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Forschungskrimi um Koran-Fotografien
Der 2003 im Alter von 93 Jahren verstorbene Arabist und Hochschullehrer Anton Spitaler hat die Ergebnisse eines Nazi-Forschungsprojekts, das 450 Filmrollen mit Aufnahmen alter Koranhandschriften aus entlegenen Bibliotheken zusammenbrachte, bis zu seinem Tod vor der Fachöffentlichkeit verborgen gehalten, indem er behauptete, die Projektergebnisse seien 1944 durch einen Bombenangriff in München zerstört worden.
offizieller Nachruf der Bay. Akademie der Wiss. auf Prof. Spitaler (PDF) mit der Angabe, das Archiv sei vernichtet worden.
Information about the archive's survival has just begun trickling out to the wider scholarly community. Why Mr. Spitaler hid it remains a mystery. His only published mention of the archive's fate was a footnote to an article in a 1975 book on the Quran. Claiming the bulk of the cache had been lost during the war, he wrote cryptically that "drastically changed conditions after 1945" ruled out any rebuilding of the collection.
Ms. Neuwirth, the current guardian of the archive, believes that perhaps Mr. Spitaler was simply "sick of" the time-consuming project and wanted to move on to other work. Mr. Lüling has a less charitable theory: that Mr. Spitaler didn't have the talents needed to make use of the archive himself and wanted to make sure colleagues couldn't outshine him by working on the material.
Joseph L. Sax hat in seinem großartigen Buch "Playing Darts with a Rembrandt" (1999) ein Kapitel "The Privatization of Scholarly Research", in dem er vor allem anhand der Schriftrollen vom Toten Meer überzeugend ausführt, dass exklusive Publikationsrechte von Übel sind und die wissenschaftliche Gemeinschaft am meisten profitiert, wenn alle Zugang zu den Quellen haben, um mit ihnen zu arbeiten und sie auszuwerten.
Sax stellt zutreffend fest, dass Forscher zu veranlassen, ihre Daten zugänglich zu machen, kein auf die Archäologie und vergleichbare Felder beschränktes Phänomen ist (S. 174). Wenn der offene Zugang zu solchen Daten bereits in der traditionellen Druckkultur dringend wünschenswert erscheint, ist Open Access zu wissenschaftlichen Daten im digitalen Zeitalter eine conditio sine qua non des wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts.
Forschungsfinanzierer und Universitäten sollten, soweit das rechtlich zulässig ist, ihre Forscher verpflichten, Rohmaterial und Daten (ggf. nach einer großzügig bemessenen Frist) "Open Access" – und das heisst mit Weiterverwendungsmöglichkeiten – zugänglich zu machen.
In dem oben angegebenen Artikel erfährt man nicht, wie die Eigentumsverhältnisse der derzeit von einem Berliner Projekt verwalteten Unterlagen sind. Ob BGH "Grabungsmaterialien" übertragbar ist?
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4599054
Die Informationsfreiheitsgesetze schließen den Zugang zu Forschungsunterlagen an den Universitäten regelmäßig aus. An rechtlich relevanten Gesichtspunkten listen wir auf:
* das Verbot staatlicher Forschungsmonopole (Art. 5 GG), überwiegend diskutiert anhand der Frage, ob der Staat via Genehmigungsvorbehalt archäologische Grabungen seinen eigenen Behörden reservieren darf
* der Anspruch auf eine ermessensfreie Entscheidung über Zugangsgewährung aufgrund Art. 5 GG (dazu der von mir als Kläger durchgefochtene Fall Auskunftsanspruch eines Wissenschaftsautors)
* der aus dem Gleichheitssatz des Art. 3 GG folgende Anspruch aller Wissenschaftler auf Gleichbehandlung.
Frau Professorin Neuwirth hatte die Freundlichkeit, auf Anfrage Stellung zu nehmen.
Ich danke Ihnen für die Eröffnung der Möglichkeit, zu Ihrem Text Stellung zu
nehmen. Ich möchte Sie bitte, unbedingt auf das Prädikat
"Nazi-Forschungsprojekt" zu verzichten: Das ist sachlich unrichtig. Es
handelt sich bei der Bergsträsserschen Initiative doch um ein Vorhaben, das
von Gotthelf Bergsträsser längst vor der Machtergreifung eingeleitet wurde,
Bergsträsser hat diese ja kaum mehr erlebt. Er arbeitete bekanntlich nicht
nur mit einem australischen Forscher, Arthur Jeffery, sondern auch mit dem
später als Angehöriger der "Weißen Rose" hingerichteten Karl Huber in
München zusammen. Zudem hatte das Projekt zu keiner Zeit irgendeine
Verbindung zur Politik, die von Otto Pretzl und Anton Spitaler geleistete
philologische Arbeit spielte sich am Münchener Schreibtisch ab, sie war so
politikfern wie die majoritäre deutsche Orientwissenschaft ihrerzeit
politikfern arbeitete – reine Sprach- und Traditionsgeschichte. Dass Pretzl
später in einer militärischen Aktion des II. Weltkriegs umkam, dass Spitaler
als junger Mann zum Dienst als Übersetzer eingezogen wurde, hat diese Arbeit
nie tangiert. Der aus ihrer Arbeit resultierende Band III der "Geschichte
des Qorantexts" ist ein ausschließlich mit Phonetik, Morphologie und
Kodikologie befasstes Werk.
Das Archiv selbst wird gegenwärtig – im Rahmen des 2007 angelaufenen
Akademie-Projekts Corpus Coranicum – digitalisiert und über internet der
weiteren Forscherkommunität zugänglich gemacht.
Frau Neuwirth und Herr Marx haben mir die Antwort von letzterem auf den WSJ-Artikel zugänglich gemacht, die ich hier ebenfalls dokumentieren möchte:
A reaction to the article "The Lost Archive", The Wall Street Journal 12.1.2008, page 1 (US edition)
Michael Marx (marx@bbaw.de)
Director of Research Centre Corpus Coranicum (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der
Wissenschaften)
The lost archive, the myth of philology, and the study of the Qur'an
The belief in the myth that old manuscripts should be mysterious and powerful is part and
parcel of the age of Modernity. That such expectations were operative in the discussion on
the Qumran fragments is still remembered, and more recently the Da Vinci Code, in itself a
quite shallow story, sold extremely well. The fact that the Wall Street Journal placed an
article on the "lost Bergsträsser-film archive" of Qur'anic manuscripts on its front page on
12th of January seems to be due to the myth of "textual wars" taking place in the world.
Labelled as a clash of civilizations or war of religions, conflicts today in the Middle East and
Europe involving Christians, Muslims and Jews are likely to be perceived in isolation from
their economical, social, or political preconditions. On September 12th 2001 a friend of mine
bought a copy of the Qur'an in order to "understand what is going on". Indeed, as if in the
spirit of the protestant slogan of "sola scriptura" (= "through scripture only"), the idea of
deciphering the software of "Muslim patterns of action" through the Sacred Book of Islam is
tempting. As superficial as it may look, this very perception of the direct causal link between
"what Muslims do" and passages of the Qur'an seems to be widespread. No article on the
missing enlightenment in "Islam" without pointing to a still missing "but urgently needed"
critical edition of the Qur'an. Almost no coverage on warfare in the Middle East and suicide
bombings without the attempt to dig out passages from the Qur'an and pictures of praying
and reciting Muslims. The cultural, social, and religious diversity of a whole region, the
Middle East, that European and American history labels as the cradle of civilisation and the
birthplace of Judaism and Islam appears transmuted into a "disturbing" monolithic religious
monster.
