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Tampines Expressway

The Tampines Expressway (TPE) is a highway in the north-eastern fringe of Singapore, joining the Pan Island Expressway (PIE) near Singapore Changi Airport in the east with the Central Expressway (CTE) and Seletar Expressway (SLE) in the north of the island.

History

The expressway was constructed alongside the development of Tampines New Town in the 1980s. On 22 February 1986, tenders were called for the first section of the expressway. Work began on 5 August 1986 to widen the existing portions of Tampines Road. The first section of the expressway, stretching from the PIE to Elias Road, opened on 30 September 1987.

On 19 November 1987, the contracts for the second phase of the expressway were awarded to Sembawang Construction and Hock Lian Seng Engineering. Phase 2 of the expressway, stretching westward from Elias Road to Lorong Halus, began construction on 24 December 1987 and opened on 30 May 1989.

In the 1990s, extensions towards the west were made to connect the TPE with the CTE and SLE to serve the newer residential areas of Sengkang and Punggol and provide a continuous expressway link between the northern and eastern parts of the island. These extensions acquired much of Lorong Lumut, Lorong Halus Village, Cheng Lim Farmway, Jalan Kayu Village, Lorong Andong, Lorong Anchak and Boh Sua Tian Road. On 30 August 1992, the Public Works Department began construction of Punggol Flyover. On 13 April 1993, a local firm was awarded the tender to extend the TPE to Seletar. On 30 June 1994, the Public Works Department awarded a $38.9 million contract to Koh Brothers Building and Civil Engineering Contractor Pte Ltd for the construction of the Lorong Halus road interchange. The expressway was completed in August 1996 after the Lorong Halus interchange was completed.

In 1998, two new viaducts and a loop connecting the TPE and PIE were constructed to reduce travelling times between Pasir Ris, Tampines and Changi Airport.

On 19 Feb 2023, Tampines Viaduct was opened to the public. This newly constructed one-way viaduct allows motorists traveling eastbound along TPE to directly access the PIE traveling towards Tuas in the westbound direction using the newly opened Exit 2A. The viaduct was initially scheduled to open in early 2020, but fatal collapse occurred during construction of the viaduct in 2017, which resulted in one dead and 10 injured. Following the incident, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced that the project would be completed by another company instead, which resulted in the viaduct eventually completed after a three-year delay.

On 22 Jan 2024, the Seletar Link Flyover was opened to the public. The flyover provides an alternative route to/from Seletar Link, which previously only provided westbound access via Exit 11. The development of the flyover is intended to support the expected future growth in neighbouring Punggol Town and Pulau Punggol Timor (an artificial island located north of Seletar), as well as Sengkang Town via planned road Sengkang West Drive in the future.

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! scope="row" style="text-align: right" | 2.7 ! scope="row" style="text-align: right" | 2.7 km
 * colspan="4" style="text-align: center; background-color: #e6e6e6" | Sungei Tampines

! scope="row" style="text-align: right" | 7.6 ! scope="row" style="text-align: right" | 7.6 km
 * colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color: #e6e6e6" | Halus Bridge (Serangoon River)

! scope="row" style="text-align: right" | 11.3 ! scope="row" style="text-align: right" | 11.3 km
 * colspan="4" style="text-align: center; background-color: #e6e6e6" | Punggol Bridge (Sungei Punggol)

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Krusty Gets Busted

"Krusty Gets Busted" is the twelfth and penultimate episode of the first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on April 29, 1990. The episode was written by Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky, and directed by Brad Bird. In the episode, Krusty the Clown is convicted of armed robbery of the Kwik-E-Mart and imprisoned. Convinced that Krusty has been framed, Bart and Lisa investigate the crime and learn that Krusty's sidekick, Sideshow Bob, is the culprit.

This episode marks the first full-fledged appearance of Kent Brockman. Kelsey Grammer makes his first guest appearance on the show as the voice of Sideshow Bob.

Plot
Marge asks Homer to pick up ice cream from the Kwik-E-Mart on the way home from work; Homer obliges, and at the Kwik-E-Mart, he sees a man resembling Krusty the Clown committing a robbery. After Homer identifies Krusty in a police lineup, the latter is arrested and convicted, much to the grief of Bart. Taking advantage of the public outrage over Krusty's seeming criminal turn, Apu begins marketing a "clown-repelling" machine gun, while Reverend Lovejoy arranges a bonfire, where Springfield's residents destroy Krusty's merchandise.

In Krusty's absence, his sidekick Sideshow Bob becomes the new host of his show, rechristening it as The Side-Show Bob Cavalcade of Whimsy and retooling it to focus on education and classic literature while retaining The Itchy & Scratchy Show. Refusing to accept that his idol could have committed a crime, Bart enlists Lisa's help to prove Krusty's innocence.

At the crime scene, Bart and Lisa recall that the robber read a magazine and used a microwave oven, which Krusty could not have done as he is illiterate and has an artificial pacemaker, which requires him to avoid microwave radiation. When Bart and Lisa visit Sideshow Bob to learn whether Krusty had any enemies, he gives them tickets to his show. During the live broadcast, Bart is invited on stage with Bob, who dismisses Bart's points about the microwave and magazine. When Bob says he has "big shoes to fill", Bart remembers when Homer stepped on the robber's foot during his robbery, making him react in pain. Despite wearing clown shoes, Krusty has small feet and would not have felt Homer stepping on them. Bart deduces that Sideshow Bob is the culprit, since he had the most to gain from Krusty's downfall and his large feet literally fill his own shoes. To prove this to the audience, Bart hits one of them with a mallet and reveals their size as Bob reacts in pain.

While watching the show, the police realize they failed to notice this evidence and head to the studio to arrest Bob, who admits he framed Krusty because he hated being on the receiving end of the clown's humiliating gags and felt that his true talents were wasted on his show. Released after his exoneration, Krusty regains the trust of the townspeople, including Homer, who apologizes for misidentifying him, as he thanks Bart for his help. Bart hangs a picture of himself shaking hands with Krusty in his bedroom, which is refilled with Krusty decor and merchandise.

Production

Director Brad Bird wanted to open the episode with a close-up of Krusty's face. The staff liked the idea, and he then suggested that all three acts of the episode, defined by the placement of the commercial breaks, should begin with a close-up shot. Act one begins with Krusty's face introducing the audience at his show, act two begins with Krusty's face being locked up behind bars, and act three begins with Sideshow Bob's face on a big poster. Krusty's character is based on a television clown from Portland, Oregon called Rusty Nails, whom The Simpsons creator Matt Groening watched while growing up in Portland. The original teleplay, written by Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky, was 78 pages long and many scenes had to be cut. One scene that had to be cut down was the scene where Patty and Selma show the slideshow of their vacation; it originally contained images of them being detained for bringing heroin into America.

