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Board of Directors
Standing (left to right): David McEntire, Maxine Pierce, Rob Wright, Gerry Shear, Peter Birkholz, Brian Johnson, Steve Jaquith, James Shaffer, Terry Brace, Dan Wenzinger, Jim Christian, BJ Beal, Mark Stewart. Seated (left to right): Doug MacGregor, Art Harter, Denise Halligan, Bob McGraw. Not pictured: Travis Berry, Chance Chase, Don Jackson, Dave Kirvin, Sean Markey, Steve Reynolds, Matt Tredway, Hank Windmoeller.
The Officers
Art Harter, a 1978 business graduate of Western, is President of the Foundation Board of Directors. He is Senior Vice President with Morgan Stanley where he has spent over 34 years of his professional career. He has served on the Boards of Colorado SIDS and Eastern Hills Community Church. Art and his wife, Susie, have three children and reside in Centennial, Colorado. Their oldest daughter, Mallory, and son-in-law, Zach, are graduates of Western. The Harters enjoy skiing, traveling, sports, music and riding horses.
Gerry A. Shear, a 1992 graduate of Western, is the Vice President of the Foundation Board. He is the Managing Partner of GENCO Realty, which is the Real Estate Division of GENCO, one of North America's largest, and a Global Top 25 third-party logistics provider. Mr. Shear is a member of the Industrial Asset Management Council, the Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute and the Entrepreneurs Organization. Active in the community, Gerry is a director for the United Way of Southern Nevada and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada. Gerry holds a B.S. (Business Administration) from Western, an MBA from University of Nevada Las Vegas and the CCIM designation. He resides in Las Vegas with his wife, Jenny.
Robert Wright, a 2000 graduate of Western, serves as Secretary of the Foundation Board. Rob currently serves as Co-Founder and CEO of Bungalow Clothing, a disruptive online clothing retailer. Before Bungalow, Rob served as Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of ReachLocal, Inc. (Nasdaq: RLOC). Prior to ReachLocal, Rob served as Director of Business Development for WorldWinner, Inc. where he was responsible for offering World Winner's tournament platform to the Internet's leading game portals, including: Pogo.com, Games.Yahoo.com, Gamesville.Lycos.com, and Shockwave.com. Prior to WorldWinner, Rob was Director of Business Development for LineUp Technologies, a streaming media syndication company. Rob lives in Agoura Hills, California with his wife, Wendy, and daughter, Ella.
Henry ("Hank") D. Windmoeller, a 1973 graduate of Western, serves as Treasurer of the Foundation Board. He is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Sills Cummis & Gross, PC. Hank's experience includes 15 years as Chief Financial Officer and 7 years as Chief Operating Officer in the legal services industry in the Washington, DC and Philadelphia metropolitan areas. Prior to the legal services industry Hank spent six years in homebuilding and 8 years in public accounting with Arthur Andersen. Hank is a certified public accountant and holds a Master's Degree in Accountancy and Business Administration from the University of Denver Daniels School of Business and completed the Executive Development Program at Georgetown University.
David R. McEntire, a 1980 Business graduate, is Immediate Past-President of the Foundation Board. He is President of Amstar Homes, in Las Vegas, Nevada, and a member of the southern Nevada Home Builders Association and Church at Las Vegas Board of Directors. David is a 33-year veteran homebuilder. He began his career with North American Homes in Colorado, and after nine years expanded into the Las Vegas market. David has been or is currently the Owner, Managing Partner or General Manager of multiple Las Vegas communities. Blessed with 4 children he and his wife, Sarah, split their time between their ranch in Crested Butte and Las Vegas.
The Board
Barry "B. J." Beal, Jr. is currently the General Manager of BTA Oil Producers. BTA Oil Producers is a family owned and operated oil and gas exploration and production company formed in the 1949. B. J. graduated with a Bachelor and Master of Science Degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University in 1985. He began his career with ARCO Oil and Gas. Since 1987, B. J. has been a partner/owner of BTA Oil Producers. He has served as a board member and president of COM Aquatics, Midland Children's Rehabilitation Center, and a member for the Petroleum Investment Committee of Stanford University. He has also served as a board member of numerous other organizations and schools in the Midland area. B. J. and his wife, Cliffy, have four children and reside in Midland, Texas.
Travis Berry, a 1992 graduate of Western, is a partner of Political works and has been involved in lobbying and state and national politics since 1990. Prior to starting Political works, he served as Deputy Legislative Director for Governor Roy Romer from 1994-97. In this capacity he helped develop and implement the Governor's legislative agenda. During his tenure he forged strong relationships with members of both sides of the aisle and successfully lobbied on a full range of public policy issues. Travis has held senior positions with numerous statewide campaigns and remains highly active in state and national politics. He has served as Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and as Vice President of the Dutko Group, a Washington, DC lobbying firm. This diverse set of experiences and long history in lobbying and politics has provided Travis with the skills, knowledge and relationships to represent clients effectively before the state legislature and administrative agencies. Travis has forged strong bipartisan ties in the legislature and has a reputation as a talented and principled advocate for his clients.
