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The violence comes as Ukraine's interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk plans a visit to the United States, a trip that he announced during a cabinet meeting Sunday, reports NPR's Emily Harris. No details about that visit were made public, but it is believed to be scheduled for this week.
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"President Obama will welcome Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk of Ukraine to the White House on March 12," says White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
The pair "will discuss how to find a peaceful resolution to Russia's ongoing military intervention in Crimea that would respect Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity," Carney says, in addition to discussing elections planned fro Ukraine in May.
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"The authorities in Ukraine's breakaway region of Crimea on Sunday ruled out negotiations with the central government, which they say is illegitimate," says Ria Novosti.
Referring to a referendum that will offer voters a choice of seceding from Ukraine, the news agency says the process of joining Russia could take only "about a month," citing Crimean Parliament speaker Vladimir Konstantinov. The vote on whether to join the Russian Federation is scheduled to take place next Sunday.
Women in Ukraine are heeding the same call for action that has driven men to join the country's army. And while some are looking to work as nurses and in other support roles, others are raring for a fight, reports Radio Free Europe. The agency notes that women have played roles in the protests and civil unrest that led up to the current crisis.
"I've practiced sambo and judo professionally for 10 years," Tetiana Turchina tells RFE. "I know how to shoot and jump with a parachute. I'm familiar with extreme situations because I love extreme sports, rafting, and hiking. Sleeping in a tent surrounded by snow in minus-20-degrees-Celsius doesn't scare me."
Reuters says that pro-Russian forces have tightened their hold on Crimea:
"In the latest armed action, Russians took over a Ukrainian border post on the western edge of Crimea at around 6 a.m. (0400) GMT, trapping about 30 personnel inside, a border guard spokesman said.
"The spokesman, Oleh Slobodyan, said Russian forces now controlled 11 border guard posts across Crimea, a former Russian territory that is home to Russia's Black Sea fleet and has an ethnic Russian majority."
Despite the turbulence in Crimea, it seems that so far, the only shots fired have been warning shots from pro-Russian forces. In one case early last week they were used to turn away a large group of marching Ukrainian troops; on Saturday, they were used to turn away a U.N. fact-finding group from Crimea, as we reported Saturday.
U.S. and European diplomats have been working on how to convince Russia's President Vladimir Putin to pull the Russian military from in and around Crimea. But the idea of using sanctions as a possible tool drew a threat from Russia, with the Ministry of Defense saying it might halt international nuclear weapons inspections if sanctions are approved, according to The Washington Post.
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Only one week into Colorado's history-making recreational marijuana industry, one shop has already sold out of pot, others fear they may soon join it and perhaps as many as 100,000 people have legally purchased marijuana at Colorado stores.
Industry advocates estimate Colorado stores have already done more than $5 million in sales — including $1 million on New Year's Day — though National Cannabis Industry Association executive director Aaron Smith acknowledges those are "back-of-the-envelope" figures. The owner of one store said she expects to make as much in sales in the first 10 days of January as she did all of last year selling medical marijuana.
"I had a dream once that I opened my store and didn't have any competition," said Robin Hackett, a co-owner of BotanaCare in Northglenn. "I had no idea it was a nightmare."
Fears of marijuana shortages pervade the young industry. On Wednesday, a sign hung in the door to The Clinic location near Colorado Boulevard and Interstate 25 in Denver: "We are currently out of recreational cannabis. Please check back tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenience."
Many shops have imposed caps on maximum purchase amounts well below the caps required under state law. Numerous store owners say they have sold out of marijuana-infused edible products. Toni Fox, the owner of 3D Cannabis Center in Denver, said she closed her store down on Monday and Tuesday this week, just to restock and give her staff a rest.
Even for stores that reported robust inventory, like High Country Healing in Silverthorne, owners said marijuana could become scarce across the industry if more stores don't get their licenses approved and open to absorb the flood of interest.
"None of us could really prepare for what was going to hit us," High Country Healing's owner, Nick Brown, said on Tuesday. "I think we all thought we would see huge demand and lines. But I don't think any of us expected what was happened over the last six days."
More than 10,000 people bought marijuana at Colorado's recreational pot shops on Jan. 1, according to industry estimates and tallies provided by the stores. And, while that initial surge was expected, the sustained interest was not. Brown and several other store owners said they saw only a slight drop-off in sales in the days after Jan. 1.
"It's been staying very, very steady," said Lauren Hoover, the manager of the Breckenridge Cannabis Club.
Hoover said the store served 1,500 customers on Jan. 1. A typical day for medical-marijuana sales last year was 20 to 40 customers, she said.
In Denver, where 18 stores were licensed to be open for recreational sales on Jan. 1, four more stores have received licenses in the last week. Still, industry advocates expected supply crunches to last for awhile.
"It's going to be an issue in at least these first few months," Smith said.
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Student Guide, Spring 2020
Everyday objects go far beyond their function, through both the beauty of their forms and the personal meanings we attach to them. Enjoy this colorful pop-up book tour exploring how everyday objects can be art, as well as how contemporary artists can transform utilitarian things into thought-provoking artworks.
Maggie Kamb '21
Student Guide, Spring 2020
How do we depict deities and idols? What qualities do we associate with them, and how are these qualities represented visually? Crossing geographic boundaries and various mediums, this tour will examine art from the Renaissance to the contemporary, looking at how figures are glorified and worshipped through the visual arts.
Maryam Ware '22
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On this tour, visitors will explore how the theme of freedom is expressed through art. We will consider how freedom affects people on an individual as well as collective level, leading to an appreciation of different artists' perspectives and perceptions of what it means to be free.
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Memory comes in many forms. It is woven into our identities, our histories, our religions, and our personal lives. Visitors on this tour will explore art from multiple time periods and places, considering how as we examine individual visions of the past, we are also creating shared memories in the present.
