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Winners Announced For 57th Annual ACM Industry & Studio Recording Awards
Pictured: Charlie Worsham with his first ACM Award on stage during Friday's Grand Ole Opry. Photo: Chris Hollo
The Academy of Country Music announced the Industry and Studio Recording Award winners from the 57th ACM Awards at the Grand Ole Opry House on Friday night (May 13).
Pictured (L-R): Executive Producer and Vice President of the Opry Dan Rogers, Charlie Worsham, ACM CEO Damon Whiteside, and ACM Manager of Awards & Membership Haley Montgomery. Photo: Chris Hollo
During Charlie Worsham's performance, he was interrupted by a special announcement that surprised the guitarist-singer-songwriter with news that he won his first-ever ACM Award for ACM Acoustic Guitar Player of the Year. Dierks Bentley sent a video message to Worsham congratulating him on his win, and Worsham gave a tearful speech to the packed Opry crowd while giving heartfelt praise to the other nominees in his category.
Other winner highlights include Basement East receiving their first-ever ACM Award for ACM Club of the Year following the venue's destruction during the March 2020 Nashville tornadoes and subsequent rebuild. The Ryman, which is celebrating its 130th anniversary, received its 7th lifetime ACM Award.
Pedal steel guitar player Paul Franklin received his 17th career ACM Award, and first win for Specialty Instrument(s) Player of the Year. Promoter Brian O'Connell and producer Dann Huff each received their 10th career ACM Award.
In addition to Worsham and Basement East, other first-time ACM Award recipients include Chicago's Windy City Smokeout Festival, San Antonio Rodeo, audio engineer Jim Cooley, drummer Evan Hutchings, and piano/keyboard player David Dorn.
All Industry Award, Studio Recording Award, and soon-to-be-announced Special Award recipients will be celebrated during the 15th Academy of Country Music Honors ceremony on Aug. 24 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
Performers, host, and ticket on-sale information will be announced in the coming weeks.
Industry Award Winners:
Casino Of The Year – Theater: Choctaw Casino & Resort – Durant, Ok
Casino Of The Year – Arena: Mohegan Sun Arena – Uncasville, Ct
Festival Of The Year: Windy City Smokeout Festival – Chicago, Il
Fair/Rodeo Of The Year: San Antonio Rodeo – San Antonio, Tx
Club Of The Year: Basement East – Nashville, Tn
Theater Of The Year: Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, Tn
Outdoor Venue Of The Year: Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Morrison, Co
Arena Of The Year: Bridgestone Arena – Nashville, Tn
Don Romeo Talent Buyer Of The Year: Todd Boltin – Variety Attractions
Promoter Of The Year: Brian O'connell – Live Nation
Studio Recording Award Winners:
Bass Player Of The Year: Jimmie Lee Sloas
Drummer Of The Year: Evan Hutchings
Acoustic Guitar Player Of The Year: Charlie Worsham
Electric Guitar Player Of The Year: Tom Bukovac
Piano/Keyboards Player Of The Year: David Dorn
Specialty Instrument(S) Player Of The Year: Paul Franklin
Audio Engineer Of The Year: Jim Cooley
Producer Of The Year: Dann Huff
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Turn up with your guy and you want him so much to get it back? It is not always easy, and unfortunately not always possible. Nevertheless, I will try to help figure out how the whole situation, take it easy. With a clear head, maybe sooner you figure out if you really love her again revive. Track each of us a lot of nerves and tears. So why not find out if such a risk with the same guys, you want to show again?
Before considering your ex, it is important to think about two things. Firstly, I really still love him, or are you just tired of being alone? Do not write it until you are absolutely sure. Another was your last relationship really worth it? Was similar? Did you feel happy? It's easy to remember to be nice, but if you return to him, I think, what went wrong and why you broke up. Then you will get sure that you really want your love back in your life.
For all of the above questions love and love marriage problems pray to Shastri ji, how to bring love back in life. Here we as an expert in astrology and love vashikaran help you get your love back in your life. This mysterious art of love vashikaran is a sacred way to get the things that happen in your favour. After deep meditation and long days of worship you will be blessed by God to help the community by way of vashikaran. Here Shastri ji whose family is blessed by God will serve you, while solving all your love questions. He has received his entire education from his father, who himself is one of the most famous and successful astrologer in India. After him his son Shastri ji has assumed command of the same to serve the world with vashikaran and astrological aspects. And he has done his job with the best efforts while bringing complete happiness and success to the many lives.


Paula has spent many years in the customer service industry and as an employer; both of which have enabled her to become a confident and effective communicator.
She has specialised in the rescue and rehabilitation of welfare case dogs and worked with clients in a home environment to achieve cohesion between human and canine.
Paula has witnessed first-hand throughout her previous customer facing roles the problems that can occur when dogs and people mix in public places. She has always been passionate about educating people of all ages in canine communication and safe dog handling practices with a particular penchant for educating the next generation. As a DogSEE facilitator, she now uses this passion, combined with her knowledge and skills as a dog trainer, to help others feel more comfortable, confident and safe around dogs. Her friendly, personable manner ensures a positive learning environment on all of the workshops that she takes part in.


Do you get stressed when you can't check your texts or emails on your smartphone? Do you find yourself distracted or anxious when you are without your phone, without service or with no or low battery? Do you keep your phone near your bed at night? Has someone asked you to put your phone down in the last week?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you may be at risk for nomophobia, also known as the "no-mobile-phone-phobia" or the fear of being without your phone; a new phenomenon researchers are currently investigating.
Early studies, some of which are below, have been exploring the psychological and physical distress associated with nomophobia. One study found that when without their phones, teens not only experience more anxiety, but their heart rate and blood pressure also increase. Other studies have found that our smartphones may also negatively impact our memory - specifically our motivation and ability to acquire and retain new knowledge.
""iPhones are capable of becoming an extension of our selves such that when separated, we experience a lessening of 'self' and a negative physiological state," the study's lead author, Russell Clayton, said at the time."
"Phobias come in countless forms. Some are commonplace. Aviophobia: fear of flying. Acrophobia: fear of heights. Arachnophobia: fear of spiders. Others elicit less attention. Peladophobia: fear of bald people. Geniophobia: fear of chins. Some, one imagines, are pretty much universal. Pentheraphobia: fear of your mother-in-law.
An estimated 19.2 million American adults have a specific phobia, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. No one knows for sure how they originate, but the thinking is that both genes and environment play a role. They tend to run in families, though not necessarily the same phobia. Familiar phobias like fear of heights seem related to an evolutionary survival response."
In the The New York Times article below, readers are introduced to Attis Clopton, a 33 year old professional drummer and Brooklyn, New York resident who suffers from a specific phobia, however it's not a phobia like fear of spiders or heights or enclosed spaces that many commonly think of. Rather, Clopton suffers from aquaphobia, also known as the fear of water.


