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Harvard totaled eight All-America honors at the 2012 NCAA Championships (Gil Talbot).
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – Harvard earned four All-America accolades on the final day of competition at the 2012 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships to move its weekend total to eight as Griffin Schumacher, Chuck Katis, Oliver Lee and Chris Satterthwaite placed 16th in the 400 free relay.
The quartet combined for a time of 2:55.18 in the 400 free relay consolation finals after posting a time of 2:54.88 Saturday morning in the prelims. On Friday, Satterthwaite, Katis, Zach Walters and Schumacher turned in a 13th-place showing in the 800 free relay, giving the Crimson five separate All-American's in their first appearance at the meet. The results are especially exciting for Harvard as each of the five is either a sophomore or freshman.
Harvard has crowned 152 All-American's in program history with 2012 Olympian Alex Meyer '10 earning the last honor in 2010 after placing 14th in the 1,650 free. The Crimson has boasted at least one All-American in 12 of 14 seasons under Tim Murphy, the Ulen-Brooks Endowed Coach for Harvard Men's Swimming and Diving, and a total of 36 in that time. Murphy trails only Harold Ulen's total of 64 All-America honors for most in Harvard coaching history.
The Crimson turned in a total of seven top-25 finishes at the meet, including Satterthwaite's 22nd-place showing in the 100 free and Katis' 25th-place finish in the 200 breast on Saturday. Satterthwaite, the reigning Ivy League champion in the 100 free, posted a time of 43.49 in Saturday's prelims while Katis clocked in at 1:58.05 in the 200 breast.
Satterthwaite was also in action in the 200 free prelims on Friday and missed qualifying for the finals by the narrowest of margins. Satterthwaite placed 20th in 1:35.81, while Auburn's James Disney-May was the final individual to make the finals with a time of 1:35.43. Zach Walters finished 43rd in the event with a time of 1:37.91.
Katis narrowly missed the cut for the finals in the 100 breast on Friday as his time of 53.62 also placed him 20th. Katis had set the school record in the event at the Ivy League Championships with a time of 53.17, while Kevin Munsch of Arizona claimed the final spot in the finals by clocking in at 53.48.
The Crimson began the meet on Thursday with a strong showing in the 200 free relay, as its time of 1:20.27 placed it 20th. Harvard had placed second in the event with the same lineup of Schumacher, Lee, Walters and Satterthwaite at the Ivy League Championships, posting a school record time of 1:19.17, and finished two places ahead of Princeton on Thursday.
Lee, Satterthwaite and Schumacher also competed in the 50 free on Thursday, with Lee leading the way in 50th place with a time of 20.16. Satterthwaite placed 55th in 20.20 while Schumacher took 68th in 20.50.


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Childhood isn't all fun and games. Even young children can feel worried and stressed.
Stress can come from outside, such as family, friends, and school. It can also come from children themselves. Just like adults, children may expect too much of themselves and then feel stressed when they feel that they have failed.
Adults can help children and teens with stress in many ways. Three important things you can do are to:
It is important to help children learn positive coping skills. These skills are often carried into adult life.
Finding ways to get stress out of their systems will help children feel better. The best ways to relieve stress are different for each person. Try some of these ideas to see which ones work for your child:
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Confederations Cup: Chile v Germany TV information
As the 2017 Confederations Cup reaches its climax Manchester City fans will have a vested interest when Claudio Bravo's Chile face Germany in the final.
La Roja's captain was their semi-final hero as he denied three of Bernardo Silva's Portugal team-mates from 12 yards in the penalty shoot-out.
Chile will now attempt to secure a third international title in as many years against Germany on Sunday 2 July, with kick off set for 7pm GMT.
Fans in the UK can watch live on ITV, with coverage beginning at 6.30pm and supporters around the world can find out below how they can tune in, courtesy of livesoccertv.com.


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May 2006 - Newsletter 82
'40 Years of The Yetties' Commemorative Calendar for 2007
I now have a fine stock of these and I must say the designers and printers have done a cracking job. Each month has a different 'Yetties Through the Ages' photo or LP sleeve and on the reverse of the actual calendar bit there are press cuttings and snippets about us which I gleaned from our archive. Do not fret there is not a bare leg or any other distracting part of our anatomies in sight. Heaven forbid, it would not be pretty. Even to contemplate it makes me shudder. They are £5 each with an additional 75p post and packing. Cheques to 'The Yetties' naturally. Or, of course, you can buy them from the web shop.
Yetties at Halsway Manor DVD/Video
We, once again, had a shattering but enjoyable weekend at Halsway in February. Phil and Jenny from Classic Media came down with us to film little bits and pieces for the 40th anniversary DVD and were so intrigued by the house, the company and the overall atmosphere that they just kept filming. In fact we finished up with 11 hours of tape, or whatever they use these days. The outcome of this is that we are well into editing a DVD of the weekend. At the moment we are up to 1 hour 13 minutes and we still have the final bits and pieces to add on so we are going to finish up with a film of at least 1 hour 20 minutes. There is some more titivating to do and I dare say the computer is due for a fair bit more tongue lashing before we are done but Jenny is well into the sleeve design so it shouldn't be too long into the future before we have the finished product. Shall we say 1st of July but earlier of we can make it.
Old Yetties LPs
I am now arranging for these to be bought through the web shop, should you be up to date with all that there technology. No sooner am I getting low on supplies than someone comes along with another batch of LPs so thank you all very much. I was given eight last week, which were absolutely pristine. They said they'd only been played twice and my first reaction was a bit off hand, to be honest, but then they explained they'd listened to them once then taped them so that they would not get warn out. I was mollified and very grateful.
LPs in stock at the moment are: Keep A Runnin'; Our Friends The Yetties; Dorset Is Beautiful; The World of The Yetties; All At Sea; The Yetties of Yetminster; The Village Band; Up In Arms; Up Market; In Concert; Dorset Style; A Little Bit of Dorset; The Yetties and Top of the Crops. If you would like any of these to add to your collection please ring 01935 814611. They cost £5 each plus £1 post and packing. Cheques to Halsway Manor.
