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Q: How do I select all p tags and make them visible when check box is clicked? I want all the
 elements to be displayed when the checkbox is checked and otherwise not displayed.

function change(){
    var nav = document.getElementById("navbar");
    var checkBox = document.getElementById("checkbox");

    if(checkBox.checked == true){
        nav.style.width = "300px";
    } else{
        nav.style.width = "70px";
    }
}
nav{
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    justify-content: space-between;
    width: 100px;
    height: 100%;
    transition: 0.3s;
    /* #63. change 2nd to -10px from -6px */
    box-shadow: rgba(136, 165, 191, 0.26) 4px 2px 10px 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8) -4px -2px 16px 0px;
}

nav a{
    text-decoration: none;
}

nav li{
    list-style-type: none;
    display: flex;
    color:black;
}

nav p{
    display: none;
}

nav input{
    margin: 10px;
    position: absolute;
    width: 50px;
    height: 50px;
    opacity: 0;
    cursor: pointer;
}

nav input:checked + nav p{
    display: flex;
}

        <input onclick="change()" type="checkbox" name="" id="checkbox">

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A: In your case you need to add to CSS and it should work.
nav input:checked + ul p {
  display: block;
}

Result you can see in jsfiddle

A: You can use document.querySelectorAll() to select each p element and then use element.style.display to change whether or not it is visible.
let on = checkbox.checked;
document.querySelectorAll("p").forEach(e => {
  e.style.display = on ? "block" : "none";
});

Note that you can use any selector inside document.querySelectorAll(), including classes, attributes, IDs, etc.
Snippet:

function change(){
    var nav = document.getElementById("navbar");
    var checkBox = document.getElementById("checkbox");

    if(checkBox.checked == true){
        nav.style.width = "300px";
    } else{
        nav.style.width = "70px";
    }

    let on = checkbox.checked;
    document.querySelectorAll("p").forEach(e => {
      e.style.display = on ? "block" : "none";
    });
}
nav{
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    justify-content: space-between;
    width: 100px;
    height: 100%;
    transition: 0.3s;
    /* #63. change 2nd to -10px from -6px */
    box-shadow: rgba(136, 165, 191, 0.26) 4px 2px 10px 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8) -4px -2px 16px 0px;
}

nav a{
    text-decoration: none;
}

nav li{
    list-style-type: none;
    display: flex;
    color:black;
}

nav p{
    display: none;
}

nav input{
    margin: 10px;
    position: absolute;
    width: 50px;
    height: 50px;
    opacity: 0;
    cursor: pointer;
}

nav input:checked + nav p{
    display: flex;
}

        <input onclick="change()" type="checkbox" name="" id="checkbox">

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A: From JS change all 'p' color:
Make all paragraphs display: none and then with JS in your function change(): document.querySelectorAll('p').forEach(e => e.style.display = 'block');

function change(){
    var nav = document.getElementById("navbar");
    var checkBox = document.getElementById("checkbox");

    if(checkBox.checked == true){
        nav.style.width = "300px";
        document.querySelectorAll('p').forEach(e => e.style.display = 'block');
    } else{
        nav.style.width = "70px";
        document.querySelectorAll('p').forEach(e => e.style.display = 'none');
    }
}
nav{
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    justify-content: space-between;
    width: 100px;
    height: 100%;
    transition: 0.3s;
    /* #63. change 2nd to -10px from -6px */
    box-shadow: rgba(136, 165, 191, 0.26) 4px 2px 10px 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8) -4px -2px 16px 0px;
}

nav a{
    text-decoration: none;
}

nav li{
    list-style-type: none;
    display: flex;
    color:black;
}

nav p{
    display: none;
}

nav input{
    margin: 10px;
    position: absolute;
    width: 50px;
    height: 50px;
    opacity: 0;
    cursor: pointer;
}

nav input:checked + nav p{
    display: flex;
}

        <input onclick="change()" type="checkbox" name="" id="checkbox">

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A: If you want to keep it as simple as possible, you can dynamically change the visibility property of the element. I would also personally not target the p>tags in this case but rather the whole list item, so that you don't render uneccessary DOM elements (i.e. there is no point in having an a tag and a list item if nothing will be displayed in it). So I would add an identifier to the a tag and toggle the visibility prop of the element:
Add a class to each list item:

    <input onclick="change()" type="checkbox" name="" id="checkbox">

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Modify the onChange function to toggle the visibility:
function change(){
  var nav = document.getElementById("navbar");
  var checkBox = document.getElementById("checkbox");

  var navbarItems = document.getElementByClassname("navbar-item");

  if(checkBox.checked == true){
    nav.style.width = "300px";
    navbarItems.style.visibility="visible";
  } else {
    nav.style.width = "70px";
    navbarItems.style.visibility="hidden";
  }
}

Remove this from the css:
nav p{
  display: none;
}

Add this to the css:
.navbar-item {
  visibility: 'hidden'
}

A: You should try to move away from inline event handlers using onclick and use an external event listener - keep the HTML as clean as possible. Use querySelector to select specific nodes and querySelectorAll to select a nodelist - which can be converted to an array if required quite easily using Array.from(nodelist) - which then gives access to various array methods. In this case though that is not required - forEach works on a nodelist so processing each p element becomes simple.

document.querySelector('nav#navbar input[type="checkbox"]').addEventListener('click',function(e){
  let col=this.parentNode.querySelectorAll('p');
      col.forEach(p=>p.style.display=this.checked ? 'block' : 'none')
  this.parentNode.style.width=this.checked ? '300px' : '70px';
})
nav{
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    justify-content: space-between;
    width: 100px;
    height: 100%;
    transition: 0.3s;
    /* #63. change 2nd to -10px from -6px */
    box-shadow: rgba(136, 165, 191, 0.26) 4px 2px 10px 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8) -4px -2px 16px 0px;
}

nav a{
    text-decoration: none;
}

nav li{
    list-style-type: none;
    display: flex;
    color:black;
}

nav p{
    display: none;
}

nav input{
    margin: 10px;
    position: absolute;
    width: 50px;
    height: 50px;
    opacity: 0;
    cursor: pointer;
}

nav input:checked + nav p{
    display: flex;
}

    <input type="checkbox" value=1 />

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Q: rearrange data from one column to a row I have the below data and I need to make the second column as the header. Any help is appreciated.
Data:
IBM,Voltality,7,73894756.93897434897
IBM,Market,100,983874.34324
GOOG,Sanity,15,8932748
GOOG,Rate Jump,25,873476378.234234
MBLY,Market,340,23423423432.6783

Output:
PRODUCT|Market|Rate Jump|Sanity|Voltality
IBM|100,983874.34324|||7,73894756.93897434897
GOOG||25,873476378.234234|15,8932748|||
MBLY|340,23423423432.6783|||

Code (incomplete / not sure hot to get to the end):
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Getopt::Long;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my $valsep = ',';

my ( %type, %keys, %ccy, %cnt, %avg );
while (<>) {
    chomp;
    my ( $product, $reason, $count, $lat ) = split /,/;
    my $key = "$product,$reason";

    if ( not exists( $type{$reason} ) ) {
        $type{$reason} = $reason;
    }
    $ccy{$key} = $product;
    $cnt{$key} = $count;
    $avg{$key} = $lat;

}

close(INPUT);

print Dumper ( \%ccy );
print Dumper ( \%type );

my ( %pair, %details );

foreach my $rows ( sort keys %ccy ) {
    print "the key is : $rows and $ccy{$rows}\n";
    foreach my $res ( sort keys %type ) {
        print "The type is : $res and $type{$res}\n";

    }

}

A: The following code will do the job; rather than using several hashes, I've put all the data in a hash of hashes. I've put comments in the script to explain what is happening in case you are not sure. You can, of course, delete them in your script.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my %market;
while (<DATA>) {
    next unless /\w/;
    # remove line endings
    chomp;
    # split line by commas -- only split into three parts
    my @col = split ",", $_, 3;
    # save the data as $market{col0}{col1} = col2
    $market{$col[0]}{$col[1]} = $col[2];
}

# create an output file
my $outfile = 'output.txt';
open( my $fh, ">", $outfile ) or die "Could not open $outfile: $!";

my @headers = ('Market','Rate Jump','Sanity','Volatility');

