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Mind Mapping Apps for the iPad: A Comparison
Unlike the Android marketplace, Apple's appstore unfortunately does not allow you try out apps for a couple of minutes and get a refund if you don't like them. After buying an iPad I wanted to have a good Mindmapping app, but I had no idea which of the six or so options would be the best choice for me. I searched for a site that compared them all, but couldn't find that either. That's when I decided to buy them all, use them all and review them all on this blog.
I wanted to make this a definitive review, so I created a companion spreadsheet with all the factual and easily quantifiable information about the different apps. You can find it here (I will not keep it up to date, so if you want to volunteer to do that I can give you access). The spreadsheet will tell you for example whether the app can work with an external screen, if there is an iPhone or Desktop equivalent and what methods and formats are supported for import and export.
For each of the apps I tested how easy it was to learn and to use, how the mindmaps look, whether it is possible to share the maps easily to other users and locations and whether there are any online services that the maps can sync to. I also gave each of the app a rating (10 is marvellous, whereas 1 is horrible).
iMindMap Mobile HD
€ 25.99 by Buzan Online
This is the offering by the company/man who has feverishly tried to copyright mind mapping and has build an accreditation and consultancy business around helping people leverage mind mapping in their work: Tony Buzan.
The stiff price of the app and the "official" stamp sets high expectations. Unfortunately the app doesn't deliver. At first glance there is a lot of polish and a professional look (i.e. you get instructions on how to use the app with a slick video, the map overview screen with miniature versions of the mind maps is beautiful), but once you start using it, the shine goes away.
The interface is very counterintuitive. Even very experienced computer users might need to watch the video before they start being capable of inputting data using one of the two input methods. Moving nodes around and deleting them is clumsy. The interface for collapsing branches is shockingly bad. Each node can have a colour set and an icon (from a large collection)
but cannot have any notes or URLs attached and can have a note or an URL attached (updated after a comment by Tim Smith).
The external presentation mode shows the map on the external screen and allows the iPad user to decide which topic to show. You cannot edit the map while using the external screen.
Overall it feels like this was built on commission by people with no real love for either mind mapping or the iPad. The people who commissioned the creation of the app, assumedly mind mapping experts from Buzan, should look at some of the other mind mapping apps available and learn that it isn't only looks that are important.
Pros: Beautiful mind maps, "official" app.
Cons: Hard to use, no interoperability, outrageously expensive
Rating: 5/10
iThoughtsHD (mindmapping)
€ 7.99 by CMS
The longer you use this mind mapping app the more you realise that its maker has tried to make the ultimate tool for mind mapping on the iPad. He is striving for perfection and it shows.
Although the app is intuitive to use for beginners, it also has an extensive feature list for power users: From the setting of backgrounds, to keyboard shortcuts (e.g. three times "enter" will create a new sibling node, whereas three times "space" creates a new child).
Maps are organised in folders and can each have an icon for easy recognition. There is no search function yet to find a particular map or its contents.
Adding, moving and copying nodes and branches of nodes is very easy and can be done intuitively in multiple ways. Occasionally the app will misinterpret your intentions, but this is quickly remedied by a quick tap on the undo button.
The nodes can contain all kinds of information, varying from task related items (priority, progress, start- and due date, all with matching icons) to notes, URLs and icons. The colour and shapes are customisable too and can be applied to all children in a branch. It is possible and easy to make links between different nodes. The boundary option is unique and useful: it puts all the nodes in a branch in an outline and colours the background.
iThoughtsHD has its own native file format, but also supports many other mind mapping formats. There are a number of im- and export options. One way that works very well is the Dropbox integration. There is a two-way sync between iThoughtsHD and Dropbox. This is great for backup and also allows an easy way to safely collaborate with someone else on a map using a shared Dropbox folder.
Another iThoughtsHD feature that the other apps are missing is a revision history. iThoughtsHD keeps older versions of your map in case you want to go back in time (although the most recent version of the app
seems to have lost this functionality has only made this functionality available when creating a new map (updated after a tweet from the makers of the app)). The app actively advises you not to rely on iTunes for doing a full backup and has a way to send an email with your complete data in an archive. This archive can then be imported in case it is needed.
Pros: Most complete feature set, very rich in its im- and export options
Cons: Could be overkill for some users
Rating: 9/10
€ 3.99 by Barking Minds LLC
This app is relatively new (I believe the web service is still in beta). It is a very simple app with an output that looks similar to MindNode (with the concepts/nodes on narrow lines, rather than in rounded boxes).
The main point of Maptini is that allows for very easy collaboration using either the app or the version in the browser (there is even a way to work in mobile safari). It is incredibly quick to make your map completely public and let anyone else with a Maptini account edit the map.
The editing is simple and fast and there is not a lot to worry about: there are just 6 colours and a delete button. The iPad app does not allow any importing and exporting of different mind maps: this all needs to be done through the web interface.
Collaborative editing in realtime does really work as advertised, so if it is important for you to have multiple people work on the same mind map at the same time, then this app is worth a shot.
Pros: made for collaboration
Cons: no other features than basic map-based outlining
Rating: 6/10
MindMeister for iPad
€ 5.99 by MeisterLabs
MindMeister started its life on the web: for a yearly subscription fee you can have an unlimited number of mind maps stored online, accessible and editable through any modern browser and sharable with others for realtime collaborative work.
This web-based experience is now also available on mobile devices. The iPad app does not require a subscription with the web-service, but will only allow you to sync six mind maps from the iPad to your online account if you aren't a subscriber (while not being completely transparent about how to influence which six maps will synched).
Like most (but not all) apps, MindMeister uses the model where you select a node and then click a "plus" to create a child of this node. This means that it always takes two taps to add a child, but what you lose in the number of taps, you gain in consistency. Moving nodes around is easy and the dedicated trashcan button is smartly put far away from the other node-related buttons in the interface. An undo button seems to be missing.
Nodes can be linked to each other, but it is not clear how to remove these links once you have created them (is this possible at all?). There is a good set of icons, the colour is flexible (you can even theme the whole map in one go), you can create direct links to URLs and email addresses and there are task related options. Tasks is something where MindMeister really shines: not only can you note the start/due date, priority, effort and completion, you can also assign the task to other MindMeister users. These tasks then sync to the web and people will get reminders when tasks are due.
The tasks functionality points to the ideal use case for MindMeister: if you work in a small team you could use it for all the minutes of meetings, for all the notes and for all the planning. The collaborative sharing would allow everybody to have the same view. When working through the browser the online collaboration works as fast as GoogleDocs (near instant synchronisation), on the iPad it seems to update a bit slower making it less easy to use with a virtual team.
The "Geistesblitz" functionality gets a lot of marketing in the description in the appstore, but is less useful than it is made out to be. What it allows you to do is to assign a default mind map (this needs to be done online). Whatever you then add in the Geistesblitz screen is added as a child of the "Geistesblitz" node in this default app. Most people will have another app to capture random notes and thoughts like this.
Most other apps with external screen support keep the iPad screen the same and display a version of the map (without any interface elements) on the external screen. MindMeister shows the complete iPad screen on the external screen, including all interface elements.
Rating: 8/10
€ 4.99 by Markus Müller
This is very slick app that is very intuitive and quick to use. The feature set is light: it is impossible to do anything else with a node but give it a colour and there are limited options for im- and export. What it does, it does exceptionally well: it is easy to add nodes and delete them (there is an undo and a dedicated delete button) and moving a node takes no effort too.
