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The University of Chicago (UChicago) is a in . Founded in 1890, its main campus is located in Chicago's neighborhood. In Fall 2021, it enrolled 18,452 students, including 7,559 undergraduates and 10,893 graduate students. The university is composed of and five graduate research divisions, which contain all of the university's graduate programs and interdisciplinary committees. Chicago has eight professional schools: the , the , the , the , the , the , the , and the . The university has additional campuses and centers in , , , , and , as well as in downtown Chicago. The University of Chicago is ranked among the best universities in the world and it is among the most selective in the United States. Its scholars have played a major role in the development of many academic disciplines, including economics, law, literary criticism, mathematics, physics, religion, sociology, and political science, establishing the in various fields. Chicago's produced the world's first man-made, self-sustaining nuclear reaction in beneath the viewing stands of the university's . Advances in chemistry led to the "radiocarbon revolution" in the of ancient life and objects. The university research efforts include administration of and , as well as the . The university is also home to the , the largest in the United States. The University of Chicago's students, faculty, and staff include , among the highest of any university in the world. The university's also include 10 Fields Medalists, 4 Turing Award winners, 52 , 26 , 53 , 27 winners, 20 ists, 29 living billionaire graduates, and .
The University of Chicago was incorporated as a institution in 1890 by the , using $400,000 donated to the ABES to supplement a $600,000 donation from co-founder , and including land donated by . While the Rockefeller donation provided money for academic operations and long-term endowment, it was stipulated that such money could not be used for buildings. The campus was financed by donations from wealthy Chicagoans like who provided the funds for the campus' first building, , and matched Marshall Field's pledge of $100,000. Other early benefactors included businessmen (trustee, treasurer and donor of ), (president of the board of trustees and donor of the Ryerson Physical Laboratory) and Leon Mandel, who funded the construction of the gymnasium and assembly hall, and George C. Walker of the Walker Museum, a relative of Cobb who encouraged his inaugural donation for facilities. The Hyde Park campus continued the legacy of the original university of the same name, which had closed in the 1880s after its campus was foreclosed on. What became known as the had been founded by a small group of educators in 1856 through a land endowment from Senator . After a fire, it closed in 1886. Alumni from the Old University of Chicago are recognized as alumni of the present University of Chicago. The university's depiction on its coat of arms of a phoenix rising from the ashes is a reference to the fire, foreclosure, and demolition of the Old University of Chicago campus. As an homage to this pre-1890 legacy, a single stone from the rubble of the original Douglas Hall on 34th Place was brought to the current Hyde Park location and set into the wall of the Classics Building. These connections have led the dean of the college and University of Chicago and professor of history John Boyer to conclude that the University of Chicago has, "a plausible genealogy as a pre–Civil War institution". became the university's president on July 1, 1891, and the Hyde Park campus opened for classes on October 1, 1892. Harper worked on building up the faculty and in two years he had a faculty of 120, including eight former university or college presidents. Harper was an accomplished scholar () and a member of the Baptist clergy who believed that a great university should maintain the study of faith as a central focus. To fulfill this commitment, he brought the Baptist seminary that had begun as an independent school "alongside" the Old University of Chicago and separated from the old school decades earlier to Morgan Park. This became the in 1891, the first professional school at the University of Chicago. Harper recruited acclaimed Yale baseball and football player from the training school at to coach the school's football program. Stagg was given a position on the faculty, the first such athletic position in the United States. While coaching at the university, Stagg invented the numbered football jersey, the huddle, and the lighted playing field. Stagg is the namesake of the university's . The was founded in 1898, and the was founded in 1902. Harper died in 1906 and was replaced by a succession of three presidents whose tenures lasted until 1929. During this period, the was founded to support and interpret work in what was then called the Near East. In the 1890s, the university, fearful that its vast resources would injure smaller schools by drawing away good students, affiliated with several regional colleges and universities: , , , and . In 1896, the university affiliated with in Mount Carroll, Illinois. Under the terms of the affiliation, the schools were required to have courses of study comparable to those at the university, to notify the university early of any contemplated faculty appointments or dismissals, to make no faculty appointment without the university's approval, and to send copies of examinations for suggestions. The University of Chicago agreed to confer a degree on any graduating senior from an affiliated school who made a grade of A for all four years, and on any other graduate who took twelve weeks additional study at the University of Chicago. A student or faculty member of an affiliated school was entitled to free tuition at the University of Chicago, and Chicago students were eligible to attend an affiliated school on the same terms and receive credit for their work. The University of Chicago also agreed to provide affiliated schools with books and scientific apparatus and supplies at cost; special instructors and lecturers without cost except for travel expenses; and a copy of every book and journal published by the at no cost. The agreement provided that either party could terminate the affiliation on proper notice. Several University of Chicago professors disliked the program, as it involved uncompensated additional labor on their part, and they believed it cheapened the academic reputation of the university. The program passed into history by 1910.
In 1929, the university's fifth president, 30-year-old legal philosophy scholar , took office. The university underwent many changes during his 24-year tenure. Hutchins reformed the undergraduate college's liberal-arts curriculum known as the Common Core, organized the university's graduate work into four divisions, and eliminated varsity football from the university in an attempt to emphasize academics over athletics. During his term, the University of Chicago Hospitals (now called the ) finished construction and enrolled their first medical students. Also, the philosophy oriented , an institution distinctive of the university, was created. Money that had been raised during the 1920s and financial backing from the helped the school to survive through the . Nonetheless, in 1933, Hutchins proposed an unsuccessful plan to merge the University of Chicago and into a single university. During World War II, the university's made ground-breaking contributions to the . The university was the site of the first isolation of and of the creation of the first artificial, self-sustained nuclear reaction by in 1942. It has been noted that the university did not provide standard oversight regarding and his tenure as director of the from 1944 to 1973. In the early 1950s, student applications declined as a result of increasing crime and poverty in the Hyde Park neighborhood. In response, the university became a major sponsor of a controversial , which profoundly affected both the neighborhood's architecture and street plan. During this period the university, like Shimer College and 10 others, adopted an early entrant program that allowed very young students to attend college; also, students enrolled at Shimer were enabled to transfer automatically to the University of Chicago after their second year, having taken comparable or identical examinations and courses. The university experienced its share of student unrest during the 1960s, beginning in 1962 when then-freshman helped lead a in a protest over the university's off-campus rental policies. After continued turmoil, a university committee in 1967 issued what became known as the Kalven Report. The report, a two-page statement of the university's policy in "social and political action," declared that "To perform its mission in the society, a university must sustain an extraordinary environment of freedom of inquiry and maintain an independence from political fashions, passions, and pressures." The report has since been used to justify decisions such as the university's refusal to divest from South Africa in the 1980s and Darfur in the late 2000s. In 1969, more than 400 students, angry about the dismissal of a popular professor, , occupied the Administration Building for two weeks. After the sit-in ended, when Dixon turned down a one-year reappointment, 42 students were expelled and 81 were suspended, the most severe response to student occupations of any American university during the student movement. In 1978, history scholar , then the provost and acting president of , became President of the University of Chicago, a position she held for 15 years. She was the first woman in the United States to hold the presidency of a major university.
In 1999, then-President announced plans to relax the university's famed , reducing the number of required courses from 21 to 15. When ', ', and other major news outlets picked up this story, the university became the focal point of a national debate on education. The changes were ultimately implemented, but the controversy played a role in Sonnenschein's decision to resign in 2000. From the mid-2000s, the university began a number of multimillion-dollar expansion projects. In 2008, the University of Chicago announced plans to establish the , which attracted both support and controversy from faculty members and The institute will cost around $200 million and occupy the buildings of the . During the same year, investor donated $300 million to the university's , which is the largest gift in the university's history and the largest gift ever to any business school. In 2009, planning or construction on several new buildings, half of which cost $100 million or more, was underway. Since 2011, major construction projects have included the Jules and Gwen Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, a ten-story medical research center, and further additions to the medical campus of the . In 2014 the university launched the public phase of a $4.5 billion fundraising campaign. In September 2015, the university received $100 million from The Pearson Family Foundation to establish The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts and The Pearson Global Forum at the . In 2019, the university created its first school in three decades, the .
