text:
Wake up to a weekend in Cape Town this JulyIt's July and while the days are colder, it's certainly not a reason to stay indoors! There's so much happening in Cape Town over this period. With our fantastic Hello Weekend campaign and thanks to our great partner Kulula.com, you can visit Cape Town this July from as little as R2 750.
Winchester Mansions: Old school charm with a modern twist
Rob PetersPossessing an old school charm with a modern twist, Winchester Mansions in Sea Point is a Cape Town gem that is hidden in plain sight.
Top Restaurants to Visit on Loop Street
Thamar HoulistonCape Town is known for its foodie culture with a huge variety of restaurants and while Bree Street has been the reigning champion in terms of variety and top spots, Loop Street is slowly catching up in the culinary stakes.
Find bliss in Cape Town
Rob PetersYou are going to struggle to find accommodation in Cape Town that boasts a better view than Bliss Boutique in Sunset Beach.
Loading blog articles, this will just take a moment!
5 Terrifying Halloween 2014 Events in Spooky Cape Town
Are you ready to be scared silly, #lovecapetown? It's my all-time favourite holiday of the year, Halloween, on Friday 31 October, 2014, and the spooky Mother City's streets are about to come alive with the undead!
Your #lovecapetown weekend: What's on from Friday 17 to Sunday 19 October, 2014
Woohoo, it's the weekend, baby!
6 Ways to Rock Your Year- End Party in Cape Town
Sure, the December break is two months away and you cringe every time someone sends out one of those annoying "Countdown to Christmas" emails but admit it, you're excited that your year-end party is just weeks away, right?
Facebook Feedback Friday: Things to do with just R 100 in Cape Town
If you had just R 100 to do and see anything, and we mean ANYTHING, in Cape Town, what would it be?
5 Spring School Holiday Events in Cape Town
School's nearly out, #lovecapetown, and our fun-loving third semester break is just waiting to be enjoyed with a refreshing line-up of amazing events and activities.
Your #lovecapetown weekend: What's On from Friday 19 to Sunday 21 September, 2014?
Hey gorgeous people! Are you ready for the mother of all awesome weekends in #lovecapetown?!
5 Creative Week 2014 events in Cape Town that are totally going to blow your artistic mind
Calling all free spirits, art lovers and creatives… It's time once again for the popular annual Creative Week in Cape Town!
Facebook Feedback Fridays: Top Sunrise Viewing Spots in #lovecapetown
Guess what, Mother City lovers? It's Facebook Feedback Fridays once again! With Spring bringing the most spectacular sunrises to #lovecapetown, we wanted to know where the best spots to watch the sun rise in the Mother City were and boy, were you guys forthcoming with your answers:
Your #lovecapetown weekend: What's on from Friday 12 to Sunday 14 September, 2014
Guess what, Mother City lovers? The weekend is nearly here!
One Night in the Winelands: 5 Reasons why my stay at the Wild Clover Farm in Stellenbosch rocked
I'm a city slicker kind of girl every day of the week and Cape Town's bustling City Centre with its never- ending nightlife and shopping hot spots certainly keeps me entertained but occasionally, I like to escape to the beautiful Cape Winelands for a tasty, relaxing respite…I found that and so much more on a weekend getaway at the gorgeous Wild Clover Farm in Stellenbosch recently.
Run free in the wild with SANParks Week in #lovecapetown
It's one of our favourite Spring events here in #lovecapetown: South African National Parks (SANParks), where entry to our city and province's most gorgeous parks are FREE!
Facebook Feedback Fridays: Top Braai Spots in #lovecapetown
Facebook Feedback Fridays are back, #lovecapetown!
Your #lovecapetown weekend: What's on from Friday 5 to Sunday 7 September, 2014
It's the freakin' weekend, baby!
Snap, Share and Win Big with #lovecapetown this September!
Show us how much you #lovecapetown this September and you could win BIG prizes!
5 Amazing Sightseeing Experiences for Mini-Travellers in Cape Town
Whoever said sightseeing was just for grown-ups? In beautiful Cape Town, we love welcoming little globetrotters too and offer some of the most amazing scenic experiences at great prices for families to enjoy together.
11 Urban Markets You Have to Visit this Spring
The city's fresh produce comes alive in ways both unexpected and fashionable. If you're a food lover these next few weeks are the ideal time to start exploring the organic amazing that is Capetonian market cuisine. But where to find it? We've curated a top 11 list of the most delicious and stylish venues out there!
4 Must-see Baboon Pics that are totally bananas!
Baboons are a hotly debated topic in the Western Cape, and particularly so with regards to their interactions with tourists who explore some of Cape Town's natural treasures such as Cape Point.
5 Cool things to do at Table Mountain this winter
As a visitor to our fair city, you've probably been told if not once, then a million times, that you simply MUST visit Table Mountain, Cape Town's wonder of nature. Sure, that's relatively easy to do in the summer, but just what is there to do at this iconic attraction in winter? Oh, if you only knew…
7 Free Winter School Holiday things to do with the kids in Cape Town
Eager to treat your little ones but you're just too strapped for cash to do the big ticket activities? Here are our top 7 free things to do with your kids in Cape Town this winter.
Namaste Traveller! 5 Ways to Learn Meditation in Cape Town
Many will acknowledge that travelling is a spiritual experience that widens the soul. Complement your journey at one of these 5 places to learn meditation in Cape Town, most of them free.
Top 5 Spas in Cape Town: Your Perfect Me Time Spots in the Mother City
Sometimes we need to break away from the hustle and bustle of our daily lives. My me time means one thing; a day at the spa in Cape Town.
Win a Road Trip in Cape Town with #thando!
Where in the Western Cape is our fun, new mobile visitor information vehicle, #thando? Enter your best guess and not only could you win amazing daily prizes but you'll also be entered into a lucky draw to win a road trip in Cape Town for four people , worth R 30 000!
Share the Specials: 8 Amazing Winter Hotel Deals
Everyone knows there are some incredible Winter deals hidden everywhere in Cape Town. In the 5th instalment of our famous Share the Special series, we bring you some of the best package deals for the upcoming season.
Cascade Country Manor, the Ultimate Winter Winelands Escape in 5 Images
Whoever said a luxurious stay in the Paarl Winelands is solely a summer activity?
How to Eat and Drink Your Way through the Good Food&Wine Show 2014 in Cape Town
Who loves gourmet events in Cape Town? I do, it's true, and I just CANNOT wait for the Good Food&Wine Show 2014 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from Thursday 29 May to Sunday 1 June, 2014.
Your #lovecapetown weekend: Things to do from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 May, 2014
Are you ready for an amazing weekend in our Mother City?
Cape Town Tourism Cares: Grannies make a difference with Gugulethu garden
At Cape Town Tourism, we're big on giving back to the Mother City's residents in need , so when we recently had the pleasure of meeting up with Rob Small of Abalimi Bezekhaya ( Farmers of Home) at one of the community vegetable gardens in Gugulethu, we just had to tell you about it.
Neon Run 2014 in Cape Town: Photos
On Saturday 10 May, 2014; colour-crazy Capetonians, visitors, friends and families descended on the Cape Town Stadium forecourt for an epic night they'll never forget…
12 Pics that will make you want to explore Stellenbosch
What more could a traveller want than wine, food, mountains, arresting architecture… and did we mention wine?
Your #lovecapetown weekend: Things to do from Friday 9 to Sunday 11 May, 2014
Who's ready for another EPIC weekend in #lovecapetown?


text:
Heartland Speaker Series: Jose Luis Cordeiro
José Luis Cordeiro, MBA, Ph.D., was born in Latin America, of European parents, was educated in Europe and North America, has worked extensively in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. He has studied, visited, and worked in more than 130 countries on five continents.
Cordeiro is founder of the World Future Society (Venezuela Chapter), director of the Lifeboat Foundation, cofounder of the Venezuelan Transhumanist Association and of the Internet Society (ISOC, Venezuela Chapter), board advisor to the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN), and member of the Academic Committee of the Center for the Dissemination of Economic Knowledge, among other groups.
Thanks to his extensive work in technological foresight, futures studies, globalization, economic integration, longterm development, energy, education, and monetary policy, he has authored and coauthored several books. El Desafío Latinoamericano (The Latin American Challenge), his first book, is a continental bestseller originally published by McGraw-Hill and is used in more than 100 universities. Its second Spanish edition is now available completely free in electronic form by the author, who is also donating his book royalties.
Listen to Cordiero on the Heartland Daily Podcast with host Jim Lakely after his Heartland event.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
The University of Kansas Hospital and a group of physicians say they plan to form a clinical organization, although details are not final.
The hospital and KU Physicians announced Thursday they plan to eventually combine to improve their patients' experience. KU Physicians is an independent group that manages 18 different physician practices.
Leaders of the two groups said the consolidation would streamline operations and reduce costs while helping patients. They also hope the effort will improve doctors' training and help fund medical education.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports (http://bit.ly/WkAg00 ) the details of the consolidation will be worked out through the middle of this year.
Location, ST | website.com


text:
Hello Guys! Can anyone explain what is DNS zone transfer or give any link, paper? I have already googled, but could not find anything meaningful?
DNS Zone transfer is the process where a DNS server passes a copy of part of it's database (which is called a "zone") to another DNS server. It's how you can have more than one DNS server able to answer queries about a particular zone; there is a Master DNS server, and one or more Slave DNS servers, and the slaves ask the master for a copy of the records for that zone.
A basic DNS Zone Transfer Attack isn't very fancy: you just pretend you are a slave and ask the master for a copy of the zone records. And it sends you them; DNS is one of those really old-school Internet protocols that was designed when everyone on the Internet literally knew everyone else's name and address, and so servers trusted each other implicitly.
It's worth stopping zone transfer attacks, as a copy of your DNS zone may reveal a lot of topological information about your internal network. In particular, if someone plans to subvert your DNS, by poisoning or spoofing it, for example, they'll find having a copy of the real data very useful.
So best practice is to restrict Zone transfers. At the bare minimum, you tell the master what the IP addresses of the slaves are and not to transfer to anyone else. In more sophisticated set-ups, you sign the transfers. So the more sophisticated zone transfer attacks try and get round these controls.
SANS have a white paper that discusses this further.
@GrahamHill already explained a zone transfer pretty good already, but I'll try to fill inn some more.
By being able to query for all records from the DNS server, the attacker can easily determine which machines are accessible. The zone transfer may reveal network elements that is accessible from the Internet, but that a search engine like Google (site:.target.) does not pick up. Lesson here is that you don't want to let the bad guys have the information for free! The should have to work as hard as possible for it...
An interesting fact about DNS zone transfers is that they usually rely on TCP port 53 instead of UDP port 53. If you see TCP port 53 in use it could tell you that someone is doing a zone transfer.
To actually complete a zone transfer on a vulnerable DNS server you could issue these commands:
Unix (nslookup is deprecated on Unix):
DigiNinja has a very good tutorial/explanation on how zone transfers work and why they should be restricted. Check out zonetransferme .


