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Amarok 2: Visual Changelog
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Amarok multimedia player is one of the best programs of its kind not only for Linux but for any operating system nowadays. It has been created as a KDE component. Most people hoped to have Amarok 2.0 included in KDE 4.0, which hasn't happened. It's hard to predict if it finds its way into KDE 4.1 stable, but it's still worth taking a look at the current progress of this great multimedia player
The main development goal for 1.x branch was to support a few audio engines. Due to this requirement, Amarok had to ship with separate components for xine and gstreamer engines. This solution had obvious flaws, since any small API change in any of those engines required a change in Amarok's code. The fix for all those turned up to be Phonon, the new KDE 4 audio framework. Thanks to Phonon, Amarok 2 does not have to worry about engines support anymore, which means more time for its developers to work on actual features. Another positive side-effect is that Amarok 2 will be able to serve not only music and audio streams but also video. You should not however expect advanced features like DVD support or subtitles, but rather a very basic implementation for those who don't want to launch a separate app just to see a video clip of their favorite band.
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Amarok 2 like most of the KDE 4 apps uses vector graphics to render its interface. The use of SVG makes it easier to create themes. It's actually pretty hard to follow the interface changes since there's been a lot of them recently. Every time I launch a new version, Amarok looks different. For the time being however, Amarok looks like this:
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The main window has been divided into three columns (before: two):
- On the left side we can notice familiar tabs.
- In the middle the context view resides, which takes up the most space being a container for Plasma applets. It's supposed to display information about the currently played track, such as its title, similar/recommended tracks, the lyrics or information about the artist.
- On the right side, you can see the playlist. One of its innovations is the option to shrink the tracks belonging to a single record. There is also a traditional alternative, for those who don't like the new looks of the playlist view. It's not however identical with the one we know from the 1.x series.
Fortunately you can alter the width of each column.
The menu bar has been reorganized to save space. Or something. I'm not sure if it's the developer's decision or it's just because the work is in progress and not all the features are present.
From the known tools we have the cover manager and script manager. I haven't noticed the audio equalizer, visualizer and the statistics, yet. I hope those features will eventually make it to the stable edition.
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Except for audio streams, Amarok 2 offers a cool feature of integration with multiple Internet services. The Magnatune shop support has been there for a while. Now we have a few more options, like Jamendo, MP3Tunes, Shoutcast, OMPL and a very successful Last.fm. Enjoy, listen and buy DRM-free music now, straight from Amarok 2!
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Can anybody recognize the font of "Here goes release name" on the splash screen screenshot? Thanks
The font is Blue Highway from searchfreefonts. Being more specific, it's the normal variation (second on this page: http://www.searchfreefonts.com/search/?q=blue+highway) with 90% height.
All of these superfluous features, yet still no gapless playback? No thanks.
Your superfluous features are other people's must haves. And vice-versa. For me gapless playback is far from essential.
One thing thing OSS has plenty of is music players. It seems like many developers would rather write their own player than make an existing one better.
There are limitations on making existing players better. When the Amarok community responds to feature requests about improving the player window with "we're getting rid of the player window" or "nobody uses the player window" then you're banging your head against the wall.
When you're dismissed as summarily as this, then of course people are going to write their own players. If you can't play ball with a group of kids, go find a different ball game.
Amarok just seems to be even more bloatier and mega-hungry on the screen real-estate than before. If it can't be made to show something as simple and useful as iTunes' mini browser (with genre, artist, album) whereby it will just continue playing the next track in the filterest list (rather than having to drag songs into the playing area all the time) then Amarok is just another sledge-hammer solution to a problem that doesn't have to be this complicated.
Getting rid of the player window (or at least neglecting it to death) also means I'll never use it. I'm not having that crap-big window on screen all the time, and the OSD is just an irritating poor substitute.
Amarok 2 is a step back for this program. Amarok on KDE3 was near perfect, they should have simply polished it more for the KDE4 release. But they are trying to re-invent the wheel. Amarok 2 has too much wasted space. Why does the progress bar need to stretch along the whole window? The Plasma applets look ugly and the whole theme is inconsistent. I really hope someone forks over the project and ports Amarok 1 to QT4.
i was really upset wen i saw amarok2. sure its new from the scratch, but amarok close to be perfect!!
i dont like the three vertical parts, i hate the way it looks and basically, i cannot understant why did amarok have to make that huge backstep. its just a pitty…
i would like to have the option to choose the amarok layout….
the old "look" was perfect and handy. this one …NOT.
