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St. Regis River and the Milwaukee Road
Posted on August 22, 2016 by carrollvanwest
Along Interstate I-90 as you travel northwest into Idaho, St. Regis is the last town of any size in Montana, and, at that it only counts just over 300 residents. The town has a long significant history in transportation. Old U.S. Highway 10 follows part of the historic Mullan Road–the Mullan monument above marks that route in St. Regis. The town lies at the confluence of the Clark's Fork River and the St. Regis River. It is also the point where
Since my last visit in 1984, school officials had expanded the St. Regis school and added a new entrance but the historic facade still commands attention.
the Milwaukee Road left the Clark's Fork corridor that it had followed from southwest Montana–the Northern Pacific kept on that route however–while and tackled a much more demanding path through the Rockies–that of the St. Regis River towards Taft.
As the photos above show, one of the Milwaukee's bridges over the Northern Pacific right-of-way has been cut while the interstate rises high above and dwarfs both earlier railroads along the Clark's Fork River. From St. Regis to Taft, the Milwaukee Road route has new life. In the 21st century the U.S. Forest Service and local residents have worked diligently to preserve the corridor, not to restore the tracks but to find a new recreational use for the abandoned railroad bed.
Note in the photograph above, how one of the distinctive electric power poles that carried electricity to the Milwaukee's engines remains in place. In the central part of Montana, many of these poles are long gone from the corridor. The Milwaukee's stretch of electrified track began in Harlowton and ended in Idaho–and the St. Regis to Idaho section has some of most intact features of this distinctive engineered landscape.
The village of Haugan is also the location of the Savenac Nursery, which the U.S. Forest Service established here c. 1907, as the Milwaukee's tracks were being constructed. Under the direction of Elers Koch of the forest service, Savenac's became one of the largest seedling operations in the department of agriculture, yielding as many of 12 million seedlings in one year.
The historic nursery is open to the public, another example of the important work that the Forest Service has carried out for both preservation and public interpretation in the last 30 years. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the property has a museum that operates in the tourist season.
The nursery is also among the most important landscapes in the state associated with the Civilian Conservation Corps, which built most of the extant historic buildings in the 1930s.
Thus it is most appropriate that a monument to the CCC workers has been located on land between the interstate highway and the nursery grounds.The monument, dedicated in 2005, notes that agency's work in Montana from 1933 to 1942, a decade of transformation in the state's public landscape that millions have experienced since then.
Haugan is also home to one of the state's modern pieces of roadside architecture along the interstate, Silver's truck stop, restaurant, bar, and casino.
Saltese lacks the formal monuments found at its neighbor, but this small Milwaukee Road town has an industrial landmark in the high iron trestle that cuts through its residential side. There you can see one of the rectangular wooden catenary supports for the electric lines to the speeding trains. The route itself is part of recreational trail that takes bikers and hikers to the National Register-listed tunnel and railroad yards ending at the St. Pass Pass Tunnel (1908) at Taft near the Idaho border.
Saltese's contemporary styled school from c. 1960 remains but has closed. Its historic motels and businesses, as well as an abandoned c. 1930 gas station on old U.S. Highway 10, welcome travelers from the west to Montana.
The railroad trail route from Taft provides access to some of most spectacular industrial ruins of the old Milwaukee route left in the west.
Posted in Montana historical landscape	| Tagged Civilian Conservation Corps, Elers Koch, Haugan Montana, Milwaukee Road, Mineral County Montana, Montana monuments, Montana public sculpture, Montana schools, National Register of Historic Places, Northern Pacific Railroad, rail to trail, railroad corridor, roadside architecture, Saltese Montana, Savenac Nursery, St. Regis Montana, Taft Montana, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Highway 10	| Leave a reply
Mineral County's Milwaukee Road: A Superior Experience
Defined by the railroad, the highway, and the interstate, Superior overlooks the Clark's Fork River and serves as the seat of government of Mineral County. Since the bankruptcy
of the Milwaukee Road in 1980, the town has steadily lost population-2oo less residents in 2015 compared to my first visit 30 years earlier. Never a large place–the town's top population was 1242 residents in 1960–Superior has several landmark buildings from its railroad days but only one has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
That one place, the Superior School, is spectacular and its tall central tower has long served as a community beacon. Built 1915-16 by contractor Charles Augustine, the high school reflected Colonial Revival style, and later community growth led to wing additions in 1925, shown above, and in 1947.
Another Colonial Revival-styled public building is the Mineral County Courthouse, 1920, complete with its colonial-inspired cupola. Mineral County was created in 1914. This building is more complete rural interpretation of Colonial Revival style than the school.
Close by is the Mineral County Museum, which opened in 1976 as part of the American bicentennial. It has substantially increased its collections since my first visit 30 years ago, and serves as an orientation point for the county's heritage tourism opportunities.
