text: Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel Hotel rating Quick Specs Commissions 10.0%Rates $481-$1,506Year Built 1899Year Renovated 2015 View Large Interactive Map Address 76 Orange StCape Town, South Africa 8001 Web http://www.belmond.com Phone + 27 21-483-1000 Fax + 27 21-483-1001 Toll-free 800-237-1236 Email firstname.lastname@example.com OverviewMeeting SpecsPhotos & videosRatings & Reviews Description Distinguished, 19th century Victorian estate, some buildings are National Monuments - 10 minute walk to town center.Year Built: 1899Year Renovated: 2015Check in Time: 2:00 PMCheck out Time: 11:00 AMNumber of Floors: 4Total Number of Rooms: 209Rates: $481Commissions: Room Only 10.0%Chain: BelmondChain Website: http://www.belmond.com GDS Hotel Reservation CodesAmadeus GDS: OE CPT050Galileo/Apollo GDS: OE 62436Sabre GDS: OE 007306WorldSpan GDS: OE 6050Reps: Rascals in Paradise Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel Location & NeighborhoodNear Cape Town. 5 min walk to city center. Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel Rates & PoliciesBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel rates are Daily in USDStandard: $481 Suite: $737-$1,506 (USD) Credit Cards Are AcceptedReservations must be guaranteed with a credit cardMeals: Full Breakfast IncludedCancellation Policy: 7 days prior to the day of arrivalHotel Discounts offered: Group discountCorporate discountGovernment/ Military discountTravel Agents 50.0%Airline Personnel 50.0% Nearby AirportsCape Town Intl (10 miles southeast)George (227 miles east)Oudtshoorn (218 miles east)More Airports » Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel Room AmentitiesBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel amenities are in All rooms unless noted otherwiseAir Conditioning (some)Balcony/Terrace (some)Coffeemaker (some)Daily Maid ServiceKitchen/Kitchenette (some)Microwave Oven (some)Mini-BarFree NewspaperRooms for Non-smokersTelephoneVoicemailRefrigeratorSafe (In Room)Cable/Satellite TelevisionTelevisionDVD/VCRInternet Access (High Speed & Wireless) (additional fee) Guest ServicesATM/BankBabysitting/Child CareBarber/Hair StylistCar RentalChildren/Teen ProgramsComplimentary CoffeeConcierge ServicesCurrency ExchangeGift ShopLaundry/Dry Cleaning ServiceMulti-lingual StaffFree Onsite ParkingRoom ServiceWheelchair Access to Common/Public AreasCommon Area Internet Access (Wireless) (additional fee) Security ServicesElectronic Key/LockParking Area Well LitSmoke Alarm in RoomsUniformed SecurityValet Parking Service Nearby SightseeingKirstenbosch Botanical Gardens (9.32 miles)V & A Waterfront (3.10 miles)Table Mountain (4.34 miles)Michaelis Collection at the Old Town HouseCape Town Holocaust Centre and South African Jewish Museum (0.25 miles east)More sightseeing »DiningPlanet Restaurant (Onsite)Planet Champagne & Cocktail bar (Onsite)Oasis (Onsite)More dining options » On-Site RecreationHealth ClubHealth Spa/MassagePool (2 Outdoor Pools)Tennis (Outdoor Tennis)Nearby RecreationBeachBicyclingBoating/SailingCasinoFishingGame RoomGolf CourseHorseback RidingHot TubJogging TrailsPool (Children's Pool, Indoor Pool)Scuba DivingShopping Mall/AreaSnorkelingTennis (Indoor Tennis)Water Skiing Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel Meeting Rooms & Events7 Meeting Rooms holding 250 people.BallroomLocation: Floor 1, Portable walls AvailableFlooring: carpetCapacity: Theater- 250, Classroom- 200, U-Shape- 70, Reception- 250, Banquet- 240Garden RoomLocation: GrndFlooring: carpetCapacity: Theater- 100, Classroom- 60, U-Shape- 40, Reception- 100, Banquet- 90The Grill RoomLocation: GrndFlooring: carpetCapacity: Theater- 60, Classroom- 40, U-Shape- 30, Reception- 60, Banquet- 90Lord Nelson RoomLocation: GrndFlooring: carpetCapacity: Theater- 25, Classroom- 15, U-Shape- 20, Reception- 25, Banquet- 30 Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel Business ServicesA-V EquipmentBusiness CenterCopierPersonal ComputerFaxMeeting FacilitiesAdministrative ServicesMeeting Room Internet Access (Wireless) Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel Images, Videos, & Virtual Tours Photos & Videos Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel ExteriorBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel LobbyBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel RoomBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel PoolBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel MeetingBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel RestrBarBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel SuiteBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel BanquetBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel HealthBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel Spa travel42 Review for Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel Want to read the full Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel travel42 Review? 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Why aren't there more African-American surfers? White Wash explores the complexity of race in America through the eyes of the ocean via the history of African Americans and water culture from slavery, civil rights wade-ins to surfing in contemporary times at sites in Santa Monica and Southern California.