The thin and freshly coloured lines on which the text is written are pleasing to the eye. The one thing that could be improved is the fact that auto-lay-outing (the app calls it reorganising) has to be triggered manually whenever the map gets too messy: there is no way to have the app do it continuously.
In most cases a mind map is nothing more than a hierarchical outline and could alternatively be displayed as an indented list. Kudos to MindNode for providing an easy way to navigate the map in list form and to provide a search box allowing you to quickly find a particular piece of information in a large map.
The app allows you to save maps to Dropbox in different formats, but this is only a one-way street: there is no easy way to import maps from Dropbox in a similar manner. This is one of the few apps that supports printing. There is no easy way for collaborative editing.
Pros: Very fast and minimal interface
Cons: Light on features with no advanced lay-out option or "intelligent nodes"
Rating: 7/10
Total Recall
€ 0 for three maps, € 0.79 for unlimited maps by Zyense
The opening map of this mind mapping app has a bit of a childish look (probably caused by the pastel colours and the bubbly nodes). The app is very simple in its functionality.
Each of the bubbles (nodes) can have its colour set and can be connected to any of the other bubbles. These connections are many to many, so with Total Recall you aren't stuck with a purely hierarchical system, but can create real networks too. Because of this, the automatic lay-outing algorithm is interesting: you press play to start it, after which it starts pulling on all the connections until it has reached some form of equilibrium.
There is no support for an external screen and no other way than email to collaborate with other users.
Pros: Cheap, ability to have multiple connections between nodes
Cons: Very limited functionality, not very fast to use
Rating: 5/10
€ 1.59 by Digital-Dirtbag
This is definitely the odd one out in this list of apps. Trout is not made to be similar to anything else, instead it looks and feels like it was written to solve the knowledge management issues that the author himself must have had.
In one way that is great: this is the only app that allows you to record sound snippets with each of the nodes and to add images that can be zoomed. There is an interesting quick direct link to Google search results for the words in the node and the way that you can add your own meaning to both colours and icons is refreshing.
On the other hand it also a bit of a hindrance: this is one of the hardest apps to come to grips with and some of the icons on the buttons are really unclear. There is little or no documentation, so you are left to yourself to find out what a "model" is and how to work with defining icons that can then be sorted in the list view.
This app would mainly be recommended to curious minds.
Pros: Ability to record sound and upload images
Cons: Unclear interface
Rating: 6.5/10
The Verdict:
Three of these tools are really viable for everyday use. If you are interested in a very quick and clean solution that works well, then go for MindNode.
For the individual user who wants to make sure that their maps look good and who needs to be flexible with where the data of the map goes, iThoughtsHD is the best option.
If you work in a small team and you get other people to also subscribe for an account, then MindMeister seems to be the best option.
My costs
It cost me € 51.33 to buy all the apps and do this review of them. As an experiment, I would like the readers of this post to help me carry these costs. Would you be willing to donate a small amount? ((I also would not say "no" to a free MindMeister subscription!).
I will remove this button as soon as my costs are recovered. Update 3/1/13: My costs have been recovered (thanks to about 20 generous readers). If you appreciated the reviews, then I would still appreciate a donation.
I have to thank Linux Format for their Roundup feature format, which I used as the inspiration for the way this post is set up.
DrupalJam in 7 tweets (Awesöme?!)
Arjen Vrielink and I write a monthly series titled: Parallax. We both agree on a title for the post and on some other arbitrary restrictions to induce our creative process. For this post we agreed to write about DrupalJam 6 by commenting on 7 tweets that have a #drupaljam hashtag. You can read Arjen's post with the same title here.
DrupalJam 6 was held in Amsterdam on March 19th 2010. I have never really used Drupal, but as a project it has many similarities to Moodle and that makes it interesting to me. Just like Moodle it was started by a single very sociable person with a vision, just like Moodle it is a PHP application and just like Moodle it is the de facto mindshare (if not market) leader in its field. All the similarities make looking at the differences even more interesting. Moodle has commercialised through a decentralised network of Moodle partners, whereas Drupal has chosen a venture capital backed route with Acquia.Martin Dougiamas has decided to commercialise the Moodle trademark through a decentralised network of Moodle partners, whereas Dries Buytaert has chosen a venture capital backed route by creating a company specialising in Drupal services: Acquia, allowing other companies to (often freely) license the Drupal trademark too. (Text deleted and added after a comment by Bert Boerland, thanks!) The DrupalJam was more product focused (in the sense of software focused) than your standard Moodlemoot. This makes sense: DrupalJam visitors only share the fact that they use Drupal (the contents of their site can be about anything) whereas Moodlemoot visitors usually also share a passion for education.
Let's cut to the chase: During the DrupalJam I kept monitoring the #drupaljam hashtag using Tweetie 2. I then favourited every tweet that I thought was interesting and could be used for this post. Out of the twenty or so favourites I selected these 7 to share with you.
1. tkeppens: Het zou fantastisch zijn de #drupaljam sessies na de conf als screencast te kunnen zien. Drukke agenda laat niet toe er te zijn. : – ( #drupal
A quick translation: "It would be fantastic if #drupaljam sessions would be viewable as a screencast after the conf. Busy agenda doesn't permit me to attend". Technology is now at a stage where even for a non-commercial event, this should be feasible. Presentation capturing is something that I have been exploring in my role as Innovation Manager for Learning Technologies recently and it is a market with fast maturing products. I have looked at Presentations 2Go and am also very interested in Echo 360's offering (see here for a more complete list of options I explored). I believe it is good practice to separate the video of the speaker from the video of the speaker's laptop. Does anybody know what is the easiest way of organising this on the cheap for conferences like the DrupalJam or a Moodlemoot?
2. ellishettinga: 2 werelden komen samen, #drupaljam in de Microsoft-/Sogetizaal, Microsoft als hoofdsponsor? Gezellig.
Translation: "2 worlds come together, #drupaljam in de Microsoft-/Sogetihall, Microsoft as the main sponsor? Convivial." I have a distaste for giving rooms names of sponsors and have tweeted about that before:
However the fact that it is Microsoft sponsoring an open source event is pretty new to me and apparently something we should be getting used to.
3. ijansch: #drupaljam dangerous question in opening. 'how many women are here' is so eighties… Make them feel normal, not special.
Women in technology is a pretty contentious topic. Ada Lovelace day has just passed and could be seen as a symptom of more ground needing to be covered. DrupalJam did not have a lot of women attending. As nooble wrote: Op #drupaljam met 2^8 mannen en 2^2 vrouwen ("At #drupaljam with 2^8 men and 2^2 women"). I agree with ijansch that the organiser did a terrible job in the way that they brought this to the attention of the complete audience. Instead they should have asked themselves why this is the case and how it can be changed for the next event. I've recently listened to two podcasts that discuss women in technology as a (sub)topic: FreeBDSgirl and Fernanda Weiden both on Floss Weekly. Another interesting project to stay in touch with is Women & Mozilla. Open source projects should never forget that there are also many other diversity and inclusiveness lenses to take into account outside of gender.