The main campus of the University of Chicago consists of in the Chicago neighborhoods of and , approximately eight miles (12 km) south of . The northern and southern portions of campus are separated by the , a large, linear park created for the 1893 . In 2011, listed the university as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States. The first buildings of the campus, which make up what is now known as the Main Quadrangles, were part of a master plan conceived by two University of Chicago trustees and plotted by Chicago architect . The Main Quadrangles consist of six , each surrounded by buildings, bordering one larger quadrangle. The buildings of the Main Quadrangles were designed by Cobb, , , and other architectural firms in a mixture of the and styles, patterned on the colleges of the University of Oxford. (Mitchell Tower, for example, is modeled after Oxford's , and the university Commons, , replicates Hall.) In celebration of the 2018 Illinois Bicentennial, the University of Chicago Quadrangles were selected as one of the Illinois 200 Great Places by the Illinois component (AIA Illinois). After the 1940s, the campus's Gothic style began to give way to modern styles. In 1955, was contracted to develop a second master plan, which led to the construction of buildings both north and south of the Midway, including the Laird Bell Law Quadrangle (a complex designed by Saarinen); a series of arts buildings; a building designed by for the university's School of Social Service Administration, a building which is to become the home of the by , and the , the largest building on campus, a structure designed by of the Chicago firm . Another master plan, designed in 1999 and updated in 2004, produced the (2003), the (2001), and dining commons (2009), a new children's hospital, and other construction, expansions, and restorations. In 2011, the university completed the glass dome-shaped , which provides a grand reading room for the university library and prevents the need for an off-campus book depository. The site of is a and is marked by the sculpture '. , a building acquired by the university in 1963, is
as well as a National Historic Landmark, as is room 405 of the , where and his team were the first to isolate plutonium. , an undergraduate dormitory, is on the . Resource Name = Hitchcock, Charles, Hall; Reference Number = 74000751 File:Snell Hitchcock1.JPG, , an undergraduate dormitory constructed in the early 20th century, is part of the Main Quadrangles. File:Rockefeller Chapel Entire Structure.jpg, , constructed in 1928, was designed by in the neo-Gothic style. File:Henry Hinds Laboratory at University of Chicago5.jpg, The Henry Hinds Laboratory for Geophysical Sciences was built in 1969. File:Ratner Athletic Center.jpg, The , opened in 2003 and designed by , houses the volleyball, wrestling, swimming, and basketball teams.
Satellite campuses
The university also maintains facilities apart from its main campus. The university's maintains campuses in , , and the downtown neighborhood of Chicago. The Center in Paris, a campus located on the of the in Paris, hosts various undergraduate and graduate study programs. In fall 2010, the university opened a center in Beijing, near 's campus in . The most recent additions are a center in , India, which opened in 2014, and a center in Hong Kong which opened in 2015.
The university is governed by a board of trustees. The board of trustees oversees the long-term development and plans of the university and manages fundraising efforts, and is composed of 55 members including the university president. Directly beneath the president are the provost, fourteen vice presidents (including the chief financial officer, , and vice president for campus life and student services), the directors of and , the secretary of the university, and the student . The current chairman of the board of trustees is , and the current provost is , who stepped in February 2020 after the previous provost, , left to become Chancellor of . The current president of the University of Chicago is chemist , who assumed the role on September 1, 2021. , the previous president, transitioned into the new role of chancellor of the university. The university's endowment was the 12th largest among American educational institutions and state university systems in 2013 and was valued at $10 billion. Since 2016, the university's board of trustees has resisted pressure from students and faculty to divest its investments from fossil fuel companies. Part of former university President Zimmer's financial plan for the university was an increase in accumulation of debt to finance large building projects. This drew both support and criticism from many in the university community.
The academic bodies of the University of Chicago consist of the , five divisions of graduate research, six professional schools, and the . The university also contains a library system, the , and the , and oversees several laboratories, including , , and the . The university is accredited by . The university runs on a in which the academic year is divided into four terms: Summer (June–August), Autumn (September–December), Winter (January–March), and Spring (April–June). Full-time undergraduate students take three to four courses every quarter for approximately eleven weeks before their quarterly academic breaks. The school year typically begins in late September and ends in mid-June.
The University of Chicago has an extensive record of producing successful business leaders and billionaires. ' has consistently placed the University of Chicago among the top 10 universities in the world, and the 2021 ' placed the university in 9th place worldwide. The university's and schools rank among the top five professional schools in the United States. The business school is currently ranked first in the US by ''US News & World Report'' and first in the world by ''The Economist'', while the law school is ranked fourth by ''US News & World Report'' and first by . Chicago has also been consistently recognized to be one of the top 15 university brands in the world, retaining the number three spot in the 2019 U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings. In a corporate study carried out by ', the university's graduates were shown to be among the most valued in the world.
The College of the University of Chicago grants Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in 51 s and 33 minors. The college's academics are divided into five divisions: the Biological Sciences Collegiate Division, the Physical Sciences Collegiate Division, the Social Sciences Collegiate Division, the Humanities Collegiate Division, and the New Collegiate Division. The first four are sections within their corresponding graduate divisions, while the New Collegiate Division administers interdisciplinary majors and studies which do not fit in one of the other four divisions. Undergraduate students are required to take a distribution of courses to satisfy the university's general education requirements, commonly known as the Core Curriculum. In 2012–2013, the Core classes at Chicago were limited to 17 courses, and are generally led by a full-time professor (as opposed to a ). As of the 2013–2014 school year, 15 courses and demonstrated proficiency in a foreign language are required under the Core. Undergraduate courses at the University of Chicago are known for their demanding standards, heavy workload and academic difficulty; according to ', "Among the academic cream of American universities – Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, and the University of Chicago – it is UChicago that can most convincingly claim to provide the most rigorous, intense learning experience."
Graduate schools and committees
The university graduate schools and committees are divided into five divisions: Biological Sciences, Humanities, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Institute for Molecular Engineering. In the autumn quarter of 2015, the university enrolled 3,588 graduate students: 438 in the Biological Sciences Division, 801 in the Humanities Division, 1,102 in the Physical Sciences Division, 1,165 in the Social Sciences Division, and 52 in the Institute for Molecular Engineering. The university is home to several committees for interdisciplinary scholarship, including the .
The university contains eight professional schools: the , the , the , the , the , the , the (which offers non-degree courses and certificates as well as degree programs) and the . The Law School is accredited by the , the Divinity School is accredited by the Commission on Accrediting of the , and Pritzker is accredited by the .
Associated academic institutions
The university runs a number of academic institutions and programs apart from its undergraduate and postgraduate schools. It operates the (a private for students and ), and a public with four campuses on the of Chicago administered by the university's Urban Education Institute. In addition, the Hyde Park Day School, a school for students with learning disabilities, and the , a residential treatment program for those with behavioral and emotional problems, maintains a location on the University of Chicago campus. Since 1983, the University of Chicago has maintained the , a mathematics program used in urban primary and secondary schools. The university runs a program called the Council on Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, which administers interdisciplinary workshops to provide a forum for graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars to present scholarly work in progress. The university also operates the , the largest in the United States.
