. The addition of Digiplug's expertise in digital content distribution is intended to build on Accenture's offerings of digital media solutions by adding a recognized, ready-to-market suite of technology and business services currently in use within the industry. According to Accenture, the acquisition of Digiplug is the first step in a larger effort to further strengthen and build Accenture Digital Media Services to provide acomprehensive suite of digital content services that are scalable globally. Accenture Digital Media Services will focus on helping companies that produce and distribute rich media content to optimize how they store, manufacture, distribute, track and exploit digital content while providing a consistent and personalized consumer experience.


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Flame retardant chemicals are added to many different consumer products and are associated with a variety of serious health concerns, including disruption of hormones, developmental and reproductive problems. These chemicals do not stay in products- they are found in the blood, fat and breast milk of nearly all people tested, as well being ubiquitous in wildlife and the environment worldwide.
The highest levels of PBDE flame retardants are found in Californians and their house dust, due to the 1975 TB117 furniture flammability standard.
Amount of PBDE flame retardant in house dust from various locations (data from Zota 2008).
Research also shows higher levels of flame retardants in vulnerable populations including children, people of color and in low-income households. Learn more about flame retardants as an environmental justice issue on our blog.
What are the health concerns associated with flame retardants?
Many halogenated flame retardants are structurally related to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and are also environmentally persistent and bioaccumulative. Because of their persistence, halogenated flame retardants have become distributed around the globe and are found at remote places where they have never been used. Furthermore, even if they are banned and no longer manufactured, chemicals already released to the environment continue to persist and spread. Though a majority of PBDEs were manufactured and used in North America, a 2013 study found PBDEs in tree bark at far-flung locations in Nepal and Tasmania, almost 10 years after their phase-out.
Size of circle is proportionate to the concentration of total PBDEs (ng/ g of lipid weight) found in tree bark at the indicated location (from data in Salamova 2013).
Halogenated flame retardants build up in wildlife and are found throughout freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems globally, with the highest levels in top of the food chain predators like birds of prey and marine mammals. Studies find that flame retardant levels are associated with altered behaviors and decreased reproductive success in some species.
Peer reviewed paper: Halogenated flame retardants- Do the fire safety benefits justify the risks?


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Editorial for Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London
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Marsden, B. (2016). Editorial for Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London. Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London, 70(2), 105-106. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2016.0012.
Editorial for Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London. / Marsden, Ben.
In: Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 70, No. 2, 20.06.2016, p. 105-106.
Marsden, B 2016, 'Editorial for Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London', Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 105-106. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2016.0012.
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Q: Best practices for providing dynamic content 'drop in' widgets for third party websites? I am wondering what best practices are for providing dynamic content in lightweight, 'drop in' widget style that can be used by third party content editors.
To elaborate, we would like to give third parties the ability to show dynamic content from us on their website without a back end system integration where they would have to call one of our APIs server side - ideally it would be possible for their content editors simply to include a provided snippit in their HTML. A concrete example would be a bestseller list that changes every few hours.
Using an IFRAME is one obvious way of accomplishing this, but I'm curious if there are others that allow tighter integration into their source and more flexible styling and are 'expected best practice' for such an offering as it isn't a field I know well - JavaScript/JSON perhaps?

A: I'd call an iframe best practice since it does not grant the framed content any excess rights, but having a JavaScript file that other sites can include seems pretty common as well, so you could probably get a lot of site owners to accept that. Still, the iframe is preferable, you shouldn't use JavaScript unless it really makes a difference.
You can easily make the to-be-iframed page configurable through parameters in the link, so site owners can set things like background and font to match their own site.

A: Alternative to iFrames: JSONP
JSONP is used by Javascript widget libraries to pull in data from the widget library's server since JSONP gets around the same-origin issues.
This enables your JS widget library to provide data and UI services to the hosting page without any changes to the hosting page's server.
It's clean, neat, and avoids various iframe issues.
As mentioned in other answers, anyone including your JS in their pages is trusting that your JS is not a security/privacy issue. But that's not a problem depending on your relationship with the folks who'd include your library.