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The objects on this tour, from different time periods and using different mediums, have "lived" like bodies, born as something outside the context of a museum. We will explore how the idea of afterlives can be manifested in five different objects, considering how we are surrounded by "ghosts" of the past.
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Fertilization in Winnipeg
Whether you are a homeowner who wants your yard to gleam or you are a business owner who aims to make a good impression on customers or clients, lawn fertilization in Winnipeg is a great way to accomplish your objectives. In fact, lawn management, which includes fertilization, mowing and watering, is the key to a great lawn. As lawn care specialists at Prestige Lawn & Yard Care, we've seen several reasons that folks need their lawns fertilized. Here's a rundown of the most common.
Lawn Fertilization in Winnipeg Gets Your Lawn Looking Amazing
Has your grass become yellow-green? If so, that is a symptom that your grass requires more nitrogen. You get that by fertilizing your lawn. Of course, it is important to source the proper type and amount of fertilizer. You should do a soil test to check on soil pH. After you know your numbers, you can pick the right type of fertilizer. Fertilizers are made of nitrogen and, in most cases, phosphorus and potassium (in that sequence). If you see a bag that says 15-15-15, it has equal weights of all three. Regular use of the correct kind of fertilizer stands to turn your grass green, vibrant and healthy again.
Other situations in which fertilization helps with lawn maintenance include bare spots, weed growth, dandelion growth and dead patches. While sod and grass seed are two solutions for bare spots, they come with a few potential disadvantages; for example, the grass produced by sod might not match the rest of the lawn. We are happy to discuss the options with you.
Lawn Fertilization Targets Crabgrass and Other Nuisance Grasses in Winnipeg
As summer approaches, crabgrass is one annual grass that emerges. For many people, it is not overly pleasing to look at. One way to control the spread of crabgrass is to use lawn fertilizer the month before crabgrass starts to emerge. However, avoid using quick-release fertilizer and overwatering your lawn because you could get too much of a good thing. Excessive lush growth brings the potential for other problems. In any case, acting proactively with lawn fertilization gets your lawn in great shape for warmer weather.
Lawn Fertilization Means More Nutrients for Soil in Winnipeg
Does your lawn already look amazing? Good! Of course, you do want to keep it that way, and fertilization is one approach to doing so. It keeps the grass well fed so it does not wilt. The lawn is also better able to protect itself against weeds and pests, and it has enhanced water-absorption capabilities. If you are not sure what kind of fertilizer to use, we can help.
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Daniel's Story
It was an unusually cold day for the month of May. Spring had arrived and everything was alive with color. But a cold front from the North had brought winter's chill back to Indiana. I sat with two friends in the picture window of a quaint restaurant just off the
corner of the town square. The food and the company were both especially good that day.
As we talked, my attention was drawn outside, across the street. There, walking into town, was a man who appeared to be carrying all his worldly goods on his back. He was carrying, a well worn sign that read, "I will work for food."
My heart sank. I brought him to the attention of my friends and noticed that others around us had stopped eating to focus on him. Heads moved in a mixture of sadness and disbelief. We continued with our meal, but his image lingered in my mind. We finished our meal and went our separate ways.
I had errands to do and quickly set out to accomplish them. I glanced toward the town square, looking somewhat halfheartedly for the strange visitor. I was fearful, knowing that seeing him again would call some response. I drove through town and saw nothing
of him. I made some purchases at a store and got back in my car.
Deep within me, the Spirit of God kept speaking to me: "Don't go back to the office until you've at least driven once more around the square." And so, with some hesitancy, I headed back into town.
As I turned the square's third corner. I saw him. He was standing on the steps of the storefront church, going through his sack. I stopped and looked, feeling both compelled to speak to him, yet wanting to drive on.
The empty parking space on the corner seemed to be a sign from God: an invitation to park. I pulled in, got out and approached the town's newest visitor. "Looking for the pastor?" I asked.
"Not really," he replied, "just resting."
"Have you eaten today?"
"Oh, I ate something early this morning."
"Would you like to have lunch with me?"
"Do you have some work I could do for you?"
"No work," I replied. "I commute here to work from the city, but I would like to take you to lunch." "Sure," he replied with a smile. As he began to gather his things. I asked some surface questions.
"Where you headed?"
"St. Louis." "Where you from?"
"Oh, all over; mostly Florida."
"How long you been walking?"
"Fourteen years," came the reply.
I knew I had met someone unusual. We sat across from each other in the same restaurant I had left earlier. His face was weathered slightly beyond his 38 years. His eyes were dark yet clear, and he spoke with an eloquence and articulation that was startling. He removed his jacket to reveal a bright red T-shirt that said, "Jesus is The Never Ending Story."
Then Daniel's story began to unfold. He had seen rough times early in life. He'd made some wrong choices and reaped the consequences.
Fourteen years earlier, while backpacking across the country, he had stopped on the beach in Daytona. He tried to hire on with some men who were putting up large tent and some equipment. A concert, he thought. He was hired, but the tent would not house a concert but revival services, and in those services he saw life more clearly. He gave his life over to God. "Nothing's been the same since," he said, "I felt the Lord telling me to keep walking, and so I did, some 14 years now."
"Ever think of stopping?" I asked.
"Oh, once in a while, when it seems to get the best of me.
But God has given me this calling. I give out Bibles. That's what's in my sack. I work to buy food and Bibles, and I give them out when His Spirit leads."
I sat amazed. My homeless friend was not homeless. He was on a mission and lived this way by choice. The question burned inside for a moment and then I asked: "What's it like?"
"To walk into a town carrying all your things on your back and to show your sign?"
"Oh, it was humiliating at first. People would stare and make comments. Once someone tossed a piece of half-eaten bread and made a gesture that certainly didn't make me feel welcome. But then it became humbling to realize that God was using me to touch lives and change people's concepts of other folks like me."