The historic Strand Theater (c. 1915) operated in 1984 but closed in 2013 and remained shuttered when I visited in 2015, no doubt a victim of not only the home theatre phenomenon but also the switch to digital delivery of movies in this decade. This theatre, however, is a rare and important building from the homesteading era of the 1910s.
From the same decade, the historic Masonic Mountain Lodge still operates, serving as another community outlet and center in Superior. The town's population height in the 1960s led to the construction of the institutional Ranch-style of the Superior High School, one of two bits of mid-century modernism in Superior.
The other example dates to 1958 and represents yet another example of modern design in a rural Catholic Church in Montana. St Mary Queen of Heaven Catholic Church is also a
Ranch-styled inspired design, although its stand-alone but visually and physically linked low bell tower is unique compared to other Montana Catholic churches from this era.
The church is Superior's best contribution to Montana modernism and complements well the Victorian influence found at the town's historic United Methodist Church, built almost 50 years earlier. Note that both churches have low bell towers.
Posted in Montana historical landscape	| Tagged Clark's Fork River, Colonial Revival style, contemporary style, Milwaukee Road, Mineral County Courthouse Montana, Mineral County Montana, Mineral County Museum Montana, Montana modernism, Montana schools, Strand Theatre Superior Montana, Superior High School Montana	| Leave a reply
A first look at Mineral County's Milwaukee Road corridor
The two railroads and the river that shaped Missoula also carved the landscape to the northwest. Following the Clark's Fork River to the northwest, the Milwaukee Road passes through Mineral County, adding to a transportation corridor that, earlier, included the Mullan Road, and then later U.S. Highway 10. It is now the route of Interstate Highway I-90 as i heads west to Idaho and then Washington State.
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When I carried out the survey for the state historic preservation plan in 1984-1985, Mineral County had one property listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The DeBorgia School, built in the wake of the Milwaukee Road's construction through the mountains in 1908, somehow survived the horrific fire of 1910 that claimed most of the county's earliest buildings. As the railroad's impact declined, and school consolidation took place, the building stopped being a local school in 1956. It has now served as a community center for longer than it was a school. A small town library has been constructed nearby since my last visit some 30 years ago.
But what was a solitary landmark in 1985 has become a county proud of its transportation history, especially the impact of the Milwaukee Road and the towns of Superior, Alberton, and St. Regis all have National Register properties that interpret railroads, transportation, and transformation in Montana's northwest.
As the interstate crosses the Clark's Fork River near Tarkio it bypasses the earlier transportation network. A particular marvel is the Scenic Bridge, listed in the National Register in 2010, especially how the bridge of U.S. 10, built in 1928, was designed in dialogue with the earlier high-steel bridge of the Milwaukee Road.
The Scenic Bridge has been closed to traffic but is safe to walk across, creating great views of both bridges and the Clark's Fork River–travel here has always been challenging.
Alberton also has important transportation landmarks, especially its National Register-listed Milwaukee Road passenger depot. The railroad was why the town was established–it is so appropriate that now the railroad headquarters has been converted into city hall and other public uses.
Twenty years historic preservationists stepped up to add numerous properties to the National Register throughout the county. In addition to the passenger depot, the Montana Valley Book Store, above, was listed. This two-story false front building, with attached one-story building, was once the town's commercial heart and known as Bestwick's Market–it has been close to the heart of book lovers for years now. Montana Valley Book Store was a relatively new business when I first visited in 1984 but now it is one of the region's cultural institutions, especially when a visit is combined with a quick stop at the adjacent Trax Bar.
The historic three-story brick Alberton High School (now the Alberton School) operated from 1919 to 1960 as the only high school facility within miles of the railroad corridor. It too is listed in the National Register and was one of the community landmarks I noted in the 1984-1985 state historic preservation plan work.
I gave no notice to the replacement school, the modern Alberton High School, c. 1960. That was a mistake–this building too reflects school design ideas of its time–the Space Age of the late 1950s and 1960s, when open classrooms, circular designs, and a space-age aesthetic were all the rage. Alberton High School is one of my favorite small-town examples of Montana modernism.
The school is a modern marvel just as the high school football field and track are reminders of how central the schools are to rural community and identity in Montana. Alberton has held its own in population in the decades since the closing of the Milwaukee Road, largely due to its proximity to Missoula and the dramatic gorges created by the Clark's Fork River. Change is probably coming, and hopefully these landmarks will remain in service for years to come.
Posted in Montana historical landscape	| Tagged Alberton Montana, Clark's Fork River, DeBorgia Montana, Interstate I-90, Milwaukee Road, Mineral County Montana, Montana bars, Montana cafes, Montana depots, Montana historic bridges, Montana modernism, Montana Rural Schools, Montana schools, Montana state historic preservation office, National Register of Historic Places, Scenic Bridge Mineral County Montana, U.S. Highway 10	| Leave a reply


