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All Brenau University students entering as of fall 2011 must meet a Liberal Education Modern Language requirement by demonstrating at least the high beginner level of language competency at the 102 level. The following policies apply to this requirement:
Exemption of the language requirement may be achieved by:
1. Transfer of equivalent credit from an accredited university.
2. CLEP test in languages taught at Brenau, for credit. CLEP of other languages will provide exemption but without credit. (We aren't allowed to post credit if we don't teach it.) Contact: Brenau University Learning Center (Crystal Ball) 770-534-6133
3. BYU FLAT test available in 50 languages; test must be proctored, takes about 2.5 hours, and costs $50 plus a $20 proctoring fee. Scores of 60% or above will provide exemption only. NO credit is awarded for FLAT tests. In the Gainesville area, the Brenau Learning Center offers the FLAT test; students in other locations must make arrangements with a local public library or college testing center to proctor, pending approval of the Chair of the Department of Humanities or his designee. Contact: Brenau University Learning Center (Crystal Ball) 770-534-6133
4. Students entering with an AA degree (as defined by the Brenau Registrar) or with a previous bachelor's degree are exempt from any additional Liberal Education requirements per Brenau policy.
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Students unsure of their skills and not wanting to take the longer exemption tests may elect to take the WEBcape "snapshot" placement test ($10, online, immediate results in approximately 20 minutes). They may be placed into 101, 102, 201 or an approved study abroad 215 immersion experience based on the results. If placed into a 102 or 200 level course, that course would complete their language requirement. Cut-off scores are:
Over 500: Student should consult with departmental faculty to identify appropriate course or additional testing options.
351 – 500: Permission to enroll at the 200 level or above
251-350: Permission to enroll at the 102 level
Below 250: Enrollment at the 101 Level*
*Students concerned that the test does not reflect their knowledge of the language may request further evaluation by a faculty member who can evaluate listening, speaking and/or writing skills to determine if enrollment in a higher level course is advisable.
High scorers on Webcape will be encouraged to take the BYU (no credit) or CLEP (for possible credit) tests as appropriate if they prefer to try to exempt. NOTE: WEBcape is not an extensive and reliable enough test to award exemption and thus is only used for placement with appropriate advising.
Heritage Speakers:
"Heritage" speakers and others with advanced skills in a second language may NOT take 101; they should seek advanced placement or exempt the language requirement as described above.
International Students:
International students accepted to Brenau with an official TOEFL score will be exempt from the modern language requirement with the assumption that English is their second language.
Communication Elective:
The 102 language course fulfills the Liberal Education requirement in Modern Languages. All other language courses taken by the student (101 or 200 level) may count toward the Communication elective. Motivated students are encouraged to continue study at the 201 or 215 Applied Language level including study abroad.


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The Complete Guide to the Birds of Europe
The combination of superb and thoughtfully arranged illustrations, definitive text, and up-to-date illustration maps, all in a single volume, has already established the pocket-sized version of this guide, also published by Princeton University Press, as the most essential reference to European bird identification. This sumptuous large-format edition with entirely redesigned text is intended to complement the field guide and permit greater appreciation of the extraordinarily beautiful artwork.
The Complete Guide to the Birds of Europe provides the information needed to identify all European bird species in their normal seasonal and age-related plumage variations. Over 3,500 of the most accurate and attractive illustrations ever painted are accompanied by innovative pointers and captions drawing immediate attention to the key field marks. Particular attention has been paid to the design and arrangement of every page in order to facilitate easy comparison of confusing plumages. Vignettes illustrate typical habitat and characteristic behavior. On each page opposite the illustrations, brilliantly conceived texts detail habitat preferences, status in Europe, important identification features and, of course, voice. No other guide provides as authoritative and comprehensive descriptions of the songs and calls of the continent's birds as The Complete Guide to the Birds of Europe.
"If you want to have only one guide to British and European birds, this is the one to get."--British Wildlife
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Good news for dogs in Hillsborough County!
January 20th, 2012 by admin
Yesterday, the Hillsborough County Commission unanimously approved a strong anti-tethering ordinance. When the law goes into effect in August, it will be illegal to tie up a dog outdoors unless a guardian is outside along with the dog.
Please thank the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners for their compassionate vote. Click here to send a note to commissioners.
We've written about tethering ordinances many times on this blog. The cruel chaining of dogs is something that Floridians, and their elected officials, care deeply about. Now that Hillsborough County has passed an ordinance, five of the top six most populous counties in Florida (Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, Orange and Pinellas) have ordinances restricting the cruel chaining/tethering of dogs. The only hold-out: Broward County.
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Buckley is one of the Washington state communities where the home is considered a sanctuary, and for this reason, one of the most important tasks of families is to keep a clean house. On the other hand, in Buckley, people are always busy with building this charming community. This is why sometimes, it is better to call the specialists when it comes to cleaning services. If you are looking for the best service of this kind, than you have found the Carpet Cleaning Buckley Company that you need.
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Natasha Jonas (born 18 June 1984) is an English amateur boxer from Liverpool, England, who competes in the 60 kg lightweight division and representing Rotunda ABC & GB Boxing. She is ranked #5 in the AIBA world rankings.
Amateur career[edit]
Jonas took up boxing in 2005 and by 2010 she had won five ABA Championships in the 64 kg Division for Liverpool club Rotunda ABC. In November 2009 she became the first female boxer to compete for GB Boxing. In the same year she claimed gold in the 64 kg division at the 2009 Women's European Union Amateur Boxing Championships in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, after she overcame Csilla Csejtei of Hungary in the final. Jonas another gold medal in the inaugural GB Amateur Boxing Championships in 2010, when she pipped rival Amanda Coulson by one point in an exciting bout in front of her home fans at Liverpool's Echo Arena.
2012 AIBA Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships[edit]
Jonas made history in Qinhuangdao, China in May 2012, when she reached the semi-finals of the 2012 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships to become the first ever female British boxer to qualify for an Olympic Games, she then went on to take the bronze medal and a place in the 2012 London Olympics back to Liverpool with her.
