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Civil society should keep pressure on for reforms, says Thomas
KUALA LUMPUR: Civil society should hound Pakatan Harapan ministers and politicians for civil rights reforms, said Attorney General Tommy Thomas (pic).
The advice by the government's top legal adviser came after criticisms were levelled against it for withdrawing from ratifying the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Icerd), and the Rome Statute that governs the International Criminal Court (ICC).
"My job is to advise the government on legal matters, and as far as I am concerned, there are no legal impediments to Malaysia ratifying or signing the treaties.
"But it was a political decision made by the Cabinet.
"My advice to civil society is that you should go and nab them (ministers and politicians); catch them wherever they are and ask them why they have not implemented their manifesto," he said at the launching of Suara Rakyat Malaysia's (Suaram) Malaysia Human Rights Report 2018 yesterday.
He noted that ministers like Communications and Multimedia Minister Gobind Singh Deo and Human Resources Minister M. Kulasegaran were lawyers and could help push the Cabinet for the reforms.
Thomas also lamented that civil rights groups had become complacent after Pakatan took over as the government.
"I think all of us have become complacent after May 10 and expect the government, or even me, to perform miracles.
"No one can make the changes alone," he added.
He said civil rights groups should focus on bringing about changes through the law, rather than seeking constitutional amendments.
Thomas assured civil rights groups that his office would act swiftly to draft changes to the laws, once the government decided to amend them.
Later at a press conference, Suaram director Dr Kua Kia Soong said the government should make public the report of the Institutional Reforms Committee, which is under the aegis of the Council of Eminent Persons.
He said numerous civil rights groups had contributed to the report, which has since been classified under the Official Secrets Act by the government.
"We decided to publish the views which we provided to the committee on our website.
"Several other NGOs also did the same," he added.
The Malaysia Human Rights Report 2018 can be downloaded at https://www.suaram.net.
Tags / Keywords: Attorney General Tommy Thomas , Suaram , Icerd , International Criminal Court , Rome Statute

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They're not nearly as funny as Eddie Murphy, and they work a lot harder for a lot less pay.
Sergeant Munoz-Flores and Officer Carra smiled politely as their picture were being taken. "Ever since the movie Beverly Hills Cop and Beverly Hills Cop II, everyone wants his picture taken with an authentic Beverly Hills police officer," Sergeant Munoz-Flores said. Neither one blinked as the strobe went off.
"Last night I had my picture taken by people from Japan, Mexico, Ireland and London. We are encouraged to meet the public," he said as the strobe snapped at him again.
I feel the same way about motorcycle cops as I do about dentists: They are probably nice people, but I hate to see them. Getting a ticket is just as much fun for me as having a cavity filled. I was relieved to learn that not all motorcycle officers spend their days finding obscure sections of the vehicle code to enforce. Beverly Hills may be the only city whose primary concern is not traffic enforcement duty.
High speed chase. Steve McQueen in Bullitt. Clint Eastwood in Magnum Force. This is the stuff I was waiting for. It's what separates the motorcycle officers from the dentists. Motor officers get to ride a motorcycle as fast as they want to without ever getting a ticket. This was my dream come true.
Officer Carra broke that dream with unfortunate reality of what a high-speed chase or response to an urgent call is actually like. "Motor officers have to ride faster than they want to. If I get a call for officer needs assistance; and it is safe to split lanes at say 50 mph, I might be doing it at 60 or 70 mph. It is imperative that I get there as quickly as possible. In an eight-hour day, I'll have two or three near misses.
That last remark took all the Hollywood out of "high speed." These officers were risking a high-speed slide on skin-eating concrete or a high-speed crash into a garbage truck for people whom they have never met. For them, a high-speed chase is not an adventure, it's part of their job.
Michael Carra's long history of motorcycling started when he was 14. Among the 20 or so motorcycles he has owned was a Triumph Bonneville, a Harley Sportster, a Honda CR500, a Kawasaki LTD, and a very mean Yamaha Turbo test bike that ran 14 pounds of boost. "That bike ran like it had two motors," Officer Carra said with a thinly veiled smile.
Michael's father was a police officer for 28 years, and retired as a motor officer from the Beverly Hills Police Department in 1981, the same year Michael came to Beverly Hills. Michael now wears his father's badge – No. 342.
Many motorcyclists would pay cash to ride around on a Cavalcade with a siren and lights and give out tickets to every dangerous or incompetent driver they could find, but don't measure your foot for motorcycle officer's boot just yet.
Well, it isn't for me. I wouldn't feel fortunate if I totaled a motorcycle every three or four years. Beverly Hills may have only two or three traffic fatalities annually, but I wouldn't want to wade into any traffic death scene.
The next time I get pulled over by a motorcycle officer, I am still going to try to talk my way out of a ticket, but I'll wish him well, even if he still writes me up.


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Q: Can't convert string to date in python I want to convert a string into a date. Here's the code:
cumple = input('When is your birthday? ')
formato = '%d/%m/%Y'
cumpleFecha = datetime.datetime.strptime(cumple, formato)
print('Your birthday is ' + cumpleFecha)

And the error I'm getting is:
TypeError: Can't convert 'datetime.datetime' object to str implicitly

A: That's because a datetime object is not a string, you cannot just concatenate (using +) to a string.
Remove the +, and pass in the datetime object as a separate argument:
print('Your birthday is', cumpleFecha)

This leaves conversion to a string to the print() function.
Or convert it to a string explicitly:
print('Your birthday is ' + str(cumpleFecha))

or
print('Your birthday is ' + cumpleFecha.strftime('%d %B %Y')

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Another top banker just left HSBC in Hong Kong
by Simon Mortlock 27 July 2020
HSBC may be cutting 35,000 jobs globally, but in Asia some managing directors are departing of their own accord.
Satyam Agrawal, HSBC's Hong Kong-based regional head of retail business banking for Asia, is among the latest senior exits. Agrawal joined Indian tech firm GlobalLinker, a networking platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), earlier this month as global head for financial services and president for the ASEAN region, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He is not the only department head to have left HSBC in Hong Kong recently. Hossein Zaimi, HSBC's global equities chief, also departed this month.
Agrawal will likely be missed at HSBC, where he was an MD. During his tenure at the firm, which began in February 2016, he launched a whole new business segment, 'retail business banking', across four countries in Asia, and helped set up HSBC Fusion, a business banking brand. He also led new digital onboarding and digital lending programmes.
Prior to HSBC, Agrawal spent almost 10 years at Standard Chartered, latterly as global head of retail lending and business banking products in Singapore.
Agrawal may have now joined a tech company, but he still finds himself in the company of former banking professionals. Two of GlobalLinker's three founders have worked in banking. TJS Varadhan was in senior roles in Citi's Japanese credit card business between 1997 and 2009, while Sameer Vakil was at the same bank from 2004 to 2009, including a stint with Varadhan in Japan.
Mumbai-based GlobalLinker uses an algorithm to match startups and SMEs to a network of potential suppliers (such as financial institutions) and customers.
Photo by Franck V. on Unsplash
Meet the woman who's quietly been handed one of HSBC's toughest jobs
"Record" number of Chinese bankers call recruiters about leaving Hong Kong
Big exit at HSBC prompts fears of more departures to come


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title: Composant React Skeleton
components: Skeleton (Squelette)
githubLabel: 'component: Skeleton'
---

# Skeleton (Squelette)

Display a placeholder preview of your content before the data gets loaded to reduce load-time frustration.