"Krusty Gets Busted" is Sideshow Bob's second appearance on The Simpsons but is his first major appearance. He first appeared as a minor character in the season one episode "The Telltale Head". In that appearance, his design was simpler and his hair was round. However, near the end of the episode, he appears with his more familiar hairstyle. Bob's design was updated for "Krusty Gets Busted", and the animators tried to redo his scenes in "The Telltale Head" with the re-design, but did not have enough time. The script for "Krusty Gets Busted" called for James Earl Jones to voice Bob, but the producers instead went with Kelsey Grammer, a cast member on Cheers at the time. Grammer based Bob's voice on that of theater director Ellis Rabb. Kent Brockman, Judge Snyder, and Scott Christian make their first appearances on The Simpsons in this episode.

Cultural references
Chief Wiggum's order during the suspect line-up to "send in the clowns" is an allusion to the Stephen Sondheim song "Send in the Clowns" from the 1973 musical A Little Night Music. The Sondheim musical took its name from Mozart's Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, Eine kleine Nachtmusik, which is the theme tune to Sideshow Bob's show. The close up shot of Krusty's face behind bars in the beginning of act two is a reference of the closing credit motif of the British television series The Prisoner from the 1960s. The background music in that scene resembles the theme of the television series Mission: Impossible at one point. Sideshow Bob is reading The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas to the studio audience. The song "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" by Cole Porter is featured in the episode. Following Sideshow Bob's arrest, he mutters to the Simpsons children, "And I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for these meddling kids.", which is a reference to a catchphrase from Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo franchise, which was airing on ABC as A Pup Named Scooby-Doo when this episode aired.

Reception
In its original American broadcast, "Krusty Gets Busted" finished 13th in the ratings for the week of April 23–29, 1990, with a Nielsen rating of 16.4. It was the highest rated show on the Fox network that week. The episode received generally positive reviews from critics. Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, praised the episode: "The invention of the Simpsons' arch enemy as a lugubrious yet psychotic Englishman in dreadlocks succeeds wonderfully in this super-fast, super-funny episode that works by constantly reversing the audience's expectations."

In a DVD review of the first season, David B. Grelck rated this episode a3 (of 5). Colin Jacobson at DVD Movie Guide said in a review that "throughout the episode we found great material; it really seemed clear that the show was starting to turn into the piece we now know and love. It's hard for me to relate any deficiencies" and added that "almost every Bob episode offers a lot of fun, and this episode started that trend in fine style." Screen Rant called it the best episode of the first season. Series creator Matt Groening listed it as his ninth favorite episode of The Simpsons and added "I have a peculiar love of TV clownery".

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Category:Motorways in the Netherlands

This category contains articles related to motorways (freeways) in the Netherlands - indicated with a red, A-prefixed route number.

Motorways are controlled-access highways designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated. See list of motorways in the Netherlands for a more detailed overview.

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Category:Central nervous system pathways

These are neural pathways of the central nervous system.


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mika Midolo

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Mika Midolo
Article about a transit reporter appearing in a single news program in Toronto. Not notable. JoaoRicardo 02:23, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete TV personalities are a tough case because they're often close to the inclusion line. Unfortunately, I'd say she's close in the wrong direction.  It just seems pretty unlikely to me that someone would see a transit reporter on their local news and look that person up in a world encyclopedia.  To make things worse, the first two lines are a direct copy from http://toronto.citytv.com/personalities/content/midolo_mika.asp Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  03:03, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, possible plagiarism. Megan1967 06:08, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. jni 11:55, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * delete. CHUM? Kevin? Liza? no relevance, poor article, i suppose "not notable" applies as well. Avriette 12:15, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. utcursch 13:33, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I know who she is (and Kevin and Liza etc), but she's not notable. If she had any other claim to fame... Radagast 17:03, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP. I made several changes, and although I can't boost her notability, she's notable enough as a regular on Breakfast Television. —Mar·ka·ci: 2005-02-28 19:24 Z
 * Keep --Theo (Talk) 03:03, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Pierre Falardeau

Pamphlétaire
Is there a word for "pamphlétaire" in English? --Liberlogos 02:22, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * pamphleteer --Marc pasquin 17:18, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Marxism
What about his marxist views? Even though Falardeau said he thought Quebec independance was more important in his mind, socialism is still an essential part of his opinions.

MLNQ
Toned down the MLNQ portion a bit, although I'm not quite sure how to rephrase the ethnic cleansing bit. Surely some more wikipedian wording can be found. I do not approve of Mr. Falardeau's intolerant views nor the MLNQ's, but the article should show NPOV.

Encyclopedias are not for people who are already familair with a topic
Many people who are not in North America know the nbames of the provinces of Canada. You could be in Australia or New Zeeland. The proper format is to mention the person's citizen nation, here it is Canada. It is true he was a Quebec independent separatosm advocate. That is in the lead. But his citoyenship etait Canadien 70.80.16.211 (talk) 14:28, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:Optical rotation

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Fixed: The discussion regarding invert sugar contains several errors. Levulose is another name for fructose, not sucrose. Sucrose, like glucose, is dextrorotatory (rotates the plane of polarization to the right). Fructose (levulose) is even more strongly levorotatory than glucose is dextrorotatory. Thus, an equal mixture of glucose and fructose (such as would be produced by hydrolysis of sucrose) will rotate polarization to the left. The term "invert sugar" for such a mixture does indeed derive from the change in rotation that accompanies the hydrolysis, but the change is from right to left, not left to right.

This article was not general enough (mainly giving a chemist's view of optical activity). I have edited it and added a physical explanation of the phenomenon.--J S Lundeen 19:00, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the expansion. Good to have this info! DMacks 16:40, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the correction. I am going to link to the invert sugar article, and link it here, to the benefit of both. --AJim (talk) 06:27, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

All individual molecules rotate plane poalrised light even non-chiral ones
I don't think that this is explained anywhere as far as I can see.

For non-chiral molecules the net effect cancels out the individual rotations thus no net rotation, just as is the case for a racemic mixture.

This info should be added somewhere. This is explained quite well in ("Organic Chemistry" by Morrison and Boyd) --Stolen Vehicle (talk) 17:31, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Need to clarify - is Faraday effect a special case of optical activity, or distinct from it?
I have just edited the lead to distinguish optical activity from Faraday effect, however I am not sure this is valid.

I can gradually rotate plane polarized light using either a chiral material in zero field, or a nonchiral material in nonzero field. Are these both called "optical activity"?