Memory Lane (Jim Lloyd)
Back in the early 70's we were touring the folk clubs and festivals and getting more work than we could handle. There were loads of engagements but very little money for four blokes trying to earn a living with the looming possibility of wedding bells, mortgages etc. etc. in the not too far distant future. We were doing 40,000 miles a year in beat up Humber Estate cars (How I wish I'd hung on to one them) and were getting to the stage when something had to go before we fell apart. Enter Jim Lloyd, who for many years presented the folk programmes on Radio 2. He had realised, from the number of letters he was getting about us, that we were working too hard for too little money and that before long something would have to give. He said if we would let him be our manager he would cut the number of dates, treble our fee overnight, get us into concert halls, sort out a recording contract and find us work on radio and television. To be honest we were not too sure but eventually signed the contract and so began an excellent partnership, which survived the ups and downs of 'show business' for 13 years.
We were, let's face it, raw country lads somewhat in awe of the mountain we had to rapidly climb. Just to go into a theatre without quaking at the knees was quite something and then there was the technical jargon to pick up, the lights and sound equipment to use and the stage staff to handle. Jim did a great job here although I'm sure there were times when he must have despaired of his charges. He also, true to his word got us the recording contract and the mass media attention.
Jim now lives in Australia but he is coming over here for a spell in the summer and we hope to meet up with him and have a chat for the 40th Anniversary DVD. It will be a real reversal of roles. Us interviewing him instead of the other way around.
Yetminster Fair
For those who haven't been to Yetminster Fair you really ought to give it a try. This is the quintessential Dorset village event. Thousands come to buy their bargains and soak up the atmosphere in the sunshine. It's the once-a-year occasion where we meet old friends and catch up on all the news. Last year was one of the best and will take some beating but we'll have a go on Saturday, 8th of July.
If you want information about camping etc. or tickets for our evening Concert in the marquee you need to get in touch with Derek Mott, Stonechat, High Street, Yetminster, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 6LF. Tel. 01935 872123.
The staff of Sherborne Tourist Information are on hand with a list of accommodation to help you should you require a bed for the night. We have everything in the neighbourhood from a castle to a cow stall depending on your finances or how rural you wish to be. Tel. 01935 815341.
Folk Brittania
I'm rather hoping that most of you missed this atrocious portrayal of the Folk Revival on one of the more obscure TV Channels. If you did tune in then I trust you didn't take it too seriously or had the sense to switch it off rather rapidly. What the producer was trying to say, apart from ruining the image of folk music completely, I really don't know. The series was mostly filled with the sad and grotty elements who attached themselves to the folk scene at that time. The sort of elements that gave 'FOLK' a very bad name and from which the general public, naturally, backed away and which disgusted the majority of people involved. There was a lot about the drugs scene and there were the obligatory people singing with their fingers in their ears and sounding like they had their fingers down their throats. The various aspects of English dance didn't get a mention and you would think that the dozens of festivals and other activities that came into being at that time never happened.
There, I said, it. Grumpy Git, Sherborne, Dorset.
On the other hand The Culture Show last week on BBC2 did an excellent piece about Morris Dancing. Thank you for that.


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SW Boat of the Year 1994
By Sailing World 1994
J/130: Nifty performer
By Chuck Mason/ Chris Caswell/ SAIL
Have you seen a boat that looks and sails like a racing machine, yet is aimed at the cruising market? When you step aboard this 43-footer, you'll see how these two often disparate sailing worlds can be blended into one nifty boat that displaces about 15,000 pounds.
On-Board The J/130
By Sven Donaldson/ Pacific Yachting 1996
J/130: Passes True Offshore Test
By Peter Metcalf
I had the opportunity to sail on the new J-130, not on an afternoon demo-sail on Chesapeake Bay, but a 2000 mile delivery to her new home in Puerto Del Rey, Puerto Rico. As much as my crew and I were looking forward to the trip, a winter departure from Annapolis is not the sort of thing a delivery crew would wish for. A gale ridden delivery from New York to Tortola still fresh in our minds, and the recent misfortunes of several boats and crew, served to remind us that sailing in these latitudes at this time of year is not something to be taken lightly.


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It is a letter that she received telling her of the unfortunate death of her brother.
Her brother had gone to the funeral of their brother-in-law, Stanley Thomas Lynch in Gebo, Hot Springs, Wyoming who died from influenza Nov 10,1918 during the Great Pandemic. Unfortunately poor Jacob Oliver "Ole" Madsen had succumbed to the same fate when he returned home.
Well you know me and Google, I didn't know much about this flu epidemic so we had to have a look around and we found some pretty interesting sites.
- The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
- Pandemic Influenza Storybook -- This site has stories written by people who survived the pandemic as well as stories about those who didn't. You can also submit your own pandemic stories.
Byron, WyoNov 23rd 1918
Dear Mrs PiggottYour father has askedme to writing & tell you the sad newsof your dear brother Ole. He went toGebo to Vida's husband's funeral & took the "flu" & died Wednesday.Your father & Frank are now sick& we have taken them to our red crossrooms & Mrs Neville & myself are nursingthem. You must not think of comingas it is too dangerous.Your father & Frank are fine this morning& hope they will be all right.I will close with kindest regardsYours trulyMarion Pryde
Your mother & Orsen are well.


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Columbus, OH NBC affiliate WCMH is inviting viewers to participate in tonight's broadcast using social media, and sampled the #StayInLine hashtag to see what people were saying to encourage would-be voters. They left this onscreen for nearly a minute, which is a problem because here's the top tweet aired onscreen:
WCMH came back on later, apologized, but then asked Twitter users to please watch their language. Good luck with that, guys. [WCMH]
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Print version ISSN 0379-8577
Curationis vol.34 n.1 Pretoria Jan. 2011
Factors influencing the retention of registered nurses in the Gauteng Province of South Africa
Kgaogelo E. Mokoka; Valerie J. Ehlers; Martha J. Oosthuizen
Department of Health Studies, University of South Africa, South Africa
BACKGROUND: South Africa is a source country for many destination countries that recruit registered nurses who emigrate for personal and/or professional reasons. A large number of South African nurses belong to the baby boomer generation (born between 1943 and 1964) who will retire within the foreseeable future. Statistics from the South African Nursing Council show a decline of 42.0% in the number of nurses who completed their training in South Africa from 1996 to 2005. These aspects combine to predict a potential dire shortage of nurses in South Africa within the foreseeable future.
