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During a recent noontime conference with his residents, family physician Timothy Heilmann, M.D., asked them, "Who here thinks they're doing a good job managing a diabetic patient?"
Pennsylvania's Improving Performance in Practice program celebrates its first anniversary -- complete with a "medical home" cake.
All of the residents' hands shot up.
But Heilmann, associate director of the family medicine residency at Williamsport Regional Medical Center in Williamsport, Pa., had some disappointing data to share with his residents. Those data were the first to be collected as part of the Residency Program Collaborative(www.pafp.com), an initiative coordinated and funded by the Pennsylvania AFP in its role as a partner in the Pennsylvania Primary Care Coalition.
The residency collaborative is part of Pennsylvania Improving Performance in Practice(www.pafp.com), or PA IPIP, a program of the Pennsylvania Primary Care Coalition. In addition to the Pennsylvania AFP, the coalition includes the Pennsylvania chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Physicians.
The collaborative's twin goals are to improve care at residency program clinics and prepare residents to work in patient-centered medical homes, or PCMHs.
- Thanks, in large part, to the Pennsylvania AFP, a statewide Residency Program Collaborative is helping primary care residents improve care at residency program clinics and preparing them to work in patient-centered medical homes, or PCMHs.
- Many participating residencies are being recognized as PCMHs by the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
- The chapter also is helping primary care practices achieve meaningful use of electronic health records.
Collaborative Opens Residents' Eyes to Need for Improvement
Despite the confidence Heilman's residents displayed, the data told a grim story: None of the roughly 250 patients with diabetes in the practice had met the established criteria for excellent care -- not a single patient had received all of the exams, tests and referrals that he or she should have received.
"Getting that information was a real eye-opener," Heilmann told AAFP News Now.
The program's residents immediately began using the data to improve patient care, he said. Report cards were created for each patient with diabetes to show which services each patient has or has not received.
"Now we have residents calling patients up and saying, 'You need your flu shot,' or 'You need to go see your eye doctor,'" Heilmann said. "Unless you're measuring these things and you know what to measure, it's hard to improve."
The Residency Program Collaborative, which began in June 2010, is the largest state residency program collaborative in the United States, according to Pennsylvania AFP Vice President of Quality Initiatives Lee Ann Grajales, who oversees the program.
Chapter Helps Practices Achieve PCMH Recognition
A key goal of the collaborative, said Grajales, is to build on those patient care improvements and assist practices in gaining National Committee for Quality Assurance, or NCQA, recognition as PCMHs. Of the 24 teams involved in the collaborative during its first year, 17 have achieved PCMH recognition, she said. Of those, 13 teams received the top recognition -- Level 3 -- from the NCQA.
Heilmann's residency practice was one of those that achieved the top PCMH status. "It would have taken a lot more time for us to get NCQA recognition and get our quality improvements off the ground if this collaborative hadn't been set up," he said.
Facts About the Pennsylvania AFP
Chapter EVP: John Jordan, C.A.E.
Number of chapter members: 4,800
Year chapter was chartered: 1948
Location of chapter headquarters: Harrisburg, Pa.
2012 annual meeting date/location: May 18, Omni Bedford Springs Resort, Bedford, Pa.
According to William Warning II, M.D., one of the pioneers of the collaborative and program director of the Crozer-Keystone Family Medicine Residency Program in Springfield, Pa., the Pennsylvania AFP's Residency Program Collaborative is definitely improving patient outcomes.
The baseline data for Warning's residency were "quite embarrassing," he professed. Not unlike Heilmann's experiences in Williamsport, patients with diabetes at Crozer-Keystone were not always getting eye exams, foot checks and urine checks, for example.
"We were at the 50th percentile for patient care," Warning said. "Now we're at the 80th and 90th. That's gratifying.
"We can prove now that we provide higher quality of care, especially for diabetes. We know patients are getting better outcomes, just in our lab outcomes."
Warning said he hopes to someday prove that, within certain predetermined health care parameters, coordination of care will result in fewer overall acute problems, fewer hospitalizations, and -- specifically for patients with diabetes -- fewer amputations and cases of blindness.
Program's Impact Reaches Beyond Residencies
For the time being, however, Warning is excited to see the impact of the initiative stretch well beyond family medicine residency practices. Last year's graduates, he said, purposefully sought out practices that operated as medical homes.
"It's a rude awakening when they graduate," he said, noting that it's still difficult to find a family medicine practice that has achieved PCMH status. According to the NCQA, 2,710 primary care sites staffed by 13,728 clinicians nationwide had been recognized as primary care medical homes as of August 2011.
The Pennsylvania AFP is helping 400 health care professionals achieve meaningful use of electronic health records.
Given the growing interest in PCMHs, residents involved in the Pennsylvania collaborative are being recruited to help practices that are interested in improving patient care and achieving medical home recognition, Warning said. The residents didn't realize what they were doing as part of the collaborative was such a big deal, he said. "It's amazing how quickly things become institutionalized."
"What we're doing is getting these young doctors of tomorrow while they're still formulating their habits and behaviors," Grajales explained. "Patient-centered medical homes and the chronic care model have been proven to improve patient care and the health of the patient specifically as it relates to chronic conditions."
In addition to funding the collaborative, the chapter coordinates monthly team meetings, learning sessions, and a performance improvement tracking tool to monitor and analyze the data collected by participants.
"We couldn't have done this without the PAFP," Warning said. "They are the backbone of our collaborative."
PAFP Supports Other Quality Improvement Programs
The Residency Program Collaborative is just one of the chapter's quality improvement initiatives, Grajales said. The Colorectal Cancer Screening Collaborative is another part of the PA IPIP, which is operated by the Pennsylvania AFP Foundation.
For many practices, a preliminary step in becoming a PCMH is adopting an electronic health record, or EHR, system, and the Pennsylvania AFP offers support to these practices, as well.
Currently, the chapter is working with 400 health care providers to aid them in achieving meaningful use status(www.pareacheast.org) and qualifying for CMS' EHR incentive programs, said Grajales. As a subcontractor for the PA REACH program (Pennsylvania Regional Extension and Assistance Center for Health Information Technology), the Pennsylvania AFP has already directly helped 29 providers attest to meaningful use status in the past year.
Depending on the needs of a given practice, the chapter may assist with a request for proposals, conduct workflow analyses, intervene with vendors or teach staff how to run the necessary reports, Grajales said.
"It's improved efficiency," says FP James Chlebowski, M.D., of his practice's electronic health records system.
In July, the first group of doctors assisted by the Pennsylvania AFP's PA REACH team attested to meaningful use: 16 doctors at Family Practice Center in north central Pennsylvania. The large multisite practice already was committed to achieving this goal when it took advantage of the chapter's services through PA REACH.
James Chlebowski, M.D., a family physician in the practice's Selinsgrove, Pa., location was one of the doctors who attested in July.
"It's improved efficiency," Chlebowski said. "If a patient is seen in another office, that (fact) shows up in my office; it makes it easier to have access to the full record."
In addition to improving patient care, attesting to meaningful use also has financial benefits. Those who achieve meaningful use, for example, can receive as much as $44,000 in incentive funds in a five-year period from the Medicare EHR Incentive Program.
The bottom line for the Pennsylvania AFP's 26 staff members, Grajales said, is to be on the forefront of primary care.
"If there is a health care initiative in the state of Pennsylvania, we're going to be part of it and leading it," Grajales said. "Our goal is to be an innovator and a contributor to health care transformation across the country."
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An elegant and memorable dining experience is what awaits each patron who chooses 6S Steakhouse!
After honing his skills for two years in Las Vegas, Chong was approached to be part of the BLT Group new outposts in Los Angeles. At the cutting edge BLT Steak, he perfected the art of the modern American steakhouse. This led to an extraordinarily successful tenure as Chef at the remarkable BOA Steakhouse on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles.
Chef Chong has continued to expand his experience both at consulting, and opening new restaurants throughout Southern California. He was also the founding partner and Executive Chef of Mainland Poke in LA.
Mr. Chong is very excited to bring his culinary talents and diverse skills to the heart of steak country in Kansas. He can't wait to execute a bold, inventive menu and create a unique dining experience for Wichitans.
