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Doctors Often Overestimate Promise of Newly Approved Drugs
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When I read this, I could feel my blood pressure accelerating....here's another li'l story regarding the FDA bag of crap they're ladling out...for all us saps...
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TUESDAY, April 12, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Use of the word "breakthrough" in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's expedited approval process could mislead doctors about the new drugs' actual benefits, researchers warn.
The U.S. Congress in 2012 gave FDA the power to designate a drug as a "breakthrough therapy" if preliminary clinical evidence suggests an advantage over existing medications.
But a survey of nearly 700 doctors revealed that many tended to misinterpret "breakthrough." Doctors often believed the drugs were supported by stronger evidence than the law requires to achieve that designation, said lead author Dr. Aaron Kesselheim. He is a faculty member at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
"When people hear 'breakthrough,' it gives them an inappropriately elevated sense of what the drug might do," Kesselheim said. "It may give physicians false reassurance about the outcomes they might expect to receive when they prescribe it."
In the survey, nine out of 10 doctors chose one hypothetical drug over another identical one solely based on the "breakthrough" designation, even though both were taken on the same schedule, had similar side effects, and were equally covered by the patient's insurance.
In addition, 52 percent incorrectly believed that strong evidence from randomized trials is needed to earn the breakthrough designation, the researchers found.
"They thought when a drug is labeled as a breakthrough therapy it actually is a breakthrough, and that's not necessarily the case," Kesselheim said. "Many drugs labeled as breakthrough therapies are not true breakthroughs, because they don't provide substantially advanced treatment over what's already available."
The results were published April 12 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The FDA designated 76 drugs as "breakthrough therapies" through April 2015, the researchers noted, but very few have had a major impact on the health of Americans.
"It would be great if all of those drugs actually were breakthroughs, but the likelihood of that is very small," Kesselheim said.
Dr. Robert Wergin, chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians, agreed there can be confusion over the use of the word "breakthrough."
"A lot of times when drug companies send me advertisements that say 'breakthrough,' I'm skeptical," Wergin said. "When I first hear it, I think it's marketing. But if the FDA is using it, I don't think it's marketing. I think they should be cautious with it."
The survey also revealed a widespread lack of understanding about the meaning of FDA approval for a new drug, the researchers reported.
For example, about seven in 10 believed FDA approval meant comparable effectiveness to other approved drugs, and statistically significant and clinically important effects.
"When a drug is approved, it's not necessarily tested against other available drugs," Kesselheim said. "It may be tested against placebo. Just because a drug is approved doesn't mean it's better or safer than other drugs already out there."
Congress and the FDA should revisit the use of the term "breakthrough" in the expedited program, Kesselheim said.
"I wouldn't be averse to calling true breakthroughs 'breakthroughs,' but that's not currently what we're doing," he said.
The FDA released the following statement in response to the study: "In general, the FDA does not comment on specific studies, but evaluates them as part of the body of evidence to further our understanding about a particular issue and assist in our mission to protect public health."
Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, said the survey did not capture one important piece of the puzzle -- that doctors often learn a lot about new drugs before they get to FDA approval, either through their medical societies or by talking among themselves.
Brawley also said he is "convinced there are still some doctors who still tend to think the new drugs are better than the old drugs."
He noted the case of Prilosec, a heartburn medication made by AstraZeneca. When it came time for Prilosec to go generic, AstraZeneca marketed a new heartburn drug called Nexium for which it could still charge premium prices.
"They never said that Nexium simply contained the same active ingredient as their old drug Prilosec," Brawley said. "If you'll recall, Nexium became one of the best-selling drugs for years. There are people who are surely prescribing it because it is newer."
For more on "breakthrough" therapies, visit the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
SOURCES: Aaron Kesselheim, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., faculty member, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; Robert Wergin, M.D., chair, American Academy of Family Physicians; Otis Brawley, M.D., chief medical officer, American Cancer Society; April 12, 2016, Journal of the American Medical Association
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Definitely a blood boiler. It also makes me think that Congress has a majority of members beholden to Big Pharma to pass such foolish legislation.
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In 2011, Hewlett Packard had been working hard to complete and launch their new tablet, the TouchPad. At the time, very few apps had been built for the TouchPad and webOS. HP wanted to raise awareness about the TouchPad, why webOS was a great platform, and how to attract developers to build their apps for webOS. HP approached The Science Project, with whom I had been working upon other projects, about their problem.
From April through July 2011, I worked in conjunction with the Hewlett Packard TouchPad team and The Science Project to design, develop and build the first issue of Pivot, the monthly App Catalog Magazine for the HP TouchPad. Built using webOS, Pivot aimed to curate a high quality experience and app recommendation platform for HP webOS users. Pivot was delivered directly on the TouchPad's App Store for the United States market, along with three additional country-specific tailored versions for the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
I led the IA/UX Design & Development along with Technical Programming. My responsibilities were to lead the User Experience research work which included developing Competitive Analysis reports, Moodboards, Sketches, and Wireframes.
Working quickly with a fantastic team, we designed, developed, & deployed a comprehensive issue on all TouchPads in four global markets in under three months. This was a high visibility project where I reported directly to senior HP management with the progress and development of Pivot.
We developed several covers. Pictured below is the US Issue of Pivot which was launched from the WebOS App Catalog on the HP TouchPad. The launch issue was focused upon exploring new frontiers with your new HP TouchPad.
"The HP TouchPad is a tablet computer which was developed and designed by Hewlett-Packard. The HP TouchPad was launched on July 1, 2011, in the United States; July 15 in Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany; and August 15 in Australia." The WikiPedia description. The HP TouchPad was an excellent piece of technology which was unfortunately shut down by HP two months after launch.
Another cover of Pivot with subtle navigation hints & page elements. Each month new content would feature newly released, popular, and highly rated WebOS apps. Our goal was to educate users on the benefits of each featured app with strong editorial content. Shying away from listing app's feature list, Pivot was aimed to help users find worthwhile apps available in their region. Not all apps were translated to all regions and languages. As such, we had to write alternate copy for apps that were EMEA, Europe and other regions.
Our main directive was to showcase featured Apps in every issue. I designed this page to show concise information as well as a direct link to download the app on the user's TouchPad. Pivot's ultimate success would be measured by how many apps were downloaded as a result of being featured and written about within the monthly App Catalog magazine.
Rotating the TouchPad from Portrait to Landscape in your hands revealed an alternative layout of each page. Images may shift to show another angle or shot, while also rearranging the content that may be more readable to a specific user. Users did not have to rotate the tablet on each page, but we provided a playful incentive for them to do so.
The Table Of Contents took cues from popular Condé Nast tablet publications. The design of this page needed to incorporate Save, Share, Prefs, and Store links while also showcasing the top level of each content category.
In This Issue posed an interesting problem. How do we showcase enough information without affecting readability, clickable tap targets, and extending the amount of pages? We kept our approach simple.
We watched people read books, flip through magazine, use touch interfaces with their mobile phones and tablets and improved on the delight factor by revealing content in a more playful way. Flipping this device to landscape orientation would reveal variations of these images. Taking advantage of the landscape view gave our designs an opportunity to showcase another image and more content. These playful Easter eggs were intended to delight our readers and encourage alternate gestures.
Within Pivot, users could browse through pages by swiping from the right side of the screen to the left, in either device orientation, through the primary categories of featured content. But when a user wanted to dive into a particular category, section, or article, they would swipe from the bottom to the top to reveal the lower level content.


