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Closed campuses
Howard Beal Provo, UTApril 27, 2014 4:58 p.m.
I don't know of any high schools that are closed campuses. But as The Real Maverick says, it's pretty hard to keep it all locked down, especially when we don't want to pony up the money to get the apparatus to do such...
george of the jungle goshen, UTApril 27, 2014 3:13 p.m.
How did the kids get to school before they turned 16.
The Real Maverick Orem, UTApril 27, 2014 8:37 a.m.
Most schools already are closed campuses.
How do you enforce it? It costs money to have trackers and security guards to prevent kids from leaving. We all know how this state feels about spending money on public education...
And what do you do when an army of parents rant about how freedoms are being taken away?
Those are the issues that educators are dealing with and why closed campuses are completely ineffective here in Utah.


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Abrehall Early Origins
Herefordshire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the 13thh century when they held estates in that shire.
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Before the last few hundred years, the English language had no fast system of spelling rules. For that reason, spelling variations are commonly found in early Anglo-Saxon surnames. Over the years, many variations of the name Abrehall were recorded, including Abrahhall, Abrahal, Abbrahall, Abrehall, Abrehal, Abrahale, Abrell, Abbrell, Ebrell and many more.
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Talk:Check mark
How to use the in a text line or table?[edit]
A check mark can be placed in a text line as a picture. Instead of using the long IMAGE tag ( [[Image:Check_mark_23x20_02.gif]] ) to bring/place the check mark, use the shorter template code/tag: {{Check mark}} for Tarikash., (or use {{Check mark-n}} for ), which is easy to remember and really displays the check mark in all browser, as the unicode equivalent check mark is not supported yet by all web browser software, so most people see a blank rectangular box, question mark, etc depending on their browser. To use the "X mark", use {{X mark}} template code for , (or, {{X mark-n}} for ). Simple capital letter "X" can also be used instead of the "X mark" (or, Cross mark). Even more shorter code {{U2713}} can be used to display an inline check mark character. ~
In the U.S. (but not Canada)[edit]
Why does it say that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 09:44, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Left-handed ticks[edit]
Is it worth mentioning that left-handed ticks are sometimes right-to-left on the upstroke?--Knowledge33 21:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Ticks in various cultures / Yes vs. No[edit]
- "In some countries, e.g. Finland and Sweden, the tick is used as an error mark and indicates "no" rather than "yes"."
I'm from Sweden, and I assume this quote refers to teachers making (usually red) tick marks on e.g. grammar/spelling errors in essays, or math teachers at bad math? I can't think of much else anyway. — Northgrove 14:32, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
- I would say that the check mark has two primary uses in Sweden. It can be used by teachers for marking errors, as you say, or it can be used when ticking off items on a list, i.e. to mark that "this is accounted for". However, the usage of a check mark as a generic symbol for "yes" or "ok" seems foreign to me. When a check mark is used outside of the context of a list, I'm more prone to see it as standing for something negative. So, I think the article is correct as it is now; to find a published reference for this is another matter... —Alatius (talk) 12:25, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
I am an American who has lived in Australia for 17 years. In Washington state this was known as a check mark and indicated an incorrect answer or generally a had a negative connotation. It confused me for years here until I became accustomed to the opposite meaning and now get confused when I visit home! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.108.40.206 (talk) 10:40, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
- "while in some European countries, it is more common for people to check a square box with a v-shaped checkmark"
- In Finland tickmark is used for meaning 'incorrect' too, not much American influence noticeable here. For 'correct', a symbol resembling a division operator (÷) tilted 90° is used. 15:53, 8 July 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 126.96.36.199 (talk)
I wonder if this isn't a case of over-analyzing things. Over here, some do V marks, others X marks when "ticking" squares. I'm not sure there's some sort of widespread "standard" of doing things, and in that case. — Northgrove 14:35, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
- I'm from the U.S., and everyone I know uses a checkmark to mean "no". In school, in fact, we all used a checkmark as "wrong" and a star as "right" when grading. —The Man in Question (talk) 07:41, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
I have never heard of this word before. Perhaps the article could clarify where exactly it is used - the UK? The whole British commonweath? Sylvain1972 14:44, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
- I would suspect it's used in countries that use British English or a modification of it. Ireland, for example, isn't in the commonwealth, but we would always say "tick" ... or at least I would. Younger generations are increasingly influenced by America, though. For people my age (22), "check" is sometimes used to mean "done", but you would talk of "ticking it off the list". The mark itself is a tick. Vanhedrarn (talk) 15:07, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
I think the word "checkmark" is only used in some parts of the US. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.108.40.206 (talk) 09:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
I live in Australia, and "tick" is the only word used. But I have lived among Americans, where it is not understood at all. Morstar (talk) 23:03, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
here (virginia), "tick" or "tick mark" is usually indicative of tally mark, while check mark means... check mark. as it should. pauli133 (talk) 16:53, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Heh! So the business jargon "It's another tick in the box for our new product", etc, doesn't exist in US English?? Hmmm..... seems doubtful Blitterbug (talk) 14:52, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
A "tick" is the noise the clock makes when it moves. In HTML, the code for a checkbox is <input type="checkbox" />, not <input type="tickbox" />. Not sure why this page is biased to British English when checkbox is more widespread. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 22:38, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
Renamed the article back to Tick (check mark)[edit]
This article was recently renamed from Tick (check mark) to Check mark. I've renamed it back because according to the Manual of Style we should retain the variety of English used in the first non-stub revision of the article. Hope this is ok with everyone! Ben Arnold (talk) 22:12, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
- Please read WP:RETAIN more carefully. A situation in which "a term/spelling carries less ambiguity" is an explicit exception. That's why we moved Check (finance) to Cheque (a change from American English to British English, the opposite of what occurred here).
- Also note that the title format "Name (name in another English variety)" contradicts our conventions. That's why we moved Football (soccer) to Association football. —David Levy 08:22, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
- Thee points:
- First, on ambiguity: Tick symbol or Tick mark removes the ambiguity just as readily as a change to Check mark so we don't need to change the variety of English to avoid the ambiguity.
- Second, WP:RETAIN clearly says that the variety of English the first non-stub revision should be used. The first non-stub version for my money was either 17009740 or 19485549, both of which lead their introductory paragraphs with tick. Before I reverted your change I checked the titles of these articles and they started with Tick, now they seem to have changed to Check mark so it looks like there's something a bit weird about article titles in the revision history. The revision history now uses Check mark throughout which we know isn't true (there are several moves in the history).
