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Nelle locandine italiane il titolo del film viene riportato anche come Sepolto vivo! e Il sepolto vivo.

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BEARS Symposium 2023
Gopala Anumanchipalli named Rose Hills Innovator
EECS Assistant Prof. Gopala Anumanchipalli has been selected for the Rose Hills Innovator Program which supports distinguished early-career UC Berkley faculty who are "interested in developing highly innovative research programs" in STEM fields. The program will provide discretionary research support of up to $85,000 per year for "projects with an exceptionally high scientific promise that may generate significant follow-on funding." Anumanchipalli's project, titled "Multimodal Intelligent Interfaces for Assistive Communication," proposes to "improve the current state of assistive communication technologies by integrating multiple neural and behavioral sensing modalities, and tightly integrating the graphical interfaces, and personalizing them to the user's context." His team will use "state-of-the-art neural engineering and artificial intelligence to develop novel communication interfaces" including Electrocorticography, non-invsive in-ear Electroencephalography sensors and functional near infrared spectroscopy. They will also use on-device speech recognition and dialog management to incorporate the acoustic context of the user.
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Sanjit Seshia wins Computer-Aided Verification Award
EECS Prof. Sanjit Seshia was a recipient of the CAV Award at the 2021 International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) earlier this month. This award is presented annually "for fundamental contributions to the field of Computer-Aided Verification," and comes with a cash prize of $10K that is shared equally among recipients. This year's award specifically recognizes "pioneering contributions to the foundations of the theory and practice of satisfiability modulo theories (SMT)." Seshia's Ph.D. thesis work on the UCLID verifier and decision procedure helped lay the groundwork for this field. SMT solvers are critical to verification of software and hardware model checking, symbolic execution, program verification, compiler verification, verifying cyber-physical systems, and program synthesis. Other applications include planning, biological modeling, database integrity, network security, scheduling, and automatic exploit generation. CAV is the premier international conference on computer-aided verification and provides a forum for a broad range of advanced research in areas ranging from model checking and automated theorem proving to testing, synthesis and related fields.
2021 CAV Award
Sam Kumar wins OSDI Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award
CS graduate student Sam Kumar (advisors: David Culler and Raluca Ada Popa) has won the Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award at the 15th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) for "MAGE: Nearly Zero-Cost Virtual Memory for Secure Computation." The OSDI, which brings together "professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software," selects three best papers each year after a double-blind review. Co-authored by Prof. David Culler and Associate Prof. Raluca Ada Popa, the paper introduces an execution engine for secure computation that efficiently runs computations that do not fit in memory. It demonstrates that in many cases, one can run secure computations that do not fit in memory at nearly the same speed as if the underlying machines had unbounded physical memory to fit the entire computation. Kumar works in the Buildings, Energy, and Transportation Systems (BETS) research group in the RISE Lab.
Deanna Gelosi wins Best Full Paper Award at ACM IDC 2021
"PlushPal: Storytelling with Interactive Plush Toys and Machine Learning," co-authored by CS Masters student Deanna Gelosi (advisor: Dan Garcia), has won the Best Full Paper Award at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Interaction Design for Children (IDC) conference 2021. IDC is "the premier international conference for researchers, educators and practitioners to share the latest research findings, innovative methodologies and new technologies in the areas of inclusive child-centered design, learning and interaction." The paper, which was presented in the "Physical Computing for Learning" conference session, describes PlushPal, "a web-based design tool for children to make plush toys interactive with machine learning (ML). With PlushPal, children attach micro:bit hardware to stuffed animals, design custom gestures for their toy, and build gesture-recognition ML models to trigger their own sounds." It creates "a novel design space for children to express their ideas using gesture, as well as a description of observed debugging practices, building on efforts to support children using ML to enhance creative play." Gelosi's degree will be in the field of Human-Computer Interaction and New Media, and her research interests include creativity support tools, traditional craft and computing technologies, digital fabrication, and equity in STEAM. She is a member of the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), the Berkeley Institute of Design (BID), and the Tinkering Studio--an R&D lab in the San Francisco Exploratorium.
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Deanna Gelosi's home page
Armando Fox, John DeNero, and Kathy Yelick named CDSS associate deans
Three EECS faculty have been named associate deans for the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS). CS Prof. Armando Fox is the associate dean of online programs; CS Prof. John DeNero is the associate dean of undergraduate studies; and EE Prof. Katherine Yelick is transitioning from her role as CDSS's associate dean for research to the CDSS executive associate dean. Berkeley launched CDSS in 2018 to expand teaching and research in data science, and to bring together programs, schools, and departments across campus to tackle the technical, scientific, social, and human dimensions of urgent challenges in biomedicine and human health, climate and sustainability, and human welfare and social justice.
CDSS Adds Four Associate Deans, Diversifying Leadership
Pieter Abbeel wins 2022 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award
CS Prof. Pieter Abbeel has won the 2022 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, a prestigious Technical Field Award that recognizes "outstanding early to mid-career contributions to technologies holding the promise of innovative applications." Abbeel, who is the director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, co-director of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, and co-founder of covariant.ai and Gradescope, was cited "For contributions to deep learning for robotics." His research focuses on teaching robots reinforcement learning through their own trial and error, apprenticeship learning from people, and met-learning (learning-to-learn) to speed up skill acquisition.
IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award Recipients
Nelson Morgan wins 2022 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award
EE Prof. Emeritus Nelson Morgan has won the 2022 James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award, a prestigious IEEE Technical Field Award. Morgan and co-recipient Herve Bourlard, who are known for their seminal work in the 1990s on a hybrid system approach to speech recognition that uses neural networks probabilistically with Hidden Markov Models, were cited for "contributions to neural networks for statistical speech recognition."
IEEE James A. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award Recipients
Kevin Cheang and Federico Mora win 2021 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
EECS Ph.D. students Kevin Cheang and Federico Mora (advisor: Sanjit A. Seshia) have been awarded a 2021 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QiF) for their proposed project on "Practical Lifting for Verification of Trusted Platform Software." They are one of the sixteen winners of this year's QiF North America competition, which recognizes "innovative PhD students across a broad range of technical research areas, based on Qualcomm's core values of innovation, execution and teamwork. QIF enables graduate students to be mentored by our engineers and supports them in their quest towards achieving their research goals."
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Bin Yu awarded Honorary Doctorate from the University of Lausanne
CS Prof. Bin Yu has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland (UNIL). Honoris causa doctorates are often conferred as a way of recognizing individuals who are unaffiliated with an institution but who have contributed to a specific field or to society in general. Yu was cited as "one of the most influential researchers of her time" for her "international reputation," "her character and her openness to others and to the world," and "the breadth and importance of her contributions" which "are far from being confined to the scientific community" and "are part of collective efforts to build a better world." These include her recent work predicting the severity of COVID-19 in the United States. Yu has a shared appointment in the Department of Statistics, and is affiliated with the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and the Berkeley Center for Computational Biology.
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Stuart Russell named Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
CS Prof. Stuart Russell, has been named a 2021 Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE). The Officer rank is the second of the order, and is bestowed by the Sovereign of the United Kingdom twice a year to reward valuable "services rendered to the United Kingdom and its people." Russell, who co-authored the world's most popular AI textbook, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, and founded the Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI), was cited for "For services to artificial intelligence research." He is an innovator in probabilistic knowledge representation, reasoning, and learning, including its application to global seismic monitoring for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. He is also a powerful advocate for the creation of "safe AI" and is active in the movement to ban the manufacture and use of autonomous weapons. His official title is now: Professor Stuart Russell OBE.
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The holiday season may seem a long distance away for most of the world, but ecommerce professionals know that they must start moving now if they want to be ready for the rush of purchases that will take place in November and December. As you consider preparing for this holiday shopping season, make sure you are incorporating ways to build customer trust into your strategies.
Before we delve into how to build trust, let's look at why trust matters.
Major, highly publicized data breaches have created a great deal of mistrust for many forms of commerce in recent years, and issues like identity theft and cybercrime are high on the list of worries facing consumers. This may not stop them from shopping, but it may leave them thinking twice before they shop on a given website.
100 percent of those polled said that they have fallen prey to a cybercrime or had a friend or family member be a victim.
61 percent said they tend to leave tablets unprotected.
43 percent will use any Wi-Fi network without regard to its security.
33 percent use just one or two passwords for all websites they interact with.
While these figures point to some difficult circumstances in the digital world, the study also found that consumers are aware of what the padlock included beside the web address of a site means. They will generally trust sites with a green padlock and stay away from locations after they get an "untrusted connection" message from their browser, the study found.
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The holiday season is a prime opportunity for hackers to sweep in and take advantage of consumers who are scrambling to get gifts for everybody on their lists and access the best sales and promotions along the way. Adding content on your site that unobtrusively highlights security best practices can give consumers confidence that they can trust you without giving up any kind of edge you may have in the battle against cybercriminals.
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Q: getdate() performance issue sql server 2000 I have a table with fallowing columns
symbol |market| bid_price | ask_price | update_time
------- ------ ----------- ----------- ------------
ABC        US     123.00     675.00         20012-09-10 4:24:32.986
CDE        SG     456.00     545.00         20012-09-10 4:26:32.986

And my application calling a SP for update this table.
update price_tbl
set bid_price=@bid_price, ask_price=@ask_price, update_time = getdate()
where market = @market and symbol = @symbol

But my application calling more than 1000 updates per second. so this SP not fast enough to update the table. I checked and found getdate() function is the bottleneck. but this system running with  sql server 2000.