The system encompasses six libraries that contain a total of 11 million volumes, the 9th most among library systems in the United States. The university's main library is the , which contains one of the largest collections of print volumes in the United States. The , built in 2011, houses a large study space and an automated book storage and retrieval system. The contains more than 1.4 million volumes in the biological, medical and physical sciences and collections in general science and the philosophy and history of science, medicine, and technology. The university also operates a number of special libraries, including the D'Angelo Law Library, the Social Service Administration Library, and the Eckhart Library for mathematics and computer science. Harper Memorial Library is now a reading and study room.
According to the , University of Chicago spent $423.9 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 60th in the nation. It is among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and is a founding member of the and was a member of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation from 1946 through June 29, 2016, when the group's name was changed to the . The University of Chicago is not a member of the rebranded consortium, but will continue to be a collaborator. The university operates more than 140 research centers and institutes on campus. Among these are the —a museum and research center for ern studies owned and operated by the university—and a number of s, including the . Chicago also operates or is affiliated with several research institutions apart from the university proper. The university manages , part of the 's national laboratory system, and co-manages , a nearby particle physics laboratory, as well as a stake in the in . Faculty and students at the adjacent collaborate with the university. In 2013, the university formed an affiliation with the formerly independent in Woods Hole, Mass. Although formally unrelated, the is located on Chicago's campus. The University of Chicago has been the site of some important experiments and academic movements. In economics, the university has played an important role in shaping ideas about the and is the namesake of the , the school of economic thought supported by and other economists. The university's department was the first independent sociology department in the United States and gave birth to the . In physics, the university was the site of the (the first controlled, self-sustaining man-made nuclear chain reaction, part of the ), of 's that calculated the charge of the electron, and of the development of by in 1947. The chemical experiment that tested how life originated on early Earth, the , was conducted at the university. was discovered at the university in 1953 by and . The University of Chicago (Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics) operated the in from 1897 until 2018, where the largest operating in the world and other telescopes are located.
The UChicago Arts program joins academic departments and programs in the Division of the Humanities and the college, as well as professional organizations including the , the , the , the , University of Chicago Presents, and student arts organizations. The university has an artist-in-residence program and scholars in performance studies, contemporary art criticism, and film history. It has offered a doctorate in music composition since 1933 and cinema and media studies since 2000, a master of fine arts in visual arts (early 1970s), and a Master of Arts in the humanities with a creative writing track (2000). It has bachelor's degree programs in visual arts, music, and art history, and, more recently, cinema and media studies (1996) and theater and performance studies (2002). The college's general education core includes a "dramatic, musical, and visual arts" requirement, inviting students to study the history of the arts, stage desire, or begin working with sculpture. Several thousand major and non-major undergraduates enroll annually in creative and performing arts classes. UChicago is often considered the birthplace of as the student comedy troupe evolved into improv theater troupe in 1959. The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts opened in October 2012, five years after a $35 million gift from alumnus David Logan and his wife Reva. The center includes spaces for exhibitions, performances, classes, and media production. The Logan Center was designed by .
Student body and admissions
In Fall 2018, the university enrolled 6,595 undergraduate students, 9,899 graduate students, and 616 non-degree students. The college class of 2022 is composed of 51% male students and 49% female students. 23% of the class identify as Asian, 15% as Hispanic, and 9% as Black. 15% of the class is international.Class of 2024 Profile , College Admissions
/ref> Admissions to the University of Chicago has become highly selective over the past two decades, reflecting changes in the application process, school popularity, and marketing strategy. Between 1996, and 2020, the acceptance rate of the college fell from 71% to 6.2%. The middle 50% band of scores for the undergraduate class of 2022 was 1490–1560 (98th-99th percentiles), the average score for students entering the Pritzker School of Medicine class of 2022 was 518 (96th percentile), the median score for students entering the full-time Booth MBA program class of 2021 was 730 (96th percentile), and the median score for students entering the Law School class of 2021 was 171 (98th percentile). In 2018, the University of Chicago attracted national headlines by becoming the first major research university to no longer require SAT/ACT scores from college applicants.
The University of Chicago hosts 19 varsity sports teams: 10 men's teams and 9 women's teams, all called the , with 502 students participating in the 2012–2013 school year. The Maroons compete in the 's as members of the (UAA). The university was a founding member of the and participated in the Division I men's basketball and football and was a regular participant in the men's basketball tournament. In 1935, the University of Chicago reached the Sweet Sixteen. In 1935, player became the first winner of the . However, the university chose to withdraw from the Big Ten Conference in 1946 after University president de-emphasized varsity athletics in 1939 and dropped football. In 1969, Chicago reinstated football as a Division III team, resuming playing its home games at the new . UChicago is also the home of the team Chicago Junk.
Students at the University of Chicago operate more than 400 clubs and organizations known as Recognized Student Organizations (RSOs). These include cultural and religious groups, academic clubs and teams, and common-interest organizations. Notable extracurricular groups include the University of Chicago College Bowl Team, which has won 118 tournaments and 15 national championships, leading both categories internationally. The university's competitive Model United Nations team was the top-ranked team in North America in 2013–14, 2014–2015, 2015–2016, and again for the 2017–2018 season. The university's Model UN team is also the first to be in the top 5 for almost a decade, according to Best Delegate. Among notable student organizations are the nation's longest continuously running student film society , the organizing committee for the , the weekly student newspaper ', the satirical ', the nation's second-oldest continuously running student improvisational theater troupe ', and the investment club '. The University of Chicago is home to eight student-run a cappella groups, several of which compete regularly at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA). The most prominent of these is the Voices (formerly Voices In Your Head), one of only six ensembles in the world to compete at ICCA finals four times. Voices placed 4th in 2012, 2nd in 2015 and 2017, and 3rd in 2018. In 2020, The A Cappella Archive ranked Voices at #5 out of all ICCA-competing groups.
All recognized student organizations, from the to Model UN, in addition to academic teams, sports clubs, arts groups, and more are funded by . Student Government consists of graduate and undergraduate students elected to represent members from their respective academic units. It is led by an executive committee, chaired by a president with the assistance of two vice presidents, one for administration and the other for student life, elected together as a slate by the student body each spring. Its annual budget is greater than $2 million.
There are 13 at the university: (Chicago chapter), (Lambda chapter), , (Delta Delta), (Chicago chapter), (Psi chapter), (Beta chapter), (Chi Upsilon chapter), (Chicago Colony chapter), (Omega chapter), (Omicron Omicron chapter), (Omicron Omicron chapter) and (Omega Alpha chapter). There are four : (Phi Chi chapter), (Eta Zeta chapter), (Epsilon Phi chapter) and (IL Kappa chapter) at the University of Chicago, as well as one co-ed community service fraternity are (Gamma Sigma chapter). Social fraternities and sororities are not recognized by the university as registered student organizations. Four of the sororities are members of the There is no on campus. The Multicultural Greek Council (MGC) consists of 3 fraternities and 4 sororities: fraternity (Theta chapter), sorority (Beta chapter), sorority (Lambda chapter), fraternity (University of Chicago Colony), fraternity (Psi chapter), sorority (Chi chapter), and sorority (University of Chicago, associate chapter). , approximately 20 to 25 percent of students are members of fraternities or sororities. This is an increase from the numbers published in the year 2007 by the student activities office stating that one in ten undergraduates participated in Greek life.
On-campus undergraduate students at the University of Chicago participate in a in which each student is assigned to one of the university's 7 buildings and to a smaller community within their residence hall called a "house". There are 39 houses, with an average of 70 students in each house. Traditionally only first years were required to live in housing, starting with the Class of 2023, students are required to live in housing for the first 2 years of enrollment. About 60% of undergraduate students live on campus. For graduate students, the university owns and operates 28 apartment buildings near campus.
