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Munson: Hawkeye fans' fatal crash grips eastern Iowa community
By Kyle Munson;
WILTON, Ia. – The true tragedy of last week's Outback Bowl had nothing to do with the Iowa Hawkeyes' loss to LSU.
The deaths of two Hawkeye fans in a car crash on an interstate in Georgia have left several eastern Iowa communities reeling in this new year — towns where Ken and Elaine Behrens led lives by all accounts deeply devoted to their neighbors.
The Behrenses, Wilton residents for the last decade, never took their seats at the New Year's Day football game among 51,296 other fans in Tampa, Fla.
Ken, 64, and Elaine, 65, were struck from behind just before 5 p.m. Dec. 29 as Ken drove down Interstate Highway 75 south of Perry, Ga. The accident report from the Georgia State Patrol describes a Kia Forte sedan driven by a tailgater from Ohio that rear-ended the Behrenses' Ford Escape, causing the SUV to flip on its side.
The couple's 13-year-old grandson, buckled into the back seat, was unharmed. The Kia driver survived.
Thankfully, the minivan just ahead of the Behrenses that carried Ken's brother and his family also avoided the wreck, which remains under investigation.
In part what compelled me to try to get to know Ken and Elaine after the fact: Here's a husband and wife who died on an unfamiliar stretch of road 1,000 miles south but had spent their lives along their own swath of interstate highway, in their case I-80, from West Liberty where Elaine grew up, over to Walcott, some 30 miles east, where Ken worked the last 15 years at the famed Iowa 80 Truckstop (our "world's largest truckstop").
The couple's stomping grounds spread farther when you consider how often they cheered on their beloved Hawkeyes at Kinnick Stadium and Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City. And Ken was born in Tipton. He attended college and later worked in Muscatine.
All the more poignant, the couple died mere months after Elaine — a kidney transplant recipient in 2008 — had survived a near-fatal bout with a bacterial infection. And Ken retired from his job in July.
"We didn't know if we were going to keep her or not," Father Robert Busher said of Elaine's recent illness. Busher is the pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Wilton where the couple worshiped.
One loud, one quiet, both contributed
Some rich stories inevitably get lost amid the holiday bustle at year's end, while every play of a 60-minute bowl game is scrutinized for significance.
But here are a husband and wife who poured more than 60 years apiece into trying to make their hometowns better places to live.
In a word, Ken was the "Bear" of I-80.
The nickname Bear from the surname Behrens is no great leap. But Ken also is universally described as one of those larger-than-life characters made all the more noticeable because they roam the sparse streets of a small town.
Ken served as a city councilman and mayor of Durant, where the family lived for decades.
He was also strong-willed. Opinionated. Gruff. Boisterous.
"That was always the thing at sporting events: If you heard any of the parents, it was always my dad," said Peggy Behrens, 39, the older of the couple's two daughters, who now lives in Dubuque.
"He had his own volume," Peggy said. "At the state track meets, I could hear him all the way around the track."
The pork chop-devouring Bear stood more than 6 feet tall, weighed in at around 300 pounds and saw life through the critical eye of an umpire, his role in countless softball games.
"Ken played by the rules, and that's how it was going to be," friend Henry Bentley said of Ken's officiating. "And I think he played that way in his life as well."
Elaine was the quiet, short, petite half of the couple.
"I don't think she came up much past his waist," said friend Gary DeLong, a retired athletic director who worked with both of them.
Elaine arguably touched even more lives as an elementary school teacher for 37 years.
She also coached cheerleaders and helped in many other ways.
Together, they were pillars in local, state and national Jaycees civic groups.
Couple occupied familiar places
The Bear roamed at night: Ken, a 20-year veteran of a tire store in Muscatine, for the last 15 years managed the night shift at the Iowa 80 Truckstop.
He didn't work in the main building, where travelers purchase everything from lattes to Cookie Monster dolls.
He worked a few buildings down in the service center, where from midnight to 8 a.m. he supervised the team of mechanics that repairs the big rigs.
The operations manager, Tom Houston, reiterated that Ken was "just a big ol' lovable bear," with a growly exterior to mask his cuddly core.
"We called him 'Teddy Bear' out here," Houston said. Colorful, widespread nicknames are one measure of how a person has touched the lives of his neighbors. But people also remember their signature places.
For Busher, the pastor, the spot was "third row from the front on the right-hand side," where the Behrenses sat among 250 or more fellow worshipers on a Sunday morning.
Ken was on the church parish council, and Elaine routinely delivered communion to shut-ins.
For DeLong, the spot was a couple of rows behind him as he coached Durant basketball games — unless Ken happened to be running the scoreboard or putting his growl to good use as a game announcer.
During one memorable game, the Bear bellowed at the referee, who whirled around to see only DeLong standing courtside and mistakenly slapped the coach with a technical foul.
Exemplifying creed of serving humanity
Bentley is handling the Behrenses' funeral through his mortuary.
Bentley said he cherished his ritual Monday night card game of sheepshead (an old German card game similar to euchre) with the Bear among a half-dozen regular players.
Elaine, meanwhile, had her own craft club and book club and regular swims at Wilton's indoor pool.
DeLong received the news of his friends' deaths via text message from his wife and spent that night ruminating in a chair at home.
"At least Ken and Elaine are still together," he said — a sentiment echoed by Peggy Behrens.
Another comforting thought: The Behrenses, married for 42 years, seized the moment last year and took their dream vacation to Hawaii and also embarked on road trips around Iowa.
Larry Schlapkohl, a farmer in rural Durant, met the Bear 40 years ago as a fellow Jaycee and had become like a brother to him and Elaine.
Schlapkohl will be a pallbearer at Tuesday's funeral and looks forward to a reading of the Jaycees creed, which ends by declaring that "service to humanity is the best work of life."
"The last line of the creed embodies them both," Peggy said of her parents.
It also reminds us of what's more important than winning a bowl game.
Kyle Munson can be reached at 515-284-8124 or kmunson@dmreg.com. See more of his columns, blog posts and video at DesMoinesRegister.com/munson. Connect with him on Facebook (Kyle Munson's Iowa) and Twitter (@KyleMunson).