The article on the lost photo archive of old Quranic Manuscripts collected by Gotthelf
Bergsträsser (1886-1933) and his colleague Otto Pretzl (1893-1941) calls to mind a whole
tradition of philological research on the Qur'an that has fallen into oblivion since World War
II. Two centuries ago, it was German speaking philologists who laid the foundation for
critical approaches to the Quran. Abraham Geiger's (1810-1874) often quoted and
frequently misunderstood book "Was hat Mohamed aus dem Judenthume aufgenommen"
("What did Mohamed take from Judaism?"), published in 1833, can be seen as a landmark,
setting up a school of Jewish scholars who for almost a hundred years included the study of
Islamic sources into the text corpus of Jewish texts they studied. The title of Geiger's book
is misleading, since the author is far from attacking the prophet but sees Mohamed as a
kind of genius, embedded in a (Late Antique) context where Jewish texts and traditions are
seen as integral parts of the emerging first Muslim community. It is a paradoxical fact that
the founding figure of the Jewish Reform movement sought to trace Jewish tradition back to
a Middle Eastern context in order to accommodate Judaism in post-Napoleonic Central
European societies by studying interconnections between rabbinical traditions and the
Qur'an. In a society where the ghettos just had been dissolved, a Jewish movement
developed its vision of a European Jewish identity by tracing their tradition back to the
Middle Eastern context and showing links to another religion emerging in the same region.
The 19th century also saw German speaking scholars like Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921),
Theodor Nöldeke (1836-1930), and Gustav Weil (1808-1889) who laid the foundations of a
philologically sound approach to Middle Eastern literatures in Arabic, Syriac, Hebrew, and
Persian. The fruits of their and their students' works are often considered milestones of text
edition and are still to be found in bookstores in the Middle East and the Western world. It
was Theodor Nöldeke who left a book on the history of the Qur'an that is considered a
landmark of philological scholarship of the Qur'an by Western and Eastern scholars. Even if
Nöldeke, in his 19th century spirit, referred to the prophet as a genius, thus attributing
authorship of the text to him, his work offers proof of a degree of knowledge of Islamic
tradition and philological methods that is almost non-existent today. Among Nöldeke's
successors were scholars like Gotthelf Bergsträsser and Otto Pretzl who developed the
project of creating a philological critical study of the Qur'an. Bergsträsser not only travelled
diverse Arab countries (the Mediterranean Sea) to take pictures with the newly developed first transportable Leica photo-camera but also went regularly to Cairo to participate in the
meetings of the Royal Egyptian Academy of Sciences. He can be described as a scholar
who not only studied his "object", Arabic texts, but who also understood that knowledge of
the Muslim tradition had to be included in his intellectual approach by sharing and
exchanging knowledge with his Middle Eastern colleagues. After his premature and
unexpected death in 1933, he left behind a treasure that was lost from sight after World War
II. The widespread belief in its non-accessibility was reinforced by rumours of the
destruction of the material in 1944 and the silence of his successor Anton Spitaler (1910-2003).
Many, although by no means all, German scholars who remained in Germany after the
Nazis came to power, did have sympathies for the Nazis. In times of war, knowledge of
foreign languages qualified scholars for specialized positions in the German war machinery
where their linguistic skills were seen as important. Nevertheless, measuring the
achievements of German scholars by examining their political biographies seems to me not
helpful. Gotthelf Bergsträsser only experienced the very beginning of the political
catastrophe that was the Third Reich. His colleague at Munich University, the musicologist
Kurt Huber (1893-1943), who together with Bergsträsser published an article on the
recitation of the Qur'an in Cairo, joined the White Rose movement that opposed the Nazi
regime. He was executed in 1943. The fact that the German philological tradition of studying
the Qur'an flourished in the 1920s and remained in existence during the Nazi period, cannot
in itself justify describing German scholarship in that field as having a Nazi agenda (as
observed in many internet blogs discussing the "The Lost Archive"). As Jewish scholars in
Germany and Europe were killed or had left the country, post-War Germany had lost not
only its intellectual elite, but also German as a language of international scholarship
underwent a decline, not only in Oriental studies.
Post World War II studies on the Qur'an no longer followed the tradition set by Goldziher,
Nöldeke, and Bergsträsser. In the 1970s, the works of John Wansbrough (1928-2002) and
Patricia Crone suggested a new perspective on the Qur'an, where the text either would
emerge one to two centuries after the prophet, or come out of Palestinian religious
movements (reducing Mecca and Medina to collective retrospective imaginations of the Muslim community). Neither theory is in harmony with results of research of the last two
decades. Today, perhaps neither of the scholars mentioned would write their books a
second time in the same vein. Yet, in a field like Qur'anic studies, both works were often
seen by Muslim readers as revealing the true aims of Western scholarship, thus to a certain
extent they can be said to have destroyed mutual trust. For scholars from Europe today, the
suspicion of belonging to a "revisionist school" can still be sensed in the Middle East, and is
often an obstacle to academic exchange between scholars.
The field of Qur'anic studies, that can be described as under-studied compared to two
centuries of Biblical studies, contains many "blank spaces" on the research map. The lack of
a comparative study of the oldest manuscripts and the oral Muslim tradition requires a lot of
documentation and analytical work. The Bergsträsser photo archive affords a good overview
of important old manuscripts from European and Middle Eastern libraries, it can not,
however, serve as a magic wand. From the material that has been entered into a database
to date it would appear that any expectations that old Qur'anic manuscripts in the Old Hijazi
script included in the Bergsträsser photo archive would offer a different text of the Qur'an
are unjustified. It is interesting to note that orthographic differences observed in manuscripts
of the early 8th century are variations of spelling that a comparison of 20th century prints of
the Qur'an from Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Nigeria show to be still alive.
Muslim tradition does indeed refer to one text, yet still allows and transmits variant readings
and writings within a certain range. This "unmodern" attitude towards the text, (textual
behaviour) of allowing ambiguity and a range of readings, can be described as having
characterized Muslim tradition since the earliest times. Until the present day, the Qur'an is
recited in slightly "diverging" textual and acoustic shape in Morocco and in Egypt. What is
required here is a systematic study of all the available material, manuscripts or sources on
the different Muslim traditions of reading the Qur'an, in order to study the text of the Qur'an
– in the same way the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are studied – with due
diligence, knowledge, and precision.
Since Nöldeke, Bergsträsser, Pretzl and their Australian colleague Arthur Jeffery (1892-
1959) developed a framework for a systematic study in the 1920s that was interrupted in the
following years by the death of the scholars involved and the events leading up to and during World War II, the only perspective left is a modest attempt to continue Nöldeke's and
Bergsträsser's work today – more than seventy years later. Even if the story sounds
intriguing, no Da Vinci Code scenario or Qumran fever will make things easier. The study of
old manuscripts and Muslim oral tradition requires a lot of time and patience. Until today,
each and every hypothesis of a "new text", a "different text" or a completely new historical
scenario of the genesis of the text remains a hypothesis based on scarce material evidence
and looks very unlikely. This is valid for the hypotheses of Luxenberg, Ohlig, Wansbrough
and other spectacular "new readings" of the Qur'an. Scholarly work has of course to take
place in isolation from religious claims of any sort, which simply belong to another
discourse. (That does not mean that one has to subscribe to the religious dogma that the
Qur'an is an inspired text or that it has a divine origin). The metaphysical question of the
text's origin cannot be answered by science and philology. What can be studied are the
textual beginnings of the Qur'an as they are manifested in manuscripts and in the Muslim
tradition across the centuries.
The Berlin project that started in 2007 under the title "Corpus Coranicum", sees itself as the
attempt to collect documents on the Qur'an systematically and transparently. The rich
material of the Bergsträsser collection offers a solid basis for a documentation of the text of
the Qur'an in history. On the other side, it also refers to the achievements of a scholar who
came from the German speaking philological school and was fully aware of the importance
of studying Arabic sources and exchanging ideas with his Middle Eastern colleagues. The
project, based at the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, was developed by Angelika
Neuwirth, Nicolai Sinai and the author in 2006. Angelika Neuwirth's more than thirty years'
experience in Qur'anic scholarship can be described as an approach that is based on a
careful study of the text itself, combining material from the Islamic tradition with modern text
hermeneutics. In the framework of Corpus Coranicum this is a perspective which no single
scholar would ever have been able to pursue alone but one which unquestionably requires
the cooperative work of researchers from diverse specializations. The project group studies
the Qur'an as a text that has a history in Late Antiquity; Hebrew, Syriac, Greek and
Ethiopian source texts about the theological debates contemporary with the emergence of
the Qur'an are collected and made available in a database structure (Texte zur Umwelt des
Koran = "Texts on the Environment of the Qur'an"), in order to reconstruct the milieu that the text addressed. Every text enters a world where there are earlier texts in existence. The
Qur'an addressed listeners from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. Charitable
reading of the Qur'an means undertaking the attempt to reconstruct the way the text was
received by the earliest community. If the 112th Sura is read against the background of the
most important Jewish credo ("Shma Israel"; Deutronomy 6,4) and the Nicene Creed (of the
First Council of Constantinople in 381 CE), the relationship – the message of the text seen
against the background of two other Late Antique texts – can be described in the sense that
the Qur'an addressed people in a given context.