# print out the header line, joined by |
print { $fh } join('|', 'PRODUCT', @headers) . "\n";

# for each product in the market data
for my $p (sort keys %market) {
    # print the product name
    print { $fh } join('|', $p,
    # go through the headers using map (map acts like a "for" loop)
    # if the relevant property exists in the market data, print it;
    # if not, print nothing
                  map { $market{$p}{$_} // '' } @headers) . "\n";
}

# this is the input data. You might be reading yours in from a file
__DATA__
IBM,Voltality,7,73894756.93897434897
IBM,Market,100,983874.34324
GOOG,Sanity,15,8932748
GOOG,Rate Jump,25,873476378.234234
MBLY,Market,340,23423423432.6783

Output:
PRODUCT|Market|Rate Jump|Sanity|Volatility
GOOG||25,873476378.234234|15,8932748|
IBM|100,983874.34324|||7,73894756.93897434897
MBLY|340,23423423432.6783|||

A: You just need to keep track of your columns and row data when parsing the data structure.
The following demonstrates:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $fh = \*DATA;

my %columns;
my %rows;

while (<$fh>) {
    chomp;
    my ( $company, $col, $vals ) = split ',', $_, 3;

    # Track Columns for later labeling
    $columns{$col}++;

    $rows{$company}{$col} = $vals;
}

my @columns = sort keys %columns;

# Header
print join( '|', 'PRODUCT', @columns ), "\n";

for my $company ( sort keys %rows ) {
    print join( '|', $company, map { $_ // '' } @{ $rows{$company} }{@columns} ), "\n";
}

__DATA__
IBM,Voltality,7,73894756.93897434897
IBM,Market,100,983874.34324
GOOG,Sanity,15,8932748
GOOG,Rate Jump,25,873476378.234234
MBLY,Market,340,23423423432.6783

Outputs:
PRODUCT|Market|Rate Jump|Sanity|Voltality
GOOG||25,873476378.234234|15,8932748|
IBM|100,983874.34324|||7,73894756.93897434897
MBLY|340,23423423432.6783|||