text:
Yahoo! has just announced that they're opening up access to the Yahoo! email code:
Officials of the world's largest Internet media company said it planned to give away the underlying code to Yahoo Mail, one of the crown jewels of its business, in a bid to encourage software developers to build new applications based on e-mail.
Unfortunately, the keys to the kingdom aren't being handed out quite yet (it's just an announcement to whet your appetite), but we at Lifehacker central will keep track of this for you. What do you think you could come up with, or what would you like to see? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.


text:
For its annual "Ladies Day" celebration, the Women's Law Forum at Rutgers School of Law–Newark will feature a panel of female lawyers who are engaged in significant pro bono work in the private, corporate or public sector. Originally scheduled for November 5, the program will take place at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, November 27, 2012.
The Women's Law Forum will also honor Jessica Kitson '02, who as director of the law school's Neisser Public Interest Program encourages students on a daily basis to increase their pro bono efforts. As a Rutgers law student Kitson was a Wenk Fellow, editor-in-chief of the Women's Rights Law Reporter, and co-founder of the Domestic Violence Advocacy Project. She is a former chair of the Public Service Section of the National Association of Law Placement, and serves on the New Jersey State Bar Association Pro Bono Task Force, the NJSBA Pro Bono Committee and the Essex County Domestic Violence Working Group.
The Ladies' Day event traces its history to Harvard Law School in the 1960s when it was the only day on which then Property professor W. Barton Leach would allow female students to speak in class. Inspired by the evolution of the role of women in both law schools and the legal community, student groups throughout the country now use Ladies' Day to commemorate women's progress in the legal profession and to highlight the barriers women have overcome to become successful lawyers.
The price of admission, which includes the panel discussion, networking forum and post-event cocktail reception with refreshments, is $20. To reserve a space or for more information, contact email@example.com.
|Women's Law Forum "Ladies Day" program on "Women Committed to Pro Bono"
|Professor Anju Gupta, Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic, Rutgers School of Law–Newark
Emily A. Kaller '97, Partner, Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith, Ravin, Davis & Himmel LLP
Hannah Pennington '01, Executive Director, Manhattan Family Justice Center
Adrienne Kalosieh '03, Patras Williams LLC, moderator
|6:30 pm, Tuesday, November 27, 2012
|Third-floor Atrium, Rutgers School of Law–Newark


text:
I have recently taken some interest in the prestige class Deepwood Sniper from Masters of the Wild, a 3.0 book.
I am planning to use this class in 3.5 campaign and my DM was ok considering it doesn't really need many changes to be compatible with the revised version.
However, there is one problem: I have trouble understanding the actual mechanics and use of the Take Aim class feature such as the duration, the numbers of attacks it applies to and whether its activation includes any actual attacks.
Can anyone offer some insight on how it works and how it can be utilized in accordance to the rules?


text:
Episode #3 Posted For Listening
By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Madman Photography)
Catch the latest episode highlighting the action of Cottage Grove Speedway and Willamette Speedway. Also the Sunset Speedway Park Iron Woman 50 is highlighted and we got a chance with a couple of the drivers looking to win that event: Marcie Treat and Gabrielle Hollinger. Also hear from main event winners at Cottage Grove and the Kart winners at Willamette. Other guest on the program is Dustin Comer of SDMF Race Cars, Monte Bischoff, Marc Farrar, Steve Moore, Brian Thompson, Brad Martin, and Collen Winebarger. Follow the link at to http://www.spreaker.com/user/5774060/episode-3 listen. Hope everyone enjoys the show and sorry for the delay getting it out.
Sunset Speedway
Driven by MyRacePassTM
Sunset Speedway | All rights reserved


text:
I'm doing a question for homework, and I am required to use the Comparison Test to test for convergence.
The series in question is:
$$ \sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac {n-1}{{(n+2)}^3} $$
The series I would like to compare it to is:
$$ \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac 1{{n}^2} $$
My reasoning for wanting to use this series is because it is a convergent p-series that is larger than the series I am trying to test, but I am unsure if I can use it as comparison due to its divergence to $ \infty $ at n=0. I recall that with limits what is important is its behaviour as $ n\to\infty$, so does that also apply for comparing series?
Edit: Thank you to all who answered! Each one contributed to my understanding. :)


text:
Hi there guys,
I'm looking at purchasing either the M1-L or M1-S... but I'm a little confused. I currently have the NN3 II but I like the idea of the quick release and the better strength of the M1 (my NN3's vertical rail sags a bit sometimes).
The thing is, I like the short horizontal rail of the M1-S (160mm is plenty) but I want the longer vertical rail of the M1-L (also it looks stronger and less likely to sag). However, it doesn't appear possible to get this combination unless I get both larger rails? I don't want a larger horizontal rail because it will just take up more space and won't be useful.
However, I noticed in the 'includes' section that lower rail and upper rail are interchangeable. Does this mean that I could essentially use the 170mm upper rail as the lower rail, and use the 210mm lower rail as the upper rail? Would there be any trade off for doing this?


text:
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz met with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh at Al-Safa Palace in Makkah today.
The two leaders discussed Arab, Islamic and international issues as well as ways of boosting bilateral cooperation.
President Saleh also performed the umrah during his visit to the Kingdom.


text:
Main Content
You and your fellow Sox fans absolutely contribute to the team with all your effort, cheers, and jeers! In fact, you're so important to the White Sox organization that you deserve to get this Team Issue Legend performance tee from Nike's Authentic Collection! Hey, you're a member of the team, you should be sporting the same gear the players do! Featuring a team name in outlined lettering above "Baseball" in white and a vivid logo — all on Nike's moisture-wicking Dri-FIT fabric — this classic tee will have you cheering for Chicago and pushing yourself to the next level of excellence!
- Material: 100% Polyester
- Dri-FIT ® technology wicks away moisture
- Tagless collar
- Short sleeve
- Screen print graphics
- Officially licensed
- Brand: Nike
Sox Customers also liked:
Special event items are produced by manufacturers only after the outcome of a game or event. These are advanced sale items and will ship immediately after they are received in our warehouse.
Manufacturer direct items are shipped directly from the manufacturer. These items are not available for international or expedited shipping.
Customized items can be personalized with options such as your name, your favorite number, and/or designs. Some options may be limited by league rules.


text:
When to Call the Doctor
In This Article:
Certain conditions and symptoms demand professional attention. In general, call your pediatrician if your child has any of the following:
- A fever greater than 100 degrees Fahrenheit
- Sweaty or clammy skin
- Unusual and persistent crying
- An injury that causes more than 15 minutes of crying
- Disruptions in feeding patterns, especially a sudden loss of appetite
- Ingestion of anything you suspect may be poisonous
- Vomiting that differs in force or volume from normal spitting up
- Diarrhea that smells foul or shows blood or mucus or is accompanied by a fever
- Constipation that is accompanied by vomiting
- Signs of blood in the urine or bowel movements
- Unusual listlessness or inactivity
- Convulsions or twitching fits
- Marked changes in color or behavior
- Any unfamiliar or widespread rash
- Any burns that result in blisters
- Difficulty in breathing
- A persistent cough
- Redness of the eyes or the discharge of pus from the eyes
- Discharge from the ears or ear pain, which you may be able to recognize by the baby's constant turning of his head or pulling at his ear
- Swelling or sinking of the fontanels (the two soft spots in your baby's head)
Of course, just because a symptom is not on the preceding list doesn't mean you shouldn't call. Feel free to call your child's doctor whenever you have concerns that cannot wait until the next scheduled visit.
More on: Babies
Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bringing Up Baby © 1997 by Kevin Osborn. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
To order this book visit the Idiot's Guide web site or call 1-800-253-6476.


text:
If the stated question is true then what are the consequencies to mathematical physics as an aspect of Hilbert's 6th Problem.
closed as not a real question by Timothy Chow, Emil Jeřábek, Theo Johnson-Freyd, Andreas Blass, Angelo Feb 24 '12 at 17:20
It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, visit the help center.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
No. The incompleteness theorem does not say anything about whether a particular informal theory is capable of being formalized. The incompleteness theorem only applies to formal theories, so it doesn't tell us anything about a theory that has not yet been formalized. You might want to read a book by Franzen called Godel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse.


text:
I had a sailing test a few weeks ago and in it I was presented with the B flag and was asked what it means and what would be the applicable light at night.
I know the answer is "carrying dangerous substances and the light is an all-round red light" but I can't find where this is defined to make sure I'm not missing other rules not in COLREGs.
Are there any additional international rules for boating lights and signals apart from COLREGs?