- So to resolve this we need to know what the article titles were for those revisions. You're an administrator, can you explain how I can see this? If it turns out they were titled Check mark then we have no dispute. All I have to go on is that the first move I can find was 288126737 where the article was moved from Tick (checkmark) to Tick (check mark). In the absence of other data Tick (checkmark) seems to be the first non-stub title. Also if you can explain how to reference article revisions better than with an ID it would make the conversation easier!
- Third, I was surprised that you repeated your move after discovering that the your original move was controversial. The move rules say that you should discuss something on the talk page before moving it if it's likely to be controversial.
- In short I take your point that the article should better disambiguated from "Tick" or "Check" and I agree that the term used in the first stub article should be preferred but I think you are mistaken about what that term was. But I'm happy for your move to go ahead if you can show me that I'm wrong.
- Ben Arnold (talk) 23:51, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
- First, on ambiguity: "Tick symbol" or "Tick mark" removes the ambiguity just as readily as a change to "Check mark" so we don't need to change the variety of English to avoid the ambiguity.
- My understanding is that the two most common names are "tick" (British English) and "check mark" (American English). Oxford agrees. We don't even mention the terms "tick symbol" and "tick mark" in the article. The latter has a good number of Google hits, but they appear to mainly comprise technical references (e.g. to unicode characters) and some uses whose context I don't even recognize.
- And again, until I moved the article, the title contained both "tick" and "check mark" (the latter of which is unambiguous on its own).
- Second, WP:RETAIN clearly says that the variety of English the first non-stub revision should be used.
- No, we fall back on that as a last resort when no good reason to select a particular English variety exists. It's a means to an end, not an end in and of itself. (You just quoted guideline text that I wrote, incidentally.)
- Before I reverted your change I checked the titles of these articles and they started with "Tick", now they seem to have changed to "Check mark" so it looks like there's something a bit weird about article titles in the revision history. The revision history now uses "Check mark" throughout which we know isn't true (there are several moves in the history).
- If I understand correctly, you must be mistaken regarding the situation before you undid the move. An article's current title always is displayed throughout the revision history.
- The article's content originated as part of the Check page (which, incidentally, wasn't a stub). It was split out to a separate page titled Tick (checkmark) on 11 December 2004 and moved to Tick (check mark) (reflecting the latter term's common spelling) on 5 May 2009.
- When/whether the article ceased to be a stub is debatable, but if we stipulate that it did at some point, it's likely that "tick" was listed first at the time. Again, that's merely a fallback criterion. We have a good reason to use the title Check mark, just as we had a good reason to move Check (finance) to Cheque.
- In the absence of other data Tick (checkmark) seems to be the first non-stub title.
- Unquestionably (unless the article is still a stub, which some would argue). It also happens to contradict our naming conventions.
- Also if you can explain how to reference article revisions better than with an ID it would make the conversation easier!
- You might want to use Template:Oldid and/or Template:Oldid2.
- Third, I was surprised that you repeated your move after discovering that the your original move was controversial. The move rules say that you should discuss something on the talk page before moving it if it's likely to be controversial.
- You moved the article back to a malformed title, citing a guideline that you misread or misunderstood. I assumed that my explanation of this would eliminate any controversy. Perhaps I was mistaken, but your title suggestions seem to imply acceptance that Tick (check mark) is unsuitable.
- In short I take your point that the article should better disambiguated from "Tick" or "Check"
- In American English, "check mark" is the usual term (with "check" being far less common in that context); we aren't taking "check" and arbitrarily appending "mark" for disambiguation (as you appear to be doing with "tick").
- Tick (symbol) would comply with our naming conventions, except that we avoid parenthetical disambiguation when feasible (hence the aforementioned move from Check (finance) to Cheque). —David Levy 01:53, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Where in the Character Map...[edit]
would these symbols be? 18.104.22.168 (talk) 18:05, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
- They're under what is normally the 'ü' (Alt + 0252) in Wingdings. Ther's also a version with a box around it under what is normally the 'þ' (Alt + 0254).--The Machine (talk) 18:03, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Can anyone add a section on the history of this in the West and how it came about? Turkeyphant 12:12, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
- There are some mentions on the Web about the ancient Romans marking checked items in checklists with a V, standing for "veritas", but I found nothing reliable to confirm or reject this idea. Seems somehow dubious to me though. The first OED quotation for the word itself is rather late, 1884: "Neat pencil ticks indicated favourite passages." --Thrissel (talk) 14:28, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
- I thought it was an import from French, a 'v' for "vrai" which means "true/correct". For example, nowadays, when teachers in French speaking countries correct homework, they put a 'v' beside the correct answers and when you do that often enough you start adding a tail and suddenly it's a tick.
- The British aristocracy spoke French for 300 years, so this sort of mixing of the languages wouldn't be unusual. Once the connection between the symbol and the word "vrai" was severed, I'd guess it became a fully blown tick in English speaking countries with no more attempts made to make it look like a 'v'.
- But I've no sources to back this up. Gronky (talk) 05:36, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
- I'm German and people here (including myself, up until now at least) think it's a lower-case r for richtig ("right, correct"). The more so since a lower-case f is also used in German for the contrary (falsch = "false, wrong"). The tick definitely looks more like a fast-written "r" than a "v", methinks. But it need not be true, of course. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.8.131.52 (talk) 17:52, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
- From the Swedish article: I Finland tolkas ✓ ofta som en förkortning för ordet väärin, det vill säga "fel", på grund av dess likhet med ett lutande V. Bocken är däremot en övervägande positiv symbol i den engelsktalande världen och står normalt för "ja" eller för ett valt alternativ.
- Translation: In Finland ✓ is often interpreted as an abbreviation for the word väärin, i.e. "wrong" because of its similarity with a slanting V. The tick (check mark) is, however devinitely a positive symbol in the English speaking world and stands normally for "yes" or for a selected alternative.
- (I have cut and pasted the original Swedish here for any Swedish speakers who prefer to see the original).
- From this conversation here it is apparent that in the US there seems to be two contradictory systems in use, one where the checkmark/tick means a correct answer and another which means the answer is wrong. Also it is unknown if each system is used throughout a particular state, or there is a school to school variation; or which states use what system.
- A Guardian column (Notes & Queries) has discussion (chat) about this. RPSM (talk) 11:11, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
- The whole History section sounds made-up AF. It's like folk-etymology. It doesn't belong in an encyclopedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.8.131.52 (talk) 21:18, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
✓ meaning incorrect answer in French is wrong[edit]
<<For example, in French, ✓ is used to indicate an incorrect answer, while a "B" bon is used to indicate a correct answer.>>
Considering the sentence above, here are the following points where I disagree with : 1. In French, if there is a difference in the marking for correct and incorrect answer, it would be "V" for "Vrai" and "F" for "Faux" (meaning "True" and "False" in French) 2. Nowadays, in France, with the globalization of signs, ✓ is considered as "right" with no doubt. 3. The letter "B" is not used to indicate a correct answer. "B" for "Bon" ("good" in French) is used as a grade or an appreciation about a homework or test. Actually, there are : TB, B and AB respectively for "Très Bien", "Bien" and "Assez bien" (meaning "Very good", "Good" and "Good enough" in French).
