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Groundhog Day is a traditional festival celebrated in the United States and Canada on February 2. It is a cross-quarter day, midway between the Winter Solstice»» and the Vernal Equinox.»»
In traditional weather folklore, if a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day and fails to see its shadow because the weather is cloudy, winter will soon end. If the groundhog sees its shadow because the weather is bright and clear, it will be frightened and run back into its hole, and the winter will continue for six more weeks.
The origin of Groundhog Day dates back to the early Europe and their crop planting practices. The Roman legions, during the conquest of the northern country, supposedly brought this tradition to the Teutons, or Germans, who continued the tradition. Myths such as this tie our present to the distant past where the groundhog tradition co exists with Candlemas Day. February 2nd, is also the blessing of all the candles used in the church for the coming year. With the tradition of a shadow the hedgehog of those days predicted six more weeks of bad weather, which they interpolated as the "Second Winter."
According to an old Scotch limerick:
If Candlemas Day is bright and clear,
There'll be twa (two) winters in the year.
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Pennsylvania's earliest settlers were Germans and they found groundhogs in abundance in many parts of the state. They established that the groundhog, resembling the European hedgehog, was a distant relative, the most likely choice and most intelligent as well as most sensible animal for their traditions. The groundhog legend continues to be recognized annually on February 2nd with the most famous groundhog Phil of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club. Each year people from all over travel to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to watch with great anticipation to see Phil, makes his way above ground to check on the weather. For the remaining year, Phil (supposedly over 100 years old) lives in a climate-controlled home at the Punxsutawney Library. He is taken to Gobbler's Knob and placed in a heated burrow underneath a simulated tree stump on stage on Groundhog Day, February 2, to make his prediction. Most major television stations across the country, as well as the big screen in Times Square, broadcast the official Groundhog Day ceremony.
From offering support of political events, to rooting for area sports teams, to becoming the star of a Hollywood movie, Punxsutawney Phil has continually been in a public animal. The Punxsutawney Spirit newspaper is credited with printing the news of the first observance in 1886.
"Today is groundhog day, and up to the time of going to press the beast has not seen his shadow."
According to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club,»» and as with any celebrity, Phil has had numerous significant moments in history.
Phil's Past Predictions
1888 Saw Shadow.
1908 Saw Shadow;
1913 Saw Shadow - A new dance "The Groundhog Roll" was demonstrated by Joe Winslow.
During Prohibition Phil threatened to impose 60 weeks of winter on the community if he wasn't allowed a drink.
1934 No Shadow
1959 Saw Shadow at 8:23 AM; - Announces that he has returned from a successful trip to the moon. 1958 - Phil announced that it was a "United States Chucknik," rather than a Soviet Sputnik or Muttnik that became the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth.
1970 No Shadow.
In 1981 Saw Shadow- Phil wore a yellow ribbon in honor of the American hostages in Iran.
1986 No Shadow! Visited President Reagan at the White House in March.
In 1993 Saw Shadow - Columbia Pictures released the movie Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray.
1995 No Shadow. Guest on the Oprah Winfrey TV Show and made new fans.
2006 Saw Shadow while wearing a Terrible Towel in honor of the Steelers' upcoming visit to the Super Bowl
In the years following the release of the movie, record crowds numbering as high as 30,000 have visited Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney!
Famous Groundhogs Around the World»»
Best Reasons To Celebrate Groundhog Day
Helps relieve cabin fever.
Forecast is no less reliable than the National Weather Service.
A better holiday than Valentine's Day which is too depressing for romantically challenged people
Unlike the Easter bunny, he keeps his dirty paws outside.
It's fun to try to pronounce "Punxsutawney" correctly.
If a rodent can bring us an early spring, more power to him.
It's a good reason to have a party and gather with friends
Do something strange & cool - go Groundhog Day caroling»» with friends
Make Groundhog Day cupcakes
Groundhog Day will give you a reason to contact a long forgotten friend, acquaintance or lost love Free Ground Hog Day Ecards»»
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PJM Interconnection Announces Executive Promotions
VALLEY FORGE, Pa., Feb. 24, 2021 -- PJM Interconnection announced today the promotions of Nigeria Bloczynski, Asim Z. Haque, Christopher O'Hara and Ricardo Rodriguez.
"I am pleased to recognize the accomplishments and work of these four leaders within the organization," said PJM President and CEO Manu Asthana. "Under their leadership, PJM has made great strides in all of their areas, and I expect that progress to continue."
Asim Z. Haque, Vice President – State and Member Services
Christopher O'Hara, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer
Ricardo Rodriguez, Senior Director – Internal Audit
Nigeria Bloczynski, Vice President and Chief Risk Officer
Bloczynski has been named Vice President and Chief Risk Officer. Her responsibilities include corporate insurance programs, credit risk, enterprise risk management, trade risk and analytics, and trade surveillance.
Bloczynski joined PJM in 2019 and has more than 20 years of experience in commodity and credit risk management in both financial and energy markets. She holds a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Morgan State University and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.
Haque continues in his role as Vice President – State and Member Services, but will now also be a designated officer in the organization. He oversees State Government Policy, which includes both the State Relations and State Policy Solutions functions, as well as Member Services, which includes the Stakeholder Affairs, Client Management, Knowledge Management Center, and State & Member Training Departments.
Haque, an attorney, joined PJM in 2019 and has previously served as chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. Haque has a bachelor's degree in chemistry and political science from Case Western Reserve University and his Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
Christopher O'Hara, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer
O'Hara has been named Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer. He oversees PJM's Compliance & Reliability Standards and Law Departments and is responsible for PJM's legal operations, including all of the company's regulatory, litigation and commercial needs.
Before joining PJM in 2017, O'Hara had extensive in-house and private law firm experience in the energy field. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland.
Rodriguez has been named Senior Director – Internal Audit. He oversees PJM's Internal Audit Department, in which he is a member of the Executive Team and reports to the CEO and to the Risk and Audit Committee of the PJM Board of Managers. He is responsible for conducting company-wide business risk analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of business processes and operating controls at PJM.
Rodriguez is an experienced audit professional with over 20 years of experience in the energy, pharmaceutical and financial industries in the areas of finance, regulatory compliance, information security, operations and information systems. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Puerto Rico and a Master of Science in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business.
The executive promotions are effective March 10, 2021.
PJM Interconnection, founded in 1927, ensures the reliability of the high-voltage electric power system serving 65 million people in all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. PJM coordinates and directs the operation of the region's transmission grid, which includes over 84,236 miles of transmission lines; administers a competitive wholesale electricity market; and plans regional transmission expansion improvements to maintain grid reliability and relieve congestion. PJM's regional grid and market operations produce annual savings of $3.2 billion to $4 billion. For the latest news about PJM, visit PJM Inside Lines at insidelines.pjm.com.
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Q: Delete all linked tables in VBA I need to delete all tables which are linked in my access database.
This is the query which is returned all the linked tables (odbc and access linked tables) :
SELECT [MSysObjects].[Name]
FROM MSysObjects
WHERE Left([Name],1) <> "~" AND (MSysObjects.Type = 6 OR MSysObjects.Type = 4)
ORDER BY MSysObjects.Name;
But now i think i have to do a for each with this DoCmd.DeleteObject acTable, Table.name in order to close all my tables, but i don't know how to do.