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Call for Analytics and Digital Transformation Champions: FICO Decisions Awards Now Open
Annual Meeting Press Releases Investor FAQs
August 8, 2022 at 11:15 AM EDT
Awards honor FICO customers achieving outstanding results with AI, machine learning and decision management
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 2022-- FICO (NYSE: FICO):
Entries for the FICO® Decisions Awards are due October 28, 2022
The ten award categories are AI, Machine Learning & Optimization, Cloud Deployment, Customer Onboarding and Management, Debt Management, Decision Management Innovation, ESG Champion, Financial Inclusion, Fraud Management, FICO Industry Vanguard Award and Pioneer Award (new category).
Judges include industry experts and practitioners
Entry form and information are at www.fico.com/decisionsawards
Companies that are achieving outstanding success using analytics and decision management solutions from FICO are invited to submit nominations for the 2023 FICO® Decisions Awards. FICO invites any of its more than 5,000 direct clients to enter the awards, as well as the tens of thousands of firms that use FICO solutions provided by its partners.
For more information and to enter a nomination, visit www.fico.com/decisionsawards
A panel of independent judges with deep industry expertise will evaluate nominations based on measurable improvement in key metrics; demonstrated use of best practices; project scale, depth and breadth; and innovative uses of technology.
Awards will be presented in ten categories:
AI, Machine Learning & Optimization
Customer Onboarding and Management
Decision Management Innovation
ESG Champion
FICO Industry Vanguard Award
Pioneer Award (new category)
Nominations are due October 28, 2022, and winners will be announced January 26, 2023.
Winners will receive recognition at FICO® World, which will be held in Hollywood, Florida, May 16-19, 2023. Winning implementations will be featured in conference activities, and two representatives of each winning company will receive complimentary conference passes.
"2022 has already delivered a number of surprises and challenges for our customers, as their industries are rocked by pandemic economic shocks, a war-led energy crisis and customer demands for better digital experiences," said Nikhil Behl, chief marketing officer at FICO. "Our awards showcase the firms that have found better ways to deal with challenges and come out on top. Because of the rapid pace of technological change, we have introduced the Pioneer Award this year to highlight the most innovative approaches to solving business challenges. We look forward to our customers putting forward their nominations for the 2023 awards."
Last year's winning firms represented multiple industries and countries worldwide, all with outstanding results: Fiserv and Akbank (AI, Machine Learning and Optimization); Itaú and BNZ (Cloud Deployment); Bradesco (Customer Onboarding & Management); Česká spořitelna (Debt Management); Círculo de Crédito (Decision Management Innovation); Traxión (ESG Champion); Mibanco and SIMAH (Financial Inclusion); ELO (Fraud & Security); and Wells Fargo (FICO Industry Vanguard Award).
About FICO
FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 205 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, telecommunications, health care, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 120 countries do everything from protecting 2.6 billion payment cards from fraud, to helping people get credit, to ensuring that millions of airplanes and rental cars are in the right place at the right time.
Learn more at http://www.fico.com.
Join the conversation at https://twitter.com/fico & http://www.fico.com/en/blogs/
For FICO news and media resources, visit www.fico.com/news.
FICO is a registered trademark of Fair Isaac Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.
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Replace documents destroyed by Katrina
The information presented on this page was originally released on September 15, 2005. It may not be outdated, but please search our site for more current information. If you plan to quote or reference this information in a publication, please check with the Extension specialist or author before proceeding.
Family, Family Financial Management
MISSISSIPPI STATE -- Hurricane Katrina claimed many homes on the Gulf Coast, taking with her valuable financial and personal documents that families will want to replace.
Bobbie Shaffett, Mississippi State University Extension Service family resource management specialist, said knowing where to look for help can make this job easier and quicker.
"Victims of this hurricane may be too overwhelmed to even consider all the things they lost when their homes were destroyed," Shaffett said. "But once they start to put their lives back together, they will need to replace their financial documents -- things like income tax returns, vehicle titles, wills and health records -- and their personal documents, such as birth certificates, marriage certificates, Social Security cards and driver's licenses."
Shaffett said hurricane victims should contact their insurance agents or companies immediately to get copies of insurance policies, recent billing statements and related information.
"Once you've got your insurance situation under control, you might begin thinking about replacing other documents," Shaffett said.
A complete list of important documents that may need to be replaced and information on how to replace them is shown at the bottom of this page.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency recommended hurricane victims take the following steps as soon as they are able:
* Contact creditors for copies of loan applications and statements.
* Order copies of credit reports at www.annualcreditreport.com, or contact a local credit bureau or call (877) 322-8228.
* Contact the Internal Revenue Service or the state tax hotline for copies of tax records and filings for the past three years.
* Order a duplicate Social Security card by calling (800) 772-1213 or by visiting the local Social Security office.
In some coastal counties, people may have had valuable papers stored at locations that were destroyed by the hurricane. Susan Cosgrove, an Extension family resource management area agent based in Newton, said it is possible that some valuable documents are gone for good.
"There are some things that we may not be able to replace. Check with agencies to see if they had a back-up system for storing information," Cosgrove said. "The magnitude of this disaster shows how unprepared the entire country was, and it should serve as a wake-up call for us."
Cosgrove said that as technology develops, more secure ways to store information may help prevent such a problem in future disasters. For now, families should use currently available methods of protecting their valuable records.
"The total losses many Coast residents are facing can serve as a reminder of how important it is to be prepared for the unexpected," Cosgrove said. "A home safe that is designed to withstand fire, floods and other damage is a good place to keep important papers. If you have a safe deposit box at a bank, keep copies of these documents there, too. "
If the home safe is not waterproof, place important documents in a waterproof bag and place it inside the safe. Consider using a small safe that could be transported easily during an emergency evacuation.
Cosgrove recommended keeping the following items in a home safe or safe deposit box:
* Adoption papers.
* Birth, death and marriage certificates.
* Educational records.
* Insurance policies.
* Military service papers.
* Passports.
* Property deeds.
* Social Security cards.
* Stock certificates.
* U.S. savings bonds.
"You might also want to make photocopies of these documents to give to a trusted family member or friend who lives in a different location," Cosgrove said.
REPLACING FINANCIAL AND PERSONAL DOCUMENTS
Paper/
Replacement Information
Mississippi Department of Human Services
Mississippi Department of Health
The Office of Vital Records
571 Stadium Drive
Apply for a duplicate at a local driver's license office.
Educational records
Contact school(s) attended.
Contact physician's office.
Contact agency providing coverage. For agency addresses:
American Council of Life Insurance
1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Military service papers
To obtain a copy of DD241 (a report of transfer or discharge), or to request other military records, call:
Army -- (314) 538-4261
Navy -- (314) 538-4141
Air Force -- (314) 538-4243
For other records, call the Office of Personnel, Civilian Records Center, (314) 538-5761
Contact the local post office.
Property deeds
Contact the local circuit clerk's office.
Social Security cards
Contact the local Social Security office, call (800) 772-1213.
Contact any brokerage firm (fees may be involved).
Federal income tax returns
For those filing in Mississippi:
IRS Service Center
Property and personal taxes
County tax collector's office
State income taxes
Mississippi State Tax Commission
U.S. savings bonds
Ask for form PDF-1048.
Vehicle titles
Ask for Form 78006 - Application for Replacement Certificate of Title.
Contact the attorney who prepared it.
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François- Xavier Gbré was born in 1978 in Lille, France. He lives and works in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
After graduating in photography from the École Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques, Montpellier in 2002, he trained with established photographers in the fields of fashion and design, especially during four years he spent in Italy. This led to a desire to explore African stories through portraiture, landscape, and urban design. He was awarded the jury prize at Les Nuits photographiques de Pierrevert in 2011, the second prize in the PhotoAfrica contest in Tarifa in 2010, and the Fondation Blachère prize in 2009. He was recently longlisted for the Prix Pictet Consumption in 2013.
In 2015, his work was shown in the exhibition The Lay of the Land at Walther Collection Project Space in New York and in a solo show The Past is Foreign Country at Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, USA. In 2014, the Galerie Cécile Fakhoury – Abidjan presented his solo show Fragments and Art Twenty One (Art 21) in Lagos, Nigeria presented Abroad. In 2014, his appearances also included Sphères #7 at Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France and New Africa at La Villa in Casablanca. In 2013, he was featured at Rencontres Picha, the Lubumbashi Biennale, RDC, and put on Surfaces at the Galerie Cécile Fakhoury in Abidjan. In 2012, his work appeared at Biennale Regard Bénin in Cotonou, Benin; We Face Forward at the Whitworth Art gallery in Manchester, UK; and Synchronicity II at the Tiwani Contemporary in London. His work was also shown at the 8th and 9th Bamako Encounters, African Biennial of Photography in Bamako, Mali in 2009 and 2011 and Synchronicity – Photoquai presented by the Baudoin Lebon gallery in Paris in 2011.