Every May since 1987, the University of Chicago has held the , in which large teams of students compete to obtain notoriously esoteric items from a list. Since 1963, the Festival of the Arts (FOTA) takes over campus for 7–10 days of exhibitions and interactive artistic endeavors. Every January, the university holds a week-long winter festival, Kuviasungnerk/Kangeiko (Kuvia), which includes early morning exercise routines and fitness workshops. The university also annually holds a summer carnival and concert called Summer Breeze that hosts outside musicians and is home to , a student film society founded in 1932 that screens films nightly at the university. Since 1946, the university has organized the , which involves humorous discussions about the relative merits and meanings of s and en.
, there have been affiliated with the University of Chicago, 21 of whom were pursuing research or on faculty at the university at the time of the award announcement. Notable alumni and faculty affiliated with the university include . In addition, many Chicago alumni and scholars have won the and 54 have matriculated as .
In 2019, the University of Chicago claimed 188,000 alumni. While the university's first president, stressed the importance of perennial theory over practicality in his institution's curriculum, this has not stopped the alumni of Chicago from being among the wealthiest in the world. In business, notable alumni include CEO , founder and the sixth-richest man in America (who attended for one term but chose to leave before final exams), and CEO as well as former , founder and author of the first textbook , co-founder of the , co-founder of , founder of , founder of , former COO of Goldman Sachs , billionaire investor and founder of , CEO , CEO , founder and CEO , owner and chairman , and commissioner . Notable alumni in the field of law, government and politics include justice ; the ; President of the ; and federal judge ; , and ; ; ; ; former ; Governor of the Bank of Japan ; , advisor to and ; the founder of modern ; agent ; political scientist and Sino-American expert ; current Chicago mayor ; the first female ; from and Democratic presidential candidate in and ; former president ; and , professor and former chairman of the of the Republic of Indonesia. Notable alumni who are leaders in higher education, have emerged from almost all parts of the university: college president and chancellor ; current president of ; master of and of ; president of ; former president of ; president of the ; and president of . In journalism, notable alumni include ' columnist and commentator on ' , ' columnist , ' publisher , reporter and commentator , investigative journalist and political writer , ' columnist , four-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist , statistical analyst and ' founder and creator , and CBS News correspondent . In literature, author of the New York Times bestseller ' , -winning novelist ; Canadian-born and winning writer ; political philosopher, literary critic and author of the New York Times bestseller ' ; author of ' and spy novels ; ' author ; writer, essayist, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist ; and professor of ; , author, and president of St. Stephen's College (now ) ; and novelist and satirist are notable alumni. In the arts and entertainment, composer , dancer, choreographer and leader in the field of , founder and developer of the ' video game series , host , actor , actress , winning film critic and the subject of the 2014 documentary film ' , director, writer, and comedian , film director and screenwriter , and photographer and writer , photographer and writer, are graduates. In science, alumni include astronomers , a prominent contributor to the scientific research of , and , known for "", astronaut , geneticist , best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of , vaccinologist , whose vaccines save nearly 8 million lives each year, experimental physicist , popular environmentalist , nuclear physicist and researcher , balloonist , biologists and , computer scientist , the creator of the , developer , mathematician and recipient , geochemist , who developed the method into , geologist and geophysicist , known for the and , the main components of , and "Queen of Carbon" . , one of the founders of the field of as well as , got a BS and MS in physics in 1951, studying under . In economics, notable winners , a major advisor to Republican U.S. president , Conservative British prime minister and Chilean military dictator , , Nobel laureate and proponent of theory, , responsible for the modern interpretation of the concept of organizational decision-making, , the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and , known for his work on , and stock market behavior, are all graduates. American , , , and author is also an alumnus. Brazil's minister of the economy received his Ph.D. from UChicago in 1978. Other prominent alumni include anthropologists and , who is best known for discovering the fossil of a female hominid known as "" in the region, psychologist , American psychologist who established the of , , chess grandmaster , and conservative international relations scholar and coordinator of security planning for the . leaders , considered by some to be the founder of the American Civil Rights Movement, American educator, socialist and cofounder of the Highlander Folk School , civil rights attorney and chairman of the , commander , African-American history scholar and journalist , and Nubian scholar are all alumni. Three students from the university have been prosecuted in notable court cases: the infamous thrill killers and high school science teacher who was tried in the for teaching .
Notable faculty in economics include , , , , , , , and . Additionally, the , which is rewarded annually to the best economist under the age of 40, has also been awarded to 4 current members of the university faculty. Notable faculty in physics have included the speed of light calculator , elementary charge calculator , discoverer of the , the creator of the first nuclear reactor , "the father of the " , "one of the most brilliant and productive experimental physicists of the twentieth century" , who introduced the , second female Nobel laureate , the youngest American winner of the Nobel Prize , and . In law, former U.S. president , the most cited legal scholar of the 20th century , Supreme Court justices , , and , and Nobel laureate in economics have served on the faculty. Other distinguished scholars who have served on the faculty include , , and . Philosophers who were members of the faculty include -winning philosopher , (central figure in and founder of ), philosopher and political theorist , (who is considered one of the founders of and the American sociological tradition), and (prominent philosopher and the founder of the Straussian School in philosophy). Notable writers , , and have all served on the faculty. Past faculty have also included astronomer , biochemist and member , biologist , chemists , (the developer of the and Nobel Prize winner), egyptologist , mathematician , (one of the leading figures of the and Nobel prize winner), meteorologist , linguistic anthropologust , Nobel Prize winning novelist , political philosopher and author , political philosopher and historian , cancer researchers and , one of the most important figures in the early development of the discipline of linguistics , the founder of , and Nobel Prize-winning physicist . Current faculty include the philosophers , , , and winner ; political scientists and ; anthropologist ; historians , , and ; paleontologists and ; evolutionary biologist ; Nobel Prize-winning economists , , , , , and ; author and noted economist ; erstwhile governor of India's ; and former chairman of President 's .
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Pass The Tissues, The Wiggles Power Couple Have Split
By: Alex Harmon, 03 August 2018
By: Alex Harmon, ellaslist
In unbelievable breaking news: love is a lie. The Wiggles couple Emma Watkins and Lachlan Gillespie have broken off their marriage.
"We have, and continue to share, the most beautiful life together, but we wanted to let you know that privately for the last six months we have been navigating through a trial separation, and we have made the decision to separate as a couple," Yellow Wiggle Watkins and Purple Wiggle Gillespie told The Daily Telegraph.
"Throughout that period, we have performed hundreds of shows together and that is always a continued source of joy for us both.
They continued, "We have embraced this as a very positive change in our relationship. Our incredible friendship has been strengthened throughout this time and what we have discovered is that, more than ever, first and foremost we love and adore performing as Emma and Lachy in The Wiggles and having the privilege of celebrating this happiness with extraordinary families around the world."
"We have chosen a different path to travel in our personal lives, but please know that we are stronger than ever and we can't wait to see you at a show soon. We will not be commenting beyond this, and we thank you in advance for respecting our privacy."
Emma and Lachlan tied the knot in 2016 at Hopewood House in Bowral (click on the link to see the beautiful photos and reminisce).
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Why one Catholic entrepreneur is starting a 'food revolution' for the sick
Chris Faddis of Bene Plates. Courtesy of Chris Faddis.
By Maggie Maslak
Phoenix, Ariz., Oct 23, 2015 / 04:36 pm MT ().- When his wife Angela died of colon cancer in 2012, Chris Faddis knew he had to commemorate her life with something big – not because she had died from cancer, but because he had witnessed the shocking reality of malnutrition in his own wife and in other chronically ill patients.