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Danny Lewis is an assistant producer for WNYC's All Things Considered. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Danny graduated from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism before starting in radio as an intern for the WNYC Newsroom and Radiolab. He has covered the city for the New York Daily News and has also written about science, art and history for Smithsonian Magazine. At WNYC, Danny has reported on the removal of a controversial statue from Central Park, examined a New Jersey town's attempts to ban outsiders from its streets, and investigated whether New York City's water is really the secret ingredient behind our world-renowned pizza. In addition to journalism, Danny is a cartoonist and illustrator. His Twitter feed is primarily pictures of his cats.
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Don Henley announces 2017 US summer tour dates
By: Robert Rheubottom AXS Contributor Mar 21, 2017
Don Henley has begun to flesh out his 2017 solo tour schedule. The Eagles star has unveiled eight summer U.S. dates plus a show in Toronto in continued support of his fifth solo album Cass Country.
Pollstar reports on March 20 the six-time Grammy winner's June trek will include a special 70th birthday bash that will take place July 22 in Dallas at American Airlines Center. The "All She Wants to Do is Dance" hitmaker promises the appearance of "several very special guests" in the media release posted Monday at the official website of Don Henley.
The summer romp will feature support from New York based JD & the Straight Shot and kick off June 6 in Boston at Blue Hills Bank Pavilion. The trek will include multiple major city stops, including visits to Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Paul, Minnesota, before wrapping up July 22 with the birthday party in Dallas.
Select presales and special VIP packages are available now through Thurs., March 23 at 10:00 p.m. local time. Tickets go on sale to the general public Fri., March 24 at 10 a.m. local time. For more information, click here.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's solo dates come ahead of last month's announcement that the Eagles will reunite for the first time since the death of Eagle co-founder Glen Frey last to co-headline two star-studded new festivals this summer with Fleetwood Mac. "Classic West" will take place July 15 - July 16 in Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium while "Classic East" will run from July 29 - June 30 in New York at Citi Field.
Following a run of solo U.S. dates in January, Henley is currently wrapping up a tour of Australia and New Zealand with Jewel that launched March 5 in Perth, Australia. The tour continues on March 21 in Christchurch, New Zealand, at Horncastle Arena and will wrap up March 25 in Wellington, New Zealand, at TSB Arena.
See below for Don Henley's newly added 2017 U.S. tour schedule. For all the latest details on Don Henley, click here. For information on The Eagles, click here.
June 6 – Boston, MA - Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
June 8 – Oxon Hill, MD - Theater At MGM National Harbor
June 10 – Bethlehem, PA - Sands Bethlehem Event Center
June 13 – Toronto, ON - Budweiser Stage
June 15 – Cincinnati, OH -, PN.C. Pavilion At Riverbend
June 17 – Chicago, IL - Huntington Bank Pavilion @ Northerly Island
June 18 – Saint Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center
July 22 – Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
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Jerry Douglas pushes musical boundaries on 'What If'
Juli Thanki
The summer after his junior year of high school, Jerry Douglas left his northeast Ohio hometown to play dobro for Washington, D.C., bluegrass band the Country Gentlemen.
In the 45 years since, he has played on more than 1,500 records and won 14 Grammy Awards. But he still thinks about the summer that launched his professional career. Not long ago, Douglas, now 61, asked his father why he let his 16-year-old tour with a group of strangers. Dad's response: "They were my favorite band."
Luckily, things worked out for the teenage musician. Douglas, nicknamed "Flux" for his musical deftness, is the greatest living dobro master. He's worked with legends like Ray Charles and Paul Simon, spent nearly 20 years with multiplatinum band Alison Krauss and Union Station, formed the Earls of Leicester (a supergroup that pays homage to the traditional bluegrass of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys) and released a dozen solo records.
Now he's fronting the Jerry Douglas Band, which just released its debut album. Called "What If," the project is a musical stew combining bebop, bluegrass, country, blues, rock and classic soul. "I knew the title of the record right away," said Douglas one rainy afternoon in Berry Hill. "It's all variable. Just because I play a dobro doesn't mean I have to play bluegrass."
The dobro is a guitar with a square neck and a metal resonator the size of a dinner plate, which amplifies its deliciously twangy sound. It's played with a metal bar that's moved up and down the fretboard while the musician picks the strings with thumb- and fingerpicks.
Douglas, who grew up watching his father's bluegrass band, can't remember a time when he didn't have a musical instrument in his hand. First it was a guitar, until it got so hot the glue joints loosened and it folded in half like a lawn chair. Then it was a mandolin. The fiddle might have stuck, but he tripped and fell on the instrument.
So at age 10, he got his first dobro after being inspired by Foggy Mountain Boy Josh Graves, who "played this hard-driving bluegrass, but injected real blues into his playing. That's what I wanted to play."
Douglas and one of his mentors, Mike Auldridge, are largely responsible for elevating the instrument beyond its roots. Like the late Auldridge, Douglas plays with nuance and beauty, whether he's covering a Flatt and Scruggs tune, playing a pop standard, exploring Scottish, Irish and English musical traditions on the "Transatlantic Sessions" or delivering his own take on the "Game of Thrones" theme song. He knows when to play and, just as importantly, the power of silence, a skill he honed working with The Whites in the late 1970s and early '80s.
'Life dictates how you hear things'
"What If" is spellbinding. Douglas credits the rest of the band — Daniel Kimbro, Doug Belote, Christian Sedelmyer, Mike Seal, Jamel Mitchell and Vance Thompson — with creating a lot of the album's magic: "They brought songs to life. If it hadn't been for what they did on the record, it wouldn't be nearly as creative and likable to me."
Just because the songs were recorded for an album doesn't mean they're set in stone, though. The members of the Jerry Douglas Band are musical alchemists, and the stage is their lab. Said Douglas, "I'm willing to experiment with them and make them the best they can be. But they don't necessarily have to be the album version."
On "What If," he tinkers with multiple songs he recorded before, beginning with album opener "Cavebop." Douglas wasn't happy with the frenetic original version, recorded in 2002, so for this album, he revisited it with horns that give the song a vibe that he describes as "Fred Flintstone and (jazz legend) Charlie Parker in the stone car."
He also covers the classic "Hey Joe" once more. In the studio, the band played a horn line he describes as sounding like it came from the '60s and '70s cop show "Mannix." Douglas changed the lyrics a bit as well, singing, "I heard you shot your woman dead, and that ain't right."
"How many times did Louis Armstrong repeat 'St. Louis Blues' ?" Douglas asked. "As he got farther and farther into his career, he would hear it differently, sing it differently, play it differently. Life dictates how you hear things."
Between the Earls, Alison Krauss and Union Station, the Jerry Douglas Band and his myriad guest appearances on other artists' recordings, Douglas keeps his creative bases covered. In his head, the sounds swirl together like the neon pink and green suit jacket he wears on the cover of "What If." He wouldn't have it any other way.
"I don't compartmentalize as much as I should, maybe," Douglas said. "People would argue that I need to just stay in a lane. ... I'm not happy with that. That's not me.
"I can't color inside the lines."