My concept was changing, too. We finished our dessert and gathered his things. Just outside the door, he paused.
He turned to me and said, "Come ye blessed of my Father and inherit the kingdom I've prepared for you. For when I was hungry you gave me food, and when I thirsty you gave me drink, a stranger and you took me in."
I felt as if we were on holy ground.
"Could you use another Bible?" I asked.
He said he preferred a certain translation. It traveled well and was not too heavy. It was also his personal favorite. "I've read through it 14 times," he said.
"I'm not sure we've got one of those, but let's stop by our church and see."
I was able to find my new friend a Bible that would do well, and he seemed very grateful.
"Where you headed from here?"
"Well, I found this little map on the back of this amusement park coupon." "Are you hoping to hire on there for a while?"
"No, I just figure I should go there. I figure someone under that star right there needs a Bible, so that's where I'm going next."
He smiled, and the warmth of his spirit radiated the sincerity of his mission. I drove him back to the town square where we'd met two hours earlier, and as we drove, it started raining. We parked and unloaded his things.
"Would you sign my autograph book?" he asked.
"I like to keep messages from folks I meet."
I wrote in his little book that his commitment to his calling had touched my life. I encouraged him to stay strong. And I left him with a verse of scripture from Jeremiah, "I know the plans I have for you," declared the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm
you. Plans to give you a future and a hope." "Thanks, man," he said.
"I know we just met and we're really just strangers, but I love you." "I know," I said, "I love you, too."
"The Lord is good." "Yes, He is. How long has it been since someone hugged you?" I asked. "A long time," he replied.
And so on the busy street corner in the drizzling rain, my new friend and I embraced, and I felt deep inside that I had been changed.
He put his things on his back, smiled his winning smile and said, "See you in the New Jerusalem." "I'll be there!" was my reply.
He began his journey again. He headed away with his sign dangling from his bed roll and pack of Bibles. He stopped, turned and said, "When you see something that makes you think of me, will you pray for me"?
"You bet," I shouted back, "God bless."
"God bless."
And that was the last I saw of him. Late that evening as I left my office, the wind blew strong. The cold front had settled hard upon the town.
I bundled up and hurried to my car. As I sat back and reached for the emergency brake, I saw them... a pair of well-worn brown work gloves neatly laid over the length of the handle. I picked them up and thought of my new friend and I wondered if his hands would stay warm that night without them. I remembered his words: "If you see something that makes you think of me, will you pray for me?"
Today his gloves lie on my desk in my office. They help me to see the world and its people in a new way, and they help me remember those two hours with my unique
friend and to pray for his ministry. "See you in the New Jerusalem," he said. Yes, Daniel, I know I will...
"I shall pass this way but once. Therefore, any good that I can do or any kindness that I can show let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again." Ephesians 3:16


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Hypothyroidism is the natural deficiency of thyroid hormone and is the most common hormone imbalance of dogs. This deficiency is produced by several different mechanisms. The most common cause (at least 95% of cases) is immune destruction of the thyroid gland. It can also be caused by natural atrophy of the gland, by dietary iodine deficiency, neoplasia (primary or metastatic) of the thyroid gland or (rarely) as a congenital problem. Hypothyroidism is most common in medium to large breeds of dogs that are middle aged (4 to 10 years) but can occur in any dog.
Hypothyroidism is extremely rare in cats and is most commonly seen in cats following bilateral thyroid removal or radioactive iodine therapy for hyperthyroidism. This is often transient and usually does not require therapy. Rarely cats can have congenital hypothyroidism.
Thyroid hormone serves as a sort of volume dial for metabolism. Since virtually every cell in the body can be affected by thyroid hormone it is not surprising that reduced levels of thyroid hormone can lead to symptoms in multiple body systems. A recent published survey of hypothyroid dogs showed the following percentages of symptoms:
88% had some kind of skin abnormality
40% had hair loss (often on the tail or on both sides of the trunk and flanks ).
22% had skin infections
14% had dry brittle coats with hair that could easily be pulled out
49% were obese
48% were described as lethargic or listless at home
36% were anemic
80% had an increase in blood cholesterol
Hypothyroidism is treated with the oral administration of thyroid hormone, usually given twice daily for the life of the dog. Periodic blood testing is recommended; it is important to know if the medication dose is too low or too high. Thyroid supplement is a safe medication but if it is not given in sufficient doses the patient will not be adequately treated. If the dose is too high excessive water consumption, weight loss, and restlessness can result. Once a pet is started on thyroid supplementation, it is recommended to check a T4 level in two to three weeks, with the blood draw between 4 to 6 hours after the morning dose.Once the correct dose is found, it is recommended to perform a T4 every six to twelve months.
Hyperthyroidism in Cats
This is a very common disease of the middle aged to older cat. A tumor (97% are benign) on the thyroid gland starts producing too much thyroid hormone. Symptoms are usually weight loss in spite of eating well and vomiting. Other signs you might see are diarrhea, a dull and flaky hair coat, and personality changes. This disease usually can be easily diagnosed with a blood test, although occasionally we need a special test called a technesium scan to diagnose the early, borderline cases.
There are three basic methods of treatment: radioactive iodine, surgery, or an oral medication called methimazole (Tapazole). For most cats, the best treatment is radioactive iodine. In 97% of the cases, it is a one-time treatment. The biggest disadvantage is that the treatment needs to be done at a special facility, and the cat needs to be hospitalized for usually 5 to 10 days. In the past, surgery was a common treatment, but it is performed less frequently as the problem seems to recur on the other gland. Treating with Tapazole is also common, but has the disadvantage that it is life long and the cat needs blood tests to monitor the thyroid level and to check for adverse effects.
