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Q: How to efficiently calculate folder and file sizes in a directory? How can I efficiently calculate the size of every subfolder and file in a given directory?
The code I have so far does what I want, but it is inefficient and slow because of how I have to calculate the parent folder size.
Here's my current timing:
Section 1: 0.53 s
Section 2: 30.71 s

Code:
import os
import time
import collections

def folder_size(directory):
    parents = []
    file_size = collections.defaultdict(int)
    parent_size = collections.defaultdict(int)

    t0 = time.time()

    #### Section 1 ####
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(directory):
        root = os.path.abspath(root)
        parents.append(root)

        for f in files:
            f = os.path.join(root, f)
            file_size[f] += os.path.getsize(f)
    ###################

    t1 = time.time()
    print(f'walk time: {round(t1-t0, 2)}')

    #### Section 2 ####
    for parent in parents:
        parent_split = parent.split(os.sep)
        for filename, value in file_size.items():
            parent_for_file = filename.split(os.sep)[:len(parent_split)]
            if parent_split == parent_for_file:
                parent_size[parent] += value
    ###################

    t2 = time.time()
    print(f'parent size time: {round(t2-t1, 2)}')

    return file_size, parent_size

Section 2 of the code is inefficient for a couple reasons:
Inefficiency #1
I need to capture folders where there are no files. For example, in a folder structure like this:
TopFolder
├── FolderA
│   ├── folder_P1
│   │   ├── folder_P1__file_1.txt
│   │   └── folder_P1__file_2.txt
│   ├── folder_P10
│   │   ├── folder_P10__file_1.txt
│   │   └── folder_P10__file_2.txt
.
.
.

I want to end up with a size (in bytes) for each directory, like this:
'..../TopFolder': 114000,
'..../TopFolder/FolderA': 38000,
'..../TopFolder/FolderA/folder_P1': 38,
'..../TopFolder/FolderA/folder_P10': 38,
.
.
.

In order to get the total size for folders that have subfolders, like TopFolder and FolderA, I stored the parents separately, so I could go back and calculate their size based on the file sizes.
Inefficiency #2
The code is really slow because I have to split() the strings to determine the parent (confirmed with the cProfile module). I have to do this because if I do something like the snippet below, certain folder sizes will be calculated incorrectly. I also tried using re.split(), but that's even slower.
#### Section 2 ####
    ...
    for parent in parents:
        for filename, value in file_size.items():
            if parent in filename:
                parent_size[parent] += value
    ...
###################

Here's the wrong output with if parent in filename:
'..../TopFolder': 114000,
'..../TopFolder/FolderA': 38000,
'..../TopFolder/FolderA/folder_P1': 4256,
'..../TopFolder/FolderA/folder_P10': 456,
'..../TopFolder/FolderA/folder_P100': 76,
'..../TopFolder/FolderA/folder_P1000': 38,
.
.
.

Here's the correct output with the original code:
'..../TopFolder': 114000,
'..../TopFolder/FolderA': 38000,
'..../TopFolder/FolderA/folder_P1': 38,
'..../TopFolder/FolderA/folder_P10': 38,
'..../TopFolder/FolderA/folder_P100': 38,
'..../TopFolder/FolderA/folder_P1000': 38,
.
.
.

Section 2 either needs to be improved so it runs faster, or Section 2 needs to be incorporated into Section 1. I've searched the internet for ideas, but have only been able to find info on calculating the top level directory size and am running out of ideas.
Here's the code I used to create a sample directory structure:
import os

folder = 'TopFolder'
subfolders = ['FolderA', 'FolderB', 'FolderC']

for i in range(1000):
    for subfolder in subfolders:
        path = os.path.join(folder, subfolder, f'folder_P{i + 1}')
        if not os.path.isdir(path):
            os.makedirs(path)
        for k in range(2):
            with open(os.path.join(path, f'folder_P{i + 1}__file_{k + 1}.txt'), 'w') as file_out:
                file_out.write(f'Hello from file {k + 1}!\n')```

A: With os.walk you don't get to use the file entry objects generated by os.scandir, which os.walk calls internally. Write a recursive function yourself with os.scandir, so you can use the stat object of each file entry rather than having to make a separate system call with os.path.getsize for each file. You should also not parse the path just to look for a parent directory name since you already have the parent directory name when you list a directory with that name.
The following example takes only 0.2 seconds to produce the desired output for your test directory structure on repl.it:
import os

def folder_size(directory):
    def _folder_size(directory):
        total = 0
        for entry in os.scandir(directory):
            if entry.is_dir():
                _folder_size(entry.path)
                total += parent_size[entry.path]
            else:
                size = entry.stat().st_size
                total += size
                file_size[entry.path] = size
        parent_size[directory] = total

    file_size = {}
    parent_size = {}
    _folder_size(directory)
    return file_size, parent_size

file_size, parent_size = folder_size('TopFolder')

