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…the whole family is coming your way in February for Webstock! I'm assured it's the mostest bestest scientifically proven amazingest conference ever, so if you're in the web design field or anything like it, convince your boss to let you to register today.
We'll have more details on our trip in the coming weeks, but rest assured, we're already slated to visit one of New Zealand's greatest tourist attractions, the mighty Dylan Horrocks, before heading home.
As for the near future (and a slightly nearer destination) I'm off to NYC Saturday for next week's Education Nation Summit. Back to Blogging next Friday. Have a great weekend!
Delighted to realize yesterday that Jen Wang's eagerly anticipated first graphic novel Koko Be Good came out just last week.
Fortunately, if you're in the Los Angeles area, you can still catch the LA release party at Secret Headquarters this Friday at 7:30pm, and be one of the first to buy a copy.
(And if you're not, there's always the Interwubz.)
Been salivating for this one ever since this effective little video hit earlier this year. Can't wait to get my hands on the real thing!
I'm heading back to New York next week for NBC's Education Nation Summit, a broadcast public forum on a variety of issues surrounding education in the 21st Century, held in Rockefeller Plaza.
I was actually invited a while ago, but was holding off a bit on an announcement until I had a better idea of what I'd be doing there. As it turns out, I'll probably be doing little or no talking and a whole lot of listening (which is a nice change of pace, actually) but it should be an interesting couple of days, nevertheless.
It starts a week from today. I encourage everyone to listen in, since big chunks of the event will be broadcast or at least webcast by NBC in its various incarnations.
And in case you're wondering why me, most of the invitees (roughly 300 of us) are directly involved with education (MIT's president Susan Hockfield, for example), but they've also cast a wide net that includes other fields like politics, sports, music, and apparently comics.
Life is strange… but increasingly interesting.
This is the full 2-Day Workshop (given most recently at School of Visual Arts in Manhattan). 16 full hours of everything I can teach you through lectures and hands-on exercises.
An intense look at the art of telling stories visually.
Here's the link to SIGN UP. As always, availability is limited. See you in December!
A bit under the weather, so real blogging will resume tomorrow.
In the meantime, here's a thought experiment that crossed my mind this morning: If Walt Disney had been a much better animator, would he have gone on to be a cog in someone else's machine?
If you love creative, cutting edge comics and can be in London anytime from today until September 26, don't miss the Hypercomics exhibit The Shapes of Comics to Come at the Pump House Gallery in London's Battersea Park. It sounds (and looks) like a fascinating, site-specific exploration of comics' outer boundaries. Admission is Free.
Curated by "The Man at the Crossroads" himself, Paul Gravett, and featuring the prodigious brains of artists like Dave McKean and Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, this is sure to be an unforgettable experience.
(And one that I'll miss, dammit, so somebody take lots of pictures if you can!)
The exhibit is part of the Comica Festival. I stopped by and caught a bit of last year's and had a great time. Check out their main site for more details on upcoming events.
Haven't listened again myself yet, so there's a chance I made a fool of myself, but I enjoyed talking with James Sturm on our Friday Comic-Con panel and I think some interesting points were raised.
Courtesy of TCJ, here's the audio of the panel (and photo by Kristy Valenti).
Yesterday, Winter celebrated her 15th Birthday with her friends, and today with the family so I won't be posting much.
Ivy's retelling of Winter's legendary birth from last year is here, but if you're short on time, the night was nicely summed up yesterday in two tweets.
Happy birthday, Winter!
One of the comics I read on my way home was Drew Weing's Set to Sea. I'd been seeing pages of it on Drew's website for awhile but reading it in book form was a delight. Highly recommended.
If you're in Athens, Georgia tonight (Friday), you can get a copy from the author himself at the release party from 5-8pm.
Funny thing is, when I thought to make a remark on how Athens is landlocked and checked Google maps to see if Athens was indeed landlocked, I discovered that there is no label in Google Maps for Athens!
WTF, Google Maps??
[UPDATE: There actually is an explanation—and it's not what you might expect.]