A: Be aware that you're opening a potential security Pandora's box. Take a look at the Caja project, it allows to safely embed untrusted JavaScript content.


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Better drainage, sewer, internet coming to Hillsborough Co. thanks to new funding boost
By Briona Arradondo
Updated 10:46PM
Major infrastructure improvements ready to roll in Hillsborough
Briona Arradondo reports
TAMPA, Fla. - Hillsborough County can start checking off some major infrastructure projects on its to-do list, including drainage and sewer system upgrades, broadband internet, and affordable housing.
On Wednesday, Hillsborough County commissioners approved using $104-million in federal money, allocated from the American Rescue Plan, to put toward projects the county did not previously have funding to complete.
"This really puts us a foot forward on funding projects that we had already identified as part of the community's needs," said Harry Cohen, the Hillsborough County Commissioner for District 1.
About $70-million will pay for a septic-to-sewer conversion project which will protect groundwater and eliminate septic tanks around the area.
"In unincorporated Hillsborough County, we have over 26,000 homes that are on septic systems that are old. They need to be put onto the regular sewer system so that we don't have little tiny environmental accidents occurring all over the county," said Cohen.
The next chunk of $17.5-million goes toward fixing stormwater drainage in spots that often flood.
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"[It's] not just Palm River but also Progress Village, in the University community area; Wimauma, Balm and then a huge investment in infrastructure in Gibsonton," he said.
Work also includes using $2.835-million to build affordable housing, $3.6-million to update the fire-rescue alert system for emergency calls, $5-million to address food insecurity and installing broadband internet in underserved areas.
"Broadband, we learned during the COVID pandemic how important it is that everyone in our community have access to broadband," said Cohen. "Much of it was in the queue. Some of it were things we were hoping to fund before now but were unable to, so we're really excited about the fact that we believe we can hit the ground running."
Commissioners said the $104-million for these infrastructure projects is the first installment from the American Rescue Plan. The county also has $35-million in federal money going toward road paving projects, but Cohen said where that money goes in the county won't be sorted out until the next commission meeting this month.


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Q: Should I block certain characters from my EditTexts for security reasons? I've been programming for about 6 months now, but also did a bit if code about 10 years ago.
I remember back then I had to block some characters from text fields for security purposes, so people won't type in some code that would cause harm.
Is it still relevant in 2019? Should I be worried about anything of that sort?
I am using Cloud Firestore as my server.

*

*My app would allow all languages, so I can't limit what characters ARE allowed as there are way too many.

*If there is no security risk I have no need to validate my text. Any text is fine for me. I s just want to know if I should be worried from
  a user uniting some text that would break something.

A: Yes you can do that
You need to pass list of allowed character in android:digits=""
E.g.
below i am allowing only a to z and A to Z chars.
<EditText
    android:id="@+id/editText1"
    android:digits="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

A: In terms of security, you should never trust client code, and only trust server code.  Code running on the client could be compromised.  Any time an end user is executing code on a device they control, it is possible that they could have changed the way the app works, or even the way the device works.
In this case, instead, you should be using security rules to limit what data can be added to the database, or send data through a backend you control so that it can securely check.


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package org.mifos.application.master.business;

import org.mifos.accounts.business.AccountBO;
import org.mifos.accounts.business.AccountCustomFieldEntity;
import org.mifos.accounts.loan.business.LoanBO;
import org.mifos.accounts.savings.business.SavingsBO;
import org.mifos.application.util.helpers.EntityType;
import org.mifos.customers.business.CustomerBO;
import org.mifos.customers.business.CustomerCustomFieldEntity;
import org.mifos.customers.center.business.CenterBO;
import org.mifos.customers.client.business.ClientBO;
import org.mifos.customers.group.business.GroupBO;
import org.mifos.customers.office.business.OfficeBO;
import org.mifos.customers.office.business.OfficeCustomFieldEntity;
import org.mifos.customers.personnel.business.PersonnelBO;
import org.mifos.customers.personnel.business.PersonnelCustomFieldEntity;