By studying overlaps with Late Antique traditions, the originality of the Qur'an in its context
becomes evident. The idea of a text emerging in a context sounds trivial, but in the case of
the Qur'an investigating it requires the unearthing of the achievements of a whole (mostly
German speaking) tradition that is very little studied today, not least as a result of the
decline in German language skills among scholars. The above mentioned Jewish Reform
Movement founded by Abraham Geiger in the 19th century produced numerous studies on
the Qur'an and its context. These scholarly achievements are almost forgotten today and
were only continued in miniature after World War II. The tragedy of neglected scholarship in
this field has contributed to the deplorable current situation of Qur'anic scholarship. For the
study of the Qur'an as pursued by the Corpus Coranicum project, two traditions have to be
revived, one is the "Lost Archive", the other could be classified as "forgotten books". Both
are seen as necessary and have to be brought together in an integral scholarly effort,
combining philology of manuscripts with knowledge about Late Antique reference material in
order to allow us to see the Qur'an in the context of human history.
Any examination of the time before the Qur'an does entail the need to include Islamic
history in a wider framework of Middle Eastern history of Christianity and Judaism. Hereby
the concept of an exclusive vision of a Jewish-Christian identity has to be questioned. If
Judaism and Christianity, religious traditions that emerged from the same region, can be
accommodated in Europe or the United States, why should the Qur'an and Islamic history
be seen as separate. By showing and documenting that the discourse of the Qur'an
addressed a Late Antique milieu where Judaism and Christianity was known, the Qur'an
and the history of the Muslim community can be freed from their current connotations of exotic ("non-European") otherness. Comparisons between Jewish and Muslim legal
traditions not only show similarities but show also how a new discourse can enter into a
rivalry with an existing one. At the same time, dogmatic debates reflected in the Qur'an
point to the fact that the text is situated in a region where six centuries of Church history not
only produced harmony.
The Qur'an project is conscious of the fact that exchange and debate is necessary. The
approaches of the Corpus Coranicum project are the subject of debates with Muslim
scholars. After lectures and discussions held in Morocco, Iran, and Turkey the opinion that a
"critical project" on the Qur'an is tantamount to a suicide project, does not coincide with my
own (albeit limited) experiences. On the contrary, a debate in the city of Qom on the study
of manuscripts and the relationship between the uncanonical gospel of the infancy of
Thomas and parts of the 3rd Sura turned out to involve a number of Shiite clerics in a
discussion of the type of discourse the Qur'an could be described as. The possibility that
any of the speakers might not necessarily be a Muslim seen as being relevant was not
sensed by the author. Late Antique sources in Syriac or Hebrew language are of course
scarcely studied and translated into Arabic or Persian in Muslim countries today, thus
hindering discussion of such material. At the same time, many Western scholars of
theology, Jewish studies, church history, Syriac etc. have also shown themselves sceptical
about discussing the importance of their respective disciplines for understanding the Qur'an.
In the end, it is the necessity and the will to discuss an embeddedness of the text in time
and space that is at stake. Many scholars have refused to accord the Qur'an its due place in
history, the recently begun Corpus Coranicum project has decided to take an opposite
approach. Consisting of a mixed group of researchers, the academic target audience is a
European one, whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish or other.
By laying the groundwork for a systematic approach to Qur'anic Studies, the outlined
research approach is aimed at contributing to a vision of history in which Christian, Jewish
and Muslim traditions refer to a shared Middle Eastern heritage. From a European
perspective, the Middle East as a point of departure has always been accepted for the age
of Antiquity, why should Late Antiquity be treated differently? In a time when the belief
seems to be widespread that sacred texts are capable of supplying explanations for the behaviour of individuals, research on the contexts of a text could contribute towards
dissolving an essentialist perspective on a sacred text – something which is still too rarely
questioned in public debate and scholarship.
After having read a column in the Asian Times Online (15th of January) under the title
"Indiana Jones meets Da Vinci Code", based on the Wall Street Journal's article on "The
Lost Archive", I bought hats for our whole research team, our female Muslim colleagues
now wear them on top of their headscarves.
(Berlin/Potsdam, 16.1.2008)
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Every year at our Annual Awards Ceremony and Fundraiser, we honor Triangle, Inc. program participants who embody our mission and persevere against all odds. This year, we're honoring the Peer IMPACT Leaders from the Henderson Inclusion school: Katiana, Ciara, Courtnie, Kaya, and Naieer.
Peer IMPACT is a youth leadership development program designed to bring students with and without disabilities together to increase understanding and prevent bullying. Operated by IMPACT, a program of Triangle, Peer IMPACT provides the opportunity for transition-aged students to teach valuable information to younger students, leading them through lessons on team building, self-advocacy, bullying prevention, and end-of-year projects to teach others in the school community what they have learned.
The Henderson Inclusion School is a K-12 school located in Dorchester where students with disabilities learn in the classroom alongside their peers without disabilities. Peer IMPACT was introduced at both the middle and high school levels during the 2014-2015 school year. IMPACT staff members believe that the earlier you teach students about these topics, the more profound the effect, so it was soon decided that the curriculum would be taught at the 5th grade level at the Henderson School. Peer Leaders began to teach the curriculum in the 2015-2016 school year, and it is now taught to all 5th grade students as a regular part of their weekly classes. The Peer Leaders have already reached an astonishing 200 students directly with the curriculum, in addition to another 200 students through their end-of-year projects which are presented to the other grades at Henderson.
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Orioles Raise More Than $80,000 Through F16HT T-Shirt Sales
By Rachel Reinecke
During Spring Training 2020, Orioles infielder/outfielder Trey Mancini was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer. As a response to this news, Caroline Means, wife of Orioles pitcher John Means, shared a tweet encouraging Trey to keep fighting, integrating his number 16 into the word FIGHT, and just like that a movement was born.
As Trey shared his story, all of Birdland rallied around him, sharing messages of hope and positivity. Fans and teammates alike encouraged him to keep pushing forward through his diagnosis and eventual chemotherapy treatments.
During a team Zoom call in May, his teammates and members of the Orioles baseball operations staff surprised him by holding up F16HT signs to show their solidarity.
His teammates continued to rally around him throughout the season, often wearing #F16HT shirts during batting practice.
A sign was also installed above the exit to the dugout, which players often interacted with before taking the field, a constant reminder of Trey's presence despite not physically being there to join them.
As a gift to celebrate Trey's final schedule chemotherapy treatment in September, his teammates surprised him a framed team photo in their #F16HT shirts, signing their names along with well wishes.
Following his diagnosis, Trey announced his partnership with the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, including his role on the organization's "Never Too Young" advisory board, which advocates for all young on-set patients and survivors of colorectal cancer.
In June, the Orioles produced F16HT t-shirts available for fans to purchase with all net proceeds benefitting the Colorectal Cancer Alliance Patient and Family Support Services.
More than $80,000 was raised through this campaign, as nearly 5,000 shirts were sold to fans across North America, with orders spanning 45 states, Washington D.C., and Canada.
In a season like no other, while fans were also fighting battles of their own, the Orioles recognized "The Fighters" as a group of Birdland Community Heroes on Opening Day in Baltimore. Inspired by Trey's battle with colon cancer, the Orioles highlighted individuals overcoming insurmountable odds everyday as they fight cancer, social injustice, and COVID-19.
To recognize The Fighters, the Orioles made a $5,000 donation to Thread, a local organization that harnesses the power of relationships to create a new social fabric by engaging young people that are facing the most significant opportunity and achievement gaps.