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Category: Redskins
Double Donks…A Redskins Rant
October 24, 2018 October 24, 2018 DefeatingTheCurseLeave a comment
Its an interesting time within the DTC walls. The Washington Redskins are 4-2, sitting on top of the NFC East with one of the best defenses in the league and one of the better rushing attacks. However everywhere you look around this city, you'd think the Redskins were 1-5 and had zero hope this season.
For example, two of DTC's very own, Joe and Steve, hereby referred as "the double donks" think Blake Bortles is better than Alex Smith. Joe can't stop crying for Pierre Garcon to come back, and somehow a healthy, untargeted Jordan Reed is all of a sudden a bad player. Maybe these double donks forgot what life was like as a Redskins fan half a decade ago. Sure you caught lightning in a bottle in 2012. Sure once Kirk Cousins took over and began slinging the ball around the offense was fun to watch. Sure Sean McVay was being brilliant working under Gruden. But if you look deeper, you'll realize this 2018 Redskins team is better.
Are the Redskins flashy on the offensive side of the ball? Not even close. Do they have the ability to all of a sudden figure things out and start clicking? Absolutely. I'd like to see the double donks, or anyone come into a complicated system, such as Jay Gruden's and excel at playing the most difficult position in professional sports. Alex Smith is not flashy, but he is also your steady hand. A steady hand that helped the Redskins beat a Panthers team, and helped FINALLY beat the Cowboys in what seems like forever. Notice I'm saying "helped". I acknowledge we need more, but I'm also not blinded to the fact that more will inevitably come.
Alex in my book, still gets a pass. He has a lot to learn, and plenty of relationships and chemistry to develop with his skill players. Now — in regards to these "skill" players. That is where we can agree we're lacking. Would I (FP) like to see the Redskins go out and bring in a stud WR1? You bet your ass I would. Am I thankful we didn't go about it the same way the stupid Cowboys did? HAIL YEAH (I had too). Right now the wide receivers are capable of making plays. Richardson can break a route and make a huge play. Crowder has shown, when healthy, that he can be a force in the slot.
Really everyone's concern is Doctson. Yes, he's struggled mightily and isn't playing to the expectation a first round pick should, but maybe, just maybe, Gruden has been using him wrong this entire time. The narrative has always been that Doctson is an elite talent at climbing up and making a play on the ball. "Throw him the 50/50 balls! He'll get those!" Wrong. He has shown he can't be that receiver. This past Sunday against the Cowboys, who have strength in the middle of their defense, Doctson made SOME plays. He showed he can be a "possession receiver". Use him on a couple more inside routes, and I'll bet his stat lines look better.
Lets keep debunking these two double donks and the rest of the "fans" who are for some reason, UPSET AT A 4-2 REDSKINS TEAM. I've heard people complain about Reed not being the elite TE he needs to be. He doesn't throw blocks, he doesn't pass protect, he doesn't make guys miss and make electrifying plays. Look, the guy is finally healthy for the first time in who knows how many years. What that sentence should tell you is this: He was going MAYBE half speed during training camp. Taking it easy. Not working in pre-season, not establishing – you guessed it – chemistry with Alex Smith. Jordan Reed shouldn't have to "prove" himself to anyone at this point. Stay healthy, keep practicing and eventually the big plays will come.
Finally, the running game. Adrian Peterson. AP. AD. All Day. What a sight for sore eyes. FINALLY a running back that can capitalize on the dominance our offensive line has become. Unless of course, you're one of the two donks who think its not a good sign that we rely on our "aged" running back. That eventually he'll get hurt. That "this is 2018, we need to pass for 9000 yards to succeed!" Maybe you forgot about Kareem Hunt. Or Todd Gurley. Maybe you didn't pay attention last year when a New Orleans Saints team, with two dynamic running backs went deep into the playoffs. OR in 2016 when nobody was used to this RB called Zeke and he carried the Cowboys to the playoffs. How about this Steelers running back name Le'Veon Bell? Did he help his team at all? Yes — the NFL has becoming a passing league. Yes — you are an idiot if you don't think a playoff caliber team needs a strong run game.
This team isn't perfect. We all know that. But guess what…the Defense is pretty damn special. So much so, that I didn't even have to mention them in this post. Everyone, including the double donks can see they are playing at an elite level. The offense — while sputtering out, struggling, and not doing anything in any second half of any game is concerning, its not disheartening. Points are being put on the board. Costly mistakes aren't being made. Slow and steady isn't a BAD thing. Give this team a little bit longer. I bet once we're 7-2 things will look brighter.
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DTC's 53 Man Prediction
August 31, 2018 August 31, 2018 DefeatingTheCurseLeave a comment
As always the contributors at Defeating the Curse can never agree on a final 53 man roster for the Washington Redskins. With Preseason now wrapped up, the Redskins need to come up with their final roster to suit up for September 9th game in Arizona. We put the big 4 – LP, FP, Joe and Steve, up to the task of creating and agreeing (or not ) on a 53 man roster. Here is what they came up with:
QBs (2): Smith, McCoy
All agree here, Joe is a Kevin Hogan guy but the Redskins can't afford a 3rd QB
RBs (4): Peterson, Thompson, Kelley, Bibbs
LP would rather have Perine over Kelley, however the fumbling issues we think ultimately cost him a roster spot. FP is good with the 4 RBs on the roster but wants to add a FB to the mix to help Peterson. Is that worth the cost a roster spot somewhere else on the team? Steve is a Byron Marshall fan and offered a semi wise suggestion: Maybe you put Byron Marshall on PUP and release Bibbs and go without a CT backup for the first few weeks of the season.
WRs (6): Richardson, Doctson, Crowder, Harris, Quinn, Sims
There was much debate as to whether the Alabama WR preseason standout, Cam Sims should make the team over veteran Brian Quick. Ultimately it comes down to the fact that you know what you are getting with Quick and that's not that good. There is a much higher ceiling with Sims. We all know what Steve and Joe think of Brian Quick, or not so quick. FP has officially been inducted to the Trey Quinn fan club.
Tight Ends (3): Reed, Davis, Sprinkle
No debate here. Can Reed stay healthy and can Sprinkle be more than just a blocker are the biggest questions.
Offensive Line (8): Williams, Lauvao, Roullier, Scherf, Moses, Nsehke, Christian, Bergstrom
The decision here was to go with 8 OL, because we all agree that there needs to be an upgrade at LG at some point. You can't trust Lauvao will stay healthy enough to play more than 8 games and frankly it's a glaring hole that NEEDS to be addressed.
Defensive Line (6): Allen, Payne, Ioannidis, Lanier, Settle, Hood
FP has been high on the Phil Taylor return train, but it's been too long and the Redskins have gone much younger at the position. A weakness last year has become a strength. Joe has Settle winning defensive rookie of the year.
OLB (5): Kerrigan, Smith, McPhee, Anderson, Robertson
No debate here, these are clearly the best 5 OLBs on the team. Robertson has shown some versatility and can play special teams, that gets him on this roster.
ILB (5): Brown, Foster, Spaight, Dion-Hamilton, Harvey-Clemons
After a much heated debate as to who would be the 5th ILB, Harvery-Clemons or Zach Vigil, LP decided to go with Harvey-Clemons because of his versatility. Harvey-Clemons can be what the Redskins thought Sua Cravens was going to be when they drafted him in 2016.
CB (6): Norman, Dunbar, Moreau, Johnson, Alexander, Stroman
Yet another debate on if the Redskins should keep 5 or 6 at this position. Stroman shows kick and punt return ability and he's a VT product. We all know how much Torrian Gray likes his VT guys.
Safety (4): Swearinger, Nicholson, Everett, Apke
Apke has looked very shaky during the preseason but he's got some raw talent. It will be up to the coaching staff to get him ready to play a larger role in 2019.
Specialists (3): Way, Sundberg, Hopkins
Do we really need to discuss this?
That leaves one more pick open here's where the guys could just not agree:
LP: Add Perine to the 53
FP: Bring in his J.P. Holtz as FB for Peterson
Joe: Add someone from his beloved Browns roster
Steve: Is John Riggins available?
Nationals Welcome Soto; Capitals to SCF; NFL Anthem Issues
May 24, 2018 May 29, 2018 DefeatingTheCurseLeave a comment
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7qxvb-91eee9
Welcome to the DTC week in review. Mat, Stevie, and Joe discuss Juan Soto and his debut with the Nationals as a lone brightspot for the team this week with a "must-have" weekend series against the Marlins coming up. At the 12 minute mark the #Nationals talk shifts to #Capitals talk with a recap of the viewing party at Cap1Arena for game 7, and a discussion of why this IS the team that can bring home a title. Tom Wilson, Great8, Holtby discussed in detail, plus, has any one GM ever been responsible for two teams facing each other in the championship round of any sport? George McPhee built both the Capitals and #Vegas #GoldenKnights and deserves credit. The final topic starting at minute 29 (after a discussion of old guys and boobs) is about the #NFL and why their new national anthem policy will only make things worse for the business. Listen, like, and share!
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100 Episodes Later… The Capitals May Do It!
May 23, 2018 DefeatingTheCurseLeave a comment
Hard to imagine that this little sports experiment is 100 episodes and 52 articles old but here we are. Many have asked "Why didn't DTC celebrate their 100th episode?" and there are two reasons… the first is embarrassing but true, we lost track of what episode we were on and this isn't a sitcom, so does it really matter? The second reason is the real reason… we don't want to jinx (fake jinx) the DC Sports Curse… which may or may not be real… but could be… but we aren't sure… but we'll see.
The entire city will be watching tonight, we are lead to believe so at least, as the Capitals attempt to win a game seven… on the road… and lead a DC team to the the finals in one of the four major sports for the first time in 20 years. The premise of this entire project, podcast, articles, and all, was to find some mojo to defeat the sports curse which has crushed souls and spirits in the District spanning nearly an the age of an adult of drinking age. The image above is so perfect and is borrowed with love from RussianNeverBreaks and is so perfect D.C. wouldn't you agree… the crying Jordan meme is all of us for the past two decades but win or lose tonight, the Capitals are to be received with nothing but praise.
If you are anywhere near D.C. tonight, or maybe attending the Nationals game this afternoon, make your way over to the Cap1Vault and watch the Capitals vs. Lightning LIVE with the DTC sports crew and join us for a live show afterwards… win or lose we will broadcast… but we want a win! We want June hockey in DC as bad as we want November baseball and maybe, one day, February football too.
If you have no idea what I am talking about or have recently arrived from outer space, get caught up on all things Caps by listening to and subscribing to our podcast.
Let's go Caps! C-A-P-S CAPS CAPS CAPS! #AllCaps this is it! Defeat the Curse!
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Did Kirk just play his last Redskins home game?
December 24, 2017 December 24, 2017 DefeatingTheCurseLeave a comment
It's Christmas Eve and all we Redskins fans want is a Kirk Cousins long-term deal. However, it's very unlikely. So much so that almost everyone, media and fans, in DC feels that the LTD ship has sailed. Let's take a step back, remove our hardcore Redskins fan hats and take an analytical look at the situation.
First, let's take a look at all the tag options:
Exclusive Franchise Tag – This tag option is the same tag options the Redskins used on Kirk cousins the past 2 years, and is essentially a 1 year lease agreement again. Which would cost the Redskins 34 million for 1 year.
Non-Exclusive Franchise Tag – This tag option is usually a lower cap hit but it allows the player to go out and negotiate with other teams. If an agreement is reached with another team, the gaining team has to provide compensation of a minimum of 2 first round picks to the losing team. This would be an option for the Redskins however there is a rule in the CBA that says a player franchised 3 times is unable to negotiate with any team other than the team who has franchised them. So this ultimately throws this option out the window.
Transition Tag – This tag option allows Kirk to talk to other teams and come to an agreement. If/when an agreement is made with another team, the Redskins have 7 days to match the offer. If no offer is matched the Redskins have the rights to negotiate compensation with the gaining team. If no other teams make offers or Kirk decides not to negotiate then the Redskins would be an another 1 year lease but at 28 million.
Kirk has maintained that he wants market value for this contract. There is only 1 way to know what the market is, that is to hit the market. The only option of the tags that allows Kirk to hit the market is the transition tag. The problem with this? A team can front load a contract with say 50+ million in 2018 where the Redskins will have no chance of matching. Let's take a look at NFL teams who have more projected cap space than the Redskins:
Team Projected 2018 Cap Space
49ers $116,114,127
Browns $111,719,592
Colts $84,467,477
Jets $80,931,976
Buccaneers $66,120,552
Vikings $57,594,809
Titans $54,489,041
Texans $54,312,683
Lions $54,268,605
Redskins $54,031,714
One thing to note is there are certainly teams who would be interested in Kirk who have less cap space than the Redskins. I've left these teams off because if they do hand Kirk an offer sheet it's less likely that it's some massive front loaded contract. In that case it would be ideal because then the Redskins have a reasonable market price contract they can choose to match.
Of this list, let's throw out the following teams just because they have a QB and probably wouldn't be interested in paying an arm and a leg for Cousins: Colts, Bucs, Vikings, Titans, Texans, and the Lions.
That leaves the 49ers, Browns and the Jets that could out bid the Redskins in a Transition Tag bidding war. If you noticed I left the 49ers in the running just because of the unknown, however I think this is very unlikely and would be absolutely stupid to trade for Jimmy G., start him for 5 games. then decide to let him go. That really leaves the Browns and the Jets as the teams who have more cap space and who need a quarterback in 2018. I'll take my chances that Kirk would rather stay in DC.
There should be no other option than a transition tag. A one year lease at any price to me is considered a failure. I think we all have Redskins contract fatigue and the goal for this offseason should be long-term deal or no deal at all and move on. The transition tag allows Kirk to test the market, allows the Redskins to decide if they want to match market price, and ultimately should end this one way or another.
Update: After the Jameis Winston tirade during today's game, the Bucs may be in on a new QB. A team to watch as it will largely depend on who comes in at coach.