4. ijansch: Would be nice if #drupaljam was on http://joind.in for talk ratings
It is always nice to learn about a new web service through a tweet. I checked out Joind.in and have decided to register for an account and try and use it at the next conference I am organising (Moodlemoot on May 26th). Joind.in allows you to add tracks and talks to your event and then provide an easy link to a summary, slides on Slideshare and a way to score and comment on the talk. They have an iPhone app and an open API (so other apps should be on their way). The only thing that might be a problem is that it doesn't seem to allow for localisation: the whole site is in English, making Dutch summaries stand out a bit.
5. ekes: apache solr stats #drupal understand what people look for on your site. Genius. @robertDouglass #drupaljam
The first tweet that has any relation to Drupal. Apache Solr is an interesting Apache project that sits on top of the Lucene search engine library. It is a very fully featured and fast search platform with things like faceted search out of the box. There is a Drupal project that integrates Solr with Drupal, bringing very rich search functionality to any Drupal website. Good stuff!
6. askibinski: Just learned about the 'Levensthein distance'. A way to compare similarities between strings. #drupaljam
This tweet had me whipping out my phone to do a Wikipedia search (I use the excellent and free Wikipanion app for that) on Levensthein distance. It is a way to see how similar two strings of text are measured by their edit distance: how many steps do you need to transform one string into another. I have no idea why this concept came up during DrupalJam (I wasn't at the talk), but I do now have another trivia under my belt.
7. bramveen: Maybe the speaker should remove his chewing gum #drupaljam
Every open source project seems to have a least one "rock star" and Morten Heide self-named "King of Denmark" was the rock star of the day. Morten loves umlauts, the name of his company is "geek Röyale", and his two favourite words are "awesöme" and "shit".
Morten is a web designer and was giving the final talk of the day, speaking about the new way of doing themes in the as yet unreleased Drupal 7. The only problem with the talk was that Morten was chewing gum while talking. That and the rest of his behaviour turned the talk into more of a show about Morten then a talk about Drupal theming. Afterwards Mortendk showed some remorse on Twitter: #drupaljam next time im gonna drop The gum it was an #epicfail hope ppl got The awesome shit in drupal 7 anyways. I would say: Keep the gum, the world needs more completely self-involved rock stars…
Why Chromium is Now My Primary Browser
Arjen Vrielink and I write a monthly series titled: Parallax. We both agree on a title for the post and on some other arbitrary restrictions to induce our creative process. For this post we agreed to include our personal browser histories in the post. You can read Arjen's post with the same title here.
If you are not interested in Browsers and/or usability, I would suggest you don't bother to read this post.
I cannot exactly remember the first time I used the Internet. It probably was in 1996 in the library at the Universiteit Utrecht. I wasn't particularly aware of the browser I was using, but I am quite sure that is was Netscape Navigator with which I did the Altavista searches. I used Netscape throughout my education, only to switch to Internet Explorer 5 when I got my own computer with Windows 98 and a dial-up Internet connection. I then used nothing but IE until I read about Mozilla Firefox in a magazine in 2004. Through Moodle I had started appreciating open source software and I liked working with Firefox and its tabs. I stuck with Firefox for a year or so, feeling quite the rebel whenever a site would only load in IE. At some point I noticed how much faster IE was than Firefox. That is when I switched to Avant Browser, a freeware skin around the IE browser engine which included tabs and some other advanced features. A little while later (somewhere in late 2005 or early 2006) I learnt about Opera. Opera had a lot of appeal to me. I liked how their developers pushed so many innovations in the browser space: tabbed browsing, advanced security features and mouse gestures were all inventions of Opera. I loved how fast it was and how many features they managed to cram in so little megabytes. Its cross platform nature allowed me to stay with Opera when I permanently switched to Ubuntu in the summer of 2006. I switched back to Firefox in early 2007 because of my slightly more hardcore open source attitude and because of its wonderful extensions. The latter allowed me to keep all the functionality that I loved about Opera and more.
About two weeks ago I switched to Chromium. This is Google's relatively new open source offering in the browser market. I am able to automatically download new builds every day through the PPA for Ubuntu Chromium Daily Builds. Even though it is still beta alpha software, it is highly usable.
So why did I switch? I think there are three reasons:
1. Performance
Since a couple of months my private computing is done with a Samsung NC10. This Intel Atom based netbook is slightly underpowered. You really notice this when you are doing things like recoding a video or doing some CPU intensive image editing. I also noticed it terribly in Firefox. Things like Google Reader, DabbleDB (watch that 8 minute demo!) and the WordPress admin interface were nearly unusable. A cold start of Firefox (the 2.x version that comes with Ubuntu 9.04) takes nearly a minute. Chromium on the other hand starts up in a couple of seconds and is very spiffy with Javascript-heavy web-apps.
I tried to quantify my unmistakable feelings with some benchmarking. I used Peacekeeper, but Firefox could not finish the benchmark and would crash! I then used the Sunspider Javascript benchmark and got a total score of 3488.8ms for Chromium and a total score of 18809.6ms for Firefox. This means that in certain cases Chromium would load something in less than one fifth of the time that Firefox 2.x will load it.
While writing this post I decided to try installing Firefox 3.5 (without add-ons) and see how that would perform. After a sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5 I could start Firefox by selecting "Shiretoko Web Browser" in the "Internet" menu. The total score was 5781.2ms, a major improvement, but still more than one and half times slower than Chromium. Its interface is also still less responsive than I would like it to be.
Another nice aspect about Chromium's performance is that each tab is its own process. This so called Multi Process Architecture isolates problem webpages so that one Flash page crashing does not affect the other browser tabs, something that happened very often to me with Firefox.
2. Screen Real Estate
Another thing that a netbook lacks is pixels. My screen is 1024 pixels wide and 600 pixels high. Especially the lack of height is sometimes taxing. I have done a lot of things in Ubuntu to mitigate this problem (if you are interested I could write a post about that) and I had to do the same with Firefox.
In Firefox I used Tiny Menu, chose small icons, used no bookmarks and combined many toolbars into one to make sure that I have more content and less browser. To my surprise I had to do nothing with Chromium and still got a bigger canvas with a bigger font in the address bar! Compare the screenshots below to see the differences:
Chromium shows more of the page and accomplishes this by doing a couple of smart things:
- There is no status bar. I could have turned the status bar off in Firefox, but I need to see where a link is pointing to before I click on it. Chromium shows this information dynamically as soon as you hover over a link. When you don't hover it shows nothing.
- The tabs are moved into the title bar. It looks a bit weird for a while, but it uses some very valuable space.
- Some things only appear when you need them. The bookmark bar, for example, only shows up when you open a new tab.
3. It is a fresh look at what a browser should/could be
Most of my time behind my computer is spent using a browser. More and more of the applications I use daily have moved into the cloud (e.g. mail and RSS reading). It is thus important to have a browser that is made to do exactly those functions.
The developers of Chromium have looked at all aspects of a traditional browser and have rethought how they work. A couple of examples:
- The address bar is actually a tool with four functions. It contains your web history, typing some terms will execute a search in your default search engine (saving me two characters compared to how I search in Firefox), you can type a normal web address and you can use keywords to search. If I type w chromium in the address bar it will search for chromium in Wikipedia. The keyword search also works in Firefox, but Chromium has a prettier and more clear implementation.
- When you open a new tab, you see a Dashboard of sites you use often (a variant of another Opera invention). That page also conveniently displays recently closed tabs with a link to your browsing history. The history page has excellent search (it is Google after all!) and has that simple Google look.
