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The Nelson Foundation is an independent private foundation that was founded more than 30 years ago through the generosity of the late Admiral W. Linton Nelson and Grace S. Nelson. Since its inception, the Foundation has supported a variety of programs that provide direct services to children and youth in the Philadelphia region. In 2022, the Foundation committed to a new mission that centers racial equity and social justice in its work supporting children and youth.
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Incorporated in 1984, the Foundation began active grantmaking in 1988 following the death of Mrs. Nelson. Since that time, the Foundation has made grants totaling more than $25 million.
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Report: Colts Were Interested in Ex-Lions QB Matthew Stafford, But Never Offered the Team's 1st Rounder
By Luke Schultheis Feb 1, 2021, 9:37am EST
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According to The MMQB's Albert Breer, while the Indianapolis Colts were one of former Detroit Lions franchise quarterback Matthew Stafford's preferred trade destinations, Colts general manager Chris Ballard never formally offered the team's first rounder (Pick #21):
"Word was that Stafford's preferred destinations were, in order, the Rams, Niners and Colts," Breer wrote. "And while the Lions were always going to do what was best for the Lions (and Stafford didn't have a no-trade clause to commandeer the process), they were also cognizant of what their former No. 1 pick wanted."
". . . The Colts discussed packages of picks and players, but never actually wound up offering their first-rounder, the 21st pick," Breer added.
Now, that doesn't mean that Ballard wouldn't have ultimately offered Pick #21—potentially having been discussing the initial parameters of the deal first and foremost before hoping to eventually get into the finer details of it.
However, from Breer's report, it sounds like when the Lions agreed to trade Stafford to the Los Angeles Rams on Saturday evening for two future first round picks, a third round pick, and former #1 overall pick Jared Goff that the Colts first round pick wasn't formally on the trade table yet.
It's largely irrelevant now because Stafford is a new L.A. Ram, while the Colts are still looking for a difference-maker at starting quarterback this offseason (with limited available options right now)—but it's a pretty interesting nugget of insider information.

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A game plan of sorts is emerging for the developer proposing a new arena on the Las Vegas Strip, including the ownership of NBA and NHL franchises and temporary venues for each before a new facility is built.
Christopher Milam is heading an investment group that wants to build a new 20,000-seat arena at the former Wet 'N Wild waterpark site on the Las Vegas Strip, between the Sahara Hotel and the Fontainebleau Hotel development, to be opened in 2012. That alone is an aggressive timetable, but Milam and his cohorts at International Development Management want to add both an NBA and an NHL franchise to the mix. Furthermore, they want to buy the franchises in time to begin play in Vegas before the opening of the arena; they've approved UNLV officials about putting the NBA team in Thomas & Mack Center and Boyd Group officials about putting the NHL team at the Orleans Arena. (We're not entirely sure the NHL would allow this: the Orleans is a smaller 8,000-seat arena. Thomas & Mack can host an ice rink.) Throw an WNBA team into the mix, and you've got a game plan.
Whether there's a business plan here remains to be seen. We're talking $750 million for the arena, with 15 percent coming from a revived redevelopment district. Add in the cost of acquiring the franchises (which would seem to be a stretch for the NHL) and inevitable operating losses before the arena opens, and you're talking some real money.


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Calvados-Honfleur Business Park
by La Compagnie du Paysage
A new-generation business park
La Compagnie du Paysage: At the foot of the Pont de Normandie, near Honfleur, a new business park is being created. Ecological, sustainable and perfectly integrated into the landscape of the Seine estuary, Calvados-Honfleur Business Park is innovative in more ways than one. Since 2012, it has been home to the only outlet village in the Grand Ouest region.
A newly created and competitive facility in an exclusive geographical location
Honfleur, a village of fishermen and painters, has long been isolated at the mouth of the Seine – beloved of tourists but neglected by businesses. The construction of the Pont de Normandie bridge has changed all this: Honfleur now occupies a central position in France's Grand Ouest region, where it is excellently served by all means of transport and close to two of the largest ports in Europe. The port of Le Havre, the number two French port with 6,633 incoming vessels in 2007, has just inaugurated its Port 2000 container terminal, thus boosting the economic competitiveness of the entire region. The port of Rouen, meanwhile, has simply expanded its development as far as Honfleur: its timber terminals are located on either sides of the Pont de Normandie, fringing the business park.
A business park created as a joint effort
In response to the economic advantages generated by the Pont de Normandie and the development of the ports, the various local public actors quickly joined forces to seize the opportunity and transform the existing Poudreux business park on the banks of the Seine into a large new-generation business park with the potential to become the showcase for the department's economic development. The General Council of Calvados, the City of Honfleur, the Autonomous Port of Rouen and the Pays d'Auge Chamber of Commerce and Industry formed a joint syndicate to create the Calvados Honfleur Business Park. SHEMA, a semi-public regional development company, was responsible for the development of an area of 125 ha, corresponding to land reclaimed in the Seine estuary before its current containment.
A project based on sustainable development
Showcasing the department also means showcasing the environment and the architectural heritage. Located near Honfleur city centre and the nature zone east of the Pont de Normandie, the business park must meet stringent environmental and architectural requirements. A global and integrated approach was thus taken to the project, similar to that of the eco-industrial business parks which are becoming more common in Canada, the United States and Portugal.
The architecture of the site and future buildings will play its part in the environmental ecosystem through the widespread use of green roofs and of wood in all its forms in the site development and construction. Energy savings will be encouraged through the use of renewable energies, selective waste management on the construction sites and non-motorised transport.
The park has been designed as a coherent whole, both in terms of the site development programme and the introduction of future structures. An ambitious set of specifications will guide the design of business structures, with the aim of creating an architecture of correspondence, relationship and dialogue. The existing industrial zone will be overhauled to ensure its continuity with the future urban and landscape complex.
A shared urban space
With its tertiary business area, logistics park, high-end shopping centre with community services, crèche, hotels and restaurants, the Calvados-Honfleur Business Park is far removed from the industrial zones of the 20th century. Various categories of user will circulate on the site, attracted by the shops of the Outlet Village or coming to work at the various companies established in the zone. The network of pedestrian paths and cycle tracks designed on a municipal scale and the business park's integration in the public transport network will ensure the use of alternative modes of travel to the car.
