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The online train is boarding passengers and 24 Hour Fitness is one of the first to book a ticket. Since 2000, the national chain has offered potential members the option to sign up for memberships online. The number of people taking advantage of this option on the company's Web site has increased over the years.
"We're in the multiples of tens of millions of dollars that the site has generated since 2000 as a combination of direct and indirect sales," says Bryan Andrus, vice president of information technology and business development for 24 Hour Fitness.
He expects online membership offerings to expand in the industry, but whether it will be a necessary component of a club's offering is yet to be seen. Nothing can replace the personal interaction of a visit, he says. Still, Andrus supports online membership options.
"It puts a lot more information into the hands of the prospective members," he says. "If you can do it, it is a wonderful expansion of a company's product offerings."
Town Sports International is considering offering online memberships but hasn't gotten past the point of exploration yet, says Maggie Stevens, vice president of sales for the company.
"A gym is something you want to see and visualize whether you feel you would be comfortable working out there," she says. Online membership agreements could be a good option for people who have visited a club on a guest pass and want to sign up for a membership without having to go through the sales consultant, she says.
24 Hour Fitness has found that a segment of the population wants to understand the product before walking in the door, but most people who sign up online do so for the convenience. Many of them have been members of a gym before so they are familiar with health clubs.
Andrus calls the online process successful at 24 Hour Fitness. The company has a completely integrated system that automatically places a person in the system when they complete the online agreement meaning the person could sign up online in the parking lot, immediately walk into the club and be recognized by the system as a member, Andrus says.
If you are looking to add online memberships, here are some tips.
- Be prepared to spend
The process of getting an IT system that can accommodate this process is expensive and it is time-consuming, says Andrus. Once the initial cost of setting up the system is paid, the day-to-day costs are minimal, Andrus says.
"It takes intellectual capital," he says. "You need to be smart on how you use it."
He calls integration a "double-edged sword" because nothing can be done in isolation. The system must be able to carry someone all the way through the process from the time they click on the Web site to the time they walk through the front door and speak to a staff member. All those click points must have the same information available to them.
- Be willing to tweak the system
The 24 Hour Fitness online membership system can be monitored to the point where the company can see what pages the user is clicking on and on what page the user left the system. By monitoring this, the company can determine where to tweak.
- Take your time
Your paper systems and core business systems should work well before you embark on any level of online transaction, Andrus says. He also suggests researching the process and taking your time with it to make sure that you get it right. A smaller club and even some larger ones might want to call in IT experts to help them with the process. Once everything is in place, "test, test and test before you take it live," says Andrus.
- Get your staff's buy in
The staff, particularly the sales staff, needs to know why online memberships are being offered and they need to buy into that. The sales staff also needs to know that rather than replacing them, the system is providing another option to potential members.
- Know your disclosures
If you operate in several states, you must know what disclosures are necessary online so that you can comply with them on the online membership agreement, Andrus says.
- Keep it personal
Just because someone signs up online doesn't mean they don't need to meet with a staff member to develop their workout program. The IT system in place should immediately notify the general manager when someone has signed up online for his or her club. At 24 Hour Fitness, the general manager then calls the individual to welcome him or her to the club and set up an appointment to receive a club orientation.


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And i might just have to build an arena for them
also im in a bit of a dilemma here so i thought you guys could help out.
im wondering wether or not to have weapon-arms on the mechs or regular arms.
What do you guys think?
Eh, I'd say regular arms.
The one on the right has a weapon arm, correct?
Yeah, I don't think their upper limbs have the proper articulation to get the most use out of arm cannons.


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Two injured in motorcycle-deer crash in Becker County
Two Dassel motorcyclists were taken to the Detroit Lakes hospital after they collided with a deer in Becker County Monday noon.
According to the Becker County Sheriff's Department, the unnamed man and woman struck the deer on Becker County 39, about two miles north of Highway 34 near Ponsford.
The 47-year-old male driver and 49-year-old female passenger "sustained serious injuries and were transported to area hospitals, the Becker County Sheriffs Department said in a news release.
The woman was airlifted to Essentia in Fargo. The man was taken by ground ambulance to Essentia in Detroit Lakes and later taken to Fargo.
Their identities are not being released at this time.
A number of deer-motorcycle incidents have been reported recently in Becker and Hubbard counties. But motorcycle fatalities have dropped overall on Minnesota highways this year.
At least 22 motorcyclists have been killed on Minnesota roads to-date in 2011, according to preliminary reports from the Department of Public Safety (DPS) Office of Traffic Safety.
The 22 deaths reflect a nearly 30 percent increase in deaths compared to 17 at this time in 2010. Last year there was a total of 45 rider deaths, a 15 percent drop from 53 in 2009. In 2008, the 74 deaths marked a 24-year high in riders killed. Riders ages 40-64 accounted for 64 percent of deaths in 2010.
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CETA Is Now Slightly Less Like ACTA (But Still Similar, And Still Secret)
from the i-suppose-it's-progress dept
Earlier this week, we wrote about the revelation (via a leaked text) that the Canada-EU Trade Agreement, which is nearing completion, contains provisions in the IP chapter that are extremely similar to ACTA. It's a pretty clear attempt to reboot the ACTA process via a back door, and Michael Geist's coverage drew a lot of attention to the issue in Europe. Now, it looks like damage control is already underway: Geist reports that the European Commission has made a weak attempt to assuage concerns by announcing that two of the ACTA-like provisions in CETA have been dropped. Unfortunately, those provisions only represent a small fraction of CETA's similarities to ACTA:
The European Commission, which initially indicated that it would not respond to the posting of the leaked CETA IP chapter, has now responded by saying that the two ACTA provisions involving Internet providers have been dropped from CETA. When asked whether those were the only changes, EU Trade spokesperson John Clancy said there may be other changes but that this was the biggest one.
While the removal of the Internet provider provisions is a good step, the European Parliament's overwhelming rejection of ACTA was the result of far more than just the Internet provider provisions. Indeed, there has been concern about digital locks, damages, criminal provisions, and border measures. All of those provisions also appeared in the February 2012 CETA draft and Clancy's response suggest that most, if not all, remain there.