2012 Olympic Games[edit]
Natasha Jonas wrote herself into the history books again, when she became the first ever British female boxer to compete at an Olympic Games. Jonas was handed a tough draw, which saw her box Quanita Underwood of USA in the round of 16, Jonas boxed to her strengths and dominated the contest, by a convincing score-line of 21:13, after dropping her American opponent to the canvas in the previous round. Jonas set up a quarter-final bout with 4-time World Champion, and Ireland's flag-bearer at the Opening Ceremony, Katie Taylor, who had already beat her in a previous contest, Jonas put up a tremendous fight but Taylor's quality shone through in the end and despite Jonas giving everything she had, it wasn't enough as she was defeated 26:15. Even in defeat, Jonas maintained the upbeat character which she is renowned for, displaying a sporting embrace with her opponent afterwards. Jonas had lost the fight, but had won many fans from the Irish contingent, and she was invited to the All-Ireland Hurling final at Croke Park. Jonas' main corner-man during the Olympics was GB Boxing coach, Lee Pullen.
Personal life[edit]
Initially intending to be a footballer, 'Tasha' spent eighteen months in the United States on a football scholarship, before returning to the United Kingdom and studying media studies at Edge Hill University, Lancashire. She currently works for Liverpool City Council and does part-time youth work.
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Makes 4 servings
Combine mayonnaise, lemon juice and tarragon in large bowl; whisk to blend. Mix in cabbage, carrots and onion. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Mix in shrimp. Cover and refrigerate at least 30 minutes and up to 4 hours.
Yummy! I added just a touch of vinger flavored tarragon and some sourcream. This was a very easy and fast recipe. Got raves in our house. Also I had no problem with the cabbage staying crisp. Dish was served in less than 4 hours after making.


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HISTORY: This collection was assembled from the wealth of local printed material in the stacks and rare book vault of the Mercantile Library, and created as a springboard and a collection of record, especially, for an anticipated imprint bibliography for the city of St. Louis, an important nineteenth-century Midwestern printing center.
SCOPE: The collection documents the printing history of St. Louis, from its beginnings in 1808, to the end of World War II in 1945. Formats include books, broadsides, pamphlets, serials, prints and maps. The collection covers the widest array of topics, from history and law, to art and literature, and includes important first printings, such as the first book printed in English west of the Mississippi, The Laws of the Louisiana Territory (1808), and long runs of rare periodicals and newspapers for this region.
Approximately 8000 printed pieces, including single issues of newspaper files and other serial publications.
Special Collection M-113 is catalogued and accessible through a card catalog and a special card file. A portion of the collection has been added to the OCLC database (search). Portions of the material may be photocopied, digitally scanned or photographed, subject to condition.


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If you told me a year ago that the tea party was going to be the movement that it is today I might not have believed it.I didn't think it was a passing phase or fad, but I just never expected it to sustain itself let alone actually organize.
Just when one would think the country is circling the drain of a White House toilet nick-named The Constitution, this truly American movement carrying the torch of truly American values explodes with nuclear fury over the nation and scares the poop out of liberals....or as I like to think of it, the Great Liberal Brain Drain.....
......I probably shouldn't be in charge of history books anytime this century.
Or maybe I should...for the last year liberals have dedicated so much of their media to painting the Tea Party as a bunch of dumb hicks who can't spell anything right on their signs (affectionately called teabonics).
UPDATE: It should be noted that there is very well founded speculation these signs are the product of liberal infiltrators instructed to make the party look like a bunch of buffoons by sites like crashtheteaparty.org.
Now the media is trying to paint them as a bunch of "well-educated" rich people.
If this brazen attempt to rewrite their script weren't so annoying I would be more concerned about such a weird admission coming from the political ideology that spends its time asserting it is the smartest person in the room. If these "dumb hick" teabonics speaking conservatives are better educated than the "general public" then where does that rank the intelligence of liberalism on a scale of 1 to teleprompter?
Either the Tea Party is stupid as or its smart. Whatever liberals want to label them one thing they definitely need to do is pick one and stick with it for once.
They did the same thing to George W. Bush, who was simultaneously the dumbest and most evil genius of a president we've ever had. They never know what they actually believe. They just know they hate conservatives and will SAY ANYTHING to get others to hate them too. Which begs the question if they actually know what they stand for in the first place.
It must really unnerve liberals that the Tea Party doesn't have any ambiguous one syllable tag line that can be made to say anything and nothing all at once. Their signs may be misspelled but at least they actually say something real.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Check out the Contract From America here to see what I mean.
Since liberals seem to understand symbols better how is this for a pretty picture?
Happy Tea Party Day!Add a comment
People have been abuzz about the photo of Obama bowing to Chinese President Hu Jintao. I don't actually on that level at all. It looked to me more like a nod of acknowledgment...
But what was he acknowledging?
For the record, I don't think (yet...yet) that Obama is a communist, and I know the hammer and sickle is a Soviet thing...but I thought it would make a fun little graphic...so the literalistic people out there...CHILL OUT.
I do, however, think with a fair degree of certainty he is a closet socialistAdd a comment
Lou Pritchett is a retired executive for Proctor and Gamble. He wrote an open letter to Presdient Obama and submitted it to the New York Times and was summarily ignored. Proving why the newspapers are dying the letter was posted online and is believed to have received over 500,000 hits, to say nothing of its appearance on countless other websites.
The moral of the story is if you want news to get out there don't ask for it to go it in a newspaper.
The letter is authentic and Pritchett more than vouches for it.
As a convenience to you the reader I have provided a way you can look at the letter through "lenses" that best reflect your political point of view. To use the Democrat pair of glasses (coincidentally on the left) or the normal glasses (coincidentally on the right) all you have to do is click and the letter will present itself in it's proper context.
Dear President Obama:
You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.
You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.
You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.
You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.
You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.
You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.
You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.
You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail..
You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America' crowd and deliver this message abroad.
You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.
You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.
You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.
You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.
You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.
You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.
You scare me because you will not openly listen to, or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.
You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient. You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.
You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaugh's, Hannitys, O'Reillys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.
You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.
Lou Pritchett.
Last January I came up with a series of posts inspired by the self explanatory hashtag on Twitter (follow my tweets here) #3WordsLiberalsHate.