The data for your components might not be immediately available. Vous pouvez améliorer la réactivité perçue de la page en utilisant des Skeletons. It feels like things are happening immediately, then the information is incrementally displayed on the screen (Cf. [Avoid The Spinner](https://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1797)).

{{"component": "modules/components/ComponentLinkHeader.js"}}

## Utilisation

Le composant est conçu pour être utilisé **directement dans vos composants**. Par exemple:

```jsx
{item ? (
  <img style={{ width: 210, height: 118 }} alt={item.title} src={item.src} />
) : (
  <Skeleton variant="rect" width={210} height={118} />
)}
```

## Variants

The component supports 3 shape variants.

{{"demo": "pages/components/skeleton/Variants.js"}}

## Animations

Par défaut, c'est le Skeleton Pulsates, mais vous pouvez changer l'animation en une vague ou la désactiver entièrement.

{{"demo": "pages/components/skeleton/Animations.js"}}

### Pulsate example

{{"demo": "pages/components/skeleton/YouTube.js", "defaultCodeOpen": false}}

### Wave example

{{"demo": "pages/components/skeleton/Facebook.js", "defaultCodeOpen": false, "bg": true}}

## Inferring dimensions

In addition to accepting `width` and `height` props, the component can also infer the dimensions.

It works well when it comes to typography as its height is set using `em` units.

```jsx
<Typography variant="h1">
  {loading ? <Skeleton /> : 'h1'}
</Typography>
```

{{"demo": "pages/components/skeleton/SkeletonTypography.js", "defaultCodeOpen": false}}

But when it comes to other components, you may not want to repeat the width and height. In these instances, you can pass `children` and it will infer its width and height from them.

```jsx
loading
  ? <Skeleton><Avatar /></Skeleton>
  : <Avatar src={data.avatar} />
```

{{"demo": "pages/components/skeleton/SkeletonChildren.js", "defaultCodeOpen": false}}

## Couleur

The color of the component can be customized by changing its `background-color` CSS property. This is especially useful when on a black background (as the skeleton will otherwise be invisible).

{{"demo": "pages/components/skeleton/SkeletonColor.js", "bg": "inline"}}

## Accessibilité

Les écrans de Skeleton offrent une alternative à la méthode traditionnelle. Rather than showing an abstract widget, skeleton screens create anticipation of what is to come and reduce cognitive load.

The background color of the skeleton uses the least amount of luminance to be visible in good conditions (good ambient light, good screen, no visual impairments).

### ARIA

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### Clavier

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Q: Is there an analogue of the Mertens function for the generalised Riemann conjecture It is known that the Riemann conjecture is equivalent to
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Does there exist an analogue to this equivalence for the generalized Riemann conjecture ? (say a generalized Mertens function defined somehow with characters, and an asymptotic behavior)


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Where can I get these tubs in the UK…? I've looked all over the net and not found 1 place that sales them. Anyone have any idea…?
I would try calling your local grocery stores and/or bakeries as well as fruit growers. See if they have them or something like them.


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US Target settles claims it screened blacks, Hispanics out of jobs
22:30 05 april 2018
22:30 05 april 2018 Source: reuters.com
Target settles claims it screened blacks, Hispanics out of jobs 2018-04-05 2018-04-05
Police: Stray target-practice bullet kills Michigan woman
Police say a 73-year-old woman was killed by a stray bullet that apparently came into her home from a neighbor's target practice in rural Michigan. Michigan State Police say Shirley Pfeil's husband reported that she collapsed Sunday shortly after he heard a "loud crack." He says she was shot while in a kitchen area of their home in Riley Township, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northeast of Detroit.Police say a 21-year-old man had been shooting at a berm on his nearby property. Police say he's cooperating with investigators.The St.
Target Corp has agreed to review its policies for screening job applicants and pay .74 million to settle a discrimination lawsuit. Eligible blacks and Hispanics who were since May 2006 wrongly denied hourly and entry-level jobs such as cashiers, cart attendants, food service workers and
Target Corp has agreed to review its policies for screening job applicants and pay .74 million to settle a lawsuit claiming its use of criminal background checks kept thousands of blacks and Hispanics from obtaining employment.
Target has agreed to pay $3.74 million and upgrade its hiring process to settle a lawsuit claiming its use of criminal background checks kept thousands of black and Hispanic job applicants from getting employment.
The preliminary settlement filed on Thursday with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan requires a judge's approval.
It resolves claims that the Minneapolis-based retailer, which has performed background checks for employment in U.S. stores since 2001, violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employers from discriminating based on race, gender and other characteristics.
Steve Jobs warned about privacy issues in 2010. Mark Zuckerberg was in the audience
Steve Jobs warned of privacy issues in 2010 at a WSJ conference. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in the audience.The Apple co-founder and tech titan told an audience in 2010 that privacy should be sacrosanct for tech companies like Google and Facebook. Lo and behold, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg was there.
Target Corp has agreed to review its policies for screening job applicants and pay .74 million to settle a lawsuit claiming its use of criminal background Eligible blacks and Hispanics who were since May 2006 wrongly denied hourly and entry-level jobs such as cashiers, cart attendants, food
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Target Corp has agreed to review its policies for screening job applicants and pay .74 million to settle a lawsuit claiming its use of criminal background checks kept thousands of blacks and Hispanics from obtaining employment.
Target was accused of having "imported the racial and ethnic disparities" in the U.S. criminal justice system into its hiring process, in part by disqualifying job applicants for convictions that were unrelated to the work they sought.
The settlement calls for eligible blacks and Hispanics who were since May 2006 wrongly denied hourly and entry-level jobs such as cashiers, cart attendants, food service workers and stockers to receive $1.2 million or "priority hiring."
Another $600,000 will go to nonprofits that help people with criminal histories reenter the workforce, while most of the rest will cover legal and other fees, the settlement said. Target did not admit wrongdoing.
Jenna Reck, a Target spokeswoman, said the retailer no longer asks for criminal histories in job applications, but still considers convictions "important" and gathers criminal background information late in the hiring process.
"We have a number of measures in place to ensure we're fair and equitable in our hiring," while "maintaining a safe and secure working and shopping environment for team members and guests," she said.
The plaintiffs included Carnella Times and Erving Smith, who are black and claimed they were denied stocker jobs after background checks uncovered past convictions, and The Fortune Society, which helps former prisoners reenter society.
They were represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and the law firm Outten & Golden.
Missing hyphens will make it hard for some people to vote in U.S. election .