A: For Each iterates through a collection in an un-ordered sequence and by deleting an object within that collection during iteration is the reason you encounter an error.
I would suggest that you iterate through the collection in an ordered sequence in reverse order to delete the TableDef objects using:
Dim dbs As DAO.Database
Dim tdf As DAO.TableDef
Set dbs = CurrentDb
For index = dbs.TableDefs.Count – 1 To 0 Step -1
    Set tdf = dbs.TableDefs(index)
    If Left(tdf.Connect, 5) = "ODBC;" Then
    DoCmd.DeleteObject acTable, tdf.Name
    End If
Next index

A: Dim rs as New ADODB.Recordset
Dim strSql as string

strSql = [put your sql statement here]

rs.open strSql, CurrentProject.connection
Do while not rs.eof
   Docmd.DeleteObject acTable,rs.Fields(0)
   rs.MoveNext
Loop
rs.Close

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The Shrink's Links: What's the Next Thing that Can Kill Me?
A lot can go wrong when you're an astronaut. The anxiety of being shot into space could be overwhelming and confusing.
In his book, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Commander Chris Hadfield says he would focus on the next thing that could kill him.
By visualizing on the next problem, and only the next problem, he develops and practices a plan to reduce the risk.
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In a previous article, I outlined the natural money economic system that is far more efficient than the current economic system. This system will get the economy out of depression in a short time and will generate constant economic growth at maximum potential. In this article I will outline the conversion from the current system to the natural money economic system.
A government can issue a new natural money currency that will become legal tender within the country. The old currencies should continue to exist, but must not remain legal tender. People will be free to convert their old currency into the new natural money currency. In this way a country can shield itself from the financial system that is in a process of disintegration while not breaking existing agreements that are made in the old currencies such as the Euro or the US Dollar.
Banks that will work under the new natural money system should come into existence. Those new banks must be legal entities that should not have any meaningful positions in the old currencies. Those banks should work under the natural money laws. In this way those banks are shielded from the old financial system. As the old currencies such as the Euro and the US Dollar will still be in existence, they should float against the new currencies.
First only payments for goods, services, taxes and salaries will be done in the new natural money currency. The new natural money currency will be used in the real economy. The financial system will still operate using the old currencies. In this way those two systems are separated and therefore the instability of the financial system will affect the real economy in a far lesser degree.
Financial markets will at first still operate using old currencies like the Euro or the US Dollar. Existing debts will also remain in Euro or US Dollar. Governments should stop bailing out bankrupt companies and financial institutions and let the markets do their work. The old currencies still do have value as many debts may still have some value. Because interest bearing currencies converted money into debt, there is far more debt than money in the current financial system. Therefore not all debts can be repaid.

 A company must issue stock until debt on its balance sheet meets specific requirements. Bond holders must convert their holdings into common stock. A specific conversion law should make this possible. This conversion can be done at market prices for the bonds and the stocks using the old currency. The conversion law should include the elimination of all short interest on the specific stock before conversion, as bond holders may short the stock to get a favourable conversion rate.

 In the new financial system there must be no derivative products (also no futures and options). Derivatives are illegal in the new system. Because in the natural money economy there will be constant economic growth at maximum potential, the financial markets will be very stable, and therefore there is no need for derivative products. Because there exists no interest on money in the natural money economy, interest rate derivatives are also not needed.

 Shorting of stock should be prohibited. Shorting introduces an interest in bringing down companies. If people do not believe in a company, their only option should be not to own the stock.
People are still obliged to pay off their debts in the old currencies. They can use their natural money to buy up their debts in the old currencies. Because the natural money currency is legal tender in the real economy, there will be demand for the natural money currency, and therefore it will always be possible to convert the natural money currency into the old currency. Interest payments on those debts should be abolished. This will greatly improve the capacity of the lenders to repay their debts.
When people are repaying their debts, money supply in the old currency will diminish, which creates an upward pressure on the value of the old currency because there is far more debt than money to repay the debt. Governments should spend old currency into existence in such a way that the exchange rate between the old currency and the natural money currency is as stable as possible. There is no other choice but to do this or to default on the debts. Governments should therefore be in control of the central bank that is issuing the old currency. This activity is not inflationary because the money supply will not increase and the value of the old currency will be linked to the natural money currency which is backed by the real economy.
Many international payments and debts are in Euro or US Dollar. The EU member states and the US are not engaged in most of those contracts. Therefore the EU members and the US are not in a position to abolish the Euro or the US Dollar. The EU and the US should discuss the management of the Euro and the US Dollar with their international trading partners and the major creditor nations such as China and Japan.
It is not in the interest of trading partners and creditor nations that they accumulate currencies that loose value over time. Countries like China and Japan should use their resources to improve their own wealth instead of subsidising the spending of the EU and the US. The current situation will end in tragedy for both parties as the production of the EU and the US will be outsourced while creditor nations will end up holding worthless currencies. In the natural money system, all countries will use their productive capacity to create their own wealth. With natural money it is very costly to hold foreign currencies for a longer period of time, because all currencies have a holding tax. This will prevent imbalances of payment from getting out of hand.
At some point in the future it becomes clear what the value of all debts is. When there is income or assets backing them up, debts should have some value. Also it will become clear what the market value of the old currencies is. When those two conditions are realised, the financial system is stabilised and the remaining balances in the old currencies can be converted into the natural money currencies. The value of derivatives should be determined by the market using the old currencies. The government has no role in this. Derivatives can never be converted into the natural money currencies.


okay, still have a cold/bronchitis/whatever it is. i'm not going to whine too much - it's monday and i'm not at work, so yey, go me. however. i need to spread the merriment. i shall do this by posting quite possibly the least flattering photo's i've ever shared of me. yey!
see, when i'm sick and mooshy and have just woken up, my face is kind of hilarious. it just entirely loses shape, and my mouth goes gargantuan. it's really funny. well, i think it's funny, haha. let's just say i relate a lot to pre-make up oprah in a very white girl way.
it's like my face is still asleep, hahaha. scary stuff!
still not exactly fab, but suddenly my face has its shape back, and the mouth is considerably less scary. such weird stuff.
oh well. i may look and feel like the swamp thing, but one thing is for sure... i'm not in as dire need of dying my hair as i've been thinking i was. hahaha. whenever i feel like crap, i start thinking my hair isn't red anymore and i need to dye it but... nah, seems fine so far.
yeah, my hair looks very red in the sunlight, indoors it's more muted though - it's only bright when freshly dyed. i tried finding the shade at wella online to show you, but when i tried picking it the website said "we do not recommend this colour considering your natural colour." - pfft, what does wella know!
anyway, before this bright red wella colour, i adoooooore clairol herbal essences #44, radiant ruby - lovely rich red, on the pretty and darker side without going plum.
thanks for the link. i actually have some hair dye in my bathroom that i've been meaning to use (Garnier, which i've used before, but not the cololur i've bought) but keep forgetting and then wimping out of. i might try it one of these days.