Since finishing his regularly scheduled chemotherapy treatments in September, Mancini has been preparing to return to the field, fully believing he will be ready for Spring Training 2021.
I'm not even lying when I say this: If spring training started today, I'd be good to go.
Trey Mancini, to MASNsports.com's Roch Kubatko

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... comes great fashion sense. Well, that's how this shirt would lead us to believe the end of that quote goes. But no, on the pocket it does read "With great power comes great responsibility." Just remember your personal responsibility of not washing this in hot water, because it's going to shrink and make you angry. And we wouldn't like you when you're angry. Wait. We've switched heroes again.
Much like the hybrid being Peter Parker becomes, this shirt features two things mashed up together. First, we have a maroon tee with a Spider-Man design printed on it in black. Then we have a navy blue tee with a maroon pocket, which features the iconic Great Responsibility quote. It's a pretty sweet look for a sweet superhero.


automation and quality control, original software tools for preservation workflows.
I have published 23 conference articles (since 2009), 13 articles on international journals (since 2013) and 3 book chapters.
At present, 21 of my publications are indexed in Scopus.
Check also my list of citations on Google Scholar.
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Bressan, F.; Canazza, S. and Bertani, R. Metodologie e nuovi strumenti informatici per la tutela delle memorie sonore: il caso dell'archivio storico della Fondazione Arena di Verona. In Archivi (2): 62-121, 2013.
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Bressan, F.; Canazza, S. and Poli, G. De Pour Bruno: memorie e ricerche su Bruno Maderna. In Omaggio a Bruno Maderna (1920-1973) nel quarantesimo anniversario della sua scomparsa, pages 129-150, Libreria Musicale Italiana, Restauro e falsificazione: potenzialit`a e rischi delle pratiche di restauro sonoro, Bologna (Italy), 2015.
Bressan, F.; Orio, N. and Hess, R. L. Towards a collaborative knowledge base for the safeguard of historical magnetic tapes for sound recording. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES), pages submitted, 2019.
Bressan, F. Towards an operative framework for assessing and describing the signs of degradation in audio media. In Proceedings of the Joint Technical Symposium (JTS), pages accepted for publication, Amsterdam (NL), 2019.
Bressan, F. Concepts and data in audio preservation: A meaningful relationship. In Proceedings of the 50th IASA Annual Conference, pages under review, IASA Editorial Group, Amsterdam (NL), 2019.
Ribeiro, A. P. da C. and Bressan, F. Early causes for biodegradation of PVA/PVC tapes for audio recording. In Proceedings of the 146th AES Convention, pages accepted for publication, AES, Dublin (Ireland), 2019.
Bressan, F. Dynamic Preservation of Interactive Art: The next frontier of Multimedia Cultural Heritage (DaphNet). In Proceedings of the 22th International Colloquium on Music Informatics (Colloqui di Informatica Musicale, CIM) ``Machine Sounds, Sound Machines'', pages 35-36, DADI - Dip. Arti e Design Industriale. Universit`a IUAV di Venezia, Udine, Italy, 2019.
Bressan, F. and Bertani, R. Reproducing a detection test for magnetic tapes degradation: Acetone extraction test. In Proceedings for the 5th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences & Arts SGEM2018, pages 437-445, Vienna (Austria), 2018.
Bressan, F. The challenge of integrating gender analysis in gender non-related research: The experience of an interdisciplinary project on multimedia cultural heritage. In Proceedings of the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender Studies and the Status of Women, pages 148-160, 2017.
Bressan, F.; Vets, T. and Leman, M. A multimodal interactive installation for collaborative music making: From preservation to enhanced user design. In Proceedings of the European Society for Cognitive Sciences Of Music (ESCOM) Conference, pages 23-26, Ghent (Belgium), 2017.
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Bressan, F. and Canazza, S. Towards a shared methodology for audio preservation: Luciano Berio's private collection of sound recordings. In Proceedings of the 2nd AIUCD Annual Conference on Collaborative Research Practices and Shared Infrastructures for Humanities Computing, pages 237-247, Cleup, 2014.
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Vegas Golden Knights may get franchise goalie, young roster in expansion draft
George Mcphee
By Stephen Whyno - Associated Press - Tuesday, June 20, 2017
George McPhee can't wait to fill the white board, the one in the Vegas Golden Knights' expansion draft room. On Wednesday night, the staff will start adding the names of players who will become part of the expansion team for its first NHL season.
"We're going to put our team together and we'll watch it come to life in front of us," McPhee said.
What will that team look like when it takes the ice in early October? It won't have all the top-end talent available because side deals will allow Vegas to stockpile draft picks and prospects for the future, but it will probably be the most competitive expansion team in the league's history.
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"I'm really pleased with what's available," McPhee told reporters in Las Vegas on Sunday. "This has worked out very well for the Vegas Golden Knights, and we expect to put a good, entertaining club on the ice."
Here's a projection of who the inaugural Golden Knights might snap up by Wednesday night:
GOALTENDERS (MINIMUM 3)
SURE BET: Three-time Stanley Cup champion Marc-Andre Fleury seems like the most reliable pick on the board, a recognizable face of the franchise who can easily start 50-60 games and give the Golden Knights chances to win. Fleury waived his no-movement clause so the Pittsburgh Penguins didn't have to force another trade, and the 32-year-old can go back to being a clear No. 1 goalie.
WORTH THE GAMBLE: Fleury could be joined by an established 20-something backup, like Philadelphia's Michal Neuvirth, Detroit's Petr Mrazek, Colorado's Calvin Pickard or New York's Antti Raanta.
McPhee and Vegas goaltending coach Dave Prior have connections to Neuvirth and Washington's Philipp Grubauer from drafting them with the Capitals. McPhee described Neuvirth as "almost technically perfect."
"It was just about him growing up and maturing," McPhee said at the scouting combine. "We thought that when that happened, he'd be an outstanding goaltender. And he's at that point now. He can be really good."
ROLLING THE DICE: Maybe Vegas wants to groom its starter of the future, in which case Grubauer, Boston's Malcolm Subban, Detroit's Jared Coreau or Toronto's Antoine Bibeau could fit the bill.
DON'T SLEEP ON: Vegas controls the trade market and can make some extra picks to flip a goalie or two. Arizona and Philadelphia are in need of starters.
DEFENSEMEN (MINIMUM 9)
SURE BET: Assuming Anaheim has already worked out a trade to keep Vegas away from Sami Vatanen and Josh Manson — perhaps at the cost of a first-round pick — there are still plenty of young, affordable defensemen to choose from along with some veterans. Dion Phaneuf refusing to waive his no-movement clause forced Ottawa to protect him and expose 31-year-old Marc Methot.
Minnesota's plethora of blue liners made Matt Dumba, 22, and Marco Scandella, 27, available unless the Wild is willing to fork something over, and 25-year-old right-shooting Trevor van Riemsdyk from Chicago seems ticketed for the Golden Knights.
WORTH THE GAMBLE: With speed, skating and puck-moving skills a priority, Detroit's Xavier Oullet (23), Washington's Nate Schmidt (25) and Montreal's Nikita Nesterov (24) all could fit well. Want some more size and physicality? Vegas could look at Boston's Colin Miller (24), Edmonton's Griffin Reinhart (23) and Buffalo's Zach Bogosian (26).
ROLLING THE DICE: Pending free agent Kevin Shattenkirk of the Capitals wants to be a No. 1 defenseman and could get that role in Vegas.
"It's a very interesting situation," Shattenkirk said. "Usually, you're talking to teams or thinking of teams and you have some sort of idea of how they're built or their history or whatever it may be, and they are completely fresh."
DON'T SLEEP ON: The Golden Knights will be young, but San Jose's David Schlemko (30) and Paul Martin (36) and New Jersey's Ben Lovejoy (33) are veteran options.
FORWARDS (MINIMUM 14)
SURE BET: This is where elite talent already under contract is hard to find, outside of maybe Nashville's James Neal, a 10-time 20-goal scorer, and 32-year-old Minnesota center Eric Staal. Vegas could use free agency to stock its top forwards, as it already has by signing Vadim Shipacyhov out of the KHL.