Amarok is improving as a music-buying platform, while degrading it as a player. The devs are acting as whe only thing a person has to do in his/her life is to stare in front of Amarok all the day long listening and buying music from Magnatunes, while looking at musicians'/bands' Wikipedia pages and other useless gadgets, as if kde4 hadn't Plasma already.
Point said, I simply _love_ Amarok 1.4.9 and how it enables me to _manage_ my music, edit tags (libtunepimp to the rescue), reorganize them and make me feel enpowered by OSS software. It's a shame some really nice improvements found in Amarok2 (as the faster music database lookup and Phonon integration) are sorely crippled by the bad (albeit beautiful) user interface. Sadly, for those ones who say "Amarok 1.4.9 will not vanish! Simply use it!", it _will_ bitrot and be so ugly as a Gtk+1.0 application as the time goes.
xmms still looks good to me and plays just fine. using it right now to listen to my old kosmic tunes.
Amarok can display itself in Kicker, in SuperKaramba, through a notice in chat, through a plugins, etc. It is very easy to use and powerful, but display options are not one of its weaknesses.
Whether I click on a file name in a Krusader window or click a link on a Firefox page pointing to a .wav or a .mp3 I want that file in my loudspeakers immediately. If anything is already playing then stop that instantly. And when a file stops playing naturally then just keep quiet!
Amarok gave me that a number of versions ago but then changed behaviour to adding my clicks to a playing list and insisting on first completing playing everything previously clicked on.
So I changed to XMMS. I wonder how long that will be usable.
I don't want my screen filled with eye-candy. All I want is one selected sound file in my loudspeakers.
Where do I go for a simple player?
For a simple player, try VLC. It plays anything you throw at it. Music, Video, DVD. You name it it plays it. And only a simple playlist will give you exactly what you want. No good if you want a media library, or visualistations, or anything fancy. But as a simple player its perfect!
Before i realised the limitations of the video player window, I was seriously considering using the underlying library for my own, more fully featured media player!
"Where do I go for a simple player?"
If existing ones do not suit you, you could always try command line tools like mpg123/mpg321 or mp3blaster and program your Krusader so it launches those when you click an mp3.
I figure it's not that hard to do if you spend some time on it.
If you are using Amarok and want a "simple player" – then you are entirely missing the point of Amarok. There are plenty of nice simple Winamp-like players out there !
Why cant amarok use the darn systemfont in the gui.. I hate that large clumsy font.
Maybe it looks huge, but it will be polished in future. KDE 4 isnt nicely looking yet (but did it stepped back? no!)
Amarok 2 is future.
kool appearance of Amarok 2.When it'll be released?
Чому амароке, моке наше фсио. песпесты, риале!
Why cant there be a minimal view option for Amarok 2?
It wouldnt affect users who want to have their mp3 player cover 99% of the screen and would give us…choice.
I like 1.4 but the lack of configuration options to make this a simple player for the times I want just to play a song has made me look around and try XMMS again.
All Linux programs should come with a full interface and an easy one (like you see on netbooks). You can do the most basic options with the minimalist option and that's ok for newbies or even those who just want to do one-two things but if you want to use the full power of the software, then you go to the full mode. (or vice versa) Those that want to get more/less options should just have to click one button.
This screams of Gnome "we know what you want better than you do" atittude. Keep your Itunes/Songbird full page look if you want to but leave us the option to keep it simple.
I really liked Amarok 1. I'm having trouble with Amarok 2.
The UI is quite radically different. I'm afraid I'd got pretty used to what I had before. Dragging things from the collection to the playlist. Setting up queues. Using the Random playlist most of the time with the odd song manually inserted if I wanted it. It really worked well. It also integrated with my Gnome desktop.
Now if I want to use it I'll have to try to get Phonom set up correctly. I like the new Pulseaudio volume control. I have two sound cards, the other one connected to a radio transmitter, so sound needs to be well controlled to make sure sound for the right applications goes to the right places. PulseAudio gives me that with applications that talk to it.
Maybe I'll get to know Amarok 2. Maybe I'll switch players, or try to get hold of version 1 again. I'm listening to Rhythmbox at the moment.