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Q: How call python function from C in MicroPython I have a function in my C-code and I want to call a python function that has been written in python script. Is it possible in MicroPython? If yes, how can I do it?
My C-Code Function:
float bar_C_Fun(int i, int j){
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My Python-Code Function:
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A: Someone already asked this 4 years ago in another forum
The thread: https://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?t=3761
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Re: How to call C function in python code
Post by dhylands » Wed Sep 06, 2017 10:44 pm
You need to create a C module which exports functions which are callable from python.
See this thread here: https://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2861&p=19206#p19206
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Q: How to configure NGINX location to serve Codeigniter RESTful API in sub directory of server? I have the following directory structure:
mysite.com
- /api (codeigniter RESTful API Server)
- /app (backbonejs app)

I'm trying to configure NGINX to point all requests for mysite.com/api* to the api directory and use Codeigniter's setup.
Everything i've found works fine, if CI is in the root directory. But, the moment you try to put it in a sub-directory, it fails.
This is what I currently have:
server {
        listen 80;
        server_name local.mysite.com;
        root /Users/me/Sites/mysite;
        autoindex on;
        index index.html index.php;

        location /api {
            try_files $uri $uri/ /api/index.php;

            location ~ \.php$ {
                root /Users/me/Sites/mysite/api;
                fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                include fastcgi_params;
            }

        }

    }

Doing this just gives me a 'File not found' error. Not even a proper nginx 404. How do I configure NGINX for CodeIgniter in a subdir of a server?
Thanks!

A: For anyone else who is trying to figure this out, and failing because no answer is out there yet, here is a super simple setup:
140     server {
141         listen 80;
142         server_name local.mysite.com;
143         root /Users/me/Sites/mysite;
144         autoindex on;
145         index index.html index.php;
146
147         location /api {
148             try_files $uri $uri/ /api/index.php$args;
149
150         }
151
152         location ~ \.php$ {
153             fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
154             fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
155             include fastcgi_params;
156         }
157
158
159
160     }


Show your pride for the state of Colorado with this native Greenback Cutthroat filled design featuring the 'C' from the iconic state flag. This decal is the perfect statement sticker for your car, truck water bottle or other surfaces in need of some fishy flare. Every fish decal is made from high quality vinyl and features a protective UV gloss coating, adding to its overall durability.


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require 'pry'

# Cipher Challenge

# I worked on this challenge [by myself]
# I spent [4] hours on this challenge.

# 1. Solution
# Write your comments on what each thing is doing.
# If you have difficulty, go into IRB and play with the methods.

def dr_evils_cipher(coded_message)
  input = coded_message.downcase.split("") # This is changing the coded message which is a string, to lowercase and splitting into an array
  decoded_sentence = []
  cipher = {"e" => "a",   # This is technically a shift of four letters...Can you think of a way to automate this? Is a hash
            "f" => "b",   # the best data structure for this problem? What are the pros and cons of hashes? I think an array would be
            "g" => "c",   # better, because you can easily access the elements through indeces.
            "h" => "d",
            "i" => "e",
            "j" => "f",
            "k" => "g",
            "l" => "h",
            "m" => "i",
            "n" => "j",
            "o" => "k",
            "p" => "l",
            "q" => "m",
            "r" => "n",
            "s" => "o",
            "t" => "p",
            "u" => "q",
            "v" => "r",
            "w" => "s",
            "x" => "t",
            "y" => "u",
            "z" => "v",
            "a" => "w",
            "b" => "x",
            "c" => "y",
            "d" => "z"}

  input.each do |x| # What is #each doing here? Iterating over the input string turned to an array.
    found_match = false  # Why would this be assigned to false from the outset? What happens when it's true? false b/c
                         # when we change the value in the inner loop then it goes on to the next character in the input str
    cipher.each_key do |y| # What is #each_key doing here? looping over the cipher, if there is a match with the input then it
                           # is returning the code (proper) character
      if x == y  # What is this comparing? Where is it getting x? Where is it getting y? What are those variables really?
                 # x and y are confusing names x is the code_character and y is code_key in the cipher
        decoded_sentence << cipher[y]
        found_match = true
        break  # Why is it breaking here? breaking because needs to break out to check the next character after this one is found
      elsif x == "@" || x == "#" || x == "$" || x == "%"|| x == "^" || x == "&"|| x =="*" #What the heck is this doing? adding spaces
                                                                                #based on symbols
        decoded_sentence << " "
        found_match = true
        break
      elsif (0..9).to_a.include?(x) # Try this out in IRB. What does   " (0..9).to_a "    do? not much just create an array 0-9
        decoded_sentence << x
        found_match = true
        break
      end
    end
    if not found_match  # What is this looking for? if found_match is false then it just adds the character, no need to translate
                        # code.
      decoded_sentence << x
    end
  end
  decoded_sentence = decoded_sentence.join("")
  #What is this method returning? Final decoded string!
end
# Your Refactored Solution
def dr_evils_cipher(coded_message)
  input = coded_message.downcase.split("")
  decoded_sentence = []
  symbol_array = ["@", "#", "$", "%", "^", "&", "*"]
  space_array = [" ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " "]
  alpha_range = ('a'..'z')
  alpha_array_range = alpha_range.to_a
  code_alpha_array = alpha_array_range.push(alpha_array_range.to_a.shift(4)).flatten.push(symbol_array).flatten
  alpha_key_array = alpha_range.to_a.push(space_array).flatten

  cipher = {}
  i = 0
  while i < code_alpha_array.length
    cipher[code_alpha_array[i]] = alpha_key_array[i]
    i += 1
  end
    input.each do |code_character|
       found_match = false

      cipher.each do |code_key, code_value|

        if code_character == code_key
          decoded_sentence << code_value
          found_match = true
        end

      end
      if !found_match then decoded_sentence << code_character end
    end
    decoded_sentence = decoded_sentence.join("")
end