Landau and Lifshitz refer to rotation in zero field as "natural optical activity". --Nanite (talk) 13:03, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

 * The terms are used separately for one or the other (so I think your edit was wrong, which I'll change), but they both result in circular birefringence (=rotation of plane of linear polarization) proportional to length of travel. From that alone you couldn't distinguish one black box from the other. But one distinction between the two black boxes is that optical activity will rotate the plane of polarization clockwise (or ccw) equally whether the beam is going to the left or right (or any direction actually) whereas the Faraday effect has opposite rotation between the two. Which is why it can be used for an optical isolator. Interferometrist (talk) 13:44, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

 * And I have never never heard the term "Natural optical activity" and will remove it. I appreciate that you read this terminology in a RS but it isn't a mainstream usage of the term. Interferometrist (talk) 13:53, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

 * Looking at this a bit futher, I now see that the name of the article is "Optical rotation" which is said to be synonymous with "Optical activity." But maybe not? I think the page should be named optical activity, the more common term, and then this would be clear.  Unless someone finds usage of "Optical rotation" (in a RS!) different from optical activity, I will take them to be the same, and thus separate from Faraday rotation.Interferometrist (talk) 14:35, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

 * Thanks for checking my edit. Indeed there is also the term "circular birefringence" you mentioned. There should indeed be some reliable sources that clarify the distinction (is it true that circular birefringence == optical activity == optical rotation ?).
 * On a Google Books search for "optical activity" the first thing that came up was Barron's Molecular Light Scattering and Optical Activity. In the Preface, it seems he is saying:
 * Faraday discovered something called "magnetic optical activity".
 * A system is "optically active" if it can rotate the plane of linear polarization of light (if it can cause optical rotation), however,
 * There are a wider class of "optical activity phenomena" that are all traced to a material treating left- and right-circular polarized light differently.
 * If a substance is optically active without external influence (magnetic or electric fields) it is said to have "natural optical activity". Otherwise all materials are optically active in magnetic fields.
 * In the book the term "circular birefringence" seems to be used only rarely.
 * In such a viewpoint, optical activity encompasses a wide class of effects: Faraday effect, chiral materials, circular dichroism, optical rotation, Cotton effect, etc....
 * Optical rotation is a then specific effect only for linearly polarized light, and I infer that he includes both reciprocal (chiral) and nonreciprocal (Faraday) rotation of polarization as "optical rotation".
 * But I am not sure if this is universal, so it's worth checking out more RSes. I imagine one problem is that there are two communities with only a little overlap. Semiconductor physicists will mainly talk about Faraday effects and chemists will mainly talk about optical rotation of their chiral compounds.--Nanite (talk) 16:04, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

 * Well thank you very much for your research and finding this! Indeed if this is standard usage, then my edit to the lede was somewhat in error and we need to correct the use of terminology (though there is a separate article on the Faraday effect so I think the topics should still be divided rather than overlapping beyond mentioning the common aspects). And yes, I will look further in our optics library. But I am quite sure that "Natural optical activity" is not really in use (though there should be such a term if  "optical activity" is indeed so broad). We can both look further and get back to the matter of symantics  :-)  Interferometrist (talk) 18:12, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

 * Update: I randomly grabbed several general optics books in our library and looked up optical activity in the index. 5 had an entry. Of those, I was surprised to see one also include the Faraday effect within the section and even used the phrase "Natural optical activity". The other discussed Faraday rotation separately or not at all and didn't use that surprising phrase. This isn't enough to get a good handle on the usage patterns. I do not believe that "optical activity" includes Faraday rotation according to general usage. But I'd say that if we find additional usage of that sort, then these terminologies should be mentioned as a linguistic note. But not if it's only in obscure instances (that was a very old book).

 * Thanks for doing the research. :) Indeed there are two usage patterns. In one camp you'll see sentences like "In contrast to optical activity the Faraday rotation is a non-reciprocal ...", and in the other camp you'll see things like "Unlike natural optical activity, the Faraday effect is ...". In any case, the phrase "natural optical activity" is far less used (7500 google hits) than the term "optical activity" (435000 hits) or "faraday effect" (160000 hits). OTOH, the searches do reveal what I suspected, which is that most discussion about optical activity is by chemists, whereas discussion about faraday effect is primarily done by physicists. And discussion of both is not common -- a google search for both "optical activity" and "faraday effect" yields 10000 hits. --Nanite (talk) 13:35, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

 * Also, on a different subject, it occurred to me that there is one other important case of optical activity that isn't currently even mentioned: liquid crystals. Even though I spend at least 12 hours a day starring at a computer monitor whose every pixel is controlled by the degree of polarization rotation in a liquid crystal! I suppose chiral liquid crystals should be added to this article as they DO appear to conform to the definition of optical activity (which excludes Faraday rotation, according to my current understanding of the terms). Interferometrist (talk) 17:18, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

 * There seems to me to be something missing here. Please correct me if I am wrong. Putting aside induced optical activity, there are other sources of optical activity than you seem to be discussing. The chirality article, for instance, seems to focus on chemical enantiomers, that is the intrinsic optical activity which occurs wherever molecules have mirror images. It is a bit more obscure, but there is another way to get optical rotation. You touch upon it when you mention liquid crystals, above. Secondary structure, most notably helical structures, will produce optical activity because the helices can be right or left handed. Look at the circular dichroism article, for instance. CD has biochemical relevance because of the helical structures that occur in proteins and nucleic acids. Do you agree that there is more to be said? AJim (talk) 02:52, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

 * That's very true. My guess is that the criterion is that the material only has to be chiral at a sub-wavelength level, and this need not be at the molecular level. Another example, lately there is a trend in the metamaterials research community to produce optical activity in artificial structures. If you shine light through a bag full of drywall screws, we wouldn't call it optically active for visible light, but doubtless it is optically active for microwaves. --Nanite (talk) 12:41, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Relation to Waveplate
Is any relation between Optical rotation and Waveplate? Anyway, it is similar and must be noted each other. --Nashev (talk) 10:11, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

LCD and modern tv/monitor
"used in most modern televisions and computer monitors" or maybe not (see LED/OLED/Plasma/etc.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.1.209.51 (talk) 11:52, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Dextrorotation and levorotation into Optical rotation
significant overlap fgnievinski (talk) 03:39, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

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James E. Burke

James Edward Burke (February 28, 1925 – September 28, 2012) was an American businessman who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) from 1976 to 1989, where he worked for forty years. The company's revenue tripled to more than $9 billion under his tenure.

Burke was best known as head of Johnson & Johnson during the 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders, after which he chose to recall 31 million bottles of Tylenol at the expense of $100 million, ultimately relaunching the product with a tamper-proof design. His actions became a prominent case of successful crisis management, and have served as a standard case study for numerous business practices. In 2000, he was one of few CEOs to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2003, Fortune magazine named Burke as one of the greatest CEOs in history.