WORTH THE GAMBLE: Among established NHL forwards, Vegas has the pick of two 26-year-olds from Florida: right winger Reilly Smith and center Jonathan Marchessault, who set career highs with 30 goals, 21 assists and 51 points last season and is the biggest bargain in the league at $750,000. With so many Cup teams built down the middle, Dallas' Cody Eakin (who McPhee also drafted), Minnesota's Erik Haula and St. Louis' Jori Lehtera could help both present and future.
ROLLING THE DICE: Vegas can build a young nucleus with some intriguing possibilities, assuming Columbus has persuaded McPhee not to take 17-goal scorer Josh Anderson and the New York Islanders have worked out a way to keep 56-point producer Josh Bailey. One-time prospects Marko Dano from Winnipeg, Mikhail Grigorenko from Colorado and Nail Yakupov from St. Louis might benefit from bigger opportunities under coach Gerard Gallant.
DON'T SLEEP ON: If Vegas is indeed getting Blackhawks center Marcus Kruger, he's a nice depth player at 27, and Montreal's Tomas Plekanec, who is 34, satisfies a veteran component and could fit perfectly as the franchise's first captain.


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Scand J Public Health. 2017 Nov;45(7):720-722. doi: 10.1177/1403494817738498.
Public health educational comprehensiveness: The strategic rationale in establishing networks among schools of public health.
Otok R1,2, Czabanowska K3,4, Foldspang A5.
1 Associations of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), Brussels, Belgium.
2 Department of International Health, CAPHRI, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
3 Department of International Health CAPHRI, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
4 Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland; ASPHER, Brussels, Belgium.
5 Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, and ASPHER, Brussels, Belgium.
The establishment and continuing development of a sufficient and competent public health workforce is fundamental for the planning, implementation, evaluation, effect and ethical validity of public health strategies and policies and, thus, for the development of the population's health and the cost-effectiveness of health and public health systems and interventions. Professional public health strategy-making demands a background of a comprehensive multi-disciplinary curriculum including mutually, dynamically coherent competences - not least, competences in sociology and other behavioural sciences and their interaction with, for example, epidemiology, biostatistics, qualitative methods and health promotion and disease prevention. The size of schools and university departments of public health varies, and smaller entities may run into problems if seeking to meet the comprehensive curriculum challenge entirely by use of in-house resources. This commentary discusses the relevance and strength of establishing comprehensive curriculum development networks between schools and university departments of public health, as one means to meet the comprehensiveness challenge. This commentary attempts to consider a two-stage strategy to develop complete curricula at the bachelor and master's as well as PhD levels.


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Q: "No ST-LINK connected!" issue with Nucleo-F413ZH I'm trying to flash a basic LED blinking program to my Nucleo F413ZH board using the STM32CubeIDE, but whenever I try to debug it says:-

"No ST-LINK connected! Please connect ST-LINK and restart the debug
session."

The board has the PWR and COM LEDs blinking, meaning the USB I've connected to the board is providing power, I just can't upload any code.
I've tried using the ST-LINK upgrade firmware (https://www.st.com/en/development-tools/stsw-link007.html) to install new drivers as that's what some people online have suggested but the program won't respond once I've downloaded it, which seems to be a side issue of not registering connectivity.
I'm not sure whether this is an issue with drivers or if my hardware is busted. I'm using macOS Big Sur.

A: In Windows 10 this problem occurs as a result of an incorrect driver priority as pointed out in this post.  Error in initializing ST-Link Device - Failed to connect to device perhaps this solution might point you in the right direction.  I have set up several new M1 Mac Minis in the past few months for clients, Big Sur and the new M1 have several compatibility issues like slow network drive access and flashing screens, the Android M1 chip has dramatically less external connectivity which is why they went from 4 thunderbolt ports on the last intel Mac Mini to just 2. I would not be  surprised if Big Sur is the core of the problem.  Try a different computer if you have the opportunity.

A: I was also getting the same error on ubuntu system while using stm cube ide, with st-link v2 programmer.
blue led was continuously blinking.
but solved the error just by reconnecting the usb-extention-hub, now when connected blue led is on (no blink), and now i can program and debug the target.

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In audio recording, Trudeau says Bill C-24 makes citizenship conditional upon 'good behaviour'
CTVNews.ca Staff Published Sunday, September 27, 2015 10:26PM EDT
CTV News has obtained a recording leaked by the Conservative Party of Justin Trudeau's answer in July to a question about Bill C-24, a law that allows dual citizens – those who are convicted terrorists – to be stripped of Canadian citizenship and deported.
The Liberal Leader began his answer by mocking Conservatives for their attack ads and calling attention to the portion of the answer that might be chosen for a future ad:
"The Liberal Party believes that terrorists should get to keep their Canadian citizenship ... because I do," Trudeau told a Winnipeg town hall in July. "And I'm willing to take on anyone who disagrees with that.
He added: "As soon as you make citizenship for some Canadians conditional on good behaviour, you devalue citizenship for everyone."
Trudeau was conducting town halls across the country back in July. On that same day, he tweeted about the "great discussions" in Winnipeg.
Trudeau also told the group that revoking a terrorist's citizenship is not the answer, and that Bill C-24 "exemplifies the Conservatives' approach to politics."
"There are penalties for anyone convicted of a terrorism or an act of war or offence against Canada -- they end up locked up in jail for the rest of their lives. "
But one member of the Toronto 18, convicted of being involved in the plot to bomb the city, has already been paroled. The so-called mastermind behind the plot is eligible for release next year, and the government announced Friday plans to revoke his citizenship and deport him to Jordan – the first such case in Canada since the new law was enacted.
The Conservatives criticize Trudeau for telling his Winnipeg audience the revocation of citizenship allowed in Bill C-24 is about "good behaviour," when it actually is intended to target dual citizens who have been convicted of terrorism here or abroad convicted of treason, spying, or armed conflict against Canada
"Mr. Trudeau's position suggests that he really doesn't value Canadian citizenship," Conservative candidate Jason Kenney said. "If you can take up arms against this country, join a terrorist organization that wants to commit mass violence against your fellow citizens --you're forfeiting your own citizenship."
Canada is not the only country to revoke citizenship. The United Kingdom, Australia and France have passed similar legislation.
At a campaign stop in Regina Saturday, Conservative candidate Jason Kenney confirmed that Zakaria Amara, a Jordanian-Canadian and member of the so-called Toronto 18, has been formally stripped of his Canadian citizenship.
Now that Amara's Canadian citizenship has been revoked, a plan has been set in motion to deport him to Jordan.
CTV News has learned that the process has begun for at least three other convicted terrorists to have their Canadian citizenships revoked.
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is also opposed to C-24 and on Sunday made clear his rationale. "What if it's bank robbery," Mulcair said, "or what if it's, they just don't like the country you're from and they want to send you back?"
Tonight in a statement, the Liberals wouldn't comment on the specifics of the audio recording but stand by their position: that convicted terrorists belong in prison.
With a report by CTV's Deputy Ottawa Bureau Chief Laurie Graham
Justin Trudeau speaks at a town hall in this photo posted to the Liberal leader's Flickr account.
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Battery-electric Cadillac Lyriq debuts next year. The GM brand vows to have all-EV lineup by 2030.
Burning Coal to Run EVs Doesn't Cut It
"We don't want to run into the trap of energy (production) cancelling out (the environmental zero-emission benefits of) EVs," analyst William Newman says at a Reuters automotive conference.
Steve Finlay | Jun 22, 2021
The zero-emissions promise that comes with electric vehicles seems unfulfilled if the energy that powers those vehicles pollutes in the first place.
So says William Newman, an industry adviser to consulting firm SAP America. "We don't want to run into the trap of energy (production) cancelling out (the environmental zero-emission benefits of) EVs."
In other words, it's one thing if electricity to fuel EVs comes from an eco-friendly hydro plant, solar panels or windmills. It's altogether different if a coal-burning facility creates the electricity. It is a distinction without a difference if the pollution is emitted from a smokestack instead of a tailpipe.