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World AIDS Day: BC's Success Story Shows Strength of Treatment as Prevention
By Dr. Julio Montaner, OC, OBC, MD, Executive Director and Physician in Chief, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS – Providence Health Care
On December 1st we celebrate World AIDS Day, an opportunity to reflect on our challenges and successes four decades into the battle against HIV/AIDS.
Around the world there are nearly 38 million people living with HIV and about 1.5 million new infections per year. A recent report by the World Health Organization estimates the number of people with the virus being treated with antiretrovirals had risen to 27.5 million – an increase of almost 10 per cent over the last year. Encouraging but not enough.
United Nations target surpassed in BC
In BC, we have much to be proud of given the success of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS' (BC-CfE) Treatment as Prevention® (TasP®) strategy on the impact of HIV/AIDS, here and globally.
On last year's World AIDS Day, we were proud to announce, alongside BC's Minister of Health Adrian Dix, that our province had surpassed the United Nations' 90-90-90 Target; with 92 per cent of people living with HIV in BC diagnosed, 91 per cent of them on highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART), and 95 per cent of those on HAART (approximately 7,500 people) achieving virological suppression, meaning they have undetectable levels of HIV in their blood and bodily fluids.
Reaching these thresholds has played a key role in reducing AIDS related morbidity and mortality in BC by over 90 per cent since the peak of the epidemic in the early '90s. Furthermore, this success has also greatly reduced the likelihood of new HIV cases in BC, because people living with HIV who are virologically suppressed through HAART do not transmit the HIV virus.
Dr. Julio Montaner. (Photo credit: BC-CfE)
BC's PrEP program among largest in the world
Since January 2018, BC further expanded its HIV control efforts by adding fully subsidized pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to the TasP® strategy. PrEP involves one pill (containing two specific antiretroviral drugs) taken daily by individuals who are at increased risk of contracting HIV, based on a set of pre-defined criteria. Daily use of PrEP reduces the risk of acquiring HIV by over 95 per cent.
Today, the BC-CfE's PrEP program has over 4,700 active participants across all of BC's health authorities, and is among the largest in Canada and, indeed, the world. As a result of the combined impact of HAART and PrEP, BC is on track to see its lowest number of new HIV infections over three decades in 2021, at approximately 120 cases (a 20 per cent decrease from the previous year).
This proves once again that sustained investments in TasP® (a strategy first proposed by the BC-CfE 15 years ago, and since widely adopted around the world) stops progression of HIV infection to AIDS, avoids premature deaths, and prevents HIV transmission, all within a cost-averting framework.
Read the full article here on The Daily Scan | World AIDS Day: BC's Success Story Shows Strength of Treatment as Prevention


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A moment of silence for Aaron Swartz | F.A.T.
But sharing isn't immoral — it's a moral imperative.
We are not really as good at writing obits as we are at making stuff for the web, but there are beautiful and very important stuff about Aaron's incredible legacy, his amazing politics and the miscarriage of justice against him, that you should read. You can even join the JSTOR Liberator Front!
F.A.T. fellows are deeply sorry that Aaron is not anymore around and we thought the best way to remember him would be building something for the web that could be shared.
Next weekend is the anniversary of the EPIC FAIL of SOPA, in which Aaron played a key role. We reused the code of STOP SOPA campaign to build this little moment of silence and pay a html tribute to Aaron.
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Bert Derkoningen (ur. 10 lipca 1982) – belgijski siatkarz, grający na pozycji libero, reprezentant Belgii.

Sukcesy klubowe
Puchar Belgii:
  2008, 2009, 2010, 2012
Puchar CEV:
  2008
  2010
Mistrzostwo Belgii:
  2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
  2010, 2013
  2014
Superpuchar Belgii:
  2008, 2009, 2011, 2012

Sukcesy reprezentacyjne
Liga Europejska:
  2013

Nagrody indywidualne
 2010: Najlepszy przyjmujący turnieju finałowego Pucharu CEV

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 profil poland2014.fivb.org
 profil www-old.cev.eu

Przypisy

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Attorneys representing Resorts World Las Vegas say the resort might look like Wynn Las Vegas and Encore now — but it won't by the time it's done.
Attorneys representing Resorts World Las Vegas say it might look like the Wynn Las Vegas and Encore now, but it won't by the time it's done.
"Upon completion, RWLV will look dramatically different from Wynn's properties, dispelling any suggestion that a reasonable consumer could confuse the two resorts for each other," Resorts World representatives said in a response to a Wynn Resorts Ltd. lawsuit filed Dec. 21 in the U.S. District Court of Nevada.
The Resorts World filing includes renderings of what the building is expected to look like when it's completed in late 2020. The renderings show several red hues adorning the bronze-colored glass windows. One portion of the tower features multi-colored patterns on the glass facade.
The initial Wynn lawsuit used existing photographs of the Wynn, Encore and Wynn Macau towers and the Resorts World construction site to show their similarity.
A representative for Wynn Resorts said Friday that the company would continue to press its lawsuit.
The answer to the lawsuit also says a project stoppage proposed in a motion for an injunction could cost Resorts World an estimated $169 million and result in 500 construction workers being immediately laid off.
"There are currently approximately 1,500 workers on-site and employed in connection with the RWLV project," project manager William Richardson of W.A. Richardson Builders said in an excerpt from the court filing.
"If an injunction is granted and glass installation is stopped for months or longer, I anticipate that approximately one-third of those on-site workers — 500 — would be immediately dismissed, as they are working on elements of construction that would be affected by a glass stoppage," he said.
The filing also says further delays could push back the arrival of 3,000 permanent jobs once the property opens.
The $4 billion, 3,000-room project is located across Las Vegas Boulevard from Encore.
The five counts of the suit allege federal trade dress infringement; unfair competition and false designation of origin; federal trademark dilution; state trademark dilution; and copyright infringement.
Wynn also wants to be awarded any profits resulting from the use of the colors and architectural style, as well as exemplary and punitive damages.


