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Ramos has spent his entire career in civil engineering in the aviation facility sector managing projects in Missouri, Michigan and Florida. Prior to joining Lambert, Ramos was the Aviation Civil Engineer at Spirit of St. Louis Airport in St. Louis County from 2006 to 2014. He has also managed major runway and airfield projects at Miami International Airport and Bishop International Airport in Flint, MI.
ARFF Batallion Chief Steve Simpson monitors the Airport's emergency response training exercise on April 19.
There was smoke, flames, makeup and fake injuries. They were all key components for a major emergency response training exercise at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport on April 19. The Airport's Aircraft Rescue Firefighters (ARFF) are the first responders for any incident on the airfield. They are the first to take incident command. For this exercise, a mobile trainer that spits out flames was used to simulate a jet crash on Runway 11-29. The firefighters attacked the flames and then were joined by other emergency responders and Airport staff to follow through on training related to treating and transferring injured passengers. A group of volunteers doubled as the passengers and were sent to area hospitals that were also testing emergency response plans. The Federal Aviation Administration requires all commercial airports to conduct this live exercise every three years.
Severe winter weather through the first three months of 2014 impacted travel numbers for Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. Through the first quarter, when Lambert experienced a large number of airline cancellations due to weather across the U.S., Lambert saw a 4.4 percent drop in total passengers. The Airport recorded 2,731,968 total passengers (arriving and departing) vs 2,858,057 in the same time frame in 2013.
The number of aircraft departures dropped 7.8 percent in the first three months versus 2013, another indication of the impact of cancelled flights.
"The impact on our flight activity was not unexpected considering we just faced one of the worst winter seasons in the last two decades. And it wasn't just here, but across the U.S.," said Lambert Director Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge. "We certainly don't see this as a trend that will continue because we've moved into the better weather seasons."
Recent blooms frame the air traffic control tower at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.
After one of the harshest winters in decades, St. Louis is finally being able to embrace a change of seasons. The debut of spring has battled the out-going winter through much of April. But in the last week, spring has begun to put on a show across the region. At Lambert, blooms are in full force as they soak in warmer temperatures. Flowering trees, bushes and plants signal the Airport's busy summer travel season is fast approaching.
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport will shut down runway 11/29 on the morning of Saturday, April 19 to hold a 2-hour full scale exercise of its emergency plan involving the response to an aircraft crash.
During the training, Airport Rescue Firefighters (ARFF) will be the first responders and will attack a live fire produced from a Mobile Aircraft Trainer, a 50-ft fuselage which produces flames to simulate a fully engulfed aircraft (pictured left). The exercise begins at 10 a.m. and will be completed by 12 noon.
The aircraft firefighting trainer will be staged at the east end of Runway 11/29 as part of a mock crash site of a jet.
Airport Police, EMS, and dozens of other departments will be participating in the drill along with support from Lambert airlines and two area hospitals.
As part of the exercise, the Airport's emergency responders will coordinate the treatment and transportation of crash victims, made up of a few dozen volunteers. Some of the volunteers will be transported to area hospitals to extend the emergency training to those facilities. Airline staff will simulate the operation of a victim support center in the Airport, which is required by the FAA during major aircraft incidents.
The full scale emergency plan exercise is required for all commercial airports by the FAA every three years.
The Pasta House Co. and Schlafly Beer are two well-known brands in St. Louis with venues at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. They have now expanded at Lambert with a combination venue in Terminal 2 that now features the best of both the Pasta House and Schlafly craft brews.
The 1,500 sq. ft. restaurant and bar is open across from Gate E4 serving passengers for Southwest Airlines and Air Tran Airways.
Passengers can find all the traditional Pasta House menu items from spaghetti, lasagna, penne primavera and pizza. Appetizers, sandwiches, soups, salads and burgers are also on the menu. Customers will find the full selection of Schlafly beers at this location as well as rotating food specials inspired by Schlafly, which operates three restaurant locations in St. Louis including its venue in Concourse C. The other Pasta House location is in the lower level of Terminal 1. There are 16 company-owned and franchise-operated Pasta House Co. locations throughout St. Louis with other stores in eastern Missouri and western Kentucky.
The new venue is solely operated by St. Louis based OHM Concessions Group, LLC. OHM also operates other airport venues, including Dunkin Donuts and Great American Bagel as a sub-contractor for HMSHost, the Airport's food and beverage concessionaire.
Members of the Chinese National Baseball Team arrived in Terminal 2 this week to meet the St. Louis Cardinals and play an exhibition game.
Sports has always been a key to connecting cultures. This week, St. Louis is hosting the Chinese National Baseball Team. The team arrived at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport late Thursday through Terminal 2. St. Louis-based Rawlings Sporting Goods Company helped coordinate the trip which is intended to encourage cultural ties as well as promote the major league game and the St. Louis Cardinals in China. The team will get to watch the Cardinals and Chicago Cubs square off at Busch Stadium over the weekend. There, they'll quickly see how St. Louis fans embrace the game. Players will grab their hats and bats, too, when they play an exhibition game against the Maryville University Saints.
Warmer weather and bright skies are helping to push the major Terminal 1 copper roof replacement project along at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. After a few weeks of demolition of the original roof and sub-layers on the first dome under construction, there was a mini milestone.
Roofers layed down the first section of new copper. One down and thousands more to go.
Navy Petty Officer Kali Clapsiddle is surprised to see and hear an Elvis Impersonator singing to her as she exits the C checkpoint to meet her family.
Elvis lives and he performs more than 400 shows a year! Twenty-one year old Kali Clapsiddle received a rousing welcome from Elvis as she left the C checkpoint to meet her family. Elvis lives on thanks to Clapsiddle's family friend, Steve Davis. Davis was hired by Clapsiddle's dad to perform in honor of her arrival home and naval promotion. Clapsiddle arrived from Japan, where she has been stationed for the last two years aboard the USS George Washington. It was her first visit back home this year. Clapsiddle's family is very proud of her. She was recently promoted to Petty Officer. Davis who performs under the moniker of Memories of Elvis, garnered a lot of attention from other passengers.
St. Louis sports fans rejoice. One of St. Louis' most popular restaurants is expanding with a new location at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport in the A Concourse. Mike Shannon's Grill will be the third location for the family owned steak and seafood restaurant, which is named for the former St. Louis Cardinals player and the team's long-time radio and TV broadcaster. It will open by early summer.
The signature Mike Shannon's near Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis has been an institution for 25 years because of its menu and its stunning collection of Cardinals and baseball memorabilia. The Airport location will carry a similar theme and a variation on the menu featured at Mike Shannon's Grill in nearby Edwardsville, Ill.
"This will be upscale comfort food with some of our signature steakhouse cuts," said owner Pat Shannon-VanMatre. Menu items will include salads, wraps, soups and burgers. Petite filets and ribeyes, along with fish and chicken, round out the meal selections on the menu. A breakfast menu will also be available at the airport location.
The restaurant, to be located adjacent to gate A12 at the location currently operated as The Local, will also feature one-of–a kind Cardinals and baseball memorabilia collected by Mike Shannon over decades.
"We hope people coming through appreciate that St. Louis is the best baseball town in the country," said Shannon-VanMatre.
The new Mike Shannon's Grill is part of a partnership with HMSHost, Lambert's master food and beverage concessionaire. The new restaurant will feature nearly 90 seats in the dining and bar areas. The space will be renovated in the coming weeks with dark leather upholstered seating accented by wood finishes and rounded out with a custom display of some amazing baseball history.
Avoid parking fees the next time you pick up a passenger. Lambert provides free waiting zones for motorists near each terminal.


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WASHINGTON TWP. – The West Morris Regional High School District has approved a tentative 2013-14 budget that hits the state imposed 2 percent cap on the nose and keeps staffing at current levels.