Compositional axes
The integration of the Calvados-Honfleur Business Park into its environment is based above all on its compositional axes. From the roundabout at the entrance to the zone, the main axis points towards the second pillar of the Pont de Normandie, the site's architectural emblem. The network of public spaces create a connection between the park and the middle of the estuary by means of views over the Seine and the slopes of the surrounding landscape, while a green corridor at the centre of the park links the two nature zones to the east and west. A distinctive presentational approach has been used for the entrance to the park and the first few shop windows.
Rainwater treatment
Rainwater treatment and retention are two important factors in flood prevention during storms. The ditches and pools have been interpreted as assets for the urban landscape of the Calvados-Honfleur Business Park, with a belvedere platform overlooking the green corridor, ditches alongside the roads and pedestrian paths and so on.
The rainwater retention system manages more than 200,000 m3 of water. The ground plan and levelling have been designed to keep the infrastructure dry even in the event of a hundred-year flood.
Short office name: La Compagnie du Paysage
Website: www.compagniedupaysage.com
Role of your office in the project: Landscape Architects (Lead Company)
Other designers involved in the design of landscape: Stéphane Plisson (architect and urban planner), Aktis (architect), Viamap (roads and utilities), Antea (environment), Inno (programme manager)
Contracting authority: Syndicat Mixte du Parc d'Activités Calvados Honfleur (SHEMA)
Project location: Honfleur, France
Area: 130 hectares
Works budget: €25m excl. tax
Design year: 2007/2009
Year Built: 2010/ongoing
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Una has requested for those wanting to celebrate and honour her life to please do so in the form of financial donation to St Vincent's Hospital – Level 6 (Haematology and Oncology).
The impact that the staff on this level had on Una is best described by her. Please read below the message she wrote to them in her 2018 Christmas card.
"It is hard to find the words to describe the love and fondness I feel for you all.
Over the past 5 ½ months I have got to know many of you well and feel privileged to have been taken care of by you.
The compassion, kindness and very high level of professional care that you have given me has been incredible and I cannot speak highly enough of you.
There have been so many times when your words of comfort, touch of kindness and sharing a laugh has helped me get through a difficult time. I will never forget these and I am eternally grateful to you for this.
Of course in spite of my love of level 6 I am very excited about going home, but know I will miss the people of level 6.
I wish each of you great happiness and good fortune.
The Forrester Family are of the same opinion.
They would like to thank you all for the kind messages and support that they have received throughout Una's treatment and since her passing. In lieu of flowers, please donate to St Vincent's through this memorial page.
Thank you for the many wonderful memories Una. Sending all my love and warmest wishes across the ocean to the Forrester family.
Dear Lewis and family, We are very sorry to hear about your loss, keeping you all in our thoughts and prayers.
I am a better person to have met you Una. Your smile and strong spirits will live on forever in my heart.
My heart goes out to a gorgeous family who lost a beautiful woman. Cherish the amazing memories you have of your mum and wife.
Donating to remember Una as such a lovely cheery person who is going to be missed so badly and also to recognise the amazing work done by healthcare professionals everywhere.
Steve, Lewis, Fiona and all of your family we are thinking of you all at this very sad time. Una's message is an amazing insight into the beautiful person she was, taking the time to acknowledge those who cared for her.
I had met Una briefly but felt a great warmth and welcome from her. This has had a lasting impression.


Retired Engineer, Manager with a taste for travel, experienced in home swapping and home sitting.
We live in Australia and usually travel to Europe in June/July to visit my aged mother (95Y old now) and family. Simultaneously we like to stay in different places with touristic or nature attraction and are looking forward to meet good people.
Living a sustainable live with my spouse, we are fond of renewable energy and electric cars, love nature and animals.
We have a taste for travelling and have done quite a number of home swaps in the past.
We are happy to help out people in need for a home sitter and pet sitter.
A police check certificates from 2016 can be supplied on request. We are in the process of updating this.
For us, house sitting opens up another way to stay in Europe for a while, closer to my family and especially aged mother, at reasonable cost.
Combined with a family visit travel, we like to visit new areas and live in peoples houses to get a real feel of the area and meet other good people.
We love animals, grew up with pets and have experience in water garden management. With our experience of home swapping and temporary managing an Airbnb we like to offer our services for home/pet sitting and simultaneously enjoy to travel in an affordable manner.
As we have also had people doing home sitting for our place in Australia, we are fully aware of what home owners expect from a home sitter.
We are experienced home exchangers and have taken care of quite a few homes during our home swaps.
We also have been responsible for pet care, garden care and water garden care.
Also, I do have a little bit of handy man skill as I participated in several renovations.
Very nice, friendly, correct, trustworthy people who took care of my two cats like I do. I sincerely recommend them to all of you. No complaints. On the contrary, they did more than I expected.
Marc and Serina were beyond good! The house was immaculate when we returned and our dog Rufus had a wonderful time with them out walking, swimming and generally enjoying himself.
Our biggest worry was that Rufus would prefer to be with Marc and Serina once we got back!
It turned out ok as he was very pleased to see us. We cannot praise Marc and Serina highly enough. Thank you.
Thanks Allison and Charles! We really enjoyed staying at your place. You made a great effort to let us feel comfortable and Rufus helped us to have a superb holiday in Exmoor.
I have known Marc Talloen and Sue Wen Chang for several years and can state they are dear friends of whom I have the highest regard. They care for people and while having a beautiful home in a magnificent location regularly make it available for visitors to stay. They demonstrated respect and care for animals and the environment. I cannot recommend them too highly.


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Binlah Sonkalagiri (, Pseudonym von Wuthichat Choomsanit, ; * 1965) ist ein thailändischer Schriftsteller. Für sein Werk Chao Ngin (Prinzessin) gewann er 2005 den prestigeträchtigen S.E.A. Write Award.