Demo: https://replit.com/@blhsing/SparseStainedNature


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I had the opportunity to kick off the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's summer conference this year, addressing the question, "Which Way, American Political Economy?" The institute is one of the preeminent conveners of conservative debate; that it would even pose this question is an encouraging sign of the speed with which conservative economic thinking is shifting. American Compass has been a major catalyst for the shift, and our presence loomed large over the two-day gathering. Senate candidate J. D. Vance and former attorney general Jeff Sessions both addressed our work in their keynote remarks. Most panels featured at least two of our contributing writers. At one point, Washington Post political reporter David Weigel called it the "American Compass conference."
Somewhat immodestly, I must say that I was an inspired choice for a political economy conference's first presenter, having managed to actually major in political economy, which is fairly unusual. Not that a bachelor's degree in much of anything makes one qualified in much of anything, but because most people have no idea what political economy is, those of us choosing to study it have to think long and hard about how to explain it—preferably in a pithy way suitable for Thanksgiving dinner.
Political economy, I always tell people, is political science without all the reading, and economics without all the math. Honestly, that's what drew me to it—still draws me to it—and only partly because I was lazy. The definition says something important about why political economy is so useful: it has no time for theory.
The premise of political economy, right there in the name, is that politics and economics are inseparably intertwined. As a result, theory only gets one so far. I'm reminded of the three-body problem in physics, where trying to predict the motion of three gravitational bodies acting upon one other becomes impossible as their motion becomes chaotic. We "social scientists," to use the oxymoron, must content ourselves with a two-body problem, in which human beings and their non-economic interests inevitably prevent economic theory from describing the real world while the resource constraints and trade-offs of economics prevent political theory from doing any better. Political economy is the pragmatic art of understanding, of explaining, and of trying to improve upon the way these forces are colliding to create the world we inhabit.
Political economy has no inviolable truths. Anything that economists or political scientists claim as inviolable truth, then, is incomplete—it may hold within the narrow confines of their analysis, but it will not hold in reality over the long run. The conceit of the economists, in particular, is that some set of equations proving out on a blackboard must offer a correct model. Certainly, economic models offer useful intuitions, but give them too much credence and we invariably end up with the wrong answer. While few of his modern adherents seem aware of it, the first line of Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics reads: "Economic conditions are constantly changing, and each generation looks at its own problems in its own way."
This holds even for the simplest of concepts, like supply and demand. Surely there is some obscure commodity market that works more or less like Economics 101 predicts. But look carefully at the standard supply curve, sloping upward to show a rising marginal cost of production: the more of something that is produced, the more it costs to keep producing more of it, says the model. Try telling that to Google or Facebook—or to Tesla, for that matter.
For the great political economists through history, their most important insights didn't rely on math or modeling at all. They were observing and describing the economy as it was. With international trade beginning to expand and specialization taking hold in the domestic economy, Adam Smith explained how these phenomena worked and how policymakers could respond. Karl Marx reacted to the early years of the Industrial Revolution, a time when "economic growth" coincided with the declining health and welfare of the working class, quite in conflict with predictions Smith had made from his own era. Like Smith, Marx produced groundbreaking analysis of how labor and capital were behaving in markets. Like Smith's, this analysis had a shelf life. Early in the 20th century, Joseph Schumpeter documented the process by which the "creative destruction" of extraordinary technological progress swept away the old. John Maynard Keynes is perhaps the best example of someone who did economics by describing the world as it was, and whose views and theories changed as the world changed around him.
Finally, we arrive at Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek. Both were extraordinary political economists. But both were describing a narrow period in history, one where a justifiable fear of communism pervaded both political and economic thought and one where markets in the West were working especially well to deliver widespread prosperity. In Hayek's famous essay "Why I Am Not a Conservative," he asserts confidently that the "self-regulating forces of the market will somehow bring about the required adjustments to new conditions." To illustrate the point, he chooses, of all things, how "necessary balance … between exports and imports" will naturally occur. He was writing midway through a 20-year period in which the U.S. experienced almost perfectly balanced trade, which was indeed remarkable, and which he was trying to understand and explain. But the shortcomings of those insights are easy enough to discern after 60 years, especially when America has accumulated $12 trillion of trade deficits over the past 20.
Some market fundamentalists, striving to claim the mantle of conservatism for their dogmatism, define the American tradition in terms of an intellectual thread that they trace from Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill through to Friedman and Hayek. This is doubly foolish. First, because Smith, Ricardo, and Mill were all British—as American Compass research director Wells King has shown, this "British School" actually stood in opposition to the 19th-century "American School" thinkers, who recognized the British arguments for free trade as tailored to the British circumstance of a dominant industrial power. For instance, Henry Charles Carey, leader of the American School and economic adviser to Abraham Lincoln, warned that British prescriptions would "secur[e for] the people of England the … monopoly of machinery" and argued instead for aggressive protection of American domestic industry to "break down this monopoly" and support "stabler self-sufficient communities."
Second, as the very existence of the American School confirms, the tradition of American political economy is not attached to any one substantive outlook. Certainly, from the Declaration of Independence onward, the nation has been strongly committed to elements of the Enlightenment tradition, like respect for private property. Certainly, we have always had a market economy. But beyond that, the principle would seem to be "anything goes." Alexander Hamilton proposed much of what became the American System of Henry Clay and Lincoln, but those ideas gained hold only after the British trounced us in the War of 1812. As the 19th century gave way to the more industrial 20th, Teddy Roosevelt and the progressives brought forward a different understanding of what ailed us and what role policy could play in addressing it. With the Great Depression came Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. With the sclerosis and stagflation of the 1970s came the Reagan Revolution.
So in answering the question, which way, American political economy?, we must look back to Hamilton not because his answer should be our answer but because he, and Lincoln, and Roosevelt, and Reagan remind us that each in his own era was someone who responded to conditions and used public policy to solve problems. Market fundamentalists at once dismiss reference to the healthier economy of the mid-20th century as "nostalgia" and insist on adhering dogmatically to ideas of political economy developed in and for that era. Conservatives, however, will recognize that while consistent principles will guide us, today's challenges are different from those of any previous era and we must give shape to a new political economy capable of responding.
What are today's challenges? Obviously, one is China, whose rise has been the most significant geopolitical and economic event of the past 30 years. Having an authoritarian, quasi-communist, state-controlled economy as a near-peer—or perhaps already peer, certainly in scale and as our main trading partner—presents a fascinating set of policy questions different from what economists have previously tried to solve. This may be a second Cold War, but it will not be a replay of the first.
The Internet is another such challenge, with its consequences for industrial organization and market concentration within the technology sector, and with extension of the market's logic into every corner of our lives. This challenge parallels in many ways that faced at the turn of the 20th century, when the most dynamic industries hoovering up investment were also ones that tended toward natural monopoly and led to a reorganization of society. The effects on investment patterns and on economic, cultural, and political power were extraordinary. They triggered the muck-raking and trust-busting that gave rise to progressivism. We will have to be equally creative in conceptualizing the problem and formulating solutions this time around.