/**
 * CustomFieldCategory is the set of object types for which custom fields are
 * defined. Each custom field for a given object type is defined by a
 * {@link CustomFieldDefinitionEntity}.
 *
 * Custom field instances are represented by:
 *
 * {@link CustomerCustomFieldEntity} in {@link CustomerBO} (from which
 * {@link ClientBO}, {@link GroupBO} and {@link CenterBO} are derived)
 *
 * {@link AccountCustomFieldEntity} in {@link AccountBO} (from which
 * {@link LoanBO} and {@link SavingsBO} are derived)
 *
 * {@link PersonnelCustomFieldEntity} in {@link PersonnelBO}
 *
 * {@link OfficeCustomFieldEntity} in {@link OfficeBO}
 */
public enum CustomFieldCategory {
    Personnel(17), Office(15), Client(1), Group(12), Center(20), Loan(22), Savings(21);

    Short value;

    CustomFieldCategory(int value) {
        this.value = (short) value;
    }

    public Short getValue() {
        return value;
    }

    public static CustomFieldCategory fromInt(int type) {
        for (CustomFieldCategory candidate : CustomFieldCategory.values()) {
            if (candidate.getValue() == type) {
                return candidate;
            }
        }
        throw new RuntimeException("no custom field category type " + type);
    }

    public EntityType mapToEntityType() {
        switch (this) {
        case Personnel:
            return EntityType.PERSONNEL;
        case Office:
            return EntityType.OFFICE;
        case Client:
            return EntityType.CLIENT;
        case Group:
            return EntityType.GROUP;
        case Center:
            return EntityType.CENTER;
        case Loan:
            return EntityType.LOAN;
        case Savings:
            return EntityType.SAVINGS;
        default:
            throw new RuntimeException("Unrecognized CustomFieldCategory: \"" + this + "\"");
        }
    }

    public static CustomFieldCategory getCustomFieldCategoryFromString(String category) {
        for (CustomFieldCategory customFieldCategory : values()) {
            if (category.equalsIgnoreCase(customFieldCategory.toString())) {
                return customFieldCategory;
            }
        }
        throw new RuntimeException("Unrecognized CustomFieldCategory: \"" + category + "\"");
    }
}


It all seems to work so much better then before and the wife is happy she can use the GDO from her truck.
I did the antenna the day before I got the firmware upgrade so not sure which helped more but the problem is almost none existent now.
Got the firmware updated yesterday. Trouble is gone. Can open the door at the usual spot now. Now with or without the lights on works.
Nice X-mas gift LOR. Getting out of the car when it's 2 degrees out isn't fun.
We had CCF (floods) last year over the garage doors and don't remember any issues, but this year we added CCB as arches over the driveway--Cat5 cable from floods down side of driveway to bulbs. Garage door opener used to be opened from the street, but when network powered up...sometimes worked right at door other times not. Thankfully, there was a wired keypad for the other door.
I had this same problem this year. This is the first year I have used Cosmic Color Bulbs (CCB's) in my display even though I purchased them two years ago. I didn't have time to re-sequence all of my music, so... we didn't get them out until this year :-( . I updated the firmware on all of them at the beginning of the season, so I know I was running the latest firmware available at the time.
I have two garage doors, both of them use Chamberlan Lift Master Professional Formula I garage door openers, which are about 10 years old. I purchased new batteries for my remotes, thinking that may be the problem, it didn't help. I finally tracked the problem down to my CCB controllers. If the CCB controllers have power to them, even with no active shows running, the range of my garage door openers is reduced to the point, that I have to be right next to the garage door or in the garage for them to work. One of my CCB controllers was in the peak of the roof right above one of the two doors. As soon as I unplug my CCB controllers, my opener range goes back to a half a block down the road. This is definitely a problem with the CCB/CCP Controllers interfering with the RF transmission from the garage door opener remotes to the opener.
Does Light-O-Rama have any recommendations for shielding these controllers to stop this interference? I have read other posts that say that it looks like the interference is radiating from the strings themselves. Could LOR change the control code, to stop transmitting data down the strings when no data is being received, and possibly even cut off power to the strings, so the nodes have no power?
Another option is to put them on a timer. Start them up about 15 minutes prior to show start and shut them down about 15 minutes after.
Although, as John said, when I updated firmware before live time last year, the distance was less than normal but way better than before.