text:
STEUBENVILLE -- Two years ago Mike Givens was in the Project Bootstraps audience, listening intently as area entrepreneurs talked about everything from their motivation for going into business to practical issues like taxes, insurance and licensing.
"I'd been on the bubble of starting my own business," Givens recalled. "I'd always worked for other people, and wasn't quite sure if I wanted to do it or not. After listening to the people talk and hearing what they said about all that was involved in starting their own business, I decided to give it a go."
Givens opened his own home improvement business, Givens Home Improvement, LLC, and last year was invited back to be one of the Project Bootstraps panelists, sharing his observations with a new generation of would-be entrepreneurs.
"How weird is that?" he asks with a laugh. "I had no business background whatsoever, I was just a labor guy. That's why (they) asked me to come back and be on the panel."
Project Bootstraps allows budding entrepreneurs to learn the how-to's of business from some of the Steubenville area's most successful businessmen and women. Now in its third year, the free forum takes the form of a give-and-take discussion between the entrepreneurs and their audience, according to Thomas Kelly, faculty adviser to Franciscan University of Steubenville's Students in Free Enterprise group.
The first panel discussion in this year's Project Bootstraps series is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday in the seminar room at Franciscan's St. Joseph Center. Kelly said it typically plays to a packed house, and he expects this year will be no different.
"It's designed to inspire people in the community to live their dreams and open up a business," Kelly said. "If they open a business and are successful at it, obviously economic improvement will occur in the community. We're showing these people...proof positive that you can make it in Steubenville and the surrounding area."
Kelly said the discussion typically plays to a packed house.
"Starting a business is a scary thing, no question about it," Kelly said. "Project Bootstraps is designed to provide them with encouragement, let them know they can do it."
SIFE sponsors the event in conjunction with the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, Progress Alliance, the Community Foundation of Jefferson County, Herald-Star and Valley Ventures Inc.
Panelists for the Nov. 9 session are Bob Chapman of Choice Brands of Ohio; Tracy McManamon of One Source Benefits; Arieh Ordronneau of Anytime Fitness; Nino Scaffidi of Scaffidi's Pasta; Philip Rook of Professional Lawn & Landscape; and Rob Runkel of Rehab Plus.
Bob Chapman is president and chief operating officer of KMC Corp., the holding company of Choice Brands of Ohio and Iron City Distributing company. He also is senior vice president of Beverage Marketing Corp.
After graduating magna cum laude from Franciscan University of Steubenville, he became a certified public accountant. He joined Choice as controller in 1978 after working as a senior accountant at other public accounting firms.
He is a member of the American Institute and the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants, past chairman of the Franciscan University Board of Advisors, vice chairman of the Workforce Investment Board, treasurer of the Jefferson Chamber of Commerce, member of the JB Green Team and a member of the Foundation board for Trinity Health System. He and his wife, Sharon, life in Steubenville. They have two sons, Robert Jr. and Matthew.
"You win with people and you need to stay focused on the Vision," Chapman said. "In our case, since 1937 the vision and guiding belief is to market the finest beers, wines, and other beverage products with the highest level of customer service. Truly this rich tradition and approach to business describes our current business partners, which represents our suppliers and customers."
Tracy McManamon grew up in Cleveland, attending parochial school before enrolling at Ohio State University, where he majored in economics, business administration and a minor in marketing. He worked as assistant director of operations and public relations for the Cleveland Browns for more than five years before he and his wife moved to Southern California, where he worked in advertising. Fifteen years later the McManamons moved to North Carolina, where he started his own insurance agency. A few years later he sold his agency to Acordia and soon after joined the firm, working with them for the next 12 years. During that time he scored honors as the youngest person ever to serve as senior vice president and partner until 2003, when he again opened his own agency.
McManamon and his wife, Amy, have been married 30 years and are the parents of Sarah, who now works with him in the family business; Catherine, Elizabeth, Madelen and Julia. He's a member of St. Peter Church, Serra International and Knights of Columbus, and chairs the Faith in the Future Task Force in Jefferson County. He and his wife also founded Two Hearts, a foundation to assist young girls in China with health care and educational needs.
Arieh Ordronneau opened Anytime Fitness in the Hollywood Plaza in November 2009 and is working to complete and open a second location in Weirton in January.
Ordronneau, a father of seven, had moved to Steubenville with his family from Oregon to complete his graduate theology degree at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in 2006. After earning his degree, he began to look for opportunities locally, not wanting to uproot his family again. He said he saw real opportunity in the area and liked the idea of being his own boss and building a business for himself, particularly since he couldn't find a job in the area in his field. He said his 12 years spent in business-to-business sales and in project management in the high-tech industry out West had prepared him for being a small business owner.
"Sales is the lifeblood of any business, no matter what. You have to find customers. The skill sets I had developed meant I wasn't intimidated by opening my own business and finding customers," Ordronneau said. "I knew they wouldn't just come to me."
Ordronneau said owning a business "can be very challenging on an emotional level, but seeing people improve their health and self-esteem in this business in particular is a very rewarding aspect. We change people's lives for the better."
Philip Rook is a landscape designer and the owner of Professional Lawn & Landscape of Steubenville.
A 1997 graduate of Catholic Central High School, he earned his business marketing degree in 2001 from Franciscan University of Steubenville and his master s in business administration from Franciscan in 2007. While still in high school he went to work at Professional Lawn & Landscape, which his brother, John, had founded in 1987. When he became co-owner in 1999, he focused on developing the company's design/build landscape division. He also was president and chief executive officer of Highland Hills Landscape Supply in Follansbee, a partner company to PL&L, from 1999-2002. In 2005 he became sole owner of PL&L.
Rook has completed courses in landscape design through the Ohio State short course program as well as extensive training in computer design imaging through Designware Inc. He is an Authorized Unilock retaining wall and paving stone contractor. In 2009, he became a Certified Aquascape Contractor, one of only 300 across the U.S. and Canada. CAC's are considered an elite group of water feature builders who specialize in constructing waterfalls, ponds, pondless waterfalls and rain water harvesting systems. Philip's work as a CAC recently took him to Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh to install a rain water harvesting system at the center for sustainable landscapes, which is currently under construction. This $20 million building will be one of the few LEED certified platinum buildings in the world.
Since 2005 Rook has steered the company from a full-service lawn maintenance company to a design/build landscape company. PL&L now specializes in residential landscape design and installations, brick patios and walkways, retaining walls, outdoor bars and kitchens, outdoor fireplaces and custom water features. The firm has 10 employees and mainly services the Steubenville/ Weirton area, but also completes projects from Pittsburgh to Wheeling.
A member of the Jefferson County and Weirton Chamber of Commerce and the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association, he lives in Steubenville with his wife and five children and has been a volunteer Jefferson Kiwanis Youth Soccer Coach for the last six years.
Robert Runkel is owner, chief executive officer and chief clinician at Rehab Plus Physical Therapy in Steubenville
In business for himself for 13 years, Runkel graduated from Kent State University in 1991 as a physical therapist assistant. He earned his bachelor's degree in biology from Barry University in North Miami Shores, Fla., graduating Cum Laude in 1994. He earned his master's in physical therapy from Barry University the following year, and his doctorate in physical therapy from Chatham University in 2004, specializing in orthopedics and sports medicine. He also completed certification in manual therapy technique, mobilization and manipulations of the spine from Michigan State University.
Runkel said he'd identified a number of patient needs that either couldn't be addressed due to staff limitations or that simply weren't of concern to large organizations, and opted to go into business for himself so he could address some of those needs. He said the hands-on approach he applied to patient care remains an integral part of his practice today.
Prior to acquiring Rehab Plus and going into private practice in 1998, Runkel worked for large corporations as a staff physical therapist and in various management positions. He recently expanded his practice, purchasing and renovating the former Spahn's Dairy building. His new, 7,000-square foot complex features state-of-the-art equipment and the area's only full-service aquatic therapy setting. The business currently employs five people, but is in the process of adding personnel.
A lifelong resident of Steubenille, Runkel and his wife have three children. He is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association and the Ohio Physical Therapy Association, and has earned numerous awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from Kent State Univesity, the Progress Alliance Best of the County Award and Who's Who in Business.
Nino Scaffidi and his wife Dawn own Scaffidi's Pasta.
The Steubenville natives opened for business in September 2009, moving into a larger space in August.
"We started small, understanding the risk involved, especially in a down economy," Scaffidi said. "But hard work, good customer service and providing an authentic product at a reasonable price has helped us grow the business from a 25-seat location to over 200 seats."
Scaffidi had majored in psychology at the University of Akron, and logged 15 years of management experience in various industries from corrections to food distribution before opening the restaurant. His wife has a degree in business management from the Bradford school, with 10 years of experience in retail.
"We both always wanted to open our own business," he said. "It takes hard work and dedication, but if you have that and a good product you can do it."
Scaffidi says to succeed, a small business owner must be prepared to "put a lot of time into it, and have a passion for it."
"Business ownership has been extremely rewarding," he said, "and we are blessed that we are able to provide a service in the community we call home. Our future goal is to continue to grow the business while staying true to our core values."
(Harris can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.)


text:
This is your first step toward making your dreams come true for your future. Whether it's to advance your current career, start a new career path, or simply continue that lifelong love of learning, Indiana Wesleyan University is the place for you.
Official transcripts are required from the baccalaureate degree-granting institution, and also from any graduate institutions if IWU is accepting transfer credits. Indiana Wesleyan University will accept for its permanent file only those transcripts sent in a sealed envelope directly to IWU by the registrar of the attended institution(s). Official transcripts must exhibit the official seal and signature of the registrar. Transcripts that are stamped "student copy," "issued to student," or "unofficial" cannot be accepted as official.
College Transcripts from Non-U.S. Schools
For college transcripts from non-U.S. schools, secure a "Course-by-Course Report" from Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE). Be sure to request that the report be sent directly to us at the address below. The evaluation must list course-by-course hours and grades.
Submit a copy of your TOEFL scores if English is not your primary language. For more information about this test, visit www.toefl.org.
Indiana Wesleyan University
LEAP Office
1900 W. 50th St.
Marion, IN 46953
Please contact your enrollment representative if you have any questions.
Last updated: 03/16/2016


text:
Will and Emily Meireis, Preston, announce the birth of their son, Holden Wesley, at 5:55 p.m. Jan. 16, 2013, at Pratt Regional Medical Center. He weighed 9 pounds, 4 ounces and was 22 inches long.
Grandparents are Tom and Holly Youngers, Kingman, Tim and Stephanie Theis, Kansas City, Mo., and Greg and Terry Meireis, Preston.
Location, ST | website.com


text:
The Healthy Masculinity Summit is part of the Healthy Masculinity Action Project (HMAP), the most ambitious undertaking ever to spread the message of healthy, non-violent masculinity across the country. HMAP, a two-year action project, will develop new male leatership that role models strenth without violence. Men who are strong and assertive, as well as caring and connected, benefit our loved ones, schools, workplaces, nation, and the world.
HMAP kicks off with the summit in Washington, DC, October 17-19, 2012. We will gather the best of the best - male and female leaders, from business to education, from policy to sports, as well as organizations working to prevent violence against women and girls and other forms of violence.
Links:[1] http://getinvolved.mencanstoprape.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=368&erid=76879&trid=6c11d833-1dd7-421e-99ae-851837d79863
[2] http://www.nsvrc.org/states-territories/district-columbia