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full_name_format and supplemental groups
by Orion Poplawski
Running IPA with an AD trust. Users are in AD. Trying to use full_name_format = %1$s to strip the domain from user names. This appears to break supplemental groups in strange ways. On the IPA server: Without full_name_format: # id orion(a)ad.nwra.com uid=470202603(orion(a)ad.nwra.com) gid=470202603(orion(a)ad.nwra.com) groups=470202603(orion(a)ad.nwra.com),470200513(domain users(a)ad.nwra.com),470204703(pirep rd users(a)ad.nwra.com),470204714(wireless email@example.com),470204715(firstname.lastname@example.com),470204701(boulder(a)ad.nwra.com),470207608(heimdall users(a)ad.nwra.com),470200512(domain admins(a)ad.nwra.com),470207124(andreas admins(a)ad.nwra.com) With: # id orion(a)ad.nwra.com uid=470202603(orion) gid=470202603(orion) groups=470202603(orion) If I add: default_domain_suffix =
# id orion uid=470202603(orion) gid=470202603(orion) groups=470202603(orion),470200512(domain admins),470207608(heimdall users),470204714(wireless access),470204715(nwra-users),470204701(boulder),470204703(pirep rd users),470207124(andreas admins),470200513(domain users) Which I guess makes some sense as you'd need to add the domain suffix back on to find the groups. But this appears to completely break IPA clients (with full_name_format = %1$s and default_domain_suffix =
): # id orion(a)ad.nwra.com id: orion(a)ad.nwra.com: no such user # id orion id: orion: no such user >From looking at the server logs, it looks like only the IPA domain is searched If I reset the server back to normal (drop full_name_format and default_domain_suffix): # id orion uid=470202603(orion) gid=470202603(orion) groups=470202603(orion) I don't get any supplemental groups. I see sssd errors like: (Mon Mar 30 15:20:52 2015) [sssd[be[nwra.com]]] [sysdb_mod_group_member] (0x0400): Error: 2 (No such file or directory) (Mon Mar 30 15:20:52 2015) [sssd[be[nwra.com]]] [sysdb_update_members_ex] (0x0020): Could not add member [orion] to group [name=domain admins,cn=groups,cn=nwra.com,cn=sysdb]. Skipping. Is t trying "cn=groups,cn=nwra.com,cn=sysdb" instead of "cn=groups,cn=ad.nwra.com,cn=sysdb" -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion(a)nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301
3 years, 1 month
please do not remove enumeration from AD provider
by James Ralston
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek(a)redhat.com> wrote: > You know, just this morning, I was thinking about enumeration. It > doesn't work for IPA views at all for example. It doesn't work for > trusted domains at all either (except for some limited support in AD > trusted domains that is very untested) > > I wonder if we could just remove enumeration from IPA and AD back > ends in some major release. Please don't do this. Enumeration is a very useful feature. It allows us to do things like this: $ getent passwd | grep -i lastname The equivalent ldapsearch command is much more tedious: $ ldapsearch -z 0 -E pr=2147483647/noprompt -o ldif-wrap=no -L -L -H 'ldap:///dc%3Dexample%2Cdc%3Dorg -Y GSSAPI -N -b "dc=example,dc=org" "(&(objectClass=user)(cn=*lastname*))" dn cn sAMAccountName More generically, enumeration is the way Unix/Linux has always worked. Even getting users to change from: grep -i lastname /etc/passwd To this: getent passwd | grep -i lastname ...has been a struggle. We also have various services that (unfortuantely) pre-load the passwd and group files at startup by enumerating them with getpwent_r() and getgrent_r(), instead of using the get*nam_r() and get*id_r() functions as-needed. These services break outright if enumeration is disabled. (Yes, these services are broken. Yes, they shouldn't do that. But our ability to fix them is extremely limited at best, because we don't control them.) Finally, we have many systems that cannot be joined to Active Directory (for policy reasons, not technical reasons). But we want to use the same passwd/group entries on those systems as returned by sssd on hosts that are joined to Active Directory. We do this by scraping the output of "getent -s sss passwd" and "getent -s sss group" and manually merging it into the local passwd and group files (respectively) on these hosts. > It's just a legacy feature, so those who need it can fall back to > the LDAP provider.. But the LDAP provider doesn't support ID mapping; only the AD provider does. And ID mapping is the main reason we use sssd. I'm not asking you to make enumeration the default. It shouldn't be; it should be something you only turn on if you need it, and you KNOW you need it. But if you need it, you NEED it. Please don't take it away.
3 years, 10 months
Re: [SSSD-users] sssd-ldap caching issue ?
by John Beranek
For what it's worth, in my environment at work, I am *not* able to reproduce this. Ran the test on a RHEL 6.7 Beta (sssd-1.12.4-31.el6.x86_64) VM, with SSSD configured for our corporate Active Directory. Cheers, John
4 years, 6 months
sssd and dovecot pam
by Günther J. Niederwimmer
Hello, I am new with sssd and Linux but I mean it is possible ;-) I have a centos system created with IPA authentication. My problem is dovecot in the moment? is it possible to adapt the Dovecot file for PAM to use sssd The origin file have this in /etc/pam.d/dovecot #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_nologin.so auth include password-auth account include password-auth session include password-auth I missing sssd and hope afterward I have a correct authentication. can any please help for this Problem. I know some is missing for this, "NSS authentication" but this is to high for me. Thanks for a answer, -- mit freundlichen Grüssen / best regards, Günther J. Niederwimmer
4 years, 6 months
1.12.x Build for Ubuntu 14.04
by Matt .
Hi All, I have understood that the 1.12.x version will be uploaded very soon for Ubuntu, but I would like to compile the package at the moment for some testing. I ahve issues with building as it cannot find my sources. I have Git cloned:
Did a: dpkg -b . in the sssd folder and after it: apt-get deb-build sssd This gives me: apt-get build-dep sssd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to find a source package for sssd Does anyone have some proper instructions to build the 1.12.x package ? Thanks! Matt
4 years, 6 months
sssd & dovecot Problem
by Günther J. Niederwimmer
Hello, I like to run on a centos 7.1 IPA client and dovecot, but it is not possible for me, to configure this correct. getent passwd xxx is working, id xxxx is also working. I can't correct authenticate my user ? Have any a running system with sssd and help me to find the correct way. Thanks for a answer -- mit freundlichen Grüssen / best regards, Günther J. Niederwimmer
4 years, 6 months
sssd-ldap caching issue ?
by Thomas Hummel
Hello, I'm using sssd-ldap-1.11.6 (from the official CentOS repo) on CentOS release 6.6 (Final) on a cluster of compute nodes running the slurm scheduler (
) in 14.11 version. Sssd is configured without enumerate, with cache_credential and default various cache timeout values. It works fine except in the following case where there seem to be a caching issue : [ the following is 100% reproducible ] a) I clear the cache with the following commands : . /etc/init.d/sssd stop . rm -rf /var/lib/sss/mc/* /var/lib/sss/db/* . /etc/init.d/sssd start b) I launch a "job array" consisting of 100 or so simple task. Basically this will execute in batch many instances (each one called a task) of the same program in parallel on the compute node. Such a job write its output in a .out text file owned by <user>:<gid>. -> so many processes end up querying sssd in parallel to retrieve the user groups What happens is that : . the first task completes without error . tasks 2 and 3 (or something like that) fail with a "permission denied" message . tasks > 3 complete without error . also if we ask slurm to launch each task one after the other instead of in a parallel fashion, the pb does not occur Note : - the job array is very fast since each task is very simple. Many tasks can be completed under a second of time. - if I don't clear sssd cache or if I just issue sss_cache -E or -g, the problem occurs randomly and may be hard to reproduce. At full debug level, sssd shows ldap answer correcty and sssd, only for entries not already in cache, is adding so called "fake groups" : ex : 'Adding fake group gensoft to sysdb' A simple patch to slurm in order to print (with getgroups(2)) the number of group of user shows that, for failed tasks, the number of groups retrieved for <user> is incomplete, which explains the "permission denied" message. In fact, the missing groups seem to be the "fake" groups which seem to be first put in sssd cache by the first task. So my guess is that : . task 1 fetches groups missing from cache and first flag them as "fake" . before task1 finishes "resolving" fake groups entry, tasks 2 and 3 discard those incomplete entries . task 1 finishes replacing fake by real groups . following tasks behave as expected regarding groups Any ideas ? Thanks Here is my sssd.conf file : [sssd] config_file_version = 2 services = nss, pam domains = pasteur_ldap_home [nss] filter_users = root,ldap,named,avahi,haldaemon,dbus,radiusd,news,nscd [pam] [domain/pasteur_ldap_home] ldap_tls_reqcert = allow auth_provider = ldap ldap_schema = rfc2307 ldap_search_base = xxxx ldap_group_search_base = xxxx id_provider = ldap ldap_id_use_start_tls = True # We do not authorize password change chpass_provider = none ldap_uri = ldap://xxxx/ cache_credentials = True ldap_tls_cacertdir = /etc/openldap/certs ldap_network_timeout = 3 # getent passwd will only list /etc/passwd, but id or getent passwd login will query ldap #enumerate = True ldap_page_size = 500 #debug_level = 0x02F0 debug_level = 0x77F0 -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Groupe Exploitation et Infrastructure
4 years, 7 months
Authenticating against Samba4 local DC
by Jonathan Hunter
