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Guidelines for Multimedia on the Web
Multimedia is gaining popularity on the Web with several technologies to support use of animation, video, and audio to supplement the traditional media of text and images. These new media provide more design options but also require design discipline. Unconstrained use of multimedia results in user interfaces that confuse users and make it harder for them to understand the information. Not every webpage needs to bombard the user with the equivalent of Times Square in impressions and movement.
Moving images have an overpowering effect on the human peripheral vision. This is a survival instinct from the time when it was of supreme importance to be aware of any saber-toothed tigers before they could sneak up on you. These days, tiger-avoidance is less of an issue, but anything that moves in your peripheral vision still dominates your awareness: it is very hard to, say, concentrate on reading text in the middle of the a page if there is a spinning logo up in the corner. Never include a permanently moving animation on a web page since it will make it very hard for your users to concentrate on reading the text.
Animation is good for:
- Showing continuity in transitions. When something has two or more states, then changes between states will be much easier for users to understand if the transitions are animated instead of being instantaneous. An animated transition allows the user to track the mapping between different subparts through the perceptual system instead of having to involve the cognitive system to deduce the mappings. A great example is the winner of the first Java programming contest: proving the Pythagorean theorem by animating the movement of various squares and triangles as they move around to demonstrate that two areas are the same size (unfortunately, this otherwise good page uses animated text inappropriately: the text moves constantly and is hard to relate to the events in the main animation).
- Indicating dimensionality in transitions. Sometimes opposite animated transitions can be used to indicate movement back and forth along some navigational dimension. For example, paging through a series of objects can be shown by an animated sweep from the right to the left for turning the page forward (if using a language where readers start on the left). Turning back to a previous page can then be shown by the opposite animation (sweeping from the left to the right). If users move orthogonally to the sequence of pages then other animated effects can be used to visualize the transition. For example following a hypertext link to a footnote might be shown by a "down" animation and tunneling through hyperspace to a different set of objects might be shown by an "iris open" animation.
One example used in several user interfaces is the use of zooming to indicate that a new object is "grown" from a previous one (e.g., a detailed view or property list opened by clicking on an icon) or that an object is closed or minimized to a smaller representation. Zooming out from the small object to the enlargement is a navigational dimension and zooming in again as the enlargement is closed down is the opposite direction along that dimension.
- Illustrating change over time. Since an animation is a time-varying display, it provides a one-to-one mapping to phenomena that change over time. For example, deforestation of the rain forest can be illustrated by showing a map with an animation of the covered area changing over time.
- Multiplexing the display. Animation can be used to show multiple information objects in the same space. A typical example is client-side imagemaps with explanations that pop up as the user moves the cursor over the various hypertext anchors. It is also possible to indicating the active areas by having them shimmer or by surrounding them with a marquee of "marching ants". As always, objects should only move when appropriate (e.g., when the cursor is over the image).
- Enriching graphical representations. Some types of information are easier to visualize with movement than with still pictures. Consider, for example, how to visualize the tool used to remove pixels in a graphics application. The canonical icon is an eraser as shown on the left in the following figure, but in user testing I have sometimes found that people think that the icon is a tool for drawing three-dimensional boxes. Instead, one can use an animated icon as shown on the right in the figure: when the icon animates, the eraser is moved over the background and pixels are removed, clearly showing the functionality of the tool.
In icon design, it is always easier to illustrate objects (a box) than operations (removing pixels), but animation provides the perfect support for illustrating any kind of change operation. In an experiment reported at the CHI'91 conference, Baecker, Small, and Mander increased the comprehension of a set of icons from 62% to 100% by animating them. Of course, an icon should only animate when the user indicates a special interest in it (for example, by placing the mouse cursor over it or by looking at it for more than a second if eye-tracking is available). Especially considering the preponderance of toolbars in current applications it would be highly distracting if all icons were to animate at all times.
- Visualizing three-dimensional structures. Since the computer screen is two-dimensional, users can never get a full understanding of a three-dimensional structure by a single illustration, no matter how well designed. Animation can be used to emphasize the three-dimensional nature of objects and make it easier for users to visualize their spatial structure. The animation need not necessarily spin the object in a full circle: just slowly turning it back and forth a little will often be sufficient. The movement should be slow to allow the user to focus on the structure of the object. Three-dimensional objects may be moved under user control, but often it is better if the designer determines in advance how to best animate a movement that provides optimal understanding of the object: this pre-determined animation can then be activated by the user by simply placing the cursor over the object, whereas user-controlled movements require the user to understand how to manipulate the object (which is inherently difficult with a two-dimensional control device like the mouse used with most computers - to be honest, 3D is never going to make it big time in user interfaces until we get a true 3D control device).
- Attracting attention. Finally, there are a few cases where the ability of animation to dominate the user's visual awareness can be turned to an advantage in the interface. If the goal is to draw the user's attention to a single element out of several or to alert the user to updated information then an animated headline will do the trick. Animated text should be drawn by a one-time animation (e.g., text sliding in from the right, growing from the first character, or smoothly becoming larger) and never by a continuous animation since moving text is much harder to read than static text. The user should be drawn to the new text by the initial animation and then left in peace to read the text without further distraction.
(For newer guidelines, see article on animation for attention and comprehension.)