Peter Birkholz graduated from Sam Houston State University with a BBA in 1975 and a MBA in 1976. For twenty-five years, Peter was a sports promoter, television announcer and television producer. After selling his sports franchise, he taught Management and Marketing courses for three years at the University of Houston at Clear Lake and then taught for another ten years at Sam Houston State University. Peter also served on the first Sam Houston State University Alumni Board, the Rotary Club of Huntsville and the Board of Trustees for the Boys and Girls Club of Houston. Currently Peter is the managing partner of the Sam Houston Group, LP which is a real estate partnership that owns commercial property in Huntsville, Texas. Peter has a home on the Taylor River in Almont, Colorado and also resides in Huntsville. Peter and his wife, Kaye, have five boys and four grandchildren. He enjoys writing and has just published his first book, When Wrestling Was Rasslin'.
Terry Brace received his B.A. degree from Western in 1974 with majors in History and Political Science, and his M.A. degree from Western in 1978, as well as earning his Doctoral Degree from California Coast University. He was Superintendent for three school districts in California, and he served as a Principal, counselor, teacher, and coach before then. He was selected to be a member of the National Center for Educational Research and Technology a prestigious national group of superintendents; he was a founding member of the Merced Anti-Violence (Gang) Task Force; and he served on the California State University Stanislaus Education Doctoral Board, Merced College President's Circle, and the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association Board of Control. Terry has also made presentations at national and regional conferences on improving student achievement, strategic planning, strategic/organizational leadership, and time management. Terry is an active cyclist (racing in mountain bike races), hiker, skier, and recently took up rock climbing. He is currently President and CEO of Brace Leadership Associates, LLC. He lives in Colorado Springs with his wife, Mary ('74).
Chance Chase is a 2010 graduate in Business Administration with an emphasis in Professional Land and Resource Management (PLRM). He is President of Buffalo Oilfield Supply, LLC and also serves as a Vice-President of Mack Energy Corporation, an active New Mexico-based producer of oil and gas. Chance represents the third generation of his family in the oil and gas business and is also active in the agricultural and health care industries. Chance also attended Rollins College where he studied Psychology. He is active with Relay for Life, Leadership New Mexico, the Artesia Chamber of Commerce and currently on the boards of the Chase Foundation and Goal Advocacy, a 501(c)4 dedicated to growing awareness on issues involving Oil and Gas, Agriculture and Liberty. In his free time, Chance is an avid hunter, fisherman, and golfer. He and his wife, Claire, currently live in Artesia, NM with their three dogs.
Jim Christian is a 1982 graduate of Williams College. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors and President for Strategic Development at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design and member of the Board of Directors of telecom services company, Affinitiy Holdings, Inc. He has served as Managing Director at Anschutz Investment Company; Managing Director at Paribas; and Vice President at Dillon, Read & Company, Inc. He and his wife, Pam, reside in Gunnison, Colorado.
Denise Halligan is a 1978 Western Business Administration graduate. Currently a Commercial Lending Specialist for Colorado Business Bank. Prior to CoBiz Bank, she was a computer programmer for DST Inc., US West, and Lockheed Martin. She has volunteered on the board of the Arvada Hockey Association, King of Glory Lutheran Church and is active with the local schools. She lives in Arvada with husband Gerry; has a daughter in graduate school at UNLV, a son living and working in the Denver area, and a son who is a recent graduate of the PLRM Program from Western.
Don Jackson graduated summa cum laude from Western in 1980, and cum laude from Baylor Law School in 1983, where he was a member of the Baylor Law Review. Currently, Don is Managing Partner of the Ware, Jackson, Lee and Chambers law firm in Houston, Texas. Previously, he was a partner at Ware, Snow, Fogel and Jackson, and an associate and then partner at Vinson and Elkins. Don began his career as a Briefing Attorney for the Supreme Court of Texas. Named a Texas Super Lawyer (2003-2013), a Top 100 Lawyer in Houston (2011, 2013) and a Best Lawyer in America, Don is board certified in personal injury trial law and civil trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. An associate in the American Board of Trial Advocates, he is also a member of the Houston Bar Association, State Bar of Texas, Texas Association of Defense Counsel, American Board of Trial Advocates and Texas Bar Foundation, as well as the author of numerous articles, papers and presentations.
Steve Jaquith is a 1983 graduate of Western. Steve started his long and successful career in the airline industry at Trans-Colorado Airlines before joining Continental Airlines, where he held a range of management and leadership positions across the country. Currently, Steve is the Managing Director of the Denver Hub and Colorado Region for United Airlines, Inc., managing all company-related activities in the airline's fourth largest hub. While attending Western, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, Steve participated in student government, served as Concert Director for the student body, and was a Residence Hall Advisor and Director. Married, with two daughters and a six-year old son adopted from Russia, Steve enjoys sports, reading, music, travel and spending time with family and friends.
Brian Johnson is a 1980 Western graduate with undergraduate degrees in Geology with a Business minor. He completed a Master of Science degree in Mineral Economics & Finance at the Colorado School of Mines. After spending the last 14 years in Australia and the United Kingdom, Brian has re-located to the US to set up a limited liability company called Sheldon Kye Energy, focused on energy infrastructure project development and advisory. Previously, Brian was Executive Director of the Energy & Utilities advisory team in Melbourne at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prior to PwC he was based in the UK where he was a Director & Senior VP at Caminus (NASDAQ) leading a team providing strategy and risk management advisory services, along with risk management software solutions, to the energy and utilities industries throughout Europe. Prior to Caminus, Brian was a Director at Oakvale Capital in Sydney, providing energy & mining clients with financial/treasury and strategic risk management advisory services for a range of Australian corporations. Starting his career as a Petroleum Geologist, Brian has also held management and leadership positions at the New York Mercantile Exchange and Colorado Coal and Coke.
