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Arrival at Zurich Airport
Welcome to Switzerland
On arrival at Zurich International Airport, make your way to the train station which is connected to the airport and board the train to Lucerne. On arrival in Lucerne make your way to the hotel and check in.
A stunning setting, world-famous sights, exciting modern architecture, endowed museums and much more make Lucerne a thrilling city to visit. Lucerne, a compact city in Switzerland known for its preserved medieval architecture, sits amid snowcapped mountains on Lake Lucerne. Its colorful Altstadt (Old Town) is bordered on the north by 870m Museggmauer (Musegg Wall), a 14-century rampart. The covered Kapellbrücke (Chapel Bridge), built in 1333, links the Aldstadt to the Reuss River's right bank.
Day is free, for you to explore the city at your own pace.
Overnight in Lucerne.
Breakfast at the hotel. Day at leisure. We recommend an excursion to following mountain tops: Mount Pilatus – the golden round trip or Mount Rigi –Queen of the mountains or Mount Titlis – Titlis Rotair, Ice Flyer Chairlift, Glacier Park & Cave.
Lucerne-Interlaken
Breakfast at the hotel. Check out and make your way to the train station. A spectacular rail journey over the Brünig Pass to Interlaken situated between the Lakes of Thun and Brienz. On arrival in Interlaken make your way to your hotel and check in.
Interlaken is a traditional resort town in the mountainous Bernese Oberland region of central Switzerland. Built on a narrow stretch of valley, between the emerald-colored waters of Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, it has old timber houses and parkland on either side of the Aare River. Its surrounding mountains, with dense forests, alpine meadows and glaciers, has numerous hiking and skiing trails.
Day is free, for you to explore the city at your own pace
Overnight in Interlaken.
Breakfast at the hotel. Today you will experience the most spectacular view of the highest mountain in Europe the Jungfraujoch Mountain. Your 2nd class Swiss pass will allow you to the board the cogwheel train to reach the top mountain of Europe the Jungfraujoch.
Excursion to the Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe. The Jungfrau Railway takes you up to the Jungfraujoch – at 3454m / 11'333 feet the highest railway station in Europe. Enjoy breathtaking views of the Aletsch Glacier, the longest glacier in the Alps.
Lucerne-Zermatt
Breakfast at the hotel. Prepare for checkout and make youyr way to the train station. Rail journey through the wonderful Bernese Oberland to the Valais, either via the Lötschberg base tunnel directly to Visp and further to Zermatt. Or by the RegioExpress Lötschberger – the train with big windows using the traditional scenic Lötschberg line to Brig and continue your journey to Zermatt, the famous resort at the foot of the Matterhorn.
Overnight in Zermatt.
Breakfast at the hotel. Today prepare for a more exciting rail journey through the popular Gornergrat Bahn, Europe's highest open-air cogwheel railway, takes you up to the Gornergrat 9339m away. On the Gornergrat viewing platform you are surrounded by 29 peaks rising to above 4000m.
Zermatt-St. Moritz
Breakfast at the hotel. Prepare for check out and make your way to the train station. Board the Glacier Express and enjoy one of the greatest rail journeys in the world. An 8 hour rail journey takes you across 291 bridges, through 91 tunnels and across the Oberalp Pass at 2033 m to St. Moritz.
Overnight in St. Moritz.
St. Moritz-Zurich/End of trip
After breakfast. The day is free until checkout time. Board the train from Lucerne to Zurich airport for your onward flight or continue your stay in Switzerland at your own request.
Destinations: Lucerne, Interlaken, Zermatt & St. Moritz.
The rates are subject to availability at the time of booking request. In the event, if there are rate changes due to increase in Govt taxes, or hotel charges a surcharge, or BAR rates (Best available rates), we reserve the right to amend the rates without notice. The exchange rate is subject to change. Please ensure that you have secured the relevant visa/entry permits & valid passport. The best source of visa information is the embassy of the country itself.
Economy class, Dubai / Zurich / Dubai.
2 nights in Lucerne, Interlaken & Zermatt based on twin sharing basis.
1 night in St. Moritz based on twin sharing basis.
2nd class train, in 7 transfers from / to Swiss border or airport.
Excursion to Jungfraujoch & Gornergrat.
Excursion to Glacier Express with seat reservation.
Daily breakfast.
Some European Countries may charge a local city tax payable directly at the hotel.
Switzerland-is a mountainous Central European country, home to numerous lakes, villages and the high peaks of the Alps. Its cities contain medieval quarters, with landmarks like capital Bern's Zytglogge clock tower and Lucerne's wooden chapel bridge. The country is also known for its ski resorts and hiking trails. Banking and finance are key industries, and Swiss watches and chocolate are world renowned.
Entry and Exit formalities: Visitors must hold a passport valid for at least six months & beyond at the time of entering the country. Some nationalities can obtain visa on arrival and for nationalities who requires visa please refer to the Swiss consulate website: https://www.vfsglobal.ch/switzerland/uae/. Switzerland is part of the 26 Schengen State Countries.
Ski the Matterhorn — Switzerland offers the best skiing in the world, and the Matterhorn is the epitome of it all. You'll have to take a train or bus into the area as cars aren't allowed. Not only do you need to ski here, but you can come to admire what's truly a pollutant-free area. And, if you miss ski season, come hike the mountain in the summer. It's not easy but the views of the surrounding countryside are some of the best I've seen in Switzerland.
Join in the Fasnacht Spring Carnival in Basel — This three-day festival is a three day long party that welcomes in the warm weather. Nothing in the town shuts down. It's something that's highly anticipated by both tourists and locals. Everyone here is in a good move!
Explore Geneva — As the third largest city in Switzerland, Geneva offers spectacular views of the city's lake (Lake Geneva), a plethora of museums, the world's largest fountain, the UN, a historic city center, and a collection of international restaurants to satisfy anyone's palate (thanks to the UN buildings in town).
Visit the capital, Bern — The capital of Switzerland, Bern has an amazing historic town center that you'll want to walk around all day long (though it only takes a few hours). It's filled with ancient clocktowers, cobblestone streets, churches, and buildings. Be sure to walk the river way (and surrounding park), relax with a good book, visit the history museum, and check out the local bear!
Hike Mt. Pilatus — Located right outside the city of Lucerne, this beautiful mountain has breathtaking views of the alps. From the city, you can take a cable car to the top or (better yet) hike its trails to the top to look out over the Swiss Alps.
Picnic at the Rhine Falls — Pack a picnic lunch and look out at your view of Europe's largest waterfall. Nearby in the town of Schaffhausen, you'll find a medieval castle which also houses a hostel for cheap but interesting accommodations.
Explore St. Gallen — The seventh largest city in Switzerland, St. Gallen boasts beautiful museums, colorful murals, and one-of-a-kind architecture.
Interlaken — Interlaken is one of the outdoor capitals of the country (though it's quite touristy during peak season). There is a lot to do here for the adrenaline-seeker: skydiving over the Swiss glacier, water-skiing, skiing, hiking, etc. This is also ground zero for backpackers since there's so many free outdoor activities.
The old Villages — Visit the Graubunden area of the country, where you'll find villages with houses dating back to the 13th century. Here they also speak an ancient language called Romanch, which has died out everywhere else in the country and take great pride in keeping the tradition alive.
Swiss Riviera — The "Swiss Riviera" is situated in Lavaux (Cantan of Vaud) and goes along Lake Geneva. You can visit vineyards that overlook the lake, the castle Château de Chillon, and the town of Montreux, which is famous for its annual jazz festival. It's where you can hob knob with the well heeled jet set of the region!
Montreux — With a picturesque castle (Chateau de Chillo) lying at the edge of a lake, this area makes for a pretty romantic destination. Tour the castle, which dates all the way back to the 11th century and inspired the likes of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, and more. The town was also the home of Freddie Mercury and there is a statue here in his honor.
Discover rural culture in Appenzell — This small village of 7,000 lies in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden. There are no cars and the village has upheld much of its local traditions and culture. Its location near the foot of the Alpstein mountains makes it a great gateway for participating in summer and winter outdoor activities.
Lucerne — You can't get much more of a typical Swiss destination than Lucerne. Located on the beautiful Lucerne Lake, the city offers a wonderful combination of urban life and nature.
Zurich — With a hopping nightlife, filled with endless bars and restaurants, this cosmopolitan city is bustling with activity. Zurich (spelled Zürich) is also set on a beautiful lake, near the mountains, and is close to a lot of other cities. It's a very international city and you'll find expats and students from all around the world living and working here. I love the historic center that opens up on the lake, sitting in the parks, and drinking a beer on the lakefront. The city is also very arty and full of street art and exhibitions.