- The downloads work in a particular way. They automatically save in a default location unless you tick a box confirming that you always like to open that type of file from now on. This takes a little getting used to (I like saving my downloads in different folders), but once again the download history is searchable and looks clean.
In conclusion: Chromium is a browser in which some hard choices were made. No compromises. That means that I, as a user, have to worry about less choices and settings and can focus on being more productive. Making tough interface design choices can be a very successful strategy: witness Apple's iPod.
For now I will be using Chromium as my primary browser and will use Firefox when I need certain functionalities that only Firefox add-ons can provide.
I am looking forward to what the browser future holds!
Where is IMDB's API?
I really like the Internet Movie Database (IMDB). It is the largest freely available database of movie related data. I use it mainly for two things:
- Whenever I see an actor or actress in a movie and cannot remember in which movie I have seen that person before. IMDB list all the actors/actresses in the movie and allows you to click on the name of each person. On the page of the person it will then show you all the movies in which they played a role.
- Whenever I am in video store and need to know whether the movie that I am about to rent is any good. IMDB has a ratings systems that can give you a good general idea of the quality of the movie.
This post will be about the second use case. In the video store I use the Internet connection of my mobile phone. This is a tedious and often infuriating process, especially when you want to look up multiple titles. IMDB's pages are huge (they have many images and ads), and this makes them load very slowly. In case of an ambiguous title two pages need to load before you can see the rating. Let's look at an example. If I search for "pulp fiction" I get the following page:
I then have to click on the "Pulp Fiction" link to see the IMDB page which has the rating:
After another angry session at the video store, I decided to do something about it. First I looked for a mobile version of the IMDB website. There are some available options (see here and here), but they are geared towards iPhones and don't really work well.
Next I decided to write my own small web application and tried to find the IMDB API. It doesn't exist! Unfortunately there is no way to easily use and re-purpose IMDB's data. I don't understand why some web companies (in this case Amazon) still don't realise that this actually inhibits the building of their brands.
Luckily there is always one last option: screen scraping. I was actually willing to try and write my own parser for this (would be great practise), but found Izzysoft's IMDBPHP class which makes this easy work. This class allows you to get a lot of data about each movie.
After about two hours of programming I now have the following result. I call it Rent it?:
I tried to design it to be as fast as possible and made it fit for purpose using the following design considerations:
- I used a big input field at the top of the screen, with a big button underneath. This input field is also shown on the results pages, so that it is always easy to start a new query. The field gets automatic focus as soon as the page finishes loading.
- Only relevant information about each movie is shown: rating, title, year, director, run time in minutes and a user generated plot outline. The title links to the original IMDB page which will open in a new window.
- The standard IMDB score is converted to a percentage and gets a background colour on the basis of the height of the rating. Red has a rating of less than 60% (not worth watching), whereas movies with green ratings are above 70% and could be interesting.
- The pages are very light: no ads or images. All the processing is done on the server. If a search has many results, then this processing can still take a while. That is why the number of results are capped at five and results are cached for a week (also on the server to benefit everybody).
I hope you are willing to try it out and look forward to any of your feedback!
Rent it? is also accessible through my mobile start page.
Top 10 Podcasts for the Technophile
About two years ago I had to change the way I got to work. I used to take the train and would spend all that time reading. Suddenly I had to drive a car and it felt like I was wasting my time. That is until I found out about podcasting.
I have about ten hours of listening to fill every week and do that with the following podcasts (not in any particular order):
- Leo Laporte has single handed created his own Netcast Network: TWiT. It is proof that it is now more than possible to create professional sounding audio (and lately even video) without breaking the bank. He does all his interviews over Skype, produces hours and hours of shows each week and is highly successful (some of his shows have around 200.000 listeners) without being big media. I listen religiously to four of his shows:
- this WEEK in TECH (feed URL): This is the leading show that gives its name to the network. Laporte talks about the week's tech news with luminaries like John C. Dvorak, Patrick Norton from Tekzilla, Will Harris from Channelflip and many others. The show is often hilarious with some great insights, although I can imagine it might feel like a lot of inside baseball when you don't listen very often. My favourite regular guest is Jason Calacanis from Mahalo. He always seems to bring some outrageous humour to the show, but is also often one step ahead of the game when it comes to really understanding how business is changing because of the Internet.
- FLOSS Weekly (feed URL): This is a show about Free, Libre, Open Source Software with Randal L. Schwartz. The show usually consists of an interview with the project lead(ers) of a big open source software project. It is a great place to learn about new projects and to get a better knowledge of how open source software development works.
- net@night (feed URL): This show has Amber MacArthur sharing links of new websites that she encountered. Often there will be an interview with a founder of some new web 2.0 start-up. The show can be a bit light on content sometimes.
- Security Now (feed URL): If you really want to get a better understanding of how computers work, than this is the show for you. Steve Gibson is a real old hand in the IT world (the back-end of his website is written in assembly language if I am not mistaken). The show has two types of episodes: one where Steve dives deep into a particular security related topic and one where he answers questions from his listeners.
- Search Engine with Jesse Brown (feed URL new feed url at TVO.org): "A blog and podcast about the Internet. But not boring." This is the podcast that I would love to make. Jesse Brown uses his audience to find stories in which the Internet has profound social effects. He really understands the Net and has the most wicked loops and intros of any podcast in this list.
- Guardian's Tech Weekly (feed URL): Aleks Krotoski and other Guardian journalists go through a week of tech news. It is a smoothly produced show with some interviews, a start-up elevator pitch, short news segments and sense of humour. The British focus can be refreshing.
- Guardian's Science Weekly (feed URL): Alok Jha must be the funniest man in science journalism. Only Brits can make a show that is incredibly entertaining and very intelligent at the same time. You can feel the love for science and the joy they have in making the show.
- Digital Planet (feed URL): This BBC world show takes a much more international look at how technology is changing society. It has many features on the developing world and has a true journalistic BBC attitude. The resident expert Bill Thompson is a great technology critic who brings something extra.
- These two Dutch podcasts are interesting too:
- Radio Online (feed URL): This long running radio show always manages to entertain me. The combination of sceptic Peter de Bie and hardcore Internet journalist Francisco van Jole really works.
- ICT Roddels (feed URL): Brenno de Winter and Gonny van der Zwaag produce this podcast. I have a lot of respect for Brenno who has his very own fearless interviewing style and is a journalist with principles. His Bigwobber site is pushing hard for open government. The audio quality is less then the other shows that I have described but it is good enough.
- Finally, as a bonus, two extra podcasts:
- LugRadio (feed URL): The awesome foursome have stopped producing this great Linux show. They were completely irreverent and had some insanely hilarious segments, but also always managed to have very thoughtful and deep discussions about open source software and the open source community. It is well worth listening to the archives.
- Ricky Gervais Podcast (available at Audible): This has nothing to do with technology, but it is probably the best comedy that is available on audio anywhere.
I use Amarok (not the KDE4 version!) to download these podcasts and sync them with my iPod. Amarok really deserves a plug as it manages the podcasts on my iPod perfectly. Podcasts continue where I left them, get downloaded automatically when new ones arrive, get deleted from my iPod when I have listened to them completely and show the little image of the show.
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My employer, Stoas Learning, organized a Moodle seminar today. I did two presentations in the morning (both of them in Dutch).