The idea is to come up with the 3 word phrases that liberals would hate to hear or say. I wanted to put them in a way that they could exist on their own, but also in the context of a larger story. So here's a new set for a new season:
Must Support Israel
Beat Iran back
No bowing allowed
Peace through strength
Backwards nuclear policy
ObamaCare's health deform
No new taxes
17 minute responses
Teleprompter needs vacation
Change looks hopeless
Tea Parties mobilize
Dems lose Congress
Obama's only term
President Mitt Romney
President Newt Gingrich
President Sarah Palin
President Sean Hannity
President Ronald McDonald
President "Anyone Else"
Oh yeah...three more words they may not like to hear...
Here are links to the original series
Its the official game of the Minor League Foreign Policy Circuit. The rules are really simple...only you have to hold the cards like so AT ALL TIMES
As you place your bets you must never see your opponents hand and more important than anything else YOU MUST NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY DOING YOURSELFAdd a comment
We know he has placed restrictions to the nuclear option to almost never. So who is actually eligible to be nuked if they ever have the temerity to smack the Virginia Slim out of Barack's mouth?
Al Qaeda
Hugo Chavez
Vladimir Putin
Kim Jong Il's hair-do
Soviet Union (maybe)
Oh! here's something...
UPDATE: Apparently according to some readers my attempt at a clever pun of a headline for this post (Palin's Palm Pilot Should Reid (meaning "read"...haha, but not really) Into The Flattery of Imitation) didn't work too well, so it has been changed to something that "makes sense," post starts now:
Harry Reid is starting to make me think I've been channeling way too much energy into painting Biden as a gaffe factory
Its bad enough that Harry Reid views the Senate as a sort of open mic night at some smokey Vegas chuckle shack with only one patron busting out punchlines like Obama can hide his negro dialect, and ObamaCare opponents would fight for slavery, but now I'm starting to worry that he has run out of ideas for his own material. I mean really, the Palin hand joke...again?
What Reid should have remembered to write on that hand is that needed to tell that joke two months ago when it may have been funny to people who think toilet humor is for phD's.
How about this one Harry, can you fit the names of every person actually willing to vote for you on your hand?
And did you hear the woman that almost stepped on Reid's "joke"? She wants the Tea Partiers to "drop dead"...
Well lady, we're rubber and Reid is glue...whatever YOU say bounces off of us and sticks to HIS chances for reelection.
I swear, if the GOP doesn't take this seat....Add a comment
It looks like Obama's oratory skills need a tune up before he starts being known as President Mtrmuth.
Recently at a meeting where Obama was to force-feeding prime rib to a vegan a woman known as Doris questioned the him on the wisdom of piling on to the tax burden and informed him we are taxed too much already. What ensued was a 17 minute, 2500 word response.
The conclusion of the rant prompted a rousing. Nope, didn't forget to finish that sentence with "applause"...they had to wake up first.
Perhaps he was trying to be so boring that even Jesus would forget to rise for Easter yesterday. We know how much liberals hate competition.
Baseball season has started and maybe like a starting pitcher that has had enough Obama needs to bring in a relief teleprompter with a fresh take on his speeches. So meet Obama's new teleprompter.
As you can see this idea is something of a grassroots effort. Eat your heart out Tea Party.Add a comment
The latest Haiku to added the (newly created) haiku section...
ObamaCare is
The Dems think like a tumor
It will grow on you
I was traveling and visiting family this weekend, so I was a bit indisposed. Now that the day is all but over I wanted to at least acknowledge what is the most important day of the year next to Christmas.
A big thanks to Lori Ziganto over at iOwnTheWorld.com for posting this first and inspiring me to share what is a beautiful rendition of arguably the most beautiful song (or at least one of them) ever created.
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Flu Update
So far this flu season for our Region (AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC and TN), incidence of flu remains below the national average for this time in the season. However, our numbers are increasing. There have been 226 reported cases of proven flu to the CDC. 1 of those resulted in a pediatric death. 6 of those cases were the H1N1 strain from 2009. It's important to protect yourself before you are exposed to the virus. Come get your flu shot! To read more about the safety of this year's flu shots, click here.
Choosing Wisely- more tests are not always better
Choosing Wisely is a new campaign designed to help patients and physicians understand when certain tests need to be done and when they don't. Nine different speciality societies (including the American Academy of Family Physicians) have been looking at evidence and providing resources published to the public through Consumer Reports. You can access these resources online at http://choosingwisely.org/?page_id=13.
The campaign has published lists of specific tests for medical problems that are often ordered but frequently are not needed. For example, one of the most common reasons I see patients in my office is for back pain. While back pain can be extremely painful, most often acute back pain resolves on it's own in 6 weeks. However, many patients end up getting imaging tests done such as X-rays or MRI's during that first 6 weeks. In our American medical culture, we often have the perception that more information will help you get better faster. But, that is not always the case. In fact, imaging of the back in patients within the first 6 weeks of back pain does not improve the outcome for the patient and often leads them to have procedures done which likely they did not need. In fact, I see many patients who have even more back pain after surgery which likely did not need to be done in the first place. Thus, the AAFP has recommended in their Choosing Wisely list to avoid imaging for patients with back pain within the first 6 weeks of the onset of their pain.
I agree with this recommendation. The problem is that many patients do not. And in an effort to satisfy the patient, doctors end up ordering the tests anyway. Also, in our litigious society, doctors are afraid if they wait to order the tests and it turns out a patient does need a further procedure, they will be sued for delaying the diagnosis (despite the fact that studies show it does not affect patient outcomes.)
These lists are an effort to encourage patients and doctors to discuss when tests are actually needed. And, I encourage my patients to recognize that more tests are not always the answer for your discomfort. Ordering more tests is a large part of the reason that America has the highest cost of medical care and the most unhealthy patients.
"Bath Salts" now illegal substance in US
Psychoactive Bath Salts (PABS) are becoming one of the more frequent drugs that Emergency Departments are seeing patients abuse and lead to overdose. Bath Salts go by names like Zoom 2, Aura, Vanilla Sky, Ivory Wave and White Rush and can be found in gas stations, truck stops and on the internet. The DEA has now banned these drugs as of Sept 7, 2011 and moved to make these a controlled substance in the US. In fact, the DEA used its emergency scheduling authority to temporarily control the substances in bath salts, giving them a year to decide with the US Department of Health and Human Services if it should be permanently made illegal.