The #nationals went wild. The #Caps begin their chase #ALLCAPS And #redskins fans today....
Gotta love those #DC summers. Another rain delay. 🙄
Got em! @aleksandrovechkinofficial #allcaps #capscanes #nhl #nhlplayoffs
THE VAULT WAS ROCKIN! Great win boys! Let's crush em on Saturday!
Can't wait to see the sea of Red! #rockthered #back2back #ALLCAPS #washingtoncapitals
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WEATHER LAB | That sound you hear in winter might be a frost quake
Frost quakes are rare, but can occur when frigid outdoor temperatures in the winter cause groundwater or water underneath the surface to freeze.
Author: Brandon Lawrence
Published: 10:39 AM CST January 4, 2022
Updated: 11:09 AM CST January 4, 2022
DES MOINES, Iowa — "What's that sound?"
"Is the ground shaking?"
If you've ever found yourself asking these questions on a snowy, bitter cold winter day in Iowa, don't worry: you're not imagining anything.
You may have experienced a frost quake, also known as a cryoseism.
Frost quakes are fairly rare, but do occur most often when frigid outdoor temperatures in the winter cause groundwater or water underneath the surface to freeze and form ice.
This sometimes occurs after a heavy rainfall event or a significant snow melt, as there is excess water underneath the ground's surface.
As the ice forms under the surface, it continues to expand, putting substantial pressure on nearby soil and bedrock.
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While the pressure continues to build, the ice pushes on the soil and bedrock until the pressure becomes too great, and it forces the soil and rock to crack.
Cracks in the soil and rock can make rumbling noises and, if big enough, can even cause the ground to shake a bit, much like what you might expect from a minor tremor or earthquake.
Although frost quakes may seem similar to earthquakes, they are quite different.
Earthquakes occur as a result of movement between Earth's tectonic plates, which are roughly 80 to 100 miles beneath the surface of the ground.
On the other hand, the soil and bedrock cracking to form frost quakes occurs much closer to the surface.
As a result, frost quakes, while a bit startling, are unlikely to affect you or your home in any substantial way.
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Project acronym 2-3-AUT
Project Surfaces, 3-manifolds and automorphism groups
Researcher (PI) Nathalie Wahl
Host Institution (HI) KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Summary The scientific goal of the proposal is to answer central questions related to diffeomorphism groups of manifolds of dimension 2 and 3, and to their deformation invariant analogs, the mapping class groups. While the classification of surfaces has been known for more than a century, their automorphism groups have yet to be fully understood. Even less is known about diffeomorphisms of 3-manifolds despite much interest, and the objects here have only been classified recently, by the breakthrough work of Perelman on the Poincar\'e and geometrization conjectures. In dimension 2, I will focus on the relationship between mapping class groups and topological conformal field theories, with applications to Hochschild homology. In dimension 3, I propose to compute the stable homology of classifying spaces of diffeomorphism groups and mapping class groups, as well as study the homotopy type of the space of diffeomorphisms. I propose moreover to establish homological stability theorems in the wider context of automorphism groups and more general families of groups. The project combines breakthrough methods from homotopy theory with methods from differential and geometric topology. The research team will consist of 3 PhD students, and 4 postdocs, which I will lead.
The scientific goal of the proposal is to answer central questions related to diffeomorphism groups of manifolds of dimension 2 and 3, and to their deformation invariant analogs, the mapping class groups. While the classification of surfaces has been known for more than a century, their automorphism groups have yet to be fully understood. Even less is known about diffeomorphisms of 3-manifolds despite much interest, and the objects here have only been classified recently, by the breakthrough work of Perelman on the Poincar\'e and geometrization conjectures. In dimension 2, I will focus on the relationship between mapping class groups and topological conformal field theories, with applications to Hochschild homology. In dimension 3, I propose to compute the stable homology of classifying spaces of diffeomorphism groups and mapping class groups, as well as study the homotopy type of the space of diffeomorphisms. I propose moreover to establish homological stability theorems in the wider context of automorphism groups and more general families of groups. The project combines breakthrough methods from homotopy theory with methods from differential and geometric topology. The research team will consist of 3 PhD students, and 4 postdocs, which I will lead.
Project acronym ACTIVE_NEUROGENESIS
Project Activity-dependent signaling in radial glial cells and their neuronal progeny
Researcher (PI) Colin Akerman
Summary A significant advance in the field of development has been the appreciation that radial glial cells are progenitors and give birth to neurons in the brain. In order to advance this exciting area of biology, we need approaches that combine structural and functional studies of these cells. This is reflected by the emerging realisation that dynamic interactions involving radial glia may be critical for the regulation of their proliferative behaviour. It has been observed that radial glia experience transient elevations in intracellular Ca2+ but the nature of these signals, and the information that they convey, is not known. The inability to observe these cells in vivo and over the course of their development has also meant that basic questions remain unexplored. For instance, how does the behaviour of a radial glial cell at one point in development, influence the final identity of its progeny? I propose to build a research team that will capitalise upon methods we have developed for observing individual radial glia and their progeny in an intact vertebrate nervous system. The visual system of Xenopus Laevis tadpoles offers non-invasive optical access to the brain, making time-lapse imaging of single cells feasible over minutes and weeks. The system s anatomy lends itself to techniques that measure the activity of the cells in a functional sensory network. We will use this to examine signalling mechanisms in radial glia and how a radial glial cell s experience influences its proliferative behaviour and the types of neuron it generates. We will also examine the interactions that continue between a radial glial cell and its daughter neurons. Finally, we will explore the relationships that exist within neuronal progeny derived from a single radial glial cell.
A significant advance in the field of development has been the appreciation that radial glial cells are progenitors and give birth to neurons in the brain. In order to advance this exciting area of biology, we need approaches that combine structural and functional studies of these cells. This is reflected by the emerging realisation that dynamic interactions involving radial glia may be critical for the regulation of their proliferative behaviour. It has been observed that radial glia experience transient elevations in intracellular Ca2+ but the nature of these signals, and the information that they convey, is not known. The inability to observe these cells in vivo and over the course of their development has also meant that basic questions remain unexplored. For instance, how does the behaviour of a radial glial cell at one point in development, influence the final identity of its progeny? I propose to build a research team that will capitalise upon methods we have developed for observing individual radial glia and their progeny in an intact vertebrate nervous system. The visual system of Xenopus Laevis tadpoles offers non-invasive optical access to the brain, making time-lapse imaging of single cells feasible over minutes and weeks. The system s anatomy lends itself to techniques that measure the activity of the cells in a functional sensory network. We will use this to examine signalling mechanisms in radial glia and how a radial glial cell s experience influences its proliferative behaviour and the types of neuron it generates. We will also examine the interactions that continue between a radial glial cell and its daughter neurons. Finally, we will explore the relationships that exist within neuronal progeny derived from a single radial glial cell.
Project acronym BRAINCANNABINOIDS
Project Understanding the molecular blueprint and functional complexity of the endocannabinoid metabolome in the brain
Researcher (PI) István Katona
Host Institution (HI) INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE - HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Summary We and others have recently delineated the molecular architecture of a new feedback pathway in brain synapses, which operates as a synaptic circuit breaker. This pathway is supposed to use a group of lipid messengers as retrograde synaptic signals, the so-called endocannabinoids. Although heterogeneous in their chemical structures, these molecules along with the psychoactive compound in cannabis are thought to target the same effector in the brain, the CB1 receptor. However, the molecular catalog of these bioactive lipids and their metabolic enzymes has been expanding rapidly by recent advances in lipidomics and proteomics raising the possibility that these lipids may also serve novel, yet unidentified physiological functions. Thus, the overall aim of our research program is to define the molecular and anatomical organization of these endocannabinoid-mediated pathways and to determine their functional significance. In the present proposal, we will focus on understanding how these novel pathways regulate synaptic and extrasynaptic signaling in hippocampal neurons. Using combination of lipidomic, genetic and high-resolution anatomical approaches, we will identify distinct chemical species of endocannabinoids and will show how their metabolic enzymes are segregated into different subcellular compartments in cell type- and synapse-specific manner. Subsequently, we will use genetically encoded gain-of-function, loss-of-function and reporter constructs in imaging experiments and electrophysiological recordings to gain insights into the diverse tasks that these new pathways serve in synaptic transmission and extrasynaptic signal processing. Our proposed experiments will reveal fundamental principles of intercellular and intracellular endocannabinoid signaling in the brain.
We and others have recently delineated the molecular architecture of a new feedback pathway in brain synapses, which operates as a synaptic circuit breaker. This pathway is supposed to use a group of lipid messengers as retrograde synaptic signals, the so-called endocannabinoids. Although heterogeneous in their chemical structures, these molecules along with the psychoactive compound in cannabis are thought to target the same effector in the brain, the CB1 receptor. However, the molecular catalog of these bioactive lipids and their metabolic enzymes has been expanding rapidly by recent advances in lipidomics and proteomics raising the possibility that these lipids may also serve novel, yet unidentified physiological functions. Thus, the overall aim of our research program is to define the molecular and anatomical organization of these endocannabinoid-mediated pathways and to determine their functional significance. In the present proposal, we will focus on understanding how these novel pathways regulate synaptic and extrasynaptic signaling in hippocampal neurons. Using combination of lipidomic, genetic and high-resolution anatomical approaches, we will identify distinct chemical species of endocannabinoids and will show how their metabolic enzymes are segregated into different subcellular compartments in cell type- and synapse-specific manner. Subsequently, we will use genetically encoded gain-of-function, loss-of-function and reporter constructs in imaging experiments and electrophysiological recordings to gain insights into the diverse tasks that these new pathways serve in synaptic transmission and extrasynaptic signal processing. Our proposed experiments will reveal fundamental principles of intercellular and intracellular endocannabinoid signaling in the brain.
Project acronym BRAINPOWER
Project Brain energy supply and the consequences of its failure
Researcher (PI) David Ian Attwell
Summary Energy, supplied in the form of oxygen and glucose in the blood, is essential for the brain s cognitive power. Failure of the energy supply to the nervous system underlies the mental and physical disability occurring in a wide range of economically important neurological disorders, such as stroke, spinal cord injury and cerebral palsy. Using a combination of two-photon imaging, electrophysiological, molecular and transgenic approaches, I will investigate the control of brain energy supply at the vascular level, and at the level of individual neurons and glial cells, and study the deleterious consequences for the neurons, glia and vasculature of a failure of brain energy supply. The work will focus on the following fundamental issues: A. Vascular control of the brain energy supply (1) How important is control of energy supply at the capillary level, by pericytes? (2) Which synapses control blood flow (and thus generate functional imaging signals) in the cortex? B. Neuronal and glial control of brain energy supply (3) How is grey matter neuronal activity powered? (4) How is the white matter supplied with energy? C. The pathological consequences of a loss of brain energy supply (5) How does a fall of energy supply cause neurotoxic glutamate release? (6) How similar are events in the grey and white matter in energy deprivation conditions? (7) How does a transient loss of energy supply affect blood flow regulation? (8) How does brain energy use change after a period without energy supply? Together this work will significantly advance our understanding of how the energy supply to neurons and glia is regulated in normal conditions, and how the loss of the energy supply causes disorders which consume more than 5% of the costs of European health services (5% of ~1000 billion euro/year).
Energy, supplied in the form of oxygen and glucose in the blood, is essential for the brain s cognitive power. Failure of the energy supply to the nervous system underlies the mental and physical disability occurring in a wide range of economically important neurological disorders, such as stroke, spinal cord injury and cerebral palsy. Using a combination of two-photon imaging, electrophysiological, molecular and transgenic approaches, I will investigate the control of brain energy supply at the vascular level, and at the level of individual neurons and glial cells, and study the deleterious consequences for the neurons, glia and vasculature of a failure of brain energy supply. The work will focus on the following fundamental issues: A. Vascular control of the brain energy supply (1) How important is control of energy supply at the capillary level, by pericytes? (2) Which synapses control blood flow (and thus generate functional imaging signals) in the cortex? B. Neuronal and glial control of brain energy supply (3) How is grey matter neuronal activity powered? (4) How is the white matter supplied with energy? C. The pathological consequences of a loss of brain energy supply (5) How does a fall of energy supply cause neurotoxic glutamate release? (6) How similar are events in the grey and white matter in energy deprivation conditions? (7) How does a transient loss of energy supply affect blood flow regulation? (8) How does brain energy use change after a period without energy supply? Together this work will significantly advance our understanding of how the energy supply to neurons and glia is regulated in normal conditions, and how the loss of the energy supply causes disorders which consume more than 5% of the costs of European health services (5% of ~1000 billion euro/year).