Hi, I am in the process of setting up sssd for the first time, so apologies for any simple questions - but I have not been able to find the answer in the archives, docs or elsewhere. I have two Samba4 Active Directory domain controllers on this site, and would like to configure sssd on each of them for local authentication of users (Samba doesn't support this yet - UID and GID mappings are inconsistent if using samba winbindd this way) I believe I have sssd configured at a basic level, but am getting a strange error. Both machines are CentOS 6.6 with sssd-*-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4 packages, Samba 4.2.1 built from source. My (sanitised) sssd.conf is as follows: [sssd] config_file_version = 2 domains = domain.tld services = nss, pam [domain/domain.tld] # Once sure everything working OK, change line below to false enumerate = true id_provider = ad auth_provider = ad access_provider = ad chpass_provider = ad ldap_id_mapping = True ldap_schema = ad default_shell = /bin/bash fallback_homedir = /home/%d/%u Samba4 works just fine on the machine, and indeed using samba's built in winbindd does work also (but no consistent uid/gid mapping between machines, hence I am trying to configure sssd) I am starting sssd with "-i -d 0x03F0" flags to get debug information, and from the logs things seem fine up to the following point: [resolv_getsrv_send] (0x0100): Trying to resolve SRV record of '_ldap._tcp.domain.tld' but then the execution after this looks like it only works 50% of the time, when the above line happens to resolve to the *other* DC (i.e. not the machine I am running sssd on). I have been testing sssd on one server ("DC1") first of all. When the above DNS query, which I presume is a round-robin type query, resolves to DC1 i.e. the local machine, I get: [be_resolve_server_process] (0x0200): Found address for server dc1.domain.tld: [188.8.131.52] TTL 900 [ldap_child_get_tgt_sync] (0x0100): Principal name is: [DC1$(a)DOMAIN.TLD] [...] [sasl_bind_send] (0x0100): Executing sasl bind mech: gssapi, user: DC1$ [sasl_bind_send] (0x0020): ldap_sasl_bind failed (-2)[Local error] [sasl_bind_send] (0x0080): Extended failure message: [SASL(-1): generic failure: GSSAPI Error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information (Server not found in Kerberos database)] [fo_set_port_status] (0x0100): Marking port 389 of server 'dc1.domain.tld' as 'not working' However, it's perfectly happy whenever this DNS query resolves to DC2: [be_resolve_server_process] (0x0200): Found address for server dc2.domain.tld: [126.96.36.199] TTL 900 [ldap_child_get_tgt_sync] (0x0100): Principal name is: [DC1$(a)DOMAIN.TLD] [...] [sasl_bind_send] (0x0100): Executing sasl bind mech: gssapi, user: DC1$ [child_sig_handler] (0x0100): child [8505] finished successfully. [fo_set_port_status] (0x0100): Marking port 389 of server 'dc2.domain.tld' as 'working' [set_server_common_status] (0x0100): Marking server 'dc2.domain.tld' as 'working' At first I thought it was something to do with the keytab file (which is a bit of a black box to me and which I don't quite understand). It looks to me as though samba4 has a keytab file containing entries for all users including DC1 and DC2; but I even extracted the keytab for just DC1 and told sssd to use it directly, which made no difference. I'm confused as to why DC1 would have a problem authenticating against itself, whereas DC2 is quite happy for it to do so, using the very same keytab file. To test this theory I used: # samba-tool domain exportkeytab /etc/krb5-dc1.keytab --principal-DC1\$ and added to sssd.conf: krb5_keytab=/etc/krb5-dc1.keytab but it made no difference when compared to using the 'full' keytab file as I had originally. I've also cleared cache via "# rm -f /var/lib/sss/db/* /var/lib/sss/mc/*". Can anyone point me in the right direction? I imagine this works for someone else; but as I've never had sssd configured I'm not sure where to look next. Thanks, Jonathan -- "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein
4 years, 7 months
RHEL 6.7 Beta sssd issue
by John Beranek
Hi all, I've just built a RHEL 6.7 Beta VM to test the new SSSD release, and have come across a strange issue. I can successfully kinit and join our AD domain with "net ads join -k" but sssd won't start. The logs contain: [ad_set_ad_id_options] (0x0100): Option krb5_realm set to
[sdap_set_sasl_options] (0x0100): Will look for rhel67.example.com(a)EXAMPLE.COM in default keytab [select_principal_from_keytab] (0x0200): trying to select the most appropriate principal from keytab [find_principal_in_keytab] (0x0020): krb5_kt_start_seq_get failed. [find_principal_in_keytab] (0x0020): krb5_kt_start_seq_get failed. [find_principal_in_keytab] (0x0020): krb5_kt_start_seq_get failed. [find_principal_in_keytab] (0x0020): krb5_kt_start_seq_get failed. [find_principal_in_keytab] (0x0020): krb5_kt_start_seq_get failed. [find_principal_in_keytab] (0x0020): krb5_kt_start_seq_get failed. [find_principal_in_keytab] (0x0020): krb5_kt_start_seq_get failed. [select_principal_from_keytab] (0x0080): No suitable principal found in keytab [select_principal_from_keytab] (0x0010): Failed to read keytab [default]: No such file or directory [ad_set_ad_id_options] (0x0040): Cannot set the SASL-related options [load_backend_module] (0x0010): Error (2) in module (ad) initialization (sssm_ad_id_init)! [be_process_init] (0x0010): fatal error initializing data providers Had a little feedback from Lukas, who suggested I ran "klist -kt". This gives: # klist -kt Keytab name: FILE:/etc/krb5.keytab klist: No such file or directory while starting keytab scan Any ideas? John -- John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot.
-- William Blake
4 years, 7 months
"could not store group" failures for lookups on Active Directory groups
by James Ralston
Hi, I think this problem may be part (or related to) the "FreeIPA/SSSD LDAP cross-forest trust slow queries" issue, but I'm not sure. We've been testing sssd on our RHEL6 and RHEL7 hosts, using the latest available packages. We have a fairly simple sssd configuration. We use the "ad" provider with LDAP id mapping: [sssd] config_file_version = 2 debug_level = 0x0070 domains =
services = nss, pam [nss] debug_level = 0x0070 default_shell = /bin/bash fallback_homedir = /home/%u [pam] debug_level = 0x0070 [
] access_provider = ad auth_provider = ad cache_credentials = true chpass_provider = ad debug_level = 0x0010 dyndns_update = false enumerate = true id_provider = ad krb5_realm =
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Thanks for being here! The six of us at CoolWorks welcome you and wish you success in finding your Jobs in Great Places®!
I've been watching the cool works page for years; applying here and there when my current job is being particularly soul-sucking. In the last couple of months, I've started a serious job search. But first, back story.
I've worked as a swim instructor for four years. Before that, I was a wrangler at a summer camp. Before that, I was a full time college student majoring in Follow Your Heart and not caring what my future looked like as long as it "felt right". Let me tell you. That bright eyed kid that walked onto that college campus is far from Following her Heart and I have to start giving a damn about my future now because nothing I've done since then has "felt right".
I first found Coolworks the summer after I dropped out of college. By that time, I was a depressed, almost suicidal, definitely burnt out shell of that once bright eyed kid. I didn't apply to anything. I wasn't in any condition to travel anywhere away from my support base. I got a job teaching babies how not to drown and that was that. But Coolworks was a place I could go to dream. "Someday," I'd say to myself, "Someday I'll work up the guts to get out and see these places. I'll get a job and travel the world."
I've been repeating that line for over four years now. I've gotten much better emotionally and become a hell of a lot more confident in myself. As for Coolworks, I've kept on casually viewing the jobs and dreaming, not daring to actually jump in and go for it. Until this summer. This summer, the promotion I'd been promised for three years finally happened. It's been a great experience and I've learned a lot from it. But I've also learned that no matter what I give to that little pool, I'll never get more out of it than part time hours, minimal pay, and a hostile work environment. So I took the plunge.
I've finally started applying to all the great jobs on Coolworks. I don't know if they'll go anywhere or how long I have to wait, but I'm in this for the long haul. I've rebuilt my life from the bottom up. Now it's time to go deeper and find that happiness I had when I worked outside all day and could hug a horse whenever I needed it. Here I am. Watch me go.
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Update- About 6 months ago, I started hearing back from all my applications. Most of them didn't go anywhere, but I finally ended up working at a local homeless shelter with a much better company than my previous employer. So far, I love what I'm doing, even though it's not a position from a CoolWorks listing.
I haven't stopped looking through CoolWorks, though. Part of my job is to find job listings and low income housing options for our clients. So I've started referring my clients to jobs listed on CoolWorks. It may not be the same as working in the Rockies or living in Denali, but now that I have a better work situation, I can help people who need the work more than I do find a place to live as well. It also means that I can take actual vacation time and visit those places if I want.
All of this is not to say that I won't ever leave this company and find a job in the mountains somewhere, but right now, this is where I need to be.
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Groundbreaking for URI's new Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences
At 2 pm on Monday, May 5th, ground was broken at the University of Rhode Island for the new $68-million Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences.
The new 135,000 GSF facility will triple the amount of teaching lab space and nearly double the amount of research lab space, compared with the situation in Pastore Hall. The new building will serve more than 7,000 students, and is largely financed by a $61-million bond issue approved by Rhode Island voters in 2010.