PABS are made with a main ingredient called methylenedioxypyrovalerone which gives them their stimulant effect. (This ingredient is not found in aromatherapy bath salts used for bathing.) These drugs are abused by taking them orally, intranasally, intravenously or rectally. PABS are a stimulant and give a high similar to meth, causing symptoms such as paranoia, hallucinations, psychosis and delusions. Overdose can lead to renal failure or death.


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New warehouse expected to bring 150 jobs to Tatamy Borough
Published: Nov 22 2013 06:10:58 PM EST Updated On: Nov 22 2013 07:23:44 PM EST
A new warehouse is expected to create dozens of jobs in Northampton County.
Officials say the 100,000 square-foot plant is under construction at Commerce Lane and 8th Street in Tatamy borough.
It'll serve as a warehouse for Mondelez the parent company of Kraft, Nabisco and Cadbury.
Officials say they expect to hire up to 150 employees at the center.
It should be up and running by March.
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I have a Geotiff which tags an image as Polar Stereographic. When I loaded it into GM10 at first, it displayed at 0E/W instead of approx. 78W. By contrast, the geotiff would display in a different software package okay (geomatica freeview). I found that if I added this tag:
ProjStraightVertPoleLongGeoKey (Double,1): -78.25
into the geotiff then GM will display the image almost in the correct position, but still out by maybe 3mm at map scale. Is there some other geotiff tag that GM expects?
The geotiff tags are:
Version: 1
Key_Revision: 1.0
ModelTiepointTag (2,3):
0 0 0
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ModelPixelScaleTag (1,3):
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GTRasterTypeGeoKey (Short,1): RasterPixelIsArea
GeographicTypeGeoKey (Short,1): GCS_NAD27
ProjectedCSTypeGeoKey (Short,1): User-Defined
ProjectionGeoKey (Short,1): User-Defined
ProjCoordTransGeoKey (Short,1): CT_PolarStereographic
ProjLinearUnitsGeoKey (Short,1): Linear_Meter
ProjNatOriginLongGeoKey (Double,1): -78.25
ProjNatOriginLatGeoKey (Double,1): 78
ProjFalseEastingGeoKey (Double,1): 0
ProjFalseNorthingGeoKey (Double,1): 0
ProjScaleAtNatOriginGeoKey (Double,1): 1
ProjStraightVertPoleLongGeoKey (Double,1): -78.25
I also saved a .prj after I'd loaded the geotiff into GM10. The .prj contains:
PROJCS["Polar_Stereographic",GEOGCS["Geographic Coordinate System",DATUM["NAD27",SPHEROID["Clarke 1866",6378206.4,294.97
I would like to give my client a geotiff that will display well in their copy of GM. I also need to generate KML using GM; I need to resolve this issue to be able to do that.
Thanks for any help!


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tion" of nursing education (Benner et al., 2009); a 2010 report from a conference sponsored by the Macy Foundation that charts a course for "life-long learning" that is assessed by the "demonstration of competency [as opposed to written assessment] in both academic programs and in continuing education" (AACN and AAMC, 2010); two consensus reports from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) that call for greater interprofessional education of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, as well as new methods of improving and demonstrating competency throughout one's career (IOM, 2003b, 2009); and other articles and reports on necessary curriculum changes, faculty development, and new partnerships in education (Erickson, 2002; Lasater and Nielsen, 2009; Mitchell et al., 2006; Orsolini-Hain and Waters, 2009; Tanner et al., 2008). Additionally, in February 2009, the committee hosted a forum on the future of nursing in Houston, Texas, that focused on nursing education. Discussion during that forum informed the committee's deliberations and this chapter; a summary of that forum is included on the CD-ROM in the back of this report.1 Finally, Appendix A highlights other recent reports relevant to the nursing profession. The committee refers readers wishing to explore the subject of nursing education in greater depth to these publications.
This section begins with an overview of current undergraduate nursing education, including educational pathways, the distribution of undergraduate degrees, the licensing exam, and costs (see Appendix E for additional background information on undergraduate education). The discussion then focuses on the need for more nurses prepared at the baccalaureate level. Finally, barriers to meeting undergraduate educational needs are reviewed.
Nursing is unique among the health care professions in the United States in that it has multiple educational pathways leading to an entry-level license to practice (see the annexes to Chapter 1 and Appendix E). For the past four decades, nursing students have been able to pursue three different educational pathways to become registered nurses (RNs): the bachelor's of science in nursing (BSN), the associate's degree in nursing (ADN), and the diploma in nursing. More recently, an accelerated, second-degree bachelor's program for students who possess a baccalaureate degree in another field has become a popular option. This multiplicity of options has fragmented the nursing community and has created
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The concept of sin is so ingrained in our culture that it is difficult for most people, myself included, to go a day without indulging in one of the seven deadliest. But in The Joy of Sin, Simon Laham aims to convince us that, contrary to what folklore, Christianity or even Hollywood may tell us, activities often branded sinful may in fact be good for us.
His evidence draws largely on experimental psychology, and it is clear that Laham has an impressive understanding of the material. In particular, he has a knack for describing complex social science with great lucidity. His writing is witty, edgy, itself almost sinfully provocative at times, promoting the occasional wince and, more frequently, an approving chuckle.
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Domestic violence is considered one of the most pressing issues in American society. Statistics from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence reveal that 1.3 million women are assaulted by their partner every year and one in four women will be victims of domestic violence at some point in their lives.
Domestic violence, along with its impact on families, will be the topic at a forum hosted by East Central College Friday, May 9.
Cathy Covington, crisis intervention specialist and court advocate for Franklin County ALIVE (Alternatives to Living in Violent Environments) will be the opening speaker at 12:30 p.m. Her presentation will be followed by several breakout sessions continuing until 4 p.m. Activities will begin in Room 100 in the Health & Science Building on ECC's Union campus.
Betty Crawford will lead a breakout session on children dealing with domestic violence issues, while Ashley Rawie and Rosalynne Hazard will focus on the perspective of adults who experience the violence. The third breakout session will feature attorney Karl Meyer discussing legal issues related to the topic.
