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Despite more capital letters you totally ignore the main point that large amounts of salary raises were traded away for better than average benefits. You want the benefit of not having given those raises all these years but now also the benefit of taking away what was given in exchange. Restore the salaries and lost wages and you have a deal from my standpoint.
You may think it's ridiculous for teachers to get step increases but again, you want the benefit with no cost.
Most new teachers in addition to having a 4 year college degree will have at least a 5th year of college to obtain a license. Yet they start out in the low to mid 30's of salary and take 12 - 16 years (depending on district) to get a journeyman's wage.
So you are happy to have the benefit of extra low wages for professional people but you object to the idea that new teachers can count on a salary schedule and step advancement that will get them to a point where they might support a family in 12-16 years. It's amazing that good people stay in at all when they are strung along like that.
This is why I quoted the "what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine" philosophy that your post well demonstrates. It's so easy to point out what you're giving to others and so difficult to see what you're taking.
Nathan Zebrowski had a related excellent post on this earlier in this discussion.
OK capital letters writers group, here's a deal: Take back the billion dollars from retirees but restore all the pay raises that were traded for the retirement benefits going back to the '70's and also send retroactive paychecks to all the people who worked during that time and took the lower pay raises.
You're only talking tens of billions of dollars to start.
The fair trade might not fit in with the what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine mentality, but at least it's a start in the discussion.
There is a large factor that's being overlooked here. School districts have largely covered their losses to PERS increases by holding off of the pay raises they would have given if they were private sector employers.
Average private sector pay has gone up 16.8% since 2006 http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cesbtab3.htm
(select all sector private weekly wages to get history). Teacher pay has gone up half of that or less in the same time. If you do the math in an average district like Hillsboro you find the district has saved about 80 % of its PERS increases by denying pay increases.
Districts routinely and publicly said that they realized they were not giving increases that keep up with inflation but they couldn't give those increases because of their increased PERS costs.
The public has been cushioned from the increased costs but you won't find the PERS article saying anything about public money being saved by public workers getting increases far less than the private sector. So public employees, once again, have sucked it up but you'd never know it from any of the Oregonian articles I've seen.
What people don't want to hear is that the real cause of cut school days and huge class sizes is that we no longer adequately fund education.
Yes, realistic planning will not assume the demise of the car to the extent of not planning adequate road capacity.
But if the Tea Party stands for smaller government, less government spending, and less government planning this is exactly the opposite of what is needed to improve the roads. It's incredibly expensive to build things like overpasses on TV Highway, not to mention the Westside Bypass.
What I'm advocating is part of basic democracy, not that government is bad, but we just want it to do what's best for society. We need government to do things like this. Unless you want expensive toll roads everywhere you go the private sector can't do these things. That's what government is for.
"Rex" has written elsewhere on this site that this traffic issue is one that there seems to be agreement upon by the full spectrum of writers who have commented, from liberals to Tea Party people. Here is one issue people of all these stripes can finally work together upon.
I didn't say the costs weren't going up. I did say the employers were covering those costs by not giving as large raises as the private sector. The district would be paying about $6 million a year more to employees if the raises had been the same as the average private sector raises.
The average of 13 % increase in private sector raises comes directly from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for all private sector workers. You can find it here: http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cesbtab3.htm Check weekly wages for all sectors. Then do the math to find the % difference from 2006 to 2012. It's actually closer to 15%.
I'd suggest you read things more carefully and get them right before you call someone a liar.
The District has taken most of the PERS increases out of the checks of current employees by not giving raises anything like the private sector has been getting. Since 2006 private sector wages have gone 13% while HSD has been held to half that, and less if you count furlough days. PERS is no reason to oppose the levy.
I've read Ms. Haugen's piece a number of times. It seems her two main reasons for justifying opposition to the bypass is that the roadway would occupy farmland and that it would be extremely expensive.
If those two factors are sufficient to oppose a highway how would any highways have been built in the history of the country? Most all highways occupy some farmland and they are extremely expensive. We'd be without the whole interstate system and most all state highways. Would we be better off without them? I don't think so.
I believe Ms. Haugen's letter is symptomatic of a well intentioned but unreasonable extremism which prevailed on the Westside Bypass and is in danger of preventing any new highways from ever being built. This is a danger because the traffic won't go away. Yes, when roads are built they are used, but when they are not the remaining roads just turn into gridlock.
Regarding what I said about the bypass and saving farmland: The point I made is that suburban sprawl resulting from the opening up of land with a highway need not happen. The 15 miles or so between Sherwood and Hillsboro could be build without exits. Fighting this sprawl was one of the major factors in the work of those who killed the bypass, LUTRAQ report (http://www.friends.org/sites/friends.org/files/reports/LUTRAQ%20Volume%207%20Making%20the%20Connections%20-%20A%20summary%20of%20the%20LUTRAQ%20project,%201997.pdf). The actual acreage taken by the highway itself is not and was not the major factor. Without the sprawl the great majority of the farmland would be saved and that would be a good thing.