In attendance at the ceremony were Governor Chafee, Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed, House Speaker Nicholas A. Mattiello, URI President David M. Dooley and Sean Peters, a URI senior majoring in chemistry and biological sciences who will earn his bachelor's degree on May 18.
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Full-Floating Versus Semi-Floating Axle
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Any drive axle must be capable of performing two functions: Support the weight of the vehicle safely and transmit power to the wheels for propulsion. By design, all steering (front) drive axles are full-floating, but rear drive axles may be semi-floating or full-floating.
The semi-floating axle design fastens the wheel directly to the flange on the outboard end of the axle shaft and a single bearing supports the outer end of the shaft. The axle shaft has to support the weight on the axle and the propulsion forces from the engine twisting it. The semi-floater is standard on most sport-utilities, half-ton and light-duty 3/4-ton pickups. This Dynatrac design is lighter and less expensive than a full-floating axle, and suitable for 5/6 lug wheel applications up to 4500 GAWR.
In this design, the wheel is fastened to a separate hub which rotates on two large, opposing, tapered roller bearings secured to a spindle on the outer ends of the axle housing. All of the weight is carried on the hub and two large hub bearings, while the axle shaft goes through the hub and handles only the twisting force from the engine. With more than double the bearing area, and no bending forces acting on the axle shaft, the full-floater is standard in most 3/4-ton HD and 1-ton pickups. It is the design of choice for heavy payloads or trailers, big-block and turbo diesel engines, and very large tires, up to 10,000 GAWR.
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Full-floating setups are a must for 3/4-ton and heavier trucks, and a good idea for 1/2-ton trucks that haul a lot of weight, tow heavy trailers, or see severe 4WD use. However, except for Dynatrac custom axles, virtually all factory full-floating rear ends use 8 lug wheels, so if you have invested heavily in 5- or 6-lug wheels, you may be better off having us construct a rear axle for you. Dynatrac specializes in custom Dana 60, 70 and 80 rear axles in full-floating and semi-floating versions to fit a broad range of trucks from Jeeps® to 1-tons.
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Stan Bowman a chip off the old block
After Scotty Bowman won his 13th Stanley Cup this year as the Chicago Blackhawks' senior advisor for hockey operations, he sent a tweet about his son Stan, who is the team's general manager and vice-president.
Scotty noted that at age 39 he had won only one Stanley Cup, while his son has already won two at that age.
Tweeted Scotty, who will turn 80 on Sept. 18: "At age 39 my son Stan ahead of me in Cup wins 2-1 However next 41 yrs will be the true indicator He with Coach Q a true partnership Congrats"
Stan, who is named after the Stanley Cup and was born on June 28, 1973, shortly after his father won his first Stanley Cup with the Canadiens, had to dismantle his first Stanley Cup team in 2010 because of salary-cap restrictions. But only three years later, he had build another championship team. And there could be more championships in the near future.
"He continues to keep the core of his team together and he's got good contracts," NHL Network analyst and former general manager Craig Button recently told NHL.com. "I think they're in position now to be that team for the next five, six, maybe seven years, somewhere in that range, that is in the conversation as Stanley Cup contenders. Can they win two, three, four, five? I don't know. But I do know that they're positioned perfectly."
Added Button: "The biggest thing about Stan is he's not caught up in what could be or chasing anything. He's got a really measured approach. Too many times people chase things. There's no question in my view that the cap is going to go up, so (contracts for Jonathan) Toews and (Patrick) Kane will become, I don't want to say easier, but ones he can accomplish."
On Sept. 11, the Blackhawks announced that Stan, the youngest GM in the NHL, had signed a two-year contract extension that will take him through the 2017-18 season.
"Stan has been an integral part of our organizational success and we are proud to reward him with a well-deserved extension," Blackhawks president and CEO John McDonough said in a statement. "From the amateur levels to our team in Chicago, Stan has a great system in place as we all strive for consistent excellence throughout the organization."
Stan learned from the master.
And Scotty learned the hockey business from former Canadiens GM Sam Pollock, a Hall of Famer who led the Canadiens to nine Stanley Cups during his 14 years as general manager of the Habs from 1964-78.
After winning his third straight Cup in 1978, Pollock left the Canadiens to pursue other business interests. Bowman was behind the bench for four of Pollock's Stanley Cup teams. But Bowman had known Pollock since 1947, and as a young man had learned from the master.
"That old moniker 24/7 definitely applied to Sam," Bowman told me in an interview in 2007, after Pollock died at age 81 following a battle with cancer. "He was definitely 24/7. I met him in 1947 when I was a young midget player, and then I worked with him for 10 years – between 1956 and '66. For 10 years, I worked every day with him before I went to St. Louis (to become coach of the Blues). I went to (the Ottawa-Hull Junior Canadiens) and I was his assistant manager and assistant coach. He taught me the ropes of the business part of the game."
Pollock brought Bowman back to Montreal in 1971 to coach the Canadiens.
"He wasn't interested in coaching," Bowman said of Pollock. "He was interested in the business side and the development side. I kind of leaned toward the coaching part, so we had a good relationship. I really didn't want to be the manager and he didn't want to be the coach. It was a good relationship and he was getting good players for you. It's pretty good as a coach when your manager can get you good players."
When Pollock decided to move on after the 1978 Stanley Cup, the Canadiens hired Irvin Grundman as his replacement instead of Bowman. Grundman was a businessman, not a hockey man. His claim to fame was building the bowling alley empire Laurentian Lanes Ltd. from scratch.
With Grundman as GM and Bowman as coach, the Canadiens won their fourth straight Stanley Cup in 1979. But the honeymoon was over.
On June 11, 1979, Bowman announced he was leaving the Canadiens to become coach and GM of the Buffalo Sabres.
"Listen, there was no room for Irving Grundman and me on the same team," Bowman said at his farewell press conference in 1979. "It was a power struggle that I could have won over the years if we'd started from the same point, but he had the lead.
"It was better for them and for me that I go. It had reached the point where I couldn't tolerate any further deterioration of my personal situation. It was a question of hockey philosophy.
"I was convinced I had the competence to be general manager, and I couldn't tolerate the way Grundman directed the club. He said he had a lot of respect for me as coach; I had some for him as a businessman, but I have no respect for him as a hockey man and I couldn't continue in this way."
Would Bowman have taken the Canadiens' GM job if it had been offered to him?
"The GM's always a better job than coach," Bowman told me in 2007. "But I got an opportunity to go to Buffalo, and my wife was from the United States. It's tough to leave your home town but, obviously, it was a much more lucrative job as manager/coach. Financially, it was a much bigger step for my family, which was quite young. But it was not easy to leave Montreal because we had won four Cups in a row.
"I probably would have had to give up coaching (to be GM of the Canadiens), which would have been a tough call," he added. "But definitely, I would have thought it was a good move. Looking back, it was okay for me because I became manager/coach in Buffalo and then I became more interested in coaching."
The Canadiens have only won two Stanley Cups (1986 and 1993) since Bowman left Montreal.
Read a previous blog post about Scotty's day with the Cup this year by clicking here.
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From the Olathe School District
Exciting changes are happening in downtown Olathe. In the same location that education in Olathe began in 1868, a new chapter will soon begin. The district has begun the renovation of the Millcreek Center, 150 S. Water Street, which includes the repurposing of the three existing buildings, including the former John P. St. John Memorial High School. This renovation will allow for the creation of new education and program spaces needed for the district.
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Thrifty Kitchen Tip: Brown Sugar
Dec 15, 2008
Are you doing a lot of holiday baking this year? Here's a little tip to help you save when recipes call for brown sugar. My mother taught me this growing up. All you have to do to make brown sugar is pour a little molasses in with plain white sugar and voila! The more molasses you add the "darker" the sugar will be. Molasses keeps for a LONG time too. I keep mine in the fridge but you can also store it at room temperature.
On a side note, a spoonful of molasses a day can help to keep your iron levels up. I was slightly anemic while pregnant and my midwife suggested I take molasses.
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the video ipod will feature a digital 3.5-inch (diagonal) display, and will ditch the mainstay scroll wheel in favor of a digital clickwheel, which will flip on and off the screen based on the touch of a finger. apple supposedly had help from two other companies to work out the kinks in this technology.
no word on capacity, price, or a release date; however, insiders suggest a spring announcement or even as early as next month. at macworld apple ceo steve jobs said to expect a major announcement on april 1 of this year to coincide with the company's 30th anniversary of existence. this major announcement could potentially be the video ipod.