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Sheesh! I've been so busy, I let another week slip by without a blog post. I'm working on new needlepoint designs that I can't share until they've been released to the public. However I do have a couple of photos to share. The first is my latest Dreamscape painting.
The other two are photos of a found art painted rock(what does she actually call them?) by Jafabrit that I was able to aquire all the way out here in New Mexico! Long story short, one of the Jafagirls has a gallery here in Albuquerque(Dreamscapes) and she gave it to me at her First Friday show last week. Jafabrit wanted me to post photos so she could see which one I got.
In other news, I'm planning to move my studio yet again, hopefully for the last time for awhile! Previously mentioned gallery, Dreamscapes, also rents studio space so that's where I'm going. It is actually only two blocks away from my current studio, still on 5th street. I'm excited as it is a very nice place and Jan, the owner, is a wonderfully nice lady!
Oh and in case I don't get back to post another blog before this weekend, my husband Aaron is playing a gig here in Albuquerque on Sunday afternoon at the Market Cafe located on the corner of Corrales Rd. and Alameda Rd. He plays from 12 to 2pm. So, if you are in the area, come out and enjoy some great guitar music and a yummy lunch!


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Tonight we staged "Merrily Ring the Luncheon Bell" and "Would You Know the Kind of Maid" (or "The Kissing Song"), as well as the scenes before, between and after.
The focus seemed to constantly shift between the expression and the suppression of appetite. First we discovered clandestined lovers planning a furtive escape, only to be stopped by the prospect of lunch. Then we sang about food, abstinence, sublimation, and more food. Next we had more covert flirtation, some unwanted exposition, and unbridled passion segueing into a song about unspoken desire (implied or inferred); followed by a shocking revelation and laced with subterfuge and intrigue throughout. Fun.
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Right. I'd also set open loop to 30.
Cool thanks for confirmation, I'll set open loop to 30 as well then.
Here are a few logs running maps 2 and 3.
Running a pump/race gas blend, around 96 octane.
Fuel Open Loop set to 20, per BMS.
Looks OK, let's shoot for some longer runs on map3 though!
Hello Terry any idea when the direct Boost control module will be available? Also can a AEM (current setup) water/meth kit be connected to the Jb4?
On BCM no set date, we want to ensure the JB4 only cars are all running 100% first before we start raising the power up.
On WMI the JB4 works with any kit but we strongly suggest a kit with a flow sensor signal. I don't believe AEM offers that. We suggest a BMS kit which is prewired to work with the JB4.
Here's a longer pull in map 3.
I'm concerned about the AFRs and trims.
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Both are fine for the short run. You can kick open loop up to 30 next.
Dumb question: I need to take my car to the dealer because the backup camera quit working. I'm temporarily removing the ODB port connection so they won't notice anything. Will the JB4 function normally without it?
Should be fine, just unplug it and check no big deal.
I'm having a issue with the Jb4 when I do two pulls the car goes into limp mode and I don't have control over the transmission and there's no boost pressure. When I Restart the car is goes back to normal. Any idea what it came be? It's happen in Map 3 mostly.
Email in a log and details and we can help you sort it out. Could be a variety of things on the settings.
Here's a few logs taken today running Map 3.
Had a few runs & launches, no limp modes. Feedback - does it look right?
That interface looks to be an older one and is missing some of the tuning data. Using a hard wire cable and apple software I presume?
Looks like a lot of tire spin here! I'd go heavier on the boost reduction. Maybe 6psi in 1st and 4psi in 2nd.
Yes and yes - apple software with USB data cable. still had a bit of wheel spin, so I'll give the extra boost reduction a go.
If I can get a chance, I'll log with my windows software laptop <<-- is this how everyone else is logging at the moment?
Most are using the JB4 mobile adapter and their phone.
What fuel are you using? On map 3, mine seems to require octane booster. Doing a mix of 93 and Torco and it runs great that way. Starting to seem like it's running out of breath up top. I suspect the intake is at or past it's flow limit.
Running this fuel regardless of tune but it seems to have no issues with map 3 or 5 throughout the power curve so far. .
Jon put together a demo video of the C63 JB4 Mobile for you guys!
Great video. I am doing install in two weeks!
Any chance of a nice detailed install video? Would be really helpful.
Also any general/stability/performance/etc updates? Realize it's winter but it has been pretty quiet.
Hoping for a bunch of solid info on simple plug and play for stock S model on pump gas.
For install related questions email Jon@burgertuning.com. I think he was working on a video but not sure where that stands currently.
We have around 50 systems out and feedback has been really positive. I'm hoping we get more track and dyno results posted when the weather warms up. Too cold outside for motorsports in much of the USA.
Hello Terry, my JB4 is running good just need the boost module to raise the boost. It averages around 19-20psi in map 3. Hopefully yall release it soon so we can do more testing.


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Edmonds Center for the Arts was fourth overall on list of top donation recipients during last week's "GiveBIG" campaign sponsored by the Seattle Foundation. Donors gave $164,321 to the ECA through the campaign. The ECA also received a $2,500 Challenge Grant from Arista Wine Cellars to encourage giving, and anticipates receiving approximately $15,000 in "stretch pool" funds from The Seattle Foundation, for a grand total of over $180,000 for the campaign.
The Seattle Foundation's "GiveBIG" campaign generated $11.1 million in online contributions for nonprofits, with the social-media fueled campaign exceeding its 2012 total of $7.4 million by 50 percent. The other organizations in the top five for highest total gifts were Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest ($220,120), The Seattle Public Library Foundation ($194,012), Northwest Harvest/EMM ($176,324) and The 5th Avenue Theatre ($159,915). The average gift size was $204.
ECA operates with a $1.5 million budget annually, at least 43 percent of which is contributed revenue. Serving nearly 60,000 people each year, ECA brings 23 performances to the stage annually; offers student and community education and outreach programs onsite, in schools and at other nonprofit partners such as the Edmonds Senior Center; serves as a home for partner organizations such as Cascade Symphony Orchestra, Sno-King Community Chorale and Olympic Ballet Theatre; hosts year-round sporting activities in its gymnasium, and also offers classroom spaces for meetings and events.
"ECA continues to increase our impact in the community year after year, bringing valuable performing arts to the community and contributing to our local economy," said ECA Director of Advancement Jamie Herlich. "The outpouring of support for ECA this week through GiveBIG is indication of the value of our organization to the community at large and is further motivation to continue to deliver valuable programs to the community. We couldn't be more thrilled with the results of this campaign, and are overwhelmed by the community's support."
Stephen Clifton says:
Congratulations ECA. The amount raised indicates broad community support.


