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Posted on October 29, 2008 April 16, 2010 by Dis Manibus
Secrets of Martin Luther's life
Brother Martin, a stout man, was sitting on the toilet in the Wittenberg Monastery, wearing the black robe of the Augustinian Order, when he was suddenly struck with the fundamental concept of his reformist body of thought.
Martin Luther himself noted, in two after-dinner speeches (Nos. 1681 and 3232b), that Protestantism was born in the sewer: "The spiritus sanctus imparted this creation to me on dis cloaca."
Nevertheless, historians have warmed to Luther's own admission, arguing that while the word "cloaca" could be interpreted as "lavatory," perhaps it was a more general term for "this world."
But the truth is truly as distasteful as the master once stated. Excavations in the Wittenberg Monastery have uncovered not only the remains of Luther's old study, but "a small pit latrine with a lid" in the cellar below, as archeologist Mirko Gutjahr reports.
This latest finding is the result of a major archeological dig that began in 2003 and ended a few weeks ago with a final analysis of the site. Architectural historians, ceramics specialists and zoologists have discovered the kitchen waste of the man whose theories changed the world, and who proudly referred to himself as the "doctor above all doctors in the entire papacy."
Luther, a German national hero, has been the subject of dozens of biographies. His translation of the Bible into German was as influential as his curses were memorable. Now archeologists have uncovered surprising new information about the religious reformer at three different excavation sites:
The floor of the building where Luther was born, in the town of Eisleben
His parents' house in the town of Mansfeld
The estate in Wittenberg where the former monk lived with his wife and their six children
The digs exposed toys and food remains, broken dishes and grain (dated to the year 1500, using the C-14 method). The archeologists also found his wife's wedding ring and a hoard of 250 silver coins.
The German State Museum of Prehistory will unveil the exhibition of Luther's personal effects this Friday, to coincide with Reformation Day. The catalogue describes the content of the exhibition as "sensational," noting that it enables us to reexamine "entire chapters in human life."
All of this snooping around in the refuse of the founder of their church has not exactly been met with enthusiasm within Germany's protestant congregations. In their view, the notion that the Luther family tossed dead cats into the household garbage is just as irrelevant, from a religious standpoint, as the suspicion that Luther, as a monk, attached his theses to the castle church with tacks instead of nails.
But the debris from Luther's household should not be downplayed. Some of it, analyzed using the methods of criminology, relates to the reformer's intellectual works, and it even reveals that he was not always entirely truthful.
For instance, the scholar fudged his parents' social circumstances. He claimed that he was the son of a "poor miner" who toiled away in the mines with his hatchet, and that "my mother carried all her wood home on her back."
But this is far from the truth. Luther's father already owned a copper mill as a young man, while his mother came from a bourgeois family in Eisenach and had good connections to the royal mine administration.
In 1484, when Martin Luther was still an infant, the family moved to Mansfeld, where the father quickly became a successful foreman. He operated three copper smelters, owned 80 hectares (198 acres) of land and lent his money for interest.
The size and grandeur of his house, as the excavation revealed, were in keeping with his economic standing. "The front of the house on the street side was 25 meters (82 feet) wide," says archeologist Björn Schlenker. The excavation exposed massive basement vaults and a rear courtyard surrounded by large outbuildings.
It was on this farm that young Martin and his siblings played, surrounded by flocks of geese and chickens. The fragments at the site reveal that they played with crossbows, clay marbles and bowling pins made of beef bones — toys not every family could afford at the time.
The remains of kitchen scraps discovered on the property reveal that the family frequently ate roast goose and the tender meat of young pigs. During Lent, the Luther family ate expensive ocean fish, like herring, codfish and plaice.
Lightning Strike or Fleeing Marriage?
Their diet even included figs and grapes, as well as partridges and songbirds, especially robins. The family hunted with clay decoys.
The birds were cooked in gray three-legged pots in a spacious kitchen. The hearth was heated with hot copper cinders from the smelting works, cooled to 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832 degrees Fahrenheit) and brought to the house in wooden carts.
The theologian later recalled that his mother had once given him a severe beating for stealing a nut. In the local Latin school, the miscreant once received 15 blows with a stick in a single morning.
It is well known that Luther's parents firmly believed in witches and the devil, but now further details have emerged. The remains of a pilgrim's horn, a noisemaker pilgrims could buy in the western city of Aachen, were found in the rubble. The father had apparently traveled to Aachen, the German version of Lourdes, to marvel at the swaddling clothes and loincloth of Jesus.
The young Luther did not yet find such relics repulsive when he studied law in Erfurt, a city in eastern Germany. But then suddenly he discontinued his university studies and fled into a monastery. Why?
The reformer later explained that his decision was prompted by a severe storm he had been caught in on July 2, 1505. After a lightning strike, he spontaneously vowed to become a monk.
Modern historians have added their dramatic embellishments to the story. "The lightning struck the ground so close to Luther that he was hurled a few meters away by the pressure," writes the theologian Hanns Lilje. Others have conjectured that Luther was overcome by "mortal fear."
But the tale of a sign from above coming to Luther in the form of a lightning strike is greatly exaggerated. In truth Luther, who was 21 at the time, was fleeing from an impending forced marriage.
"Newly discovered archive records show that the father had already married off three of his daughters and one son to the children of wealthy foremen," explains expert Schlenker. Apparently it was now Martin's turn.
Instead of submitting to his father's will, the young man went to the monastery of the Augustinian hermits near Erfurt. The 50 monks living there wore black robes and the circular tonsure. They rose at two in the morning for the first Divine Office of the day.
The newest resident at the monastery was undaunted and even eager to chasten himself. He was constantly in the confessional where, according to one monk, he even confessed to the most minor of offences.
The reason was that the demon of relentless self-analysis was raging in Brother Martin. He was constantly examining his inner self. But the deeper he looked, the more he realized that evil lust and hidden desires were staring back at him.
The agony of the young novice began to grow, especially since Luther, still completely immersed in the Middle Ages, saw Christ primarily as an avenger who would soon descend from heaven for the Last Judgment, to push all sinners into the eternal fires of hell.
Matters did not improve when Luther moved to Wittenberg. While reading a biblical verse about the possessed, he fell to the floor, screaming: "It is not I."
It was this almost psychoanalytical navel-gazing that led the monk to lose his old belief in the certainty of faith. His heretical thoughts soon expanded to include the letters of indulgence Christians used to buy themselves freedom from their sins. In doing so, Luther was attacking the Vatican's lifeblood. The church earned millions with the letters.
His final break with the church came during his "tower experience" of 1516. Luther was convinced that man could only receive redemption through the "grace" of God, not through payments and good deeds. From his perspective, man remained an undeserving servant, forever tainted with evil. The creed that suddenly dawned on the Wittenberg monk as he was sitting on the toilet was that Jesus brought salvation to mankind despite his sins.
The resulting 95 theses quickly led to a conflagration in the Europe of the early 16th century. The emperor threatened to put the insurgent to death, but Luther went into hiding at Wartburg Castle, where he continued to write. He declared as invalid all but two of the seven sacraments (baptism and the Lord's Supper), and he criticized the cult of relics as a "dead thing."
The pull of outrage began to draw in more and more people, breaking apart the unity of Christianity.
The Wittenberg Monastery closed its doors in 1522. Luther was given the building for his personal use and, after marrying the former Catholic nun Catherine von Bora, whom he eccentrically referred to as "Mr. Käthe," he set up home.
He was no longer interested in celibacy, which he argued was against nature. The Curia, he argued, could "just as easily have banned shitting."
The archeologists have already been hard at work in the old abbey in Wittenberg. They scored a direct hit in the rear courtyard, where they found a waste pit filled with a collection of the family's refuse.
The find reveals that the doctor worked in a heated room with a view of the Elbe River. He spent his evenings writing in the light of lamps filled with animal fat. The dig contained the bindings of parchment books, several "quill knives" to sharpen goose quills, as well as four writing sets containing sand, ink and styluses.
The educated thinker was tremendously prolific, writing an average of 1,800 pages a year.
His tone became increasingly brusque over the years. He denounced Turks as "devils," Jews as "liars" and gay priests as "garden brothers who do it with each other." Rome, he wrote, was surrounded by "pig-theologians."
After penning such sharp words, the powerfully eloquent reformer ate from faience bowls and drank from magnificent Turkish pitchers. The archeologists found intricate oven tiles decorated with motifs from the Old Testament, as well as more than 1,600 shards from glasses Luther, an avid eater, used to quench his considerable thirst for beer. Luther needed it to numb his emotions. The reformer's attacks on the apostolic seat had come at the price of depression. He was constantly tempted by sadness.
In moments of remorse, the suffering Luther was convinced that the devil was trying to convince him to revoke his thoughts. His prompt response was to throw inkpots at the devil or resort to the power of his bowels: "But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away."
Given his many conflicts with the pope, it is no surprise that the stress took a toll on Luther's health. He was plagued by rheumatism and urinary stones. He was so weak that he had himself taken to his lectures in a handcart. He also suffered from angina pectoris, which made him anxious. As gout set in, writing became increasingly difficult.
And then there was his obesity. At first, the doctor weighed 100, then 120 and, finally, an estimated 150 kilograms (the estimate is based on an ink drawing made of Luther shortly after his death).
The archeologists also found dozens of small containers, which Luther used to hold the many ointments and medications he bought for himself.
Gradually he wasted away, Luther, the Lord's wrestler, the man who, eternally convinced of the incompleteness of all activity, noted humbly on his deathbed: "We are beggars."
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Thomas Eckelmann ist ein deutscher Schauspieler und Synchronsprecher, der einem breiten Publikum vor allem als deutsche Stimme von Winnetou (Pierre Brice) bekannt geworden ist.