*

*Can I use any other method to update time other than getdate() Any

*other proposal for increase performance of this update.

FYI: this price_tbl having around 2000 records.

Eddied with test result.
Table Definition
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CREATE TABLE [dbo].[GLDPrice](
    [Company_code] [varchar](10) NOT NULL,
    [Symbol] [varchar](10) NOT NULL,
    [SymbolA] [varchar](10) NULL,
    [SymbolB] [varchar](10) NULL,
    [Market] [char](2) NOT NULL,
    [ExchangeCode] [varchar](4) NULL,
    [Remark] [char](6) NULL,
    [Last_done] [numeric](19, 8) NULL,
    [Change] [numeric](19, 8) NOT NULL,
    [Open_Price] [numeric](19, 8) NULL,
    [Closing_Price] [numeric](19, 8) NULL,
    [Buy_Price] [numeric](19, 8) NULL,
    [Sell_Price] [numeric](19, 8) NULL,
    [Day_High] [numeric](19, 8) NULL,
    [Day_Low] [numeric](19, 8) NULL,
    [Time_done] [char](5) NULL,
    [Cumm_vol] [int] NOT NULL,
    [Buy_quantity] [int] NULL,
    [Sell_quantity] [int] NULL,
    [Per_Change] [numeric](19, 8) NULL,
    [GLDBid] [numeric](19, 8) NULL,
    [GLDAsk] [numeric](19, 8) NULL,
    [GlobalGLDBid] [numeric](19, 8) NULL,
    [GlobalGLDAsk] [numeric](19, 8) NULL,
    [GLDBuyLastDone] [numeric](19, 8) NULL,
    [GLDSellLastDone] [numeric](19, 8) NULL,
    [GLDBuyLDUptTime] [datetime] NULL,
    [GLDSellLDUptTime] [datetime] NULL,
    [UpdateTime] [datetime] NOT NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_GLDPrice] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
    [Company_code] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

GO
SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[GLDPrice] ADD  CONSTRAINT [DF_GLDPrice_SymbolA]  DEFAULT (' ') FOR [SymbolA]
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[GLDPrice] ADD  CONSTRAINT [DF_GLDPrice_Last_done]  DEFAULT (0) FOR [Last_done]
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[GLDPrice] ADD  DEFAULT (getdate()) FOR [UpdateTime]
GO

SP with getdate()
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ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[update_test_one]
 @Symbol varchar(10),
 @Market varchar(5),
 @BuyPrice money,
 @SellPrice money,
 @LastPrice money,
 @High  money,
 @Low  money

AS
DECLARE @GLDBidPrice money
DECLARE @GLDAskPrice money
DECLARE @GlobalGLDBid  money
DECLARE @GlobalGLDAsk  money
DECLARE @GLDBidAdjust money
DECLARE @GLDAskAdjust money
DECLARE @GlobalBidAdjust money
DECLARE @GlobalAskAdjust money

SELECT @GLDBidPrice = @BuyPrice + 5
SELECT @GLDAskPrice = @SellPrice + 5
SELECT @GlobalGLDBid = @BuyPrice + 5
SELECT @GlobalGLDAsk = @SellPrice + 5

UPDATE dbo.GLDprice
SET Buy_price = @BuyPrice,
Sell_price = @SellPrice,
GLDBid = @GLDBidPrice,
GLDAsk = @GLDAskPrice,
Day_high = @High,
Day_Low = @Low,
GlobalGLDBid = @GlobalGLDBid,
GlobalGLDAsk = @GlobalGLDAsk,
UpdateTime=GetDate(),
Last_Done = @LastPrice
WHERE  Symbol = @symbol AND Market = @Market

SP without getdata()
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ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[update_test_two]
 @Symbol varchar(10),
 @Market varchar(5),
 @BuyPrice money,
 @SellPrice money,
 @LastPrice money,
 @High  money,
 @Low  money

AS
DECLARE @GLDBidPrice money
DECLARE @GLDAskPrice money
DECLARE @GlobalGLDBid  money
DECLARE @GlobalGLDAsk  money
DECLARE @GLDBidAdjust money
DECLARE @GLDAskAdjust money
DECLARE @GlobalBidAdjust money
DECLARE @GlobalAskAdjust money

SELECT @GLDBidPrice = @BuyPrice + 5
SELECT @GLDAskPrice = @SellPrice + 5
SELECT @GlobalGLDBid = @BuyPrice + 5
SELECT @GlobalGLDAsk = @SellPrice + 5

UPDATE dbo.GLDprice
SET Buy_price = @BuyPrice,
Sell_price = @SellPrice,
GLDBid = @GLDBidPrice,
GLDAsk = @GLDAskPrice,
Day_high = @High,
Day_Low = @Low,
GlobalGLDBid = @GlobalGLDBid,
GlobalGLDAsk = @GlobalGLDAsk,
Last_Done = @LastPrice
WHERE  Symbol = @symbol AND Market = @Market

Test Script
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DECLARE @return_value int
DECLARE @count int
DECLARE @start datetime

SET NOCOUNT ON
SET @count = 0;
set @start = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

WHILE (@count < 10000)
BEGIN
SET @count = @count + 1
EXEC    [dbo].[update_test_one]
        @Symbol = N'I9T',
        @Market = N'SG',
        @BuyPrice = 0.8,
        @SellPrice = 0.8,
        @LastPrice = 0.8,
        @High = 0.8,
        @Low = 0.8

EXEC    [dbo].[update_test_one]
        @Symbol = N'0001.HK',
        @Market = N'HK',
        @BuyPrice = 112,
        @SellPrice = 112,
        @LastPrice = 112,
        @High = 112,
        @Low = 112
END

print 'Test 01 : ' + CONVERT(varchar(20),DATEDIFF(millisecond,@start,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP))

SET @count = 0;
set @start = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
WHILE (@count < 10000)
BEGIN
SET @count = @count + 1
EXEC    [dbo].[update_test_two]
        @Symbol = N'I9T',
        @Market = N'SG',
        @BuyPrice = 0.8,
        @SellPrice = 0.8,
        @LastPrice = 0.8,
        @High = 0.8,
        @Low = 0.8

EXEC    [dbo].[update_test_two]
        @Symbol = N'0001.HK',
        @Market = N'HK',
        @BuyPrice = 112,
        @SellPrice = 112,
        @LastPrice = 112,
        @High = 112,
        @Low = 112
END

print 'Test 02 : ' + CONVERT(varchar(20),DATEDIFF(millisecond,@start,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP))
GO

Result:
Test 01 : 82310
Test 02 : 12176

Result with reverse test.
Test 02 : 15413
Test 01 : 81636

A:
I checked and found getdate() function is the bottleneck

I can absolutely 100% guarantee that your finding is wrong. The performance problem is by no means getdate(). For the record, not only calling getdate() 1000 times is not visible in the performance, but getdate()` happens to be a runtime constant function!
If you want to troubleshoot SQL Server performance issues, follow a methodology like Waits and Queues or follow the Performance Troubleshooting Flowchart.
My bet is that the performance problem is here:
where market = @market and symbol = @symbol

You're either missing an appropriate index on (market, symbol) or the type of the parameters @market and/or @symbol are incorrect and, due to data type precedence rules, cause table scans instead of index seeks.