text:
The 6 Most Brutal Infections You Could Have Right Now
If you're reading this, you're almost certainly stuck indoors, maybe in a cubicle but certainly in some place that isn't a tropical beach. That's why we've always tried to provide the extremely critical public service of reminding you that things could be much, much worse.
So with that, let's look at these very real (although rare) infections that are so over-the-top bizarre that they'd be considered too gross for a David Cronenberg movie. No matter how this day goes, just be glad you don't have ...
#6. The Parasite That Collapses Your Face
Remember the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where everyone's face falls apart? Well, maybe that wasn't God punishing the Nazis after all, but fast-acting mucocutaneous leishmaniasis -- the infection that makes your face collapse like it's a sacred temple and someone just stole the idol at the center.
Face melting has finally moved beyond Nazis and thieving Frenchmen.
In reality, mucocutaneous leishmaniasis takes a lot longer to act (months, years or even decades), and it begins in the most offensive way possible: with insect poop. The infection is spread through a poorly mannered sand fly that bites you and then proceeds to thank you for the meal by taking a dump in the wound. So already we're starting with the kind of action that would make Hannibal Lecter crinkle his nose and say, "Jesus, man, what is wrong with you?"
Ladies and gentlemen, the tampon that destroys lives.
But that's just how the parasite gets inside you -- that's when the scene really gets nasty. The parasite starts going after mucus cavities, like your mouth and your nose. What it's doing is essentially planting TNT in all those places, preparing to blow them to hell.
The first thing you notice, a long time after the initial shit-bite, is painful ulcers in the infected places. If you're lucky, you're left disfigured for life -- if you're not, your nose collapses into your mouth and your entire face caves in like a punctured inflatable.
Kodak moment!
This would suck enough on its own, but it's aggravated by all the health implications: You can't breathe well (because, again, you have no nose), eating is painful and can cause you to choke and your exposed airway is considerably more prone to catching pneumonia.
After all that, even your own saliva can kill you, and often does. See, this is why you never leave your bedroom unless you're wearing your airtight anti-insect protection suit, and even then only during the winter. But we're just getting started ...
#5. The Infection That Dissolves You Like Acid
Gas gangrene is a condition that actually melts your flesh into gas and fluid, and is caused by the Clostridium perfringens bacteria. We won't show you images of it because they are gross, so here's the witch-melting scene from The Wizard of Oz instead. Just picture the same thing happening to you. Only much, much more slowly.
And without the whimsical creatures.
Gas gangrene won't dissolve your entire body, probably because you don't live long enough for that to happen: The infection is so devastating that it can kill you in 12 hours. As fast as that may seem, when you get to the part where your nerves begin to painfully dissolve into liquid, you'll wish it would just hurry the fuck up.
Oh hey, a close-up that doesn't make us want to kill ourselves.
The way it works is this: Once the bacteria gets into your system (usually through an improperly treated wound), it unleashes dozens of lethal toxins programmed to shear apart biological tissue, leaving behind liquefied flesh instead of pus as your body's way of saying "nothing to do here, pal." It also stops the blood flow to the infected limb, building up gas and turning your skin into human bubble wrap. The treatment for this infection hasn't changed a whole lot since the Civil War: It's called amputation.
And no one from the Civil War is alive today. Coincidence?
C. perfringens lives in dirt and is technically immortal (in extreme weather conditions, it turns into a nearly indestructible spore), which means that even if you survive, it can come back decades later to finish the job.
Oh, and here's our favorite part: It can survive perfectly well without becoming a parasite in a living body -- in other words, it melts your body simply because it can.
#4. The Bite That Itches Under Your Skin (For Years)
Imagine a parasite that spreads through your entire body, even covering your eyes and turning them opaque. If you immediately pictured the extraterrestrial black oil from The X-Files, we're pretty sure it's actually worse than that. We're talking about the onchocerciasis infection ... which, also like the black oil, eventually turns into worms. Huh.
The X-Files often mirrors real life in that it's complicated and Duchovny has sex with everyone.
The Onchocerca volvulus parasite spreads through black flies, a type of fly that breeds near fast-running rivers, and it's actually the second leading infection that causes blindness in the world. Upon biting you, the black fly infects you with microscopic larvae that begin moving through your body, right below the surface of your skin, harmlessly at first. Just regular old worms under your skin.
"We're just here to chill out, pray for the doom of man, eat eyeballs. No biggie."
But then the party starts: Once they mature, the adult parasites turn your body into the worst orgy you've been to -- not just because you're not getting any, but also because afterward you're stuck with a shitload of babies. And we mean a shitload: A single female can release 1,000 worms per day. And they're all crawling inside you. Under your skin.
Soon, there are over a hundred million microscopic worms spreading through your skin, lymph system and, yep, your eyeballs. Once the worms reach the surface of your cornea, it becomes inflamed, eventually causing it to turn opaque and leaving you blind (which may be a relief, actually, because we assume all you'd see at this point is giant worms everywhere).
You are pretty much more worms than human at this point.
So, yeah, that's pretty bad (and pretty gross), but don't think this thing is gonna go easy on you now that you're disabled. When the worms die, your immune system goes haywire, producing an intense itching in every place they reached, which is everyplace -- and you can't even scratch that itch, because it comes from under your skin. With treatment, this can last a few years; without it, you'll be scratching yourself everywhere and nowhere for the rest of your life. The disease itself is not lethal, but not surprisingly, the itching alone has apparently driven people to suicide.
"Stop asking me what I've forgotten!"
See? Now your little case of athlete's foot doesn't seem so bad, does it? This is what we're here for, to keep things in perspective. The rest of these infections are even worse, by the way ...


text:
You've Got The Love
Florence and the Machine
Last Played
Average rating
4 star rating.
Listen Audio Clip
Florence and the Machine: You've Got The Love provided courtesy of the iTunes Music Store.
Other songs on this album
Other songs by this artist
- Ceremonials
- Leave My Body
- Never Let Me Go
- No Light, No Light
- Only If For A Night
- Shake It Out
- Spectrum (Say My Name)
- What The Water Gave Me
- How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
- Delilah
- Ship to Wreck
- St. Jude
- What Kind of Man
- MTV Unplugged
- Jackson
- Try A Little Tenderness
- Play It Forward
- I Love You All The Time
- Rave On Buddy Holly
- Not Fade Away
- Spectrum (Say My Name) Remixes EP
- Spectrum (Say My Name) (Calvin Harris Remix)
- The Great Gatsby Soundtrack
- Over The Love
Please note that our catalog only lists songs that we've set up within our system; not every track from an album is displayed. You may request a song that's not in our catalog by using our request form. You may also suggest a song be added to our catalog by contacting The Current.
Album art and preview audio provided by iTunes, related artists provided by EchoNest.


text:
Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, located in New Orleans, Louisiana, is the oldest Jungian psychology journal in the world. Published twice a year, each Spring Journal is organized around a theme and offers articles as well as film and book reviews in the areas of archetypal psychology, mythology, and Jungian psychology.
Spring Journal Books is the book publishing imprint of Spring Journal and publishes books about archetypal psychology, mythology and Jungian psychology.
Spring Journal is published with the support of Pacifica Graduate Institute. Spring Journal and Pacifica Graduate Institute are dedicated to cultivating and harvesting the gifts of the human imagination so that these insights may be brought to bear upon the personal, cultural and planetary concerns of our time. It is our aim to foster research and publication in psychology, mythology, the arts, and religion following within the tradition of the depth psychology of C. G. Jung.
Web Site: Spring Journal and Books


text:
The mission of the Office of Compliance and Risk Management is to assist New York University, as an international center of scholarship, teaching and research, to carry out its academic mission with integrity and in accordance with the University's legal, regulatory and ethical responsibilities.
The Office offers compliance and risk management services to the University community that include:
The University Office of Compliance and Risk Management assists by providing useful resources to the NYU community. We hope you will find the information on this web page educational and helpful.
Compliance is everyone's responsibility. For more information, click on the above link.
Click on the above link for archived issues of Compliance Matters, issued by the Office of Compliance and Risk Management and the Office of Equal Opportunity.
Click on the above link for information on professional organizations and higher education.
Click on the above link for legal and compliance related resources offered by administrative offices and deprtments within the University.


text:
I'm attempting to scale an image, modify it, and then output to another image format. So far, I've been using the apache batik library. For simple conversion, this is easy. For clipping the svg, this is easy.
However, I can't seem to figure out how to scale to the full image created by the svg. That is, I can specify the area of interest as a bounding rectangle, and then scaling works over the bounding rectangle, but I do NOT know how to scale over the image of the svg.
This is what I have so far:
//set the output width and height
transcoder.addTranscodingHint( PNGTranscoder.KEY_WIDTH, new Float( newSize.width ) );
transcoder.addTranscodingHint( PNGTranscoder.KEY_HEIGHT, new Float( newSize.height ) );
//set the aoi for scaling. Unsure what to do here.
transcoder.addTranscodingHint( PNGTranscoder.KEY_AOI, new Rectangle( 0, 0, 100, 100 ) );


text:
Consider the following:
- grant select on books to frank.
- revoke select on books from public.
At the end of executing the above SQL script, will frank have 'select' access to the 'books' table?
migrated from stackoverflow.com Dec 20 '11 at 5:22
This question came from our site for professional and enthusiast programmers.
Yes, frank will be able to perform a select on books. Basically Oracle will use the most permissive privilege, which is the one allowing selection.
Reference: Documentation (under roles).
Note that this is different from you granting privileges with admin option to UserB, who in turn grants privileges to UserC. In this case revoking privileges from UserB would automatically "cascade" revoke them from UserC.


text:
This dish was PERFECT! Hubby and I both loved it. I love black beans so I added a can of that too. The onions and peppers add freshness and are so yummy. I will make this again and again, it is the BEST dish I've made since I started cooking around 6 months ago.
Michelle, Sugar Land, TX


text:
We have a WordPress site where we have external authors for whom we have created usernames at the
Editor level. We want these editors to be able to create new posts and modify their own posts, but occasionally we have posts in progress that we'd rather keep more private.
It is a very small pool of users, and an even smaller number of posts to "protect," so I am okay with any technique that requires explicit GRANT for our own users or explicit DENY for the external users. DENY would be easier of course, but I am not going to get fussy.