OBJETIVES: Retention of registered nurses should be the focus of health-care planners to avoid crises in South Africa's health-care services. This study attempted to identify factors that would influence registered nurses' decisions to stay with their current employers in the Gauteng Province of South Africa.
METHODS: An exploratory descriptive quantitative design was adopted and questionnaires were sent to a sample of nurses, registered with the South African Nursing Council (SANC), with addresses in the Gauteng Province. A total of 108 nurses completed and returned questionnaires, of whom 77 (73.1%) had considered leaving their current employers.
RESULTS: The most important factors that would influence more than 90.0% of these nurses' decisions to stay with their current employers related to finances, safety and security, equipment and/or supplies, management, staff and patients.
CONCLUSIONS: In terms of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory, deficiency needs (physiological, safety and social needs) should be met by improved salaries revised on an annual basis, paying long-service and outstanding-service bonuses, and improving the safety and security, as well the available equipment and supplies, at institutions. Sufficient numbers of nurses should be employed and vacancies should be filled rapidly. However, not all changes required to enhance nurses' retention rates involve increased costs. Managers should lead by example and respect nurses, and encourage doctors as well as patients to do so, to meet nurses' self-esteem needs. Recognising and rewarding outstanding service would meet nurses' self-actualisation needs, as well as opportunities to further their education.
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Valerie Ehlers
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Received: 12 July 2011
Accepted: 04 Nov. 2011
Published: 14 Dec. 2011


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Woodward Family Papers
Currently, we have uploaded all of Woodward that has been scanned.
There are a few outstanding items, included a few over-sized items and a section of 1000 items that need corrected metadata. The items needing corrected metadata have been reported to Donnelly and may one day to be returned to us for digitization.
In July of 2012, the master metadata spreadsheet for Woodward was accidentally deleted. In the Woodward metadata folder, you will find a sheet entitled u0003_0001577.29.xslx. Across the bottom of this sheet are three tabs that contain the original metadata we received from April. These are in an old format we do not use anymore, but when needed, metadata can be recreated from the information on these tabs.
There is a compiled metadata sheet of all of the items in the Woodward collection that have been uploaded. It can be found in S:\Digital Projects\Administrative\collectionInfo\Storage_Excel\Uploaded_Woodward_DO_NOT_TOUCH. (I tried to rename it but the file is being annoying. It's ok for you to touch this file.)


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Besa Shahini is part of an increasing number of well-educated and widely-travelled young Kosovo women. But Besa is one of a relatively few of them who return home to live permanently in Kosovo. She has co-founded a new think tank in Kosovo, IKS: the Kosovar Stability Initiative, or in Albanian, Iniciativa Kosovare per Stabilitet. It is an independent, not-for-profit research centre doing empirical research and analysis of the social and economic situation in Kosovo: "I was convinced that in a place where no reliable data can be found, the only way to really change policy and have an impact was through detailed empirical research."
Like hundreds of thousands of Kosovars, Besa had to flee Kosovo during the 1999 war. She was then 16. She found permanent refuge with cousins living in Canada. She studied there and graduated in Political Science and Public Administration at the York University in Toronto, in 2004.
For Besa, growing up in Kosovo, during the Milosevic era, was a period of great change:
"I remember being very confused about who I am and what I believe in. Confused about my heroes and my enemies, and most importantly about who I was: a Yugoslav, a proud Pioneer an Albanian, a Kosovar? On Christmas Day 1989, at age 7, my brothers and I proudly sang Pioneer songs in Serbian and Albanian at my mother's workplace before we received our New Year's presents. Then, in 1990, my mother lost her job, like thousands of Albanians, who did not accept the revocation of Kosovo's autonomy and the new Serb rule. No more presents at mom's work. I also stopped being a Pioneer".
"In autumn 1990, at the start of the new school year, when I was nine, I and the rest of the Albanians attending my primary school were prevented from going back to school. It was one day that autumn, on my way home, I saw my 1st grade Serbian language teacher, with whom I got along with so well, in soldier's uniform walking to the Yugoslav Army base east of Pristina. We looked at each other sadly and said nothing. Not even 'hello'."
From 1990, for the next nine years, a parallel system of schooling was organized by Kosovo Albanians, using a different curriculum to that of Serbia. Classes were organized in private houses for high school and university students. Most primary school children were allowed back to their schools, which were assigned separately to Albanian and Serb school students.
Besa says"In 1993, I was now 11, history lessons changed drastically: Partisan 'heroes' from WWII turned into Serb enemies, and Albanian 'traitors' who cooperated with the Germans in WWII turned into heroes for enabling the first Albanian schools to be founded in Kosovo since it fell under the rule of what became Yugoslavia in 1913.
In 1997, at the age of 15, Besa was listening, like many teenagers, to Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana and the like, and she was reading Herman Hesse in Serbian translation, because the Albanian versions had been removed from the National Library and destroyed by the Serb authorities. She tried to live a normal teenage life, while trying to avoid the Serb checkpoints that kept springing up around town. Besa was also a regular at demonstrations organized by Albin Kurti,(LINK) against the discrimination of Albanian students.
It was that year that Besa's brother, first cousin and two best male friends went abroad to study and work, in Slovenia, the UK and Germany, respectively."Boys from my school, aged 15 to 17, would emigrate illegally to Europe in groups of 2 to 3 in hope of employment, better schooling and to be away from police harassment".
In Pristina, the situation worsened, Besa remembers: in 1998, when I was 16, I was woken up in the morning by the Serb bombings of the villages around Pristina. I was rebelling against my parents and against anything that went on in Kosovo. I dreamed of joining the Kosovo Liberation Army and peeling potatoes for them, thinking that fighting for human rights in Kosovo was the only way I could give some meaning to my teenage life."
Even after having studied and lived in Canada for many years Besa dreamed of coming back: "I always planned to go back to Kosovo. I felt constantly guilty for having had the opportunity to live a better life abroad compared to the rest of the people of my age who remained in Kosovo."