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Nach seinem Schulabschluss an der Mahavajiravudh-Songkhla-Schule in der Provinz Songkhla studierte er an der Fakultät für Schöne Künste der Chulalongkorn-Universität in Bangkok, doch brach er das Studium ab, um Herausgeber von Pai Yarn Yai zu werden. Er arbeitete auch als Reporter für die Tageszeitungen Matichon und Khao Sod. Seit 1994 ist Binlah freier Schriftsteller und wohnt derzeit in der Provinz Chiang Mai.

Binlah veröffentlicht sowohl unter dem Pseudonym als auch unter seinem Klarnamen Kurzgeschichten, Kinderbücher, Novellen und Reiseberichte.

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The Minister of transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi, Thursday denied reports that he secretly leaked a letter written by former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor and now Emir of Kano, Sanusi Muhammad II, to then President Goodluck Jonathan on the non-remittance of $49.8 billion from oil sale to the Federation Account. Amaechi, in a statement by his media office, said: "To put the records straight, we want to categorically state that a concerned and patriotic Nigerian who felt sufficiently troubled with what was happening then, gave a copy of the Sanusi letter to Amaechi, in Amaechi's capacity, at the time, as Chairman of Nigerian Governors' Forum, NGF. Like Amaechi, we should appreciate that concerned Nigerian's patriotism.
"When Amaechi got the letter, he spoke with Sanusi, who was still the CBN governor, to confirm the authenticity of the letter. Sanusi confirmed to Amaechi that he wrote the letter. During their conversation, Amaechi made it abundantly clear to the then CBN governor that the bleeding of the nation had to be stopped, all non-remitted funds remitted and that he (Amaechi) was going to use the letter to do whatever was in the best interest of the nation and Nigerians, which was the stoppage of the non-remittance and the recovery of all the non-remitted funds from oil sale. The CBN governor didn't agree with Amaechi on the way forward. Considering that the letter was given to Amaechi as Chairman of the Governors' Forum, he shared the letter with his colleague governors first, and with Senator Bukola Saraki (now Senate President), who before and around that period, was doing some work or/and investigation around the oil sector in the Senate.
"Around that period, a delegation from the United States of America government, from the offices of the Secretaries of State and Defense, visited Amaechi in Port Harcourt to discuss the issue of oil theft in Nigeria. From their records, they gave Amaechi figures of about $7 billion, annually, that was being lost to oil theft in Nigeria. They were discussing the issue and figures of oil theft, and that was how the CBN governor's letter to President Jonathan came up. In the presence of journalists covering the visit, Amaechi brought out the Sanusi letter to the visiting American delegation to buttress the point that Nigeria was losing far more money to non-remittance of proceeds from oil sale into the Federation Account, which everyone seemed to concur, was in itself, another form and another dimension to the issue of oil theft.


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Saturday 5th July 1.00pm – 4.00pm Edward Sheldon Ltd, 6 New Street, Shipston-on-Stour.
St. George is the patron saint of England and St. Georges Day is April 23rd but Ebrington are celebrating the Day on the nearest Sunday with a traditional Sunday Family Lunch. Dress is an optional English Theme but it is certainly the day for having a red rose in your button hole whatever you wear.
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Andy Cohen says RHONY is 'on pause,' admits there's 'a lot of casting happening'
By Tiffany Bailey
There's a shakeup coming on The Real Housewives of New York. Pic credit: Bravo
Season 13 of The Real Housewives of New York was a bust. It garnered low ratings, and the drama that plagued it even cost the cast their annual reunion.
That's right. There was no reunion for Season 13. Rumors swirled that it was canceled after Eboni K. Williams filed a complaint against Ramona Singer, which launched an internal investigation.
While Ramona was eventually cleared, it was too late to put together the reunion, especially after a season with dismal ratings.
When will RHONY return for Season 14?
As other franchises (like The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) have resumed filming following a successful season, The Real Housewives of New York has not.
During an appearance on The Wendy Williams Show, which Michael Rapaport hosted, Andy Cohen talked about RHONY.
When asked about the status of RHONY, Andy revealed it was "on pause." That isn't surprising, especially after Season 13 was all over the place.
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Andy Cohen confirms casting is happening
While talking about The Real Housewives of New York, Andy Cohen revealed "a lot of casting" happening.
He did not go into detail about which housewives would be replaced and who would return, though Michael made sure to let Andy know that Dorinda Medley would be a good choice. That's when the conversation switched to the upcoming Real Housewives Ultimate Girls' Trip seasons.
If we had to guess about the casting for Season 14 of The Real Housewives of New York, we'd say Bravo is likely to clean house. There were a lot of complaints about last season, and RHONY newbie Eboni K. Williams wasn't a fan-favorite as the network suspected. She might be out before having a sophomore season.
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The OGs like Ramona Singer, Sonja Morgan, and Luann de Lesseps may also have a hard time returning for Season 14. Ramona faced a lot of controversy during Season 13, especially over her comments to Eboni K. Williams. Sonja hasn't brought much to the table, and Luann de Lesseps walked a middle line. She could return, but the fate of Ramona and Sonja hang in the balance.
When RHONY will start filming again remains unknown. Andy Cohen didn't spend long talking about it, making it appear that it isn't a huge priority on Bravo's list of things to do.
The Real Housewives of New York is currently on hiatus.
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Strategic Advisory Team
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progression, metastasis, and immune suppression we will challenge the limitations of current cancer therapy
by overcoming resistance and metabolic pathway redundancy.
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On TASK – by assembling an elite, multidisciplinary team of seasoned entrepreneurs, cancer scientists,
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our world-class science into new and improved treatment options for cancer patients.
We have assembled world class management and advisory teams with deep experience in oncology research
and development and a passion for progress groundbreaking drug treatment options
to patients suffering from cancer.
Steven Everett, MBA, Ph.D.
Steven Everett is a seasoned biotechnology executive and scientific leader with 25 years of experience in managing drug discovery and development programs as well as business development opportunities in world-renowned academic institutions and biotech companies, with deep experience in oncology, venture capital financing, and strategic partnership generation. His passion is in the exploitation of cutting-edge academic research, novel drug discovery paradigms, and translational science to progress groundbreaking drug treatment options to patients suffering from cancer. He has held numerous roles including CEO, CSO, entrepreneur-in-residence, strategic advisory, and business development in private and public biotech companies where he has successfully led Series A and B rounds of financing, and strategic partnership deals in Europe, China, and the US.