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Every summer, Kids Ocean Day brings thousands of Los Angeles area elementary school students to Dockweiler Beach for a beach clean-up and aerial art event. The Kids Ocean Day Dockweiler Beach clean-up, organized by the Malibu Foundation, nets approximately two tons of trash every year. After they clean the beach, the students participate in an aerial art piece and a photo is broadcast to media outlets. It's the children's chance to take a stand in the sand and send a powerful environmental message to the world.
This class introduces students to the basics of paddling a kayak in a mild setting and at a relaxed pace. Students will learn about kayaks, paddles, gear and clothing before learning to launch and being introduced to the basic paddle strokes. This class is a great way for those considering kayaking to try it out. After the class the group will take a 2 to 3 hour paddle tour of the area to practice skills and enjoy the scenery. A special guest from Heal the Bay will be on hand to discuss local waterways and the ocean ecosystem during the tour.
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"ADAPT or die" is the simplified philosophy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Documented over 150 years ago the process of natural selection still rings true, even in business.
While it seems a harsh message, it is a clear necessity that business must adapt to our ever-changing environment, or face natural selection.
Darwin's theory submits: "Natural selection acts to preserve and accumulate minor advantageous genetic mutations. Suppose a member of a species developed a functional advantage (it grew wings and learned to fly). Its offspring would inherit that advantage and pass it on to their offspring. The inferior (disadvantaged) members of the same species would gradually die out, leaving only the superior (advantaged) members of the species."
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"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
Ken Loach's "I, Daniel Blake" wins the Palme d'Or at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.
Barbara Scharres on the cats of Cannes 2016.
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Roger's Favorites: actress Faye Dunaway.
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The enormous popularity of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," has inspired Miramax to test the market for other upmarket martial arts movies, and their resident kung-fu fan Quentin Tarantino has gone plunging back into the stacks of classics to "present" a beautifully restored version of "Iron Monkey." This 1993 film, produced by the action master Tsui Hark, is seen in all its 35mm glory.
The film includes a young version of Wong Fei-hong, whose adult exploits were chronicled in "The Legend of Drunken Master," a 1994 Jackie Chan film released in 2000 by Miramax's Dimension division. He was a 19th century folk hero who ranged the Chinese countryside doing, one suspects, very few of the things he is seen doing in this film. (For that matter, in "Iron Monkey" he is played by Tsang Sze-man, a girl.) One of his specialties was "drunken fighting," in which, by pretending to be drunk, he could loosen himself up enough to be a better fighter.
Here we see 12-year-old Wong Fei-hong traveling with his father, Wong Kei-ying (Donnie Yen) when they are caught in a dragnet set to snare the Iron Monkey, a mysterious Robin Hood figure. Hauled before the provincial governor, Wong Kei-ying is charged with being the Iron Monkey, but then the real Monkey materializes in the court. The governor tells Wong Kei-ying his son will be held captive until he captures the Iron Monkey. Since such a stand-off would have the movie's two heroes fighting each other, obviously unacceptable, we see young Wong Fei-hong escaping, which frees his father to partner with the Iron Monkey, who is actually Dr. Yang (Yu Rong-guong), a free-lance idealist who fights for the poor against the rich. They find a common enemy in an evil monk.
The story is essentially a clothesline for a series of spectacular action scenes, culminating, as "Drunken Master" did, with one involving fire. This one is pretty spectacular, as the fighters balance on tall wooden poles over an inferno, battering each other with blazing battering rams while leaping from one precarious perch to another. At one point the two allies are balanced one on top of the other on one shaky pole, and at another point they're balanced on either end of a shaky horizontal pole (this scene may have inspired a similar predicament involving ladders in the recent "The Musketeer"; Western movies are stealing martial arts stunts with shameless abandon).