In 2003, Besa joined as a researcher, working on in the municipalities of Viti and Gjilan, as well as assisting in the making of ESI's documentary about Mitrovica. In 2004 Besa set up IKS with two colleagues; "I wanted to set up Kosovar equivalent of ESI, as an organization that will use sources in Kosovo to come to information which will strengthen the arguments that we were presenting to start policy debates".
IKS has focused on the problems of urban planning and development in Pristina. Besa says:"Through IKS I learned a lot about Kosovo. Finding out that despite popular belief, the city of Pristina did not have more than 250,000 inhabitants was a shocking discovery. The official figures ranged from 300,000 to 650,000. After months of detailed research, looking at all indicators of data we could find, from school enrolments, to old and new municipal household surveys, to voting lists, we kept coming back to 250,000 people. What this meant was that the municipal policy directed toward accommodating up to 650,000 people was based on wrong data!
It was a battle to get the conclusions accepted, Besa says; "in 2006, I attended a conference on 'good governance and urban planning' with over 150 participants working on urban and spatial planning in Kosovo, both internationals and Kosovars. I gave a short presentation...The then Director of Urban Planning of Pristina Municipality, furious that I was criticising the planning process in the city, and even more furious about the positive responses I was getting from the audience, got up and accused me with falsifying data, being paid by the UN Habitat Office (which is a sworn enemy of his Planning Department), and saying that he would take me to court for disrupting the urban planning process in Pristina. I knew then that our report on Pristina had had some impact!"
So did it matter then that she, a young foreign-educated woman, was challenging authorities in Kosovo, nearly all of whom were men? Besa says: "This did matter – it made my job both harder and easier at the same time. At first I would not be taken seriously by any government official I had to work with or interview, but this was mostly because of my age. I had to prepare well for meetings for people to see me as being on the same level as they. Later, when I had to present some of our findings which opened up quite uncomfortable debates (on population numbers in the capital, municipal budget expenditures, mismanagements in municipal governments etc) it actually proved beneficial to be a young woman. I have been told that I did not look too threatening for officials whom I would debate on television …
Besa also started to encourage IKS researchers to look at the position of women across Kosovo: "Women cannot be empowered in a society that is poor and where they have to cling to traditional patriarchal structures in order to survive economic difficulties. From our research in villages in Kosovo, a common answer we came across to the question on why not all girls are sent to high school was that 'educating children costs money and girls, when they grow up, marry into another family, which makes them a dead investment; their education which could lead to future employment, will only bring benefits to the family into which they marry'. When financial resourses are scarce, the family decides to educate the boy".
What this calls for, Besa says, is publicly funded education – not only tuition, as it is now, but also material resources;"books and the provision of transport, which are not affordable for poor families."
Currently, Besa is in Berlin studying at the Hertie School of Governance. She says:
"A masters degree in public policy brings added perspective to my work. Being reminded of all the actors involved in policy making and the challenges they all face; this makes it so much clearer for me how important the work of an independent think tank is in ensuring that policy making is a well-informed and transparent process."
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Intelligent Design, a startup from the Netherlands, has unveiled a computer mouse that costs rather whopping €800 ($1185). The device sports titanium metal cover and may become a desired accessory for those, for whom money is not an issue. The success of the product remains to be seen, but one thing it has already managed to do is to attract attention to Intelligent Design.
Specifications of Intelligent Design's mouse are not known, but the developer claims that it features titanium cover, neodymium scroll wheel, laser sensor and Bluetooth wireless interconnection. Users will be able to choose between white or black models. The mouse is compatible with Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 and Mac OS X 10.3.5 or later operating systems.
The design of ID's mouse does not seem to be exactly luxurious, but is rather elegant and coy. As a result, the mouse should be able to match design of different keyboards, displays, system cases as well as other accessories on the desk.
It is hardly likely that the mouse with titanium cover will become truly popular even among target audience, especially considering the fact that luxury is becoming more technologically advanced nowadays (e.g., Samsung smartphones designed by Armani or Mobiado Grand 350 Pioneer smartphone). Still, Intelligent Design's mouse has already attracted attention to the company itself and helped it to become known.
The mouse from Intelligent Design will be available for purchase at select exhibitions in the Netherlands, including Million Fair Amsterdam 2009, as well as directly from the designer.
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Experience curve effects
In management, models of the learning curve effect and the closely related experience curve effect express the relationship between equation[clarification needed] and efficiency or between efficiency gains and investment in the effort.
Learning curve and learning curve effect[edit]
"Learning curves" were first described qualitatively in 1885 by the German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus, who was investigating the difficulty of memorizing varying numbers of verbal stimuli.[1][2] Subsequent findings about the complex processes of learning are discussed in the Learning curve article.
Experience shows that the more times a task has been performed, the less time is required on each subsequent iteration. This relationship was probably first quantified in 1936 by an engineer at Curtiss-Wright in the United States,[3] where it was determined that every time total aircraft production doubled, the required labour time decreased by 20 percent. Subsequent empirical studies from other industries have yielded different values ranging from only a couple of percentages up to 30%, but in most cases it is a constant percentage: It did not vary at different scales of operation. The Learning Curve model posits that for each doubling of the total quantity of items produced, costs decrease by a fixed proportion.
Unit curve[edit]
Empirical research has validated the following mathematical form for the unit cost, Px, producing unit number x starting with P1 for a wide variety of different products and services:
- ,
where (1-b) is the proportion reduction in the unit cost with each doubling in the cumulative production. To see this, note the following:
Of course, this is only a statistical average and will rarely if ever exactly predict the unit cost of producing any future product. However, it has been found to be useful in many contexts with b ranging from 0.75 to 0.9 in different industries (so 1-b ranges from 0.1 to 0.25, as noted elsewhere in this article).
The experience curve[edit]
Generally, the production of any good or service shows the experience curve effect. Each time cumulative volume doubles, value added costs (including administration, marketing, distribution, and manufacturing) fall by a constant percentage.
The Experience Curve was developed by Bruce D. Henderson and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) while analyzing overall cost behavior in the 1960s.[4] In 1968, Henderson and BCG began to emphasize the implications of the experience curve for strategy.[5] Research by BCG in the 1960s and 70s observed experience curve effects for various industries that ranged from 10 to 25 percent.[6]
These effects are often expressed graphically. The curve is plotted with the cumulative units produced on the horizontal axis and unit cost on the vertical axis. A curve showing a 15% cost reduction for every doubling of output is called an "85% experience curve", indicating that unit costs drop to 85% of their original level.