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|first post (11:55am est fri feb 10 2006)
can the ipod get any better?
i guess so – by pippen
|wow (12:22pm est fri feb 10 2006)
only 800 dollars lmao – by give me a break
|just curious (12:36pm est fri feb 10 2006)
"will ditch the mainstay scroll wheel in favor of a digital clickwheel, which will flip on and off the screen based on the touch of a finger"
is this so we can watch our video content through all the finger smudges on the screen?
|re: asdf (12:42pm est fri feb 10 2006)
my thoughts exactly.
how will this work… once you get your video playing, you clean off the screen on your jeans or t-shirt… possibly scratching the ipod, changing the video and missing the first 30 seconds. – by no sense whatsoever
|uhmmm are you that dirty! (1:06pm est fri feb 10 2006)
"how will this work… once you get your video playing, you clean off the screen on your jeans or t-shirt… possibly scratching the ipod, changing the video and missing the first 30 seconds." – by no sense whatsoever
true, but i think the generally consensus is that we should all be generally clean when handling this type of device. i think its a revolutionary concept and a natural evolution for an otherwise great product. i mean think of the functionality that this device would provide and what other possibilities or concepts can be used with such an interface. endless, i would think.
but if washing or keeping your hands clean is a problem then maybe this device isn't for you.
|re: asdf & no sense whatsoever (1:12pm est fri feb 10 2006)
yeah right. talk to those people who have pdas and video cellphones and multimedia players with a touchscreen to watch video clips. they can use the touchscreen and if they do smudge up the screen and clean off the screen with a cloth, it does not scratch the screen. the touch screen is probably as scratch resistance as the future ipod touch screens. asdf and "no sense whatsoever" are the usual anti-ipod idiots and lairs. – by ipod owner
|put the wheel on the back… (1:56pm est fri feb 10 2006)
i gree with the smudge problem. put the wheel on the back.
– by wheel guy
|makes no freakin sense, agreed (2:00pm est fri feb 10 2006)
how many times do apple fans have to get burned before they stop being apple fans.
i think most mac diehards own one apple product, they are happy with it, they rave about it, and won't accept any negative comment against their beloved company, even though all they did was buy one product and have no intention of buying a new one.
but, i mean, what happens when one day you buy the latest and greatest supposed "video ipod", and then the next day apple releases the "true" video ipod?
apple is too secretive to let people make informed decisions about their products. apple also keeps their prices constant. you can pay $300 for an ipod one day, and the next apple releases a better version of the ipod for $280.
this happens time and time again, with their ipods, notebooks, desktop and other products. one day, you think you are buying the latest and greatest and will get lots of life out of it, the next day apple surprises the world with a newer, better, and cheaper version. every see apple's return policy?
if apple can't wait until next holiday season for an new video ipod, they will have lost touch with reality and will be pissing off a lot of customers. when i bought the shuffle, i was very dissapointed to find out the nano released only 3-4 months later which i probably would have prefered to get. all those people buying ipod minis up till the nano release were probably also very pissed off.
its like the snl skit where its "steve jobs" kept coming out with a new ipod and saying it was obsolete 5 minute later by offering a newer, smaller ipod until it became invisible. apple seems to be blowing the wad with ipod releases, and it will hurt them in the end as customer backlash will eventually cause people to wait instead of buying now.
steve jobs, sit back, relax, let customers buy and enjoy your ipods for a while, drop the price every few months and let stock run out before releasing a new ipod, and stop being so damn secretive. your not a child anymore having to surprise people with something wonderful every 10 minutes. and one more thing. be a god damned man for a change!
asside from that, apple's "major" announcment might be something surprising, but it may also be a desktop mac based on intel. i could care less, i am tired of apple coming out with something new every 5 minutes, its getting old. – by topher
|predictable (2:00pm est fri feb 10 2006)
make a comment which questions apple or steve jobs or is mildly critical of them in any way and somebody from geek.com's apple cult will attack you as an anti-apple idiot.
at least that explains why i've used mac's for the last 10+ years. because i hate them so much.
as for techluvr's comment, unless you have an obsessive compulsive hand washing problem, your fingers are going to leave smudges.
|damm another apple product to buy for christmas (2:21pm est fri feb 10 2006)
got nano, got ipod v, plan to get a duo powered mac and now this…
it'll be a great christmas..
buy apple stock while it is still down! – by nano rocks
|re: ipod owner (2:31pm est fri feb 10 2006)
yup… you got me… i'm an anti-ipod and a liar(i guess that's what you mean by lairs).
i'm so anti-ipod that i own 3 of them and i got an ibook just to manage them.
the thing you forgot to mention about all those devices is that they come with a stylus pen.
– by no sense whatsoever
|stfu topher (2:32pm est fri feb 10 2006)
i'm sure steve jobs really needs to listen to your advice. – by …
|re: asdf (2:54pm est fri feb 10 2006)
"is this so we can watch our video content through all the finger smudges on the screen?"
bingo! i immediately though of that too. – by msp
|stupid (3:13pm est fri feb 10 2006)
wow that is going to be really dumb its going to be really expensive and its going to get coverd in finger prints. and who would accually sit and watch a whole movie on a 3.5 inch screen probably for the same money you could buy a 5in portable dvd player or biger and keep your regular video ipod
– by tmaxxal
|no problem (3:16pm est fri feb 10 2006)
just add a lock switch somewhere, so you can wipe your filthy screen. don't see much problem there… – by networkiscomputer
|t maxxal, msp and toper (3:21pm est fri feb 10 2006)
the problem is sticking your fingers in your a$$. you'll find if you stop you won't get them brown smudges on our ipod and your keyboard – by smudge free
|jobs != god (3:30pm est fri feb 10 2006)
the uber-steve would do well to take some outside advice from time to time. i'll admit he has had the golden touch lately but let's look at
the lisa (or maybe how he is supposed to have pretty much ignored the girl it is named after)
the first office grade laser printer on the market but they kept it mac only so hp now owns the world of printing instead of apple.
had he liscensed out mac os in 85, there is a good chance that ms would be just a big applications company now and the world would be mac based.
how long did people ask for a 2 button mouse?
in the face of massive complaints about the nano screen being easily scratched, apple just denied, denied, denied.
do some searches for blogs by the original mac os team. there are some interesting ones out there. i especially enjoy the concept of the jobs reality zone.
not that the apple cult will listen. but i do love pushing their buttons from time to time.
|they are not dumb (3:38pm est fri feb 10 2006)
i am sure apple has already thought of the smuge factor. i use apple (os x) and all i can say is they always seem to do their research as far as ease of use and that is one of the main reasons os x smokes windoze. did i mention no viruses worries and built in system wide spell checker and dictionary that you can use even in the notepad. actually apples notepad is a nice little word processor if you don't need bells and whistles. – by regulas
|just wait (3:41pm est fri feb 10 2006)
the big thing i have learned about apple is just wait i was all about buying a nano then the ipod video came out a few months later. i then was like that looks hot i'll get one of those then i remembered something else thats better will come out a few months later. so i guess not jumping on the ipod band wagon has paid off for me. the only reason why i have not bought a mac desktop is because of lack of software and no order reason. the price doesn't bother me because i know its a better machine. or it was until intel came along. i'll have to wait and see how these new computers turn out. – by slow your roll
|finally (3:43pm est fri feb 10 2006)
i was thinking about this concept several months ago, nothing new, it's just like digital keyboards and digital writing tablets in pocket pcs. as far as the smudge problem goes it isn't hard to go around, you could wipe ur hands first to get rid of its oiliness before touching the screen, or the market can just put out a skin that has an extra thumb glove on the side that is really small but very elastic that you slide your thumb into to use as a thumb glove. the original video ipod is retarded with such a small screen, this is how it should have been at the start. – by ashoro
|watch the movie on a i-book (3:43pm est fri feb 10 2006)
use a 12″ i-book and save your eyes. did i mention microsoft does not offer a dvd player software with windoze (kinda like the xbox, buy a extra remote to watch dvds, ps2 already has it built in). you need to pay extra if you want that capability. it is in os x though. another reason to buy mac. – by regulas
|re topher (3:49pm est fri feb 10 2006)
u r a nube topher. the ipod has had a progression every year pretty much since launch
1st gen 5gb hd mechanical scroll wheel
yes my people 6 generation since 2001! gradual progression from mp3 players to video/ mp3 player.
james could you please write a more detailed analysis for us mac-heads to flame you over. i dont mind the shadowing of think secret/ apple insider, but if i take the trouble to bookmark this website on my browser then i want more than 157 words of analysis! please mi man, a little more for us…
– by maclover
|hehe (4:10pm est fri feb 10 2006)
topher is like a new orleans' student after hurricane katrina – no class! – by hey hey hey
|all these things are rather important and should be taken into account (4:28pm est fri feb 10 2006)
im currently a engineer for creative labs research and development team. i am personally a fan of the apple ipod. its a brilliant product from day one, they are known for their click wheel and it is their stonghold for the past 5 plus years. i believe having a touch screen would be very awesome, but i do not believe it should be placed where one will view video. the ipod is about portability and function and its had both for quite some time, for them to create a function such as is highly unlikely and not practical. – by darrenx1983
|topher- when will you learn (6:05pm est fri feb 10 2006)
are you trying to say it is somehow negative that apple is always coming out with new products that are better than the ones before it? isn't that the goal of every company?
you know i would prefer to get a 20 ghz g37 processor instead of whatever's on the market now, but only one problem. it doesn't exist yet! f you don't like a product now, don't buy it. your logic is so backward.
get a grip dude. the current ipod is not called the video ipod, it's called the ipod. they have yet to release a 'supposed' video ipod. – by switch already!
|switch already (7:40pm est fri feb 10 2006)
he just wants attention. – by 505
|tropher + attention whoar (8:02pm est fri feb 10 2006)
omg look at me, i have something uninform to talk about. ahahhahaa
"stop releasing new ipods and sit back and relax" u moron!!!
the ipod is a sucessful business for apple, because they keep up their high margins buy releasing new products that is worth the high prices, and dropping their previouse ones.
your not as smart on a good day, compared to stevo on his worst day!
go buy a 2001 dell dj for $10 u noob.
|re: smudge free (10:02pm est fri feb 10 2006)
"when a person touches something with his fingers, there will usually be a visible or invisible residue left on the touched surface."
i take it your fingers are special and don't leave any residue.
re: maclover
progression = 80 gb ipod to 60 gb ipod.