A: Since you haven't presented a benchmark, I thought I'd do one, and then everyone can poke holes in the methodology. Hence CW :-):
SET NOCOUNT ON
go
create table prices (symbol char(3) not null,market char(2) not null,
    bid_price decimal(18,4) not null,ask_price decimal(18,4) not null,
    update_time datetime not null,
    constraint PK_prices PRIMARY KEY (symbol,market)
)
GO
create table #Digits (d int not null)
insert into #Digits (d)
select 0 union all select 1 union all select 2 union all select 3 union all select 4 union all
select 5 union all select 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9
create table #Numbers (n int not null)
insert into #Numbers (n)
select d1.d * 10000 + d2.d * 1000 + d3.d * 100 + d4.d * 10 + d5.d
from #Digits d1,#Digits d2,#Digits d3,#Digits d4,#Digits d5

insert into prices (symbol,market,bid_price,ask_price,update_time)
select
    CHAR(65+n/(26*26)) + CHAR(65+((n/26)%26)) + CHAR(65+(n%26)),m.market,n,n+5,GETDATE()
from
    #Numbers nu,
    (select 'US' as market union all select 'SG') m
where nu.n < (26*26*26)
go
drop table #Digits
drop table #Numbers

The above sets us up with a table with ~30000 rows (so, more than you say you have). It also warms up the table, because every row has been recently accessed. I can't remember what invocations will clear this out for SQL Server 2000, but it ought to be fair enough to now run the tests in either order.
declare @market char(2)
declare @symbol char(3)
declare @price1 decimal(18,4)
declare @price2 decimal(18,4)
declare @start datetime
declare updates cursor local static for select symbol,market,bid_price,ask_price from prices
open updates

set @start = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

fetch next from updates into @symbol,@market,@price1,@price2
while @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
begin
    update prices
    set bid_price=@price2, ask_price=@price1
    where market = @market and symbol = @symbol

    fetch next from updates into @symbol,@market,@price1,@price2
end
close updates
deallocate updates

print '"FAST" took ' + CONVERT(varchar(20),DATEDIFF(millisecond,@start,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP))
go
declare @market char(2)
declare @symbol char(3)
declare @price1 decimal(18,4)
declare @price2 decimal(18,4)
declare @start datetime
declare updates cursor local static for select symbol,market,bid_price,ask_price from prices
open updates

set @start = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

fetch next from updates into @symbol,@market,@price1,@price2
while @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
begin
    update prices
    set bid_price=@price2, ask_price=@price1,update_time = GETDATE()
    where market = @market and symbol = @symbol

    fetch next from updates into @symbol,@market,@price1,@price2
end
close updates
deallocate updates

print '"SLOW" took ' + CONVERT(varchar(20),DATEDIFF(millisecond,@start,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP))
go
drop table prices

The only difference between these two cursor loops is that the second one does the GETDATE() based update to update_time, whereas the first performs no update to this column (as you indicated you'd done in your testing).
On my machine(*) , I get the result:
"FAST" took 20503
"SLOW" took 20436

Which indicates that the "slow" method, using GETDATE(), was 0.1 seconds faster.
(*)

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May  3 2005 23:18:38
Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation
Standard Edition on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 2)

A: DECLARE @CurrentDate DateTime;
SELECT @CurrentDate = getdate();

update price_tbl
set bid_price=@bid_price, ask_price=@ask_price, update_time = @CurrentDate
where market = @market and symbol = @symbol

See if this works

A: I had a scenario like this and i gave a solution like this,
I passed the date time as the parameter from the front end to SP. otherwise if you want to handle in the SP itself you can go for this, like
DECLARE @time DATETIME
Set @time = getdate()

and you can pass it to your argument list, but note that we wont get the exact milliseconds in some case we handle that too in front end. because all record will have same present time with only different second value.
In front end yo can pass the value as,
DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss", System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.InvariantInfo)
DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss.fff", System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.InvariantInfo)

A: This works for me Test 01 : 266
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[update_test_one]
     @Symbol varchar(10),
     @Market varchar(5),
     @BuyPrice money,
     @SellPrice money,
     @LastPrice money,
     @High  money,
     @Low  money

    AS
    SET NOCOUNT ON;
    UPDATE P
    SET P.Buy_price = @BuyPrice,
    P.Sell_price = @SellPrice,
    P.GLDBid = @BuyPrice + C.BidRate,
    P.GLDAsk = @SellPrice + isnull(C.AskRate,0),
    P.Day_high = @High,
    P.Day_Low = @Low,
    P.GlobalGLDBid = @BuyPrice+ isnull(C.BidRateGlobal,0),
    P.GlobalGLDAsk = @SellPrice+isnull(C.AskRateGlobal,0),
    P.UpdateTime=CONVERT(VARCHAR(20), GETDATE(), 120),
    P.Last_Done = @LastPrice
    FROM dbo.GLDPrice AS P
    INNER JOIN DBO.GLDContract AS C
    ON P.Company_code=C.Company_code
    WHERE  P.Symbol = @symbol AND P.Market = @Market

    SET NOCOUNT OFF

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The Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect of the Transiting Exoplanet XO-4b
Narita, Norio; Hirano, Teruyuki; Sanchis Ojeda, Roberto; Winn, Joshua Nathan; Holman, Matthew J.; Sato, Bunei; Aoki, Wako; Tamura, Motohide; ... Show more Show less
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We report photometric and radial velocity observations of the XO-4 transiting planetary system, conducted with the FLWO 1.2 m telescope and the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope. Based on the new light curves, the refined transit ephemeris of XO-4b is $P$ $=$ 4.1250828$\ \pm\ $0.0000040 d and $T_{\rm c}$ [BJD$_{\rm TDB}$] $=$ 2454485.93323$\ \pm\ $0.00039. We measured the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect of XO-4b and estimated the sky-projected angle between the stellar spin axis and the planetary orbital axis to be $\lambda$ $=$ $-$46$^\circ\!\!\!.$7 $\ ^{{+8^\circ\!\!\!.1}}_{{\ -6^\circ\!\!\!.1}}$. This measurement of $\lambda$ is less robust than in some other cases because the impact parameter of the transit is small, causing a strong degeneracy between $\lambda$ and the projected stellar rotational velocity. Nevertheless, our finding of a spin–orbit misalignment suggests that the migration process for XO-4b involved few-body dynamics rather than interaction with a gaseous disk. In addition, our result conforms with the pattern reported by Winn et al. (2010, ApJ, 718, L145) that high obliquities are preferentially found for stars with effective temperatures hotter than 6250 K.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Astronomical Society of Japan
Narita, Norio. et al. "The Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect of the Transiting Exoplanet XO-4b." Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 62, L61–L65, 2010 December 25 (c) 2010. Astronomical Society of Japan
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Over the past 15 years, Bain Capital has sponsored teams of AmeriCorps members, helping develop and support more than 200 young idealist giving a year of service. For the 2016-2017 school year, the firm has extended that commitment to sponsor teams of corps members serving in Boston, London, New York, Providence and San Jose/Silicon Valley. The corps members are inspiring and a great way to get to the heart of what makes City Year great.
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What made you decide to join City Year?
I decided to join City Year because of my love for helping out the communities that I live in.
Why are you committed to serving with City Year?
I am committed because of the smiles I see on the faces of the students that we work with. I enjoy the gratitude my team and I receive from the school faculty and staff when we complete a service project.
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I know I am making a difference in the communities that I serve in because when we leave the school, we leave a tangible piece of our work for everyone, including the public, to see.
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One of my after school students is so full of energy, but sometimes that makes it hard for her to sit still and focus on one thing at a time. Although her energy is a quality I love to see, when it is in excess, it sometimes creates problems with her focus that makes learning new information difficult. During the first half of our year of service we introduced WildCrafts, our arts and crafts club, to the students in our after school program. It was through this club where I was able to see her creativity and her vast imagination! She was always super engaged in the lesson and never took her focus off the lesson unless it was to begin her soon to be masterpiece. She was able to learn various art techniques quickly while also adding her own splash of creativity to her work. She has also shown strengths in teamwork and communication by helping other students in the club, whether by providing advice on how to draw something or how to make a certain color using paint. Her level of engagement and enthusiasm inspires me to make better happen every day at IS 126Q and in our after school club.