The proposed, $50.335 million budget sent to the Morris County Superintendent's office reflects an overall 1 percent increase in expenditures that will raise tax bills in each of the district's sending communities, except Washington Township.
School board members approved the budget by a 5-2 vote, with Chester Township representative Marcia Asdal and Mendham Township board member Jamie Button voting against approval.
The pair attempted to attach an amendment that would have demanded equal per pupil expenditures at the districts two high schools, but were outvoted 5-2.
Favorable votes for the 2013-14 plan were cast by board president James Johnston, of Chester Township, Vice President Joseph Galayda of Washington Township, Jacki Schramm of Mendham, Donald Storms of Chester and Lisa Woodring of Washington Township.
The trimming of $1.086 million was accomplished without pay to play or pay to park restrictions imposed.
"We tried to answer every question that came our way," said District Superintendent Mackey Pendergrast. "We've been very, very committed to that transparent process."
He said reaching the 2 percent cap limit was a challenge, compounded by rising health care costs and state requirements for curriculum overhaul, teacher and staff evaluations and the need to improve district technology.
Business Administrator Douglas Pechanec said that although state aid remained equal to last years $4,369,441, an increase of $58,000 paid to the New Jersey Schools Development Authority (SDA) meant the district actually will have less outside income to spend.
Pechanec did a nifty book juggling act to come up with the bulk of the funds needed to close the gap to the cap.
The district retired $1.178 million in unspent balances from previous fiscal years and transferred the money to the capital reserve account.
That allowed the district to use about $600,000 from the reserve account toward operational costs for 2013-14.
In addition, Pendergrast said a spending freeze already in effect will save $100,000. Another $100,000 is expected to be saved by reducing the sixth period class budget by 25 percent from this year.
Pendergrast said most of the savings would be the result of better scheduling efficiency for the additional period.
A delay until August in hiring an assistant principal will save $15,000. Reductions in the number if substitute employees is expected to cut $27,000.
In addition, plans to spend $75,000 for a turf field at West Morris Central High School were scrapped.
The district did not use any of its banked cap credits. The credits were banked by budgeting less than the cap in the past three years and by not declaring health and pension costs to be outside the cap.
Button said he could not support a budget that didn't allocate equal per pupil spending.
Asdal said she couldn't understand how anyone outside of Washington Township would support a budget that sees 50 percent of resources spent on each school, but only 35 percent of taxes raised in Washington Township.
"It's imperative to craft a budget that equalizes spending per pupil at a regional school district," Asdal said. "At the very least, why is this not done as a matter of course?"
Pendergrast said he could equalize per pupil costs by transferring 20 veteran teachers from West Morris Central to Mendham High School, in exchange for 20 teachers at lower pay grades.
He said that would raise the same problem in reverse in five years when the enrollment cycle shifted again.
The gap between per pupil costs has risen from $293 per student in 2006 to $1,172 this year.
The district has an imbalance in high earning teachers. Those at Step 17 in the current West Morris Education Association contract, earn over $100,000 a year.
West Morris Central has 51 teachers at Step 17, while only 38 are employed at Mendham. That pay grade alone accounts for $1.314 million more paid to West Morris Central than teachers at Mendham.
The district has surprisingly few teachers at the lower pay grades. There are 29.5 positions in the lowest eight steps at West Morris Central and only 29 at Mendham.
Pendergrast said he plans to revisit the teacher question when class schedules are completed for the fall later this spring. He said he can use balancing methods such as shifting teachers without any changes in the budget.
Woodring said she has a basic problem with using per pupil costs in any way.
"I'm uncomfortable using teachers and students to make numbers come out the way we want it," said Woodring. "That's a sad way to go."
Pechanec said there's only a $59,000 difference in non-payroll expenditures between the two schools.
If the budget remains untouched at the county review level, Washington Township resident swill get a tax break this year.
The tax rate for a home assessed at $500,000 will decrease from the current rate of 53.35 cents per $100, or $533.50 per $100,000 of assessment to a new rate of 52.54 cents per $100 or $525.40 per $100,000 of assessment.
The same Washington Township homeowner will save $40.50 over this year's regional school taxes.
Chester Township residents see the highest increase, from 51.94 cents per $100 this year ($519.40 per $100,000 of valuation) to 54.91 cents next year, or $549.10 per $100,000 valuation.
That will cost the Chester Township homeowner of a $500,000 house an additional $148.50.
In Mendham Township, the owner of a home assessed at $500,000 will pay $79 more in regional school taxes next year.
The 2012 tax rate of 48.96 cents per $100 assessment or $489.60 per $100,000 of assessment will rise to 50.54 cents per $100 or $505.40 per $100,000 valuation.
Mendham owners of a home assessed at $500,000 will pay an additional $57 next year as the tax rate jumps from 47.69 cents per $100, or $476.90 per $100,000 valuation, to 48.83 cents or $483.30 cents per $100,000.
Chester residents will pay an additional $47 in 2013-14 over this year's regional school bill. The tax rate rises from 35.24 cents per $100 or $352.40 per $100,000 to 36.18 cents per $100 valuation, or $361.80 per $100,000 assessment.
The individual municipal tax rates are calculated using a state formula which takes into account percentages of overall enrollment and other factors.
Neither the school board nor administration mentioned what percentage, if any, of teacher salary increases is included in the 2013-14 calculations.
The current West Morris Education Association contract, representing the district's 240 teachers, expires on June 30.
Association President Joyce Hartmann said the union will meet with the board negotiating team on Monday, March 11, to discuss the parameters of upcoming negotiations.
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"For the past several years, AMEC has presented a very special award to a select few individuals whose actions have earned them the eternal gratitude of those involved in rural electrification in this state," said Barry Hart, CEO of the association. "This year, we present the award to a man who has always stood up for the electric cooperatives and the members they serve through a lengthy career that always focused on agriculture and rural people."
Kruse was first elected president of the Missouri Farm Bureau Federation and the Federation's five affiliated companies in 1992. During his 18 years of service as president, Missouri Farm Bureau grew from 77,000 to over 111,000 member families. As its membership grew, so too did its clout in the state Capitol. It was here that Missouri's electric cooperatives often called on Kruse for support, especially on issues where rural people found themselves struggling against urban interests on an unlevel playing field.
Several Missouri Farm Bureau policies supporting the electric cooperatives were passed during his tenure. When retail wheeling was being debated, Farm Bureau supported the electric cooperative position that this would be a big mistake for Missouri because it would shift costs from large industrials to families. Likewise, Farm Bureau under Kruse supported efforts to bring wind power to Northwest Missouri and legislation toughening Missouri law on copper theft.
He always believed electric cooperatives should own their own power supply instead of being dependent on others. He showed his leadership and support as an electric cooperative member by coming to Jefferson City to lobby on behalf of the Early Site Permit legislation that would keep the nuclear power option open for Missouri.
In the wake of the 2009 ice storm, the most devastating natural disaster to affect Missouri, Kruse was the first to publicly praise the efforts of electric cooperative employees and boards who worked to restore power, using his monthly column in the Farm Bureau magazine.
He even challenged the National Farm Bureau leadership when a proposed merger of satellite TV companies threatened to create a monopoly that was not in the interest of rural people. He brought the support of Missouri's Farm Bureau in a successful fight of this merger.
A native of Stoddard County, he is a 1967 graduate of Arkansas State University where he majored in agronomy. He earned his masters of science in agronomy in 1973 from the University of Missouri.
The Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives is the Jefferson City-based statewide service organization for Missouri's electric cooperatives.


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The new chief executive of housing association the Regenda Group has said that the social landlord will strive to "make the North West a better place to live".