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All WC Iowa has adequate topsoil moisture
Strong storms brought damaging winds and heavy precipitation to much of Iowa resulting in just 3.2 days suitable for fieldwork (2.3 days in west central Iowa) during the week ending July 1, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Activities for the week included, assessing crop damage and harvesting hay when the weather permitted. Wind and intermittent showers prohibited spraying activity to a large degree.
Topsoil moisture levels across the state rated 1 percent very short, 5 percent short, 68 percent adequate and 26 percent surplus. Levels in west central Iowa rated 71 percent adequate and 29 percent surplus.
Subsoil moisture levels statewide rated 3 percent very short, 9 percent short, 66 percent adequate and 22 percent surplus. In west central Iowa subsoil moisture levels rated 1 percent short, 82 percent adequate and 17 percent surplus. Heavy rainfall left many fields and pastures ponded. In south central Iowa the subsoil moisture supplies rated adequate to surplus increased to 46 percent, the highest percentage in these categories since the week ending July 9, 2017.
Seven percent of the corn crop has silked, a week ahead of both last year and the 5-year average. Seventy-eight percent of the corn crop was rated in good to excellent condition.
Twenty-one percent of the soybean crop has bloomed, four days ahead of last year and six days ahead of the average. Seventy-six percent of the soybean crop was rated in good to excellent condition.
The second cutting of alfalfa hay reached 24 percent complete, a day behind last year and three days ahead of the average. Frequent storms continued to make putting up hay a challenge this week. Hay condition rated 74 percent good to excellent. Pasture conditions rated 66 percent good to excellent. Heat and high humidity continued to stress livestock. Flooding limited access to pastures and muddy conditions continued to make feedlot operations difficult.
Iowa preliminary weather summary by Dr Justin Glisan, state climatologist, Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship – The week began as a continuation of the previous week's active convective pattern across much of Iowa.
A low pressure system over Nebraska streamed moisture and instability into the region, leading to widespread thunderstorms over the western two-thirds of the state on Monday, June 25. Flash flood warnings were still active in northwest Iowa from the weekend. In the early evening, Delphos (Ringgold County) reported a rain-wrapped tornado lofting debris into the air; this thunderstorm moved northward into central Iowa. However, no damage occurred.
Many stations in central Iowa reported rainfalls of up to 2.5 inches from a slow moving line on Tuesday, June 26, as Iowa's eastern third saw spotty thunderstorms. Waterloo reported 1.87 inches of rain.
Temperatures were cooler than normal, with average highs departing by three to six degrees east to west through June 27. Audubon recorded a high temperature 12 degrees below normal, at 71 degrees.
A cluster of severe storms rapidly moved through the state on Thursday from Harrison County to Lee County, leaving behind more than 40 reports of severe straight-line winds and hail.
Heat returned to the state late in the week through the weekend, with highs in the mid-90s Friday and Saturday across a large portion of Iowa. Heat indices reach the triple digits across Iowa's southern half. Logan, in Harrison County, observed the week's high temperature at 98 degrees on Friday, June 29.
Thunderstorms, many with severe wind and hail reports, returned on Saturday as a cold front moved across the state. Ankeny, in Polk County, reported 10 inches, as torrential rainfall covered much of the Des Moines metro area. Sunday was the nicest day of the week. Temperatures moderated into the low to mid 80s in the northwest to low 90s in the southeast, with ample sunshine.
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facing brokers today: how to build a referral pipeline. .
If you're a veteran of the tug of war that often ensues when doling out or working an inbound referral, you've probably got the battle scars to prove it. But what if I told you that it doesn't have to be this way? That there's a way to actually put in place a foolproof method of processing client and deal referrals that will always result in a satisfactory three-way outcome for the referring broker, the receiving broker, and the client? Maybe it's not a novel concept – but then sometimes the best ideas in the world revolve around common sense. Let's take a closer look at what you can do as a broker to make the process of referrals as smooth, painless, and financially beneficial as possible.
three other brokers to determine if they'll be a good fit for the project.
will be proper expectations that will lead to a smoother transaction.
The Receiving Broker: Dress to Impress Receiving brokers have to treat all opportunities with as much seriousness as they would any new assignment pursuit. When a referring broker reaches out, it's likely that there will be other opportunities in the future to take on additional referrals from this source. For this reason, it's always in the receiving broker's best interest to do the most comprehensive job possible, following the referring broker's requests to a tee and striving to be a dependable resource. It has been my experience that when staying inside the SIOR network, a spirit of good will is quickly established and deals tend to go more smoothly.
Let's speak frankly. It's in the nature of all brokers to try to control a deal. Ultimately, the level of control that he or she exercises determines how the commission will be split. There's nothing wrong with this–everyone here is in the business to make a living for themselves and their families. But there comes a point when struggling too hard for control can actually create a self-fulfilling prophecy of doom that results in a complete loss of control.


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A child will use a sign and/or speech to make a request during snack time. This page includes some detailed stategies to help children who are having difficulties developing the use of language to make choices.
Pictures of the food items.
Always respond to what you think the child has communicated (see right for developing this).
Wait, to give the child an opportunity to make a request spontaneously, if they don't you can continue from step 3 (offering forced alternatives).
Be sensitive to if the child is getting frustrated - think of ways to help them get it right first time - e.g. by reducing the choice down to one item (temporarily).
Give more emphasis to the desired item, e.g. "Banana or paper?", you could also try only signing the desired item. Over time, reduce the difference in emphasis.
Try to avoid simply asking the child to repeat after you as there is no communication and it's not a natural way to communicate - by asking the child to repeat you have shown them that you have understood, and so this is now a different repetition activity - it also has the danger that it could reduce the accuracy of what the child originally said or signed as they didn't get a direct result from this.


Hi there! I absolutely love Infuse Pro on my Ipad Pro 3rd Gen! Just a couple of minor feedback points for features i would love to see in future updates that would make this app perfect!
Would you consider adding a 'screen lock' button? I frequently touch the screen by accident and adjust the volume or brightness and it would be great to have the option to toggle on a screen lock so you can touch the screen without triggering any responses from the video player.
Also would you consider adding the title of the video that is playing at the top of the screen when you tap the video player? I love being able to quickly see the episode number or name of the show i am watching and currently there is no way to see this while the video itself is playing.
I hope you agree with this feedback and might consider adding these features for future updates. Keep up the amazing work and thank you!!
You can go into Infuse Settings > Playback > Turn off "Gesture Control" and that will solve the volume and brightness issues. It will still bring up the player controls if you tap the screen but you won't be changing things accidentally.
Thanks for the reply NC Bullseye! Yes i have done that in the past. The thing is that i like the gesture controls for volume and brightness and i use them frequently! I just want the option to lock the screen when i require it. I hope that can be updated in the future. fingers crossed!


The overall Liftr Cloud Index for the week ending Friday 3/8/2019 is 102.3 (0.0%), unchanged from the previous week. AWS (106.6, +0.1%) and Microsoft Azure (104.2, +0.1%) continue to lead the overall index with Google Cloud (80.3, -0.2%) in third place. Alibaba Cloud (63.9, -0.4%) saw a minor dip in its overall index score. The cross-industry All CSP attributes also experienced minor changes from last week (-0.4% to +0.4%).
Alibaba Cloud's overall Liftr Cloud Index score (63.9, -0.4%) dipped slightly based on a significant reduction in Sentiment that was only partially offset by an increase in its Reliability score. Its Reliability score (101.2, 5.5%) rose as it recovered from the previous week's reported outage in its North China-2 region. Alibaba Cloud's Sentiment (98.6, -8.7%) declined dramatically and is now the lowest among our tracked CSPs, just under Microsoft Azure, but was not driven as much by negative news in the market as it was by a much smaller base of social media interactions for the week.
Amazon AWS overall (106.6, +0.1%) was up only slightly for the week, as it announced no new features and was the subject of no substantial positive or negative news. A short interruption in load balancing and RDS services in at least three US zones occurred mid-week (as reported on Reddit), but AWS's Reliability score for the week was barely impacted (108.3, -0.1%).
Google Cloud's overall index score (80.3, -0.2%) was down fractionally based on a dip in its Reliability score (99.3, -1.5%) due to two four-hour long outages of major services. On Monday 3/11/2019 a Google Cloud Console outage prevented Google's cloud customers from managing their cloud apps. On Tuesday 3/12/2019 an internal blob storage service outage took down Google Cloud Storage, Stackdriver Monitoring and App Engine's Blobstore API, which in turn took down consumer-facing Gmail, Gdrive and YouTube services. Nevertheless, Google Cloud Sentiment (102.4, -0.3%) suffered only a minor hit and is highest among the tracked CSPs.
Microsoft Azure was up negligibly (104.2, +0.1%). Its Sentiment score (98.7, +0.1%) remains low, but Alibaba Cloud was the lowest for the week. Microsoft Azure's Instance score (125.5, -0.7%) remains the highest after easily absorbing a continued decline from the previous week due to the opening of its South Africa region and its addition of more expensive services that tilted its overall pricing mix to be slightly more expensive. It continued to pull away from the other tracked CSPs on the Security attribute as its score (129.4, +1.0%) improved due to its addition of Korea's ISMS certification.
Alibaba Cloud announced its new features in February 2019 at Mobile World Congress (MWC), and so had no new announcements at OCP Global Summit.
During an otherwise quiet news week for AWS, AWS reminded the public cloud industry that it launched its S3 storage instances 13 years ago last week. AWS is not an Open Compute Project (OCP) corporate or community member and did not sponsor or exhibit at the OCP Global Summit or appear at SXSW Interactive.
Google Cloud's sentiment positively spiked on Pi Day (3/14) when it posted that it set a Guinness World Record by calculating 31,415,926,535,897 (31.4 trillion) digits for Pi.
Last week, Microsoft Azure announce a preview of Azure SQL Data Warehouse's workload importance feature, which lets data engineers classify database requests by importance, to ensure that higher importance requests receive higher priority access to resources and are better able to meet service commitments.
During the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) at SXSW Interactive has grown into a business enabler, however, this year there was significant social backlash against AI at the event. The backlash came in the form of presentations explicitly addressing AI and ethical challenges, as well as in the tone of questions asked during session Q&A. The potential is increasing for AI-based cloud services to be affected by consumer AI concerns or government AI regulation.
Alibaba Cloud highlighted its DataV data visualization tool at SXSW Interactive.
Google Cloud emphasized its relationships with the top four global systems integrators (SIs), SAP, and the next 25 largest regional SIs, as it has done in the past. There is a bit of a lag in Google Cloud's new enterprise strategy showing up in its field sales messaging.
This year there was more cross-manufacturer collaboration than we've seen in previous years at OCP Summit events. Collaboration is occurring at all levels of the hardware design stack, from system-on-chip integration to data center cooling infrastructure, and extends into management, security, and other infrastructure software components, as well.
Baidu joined OCP as a Platinum-level member, having already collaborated with Microsoft and Facebook on the OCP OAM specification (below).
Huawei Cloud announced it will adopt OCP's Open Rack standards across its new public cloud data center build-outs. Huawei also plans to adopt the OAM specification for its own AI processors and is working with third-party AI chip vendors to support the specification. Huawei joined OCP as a Platinum-level member in October 2018, less than six months ago.
The Intel-lead Compute Express Link (CXL) standards group announced both its existence and the availability of its version 1.0 specification concurrently with OCP Global Summit. The group is targeting standardization of the processor to accelerator link across a wide swath of the cloud hardware ecosystem. CXL industry standards group members include a cross-section of OCP CSP, chip designers, and system manufacturers, in addition to Intel: Alibaba, Cisco, Dell EMC, Facebook, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Huawei, and Microsoft. However, AMD and NVIDIA are not yet members.
Microsoft, Baidu, and Facebook announced a collaboration to define an OCP Accelerator Module (OAM) specification, specifically aimed at standardizing artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators for better hardware purchasing economies of scale.
Microsoft also announced at OCP Global Summit that it is completely opening its Project Zipline data compression algorithms, hardware design specifications, and Verilog source code for register transfer language (RTL). It is a large initiative to standardize very low latency hardware-based data compression from chip to data center, and includes both Intel and AMD, as well as Arm server processor designers.
Liftr Cloud Insights Principal Analyst Paul Teich will attend the Open Infrastructure Summitto meet with many of the CSP data center infrastructure supply chain. Contact analyst@liftrcloud.com to schedule a meeting with Paul during the event.
Oracle reported its 3Q FY2019 earnings last week. Oracle CTO Larry Ellison said that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) had nearly 1,000 paying Autonomous Database customers and added around 4,000 new trials during the quarter. Oracle does not provide detail under its overall revenue (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc.); its overall cloud revenue was flat quarter-over-quarter.
Tencent Holdings will report its 2018 4Q and annual earnings this week on 3/21/2019.
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It's hard to peruse the historic holdings at the Morgan Library without imagining life in the museum's magnificent McKim-designed brownstone, the onetime residence of financier JP Morgan. Get a taste of 19th-century luxe life at the Morgan Dining Room, the museum's sumptuous restaurant set in what was once the Morgan family's private dining room. Befitting of its classically distinguished ambience, the Morgan's menu is inspired by hearty early American fare, featuring organic salads, chicken- and seafood-centric entrée selections and seasonal desserts like fruit cobbler. Weekend brunch offers a cocktail, coffee and a main course for just $19.