Dave Kirvin, a 1987 Western graduate, co-founded Kirvin Doak Communications with Bill Doak in 2002 and since then has helped build Nevada's largest and most recognized public relations and marketing firm, representing industry-leading clients in a variety of fields including travel, hospitality, entertainment, healthcare and non-profit. Dave has been the recipient of several professional and civic awards including In Business Las Vegas' "Most Influential" list and its "Top 40 under 40." In 2009, the Nevada Cancer Institute honored Dave as one of the "Vegas Dozen." He is on the Board of Advisors for The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, the Board of Directors of the Fulfillment Fund and the Clark County School- Community Partnership Board of Advisors. Dave was named one of Western's Top 100 alumni in the school's history.
Doug MacGregor is a fulltime resident of the Gunnison Valley (Ohio Creek). A retired Dell executive with nonprofit and venture capital experience, Doug is the Chairman of American Natural Energy Corporation. Doug earned a BA in History at University of Maryland College Park, an MS in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. in Information Science from Kyoto University.
Sean Markey is a 1993 graduate of Western. He earned his medical degree in 1997 from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, where he also completed his surgical internship and neurosurgery residency. He is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery. Sean has served as the Director of Neurosurgery at Littleton Adventist Hospital and currently serves as the Director of Neurosurgery at Parker Adventist Hospital. He also serves as faculty for a number of medical device companies, which includes ongoing work in the development of new spinal surgery techniques. He has been listed in 5280: Denver's Mile-High Magazine as one of the city's top doctors for his work with brain and spine disorders. Sean currently serves as the Neurosurgical Consultant to the Denver Broncos. Sean is an active member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Colorado Neurosurgical Society, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the Western Neurological Society. Sean and his wife, Kristina, currently reside in Denver, Colorado and have three daughters. Outside of medicine Sean enjoys skiing, biking and automobiles.
Robert McGraw, Jr. is the President of McGraw & McGraw CPA and a 1977 graduate from Western. A practicing Certified Public Accountant since 1982, his firm specializes in accounting for small businesses, personal and corporate tax planning / preparation as well as small business consulting. The firm is led by Bob and run in conjunction with his two sons, serving clients across Colorado. Bob is licensed in the State of Colorado and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants. He has served on the Board of Directors for multiple publicly traded companies as Audit Committee Chairman as well as on the boards for several nonprofit organizations. Bob resides in Westminster, CO with his wife, Marjie.
Maxine Pierce graduated from Western in 1974 with degrees in Accounting and Business. She went to work in banking, rising to the position of Auditor. She left to pursue further education. She has done volunteer work for various organizations, the most rewarding and humbling being tutoring for the local adult literacy program. Maxine is currently a Trustee of the Topper Foundation. Since her husband's retirement, Maxine and David have traveled extensively, mostly in pursuit of David's love of racing vintage motorcycles. She spends her time training and showing her two dogs, Bazza and Cooper, in agility trials.
Steve Reynolds graduated from Western in 1978 with degrees in Business Administration and Geology. He is Co-Owner and Vice President of Infinity Oil & Gas, Inc., a natural gas and oil exploration company, and is involved in numerous business and commercial real estate ventures. Steve was one of the founders of the Western Professional Land and Resource Management Program and has worked within numerous non-profit organizations. Steve, his wife, Paula, and their three daughters live in Broomfield, Colorado.
James Shaffer, a 1973 graduate of Western, is President of Streetscapes, Inc., a dealer/distributer of furniture and site amenities for public spaces and a pedestrian amenities consultant. Prior to starting Streetscapes in 2005, James was a manufacturer's representative in the contract furniture industry for more than 25 years. James is actively involved in the Urban Land Institute and is on the advisory board for Walk Denver – a Denver based pedestrian advocacy group. James and his wife, Marilyn, reside in Aurora, CO. James is an avid reader and enjoys photographing petroglyphs and pictographs and riding trains.
Mark Stewart, a 1979 graduate in Geology, has worked 34 years for Schlumberger Technology Corporation and is currently serving as a Sr. Account Manager in Denver, Colorado. Since graduating, Mark has worked in numerous locations including: Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Boston, Dubai, Aberdeen, Luanda and Paris. Helping to extract oil and gas from new shale plays, Mark can say without hesitation, that Western State provided an excellent education -comparable to any large name university. As such, Mark is both very loyal to and proud of his Western education – grateful for the many opportunities it created. Married for 28 years, Mark and LaTricia are extremely proud of their two daughters, one attending Texas Tech University and the other at Louisiana State University. Residing in Parker, Colorado Mark's hobbies include cycling, fishing, reading and operating two small agricultural ventures in Colorado.
Matt Tredway and his wife, Dana, are both 1983 graduates of Western. Steamboat is home, and Matt has been very involved in that community for 26 years. He instructed Math and Science in the public schools as well as coached. Matt and Dana have two daughters that now reside in Nashville, and work together in their own clothing design business. Matt was a student of Western's very first outdoor education semester, and that experience shaped his life. Matt became an instructor for The National Outdoor Leadership School based in Lander Wyoming (NOLS). Later he founded and was the director of Everything Outdoor Steamboat. EOS is designed to give students a chance to experience rock and ice climbing, backpacking, winter mountaineering, 14ers, kayaking, and horse packing. He states, "There is no greater thrill than to witness a student succeed in a challenge that they were convinced would defeat them." Climbing is Matt's passion, and he has been on expeditions around the world, including many of Canada's high peaks, Denali in Alaska, several peaks in Peru, Kilimanjaro, Cho Oyu in Tibet, and a 2006 Everest bid. Plans include more trips to Nepal, with sites set on Ama Dablam. Matt now heads a construction company, and is a managing partner in a real estate development company. He continues to serve on a variety of boards, including the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club. He teaches alpine skiing for Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. With a family legacy of promoting Western that dates back to 1963, Matt is excited to carry on the tradition..