Michael Birkett, who started his new role at the 11,000-home provider on Monday, said that Regenda has a "clear vision for the future", one which he is now dedicated to help become a reality.
Liverpool-born, Mr Birkett was previously chief executive of The Calico Group, which he transformed from a single social landlord based in one local authority to a group of five companies. He increased staffing from 180 to 475 and is credited with doubling turnover.
Mr Birkett said: "I am delighted to be working with a forward-thinking and courageous organisation that has an obvious commitment to and a proven track record of delivering innovative services that help transform the lives of their residents and the wider community.
"All housing groups are facing challenges, but Regenda is meeting those challenges head-on with robust planning and diversification. I look forward to leading Regenda forward, growing and seizing exciting new opportunities along the way."
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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - It's pretty amazing to consider that for the first 10 years of the Snowmass ski area, there was no grocery store in Snowmass. If you wanted a quart of milk or other food staples, you had to drive either upvalley to Aspen or downvalley to Basalt. It's also pretty amazing to consider that in more than 33 years of being in business, Village Market Snowmass has been open every day since.
John Buxman is the owner of Village Market Snowmass as well as Village Markets in Edwards, Telluride and Moab, Utah.
Buxman grew up in Oklahoma and came to Colorado after college in 1949 as the Colorado mountain resorts in Vail and Aspen were just beginning to evolve into ski towns.
He got into the grocery business by working in a store and rising up through the ranks. Eventually, Buxman was able to open his own grocery store in Minturn in 1968. In 1978, he opened a Village Market in Vail that was open until 2008.
In 1979, Buxman opened his Village Market in Snowmass.
"I have a love affair with Snowmass," Buxman said. "The first time I drove in there, I said, 'This is where I want to live.' It's the greatest little town in the world, as far as I'm concerned, and I really love being part of it."
According to Buxman, large grocery distributors who sell food items, meat and produce don't work as well with independent grocery stores as they do with large chain stores. To combat this, Buxman has focused on niche markets, especially resort markets where he thought he could serve the community well and still have a good time.
"Independent grocery stores are a vanishing breed across the United States," Buxman said. "I like the contact with customers, the challenge of offering good service and competing with the chain stores. If you take care of your customers and try to be competitive, you'll make it."
The recent trend of sourcing food from more local farms can be found at Village Market Snowmass, particularly in the produce section, which was reorganized and expanded two summers ago. Jerry Pazar is the produce manager and has been with the store for 19 years. At Village Market Snowmass, you will find produce and fruit from Green River, Utah, from Palisade and around the Grand Junction area and from Paonia. If you want a real treat this week, try some of the peaches from Palisade.
Family and longtime staff members are a way of life at Village Market.
Buxman's son, John Buxman Jr., is now part of the management team, following in his father's grocery footsteps.
Is he excited to carry on the family business?
"Yes, he is. Or at least he was until he found out how much work it is," the elder Buxman said with a laugh. "He was on the U.S. ski team for many years, and he'd rather ski." Sounds like the younger Buxman fits in perfectly in Snowmass.
In addition to produce manager Jerry Pazar, Village Market Snowmass also has other longtime staff members. Deb Miller and her husband, Greg, have worked in Snowmass for 14 years, and Teresa Kelly has worked at Village Market Snowmass since 1992. Her dad worked at both the Minturn market and the Vail Village Market for years, and her son, James, is now a cashier in Snowmass. What does she like about Village Market Snowmass?
"The people," Kelly said. "They are more like a family. We greet each other, ask about each other's family. It's really great."
The Buxman family continues to look for grocery-store opportunities.
"It seems like I have a way of staying in a store for 30 or 40 years, so I think that speaks well for the communities that have put up with me," Buxman said.
While Village Market Snowmass has more than 20,000 items in the store (a lot for an independent store), Buxman would still like to expand his operations and grow into new space. Before the recession hit in 2008, there was a land-use process before the town to scrap the Snowmass Center and rebuild it from the ground up, including a new Village Market.
But for now, the Buxmans are focused on making Village Market Snowmass the best they can with the space they have. This week at Village Market, look for specials on zucchini and yellow squash (99 cents per pound), boneless pork chops ($3.99 per pound), Angel food loaf ($2.29 each), Powerade sports drinks (79 cents each) and seedless watermelon (39 cents per pound).
"We've been through power failures, other problems, but have never closed," Buxman said. "We feel like we have to be open 52 weeks a year, and we don't take that responsibility lightly."
Steve Alldredge is the former assistant editor/writer for the Snowmass Sun. He now runs a local communications company whose clients include Related Colorado. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Obama Takes Start-up Effort to Ohio
President Barack Obama on Tuesday heaped praise on entrepreneurs in America's heartland in an ongoing effort to spur start-up activity and small-business job growth.
In recent weeks, that effort has taken him from Northern Michigan to Silicon Valley.
This week, the president visits Northeast Ohio with Cabinet officials to promote entrepreneurship at a forum hosted by Cleveland State University.
The "White House Winning the Future Forum on Small Business" includes breakout sessions on high-growth entrepreneurship, access to capital, workforce development, boosting exports and clean-tech innovation, among other topics.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is expected to lead the session on access to capital, while Energy Secretary Steven Chu takes up clean energy and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke discusses small-business export strategies.
Under the banner of Startup American, an initiative launched shortly after the president's State of the Union speech earlier in the year, officials at the Ohio event are expected to unveil a new national small-business fund led by the Lorain County Community College that offers "small but crucial grants to local high-tech startups," allowing them to "prove their technology and raise money from private investors," according to a White House blog post.
The fund, which operates on tax-deductible donations, has already awarded $4.3 million to 60 local companies, which have since created 100 jobs and attracted $41 million in private investment, the blog post says.
The community college has committed to helping colleges across the country develop a similar funding models.


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Forms have been a part of the Microsoft programming lexicon since the first version of Visual Basic appeared back in 1991. Form is the term used to designate an interactive window. .NET is a replacement for those early com-based systems, but Microsoft continues the notion of form-based development. This framework is called Windows Forms. Windows Forms have been extremely popular in corporate applications, forming the basis of thousands of useful applications. They are easy to develop, and within Visual Studio support a drag-and- drop interface designer.
Despite their popularity, WinForm development is on the wane. WinForm uses GDI as it's rendering engine, which some consider inferior for building modern interfaces. Because of this, Microsoft created a replacement technology for Windows Forms. This new UI/API is called Windows Presentation Foundation, and it is covered in the next movie in this chapter. Even though I'm a diehard WPF fan, I want to show you some of the features of Windows Forms. It is a powerful tool, and is still used by many development shops as their leading Windows client development framework.
I'm inside Visual Studio, and I've opened a solution called CreateWindowsForms. Currently, there are no projects within this solution. I am going to right-click on the solution and choose Add > New Project. For today, I'm going to create a Visual Basic template because it has some interesting Windows Forms templates to use. So I am going to choose Visual Basic, and then Windows Form Application, and then I am going to go ahead and leave at its default name of WindowsApplication1 and click OK.
Here is my main screen of my application. I would like to add a couple of more Windows templates. To do that, I'm going to right-click on my WindowsAplication, choose Add > New Item. If I click on the Windows Forms node here, under Common Items, I can see about 20 different form templates. I am going to use the Splash Screen, and I am going to add one more: the Explorer Form.
As you can see, the Explorer Form has a complex UI in place. It has a menu, a toolbar, a split screen and many other features. That's all I want to show in that designer. The Splash Screen is designed and pop up when the application starts. To tell Visual Studio to launch this first and then my main form, I need to go to My Project, double-click here, scroll down to the bottom of this Application section, and choose Splash Screen. Choose your appropriate form.