Early life and education
Burke was born in Rutland, Vermont, on February 28, 1925, to James Burke, a former marble salesman turned insurance salesman, and Mary Barnett Burke, a homemaker. He was raised middle-class in the small town of Slingerlands, New York, near Albany. Multiple members of his family were later successful in business. Burke's younger brother, Daniel, became president of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). His two sisters, Phyllis Davis and Sidney Burke Carroll, were a cosmetics executive and lawyer, respectively. One nephew, Stephen Burke, is the senior executive vice president of Comcast and chairman of NBCUniversal.

As a child, Burke collected and sold daffodils found near his Albany home—afraid that they "were going to waste"—and offered a portion of the profits to the field owner. He also peddled Christmas trees and strawberries. "I was a marketing person beginning in fourth grade," Burke recalled. He was influenced by his father, who taught each of his children to debate.

After being educated at the Vincentian Institute, a rigorous Catholic high school in Albany, Burke attended the College of the Holy Cross, where he was a member of the college's Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) program, along with yearbook, band, and business clubs. During World War II, he served as an ensign in the United States Navy and commanded a landing craft tank (LCT) in the Pacific Theater.

Burke returned to Holy Cross after the war, graduating in 1947 with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in economics, and writing a senior thesis titled "Federal Trade Commission and Advertising." He then enrolled in Harvard Business School and earned a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in 1949. Many of Burke's classmates at Harvard also became prominent business leaders, including Thomas Murphy, chair and CEO of ABC. Years later, in a 1991 conversation at the Academy of Management, Burke said that he learned more of business through the undergraduate program at Holy Cross than he did throughout business school.

Career
After graduating from Harvard, Burke became a sales representative for the consumer corporation Procter & Gamble. He remained there for three years as a brand manager before moving to assume a position as a director for Johnson & Johnson's product division (known as Johnson & Johnson Products) in 1953, tasked with selling the company's original first aid goods. Growing dissatisfied with the company's lack of product development, he initially planned to leave. After one year, Burke quit Johnson & Johnson, where "he found the environment and lack of innovation stifling." But after being persuaded that the company would be more tolerant of risk-taking, Burke returned three weeks later, arriving as the new head of the department.

Burke prioritized the development of new products as department head. In 1954, Burke launched a series of over-the-counter medicines for children, but they all proved unsuccessful. On one occasion, he was called to the office of J&J CEO Robert Wood Johnson II: "I was full of bravado. I thought I was going to get fired." Johnson instead congratulated Burke for his propensity for risk-taking.

J&J announced that Richard B. Sellars would step down as CEO as of November 1, 1976, and be replaced by Burke. As CEO, Burke is credited for the growth of Johnson & Johnson to its current size and prominence, but he is perhaps best known for his crisis management in 1982, when it was found that Tylenol capsules had been poisoned with cyanide.

In addition to his duties with Johnson & Johnson, Burke served as an outside director for IBM and was instrumental in the ousting of John Akers and bringing in former American Express and RJR Nabisco CEO Louis V. Gerstner Jr. to replace him.

Following his retirement, he was appointed the second chairman of the national nonprofit organization Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA), formed by a consortium of advertising professionals who ran a research-based media campaign to discourage teenage use of illegal drugs such as marijuana. Burke was honored for his public service advertising work by then US president Bill Clinton, who awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. Fortune magazine named him as one of the ten greatest CEOs of all time and he had a membership in the National Business Hall of Fame.

He received the Bower Award for Business Leadership in 1990. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1991 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993.

In 1993, Burke received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.

He was president of the Business Enterprise Trust that honored acts of courage, integrity and social conscience in business.

Personal life
Burke married his first wife, Alice Llewellyn Eubank, in April 1957. He had two children with her: James Charles and Mary Clotilde. After Eubank's death, Burke married his second wife, Diane "Didi" Wormser (1927–2021), an artist who was the daughter of Felix Wormser, in 1981.

External link

 * Record at the Institute for Advanced Study

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Rocketplane XP

The Rocketplane XP was a suborbital spaceplane design that was under development c. 2005 by Rocketplane Kistler. The vehicle was to be powered by two jet engines and a rocket engine, intended to enable it to reach suborbital space. The XP would have operated from existing spaceports in a manner consistent with established commercial aviation practices. Commercial flights were projected to begin in 2009. Rocketplane Global declared bankruptcy in mid-June 2010. Their assets were auctioned off in 2011.

Design and development
As envisioned, the Rocketplane XP would carry a pilot and five passengers on a flight profile from a runway using jet engines like a conventional aircraft. It would then climb to about 12 km (40,000 feet). At this point, a reusable rocket engine would power the XP on a suborbital trajectory reaching altitudes of over 100 km after burnout. The XP was to then reenter Earth's atmosphere and land at the same spaceport under conventional jet power. The relatively low speeds involved meant that heat shielding was not a major concern. The XP was expected to operate from the Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark near Burns Flat, Oklahoma.

On January 24, 2006 Rocketplane Limited announced a Space Act agreement with NASA Johnson Space Center for the loan of a Rocketdyne RS-88 rocket engine for three years, for use in flight tests of the XP vehicle.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sam Thomas

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Sam Thomas
Vanity. Delete. cesarb 02:27, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete. Vanity and horribly written. Couldn't you at least make an effort when you're vandalizing? Preisler 03:18, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This looks more like someone trying to embarass Mr. Thomas. JoaoRicardo 03:37, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Funny for the first few sentences, but obviously doesn't belong here. Android79 05:01, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, vanity. Megan1967 06:11, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, can't people spell anymore? -- Riffsyphon1024 06:13, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity, not notable, and currently needs to go through a spell checker. Zzyzx11 06:47, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Gibberish. jni 11:54, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity. utcursch 13:31, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dungeon Master Pro

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 14:31, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Dungeon Master Pro
An amateur, non-notable software. Its website gives a 404 error. JoaoRicardo 02:28, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete sounds like a good idea actually, but with only 14 displayed Google hits, and at least 1 of those unrelated... I don't think it's ready for an article just yet. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 03:09, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not ready for prime time.  ComCat 09:07, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. utcursch 13:30, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Assyria Liberation Party

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This page should be moved to Assyria Liberation Party since acronyms and non-english page names are not really supposed to be in wikipedia --nixie 02:29, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I've moved the page here in accordance with policy. I've also rewritten the article so that it does not contain comments that include words like foreigners and dictators. The article does not mention that the area claimed by the party is also inhabited by other ethnic groups. Gareth Hughes 09:02, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Bill Gore

Wilbert Lee "Bill" Gore (January 25, 1912 – July 26, 1986) was an American engineer and scientist, inventor and businessman who co-founded W. L. Gore and Associates with his wife, Genevieve (Vieve).

Trained as a chemical engineer and chemist, his technical interests included polymer engineering, applications of statistical methods to experimentation, and methods of operations research. He held patents in the fields of plastics, fluorocarbons, and electronics. He was also an active outdoorsman.