# Driver Test Code:
p dr_evils_cipher("m^aerx%e&gsoi!") == "i want a coke!"  #This is driver test code and should print true
# Find out what Dr. Evil is saying below and turn it into driver test code as well. Driver test code statements should always return "true."
p dr_evils_cipher("syv%ievpc#exxiqtxw&ex^e$xvegxsv#fieq#airx%xlvsykl$wizivep#tvitevexmsrw.#tvitevexmsrw#e*xlvsykl#k&aivi%e@gsqtpixi&jempyvi.
&fyx%rsa,$pehmiw@erh#kirxpiqir,%ai%jmreppc@lezi&e&asvomrk%xvegxsv#fieq,^almgl^ai^wlepp%gepp@tvitevexmsr^l")
p dr_evils_cipher("csy&wii,@m'zi@xyvrih$xli*qssr$mrxs&alex@m#pmoi%xs#gepp%e^hiexl#wxev.")
p dr_evils_cipher("qmrm#qi,*mj^m#iziv^pswx#csy#m^hsr'x%orsa^alex@m%asyph^hs.
@m'h%tvsfefpc%qszi$sr%erh*kix#ersxliv$gpsri@fyx*xlivi@asyph^fi@e^15&qmryxi@tivmsh%xlivi$alivi*m*asyph&nywx^fi$mrgsrwspefpi.")
p dr_evils_cipher("alc@qeoi*e$xvmppmsr^alir#ai*gsyph%qeoi...#fmppmsrw?")

# # Reflection
# # Keep your reflection limited to 10-15 minutes!

# Q:  What concepts did you review or learn in this challenge?

# loops, if statements, manupulating an array, pushing values to a hash.....

# Q:  What is still confusing to you about Ruby?

# There are so many methods!! I just need to practice more. I think I'm getting it though...

# Q:  What are you going to study to get more prepared for Phase 1?

# Read ruby book, and do learn ruby the hard way! code wars too...

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Experience a new kind of travel with the Lufthansa digital services. To make everything around your flight as simple and as pleasant as possible Lufthansa has designed a number of innovative solutions which accompany you with numerous intelligent as well as practical functions throughout the entire journey – from booking to arrival and beyond – in line with our motto: 'Rethinking Airtravel'.
Whether you want to search or book flights, check in via your mobile, store boarding passes or check information around your flight – the Lufthansa apps offer comprehensive services which you can conveniently use throughout your entire business trip. They are also being continuously upgraded with new features such as the digital baggage tag or the Mobile Baggage Tracker. This way you are always updated. Now you can also find useful information and best tips for more than 200 destinations including the BestPrice search in the apps via the Lufthansa Travel Guide.
The travel assistant on the Lufthansa app for iPhone and iPad shows you with exactly the information most important for you at the moment. Here you are notified about boarding, terminal, gate, seat number and much more exactly at the right time. This makes the app the ideal travel companion and creates a relaxed travel experience all around. The travel assistant for the Lufthansa Android app will be launched in autumn.
More information about the Lufthansa apps you'll find here.


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Formosa BBS (or NSYSU Formosa BBS) was one of the earliest, if not the first, telnet-based Bulletin board systems (BBS) to have Chinese language capability.  Work used from creating Formosa was combined with the open source Pirate BBS to create Eagle BBS from which the more user friendly Phoenix BBS was derived.  The open source Phoenix BBS was the parent of the widely used Firebird BBS and Maple BBS.

Taiwanese BBS software

Formosa BBS
Formosa BBS established in October 1992 by Professor Nien-Hsing Chen of the National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU), was one of the earliest, if not the first, telnet-based Bulletin board systems (BBS) to have Chinese language capability.  The objective was to provide a means for professors, universities and students to communicate.

Eagle BBS
In developing the Formosa BBS Chinese language interface Professor Chen used code from the open source Pirate BBS.  The developed code was returned to the Pirate BBS developers who created Eagle BBS as an open source BBS with a Chinese language interface.

Phoenix BBS
Phoenix BBS was development of the Eagle BBS but incorporated a more user-friendly interface.

Firebird BBS
Firebird BBS is one of two main telnet-based Bulletin board systems developed in Taiwan. It is also gained popularity in mainland China and was adopted by most sites there. Several derived BBS systems are based on its source code.  Some popular sites like SMTH BBS and HKiBBS are using the derived system of the Firebird.

Maple BBS
Maple BBS is one of two main telnet-based Bulletin board systems developed in Taiwan, the other being  Firebird BBS.   IN Taiwan most BBS adopted Maple or its descendants in preference to Firebird BBS.  Several BBS systems are based on its source code. In Taiwan Maple BBS and its descendants generally gained market share from FireBird BBS.

References

See also
 Chinese input methods for computers

Bulletin board system software

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text:
package org.springframework.instrument.classloading;

import java.lang.instrument.ClassFileTransformer;

import org.springframework.core.OverridingClassLoader;
import org.springframework.lang.UsesJava7;

/**
 * Simplistic implementation of an instrumentable {@code ClassLoader}.
 *
 * <p>Usable in tests and standalone environments.
 *
 * @author Rod Johnson
 * @author Costin Leau
 * @since 2.0
 */
@UsesJava7
public class SimpleInstrumentableClassLoader extends OverridingClassLoader {

	static {
		if (parallelCapableClassLoaderAvailable) {
			ClassLoader.registerAsParallelCapable();
		}
	}

	private final WeavingTransformer weavingTransformer;

	/**
	 * Create a new SimpleInstrumentableClassLoader for the given ClassLoader.
	 * @param parent the ClassLoader to build an instrumentable ClassLoader for
	 */
	public SimpleInstrumentableClassLoader(ClassLoader parent) {
		super(parent);
		this.weavingTransformer = new WeavingTransformer(parent);
	}

