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In this month's articles on the next generation of online storytelling, we explore a number of new effects that the websites of The New York Times, Seattle Times, Pitchfork and others have used to engage readers in graphics-rich, long-form articles. Here, Jeremy Rue, co-founder of the site multimediashooter.com, breaks down how these effects were used in The New York Times' award-winning feature "Snow Fall" and other online presentations.
This article first appeared on multimediashooter.com as "The 'Snow Fall' Effect and Dissecting The Multimedia Longform Narrative."
"It's become a verb in our newsroom," a New York Times graphics producer tells me. "People are now saying, 'can we snowfall this story?'"
Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek has become a watershed in multimedia journalism. The story by John Branch recently won a Pulitzer prize in feature writing, and as noted by the Pulitzer website it was "a project enhanced by its deft integration of multimedia elements."
As a journalism educator, I'm constantly collecting links to examples of stories that attempt innovate and redefine the narrative form online. For years, story structures online have mostly been a repurposing of legacy formats — TV, radio and print. While we are starting to see the journalism industry leverage digital media in very powerful ways, more often it's a complementary component to a more traditional story structure. For example, you might see an interactive graphic or map or audio slideshow off to the side of a text story.
Then came Snow Fall.
It was posted on the front page of the NYTimes.com website in late 2012. The day it published, I received a dozen e-mails from faculty members, students and non-journalism colleagues with messages akin to 'Hey, did you see this?'
A few of us at the Berkeley j-school who specialize in multimedia journalism — Richard Koci Hernandez, Paul Grabowicz and myself — have been poring over the project, trying to decipher what it brings to the table and how it might exemplify future story structures.
The integration of multimedia in Snow Fall was purposeful. As New York Times Graphics Director Steve Duenes explained in an interview with Poynter Online, they were looking to find ways to create a seamless experience, "…So it didn't feel like you were taking a detour, but the multimedia was part of the one narrative flow."
Beyond the multimedia integration, there were various technical and design components brought into play:
• There are silent videos that automatically play; some of them providing a graphical backdrop, others as informative graphics.
• There is a scrolling mechanism (called jquery.inview) which will trigger actions as the user scrolls. For example, it will play a video, graphic animation or change some CSS properties like fading the background.
• A "curtain" effect that reveals or covers images and videos as the user scrolls.
While some of these are simple design embellishments, their power lies in the emotional response they trigger as you venture through the story — and I use "venture" intentionally, because this is the feeling that it evokes. Effective design triggers an emotional response which can enhance the story structure.
Video Animations
From the opening video animation — which could have just been a static image — the viewer is taken to a barren and ominous place. Using silent videos instead of still images is a much more effective way of conveying this sense of place.
I am seeing more of this use of video animation in place of static images in projects done by our grad students. It's a way of making static design come alive, similar to the way portraits stare at their gazers in the Harry Potter world, or how Cinemagraphs can elicit a captivating — albiet sometimes creepy — viewer response.
In Snow Fall, the opening animated images set the mood of the project in a similar fashion to background music setting the mood of a movie. It creates an atmosphere from the very moment the project opens. It's important that these videos are silent and repetitive. They aren't narratives — they aren't meant to be watched or played in the same fashion as a stand-alone video. Also, auto-playing audio on websites is considered poor design practice and annoying to users.
I expect we will be seeing many more video animations as a design element in future online journalism packages.
Next, let's look at the various scrolling mechanisms in play. I am a proponent of using scrolling as a narrative device, even when the primary medium is not text. It is a new trend I've noticed and very different from the traditional non-scrolling routes such as clicking on arrows or tabs.
One example of a scrollable narrative is a blog post by Cabel Sasser, co-founder of Panic software company (and not a professional journalist). He wrote a fascinating and suspenseful account of exploring the basement of the old Oregonian building. In this piece, which is simply a collection of photos and some small snippets of text, scrolling is the method used to advance the narrative. This creates suspense going from photo to photo, unveiling more and more of the narrative as the reader scrolls to explore this world.
In more traditional journalism environments, this might have been a slideshow, which I think would have completely ruined the experience.
Global Post's America The Gutted project is all on one long web page in which the users scrolls down to see the different sections.
We also see the trend toward scrolling in big online news packages. Global Post's America The Gutted piece
piece was built as a single long webpage rather than paginated into separate pages. In the past, this type of single-page design convention was discouraged because it added to the load-time of the page, and bandwidth was at a premium. But with the proliferation of broadband, some web producers are opting for fewer separate pages within a single story and more content on a single page.
Scrolling also allows people to get a glimpse of what to expect from the package by quickly going down the page and scanning the content. Web usability studies show that users like to skim content, especially when presented with a large quantity of it. We've noticed that our journalism students similarly tend to scan through a piece before pausing to read or watch it.
ESPN's project on Doc Ellis uses a curtain effect to reveal each section of the project.
Another mechanism used in the Snow Fall piece was the curtain effect, which creates the sense of revealing or concealing panels of content as the user scrolls. This was most notably used in a ESPN piece on Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Doc Ellis.
The curtain effect serves a few different purposes. Initially, it's what my colleague Richard Koci Hernandez refers to as "eye candy," a design embellishment that wows the user, and draws them into the story. but this effect is ephemeral and will lose its impact as more and more people use it and it becomes more commonplace.