Fabiola Diaz, 18, sits in the food court of her Georgia high school and meticulously fills out a voter registration form.
Driver's license in one hand, she carefully writes her license number in the box provided, her first name, last name, address, her eyes switching from license to the paper form and back again to ensure every last detail, down to hyphens and suffixes, is absolutely correct.
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Target settles claims it screened blacks , Hispanics out of jobs
Target Corp has agreed to review its policies for screening job applicants and pay $3.74 million to settle a discrimination lawsuit. Eligible blacks and Hispanics who were since May 2006 wrongly denied hourly and entry-level jobs such as cashiers, cart attendants, food service workers and
Target Corp has agreed to review its policies for screening job applicants and pay $3.74 million to settle a lawsuit claiming its use of criminal background checks kept thousands of blacks and Hispanics from obtaining employment.
Target Corp has agreed to review its policies for screening job applicants and pay $3.74 million to settle a lawsuit claiming its use of criminal background Eligible blacks and Hispanics who were since May 2006 wrongly denied hourly and entry-level jobs such as cashiers, cart attendants, food
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Target Corp has agreed to review its policies for screening job applicants and pay $3.74 million to settle a lawsuit claiming its use of criminal background checks kept thousands of blacks and Hispanics from obtaining employment.
Target settles claims it screened blacks and Hispanics out of jobs
Target has agreed to pay $3.74 million and upgrade its hiring process to settle a lawsuit claiming its use of criminal background checks kept thousands of The settlement calls for eligible blacks and Hispanics who were since May 2006 wrongly denied hourly and entry-level jobs such as cashiers
A Target logo is seen during the going- out - of -business sale at Target Canada in Toronto. The settlement calls for eligible blacks and Hispanics who were since May 2006 wrongly denied hourly and entry-level jobs such as cashiers, cart attendants, food service workers and stockers to receive
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The settlement calls for eligible blacks and Hispanics who were since May 2006 wrongly denied hourly and entry-level jobs such as cashiers, cart The plaintiffs included Carnella Times and Erving Smith, who are black and claimed they were denied stocker jobs after background checks
Target Corp has agreed to review its policies for screening job applicants and pay $3.74 million to settle a lawsuit claiming its use of criminal background checks kept thousands of blacks and Hispanics from obtaining employment. The preliminary settlement filed on Thursday with the U.S
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Youth Haven needs your help to supply their children and teens with important supplies for the upcoming school year. Youth Haven's annual backpack and school supply drive begins June 10 and runs through August 10. Supplies include: large, heavy duty backpacks; basic school supplies such as blue and black pens, highlighters of all sizes and colors and 2" 3 ring binders; and gift cards for clothes to stores such as Target, Ross, TJ Max and Wal-Mart. For a full list of needed supplies, visit www.youthhavenswfl.org, only new, unused items will be accepted.
Drop off locations are at Youth Haven, 5867 Whitaker Rd Naples 34112. If you would like to participate in the Back to School Drive or host a drop off site or to schedule a donation drop off, please contact Lillian Mendez at lillian.mendez@youthhavenswfl.org or call 239-687-5151.


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Comment: Getting the West to pay for reconstruction of Syria would be the ultimate coup for Assad and his backers, writes Sam Hamad.
Comment: A vision of Israel as the world's only evil is a blinkered form of anti-Zionism, writes Sam Hamad.
Comment: To Fares, there was no point fighting for some vague ideal of liberty if you didn't also practice it, even if it meant sacrificing your life, writes Sam Hamad.
Comment: The point of executing these men is to kill the truth about a murder orchestrated at the highest level of the Saudi state, writes Sam Hamad.
Comment: Europe's disingenuous attempt to foster 'reconciliation' in Libya is defined by its own narrow interests, writes Sam Hamad.


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Big Win for Johnstown Public Library
Posted on June 21, 2018 June 21, 2018 by CommunicationServices
For close to a year, Communication Services worked with the Johnstown Public Library in anticipation of a vote to create a library district. On Tuesday, June 5th, the Library won it's vote with 73% of the vote. The Library's funding will now be stable and sustainable. And, the community will have representation through an elected board of trustees.
The work began with a series of Communication Services-led focus groups to rebrand the Library. A new logo was developed with a new tagline–It All Begins Here. The tagline reflects how learning, reading, access to information–all begin at the Library–but also the importance of the City being the gateway to the Adirondacks. The logo reflected the mountains and the Library's entrance with its Carnegie-esque columns. (The Johnstown Public Library is a Carnegie Library. This means Andrew Carnegie gave the City money at the turn of the last century to build the Library with the understanding that the City and community had to support it. Many of these libraries have columns at their entrance reflecting the architectural motifs of the time.)
Once the logo was completed, Communication Services developed a branding campaign that consisted of posters and bookmarks. The posters featured prominent folks as well as regular library users. Each poster had a unique quote about the importance of the institution. An infographic showing library use, value and return on investment was also developed which was used through the campaign to underscore why the Library deserved community-based funding.
Communication Services held a series of trainings–customer service for the staff and Vote Yes Campaign for the trustees and Friends–so that everyone knew what to expect once the public education and advocacy campaigns began.
The first of four pieces was mailed early in the process to educate the community on exactly what a library district is and how much the tax impact would be. This was called the district wide mailer–black and white, simple to understand. There were two more public education postcards and a final vote yes postcard listing the names of folks who had signed an online and paper petition saying they supported the project.
Communication Services owns a number of library inspired domain names that are used for these campaigns. Johnstown.Fundourlibraries.org was the informational site. It had a supporter button on the far right of the nav bar that brought folks to Johnstown.VoteYesforOurLibrary.org where people could sign our online petition.
Communication Services produced a series of videos using some of the folks from the branding campaign. These 60-90 second spots had the individuals talking about how important the Library is to the community. Starting a month before the vote, seven videos were posted periodically to the Library's Facebook page and boosted to just the Johnstown area. Thousands of people saw the videos which were liked and shared hundreds of times increasing their reach. When patrons came in to the Library they told the staff how much they liked the videos.
The Board of Trustees and the Friends also took the show on the road with a PowerPoint Presentation that explained the Library's initiative.
The Friends took up the advocacy work with gusto. They gave voice to Johnstown Taxpayers for a Stronger Library, a temporary Friends task force that speaks out for the Library on behalf of taxpayers. Basically, it's taxpayers saying "raise my taxes to support the Library." The Friends also coordinated three weeks of phone banks to identify voters. Not an easy task when people don't always answer their phones. But, we were able to take the voter file and update it with new land and cell numbers as well as email addresses so we could reach people.
All in all, a lot of hard work paid off. The Library won by almost 3 to 1! Another New York library will be financially stable and sustainable!


Love a double-edged sword.And when it comes to a broken heart, there are no rules, only time…For the past eight years, Julien Thornton has been living with a secret. One that only a handful of people know about.To the outside world, he has it all.A thriving career. A loving husband. And a face that the American public fell for by the millions, on a reality show that inadvertently saved his life.But behind the shine of celebrity, behind the easygoing nature, a crippling truth fills Julien with pain and self-loathing. It's a truth that he fights to overcome daily with the help of his husband, Joel Priestley, and now their boyfriend, Robbie Bianchi.But unlike Priest, Robbie doesn't know what he's helping Julien to fight. He doesn't know what Julien did all those years ago. And with the anniversary of his sister's death fast approaching, the time for explanations is running out.And thus the question: will the princess be able to forgive the prick as the priest once did? Only time will tell.


In this episode of Hex Rated count how many times Lily says the word "intense" to describe childbirth! Or don't, because that's all you'd be doing the whole episode. Though seriously, childbirth IS intense! Listen to Lily discuss her birth story in this min-episode of Hex Rated.


