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Media and IFW Deflecting Attention Away From More Serious Problems with FOAA
May 12, 2016 by Tom 3 Comments
As anyone involved in the corruption of governments, politics and media in general should easily recognize, focusing on one issue to deflect attention away from a more serious issue, is a common event. Such may be the case in Maine where officials of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW), the Maine Warden Service (MWS), the newspaper conglomerate which involves the Portland Press Herald (PPH), and media in general, appear to be focusing on the accuracy of one newspaper investigation of a sting operation that took place and concluded a couple of years ago.
The undercover operation, which is the topic of great discussion after the PPH released its own investigation, has concluded in the Courts. Disputing what actually took place generally becomes a practice in futility unless serious enough evidence can be uncovered that might warrant a revisiting of the case. Perhaps that was the intent of the PPH reporter.
Arguing the accuracy of the investigation between PPH and the MWS, draws attention away from what I see as a far more serious problem. Today's media deluge still focuses on the "he-said-he-said" between PPH and MWS/IFW.
After the MWS released an official presser yesterday in response to PPH's investigation, the Maine Governor's Office also weighed in on the event by focusing sharply on whose information about the undercover operation was accurate – or perhaps more precisely, who lied. By taking the opportunity to thoroughly trash Maine Media as being biased, Governor LePage doesn't mince words in personally attacking Colin Woodard, the author of the PPH investigative piece. "Let's be perfectly clear: Colin Woodard is not a journalist; he is an activist and a novelist who never lets the facts get in the way of his fictionalized stories."
The Bangor Daily News offers an article that only seems interested in keeping it's focus on whether the facts of the case are accurate by MWS/IFW reports or those of the PPH.
The Kennebec Journal/Morning Sentinal online media, offers a blow by blow rebuttal to claims made by the MWS in their official response to the PPH investigation. What is missing from all of these reports, with the slight exception found in this report, involves the charade that is taking place over the PPH's attempts to access email documents from IFW/MWS.
The Kennebec Journal/Morning Sentinal rebuttal responds specifically to claims made by the MWS that they had sent PPH 232 documents. "Only 35 emails have been released in response to the Press Herald's public records request for communications with "North Woods, Law," despite more than six months of effort." The author of this piece provides MWS/IFW some wiggle room out of its statement about releasing 232 documents by saying: "In a separate request for the warden service's policy for undercover investigations, the newspaper received a single, highly redacted, 16-page document with 15 pages mostly blacked out. The wardens may be conflating the Press Herald request with documents produced for the Kennebec Journal in 2015 in connection with a separate August 2014 public records request. Those were not the documents that the Press Herald requested."
Additionally, the MWS' official response claims that they were, "compliant with Maine's Freedom of Access Act." The PPH says they were not and offers instead what they claim is a complete publication of all emails exchanged between PPH, the MWS, IFW, Maine Attorney Generals Office, and other lawyers, seeking information about the undercover case and how Engel Entertainment, a video production service that produces the television show North Woods Law, was involved.
If we leave behind the undercover operation that took place in Allagash, Maine, and forget about whether the undercover warden service officer acted properly and within the law and policies of the IFW/MWS, and stop arguing about it, and then focus on the farce and deliberate stonewalling by IFW/MWS in fulfilling their obligation to provide documents through FOAA, we may have a condition worth getting worked up over. However, I don't think anybody in government wants any attention brought to this event.
I have read every single email provided by the PPH in their attempt at getting documents. I see this as nothing more than a deliberate attempt to stonewall. The reasons for such stonewalling is unclear at this time. Perhaps it is nothing more than some perverted sense of retribution toward the PPH. If, as is exemplified by Governor Paul LePage's disdain toward Maine Media, this same feeling of contempt and disrespect is prevalent throughout his administration, the actions of IFW/MWS can be explained, although not justifiably. At the least, to those who have taken the time to read and understand, it comes across as hiding evidence. And, when people suspect that, then they want to know what is there to hide?
I came to the conclusion, after reading all the emails, that collectively, not that many people can be so stupid. Third Graders could have worked this out in short order.
I think one has to go back to the beginning and examine the FOAA request from the PPH to IFW/MWS. In that request, PPH asked specifically for all email exchanges, for a specified date range of one year, and provided the search term of "@engelentertainment.com" – this being the domain name used by Engel Entertainment as part of their email address. PPH asked that this search be refined to exchanges involving events of the undercover operation in "Aroostook" County, where the sting took place.
Throughout the entire email exchange, it is easily clear that any use of the term "@engelentertainment.com" was omitted from any emails originating from the IFW, MWS, AGs office and representatives. It was so obvious to me, that this was beyond incompetence. It was deliberate avoidance of addressing the real issue.
Several times in the emails, Colin Woodard of the PPH, takes the time to explain to IFW/MWS/AG that he was requesting, from the onset, emails involving Engel Entertainment, and yet, that subject was ignored – repeatedly.
At best IFW/MWS attempted to turn the event back on PPH saying that if they wanted emails from "@engelentertainment.com" it would qualify as a separate request, involving more money and time to get the job done. In attempting to point out to IFW/MWS/AG officials that that search term was included in the original FOAA request, it fell on deaf ears. I could not see how Mr. Woodard could have been more clear on what he wanted.
While these actions come as no surprise to me – I've been witness to these government corruption actions before and experienced them first hand – the intent of the FOAA law, or at least what the American people were told, should, in no way, be representative of this action of government or any other government. Unfortunately, it is and short of some highly skilled lawyers and an unending supply of money, there is little hope that when real information is needed, anyone will ever get it. Is this not just a reflection of what we see on a continual basis in Washington? How has that FOAA been working out in getting to the bottom of Hillary Clinton's email scandal? And how many lawyers and how much money is involved.
Government knows how to take care of government. They know that PPH isn't going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to get information that government intends not to release. And so, the game is played.
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A few years ago, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using it's HiRISE camera, caught what appears to be a monolith in a valley on Mars. It's very intriguing and was almost immediately written off by the press as just a "roughly rectangular boulder".
It may very well be just a boulder, but the images are striking, and since I believe that NASA lies to us at every chance they get about the true nature of our universe, I'll wait on passing judgement until I've seen more angles of this, well, monolith.


Natural is the 40th Formabilio furniture design contest dedicated to designers and design enthusiasts worldwide.
Be inspired by nature to create furniture and home accessories for this contest. The expressive power of a bud, the daintiness of a petal, the grace of a spider web, the energy of a honeybee fly, the sinuosity of a snake, the strength of an elephant. Do not simply reproduce your inspiration, think of the dominant element, the aspect that you can turn into furniture without falling into obviousness.


June 22 was the night of the supermoon. That's the night when the moon is closest to the earth this year and it appears to be the largest full moon. We decided to see the view of the moon rising over Manhattan from Edgewater, NJ. We were not the only intrepid photographers out that evening. Just as we got there, the sun's last rays were changing the buildings into red jewels and the moon was rising over the buildings. The weather was perfect and the photography was great.


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Steve Alexander fills in for Max Armstrong and talks about the "hyperloop."
Veteran newsman Steve Alexander has today's report.
Farmers and ranchers, Monday is the deadline to send in your ag census forms to USDA. You can file online or mail at the post office.
A high-speed 'hyperloop' is being considered in Missouri. It's a tubal track through which passengers are carried at speeds up to 640 mph. It would move passengers across the state in less than half an hour.
Lt. Gov. of Missouri says he travels so much that he needs a personal driver. He's asking for larger budget for his office to allow him to make the hire.
In Kansas yesterday, it was a day of prayer of fasting as declared by departing Gov. Sam Brownback. He leaves to become the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. Critics have put together pizza and beer party.
Hate crimes are still not illegal in Indiana. It's one of five states without such a law as Senate Republicans failed to reach a consensus on a hate crimes bill Tuesday.
Wisconsin won't allow Tesla electric car dealerships. Wisconsin law prohibits a dealership from directly operating or controlling a dealership.
There is now direct Chicago Cubs connection to RNC. Cubs' co-owner Todd Ricketts is expected to be named the new finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, replacing Steve Wynn, who was forced out amid sexual abuse allegations. The RNC will not return Wynn's donations unless he is convicted of a crime.