Think of nature. Water drains on the land into bigger and bigger rivers. Leaves have major veins. If we only had capillaries and no major arteries we'd all be dead. Yes, we need to save farmland. I support the UGB and live within it. But we also need major highways and we're not through with the need for new ones as new population centers develop.
At the same time, an impractical extremism that says we no longer need to accommodate growth in roads to meet increased traffic is totally unrealistic. The westside bypass could have and should be built to minimize affects on the farmland yet still meet the real needs of a growing society.
Here we are 9 years after Hillsboro cut 17 days from the school year and the Board is first setting up an exploratory committee to educate the public. Then all we have to do is wait for the results of another survey to see if the vote will be virtually guaranteed before the campaign even starts.
The following districts, many of them poorer than we, have local option levies: Wilsonville, Seaside, Sisters, Hood River, Grants Pass, Eugene, Crow-Applegate, Siuslaw, Morrow, Portland, Fall River, Pendleton, Tigard-Tualatin, Corvallis.
Why don't we? The city finance director says our "local economy is thriving."
As much time as Board members donate to their work they are failing the students and community in the most basic aspect of their job: advocating for more funds locally in a time when lack of funding is the greatest problem facing schools and that funding source is available.
This article once again represents wishful thinking that there is enough money hiding or mis-appropriated in the the state budget so that we can fully take care of our needs and responsibilities without further taxes.
This is such an inviting prospect and people want to believe it. Unfortunately it is just wishful thinking and not close to the truth.
During the last year in Oregon the private sector gained 19,600 jobs while the public sector lost 6,400 jobs. The increase in DHS budget cited is a very small part of a budget that is has been drastically affected by the coming and going of federal stimulus money.
In his last article Mr. Lucas cited a supposed enormous job growth in DHS which turned out to be on paper only. Because of the cutbacks (6,400 in the last year alone in public sector) those job increases were never filled. They should have been because in these times there are many more people needing public services.
People who complain about PERS always ignore the fact that current public employees are paying for a large part of the increased expenses themselves. Districts have just taken the money out of pay raises. Since 2006 private sector wages are up 13% while public sectors wages are up about half that or less when you take "furlough days" into account.
Here is the real challenge to the people of Oregon: With tax measures we have cut our taxes over $2 billion a year from what they would have been without the measures. Neat. But you can't take that much money out of government and retain essential services. Will the people of Oregon have the wisdom to see past the false hopes represented in articles like this one? Will they support a carefully constructed dedicated and affordable tax that will genuinely improve essential state services including schools? Or will they stay mired in a false world of plenty that doesn't exist?
This is the type of invisible work the government does that raises our quality of life, represented explicitly here by the quality of our water supply. While it may not be as dramatic as some jobs it helps make the difference between us and a third world country.
It sounds like Ms. Dorsey is extremely well qualified to do the work and is very diligent about doing a good job. Thanks for the story giving some recognition to one of the many unsung people in the government who quietly do their jobs and help us all out.
I think Mr. Beaverton is underestimating the ability of a genuine community need to bring people of all stripes together.
Nobody, whether they are white, Christian, Jewish, atheist, conservative or liberal, likes being totally stuck in gridlock traffic. The fact that diverse people and even those who might be bitter were overwhelming agreeing on this poll and the need for action is a great opportunity for us to work together for a change.
The poll should not only be taken seriously but followed up upon.
The first thing that needs to be done is to complete the earlier studies and determine what the actual route would be. That right of way could then be obtained over a longer period of time and protected from further development.
This action could be done at a tiny fraction of the cost of the whole development and yet would save countless dollars, destruction and disruption later.
The sum total of Representative Eyre's article is that she had nothing to offer to help solve Oregon's serious budget problems.
What is worse is that the article is deceiving in that it appears to offer solutions but these are appearances only. The problem is one of scale. Most people hear $350,000 per month savings and in terms of their home budget it sounds like a lot. But the state is a huge enterprise and the numbers needed to run it are hard to comprehend. For example, the $350,000 savings would run the state school system for about 15 minutes.
Of course each minute is important, but the point is she is miles away from restoring the many days schools are cutting, reducing class size and restoring electives. And those are just school related expenses.
The state is at least $1 billion short per biennium in its budget needs to provide essential services. Where is Ms. Eyre's realistic plant plan for the state to obtain that money? The old saws about cutting government waste and job creation through tax cuts should be laughed out of the room. How many more teachers do we want to lay off? How many more days per month should the DMV offices close? How much richer do the ultra wealthy need to be?