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Agency: Grey London
Rating: 5.0
Chairman, communications division
Creston Group
(020) 7930 9757
16 Charles II Street, , , London, SW1Y 4QU
6 June in the 60s
I'm looking forward to finding out.
Never burning your bridges really does pay dividends.
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Have kept my centre parting and done a ski season while I was young and had no fear.
Travelling and meeting new people from different cultures, and everything to do with Comic Relief, which I've had the privilege to be involved with since the 90s.
Having to do karaoke in Tokyo in front of the board of Hakuhodo – with my voice. And while it never embarrasses me, the leaving speeches I've given!
Getting a call from Don telling me I'd got the job at Creston.
Collaborative and loyal.
Traveling, eating, drinking, skiing and our industry.
Got to use more of my Air Miles.
Lost touch with so many great people I've had the benefit to come across.
Rarely saying no.
On permanent display in the V&A (or a piece of my work is).
Agency: Grey London
Rating: 5.0

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At the same time, there are also people who are researching your business and it only takes one bad review from an angry customer to scare them off. There are plenty of consultants and businesses that promise you "Page 1" results. Regardless of whether or not they can deliver on their promise, one thing is certain: their business is based on your lack of knowledge. After all, if you knew how search engine optimization (SEO) actually worked, you wouldn't need to pay the exorbitant fees many of them charge. Search engines want to show good results to people and there are many things about your business that would equate to good results if you knew how to approach your Website properly. It's not rocket science. In fact, it's a lot easier than most of the things you have been doing for years. It just requires time, patience and a basic understanding of how search engines work. Let's get started. SEO for Contractors. © 2012 BuildZoom. How search engines work 3 Search engines serve an important role in society: to help anybody find information about anything. The emergence of search engines has created an entire industry (SEO). SEO is particularly important for the remodeling and construction industry because search has become the most popular way for consumers to find home improvement professionals. To better understand SEO, we must first understand how search engines work and fortunately, it's not that complicated. In general, search engines work in three phases: Collection Analysis Results 1. Collection– During this phase, a search engine spider (aka crawler) will visit your Website, collect everything on it and bring it back to the search engine. Search engines love content. The more content they see, the more they are able to understand what a Website is about. They will look at pictures you've uploaded, stuff you have written about your company like the services you provide and even the links on your site. SEO for Contractors. © 2012 BuildZoom. How search engines work 4 2. Analysis – Once the crawler has gathered everything from your site and brought it back to the search engine, your content is then analyzed so that the search engine can understand what your site is about. Kitchen remodeling Bathroom remodeling Your site Rhode Island All the different pieces of content on your site represent "signals" to the search engine. If you uploaded pictures of a bathroom remodel you completed, the search engine learns something; if the "contact" page on your site shows that you're located in Rhode Island, the search engine learns something. 3. Results – Once a search engine has determined what your site is about, they need to make a determination of where to show our site on the results page. They do this by determining the "authority" of your site. This is a very important point that we will discuss in more depth later on. 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Camel of the seas
Due to their ability to carry cargos across vast distances ships are known as the Camels of the Seas...
автор: zenrat 5 августа 2010
N: Short for romantic relationship, popularized in fanfiction circles.
V: To endorse a romantic relationship.
N: I see a 'ship developing between Rechelle and John Paul.
V: To endorse a romantic relationship.
N: I see a 'ship developing between Rechelle and John Paul.
Ship: Rechelle Medina
автор: grammatika 8 апреля 2015
short for championships
we're going to ships!!
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solo homers in philly or san diego
Manny Ramirez has a very low career SHIPS stat because he has played in the American League for so long.
автор: mantle78 20 декабря 2008
short for worship, used to describe the relationship between two fictional characters, usually in a tv show
example:I know everybody loved LoVe (logan veronica) on Veronica Mars but i kind of shipped veronica and piz because he was so nice and not hiding a deep dark secret
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Defining someone as a "ship" is the same as calling them fat, as ships are usually quite big objects (just like fat people).
You're such a ship!
What a ship you are!
U ship sir!
What a ship you are!
U ship sir!