The decline of the family may be the most serious challenge we face and the one we least know how to address. We have become inured to talk of family collapse after decades of rising rates in divorce and children born out of wedlock. But what's happening now is different: families are failing to form in the first place, as fewer people marry or have children at all. That Americans lack either the desire or capacity to raise the next generation is the most damning possible indictment of our cultural and economic condition, and it poses tangible problems for economic dynamism and growth as well.
Our financial markets are malfunctioning, failing to channel investment and talent to their most productive uses. Public education is malfunctioning, too, failing to provide most Americans with reliable pathways to productive lives in their local communities. Both these system failures are contributing to an enormous geographic problem. After decades of convergence, in which poorer parts of the country closed the gap with richer ones, we now see regional divides widening and wealth agglomerating. A continent-spanning democratic republic can withstand such trends for only so long.
In a variety of ways, these challenges manifest in our labor market. At the end of the day, how we allocate income to workers through our market economy is central to the well-being of individuals, their families, and their communities. That allocation has been going poorly for decades. Wages have stagnated for a significant share of the population, but not because the economy has stagnated. GDP keeps growing, profits keep growing, incomes at the top keep growing, but the prosperity is not broadly shared. The problem is reminiscent of that seen early in the Industrial Revolution. Unfortunately, the great political economist of that era was Karl Marx, who, for all his incisive analysis, left much to be desired when it came to prediction and prescription. We had probably better do some more thinking.
Rather than look backward to decide which decade from American history we will claim to be trying to conserve, conservatives need to work from a clear definition of the principles that we intend to apply to these novel challenges. I would emphasize four:
First, conservatives place heavy weight on the value of institutions and relationships. Those are the basic unit and currency of the healthy society. They need to be built, nurtured, and treasured, even when they cannot be seen or measured in conventional ways.
Second, conservatives accept human nature's immutability and the obstacle it poses to the goals that well-meaning leaders might wish to pursue. A public policy or civil institution can succeed when it adapts itself to human limitations. It fails when it ignores or aims to override them.
Third, conservatives appreciate that which works at all and recognize that improvements are easily designed on paper but transitions are difficult; and in achieving them, much else may be lost.
Fourth, conservatives balance rights and obligations. One of the right-of-center's most obvious failures in recent years has been its stampede in the direction of rights language and its obsession with individual liberty. Rights and liberty are, of course, an important part of the conservative tradition, but putting them in their place as two considerations among many is a more important part.
Now, I don't think conservatives are always right. I think it's very important, and conservative, to acknowledge that if we could just snap our fingers and make everyone a conservative who thinks this way, we would have a quite dysfunctional nation. A healthy polity is one that has strong conservative and liberal traditions held constantly in tension with each other, always fighting and challenging and negotiating.
But genuinely conservative thinking has been absent from our economic debates for most of the post–World War II era. Our politics and our political economy have been characterized by debates within a very narrow corridor bounded by left-liberals and right-liberals. The results of this are apparent in the huge gains in individual autonomy and material prosperity, accompanied by huge declines in the things that conservatives would have watched more closely.
I love the question, which way, American political economy?, because it's also an answer. By asking the question, we take responsibility for making a decision at this moment about which way our political economy should go from here, and thus we acknowledge that we have the agency to make a decision, that the decision is context-dependent, and that we should debate it and grapple with its trade-offs. We are called to go through the exercise that Hamilton went through, that Clay and Lincoln went through, and that both Roosevelts and Reagan went through.
Going through the exercise, thinking anew, is not a repudiation of those great leaders. When Reagan and his fellow Cold Warriors went through it in the 1970s, the playbook they developed was incredibly important and effective. Nothing I've said here calls that into doubt. What I do call into doubt is whether carrying around the Reagan playbook 40 years later, treating it like the Bible, is going to help us address the problems of today. While working from timeless principles, we also need to accept our generation's responsibility, as has been every generation's responsibility in every era, to apply our principles to our challenges.
For organizations like American Compass that seek to influence the public debate, our goal cannot be only to stand for abstract principles.
We must show how those principles can be useful to policymakers and equip them to improve upon the status quo. With so many new challenges, and so many decades of sclerosis on the right-of-center, this is an incredibly exciting time to be playing that role.
No one has all the right answers; certainly, we don't pretend to. But we have powerful ideas, and we are proving that those ideas can catalyze the long-dormant debates that are necessary to sharpen conservatism and develop the playbook that will carry America forward as others have done in the past. We feel both proud and privileged to have so many supporters, probably none of whom agree with us on everything, but all of whom agree on the importance of the work.
Adapted from remarks at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's July 2021 conference, The Future of American Political Economy.
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After interviewing a variety of research participants from the target demographic and asking in-depth questions, trends begin to emerge in goals, motivations, and behaviors. I plot the participants along relevant spectrums like the diagram above shows. Analyzing this empirical data, we can identify patterns upon which we can create a persona.
Focusing on understanding goals, motivations, behaviors, aspirations, and perceptions of real people in the target demographic is paramount. Personas can be simple or more elaborate. The example above gets right to the point. Simply put, a persona is a tool I use to help align everyone involved in a design project. It focuses design decisions towards helping a specific "person" achieve his or her goals.
Similar to a screenplay, a contextual scenario is a future-based story about the persona illustrating how the product being designed will help them achieve their goals.
Scenarios are important because they help us understand real world interactions. Scenarios give us context from which we can consider implied functionality and discover problems that need to be addressed.
The next step is to begin working out a framework for the digital product. Frameworks such as the one above serve as a road map for the project and help to identify the number of pages or screens to be designed. I map out the desired ways users will flow through the product focusing on goals and business outcomes.
I account for the needs implied by the contextual scenarios and focus on user flow. I like to start with navigational elements and begin refining the design from there. Once the wireframes are cleaned up to a certain point, I'm able to build workable prototypes using tool such as Invision.
It's important to point out that I like to test designs with both individuals and focus groups as often and as soon as possible. Testing serves to validate design decisions and possibly discover things that were previously overlooked. I have experience running both formal and informal tests. I'm always interested to see how people respond while navigating prototypes.
Eventually a point is reached where it's time to begin incorporating branded elements into the product design. Color palettes, typography, iconography, and other UI elements are defined for consistency. Spec sheets, such as the one above, make it easier for developers to code the final product.
The design of most digital products is never truly finished. New technology is introduced, new best practices emerge, and discoveries are made. Refinement is a continual process. And, as a UX designer, it's my job to advocate for the end user and constantly remember that we're working to help REAL people accomplish REAL goals.