Solution: We created an online storefront for this company to display and advertise their branded products and available promotional items to their partners worldwide. The online ordering system was integrated with a fulfillment management system making the process virtually seamless for them and their partners.
Once the company awards their partners credits to use toward the purchase of promotional products, they give them access to the online storefront to select items. Rather than working with many different vendors for promotional products, which the company had been doing, we became their one source for all promotional products due to our relationships with a wide range of promotional product manufacturers and distributors.
Results:Our client achieved their brand awareness objectives by being able to expand their promotional products line and get more than 1,000 branded items into their partners' hands within just six months. The amount of order fulfillment that they are currently doing has increased tenfold. By ordering all of their promotional products through us they were able to save money and better control their brand through the consistency of ordering through just one vendor.


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Q: List Comprehension error in Python I'm working on a code in which in need to use a comprehensive list to calculate the y-axis values, using the input of x-axis values. I have two questions. First, I need to figure out how to use the values in my input list xx:
 print("How many x-axis values do you have?")
 xv = input("-->")
 print("What are your x-axis values? Put in each value and press enter.")
 xx = []
 while len(xx) < int(xv):
  item = float(input("-->"))
  xx.append(item)

and use those values inside the list comprehension:
y = [(a(x**2))+ bx + c) for x in xx]

When I run this, it says: Type error: 'str' object is not callable
My second question is that a,b, and c are also input, and i need to be able to put them in there too, but can't figure out how.
Any help or advice is appreciated.

A: print("How many x-axis values do you have?")
xv = input("-->")
print("What are your x-axis values? Put in each value and press enter.")
xx = []
while len(xx) < int(xv):
    item = float(input("-->"))
    xx.append(item)
a=float(input("a?:"))
b=float(input("b?:"))
c=float(input("c?:"))
y = [(a*(x**2)+ b*x + c) for x in xx]

Like this?

A: Python doesn't understand mathematical syntax in the same way you and I do. You need to explicitly specify all mathematical operations you perform.
a(x**2)

Doesn't mean "a times (x to the power of 2)", but rather "invoke the method 'a' with 'x to the power of 2' as the argument). You want to do this instead:
a * x**2

Note that the exponential operator has precedence over multiplication so there is no need for the parenthesis.
Similarily, you can't write 'bx' but you need to write b * x.
It also seems that 'a' is a string so you need to convert it to an int or a float before using it in mathematical expressions.
print("How many x-axis values do you have?")
xv = input("-->")
print("What are your x-axis values? Put in each value and press enter.")
xx = []
while len(xx) < int(xv):
 item = float(input("-->"))
 xx.append(item)
a, b, c = map(float, (a, b, c))
y = [(a * x**2 + b * x + c) for x in xx]

A: As noted by Joshua you need to have a*x**2 + b*x + c for the second part of your question I am not sure what you are asking but I think what you want is:
    a,b,c = eval(input("Please input a,b and c separated by a comma: "))

A: y = [(a(x**2)+ bx + c) for x in xx]

var a is a string type; you can not multiple like this "a(x**2)", it is a calling function in python;
change to :
y = [(a*(x**2)+ b*x + c) for x in xx]

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The office of the Stuntman's Association of India works out of a nondescript room in a nondescript building in Andheri, Mumbai. On a Saturday evening, the long corridor along which offices of all kinds operate though the week, is dark and deserted. All you hear as you step into its lift are echoes of uproarious male voices.
As you enter the office, you are drowned in the cacophony. During the weekend, stuntmen, old and young, play carom at this office.
It's not difficult to spot Rafique Qureshi in the room. Today, he stands out among the crowd, under warm bulbs that hang from the ceiling above the carom tables. He is wearing a navy blue suit, teamed with a grey tie and white shirt made of shiny silk. He is dressed for the interview.
"Why talk to me for independence day?" he asks, "I have no memories of the day."
As the conversation unfolds, he says he does think about his year of birth, although he believes that freedom of any kind has no relevance in a stuntman's life. Qureshi, like thousands of others, is a faceless toiler in Mumbai's film economy. Junior artistes (also known as extras), and stuntmen make up 12% of the workforce in the film industry, according to the Junior Artistes Association. There are 485 registered stuntmen in Mumbai. They are a workforce that fuels the film world without being seen or heard, but who have learnt to assert their rights the hard way. "For a long time, even till the 1990s, we were risking our lives making stars look dashing and heroic without insurance for our lives and compensation for injuries. Things have changed a lot now," Qureshi says. He started with Rs300 and now earns Rs1,280 as daily wage—a paltry amount, considering the risks involved.
Qureshi was born in Lucknow to a family of garment traders who struggled to make ends meet as the freedom struggle veered towards the end. After Partition, the family moved to Kolkata and took many years to settle into a comfortable business.
"As a young boy, I remember hearing about Nehru and Jinnah, but nothing really made sense to me. I just remember that something big had happened to the world outside school and home," he says.
He grew up watching Hindi film actors of the time—Madhubala, Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand—and nurtured the dream to be a film star. When he was 24, Qureshi boarded the train to Mumbai. "I would turn up outside producers' offices and beg for roles. Eventually, in the same year, I got my first job as an extra in Kamal Amrohi's Pakeezah. I'm one of the many in the mehfils where Meena Kumari is dancing, and I'm going 'wah wah wah'," Qureshi says.
After nearly seven years as a junior artiste, he became a stuntman, because they were paid better and there weren't many who wanted this job. Until now, Qureshi has worked in 350 feature films, including blockbusters such as Shakti (1982), Shaan (1980), Coolie (1983), Ram Balram (1980) and Major Saab (1998). "I saw Bachchan saab succumb to his injury on the sets of Coolie. I was going to fight with him next," he says, "and it was a sad day, because the stars inspired us to do what we do. When you see stars fall, you realize that all humans are equal."
On the sets of Ravi Chopra' Dehleez (1986), starring Jackie Shroff, Qureshi was injured. Shroff accidentally kicked his nose during a fight sequence, after which he had splinters of bone inside his nose. "I used to think of getting my nose fixed, but not any more. With age, I have started playing duplicates to actors," he says.
In his next film, Kaafila, which released this week, Qureshi has shared screen space with Sunny Deol. But more than new releases, his hopes are for the community that he belongs to—the day their lives will be insured on paper.


We just held the EnABLES Kick-off meeting, at the Bedford Hotel & Congress Centre, in Brussels.
At the meeting participated representatives from all the 9 partners.
NiPS Laboratory was represented by Francesco Orfei and Luca Gammaitoni.
EnABLES is a 4 year EC funded project EnABLES that will integrate key European research infrastructures (RIs) in powering the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Let's kick this off with the most obvious questions. How does the latest Ranger XP 1000, with a starting price of £13,399 ex VAT, fit in the 2018 Polaris model line-up? Those with an eye to running costs will no doubt first look to the con- siderably less powerful 23.4hp Ranger Diesel HD. This retails for £12,299, whereas its twin, the 68hp petrol-powered Ranger XP 900 EPS, has a sticker price that starts at £12,199 (see profi 6/2013 for our Polaris XP 900 driving impression).