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Eckelmann wirkte als Theaterschauspieler in verschiedenen Berliner Bühnen wie dem Forum-Theater und dem Berliner Theater. Gelegentlich übernahm er auch Rollen in Film- und Fernsehproduktionen wie in Egon Monks Ost-West-Drama Preis der Freiheit und im Edgar-Wallace-Krimi Der Zinker sowie in Fernsehserien wie Jedermannstraße 11.

Einem breiten Publikum wurde Eckelmann jedoch durch seine Arbeit als Sprecher für Hörfunk und Filmsynchronisation bekannt. Für einige Jahre war er der deutsche Stammsprecher von Pierre Brice, für den er in Winnetou 2. Teil Christian Wolff ablöste. Er sprach Brice noch in sechs weiteren Karl-May-Verfilmungen – Unter Geiern, Der Ölprinz, Winnetou 3. Teil, Old Surehand 1. Teil, Winnetou und das Halbblut Apanatschi, Winnetou und Shatterhand im Tal der Toten – sowie im Western Die Hölle von Manitoba. Daneben lieh er zahlreichen anderen international bekannten Schauspielern seine Stimme wie beispielsweise Dean Jones in Käpt'n Blackbeards Spuk-Kaschemme, Richard Chamberlain in Rufmord, Russ Tamblyn in West Side Story und Steve McQueen in Nevada Smith. Eckelmann war Mitglied der Gruppierung The Living Theatre.

Anfang der 1970er Jahre zog sich Eckelmann aus dem Beruf zurück und übersiedelte nach Auroville in Indien, wo er sich eine neue Existenz aufbaute. Seither wird in verschiedenen Quellen fälschlicherweise 1972 als vermeintliches Todesdatum verbreitet. Eckelmann war zeitweise mit der Kostümbilnderin Ellen Eckelmann (* 1942/43; † 2021) verheiratet und lebte mit ihr und der gemeinsamen Tochter in Indien.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 1963: Der Zinker
 1965: …und heute ins Theater – Ich, Erste Person Einzahl
 1966: Preis der Freiheit
 1966: Briefe nach Luzern
 1968: Der Sommer der 17. Puppe
 1971: Ich liebe dich, ich töte dich

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 Thomas Eckelmann in der Synchrondatenbank Arne Kauls auf synchrondatenbank.de