Due to bandwidth constraints, use of video should currently be minimized on the web. Eventually, video will be used more widely, but for the next few years most videos will be short and will use very small viewing areas. Under these constraints, video has to serve as a supplement to text and images more often than it will provide the main content of a website.
Currently, video is good for:
- Promoting television shows, films, or other non-computer media that traditionally have used trailers in their advertising.
- Giving users an impression of a speaker's personality. Unfortunately, most corporate executives project a lot less personality than, say, Captain Janeway from Star Trek, so it is not necessarily a good idea to show a talking head unless the video clip truly adds to the user's experience.
- Showing things that move. For example a clip from a ballet. Product demos of physical products (e.g., a coin counter) are also well suited for video, whereas software demos are often better presented as a series of full-sized screendumps where the potential customer can study the features at length.
A major problem with most videos on the web right now is that their production values are much too low. User studies of CD-ROM productions have found that users expect broadcast-quality production values and that users get very impatient with low-quality video.
A special consideration for video (and spoken audio) is that any narration may lead to difficulty for international users as well as for users with a hearing disability. People may be able to understand written text in a foreign language because they have time to read it at their own speed and because they can look up any unknown words in a dictionary. Spoken words are sometimes harder to understand, especially if the speaker is sloppy, has a dialect, speaks over a distracting soundtrack, or simply speaks very fast. Poor audio quality may contribute to the difficulty of understanding spoken text: it is recommended to use professional quality audio equipment and/or lavaliere microphones when recording a narrator. The classic solution to these problems is to use subtitles but as shown in the following figure, subtitles require special attention on the web.
The figure shows a subtitled frame from Sun's Starfire video. The small subtitles (left image) look good on the original video tape (JPEG, 197 K) but are virtually unreadable on the smaller image size currently used for computerized videos. Using bigger subtitles that have been anti-aliased for computer viewing (middle image) improves readability significantly, but the best results are achieved by the letterbox format (right image). In this example, the subtitles in the letterbox are constructed by enlarging the video area for the movie file with a 24-pixels high black area. Doing so does not increase the file size proportionally since the black area compresses very nicely. Even so, it would be better to transmit the subtitles as ASCII (or Unicode) and have them rendered in the letterbox on the client machine: a perfect job for an applet. It would even be possible to have the user select the language for the subtitles through a preference setting or a pop-up menu (JPEG, 206 K).
(For newer findings, see article on eyetracking studies of video clips on websites.)
The main benefit of audio is that it provides a channel that is separate from that of the display. Speech can be used to offer commentary or help without obscuring information on the screen. Audio can also be used to provide a sense of place or mood as done to perfection in the game Myst . Mood-setting audio should employ very quiet background sounds in order not to compete with the main information for the user's attention.
Music is probably the most obvious use of sound. Whenever you need to inform the user about a certain work of music, it makes much more sense to simply play it than to show the notes or to try to describe it in words. For example, if you are out to sell seats to the La Scala opera in Milan, Italy, it is an obvious ploy to allow users to hear a snippet of the opera: yes, Verdi really could write a good tune (AU file, 1.4 MB), so maybe I will go and hear the opera next time I am over there. In fact, the audio clip is superior to the video clip from the same opera which is too fidget to impress the user and yet takes much too long to download (QuickTime, 3.6 MB). [Both audio and video clips are now gone from the opera's website — another sad example of linkrot.]
Voice recordings can be used instead of video to provide a sense of the speaker's personality: the benefits are smaller files, easier production, and the fact that people often sound good even if they would look dull on television. Speech is also perfect for teaching users the pronunciation of words as done by the French wine site: it used to be the case that you could buy good wine cheaply by going for chateaus that were hard to pronounce (because nobody dared ask for them in shops or restaurants) -- no more in the webbed world.
Non-speech sound effects can be used as an extra dimension in the user interface to inform users about background events: for example, the arrival of new information could be signaled by the sound of a newspaper dropping on the floor and the progress of a file download could be indicated by the sound of water pouring into a glass that gradually fills up. These kinds of background sounds have to be very quiet and nonintrusive. Also, there always needs to be a user preference setting to turn them off.
Good quality sound is known to enhance the user experience substantially so it is well worth investing in professional quality sound production. The classic example is the video game study where users claimed that the graphics were better when the sound was improved, even though the exact same graphics were used for the poor-quality sound and the good-quality sound experiments. Simple examples from web user interfaces are the use of a low-key clicking sound to emphasize when users click a button and the use of opposing sounds (cheeeek chooook) when moving in different directions through a navigation space.
Response Time
Many multimedia elements are big and take a long time to download with the horribly low bandwidth available to most users. It is recommended that the file format and size are indicated in parentheses after the link whenever you point to a file that would take more than 15 seconds to download with the bandwidth available to most of your users. If you don't know what bandwidth your users are using you should do a survey to find out since this information is important for many other page design issues. At this time, most home users have at most 28.8 Kb, meaning that files longer than 50 KB need a size warning. Business users often have higher bandwidth, but you should probably still mark files larger than about 200 KB.
The 15-second guideline in the previous paragraph was derived from the basic set of response time values that have been known since around 1968. System response needs to happen within about 10 seconds to keep the user's attention, so users should be warned before slower operations. On the web, current users have been trained to endure so much suffering that it may be acceptable to increase the limit value to 15 seconds. If we ever want the general population to start treating the web as more than a novelty, we will have to provide response times within the acceptable ranges, though.