The May 9 event is the final in a series of free forums hosted by the psychology and sociology departments at ECC. Dr. Bill Cunningham, associate professor of sociology at ECC, stated that a grant from the Franklin County Area United Way allows the college to offer the May 9 session at no charge. Pre-registration is required since space is limited. To reserve a spot call 636-584-6658 or email: email@example.com .
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No one ever said the best place to learn was in a classroom. For Wayne State senior Shawna Fredrickson, one of the best places is the Grand Canyon.
Last summer, Shawna, who is a social science education major and economics minor, completed her internship at the Bandelier National Monument in northern New Mexico. Bandelier is home to several ancestral Pueblo ruins and is a monument to the history and beauty of the area.
But this opportunity didn't come about by pure luck. It was instead the direct result of a college field trip taken through her History and Geography of the American Southwest class in the summer of 2010.
"It was right after my freshman year. Eight students and three professors traveled from Wayne through Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona, then cut back through Utah and Colorado," Shawna said. "I saw a lot of country I hadn't seen before and got to know the people I was with. I enjoyed that trip so much that I got an internship at Bandelier National Monument."
After a lengthy application process, the Student Conservation Association (SCA), which works with parks and historical preservation sites in the country, matched up Shawna with the internship.
"I lived in a house at the park, and I got to see the Grand Canyon at sunrise," Shawna said. "The whole trip was so memorable."
While at Bandelier, Shawna became a Fire Effects Intern and gained certification as a Wildfire Firefighter.
"I went hiking in the back country every day and took data on the different types of plants to determine their fire danger and what should be done," Shawna said. "I really loved being outside the whole summer, and I hope to work with them again someday."
For someone who loves immersing herself in the great outdoors, Shawna has quieter plans after she completes student teaching in the spring.
"In high school, I decided I wanted to be a history teacher, but later I questioned myself," Shawna said. "My professors have really helped me realize where my true passion is. I don't want to be a teacher anymore; I'm going to be a research librarian."
After she graduates in May, Shawna plans to attend Emporia State University in Kansas to pursue her master's degree in library science.
Until then, Shawna will continue to enjoy her social sciences classes and stay involved on campus.
Shawna is the secretary of Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor society on campus. Shawna said Phi Alpha Theta holds history movie discussions, and last semester they brought a Mark Twain living history speaker to campus.
"Phi Alpha Theta is a nice way to get people involved with history," Shawna said.
Shawna has been participating in the Northeast Nebraska Teacher Academy (NENTA) for two semesters, which she said has helped her to work with people and to learn more about other communities in the area. She is also the president of Pi Gamma Mu, the social science honor society.
Although Shawna doesn't currently tutor for STRIDE, she said tutoring was one of the most beneficial experiences she's had during her college career.
"I loved being a tutor. That's part of being a research librarian; you get to work one-on-one with students," Shawna said. "I was able to learn more about my field, and it was one of my favorite things. I really miss it."
Dr. Joe Weixelman, a professor of history in his sixth year at WSC, said Shawna was "one of the best history tutors we've had."
"She worked with freshmen students on their writing and helped them improve their writing," Weixelman said. "She has a very positive and bubbly personality, is adventurous and shows a lot of academic potential."
When she's not scrapbooking, cooking, reading, working at the Conn Library circulation desk or listening to the Beatles, Shawna continues to travel with the Explorer's Club, of which she is the president.
The Explorer's Club recently took a trip to Rocky Mountain National Park, but Shawna has also traveled with the club to the Black Hills and to St. Louis.
"It's not just the destination, but the trip that's so much fun," Shawna said.
Besides the history and social sciences opportunities on campus, Weixelman said there are many fields related to these areas that might interest students.
"History is one of the few professions where people will pick up a history book," Weixelman said. "It bridges the sciences and humanities. We think too much about writing history, but there's also presenting history."
According to Weixelman, public history opportunities are starting to gain more notice, including library science, museums, national parks, tourist opportunities, historic preservation, archaeology and even national historic registry work.
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VATICAN CITY: Arabic made its debut as one of the official languages at Pope Benedict's weekly general audiences on Wednesday as part of a Vatican attempt to reach out more to Christians and Muslims in the Middle East.
The Vatican is concerned about the exodus from the Middle East of Christians, many of whom leave because they fear for their safety. Christians now comprise five percent of the population of the region, down from 20 percent a century ago.
According to some estimates, the current population of 12 million Christians in the Middle East could halve by 2020 if security and birth rates continue to decline.
Vatican officials said that speaking Arabic during the audiences, which are broadcast live on television and radio across the world, would send a comforting word to Christians in a region which is home to many Christian holy places.
They also hope the pope addressing Muslims directly could improve sometimes strained relations with Islam.
A priest read a summary of the pope's Italian language weekly address in Arabic for the first time, joining other briefs in French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Slovak, Czech, Polish, Hungarian and Russian during the audience in front of thousands of people in St Peter's Square.
After the address, which dealt with the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, the pope said in Arabic: "The pope prays for all people who speak Arabic. May God bless you all."
The Vatican said the addition was made to show the pontiff's concern for Christians in the Middle East and to remind both Muslims and Christians to work for peace in the region.
A Vatican statement said the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics wanted to continue the spirit of his trip to Lebanon last month.
During the trip, the pope made many appeals to both Christians and Muslims to work for an end to the conflict in neighbouring Syria and for peace in the entire region.
In 2006 the pope gave a speech in Regensburg which was perceived by some Muslims as an attack on Islam. The pope said he was misunderstood and later visited a mosque in Turkey and prayed with an imam.
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D.C. Forecast: More sultry, summer-like weather for the rest of the holiday weekend
Our taste of summer continues today with mostly sunny skies, very warm temperatures, and high humidity. Air quality has deteriorated, however, and there is a Code Orange in effect.
This Afternoon: Mostly Sunny, Very Warm, Humid
Highs: 85-90 | Air Quality: Code Orange
Tonight: Mostly Cloudy & Warm
Lows: 66-72 | Wind: SE 5 mph
Monday: Sunny, Hot, Humid, Chance of Rain
Highs: 88-94 | Rain: 20% Chance
With temperatures near 70 and reasonable humidity levels, it was a very comfortable start to our Sunday morning. And while it is becoming quite warm and somewhat sticky, it isn't oppressively so. Look for highs to again reach the mid to upper 80s as they did on Saturday - 86 at Reagan and Dulles, 89 at BWI Marshall - with widely scattered showers possible mostly north and west of the District.