Members of a majority group tend to hold negative views of minority-group individuals who claim more than one identity, according to new Yale-led research. The negative bias is driven by fear that dual-identity individuals will be disloyal to the majority, the researchers said.
Yet, the bias can be offset when minority-group members demonstrate their loyalty to the majority or dominant group. The paper was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Increases in immigration worldwide have caused a clash between immigrants who prefer to hold dual identities — such as "Arab" and "American" — and majority-group members who prefer assimilation. To understand the psychology behind majority-group bias against those with two identities, Yale researchers conducted five experimental studies.
In the first study, through an online platform, the research team recruited study participants who were randomly assigned to different scenarios. The researchers provided half of the participants with information about the 2015 ISIS-inspired terrorist attack in San Bernadino, California; others were given no details about the attack. Then participants were asked to assess the loyalty of a fictional immigrant named Mohammed, who they were told either identified as American only, or as both American and Arab.
The researchers found that the participants felt significantly less positively about the immigrant espousing a dual identity compared to those with a single, common identity. The negative bias was greater for those primed with the example of the terrorist attack, the researchers said.
These findings confirm the researchers' hypothesis that majority-group concerns about the loyalty of a minority group are strongly influenced by the perception of threat, and by minority group preference for a dual identity.
This majority-group fear of a minority's "divided loyalties" was further confirmed in four subsequent studies using different scenarios. Yet, in one of their experiments, the researchers also discovered that the negative bias toward dual-identifiers could be disrupted under certain conditions. Participants felt more positively toward minority-group members — even those preferring two identities — if they had been told that the minority individual had risked his or her life for the majority.
Yet this understanding of the reasons behind majority-group suspicions of minorities can help improve dynamics between groups, as well as the treatment of immigrants and minorities. "If the common assumption is that immigrant groups are disloyal to the nation they move to, challenging this assumption might offset this kind of skepticism and improve relations across societies," he said.
Other authors are John Dovidio of Yale and Lotte Thomsen of the University of Oslo and Aarhus University.
This work was funded by grant 0602-01839B from the Danish Research Council and grant 231157/F10 from the Norwegian Research Council.


You can read about it in the Times: the publisher of Texas Monthly sued The New York Times Companylast week over Jake Silverstein leaving his post as editor-in-chief of Texas Monthly to be editor of The New York Times Magazine. Silverstein had a three-year contract with the Texas publisher that was supposed to run through February 2015. The publisher claims that The New York Times Company tortiously interfered with that contract, causing Silverstein to break it. This is a common scenario for sought-after executives when they switch companies: the companies fight in court over them but not against them. The executive in the middle may feel like she dodged a bullet by not being named as a defendant in the lawsuit. In fact, it is not so simple.
Even a lawsuit that is not directed at the executive but her new company is risky for the executive because the lawsuit may cause the new company to have a change of heart – concluding that the executive seemed like a great get until the cost of getting her became an expensive legal fight. It is therefore best for both the new company and the executive to candidly discuss during the recruiting and hiring process whether there is a risk that the old company will take legal action if the executive jumps ship and, if so, how strong the old company's claims would be. Ideally, the executive will have assurances – a written agreement is even better – from the new company that it will not terminate the executive over such a lawsuit and that it is prepared to defend against the old company's lawsuit at its own expense.
The executive should also be mindful before making a move that, even if a lawsuit is not technically directed at the executive, because she is a key witness, the lawsuit could be just as distracting and time-consuming as it would be if she were a defendant. Distracting and time-consuming litigation is never welcome – but especially not to an executive trying to make a dazzling debut at a new company.
We cannot know whether The New York Times Company and Mr. Silverstein discussed in advance the potential for a lawsuit by his old company. Fortunately for Mr. Silverstein, his new employer apparently thinks he is worth fighting for.