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Comment: The best place to open Buyon EUR/USD is after a pullback to 1.1500 - 1.1510 because it decreases potential risk.
Also, all of you need to understand that EURO broke up 2,5-month range. After such things, the price can start powerful middle - term trend.
Don't even think about Sell at this moment.
Because only near that zone we will have low risk.
Comment: The Price is totally bullish because Range was broken.
@spezimuc, Price confirmed that there could be up move.
I wait on pullback to reduce risk. Because 50 pups risk for me is too big.


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Caroline Wozniacki's shock defeat to Ksenia Pervakat in Brisbane
Last updated on 31 December 201231 December 2012 .From the section Tennis
World number 10 Caroline Wozniacki's preparations for the Australian Open were hampered after she was beaten by Kazakhstan's world number 103 Ksenia Pervak at the Brisbane International.
Wozniacki's defeat ended a year in which the Dane relinquished the number one ranking and failed to threaten at any of the major championships.
Pervak committed 61 unforced errors but still sealed a 2-6 6-3 7-6 (7-1) win.
Wozniacki said knee troubles had hampered her during the year.
"You know, I'm still 10 in the world," added Wozniacki, ahead of the Australian Open which begins on 14 January.
"Just the most important thing is that you're healthy. I had some struggles with my health. Obviously that makes a difference.
"But as long as I'm healthy and I can fight and be competitive, that is the most important thing."
In other first-round matches, number four-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany opened with a 6-2 4-6 6-2 win over Anna Tatishvili of Georgia, French Open finalist Sara Errani beat Russia's Olga Puchkova 6-1 6-3 and American Sloane Stephens beat Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova 6-2 6-3.
Alize Cornet of France advanced to a second-round match against third-seed Serena Williams with an opening 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 over Australian qualifier Bojana Bobusic, and Germany's Sabine Lisicki opened with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Lucie Safarova of Czech Republic to set up a second-round match against top-ranked Victoria Azarenka.
And Sweden's Sofia Arvidsson beat home favourite Samantha Stosur 7-6 (7-4) 7-5 to advance.
In the men's draw, fifth-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan beat Australia's Marinko Matosevic 7-5, 6-2, sixth-seeded Florian Mayer of Germany beat Santiago Giraldo of Colombia 6-4, 6-4 and Jarkko Nieminen of Finland had a 6-3, 2-6, 6-1 win over Julien Benneteau of France.
Elsewhere, defending champion Zheng Jie and former world number two Svetlana Kuznetsova were knocked out of the Auckland Classic in the first round on Monday.