– by no sense whatsoever
|testing (10:03pm est fri feb 10 2006)
test of post – by does this forum work
|hey ken (10:53pm est fri feb 10 2006)
i have been reading your posts…i like it and i want you to know that i am able and willing to sleep with you. i am a single white male..i love the outdoors..i can cook..and i love to be on the bottom. also, i am blesses with a 9 inch tool that can chip any spin out there.
let me know if you are interested – by mike, a hot guy
|re: does this forum work (11:07pm est fri feb 10 2006)
all i got was:
might want to look into your webkit issues… – by maclover
|topher you are such a f**king idiot (11:42pm est fri feb 10 2006)
if apple is pissing off their customers, why has the marketshare of their products increase to 70%. apple will continue increasing their marketshare by introducing cheaper products such as cheaper ipod shuffles and 1g ipod nano and more innovative products such as the video ipod. who would listen to an idiot like topher? apple is following the advice of the business analyst, not idiots like topher. check out many of ipod's competitors. many of them are struggling. rio has gone out of the mp3 business. dell's hard disk mp3 is gone now. creative and iriver are struggling to hold their shrinking marketshare.
there was 1 million video downloads about 3 weeks after the introduction of video on itunes.
apple hits one million video downloads
– by ipod owner
|why not use nintendo ds (2:20am est sat feb 11 2006)
nintendo ds uses on2 technology for video playback. much better than soggy apple in shiny coating.
look at the poll numbers!
rasmussen poll 1/26/06
this� only 3 months after his �defeat!�
do you want arnie for four more years?
imagine his poll numbers if he gets 10 more months to fool the public!
|re: ipod owner (8:01am est sat feb 11 2006)
as the owner of 3 ipods(20gb 4g ipod, 1gb ipod shuffle & a 4gb ipod nano), i am not too pleased with apple. the devices are great… however… all this planned obsolescence is really starting to get to me. – by no sense whatsoever.
|what obsolescence? (9:02am est sat feb 11 2006)
do your ipods no longer play music? – by huh?
|re: no sense whatsoever (11:39am est sat feb 11 2006)
how does apple ipod planned obsolescence differ from other mp3 manufacturers? besides my apple ipod, i was looking at competitor's flash player. samsung had a yepp-192 model last year. it is obsolete and you can't buy it. last summer i got a samsung 512k mt-6 flash player. many stores were selling them until january, now no stores are carrying them. the stores are now selling a new thinner version of samsung 512k/1m flash player. who cares about obsolescence? i can still pay music and podcasts and mp3 on my now obsolete samsung 512k mt-6. if all this planned obsolescence is bothering you, stop buying any high technology equipment, you idiot. i am currently looking at a 7m pixel digital cameras to do the duty of my old 2m pixel digital camera. the old 2m pixel digital camera is still usable and will now be my 'beater' camera. i took pictures of hot air ballons from the 11 floor while the 'beater' 2m pixel camera was hanging by the wrist strap outside the window. – by ipod & samsung owner
|fingerprints (11:54am est sat feb 11 2006)
i noticed on my pda (palm t/x, with 4gb sd card) that fingerprints are visible when the machine is off. unless your fingers are coated with some seriously optically occluding materials, the oils should be relatively transparent when light is coming straight through it. of course it will be visible when the machine is off and the light is reflecting. i never have to clean my screen to watch movies. in fact the only time i know my screen has any detritus on it at all is when it is off. – by kmspiker
|i still in love with my sony mini cdplayer (1:15pm est sat feb 11 2006)
fuk ipod. any body here who would like to build a sony cd player fan club with me please reply this message and let geek.com webmaster know about this great news. 2aa battery lasts 6 hours of music. sony cd players will raise again. mike. hot guy. go fuk stevn jobs mouth with your 9 inch toe please. – by stoneage.
|there is a solution to fingerprints (5:49pm est sat feb 11 2006)
i'm sure there will be lots of ipod cases available for this new model when it comes out if not soon after. buy a case or use some sort of screen protector like there is for pda's and you'll have no problems.
as for apple releasing new products, well duh! if you bought an ipod or a mac in october and now its out of date, well there's always ebay. – by mac user
|hey mac user (7:37pm est sat feb 11 2006)
at what mall did you get your lump of crap system? are you bitter because you paid three times what you should have for a system that supports three software offerings? did you get a textured one button mouse? maybe a pink ipod?
hahahahahah. you mac users make me shit my pants with laughter – by no itard girlyman
|just kidding (8:49pm est sat feb 11 2006)
i'm just super jealous. my parents can't afford to buy me nice things so i'm stuck with this pos windows system. – by no itard girlyman
|also (9:08pm est sat feb 11 2006)
i'm a great lover of eating bill gates spooge. preferably over steve ballmer's tubesteak. but, hey, what else can i do while my 10 year old gateway is booting up with bob. – by no itard girlyman
|realease date, april the 1st (6:53am est sun feb 12 2006)
april the first!!!
wolud love it if it were real(possibly is)
but it is prank fools day!!!
maybe, maybe not – by tolle
|no one has said it about the iriver u10 (9:15am est sun feb 12 2006)
there's already a product with a purely digital interface. i haven't heard any complaints from the iriver u10 owners so maybe it's not a big deal. i actually look forward to the possibilities. there maybe an integration of pda functions that would do well with the addition of a touchpad. i think this could be a device that eventually could function as a video player, digital music player, pda, camera, camcorder, and cell phone in the next 5 years. with the research that companies are doing for a new form of battery, the possibilities are limitless. my exuberance is more for wha may come from this rather than the idea of the new ipod. i'll probably wait for a second iteration of this product to make sure the kinks are out. – by talkingbull
|re:hey hey hey (4:33pm est sun feb 12 2006)
not even funny – by moi
|re: huh? (5:20pm est sun feb 12 2006)
i'm talking about "when a new, more functional product or technology supersedes the old" type obsolescence. but apple does not incorporate anything that is new to technology but rather introduce something that has been around for a while and held off the previous gen ipod.
i mean come on… 5 gens of ipods to finally get video? 5 gens of ipods for what?? different click wheels? is that all we have to show?
re: talkingbull
indeed you are talking bull… the u10 is not a digital interface at all… it's click direct… you click on the side… you don't touch the screen.
– by no sense whatsoever
|no sense… (5:48pm est sun feb 12 2006)
then don't buy it! they're the best players out there, and have been since the 1g. if any other company had anything close in that time people might have bought them. feel free to buy something inferior. my 2g still does everything i bought it for.
and by the way, portabe video is overrated. – by huh?
|re: topher (6:12pm est sun feb 12 2006)
topher in august:
"honestly, as much as i love my ipod, i have found apple has stagnated innovation in their beloved line of products. having looked at what the competition offers, in terms of color screens and enhanced features, i would find it hard pressed to justify buying the ipod over one of the current generations of products if i was in the market today."
topher today:
perhaps if you sent apple your desired release schedule they could plan their product introductions exactly to your wishes.
|re: no sense whatsoever (9:01pm est sun feb 12 2006)
"indeed you are talking bull… the u10 is not a digital interface at all… it's click direct… you click on the side… you don't touch the screen."
you are the one talking bull and here is the proof:
"rather than being festooned with myriad small buttons too small to press, all the navigation controls are built into the screen, which is a four-way navigation control in its own right. press the left-hand side of the screen to move left, for example. with the constant pressing on the screen, you need to carry a cleaning cloth with the player at all times otherwise the screen gets covered in fingerprints."
|re: ipod owner (9:24pm est sun feb 12 2006)
the unit is 3.28 inches… the screen is 2.2 inches. that leaves enough room on the sides to click… look at the damn thing before you mouth off.