Design of client-side multimedia effects has to consider the other two response time limits also:
- The feeling of directly manipulating objects on the screen requires 0.1 second response times. Thus, the time from the user types a key on the keyboard or moves the mouse until the desired effect happens has to be faster than 0.1 seconds if the goal is to let the user control a screen object (e.g., rotate a 3D figure or get pop-ups while moving over an imagemap).
- If users do not need to feel a direct physical connection between their actions and the changes on the screen, then response times of about 1.0 second become acceptable. Any slower response and the user will start feeling that he or she is waiting for the computer instead of operating freely on the data. So, for example, jumping to a new page or recalculating a spreadsheet should happen within a second. When response times surpass a second, users start changing their behavior to a more restricted use of the system (for example, they won't try out as many options or go to as many pages).
Updated Multimedia Guidelines
We are finding new guidelines on multimedia, now that it's more common and less subject to technical limitations.
I'll present my newest usability guidelines in the tutorial on Top Web UX Design Guidelines at the annual Usability Week conference.
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For more than 10 years, Breakthrough House has provided residential services in group home settings and independent housing settings for veterans with mental health issues, but has not focused on veterans with a 'dual diagnosis' (those having both a mental illness diagnosis and substance abuse problem).
The agency staff has received additional training specific to substance abuse and addiction issues, and they will be supported by VA staff who will intervene with veterans when needed, and work with the veterans to help them regain sobriety or receive treatment.
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This last summer, my Dad showed my brother and I the process for making wine that he learned from his Dad. It was pretty simple and used a 5 or 6 gallon glass carboy. I've made a few batches of beer using a kit from Mr. Beer, which in. I was thinking of getting a carboy for making some wine and I was wondering if it could be used for both beer and wine?
I have made beer that was fermenting in glass carboy that was previously used for storing wine (for years). I did not notice any wine flavor in the beer. Just make sure you clean the carboy really good.
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I use 2 5-gallon glass carboys that my dad used to use for wine. Each has made many batches of tasty beer, though now I mostly use them for aging of one sort or another. Better Bottles are much easier to handle, and they bounce when you drop them.
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I'm using Sharepoint 2010 its a publishing site and i have different pages in the Pages folder(Which is a default one). Its a simple query i have 3 different type of users. What i want is to get a welcome page according to the type of user who logs in. For example if i'm logging in as user 1 then i should be able to see page 1 so on and so forth. Thanks in advance for the answers.
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With OOTB (out of the box) Functionality you could achieve that with a content query webpart which is filtered to the current user. Your pages per user of course would need some kind of property which denotes the user. However you would need to create some XSLT which renders the pages like you want them to be rendered.
A quicker solution would be to create custom code to switch the page depending on the user - again you would need some field on the page saying for which user it is.
If the layout is the same but the content is different, I would suggest to add all webparts for all users on the same page and apply audience targeting on these audience. You can create audience for SharePoint groups on the fly so you don't have to do additional stuff AD / Audience wise.
This will ensure that if the layout (eg : 25 - 50 - 25) is the same for all groups, you can safely put each similar webparts under each others in the target area and apply audience filtering on each webpart to ensure only the relevant ones will be displayed for the logged on user.
Alternatively, you could create a dummy home page with a content editor webpart in which you would add a redirect script (javascript) and apply audience on it. You copy that webpart twice so that you have 3 of them, you adapt the redirection to the relevant page and you pick the relevant audience per webpart. This will give you flexibility on the target home page will simplify the management (but this will not prevent an user from accessing a page he was not supposted to see).
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I hope it's not too long winded, but I prefer to give a short intro hoping for a last chance to go over this in my head and catch any error.
Here's a primitive example of a field extension: $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt 2) = \{a + b\sqrt 2 \;|\; a,b \in \mathbb{Q}\}$. It's easy to show that it is a commutative additive group with identity $0$. It's a little more involved to show that once $0$ is taken out (which rules out $a = b = 0$), what's left is a multiplicative group with identity $1$ and multiplicative inverse $$\dfrac{1}{a + b\sqrt 2} = \dfrac{1}{a + b\sqrt 2}\dfrac{a - b\sqrt 2}{a - b\sqrt 2} = \dfrac{a - b\sqrt 2}{a^2 - 2b^2} = \dfrac{a}{a^2 - 2b^2} + \dfrac{- b}{a^2 - 2b^2}\sqrt 2$$ which always exists because $a,b\in\mathbb{Q}$ ensures that the denominator in the above equation can never equal zero and since $a$ and $b$ cannot both be $0$ neither can the inverse, giving us closure. So $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt 2)$ is a field.