The first one was titled: "Moodle 2.0, een sneak preview". I discussed the new features that will appear in Moodle 2.0 and did a quick demo of how you can use the repository API to pull in an image from Flickr, hand that in as an assignment and then push it out to GoogleDocs for savekeeping. You can find the slides below:
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The second presentation was titled: "Moodle, Elgg & Mahara – Samenwerkend Leren, Kennisdelen & Sociale Netwerken – Van Formeel naar Informeel". I tried to use three cases to explain that e-learning can be more than just a web-based, unfacilitated, content to single learner experience. These were my slides:
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The XIV International AIDS Conference in Barcelona has closed - with no news of an effective vaccine, no cure and less than four per cent of the people in the developing world receiving the antiretroviral treatment they could benefit from.
About 20 million people have AIDS and another 40 million are infected with HIV. The UN predicts that 68 million people will die from the disease between 2000 and 2020. And a new report, released at the conference, estimates that the number of AIDS orphans will double to 25 million by 2010.
At the last International AIDS Conference in Durban, in 2000, there was optimism that widespread access to antiretroviral treatment would soon be possible. But despite cuts in the price of the drugs, only 30,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa take them. More money and more political commitment is desperately needed, delegates say.
"The enormous gap between the numbers of people on treatment and the millions that need to be treated today hurts, and the slow pace at which the world reacts hurts even more," said Joep Lange, president of International AIDS Society, at the closing ceremony: "Despite the rhetoric, including the rhetoric about moving beyond the rhetoric, we dismally fail to act."
Paul Farmer of Harvard Medical School, who has started antiretroviral treatment projects in poor communities in Haiti, agrees. "The biggest rebuke to optimism and self-satisfaction we have is AIDS incidence and mortality - they show us we have failed miserably at our tasks," he said.
Heart-breaking stories
But on Friday, former US President Bill Clinton, urged optimism. He told delegates at the conference's closing ceremony: "You have now spent a week hearing the heart-breaking stories and the tales of survival and triumphs. You know what the world is not doing."
"But there are now cracks appearing in the glaciers of indifference we thought would never melt." he said.
Understanding and support from politicians around the world is increasing, Clinton said, and he urged wealthy nations to give more money to the Global Fund for AIDS. Launched in 2001, the fund has received pledges of $2.1 billion. But the UN estimates that $10 billion is needed annually by 2005 to effectively prevent and treat HIV/AIDS.
War against humanity
Former South African president Nelson Mandela, also speaking on Friday, called for global action, and highlighted the report on children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS.
"Nothing can be more heartbreaking than the case of AIDS orphans who often find themselves ostracised by their communities," he said. "This is a tragedy of enormous consequences. AIDS is a war against humanity."
But Clinton pointed out that some developing countries have successful anti-HIV AIDS programmes. He urged other nations to follow Brazil's example and negotiate with drug companies for cheaper HIV drugs, and, if necessary, to produce or buy cut-price generic versions.
Viral reservoirs
At the conference, leading HIV researcher Robert Siliciano of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore told delegates that anti-retroviral drugs alone will never cure AIDS - and that developing alternative strategies to hit the reservoirs of the virus that form in certain immune cells will be "very difficult".
This conclusion underlines the importance prevention strategies in anti-HIV/AIDS programmes, he said.
But vaccines remain several years away. Thailand announced that the largest Phase III trial of an HIV vaccine will start by the end of 2002, but many researchers fear it will not be powerful enough to stop infection.
Security threat
Most HIV/AIDS cases are still in sub-Saharan Africa but, conference delegates heard, the fastest growing infection rates are in Asia and Eastern Europe.
"No one can sit on the sidelines," Clinton said. AIDS "is a threat not simply to our health but to our economic well-being and our very security. One hundred million AIDS cases would mean more terror, more mercenaries, more war and destruction and the failure of fragile democracies. It is a security threat.
"That is why every citizen on our small planet has a personal interest in ending AIDS."
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When the Defense Department shrunk in the 1990s after the end of the Cold War, many in Congress, the executive branch and industry now say they went too far, especially with its acquisition workforce. Even today, nearly 20 years later, the Pentagon and the government at-large continue to feel the effects of those mistakes.
"Too many people in acquisition were let go and their positions were not filled, but the acquisitions went on and it was basically a mismatch," said Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, in an exclusive interview with Federal News Radio as part of its week- long multimedia series, Inside the World's Biggest Buyer.
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Adam picked Juliet, saying that he's loved her from the beginning. Blake said he loved what Sarah did with the harmonies, and Christina was blown away by Juliet — although she recognized that the song was a better fit for her competitor.
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Robin Thicke has a unique upbringing with a rich and famous dad, "Growing Pains" star Alan Thicke. Alan has a bit of a reputation with women and Robin says it made for an interesting experience growing up.
"My dad was single my whole pubescent period," he says in an interview with Elle. "He had Ms. Alabama, Ms. Dominican Republic -- every week. I was like, 'Dang, Pops.'" Thicke even remembers one specific run in with a lady his dad brought home. "The first time I saw a naked woman was when I went to take a shower one morning before school," he says. "I was like, 'Who is this girl in my shower?'"
Alan also took the time to teach Robin what not to do with women. Once while vacationing together, the elder Thicke caught his son staring at a woman walking by. "He said, 'I know she's pretty, but you stared at her and followed her across the room. What if there's a prettier girl sitting two tables away? Now she's not going to feel special. She'll say, 'You look at all the girls like that.' You've gotta play it cool so you don't look like you're desperate'," Robin recalls.
Thicke might not have needed the advice in the end. After all, he's been with his wife, actress Paula Patton, since he was 14 years old. Eight years into their marriage, Robin seemingly couldn't be happier. He says the spice is there there in abundance and even shares a peculiar secret: They listen to Robin's music in the bedroom. "Sometimes she'll even play groupie for me," Robin says. That's not weird at all.
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The Gaymer Cider Company's name was taken from Gaymer's Olde English cyder, a brand of cider first produced commercially in 1770 by William Gaymer and owned by Matthew Clark PLC from the mid 1990s.
The Gaymer Cider Company is the second largest cider maker in the world, producing most of its ciders in its Shepton Mallet plant. The ciders it produces are; Gaymer's Olde English cyder, Blackthorn Cider, Diamond White, White Star, K, Addlestones, Special Vat and Natch. Two new ciders include; Gaymers Original Cider and Gaymer's Orchard Reserve
Gaymer also owns the rights to Peardrax, a pear-flavoured brand of soft drink which originated in the U.K. but is currently manufactured only in Trinidad and Tobago.
Gaymer's became a national brand but by 1961 the company had been taken over by Showerings. Following several mergers Gaymer's became part of Matthew Clark PLC in the mid 1990s. After over 200 years of cider making in Attleborough, production of Gaymer's cider was transferred to Shepton Mallet in Somerset.
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Gaymer's Olde English is mostly sold through supermarkets and off licence chains.
In 2004 Matthew Clark PLC integrated with Constellation Wines Europe Ltd to form Constellation Europe, part of Constellation Brands Inc which claims to be the largest wine company in the world. Gaymer's Olde English cider is still produced in Shepton Mallet, along with the other cider brands formally owned by Matthew Clark PLC under the new name Gaymer Cider Company. The current Managing director is John Mills.