The curtain effect also makes the process of scrolling more playful and adds a sense of mystery as the story unfolds as the curtain rises. One of our graduate students, Erik Reyna, used this technology, called Curtain.js, in a story about homelessness. The curtain effect revealed different graphics and photos from the project, and encouraged readers to scroll through the piece.
Summing up
All of these components together create a more immersive experience for the viewer, like that found in traditional media like documentaries or long-form narratives. In a digital world, creating this experience needs to include design conventions and leveraging new technological innovations to engage readers. All of this is experimental, but my hope is journalists will analyze and build on projects like Snow Fall so we can more effectively deliver news and other content to the public.
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Graduate School of Education Assoc. Prof. David Lustick is leading a research team that won a $2.2 million federal grant to study how ad space on subway trains and platforms can be used to educate the public on climate change.
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a $2.2 million grant to a team of researchers including two Graduate School of Education (GSE) professors to study how informal learning impacts the public's understanding of climate change science. The three-year grant is the largest ever awarded to GSE faculty.
Dubbed the Science Express, the project aims to assess whether advertising space on subway platforms and trains is an effective means to engage commuters in learning about climate science. Principal investigators include GSE Assoc. Prof. David Lustick and Asst. Prof. Jill Lohmeier along with Prof. Robert Chen of UMass Boston, David Rabkin, director of current science and technology at the Museum of Science, Boston and Hofstra University Asst. Prof. Rick Wilson.
Two advertising agencies, Brodeur Partners and Bowman Global Change, will develop the media and an advisory board with about two dozen members from the MBTA, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Washington, WGBH and other organizations will provide input.
"We have a powerful interdisciplinary team working together," Lustick says. "We think it will be an outstanding opportunity for informal science learning and climate education."
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Lustick hopes the project will open up new ways of communicating and educating the public about science. Science education could take place wherever people are, instead of solely inside a science center, museum or school. "If this is effective we could use this model to improve the public's understanding about other issues," he says. "If we can engage people while they are commuting, we can change the way we think about informal science learning."


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Charles H. Holbrow Named as 2012 Oersted Medal Recipient
College Park, MD, October 5, 2011—For more than forty years Charles H. Holbrow has made significant and innovative contributions to physics education and physics research. The Oersted Medal, presented by the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), recognizes these contributions by naming him as the 2012 recipient of this prestigious Medal.
The Oersted Medal will be presented to Dr. Holbrow at a Ceremonial Session of the AAPT Winter Meeting at the Ontario Convention Center in Ontario, California, on Monday, February 6, 2012. Following the presentation, Dr. Holbrow will deliver an address titled, "Making Physics Make Sense – Narratives, Content, Witz."
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Holbrow earned his B.A. in History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1955. Following the addition of an A.M. in History and a Certificate of the Russian Institute from Columbia University he returned to the University of Wisconsin where he earned his M.S. (1960) and Ph.D. (1963) in Physics.
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Release Date: June 28, 2012
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The long-awaited Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's signature health care law upholds much of the act's intentions to expand coverage, with one major exception, says a University at Buffalo Law School professor who is an expert on health care.
"That exception has to do with the expansion of the Medicaid program," says Anthony H. Szczygiel, founder and director of the William and Mary Foster Elder Law Clinic at UB's Law School. "The president's health care act encouraged states to expand Medicaid, but the president's plan also went further and gave the secretary of Health and Human Services the authority to withhold all Medicaid funding -- not just that related to the expansion -- if states fail to expand the Medicaid programs."
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June 13, 2017
The inaugural AFP Canada Board has begun its work beginning with the official signing ceremony in the picture seen here.
A second call for nominations will take place in the late summer, with new Board members and the Chair-Elect position beginning their terms on January 1, 2018.
"This has been a labour of love but the result has been extraordinary and is something that is going to benefit AFP members in Canada for many years to come," said Nick Offord, chair of both the AFP Canada New Horizons Transition Task Force and the Committee on Directorship. "I'm proud that we've been so diligent about hearing from all Canadians about what we can do to best serve them. I think we've created a body and a process that will represent and work for all AFP Canada members, as well as keep us linked to the work of AFP International so our efforts and impact are aligned."
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This is typically the most volatile period of the year. Volatility is unexpectedly at low ebb... what does this mean?
Halloween is now over, and we are left with an eerie silence from the usual battle between bull and bear. This time of year is often sparked with tumultuous rallies and pullbacks, advances and corrections – i.e. volatile action. Instead, the market has etched out a dull but steady advance that has tightly stayed its course:
Last month I showed you this chart of the seasonality of historical volatility for the Dow Industrials from 1915 to 1999. Historical volatility is calculated by taking the standard deviation of daily prices on a year-by-year basis. Volatility may be thought of as the relative violence of price trends. It is not a measure of choppiness. This month I have added the historical volatility for the Dow so far this year (thin line.) As the chart shows, this year's volatility has uncharacteristically diminished into the 4th quarter (see circle in chart above.) My firm wondered just how often this has occurred in the past, and what significance, if any, is there to a low volatility market into year's end?