This pattern Includes a halter top, lacy top, scarf, Poncho, Gypsy Skirt, Culottes, flip flops, summer shoes and a Slouchy bag! All of them are made to mix and match! I used variegated yarn for the Gypsy skirt and culottes….You can use fun summer colors to make a variety of outfits from this one pattern!
If you tend to over stuff your doll you may need to go up a hook size , so they will fit your doll.
Supplies needed will be a tapestry needle, any worsted weight yarn and a small decorative button for the halter top.
Since Puddin is only 8 inches tall , you won't need much yarn to make her outfits !


The large-scale project undertaken by NEOS in the Middle East, will seek to utilise airborne acquisition methods to collect data over large areas.
Frank Jreij, business development manager for NEOS in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), said, "NEOS's multi-measurement interpretation (MMI) methodology has proven to be a valuable addition to the toolkits of explorers in both North and South America.
The first stage of the project will involve NEOS accessing, integrating and analysing freely available geophysical data and geo-information libraries including third-party satellite datasets, legacy airborne gravity and magnetic data, well and production information, and client maps, reports and geo-records.
Working with clients in the onshore oil and gas and mining industries NEOS develop remote sensing devices, field deployment systems, and processing and interpretation techniques.


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Michael Melia Lab
Research in the Michael Melia Lab focuses primarily on nocardia infections, Lyme disease and hepatitis C. Our studies have included key topics such as risk factors for incident infections during hepatitis C treatment, racial differences in eligibility for hepatitis C treatment and misdiagnosis of Lyme arthritis using the Borrelia burgdorferi immunoblot testing method. We also have a longstanding interest in medical education and work on curriculum to improve the quality of education for medical students and interns.
Research Areas: medical education, nocardia infections, infectious disease, AIDS, HIV, Lyme disease, hepatitis C
Michael Melia, M.D.
Neuroimmunopathology Lab
The research activities of the Neuroimmunopathology Laboratory focus on studies of immunological and molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of neurological disorders. Our main areas of research include studies of neurological complications of HIV infection and AIDS, multiple sclerosis, transverse myelitis, autism and epilepsy. We seek to explore and identify immunopathological mechanisms associated with neurological disease that may be the target of potential therapeutic interventions. The laboratory collaborates with other researchers and laboratories at Johns Hopkins and other institutions in projects related with studies of the interaction between the immune and central nervous systems in pathological processes leading to neurological dysfunction.
Research Areas: multiple sclerosis, autism, epilepsy, HIV, transverse myelitis
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Research Areas: global health, epidemiology, infectious disease, AIDS, HIV, tuberculosis
Richard Chaisson, M.D.
Richard Moore Lab
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Research Areas: epidemiology, antiretroviral therapies, AIDS, HIV
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Research Areas: immunology, Hepatitis, AIDS, HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, liver diseases, synthetic biology
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Thomas Quinn Lab
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Research Areas: epidemiology, infectious disease, AIDS, HIV, sexually transmitted diseases, pathogenesis
Thomas Quinn, M.D.
Wu Lab
Dr. Wu leads a multi-disciplinary team with collaborators from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, JHU Whiting School of Engineering, and JHU Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. She conducts ongoing investigations with the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and Women's Inter-agency Health Study. Her lab's goals are to develop, implement, and validate novel imaging-based metrics of cardiac structure and function to improve risk prediction and stratification at the individual patient-level.
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Dishonored 2 Review | Go Your Own Way
By: Jake Valentine
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Too many issues pile on top of each other to undermine fantastic gameplay in our Dishonored 2 review.