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The structural characteristics and modes of the Stewart platform driven by electric cylinders are briefly introduced. Based on Simulink, the modelling method of the platform is analysed. To obtain the coordinate transformation of Stewart platform, the rotation matrix and homogeneous transformation are resolved, and the mathematical model of the electric-driven Stewart platform is established related to the structural characteristics. The simulation model of input and output signals is constructed by using graphical user interface (GUI) module provided by Simulink. The motion simulation curves of six electric actuators under different position and posture are obtained, which gives benefit to understand and control the different motion states of the electric-driven Stewart platform.
The five-degree-of-freedom double-legged wall-climbing robot is the most straightforward structure with the promising application because the minimum degree-of-freedom of the foot-type climbing robot with continuous movement and obstacle-overcoming capability on the vertical wall is five. Based on the prototype of the wall-climbing robot, the parameter table of the Denavit-Hartenberg (DH) model is given out, and then the positive and inverse solutions of kinematics analysis of wall-climbing robot are derived. Secondly, the system dynamics model is established based on the Lagrange equation, and the weights of inertial load acceleration torque, Coriolis force torque, centrifugal force torque and gravity torque in the dynamic equation are analysed. The design ideas of compensation gravity load and inertial load adaptive proportional differential controller is proposed according to the analysis results, and the gravity torque compensation function and general nonlinear mass function are given correspondingly to provide theoretical support to adaptive controller design. Finally, the effectiveness of the control strategy was verified by the actual control of the knee joint and ankle joint.
The extremely dangerous and complex environment caused by tremendous earthquakes or unnatural disasters usually brings great danger to survivors and salvagers. Therefore, search and rescue missions after any disaster indicate a huge need in special access to reduce the loss for human beings and, at the same time, to improve the capability of performing the tasks. In terms of the miniature robots which can go into the confined zone for the searching tasks, this project focuses specially on analysing climbing obstacle capability of the miniature robots, and introduces a new concept composed of a jumping robot which is mounted on a tracked mobile base. To design, calculate, and analyse this system, an appropriate mechanism, geometric dimensions, and specific properties are detailed, which include a dual-tracked articulated transformable locomotion system, a transmission system with a sleeve shaft, an incomplete gear jumping mechanism, and the selection and calculation of power system motors. To complete the design procedure, a three-dimensional sketch of each component of the robot was generated by means of Solidworks.
In the present study, a multiobjective particle swarm optimization (PSO) is used to Pareto optimal design of controller for a biped robot walks in the coronal plane. Both nonlinearity of the dynamic equations and the tracking system cause an effective control that has to be used to address these problems.Thus, the proportional-derivative control is employed to control of the robot in the coronal plane, and the multiobjective algorithm is utilized to tune the heuristic parameters of the controller. The obtained Pareto front by the multiobjective PSO algorithm is compared with three prominent algorithms: modified NSGAII, sigma method, and MATLAB® Toolbox MOGA.
In the last years compliant actuators have become extremely popular in the field of wearable robotics, due to their ability to realize safe human-robot interfaces. One of the most well-known example of a compliant actuator is the series elastic actuator (SEA), consisting of an elastic element (e.g. a spring) in series with a stiff actuator; such actuation architecture is considered to be the simplest design solution to realize compliant, compact, and light-weight actuators for wearable robots; in addition, from the control perspective, SEA architecture allows for simple force or torque control in addition to position control. In this chapter, three wearable robots for upperand lower-limb rehabilitation and assistance, developed at The BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, are described. The three devices have similar SEA-based actuation units, integrating commercial electromagnetic motors and custom torsional springs, with constant stiffness and linear torque-deformation characteristics. Closed-loop torque control performance show that the systems can be highly transparent when controlled under zero-torque modality, i.e. the interaction with the human is minimal and the actuators do not hinder the user's movement, and bandwidths and output torques are compatible with the human movements to be assisted.
This study addresses a predefined performance constraint control scheme by applying the concept of graph theory to a distributed wheeled mobile robot (WMR) system. The kinematic and dynamic models of the WMR systems are considered simultaneously to design a finite-time sliding mode controller with a novel constraint control term that assures the prescribed performances such as overshoot, rising time, and steady-state error size, for the consensus and formation errors among the distributed WMR systems. Compared with a conventional prescribed controller, the structure of the proposed constraint controller is more compact and can be conveniently implemented in actual systems. The stability conditions and finite convergence time are discussed using the Lyapunov function with the adaptive law to describe the uncertainty. Numerical simulation results of formation control for the WMR systems support the validity of the proposed control method and demonstrate its potential performance.
This paper studies the modeling of biomechanical systems coupled to human and exoskeletons, and then establishes a biomechanical model of the human body. This paper also discusses how to design controllers for exoskeleton robots. The model in this article is based on a 6-DOF lower limb rehabilitation robot and a simple 3-DOF plane motion. This paper also proposes a hybrid position/force controller for a robotic rehabilitation strategy for a lower extremity after stroke. The controller has been verified by simulation of a lower extremity rehabilitation robot.


Star Wars scores have been notorious for having track titles that hint at the plot points they're pegged to in the film's soundtrack, like the death of Qui-Gon, for example, in The Phantom Menace. So while the music for the franchise has been indisputably amazing, analyzing the track titles has become a spoilery endeavor for those who want to go into the new movies cold.
So, as the Solo soundtrack had its track titles released today (as you can see in the Instagram post from the film's composer John Powell below), don't read on if you want to be surprised by every twist and turn of the story.
Aside from the objectively incredible reveal that Lando's clothing is getting its own theme song, there're quite a few interesting developments we can glean from this list. First, we can tell that there'll be more than one heist in the film because the train caper ("Train Heist"), involving the robbery of the Conveyex, will be pulled relatively early in the film. Some believed that this would be the climactic crime of the film, but it looks like a "Mine Mission" and "Into the Maw" will be the songs leading us into the final act's debauchery.
Lots of smuggling is happening here and, since the Millennium Falcon has its own tune halfway down the list, it'll likely come in handy as Han proves himself to his criminal family. Thankfully no character deaths — at least we think — are portended by the music, though "Reminiscence Therapy" and "Good Thing You Were Listening" have the potential for either tongue-in-cheek humor or poignancy. We also get to learn that Chewbacca meets Han quickly after the latter's introduction, establishing the familiar during the first half of the movie so the second half can do some world expansion.
Finally, the "Savareen Stand-Off" hints at an Outer Rim adventure sure to navigate one of the loosely defined planets from the extended universe, like the mining hub Christophsis. The sector has plenty of lore to lend the prequel film, and its inclusion in a song title is exactly the kind of hint to whet the appetites of Star Wars diehards.