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Posts from the 'Technologies' Category
Guide to IoT solution development
IoT Analytics published a report on how companies should build Internet of Things (IoT) solutions.
Based on analysis from several projects, the report advises a structured framework of five phases and useful examples of analyzed projects.
Intel enters the smart buildings market
For years now, one's been talking about the internet of things (IOT) for the built environment. The only problem is that the world of commercial real estate runs on decidedly last-generation technology.
There's nothing like the equivalent of the ubiquitous home or office Wi-Fi router to connect it all.
Nest and Samsung launch a new protocol to network everything in your home
One of the biggest hurdles to unlocking the seamless, connected home is getting all of the stuff to communicate with all of the stuff. Simple, right? Until now, that has been solved by home automation platforms that run on closed systems in which security and cable companies can carefully construct the user experience.
But consumers will eventually want -- or demand -- more open systems in which they can customize the hardware they want to integrate over the same network. To move closer to this reality, a new industry group is aiming to bring multiple devices onto a single platform. Google's Nest Labs, Samsung and others announced a new mesh networking protocol that could potentially achieve more success in opening up the home than have other efforts thus far.
The standard, called Thread, was launched by the Thread Group. It also includes founding members Freescale, ARM, Big Ass Fans, Silicon Labs and Yale Security.
Get LED lighting connected to the Internet of Things with new ZigBee Light Link development kit from TI
Get LED lighting connected to the Internet of Things with new ZigBee® Light Link™ development kit from TI
Complete hardware and software kit helps LED lighting manufacturers add control with remote or cloud connectivity
Texas Instruments (TI) announced the availability of a ZigBee Light Link™ development kit that simplifies the development and control of wirelessly connected LED lighting products. The new kit includes a remote control and supports smartphone and tablet connectivity through gateways including Ninja Blocks, cloud-enabled computers based on the BeagleBone open-source computer platform powered by TI's Sitara™ AM335x ARM® processors. Through simplified control, users are able to dynamically configure colors, groups and scenes. With a simple connection to a cloud gateway, the new kit makes it easier to connect LED bulbs and other lighting products to the Internet of Things (IoT) using ZigBee networking.
For consumers, a ZigBee wirelessly connected lighting system delivers richer user interfaces and more flexible control on top of the basic on, off and dim operations. There is absolute flexibility to place and move switches and other controls anywhere in the home versus wire-controlled products. This enables the design of lighting systems for home and office environments that allow individual task lighting for desk, table or countertop to be placed anywhere. Additionally, through use of a gateway, users can control lighting from anywhere using a smartphone or tablet app.
TI's ZigBee Light Link development kit includes everything designers need to get new lighting products to market quickly:
Three Zlights programmed as ZigBee Light Link color lights. The Zlights are based on the SimpleLink™ CC2530 wireless MCU and also include TI's TPS62730 DC/DC converter.
One ZigBee Light Link color scene remote control. The remote is based on the SimpleLink CC2531 wireless MCU and also includes TI\'s TPS76933 LDO and TPS62290 DC/DC converter.
Optional CCdebugger to program and debug the system.
TI Z-Stack™ ZigBee software that supports the latest ZigBee stack and is ZigBee Light Link 1.0-ready.
ZigBee: Control your world
ZigBee offers green and global wireless standards connecting the widest range of devices to work together intelligently and help you control your world. The ZigBee Alliance is an open, non- profit association of approximately 400 members driving development of innovative, reliable and easy-to-use ZigBee standards. The Alliance promotes worldwide adoption of ZigBee as the leading wirelessly networked, sensing and control standard for use in consumer, commercial and industrial areas.
HomePlug Smart SoC paves the way for smart-home and smart-energy innovations
STMicroelectronics has released the company's ST2100 STreamPlug System-on-Chip (SoC) targeting smart-home and smart-energy applications to the world market.
The device is already powering a new portfolio of intelligent products developed jointly by ST and Tatung, a leading electronics company for smart-home solutions.
As the world's first intelligent-gateway SoC, ST's ST2100 STreamPlug combines a high-performance processing subsystem with Powerline Communication (PLC), security and peripheral features to support hybrid networks utilizing popular wired and wireless standards. The ST2100 is designed to support IEEE 1905.1 that enables customers to converge Ethernet, Wi-Fi and other networking standards in new gateway or hub designs. The ST2100 StreamPlug supports popular PLC protocols such as HomePlug AV and HomePlug Green PHY, as well as IEEE 1901 Broadband Powerline connectivity.
ST's collaboration with Tatung applying the ST2100 STreamPlug SoC has yielded innovations such as Tatung's Gateway One home networking hub and other smart-energy devices. The Gateway One enables users to setup multi-bearer home networks combining Ethernet, WLAN, PLC and multimedia devices, greatly enhancing opportunities to improve energy efficiency, security, comfort and convenience throughout the home. Tatung's Meter Bridge and Home-Area Network (HAN) Bridge enable multi-occupancy dwellings to benefit from smart-energy applications, while solving consumption and billing challenges. The M1i and M3 are intelligent devices that provide energy management as well as network connectivity for devices plugged into the AC line. The M1i is optimized for industrial applications, while the M3 is featured for domestic use including charging plug-in electric vehicles.
"Tatung has long envisioned an open service platform as key to releasing the full potential of smart energy and the smart home. Gateway One is a significant milestone working towards this vision, and is just one of the fruits of our partnership with ST leveraging the ST2100 STreamPlug SoC," said W. K. Lin, president of Tatung Co.
"The success of our work with Tatung both validates and underlines the capabilities of the unique ST2100 STreamPlug SoC as a platform enabling hybrid networks for smart-energy and Internet-of-Things applications throughout consumer and industrial markets," said Matteo Lo Presti, Group Vice President and General Manager, Industrial and Power Conversion Division, STMicroelectronics.
Communications protocols for the Internet of Things
RFID-powered Sensors Can Play a Big Role in the Internet of Things
The quantity of devices connected to the Internet exceeds the population of people on Earth. That's right—there are more devices tapping into the Internet than people on Earth to use them. Different sources predict that by 2020, wireless sensors and other types of wireless network nodes (such as actuators) will account for the majority (60 percent) of the total installed base of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Autonomous sensors will play a large part in those predictions. These sensors autonomously execute their functions in the environment in which they have been deployed. They are wireless, and their most distinctive characteristic is that they are self-powered while still being capable of monitoring the environment and transmitting data. Such devices range from simple detectors that trigger an alarm signal if the sensor passes a measurement threshold, to monitoring systems that collect data regarding different products or processes.
Autonomous sensors can potentially be deployed everywhere, though there are usually constraints on the power supply of such devices, so the communication technology must be carefully selected. Most of these sensors employ low-power-consumption wireless protocols, such as ZigBee or Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). ZigBee is a protocol specifically developed for mesh communication—each sensing device can transmit data either directly to the acquisition module, or to another nearly ZigBee-based sensing device, which in turn will transmit both devices' data to the acquisition module. When they are deployed in urban areas, it is also typical to implement Wi-Fi-based devices, taking advantage of the Wi-Fi coverage associated with these places. A new, interesting trend with sensor devices connected to the IoT involves using smartphones to serve as a bridge between the sensors and the cloud. A force still to be reckoned with is that many citizens are eager to help their communities by installing smartphone applications that provide such a bridge to data, as long the information is to be used for something they believe in.
Contiki: The Open Source Operating System for the Internet of Things
Contiki is an open source operating system for the Internet of Things. Contiki connects tiny, low-cost, battery-operated and low-power systems to the Internet.
Contiki provides powerful low-power Internet communication. Contiki supports fully standard IPv6 and IPv4, along with the recent low-power wireless standards: 6lowpan, RPL, CoAP. With Contiki's ContikiMAC and sleepy routers, even wireless routers can be battery-operated.
Rapid Development
With Contiki, development is easy and fast: Contiki applications are written in standard C, with the Cooja simulator Contiki networks can be emulated before burned into hardware, and Instant Contiki provides an entire development environment in a single download.
A Selection of Hardware
Contiki runs on a range of low-power wireless devices, many of which can be easily purchased online.
Freescale and Oracle to push common IoT gateway platform as a standard
One of the biggest barriers to the widespread implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) is the lack of a secure, standardized and open infrastructure model for the delivery of IoT services.
Freescale Semiconductor and Oracle have joined forces to address this challenge, working together to present a new, secured service platform that will help standardize and consolidate the delivery and management of IoT services for the home automation, industrial and manufacturing automation markets.
The solution combines end-to-end software with a converged gateway design (called the "one box" platform) to establish a common, open framework for secured IoT service delivery and management. A "box" (or service gateway) built on the platform can consolidate boxes from multiple IoT service providers into a single, unified appliance. The one box platform will help simplify and secure the delivery of IoT services to end users in a home, business or other location, supporting the rapid deployment of a vast array of innovative IoT services.
Supporting a wide variety of IoT sensors and edge nodes, the one box platform is based on the Oracle Java SE Embedded implementation and Freescale processors. It can scale up or down for multiple markets, deploying Oracle Java SE Embedded and integrating Freescale Kinetis microcontrollers, i.MX applications processors and QorIQ communications processors, as appropriate.
The initial implementation of the one box platform supports home/residential applications, including smart energy, smart metering, telehealth and other smart home services. The home/residential one box implementation runs Oracle Java SE Embedded and is powered by a Freescale i.MX 6 series applications processor built on the ARM Cortex-A9 core.
Intel announces new Quark SoC for the internet of things
Intel just announced a new system on a chip for the internet of things. This is a big moment for the chip giant, signaling a change in its business model and a new architecture.
At the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich showed off a new system on a chip that's designed for the internet of things. The first Quark core is one-fifth the size of the 22-nanometer Atom chips designed for smartphones, and operates at a tenth of the power. Intel says it has an "open architecture," which boils down to Intel offering hooks in the silicon to add others' IP blocks.
Intel does not plan to license the core itself, something analysts hoped it meant when it said it allow others to integrate their own IP with the core. As for the core Intel's spokeswoman Caludia Mangano said that the first product in the Quark family is a synthesizable Pentium ISA compatible CPU core. It also includes a software stack that includes security, manageability and connectivity features well suited for IoT. No word on what standards might be supported in that software stack.
STMicroelectronics Introduces Smart Home Software Platform
STMicroelectronics Introduces Smart Home Software Platform Closely Integrated with Set-Top Box ICs to Support Innovative Energy, Comfort and Security Services.
New software and comprehensive hardware portfolio provide catalyst for new class of smart-home boxes hosting exciting high-value services
STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and a leader in set-top box System-on-Chips (SoCs), introduces its Smart Home software platform at IBC Amsterdam, September 13-17. ST Smart Home will empower set-top boxes to transition to a new class of device, the smart home box, capable of managing home energy, automation and security systems in addition to providing access to digital multimedia content throughout the home.