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The Holy Land by Robert Zubrin
Publisher: Polaris Books
Pub. date: Sept. 2003
$14.95, 298 pages,
Reviewed by Matthew Appleton
This review was originally published in the July, 2004 issue (#191) of The New York Review of Science Fiction.
Under normal circumstances, I am a huge fan of satire and of taking absurd situations to their logical extreme. In my opinion, one can find comedy in almost any situation. Almost any situation. Given the complexities of Middle East politics, the present American stance in confronting terrorism, and the tragedies that have taken place, I find very little potential for humor in the events that precipitated and followed the September 11 attacks. However, that doesn't preclude the possibility that someone else can find the humor and point it out to me. That's where Robert Zubrin steps in with his sophomore fictional effort (as founder of the Mars Society, he has published extensively on behalf of space exploration), The Holy Land, in which he attempts to satirically skewer the last 55 years of Middle East history rearranging the major players and events.
In The Holy Land, a group of aliens called the Minervans, with the aid of the Western Galactic Empire, return to their ancestral homeland in Kennewick, Washington. Having legally purchased nearly all the property in the area, the Minervans are trying to create a society of their own after the Central Galactic Empire nearly killed them all in an attempted genocide. However, their new neighbors, the United States of America, are controlled by a corrupt, fundamentalist Christian regime that doesn't want pagans setting up a society within its borders. Very quickly, the United States declares war on the Minervans but is completely repelled and ultimately loses territory thanks to the superior military of the Minervans.
When the American government opens diplomatic negotiations with the Western Galactic Empire (whom they derisively call the Weegees), it discovers that the United States is sitting on the largest untapped reserves of helicity, a primary energy source for most of the Weegee technology, in the galaxy. Quickly, the two governments enter into an agreement where the United States is paid handsomely for a resource it doesn't need. The American government then uses the proceeds to promote its Holy War against the Minervans. However, they prove impossible to forcibly remove, and public sentiment starts to turn against the Weegees, who are blamed for allowing the Minervans to immigrate to Kennewick in the first place. Eventually, the anger and frustration build to the point where a group of Americans, with the secret approval and assistance of the United States government, manage to hijack four spaceliners and cause them to explode, wiping out three star systems in the Western Empire.
Zubrin's extrapolation of our world into his fictional world during the first part of Holy Land is entertaining mostly because it so succinctly skewers fundamentalism in various forms. The Americans, with their profound belief that God will ultimately ensure victory regardless of their methods, misguidedly continue to attack the Minervans and make martyrs of children who partake in suicide attacks. The Minervans, who believe that Earthlings are not truly human or rational as they do not share the same belief system or methods of cleanliness, come across as condescending, unfeeling, and arrogant. Zubrin, proving he is an equal opportunist, even manages a slight jab at fervent atheists with a thinly veiled reference to the recent controversy over the "under God" phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance.
However, Zubrin's satirical take on the political situation falls a little flat. The most visible flaw in his presentation concerns the parallel between his United States and the actual Arab world. The problem is that the Arab world is not a homogeneous political or social mass, and despite the fact that most Arabs share a common belief system, any attempt to lump the Arab peoples together as a whole is sorely misguided. There are too many competing ideological and political strains in the various Arab states to even suggest that they are able to work together. In presenting the United States as the Minervans' only opposition, Zubrin is tacitly presenting the situation as such. Placing the Minervans on territory that straddled the U.S.-Canada border, say an area encompassing Detroit and Toronto, and having the United States and Canada share similar wacko, fundamentalist, corrupted theocracies might make a better satirical presentation of the scenario. This flawed template is a prime example of Zubrin oversimplifying or by taking a scenario too far.
Another of the many oversimplifications occurs when he tackles the issue of pre-boarding screening and racial profiling. After security is tightened at Western Empire space terminals, there's an incident where a bunch of badly disguised American "journalists" are waved through a security checkpoint while an elderly citizen of the Empire is subjected to a full body cavity search. I was sympathetic to the point Zubrin was trying to make; although I am a huge supporter of the ACLU and believe that racial profiling is generally uncalled for, clearly the current security procedures in United States airports border on the ridiculous. However, when one of the Americans predictably carries out a terrorist attack, none of his comrades are detained for questioning by the Western Empire, because there's supposedly no reason to believe they assisted him. While current pre-screening procedures deserve mockery, the real United States certainly wouldn't let the obvious friends of a confirmed terrorist leave without detaining and cross-examining them.
But Holy Land isn't just a satire. What starts off as a subplot in the first half of the novel becomes the focus of the second half: a love story between Aurora, a Minervan priestess, and Andrew Hamilton, an American soldier she takes as a POW in the opening stages of the American-Minervan conflict. At first neither is able to stand the other, but as they learn more about each other and by proxy their cultures, they first come to understand each other and eventually find themselves in situations whereby each saves the other's life. When they manage to survive their ordeals, they find that in addition to truly understanding each other without judgment, they have found a way to love one another. True, Zubrin makes it clear that Hamilton is unlike most Americans in that he is far more rational than his fellow citizens, but the fact that he thinks that the citizens of the opposing cultures are able to find a way to love each other shows a certain level of optimism in the belief that individuals are often far more humanist than their governments.
Unfortunately, Zubrin doesn't harbor that sort of optimism for the final fate of the conflict. The ending of Holy Land suggests it's impossible to find a solution that will allow the Jews and Palestinians to live together peacefully, that there's too much animosity to overcome now. (Again, given the parallels he has drawn, I have a problem with the insertion of a former Central Empire official as the arbiter for the agreement that splits Kennewick and the surrounding territory between the Minervans and the Kennewickians.) In fact, he suggests that any attempt to create a Palestinian state alongside Israel will only lead to the slaughter of the Jews and the annihilation of their country.
Yet, others may not share my criticisms of Holy Land. As you read the book, it's clear that our sympathies are supposed to lie with the Minervans. While condescending, they are certainly far more logical than their new American neighbors, and they always operate honestly and in a fashion that will cause as few casualties as possible. They are clearly the victims in the situation and the United States is to blame for the overwhelming majority of the strife and violence that occur as a result of the Minervan resettlement. Those who believe that the Arabs are by far mostly responsible for the current hostilities and rancorous relations in the Middle East will buy into Zubrin's presentation much more readily and will show greater empathy for the socio-political arguments presented in this novel.
Ironically, such a split reaction seems somehow appropriate to any novel taking a satirical look at the situation in the Middle East.
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As built: 8-cyl. 4 S.C.S.A. (260 x 280mm) Crepelle 8SN1 type engine by Crepelle et Cie., Lille, geared to a single forward mounted Voith-Schneider type multi-directional propulsion unit. 1,500bhp. 12½ kts. 18 tons bollard pull.
13.12.1969: Launched as SUBTIL by Ziegler Freres, Dunkirk (Yard No. 165), for Societe de Remorquage et de Sauvetage du Nord, France.
1.8.1970: Completed (error in yard number and dates in LR until corrected in 1995).
1991: Purchased by Alexandra Towing Company Ltd. and renamed EGERTON.
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Summer- October to March is when the area sees a significant amount of rainfall. Temperatures are expected to be between 26 °C and 30 °C.
Winter- This is known to be the best time to visit the park. During the period around July to October, animals in the park are easier to spot and spend longer feeding. It is also mating season which is definitely worth seeing. Days are generally warm and clear.
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Конте́кстная рекла́ма — тип интернет-рекламы, при котором рекламное объявление показывается в соответствии с содержанием, выбранной аудиторией, местом, временем или иным контекстом интернет-страниц ( — соединение, связь).