"With Angela's cancer, we knew it was terminal and there wasn't that much that could be done - except keep her alive as long as possible. And nutrition was a very important part of that," Faddis told CNA.
"When we left the hospital to go to hospice, I noticed a woman walking out of the dining room with a bag of food… there was a whole slew of patients who couldn't cook for themselves, so when they came in for treatment, they would take food with them and freeze it until they came back again," he said.
That is when Faddis decided to found Bene Plates, an organization that provides nutrient-rich meals to chronically ill patients across the country, delivering the prepared food right to their front doors.
During the several years of research that followed, Faddis found that a whopping 85 percent of cancer patients suffer from malnutrition, and 40 percent end up dying from malnutrition rather than from the disease itself.
"We needed to do something - we needed to provide food for these people," Faddis decided, encouraged by his dying wife and a good friend, who was also a nutritionist.
A nationally known Catholic speaker, entrepreneur and author, Faddis took on the challenge of providing nutrition for the sick in 2012. It's been three years in the making, but in November, his team will officially launch the Bene Plates meal delivery program nationwide.
"It's been a long process of research - our nutrition guide that we have developed for our company is 130-pages long," Faddis noted, saying that years of delving into scientific evidence and nutrition have helped in perfecting the vision behind Bene Plates.
In addition to Faddis, the Bene Plates team includes Dr. John Oertle, who is the director of nutrition, and Fr. Leo Patalinghug, who serves as menu advisor and chef. Fr. Leo is best known for hosting the television show, Savoring our Faith, which airs on EWTN.
Bene Plates focuses its menu on clean, toxin-free foods with a micro-nutrient dense foundation and no processed ingredients. Its meals also include a variety of spices and fresh herbs, which not only add flavor, but also have significant health benefits.
"Truly, God gave us everything that we need. Spices and herbs are anti-inflammatory, so they are going to help reduce inflammation in patients," Faddis said.
Even though Bene Plates has designed a general menu of nutrient-rich, healthy foods, the company also wants to cater the meal plan to every individual's specific needs, providing gluten-free and vegetarian options as well.
"Every patient is different," Faddis noted, saying they are trying to ensure "that the patient is able to eat the food, that it tastes good for them, and that we are giving them what they need at that time in their disease."
"The way it would work is that the patient would see a nutritionist – we have a credentialed nutritionist on our team – and have a full evaluation of everything, looking at their diagnosis and disease stage," he explained.
From there, blood tests would be taken to gauge the patient's nutrient and antioxidant levels - giving the nutritionist and chef the information necessary to plan the patient's diet, according to their own individual nutritional requirements.
After that, the food is prepared, packaged, and shipped out – delivering anywhere between 7-21 meals per week, depending on each patient's specifications. Because Bene Plates is FDA-certified, it is able to ship to any home in the United States.
Bene Plates has already launched its nutrition program and will officially begin delivering meals to the patients who have subscribed next month. The company has also started a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds and awareness leading up to the launch, offering special deals and rewards for supporters.
Moving forward, Faddis has big plans for the growth of his food revolution. The first phase is focused on home delivery.
"The goal, our initial goal, is to be serving about 1,000 patients every month. From there, we will see where we grow – we might have to open another kitchen," he said.
In the future, Faddis wants to move Bene Plates into specific facilities, such as nursing homes, where they could minister to the elderly or to patients who suffer from Alzheimer's. In addition, a cold-pressed juice menu and even a food truck are on the back-burner for Bene Plates.
Faddis would also like to provide nutritious meals for the patients who can't afford them.
"We are going to begin the Angela Faddis Foundation, so anyone who needs this food but cannot afford it would be able to apply for a grant," he explained.
Additionally, Faddis is working with Fr. Leo Patalinghug to provide meals for hospice patients who are facing the end of the lives.
"We might have patients who are at the end of their life," Faddis reflected, "and all they are getting out of food is comfort and just some sense of dignity or possibly enjoyment."
More information about Bene Plates and its 'food revolution' can be found on its KickStarter page.
Tags: Cancer, Sickness, Terminal illness, Nutrition
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Last month we reported that the 40 homebrewer spots were full for the Stone March Madness AHA Rally. But that was before we learned that club member Ward G. Walkup IV has an entry, and Josh Jensen got accepted from the waiting list! So 2 club members will be vying for the honor of being the next homebrewer to collaborate with Stone for a beer that will be released nationally, and enter the GABF Pro-Am this fall. 40 homebrews will be available for tasting and the top 4 beers in a people's choice vote will go to a best of show round. Stone crew picks one of those 4 as the winner. We need your support to make sure both Ward's Wheatwine and Josh's Rye Double IPA make it to the final four!
We'll be organizing a bus trip to this event, leaving Union Station at 10AM on Saturday the 10th, and returning around 7 or 8PM. The event at Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens is from 1-4PM, and you must RSVP in advance and be a AHA Member to attend. The event is free to get into for AHA members, or you can renew or join at the door. But RSVP on their site NOW if you want to go, as they will cap the attendance. The bus trip will cost you $25/person. You can pay at the March meeting, or reply to this email to have a PayPal invoice sent to you. Please pay ASAP, so we have a head count for the bus. After the event we will stop by a brewpub in the area for a early dinner and more beers before heading back to LA.
This month's meeting has been moved from Haven Gastropub to Mohawk Bend. Haven's brewpub is not up and running yet, so we'll plan to go there in June when we can try their house brews. Tony Yanow and his staff are excited to have our club visit their restaurant and bar. If you have never been there, you are in for a treat. They have around 70 taps of mostly California Microbrews. There is great food, with lots of vegan and carnivore options, plus amazing pizza. Show up hungry and enjoy lunch with your beers. Since they sell beer here, only bring homebrews to share with your fellow club members, not commercial examples. At 5PM they will need to get ready for existing dinner reservations, so we can move to the bar area around that time.
The style of the month is Stout, but feel free to bring any type of homebrew. Consider bringing a copy of your recipe, as that only helps when discussing your beer and getting feedback.
If you would like to see the meeting locations and styles for the rest of this year, check the website for recent updates.
The next Club Only Competition is upon us! For those members who have a good example of a stout, please bring three 12-oz bottles to the March meeting along with the recipe and bottle labels already filled out. All classes of stout in the BJCP Category 13 are welcome. The best stout will be sent to represent the club and those who were not selected can take their remaining bottles home or share with the club.
The April meeting will also have another Club Only Competition showdown – this time for Scottish and Irish Ales. Once again, if you have a beer in the Scottish/Irish styles of BJCP Category 9, please bring three 12-oz bottles and completed paperwork to the April meeting.
Finally, the American Homebrewers Association's National Homebrew Competition is soon upon us. Starting February 28, you can start entering your beer in the competition. This is the largest homebrew competition in the world and spots fill up quickly, so don't wait too long to enter your beers! One 12-oz bottle is required for the first round and if your beer places, you will need to send 3 more to the Nationals. Jeff will speak more about this competition at the meeting.


London, Aug 14 (IANS) Feeling lonely? Riding your bicycles may not only improve your general and mental health, but also increase social interaction, says a study.
The study showed that cycling is the healthiest mode of transport and is associated with better self-perceived general health, better mental health, greater vitality, lower self-perceived stress and fewer feelings of loneliness.
"The findings suggest that active transport –especially cycling– should be encouraged in order to improve health and increase social interaction," said lead author Avila Palencia from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) in Barcelona, Spain.
The second most beneficial transport mode, walking, was associated with good self-perceived general health, greater vitality, and more contact with friends and/or family.
"Ours is the first study to associate the use of multiple urban transport modes with health effects such as mental health and social contact. It also allowed us to highlight the positive effect of walking, which in previous studies was not very conclusive," she added.