The experience curve is described by a power law function sometimes referred to as Henderson's Law:[7]
- C1 is the cost of the first unit of production
- Cn is the cost of the n-th unit of production
- n is the cumulative volume of production
- a is the elasticity of cost with regard to output
Reasons for the effect[edit]
NASA quotes the following experience curves:[8]
- Aerospace 85%
- Shipbuilding 80-85%
- Complex machine tools for new models 75-85%
- Repetitive electronics manufacturing 90-95%
- Repetitive machining or punch-press operations 90-95%
- Repetitive electrical operations 75-85%
- Repetitive welding operations 90%
- Raw materials 93-96%
- Purchased Parts 85-88%
The primary reason for why experience and learning curve effects apply, of course, is the complex processes of learning involved. As discussed in the main article, learning generally begins with making successively larger finds and then successively smaller ones. The equations for these effects come from the usefulness of mathematical models for certain somewhat predictable aspects of those generally non-deterministic processes. They include:
- Labour efficiency - Workers become physically more dexterous. They become mentally more confident and spend less time hesitating, learning, experimenting, or making mistakes. Over time they learn short-cuts and improvements. This applies to all employees and managers, not just those directly involved in production.
- Standardization, specialization, and methods improvements - As processes, parts, and products become more standardized, efficiency tends to increase. When employees specialize in a limited set of tasks, they gain more experience with these tasks and operate at a faster rate.
- Technology-Driven Learning - Automated production technology and information technology can introduce efficiencies as they are implemented and people learn how to use them efficiently and effectively.
- Better use of equipment - as total production has increased, manufacturing equipment will have been more fully exploited, lowering fully accounted unit costs. In addition, purchase of more productive equipment can be justifiable.
- Changes in the resource mix - As a company acquires experience, it can alter its mix of inputs and thereby become more efficient.
- Product redesign - As the manufacturers and consumers have more experience with the product, they can usually find improvements. This filters through to the manufacturing process. A good example of this is Cadillac's testing of various "bells and whistles" specialty accessories. The ones that did not break became mass-produced in other General Motors products; the ones that didn't stand the test of user "beatings" were discontinued, saving the car company money. As General Motors produced more cars, they learned how to best produce products that work for the least money.
- Network-building and use-cost reductions (network effects) - As a product enters more widespread use, the consumer uses it more efficiently because they're familiar with it. One fax machine in the world can do nothing, but if everyone has one, they build an increasingly efficient network of communications. Another example is email accounts; the more there are, the more efficient the network is, the lower everyone's cost per utility of using it.
- Shared experience effects - Experience curve effects are reinforced when two or more products share a common activity or resource. Any efficiency learned from one product can be applied to the other products. (This is related to the principle of least astonishment).
Experience curve discontinuities[edit]
The experience curve effect can on occasion come to an abrupt stop.[citation needed] Graphically, the curve is truncated. Existing processes become obsolete and the firm must upgrade to remain competitive. The upgrade will mean the old experience curve will be replaced by a new one. This occurs when:
- Competitors introduce new products or processes that you must respond to
- Key suppliers have much bigger customers that determine the price of products and services, and that becomes the main cost driver for the product
- Technological change requires that you or your suppliers change processes
- The experience curve strategies must be re-evaluated because
- they are leading to price wars
- they are not producing a marketing mix that the market values
Strategic consequences of the effect[edit]
The BCG strategists examined the consequences of the experience effect for businesses. They concluded that because relatively low cost of operations is a very powerful strategic advantage, firms should capitalize on these learning and experience effects. [9] The reasoning is increased activity leads to increased learning, which leads to lower costs, which can lead to lower prices, which can lead to increased market share, which can lead to increased profitability and market dominance. According to BCG, the most effective business strategy was one of striving for market dominance in this way. This was particularly true when a firm had an early leadership in market share. It was claimed that if you cannot get enough market share to be competitive, you should get out of that business and concentrate your resources where you can take advantage of experience effects and gain dominant market share. The BCG strategists developed product portfolio techniques like the BCG Matrix (in part) to manage this strategy.
Today we recognize that there are other strategies that are just as effective as cost leadership so we need not limit ourselves to this one path.[citation needed] See for example Porter generic strategies which talks about product differentiation and focused market segmentation as two alternatives to cost leadership. Sterman et al. show that expanding rapidly to realize experience curve benefits is a high risk strategy in dynamic markets with common features like bounded rationality and durable products.[10]
One consequence of the experience curve effect is that cost savings should be passed on as price decreases rather than kept as profit margin increases.[citation needed] The BCG strategists felt that maintaining a relatively high price, although very profitable in the short run, spelled disaster for the strategy in the long run. They felt that it encouraged competitors to enter the market, triggering a steep price decline and a competitive shakeout. If prices were reduced as unit costs fell (due to experience curve effects), then competitive entry would be discouraged and one's market share maintained. Using this strategy, you could always stay one step ahead of new or existing rivals.
Origins of the experience curve[edit]
Excerpts of Bruce D. Henderson's published writing describe the development of the experience curve.[11][12]
Starting in 1966, according to Henderson:
- "The Boston Consulting Group's first effort to formulate the experience curve concept was an attempt to explain cost behavior over time in a process industry. The correlation between competitive profitability and market share was strikingly apparent.[11]
- "The pattern of the learning curve was an attractive initial hypothesis to explain this. The name, Experience Curve, was selected to distinguish this cost behavior phenomenon from the well known and well documented learning curve effect. The two are related, but quite different."[11]
- BCG found there were far reaching implications based on volume changes in production.[11]
- "Semiconductors provided the evidence on which to build the experience curve concept itself. The wide variety of semiconductors offered a chance to compare differing growth rates and price decline rates in a similar environment. Price data supplied by the Electronic Industries Association was compared with accumulated industry volume. Two distinct patterns emerged.[11]
- "In one pattern, prices, in current dollars, remained constant for long periods and then began a relatively steep and long continued decline in constant dollars. In the other pattern, prices, in constant dollars, declined steadily at a constant rate of about 25 percent each time accumulated experience doubled. That was the experience curve. That was 1966."[11]
Some authors[who?] claim that in most organizations it is impossible to quantify the effects. They claim that experience effects are so closely intertwined with economies of scale that it is impossible to separate the two.[13] In theory we can say that economies of scale are those efficiencies that arise from an increased scale of production, and that experience effects are those efficiencies that arise from the learning and experience gained from repeated activities, but in practice the two mirror each other: growth of experience coincides with increased production. Economies of scale should be considered one of the reasons why experience effects exist. Likewise, experience effects are one of the reasons why economies of scale exist. This makes assigning a numerical value to either of them difficult.