	/**
	 * Add a {@link ClassFileTransformer} to be applied by this ClassLoader.
	 * @param transformer the {@link ClassFileTransformer} to register
	 */
	public void addTransformer(ClassFileTransformer transformer) {
		this.weavingTransformer.addTransformer(transformer);
	}

	@Override
	protected byte[] transformIfNecessary(String name, byte[] bytes) {
		return this.weavingTransformer.transformIfNecessary(name, bytes);
	}

}


Person Centered Thinking is a set of values, skills and tools used in the planning and personalization of services used by people who need supports offered by Community Bridges. Even more than that, it is a philosophy that helps to enable positive control and self-direction of people's own lives.
Community Bridges implements Person Centered Thinking through training sessions which are offered to and required of all employees. Teaching and supporting the use of person-centered thinking skills assures that service plans will be used and acted on, that updating service plans will occur "naturally," and that the person's ability to lead a fulfilling, independent life is fully supported. Person Centered Thinking harmonizes with our mission and provides a framework for our services that support individuals and families in their communities.


Kavaliro is proud to announce that Kamlesh Vaswani is our July Consultant of the Month! Kamlesh is an IT Technician for an Orlando, FL construction equipment company and has been working with Kavaliro for over a year now.
"Kamlesh has been the epitome of what hard work looks like – he has continuously excelled in his role and has impressed not only our client but also us here at Kavaliro! With his "can do" attitude he has managed to become a critical part of their team and a solid representation of our company. Kamlesh truly deserves all the accolades for his well-deserved efforts. Congratulations on your spotlight!" said Business Development Manager Louis Douglas.
When not at work Kamlesh enjoys spending time working on his new home. His secret dream job has always been to work in Information Technology, which is what he is doing now. He says he currently is working his dream job with this contract. When Kamlesh retires, he is hoping to travel the world and enjoy the experiences of different cultures.
We want to say thank you to Kamlesh being such a hardworking, dedicated and committed member of the Kavaliro Team. Congratulations on being named Kavaliro's July's Consultant of the Month.


For someone like me who tends to get bored with my fitness routine faster than I can find my running shoes, ClassPass is my savior. It feels like it was made for me. In fact, I'm so psyched I finally joined the blog-o-sphere. So far I've tried Yoga, Zumba, indoor cycling, EVF Performance, and something called Yogilaties (a cross between Yoga and Pilates). I plan to try Pilates, CrossFit, and dance classes at Alvin Ailey as soon as possible.
Cost: $99/month (no sign-up fee); recurring billing on the day of the month you sign up.
What you get: Access to all the classes at participating studios in your city. You can take as many classes as you like all month long, but only up to 3 classes at any one studio.
Kinds of Classes: Yoga, Pilates, Dance (from ballet to Zumba and Bollywood), martial arts, CrossFit, rowing, rock climbing, pole dancing, strength training, barre, and indoor cycling.
PROS: Amazing selection of studios and classes; easy to book; great value for your money if you use it at least a couple times a week and don't cancel at the last minute; great for people who want to get fit, but are terrified of commitment; easy to put membership on hold or cancel; you can filter a class search by location, studio, or type of class; maps of area studios included.
CONS: Cancelling at the last minute could get expensive; as of yet SoulCycle classes aren't included (but many other indoor cycling classes like FlyWheel are); when you do a search using their filters option, it doesn't save your filters so you have to re-enter them everytime you click on a class description (I wrote to them about this issue and they say they are working on it, and that in the meantime you can open the class descriptions in a new tab so as not to lose your filters); you can only go to studios you like 3 times each month and for FlyWheel Studios, that includes FlyBarre.
Also a great idea for a last minute Christmas gift!


Josephine 'Jo' Simpson passed away peacefully at Bethell Hospice, Inglewood, on Saturday, February 9, 2019 at the age of 88 years, beloved wife of the late William Simpson for over 62 years. Loving mom of Beverly (Craig) Bourke, Patricia (Mark) Glenen. and the late Ronald Simpson. Devoted "Mana" to Adam, Faith, and Caedon and adored by her companion dog Goliath.
As per her wishes cremation has taken place and there will be no service.
If you wish to honour Jo's memory, please make a donation to Bethell Hospice Foundation, P.O. Box 75, Inglewood L7C 3L6 so they can continue to provide loving care and support to both patients and their families.
My sincere sympathy with the passing of your mother She was a lovely friendly person and we met at the Seniors Centre. There was always a hug when we saw each other. She will be missed.
My deepest condolences to you and your family Tricia. You and your family are in my heart and mind. And remember, we are just a phone call away if you need anything at all.
Dear Tricia and family, my condolences on the passing of your mother.
comfort and peace to all your family. May all the prayers of friends and family guide her on her journey.
Our thoughts are with you all at this sad time. We shared some lovely vacations to Spain with Jo & Bill and will miss her in our lives. We also shared many cups of tea in our Building and always had lots of fun.
Jo was a lovely, generous person and our friend, and we will never forget her.
Jo spoke often of how wonderful her daughter's were, and how well they cared for her. Thank you both.
We are so sorry for your loss. We didn't really know your mother very well, but she raised one of our favourite people, and her grandson has gone from being a nice, happy kid to a good young man- and that certainly says a lot about her.
She will be in our prayers and so will all of you.
Thinking of you and wishing peace in all your wonderful memories. Heartfelt condolensces.
I ONLY KNEW JOY FOR A FEW YEAR'S BUT SHE WAS SO KIND &FRIENDLY. SHE CAME ON MY RAMA BUS WITH MOLLY &ALISTER AND WE ALWAY'S SPOKE AT ZEHRS. I WILL MISS HER& HER . YOUR FAMILY ARE IN MY PRAYERS&THOUGHTS.
It goes without saying that we loved your sweet mom and we were blessed to know her. I know how much you adored her and cared for her, she will be so missed but never forgotten!


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Tønder Bank A/S var en dansk lokalbank, der havde hovedsæde i Tønder og yderligere 10 afdelinger i Sønderjylland,  Århus og København. I 2007 havde banken et resultat før skat på 44,0 mio. kr. Banken indgav i november 2012 konkursbegæring som følge af, at egenkapitalen var tabt. Aktiverne, filialnettet og medarbejderne blev derefter overtaget af Sydbank.