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Swimming with lions
Sea lions, that is!
Bravo is on the move again! A few days ago we left La Paz and headed north. Great to have a steering wheel again!!! Went back up to Caleta Partida, which we'd enjoyed so much with David and Diana. Explored the area by kayaks, including the bay to the north. We spent two nights here, leaving yesterday in the early morning for Los Islotes, a pair of small islands with a very active sea lion rookery. The early start was the ticket, as we had the islands to ourselves, before other boats began to arrive.
After anchoring offshore, we loaded snorkel gear into the dinghy and headed, rather gingerly, in toward the island, which was covered with barking sea lions...babies, females, and large bulls. Several jumped in right away, and began to swim around us. We put on our gear (black wetsuits really do make you look a bit too much like a sea lion!!!) and jumped in. The water was spectacularly clear, the best we've had yet on the trip. And there was a tremendous assortment and quantity of fish all around. (We could see why the sea lions enjoy the place, with their meat locker so well stocked!!!)
But the star(s) of the show were certainly the sea lions themselves. Showing no fear of us, they seemed to enjoy swimming around us, at us, above and below us. It was fantastic! They seemed completely unaggressive and not at all unhappy with our presence, but rather wanted to simply have a swim with these new visitors (remember the black wetsuits???). It was an extraordinary experience for both of us humans. (We don't flatter ourselves that it was so extraordinary for the sea lions!!)
After 45 minutes in the water we began to get cold, and reluctantly piled into the dinghy for the trip back to Bravo, anchored close by. Just at that point, several other boats arrived, disgorging their dinghies and snorkelers into the water. We were really glad to have had the time to ourselves with these playful critters.
Weighing anchor, we headed over to Isla San Francisco, perhaps 15 more miles to the north. There's a beautiful protected bay here, and we had a great hike today to the surrounding ridge with 360 degree views before swimming in the turquoise blue, crystal clear waters. All in all, a great day. We'll stay here another night, before continuing north tomorrow.
Sorry about the lack of photos (or videos!). We are out of range of our internet service, and will be posting via ham radio until we get a inet connection again (might be a while, as we enter the more remote areas of the Baja). At that time we'll upload some photos (and underwater video of the sea lions).
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La Paz update
Right after our arrival at Los Muertos, we got to experience one of the unique weather patterns of the Sea of Cortez..."the norther". These weather systems, bringing high northerly winds down from the US south west, can blow for several days. And this one did! Even anchored snugly in the cove, it blew 20-30 knots steadily for over two days. No worries, the anchor held solid, and we got a lot of reading done, movies watched, and navels contemplated as we waited for the wind to die down. We had a local panga fisherman take us ashore, as it would have been a very wet dinghy ride, especially with the four of us.
Eventually the wind died down, and we made our way up toward the national park of Espiritu Santo. On the way, while tacking the boat, we snapped a steering cable....a bad sensation indeed as suddenly the steering wheel just spun around like a pinwheel with no control of the boat. Happily our auto pilot is a completely independent system, so we were able to continue on using just Otto, our trusty pilot to steer.
Made it to a large, pretty bay, San Gabriel, at the bottom of Espiritu Santo, and anchored near two other boats, Taking Flight and Panta Rhei, both from Seattle. The water was picture perfect, light blue over coral sands. We hadn't seen this color water all the way down the Mexican mainland. Of course it demanded exploration. Toys were quickly deployed, as we set out kayaking, snorkeling, and hiking. Did a fun desert hike with the other boat crews across the island to the east side bay called Bonanza.
A strong wind came up that night out of the south. This is another local weather phenomena, seen only in the La Paz area, known as a corumuel. It blew 25 knots all night. The wind wasn't very strong, but the short chop it created, perhaps 5-7 feet, really made the boats hobby horse at anchor. Taking Flight took a wave over the bow and down the hatch, dousing their bunk. They boogied out at around 3 a.m. for a calmer bay to the north, while we stayed put, as we didn't want to move on without a steering wheel!!!
Fisherman trying for a bigger fish!
The next day, we moved north to another bay at the north end of the island park, Caleta Partida. Here we had a great time exploring, and bought a lobster and some fish from a local fishermans beach camp. Tasty business!!!
Fossils in beach rocks.
Old greybeards never give it up!!!
It was now time for David and Diana to fly home out of La Paz, so with that, we headed south to the city. As luck had it, there was a festival in swing when we arrived, with dancing on a street stage, and the start of an off road desert race, the Dos Mares 500. A good party for everyone, with the malecon packed full of racers, wannabes, and fans. Hard to resist!!!
Geriatric mariachis!!!
Guys looked beat after 500 miles in the desert!
D&D flew out after a great visit, and we settled down to get our steering fixed. We needed parts from the US, and Edson, the manufacturer claimed less than 50% success shipping to Mexico. Best solution...Cindi flew up to visit her brother and his family in L.A. for a fun weekend, and was our "mule" for carrying boat parts back across the border. Just took a couple of hours to fix the next day, and yeeee-hah, today we'll be getting back underway, heading north to explore the Sea of Cortez for the next several months......stay tuned!!!
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Baja Bound!
After leaving Urique (again via a rather rugged bus ride...several lost their tacos on the ride up out of the canyon!!) we headed by bus for the town of Posada Barancas. This is another stop on the CHEPE railroad, located at the canyon rim. We found a great guest house run by the Diaz family, and then set out to explore the dramatic cliffs in the area.
Check out the guy sitting and meditating on the ledge near the top. Talk about exposure!!!
It's great here how accessible the cliffs really are, unimpeded by the typical guardrails or safety glass seen in the U.S. to save the errant tourist from an ugly splattered demise. Here we were, immediately adjacent to a 5 star hotel (Hotel Mirador), and we could stand (or crawl) right to the canyon edge. Very cool!!!
The next morning we took a beautiful 6 mile hike down into the canyon, where we caught the tram back to the rim, and then the train back to El Fuerte. We backtracked our route to Mazatlan, where we got the boat ready for the 200 mile crossing to Baja.
Tarahumara ranch passed on the trail
Cindi negotiating the "summit ladder"
Dramatic views through glass floor!
Mazatlan cliff diver...a steep learning curve!!!
Here are a few parting photos of Mazatlan, before the four of us untied the lines in the morning to head across.
Diver said he's been at it for around 6 months...kids, don't try this at home!
A bike with air bag, no worries!
We had a great crossing, enjoying some excellent sailing the first day. That night the winds became light and variable, and we motor sailed much of the rest of the night and next day, as we made our way to Los Muertos, a pretty bay south of La Paz, arriving at around 5 pm.
Copper Canyon Rambles, part 2: Off to the Races
Returning hot, dusty, and dehydrated to Urique after the Naranja hike, we were more than ready for a cold shower and colder "fluid replacement therapy". We got word of the Second Annual Urique Horse Races and mariachi "Battle of the Bands" being held that evening in an open field across the river. Further word was that they had cold fluids available in the otherwise dry town. No further invitation needed!!!
"Mr. Ed" wasn't wild about racing today!
Local jockey on right ended up in the winner's circle
The venue was fantastic. Surrounded by the canyon rim all around, the riders raced in a straight line on a soccer field, w/ Tecate tents set up for shade. Riders started out of a mobile trailer mounted chute, some bareback, some in full jockey regalia. (The guy in the jockey suit was from out of town, and lost handily to the local boy, much to the crowd's delight!!!)
What's a horse race without a mariachi band???
"I just click my red shoes together, and repeat, "there's no place like home"!!!
The horse people were in a great mood, and it was really fun to hang out in a place with no other gringos, but in a true "family at the races" atmosphere. As David remarked, "they sure didn't throw this party just for us!!!"
Folks arriving by foot or truck
Crowd control????? Yikes!
Parking striping is taken seriously around here!
Copper Canyon Rambles, part 1
Joined by Seattle friends David and Diana, we recently returned from a week long adventure exploring the Copper Canyon. No easy junket, the journey's travel stats included: 2 trains, 10 buses, 4 taxis, 3 trucks, 1 tram, and at least 26 miles of hot, dusty hiking!!! This was round trip out of Mazatlan!! Was it worth the effort? Absolutely! The Copper Canyon is truly a spectacular region. Encompassing 6 major canyons in the SW part of the Mexican state of Chihuahua, the entire Copper Canyon is both larger in area and deeper than Arizona's Grand Canyon.
We began our trip by bus, taking two buses the first day to El Fuerte, where we spent the night. This pretty, historic town, high over the river (though not high enough to thwart a major population of ravenous no-see-um's) is a stop on the Chepe (Chihuahua Pacific) Railroad, and we boarded the train the next morning.
The train offers both 1st class and 2nd class fares, but 2nd class only runs 3x per week, so we went first class as we wanted to "make tracks" for the Canyon. Prices shown are in pesos...divide by app. 12 for $USD prices. We rode from El Fuerte to Bauhuichivo, around a 6 hour trip.
The Chepe train is a fantastic bit of engineering. Taking over 100 years to complete, the route takes 39 bridges and 86 tunnels to wind the 390 miles from Los Mochis on the coast to Chihuahua. Check out the map...the "s-turn" on the upper left. The train runs along the river, makes a hairpin turn over a bridge, then vanishes into a 2.5 mile tunnel. A few minutes after entering the tunnel, we come out the other end, pointing in the opposite direction!!! Pretty cool!
Someone's gotta yield here!
This is where the train is running along the river to the left. After crossing the bridge, and doubling back on the other side, it will enter the tunnel and come out on the track up above, heading the opposite direction. Neat trick!!!
Karaoke conductors
Cindi and Diana join in....."Let It Be" will never sound the same!!!
The views are spectacular as the train makes it's way up into the mountains. A lot of fun as they allow passengers to ride between the cars taking pix or just enjoying the scenery.
We arrived in Bauhuichivo in early afternoon, and eventually found a bus heading to the bottom of the Canyon, in the town of Urique. The Copper Canyon is the deepest canyon in North America, and Urique is it's deepest point. The road from Bauhuichivo is some of the most dramatic bus travel anywhere, as the entire 54km dirt road is single lane, steep, and nearly non stop hairpin turns down into the canyon below.
Our bus, work release style!!!
Guardrails??? We don't need no stinkin' guardrails!!!
Taking nearly 4 hours, we stopped often seemingly in the middle of nowhere, to let out one of the native Tarahumara folk, who would then head off on foot, presumably for a village or home some distance away.
Adam at the sleeping cabin.
Urique proved to be an interesting town. Far off the "gringo trail", tourism is not at all a mainstay of the local economy. Set in this spectacular canyon, the main economic engine is probably marijuana farming, or "support industries". (As one guidebook said, the locals didn't buy shiny $40,000 SUV's selling baskets at the train station!!) We were told that the trails were safe to hike, however we were always aware of a rather different vibe than we've experienced elsewhere. Not at all hostile, there was nonetheless a sense of indifference to travellers. We stayed at a fun spot, Entre Amigos, owned (and built) by Keith, a part time expat from the Pacific Northwest for the past 25 years. Part hostel, part individual cabins, the unique homestead setting with it's communal kitchen serves as a focal point for adventure travellers from all over. (We enjoyed chatting with Nathan, a Brit who has ridden his bike here from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, and plans to continue on down to Tierra Fuego).
We arrived in Urique during the festival of Semana Santa, which is the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday before Easter. We had heard that the festival is a major deal to the indigenous Tarahumara people in a village above the valley floor, Guadelupe.
Although the main event evidently begins on Friday night, and involves a lot of alcohol and some peyote, we hiked up there on Saturday morning and things were still in relatively full swing. Actually we're not quite sure what "full swing" means!!!
We never did get a great understanding about the meaning of the ceremonies that we witnessed. People were running around in the square outside of the church, many of the men still in costume from the night before. They rolled around on the church floor, flooded with water, before burning an effigy of Judas outside. We were not only the only gringos present, but likely the only folks not from the village or region.
But it was good if confused fun, and when it was over we happily hitched a ride with a vegetable truck back down to Urique rather than repeat the 6 mile trek as the temperature climbed over 100 degrees.
The next day we went for another hike to a "town", Naranja, around 6 miles up from Urique. The trail was steep, and again the temp climbed over 100. Finally reaching the top of the endless switchbacks, we found that the town was merely a settlement of perhaps six houses and a church...all extremely poor, with little in the way of thirst quenchers. (did I mention that the day was HOT???!!!)
Panorama of Naranja
We made our way back down via the road. On the way a brand new red Chevy Suburban passed us. No license plates. Stopped, rolled down the dark tinted windows, the three young men gave us a stone faced once over, and headed on by. Not even an "hola". Hmmmmm.......
The views on these hikes were certainly spectacular. We took the trail up on the left hand side of the valley, and decended via the road.
Although our boots were hard on our tender feet (we've been in sandals for the past 6 months!!!), it was great to get deep into such remote and stunning country.
In the next segment, we'll be going horse racing, Urique style, and will explore a bit more of the Canyon before making our way back to Mazatlan. ARRIBA!!!
Something's gotta give!!!