The above table shows the average historical volatility for all Octobers over the past 91 years. There have been 23 years where October has had a historical volatility below 10%. About 25% of the time we get such low volatility action (more than my firm had suspected, to be honest.) Therefore, 75% of Octobers have a historical volatility above 10%... and 29% of the time historical volatility soars above 20%. This year, 2006, October recorded the fifth lowest historical volatility in the past 92 years.
My firm was also curious to see if there was an implication to a high or low volatile October with regard to the November through December period. Here is what we found:
When October averages a historic volatility below 10%, the rest of the year tends to gain 4.15%. When October averages a historic volatility between 10% and 20%, the rest of the year tends to gain 2.61%. When October averages a historic volatility above 20%, the rest of the year tends to gain 0.76%. This last statement does have a couple of "outliers" in the data, namely 1931's year-end loss of 31.87% and 1937's loss of 11.26%. However, even if you remove those outliers from the data, the result for when October averages a historic volatility above 20% is still a relatively low 2.42%.
So, the low volatility is a good thing for now.
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Reading Royals (36-19-2) at Elmira Jackals (22-27-8) 7:05 p.m. ET
· Reading's Michal Cajkovsky leads rookie defensemen with 12 goals and 31 points.
· Ludwig Karlsson leads Elmira against the Royals with nine points (3g-6a).
· Royals have had a league low six games decided in overtime or a shootout.
· Jackals are 17-0-3 when leading after two periods.
Idaho Steelheads (30-22-7) at Ontario Reign (36-17-5) 7 p.m. PT
· Anthony Nigro leads Idaho against the Reign with six points (2g-4a).
· Ontario's Matt White is fifth among rookies with 43 points (15g-28a).
· Steelheads have outscored their opponents 72-54 in the third period.
· Reign are 21-4-2 when scoring first.
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• The ECHL celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 2012-13 and is the third-longest tenured professional hockey league behind only the National Hockey League and the American Hockey League.
• ECHL began in 1988-89 with five teams in four states and has grown to be a coast-to-coast league with 21 teams in 15 states in 2013-14.
• The league officially changed its name from East Coast Hockey League to ECHL on May 19, 2003.
• 529 players have played in the NHL after playing in the ECHL including 22 in 2012-13.
• 17 ECHL players have made their NHL debuts in 2013-14: former Reading Royals Will Acton (Edmonton on Oct. 1), former Kalamazoo Wings left wing Darren Archibald (Vancouver on Oct. 25), former Columbia Inferno, Charlotte Checkers, Greenville Road Warriors and Reading Royals defenseman Julien Brouillette (Washington on Feb. 6), former Colorado Eagles defensemen Ben Chiarot (Winnipeg on Nov. 2) former San Francisco Bulls left wing Jamie Devane (Toronto on Oct. 5), former Idaho Steelheads left wing Luke Gazdic (Edmonton on Oct. 1), former Toledo Walleye center Luke Glendening (Detroit on Oct. 12), former Wheeling Nailers defenseman Alex Grant (Anaheim on Nov. 30), former Cincinnati Cyclones goaltender Magnus Hellberg (Nashville on Oct. 26), former Ontario Reign goaltender Martin Jones (Los Angeles on Dec. 3), former Alaska Aces goaltender Joni Ortio (Calgary on Feb. 27), former Wheeling Nailers defenseman Philip Samuelsson (Pittsburgh on Dec. 16), former Wheeling Nailers center Zach Sill (Pittsburgh on Nov. 16), former Toledo Walleye goaltender Kent Simpson (Chicago on Dec. 14), former Greenville Road Warriors goaltender Cam Talbot (New York Rangers on Oct. 24), former Reading Royals defenseman Patrick Wey (Washington on Dec. 7) and former Ontario Reign goaltender Jeff Zatkoff (Pittsburgh on Oct. 11).
• Two players have played in the ECHL and NHL in 2013-14: Joni Ortio with Alaska and Calgary and Patrick Wey with Reading and Washington.
• The ECHL has had 337 players reach the NHL since 2002-03 when it changed its focus to become the primary developmental league for the NHL and the AHL. The ECHL had 97 players reach the NHL in its first 10 seasons and 215 in the first 15 years.
• 273 ECHL players have played their first game in the last nine seasons for an average of more than 30 per year.
• ECHL had a record 93 players on NHL opening-day rosters in 2013-14, surpassing the 87 from 2012-13 and marking the 11th year in a row that there have been over 50 former ECHL players on opening-day rosters.
• ECHL has affiliations with 26 of the 30 NHL teams in 2013-14, marking the 17th consecutive season that the league has affiliations with at least 20 teams in the NHL.
• 29 coaches with an ECHL background are working behind the benches of teams in the NHL including Anaheim Ducks head coach Bruce Boudreau, Pittsburgh Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma, New York Islanders head coach Jack Capuano and Florida Panthers interim head coach Peter Horachek. It is the ninth consecutive season that there have been 11 or more coaches with an ECHL background working in the NHL.