text:
Ballet de Espana
Posted 04 June 2008 - 04:30 PM
Posted 04 June 2008 - 06:19 PM
Hopefully it won't be long now - I've been patient, but it's been such a long time now since those auditions!
Posted 05 June 2008 - 01:07 AM
I remember seeing a list of countries that dancers hail from, but I don't think I ever saw a list of dancers names.
Hopefully it won't be long now - I've been patient, but it's been such a long time now since those auditions!
Hi m2!
Here it is the list of current dancers of the Corella Ballet forwarded by the press department of the company:
'CORELLA BALLET' LIST of DANCERS
1 Ángel Corella (Español)
2 Heman Cornejo (Argentino)
3 Ian Mackey (Inglés)
4 Carmen Corella (Español)
5 Adiarys Almeida (Cubana)
6 Natalia Tapia (Española)
1st SOLOISTS
1 Kazuko Omori (Japonesa)
2 Matthew Golding (Canadiense)
1 Ashley Ellis (Americana)
2 Joseph Gatti (Americano)
3 Radev Kirill (Ruso)
1 Ion Agirretxe Iglesias (Español)
2 Roberto Sánchez González (Español)
3 Ivan Sánchez González (Español)
4 Daniel Fajardo Villares (Español)
5 Russell Ducker (Inglés)
6 Toby Mallitt (Ingleé)
7 Zambello Pietro (Italiano)
8 Luca Giaccio (Italiano)
9 Yerlan Andagulov (Kazakhstan)
10 George Birkatze (Georgia)
11 Sergei D'yachkov (Ruso)
12 Denis D'yachkov (Ruso)
13 Yevgen Uzlenkov (Ruso)
14 Fernando Bufala (Español)
1 Neus Expósito Fernandez (Española)
2 Alba Cazorla Luengo (Española)
3 Georgia Molina González (Española)
4 Marta Ludevid Sanmarti (Española)
5 Ana Calderón (Española)
6 Andrea Palacios Fernández (Española)
7 Cristina Casa Gómez (Española)
8 Carla López Ponlla (Española)
9 Raquel Santamarta Rodríguez (Española)
10 Victoria Villanueva (Española)
11 Ana Cabral (Portuguesa)
12 Mª José Sales (Española)
13 Carrie Walsh (Inglesa)
14 Daisy Brodskis (Inglesa)
16 Andrea Estefanía Pumar (Argentina)
17 Tracy Jones (Irlandesa)
18 Alexandra Basmagy (Americana)
19 Yoko Callegari (Americana)
20 Irene Campillo (Española)
21 Irene Vaqueiro (Española )
22 Carolina Chico (Española )
23 María Sordo (Española )
1 Mirella Lorente (Española)
2 Greta Wright (Inglesa)
3 Silvia Inés Otero (Española)
4 Margarita Cuellar (Española)
Oh my God, it is so exiting for us
Posted 05 June 2008 - 03:47 AM
Many of us have a little knowledge about Carmen Corella and Adiarys Almeida. Can you tell us something about the Spanish female principal. Natallia Tapia?
Posted 05 June 2008 - 05:16 AM
Interesting! Big! And very international! Thanks, Carolina.
Many of us have a little knowledge about Carmen Corella and Adiarys Almeida. Can you tell us something about the Spanish female principal. Natallia Tapia?
You are welcome!
With pleasure, about her and a little bit more
Natalia Tapia: She was principal with Víctor Ullate, she danced the principal role in Edurado Laos Coppelia when Eri Nakamura (now soloist at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal) was injured. Natalia also danced The Dance of the Hours of La Giocconda with Ángel at the Teatro Real, but only few days in substitution of Letizia Giuliani.
Radev Kirill: Was soloist at the Imperial Russian Ballet.
As far as for the corps, I know Mª José Sales and Fernando Bufalá both coming from the English National Ballet where they were Corps and First Artist or Soloist (dont remember exactly). Also Cristina Casa, who trained at the ABT and danced with the ENB last season in Swan Lake at the London Coliseum. And Yevgen Uzlenkov was also principal with Víctor Ullate, he was Franz at Coppelia.
If I find out any further info Ill tell you
Posted 05 June 2008 - 05:55 AM
One of the most promising aspects of Corella's project is the commitment to preparing and giving more job opportunities to Spanish-born, Spanish-trained classical dancers. My count of the "Espanoles" and "Espanolas" in the list is:
Principals: 3 of 6, counting Corella himself
Male corps: 5 of 14
Female corps: 15 of 23
Apprentices: 3 of 4.
Not a bad start.
Posted 05 June 2008 - 06:26 AM
Thanks, Carolina. Didn't Corella also get a start with Ullate?
Yes, he did, he was one of that incredible troupe of dancers all at the same time in the company:
Angel Corella - ABT
Tamara Rojo Royal Ballet
Joaquín de Luz - NYCB
Lucía Lacarra Munich Opera Ballet
Ruth Miró Bejart (now Lyon Opera Ballet, I think)
Víctor Jiménez - Bejart (now Lyon Opera Ballet, I think)
Ygor Yebra Free Lance (now at the Bordeaux Opera Ballet)
María Giménez She was dancer at the Ballet Nacional de Cuba
Ana Noya She is still with Víctor
Marta Rodríguez Coca ABT (now back in Spain)
Jesús Pastor ABT (I think) and now back in Spain
And maybe Im still missing some
Posted 05 June 2008 - 06:48 AM
Posted 05 June 2008 - 06:58 AM
I recall seeing Carlos Lopez, who later went to ABT. Somewhere I have my program of an evening that included Allegro Brillante. (I remember walking by a poster and noticing -- with surprise -- the Balanchine, so we bought a couple of tickets.) It was during the 1990s. I wonder whether a very young Corrella was part of the company at that time?
You are right, also Carlos López was there. ¡What an amazing young troupe we had at that time! I remember a wonderful Giselle (even if Ángel had already left to join the ABT)
Posted 05 June 2008 - 09:55 AM
Posted 05 June 2008 - 02:15 PM
I can't tell you how nice it is to finally see these names in print!!
Now, I will just need to plan a trip to Spain!
Muchas Gracias, CarolinaM!!
Posted 20 June 2008 - 10:26 AM
It would be incredible. It is so good that sometimes I can not belive it. I Makarova.
Posted 20 June 2008 - 01:09 PM
I like Makarova's staging of "La Bayadere" very much. Her version was my introduction to the ballet -- both as the Shades scene and as a full-length. I can understand how people who grew up on other versions may find it lacking. It is an ambitious undertaking for a new company.
There are so many familiar names in this company -- many of us are eager to hear not only about the company's progress overall, but that of some of the individuals. We're counting on our Spanish members to keep us informed. I look forward to your reactions to the company's performances.
Posted 22 June 2008 - 07:22 AM
Also many thanks to carbro In Spain even if for you it must sound incredible, there is people who only criticize and try to make thinks as much difficult as possible for Ángel and his team. But we at fotoescena are supporting this so wonderful initiative from the very beginning and up to now. So to find people like you that share our illusion and enthusiasm is very nice. Thanks again!!
As you say, the official premiere of "Corella Ballet" will be with La Bayadere (Natalia Makarova) at the Teatro Real in Madrid, in September 4, 2008, but already on July 11 and 12, the "Corella Ballet" will perform at La Granja (Segovia) where the Company is set. The program will be Clear (Stanton Welch); Bruch Violín Concerto nº 1 (Clark Tippet) and In the Upper Room (Twyla Tharp).
Just to inform you that tickets for La Granja will be on sale from next June 24 at La Granja Town Council, Sfera shops and at El corte Inglés at a price: 25-45 .
At el Corte Inglés they can be purchased on-line El Corte Inglés - Tickets
or by phone: +34 921 470018
If anybody can come and need any help, please do not hesitate to ask and if we could meet there, as of course I will not miss it, I would be more than happy.
For La Bayadere in Madrid, September 2008, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 & 10 at 20:00 h. tickets will be on sale from July 15.
For El Liceu in Barcelona, July 2009, 9, 10 (two shows) & 11 (two shows) Gran Teatre del Liceu will be on sale from July 14 at 09:00 a.m. Ángel Corella will perform on July 9, at 8 pm and on July 11, at 10 pm.
Please join me in wishing good luck and long life to the Corella Ballet!! Ángel deserves this!!
Posted 22 June 2008 - 02:20 PM
I simply do not understand such people. They exist everywhere. But WHY?
In Spain even if for you it must sound incredible, there is people who only criticize and try to make thinks as much difficult as possible for Ángel and his team.
Good for you, and many thanks. In a few years, I trust that we will all look back on 2008 as the beginning of an hugely successful enterprise for Spain, for classical ballet, and for Corella and his dancers. (And for ballet lovers like the fine people at Fotoescena.)
[W]e at fotoescena are supporting this so wonderful initiative from the very beginning and up to now.
0 user(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users
Help support Ballet Alert! and Ballet Talk for Dancers year round by using this search box for your amazon.com purchases. (If it doesn't appear below, your computer's or browser's adblockers may have blocked display):