Project acronym COGSYSTEMS
Project Understanding actions and intentions of others
Researcher (PI) Giacomo Rizzolatti
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA
Summary How do we understand the actions and intentions of others? Hereby we intend to address this issue by using a multidisciplinary approach. Our project is subdivided into four parts. In the first part we investigate the neural organization of monkey area F5, an area deeply involved in motor act understanding. By using a new set of electrodes we will describe the columnar organization of the area F5, establish the temporal relationships between the activity of F5 mirror and motor neurons, and correlate the activity of mirror neurons coding the observed motor acts in peripersonal and extrapersonal space with the activity of motor neurons in the same cortical column. In the second part we will assess the neural mechanism underlying the understanding of the intention of complex actions , i.e. actions formed by a sequence of two (or more) individual actions. The focus will be on the neurons located in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, an area involved in the organization of high-order motor behavior. The rational of the experiment is that, while the organization of single actions and the understanding of intention behind them is function of parietal neurons, that of complex actions relies on the activity of the prefrontal lobe. In the third and fourth parts of the project we will delimit the cortical areas involved in understanding the goal (the what) and the intention (the why) of the observed actions in individuals with typical development (TD) and in children with autism and will establish the time relation between these two processes. Our hypothesis is that the chained organization of intentional motor acts is impaired in children with autism and this impairment prevents them from organizing normally their actions and from understanding others intentions.
How do we understand the actions and intentions of others? Hereby we intend to address this issue by using a multidisciplinary approach. Our project is subdivided into four parts. In the first part we investigate the neural organization of monkey area F5, an area deeply involved in motor act understanding. By using a new set of electrodes we will describe the columnar organization of the area F5, establish the temporal relationships between the activity of F5 mirror and motor neurons, and correlate the activity of mirror neurons coding the observed motor acts in peripersonal and extrapersonal space with the activity of motor neurons in the same cortical column. In the second part we will assess the neural mechanism underlying the understanding of the intention of complex actions , i.e. actions formed by a sequence of two (or more) individual actions. The focus will be on the neurons located in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, an area involved in the organization of high-order motor behavior. The rational of the experiment is that, while the organization of single actions and the understanding of intention behind them is function of parietal neurons, that of complex actions relies on the activity of the prefrontal lobe. In the third and fourth parts of the project we will delimit the cortical areas involved in understanding the goal (the what) and the intention (the why) of the observed actions in individuals with typical development (TD) and in children with autism and will establish the time relation between these two processes. Our hypothesis is that the chained organization of intentional motor acts is impaired in children with autism and this impairment prevents them from organizing normally their actions and from understanding others intentions.
Project acronym COMBOS
Project Collective phenomena in quantum and classical many body systems
Researcher (PI) Alessandro Giuliani
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI ROMA TRE
Summary The collective behavior of quantum and classical many body systems such as ultracold atomic gases, nanowires, cuprates and micromagnets are currently subject of an intense experimental and theoretical research worldwide. Understanding the fascinating phenomena of Bose-Einstein condensation, Luttinger liquid vs non-Luttinger liquid behavior, high temperature superconductivity, and spontaneous formation of periodic patterns in magnetic systems, is an exciting challenge for theoreticians. Most of these phenomena are still far from being fully understood, even from a heuristic point of view. Unveiling the exotic properties of such systems by rigorous mathematical analysis is an important and difficult challenge for mathematical physics. In the last two decades, substantial progress has been made on various aspects of many-body theory, including Fermi liquids, Luttinger liquids, perturbed Ising models at criticality, bosonization, trapped Bose gases and spontaneous formation of periodic patterns. The techniques successfully employed in this field are diverse, and range from constructive renormalization group to functional variational estimates. In this research project we propose to investigate a number of statistical mechanics models by a combination of different mathematical methods. The objective is, on the one hand, to understand crossover phenomena, phase transitions and low-temperature states with broken symmetry, which are of interest in the theory of condensed matter and that we believe to be accessible to the currently available methods; on the other, to develop new techiques combining different and complementary methods, such as multiscale analysis and localization bounds, or reflection positivity and cluster expansion, which may be useful to further progress on important open problems, such as Bose-Einstein condensation, conformal invariance in non-integrable models, existence of magnetic or superconducting long range order.
The collective behavior of quantum and classical many body systems such as ultracold atomic gases, nanowires, cuprates and micromagnets are currently subject of an intense experimental and theoretical research worldwide. Understanding the fascinating phenomena of Bose-Einstein condensation, Luttinger liquid vs non-Luttinger liquid behavior, high temperature superconductivity, and spontaneous formation of periodic patterns in magnetic systems, is an exciting challenge for theoreticians. Most of these phenomena are still far from being fully understood, even from a heuristic point of view. Unveiling the exotic properties of such systems by rigorous mathematical analysis is an important and difficult challenge for mathematical physics. In the last two decades, substantial progress has been made on various aspects of many-body theory, including Fermi liquids, Luttinger liquids, perturbed Ising models at criticality, bosonization, trapped Bose gases and spontaneous formation of periodic patterns. The techniques successfully employed in this field are diverse, and range from constructive renormalization group to functional variational estimates. In this research project we propose to investigate a number of statistical mechanics models by a combination of different mathematical methods. The objective is, on the one hand, to understand crossover phenomena, phase transitions and low-temperature states with broken symmetry, which are of interest in the theory of condensed matter and that we believe to be accessible to the currently available methods; on the other, to develop new techiques combining different and complementary methods, such as multiscale analysis and localization bounds, or reflection positivity and cluster expansion, which may be useful to further progress on important open problems, such as Bose-Einstein condensation, conformal invariance in non-integrable models, existence of magnetic or superconducting long range order.
Project acronym CONLAWS
Project Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws: singular limits, properties of solutions and control problems
Researcher (PI) Stefano Bianchini
Host Institution (HI) SCUOLA INTERNAZIONALE SUPERIORE DI STUDI AVANZATI DI TRIESTE
Summary The research program concerns various theoretic aspects of hyperbolic conservation laws. In first place we plan to study the existence and uniqueness of solutions to systems of equations of mathematical physics with physic viscosity. This is one of the main open problems within the theory of conservation laws in one space dimension, which cannot be tackled relying on the techniques developed in the case where the viscosity matrix is the identity. Furthermore, this represents a first step toward the analysis of more complex relaxation and kinetic models with a finite number of velocities as for Broadwell equation, or with a continuous distribution of velocities as for Boltzmann equation. A second research topic concerns the study of conservation laws with large data. Even in this case the basic model is provided by fluidodynamic equations. We wish to extend the results of existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence of solutions to the case of large (in BV or in L^infty) data, at least for the simplest systems of mathematical physics such as the isentropic gas dynamics. A third research topic that we wish to pursue concerns the analysis of fine properties of solutions to conservation laws. Many of such properties depend on the existence of one or more entropies of the system. In particular, we have in mind to study the regularity and the concentration of the dissipativity measure for an entropic solution of a system of conservation laws. Finally, we wish to continue the study of hyperbolic equations from the control theory point of view along two directions: (i) the analysis of controllability and asymptotic stabilizability properties; (ii) the study of optimal control problems related to hyperbolic systems.
The research program concerns various theoretic aspects of hyperbolic conservation laws. In first place we plan to study the existence and uniqueness of solutions to systems of equations of mathematical physics with physic viscosity. This is one of the main open problems within the theory of conservation laws in one space dimension, which cannot be tackled relying on the techniques developed in the case where the viscosity matrix is the identity. Furthermore, this represents a first step toward the analysis of more complex relaxation and kinetic models with a finite number of velocities as for Broadwell equation, or with a continuous distribution of velocities as for Boltzmann equation. A second research topic concerns the study of conservation laws with large data. Even in this case the basic model is provided by fluidodynamic equations. We wish to extend the results of existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence of solutions to the case of large (in BV or in L^infty) data, at least for the simplest systems of mathematical physics such as the isentropic gas dynamics. A third research topic that we wish to pursue concerns the analysis of fine properties of solutions to conservation laws. Many of such properties depend on the existence of one or more entropies of the system. In particular, we have in mind to study the regularity and the concentration of the dissipativity measure for an entropic solution of a system of conservation laws. Finally, we wish to continue the study of hyperbolic equations from the control theory point of view along two directions: (i) the analysis of controllability and asymptotic stabilizability properties; (ii) the study of optimal control problems related to hyperbolic systems.
Project acronym CONTACTMATH
Project Legendrian contact homology and generating families
Researcher (PI) Frédéric Bourgeois
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITE PARIS-SUD
Summary A contact structure on an odd dimensional manifold in a maximally non integrable hyperplane field. It is the odd dimensional counterpart of a symplectic structure. Contact and symplectic topology is a recent and very active area that studies intrinsic questions about existence, (non) uniqueness and rigidity of contact and symplectic structures. It is intimately related to many other important disciplines, such as dynamical systems, singularity theory, knot theory, Morse theory, complex analysis, ... Legendrian submanifolds are a distinguished class of submanifolds in a contact manifold, which are tangent to the contact distribution. These manifolds are of a particular interest in contact topology. Important classes of Legendrian submanifolds can be described using generating families, and this description can be used to define Legendrian invariants via Morse theory. Other the other hand, Legendrian contact homology is an invariant for Legendrian submanifolds, based on holomorphic curves. The goal of this research proposal is to study the relationship between these two approaches. More precisely, we plan to show that the generating family homology and the linearized Legendrian contact homology can be defined for the same class of Legendrian submanifolds, and are isomorphic. This correspondence should be established using a parametrized version of symplectic homology, being developed by the Principal Investigator in collaboration with Oancea. Such a result would give an entirely new type of information about holomorphic curves invariants. Moreover, it can be used to obtain more general structural results on linearized Legendrian contact homology, to extend recent results on existence of Reeb chords, and to gain a much better understanding of the geography of Legendrian submanifolds.
A contact structure on an odd dimensional manifold in a maximally non integrable hyperplane field. It is the odd dimensional counterpart of a symplectic structure. Contact and symplectic topology is a recent and very active area that studies intrinsic questions about existence, (non) uniqueness and rigidity of contact and symplectic structures. It is intimately related to many other important disciplines, such as dynamical systems, singularity theory, knot theory, Morse theory, complex analysis, ... Legendrian submanifolds are a distinguished class of submanifolds in a contact manifold, which are tangent to the contact distribution. These manifolds are of a particular interest in contact topology. Important classes of Legendrian submanifolds can be described using generating families, and this description can be used to define Legendrian invariants via Morse theory. Other the other hand, Legendrian contact homology is an invariant for Legendrian submanifolds, based on holomorphic curves. The goal of this research proposal is to study the relationship between these two approaches. More precisely, we plan to show that the generating family homology and the linearized Legendrian contact homology can be defined for the same class of Legendrian submanifolds, and are isomorphic. This correspondence should be established using a parametrized version of symplectic homology, being developed by the Principal Investigator in collaboration with Oancea. Such a result would give an entirely new type of information about holomorphic curves invariants. Moreover, it can be used to obtain more general structural results on linearized Legendrian contact homology, to extend recent results on existence of Reeb chords, and to gain a much better understanding of the geography of Legendrian submanifolds.