Part of what made Dishonored great was how alive everything felt. The watercolor visual style played off the ever-changing city of Dunwall. The combination of fluid gameplay and open-ended adventuring married well into experiences that rarely mirrored one another. It was an unexpected success, the hidden gem released during a year of franchises and sequels. Dishonored 2 had a legacy to live up to this time around. There were expectations to live up to and, ultimately, they weren't met.
That's not to say Dishonored 2 is a bad game. Instead, it's one that could have been so much better.
It's possible that all of the game's issues can simply be ignored and instead we simply focus on the gameplay. If we do that, the game's a home run. There's a certain fluidity with the marriage of stealth and action that continue to exist. Combine that with the unfamiliar setting of Karnaca (we've been exiled from Dunwall, more on that later though) and the result is scenarios where players are tasked routinely with careful planning and execution. Or, if you're like me, simply hoping for the best and bring upon pure chaos.
That chaos meter returns from the original, though I can't but wonder if the change of locale harms it. Yes, you're still tracked for the amount of damage you do (or don't do) and the result is a change of enemy presence, but I can't help but feel like your actions don't have the same amount of consequence. There's a bigger focus on when it comes to narrative changes, but that ultimately feels like a completely wasted effort. For me, Dishonored 2's chaos is a gigantic disappointment; the world around me doesn't feel like it changes so much as it gets simply more and more difficult.
But again, as someone that simply hopes for the best with my play style, I could be simply terrible at the game. After all, Bethesda's marketing plan was centered on "this is how you won't play Dishonored 2." Consider me the poster child for that, then. Don't play like me. Seriously. It will end terribly.
Thunder Only Happens When It's Raining
Our story features a tale of vengeance and clearing our name. Stop me if you've heard this one before: a powerful enemy has come to town, claiming a false blood line to the throne, and has framed you, either Emily Kaldwin or the first game's protagonist Corvo Attano, as a murderer. Yes, this is the premise for many a game and movie, including Dishonored 2. The method for dancing around the double protagonist is clever and adds a driving force to the story, but at the end of the day, you're playing this game because of the gameplay, not the narrative. It doesn't matter how hard developer Arkane Studios tries to make your choices matter when it comes to story, they don't carry the same weight as the upper echelon of storytelling in the medium.
Further damping the experience is how serious the game takes itself. Let's not mince words here; Dishonored as a whole as at its best when you're using supernatural powers to murder your enemies in the most over-the-top way possible. Remember that feeling you got when playing Gears of War for the first time? The unnatural joy when performing your first chainsaw execution? That's where Dishonored is at its best: changing off a stealth kill into some super powers to chain four more together before shooting off one incoming guard and then flipping reality to finish the job. Considering the design of later missions in the game, the overly serious story and characters make less and less sense. The game offers plenty to be excited about, particularly regarding level design, so here's to hoping additional playthroughs can paint a brighter picture. That there is the biggest impression Dishonored 2 leaves on me: I want to keep playing despite my frustrations. Again, this isn't a bad game by any means necessary, but instead one that falls short due to me having various issues that piled up over time.
The biggest issue, though, is the visuals. For whatever reason, my copy of Dishonored 2 (on Xbox One) isn't nearly as crisp as it should be. Maybe it's an optimization issue? Perhaps the art style clashes with the amount of power the game is using? Whatever the case, I'm just happy I'm not playing the game on PC, where the game is reportedly an unplayable mess.
Here's the bottom line: Dishonored 2 can be an enjoyable experience if you're able to put up with some of its flaws. If you're the type of person who played through the original dozens of times, each different than the last, then this will be absolutely worth the pick-up. If you weren't one of those people, then you're honestly better off waiting. Despite its moments of joy and exhilaration, Dishonored 2 left me wondering "what if?" Just make sure that no matter what you do, avoid the PC version at all costs until its patched.
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"Melon" - U2
Promotional Release
"Salomé" (Zooromancer Remix) - U2 (08:03)