Banken blev grundlagt i 1913 af en gruppe lokale bønder som Tondernbank. Navnet blev ændret til Tønder og Omegns Bank efter 2. verdenskrig, og i 1985 fik den sit nuværende navn. Indtil 1994 var der kun filialer i Højer, Bylderup-Bov og Tinglev, men siden kom afdelinger i Skærbæk (1994), Toftlund (1997), Løgumkloster og Vojens (2000) samt Rødekro (2003) til. Senest åbnedes også afdelinger i København, Aarhus og Vejen.

Banken var noteret på Københavns Fondsbørs. Administrerende direktør frem til konkursen var Mogens Mortensen.

Efter skærpede krav fra Finanstilsynet om senest søndag 4. november 2012 kl. 18 at foretage yderligere nedskrivninger på bankens aktiviteter og opfylde et øget solvenskrav, valgte banken at indgive konkursbegæring idet man ikke var enig i tilsynets krav og ikke så sig i stand til at opfylde dem, idet bankens egenkapital er forsvundet. Samtlige aktiver og passiver bortset fra bankens aktiekapital, hybride kernekapital og ansvarlige kapital blev derefter overtaget af Sydbank.

Kilder og eksterne henvisninger
 Tønder Banks hjemmeside er blevet til tips bladet

Referencer

Tidligere banker i Danmark
Etableret i 1913
Ophørt i 2012


Due to setbacks this past year I wasn't quite able to get out any new ant or bee related videos, at least not of a decent length. I have footage but it's not really enough to call an episode and barely enough to call a segment of something bigger. So for this up coming year I hope to get more footage on a variety of topics to flesh out these segments.
I grow a number of these in my yard and they're beautiful though my yard isn't the prettiest setting for a video, hence a lot of my macro heavy photos of them. I'll also likely be visiting the Mt. Cuba Center for more material on this. I may even title the video Wildflowers of the Mt. Cuba Center because that place has been nothing but brilliant inspiration.
My wildflowers has been flourishing the past couple of years with small patches of it growing to look slightly Mt. Cuba-esque. Several new plants have started to sprout as a result of ants planting the seeds. It will only truly be rewarding for me when some of these plants make it to a flowering age, such as the very young Trilliums that have started coming up but we're still a few years off from that.
Almost a decade ago we had a Norway Maple chopped down and reduced to a waste high stump. It's now teaming with life including some rather hard to find ant species. I'd love to film more of this and do a video about it to show you all.
Lastly over this past year I started walking my dog at a different time of day. And I found out that just by doing that I was finding all sorts of ant species having nuptial flights, often with queen ants and males landing directly on me. One thing about the hobby a lot of people don't seem to get is just how easy it can be to find a queen ant. I'll admit though it does take some devotion. I might get a new point and shoot camera just for this task.
Anyway those are my 2017 goals. I hope I'm able to bring them all of them to life in the coming year.
Well this has probably been the worst year in recent memory.
My grandfather passed away over the summer and I found myself saying things I never thought I would have. Things like "I don't want to stay for the whole funeral. I was there when they pulled the plug on him on that's more than several of my cousins can say." To put that into context I was just going to pay my respects to my grandmother and graciously then leave. Instead what happened was I was lined up with other family members and had to shake hands over three-hundred friends of the family including a couple dozen servicemen and fire fighters. To enter the parking lot you had to drive under two ladder truck with the American flag hanging between them. There were two chaplains who each had something to say, neither wishing to graciously step down as both had been tremendous friends with my grandfather. The only odd moment came when it was time for two military personnel to preform the flag ceremony. They were a man of color and a women which was presumable intentional, though that wasn't the odd part. He'd been cremated so there was no casket for the flag to be laid upon before hand, thus it was already folded... so a room of 300 plus people watched two military personal unfold a flag, then fold it back up again.
At the reception I had to face a grim realization. When I posted the details of my grandfather's funeral on Facebook it received 91 likes and an uncounted number of comments of support and condolences.. of whom only one person attended from my social circle. Oddly enough it was the one person who I made the above statement to. He saved me a seat and stayed with me the whole night. He took pictures of everything and even tried to get some of his friends to stop by.
Hopefully four years from now we'll be able to look back and laugh. You know, like that time the president made fun of cripples and grabbing women inappropriately. Not that Hillary Clinton was any prize. She offered nothing more than what Bernie Sanders wasn't offering in spade. And my friends were personally screwed over by the DNC for supporting Bernie and getting his name on the ballet. WHY they were even invited to Hillary's announcement celebration only to be kicked out by seat fillers simply because they went to use the rest room just shows how stupid political parties can get.
In a nut shell, no matter who the president is, they are virtually powerless to do anything without the Senate and House of Representatives under the control of the same political party. Even if Bernie Sanders had won the Democratic ticket and won the election, I don't believe for one second that he could have done half the stuff he promised he would do. Hillary Clinton may not have been perfect but at least the crap being said about her sounded like something that would happen to a politician.
I don't understand the E-mail controversy and hope not to. I know this sounds odd but I really don't care about the content of her E-mails. The fact that her E-mails were able to be leaked in the first place is the Red Flag that makes her unfit to be president. Whether it was just spam she was receiving or the nuclear launch codes, this shouldn't be getting out there. On the other hand though I was hearing people saying things like "She is directly responsible for the deaths of ...." however many people died. No, that would be like saying anyone who gets hacked is directly funding terrorism.
Anyway the election is over and Donald Trump is president which may or may not have been because Russia hacked the system, or maybe more likely Facebook algorithms keep people trapped inside of social network vacuums. Now that the election is over it's WAY more apparent to me. All the people who were writing those articles to push the buttons of people to get them to click their articles didn't know how to write actual news so they're still harping on the same old issues. I've made it a habit to remove these sources from my Facebook feed. It's really odd turning on CNN and hearing them report on Trump saying something that actually sounded like he'd make a great leader, instead of articles saying what he Tweeted at 4:00am.
Lastly, it was made clear to me that that gun ownership is a religion and I will treat it as such in the future.