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Big relief to Tejinder Singh Bagga from Punjab and Haryana High Court, ban on arrest till July 5
Tejinder Pal Bagga Case: BJP youth leader Tajinder Singh Bagga has got a big relief from the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Hearing the case of Tejinder Bagga on Tuesday, the High Court has stayed his arrest till July 5. The Punjab government has demanded to preserve the CCTV footage. Haryana government has handed over the CCTV footage of Peepli police station to the court. The next hearing on this will now be held on July 5.
Earlier, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Saturday night directed that no coercive step be taken against Tejinder Pal Singh Bagga. The Delhi BJP leader had filed a petition in the High Court seeking a stay on the arrest warrant issued by a Mohali court earlier in the day.
Bagga moved the High Court challenging it, hours after a Mohali court issued an arrest warrant in connection with a case registered against him by Punjab Police last month. Justice Anoop Chitkara heard Bagga's plea on urgent grounds just before midnight at his residence. Bagga's lawyer Chetan Mittal said on the High Court's order, 'No punitive steps till May 10'.
The Punjab Police had registered a case against Tejinder Pal Singh Bagga for making provocative statements, promoting enmity and making criminal intimidation. The case was registered on the complaint of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sunny Ahluwalia, a resident of Mohali. The FIR, registered on April 1, refers to Bagga's remarks of March 30, which he made during a BJP Yuva Morcha protest outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence.
A case was registered against Bagga under sections 153-A, 505 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code. Bagga was arrested by the Punjab Police on Friday from his Delhi residence. However, the policemen who were taking Bagga to Punjab were stopped in Haryana, after which the Delhi Police brought them back to Delhi.
read this also: Tejinder Bagga Arrest Case: Relief to Tejinder Bagga, order of Punjab-Haryana High Court – Do not take any drastic step till May 10


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Football Gossip
Leicester agree deals with 2 players heavily linked with Arsenal
Leicester City have signed Patson Daka and agreed a deal with free agent, Ryan Bertrand, two players Arsenal were heavily linked with.
Southampton's Ryan Bertrand left and West Bromwich Albion's Matt Phillips battle for the ball during the Premier League match at The Hawthorns, West Bromwich. Picture date: Monday, April 12, 2021. Copyright: Catherine Ivill
Arsenal have been linked with a move for Patson Daka since at least September 2020 and at one point it was even claimed they were the favourites to sign him, along with Manchester United.
Leicester, however, turned their attentions to the 22-year-old when they ran out of patience with Celtic's Odsonne Edouard, another player heavily linked with Arsenal.
They completed the deal to sign Daka on 1 July, shelling out £27m for the player who is valued at around £19.8m.
Leicester have also reportedly agreed a two-year deal with free agent Ryan Bertrand whom Arsenal reportedly made an offer to.
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"EMMMMM I don't know what to take for best. What if it rains or snows or there's fog? " she wailed.
EM was engrossed in the latest copy of "Top Wooden Treats for your Tiny Equus Asinus" her favourite periodical in the world, ever! Wee donkey, EM's very own little Equus Asinus, was currently laying under a crumpled heap of Wookie's pj"s and assorted underwear happily munching on a snack of a wooden spatula coated in oak shavings.
"EEEEEEEMMMMMM…Are you even listening to me?" Wookie was hitting the high notes now.
EM carefully laid her catalogue down , somehow finding a clear space on the desk top. Turning she looked at Wookie, then slowly let her gaze travel around the clothing catastrophe they were standing in. Returning to stare back at Wookie, she pointed to the door "You OUT now! Coffee for two and DON'T come back in until you are bringing them here. GO!" her imperious tone caused Wookie to hightail it out of there, sharpish. Geez she can be soooo bossy…Wookie grouched as she headed for the kitchen.
Back in the bedroom EM checked the room once more before moving into lightning speed action.
Within minutes Wookie's luggage was packed and secured. The unused clothing was returned to the various storage areas. EM smiled to herself. Hmm…best make sure she doesn't open any wardrobe or she'll find out where all the spare stuff was put away, well, returned…or just shoved in. Still never mind she won't need any of it until we're back. She grinned and returned to reading her beloved catalogue, carefully noting the order numbers for some fine looking walnut hairbrushes…Wee Donkey will love those!
Carefully balancing the two mugs of expertly brewed coffee Wookie pushed her way into the bedroom and stood there amazed.
"Wow EM how do you do it?" She passed EM's coffee over as she continued to stare around the tidy room with her luggage standing ready to go.
"Organisation and planning Wooks…you should try it" she smirked.
Wookie glared at her, knowing she had been the one to organise this entire trip to Willie and Hermione's wedding, whilst EM and Wee donkey had merely arrived on her doorstep this morning packed and ready to go. Glancing down she saw Wee donkey had fallen asleep, her head resting on Wookie's slippers. With a soft chuckle she bent down and gently stroked the little donkey's head, taking a seat on the bed to drink her coffee.
"I'm going ta haft agree with ya my cara is fearr -(bffff in Irish)" EM's face lit up as she beamed at Wookie.
Ever since meeting up again with Willie and Hermione and getting the invitations to their wedding, Wookie and EM had spent the following weeks planning and organising the entire road trip. Actually to be more precise, Wookie had done all the graft and EM had poured the Bushmills when required!
However, it all worked out fine and now they had everything loaded into the back of Wookie's Wheels as Wookie climbed into the drivers seat. EM lounged in the back seat alongside Wee donkey who was safely ensconced on her bed and happily munching on a few miniature wooden spoon snacks.
The passenger door opened causing a beaming smile to appear on Wookie's face as Shannon climbed in settling down and putting various items in their places around her. Shannon had already set the satnav for the route to Skellig Michael and Wookie knew it wouldn't be long before Shannon would be "talking" to the voice giving the directions, she had nicknamed Diddly!
"Hell yeh, lets hit the road, Wookie pedal to the metal hun and burn some rubber!" EM enthusiastically yelled from the back, throwing her arms up in excitement.
Wookie gulped as she felt the intake of breath from her Top…… Shannon glanced at her, ensuring Wookie would do no such rash action, before turning slightly towards EM…who had frozen realising who was in the truck.
The raised eyebrow was enough, but just in case the warning note in Shannon's voice confirmed her message.
"Uh, yes Ma'am, that's it, that's what I meant…you put it much clearer than me, it must have got lost in translation from me Irish no doubt…uh Ma'am" EM mumbled desperately wanting the ground to open up. She knew Shannon's views on speeding!
With a huge sigh of relief Wookie started Wheels up and they were soon bowling along the motorway, music blaring out as the girls sang along. Everyone was really looking forward to the trip and they were intent on enjoying every second!
Silence from the front…"Are we theeerrre yet, are we neeeaaarrrrllyy theeerre yettttt?" came the plaintive wail.
"No we have precisely 1 hour and 10 minutes before we get to Portmagee Marina where we will meet up with the others. Please be patient EllieMay " came the firm reply from Shannon who hadn't moved a muscle and Wookie was wondering exactly how she knew the travel time without even looking at the satnav. Shannon sat there an enigmatic smile on her face. EM huffed loudly in the back until a very large bag of Maltesers was passed discreetly back by Wookie! One happy brat contented herself with munching away on the VERY crunchy sweets!
Half an hour later as they approached a fork in the road Wookie waited for the satnav to kick in. She slowed down hoping for directions.
"Diddly , now would be a good time to do your job!" Shannon announced.
"When you are ready Diddly feel free to join us " Shannon's voice was slightly more insistent.
Wookie snorted and started giggling helplessly just keeping control of the truck…whilst EM collapsed into howls of laughter thumping the back of Wookie's seat. Shannon's smile lit up her face, laughter was good.
However back to business . "DIDDLY NOW PLEASE" came the stern command.
'At the junction ahead take the left turn' came the measured tone of the satnav.
Hurriedly she sped up a little and turned left trying to contain the returning laughter.
The rest of the drive soon passed and Wookie's Wheels was shortly approaching the Marina.
"Keep watch for Willie, Hermione and the crew" EM called out "Oh hang on that's them over there lunging forward and pointing over Wookie's shoulder scaring the life out of her and causing her to pull the wheel sharp left, almost colliding with a Range Rover as it exited the car park. Wookie wrenched the wheel back and smiled apologetically, unaware that EM was waving her 3 fingered salute at the irate driver.
"Sit back now EM" came the order from Shannon.
"Yes Ma'am sitting back down as we speak Ma'am" EM replied quickly, desperately trying to hide her excitement but not really succeeding. Shannon kept her face straight glad Wookie had avoided the accident and smiling inwardly at EM's enthusiasm. 'This trip is going to be interesting; she thought to herself.
Wookie parked over by the beautiful Harley's belonging to Hermione and Willie and the new Land Rover belonging to Siobhan.
EM was out of the truck before Wookie had pulled the brake. Shannon climbed out and opened the back door to get Wee donkey out. Wookie came round and they all met up with the group with Wookie giving rapid introductions. A round of welcoming hugs ensued, Willie and Shannon recognised each other's status instinctively and respectful hand shakes were exchanged with smiles and greetings. Hermione smothered everyone with hugs and kisses, saving Wookie till last calling out her name 'Woookkkkiiiiee' as she swept the hapless girl off her feet twirling around excitedly. Hermione, all 6'2 ' of her in her diamanté lavender pastel biking leathers was quite a sight to behold and Wookie felt like she was on a carousel ride going at top speed. Willie stepped in "Wookie will ya please stop groping my Sugar-Britches !" looking on as Wookie held on for dear life praying for the white knuckle ride to stop.Hermione finally stopped, putting her back down on the ground. Wookie had to stop herself falling down and kissing the earth in heartfelt thanks. EM and Siobhan were laughing at the sight and even Shannon was grinning broadly.
"Ladies I've booked a meal for us over at the hotel so best we make our way there." Willie announced looking at Shannon who nodded in agreement.
Before long they were all ensconced in a private room to the side of the restaurant. Wee donkey had her own rest area with a variety of wood shavings, slivers of willow and a selection of walnut briquettes. She was perfectly content watching all the festivities.
The meal was proceeding perfectly. The conversation was flowing as quickly as was the wine. Everyone seemed perfectly at ease in the group which was good to see. Shannon looked around the table and was delighted that all was going so well.
The door opened and two ladies walked in. Siobhan looked up recognising the blond, 6' biker Top 'Hey Sparks, good ta see ya hun" as she got up to give her friend and Top a hug.
EM 's face was a picture of amazed delight and utter horror as her past flashed before her eyes and she froze. Undaunted by no response from the catatonic girl, Bubba, the 6', black curly haired, muscle bound lady in question, swept EM out of her chair enveloping her in strong arms and whirling her around almost smothering her in joy at seeing EM once more.
Wookie stared at the sight then recognising Bubba she shot out of her chair going over to the pair to greet EM's jail protector!
"Hey Wookie, good to see you my friend. Are you behaving yourself now?" Bubba grinned at her with her head to one side.
"She most certainly is." Shannon had joined the group looking at Bubba with interest.
"Shannon this is Bubba, EM's uh friend and Bubba this is Shannon " Wookie quickly introduced them. Shannon and Bubba again instinctively recognised each other's status so cordial handshakes and greetings were exchanged.
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When I issue /etc/init.d/iptables status it says:
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How can I make it work with apf? I have Ubuntu 11.04 in a VPS!