So... some of the bad stuff has been removed from the leaked draft that we weren't supposed to see in the first place. Also there may be other changes—who knows? Certainly not the public, and apparently not the EU Trade spokesperson either. You probably see the real issue here: even if they removed all of the controversial provisions from CETA, there would still be the little matter of how they were trying to quietly push through all the exact same stuff that citizens and politicians across Europe rose up and rejected mere weeks ago. The public still had to learn about it via a leaked document. New information comes in the form of vague descriptions, not new public drafts. This is not how you negotiate an international agreement in the 21st century, and that's what people are reacting to.
I suspect the people behind CETA are really, really annoyed: they were so close to slipping this one through, and now they might have another ACTA on their hands. How many times does this have to happen before politicians, diplomats, and the special interest groups that drive these agreements realize they no longer get to operate without public scrutiny?
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Pelion, South Carolina (March 2, 2014) – Charlie Mullins kicked off the 2014 season with a big way by taking a dominating win at the opening round of the Kenda AMA National Enduro Series in Pelion, South Carolina; a race that saw a record 721 entries sign up for the event.
Mullins got off to his usual strong start, winning the first five tests on the tight and sandy South Carolina course, before cooling his jets and cruising home for the win in the final test. In the end, the FMF/KTM rider beat out second place finisher Jesse Groemm by one minute and 34 seconds.
"It feels good to start off the year with a win," said Mullins, who is looking to claim his second straight, and third career national enduro title. "I took a pretty hard crash in the first test, but I was able to keep the bike running the get back on the gas fast enough to still win the test."
In contrast, Groemm, who is riding Shane Watt's Maxxis/Klim/Dirtwise KTM Race Team in 2014, got off to a slow start in the 10.5-mile opening test, but came on strong in the end, finishing up with the fastest time in the final test.
"I was tight and felt like I was riding horrible in the first test, but I picked it up after that and had a strong finish, which put me into the runner-up spot," said Groemm.
Stu Baylor rounded out the podium in his first major race since suffering a wrist injury over a year ago. The FMF/KTM rider was sitting in fourth behind Mike Lafferty until the fifth test when Lafferty missed a marker and lost nearly two minutes trying to get back on course.
AirGroup Racing Husqvarna's Nick Fahringer finished fourth, despite discovering afterwards that he had broken some internal fork components during the race, which he thought cost him some time.
Lafferty was fifth on his FMF/KTM, though disappointed at missing out on a podium due to his mishap in test five.
Sixth place went to Am Pro Yamaha's Brad Bakken on a YZ250F.
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Apple's Ruby: Communities, Not Features
But everyone who uses Ruby on OS X knows that you can't use the version that ships with your machine. Apple's upgraded its Ruby support for Leopard, and that's cool - it's good that they finally fixed the problem people were complaining about in 2005 - but there's a fundamental flaw with the whole idea. Nobody's complaining about that problem any more, because we're all using up-to-date installs, in most cases thanks to MacPorts. Apple tried to fix the problem from 2005 and just created a different problem for 2007.
Apple's latest OS ships with an improved Ruby, but it's not an un-crippled Ruby - it's just a less-crippled Ruby. Apple set up a custom install so they could get the latest Ruby into the latest OS X. They included features in their build that were not even part of any official release, as of that build. But they also skipped over the gem_server function of Ruby gems - which gem server replaces in the next release. I'm already using a pre-release version of that next release on my machine; that release is not far away. They installed Rails 1.2.3 as well, and the next release of Rails (2.0) isn't far away either.
The next release is never far away in fast-moving open source communities, and the Ruby and Rails communities both fit that profile. The Ruby and Rails schedules operate totally independent of the OS X schedule, and lumping the three of them together in any way at all is illogical wasted effort. This happens because Apple thinks they're adding a feature to a product. They need to realize that isn't the case. What they're actually doing is supporting a community which uses their platform.
As a feature on a product, the improvements to Ruby support on OS X might have looked great before the product shipped - it must have seemed brilliant a year ago when they were planning it - but in real life, the only people who want this "feature" on this "product" are the members of a community who will modify the platform if it doesn't suit their needs. And obviously, it won't suit our needs. Giving us something functionally useless which still requires manual package management is really just silly.
Compared to what they gave us last time, what they're giving us this time is great - but that comparison is a mistake. They shouldn't compare what they're giving us to what they gave us before. They should compare what they're "giving" us to what we're actually using. What they would realize if they did that is that we never use the Ruby they provide us, because it's always inferior to the Ruby we can install ourselves. Therefore, "giving" us anything (except real package management support) is just a silly waste of time.
What Apple really needs to do is say, some of our customers are regular humans who want a product with features, and some of our customers are open source power users who want a powerful platform. By failing to recognize the existence of this second group of customers, they've released an OS which provides shiny new features for open source power users. But open source power users build their own features - by definition - and this shiny new "feature," Ruby and Rails support, is almost already out of date, on the day of its release. Over time, it's absolutely guaranteed to not meet the community's needs, because the basic assumption Apple made was wrong.
Apple needs to make a fundamental distinction between features they provide and communities they support.
If they had made this distinction before they released the iPhone, they could have avoided an utterly correct class-action lawsuit as well.
Steve Jobs is very, very smart, but if you think about it, it makes perfect sense that a company founded in the 1980s still thinks of software as something that comes from big companies and goes out to itty-bitty consumers. This is basically the broadcast model, and nearly every tech company in business today knows that the broadcast model lost a lot of ground when the Web became mainstream. There still are millions and millions of consumers out there who want products with features, but that doesn't apply to anybody who buys a Mac so they can develop Ruby apps. Supporting a community is fundamentally different from providing consumers with features. In 2007, that should be obvious.
We shouldn't have had to write our own package manager, either. It's awesome that Apple embraces open source, but it would be cooler still if they understood it. In practice all this is easy to circumvent, but we shouldn't have to work around our computers to be productive. If we wanted that kind of frustration, we'd be on Windows.
Update: Chad Fowler says I jumped the shark. His note about updating Rails is true, and kinda obvious, actually - whoops - but in terms of the things in the comments about user control of the upgrade path, I think I've actually got a point. Both Chad and Apple (with Leopard's Ruby support) have done great things for the Ruby community, and I hate to be arguing with either him or Apple's awesome engineers, but I think fundamentally my critique stands. Apart from anything else, it applies equally well to the battle Apple fought and lost over third-party apps on the iPhone. The iPhone is primarily a consumer product, but it is also a powerful developer platform. Apple failed to recognize the second part of that, and made a lot of their own customers and developers angry in the process.