While I'm in this dialog, I'll also make sure that my start up form is correct. I want to start with Form1 as my main screen. Now, I'm ready to test. Debug > Start Debugging. On my machine, it prompts me if I want to save my changes. There is the Splash Screen, and there is our main UI. I'll click the Close button to shut down this form, and then I'll close these two windows here: the WindowsAplication properties and the SplashScreen.
So, for the next couple of minutes, I'm going to creating some user interface for this screen. I am going to start by dragging a few items to the designer. First comes the menu strip. So I am going to go to my Toolbox. I am going to open this All Windows Forms section and find the MenuStrip control and drag that over. Notice that Visual Studio automatically docks that to the top. I'll also find the StatusStrip and drag that and drop it.
That gets docked along the bottom edge of my screen. I need a ListBox. Here it is. I'll drag that over and make it a little bit wider and taller. And then the last item I want to add is something called the PropertyGrid. Now, you've seen the PropertyGrid inside Visual Studio. It lives over here; at least on a Windows Form Application, it does. This control is also usable in your applications. So I am going to find it. Here it is.
I'll drag that over, and the next step I want to take is to dock this PropertyGrid to the right edge of the screen. To do that, I'm going to go to the Visual Studio property grid, scroll down to the Dock property, select it, and choose this dropdown. This represents the edges of the window where I can dock the control. If I click on this button right here, it means to dock to the right edge.
And I'll make it about 50% of the width of the screen. Now, I am ready to write some code. I need some menu items up here, so I am going to click at the top of the screen. I currently have no menu text. There is a very simple way to add a lot of menu items in a hurry in Visual Studio, by going to this little special icon over here, the black triangle, clicking once and then choose Insert Standard Items. See what happened? It added a File menu, an Edit menu, and the one I'm interested in--the Tools menu.
Now, I am going to add my own menu item right here, so I just click once and start typing. Double-click on this one, and it switches me over to the Visual Studio editor, and it has stubbed in this Visual Basic code. Now, what I want to do is go out to a folder in my hard drive. I am going to go to my Desktop folder, and I am going to search for text files, files that end with a TXT extension. Now, I have already created two empty text files on my Desktop.
If you're following along, make sure that you point your example to a folder that contains some files with a TXT extension. I am going to start by getting my desktop folder. We'll declare a variable called location, and then I'm going to go to the .NET engine, and I'm going to query the Environment, using this method called GetFolderPath. And watch what happens when I hit the open parenthesis--Visual Basic suggests this enumerated value.
I am going to be looking in my Desktop folder. So this is saying to .NET, "Somewhere on my hard drive is a Desktop folder. I don't know the exact location of it. Would you look that up and find the path of that and store that here?" Now next, I want to write a link query to talk to that file system and query the data that's here. Now rather than hand type that, I have an Assets folder here that contains a text local link code. I am going to open up this text file, and then I am going to copy this text and paste it into this code window right here. And I see I have this blue squiggle.
This happens occasionally. It means I am missing an Import statement at the top of my code window. That should fix it. So what this says is I'd like to start a query and store the query in this variable. Go out to the hard drive and walk through all of the files in this folder--remember that's my Desktop folder--and then here is the query part. Do a Where clause on that and say I'm only interested in files if they have a TXT extension on them.
Once you've done that query, I want you to select out the information and store it in this data type called the FileInfo. Now FileInfo contains information like when the file was last saved and what the file name is and things like that. So I am going to select that out. On line 12, I am going to execute the query by calling ToList, which returns the results of the query as a list. I am going to assign them to the list box as data source, and then I am going to tell the list box which property on the FileInfo class I'd like to show. I want to show the Name of the file.
The next piece of information comes from the ListBox. As the items are loaded in the ListBox I am going to click on them, and then I want to take the data, the details about those files, and load them into this PropertyGrid. So I need to write an event procedure for the ListBox. So I'll switch back to my designer, I clicked in the ListBox. I am going to go over to this property grid and click on the lightning bolt, and then I am going to find this property called SelectedIndexChanged. That's an event that fires whenever the user selects a new item in the ListBox.
I'll double-click right here on the edge, right in this column here, and Visual Studio will stub in this code on my behalf. If I go to this text file up here, SelectedIndexChanged.txt file, I've got the code I am going to write in there. So I'll copy that over and then paste it in here. What this code says is, "Make sure that the user has selected something in the ListBox. If they've selected something, then wherever it is they selected assign it to the PropertyGrid.
The PropertyGrid then interrogates that object and shows me all the details about whatever that type is." I think I am ready to run the application. Debug > Start Debugging. Click Tools > Show Files. It found two files on my desktop. And hen I click on the file, it loads the information into the PropertyGrid about that item. For instance, you can see the file name is abc.txt, and the last time it was accessed was at 2:15 this afternoon.
There is lot more I can show you with Windows Forms, but that's about all the time I have in this movie. Remember this: Windows Forms are still a viable technology for developing Windows applications, and they are common in many corporate environments.


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'Israel must remove 23 outposts'
By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER, JPOST CORRESPONDENT
30/04/2010 02:51
P.J. Crowley: "we expect [Israel] to fulfill responsibilities."
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WASHINGTON – The US pushed back against indications Israel has abandoned its commitment to take down authorized outposts Thursday, calling on Jerusalem to live up to its obligations.
"The Israeli government has pledged to take specific actions," US State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said. "They have responsibilities and we would expect them to fulfill those responsibilities."
Earlier this week, The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel has no intention in the foreseeable future of dismantling any of 23 unauthorized West Bank outposts built after March 2001, despite a 2002 road map commitment and years of pledges by successive prime ministers including Binyamin Netanyahu.
The promise to dismantle the outposts was made in the framework of wider understandings with the second Bush administration that provided for continued home-building at settlements Israel is likely to retain under a permanent accord with the Palestinians.
Israeli officials told the Post that since the Obama administration replaced those wider understandings with a demand for a moratorium on all new home-building throughout the settlements – which was accepted by Netanyahu in November – Israel no longer regards itself as having to go through with the outpost demolitions on the basis of that pledge to the US.
Crowley, though, indicated the US sees the matter differently since it believes Israel still needs to keep its commitment.
He also said that "the parties need to take affirmative steps that create an improved atmosphere for negotiations to proceed and they need to avoid actions which inhibit progress, and certainly settlements are a contentious issue."
He added that settlements, along with borders, security, refugees and Jerusalem, were final-status issues that needed to be resolved in those negotiations.
"We're pushing hard to get them into proximity talks as soon as possible that we hope will lead to direct negotiations," Crowley said.
State Department officials, however, are denying a report in a Roger Cohen column in The New York Times this week that the US administration had presented the Palestinians with a letter promising an intense effort to produce a Palestinian state in two years, accompanied by a pledge – if Israel seriously undermines trust between the two parties – to withhold its veto from a Security Council resolution condemning Israel.
Instead, they pointed to building momentum and US Middle East envoy George Mitchell's plans to return to the region at the beginning of next week.
Tovah Lazaroff contributed to this report.
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I'll place a sportsmens bet that they'll remove none of these settlements by the end of Summer, despite promising their 'friend' George Bush that they'd do so.
Good for all to see how Israel treats 'commitments'
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They will close some down for the cameras' but sadly the radical settlers will just set up Jewish-only outposts elsewhere in the West Bank.
"The message is clear - we are here and will remain here. We are planting and building; this is an inseparable part of the State of Israel," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a tree-planting tour of the West Bank settlement blocs.
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They pulled out of Gaza and moved to the West Bank.
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if your land was being stolen by a force that was far superior and you fought back against them, are you a terrorist? (both sides kill civilians, its just that israel has the ability to accurately target palestinian militants, yet they still kill innocent people, if the palestinians had apache helicopters and tanks and they used them to fight israeli security forces, would they still be called terrorists? the media and religion has manufactured the consent of millions of people on both sides More..