Контекстная реклама действует избирательно и отображается посетителям интернет-страницы, сфера интересов которых потенциально совпадает/пересекается с тематикой рекламируемого товара либо услуги, целевой аудитории, что повышает вероятность их отклика на рекламу.

Поисковые машины в сети Интернет широко используют системы контекстной рекламы, что является для них основным источником получения дохода (например, рекламные сети Яндекс.Директ и Google AdWords).

Чаще всего контекстную рекламу можно встретить
 на страницах с результатами поиска;
 на сайтах, установивших блоки контекстной рекламы на своих страницах;
 в мобильных приложениях.

Типы контекстной рекламы
По типу в контекстной рекламе выделяют поисковую и тематическую.

Поисковая реклама — демонстрируется среди результатов поиска (в том числе по отдельному сайту). Ориентация тематики происходит по характеру поискового запроса, заданного пользователем.

Тематическая реклама — демонстрируется на страницах сайтов и в мобильных приложениях, входящих в рекламную сеть. Рекламные блоки являются дополнением к содержанию страниц. Тематика зависит от тематики сайта или ориентируется на ранее проявленный пользователем интерес.

Тип контекстной рекламы определяет, где именно будет показываться реклама. С помощью настроек таргетинга (прицеливания) задается контекст показа рекламы.

Google Ads выделяет следующие варианты контекстной рекламы:
 В поисковой сети
 Баннерная
 Товарная
 Видео
 В мобильных приложениях

Поисковая
В качестве рекламного объявления используется обычное текстовое представление информации с гиперссылкой (открытой или оформленной в виде фрагмента текста). Поисковая реклама основывается на ключевых словах. Роботы поисковой системы анализируют поисковый запрос пользователя, сопоставляют с ключевыми словами из настройки рекламного кабинета рекламодателя и содержимым сайта. Результатом является показ релевантных (соответствующих) объявлений.

Модель расходов для рекламодателя рекламы в поисковой строке — оплата за клик (PPC).

Баннерная
Рекламное объявление, основанное на визуальном изображении (от англ. banner — флаг, транспарант, графическое изображение рекламного характера). Баннер может быть полностью в виде картинки, либо картинка с сопутствующим текстом и ссылкой.

Баннерная реклама транслируется в сети сайтов-партнеров поисковой системы.

При этом дополнительно выделяются следующие разновидности баннерной рекламы:

 Статичный баннер — простая, неподвижная картинка
 Динамичный баннер — как правило, анимированные изображения (в формате GIF или HTML5)
 Интерактивный баннер — где пользователю предлагается выполнить то или иное действие с картинкой. Например, кликнуть в определённом месте баннера, решить арифметический пример, ответить на вопрос и т. д. Поэтому контекстная реклама с большей вероятностью будет продемонстрирована потребителю, который использует сеть Интернет для поиска интересующей информации о товарах или услугах. Популярные модели расходов для баннерной рекламы — оплата за клик (PPC), оплата за тысячу показов (PCM).

Товарная
Динамические рекламные объявления, созданные с помощью вида товаров называются товарными. Такие объявления отображаются товарной галерее над результатами поисковой выдачи: карточки товаров, с фото, наименованием, ценой товара. Так пользователь, не переходя на сайт, видит содержимое магазина. В соответствии с его запросом.

Видеореклама
В качестве рекламного объявления используется специально подготовленный видеоролик, также содержащий, как правило, гиперссылку.

Кампании для мобильных приложений
Поисковые кампании отображаются в топе поиска Google Play и App Store. Баннерные — на сайтах-партнерах поставщика рекламы.

Отличие контекстной интернет-рекламы от рекламы в традиционных СМИ

С одной стороны, текстовая и баннерная реклама во многом аналогичны строчной и графической рекламе в бумажных газетах и журналах. В свою очередь видеореклама отсутствует в бумажных СМИ, но зато активно используется на телевидении.

Ключевая особенность контекстной рекламы — возможность трансляции рекламы на целевую аудиторию. В то время, как аудиторию для рекламы в традиционных СМИ невозможно сегментировать, контекстная реклама позволяет обращаться только к тем, кто соответствует выбранным критериям — например, пол, возраст, город или устройство — или ранее проявлял интерес к рекламируемой продукции или услугам.

У всех видов контекстной рекламы в интернете есть важная отличительная особенность, а именно — если посетитель нажимает (кликает) рекламное объявление (текст, баннер или видео), ему открывается страница с более развёрнутой информацией о рекламируемом товаре или услуге. То есть каждое из таких рекламных объявлений содержит в себе гиперссылку, ведущую на сайт рекламодателя.

Ещё одной характерной особенностью рекламы в интернете является её автоматизированность. То есть многие вопросы проведения рекламных кампаний выполняются специальными программами. Например, автоматически определяется порядок показа рекламных объявлений, рассчитывается средняя цена клика, величина расходуемого бюджета и многое другое.

Подобная автоматизация позволяет решать и более сложные задачи. Например, практически все сервисы по предоставлению рекламных услуг в интернете перешли на схему оплаты за клик (переход). Это означает, что если раньше рекламодатели платили за количество показов, то теперь оплата производится за количество нажатий на рекламные объявления (кликов), в результате которых осуществляется переход пользователя на сайт или страницу рекламодателя с более подробной информацией. При этом алгоритмы могут автоматически отсчитывать количество показов рекламного объявления, чтобы получить определённое количество переходов. Кроме того, программы определяют рекламные объявления с низкой кликабельностью и могут по этой причине заблокировать их для показа. И наоборот, объявления с высокой кликабельностью могут снижаться в цене, поскольку для получения требуемого количества переходов нужно меньше показов. Также, контекстная реклама удобна тем, что можно отследить аудиторию, кликающую на объявления рекламодателя и более точно задать таргетинг для наиболее выгодной конверсии.