Now we seek to replicate this with $\sqrt[3] 5$. A little bit of algebra will quickly show that if we define $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt[3]5)$ with elements $a + b\sqrt[3]5$ as before, we'll run into problems with closure when multiplying two such elements. Instead we define
$$\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt[3]5) = \{a + b\sqrt[3]5 + c\sqrt[3]{25} \;|\; a,b,c \in \mathbb{Q}\}$$
Once again, checking that the above set is an additive abelian group is easy. To show that the set minus $0$ is a multiplicative group we need to do some linear algebra: We want to show that given $a,b$ and $c$ (not all three $0$) there exists a unique $x,y$ and $z$ such that
$$(a + b\sqrt[3]5 + c\sqrt[3]{25})(x + y\sqrt[3]5 + z\sqrt[3]{25}) = (1 + 0\sqrt[3]5 + 0\sqrt[3]{25})$$
where the right-hand side of the above equation is just $1$, namely the multiplicative identity. Some tedious algebra allows us to rewrite the left-hand side as $$(ax + 5cy + 5bz) + (bx + ay + 5cz)\sqrt[3]{5} + (cx + by + az)\sqrt[3]{25} = 1$$ So we can rewrite the above as a system of equations ${\bf A x = b}$ given by $$\begin{pmatrix}a & 5c & 5b \\ b & a & 5c \\ c & b & a\end{pmatrix}\begin{pmatrix}x \\ y \\ z\end{pmatrix} = \begin{pmatrix} 1 \\ 0 \\ 0 \end{pmatrix}$$ This reduces the problem of showing that there always exists a unique multiplicative inverse to one of showing that the above square matrix is invertible (which would guarantee us a unique solution.) So let's find its determinant:
$$\det({\bf A}) = a(a^2 - 5bc) + b(5b^2 - 5ac) + c(25c^2 - 5ab) = a^3 + 5b^3 + 25c^3 - 15abc.$$
Finally, we get to where I'm stuck. How can we guarantee that the above is always non-zero as long as $a,b$ and $c$ are not all zero? The notes I'm going over skipped this part and just said that $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt[3]{5})$ is a field.


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Learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript - and put them to good use! This class, taught by Jeffrey Carl Faden, is aimed at beginners who are interested in web development, as well as seasoned professionals looking to brush up on the latest and greatest.
Frontend web development is all about making code that runs in the browser (versus code that runs on the server). There isn't a big focus on web design (creating wireframes and mockups), but we do cover best practices for turning these designs into beautiful code.
This class is for everyone! Complete beginners and more experienced developers are welcome at any time. If you're new to the class, consider coming to the lecture at 7:30 for a recap.
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Lectures start promptly at 8pm on Mondays and go for up to two hours. There is a half-hour recap starting at 7:30pm. Please try to arrive early as physical space is limited.
Labs start at 8pm on Thursdays and end two hours later.
This class runs in a weekly series, and the curriculum takes about 6 months from start to finish. Don't let it discourage you if you're starting from the middle - attend recaps and labs and you should be able to catch up!
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The lecture is held in the Church classroom, which is in the back of the space.
The lab is held in the Turing classroom, the room past the wood shop.
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When does the series start over?
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Weekly classroom-style presentation on HTML/CSS/JS. The lecture starts every Monday at 8pm. We also have a recap starting at 7:30pm, where we'll cover the (very) basics, such as explaining what "frontend" means, discussing tools of the trade, and understanding basic HTML and CSS.
Class for 2013-10-14: Backend web development
This class is all about the seedy underbelly of web development: the backend!
I know we already have a backend class here at Noisebridge, but this one is tailored toward frontend developers wanting to get a taste of how things come together. We'll spend the first half talking about PHP, then move onto a Rails, a more complex example.
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If you would like to follow along, the easiest option is to run a virtual machine:
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- Double-click the .ova file. You should check the "reinitialize the MAC address" step.
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- System username and password are both "frontend". Feel free to change them if that's uncomfortable.
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I just installed sublime text 2 on Ubuntu 12.10 and would like to be able to run it as its own environment variable. Example
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I just installed sublime text 2 on Ubuntu 12.10 and would like to be able to run it as its own environment variable. Example
I am not sure this is the most elegant solution but you can create a script in your ~/bin/sublime with the following commands:
and then if your ~/bin/ folder is in your $PATH then you will be able to run
To check your $PATH just run
If you bin is not ther edit your .bashrc file and edit or add a line like the following:
I think you are confusing the term environment variable, it seems like you want to place the a command to start Sublime Text in your path.
From the Sublime Text installation page:
Note that you must use the full path or this will not work. Suggested place to extract the downloaded file to is
This is the BEST way, I think!
go to your terminal and type:
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Street Law, established at the law school in 2006 by two students looking for a way to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged young people, partners with community organizations and local schools to teach youth about their legal rights and responsibilities. Since the program was founded, Rutgers School of Law–Newark students have taught weekly classes about law, democracy and human rights to more than 1,700 teenagers in a dozen area schools and youth organizations. Both the program and director Alycia M. Guichard, New Jersey State Bar Fellow for Street Law, are widely recognized for their contributions to public service and for demonstrating how law students can give back to their host communities.
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Guichard has significantly extended Rutgers Street Law's original scope, most recently with the Street Law Seminar, Street Law Scholars Program, and the Summer Enrichment Law Academy, a six-week program for academically-promising Newark students entering 10th grade. A former foster child, she is passionate about finding ways to engage Rutgers law students and local professionals in providing educational and mentoring resources for inner-city teens.
"Street Law is important to me," Guichard said, "because it helps at-risk youth understand the impact of the law in their communities and society at-large. By teaching young people about the civil rights that people have fought so hard to achieve, the program helps to define both their rights and responsibilities." Classes also cover intellectual property – through lessons on artist/ record label negotiations and contracts – criminal law and procedures, and how to bring a case in small claims court. Just as valuable as the practical law lessons, she added, is that "the curriculum teaches teens to think critically about the world around them and advocate on behalf of things that seem unfair. Is it fair, for example, that there are no safe places to play in their neighborhood? Is it fair that commercial trucks are able to idle outside their homes?"