Steve has held professorships at world-class academic institutions in both the US and UK including the University of California San Francisco in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, the University of Dundee College of Life Sciences as Head of Drug Discovery and Translational Research, and the University of Oxford, CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology (formerly the Gray Cancer Institute). Steve was awarded funding by Cancer Research UK for 14 years to project and program grant level through internationally peer-reviewed science.
He was awarded an MBA from the University of London and a double doctorate from the University of Ulster and the Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin in Radiation Chemistry and Biology. He is the lead and co-author of over 100 scientific publications and 50 issued patents and patent applications including licensed intellectual property and patent families now owned by MaveriX.
Rick Panicucci, Ph.D.
Rick Panicucci, Ph.D., is Co-founder of MaveriX Oncology and has been involved with the company since incorporation in 2016. Rick currently holds the position of Senior Vice President of CMC at BridgeBio and has held a number of senior leadership roles in drug and business development in the pharmaceutical industry over the past 25 years. Rick was formerly Vice President of Pharmaceutical Development at STA Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (A WuXi AppTec Company). At STA Rick was responsible for providing scientific leadership in the areas of Developability, Formulation Development and GMP Manufacturing. Prior to STA Rick was Global Head of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Profiling (CPP) at Novartis from 2004 to 2015. Responsibilities included analytics, solid state chemistry, formulation development and drug delivery of the entire Novartis early R&D portfolio. He worked closely with Novartis BD&L and Venture Fund on many external deals. Other Previous positions include the Director of Formulation Development at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Director of Research and Development at Symbollon Pharmaceuticals and Senior Scientist at Biogen. He started his career at Bausch & Lomb in the pre-formulation lab and was promoted to Manager of Process Development. His education includes two post-doctoral fellowships at University of California at Santa Barbara and the Ontario Cancer Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry from the University of Toronto.
Kimberly Nearing, MA.
Chief Business Officer
Kimberly Nearing has over 20 years of international biotechnology industry and financial services experience in a broad range of senior roles in venture capital, investment banking, and operations (business and corporate development/strategy/marketing/commercialization/investor relations) in Fortune 100 companies and startups. Kim is currently a Venture Partner at the Bioveda China Fund (BVCF) Management, LTD., with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong. Prior to joining BVCF, for 10 years she was Managing Director, Head of Life Sciences at Cedrus International Management, Ltd., a global boutique investment firm, focused on driving international and business between Europe, the US, Greater China, and broader Asia regions. Kim is also on the board of Ethismos Research, Inc., (Cambridge, MA), BayHelix (China/US), the Rostropovich-Vishnesvskaya (RVF) Foundation for the Health of Children. Kim holds a Master of Science with Honors from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Distinction from the University of Michigan.
Christopher Bowers, MBA.
Chris was originally a Strategic Advisor to MaveriX from 2018 to 2021 then promoted to VP Strategic Operations in 2022. Prior to joining MaveriX Chris was the Chief of Staff and General Manager of Corporate Services at Applied Materials, a multinational firm, where he resolved challenging business and operational issues necessitating the restructuring of a portfolio of corporate functions resulting in successful acquisition integration. Prior to Applied Materials, Chris spent 5 years at Philips Electronics, a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation working closely with the then CEO on operational and organizational initiatives that led to a fundamental repositioning of the business. Chris' deep operational exposure and leadership skills are grounded in his combat experience leading covert operations with the Elite UK Special Forces. Chris is a cancer survivor and as Chair and Chair Emeritus of the Stanford Cancer Council has led the philanthropic outreach for the Stanford Cancer Institute, an NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, raising hundreds of millions of US dollars to fund the mission, strategy, and development of the Institute. He received his MBA from the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK.
Our Founders each boast over 25 years of experience in oncology drug discovery and development in
world-renowned academic institutions, innovative biotech companies, and big pharma.
Steven A. Everett, MBA, Ph.D.
Craig Coburn, Ph.D.
An accomplished research and development leader with 30 years of experience. 2017 American Chemical Society Hero of Chemistry. Inventor of Merck's HCV NS5A replication complex inhibitor Elbasvir (MK-8742) and responsible for the nomination and development of multiple clinical compounds that span the cardiovascular, neuroscience, oncology and infectious disease therapeutic areas.
Built, developed and motivated a highly successful team of external chemistry/biology collaborators while directing US-based project teams consisting of cross-functional scientists. Established the western based program manager model within big Pharma and later at a CRO with a focus to provide discovery knowledge-based solutions necessary to execute integrated medicinal chemistry projects in China to drive virtual discovery organizations.
Formerly Senior Vice President of Chemistry at Gossamer Bio, Vice President of Medicinal Chemistry at Silverback Therapeutics and Wuxi AppTec, Senior Investigator at Merck Research Laboratories, and National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the Danishefsky group. Co-author of > 40 publications and inventor of > 100 issued patents and patent applications.
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VP Mike Pence says Space Force will be sixth military branch by 2020
Vice President Mike Pence is at the Pentagon today to discuss the future of the US military in space, including the proposed Space Force .
He said the sixth branch of the military will be in place by 2020.
Our administration will soon take action to implement these recommendations, with the objective of establishing the United States Department of the #SpaceForce by 2020. pic.twitter.com/qQaJDAfTl7
— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) August 9, 2018
The report on space and the US military was delayed and not unveiled on Aug. 1 as originally anticipated. A US defense official previously said the report's delay was due to minor tweaks and revisions that were still ongoing.
On Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis told reporters the Pentagon was still "working our way through this" despite an earlier leaked proposal that said the Pentagon planned to elevate Space Command to a major Combatant Command.
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Hauraki Herald reporter meets a woman who is moving on after two decades of being there for new mums. This story was published in the Hauraki Herald on April 5, 2011.