If you're just reading this to figure out whether or not you should use Ruby on Leopard, by all means, go with what Chad says. He's installed Leopard. I haven't. He's talking about Ruby on Leopard, and nothing else. I'm not. Apple definitely deserves kudos for the Ruby support, I called it awesome like ten times. But it's not perfect, and the imperfections highlight something deeper and more important.
Apple has a decades-long history of issues with third-party developers. That's what I'm talking about. It's not a new thing, and it's not constrained to Leopard's Ruby support. I remember reading similar anti-Apple screeds before I even got to high school. (I had weird reading habits as a child.) Apple has always had this attitude towards developers. It was bad in the 80s, but in a day and age when the line between customers and developers has grown much more blurry, it's really time for them to rethink that.
Update part 2: Rich Kilmer posted a very awesome and useful correction on the ruby-talk list. I stand corrected.
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I see your point, and I agree with the overall thought of it, but I don't know if I agree on how you got there.ReplyDelete
I think including Ruby is valuable for those who use it mostly to write little throwaway scripts.
There are even people who will build simple applications for themselves (say, a book catalog, or calendar app) who might appreciate Rails' inclusion without caring whether they update or not.
Perhaps those people don't make up a large part of the Ruby or Rails communities though...
I know Apple does it to appeal to the broader community, but still, it's not quite useless.
Or what about the designers who work with developers, for whom upgrading the whole system just to get tests running is a nightmare. Of course, if the build is broken and they have to re-install anyway, then it's back to your point. But if there is any chance it just works...ReplyDelete
And I haven't played with it yet, but the new ruby sounds much, much better integrated. Maybe I won't have to 'sudo port install' much this time.
And what about having the cocoa bridge installed, and whatnot?
So have you actually installed Leopard and found it laacking? Or is this just pontificating based on theory? ;) It just seems like you might be a little overly dismissive of the advantage of the literal ruby support in your zeal over your ideals about community support.
I understand the points that Giles is (repeatedly) trying to make, but in his zeal to argue "the community" standpoint, he's either missed or simply refuses to see a much larger one.ReplyDelete
The larger point is that MacOSX is an integrated product, one on which a lot of effort has been expended to make all the various features fit together in an integrated way that is palatable to the much wider community of users and commercial developers who may not consider themselves to be "rubyists" at all, any more than people who use the Developer tools consider themselves to be "C-ists". The Ruby community Giles alludes to may consider itself to be more cutting edge and subject to rapid change, but it would be short-sighted to assume that this is the only community Ruby can or should cater to. As a language "grows up", it needs to consider stability and integration as worthy goals in their own right.
We have already seen this at work with the Python community, one which is somewhat older and more mature than Ruby and who's "packaging requirements" are no longer driven by the "Pythonistas" so much as by the developers who are leveraging the ability to embed it and use popular Python frameworks like Twisted to deliver more powerful and flexible commercial applications. Those applications, in turn, do not expect the underpinnings of Python to change in anything but a controlled fashion (e.g. with a de-facto "no user serviceable parts inside" label) and, when they do change, to change in a fashion that is fully cognizant of the backwards-compatibility issues they may introduce. Apple has put considerable engineering effort over the years into avoiding the breakage of python-based applications, the success of that effort born out by the fact that most people are not even aware of what we had to do behind the scenes to make those version transitions seamless.
Sure, we could have simply left Python unbundled and said "that's a 3rd party problem - you guys support Python yourselves if you want to use it", but that's not the easy formula for success it may appear to be. For one, if we extended that to its logical conclusion, we'd never ship anything other than C/Objective-C/C++, a sure recipe for eventual stagnation in the developer support space. For two, even if we assume those technologies are easily available by other means, doing this would significantly increase the overall memory pressure on the system as every application carried its own copies of Python and other technologies we took "the easy way out" on. The system cannot share and optimize the usage of such technologies if everyone has their own (possibly uniquely versioned) copy of them.
Finally, I should point out that there's nothing about Apple's strategy which precludes the installation of another copy of Ruby and anyone desiring the always-latest-and-greatest has always been free to install their own version - we have hardly "taken that away" and it's hard to understand why Giles is so deeply offended (so as to repeatedly refer to it as "useless" and "a waste of time") by the notion of allowing users and developers, all of whom may have better things to do with their time, to avoid having to install Ruby themselves merely in order to learn it and deploy applications based upon it. Making that easy only enhances the Ruby community and, based on the positive feedback we've received, I believe the majority of that community both understands and embraces what we are trying to do.
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Jordan - I called it awesome. I approve of it also.ReplyDelete
Anyway - first of all, if you work for Apple, please say so at the start of your post. Just to make it easy to read. Before I figured that out I was totally baffled. Initially I thought Jordan was speaking for the Python community.
It's very illogical to say that I missed or refuse to see the larger issue that OS X is an integrated product when my whole point is that you have something which is both an integrated product and a developer platform, and you are treating it as if it were only an integrated product. My whole argument is that this perception of a "larger issue" is in fact an inaccurate perception.
When you're providing a defense of a strategy which I'm describing as misguided, it doesn't make sense to tell me that I didn't know you had the strategy. I did in fact know you had the strategy. That's why I described it as misguided.
I'm going to stop being pissed off and just assume you made an honest mistake. Here's my point, rephrased: Apple thinks OS X is an integrated product. Apple is mistaken. OS X is both an integrated product and a development platform. Providing bundled languages without package manager support enhances OS X only in its integrated product aspect, and not in its development platform aspect.
However, bundling development languages is not something you provide for run-of-the-mill consumers, but for developers. The upgrade path for developers is not an if, it is a when. For "cutting edge" developers the when is very soon, for regular developers it is further away, but in either case, all developers need an upgrade path of some kind, and Apple's approach to bundling languages overlooks this fundamental requirement.