SE3 features a pre-wired balance control and master volume, Bass and treble on separate potentiometers with the mid band control on SMT PCB.
Each control pots are designed to connect to PCB by connectors, which make SE3 installation easier. All you have to do is solder connection to pickup, output jack, ground and battery clip.
High Impedance Input design matches with any Active and Passive Pickup. And also Low Impedance Output will keep the same tone from your guitar to any amplifier system without losing high frequency response.
Using advanced Surface Mount Technology could reduce unwanted sounds (Noise) while increasing sound quality and it's reliability.
ARTEC guarantees a virtually noiseless sound with long 9 V battery life.
(more than 2000 hours in continuous use. - workable voltage : drop down to 2.2 V).
SE3-A features SE3 with a Concentric Potentiometer, which is Bass and Treble bands are on one pot and mounted on SMT PCB.


No one is too old and everyone (men included!) can benefit from pelvic floor exercises. Pelvic floor muscles are important core muscles which help support the spine and control the pressure inside the abdomen.
Pelvic floor muscles need to be flexible to work as part of the "core", which means that they need to be able to relax as well as lift and hold. But, we also need to caution you that constant bracing can lead to the muscles becoming excessively tight and stiff, which is not healthy either.


John è un maestro di scuola primaria. Grazie all'aiuto economico del fratello maggiore ha potuto concludere gli studi ed esercitare la professione.
David, fratello di John, è un pastore protestante dedito all'aiuto spirituale e materiale della comunità.
Entrambe dedicano la quasi totalità del loro tempo alla loro comunità. Il loro padre (che non c'è più) era il capo del villaggio, carica che viene esercitata attualmente dallo zio.
Ambedue sono i referenti locali dei vari progetti. John e David sono persone eccezionali, fidate ed efficienti, meritevoli di tutta la nostra stima ed amicizia.
Andrea, agronomo con decenni di esperienza nel settore agricolo. Attualmente collaboratore presso una importante Cooperativa Agricola nell'Alessandrino come tecnico per l'assistenza nella coltivazione e commecializzazione dei prodotti cerealicoli e conduttore di una personale azienda agricola.
Coinvolto nel progetto Amici di Utange segue con passione lo sviluppo agricolo della stessa Comunità fornendo semi e assistenza con lusinghieri risultati.
"A tutti coloro che vogliono creare un mondo in cui non ci sia più neanche un povero".
Angelica, assistente di volo di una Compagnia aerea, recandosi spesso in Africa per il suo lavoro, conosce la realtà di Utange. Si impegna nei progetti di solidarietà in aiuto della comunità locale.
Io, Claudio, giro il mondo come Comandante pilota di una compagnia aerea. Attualmente sono il responsabile delle adozioni a distanza per Utange. Mi preoccupo dell'aggiornamento di questo sito con la collaborazione di Angelica.
John con il seguente discorso pronunciato in occasione dell'inaugurazione del secondo pozzo, ci racconta la storia dei progetti di Utange.
My names are John Katana Lewa. I'm a teacher. David Lewa is my younger brother. He is a Pastor.
I came to know Angela Andolfo in 1991 through my cousin - Richard Chondo. Richard was assisted by Angela in his Education.
Richard came to me to help him get admission in my school. He then introduced me to Angela. Angela asked me to ensure that Richard is in school and to report to her Richard's progress in school.
The school ran for 2 years, then Col. Antonino fell sick suffering from Leukemia. He passed away afterwards.
During this time, Angela was working as well as persuing her degree in University. She was too busy to be able to bring together all these people to continue with the Sponsorship. Col. Antonino's wife was old and unable to communicate in English. So the school project could not continue as there was a breakdown of communication with the sponsors.
Sometime in 1999, I asked Angela to seek assistance from an organization that could dig up a well for us - as there was acute shortage of water in the village.
Angela approached IPAL and after a long discussion, the borehole started in Jan 2002 - and was completed in March 2004 at a total cost of Kshs 537,389.65.
We started working at the borehole site growing spinach, bananas and pawpaws.
We also reared chicken and carried out other small scale business i.e selling firewood, mannure, charcoal e.t.c. These activities were carried out under a small organization of people called Kibokoni Self Help Group.
We then decided to expand our activities and work more aggressively. We formed a group that included women, men and youths, we called this organization Living Fountain Group. (LIFOG) This is a C.B.O. registered with the ministry of Social Services.
In Feb 2005, Angela Andolfo sent a friend to us known as Angela Gallorini she was with a friend called Nicki.
In her second visit at our village in April 2005, Angela came with more friends including Cpt Claudio, Stefania, Manuela, Pietro and Others.
Cpt. Claudio suggested another borehole project for us. The project started in Feb 2006. We have received Kshs 688,942.05 from IPAL. With this amount, we renovated a house for mama Betty, built this house at the site and fence and gate will soon be put up. The gate is still being prepared and as soon as we fix the gate, we shall start putting up the fence. The work moves on well. Where we can, we do the work ourselves to cut down on expenses.
Farming - growing bananas, pawpaws, vegetables, sweet potatoes, cassava, maize.
However, the villagers have asked me to request you to consider building a school for this community.
With these remarks, on behalf of all the villagers and friends, I wish to pass to you, IPAL and all the friends who supported you, our profound thanks for giving us this project and coming to inaugurate the site.
Thank you, so much, God bless you all !