text:
Ultimate Black-Friday Sale - 24-hour codes unlocked
Browse the latest
38 Comments add a comment
Beware of Newegg billing. My friend never does online purchases and bought from newegg. Her credit card was immediately compromised in NJ where Newegg billing location is.
@duckiebell: Paypal
I have been doing purchases with Newegg for over 10 years and never experienced anything negative from the company nor fraud charges. I would guess to say that it was a coincidence. Fraud charges are seldom ever done in the city or state where the card number was skimmed.
FYI: Be careful with Newegg. I dealt with them for years with no problem, but recently, my best friend had a really bad experience.
It should be noted that my best friend is about the most OCD-having man I've ever met when it comes to his electronics. He was returning the mobo because it didn't have all the features he wanted and was well within the return policy and period. He carefully packaged up the working motherboard in the original interior packing material, box, packing material, shipping box, etc.
A day or two after Newegg received it, he was told, "We can't take this back because you damaged the pins on this motherboard." They kept his $250 and returned the motherboard: sure enough, the pins were damaged.
When he called to tell them there was a mistake, that he did not send the board to them that way, he was told flatly, "If you want your money back, pay to replace that CPU socket and try eBay."
So, as much as I loved Newegg, I have to say "Buyer beware."
I haven't had any problems with newegg, I want to give it a shot thought I don't like the mail in rebate it is worth a shot.
This sale totally pissed me off. I waited up till 3 AM EST (12 PST) to get a SSD for $59 and the item's price was wrong and by the time they fixed it, it was sold out.
@centricity: But did he put the piece of plastic covering the CPU's socket? If you don't, some places (like Newegg) will not take the motherboard back.
Additionally, not sure I buy his story because if he is as OCD as you mention he would have checked/triple-checked all the features before ordering.
I buy hundreds -- occasionally thousands -- of dollars per month of customer merchandise from Newegg and have never experienced any of the issues listed here. Unless I can save a significant (> 10%) amount of money by buying elsewhere (which is fairly rare,) I much prefer Newegg for their excellent service and post-purchase support.
Take some time to read the hundreds of product reviews posted DAILY on Newegg.com and you'll see for yourself that when an item arrives DOA or fails soon-thereafter, Newegg customer support is usually the only bright spot in the entire review.
No company is perfect, but I rely on Newegg and have developed a great deal of trust in them, which is not easily earned from me. Just as I'm doing now, whenever I have an issue with a company, group or organization, I'm the one immediately firing off emails to God and Country to make my dissatisfaction known and addressed. After 6+ years, I've never had to sound the trumpets against Newegg.
+1 @hackman2007 above, I wanted to say the same thing but ran up against the character limit.
It's entirely too easy to check both the Newegg product page and the manufacturer's product page (which is handily linked on every Newegg product page, don't you know) for any item's EXACT specs and features, so buying something and it not having the desired features is a very weak proposition, at best. Before buying something (anything) as highly-technical as a motherboard or CPU, do your homework and know what you're buying.
I once bought a batch of IDE (instead of SATA) DVD burners in error, but I didn't blame the retailer, I blamed myself and decided to eat the cost instead of spending even more cash to ship them all back. I still have a few of those units and use them to refurb older PCs when the optical drive has failed.
@mrsmoofy: Just for the future in case sales like this come up again, you can always order the product and have Newegg alter the charge after. I have done this several times and have even applied promo codes after ordering. What would happen is you would end up with the charge on your card and then be issued a partial refund. As long as you don't have the product already, Newegg is good at making things right which is why I'm guessing it sold out before the price was corrected.
@airportcomputers: Yeah, he admitted it was his fault for not doing his research and knowing himself better, but even still, that's not a reason for a company not to honor their stated return policy.
As I said, I was a loyal customer of Newegg's. I believed they would make it right and told him so several times. When they didn't, he was surprised and so was I. Personally, I think it's a fair point to make sure that others know about a negative experience so they can take precautions. (Take photos before your return, for example.) As a consumer, I want to know the "easy" way that there might be an issue. I'm sorry that you don't agree.
@hackman2007: He did, yes. I watched him.
And he did check, but didn't think he'd need the top (...or maybe front? I can't recall exactly) panel support. Once he got it, it bugged him more than he expected that the motherboard didn't have those things, so he decided to get a different one.
@duckiebell: Had to sign in just to downvote this. I've been shopping at newegg for 8 years and never had any issues. Furthermore I have never heard of anyone else having such issues. Sorry about your friend's troubles, but it sounds like a one-off.
That LSI SAS controller looks like a steal.
@duckiebell: I've also been a customer of NewEgg for years and have never experienced anything of this nature. I would call this a fluke.
@centricity: I've only ever had one issue with NewEgg's return policy and it was a misunderstanding about their RMA process. If you RMA something and then you need to return the replacement you received, due to it also being broken or some other reason, it all has to occur within the original 30 day return window. In my case, I tried to thoroughly test the product on my end before returning it again when I should have just turned around and done the RMA right away. Lesson learned on my part, but they took care of it for me anyway. I find it hard to believe your friend would not have been taken care of had there been any chance it wasn't your friend's fault.
I've never had any problems with orders from Newegg. That being said, the actual mechanics behind this promotion are massively scummy. In order to even SEE the final price on some items, you have to
-Add the item to your cart.
-Give them your e-mail address and sign up for an account.
-Agree to receive promotional e-mails from Newegg.
-Give Newegg your credit card information (this is the point where I left the site).
No site should make you give them all that just to see the price.
@synergynt: I thought the same, which is why I posted here, because I was wrong. He seriously did everything right except underestimate what he wanted the board to do. He decided he didn't want it and when he tried to return it (in working condition, four days after he received it, with all the original parts and packaging), he got burned.
Look, y'all, I get the skepticism, I do. You don't know me, don't know my friend, and have no reason to trust what I'm saying. That's fine, but I felt like it was a story worth sharing to people who might be affected by the same issue.
If you never are, that's great and I'm genuinely happy for it. I thought it was worth mentioning, though.
@duckiebell: Also from NJ. Matter of fact, some city where their warehouse is located. Never had a problem. Causation =/= correlation.
I've been doing business with Newegg for many years and never had a problem. On the rare occassions I needed to make a return, it was painless.
I have FRIENDS too. THEY never had a problem with newegg. Oh and then there's me. I've never had a problem with newegg either.
At the risk of getting a ton of down votes, I, too have had a horrible experience with NewEgg (July 2012). Bought a Blackberry Playbook from them, paid for two-day shipping, as I needed it for a trip. The one they sent was DOA. When I called to get a replacement, they told me that it might take up to six weeks to get one. When I asked for a refund, they said the item was nonrefundable. After several escalations through the rungs of customer support, they made a "one-time exception" to their no refund rule, but they would not refund the shipping. So, for a net loss of $13, I got nothing from NewEgg, and I will not be ordering from them again.
In for 16gb ram upgrade (2x8 sticks)! $50 shipped. Newegg has been great for me. I accidentally ordered a wrong video game, after contacting them they said to just keep it and they will refund my money. Great service.
Thanks Newegg!
I never trust "my friend told me..." stories on anything.
Even first hand accounts are often full of errors and misinterpretations on how one thinks things should be, rather than how things are in reality...
I've purchased well over 50 items on new egg, for a wide range of projects, and I've never once had a problem.
Fast shipping, good prices, and great customer support.
So buyer, be aware that Newegg.com is great.
perhaps you people forgot that everything you read on the internet is truth
I've sent back motherboards and have only been hit with nothing more serious than the standard restocking fee. If this account is true, and not a TigerDirect shill ;), then I suspect something else happened.
Newegg is a pretty sketchy site... even right off the bat they make things difficult making you provide all your personal info just to see if a coupon code works. For a lot of products they make you enter your credit card number before you can even see the price. I purchased something and cancelled it the same day and it took over 2 months for them to reimburse paypal.
Regardless of personal experience, even the way they handle initiating the transaction puts it well below reputable. A few dollars savings isn't nearly worth the trouble.
@kcostell: That's the most obvious thing to me. I don't know how any reputable site would make you enter a credit card number and agree to promotional emails before they even show you the price. Sketchy at minimum.
Newegg is less sketchy than Best Buy. They have been around for a VERY long time and are one of the largest businesses that moves product online. They got that way by having excellent customer service and fair prices.
@toblathe: coupon codes are for people who subscribe to email marketing. If you don't want to use the coupon code, you don't have to. To subscribe to the "insider" emails, you need an account, and all that entails.
As far as the "must enter a cc to check price" I'm sure that was either a: manufacturer requirements, or b: "newegg marketplace" which is akin to amazon marketplace.
To all those that say newegg is sketchy and bad; Are you also the ones that say your knowledge is 5 eggs, then rant about n00b stuff... If so(which is probably the case), i say good reddens...
It should be mentioned that Newegg, like Amazon, Buy, Sears, etc... now offers items for sale by third party sellers, and they are not always as obvious about it as they could be. I would suspect that many of the horror stories are from these sellers. I too have shopped newegg for years, with only positive experiences with their customer service. That said, I was about to jump on a tablet deal they had going several days ago, til I noticed almost too late, that it was not from newegg. The sellers ratings were terrible, so I passed.
@fy360n: Where did you hear that?
Let me guess, the Internet. ;D
BTW: riddance: Noun: The action of getting rid of something troublesome.
@v4lu3s: @j5: @bayjacob: It's a little concerning how much of an uproar it's caused that a few people are stating some facts and personal experiences about newegg. If you have had only great experiences with them, great that's good information to get a balanced set of opinions... I won't down vote or do anything more than say my experience was different.
If you don't mind entering your credit card before finding out a price on a product that's fine, I've chosen to take my business elsewhere. I don't know of any other sites (even resellers and daily deal sites) that require your actual credit card info for that. If someone new is considering this deal, should they not be aware they should expect that? So call me and the others that have been critical of this site "n00bs" but I've made a purchase, same as any of you and I came away with a different opinion. If you don't work for newegg, why so critical of another point of view or more specifically just facts about the checkout process?
@toblathe: No uproar here, though the word "sketchy" may have set off some people. I'm frankly surprised at your experience and trying to figure out the conditions under which they occurred. I've been a customer of NE since about 2003 or so and have never experienced or heard of anything like that.
I already explained the reason you need an account for the coupon code, but not sure about the "credit card needed for price" business you've mentioned. Can you provide a link as an example?
@centricity: To be clear, Newegg was FOLLOWING their return policy regarding your friend's motherboard. It specifically says in their policy that they will not accept returns involving bent motherboard pins. This is due to the fact that the most common mistake that new computer builders make is to incorrectly attempt to force a processor onto a motherboard in a way that it was not intended. This results in the pins being bent and, often, the motherboard requiring repair. They specifically bring up this policy and broadcast it into your face as part of the buying process of any motherboard. If the board ARRIVED with bent pins (which I also am skeptical of) it would mean that the manufacturer either packed a bad board or that they didn't put the protective shield over the pins that every major manufacturer uses today. He would need to contact the manufacturer - the mistake is on them, NOT the distributor. I have had hundreds of Newegg transactions over the years - all positive for me.
@toblathe: I'm not sure what you are talking about here either. From looking at a few listings, I do see some where you have to add the product your cart before you see the price. This does not mean you have to continue through the checkout.
But I would be interested to see if there are some products that exist like this on Newegg.
Be aware the "adding to checkout" thing is not Newegg. This is a MSRP/legal deal and other places (like Amazon) have to deal with the same thing showing a lower advertised price.
Of the people I actually know, only one had a problem with NewEgg. By some miraculous turn of fate, he seems to have 'problems' with virtually every merchant (of any kind, local or internet) he comes into contact with.
I have been doing business with them since they were 'Egghead.com. I used to really shop their prices to make sure I couldn't do better and that's when I had a couple of bad experiences with other sources. Their customer service has really been the biggest difference between Newegg and their competitors.
I'm not saying your friend is a giant dick, but you might want to check around his feet for hair.
I just have to say, since I think they deserve it for my past experience with them, that Newegg has had some of the best customer service I've ever experienced with a company. They've actually surprised me with their awesomeness on more than one occasion. I would never hesitate buying from them.