The disease of hyperthyroidism can actually help the kidneys. If the cat has both kidney disease and hyperthyroidism, it is not a candidate for radioactive iodine and the dose of Tapazole may need to be adjusted. Kidney tests are also monitored when a cat is being treated for hyperthyroidism.


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Before amaroK was born, most KDE users were stuck with XMMS; others would even run console-based audio players. Now those days are over. amaroK, written for the KDE desktop environment with its slick GUI and plugable, engine-independent audio capabilities is coming to a computer near you!
amaroK is the first KDE application to use the GStreamer Multimedia Framework without any dependency on external bindings. amaroK can also integrate with xine so you have the freedom of choosing your own flavor.
With version 1.1 there are many exciting changes that make using amaroK even more fun. Here are some of the features that you will simply love :
- Fully Integrated with KDE: Play from your Samba share with smb:/, or use the fish KIO slave to play from a remote host.
- Simple and Elegant: Collection-based system where you can choose songs from a variety of criteria, including artist, most played, never played, etc.
- Stream Support: Listening to online radio has never been easier. Just load the playlist file and it starts playing.
- Engine Independence: Ability to use GStreamer or xine. (There is also aRts engine but it is not ported to the new engine architecture yet).
- Improved Crossfade: Crossfading with customizable fade-in/fade-out durations now works for GStreamer engine too
- Inline tag editing: Tag your music while you play it.
- MusicBrainz support for tag editing: No voodoo needed for tagging your music, just click the MusicBrainz button and it will get the song information from the online database.
- Album cover support: If you have album covers in your music directory amaroK will automatically load them - better yet, amaroK can automatically download album covers from the Internet!
- Multimedia Keyboard Friendly: If you happen to have extra multimedia buttons on your keyboard, using amaroK is even more fun. Just use KHotkeys to map those special buttons to amaroK's dcop functions (like play/pause/volume up/volume down and many more)!
- On-screen Display: amaroK can optionally announce the currently playing song using its smart and stylish on-screen display.
So give amaroK a spin today! You won't be disappointed and that is guaranteed. Fire up amaroK, start playing your favorite songs, and visit the amaroK development squad @ irc.kde.org #amarok. Tell us why you just love amaroK, or your killer new idea for it. We are waiting for you!
Yesterday I used amarok for the first time. It has some nice features like the crossfade or the album manager. On the other hand the UI is the worst I have ever seen in an KDE application (I'm sorry I have to say this).
For instance the menu items change depending on which of the sidebar menu (context, collection,...) one chooses. The stuff below the main entry looks chaotic to me, with a "menu" button at the lower right corner?! What really is brilliant is the "current track" context menu with the informations about the currently played track and related information - great!
Tag handling is much more complicated than in JuK which is the greatest application for adding meta data to mp3 IMHO. It would be great if amarok and Juk developers would work together on some parts: crossfade, album manager and musicbrainz integration could be part of a library shared by both applications.
I am not sure if I like the amaroK announcement, it sounds too much like marketing bla bla, but perhaps this is just me?!
"Before amaroK was born, most KDE users were stuck with XMMS [..] Now those days are over."
A bit modesty and at least a short link to JuK / noatun would have been more in place. Anyway, thanks for amaroK :-)
I haven't tried amaroK yet, but I agree with some of the things you mentioned in your post.
"most KDE users were stuck with XMMS" is simply not true. Having that in the first paragraphs of the main page is a big turnoff. I have used JuK a lot and really like it. Maybe I'll try amaroK sometime too, maybe I'll like it better than JuK. But until then, amaroK hasn't left the best impression...
All else aside - keep up the good work and MAY THE BEST WIN.
sorry but i must tell you i love Xmms this is nice but you don't think you are monopolize a lot the desk live a little to others programmer and this stupid color white you are using, I hate it, the good you can change it. but It's good enough, the good to the KDE is that you can change almost all good and go ahead to who like is I nice stuff
First off, while I think JuK might be a little older then amaroK it, it isn't older by much. I've been using amaroK for a year, it started being usable about September of last year. So saying most KDE users were stuck with XMMS would be true, as that was certainly the case for me. Also it ignores that amaroK and XMMS both follow the 'winamp' non-jukebox style of MP3 players, whereas JuK is more of the iTunes variety.
I think the UI for amaroK is great. Better then any MP3 player out there. I do a good job of organizing my MP3 into directories myself thank you very much, so I don't like JuK which is organizes by ID3 tag (not that that's wrong or anything, just not my style). amaroK is for folks who either want a real simple MP3 player or (like myself) don't want to have to open seperate file dialogs boxs. File tree on the left, playlist on the right. Simple and less cumbersome.
I do a good job of organizing my MP3 into directories myself thank you very much, so I don't like JuK which is organizes by ID3 tag (not that that's wrong or anything, just not my style).
Actually, JuK won't touch your file organization unless you ask it to. I keep meaning to use the feature myself but I like my files the way they are too. =D
You are right saying the GUI sucks.
IMHO, something like JuK with the amamkoK features could be the best.
If you use amarok for a longer time, you'll notice that the UI of amarok is very good for what it was designed for - it is one of those few media player which actually ease often-repeated tasks like playlist handling & creation. It is far better than xmms or (almost) all other media player I've used in this regard, which is why I got hooked :-).
And AFAIK amarok is not supposed to be a juk-replacement concerning tag-handling.
Tag-handling in amaroK is only meant to be something you do on the spur of the moment. Our philosophy is that you should be using a dedicated application like the excellent Kid3 or JuK, if you want to do mass-tagging or serious tag-management.
It is not true that the "menubar" changes with every side-tab. There is only one menubar! It is in the Collection Tab. And thanks to your reminder I will shortly make it into a toolbar. The menu button in the corner is a compromise that I have not yet thought of a better solution for.