The light winds and relatively stagnant air has prompted the issuance of a Code Orange Air Quality alert. People with respiratory problems are advised to limit exertion outdoors. The sudden onset of summer temperatures and plenty of sunshine also means that its time for everyone to grab the sunblock and hat and to remember to drink more fluids to compensate for increased amounts of perspiration.
Memorial Day could be the hottest of the three-day holiday weekend with highs in the low 90s. Thunderstorms are possible in the afternoon, but the risk is relatively low (30%). The high pressure system responsible for our summery weekend will depart on Tuesday as showers usher in somewhat cooler and drier air for the latter part of the week.
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Chez LuLu1911 Cahaba Rd Mountain Brook, AL
Phone: 205-870-7011.
Chez Lulu is one of my absolute favorite places in Birmingham. We even had our rehearsal dinner there ever so many months ago. It's really one of those cool, casual places where you can sit inside, relax, and enjoy the funky atmosphere, or sit outside and enjoy the weather (on one of those rare southern days when it's under 90°, and over 50° – we only have winter and summer here). While it's not quite like a genuine European sidewalk cafe, it's pretty close.
We make an effort to go every Friday during the summer because that's Peasant Garlic Soup day. Bonus: in the cool months, they have it everyday. I'm not a huge soup person, but this is good stuff. I'm told it's made with potatoes, carrots, of course garlic, and a blend of other secret fabulousness. They 'top it' with a toasted piece of their Wholewheat Sourdough bread that they make on-site and sell in their bakery next door, also fantastic. It's a favorite amongst the guests – I always hear it ordered by others when I visit. Vegetarians can rest easy knowing that all Chez Lulu's soups are made with vegetable stock, so no "meat juice" is sneaking into the meal.
I also typically partake of the French Brie and Roasted Red Pepper Sandwich. Once you pick off the brie rind, there's not much that can rival this sandwich for easy, yet delicious fare. Made with fresh lettuces, red peppers, purple onions, olive tapenade, and imported brie melted on house-made focaccia, it's pure quality. It has just the right amount zing from the tapenade and onions to compliment the subtleties of the Brie and focaccia.
If you're up for it, head next door to the bakery for dessert. It's hard to recommend any one thing since they have so many fabulous croissants, scones, cookies, and pies. But, if you're not too worried about the waistline, try the Belgian Chocolate pie. It's ever so decadent!
This place has it all. Good food, good service, and funky-cool style. I gravitate towards places with personality, so I love the intimate lighting and the eclectic tables up-cycled from machinery, mosaics, and reclaimed wood. The atmosphere is definitely shabby chic done right.
What makes the food here so good is the quality of ingredients. Everything is simple, fresh, and never over-done. The continental bakery next-door supplies fresh bread for all the sandwiches and they make a point to use local and/or organic ingredients where they can. So in tomato season, you can be sure that the tomato panini uses tomatoes from a farm nearby, and during peach season, look for deserts that use peaches from Clanton or other nearby areas. I agree with Melissa, the brie and red pepper sandwich is sublime (even though I tease her that it's basically just a bourgeois pimento cheese, which is a standard vegetarian option throughout the south). But in addition to the brie/pepper sandwich, they have other veggie sandwiches(up to 4 depending on the season) that are worth trying, two tarts that change daily (at least one of which is vegetarian), and I personally love their salads. So many restaurants over-do salads, or cheap out on the lettuce so that you end up with a bowl of iceberg, but at Chez Lulu, I can make a meal out of organic baby greens in a light vinaigrette, and local organic arugula salad is great along with a half a sandwich. It's worth mentioning that if you go there for dinner, they have pizza on the menu as well, but since we eat there mostly for lunch, I withhold comment.
Lastly, soup. The peasant garlic soup is delicious and quite well known, but during the warmer months they have a daily cold soup. Melissa doesn't care much for cold soups, and I must admit, I was not a gazpacho fan in the past, but these soups are changing my mind. They rotate through three or four varieties, but my favorite is easily the Andalusian gazpacho. It's not exactly "traditional", as I understand the a secret ingredient is touch of fresh basil, but is delicately balanced with just a bit of acidity and no ketchup-y/salsa-y flavor. On a hot day it's a refreshing way to start your meal, and I can't pass it up. Last time I ordered it, I picked the brains of our waiter about the ingredients, and I think I can make a passable version at home. So keep an eye out for my recipe in the future. I guess I should do it soon before the fall really sets in and the idea of cold soup seems completely un-appetizing.


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Welcome to the Israeli Bike Club!
The Israeli bike club is a recreational and social cycling club for Israeli men
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We meet every week on Saturday or Sunday, usually in Irvine or around it and ride
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Summer is the perfect time of the year to put new decor into the garden. Those of us at Design Toscano love to decorate our yards with new, unique garden statues and love it even more when new items arrive at our warehouse. At this time of the year, we are especially excited about new classic statuary because it adds such a distinguished, wonderful look to any garden.
The Neptune of St. John's Lock is a wonderful pool-side sculpture. This beautifully detailed, powerful statue of Neptune is modeled after the famous Father Thames statue on display at the mouth of England's great river. This majestic decor also makes an impressive statement when displayed next to a big, beautiful fountain, or backyard pond.
The Unbridled Power Equestrian Horse Statue is one of the new, classic animal statues in our collection. This beautiful sculpture makes an excellent gift for anyone who loves horses and the combination of power and grace shown by a healthy thoroughbred. This awe-inspiring statue also works very well as decor for a restaurant, hotel, or other business.
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UTSA hosts volunteer training for Jan. 28 Student Aid Saturdays event
(Jan. 4, 2012) -- Volunteers are needed for UTSA participation in Student Aid Saturdays, a program to help students and families complete financial aid paperwork. The Saturday events are at sites around the city. The UTSA event to aid prospective students and their families will be 1-4 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28 in the Business Building Computer Lab (2.01.20).
Volunteers for the UTSA and other events must go through training before the Saturday event. Training will be offered each Wednesday starting Jan. 4 from 6 to 7 p.m. at Café College, 131 El Paso St., San Antonio, Texas, 78204, and Saturday, Jan. 21.