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Name a arab pally commitment.....does OSLO come to mind......
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Nuke the manatees...
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The great Jewish do not have to listen to anyone. They have a clearly defined mandate from God for they are the chosen people
and that my slacker friend is that.
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Israel SuckS!
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Now we'll find out with Israel rules the Settlers, or whether the Settlers rule Israel
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keep building until the plai's are pushed into the water and grow gills.
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Whats the bet the Ayatollahs will let off a nuke in US before or just after Obamas term is finished???
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How much you got Freejay? (If you actually believe in your own fear propaganda...)
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Fear or fact!
Doesnt the Ayatollahs call America greater Satan and ISrael little Satan?
HAvent the Ayatollahs threatened the destruction of America in the past too?
You really think they wouldnt do it if given the chance....after all, what have they got to lose if PAradise awaits?
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To start with, when was ISraels first false flag attack??
And it isnt what i wish fool.....i dont want to see any nukes go off anywhere....but it is threats by the Ayatollahs, that Obama is allowing to eventuate!
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And why are you yelling?
You death?
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Very Monty Python wanting to create a racially pure Jewish state
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How many racially pure Muslims states in this world are there already?
Thats besides the fact that Israel has all cultures and races living here already, like Australia.
But I guess the Jews having control of 0.6% of the middle east is too much for you too accept hey?
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... when the thieves steal other people's land...
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great Friday morning news!
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America is an Isreali Outpost?
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How soon Americans forget they they were once called terrorists by the British.
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She assured me that the doctors on call are "fine" and then told me that I'm way too chipper and mobile to go before then anyway and that my ultrasound did have me measuring as such that my due date is more likely tomorrow.
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Robert Baird got the scoop on this one in the February issue of Stereophile. Check his Aural Robert column for details about the Sonic Focus technology included in this iPod dock and its surprising heritage.
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DEXTER - Berniece Virginia Edwards, 80, died Jan. 1, 2002, at the Three Rivers Healthcare at Poplar Bluff.
Born April 27, 1920, at Alton to the late Henry Barnes and June Parrott Barnes, she attended the Second General Baptist Church in Dexter and was a former nurse at the Comeau Convalescent Home in Dexter.
In 1938 at Poplar Bluff she married Virgil Ross, who preceded her in death. On Nov. 18, 1965, at Piggott, Ark., she married Dewey Edwards who preceded her in death on Jan. 25, 1993.
Survivors include: two daughters, Glenda Wilkison of Mill Spring and Donna Winn of San Diego, Calif.; one sister, Evelyn Hughes of Klamath Falls, Ore.; and three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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Lindsay to improve Brit prison's condition
Lindsay has become a part of the crusade after seeing one of her friends spend a disastrous prison term. "She often recalls a tragic incident where three of her friends were killed in an accidental car crash," the Daily Star quoted a pal, as saying. The insider added: "The driver was sent to prison with America"s worst convicts. "It ultimately destroyed him and he was offered no rehabilitation afterwards or during prison to deal with it."


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Point: Ed Holliday
In past weeks Mississippi's media have lambasted Gov. Bryant, Lt. Gov. Reeves, and House Speaker Gunn for not expanding Medicaid. But the media has not addressed how this law is going to affect the full range of healthcare. Some physicians are retiring because of the new healthcare law. Medicaid now covers over 600,000 Mississippians. If it is expanded to cover another 300,000 people, what will happen?
Uncertainty is churning the healthcare waters. Our president delayed the mandate for businesses; why won't he delay it for individuals? Doctors are frustrated with the new electronic records and new mandated coding that take enormous amounts of time. In many clinics doctors are now seeing more patients, with less staff, and for lower compensation rates. Will this increase the risk for liability? One wonders if trial lawyers actually wrote the new healthcare law.
How many doctors will take 300,000 more Medicaid patients with the lowest reimbursement rates? It's not that doctors don't want to see these patients, but like any business if they don't get compensated enough to pay their overhead costs then they will have to shut down or stop taking any Medicaid patients. And when some doctors decide to retire or stop taking Medicaid, where will all the over 600,000 existing Medicaid patients go? Most now have difficulties in finding doctors to see them. Ask these patients where they will go if their existing doctor stops taking Medicaid?
My point is that our elected leaders have been prudent and wise to wait and see if other states' health systems collapse from their expanded Medicaid overload. The new healthcare law is flawed in many ways. If the federal law isn't changed to help these individuals not covered then maybe hospitals can sell insurance policies to the uninsured. The first premium could be paid by the hospitals, since no pre-existing conditions can be turned down everyone is eligible, and, then the hospitals could be reimbursed.
Counterpoint: James Hull
Doc, You have no idea how tempted I am to simply respond to you that I will not debate you until the government shutdown in over. But the reason I won't is because it is too Tea Party-ish for me.
Having said that, I must confess I had already made it up in my mind two weeks ago that no matter what subject your point was on this month, I would hold this column hostage and talk about what I wanted to talk about. I am confident that you – being a staunch Tea Party member and advocate – will understand this because that is exactly what the Tea Party is doing nationally.
I had also decided that I would fill this column with countless adjectives to describe how I feel about the Tea Party shutting down the government in order to get its way. Let me start with how outrageous it is that a small group of congressmen has hijacked the government and brought it to a grinding halt in its effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.
The thing is this, many progressives like myself have some issues with the ACA and we want to be heard, too. But not at the expense of shutting down the government.
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St. A's GDP progress
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by Basha Cohen
WEST COLFAX – In a vote on January 14, Mayor Hancock's key department heads approved the vehemently debated General Development Plan (GDP). The unanimous passage by the city's Development Review Committee could establish a blueprint for future developers to build up to 20 stories along the West 17th Avenue corridor. The approximately 19-acre parcel is currently zoned for 5-story buildings. Any developer who wants to expand beyond this height still requires approval of a zoning change. The fight goes on.
The debate that has raged is over building heights, density, open space and traffic. A key component in the opposition's viewpoint is a desire to keep lower level buildings on West 17th Avenue making the development more sympathetic to the neighboring homes, park, and largest lake in Denver. But not all groups oppose the plan.
Neighborhood associations from West Colfax Association of Neighbors (WeCAN) to Sloan's Lake Citizen's Group, Sloan's Lake Neighborhood Association, and neighboring voices in West Highlands (WHNA) and Jefferson Park (JPUN) have logged their disparate viewpoints in over 40 neighborhood meetings, surveys and petitions. The only thing that everyone seems to agree on is that they are not opposed to development, or the subsequent halo effect that it will cast on the Colfax corridor. Yet, this pro-development sentiment has been mired in the basic "how-to" get there in a tasteful and neighborhood-centric way.
Susan Shepherd, Councilwoman for District 1, is in the epicenter of opinion gathering. The WHNA held Shepherd's feet to the fire in a heated meeting on January 9. This bordering neighborhood association who took on Red Peaks in the highly publicized "No More High Rises" lawsuit, shifted its zoning radar on to the Sloan's Lake development. Although one can argue that this isn't "their neighborhood," they argue the lake and surrounding park is every bit as important to this group of citizens who use it regularly.
The crux of the challenge handed to Shepherd centers around leadership, responsibility toward her constituency, and making proactive recommendations now in regard to zoning that would establish an eight-story limit to building heights to give developers more concrete parameters upfront. According to WHNA member, Marie Bendix, "This provides certainty for developers now as opposed to kicking the can down the road and reigniting the zoning fights later."
The group started a petition to the Mayor that garnered 670 signatures of opposition to the GDP within days. In spite of its arguments, the petition fell on deaf ears. When queried as to the Mayor's opinion, Shepherd simply said, "The GDP passed."