• 27 former ECHL officials are scheduled to work as part of the NHL officiating team in 2013-14 with referees Darcy Burchell, Francis Charron, Tom Chmielewski, Ghislain Hebert, Jean Hebert, Marc Joannette, Trent Knorr, Mike Leggo, Dave Lewis, T.J. Luxmore, Wes McCauley, Jon McIsaac, Dean Morton, Dan O'Rourke, Brian Pochmara, Kevin Pollock, Kyle Rehman, Chris Rooney, Graham Skilliter, Justin St. Pierre and Ian Walsh, and linesmen Steve Barton, Matt MacPherson, Brian Mach, Tim Nowak, Bryan Pancich and Jay Sharrers.
• ECHL was represented for the 13th year in a row on the Stanley Cup champion in 2013 with Chicago Blackhaws assistant coach Jamie Kompon, players Sheldon Brookbank and Daniel Carcillo, vice president/assistant to the president Al MacIsaac, director of pro scouting Ryan Stewart and general manager of minor league affiliations Mark Bernard. The ECHL was represented by 53 former players and 18 coaches on the 16 teams competing in the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup Playoffs, marking the eighth year in a row that there have been at least 30 former ECHL players and the 10th consecutive season that over 25 players with ECHL experience have competed in the NHL postseason.
• Former ECHL broadcasters working in the NHL include John Ahlers and Steve Carroll of the Anaheim Ducks, Dave Goucher of the Boston Bruins, Chris Kerber of the St. Louis Blues, Jack Michaels of the Edmonton Oilers, Dave Mishkin of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Bob McElligott of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
• Ryan Stanzel and Jeremy Zager, who were both recipients of the ECHL Media Relations Director of the Year award, are working in the communications department for the Minnesota Wild and the Los Angeles Kings, respectively. Former ECHL assistant director of communications Joe Siville works in the communications department for the Philadelphia Flyers.
• ECHL has affiliations with 26 of the 30 teams in the American Hockey League in 2013-14 and for the past 24 years there has been an ECHL player on the Calder Cup champion.
• In the last nine seasons the ECHL has had more call-ups to the AHL than all other professional leagues combined 4,000 with over call-ups involving more than 2,100 players and in 2012-13 there were 10 times as many call-ups from the ECHL to the AHL than all other professional leagues.
• The ECHL averaged 4,695 fans per game in 2012-13, the highest single-season average since 1999-2000, and marking the ninth consecutive season and the 21st time in the last 23 years that the ECHL has averaged over 4,000 fans.
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It's unfortunate that EA had to go and make the single player online-always. They really should have an option to log in online (just to authenticate if they're really worried about it) and then play offline so you don't have to worry about servers going down. That's essentially what they did with StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, and while it isn't as good as being able to play totally offline, it's better than always-online DRM.
The concept of having all cities connected with one another in an online world is cool and all, but it's a shame it had to go so terribly wrong once the game was released. According to Will Wright, he's had more fun with this installment than he's had in a very long time, so it's not a bad game in itself. Hopefully things work out soon, because I really would like to try it out for myself.
While I love the general idea they were going for, I just don't think it should mean that you have to always be online to play. Offline play for this game seems to be a must. Though EA doesn't think so.
Should have been an optional thing. For example, if you were online, you could get certain benefits, or do as they originally intended.
If they were going to do such a thing, they needed an open beta, or something to stress test. But figures. As usual, game publishers fail to comprehend the basics.
If we refuse to buy these games then the market will be small and publishers will not produce for them. Unless governments act to regulate the industry sales models, the onus is on us to make wiser spending decisions. Supporting DRM-free games like The Witcher 2, which also had free dlc will teach publishers to return to the traditional games-as-art model of development. If governments continue to sleep, we'll have to take responsibility ourselves, unfortunately.


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The 59th Annual Chiefland Watermelon Festival, hosted by the Chiefland Woman's Club, is Saturday, June 1 at Trailhead/Depot Park on U.S. Highway 19 South/South Main Street.
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Vern Burton didn't set out to become an entomologist.
Home from the World War II battlefields, he enrolled in Compton Community College and then the University of California, Berkeley.
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His college associates, however, couldn't envision "Vern and termites" in the same sentence.
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"There were better things to do in life than crawling under a house looking for termites," quipped Burton, who is known for his wry sense of humor. (Photo at right was taken circa 1980)
So began a 38-year career that would encompass 10 years as a Kern County Farm Advisor and 28 years as an Extension entomologist affiliated with the UC Davis Department of Entomology.
During his career, Burton, now 85, worked with crops such as alfalfa, beans, cotton, potatoes, small grains and sugar beets and helped resolve pest problems through integrated pest management (IPM) strategies and close associations with university researchers. "I always enjoyed helping people in ag and urban settings with their insect problems," Burton said, "or their perceived problems."
Tuber worms in potatoes? Check. Lygus bugs in seed alfalfa? Check. Spider mites on dry beans? Check. Nematodes in cotton? Check. Green peach aphids in sugar beets? Check. Burton helped recommend the guidelines in several of the Statewide IPM Program's commodity manuals. His collaborative research also appears in California Agriculture and other publications.
"Vern was dedicated to California growers, and worked tirelessly to provide new and useful information to them," said IPM specialist Frank Zalom, professor and former vice chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America. "He understood the research-extension continuum better than most people ever could, having served the university as an extension entomologist in the county and also here on campus."
Read more about Vern Burton and what he's doing today.