"Iron Monkey" is a superior example of its genre without transcending it. The Jackie Chan movie benefitted from our knowledge that Chan does most of his own stunts, and "Crouching Tiger" was not simply action scenes but also a poetic story, told with great visual beauty. This movie is great-looking, slick and highly professional, but stops at that. Donnie Yen has great moves, but how many of them are real? What you can see watching "Iron Monkey" is what martial arts fans have been telling me via e-mail ever since "Crouching Tiger" came out: That its scenes of characters running across rooftops and floating in air were far from original, and had been well-established in movies like this one. The technique of using invisible wires to "fly" the characters is not new (on the Web, in fact, it has a name: "wire-fu"). The reason "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is a better movie is not in the technology but in the art; it incorporates the stunt and action techniques but is not satisfied with them, and aims higher, while a film like "Iron Monkey" is basically aimed at audiences who want elaborate fight sequences and fidget at the dialogue in between. It's for the fans, not the crossover audience.
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There is concern on and around George Washington University's campus after a masked man got into one of the school's buildings and attacked an employee. It happened earlier this week in Rice Hall and now the school is taking action to protect students and faculty.
Police say the victim, a GW staff member, was working after hours Tuesday when a man attacked and attempted to sexually assault her in a third floor bathroom on Eye St.
"I think it's horrible," says Jessica Waters, a student. "It's not the first time we've heard of something like this. It is alarming."
The man got away and the victim called the police. Students were notified by email of the crime and warned to be vigilant.
A university police officer was posted Thursday in the administration building's front lobby. Faculty and staff are urged to be cautious.
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Dec 16 2010Another Christmas, Another Game You Can Play Using Programmed Christmas Lights Stapled To The Garage Door Of Your House
Remember last year's 'Christmas Lights Hero' game? Well the same maker of that game developed a different one this year, entitled 'Snowball Blaster'. Which, unlike 'Snowbank Melter', isn't played with your penis. You do get to sit in one of those little rides from outside the grocery store though!
The Christmas Light video game - Snowball Blaster! Hop in Santa's electric training sled and grab the game controller for an adventure in snowball dodging. Press the left button to move left and the right to move right. Make it past all the snowballs for a big light show!
Snowball Blaster has 128 channels of Light-o-rama controlled by a PC. The game logic is running on a Basic Stamp which accepts inputs from the player switches and controls the Red Arrows with solid state relays.
The game is designed around the limitation of having very few positions to light up. The timing of when they light up is more versatile, so that's where the game lives. It's easy to learn, starts easy and gets harder pretty quick. The audio is broadcast on FM so people watching in cars get a good show too.
I can't even fathom being able to create a game like this from scratch. Of course I can't even make sugar cookies from scratch, and they're supposed to be simple. DAMMIT COOKIES, WHY YOU ALWAYS SETTIN' MY KITCHEN ON FIRE?!
Hit the jump for an impressive demo.
Thanks to Jonathan, who once used a string of Christmas lights to lasso a reindeer and strand Santa on his roof for over an hour. ZOMG, PLEASE TELL ME YOU GOT HIS PRESENT SACK!
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..lightweight - I'd prefer Cahill or better still Arteta.
Watch Moyes talk him up over the next few weeks and then sucker us into paying something ridiculous..hope we don't sign him.
No thanks, but would take Arteta.
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Fuk Off
I think he could do a job for us, he's quicker then benni, better with the ball at his feet then Kuyt and goes past people and delivers the cross better than Babel.
Downside, sometimes disappears from games and gets a bit distracted like Torres by being a massive sulk.
A goer at the right price for me but the price atm looks like 10-16mil, i'd want to get it well under 10mil considering hes only has a year and a bit left on his contract.
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I was think around £6-8. £16m is just plan ridiculous!
Yeah i'd take him, just depends how much they want, that's if they would even sell to us.
Then again they did sell us Abel Xavier and Nicky Barmby...I think they were laughing all the way to the bank when they sold us Xavier lol
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We need much better than him, we're heading back into silly season where we are linked with every player under the sun, I'm sure there will be much more rubbish to come, I personally think the "problem" with a player like Pienaar is that you need other very, very good players to carry him, especially if we want to challenge for the title as I expect us to next season, I don't want to say that we could'nt do a lot worse but we already have enough players very similiar to him in our ranks, so it's a no from me.