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Q: Divide dictionary values by another value in the same key in Python I am trying kind of a complicated operation here. I have a dictionary with the following structure:
'Paul ': [5, Counter({'i': 1, 'in': 1, 't': 1, 'fa': 1, 'cr': 1})],
'Lisa ': [4, Counter({'f': 3, 'bo': 1})],
'Tracy ': [6, Counter({'sl': 3, 'fi': 1, 'an': 1, 'piz': 1})], '
'Maria': [2, Counter({'t': 2})]

What I need to do is to divide each of the Counter values for the first value in the key and append those values to the key. So that I would have something equivalent to:
'Paul': [5, Counter({'i': 1, 0.2, 'in': 1, 02, 't': 1, 02, 'cr': 1, 0.2})],
  'Lisa ': [4, Counter({'f': 3, 0.75, 'bo': 1, 0.25})],
  'Tracy ': [6, Counter({'sl': 3, 0.5, 'fi': 1, 0.16 'an': 1, 0.16 'piz': 1, 016 })], '
  'Maria': [2, Counter({'t': 2, 1})]

In which the values on counter on the first line are divide by 5, and by 4 on the second line, and so on. I have also tried to have two different dictionaries with the same key and divide each value of the first dictionary keys by the value of the second dictionary's key,
k: float(dict1[k])/dict2[k] for k in dict1.keys() & dict2.keys()}

but couldn't do it either. Is there a straightforward way to do this? I really thank you for your help!

A: As noted by Martijn in comments, you would be able to use Counter() objects for your values, here is one way to do this that changes your values to dictionaries with tuples as values:
from collections import Counter

data = {'Paul ': [5, Counter({'i': 1, 'in': 1, 't': 1, 'fa': 1, 'cr': 1})],
        'Lisa ': [4, Counter({'f': 3, 'bo': 1})],
        'Tracy ': [6, Counter({'sl': 3, 'fi': 1, 'an': 1, 'piz': 1})],
        'Maria': [2, Counter({'t': 2})]}

for lst in data.values():
    lst[1] = {k: (lst[0], float(v)/lst[0]) for k, v in lst[1].items()}

Result:
>>> data
{'Lisa ': [4, {'bo': (4, 0.25), 'f': (4, 0.75)}],
 'Maria': [2, {'t': (2, 1.0)}],
 'Paul ': [5, {'cr': (5, 0.2), 'fa': (5, 0.2), 'i': (5, 0.2), 'in': (5, 0.2), 't': (5, 0.2)}],
 'Tracy ': [6, {'an': (6, 0.16666666666666666), 'fi': (6, 0.16666666666666666), 'piz': (6, 0.16666666666666666), 'sl': (6, 0.5)}]}

Note that this modifies your current dictionary in place, here is how you could create a new dictionary instead:
result = {}
for key, lst in data.items():
    result[key] = [lst[0], {k: (lst[0], float(v)/lst[0]) for k, v in lst[1].items()}]