Ремаркетинг
Отличительной особенностью контекстной рекламы является наличие функции ремаркетинга. Ремаркетинг — функция, позволяющая обращаться к пользователям, которые раньше уже заходили на ваш сайт. Ваши объявления могут показываться при посещении ими других веб-сайтов в контекстно-медийной сети (Google AdWords). Также функциональность, позволяющая обращаться к аудитории, посетившей ваш сайт, в Яндекс. Директ называется ретаргетинг. Настройка ремаркетинга осуществляется с помощью так называемых «списков ремаркетинга». Как в Google AdWords, так и в Яндекс. Директ, для настройки ремаркетинга/ретаргетинга нужно связать аккаунты рекламной системы с системой аналитики. Можно выделить несколько типов настройки ремаркетинга (на всех посетителей, на посетителей определённых разделов сайта, на уже достигших какой-либо цели и т. д.)

Динамический ремаркетинг делает такую рекламу ещё эффективнее, поскольку пользователь видит объявления именно тех товаров или услуг, которыми он интересовался на определённом сайте, что в большинстве случаев улучшает отклик на показываемые объявления.

Ремаркетинг для мобильных приложений позволяет показывать рекламные объявления пользователям, посетившим определённый мобильный сайт или запускавшим определённое мобильное приложение.

Ремаркетинг влияет на следующие ключевые показатели эффективности:
 ARPU
 LTV
 CPA
 CPL (cost per lead)
 CPO
 AOV (average order value)
 ROI(ROMI)

Примечания

Литература
 Contextual Advertising, Kaifu Zhang and Zsolt Katona, UC Berkeley, 2011 (Marketing Science, Volume 31 Issue 6, 11-12 2012, Pages 980—994, ISSN:1526-548X, DOI:10.1287/mksc.1120.0740)