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Mendelssohn in Scotland
Mendelssohn the Artist
In London before the Scottish Journey
The Journey North - Wednesday 22 to Friday 24 July 1829
Scottish Journey
Edinburgh 26 to 30 July 1829
Abbotsford and Melrose, 31 July 1829
The Highlands: Edinburgh to Tummel Bridge
The Highlands: Tummel Bridge to Fort William
The Highlands: Fort William to Oban and Over to Mull
The Islands: Staffa and Iona
The return journey: Oban to Glasgow
Glasgow, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs
Scottish Symphony
Hebrides Overture
"Mendelssohn in Scotland" Holiday
If you are intrigued by what you read about Mendelssohn's Scottish journey and would like follow in his footsteps exactly 190 years later, or if you love Mendelssohn's music and particularly his Hebrides Overture or Scottish Symphony and want to learn more about what inspired him, or if you have a fascination with Scottish history including the life of Mary Queen of Scots in the 16th century or the Jacobite up-risings of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, or if you simply want to enjoy some of the UK's most beautiful sights and scenery, then join the "Mendelssohn in Scotland" holiday from 15 to 22 September 2019.
About the Holiday
The "Mendelssohn in Scotland" holiday will be led by Stephen Carpenter who has had a career in managing orchestras in Scotland and England since the 1980s. He has undertaken a close study of Mendelssohn, in particular the sketches and letters that throw such a vivid light on the composer's Scottish journey in 1829, and which form the inspiration for this holiday which will start and end in Edinburgh, and visit Holyrood Palace, Abbotsford (the home of Sir Walter Scott), Melrose Abbey, Dunkeld, the Pass of Killiecrankie, Glencoe, Fort William, Oban, the island of Mull, and the extraordinary Fingal's Cave on the island of Staffa. To express interest in joining the holiday, contact Stephen Carpenter.
A summary of the holiday is given below.
Holiday Itinerary
Sunday 15 - Afternoon arrival at the Hilton Edinburgh Carlton Hotel. Following an early welcome dinner, we will take the short walk to Holyrood Palace for a private tour of the Palace and Abbey where Mendelssohn declared, "I believe I found today in that old chapel the beginning of my Scottish Symphony."
Monday 16 - In the morning we drive to Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott, where we will have a guided tour and lunch, followed by a visit to Melrose Abbey where Robert the Bruce's heart is buried. In the afternoon, we journey into the Highlands, arriving at the Dunkeld House Hotel in the early evening. Dinner is included at the Hotel.
Tuesday 17 - We start our day with a visit to the Hermitage and the beautiful Falls of Braan before a tour of the Edradour Distillery in Pitochry, the smalliest traditional distillery in Scotland, dating back to 1825. Lunch will be under your own arrangements at the House of Bruar Visitor Centre where there will be the chance to view the Bruar Falls which were sketched by Mendelssohn. In the afternoon, we visit the Pass of Killiecrankie, the scene of the battle in 1689 between the Jacobites and the government forces of William of Orange, and see the "Soldier's Leap" where Donald MacBean, a government soldier, avoided certain capture or death by jumping 5.5m (18.5 feet) across the River Garry. After dinner back at the Dunkeld House Hotel, we will be entertained with a private recital of music by Felix Mendelssohn.
Wednesday 18 - We journey across the central Highlands past Loch Tummel (with its spectacular "Queen's View"), Aberfeldy, Loch Tay, Glencoe (where we will stop at the Visitor Centre), and reach Fort William in the late afternoon where we check in to the Imperial Hotel before dinner at the Crannog Restaurant on the shores of Loch Linnhe.
Thursday 19 - Deviating from Mendelssohn's itinerary we visit the Glenfinnan Monument at the head of Loch Shiel where Bonnie Prince Charlie rallied his troops at the start of his ill-fated uprising in 1745. We will also get a superb view of the "Jacobite" steam train as it crosses the 21-arch Glenfinnan Viaduct as it makes its way from Fort William to Mallaig on the famous West Highland line. After lunch at Glenfinnan we travel down the shores of Loch Linnhe to Oban and then cross over to the Isle of Mull to check in and have dinner at the Isle of Mull Hotel.
Friday 20 - Today we travel acros the Isle of Mull and, weather permitting, take a boat to the island of Staffa and Fingal's Cave. We will then visit the island of Iona before returning by coach to the Isle of Mull Hotel where we have dinner.
Saturday 21 - From Mull we travel by ferry back ot Oban and then via Inveraray on the shores of Loch Fyne, to Loch Lomond where we will have lunch at the Cameron House Hotel before returning to Edinburgh via Stirling. Dinner at the hotel in Edinburgh.
Sunday 22 - Independent departure home.
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The Journey North
Mendelssohn's Journey
Abbotsford and Melrose
The Highlands - Perth, Dunkeld, Blair Atholl, Tummel Bridge
The Highlands - Tummel Bridge to Fort William
The Highlands - Fort William to Oban and Over to Mull
Staffa and Iona
The Return Journey Oban to Glasgow
Glasgow and the Trossachs
© Mendelssohn in Scotland 2015
Pink Spider Website Design (London)