Biographical information
Born in Meridian, Idaho in 1912, Bill Gore held degrees in chemical engineering (B.S., 1933) and physical chemistry (M.S., 1935) from the University of Utah. His early career included employment at American Smelting and Refining Company, Remington Arms, and the DuPont Company.

In 1957, Gore left a career with DuPont to pursue an idea of his own for making electronic ribbon cable for use in computers that was insulated with polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). Bill and Vieve started their company, W. L. Gore & Associates, in the basement of their Newark, Delaware home in 1958. One of the key processes involved was suggested by their son, Bob Gore, then a sophomore in college. By 1960, increasing orders for their MULTI-TET ribbon cable, in particular a contract from the Denver Water Company, resulted in the construction of a separate manufacturing facility.

Under Bill Gore's leadership, the company grew from a modest business into an international corporation known best for its waterproof, breathable Gore-Tex fabrics. Today, the company has a broad portfolio of products based on PTFE that include cables for electronic signal transmission, diverse industrial applications, medical implants and laminated fabrics. The company was known for its innovative "lattice" management structure, which Bill Gore is widely credited for developing.

Bill Gore served as president of W. L. Gore & Associates until he stepped down in 1976, in favor of his son, Bob. Bill maintained his position as chairman of the board until his death. He died of a heart attack at the age of 74 in July 1986 while on a backpacking trip in Wyoming's Wind River Range.

Awards and honors
Bill Gore was honored with numerous business, education, and community awards, including a University of Delaware Medal of Distinction (1983) and an honorary doctorate in humanities (1971) from Westminster College. In 1985, Bill Gore received the Prince Philip Award for Polymers in the Service of Mankind, which honored Gore's Medical Products Division. The award is given in recognition of polymers that have provided a significant service for mankind. He was inducted posthumously into the Plastics Hall of Fame in 1990. In 2012, he was named one of The 50 Most Influential Delawareans of the Past 50 Years.

Personal life
Bill and his wife had five children.

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I know speaking good englisch. Otherwise I still contribute.

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United States Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade

The U.S. Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade is one of five subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.

This subcommittee has jurisdiction over legislation on agricultural commodities, including cotton, dairy products, feed grains, wheat, tobacco, peanuts, sugar, wool, rice, oilseeds and soybeans and price and income support programs.

Name changes
The subcommittee was renamed for the 115th United States Congress (2017).

It was previously:
 * 112th-114th Congresses: Subcommittee on Commodities, Markets, Trade and Risk Management
 * 111th Congress: Subcommittee on Production, Income Protection and Price Support
 * 110th Congress: Subcommittee on Production, Income Protection and Price Support Jurisdiction
 * 109th Congress: Subcommittee on Production and Price Competitiveness


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Through Being Cool

Through Being Cool is the second studio album by American rock band Saves the Day, released on November 2, 1999, by Equal Vision. The songs on Through Being Cool were written while the band members attended New York University. The album was recorded in 11 days and represented the band's transition from a melodic hardcore sound to a more pop punk style. It was produced by Steve Evetts at Trax East Recording Studio in South River, New Jersey. The band's members dropped out of college to tour alongside Snapcase, New Found Glory, Hot Water Music, and Face to Face, among others. A music video was filmed for the song "Shoulder to the Wheel."

Eventually selling 50,000 copies, the success of Through Being Cool helped Saves the Day to sign with Vagrant Records. It was named one of Alternative Press' 10 most influential albums of 1999. To celebrate the album's 15th anniversary, the band played the album front-to-back on tour and Equal Vision re-pressed the album on vinyl. Vocalist Chris Conley considers it "the most important record that we did."

Background
Saves the Day formed in late 1997. Their debut album, Can't Slow Down, was released through Equal Vision in August 1998. The album helped the band to gain fans, mainly in the New Jersey area. The band promoted the album with two tours helping to expand its fan base. Initially, they were heckled at each appearance. Drummer Bryan Newman said that the group was "totally out of place" among the other bands on the tour. Saves the Day had three different lineup changes while touring in support of Can't Slow Down, leaving vocalist Chris Conley and Newman as the only original members remaining.

Saves the Day's guitarist, Justin Gaylord, had left at the end of their first full tour of the United States. Dave Soloway, who had driven the band to their gigs during high school, was added to the band as Gaylord's replacement. Conley described Soloway as a kid who "came from bluegrass and his family would sit around singing folk songs and stuff at home." Guitarist Ted Alexander was the band's roadie, and spent so much time with the band that they eventually "just gave him a guitar". Sean McGrath, bassist on the band's first album, was kicked out of the band and the group sought a replacement. Around the time, Saves the Day was playing gigs with local bands, one of which Eben D'Amico was in. Conley called him a "sick" bassist and eventually asked him if he would like to join Saves the Day. With this lineup, the band entered Shoulder to the Wheel studios in March 1999 and recorded an acoustic EP, I'm Sorry I'm Leaving. The EP was released in mid-1999 on Immigrant Sun Records, and only 500 copies were pressed.

Recording
Through Being Cool was recorded with producer Steve Evetts in June 1999 at Trax East Recording Studio in South River, New Jersey. Evetts always kept the band "in line" and was "definitely the guru of the whole thing", according to Newman. Unfortunately, the experience of recording in a studio nearly led to Newman having a breakdown, as he was not used to the environment; he later noted that the entire process "was intense". Recording and mixing was done over a total of eleven days. The band, attempting to finish the album, pulled all-nighters, relaxing in the control room, and sleeping in the lounge. In an interview with Alternative Press, Conley that while other people might have thought the group was trying to rush through production, he and his band members were actually "just having a blast". The recording sessions also included two additional half-day sessions, which were booked due to Conley losing his voice recording the vocals. Eventually, when it came time to track the album, Conley and the band were "really psyched" at how the songs were sounding. Evetts also engineered the album, while Alan Douches mastered it at West West Side.

Composition
Saves the Day wrote the material for Through Being Cool while attending New York University (NYU). Conley said, "I had written all the songs while at NYU, writing lyrics during Psychology 101 and writing the guitar parts over at Bryan’s apartment on 7th Street and 2nd Avenue." The music was credited to Conley and Saves the Day, except for "Do You Know What I love the Most?" by Alexander and Saves the Day, and "The Vast Spoils of America (From the Badlands Through the Ocean)" by Soloway and Saves the Day. The band rehearsed in Conley's parents' basement and slept over at the home, "working all weekend long." During these sessions, they refined what Conley had written and recorded demos of their progress.