Platform Decking why do people call it crash deck??
Why do people use the words crash deck, what is safe about a crash?
The term crash deck implies there is going to be some kind of impact, crash or fall from height. As can be seen below, definitions of the word "crash" do not describe accurately what Platform Decking is and it's function. Platform Decking is the correct term for a group of proprietary safety systems. Used in the construction industry provide collective fall prevention and a safe working platform.
So – Smash into. Collide with. Be in collision with. Hit. Strike. Ram. Smack into. Slam into, Bang into. Cannon into. Plough into. Run into. Smash. Wreck. Bump.
In the 1800's "Crash" was a little used word, probably down to the fact the main mode of transport back then was either walking or riding horses and then horse drawn carriages. In 1885 Karl Benz, who only a few years earlier invented and patented the first internal combustion engine built his first Motorwagen. Motor Vehicles then become widely available to the public in 1908 when the Ford Motor Company released the Model T. Interestingly for the word "crash" it is around this time when "crash" took a sharp upwards turn. Consequently becoming a more widely used term to describe what happens when 2 vehicles collide with each other. The increase continued until just before 1950 when there was a drop. Almost certainly due to the fact that the vast majority of men were involved in WW2 rather than driving their cars around. Following the 1950's the use of "crash" steadily increased over the next 60 years to 2010. In 2019 the word "crash" is used to describe various unfortunate outcomes such as "the banking crash" just prior to 2010. "a car crash" "a plane crashed" in the case of a comedian who was not funny they would "crash and burn". According to the World Health Organisation, more than 1.25 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes.
So we hope this helps to describe how the word "crash" doesn't really describe what a Platform Decking System is. G&M Safe Deck Ltd providing safe conditions for those persons who rely on Platform Decking to protect them whilst working at height.