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Patient-centered imaging: Shared decision making for cardiac imaging procedures with exposure to ionizing radiation
Andrew J. Einstein, Daniel S. Berman, James K. Min, Robert Hendel, Thomas C. Gerber, J. Jeffrey Carr, Manuel D. Cerqueira, S. James Cullom, Robert Dekemp, Neal W. Dickert, Sharmila Dorbala, Reza Fazel, Ernest V. Garcia, Raymond J. Gibbons, Sandra S. Halliburton, Jörg Hausleiter, Gary V. Heller, Scott Jerome, John R. Lesser, Gilbert L. Raff
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Peter Tilkemeier, Kim A. Williams, Leslee J. Shaw
The current paper details the recommendations arising from an NIH-NHLBI/NCI-sponsored symposium held in November 2012, aiming to identify key components of a radiation accountability framework fostering patient-centered imaging and shared decision-making in cardiac imaging. Symposium participants, working in 3 tracks, identified key components of a framework to target critical radiation safety issues for the patient, the laboratory, and the larger population of patients with known or suspected cardiovascular disease. The use of ionizing radiation during an imaging procedure should be disclosed to all patients by the ordering provider at the time of ordering, and reinforced by the performing provider team. An imaging protocol with effective dose ≤3mSv is considered very low risk, not warranting extensive discussion or written informed consent. However, a protocol effective dose >20mSv was proposed as a level requiring particular attention in terms of shared decision-making and either formal discussion or written informed consent. Laboratory reporting of radiation dosimetry is a critical component of creating a quality laboratory fostering a patient-centered environment with transparent procedural methodology. Efforts should be directed to avoiding testing involving radiation, in patients with inappropriate indications. Standardized reporting and diagnostic reference levels for computed tomography and nuclear cardiology are important for the goal of public reporting of laboratory radiation dose levels in conjunction with diagnostic performance. The development of cardiac imaging technologies revolutionized cardiology practice by allowing routine, noninvasive assessment of myocardial perfusion and anatomy. It is now incumbent upon the imaging community to create an accountability framework to safely drive appropriate imaging utilization.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2013.10.092
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Einstein, A. J., Berman, D. S., Min, J. K., Hendel, R., Gerber, T. C., Carr, J. J., ... Shaw, L. J. (2014). Patient-centered imaging: Shared decision making for cardiac imaging procedures with exposure to ionizing radiation. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 63(15), 1480-1489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2013.10.092
Patient-centered imaging : Shared decision making for cardiac imaging procedures with exposure to ionizing radiation. / Einstein, Andrew J.; Berman, Daniel S.; Min, James K.; Hendel, Robert; Gerber, Thomas C.; Carr, J. Jeffrey; Cerqueira, Manuel D.; Cullom, S. James; Dekemp, Robert; Dickert, Neal W.; Dorbala, Sharmila; Fazel, Reza; Garcia, Ernest V.; Gibbons, Raymond J.; Halliburton, Sandra S.; Hausleiter, Jörg; Heller, Gary V.; Jerome, Scott; Lesser, John R.; Raff, Gilbert L.; Tilkemeier, Peter; Williams, Kim A.; Shaw, Leslee J.
In: Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol. 63, No. 15, 22.04.2014, p. 1480-1489.
Einstein, AJ, Berman, DS, Min, JK, Hendel, R, Gerber, TC, Carr, JJ, Cerqueira, MD, Cullom, SJ, Dekemp, R, Dickert, NW, Dorbala, S, Fazel, R, Garcia, EV, Gibbons, RJ, Halliburton, SS, Hausleiter, J, Heller, GV, Jerome, S, Lesser, JR, Raff, GL, Tilkemeier, P, Williams, KA & Shaw, LJ 2014, 'Patient-centered imaging: Shared decision making for cardiac imaging procedures with exposure to ionizing radiation', Journal of the American College of Cardiology, vol. 63, no. 15, pp. 1480-1489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2013.10.092
Einstein AJ, Berman DS, Min JK, Hendel R, Gerber TC, Carr JJ et al. Patient-centered imaging: Shared decision making for cardiac imaging procedures with exposure to ionizing radiation. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2014 Apr 22;63(15):1480-1489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2013.10.092
Einstein, Andrew J. ; Berman, Daniel S. ; Min, James K. ; Hendel, Robert ; Gerber, Thomas C. ; Carr, J. Jeffrey ; Cerqueira, Manuel D. ; Cullom, S. James ; Dekemp, Robert ; Dickert, Neal W. ; Dorbala, Sharmila ; Fazel, Reza ; Garcia, Ernest V. ; Gibbons, Raymond J. ; Halliburton, Sandra S. ; Hausleiter, Jörg ; Heller, Gary V. ; Jerome, Scott ; Lesser, John R. ; Raff, Gilbert L. ; Tilkemeier, Peter ; Williams, Kim A. ; Shaw, Leslee J. / Patient-centered imaging : Shared decision making for cardiac imaging procedures with exposure to ionizing radiation. In: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2014 ; Vol. 63, No. 15. pp. 1480-1489.
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While not the purpose of the visit, it certainly gave me food for thought for my weekly article here. The specifics of the corporate problems aren't important for my discussion, but what is important is that the difficulties created a very specific environment of uncertainty for the employee group. They literally didn't know from one day to another if they would be working for this company, another company, or not at all.
Now, I know something about this kind of uncertainty. Before the great PwC Human Capital diaspora, uncertainty was the watchword around the office. For those who don't know, in the 2000 – 2002 timeframe, the human Capital practice at PwC was to be spun off for a new IPO called Unifi. That didn't quite work out as planned, and eventually Unifi was purchased by Mellon Bank. The interim wasn't pretty, however. The personnel who were part of the practice began dropping like flies.
What was once a great practice ended up splitting into multiple factions: part of the practice to the MCS practice later sold to IBM, part spun to Mellon Bank, part left inside of PwC, and many, many more leaving the firm to for other job opportunities.
During this change, employee morale couldn't have been lower. Talk about engagement - we didn't know what we were engaged in! Engagement teams were comprised of people who were ultimately going to different companies. Teammates became engaged in recruiting discussions on a regular basis.
There is no doubt that productivity declined at PwC during this time, just as it has at my client. The uncertainty becomes like a weight on people's shoulders as they go to work every day.
In the cases I talk about here, there is little management can do to mitigate the negative impact of uncertainty. Any communication will have little impact, as resolution and closure to the causes of uncertainty is the only solution.
However, this is very instructive for us in situations of perceived uncertainty that actually have a lot of certainty. I think specifically of the situation of a company going through the process of large scale outsourcing. For employees going through this, some will lose jobs, others will change roles, and still others will change employers. This doesn't have to be a time of uncertainty for them. Change management becomes critical. Clear and frequent communication and contact with employees throughout the process will keep them engaged, involved and ultimately more productive.
Where uncertainty pervades the workforce, morale will suffer. While some uncertainty is unavoidable, much can be avoided through communication and planning.