Currently, 40% of all carbon-dioxide pollution comes from power plants burning fossil fuels to create energy, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
"It's not all about the car," Fredericke Kienitz, Nissan's vice president-legal, external and government affairs, says of EVs and their power sources. "It's zero-emissions energy in and out."
Newman, Kienitz and Mahmoud Samara, Cadillac's North American vice president, participate in a Reuters online automotive conference session entitled, "Electrification Transition: How Do We Hit 2030 Targets?"
Those targets, which collectively call for 250 million EVs on the road by decade's end, are driven by both the industry itself (virtually every major automaker is expanding their EV lineup or plans to) and government regulations.
EV government mandates in Europe and China are particularly strong.
China, the world's largest EV market, accounts for about half of the sales, according to IEA, an energy firm. More than 1 million electric cars were sold in China in 2019. Europe was the second-largest market, with 561,000 deliveries, followed by the U.S. with 327,000.
While automakers quickly expand their lineups with EVs, some brands, such as Cadillac, are going all-in. The General Motors luxury brand, which has sold vehicles powered by internal-combustion engines for 118 years, is committed to an all-EV lineup by 2030, Samara (pictured below, left) says, noting the battery-electric Cadillac Lyriq is due out next year. It will start at $58,795 in the U.S.
"We're reimagining everything," he says. "Our ecosystem approach has the customer in the center."
But dealers will play a vital role, Samara adds. "We're looking at the customer experience as well as the dealer experience. To make it easier for buyers to buy EVs, we have to make it easier for sellers to sell them. We're leveraging dealer partners as a competitive advantage."
Cadillac has bought out dealers who declined to commit to an all-EV lineup. Those were mostly rural and small-market retailers who didn't foresee much of their customer base ready to abandon gasoline-powered vehicles.
But many other people are interested in EVs, Samara says. "We look forward to making the major transition. We're doing it not just because the market is there, but also because it is the right thing to do for the environment."
Zero-emission EV goals are somewhat daunting but "at the same time exciting for everyone," Kienitz says. "The goal is very much driven by customer demand, but government also has a powerful role. We see that in Europe."
There, tough air-quality regulations spur automakers to produce more EVs, change consumer perceptions and draw in more EV investors, she says.
But panelists agree it's not just about the vehicle. "Infrastructure is critical," Samara says. "So is charging time and range."
Kienitz adds: "We need to build an infrastructure and a (sustainable) supply of energy. We don't want to leave anyone behind, so we must offer products that are affordable and (easily) chargeable."
Transitioning to mass-producing EVs will require a policy that includes downstream suppliers, Newman says. "We have to have a network of networks that include the supply base. A lot of mom-and-pop shops may not be with us. But a lot of other new suppliers will be."
Steve Finlay is a former WardsAuto senior editor. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Beyond bitcoin, the rest of the market did not fare well.
Growth in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the blockchain community through its first six or seven years was dependent on marketing and trying to get wider adoption, Mr Buterin said. At the time of press, the ETH is looming at $258, which showcases the 11% dip in the last 24 hours till the press time.
Before this situation, the market had a capitalization of nearly $240 billion dollars. A fund holding the currency could attract more investors and push its price higher.
The recent chart indicates that Bitcoin has been on a steady rise, and may continue to dominate the cryptocurrency space like it did previous year. The position of bitcoin performs in equivalent to the effects in the market. Bitcoin found a balance around $6,300 but further declines are imminent unless a support above $6,400 is established in the near-term. Of course, most altcoins also fell sharply with Ethereum (ETC) plunging near the $250 mark and all of this really happened in the span on an hour.
Most of the altcoins in the market cap range suffer from average losses with an interval of 9-12% before the press time. Ethereum dropped from $283 to $224.72, Bitcoin Cash from $628 to $508.15, and Litecoin from $68 to $56.26. OOOBTC saw $21,051,058 of bitcoin change hands. It was over 60% the present price of Bitcoin today. Ran NeuNer, CNBC's crypto host trader reached the public through twitter regarding the market dip and said that the "movement" concerning crypto wallet alleged association with Silk Road could be a subsequent reason for the drop.
On August 16, Ethereum shifted from $250 to $280 preceding subsequent to a 20% fall on August 14 as the cryptocurrency market created a come back from bitcoin's fall below the $6,000 point on August 14.


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Claude Gervaise (fl. 1540 ? 1560) was a French composer, editor and arranger of the Renaissance, who is mainly remembered both for his association with renowned printer Pierre Attaingnant, as well as for his instrumental music. Gervaise's extant output consists of chansons, mostly for three or four voices, and instrumental music, mostly dances. He appears to have written no sacred music at all, an unusual omission for a composer of the time. In addition to being a composer, he appears to have been an innovator in notation of instrumental music: in an instruction manual for the viol (1548, now lost), he is known to have produced the first viol tablature in France. His chansons are freely composed, and mostly are settings of long poems (for example huitans). He published a collection of twenty chansons for four voices in 1541. The remaining chansons, for three voices, are arrangements of his previous pieces for four; this collection came out in 1550. Stylistically, all are typical of French chanson composition of the 1540s: polyphonic but concise. His instrumental music is the most famous portion of his output. Most of his music is in four parts, and is intended for dancing. The principal forms employed are the pavane, galliarde, and branle; and the varieties of the branle are the courant, gay and simple. One of his pavanes, the Pavane passemaize, incorporates the famous, indeed ubiquitous, passamezzo antico bass line. The melodies are simple in his instrumental music, and the texture is almost always homophonic, making the music ideal for dancing.
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Tallahassee is one of the most well-known cities in the state of Florida as it is the capital city of the state. It is also widely known as the college town as the student population in the city exceeds 70,000. There are a number of colleges and universities in the city. As it is the state capital, it is also the site of the Governor's Mansion, Supreme Court as well as various other state agencies.
As far as the geography of the city is concerned, it is considered hilly and covers an area of around 100 square mile. The city is also home to a variety of museums, theaters, performing arts centers, parks as well as entertainment venues. In other words, there is a lot to do in the city. Due to its huge student population, the city also hosts a number of festivals and events throughout the year.
Some of the most well-known events held in the city include film festival, marathon, half marathon, Wine and Food Festival, music rising festival, horse trials, Winter Festival as well as a variety of other such events. Many people do not know that the police department of the city is the second oldest police department in the whole country. It was established in 1826 and whereas police departments in New York City, Baltimore as well as Boston were established later.
The city has a lot to offer and there are a number of places of interest in the city including the Governor's Mansion, State Park, Carnegie library, innovation Park, Supreme Court, various museums, various lakes and other such things. There is also an international airport in the city. The Tallahassee regional Airport serves the trade and agriculture in the region.
The city is also known as one of the fastest growing high-tech and manufacturing economies in Florida and there are a number of major private employers in this region. The city is also known as a regional center for scientific research. In fact, the city is also home to the biggest powered magnet research laboratory in the whole world.
Overall, Tallahassee in Florida is the seventh largest city in the state and is also counted among one of the major cities in the country. Being a college town, it has a number of events and festivals celebrated throughout the year in a variety of locations. The city also has a number of museums and other such places of interest.


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Cancer is a genetic disease, that is, cancer is caused by certain changes to genes that control cell functions, especially how they grow and divide. These changes must be expressed (or influence expression of other genes) to cause damage to cells. Some of the changes are mutations or aberrations, and some are not in the DNA sequence, such as methylation, and such epigenetic modifications on DNA influence the gene expression, that is, whether and how much messenger RNA is produced. One approach to studying the genetic changes in Cancer is to study messenger RNA.
The NanoString assay allows for gene expression assays on their nCounter system and provides reliable, sensitive, and highly multiplexed detection of mRNA targets. They are designed to measure up to 800 targets in a single reaction, and the platform processes 12 samples simultaneously. ICGI has established this high-throughput system to complement our propriety systems and solutions with basic molecular data.
Although isolation of mRNA is straightforward and follows established protocols, and the use of the nCounter system is uncomplicated, there are a number of important considerations regarding sample inclusion and normalisation of data. A sample to be analysed has to fulfil a set of biological criteria (e.g., the proportion of malignant epithelial cells above threshold), a set of technical criteria related to the experiment (e.g., binding density) and a set of criteria related to the resulting estimates of mRNA molecule counts (e.g., that there must be a signal level significantly above background), briefly described below. The normalisation procedure is carried out on the final set of samples that fulfil the inclusion criteria.