I take some offense that you consider the amaroK UI to be the worst you have ever used. I have spent hours considering the UI, fighting off bloated feature requests and refining the interface to be usable, powerful and "amaroKy". I personally feel that anyone who has used amaroK for a reasonable amount of time would find it to be an excellent interface. Having said this I acknowledge that it cannot be perfect and thus I welcome any suggestions you may have, reading your post above I found none.
Collaboration with JuK actually happens more than people might think. Wheels is well aware that we nick loads of his code ;-) Not to mention we both use TagLib. JuK can use our engine system for sure if wheels/JuK-devel want to, the API is quite pleasant at the moment. They could probably take some stuff like the cover-manager, but then you have to ask where the distinction between the two applications would be?
And finally, despite my serious tone here, generally us amaroK people like to joke about. Hence the tone of the dot article! Sorry you found it somehow offensive, please take it with a pinch of salt!
///I take some offense that you consider the amaroK UI to be the worst you have ever used. I have spent hours considering the UI, fighting off bloated feature requests and refining the interface to be usable, powerful and "amaroKy"///
This is the problem. People used to KDE apps don't want a UI to be more "amaroKy", whatever that is. They want it to be more KDE-like. As such, it should at *a minimum* have a standard menubar and toolbar. I am what I would consider to be an "expert" KDE user and even I felt lost when I fired up amaroK. Where do I configure it? Where do I change keyboard shortcuts? Nearly every GUI feature is totally different than all other KDE applications.
This is where Juk and Noatun win and amaroK loses. Now, if *ONLY* I could configure Juk or Noatun to output *DIRECT* to OSS/Alsa and not use any arts/esd/GStreamer/,
*THEN* KDE would have a decent media player. Until then I am still stuck with XMMS / KMPlayer.
We use KDE, we rave about KDE, we stick to all KDE style-guidelines, but our goal is to produce the best media-player. Personally I think amaroK does feel and look like a KDE application, but I suppose my point is that if we had to do something really differently because amaroK would be better as a result, then we probably would. Naturally there is a fine line, too little KDE-ness and amaroK would be worse. I wouldn't personally add a feature unless I felt KDE users would know how to use it.
"Nearly every GUI feature is totally different than all other KDE applications"
I concede the rest of your points but this is complete nonsense, we don't have a menubar, what else can you proffer? We use KMultiTabBar, KToolBar, KPopupMenu, KListView, KStatusBar, KGlobalShortcuts, KActions, etc. etc. The Player-Window isn't very KDE, but it is also very optional, and frankly is there for people who, like me, enjoy something a little colourful and fun.
Finally, GStreamer isn't a sound-server, it is a decoding framework, I suggest that if you don't like amaroK and you don't like aRts but you do like KDE stuff, that you use JuK with the GStreamer-bindings.
Actually don't ever listen to anyone on usability and you may keep afloat.
Follow your taste, or whoever's taste it was, and since most users that tried amarok liked it, they will continue to like it.
You just can't satisfy everybody, but usuability experts will convince you that they know what is best for all. As a matter of facts usability experts are the best at convincing people that their usability expertise is needed, then they put a perfect app or desktop to the ground.
They are the new plague of open source.
///I concede the rest of your points but this is complete nonsense, we don't have a menubar, what else can you proffer? We use KMultiTabBar, KToolBar, KPopupMenu, KListView, KStatusBar, KGlobalShortcuts, KActions, etc. etc.///
Er.... just because you use widgets from KDElibs does not mean that your app behaves like a KDE application. As a user I would expect that at a *mimumum* this would mean that when I first start the app, it would have menu bar on the top, and a toolbar right under it. If I as a user like it at the bottom better, I can just drag it down there. Likewize, if I like a Menu button in te bottom right corner, I can customize my toolbar and put one there.
This is the whole reason you can customize these things. But it should never be the default config, since it makes new users feel totally lost. And when they already have a halfway-decent alternative, they tend to subsequenltly say "no thanks" (like I have) and not even both trying to "learn to appreciate" the UI you so painstakingly designed.
Also, note that I am by no means a UI guide stickler. In the past there have been numerous times where I questioned the guide and some points I whole-heartedly disagree on. However, there are just *some* things an app should have consistant - and a menu bar and tool bar are two of them.
Maybe it's hard for you to believe this, but amaroK has about the best GUI possible - better than almost any other KDE app. Maybe KDE should be more 'amaroKy' (whatever) as a whole! That would be better then adding bullsh*t like menubars or toolbars for every application (just to make _you_ feel at home), even if the program has only five menu items. Empty menus are disturbing, a waste of space and introduce unnecessary clutter.
BTW, there are applications that don't need to (and should not) follow standard interface guidelines, because they fulfill a special goal: music production apps, paint (that's why Gimp or Photoshop are bad), compositing (After Effects' GUI is really bad), 3D apps or - in this case - audio players...
"Maybe it's hard for you to believe this, but amaroK has about the best GUI possible - better than almost any other KDE app."
Not quite, as you can read that several people dislike amaroks UI. It might be the best UI for _you_ but this doesn't mean that it is the "best UI", especially if a couple of people stated exactly the opposite.
As I already suggested the developers should ask Aaron for his opinion and I'm sure he can give them some hints why amaroK is so confusing to use.
IMHO the general problem is that amaroK wants to be cool and exceptional and thus they try to make the UI non-standard (no menu bar, no toolbars, menu button bottom right and so on). It's o.k. for some audience, e.g. <18 years, but I am not sure this application should be a part of core KDE then. If you want to see a standard GUI, use JuK, which probably is too "boring" for the general amaroK audience.
"there are applications that don't need to (and should not) follow standard interface guidelines, because they fulfill a special goal:"
why should special applications not use a standard interface?
"[...] paint (that's why Gimp or Photoshop are bad)"
??? I really don't understand your line of reasoning here.