As the years fly by, it will be my fourth year in the gallery biz soon, it's dizzying. how did this end up this way? I started out at RISD as an apparel design major, never thinking about painting. Here I am years later, painting most all the time, loving it and for the most part filled with inspiration and sometimes i can't wait to express what I've just seen, or what is in my mind. the hand and mind and brain coordination takes over, the conversation begins in my head and it could be days later before I'm up for air.
For all you watercolorists here's a tip: a beautiful rich emerald green can be made by mxing burnt sienna and thalo blue. You see it in all my watercolor work. That mixture does not work for acrylics, or at least I haven't found the formula yet!
My largest sale to date happened yesterday , lots of work off the wall for one home. honored. Thrilled.
My largest commission to date is on the books. more about that one soon.
Another large commission from Colonial Life is finished and will be made into 34 giclees soon...more on that when I can talk about it under the contract regs.
Best to you all. please let me know if I can help you out or paint something special for you- but not until after summer 2015.


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	"github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger/examples/stream-server/client"
	"github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger/examples/stream-server/client/operations"
	"github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger/examples/stream-server/models"
)

func main() {

	n := int64(5)
	if len(os.Args) > 1 {
		var err error
		n, err = swag.ConvertInt64(os.Args[1])
		if err != nil {
			log.Fatalln("pass an integer as argument")
			return
		}
	}
	log.Printf("asking server for countdown timings: %d", n)

	if err := ask(n); err != nil {
		log.Printf("failure: %v", err)
	}
}

func ask(n int64) error {
	customized := httptransport.New("localhost:8000", "/", []string{"http"})
	customized.Consumers[runtime.JSONMime] = runtime.ByteStreamConsumer()

	countdowns := client.New(customized, nil)

	reader, writer := io.Pipe()

	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(reader)

	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())

	// consumes asynchronously the response buffer
	var wg sync.WaitGroup

	wg.Add(1)
	go func(wg *sync.WaitGroup) {
		defer wg.Done()
		defer cancel()

		// read response items line by line
		for scanner.Scan() {
			// each response item is JSON
			txt := scanner.Text()
			log.Printf("received countdown mark - raw: %s", txt)

			var mark models.Mark

			err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(txt), &mark)
			if err != nil {
				log.Printf("unmarshal error: %v", err)
				return
			}

			log.Printf("received countdown mark - remaining: %d", swag.Int64Value(mark.Remains))
		}

		if err := scanner.Err(); err != nil {
			log.Printf("scanner err: %v", err)
		}

		log.Println("EOF")
	}(&wg)

	queryCtx, timedOut := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 7*time.Second)
	defer timedOut()

	elapsed := operations.NewElapseParamsWithContext(queryCtx).WithLength(n)

	_, err := countdowns.Operations.Elapse(elapsed, writer)

	if err == nil {
		log.Printf("response complete")
	} else {
		log.Printf("got an error")
	}

	_ = writer.Close()

	wg.Wait()

	return err
}

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Ти-Мобайл Арена () — крытая многофункциональная арена расположенная на Лас-Вегас-Стрип в Парадайсе, штат Невада. Арена предназначена для проведения спортивных и культурно-массовых мероприятий.

В начале 2016 года Телекоммуникационная компания T-Mobile купила права на название арены в Лас-Вегасе, сроком на 10 лет и общей стоимостью в $60 млн. Официальное открытие арены состоялось 6 апреля 2016 года, на котором выступали The Killers, Уэйн Ньютон и другие. С 2017 года свои домашние матчи проводит хоккейная команда «Вегас Голден Найтс», которая начала свои выступления в Национальной хоккейной лиге (НХЛ) с сезона 2017/2018.

26 августа 2017 года на арене прошёл бой Флойд Мэйвезер — Конор Макгрегор.

Первый свой матч на арене «Вегас Голден Найтс» провёл 10 октября 2017 года против «Аризоны Койотис» на котором присутствовал 18 191 зритель, что на 4,7 % превышает официальную максимальную вместительность арены на хоккейных матчах. 30 мая 2018 года во втором матче финала Кубка Стэнли 2018, против «Вашингтон Кэпиталз» был установлен рекорд посещаемости арены на хоккейных матчах. Всего на игре присутствовало 18 702 зрителя.

5 февраля 2022 года арена впервые приняла матч всех звёзд НХЛ.