Biological properties of sample:
Malignant tumour must be present in the sample to be analysed (HE1).
The proportion of malignant tumour cells must be sufficiently high for the sample to be included in the analysis. The proportion of malignant tumour cells in the RNA sample can be estimated based on the proportion of malignant tumour cells in the annotated region for analysis in HE1, together with the corresponding region in HE2/HE3 (the mean proportion in the two corresponding regions represents an estimate for the RNA sample tumour cell content). A reasonable threshold for malignant tumour cell content may be 50%.
Establish an optimal amount of RNA to include in the analysis, such that results are robust, and we do not use more material than necessary. The amount of RNA required may be defined as a fixed value of RNA mass (e.g., 100ng) or based on the scaled mass of RNA after Bioanalyzer analysis that compensates for the level of RNA degradation. Samples that have RNA below the required levels can be included if there is sufficient additional material available and/or the sample can be up-concentrated within the loading limits of the NanoString cassette.
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Exclude samples where the Housekeeping-gene to negative control count test fails, i.e., where the mean of q-values for the comparison between Housekeeping genes and background is below a threshold (e.g., 0.01 or 0.001). The q-value compares the count of a Housekeeping gene to the counts of all negative controls; a small q-value indicates that the Housekeeping gene count is significantly larger than the negative control counts.
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The procedure for analysing the results in univariate and multivariate analyses by survival is as follows:
For each patient, mRNA measurement is done for different tumour areas, and these are aggregated by using the lowest, average, and highest value. Each aggregated gene expression value is analysed as 1) continuous value on a linear scale, 2) continuous value on a logarithmic scale, 3) categorised into four groups after quartiles, 4) categorised into two groups, first quartile against the rest, 5) categorised into two groups, first half against last half and 6) categorised into two groups, the three first quartiles against the last.
We have expanded our list of 71 candidate genes selected for protein expression to 255 genes that are either common in prostate cancer, related to genomic instability, gained or lost during cancer development, involved in the mitotic checkpoint or known as prostate stem cell markers. We have isolated mRNA from three different tumour samples (tissue blocks) from each of the 255 prostate cancer patients who have undergone surgery (radical prostatectomy) at Oslo University Hospital between 1987 and 2005. The patients have been followed for at least ten years after surgery or until death. Using the NanoString technology, we will quantify the mRNA expression of the 255 candidate genes in the 765 tumour samples. This project aims to gain knowledge about the prostate tumour heterogeneity at the mRNA level, identify genes of particular importance in prostate cancer and contribute to new independent prognostic markers. The data will also be critical in our project on clinical decision support (see Clinical > Decision support on page 65). Each gene will be analysed for its ability to assess time to recurrence in univariate, and in multivariate analyses together with the following variables:
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Preliminary results indicate that mRNA measurements of 23 are significant in both uni- and multivariate analysis, and these 23 genes will be further evaluated as potential biomarkers of prognosis. We hope to get a further understanding of the mechanism behind each gene's relation to prostate cancer by studying their interactions and functions, and the data will be used to assess tumour heterogeneity. We will validate all findings of independent and combined prognostic markers in a more recent cohort of 284 patients (852 tumour tissue samples) with prostate cancer, which have undergone surgery at Oslo University Hospital between 2000 and 2006.
Having the same goals and using the same principles and procedures as described above for prostate cancer, we will analyse the mRNA expression of 146 candidate genes in 1220 tumour samples from 256 patients with stage II colon cancer treated in the Gloucester colorectal cancer study during the period of 1988-1996. All findings of independent and combined prognostic markers will be validated using the QUASAR2 trial.
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Orthogonal Queries in Segments
Takeshi Tokuyama
We consider the orthgonal clipping problem in a set of segments: Given a set of n segments in d-dimensional space, we preprocess them into a data structure such that given an orthogonal query window, the segments intersecting it can be counted/reported efficiently. We show that the efficiency of the data structure significantly depends on a geometric discrete parameter K named the projected-image complexity, which becomes Θ (n2) in the worst case but practically much smaller. If we use O(m) space, where K log4d-7 n ≥ m ≥ n log4d-7 n, the query time is O((K/m)1/2 logmax{4,4d-5} n). This is near to an Ω((K/m)1/2) lower bound.
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Parishioners of a Norfolk church have set themselves the challenge of being extra generous this Lent.
Regulars at Cromer Church have signed up for '40acts', a generosity challenge created by the charity Stewardship. The challenge encourages participants to do at least one kind thing each day of Lent, which this year runs from February 15 to March 29.
To kick it off, parishioners gave out 'Love Heart' sweets on February 14 outside the church.
Simon Fenn, head of mission, said: "Last year's response to our 40acts challenge was overwhelmingly positive and encouraging.
"People were genuinely touched by our simple acts of kindness and generosity, whether it was packing bags at Morrisons, giving out free chocolate bars or supporting the Cromer food-bank praying with people on the street, giving away free Easter eggs or just being a listening ear.
After receiving a chocolate bar and a 'because you're loved' note, one lady was inspired to donate some of her furniture to the town's Foodbank community store.
Mr Fenn added: "We hope that during this 40-day challenge we will be able to demonstrate our faith in practical ways, make a positive difference and inspire people to approach Lent differently - don't just give up, give out.
Stewardship's 40acts challenge has grown in popularity since the Christian charity first launched it in 2010.
Six years on and millions of acts of generosity later, the challenge continues to astonish the team behind it.
Debbie Wright, head of content at Stewardship, said: "Every year more and more people choose to do Lent generously, and use generous acts to demonstrate their faith in the lead up to Easter. We never cease to be amazed at the creativity and kindness that we see, as people start to share their stories on social media.


One of the things I like most about Apple is the customer service. While my shop repairs Apple products, we don't handle warranty issues for Apple. However, when I recommend an Apple product for purchase by any one of my clients, I always recommend that they purchase AppleCare, the warranty program they offer for their products. Not only does Apple support boast short wait times and fast turnaround on repair services, but I can always understand the support representative clearly when I speak to them: an aspect that many customer service departments cannot profess. I've been an AppleCare customer on my various products for the past six years and today I'd like to share my most recent experience as proof that there are companies out there that care.
My 27" iMac, a year-and-a-half old, recently had an issue where my iTunes started performing badly after an update. I called into AppleCare support to see if they could help. After some preliminary troubleshooting, it came to light that my computer was up for a warranty replacement for a recalled part: the hard drive. We setup the service call for an onsite warranty repair (the norm for any desktop computer) for two days later. When the technician visited he replaced the hard drive and allowed me to keep the old one for restoring my data easily; this allowed me to forgo the extra step of backing it up first. I should note that I asked specifically for this when we scheduled the service call; typically the hard drive would be swapped out and that additional backup step is necessary. After about an hour of use, I noticed that the fans became loud… very loud. It sounded like I had a jet taking off on my desk. I called in again to AppleCare, albeit a little less calmly, and expressed my discontent. Another service call was scheduled, but being the Christmas holiday, the earliest availability was for the 26th.
On the second trip, the technician was sent with a host of fans, temperature sensors, and cables, and all were replaced. After we booted it up, it took about an hour before the fans became overwhelming and my third call was placed. By this time, I was livid and my demeanor on the phone was less than friendly. The service agent placed me on a brief hold (no more than three minutes) to consult with their superior. When they returned to the call, I was pleasantly surprised by their solution: they would replace my iMac with the latest model. If you read my previous article about the new iMac, you know that there are some extreme new design changes for this line of devices, and my "antiquated" iMac would be replaced with the brand new 27" model with corresponding processor and storage. Knowing that there are some delays in the shipping and order fulfillment of the new 27" models, I expressed my concern, but was assured that my situation would merit getting one of the first available units. A week later, I had my new 27" iMac, a beauty to behold on my desktop.