Well, and there are also quite a few people that love amaroK's UI...
You know, if the amaroK team wants to add a menu- and toolbar, I couldn't care less - as long as it's possible to remove them, as they are simply not needed. Why would anyone in their right mind want to add UI elements just to comply to some unwritten UI standard, even if they are completely useless?!?
And that has nothing to do with the audience's age, as I'm neither <18, nor a gamer, modder or geek...
"why should special applications not use a standard interface?"
Because a standard interface is just the smallest common denominator. It can't be perfect for every app, that's why all workflow-optimized professional applications use their own non-standard, workflow-centric interfaces. Take Softimage|XSI for example: the context menu is available by pressing ALT+RMB, because RMB is deselect (and MMB is toggle select). With Maya, the menubar is star-shaped (the context menu is also star-shaped) and accessible by holding spacebar. Houdini has the menu on TAB, with type-ahead-find to select the menu item. All those apps are professional 3D suites, all have a completely different interface and controls, and they all have a very fast workflow (with a steep learning curve) that you can't achieve following standard HIG's...
"??? I really don't understand your line of reasoning here. "
Photoshop is a consumer/ prosumer/ low-end professional application, with Gimp being a clone. The interface is designed to be usable by casual users without much learning, but the workflow is nothing to write home about. There are also professional paint applications like Mirage, Liberty, Amazon, Paintbox, Cyborg Paint etc - you need a while to get the uncommon design, but once you're used to it, you are much faster than any Photoshop user.
>why should special applications not use a standard interface?
Because they don't need to use it?
Do you think kfind need to be removed because there is no toolbar/menubar?
KFind is a dialog based application. It shouldn't have a menu (and if you look at the current styleguide you will see a case study exactly about some kind of find dialog). Yet a standard menu/toolbar in a not-dialog based application (like amaroK) should be present. You can remove them, move them, whatever you like. KDE allows it. But right now with amaroK you cannot move the toolbar, you cannot add a menubar. Some would like to have those and you can't say that they are wrong. There is no reason to limit the possibilities. You can be different in other ways as well.
I find amaroK's UI to be close to perfect; there isn't anything I can immediately think of that I'd change. The menu in a button in the bottom right corner is the only thing that sort of sucks, but I don't think a menubar would be a better solution. Perhaps something like what winamp has, where rightclicking on any of the "empty space" in the UI (ie, where a rightclick has no other useful function) brings up the menu?
"It is not true that the "menubar" changes with every side-tab. There is only one menubar! It is in the Collection Tab."
A menubar is either there all the time or not at all (smaller games). I don't know any KDE application where the menu bar behaves that strangely. I spend several minutes(!) to find the cover manager--I knew was there because I used it already but I was not able to find it again. What is the reason to not allow the user to access the cover manager all the time via a menu bar?
"I take some offense that you consider the amaroK UI to be the worst you have ever used. I have spent hours considering the UI, fighting off bloated feature requests and refining the interface to be usable, powerful and "amaroKy"."
I'm sorry, but I hoped you liked constructive feedback. Also I didn't wrote that it is the worst UI ever, but the worst KDE UI I have experienced so far--meaning it is not THAT worse, because KDE UIs in general are good ;-)
Another smaller usability issue: the track slider is in the status bar. This is confusing since I am not aware of any KDE application that has an active UI element in the status bar. Also the stuff below the main window looks like a toolbar, but is none.
Other examples: I would not expect the "recode ID3v1 tags" in the "font" section. A "what's this?" help is not available. Using check boxes for the "tag filter" is confusing since they behave like radio buttons. I could surely find many more examples and I am not a usability expert.
" I personally feel that anyone who has used amaroK for a reasonable amount of time would find it to be an excellent interface. "
This is what the xfig fans (one of the UI nightmares) keep telling me too, but this is not the idea of a good UI. If you can don't fear some serious critics and want to make the UI better, then ask some of the UI experts like Aaron Seigo. He surely can help you explaining far better than I can why the UI is so hard to use for thos who have not already used a "reasonable amount of time". Good luck with the project -- Marco
"Another smaller usability issue: the track slider is in the status bar. This is confusing since I am not aware of any KDE application that has an active UI element in the status bar."
Fire up Konqui and look at the status bar: there's a checkbox at the right side - so I guess there's at least _one_ other KDE app with an active UI element in the status bar... :-)
The track-slider is there because it is status information. We deliberated putting it in the toolbar, but decided not to because the statusbar is where you put status related widgets. The rest of KDE not doing it is an issue with KDE in my opinion.
I used amarok today for the first time. I really loved the features, and I am off of xmms for good. So thank you very much for the nice app.
That said, I wanted to report on my experience with the UI. I literally spent 5 minutes searching for where to set my multimedia keys to work with amarok. The main reason for that was because I did not see the "Menu" button. I did not expect to find it there.
It also took a while to figure out how to add a directory that contains all my music. I did not know where to go.
I felt a little lost with the interface at the beginning. Once you get used to it, it is ok, but it seems to be a little difficult for newbies.
The UI is a departure from any other media player I've used, but after several weeks of using it I'd have to say it's the best UI of any of them.
Perhaps it doesn't look cool enough for some people, but obviously the authors felt the same way I did about XMMS, Freeamp, Winamp, Windows Media Player, etc and cam eup with something fresh.
Good work guys, Amarok really did free me from XMMS!
Yes I don't like the announcement, either. But amaroK. I like the UI a lot - easy to use and much better than e.g. JuK (I prefer the original "Apple" design more than this copy). The xmms style window is really nice if you want a control on top of everything else. While it is still KDE like, the colors put in a higher contrast which makes it perfekt for this.
I also don't see tag handling as complicated (especially if you compare it to Winamp) but I will try JuK on this...
Anyway I like amaroK.