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Q: How to pass a failed testsuite run (junit.xml parsing)? We are working in a automated continues integration/deployment pipeline. we got hundreds of testcases and 4 stages (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green).
The issue I'm facing is that a test can fail (bug, timings, stuck process etc.) and it will fail the entire regression run.
I think that we need some sort of weight to determine amount of pass/fail tests to be considered as 'fail' build.
any ideas? something you created on your pipeline?
Thanks,
-M

A: Having a failed build does not always reflect the quality of the product, mainly if the fails are related to testing infrastructure issues.
Reduce the risk of unwanted fails which are not related to application bugs(timings, stuck process), by building a strong and stable framework, that can be easily maintained and extended.
When speaking of fails related to application bugs, the type of tests that failed are more important than the amount of fails. This is defect severity. You can have 3 trivial fails that don't have big impact, and you can also have only 1 fail that is critical. You need to flag your tests accordingly.
Additionally to this, there is a Jenkins plugin that creates an easy to follow test run history, where you can see the number of tests that failed the most times in the last runs.

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So, whos gonna get that shocktech.....less than a day left, think I can make like 100 bucks in a day?
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Climate Change, Air Pollution and the School Environment
The school is committed to reducing the amount of waste that it produces, increasing recycling and reducing the amount of energy it uses during the school day. We are also taking steps to improve the air quality, increasing areas for recreation and play and improving the food offered to the students during the school day.
We would like to share with you the improvements and changes that have been made over the last few years towards these aims.
Every student in the main school has been given a reusable water bottle so that they do not have to purchase water or use disposable cups to take a drink. There are now 6 water fountains available on the school site to refill bottles and once the current stock of bottled water has sold through we will no longer sell bottled water in the school canteen.
Every student has also been given a reusable hessian bag that can be used instead of disposable plastic bags.
All food in the canteen is now sold in reusable, washable containers.
Disposable plastic and paper cups are no longer used for hospitality and staff events.
Unwanted school furniture has been sold via gumtree, or given away via freecycle or to charities. Obsolete IT equipment and computers are sent for recycling.
We have reupholstered the office, staff room and library furniture rather than buying new items.
The majority of the outside furniture used by the students at break and lunch time is made from recycled plastic bottles.
Increasing recycling
The school currently recycles paper and cardboard, glass bottles, plastic bottles and tin cans. From September we have started to recycle food waste and have increased the number of recycling bins we have on site.
The school was awarded a grant of £8,400 towards the planting of green screens along Camden Road to reduce the levels of NO2 and Particulate Matter on the school site. The scheme was extended to the perimeter of Sandall Road and this work was completed in the summer break. The combination of ivy and jasmine will help to improve the air quality and also has the added benefit of making the school look more appealing and secure and encourages biodiversity.


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Creditors of Pennsylvania's Allegheny health system have received approval from the US Bankruptcy Court for their request that an independent trustee be appointed. The trustee will be charged with ensuring that Allegheny's profitable western-Pennsylvania assets will be used to help pay the systems $1.5 billion in debts. The Pennsylvania Attorney General's office filed objections to the appointment of a trustee, saying the nonprofit western hospitals should be made autonomous from Allegheny.
Medical College of Pennsylvania (MCP) Hospital, Philadelphia's second-largest hospital company, now known as Woman's Medical Hospital, has made progress as a nonprofit organization headed by, 54-year-old cardiologist Nancy Pickering. Although the number of patients at the hospital were between 35 and 50 a day during the week of December 12, 2004, people are concerned about the level of staffing that would lead to patients being transferred to other area hospitals.
The insurer faces new challenges to its dominance of the region's health insurance market after the death of Independence Blue Cross president and chief executive officer G. Fred DiBona Jr. Under DiBona's leadership, Blue Cross has grown from a traditional health insurer with 2.1 million members and annual revenue of $1.3 billion, to a managed-care company with 3.6 million subscribers and $10 billion in revenue.