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Okay, I know this editorial has nothing to do with ophthalmology, but I think that sometimes we all need to take a break from our chosen profession to reflect on life, which too often gets ignored.
My wife and I are in love with Italy. We try to visit for a few weeks every summer. Italy is therapy for us; nowhere else can compare. One of our favorite places is Capri. Although quite busy this year for my taste, it remains a magical island. For those who have never been, the main town is called Capri town. It is essentially totally pedestrian, except for the occasional electric cart that shuttles luggage and supplies about. So you end up walking a lot, which, in part, helps balance out the pasta consumption. This year, on numerous occasions, I walked by a little park. During the day, it served for moms to meet and chat while their children played. One night, though, as we walked by on our way to dinner, I noticed that a generous number of chairs were set up for what was to be an outdoor concert. About 100 people of all ages stood about chatting while children played. What I also noticed was that not one individual was on a cell phone—not talking, texting or checking email. Just a gathering of individuals talking directly to one another.
As I thought about it further, it made me sad in a way. It was a joy to see humans communicating face to face with one another, which is actually quite common in that part of the world. It seems that we have lost touch with on another. A text now replaces a conversation. Yes, quite efficient, but not very personal. I feel we have become individuals who are more outraged by Twitter or Facebook going down than by an airplane being shot down with innocent lives on board. Time away from the office allows us to think, and analyze our lives. Don't undervalue the importance of making time for loved ones, for yourself, and for that therapy.
In the study below, the authors investigated vision-related quality of life (VRQoL) and associated factors in patients with cataracts and the outcomes of cataract surgery using the newly developed VRQoL instrument: the visual function questionnaire, 11-item Japanese version (the VFQ-J11).
Included in the study were 457 patients scheduled for cataract surgery at 12 clinical sites from November 2008 through February 2010. The patients completed the VFQ-J11 before and three months after surgery and the authors used the VFQ-J11 to investigate factors associated with VRQoL of the cataract patients, the outcome of cataract surgery and the predictors of improved VRQoL due to cataract surgery.
They found that in a multiple regression model, the VFQ-J11 score was significantly associated with corrected distance visual acuity in the better-seeing eye (better eye VA), and improvement in the VFQ-J11 score after cataract surgery was associated not only with improvement in the better eye VA, but also with improvement in the worse eye VA. Compared to one-eye cataract surgery, both-eyes surgery had a greater impact on VFQ-J11 score improvement.
The study authors concluded that VFQ-J11 is a good measure of VRQoL in cataract patients. The present study indicates that by including the domains measured in the VFQ, the VFQ-J11 can provide valid data on VRQoL and be less of a burden for patients.
To evaluate the potential of serum pro-inflammatory cytokines as age-related macular degeneration biomarkers, researchers examined serum samples from 30 AMD patients and 15 age-matched controls for 16 inflammatory cytokines using multiplex ELISA. Using optical coherence tomography and funduscopy, they divided patients into three subgroups: improvement; no change; and deterioration during anti-vascular endothelial growth factor treatment and correlated them to the cytokine levels.
According to the researchers, serum concentrations of IL-1α, IL-1β, IL-4, IL-5, IL-10, IL-13 and IL-17 were significantly higher in AMD patients than in controls. They found that none of the co-variables expressed a significant effect on the tested cytokines and that only IL-1a and IL-17 showed a statistically significant difference between groups (improved, unchanged, deteriorated) as determined by one-way ANOVA. Patients with increased macular thickness during treatment showed significantly lower levels of IL-17 compared to improved cases and to unchanged cases (p=0.004, 0.03 respectively, Dunnett's T3 post hoc multiple test). TNF-α was significantly higher in improved cases compared to deteriorated cases (p=0.03, Dunnett's T3 post hoc multiple test). Moreover, the researchers noted that IL-17 was a significant predictor for macular edema using linear regression (β=−0.888, p<0.05).
They determined that elevation of IL-1α, IL-1β, IL-4, IL-5, IL-10, IL-13 and IL-17 in the serum of AMD patients supports the hypothesis of AMD as an inflammatory disease. Patients with high IL-17 and TNF-α serum levels were more likely to have a favorable course under VEGF therapy. These cytokines may be used as easy-to-obtain biomarkers.