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Deep Dive: How media buying execs are adapting to the challenges and changes of 2020 and beyond
Ivy Liu
September 28, 2020 by jim cooper
01 Retail shifts could bring more shopping media disruption
02 Heated political atmosphere forces media owners and buyers to use new (and old) tactics here
03 Social media uncertainty sparks important conversations and renewed interest in overlooked platforms (hint: it's Snapchat)
04 Push to topple silos appears to be more than lip service, and it's having a tangible effect on media teams
05 Overheard
06 WTF/Explainers
07 Review the event slides
08 Watch the Summit: Day 1
This year, the now infamous 2020, has been nothing short of unexpected. Many of us are finding fewer and fewer moments to take a break and reflect, especially when it comes to our work in the increasingly complex and evolving media business. But that's exactly when it is vital that we take a breather and take stock, get a sense of emerging trends and understand how they're affecting our companies, brands and the industry as a whole.
Over three days in mid-September, Digiday's reporters did just that. They talked through some of the most pressing issues of our day — from political pressure on media and advertiser brands and social media tumult to retail upheaval and innovation.
This deep dive is a collection of videos, presenter slides and key takeaways from the Digiday Media Buying Summit. Whether you missed the event, or want to revisit some of its most compelling ideas, consider this part-lesson, part-rallying cry from some of the brightest minds in the field today.
Media buyers adapt to massive industry upheaval … with caution
Every business is in flux in 2020. The economic downturn brought on by the coronavirus crisis has left no business owner, manager or employee untouched.
"What we're seeing is an economic shock, but not a financial crisis," said Brian Weiser, global president of GroupM's business intelligence group. Still, he said marketers must brace for a long slog before the economy returns to what normal looked like in 2019.
Assuming there's a well-distributed, viable Coronavirus vaccine and economic recovery continues, he said he doesn't expect we'll return to normal till 2022.
But whatever you call the financial upheaval wrought by the pandemic, it's been compounded by heightened political sensitivities and a reckoning on systemic racial injustices. All of this has brands and the media they rely on scrambling to adapt to sweeping shifts in consumer behavior and attitudes.
Brands and media buyers are responding, albeit with measured caution. As Doug Rozen, chief media officer at 360i put it, "Don't let a crisis go to waste."
He advised colleagues to be ready to respond to change and turn it into something positive.
Concerned about adjacency to negative or controversial news and opinion, media buyers are finding more tactical ways to find suitable homes for their brand messages. As they mostly maintain the status quo on some social media platforms, concerns about consumer sentiment toward Facebook and the future of TikTok in the US has many testing social platforms they've overlooked.
Media professionals are busting through silo walls in an effort to be more agile — a term of the moment that's found its way from the world of tech into the homes of agency execs zooming in to tackle projects virtually. And as they collaborate in new ways, retailers and brands are taking an especially innovative approach, using these pandemic times to disrupt — yet again — the ways we shop.
These are all issues that arose during Digiday's Media Buying Summit, and readers will find lots of detail on how industry leaders are navigating them in this report.
But don't sit back and ponder for too long; 2021 is closing in. "Most of my time right now is actually very focused on 2021," said Rozen. "We're reviewing with client teams our top 20 clients and looking at what our 2021 plans are, and we're thinking about the right type of innovations we need to bring into our products and the way we service our clients."
He concluded, "If you're not thinking about 2021 now you're going to want to soon."
As Digiday readers look ahead, the insights highlighted here will surely come in handy.
Here's what you need to know
Retail shifts could bring more shopping media disruption
Large retailers will create media networks — Big retailers that sell a lot to a lot of people — think Kroger or Dick's Sporting Goods — have a ton of customer data that is very valuable to media buyers. This creates new opportunities for them to develop media networks themselves, said 360i's Rozen.
"The frequency of purchase with those entities are as strong as what you'd see at Target, Amazon or Walmart, and therefore the data they have on us as customers allows them to think about potential media solutions in new ways," said Rozen. "More and more, you're going to see retailers create media networks and media offerings that media buyers can take advantage of."
DTC is no flash-in-the-pan — Not all brands and businesses were ready to go direct to the consumer, but it's become a necessity for many as consumer behavior has changed drastically this year, said Jess Richards, evp and managing director of Havas Ecommerce.
"I think people are all-in. I think it's going to change the landscape." Considering the amount of clients she works with who are gung-ho about DTC, she said, "it will continue to be a growth conversation."
From a media perspective, as retail brands grapple with a lack of data and control from Amazon, DTC is a better way to get a handle on data to inform their decisions, she said. "And I don't mean just volume data. I mean what do we now know about the customer that relates to what they're buying, what the value, the lifetime value [is], what the incrementality is and then taking that information and being able to invest in a more intelligent fashion is going to be critical."
October Tenth is the New Black Friday — Starting the holiday season in November is so 2019. This year some marketers are betting on '1010,' or October 10 as the new start to the holidays. "We think October is where the fight's going to be, not the end of November or December," said Rozen. "By that time it's going to be too late, especially in the U.S., where we have the election and that's going to create a lot of uncertainty and noise."
Why October 10? 10/10 is inspired by 11/11, the November 11 date made famous by Alibaba's world-renowned Singles Day. "We'll start to see more and more retailers in the coming weeks talk about 10/10," said Rozen. Already, he suggested media buyers are gobbling up inventory for the big day. "We're seeing spikes in CPMs" in Google and other places, he said.
All brands and businesses have had to respond quickly to changes wrought by the coronavirus crisis, and retailers have been no slouches in the adaptive innovation department. The entire foundation of retail we've been accustomed to for so long has been upended: Brands are direct sellers, retailers are becoming media owners — and that traditional Black Friday morning after Thanksgiving could actually be a reason to stay in this year.
Heated political atmosphere forces media owners and buyers to use new (and old) tactics here
Advertisers are always worried about their brands showing up near inappropriate content, but it seems like everything is politicized these days. High quality news coverage of the coronavirus crisis has been deemed partisan, and coronavirus keywords have landed on keyword blocking lists. Meanwhile, amid the embrace of the Black Lives Matter movement by the big sports leagues, even sports content has been worrisome for advertisers leery of political controversy.
"Obviously," said Allison Schulte, svp of product at Dentsu, "nobody sits down at their desk and thinks, 'OK, how am I going to defund the news today.'"
But an uptick in keyword blocking, a move toward inclusion lists and a reconsideration of contextual targeting all indicate the politics of the day have forced some significant change among media owners and buyers.
COVID keyword-blocking has subsided some — As the pandemic hit the U.S., advertisers began adding coronavirus-related keywords to keyword block lists. "This year has really pushed the issue on keyword-blocking and its effects, but this has been an issue for long before the coronavirus," said Schulte.
Advertisers were concerned about inadvertently supporting misinformation. They feared their brands sitting alongside polarizing content. And some worried about negative or unpredictable news. The pandemic, of course, concocted a stew of all three.
The call to cull COVID keywords from targeted content has subsided in recent months, she said. However, when advertisers have concerns about negative impact of brand adjacency to touchy issues, keyword-blocking is the primary tool media buyers have. Still, she said, "If all you have is a hammer everything works like a nail."
Consumers treat news as vital and the goal for advertisers and their media agencies is to help them achieve brand suitability while assigning the same level of importance to topics as consumers attribute to the news and information they care about.
Return of contextual could solve some brand adjacency concerns — It may seem like brands are marketing like it's 1999 when they say they're doing more contextual targeting. But the impending death of third-party cookies has revived the relevance of contextual.
"As we move to the end of the third-party cookie, there is a lot more opportunity in terms of assigning contextual relevancy and scoring to better, kind of, swing the pendulum back," said Schulte.
Just don't call contextual old-school — When combined with the best of today's audience targeting, it has the potential to be "really interesting," said Schulte. The revival of contextual could allow media buyers to require that inventory meet new criteria. For instance, they might demand their ads show up in professionally-produced content, are associated with bylined articles and land beside objectively-reported articles rather than opinion pieces.
Demand to meet new criteria will mean media buyers might ask for more detailed taxonomies that signal quality and brand suitability. Is it close to the masthead, or a placement in the comments section?
A shift to media inclusion lists from exclusion lists — Fraudulent content is a perpetual plague advertisers and publishers must combat. "The internet's a really big place and new sites pop up everyday — and it's new good sites and new bad sites," said Dentsu's Schulte.
In an effort to counteract the steady stream of potentially-fraudulent content or misinformation, Dentsu has shifted from an exclusion to an inclusion approach. Inclusion lists, she suggested, allow media buyers to have more control over where ads end up, by countering the onslaught of new websites launching every day.
"Running on a list that is a known, trusted partners list is a stronger way than saying, 'Here's what I don't know'," she said.
And, Schulte supported another transition: from use of the terms "blacklist" and "whitelist" to "exclusion-" and "inclusion-lists." Following industry pressure, groups including the 4A's in July called on media buyers to ditch their use of those "loaded" terms, which applied positive connotation to something white and negative connotation to something black. Instead, the group asked for a switch to "exclusion" and "inclusion."
"It's pretty literally the very least we could do," said Schulte.
Hyper-partisanship and politicization of news and information has pushed media owners and buyers to respond in both reactionary ways, and at times, more thoughtful ways. Ultimately, as with most instability, there are opportunities to be had for those who think strategically.
Social media uncertainty sparks important conversations and renewed interest in overlooked platforms (hint: it's Snapchat)
The social media landscape is rockier than ever. How are media buyers navigating it? With lots of caution and a bit of testing. Still, despite headwinds against TikTok and Facebook, it looks like advertisers will stick around (as long as legally possible, anyway).
As TikTok sits in the crosshairs of the Trump administration, its unknown future is on every social media buyer's mind. But TikTok "has staying power," said Renelly Morel, social activation director at Essence.
As for the Facebook boycott, despite its lack of impact on the firm's bottom line, it started some important conversations among brands, said Morel.