A: By default fail2ban is configured to work with iptables; this generates a configuration conflict with APF because fail2ban adds a chain to iptables and when you reload APF it wipes that fail2ban chain each time.
Fortunately you can configure fail2ban to have many different actions, this allows it to be able to work with iptables, shorewall, etc.
To make APF and fail2ban work together we just need to add an apf action to fail2ban:
I created the /etc/fail2ban/action.d/apf.conf based on the shorewall.conf and we just need to edit actionban and actionunban to this:
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Then we have to configure fail2ban to use apf by editing the /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf file.
The line we are looking for is:
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The small kingdom in the north of Europe enchants with its rolling hills, beautiful beaches and magical light tones. Our cycle tours wind their way through this fairy-tale landscape of Hans Christian Andersen, past windmills and reed thatched cottages, even wild horses can be observed in their natural habitat.
The Danish cities and villages radiate a relaxed atmosphere and the pastel coloured houses make for some excellent photo motifs.
The tall ship Atlantis offers you comfortable lodgings for the duration of your Sail and Bike journey through the Danish island world and will insure an unforgettable holiday experience on the water with its impressive, billowing sails.
Even Denmark has inspirational foods. A good example of the culinary creativity of the Danes is the Smørrebrød. There are endless possibilities for filling a Smørrebrød, be it fish, meat or egg – usually they are smothered in tartar sauce (mayonnaise with onions) and other sauces and garnished with a colourful mixture of salads. The foundation of the sandwich is thin black bread.


England brought their heavy artillery to the MCA Stadium in Pune but still they were outgunned. They posted 350 and then had India 63 for 4 but could not finish the job. They removed Virat Kohli, the king of the chase, but others stepped into the breach. They saw off Kedar Jadhav, who scored a 65-ball hundred, but could not see off the rest. A match that aggregated more than 700 runs was finally settled in India's favour with the 23rd six of the night. This could be some series.
Kohli extended the imperious form that saw him reign in all formats in 2016 to score his 27th ODI hundred and he was ably supported by Jadhav, 31 years old and playing his 13th ODI, during a partnership of exactly 200 that set up India to achieve their joint second-highest successful chase. Victory was achieved with 11 balls to spare as Hardik Pandya followed up his two wickets with a cool-headed and inventive 40 not out to guide India home.