Rep. Eyre is proud of the money she has set aside to "protect schools" from further cuts as if the status quo is acceptable . It isn't.
Given her total unwillingness to raise the taxes we need for vital services how long will it be that we, like the Republican stronghold Josephine County, have to release jail prisoners?
Is this state too poor to give our kids a decent education? The fact is that we are failing our moral responsibility in that regard. We will never correct that moral failure with leaders such as Rep. Eyre who pretend to have free solutions but don't.
Heaven forbid someone come along and convince us all in the state that we need to make some additional tax sacrifices to right our ship. That someone will definitely not be Ms. Eyre.
Our state and country are plenty rich enough not to have the appalling essential public service conditions we have now. Rep. Eyre's article represents a bankruptcy of ideas to deal realistically with the problem.
The comments of widen26 are very typical of a type of commenter on this site. If schools were reduced to rubble, a few teachers left trying to teach thousands of kids, and those teachers' who were left were being paid the minimum wage, commenters such as widen26 would say there is enormous waste in the schools, teachers are overpaid, and schools are paralyzed by union thugs who think of nothing but themselves.
The point is there are a number of people like these who will find any excuse not to support the additional funds public education needs in order to provide the kids with a decent education. They find a soft-spot audience because no one enjoys paying more taxes and if a good sounding excuse is stated there is an inducement for buy-in.
What the public needs to do is find the wisdom to ignore these people. Any fair evaluation of the state of public school funding will show that it is drastically inadequate, far beyond PERS, beyond ESD and all the other excuses we keep hearing.
Commenters such as widen26 are helping to destroy the future of the upcoming generation. Let's hope the greater public will do the right thing and create a new revenue source dedicated to the adequate funding of schools.
In the Hillsboro school budget PERS costs increased 5% this year and are now 10% of the budget. Are people going to oppose any new school revenue and deny kids a decent education because they disagree with that 5% increase?
The other 90% of the budget is far more than 5% down. What's also forgotten is that the district has significantly offset the PERS increases by greatly holding back on cost of living and step increase costs in negotiations during past years.
While the private sector has been rapidly adding jobs and giving cost of living increases the opposite has been happening in the public sector.
I was glad to see a concern for funding of public education in Mr. Lucas's column, but the thought that just funding education first will somehow make an inadequate state budget adequate is, I believe, far off the mark.
Human services budgets and virtually all state budgets are underfunded. What services would be cut after education funding is increased? The easy hanging fruit is all picked. I'm informed by DHS that of the 1,300 added positions referenced by Mr. Lucas most of them remain unfilled due to budget cuts.
The real elephant in the room is that in 1990 conservatives fooled the people of the state into thinking they could have a free lunch with Measure 5. In this measure (and it's successors), people simply absolved themselves of about 75% of their school operations taxes. The Hillsboro rate of approximately $20 per thousand has been cut to $5 per thousand. These taxes had been the major source of school funding. It's great to get a tax cut but unrealistic to think you can cut your taxes that much and still get as much in services.
The so called responsible part of the measure was that it blithely required the state to make up the lost funds. There was vague talk of "tax reform" but it never happened. The state was suddenly spending almost half its budget on schools when it had no more sources of revenue.
The lost revenue is at least $3-4 billion per year for the state which dwarfs most of the shortfall figures.
Now Pizzaanytime wants to have public employees to pay for the free lunch by dropping to zero retirement contribution from employers. This would be a non-starter in most professional private positions. Elsewhere (http://www.oregonlive.com/argus/index.ssf/2012/05/in_defense_of_pers_a_villain_l.html ) I've written of the trade off wherein public employees receive better than average benefits to compensate for more retrained earnings potential. This is now being blown apart.
Recall that current entering workers will not receive anything like the higher PERS benefits discussed here. They are getting the scorn, the job insecurity, and now the attempt is to completely take away employer contributions to their retirement program. How long will we retain good quality public workers when they are being treated this way?
As a fellow Argus Community writer I welcome Dan Lucas and his contributions. I look forward to useful exchanges with him.
I'd like to respond to some of the substantive comments. The main point of the piece was the traditional tradeoff between the better job security and benefits of the public sector vs. potentially more pay and perks in the private sector. I was referring to professional levels of work such as what I saw in teaching.
Kent criticizes the security part but doesn't recognize what Pedro did, that a fair comparison also includes the downside of salary constraints. This is especially evident in the higher salary professional occupations where most of the PERS criticism has been centered.
The Attorney General of Oregon earns $77,000 per year. How many private attorneys of that caliber are at that level? The superintendent of the Hillsboro School District earns about $180,000 a year. This sounds like a lot until you learn that he is responsible for a $180 million dollar budget, about 2,000 employees and 20,000 students. In the private sector a CEO of that size operation might earn more than that salary for a bonus.