"This will be my third year hosting this event, but it is the first year the event has been publicized through Café College and the mayor's office," said Christopher Goldsberry, UTSA coordinator of financial aid outreach. "The UTSA Office of Student Financial Aid and Enrollment Services will be fanning out our staff to help assist at as many of these events as possible. Additionally, we will be helping students fill out both the FAFSA and TASFA, depending on their eligibility."
For more information, contact Christopher Goldsberry at 210-458-2802.
What you need to know: Volunteering for Student Aid Saturdays
- Student Aid Saturdays events help students and parents complete the federal and state financial aid forms, otherwise known as FAFSA and TASFA. Research shows that 90 percent of students who complete the FAFSA will enroll in post-secondary education. Multiple locations will be available January 28-March 17, where students and parents can receive one-on-one assistance to complete the forms.
- Volunteers can work shifts of either 8:30-11:30 a.m. or 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Volunteer jobs:
- Financial aid: work with parents and students in the financial aid process on a computer; must be comfortable working on a computer, setting up emails and automated computer process
- Floater: Help with anything that comes up and needs to be addressed immediately, duties as assigned including support in waiting room
- Greeter: Greet families and students and direct them to registration table
- Registration: Determine that families and students have necessary materials, direct them to waiting room or computer lab
About Student Aid Saturdays
Student Aid Saturdays is a partnership of the San Antonio Education Partnership, Generation TX and SA2020, and is managed by the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. The goal is to make this a rewarding volunteer activity by helping out students navigate their way to college. There is a direct correlation between students who apply for financial aid and then go on to college. Student Aid Saturdays is designed to help San Antonio achieve SA2020 goals of college readiness, high school graduation and college enrollment.
SA2020 is a community-wide effort to transform San Antonio over the next 10 years into one of the nation's great cities. The initiative aims to achieve its goals through programs to enhance arts and culture, safety, downtown development, economic competitiveness, education, family well-being, health and fitness, government accountability, civic engagement, natural resources and environmental sustainability, neighborhoods and growth management, and transportation.
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I am surprised to see no mention of the international standard IEC 60268-7 and the European standards EN 50332-1 and EN 50332-2.
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This immediately suggests to me that language must have been created by infants in our evolutionary pastit could hardly have been invented by adults whose brains no longer had the capacity for developing language skills.
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The article and editorial about David Wasdell's review of the contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contain several wrong statements and false claims (10 March, p 10 and p 5). As coordinating lead authors (CLAs) of this report we wish to correct these.
Wasdell appears to be ill-informed about the processes involved in drafting this report. According to established IPCC procedure this report went through several formal and fully documented expert and government review processes, where many thousands of comments were responded to. It assessed the peer-reviewed literature published prior to July 2006. At all stages, including at the final plenary in Paris, the authors had control over the text; all CLAs were present in Paris. Any draft versions of the chapters or the ...
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The Supports That Are Worth Playing
Chauster gives his view on the supports that are worth playing in the current competitive meta. Such supports include:
He goes over their laning abilities, overall versatility, downsides, reasons why they may be popular or unpopular picks, and his own personal snippet on the champion.
|Competitive NA League of Legends has been quite stagnant in recent months in terms of support picks. The same picks are regurgitated each and every week without much thought for why certain champs are being picked over others. Outside of Riot introducing new viable support champions like Thresh and Nami, the supports we see are generally Lulu, Sona, Zyra, Janna and the occasional Fiddlesticks. The melee supports of S1 and S2 are not played as much because the risk of running your duo lane into a 2v1 where the jungler shows up results in the team with a ranged support being at a distinct advantage for taking the first tower. Melee supports are useless in taking towers when against the top laner and jungle combo, which is a common occurrence in today's game. I will be going over all of the supports that I think are worth playing and talk about their role.
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Maybe after the 3.10 changes that make towers stronger and I think makes the 2v1ing less effective Alistar will see more competitive play, nice article :)


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|Pyongyang, April 18 (KCNA) -- The participants in the 29th April Spring Friendship Art Festival visited Mangyongdae, the birthplace of President Kim Il Sung.
The guests went round historic relics preserved with much care at the old home in Mangyongdae, being briefed on the time-honored low roofed house.
At the end of the visit the head of the Chinese Art Troupes (the Eastern Song and Dance Ensemble and the Shandong Provincial Circus) said:
My long-cherished desire to visit Mangyongdae came true today. Our visit to Mangyongdae offered an opportunity to know better about the revolutionary life of President Kim Il Sung who was born in a simple family.
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An endless stream of people is visiting the old home in Mangyongdae dear to the Korean people. Witnessing this fact alone, we can know well the great Comrade Kim Il Sung was the genuine popular leader.
Kivikangas Matti Juhani, head of a brass band of Finland, said that he was pleased to visit Mangyongdae where the President was born.
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Pensacola, Fla. (November 25, 2006) – The Saint Leo women's basketball team (1-4) fell 70-50 to the University of West Florida (2-3) in the final game of the UWF Turkey Day Classic on Saturday in Pensacola, Fla. The loss was the third straight for the Lions, while the win was the second straight for the Argonauts who finished their own tournament with a 2-0 record.
Marquita Fenn (Jr., Ft. Pierce, Fla.) and Roni Carithers (Jr., Tampa, Fla.) each led Saint Leo with nine points. UWF guard Laura Davis led West Florida with a career-high 17 points, while forward Karmeshia Easley nearly recorded her first career double-double with a career-high 10 points and nine rebounds to help lead West Florida to the win.
West Florida led wire-to-wire for the second consecutive night. After starting Friday's game against Barry on a 12-2 run, West Florida opened the game on a 10-0 run over the first 4:13 on Saturday. Saint Leo did not tally its first basket until nearly five minutes into the game. The Argonauts eventually built an 18-point advantage and used an 8-2 run over the final 2:29 to own a 41-22 halftime lead.
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Now that we have the details of the Microsoft layoffs, it's clear that we're seeing two things. The first is the expected headcount reduction on the Nokia side, cutting jobs that are duplicates of roles Microsoft already has, dropping the vast majority of devices that don't run Windows Phone and reducing manufacturing capacity for the phones that are losing market share to Android. And the second is Satya Nadella trying to reinvent Microsoft by recognizing that the way you build software has changed just as much as the way we buy technology - and Microsoft needs to catch up.