NB : I'm new in Wikipedia. I am going to delete the sentence I'm talking about. If my behaviour is not okay, don't hesitate to go back to the previous version of the article. I'm also okay to discuss about the topic I'm writing about. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PhilipDangPro (talk • contribs) 15:14, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Here is another hypothesis, that the term "check mark" might be a misunderstanding of "Czech mark", or hacek. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.8.131.52 (talk) 18:11, 15 October 2015 (UTC)


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Unanswered: catalog update
Has anyone got any SQL to remove catalog stats (as used by the optimiser) - setting them to -1 etc ? This is OS390 DB2 V5.
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The statistics columns in the catalog are updateble. You could just issue a SQL Statement "UPDATE your_catalog_table SET your_statistics_column = -1 (if you have the right permissions, of course).
But, why would you do something like this??? Your optimizer NEEDS this piece of information. Without it, it cannot generate an "optimized" access path. If you are getting bad access paths, there are many other ways to improve your performance.
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The Man in the Moon: Fate or Coincidence?. The near side (left) and far side (right) of the Moon look very different. Is it a coincidence that the side with many dark smooth plains faces us?.
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The near side (left) and far side (right) of the Moon look very different. Is it a coincidence that the side with many dark smooth plains faces us?
Earth and Moon viewed from above.
Sizes and distances are not to scale!
Earth's gravity stretches the rotating Moon, raising tidal bulges on the near and far sides.
The solid Moon takes time to flex, so the bulges lie slightly 'ahead' of the Earth-Moon line.
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Clockwise from top left: Io, Europa, Pluto and Charon, and Enceladus. Tidal forces exerted on all of these objects have slowed their rotation rate over billions of years, so that they always keep the same face toward the object they circle.
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Mallory and Miller are back. The survivors of Navarone are sent on a mission along with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby. But Force 10 has a mission of their own which the boys know nothing about.
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Unanswered: Visual Basic???
hey guys i just want to know. I'm alright with Q BASIC and that and now want to start with visual basic. can you guys offer a good free tutorial for idiots I just want to know from A to Z how to program in it.
also I'm making a simple program and don't know how to do it.
[+1] and [+2] are buttons. and i want when i press one button it subtracts or adds that number off the total (which is 100)... help with that or send me a good tutorial site
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A British shop manager has drowned in a desperate attempt to rescue his seven-year-old son from rough seas in Majorca.
George Selby, 27, leapt into the water despite being unable to swim after his son Louis was swept off a rocky outcrop by a huge wave.
Both died as the rest of their family watched from the shore of the Spanish island at about 11am on Saturday, during the first full day of their 'dream' first foreign holiday.
One report claimed that moments before, Mr Selby had been taking photographs of his son by the rocks, a popular spot for holidaymakers to take dramatic snapshots with waves crashing in the background.
After Mr Selby jumped in, Louis's mother Abigail, 31, ran to a nearby hotel screaming for help. Lifeguards from the hotel ran to the scene but were unable to save father or son.
Witnesses said they saw Mr Selby shouting for help and waving his arms in the air while in the sea.
Police officers and paramedics arrived minutes later but by then the pair, from Hornchurch, Essex, were already dead.
Manuel Gordini, 23, witnessed the drama from the beach, where he works as a chef in a bar.
He said: 'It was horrific, the worst thing I've ever seen. The lifeguards managed to get the bodies on to the beach but it was obvious they were already dead.
'The mother was hysterical, crying. It was very upsetting. It was raining so there was almost nobody on the beach at the time.'
The sea conditions on the day at Cala Antena, a series of coves on Majorca's south-east coast, had been poor, with a red flag flying on the beach warning bathers not to enter the sea.
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Title: Hell Yeah #1
Written: Joe Keatinge
Artist: Andre Szymanowicz
Colorist: Jason Lewis
Letterer: Douglas E. Sherwood
Publisher: Image
Release Date: March 7, 2012
He's cute, he's a superhero, he's a screw-up; Benjamin Day is the son of one of the greatest superheroes of all time, and yet he can't manage to go on an evening stroll without getting in a brawl. This is the premise of Image Comics' Hell Yeah! – the lives of superheroes past the part where they rescue the world. Specifically, what happens when their children grow up, go to superhero academy, and slack off more than everyone wearing flannel did in the 90s.
Of course, there's more to it than that. Benjamin's parents saved the world. They made it a better place (complete with a superhero reaching out to humans shot mimicked after Michelangelo's famous God and Adam painting in the Sistine Chapel; it's a little heavy-handed of an artistic allusion, but it works). They brought us zeppelins, peace, and ended the hero worship of athletes. Of course, Portland (where the comic takes place) looks exactly the same – I guess in a perfect world there's still room for punk rock and Powell's.
Back to the story. Benjamin has trouble walking the straight and narrow, despite everyone telling him he's a total screw-up. He doesn't seem to be too convinced of his ability to be super, either; his powers pale in comparison to his father's, and he's got a weird barcode tattoo that mysteriously appeared the night his powers kicked in. It's difficult to stand tall when one of your superpowers is odd tattoo. Ben takes this personally.
After nearly a full comic worth of flashbacks and slacker ennui, we get a nice little hook that involves an explosion, some hot girls in skintight suits, and a message from the future that manages to evoke actual emotions from our protagonist. It's safe to say that issue #2 is in my future. I thoroughly enjoyed the first issue, though any subsequent issues will have significant work in keeping that interest. Creating shock and mystery is easy; following through on that, not so much. I have faith in Image, though; they've provided a lot of entertainment for me in the past, and this comic lives up to their (pardon the pun) image. Issue one feels like a solid addition to their line. The art style is compelling (not surprising from Szymanowicz, whose Deviantart page is a genuine treasure trove). There really is nothing to lament in this comic; the real challenge will lie in the issues ahead.
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Jarheads for Jesus?: 10 Reasons 'Culture War' is a Really Bad Metaphor (Part One)
I was raised in a church world in which "culture war" was a favorite metaphor of how the church relates to the nonchurch. We were God's courageous moral infantry doing battle against those cunning cultists, those hateful homosexuals, those lying liberals, and those devilish Darwinists. If we listen with tuned ears to Christian radio, Christian literature, Christian blogs, and Christian conversations, it becomes clear: We Christians love the language of war. Over the last 30 years it has become our dominant metaphor for relating to culture; it saturates our vocabulary, shapes our politics, and soaks our worldview. But is culture war helpful? Is it biblical? Should we be jarheads for Jesus?