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Rough Guide - Brittany and Normandy
Greg Ward
regio: Bretagne Normandië
Make the most of your time on Earth™ with The Rough Guide to Brittany and NormandyThe Rough Guide to Brittany & Normandy is the ultimate full-colour handbook to northern France, from the glorious island abbey of Mont-St-Michel to Monet's waterlily pond at Giverny, and the walled medieval town of Dinan to the dynamic modern city of Nantes. Discover walks and cycle trails through ancient forests and along stunning coastline, and learn about the prehistoric peoples who erected the awe-inspiring megaliths of Carnac. There's detailed advice on where to find and enjoy superb food, from the seafood of Brittany to the cheese and cider of Normandy, with thorough restaurant reviews and accurate up-to-date prices. Whether you're looking for the best camping or the most stylish hotels, you can rely on accommodation suggestions for every budget and taste. You'll find practical advice on how to get around, from river cruises to SNCF trains, as well as the clearest colour maps of any guide. Authoritative accounts cover everything from the landscapes and wildlife to Brittany and Normandy's fascinating history and lively musical festivals.
Rough Guide - Brittany and Normandy - paperback
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Keeping idols or pictures of various gods and goddesses in the drawing room is not advisable.
In the Strong Room leaving 1" space on the South wall and avoiding the SouthEast and SouthWest corners, if the back of the 'Tijori' (Cash almirah) is kept towards South wall while opening the almirah, it faces the North; it is the best position.
The height of the Verandah should be slightly less than the height of the entire house.
A basement in the South-west is a huge Vaastu defect as well, and can make the residents of the house feel depressed and anxious. It can also cause major delays in their life.
The North-west corner should be kept free of any clutter and blockage, especially metals and other |unk, as this may cause administrative and legal problems.
Make a puja room in the North-east. This is the most pious corner in the house, occupied as it is by Lord Shiva.


The Panthers came out on fire against their crosstown rivals scoring 17 points in the first quarter and holding Coloma to 4. From there, the Panthers cruised to victory behind Brennan Bornas' 17 and Andrew Chisek's 7. Conner Underwood, Andrew Fish and Rylee Carter each scored five. Jakob Stibal came off the bench and gave some great energy. The Panthers hit five threes for the night (3 from Bornas) and were led in rebounding by Conner Underwood.


K Zhang and SP Pan and WQ Tang and YT Zhang and BC Wei, JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS, 753, 636-641 (2018).
Structural and bonding transformation of the Al-o.67CrCoFeNi high- entropy alloys (HEA) during quenching is investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. At a high cooling rate, some short-ranged ordered clusters, such as FCC, HCP and BCC crystalline clusters are already present in the almost amorphous HEAs. When the cooling rate decreases, the atoms become packed more orderly and ultimately form a nano- polycrystalline structure dominated by FCC structures. The BCC structures appear only as an intermediate state acting on the course of crystallization, while the HCP structure can be viewed as the precursor of the malposed FCC structure due to the identical first neighbor distances. In liquid HEAs, the low-symmetry and low-coordination bond pairs, either transform to high-symmetry and high-coordination 1551 bond pairs, or transform to 1(5,4)41 bond pairs for FCC structure and 1661 bond pairs for an HCP structure, depending on the cooling rates. This study will contribute to a better understanding of the essential phase change in HEAs. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