I deal with technology on a daily basis. One aspect of this is dealing with technology warranty companies on a daily basis, and I have never had a warranty experience like this. Normally, companies will go to extraordinary lengths to "fix" the problem, never offering to replace the whole unit, much less with a newer and better one. As such, I highly recommend that anyone with an Apple product get AppleCare.
Yes, I am an Apple guy and yes, I find the products to be aesthetically pleasing and reliably functional, but pretty looks only go so far. A true test of a company's character and customer service is revealed when their products fail. As a technology consumer, Apple has proven themselves to me and earned a customer for life.
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Welcome to Splitsville
A guide to life after divorce.
4/30/2013, 5:00 a.m.
By Alyssa Giacobbe and Rachel Slade
Photos by Joyce Lee. Styling by Anna Lee Wallack/Anchor Artists. On him, Tom Ford jacket, Loro Piana sweater, Brunello Cucinelli shirt, John Varvatos jeans, and Tumi bag, all Neiman Marcus Copley; bag, Bally. On her, Eskandar sweater, Rebecca Taylor shirt, Burberry pants, and Dior sunglasses, all Neiman Marcus Copley; bag, Bally.
The recession nearly killed the divorce industry around here, though that's not saying much. We in Massachusetts tend to marry later, and thus have one of the lowest divorce rates in the country. But whatever splitting we were doing pretty much ground to a halt in 2008, when only two people per 1,000 broke their marriage bonds. Now that the economy's rebounded, however, the unhappily married are once again taking care of business—the state's divorce rate has jumped nearly 30 percent over the past five years, leaving more than 42,000 divorcees in Boston alone.
Of course, the biggest loss in a breakup often isn't your partner. It's your confidence. And so, for all of our brothers and sisters suddenly healing from the trauma of a legal rupture, we offer this post-divorce primer. From hawking your jewelry to finding a new look, here's how to pick yourself up, knock off the dust, and get back in the game.
Rebranding, Part I
Take care of the body first, and the mind will follow.
Some will stay. Others will go. And that's okay.
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Nine months of pregnancy is the perfect time to prepare for what's coming, but I still couldn't believe it.
I'm not going to lie — it was brutal. I'd go through it again for Sage, of course, but it was so tough. Torray was excellent. He was with me the whole way, holding my hand, keeping track of everything. Then he cut the umbilical cord. I was shocked. Normally, I'd expect him to be a bit squeamish, but he was amazing.
The couple were especially glad of Sage's safe arrival as only a matter of weeks earlier they had been involved in a car accident while in a traffic jam — and it was partly thanks to Samantha wearing the car seatbelt correctly that her baby was ok.
S: I looked in the rear-view mirror and saw this car flying through the air straight towards us. We couldn't move anywhere so they hit us. It was such a huge shock. I'd never been in a car accident before and it all happened in a second.
Thank goodness Sage was okay. I'd been wearing my seatbelt under my tummy, the way you're supposed to when you're pregnant, which helped. I did look a mess for a while, though — I had a big scab on my forehead where I'd hit the steering wheel.
S: Tamanya is a Zambian name meaning 'we want you' and Anne was my maternal grandmother's name. I wanted something from both sides of my heritage for her and they're the same as my middle names.
He's such a good kid and it's so important to us that he spends time with Sage. We're a blended family and it has to be comfortable for everybody.
S: Sage is the first baby in my immediate family, so this is a really big deal to everyone. They're already fighting over who gets to babysit.
S: It's honestly like I'm holding her and thinking, 'I can't believe I get to keep you.' She's completely changed my life. I'm just so in love with her — it's hard to describe.
S: Honestly, I completely hog her. Torray's so great — he will do anything and everything. It's more that I just like doing it.
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The Hughleys is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 22, 1998 to April 28, 2000 and on the UPN network from September 11, 2000 to May 20, 2002. It starred comedian D. L. Hughley as the main character, Darryl Hughley, and Elise Neal as Yvonne, his hard-working wife, who move their family from the inner city to suburban Los Angeles.
The Hughleys ended with a cliffhanger. On the two-part series finale entitled "It's a Girl!" (aired on May 13 and May 20, 2002), Darryl Hughley's niece, Carly (guest star Kelly Rowland) is preparing for college (the college was unknown), with peace, tranquility and no expectation of her relatives coming to annoy her (implying the entire Hughleys clan). Carly then receives an unexpected visit from her cousins Sydney and Michael. Darryl and Milsap go to their twentieth high school reunion and Milsap learns that his "old" girlfriend, Shandra, has a child, and he is the father.
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A diplomatic source told Reuters Tuesday night that a final deal on Iran's nuclear program will allow international inspectors into Iran's covert military nuclear sites, but an Iranian official lost no time in denying that prospect.
An Iranian source involved in the nuclear talks in Vienna told the Iranian semi-official Fars News Agency that the report of inspectors from the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) being allowed in to the secret facilities was false, according to Yedioth Aharonoth.
The source said that the report of inspections is a form of "psychological warfare" and a "media stunt" meant to influence public opinion ahead of a conclusion to the lengthy negotiations, which have meandered on since an interim deal in November 2013.
Entry by international inspectors into Iran's secret military facilities is a red line that will never be crossed, according to the source.
Iran's insistence on no inspections of its military sites - such as Parchin which has been tied to its nuclear program and where it has admitted to testing exploding bridge wire nuclear detonation devices - has been a major sticking point in talks.
A final deal has remained elusive with numerous deadlines passing to no avail, although officials have speculated that a deal may be reached on Tuesday.
Regarding a deadline, an Iranian source involved in the talks told Fars on Monday before Monday night's proposed deadline also passed that, "there has originally been no deadline specified for the current talks that one could say needs further extension."
However, before Monday talks passed through three deadlines that were extended one after the other, first on June 30, then July 7, and then July 10 which coincidentally was Iran's "Death to Israel Day."
Aside from the inspections issue, other key disagreements remaining involve Iran's refusal to disclose the military aspects of its nuclear program, its demand for the immediate removal of all sanctions, and a demand to end the UN arms embargo on the Islamic regime.


The most popular challenge-response system on the Web is officially useless.
Recently, RMG Technologies made big news when a judge barred the company from producing and distributing software that, apparently, enables ticket brokers to buy tons of tickets for resale. The software uses "bots" to find and purchase ticket blocks at sites like Ticketmaster, despite the fact that the site uses varied online safeguards designed to block this kind of activity. The judges took action after parents across the U.S. started complaining that they were getting boxed out of coveted Hannah Montana tickets.
For those who do not have preteens at home, Montana is a Disney Channel creation. Miley Cyrus stars as a high-school student with a double life: She plays both regular-girl Miley Stewart and pop-star Hannah Montana. Now the 15-year-old Cyrus is touring the country as both people. Got that?
That lunacy aside, the run on tickets for Cyrus's U.S. concerts has been nothing short of remarkable. I know this firsthand because my wife tried to buy some for our kids. One morning she sat poised to begin her quest to buy four seats (the maximum for one person). Tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. By 10:08, all the shows were sold out . At the time, I attempted to console her, saying "Who knew this schizophrenic little lady was bigger than Madonna?" Now I know something else was at work.
The software that RMG sells—the company insists it's no more than a browser (puh-lease!)—allegedly lets brokers jump to the front of the online ticket buying line and masquerade as multiple buyers. (Some of it reminds me of the old automatic phone dialers that people once used to call in to radio shows.) However, the real magic—and the element that has me convinced we're doomed—is the fact that the app can somehow defeat CAPTCHA.
CAPTCHA, which very roughly stands for Completely Automatic Public Turing test (but also can be seen as a play on the word "capture") is a challenge/response system used on thousands of Web sites. Typically, you see it at the end of a membership sign-up process or e-commerce transaction. The site presents you with a barely readable (squiggly, smudged, pixilated, etc.) series of letters and/or numbers. They may or may not form a readable word. Your job is to type what you see into the provided field. Doing so ostensibly proves you're a human.
RMG's software—and others like it—can apparently not only defeat CAPTCHA but actually perform the process faster than most people can. (That's quite a trick, since it means fixing the text so it's readable, OCR-ing it, and then typing it into the provided field). So the safeguard that was supposed to prove we're human is now being done by a nonhuman at superhuman speeds. Ah, the irony.
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