When a certified plumber walks in your door to do repairs that person gets professional wages right away. Starting teachers in Hillsboro take16 years to do the same.
While I focused on a small-business start up as noted by dbloomslm the incentives mentioned apply to most professional private employees as well. It's not just the executives in industry who rely on annual bonuses of up to a month's salary.
While public workers may not always appreciate how tentative work is in the private sector, private workers don't always appreciate that working harder in the public sector doesn't get you any more pay, an extra day off or even a gift at holiday time. Working harder in the public sector is motivated by wanting to do a good job and help the public.
This brings up GiantsMetsOregon view that there are "hordes of ACTUAL lazy, union-protected, maximum-sick-day-taking, minimally-competent, burned-out, mediocre public school teachers and other public employees."
Honestly, GiantsMetsOregon, I don't know who you are talking about and how many of the 100,000 or so public employees you have studied to condemn a whole class of workers. All I can tell you is what I've observed. The teachers I worked with overwhelmingly overworked themselves trying to help kids. I've gotten very courteous and helpful service at the city, county and state level.
The notion of union protected public workers is a very popular one. If the unions are so strong how is it that public budgets are being cut and public layoffs are far exceeding private ones? Today's Argus print edition has an ironic front page story indicating how much the "trade off" has broken down. The story is about how meetings are now taking place to deal with the problems of filling private sector job openings fast enough. The public sector stories we read are mostly about layoffs and furlough days.
Of course taxpayers are upset to be hit with the extra PERS bills. It would be unrealistic to expect otherwise. But the bills are caused by an unprecedented breakdown of the markets. The 8% guarantee when made wasn't corrupt or out of line. The 40 year average earnings had been 10%. There was no expectation that the taxpayer would be hit harder. But the contract, like a bond, was issued at that rate and like a bond needs to be honored. Many of the people who signed that contract lucked out. Those "bonds" are no longer issued with the changes to PERS.
This brings up my final point. I greatly admire the private sector. The innovations and great products it provides are central to our success as a nation. "Paul'" start-up business is at the heart of what we do well.
But the infrastructure provided by the public sector is also essential. People in it are, in spite of what has been said, generally hard working without the prospect of financial glory and do a good job in supporting public needs. They include Giants and Mets fans. I do feel very badly for the public workers now who are subject to the type of castigating blanket condemnation remarks you read here as well as news stories that emphasize problems with government rather than what it is successfully providing under horrendous circumstances.
We don't see profiles of those younger public workers who are struggling to maintain public services while their budgets and co-workers are being cut out from under them, and who will never get the kind of PERS benefits I was lucky enough to receive. Here's a shout out to those workers. Thank you. You deserve to be more appreciated.
In schools PERS is about 10% of the budget. You are denying kids a decent education because you can't stand the way 10% of the budget is being spent.
I'm not sure what figures you are citing here but they are not the budget figures where educational support comes from in Oregon. You have a figure now in the $50 billion dollar range while the entire General Fund of the state budget (which funds all state services including education support) is in the order of only $14 billion.
Total money coming spent by the state includes much federal pass through money that never enters as money the state can decide how to spend.
The figures you cite are not the ones that education funding comes from and not relevant to whether the state's funds have grown enough to back fill the property tax losses.
The figures I gave above for the state general fund since 1990 are the relevant figures for funding and they are short by at least $2 billion in the back fill. If school funding for the biennium could have been increased by half that we would not be having most of the shortage problems we have now.
The model of reducing costs by going to web based education is akin to saying we could reduce parenting costs by raising kids through web based parenting.
Real kids need real people.
The claim that more than enough money for school back fill has come to the state through income tax and property tax growth is a myth.
The state general fund includes all the major sources of operations income...income taxes, property taxes, etc.
In 1989-91 the general fund for the biennium was $4.7 billion. For 2011-13 it was $13.6 billion. Sounds like more than enough extra.
But inflated to current dollars the $4.7 billion is $8.2 billion. Then you add the 35% population growth that has occurred and you're up to $11.0 billion. Population growth gives you more money but you have to spend that much more for services so it's not "extra" for schools.
Then add on programs such as the Oregon Health Plan and the extra jail costs from Measure 11 (all voter mandated) which combined bring the needed general fund up to about $12.5 billion.
The roughly $1.1 billion left from the current $13.6 billion fund sounds like a lot until you realize that lost revenue from the Measure 5 property tax cuts in current dollars is at least $3 billion.
So the claim that the state has more than enough money to make up the revenue lost from the tax cuts is not true. We are at least $2 billion short.
The myth may comfort those who are against any change in the tax system to make up what we gave ourselves, but it is wrong.


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Here's the conclusion of my talk with Fahrenheit 451 director Sharon Ott. Fahrenheit 451 is onstage at Round House Theatre Bethesda from September 7 – October 9, 2011.