JEAN O'Brien is specially trained in one of the most valuable arts in the world – mothercraft. As a Plunket community Karitane nurse, she has been a helping hand and a supportive voice for hundreds of mums across the Coromandel Peninsula for the past 20 years.
Having trained as a Karitane nurse in Auckland in 1970, Jean first came to Plunket in 1990. Working alongside the Plunket nurse, her role has varied over the years as new mums and their families faced new issues. She has worked in Thames, Whangamata, Waihi and Paeroa and now lives in Hikutaia.
''When I first started, there really wasn't much assistance for new mums and they suddenly had this baby to look after and no clue what to do, and they were often terrified,'' she recalled. ''My role was to go in and see how everyone was coping, dad as well. ''Often it was just those basic skills of bathing and feeding the baby or cooking a meal. I've often thought you need a licence if you want to drive a car but you can go out and become a parent and no-one prepares you at all,'' Jean said.
In more recent times her work has focused on areas like nutrition, breast feeding support and helping new mums, dads and family members access information and services. ''There have been a lot of changes. We see a lot of grandparents bringing up children now, a lot of blended families as well so these are all new challenges,'' Jean said.
''Today's transient lifestyles often mean a mum is living quite a distance away from her family and may not have any support network. That's also a major factor for the many immigrants in the community as well.
''The Coromandel is now a very diverse place so I've worked with Chinese, Thai, Indian, Cambodian and South African families. Many of them have their own cultures and customs too which we have to respect so that's been a new challenge for me, helping them find ways of combining their traditions with how we do things in New Zealand.''
Immigration is a subject that is close to Jean's heart. Her grandmother was from an Irish Protestant family who sailed out to New Zealand in what Jean imagines must have been a tortuous boat journey. ''It was incredible to think of them setting off, not really knowing what was ahead of them. My grandmother had some amazing stories to tell. It was quite hard for them as Protestants growing up in Ireland back then. Of course, I wish now that I'd listened more and written it all down,'' she said.
''I'm sure my poor Gran is very unimpressed now because my husband Michael comes from an Irish Catholic family. We are a blended family. We both had two children when we met and then had our youngest Rory who is 23 now. I think that helped me a lot to understand the specific challenges facing people in that situation, it isn't always that easy.''
Although she will miss her role as community Karitane nurse, Jean said the time was right to make a change. ''I think sometimes you just know when it's right. I've absolutely loved the job. I loved meeting all the people, the way they just stop you in the street or come up to you in the supermarket and say 'Jean, what do you think about this or that', it's been wonderful.''
But far from putting her feet up, Jean will be putting her wealth of knowledge and experience to good use in a new role, as nanny to triplets and their big sister toddler. ''They are gorgeous, they are nine weeks now so they are really developing nicely. They are all girls,'' she said. ''The older girl is a lovely child as well. I'm enjoying it so far although I really wouldn't advise anyone to have triplets. People say it's just like twins but it's not, believe me, having three is much harder.''
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The first and foremost priority of Albion College is academic excellence. Helping members achieve academic excellence is also a primary objective of the Greek community. Each fraternity and sorority places strong emphasis on academic performance. Also, Gamma Sigma Alpha, a national academic Greek honor society, is a Greek organization on campus working to further that goal. As a result of all of these efforts, the Greek grade point average consistently remains at or above the all-campus average!


The "Fia" crooner again on Thursday drew the attention of his fans again as he arrived in his white Mercedes Benz GLE 450 marked POLICE PF 413SPY at the Iyana-Ipaja orientation camp.
The popular artiste, upon signing his oath of allegiance form, told newsmen at the camp that he registered for the scheme due to his strong passion for the NYSC.
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Chef Brandon Campney graduated from The Culinary Institute of America in 2012. Shortly after graduating he worked his way up to his first sous chef position. He worked in multiple restaurants in the Hudson Valley of New York before moving to New Jersey to work at The Stirling Hotel in the summer of 2015. During his tenure at The Stirling Hotel the restaurant received NJ Monthly People's Choice Best Burger in 2015 and 2016 as well as Best American Restaurant in 2016. After proving himself to be a strong team player and key kog in the every day success at The Stirling Hotel, the decision was made to have Chef Campney help open Stirling Tavern in Morristown. Right from the get-go Stirling Tavern was extremely busy and quite popular, due in large part to the creative and expertly crafted menu designed Chef Campney. NJ.com quickly recognized Stirling Tavern as one of the hot restaurants to check out in New Jersey. At the young age of 26, Chef Campney is still pushing himself to experiment with new ingredients, techniques, and ideas to help fuel his passion for food and cooking.


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The wedding of the century! Every King needs a Queen - and that's exactly what the Black Panther is searching for! The King of Wakanda embarks on an epic quest to find a wife - the outcome of which will send reverberations throughout the whole Marvel Universe. You don't want to miss out on history in the making, as T'Challa puts his cards on the table. His heart - and a seat on the Wakandan throne - is Storm's, if she'll just accept his hand in marriage. Question is, does she want it? With a Super Hero Civil War ready to explode in the United States and snakes in his own court preparing to make their moves, the road to the altar could not be more complicated.
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Template:Otheruse A comet is a Small Solar System Body that orbits the Sun and, when close enough to the Sun, exhibits a visible coma (atmosphere) or a tail—both primarily from the effects of solar radiation upon the comet's nucleus. Comet nuclei are themselves loose collections of ice, dust and small rocky particles, measuring a few kilometres or tens of kilometres across.
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Comets are distinguished from asteroids by the presence of a coma or tail, though very old comets that have lost all their volatile materials may come to resemble asteroids. Asteroids are also believed to have a different origin from comets, having formed in the inner Solar System rather than the outer Solar System. Recent findings have, however, somewhat blurred the distinction between asteroids and comets; see also Asteroid: Terminology.
As of Template:MONTHNAME 2008[update][[Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements from Template:MONTHNAME 2008 ]] there are a reported 3 572 known comets of which about 1500 are Kreutz Sungrazers and about 400 are short-period. This number is steadily increasing. However, this represents only a tiny fraction of the total potential comet population: the reservoir of comet-like bodies in the outer solar system may number one trillion. The number of naked-eye comets averages to roughly one per year, though many of these are faint and unspectacular. When a historically bright or notable naked-eye comet is witnessed by many people, it may be termed a Great Comet.