Dan Wenzinger graduated Western in 1976, majoring in Business and Accounting. Dan has been involved in residential construction and land banking for over 10 years. His experience includes functioning as Chief Operating and Chief Finance Officer in the twelfth largest residential home builder along the Front Range of Colorado. His residential real estate experience has crossed all functions including land acquisition, entitlements, land development and vertical construction and warranty. Dan has also held various financial executive positions including practicing as a Certified Public Accountant. Dan and his wife, Cheryl, reside in Golden.


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Programatically registering new apps (XAITGenerator status?)
Hi -
I'm looking for a way to register new apps (xlets) to the AppsDatabase during the tru2way set-top box runtime, in order to have an application launcher that can start new apps on the fly.
It looks like org.ocap.application.AppManagerProxy.registerUnboundApp(InputStream) is a good API to use. However, I'm having trouble constructing a valid stream to pass into it. I'm reading that the InputStream should be the XAIT table, which is in a binary format.
I was so excited to find a utility to generate XAIT in ocap-ri, called XAITGenerator.java at:
but I seem to be getting parsing error at ocap-ri's runtime (from AitParser) when using a stream generated by the XAITGenerator utility, taken from 1.1.3 RelB tag. Could this tool be outdated? It's a pity if so. In this case, does anybody have an idea if there was any recent spec updates in the XAIT format, which would help in figuring out where in the binary form has gotten out of sync?
Thanks in advance,
This tool is EXTREMELY out of date and has not been used by the project in quite some time (years). Should you feel so inclined, we would be happy to have you contribute code fixes for the XAIT generator :-). It would indeed be nice to have that tool working again so everyone could benefit! I'm sorry to say that fixes to that tool are just not in our very tight schedule for 1.1.4. However, any patches contributed within the next 3-4 weeks could definitely be reviewed in time to make it into our 1.1.4 release.
Hi Greg,
Thanks for the information about XAITGenerator. I have a need to get something up and running in a few days, that I'll probably move away from programatically generating XAIT for now, in this case. Meanwhile there's a decent chance that we need a tool like this sooner or later, and I personally would be happy to contribute it back to the ocap-ri. If I seem to be able to do it, then I'll contact you directly on how to move forward.
While we're at the status of the code, may I ask if the unit tests and app code, below, are maintained or not?
It is really helpful to have code samples when exploring new APIs, and I've been hoping that those above are somewhat reliable. (It'll be so great if tru2way provides a set of sample classes just like the java sample archive that comes with BD-J's spec, but I can imagine that it's more of a luxury).
The JUnit tests (under OCAP-1.0/java/test), unfortunately, are pretty out of date as well. We do have a low priority task to whip them back into shape, but those won't be available in the 1.1.4 release.
The QA integration xlets (under OCAP-1.0/apps/qa) are actively undergoing a checkup for the 1.1.4 release. I would expect that even in the 1.1.3 release you would find most of them to be functional.
OK. Glad to learn that the QA integration xlets are likely to be good now and being updated for the next release. I'll keep on looking at them then.

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Live entertainment, prize giveaways, free t-shirts, information about UHAA and UH programs and campuses, not to mention the famous GEICO Gecko, were all part of the fun at the UH Alumni Association's first-ever UHAA Day at Windward Mall on Aug. 28.
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Entertainer Billy V emceed the festivities and gave away prizes around Windward Mall's Center Stage. Visitors learned more about UHAA and its programs, chapters, events and partners, as well as University of Hawai'i programs. In addition to the many UH information displays, there was live entertainment by Waipuna and Ikaika Tecson & Audissey. During the program, UHAA presented event co-sponsor GEICO with its Partner of the Year award, and the famous Gecko thrilled the kids.Visitors also received free UHAA Alumni 'Ohana t-shirts.
"This is a new event for the UH Alumni Association," said Janet Yoshida Bullard '82, UHAA executive director and longtime member. "We're trying to be more active in the community, let people know what our organization is all about and build pride for UH."
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Monson: BYU football at a crossroads
BYU football is at a crossroads, at the metaphorical intersection of what's real and what's imagined, with only the former authentically leading to what's next for Bronco Mendenhall's program. It is a junction where the Cougars have to face down not just what they want to be, but what they can be and what they are.
What's real right now is the hard-truth highway found in the aftermath of a 38-7 loss suffered in Provo at the hands of TCU on Saturday night, the freeway exit off a 32-7 defeat in Fort Worth last season.
In both cases, BYU was put on that path by an opponent that was more athletic and better coached than the Cougars. That's happened twice this season and three times last, when BYU was throttled by teams with more speed, more polish, more poise, more pluck.
There have been a lot of wins mixed in over the past couple of seasons, too, but mostly against teams that provide little or no measure for true excellence or genuine progress, with the victory over what's turned out to be a compromised Oklahoma team as an exception. Overall, Mendenhall is 9-13 in big games and 2-7 against ranked teams.