I think your claim that upgrade paths are only necessary for "cutting-edge" developers was a deliberate red herring, an attempt to capitalize on the Ruby and especially Rails communities' reputation for arrogance and self-absorption. While there can be no doubt this is a serious problem, at least for Rails - much less so with Ruby - it's kind of ridiculous to say that only "cutting-edge" developers are going to need Rails 2.0 before you release your next OS. Today, only "cutting-edge" developers are on Rails 2.0, but everybody is going to upgrade sooner or later. I'm not favoring the cutting-edge here, and I think you knew that. I'm just talking about something which the cutting-edge find out right away and the rest of us find out later on.
Finally, two comments have both assumed a much greater emotional response on my part than actually exists. I am not deeply offended and I do not have a zeal for community ideals. It's just that I can't believe it's really happening. It kind of boggles my mind. I'm sorry, but it does.
I love my Mac, but this is just bad logic.
I'm afraid we must simply agree to disagree at this point, so I'll not continue what threatens to be a debate in the comment section of your blog - it's really not the most appropriate forum.ReplyDelete
You claim Apple is mistaken about the intended role and purpose of its own products, and if you choose to believe that then I suppose there is very little I can do to change your mind. I will merely leave you with two words: Software Update. It may not happen frequently enough for your liking, or always target the improvement of those technologies you hold in highest esteem, but it's also illogical to assume that the next OS release remains Apple's sole delivery vehicle for improvements just because I suggested the option of "self updating" to those who wish to have such improvements even more quickly. You might at least give us some benefit of the doubt and wait to see how the situation develops? Thank you.
Not the intended role and purpose of its products. Just the role and purpose.ReplyDelete
I don't mean to upset you, man, but you have to realize, I'm in a difficult position here. You're a fellow software developer working on something I don't know about, but you're also representing a company which illegally vandalizes its own customers' property. So I know a little about the context you're operating in and I want to be fair, but on the other hand, I kind of think I need to kick and scream a little to get anything from your mothership.
If I understand your hints about Software Update, that sounds like a very cool move, one I'd probably agree with, but it's not entirely fair to ask for the benefit of the doubt when as far as somebody like me knows there never was any doubt. Nobody out here in ConsumerLand had any idea.
Also, sorry, but unless a change to SU is in the works, SU is (at least currently) entirely Apple-driven. It sounds like you guys are spending money on a kickass chauffeur when what we really want is a clearer map. I mean what developers need from Software Update is so different it really justifies an entirely separate system, and one which will move more smoothly if we run it ourselves - e.g., MacPorts.
Anyway, again, sorry, you sound as if you took it personally, I didn't mean it that way, but I have to disagree on the forum thing too. If we're debating what the role and purpose of Apple's software is, we're absolutely in the right forum, because that's what my post was about. I also think there's a lot of value in debating it, because when it comes to a question of whether MacPorts or SU is the best solution here, I really don't know the answer. Depending on how that question resolves, it could undermine or reinforce my entire thesis. But I have an unfair advantage here. If the debate proves me wrong, I can change my mind. If the debate proves Apple wrong, only one small part of Apple is actually listening.
Anyway, I think there's money lost here for Apple and energy lost here for the community. People on both sides of a divide are re-inventing the same wheel. If some system from Apple emerges to continually update developer installs of open-source tools, the best thing to do is to expose the hooks, because obviously, there are developers to whom this matters much more than it matters to Apple. The MacPorts situation is probably actually a healthy one to some extent - why should Apple pay for building something only a few people will use? - but at the same time it seems counter-productive. Really what we need is a Software Update API.
As a Python web developer I normally only consider the Python that ships with Leopard as suitable for use as a build tool. We have a lot of build tools available in Python land. I can install Zope, Plone or Grok with just a simple build task. The best part about having your own build tools (in either Python or Ruby) is that you are not tied to deploying your stack on just the Mac. I prefer to deploy onto a linux server for example. I can use the Python that is packaged by my linux distribution as a build tool to run the exact same build tasks that I ran on my Mac, and repeat the exact deployment on a production server. With this method you can always ensure that you have the same versions of everything on both your Mac OS X deployment and your Linux deployment. Also if you are manage multiple projects, it's valuable to make explicit which versions of which packages each one is running, and have an easy way of reproducing that configuration. This also works well with multi developer situations when you are trying to synchronize the upgrade of packages across the team.ReplyDelete
I can appreciate Apple wanting to supply lots of pre-packaged open source builds on Leopard though. Making more open source, more wide-spread and more readilably available is a good thing. Junior developers or people reading introductory tutorials who want to just 'jump right in' can take advantage of this software. If the Ruby on Rails community makes a good freely available Rails introductory tutorial for example, I would appreciate having a known, pre-installed version of Rails available to walk along through the tutorial with.
I don't actually know enough about package management to speak authoritatively about this next bit. However, what I'm really getting at is it's weird that if you want to upgrade Ruby on OS X, you go and put a second Ruby on there. All my info is out of date as of yesterday, and I never buy tech products on the first day, so it'll be a while before I get any of the details on this. But I kind of feel like I must have written this post wrong because it doesn't seem like anybody's getting the point I want to make.ReplyDelete
I'll give it another go later. I don't know what part of it I said wrong, so it won't hurt to think it over.
"I don't actually know enough about package management to speak authoritatively..."ReplyDelete
I think that's a big part of the problem here. You just don't understand what's actually happened here.
There are two groups of people:
1. Those who will happily use the Apple-supported version of Ruby (the majority)
2. Those who will install their own version of Ruby (the minority)
Both needs are catered for in Leopard.
You thinking it's strange that to install a customised (or updated) version of Ruby you need to install a duplicate copy? Well, welcome to BSD. There's always going to be a nerd on any system (a lot of the time, it's me), that wants to install a new or patched version of something. Well, guess what? They can.
You've fallen into the trap of becoming engrossed in your own world - so much so that you think that you're the majority.
You've fallen into the trap of becoming engrossed in your own world - so much so that you think that you're the majority.ReplyDelete
That's incorrect. I'm aware I'm not the majority. I have no idea why you got that misperception.
I'm aware I'm not the majority.ReplyDelete
Saying that you know you're not the majority is one thing, believing it is another.
How could you see the change from Ruby being a second-class language to a supported "first-class language" (according to Apple) as being anything other than a huge win for the majority of Mac Ruby developers.