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UCSF Receives $500M Commitment from Helen Diller Foundation to Begin Planning New Hospital
Diller Family's Commitments to the University Now Stand at More Than $1.15 Billion
By Pete Farley
The Helen Diller Foundation's $500 million commitment to UCSF will support planning for a new hospital at Parnassus Heights. In recognition of the extraordinary commitment, the complex has been renamed the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. Photo by Noah Berger
UC San Francisco has received a $500 million commitment from the Helen Diller Foundation to support the planning, design and construction of a new, world-class hospital at the University's historic Parnassus Heights campus, ensuring that UCSF can continue to provide premier care to patients in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond in the 21st century.
The commitment will allow UCSF to begin the extensive planning process for an architecturally outstanding, energy-efficient, seismically sound, and environmentally sustainable hospital, which is expected to open its doors to patients before 2030.
This incredible commitment sets the stage for a 21st century hospital that will play a critical role in patient care for San Franciscans and our community, as well as patients from around the nation and the globe who come to UCSF for care.
UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood
"This incredible commitment sets the stage for a 21st century hospital that will play a critical role in patient care for San Franciscans and our community, as well as patients from around the nation and the globe who come to UCSF for care, including highly specialized tertiary and quaternary care," said UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS. "Most importantly, it will support each patient's experience at every step, providing a welcoming, patient-centered environment that promotes warmth and respect, upholding the highest standards of hospitality and patient safety, while also incorporating the latest technologies."
The hospital will be a key part of UCSF Health, a growing regional health system that includes UCSF Medical Center, the top-ranked hospital in California and among the top five nationally, according to U.S. News & World Report.
The commitment brings total giving to UCSF by foundations established by the family of the late Helen Diller to more than $1.15 billion, and places the Bay Area family among a handful of American philanthropists who have made commitments of $1 billion or more to a single U.S. academic institution.
"Helen Diller appreciated UCSF's excellence as one of the world's leading health sciences universities," said Phyllis Cook, executive officer of the Helen Diller Foundation. "She would be so proud of this commitment to clinical services in the Bay Area made in her memory. This special grant will help ensure that the outstanding doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals and researchers at Parnassus Heights will have an exceptional new space to support their important work, and that the patients will receive the best care in a warm, welcoming hospital for generations to come."
Honoring the Memory of a Dedicated Philanthropist
In recognition of the Helen Diller Foundation's commitment, the entire hospital and outpatient complex at Parnassus Heights, currently known as UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus Heights, will be immediately renamed the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. UCSF Health also includes hospitals for women, children and cancer patients, as well as outpatient care, in San Francisco at UCSF's Mission Bay campus, children's services in nearby Oakland and outpatient care at the Mount Zion campus.
This latest commitment in memory of Helen Diller, who died in 2015, reflects her lifetime of service as a philanthropist, advocate and mentor.
Born and raised in San Francisco, she met her husband, the late Sanford Diller, while both were attending UC Berkeley. Through their philanthropic foundations, the Diller family has supported Jewish causes, education, science and the arts, including Judaic studies programs at both UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz; an international Judaic teen leadership program; education from the K-12 to postgraduate levels; renovation of children's parks in San Francisco; and San Francisco's de Young Museum, Museum of Modern Art and Legion of Honor Museum.
Helen Diller
"The Diller family's generous and sustained support of education, research, and patient care at UC San Francisco, and their steadfast backing of important programs at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, are a source of strength for the entire UC system," said Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California. "The Dillers' loyalty to the University of California will help ensure that this great public university system remains a global leader in science, health care and education for decades to come."
A Commitment to UCSF's Mission
The latest commitment, the third major contribution to UCSF by the Diller family over the past 15 years, strengthens the University's ability to give back to the community through research discoveries, education of the next generation of healthcare professionals and scientists, and the advancement and delivery of world-class patient care.
A year ago, the Helen Diller Foundation committed $500 million to UCSF – $400 million for endowments to support faculty and professional students, and $100 million for a Chancellor's Innovation Fund to support new ideas. In 2003, the Foundation made a $35 million foundational investment to support what is now the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building at UCSF's Mission Bay campus, as well as to support prostate cancer research.
The Diller family has given more than $150 million to the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, supporting one of the nation's top programs for cancer research and care. Photo by Susan Merrell
Since then, the Foundation has made significant annual gifts in Helen Diller's honor totaling more than $150 million, providing a permanent endowment for UCSF's numerous programs in cancer research and care. Collectively, these programs have earned UCSF the National Cancer Institute's highly selective "Comprehensive Cancer Center" designation, and are now known as the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.
"This extraordinary new commitment is the latest example of the Diller family's generosity in support of UCSF's core missions, in this case patient care," said Hawgood. "We are enormously grateful to the Helen Diller Foundation for their support, and for their visionary philanthropy."
Building for Patient-Centered Care
Currently, patients on the Parnassus Heights campus are cared for at two landmark structures known as the Moffitt and Long Hospitals, as well as at an Ambulatory Care Center. Under state law, the inpatient activity in Moffitt Hospital, built in 1955, must be relocated by 2030 to conform with seismic code requirements. UCSF's long-range development plan, completed in 2014, envisioned the construction of the new hospital on the site currently occupied by the Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinics, scheduled to move to 2130 Third St. in 2020.
"The Diller family's tremendous support will enable us to accelerate the planning process for a hospital at Parnassus Heights that meets the high demand we experience at UCSF for the comprehensive care we provide," said Mark R. Laret, president and CEO of UCSF Health, which includes UCSF Medical Center, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals and other partners and affiliates in the Bay Area.
The original UC Hospital, which opened in 1917, is shown from Parnassus Avenue circa 1920. Today it's known as UC Hall.
The Herbert C. Moffitt Hospital, part of the current UCSF Medical Center, under construction just east of UC Hospital in 1953.
"The new hospital will not only incorporate new technologies, including telemedicine, robotics and intra-operative imaging, but it will be embedded within a campus that includes leading clinicians and scientists focused on translating discoveries into treatments and cures for conditions ranging from diabetes to neurological diseases to organ failure," Laret said. "We are thrilled with the Diller family's vision of creating a tranquil and patient-centered environment that will best meet both the medical and non-medical needs of our patients, visitors and staff. We are enormously grateful."
In 1999, UCSF began developing a second major campus in the Mission Bay region of San Francisco. That campus, now flourishing, doubled UCSF's physical plant, allowing it to enhance its major enterprises in research and patient care. The University's renewed focus on the medical center at Parnassus Heights follows the completion, in February 2015, of three hospitals at the Mission Bay campus: the UCSF Betty Irene Moore Women's Hospital; UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco (UCSF BCH also includes a campus in Oakland); and the UCSF Bakar Cancer Hospital.
In addition to UCSF Medical Center, the Parnassus Heights campus, first established more than 120 years ago, is home to UCSF's top-ranked schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy, and the site of dozens of laboratories that conduct world-class basic and clinical research. The new commitment from the Helen Diller Foundation, an extraordinary contribution to UCSF's recently announced $5 billion fundraising campaign, comes as UCSF is just beginning a year-long planning process to revitalize these educational and research facilities on the Parnassus Heights campus.
"Helen Diller often said that 'It's never too late, too early, or too often to give back and make the world a better place,'" said Peter R. Carroll, MD, MPH, professor and chair of UCSF's Department of Urology and a world-renowned physician who treats patients with prostate cancer at UCSF Medical Center.
"This remarkable commitment by the Helen Diller Foundation toward constructing a new hospital at Parnassus Heights sustains Helen's unique spirit," said Carroll, also co-chair of UCSF's new fundraising campaign. "Some of the premier medical care in the world is delivered, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, at our Parnassus Heights campus, and with the exceptional support of the Diller family, we can ensure that all our clinical departments will continue to attract the highest caliber faculty in every medical specialty, and that we can also offer the best facilities for our patients well into this century."
A Legacy of Care
In 2015, UCSF posthumously awarded Helen Diller the UCSF Medal, the University's highest honor. Watch the video dedication to Helen.
Helen Diller's steadfast commitment to improve the lives and well-being of others through education, science and the arts, will be felt by Bay Area residents for many generations to come.
Helen valued and supported education at every level, from preschools to day schools to high schools to colleges – including UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz – to post-graduate education. In 2002, Helen made a $5 million gift to UC Berkeley to support a multidisciplinary visiting Israeli scholars program and fund fellowships and research grants in Jewish studies. At the time, it was the largest single gift supporting Jewish studies on that campus.
Helen was perhaps most proud of her Diller Teen Initiatives. Through the Diller Teen Fellows program, she created an international teen leadership program. Diller Fellows explore their collective Jewish identity as well as how they want to make their mark in the world.
The Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards program has recognized hundreds of teens for their outstanding volunteer service in the community for doing good work, near and far – spreading religious pluralism, constructing water wells in Africa, building soccer fields, and more.
As a San Francisco native, Helen took a keen interest in the children of the city. She revitalized children's parks by supporting the reimagined designs of playgrounds in Dolores Park and the Civic Center.
She also valued the role of arts and culture in enriching human lives, and was an avid collector of contemporary art. Helen proudly funded the De Young Museum entrance courtyard, new galleries in the expanding San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and an annual Israel Antiquities Series at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.
Largest-Ever Gift to UCSF Honors Philanthropist Helen Diller (2017)
$35 Million Gift Supports Construction of Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building (2003)
Campus Planning, Construction and Facilities
Global Brain Health Institute Reaches Milestone, Sets Sights on Continued Impact for Brain Health
UCSF Receives $10M from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