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|Talent Name
|Advanced Artillery
|Increase the damage bonus to long distance enemies by 10%.
|Stealth when entering Siege Mode. Sgt. Hammer's next Basic Attack from Siege Mode will deal 100% more damage. Lose Stealth when Basic Attacking, using an Ability, taking damage, or returning to Tank Mode.
|Regeneration Master
|Quest: Gathering a Regeneration Globe increases your Health Regeneration by 1 per second, up to 30. Reward: After gathering 30 Regeneration Globes, you also gain 500 Health.
|Being Stunned or Rooted while in Siege Mode grants 50 Armor for 3 seconds, reducing damage taken by 50%.
|Excessive Force
|Double the knock back distance of Concussive Blast.
|Focused Attack
|Every 10 seconds, your next Basic Attack against a Hero deals 60% additional damage. Basic Attacks reduce this cooldown by 1 second.
|Vigorous Assault
|Basic Attacks heal for 15% of the damage dealt.
|First Aid
|Activate to heal 35% of your max Health over 6 seconds.
|Hyper-Cooling Engines
|Reduce the cooldown of Thrusters by 15 seconds.
|Mine Field
|Increase the number of mines by 2.
|Blunt Force Gun
|Fire a missile across the battlefield, dealing 500 (+3% per level) damage to enemies in its path.
|Napalm Strike
|Deals 164 (+4% per level) damage on impact, and leaves a napalm area that deals 50 (+4% per level) damage per second. Lasts for 4 seconds.
|Create a wall of path blocking debris for 4 seconds.
|Bullhead Mines
|Middle Spider Mine knocks target back a short distance.
|First Strike
|Basic Attacks deal 25% more damage if Sgt. Hammer hasn't been attacked within the last 5 seconds.
|Giant Killer
|Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes deal bonus damage equal to 1.5% of the Hero's maximum Health.
|Attacking a Hero that is slowed, rooted, or stunned increases your Basic Attack damage by 30% for 3 seconds.
|Graduating Range
|While in Siege Mode, Sgt. Hammer's Attack range increases by 1.1 every 3 seconds, up to 5.5.
|Hover Siege Mode
|Sgt. Hammer can move at 50% Movement Speed in Siege Mode.
|Activate to gain 30% of your maximum Health as a Shield for 5 seconds.
|Advanced Lava Strike
|Napalm Strike's range is increased by 75% and its impact does 50% more damage.
|Fury of the Storm
|Every 5 seconds, your next Basic Attack will deal an additional 91 (+4% per level) damage to the target, and 228 (+4% per level) damage to all nearby Minions, Mercenaries, and Monsters.
|Nexus Frenzy
|Increases Attack Speed by 20% and Attack Range by 1.1.
|Orbital BFG
|Blunt Force Gun's missile orbits the planet every 5 seconds. Only the last missile fired orbits.
|Ability Name
|Mana Cost
|Spider Mines
|Create 3 mines that deal 96 (+4% per level) damage and slow enemies by 25% for 1.5 seconds.
|Concussive Blast
|Deals 141 (+4% per level) damage and pushes enemies away.
|Siege Mode
|Become immobile to increase Basic Attack range by 90%, deal 25% splash damage, and deal 30% bonus damage to Minions and Structures.
|Napalm Strike
|Deals 164 (+4% per level) damage on impact, and leaves a napalm area that deals 50 (+4% per level) damage per second. Lasts for 4 seconds.
|Blunt Force Gun
|Fire a missile across the battlefield, dealing 500 (+3% per level) damage to enemies in its path.
|Increase your Movement Speed by 60% for 4 seconds.
|Basic Attacks deal 30% more damage to distant enemies and Basic Attack range increased by 20%.
Sgt. Hammer
Bug Fixes
- Cursed Hollow: Sgt. Hammer's Spider Mines will now correctly attack enemy Structures affected by the Raven Lord's Curse.
Bug Fixes
- Diablo: Casting Shadow Charge on Sgt. Hammer while she is in Siege Mode will no longer cause Diablo to pass through her.
- Stukov: Massive Shove will no longer be cancelled when used on Sgt. Hammer while she is in Siege Mode.
Bug Fixes
- Basic Attacks: Splash and Cleave damage will now correctly reveal targets who are hit while inside Bushes and Vents.
Design & Gameplay
Hero Radii
- The radius of many heroes in the game have been adjusted to better match their actual model size.
- Increased Radius - Abathur, ETC, Gul'dan, Baleog, Muradin, Misha, Sgt. Hammer, Thrall, Uther, Varian, Zagara
- Decreased Radius - Li Li, Tracer, Valeera
Hero Updates
Undocumented Source
- Base Attack damage reduced from 133 to 128
Bug Fixes
- Damage Reduction: When two damage reduction effects, such as Resistant (25%) and Hardened Shield (75%), are simultaneously applied to a Hero, the larger effect will no longer be overridden by the lesser effect.
- Sgt. Hammer: Re-casting Orbital BFG just as the first missile re-enters the Battleground will no longer cause the new missile to follow the previous path.
Bug Fixes
- Sgt. Hammer: Fixed an issue in which each of Sgt. Hammer's Basic Attacks could reduce her Ability cooldowns multiple times after learning the Focused Attacks Talent.
Hero Updates
- Siege Mode (E)
- Sgt. Hammer can no longer enter Medivh's Portals while in Siege Mode (without the Hover Siege talent)
- Level 1
- Resistant (E)
- New functionality:
- If you are Stunned or Rooted while in Siege Mode, gain 50% damage resistance for 3 seconds
- New functionality:
- Resistant (E)
- Level 7
- Slowing Mines (Q)
- Removed
- Slowing Mines (Q)
- Level 16
- Mine Field (Q)
- Moved to Level 7
- Mine Field (Q)
Developer Comments: We're removing the majority of our old Relentless- like Talents from the game, because we found that it wasn't clear to the enemy team what was happening. Reducing the duration on very short disabling effects to begin with was hard to notice, and typically felt like a bug when it did happen. In some cases, we're replacing these Talents with Hero specific ones that more clearly convey what's happening, while fitting the gameplay of the Hero.
Bug Fixes
- Sgt. Hammer: Basic Attack range indicators should now appear consistent while Sgt. Hammer is in both Tank and Siege Modes.