The Gaymer Cider Company is also developing new ciders using the Gaymer name including Gaymers Original Cider and Gaymer's Orchard Reserve, to be marketed alongside the original Gaymer's Olde English cider.
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We enjoy good relations, common values and an association with Christian Peacemaker Teams in the UK through our membership of the Root and Branch network.
Israeli soldiers demolished homes in three Palestinian villages near bypass road 317 on 14 February, reports Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) from Al Tuwani.
The international community's responsibility to protect endangered populations when their governments fail to do so, and church support for protective measures, has been the subject of lively debate at a World Council of Churches (WCC) workshop at the 20-25 January World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya.
Supporters of the US- and Canadian-based international conflict transformation organisation Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) - now known worldwide as a result of the 2005-6 hostage crisis in Iraq - have been challenging the prevalence of war toys through nonviolent actions at a well known retailer.
On the third Monday of every January, the United States marks Martin Luther King Day. The national holiday celebrates the birth and life of the civil rights activist and Baptist minister, whose Christian convictions about justice and the Gospel led him to a path of non-violence and peacemaking.
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This week I have had the great pleasure of meeting up again, for the first time since March 2006, with Jim Loney from Canada and Harmeeet Singh Sooden from New Zealand. One year ago this weekend we were companions in kidnap and held in close confinement in Baghdad where we had gone as members of a Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) delegation.


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'American Idol' Tour: Top 10 take on Kelly Clarkson's 'My Life Would Suck Without You'
The " American Idol" Top 10 contestants are hard at work preparing for their huge summer tour, but they let Zap2it interrupt their rehearsal today (June 17) to hang out. They even sang for us.
There was some confusion over where everyone would stand for the impromptu performance. Everyone wanted to stand next to Siobhan Magnus, but in the end, Lee DeWyze got the honor. (We guess there are some benefits to being the "American Idol" winner, though everyone swears he gets treated the same as the rest of them.)
We were treated to a performance of Season 1 "Idol" winner Kelly Clarkson's "My Life Would Suck Without You." Don't worry, though -- they were sober, so their performance was much better than Clarkson's drunken rendition of Ke$ha's "Love is My Drug."
We loved it... especially when "Idol" roomies DeWyze and Andrew Garcia took a break to dance with each other. Plus, this song always reminds us of the " Glee" fall finale, and you know we love us some "Glee" at Zap2it!
The Idols hit the road on July 1st on the "American Idol" Summer Tour. Their first show is in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
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Pac-Man is one the earliest examples of an interactive flat landscape—a maze, in this case—in a computer game. At the time of its genesis, the most popular arcade games were shooter games, like Space Invaders and Asteroids. Iwatani wanted to develop a nonviolent game for the teenage couples and groups that were beginning to frequent arcades in addition to boys. While eating pizza for lunch one day he had a vision of his character—a giant yellow circle with a wedge removed for a mouth. In creating the colorful ghosts that are Pac-Man's nemeses, Iwatani chose cuteness over scariness, hoping to appeal to female players. The player controls Pac-Man with a joystick, directing him to eat all of the dots in the maze while eluding the ghosts, who can end his life. If he succeeds, he moves up a level. Eating special power pellets gives Pac-Man the ability to kill the ghosts, and by eating transformed ghosts, assorted fruits, and other objects the player can gain bonus points. Eating to gain power, Iwatani has said, was a concept he borrowed from Popeye.
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Jason Davis: Every newspaper has its issues
In some ways, newspapers are a little like jobs.
Everyone complains about them, but a world without them would be a tougher place to live.
The Mountain Press is a great example.
There aren't many days that I don't hear some sort of complaint. Either a word was misspelled somewhere, a crossword puzzle was left out or space constraints kept a submitted story on the shelf another day. Perhaps someone just didn't like the tone of a particular story.
Yet, when someone feels slighted by a public official or wants to get the news of their new business out, they usually don't hesitate to ask us for help.
It's frustrating, sure, but I guess I wouldn't have it any other way.
I've been in the newspaper business for over half my life now, and all I can is this: There's only one perfect person I know who's walked the Earth, and he wasn't a copy editor.
People sometimes don't like the stories we cover, an angle we take or something we say in our personal columns or an editorial. I get that. It's a personal taste thing. If we wrote only what everyone wanted to hear, things would get boring fast.
We also hear comments about the number of submitted items or Associated Press content published.
The AP is a service we pay for, and we'd be foolish not to use it. We don't have a bureau in Nashville, and, as a six-day-a-week publication, we need some state and national coverage. Four writers can't do it all.
As for the submitted stuff, I can shoulder some of the blame there. As editor, I believe that copy submitted by the community should be given a level of priority. After all, we're Sevier County's newspaper. Why not give space to citizens and their stories? Will your church homecoming submission getting into a metro daily? Probably not. Will it get into The Mountain Press? Sure.
But, in the meantime, we are writing important stories. Stories about life. Stories about death. Stories about successful business ventures that help keep Sevier County on the map. Stories about large business transactions gone awry. Stories of 93-year-old community volunteers and state baseball championships.
Here is just a small sampling of some things readers of The Mountain Press learned over the past week by perusing our pages:
The Soggy Bottom Boys, of "O Brother, Where Art Thou" fame, reunited for a one-off concert in Gatlinburg.
A convicted murder from Sevier County, currently on death row, won the right to appeal his case.
A Pigeon Forge High student, Chad Gibson, was named the Tennessee State Senior Beta Club's vice president.
Gatlinburg has quite a schedule of spring special events on this year's slate.
The Anna Porter Library is offering a financial literacy class for older adults.
An adult was arrested for disorderly conduct at Seymour Middle School.
Our local car dealerships have some attractive deals on both new and used automobiles.
Construction at the local high school football stadiums has affected the track and field programs.
A local cell phone shop is offering iPhone 5C upgrades for only a penny.
State educational funding seriously short-changes our local students based on our tax contributions.
In the end, we're just like many of you, our readers.
We're Sevier Countians that depend on a small business to feed our families and provide them with shelter. We sit by you in church and stand next to you in line at the bank. Our children play with your children at recess, and our tax dollars pay to pave the same roads. We want what's best for all of us, and we want to tell you all about it.
We're The Mountain Press, and we're proud to be your newspaper.


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INSTEAD of using toxic pesticides to control the termites that destroy valuable crops and infest buildings, farmers might like to try glucose. In a modified form, the sugar switches off termite immune systems making them vulnerable to fungal attack.
Unlike mammal immune systems which sense pathogens and make antibodies on the fly, termites produce proteins that break apart any harmful molecules. They then build these proteins into the walls of their nests creating a "super-organism immune system", says Mark Bulmer at Towson University in Maryland.
He and his colleagues found a way to disable this system using a modified version of glucose that mimics the molecules found on the surface of a fungus that attacks termites. Released into a termite nest, the sugar derivative binds to the immune proteins that would otherwise destroy the attacking molecules. With these proteins out of action, the nest becomes vulnerable to fungal ...
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May 31, 2013
Summer brings spectacular produce to the table and corn is just one of its delicious offerings. This easy recipe for corn pudding from Living the Gourmet highlights this seasonal ingredient. Fresh corn kernels are mixed with milk, eggs, butter, and a little flour - its amazing how a few ingredients can be transformed into something so tasty. This corn pudding casserole is perfect for barbecues, family gatherings, or potlucks.