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Congress has institutionalized corruption. In Congress commit sin and you are rewarded: CM
Shri Narendra Modi continues campaign in Himachal Pradesh, addresses rally in Kangra
Shri Modi urges people to reelect the BJP Government, says he is seeing wave of support in favour of BJP
Reason behind Gujarat's development is political stability. This time even Punjab bucked the trend of alternating Governments and reelected the incumbent Government: Shri Modi
PM asked for votes but failed to give accountability to the people: Shri Modi
Congress has institutionalized corruption. In Congress, commit sin and you are rewarded: CM
In Dev Bhoomi like this do we want sins of Delhi to enter? Asks Shri Modi
Continuing his campaign in Himachal Pradesh in the wake of the upcoming Vidhan Sabha polls in the state, Shri Narendra Modi addressed a public meeting in Kangra in which he strongly appealed to the people to give BJP a second chance in governing the state.
Talking about his relations with Himachal Pradesh Shri Modi recalled that he has worked in the hill state for years and outside Gujarat, Himachal is his 2nd home.
About the upcoming elections, Shri Modi affirmed that he has seen many elections but this time he is seeing a wave in support of the BJP. He said that today Gujarat has scaled new heights of development and the reason behind this is political stability- for the last so many elections BJP is winning in the state. The Chief Minister stated that politics stability enhances accountability and brings consistency in policy. He urged the people to buck the trend of not repeating incumbent Governments and gave the example of neighboring Punjab, which created history by reelecting the Akali Dal-BJP Government in the January 2012 elections.
Shri Modi affirmed that Shri Dhumal's Government has won 72 awards whereas Dr. Manmohan Singh's Government has not even won a single award.
Referring to the Prime Minister's visit to Himachal Pradesh Shri Modi affirmed that the visit created news as Dr. 'Maunmohan' Singh decided to speak but Shri Modi said it was unfortunate that the PM and Mrs. Sonia Gandhi have failed to speak about the condition of the poor, who are suffering due to rising prices.
The Chief Minister reminded the people of the Congress promise of 2009 to bring prices down in 100 days of getting elected but asked if that had happened. He further stated that the PM should come to the people and answer why prices are rising. Shri Modi declared that the PM came to Himachal to seek votes but failed to provide any accountability to the people.
He stated that the Congress rubbed salt in the wounds of the people by putting the LPG cylinder cap and made the false promise of providing 3 additional cylinders at subsidized rates when that has not happened till now.
Talking about Mrs. Sonia Gandhi's statement that the UPA has given Rs. 10,000 crore to Himachal Pradesh, Shri Modi expressed surprise that Mrs. Gandhi said this. He said that money belongs to the people on which they have right.
Shri Modi declared that the Congress has institutionalized corruption and there is no point expecting any change from them. He affirmed that in the Congress one commits sin and is rewarded. He cited the example of Salman Khurshid, who faces grave allegations of corruption but has been promoted in the reshuffle yesterday.
Similarly, Shri Modi spoke about former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh's resignation due to corruption but noted that immediately after that the Congress handed him charge of the Himachal.
He lauded the work of the Dhumal Government and said that while Sonia ji and Dr. Manmohan Singh never understood the plight of the women, Dhumal ji understood and said that the people must decide in what hands do they want Himachal Pradesh to go to. Shri Mod categorically said that the solution to all problems in development and the BJP's Mantra is to improve the condition of the common man.
CM addressing Election Rally at Mandi, Himachal Pradesh
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When we are stressed it feels like we are hemmed in, everyone is too close or invading our space. Distress or stress gives that clostrophobic feeling and "get me out of here" though it is all to overwhelming to go anywhere! Can you relate to that? I know I can at times.
Posted on January 9, 2012 by RichieGadgetPosted in devotionalTagged Distress, insecurity.


One of the most sportiest Honda's has always been the popular CRX, the small compact sports car that offered great fuel economy with the look of a fast sports car was a great success for the Honda manufacturer. The CRX, which was the acronym for "Civic Renaissance-Experimental"; and in fact the CRX, sold in Japan under the Civic name prior to making its appearance in the United States. The debut of the CRX was in 1983, first appearing on the American car market as an efficient hatchback sports car. The two-seated vehicle was revamped in 1988 and became even more popular for its great fuel economy, outstanding performance and handling, as well as its great sporty look. In 1992, the Honda Del Sol replaced the CRX, however, there have been recent talks in the automotive field of the CRX revival, expected and rumored to return in 2007.
At our website, www.carbodyparts.net; we specialize in parts and accessories for the Honda CRX. We carry parts for model years 1984 through the CRX's last year in 1991. We offer body parts from common headlights and tail lights to complete remodeling needs like replacement hoods, bumper covers, and radiator cooling tanks. As well, you will find that all of our parts are high quality performance enhancing body parts, as well as being ISO certified by the automotive industry. All that and a one year free warranty with every part purchased. Our prices are often below wholesale and offer the everyday Honda owner a chance to own quality, first rate OEM replacement parts in a fast and easily accessible manner.
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When going to Walt Disney World, there are some little things to remember, and a few to be 'warned' about. Today, we'll look at a few of these things. Here we Go!
If you are traveling to WDW with little ones, remember that there are Baby Care Centers in all of the parks. These are great places to go to feed and change your baby, as well as a good place to take a bit of quiet time if you, or you baby, need it. Just ask any Cast Member where to find the Baby Care Center in the park you are visiting.
There are Stroller and Wheelchair or ECV rentals available just inside each park entrance. There are also rentals available at Downtown Disney (Disney Springs). There is a daily fee for the use of these items. And, if you leave the park to go to another park, you will need to drop at the park you are leaving and pick up another one at the second park. If you have a need for a longer stay, you may want to consider an off-site provider as they are typically more affordable.
usually playing Wednesday – Saturday evenings beginning at 7:30pm. But, get there early as seating is limited, and Bob comes around to visit before each show to say hello! Go to http://www.yehaabob.com for more information and to check the schedule.
Considering going to EPCOT for Food and Wine, or Flower and Garden? You might want to limit your visits to weekdays. There are a lot of locals that come out on the weekends and the crowds are larger and sometimes more obnoxious.
Pack some patience! There is no quicker spoiler to a vacation then a bad attitude. If you have kids, think about keeping their schedule the same as when you are at home. Taking a midday break can save the good memories to be made while you are visiting Walt Disney World. And, sometimes, it's not a bad idea for us parents! Or, schedule an in park ADR and take advantage of the down time to recharge while you enjoy a meal together.
Well, that's it for today! Feel free to add your comments about some of the Little Things that can come in handy on a WDW vacation. For now, I hope you all have a Blessed and Magical Weekend, my friends!