Overall, the upheaval has media buyers looking around for other places they might allocate some of their social media dollars. Snapchat could score amid the shakeout.
Unsure of TikTok's future, media buyers hold steady — If you thought you could escape the Tik Tok drama, think again. The platform has become more and more important to advertisers and marketers, so it came up a few times throughout the Media Buying Summit.
At the time of the event, the fate of Tik Tok and its US ownership candidates was TBD, and that meant there were no decisive opinions about whether the platform would continue to be relevant to advertisers going forward.
"There's a ton of uncertainty with TikTok," said Essence's Morel. Still, she suggested the fact that the platform continues to enjoy strong usage and engagement is important to media buyers.
"It hasn't really swayed some of the usage on the platform," she said.
Group M's Weiser echoed her insights, suggesting that advertisers will stick around as long as TikTok's audience sticks around — assuming it's not shut down in the US. "Whatever plays out here, if TikTok can sustain an audience in the United States, advertisers will have an interest in finding ways to work with them."
Facebook boycott helped reshape goals for some brands and media planners — When big brand advertisers boycotted Facebook, some wondered if it would have a lasting impact, considering most of the platform's advertisers are small businesses. But while it didn't have much effect on Facebook's bottom line, it did help to assuage some hate speech and harassment, suggested Morel.
Advertisers will continue to use platforms where misinformation thrives if consumers continue to use those platforms," said Weiser. "If consumers collectively change their behavior, you'll see changes in advertiser behaviors."
Whether or not the boycott worked as intended, Morel said it inspired discussions about what should really matter to advertisers as they attempt to connect to consumers in meaningful ways.
"There's been some really healthy conversations happening with partners in terms of 'what should we be saying, what should we be doing, how should we be showing up?'" she said. "Now the focus has changed. ROI is important, delivering the right message is important, but also showing up in the right places. That we kind of have the same values our consumers do is really important."
Snapchat attracts renewed interest amid push for spend diversification — Media buyers are considering new places to put their social media dollars as they question the future of TikTok and navigate negative attitudes toward Facebook.
"They're really considering some of the other players out there for maybe a test of a first time opportunity, said Morel. "It's a moment that we're having where buyers are thinking through other options and maybe diversifying a little more."
One recently-overlooked social media platform that is getting a second look? Snapchat. Morel said the platform has a large enough audience to warrant interest. And because Snapchat's tech is good, it's a viable place for testing.
"They've just done a really good job of making their developer tools easy to use. It's less of a heavy lift," she said.
All in all, social media buyers are in a holding pattern. The phrase "wait and see" has become a mantra in responses to questions about TikTok. And in the meantime, while the big advertiser pullback on Facebook spending may have spurred some much-needed conversation, it doesn't look like advertisers will pull away from the platform in any significant way anytime soon. However, media buyers are more open now to testing new and forgotten social platforms.
Push to topple silos appears to be more than lip service, and it's having a tangible effect on media teams
There's been a lot of talk of silo-busting and nimble work flows now that everyone is scrambling to accomplish things while working virtually. The push toward more efficient collaboration has manifested for media people by connecting them with creative teams and retail partner managers.
The old ways of working are disappearing, and 360i's Rozen said that creates real opportunity. "Take advantage of the fact that it's all hands on deck right now," he said. "That's probably what's been breaking down silos more than anything is, frankly, just the need to get shit done."
The massive shift away from the traditional office mindset creates new openings to encourage better integration, not just internally but more widely among partner organizations. Take privacy, for instance. Brands should remove silos for better communication with their agencies on privacy decisions, too.
Creative and media Teams are coming together — Creative and marketing agency Madwell is among the many businesses finding new agile ways to get the job done in the wake of the pandemic. The benefits of streamlining collaboration between media and creative teams were evident when working with a challenger coconut water startup brand with a small budget.
By enabling meaningful collaboration between the creative and media teams, the agency made the most of the media team's consumer insights data and research from the creative team showing what people said about competitors in social platforms. The pair-up helped the agency discover the brand's target audience over-indexed on music interests. A music-themed campaign was born.
"It's just not something that happens when you're on a media team or a creative team that's more siloed," said Lindsay Boan, director of media at Madwell.
Walls between retail partner teams and media and marketing are falling, too — Amid shifts in consumer behavior during the pandemic, marketing and media teams and teams managing retail relationships are working together in ways they never have before to ensure media and marketing reflects today's retail logistics and distribution challenges.
The goal, in part, is to tie together media and the retail environment in a way that recognizes the customer experience, said Jess Richards, EVP and managing director of Havas Ecommerce.
"I think the ability to bring those two together and understand the full funnel and also be able to participate and identify what the best media opportunities are within those retail environments — [that] is going to complement the different distribution partnerships that exist," she said.
Brands should remove external silos to keep media agencies abreast of privacy decisions and protocols — Oftentimes crucial information does not get relayed to agencies. But better communication flow between advertisers and their partners can prevent serious headaches and campaign ineffectiveness. Take privacy protocols. Let's say a brand decides that consent is required everywhere for cookie tracking.
"If the agency doesn't now that they've taken that broad approach and that that's going to impact data outside Europe, then you're going to see your data availability drop," said Arielle Garcia, chief privacy officer at UM Worldwide. "If [the agency] knew that that was how they are set up, it might change the recommendations that [the agency makes] from a media perspective."
From the looks of things, the talk about being agile and breaking down silos might be more than lip service. Media professionals are finding actual changes in how they work with colleagues that are creating more efficient and potentially smarter — even more creative — outcomes for clients.
"[Banner Blindness is] the least addressed problem at the moment."
— Aditya Padhye, director of business development at EyeO
Padhye is the director of business development at EyeO, a firm that provides ad blocking software and allows people to control the types of ads they will accept. He suggested there is a lost opportunity for marketers to deliver ads to the "ad-aware" audience who are more receptive to ad messages they choose to see. "We believe this inventory is going to be more expensive than for standard users," he said.
"Right now across the United States, driving is almost 30 percent up; walking is 21 percent up, compared to pre-COVID."
—Jonathan Godai, CEO of digital out-of-home firm Adomni
Godai, attributed the numbers to Apple mobility data, which shows that today people are out and about in their cars and taking a stroll in the top 5 DMAs around 120 percent more than they were in January. He suggested that creates an audience ripe for exposure to out-of-home messages in billboards, grocery stores and more.
"Don't spend yourself out of something," when a diagnostic scoring measurement like net promoter score is negative.
— Nedim Aruz, co-founder and vp of Good Apple
"When NPS is negative, you want to pull back." What Aruz is getting at is that media acts as a megaphone, so if a campaign is not fulfilling advertiser goals or it is creating negative sentiment around a brand, amplifying it is a bad idea. "The step for us is to pause when we see NPS drop below, and then once we pause, then we have some opportunities to figure out what the next steps are," he said.
WTF/Explainers
WTF is NPS?
NPS stands for Net Promoter Score. NPS is derived through a diagnostic test that measures the willingness of a consumer to recommend a product or service to others. The scores fall on an index ranging from -100 to 100 and might be used to gauge overall satisfaction or loyalty to a brand.
WTF is OTT (Now)?
OTT stands for Over-the-top, of course, but its meaning has evolved. Originally, over-the-top referred to any physical devices that sat over the top of a cable box, enabling access to TV content. Now it is used to refer to the way in which people access internet-based TV content. And, it is different from CTV, which refers to the device employed to access OTT content.
WTF is Brand Suitability?
Unlike "brand safety," which aims to protect brands from adjacency to illegal content, fraud or other indisputably offensive content or nefarious activity, brand suitability is a subjective measure of appropriateness specific to a brand. Whereas no valid news content is brand unsafe, some may be unsuitable when it comes to particular brand goals.
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Energy surrounds us everywhere. We focus it and pass it on. The slogan of the British Pavilion for Expo 2017 Astana is 'We Are Energy'. It assembles visitors inside a precisely designed, interactive yurt, which is surrounded by a panorama. The whole installation is situated inside of one of the exhibition buildings for Expo 2017 Astana and has been designed by British Architect Asif Kahn. iart has been a partner in developing and realising the central yurt and the panorama.
At the start, visitors enter a corridor. Its final point is marked by a video showing the sun and its choppy surface. All aspects of life are fed by the energy of this star, around which the planet Earth circles. This starting point establishes the formal principle of the exhibition: After entering the 2,200-square-meter exhibition hall, visitors are led in concentric circles towards the centre of the pavilion. They pass by a panorama consisting of twenty-two connected projections showing a landscape surrounded by changing weather. Then they enter the space inside the panorama and, after a couple of steps, enter the central, glowing yurt.
The yurt is constructed of two hundred radially arranged spokes of acrylic glass. They reach a height of four metres. Since they are nearly transparent and there is open space between the spokes, visitors can glimpse inside and even through the yurt. A soft touch on the inside of the spokes suffices to illuminate them. Even a gentle approach activates light-emitting diodes on the spokes' bases. In a split second, light is emitted upwards and illuminates the spokes to the top. After a few moments, the light fades. So visitors are surrounded by a manifold play of light, which they can shape individually and which is framed by the changing atmospheres of the panorama. The architectonical body and the collective of visitors are connected in a process of organic interaction.
The moving image of the sun at the pavilions entrance already evoked the idea that all energy floats around a centre which slowly changes over time. In the British Pavilion for Expo 2017 Astana, the human body enters in a playful dialogue with the surrounding sculpture of light. At times, this pavilion seems to be almost immaterial and shines in ever-moving lights. While the shape of the yurt evokes the tradition of nomadic life, the materials used and the interactive solutions developed by iart suggest how we might interact with our environment in the future.