The most important lesson that Guichard hopes at-risk youth remember from Street Law "is that some of their everyday actions that can seem innocent either because they are accepted in their communities or because all of their friends are engaged in the activity can cause them great legal trouble if they do not understand the law. Our goal is to educate them about the dangers of engaging in such conduct and the effect it will have on their future."
Law students who teach Street Law benefit considerably from their participation as well, said Guichard, not least of all "in their amazing ability to connect with and understand their students' situation. Most participate because they already understand the need for teaching at-risk youth about the law. I do not feel like I have to sell Street Law to my volunteers — they all just get it!!" In their training to teach Street Law, students review several of their first-year courses and learn about public benefit laws, negotiations, laws related to youth in foster care, domestic violence laws, housing laws, and juvenile justice laws. According to Guichard, "Our students feel a sense of responsibility and understand the need to give back to the people in the local community while having the opportunity to get a great legal education at Rutgers–Newark Law School."
|Newark high school students who participated in the Summer Enrichment Law Academy visited the Library of Congress.
Understanding the importance of mentors and role models to her own success in college and law school, Guichard is committed to having Street Law incorporate lessons about critical life skills and civic engagement into its curriculum. During the Summer Enrichment Law Academy (SELA), she set aside a day during which local professionals – including a judge, a nurse, a prosecutor, a CPA, an artist, a former councilman, a teacher, a litigator, and a fundraiser – shared "what it took to get where they are and lessons learned along the way." On other days, Rutgers Law School faculty and staff described their education and career paths in addition to covering the basics of intellectual property, tax law, juvenile justice, torts, ethics, free speech, and other legal topics.
Guichard readily shares her history of overcoming many of the same challenges faced by the Street Law students. Hearing her story "inspired me to realize that no matter where you came from, your dreams can come true," wrote one SELA student.
Guichard's evident passion for working with at-risk youth also inspires adults to devote their time and resources to the program. Individual lawyers and other professionals participated in Career Day and in field trips to Ellis Island, the Library of Congress, and Georgetown University Law Center. At Georgetown the group had lunch with Street Law Clinic director Richard Roe and Patrick Campbell, partner of the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Campbell who sponsored the lunch, is vice-chair of Street Law Inc., the national Street Law organization. SELA's institutional supporters included the Rutgers Academic Foundations Center, the New Jersey State Bar Foundation, Equal Justice America, and AT&T. Guichard is especially grateful to Deborah Walker-McCall, Rutgers–Newark Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of the Academic Foundations Center/Educational Opportunity Fund, who was SELA's biggest partner and co-sponsor.
For their final assignment, asked what they valued most about the program, SELA students cited a new understanding of laws such as curfew restrictions and Megan's Law; tips on how best to study, manage their time, and prepare for a job interview; and guidance about college possibilities, career options, and the importance of setting goals. A lesson that reassured many was, as described by one of the 10th graders: "Knowing that not knowing what one wants to do is still okay because that is what school is for."
|SELA was co-sponsored by a generous grant of $2,500 from AT&T. From left are: Erin Conroy, 2L from Fordham University School of Law interning with AT&T's Legal Department; Associate Dean Fran Bouchoux; Howard Spierer, AT&T general attorney–litigation; Alycia M. Guichard, Street Law director; Vice Dean Greg Mark; and Susan McGahan, AT&T general attorney–intellectual property.
Guichard, who is already planning next summer's SELA, is enthusiastic about the students' assessment of the experience. She offered the following comment as typical of the student evaluations: "What I enjoyed most about this program is the fact that they truly cared about our futures and they gave us the key things to be successful in life." Like many programs for which parents sign up their less-than-enthusiastic teens, SELA had its share of reluctant "campers." Not surprisingly, six weeks later, their reservations had turned to praise. As one student put it, "When I started the program, I hated having to be there." Lessons about laws intended to protect young people and guidelines on appropriate conduct in a business setting changed his mind. "I'm glad that I didn't turn down this opportunity," he concluded. "This program saved me and helped me know what to do to be successful in life."
Guichard was helped with many of the day-to-day responsibilities by summer interns Kiana Nicolas, a Howard University undergraduate, and Danielle McCall, a Rutgers University undergraduate. In addition, Edaine Murray, an incoming first-year law student, served as an assistant instructor, and program assistant Portia Allen-Kyle, Rutgers Law School Class of 2013, was the lead instructor for the program. Allen-Kyle had already experienced a semester as a Street Law volunteer when she applied for a summer position. Given her interest in working with youth and her commitment to public interest law, the program seemed a natural fit. "When I saw the opportunity to work as a program assistant with SELA, I was curious to see how those two interests would converge. During the program I was able to directly see how my legal education can help me make a direct impact on the lives of youth. In addition, this experience allowed me to improve my legal research, technical writing, and public speaking skills, as well as created great networking opportunities."
As for future growth in the program, Guichard would like to reach more young people by adding new sites to the roster of schools that Street Law currently serves in Newark and surrounding communities. She also hopes to develop training sessions for adults such as teachers, caseworkers, correction officers, and police officers so that they can help to reinforce what the youth learn through the Street Law program.