In his postgame remarks Saturday night, the coach candidly talked about what was obvious to anybody who watched the TCU game, admitting that many of the athletes at BYU are not on par with many of the Horned Frogs. The delineating factor?
Speed. His solution to the problem was brave, but also partially off-target.
He essentially said BYU's model would never be identical to TCU's, meaning the Cougars couldn't get the same number of athletes as the Frogs, the same kind of speed, but that the players they could get have to execute more efficiently to make up for their lack of athleticism, through their diligence and conscientiousness. He also said he had to do a better job of coaching up his players ... and of coaching up his offensive and defensive coordinators. (OK, I added that last part.)
The problem with that notion is that other programs, such as TCU, have talented athletes who also are diligent and conscientious, who execute and are coached up, in the vernacular of Mendenhall, to a higher level.
If BYU doesn't have the same number of top athletes, and isn't as well coached as some other programs, even if the Cougars somehow were suddenly better coached, does that make up all the difference?
BYU could have executed near perfectly on Saturday night, and it still would have lost to a clearly superior team. There may be rare exceptions to that rule, and those exceptions can be found in the program's past, but they remain exactly that -- exceptions.
There just aren't as many athletes who will take a shot at coming to Provo, attending a religious school, living BYU's Honor Code, which is the equivalent of the normal LDS Church standard on steroids, as there are athletes who won't. The Cougars even miss out on top Mormon athletes who want to go elsewhere.
And as long as that turbo-standard is strictly enforced, BYU's football success will have a ceiling. A troop of Boy Scouts might make you proud, but, in today's world, they won't win a national title. That doesn't mean the Cougars can't win eight, nine or 10 games most seasons, especially playing in the Mountain West Conference. It just means they will struggle against programs with financial backing, with great head coaches who know how to recruit and lead a team to victory. Coaches like Gary Patterson, teams like TCU, and victories like Saturday night's.
It's presumptuous on the part of Mendenhall -- and inaccurate -- to think that he can recruit fewer great athletes, athletes who supposedly will work harder than players in other programs, and then do a better job of mentoring them than other top coaches.
Where's the proof for that possibility?
BYU had two terrific seasons under Bronco in which they finished 11-2. Pretty darn good, but not good enough to qualify for anything bigger than the Las Vegas Bowl.
Utah has made it to two BCS bowls, including last year's game in New Orleans that completed another undefeated season.
Again, the Utes had a bunch of gifted, hard-working athletes and coaches who were committed and knew what they were doing, just like TCU does this year. Their coaches, in fact, were better than BYU's.
Despite the limitations in the kinds and numbers of great athletes he can recruit, Mendenhall refused to lower expectations for BYU's program in his postgame remarks. He said the ultimate goal at BYU remains winning a national championship. Kind of like your kid wanting to be Tiger Woods, like you wanting your kid to be Tiger Woods.
Reason says it ain't happening.
He might, if he's fortunate, become Fred Funk.
Dreaming is one thing, foolishness is another.
And, so, BYU finds itself caught in its dreamy world, somewhere at the crossing of reality and fantasy. It wants to be something special, it wants to be a national champion, but it doesn't have the building blocks or the architects, or the inclination to change the things that limit its reach, to make it happen.
Not that it should change those limitations, if the school is fixed on drawing student-athletes committed to living by the Code. But if that's the case, it should adjust expectations. At a minimum, it should cut down on the pie-in-the-sky rhetoric.
The way things are now, a hundred Cougar players and a million faithful Cougar fans are angry and frustrated and confused by the space between what is fact and what is fiction, what is reality and what is a smoked pipe dream beyond good reason's grasp.
Bottom line: BYU should turn off What's Imagined Lane and head down What's Real Avenue and embrace what it is -- a fine academic institution that promotes clean living and love of religion, with a football team that wins, but, under its present direction, doesn't have -- and can't get -- enough athletes to reach its goal.
Mendenhall is a football coach, not a miracle worker.
Somewhere deep down, he knows that, and so should everybody else.
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BYU has only lost five games in the last two seasons, but the Cougars have barely been competitive in those games:
|Oct. 24, 2009
|Sept. 19, 2009
|Dec. 20, 2008
|Nov. 22, 2008
|Oct. 16, 2008
BYU's schedule, with power ranking among all Division I programs from Jeff Sagarin
|Nov. 7
|at Wyo., noon
|Nov. 14
|at N.M., noon
|Nov. 21
|AFA, 1:30 p.m.
|Nov. 28
|Utah, 3 p.m.
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The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) is studying concepts for rapid transit from Bethesda to New Carrollton. Light-rail alongside the Capital Crescent Trail in the Georgetown Branch Corridor is one of the alternatives under study. MTA alignment maps and typical profiles of the alternatives are at www.purplelinemd.com.
Source: Coalition for the Capital Crescent Trail Maps webpage.
The website SilverSpringTrails details why the CCT cannot be completed into Silver Spring as a good off-road trail without the Purple Line, and also addresses MTA concept plans for a good CCT through the neighborhoods west of Rock Creek. Most information presented on that website will not be repeated here. This webpage presents information to address several common "Save the Trail" claims.
Transit opponents centered around Chevy Chase neighborhoods are waving the "Save the Trail" banner. Their chief claims about the CCT are:
1- "The Trail will be unsafe near transit."
2- "All the trees in the corridor must be cut, harming our environment and the trail."