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Q: Why does CNN start at 99.8% Accuracy? This is very strange: my CNN has a high training and validation accuracy from the very first epoch. Is it even learning? Or is it memorizing?
Take a look at the Train/Val. Accuracy:

The y-axis is accuracy and x-axis is # Epochs. The CNN has Dropout to reduce overfitting, which is why I'm confused -- is it memorizing the training data? If that was the case, the confusion matrix would be all over the place, but the CNN correctly classifies 998/1000 images. Why is this happening?
Below is the MWE and the full code is here:
"""# Import Libraries"""

# Import Libraries
import tensorflow as tf
from tensorflow import keras
from keras.models import Sequential
from keras.layers import Dense, Flatten, Conv2D, MaxPooling2D, Dropout
from tensorflow.keras import layers
from tensorflow.keras.utils import to_categorical
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.style.use('fivethirtyeight')

"""# Load Dataset"""

import pathlib
dataset_url = "https://barisciencelab.tech/TrainingSet.tar.gz"
data_dir = tf.keras.utils.get_file(origin = dataset_url,
                                   fname = "TrainingSet",
                                   untar = True)
data_dir = pathlib.Path(data_dir)

"""# Display # Images to check"""

print(list(data_dir.glob('*/*.png')))
image_count = len(list(data_dir.glob('*/*.png')))
print(image_count)

"""# Display sample image"""

pip install sklearn

import numpy as np
import os
import PIL
import PIL.Image
import tensorflow as tf
import tensorflow_datasets as tfds
from sklearn.decomposition import PCA

graphs = list(data_dir.glob('*/*.png'))
PIL.Image.open(str(graphs[6]))

"""# Define Image Dimensions & Batch Size"""

batch_size = 32
img_height = 36
img_width = 36

"""# Create Training & Validation Sets (80%, 20%)"""

train_ds = tf.keras.preprocessing.image_dataset_from_directory(
  data_dir,
  validation_split=0.2,
  subset="training",
  seed=123,
  image_size=(img_height, img_width),
  batch_size=batch_size)

val_ds = tf.keras.preprocessing.image_dataset_from_directory(
  data_dir,
  validation_split=0.2,
  subset="validation",
  seed=123,
  image_size=(img_height, img_width),
  batch_size=batch_size)

"""# Define 3 Classes"""

class_names = ['Cubic Sinusoidal', 'Linear Sinusoidal', 'Quadratic Sinusoidal']
print(class_names)

"""# Supervised Learning (9 Samples from the Training Set)"""

!pip install skimage

from skimage import data
from skimage.color import rgb2gray

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

subGraphs = []
plt.rcParams['figure.facecolor'] = 'white'
plt.figure(figsize=(10, 10))
for images, labels in train_ds.take(1):
  for i in range(9):
    ax = plt.subplot(3, 3, i + 1)
    plt.imshow(images[i].numpy().astype("uint8"))
    subGraphs.append(images[i].numpy().astype("uint8"))
    plt.title(class_names[labels[i]])
    plt.axis("off")

"""# Normalize Inputs (/255px)"""

normalization_layer = tf.keras.layers.experimental.preprocessing.Rescaling(1./255)

normalized_ds = train_ds.map(lambda x, y: (normalization_layer(x), y))
image_batch, labels_batch = next(iter(normalized_ds))
first_image = image_batch[0]
# Notice the pixels values are now in `[0,1]`.
print(np.min(first_image), np.max(first_image))

AUTOTUNE = tf.data.AUTOTUNE

train_ds = train_ds.cache().prefetch(buffer_size=AUTOTUNE)
val_ds = val_ds.cache().prefetch(buffer_size=AUTOTUNE)

"""# Architechture of CNN (3 Conv2Ds, 3 MaxPool2Ds, 2 Dense and Flatten)"""

# Commented out IPython magic to ensure Python compatibility.
# Load the TensorBoard notebook extension
# %load_ext tensorboard

import tensorflow as tf
import datetime

# Clear any logs from previous runs
!rm -rf ./logs/

num_classes = 3

# IDENTIFY PARAMETERS FOR Conv2D(A,B, )
model = tf.keras.Sequential([
  tf.keras.layers.experimental.preprocessing.Rescaling(1./255),
  tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(32, 3, activation='relu'), #32 FILTERS and square stride of size 3
  tf.keras.layers.MaxPooling2D(),
  tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(32, 3, activation='relu'),
  tf.keras.layers.MaxPooling2D(),
  tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(32, 3, activation='relu'),
  tf.keras.layers.MaxPooling2D(),
  tf.keras.layers.Flatten(),
  tf.keras.layers.Dense(128, activation='relu'),
  tf.keras.layers.Dense(num_classes)
])

model.compile(
  optimizer='adam',
  loss=tf.losses.SparseCategoricalCrossentropy(from_logits=True),
  metrics=['accuracy'])

log_dir = "logs/fit/" + datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")
tensorboard_callback = tf.keras.callbacks.TensorBoard(log_dir=log_dir, histogram_freq=1)

epochs = 3

initial_learning_rate = 0.01
decay = initial_learning_rate / epochs

def lr_time_based_decay(epoch, lr):
    return lr * 1 / (1 + decay * epoch)

history = model.fit(
  train_ds,
  validation_data=val_ds,
  epochs= epochs,
  callbacks= [tensorboard_callback, tf.keras.callbacks.LearningRateScheduler(lr_time_based_decay, verbose=1)]
)

# Commented out IPython magic to ensure Python compatibility.
# %tensorboard --logdir logs/fit

model.summary()

acc = history.history['accuracy']
val_acc = history.history['val_accuracy']

loss = history.history['loss']
val_loss = history.history['val_loss']

epochs_range = range(epochs)

plt.figure(figsize=(8, 8))
plt.subplot(1, 2, 1)
plt.plot(epochs_range, acc, label='Training Accuracy')
plt.plot(epochs_range, val_acc, label='Validation Accuracy')
plt.legend(loc='lower right')
plt.title('Train & Val. Accuracy')

plt.subplot(1, 2, 2)
plt.plot(epochs_range, loss, label='Training Loss')
plt.plot(epochs_range, val_loss, label='Validation Loss')
plt.legend(loc='upper right')
plt.title('Train & Val. Loss')
plt.show()

"""# Image Input Array"""

pip install glob2

preds = []

for i in range(0,999):

  lin_url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Refath/SinusoidalAnalyzer/main/Validation/Graph_"+str(i)+".png"
  lin_path = tf.keras.utils.get_file('Graph_'+str(i)+'.png', origin=lin_url)

  img = keras.preprocessing.image.load_img(
      lin_path, target_size=(img_height, img_width)
  )

  img_array = keras.preprocessing.image.img_to_array(img)
  img_array = tf.expand_dims(img_array, 0) # Create a batch

  predictions = model.predict(img_array)
  score = tf.nn.softmax(predictions[0])

  print(
      "This image most likely belongs to {} with a {:.2f} percent confidence."
      .format(class_names[np.argmax(score)], 100 * np.max(score))
  )
  preds.append(np.argmax(score))

print(preds)
results = []

for i in range(0,len(preds)):
  results.append(0)

for i in range(0, len(preds)):
  if preds[i] == 0:
    results[i] = "Cubic"
  elif preds[i] == 1:
    results[i] = "Linear"
  else:
    results[i] = "Quadratic"

print(results)

len(preds)

"""# Confusion Matrix"""

actual = [1, 1, 1, 0, 2, 2, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 0, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 0, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 0, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 2, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 2, 0, 1, 2, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 1, 1, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 1, 1, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 2, 1, 2, 0, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 2, 0, 2, 2, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 0, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 0, 2, 2, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 2, 2, 0, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 1, 2, 0, 2, 2, 0, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 0, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 2, 2, 1, 2, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 2, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 1, 2, 0, 2, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 2, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 2, 2, 1, 0, 2, 2, 1, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 2, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 0, 2, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 2, 0, 2, 1, 1, 1, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 0, 0, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 2, 0, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 2, 2, 0, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 2, 0, 2, 1, 0, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0, 1, 2, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 0, 2, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 2, 0, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 2, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 2, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 2, 2, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 0, 2, 0, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 0, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 2, 1, 2, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 2, 0, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 2, 2, 1, 0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 0, 2, 1, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 2, 2, 1, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 2, 2, 1]
tf.math.confusion_matrix(preds, actual)