The well travelled road effect may lead people to overestimate the effect of the experience curve.
See also[edit]
- Economies of scale
- Hermann Ebbinghaus
- Management
- Marketing strategies
- Porter generic strategies
- Strategic planning
- Gordon Moore's Law of affordable computing performance growth
- Mark Kryder's Law of magnetic disk storage growth
- Jakob Nielsen's Law of wired bandwidth growth
- Martin Cooper's Law of simultaneous wireless conversation capacity growth
- Learning-by-doing
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=oRSMDF6y3l8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Page 42, Fig 2
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=ikEMAAAAIAAJ&q=%22learning+curve%22#v=snippet&q=%22learning%20curve%22&f=false The American Journal of Psychology, Volume 14 1903 By Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchene
- ^ Wright, T.P., Factors Affecting the Cost of Airplanes, Journal of Aeronautical Sciences, 3(4) (1936): 122-128.
- ^ Henderson, Bruce D. "The Experience Curve – Reviewed II: History, 1973". Retrieved 2013-04-04.
- ^ https://www.bcgperspectives.com/content/Classics/strategy_the_experience_curve/ BCJ 1968
- ^ Hax, Arnoldo C.; Majluf, Nicolas S. (October 1982), "Competitive cost dynamics: the experience curve", Interfaces, 12 (5): 50–61, doi:10.1287/inte.12.5.50.
- ^ Grant, Robert M. (2004), Contemporary strategy analysis, U.S., UK, Australia, Germany: Blackwell publishing, ISBN 1-4051-1999-3
- ^ Cost Models - Learning Curve Calculator
- ^ Henderson, Bruce (1974). "The Experience Curve Reviewed: V. Price Stability" (PDF). Perspectives. The Boston Consulting Group. Retrieved 2007-03-24.
- ^ Strategic Dynamics with Increasing Returns and Bounded Rationality, John D. Sterman, Rebecca Henderson, Eric D. Beinhocker, and Lee I. Newman, Management Science, 53(4), April 2007, 683–696.
- ^ a b c d e f Henderson, Bruce D. "The Experience Curve – Reviewed II: History, 1973". Retrieved 2013-04-05.
- ^ Henderson, Bruce D. "The Experience Curve – Reviewed I: The Concept, 1974". Retrieved 2013-04-05.
- ^ Berndt, Ernst (1990). The practice of econometrics: classic and contemporary, Chapter 3.
Further reading[edit]
- Wright, Theodore Paul (February 1936), "Learning Curve", Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences
- Hirschmann, W. (Jan–Feb 1964), "Profit from the Learning Curve", Harvard Business Review
- Consulting, Boston (1972), Perspectives on Experience, Boston, Mass
- Abernathy, William; Wayne, Kenneth (Sep–Oct 1974), "Limits to the Learning Curve", Harvard Business Review
- Kiechel, Walter III (October 5, 1981), "The Decline of the Experience Curve", Fortune
- Day, George S.; Montgomery, David Bernard (1983), "Diagnosing the Experience Curve", Journal of Marketing, 47 (Spring): 44, doi:10.2307/1251492, JSTOR 1251492
- Ghemawat, Pankaj (March–April 1985), "Building Strategy on the Experience Curve", Harvard Business Review, 42
- Teplitz, C.J., ed. (1991), The Learning Curve Deskbook: A Reference Guide to Theory, Calculations, and Applications, New York: Quorum Books
- Ostwald, Phillip F. (1992), Engineering Cost Estimating (3rd ed.), Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-276627-2
- Davies, Geoffrey F. (2004), Economia: New Economic Systems to Empower People and Support the Living World, ABC Books, ISBN 0-7333-1298-5
- Le Morvan, Pierre; Stock, Barbara (2005), "Medical Learning Curves and the Kantian Ideal", Journal of Medical Ethics, 31 (9): 513–518, doi:10.1136/jme.2004.009316, PMC 1734219, PMID 16131552
- Junginger, Martin; van Sark, Wilfried; Faaij, André (2010), Technological Learning in the Energy Sector, Lessons for Policy, Industry and Science, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84844-834-6


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Web hosting firm Strato has pulled on its hemp-woven strides and made an ambitious proclamation that it will be completely carbon-free by January 2008.
The German-based company's CEO Damien Schmidt told The Register that while people may be more aware of reducing their individual carbon footprint, it was also important for tech firms to "look behind the screen" and consider the sizable, carbon-munching emissions spat out by IT equipment.
He said Strato had been doing its bit for the green brigade for some time now, and reckoned the firm had already significantly reduced CO2 emissions at its two data centres with a 30 per cent energy saving per customer in the past 18 months.
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The original Corpse Party follows a group of children's descent into hell. After performing a ritual, these students are unexpectedly transported to an alternate dimension and trapped in a cursed elementary school. Malevolent spirits await who are intent on toying with the kid's innocent minds and eviscerating their helpless bodies.
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows picks up where the last one left off. Well, sort of. The game tells seven standalone stories that range from backstories, to what if scenarios, off-camera events, and even some canonical new territory. Unfortunately, much of this won't make sense to newcomers, so playing the first entry is highly recommended. For those in the know, a poignantly macabre tale awaits.
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows (PlayStation Portable)
Developer: Team GrisGris, 5pb.
Publisher: XSEED
Released: January 15, 2013
The main reason this is not a friendly jumping off point for newcomers is that, unlike most games, the story is the main draw here. Like its predecessor, Book of Shadows starts off on a cheerful note by introducing the player to a likable cast of characters in a safe and friendly environment. Once the game has its hooks dug under the player's skin, however, all of that comfort is ripped away as the story plunges headlong into some of the darkest material explored in videogames.