Temperature isn't the only thing about the Earth that's changing, right before our eyes, so of course we'll look at lots of graphs of lots of data about Earth's changes. But because we want to get scientific about it, we'll do more than just look at graphs. We'll take the data and pick it apart, try to understand what it's made of and what it's telling us. We'll pick up a scalpel and slice into it, dissect it, looking for the information that's there in the most succinct and compact possible form.
We'll start with Carbon Dioxide. CO2.
And we'll start in early 1958. That's when Charles Keeling begin measuring how much CO2 is in the air on a regular basis, monitoring it continuously. Thanks to his efforts, we have a record of atmospheric CO2 from then until now with just a few gaps, from the Mauna Loa Atmospheric Observatory in Hawaii.
It's pretty clear just by looking, that overall, CO2 concentration is going up. I often remind people that "looks like" is not valid statistical evidence, that visual inspection of a graph can give you great ideas but also false impressions and should be regarded with caution. But in this case, go with your gut. It's going up.
That raises the question, how fast?
It follows pretty closely, by increasing at a rate of 1.54 ppm/year. But again looking at the graph, it seems there is still some pattern — the data are consistently above the line very early and very late, while consistently below the line during the 1980s and 1990s. And there are those wiggles up and down, they look like they might be happening on a yearly basis, that we haven't even mentioned yet. Clearly there's more going on here than just following a straight line.
We often gain real insight by looking at the difference between what the data values are, and what the "model we've got so far" says they would be. Since the "model so far" is a straight line, those are just the straight line values. Let's take each data value, subtract what it would be if it followed the straight line at that time, and call the result residuals. Then the data are equal to "model so far" (straight line) plus residuals.
Yes, there's some regular up-and-down fluctuation that just keeps going, and yes, there's still long-term change that we haven't included in our model so far.
To include rate change we need another model, and often the first guess (educated guess, that it) comes from fitting a quadratic function to the data. A quadratic has the form , where are constants, t is the time, and x is the data value. "Fit" means to find the values for those constants which give the quadratic curve coming closest to the data at all the right times. And again, "closest" can be defined in several ways so lots of different ways of picking the "best" values are available. We'll stick to the most common way, least squares regression.
We're now at the point where the long-term changes in these residuals are no bigger than, or smaller than, those regular cyclic up-and-down fluctuations that keep repeating year after year.
With this view of the seasonal pattern, with as much of the non-seasonal pattern cleared away as practical, we see that CO2 peaks each May at about 3.02 ppm above the long-term yearly average value, and reaches its minimum in September or October down at about -3.23 ppm.
Probably the most important result is encompassed in that long-term quadratic model — it's certainly the bulk of the change over the last 60 years. It fits the data well enough that it gives a good estimate, not only of the value of the long term trend, but of the rate of increase as well.
By the quadratic model, the rate of increase is itself getting faster, speeding up consistently from year to year. CO2 rose by only 0.79 ppm/year back in early 1958, but the rate is now up to 2.29 ppm/yr, more than twice as fast. Other, more sophisticated estimates than just using a quadratic model suggest the early rise rate was around 0.7 ppm/year, but now it's up to 2.5 ppm/year.
There's other interesting stuff yet to be uncovered. For instance, the seasonal cycle, which we approximated and then removed for convenience, is not the same throughout the whole time period. The earlier seasonal cycle was smaller, but the present seasonal cycle tends to be on the bigger side.
We know the physics behind the main changes we found. For the seasonal cycle it's the fact that plants take in CO2 when they grow (they need the carbon), and release it when they die, rot, and decay. This happens on a yearly cycle in the northern hemisphere, where most of the world's land plants are beause that's where most of the world's land is. Plant growth from Spring through early Autumn lowers CO2 in the air, then plant decay from Autumn until the next spring raises it up again.
As for the long-term rise, that's because of human activity. It's mostly from burning fossil fuels, which releases CO2 directly into the air. Over the years we've emitted more and more CO2, with the result that not only has CO2 risen, it has risen at an ever-faster rate, and so far there's no evidence that pattern has changed. CO2 growth isn't slowing down, it looks like it's still speeding up.
Very nice exposition–and yes, I know I keep writing that! I was wondering early on why the seasonal signal was being retained, but dealing with that issue later in the essay started to make a lot of sense as the discussion unfolded.
I've previously heard people make a big deal of the effect of the El-Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the annual change in CO2 concentration so I'm surprised that it doesn't seem at all important once the quadratic fit is removed.
I've always ascribed the temporary slowdown in the increase in CO2 emissions to the collapse of the Eastern Bloc.
It's interesting that the "smallest" component, the residuals after quadratic removal and after seasonal, reveal the secular variation …. the stuff that is a more-or-less one-off kind of change.
In a short analysis ("Global Warming Acceleration Plus Miscellaneous", http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/) sent out by email today, James Hansen does brief separate analyses of the maxima and minima for surface temperatures from 1995 to the present and the differing trends if those are considered as separate datasets.
On your Open Mind blog (where I would have posted this note if I could find a relevant place to put it) I have suggested a few times in the past that if you were to analyze separately the trends in the maxima and minima for sea ice extent, that might be quite interesting as opposed to looking just at the general trend.
I never got a response from you or others in the comments I left, asking you to consider doing such an analysis. But I think it is a unique approach that produce very interesting results. So, I'm asking again here if you might consider doing such an analysis. —- Best regards.
What, too, would be interesting, is why minima, as Professor Hansen suggests, are better to use for such estimates, than maximum, which was Jeremy Grantham's original proposal.


A Florida congressman who has said that the country is at risk of a "coup d'etat" by Special Counsel Robert Mueller says he warned President Donald Trump personally last week that Mueller's Russia investigation is "infected with bias" against the president.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, a freshman Republican, said he issued the warning during a flight on Air Force One with Trump ahead of a Friday evening rally in Pensacola.
In a phone interview, Gaetz said he stopped short of encouraging Trump to fire Mueller, though he has recommended that step repeatedly in public statements. But he said he told Trump about his issues with the probe.
Gaetz said he also informed Trump that the man who appointed Mueller, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, would be appearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for an open-ended hearing.
"I let him know that that was the case and he encouraged us to exercise our oversight responsibilities," Gaetz said.
Gaetz, a member of the committee, said he plans to press Rosenstein on whether top agents on Mueller's prosecution team are biased against Trump. Conservatives have leveled that charge with increasing vigor in recent weeks, amid revelations that a senior agent was removed for sending anti-Trump text messages over the summer.
"If we're going to continue to investigate things let's look at something where there's some real evidence and some real wrongdoing," Sanders said.
Gaetz has emerged as one of the top advocates in Congress for restricting or ending the Mueller investigation. "We are at risk of a coup d'etat in this country if we allow an unaccountable person with no oversight to undermine the duly-elected President of the United States," he said recently on the House floor.
Gaetz was joined on the Air Force Once flight by another Judiciary Committee member, Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), who has also called for limits on the Mueller investigation.
Gaetz said the discussion of Rosenstein and Mueller's probe with Trump was a small piece of a larger conversation about policy concerns.
A spokeswoman for DeSantis and White House aides press aides did not respond to requests for comment.


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Your average pedometer is a device that counts the number of steps you take by detecting motion in your arms and legs. Traditionally, pedometers required manual calibration for representation of data in the desired unit – miles or kilometers.
Thankfully technology isn't far behind, and now we have apps and automated electronic devices to do the math! Your pedometer is your best friend when it comes to motivating you to shed off those extra pounds. Android integrated the step counter with its 4.4 version (KitKat). It uses the phone's Geo-sensor to count the steps take and converts the data into the distance traveled.
A good app will not only count your steps but also motivate you to do more to achieve your daily walking goals. They can be a useful and perfect companion to improve your fitness in a more convenient way.
Also known as 'Map My Walk', this is one of the best pedometer apps on Android. It counts your steps and monitors your movement. This app provides the perfect companion for your running experience. It tracks and records your progress on Map.
An interesting feature is that it uploads data on its official website MapMyWalk.com where you can view your activities in detail. Set your running goals and it will plan out your daily routine for you. Apart from this, it has GPS tracking, workout monitoring, and calorie counting and keeps track of what you eat. Give it a try to find a whole new workout buddy!
This accurate pedometer app will monitor your daily walking, running or other fitness activities. It keeps track of everything from your step count to your calories and routes on the map. Accupedo includes a 3D motion recognition algorithm that counts your steps by recognizing your walking patterns.
It has a power saving mode so that you can use it all day. It stores your daily fitness activities in a history log and provides an easy way to read data. No matter where you keep your phone, this app finds a way to work accurately.
It is another popular free fitness app for Android that works as an efficient pedometer. Fitbit can be used while running, walking, hiking and keeps logs of your daily activities, providing a better way to manage your fitness in a smart way.
Set whatever goals you want – daily, weekly or monthly - and keep track of its progress!
This app can also track your heart rate and the calories you burn every day. You can sync it with some Fitbit compatible devices and be on your way to fitness.
Runtastic Pedometer is an excellent pedometer app that provides all the essential features along with speed calculation and integration to all the popular social media websites.
You can now share your walking routine with your friends for motivation and competition! This app will challenge you to walk 10,000 steps every day, which will only force you to take the stairs rather than choosing the elevator to reach your daily goals.
Endomodo will track your steps, your heart beat and your workout duration in one application. The best part? It provides you audio feedback and encouragement in real time. You can share your training details and motivate others too. It's like Twitter, but for jogging!
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Can you imagine running away from a zombie apocalypse to safety while mapping your path? This app submerges you in its audiovisual thrill and forces you to run with all the adrenaline that your body has to offer.
Think of the monstrous sounds of zombies appearing whenever you slow down. It's a fun way to make sure you run. And run fast!
It is yet another free pedometer app for Android that tracks your every step. It records any walking, running, cycling and other physical activity. Easy to us and with a clean user interface, Moves keeps track of your distance traveled on a map with the number of steps taken, the time taken to travel that distance and the calories you burnt during the activity.
Once turned on, it stays ON, and you don't need to keep checking it. It consumes some battery though, but that's what you will have to pay for the utilities it offers.
Noom Walk is your effective step counter as it actively counts your steps all day long. It integrates with the Noom Personal Coach dashboard where the data you submit is stored automatically. Unlike any other app that keeps running in the background, Noom Walk claims to be power efficient.
You can choose whatever fitness program you like. It comes divided into three stages – Learning, Practicing and Mastery. Give Noom Walk a try. You won't regret it.
It is one of the most efficient running apps for Android. Aimed at helping you improve your fitness it tracks your running, walking, cycling and any other fitness activity using the phone's GPS. It even calculates the pace of your running, the distance you traveled and the calories you're burning during that time. Runkeeper integrates with your music app to provide better music experience while running.
You can set your goals, track your progress and share your achievements on any social platform. Now that's a pretty handy bargain.
Nike, of course, is your number one sports brand. The app is for the serious runner. The Nike+ Running app shows you a detailed breakdown of every run and even uploads it to NikePlus.com.
You can enable live audio cheers if you choose to broadcast the start of your run to friends on Facebook and even show off your route with the map sharing experience. If you have fixed fitness goals, this is the app for you.