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King David Sykes and his Turkish Baths
"Looking south along Queen Street from the Wellesley St intersection, showing the premises of R H Bartlett, R Hobbs, F Hewin and Brother, the Army and Navy Hotel and the firebell tower on the corner of Greys Ave (centre)." [Detail, c.1875] Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 4-67
Somewhere on the left side of this image, a man named King David Sykes started Auckland's first Turkish Baths business.
He might not have been the first at all. An earlier planned Onehunga Turkish Baths company announced intentions with a hiss and a roar in the newspapers, with prospective directors shoulder-tapping prospective shareholders in the street.
"Several times I have been importuned by a very highly respectable timber agent in Auckland, to take a quantity of shares in the Great Onehunga Turkish Bath Dictating Company. The same gentleman tells me that the shares are in great demand, and will all very speedily be taken up, (£5 shares) as no doubt the Company will be one of the most successful ever started in the southern hemisphere. He knows the public will flock from Melbourne, Sydney, Dunedin, &c, to receive the benefits arising from the above establishment. Thus, sir, may be all very true; the antecedents of the gentleman would prevent me doubting his word, but I have not heard one single word of it through the papers - not one advertisement, and I have not even found it a subject of serious conversation in Onehunga."
(Southern Cross, 8 January 1874)
The ads did appear, shareholders meetings were announced, but … it was all over a year later.
"The Turkish bath scheme at Onehunga has fallen through, owing in a very large measure to the unwillingness of Auckland people to cater heartily into a scheme for erecting baths on a site so far removed from the city, on which it would have to rely for support. Can nothing be done to revive such an admirable project?"
(Auckland Star, 7 January 1875)
Well, yes. Enter our man KD Sykes, a watchmaker by trade, originally from Manchester. By the beginning of September, Sykes had set up his own Turkish baths establishment, a few doors south of present day Airedale Street junction with Queen Street. In it he installed two "sudatoria" or sweating rooms, a tepid bath massage room, and cold water shower-bath. After that, the customer stretched out on a couch wrapped in towels until dry. It started out as a men-only thing, but later on women were allowed to partake of the benefits on select "women only" days.
Sykes had an uphill battle. This was, of course, the height of the Victorian British Empire, with all the attitudes toward anything that involved naked adults in a public building.
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Sykes even renamed his business slightly and grandly, to the Auckland Turkish Bath and Hydropathy Institute. He had endorsements put into the newspapers from satisfied customers.
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Brooke Margolin is a senior in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences' Honors Program and the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy majoring in Public Health, minoring in Political Science and Women's & Gender Studies, and pursuing a certificate in Health Disparities. She is simultaneously working towards her MPH in Epidemiology at the Rutgers School of Public Health. Brooke is an Undergraduate Associate at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, a Rutgers Scholar at the Intelligence Community – Center for Academic Excellence, and a G.H. Cook Scholar. She is currently a Programming and Development Intern at the New Brunswick Development Corporation and a HealthMap Intern at Boston Children's Hospital's Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator. She previously interned at GlobeMed Headquarters, Rutgers Global Health Institute, and Rutgers University's Center for Women's Global Leadership. Brooke serves as President of the Rutgers Global Health Institute's Student Council, Student Advisory Panel Member of the Rutgers University Climate Task Force, Vice President of Triota – Women's & Gender Studies National Honor Society, Director of Community Outreach of GlobeMed at Rutgers, and Global Awareness Representative of She's the First – Rutgers. Currently, Brooke is completing research as a Senior Fellow for the Pandemic Task Force at Eagleton's Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience and is a Research Assistant for Dr. Johanna Schoen's NIH-funded, multi-institutional research on the eugenic sterilization of women in North Carolina. Brooke has also served as a Teaching Assistant and Alternative Break Site Leader for the pilot Honors College First-Year Byrne Seminar, "Hunger and Food Insecurity in New Brunswick: A Service Learning Perspective." She looks forward to being a member of this year's cohort of Voorhees Public Service Fellows.
Neha Saju is pursuing a dual major in History and Political Science with minors in French and Women's and Gender Studies. Neha is a Leadership Scholar with the Institute of Women's Leadership, a Lloyd C. Gardner Fellow, and an Eagleton Undergraduate Associate. As an intern with the Center for American Women and Politics and the Center for Youth Political Participation, she helped design the RU Voting National Microsite (a national initiative to disseminate accurate election information). As an Aresty Research Assistant with Dr. Beth C. Rubin, she worked on The Civically Engaged Districts Project. She is the Chief Copy Editor of the Aresty Undergraduate Research Journal, Secretary of Pi Sigma Alpha (the political science honors society), and a correspondent for the Inside Beat section of The Daily Targum. She also led a first-year seminar on Law and Leadership in the Political Science Department. Neha is dedicated to service work. She has been a participant, site leader, and executive board member with the Rutgers University Alternative Breaks program and she has worked with the Rutgers Collaborative Center for Community Based Research and Service and Youth Empowerment Services, a community organization in New Brunswick. A lover of fantasy novels and language learning, Neha hopes to study law after graduating from the School of Arts & Sciences in 2022.
Isaac Alejandro Velez is a student in the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University, studying Public Policy and Political Science. Velez is interested in the intersection of politics, policy, and economics and their effects on working families and underserved communities. As an Undergraduate Associate at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Velez studies the application of politics in government and community engagement. As a former member of the Rutgers University Student Assembly, he instituted and formalized a process for minority communities that have a disproportionate amount of police contact to hold voting positions on the Rutgers University Police Department Hiring Board. In 2018, he interned for the Fairfax County, VA Board of Supervisors, and, in 2019, he interned for Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (VA-10), where he supported constituent service programs and outreach. Velez currently serves as the State and Federal Policy intern at Results for America, where he advocates for data-driven and evidence-based policies, practices, and budgets. He was the Political Director of a Congressional campaign for NJ-10, and a volunteer for Virginia Governor Ralph Northam. Passionate about promoting policies that stimulate upwards economic mobility, Velez is pursuing a Master's degree in Public Policy at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. In the future, he hopes to attain a JD to protect vulnerable communities.
Jonathan Francisco Bonilla is a graduate student in the Master of City and Regional Planning program at the Bloustein School where he is pursuing a concentration in Community Development, Housing and Redevelopment. He is interested in sustainable socio-economic development, equitable planning practices and policies addressing racial justice, urban governance, community engagement, and alternative forms of development. Prior to joining the Bloustein School at Rutgers, he completed an internship at the Metropolitan Council as a Local Planning Assistant working on projects related to climate change, affordable housing, and environmental justice for the twin cities region in Minnesota. He has also completed research and related work on urban issues in Guatemala, South Africa, and Denmark. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from DePauw University.
Lily Chang is a senior studying Public Health and Urban Planning & Design. She is passionate about solving issues related to policy, public health, and human behavior. A New Jersey native, she loves her home state and spent her junior year as a Ralph W. Voorhees Public Service Fellow researching the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the emergency food system in Edison and Metuchen. In the spring of 2021, she worked as a higher education policy advocate with the Rutgers Office of Federal Relations urging policymakers to support doubling the Pell Grant which would help students facing financial hardship attend and afford college, and met with leading policymakers like Congressman Tom Malinowski. Currently, Lily is a Researcher for Mother's Touch, an app for expecting mothers, where she writes on a variety of maternal and child health topics aimed at reducing NJ's maternal mortality rate. She is also pursuing her interest in policy work through a summer internship at Lake Research Partners, a national public opinion and political strategy research firm. In the fall of 2021, she will be working with Dr. Kathe Newman through the Bloustein Honors Research Program on affordable rental housing in New Jersey. After graduation, Lily hopes to obtain her Master's degree and work in the field of public policy.
William Downie is a graduate student in the Master of City of Regional Planning program at the Bloustein School. He is interested in affordable housing development, equitable economic development, neighborhood revitalization, and brownfield redevelopment in post-industrial communities, and ultimately hopes to help stressed and disadvantaged communities develop in an equitable and sustainable way. Prior to joining the Bloustein School, Will worked in city planning in Rhode Island, before moving first to the National League of Cities to advance municipal issues at the national level, and then into the legal realm, where we worked on a number of issues related to international trade and industrial policy. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs and Political Science from The George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Andrea (Zixuan) He is a graduate student in the Master of City and Regional Planning program at the Bloustein School. Before joining the Bloustein school, she studied Architectural Design and Art History at MassArt in Boston. Exploring art and architecture in different cities led her to pursue urban planning. She is interested in urban informatics, international development, and spatial design. During her free time, she likes to illustrate what she sees in cities and bridge the urban environment with her artistic mind.
Lauren Nolan is a first year Ph.D. student at the Rutgers Bloustein School. Prior to coming to Rutgers, Lauren served as the Director of Research for the Woodstock Institute, a nonprofit research and policy organization working in the areas of fair lending, wealth creation, and financial systems reform. She also worked as a researcher and economic development planner at the Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she also taught a course in Policy Analysis Methods. Lauren is a certified planner and member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Elana Simon is a graduate student in the Master of City and Regional Planning program at the Bloustein School where she is pursuing a concentration in community development. She is interested in equitable economic development frameworks, community development finance, and housing development. Prior to joining the Bloustein School, she lived in Kaohsiung, Taiwan for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and later worked for nonprofit organizations in Washington, DC while finding her way to urban planning through volunteer community organizing. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Whitman College in Washington State.
Smriti Singh is a graduate student in the Master of City and Regional Planning program at the Bloustein School where she is pursuing a concentration in community development and housing. Her research interests are focused on urban governance, land and housing rights, informality, feminist political economy and social justice. Prior to joining Bloustein she worked with a non profit in Delhi, India, where she led pilot projects aimed to improve informal women worker's land tenure security, access to basic infrastructure services and housing finance in order to improve their economic empowerment. She is also part of two city-wide campaigns in Delhi aiming to make city planning processes more representative and inclusive by engaging citizens in the 2041 Master Plan process.
John Fidel Klarke Smith is a graduate student of the Master of City and Regional Planning program at the Bloustein School where he is pursuing a concentration in Community Development, Housing and Finance. He is interested in development interventions that promote collective ownership, community control, affordable housing, sustainable infrastructure, green builds, retrofits, and increases in union density. Prior to joining the Bloustein School at Rutgers, these interests were formed during 4 years working in construction as a carpenter apprentice with Union Local 27 & 183, as well as in arts and culture as a community organizer. He is co-founder of two community arts and activist spaces in Toronto, 187 Augusta and Tea Base Co-op. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Equity Studies and Psychology from University of Toronto.
Ooha Uppalapati is a Master of City and Regional Planning student at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, working towards completing the Community Development and Housing concentration. Before attending Rutgers, Ooha worked with a non-profit in Mumbai, where she was part of research focusing on self-built neighborhoods and their relationship with the urban planning processes in Indian cities. She organised workshops to facilitate exchange of vocabulary of planning practice between the residents and planning documents. Previously, she was an Urban Fellow at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements where her learning focused on the different socio-spatial practices that constitute Indian cities. She pursued architecture during her undergraduate studies and worked with an architectural studio on public infrastructure projects including the Bus Rapid Transit System in Ahmedabad and Amritsar.
Cara Cuite is an Assistant Extension Specialist in the Department of Human Ecology at Rutgers University. She is a health psychologist who studies community food security, risk communication and public perceptions of food-related issues, including food safety and genetically engineered foods. Her current research is focused on food insecurity among Rutgers students, including collaborations to implement a "screen and intervene" program in Student Health Services and to create a student community café for food insecure students. She works with the New Brunswick Community Food Alliance, the Feeding New Brunswick Network, and Meals on Wheels in Greater New Brunswick. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Agriculture, the National Center for Food Protection and Defense, New Jersey Sea Grant, and Johnson & Johnson. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Rutgers University and a B.S. in Psychology and Modern Languages from Union College.
James DeFilippis' research focuses on the political economy of cities and communities. He is particularly interested in the processes of social change, and questions of power and justice in cities. While his interests are broad, it is questions of community control and building forms of power in poor neighborhoods that have been at the center of his work. He began working on and with efforts for community control over economic development more than 20 years ago and continues to work with and in support of community land trusts, community development credit unions, worker co-ops and other forms of community control. He is a founding member of the New York City Community Land Initiative (NYCCLI) and the Western Queens Community Land Trust (WQCLT). He is the author or editor of six books, around 50 articles and book chapters, and many applied monographs and reports for practitioners and advocates.
Will Payne joined the Bloustein School in September 2020. He received his PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also was affiliated with the Berkeley Center for New Media, the Berkeley Food Institute, and the UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative. Will uses quantitative and qualitative methods to study the relationship between geospatial technologies and urban inequality, examining how changing technical capabilities, labor relations, and competitive pressures in the location-based services (LBS) industry interact with processes of racialized and class-based segregation in American cities. He has published articles in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Urban Geography, Computational Culture, and Environment and Planning A, among other publications. Will's current book project examines how different groups of urban residents use "urban information systems" like the Zagat Survey, Yelp, Foursquare, and Google Local to organize and understand their consumption experiences in cities, while technologists and real estate developers employ the resulting data to help transform marginal neighborhoods into upscale consumption spaces. Will also develops open-source tools for spatial data visualization and computational research.
Ronald Quincy is a Professor of Professional Practice, a Visiting Senior Fellow for Diversity Studies at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Co-Academic Director of the Collaborative Center for Community-Based Research and Service, Academic Director of the Rutgers Civic Leadership Institute, and the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, as well as Faculty Director of the South Africa Study Abroad, Honors College & School of Arts & Sciences Honors Program. Dr. Quincy earned his Ph.D. from the College of Social Sciences at Michigan State University. He served as a member of the Governor of Michigan's Cabinet, Director of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, and Director of the Michigan State Office of Human Resources Policy and Special Projects. His other previous positions include the following: Associate Vice President, Assistant to the President, of Harvard University; Executive Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change; Executive Director/President of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.; President of the White House Fellows Association and Chairman, White House Fellows Foundation; Senior Management Consultant, Towers Perrin (the world's 11th largest management consulting firm); and Foreign Policy Advisor, U.S. State Department, Africa Bureau. His research interests include: nonprofit sector leadership and governance, fundraising, institutional branding and grantsmanship, organizational strategy, human capital, performance and executive coaching, international civil society organizations and international affairs.
Eric Seymour is an Assistant Professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. He holds a PhD in urban and regional planning from the University of Michigan and was most recently a postdoctoral research associate at the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University. Eric's research is broadly concerned with neighborhood dynamics in the aftermath of the financial crisis and their implications for the health and housing insecurity of disadvantaged populations. He continues to be engaged in research on transformations in urban housing markets in places hit hard by the foreclosure crisis, where investors purchased large numbers of repossessed properties and sold them on insecure terms or rented them in uninhabitable condition to low-income and credit-constrained households. Eric's prior work has specifically examined the reemergence of exploitative contract-for-deed transactions in majority-Black cities and neighborhoods. He is currently engaged in research on evictions in Detroit and Las Vegas, focusing on the intersection of opportunistic property investment and the constrained housing options of low-income renters. His methodological expertise lies in spatial analysis and statistical methods. He draws on large administrative datasets, particularly real estate transaction records, to study urban dynamics.
Mi Shih is an associate professor in the Urban Planning and Policy Development Program at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University. Her research includes two major areas. Using mixed methods, the first area explores informal housing, the politics of land value creation and capture, and the relationship between the role of the developmental state and democratic planning in Taiwan. The second area uses ethnographic methods to understand displacement, peri-urban transformation, social and political governance of land conflicts in Shanghai and Guangzhou, China. Mi has published articles in Urban Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Planning Theory & Practice, Urban Geography, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Planning Practice & Research, Environment and Planning A. She is currently working on several case studies that explore the intersection between technocratic planning, land politics, and democratic participation in state-led urban development.
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Nadia A. Mian is Senior Program Director of the Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement and a Lecturer at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. She holds a PhD from The New School, and Masters in Environmental Studies, where she specialized in urban planning from York University in Toronto, Canada. She previously taught at New York University, The New School, and Columbia University, where she was Managing Editor of the journal, City & Community. Her research focuses on urban policy, redevelopment, housing, sustainability, and neighborhood change. Her latest research examines how faith-based institutions are using their property to build affordable housing, and at the same time advocate for and change land use, zoning and housing policy. Passionate about urban planning and community development, Nadia is a member of the Planning Board and Environmental Commission in Hanover Township, New Jersey.
Kathe Newman is a Professor in the Urban Planning and Policy Development Program at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and Director of the Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Graduate School and University Center at the City University of New York. Her research explores urban change, what it is, why it happens, and what it means. Her work has explored gentrification, foreclosure, urban redevelopment, food security, community economic development and community participation. Kathe has published articles in Urban Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Affairs Review, Shelterforce, Progress in Human Geography, Housing Studies, GeoJournal, and Environment and Planning A. She is currently an editor of Environment and Planning A.