Hero Updates
- Thrusters (Z)
- Thrusters are now always active while in the Altar of Storms
- Artillery (Trait)
- Now also increases Sgt. Hammer's Basic Attack range by 20%
- Level 1
- Lethal Blast (W)
- Removed
- Lethal Blast (W)
- Level 4
- Maelstrom Shells (Passive)
- Removed
- Maelstrom Shells (Passive)
- Level 7
- Hyper-Cooling Engines (Z)
- Cooldown reduction increased from 10 to 15 seconds
- No longer makes Thrusters always active while in the Hall of Storms
- Hyper-Cooling Engines (Z)
Developer Comments: We're planning to do a deeper dive into our favorite Siege Tank down the road, but in the meantime we felt Sgt. Hammer could use a few changes to make her feel more competitive compared to other heroes. Sgt. Hammer was originally designed to be the master of ranged damage, but has since become outshined by other poke heroes like Li-Ming and Chromie. To help her assert her spot again as a scary ranged damage-dealer, we're making Maelstrom Shells a part of her baseline Artillery Trait, which should also help that tier's pick rates. We're also giving her a bit of a quality of life improvement by making her Thrusters always active when she leaves the Hall of Storms, which should help her get back to the game faster from her base.
- The Executioner Talent effect will now only trigger after attacking disabled Heroes. The bonus damage gained through this talent will still apply to anything attacked after the effect is triggered.
Bug Fixes
- Battlefield of Eternity: AI Heroes can now halt their attacks on Immortals at the center of the Battleground in order to gank an enemy Sgt. Hammer that is attacking inner-Towers and Keeps.
- Sgt. Hammer: Enemy AI players will no longer immediately dive Sgt. Hammer if she enters Siege Mode while hidden in a Shrub or Vent.
- Sgt. Hammer: The targeting reticule for Blunt Force Gun will no longer highlight targets that are outside its area of effect.
- This Talent has been reworked.
- Increases Basic Attack damage by 30% for 3 seconds after hitting a Stunned, Slowed, or Rooted target with a Basic Attack. Using Basic Attacks against a Slowed, Rooted, or Stunned target during this time will refresh the buff duration.
Developer Comments: We like the punishing nature of Executioner, but have found over time that its benefit to the player is too narrowly scoped. We're changing the Talent to be more consistently useful by giving the player a temporary Attack Damage buff that procs when they first hit a crowd controlled target.
Regeneration Master
- A reward has been added to this Questing Talent.
- Quest: Regeneration Globes now grant 1.0 Health per second, stacking up to 30
- Reward: Upon gathering 30 Globes, also increases Health by 500
Developer Comments: We've added a completion point to this Talent. Upon completing its quest, players will be provided with some additional power. This allows us to offer spikes of power in-between Talent levels, or even for a single player on a team. Now, simply picking the Talent and only partially completing it is worse, but finishing the quest will return a larger reward. Choosing the right Talents on the right Battleground or with the right team composition has always been an important goal for us, and this change pushes this Talent to closer align with that goal.
Bug Fixes
- The tooltip for Sgt. Hammer's Siege Mode will no longer reference a nonexistent Talent.
Design & Gameplay
Hero Movement Interaction Unification
- Several Abilities have been changed in an effort to unify their usage.
- The following Abilities can now be used to move to invulnerable units:
- Kerrigan — Ravage (Q)
- Illidan — Dive (Q)
- The following Abilities can now be used to travel to objects created by an enemy, such as Sgt. Hammer's Spider Mines:
- Kerrigan — Ravage (Q)
- Lunara — Leaping Strike (R)
- Illidan — Dive (Q)
- Kharazim — Radiant Dash (Q)
- Chen — Flying Kick (Q)
- The following Abilities can now be used to move to invulnerable units:
Vampiric Assault
- Has been renamed to Vigorous Assault
Bug Fixes
- Regeneration Globes will now properly grant healing and Regeneration Master stacks when collected as a Shield expires.
Focused Attack
- Basic Attack damage bonus reduced from 75% to 60%
Developer Comments: The talent is doing a bit too much damage over the course of the game. We like that it is a highly contested pick on Basic Attack Heroes, but want to bring its overall power down a bit.
Bug Fixes
- Sgt. Hammer's Siege Mode will no longer visually persist if she is interrupted while casting Siege Mode.
Hero Updates
- Blunt Force Gun (R)
- Damage increased from 365 (+4% per level) to 500 (+3% per level)
Developer Comments: We are looking for opportunities to increase the impact that some Heroic Abilities have at the moment they are cast. When it makes sense, we are also looking to increase the cooldown in order to keep the big moments more impactful. This is our first pass at doing this and you can expect to see more changes like these as we move forward with this initiative.
Design & Gameplay
Vehicles and Regeneration Globe Interaction
- Regeneration Globes will no longer heal Dragon Knights and Garden Terrors.
- Instead, Regeneration Globe effects will now be applied directly to the Hero inside the Dragon Knight or Garden Terror.
- Players within a Dragon Knight or Garden Terror can now also accumulate stacks for Talents such as Seasoned Marksman, Gathering Power, Regeneration Master, etc.
Bug Fixes
- A Sgt. Hammer clone created by Abathur's Ultimate Evolution will no longer be granted the Napalm Strike Heroic Ability after entering Siege Mode.
- The Focused Attack Talent now properly uses a 10 second cooldown between bonuses to Basic Attack damage.
Design & Gameplay
Ability Power Gains
Developer Comments: This change was aimed at removing odd gameplay where a Nazeebo player may actually want to sacrifice his or her Gargantuan for a more powerful one. This occurred if players kept a summon alive for a very long time and gained Ability Power via Talents, like Gathering Power, as this increase in Ability Power was not passed onto the Summon. Short term summons or persistent effects will still take a snapshot of your current Ability Power at the time they are cast, and apply the bonus for the complete duration of the effect.
- To clarify the rules for temporary Ability Power gains, the following rules have been added:
- For permanent or very long duration pets or persistent effects, their damage and maximum Health will now update dynamically when Ability Power is modified. This includes:
- Abathur's Monstrosity
- Nazeebo's Gargantuan (with the Humongoid Talent)
- For short duration pets or persistent effects, their damage and maximum Health should snapshot based upon the Ability Power of the character when they are cast. This includes:
- Jaina's Water Elemental
- Sgt. Hammer's Blunt Force Gun
- Tychus' Drakken Laser Drill
- For permanent or very long duration pets or persistent effects, their damage and maximum Health will now update dynamically when Ability Power is modified. This includes:
Focused Attacks
Developer Comments: This could be viewed as a buff or nerf depending on how players perceive it. You can still reduce the cooldown by attacking Minions, but won't accidently waste a burst of damage on an unintended target. This talent will no longer be as effective at sieging, but it should be significantly better at harassing in lane. We will continue to monitor the talent, and tune as necessary.