Comet nuclei are known to range from about 100 meters to 40+ kilometers across and are composed of rock, dust, water ice, and frozen gases such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia. They are often popularly described as "dirty snowballs", though recent observations have revealed dry dusty or rocky surfaces, suggesting that the ices are hidden beneath the crust (see Debate over comet composition). Comets also contain a variety of organic compounds; in addition to the gases already mentioned, these may include methanol, hydrogen cyanide, formaldehyde, ethanol and ethane, and perhaps more complex molecules such as long-chain hydrocarbons and amino acids. Comet nuclei are irregularly shaped: they have insufficient mass (and hence gravity) to become spherical.
In the outer solar system, comets remain frozen and are extremely difficult or impossible to detect from Earth due to their small size. Statistical detections of inactive comet nuclei in the Kuiper belt have been reported from HST observations, but these detections have been questioned, and have not yet been independently confirmed. As a comet approaches the inner solar system, solar radiation causes the water, frozen gases and other volatile materials within the comet to vaporize and stream out of the nucleus, carrying dust away with them. The streams of dust and gas thus released form a huge, extremely tenuous atmosphere around the comet called the coma, and the force exerted on the coma by the Sun's radiation pressure and solar wind cause an enormous tail to form, which points away from the sun.
Both the coma and tail are illuminated by the Sun and may become visible from Earth when a comet passes through the inner solar system, the dust reflecting sunlight directly and the gases glowing from ionisation. Most comets are too faint to be visible without the aid of a telescope, but a few each decade become bright enough to be visible to the naked eye. Occasionally a comet may experience a huge and sudden outburst of gas and dust, during which the size of the coma temporarily greatly increases in size. This happened in 2007 to Comet Holmes.
The streams of dust and gas each form their own distinct tail, pointing in slightly different directions. The tail of dust is left behind in the comet's orbit in such a manner that it often forms a curved tail called the antitail. At the same time, the ion tail, made of gases, always points directly away from the Sun, as this gas is more strongly affected by the solar wind than is dust, following magnetic field lines rather than an orbital trajectory. Parallax viewing from the Earth may sometimes mean the tails appear to point in opposite directions.
While the solid nucleus of comets is generally less than 50 km across, the coma may be larger than the Sun, and ion tails have been observed to extend 1 astronomical unit (150 million km) or more. Indeed it was the observation of anti-sunward orientated tails, by Ludwig Biermann, that contributed significantly to the discovery of the solar wind.
The ion tail is formed as a result of the photoelectric effect of solar ultra-violet radiation acting on particles in the coma. Once the particles have been ionised, they attain a net positive electrical charge which in turn gives rise to an "induced magnetosphere" around the comet. The comet and its induced magnetic field form an obstacle to outward flowing solar wind particles. As the relative orbital speed of the comet and the solar wind is supersonic a bow shock is formed upstream of the comet, in the flow direction of the solar wind. In this bow shock, large concentrations of cometary ions (called "pick up ions") congregate and act to "load" the solar magnetic field with plasma, such that the field lines "drape" around the comet forming the ion tail.
If the ion tail loading is sufficient, then the magnetic field lines are squeezed together to the point where, at some distance anti-sunward along the ion tail, magnetic reconnection occurs. This leads to a "tail disconnection event". This has been observed on a number of occasions, notable among which was on the 20th. April 2007 when the ion tail of comet Encke was completely severed as the comet passed through a coronal mass ejection. This event was observed by the STEREO spacecraft.
If a comet is traveling fast enough, it will leave the solar system, such is the case for most non-periodic comets. In addition, comets can be ejected by interacting with another object in the solar system (see Perturbation (astronomy)).
Jupiter family comets (JFC) and long period comets (LPC) (see "Orbital characteristics", below) appear to follow very different fading laws. The JFCs are active over a lifetime of about 10,000 years or ~1,000 revolutions while the LPCs disappear much faster. Only 10% of the LPCs survive more than 50 passages to small perihelion, while only 1% of them survives more than 2,000 passages. Eventually most of the volatile material contained in a comet nucleus evaporates away, and the comet becomes a small, dark, inert lump of rock or rubble that can resemble an asteroid.
Material coming off Component B of 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann which broke up starting in 1995, as seen by the HST.
Comets are also known to break up into fragments, as happened with Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 starting in 1995.
This breakup may be triggered by tidal gravitational forces from the Sun or a large planet, by an "explosion" of volatile material, or for other reasons not fully explained.
Some comets meet a more spectacular end—either falling into the Sun, or smashing into a planet or other body. Collisions between comets and planets or moons were common in the early Solar System: some of the many craters on the Earth's Moon, for example, may have been caused by comets. A recent collision of a comet with a planet occurred in 1994 when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke up into pieces and collided with Jupiter.
Many comets and asteroids collided into Earth in its early stages. Many scientists believe that comets bombarding the young Earth (about 4 billion years ago) brought the vast quantities of water that now fill the Earth's oceans, or at least a significant proportion of it. But other researchers have cast doubt on this theory. The detection of organic molecules in comets has led some to speculate that comets or meteorites may have brought the precursors of life—or even life itself—to Earth. There are still many near-Earth comets, although a collision with an asteroid is more likely than with a comet.
Based on their orbital characteristics, short-period comets are thought to originate in the Kuiper belt or the scattered disk—a disk of objects in the transneptunian region—whereas the source of long-period comets is thought to be the far more distant spherical Oort cloud (after the Dutch astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort who hypothesised its existence). Vast swarms of comet-like bodies are believed to orbit the Sun in these distant regions in roughly circular orbits. Occasionally the gravitational influence of the outer planets (in the case of Kuiper Belt objects) or nearby stars (in the case of Oort cloud objects) may throw one of these bodies into an elliptical orbit that takes it inwards towards the Sun, to form a visible comet. Unlike the return of periodic comets whose orbits have been established by previous observations, the appearance of new comets by this mechanism is unpredictable.