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What they are saying about Coast Acoustics
What they are saying about Coast Acoustics Good to hear that Coast Acoustics is having success and making music happen for the community. I remember the conversation that we had at the Redlands Bluegrass Convention in 2006. You guys have come a long way in three years. It is great to see. Congratulations! I support the music festival that Coast Acoustics are organising in September. Coast Acoustics are pro-active in building the local music scene and benefiting the community with workshops and events that would not otherwise happen. The club gives access for musicians to practice their craft and young musicians learn from the professionals. (8 Ball Aitken, singer/songwriter, Phoenix Movement Records) Really glad the club is going so well, you guys have done a great job! (Sue and Fed Hudson, Redland Bluegrass Boys) Good news that it is all going well, that is a commendable effort. (Neil Wills, Redland Bluegrass Convention Coordinator). I had a wail of a time. The whole line-up was fantastic. There should be more of it. It should be in our drinking water. I was hungry before I arrived with my friend Neal. Thanks for all the music support. And the man with the slides at the mixing desk gave us a great mix. Cheers Jimmy. Keep Music live (Jimmy Lowe, Harmonica player) I would love to be involved in the festival but I'll have just left for Europe on that date, I'm playing a few gigs in Germany and Norway and I'll be away for a few weeks. I'm sorry I'm going to miss it and I hope it's a ripper! I'm always willing to play down there so don't forget about me! Cheers (John Fegan, singer/songwriter) Just wanted to say thanks again for yesterday. You have such an amazing warm atmosphere at your club! It's a great thing you are doing! Thanks again. (Megan Cooper, singer/songwriter) Des and I had such a wonderful time at your last and our first gig, count on us being there and at least a 1/2 dozen of our family and friends, we have been in MacKay working and have every intention of joining your wonderful outfit. Best regards (Pete and Desley from the audience) Thanks for Sunday guys - I really enjoyed the afternoon- a good bunch of happy and talented people. Cheers, (Rod Spence, mandolin player) Sarah, her family and myself enjoy the coast acoustic sessions at the Nerang venue. It is so necessary to have a performance space and a club that promotes live music with musicians instead of pre recorded music. We are looking forward to the Coast Acoustics' festival in September and will be recommending the festival to all our friends and fellow musicians. Thanks again. (Phil Eizenberg, guitarist Bushfire Band) Coast Acoustics, has brought a great deal of pleasure to listeners and players alike, myself included. Coast Acoustics meetings are supportive to local musicians, singers, songwriters and their audiences. Locals and visitors are given the opportunity to hear what local musicians and performers have to offer. I support Coast Acoustics in their efforts to encourage local talent broadening musical appreciation across the board. Coast Acoustics, well done! Keep up the good work. (Christiaan Zwart singer/songwriter)
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Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
As a Catholic American and a parent, I very much want our children protected from acts of violence, but not just the horrible violence that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School, all acts of violence.
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
12/23/2012 (2 years ago)
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Keywords: Sandy Hook, Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut, Gun control, Culture of death, Culture of life, Michael Terheyden
KNOXVILLE, TN (Catholic Online) - As Americans around the country continue to mourn with the grieving families of the slaughtered children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, we are beginning to hear a growing cacophony of voices offering solutions to this tragedy. But if we hope to find genuine solutions, we need to recall Blessed John Paul II's great encyclical written in 1995, The Gospel of Life. In it he warns us about a culture of death enveloping the Western world, but we have not heeded his warning.
I suspect that most people view The Gospel of Life as the abortion encyclical. It is that, but it is much more. Blessed John Paul focuses heavily on abortion and other anti-life issues like euthanasia. These issues are extremely important in and of themselves, but they are important for other reasons too. Our attitude toward abortion and euthanasia is a reflection of our most fundamental beliefs and the kind of civilization we choose.
John Paul says a new cultural climate is emerging that gives crimes against life a more sinister character, and it is creating profound changes in our views about life and human relationships. He writes, "Even certain sectors of the medical profession, which by its calling is directed to the defense and care of human life, are increasingly willing to carry out these acts against the person. In this way the very nature of the medical profession is distorted and contradicted, and the dignity of those who practice it is degraded."