Butter to grease casserole dish
3 eggs
2 cups corn (fresh or frozen)
¼ cup flour
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons butter
2 cups whole milk
Fill the baking pan with an inch of water and set it in the oven. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
Grease the casserole dish with butter. Set it aside.
Crack the eggs into the mixing bowl, and beat them with the fork until bubbles form on the top.
If you are using fresh corn, cut it from the cob. If you are using frozen corn, run the bag under cold water to separate the kernels.
Stir the corn into the eggs. Sprinkle the flour, salt, and pepper over the eggs and corn, then mix in.
Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in the saucepan over low heat.
Add the melted butter and milk to the corn mixture and stir.
Pour the corn mixture into the greased casserole dish. Place the casserole dish into the baking dish of water in the oven.
Bake the corn pudding for 1 hour or until the knife inserted into the center comes out clean.
Remove the casserole dish from the oven and set the pudding on a trivet at the table and serve it warm. Enjoy!
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Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum
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- Time to Spend: 2 hours to Half Day
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No trip to Toronto is complete without a dose of hockey in one form or another. Although hockey isn't the official sport of Canada, it is the unofficial religion; thousands of Torontonians flock to the Air Canada Centre to support the Toronto Maple Leafs. Even if you're visiting in summer, you can still get your fix at the Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum, just a block or so east of Union Station. This site is a goldmine of paraphernalia, with exhibits including such artifacts as the original Stanley Cup, Max Bentley's stick and Terry Sawchuck's goalie gear. While you're here, check out the reproduction of the Montreal Canadians' locker room and the Puck Wall, which displays more than 1,000 pucks that were each collected from a different tournament.
With all its simulated exhibits, this museum is also a great place to visit with kids. According to one IgoUgo.com user: "I walked through for about one hour which was ok for me. But families may want to stay longer because it's an interactive museum … . It's a great family place to go as well as a great place for people like me who are basic hockey fans just wanting to see some interesting hockey things!"
The Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum is open every day; hours depend on both the day and the season. General admission is $15 CAD for adults and $10 CAD for children (prices are roughly equivalent in U.S. dollars). For more information, check out the museum website.
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Wyatt's shirt is paper pieced, and I masked hit little wagon to add in the truck, ball and dinosaur. You'll see I've used my MFT Die-namics to add a quick felted cloud element and a bit of grass. A quick bow with my favorite MFT Creme Cotton Ribbon (yes, boy cards can have a ribbon, and really, we all know this card was really for his mom the stamper anyways.... right?)
Since I'd loaded the outside of the card up, I finished off the inside with a few scraps. I just love a card finished inside and out!
A winner will be chosen from the comments on the pre-selected blog before tomorrow's teaser list goes live, and will be posted on Kim's blog HERE.
Be sure to check tomorrow to see if YOU are the winner. You can play along each day for your chance to win. We will be giving away NINE new stamp sets this week! As always, you can find the master list of participating designers HERE Kim's blog.


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Mailbag: What Bates-Diop & Tate to Ohio State Means for Michigan, Non-Conference, Vogrich or Stauskas, More
Originally written on UM Hoops | Last updated 11/20/12
The UM Hoops Mailbag is a collection of questions tweeted to us via Twitter (@umhoops), e-mailed to us or sent via our Facebook page. Submit your questions and we'll answer as many as we can. @jlustig22: What do you foresee the make-up being of the 2014 class? Now that Keita Bates-Diop and Jae'Sean Tate have picked Ohio State, does that alter their strategy & offers? Both prospects are big losses. Make no mistake about it. Michigan spent a significant amount of time tracking Jae'Sean Tate and especially Keita Bates-Diop this summer on the AAU circuit. Both players would have been great fits. Bates-Diop as a perfect stretch four with NBA potential and Tate as an aggressive and attacking player that could play the two, three or four. That's the bad news. The good news is that there's still plenty targets and time remaining. Devin Booker and Trevon Bluiett are now Wolverine priorities as the only offered prospects left on the board. Michigan is in a strong position for Booker and ...
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Families Invited to Share the Dreams of MLK at UNCW Watson School of Education Celebration Jan. 11
Monday, January 09, 2012
Area families with children of all ages are invited to share the dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through song, art, storytelling and more at the University of North Carolina Wilmington Watson School of Education's MLK celebration.
When: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11
Where: UNCW Education Building Room 162 & Atrium; park in Lot I or the main level of parking deck at the rear of campus
What: Participants will learn about the legacy of MLK through performances from the UNCW Gospel Choir, a dramatic reading of "I Have a Dream" by actor Ron Dortch and storytelling by the WSE Curriculum Materials Center staff. Face painting will also be available.
Students from schools across New Hanover County will showcase personal essays and artwork focused on the legacy of MLK and their interpretations of "dreams." Adult participants will be invited to participate in a conversation about the "next dream" for the local community and its education needs. Families will have the opportunity to learn more about the resources they can take advantage of in the UNC Wilmington Watson School.
Attendees are encouraged to bring a canned food item or an empty aluminum can to support local families in need. Canned food will be donated to the Good Shepherd Center while empty cans will be submitted to a recycling center to help fund scholarships for youth who attend Watson School enrichment programs.
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Scoreboard: 3rd of 8 at Salve Regina Doubles Invitational, Newport, R.I, 9/11
Schedule: Thursday, Sept. 16 at Providence, Providence, R.I., 3:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 18 vs. Siena, Worcester, Mass., 1:00 p.m.
- The Holy Cross women's tennis team plays in its first dual matches this upcoming week, first traveling to Providence, R.I., on Thursday, Sept. 16 to take on Providence. The team then opens up at home against Siena on Saturday, Sept. 18 at the Holy Cross Tennis Courts in Worcester, Mass.
- The women will open up fall dual match play against the Friars starting at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday. The match will be held on the Providence College Tennis Courts. The Crusaders and Friars split the series last season, as Providence won 6-1 in September before Holy Cross took revenge with a 4-3 victory in the spring. Junior Emily Marr (Jefferson, Mass.) won in two straight sets, 6-1, 6-0, in the spring while also winning a doubles match in the fall.
- On Saturday, the team will play against Siena at home in Worcester, beginning at 1:00 p.m. Siena won the last meeting, 5-2, as Marr won her single match and then teamed up with junior Emma Rudnik (Lake Bluff, Ill.) to win their doubles set as well. Marr's victory came at No. 3 singles over Jessica Asselin, 7-5, 6-1. Marr and Rudnik won their No. 2 doubles match, 8-5, to round out the wins on the day for Holy Cross.
- The team participated at the Salve Regina Doubles Invitational held at the Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I., finishing in third place out of eight squads this past weekend. This was the first time in five years that the match did not need to be rescheduled due to inclement weather circumstances. The team also finished right where they did in 2009, earning six points for a third place finish.
- Making debuts on the court were freshmen Molly Montgomery (Winnetka, Ill.) and Maya Welch (Rye, N.Y.), who won their first collegiate match, topping Curry's first flight squad, 8-5, before falling in the second round. Marr and Rudnik tallied two wins together, losing in their first round match-up but then going on to win the consolation bracket, topping the Curry doubles team, 9-7, in the first round of consolation and then an 8-2 win over Assumption to win in the final round.


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|PPS Table of Contents : HR Questions : Official University Policies & Procedures : UC Irvine
UCI Delegations of Authority
UCI Job Titles and Salaries
Department heads may approve alternate work schedules and partial-year appointments as well as determine when on-call assignments and call-back are necessary, in consultation with Human Resources.