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The 10 Most Terrifying Video Game Enemies of All Time
#5. Baron von Blubba from Bubble Bobble
The biggest bastard in Bubble Bobble was an albino whale named Baron von Blubba. Back in 1988, this white whale reduced even the most hardened Nintendo vet to a weak-bladdered Captain Ahab.
Whenever the stage timer ran out, Baron von Blubba emerged to rock our faces with his invincibility and horrifying ability to fly only at 90-degree angles. Thanks to our encounters with the Baron, we now harbor deep-seated phobias of whales, geometry and the Nintendo Entertainment System.
#4. Any Body of Water from Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic's deadliest nemesis was the innocent pool of water. This sounds totally stupid, but remember: You're playing a video game about a neon blue rodent who jogs at Mach 5. You gave up your right to be incredulous a long time ago.
Once submerged, our hyper-kinetic hedgehog swam slooowly, as if he was paddling through morphine-infused molasses. If you left Sonic underwater too long, you then heard the most panic-inducing music in video game history. Watch what happens as some sadist happily asphyxiates poor Sonic:
We dealt with the water in the most dignified way possible--by screaming and unplugging our Genesis before he drowned.
#3. Sinistar from Sinistar
What do you get when you mix Andrew Dice Clay, a Pog and pure undiluted evil? You get Sinistar, the only video game boss to ever lower our self-esteem.
Playing Sinistar was slightly more enjoyable than being waterboarded. The player first entered his arcade booth, or as we at Cracked call it, the Chamber of Shame. After shooting meteors for a minute or so, you met the star himself, who greeted you with a cheerful "BEWARE, I LIVE!" With formalities dispensed, he quickly turned your life into shit:
The fun begins at 0:40.
Fighting Sinistar was like a therapy session with Dr. Phil--this chatty SOB knew we had problems and wasn't afraid to go for the jugular. Bullies beating you up at school? "RUN, RUN, RUN!" he'd bark. Marriage failing? "RUN, COWARD!" was his advice. Having an otherwise nice day? Once you heard his "RAAAWRGH!" you knew existence was nothing but pain.
#2. The Poison Head Crabs from Half Life 2
Bar none the freakiest first-person shooter enemy ever, the poison head crabs turned our jeans brown and our khakis even browner. If these jumpy alien turds bit your face, their neurotoxins knocked your health down to one percent, at which point the game would twitter "USER DEATH IMMINENT." These buggers were so scary that even your PC told you to quit. Ouch.
Whenever we heard these lil' fuckers ululating in a shadowy corner of the room, we fell back on our default strategy of spinning in circles and shooting at the ceiling. And we weren't the only ones wigging out --the crabs' shrieks were so unpleasant that they reportedly threw Half Life 2 play testers into ammo-wasting paroxysms. But hey, as LeVar Burton famously said, "You don't have to take our word for it:"
#1. Evil Otto from Berzerk
Our number one villain is unstoppable, immortal and can be easily drawn on MS Paint. He's Evil Otto, the scariest face in gaming history.
Evil Otto debuted in '80s Berzerk, a groundbreaking shoot-em-up that nowadays could be programmed by a preschooler. Berzerk's plot was seemingly adapted from a Dadaist stage drama. You are a green man who shoots yellow robots. If the robots shoot you, you die. If the robots touch you, you die. If you touch the walls (which are presumably laced with cyanide), you die. Your goal is to destroy 64,000 rooms worth of jaundiced robots, after which you are awarded 72 virgins in heaven.
It was Otto's job to fly through the poisonous walls and zap you when the timer ran low. Otto was merely a pain, but what makes him truly frightful is the fact that he is possibly the only video game enemy in history to kill players in real-life. Between 1981 and 1982, two teenage Berzerk players died of heart attacks shortly after posting high scores at video arcades. Evil Otto watched them die ... with a smile on his face.
For entire games that annoyed us, check out our rundown of The 10 Most Irritatingly Impossible Old-School Video Games. And speaking of old school, remember when the premises used to be about dinosaurs riding giant birds and all other manners of clown shit insanity? Ever wonder why? Find out in Video Game Pitch Meeting (1979). And be sure to read about even more terrifying games in columnist Dan O'Brien's report on the surprisingly dangerous choking game.


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I've often been told by people that I shouldn't refreeze meat (particularly hamburger meat) once it has been thawed. However, this seems a little silly to me. I can't imagine how meat that hasn't been bought fresh and local could find its way to my kitchen with out thawing and being refrozen a couple of times. How much damage can one more thawing and refreezing really do? Can it really be that dangerous disease wise? Or is this just one of those urban myths?
In theory you could thaw and refreeze as many times as you like, though the changes in temperature would definitely alter the quality of the meat's taste and texture.
What matters most is how long the meat has been in the so-called "danger zone" speaking from a temperature perspective. The "danger zone" is defined as being between 41 to 135 °F (5 to 57 °C).
Here is an excerpt from The Professional Chef, by the Culinary Institute of America:
As the water in the muscle fibers freezes it expands and creates a mushy texture. The reason that commercially frozen meat has less degradation of texture is due to the speed at which they can freeze things. The quicker that freezing takes place the smaller the ice crystals will be. Home freezers are best at keeping frozen foods frozen but take much longer than commercial freezers to do the actual freezing.