In this Japanese retrospective, comparative, interventional case series, investigators compared the three-year visual outcome after double therapy of photodynamic therapy with intravitreal bevacizumab and triple therapy of PDT combined with intravitreal bevacizumab and subtenon triamcinolone acetonide (STTA) injections for polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy.
They retrospectively reviewed the medical records for 36 eyes in 36 patients (33 men, three women; mean age 73.5 years old; range 63 to 82 years old) with treatment-naïve subfoveal PCV. Of the 36 eyes, they treated 17 with double therapy and 19 with triple therapy.
The change in visual acuity following triple therapy was significantly better than that after double therapy (p<0.05), the investigators reported. At 36 months, they noted improvement in visual acuity in five eyes (29.4%) in the double-therapy group and 10 eyes (52.6%) in the triple-therapy group. They performed retreatment using the initial treatment for six eyes (35.3%) in the double-therapy group and five eyes (26.3%) in the triple-therapy group; the treatment-free period was significantly longer in the triple-therapy group (p<0.05). Additionally, the mean number of additional anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy was higher in the double-therapy group. Post-treatment vitreous hemorrhage or retinal pigment epithelium tear occurred only in the double-therapy group, in one eye (5.9%) and one eye (5.9%), respectively.
Initial therapy consisting of a single session of PDT combined with intravitreal bevacizumab and STTA improves vision in treatment-naïve subfoveal PCV. Compared with double therapy, this triple therapy may be more effective for PCV.
Outer Retinal Tabulation
The purpose of this prospective cohort study within a randomized clinical trial was to determine the prevalence of, risk factors for, and visual acuity correlations with outer retinal tubulation (ORT) seen on spectral-domain optical coherence tomography in eyes with neovascular age-related macular degeneration after anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy.
Patients with SD-OCT images at weeks 56 and 104 in the Comparison of AMD Treatments Trials were assigned randomly to ranibizumab (0.5 mg) or bevacizumab (1.25 mg) treatment and to a monthly or pro re nata injection-dosing regimen. A subset of eyes was imaged with SD-OCT beginning at week 56. Cirrus 512×128 or Spectralis 20°×20° volume cube scan protocols were used to acquire SD-OCT images. Two independent readers at the CATT OCT reading center graded scans, and a senior reader arbitrated discrepant grades. The prevalence of ORT, identified as tubular structures seen on at least three consecutive Cirrus B scans or two consecutive Spectralis B scans, was determined. The associations of patient-specific and ocular features at baseline and follow-up with ORT were evaluated by univariate and multivariate analyses. Outer retinal tubulations were the main outcome measures.
It was noted that seven of 69 eyes (10.1%) at 56 weeks and 64 of 368 eyes (17.4%) at week 104 had ORTs. Absence of diabetes, poor VA, blocked fluorescence, geographic atrophy, greater lesion size and presence of subretinal hyper-reflective material at baseline was associated independently with greater risk of ORT at 104 weeks (p<0.05). Neither drug nor dosing regimen were associated significantly with ORT. Furthermore, the mean VA of eyes with ORT at week 104 (58.5 Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study letters) was worse than the mean VA of eyes without ORT (68.8 letters; p<0.0001).
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San Diego A magnitude 4.7 earthquake rocked San Diego and Riverside counties on Monday morning.
The temblor hit at 9:56 a.m., about 12 miles southeast of Anza in Southwest Riverside County, according to the U.S. Geological Service. The area the earthquake hit is about 64 miles from San Diego.
Scientists originally pegged the quake at a magnitude of 5.1, based on an automatic reading of the quake sensors. After reviewing the quake data, however, they downgraded it to a 4.7.
The quake struck on the San Jacinto Fault Zone, which branches from the San Andreas Fault around Rancho Cucamonga, and runs parallel to it on the southwest, through the Coachella Valley. It took place about eight miles underground, said Debi Kilb, a seismologist with Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Unlike the notorious San Andreas, the San Jacinto Fault is more complex – consisting of three branches – and more active.
Moderate quakes, such as Monday's, occur every few years, Kilb said. Quakes measuring about 5.0 occurred in 2001, 2004 and 2010, so Monday's temblor was right on schedule.
Moreover, the San Jacinto Quake Zone generates smaller tremors just about daily. A seismic map displayed a cluster of quakes that occurred on the fault within the past two weeks. Most of those, however, produced little noticeable shaking, Kilb said.