Saying that you know you're not the majority is one thing, believing it is another.ReplyDelete
Look, man, just go away. This is an "is too! is not!" argument. You're saying I think I'm the majority, I'm saying oh no I don't, you're saying oh yes you do. It's like we're four years old.
I wouldn't tolerate that in person and I'm not tolerating it here either. Just fuck off already. I'm sure you know something I can learn, and I want to learn from everyone, but you people are fucking assholes. I am so tired of blog comments. I just can't stand this time-wasting bullshit.
If my blog bothers you, JUST READ SOMETHING ELSE. The Internet is FULL of blogs. Go read a blog you like instead.
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The State Department said Monday that the Syrian rebel movement's Nusra Front is just another name for al Qaida in Iraq, an acknowledgment that the uprising to topple President Bashar Assad is led in part by foreign Islamist extremists who fought U.S. troops for years in the bloody Iraq war.
U.S. officials said they would amend this week their 2004 designation of al Qaida in Iraq as a terrorist group to include Nusra among the group's aliases, handing the terrorist label to an Islamist organization that is responsible for many of the rebels' recent advances against pro-Assad forces.
The Obama administration is expected to make a formal announcement Tuesday, on the eve of an international Friends of Syria summit in Morocco.
In labeling the Nusra Front, known in Arabic as Jabhat al Nusra, as al Qaida in Iraq, analysts say, the U.S. is attempting to draw a clear distinction between nationalist Syrian rebels and foreign jihadists who've flocked to Syria after fighting U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We've had concerns that al Nusra is little more than a front for al Qaida in Iraq, who has moved some its operations into Syria," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters Monday.
However, analysts warned, the move could backfire because Nusra fighters often work in close coordination with more secular rebel groups.
A McClatchy reporter who spent most of November inside Syria encountered Nusra fighters at every critical battle he visited, including on the frontlines of fighting in Aleppo, at the seizure of a key crossing point along the Turkish border, and in the takeover of a Syrian army artillery base in Deir al Zour province, where the victorious rebels raised a black Islamist flag.
Nusra also enjoys popularity on the ground among some Syrians who've felt abandoned by the United States and other Western powers that have refused to send arms directly to the rebels.
After nearly two years of fighting that's left an estimated 40,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, many Syrians either have become radicalized themselves or have grown so desperate that they're eager to accept help even from fundamentalist Islamists such as the Nusra Front.
"In some respects, this type of policy has come too late and won't be effective at this juncture," said Aaron Zelin, who researches the Nusra Front and other Syrian militant groups at the Washington Institute on Near East Policy in Washington.
"People don't really care how it happens, but they just want to be done with the regime," Zelin added. "Once that happens, the policy may be more effective because the goals of the different factions won't be in line and there were will be fissures between the secular and more moderate groups, and the Islamists."
Nusra also has its detractors among Syrians, who say the group's ideology hardly is consistent with the original goals of the anti-Assad uprising, which began as public demonstrations demanding greater democratic freedoms but devolved into civil war after months of government repression. Nusra leaders openly deride the need for elections after Assad falls, saying elections are inimical to Islamic law.
"No matter how tactically effective al Qaida has been, they still put forth a vision for Syria that's not tolerant, not multi-sectarian, and not about all the things this revolution was about," said a U.S. official with knowledge of the designation, speaking on condition of anonymity because public statements weren't authorized until after the formal announcement.
Nusra first came to the world's attention nearly a year ago when a car bomb exploded in Damascus, killing at least 44 people and wounding another 160. That Dec. 23 bombing was followed by another on Jan. 6 that killed at least 26 people and injured dozens of others. At the time, Damascus largely had been free of the violence that was growing elsewhere in Syria.
Opposition leaders at first disavowed the blasts and blamed the Assad regime for them. But U.S. officials told McClatchy in early February that they believed the explosions were the work of al Qaida in Iraq and that al Qaida's leader, Ayman al Zawahiri, had authorized his followers in Iraq to move into Syria.
In the ensuing months, suicide bombings became an increasing tactic of the anti-Assad forces, and Nusra fighting units began to appear in key battles around the country, particularly after rebels launched offensives in July in Aleppo, Syria's commercial hub, and Damascus.
U.S. officials on Monday declined to detail the evidence that led them to designate Nusra as another name for al Qaida in Iraq or explain why it took so many months for them to reach that conclusion. But Nusra fighters have told a McClatchy reporter and other researchers that Iraqis are believed to be among Nusra's top commanders and fighters, working in conjunction with Syrian foot soldiers. Many Syrian fighters have acknowledged in interviews that they fought against U.S. forces in Iraq.
The veteran militants seem to have learned some lessons from missteps in Iraq that cost them public support. Instead of intimidating Syrians into accepting their literalist views, they've provided basic services. In Iraq, al Qaida-allied cells often worked in isolation from other types of insurgents and wore out their welcome in host communities by forcing locals to adopt their rigid interpretation of Islam, even banning smoking in some regions.
Zelin noted that Syria was a major conduit for men, weapons and cash supplies to al Qaida in Iraq insurgents who fought the U.S.-led military occupation of Iraq.
"There was already a network of individuals and an infrastructure in Syria even before the uprising began," he said. "So this is a legacy remnant of al Qaida in Iraq."
After McClatchy reported last week that the State Department was poised to designate the Nusra Front a terrorist group, other Syrian rebels expressed solidarity with the group and dismissed the U.S. move as a ploy to cover how little the Obama administration has helped the rebels militarily. The Obama administration supplies only "nonlethal" assistance such as medical and communications help to the Syrian opposition, though it quietly supports some of its Persian Gulf allies in sending arms.
"We are all Jabhat al Nusra," read a joint statement in Arabic from 29 Syrian local committees and militias that reportedly have sworn solidarity to the Nusra Front.
The Reuters news agency and Arabic media also reported on the formation of the new Islamist-dominated rebel council, which was set up in opposition to the Turkey-based Syrian rebel command that's affiliated with a new opposition council that hopes to win U.S. recognition as a government in waiting.
That kind of rift, which underscores the battles over legitimacy among Syrian opposition leaders, is exactly what the United States was hoping to avoid by trying to isolate extremists and boost the relatively moderate forces that have vowed to restore Syrian ties to the international community with a post-Assad nation that's pluralistic and democratic.