JACQUELINE LAWTON: Written in 1953 and set in an unspecified time in the future, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a brilliant and riveting cult classic. It is at once poetic and frightening in its portrayal of an overly-medicated, government-controlled, media-obsessed society. This is an America where firemen burn books, free-thought is banned, learning is stunted, conversations are monitored, and indifference is the only emotion anyone seems to feel. Why does story remain so relevant still today? What lessons do audiences today have to learn from the actions and consequences of these characters?
SHARON OTT: We're not burning books (yet), but almost everything else that Bradbury imagined as science fiction more than 50 years ago has become true. There is so much in what the characters say that absolutely leaps off the page. It was a clarion call in the 50's, it's an absolute alarm bell now. Bradbury's story has Firemen burning books as part of its narrative, but it's really about a culture that has forgotten how to think. They've forgotten how to think because they're saturated with media, over-medicated, don't read anymore, can't form independent opinions…sound familiar??
JL: After witnessing a woman burn alive with her books, Montag begins to question the "why" of her actions. He ponders, "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing." It is at this moment that Montag begins to break free from his paralytic state of indifference. It is a painful and lengthy process, but a necessary one for him in order to break free to independent thought. As a director, how do you approach such a beautiful, evocative, and painful moment with an actor?
SO: One of the real surprises for me in directing this piece was to discover the truly poetic quality of Bradbury's writing. I direct a lot of Shakespeare, and teach Shakespeare and other classical writers, so I'm thrilled when a contemporary writer can "launch" his language out of a naturalistic framework and move into the poetic. I started to think of Bradbury as a more Jacobean writer, kind of a John Webster. He has a dark sense of humor that I think we've been able to capture in the piece, and a beautiful poetic sense, like Webster. Bradbury's writing demands that attention to verbal detail. This isn't just casual speech. Montag is a phenomenal character. He's a sort of Adam, in a way. Through the course of the story, he is re-born as a thinking, feeling, human being. It is, indeed, a painful process, but a beautiful one, I think. Through Montag, Bradbury gives us some hope for the species.
JL: This production of Fahrenheit 451 is spectacular! How did you decide on the multimedia concept?
SO: The various media components were part of my idea for the production from the beginning. When Bradbury wrote the adaptation in the 70's, none of what we do in this production would have been possible. I guess you could have had the filmed section, but not projected in the way we do it, or blended with other media elements in the way we do it. I had always had it in my mind that the Hound could be an animated character — even though I really knew nothing about animation before I started this project. Since The Forest section in the book is such a change, I had thought it would be interesting to use film for that section…and it's a way to add 10 more characters to the ones onstage! We also use film when the Hound tracks down one of its victims. The motion media sections are there to give us a sense of the crazy over saturated media environment that Mildred lives in.
JL: Do you feel that the multimedia elements deepen the experience of the play more than a traditional set would?
SO: There is a lot of media in the show. However, it's all there in service to Bradbury's story. I get kind of sick of seeing Broadway shows now where media is used in an indiscriminate fashion — just throwing a bunch of TV monitors up onstage with random imagery. My interest was to use media as part of the narrative, really integrate the elements into the story itself. It's not there as "visual noise", but, hopefully, to help move forward the narrative.
JL: What were some of the challenges you faced in bringing the technical elements together?
SO: As for challenges…yikes! I can't begin to tell you how difficult it was to put the first production together. It took me two years just to do the groundwork for the thing. However, that was part of the challenge.
JL: If there is one thing you want audiences to walk away knowing or thinking about after experiencing this production of Fahrenheit 451, what would that be?
SO: Hmmm…I would never want to reduce a great work of art, which I think Fahrenheit 451 is, to a single thought, but I guess it would be…Start thinking, start reading, don't stop feeling…the forces of darkness may be closer than you know.
JL: What's next for you as a director?
SO: I directed The Tempest in June for Georgia Shakespeare, and then had just a little bit of time off before this production of Fahrenheit 451, so I'm actually going to enjoy teaching for a while! I do have two productions I'm looking forward to doing at the Savannah College of Art and Design with the students — John Cariani's Almost, Maine, and Karin Coonrod's "performative text" of two Flannery O'Connor short stories, Greenleaf and Everything That Rises Must Converge. I'm really excited about the O'Connor short stories. As you may know, she was born in Savannah, and lived her adult life in Milledgeville, not too far away. These are both fantastic stories and I can't wait to delve into Flannery's strange, dark, humorous, and startling world. Looks like I'm also going out to Seattle again in the spring to work with Maestro Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony on the opera Bluebeard's Castle with sets by Dale Chihuly as well. After that, we'll see what comes up!