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I don't have the original disks.  I've tried to use the LG Forte Pivot Softweare which came with my LG pivotable monitor and I also tried the Magic Rotation softtware from the Samsung website; but neither worked...  I also tried teh iRotate software mentioned in On a dual-monitor setup, how can just one of the two be rotated?
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CTE Announces Students of the Month — CTE: It's Working!
The Clare-Gladwin Regional Education Service District's Career & Technical Education program has announced its Students of the Month for December.
Aaron Bowser of Beaverton and James Witte of Gladwin (Advanced Manufacturing); Thomas Lannen of Farwell and Cody Roehrs of Gladwin (Automotive Technology); Amber Farnum of Farwell (Business Management); Christopher Athey of Beaverton and Sam Ball of Farwell (Construction Trades); Lillian Padgett of Beaverton and Chloee McMann of Farwell (Criminal Justice); Aleisha Macdormott of Farwell and Sam Moore of Farwell (Culinary Arts); Zachary Breckenridge of Beaverton and Alex Beecher of Gladwin (Digital Media); Kelly Christian of Farwell and Kaitlyn Johnson of Gladwin (Education Occupations); Emily Miller of Clare and Krista Allen of Harrison (Health Occupations); and Marcus Parsons of Beaverton and Nathan Pohl of Gladwin (Welding Technology).
The CTE program is grateful to the sponsors who support the Students of the Month program by donating gift certificates to the honorees. Sponsors include Buccilli's Pizza of Farwell, Hungry Howie's Pizza of Clare and Hungry Howie's Pizza of Gladwin.
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"Because of the CTE program, I am prepared for the journey ahead."
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"Because of CTE, I am where I am in life. It helped me succeed in life."
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"Without CTE, I would most certainly not be where I am, and I know that for a fact. That program was the gateway to my future. CTE also prepared me for college tremendously. There are just so many good things to say about CTE; it was like a family."
"Because of CTE, I'm on track to pursuing my career in construction."
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With the launch of margin trading in early , the company expects to increase the scope of institutions and established investors.
On the same note, Coinbase has gained compliance with New York Stock Exchange regulations, a factor that has licensed its operations using digital currencies.
This means that they can increase the number of currencies in the near future, which adds to the convenience of users across all social classes.
In an effort to expand territories, GDAX is focusing on popularizing Bitcoin as a valid asset, reacting to the IRS investigations that check into the volatility of these assets.
For ethereum, the hiking in the market share over the past few months has boosted the efforts of popularizing digital currency. Of course, the limitation of expansions coming from countries such as China is among the issues that are giving the company a hard time.
When considering the friendliness of the software to new users, the issue of signups is co-current, although the technical team always acts towards solving any upcoming problems.
Unless you have an account with Coinbase, you have to sign up to GDAX in order to start your trading. Although there is no demo account, the user interface gives directions and pieces of advice on how to engage successfully register your details.
The simple registration that does not require much of the personal identification details. To register for a basic account you just need to fill in a name, e-mail and password.
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Notably, the verification criteria do not influence the trading limits, unless other regional laws come into play. Copy of Passport, I.
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Separate threads about exchange issues will be removed. Android app for GDAX? I recall a discussion from one of their customer support people saying that they designed their website to be mobile friendly, and as such, no app was in the works.
What I really want is some margin, though. Eventually they will have to offer that ability. They are truly positioned to be the go-to institutionalized exchange for different cryptos in the future.
I try not to contradict myself, but it is possible that I made a broad statement. Tabtrader has API support. Not sure if you can get margin though.
Please note that the app does not require any special Android permissions, so besides spending a minute or so to download the app you really have nothing to lose.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers have traded for tackle Levi Brown, who has given up four sacks through four games thus far this season and below are animated gifs of each of them.
The first three sacks Brown allowed were in week one against the St. Louis Rams and all were surrendered to defensive end Robert Quinn and all to the outside. As you can see, Quinn's speed and handwork is much better than that of Brown's and the left tackle said as much after that game.
Brown not only gave up three sacks in the game, he also gave up a hit and a hurry as well.
One thing you'll notice in all of this gifs is that Brown is a cautious setter. Instead of punching, he's trying to get his hands outside the frame of the pass rusher. Look at his arms down by his side in the second and fourth gif. Look at the separation that Quinn gets with his left arm in the second gif as it even doubles Brown over. In the first gif, Quinn swats Brown's left arm away and the gate is now open. In the last gif, New Orleans Saints linebacker Junior Galette also knocks the arms of Brown down.
Brown appears to have a wide enough base on a few of these. He is not the instigator of the block, however. His arms and hands go out and thus he has no power to ward off the initial rush. He really needs to learn to fire those arms out and not down and up. Maybe Tunch Ilkin can teach him the Tunch Punch.