McClatchy special correspondent David Enders contributed to this report from Beirut.


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Walmart's Summer of Discontent Explodes in Black Friday Strikes
This Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year will also be the busiest day for labor organizing, as Walmart store associates and community supporters spend their Thanksgiving holidays on the picket lines.
Organizers announced that last week's walkouts at Walmart locations in California, Texas, and Seattle were the first wave of an expected 1,000 protests across the country leading up to and on Black Friday. The public can expect strikes and protests in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, and Washington, D.C., as well as walkouts in Oklahoma, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Minnesota, among other states.
Over the past year, groups including Warehouse Workers United, United Food & Commercial Workers, the National Guestworker Alliance, and OUR Walmart, a union-backed organization founded by Walmart workers, have come together to confront Walmart. Unsafe working conditions, poverty-level wages, a rise in already expensive health care premiums, and retaliation against workers' organizing have encouraged many to join the strike instead of clocking in for the annual shopping holiday.
Worker discontent has been mounting since June, when guestworkers at a small seafood supplier for Walmart—immigrants in the U.S. on temporary work visas—walked off the job at their Louisiana plant and brought attention to labor abuses down the Walmart supply chain. Marches in California and Chicago for Walmart warehouse workers followed soon after.
One of the biggest concerns of workers and labor activists organizing actions for Black Friday is wealth inequality within the Walmart company. According to a report by the Huffington Post, a low-level Walmart employee averages $8 an hour and cannot expect to receive a pay raise until after six years of committed employment. After six years, the pay raise would bring that worker's pay to $10.60 an hour or $22,048 a year, still below the national poverty line for a family of four in 2012. Stagnant low wages have forced many Walmart employees onto government assistance to help them provide for their families, an assistance that can seem unnatural when you are employed.
This poverty is not shared equally across the company. In 2011 Walmart's net income was $15.7 billion. And according to the Economic Policy Institute, the net worth of the Walton family—the descendants of Walmart founders Sam and Bud Walton—totaled $89.5 billion in 2010, as much as the bottom 41.5 percent of U.S. families combined.
A look at the lives of Walmart workers
Walmart workers from every corner of the United States are speaking out about the challenges of making a living while working for the company.
Meet the Crawfish-Peeling Guestworkers Who Inspired Walmart Walkouts
How a few courageous workers in small-town Louisiana sparked nationwide actions demanding better wages and working conditions for those who pick, pack, stock, and sell the mega-retailer's products.
Dan Hindman has worked at a Walmart near Los Angeles for four years. The former employee of the month, who makes $9.80 an hour, told CBS News he is scheduled to work on Black Friday but does not plan to show up. Hindman's hours were cut to 15 hours a week after he joined a group of Walmart employees who favor unionizing. This cut resulted in him losing custody of his four-year-old son.
"It's the biggest retailer in the world, and you can't help me provide for my son?" Hindman said.
In Secaucus, New Jersey, protestors will be doing more than just picketing. Sam Talbot, an organizer for the Occupy Wall Street labor alliance project, 99 Pickets, said he expects more than 100 people from various factions of Occupy Wall Street to participate in an action at the Secaucus Walmart Supercenter. They plan on bringing Thanksgiving dinner to employees on Thursday evening during Walmart's first sale of the season. The Rude Mechanical Orchestra, a radical marching band and dance troupe, will be joining Occupy's Guitarmy in the store's parking lot, along with other supporters of the workers.
Starting at 5 a.m., just in time for the next big sale, organizers will hand out stickers pledging support for Walmart workers to customers. Talbot explains that his group is doing this for workers all over the country, who will be spending their Thanksgiving stocking shelves even while they rely on food stamps to eat.
"It takes a lot of bad treatment to generate that kind of response in our country," said Frank Pinto, an organizer for protests in West Sacramento and a union leader at the University of California. "The least that people can do is honor the people who are risking their own jobs to do this and not cross picket lines."
Throughout the day on Friday, protestors at Walmart stores around the country, including those in Secaucus and West Sacramento, will be dropping off letters to management stating the concerns of the workers and of the communities where those stores are located. Pinto says his family will be joining the picket line on Friday after their Thanksgiving celebrations, along with many other families with connections to Walmart and to the labor rights movement.
Challenging Walmart's business model
On November 19, David Tovar, Walmart's vice president of communications, appeared on CNN to dismiss the expected actions. He urged viewers not to believe everything in a union press release. Meanwhile, the company has shown measures of damage control by holding mandatory meetings with employees to discourage organizing on Black Friday. The move suggests that not everyone in Walmart's management is quite as dismissive toward the action as Tovar implied.
Walmart is no stranger to anti-union tactics and worker suppression. In the past they have gone as far as shutting down entire stores to stop workers from joining unions.
While change may not come right away, the protests could damage Walmart's brand name and put a dent in its annual sales. That suggests that cutting costs by underpaying workers might not be such a great business model, after all. Most important, it also has the potential to inspire other Walmart workers and continue the accelerating wave of organizing among Walmart workers over the past few months.
This year's public outcry against Apple and Foxconn factory conditions might finally point electronics production in a fairer direction.
The YES! Breakthrough 15: Battling for those on the economic bottom rung—domestic workers.
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I do not shoot weddings or family portraits.
Please visit my website to see the style of work I do for a better understanding of my business ... http://www.marknolan.com.au
The following should be use as a guide only;
This process is part of an overall update and clean out ..... I am looking for a logo that can be used for my website, as a watermark for my imagery, for letter head, business cards, email signature and possibly advertising ... The more I think about it I could almost have two logos - one for print/website and one for an image watermark ... An all in one solution would be best.
While I want it to be eye catching, I don't want it detracting from my images - A contradiction? - maybe.
It may involve; the letters MN or MNP (eg;letter form), or, my full name + photography (eg; word mark) ... As yet, I'm not sold on using my web address - but it would make sense to use it and drive people to my website - convince me :)
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I guess I can at least put some timecode stuff up soon. We've really been failing at the "additional information links" as of late, though. Still, we can't possibly be becoming dumb, as this online quiz we found on Livejournal CLEARLY demonstrates:
Somehow we get the feeling that EVERYONE gets told that only 2% of the people who took the test are less stupid than they are, to make themselves feel better about themselves. Note to self: AWO Myspace/Livejournal/Facebook is probably a bad idea because of things like this.