3- "We can finish the trail NOW, without the Purple Line."
Experience with rail transit shows that trail users will be safer on the planned Purple Line transit/trail than on the existing CCT.
Source: Maryland Transit Administration
Typical cross sections for the Purple Line beg the question "How many children will leave the trail, cross a planted buffer, climb a fence, jump down a retaining wall and step onto the tracks just as a transit vehicle is passing by??".
There is much nationwide experience on the safety of rail transit operating in urban pedestrian environments. The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy reports there are already more than 200 trails alongside or within the right-of-way of active rail lines nationwide. More trails with rails are being built every year. Their study of 61 of these trails showed that they are attractive and safe. Their safety study, and other information on trails with rails, is online at their "Trail Building Toobox".
About 1/2 of the 100+ mile Metro Rail system is above ground. Metro heavy rail trains have been running on the surface through many neighborhoods in the D.C. area for many years with only a fence to provide separation, and safety of children in the adjacent neighborhoods is seldom considered a serious issue. One example of this is in nearby Takoma Park along Fenton Street and is pictured at the bottom of this page, showing Metro and CSX rail separated from the MetBranch Trail by no more than is proposed between the Purple Line and the CCT.
The risk to trail users from being struck by motor vehicles at roadway crossings on the existing Interim CCT is much greater than any risk of being struck by light-rail vehicles while on the future Trail. There are eight at-grade street crossings on the existing Interim CCT and Georgetown Branch Trail, including crossings of several multilane state highways. Cyclists must share the road with motor vehicles for over one mile on the Georgetown Branch Trail to get into Silver Spring. According National Transportation Statistics nearly 700 cyclists and 5000 pedestrians are killed by motor vehicles annually. The Purple Line transit/trail will have bridges and underpasses that eliminate nearly all trail at-grade street crossings, and will complete the off-road trail into Silver Spring.
Purple Line opponents ignore the national safety data and our own experience with Metro, and instead they cite any rail accident they can find as anecdotal evidence that rail transit is inherently dangerous. The two accidents they most frequently cite are the Baltimore light-rail accident at the BWI station that injured 22 passengers and the 1996 MARC train accident in Silver Spring that killed 11 passengers and crew. In the BWI accident, the rail car did not leave the railbed and no one on the ground was injured even though pedestrians were standing on the station platform immediately adjacent to the accident. The Silver Spring MARC accident was tragic, but no one was hurt on the ground and only one of the rail cars came to rest more than 25' from the track. A reinforced concrete crash barrier will be built at a 25' standoff between the CSX tracks and the transit/trail project. It is very unlikely a rail vehicle will ever derail and enter the space of the future trail. Automobiles cross the path of trail users on the existing trail hundreds of times every day at the eight existing trail roadway crossings between Bethesda and Silver Spring, sometimes while failing to yield to pedestrians while making improper turns or running the stop signs or traffic lights.2- "All the trees in the corridor must be cut, harming our environment and the trail."
The Sierra Club and the Chesepeake Bay Foundation have both endorsed the Purple Line, in spite of the potential loss of trees locally along the Trail. It is a matter of seeing the forest instead of seeing only the closest trees.
A "typical" profile for two-track transit with trail will require removing all trees within an approx. 60' swath along the length of the Georgetown Branch Corridor. But the MTA CCT design shows that over half of the length of the Corridor is much wider than 60'. Many tall trees will remain along both sides of the Corridor. This includes through the Columbia Country Club to Connecticut Avenue where the Corridor is 100' wide, from Connecticut Avenue to Jones Mill Road where the Corridor is 90' to 100' wide, and from Jones Mill Road across Rock Creek Park where the Corridor is 225' wide. The Corridor appears narrow because adjacent property owners have erected fences that encroach upon the right-of-way. The difference between the "apparent" trail right-of-way and the actual right-of-way is greatest at the Columbia Country Club, where the Club has fenced off approx. 4/5 of the public right-of-way for its exclusive private use. See the Coalition for the CCT newsletter article on how public funds were used to build these fences to benefit the Club. The Corridor is narrower at both the Bethesda and Silver Spring ends. For these sections all trees within the corridor right-of-way must be removed. But even here tall trees will remain on many of the properties adjacent to the trail.
A fair count of the number of large trees that must be removed for transit will fall well short of the claim of 5000 mature trees being made by opponents of transit. That number appears to have originated from a survey done around 1990 that counted all trees of any size anyplace within the right-of-way. That included many trees of less than 12" dia. and many trees outside of the likely limits of construction in the wide sections of the right-of-way. Many trees included in the 1990 survey would remain on either side of the transit/trail in these wider sections. But even so, many large trees will be lost.
The Sierra Club and the Chesepeake Bay Foundation have both endorsed the Purple Line, in spite of the loss of trees along the Trail. It is a matter of seeing the forest instead of seeing only the closest trees. These organizations have concluded that the Purple Line will support smart growth patterns and provide non-polluting transportation options that will best protect the regional air quality and the Bay. See the Sierra Club 2005 Newsletter.
Transit opponents paint a picture of a barren paved corridor that is uninviting to trail users with the Purple Line. But the corridor can be green and inviting with transit. MTA is considering using "grass tracks" like those illustrated at right for parts of the corridor. Another example of "grass tracks" alongside a trail is pictured at the Capital Crescent Trail page. "Grass tracks", trees lining the sides of the corridor, and a wide planted buffer between transit and trail can create an inviting green space.3- "We can finish the trail NOW, without the Purple Line."