haunts the streets, walking silently, whispering ancient words, sounding hours, calling out invitations to the granite faces that make mouths against the emptiness. The maimed one walks with cruciform shadow, a beggar cloaked in dried blood, leaving a trail of nails and wood splinters. Nobody ever follows him, this maimed one making rounds by candlelight, like an incongruent firewatch in an impossible and invisible inferno of cold fire. And yet everytime he passes, it seems a vault or arch lights up, a skull softens, a distant and forgotten bell chimes. It is a face that the souls of the lower depths long to recognize or understand, a ghosted face, a radiant body, an illegible cipher. And in those unbearable and short intervals when his broken silence breaks through stone and fire, the souls hold their breath and long to breathe the pure wind of another world. And in those sixty seconds or less, hell is beautiful.
The shore was like a book of sand and stones, printed by waves and birds. The old friends warmed themselves by the campfire, smoked cigarettes and passed around a bottle of brandy. They had already put away their telescopes. The darkness of the sky and its cold stars seemed to amplify the roar of bright fire and dark water. The planet was desolate in those times, with only a hundredth of its peak population, a number declining every year. Would it have ever worked? one of them wondered aloud, looking skyward with his naked eyes. Another pointed to the sky with the bottle she held and said, No, not without 700 billion voyagers, each able to live close to 10 million years or more in good health in any climate and an endless supply of materials and fuel. And that just to see the fifty some odd galaxies nearby. She passed the bottle to him. It is always about time and temperature, he sighed, and took a drink. The other old friends whispered and gazed into the sparks and flames or faced the great shadow surrounding them, blowing out ghostly clouds of smoke. What little we have known and done, someone said. And someone else started rowing a boat into the dark waves.
In the last days they came for the coyote to punish him. They said that he would have to build every day for eternity. And he could only build with scissors, paper, and rock. It's not much to build with, the coyote thought. It would be better if I had some cornmeal, tobacco, and clay, or even just the empty blue sky.
In the other land, in another part of the universe, the prince taught the nature of things and of the divine. What is reality? It is like four days, or ages or moments. It is like a ride in a chariot outside the walls of the other city. On the first day, you see a man who has rusted and worn in the wind of time, ancient and weak. On the second day, you see a man of wounds and sickness, who walks with crutches in the dust of the cemeteries and ash heaps. On the third day, rolling and thundering alongside the circular wall, you pass a man without life, a corpse being eaten by worms, insects, and rats. On the fourth day, you almost run over a man of hunger, meditative and emaciated, his blood turned to lead, his bones almost bursting through his sinews, his spirit wandering in the effervescent transendence. The chariot orbits the outside wall of the other city. The most ancient wooden artifact from our history is a little chariot that has lost its chessboard. One of these facts is tangential. Our first racing chariot is a whirlwind of lightning that rolls and thunders, its wheels and its spokes blur in the cold wind, and the four days are one circle of day, which is an empty evening in the autumn when the golden leaves detach from their branches and sail into the darkness of stars like stringless kites.
After many seasons of traveling, the young damsel arrived at the foot of the great round tower. It was built of luminous gray stones and rose to heights that only hawks and eagles have tasted. One could barely see the crenelated battlements at its crown. There seemed to be no discernible windows. A single tall gate with a portcullis yawned before her. Trembling in her dark cloak, the damsel went forward into the tower. The sergeants in chain mail holding crossbows and guarding the entrance barely noticed her. Inside, she met a cleric who whispered that she should mount the stairs. Crossing the wide flagstone lobby, she began her ascent of the spiral staircase that wrapped around a thick column, a tower within the tower. There were no landings or chambers to encounter; the stairs wound all the way to the top. Cold and breathless, the damsel thought she would fall asleep before arriving at her destination. Suddenly, the staircase terminated in a wide chamber still encircling the thick round column at the centre. Off to the side, a princess dressed in white sat on a small throne before a large table upon which rested a candelabra, a few letters and some writing tools. The damsel bowed deeply before the throne. The princess rose, and approached the table, inviting the damsel to come forward. She took a letter from the pile of papers, inspected it and asked the damsel if it were her letter. The damsel nodded, still scarcely able to breathe. The princess announced that the damsel's request to be a nonperson had been approved. Her relationship with the state would be severed at once; she would owe no taxes; she was no longer subject to the laws of the realm. She would be anonymous. She would not exist. The princess laughed happily and congratulated the damsel, and bade her to follow. They came to a door in the round wall of the central column. Above it, there was a black signboard with something written in white letters and roman numerals. The princess took out a key ring, searched among the many keys, and then unlocked and opened the door all the way. It was pitch black beyond the threshold. It seemed to be a bottomless cistern. A strange and haunting scent like an invisible herbarium wafted up from the depths, a scent of cold water, ammonia, old trees, weeds, night skies, eel skins, mountain stones, worn out boots, fireboxes and matches, charcoal, dust and straw. It was the heady fragrance of infinite black night. The princess looked intently into the damsel's eyes, her own eyes electric and a slight blush rising to her cheeks. The damsel stepped closer to the darkness. Without warning, the princess embraced her, almost crushing their cheeks together, and then leaped into the cistern. The damsel fell to her knees and stared in disbelief as the princess changed from an effervescent gossamer cloud into an angel, then into a pale death mask, a white crane, a bleached butterfly, and, last of all, a fragile snowflake caught in the black whirlpool of eternity.
I was writing the last pages of my text on eclipses of the moon and sun when the event happened. I was still wearing my bronze armour for I had to write in a hurry between battles, and wanted to finish my treatise before beginning my tragedy on the life of the destroyer who traveled on a winged horse armed with a crystal eye and the horror that turns men to stone. And then there was thunder, a rainfall of stars, and smoke all over the surface of the earth. Logic fails to explain or express the journey, for either I was carried off by a comet or another strange cosmic phenomenon, or spirits transported me from the earth into the vicinity of unfamiliar stars and planets. The third possibility is that I have gone mad. It is unlikely I could have survived the first type of event without burning up or suffocating. Travelers have often reported the burning up of falling stars and the way the air grows thinner the higher you climb into the mountains. It would seem that there is no air in the ether and traveling through the atmosphere is a violent and hazardous event. The second possibility is no less impossible or disconcerting, for it is said that even if spirits or immortals exist, they are too far away in space to notice our earth or care about our life, and being transported by them to this area of space by their powers makes no sense, for I have not encountered anyone or anything other than a great void of orbiting stars, streaming luminous clouds and the shadows of planets. The one planet in my vicinity, which I orbit each day, at about the same distance of the moon to our ancient earth, glows with swirls of amber, molten gold, topaz and black steel. It is like looking into the forge of a blacksmith or into one of those strange marbles of glassblowers, or a rare gem. It is a cat's eye without a body. Its warmth wafts over to me. I do not seem to have difficulty breathing, but I know there can be no air, for nothing lives or grows in this empty sea. This morning star, like an ember in the dark sky, like a mysterious cat's eye, seems to be made of gases and elixirs. I believe these elixirs drift outward, the way heat drifts from a hearth, the way an aura of light spreads from one little lantern into the night. It seems possible that these elixirs have made me immortal. I do not breathe, I do not eat, I do not weep or feel pain anywhere in my body, and I do not die. The only thing I feel is an infinite sadness. My mind works without ceasing as I ponder the revolutions of stars and planets. Some five hundred years must have passed since my arrival. I can guess this by the patterns of changes in the stars, the seasons of my planet, and the number of calculations I have made from where I float like a drowned sailor in the universe. I now know the circumference and age of my planet, I have numbered the planets in this ring of stars and guessed the durations and lengths of their orbits, I have predicted countless phenomena with increasing accuracy. I am a living almanac who cannot impart a single iota of what I have observed and tested. On the earth I once heard legends of subterranean hells full of darkness and flames that maidens would fall into and heroes would visit at great risk. I did not think about such things much. I was too occupied with the codex and the spear. Whether or not a hell exists under the earth, it certainly exists here. It is a beautiful hell. My soul burns with the beauty and sadness of the starry chaos. The third possible explanation for my night voyage remains. I may be locked into a an infinite madness, a madness so great that my body may have died but my mind cannot sense it and sleep, a madness that only increases my pointless calculus of astronomical phenomena while decreasing my memory of life. Perhaps all three explanations are interwoven, swirling together in this maelstrom of suspended and turning lights and shadows. I pray that this is true, for if there is a hell, then it seems more possible that there is a heaven that will someday draw me from the dance of flames, from death without death, from infinite madness. I have come to experience infinity, but I have yet to find eternity. I would like to find a friend in this great emptiness.