Book of Shadows opens with the mother of one of the survivors attempting to help her emotionally distressed daughter. Naomi may have escaped Heavenly Host Elementary with her life, but she isn't well at all. Nobody seems to remember those that perished in the alternate dimension, least of all Naomi's best friend, Seiko, and that's tearing the poor girl apart.
The initial chapters take place in an alternate timeline, but turn back the clock so that the player can experience the events before the horror begins. Following a cultural festival at school, several students decide to partake in a charm to sendoff a friend that is transferring to a new school. Nobody is aware of the events that are about to unfold, save one boy, but for all his knowledge he's unable to stop history from repeating itself. I'd hate to spoil much more than that, but rest assured, this is an emotionally-gripping, at times humorous, and deeply unsettling tale.
The sound design is excellent and plays perfectly to just about every situation. The soundtrack is at times catchy and cloyingly cheerful at others. As you might expect though, more often than not the music is atmospheric and eerie. Accompanying the tunes is expert Japanese voice work, which was recorded binaurally. Headphones are strongly recommended, as the simulated three-dimensional sound makes for a truly chilling auditory experience.
Though Book of Shadows shines in a number of areas, being a "game" certainly isn't one of them. This is a visual novel first and foremost, so there isn't a great deal of gameplay to speak of, but it does feign an attempt to be something more. Unfortunately, that effort isn't a very good one and as a result the interactive aspect of the experience falls flat on its face.
Binary choices are about as good as it gets in Book of Shadows. Oftentimes there are right answers, but given that the player is allowed to save at any moment, players might find themselves intentionally going down an incorrect path to see one of the title's many "wrong ends." Though these amount to Game Over screens, the gruesome descriptions that accompany them make doing the wrong thing all the more enjoyable. Well, maybe that's not the best word choice. On one occasion a particularly unsettling sound effect left my stomach churning. While that wasn't particularly enjoyable, it does show how truly effective Corpse Party can be.
It's a pity though that a large portion of Book of Shadows is wasted aimlessly wandering through Heavenly Host's halls. Prepare to spend plenty of time moving from room to room, scouring for objects to help move the story forward. Sometimes, however, it's not an object at all that needs looking for. Rather, the player will need to wander past a particular area (sometimes several times) to trigger an event. It's monotonous, frustrating, and not fun in the slightest. Worst of all, it's rare that the game gives the player any direction.
The sprite art from the first Corpse Party has been replaced with a first-person perspective. And while I found this less pleasing from an aesthetic standpoint, it makes for a less frustrating gaming experience. Book of Shadows employs a point-and-click mechanic and objects that can be interacted with are highlighted with a blue hue. It's still tedious, but at least the days of mashing the X button over every pixel in a Where's Waldo-esque fashion are over.
Fans of Corpse Party would do well to pick up the second installment. The first game left a lot of unanswered questions and Book of Shadows does an admirable job at filling in the gaps. I've enjoyed spending time with these characters, even if it is the worst day of their lives. As for the uninitiated, well, play the first before tackling this one.
It's not like PlayStation Portable or Vita owners have been spoiled for choice when it comes to quality software as of late. Visual novels may be niche, but just about anyone can enjoy a good horror story. If you can get past the insipid gameplay, Corpse Party: Book of Shadows provides a pleasurable and haunting narrative that's well worth experiencing.
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Solid and definitely has an audience. There could be some hard-to-ignore faults, but the experience is fun.
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Tokyo Fashion in Shimokitazawa and a great place to visit
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Shimokitazawa is a lively part of Tokyo which comes under the Setagaya ward. It is very close to Shinjuku and you can easily connect to other trendy areas like Harajuku and Shibuya. However, in Shimokitazawa (Shimokita – locals often say) you have a more relaxed feel about the place because like other trendy areas which are smaller in scale, for example Jiyugaoka, you can feel a local vibe alongside the general buzz of the place.
Youth culture is vibrant because of independent fashion, fashion in general, live house music, theatrical performances, music outlets and many cafe bars to relax and meet friends or to enjoy your quality time by yourself.
Therefore, Shimokitazawa is a highly desirable place to reside and you have a nice mix of families, business people, students, single households and so forth. Also, the closeness to so many famous parts of Tokyo is an added perk and you are literally spoilt for choice.
In the backstreets of Shimokitazawa you will find many fashion outlets and also a nice mix of quality secondhand shops selling fashion, music, antiques and a host of other products. At the same time you can feel a nice atmosphere because of cafe bars and at night the ambience is very vibrant. However, despite the energetic feel of the place you don't have the continuing rush of Harajuku and Shinjuku and this is an added bonus.
It is also nice to wander around this part of trendy Tokyo because you have many narrow alleyways which are inaccessible to cars and this makes your visit even more pleasurable. Also, the narrow alleyways are a treasure because you have so many different stores selling various products and often you will find a new fashion outlet that you bypassed before because of limited knowledge of the area.
UTA is a fashion resale shop and is popular alongside others like Mocha (12 minute walk from the main station), Haight and Ashbury, Lotty which sells vintage clothing, Banana Fish, Milla Biflora which sells used and vintage clothing, Little Trip To Heaven, and Carolina Glaser is a lovely shop which is popular for Mori girls and natural fashion.
These are just a selection of different styles of fashion shops and of course you have countless stores to visit like Cosmic Lounge, Blonde on Blonde, Bruce-Pee, Fig London, WEGO, Lanp, and far too many to mention. Therefore, if you like independent fashion, vintage clothing, natural fashion, secondhand clothing shops, punkish styles, Mori fashion, and a host of other styles, then Shimokitazawa is a place you should check out.


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Day 3 at ACL – All Good Things Must Come to an End…
Posted on October 2, 2011 by John
Day three started with breakfast at a great local restaurant in east Austin called "Cisco's". While we were having breakfast one of the bands that we saw perform on Friday came in for breakfast too. The band was called "Wild Beast". They were very nice. We just told them how much we enjoyed there show and then left them alone. I'm sure they enjoyed their authentic Tex-Mex breakfast as much as we did.