The album has a more pop punk sound compared to Can't Slow Down, which was a melodic hardcore-driven record. Allmusic reviewer Vincent Jeffries described the record's sound as "emocore". Conley explained that the shift in sound came from the music he was listening to. He liked several hardcore bands, but had played their albums "to death" and wanted to look for other sources of inspiration. While working on Through Being Cool, Conley listened to the Foo Fighters' The Colour and the Shape (1997), Weezer's Pinkerton (1996), and Joni Mitchell's Blue (1971), among others.

Artwork
Dan Sandshaw, the head of Equal Vision, said that there was a debate over the artwork for the album. Conley was unsure about what do with the artwork, and went along with Newman and Soloway's ideas. The cover artwork that was eventually chosen depicts the band as social outcasts, sitting on a couch during a high school party. The album booklet continues the outcast theme. Sandshaw felt that cover would give the wrong impression to hardcore fans, and Newman regretted it after the album was released. Conley said people told the band that they had sold out because the cover art featured their faces. The band, and Luke Hoverman, designed the concept with Frank Davidson providing the layout. The photographs were taken by Hoverman with assistance from Lenny Zimkus. The CD art features Gabe Saporta kissing a girl, while the back cover has actor James Ransone passed out on a couch.

Release and touring
When the band gave the finished album to Sandshaw, he said that the Equal Vision staff "couldn't stop listening to it" and were determined to get the band "the exposure they deserved." Sandshaw thought it was going to be a game-changing album. Dropping out of college to give the album live exposure, the band built a big fan base along the east coast. In October and November 1999, Saves the Day went on tour with Snapcase and Kid Dynamite. Through Being Cool was released on November 2 on Equal Vision Records. The band played a release show with The Get Up Kids, At the Drive-In, and Midtown. In January 2000, the band toured alongside Piebald and New Found Glory, and then with Snapcase in late January until early February. Saves the Day also played in February with Hot Water Music. In February, the band filmed the music video for "Shoulder to the Wheel" with director Darren Doan. The video was filmed at Soloway's parents' house and featured the band's friends. The group played songs to get people into the mood before miming along to "Shoulder to the Wheel". The video was released to television stations on April 7. The band was uncomfortable with Doan's ideas during the making of the video, and Newman said the group "hated it as soon as [they] saw it".

The band went on a North American tour in 2000 with H2O between March and May. On this trip, the band got into an accident with their van that almost ended their career. They rejoined the tour on the Seattle date. By the time this run had ended, the album had sold nearly 50,000 copies – a massive number for Equal Vision. In an issue of CMJ New Music Report dated May 2000, it was announced that due to the success of Through Being Cool, Saves the Day had signed with Vagrant Records. Rich Egan, founder of Vagrant, became their manager. Egan "fell in love" with the band because their lyrics were "so honest, so cut and dried." The band performed on a few Warped Tour dates in early August. Following this, the band played shows with Face to Face, New Found Glory, and Alkaline Trio in late August to early October. They again joined Face to Face from late October to mid November.

Reception
AllMusic reviewer Vincent Jeffries noted that, for Through Being Cool, the band went for a "punchier production," using it to foreground Conley's "romantic teen declarations". According to Jeffries, while some songs may have had issues, such as being too "obvious, sappy, or both, Conley pulls it together with plain-spoken honesty", and highlighted "Third Engine" as an example of this. While noting that their first album sounded like Lifetime, Aubin Paul wrote that the band "found themselves" with Through Being Cool. At the same time, Paul argued that part of the album were derivative, highlighting in particular one song that he felt was "almost identical" to the Samiam song "Capsized". In a retrospective review for Consequence of Sound, Megan Ritt wrote that "Shoulder to the Wheel" and "Rocks Tonic Juice Magic" had not "really aged at all" and sounded as "vital" today as they did when they were first released. Ritt opined that "Banned from the Back Porch" "rock[ed] pretty hard," making listeners want to "thrash a little harder in the mosh pit" while Jeffries noted the song sounded similar to metal.

Legacy
Alternative Press writer Colin McGuire argued that Through Being Cool influenced a new wave of pop-punk bands, such as Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, and Taking Back Sunday. Alternative Press also included the album on their list of the most influential albums of 1999. Tris McCall of NJ.com cited the album as "every third-wave emo band's inspiration [...] [sending] a shockwave through the pop-punk underground." NME listed the album was one of 20 Pop Punk Albums Which Will Make You Nostalgic. BuzzFeed included it at number 5 on its list of 36 Pop Punk Albums You Need To Hear Before You F——ing Die. The album was included in Rock Sound's 101 Modern Classics list at number 60, with the notation that "pop-punk has not been the same since [1999], and this record play[ed] a major role in that change." Fall Out Boy's vocalist Patrick Stump listed the album at number 10 on his list of 10 Records That Changed My Life. Stump revealed that he would not "have been in Fall Out Boy if it weren't for this record". The album's artwork was included by Fuse.tv as one of 20 Iconic Pop Punk Album Covers. Journalists Leslie Simon and Trevor Kelley included the album in their list of the most essential emo releases in their book Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture (2007), while Stereogum listed "Rocks Tonic Juice Magic" as one of 30 Essential Songs From The Golden Era of Emo.

Saves the Day performed the album in its entirety at a secret show in Brooklyn in September 2013. On September 4, 2014, Saves the Day and Say Anything announced a co-headlining U.S. tour with support from Reggie and the Full Effect. On the tour, Saves the Day played Through Being Cool, Say Anything played ...Is a Real Boy (2004), and Reggie and the Full Effect played Under the Tray (2003). The tour lasted from November 14 to December 21. Equal Vision remastered Through Being Cool and repressed the album on vinyl for its 15th anniversary. The idea for the tour came about from a conversation between Conley and Say Anything's frontman Max Bemis. The two were discussing the past and Bemis mentioned that ...Is a Real Boy was going to be 10 years old in the same year Through Being Cool turned 15. In an interview with Alternative Press for the album's 15th anniversary, Conley thought the album had stood up well and that it was "pretty fresh-sounding" and considered it "the most important record that we did".

Personnel
Personnel per booklet.

 * Saves the Day
 * Chris Conley – vocals
 * Bryan Newman – drums
 * Eben D'Amico – bass
 * Ted Alexander – rhythm guitar
 * David Soloway – lead guitar

 * Production
 * Steve Evetts – producer, engineering
 * Alan Douches – mastering
 * Saves the Day, Luke Hoverman – design concept
 * Frank Davidson – layout
 * Luke Hoverman – photography
 * Lenny Zimkus – assistant photography
 * Megan Delany – styling

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North Central College

North Central College is a private college in Naperville, Illinois. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and has 73 undergraduate majors of study 17 minors, 25 graduate programs, and 4 certificate programs offered by four undergraduate colleges/schools (College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business and Entrepreneurship, School of Education and Health Sciences, Shimer Great Books School) and one School of Graduate and Professional Studies.