If the food was properly thawed, re-freezing once will probably have a minimal impact on texture but it's going to depend on the item. Ground meats such as ground beef probably won't be noticeable vs. a steak or other cut that normally has a fairly tight muscle structure.
In addition to freezing altering taste and textures by damaging cells and co, there are safety reasons to avoid refreezing. In France at least, all commercial frozen food have to display the "never refreeze unfrozen products" warning on the package.
The official explanation (I didn't look for scientific studies) is that when you defreeze on the first time, frost-proof bacterias will have few competitors because the initial freezing has killed most of other bacterias, they will have easy-to-digest food because the initial freezing has dismantled cells, and they will have further ideal development conditions because of the slow increase of temperature. So at first, it's likely to find more bacterias of a single kind in unfrozen food than in never frozen food with the same unfrozen lifetime (of course you may have more bacterias in the never frozen food, but of many species, I guess), though not at a dangerous level. Then, unless you have industrial equipment or your dish is packaged in very thin layers, the refrozing is slow, so bacterias have even more time to develop in such good conditions. So after being fully refrozen the product will have much more bacterias (of each surviving frost-proof species) than the original, possibly at a non-safe level. Of course it will be even worse next time, since bacterias follow an exponential growth (I guess once they're not in the exponential phase anymore, it's way too late already…).
So it seems not only the danger zone issue is hidden (one wrongly assumes that once in the freezer, the food is not in the danger zone anymore, but it takes some time to freeze, depending on the size), but there are specific issues because of conditions generated by the freezing.
On a side note, it's surprising how safety advices depend on the country (I guess). People on cooking.SE usually strongly advise to follow the US agencies "2 hours in danger zone" recommendation (interesting to note that the quote on JYelton's answer mentions 4 hours instead of 2). French (European ?) agencies recommend the same, but insist much more (it's my feeling at least) on the refreezing issue, and I'd bet much more French people are aware of the latter than of the former (probably because of the mandatory mention on packages).
Disclaimer : I'm no physician or food or health or food safety specialist, just reporting informations gathered on trustable (IMO) websites.
The answer depends on how the meat was thawed. If you read any of the health and safety documentation it tends to stipulate that meat thawed in a refrigerator can be safety refrozen. Meat thawed by other methods, particularly if the temperature reaches 40°F–140°F (4°C–60°C) should be cooked before refreezing.
It's not dangerous but it significantly impacts the quality of the meat. Most noticeably, it's ability to hold onto moisture.
Frozen food should be consumed quickly after it is defrosted. Do this within 1 week after the first defrost and 24 hours after the second. Red meat is the fastest decaying food and it's already been frozen before getting into your freezer.
A study indicates that refreezing food adds risks for contamination because freezing the meat ruptures the muscles in such a way that bacteria can travel from the surface to the interior. Each additional thaw allows the bacteria to expand in areas normally not affected by the bacteria.
Supposedly flash freezing causes smaller ice crystals, which minimize this from happening.
I take issue with those who say there is no danger. There is ...
Leaving for a trip, I bought frozen foods - vegetables and sausages - and kept them in a freezer bag on the train journey, imaging they would not unfreeze ...
Wrong - they did.
On arrival, I immediately refroze the defrosted foods, then cooked them properly (and very thoroughly) the next day, straight from the freezer (the meat correctly thawed in a microwave) and ate them straight away ...
I am lucky to be alive to tell the tale.
I had very bad food poisoning, tingling at the extremiites, trembling, and other syptoms, but, unfortunately, was unable to retch and get rid of the food that way. I had to wait for it to pass.
I spent a grisly few hours, and am convinced I survive because of an iron constitution : I am rarely ill, never suffer from food- poisoning, and eat all sorts of things which would flatten a mere mortal.
Take it from me - whilst it may be possible to safely refreeze under certain conditions, don't risk it ... ever !
Better safe than sorry !
I do it all the time and I have never been ill once :)
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"It's a shame you have to be away from home and your famliy so much," he said, "Let me tell you something that has helped me keep a good perspective on my own prirorities. You see, one day I sat down and did a little arithmetic. The average person lives 75 years, so I multipled 75 times 52 and came up with 3,900, which is the number of Saturdays the average person has in a lifetime.
"it took me fifty-five years to think about this in any detail." he continued, "and by that time I had lived through 2,800 Saturdays. I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of those left to enjoy."
He went on to explain that he had bought 1,000 marbles and put them in a clear container in his favorite work area at home. "Every Saturday since then," he said, "I have taken one of the marbles out of the jar and thown it away. I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life. There's nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help you get your priorities straight."
The older gentleman finished, "Now let me tell you one more thing before I sign off and take my lovely wife to breakfast. This morning, I took my last marble out of the container. I figure if I make it until next Saturday, then I have been given a little extra time."
We can't choose whether we will get any more time, but we can choose what we do with it. If you are intentional with what with what you have, then you will make the most out of the time and talent that God gives you.
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When it comes to Thanksgiving, I'm an extreme traditionalist. I like my meal to be generally the same from year to year, at least when it comes to what I consider the "staples." For me, a turkey is great, however as I was a vegetarian for most of my life and still now do not eat that much meat I tend to gravitate towards the sides to carry most of my meal.