This bayonet is modelled on the Swiss Schmidt-Rubin pattern from the same era and is approximately the same size. However, it has the typical US feature of the integral belt loop, which functions as a swivelling unit. Grips are walnut. Most of the original blue finish remains to one side of the scabbard, polished off through wear on the other.
Bayonet arrived safe and well earlier, finally got a chance to unwrap it and have a quick peek and am very pleased, thanks!


Does "Christian investing" differ from investing in general? Should Christians avoid all risk or refuse to invest in certain companies that do not support Christian causes?
While some might disagree with me, I believe that the essence of a biblical approach to investing begins with an attitude of the heart, rather than a list of do's and don'ts. The heart attitude and the number one priority for a Christian investor is to glorify God with our money.
The following are biblical principals which I hope will guide your thinking and your actions in glorifying God as a Christian investor.
rights. Being a steward requires me to live with an eye on eternity at all times.
give through me, so that His will is accomplished.
it will be given you. This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit.
those who seek it, and must be handled with great care by the Christian investor.
not what I might do someday if I have more.
• I should manage with a sense of urgency. Later may be too late.
• God has built the law of sowing and reaping into the fabric of the universe.
• Giving is a matter of the heart. God looks at our intentions, not our gifts.
• It is not difficult to put aside earthly wealth when you have the LORD is your highest treasure.


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Giuseppe De Luca (n. Roma; 25 de diciembre de 1876 - f. Nueva York; 26 de agosto de 1950), fue un barítono italiano cuyos mayores triunfos fueron en el Metropolitan Opera.

Fue el creador de dos roles de las óperas de Giacomo Puccini: Sharpless en Madama Butterfly (en La Scala, Milan, 1904) y Gianni Schicchi (Metropolitan Opera, 1918). Además creó el Marques Griselidis de Massenet; Michonnet en Adriana Lecouvreur, de Francesco Cilea; Paquiro en Goyescas, de Enrique Granados, y Sancho Panza en Don Quichotte con Feodor Chaliapin.

Biografía
De Luca nació en Roma, hijo de un herrero, cantó en los coros de iglesia de niño. Posteriormente estudió en el conservatorio romano con el mismo maestro de Mattia Battistini y Titta Ruffo. Debutó en Piacenza en 1897, como Valentin en Faust.

Cantó en La Scala, Milán, desde 1902 a 1910, y en Covent Garden, en 1907.

Se mudó a Estados Unidos y fue el máximo barítono en el Metropolitan desde 1915 a 1935. Debutó como Figaro en El barbero de Sevilla con Frieda Hempel como Rosina.

Al retirarse enseñó en la Juilliard School y murió en Manhattan a la edad de 73.

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Barítonos de Italia
Tenores de Italia
Cantantes líricos de Italia
Maestros de canto
Músicos clásicos del siglo XX de Italia
Nacidos en Roma
Fallecidos en Nueva York

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We wanted to like Zocalo, and we bet Park Circle wanted to like it too. But the place never gelled. It seemed empty most nights, despite the cool patio and the central location smack dab in the middle of a neighborhood that has limited options for dining out. Apparently, the folks at Daniel Island Grill recognized the struggle of Zocalo — and the potential of the location. A few months back they stepped in and decided that what Park Circle needed was a sports bar with plenty of TVs and lots of beer. Turns out they were right. DIG in the Park has found many admirers, and now the place is packed with fans, families, and neighbors looking to watch the game and eat some good grub.


and all I can think about is who I'll be when the year is done. In response to those thoughts, a few weeks ago, I decided to write a spoken word poem about what I want from myself in one year. I was planning on keeping it to myself, but decided it was a message others might need to hear, too. I shot some footage of reading the the poem and put it all together. And now I am releasing it all out to you!
And for the record, this video is the reason I haven't posted in a while. Don't worry though! I will get back to my weekly schedule…I have decided on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Let's get started on this awesomeness.
From your pal, The [Ab]normal One.
I haven't posted anything in quite some time. It has been weighing on me this week. I just can't seem to find anything to write about or the time to sit down and write. Out of nowhere my life got extremely busy. To having more people living in my family's house, to realizing the ACT is in less than a month. My mind has not been in the realm of writing. Even when it has been, it's only been for my advanced composition class.
I don't know what it is, but my brain has been fried lately. I've fallen into a routine of work and sleep that there isn't much room for anything else. I haven't been extremely social, haven't gone out much. It's been a lot of staying in my room, eating ice cream, doing work and falling asleep. My life is pretty boring at the moment.
I wrote a post last year about how I'm not motivated. This week is a week like that one I had last year. I care enough to not give up, but I am having to push myself extremely hard. I was talking to a friend of mine and they told me this, "…we just need to go and take the next step, even if the next step is just waking up in the morning". I dread the morning–mostly because I haven't been getting much sleep at night. But when it hits 6:30am, I have a choice to make. Start my day or give up.
On any given day I would much rather roll back to sleep. but I know deep down I can't. I may not feel the best, I may not be well rested, it may be a horrible day. But I have to kick off the covers and start my day. I should stop worrying about what the next will bring–I have way too much to worry about to constantly be doing so.
This week has been a lot of starting my day when deep down I don't want to.
I think that's okay. I just hope next week is better.
By the way, I wrote a guest blog post for my teacher's blog a few weeks ago. It has to do with my digital personal narrative. You can check it out here.
Your Adventures Await…Go Forth and Conquer!
Hello 2015. Nice to finally meet you. I've got a few words I'd like to say to you, but before I do, I'd like to bid adieu to 2014.