- The increased damage effect will now only trigger when hitting Heroes
Hero Updates
Developer Comments: Hammer is one of our lowest win rate characters so we looked at some easy buffs we could make. We feel like she has a great playstyle and wanted to highlight her fantasy more. The increased health will let you be a bit more aggressive and the increased damage will better reinforce her long range, high damage capabilities. Finally, her Siege Mode can be used much more frequently and with less emphasis on securing the perfect location. It's okay now to Siege up, get a couple shots in, and then get out of danger.
- Health increased from 720 (+140 per level) to 740 (+150 per level)
- Artillery (Trait)
- Damage bonus against distant targets increased from 20% to 30%
- Siege Mode (E)
- Cooldown decreased from 5 to 2 seconds
- Mana cost reduced from 40 to 20
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue in which Ability effects, such as Giant Killer, Focused Attack, and Zagara's Envenomed Spines, could be applied while Blinded.
- Fixed an issue in which the following Abilities and Talents were not damaging or destroying Zagara's Creep Tumors:
- Brightwing's Peekaboo, Diablo's Firestorm (returning fireballs), Johanna's Blessed Hammer, Leoric's Buried Alive, Nova's Railgun, Sgt. Hammer's Napalm Strike (impact damage) and Tychus' Big Red Button (the nuke portion)
Design & Gameplay
- A number of Hero Abilities were not intended to completely Stun enemy targets. In these cases, Stuns have been converted to Dazes, which act similarly, but will no longer interrupt Abilities that can be channeled while the Hero is moving.
- For example: Dazing Valla will not stop her from channeling Strafe.
- The following abilities will now Daze, rather than Stun, enemy Heroes:
- Brightwing -- Emerald Wind (R)
- Chen -- Wandering Keg (R)
- E.T.C. -- Face Melt (W)
- Falstad -- Mighty Gust (R)
- Kerrigan -- Primal Grasp (E)
- Raynor -- Penetrating Round (Q)
- Sgt. Hammer -- Concussive Blast (W)
- Tychus -- Frag Grenade (W)
New Talent: Vampiric Strike
- This is a new version of Vampiric Assault
- Basic Attacks heal for 25% of the damage dealt to the primary target
- Vampiric Assault has not been changed
Regeneration Master
- Initial +4.0 Health Regeneration removed
- Each Health Globe now grants +1.5 Health Regeneration
Bug Fixes
- Sgt. Hammer's Blunt Force Gun will no longer be placed on reduced cooldown when coming under the effects of Anub'arak Web Blast during Blunt Force Gun's casting time.
Focused Attack
- Bonus to Basic Attack damage increased from 50% to 75%
Hero Updates
- Health reduced from 770 (+170 per level) to 720 (+140 per level)
Regeneration Master
- Now grants 4 Health regeneration upon learning the Talent
New Level 20 Talents
Fury of the Storm
- Every 5 seconds, the next Basic Attack will deal an additional 200 damage to the primary target, and 500 damage to each nearby Minion or Mercenary.
- Found on the following Heroes:
- E.T.C., Gazlowe, Nazeebo, Sgt. Hammer, The Lost Vikings, Zagara
Nexus Frenzy
- Increases both Attack Speed and Basic Attack range by 20%
- Found on the following Heroes:
- Falstad, Jaina, Raynor, Sgt. Hammer, Tychus, Valla
Hero Updates
- Spider Mines (Q)
- Bullhead Mines (Talent)
- Enemies are now knocked back slightly farther, but only the center of the three Spider Mines will knock the target back.
- Bullhead Mines (Talent)
Bug Fixes
- A Sgt. Hammer in Siege Mode now properly becomes mobile while under the effects of Brightwing's Polymorph, and will no longer be in Siege Mode when Polymorph expires.
- Visual explosion effects from Sgt. Hammer's Basic Attacks while in Siege Mode now appear at the appropriate location when attacking flying enemies.
Resurgence of the Storm
- This Talent has been removed from the game.
Resurgence of the Storm
- Cooldown increased from 120 to 180 seconds
Hero Updates
- Maelstrom Shells (Talent)
- Basic Attack range bonus increased from 1 to 1.1
- Crucio X-2 Cannon (Talent)
- Has been removed from the game
- Spider Mines (Q)
- Slowing Mines (Talent)
- Moved from Level 16 to Level 7
- Duration bonus reduced from 1 to 0.5 seconds
- Slow amount bonus reduced from 25% to 15%
- Slowing Mines (Talent)
- Concussive Blast (W)
- Lethal Blast (Talent)
- Damage bonus increased from 25% to 50%
- Lethal Blast (Talent)
- Siege Mode (E)
- Fortify Position (Talent)
- Has been removed from the game
- Graduating Range (Talent)
- Basic Attack range bonus while in Siege Mode increased from 1 to 1.1 per stack
- Hover Siege Mode (Talent)
- Moved from Level 7 to Level 16
- Hover Siege Mode is now cancelled when using Thrusters (just as it does with regular Siege Mode.)
- Resistant (Talent)
- Crowd Control reduction increased from 50% to 75%
- Fortify Position (Talent)
Bug Fixes
- Sgt. Hammer can now move appropriately after being transformed by the Garden Terror's Spore Queen's Curse Ability while in Siege Mode.
- Sgt. Hammer now properly earns experience points when killing Minions that are outside of her normal experience range.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that caused damage dealt by Sgt. Hammer in Siege Mode to count toward the Tab Screen's Healing stat.
- Sgt. Hammer's Siege Mode targeting graphic is no longer visible through the Fog of War.
- Sgt. Hammer's Thruster effects no longer detach from her model when switching Camera Follow on and off again.
First Aid
- Healing amount increased from 20% over 4 seconds to 35% over 6 seconds.
Regeneration Master
- Health regeneration increased from 3 to 4 per stack
Hero Updates
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Not only has research shown that 73% of business leaders believe they achieve their goals sooner if they've had development, Bersin has reported that high performing organisations that invest in leadership development generate nearly 60% of improved business growth. So just imagine the impact of developing all employees in certain leadership skills - such as decision making, time management and communication - could have on the success of individual, team and organisation?
'Leaders at all levels' enables the entire workforce to develop some leadership skills regardless of whether they plan to become a leader in the traditional sense, or not. By increasing leadership capability, not only will there be less conflict and ambiguity, there will be greater engagement, productivity, people will be continually challenged; enabling them to drive their own progress and potential. Makes complete sense yet organisations still aren't doing it. Maybe the 'knowledge-is-power' cohort are afraid of letting go? Or perhaps it's a big task that isn't tackled because there are 'other priorities'?