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Lies of the Heart 10 August 2020 Update ends as Samrat finally turns around to see who has come in. He ducks just in time, when he hears urmi and ishaan's voices in the hallway. They come inside, and samrat is ducked behind the sofa.
Inside, urmi is unable to find the envelope, and is concerned. ishaan asks her to find it later, while saying that he is hungry. they both leave to go for dinner. Samrat eyes them going from hiding behind the wardrobe. As they leave, he takes the pics, and some aaccidentally fall out from his hand. the sudden noise startles urmi and she turns around.
Samrat is scared and shocked, as he is collecting back the pics. he again ducks, while urmi points that she senses someone's presence, but ishaan says that she is just hallucinating, and takes her down for dinner. Samrat comes out just then. He takes the pics and burns and flushes them, thinking that he had a close shave today.
Downstairs, all are having dinner, while sandfhya walks around with her fairness treatment pack. They ask her to eat, but she denies. Anirudh asks about samrat, and tani says that he isnt feeling well, and is resting in the room. The telephone landline rings, and both samrat, upstairs and sandhya downstairs pick up at the same time. She starts talking and the person turns out to be James. Samrat is shocked, and starts fumbling, much to james' plight, when he desires to speak to urmi.
Samrat desperately tries to get sandhya to turn down the phone, and after much hassle she does. Samrat then asks james how dare he call here aand send pics to urmi. Samrat's tone changes, and james gives him a place to meet up, soi that they can again talk about their arrangement. samrat hurriedly complies. James cancels the call. Samrat is highly tensed.
Urmi asks rani about the envelope and gets to know that she had kept it properly. Urmi is boggled, while shashi thinks that this is samrat's work too, and tries to distract that maybe rani didnt keep it correctly. They start discussing how they have been witness to strange things recently in the house. But urmi is determined to find out whats wrong, and then expose the people as and what they are. Shashi is tensed. Sandhya points to damini, in hushed tones, as to how they might have failed, but urmi is hell bent and shall succedd too to send samrat out of the house. Damini is amused.
Munna pverhears a person talking about illegal pharma work on the phone, expressing his frustration as to how he isnt getting the right person to do his illegal job, when he haas lots of money to give. munna barges in and says, after giving his medical history, that he is a master of illegal works involving medicine, and starts glating. He gets the name of a deadly medicine, that isnt given without a doctor's prescription, and he okays to arrange it in one hour, and gives his address to the person, to come with cash to take the med. he complies.
Just when munna arranges for the medicine, the person reveals that he is a police officer, and that he is under arrest. munna is boggled, as he doesnt under stand whats going on. Ishaan and urmi come and tell him that he is finally exposed. munna asks whats going on. Ishaan says that he is a crime officer, and had he told earlier, he wouldnt have had to face all this today.
Munna begs them to allow him to leave, as he has left all these work. the officer reprimands him for his big statements, and munna turns to all of them for an apology. urmi says that what he did was illegal, but he can save himself. Munna hurriedly asks what can he do. Urmi asks him to tell them who asked him to tamper with shaurya's lab reports. munna asks if he would be left if he tells them. They comply. Munna finally blurts out that its Samrat. they are shocked.
Munna tells Ishaan and Urmi that Samrat bribed him. Munna asks them to release him and that he won't do anything like that ever again. Ishaan and Urmi agree. Ishaan pulls the fake officer aside and pays him for his help.
Samrat tells Kiran to meet him. Ishaan and Urmi see Samrat arguing with a guy on the road and end up following him to the restaurant. They overhear Kiran and Samrat talking and find out everything: the hotel night, Kiran, and James, Samrat's lies to Kiran.
Outside Ishaan is furious and wants to expose Samrat's truth to everyone. Urmi stops him saying that it will all be too easy for Samrat to escape from. That Samrat is only being blackmailed by James so that Tani doesn't find out about his evil deeds. She says that they should let him suffer each day. He will think he is winning but that won't be true.
Samrat opens the suitcase to reveal wads of notes, surprising james. james asks if he is fooling him, and if it is 40 lakhs. samrat says that its 73,440, in notes and change. james smiles and taunts him, with ridicule in his eyes, asking if its a beggar's dakshina, while samrat is tensed, thinking that james did see through it. he decides to teach james a lesson at the right time.
Samrat insistently says that he has arranged the money and shall give it in two days. james lets out a sigh and says that he gave him two days. samrat is shocked to know that he understood so easily. james says that this money is the interest for two days, and when he meets him the next time, he shall get 40 lakhs. samrat begs to him for consideration. james however taunts and mocks him, but sticks to his condition. Samrat however says that he shall give the remaining amount.
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james takes out the revolver, and pointing it to his head, asks him to get lost and not forget who he is talking to. samrat is scared but still pleads for mercy. he fires two blanks, and scares samrat away. urmi sees this all from hiding and is tensed. James stands disgusted. he is about to take his car, when urmi calls himf rom behind. he points the guna t her too. she is scared but asks him not to wqorry as they are on the same side. he is alarmed, and says that he has seen her somewhere, and then recognises her, as samrat's Ex-wife
Urmi is tensed, asking how he knows about her. he asks how she got to know about him. She says that she came here to help him. he asks if he looks like he needs help, and asks whats her motive for helping him, and asks what she needs from him. She says that he blackmails samrat and she is his enemy, and hence they can be friends, for the same motive. he asks whats the deal, and what she wants. she says that she needs nothing.
Urmi instigates james, that samrat is befooling him, and that he is a fool to demand a mere 40 lakhs, and that instead he should demand for 1 crore, from a person of samrat's stature. He asks if she is joking, as samrat came to him, with change. She says that he is befooling him, as samrat is completely an animal by nature. she says that samrat is just acting in front of him, to save his money. she also tells about samrat's fake plans for theme restaurant, and he can easily get a crore too. He gets influenced. urmi smiles thinking that her plan worked.
Samrat meanwhile sells tani's car for 22 lakhs too and with a pact that it shall look like theft. He gives samrat an advance of 5lakhs. samrat hands him the keys, and he refuses saying that hwe doesnt want to get cauight, but asks smarat to ensure that the doors of the car are open. samrat complies. he asks when shall he come to steal it. He says that he shall come tonight. They seal their deal. samrat eyes the money evilly.
Sandhya has her face covered and created a tantrum. damini asks her whats the problem, and asks her to speak or show them her face atleast. shashi comes and says that she must be screaming due to happiness of the treatment's success. damini starts getting angry and asks her to lift the dupatta and show her face.
Shashi lets out a scream, as her face is covered in red rashes, as a reaction, to the treatment. shashi smiles within, as sandhya got a befitting reply. Damini asks if she contacted the doctor. She replies that she shall go with urmi, once she comes back. Lies of the Heart 10 August 2020
Urmi narrates everything to Ishaan, who is angry at urmi, that she went alone, and asks her to tell him the next time she plans something like this. she apologises. then she tells how shaurya is missing them. He asks her to tell him that soon they shall go to take him. She smiles.
Samrat is tensed in his room, as to where to arrange the next 18 lakhs, and seal james' mouth. he gets frustrated seeing james' call. Samrat promises to james, that he shall definitely fulfill the promises and get the money in two days. james however cuts him to size and tells samrat demanding for 1 crore now. he is shocked. He starts stammering as to how he shall get 1 crore.
Lies of the Heart 10 August 2020 Update ends as Samrat tries to reason with him, but james cancels the call. Samrat is super frustrated, and tensed. He decides that he has had enough, and its beyond his tolerance level and now he shall have to arrange something else, instead of 1 crore for him. he decides to end this chapter of james once and for all.
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Imagine a four-square Virginia farmhouse updated to 21st century sleek perfection and then place it in a stunning setting, and you have a good idea of what awaits you at the Fodderstack Farmhouse. This elegant home is sited on a rolling landscape of mountain and pastoral views not far from the village of Flint Hill and a short drive from the town of Little Washington on scenic Fodderstack Road.
The traditional farmhouse exterior of pebbledash stucco and board and batten, gives way to an interior which seamlessly blends a traditional room layout with a contemporary sensibility. The addition to the original farmhouse incorporates large windows to bring the mountain and pond views into the house. Decking extends the living space into the outdoors. A state of the art (Sonos) electronics system coordinates sound, security and temperature control from multiple locations. High end quality fixtures and finishes are evident throughout.
Front Entry (8 x 22) – Front entrance with staircase to upper level and access to guest bedroom, hall bath and mud room and office and dining.
Guest Bedroom (13 x 15) – bedroom or den off entry hall. Pine flooring.
Kitchen – (14 x 18) – Cath ceiling open to LR and DR. Silestone quartz counters and backsplash. Miele dishwasher, extra large fridge/freezer. 2 wall ovens – 5 burner range.
Mudroom/Laundry (7 x 10) – Washer, dryer and space for storing and hanging outdoor clothing.
Wrap around deck in back – sliding doors from dining room and office – ipe decking.
Dressing Room (8 x 13) – carpeted with shelves and closet space.
Master Bath (10 x 10) – Large soaking tub, extra large shower for 10 – double vanity in silestone. Radiant heated stone floors.
Rec Room (22 x 32) – Large open space with sliding door to lawn. Projection TV system with surround sound. Polished concrete floors.
Large system storage room (37 x 12) – unfinished space for storage and heating, cooling and plumbing.
Small log cabin – frame of antique log cabin which can be assembled on site or moved to a new location.
The grounds consist of a large backyard sloping down to a 1/4 acre pond. Beyond the pond is a large hayfield which can be used for hay or pasturage for livestock. There are several specimen trees planted around the house and landscaping in the front yard which accents the architecture and also helps screen the roadway and parking area from the front yard. There is ample garden space and room for outdoor entertaining. The same building restrictions which restrict any structures on the hayfield also apply to adjacent properties, thus affording excellent protection of the mountain views and privacy.
Telecom: The Fodderstack Farmhouse boasts excellent cell phone coverage from Sprint, Verizon and AT&T networks, broadband internet is also available.
Location: The Fodderstack Farmhouse is located on Fodderstack Road in Rappahannock County between Flint Hill and Little Washington. Points of View is 20 miles from Rt. 66 (Marshall exit 27) or 17 miles (Ft. Royal exit). Approximately 70 miles from Washington, DC. Travel time to downtown DC is 1 Hour 30 minutes (in low traffic situations). Approximately 60 minutes to Dulles International Airport. 1 hour 15 minutes to Charlottesville. 20 minutes to Warrenton, 10 minutes to Front Royal. The Farmhouse is in Old Dominion Hounds foxhunting territory.
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Here is our take on a classic European inspired renovation. We love the simple lines created with the use of Miralis Cabinets and Compac Quartz counters. The combination of surface textures added personality and style to this design. We paired white glossy cabinets with a matte gray island for a bold statement. Gray tones were carried throughout the details in both porcelain tile walls and stainless steel appliances.


The way we organize our data is critical to our ability to perform various analyses after we collect it. We are all familiar with products like Excel or Google Sheets, which are the most popular modes for capturing and sharing data (certainly in undergraduate or graduate studies, where formal systems almost never exist). They are powerful, and they enable a lot of flexibility in how we present our data. One potential challenge is that we tend to organize our data in a style that makes it "pretty" to the eye – this is generally how data is presented in tabular form for scientific publishing. In the publishing or presentation contexts, it makes sense to present the data this way, as we are trying to summarize complicated data in a human-readable format. In the world of analysis, however, this approach is not ideal, as it does not "feed" analytical software the right format of data.
Solid estimates suggest that data science is 80% clean up and 20% actual analysis. Spending hours cleaning "pretty" data and making it usable for analysis is...well, less than pleasant. Except for a few outliers out there, I suspect most of us want to spend our time analyzing data and making keen insights that enable even better experimentation and process. The good news is that this is possible with a little bit of planning and organization!
Let's first think about what a generic data collection plan might look like, in a graphical format. Figure 1, below, illustrates what we're capturing in a process. There are inputs/factors*, which are both the material inputs (e.g., a reagent, a chemical, a filtration apparatus, a fermentation vessel, etc.), as well as process settings (e.g., temperature, pressure, duration, etc.). The outputs/responses of the process are both material outputs (perhaps a new chemical, a harvest broth from fermentation, a purified powder, etc.) and the associated data, such as the chromatographic information, the quality data associated with the products, and so on.
Figure 1. Example of a data plan for a given process. We push inputs/factors into a process, which results in outputs and responses - we want to capture all relevant data associated with this process!
Take, for example, the process of measuring the concentration of a given molecule by HPLC. We might have inputs/factors like sample type (and the sample itself), diluent, mobile phase, the HPLC system we're using, the operator who prepared the sample, and so on, as well as column temperature, flow rate, injection volume, etc. And our outputs/responses will be the physical eluent, a chromatogram or chromatograms (signal vs. time), peak area(s) for our molecule(s) of interest, concentration for those molecules, etc.
There are merged cells, which means that we can't associate each measurement to the input or factor that led to it - most programs will only recognize this as the first column. So, the operator "Alice" will only be associated with the mean value of the measurement for fermentation broth derived from HPLC 1.
There are both row-based and column-based titles. Analytical software requires each bit of data to be in its own column so that data is easily parsed.
The data has been abstracted into calculated values - the fact that there are means and standard deviations indicates that there were multiple replicates. Each replicate should be in its own row so that we are able to detect outliers when they occur (or at least generate suspicion that we may be observing one).
Table 1. Example of a typical data table from an analytical measurement system analysis type of study. While this table looks good, it is not very usable for subsequent analysis, nor does it tell us very much about the nature of the data behind each mean, standard deviation (S.D.), and %RSD (the S.D. divided by the mean times 100%, or a relative measure of the standard deviation in the context of the mean).
How Should I Structure My Table?
Data tables should contain each variable in its own column and a row for each individual run/measurement/etc. This means there will be quite a bit of redundancy in certain columns, to be certain, but each row will be completely unique (at the very least, there will always be a unique run/replicate id number that prevents even identical results from resulting in an identical row). Table 2 provides an example of the data provided in Table 1 being rebuilt in an analytically-friendly format.
Table 2. Example of flat analytical data table. You will note that each instance of a measurement occurs in its own row, there are no merged cells, and each variable has a column associated with it. Note that the table has been truncated for readability.
By arranging your data in this format, you still enable production of a summarized table, such as the one detailed in Table 1; however, you also enable other types of analysis - you can now group and summarize by any variable utilized in a given study. We know more about each measurement and can scrutinize it independent of a grouping. We can perform a variance analysis to determine which variable(s) has the most impact on the noise of our assay or process. Planning ahead and pre-structuring your data tables for analysis will provide for all use cases while keeping things organized and efficient. This means using analytics and visualization software like JMP, R, Spotfire, Tableau, and Python without any cumbersome prework.
Riffyn SDE helps you automatically shape your data into this format ready for analysis. It provides cutting-edge approaches to data organization using patented technology. If you'd like to learn more, send a note to hello@riffyn.com.
*It should be noted that for mathematical modeling, the x variables are all considered factors, and the y variables are all responses. We note that in "real" life, there are physical materials involved, hence inputs and outputs (which ultimately become factors and responses in the modeling process).