Bendix voices the sentiment of the WHNA when she reflects on the passage of the GDP, "670 citizens have voiced serious concern by signing our petition. We've contacted the Mayor requesting to meet with him and share the concerns of so many. The Mayor has turned us down and refused to meet. That is puzzling to me, that so many citizen's voices count for so little in his mind." She elaborates, "The whole point of zoning is to provide certainty, both for developers and for other property owners. By ignoring zoning, the City has set us up for years of divisive and expensive zoning conflicts and shows a lack of leadership. All we are saying is 'follow the law' and allow the predictability that zoning was intended to create for all land owners. Our request for 3-8 story buildings and one additional acre of open space has been on the table for months. It's curious to me that at no time has the developer come to us and offered any kind of compromise. Not, 'Oh, I heard the concerns of many neighbors, how about an extra half acre and max 12 stories?' Nothing whatsoever. Don't you wonder why that is? Did they know they didn't have to? That the City was going to give them whatever they wanted, voters' opinion and democratically adopted zoning be damned? If so, then the whole 'public outreach process' is a sham."
Shepherd has drawn a line in the sand. "I am in no way going to entertain any pre-emptive zoning discussion to appease nervous neighbors. The land is currently zoned for 5-story buildings. There is no reason to rezone it again. We will have a full and fair discussion when there is an actual application in place." She believes that the concept of certainty in the future is a nebulous fact. "We can never have certainty about anything. We could be struck by a meteor and die. Let's say I got an 8-story zoning passed. There is nothing to stop another developer from submitting an application for rezoning in the future."
Shepherd's intent is to look beyond the issues of height and density and to focus on the project whose objective is "To do something right for a blighted neighborhood. It is more and more clear to me that we need to be the catalyst to bring the neighborhood up and focus on the next 20 years of investment along Colfax, which is a far bigger problem than one seven-parcel development. We need to bring in better businesses, more restaurants, more eyes on the street, and more people circulating around the stores. Increasing residential properties is key to keeping an area safe."
A robbery and hostage crisis that unfolded at a local 7-11 on Colfax last week seems to underscore this sentiment. One woman commented, "I'm afraid to walk on West Colfax. It is not safe, and when I walk on the street I am invariably propositioned with prostitution." This is not normal, but has been the norm on this long forsaken street since its last genuine neighborhood of shops and small business owners prevailed in the Jewish "West Side" heyday of the 1940s – 1960s.
The WeCAN Association of over 500 citizens whose boundaries encompass Federal to Sheridan, from 12th to 17th Avenues, will be affected the most by this Colfax redevelopment. They have been the proponent of open and civil discourse throughout the process. Ben Stetler, outgoing Co-President of the organization spoke at the January 14 meeting held with the Mayor and Shepherd in attendance. He blasted the process for its "fear-mongering and negativity." Stetler's involvement dates back three-years ago to Saint Anthony's search for a buyer, that was ultimately awarded to the EnviroFinance Group (EFG). "I found it to be the most transparent process I have ever been involved in. Public comment sessions and dozens of meetings were held with a developer who was responsive to queries, and took feedback into consideration. I'm not sure one can ask for much more than that." He continued, "What is troubling to me is that some who were opposed to the GDP and who were uninvolved in this early process resorted to under-handed tactics. It became a campaign of deception and misinformation. A vast majority of people I have spoken to in the neighborhood are really excited about this project due to the economic catalyst that the development will inspire."
For or against the passage of the GDP, there are good people with good intentions on both sides of the debate. It has passed and there is a need for all of the opposing opinions to come together and focus on the future. Shepherd, Bendix, and Stetler all agree that the most positive outcome of the development will be had by involvement with the developers as they hold public meetings to unveil their plans. Stetler, a mediator by profession, says with a glimmer of hope, "Let's bring key players together from the various groups and start to have a discussion. Now that the GDP has passed, let's stop trying to get immediate rezoning and overturn the passing of the GDP, and look ahead to what is a brilliantly exciting opportunity for our neighborhood."
The next chance to see what is unfolding is on Wednesday, January 22. A Development Open House at the Confluence Ministries, 1400 Quitman Street, is being held by EFG. It is an opportunity to learn more about the planned first phase and meet the developers to see their preliminary building concepts that are expected to get underway in 2014. They include new retail along West Colfax, entertainment facilities, a boutique hotel with rooftop dining, and new apartments with ground floor retail. All of these projects conform to the current 5-story zoning requirements. This is a perfect opportunity to start positive dialogue and understanding amongst our community and a fresh beginning. Shepherd reflects on the future, "Let's start from a rational, calm place. Let's have passion, but let's be civil."by


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Plane crashes near Columbia airport
No survivors have been found in the wreckage of a plane found near the Columbia Metropolitan Airport.
The Lexington County Sheriff's Department says I'ts not clear how many people were on the aircraft.
The plane was reported missing about 11 o'clock Thursday night as it approached the airport on a flight from Newport News, Virginia.
Officials said earlier they thought three people were on board.
High school student accused of rape
One Glenn Hills High student won't return to school this morning...
16-year-old Delonte Kitchings is accused of raping a 15-year-old girl in a wooded area behind the school Wednesday.
An incident report says Kitchings approached her in the gym and asked her to come with him.
When she repeatedly said no, he told her he had a gun.
The report also says when she tried to run away, he pushed her to the ground and tried to choke her.
"She had injuries consistent with the story she gave us," said Lt. Scott Peebles with Richmond County.
The school's principal is investigating how the students were able to walk away from the school.
Kitchings is being charged as an adult, but is being held at the Youth Detention Center because he's still a minor.
Man wanted for violating sex offender registry
Deputies are trying to put one man behind bars this morning.
They're looking for Billy Joe Laws, who was known to last live on the 1600 block of Gordon Highway.
Laws is wanted for violating the sex offender registry.
If you know where he is, call the Richmond County Sheriff's Office.
Another CSRA's Most Wanted arrest
One of the CSRA's Most Wanted has been caught.
Jordash Tanksley was arrested and charged with kidnapping, cruelty to children, making terroristic threats, along with several weapons charges.
He broke into his ex-girlfriend's home and kidnapped his son at gunpoint back in October.
The child was found safe a while later at a friend's house.
Deputies release video of Richmond Hill armed robbers
Two men are wanted after an armed robbery and shooting at the Richmond Hill Market on New Year's Day in Augusta.
The robbers demanded money from the woman at the counter, then shot her husband who came out of a storage room.
Deputies are hoping the surveillance video will help solve the crime.
Columbia County school rezoning
School board members in Columbia County are planning for school rezoning.
The county is making room for a new elementary school, and your child may be affected.
Grovetown Elementary will lose about 250 students when the new school opens.
Growth in that area means a lot more students.
This year, the school has six portables--the most they've ever had.
Along with the new school, five other elementary schools will be affected by the zoning plan.
They are Grovetown, North Harlem, Euchee Creek, Lewiston, and Brookwood.


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#Seawolves vie for fifth tournament title this week at America East Championship
May 21, 2014
2014 Stony Brook Baseball
Lowell, Mass. -
Stony Brook #Seawolves (33-16, 18-5 America East)
The Warmup: Stony Brook, the America East regular season champion, looks to maintain its spot on the top of the conference as it heads to LeLacheur Park to participate in the 2014 America East Championship. The Seawolves are the No. 1 seed in the tournament for the third time in program history and has now participated in the championship in each of the last nine seasons, the longest active streak among the seven America East baseball schools. Stony Brook, which is 20-14 all-time in the tournament, is in search of its fifth tournament title, all of them coming in the last 10 years. In fact, this is 10-year anniversary of the program's first America East crown, which came when the #Seawolves defeated host Maine in the tournament final on May 29, 2004.