John Paul sees abortion and euthanasia as serious crimes, as false and disturbing perversions of mercy which arise out of a "grave moral decline." But he also notes that this moral decline reaches far beyond a mother's decision to abort her baby or a doctor's decision to end his patient's life. He says, "We are facing an immense threat to life: not only to the life of individuals but also to that of civilization itself."
This threat is rooted in the abuse of freedom. John Paul reminds us that freedom is a gift from God and given to persons so that they might use it for their fulfillment, which is made possible through "the gift of self and openness to others." But when this freedom is not linked with truth and used selfishly, "it is emptied of its original content, and its very meaning and dignity are contradicted."
In this way, John Paul says, "freedom negates and destroys itself." Thus, it leads to a serious distortion of life; it results in a loss of the true meaning of rights and human dignity; it leads to democracy contradicting itself and the rise of a "tyrant state"; and it becomes a factor leading to the destruction of others.
But the distortion and abuse of freedom, though hugely important, is not the heart of the problem for John Paul. He says the heart of the problem is "the eclipse of the sense of God and of man typical of a social and cultural climate dominated by secularism." He further says that "when the sense of God is lost, there is also a tendency to lose the sense of man and of his dignity and his life."
He goes on to say that the loss of God leads to a "practical materialism" which breeds utilitarianism and hedonism and where economics, inordinate consumerism, physical beauty, and pleasure dominate at the expense of the more profound dimensions of human existence. Thus, efficiency, functionality and usefulness replace respect, generosity and service.
As such, materialism impoverishes personal relations. Women, children, the sick, and the elderly are the first to be harmed. Human sexuality is easily exploited and trivialized, which for John Paul, "is among the principal factors which have led to contempt for new life," and suffering is seen as nothing more than an inescapable, useless burden to be avoided.
Moreover, at the service of this materialism is moral relativism. John Paul says that when man usurps the power of deciding right and wrong and life and death, he does not act as God in wisdom and love. "[Man] inevitably uses [such power] for injustice and death. It amounts to the strong over the weak and the sense of justice is lost in society." St. Thomas Aquinas writes that if human law is not in conformity with right reason, it is unjust and becomes an act of violence.
Among the cacophony of voices seeking solutions to the massacre at Sandy Hook, the loudest appear to be coming from the same people who have promoted a culture of death in the past. If their voices prevail, I would be concerned that we would not get genuine solutions but more violence and death, a different sort no doubt, but no less harmful to our children and our society.
I am referring to a kind of institutionalized violence often associated with authoritarianism. This kind of violence targets the mind, spirit and soul first then the body. We already see examples of this in our society. Some recent examples in the schools include so-called lunch inspectors, tracking ID cards, strip searches, and the police handcuffing and arresting children of kindergarten age. One of the most notable examples for me is the federal anti-bullying campaign introduced last year.
It is really a campaign to promote the homosexual agenda in our public schools. In the video included at the top of this page, we see President Obama's pick to head up this program, homosexual activist Dan Savage, speaking to a group of students. In his talk, he uses profanity to describe the Bible and refers to the students who walk out as pansies. He then tells the students that Christians are like pansy asses when homosexuals push back.
These examples reflect acts of violence against our children, and more of the same will not result in genuine solutions. Gun-control activists are hysterical. Others are calling for more surveillance and greater controls. Responsible regulation and governmental policy are one thing, but if they are part of an overall effort to disarm and control a law-abiding citizenry, they are probably a bad idea.
Fortunately, The Gospel of Life also presents us with the foundation for a culture of life. John Paul writes, "Man is called to a fullness of life which far exceeds the dimensions of his earthly existence, because it consists in sharing the very life of God. The loftiness of this supernatural vocation reveals the greatness and the inestimable value of human life even in its temporal phase. Life in time, in fact, is the fundamental condition, the initial stage and an integral part of the entire unified process of human existence . . . which will reach its full realization in eternity."