History
North Central College was founded in 1861 as Plainfield College in Plainfield, Illinois. Classes were first held on November 11 of that year. On February 15, 1864, the Board of Trustees changed the name of the school to North-Western College. The college moved to Naperville in 1870 and the name was again changed in 1926 to North Central College.

In June 2017, North Central College acquired Shimer College and instituted the Shimer Great Books School of North Central College.

Campus
The college is on a 65-acre (24 ha) campus 28 miles west of Chicago, in downtown Naperville. The campus sits just east of the DuPage River, between North and Prairie Avenues. Its eastern boundary is Loomis Street for most of the campus. Its western boundaries are Brainard Street for the portion north of Chicago Avenue and the DuPage River for the southern portion.

Old Main was completed in 1870 and remains the focal point of campus.

In the early 1900s, College President Herman J. Kiekhoefer and Judge John S. Goodwin initiated contact with philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to seek out funds for new facilities on campus. Carnegie agreed to donate $25,000 (approximately $679,059 in the current consumer price index) to then North-Western College for a new library building. Carnegie Library, as it was called, was one of only a few academic libraries in Illinois that received funding from Carnegie. The building still exists on campus and is now known as Carnegie Hall.

Pfeiffer Hall is North Central College's oldest fine arts building. The 4,500-square-foot building was built in 1926 and seats 1,057. This structure has been historically used by the college to screen films and host lectures, debates, and theatrical productions. Today Pfeiffer Hall continues to host events such as these along with live performances by popular music artists and comedians.

In 2008, North Central College dedicated the $30 million Wentz Concert Hall and Fine Arts Center. Designed by the Chicago architectural firm of Loebl Schlossman & Hackl, the 57000 sqft facility was planned and sited with the needs of both the College and the Naperville community in mind. Plans evolved over a 15-year period, driven by explosive growth in the college's music, theatre and art programs, as well as the parallel transformation of the city's downtown, which has brought more than 50 restaurants, numerous national stores and the first four- and five-story buildings within a few blocks of the North Central campus.

The concert hall is named in honor of Myron Wentz, Class of 1963. Nearly $10 million in gifts from Wentz — a scientist, entrepreneur, and music lover — over the past two years have brought the facility to center stage. Plans for a new fine arts center were put on hold a decade ago when a devastating flood in Naperville forced the college to turn its attention to its damaged athletic complex instead.

In addition to Wentz Concert Hall, the Fine Arts Center also features the Madden Theatre, which is a 150-seat “black box” experimental theatre that can double as a dance studio and a facility to provide music rehearsal space, practice rooms and offices. The center also houses a spacious lobby, a kitchen facility and the Schoenherr Art Gallery (all supportive of major civic gatherings).

The rededication of Meiley-Swallow Hall, the old Grace Evangelical Church at Ellsworth Street and Van Buren Avenue, was a highlight during the 2007 Homecoming weekend. In 2005, the college embraced the opportunity to preserve a part of Naperville and North Central history by acquiring the former Grace Evangelical Church. The 95-year-old structure was erected by the same denomination that founded North Central College and an addition to the college's art and theatre programs. Special features of this building include nearly 23000 sqft of space, much-needed art display area, a 225-seat thrust stage theatre, and additional office space.

Academics
North Central has all-college requirements, which include an intercultural seminar, a leadership, ethics, and values seminar, and a religion and ethics course, which are important components to the integrative curriculum. The college also has opportunities for individual work, such as the Richter Independent Study Grants and the Honors program's Senior Honors Thesis. Students are encouraged to study abroad, with opportunities on five continents from three-week courses to full-time term-long or full-year programs. Its most popular undergraduate majors, based on number out of 545 graduates in 2022, were:
 * Psychology (64)
 * Accounting (36)
 * Marketing/Marketing Management (34)
 * Business Administration, Management and Operations (27)
 * Finance (27)
 * Elementary Education and Teaching (25)
 * Exercise Science and Kinesiology (23)

Rankings
North Central College garnered recognition as a top producer of Fulbright students for 2014-2015. The college is one of five schools in the world recognized with a 2015 Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization. In the 2007 through 2017 editions of the U.S. News & World Report "Best Colleges Rankings", North Central College is ranked in the top 20 Regional Universities (Midwest) as well as a "Best College for Veterans". Forbes magazine has rated North Central College among the top 20 percent of the nation's colleges and universities, through the 2010-2015 ranking editions.

Arts and media
North Central College offers majors like Music, Theatre, Musical Theatre and the most recently created, Theatrical Design and Technology. It has four theatre venues, Madden Theatre, Wentz Concert Hall, Meiley Swallow Hall and Pfeiffer Hall. Madden Theatre is a 150-seat, black box theater which hosts college performances and visiting guests, including concerts, cabaret-style revues, theater, film and dance performances.

Wentz Concert Hall has a capacity of 617 spectators, and is home to performances of classical, jazz and contemporary music. The acoustics in Wentz Concert Hall were designed by Talaske Sound Thinking, acoustical consultants for Chicago's critically acclaimed Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park. The venue also is ideally suited for recording. Wentz Concert Hall, which was created in honor of alumnus and donor Myron W. Wentz, has hosted a performers like cellist Yo-Yo Ma; Lyric Opera of Chicago soloist Elizabeth Futral; the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; jazz artists Herb Alpert, Chick Corea, Branford Marsalis, Herbie Hancock and Ramsey Lewis; and contemporary artists Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Colbie Caillat, Los Lonely Boys and Dave Mason.

The hall is the west suburban home of the Chicago Sinfonietta, and the home of the DuPage Symphony Orchestra. It is an incomparable venue to showcase bands, orchestras and choirs of area high schools, as well as the college's multitude of musical ensembles and soloists. The Canadian quintet Canadian Brass, formed by Gene Watts and Charles Daellenbach, is a recurring guest at the hall.

The Pfeiffer Hall is the biggest theatre venue, with a capacity of 1,057 people and a large proscenium stage. When it opened, it was the largest theatre in the western suburbs of Chicago. Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Frost and Henry Kissinger, have been guest speakers. This hall also provides classrooms for the music and theatre programs, and faculty offices for North Central's speech communication department.

The Meiley-Swallow Hall has a capacity of 239 people and is suitable for intimate theatre productions, panel discussions, presentations and speakers. The theatre is located inside Meiley-Swallow Hall, formerly Grace Evangelical Church and former Central Baptist Church, purchased by North Central College and renovated to house North Central College's fine arts performance, exhibit and curricular programs. It has a partnership with the Anderson's Bookshops in Naperville, and thanks to it, authors like Bill Bryson, Garth Stein and Antonio Sacre have been guest speakers.