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You are here: Home / Two British artists a generation apart: Paul Nash and David Hockney at Tate Britain
Two British artists a generation apart: Paul Nash and David Hockney at Tate Britain
When visiting these two exhibitions at Tate Britain, it is best to see the Paul Nash first and then the David Hockney. Not only is it the best way chronologically, but also emotionally: Nash's work is sombre and the colours muted; Hockney's is vibrant and alive, pushing at the boundaries of artistic technology, finishing on a high note.
Paul Nash was born in the Victorian era, in 1889, and David Hockney was only 9 years old when he died in 1946. As a leading artist and writer of British surrealism, Nash's work was exhibited alongside artists such as Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso and Man Ray at the International Surrealism Exhibition of 1936.
His most famous paintings are from the First World War, such as "The Menin Road" (1918-19) and then again in the Second World War, which perhaps established the sombre tones used throughout his career. There are hints of common themes to Hockney: an artistic abuse of perspective, a simplification of forms, an exploration of spaces connecting inside to out in "Harbour and Room" (1932-6), a flash of colour in his "Blue House on the Shore" (1929-31), a pool and diving board in "The Diving Stage" (1928) and a passionate enjoyment of the English countryside and the shape and silhouette of trees, in many paintings including "Wittenham Clumps" (1913).
Tate Britain's retrospective of David Hockney covers the last 60 years from his early work at the Royal College of Art, moving to the blue skies, brilliant sunshine, swimming pools and vivid colours of California where even the architecture of the modernist Savings and Loan Building is bathed in blue sunlight and to the Grand Canyon with its dramatic rich red and brown landscape with flashes of green in the foreground. The exhibition includes sketches as he travelled around the world staying in places such as the Luxor Hotel and his vast series of works as he moved between Los Angeles and his native Yorkshire, in which, with a different palette he still finds colour and vibrancy in the natural landscape, as in "Going Up Garrowby Hill" (2000).
Unlike Nash, who seems to have avoided human presence in his paintings (apart from the swimmers in "The Diving Stage"), Hockney has painted friends and family, often exploring the tension created by the turn of a head or a subtle glance in double portraits such as "Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy" (1968) and "Collectors" (1968), culminating in the exhibition "82 Portraits and 1 Still Life" at the Royal Academy in 2016.
Paul Nash explored multiple images in his "Voyages of the Moon" (1934-7). Hockney goes much further, creating multiple and animated images with Polaroid and 35mm film, iphones and ipads and his multi-screen video work "The Four Seasons" (2010) showing different views of the same scene as the camera travelled along the road at Woldgate in Yorkshire.
A selection of Paul Nash's three dimensional works is included in his exhibition, but there are none of Hockney's, which is rather a pity.
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I opened my day by journalling on a story that is super old. I can feel the last layers of their impact are asking for acknowledgement and release as I step into a new season.
As I was clearing this story from my archives, I spotted a whole other creature hiding under my radar – covered in anxiety, frustration and disbelief. Then the 'hey wait a minute' moment came! Yes It was time to start digging into this patch and bring it closer to the light.
She's a juicy one! Many layers and raw points flowed as I wrote about it, around 3 pages. I know I will be unpacking this one for a few more weeks!
What are the 'ouch' stories in your life? How complex or painful you believe them to be? How are they impacting on your peace levels for your everyday? They are sitting there disturbing your comfort amongst daily routines, as they influence from deep in your subconscious.
I've discovered the more peace I am willing to embrace, that my barometer of joy rises higher.
Imagine this as a river, I am looking out for ways to go with the current rather than turning my boat against that power and attempting to head upstream.
Prioritising more peace, my manifesting power increases, and my sense of prosperity elevates.
Performing 'upstream actions' I saw time and time again just added unnecessary difficulty to situations, and as a result, it lowered the level of peace I felt.
Feeling I was running out of time, that every month was a new month with bigger expectations from my organisation, my team. That I had attached my value to the results of each 30 Day cycle! When you lead the way and take new ground you thrive in nailing another record target.
This meant I was making less time for my personal interests. Building a business is exciting, and intoxicating at times. Believing I had to be 'on' for long, long hours each day, everyday in lieu of allowing a more harmonious timetable was huge.
I smashed head onto this one season, waking into a state of exhaustion and being disillusioned to operating on push energy than drawing in with ease and grace.
Prioritising playtime, was liberating and resupplied my imagination and the experience I could deliver to my customers, team, organisation.
Being responsible for others success!
However, only they owned responsibility to connect to the education and implement.
The acceptance of personal autonomy as humans. Even though my desire for them to have the dreams they had a glimpse for was vast, I could only fan the flames, they had to start their own fire.
We each are having a human BEING experience. Accept that each of us are flawed!
I have said and done things I wished I had not – yep!
know that this will boomerang right back bringing more of that back to your home.
Oh yes I have taken a hit from a few of those over my lifetime.
Then there are the the actions I took, the truth I spoke, that I am VERY ok with.
That is the space. When you are living with more peace, standing in absolute alignment to your personal values, making decisions and speaking from this energy, it will feel certain and light.
Not everyone will be against you either.
My enthusiasm is for more women to have a life, business, career – that is aligned to their soul's truth. To be open to receiving more peace, more prosperity and more play!
The time you feel overwhelmed and lost around this stuff, just remember that wonderful sea turtle Crush from Nemo! He was perfectly chilled, choosing to ride within the East Australia Current (EAC) to get to his next destination with ease and using wonderful resources available that showed up to support his journey.
Crush would likely remind us that we tumble hard when we fight against the current. It's a way bigger toll on our energy levels and being completely depleted hurts.
Either our joy or our pain ripples outwards to each person we do life with, let's choose well.