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Kids learn about cops
Holly ThompsonSound Telegraph
Thu, 6 August 2020 10:22AM
Camera IconRockingham police Constable Chantelle Webster visits the children at Baldivis Primary School. Credit: Supplied
A Rockingham police officer has been inspired to design a program for school students, aimed at preventing crime by providing education to the community's youth.
Rockingham police Constable Chantelle Webster attends schools in a police car, equipped with a ballistic vest, a riot shield and some old clean police uniforms for the kids to dress up in.
Const Webster then speaks to the children about car and road safety, bike safety, how to handle emergencies, staying safe online, damage by fire, sexting, crime prevention, stealing and assaults.
She said the program was for primary and secondary students and she adapted it to suit the age group she was speaking with.
"I try to get the students engaged in the topic I am talking about by asking lots of questions where they get an opportunity to dress up in police uniforms for answering the questions," Const Webster said.
"At the end of the session the children get to ask me any questions they have about police or policing.
"I have visited most of the primary schools in the Baldivis area and I am now moving to schools throughout Rockingham district area.
"Schools I have booked in for the next month include three in Baldivis, one in Hillman, one in Cooloongup, three in Waikiki, one in Warnbro and two in Port Kennedy."
Const Webster said she had been inspired to run a program such as this one ever since she was a school student herself.
"My inspiration for this program initially originated as a child at primary school when the community police officer came to my school," she said.
"He was a really top bloke who was my first ever interaction with a police officer which was part of my inspiration to become a police officer myself.
"Many years later after becoming a police officer I was tasked to attend a primary school visit at the request of the school.
"During my visit I observed how much enjoyment the children received from my presence which immediately took me back to my experience at primary school.
"This one visit ignited a passion inside me to interact with as many children possible in a positive way in a space that they feel safe while providing them with education that could prevent them from becoming victims of crime."
Const Webster said she hoped to continue to inspire children to be the best person they could be by being kind to each other and helping others when they could.
"I want children to develop trust in police and know if they ever need help they know they will be able to seek the help of police officers," she said.
"Some of the children I visit and speak to have some traumatic experiences within the home environment where police have been called.
"My wish is to influence those children who associate police with that negative experience and give them a positive experience with a police officer to build on that trust."


Target your ideal customers accurately and report results with confidence and visuals that back it up.
The goal of this article is to share with you the methodology Meteora uses to understand and deploy successful geofencing campaigns, explain the differentiators, and expose false realities you've most likely been pitched in the past.
Blacklisting of repeat employee devices, delivery workers, and drive-by traffic.
Confidence in reporting attribution models.
We live in a world filled with countless types of devices all of which have technical limitations of their own as it relates to sending accurate data into the ad eco-system.
The speed of obtaining maximum precision is as long as 30 seconds from the time an app is launched or a webpage is rendered. Data entering the ecosystem sub-16 seconds generates a risk of polluting your campaign with often inaccurate coordinate samplings. GPS signals depend heavily on a clear line of site and cellular signal. Devices struggle with interference generated by dense buildings, concrete, or "Hive" blocking generated by too many devices in close proximity to one another. (I.E. Stadiums, Downtown skyscrapers, Subway stations).
It must also be noted that GPS strength can also be hindered by each publishers specific app settings. Since each of our campaigns has access to win ads on hundreds of thousands of apps/ millions of websites, it is extremely important to blacklist or optimize bid weight for imperfect GPS consensus. This does not mean that said app developers are "shady" by any means, as they might lower accuracy settings to preserve the battery life of a device that is accessing their service or for other various reasons.
In an OpenRTB protocol based exchange, a Demand Side Platform only has optional fields to further their understanding of each individual location a device is seen from. Each of the following fields translates critical information to Geofencing success "Estimated Accuracy", "Acceleration/ Speed", "Timestamp for when the coordinate was sampled". The movement speed of a device is critical to differentiating between drive by freeway traffic or someone standing at your cash register. Estimated accuracy is often submitted in feet and not meters by ill-informed publishers!
Is your geofencing platform accounting for these nuances?
Scoring: Keeping track of apps, publishers, and historical accuracy.
Improbable locations often surface in the bid-stream and thus need to be removed for optimum campaign ROI. Over time a historical score can be applied to each app/ publisher, while each score can and should manipulate your bid multipliers or suppression of said publisher. Invalid coordinates such as 0,0 tell us that an app has been designed poorly or an error in GPS processing by the device has occurred. This location points to the middle of the ocean, an unlikely target for your mobile ads. Out-of-bounds coordinates (Uninhabitable land/ water mass) should be removed pre-bid.
Another example includes publishers sending latitude data variables where an exchange request is meant to have longitude variables. By flipping the variables you can visualize the intended location that was meant to be sent to the exchange. Algorithms can easily pick up flip-flop variables when looked at on the publisher level. It is possible to look at these publishers in a way that relates them to "misspelled searches" on Google and buying those keywords in your campaigns to lower overall costs while maintaining target accuracy. If your geofencing platform cannot identify flip flop publishers and use them to buy valuable device impressions at cheaper rates, you're missing out.
Lastly, coordinates should be frequently analyzed using machine learning to discover and de-value bad publishers who bend or break their methodology over time. Often times bad actors will slightly manipulate their coordinates. The hope is for them to yield a higher frequency of impression sales when devices creep closer near highly populated areas often targeted by campaigns. Analyzing coordinates with extremely high volumes of devices in a very short time frequency either tells us that a significant event is underway (Super Bowl), or a publisher is hoping to trick your campaigns targeting functions. Often times we see publishers showing hundreds of devices standing on exactly the same 10 meter coordinate.
We can show you the uplift your geofences generated for online visitor traffic and physical store visits.
We provide creative heat-maps that showcase every click reported with the user ID that clicked, the time of the click, and the time it took the device to click on your ad after it loaded on screen! This is extremely detailed information when trying to prove non-bot clicks as they often click instantaneously with page load or make straight mathematical line movements onto the ad region.
Conversion pixel can track all the way through your sales pipeline.
Visualize where each user was that saw your ad on a map.
Control vs exposed reporting groups (Even if you do not run ads. I.E: OOH campaigns).
Using this reporting methodology you are able to make both marketing and business intelligence decisions without the burden of radical scale or spend. True ROI can be calculated with even low numbers of impressions and conversions! Statistical relevance depends on your use case. The greater the data a campaign generates, the greater the accuracy of a model a data scientist might use. I.E: Creating AI that decides how likely a customer is to convert at a physical location if they clicked on your banner or not.
Both post-view and post-click methodologies apply with geofencing as it is a heavily branding based channel. Mobile users are often not location static. Creatives need to be mindful of font-size and calls to action to ensure quick and assertive hand holding towards engaging with your ad. Mobile ads are often mis-clicked due to screen space constraints so it is extremely common for sessions to show up blank in non-log-level analytics software packages such as Google Analytics. Use HTTP level tracking to measure drop off! This result is also common due to page load times being slow for landing pages that are not fully optimized by the advertiser. This causes the analytics tag to not fully load before a session spanning as long as even 10 seconds to be counted. 3rd party analytics tags are extremely dependent on load times/ internet connection and where they are placed in your landing page code. Please ask us for advice if you wish for us to offer tips to help your landing page perform better in a mobile advertising environment.