We investigated in a unique setup of animal models and a human lung explant culture biological properties, including zoonotic potential, of a representative 2016 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) H5N8, clade 2.3.4.4 group B (H5N8B), that spread rapidly in a huge and ongoing outbreak series in Europe and caused high mortality in waterfowl and domestic birds. HPAIV H5N8B showed increased virulence with rapid onset of severe disease and mortality in Pekin ducks due to pronounced neuro- and hepatotropism. Cross-species infection was evaluated in mice, ferrets, and in a human lung explant culture model. While the H5N8B isolate was highly virulent for Balb/c mice, virulence and transmissibility were grossly reduced in ferrets, which was mirrored by marginal replication in human lung cultures infected ex vivo. Our data indicate that the 2016 HPAIV H5N8B is avian-adapted with augmented virulence for waterfowl, but has low zoonotic potential. The here tested combination of animal studies with the inoculation of human explants provides a promising future workflow to evaluate zoonotic potential, mammalian replication competence and avian virulence of HPAIV.


The July 11-22 period for Arkansas 2010 crop soybean markets saw no price change across the July 9-10 weekend and markets opened at $13.56 (Figure 1). The market gained ground each trading day of the first week before losing momentum and trending slightly lower throughout the second week. The period closed on Friday, July 22 at a closing mark of $13.82, an overall gain of 26 cents from the July 8 closing price. Highest reported individual market daily average for the two-week period was $14.13 on both July 21 and 22 at Old Town/Elaine. No other market ended the period above $13.90. Lowest individual market daily average for the period was on Monday, July 11 in Augusta at $13.33. Wynne reported a $13.38 average on the same day and no other market had a day less than $13.44 during the period. Last trading day quotes for all Arkansas reporting markets were $13.54 to $14.13, widening the range to 59 cents from the 39 cent gap seen prior to this reporting period.
Forward booking prices for 2011 crop beans gained 1 cent over the July 9-10 weekend, opening on Monday, July 11, at $13.22 (Figure 2). The market saw gains each trading day of the first week in this period before leveling off and finishing the period at $13.64, a 43 cent improvement from the Friday July 8 closing price. Helena topped all individual market quotes for the two-week reporting period, reaching $13.82 on Thursday, July 21. Helena was the only market that exceeded the $13.80 level anytime during the past two weeks of trading. Wynne, at $12.97 on July 11, had the lowest daily price quote of the two-week period and was the only market with a sub-$13.00 daily price during the time period. The price margin premium on cash market old crop beans over new crop booking prices fell to 18 cents to end the two-week period, a decrease of 17 cents from the July 8 Friday closing gap.
NOTE: No July 15 issue of SOYBEAN NOTES ECONOMICS was published since the author was in Washington, D.C. to attend the 66th Annual Conference of the Soil & Water Conservation Society. Two connected items should be noted up front on this issue. First, the price charts represent soybean price quote movements across two weeks (July 11-22). Similarly, the text describes highs, lows, and averages for the full two-week period instead of the usual single week of trading. The usual one-week trading report will resume for the week ending July 29.


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Юлия Петровна Гамова (, род. 25 сентября 1935, Бубновская Слободка) — украинская советская бандуристка, выступавшая в трио «Днепрянка». Народная артистка УССР (1979).

Биография
Окончила в 1966 году Киевскую консерваторию (класс Андрея Бобыря, с 1985 года — её преподаватель). С 1956 года в составе трио бандуристок «Днепрянка» (с Элеонорой Миронюк и Валентиной Пархоменко) выступает на киевской эстраде, с 1965 года при Киевской филармонии. В репертуаре — творчество современных композиторов. Автор обработок музыкальных произведений для бандуры.

Литература
 Мистецтво України: біографічний довідник / , 1997.

Ссылки
 Трио «Днепрянка» на сайте ЭСУ.

Бандуристы СССР
Выпускники Киевской консерватории
Бандуристы Украины


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The LoomBy Carl ZimmerMarch 17, 2006 10:56 PM
Randy Olson, who sparked a massive discussion here a couple weeks ago in connection to his movie, Flock of Dodos and how to explain evolution, sends an update:
Hello Carl - Big news here -- the official World Premiere of "Flock of Dodos: the evolution-intelligent design circus," will be at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival on the evening of Sunday, April 30 in New York City, followed by three more screenings during the following days. We will have details on our website next week on how to get tickets. Here's the Tribeca announcement: http://www.indiewire.com/ots/2006/03/tribeca_fest_un.html Now before P.Z. Myers and everyone else recoils with, "Oh, no, Robert De Niro's festival -- now he's REALLY gone Hollywood," I want to clarify one detail. Your review of the advance screening at Yale on Feb. 13 produced a wonderful round of discussion on at least eight evolution blogs. And quite a few evolutionists took issue with some of my ten suggestions for improving the communication of evolution. Probably the biggest misperception of what I said was the confusion between "concision" (what I am advocating) and "dumbing down," (which is rightfully the fear of all good evolutionists). Concision is the essence of effective mass communication, and its not as simple as dumbing down. Think of it as being similar to solving a mathematical proof. The mathematical clod (like myself) takes 100 steps to make the proof. The skilled mathematician achieves the same proof in three steps. And therein lies the beauty and even art of great mathematics. Its all about simplicity. Simiarly, the communications clod takes twenty minutes to explain something. The skilled communicator takes three minutes to explain the same thing. And I mean EXACTLY the same thing. And therein lies the beauty of great communication. Some people are naturally better than others at communication, but everyone can get better by raising it up as a higher priority. I have given sloppy. poorly thought out and unrehearsed talks as a scientist, and I have given carefully structured, concise, well rehearsed talks as a scientist. The former were all very easy. The latter took a lot of work and a prioritization of almost as much effort in the communicating of the science as in the doing of the research. Its not clear how much the research environment has changed over the past thirty years. But what is undeniable is that the communication environment has changed drastically. And this is the central point of my film. So at the risk of annoying a lot of very nice scientists (like P.Z. Myers), I look forward to continuing this discussion over the upcoming year. And hopefully see you all at Tribeca. - Randy Olson
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