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Welcome to our monthly recap on all of the traditional and web2 brands making moves into this thing we're calling the metaverse, and when we say metaverse we're not just referring to virtual worlds but the broader web3 landscape, including NFTs, social tokens, DAOs, and crypto more broadly. With that, here's what's been happening in the past month.
Welcome to our monthly recap on all of the traditional and web2 brands making moves into this thing we're calling the metaverse, and when we say metaverse we're not just referring to virtual worlds but the broader web3 landscape, including NFTs, social tokens, DAOs, and crypto more broadly.
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Fast-food chain Taco Bell and Decentraland are teaming up to offer couples a chance to get married in the Metaverse. Taco Bell has called for engaged couples to enter a competition to win the brand's first legally-recognized Metaverse wedding package, with a ceremony and reception to take place in the virtual world of Decentraland.
The ceremony and reception will include NFT invitations and custom-designed wedding attire. The couple will be able to bring virtual guests, who can partake in all the traditional wedding day celebrations like musical entertainment, dancing and eating (virtual) food. READ MORE
Netflix has joined Decentraland by launching a replica of a maze found in the new film, "The Gray Man" starring Ryan Gosling. The aim is to complete the maze as quickly as possible using one's knowledge of the film to win digital wearables featured in the movie.
The announcement indicates a wider trend in which brands enter the metaverse hoping to find new avenues to engage with customers and create new revenue streams. READ MORE
Ticketing industry giant Ticketmaster has entered the NFT space after a quiet six-month pilot program. Event organizers using Ticketmaster will now be able to issue NFTs before, during, or after live events. According to their press release, Ticketmaster's "goal is to unlock unique integrations throughout the fan journey."
The company opted to adopt the Flow blockchain - it piloted that partnership with a collection of more than 70,000 NFTs given to holders of Super Bowl LVI tickets. The partnership is set to extend into this NFL season with plans to release NFTs to the attendees of 100 select games. While some NFTs are expected to come with various perks, such as celebrity meetings or loyalty rewards, others will simply be digital collectibles. READ MORE
The Mexican soft drink Jarritos has just launched the NFT project "Bones". Bones is a collection of 3,972 NFT skeletons, inspired by Mexican culture, the soft drink brand and web3.
According to a statement released by the soft drink company: "By joining the Bones familia you take one step closer to Jarritos and will receive access to special events, brand deals, exclusive partnerships, limited edition drinks and so much more. As web3 evolves so too will the opportunities for the community!" READ MORE
The Grey Goose VIP Lounge is one of the most exclusive areas at the U.S Open each year, where celebs, influencers and media pass-through for the duration of the tournament. This year, Grey Goose is opening their VIP Lounge to anyone, via the metaverse.
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R2L Weekly: March 18, 2021
Next Tuesday: Middle & High Schools on Plan A
We're excited to welcome all middle and high school students back to campus on Tuesday, March 23, as we transition fully to Plan A operations!
Schedule for Middle & High Schools:
Friday, March 19, and Monday, March 22 will be Required Teacher Workdays in our middle and high schools. There will be no in-person or remote learning on these days for students in Grades 6-12.
There are no changes in the existing elementary school schedules under Plan A.
As a reminder, the schedule change with Teacher Workdays tomorrow, March 19, and Monday, March 22, applies to our middle and high schools ONLY. Elementary students and teachers will attend school as normal.
In-Person Means Everyday
For a full year, we've all been wanting to "get back to normal." And right now, we're thrilled that we can open our campuses back up to all our students every day. This transition to normalcy also means our traditional in-person attendance expectations will apply under Plan A.*
Unless they are enrolled in the "Engage Remote Learning Option (RLO)" and accessing instruction fully remotely, ALL students are expected to physically attend their classes every day, five days a week, following their school's bell schedule.
Middle and high school students enrolled in Engage RLO will also follow the traditional 8 a.m.-3 p.m. school day. For remote learners in Grades 6-12, "following the bell schedule from home" means students will need to be available to teachers during their typical class periods, and teachers will provide balanced engagement.
Elementary students enrolled in Engage RLO will continue following the 8 a.m.-12 p.m. remote school day schedule
*Attendance for Engage RLO learners will continue to be recorded based on completion of their daily assignments, either online or offline, and/or if they have a daily check-ins or two-way communication with their appropriate teacher(s).
What Will Testing Look Like This Spring?
Several families are wondering whether there will be testing at the end of the year, and how it will look. At this time, legislation still requires End-of-Grade (EOG) and End-of-Course (EOC) assessments to take place in-person, on campus for all students. Individual schools will communicate their specific testing schedules, but families can begin planning ahead by reviewing our scheduled testing windows for schools:
Elementary schools: May 17-May 28, 2021
Middle schools: May 17-May 28, 2021
Hendersonville High: May 17-May 28, 2021
High schools on "Block Schedule": May 24-May 28, 2021
What about Advanced Placement (AP) Tests?
High schools will be holding in-person, on campus AP testing during the first 2 weeks of May: on May 3–7, 10–12, 14, and 17. Fully remote students are asked to come to campus to test, but if they are unable to, they will test remotely June 1-11.
If you have questions about your school's specific testing dates, please contact your child's school.
Grab & Go Meals Update
Attendance at our Grab & Go meal sites has naturally diminished, as more and more of our students have transitioned to in-person learning and access student meals on campus. Based on the needs of the individual communities served by our school sites, several schools have ended their Grab & Go meal pickup services under Plan B (see "Child Nutrition Services on Plan B").
Next week as we shift to Plan A, the following 3 sites will continue to offer Grab & Go meals:
Edneyville Elementary (11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m)
Hendersonville Middle (11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m)
Upward Elementary (11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m)
Understanding that students still enrolled in the fully remote "Engage RLO" model may continue to pick up meals from these sites, Child Nutrition Services will continue monitoring the usage of these 3 sites and adjust Grab & Go plans under Plan A accordingly.
Any changes to a school's Grab & Go availability are being communicated to families at the school level, and any district-wide change under Plan A will be communicated to all families.
"R2L Weekly" Notification Update
In July 2020, during a period of extreme uncertainty and fast-moving education decisions affecting our families, HCPS made a commitment to deliver regular updates about our Return to Learn processes and plans through issues of "R2L Weekly." Since then, links to each "R2L Weekly" have been sent to families each Thursday through SwiftK12 emails, texts, and calls, in addition to social media posts.
As we return to fully in-person learning, relevant updates about operations during the pandemic are more frequently at the school level and are being communicated directly to families from schools through SwiftK12 calls. In an effort to reduce the total number of "HCPS calls" our families receive on a weekly basis and respect their voicemail inboxes, SwiftK12 delivery of the "R2L Weekly" will be via text and email only, beginning next Thursday, March 25.
This page was last modified by Molly McGowan-Gorsuch on Mar 18, 2021 @ 10:46 am


The GRAVEL bike is the main news of the new Tommasini collection, a kind of bike that derives from the Cyclo-cross style but it is understood for a more flexible use such as an everyday ride, or a country road trail or even for many hours daily journey.
With the GRAVEL bike the philosophy of the Tommasini Factory is newly exalted. In fact, it is revalued the advantage to ride bicycles that have to be reliable, comfortable and stable.
In order to pursue this goal, the bicycle is built with the FIRE steel frame in more relaxing geometries compared to road racing ones. The chain-stays are longer and the seat tube is less vertical to grant comfort, handling and stability to the bike.
The GRAVEL world satisfies transversely different targets of riders, starting from who likes to rides the bike for many hours safely and with disc brakes to who wants to use it in the city centre bumpy or paved roads to reach work place. Furthermore, it is suitable to who wants to enjoy Sunday or holiday journeys on country-roads without carrying the weight of a MTB.
Finally, the kind of frame for the city equipped with rear rack to be able to carry bags to go to work.
The Fire frame is tig welded with an exception only: the personalized seat lug. This along with the special bottom bracket shell, the original rear dropouts and the "bell shape" steat stays make the rear triangle properly stiff. The frame is built according to an exclusive geometry designed by Irio Tommasini. It is completely chromed, or as a second choice, all "cataforesi" treated, good for extremely thin tubings because it deeply protect them from rust. Maximum attention to detail: an example are the STI bosses (with adjusting screws included) brazed onto the head tube and the engraved enamelled head tube metal badge.
Personalized carbon fiber forks available. The 55 cm frame (painted) weight approx. 1.550 kg (3.417 lbs).


Bob's school year is over. He usually beats the boys by about a week and a half. Where I would take the time to relax, he starts in on some projects.
A couple of weeks ago at a sale, I found a collection of plastic football helmets for every NFL team. They look kind of like cake decorations. The boys love them. But they destroyed the plastic container they came in. I asked Bob if he could make a shelf.
He did me one better.
This is what he built with his first day off by himself.
We had a very busy weekend this weekend. Being in the south, early spring (which honestly started in January this year) is the best time of year to hold festivals. It's pretty, but not super hot. There was a LOT going on in our little town, and the boys got to enjoy a good bit of it this weekend.
We started out Saturday morning with a local Shriner "film festival." The boys got to pick between two film options, and they selected "Monster Trucks." I was not excited, but it was a cute movie (for what it was.) The boys loved it.
The movie theatre also happened to be the starting point for a local old car show. So we parked my 10 year old car amidst lots of beautifully restored super old cars and looked at them before they took off.
We left the film festival and headed for a very local festival celebrating an old burger shop that used to be in a little silver trailer. They served "dough" burgers, which I believe are a holdover from the depression.
The shop also sold Moonpies. Cheese Puff and Little Elvis posed with Daddy. Little Elvis liked the dough burgers.
Cheese Puff refused the burger, but loved the Moon Pie.
Baby Plum ate about half of the burger.
We left that festival and roamed around our downtown for a while, and then went to a Nerf birthday party. It was extremely boy friendly, and ALL of the boys loved it. They had set up little cardboard forts. Several dads participated, and I thought it was such a great, fun idea.
We enjoyed the beautiful weather. Next weekend is also super big for our area. We have a really big art festival. Then in two weeks, we have another big festival. Our little town certainly loves to celebrate the spring!