> I prefer the original "Apple" design more than this copy
Actually Apple didn't design that UI at all. There were jukebox programs for many years before iTunes that had similar interfaces.
The ideas came more from Real Jukebox than anywhere else, but even then there was a several year gap between me using it and designing the JuK interface. I hadn't ever used iTunes when I came up with the interface for JuK and even now I've probably used it for less than an hour total.
While I appreciate amarok's functionality and its integration to KDE, I too take exception to the UI. There are no fatal flaw in amarok, though, and most of my nits are easily fixed details. What is disturbing, and is yet one more example why FLOSS hasn't made any serious inroads with the "unwashed masses", is the rumours I've read that the amarok developers don't want to listen to anyone who comments on the application's UI and are essentially saying "use something else, don't bother us, we like it as it is and we won't change it".
Sigh. Some days, I wish someone would just simply port XMMS to Qt/KDE so that we could have a simple, fast and nimble audio player for KDE that doesn't stick out like a sore thumb...
Makes me wish I was still an active coder.
Thats cause amarok is great and I think media players UI are kinda like pizza toppings, you can't please everyone, though as indicated on the dot they are open to suggestions regardless. You want to port XMMS to KDE? When did XMMS have great UI. I mean, I used XMMS for years, but amaroK is clearly better IMHO. Having seperate file open dialog boxs is such a pain.
"the rumours I've read that the amarok developers don't want to listen to anyone who comments on the application's UI"
That's not true at all. They may not agree with what you are saying but they're absolutely willing to at least listen to what you have to say. In the end it is up to them to cater to not just a few, loud, non-representative-of-the-majority type users, but to the most people they can.
From hanging out in the IRC channel (#amarok on freenode) I get the feeling that most users _love_ the UI, and yes, I am one of those users.
I second that. I tried it but was put off by the UI.
Crap. It's too bad. Kaffeine rocks for playing movies, but I want something more adapted to playing music while still getting the KDE goodness.
The UI is the best I've ever seen on KDE.
On the one hand people say amaroK does not look like a KDE app.
So does XMMS ?
The main reason why I use amaroK is that it includes new ideas concerning UI.
I like it very much because it does not look like every other stupid boring KDE app.
There seem to be many people who a addicted to there boring KDE UI scheme (Toolbar, Window, ugly buttons) that's it.
Some people are too shortminded or maybe even too stupid to accept new ideas.
Seems to be a problem in the whole linux community.
I hope nothing will change in amaroK's UI because hate to always use the same shit standart KDE UI's.
(Gray and White and everythink looking the same somehow)
Maybe amaroK does not need to change but some people have to change their mind and become more flexible.
Always the same people who molest the comunity with there opinion about how a UI should look and that everything has to look the same !!!!
And other shit.
If you want a boring KDE UI use noatun !!!!!!!
Ok, you don't like the "Menu" button in the bottom-right corner, but what else? There's not really a need for a "menu bar" since everything is doable wih drag-and-dropping or single clicks. *This* is usability, not designing a UI where you have to put thousands of menu items to do everything.
Said this, there's really the need to find a solution for the menu button :)
I disagree that this marketing "bla-bla" is bad.
I think we (the Open Source world) has way too less
of it. Just compare Firefox and previous Mozilla Suite
and how marketing is important to really make impact.
Sometimes I'm under the impression that many geeks don't
really want a larger user base. Fortunately this isn't
the goal for KDE. On Windows you have big-scale annoucements
and bad apps. We should have great apps and shy annoucements
with no self-esteem? No way - we can have great apps and
great annoucement. Not a contradiction.
What I'm still missing in Amarok is the ability to somehow dock
the main window and the playlist into one single window with
a common look.
JuK is cool for organizing music. Amarok for playing. They are both
good partners and I think sharing some code (for Album, etc.) is
certainly a good-idea. Besides (slightly off-topic):
What's totally confusing me is that the current JuK that came
with KDE 3.3 (SuSE 9.1) has no sign _whatsoever_ that there
ever was an option to fetch meta data from the internet (TRM/MusicBrainz).
But I could swear there used to be an option some time ago...
"Sometimes I'm under the impression that many geeks don't really want a larger user base."
Where did you get the impression most geeks DO want a larger user base? I usually see two factions on forums and mailing lists. One would be those who constantly bitch about how Linux will never get Joe Sixpack to use it if they don't CONFORM! The other is a guy with a personal anecdote about how linux was easy for him. Neither of these imply a desire by the community as a whole. I woul dbe interested in the results of an accurate poll of a sufficient sample size on wether or not the majority actually DO want widespread adoption of the same users who carelessly allow their machines to be infected with any worm that wants in. Allow me to cast my vote now. Screw the average user. Linux was made by geeks for geeks and I wanna keep it that way. The only widespread adoption I wanna see is in business and hardware vendors.
Why, exactly, do you expect hardware vendors to support an unpopular system that's only for geeks?
Oh, wait, you want it to be popular *in business* as well. This may come as a surprise to you, but some businesses employ non-geeks for some of their computer operations! Guess what, if you want business adoption, you have to acommodate the "average user". And once they use it at work, they'll want it at home.
Popularity is our friend. I think there's a point, maybe around 10% marketshare, where ignoring Linux will be harmful to both software and hadware vendors. Also, more users = more money to distros = better testing, more stuff working out of the box, more developers sponsored to work on apps, plus things like reduced FUD credibility, reduced chance of unhelpful laws, reduced clueless "this website only works in IE on Windows" websites, ...
So, where does this leave j03 51xp@X, average geek? Well, here's where the Free = Freedom comes in. Nobody forces you to use FooDistro EasyConfig, the text files are there for you to edit. Nobody forces you to use BarWM (optimised for the end users!), you can use some WM optimised for "power users".