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INSIGHTS: Is Big Brother watching?
Sharlene Wellard
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A common concern for many employers is the extent to which they can monitor employees in the workplace. Specific legislation regulating workplace surveillance exists in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory and in other states workplace surveillance is regulated by legislation dealing with specific electronic surveillance devices or methods. The overall implication for employers however, is that the legality of and requirements for an employer undertaking employee workplace surveillance depends on the state where the business is located.
Differences in state-based workplace surveillance regulation
The Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 (NSW) regulates the employer's use of electronic devices such as video cameras, computers and tracking devices to monitor employees. This legislation contains a general prohibition on employee surveillance, by the employer, except where employees have been given prior written notice not less than 14 days before the surveillance commences, or in the case of new employees, before the employee commences work. This notice must specify the type of surveillance being undertaken, how it will be carried out, when the surveillance will occur and whether it is ongoing or for a limited period. An employer may also undertake surveillance if they have obtained a covert surveillance authority.
Depending on the type of workplace surveillance, there may be additional obligations on the employer to put up notices or have a policy in place concerning the manner in which surveillance is undertaken.
In the ACT, the Workplace Privacy Act 2011 (ACT) regulates workplace surveillance by use of optical devices, tracking devices and data surveillance devices; however there are no provisions in this legislation relating to the use of listening devices. An employer in the ACT will be required to give notice to employees if these devices are in use in the workplace and to consult with employees before the introduction of surveillance. There is a prohibition in the ACT on the surveillance of employees in some areas in the workplace including toilets, change rooms, nursing rooms, first-aid rooms and prayer rooms.
Similar to New South Wales, an employer may apply to obtain a covert surveillance authority to conduct surveillance without providing notice to employees. The Courts will only grant such an authority for the purpose of determining whether an employee is carrying out an unlawful activity.
Surveillance in Victoria is regulated by the Surveillance Devices (Workplace Privacy) Act 2006 (Vic). In accordance with this legislation an employer is restricted from the use of listening devices, optical surveillance devices and tracking devices for the surveillance of workers in particular areas in the workplace such as toilets, washrooms, change rooms, or lactation rooms. There are however exceptions to these restrictions, such as where a warrant or other authorisation has been granted to allow surveillance. In Victoria, an employer may not publish or disseminate material obtained through surveillance.
QLD, SA, WA, Tasmania & NT
In Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory, there is no legislation dealing exclusively with surveillance in the workplace. In each state and territory however, there is likely to be surveillance legislation that can apply more broadly than the workplace and may regulate the usage of specific surveillance devices or forms of surveillance. For example, surveillance in these states may be regulated by the following:
Invasion of Privacy Act 1971 (Qld)
Listening Devices Act 1972 (SA)
Surveillance Devices Act 1998 (WA)
Listening Devices Act 1991 (Tas)
Surveillance Devices Act 2007 (NT)
In each instance it is likely that regulations on specific forms of surveillance extend to the workplace.
If your workplace wishes to undertake surveillance, it is important that this is done in accordance with the relevant legislation in your state. You may also wish to have a workplace surveillance policy available to your employees, setting out the types of surveillance undertaken and the rights and obligations of both the employer and employee when it comes to surveillance.
For more information, please contact Sharlene Wellard. This article was published in Commercial insights, February 2017.