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Q: Read a CSV file that has multiple different CSV's in it I have a .csv file but it really contains 5 separate CSV's in it and this is causing some issues for me.
I'm currently trying to read the file like this:
data = pd.read_csv("./PA_Logs/summary.csv", skiprows=1)
But this results in an error saying the Expected fields didn't match the number of fields present, which makes sense since the CSV's have a different number of fields.
I've also tried:
data = pd.read_csv("./PA_Logs/summary.csv", skiprows=[1,9:])
In an attempt to just get the first table but I get a syntax error.
I would either like to read the CSV as 5 different files, one for the top section and one for each of the bottom sections.
This file is produced by another piece of software that cannot be changed so I can't do anything about the file structure.
File Structure:
RUN_ID_HERE
Level,Yield,Projected Yield,Aligned,Error Rate,Intensity C1,%>=Q30
Read 1,1.31,1.31,23.92,1.40,170,91.09
Read 2 (I),0.12,0.12,0.00,nan,396,61.56
Read 3 (I),0.12,0.12,0.00,nan,319,91.23
Read 4,2.01,2.01,26.34,2.08,145,88.46
Total,8.00,8.00,24.12,1.65,274,81.46

Read 1
Lane,Surface,Tiles,Density,Cluster PF,Legacy Phasing/Prephasing Rate,Phasing  slope/offset,Prephasing slope/offset,Reads,Reads PF,%>=Q30,Yield,Cycles Error,Aligned,Error,Error (35),Error (75),Error (100),Intensity C1
1,-,38,537 +/- 10,95.79 +/- 0.52,0.156 / 0.141,nan / nan,nan / nan,13.59,13.02,93.19,3.91,300,29.32 +/- 1.21,1.80 +/- 0.05,0.83 +/- 0.12,0.51 +/- 0.06,0.48 +/- 0.10,174 +/- 16
1,1,19,537 +/- 11,96.18 +/- 0.34,0.128 / 0.149,nan / nan,nan / nan,6.84,6.58,92.93,1.97,-,30.31 +/- 0.73,1.80 +/- 0.05,0.77 +/- 0.11,0.47 +/- 0.06,0.44 +/- 0.05,189 +/- 3
1,2,19,537 +/- 10,95.41 +/- 0.35,0.184 / 0.134,nan / nan,nan / nan,6.75,6.44,93.46,1.93,-,28.32 +/- 0.63,1.80 +/- 0.06,0.90 +/- 0.09,0.54 +/- 0.05,0.52 +/- 0.12,159 +/- 6
Read 2 (I)
Lane,Surface,Tiles,Density,Cluster PF,Legacy Phasing/Prephasing Rate,Phasing  slope/offset,Prephasing slope/offset,Reads,Reads PF,%>=Q30,Yield,Cycles Error,Aligned,Error,Error (35),Error (75),Error (100),Intensity C1
1,-,38,537 +/- 10,95.79 +/- 0.52,0.000 / 0.000,nan / nan,nan / nan,13.59,13.02,68.50,0.12,0,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,456 +/- 40
1,1,19,537 +/- 11,96.18 +/- 0.34,nan / nan,nan / nan,nan / nan,6.84,6.58,68.42,0.06,-,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,495 +/- 9
1,2,19,537 +/- 10,95.41 +/- 0.35,nan / nan,nan / nan,nan / nan,6.75,6.44,68.58,0.06,-,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,417 +/- 3
Read 3 (I)
Lane,Surface,Tiles,Density,Cluster PF,Legacy Phasing/Prephasing Rate,Phasing  slope/offset,Prephasing slope/offset,Reads,Reads PF,%>=Q30,Yield,Cycles Error,Aligned,Error,Error (35),Error (75),Error (100),Intensity C1
1,-,38,537 +/- 10,95.79 +/- 0.52,0.000 / 0.000,nan / nan,nan / nan,13.59,13.02,95.73,0.12,0,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,359 +/- 23
1,1,19,537 +/- 11,96.18 +/- 0.34,nan / nan,nan / nan,nan / nan,6.84,6.58,95.55,0.06,-,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,381 +/- 7
1,2,19,537 +/- 10,95.41 +/- 0.35,nan / nan,nan / nan,nan / nan,6.75,6.44,95.91,0.06,-,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,nan +/- nan,336 +/- 4
Read 4
Lane,Surface,Tiles,Density,Cluster PF,Legacy Phasing/Prephasing Rate,Phasing  slope/offset,Prephasing slope/offset,Reads,Reads PF,%>=Q30,Yield,Cycles Error,Aligned,Error,Error (35),Error (75),Error (100),Intensity C1
1,-,38,537 +/- 10,95.79 +/- 0.52,0.116 / 0.031,nan / nan,nan / nan,13.59,13.02,83.46,3.91,300,28.12 +/- 1.59,2.14 +/- 0.14,0.98 +/- 0.23,0.67 +/- 0.11,0.61 +/- 0.08,171 +/- 13
1,1,19,537 +/- 11,96.18 +/- 0.34,0.117 / 0.029,nan / nan,nan / nan,6.84,6.58,83.30,1.97,-,28.88 +/- 1.92,2.13 +/- 0.15,0.97 +/- 0.33,0.65 +/- 0.15,0.60 +/- 0.11,184 +/- 4
1,2,19,537 +/- 10,95.41 +/- 0.35,0.114 / 0.033,nan / nan,nan / nan,6.75,6.44,83.62,1.93,-,27.37 +/- 0.55,2.15 +/- 0.12,0.99 +/- 0.07,0.68 +/- 0.03,0.62 +/- 0.03,158 +/- 2
Extracted: 622
Called: 622
Scored: 622

A: This code will read the file line by line, and extract all individual CSV files out of it and add them to a list of CSV files.
from io import StringIO

with open('file.txt') as f:
    lines = [l.strip() for l in f.readlines()]

csvs = []
csv = []
for line in lines:
    if ',' not in line:
        csvs.append(csv)
        csv = []
    else:
        csv.append(line)

csvs = ['\n'.join(csv) for csv in csvs if len(csv) > 0]

dfs = [pd.read_csv(StringIO(csv)) for csv in csvs]

Test:
>>> len(dfs)
5

>>> dfs[0]
        Level  Yield  Projected Yield  Aligned  Error Rate  Intensity C1  %>=Q30
0      Read 1   1.31             1.31    23.92        1.40           170   91.09
1  Read 2 (I)   0.12             0.12     0.00         NaN           396   61.56
2  Read 3 (I)   0.12             0.12     0.00         NaN           319   91.23
3      Read 4   2.01             2.01    26.34        2.08           145   88.46
4       Total   8.00             8.00    24.12        1.65           274   81.46

>>> dfs[-1]
   Lane Surface  Tiles     Density      Cluster PF Legacy Phasing/Prephasing Rate Phasing  slope/offset  ... Cycles Error         Aligned          Error     Error (35)     Error (75)    Error (100) Intensity C1
0     1       -     38  537 +/- 10  95.79 +/- 0.52                  0.116 / 0.031             nan / nan  ...          300  28.12 +/- 1.59  2.14 +/- 0.14  0.98 +/- 0.23  0.67 +/- 0.11  0.61 +/- 0.08   171 +/- 13
1     1       1     19  537 +/- 11  96.18 +/- 0.34                  0.117 / 0.029             nan / nan  ...            -  28.88 +/- 1.92  2.13 +/- 0.15  0.97 +/- 0.33  0.65 +/- 0.15  0.60 +/- 0.11    184 +/- 4
2     1       2     19  537 +/- 10  95.41 +/- 0.35                  0.114 / 0.033             nan / nan  ...            -  27.37 +/- 0.55  2.15 +/- 0.12  0.99 +/- 0.07  0.68 +/- 0.03  0.62 +/- 0.03    158 +/- 2


Former budget director and cashgate suspect Paul Mphwiyo has travelled to South Africa to seek medical treatment, according to anti-corruption bureau (ACB).
Mphwiyo's permission to travel follows several weeks of complaints from his lawyers during his court appearance six weeks ago, where they told the magistrate that their client was due for check up.
But ACB deputy director Reyneck Matemba said they never received Mphiyo's complaint on file.
According to Matemba, the conditions put forward as a guarantee for bail are enough and that ACB is optimistic Mphwiyo will not jump bail. Mphwiyo is currently on bail for two count of theft and money laundering charges amounting to k2.1 billion and tax evasion.


The Staff Council is hosting a Book Exchange on the main and north campus!
To celebrate and help promote sustainability, the Staff Council will be collecting books from Wednesday, 4/5/17 - Wednesday, 4/19/17 on the main campus and Wednesday, 4/5/17 - Tuesday, 4/18/17 on the north campus. Look for the recycling bins and drop off your donations (no textbooks, please). Donated books will be available for the choosing on the north campus on Wednesday, 4/19/17 and during the Sustainability Expo on the main campus on Thursday, 4/20/17. Take as many items as you wish. Remember, when you come to the event, BYOB (bring your own bag)! For complete information about donation sites and locations of the event on the two campuses, please see the main campus and north campus flyers.