# Commented out IPython magic to ensure Python compatibility.
from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix
import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sn
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# %matplotlib inline
import numpy as np

y_true = actual
y_pred = preds
data = confusion_matrix(y_true, y_pred)
df_cm = pd.DataFrame(data, columns=['Cubic','Linear','Quadratic'], index = ['Cubic','Linear','Quadratic'])
df_cm.index.name = 'Actual'
df_cm.columns.name = 'Predicted'
plt.figure(figsize = (10,7))
sn.set(font_scale=1.4)
sn.heatmap(df_cm, cmap="Blues", annot=True,annot_kws={"size": 16}, fmt='g')

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                "sheetId" => 0,
                "startRowIndex" => 0,
                "startColumnIndex" => 1,
                "endColumnIndex" => 1
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            "booleanRule" => array(
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                "format" => array(
                    "numberFormat" => array(
                        "type" => "DATE",
                        "pattern" => "dddd, mmmm d yyyy"
                    )
                )
            )
        )
    )
);

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$format_result = $service->spreadsheets->batchUpdate($spreadsheetId, $format);

But I am getting the following error:
Invalid requests[0].addConditionalFormatRule: ConditionalFormatRule.format only supports bold, italic, strikethrough, foreground color and background color.


Imagine if you could start all over with a brand new classroom! What would you want or do in your dream room?
In this blog post, I would like to share a relatively simple demonstration you may use to introduce the concept of antioxidant along with its potential in everyday life.


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Henry Lee Daniel Jr.
Nov 9, 2021 Updated Nov 10, 2021
Was born September 19, 1934, in Alexandria, Louisiana. On March 4, 2020 in Georgetown, Texas, he passed peacefully into the presence of all life, light, joy, love and peace. He was the oldest of three children born to Henry and Bessie Daniel, living in Cajun Country through college at Southwestern Louisiana Institute where he met his wife, Bethel Lowe Daniel, of sixty-four years. Together, they set out on their life adventure in the Air Force, serving the Country and raising a family. The Air Force took him around the world, including a combat tour where he was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy, and an executive tour at the Pentagon with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He retired in San Antonio, Texas as a full bird Colonel, and went on to further work in service. He liked 'seeing the world'; early in his career he brought his family to Germany; later served in southeast Asia; and later still served in Korea as the J1. He also served in various exotic locations in the Republic of Texas, one of his adopted home states along with New Mexico. He and Bethel spent many years enjoying life in the art community of Taos, New Mexico, while travelling to Hawaii, China, and Norway. Along his journey, he reflected an innate sense of service, leadership, and appreciation of beauty. He loved the Lord, Bethel, his family, and art, including appreciating and creating, especially music and sculpture.Henry is survived by his wife Bethel, his children Dennis (Leslie), Adriane (Mark Fagan), and Benton (Helen), seven grandchildren, Elizabeth, Bradford, Michael, Katherine, Bonnie, Aubree, and Caylee and three great grandchildren, Amelia, Zoey, and Jasper. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Food Pantry at Grace Episcopal Church in Georgetown, Texas.
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Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (2,0,-1,0,-2,2,0,1,0,-2,1).
For n=2, the 7 partitions of 10 are [6,1,1,1,1], [5,2,1,1,1], [4,3,1,1,1], [4,2,2,1,1], [3,3,2,1,1], [3,2,2,2,1] and [2,2,2,2,2].
Cf. A001401, A077043, A238340, A256226, A256235.


Do you know what's better than drinking wine outside during the springtime? Drinking wine with alpacas in the springtime.
Next month the Peach Creek Vineyard in College Station will be letting you drink wine and get close with alpacas. So close that you might get licked. On April 14th from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. you will be able to hang out and take pictures with a bunch of fuzzy alpacas plus drink wine.
While at the event you can purchase products made from alpaca fibers, talk to the alpaca farmers and buy a bottle of wine straight from the vineyard. If you don't feel like drinking wine but are interested in hanging out with alpacas tickets start at $1. If you're looking to buy a bottle for you and a friend tickets are $20, alpacas included.
There are a few places out there that offer goat yoga, but who wants to exercise when you're surrounde by cute goats? How about you enjoy a glass of wine and hang out with a bunch of cute alpacas instead.


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Q: Modal con botones de acción y JavaScript tengo una duda ya que no soy experto en javascript, estoy usando datatables.
Mi problema es este, si hago la peticion con este boton:
<button data-id='.$row["userid"].' id='.$row["userid"].' title="Modificar Datos de Usuario" class="userinfo btn btn-primary btn-sm"></button>

me ejecuta este script que envía el id a una pagina con ajax y luego devuelve todo a la ventana modal

Luego todo se carga en esta ventana modal

        <button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-dismiss="modal"> Cerrar Ventana</button>

El problema es que si quiero poner un segundo boton que me ejecute una accion diferente en otra pagina diferente "page2.php", no logro que haga la peticion a page2.php y siempre me ejecuta la pagina page1.php.
El segundo botón lo tengo así:
<button data-id2='.$row["username"].' id2='.$row["username"].' title="Modificar Datos de Usuario" class="userinfo btn btn-primary btn-sm"></button>

y ese boton ejecuta esta accion:

El problema es que abre el modal pero no recibe los datos de mi segundo boton, estoy seguro que es por el javascript.
Si alguien me puede dar luces por favor de que tengo mal, se los agradezco
olvide comentar que en el archivo page1.php recibo la info así:
$userid = 0;
if(isset($_POST['userid'])){
$userid = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['userid']);

y en page2.php recibo la info asi:
$userid2 = 0;
    if(isset($_POST['userid2'])){
    $userid2 = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['userid2']);

Gracias


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The story of this remarkable and durable clan goes back to the tenth century when a chieftain held a fortress in the Jura Mountains, and continues to the 1600's when descendants were forced to flee across Europe to avoid martyrdom for Calvinist beliefs. The succeeding flight to America brought new adventures, a unique form of government, treaties with the Indians, and at last refuge in a tiny settlement on the banks of the Wallkill River in the shadow of the Shawangunks.
One of the oldest streets in America with several of the original houses of twelve seventeenth century Huguenot refugees from religious persecution in Europe was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964. The Historic Landmark is located in the middle Hudson valley in the town of New Paltz, New York. Two of the twelve Huguenot refugees were Christian Deyo and his son Pierre. Pierre built the first stone House on Huguenot Street in 1692 and it stood for 200 years in the rural Flemish Style of all the Patentee abodes until it was remodeled into a Victorian mansion in 1894.


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The Security Council today expressed support for the Joint Statement of the "Quartet" of international bodies -- United Nations, Russian Federation, United States, European Union -- engaged in the Middle East peace process. That statement was issued in New York on 16 July by the Secretary-General, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Secretary of State of the United States, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the High Representative for the European Union Common Foreign and Security Policy, and the European Commissioner for External Affairs.
In a statement read out by its President, Jeremy Greenstock (United Kingdom), the Council also called on Israel, the Palestinian Authority and all States in the region to cooperate with efforts to achieve the goals set out in the Joint Statement. It stressed the importance of, and the need to achieve, a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East, based on all its relevant resolutions, the Madrid terms of reference, and the principle of land for peace.
In addition, the Council appreciated the involvement in discussions with the "Quartet" of senior representatives of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
The meeting, which began at 1:10 p.m., adjourned at 1:13 p.m.
"The Security Council supports the Joint Statement of the 'Quartet', annexed to this statement, which was issued in New York on 16 July 2002 by the Secretary-General, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Secretary of State of the United States, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the High Representative for the European Union Common Foreign and Security Policy, and the European Commissioner for External Affairs. The Security Council appreciates also the involvement in discussions with the 'Quartet' of senior representatives of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
"The Security Council calls upon the Government of Israel, the Palestinian Authority and all States in the reign to cooperate with the efforts to achieve the goals set out in the Joint Statement and stresses the importance of, and the need to achieve, a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East, based on all its resolutions, including its resolutions 242 (1968) of 22 November 1967, 338 (1973) of 22 October 1973 and 1397 (2002), the Madrid terms of reference and the principle of land for peace."