Inspired by Derek Sivers I'm opening up my secret project folder. Below you will find all of my existing as well as imaginary projects and ideas for how the world can become a better place.
If you want to work with me to make one of these projects a reality please do get in touch with me, or just get inspired and do it on your own.
I haven't yet clarified in what form this knowledge repository will be, but the value to humanity and above all future generations will be massive.
Wikipedia is worthless to humanity. Why? Because it is largely made up of irrelevant dates, names, and superficial knowledge. And the history you'll find there is largely a history of war and state oppression, and it's largely the story of the winners that is being told.
What would be really useful and really worthy of being recorded is practical knowledge, a manual for civilization if you will. This will be the manual for Spaceship Earth that Buckminster Fuller famously said is missing.
What kind of knowledge should be added to this repository?
All knowledge required to live free, independent, and happy lives. Knowledge for a global, decentralized civilization.
This is a massive undertaking and not something I can pull off alone, because I want this to happen within my lifetime.
I'm more thinking about how such a knowledge repository can be organised and practically developed.
Just as you can share code on Github and get input and improvements from thousands of other people, this "Thinghub" would be used to share plans and instructions for building physical things.
You'll find building plans for a chair or a house, patterns for sewing the ultimate t-shirt or jeans, etc., and anyone can "fork" the building plans and improve it.
Reading books is still the #1 way of learning new knowledge, and it's been this way for many hundred of years (although for a long time only for the privileged group of society who could read). Before that knowledge was passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth and practical hands-on demonstrations.
Now, we might not be able to download information straight to our brains yet as in the Matrix movies, but there has to be a better, faster, and more effective way of learning, right?
That's what I'm looking into.
A publishing platform such as WordPress but totally peer-to-peer and uncensorable. Prototypes similar to my thoughts are starting to spring up here and there, for example Bitmessage (send encrypted messages to one or many people) and twister (peer-to-peer twitter clone), both based on the Bitcoin protocol.
A map-based app that makes it easy to plan, coordinate and maintain a neighbourhood security watch.
Upload/download files or communicate with people based on your physical location.
E.g. files/messages can only be seen and accessed in a certain radius, based on your GPS coordinates or Long/Lat. Depending on the share permission of the data you will see a list of files or message threads.
It would add an interesting layer to digital privacy and security. If you can only access files in the cloud while being in a certain physical location it will add another layer of security compared to just using a password. The GPS coordinates could be used somehow along with the password to decrypt the data, but that goes far beyond my knowledge about encryption.
In such a globalized world it could make local communication more visible and lead to a tighter community.


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Paying too much for health insurance? New subsidies announced
by Ana B. Ibarra April 12, 2021 Updated September 28, 2021
Covered California, the state's insurance marketplace, today opened a special enrollment period that allows people to sign up and make use of federal COVID-19 relief dollars designated for health coverage aid. Image via iStock
Covered California has $3 billion in federal aid for people who enroll this year or already are signed up. The savings could be hundreds of dollars per month.
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Californians enrolled in health coverage this year will qualify for substantial savings as $3 billion in federal aid kicks in, including for people who are currently getting no subsidies.
Covered California, the state's insurance marketplace, today opened a special enrollment period that allows people to sign up and make use of federal COVID-19 relief dollars designated for health coverage aid. This money is on top of subsidies already provided to some low-income and middle-income Californians through the Affordable Care Act.
Households that already receive some aid could get a couple hundred dollars more in savings in their monthly premiums. Also, people who are currently paying full price for insurance could get about $700 in savings a month, said Covered California Executive Director Peter V. Lee.
Experts expect this boost in aid to translate into a significant drop in the number of Californians living without health insurance, especially once the word spreads.
"This is a huge deal for middle class Californians paying mammoth checks to insurance companies," Lee told CalMatters. Affordability, he said, is the number one reason people go without health coverage.
The new aid, part of the American Rescue Plan, makes subsidies available to many more Californians. Covered California estimates about 2.5 million people will benefit from new and expanded help. That includes about 810,000 currently uninsured people.
"This is a huge deal for middle class Californians paying mammoth checks to insurance companies."
peter v. lee, Covered California Executive Director
For people looking to sign up, their coverage can go into effect as soon as May 1 if they enroll before the end of April. People will be able to sign up for the remainder of the year. This enhanced federal aid, however, does have an expiration date: It will run through the end of 2022.
For people already enrolled in a health plan through Covered California, their out-of-pocket share will be automatically adjusted; they should see savings as early as next month.
The federal law expands eligibility for federal assistance and sets a maximum for how much of their own money families and individuals can spend on health coverage — 8.5% of their income.
For instance, for a household with $70,000 of annual income, the cost of its health insurance would be capped at $5,950 per year. A household earning $200,000 per year wouldn't have to pay more than $17,000 per year for health insurance.
"The American Rescue Plan does limit the subsidy to amounts in excess of 8.5% of household income, so for a millionaire that would be premiums in excess of $85,000 (a year) and American health care is expensive but it's not that expensive," Joseph Newhouse, a professor of health policy and management at Harvard University, said during a press call with Covered California.
Previously, households with incomes above 400% federal poverty level — about $51,040 for an individual or $104,800 for a family of four — were not eligible for federal assistance. Those families and individuals often buy their health coverage directly from insurers, but now those same people may be able to pocket some of their premium cost if they go through the state exchange.
Last year, California became the first state in the nation to offer aid to middle-income residents who made too much to benefit from federal subsidies. The state raised the threshold for aid to incomes at 600% of the poverty level. Lee said about 50,000 more Californians signed up for coverage through the state marketplace when that assistance came online.
The new federal subsidies will be bigger than what the state provides and will replace state help. Now "California doesn't have to write the check," Lee said.
The new federal subsidies will be bigger than what the state provides and will replace state help.
According to the state Department of Finance, it may be another month or so before the state knows exactly how this will be reflected in the state's budget.
California has embraced the ACA wholeheartedly and has passed several pieces of legislation to enhance the health law. Besides creating its own bucket of subsidies, it also created its own tax penalty when the previous administration eliminated the federal one. Surveys and polls have shown that mandating people to have health insurance through a penalty is unpopular, but Lee and other insurance market experts say it does nudge people to sign up.
L.A. Care Health Plan, which serves Los Angeles County, has about 100,000 people enrolled through Covered California. Lower income individuals who are just above the threshold to qualify for Medi-Cal could see their portion of the premium reduced to almost zero, said John Baackes, the CEO of L.A. Care Health Plan.
The vast majority of L.A. Care enrollees "were getting a subsidy of some sort, but none had a $0 payment," Baackes said.
During 2020, as many people lost their jobs during the pandemic and with it their employer-sponsored health insurance, more people fled to Covered California and Medi-Cal, the state health insurance program for low-income people.
Historically, people drop off Covered California because they gain coverage through a job or become newly eligible for Medi-Cal. Usually, about 10% of those who drop off become uninsured, Lee said. Last year, that number grew — about 25% of those who left Covered California lost coverage completely.
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Ana B. Ibarra
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Ana is a Sacramento-based health reporter. She joined CalMatters in 2020 after four years at Kaiser Health News, where she covered California health care and policy. She started her reporting career at...	More by Ana B. Ibarra