First-Round Matchup: As a result of its top seed, Stony Brook has drawn No. 4 Maine. The two teams have a rich history of facing each other in the tournament. In fact, this has been the first game matchup in each of the last two seasons. In 2012, top-seed Stony Brook beat Maine. In 2013, the roles were reversed, and top-seed Maine defeated Stony Brook. The #Seawolves are 8-7 all-time against the Black Bears in the tournament, including 4-2 when the teams meet on the first day. During this year's regular season, Stony Brook took two out of three games. Maine won game one, 2-1, on Tommy Lawrence's complete game. The #Seawolves recovered with an 11-3 victory in game two as Cole Peragine and Casey Baker each drove in three runs. Stony Brook then won the rubber game, 4-1, after Peragine had a two-run triple in the eighth inning to break a 1-1 tie.
Regular Season Recap: Stony Brook opened the 2014 season 0-6, but the #Seawolves have been red hot since, winning 33 out of 43 games to earn their 11th 30-win season in program history, all of them coming under head coach Matt Senk. The team had some big wins on the season, including a 4-3 victory over USC, the program's first-ever win over a member of the Pac-12 Conference. Stony Brook also secured big wins over potential NCAA team Bryant and Northeast Region power Connecticut at the Dodd Stadium College Baseball Classic. During America East play, the #Seawolves dominated by starting out 8-1 and never falling more than one game out of first place. They locked up their third-ever regular season champinship last weekend when they took two out of three from Hartford.
Boasting Awards: Stony Brook captured three of the America East's four major awards to headline the team's haul of conference season awards. Junior Kevin Krause was named the Len Harlow America East Player of the Year, the third time in program history a #Seawolves player has earned the honor, joining Willie Carmona (2011) and Travis Jankowski (2012). Freshman Cameron Stone was named the America East Rookie of the Year, the fifth consecutive season that Stony Brook has taken the top freshman honor. Willie Carmona (2010), Brandon McNitt (2011), Cole Peragine (2012) and Jack Parenty (2013) were the others. Head Coach Matt Senk was named America East Coach of the Year for the third time (2011, 2012). Krause, Stone and Peragine were all named first-team All-America East for the first time this season. Frankie Vanderka and Kevin Courtney were also placed on the first team for a second consecutive season. McNitt was named first team for the second time in his career (2012 previously). Parenty and Tyler Honahan were second-team selections. Stone, Casey Baker and Ryley MacEachern were all named to the America East All-Rookie team.
Looking to Protect Number One: Stony Brook is the No. 1 seed in the America East Championship for the third time. The #Seawolves have won the tournament previously as a No. 4 seed in 2004, No. 2 seed in 2008, No. 3 seed in 2010 and No. 1 seed in 2012. But Stony Brook will be looking to buck a trend: in the 21-year history of this conference tournament, the No. 1 seed has won the title only nine times.
Last Weekend: The #Seawolves needed two out of three wins last weekend vs. Hartford to secure the outright regular season championship and No. 1 seed. After falling in game one, 6-1, on a dominating performance by Hartford starter Sean Newcomb, Stony Brook rebounded with stellar 5-1 and 4-2 wins in the final two games to secure the championship. Brandon McNitt pitched a complete game in game two, striking out eight while Anthony Italiano had a three-run triple. In the clincher, Kevin Krause homered and drove in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning.
Krause Honored Again: For the second time this season, Kevin Krause picked up America East Player of the Week honors, nabbing the award on May 12. He clobbered the ball in four games last week, hitting .588 (10-for-17) with two home runs, 11 RBI and eight runs scored. He slugged 1.059 for the week and had four extra base hits total. He homered twice against NYIT and produced a pair of four-RBI games.
Conference Leaders: Through May 21, Stony Brook leads America East in on-base percentage (.370), fielding (.984), runs scored (273), RBI (237), walks drawn (208), triples (14), fewest runs allowed (162) and opposing batting average (.229). Individually, Kevin Krause leads the conference in home runs (8), RBI (46), runs scored (42), slugging (.539) and total bases (97).
Courtney Goes Cycling: On May 7 at NYIT, Kevin Courtney had a field day against the Bears, hitting for the cycle, the first in the program since Brian Witkowski did it on May 19, 2006. He was 5-for-6 on the day with two singles, a double, triple and home run. The homer was a three-run blast in the first inning that gave the #Seawolves a 4-0 lead and they went on to win, 15-4. Courtney finished the game with four RBI and three hits. His five hits were a career high. It was the first five-hit game by a Stony Brook player since Willie Carmona did it in 2012.
Pitch Perfect: Stony Brook is 28-8 over its last 36 games and that's largely due to the outstanding pitching the team has received. In the 36-game span, Stony Brook has held its opponents to a .217 batting average and just 99 runs. The team has a 2.61 ERA and 231 strikeouts in 310 innings. Tim Knesnik has been the best of the group; he has a 0.48 ERA in 37-2/3 innings with 24 strikeouts during the run. Frankie Vanderka has a 3.11 ERA and a .190 opponent batting average during the stretch. Tyler Honahan is 6-2 with 44 strikeouts and a .200 opponent batting average during the 36-game run. Brandon McNitt is 5-0 with a 3.10 ERA.
Six is the Magic Number: For Stony Brook to be successful, the #Seawolves' magic number is six. If they score six or more runs in a game, they are 21-1 this season. If they hold their opponent under six runs a game, they are 31-9 this season.
Holding the Lead: Stony Brook has done a good job holding onto a late lead when it gets one. The #Seawolves are 23-2 this season when leading after eight innings.
Top Dog on D: Stony Brook's defense has been stellar this season. The #Seawolves currently lead the nation in fielding percentage at .984. Through 49 games, Stony Brook has committed only 29 errors.
Dominating America East: Stony Brook has been at or near the top of America East now for a few seasons. No team has been more dominant over the last four seasons than the Seawolves, who are 88-34 (.721) in conference play since the start of the 2010 season with two regular season (2011, 2012) and two tournament (2010, 2012) championships.
Baker Hits Way to Award: Freshman Casey Baker was named America East Rookie of the Week on May 5 after hitting .600 (6-for-10) with six RBI in the three-game series vs. Maine. He had two triples and a double, helping him slug 1.100 for the weekend. It was Baker's second Rookie of the Week honor of the year.
Krause Takes Home the Honors: Kevin Krause hit .583 at Albany, and it earned him America East Co-Player of the Week honors on April 28. He homered twice and doubled twice in the series, and in addition to driving in nine runs, he scored seven times. It was Krause's first-ever honor.
MacEachern Does It Again: After allowing only one run over seven innings and striking out a career-high eight batters at UMass Lowell, Ryley MacEachern was named America East Co-Rookie of the Week on April 21. It was his second Rookie of the Week honor and the third time overall he's been bestowed a weekly award in the last four weeks. He was Pitcher of the Week on April 14.
Deserving Honors: After going 5-0 during the week, Stony Brook earned a pair of weekly conference honors on April 14 as Jack Parenty was tabbed the America East Player of the Week, and Ryley MacEachern was named the America East Pitcher of the Week. Parenty hit .476 in five games with four extra-base hits and six RBI. MacEachern delivered a pivotal five shutout innings of relief that allowed Stony Brook come back to beat Binghamton 5-4 in 10 innings.
MacEachern Earns the Nod: Stony Brook freshman Ryley MacEachern was named America East Rookie of the Week after pitching his first career complete game shutout in a 1-0 win over Hartford on March 29. MacEachern scattered just three hits and allowed only one Hawks baserunner to reach second base over the seven innings. He struck out seven batters and did not walk a batter.