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by Gale Perez
on February 26, 2015 at 5:50 PM
Vern Burton passed away on Jan. 22, 2015. Here is his obituary from the Davis Enterprise newspaper: http://www.davisenterprise.com/obits/vernon-e-burton-3/
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Golden State Warriors (30-45) @ Denver Nuggets (42-34)
Start time 6:00 PM PST @ The Pepsi Center
Probable starters for the Golden State Warriors
PG - Derek Fisher
SG - Jason Richardson
SF - Mike Dunleavy
PF - Troy Murphy
C - Adonal Foyle
Probable starters for the Denver Nuggets
PG - Andre Miller
SG - Greg Bucker
SF - Carmelo Anthony
PF - Kenyon Martin
C - Marcus Camby
Team Leaders
PPG - J. Richardson (23.4) | C. Anthony (26.8)
RPG - T. Murphy (9.9) | M. Camby (11.8)
APG - B. Davis (8.9) | A. Miller (8.4)
SPG - B. Davis (1.6) | M. Camby (1.5)
BPG - A. Foyle (1.7) | M. Camby (3.2)
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what? wrote:once again the refs decided the game for us
I mean seriously, Ike fouled out with FOUR offensive fouls. The league has gone soft like drfrank's...oh forget it, never mind, I can't put diatribes together like that. But my point is the LEAGUE IS SOFT and the refs are too. They better adjust to Diogu and how he plays, because he's not going to change and he shouldn't. Do you see the way he just puts his head down and runs down court after they call an offensive foul on him? He knows it's not a foul but what's the point of complaining? There is nobody who bangs like him and so the refs are just lost out there. They have no idea how to officiate correctly for a guy like Ike.
i think the refs will keep on officiating ike they way they always have been. refs always give us the short end of the stick just because we dont have a guy like Kobe, Bron, Melo, or Shaq. we have no "superstar" players therefore if we breathe on any of them we will get called for the foul. the refs will never give us the respect we deserve they wanna keep us down and prevent us from succeeding.


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Are You Having Trouble Seeing Your HIV Provider? The Speak Up! Project Wants to Know About It
August 12, 2014
The Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) has brought health insurance to millions around the country -- but that doesn't mean it's always a smooth path to care and treatment for participants, including those who are living with HIV. Now, HIV service providers, policy advocates and legal experts, working together as the Speak Up! project, are reaching out to document and take action on problems that are putting up roadblocks for people with HIV.
Speak Up!'s major goal is to improve access to health care. The project is collecting, cataloging and analyzing problems; reporting them (without any identifying information) to local, state and federal officials who are charged with health care reform oversight; and letting the community know about its work to address health care reform problems and concerns.
According to John Peller, interim CEO of AIDS Foundation of Chicago, via email, "People from across America are telling Speak Up! about the problems and successes they are having getting HIV care. We'll occasionally ask new questions based on problems we're hearing about to find out more about a particular issue and see how widespread the problem is. After each question, we'll send out an update to let you know how many other reports we received about the problem and what we're doing to try to help address it."
Peller explains that, "We are hearing concerns from people that when they were enrolled in a new health plan, their HIV or other provider was not included (or no longer included) in their new plan networks. You may have also experienced a problem with having to choose a new primary care provider other than your HIV provider."
"Has this happened to you or your client?" he asks, "Have you been able to continue to see your HIV and/or other providers? What did you have to do? Did it cost you more?"
People living with HIV or providers with stories to share are encouraged to "speak up" on the project's reporting form.
Speak Up! is a partnership led by AIDS Foundation of Chicago and the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School. Key national partners are the AIDS Institute, AIDS United, HIV Medicine Association, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors and Project Inform. Initial funding was provided by the MAC AIDS Fund.
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RadioGauge executive Mike Tull praised the 'Fire Kills' campaign for following up a strong creative in 2011 with a spot that engages the listener in what they believe is a quick reminder to change their clocks before hitting them with the real message.
Last year's 'Fire Kills' ad by RKCR/Y&R was the most creatively effective ad tested by the RAB between January and March.
The RAB found the average creative score on RadioGauge in the first six months of 2012 was 3.3% higher than the ads measured in the same period of 2011 and 5.1% higher than those measured in 2008.
Since 2011 when no UK radio ads were shortlisted at the Cannes festival the RAB has worked with the industry to improve creativity in radio in a variety of ways including training, new tools and a partnership with D&AD.
Clare Bowen, head of creative development at the RAB, said: "Having identified these signs of an emerging radio creative renaissance, now feels like an appropriate time to unveil the advertisers that are helping to lead this."
As part of its RadioGauge research tool the RAB asks thousands of respondents to score radio ads against 11 statements linked to the RAB's 5I's evaluation process (Involvement, Identity, Impression, Information and Integration) and uses the answers to rank the ads' creative effectiveness.
The top 10 ads by RadioGauge executive Mike Tull
1. Department for Communities and Local Government – Fire Kills (RKCR/Y&R and M4C)
Hats off to the DCLG and the Fire Kills campaign for successfully topping the list once more with this year's iteration of the campaign. Last year's ad was a short, sharp 10 second reminder to listeners to test their alarm. This year's copy is slightly longer but by no means creates any less of an impact. Using the eerie ticking clock engages listeners in what they might think is a quick reminder to change their clocks before the true message is unveiled, and you're hit with the information that should get all of us checking our smoke alarms. Something for all of us to keep in mind once more as the end of British Summer Time closes in on us.