"Pretty much every day we have activity on the San Jacinto fault, but very small," she said. "I love to ask people what's the probability of an earthquake on the San Jacinto Fault, and then tell them it's 100 percent."
Seismologist Kate Hutton said the earthquake appears to have been the type known as a strike-slip, marked by a horizontal motion along the fault.
"That is very typical of that area," said Hutton, who is with the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Kilb said, however, that the quake showed a slight "dip" or tilt, occurring at a 73 degree angle instead of a perfectly vertical position.
The quake occurred, coincidentally, on the second anniversary of the 9.0 earthquake that devastated cities on Japan's Pacific Coast. But unlike that catastrophe, Monday's event apparently caused little harm.
The Riverside County Fire Department received a handful of calls from people who felt the earthquake, but no reports of damage, said department spokeswoman Jody Hagemann.
An seismic intensity map posted by the U.S. Geological Survey showed mild to moderate shaking for about 50 miles around the epicenter, and weak shaking as far east as Blythe and as far north as Bakersfield.
Janet Entzminger, bartender at the Stagecoach Inn in Aguanga, near the epicenter, said lamps shook but no glass bottles or other items fell off shelves.
"There was a little bit of a jolt," Entzminger said. "Not too bad. But you knew it was an earthquake."
Jose Oros, a worker at the La Cocina Mexican Restaurant in Anza, said he had just sat down to eat breakfast during a break when the quake hit.
"I was a little scared for a second," Oros said, adding that the quake seemed to last for about 10 seconds. But he said nothing broke or fell off shelves.
Monday's earthquake occurred on the San Jacinto Fault, one of the most active faults in California and often called the western branch of perhaps the most well-known fault in the United States – the San Andreas, said Tom Rockwell, a seismologist at San Diego State University.
Rockwell, who has studied the San Jacinto Fault extensively for years, said it's well-known for producing temblors of the magnitude seen Monday.
Other San Diego earthquake experts have studied that fault.
In the past month, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla established a seismology array in the Palm Springs area to study faults such as the San Jacinto.


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This ride is in my town Santa Clarita, California whch is nestled between the juncture of Interstate 5 and Interstate 14. My ride takes me from where I live on the west side to the east side of town and back. The Amgen Tour of California had a stage in my town along some of this route...
I didn't see any snakes but I did see all kinds of squirrels. I was hammering along on a downhill section and I saw a recumbent up ahead, traveling in the same direction. Recumbents are fast and hard to catch, so I threw a couple of cogs on the fire and attacked from about 200 meters away. Recumbent riders are always nice and friendly so I like to at least say "hi" when I see one in the wild. My road bike shot across the gap like a rocket and I caught the 'bent just before going supersonic...
I chatted with him for a few seconds and then hunkered down in the drops and hammered away at warp speed. Hey, I realize I suck and any of you guys can drop me like a bad habit, but let me have my fantasies.
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IEDC-Bled School of Management is deeply committed to developing leaders for a better world and believes in ethical and socially responsible leadership which can be promoted through learning from art, science, sport and other professions, drawing parallels around them and making people reflect. Management of social, environmental, and ethical risks and opportunities has been a required element of our Executive MBA programs for several years (IEDC has designed an ethics component into all its longer management programs more than twenty years ago and as an additional innovation, sustainable development was added to the curriculum in 2008). Since 2007, IEDC has been also the headquarters of the UN Global Compact Slovenia, the Slovenian chapter in the UN Global Compact. In 2009, IEDC was named among 100 top business schools in the world concerning innovations for demonstrating significant leadership in integrating social, environmental and ethical issues into its programs according to the Aspen Institute's 2009-2010 edition of Beyond Grey Pinstripes, the only ranking that evaluates how well schools are preparing their students for the environmental, social and ethical complexities of modern-day business. IEDC was the only school from Central and Eastern Europe to receive this recognition.
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D&D 5E has an "advantage" concept where instead of rolling 1d20, you roll 2d20 and take the highest. Likewise, disadvantage means rolling 2d20 and taking the lowest.
How does this affect the expected average outcome of the roll?
D&D 5E has an "advantage" concept where instead of rolling 1d20, you roll 2d20 and take the highest. Likewise, disadvantage means rolling 2d20 and taking the lowest.
How does this affect the expected average outcome of the roll?