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תאריך פרסום: 09-07-2019
קישור: queeringthecity.sciencesconf.org
מיקום: פריז, צרפת
מועד: 11-06-2020 - 13-06-2020
דדליין: 15-09-2019
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Queering the City, Transatlantic Perspectives
To ask what produces social relationships in urban space today, and how social relationships produce space and place, is to affirm that the connection between society and space is a two- way street. If space is the product of social relations, then conversely — according to Henri Lefebvre's triad of "lived, conceived and perceived space" — space, far from being the passive receptacle of social forces, structures and contributes to the reproduction but also challenges social relations. We will then raise the more specific question of the relationship between gender/sex/race and space. In an urban space marked by social relationships, is it possible to resist and "queer" the city? If we understand the term "queer" as Kath Browne does in "Challenging Queer Geographies": "operating beyond powers and controls that enforce normativity6", then "queering the city" implies redrawing, reconceptualizing, rethinking and remapping to remake bodies, spaces and geographies.
Lise Nelson argues that Butler's concept of performativity can be enhanced by accounting for our lived experience and geographical roots. Nelson underlines the importance of these elements in resisting the constraints imposed on self-construction [1]. Indeed, geographical roots do not necessarily imply deliberate "territory-building" by collectives and individuals — it can be the result of more flexible relationships between individuals and territories, building social relations "with territory". Are territorial identification, spatial belonging, Doreen Massey's "creating a sense of place", possible strategies for invisibilized groups to "create space", "own", and "queer" it [2]", "ungender" and "debinarize" it? How are these strategies overdetermined by intersectionality of gender, race, class and ableness?
Because the city is a place of power, it is also a place of counter powers. The existence of movements and strategies of resistance to power relations based on gender, class or race is not new in the contemporary city, whether French or American. Women's and sexual minorities' studies have shown how much, in spite of the physical, legal and cultural barriers that confined them to private space or invisibility, these social groups have been able to create meeting and leisure spaces outside the traditional public spaces intended for men and families. George Chauncey's groundbreaking work on "gay New York" (1994) revealed the existence of meeting places for the city's gay population (cafeterias, nightclubs, dance halls, neighborhoods) but also of coded recognition tactics (eg. specific slang or clothing) in the urban space, since the beginning of the 20th century, long before the sexual revolution of the 1960s. In the wake of Chauncey's work, historians have exhumed from the dustbins of history the gay neighborhoods of large and medium-sized cities in the United States. In France, from 1975 onwards, feminist and lesbian groups began to ask themselves how to archive the LGBTQ movement's struggles. The first Paris archive centers were created by activists in 1983 and gathered evidence of what was happening, given the blossoming of groups and the proliferation of newspapers, in places of visibility and resistance against historical erasure. France was reputed for its ostensibly liberal attitude toward homosexuality, which had been decriminalized in 1791, and gay bastions had developed rapidly in Paris, particularly during the Belle Epoque. However, homosexuality faced repression from the end of the 19th century until 1968, with police tracking and an unequal sexual majority until 1981. Wearing pants is illegal for women until 2013, with no repression since the end of the 19th century, while transidentity is considered a mental illness until 2010. Artist Michel-Marie Poulain first tells of her sex change in the popular French magazine Voilà in 1934 and the concentration-camp survivor Marie André Schwidenhammer created the first support network for trans* people in 1965. This set the stage for a kind of public visibility that reached a peak with transgender cabaret culture in Paris, from the Cabaret du Carousel in the 1950s and 1960s –where many trans* people could live freely, without having to hide, or prostitute themselves in a caring and supportive environment– to the first "existrans" marches in 1997, and is increasingly recognized as central to queer identities.
In "Gay Neighborhoods", the sociologist Colin Giraud posits that it is really in the United States during the 1960s that the notion of a "gay neighborhood" emerged, thanks to rebellious social movements and various different forms of gay activism. North-American urbanization relates differently to the neighborhood, wherein the association of a neighborhood to specific social or ethnic groups is more salient and better accepted. In France, the very idea of a "gay neighborhood " does not appear until the beginning of the 1980s, in the Marais.
In the past twenty years, feminist, queer and trans* movements have tried to challenge "myriad gender contracts which together constitute gendered governance", "local gender systems and their constituent, culturally, constructed gender contracts" (Jarvis)5. The association "Genre et Ville" («Gender and City ") directed by Chris Blache is attempting to deconstruct binary genders to reclaim urban space and "make collective social mores evolve, by the redefinition of public and private space, both virtual and real". Many collectives have also been active in trying to publicize the extent and the dynamics of sexual harassment in public space, and in giving people means of self-defense — physical or otherwise — against patriarchal violence in public space.
Yet, attempts to claim space for women, gays, lesbians and trans* people are often neutralized by media recuperation and local marketing schemes. We shall thus try to determine, from a Transatlantic, urban perspective, the connection between strategies aimed at resisting gender norms and the creation of territories. Does the resistance and efforts to transform, "degender", "queer" the city, result in the re-appropriation of territory by women and marginalized people? Do these strategies result in the creation of territory? This conference aims at examining the creation of territory, be it by social movements or gentrification or through identity politics in France and in the USA. Specifically, we can question the validity of these new territories in the long term and their intersectional limitations (gender, race, ableness…).
Finally, because the body is also a locus and a performance in itself within American urban space, it is important to discuss artistic and space-based theatrical "performance" strategies in the city. What is the effect of artistic transgression, using the body to break pre-established social codes via performances that seek to "queer" and transform the city, blurring gender boundaries? "Queering " urban space requires both the transformation of space and language, and of the "narrative" attached to the city, in the same way as language and space contributed to constructing the city as an androcentric and cisgendered space to begin with, from which women and sexual-and-gender-norm dissidents were excluded or even expelled at certain points in history. If social movements are a good example of the way space can be created or recreated or appropriated by "marches" and the physical occupation of a given territory, so is artistic language— be it text, body language or imagery. The political use of theater, for example, or performances in which the body is a political tool, are also territory-related forms of activism. Queer and trans* activism has famously employed performance, street theater or monumental activism, while contemporary art has integrated militant uses of text, body and image. The American performer Louise de Ville has exported the burlesque and drag king workshops to France, where she hijacks and makes art out of gender codes. "Ball culture" and "voguing" "houses" with its families headed by a "mother" of mostly young black and latinx queers, have existed in the USA since 1977, with the first House of Labeijia formed by Crystal Labeija, a drag queen and mythical figure of voguing.
In France, the artist, dancer and DJ Kiddy Smile became the ambassador of voguing in the summer of 2016 with his title Let a B!tch know. Many American artists, from Halprin to Judy Chicago and Annie Sprinkle, have tried to transform space and the representations at stake. The march is a typically U.S. political practice. Showing the cloistering of domestic space by "taking the house out of the house", or mapping or "demapping" the city through artistic performance in public space — marches, performances, dance, theatre, happenings — may be a means of "queering" space by creating an ungendered and accessible space, marked by neither class nor ethnic identity. Sophie Calle is an example of a French artist who has employed marches to test the porous boundaries between public and private spheres.