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In the emails, we get firsthand confirmation on Overfiend's negative effects on anime fandom in the UK (BEHOLD! The Ultimate Anime Collection!), as well as firsthand confirmation that Princess Ai does, in fact, suck. Also, we clarify some finer points regarding Giant Robo and exactly what the difference between "shonen ai" and "yaoi" is. Because yes, there is a difference.
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The DVD for Arcadia of My Youth is going out of print, Hiroyuki Hoshiyama is dead, and in celebration of their tenth anniversary, Tokyopop is revising their manga ratings system. How exactly is it going to help parents by saying that a comic contains "fanservice"? Like they'd really know what that term means. Also, Steven Foster truly doesn't understand why the Internet is so mad at him.
Promo: Weekly Anime Review Podcast (36:39 - 37:12)
Aaron's been missing in action for the last few well, months, but he is back in business! The show may be undergoing alterations to its name and release schedule, but with any luck he'll still be around, fighting the good fight.
Review (manga): The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Volume 1 (37:12 - 59:04)
Daryl reviews yet another tricky-to-find Dark Horse manga that is basically "BIZARRO~! Genshiken." You will be happy to know that a few weeks after this recording, Daryl did manage to locate Volume 2 of this. He has not, however, taken any steps to become an actuary.
Review: Loveless (59:04 - 1:20:36)
Nekomimi...Nekomimi Mode! Nekomimi...oh wait, different show. Clarissa hasn't done a shojo review in a while, and something had to be done to rid herself of the Austin Powers-level chest hair she developed as a result of watching MAZINKAISER~! last week. Loveless is the answer. It is not to be confused with the Vertigo comicbook by Brian Azzarello that takes place in the Old West and has all kinds of people totally getting shot and killed. We can only wonder how many people there are out there who go into the comicbook shop asking for one and ending up with the other.
Review: Dirty Pair: Project E.D.E.N. (1:20:36 - 1:45:50)
The following details were considered TOO INTENSE for the broadcast, but readers of the show notes may know of it: this anime contains a space butler samurai with a laser sword. Spoilers, schmoilers: this movie is celebrating its 20 year anniversary. Suffice it to say that this anime is still awesome to the max. You know what else we forgot to mention? The reason that opening credits sequence is so rad is because it was done by KOJI FUCKIN' MORIMOTO:
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32 x 38 = 30 x 40 + 2 x 8; 34 x 36 = 30 x 40 + 4 x 6; 56 x 54 = 50 x 60 + 6 x 4; 73 x 77 = 70 x 80 + 3 x 7 Verify and generalise if possible.
A little bit of algebra explains this 'magic'. Ask a friend to pick 3 consecutive numbers and to tell you a multiple of 3. Then ask them to add the four numbers and multiply by 67, and to tell you. . . .
Here are three 'tricks' to amaze your friends. But the really clever trick is explaining to them why these 'tricks' are maths not magic. Like all good magicians, you should practice by trying. . . .
Think of two whole numbers under 10, and follow the steps. I can work out both your numbers very quickly. How?
Think of a number, add one, double it, take away 3, add the number you first thought of, add 7, divide by 3 and take away the number you first thought of. You should now be left with 2. How do I. . . .
Think of a number Multiply it by 3 Add 6 Take away your start number Divide by 2 Take away your number. (You have finished with 3!) HOW DOES THIS WORK?
Choose any four consecutive even numbers. Multiply the two middle numbers together. Multiply the first and last numbers. Now subtract your second answer from the first. Try it with your own. . . .
Replace the letters with numbers to make the addition work out correctly. R E A D + T H I S = P A G E
Write down a three-digit number Change the order of the digits to get a different number Find the difference between the two three digit numbers Follow the rest of the instructions then try. . . .
What are the missing numbers in the pyramids?
Take any pair of two digit numbers x=ab and y=cd where, without loss of generality, ab > cd . Form two 4 digit numbers r=abcd and s=cdab and calculate: {r^2 - s^2} /{x^2 - y^2}.
I am exactly n times my daughter's age. In m years I shall be ... How old am I?
Can you explain why a sequence of operations always gives you perfect squares?
Euler found four whole numbers such that the sum of any two of the numbers is a perfect square...
Is the mean of the squares of two numbers greater than, or less than, the square of their means?
Clearly if a, b and c are the lengths of the sides of an equilateral triangle then a^2 + b^2 + c^2 = ab + bc + ca. Is the converse true?
a) A four digit number (in base 10) aabb is a perfect square. Discuss ways of systematically finding this number. (b) Prove that 11^{10}-1 is divisible by 100.
Prove that if the integer n is divisible by 4 then it can be written as the difference of two squares.
Investigate sequences given by $a_n = \frac{1+a_{n-1}}{a_{n-2}}$ for different choices of the first two terms. Make a conjecture about the behaviour of these sequences. Can you prove your conjecture?
Can you see how to build a harmonic triangle? Can you work out the next two rows?
Choose two digits and arrange them to make two double-digit numbers. Now add your double-digit numbers. Now add your single digit numbers. Divide your double-digit answer by your single-digit answer. . . .
Visitors to Earth from the distant planet of Zub-Zorna were amazed when they found out that when the digits in this multiplication were reversed, the answer was the same! Find a way to explain. . . .
In this interactivity each fruit has a hidden value. Can you deduce what each one is worth?
Can you make a tetrahedron whose faces all have the same perimeter?
To make 11 kilograms of this blend of coffee costs £15 per kilogram. The blend uses more Brazilian, Kenyan and Mocha coffee... How many kilograms of each type of coffee are used?
A group of 20 people pay a total of £20 to see an exhibition. The admission price is £3 for men, £2 for women and 50p for children. How many men, women and children are there in the group?
According to Plutarch, the Greeks found all the rectangles with integer sides, whose areas are equal to their perimeters. Can you find them? What rectangular boxes, with integer sides, have. . . .
If you take a three by three square on a 1-10 addition square and multiply the diagonally opposite numbers together, what is the difference between these products. Why?