Department heads exercise control over assigning work, ensuring accurate designation of hours worked for non-exempt employees, and ensuring that work is not performed by non-exempt employees during time periods designated as non-work hours (typically meal periods and before and after the standard daily work schedule).
Department heads ensure that accurate time and attendance records for non-exempt employees are reported to Payroll. Exempt employees record and maintain accurate attendance records.
Non-exempt employees must obtain approval prior to working overtime.
The standard workweek is from 12:01 a.m. Sunday to midnight the following Saturday. When circumstances require, the Assistant Vice Chancellor, Human Resources or the Assistant Medical Center Director - Director, Human Resources may approve alternate workweeks of any other seven consecutive 24-hour periods. (For example, a workweek from Wednesday through the following Tuesday may be established where weekend activity is consistently required.)
Standard Work Schedule
The standard work schedule for full-time employees is eight hours per day on five consecutive days from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with one hour for a meal period.
Alternate Work Schedule
The department head may approve an alternate (flexible) work schedule for the entire department, or for individual employees, in accordance with the following:
b. Overtime shall be in accordance with Policy 32.
Hours of Work - (Non-Exempt Employees Only)
Hours of work include all the time an employee is required to be on the employer's premises, on duty, or at a prescribed work place. Work not requested by department managers but "suffered or permitted" is considered work time. If the department manager knows, or has reason to believe, that work is being performed, the hours must be counted as time worked.
Meal Periods - (Non-Exempt Employees Only)
Meal periods are considered neither time worked nor time on pay status, provided the employee is substantially duty free.
Rest Periods - (Non-Exempt Employees Only)
A rest period shall not be added to a meal period or taken at the beginning or end of a work period. Time not used for rest periods shall not be accumulated for use on another day. Rest periods are scheduled by the supervisor, and rest period privileges may be withdrawn by the supervisor if such privileges are abused. Operational requirements may at times require the uninterrupted presence of the employee. In such situations, rest breaks will not be granted. Policy exceptions permitting the rest periods to be combined with the meal period for some or all employees of a department may be made by the department manager. Rest periods are considered time worked.
Activities Before or After the Work Schedule - (Non-Exempt Employees Only)
When the University requires that the employee must change into or out of uniform, engage in special washing or cleaning procedures, or perform other activities on or at a University facility before or after the work period, the time spent in such activities shall be considered time worked.
Call Back Time - (Non-Exempt Employees Only)
Call-back should be resorted to only in emergency situations or unusual instances when it is not possible for the work to be accomplished through normal scheduling or scheduling of overtime.
On-Call - (Non-Exempt Employees Only)
Eligibility for on-call pay and the established on-call rates are listed in the UCI Job Titles and Salaries. On-call duty is assigned and scheduled by the department manager in advance, and the employee is informed in advance of the on-call status. Employees in on-call status are required to inform the employer how they can be reached or to carry a pager in order to receive a call to work. An employee in on-call status is not eligible for minimum call-back payments.
Exempt and non-exempt staff members, except employees who are in a bargaining unit that has an exclusive representative (union) and are covered by the applicable provisions of the collective bargaining agreement.
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BOSTON -- The University of New Hampshire women's lacrosse team, which finished as runner-up in the 2006 America East Championship tournament, received four first-place votes and a total of 46 points to earn the status of preseason No. 1 in the America East Women's Lacrosse Preseason Coaches' Poll that was released Friday.
UNH edged out defending champion Boston University, which received the other three first-place votes and a total of 43 points. UMBC, the 2006 regular-season champions, placed third in the poll with 37 points and was followed by Stony Brook (25 points), Albany (21), Vermont (15) and Binghamton (9).
Led by 11th-year head coach Sandy Bridgeman, the Wildcats return 15 letterwinners, including 10 starters, from a 2006 team that advanced to the America East championship game for the fifth consecutive year and finished the season at 11-7 overall.
The 2007 UNH squad will be led by senior captains Christine Carbone (
The top four teams in the conference will advance to the America East Championship to be held May 4 and 6 at the No. 1 seed. The winner of the tournament will receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship.
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Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge 3.0 – Official ReleaseJune 3rd, 2007 by Marv
After three long years, and countless all-nighters, we are proud to announce that the official release of Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge (EMR) v3.0 is now available for download. EMR 3.0 is a unique scenario that uses the Aleph One game engine, providing huge improvements over all past versions.
EMR 3.0 is a first-person action adventure game, featuring an epic and in-depth story line. As a Federation Marine resting after your last mission, you start aboard the exploration class Starship Kronos where you learn that your real mission has yet to begin. You are re-acquainted with the A.I. Merlin, who introduces you to Kronos time traveling technology, and reveals your new mission: to save mankind from the clutches of Morgana and her minions. Through untamed raptor-infested jungles, castle arenas, and war-torn streets of the future, you will wield weapons from all time periods – including the Sword of Power, Excalibur – in an effort to thwart the diabolical plot that unfolds. The EMR adventure, spread across 42 solo levels, weaves a tale of truth and honor, knighthood and bravery, and darkness and treachery. EMR also delivers 27 adrenaline pumped network levels. EMR immerses you in an amazing new world, creating an addictive, fun and unique gaming experience.
For those that played EMR under the old Marathon Infinity engine, EMR 3.0 brings exciting new maps, new high resolution textures and landscapes, a completely new set of weapons, new monsters and friends, new scenery, new 16-bit sounds, original music, and a carefully woven original and updated story line that transcends time. Using the Aleph One engine, EMR now sports hundreds of new special features using Aleph One's MML and Lua scripting languages.
Here's just a sample of the new and exciting features available in EMR 3.0:
- Levels with fog and mist
- Persistent effects such as poison, earthquakes, fire storm spell, and timed grenades
- Original MP3 music
- 12 unique weapons, including a new Dragon Flamer and T9000 Railgun
- New spells for your wand, including fire storm, teleportation, and raise the dead
- Beautifully rendered OpenGL textures and landscapes
- New Morgana and Trex hi-res sprites
- A huge variety of new hi-res scenery items
- New holodeck programs, including driving a Flintstone mobile through Bedrock!
- Blood Gulch style net map with 8 simulated net players and a huge battlefield
- A basketball court netmap where grenades in a basket win points for your team
- A beautiful new future level that let's you drive a Hoverbike!
- A total of 5 brand new solo maps, giving you a total of 42 intriguing single player levels
- Lots of updated maps with new areas, new tasks, new features, and new secrets
- New powerups, such as apples, bananas, health kits, emergency kits, and finally a use for all those magic scrolls!
- And much, much, more…
NOTE: The Aleph One engine is old technology improved. Architecture is still simulated 3D, so there are no ramps, bridges, and balconies, nor horizontal doors. The sprites in EMR are made up of 2D images posed in different views, not 3D models. Although you will not find the latest state-of-the-art graphics engine, you will find an intriguing storyline, creative map architectures, engaging graphics, original spellbinding music, and mood-setting effects. We have taken the engine to its limits!
EMR is created by the Marathon Map Makers Guild and published by ExcaliburWorld Software. It is available now for Mac OS X PPC and Mac OS X Intel, and is also now available for Linux and other Unix-like platforms. The Windows version should be available within a week.
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