In these days of increasingly powerful movements of revolt against sexism, sexual harassment, and violence directed at women and gender-norm-and-sexuality-dissidents, the questions we hope to raise with this academic and artistic conference are more present than ever. We're thus hoping for papers related to the history of social movements or of artistic performances in France and in the US, to the geography of queer or activist spaces, to the sociology of social movements linked with the creation of space and with resistance in an urban context. But we're also hoping for presentations by contemporary artists and interventions by feminist and LGBTQI+ activists. We welcome art installations and bodily performances using the sexuated, gendered, racialized and class-branded dis/abled body, provoking in and for the self a transformation of values and norms. More classic talks will not be set up as panel discussions (presentation + Q & A) but as interactive workshops inspired by popular education techniques.
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'Stranger Things' Isn't Trying To Troll Trump, According To Cary Elwes
Cary Elwes wants to get something straight: His "Stranger Things" character, Larry Kline, is not here to Make Hawkins Great Again.
The actor, who is best known for his role opposite Robin Wright in the 1980s classic "The Princess Bride," joins Season 3 of "Stranger Things" as the corrupt, egomaniacal, self-interested mayor of the small Indiana town. There, he serves as a pain in the side of Chief Hopper (David Harbour), and someone whose crooked dealings may bring Hawkins residents more trouble than they bargained for. However, if there's one thing Kline isn't, Elwes says, it's a surrogate for the real-life president.
Ahead of the latest season, there were rumblings online about Kline being inspired by Donald Trump, especially because the trailer showed a glimpse of signage similar to the president's.
Mayor Kline's (Cary Elwes) sign in the #StrangerThings3 trailer is based on Donald Trump's campaign sign. @Stranger_Things #StrangerThings pic.twitter.com/h9neE0KyRx
— ST Discord (@ST_Discord) March 21, 2019
The season reveals that the blond mayor also has shady ties to Russia and at one point, after sustaining some unfortunate bruising to his face, he applies makeup that appears to give him a somewhat oranger complexion.
Image from "Stranger Things" Season 3.
However, Elwes told HuffPost this is a case of drawing connections that aren't really there.
"He just happened to be a politician who is very self-centered," he said, adding that it's "not a comment on the president at all."
In other interviews ahead of the season premiere, before the Russia storyline was revealed publicly, the actor said he too initially thought the character had some Trumpian inspiration. However, the creators of the show, Matt and Ross Duffer (who are known professionally as the Duffer brothers), dismissed the idea. And at least one apparent connection ― the mayor being obsessed with throwing a Fourth of July Fun Fair ― was written long before the real-life president decided to have a Fourth of July military parade.
Below, Elwes gets into his true inspiration for Kline, what it's like navigating Twitter and what the mayor's new campaign slogan might be if he runs for office again one day.
Cary Elwes as Mayor Larry Kline.
How was Mayor Larry Kline pitched to you?
The Duffers told me that they wanted me to play this character and allowed me to pick and choose between a number of politicians on my own, which I ran by them, and make it a combination of people as I chose fit. They basically wanted to make a comment on how politics play in the story. Because you have a character like Hopper, played wonderfully by David Harbour, who is a man who deeply cares about the community. And in stark contrast, you have a mayor who basically couldn't care less.
I also read you sent them a questionnaire. What did you want to know?
I don't really go into detail about my preparation, but, yes, I did send them a questionnaire, and yeah, they were very helpful.
In watching the season, it does seem like there are strong allusions between Kline and our current president, with the ties to Russia, the similar signage and even some slightly orange-looking makeup. How much did that play in?
There's nothing. There's nothing. No. I think that somehow got picked up by a reporter and people ran with it, but that has no bearing on our current president whatsoever. I mean, I don't know where anyone saw orange makeup? But I certainly didn't see any. No, he just happened to be a politician who is very self-centered, and is very driven by material things, but it's not a comment on the president at all.
So the character is not trolling President Trump in any way?
No, absolutely not, and I wouldn't want anyone to get that impression.
If Twitter were around in the '80s, would Mayor Kline be tweeting?
[Laugh] I don't know. That's a good question. Again, I don't want to give the impression that this is the character in a way based on the president.
Since Twitter is such a big part of the "Stranger Things" fandom, what is it like being a part of that world?
It's been extraordinary, the response to the show, as you know, and it's
certainly raised my profile. And it's been a joy. It's like a thrill ride, the whole thing.
What about for you personally interacting with fans on Twitter?
You know, I'm still learning. I certainly don't have a huge following. I'm just
doing my best to share things. And I'm learning. What can I say? There are folks on this show that are far more social-media savvy than I am. I'm observing them a great deal.
You do have one story in your book, "As You Wish," about the first time you met Andre the Giant. And it's a great story. Can you talk about that a bit?
Listen, it's in the book. It's just that Andre decided to share with all of us how powerful he could blow… he could fart. What can I say? That was our first day on the set.
So obviously that's a memorable story from first meeting a co-star. What's a memorable story from when you were first on the set of "Stranger Things"?
It's very different. This is a show where there's not a lot of humor with the character I play. We certainly didn't have a 7-foot giant on set with flatulence problems. It was just all about the work really, and that's kind of how I roll. I may not take myself seriously, but I do take my work seriously, and that's pretty much the modus operandi on the set of "Stranger Things." Everybody works very hard.
What do you think people can expect from Season 3?
Well, in my humble opinion, I think Season 3 for me is more intense, powerful and terrifying than Seasons 1 and 2 together. The stakes are higher, and the thrills are more intense.
If Mayor Kline ends up running for reelection one day, what would his campaign slogan be?
Oh that's very funny. Let me think. I would say, "A mayor who cares." Ironic.
This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
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America Ferrera & the 'Ugly Betty' Cast Mourn Death of Series Creator Silvio Horta
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The stars of Ugly Betty, including America Ferrera, Vanessa Williams and Michael Urie, are mourning the death of show creator Silvio Horta on social media.
"I'm stunned and heartbroken to hear the devastating news of Ugly Betty creator, Silvio Horta's death. His talent and creativity brought me and so many others such joy & light," Ferrera, who portrayed the title character on the series said on Instagram Tuesday alongside a photo of herself and Horta at the Golden Globe Awards.
I'm stunned and heartbroken to hear the devastating news of Ugly Betty creator, Silvio Horta's death. His talent and creativity brought me and so many others such joy & light. I'm thinking of his family and loved ones who must be in so much pain right now- and of the whole Ugly Betty family who feel this loss so deeply.
A post shared by America Ferrera (@americaferrera) on Jan 7, 2020 at 4:54pm PST
"I'm thinking of his family and loved ones who must be in so much pain right now - and of the whole Ugly Betty family who feel this loss so deeply," the actress continued.
Williams, who portrayed Wilhelmina Slater on the comedy, uploaded a selfie of herself with Horta to Instagram.
"Still in shock after hearing the tragic news of our #uglybetty creator #silviohorta. His creativity and passion will be missed by so many of us that worked with him. May he Rest In Peace," she said.
Still in shock after hearing the tragic news of our #uglybetty creator #silviohorta 💔 His creativity and passion will be missed by so many of us that worked with him. May he Rest In Peace
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"I will be forever indebted to this sweet, brilliant man," Urie, who appeared as Marc St. James on Ugly Betty said on Twitter.
"Silvio and I used to stay up late and laugh until our sides hurt - and complain to one another about life. He wrote the finest scenes, for all of us - crafted the wonderfully flawed being I've ever had the privilege to embody. I'm empty right now...," Eric Mabius, who starred as Daniel Meade on the show, said on Twitter.
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Horta was found dead of an apparent suicide at the age of 45 inside a Miami hotel room on Tuesday.
Horta also wrote the screenplay for horror film Urban Legend, television movie The Curse of the Fuentes Women and created sci-fi series The Chronicle and Jake 2.0.
Ugly Betty ran for four seasons on ABC from 2006 to 2010.
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