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08:37 , 29 December 2020
North Macedonia Arrests Eight Men Suspected Of Creating Terrorist Organization.
Eight men have been arrested in North Macedonia on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks, police said on December 28.
Authorities suspect the men have links with the Islamic State terrorist group, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
The men were arrested late on December 27 in Skopje and the town of Kumanovo following an investigation lasting several months, the statement said.
One of the suspects had a previous conviction of participation in the Islamic State group.
The eight have been charged with creating a terrorist organization based on the ideology of Islamic State "for committing murders and destroying public buildings" and with the aim of creating fear or insecurity among the public.
No specific targets in North Macedonia were mentioned. If convicted, the suspects, who are between the ages of 21 and 31, face prison sentences of up to 10 years.
Officers also seized a large quantity of weapons at eight locations in the north of the country.
The men are accused of procuring the weapons, ammunition, and military equipment and hiding them near Kumanovo. Authorities also accused the men of making improvised explosive devices and carrying out test firings.
The men allegedly shared their plans, including blueprints for making explosive-lined vests for suicide bombings, in an online platform.
North Macedonia has a large, mostly Muslim ethnic Albanian community, and radical Islamists have been active in the country and elsewhere in the region.
Police said the men belong to the same group as three others who were arrested in September on suspicion of storing a large quantity of ammunition, mines, and explosives near Kumanovo.
The arrests come less than two months after an Austrian-born man of Macedonian-Albanian descent killed four people and wounded more than 20 in Vienna before being shot dead by police.
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Gadget Alert: Chromecast Ultra
In this day and age, technology has become a crutch to an average person's life. People are becoming more reliant on their mobile devices, and their dependence on the internet to know what's going on in the world. Because of this, industries are using the latest technologies to create new ways to improve even the simplest of actions.
One example is how the television is used today compared to 60 years ago. Back then, televisions were much simpler and needed cable or a strong signal to get any picture out. However, today's TVs are built with all kinds of features, including:
Built-in Ethernet ports
Recording programs
4K resolution support
Although modern televisions are a far cry to what they were in the 50s, companies like Google continue to push its limits even further. Now, you can enjoy streaming your favorite shows online, as well as get crisper color and graphics with casting devices like the Chromecast Ultra.
What's a Chromecast Ultra?
The Chromecast Ultra is Google's latest addition to its casting device arsenal. It's the better, pricier version of its predecessor (the Chromecast) and for good reason. Chromecast Ultra may look similar to the Chromecast, but it supports 4K resolution Ultra HD – hence the "Ultra" in its name. It also supports HDR. Take note that you don't need to have an HDR TV to use it. The Chromecast Ultra just gives you that option if your TV has that ability.
Another noticeable difference between the Google Chromecast and Chromecast Ultra is that the latter has a wired Ethernet port in its AC adapter. This means it can support Wi-Fi, wireless, and wired internet connections. This Ethernet port also comes in handy if you're watching in 4K, which requires a lot of bandwidth.
Is Google's Chromecast Ultra for Me?
Essentially, the Chromecast and Chromecast Ultra works the same. They both give you the ability to stream your shows and music through your television easily. They can also be placed behind your TV, so as not to obstruct your view. They give you control over what you watch using your mobile devices. However, the Chromecast Ultra might be the better choice if you have the following:
A TV that supports 4K and HDR
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Built-in TV streaming apps that have 4K options (e.g. Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu)
The Chromecast Ultra is definitely a cool addition that improves the graphics, picture, and color of your TV. However, if your TV can't use many of its features, consider looking at other casting devices before dropping $70.00 for this product.
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Breaking News: Feds stop fighting gay marriage
by J. Adrian Stanley
This just in from the New York Times: The federal government will cease defending the Defense of Marriage Act against Constitutional challenges. This paves the way for married gay couples in states that recognize same-sex marriage to gain federal recognition, and the benefits that come with it.
From the NYT:
Justice Department to Stop Defending Federal Law on Gay Marriage
President Obama, in a major legal policy shift, has directed
the Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of
Marriage Act - the 1996 law that bars federal recognition of
same-sex marriages - against lawsuits challenging it as
unconstitutional.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Wednesday sent a
letter to Congress to inform them that the Justice Department
will now take the position in court that the Defense of
Marriage Act should be struck down as a violation of gay
couples' rights to equal protection under the law.
"The President and I have concluded that classifications
based on sexual orientation warrant heightened scrutiny and
that, as applied to same-sex couples legally married under
state law" a crucial provision of the Defense of Marriage Act
is unconstitutional, Mr. Holder wrote.
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At first thought, dealing with alternative splicing with RNA-seq might appear simple. In the simplest situations, you could have a couple of different transcripts, and it is simple to work out if any increase from the reads mapping uniquely to each transcript (Figure 1).
Figure 1 - Blue boxes are constitutive exons, orange is an alternative (skipped) exon. Brown boxes are short reads from RNA-seq. Lines represent splice junctions (locations of intron removal).
However, the example in Figure 1 is very simplistic. A great textbook example, but does not convey the complexity of the splicing you will encounter when analyzing your own RNA-seq data. Transcripts are generally larger than three exons, involve multiple splicing events, some distant to each other, some overlapping. This can all make it diffecult to interpret what is going on. This post will discuss the multiple different approaches to dealing with alternative splicing and multiple transcript isoforms in your RNA-seq data and, suggest examples of different software designed to deal with this type of data.
Differential Gene Expression (DGE) is the most common thing RNA-seq data is used for. It can certainly be improved by taking into the multiple transcripts a gene produces to avoid certain artifacts (Cufflinks paper), but extra complications come into play if you want to focus on transcript rather than genes. When considering the simple example in Figure 1, with only one splicing event difference between the two transcripts, things are somewhat easy to analyze. But even then, we have multiple ways to analyze this data using fundamentally different approaches. The simplest way to example this would be to focus on the exon and its junctions in an exon-centric approach.
*SUPPA actually uses transcript isoform data (see below) and produces both an exon-centric and isoform-centric output.
If instead we wanted to appreciate a transcript as a whole, rather than just the sum of its parts, we might want to take an isoform-centric approach. Transcript isoforms are often varied. A single gene can have MANY transcript isoforms with multiple splicing events generating this diversity (Figures 2 and 3).
Figure 2 - A third isoform is introduced compared to Figure 1. Lack of reads supporting it suggest that it might be an artefact in the annotation.
Many of these splicing events might be "complex", depending on multiple co-regulation junctions (Figure 3). Isoform-centric approaches come in two flavors: Differential Transcript Expression (DTE) and Differential Transcript Usage (DTU). DTE is conceptually very simple for anyone who has done DGE before. DTE simply looks at what transcripts go up and down between two samples.
Figure 3 - Many transcript isoforms can exist per gene. Many events may appear to be co-spliced with distant events. When using standard short read data, it is impossible to know if these events are really co-regulated or if they just appear that way in the annotation, because a single short read cannot link the two together.
Despite DTE being conceptually easy to understand, it is probably the least useful for anyone interested in splicing. This is because a transcript isoform could increase in expression because of 1) changes in alternative splicing, 2) changes in transcription of the whole gene, leading to all/most isoforms increase or 3) both splicing and transcriptional changes.
One drawback to this approach compared to the exon-centric approaches is that you do not know which events are driving the splicing changes. For this, an exon-centric approach would be more useful. If embarking on a splicing focused project, it might be worth trying out a couple of different approaches and seeing which one gives you the most interpretable data for your particular problem. Each of the different approaches (exon-centric and isoform-centric) might reveal things that taking just one approach did not. Seeing features that appear in both might give you more confidence in your findings.
Another important thing to note is, how do we define the type of alternative splicing in reference to each other? If we look at our three transcript examples in Figure 2, we can see that the middle transcript could be defined as either an intron retained transcript or a alternative 3' splice site (alternative acceptor site), depending on which of the two other transcripts you compare it too. If you compare it to the top transcript, the middle transcript looks just like an alternative 3' splice site of the second exon. This is a very common form of splicing in plants after all. However, if you compare the middle isoform to the bottom one, then we see something completely different, we see that instead it appears to be a retained intron. Both interpretations are correct. The problem is, which one do you chose to annotate it as? Which one do you choose to quantify it as in an exon-centric approach? Each tool will have its own approach to dealing with situations like this. There is no easy answer. At this point I should mention that this is not simply a game of semantics, this has real biological consequences. To us, the interpretation of whether an event is a retained intron or an alternative 3' splice site seems like a frustrating quirk of nomenclature that has no right answer, but to the cell, there are huge differences. For example, studies have shown that retained introns are not generally targeted to the RNA degradation pathway nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) in Arabidopsis, again in Arabidopsis and moss, and that they are actually often detained in the nucleus. So getting the annotation "right" in these cases does have huge implications in how to interpret your data. I do not have any good suggestions here, only please be aware of this potential issue and always look at some interesting splicing events in the genome browser to get a feel for what is really going on in your data - it is very tempting to purely rely on what a table is telling you is going on, but looking in the browser at the reads and transcript models can save you months of wasted time in analysis IMHO.
Here is a list of the software I have mentioned in this post. Please forgive me if I have missed off your favorite tool for splicing/isoform quant, this was not meant to be a comprehensive list but instead an introduction to the topic. Please feel free to discuss what are your personal favorite tools in the comments below.
Finally, please check out my blog, Bad Grammar Good Syntax. It offers an introduction to computational biology for those with less of a programming background. It has great posts on particular topics such as understanding basic terms in RNA-seq, making good Venn diagrams with Python, using UpSets instead of Venn diagrams for multiple set overlaps, and how to install Ubuntu on Windows 10 for computational biology.