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Editor's Note (10/28/21): The New York Racing Association (NYRA) has announced that Saratoga Race Course's 2022 season will open on July 14 and conclude on Labor Day, September 5. The 2022 schedule has not been announced yet, but we will provide updates here when NYRA releases details.
The racing schedule below indicates which days will feature live racing, and it also highlights some popular days like Whitney and Travers.
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John is a UK registered pharmacist who spent the first part of his career in academia, completing his PhD in neuroscience and subsequently lecturing in pharmacology. For over 30 years he has worked in the publishing, healthcare agency and pharmaceutical industry sectors. He started in healthcare communications and publishing by joining Adis International (now part of the Springer Group) where he held several roles including General Manager (Germany), Business Development Director and Editorial Director. John then joined AstraZeneca in 2000 as a Global Publications Manager working in the neurology, pain, anaesthesia and psychiatry areas. He then moved into Global Professional Relations at AstraZeneca in the psychiatry field - a position held for 3 years.
From 2008 to 2016 John was in leadership roles in the Global Publications Group at AstraZeneca Medical Affairs at Alderley Park, UK. He was responsible for publications skills development and was Director of Publications Policy until August 2013.Thereafter he became Therapy Area Publications Director for the CNS, GI and Infection franchise. John has been a member of the Medical Publishing Insights & Practices (MPIP) Initiative Steering Committee, Secretary on the ISMPP Board of Trustees and a member of the CMPP Board of Trustees.
John set up Solanum Medical Communications to provide consultancy to the pharmaceutical, biotech and device industries, and agencies on medical publications policy, strategy, planning, guidelines, writing, training and ethics.


There is a growing body of scholarly literature on sentimentalism, weddings, matrimony, and the rituals/invented traditions that surround them. While I enjoy and have learned from many of these books, I am sometimes frustrated by their tendency to view practices like honeymoons simply as the repressive tools of patriarchy and capitalism.
Honeymoons certainly do represent society's dominant values – sentimentalism, consumerism, patriotism, heterosexism etc. But to treat honeymoons as straightforward celebrations of these values is to ignore the contradictions and conflicts that dogged their practice or, more to the point, emerged through their practice. Honeymoons were shaped and re-shaped over the course of the nineteenth century.
It seems important to me that we hang on to the messiness of nineteenth-century honeymoon practice and that we don't try to tidy it up too much – that is, impose an ideological coherence onto it that the practice itself never had.
Otherwise we would wrongly suggest that the "triumph" of the lavish white wedding was historically inevitable (hence irreversible) and that it always means the same thing to all its participants and its audiences. It also leaves us poorly equipped to explain contemporary Niagara Falls's newfound popularity as a site for gay weddingmoons. As this example proves, practices like honeymooning can serve as vehicles through which non-dominant groups make claims to social legitimacy and belonging.
Although I still feel ambivalent about many aspects of white weddings (their cost, their wastefulness, their symbolic exchange of women), their very openness to appropriation – their ability to undermine those values they seem to so obviously represent – seems like a valuable and positive takeaway from their history.


Dust mopping floors is one of the most important steps in any floor care maintenance program. As with any type of cleaning, removing dry soils before adding liquid makes the entire process much easier.
Because dust mopping is usually done dry, it also allows the floor to be cleaned while the area is being used.
There is no chance of anyone slipping and falling and makes it possible to remove surface soils sooner to keep foot traffic from grinding dirt into the floor finish.
While dust mopping floors is a fairly common practice, there are several factors that can make it more productive and reduce the chances that it will result in damage to the floor or the floor finish.
Knowing how to dust mop properly can reduce time on regular and restorative floor maintenance.
To get the best results from dust mopping a floor, the most important thing to remember is to always use the front edge. This can take some practice because making turns, maneuvering around objects and changing directions can make this difficult.
Dust mops are not meant to pick up dirt in the same way a regular wet mop does. Instead, they push the dirt along. This creates a pile along the front edge of the mop. The larger debris is collected toward the leading edge and the finer particles are trapped farther back in the mop. This is why when you look at a dirty dust mop, it has a gradient from dark to light.
If you pull the dust mop backwards, you will leave behind the line of dirt you are pushing. Similar to plowing snow or sweeping with a broom, dust mops push dirt along on their leading edge. This is also why dust mop handles usually swivel. It makes sharp turn much easier.
Continue along the floor, making overlapping passes. When you come to a turn, swivel the handle and turn the dust mop so that the same side is the leading edge.
When you are finished with the area, pick up the dust mop and brush or vacuum the dirt off the leading edge. Also, you have likely left a pile on the floor. Sweep or vacuum that up as well.
There are many different variations of dust mops, but I am going to focus on 3 common types. Cotton, Synthetic and Microfiber. I have used all of these over the years for dust mopping. Some are better than others, but this should help you know and understand the difference.
These are the traditional and least expensive type of dust mop. Cotton dust mops have been around for years. Cotton is a natural fiber that works well to "push" large soils and debris but is not very effective for fine dust particles.
To make them more effective, it is common to use a dust mop treatment. This is a chemical that is sprayed directly onto the dust mop to aid in trapping dust. While there are many different formulas for dust mop treatment, the main compound is usually a natural oil, typically banana oil.
This oil based treatment can cause many short and long-term problems for floors. If too much is used, the floors can become extremely slippery and difficult to clean. Because of the oil, cleaning with a water based solution is less effective. (Water and oil don't mix) To remove the film, a de-greasing chemical is needed which can cause damage to floor finish.
The oil residue will also cause the floor to become sticky and attract dirt. If a high-speed burnisher is used over this oily, dirty film, the floor finish will begin to yellow in the traffic lanes. The oil can also be tracked on to adjoining carpet areas, making them more difficult to clean.
There are a couple of other factors to take note of with cotton dust mops. When using them for dust mopping a floor in high humidity conditions, they will catch and drag because of the moisture. This causes them to be very difficult to use. Also, because cotton is a natural fiber, they are difficult to launder and are usually considered to be disposable.
Though cotton dust mops can be brushed free of most large debris, the fine dust that is trapped by the dust mop treatment is difficult to remove. Being a natural fiber, the cotton fibers will also begin to breakdown quickly, and give less than optimal results.
While the purchase price of cotton dust mops is often less than other types, the long-term cost is much higher because of the added cost of dust mop treatment, frequent replacement and the shortened maintenance cycle of the floor.
Cotton dust mops are by far the most expensive option.
Unlike the natural fibers of a cotton dust mop, synthetic fiber dust mops are made of man-made yarn or plastic. When this plastic yarn slides across the floor, dust is collected and held by static electricity rather than using a dust mop treatment.
Synthetic dust mops are commonly stitched in a looped end pattern that prevents fraying and gives better pickup of soil. Because of the looped end construction, these dust mops can be laundered many times. It is also easy to shake them out or use a brush to clean them as well. Since there is no oily treatment, they are easily cleaned.
The synthetic fibers are also not effected by moisture. Unlike cotton, they are much lighter to push regardless of humidity or presence of liquid. The plastic fibers and their clean-ability cause synthetic fiber dust mops to last much longer.
Nylon fiber dust mops also work really well for winter floor care, when the floor is sticky with salt residue and usually wet in some areas.
Synthetic dust mops are usually 10-15% more to purchase. But, when you factor in their advantages, the overall cost of dust mopping the floor is decreased dramatically when they are used.
The evolution of microfiber for cleaning is one that is quickly changing many old traditions. Microfiber is more efficient, easier to use, and more importantly, much more effective.
Similar to synthetic dust mops, microfiber dust mops are made of plastic fibers. The difference is in the types of plastic that are used. In a past post, I created an info-graphic to show How Microfiber Works To Clean and how it is made. But when it comes to dust mopping, Microfiber is extremely effective.
The yarn is constructed of a very fine plastic fiber. They can be used both dry and even damp. This allows floors to be cleaned while dust mopping, reducing an entire step in some cases. The channels in the individual fibers grab and hold the very fine dust particles, preventing any of the dust from going airborne. Microfiber dust mops can be rinsed clean or laundered and increasing their usable life.
All of these factors combined make microfiber the hands down, best option for dust mopping the floor.
With either synthetic or microfiber dust mops, there is a rather large green impact. Because there are no chemicals needed and they can be re-used over and over, their increased effectiveness and efficiency, and the ability to actually clean during peak traffic times, dust mopping becomes a very important part of a green cleaning program.
The bottom line is that the more soil and debris you can remove from a floor, the easier the floor is to maintain and keep the dirt from spreading throughout a building. Regardless of the type of dust mop you chose, the more you do it, the better your over all cleaning results will be.
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Great post and really informative. Please keep up the good work.
Thanks Gary! Glad you liked it.
It's great to read about the different kinds of dust mops, I didn't even realize there are several types but knowing which is which will help you find the dust mop that will best fit your cleaning needs.
Normally I'll use a backpack vacuum on hard floors in the corridors. This method produces less dust flying in the air, picks up finer particles, and the time spent is comparable to dust mopping. In a larger space like a gym a wide dust mop is more productive. When finished dust mopping, I like to use my backpack vacuum to clean the pile of dirt and dust off of the floor and the dust mop itself. That way I'm not shaking out the dust into the air, and the mop needs less laundering, extending its life.
Yes, Backpack vacuums really can go along way to replacing the dust mop, but there will always be a place for dust mops. Great job making an effort to control the dust! Once you capture the dust, why not contain it, right?