Elsewhere he writes, "The life which God bestows upon man is much more than mere existence in time. It is a drive towards fullness of life; it is the seed of an existence which transcends the very limits of time: 'For God created man for incorruption and made him in the image of his own eternity' (Wis 2:23)." Thus, the dignity of human life stems from the fact that it comes from God in the beginning and that its destiny is fellowship with God as its final end.
Consequently, if we really want to protect children from violence, then the solutions need to be based on a correct understanding of human nature, and they need to respect the noble dignity of human life in its totality. But this understanding of human nature is not popular in today's culture.
Our public school system and institutions of higher learning are teaching young people that human life is merely a stage in material evolution and on a par with the animals. In many cases they are being taught that God does not exist or is of little practical significance, and that truth, especially moral truth, is relative.
Furthermore, these ideas are being spread throughout our culture by way of the media and the entertainment industries. As a result, over the past forty years or so our culture has been saturated with music, movies, video games, and books that glorify chaos, sex, violence, vulgarity, and perversion.
We must not underestimate the power that education, music, movies, and the media have on our minds and culture. In a certain sense, they are more powerful than guns or the state. If we are going to truly protect our children, we first have to effect change in these industries. We need to use these powerful levers of culture to inform our children and neighbors of the truth, to inspire them with beauty and goodness, and to help ignite a sense of meaning and purpose in their lives.
Of course, transforming the culture of death into a culture of life is a long-term solution, and it is only part of an overall solution. But I believe it plays an important and essential role in our search for genuine solutions. As a Catholic American and a parent, I very much want our children protected from acts of violence, but not just the horrible violence that occurred at Sandy Hook, all acts of violence.
Michael Terheyden was born into a Catholic family, but that is not why he is a Catholic. He is a Catholic because he believes that truth is real, that it is beautiful and good, and that the fullness of truth is in the Catholic Church. However, he knows that God's grace operating throughout his life is the main reason he is a Catholic. He is greatly blessed to share his faith and his life with his beautiful wife, Dorothy. They have four grown children and three grandchildren.
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BMW chose the 6 series to showcase what owners can achieve via the BMW Individual customization program. On display were two stunning 6-series – a white coupe and a black convertible.
The 6 series coupe was painted in Brilliant White Metallic with a mouth dropping Amaro Brown | Black leather interior. The other Individual options spec'd on this car were:
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The 3 series coupe and 3 series convertible Edition Exclusive and M Sport Edition made their world premier today, at the 2011 Frankfurt IAA. Both feature special paint options and unique equipment to make them unique from standard E92 and E93 3 series. Here is the original information we posted on these two cars:
From autumn 2011, the BMW 3 Series Coupé and BMW 3 Series Convertible will be available in Edition Exclusive and M Sport Edition guises. Precisely coordinated design features and equipment options offer customers … CONTINUED
We take you on a recent tour inside the BMW M Studio – BMW's showroom/floor where it showcases BMW M, BMW Individual, BMW M-Sport, and BMW Security vehicles, technology, and options. If you remember, this is also where we attended the F10 M5 press reveal earlier this year.
Check inside for a description and photo gallery of the unique products currently on display in the M Studio.
The 2012 M5 (F10) will come in a fairly extensive choice of colors, including some beautiful individual exterior color options. One of the individual exterior color options is Brilliant White Metallic, which we've spotted hanging out at BMW M HQ in Garching, Germany.
Besides the individual brilliant white metallic exterior paint, the this M5 also has other individual options, such as the black painted mirrors and wheels. The red leather interior looks great set off against the white and black exterior color scheme.
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Attendees at the M Driving Experience at the Salzburg Ring were lucky enough to witness in person two of BMW M's newest creations – the BMW F10 M5 and the limited edition lightweight M3 CRT. Both of these cars were revealed to the public for the first time at BMW M Night event at the M Festival during the 24 Hours Nurburgring race. Live event photos can be found here and here.
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Following our earlier coverage, we share with you photos of even more beautiful Individual BMW 3-series models. Dackelone made another trip to the factory-owned BMW dealer in Munich, and caught even more stunning Individual models. Starring today are E93 models in St. James Red, Mora Metallic and Dakar Yellow as well as an E91 335i in Orinocco Metallic, a Fir Green E90 and an Aegean Blue E92.