We got to the concert a little earlier than I thought we would and caught about half the set of another English group called Graffiti 6. We had not planed to see this group but they were very good. They sounded kind of Jamiroquai like. The vocals had a soul edged rock sound to them. They are about to release their first American single. They played the song and I liked it. It sounded kind of like The Spencer Davis Group.
Next up was The Head and the Heart. There was a lot of pre-show buzz about this band. They had played South by Southwest earlier in the year, but the venue was really small and very few people got to see them. A large crowd had assembled to see them this time. I was very excited about hearing them. The Head and the Heart are a very Americana sounding band from Seattle Washington. Their self titled debut album was released by Sub Pop Records. Band has three main singers who traded off taking the lead vocal on various songs. Their set started slowly and built to a powerful conclusion. I really enjoyed this band and highly recommend them. If you'd like to hear what they sound like live and you have iTunes, you can download a live performance from NPR's "All Songs Considered". Some of the highlights were "Rivers and Roads" and "Lost in my Mind". This band has great chemistry with the audience. The only note I wrote about this performance was "WOW!!"
Back at the main stage we saw a band with the very interesting name of Airborne Toxic Event. They sounded like a cross between The Clash and Bright Eyes. The lead singer looked like a tatted up hood but when he spoke to the crowd he was a very kind and thoughtful person. He dedicated a cover of a song by The Magnetic Fields to his recently deceased Grandparents. He dedicated another song to our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. He also did a very cool cover of the Bruce Springsteen song "Fire". Immediately after I made a comment to my friend that they sounded kind of like The Clash they covered "Rockin' The Kazbar". They closed their show with a rousing version of "I Fought the Law and the Law Won". This band had played ACL before and a large and enthusiastic crowd tuned up to see them.
During the intermission I went to get some food and beer. Every day I at these Grilled Steak Kebabs from Tim Love's Lonesome Dove Cafe. The food at ACL is very, very good. Especially Tim Love's food. Here's a picture of his sign above their booth.
The next band I saw was Broken Social Scene. This band hails from Canada. They are great practitioners of Phil Spectors "Wall of Sound". There were at least 9 people in the band. There music soars. They use a lot of distortion. They were not afraid to make a lot of noise. Neil Young would have loved their set. Late in their set they did a very cool cover of a Modest Mouse song. I would highly recommend this group.
The sun was beginning to set when Fleet Foxes took the stage. I have heard of this band for some time and I was very interested in seeing them live. This set was one of the highlights of the entire 3 day event. This is a very serious band with highly sophisticated music and harmony. They had as good of harmonies as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young or The Eagles. They were every bit as good of musicians too. What an amazing band! I loved them.
So that brings me to the end of the show. The last band standing. Sunday night September 18, 2011 Arcade Fire burned the house down! They put on a fantastic show. They light show was blinding at times. They are also great practitioners of "The Wall of Sound" . They remind me of Talking Heads at the end of their career when they did Stop Making Sense. The lead singer sounds and even has some of the mannerisms of David Bryne. The woman in Arcade fire that plays all of the different instruments and sings lead vocal on certain songs, kind of stole the show. She also got to sing lead on the very last song. The whole crowd dispersed singing her catchy song.
So there you have it. Three days of fun and music. What's the bottom line? Well, I thought ACL was extremely well run. I thought the variety and the quality of the music that was presented was fantastic. They really have this thing down now in their 10th year. I highly recommend going. Register on line and get on the email list. Next years early bird ticket are already on sale. The line up has not yet been announced but it doesn't matter. I can assure you that it will be well worth the $185.00 ticket price. I have paid more money to see just one band. For the same price I got to see 19 bands. I think they are moving the event to October 14-16 2012. This is great because it will be much cooler weather than it was this year. It was an experience I will remember for a long, long time. So, I say buy a ticket and maybe I'll see you there next year…
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As a leader in delivering what's next in digital payments, we look forward to meeting with you at Money20/20, October 21-24, 2018.
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Kevin Grieve is the North America lead for Accenture Payments, responsible for helping drive payments industry perspective and development of Accenture's payment expertise and assets. He brings deep expertise in strategy consulting for cards and payments, having advised senior executives at many leading North America financial institutions. He has co-authored several articles on payments and has been a featured speaker at payments industry conferences.
Kevin joins Accenture from PwC's Strategy&, where he was head of the North American Card and Payments practice. He has over 25 years of consulting and line experience in financial services working with institutions in retail banking, card issuing, payments associations, merchant acquiring, and third-party providers. Kevin has an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
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After receiving her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, Singleton went on to earn an MBA from Regis University and a master of applied communication degree from the University of Denver. Colorado Construction magazine has named her one of its "Top 20 Under 40."
Singleton has served as an adjunct professor, teaching graduate courses in management, marketing and leadership; she is also recognized as an expert speaker on such topics as leadership facilitation and board development, governance and bylaws, strategic planning and coalition building.
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CultureHaus, Symphony add board members
CultureHaus, a social and educational support group of the Denver Art Museum, has added three new members to its board of directors: Janine Flores, a registered representative with Transamerica Financial Group and manager of prospect research services for Metropolitan State College of Denver; Katie Kruger, who is in strategic account management with SRA International, Inc.; and Katherine Lees of Nine Dot Arts. Jennifer McIntire and Jim Guttau are co-chairs of the board.
The Colorado Symphony, meanwhile, has appointed nine new members to its board of trustees: attorney Rebecca DeCook, a partner with Moye White; BJ Dyer, owner of Bouquets; Sandy Elliott, a community volunteer; Jack Finlaw, chief legal counsel for Gov. John Hickenlooper; Neda Ghaemi, director of Tiffany & Co. Cherry Creek; Peter Landgraff, managing director and market manager for JPMorgan Private Bank; Patrick C. McKinstry from the Denver City Attorney's Office; Dr. Christopher Ott of St. Anthony Hospital; and Mike Pappas, recording engineer at New Media Center. Jerome. H. Kern and Mary Rossick Kern continue as co-chairs of the Symphony board.
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James Taylor
July 28, 2011
NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior studies indicating increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed.
Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real-world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.
"The satellite observations suggest there is much more energy lost to space during and after warming than the climate models show," Spencer said in a July 26 University of Alabama press release. "There is a huge discrepancy between the data and the forecasts that is especially big over the oceans."
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