A number of periodic comets discovered in earlier decades or previous centuries are now "lost." Their orbits were never known well enough to predict future appearances. However, occasionally a "new" comet will be discovered and upon calculation of its orbit it turns out to be an old "lost" comet. An example is Comet 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR, discovered in 1869 but unobservable after 1908 because of perturbations by Jupiter. It was not found again until accidentally rediscovered by LINEAR in 2001.
The names given to comets have followed several different conventions over the past two centuries. Before any systematic naming convention was adopted, comets were named in a variety of ways. Prior to the early 20th century, most comets were simply referred to by the year in which they appeared, sometimes with additional adjectives for particularly bright comets; thus, the "Great Comet of 1680" (Kirch's Comet), the "Great September Comet of 1882," and the "Daylight Comet of 1910" ("Great January Comet of 1910"). After Edmund Halley demonstrated that the comets of 1531, 1607, and 1682 were the same body and successfully predicted its return in 1759, that comet became known as Comet Halley. Similarly, the second and third known periodic comets, Comet Encke and Comet Biela, were named after the astronomers who calculated their orbits rather than their original discoverers. Later, periodic comets were usually named after their discoverers, but comets that had appeared only once continued to be referred to by the year of their apparition.
There are only five objects that are cross-listed as both comets and asteroids: 2060 Chiron (95P/Chiron), 4015 Wilson-Harrington (107P/Wilson-Harrington), 7968 Elst-Pizarro (133P/Elst-Pizarro), 60558 Echeclus (174P/Echeclus), and 118401 LINEAR (176P/LINEAR (LINEAR 52)).
A few later classical philosophers did dispute this view of comets. Seneca the Younger, in his Natural Questions, observed that comets moved regularly through the sky and were undisturbed by the wind, behavior more typical of celestial than atmospheric phenomena. While he conceded that the other planets do not appear outside the Zodiac, he saw no reason that a planet-like object could not move through any part of the sky, humanity's knowledge of celestial things being very limited. However, the Aristotelian viewpoint proved more influential, and it was not until the 16th century that it was demonstrated that comets must exist outside the Earth's atmosphere.
In 1705, Edmond Halley applied Newton's method to twenty-three cometary apparitions that had occurred between 1337 and 1698. He noted that three of these, the comets of 1531, 1607, and 1682, had very similar orbital elements, and he was further able to account for the slight differences in their orbits in terms of gravitational perturbation by Jupiter and Saturn. Confident that these three apparitions had been three appearances of the same comet, he predicted that it would appear again in 1758–9. (Earlier, Robert Hooke had identified the comet of 1664 with that of 1618, while Jean-Dominique Cassini had suspected the identity of the comets of 1577, 1665, and 1680. Both were incorrect.) Halley's predicted return date was later refined by a team of three French mathematicians: Alexis Clairaut, Joseph Lalande, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute, who predicted the date of the comet's 1759 perihelion to within one month's accuracy. When the comet returned as predicted, it became known as Comet Halley or Halley's Comet (its official designation is 1P/Halley). Its next appearance will be in 2061.
Among the comets with short enough periods to have been observed several times in the historical record, Comet Halley is unique in consistently being bright enough to be visible to the naked eye. Since the confirmation of Comet Halley's periodicity, many other periodic comets have been discovered through the telescope. The second comet to be discovered to have a periodic orbit was Comet Encke (official designation 2P/Encke). Over the period 1819–1821 the German mathematician and physicist Johann Franz Encke computed orbits for a series of cometary apparitions observed in 1786, 1795, 1805, and 1818, concluded that they were same comet, and successfully predicted its return in 1822. By 1900, seventeen comets had been observed at more than one perihelion passage and recognized as periodic comets. As of April 2006, 175 comets have achieved this distinction, though several have since been destroyed or lost. In ephemerides, comets are often denoted by the symbol ☄.
Isaac Newton described comets as compact and durable solid bodies moving in oblique orbits, and their tails as thin streams of vapor emitted by their nuclei, ignited or heated by the sun. Newton suspected that comets were the origin of the life-supporting component of air. Newton also believed that the vapors given off by comets might replenish the planets' supplies of water (which was gradually being converted into soil by the growth and decay of plants), and the sun's supply of fuel.
By the middle of the twentieth century, this model suffered from a number of shortcomings: in particular, it failed to explain how a body that contained only a little ice could continue to put on a brilliant display of evaporating vapor after several perihelion passages. In 1950, Fred Lawrence Whipple proposed that rather than being rocky objects containing some ice, comets were icy objects containing some dust and rock. This "dirty snowball" model soon became accepted. It was confirmed when an armada of spacecraft (including the European Space Agency's Giotto probe and the Soviet Union's Vega 1 and Vega 2) flew through the coma of Halley's comet in 1986 to photograph the nucleus and observed the jets of evaporating material (though see also "Debate over comet composition", below). The American probe Deep Space 1 flew past the nucleus of Comet Borrelly on September 21, 2001 and confirmed that the characteristics of Comet Halley are common on other comets as well.
The Stardust spacecraft, launched in February 1999, collected particles from the coma of Comet Wild 2 in January 2004, and returned the samples to Earth in a capsule in January 2006. Claudia Alexander, a program scientist for Rosetta from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who has modeled comets for years, reported to space.com about her astonishment at the number of jets, their appearance on the dark side of the comet as well as on the light side, their ability to lift large chunks of rock from the surface of the comet and the fact that comet Wild 2 is not a loosely cemented rubble pile.
Forthcoming space missions will add greater detail to our understanding of what comets are made of. In July 2005, the Deep Impact probe blasted a crater on Comet Tempel 1 to study its interior. And in 2014, the European Rosetta probe will orbit Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko and place a small lander on its surface.
While hundreds of tiny comets pass through the inner solar system every year, very few are noticed by the general public. About every decade or so, a comet will become bright enough to be noticed by a casual observer—such comets are often designated Great Comets. In times past, bright comets often inspired panic and hysteria in the general population, being thought of as bad omens. More recently, during the passage of Halley's Comet in 1910, the Earth passed through the comet's tail, and erroneous newspaper reports inspired a fear that cyanogen in the tail might poison millions, while the appearance of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997 triggered the mass suicide of the Heaven's Gate cult. To most people, however, a great comet is simply a beautiful spectacle.