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The Path of Life Daily Devotions
StevePhifer.com
July 14, 2020 July 14, 2020 pathoflifedevotions Devotions, July 18
July 14 "Found"
Prodigal: "…wastefully or recklessly extravagant…"
Perhaps the most famous of all the stories Jesus told is the Parable of the Prodigal Son. No other story has as many highly developed characters and as much real family conflict. Some people call this the Parable of the Faithful Father because on closer inspection, the story is really about the Father and not about either of the man's sons.
A Father and His Two Sons
Like a reflection of the first family on earth, Adam and Eve with Cain and Able, this is the story of painful strife within a family. Unfortunately, these types of conflicts are all too common still today. The same identical home can produce very different offspring leaving the parents with a puzzle to solve before it is too late—how do we love both of these children?
The older son was the model of what a son should be, at least on the outside. He worked hard at his father's business, was faithful, dependable, respectful, all, it seems, in an effort to gain his father's affirmation.
The father was a good provider, a successful businessman with wealth to share, and a careful planner, having already divided his sons' inheritance ahead of time. There are hints that his love for his sons, while authentic, was not readily expressed. For some reason, the older son did not feel his father's love.
The younger son was the wild child, living for the moment, caring little for the things his father provided and possessing a sense of entitlement that must have deeply grieved his father. Perhaps the father was unaware of the needs in his older son's life because his younger son took so much of his time and energy.
The Runaway
With hormones raging, the younger son claimed his inheritance and left home, caring not for the grief this caused his parents. He ran away to a great city where "friends" were delighted to profit from his wealth in return for their attention. The appetites of the flesh controlled life in the big city and soon the money and the "friends" were gone. Gossip about their son reached the Father, breaking his heart even more.
The young man found work that was so disgusting he eventually realized what a fool he was and returned to his family willing to take the place of a servant. His father was in the habit of watching the road every day, praying for his son's return. One day it happened but the older brother, working faithfully in the field, did not witness it.
A riotous celebration commenced immediately as the father fully reinstated his son in the family. When the older brother returned from work and learned of these events, he finally let his anger loose on the Father. He had been faithful and this virtue was never celebrated! It just wasn't fair. He had a point. The father's joy at the return of the younger son was tempered by the realization of his neglect of the older son.
When the Lost One Is Found
We can hope when the dust from all this settled that the three men could forgive each other and begin a new partnership of love expressed and received. Much had been lost but much more had been found.
Scriptures:
Luke: 15:11-31
Then He said: "A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.' So he divided to them his livelihood. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything. "But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants."' "And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.' "But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' And they began to be merry. "Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.' "But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him. So he answered and said to his father, 'Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.' "And he said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.'"
Lord Jesus, You found me! You heard my prayers of repentance. You received my confession of Your Lordship! You saved me! Thank You, Lord! You sent Your Spirit to abide in my heart and to empower me for service. You have called me with a holy calling and given me a job to do, an easy yoke to bear, easy because it fits me. You have given me light burdens to bear that I can manage with Your help. I long to hear You say on that great day, "Well done. Good and Faithful Servant!" Thank You for Your Amazing Grace! Amen.
Words: John Newton; Music: Traditional
1. Amazing grace – how sweet the sound –
I once was lost, but now am found,
2. 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
3. The Lord has promised good to me,
4. Through many dangers, toils, and snares
I have already come;
'tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
5. When we've been there ten thousand years,
bright shining as the sun,
we've no less days to sing God's praise
than when we'd first begun.
Semper Reformanda!
Stephen Phifer
© 2018 Stephen R. Phifer All Rights Reserved
TheJesusStory devotions are also found at KingdomWinds.com.
Tagged I Once was Lost but Now I'm Found, The Jesus Story
Published by pathoflifedevotions
I am a Bible Teacher who writes and teaches about worship and other issues of Christian spirituality. I write this daily Devotional, "The Path of Life" and post articles on worship at StevePhifer.com. My wife, Freeda, is an accomplished musician and music educator. We have been married more than 45 years. My ministry motto is "Semper Reformanda!" which means, "Always Reforming!" The work of worship renewal is never finished by a single generation. -SRP	View all posts by pathoflifedevotions
July 13 "Lost"
July 15 "Justice"
Quote of the Week, "Fire and Form–Understanding the Presence of God""
How can we enter the presence of Someone Who is everywhere?
Worship is so much larger than denominational, traditional, or personal preferences. To quote Scripture, worship is the "path of life."
"You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand." (Psalm 16:11 NIV)
"With joy in your presence", the Psalmist says. This brings us back to our question: How can we enter the presence of Someone Who is everywhere? The Bible indicates that there are three characteristics of God's presence:
omnipresence,
inward presence, and
manifest presence.
To continue reading go to: https://stevephifer.com/fire-and-form-understanding-the-presence-of-god/


Drifblim (Japanese: フワライドFB[フロンティアブレーン] Fuwaride FB [Frontier Brain]) is a Psychic-type Basic Pokémon card. It was first released as part of the Supreme Victors expansion.
If your opponent has 3 or less Prize cards left, Drifblim gets +40 HP.
Choose 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. This attack does 40 damage to that Pokémon. Apply Weakness and Resistance for this attack.
This card was included in the English Supreme Victors expansion, first released in the Japanese Beat of the Frontier expansion. In Japan, a Cosmos Holofoil DPt-P Promotional print of this card was awarded as a prize to the top 3 competitors of the Bonds to the Beat of the Frontier Release Commemoration events during March 2009. This print has the Beat of the Frontier expansion logo on the bottom of the illustration.
Since Hall Matron Argenta's Pokémon is random for every battle, it is possible for her to have a Drifblim. Shadow Ball is a move in the Pokémon games that Drifblim can learn.


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CoStar Group, Inc. Boosts Full-Year Outlook as Profits Soar
Accelerating revenue growth is a beautiful thing.
Joe Tenebruso
(TMFGuardian)
CoStar Group (NASDAQ:CSGP) reported first-quarter results on April 23. The provider of commercial real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces is enjoying a powerful combination of accelerating sales growth and margin expansion, prompting it to raise its guidance for the year ahead.
CoStar Group results: The raw numbers
Data source: CoStar Group Q1 2018 earnings press release.
What happened with CoStar Group this quarter?
Multifamily revenue jumped 37% to $88 million, and 23% on an organic basis. CoStar Group continues to fortify its best-in-class apartment-listing network, with recent acquisition ForRent adding 3.7 million unique visitors to its monthly traffic. Combined with Apartments.com and its other rental sites, CoStar's network averaged 15.6 million unique monthly visitors in the first quarter -- representing a year-over-year an increase of 38% -- according to comScore.
"We are moving quickly to integrate the operations of the ForRent business with Apartments.com," founder and CEO Andrew Florance said in a press release. "With ForRent, we have expanded our industry-leading multifamily sales team to over 300 highly seasoned and trained sales professionals, which we believe will result in higher sales and revenue as the year progresses."
Additionally, CoStar Suite revenue rose 19% to $130 million, as the commercial real estate information service's U.S. customer base increased by over 20,000 to approximately 126,000 subscribers.
Moreover, CoStar Group is growing more profitable as it expands. Adjusted EBITDA -- which excludes stock-based compensation, acquisition-related charges, and certain other items -- leapt 32% to $84 million, as adjusted EBITDA margin improved by nearly 300 basis points, to 31%.
All told, adjusted (non-GAAP) net income soared 75% to $60 million, and non-GAAP earnings per share surged 57% to $1.65.
These strong results prompted CoStar Group to boost its full-year financial outlook, which now includes:
Revenue of $1.174 billion to $1.19 billion, representing growth of 22% at the midpoint, and up from a prior estimate of $1.17 billion to $1.19 billion.
Adjusted EBITDA of $380 million to $390 million, up from $365 million to $375 million.
Non-GAAP EPS of $7.44 to $7.64, up from $7.01 to $7.21.
For the second quarter, CoStar Group expects revenue of $292 million to $295 million, adjusted EBITDA of $66 million to $70 million, and non-GAAP EPS of $1.25 to $1.34.
"With our continued strong sales and revenue performance and focus on margin improvement, we are raising our guidance for the full year of 2018," CFO Scott Wheeler said. "Our first quarter performance increases our confidence in achieving our goal of 40% adjusted EBITDA margin for the fourth quarter of 2018."
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Team Bee Bee Travel's consists of Vietnam lovers, doers, and local graduates, and entrepreneurs. We are proud of our Vietnamese identity and want to help travelers to love it like we do.
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Ability to communicate, present ideas, and handle feedbacks constructively.
Ability to meet set deadlines while managing and delivering quality work for multiple projects.
Set a guideline for tour skills for team to follow.
Conduct a formal and on-the- job training: for the first 4 weeks.
Be experienced in tour guide profession is an advantage.
Be able to take part of tour operation or training operation when you're not on tour.
Due to your performance base, you'll be evaluated and allocated to different positions at Beebee Travel.
A diverse, inclusive, and supportive working environment.
A competitive total compensation package which includes attractive base salary, Tết bonus, performance incentives, additional private health insurance, paid days off to travel, and flexible working schedule.