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Protection bag for the MD200 Magnetometer.
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Max. 4 m of location depth and a 50 m long feed cable are the main features of this system.
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Obama Proposes Funding for Rail, Aviation and Highways
By Alison McSherry
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) is proposing to take money being spent in Iraq and redirect it to improving transportation across the country.
"It's time to stop spending $10 billion a month in Iraq and start investing that money in Phoenix, Nashville, Seattle and metro areas across this country," he said in Miami last month. "Let's invest that money in a world-class transit system."
As gas prices climb, Obama says the investment would pay off in many areas. "Public transit not only reduces the amount of time individuals spend commuting but also has significant benefits to air quality, public health and reducing greenhouse gas emissions," his Web site states.
Under current law, employers may provide $205 worth of parking benefits tax-free but only $105 tax-free for mass transit and carpooling. The candidate plans to amend the tax code so that the benefits of driving, car pooling and using mass transit are the same.
Obama also has plans in the works to bolster the country's rails system. "We'll also invest in our ports, roads and high-speed rails — because I don't want to see the fastest train in the world built halfway around the world in Shanghai, I want to see it built right here in the United States of America," he said.
The presidential hopeful also supports developing high-speed rail systems across the nation to help economic growth. A supporter of federal funding for Amtrak, Obama was a co-sponsor of the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2007, which authorized appropriations for the railway to pay off debts and improve operations.
Citing record airline delays, Obama says he will work with Congress to modernize the air traffic control system. According to Obama's Web site, there are 1,000 fewer air traffic controllers working in the U.S. than there were three years ago. If elected, Obama said he will direct the Federal Aviation Administration to cooperate and work with the frontline air traffic controllers to improve working conditions.
Obama wants to increase airline safety by restoring "competence, independence and credibility" to the FAA.
According to the candidate's Web site, "Obama will appoint a qualified FAA Administrator who will not play politics with the safety of American travelers and he will work with Congress to strengthen the FAA's mandate."


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Disclosure: Special thanks to Urban Air Adventure Park for providing passes for my family to experience all of the fun they offer.
There is a NEW Indoor Activity Center in Omaha! Urban Air Adventure Park offers fun for a variety of ages, from toddlers to adults, with a Warrior Course, High Ropes Course, Climbing Walls, Dodgeball, Trampolines, Indoor Playground, and more!
Created with the idea of providing a place where kids of different ages can play, Urban Air offers active fun with unique and challenging attractions. Urban Air Adventure Park opened in Omaha in August 2017.
One of the highlights of Urban Air Adventure Park is the Warrior Course!
Packed full with exciting obstacles, this course offers many challenges with varying degrees of difficulty.
With 4 lanes of challenges, multiple children or adults can participate at the same time.
The balls provide a nice cushion for landing, and a fun pool for the kids to walk through.
Each lane also had a timer, so you can try to improve your score each time, or challenge your friends.
Another favorite attraction is the High Ropes Course, which we have never seen before or experienced at any other location.
Raised high overhead the floor below, participants are secured with ropes and harnesses that allow them to freely move around the obstacles. Be careful if you are afraid of heights!
Initially, my kids were very tentative as they moved around the course, but by the end, they were moving around almost forgetting they were so high above ground!
A highlight of our visit were the Climbing Walls and Stairway to Heaven!
Participants are harnessed and can choose from a variety of climbing walls, including the racing tower where you can challenge your friends!
This unique climbing wall was my son's favorite!
The Stairway to Heaven is a fun challenge for kids and adults alike! After several attempts, I finally made it to the top!
Urban Air includes a large area for trampoline fun.
A perfect closed off area just for children ages 5 and under!
Visitors can play on 2 dodgeball courts!
The DropZone invites participants to jump and flip, landing on a stunt mat.
See how high you can dunk with 2 hoops!
These Olympic Style Trampolines provided extra bounce, where kids could jump up to the ledges and back. It was amazing how high you could jump!
A perfect space for the younger visitors!
The fun includes many slides, climbing areas, tunnels, and obstacles.
Urban Air Adventure Park offers a variety of special events.
Parents can join in the fun on Open Jump Times! A Parent Pass is currently $5.99 for the same attractions as their child.
Urban Air Jump Socks are required for Climbing Walls and Ropes Course.
Find out more about Omaha's Urban Air Adventure Park here!
One Family Fun in Omaha reader will win a Family Fun Pack to Omaha's Urban Air Adventure Park, which includes 4 shirts, 4 headbands, 4 passes to trampolines, indoor playground, and warrior course.
This giveaway has ended. Many thanks to all who entered! Congratulations to Denise M.!
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Last week's Tonight report on ITV on the dangers of mercury fillings has reopened this can of worms. Common dental amalgams can contain up to 50% mercury along with other heavy metals. While brushing and eating mercury vapour can leach from amalgams and passes readily through cell membranes. The effects of mercury and other heavy metals in the body can be surprisingly far-reaching and have very serious consequences.
In mild cases it may be a cause of fatigue but in serious cases can cause auto-immune disorders, infertility, psychological and neurological disturbances. Tom Warren is a case in point: Tom was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1983 and was told by his doctor that it might take seven years for his 'incurable' condition to slowly destroy him. Brain scans confirmed that his brain was effectively shrinking. When I interviewed him Tom was no longer sufferinfg from dementia. His brain scans had normalised and his mind is in tip-top condition. The real turning point came when he read Hal Huggins' book on mercury toxicity 'It's All in Your Head'. Here's what he told me: "I immediately knew this was right. Hal Huggins had found that almost all mercury toxic patients had rock bottom stomach acid. I had 26 mercury fillings.
Personally, I don't think true Alzheimer's is caused by mercury toxicity but I'm convinced that excess mercury can bring on dementia-like symptoms. If you'd like to know more about this read The Alzheimers Prevention Plan. The best course of action for those people suspecting mercury or heavy metal toxicity due to amalgams is to visit a dentist who knows about removing mercury fillings. Amalgam removal is available but obviously this can only be carried out by a properly trained dentist and is usually supported by a chelation protocol. This process provides your body with binding agents to help transport the mercury and heavy metals out of the body and makes sure that the heavy metal is not just displaced to another area of the body. Supplements should be used to help support your body's natural detoxification process and help chelate these toxic metals out of the body.