The late 20th century saw a lengthy gap without the appearance of any great comets, followed by the arrival of two in quick succession—Comet Hyakutake in 1996, followed by Hale-Bopp, which reached maximum brightness in 1997 having been discovered two years earlier. The first great comet of the 21st century was Comet McNaught, which became visible to naked eye observers in January 2007. It was the brightest in over 40 years.
Another significant cometary disruption was that of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which was discovered in 1993. At the time of its discovery, the comet was in orbit around Jupiter, having been captured by the planet during a very close approach in 1992. This close approach had already broken the comet into hundreds of pieces, and over a period of 6 days in July 1994, these pieces slammed into Jupiter's atmosphere—the first time astronomers had observed a collision between two objects in the solar system. It has also been suggested that the object likely to have been responsible for the Tunguska event in 1908 was a fragment of Comet Encke.
Comets visible to the naked eye are fairly infrequent, but comets that put on fine displays in amateur class telescopes (50 mm to 100 cm) occur fairly often—as often as several times a year, occasionally with more than one in the sky at the same time. Commonly available astronomical software will plot the orbits of these known comets. They are fast compared to other objects in the sky, but their movement is usually subtle in the eyepiece of a telescope. However, from night to night, they can move several degrees, which is why observers find it useful to have a sky chart such as the one in the adjoining illustration.
Template:See also2 The depiction of comets in popular culture is firmly rooted in the long Western tradition of seeing comets as harbingers of doom and as omens of world-altering change. Halley's Comet alone has caused a slew of frightful or excited publications of all sorts at each of its reappearances. It was especially noted that the birth and death of some notable persons coincided with separate appearances of the comet, such as with writers Mark Twain (who correctly speculated that he'd "go out with the comet" in 1910) and Eudora Welty, to whose life Mary Chapin-Carpenter dedicated the song Halley Came to Jackson.
In science fiction, the impact of comets has been depicted as a threat overcome by technology and heroism (Deep Impact, 1998), or as a trigger of global apocalypse (Lucifer's Hammer, 1979) or of waves of zombies (Night of the Comet, 1984).
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Dartmouth Students Making More Calls for Help with Alcohol and Drug Incidences
Students at Dartmouth College made more calls for alcohol incidents for help for themselves and for others this past year. Dartmouth began tracking so-called Good Samaritan calls in 2011 and the increase in calls show the students are looking out for one another.
The 131 Good Samaritan calls are up 36 percent for the year ending on June 30 and are in the college's annual release of data on alcohol-related incidents. Under the Good Samaritan policy, students who seek assistance or help another student are not subject to College disciplinary action for violations of the alcohol policy
Since the fall of 2011, Dartmouth has tracked alcohol-related incidents and implemented various programs to reduce high-risk behavior, including alcohol abuse. The College banned hard alcohol for undergraduates in March 2015 as part of the Moving Dartmouth Forward initiative, which promotes student safety and well-being.
Westiminster Man Arrested for Route 5 Burglaries
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McAllister was charged with 10 counts of burglary and numerous lesser charges. McAllister is lodged at the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield pending his arraignment today (Friday) in Windham District Court.
On Wednesday, Police arrested McAllister's girlfriend Chelsea Ovaitte of Springfield VT for her part in the burglaries.
Ambetter Health to Be on NH Exchange in 2018
Ambetter Health Insurance announced on Thursday it would remain on the New Hampshire's Exchange for 2018.
Ambetter is offered through NH Healthy Families and provides coverage in the individual marketplace through the New Hampshire Exchange and to Premium Assistance Program (Medicaid expansion) through the NH Easy portal.
Two other companies, Anthem and Harvard Pilgrim, have announced intentions to offer plans on the exchange in 2018 but have not confirmed their decision. Companies must sign a contract with the federal government by September 27 in order to offer plans on the exchange in 2018.
Saturation Patrol Yields Arrest
Yesterday, Vermont State Troopers from the Royalton Barracks conducted a saturation patrol on I-89 and I-91 in White River Junction that is designated a safety corridor. The patrol focused on speed, distracted driving, and seatbelt use. Twenty-eight stops were performed. One arrest was made for DUI and one person was cited for possession of marijuana.
Lebanon Paving May Cause Delays
Those traveling in Lebanon on Monday may experience delays since the City begins its Pavement Maintenance Program. Crews will be working on South Main Street in West Lebanon starting on Monday, August 14th – August 31st. The traveling public can expect delays and alternating one-way traffic patterns. Updates will be provided as they become available.
Any questions or concerns should be directed to Bruce Temple, Assistant Director of Public Works at 603-448-3112.


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On the Origin of Shared Beliefs (and Corporate Culture)
Eric Van den Steen
Working papers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management
Abstract: This paper shows why members of an organization often share similar beliefs. I argue that there are two mechanisms. First, when performance depends on making correct decisions, people prefer to work with others who share their beliefs and assumptions, since such others 'will do the right thing'. Second, beliefs will converge over time through shared learning. While such homogeneity reduces agency problems, it does so at a cost. I show that, from an outsider's perspective, firms invest on average too much in homogeneity. The theory further predicts that homogeneity will be strongest in successful and older firms where employees make important decisions. Within a firm, homogeneity will be stronger among more important employees. Homogeneity will also be path-dependent, making managers more selective on early hires. Since shared beliefs are an important aspect of corporate culture (Schein 1985, Kotter and Heskett 1992), I finally show that the model matches some observations on corporate culture, such as the influence of a manager on her firm's culture and the persistence of culture in the face of turnover. A fundamental difference from earlier economic theories of corporate culture is that I show that culture, instead of being created for its own good, can be a side-effect of other purposeful actions. As a consequence, there can be too much culture in firms.
Keywords: homogeneity; shared beliefs; differing priors; corporate culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Journal Article: On the origin of shared beliefs (and corporate culture) (2010)
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