…. SINCE nobody is perfect, I must come to terms with the occasional stalling of my usually optimistic nature. And I suppose it's about that time of year when I reach my frustration point with all the kids and parents but this time around I'm trying my darnedest to see the bigger picture. Through the years of being judgmental towards the parents and kids who haplessly cross my path, I only myopically saw what I assumed to be shortcomings and narrow-mindedness on their part.
Since I have had the wondrous opportunity to distance myself from my life, it occurs to me that a lot of the negative things we see on the news is actually a result of how parenting has devolved through the generations. Before reading on, please be advised that all the conclusions you are about to encounter are results of my socio-psychological dementia which surprisingly seems to be shared by some discriminating thinkers.
Let me start with the most basic of all parental delusions—that our offspring are our possessions and, as such, are ours to do with as we please. I mean, really. Behavioral expectations, academic expectations, social expectations which we have of them don't seem to be based on what is best for them but, rather, what is best for us. Oh, yes. We can wallow in our denial for as long as we want, but the truth is we make these children jump through our hoops at our command and for our pleasure.
I've been talking about this before in previous mental meanderings, and I cannot come back to it enough. Parental pride in a child's alleged academic performance surely shines brighter than the sun. And I suppose it should. After all, the financial investment in tutors is a big part of educational expense. As parents, we will unhesitatingly storm the teacher's domain, aggressively and unreasonably demanding an explanation as to why our child's grade is displeasing to us.
We are raising a generation of younglings who are programmed to seek external affirmation. Who feel entitled to better treatment because parents have programmed them that way. Since when have tutors become a way of life?
Statistically speaking, we have more students in private schools who have personal tutors than any other country that I know of. But what does this do? It creates children who cannot solve problems without assistance, lazy children who don't have to try so hard because they have paid help, and children who are praised and rewarded by parents who aren't there to help them with their lessons as if these kids have found a cure for cancer and Aids in the span of one school quarter.
Unwittingly, these children are primed to treat the world as a competitive arena, where they are expected to be the best and to stay the best. On the surface it sounds laudable. But is it? Is it? Remember that competition is based on the premise that there are going to be winners and losers. And no parent wants their child to be the loser in the bunch. So parents will invest everything (except their time and presence) to ensure their child's "success".
But we live in a world where cooperation and working together are key to our survival. And the people who find themselves in key leadership and power positions are those who were primed to be winners. Hardly any winner can be a memorable leader because the threat of being overshadowed by another, and the compassion and wisdom to be nurturing and encouraging to those with potential are skills which have been denied them in their formative years. Winners have been primed to want to stay on top, at all cost. And to crush the competition.
And winners become crabs. You know? The kind that gave rise to the term "crab mentality". Sadly, we Filipinos take this with us no matter where we go. So are we becoming a country of self-absorbed, self-centered, compassionless people? I go back to the premise that parents through the generations have worked hard to make this devolution a reality. And maybe this downhill trend will continue for as long as we have no regard for the future generations except as trophies who will achieve the "success" we were not able to reach.


The school is almost over, so the holiday knocks on our doors. But still, there is one week left from school, and this makes a hard time for this lovebirds. Kelly and Andy are classmates, and they have fallen in love. The problem is that they cant stay much time without kissing, but kissing during classes is not allowed in school. You could cover their back once in a while, wont you? Play Summer Kisses Games at Baby Games!Summer Kisses Games is a very fun game!
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To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5O-00370 by John Swinney on 23 November 2016 (Official Report, c. 6), how Highlands and Islands Enterprise's (HIE) operating plan will be approved following the abolition of the HIE board.
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-05194 on 15 December 2016. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.


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Q: Python dataframe to Google Sheet: Freeze rows and sketch vertical lines around a sets of columns I have a dataframe df_final (it is a time series data) as shown in attached photo. I am able to write this dataframe to the Google Sheet using the code below.
Questions:

*

*In Google Sheet, I would like to draw vertical lines around the entire dataframe

*Next I would also like to sketch vertical line on both sides of columns C,D,E,F as well as G,H,I,J as shown in attached photo.

*Lastly, I would like to freeze the row7 (ie.. at the header of the dataframe)
Clear the Google Sheet:
service.spreadsheets().values().clear(
    spreadsheetId=spreadsheet_id,
    range='A1:AZ2600',
    body={}
).execute()

Write df_final to Google Sheet:
cell_range_insert= 'B7'
values = df_final.to_json()
body = {'values': values}
response_date= service.spreadsheets().values().append(
    spreadsheetId=spreadsheet_id,
    valueInputOption='RAW',
    range=cell_range_insert,
    body=dict(
        majorDimension= 'ROWS',
        values=df_final.T.reset_index().T.values.tolist()
    )
).execute()

A: In your situation, how about the following sample script? In this script, I modified this sample script.
Sample script:
spreadsheet_id = "###" # Please set Spreadsheet ID.
sheet_id = 0 # Please set the sheet ID.

# 1. Clear sheet. In this case, the values and the borders are removed.
service.spreadsheets().batchUpdate(
    spreadsheetId=spreadsheet_id, body={"requests": [{
        "repeatCell": {"range": {"sheetId": sheet_id}, "fields": "userEnteredValue,userEnteredFormat.borders"}
    }, {
        "updateSheetProperties": {"properties": {"sheetId": sheet_id}, "fields": "gridProperties.frozenRowCount"}
    }
    ]}).execute()

# 2. Put the values from the dataframe to Spreadsheet.
cell_range_insert = 'B7'
# values = df_final.to_json() # It seems that this is not used.
# body = {'values': values} # It seems that this is not used.
v = df_final.T.reset_index().T.values.tolist()
response_date = service.spreadsheets().values().append(
    spreadsheetId=spreadsheet_id,
    valueInputOption='RAW',
    range=cell_range_insert,
    body=dict(
        majorDimension='ROWS',
        values=v
    )
).execute()

# 3. Set the borders.
temp = -1
n = []
for index, row in df_final.iloc[:, 7:8].iterrows():
    s = ''.join(row.astype(str).tolist())
    if temp != s:
        n.append(index)
        temp = s
offset = 7
requests = [{
    "repeatCell": {
        "cell": {"userEnteredFormat": {"borders": {"top": {"style": "SOLID_THICK"}}}},
        "range": {
            "sheetId": sheet_id,
            "startRowIndex": e + offset,
            "endRowIndex": e + 1 + offset,
            "startColumnIndex": 1,
            "endColumnIndex": 10
        },
        "fields": "userEnteredFormat.borders"
    }
} for e in n]

end = len(v) + offset - 1
add_requests1 = [{
    "repeatCell": {
        "cell": {"userEnteredFormat": {"borders": {"left": {"style": "SOLID_THICK"}}}},
        "range": {
            "sheetId": sheet_id,
            "startRowIndex": 6,
            "endRowIndex": end,
            "startColumnIndex": a,
            "endColumnIndex": b
        },
        "fields": "userEnteredFormat.borders.left"
    }
} for [a, b] in [[1, 2], [2, 3], [6, 7], [10, 11]]]
add_requests2 = [{
    "repeatCell": {
        "cell": {"userEnteredFormat": {"borders": {"top": {"style": "SOLID_THICK"}}}},
        "range": {
            "sheetId": sheet_id,
            "startRowIndex": a,
            "endRowIndex": b,
            "startColumnIndex": 1,
            "endColumnIndex": 10
        },
        "fields": "userEnteredFormat.borders.top"
    }
} for [a, b] in [[6, 7], [end, end + 1]]]
add_requests3 = [{
    "updateSheetProperties": {
        "properties": {"gridProperties": {"frozenRowCount": offset}, "sheetId": sheet_id},
        "fields": "gridProperties.frozenRowCount"
    }
}]
requests.extend(add_requests1)
requests.extend(add_requests2)
requests.extend(add_requests3)
service.spreadsheets().batchUpdate(spreadsheetId=spreadsheet_id, body={"requests": requests}).execute()

*

*When this script is run, the borders are put to the left side of the columns "B", "C", "G" and "K". And, the borders are put to the top of rows of 7 rows and the end of rows. The middle of horizontal borders is put using my previous script.