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Chapter 16.2 Reviews
What a fucking asshole!! That guy needs fucking therapy! Along with his other people holding her family in ….Wherever that country she came from! What the hell is wrong with this world! What decade do those fuckers live in!
Her 'life' story made me so mad! But that was nothing but an even bigger motivation for me to just hold on to this girl! She's got to be some kind of an angel to put up with all of this! I feel somehow, captivated by her; probably because that girl is just like me.
I didn't want her to know that it disturbed me, I didn't want her to feel more down than she already was so I tried not to let the resentment and anger in me control my reactions towards every sickening sentence she'd say about those mother fuckers.
"I…I just don't know what to do." She finally said.
She seemed like she was holding her tears back. That simple look in her eyes made me want to go kick that twat's ass.
"Gosh, I seem so pathetic now, I'm sorry." She added. I wish I could be as open to her as she was to me. But I can't, no one knows my story and I'm planning on leaving it this way, she didn't need to know about me anyway.
Claire's pov
I can't believe I told him everything! I don't know how I was able to open up to him that way. I don't want him to see me like that! I sure know how to push people away. I can't take this! I don't know what to think! Laying here like a dead person, I can't get any more pitiable than that.
"You're not pathetic." He replied smiling a bit.
"No… maybe just miserable." I said. Couldn't help but feel this way.
"You just need some rest. Go back to sleep and everything will sound way better when you wake up." He said, trying to comfort me.
I still can't believe I just told him the secret that I kept from my own best friend.
It's as if I'm coming back to my senses now and regretting the fact that I told a shining rock star the way things go, back at my place, the repulsive kind of way I used to live in, who would still want to talk to a person like me when they get to know the way she was raised?
"Did you get drifted away with your thoughts again?" He said giving me one of his cutely curved smiles.
"It happens a lot…" I replied barely able to raise my voice high enough for him to hear me without having to lean forward towards me.
"I'll just rest my weird…self now; you might want to sneak out as soon as I fall asleep." I said trying to give him a hint. I think he would want to leave now.
"You think you're weird?" He replied keeping his beam.
"Don't you think I'm freaky? I think I can get really odd sometimes." I said exactly what was on my mind.
"Nah…I think you're adorable!" He replied with a soft look in his eyes. I've never seen that in a guy, it's just indescribable. I seriously don't know what's forcing him to stay with me or to even be so nice to me.
"Adorable without any make-up on?? Are you serious!" My reaction was completely natural, yet it made him giggle.
He then added: "I remember when I came for this appointment with you and I noticed that your eyeliner was…"
"Applied really badly!" I finished his sentence as he giggled even more. It made me smile.
"I know! You don't need to remind me!" I added almost laughing with him. I remember that day too, I looked so awful but now that I look back at it, it just sounds so funny.
"Wasn't it applied this way on purpose? I thought it was on purpose…" Frank then added humorously.
"Now I know you're just trying to make me mad!" I exclaimed jokingly, pretending to give him the 'angry' look as I instantly ruined it by giggling.
"Hey…That's the last thing I'd want to do!" He added pinching my cheeks.
"I can't be mad at you anyways." I said smiling. It's true, actually, I can't think of myself being mad at someone like him!
"Good…" He added still smiling. "Because I'm going to have to let you rest now." He then explained.
He's going to leave me alone now? I mean, I understand he has his own life to deal with and I'm probably causing him some problems for keeping him here with me but… I don't want to be left alone! George was the first thought that crossed my head when Frank said he was going to leave. What if George came back? What if he was planning on seriously killing me? He's crazy! He'd do just about anything if he felt like it!
"Hey! dreamy girl!" He added, purposely interrupting my thoughts as I looked up at him. He was standing now. He really is leaving…
"What are you thinking of?" He then asked.
"I'm….scared." I replied. I wanted him to go, on one hand because he shouldn't waste his time doing nothing, but I couldn't tell him anything other than what I had said. I was now used to letting my heart out for him.
"I'm here…" He then said sitting on the side of my bed, running his tattooed hand over my hair.
"I thought you were leaving…" I replied, confused.
"I just said I was going to let you rest now." He replied with a light beam. I could just sense it, he was about to leave but when I told him I was scared he decided to stay. I wouldn't feel so good knowing that I indirectly 'forced' his presence with me so I said: "I'll be just fine! You go do what you have to do!"
"Are you kicking me out?" He asked humorously.
"No, but…" I tried to explain as he interrupted: "Then you go to sleep now and let me keep you company."