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We have special visitor parking in the side parking lot, near the front of the church. There is also a covered drive that you can use. If you have children and would prefer to park closer to our children's area, there is a parking lot on the east side, with a longer walkway that goes directly into the area in which one of our Children's Coordinators, will be there to help you and your children.
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EDIT: Our prayers have been answered! Sort of.. maybe not a fully fledged daily feature (yet!) but there will be a sweet dose of Vinny tomorrow at whatever timezone you're in. Be there or be ..dark.. square..
So I wanted to post this in the other thread but I literally can't find it and have no clue how the search works.
Anyway Vinny was tweeting about maybe doing a Daily Dark Souls sort of thing and then I don't remember where but someone from staff said it would maybe start as early as Monday. Not sure if that was one of those sarcastic replies or a real one?
I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Maybe @rorie can exit the merchendising pits of hell fire for a sec and give us an update if this is something that is actually planned or is it simply an idea still floating in the ether?
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Bryce McKey recently wrapped up his third season as an assistant women's basketball coach at Xavier University and his first under head coach Brian Neal.
McKey came to Xavier prior to the 2011-12 season after serving as the associate head coach at Hathaway Brown HS in Shaker Heights, Ohio, for three seasons (2008-11). He helped lead the team to three consecutive Division II Ohio State Championships from 2009-11, the first three basketball state championships in school history.
At Hathaway Brown HS, the squads posted an overall record of 61-19 in three years with McKey on the bench. He was in charge of the defense and post-player development in addition to overseeing scouting.
McKey also served as head coach of Sports City U AAU where his team was nationally ranked as a Top 10 Travel Team by ESPN Hoopgurlz in both his seasons at the helm. His squad compiled an overall record of 48-3.
McKey served as the coordinator and assistant camp director for the Ohio Girls Basketball Report, the top-ranked single-state scouting service in the country. With OGBR, McKey was responsible for the coordination and operation of OGBR Skills Camp, the Top 64 Fall Showcase and the Classic in the Country High School Tournament.
Prior to his time at Hathaway Brown HS and Sports City U, McKey was a varsity assistant and freshman head coach at Lake HS in Uniontown, Ohio, for two years. While at Lake, McKey helped the varsity team combine for its first back-to-back winning seasons in two decades and led the freshman squad to two consecutive conference championships.
He also coached the Midwest Warriors men's AAU team while as an assistant at Lake HS, compiling an overall record of 81-14 over his three seasons as head coach.
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An Analysis of Program Options for Gifted Middle School Students
Date: May 1999
Creator: Curry, Brenda Lierin
Description: The purpose of this study was to compare three different types of programming options for identified gifted and talented middle school students.
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Analysis of Qualified Immunity for Texas Public School Professional Employees as Interpreted by the Texas Courts
Date: May 2009
Creator: Carman, John Nathaniel
Description: This dissertation analyzed Texas appellate court decisions relating to whether educators' actions were incident to or within the scope of duties and involved the exercise of judgment or discretion in cases involving defamation, motor vehicle exceptions, and excessive force in discipline exceptions. The questions addressed were: (1) How have the Texas appellate courts interpreted Texas Education Code Section 22.051 in litigation against teachers and school administrators for defamation? (2) How have the Texas appellate courts interpreted Texas Education Code Section 22.051 in litigation against teachers and school administrators for injury to students when plaintiffs have sued Texas educator under the motor vehicle exception to the educator immunity law? (3) How have the Texas appellate courts interpreted Texas Education Code Section 22.051 in litigation against teachers and school administrators under the excessive force in discipline exception to the educator immunity law? This dissertation utilized legal research as its methodology. Chapter 3 examines literature with regard to qualified immunity for Texas public school professional employees and discusses the limitations placed upon qualified immunity. Chapter 4 is a comprehensive study of the cases decided by Texas courts involving alleged defamation of students or others by teachers and school administrators. Chapter 5 is a ...
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An Analysis of Teaching Periodicals for Aging Education Content
Date: May 2001
Creator: Wimsatt, T. Joy
Description: Ninety elementary public school teachers were surveyed to find out where they obtained their teaching ideas. Seven popular elementary-level teaching periodicals, dated 1989-1999, were analyzed for aging-related content, and compared with 27 of the National Academy for Teaching and Learning about Aging (NATLA) aspects of aging recommended for students' learning. Results indicate that public elementary teachers obtain their teaching ideas from various places: teaching institutes or workshops; other teachers; ideas or lessons they develop themselves; and teaching periodicals. A large percentage obtain lesson ideas from teaching periodicals that they browse or read. This finding may assist NATLA in making recommendations to particular editorial boards. Surprisingly, few teachers obtain their teaching ideas from state and local curricular mandates. When the periodical issues were analyzed, aging-related content was categorized in four ways: informational articles with selected teaching or learning activities; articles describing intergenerational programs or activities; book reviews with selected learning activities; and book review titles mentioning older adult characters. Category totals among the 7 periodicals were highest in book review titles mentioning older adult characters and book reviews with selected learning activities. The content was compared to NATLA's recommendations for students' learning. The findings were not significant. The aging aspect that ...