The 2000 production of The Pirates of Penzance was selected to perform at Kennedy Center American College Theatre's Region III Festival. Productions of Ken Ludwig's Moon Over Buffalo and Schmidt and Jones' musical Philemon were both chosen to perform at the festival's "Evening of Scenes" in 2004 and 2005. The 2007 production of Thoroughly Modern Millie was selected as a regional finalist from more than 1,300 productions. The 2009 season featured a production of Cats, and in 2010, North Central became one of the first college theaters in the nation to stage a production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera.

Sciences
In 2016, the college launched their Brilliant Future campaign, which at the heart lie the construction of the college's new science center. Since the academic year 2014, the college has added new science majors including engineering, neuroscience and various health sciences. North Central's new science building opened in 2017 and was officially named the Dr. Myron Wentz Science Center in October 2017.

Residential life
There are 12 residence halls at North Central College, eight of which are traditional while four are apartments and suites.

College radio station
North Central College is home to radio station WONC-FM 89.1. It is student-run, and is part of the Department of Communication and Media Studies. The station helps students pursue careers in both on-the-air and behind-the-scenes roles. It airs music and talk shows, traffic reports, coverage and broadcast of sports events, and public service announcements. In 1974, WONC received the Billboard Magazine Radio Station of the Year Award. In March 2015, it won the Best College Radio station award. No other college radio station has garnered more Marconi College Radio Awards than WONC. It was awarded the 2015 Intercollegiate Broadcasting System Abraham and Borst Best College Station in the Nation.

NCCLinked/The Chronicle
North Central's student-run campus news site, The Chronicle, regularly covers news about the college, student life, student athletics, and the surrounding Naperville community.

Athletics
North Central College's mascot is the Cardinal, in tradition of the bird's habitat in Illinois. The school competes in NCAA Division III and the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW). It sponsors 22 sports and has won 30 team national championships, 26 NCAA and 4 NAIA. North Central athletes have won 115 individual national championships. The total number of national championships puts the college at eighth on the all-time list for most national championships. North Central is the only school in the CCIW to win a national championship in four different sports. Since joining the CCIW, North Central has won 164 conference titles along with 14 CCIW postseason tournament titles.

North Central College was a member of the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference from 1927 to 1937.

The college is best known for its men's track and field and cross country teams, which have won 25 national championships, under the leadership of Coach Al Carius. Carius has been coach since 1966 and was inducted into the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2006. For the 2009-2010 school year, the men's cross country and indoor/outdoor track teams swept the NCAA Division III Championships. North Central is only the second school in Division III history to accomplish this feat. During the 2011-2012 school year, the men's indoor track team repeated again as national champions, and the cross country team repeated as national champions. The campus has also hosted past NCAA Division III national events.

North Central's women's basketball team won the 1983 NCAA Women's Division III Basketball Championship in an 83-71 win over then-defending champions, Elizabethtown College. The men's team reached the Division III Sweet Sixteen in 2012, and the Final Four in 2013.

North Central's football team won the 2019 NCAA championship, and first in program history, with a 41-14 victory against the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Following the 2020 Covid-19 season in which no games were played, they finished as National Runner-Up in 2021 after losing the National Championship game to University of Mary Harden-Baylor. In 2022 they reached the National Championship again, where they defeated Mount Union 28-21.

Athletic facilities include Benedetti-Wehrli Stadium, which seats 5,500, was completed in 1999. The Jay and Dot Buikema track was resurfaced in 1997 and a Safeplay Plus artificial playing surface was installed in 2011. The stadium has hosted numerous high-profile events, including the Illinois high school boys and girls soccer state finals and the Wes Spencer Crosstown Classic, the annual showdown between Naperville North and Naperville Central high schools. It also served as the temporary home of the Chicago Fire for two seasons while Chicago's Soldier Field was reconstructed. In summer 2009, the stadium hosted an outdoor concert by the band Lifehouse.

North Central College's baseball facility, Zimmerman Stadium, which includes Alumni Field, was dedicated in 1999. The home of Cardinal baseball has permanent seating for 750 fans and a fully enclosed and wireless press box. The facility has hosted the Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association summer state tournament and Major League Baseball's RBI World Series and Area Code tryouts.

Cardinal softball plays at Shanower Family Field. In April 2002, the field was dedicated to honor the family of Don Shanower, beloved professor emeritus of speech communication and theatre and enthusiastic softball fan. The dedication took on added meaning after the Shanowers' son Dan, a commander in the U.S. Navy, was among the victims of the September 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon. The field has hosted an NCAA III regional tournament and was part of Major League Baseball's RBI World Series.

Merner Field House is home to Cardinal indoor sports except track and field, with 2,478 seats in Gregory Arena for the basketball and volleyball teams. On the second floor of Merner Field House is Nichols Gymnasium, home to the North Central College wrestling team. The college's swimming pool is also located in the Field House.

The Residence Hall/Recreation Center opened in the fall of 2009. This combination residential hall and 91000 sqft recreational center also contains a regulation NCAA 200-meter running track and is home to the Cardinal indoor track team. The Res/Rec Center has won national acclaim due to its environmentally conscious design. The facility, with its innovative geothermal heating and cooling system and other sustainability features, has been awarded LEED Silver Certification.

Notable alumni

 * James Henry Breasted (1865–1935), American archaeologist and Egyptologist
 * P. J. Hyett (born 1983), software developer, and co-founder of GitHub
 * Jena Morrow, author
 * Joseph Edward Rall, endocrinologist and medical researcher
 * Wayne Randazzo, Los Angeles Angels TV broadcaster
 * Orrin Tucker, (1911–2011) musician and bandleader
 * Paul A. Zahl (1910–1985), explorer and biologist and senior scientist to the National Geographic Society from 1958 to 1975

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Space Technology and Applications International Forum

Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF) was an annual conference organized by the University of New Mexico Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies (UNM-ISNPS). From 1984 to 1994 the conference series was titled the Symposium on Space Nuclear Power Systems, but the conference scope was broadened with the 12th symposium in 1995, at which a number of new topics were added. The new name was adopted for the 1996 conference, with the individual symposia as subtopics within the broader conference umbrella. The conference series ended with the 2008 conference.

From 1984 to 1989 (2nd through 6th Symposia) the proceedings were published by Orbit Book Company; from 1991 to 2008, the STAIF proceedings, edited by Distinguished and Regents' Professor of Nuclear, Mechanical and Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Founding Director of the Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies Prof. Mohamed S. El-Genk, were published in the American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings series.

Following the end of the original STAIF conference series, a conference "STAIF II" was organized in 2012, co-sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) also in Albuquerque. The STAIF-II conference has continued through 2017 as an annual event, now sponsored by a dedicated non-profit organization, with a stated objective to "sit on the boundary between established science and speculative science," with the proviso that "Speculation must be based upon fundamental scientific principles."