Примечания

Ледовые арены США
Спортивные сооружения Невады
Спорт в Лас-Вегасе
Здания и сооружения Лас-Вегаса

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text:
Greenbuild 2012 Report: Higher Education
More and more colleges and universities see sustainainably designed buildings as a given
By Amy McIntosh, Associate Editor, Raissa Rocha, Associate Editor, and Rob Cassidy, Editorial Director
Colleges and universities are among the most active players in the green building game, to the point where LEED Gold and even LEED Platinum are becoming de rigueur on campus. Recently, several academic institutions have moved to the head of the class with net-zero energy projects.
Take the new campus police substation at San Diego Miramar College, designed by Harley Ellis Devereaux. The 5,108-sf facility earned LEED Platinum and has been designed to net-zero energy readiness. That promise will be fulfilled when PVs are added to the adjacent four-story, 828-space parking garage (by International Parking Design. McCarthy Building Cos. was the GC on the entire $17.9 million complex.
A solar chimney in the substation tower creates an airflow that pulls cool ocean air through the interior. The HVAC system automatically shuts down when the operable windows are open. A terra cotta greenscreen and vegetated roof shield the building from solar heat gain.
At Georgia Tech, HDR Architecture and CUH2A teamed up with Gilbane Building Co. on the recently opened Carbon-Neutral Energy Solutions Laboratory. The $23 million facility is devoted to research in energy-conversion technologies, such as biomass gasification kinetics, high-efficiency combustion engines, biochemical-enzymatic conversion of biomass materials, and greenhouse gas capture from power plants.
The Building Team collaborated with Georgia Tech researchers to evaluate initial costs, life cycle costs, and carbon savings for numerous energy-saving options. Net-zero energy strategies include translucent wall panels to maximize daylight, operable windows, radiant heat, underfloor air distribution, and chilled beams. On the south façade, the glazing is shaded with an awning clad in PV panels; PVs were also installed on the roof and nearby on the site.
Meanwhile, LEED Platinum medallions keep piling up at universities. As controls subcontractor to Anderson Construction (GC), CH2M Hill aided in the design of Oregon State University's Energy Center, the first power facility in the U.S. to win a Platinum rating. The 25,000-sf, 6.5MW co-generation plant is expected to reduce the university's energy costs $650,000 a year and cut carbon emissions by 38% compared to the plant it replaced.
In the Chicago suburb of Palos Hills, Ill., Legat Architects completed Moraine Valley Community College's Southwest Education Center, a slender, stand-alone off-campus facility that relies on a self-shading curtain wall to control heat buildup in summer. The HVAC system uses a geothermal system, with 36 geothermal wells, each 320 feet deep, and heat pumps to reduce energy consumption by 45% over a conventional design. It, too, has achieved LEED Platinum status.
LEED Platinum was recently earned by the Centre of Construction Excellence at Algonquin College, Ottawa, Ont. The $79 million, 200,000-sf research facility achieved a 60% reduction in energy consumption against the Model National Energy Code of Canada.
The Building Team included design firms Diamond Schmitt Architects and Edward J. Cuhaci and Associates Architects; Halsall (SE, green building consultant); and EllisDon Corporation (design-build contractor).
LEED Gold projects are also dotting the academic landscape. In Selden, N.Y., BBS Architects, Landscape Architects and Engineers (architect, interior designer, MEP), Tsoi/Kobus & Associates (lab designer), and Ysrael A. Seinuk (SE) designed the 68,500-sf Life Sciences Building at Suffolk County Community College for 1,500 students. Kiosks and interactive boards display real-time data on the building's power and HVAC system performance.
In Massachusetts, Consigli Construction worked with the design team of Pfeufer Richardson Architects, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, and Richard Burck Associates Landscape Architects to complete a 410-bed residence hall at Framingham State University. Ultra-high efficiency boilers, geothermal heat pumps, and a 20,000-gallon rainwater storage system helped gild the building.
At Tarrant County College's Southeast Campus, in Arlington, Texas, SHW Group led the design of the 114,519-sf Science and Academic Building, specifying super-insulated walls and a highly efficient energy recovery mechanical system to trim energy use 21% below code.
The true measure of any green building, however, is how well it performs over time. The Multi-Use Building at City College of San Francisco, which went online in 2010, proved itself worthy of its LEED Gold designation by using 40% less energy than a building designed to code; this, despite record high temperatures in the summer of 2011 and record cold temps last December.
The Building Team of Interface Engineering (MEP), Pfau Long Architecture (design architect), VBN Architects (executive architect), and Lend Lease (GC) completed the 102,000-sf academic facility. +
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Lexington, MA, August 10, 2015 - Daymark Solutions announced today that Jay Sartori, Daymark Networking Manager, has earned the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Data Center certification to complement his CCIE Security certification. The CCIE is a prestigious addition to Daymark's long list of technical certifications and competencies.
The CCIE certification is accepted worldwide as the most prestigious networking certification in the industry. Network engineers holding an active Cisco CCIE certification are recognized for their expert network engineering skills and mastery of Cisco products and solutions. The CCIE certifies the skills required of network engineers to plan, operate and troubleshoot complex, converged network infrastructures on a wide variety of Cisco equipment.
According to Cisco, less than 3% of Cisco Certified engineers obtain CCIE certification and less than 1% of the networking professionals worldwide hold this distinction. Passing all the requirements of the rigorous program earns the individual a unique CCIE number assigned by Cisco.


ISO/TS 29001 specifies Quality Management System requirements for the petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries.
ISO/TS 29001 specifies Quality Management System requirements for the petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries. Its main aim is to enhance customer trust and confidence on daily operations through the effective application of the system, as well as the implementation of continual improvement processes, conformity assurance and regulatory requirements.
The oil and gas industry requires systematic, rigorous checks and any negligence could lead to huge, unrepairable losses. It is of crucial importance to have a Quality Management System in place that facilitates the monitoring of every operating procedure within the organization. ISO/TS 29001 PECB certification, therefore, is the path that ensures the desired quality in your organization.
ISO/TS 29001 certification (also known as "registration") is a third-party audit performed by a certification body such as PECB. Once compliance with the requirements of ISO/TS 29001 is confirmed, PECB issues an ISO/TS 29001 certificate to the organization. This certification is then maintained through regularly scheduled annual surveillance audits by the registrar, with re-certification of the Quality Management System performed on a triennial basis.
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RENSON, a Belgian company that develops and manufactures innovative ideas for ventilation and sun protection, has created a shutter design that works a bit differently than typical shutters. Instead of opening horizontally, these shutters open up vertically.
By opening vertically, the shutter is able to fold in half and become a canopy to provide shade when the sun is high in the sky, while exposing the view for the occupants of the home.
When the shutters are closed, they protect the home by discouraging break-ins and provide wind resistance.
Here, you can see how the look from the inside of the home when they open up.


text:
Shut The Lid Before You Flush Or Risk Having A Bathroom Coated In Germs, Study Warns
Medically Reviewed by Maryjane S. Adigwe
A powerful green laser helps visualize the aerosol plumes from a toilet when it's being flushed. (Photo by Patrick Campbell/University of Colorado)
Just like washing your hands and cleaning the bathroom regularly, flushing with the lid closed is a habit that has been addressed from time immemorial. If like most people, however, you've refused to heed these instructions, you might want to brace yourself because you are about to learn just how much invisible plume you've been slinging around.
Through a series of experiments, scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder have demonstrated that flushing with the lid open after doing your business exposes you to droplets of pee, poop, and disease-causing organisms that spurt violently into the air due to the toilet's turbulent flow. These "plumes" can end up settling on your towels, your soap, and even worse, your toothbrush!
According to Professor John Crimaldi, lead author and professor of civil, environmental, and architectural engineering, "the goal of the toilet is to effectively remove waste from the bowl, but it's also doing the opposite which is spraying a lot of content upwards."
To visually demonstrate the droplet's locations, motions, and speed, the study's researchers developed a nifty little setup involving strategically placed scientific cameras and two green lasers around a brand new, typical commercial toilet with a cylindrical flushing system.
While one laser illuminated the area above the toilet, the other laser sent rapid pulses of light over the same area, leaving the camera to take high-resolution images of exactly where the airborne particles were in space.
The unique setup revealed that aerosol particles released upon flushing are unpredictable, spreading pretty much everywhere and anywhere. The particles headed upwards and then back toward the rear wall. They rose, hitting the lab's ceiling, then moved out from the wall spreading into the entire room.
"We had expected these aerosol particles would just sort of float up, but they came out like a rocket," notes Crimaldi.
A technique called 'particle image velocimetry' used to measure the particle's speed showed that they shot up at speeds of 6.6 feet per second, reaching heights of almost 5 feet above the toilet in just eight seconds. Larger particles tend to settle on nearby surfaces after a short while, that includes people if they hang around long enough, while the smaller ones just linger in the air for many minutes.
While the study's authors stuck with tap water for the study, they noted that the results could have been much, much worse if a regular old toilet with actual waste and toilet paper had been used.
Most people might be familiar with the dangers posed by lidless toilets, but this proper visual representation of just how bad things can get should serve as a wake-up call and perhaps inspire a teeny tiny bit of fear in those who still choose to ignore them.
Countless infectious agents call human poop home, from E. coli to C. difficile, to even the SARS CoV-2 virus. And although there isn't enough conclusive evidence to show diseases can be spread through these aerosols, their findings still highlight the need to always shut the lid before you flush.
Written by Maryjane S. Adigwe