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Q: Cannot delete row from jTable This is the code I've used for the delete function but it doesn't seem to delete any row I select. I first search for the required record using a jTextField searchTxtand then delete the matching record. The matching or search works fine, its the delete that doesn't.
private void deleteSelectedRows(){
   try{
            if(searchCombo_User.getSelectedItem().toString().equals("User ID")){
                dlt = "DELETE from user where user_id = ?";
            }
            else if(searchCombo_User.getSelectedItem().toString().equals("Username")){
                dlt = "DELETE from user where username = ?";
            }

            pst = conn.prepareStatement(dlt);
            pst.setString(1, searchTxt.getText());
            ((DefaultTableModel)userTable.getModel()).removeRow(userTable.getSelectedRow());
            pst.execute();
    }
    catch (Exception e){
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, e);
    }
}

private void deleteBttnActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
       if(!searchTxt.getText().isEmpty()){
            deleteSelectedRows();
            Update_table();
       }
       else{
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Please search for the record you wish to delete");
    }
}


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YKMediaPlayerKit
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Painlessly and natively **play** YouTube, Vimeo, and .MP4, .MOV, .MPV, .3GP videos and fetch **thumbnails** on your iOS devices.

### Overview
If you have been playing YouTube and Vimeo videos in a `UIWebView` because it is hard to figure out direct URL to an .MP4 that you can play natively on an iOS device via  `MPMoviePlayerViewController` for superior user experience then `YKMediaPlayerKit` is for you.

It not only helps you play an online YouTube, Vimeo, and all natively supported formats such as .MP4, .MOV, .MPV, .3GP with a single method call but lets you asynchronously download thumbnail images for the videos too. You can also chose from Low, Medium, or High resolution videos or thumbnails.

Its blocks based and works asynchronously and returns all block callbacks on the main thread.

    //Variable to hold parsed video
    id<YKVideo> video;

    //You can use YouTube, Vimeo, or direct video URL too.
    NSString *videoURL = @"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJey_oygU3Y";

    YKMediaPlayerKit *player = [[YKMediaPlayerKit alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:videoURL]];
    [player parseWithCompletion:^(YKVideoTypeOptions videoType, id<YKVideo> parsedVideo, NSError *error) {

        //Save parsed video to a class level property.
        video = parsedVideo;

        //Get thumbnails
        [player thumbWithCompletion:^(UIImage *thumb, NSError *error) {
            if (thumb) {
                //set thumbnail to respective UIImageView.
                self.imageView.image = thumb;
            }
        }];
    }];

    //Play parsed video
    - (IBAction)playButtonPressed {
        [self.video play:YKQualityMedium];
    }

Or you can do something like below:

Play **YouTube** video and fetch its thumbnail.

    NSString *videoLink = @""http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hZ98an9wjo";"
    YKYouTubeVideo *youTubeVideo = [[YKYouTubeVideo alloc] initWithContent:[NSURL URLWithString:videoLink]];

    //Fetch thumbnail
    [youTubeVideo parseWithCompletion:^(NSError *error) {
        [youTubeVideo thumbImage:YKQualityLow completion:^(UIImage *thumbImage, NSError *error) {
            //Set thumbImage to UIImageView here
        }];
    }];

    //Then play (make sure that you have called parseWithCompletion before calling this method)
     [youTubeVideo play:YKQualityHigh];

Exactly the same for **Vimeo** videos.

    NSString *videoLink = @"http://vimeo.com/42893621";
    YKVimeoVideo *vimeoVideo = [[YKVimeoVideo alloc] initWithContent:[NSURL URLWithString:videoLink]];

    [vimeoVideo parseWithCompletion:^(NSError *error) {
        [vimeoVideo thumbImage:YKQualityLow completion:^(UIImage *thumbImage, NSError *error) {
            //Set thumbImage to UIImageView here
        }];
    }];

    //Then play (make sure that you have called parseWithCompletion before calling this method)
     [vimeoVideo play:YKQualityHigh];

 Finaly playing and fetching thumbnails from an iOS supported native video format such as **.MP4, .MOV, .MPV, .3GP**

    NSString *videoLink = @"http://download.wavetlan.com/SVV/Media/HTTP/BlackBerry.mov";
    YKDirectVideo *directVideo = [[YKDirectVideo alloc] initWithContent:[NSURL URLWithString:videoLink]];

    [directVideo thumbImage:YKQualityLow completion:^(UIImage *thumbImage, NSError *error) {
        //Set thumbImage to UIImageView here
    }];

    //Then play
     [directVideo play:YKQualityHigh];

### How To Setup

If using `CocoaPods` then add this to your pods file `pod 'YKMediaPlayerKit'` and update pods

Or, simply drag and drop `YKMediaPlayerKit` folder to your project.

###  License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Yas Kuraishi

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

### Credits

**HCYoutubeParser** by Simon Andersson's - [https://github.com/hellozimi/HCYoutubeParser](https://github.com/hellozimi/HCYoutubeParser)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Q: como agregarle un id a un elemento creado por medio de un createElement("tag"); Quiero crear una lista, a la cual se le añaden nuevos elementos por medio de un input (eso ya lo hice). Pero ahora, quiero borrar esos elementos al darle click encima de ellos, la cosa es que no se como seleccionarlos, ya que estos no cuentan con un id al crearlos por medio de un createElement("tag");,
sólo quisiera saber como poder tomar ese elemento para eliminarlo por medio de un removeChild()

A: Despues de crear el elemento:
 var elemento = document.createElement("div");

Puedes setearle cualquier atributo como el id de la siguiente manera:
elemento.setAttribute("id", "idPrueba");

y luego le puedes setear un evento click donde te enseño como borrarlo:

var elemento = document.createElement("div");
elemento.setAttribute("id", "idPrueba");

elemento.onclick = function () {
    alert("Soy un div");
    alert("Me voy a borrar")
    this.parentElement.removeChild(this);
};

document.body.appendChild(elemento);
#idPrueba{
 border:1px solid red;
 height:30px;
 width:100%;
}

OTRO EJEMPLO COMO TU LO QUIERES:

var newElemento = document.createElement("div");
document.body.appendChild(newElemento);
var elementos = document.getElementsByTagName("DIV");

for (var i = 0; i < elementos.length; i++) {

  elementos[i].setAttribute("id", "idPrueba"+i);
  elementos[i].addEventListener("click", function(){
    alert("Soy un div");
    alert("Me voy a borrar")
    this.parentElement.removeChild(this);
  });

}
#idPrueba0{
 border:1px solid red;
 height:30px;
 width:100%;
}

Espero te ayude

A: Para asignar un id o cualquier atributo con createElement tenes que usar setAttribute, otra opción sería modificar la propiedad id, te dejo un ejemplo

//Opción uno, usando setAttribute
ej = document.createElement('input');
ej.setAttribute("id", "Input1");

//Opción dos, usando la propiedad id
ej2 = document.createElement('input');
ej2.id = "Input2"

document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(ej);
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(ej2);
#Input1
{
  background-color: red;
}
#Input2
{
  background-color: cyan;
}
input{
display: block;
margin-top: 2px;
}
<body></body>

Aclaro que el css está sólo a fines demostrativos.