"Keep me company while I'm asleep?" I asked giggling.
"Yeah, is something wrong with that?" He added smiling, insisting on the idea that someone can be kept company while asleep.
"No… Alright then…" I added stretching, suddenly feeling the pain coming back to me. As if this whole conversation with Frank made me forget about the physical soreness I had.
"Alright. Good night then." He said smiling, gazing at me tenderly.
"Hmmm…" Was the last thing I said before closing my eyes and surrendering to sleep, wondering if he was really going to stay; if he was going to be there when I reopen them in the morning.
Jamia's pov
I waited for him all morning and he didn't show up, not even bothered to call me.
I picked my phone up a few times to call him, but why should I? He should be the one calling me! Instead of treating me like a queen, he gets himself busy with other meaningless things!
I had to miss the fashion show I wanted to attend at noon, waiting for his majesty to come back home!
I don't know where he is right now, don't even want to know, but I'm sure not going to make it easy for him this time!
No one ever treats me like that! Who does he think he is?
I walked upstairs, placing the shopping bags on our double sized bed.
Good thing I was smart enough not to waste any more time waiting for him and went shopping.
If it wasn't for those new boots I bought, I don't know how mad I would be right now.
I started unpacking the stuff I bought for myself, trying them on.
I even found a grey shirt for him, and it was on sale so I bought it. It doesn't really look so nice, it's plain and simple, but it will sure make my black long dress look just too elegant when I make him wear it to the formal party my parents are throwing.
Oh, and that hat, it looks awesome on me. I slid it over my head and head to the mirror. I wish I could watch myself in it forever, but I don't want to ruin it from now, I'm keeping it for special occasions. That hat really made my day! I got it off and placed it on the bed to start looking up those bags again and see what else I bought myself…
"Jamia…" I heard Frank call me from downstairs.
"I'm up here!" I said trying on my new scarf.
"Hey…" He said walking in then throwing himself on the bed. He sure looks tired. If he had come here 5 minutes ago I would've shown him some of my fury, but I'm not in the mood for it now, that scarf just brings out my eye color so beautifully.
"So…?" I said turning to stand in front of him as he was laying in bed, face up, eyes slightly open. "What do you think?" I added adjusting the scarf on me.
"What?" He said, looking at me, barely seeing my new scarf.
"Is it nice?" I asked him as I threw one edge of that scarf around my neck. Now he'll definitely notice it.
"You got a new haircut?" He said. I can't believe him! How blind he can be sometimes he just sickens me!
"You know it wouldn't hurt you to say a couple of nice words every now and then." I added getting the scarf off of me and opening the closet to place it there properly and pick out my pajamas.
"Where the hell did I go wrong now?" He said.
Ha! As if he doesn't know! Trying to act all innocent on me. I decided to be the mature one this time and not reply him. I just picked out one of my sexiest stuff, went to the bathroom, wore it, and got myself ready. I was in the mood tonight…
When I finally went back to the room, where Frank was laying, his eyes were closed.
I crawled next to him and gave him a light kiss, meaning to wake him up, but that didn't work. He just looked so tired and deeply asleep. That meant, I had to try harder this time to make him come around. So I slid my hand under his shirt and up to his chest, squeezing my head between his shoulder and head, trying to kiss his neck.
He moved a little, and mumbled something I couldn't understand.
I must be doing a good job. I always do a good job.
At least that was what I thought until he moved his hands to push mine away.
He probably didn't know what was going on so I whispered to his ear, exactly what I had in mind for tonight, with some of the dirty details.
"Hmmm.." He mumbled adjusting his position, turning on his side. I seriously don't know what is wrong with him, he's never like that.
I tried to run my hand through his hair but he didn't let me touch it, he just said: "I'm tired."
What the hell that's supposed to mean? He's never tired! At least not too tired for this! He's never been like that! He's changing. Something must be going on with him… And I'm planning on figuring out what it is, no matter what! No matter what it takes I'm going to find out what's making him change this way and I'm going to do anything to stop it. He has never rejected me before! I cannot be rejected, damn it!


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I'm going to the Levi's store tomorrow and am going to raise some hell if they can't help me in getting some brown pants.
If they don't have any I'm going burn it down then go to Urban Outfitters to burn them down.
Maybe after I'll get a pretzel or something.
Why is it so hard to find a pair of brown pants that aren't cords/baggy?