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Marginalia: Kamila Shamsie
KMUW | By Beth Golay
Kamila Shamsie is the author of several novels and has been a finalist for the Orange Prize, twice, and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. And she has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Her latest book, Home Fire, was recently long-listed for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. It's a contemporary retelling of the Sophocles play, Antigone. The book and the play were written roughly 2500 years apart… yet the retelling is remarkably timely.
I recently spoke with Shamsie about her new novel, about political writing, and about language.
Here's our conversation:
And if you listened to the commentary on-air, this is what you heard:
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Kamila Shamsie | Marginalia, the commentary
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie was published by Riverhead Books.
Marginalia was produced at KMUW Wichita.
Editor: Lu Anne Stephens
Engineer: Jon Cyphers
Producer: Beth Golay
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Beth Golay
Beth Golay is KMUW's Director of Marketing and Digital Content. She is the host of the KMUW podcast Marginalia and creator of the podcast You're Saying It Wrong. You can also find her on Wichita Transit in conversation with other riders for En Route, a monthly segment on KMUW's weekly news program The Range.
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New Panelist vs Panelist Report
By Linh Pham 2019-04-26 2019-04-26 Panelists, Statistics, Stats Page	0
Over the past couple of months while continuing to work on code that would power the next projects for the Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! Stats Page, I wanted to figure out a way to see how well a panelist has fared against another panelist (say: Adam Felber vs Faith Salie and Luke Burbank vs Roxanne Roberts). After a number of sleepless nights, a lot more than I am willing to admit, I worked out how to pull the data from the Stats Page database and pieced together some of the logic behind it. Since the overall development on the code for the current version of the Stats Page has ceased and any work has moved over to the new data access libraries and web …
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All Show Locations Data Entered*
By Linh Pham 2019-03-04 2019-03-04 Database	0
After spending a few hours listening to the Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! audio archive that I have found ways to download from the NPR site over the years, I have gone through and updated the show location for all shows in the Stats Page database.
*: Of course, there are a few shows where Carl Kasell didn't say which location a Best Of show was recorded or the venue in which a show was taped from (be it at a public radio station or a location with a live audience).
Stats Page Version 3.4.0: Correcting Some Design Mistakes
By Linh Pham 2018-12-18 2018-12-18 Database, Development, Stats Page, Web Development	0
Ever since I started working on version 3.0 of the Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! Stats Page, one of the design decisions that I made when it came to the individual host, scorekeeper, panelist and guest pages was to use the specially encoded names in the URL. The encoding process would convert certain characters, such as a space, into their URL-encoded version, or "%20" in the case of a space. Well, looking back, that was not really the smartest way of doing it; and, ever since version 3.0 was published back in 2014, I was afraid of breaking any links that may have been created with that URL format and did not have a lot of spare time to re-design the whole thing. As months …
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Wait Wait's 20th Anniversary Live Taping in Chicago and Scoring Details
By Linh Pham 2018-10-27 2020-08-15 20th Anniversary, Chicago, Live Taping	0
Although Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! officially reached their first 20th anniversary milestone back in January of this year, the show has been celebrating their anniversary throughout the year and have had a number of shows on the road as part of their 20th anniversary tour. On October 25th, they had their 20th anniversary extravaganza at The Chicago Theatre in downtown Chicago, their fair city. Months prior to the special show, I had already worked out plans to travel to Chicago for the big show. The anticipation and excitement continued to build as the date got closer and started peaking when I landed in Chicago a few days before the show. Thursday evening, I made the short walk from the hotel to the Chicago Theatre …
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Two Nights and Two Shows in Seattle
By Linh Pham 2017-12-04 2017-12-04 Live Taping, Seattle	0
In the past three years, I have had the opportunity to go to three live tapings of Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me!, one in Seattle and two in Portland, my fair city. Since, I can never go to too many Wait Wait live tapings, I knew I had to head back up to Seattle when they announced that they were coming back to do two shows. As I was trying to find a way to make sure that I could queue up to purchase tickets the moment they went on sale to the general public, the awesome gang at Wait Wait said that they would hook me up with tickets to both shows. To say that I was ecstatic would be a significant understatement. At …
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Taking a Look at the Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! Panel Gender Mix
By Linh Pham 2017-07-17 2019-09-06 Panelists, Statistics	0
Update: I have updated the tables with data to include data for all of 2017 and 2018; along with, data up through the show that taped on 2019-09-05. Ever since Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! started back in 1998, even when Peter Sagal was a panelist on the show and not the host, the panel consisted of three panelists. There would always be at minimum one female panelist on the panel, sometimes two. It wasn't until the Wait Wait that aired in September 12, 2015 did the show have an all female panel consisting of Faith Salie, Roxanne Roberts and Paula Poundstone. Roughly one year and nine months later, on the June 10, 2017 show, Wait Wait would have their second all female panel, featuring …
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The metabolism of the central nervous system is of key interest for our driving biomedical projects in pediatric brain development, X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, Alzheimer's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Brain Tumors and Huntington's disease. In addition, several service projects (e.g. involving pediatric neurometabolic diseases such as Rett Syndrome, stroke, and HIV infection) involve the in vivo study of brain metabolite levels. Our overall goal is therefore to develop high-resolution MR Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) techniques for the study of brain and spine metabolism at the magnetic field strengths of 3 and 7 Tesla. This includes methods for the detection of neurotransmitters (such as GABA, glutamate, or N-acetyl aspartyl glutamate). Finally, for use in clinical practice and research, it is important that robust and easy to use data analysis tools exist for MRSI. We continue to develop quantitative analysis methods of MRS and MRSI data, and in particular (in collaboration with TR&D4) novel atlas-based techniques for statistical group analysis of MRSI data.
7T short TE STEAM spectra recorded using a Philips Achieva system with 32-channel receive head coil (Nova medical). 3 different brain regions (occipital gray matter, anterior cingulate gyrus, and posterior-frontal/parietal white matter were recorded. Scan time was 6min 24sec per region. Field honogeneity was optimized using high order shim coils. In the white matter voxel, the NAAG peak can be seen as a shoulder on the NAA resonance (inset).


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Herbert Pinter
Born in Austria and an Australian citizen by choice, Herbert Pinter has been in the film industry since 1973. Herbert has worked with Directors such as Peter Weir on great Australian classics such as, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, The Year of Living Dangerously and Bruce Beresford on award winning , Breaker Morant, Black Robe, Mr Johnson, Paradise Road and Bride of the Wind.
AFI, Sammy and Genie Award winner and multiple AFI award nominee, Herbert was nominated for an Emmy in 2004 for "Outstanding Art Direction For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special" for Beresford and HBO's And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself.
He also received the Art Directors Guild award of "Excellence in Production Design" for the same production. In 2009 he was nominated for an AFI, Award for Mao's last Dancer. In 2011 he received an APDG. Award for Cloudstreet and the AACTA. TELEVISION SCREEN CRAFT Award.
His ability to adapt difficult locations and represent any historical period has given him an enviable reputation amongst Directors and Producers both nationally and internationally. Nothing is too big or too difficult for Herbert, from Science Fiction to the 15th Century or transforming contemporary Australia into the blue bayous of Louisiana or the slums of SE Asia.
He has filmed in the heat of the sub Sahara; the freezing north of Canada; the sweltering tropics of South East Asia and the Amazonian jungle; the mountains of Mexico and the cultured climes of old Europe. With a career in the film industry spanning over 30 years, Herbert brings his extraordinary vision and expertise to every project no matter where it might be set or filmed.
When not filming, Herbert lives with his wife and family on their horse property in Chidlow, situated in the hills overlooking Perth in Western Australia.


Another Luxury SUV from Volvo, the Volvo XC40 will have the new version for 2019 model. The 2019 Volvo XC40 is a 2-row/5-passenger crossover SUV. This extravagant crossover is the tiniest and also the least pricey version in the Volvo's schedule. Slotted under the XC60 as well as XC90 designs, the XC40 includes lovely layout as well as modern-day inside. The SUV is enjoyable to drive, it supplies a lot of typical tools and also security ranking excels.
The good idea regarding the outside of the 2019 Volvo XC40 is that the Swedish carmaker really did not develop like that a smaller sized variation of XC60 or XC90. Rather, the upcoming XC40 design showcases a one-of-a-kind layout and also it looks beautiful. As stated, this is the tiniest crossover SUV in Volvo's schedule and also while it looks sturdy, the outside has vibrant look as well as style. A style is angular and also sharp. The measurement of this SUV determines wheelbase of 106.4 inches, size 174.2 inches, size is 73.3 inch as well as elevation 65.3. It considers 3800 pounds.
Additionally, the C-pillar extends completely from the back door home windows to the base as well as the front grille is concave. Unique appearance proceeds over the brand-new "Thor's hammer" fronts lights as well as the hood that includes extra perfectly designed folds. At the back, an attractive power tailgate comes as typical as well as under it, twin exhaust electrical outlets are put. Energy trim degree consists of a white roofing system, while R-Design versions include the black one. 19-inch wheels are coming as typical on the base version. Nevertheless, there will be alternatives to update from common wheels to fashionable 21-inch alloy wheels.
The next to 2019 Volvo XC40 includes an extremely contemporary and also useful inside. The drive setting is superb, together with the exposure. A 12.3-inch motorist screen is all electronic as well as is put beside the 9-inch touchscreen. This up and down 9.0-inch touchscreen is additionally seen in the versions XC60 and also the XC90. Back seats in the 2019 Volvo XC40 are supplying excellent legroom as well as the freight room is terrific. An optional rear-storage option folds freight flooring for the extra freight location.
This design includes a freight quantity of 21 cu ft. Nevertheless, with all room that provides, the 2019 Volvo XC40 has the ability to gather 5 guests. Natural leather seats are basic, in addition to the power vehicle driver's seat, automated environment control, Android Vehicle, Apple CarPlay and also brand-new security functions. A breathtaking moonroof is optional, similar to the cordless phone battery charger, Harman/Kardon costs stereo, as well as a crystal change handle. There will be adding a Costs plan that will consist of the semi-autonomous Pilot Aid drive system, hands-free tailgate control, concealed storage space that rests under motorist' s seat and also garage remote that is global.
The completely crafted SUV 2019 Volvo XC40 will be equipped with excellent plans of security. In the accident examination, this design gain terrific ratings. Many thanks to the common functions like Anti-lock brakes, Security control, Front and also side effect airbags, Expenses and also knee airbags, Pretensioners, Anti-whiplash and also Security system. In addition, there will be a huge listing of added functions that a person could obtain.
There are 2 offered drivetrain alternatives under the hood of 2019 Volvo XC40. It is generally the exact same 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine, however with various specifications. An initial drivetrain is offered on T5 versions, it has an all-wheel-drive configuration and also it could generate 248 HP and also 258 lb-ft of torque. The 2nd system is included on T4 versions. This set has the very same 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder. Nonetheless, this includes front-wheel-drive as well as it cranks 187 HP as well as 221 lb-ft of torque.
Usually, T5 versions will include even more power, while T4 versions will have a much better gas economic climate. Both engines are having an 8-speed transmission. A start/stop system is offered as well, and also Volvo revealed a crossbreed design in the future. With the version T5 that speeds up from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 6,2 sec, one will have the ability to get to a full throttle of 131 miles per hour.
The brand new 2019 Volvo XC40 will set you back around $ 35,000. The T5 design is a little greater, concerning $36,500. The R-Design version could cover $45,000. Most recent Volvo's crossover SUV will take place sale later on this year.