SCARLETT has won plenty of admirers while on ITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
Gogglebox's Scarlett Moffatt had ITV I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! fans and Ant and Dec in absolute hysterics this week with her latest trial.
Dressing up as an ostrich, the Gogglebox star threw herself into her mission, which involved a grumpy ostrich called George.
The challenge was just one of four mini challenges Scarlett had to do for the Critter Console task called Hangry Birds.
Winning all but one star, Scarlett's hilarious approach to the challenge led to many fans calling her their 'queen of the jungle' already, despite the official I'm A Celeb final airing on December 4th.
"Scarlett has been my queen of the jungle from day one," one viewer commented. "The girl's a winner in my eyes!" another said, making her officially our 'angel' of the week.
Aside from Scarlett, only Martin Roberts, Emmerdale's Adam Thomas, Olympian Sam Quek, comedian Joel Dommett and Saturdays singer Frankie's husband Wayne Bridge remain in with a chance of being crowned king or queen of the jungle.
Danny Baker was the first to leave the jungle, followed by model Lisa Snowdon, Strictly dancer Ola Jordan, Diversity's Jordan Banjo, Countdown's Carol Vorderman and EastEnders star Larry Lamb.
Cheryl, formerly known as Cheryl Cole, reportedly thanked her fans for their well wishes on her 'pregnancy' with her beau, Liam Payne.
One Dorection star Liam Payne joined her on the evening out, and beamed as he stood next to her.
A witness told The Sun: "Cheryl said thank you when she was congratulated on the pregnancy and kept her hand proudly on her bump for most of the night."
Since Diversity star Jordan Banjo became the fourth person to leave reality show I'm A Celeb he isn't taking a moment for granted with girlfriend Naomi.
Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson's ex has confessed that Naomi is "the one" in an adorable admission.
"I'll never take my family or my girlfriend for granted," 23-year-old Jordan said, before getting on to the topic of marriage.
He said: "It's the sort of thing where beforehand I was like: 'Yeah, yeah one day I will.
'Kongrats', Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick!
It's been almost ten years since reality stars Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick first met.
And after MANY ups and downs over the years - resulting in the couple splitting most recently in July 2015 - they've now reportedly confirmed they are back together.
Cue happy Keeping Up With The Kardashian fans everywhere!
Read their relationship timeline, from meeting in 2006 to reuniting in 2016.
Vegetarians were OUTRAGED at Bank Of England announcement that the new tear-proof, practically indestructible £5 notes contained traces of ANIMAL fat.
"That's a bit messed up right?!" one Twitter user commented.
Another said: "I'm not vegan but it's so disrespectful of peoples beliefs.
Tattooed model Cami Li launched into a scathing review of the new cast, and got her claws out for Jasmine.
In her Daily Star column, Cami branded the reality star a "mess" before admitting she didn't know who she was.
She said: "To be honest, I had no idea who she was until she tried to run her mouth at Marnie Simpson; I looked at her Twitter and I was blocked.
The Only Way Is Essex star Megan McKenna had a MASSIVE rant on Snapchat last week- but perhaps she had good reason.
After preparing Christmas shoeboxes for less fortunate children, she took to Instagram to show the pile of presents she had purchased.
Whilst many rushed to congratulate the reality star, some attacked her decision to be so public with the donations ans so the reality star took to Snapchat to defend herself.


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Hygge is a Danish term defined as "a quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being." In the past year, this concept of Scandinavian coziness has made inroads with an international audience.
At least six books about hygge were published in the United States this year, with more to come in 2017. The author of the international best-seller "The Little Book of Hygge," Meik Wiking, takes VICE News on a hygge tour of Copenhagen coffee shops, library gardens, and wine bars that epitomize the lifestyle trend.


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Anastasia, who lives in the UK, was officially an adult.
immediately suggested that sci looks the same age as his daughter.
We will remind, Anastasia appeared in the marriage of the actress with musician Anton by Durovym.
Nastya, because fall in love. She talks about her personal life?
— The conditions in which she lived in Cambridge, where he studied?
because of this hostel, my acting career was a very big issue.