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We had a chance to sit down and interview the gracious Matt Russell, M Brand and Alpina Manager for the US, at the 2011 New York International Auto Show. Like us, Matt is a BMW enthusiast through and through. He races BMWs and describes himself as the biggest manual transmission purist he knows. We posed to Matt some commonly asked questions among our forums and members, and are able to share with you the following insights.
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Well folks, we're all done here at the 2011 Geneva auto show and hope you enjoyed the coverage as much as we enjoyed sharing it with our community. Geneva is always an exciting show because of all shows, it's arguably the largest in the world and always features an unrivaled number of exotics and tuning companies on display. Geneva is also traditionally one of the most important shows for BMW due to its proximity to BMW's home market and prominence among the auto show circuit events.
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More photos of the 6 series convertible Individual, including some detailed shots of the interior – the most impressive part of the 6-series Individual program.
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"Star Wars" actor Christensen, 33, and Bilson met in 2007 on the set of "Jumper." The typically private, low-key couple got engaged in December 2008 and then called it off in August 2010, only to reconcile three months later.
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Well... It is not possible to ignore 'national' Minsk, when talking about the city :)
The National Library
The building that is considered to be a diamond, but takes its stand in the list of 50 strange buildings is our national library. Its foundation was laid in 2002 and it had been finished by 2006, while many rumors were being spread... right up to 'It's going to fall'. And all the country was donating, I'm afraid, even those, who didn't need the library:)
Total area of 'the diamond' is 113 669 square metres and its height is more than 73 metres. There are 2000 places in 20 reading rooms. I can't say I often visit it, but I did when I was working on my diploma paper and needed newspapers of 1930th. There are galleries, a museum of books, a conference hall, a room for children and even kind a sport-center (the most important thing in the library, I think:), but I was just at lunchroom to take a cup of coffee. If you are interested, you can have a virtual tour around the library.
We also have The National Bank, which is the central one in the country and also is a state body accountable to the President of Belarus (he approves its regulations and determines the organization for its audit). And we have The National Art Museum (the largest collection of art), The National Airport and The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (the highest state scientific organization of Belarus) in Minsk; all are solid, but none is as 'brilliant' and arguable as the library.
And what about you? Do you need a library in your life?
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Comment number 1.At 00:02 16th Dec 2010, Veronika wrote:
thanks to the person, who made this pic and posted it for free using:)
Comment number 2.At 12:41 16th Dec 2010, Slim wrote:
"My" library looks quite differently. Look at the picture: http://images20.fotosik.pl/90/32085e003eec5921med.jpg
Comment number 3.At 13:26 16th Dec 2010, Majka wrote:
Hi Veronica,
For as long as I remember books played in my life the large part, and libraries as well.. I think that the access to the culture (the purchase of the book, the cinema ticket, the theatre or else on the concert) due to enough high prices is significantly made difficult for average Polish people. The situation unfortunately will not take a turn for the better, since the new year increase rates Value Added Tax (VAT). In Warsaw remarkable is the building of the university library, nicely situated (over Vistula), with the green roof garden... Other alternative is the exchange read books with friends, or fairs of the cheap book. In my family the books also they were transferred from one generation to the next. In my opinion it is a good way on the inoculation "love to the books..."
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The school's graduates who responded to the survey are largely male (the male-to-female ratio is 3 to 1). Male graduates of RPI out-earn their female counterparts significantly, earning an average of $93K versus about $68K for women.
The RPI alumni who make the most are Senior Software Engineers; they report a median pay of $113K. Software Engineers and Senior Mechanical Engineers draw in a fair amount as well — $88K and approximately $79K, respectively. Relative to other positions, compensation dwindles for Structural Engineers; alumni in this role face average salaries of $63K.
Many RPI students are New York, N.Y.-bound following college. It is also not uncommon to find former RPI students living and working in Hartford, Conn. — this top-paying city is a popular destination with a median salary of $111K. For comparison, the lowest-paying city popular with RPI alumni is Schenectady, N.Y., which offers a median salary of $67K. Other common destinations for RPI grads include close-by Albany, N.Y. and Boston, Mass.