Literally, a bone appearing in a piece of marinated grilled meat. Figuratively, an unwanted intermediary in a relationship between two people.
Are you sure you guys want me to come on your weekend trip? I really don't want to be a kabab mein haddi when lau is happening.


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Home » 2020 Health Care Climate Challenge focuses on cutting carbon emissions
2020 Health Care Climate Challenge focuses on cutting carbon emissions
Initiative addresses health care impact on climate change
Jeff Ferenc
PHOTO COURTESY OF VIRGINIA MASON HEALTH SYSTEM
Virginia Mason Hospital, Seattle, was the first in its state to start an operating room recycling program.
Nine leading health care institutions from across the globe, including three U.S. systems, have pledged to take action on climate change by participating in a worldwide campaign to address the troubling issue.
A global initiative of Health Care Without Harm's Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network, the 2020 Health Care Climate Challenge invites health care systems and hospitals to reduce their carbon footprints and protect public health from the effects of climate change.
Gundersen Health System, La Crosse, Wis.; Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif.; and Virginia Mason Health System, Seattle, are among the nine that have taken the 2020 Challenge pledge to reduce carbon emissions.
Health systems from Asia-Pacific, Africa, Latin America and Europe also are participating. Together with the three U.S. health systems, they represent more than 300 hospitals.
Hundreds more hospitals from around the world are expected to join the 2020 Challenge in the coming months, says Josh Karliner, global projects director for Health Care Without Harm, and coordinator of its Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network, Reston, Va.
He anticipates growing participation during the run-up to the worldwide meeting of heads of state at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December in Paris. The 2020 Challenge marks the first international effort to track emissions and take measurable actions to reduce the sector's carbon footprint.
"At a time when climate change is posing one of the greatest threats to public health, hospitals and health systems are stepping up to help the world kick its addiction to fossil fuels," Karliner says. "This is a leadership moment for health care."
In addition to the three U.S. health care systems, initial 2020 Challenge participants include: Counties Manukau Health, New Zealand; Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein and Hospital Sírio Libanês, Brazil; National Health Service (NHS) Sustainable Development Unit, England; Western Cape Department of Health, South Africa; and Yonsei University Health System, South Korea.
Several of the initial participants, such as Kaiser Permanente, Yonsei University Health System and the NHS, already have committed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent or more by 2020. Gundersen achieved energy independence last October and now offsets 100 percent of its fossil fuel use with locally produced energy.
All 2020 Challenge participants have pledged to encourage public policy, economic development and investment strategies that move their societies away from fossil fuel dependency and toward healthy energy alternatives.
"If we as health care [are] going to play a role to protect public health from climate change, we've got to start by cleaning up our own house and reducing our own emissions and engaging in the public conversation about this issue," Karliner says.
The 2020 Challenge is open for hospitals and health care systems from around the world to join; those who achieve the best results will receive awards in the future.
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Solar agreement keeps Boston Medical Center on emissions-cutting track
Solar purchase agreement will offset 100 percent of medical center's electricity consumption
Fed program to aid health care climate resiliency
New initiative offers help and guidance on how hospitals can address resiliency


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oa PEGylated interferon alfa-2a induces complete hematologic and molecular responses with low toxicity in essential thrombocythemia
Authors: Mohamed Abdeldaem Yassin1, Nader Izzaldin Aldewik1, Hanadi Rafii Elayoubi1
Affiliations: 1 Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, QATAR
Source: Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum Proceedings, Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum Volume 2012 Issue 1, Oct 2012, Volume 2012, BMP43
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5339/qfarf.2012.BMP43
Background: Essential thrombocythemia (ET) is a myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) marked by a risk of thrombotic and hemorrhagic complications, and by a long-term risk of evolution to myelofibrosis (MF), and acute leukemia (AL). Methods: Inclusion criteria: ET diagnosed as per WHO classification 2008, age 18 to 45 year. Exclusion criteria: (hepatic and renal dysfunction, history of psychiatric disorder, in particular depression, autoimmune hepatitis, severe cardiac dysfunction, known hypersensitivity to IFN. Complete hematologic response (CR) as per ELN guidelines and molecular response (MR) was defined as 'complete' when JAK2V617F became undetectable with the technique used (i.e., V617F <1%), 'partial' when >50% decrease of baseline V617F was obtained, and 'minor' when V617F decrease was between 20% and 49%. After inclusion, Pegasys was started subcutaneously at 50 microgram weekly for 4 weeks then 135 microgramg/week from week 5. Results: Baseline characteristics of the patients are age 19-44 years, 16 males and 24 females. Five patients had a history of major thrombotic events. All the patients responded to Pegasys at the 12-month evaluation including 35 hematologic CRs (94.6%), and 5 PRs (5.4%). Cumulative incidences of hematologic CRs and PRs showed that 100% of responses were achieved within 12 months. After the first year, V617F continued to decrease without evidence of plateau, the proportion of mutant JAK2 being always similar or lower in the last sample compared with the previous one. None of the responding patients experienced an increase of V617F during follow-up. Median V617F was 58% at 12 months (P <0.001). Hematologic response was achieved in all patients within 2 months and were sustained beyond the first year. Toxicities included musculoskeletal pain in 6 patients, skin toxicity in 4, and GI symptoms in 2, none of the toxicity exceeds WHO Grade 2. Conclusion: PEGylated interferon alfa-2a is an effective and promising treatment for ET reducing the vascular risk and preventing evolution to MF, MDS, and AL. With low toxicity profiles and good hematological and molecular responses, percentage of V617F appears to be a good tool to monitor minimal residual disease and to evaluate treatment efficacy. However, further studies are needed to confirm these results.
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Meadowglen Place – Bousfields Inc.
Bousfields was retained by R.A.B. Properties Ltd. to redevelop an existing rental housing complex at Markham Road and Brimorton Drive, just south of Ellesmere. The comprehensive plan provided for full rental housing replacement in a new rental apartment building; three condominium towers adjacent to Markham Road; 32 stacked townhouse units adjacent to the existing neighbourhood; the dedication of new links with the public street system; and the dedication of a public park.
Bousfields was responsible for preparing the Planning Rationale, Draft Plan of Subdivision, and the Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendments. Bousfields also participated in meeting the requirements of the Section 111 application to help protect existing tenants through the Rental Housing Protection Act. The Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendments have been approved and been recommended for draft approval.
Images courtesy of Turner Fleisher Architects Inc.