Transit opponents have no credible plan to complete the CCT into Silver Spring as a safe off-road trail.
The preferred Master Plan alignment to complete the CCT into downtown Silver Spring is along the CSX corridor. SilverSpringTrails outlines why transit is needed to obtain access for the Trail on this corridor and why an alignment on this corridor is essential for a safe Trail. Transit opponents can present no evidence that they can get CSX to even talk to the County or State about allowing a trail in their r.o.w. without transit.
Some transit opponents suggest we not use the CSX corridor for a trail alignment, and instead upgrade the existing Georgetown Branch Trail on-road bike route into Silver Spring by building a sidepath trail or bike lanes on that route. But most streets on this route are narrow neighborhood streets and have no room for either a sidepath trail or bike lanes. Even if possible, putting a sidepath trail or bike lanes on this route would be like putting lipstick on a pig - it would do little to cover the most unattractive features. The many turns, the dangerous crossings of busy roadways at-grade, and the failure to enter the Silver Spring transit center and connect seamlessly to the MetBranch Trail on this alignment would not be addressed.
Source: Capital Crescent/MetBranch Trail Facility Plan
Some transit opponents call for building the "Interim CCT" proposed in the CC/MetBranch Trail Facility Plan approved by the Planning Board in 2001. That plan is summarized at the Coalition for the Capital Crescent Trail website Action Page. The Interim CCT would follow the CSX alignment wherever possible, and would use alternate routes along neighborhood streets where CSX r.o.w. is not available. Approx. 1/2 of the Interim Trail alignment is directly alongside the CSX corridor along Third Avenue r.o.w., including under the Spring Street bridge. This route would be a significant improvement over the on-road Georgetown Branch Trail because it is largely off-road and would cross 16th Street at a safer intersection at Lyttonsville Road. But it would have numerous at-grade street crossings including at Colesville Road, and would not connect directly to the Metbranch Trail.
Advocates who assert we should build the Interim CCT, which would be largely alongside rail and would have several at-grade crossings of highways in Silver Spring neighborhoods, are often the same advocates who wrap themselves in the "Save the Trail" banner to assert that a CCT near rail would be too dangerous in Chevy Chase neighborhoods and to demand that the CCT must remain in the Bethesda Tunnel to avoid an at-grade crossing of Wisconsin Avenue. Apparently their trail safety standards depend upon whether the trail is in Chevy Chase or in Silver Spring.
The CC/MetBranch Trail Facility Plan recommends the Interim CCT only be used as a temporary trail until the final CCT can be built along the preferred CSX alignment - which is why the Facility Plan calls it "Interim". The CCCT states at its website: "The CCCT supports this Interim Trail, but only as a temporary trail. It is too indirect and has too many at-grade crossings of busy highways to be appropriate as a permanent CCT."
Trail supporters cannot reasonably claim that building light-rail transit alongside the CCT will "destroy" the Trail in Chevy Chase while asking decision makers to complete the CCT alongside active Metrorail and CSX tracks a few miles away in Silver Spring, or to complete the Metropolitan Branch Trail alongside Metrorail and CSX tracks into D.C.
Trail supporters can certainly express a preference that the future CCT be in a park setting. But promoting an unfounded view that the Trail will be unsafe if any part of it is built near light-rail will undercut efforts to complete the CCT and the Metropolitan Branch Trail. A useful network of interconnected trails will not be possible if trails are only built in parks.
The Coalition for the Capital Crescent Trail (CCCT) has chosen to neither support nor oppose the Purple Line so long as the CCT remains in the corridor as a good quality trail. The Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA) has studied the issue carefully and has endorsed Purple Line light-rail with the Capital Crescent Trail in this corridor. The WABA position statement holds that "It is important that bicyclists reject the assertions that the trail and transit are incompatible and that having transit near the trail will devastate the trail". CCCT and WABA are both working to secure as "trail friendly" a transit/trail design as possible.
More information on the Purple Line transportation and environmental issues is at www.purplelinenow.org.


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ATI in Bull Bay gave patrons a wonderful way to enjoy last Friday, and a grand end to the Emancipation holiday, as the event kicked off at Brook's Pen Beach in Bull Bay, St Andrew.
The event was strongly supported by partygoers and promoters from eastern Jamaica. Everyone seemed to be having a blast as the disc jockeys played hit after hit to the delight of the patrons.
Females, who made up the majority of the crowd, came out wonderfully attired and had the attention of the males all night.
The promoters expressed their delight and appreciation for the support they received.
Several entertainers and socialites came out to enjoy the event. Here are a few highlights.
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September 02, 2014
This white paper analyzes K-12 literacy standards for U.S. History that are included as part of Common Core's English language arts standards, and raises serious concerns about the future of history instruction, including the A.P. U.S. History curriculum. The authors urge schools to instead offer separate standards and classes for English and U.S. History, and recommend that local education governing bodies replace the College Board's new A.P. U.S. History curriculum with the common civic core spelled out in Educating Democracy, which was published in 2003 by the Albert Shanker Institute.


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When I was 17 and a junior in high school, I was published for the very first time. I wrote up a piece on the injustice of taking the ACT exam and getting the exact same score, four times in a row. At the time, it was pretty much one of the most frustrating things in my life, something that I likened to "feeling like the walls in my living room had begun to leak water and were drowning me as I read the same number for the fourth time on my ACT form."