So today's Impressing the Guests focuses on just that, Thanksgiving sides. Some of the traditional variety and some that have taken on a slightly more modern take from their longstanding counterparts to win your guests over.
Roasted Brussel Sprouts: You really can't go wrong with a roasted sprout. Never did I used to be a fan of this oddly shaped vegetable, but as I learned how I liked to eat it I have become a big fan. And if you still have finicky guests, throw a little bacon on top and they'll be raving for more.
Cranberry Pomegranate Sauce: Never a huge fan of straight cranberry sauce (especially the canned variety) I'm loving the idea of adding in handfuls of pomegranates and perhaps the juice of a few clementines. Yum!
Ricotta Mashed Potatoes: If mashed potatoes were an acceptable meal, I would eat them everyday. I love all varieties of potato, but mashed hold a special place in my heart. Add a little butter, maybe a handful of chives and a scoop of cream or cheese and I'm in heart attack heaven. But for one day, allow yourself to indulge and treat your guests to a smooth and creamy spoonful of these ricotta mashed variety.
Candied Yams: On a normal day I prefer my yams with a little brown sugar and dash of salt and pepper. But on Thanksgiving, let's take it to the next level and make this normally healthy dish into a dessert-like treat. Just don't look at the calorie count!
Green Bean Quinoa Casserole: Now, don't tell my husband but I'm not a huge fan of the traditional green bean casserole. Canned beans, creamy soup and fried onions. Let's indulge in the mash and yams and lighten things up for a bean dish that is simple and rich in protein.
Warm Dinner Rolls: A meal at our house wouldn't be complete without a basketful of warm yeasty dinner rolls. Jon's mom has perfected a recipe that we've slowly been trying to replicate, with little luck. This version takes a little over an hour for a pan full of fluffy perfection.
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It is time to begin fighting back, as we watched the devastating loss of the steel mills in the Ohio Valley, and thousands of workers lost their jobs. The Chinese now targeted the auto parts industry, where the Chinese government has subsidized the auto parts industry an estimated $27.5 billion since 2001, costing us a half a million good paying jobs, with another 1.6 million jobs at risk.
After 190 U.S. representatives sent a letter to President Barack Obama in March, calling for action on Chinese-made auto parts, the president took action. The president made the right choice in 2009 when he curbed the imports of tires from China. The action helped create hundreds of new jobs.
Our companies can compete with any company on a level playing field, what we cannot compete with is countries that cheat by manipulating their currency and receiving government subsidies. The Chinese government has mastered these practices. It is time to bring the cheating to an end.
Please let your elected officials and president know how you feel about being cheated out of our jobs. It is time to protect our children's future. Please stand up and be heard.
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Hearing on Friday will focus on several motions filed in rape case
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STEUBENVILLE — Local and national news organizations are expected to argue Friday that further juvenile court proceedings involving two Steubenville High School student-athletes charged with rape......
I hope good judgement prevails and that this case is closed to the public. All parties involved are children and this entire case has be hy-jacked by news outlets, organizations and individuals who want their own agendas served.
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Steubenvillites may be interested in this very disturbing developing story. Will the adults from this community be more "adult" than the ones in Steubenville? We will see:
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Open or closed? Lot of ways to look at it.
Enough has already been hidden by officials (intentionally or not).
The "ogres" of the internet have enlightened us and the world. I thank you.
Who is going to monitor whether we hear the true interpretation of what actually happened in court?
Obviously, trust is and has been questioned here and there for months.
I think the girl should be protected as much as possible.
How about if a audio tape is availble for us.
I know of no other way to close it.
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Oh, I forgot.....is Mr. DeWine ever going to let us know if others will be charged before the trial? Or ever?
Are others being investigated?
Why haven't we heard if others are being investigated; or is this another keep it out of the news.
Maybe Annonymous knows or can find out?
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Does anyone know if it is possible to mix different versions of AD&D? I'm hoping to mix Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 1st edition with the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition. What I would really like to know if there are any major differences between the two.
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There are major differences, but nothing too insurmountable.
Most 2E DM's used some 1E materials. THe key is picking your core edition, and what you'll cross over. Monks and Assassins crossed over VERY easily. DSG/WSG non-character rules can be used as is.
Again, Pick your reference edition: the rules are subtly different in many places, and it trips people up. So use one as your ruleset, but allow the stuff you want from the others as a port-in.
Also, note that monsters from other 3E/3.5E/PF can be used easily enough simply by looking up THAC0 from HD, and spells directly across by name (even when they do very different things).


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A secretary at Topeka Public School's Linn Educational Center who helped capture a man suspected of killing an eight-year old girl is this month's Champion of Character.
Maria Rodriguez received the honor Wednesday from Safe Streets and the City of Character program.
In March, she refused to let a suspicious-looking man into the school and spoke with police about him.
Rodriguez says she was just doing her job.
"I was friendly to him but assertive," she said. "He did kind of persist for a little bit but he took no for an answer and left the building. I observed where he went and got a call from security. They let me know there was a murder suspect in the area and I let them know, 'I think he'd already been in my building.'"
Thanks to her useful directions and description, police were able to capture Billy Davis, who's charged in the death of highland park central student Ahliyah Irvin.
Rodriguez was nominated by USD 501 Communications Director Ron Harbaugh, who believes she demonstrated the character quality of initiative.