All this does is linearly adjust the normally-flat 5% probability for each number to occur. What results is a increased or decreased probability of any number above or below average to occur, positively for advantage and negatively for disadvantage. See this AnyDice function set, which yields the following:
Black is d20, orange is highest of 2d20, blue is lowest of 2d20.
Since the probability of achieving any given number is a linear function, we can use linear regression (via Wolfram Alpha and our sample data from AnyDice to eventually solve for
Additionally, what you're likely looking for is the probability that at least a particular number will be rolled, using either advantage or disadvantage. AnyDice, again, is king:
Black is d20, orange is highest of 2d20, blue is lowest of 2d20.
The math is straightforward
With an advantage you are looking for best of two results. To figure out your odds you need to multiply the chance of FAILURE together to find out the new chance of failure. For example if you need 11+ to hit rolling two dice and taking the best means instead of a 50% of failing you have only a 25% chance of failing (.5 times .5).
For a disadvantage where you take the worst of two dice roll you need to multiply the chances of SUCCESS to find out the new odds. For example if you need a 11+ to hit your chance success drops from 50% to 25% (.5 time .5).
Advantage 16+ to hit, goes from 25% chance of success to roughly 43% chance of success. (.75 time .75)
Disadvantage 16+ to hit, goes from 25% chance of success to roughly a 6% chance of success (.25 times .25)
The general rule of thumb that in the mid range of the d20 (from success on a 9+ to 12+) advantage grant roughly a equivalent to a +5 bonus and disadvantage a -5 penalty. The increase and decrease in odds tappers off when your odds of success approach 1 or 20. For example a advantage on a 19+ your chance of failure goes from 90% to 81% not quite a +2 bonus on a d20.
An interesting property of the system is that there always a chance of success and always a chance of failure. Unlike a modifier systems where enough modifiers can mean auto success or auto failure. (Unless you have a 20 is an automatic success and 1 a automatic failure)
A useful application of knowing the odds of rolling two dice is that you can just convert it to a straight bonus when rolling for a large number of NPCs. A bunch of goblins with an advantage from surprise that need 13+ to hit the players you can just apply a +4 (or +5 if you round up) bonus instead of rolling the second dice. This is because they have a 60% chance of failure on 13+. Taking .6 times .6 yields .36 a drop of 24%. Not quite a +5 bonus on a d20 dice.
The mean result goes from 10.5 to 7.175 for disadvantage and to 13.825 for advantage. The odds go from a flat 5% for each of 1 through 20 to (disadvantage results shown; reverse the first column for advantage results):
(Middle column is how many of the 400 combinations of two numbers from 1-20 yield the result given in the first column.)
I actually made an ipython notebook for this:
To start, I simply rolled a random d20 1000 times.
The average 1d20 result for this series was 10.
For this graph, I rolled 2d20 1000 times and threw out the lower result.
The average result from an advantaged 2d20 roll was 13.
The last graph is a 2d20 1000 times disadvantaged roll.
The average result from the disadvantaged roll was 7.
So you can see here that there is a general +- 3 bias for advantaged or disadvantaged rolls.
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|MONITORING SYSTEM USING UNMANNED AIR VEHICLE WITH WIMAX COMMUNICATION - Provided is a monitoring system using an unmanned air vehicle communicated based on a WiMAX communication scheme. The monitoring system includes an air vehicle and a relay unit. The air vehicle includes a photographing unit for capturing on-scene image information of a current flying area, and a global positioning system (GPS) receiver for receiving GPS information of the current flying area. The air vehicle transmits the on-scene image information and the GPS information, wirelessly. The relay unit remotely controls the air vehicle by receiving a travel command signal having information on a destination of the air vehicle, wirelessly transmits the travel command signal to the air vehicle based on the WiMAX communication scheme, and wirelessly receives the on-scene image information and the GPS information from the air vehicle based on the WiMAX communication scheme.


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- Java Date cut off time information 16 answers
I want to implement a thread-safe function to remove the time part from java.util.Date.
I tried this way
private static final DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
public static Date removeTimeFromDate(Date date) {
Date returnDate = date;
if (date == null) {
return returnDate;
//just have the date remove the time
String targetDateStr = df.format(date);
try {
returnDate = df.parse(targetDateStr);
} catch (ParseException e) {
return returnDate;
and use synchronized or threadLocal to make it thread-safe. But it there any better way to implement it in Java. It seems this way is a bit verbose. I am not satisfied with it.


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