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An Analysis of Texas Special Education Due Process Hearings from September 1, 1983, to September 1, 1992: Implications for the Administration of Special Education Programs
Date: August 1994
Creator: Webb, Paula J. (Paula Jean)
Description: The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of selected characteristics on the outcomes of those special education due process hearings brought forth in the state of Texas from September 1, 1983, to September 1, 1992. A further purpose was to determine if district characteristics of size or location affect the likelihood of a district's becoming involved in a special education due process hearing. Data for the study was collected for all special education due process hearings conducted in the State of Texas from September 1, 1983, to September 1, 1992. A coding system was used to record the data for the study and the Chi-square test of independence was used to determine whether a relationship existed between the selected variable (hearing issue, disability classifications and restrictiveness of placement) and hearing outcome. The frequency of involvement in hearings for districts of various size and urban characteristics was displayed as a percentage.
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An Analysis of the Benefits of the Student Success Initiative in the 3rd and 5th Grades in a District in Texas.
Date: May 2007
Creator: Neblett, Pamela S.
Description: The state of Texas passed the Student Success Initiative (SSI) in 1999 which requires all 3rd graders to pass the reading portion of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test to be promoted to the 4th grade, and for 5th graders to pass the reading and math portions of the TAKS test to be promoted to the 6th grade. Beginning in spring 2008, 8th graders will also need to pass the reading and math portions of the TAKS test to be promoted to the 9th grade. The purpose of this study was to examine the academic performance of 3rd and 5th grade students who did not meet the passing standard on the TAKS test and were retained during the 2005-2006 school year. The population of this study included 33 3rd graders and 49 5th graders who were retained during the 2005-2006 school year due to not meeting the promotion requirements of the SSI. There was also a second population of 49 5th graders who were retained in 3rd grade during the 2003-2004 school year due to not meeting the promotion requirements of the SSI. These students were enrolled in the 5th grade for the first time during the ...
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An Analysis of the Effect of Distance Learning on Student Self-Efficacy of Junior High School Spanish Students.
Date: August 2004
Creator: Vroonland, David W.
Description: Prior to the development of interactive television, schools that were either geographically isolated or financially restricted were often unable to provide courses that may have been essential for students. Interactive television has helped such school districts provide appropriate courses for their students. Because student self-efficacy is a significant indicator of student success, the relationship between distance learning and students' self-efficacy requires research. The problem of the study was to examine the impact of site location in a distance learning environment on student self-efficacy in Spanish instruction. The participants in this study were junior high school students enrolled in distance-learning Spanish classes at two junior high schools in a north central Texas independent school district. All of the students were taught by the same instructor. The age range of the students was from 11 to 14 years of age, and all students were in either the seventh or the eighth grade. Students took a modified version of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire at the end of each treatment. Using the counterbalanced design, each subject was matched to themselves. T-tests for nonindependent samples were used to compare the two treatments. The findings indicate that there is no significant difference in the ...
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An Analysis of the Emotional Intelligence and Personality of Principals Leading Professional Learning Communities
Date: May 2008
Creator: Jackson, Christopher
Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between a principal's emotional intelligence and personality and his or her ability to implement and develop professional learning communities within the school. The Professional Learning Community Assessment (PLCA) was administered to principals and teachers in 13 schools in Texas ranging from elementary to high school. Based on the strength of the PLCA scores, two elementary schools were selected to participate in case study research. The principals of these two campuses were administered an emotional intelligence instrument (MSCEIT), a personality instrument (DiSC), and were interviewed along with three of their teachers. The findings indicate that both of these principals scored high in the Influential and Conscientiousness subscales and low in the Dominance subscale. The principals also possessed either near-average or above-average emotional intelligence with both principals scoring particularly strong in the Strategic subscale.
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An Analysis of the Impact of Curriculum Management Audits on Public School Systems in Texas
Date: August 1997
Creator: Murdock, Sunnye (Sunnye J.)
Description: The purposes of this study were to (1) identify the recommendations of Curriculum Management Audits conducted in Texas Public School systems, (2) determine the degree to which each of the recommendations had been implemented, and (3) determine the perceptions of stakeholders as to the factors instrumental in the real and potential impact of the audit. The researcher conducted interviews with superintendents and key central office administrators with a working knowledge of the audit report in each of the eleven Texas school districts studied. Respondents were asked to rate recommendations written for their districts using the following descriptors: Implemented, In Progress, Plan to Implement, Recommendation Modified, No Implementation. The ranking of recommendation implementation revealed that 85% of the recommendations made in the 11 audit reports reviewed in this study had received action toward implementation to some degree. Respondents were also asked to cite factors which facilitated or impeded recommendation implementation. Significant factors facilitating the implementation of recommendations were reported to be time, organizational structure/personnel and planning. The analysis of the collective recommendations revealed that school board policies were not adequate to direct the design, delivery and monitoring of curriculum when measured against audit Standard One criteria. School districts in Texas rely ...