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Eine PHP Standard Recommendation (PSR) ist eine als Empfehlung verfasste Spezifikation, welche durch die PHP Framework Interoperability Group (PHP FIG) veröffentlicht wird. Anders als bei einem Java Specification Request in Java empfiehlt eine PSR ausschließlich die Form der Programmierung mit PHP, nicht jedoch neue Features in PHP. Ziel der PSRs ist es, die Interoperabilität von (Dritt-)Komponenten (dependencies) zu ermöglichen, Quellcode universell lesbar und verständlich zu machen und bewährte Konzepte in der Programmierung zu standardisieren. Zielgruppe der PHP FIG ist primär jedes Mitglied der Gruppe, allerdings finden die PSRs über die FIG hinaus auch in den meisten anderen Projekten Aufmerksamkeit und Anwendung. Daher setzen Framework-Projektgruppen, die auch Mitglied der FIG sind, wie z. B. die der TYPO3-Community, von Symfony oder von Zend (Laminas), die PSR-Spezifikationen in einem selbst gewählten Umfang um. Eine Kompatibilität mit den PSRs und einschlägigen Bibliotheken ist ein sicherer Pfad zur Kompatibilität der eigenen Software mit den Produkten der FIG-Mitglieder.

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I actually don't know much about Jaclyn Moriarty's process or where her stories come from or who inspired her characters. I just know that reading her books feels like sitting with friends. Her characters feel alive.
I guess I feel it's funny to be looked to for advice on writing when I am still taking in so much from other people.
It's really important to me to follow the kinds of conversations that happen around diversity and representation and writing inclusive books.
When I read, I don't need a character to look like me, act like me, or think like me. I don't need to have my heart broken. I don't need to be surprised or amused or challenged, and I don't need to swoon.
What I need, as a reader, is a character with a heart and a voice and a pulse. I need a character so vivid and so specific that she doesn't feel like fiction.
As a reader and as a viewer, usually when I watch a movie, I'm caught up enough in the movie that I'm not breaking it down to the details anyway.
I'm very much a people-pleaser, and with a book out, I had to learn that you can't please everybody with your book.


Did you know that pesticides remain inside fruits and veggies even after they have been washed? That the pesticides can't be washed or peeled off? Every day we are ingesting a cocktail of chemicals – about 230 different pesticides and pesticide by-products on peaches, apples, spinach, grapes, cucumbers and almost the entire produce section of your supermarket.
That's why buying organic is non-negotiable for me, especially when it comes to the dirty dozen, which is a list of produce with the highest loads of pesticide residues. Thought it would be helpful to pass along what I know to be true, in your guide to pesticides in produce.
Strawberries, spinach, nectarines, apples, grapes, peaches, cherries, pears, tomatoes, celery, potatoes and sweet bell peppers.
This means that more than 98% of samples of produce tested positive for pesticide residue. One single sample of strawberries showed 20 different pesticides. Can you imagine? And spinach samples had 1.8 times as much pesticide residue by weight than most other crops.
So how do we know that pesticides are harmful to your health?
Most of the data comes from studies of farmworkers who toil in the soil regularly, being exposed to all these chemicals, year after year. Long-term pesticide exposure has linked this group to increased risk of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, ovarian and prostate cancer, depression and respiratory problems. Even folks living in the farm communities are at risk for chronic health problems.
Even though we aren't handling the crops, we are still exposed through food, air and water. Yes, most pesticide residues are below EPA tolerance guidelines, which some advocates of pesticide use show as "proof" that the health risks are minimal — but research used to set those limits is sadly lacking.
Can peeling a fruit remove or reduce the amount of pesticides?
The USDA only measures pesticide residue for the edible portion of a vegetable or fruit. The inedible peels and rinds are removed. The truth is that the produce grows in contaminated soil, and those chemicals and pesticides grow right into the fruit.
Do pesticides get into the water supply?
Yep…! Most Americans don't seem to be too concerned with water contamination, but according to a U.S. Geological Survey report, most of the streams in the U.S. contain pesticide residue.
Isn't it more important to buy local rather than organic?
Local to what, exactly? It doesn't mean anything other than the fact that the produce was grown on a farm close to your community. While buying local gives us a warm and fuzzy feeling for supporting our local growers, it says nothing about the levels of pesticides and/or chemicals that are being applied to the produce.
Organic, however, is strictly regulated, as discussed in this post, so you know that you are getting produce without the application of any pesticides.
Aside from farmers, children are at the greatest of exposure to toxic chemicals in produce. Since their metabolism is different than ours, toxins remain in their little bodies much longer, where they can do more damage.
Pesticide exposure can affect their development – especially when they are babies and young toddlers, because their organs and nervous systems are still developing. Plus, their risk is more concentrated because they eat more food relative to their body weight than we do as adults, according to Philip Landrigan, M.D., director of the Children's Environmental Health Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
A lot of people I speak with, think that peeling fruits or vegetables removes or reduces the amount of pesticides they ingest, and I've also heard folks say that you can remove the chemicals by washing the produce.
To a certain extent they are right, because rinsing removes the residue on the surface, along with the dirt and bacteria. But the pesticides can't really be washed away because they stick to the skins of the fruit, and the wax coatings trap pesticide residue.
Some pesticides are systemic, meaning that they are taken up by the plant's root system and get into the fruit or vegetable so they can't be washed off at all.
Speaking of washing, just wash the produce in running water. You don't need to use soap or special vegetable washes. Using a vegetable brush is also helpful in removing residues, germs and dirt.
The risk of pesticide use has been proven, and even without all the studies that have been done, it seems pretty obvious that we don't want to consume fruits and vegetables that have been grown in chemical-filled soil, or sprayed with toxic pesticides.
So, what is the risk-benefit ratio? When I think of buying organic, or buying conventional, or not buying any produce at all, I have to think that buying conventional produce is still better than nothing.
We know that consuming fruits and vegetables as often as possible, and as much as 3x a day, can lower the risk of stroke, high-blood pressure, cancer, and diabetes.
The bottom line is that the risk of NOT consuming any fresh fruits and veggies is much greater than consuming conventional options. In other words, organic is best, because it lowers your personal exposure to pesticides and chemicals, and making that choice also supports a sustainable agriculture system.
But your primary goal should always be to eat a plant-strong diet, rich in many types of fruits and veggies, and if the organic choice is too expensive or not available, then go with a low-risk conventional option. There are enough choices out there, and you'll never run out of options, organic or otherwise.
I´m aware of the many pesticides used in the farming industry, nevertheless, I´m shocked to hear that the chemicals and pesticides can´t even be peeled off because it grows right into the fruit through the contaminated soil. It´s a disaster for our health that the chemicals and pesticides destroy the soil and contaminates the water.
I love your guide "Dirty Dozen and the Clean Fifteen". It´s a great help for me to remind me of what kind of fruits and vegetables absolutely must be organically grown ones.
Amy, your website has become a great source of knowledge to me.
Thank you, Pernilla! So glad you find this site to be helpful. Yeah it is pretty disgusting when you think about the chemicals and pesticides that are drawn up into the fruits and vegetables we consume. Knowing which ones are on the Dirty Dozen list is very helpful for sure. Thanks!
Great information, a lot of which I did not know. I thought that I could wash any pesticides off the fruit and vegetables! I do try to buy organic when ever I can though. And I had to chuckle about what you said on local produce. We don't really know where it was local to, that is true! Thanks for opening my eyes! I will try to buy even more organic now. The cost is really not that much more.
Thanks for writing! No, organic is not that much more than conventional, especially if you stick to the Dirty Dozen list. Not everything has to be organic. Most people think that local produce MUST be just great, but really, where is it coming from? I went to a "local produce" market upstate New York, and thought it was so great because it was local. I asked them where the produce comes from, and they told me, "California" — so go figure! Not so local!!!
Thanks for the helpful info, too bad we are not aware what we are feeding our body everyday.
we have to follow your advise, your are absolutely right!
Thanks for sharing this important information. Modern agriculture is slowly poisoning us! I prefer to eat as wild as possible, but when that isn't possible, I opt for organic.
Thanks, Melinda! Yes, organic is the way to go!
Thank you for this comprehensive and well explained list. I'm saving it for the next time I go grocery shopping for easy reference!