It's so weird looking at the pictures from like a couple months ago on my laptop.
Back when I had different hair and a beard or when I cut off all my hair and still had the beard and the beginning stages of the mustache. It feels like it's been a long long time that I've had it but in reality I've only had it since August.
I hate Spanish homework.
I don't want to study/make a note sheet for my midterm either.
I just want to watch Dexter and sleep.
There was this girl I went to high school with freshmen year when I lived in Massachusetts who reminded me of one of the monsters from Where the Wild Things Are. I still think of that any time I see a picture of her or see those creatures.
I've had two nice nights of drunkeness.
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Next weekend should be really nice.
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Want to get more out of your lawn mower? Check out all the things you can do in this fun video. Oh, and BTW, here is the link to that Disaster Shampoo article I mentioned... ouch, what a bad idea that was (in retrospect of course). But definitely don't do that at home! LOL.


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Topic - UKClimbing photo comp winners announced
Charles Arthur, UKC Editor on 24 May 2002
Congrats to our winners:
1) Colin Wells for http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=1846 ("The loneliness of the long distance climber")
2) Toby Whitley for http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=1093 ("A sense of scale")
3) Roy Thomas for http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=2161 ("Tunnel icefall in the french alps - view 2")
Congrats to all the winners, who will get their prizes (drop me an email with your address if you read this first, guys). But most of all thanks to those who entered - with so many entries, and so many of them so good, are you surprised it took us so long to decide? The judges were unanimous in thinking these were the best three, and that they met the rules. And as you all know, the judges' decision is final.
OK, let the games begin. And we'll probably do another photo comp presently since they seem to be popular... hmm.. is that summer I see coming?
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Firefighter charged in motorcycle crashJanuary 28,2014Firefighter charged
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BENNINGTON A member of the Bennington Rural Fire Department was charged with a misdemeanor Monday after police said he pulled in front of a motorcycle while driving a fire truck Nov. 18 in Bennington, causing a crash that seriously injured the motorcycle rider.
Gregg Barr, 22, of Bennington, pleaded innocent Monday in Bennington criminal court to a misdemeanor count of negligent operation of a motor vehicle. Barr was released without bail.
In an affidavit, Officer Thomas Bull, of the Bennington Police Department, said police were notified of the crash, which took place in front of the Bennington Rural Fire Department West Road Station on Route 9 around 5:20 p.m. Nov. 18.
Bull said he spoke to the motorcycle rider, Kimberly Hathaway, 54, at the scene. He said she told him she had hit a firetruck that pulled into her lane.
Bull said Barr told him he hadnt seen the motorcycle but told another officer he had sped up while turning from Route 9 into the fire station, so he could get out of the way of the oncoming motorcycle.
Police said they learned that Barrs license required that he wear corrective lenses but Barr was not wearing them at the time of the crash.
Hathaway suffered numerous pelvic fractures and an open fracture to her right knee, as well as burns to the bottom of her left foot where it touched the motorcycles muffler.MORE IN This Just InA Rutland judge has denied Christopher Sullivan's motion to exclude an expert's testimony from... Full StoryMayor Christopher Louras endorsed Rutland County State's Attorney candidate Rose Kennedy Monday. Full StoryCaramelized leeks bring flavor to mashed to potatoes. Full Story
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The Sachem Legislative Committee, a body that focuses on state and local government policies that affect education, have distributed a letter to the community, pleading for them to participate in a massive letter-writing campaign. The campaign is aimed at restoring the $2 million in state aid the district is slated to lose.
From Committee Co-Chairs Dana Platin and Sal Tripi, the letter reads in its entirety:
Dear Sachem Resident,
This note is a plea for your assistance. Without additional assistance from the state, Sachem residents will face the most dramatic tax increase in recent history or we will be forced to make substantial cuts in the educational programs. You can help by contacting the Governor's office as well as all state officials (see related link contact sheet below). Please tell them what a great community Sachem is. Tell them about your personal experiences with Sachem and how without additional aid our school district will experience severe and detrimental cuts.
The current State aid proposal, prepared and proposed by Gov. Cuomo, projects that Sachem will receive only $105,380,122 in state aid. This is close to 1 million dollars less than last year and far less than what was expected. In fact, the projected aid to Sachem is about the same as it was in 2005. In 2005, the Sachem community received $105.2M. In 2009 we received $119.2M (over $14 million more than we are projected to receive this year). Despite the reduction in aid, the NYS TRS payments, healthcare costs and overall operating costs have skyrocketed. Most notable, we have received NO relief at all to NYS mandated costs. All this has resulted in a current shortfall of over $26 million dollars.