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Tombstone Tuesday, Rosewell C. and Madeline R. Miller
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- ClaudiaJanuary 18, 2012
Uncle RC and Aunt Madeline...what sweet people they were.ReplyDelete
I didn't know that Uncle RC was also called Dick! I've always wondered who Uncle Dick was.
I can not think of one time I ever saw Uncle RC without his pipe and he was another Miller brother that Grandpa (Kurley Weadon) would always go fishing with.
I also remember the big yard sales that my grandparents (Kurley and Zelma), Aunt Nita, Uncle RC, and Aunt Madeline would have in front of Uncle RC's and Aunt Madeline's house. There is a huge tree that shaded nearly the whole front yard and cars coming off the highway could get into their drive a lot easier than the drive for Aunt Nita's house.
And last but not least! I remember Kelly. My grandparents thought a lot of Kelly and never hesitated to tell anyone. I can almost hear my grandpa saying "He's a good kid."
- ClaudiaJanuary 18, 2012
Of course, I don't know why they thought Kelly was a good kid! I always thought he was a meany! *grin*ReplyDelete
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Bruce Hasegawa Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science AwardIEEE Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Council (2012)
Junior Faculty Scholar AwardYale Center for Clinical Investigation (2011)
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Everton have confirmed that they are yet to receive any bids for Belgian midfielder Marouane Fellaini.
The Belgian giant has been in high demand this summer, with Manchester United tracking the movements of the midfielder closely. Former Everton manager David Moyes, now at United is keen to be reunited with the player that impressed so often last season.
But aside from United, a host of European clubs have also enquired about the services of the midfielder that could be ready to to trigger the £24m release clause in his contract.
But the Liverpool Echo have reported that Roberto Martinez is yet to recieve any concrete offers for Fellaini, and the probability of him staying at Goodison Park are ever increasing. But with Arsenal and Manchester United still both following the movements of Fellaini, a last minute deal could still be in the picture.
But Martinez earlier this month said that transfer speculation regarding Fellaini is something that will be ongoing, but something that cannot be avoided.
"I don't think it's an issue at all with Marouane. You are not talking about a player who is out of the squad or in negotiations with another club. I won't look to speak to him about this because there is nothing to speak about," Martinez told the Liverpool Echo.
Martinez also highlighted that transfer rumours will always be centred around Premier League clubs, but there is nothing you can do to avoid them.
"Transfer speculation is unstoppable when you have been as successful as Everton. You will always get other teams who admire and want to take your best players. That's normal and happens everywhere," added Martinez, who hopes to keep his biggest players at Goodison Park.
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Michael Shannon is known for intense performances: his Oscar-nominated role as the unbalanced neighbor in Revolutionary Road, his current tour de force as the about-to-explode federal Prohibition agent in Boardwalk Empire. (Here's my new-season review.) But he also brings huge restraint and subtlety when they're called for, as he does in the powerful new drama Take Shelter.
Shannon plays Curtis, a working class father who begins to dream signs of the apocalypse – or is he experiencing the beginnings of a hereditary mental illness? Uncertain, Curtis keeps it all to himself, even shutting out his wife (Jessica Chastain, who also talks about making the film in our video interview).
Take Shelter is Shannon's second go-round with director Jeff Nichols. Their first collaboration, 2007's Shotgun Stories, is the quirky story of two sets of half-brothers so at odds they begin to kill each other. Weird, but it works and I highly recommend it. As in Take Shelter, Shannon is the commanding center of the film as a man trying hard to come to grips with his own flaws.
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Saturday, May 05, 2007
That's More Like It
Birkeland 2
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This picture is way better.
Thank you for the kind comments yesterday. If you're in the area, check back again some time. I'm going to be updating every few days. There are another 15-20 skeins just waiting to be dry enough to wrap up and put in the window.
As for yesterday, some folks have asked why Birkeland couldn't sell the wool for me. I'm renting the space, they're not selling for me. Seeing they're getting a (very) minimal rent, they're not making any profit from this, so collecting money on my behalf would make more work for them without giving them a whole lot of benefit.
There's a sign in the window explaining it now, so the staff doesn't get swarmed again. Although really ... if there's another tour bus coming through, I hope I'm in the neighbourhood next time! Although I couldn't re-fill the entire window overnight, I'm pretty sure I could fake it.
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I was sorry to see that Birkeland isn't selling for you ... as in I was thinkin' maybe they might bring some/all of your pretties with them to Fibrefest.
Are you making the trek out to Fibrefest in Abbotsford?
Are you making the trek out to Fibrefest in Abbotsford?
Urm... you pod cast? Where? Window looks great. Looks really nice with the baskets. Wool wench - heehee =)
You make me want to knit, what with the seductive call of your colorful, tarty wool and all that...
I hereby name you the Purl Pimp.
I hereby name you the Purl Pimp.
as a dedicated rabbitch blog reader, and knitting-podcast listener, i can only say that I am more than excited to read you are podcasting! Please let us know what its called so we can download it! (Please put it on itunes for those of us who insist on using itunes because it automatically updates...)Post a Comment
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ST. GEORGE'S, GRENADA, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010_ Grenadian students enrolled in nursing education in Havana, Cuba, have been briefed on the Grenada government's plans for improving the country's healthcare system.
The briefing occurred Tuesday at a meeting with Health Minister Sen. Ann Peters and other members of the Grenada delegation which have been visiting Cuba.
More than 15 students are currently pursuing Bachelor's degree in nursing in the Spanish-speaking country. Another 10 are studying for medical degrees.
Although the student visit was not part of the official itinerary, Sen. Peters and Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Ms. Allison Miller, decided it was necessary to meet with the students.
They were encouraged to take advantage of the opportunity afforded them and strive for excellence. The students were also urged to be of their best behavior and make their families and country proud.
Sen. Peters also highlighted some of the plans and steps already taken to improve healthcare delivery in Grenada, especially at the primary and community-based level.
The Ministry of Health's initiatives have included the soliciting of funds for training, and securing scholarships and fellowships to enhance the provision of care in specialized areas such as oncology and dialysis.
Chief Nursing Officer in the Ministry of Health, Ms. Nester Edwards, said she is happy that Sen. Peters found time to visit the nursing students, who began their studies in Cuba 2007.