text:
I'm making a background image for a PDF document. I have just realized that the same jpeg background looks really different (different colors) on different screens. Is there a way to avoid this huge bias? Are there any suggestions?
closed as off topic by Vitaly Mijiritsky, JonW♦ Nov 6 '12 at 8:51
Questions on User Experience Stack Exchange are expected to relate to user experience within the scope defined by the community. Consider editing the question or leaving comments for improvement if you believe the question can be reworded to fit within the scope. Read more about reopening questions here.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
There are measures you can take to work with web compatible color profiles as SteB mentioned, but the overal problem you're describing is generally an accepted downside to other people being able to view your document on their own screens.
Most computer screens even fluctuate ever so slightly over time in regards to color, so even if you had the same model of computer screen side by side you might be able to detect a difference.
So in short, there really isn't a way around this. It's not worthy losing sleep over though.
There's a free tool called Calibrize that will help you control your own color environment. But it still won't do anything for other's environments. Read the color management primer for an explanation of possibilities and pitfalls.
Calibrize is a free consumer grade software solution, and it sure is a heck of a lot better than nothing. But for professionals I'd recommend investing in a simple hardware measurement device such as a Colormunki Smile or a Spyder. Along with the right settings, this will make sure that at least your own system adhers to color standards. If it looks off on another monitor, it will be their fault, not yours. So it will only partly fix the color problem, but it will fully fix the issue of responsibility.
BTW, if you're on a Mac, you're in luck. Check your system settings> Monitors> Color. That should get you on your way.
There is an option in Windows to add and configure a colour profile (I assume something similar is in other OSes), you could give this a try, along with adjusting the colour temperature through the screen's own OSD.


text:
A normal day in a small, quiet Edmonson county town quickly turned tragic for the mother of Jeremy Priddy.
"October 9th was the worst day of our lives. We were in our own little quiet community where I was raised, and where I raised my children, and it's where my son died," said Vonnie Priddy.
Sometime between 5:30 and 7:30 that evening, Kentucky State Police said Priddy's girlfriend found him beaten to death on the floor of his home.
Police interviewed neighbors, but say none of them saw what happened. Despite this, his family still seeks answers.
"I believe with all my heart that there's somebody out there that knows something and that will come forward. If I didn't believe that, I couldn't go on," said Priddy.
Going on is what she is doing with the mission of finding justice for her son.
"The last six months have been the worst six months of my life," said Priddy.
The family is now offering a $10,000 reward for anyone with information that leads to the conviction of the killer.
"There's a place missing in our hearts. We drive by it everyday and we see it. We need some closure, and I know that somebody's going to help us. I believe that," said Priddy.
Priddy says she will not give up until she finds that closure.
"I'm begging please if you know anything... if you've heard anything... if you saw anything at all, please call Crime Stoppers." said Priddy.
You can contact Crime Stoppers with an anonymous tip, but the $10,000 reward will be given by the family.
Anyone with information can contact Crime Stoppers at 781-CLUE, or text a tip to 274637 with "SCKY" plus your message.
Your calls and texts are anonymous.


text:
I really love the look and design of the Thruxton and am considering getting one. I use my current motorbike every day, from getting to work and back, to shopping, to long trips. Its a bullet proof little Honda that's never given me any issues.
I was wondering if a Thruxton could put up with the constant use (maybe average of 20klms of travel per day in heavy traffic). Has anyone used one of these as a daily rider? If so was it ok to use? What issues did you encounter? Would you recommend the bike for this kind of use?


text:
Worldcue is a premier provider of practical destination intelligence and real time travel alerts. Worldcue is dedicated to protecting the health, safety and security of the NYU community while they travel abroad. Worldcue keeps travelers aware and informed with informative alerts delivered directly to them.
From your travel itinerary and profile, Worldcue can deliver customized travel intelligence services for hundreds of destinations worldwide. After booking through Egencia, you will receive e-mails of current travel alerts for the country you will be traveling to. You will be immediately updated about changing conditions that might affect your itinerary. This constant support allows travelers to circumvent potential difficulties with minimal trip disruption.
To customize the alerts that you wish to see, use the following link to create/access your account: https://traveler.worldcue.com; Your User Name: email@example.com
Go to the tab labeled 'My Profile' then click on the grey Edit button on the bottom of the page and then select one of the 3 options under Alert Preference. These options include several specific categories, including the alert severity, such as critical alerts, warning alerts, and informational alerts. The fewer alert settings you request, the fewer notifications you will receive. While your settings are clearly a personal preference, we recommend that at a minimum you set your preferences to enable you to receive Critical Alerts.
In the event of extreme circumstances where an evacuation may be contemplated, please contact the Public Safety Command Center at 212-998-2222. The Command Center is staffed 24/7.
The privacy of NYU community members is important to us: your travel plan information is held safely and securely; it will only be accessed if there is an emergency or a serious threat, and then only by the senior leadership of NYU's Department of Public Safety.


text:
Let $K$ be a category with products $(X,Y)\mapsto X\sqcap Y$ and with a terminal object $T$. It seems obvious to me that $\sqcap$ and $T$ define a structure of a monoidal category on $K$, but I can't find a reference. When I try to prove this myself I come to amazingly bulky constructions. Is there a text where this is accurately proved, or at least formulated?
Is very easy prove that $(Set, \times, 1)$ is monoidal (by elements checking). Now let $\mathcal{C}$ a category by finite product $\times$ and (then) with a final object $1$. Consider the axioms of monoidal category for $(\mathcal{C}, \times , 1)$ stated by diagrams (see for example p.462 of "Closed Categories" by Eilenberg & Kelly, LA Jolla 1967), now it remains to prove that these diagrams are commutative. COnsider a such diagram $\textbf{D}$ and a (general) object $X\in \mathcal{C}$ and the representable $(X, -): \mathcal{C}\to Set: A \mapsto (X, A)$, acting by $(X, -)$ on this diagram, we get a similar diagram in $Set$, say $X(\textbf{D})$, and $(X, -)$ preserve the product $\times$ and the final object $1$, now we just know that $(Set, \times, 1)$ is monoidal, then $X(\textbf{D})$ is commutative. Because this is true for each object $X$, by Yoneda lemma follow that $\textbf{D}$ is commutative (more easily observe that given $f, g: A \to B$, if $(X, f)=(X, g): (X, A)\to (X, B) $ for each $X$ then $f=g$ (consider $X=A$ and $1_A$)).
You need to have chosen products for every pair of objects using the axiom of choice, otherwise you don't get a product functor, just a product anafunctor and I recommend you don't try to use those just yet. Then you can prove - and this is the key step - that any two bracketings of an iterated product are isomorphic in a unique way when you demand the isomorphism respects the all the projections. The unique such isomorphism for a triple product is then the associator, and the uniqueness of the isomorphism for the 4-fold product means that the pentagon commutes. Ditto with the other coherence conditions.
Note that you can choose the product of any object $X$ with the terminal object to be $X$. This makes the unit conditions automatic.
You can find it as an example of a monoidal category in Tom Leinster's "Higher Operads, Higher Categories", which contains loads of coherence proofs for higher categories.


text:
FreeWRL Home Page
FreeWRL is an X3D/VRML open source viewer for many platforms.
FreeWRL has had an impressive track record, is here to stay. X3D Components get added, problems get resolved. Program with GLSL Shaders using the X3D Shaders Component, put your models exactly where you want them with the Geospatial Component, or just throw triangles to the screen as Extrusions, IndexedFaceSets, TriangleSets, Circle2D, Disk2D, Spheres, Boxes, Cubes; the list goes on and on.
With royalty free open standards, your models will continue to render, year after year.Your feedback is important to us. Contact information is available at the Contact page.
Latest News
From circa 1999 to April 2010, the FreeWRL project was managed by John A. Stewart.
There is absolutely no warranty, express or implied for this software. For details on the conditions of use, see the FreeWRL distribution.
FreeWRL is Copyright (C) 1998, 1999...2009 Tuomas J. Lukka, John Stewart and others.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA


text:
Mobile telephones play an increasingly large role in our daily lives. Concerns have been raised about the health impact of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields associated with cell phone use. The World Health Organization (WHO) in May 2011 classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields—of the type used by cell-phones—as possibly carcinogenic to humans. Information in this area is changing rapidly. The sources below can help Berkeley residents stay up-to-date and make informed decisions about their use of cellular phones.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
"Radio Frequency Safety" website: http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/rfsafety/rf-faqs.html#Q11
May 2011 Press Release Regarding EMF (PDF)http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf
PDF files require Adobe Acrobat Reader to be installed on your PC. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your PC, please go to the Adobe Acrobat web site and download Acrobat Reader for free.