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'No evidence at all that the applicant is a flight risk' – Bhantshana gets bail
Posted byMISASWAZILAND January 29, 2014 January 30, 2014 Posted inAlert, Media AlertTags:Bhantshana Gwebu, Chief Justice Michael Ramodibedi, Contempt of court, Esther Ota, High Court, justice, Norman Kades, swaziland
"This court has a Constitutional duty to dispense justice without fear or favour … Justice must not only be done, it must also be seen to be done."
These are the words of High Court Judge Bheki Maphalala as he granted bail to Swaziland's chief government vehicle inspector Bhantshana Gwebu.
The bail hearing was heard in Swaziland's High Court on Wednesday 29 January, 2014.
Bhantshana has been in custody since he handed himself into police on Saturday 20 January. It was reported that union leaders tried to visit him in jail but were denied access.
On Saturday 18 January Gwebu arrested and charged the driver of a government vehicle for allegedly not having the required authorisation documents. The passenger in the government vehicle at the time was High Court Judge Esther Ota.
Chief government vehicle inspector Bhantshana Gwebu says he never charged or detained High Court Judge Esther Ota, but only charged and arrested the driver of her car for not having the correct documents. Pic: Swazi Observer, Jan 29 2014
It's been reported that Judge Ota was picking up uniforms for her children at Sifundzani High School when Bhantshana arrested her driver, Vusi Tsela.
The Chief Justice then served Bhantshana with a warrant of arrest and charged him with contempt of court. It has been alleged that in arresting the driver of Judge Ota, she was then unable to make it to court to carry out her duties.
The Crown — or Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP) — case against the vehicle inspector also reads: "Judge Esther Ota enjoys diplomatic immunities and privileges as a Judge of the High Court from the Commonwealth."
The government's case against its own vehicle inspector. Pic: Swazi Observer, Jan 29 2014
Today's Swazi Observer reports that Bhantshana "argues that it was open to Judge Ota, who was a passenger to find alternative transport after realising that the vehicle registered GSD028JU had authorisation problems".
In other words, Bhantshana says he never charged or detained Judge Ota and she was free to make her own way to the court.
The Crown's argument, led by South African lawyer Norman Kades, was that Bhantshana should be denied bail because he hadn't properly filled in the bail application forms, and that he hadn't handed over his passport.
Kades also stated that any health concerns that Bhantshana is suffering from can be taken care of while he is "incarcerated".
Bhantshana has also stated that his wife will have trouble to pay the bills if he is not granted bail. In response to this matter, Crown lawyer Kades said, "clearly the wife can take care of the school fees".
Bantshana's lawyers argued that his employment — or at least a reliable income — is not guaranteed if he is kept in custody.
Previous claims that Bhantshana was a flight risk because he was being supported by a union — and that union would supposedly assist Bhantshana to skip bail — were dropped by the Crown's legal team. This claim was also found by the court to be baseless. Judge Maphalala said the media had misled the pubic in reporting claims a union had "hijacked" the case.
Bhantshana's legal team argued that he was not a flight risk and that he had a right to bail.
In putting forward the argument for bail, Bhantshana's head lawyer Machawe Sithole said Bhantshana was a "law-abiding man" and a "Christian", noting that he had given many years of service in public life and was a "Swazi citizen known to everyone".
In making his decision to grant bail, Judge Maphalala noted that Bhantshana had handed himself into police custody; that the unions supporting him are legally recognised; and that union members accompanied Bhantshana when he handed himself into police.
The judge said there was "no evidence at all that the applicant (Bhantshana) is a flight risk".
Judge Maphalala also said that unions have a duty to assist there members, adding that allegations by the Crown — to the effect that a union had tried to "hijack" the case — are "far misleading".
Phumlani Gwebu, the son of Bhansthana, said: "I'm happy my father has been released on bail and I hope he goes on and wins the case. Truth be told he was executing his duties that the state hired him to do."
The judge granted bail to Bhantshana at E15,000 ($US1650) but said he only had to pay E2,500. The balance would paid in surety. Bhantshana was also ordered to surrender his passport and to report to Manzini police station on the last Friday of each month until his next day in court.
No date has been set for pre-trial proceedings.
In the middle of the story: High Court Judge Esther Ota
Esther Ota, 48-years-old, grew up in Nigeria and worked as a judge in Nigeria as well as in The Gambia before joining fellow legal eagles in Swaziland.
Seconded to Swaziland: Judge Esther Ota. Pic: Times of Swaziland
In his welcoming remarks to Judge Ota when she joined Swaziland's judiciary, Chief Justice Michael Ramodibedi speaks of Ota's rise up the judicial ladder.
"In 2009, she was elevated to the position of the President of the Gambia Court of Appeal, a position she held until November 2010, when she was seconded by the Commonwealth to the High Court in this jurisdiction."
Read the full remarks by the Chief Justice by clicking here
And for more information on Judge Ota click here to view an online profile
Bhantshana case postponed till Wednesday 29 January
Times of Swaziland apologises to Chief Justice, retracts comments
Photo at front post is of Swaziland's High Court
Shoot to kill if you see poachers – police chief tells rangers
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・Enjoy a typical Japanese spring event which is the cherry blossom viewing picnic.
・Learn how to make typical Japanese food like sushi. You can also learn how to make a Japanese style lunch box and beautiful food presentation.
・Feel the local atmosphere in a park hidden from tourists.
・Warm clothes - We will stay at a park for a while.
・Snacks and drinks( juice or alcohol) if you need. You can also buy them nearby the park.
R Guest House - It is nearby SAKURAGAWA station of the Sennichimae subway line and SHIOMIBASHI station of the Hanshin Namba Line. It takes 1 stop from Namba and Osaka namba station or 20 minutes on foot.
Please kindly let me know if you are a vegan, or have allergy and your preference when you book.
Children are welcome for this event, however since there will be something dangerous such as hot stoves and sharp knives in a kitchen, they must be given strict parental supervision.
The plan might change depends on weather. If it rains heavily, we will eat the lunch box in the guest house after cooking.


Apparently his opinion matters to national newspapers, or perhaps they should be included in the "warhawk" category. See this enumeration of the number of op/eds he's had in them.
I wonder if the editorial boards have ever studied the frequency with which they publish "against the grain" opinions and measured that against declining readership.
But neither candidate's approach would be supported by most leaders — American or Iraqi — on the ground in Iraq.
You're assuming this only includes military leaders, which I believe is an accurate assumption.
By definition, O'Hanlon's statement is immediately nullified in the countless calls by higher-ups in the Iraqi civilian government who have asked for us to leave.
That's because there are no American commanders on the ground who don't know that their commands are contingent upon saying what President Bush wants to hear.
What about Admiral Fallon who stood up and told Bush that a war with Iran was out of the question?
Oops! Looks like he just got fired. OK, you're right.
There are times O'Hanlon makes a strong bid for Douglas Feith's "stupidest f**king guy on the planet" title. Certainly he's as arrogant and unrepentant. O'Hanlon hasn't learned anything. My take is that he's so desperate for validation of his disastrously wrong views he might even believe some of his own BS as he hacks and spins away. I dissected an earlier round of O'Hanlon's BS a while back, although this Sadly, No! post does a more entertaining job of it. You've probably read Glenn Greenwald's eviscerations of O'Hanlon in the past. Our punditocracy is far from a meritocracy, and there's harsh consequences for it. Misery continues, misery is increased, and some people even die as a result. O'Hanlon can't quite compete with the core Bushies in the arrogance department, but he's close. Whatever his own special blend of sincere delusion, genuine idiocy and base mendacity, the man has been consistently, catastrophically wrong. If only he suffered as a result, I wouldn't mind so much.
If you've ever had the pleasure of watching the sci-fi series LEXX, you'd know that it might be possible to continue the conflict even after the sun dies out as we are transported the Dark Universe (although to be fair, in the LEXX series, people on our planet were so loathesome and rapacious specifically because we already *are* part of the Dark Universe - oh well, nevermind).