*And also, the 1st 7 rows are frozen.

References:

*

*Method: spreadsheets.batchUpdate

*RepeatCellRequest

*UpdateSheetPropertiesRequest


When taking an FE, PE, SE, or Surveying exam, understanding your calculator is very important. Not only is it important to get the correct answers but knowing how to properly use your calculator can help you save valuable time during the exam.
As a request from many of our students, we offer free calculator training for our NCEES exam review courses. Although there are several calculator models that are approved by NCEES, our free calculator training focuses on the Casio fx-115ES model. If you have a different model, you will most-likely still benefit from the free calculator training as many functions are similar for different calculator models.
How do I access the free calculator training?
Our calculator training is offered as a bonus recording to School of PE students who are preparing for NCEES exams. When you sign up for one of School of PE's exam review courses, the free calculator training video will become available at least 10 days before the start of Live Online and Onsite courses and will be immediately available for Ondemand classes. You can find the bonus video under the "Video Recordings" section of your student portal.
How long is the free calculator training?
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What functionalities will be covered in the free calculator training video?
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You can find this calculator on Amazon.com or in most convenience stores. This calculator model is relatively inexpensive and is typically priced less than $20.


With at least 50 million sufferers worldwide, dementia is a tragically common disease. And, because the disease is so debilitating, all those sufferers will need someone to take care of them.
Caring for a loved one with dementia is a monumental challenge. You need a variety of tools and knowledge in order to do the job right, and that's why we're here.
One of the most important aspects of dementia care is recognizing and responding to dementia behaviors. So in this article, we'll discuss some of the most common dementia behaviors and how you should best respond to them.
Before we begin, we want to remind you of a few key things.
First and foremost, don't take any of your loved one's actions personally. They suffer from a debilitating and transformative brain disease and their personality will change dramatically because of it.
We know it can be hard to see your loved one behave in the ways we talk about below, but it's imperative that you show them love and understanding. If you show them anger or sadness, that will only make things worse.
Second, never try to change your loved one. You can make certain adjustments to influence their behavior, but never try to force them to behave in a certain way. Caring for a loved one with dementia is all about patience, accommodation, and understanding.
Third, it's important to remember that every behavior has a cause. Finding out what causes the behavior and dealing with the problem at its root is the key to proper dementia care. That's why we'll focus on keeping your loved one happy and satisfied throughout this list.
There are many behaviors associated with dementia, but below, we discuss some of the most common symptoms.
These include wandering, refusing to eat, incontinence, frustrated outbursts, and 'sundowning' – read on to find out more.
Wandering is one of the most common and also one of the most dangerous dementia behaviors. It's common because it's a response to a variety of needs such as hunger, thirst, and restlessness. It's dangerous because, if you're not careful, a wandering loved one can easily get lost.
One of the easiest ways to reduce wandering is to schedule regular exercise. All humans have a desire to be physically active, and that includes people suffering from dementia.
A wandering loved one may also be looking for food or water. We'll talk more about food and drink below.
Even if you do everything right, your loved one may wander from time to time, and you need to be prepared.
Consider placing locks on all your doors so you need a key to get both in and out. Place barriers such as curtains or signs in front of doors leading outside. And make sure your neighbors have your contact information in case they see your loved one outside of the house.
Sometimes, dementia sufferers will forget to eat or refuse food that's given to them. To combat this, develop a routine around eating. Eat at the same times every day and make sure the food is something nutritious that your loved one likes to eat (remember what they used to eat?).
They might not want you to feed them, so give them foods that are easy to eat. Make eating a pleasant experience by including music or a bouquet of flowers. And space meals out throughout the day so your loved one is never too hungry or too full.
Dementia sufferers often have trouble using the bathroom on their own. Of course, the easiest way to deal with this is by having them wear diapers, but you should also try to prevent them from using them.
Take them to the bathroom at regular intervals whether or not they say anything. Don't let them drink too many liquids before going to bed at night. And set up signs around the house that will help them find the bathroom on their own.
Diapers are still probably a good idea but you don't want to rely on them.
Without a doubt, suffering from dementia is an incredibly frustrating experience. Things that were once easy become confusing, and after a certain point, confusion becomes a natural part of your mental state.
When your loved one becomes angry, don't argue or raise your voice; give them love and understanding. If something in specific is upsetting them, try to take their mind off of it by suggesting an activity. And always make sure they get enough sleep (more on that below).
It often helps to leave signs around the house with simple reminders to put their mind at ease. For example, if they're upset a family member isn't there, leave a sign out reminding them what time they'll be home.
And, as always, try to determine if there's an underlying cause and deal with it in a loving way.
Oftentimes, dementia sufferers will behave more erratically late in the day. And sometimes, they'll continue their behavior throughout the night.
This is a phenomenon known as 'sundowning', and though we don't know with certainty, its probably caused by a disruption in the sufferer's circadian rhythm.
To avoid this behavior, make sure your loved one is exercising regularly and don't let them rest or nap during the day. Nighttime should be a calm quiet time so that your loved one can relax and ease into sleep. If their sundowning becomes a major issue, you can use sleeping medication but we don't encourage this.
We know how hard it is to take care of a loved one with dementia. It can be a completely draining experience, both physically and mentally. And dealing with dementia behaviors is just one of many obstacles you'll face.
While we encourage you to be involved in your loved one's care, we understand you can't be with them at all times and you need to continue living your own life.
We want to help you. We offer state-of-the-art care facilities and a loving atmosphere. Contact us to arrange a tour of our facilities today.


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Q: DNS resolution fails while torrents are running When I turn on torrents, I am unable to use the internet for anything else. This primarily affects my web browsing where the browser fails to resolve hosts.
Once torrents are turned off, I am able to browse as per usual again.
I am looking to change the way uTorrent is configured so as to prevent this from happening.
Under uTorrent settings, I tried changing the following values without any success:

*

*Bandwidth -> Number of Connections -> Global max number of connections: previously 500, now 100

*Bandwidth -> Number of Connections -> Maximum number of connected peers per torrent: previously 200, now 25
I realize that I may not get the best possible download speed if I change other settings but I am trying to find a balance between running torrents and being able to use the internet for other things.

A: Limit download to less than your download capacity, and upload to less than your upload capacity. The number of connections is irrelevant.
If you don't know your download/upload capacity, check the bill from your internet provider, or use a service like speedtest.
The menus of uTorrent are self explaining, but here is a step by step guide: http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/optimizing-torrent-speed.htm


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