This was published in a newsletter that my school subscribed to called StudentPaths. When the newsletters were passed out in my homeroom, I leapt up in my seat after seeing my article and made some sort of weird strangled sound with my voice that I think was a scream of excitement. Luckily, it was barely even 8am and my classmates were mostly half-asleep. As I walked into our morning TV announcement room to pose with our vice principal with the newsletter, my heart was pumping with joy. My first piece! Published! Ever! You always remember the first one.
For the article, I was able to include my first author bio, which at the time read that I was 17 and wanted to pursue a career in journalism. But enough of that, let's get to the good stuff. Every author got to include their favorite quote with their bio. After much soul-searching and a general intolerance for working the tired Gandhi/James Dean quote angle, I settled on this little cinematic gem:
"I'm sorry that people are so jealous of me… but I can't help it I'm so popular."
Any Tina Fey or chick flick buff worth their salt will tell you that this one came from a Miss Gretchen Wieners in the movie Mean Girls. No, not the one who couldn't spell "orange" – that one was Karen Smith. And definitely not the queen bee who met John Stamos on a plane once (and told her she was pretty) Regina George. I'm talkin' about the heir to the Toaster Strudel empire who had to pretend that she didn't even like white-gold hoop earrings. I feel you, Gretch, I do.
I learned a lot from Mean Girls, which was released during a time where I was actually in high school and could relate to these problems. It was 2004, a simpler time. Cell phones didn't have apps, Tina Fey was still writing jokes on SNL and we all had high hopes for the spunky redheaded Lindsay Lohan's career. You felt like you could see yourself in this film, to some small degree. The Burn Book in particular definitely made everyone wonder: man, if I got featured in there, what would someone say about me? Depends on the person creating the book, you'd think. I'm proud to say that at least I never made out with a hot dog though I have assaulted many curly fries in my day.
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Olympic wrestler Daniel Cormier will vie to be the best in the world next week. The former Oklahoma State standout can already lay claim to being the best in at least one area. Then again, as he revealed before leaving for Beijing, he isn't the greatest in every sport.
Jenni Carlson: I read somewhere that you've been dubbed the greatest wrestler in Louisiana history. Daniel Cormier: It's good to be called the greatest in anything, especially with all the great athletes that they have down there. But not many people wrestle. If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big. It means a lot for me, because it's my home state, but the sport's not that big down there. It's not like being the best football player from down there or best baseball player. JC: Didn't you sort of stumble into wrestling? Something about mattresses in the backyard? DC: We were huge WWF fans. When I was invited to go and try out by the high school coach, I really thought I was going to be doing what I was doing (in the backyard). JC: You thought there'd be chairs over the head and guys bouncing off ropes? DC: I really did. I really did believe I was going to do the WWF thing. Looking back, it's kind of insane ... but I went in there and saw the guys wrestling and said, "What in the world is this?" Then, they gave us our uniforms, and I said, "Look at this." But it was fun.
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I was fortunate enough to enter this new frontier of lead teaching already having established a relationship with the parents in my classroom and the parents from the second-year classroom where I am now placed. This made for a smooth transition as I took on my new position and responsibility (and stress).
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Smiles and cheerfulness speak volumes when the parents enter our classroom. They are almost always happy and friendly when they walk in for drop-off or watch from the hallway at pick-up. If they are not in the best of moods, they again trust us enough to seek advice or just vent.
Having positive, trusting relationships with my students' wonderful parents makes my job so much better! I appreciate them, their involvement in their children's education, their caring and understanding when it comes to staff, and their praise of our program.
Now I have to go find some adorable and meaningful gifts for the kiddos to make as holiday gifts for their parents — to help me let them know how thankful I am!


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By dod on 7/19/2005
This place has OK food but the service is so bad it spoils the whole dinner. Just waiting to join my party already seated took 15 minutes, while others hugging and kissing the greeters were seated ahead of me. Our server was terrible he could not figure out the orders and who got what putting the wrong utensils and meals in front of the wrong people. This was a Tuesday night likely not the busiest it gets. We had to share a wine bucket with another table and were totally confused about where our wine went to, surely we didn't drink it all, maybe the other table got it. To add insult to injury we couldn't even get out of this place since we had to wait about 20 minutes to hunt down our server for a check. And to top it all off a member of our party did not even get her B&B which she ordered very clearly. Not receommending this place to anyone. Bobby stick with your other joints!!
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By emily_ees on 6/29/2005
Unlike my experience at Bobby Flay's other restaurants, I left here truly regretting the money I spent. So much money for mediocre food and horrendous service. Mark this as another expensive NYC restaurant that is NOT WORTH IT. Take your money and spend it on better food somewhere else.
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By zinino on 6/13/2005
Flay's latest may not be as fiery as some would like, but in most respects--food, service, setting--Bar Americain is to me NY dining at its most satisfying. Try the artisanal ham tasting, the poussin, the rack of pork, and any shellfish. Bobby's cordial, tireless presence on the scene seems to insure excellence.
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By arthshapiro on 6/13/2005
Bobby Flay's newest entry is clearing designed to capatilize on his "brand", especially given its tourist trade location. In fact, the service is so poor that serious diners, even those who are fans of Bolo and Mesa Grill are sure to be disappointed as we were. What Mr. Flay doesn't realize is that "branding" depends on customer satisfaction and substance. A brand is as much about the people who deliver it as it is about the product itself. Unfortunately, Bar Americain fails in both areas.
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