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How an Everyday Customer Gave This Waitress the Tip of Her Life
by Courtney Subramanian
AlexRaths/iStock Photo
And it's a gift that'll keep on giving.
Sometimes it pays to be friendly, and former waitress Melissa Mainier learned that lesson four years ago while serving at the Peachtree Restaurant and Lounge in Harrisburg, Penn.
Mainier, now a nurse at Pinnacle Health's General Osteopathic Hospital, found a Good Samaritan in her regular customer Benjamin Olewine III while working her way through college. Olewine first struck up a friendship with the then-server in 2010, when he learned Mainier was saddled with student loans and waitressing to get by.
Olewine, a local entrepreneur, decided to give Mainier the tip of lifetime and offer to pay her tuition bills. Mainier declined his offer twice before finally agreeing to let him help. After sending Olewine her tuition bill, he returned to the restaurant the next day with a check in tow.
The now-nurse estimates he's spent about $30,000 on her education, funding every school expense ranging from tuition to textbooks.
"My dad was so happy for me," said Mainier, whose father passed away two years ago. "Both my parents were just so happy for me. I'm sure they would want to help me if they could."
MORE: This Special-Needs Teen Gave Herself and Her Favorite Charity the Birthday Gift of a Lifetime
Mainier is not the first student Olewine has assisted. The local philanthropist contends his family has long been generous in the food and service industry. His father, who owned a grocery store during the Great Depression, often helped struggling customers. The karma must have paid off, leading to a successful business expansion that was handed down to Olewine to run before it was sold to Sysco Foods, where he now serves as Chairman Emeritus.
Olewine has carried his family's charitable tradition by donating $1 million to the Culinary Arts School at HACC at Central Pennsylvania's Community College, where Mainier received her associate's degree in nursing. Last year the PinnacleHealth Spine, Bone & Joint Institute recognized his generosity by naming a wing after him—the same wing where Mainier works.
He continues to support Mainier as she works towards a bachelor's degree from Drexel University, and encourages the young nurse to continue her education by earning a master's degree.
It seems Mainier's big tip is not so much the money as it is the lesson of giving back.
"I'm going to continue to pay it forward," she told Ellen's Good News, "for the rest of my life."
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Lady Jardin - Vintage Views of the South Coast: One Lovely Blog Award!
So on to the award. As is tradition, I now have to select a further 15 of my favourite blogs to pass this well deserved award onto. Although I may have been a little on the silent front, the follwing ladies, and gents, have been keeping me busy reading their posts, inspiring new projects, and educating me in many ways, and to you I want to say a very very big THANK YOU!
1. I love painting. I know I've never blogged about it, but I used to paint a hell of a lot. Not so much recently, but am currently working away on something a bit smaller as a present for someone, so I may get back into painting this year after all.
2. I have 2 pet fish: Fish and Ratfink.
3. I'm lactose intollerant, but a chocaholic. This can be problamatic indeed. Chocolate usual wins though.
4. I LOVE boardgames. The Mister and I have games nights on a regular basis, and we've built up a collection of vintage boardgames now, including BP Offshore Oilstrike, Formula 1, Go! and Golf Tiddlewinks.
6. I took ballet classes for 6 years, it's been a veeeery long time though!
7. I love baking, and I make some scrummy Baklava Muffins!
Thank you so much for passing the award on!


Dianella Bardelli is a writer of novels and poetry. She teaches creative writing using the methods Kerouac outlined in his novels and essays. Her latest work has been inspired by the Beats and hippies in the US. One of these novels will be published in 2012. She has recently published a novel about the life and death of Neal Cassady entitled Il bardo psichedelico di Neal. She has just finished a novel inspired by the life and work of the Beat female poet Lenore Kandel.
novelizing and inserting also invented characters as the girl who narrates the story in first person, Elisa, an italian girl.


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These days everyone is starting a business and the success stories are getting younger and younger. To create a startup that is successful takes a long time and you have to be one of those entrepreneurs that are prepared to do whatever it needed to succeed.
The biggest mistake I see is entrepreneurs who are trying to ride a trend or copy something that has already been done. Do you know someone who is always starting a new business and never sticks to any one idea?
The reason for this is that they are trying to make money because they think it will make them happy – as the cliche goes it won't. If you are going to go to the trouble of building a successful startup, then you must choose a field or industry that you are passionate about.
Sometimes the best advice anyone can give you is also the simplest. Think about what it is that you do throughout your life that makes you really happy. Whatever that one thing is, that's what you should start a business around.
For me, I have many passions but when I get to inspire other people and share wisdom with them, I feel on top of the world and like nothing can stop me. I know when I am in the zone because I get tingles down the back of my spine, and it's in these moments that I am most likely to generate income from a particular activity.
So having said all of that, below are the three ways to be successful at any startup you create.
When you are starting a business from nothing, you need to have a network of people that you can either bring into your startup or that can help spread the word about your startup. If this is your first business, then the chances are that you will have a long list of people you have worked with or that you have engaged on some level in a business proposal.
These people are critical to the success of your startup. Get out of the thinking that you should be trying to sell to these people that you knew when you worked your old job. While you may sell to some of them, you need to think of these people as door openers.
They may not buy your startup's product or service directly, but they will lead you to people who will. For this to work, though, it's all about the approach. If you catch up with people in your network and they feel like all you want to do is pitch them, then you will turn off the very people that can help you.
At the same time, it's important to ask the other person what they're up to and see if you can find a way to assist them. Nine times out of ten, I find that the best way I can assist is with an introduction to someone that is valuable to them.
Even though this is so simple, don't underestimate the power of this technique.
I have heard it dozens of times before; "create a vision that is compelling." This is true, but the thing that people forget is that it also needs to be something that people care about. Saving the whales out at sea is compelling, but for a lot of people, it's just not that high on their priorities.
Whereas if you said something like "change the face of the American Diet" there would be an audience of people that would listen. The more you can create a vision that people care about, the bigger the market is that you can service.
Don't underestimate the value though of niche markets. Even if the market is very small, there are lots of niches that are not serviced by anyone. If you can find a niche that is not serviced and that people care about, then you have a successful startup idea right there.
So one thing that I see a lot of startups do is go to market with an idea that meets their needs, but that is not tested in the real world.
One piece of important advice I can give you on this one, is to always test the market, but here's the catch; people think you need to test it with 200,000 people – you don't. I have seen many example where investors are happy with testing your product amongst people in their hundreds.
So if 400 people like your idea, then there is a good chance that you are on the right path. Just make sure that those 400 people are not all your friends otherwise their opinion is obviously biased.
Don't be afraid as the founder to be a bit weird and spend time with your customers too, without telling them it's your company or that you're the founder. This can yield awesome market insights that are helpful in the testing phase.


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Q: Apache Avro ThreadLocal objects linger around on Tomcat un-deploy We are using Apache Avro as a JSON interface between our Python application and some third party Java libraries that we run within a Tomcat service. We decided to simply extend the org.apache.avro.ipc.ResponderServlet class to implement our own servlet. The servlet is really simple, in that it instantiates the ResponderServlet super-class in the constructor, and overrides the init() and destroy() methods to do some house-keeping for the third party libraries that we run in the servlet.
When Tomcat un-deploys our webapp however, we see a number of SEVERE errors warning of ThreadLocal-related memory leaks.
SEVERE: The web application [/hotwire] created a ThreadLocal with key of type [org.apache.avro.Schema$3] (value [org.apache.avro.Schema$3@4464784f]) and a value of type [java.lang.Boolean] (value [true]) but failed to remove it when the web application was stopped. Threads are going to be renewed over time to try and avoid a probable memory leak.
Jan 24, 2013 2:19:36 AM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader checkThreadLocalMapForLeaks
SEVERE: The web application [/hotwire] created a ThreadLocal with key of type [org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader$1] (value [org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader$1@2016ad9d]) and a value of type [org.apache.avro.util.WeakIdentityHashMap] (value [org.apache.avro.util.WeakIdentityHashMap@30e02ee0]) but failed to remove it when the web application was stopped. Threads are going to be renewed over time to try and avoid a probable memory leak.