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In the January of 1995, subscribers to U2's fan club magazine, "Propaganda" began receiving the latest issue of the magazine, poly bagged with a copy of the CD "Melon". This CD featured a compilation of remixes and tracks from the 1990s. It was the first release for the U2 fan club. At the same time a 12-Inch promotional vinyl version of "Melon" was released in the UK to DJs to promote the fan club release, and to further promote U2's interest in dance music.
The 12-Inch featured four songs, two on each side, all four taken from the free CD sent to fan club members. The original CD had 9 tracks. The vinyl featured a similar cover to the CD-sleeve, with the titles being smaller. The label on the 12-Inch was the same as the print on the CD – the center of a melon with the seeds being visible.
The limited nature of the fan club CD has spawned a number of bootlegs of that item, including a whole line of bootleg remixes CD. This 12-Inch record however is official, and indeed is the only other release at this time to contain the name "Melon". The full content of the fan club CD was released as part of "The Complete U2" digital package released by iTunes in 2004.
Salome (Zooromancer Remix):
Words: Bono. Music by U2. Produced by Paul Barrett and U2. Engineered by Ian Bryan, Louise McCormick and Paul Barrett. Additional backing vocals by Ian Bryan and Paul Barrett. Remixed by Pete Heller and Terry Farley for Boys Own Productions. Remix engineer: Gary Wilkinson.
Lemon (Bad Yard Club Mix):
Remix and additional production by David Morales for Def Mix Productions Ltd. Keyboards, programming by Satoshi Tomiie for Def Mix Productions Ltd and Peter "Ski" Schwartz. Percussion by David Morales.
Numb (The Soul Assassins Mix):
Music by U2. Lyrics by the Edge. Produced by Flood, Brian Eno, and the Edge. Engineered by Flood and Robbie Adams. Assisted by Willie Mannion and Rob Kirwan. Originally recorded with Daniel Lanois. Backing vocals: Bono and Larry Mullen. Additional synthesizers: Brian Eno. Remixed by the Soul Assassins.
Numb (Gimme Some More Dignity Mix):
Music by U2. Lyrics by the Edge. Produced by Flood, Brian Eno, and the Edge. Engineered by Flood and Robbie Adams. Assisted by Willie Mannion and Rob Kirwan. Originally recorded with Daniel Lanois. Backing vocals: Bono and Larry Mullen. Additional synthesizers: Brian Eno. Remixed by Rollo and Rob D.
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Should Daniel Radcliffe Return As Harry Potter?
David Martinez 10 months ago
When you think about Daniel Radcliffe, you would naturally think of his most popular character, the young prodigy wizard, Harry Potter. It's more than understandable, considering he has spent most of his childhood playing the character. For ten years of his life, this young man would continue building his career as one of the most iconic novel characters of all time. In 2011, Daniel Radcliffe would finish his run as Harry Potter and without a doubt, ended it on a very high note. As we all remember, Harry Potter and his friends became adults, got married and had children, and sent their kids to their first year at Hogwarts. It seemed like the perfect way to end the franchise. Of course, the legacy of Harry Potter would continue with the Fantastic Beasts movie, except they wouldn't reach the same level of popularity as the Harry Potter movies.
Now granted, the third Fantastic Beasts movie comes out next month and it does look awesome. I hope it's good so the trilogy ends on a high note, but I predict the Wizarding World will continue with other movies. Based on the rumors spreading around the web, it seems we may be getting a movie adaptation of the Cursed Child books. I personally know very little about that storyline, only it follows the first year of Harry's son, Albus Severus Potter, as he befriends the son of Draco Malfoy at Hogwarts. Sounds like an interesting concept, but based on what I've heard about it, the Cursed Child received mostly mixed reception.
By all accounts, pursuing a movie adaptation of the Cursed Child sounds like a risky move. However, director Chris Columbus, the man who helmed the first two Harry Potter movies, has expressed interest in directing the adaptation. That automatically sparks my interest, given that The Sorcerer's Stone is one of the best movies of the franchise. On the other hand, The Chamber of Secrets is one of the weakest films of the franchise, but that's just my opinion. If Chris Columbus is willing to direct a movie based on the Cursed Child, then I'm willing to at least give it my attention.
And what about the cast themselves? Unlike the Fantastic Beasts movies, a movie for the Cursed Child would have to involve an appearance from the titular character of the franchise. He would be a grown man at this time, not to mention a husband and a father on top of it, so he would obviously be a very different character from to the last time we saw him. I think the idea of seeing more of an adult Harry Potter is interesting, not to mention Daniel Radcliffe is old enough to play that role. The only challenge is actually getting Daniel Radcliffe to reprise his role after so many years.