If you recall, in recent years, the state has directed school districts to use all available reserves in order to fund the previous years' budgets. At Sachem we did just that. Over the last few years we have virtually depleted all available reserves to maintain the programs during the financial crises. The state assured us that restoration in aid was "on the way". Unfortunately our reserves are now at a dangerously low level and our auditors have called us a "district in financial distress".
The Governor's proposal has added several billion dollars for additional aid. Unfortunately, none of this is for Sachem. This is not acceptable. We need your support and action. Please call, email and send letters to the Governor and all of our elected officials. Tell them we cannot tolerate this and the entire Sachem community needs their support. Tell them all the great things that occur in our district. Tell them what Sachem means to you and why we need their help.
There is not much the administration and/or Board can do to make up such a deficit. Without additional aid from the state, we will be forced to either raise taxes over 16% or cut all programs other than basic required educational classes – nothing else – and substantially raise class size. This is not something that we can or should tolerate. Please see attached contact sheet of all state officials. Your help is urgently needed.
Dana Platin and Sal Tripi
Co-chairs, Sachem Legislative Committee
For a list of contact information for the representatives to be addressed, browse the photo gallery to this story.
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As we celebrate this Labor Day, we are reminded that nothing is more important to our current or future financial well-being than having a job. We are also reminded that for too many people 50-plus, who want and need to work, there is no celebration. This Labor Day is simply one more day when the unemployment office is closed.
Americans 50-plus have been hit hard by the Great Recession. More than 2 million people age 55 and over are unemployed; the unemployment rate for this age group actually reached 7.1 percent in May, the highest it's been since the late 1940s. Moreover, their average unemployed term now exceeds 10 months. More than half of older job seekers have been out of work for six months or longer, considerably more than the 23 percent at the start of the recession in December 2007. African Americans and Hispanics have been hit especially hard.
AARP is committed to helping people 50-plus remain in the workforce as long as they want or need to work, and that includes fighting age discrimination. The U.S. Supreme Court recently made it much more difficult for older workers to prove age discrimination. In a case involving Iowa resident Jack Gross, the court ruled that evidence indicating age was a factor in job discrimination was no longer enough. Now age must be the sole factor. AARP lawyers helped Gross, and we are supporting the Protecting Older Workers Against Age Discrimination Act, which would restore the burden of proof to where it was before the Gross decision.
All of this is happening at a time when people are working longer, either out of choice or necessity, and when the workforce increasingly includes a larger proportion of older workers. A recent U.S. Labor Department report showed that workers over 65 outnumber teenagers in the workforce for the first time since 1948. And AARP's own research finds that more and more of our members want or need to keep working past traditional retirement age.
This increase in older workers is having a disruptive influence as businesses struggle to find ways to manage getting the most out of a workforce that includes a larger proportion of older workers.
This is an issue we care deeply about at AARP. We have been working for years to help both older workers and employers bridge the gap to an older workforce. We have developed job search strategies, career counseling and information on social networking. With the organization the Employment Guide, we have sponsored over 40 career fairs in 19 high-unemployment states. More than 20,000 people have found jobs through these career fairs.
We believe that anyone 50-plus who wants or needs to work should be able to work. It's not only essential to achieving financial security, it also benefits our economy. We are committed to that goal and will continue working to achieve it for the benefit of people 50-plus and for all of society.