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Q: How to get user's input and store it I want to develop a bot that accepts user input in this format month/day(example 2/20). After that, it will check for the database from which zodiac sign elements and from input that user-provided. Thank you

A: As said in this comment, you can split the info at the /. This is how you can split it:
const data = message.content.split("/"); //I don't know the variable name for your message object
const [month, day] = data
//you can now check with month being the number string before the / and day being the number string after it

Here is a working example

const str1 = "2/20";
const str2 = "5/12";
let data = str1.split("/");
let [month, day] = data;
console.log(`Month was ${month} and day was ${day}`);
data = str2.split("/");
[month, day] = data;
console.log(`Month was ${month} and day was ${day}`);


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Indianapolis Colts kicker Pat McAfee recovers his own onside kick in the first quarter of "Thursday Night Football" against the Houston Texans.


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Tournoi de Roland-Garros, dîner des champions. Yannick Noah recevant le prix Phillipe Chatrier. Avec Mats Wilander, joueur suédois. Du 24 mai au 6 juin 2004. Photo : Tommy Hindley.
Roland-Garros French Open. Yannick Noah (born in 1960). Paris, 1984.
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Roland-Garros French Open. Yannick Noah (born in 1960), he won the tournament that year. Paris, 1983.
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Roland-Garros French Open. John Mac Enroe (born in 1959). Paris, 1981.
Updating of the notice board. International of France. Paris, Roland-Garros stadium. May - June 1977.
Björn Borg (born in 1956), Swedish tennis player, winner of the French Open men's singles final versus Manuel Orantes (born in 1949), Spanish tennis player. Paris, Roland-Garros, on June 16, 1974.
Björn Borg (born in 1956), Swedish tennis player, during the Roland-Garros tournament. Paris (XVIth arrondissement), June 1974. Photograph by Gösta Wilander (1896-1982). Paris, musée Carnavalet.
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Yannick Noah (né en 1960), joueur de tennis français. Paris, 1983.
Stand at the Roland-Garros tennis stadium. Paris (XVIth arrondissement), 1974. Photograph by Gösta Wilander (1896-1982). Paris, musée Carnavalet.
Jean-Loup Dabadie, writer and journalist (on the left, 4-th row) and Jean-Paul Belmondo, attending a semifinal of the French Open. On the right: Caroline of Monaco and Philippe Junot. Paris, Roland-Garros, June 8, 1979.
French championships of tennis. Men's doubles. Henri Cochet and Paul Feret. From behind : Bernard Destremau and Yvon Petra. Paris, Roland-Garros stadium, August 1942.
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Roland Garros (1888-1918), officier et aviateur français. France, 1912.
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Roland-Garros French Open. Henri Leconte (born in 1963). Paris, 1985.
Roland-Garros French Open. Björn Borg (born in 1956), Swedish tennis player, winning the tournament for the second time. Paris, 1980.
Roland-Garros French Open. Jimmy Connors (born in 1952). Paris, 1981.
Internationaux de France of tennis in Roland-Garros (1956). Semifinal of the men's singles: L. Hoad against G. Merlo. Umpire: Eugene of Kermadec. Paris.
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French Tennis Championship. Men's doubles. Bottom : Christian Boussus. Centre : Henri Cochet. Umpire : Rodelberger. Paris, Roland-Garros stadium, 1941. Photograph by Roger Berson.
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Alain Bernard (2nd on the left) and Van Sau (3rd on the left), tennis players. Paris, Roland-Garros stadium. 1949.
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Roland Garros (1888-1918), officier et aviateur français, à bord d'un monoplan Blériot, 1911-1912.
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Internationaux de France de tennis. Henri Cochet (1901-1987), joueur de tennis français, après sa victoire contre William Tilden (1893-1953), joueur de tennis américain, lors de la finale de la Coupe Davis, 1930.
Roland-Garros French Open. Guillermo Vilas (born in 1952). Paris, 1983.
Match of tennis. Men's mixed doubles. Mac Neill-Harris against Boussus-Gentien. Paris, Roland-Garros.
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By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
A federal judge Thursday ordered the release of Kenneth Earl Hause, the 61-year-old national president of the Gypsy Jokers Outlaw Motorcycle Club, who is charged in an alleged racketeering conspiracy.
But U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones placed Hause on home detention with electric monitoring and said he must resign immediately from his role as leader of the motorcycle gang and not associate with any current or former Gypsy Joker members as he awaits trial.
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Hause's defense lawyer, Todd Bofferding, called his client a "man of honor" and described him as an ailing grandfather who has the widespread support of his local community in Aumsville — from the chief of police to waitresses in the small Marion County town of about 3,580 people.
Hause also can't get the medical care he needs in jail for his congenital heart failure, Bofferding said. Though he has a past criminal record, it's old and he hasn't been convicted of a crime in 15 years, his lawyer said.
"I don't believe he's now the man the government believes he is,'' Bofferding said.
Prosecutors vigorously opposed Hause's release, contending that at his direction as the "Wiz" or "The Boss'' of the gang, fellow Gypsy Jokers kidnapped, tortured and murdered a former club member.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Mygrant called Hause the "chief enforcer of this criminal enterprise,'' a motorcycle club he said that prides itself on being a "1 percenter'' group of outlaws, apart from the 99 percent of motorcyclists who abide by the law.