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AWS SimSpace Weaver can run city-sized simulations in the cloud
Brian Heater @bheater / 2 months
At this morning's re:Invent keynote in Las Vegas, Amazon unveiled AWS SimSpace Weaver, a computing service that allows developers to run city-sized simulations at scale in the cloud. The service is designed to free simulation developers from the constraints of their own hardware.
Amazon's proposed applications are for city managers simulating a natural disaster to test emergency response systems, as well as the impact of sports games on traffic flow. These are complex situations with a lot of moving parts, which shouldn't require watching a real-life instance to gain insight. Among the other advantages to running this in the cloud is the ability to have multiple external parties view and interact with the simulation remotely in real time.
"Simulating these events requires modeling hundreds of thousands of independent dynamic entities to represent the people and vehicles," AWS principal developer advocate Marcia Villalba notes in a blog post. "Each entity has its own set of behaviors that need to be modeled as it moves throughout the world and interacts with other entities. Simulating this at a real-world scale requires CPU and memory beyond what you can have in one instance."
The system works by portioning the space into instances and partitions, creating the kind of grip design you see above. SimSpace Weaver's data replication system manages memory management and networking for transferring entities across partitions. The company notes that SimSpace Weaver is not itself a simulator. Instead, it creates a basis on which a simulator can be built across instances, effectively weaving (hence the name) multiple instances together into a single experience.
Find your spatial footing. ☁📍🗺
With #AWS SimSpace Weaver, you can develop real-world simulations where millions of dynamic entities—from vehicles & people to devices & machines—interact in real time. It's positively s(t)imulating. #reinvent
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— Amazon Web Services (@awscloud) November 29, 2022
Unity and Unreal Engine 5 developers can access the system through SimSpace Weaver plug-ins. It's available starting today in the U.S. East, U.S. West, Asia-Pacific and Europe AWS regions. There's no licensing fee; instead the pricing depends on the number of instances a developer integrates into the simulation.


VAULTS LIVE® is a visitor attraction which opened in Thomas Street, Dublin 8 in October 2018. We are a premium attraction comprising of a one-hour interactive theatre performance delivered by a cast of professional actors. Our visitors move from scene to scene and meet several characters from Irish history including Molly Malone, Bram Stoker, a Cromwellian Torturer and our very own Ikea, the Viking.
Our objective is to become a 'Must See' attraction for visitors to Dublin thus we are looking for an experienced Sales Manager (B2B) to join the Sales & Marketing team, who will successfully promote our product within the Dublin Tourism market, resulting in successful trade sales for the business.
– Reporting directly to the Sales and Marketing Manager, you will have ownership and responsibility for all sales activity with travel and tourism professional organisations (tour operators, OTAs, ambassadors, groups and corporate event organisers) where through excellent selling and presentation skills, you will capture and continually grow recurring trade business for THE VAULTS®.
– Together with the Sales & Marketing Manager you will devise and deliver the annual sales plan focusing on base business growth across all the targeted sectors.
– You will identify and secure strategic partnerships amongst the Travel Trade sector resulting in a tangible pipeline of contracted bookings. Key account management of each partnership, negotiating trade rates in line with company objectives and securing contracts with each Trade partner.
– Ensuring that SOP's are in place and executed to ensure that all bookings are communicated effectively internally.
– Attending all relevant Trade events you will be an Ambassador for the business and actively promote THE VAULTS® including Travel Trade, SITE, MICE and local events. This may include over seas travel.
– You will drive and deliver the most compelling B2B partner strategies to recruit visitors to THE VAULTS® and achieve monthly B2B revenue targets. – Building an exceptional reputation for THE VAULTS® in the minds of global travel professionals as a premium and reliable visitor experience.
– Attract corporate event organisers to the venue and provide innovative and compelling solutions for this sector.
For further information, please contact Christine Murphy, CM Consultancy.