No-Hit X 3: Frankie Vanderka pitched his third career no-hitter on March 22 when he blanked Albany over nine innings in a 7-0 victory. Vanderka struck out 10 in the game, including the final batter, Brian Bullard, to clinch it. Vanderka is the ONLY active pitcher in NCAA Div. I to throw multiple no-hitters. For his efforts, Vanderka was showered with a slew of awards - he was named America East Pitcher of the Week, NCBWA National Pitcher of the Week, Louisville Slugger Collegiate Baseball Newspaper National Player of the Week, CollegeBaseballInsider.com National Pitcher of the Week, ECAC Metro-Upstate Pitcher of the Week and NCAA.com Top Performer of the Week.
A Stepping Stone to Success: Freshman Cameron Stone of West Haven, Conn., is having a nice start to his collegiate career. He has quickly developed into an option in the late innings, posting 36 strikeouts in 28-1/3 innings pitched and earning eight saves. He helped Stony Brook go into extra innings at Wake Forest with four strong innings of work. He stepped up again in extra innings with three solid innings against Fordham on March 9. Then he recorded saves with a scoreless ninth inning at UC Riverside (March 14) and 2-1/3 shutout innings in the win over USC (March 18). He locked down Stony Brook's 7-3 win over Albany (March 22) with two shutout innings. He came into the seventh inning vs. Marist (April 1) with the tying run on deck and got out of a bases loaded jam and went on to earn the save.
Chavy and Stone Honored: In addition to Vanderka earning America East Pitcher of the Week honors, two other #Seawolves captured weekly conference awards as Robert Chavarria was named Player of the Week and Cameron Stone was tabbed Rookie of the Week. Chavarria hit .421 and scored eight runs in five games, including scoring game-winning runs against USC and Albany. Stone picked up two saves after pitching 4-1/3 shutout innings, closing out wins over USC and Albany, the win over the Trojans being the first the school's ever recorded against a Pac-12 member.
California Trip Recap: Stony Brook recently came back from a week in the sun on the west coast where the team faced UC Riverside, USC and Cal State Northridge. The #Seawolves won the first of a three-game series with Riverside only to lose two straight. Then Stony Brook defeated USC, the program's first-ever win against a Pac-12 school. The team finished the trip with a pitcher's duel against Northridge, coming up short in a 1-0 loss. Robert Chavarria dominated on the trip, hitting .500 (9-for-18) with four RBI. Kevin Krause bashed two home runs in the Riverside series. The pitching staff as a whole had a 2.95 ERA, led by impressive starts from Brandon McNitt, Tyler Honahan and Tim Knesnik.
California Pipeline: The #Seawolves have done a tremendous job recruiting the state of California. Stony Brook currently has seven players from Southern California, including Brandon McNitt, Austin Shives, Josh Mason, Chad Lee, Robert Chavarria, Jeremy Giles and Daniel Zamora. All-time #Seawolves wins leader Tyler Johnson (2009-12) also hails from California.
Call It a Sweep: In addition to sweeping Fordham in a three-game series March 8-9, the #Seawolves swept the weekly America East awards as Kevin Courtney was named America East Player of the Week, Frankie Vanderka was tabbed America East Pitcher of the Week and Casey Baker garnered America East Rookie of the Week accolades. Courtney batted .467 with four extra-base hits and a walk-off double in the 14th inning of a 10-9 win over the Rams. In the first game of the series, Vanderka blanked Fordham by scattering three hits over nine innings while striking out 11. Baker went 6-for-9 with three runs scored and a critical walk in the 12th inning of the series finale vs. Fordham that helped keep the game alive.
Preseason Favorite: Stony Brook has been picked as the co-favorite to win America East in 2014, according to the coaches' preseason poll released on Feb. 4. Stony Brook and defending tournament champion Binghamton both received three first-place votes. Defending America East regular season champion Maine was picked third, followed by Hartford fourth, Albany fifth, UMBC sixth and league newcomer UMass Lowell seventh.
In the Record Books: There are a few #Seawolves that have etched their name in the program's record book. Senior Brandon McNitt is tied for second in program history in wins (25), seventh in strikeouts (225) and first in innings pitched (343-2/3). Senior Kevin Courtney is sixth in doubles (52) and ninth in RBI (132). Senior Frankie Vanderka is tied for eighth in wins (16), fourth in ERA (2.83), fifth in innings pitched (270) and 11th in strikeouts (181).
Seawolves in the Pros: Stony Brook Baseball has a tremendous reputation and traditon of sending its graduates to professional baseball. The program has had 19 student-athletes selected in the Major League Baseball draft and 10 others sign Minor League free agent contracts. Twenty other Seawolves have signed and played in the Independent Leagues. Currently, there are 10 former Seawolves active in the Major League and Minor League systems, including Joe Nathan, who is the closer for the Detroit Tigers, and Tom Koeher, a starter for the Miami Marlins. In 2012 alone, Stony Brook had seven players drafted alone, including first-rounder Travis Jankowski.
Joe Nathan Field: Stony Brook University has a fantastic baseball facility, thanks in large part to Seawolves Baseball alumnus Joe Nathan '97, who donated the lead gift to renovate the baseball field, which was transformed into Joe Nathan Field. Opened in May 2011 and dedicated in October 2011, Joe Nathan Field boasts new FieldTurf, new dugouts, new bullpens, new hitting tunnels and a new scoreboard, courtesy of Bethpage Federal Credit Union.
Recapping Last Season: After a difficult start to the 2013 season, Stony Brook rebounded nicely by winning its final four America East series to qualify for the America East Championship for the eighth consecutive year, which is the longest active streak among the current member institutions. Stony Brook fell short of winning the tournament title after losing to Maine, beating Albany to stay alive and then falling to Maine again in an elimination game. Outstanding individual performances included first baseman Kevin Courtney, starting pitcher Frankie Vanderka and outfielder Jack Parenty earning first-team All-America East honors, reliever Tim Knesnik, catcher Anthony Italiano and third baseman Johnny Caputo making second-team All-America East and Parenty grabbing America East Rookie of the Year honors.
Shock the World: Stony Brook is just two years removed from one of the more magical seasons in collegiate baseball history. The #Seawolves captured the nation's attention by beating six-time national champion LSU in the best 2-out-of-3 NCAA Super Regional to advance to the College World Series, becoming the first school from the Northeast Region since 1986 to do so. The #Seawolves finished the year with a nation-leading 52 victories, which led to head coach Matt Senk earning NCBWA National Coach of the Year honors.


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Pat Kanda is District 51, born and raised.
Kanda not only spent his youth in school at District 51, he also served on the school board from 1993-1997. He then went on to study accounting at Mesa State College (now Colorado Mesa University), and now works as an accountant.
He's involved around our community as a member of the Clifton Lions Club and participant at the Grand Valley Health Fair. Also, he tutors math and distributes food at the Mesa County TFAP.
Despite not having children of his own, Kanda has raised four step-children, three of which have graduated from District 51.
If elected, Kanda hopes to review the current core curriculum (reading, writing, math, and government study in later years) with a focus on teaching to a deeper level. He believes that exit exams at each grade level would indicate the depth of knowledge of each student.
"I believe education is the only process we have for creating future generations to improve and prolong our quality of live," says Kanda. "Currently I think we are doing a disservice to students by not teaching to a deeper level of knowledge and understanding."


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NEW DELHI: Eros Group, the promoters of Park Royale Hotel in Nehru Place, Delhi, on Monday emerged as the highest bidder for ITDC's Kanishka Hotel with an offer of Rs 96 crore.
Munjal family-controlled Hero Group was a close second with a Rs 91-crore bid.
The Kanishka transaction created records of sorts. The government received eight bids, the highest for hotel properties sold so far.
Also, Eros Group's offer for Kanishka at Rs 96 crore is the single highest offer the government has received for any hotel property, displacing the Rs 76 crore received for Lodi Hotel.