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Carden contributes to 4-H Foundation
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New faces at First American
April 25, 2008 Two new faces have recently joined the ranks at First American Bank facilities in Hamilton County. Jodi Cook recently joined First American Bank as a Financial Services Representative. more »»
AgVantage acquires Ferrellgas sites in Webster City, Stanhope, and others
April 18, 2008 The Board of Directors of AgVantage FS, Inc. recently announced the acquisition of Ferrellgas assets located in Webster City, Clarion, Rowan, Stanhope, and Iowa Falls. more »»
Local agents among State Auto Insurance 'STARS'
April 17, 2008 State Auto Insurance Companies announced the completion of the STAR (Sales Training for Agency Representatives) training program by 12 Town & Country Insurance agents: Webster City office: Mary... more »»
Mediacom now third largest telco in Iowa
April 4, 2008 DES MOINES — Mediacom Communications announced recently that continued demand for its digital telephone service now ranks the company as the third largest of more than 150 telephone providers in... more »»
Fareway teams up for 18th year with MDA
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Opening day at pizza hut
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Gilberts attend national buying show
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Greenwood ParkBirthdays are hard. Of course it's about you. But really, it's about everyone else, especially if you're stepping up to plan the party yourself: whom to invite, whom not to invite, how to congratulate yourself for being born without feeling too self-important, whether to celebrate the ... More >>
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On His Majesty's secret service
At a fashion show! In the front row! But I actually never wanted her to go, because her jazzy prints and big glasses had become zanily popular. And because now I'm the oldest one on the scene, ba dum pum.
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I've been a Professor at Aston Business School since 1998, apart from a brief period spent at Birmingham University. Before that I spent a number of years in the Economics department at Strathclyde University. My background is in applied microeconomics, principally in the fields of international business and innovation. Most of my work is empirical, using firm-level datasets. I am currently a member of the Research Committee of the ESRC.
Position: Professor of Economics Phone:+44(0)121 204 3001 Email: email@example.com Room: SW1013
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1. Knowledge Co-ordination, Innovation and Business Performance This work is based on the econometric estimation of the innovation value chain linking the sources of innovation inputs (internal R&D and external knowledge sourcing) to innovation outputs, and estimating the effect this has on productivity, profitability and growth. Another element of this work examines the determinants and effects of innovation in services, and the dynamics of open innovation.
2. Foreign Direct Investment: Motives and Effects Present research focuses on technology sourcing as a motivation for FDI among OECD countries, and the link between the motivation for FDI and spillover effects on domestic productivity and labour demand. Another strand of this work examines the MNE as a source of intra-firm and international knowledge and technology transfer. Linking the first two themes is a programme of work estimating jointly the effects of innovation, ownership and exporting on performance (productivity profitability and growth) at the firm level.
3. Theory of the Firm/MNE My current theoretical interest lies in the development of an opportunism-independent theory of the firm which is nevertheless contractual and consistent with a transaction-cost perspective.
I'm interested in supervising doctoral students in the following areas:
The innovation value chain and open innovation
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Technology transfer and the multinational enterprise
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Today is #FridayFiction!
#FridayFiction is a flash fiction workshop that runs every week on Twitter from 3 - 6 p.m. PST, facilitated by Richard Hugo House . Each week, we pick a theme and create a story based off of that theme. We share it with the community of #fridayfiction writers by using the tag in our tweets. You can contribute more than one story. You can use the same character in every story, or multiple characters. The important thing is that your story, with the tag #FridayFiction, not exceed the 140 character limit that Twitter sets.
Why do we do this?
Flash fiction gives us a chance to re-examine our language in a way that we normally wouldn't be able to do. The confines of the tweet force us to think of different ways of saying something, finding the word that communicates the biggest idea in the shortest way, and using Twitter allows us to find other writers on social media.
For more on why we write flash fiction and use Twitter to do it, read "Exercises in Brevity" on our website.
Last week's #FridayFiction prompt was "Growth." Click on the photos above to read the stories.
This week's prompt is "Fright," in honor of the impending Halloween holiday.
Write a story about ghouls, monsters, things that go bump in the night…
As you write, try and experiment with POV, different characters, and feel free to write more than one story! Writing within the confines of a tweet is difficult, but it gets you into an incredible mindset. Find the right words to create the mood, the plot and convey character in the tiny space that you have.
Also, interact with the community! Every week, a lot of amazing writers gather together and share their stories. These people don't just offer up great stories, they are great people to follow throughout the rest of the week as well. Being on Twitter is all about curating the conversation you want to be apart of and this is a great way to meet people who love being creative.
If you've been reading for a long time, please continue to enjoy our great stories, but also, feel free to offer up your own! You wouldn't think, as vast a social network as Twitter is, that it'd be a safe space to offer up your fiction, but it is, and it's a wonderful way to network with other creatives online.
Announcement: Twitter has announced a #TwitterFiction Festival. Browse through the posts here on this blog and find the stories you've submitted! Submissions are now open and if you feel particularly inspired by the #FridayFiction you've posted over the last year, you can submit it to their blog.
Hope to see you and your flash fiction this afternoon!
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