This isn't a dish I cook for the children but I'm sharing it because it's one of my favourites. The bright colours of the roasted vegetables make it an attractive meal, their sweetness is balanced by a balsamic vinegar dressing and as far as I'm concerned pretty much any meal can be improved by adding goat's cheese.
I love that this meal feels like a treat but is low in fat and packed full of vitamins and minerals. It's really easy to make too, the most time-consuming part of preparing it is letting the vegetables cook in the oven (this could be done in advance, the cooked vegetables will be fine in the fridge for a couple of days).
I usually end up cooking way too much couscous so I've done a bit of research – the recommended portion size is 60g (which is what I've suggested in the recipe) although I found that 40g was plenty for me so you might decide to use less.
I've left the couscous plain because both the vegetables and goats cheese have a strong taste. I'm usually not fussy about what oil I use in cooking but I do use olive oil for this meal because I find it makes a difference to the taste. If you want to experiment then mushrooms and aubergine would work well in this recipe too.
Chop the vegetables into large chunks and put into a roasting dish.
Chop or crush the garlic, then add it to the roasting dish along with the olive oil, balsamic vinegar and mixed herbs. Stir well to make sure all the vegetables are coated them spread them out to cover the bottom of the roasting tray.
Cook the vegetables for 30 minutes, stirring half way through the cooking time.
A few minutes before the end of the vegetables' cooking time boil the water and measure the couscous out into a heatproof bowl. Cover the couscous with the boiling water and leave covered with a clean tea towel for five minutes until the water has been absorbed. Break up the couscous with a fork.
Serve the vegetables over the couscous then cut the goats cheese into chunks and add to the top.
This meal combines all my favourite flavours!


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The wood we use in our sash is with CVG Alaskan Yellow Cedar which is highly resistant to decay. Alaskan Yellow Cedar logs that are known to have lain in the forest for decades and found to be sound. Even immersion in salt water does not harm the wood. This wood can also be used for boat decking and railings. This is a dense soft wood that closely resembles the color of pine so you can stain it to match your existing pine sashes. This tree grows in the mountains of Western Washington and Oregon This is why it holds up, extremely well in the Northwest weather. This means no more rotting problems or constant worry about having enough paint on your windows this wood is perfect for window parts in rainy environments.
The stops are milled to mimic the original pressed sash these stops are also made of CVG yellow cedar. They are installed on the exterior of the sash for unit replacement in case of glass breakage or unlikely seal failure. Exterior stops saves you money on refinishing the interior if glass replacement is needed so only touch up of the exterior would be necessary.
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Nestled in the middle of the tropical garden of the hotel, away from the beach, the luxury garden bungalows are enhanced by a unique blend of French sophistication and contemporary Polynesian design accents. Drawing on a palette of bright colors and precious woods, the personal space includes a generous bathroom with French toiletries and an outdoor patio. Expansive windows offering dramatic garden views from your private terrace can further immerses you in your tropical getaway. Each room as 1 king or 2 single beds and a sofa bed.
Facing the pristine lagoon of Moorea with views of the overwater bungalows, these units subtly feature classic simplicity, sophisticated comfort and modern facilities. Each one has its own private deck, with direct access to the beach, allowing you to indulge and appreciate the surrounding tropical Paradise. The bedroom interiors are a perfect blend of French elegance and Polynesian culture. Textures, patterns and bright colors are influenced buy the French painter Paul Gauguin within a contemporary yet Tahitian decor. Rooms have either 1 king or 2 single beds.
Like the Superior Lagoon View bungalows, these units are located right on the beach frontage, with direct access to the lagoon. They also subtly combine classic simplicity, sophisticated comfort and modern facilities. The difference lies in the clear outstanding views over the pristine waters of Moorea and the sister island of Tahiti. More spacious, these bungalows also feature an outdoor patio in the bathroom that give a unique touch. With your own private terrace, you will be able to really appreciate the tropical surroundings. Rooms have 1 king or 2 single beds.
Built right over the lagoon, these units feature a direct access to the pristine waters. Ask for snorkelling equipment (free at the water sports center) as you don't want to miss the marine life underneath your bungalow. Large, bright and airy, the Superior Overwater bungalows offer comfort and elegance in a modern setting. Each unit has a glass floor panel allowing you to enjoy more views on the colourful fish swimming beneath you.
At time of reservation, ask me for a Superior Overwater Bungalow located at the far end of the pontoon as these are the lead in overwater bungalows closest to the beach and resort. Great views of the island of Tahiti, sunrises.
Exclusive Horizon Benefits: In-Room private Check-In, 1 bottle of champagne upon arrival, mini bar refilled daily with mineral water & sodas, 1 bottle of water and ice at turndown, tea & Nespresso, VIP Lanvin amenities, 1 hour express ironing, shoe shining, fresh flowers in the bathroom, best table at K restaurant on opening days, personalized letter head paper, 'On Call' dedicated concierge.
Like the Superior Overwater bungalows, these units are built right over the lagoon, featuring a direct access to the pristine waters. Ask for snorkelling equipment (free at the water sports center) as you don't want to miss the marine life underneath your bungalow. Almost twice the size of the Superior, they offer a larger and more upscale interior design. Unique to these overwater categories, the outdoor patio in the bathroom gives a nice light to the overall. Each unit has a glass floor panel allowing you to enjoy more views on the colourful fish swimming beneath you.
Like the Superior, they offer a larger and more upscale interior design. Unique to these overwater categories,the outdoor patio in the bathroom gives a nice light to the overall.
This lagoon front Villa, named "Ravello" because of the artwork of the famous painter it houses, features 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and 1 living room. Located at the end of the hotel, in the shade of Aito, it's the most private unit of the property.
Large terrace with jacuzzi, small adjoining beach, outdoor bathtub in one of the 2 bathrooms, dressing, wine cellar … it offers all the necessary amenities for a pleasant stay.
VUE Bar (Poolside) – Overlooking the infinity pool and the lagoon, with views of Tahiti, for a quick lunch or a cocktail.
Why VUE (view in english) ? Because it's the only bar offering a panoramic view on Tahiti island!
Sofitel Moorea la Ora Beach Resort is settled on the edge of a magnificent lagoon, with views over the island of Tahiti. The resort, recently renovated, features 114 luxurious bungalows built over the water, on the beachfront or surrounded by landscaped gardens. Facilities include two excellent restaurants, a bar, a fabulous outdoor swimming pool and day spa. Moorea has one of the worlds most beautiful beaches and a variety of motorized and non-motorized water activities can be arranged for guests. Benefiting from naturally beautiful surroundings, Sofitel Moorea is ultra-modern and enjoys a spectacular location on the most beautiful, white sandy beach on Moorea. Enjoy exceptional cuisine and elegant presentation at the resort's restaurant "K".
A beach and snorkeler lovers paradise. Enjoy long beach walks and hours snorkeling around the coral with the colourful tropical fish.
The Green Lodge guesthouse offers luxury bungalows in a very neat, well off the road, near the golf course, along a wild beach reminiscent of the landscapes of the Tuamotu (swimming at 5min). Shaded garden, small pool, billiards, bicycles, fish pond, beautiful sunrises on Tahiti for early risers… Relaxation assured in a friendly and quiet atmosphere.