The study, published in the journal Environment International, was carried out in seven European cities: Antwerp, Barcelona, London, Orebro, Rome, Vienna and Zurich and included more than 8,800 people.
The transport modes assessed in the study were car, motorbike, public transport, bicycle, electric bicycle and walking.
Driving and public-transport use were associated with poor self-perceived general health, while cars were linked with fewer feelings of loneliness.
"This result is most likely due to the fact that the study population drove very infrequently and most journeys by car were probably for social purposes, such as visiting a family member or a friend," the researchers explained.
The study stressed on the need for "an integrated approach to urban planning, transport planning and public health is needed in order to develop policies that promote active transport, such as adding more segregated cycle lanes for a better environment for cyclists," the researchers noted.


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5 reasons to attend CinefestOZ: the Cannes Film Festival of Margaret River
It's lights, camera and action in the Margaret River Region from 23 – 28 August 2022 as CinefestOZ celebrates its 15th anniversary. Screening over 270 film events, Australia's premiere destination film festival shines with all the glitz and glamour of the Cannes Film Festival set against the stunning backdrop of Margaret River.
Flying in from all over the country, and beyond, audiences will be enthralled by the diverse range of uniquely Australian films such as feature, documentary, shorts and experiential releases across the six-day program. Immersive experiences include dining 'In Conversation' events hosted by the filmmakers and red carpet events in the Margaret River Region teeming with world-class wineries, restaurants and staggering natural beauty.
270 film events
A staggering 270 film events will be screened and run over the six-day program – that's a lot of popcorn and decisions to make! Click here for the full program but if you're short on time perhaps start with the four 2022 finalists where the winner is decided by a jury of prominent industry guests during the festival.
Seriously Red – a Dolly Parton-Kenny Rogers comedy starring Rose Byrne and Johnny Carnavale, directed by Gracie Otto;
Transfusion – Sam Worthington's new movie follows a former soldier who, after the loss of his wife is thrust into the criminal underworld to prevent his son from being taken from him, directed by Matt Nable ;
Of An Age ([email protected]) – during the summer of 1999 an unexpected romance flourishes between a seventeen-year-old Serbian ballroom dancer and his best friend's older brother. Fast forward to a decade later when the duo meet for a bittersweet reunion, directed by Goran Stolevski;
Sweet As – a coming-of-age story shot in the Pilbara, reflecting a 16-year-old girl growing up in the State's North West. directed by Jub Clerc in her feature film debut.
Directors Lunch 2018
Rub shoulders with screen legends
As if 270 film events and the Margaret River Region weren't enough of a drawcard, joining the 2022 CinefestOZ festivities as the Chair of the $100,000 Prize Film Jury is actor, writer, producer and director Richard Roxburgh, whose extensive career has included roles in Elvis, Rake, Hawke and Van Helsing. You could be mingling with A-listers, filmmakers, industry experts and screen legends such as Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown, David Wenham, Sigrid Thornton, Joel Edgerton and Isla Fisher who graced the red carpet in previous years.
If you really want to meet your idols, then splurge on the Patron Cinepass for the opportunity to meet and listen to patrons Emma Booth, Myles Pollard and Kelton Pell at events throughout the festival.
2021 Jury Member Isla Fisher
There's never a shortage of eateries to satiate your tastebuds and CinefestOZ is the perfect pairing of Margaret River's renowned food and wine. The gala night serves up plenty of drama and glamour, with an after-party at Origins Markets showcasing over 60 of Western Australia's finest gourmet and artisanal producers.
Each film-prize documentary or film is paired with an In Conversation dining experience where diners learn all about the filmmaker's process compliments of Cullen Wines (Margaret River), Yarri Bar and Restaurant (Dunsborough) and Shelter Brewing Co (Busselton). Other venues supporting the festivities include the Esplanade Hotel (Busselton), Mojos Restaurant (Bunbury), Market Eating House (Bunbury), Rio's (Margaret River), Forester Estate (Margaret River), Aravina Estate (Margaret River) and Rustico at Hayshed Hill (Margaret River).
Explore the Margaret River Region
You could spend weeks exploring the region and still have plenty to discover in the Margaret River Region. Since many of the festivities are focused around Busselton, the iconic Busselton Jetty is a must see and while here visit the underwater observatory, take a range of tours such as snorkelling or an undersea walk or if you'd prefer to stay dry, jump onboard the train to the end of the jetty. Reaching 1.8 kilometres out to the Indian Ocean, it's the longest timber-piled jetty in the Southern Hemisphere.
Busselton Jetty, Photo credit: Jarrad Seng
For more adventures, swim with dolphins or go whale watching at the Dolphin Discovery Centre in Bunbury. Head underground and explore the region's ancient caves from Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin. Or extend your trip and traverse the 135-kilometre Cape to Cape trek spanning from Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin. On the trail you could camp or take it up a luxurious notch and join a guided tour with Walk into Luxury.
Hamelin Bay, photo credit Jarrad Seng
Grab a map from any of the visitors' centres and create your own itinerary across over 100 wineries, breweries and distilleries such as Leeuwin Estate, Vasse Felix, Cullen Wines, Margaret River Distilling Company or get off the well-beaten path to Wild Hop Brewing Company, Blind Corner, Si Vintners or LS Merchants. Or relax with guided tour with Harvest Tours, Margies Big Day Out or Wine for Dudes (all genders persuasions welcome). If time is of the essence, after all, there are 270 film events on offer, why not have the wineries come to you with South West Winos who will deliver a wide selection of red and white wines to your accommodation, including these 5 Luxurious Margaret River Properties.
Forester Winery VIP Tour, CinefestOz 2020, photo credit: @Mac1Photo, Court McAllister
Support Australia's unique film industry
There's no denying how films get us through the good times and the more challenging times – where would we have been during the pandemic without Binge or Netflix? Now we're free to explore Western Australia once again without restrictions, the not-for-profit CinefestOZ is the perfect excuse to head down to Margaret River and join record numbers of film guests while supporting Australia's unique film industry. The sensational line-up of new Australian films in 2022 is competing for the $100,000 prize – the largest film prize dedicated to Australian feature films acknowledging excellence in filmmaking and the impressive growth of Western Australia's film industry. Check out Screenwest for some of WA's innovative film projects.
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Analysis of Diffraction Graphene Gratings Using the C-Method and Design of a Terahertz Polarizer
Farzaneh Arab Juneghani,
Dr. Farzaneh Arab Juneghani
Abolghasem Zeidaabadi-Nezhad,
Dr. Abolghasem Zeidaabadi-Nezhad
Reza Safian
Dr. Reza Safian
Isfahan University of Technology (IUT)
We analyze relief graphene gratings by the coordinate transformation method (the C-method). This method is also used for analysis of multilayer gratings with graphene sheets at the interfaces. By using this method, we are able to obtain the e ciency of deep graphene gratings with fast convergence rate while previous methods are limited to very shallow graphene gratings. Moreover, a terahertz polarizer is designed by relief graphene grating. Polarization extinction ratio and transmittance of single-layer and double-layer polarizer are simulated by the C-method. Double-layer polarizer gives extinction ratio from 22 dB to 10 dB over a frequency range of 1 GHz to 4 THz.
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The Rugby Championship; the new name for the Tri-Nations.
For many, southern hemisphere rugby is the pinnacle of the sport; hard hitting, fluid rugby that never fails to scintillate with the players unrivalled skill.
Between them the three nations of Australia, South Africa and the New Zealand All Blacks have ruled the roost in international rugby, winning more Rugby World Cups than their Northern Hemisphere counterparts. The addition of Argentina to this group in 2012 was always going to be a baptism of fire, but Los Pumas reached a world ranking of 3rd in 2008 - a sign of their determination and sheer hard work.