anyhow… this just adds more to my above comments about finger smudges. – by no sense whatsoever,
|ipod smudges/ upgrading (1:10am est mon feb 13 2006)
do you really think apple can develop a touch screen ipod but they cant come up with a material that resists fingerprints? they're on that. and to the people who are pissed they didn't wait for the latest and greatest, you love your ipod anyway, and for those who are still waiting, you dont have one at all, do you? – by ilikeapple
|ipod scratches/ (1:21am est mon feb 13 2006)
to the people who are mad they scratched their ipods, don't scratch your stuff, take care of it, it wasn't touted as durable, its awesome because its small and works perfectly. and don't get mad that apple keeps moving forward, get a better job so you can keep up with the technological bell curve. – by ilikeapple
|mac vs windows (1:33am est mon feb 13 2006)
i think the windows users who hate macs have never actually tried one. there's a reason that everyone who knows what they're doing in the music and film production industries use macintosh computers. logic pro 7 on a dual g5 is freaking ridiculous and unparalleled in the pc world hands down (forget the g5 quads and intel's running native logic 7.2) so if you want to play games get a windows machine, if you want to get real work done, (video, audio, run a full blown recording studio) get a mac. why? because it just works. – by mac wins
|hmm (1:55am est mon feb 13 2006)
maybe they will have smudge resistant coating on it… some type of nanotech… – by geeeeeeek
|aplle stay away from codecs please (4:59am est mon feb 13 2006)
you know: all that avi mutant crap. some losers are flooding the torrent sites with their ogm and mkv junk. if you want to burn this crap to disc you're expected to download eight different programs and waste a few hours converting the file into something that you can burn. then you can waste a few more hours burning it to disc before you find out if it was a clean burn. the typical windows user experience of jumping through hoops.
i hope apple makes a deal with the anime companies and offers some classic stuff. i love what apple is doing. they weren't the first with a video player but they are going to do it right. – by go apple
|i luv mi mac (6:47am est mon feb 13 2006)
hay u anty mac peeples owt der i is a mac user n i luvs it so dunt u go makin fun of apples or nuffin or i is gona pan yor face in rite bcos i is kleverest than u is i am i reely reely am an my ipod is the bestest 1 in da world but it only played for 5 mins owt of de box befor it ran out of bateree so i had to frow it away an by a new 1 its cost me a fukin for tune 2 listin to my moosick – by klevermac
|re: mac wins (11:47am est mon feb 13 2006)
you mac drones are idiots. every time its the same thing…"if you want to do video or music get a mac, they're sooooo much faster".
have you seen the opteron???
i hate to say it but even the p4 ee???
they are all fast…but you wouldn't know, you've never used one.
as for "unparalleled" performance in the pc world…get a clue buddy! – by mac isn't special
|re: mac isnt special. (12:28pm est mon feb 13 2006)
i didnt say faster, i said better. no one cares about your athlons because noone makes decent software that actually works for it. and ill say it again, people laugh at people who try to record, edit or mix on a pc, its a serious waste of time and lack of tools. go to a studio and see for yourself. or just play your pc games. by mac drones you mean regular people with awesolme computers, right? stop being jealous and get with the times. – by mac wins
|pcs suck (12:42pm est mon feb 13 2006)
you can quote me all the technical specs you want, but in the end, when people buy a pc, they enter a new frustrating and annoying stage in their life, and when people buy a mac, it just works and it works perfectly. not to mention you can do a million things in a minute that would take hours on a pc. (burning cds, dvds, spell check) and not to mention its a pro computer and you can actually do the things the million dollar studios do (who are selling all there precious outboard gear and getting new g5's by the way). the fact is, mac users feel like they bought something awesome, pc users feel like they got screwed (or just confused). dont be mad you cant afford a mac, just get a better job. my mac is amazing and makes me tons of money. hahaha. – by macs are good mkay
|polycarb diet (1:25pm est mon feb 13 2006)
there is a big misunderstanding about the materials used in ipod screens. there is a difference between hard and strong. diamonds are the hardest and therefore most scratch resistant material we know of, but if you hit one with a hammer, it shatters. paintball goggles are strong as hell (must withstand 300fps shots to the eyes) but you can scratch them with paper towels (serously). the polycarbonates used in ipod screens are a good balance of both, but you cant expect them to be shatter proof and scratch proof. that technology is coming, but there are alot of intermediate steps to get there. and yes, apple is working on smudge free materials that resist fingerprinting for the new video ipods. regardless, treat your ipod like your glasses and it will be fine. – by carbo loader
|they better make those screens (6:44pm est mon feb 13 2006)
ultra fingerprint/smudge proof…
– by lmao.
|"run a full-blown recording studio" (6:52pm est mon feb 13 2006)
on a mac, this costs thousands of dollars. on a pc, you can easily do it for free. plus you have the benefit of playing games and getting as you call it "real work" done. pc wins. – by 60865087
|are mac users retarded??? (7:10pm est mon feb 13 2006)
"not to mention you can do a million things in a minute that would take hours on a pc. (burning cds, dvds, spell check)"
i have yet to burn a cd/dvd in a minute on my mac… but then again… what do i know… oh yeah… i know it doesn't take hours to burn cds/dvds on a windows based pc. i also know that spell check does not take hours either.
"million dollar studios do (who are selling all there precious outboard gear and getting new g5's by the way"
are they really? all of them? getting rid of their million dollar gear and getting new g5s instead. wicked… how do you know this? are you an insider at all these million dollar studios? why are they equipping with g5s? shouldn't they already have macs that work perfectly? and why aren't they going with the intel macs?
"dont be mad you cant afford a mac, just get a better job. "
the end result will be… you will use a windows based pc at your better job. but hey… at least you can afford a mac.
– by you idiot.
|audio (7:23pm est mon feb 13 2006)
imagine trying to charge people hourly while they watch your pc crashing repeatedly and their audio files disappearing. no, you cant run a studio with your pc and freeware. and $1000 actually covers all the software you need, logic pro has a complete set of studio tools from synthesizers and samplers to audio mixing and mastering plugins that you can not get anywhere else. this is the standard in most studios today, of course people opt to spend thousands more on premo plugins, but they can not be had for free (legally) and logics plugs are on par with the best. and i have tetris. – by mac wins
|re: are mac users retarded (7:34pm est mon feb 13 2006)
i am not "mac users" im just one of them. and yes, they do prefer to run g5's with tons of amazing plugins under logic or pro-tools that sound just as good or better than their old outboard gear, which they sold to make room in their studio, buy the plugins, and line their pockets. some are doing this because recording has become cheaper and they cant charge enough to pay the bills for the outboard gear. some prefer to stay analog. and yes i do work in studios and yes we are psyched to get logic 7.2 on intel macs. and i spell checked this. lol – by mac wins
|re: mac wins (7:51pm est mon feb 13 2006)
sorry… i'm busy doing a spell check… and then i'm going to burn a cd. i'll get back to you later… in a few hours… maybe even tomorrow… christ… this windows pc takes hours for these tasks.
– by lol.
|i have a question? (9:33pm est mon feb 13 2006)
is that ture most of mac user are g@y?
i m so busy doing a spell check and got tons of cd to burn. alots of video and games waiting for me to crack. i get back to you later maybe next years. cause i have alot fun with my windows xp. or yea. mac is for production in gaming, music, art, and video, but how is that feels like. you are slaving for the pc user. thank you. – by i like orange more
|pc's and mac's are equal? (9:48pm est mon feb 13 2006)
pc= virus( alot people using it )
mac= no virus ( waste time to attack it cause not much people really interested about g@y, plus all the pc virus is from mac user. cause they had no fun at all with it's g5)
– by bigmac wirh fr-fries
|hi. i m m-jackson (9:50pm est mon feb 13 2006)
i love mac. i like to have sex with 9 year old kids. – by moonwalk
|mac rules (10:21pm est mon feb 13 2006)
if you pc x86 users had a real capable pc you wouldn't be sitting there arguing on some dumb a$$ site about how much a mac sucks…
mac people are busy doing real stuff. now that that boring x86 chip is set free in a mac. – by oh yeah!
|pc = virus (10:23pm est mon feb 13 2006)
so your saying pcs are better because they are commonplace, or because they get destroyed by viruses? im not surprised to see that only 10% of the population of computer users decided that they needed a real machine bad enough to pay for it, most people go for whatever is cheapest and that is usually not going to be very good. i hope it stays this way because i don't get viruses on my mac. – by mac=fun
|finally… (10:51pm est mon feb 13 2006)
i'm done with my spell check… i'm going to start burning a cd… damnit… i wish i had a mac… 2 minutes and i would have been done. – by lol.
|i'm too stupid to use a pc. (10:59pm est mon feb 13 2006)
it takes me years to burn a cd, spellcheck takes months and i won't even begin to tell you how long it takes to burn a dvd. thankfully… i have a mac that works perfectly everytime… it burns a cd in under a second and a dvd in 3 milliseconds. – by max r gud mmmmmmkay.
|apple haters get lost… (9:26am est tue feb 14 2006)
if your computing platform is great, why are you wasting your time here bashing apple? over 80% of the market is choosing the ipod over the competition because it delivers the best end-to-end portable media experience and it's one of the cheapest per/gigabyte (anyone saying ipods are overpriced is an ignorant liar).
as for macs and video, i invite you to come to any broadcast network and see what computers are being used for all this video you people are so anxious to compress and carry with you. they're 50% macs or more. final cut can't be beat for features and price. there's no consumer equivolent to ilife on windows. mac software rules the media roost. – by john papola
|pc haters get lost… (10:23am est tue feb 14 2006)
if your computing platform is great, why are you wasting your time here bashing pcs? over 95% of the market has chosen pcs over the competition because it delivers the best end-to-end computing experiences.
as for pcs taking hours to perform certain tasks, i invite you to go into any workplace and see how many pcs are being used and how much work is done on them… no… the employees don't spend their time, rebooting every 5 minutes or running an av scan every 3 minutes… they actually perform lots of work.