2. Tesco (The Red Brick Road and Initiative)
I wish I could whistle. I've tried - and I mean really tried - to whistle along to the Tesco ads but any attempt just ends failing miserably. However, while I may lack skills in the whistling department, I do have Clubcard points in need of exchanging. It's probably no surprise that Tesco ads stand out so well on-air thanks to their distinctive sonic identity and 'Every Little Helps' slogan but it's no mean feat to consistently create involving ways of delivering your messages to the audience and Tesco continue to do just that.
3. British Gas (Ogilvy and Carat)
Now we've all tried to playing a tune on the spoons before but British Gas have gone a little bit further than that. A rendition of 'Rescue Me' by Fontella Bass played on doorbells, spanners and drills has created a way of making boiler repairs seem far more entertaining than they actually are! Sound effects and music, if used incorrectly, can sometimes obscure the message but thanks to the no-nonsense delivery from the unmistakeable Timothy Spall you know precisely who is talking to you and exactly what they're offering.
4. Department Of Health - Second Hand Smoke (Dare and M4C)
In the chilling TV ads commissioned by the Department of Health you see the invisible smoke circle around innocent babies and children. Now it's obviously not possible to show invisible smoke on-air but what radio can do is give those innocent children a voice. The juxtaposition of the cute girl's voice and the repeated mentions of poison create a stark re-iteration of just how damaging smoking around others can be - and why you should get in touch to give up and help yourself and those around you live healthier lives.
5. Carphone Warehouse (CHI & Partners, M/SIX and Mindshare)
Nostalgia. It may not be what it used to be but it is one of the reasons why listeners love commercial radio – a song that you haven't heard for years will suddenly come on and cause you to start reminiscing. Carphone Warehouse has tapped into this by cleverly employing The Wombles to bring their 'Waste' campaign to life. When you hear the voice of Bernard Cribbins and The Wombles music begin to play in the background, happy memories of childhood come flooding back and the ad can't fail to leave you with anything but a smile.
6. Heinz (AMV BBDO and Vizeum)
If red wine counted as one of your five a day then the media industry would be one of the healthiest sectors around. Unfortunately it isn't but Heinz is on hand to ensure that we all do our best to keep doctors happy and reach our five-a-day target with a can of tomato soup. Continuing their heritage of utilising the best of British acting talent, Caroline Quentin's light-hearted delivery hits just the right note and brings to life the image of curling up on the sofa on a cold, miserable January evening.
7. Dolmio (AMV BBDO, MediaCom and Zenith)
The core strength of Dolmio campaigns are their ability to have their family characters reach consumers across all media touch points. You see them on television, hear them tease you with repeated mentions of lasagne on radio and then when you pop down the supermarket you see them again looking at you from the packaging on the shelf. Simple, but highly effective.
8. Marks & Spencer (RKCR/Y&R and Walker Media)
Marks & Spencer is on air across the year with a variety of different messages. How do you try and differentiate all those messages to ensure individual messages cut through yet maintain brand consistency? Using songs that are relevant to the message is one of the key elements to M&S' successful strategy. Throughout the year you may hear them on-air with messages backed by 'Here Comes The Sun' or 'Busy' (by Olly Murs). For the launch of the Simply M&S range, an instrumental of 'Don't Worry Be Happy' helped communicate that you could enjoy the food without having to worry about the price.
9. RatedPeople.com (VCCP and The7Stars)
The challenges new brands face launching a national campaign are a) getting the brand name out there and b) ensuring people know what they are offering. The RatedPeople.com ad achieves both aims thanks to a very simplistic message delivered by the professional tone of Phil Spencer. As someone their target audience of homeowners already know and respect as a 'trusted advisor' Phil's recognisable voice is a neat shortcut for transferring those essential perceptions onto the newly established RatedPeople brand.
10. Moneysupermarket (Mother and MediaCom)
Moneysupermarket inhabits the airwaves with their bold and booming sound. In a sector full of distinctive campaigns, Moneysupermarket has still managed to create its own unique sonic identity thanks to epic voice of Patrick Stewart. Add in a few preposterous ideas (I'm sure even Andy Murray would struggle to come higher than third at Wimbledon using a credit card as a racquet…) and there you have it, an entertaining ad which makes you want to be SO Moneysupermarket yourself!


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A century and half after their deaths aboard one of history's most famous warships, two sailors from the USS Monitor were laid to rest at sunset Friday on a hillside in Arlington National Cemetery.
In what might be the last funeral of the American Civil War, the two shipmates were buried with elaborate military honors, their flag-covered caskets carried on horse-drawn caissons as a throng of dignitaries, crew descendants and bystanders looked on.
The burial came on a blustery afternoon that was one day short of the 151st anniversary of the Union ship's legendary battle in Hampton Roads, Va., with the Confederacy's CSS Virginia, formerly the USS Merrimack.
It followed a crowded religious service at the Ft. Myer chapel adjacent to the cemetery, where eulogists called them brave sailors and noble souls and sang them a Navy hymn. A painting of the Monitor sinking stood in the front of the chapel, flanked by two tall candles.