Meyer Dempsey – mogul, wealthy entrepreneur, arrogant and always in charge – is in New York, on the phone with his ex-wife in LA when the news breaks. He can hear tension in the voices of reporters and experts chronicling all that's known. But even while those supposedly in charge restrain their own panic, Meyer finds he recognizes pieces of what the world is facing. He's seen this in dreams – in visions of another place. He knows where he and his family must go. He has prepared … though he never knew until now what he'd been preparing for.
Meyer has been taking steps for months, and has made preparations: a trove of supplies, a van stocked for the worst, a Gulfstream waiting at a small airstrip in Jersey. But he hasn't yet been able to take the final and most important step: moving the family to Colorado, where every contingency is covered.
What do the beings inside the ships want? What will they do when they arrive? And what if the scientists are wrong, and the spheres aren't decelerating? Will they strike the planet, raising clouds of extinction dust? Will they knock the Earth off its axis? Is this a prelude to an alien invasion? An alien war? An alien apocalypse? The first domino in the birth of a new alien empire?
Panic, once it breaches the thin crust of civilized society, spreads like a virus. Meyer knows only one thing, and it's a truth that has perched atop his mind like a psychic obsession:When the ships arrive, his family must be at the Colorado compound or all will be lost. The space fleet in itself doesn't matter. The disintegration on the surviving news outlets does not matter. Reports that Las Vegas has been set ablaze do not matter. The fate of humanity, in Meyer's eyes, doesn't matter.
All that matters is Piper. Trevor. Delilah. And Meyer's ex-wife Heather, coming to the same destination from the west – a woman who remains his best friend and his secret lover.
Rioting spills into the highways as time ticks away. Unrest boils in city and hinterlands. But Meyer's obsession to reach Vail is single-minded, guided with the focus of a nightmare. Gangs can ground his plane, threaten his vehicles, and steal his belongings. But nothing will stand between Meyer's family and their haven … and Meyer will kill his way to Colorado if he has to.
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Q: Keras CategoryEncoding layer with time sequences For a LSTM, I create time sequences by means of tensorflow.keras.utils.timeseries_dataset_from_array(). For some of the features, I would like to do one-hot encoding by means of Keras preprocessing layers.
I have the following code:
n_timesteps = 20
n_categorical_features = 1

from tensorflow.keras.layers import Input, IntegerLookup, CategoryEncoding

cat_inp = keras.layers.Input(shape=(n_timesteps, n_categorical_features), name = "categorical_input")
index = IntegerLookup()
index.adapt(X["br"])
encoder = CategoryEncoding(num_tokens=index.vocabulary_size(), output_mode = "one_hot")(cat_inp)

However, the last line gives me the error ValueError: Exception encountered when calling layer "category_encoding_22" (type CategoryEncoding). When output_mode is not 'int', maximum supported output rank is 2. Received output_mode one_hot and input shape (None, 20, 1), which would result in output rank 3. The problem seems to be that CategoryEncoding does not support the shape of my input tensor (None, n_timesteps, n_categorical_features).
How can I one-hot encode the input tensor produced by timeseries_dataset_from_array()?

A: Please try to use TimeDistributed layer:
encoder = tf.keras.layers.TimeDistributed(CategoryEncoding(num_tokens=index.vocabulary_size(), output_mode = "one_hot"))(cat_inp)

It will apply CategoryEncoding to each item in your time sequence. Please see https://keras.io/api/layers/recurrent_layers/time_distributed/
for more information.


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StarDust was the first stepping stone in the BSR Stars programme and was led by VINNOVA, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems.
The StarDust project combined strengths and core competencies in nine countries in Northern Europe and brought business, academic and public worlds together to find better solutions for the Baltic Sea Region. The overall objective has been to find new answers for societal challenges that the people in this part of Europe is facing. Increasing water pollution and an ageing population are just two examples of those. StarDust turned these challenges into opportunities for growth.
The project consisted of five sub-projects supported by new tools and methods on open and user-driven innovation. Their cooperation highlighted that common problems must be addressed jointly. Therefore, every project combined researchers, clusters, SME-networks and public actors from different countries. The projects brought different expertise and perspectives together with a creative approach needed to meet the grand challenges.
The five transnational projects operated in the fields of clean technology & future energy, wellbeing & health, future transport, and digital business & services. New commercial-based concepts and routines relating transnational, national, regional and local levels were indentified and implemented. The projects involved all fields of innovations (scientific, technical as well as non-technical) with the aim of developing business-focused competitive global positions in selected fields. In this way, the project increased the growth of the region by fostering business ideas and setting up competitive partnerships beyond the national borders.
In total StarDust mobilized 35 partners from the public and semi-public sector. These partners were supported by 43 associated partners from national, regional and local levels. This set of partners represented all national ministries and innovation agencies in the ten Baltic Sea countries. The five pilots were supported by five work packages, for example regarding their communication or collaboration.
The innovation project StarDust has been a transnational project co-financed by the European Union's Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013, which promotes regional development through transnational cooperation. StarDust was enacted under the priority area 1 aiming on fostering innovation with a total budget of 6.5 million Euros. StarDust built on earlier cooperation and is in line with the earlier transnational projects (like BSR InnoNet and BSR_CBP projects).
During 2012 and 2013 StarDust strengthened its partnership by attracting new partners and financiers: the partners received more than 9 MEUR as add-on funding, 15 research institutions and six new cluster and business development organisations joined as associated partners. The five sub-projects are continuing their work within the flagship BSR Stars portfolio during 2014.


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Park City, Utah, is engulfed, once again, by the annual Sundance Film Festival frenzy. Organized by Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, this year's festival includes 117 feature-length films, chosen from 4,000 submitted from around the world.
The festival is meant to focus on and promote independent films, but Hollywood A-listers in attendance often attract attention as well. Robert De Niro, Danny Glover, and rap star Common are among the performers with movies being screened this year. Many of the films that will be shown at the festival do not have distribution deals yet, but a considerable amount of deal-making is anticipated. Documentaries often capture audiences at the event and those being shown this year include "Queen of Versailles," "Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare," and "Love Free or Die." Other films that are highly anticipated include "Celeste and Jesse Forever" about a divorcing couple, "Red Lights with Cillian" about a legendary psychic, and "Filly Brown" about a young hip-hop artist from Los Angeles. The Sundance Film Festival runs from Thursday, January 19 through Sunday, January 29.
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