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Newcastle University
School of Historical Studies
East Asian History
School of Psychology
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Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
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Degrees Offered:
East Asian History
Format: Campus
Program Description:
These distinctive programmes, the first of their kind in the UK, provide the opportunity for UK and international graduates to study the history of East Asia, with a particular focus on China and Japan. They integrate the advanced study of history with Chinese or Japanese language at all levels, from beginner to first-degree graduates. They are suitable for students who have no prior knowledge of the history of East Asia as well as for those who have previously studied the region and/or its languages. Through studying history, historiography and language simultaneously, you will be in a position to consider further postgraduate research, and to develop transferable skills for the workplace.
Programme Description
You take compulsory modules (90 credits) which typically include: East Asian history, the practice of history, faculty research training, dissertation training and your choice of Chinese or Japanese at the level suited to your needs (from ab initio to graduate). Those taking beginner to intermediate Chinese or Japanese spend more time on language study; while those starting with more language will emphasise historical study. All students take an optional module (30 credits) in East Asian history, chosen from: identities and material culture, gender, and history of political thought. Teaching is comparative and assessments may be on China, Japan or both. Please note that not all optional modules will be available each year.
You then complete a dissertation on a chosen topic and period of China, Japan or both (60 credits). For the dissertation, you will be encouraged to apply your language skills as you conduct your own research under the supervision of an appropriate East Asia historian in the Faculty.


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Death of Marco Pantani
Matt Rendell
If none of these is entirely true and none of them fully explains Pantani's personal tragedy, none of them is foundationless. This book debunks the myths and makes surprising revelations. About Pantani's personal tragedy, but also about the world of cycling. Matt Rendell had access not only to court transcripts but to many of Pantani's friends and the doctors who treated him.
But Pantani's life is about much more than drug addiction. Lance Armstrong described him as 'more of an artist than an athlete - an extravagant figure ...' Despite being plagued with injuries he won both the Giro and the Tour in 1998, something very few cyclists even attempt. He was an inspirational icon, and the remarkable wins against all odds make gripping reading.
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RESTON, Va., March 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. government says it is funding 17 projects to better understand future climate change conditions and their effects on fish and other wildlife.
Officials said the projects include studies of alterations in Florida's ecosystems, potential impacts on Great Lakes fish, sea-level rise impacts on San Francisco Bay marshes, and the effects of melting glaciers on Alaska's freshwater coastal systems.
The U.S. Geological Survey funded the projects through the National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center.
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how do you solve exponential equation (3/5)^x =2^1-x please I neeed help. THANK you
Hi Bella,
If you take logs of both sides the pesky exponents go away i.e.
Ln((3/5)x ) = Ln(2(1-x))
xLn(3/5) = (1-x)Ln(2) = Ln(2) - Ln(2)x
xLn(3/5)+ xLn(2) = Ln(2)
x = Ln(2)/(Ln(3/5)+Ln(2))=3.85
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Original paper
The [4]Fe3+-O distance in synthetic kimzeyite garnet, Ca3Zr2[Fe2SiO12]
Giuli, Gabriele; Cicconi, Maria Rita; Paris, Eleonora
European Journal of Mineralogy Volume 24 Number 5 (2012), p. 783 - 790
published: Oct 1, 2012
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A synthetic kimzeyite analogue (Ca3Zr2[Fe2SiO12]) has been analysed by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) in order to determine the [4]Fe3+-O distance, for which only few data are available. The XRDdetermined cell parameter (a0 = 12.625 0.001 Å) is consistent with those found in the literature for synthetic samples of similar composition. Also interatomic distances ( = 2.515 Å, = 2.093 Å, = 1.774 Å, as determined by Rietveld refinement) are in keeping with structural data of natural samples when taking into account chemical differences of the samples examined. Due to the large Fe content of the tetrahedral site, the , Z-O> distance is unusually long compared with those of garnets where tetrahedra are occupied solely by Si, it is instead consistent with structural data for natural kimzeyite. The XANES data indicate the presence of trivalent Fe in tetrahedral coordination. The EXAFS-derived distance (1.85 0.01 Å) is in agreement with the few literature data available for [4]Fe3+, i.e. tetra-ferriphlogopite ( = 1.86 0.01 Å), rodolicoite ( = 1.825 Å) and silicate glasses (Fe-O = 1.85 0.01 Å and 1.84 0.02 for phonolitic and rhyolitic glasses, respectively). In view of the large size difference between FeO4 and SiO4 tetrahedra a further Rietveld structural refinement was performed assuming a splitting of the oxygen position, resulting in two distinct oxygen sites (OA and OB with fractional oxygen occupancies of 2/3 and 1/3) at 1.845 and 1.606 Å distance, respectively, from the tetrahedral cation. Although there are still open questions on the distribution of FeO4 and SiO4 tetrahedra and on how the structure accommodates the size difference of these two tetrahedra, this study provides a direct determination of the [4]Fe3+-O distance for which only few data are available in the literature.
xanes • exafs • xrd • rietveld refinement • garnet • kimzeyite • ferric iron


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Dieter Kabelitz is full professor at the University of Kiel, Germany, and Director of the Institute of Immunology. Previously, he was Head oft he Department of Immunology at the Paul-Ehrlich-Institute, Langen/Germany, and Associate Professor at the University of Heidelberg/Germany. Prof. Kabelitz has more than 30 years of research experience in immunology, with a strong focus on the functional analysis of human T lymphocytes. He has published more than 340 papers in peer-reviewed journals and edited or co-edited several books
Michael R Hamblin Ph.D. is a Principal Investigator at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, an Associate Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and a member of the affiliated faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology. His research interests cover photodynamic therapy, photobiomodulation, and nanomedicine. He directs a laboratory of around a dozen post-doctoral fellows, visiting scientists and graduate students. He has published 344 peer-reviewed articles, over 150 conference proceedings, book chapters and International abstracts and holds 8 patents. Dr Hamblin has an h-index of 75 and his work has been cited over 20,000 times. He is Associate Editor for 11 journals, on the editorial board of a further 20 journals and serves on NIH Study Sections. He has edited 11 SPIE proceedings volumes and seven other major textbooks on PDT and photomedicine. In 2011 Dr Hamblin was honored by election as a Fellow of SPIE. He is a Visiting Professor at universities in China, South Africa and Northern Ireland.