What we're not seeing (according to sources at Microsoft) is layoffs designed to save money or shrink development teams. "Anytime you're cutting headcount people think you're shrinking but really what we're doing is changing the shape of the organizations to invest in the right ways, and to invest in internal engineering systems as a core priority," a source who asked not to be named told Citeworld.
Digesting Nokia is really just an opportunity to announce these changes (although the large number of Nokia layoffs does make the cuts seem bigger than they are, especially as some of those in the now-redundant posts may move to other roles at Microsoft). The plan is to modernize the way development is done to match the way software and services ship more often, and to get developers who take a much broader view than just writing code or - in particular - just testing code.
MORE LAYOFF NEWS: Layoffs signal Microsoft is throwing in the towel on hardware
The shift to integrating test inside development goes back to Nadella's time at online services our source confirmed, where the concept of testing not just code but the live site itself meant thinking differently about the whole idea of testing. Instead of saying the quality of the final code is the responsibility of the test team catching bugs, code quality became the responsibility of the developers; that meant the test team could switch to testing the systems instead of the code - measuring if it had enough capacity to cope with user demand, trying out the systems designed to cope with problems by deliberately causing those problems instead of waiting for something to go wrong. That's the kind of testing ecommerce sites like Etsy do all the time.
As Nadella moved on to take over the server and tools business and the cloud and enterprise teams, he took those ideas of integrated test with him. It was a big cultural change to do that for server software rather than a web service, but the new way of working "has taken pretty firm root there". Next for this culture shift is the Windows team, which makes sense given that rolling out new features and the kind of fixes that used to wait for a service pack now happens every month. Windows is a continuously delivered service, not an operating system that ships every three years and making that work means developing differently.
Adopting the 'growth hacking' mentality means there's no room for narrow roles at Microsoft. "If all you were doing as a developer is test, that's probably not a sustainable model in the world we're living in today," our source pointed out. "You have to be able to think about design and product management and being hands on with customers. You have to have a much broader view of what that means. You have to bake marketing into the product. The best products sell themselves; that means you have to think about value proposition early on."
If you're an SDET (what Microsoft calls a tester) in the Windows team or you work in the general marketing group, you're likely to be looking for a new position. This would be a good time for the easier ways of moving to a new role that Nadella promised to kick in.
One development size does not fit all
But Windows development won't be done exactly the same way as development on Visual Studio or on Azure or on Bing; even within Windows, different teams will work in different ways. There is no single model of engineering at Microsoft any more (not even the triad model used in Office and Windows), no hard and fast ratios of how many testers and developers and program managers make up a team. What you need to write the software that runs on Surface and Windows Phone is different from what you need to build Bing and Azure and Office 365 and different again to what you need to build Windows Server. It sounds like common sense, but it's a big shift for Microsoft, which has long thought it had the best practices of development well defined after years of experience.
Gone are the sacred cows and the traditional ways of doing things in Redmond. Nadella wants to get engineering teams "with new skills, new talent, with data culture, with better systems where quality is everywhere," our source said. Getting that means the change in culture he's been talking about since he became CEO and - in typical Microsoft fashion - it also means new software and new tools.
In the past, developers at Microsoft have been a bit like the cobbler's children (who never get new shoes, because the cobbler always sells them to customers instead), working with development tools that could be slow and frustrating; the build system for Windows ran once a day, and took hours. So Scott Guthrie (who has Nadella's old job running Enterprise and Cloud), Terry Myerson who runs the platform team and Qi Lu who is in charge of apps don't just have permission to change their organizations any way they want to deliver the new development culture. Guthrie and Myerson are also in charge of building the internal systems that Windows and the other teams will build their products with, which includes "modernizing source code control, build and product management and [tools for] collaboration around code."
That's yet another big cultural change going on at Microsoft; cross-project code sharing Nadella refers to as 'internal open source'. Not only is stack ranking gone at Microsoft, but what you get rewarded for has changed; "it's not just what you do, but what you provide to others and what you use from others," our source explained.
"Looking back there was sometimes [a tendency to say] ' I won't take a dependency on that' as a reason to recreate something that somebody has already done and that is anathema to what Satya is talking about. He specifically wants people to build on what others have done. And that means you have to have a better way of sharing code in a smart and responsible way. Scott [Guthrie] and Terry [Myerson] are working on a really ambitious project to make sure we have internal tools to make that kind of thing easy to do."
That's the kind of thing Steve Guggenheimer and John Shewchuck at the Developer Platform Evangelism Team have been pushing; as well as working with developers who want to use Microsoft's tools, they've also been organizing internal coding days. This year's annual Microsoft company meeting will be part of the one-week series of events - which includes a company-wide hackathon in two weeks. Instead of sitting back and listening to a marketing message, Microsoft wants employees joining in, contributing ideas, challenging the way things have been done and getting on board with the culture change.
Keep on changing
Wall Street is rewarding Microsoft for laying people off with a rise in the share price, but while these changes certainly give Microsoft a better chance of succeeding, it's not because the company is going to be writing fewer pay checks. It's because the people who will be building Microsoft products will have a different attitude with a broader range of skills and better tools, and they'll be working inside a company that's organized differently, that collaborates and shares more internally and that spends its money on things that matter to developers.
That's going to take a very different culture - and it's not going to be a one-time change. That doesn't mean dragging out layoffs, which is a great way to destroy productivity and motivation as thousands of employees worry if they're next for the chop - and doesn't appear to be happening. (While Microsoft's official financial documents say it will be dealing with the impact of the layoffs for a year, many of the Microsoft employees affected are finding out about it right away.)
It's about getting a culture where change isn't terrifying, because things keep changing and adapting (and hopefully improving). It's the promise of the responsive organization that uses enterprise social networking not as a Band-Aid to fix broken business processes but as a tool to let business processes emerge that actually fit the way people do their jobs (and it might be another sign of the Yammerification of Microsoft).
If you want to do continuous development, you need to be able to change and develop yourself. As our source put it, "you can't take a culture and freeze it, then unfreeze it and change it and then freeze it again; it's something that has to happen all the time or you just get left behind."


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