Any Rugby Championship game is a must see TV event so it goes without saying that we've got you covered for all the essential replica and supporters kit.


An annual holiday-themed fundraising project by Friends of Henderson Libraries to benefit Henderson Libraries, Library Tree Lane features decorated holiday trees and wreaths which are sponsored by individuals, businesses and organizations throughout the community and then donated and delivered to charities following the gala. The program also offers children's programs and a special Carr Chat. The celebration culminates with a ticketed gala reception and silent auction. The gala reception features a silent auction with nearly 150 beautifully decorated, themed gift baskets and live entertainment.
Henderson Libraries executive director Tom Fay takes a moment to pose with Santa Dec. 3 at the Library Tree Lane gala.
Capitol North American, Stephens Press, United Studios of Self Defense, Republic Services and the Art Institute of Las Vegas and two other sizeable donations from local families. Hundreds of additional companies and individuals donated prizes for gift baskets and chance drawings.
Established in 1943 as a single library in downtown Henderson, Henderson Libraries now operates six locations throughout Henderson. Henderson Libraries cooperates with other public libraries in Southern Nevada, the Nevada System of Higher Education, the Clark County School District and around the state to provide quality service for Nevada's residents.


What does it mean to be human? The human being is the only creature on this planet that sees himself separated from the rest of nature. We consider ourselves as the pinnacle of creation yet our behavior towards other living species (and sometimes each other) is often that of tyrants.
Join The Second Floor in the last session of the First Phase of the Maa Dharti Project as Tofiq Pasha Mooraj and Faisal Edhi of the Edhi Foundation talk about what our humanity means for the well-being of Mother Earth.
The First Phase of the Maa Dharti Project consisted of talks that covered a wide range of topics connected with the environment including: tree plantation, the water cycle, marine ecology, garbage disposal and recycling, mangroves,urban forests,animal protection, coastal biodiversity, rooftop gardens, home-growing vegetables, and the potential of humanity.
The Second Phase of the Maa Dharti Project consisting of monthly cleanups, excursions and plantation drives has already started, keep a lookout for our next activity and join the growing community of Green Guardians!


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Credo (I believe) and confessio (I profess) are two entirely different things. Many keep their belief to themselves because they are not able to explain and describe it in detail or because they are afraid of going public with it.
That Jesus Christ has risen from the dead. "Christ is risen!" is an old Easter message of the Church. Whoever does not want to say this central point of the Christian gospel any more cannot be Christian. The message of the empty grave is at the same time a commission to preach. "Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty. Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise. For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable" (1 Corinthians 15: 12–19).
That words and deeds belong together. Profession has to occur through word and deed, otherwise it is not credible. We cannot say one thing and do something else. True followers of the Lord are recognised by their personal conduct. And this should be characterised by love and patience. This is how the profession of Jesus Christ becomes credible. Agreement in word and deed. This is how Christians can "tell" their fellow human beings about all the good God has done—without respect of person.
That Jesus Christ is our life. It takes knowledge to be able to profess one's faith. In Luke 8: 16 this reads as follows: "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light." Jesus Christ is the light of the world, because He leads human beings out of the darkness of a wrong conception of God and grants them true knowledge of God and eternal life. Christians point out that Christ, and only He, is truth and life.
That there will be a Last Judgement in the end. With the Apostles' Creed, Christians around the world profess the coming of the Lord Jesus for the Last Judgement: "He will come again to judge the living and the dead." Among other things, this early church creed goes back to Jesus' parable of the Last Judgement (see Matthew 25: 31–46). It raises the issue of the relationship between faith and works. Good works alone do not lead into fellowship with God. No one can earn salvation! However, good works also belong to a living faith, such as ethical action and conduct. The love for God and human beings belong together.
That Jesus Christ is Saviour and Redeemer. The salvation of human beings is founded on Jesus Christ. Through Him they receive the strength to overcome evil. Because every person has to grapple with evil, after all. And the only thing that helps is belief in the Son of God. This faith changes one's view of the world and tells the Christian that every human being is a creature of God! Every human being can receive salvation! Every human being is to get to know the gospel.
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Developer Mooneye Studios announced that its highly anticipated exploration adventure game, Lost Ember, is releasing on the 16th of July.
Lost Ember delivers a breathtakingly beautiful world that holds the secrets of its past for you and your companion to uncover. With a wolf as your main character and a determined companion on your side, you will unveil a story of loyalty, despair and betrayal that led to the fall of a whole world.
Your spirit companion–once part of an ancient civilization–now guides you through a world that nature has reclaimed. Together you will find memories scattered throughout the land that will help you understand what happened to the old world and to your companion. Your ability to possess every animal in the world enables you to explore the world in a lot of different perspectives to find hidden secrets and places that played a role in the fall of this world and hold important memories.
Play as a noble wolf with the magical abilities to inhabit a menagerie of creatures and explore the land, sea, earth and skies of this ancient world.
Possess all manners of animals from soaring as an eagle, to digging as a mole, climbing like a mountain goat to swimming like a fish, plus plenty more from hummingbirds to ducks, many with their own unique abilities.
Reveal an epic plot that weaves folklore, myth and legend to tell the story of a once mighty empire now lost to the ravages of time.
Experience a truly organic world from densely wooded forests to barren deserts, gargantuan canyon valleys to lush rainforest canopies, archaic temples to colorful coral reefs.
Five-to-six hours of adventuring gameplay to become engrossed in.
Lost Ember will be available for PS4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch.


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Value of 1956 Euro (Portugal) today
€100 in 1956
€10,069.95 today
The inflation rate in Portugal between 1956 and today has been 9,969.95%, which translates into a total increase of €9,969.95. This means that 100 euro in 1956 are equivalent to 10,069.95 euro in 2020. In other words, the purchasing power of €100 in 1956 equals €10,069.95 today. The average annual inflation rate has been 7.35%.
Amount (€)
Inflation timeline in Portugal (1956-2021)
The following chart depicts the equivalence of €100 throughout the years due to inflation and CPI changes. All values are equivalent in terms of purchasing power, which means that for each year the same goods or services could be bought with the indicated amount of money.
All calculations are performed in the local currency (EUR) and using 6 decimal digits. Results show only up to 2 decimal digits to favour readability. Inflation data is provided by governments and international institutions on a monthly basis. Today's values were obtained by estimating figures from recent trends.
€1 in 1956 €100.68 in 2020
In this case, the future value represents the final amount obtained after applying the inflation rate to our initial value. In other words, it indicates how much are €100 worth today. There are 64 years between 1956 and 2020 and the average inflation rate has been 7.3534%. Therefore, we can resolve the formula like this:
FV = PV (1 + i)n = €100 * (1 + 0.07)64 = €10,067.72
= €100 *
= €10,067.72
Portugal inflation - Conversion table
€1 euro in 1956 €100.7 euro today
€10 euro in 1956 €1,006.99 euro today
€100 euro in 1956 €10,069.95 euro today
€1,000 euro in 1956 €100,699.49 euro today
€10,000 euro in 1956 €1,006,994.9 euro today
€50,000 euro in 1956 €5,034,974.52 euro today
€100,000 euro in 1956 €10,069,949.03 euro today
€1,000,000 euro in 1956 €100,699,490.33 euro today
Value of Euro over time (by year)
2019 10,025.65
Today 10,069.95
All available years - euro (Portugal):
1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019


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Etermar was founded in 1968 by Engineer Pedro Barreto, a visionary with extraordinary technical expertise, and began its activities by constructing an 11-floor residential building in the city center of Setúbal.
In 1970, applying its founding engineers' experience in port works, the company began operating in the marine segment. Since then, Etermar has participated in Portugal's most demanding marine works.