Would he actually do it? On paper, it would seem crazy for Daniel Radcliffe to turn down the chance to revisit the character that literally made his career. Well, guess what? It turns out that Daniel Radcliffe actually has no interest in returning to reprise his most famous role for a Cursed Child movie. That sounds very odd, doesn't it? Daniel Radcliffe himself revealed in a recent interview with the New York Times that he has no interest in returning to the Wizarding World, at least not any time soon.
According to Harry Potter himself, he feels like he ended his run on the franchise on a high note and has enjoyed his time moving on from it. If he were to go back now, he feels like it would be a massive change in his life and I don't think he would like it very much. That sounds disappointing, but on the upside, he did continue by basically saying never say never. And as an example, he mentioned how the Star Wars guys had about 30 or 40 years before they went back and for him, it's only been ten. From his perspective, that's not nearly enough time to warrant a return to the Wizarding World. Ultimately, it's just something that doesn't interest him at the moment, but I do believe we'll see him play Harry Potter again at some point.
So let's think about Daniel Radcliffe's point of view here. Harry Potter is what made him and that is probably what we'll always see him as for the rest of his career. I can honestly see where he's coming from, because he probably does aspire to be known for more than just one role. He's still young and wants to continue his career playing more than just Harry Potter. To be fair, ever since he ended his role as Harry Potter in 2011, he has been able to land more leading roles in multiple projects. He may have gotten off to a rough start, but he has managed to move away from the Harry Potter role.
Movies like Guns Akimbo and Imperium have given him a chance to expand his talents beyond the Wizarding World. And with a leading role in the comedy series, Miracle Workers, it looks like Daniel Radcliffe has found his footing outside of Harry Potter. I believe he can continue his success, but no matter how many other roles he takes, we'll always remember him as Harry Potter. That's not really a bad thing, but I still think Daniel Radcliffe should continue expanding his talents to other projects. As an actor, he wants to have range and challenge himself by playing different kinds of characters. So far, he has proven that he can. Just watch his more recent films and you'll see how different they are from the Harry Potter movies.
I think we should respect Daniel Radcliffe's desire to move on to other movie roles, but if you're a big Potter head, I wouldn't lose sleep over this. Again, I do believe that he will return as the titular hero. Maybe it will happen sooner than we think, but I predict Daniel Radcliffe will want to expand his career more before reprising the role. We shouldn't hold it against him, especially since the Cursed Child wasn't nearly as well received as the Harry Potter books. If someone presents the right script to him, then I believe he will change his mind. It's only a matter of time.
What are your thoughts, Harry Potter fans? Do you think Daniel Radcliffe has a point in not wanting to return to the Wizarding World?
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Using armatures in textiles is one of those techniques that is a little out of the norm for many textile artists. But this kind of workshop is right up my alley considering my love of 3D work and using alternative materials.
A cornucopia I made some years ago for an exhibition – Firebird Fantasy – uses a different technique entirely. Apart from having fun, the idea in this workshop is to explore a variety of ways to work with textiles in 3D. While the main focus is working with various gauges of wire and wire mesh, plastic can also be very effective as an armature.
The only limitation is your imagination for 'sculpting' in this way, be it abstract or figurative forms. Wrapping, stuffing and stitching over the wire can be on a very small or large scale . Objects, jewellery and body pieces are all possibilities using an armature. Found objects and miscellaneous 'treasures' can be incorporated too. While I have some way to go before the blue cornucopia above is finished, looking at Katrina's sample board is an inspiration. She uses a variety of different fabrics and stitches with wonderful visual results as seen in her sample board below.
Katrina Virgona creates 3D artworks and contemporary textile jewellery pieces. She uses a diverse range of materials including wool, wire, wood, metal, fur and human hair.
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