Memoization is a specific type of caching that is used as a software optimization technique.
A cache stores the results of an operation for later use. For example, your web browser will most likely use a cache to load this tutorial web page faster if you visit it again in the future.
Memoization allows you to optimize a Python function by caching its output based on the parameters you supply to it. Once you memoize a function, it will only compute its output once for each set of parameters you call it with. Every call after the first will be quickly retrieved from a cache.
In this tutorial, you'll see how and when to wield this simple but powerful concept with Python, so you can use it to optimize your own programs and make them run much faster in some cases.
Why and When Should You Use Memoization in Your Python Programs?
When I am analyzing code, I look at it in terms of how long it takes to run and how much memory it uses. If I'm looking at code that takes a long time to run or uses a lot of memory, I call the code expensive.
It's expensive code because it costs a lot of resources, space and time, to run. When you run expensive code, it takes resources away from other programs on your machine.
If you want to speed up the parts in your Python application that are expensive, memoization can be a great technique to use. Let's take a deeper look at memoization before we get our hands dirty and implement it ourselves!
All code examples I use in this tutorial were written in Python 3, but of course the general technique and patterns demonstrated here apply just as well to Python 2.
Given enough cache storage this virtually guarantees that function results for a specific set of function arguments will only be computed once.
As soon as we have a cached result we won't have to re-run the memoized function for the same set of inputs. Instead, we can just fetch the cached result and return it right away.
A decorator is a function that takes another function as an input and has a function as its output.
This allows us to implement our memoization algorithm in a generic and reusable way. Sounds a little confusing? No worries, we'll take this step-by-step and it will all become clearer when you see some real code.
This decorator takes a function and returns a wrapped version of the same function that implements the caching logic (memoized_func).
I'm using a Python dictionary as a cache here. In Python, using a key to look-up a value in a dictionary is quick. This makes dict a good choice as the data structure for the function result cache.
Whenever the decorated function gets called, we check if the parameters are already in the cache. If they are, then the cached result is returned. So, instead of re-computing the result, we quickly return it from the cache.
If the result isn't in the cache, we must update the cache so we can save some time in the future. Therefore, we first compute the missing result, store it in the cache, and then return it to the caller.
This fibonacci function will serve as an example of an "expensive" computation. Calculating the n-th Fibonacci number this way has O(2^n) time complexity—it takes exponential time to complete.
This makes it quite an expensive function indeed.
Next up, I'm going to do some benchmarking in order to get a feel for how computationally expensive this function is. Python's built-in timeit module lets me measure the execution time in seconds of an arbitrary Python statement.
As you can see, on my machine, it takes about five seconds to compute the 35th number in the Fibonacci sequence. That's a pretty slow and expensive operation right there.
Because I'm running this benchmark in a Python interpreter (REPL) session I need to set up the environment for this benchmark run by setting globals to the current set of global variables retrieved with the globals() built-in.
By default timeit() will repeat the benchmark several times to make the measured execution time more accurate. But because a single fibonacci(35) call already takes a few seconds to execute I'm limiting the number of executions to one with the number argument. For this experiment I'm interested in ballpark timing figures and millisecond accuracy isn't needed.
We'll get a similar execution time because the first time I ran the memoized function the result cache was cold—we started out with an empty cache which means there were no pre-computed results that could help speed up this function call.
Notice the e-06 suffix at the end of that floating point number? The second run of memoized_fibonacci took only about 2 microseconds to complete. That's 0.0000019930012058466673 seconds—quite a nice speedup indeed!
Instead of recursively calculating the 35th Fibonacci number our memoize decorator simply fetched the cached result and returned it immediately, and this is what led to the incredible speedup in the second benchmarking run.
As you can see, the cache dictionary now also contains cached results for several other inputs to the memoized_fibonacci function. This allows us to retrieve these results quickly from the cache instead of slowly re-computing them from scratch.
A quick word of warning on the naive caching implementation in our memoize decorator: In this example the cache size is unbounded, which means the cache can grow at will. This is usually not a good idea because it can lead to memory exhaustion bugs in your programs.
With any kind of caching that you use in your programs, it makes sense to put a limit on the amount of data that's kept in the cache at the same time. This is typically achieved either by having a hard limit on the cache size or by defining an expiration policy that evicts old items from the cache at some point.
Please keep in mind that the memoize function we wrote earlier is a simplified implementation for demonstration purposes. In the next section in this tutorial you'll see how to use a "production-ready" implementation of the memoization algorithm in your Python programs.
Now that you've seen how to implement a memoization function yourself, I'll show you you can achieve the same result using Python's functools.lru_cache decorator for added convenience.
One of the things I love the most about Python is that the simplicity and beauty of its syntax goes hand in hand with beauty and simplicity of its philosophy. Python is "batteries included", which means that Python is bundled with loads of commonly used libraries and modules which are only an import statement away!
I find functools.lru_cache to be a great example of this philosophy. The lru_cache decorator is the Python's easy to use memoization implementation from the standard library. Once you recognize when to use lru_cache, you can quickly speed up your application with just a few lines of code.
Note the maxsize argument I'm passing to lru_cache to limit the number of items stored in the cache at the same time.
You may be wondering why we're getting the result of the first run so much faster this time around. Shouldn't the cache be "cold" on the first run as well?
The difference is that, in this example, I applied the @lru_cache decorator at function definition time. This means that recursive calls to fibonacci() are also looked up in the cache this time around.
By decorating the fibonacci() function with the @lru_cache decorator I basically turned it into a dynamic programming solution, where each subproblem is solved just once by storing the subproblem solutions and looking them up from the cache the next time.
This is just a side-effect in this case—but I'm sure you can begin to see the beauty and the power of using a memoization decorator and how helpful a tool it can be to implement other dynamic programming algorithms as well.
In general, Python's memoization implementation provided by functools.lru_cache is much more comprehensive than our ad hoc memoize function, as you can see in the CPython source code.
Again, as you can see in the CacheInfo output, Python's lru_cache() memoized the recursive calls to fibonacci(). When we look at the cache information for the memoized function, you'll recognize why it is faster than our version on the first run—the cache was hit 34 times.
As I hinted at earlier, functools.lru_cache also allows you to limit the number of cached results with the maxsize parameter. By setting maxsize=None you can force the cache to be unbounded, which I would usually recommend against.
There's also a typed boolean parameter you can set to True in order to tell the cache that function arguments of different types should be cached separately. For example, fibonacci(35) and fibonacci(35.0) would be treated as distinct calls with distinct results.
If you want to learn more about the intricacies of using the lru_cache decorator I recommend that you consult the Python standard library documentation.
In summary, you should never need to roll your own memoizing function. Python's built-in lru_cache() is readily-available, more comprehensive, and battle-tested.
Caching Caveats – What Can Be Memoized?
Ideally, you will want to memoize functions that are deterministic.
Here deterministic_adder() is a deterministic function because it will always return the same result for the same pair of parameters. For example, if you pass 2 and 3 into the function, it will always return 5.
This function is nondeterministic because its output for a given input will vary depending on the day of the week: If you run this function on Monday, the cache will return stale data any other day of the week.
Generally I find that any function that updates a record or returns information that changes over time is a poor choice to memoize.
In this Python tutorial you saw how memoization allows you to optimize a function by caching its output based on the parameters you supply to it.
Once you memoize a function, it will only compute its output once for each set of parameters you call it with. Every call after the first will be quickly retrieved from a cache.
Memoization is a software optimization technique that stores and return the result of a function call based on its parameters.
If your code meets a certain criteria, memoization can be a great method to speed up your application.
You can import a comprehensive memoization function, lru_cache(), from Python's standard library in the functools module.
This article was filed under: optimization, and python.