Hause has pleaded not guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit racketeering.
Four co-defendants who remain in custody are accused of racketeering but also are charged in the 2015 torture and killing of former club member Robert Huggins, who was kicked out for stealing money and for his intravenous drug use, prosecutors said. The killing was in retaliation for Huggins' burglary and robbery at the Woodburn home of Portland's Gypsy Jokers president Mark Leroy Dencklau. Dencklau's then-girlfriend was tied up during the robbery.
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Once Dencklau learned of the robbery, the first call he made was to Hause, and Hause went to Denklau's house, Mygrant said. For the next 25 days, the club's members carried out a "manhunt'' for Huggins, ultimately kidnapping him and dumping his body in Woodland, Washington, where he was found dead, according to prosecutors.
"This organization had a hit out for Bobby Huggins, and the prime shot caller was this man,'' Mygrant said of Hause.
Hause, his hair pulled back in a pony tail with a bushy gray beard, wore a black-and-gray-striped jail suit as he sat beside his lawyer in the Portland courtroom.
Hause's lawyer argued that prosecutors have no evidence that ties Hause to Huggins' murder. All they have is a phone call, but they're "guessing'' what was discussed during the call, he said.
Hause's wife heard him on one end of that call offering emotional support to Dencklau upon hearing of the robbery, Bofferding said.
"At no time did he order a hit,'' the defense lawyer told the court.
The judge then asked the prosecution: "Do you have a witness who'll testify this defendant directly ordered the torture murder?''
"We do not,'' Mygrant answered.
Prosecutors, though, argued that Hause had engaged in brutal beatings of club members and barroom brawls with rivals, distributed methamphetamine and issued threats to kill those who talked to police. His violent behavior didn't result in arrests or convictions in recent years because he was "protected'' as others feared his reprisals if they went to police, Mygrant said.
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Investigators in this case have already moved several witnesses out of state, fearing intimidation from the defendants or their supporters, prosecutors said. Dencklau, for example, is accused of sending two Gypsy Jokers to find a key witness in the case, according to Mygrant.
During a search of Hause's house in Aumsville in January, investigators found a photo of a man that had the word "snitch'' scrawled on it, according to court documents.
"He may not be the person who personally goes out and intimidates witnesses, but he has the ability to influence others,'' Mygrant told the judge.
A defendant can intimidate potential witnesses just as easily from behind bars as from home, Bofferding argued. The judge agreed.
Jones decided to release Hause, citing his long-standing family ties to Aumsville, his motorcycle repair business there and his medical issues. The judge added that it's hard to detain Hause without the government having "direct proof'' that he issued an order to kill Huggins.
The judge requested monitoring of Hause's cellphone and told him not to leave home, except for doctor appointments or court hearings.
— Maxine Bernstein
Email at mbernstein@oregonian.com
Source:/www.oregonlive.com
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UCC Camogie club is one of the oldest clubs in the existence of the Camogie Association, who have the proud record of taking part in the first ever intercollegiate camogie match versus UCD on 18th April 1915. Since then, UCC has won 31 Ashbourne Cup Titles with the first success in 1919 and the most recent in 2003 and a Purcell Cup Title in 2014, when they overcame DIT in Belfast under the guidance of their captain Inniscarrig's Joanne Casey. Impressively, UCC won six in-a-row in both the 1920s and the 1970s. UCC holds the record for the longest reign in the history of the Ashbourne Cup competition.
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Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort Names New Director of Sales and Director of Group Sales
LAKE BUENA VISTA, FL – The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort has named a new director of sales and a director of group sales as the property prepares to complete the final phase of a $140 million renovation, its largest to date.
Aaron Weegar named director of sales
Aaron Weegar has been appointed director of sales at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort and will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day efforts of the resort's sales team at the 2,267-room property.
Weegar returns to the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin having previously served as the resort's account director for the Northeast market where he and his team consistently exceeded sales goals. Most recently he was the Director of Sales at The Diplomat in Ft. Lauderdale where he led the property's sales team through a successful brand transition while continuing to meet goals.
Weegar has more than 10 years of hospitality sales experience and is a graduate of The University of Findlay in Ohio.
Nick Anderson promoted to director of group sales
The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort has promoted Nick Anderson to director of group sales. In Anderson's new role, he will oversee the resort's sales managers and lead the team responsible for booking executive meetings.
Anderson joined the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin in May 2014 as group sales account director and in 2015 was promoted to associate director of sales. He previously served some of the world's largest hotels at the managerial and director levels, with career highlights including pre-opening operations and sales for several major convention hotels in Las Vegas.
Anderson is a graduate of Eastern Washington University in Washington state.
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