The battle at Hampton Roads was history's first between ironclad warships, and perhaps the most important naval battle of the Civil War.
The sailors were two of the 16 men who perished when the Monitor sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras in 1862. The Navy said a gravestone bearing the names of all 16 men will be erected later.
The bodies of the other 14 crewmen were not recovered. Most of the 62-man crew survived.
Friday's ceremonies came after a reunion of sorts in an Arlington hotel of crew descendants, scientists, government officials and historians.
"It's a very solemn occasion," said James M. McPherson, professor emeritus of American history at Princeton University and a leading Civil War scholar. "These sailors deserve just as much praise for their contribution to saving the Union as the soldiers that Lincoln acknowledged at Gettysburg."
The funeral "is a recognition of their contribution and importance," he said. "It's a chance for Americans today, 151 years later, to pay their respects to people who died to save the country."
Numerous family descendants of the Monitor crew attended.
Andrew Bryan, of Holden, Maine, said he was a descendant of Monitor yeoman William Bryan, who died when the ship sank. The sailor appears in one of the old photographs of the ship's crew, Bryan said.
"This was a story my grandfather told when I was really young," he said. "I think it's great. The moving part, the emotional part for me is my family. . . . This will carry on the family history. . . . This a part of our heritage. This is how we got here."
Anna Holloway, curator of the USS Monitor Center of the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, said the gathering was like a family reunion.
"We are like this whole big Monitor family," she said, referring to the Navy, the museum and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "And all these descendants. It is like old home week."
Robert Sheridan, 72, was a University of Delaware scientist on board the research ship that found the Monitor in August 1973. "I saw it on a sonar device that we had," he said. "The first sign of it. I just went, 'Whoa.' "
"This is what we always thought should happen," he said of Friday's burial. "To do any less would be a shame."
NOAA's David W. Alberg, superintendent of the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, said Thursday: "It's been very emotional . . . very satisfying . . . and very peaceful, I think."
The lost 16 sailors were a kind of cross section of mid-19th-century America: three African Americans, two natives of Ireland, one each from Scotland, England, and Wales, and a coal heaver from Maine, among others.
The burial marks 40 years of research into the Monitor by the Navy, NOAA, the Mariners' Museum and other organizations.
And it will lay to rest perhaps the last of over 600,000 soldiers, sailors and Marines who perished in the long-ago Civil War, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Juan M. Garcia III said Thursday.
The nation is currently commemorating the sesquicentennial of the war, which ran from 1861 to 1865.
Almost 10 months after the March 9, 1862, Hampton Roads battle, the two sailors buried Friday were aboard the Monitor when it sank in a gale off the North Carolina coast on Dec. 31, 1862. The ship capsized and settled on the bottom upside down.
The wreck of the Monitor was located in 1973 by a Duke University research ship in a stormy region off the North Carolina coast called "the graveyard of the Atlantic."
In 2002, more than a century after the ship sank, the almost-complete skeletons were found, one on top of the other, amid a tangle of huge guns and debris in the turret.
"I think . . . one was helping the other" in the ship's last moments, said James P. Delgado, director of NOAA's Maritime Heritage Program. "Seasick, hurt, whatever."
"Those two guys together were trying to get out," he said Wednesday. "There but for the matter of a few moments, they might have made it out onto that deck; they might have made it onto that last (rescue) boat."
"But the Monitor finally slips," capsizing, under the waves, he said. "It tumbles. They go head over heels. They land on the roof of the turret upside down. Everything comes down on them. The cold sea pours in and they're gone."
"I think we can all picture ourselves caught up in something like that," he said.
The study of the sailors' bones yielded DNA but few other clues: the younger man's broken nose, and indications of a limp in the older man, the ring on a finger of his right hand and a groove in his front teeth where he bit down on his pipe.
The turret today resides in a state-of-the-art exhibit and research facility at the Mariners' Museum.
"This a powerful moment," Delgado said. "This is so gratifying to see, that after this time these men . . . interred in this hallowed ground, that they will be honored by the nation."


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Don't mess with the RFS was essentially the message that several advocates of the U.S. biofuels industry sent to Congress last week. Delivered to leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, the letter urged legislators "to stand firm in the face of calls to waive or repeal provisions included in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, including the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)." A copy of the letter is available at http://www.advancedbiofuelsassociation.com/news.php?id=72.
Congressional committees are now considering measures that would impact the domestic biofuels industry.
"While there are no formal efforts in Congress yet to fully repeal the RFS, we wanted to make it clear that the continued success of the RFS is a chief priority for the biofuels industry. We believe that efforts to weaken, waive or repeal parts or all of the RFS runs counter to the economic, environmental and energy security goals of the country," says Bob Dinneen, president and CEO, Renewable Fuels Association (RFA).
Brian Jennings, executive vice president, American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE), adds, "The ethanol industry is working to proactively reform our tax incentive so that we can open new markets, giving consumers the ability to choose higher blends of ethanol. This, in turn, will create new and sustained demand for corn and other biofuel feedstocks."