Athanassios Tsakris is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Microbiology at the Medical School, University of Athens, Greece. He graduated as an MD from the Medical School of University of Athens, Greece, and completed his training in Medical Microbiology at North Middlesex Hospital and the Central Public Health Laboratory, London. He received his PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a Fellow in Medical Microbiology at the Royal College of Pathologists, London. His research interests include the development of diagnostic methods for detecting antimicrobial resistance mechanisms and infection control activities. Prof. Tsakris is an evaluator of grant applications in several international organizations and serves as editor or on the editorial boards in microbiology/infectious diseases scientific journals.
Dr. Diamond is Chair and Professor of the Department of Experimental Therapeutics at City of Hope in Duarte, CA. With over 30 years of experience in vaccine research, his expertise is sought after by many federal agencies. Dr. Diamond has authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications, 20 patents, and conducts both Phase 1 and Phase 2 clinical trials using CMV and cancer vaccines. His current portfolio includes Salmonella delivery of cancer vaccines to develop an oncologic therapeutic to control the progression of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Dr. Diamond is responsible for a multi-disciplinary department comprised of 34 faculty, physicians, postdoctoral fellows, technicians, and graduate students.
Prof. Lee is a director in the National Leading Research Laboratory and a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Myongji University. He has more than 25 years of experience of inr reseaech fiels such as antimicrobials, multidrug resistance, and biochemistry and X-ray crystal structure of ESBLs (extended-spectrum β-lactamases) and carbapenemases as well as structure-based drug design, and stem cells (regenerative medicine). He has authored more than 100 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals, many of which were the first in the field of Infectious Diseases and Drug Resistance.
Dr. Manzin received his Medical Degree in 1983. He is Specialist in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, and in Microbiology. Since 2006 he is a Full Professor of Microbiology and Virology at the Medical School at the University of Cagliari, Italy. He is currently leading a lab active in clinical microbiology and virology, study of pathogen-host interplay, use of molecular tools in diagnosis of infectious diseases, and study of the human virome and microbiome. He is the Director of Specialization School of Microbiology and Virology at the University of Cagliari. He authored nearly 100 scientific manuscripts on various aspects of basic and clinical microbiology and infectious diseases.
"Gene D. Morse, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS, is a State University of New York (SUNY) Distinguished Professor and Director of the University at Buffalo, Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences. Professor Morse has been actively involved in HIV clinical pharmacology and therapeutics research since the introduction of antiretrovirals in 1986, with more recent emphasis on HCV infection, global drug development and cannabinoid sciences."
Prof. S.I Ofoefule is a Professor of Pharmacy. He has nearly 23years of experience as a Pharmacy Educator and Researcher, 13 years as a Professor. Previously Prof. Ofoefule served as Dean of Faculty at university of Nigeria and university of Uyo respectively. He is currently a Head of Department and Coordinator, Drug Delivery and Nanotechnology Research Unit at The University of Nigeria, Nsukka.He has authored more than 100 research publications, two Pharmacy books and one technical report. Prof. Ofoefule is also an adjunct faculty member at University of Uyo and University Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Dr. Rodriguez obtained a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Chemistry from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (1990). Then, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (1992-1993) He was appointed Assistant Professor (1997), and then Professor (2005) both at the Department of Organic Chemistry, Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has published more than 70 scientific publications and is a named inventor of 5 U.S. patents. His fields of interest are the design of antiparasitic and antiviral agents as well as total synthesis of compounds of pharmacological importance.
Dr. El Solh is a Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the Director of Research at the VA Western New York Healthcare System. He holds a MPH in Health Administration from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He has published more than 250 publications between peer reviewed original papers, abstracts, and book chapters. He holds three patents on screening and diagnosis of sleep disorders.
Antonio Di Biagio is currently holding the position of physician in the infectious diseases clinic of IRCCS San Martino-IST, Genoa – Italy. He teaches infectious diseases and public health in School of Medicine at University of Genoa
He is involved in the clinical and therapeutical management of HIV-infected patients care at the inpatient and outpatient clinic of the hospital. As part of his academic work, she has developed clinical research programmes in Europe, on the issues of HIV-chronic hepatitis B and C, as well as co-morbidities associated with the use of antiretrovirals.
He is involved in the development of HIV Guidelines with Italian Society of Infectious Diseases. He is the main authors of over 180 peer-reviewed publications on these subjects.
He is member of PENTA, CISAI, ICONA scientific committee.
Dr. Michael Grant is Professor of Immunology in the Division of BioMedical Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland. He has over 20 years experience as an independent investigator studying the immunology of chronic viral infection, publishing over 60 manuscripts on the immunology of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) hepatitis C virus (HCV) and cytomegalovirus (CMV) immunity. Dr. Grant is currently President of the Canadian Association for HIV Research and was chair of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research HIV/AIDS Research Advisory Committee. His current research focuses on regulation of natural killer cells and the role of CMV immunity in immune senescence.
Graduated from Mendeleev University, Moscow. PhD and DSc Theses awarded by MU-Sofia.
Editor: METAL-BASED DRUGS; ASIAN CHEM LETT; INT J DRUG DISCOV; INT J CURR CHEM;
Member of Editorial Boards: ANTI-CANCER AGENTS MED CHEM; WORLD J VIROL; IND J PURE & APPL PHYS; THE
Published over 130 papers (citations>3000; IF>140; h-index: 27).
Dr. Glen D Armstrong is Professor and past Head of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases at the University of Calgary, Canada. His academic career spans 33 years during which his research focused on virulence strategies employed by gastrointestinal pathogens including, enterovirulent Escherichia coli with an emphasis on enterohemorrhagic and enteropathogenic E. coli, Campylobacter spp. and, Clostridium difficile. The practical applications of his research include the discovery of pathogen-targeted anti-infective drugs as well as vaccine development. Dr. Armstrong holds a M.Sc. in biology and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry. He has authored 86 articles in the peer-reviewed literature and over 38 patents.
Dr. Bukrinsky obtained medical degree (M.D.) from the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute in Moscow, Russia, and a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Molecular Biology from the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Currently Dr. Bukrinsky is Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine in the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He has published more than 150 scientific publications and is a named inventor of 12 issued U.S patents. Dr. Bukrinsky is currently a member of Editorial Advisory Board of the Recent Patents On Anti-Infective Drug Discovery, published by Bentham Science Publishers.
Tianhong Dai is an assistant professor with the Harvard Medical School. He is considered a world leader in antimicrobial blue light therapy for infections, and a world expert in animal models of wound infections using bioluminescent microbes. He is the author and coauthor of more than 80 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Dai's research has been supported by the NIH (R01 and R21), DoD and other funding sources.


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GenreDrama / Thriller
Husband and wife doctors Paul and Kim Jordan need a drastic change. Distraught by the inexplicable death of their baby, Paul (C. Thomas Howell) convinces Kim to abandon their American lives and join a medical mission in Thailand