We are probably doing something naive somewhere because we were unable to find any help anywhere on the web for this scenario. Nevertheless, we're hoping someone here can tell us where we're going wrong.
Here's a glimpse into our servlet.
public class HotWire extends ResponderServlet{
    public HotWire() throws IOException
    {
              super(new SpecificResponder(Engine.class, new EngineImpl()));
    }

    @Override
        public void init() {
        try {
         super.init();
                 try {
                      init_engine();
                      } catch (EngineInitException e) {
                      e.printStackTrace();
                      }
            } catch (ServletException e) {
                 e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void destroy() {
            super.destroy();
            shutdown_engine();
        }

        public static class EngineImpl implements EngineInterface  {
            public Boolean create(Parameters message) {
                Boolean status = null;
                try {
                    status = engine.create_object(message);
                } catch (SemanticException | IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
                return status;
            }

}

A: I am seeing a similar issue. If you look here there is a static ThreadLocal cache that gets filled up with no way of removing it:
https://github.com/apache/avro/blob/master/lang/java/avro/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/generic/GenericDatumReader.java#L106
  private static final ThreadLocal<Map<Schema, Map<Schema, ResolvingDecoder>>> RESOLVER_CACHE = ThreadLocal
      .withInitial(WeakIdentityHashMap::new);

In my case each request has a different schema so my Spring Boot service eventually runs out of memory and dies.
This is also an example of a classloader leak:
ThreadLocal & Memory Leak
I can see a JIRA request here for an improvement:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1595
Update: I was able to work around the issue with the memory leak. There was an ExecutorService that was re-using threads. Now I shutdown the service which causes the threads to be finalized. This allows for the ThreadLocal memory to be GC'd.
As someone pointed out the RESOLVER_CACHE uses a WeakIdentityHashMap that should allow for the cache to be GC'd but this was not happening for me.