RPI grads who hold a Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance can expect to fare better than most fellow alumni, earning an average $126K per year. The degree that warrants the lowest level of financial compensation is a Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) (about $51K on average annually).
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute grads with Budget Management abilities can expect to make 28 percent more than their former classmates ($113K). Project Management is a popular skill among RPI alumni, with roughly a fourth of workers reporting using it on the job. Demonstrated ability in Engineering Design, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Excel rank among leading skills as well.
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- Thanks a lot Kenneth.It worked.BTW where to get the find2perl tool
--- On Mon, 5/31/10, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@...> wrote:
From: Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@...>
Subject: Re: [PBML] Script to print all the files with .zip extentsion in a given directory
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Date: Monday, May 31, 2010, 5:53 PM
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 22:23, gopi chand <gopichand84@...> wrote:
> Hi Kenneth
> This script looks a little bit better,when I run the below script the
> output is below.Can you help getting rid of this erro?
> OUTPUT:main::recurse() called too early to check prototype at greep.plline 20.
> Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at greep.pl line 9./
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
> sub recurse($) {
> my($path) = @_;
> ## append a trailing / if it's not there
> $path .= '/' if($path !~ /\/$/);
> ## print the directory being searched
> print $path,"\n";
> ## loop through the files contained in the directory
> for my $eachFile (glob($path.'*.zip')) {
> ## if the file is a directory
> if( -d $eachFile) {
> ## pass the directory to the routine ( recursion )
> recurse($eachFile);
> } else {
> ## print the file ... tabbed for readability
> print "\t",$eachFile,"\n";
> }
> }
> }
> ## initial call ... $ARGV[0] is the first command line argument
> recurse($ARGV[0]);
I see that you have chosen a different script :-)
Here's my advice:
There's a very old provided tool with perl called "find2perl".
My understanding of the original problem you wish to solve is solved by
"find <dir> -name \*.zip".
So, using "find2perl" with aforementioned find command results in this:
find2perl . -name \*.zip
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
if 0; #$running_under_some_shell
use strict;
use File::Find ();
# Set the variable $File::Find::dont_use_nlink if you're using AFS,
# since AFS cheats.
# for the convenience of &wanted calls, including -eval statements:
use vars qw/*name *dir *prune/;
*name = *File::Find::name;
*dir = *File::Find::dir;
*prune = *File::Find::prune;
sub wanted;
# Traverse desired filesystems
File::Find::find({wanted => \&wanted}, '.');
sub wanted {
&& print("$name\n");
What do you think of this?
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>>>>> "gopi" == gopi chand <gopichand84@...> writes:gopi> Thanks a lot Kenneth.It worked.BTW where to get the find2perl tool
Same directory as Perl is in. Probably /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.
If Perl is in your path, so should find2perl be.
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This was a neat shopping center in a circle shape. Very touristy. Looked like a couple nice restaurants.
My wife's wedding ring was stolen, she went to put on and her hand was swollen so she put it in her jewelry bag and left on counter went to breakfast came back room was clean and she saw that her ring was stolen. That quick. We also bought pitchers and they put on Cd the day we left and...
I loved the sunset, and the beach is really beautiful... but too crowded, sadly, which is why I only took a few pictures and left. Playa Caracol is a better choice if you want to find room to sit down and relax.
A breathtaking view is the singularity of this mall plus Haagen Daaz, Hard Rock Café and other treats. Is wide open, you get fresh air and it's located in a hot spot on hotel zone.
The food court sucks though, big time.
Go to the Beach Clubs. Pay your cover and enjoy with friends poolside or at the beach all day long while your listen to some of the best dj's.
You can surf, you can ride jetsky, parasaiking or just chill in the white sand, the water is crystal blue. You can also pay 300$ mexican pesos, about 25$ dollar for 2 chairs, an umbrella and they add this payment for food and drinks in one of the beach clubs. The brach is an intermediate grade of tide. A yellow...
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