What you're really advocating is "I think people should only write software that I want to use, I don't care about anyone else". If somebody wants to write software that's easier to use, what right do you have to complain? Making suggestions and giving ideas is one thing, but that is not your tone.
Let's face it - Microsoft has no clue about end users. They come out with "innovations" like the collapsing menus - I have seen users look in the right menu for a function, see it collapsed, and assume the function does not exist. And they've been trained by that £@$% paperclip to avoid Help like the plague.
In some areas, Windows is already being beaten. The typical Windows start menu is a jumble of disorganised programs. Sometimes, they are helpfully grouped by publisher (like most people would expect to find Print Artist next to Halflife). My KDE menu lists games together, utilities together, etc. I know the "Start menu metaphor" is hated. I've read several articles making the point Linux desktops should do "something else". They never say *what* though. I've heard WindowMaker praised for being different, but it looks to me they put "Start" as a right-click instead of a button. Should somebody come up with something, you'll have the option to use it, whether it's for an OS written for 100, 100,000 or a billion.
Usability and users are not the enemy. The enemy is closed formats that lock your data in. The enemy is being told the bugfix is in the new version you have to pay for. The enemy is valuing shinyness over security. Everyone deserves freedom from software companies who muck around their customers, not a select few.
you can disable the xmms-like playerwindow, and amarok will appear as a single-window application with "a common look".
And then you can add a PlayPause button to the play list window and your good to go. I think this is what the parent was wanting.
it is already there :)
> What's totally confusing me is that the current JuK that came
> with KDE 3.3 (SuSE 9.1) has no sign _whatsoever_ that there
> ever was an option to fetch meta data from the internet
That probably means that SuSE didn't have the appropriate dependencies when creating the package. Support for internet-based tag-guessing was actually improved for KDE 3.3.
Finally a player that doesn't make it all complicated to play my music. With xmms I really like that I can just play a directory of music without having to build a database of my music and sort on the artist, etc (assuming all the tags were correct). Amarok is great in that I can just browse my collection right on the drive and drag the folder to the current playlist. Nice and simple.
try juk... If juk had *some* of amarok's features, or if amarok had the great interface juk has, that whould be the perfect audio player. now I use juk because I prefer a good interface and ease of use (also for newbies, everyone nows how to use it immediately, try that with xmms or *cough* amarok) above features like albumpictures and OSD's.
I have tried juk and rhythmbox (I like rhytmbox a little more than juk, btw) and both didn't give me the dead-simple browse to my music and drag it into the playlist functionality that Amarok has. Both of these want me to catalog all my music in order to get to it and that's not how I work.
I don't care about album pictures and OSD. The Amarok interface works pretty well for me. The only issue I have is I keep forgetting where the properties option is located, but I really don't need it often anyway.
Dead simple browse and play is what I like about Amarok.
I use Juk over Amarok as well for the same reasons, but it would be great if Juk would figure out how to reload Folders when they change.
well, it does, over here... maybe it takes some time? or the config isn't right?
my mayor annoyance is it is difficult to remove files from a playlist (without deleting them from disk!) - actually I never succeeded...
Just "cut" the files from the playlist without pasting them anywhere.
It works for me, although I'd like the ability to be able to put an "Empty Playlist" button on the toolbar.
I would have agreed with using juk until last month when my collection grew from a couple thousand to 23 thousand files. It might have something to do with being on a FAT32 formatted drive, but it takes over an hour for juk to index.
I've been using amarok for a couple weeks now and I think it's pretty good. It looks like it's getting some more of the meta-data editing features that are the only thing that make juk really desirable for me since I have lots of fixing to do on those new files.
The amarok engine with its support for gstreamer and xine is really fantastic. (And it works beautifully, amarok's the first music player which can do correct crossfading between tracks). On the other hand the UI is not - well - liked by everybody (especially not by me) because it feels so non-KDE-ish.
What I'd like to see: put the amarok engine in kdemultimedia and let juk and the other applications also use it. Juk is such a great application but its output support covers only gstreamer-0.6 (not really good working) and arts (obsolete).
However the amarok engine supports (or will support) all major media frameworks.
It would be nice if all KDE multimedia apps would share the same metadata. This way reading metadata, downloading covers etc. would only be necessary once, users could use rate songs across applications (image starting juk for the first time and be able to play your favorite songs from amarok). Only playlists would be seperate.
A global multimedia meta data store would also allow new and interestings stuff using metadata. Imagine you work on a document and want to know: Which song did I listen to the last time I opened this document. Now, this sounds lame, but I am sure there could be 1000's of useful applications for system wide metadata.
(OT: One thing that comes to my mind as a use for metadata: Give me the document I was working on while talking to X on kopete/skype... I am confident the OSS community would find tons of nice applications for a good set of metadata.)
Use Noatun with Hayes if you want standard meta data functionality. It relies solely on KMetaFileInfo. Proper implementation of scoring, playlists, grouping etcetera through metadate is not possible with most file systems though.
I have a strong wish for Hayes to, instead of making different playlists, categorize songs or albums individually and then making a selection based on that meta info. That would be the proper way to get this unified.
The article states that the aRts-engine is not yet ported to the new engine architecture. This information is not up to date, as I forgot to update the text.
In fact aRts is fully usable in 1.1 (although we don't recommend using it).
Does that mean bug 81436 is no longer an issue?
This is the only problem I have with amarok. I frequently kill artsd to use mplayer - (mplayer + artsd gives significant audio sync problems on my SuSE 9.1 install). Then, to use amarok, I have to quit a running copy - restart artsd and start amarok again.
But I love amarok so much that I am putting up with all this!!
To all who say amarok's UI is not good and doesn't confirm to KDE's style - try using it for a few days and see for urself why this UI makes so much sense. Why try using the same UI across applications when all applications don't do the same task!


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