In 1985, the company was a pioneer in Portugal in disclosing and building the first submarine outfalls: Carvoeiro (1989), Baleeira (1989), Sagres (1990), and Espinho (1992). During this period, it also designed and built Portugal's first Artificial Reefs along Algarve's coast (1990).
As of 1997, it carried out various agricultural hydraulic projects. In this new sector of irrigated farmland, it designed and implemented innovative projects in Trás-os-Montes and at Alqueva, with emphasis on irrigation networks, zoned embankment dams, trapezoidal channels and hydraulic tunnels.
In the late 90s, the company began to operate in cableway transport by building the first cableways on the island of Madeira: Rocha do Navio Cableway (1998) and the Funchal Cableway (2000).
A solid management model, competent technical staff, and its own fleet of marine equipment were the necessary ingredients for the company's internationalization in 2006.
In 2006, it won its first international tenders, of which we highlight the sea outfalls of Tangier and Tetouan in Morocco and construction of the first quay in Equatorial Guinea. Next, the company built the Port of Oran and the seawater intakes for the Fouka desalination plant in Algeria.
In 2008, Etermar's turnover abroad had already surpassed its turnover in Portugal.
In 2010, the emphasis goes to the share capital increase, from 15 to 25 million euros, through the incorporation of reserves, enabling the company to improve its financial ratios and competitiveness in the international market.
The success in projects carried out in very different countries and cultures, as in the case of Algeria, Brazil, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Malta, Morocco, Dominican Republic or Tunisia, show that the commitment to personnel training, adapting the management of various sectors to new requirements, and very selective investment in equipment adjusted to new needs, were undoubtedly key factors which today make Etermar an international company of recognised expertise.


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Under pressure from lawmakers, the media, and the public, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress about the social network's most publicized data breach. COO Sheryl Sandberg appeared on national television after weeks of silence and said that Cambridge Analytica's breach came to Facebook's attention about two-and-a-half years ago. She admitted that Facebook failed to take enough security steps afterward to assure the data was secure.
Facebook is facing ever-increasing scrutiny since it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm with ties to President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, accessed information from Facebook users without their knowledge. Facebook first said that the number of users affected were 50 million, then in a later correction said it was likely to have been 87 million. Whistle-blower Christopher Wylie, who gave The Guardian documents revealing the secret actions of Cambridge Analytica, said that accessed Facebook profiles might well exceed that number.
Meawnwhile, buried in a company announcement, Facebook admitted that most of its 2 billion users have had their personal data scraped by "malicious actors." On April 5, protesters who carried thumbs down signs said that Zuckerberg was the bad actor in this fiasco. Chanting,"transparency now!" they called for government regulation of the giant social media network while posing in front of the massive thumbs up sign at the entrance to Facebook's campus. Facebook security booted demonstrators to adjacent public property, but they did not move before giving voice to concerns about privacy and data-mining and passing out literature to Facebook visitors and personnel.


(Nanowerk News) If the promise of nanotechnology is to be fulfilled, nanoparticles will have to be able to make something of themselves. An important advance towards this goal has been achieved by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) who have found a simple and yet powerfully robust way to induce nanoparticles to assemble themselves into complex arrays.
By adding specific types of small molecules to mixtures of nanoparticles and polymers, the researchers are able to direct the self-assembly of the nanoparticles into arrays of one, two and even three dimensions with no chemical modification of either the nanoparticles or the block copolymers. In addition, the application of external stimuli, such as light and/or heat, can be used to further direct the assemblies of nanoparticles for even finer and more complex structural details.
This electron micrograph shows a self-assembled composite in which nanoparticles of lead sulfide have arranged themselves in a hexagonal grid.
Xu is the corresponding author on a paper describing this work that has been published by the journal Nature Materials. The paper is titled: "Small molecule-directed nanoparticle assembly towards stimuli-responsive nanocomposites." Co-authoring this paper with her were Yue Zhao, Kari Thorkelsson, Alexander Mastroianni, Thomas Schilling, Joseph Luther, Benjamin Rancatore, Kazuyuki Matsunaga, Hiroshi Jinnai, Yue Wu, Daniel Poulsen, Jean Fréchet and Paul Alivisatos.
Nano-sized particles - bits of matter a few billionths of a meter in size, or more than a hundred times smaller than the stuff of today's microtechnologies - display highly coveted properties not found in macroscopic materials, including optical, electronic, magnetic, etc. The promise of nanotechnololgy is that exploiting these unique properties on a commercial scale could yield such "game-changers" as sustainable, clean and cheap energy, and the creation on demand of new materials with properties tailored to meet specific needs. Realizing this promise starts with nanoparticles being able to organize themselves into complex structures and hierarchical patterns, similar to what nature routinely accomplishes with proteins.
Small as they are, nanoparticles are essentially all surface so any process that modifies the surface of a nanoparticle can profoundly change the properties of that particle. Precisely arranging these nanoparticles is critical to tailoring the macroscopic properties during nanoparticle assembly. Although DNA has been used to induce self-assembly of nanoparticles with a high degree of precision, this approach only works well for organized arrays that are limited in size; it is impractical for large-scale fabrication. Xu believes a better approach is to use block copolymers - long sequences or "blocks" of one type of monomer molecule bound to blocks of another type of monomer molecule.
Xu and her group found such a "mediator" in the form of small molecules that will join with nanoparticles and then able attach themselves and their nanoparticle partners to the surface of a block copolymer. For this study, Xu and her group used two different types of small molecules, surfactants (wetting agents) dubbed "PDP" and "OPAP." These small molecules can be stimulated by light (PDP) or heat (OPAP) to sever their connection to the surface of a block copolymer and be repositioned to another location along the polymeric chain. In this manner, the spatial distribution of the small molecule mediators and their nanoparticle partners can be precisely directed with no need to modify either the nanoparticles or the polymers.
For this study, Xu and her colleagues added PDP or OPAP small molecules to various blends of nanoparticles, such as cadmium selenide and lead sulfide, mixed in with a commercial block copolymer - polystyrene-block-poly (4-vinyl pyridine). While she and her group worked with light and heat, she says other stimuli, such as pH, could also be used to reposition small molecules and their nanoparticle partners along block copolymer formations. Strategic substitutions of different types of stimulus-responsive small molecules could serve as a mechanism for structural fine-tuning or for incorporating specific functional properties into nanocomposites. Xu and her colleagues are now in the process of adding functionality to their self-assembly technique.
This research was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science and in part by the Army Research Office and National Science Foundation. The nanoparticles were synthesized at Berkley Lab's Molecular Foundry and characterizations of the nanoparticle assemblies were performed at Beamline 7.3.3 of Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source. Both the Molecular Foundry and the Advanced Light Source are DOE Office of Science national user facilities.


The Illinois Statehouse has displayed a sculpture gifted to them by the The Satanic Temple next to a Nativity scene and a Hanukkuh menorah, as reported by NPR.
In other words, the state recognizes that the Satanic Temple is simply trying to be a menace to the public at large that wants to celebrate America's judeo-Christian roots during this holiday season, but it has no choice but to placate the devil worshippers.
The Satanic Temple's website explains the church's beliefs.
"The mission of The Satanic Temple is to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense and justice, and be directed by the human conscience to undertake noble pursuits guided by the individual will," it says.
It sounds like more of a political organization than a religious one. The "church" even brags that has "applied for equal representation where religious monuments are placed on public property," which seems to be a crowning achievement for them.
Outside of the landing page of the website, the Satanic Temple lists some of its campaigns, which include a program called "Educatin' with Satan," specifically designed to "counter Evangelicalism in schools." They also have a pro-abortion campaign.