Jennings continues, "While we're working to reform and reduce the cost of our tax credit, Big Oil is standing on the sidelines acting as if taxpayers aren't paying billions of dollars in tax subsidies to oil companies every year. We are prepared to sacrifice our tax incentive in exchange for consumer fuel choice, but we are not prepared to give up on the RFS. That is why we signed this letter with some of our partners."
Along with the RFA and ACE, the other organizations signing the letter were the Advanced Biofuels Association, the Advanced Ethanol Council and the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
"An unholy alliance of oil refiners, food manufacturers and some livestock groups that are overly influenced by meatpackers and food makers are quietly campaigning on the Hill to repeal both the tax incentive for ethanol and the RFS," Jennings says. "They have different motivations for wanting the RFS to go away—oil doesn't like that the RFS takes market share away from them and the food/packing industry thinks they are entitled to cheap corn forever."
The RFA's Dinneen says that without the strong underpinnings of the RFS, commercializing new biofuel technologies would be much more difficult and would make achieving the goal of displacing oil imports further out of reach. "The motive for many opposing ethanol is the budget—not the federal government's budget but their ownbottom lines," Dinneen says.


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Cozy up to the fireplace with accessories, gift items
The holidays come at a good time of year for those who love fireplaces because there is a wide selection of fireplace-related gift items, ranging in price from $13.95 to more than $1,000, according to Neal Kaplan, owner of Fireplaces Plus stores in Vernon Hills and Chicago.
If you have a friend who loves to cozy up to the fire on blustery winter nights but you can't afford to spend a fortune, consider buying treated pine cones that produce beautiful colors when burned. There is also dust that produces a similar effect when sprinkled on logs and both are reasonably priced.
Packages of fat wood, the small pieces of wood that act as kindling and help get a fire started, are also available through fireplace shops like Fireplaces Plus.
Fireplace accessories that enhance the look and/or the function of someone's hearth also make great gifts.
"We carry everything from bellows for stoking the fire, to tool sets, grates, andirons and screens, to wood holders and hearth rugs, and even gas logs," said Kaplan.
Tool sets generally include a broom, shovel, tongs and poker and they ensure that a fire burns properly and continuously. These sets come in many different finishes, but Kaplan said the most popular ones are iron, bronze, satin nickel and black.
Grates, which are made of various metals and sit inside the fireplace to hold the wood while it is burning, allow oxygen to circulate around the logs, resulting in a bigger and more efficient flame. Some of today's grates even come with attached andirons.
Authentic andirons function similarly to a grate. They have horizontal bars extending back from each decorative post to hold up the firewood so that a draft of air can pass around it, allowing proper burning and minimizing smoke. Today they are usually just a decorative addition to a fireplace. But centuries ago they were used as a rest for a roasting spit or sometimes had a cup shaped top to hold porridge.
Both traditional and contemporary andirons, in a variety of designs and finishes, are available at Fireplaces Plus.
Screens and doors for fireplaces also make good gifts and they enhance both the look and the safety of a fireplace. Screens stand in front of a fireplace as a decorative addition, but they also prevent sparks from escaping from a fire and keep children and pets away from danger.
Screens come in many styles and finishes including etched and plain glass, tri-fold, mesh, arched and bowed. It all depends on a homeowner's personal style.
Doors, on the other hand, are actually attached to the fireplace and they give a good seal to contain heat, sparks and outside drafts. Fireplaces Plus offers doors at three different price levels and, depending on the grade of door, they come in between 20 and 50 different finishes.
A wide variety of wood holders and carriers are also available. There are traditional handled metal baskets for storing wood by the fire, as well as forged iron log hoops, fat wood holders, suede carriers that fit into a metal frame once the wood is transported inside and even wheeled carriers for hauling the wood further.
Hearth rugs to keep embers off the floor are popular gifts, according to Kaplan. They come in solids and prints, as well as in half-ovals and rectangles. Some even look like miniature Oriental rugs.
State-of-the-art ceramic fiber gas logs also make nice gifts. They look very authentic, operate with the chimney closed, provide maximum heat for the home, burn efficiently and even glow red when in use, Kaplan said.
Those shopping for people who continue to cook outside year-round may also consider purchasing a variety of barbecue and grilling items like the Big Green Egg smoker as gifts, Kaplan added.
Fireplaces Plus, with locations at 700 N. Milwaukee Ave., Vernon Hills, and 200 W. Ohio, Chicago, has been in business since 1983 and has been family-owned since 1992. The business is Angie's List-approved, offers free in-home consultations, installs a wide variety of new fireplaces and sells gift certificates.
The store can be reached at either (847) 549-6700 or (312) 587-7587. For more information, visit fireplacecollection.com.


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NEW YORK (AP) — The Rolling Stones have called off tour dates in Australia and New Zealand following the death of Mick Jagger's girlfriend L'Wren Scott.
The iconic band said in a statement Tuesday they "are deeply sorry and disappointed to announce the postponement of the rest of their 14 ON FIRE tour."
Band members thanked fans "for their support at this difficult time."
The Stones were scheduled to play Wednesday in Perth, Australia, and at other stops this week and next week, including Melbourne and Sydney.
Scott, a noted fashion designer, died Monday in New York City of an apparent suicide.
Tickets holders should keep their tickets, the statement said.


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