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by Willo Davis Roberts
Age Range: 11 - 14
Pub Date: March 1st, 2001
Publisher: Atheneum
A great cover, a creepy gardener-cum-madman and a maddeningly clueless, nervous, blond young stepmother (shades of Joan Fontaine) combine a gothic story with a contemporary teen problem novel—but the resulting mystery is far too easily resolved. When her mother dies after a prolonged and devastating illness (chronicled in the first chapter), Nikki's father marries the young illustrator of a book he is editing. Nikki's resentment of her new stepmother quickly gives way to grudging protectiveness as Crystal shows herself incapable of self-assertion in the face of Nikki's bull-headed father. Shortly after the wedding, Crystal inherits a house on the Northern California coast, and over Crystal's objections, Nikki's dad insists on moving his family to the beach for the summer. Here, Crystal's unspoken fear of something dreadful in her past causes alarming nightmares, and Nikki's impromptu job as secretarial assistant to the gruff owner of a neighboring beach house puts her in proximity to Bruce, the weird resident gardener. As the plot begins to thicken, lightning conveniently burns down the neighboring house—the very house, Crystal finally reveals, where Bruce brutally murdered her entire family when she was a small child. The gardener escapes the fire, however, leaving the reader to wonder about the chilling words Crystal speaks to Nikki in the novel's last paragraph: "He'll find you, Nikki," she says. Though she's ostensibly talking about Nikki's budding summer romance with the neighbor's son, cut short by the fire, the reader can only hope that no sequel is in the works. (Fiction. 11-14)


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package org.eclipse.jetty.osgi.boot;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Dictionary;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.App;
import org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.DeploymentManager;
import org.eclipse.jetty.osgi.boot.internal.serverfactory.ServerInstanceWrapper;
import org.eclipse.jetty.osgi.boot.utils.EventSender;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler;
import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Log;
import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Logger;
import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext;
import org.osgi.framework.Bundle;
import org.osgi.framework.FrameworkUtil;
import org.osgi.framework.ServiceReference;
import org.osgi.framework.ServiceRegistration;

/**
 * BundleContextProvider
 *
 * Handles deploying bundles that define a context xml file for configuring them.
 *
 *
 */
public class BundleContextProvider extends AbstractContextProvider implements BundleProvider
{
    private static final Logger LOG = Log.getLogger(AbstractContextProvider.class);

    private Map<String, App> _appMap = new HashMap<String, App>();

    private Map<Bundle, List<App>> _bundleMap = new HashMap<Bundle, List<App>>();

    private ServiceRegistration _serviceRegForBundles;

    /* ------------------------------------------------------------ */
    public BundleContextProvider(ServerInstanceWrapper wrapper)
    {
        super(wrapper);
    }

    /* ------------------------------------------------------------ */
    @Override
    protected void doStart() throws Exception
    {
        //register as an osgi service for deploying contexts defined in a bundle, advertising the name of the jetty Server instance we are related to
        Dictionary<String,String> properties = new Hashtable<String,String>();
        properties.put(OSGiServerConstants.MANAGED_JETTY_SERVER_NAME, getServerInstanceWrapper().getManagedServerName());
        _serviceRegForBundles = FrameworkUtil.getBundle(this.getClass()).getBundleContext().registerService(BundleProvider.class.getName(), this, properties);
        super.doStart();
    }

    /* ------------------------------------------------------------ */
    @Override
    protected void doStop() throws Exception
    {
        //unregister ourselves
        if (_serviceRegForBundles != null)
        {
            try
            {
                _serviceRegForBundles.unregister();
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                LOG.warn(e);
            }
        }
    }

    /* ------------------------------------------------------------ */
    /**
     * @param bundle
     * @param contextFiles
     * @return
     */
    public boolean bundleAdded (Bundle bundle) throws Exception
    {
        if (bundle == null)
            return false;

        String contextFiles  = (String)bundle.getHeaders().get(OSGiWebappConstants.JETTY_CONTEXT_FILE_PATH);
        if (contextFiles == null)
            contextFiles = (String)bundle.getHeaders().get(OSGiWebappConstants.SERVICE_PROP_CONTEXT_FILE_PATH);

        if (contextFiles == null)
            return false;

        boolean added = false;
        //bundle defines JETTY_CONTEXT_FILE_PATH header,
        //a comma separated list of context xml files that each define a ContextHandler
        //TODO: (could be WebAppContexts)
        String[] tmp = contextFiles.split(",;");
        for (String contextFile : tmp)
        {
            String originId = bundle.getSymbolicName() + "-" + bundle.getVersion().toString() + "-"+contextFile;
            OSGiApp app = new OSGiApp(getDeploymentManager(), this, originId, bundle, contextFile);
            _appMap.put(originId,app);
            List<App> apps = _bundleMap.get(bundle);
            if (apps == null)
            {
                apps = new ArrayList<App>();
                _bundleMap.put(bundle, apps);
            }
            apps.add(app);
            getDeploymentManager().addApp(app);
        }

        return added; //true if even 1 context from this bundle was added
    }

    /* ------------------------------------------------------------ */
    /**
     * Bundle has been removed. If it was a context we deployed, undeploy it.
     * @param bundle
     *
     * @return true if this was a context we had deployed, false otherwise
     */
    public boolean bundleRemoved (Bundle bundle) throws Exception
    {
        List<App> apps = _bundleMap.remove(bundle);
        boolean removed = false;
        if (apps != null)
        {
            for (App app:apps)
            {
                _appMap.remove(app.getOriginId());
                getDeploymentManager().removeApp(app);
                removed = true;
            }
        }
        return removed; //true if even 1 context was removed associated with this bundle
    }

}


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The president's surprise trip to Iraq
If it's more than just a stunt, why doesn't he go more often?
Tim Grieve
September 4, 2007 4:51PM (UTC)
During his surprise visit to Iraq over the weekend, George W. Bush said he'd learned from Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker that "if the kind of success we are now seeing continues, it will be possible to maintain the same level of security with fewer American forces."
Let's put aside for a moment the highly conditional nature of Bush's assessment, even though we know that that the "kind of success we are now seeing" can't really continue because the strained U.S. military is going to have to start cutting troop levels in Iraq next year.
And let's forget for a moment that the "kind of success we are now seeing" isn't really all that successful; the Washington Post this morning says recent security "improvements" around Baghdad have sometimes been "tenuous, temporary, even illusory," and the overall security situation in Iraq is still so bad that the president of the United States can't go there without sneaking out the side door of the Oval Office and roaring out to Andrews hidden in a tiny, two-car motorcade.
Putting all of that aside for now, here's the thing we're wondering this morning. With Petraeus and Crocker on the way to the United States next week to give their assessments to the White House and Congress, what did Bush gain out of a trip to Iraq except for a photo opportunity signaling that he's fully engaged and knows more than the rest of us? And on other hand, if it really was so "important" -- as Stephen Hadley says -- for the president to see things in Iraq "firsthand," then how can it be that this was only his third trip there in the four and a half years since he started the war?
Tim Grieve is a senior writer and the author of Salon's War Room blog.
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Check out this article! https://www.salon.com2007/09/04/bushtrip/


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Im heading back up through the Kairaba and along the little stretch of road called the SeneGambia otherwise known as the strip. At the bottom of the strip is the SenGambia hotel, the first hotel in Kololi and hence the name. The strip is packed with mostly restaurants for all the tourists and a few bars, nightclubs etc.
Been considering a return to Africa for a few years now as mongering in other parts of the world has become too commercialised as developing countries economies have vastly improved over the last 10 years. From no kissing in Costa Rica to Gogos full of Coyote dancers or Fuglies in Thailand, the girlfriend experience has all but gone. Africa being the final frontier.