– by john popalo
|funny… (11:30am est tue feb 14 2006)
i didn't bash anything in my post, buddy. nor did i say, or agree with, pc's taking hours to perform comparable tasks to macs. i've used windows machines for years and they can get the job done in the hands of an experienced user… just not as seamlessly, easily or pleasantly.
given, if you live in a few applications (avid, adobe, autodesk, etc)… the platform differences may be irrelevant and processor speed may be all that matters. most users multitask though and use they're systems for a mix of purposes.
the difference between the platforms is qualitative far more than quantitative. sure you can edit home movies and then make dvds of those movies with slideshows of you pictures… but it's not going to be as nice an experience as using ilife on a mac. sure you can manage your contacts and calenders on a pc, but you can't have them sync between multiple machines, portable devices and be accessible integrated throughout the system (outside of office).
as for the 95% bs… don't go there. we already have it as public record from our highest court that ms abused their way to the top (a position they were handed to begin with from ibm). the bulk of business pcs run office and nothing else. at this point, that is pretty uninteresting to anyone on a website like this.
apple's ipod marketshare has been accomplished without any monopoly maintenance. nearly every copy of itunes on a windows machine (save a few hp boxes) has been downloaded by users that want it specifically… nor rammed down their throats like internet explorer or windows media player.
there's no reason to by an ipod other than it being the best for that user. the market has loads of functionally similar devices with functionally similar music stores.
but again, as with the windows vs. mac issue, the difference is qualitative not quantitative.
ps: it's a shame you don't have the guts to put your own name on your words. – by john papola
|market share (12:07pm est tue feb 14 2006)
re:" over 95% of the market has chosen pcs over the competition because it delivers the best end-to-end computing experiences."
uh no, maybe its because they're cheaper. thats why less than 5% of the population drives a lexus. most of them just need a hoopty.
|buying the newest and greatest (4:24pm est tue feb 14 2006)
hey guys, new to the forum just reading thru and i'm just gonna say i don't own an ipod but i was gonna buy the 30 gig video ipod but now i'm reading aabout the true video ipod…now i'm gonna jsut wait and buy that…apple is selling themselves short by releasing new versions one after a nother i mean why are people gonna buy the 30 gig video ipod if i can just wait 2 more months and get the new video ipod? any comments are welcomed
– by new ipod user
|macs kick a$$!! (5:37pm est tue feb 14 2006)
i own a 20 inch intel core duo, i bought it four days ago. i have since made a brilliant movie using imove hd, lounged about listening to music with front row, edited essays using apple works, created some great arty pictures in adobe photoshop and have begun work on my own web site using iweb and .mac
not once has it crashed how ever my windows pc sitting on my floor died two days ago (b.s.o.d) in the middle of an important download and hasn't since worked. oh and by the way i spell checked this in textedit. – by –joe–
|^ completely agree (6:24pm est tue feb 14 2006)
i have been able to perfectly mix all my compositions and songs that my band has covered. i have also been able create and edit many videos for projects during school. in the meantime, my p.o.s. windows is sitting on my bedroom floor since it crashed trying to install the newer version of aim.. its sad really – by -addict-
|newest and greatest (6:28pm est tue feb 14 2006)
now why would apple care if you want their old ipods or not? wait and buy the new video ipod and apple will be happy. im sure they stopped putting money into the ones they are replacing. ps you can spell check directly in this little "post your comment" box by right clicking on it (mac only). – by yep
|yep… (8:04pm est tue feb 14 2006)
indeed. os-wide inline spell checking is pretty awesome. you what's even cooler though? right-click any word in any app and select dictionary to see the definition inline. again, mac-only. – by john papola
|re: john papola & yep (9:05pm est tue feb 14 2006)
you mean ctrl click.
and i guess this is worth paying the mac premium???
or maybe… you can just learn how to spell. – by one button mouse usr
|1 button… (10:48pm est tue feb 14 2006)
um… every new mac comes with a two button scroll mouse. and what premium? i sell my macs on ebay and come out way ahead every upgrade.
don't be a tool. – by john papola
|tool (11:33pm est tue feb 14 2006)
and you always had the option of buying yourself a 2 button before, ive been using 2 button mice with my macs for years. and this is just a small example of why its worth it to pay for a mac (if you care to have premo gear). – by burned
|re: john papola (9:04am est wed feb 15 2006)
"every new mac comes with a two button scroll mouse"
what about wireless keyboard and mouse combo?? i don't see 2 buttons on that.
anyhow… you pay the mac premium for spell check… i'll learn how to spell. – by one button mouse usr
|one button… (11:14am est wed feb 15 2006)
what is the point, buddy? first of all, the notebooks don't come with any mice, so my statement stands. and if you're going to upgrade to a better mouse than what's included with the desktops, you're free to use any mouse/keyboard on the market.
focusing on such an idiotic and outdated point just makes you look 12 years old.
don't like macs? don't buy one.
it's not like apple is actively breaking the internet for non-mac users the way microsoft continues to with ie and the rest of their monopoly-protection initiatives.
make a reasonable point, or get lost. – by john papola
|re: john papola (11:40am est wed feb 15 2006)
ok… you're right… sorry.
we all know that os/x is superior because of a spellchecker.
right now, i'm on a windows based computer and cannot perform a spell check. how i wish i had my ibook to do a control click to find out i made no mistakes.
"it's not like apple is actively breaking the internet for non-mac users the way microsoft continues to with ie and the rest of their monopoly-protection initiatives."
you have proof of microsoft actively breaking the internet?
– by one button trackpad
|one button mouse loser (1:13pm est wed feb 15 2006)
you idiot, the spell checker is just a micro-cosm of the elegance of osx. the point is, when you need to do something in osx, its right there and by the time you want it its done. and we know you open your posts in ms to spell check them. – by your mom
|one button… (7:18pm est wed feb 15 2006)
every website that only works in internet explorer and not in firefox or any other browser is testiment to microsoft's work. this is what they wanted. they wanted the internet to reinforce their monopoly, not encourage open standards. why do you think windows media player can't play 3gp or mpeg4 files? same deal.
sure, the webdesigner that makes a sight ie-only is a moron, but don't think for a second that ms hasn't encouraged this. – by john papola
|re: john papola (7:56pm est wed feb 15 2006)
right-click / control-click spell checker not working???
sight = site.
you can only blame the web designer for making ie only sites. ms didn't put a gun to anyone's head… it's not microsoft's fault it was easier to make a web site for ie.
my thoughts on why wmp can't play 3gp and mpeg4… 3gp is a multimedia container format defined by 3gpp for use on 3g mobile phones… do i really need to define why it's unnecessary?
honestly… you don't even use these on your websites… so wtf??? go back to your .mov and stfu.
|mouse (7:24am est thu feb 16 2006)
mac's multi button mouse comes as standard with all new macs. – by –joe–
|explorer (9:46am est thu feb 16 2006)
yeah that thing with ie is so annoying and the latest version does not work on my mac. it sucks that were still struggling over format wars. – by tetris
|tetris… (12:38pm est thu feb 16 2006)
indeed. no matter what anyone says about the blame for broken sites, microsoft clearly has been a constant subverter of standards. notice how ie 7 still doesn't have web standards support on par with safari or firefox (and isn't planned to). billions in monopoly money and they can't build ie into anything other than a "good-enough", also-ran.
if only they had been broken up. we could have seen microsoft reach their potential. oh well. – by john papola
|re: john papola (9:49pm est thu feb 16 2006)
"ps: it's a shame you don't have the guts to put your own name on your words"
whatever… – by braktune
|braktune… (2:22pm est fri feb 17 2006)
indeed. i used to post under braktune, and then later dr alien. i decided that there was really no reason to hide behind some pseudnym since i stand behind my opinions. i encourage anyone else to do the same. it's commonplace in creative forums like creativecow.net or the apple support forums where there's actual community discussion about the tools we use and mutual help.
i wish this site was less ignorance and crazy flaming and more legit discussion.
good eyes though buddy. – by john papola
|spec info (5:17pm est tue mar 07 2006)
i heard from that in china specs were released. one of which said that apple is going to be selling 3 versions of this new ipod. a 30gb, a 60gb, and a 20gb, but the 20gb will have a built in 4 mp camera/camcorder. it will only have 20gbs because of the room needed for the camera. – by insider


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