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Q: How to keep images from blinking on first hover I am not great with javascript and I don't know how to do "preloading" of images which is what I THINK I have to do here?
If you visit this website, the first time you hover over the images, they BLINK white. But from that point on they are fine and all looks good. This is annoying at first and I'd like to avoid it. I've moved the JS that I do have into the footer but other than that I am not sure what to do to fix it. Suggestions? Here is the website.
Here is the css code:
.primaryContainer {
  height: auto;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
  min-height: 100%;
  width: 100%;
  position: relative;
  min-width: 0;
  max-width: none;
}
#partycontainerforbgimages {
  float: left;
  height: 100%;
  margin-left: 0;
  margin-top: -45px;
  clear: none;
  width: 100%;
  min-width: 0;
  position: relative;
  display: block;
  min-height: 0;
}
#paintpartyimgcontainer {
  float: none;
  height: 650px;
  clear: none;
  width: 59.99976%;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 40.265253%;
  z-index: 0;
  display: block;
  min-height: 0;
  background-image: url(img/glowparty_hover.png);
  background-attachment: scroll;
  -webkit-background-size: cover;
  background-size: cover;
  background-position: 50% 50%;
  background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;
  -webkit-transition: all .15s linear;
  transition: all .15s linear;
}
#_5kimgcontainer {
  float: left;
  height: 650px;
  clear: none;
  width: 60%;
  position: absolute;
  z-index: 8;
  border-right-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.952941);
  border-right-width: 14px;
  border-right-style: solid;
  display: block;
  min-height: 0;
  background-image: url(img/5kimg_hover.jpg);
  background-attachment: scroll;
  -webkit-background-size: cover;
  background-size: cover;
  min-width: 0;
  background-position: 50% 50%;
  background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;
  -webkit-clip-path: polygon(0 0, 100% 0%, 75% 100%, 0% 100%);
  clip-path: polygon(0 0, 100% 0%, 75% 100%, 0% 100%);
  -webkit-transition: all .15s linear;
  transition: all .15s linear;
}
#_5kimgcontainer:hover {
  display: block;
  opacity: 1;
  background-image: url(img/5kimg.jpg);
  background-attachment: scroll;
  -webkit-background-size: cover;
  background-size: cover;
  background-position: 50% 50%;
  background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;
}
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  background-image: url(img/glowparty.png);
  background-attachment: scroll;
  -webkit-background-size: cover;
  background-size: cover;
  background-position: 50% 50%;
  background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;
}
#_5k_container {
  float: left;
  height: 100%;
  clear: none;
  width: 50%;
  min-width: 0;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  display: block;
  min-height: 0;
}
#paintparty_container {
  float: left;
  height: 100%;
  clear: none;
  width: 50%;
  min-width: 0;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 50%;
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#_5k {
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Belleville West Takes on Fort Zumwalt
Brianna Kress
Paige Goodrich, Sports Reporter
Belleville West Maroons football team played the Fort Zumwalt Jaguars last Friday night, September 16th. Although they lost 35-14, the energy and participation from the crowd was at a maximum the entire night.
"Win or lose, the cheerleaders are there to support. It's easy to keep our spirits up when a crowd is still participating, even when we are losing. But, even when we aren't, we know that there's another game and that the boys tried their best," senior Mya Wirth said.
Although everyone wishes that each football game would be a victory for Belleville West, the actual football game is only one part of what makes the night special.
"The best part of any football game for me is right before the team comes out; because, in that moment, the band, cheerleaders, and student section are working in unison to cheer on our players to victory," senior Nina Goodrich said.
The day of the game, Belleville West had the Maroons Are Great assembly in which students and faculty showed their support for the fall sports teams.
Maroons protect quarterback by blocking Fort Zumerwalt.
"I think the Maroons are Great assembly got the football boys the most excited for the game. From the dance, to the chant, the boys had a blast. Also, seeing how great our school spirit is made the rest of the school excited for the game," Wirth said.
While the Maroons were energized from the assembly, Fort Zumerwalt's offense proved to create a little bit of a struggle.
"I feel like we could have done better both offensively and defensively, and the loss will definitely be a setback for our upcoming game against East St. Louis. I think our biggest focus for our next game is to just stay disciplined and have good communication," senior Markyre Hogan said.
As the Belleville West football team prepares for their next game, the cheerleaders, members of the band, and the Maroon Madnezz club are hoping to keep the same energy from Friday night's game.
The Marching Maroons perform this year's show, "Peace by Piece".
"The band has worked really hard to put together a top-level show where everyone has enthusiasm and focus. In all seriousness, people should come to the games to show school spirit and experience an activity that truly brings all sides of the school together," Goodrich said.
The results may not have been in Belleville West's favor Friday night, but there are many more games and opportunities to come.
"We were all a little heartbroken after the game but we knew we had to recognize and admit our mistakes and move on. We need to focus on what's next for us and the games to come. Losing is just a part of the game, but it's what you do after the losses that show how great of a team you can be," Hogan said.
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Home News & Analysis Blackstone and Starwood bosses defend limiting REIT redemptions
Blackstone and Starwood bosses defend limiting REIT redemptions
Senior executives at the New York- and Miami-based mega-managers respond to escalating scrutiny of their private REITs after both reached redemption limits.
Peter Benson
Bosses at two of private real estate's biggest managers have gone on the defensive amid rising tension over their implementation of redemption limits after a surge in requests from investors in their biggest property vehicles.
Blackstone and Starwood Capital last week implemented proration redemption rules for their private real estate investment trusts, BREIT and SREIT, after investor buyback requests reached their mandated limits of 5 percent of net asset value for the quarter.
Schwarzman: urged investors to make a comparison between Blackstone's BREIT vehicle and the public REIT sector as a whole.
Fears among onlookers have arisen over dire prognostications for the performances of both vehicles amid a downturn in the broader real estate industry. The reality for the vehicles, which have almost $85 billion of assets between them, is nuanced however, said Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman and Starwood founder Barry Sternlicht last week.
The $69 billion Blackstone Real Estate Investment Trust was closed to redemptions after exceeding its 2 percent NAV cap for October and receiving further requests exceeding the monthly cap for November. The New York-based manager triggered a proration mechanism in line with its 5 percent quarterly limit to prevent a fire sale.
Starwood took action after its Starwood Real Estate Income Trust vehicle, which has $14.6 billion of assets, received redemption requests reaching 3.2 percent of assets in November.
Blackstone's Schwarzman said he found concerns about what the redemption limit meant for performance "baffling" while on a panel at Goldman Sachs' industry conference. The firm's chief operating officer Jon Gray told CNBC meanwhile that "the structure we put in place is operating exactly as we intended six years ago."
Barry Sternlicht, co-founder and chief executive of Starwood, warned not to compare the situation to financial storms elsewhere. "This isn't FTX," he said at NYU Schack Institute's Real Estate Capital Markets Conference, referring to the cryptocurrency business which filed for bankruptcy in recent weeks. "There's a huge asset base behind these companies."
Blackstone averaged $2 billion a month of inflows in 2021. While early signs that this was slowing were acknowledged by the firm during its Q3 earnings call, Q3 net inflows to the vehicle were still $4.2 billion, according to supporting documents. It is estimated that Blackstone has cash reserves of $11 billion.
Sternlicht: underscored the importance of assessing SREITs asset base when which weighted to in favor property sectors.
The New York-based firm has also been active, taking five companies private this year. Deals included the $12.8 billion purchase of American Campus Communities, which used capital from both BREIT and the firm's private open-end fund Blackstone Property Partners; and the $5.8 billion acquisition of Preferred Apartment Communities, the entirety of which was done using BREIT.
That has meant BREIT now has a net asset value of $69 billion, significantly larger than its next closest peer, Starwood's SREIT, which has an NAV of $15 billion.
SREIT's inflows have been similar, despite the size of the fund. While in the third quarter, net inflows were $617.2 million, through September in 2022, Starwood has netted inflows of $4.23 billion.
Both have produced strong performances too. SREIT's top-end performance on its 'I' class of shares is 10.2 percent so far this year. BREIT is at 9.3 percent for the year.
However, a closer look at monthly performance data demonstrates a downward trend that could be a reason for increased redemptions. Starwood had its only negative month of the year in October, posting -0.04 percent, but every monthly return since May in SREIT has been under 1 percent after a high of 2.47 percent in March.
BREIT has not posted a negative monthly return through October this year, though there has been a similar trend downwards since May. BREIT in October posted its lowest monthly return of the year at 0.07 percent.
Nonetheless, these performances still far exceed that of NAREIT's all-REIT index which produced a -20.86 percent return through November this year.
A major driver of both vehicles' returns this year has been well appointed debt. Sternlicht said both his firm and Blackstone have fixed rates on a lot of the debt in their funds via caps, and the values of those caps are now "worth a fortune."
Their asset bases have also played a part in retaining value and performance. As other sectors like offices and retail have faltered, both BREIT and SREIT's compositions have overwhelmingly concentrated in the better performing residential and industrial assets. Both of those property types have, in many cases, seen north of 15 percent rent increases in most markets, offsetting some of the inflationary and interest rate effects on cap rates and debt spreads, Sternlicht said.
The concentration of properties makes the comparison to the more widely exposed public REIT index more difficult to square on the face of it, Sternlicht continued.
He also highlighted how the private REIT share price is much closer to the value of the underlying real estate than public REITs which often trade at large discounts or premiums to the property value because of factors outside of the real estate market.
That means when redemption runs happen, properties will likely have to be sold to fulfill requests. Blackstone, for example, already sold its 49.9 percent stake in two Las Vegas Hotels held a joint venture with manager VICI over to its partner. The firm recouped approximately $1.27 billion from the sale.
Redemption limits help soften the need to sell properties immediately. "We're not a hedge fund," Sternlicht said. "We can't liquidate properties overnight."
In Blackstone's case specifically, many reports found that 70 percent of the capital redeemed from BREIT come from Asia. Schwarzman associated BREIT's run on poor performance in Hong Kong's Hang Seng index.
"If you are an investor who has got margin debt and your market goes down 40 percent, you can imagine what it was like to be one of those into the pools," Schwarzman said. "You're under excruciating financial pressure, and so they were just looking for liquidity."
Gray expounded, defending the mandated actions for the broader set of global investors. "We set up the product with limitations on liquidity. We described it as semi-liquid because we knew at some point there would be a period of volatility and we didn't want to sell assets at the wrong time under pressure."
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The good news is that children of all ages will have a reason to love visiting Palm Springs. While they may not be in the mood to do a ton of shopping, or the age to try out some of the breweries and entertainment, the area delivers a vast selection of Palm Springs kids activities. From exploring the great outdoors to finding time to admire the sky or hit up a museum, the possibilities are endless.
When you're looking to enjoy the rugged and scenic landscape without having to worry about where everyone is, book a jeep tour through the San Jacinto mountains. While everyone will be safely contained, it's a chance to enjoy being outside in great company! Equally as exciting and easy to keep an eye on little ones is an afternoon spent at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens! This combined botanical garden and wildlife center has intriguing exhibits, plant life and interactive opportunities along the way. As a way to give the whole family a new perspective on your time together, try a trip up the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. You'll travel to an elevation of over 8,000 feet and after witnessing stunning sky-high views, be dropped off in an area full of fun restaurants, theaters and a natural history museum.
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According to the Indianapolis Star, Colts punter Pat McAfee, who laid a hard hit on Trindon Holliday during a return in Sunday's game, will not be fined by the NFL.
There was some speculation that McAfee's wallet might take a hit because his blow to Holliday involved some helmet-to-helmet contact, but in the end, that's not how the NFL saw it. Holliday was not a defenseless receiver, and McAfee's hit did appear to be clean.
It probably didn't help that Holliday is 5-foot-5 and weighs about 170 pounds.
Every Friday, I'll be posting a "Week In Review" Broncos post on the blog sometime in the early afternoon. Take a look to find a breakdown of what happened each day, Monday through Friday, as well as a glance back at some of the stories you may have missed in The Denver Post and elsewhere.
Monday: The Broncos returned to Denver around 4 a.m. from Indianapolis, where they suffered their first loss of the season. The team pushed media availability back a bit, and when John Fox spoke, he said that his team had played tough enough, but that it needed to play smarter.
The NFL has slapped a $10,000 fine on Broncos defensive tackle Kevin Vickerson for the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty he received for "striking an opponent in the leg area," during an Indianapolis Colts' extra point kick with 5 minutes left in the third quarter last Sunday.
The penalty wasn't enforced as fellow defensive tackle Terrance Knighton also received an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on the play.
Several Broncos came to Vickerson's defense, saying Colts blockers were occasionally chippy within the scrum play at the line of scrimmage.
Broncos Q&A: Should Denver trade for Jared Allen, Adrian Peterson, Joe Thomas or no one?
This question comes via email from Chris Hatfield, and with the trade deadline looming on Tuesday, it's a good one.
I don't think the Vikings are trading Peterson. I also don't think the amount of money he commands would make any sense for this pass-happy Broncos team. Peterson is signed through 2017, making $11.75 million in 2014; his contract escalates from there, all the way up to $15.75 million in 2017. Sure, any team would love to have Peterson, the best running back of his generation, but he comes at a price, and it's not a price the Broncos would be willing to pay. Also, in case y'all haven't noticed, Knowshon Moreno is doing a perfectly decent job in the role he's been asked to play.


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import spinoco.protocol.http.header.value.HeaderCodecDefinition

trait DefaultHeader extends HttpHeader { self =>
  lazy val name: String = {
    HeaderCodecDefinition.nameFromClass(self.getClass)
  }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


FRANKFURT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Daimler (DAIGn.DE) shares fell more than five percent on Friday, hit by news that the United States Department of Justice had asked the carmaker to investigate its emissions certification process for vehicles including its Mercedes brand.
The investigation comes six months after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it would review diesel vehicles following an admission from Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) that it installed software in cars allowing them to emit up to 40 times legally permissible level of pollution.
"We cannot go into details," Uebber told reporters as Daimler said first-quarter operating profit fell 9 percent as launch costs for its new E-Class and currency effects weighed down results.
Daimler had said on Thursday that it was cooperating with the U.S. authorities.
France's Peugeot Citroen (PEUP.PA) was raided by anti-fraud investigators on Thursday as part of investigations into pollutants in the industry.


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