text:
Albert Monroe "Pete" Martin, 75, of El Dorado, died Tuesday, Nov. 6 at St. Francis Medical Center in Wichita. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Prospect Baptist Church. Interment will follow in Reece Cemetery.
He was born on Jan. 24, 1937 in El Dorado, the son of John Monroe and Iva Leota (Snyder) Martin. Pete was a truck driver and was an owner and partner in M&M Trucking. He worked for Butler County from April 1988 to April 1999. He and Wanda Moore were united in marriage on June 9, 1962 at the First Christian Church. He collected Coins and Eagles, enjoyed doing woodworking and building things. His grandchildren were everything to him, loved to watch Western Movies and MASH. Pete was a great Grapa and enjoyed Nims Nims with his grandchildren.
Those he leaves include his wife, Wanda of the home; children and their spouses, Brenda and Brenin Eustice, Shelly and Bud Thomas, Albert (Bud) M. Martin, Jr., and Joe Martin, all living in El Dorado; brothers, Vernon Martin and Johnny Martin of Elk Falls, Kan.; sisters and their husbands, Hazel and Charles McGoyne, Jr., and Anetta and Manford Moore, both of El Dorado; 11 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and his four-legged companion, Buddy.
He was preceded in death by three brothers, four sisters and two great-grandchildren, Benson and Carter.
Memorials in his honor of his grandchildren for the American Diabetes Association may be left with Carlson Funeral Home where friends may call. Condolences to the family can be sent to www.carlsoncolonial.com.
Location, ST | website.com


text:
When Fiske Planetarium reopens Oct. 12 after months of renovations, visitors will be able to experience a powerful star plus video system paired with a high-definition screen capable of achieving nearly eight times more resolution than the standard HD television, completely surrounding the audience with a 360-degree view. One of the biggest changes, says Matt Benjamin, Fiske Planetarium education program manager, is that Fiske will be open to the public Saturdays and Sundays, playing a variety of "big screen" videos similar to what can be seen at IMAX theaters in Denver.
Video produced by Rachel Ramberg, sophomore, broadcast production and film major
© Regents of the University of Colorado
Contact Us • Privacy • Legal & Trademarks • Accessibility • Student Consumer Information


text:
I have a pretty good knowledge of physics but couldn't understand what a tensor is. I just couldn't understand it, and the wiki page is very hard to understand as well. Can someone refer me to a good tutorial about it?
A (rank 2 contravariant) tensor is a vector of vectors. If you have a vector, it's 3 numbers which point in a certain direction. What that means is that they rotate into each other when you do a rotation of coordinates. So that the 3 vector components $V^i$ transform into
$$V'^i = A^i_j V^j$$
under a linear transformation of coordinates.
A tensor is a vector of 3 vectors that rotate into each other under rotation (and also rotate as vectors--- the order of the two rotation operations is irrelevant). If a vector is $V^i$ where i runs from 1-3 (or 1-4, or from whatever to whatever), the tensor is $T^{ij}$, where the first index labels the vector, and the second index labels the vector component (or vice versa). When you rotate coordinates T transforms as
$$ T'^{ij} = A^i_k A^j_l T^{kl} = \sum_{kl} A^i_k A^j_l T^{kl} $$
Where I use the Einstein summation convention that a repeated index is summed over, so that the middle expression really means the sum on the far right.
A rank 3 tensor is a vector of rank 2 tensors, a rank four tensor is a vector of rank 3 tensors, so on to arbitrary rank. The notation is $T^{ijkl}$ and so on with as many upper indices as you have a rank. The transformation law is one A for each index, meaning each index transforms separately as a vector.
A covariant vector, or covector, is a linear function from vectors to numbers. This is described completely by the coefficients, $U_i$, and the linear function is
$$ U_i V^i = \sum_i U_i V^i = U_1 V^1 + U_2 V^2 + U_3 V^3 $$
where the Einstein convention is employed in the first expression, which just means that if the same index name occurs twice, once lower and once upper, you understand that you are supposed to sum over the index, and you say the index is contracted. The most general linear function is some linear combination of the three components with some coefficients, so this is the general covector.
The transformation law for a covector must be by the inverse matrix
$$ U'_i = \bar{A}_i^j U_j $$
Matrix multiplication is simple in the Einstein convention:
$$ M^i_j N^j_k = (MN)^i_k $$
And the definition of $\bar{A}$ (the inverse matrix) makes it that the inner product $U_i V^i$ stays the same under a coordinate transformation (you should check this).
A rank-2 covariant tensor is a covector of covectors, and so on to arbitrarily high rank.
You can also make a rank m,n tensor $T^{i_1 i_2 ... i_m}_{j_1j_2 ... j_n}$, with m upper and n lower indices. Each index transforms separately as a vector or covector according to whether it is up or down. Any lower index may be contracted with any upper index in a tensor product, since this is an invariant operation. This means that the rank m,n tensors can be viewed in many ways:
And so on for a number of interpretations that grows exponentially with the rank. This is the mathemtician's preferred definition, which does not emphasize the transformation properties, rather it emphasizes the linear maps involved. The two definitions are identical, but I am happy I learned the physicist definition first.
In ordinary Euclidean space in rectangular coordinates, you don't need to distinguish between vectors and covectors, because rotation matrices have an inverse which is their transpose, which means that covectors and vectors transform the same under rotations. This means that you can have only up indices, or only down, it doesn't matter. You can replace an upper index with a lower index keeping the components unchanged.
In a more general situation, the map between vectors and covectors is called a metric tensor $g_{ij}$. This tensor takes a vector V and produces a covector (traditionally written with the same name but with a lower index)
$$ V_i = g_{ij} V^i$$
And this allows you to define a notion of length
$$ |V|^2 = V_i V^i = g_{ij}V^i V^j $$
this is also a notion of dot-product, which can be extracted from the notion of length as follows:
$$ 2 V\cdot U = |V+U|^2 - |V|^2 - |U|^2 = 2 g_{\mu\nu} V^\mu U^\nu $$
In Euclidean space, the metric tensor $g_{ij}= \delta_{ij}$ which is the Kronecker delta. It's like the identity matrix, except it's a tensor, not a matrix (a matrix takes vectors to vectors, so it has one upper and one lower index--- note that this means it automatically takes covectors to covectors, this is multiplication of the covector by the transpose matrix in matrix notation, but Einstein notation subsumes and extends matrix notation, so it is best to think of all matrix operations as shorthand for some index contractions).
The calculus of tensors is important, because many quantities are naturally vectors of vectors.
In general, tensors are the founding tool for group representations, and you need them for all aspects of physics, since symmetry is so central to physics.
A tensor is a generalization of the notion of scalars and vectors. A tensor of rank 0 is a scalar (it has $3^0$ compenent), while a tensor of rank 1 is a vector (which has $3^1$ components). In general, a tensor of rank $n$ has $3^n$ components.
See http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/Numbers/Math/documents/Tensors_TM2002211716.pdf for a nice introduction.
Tensors are objects with usually multiple indices, a generalization of vectors and matrices, with definite transformation properties under a change of basis. They are introduced differently in different traditions, with different notations.
You may find the entry ''How are matrices and tensors related?'' from Chapter B8 of my theoretical physics FAQ relevant to disentangle some of the associated problems.
There are a lot of answers already hope I can make it even more clear.
Tensors are the generalization of the linear transformations.
Tensor is something that takes $m$ vectors and makes $n$ vectors from it.
The $n+m$ is the order (or rank) of the tensor.
Their type is denoted by $(n,m)$ (n: output vectors, m: input vectors)
When a tensor takes 0 vectors it means it calculates something from a scalar (or is a constant), if a tensor makes 0 vectors, it produces a scalar.
Some examples of tensors by type:
Tensors can be described using an $n+m$ dimensional array of numbers. So the tensor's elements can be accessed using $n+m$ indexes.
For example, linear transformation is a 2nd order tensor.
The elements of the multidimensional tensor can be accessed by index, a matrix has obviously 2 indexes.
Now something about the notation. Tensor elements usually has multiple indexes, some upper indexes and some lower ones. Lower indexes going for the input vectors, upper indexes are for the output vectors. Note: upper indexes has nothing to do with exponents!
So a linear transformation tensor would look like this: $L_j^i$.
You do a linear transformation (aka calculating the elements of the resulting vector) like this:
$b^i = \displaystyle\sum_j L_j^i a^j $
So assume you are in 3D and multiply a 3×3 matrix with a column vector. In this case the upper index is for the lines, and the lower is for the columns of the matrix. $i$ and $j$ runs from 1 to the dimension you are in (usually 3).
You can chain these linear transformations like this:
$c^k = \displaystyle\sum_i M_i^k \displaystyle\sum_j L_j^i a^j $
Einstein noted, that in these summation formulas the index below the summation sign appears exactly twice. So it can be removed. So the previous two expressions will look like this:
$b^i = L_j^i a^j $
$c^k = M_i^k L_j^i a^j $
Which is very analogous with the matrix formulas you use in linear algebra. The upper index kills the lower index during calculation, while the lone indexes remain intact.
So you can multiply the two matrixes as tensors like this:
$T_j^k = M_i^k L_j^i = \displaystyle\sum_i M_i^k L_j^i $
And finally a cross-product with tensors would look like this:
$r^k = C_{ij}^k a^i b^j$
The $C$ is a 3×3×3 array of numbers multiplied by a vector will produce and ordinary matrix, which multiplied by another vector will produce the final vector.
A dot product in the language of tensors would look like this:
$r = D_{ij} a^i b^j = \displaystyle\sum_{i,j} D_{ij} a^i b^j$
Where $D_{ij}$ is an identity matrix.
Now the wiki article on Tensors should be more comprehensible.
Hope this will give an aha moment someone.
My very simple answer is really just one of many situations where a tensor is handy when describing the forces on a body...they are used almost everywhere in physics however...this just one SIMPLE example.
A cubic body is moving through air and is feeling the resistance to motion orthogonal to it's trajectory. This normal force could occur on any SIDE of of the cube. OR, If the cube sits still, it experiences pressure from the atmosphere, the pressure can be decomposed into normal forces on each side.
Now there's the SHEAR force, of the viscose air that clings to the top of the cube and the drag deforms the top of the cube. This shear force is on the sides parallel to the motion of the moving cube. This can occur FOR EVERY parallel surface.
Tensors are handy when ALL the possibilities are actually possible and do occur. Then there are tricks for summing the forces. That is what all the fancy tenor math above is about.
I was told by a great fluid mechanics professor, that tensors should only be used when we understand the forces and/or system well. Typically, when learning something new, we start with each dimension separately and tediously work out all the math....then when we know what's going on, tensors can be used.
This is what A.Zee says about a tensor from his book Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell (Hardcover)