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An Analysis of the Management and Leadership Development Training Needs of Texas Principals on the Texas State Board of Education's Core Curriculum
Date: December 1994
Creator: Morris, Amelia Marie
Description: The problem of this study was to determine training priorities as mandated by the Texas Legislature on the CORE Curriculum for Management and Leadership Development and their implications for Texas public school principals. Purposes of the study were to validate an instrument for assessing principals' training needs, to provide data for planning and delivering training for principals, to provide results to staff developers, and to develop a profile of similarities and differences in the perceptions of principals and their superordinates.
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An Analysis of the Perception of the Degree of Compliance of Selected Texas Public High Schools with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
Date: December 2005
Creator: Hollingsworth, Jerry Don
Description: In recent years, few laws have had greater impact on public education than Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. As a result of this legislation, participation levels of female athletes have risen dramatically. Conducted in the Texas Education Agency's Region XI, this study sought to ascertain the perceptions of high school principals, the lead coaches of male athletes, and the lead coaches of female athletes with regard to their schools' compliance with the components of Title IX. The study centered on the results of a survey instrument that included twenty Likert-scale questions as well as several demographic questions. The research questions sought to determine: (1) respondents' overall perception of compliance; (2) any differences in perceptions of compliance based upon the role of the individual; (3) any differences in perceptions based upon the percentage of students qualifying for free and reduced lunch; (4) any differences based upon the state classification of the schools; (5) any differences based upon the gender of respondents; (6) whether complaints filed via OCR result in a perception of increased compliance; and (7) the program component areas in which respondents view their schools to be most compliant. Descriptive and causal-comparative methods were used to analyze ...
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Previewing the ACC Softball Championship Game
Second-seeded NC State will face top-seeded Florida State on Saturday at 6 p.m. for the ACC Softball Championship. The game will be broadcast on ESPN2.
Davis Hits 2 Home Runs, Weiman Pitches Shutout in Softball's 7-0 Win
NC State's softball team won its 10th straight game and its 17th in its last 19 outings with a 7-0 win over Virginia in the quarterfinals of the ACC Championship in Tallahassee, Fla. Davis now has 26 homers on the season and Weiman has 29 wins. The Pack faces Virginia Tech on Friday at 1 p.m. in the semifinals.
As a sophomore (2005): Led the team in batting average at a .320 clip ... Posted a Wolfpack record 10-game hit streak late in the season, hitting .545 (18-of-33) with 14 RBIs, three home runs and two doubles during the stretch ... Had two games of five RBIs on back-to-back Sundays at Virginia Tech and at UMass ... The five RBIs tied a school record ... Sixth in the ACC in home runs per game ... Ranked seventh in the conference and second on the team in slugging (.507) and on-base percentage (.417) ... Her .316 career batting average ranks first all time at NC State while her 101 hits is third ... Her eight RBIs in conference play ranked second on the team and seventh in the ACC ... Third on the team with 13 hits in the 14 ACC contests ... Only the second player in Wolfpack history to have two home runs in a single game (joining her sister Shaina in the elite club) when she hit two out against Virginia Tech on April 17 ... Earned her second straight ACC Honor Roll selection.
As a Freshman (2004): Started all 58 games that she played, missing only one contest ... Second in batting average (.312) and in slugging percentage (.453) for the Wolfpack ... Had a 10-game hitting streak, tied for longest on the team ... Recorded 13 multiple-hit games, second on the team ... Led the team with a .991 fielding percentage ... Tallied 53 hits, incuding six doubles and six home runs, the second most home runs on the team ... Second on the team with 25 RBIs ... Led the team with a .372 on base percentage ... Picked off five runners and caught 13 runners stealing ... Selected to the ACC Honor Roll.
High School: Lettered all four years in softball, captain the last two years ... Named co-MVP (shared with her sister) of the 4-A state tournament after helping the team to its second straight state title ... Went 12-for-21 with nine RBIs during the tournament, which included a 5-for-6 stand at the plate and seven RBIs in the last two games ... Recorded an out-of-the-park home run, just the second in school history ... Her team outscored opponents 25-0 in the tournament, a new record ... Four All-MECA 8 Conference nods ... Two-time first-team and two-time second-team All-Mecklenburg County and Player of the Year (shared with sister) in 2003 ... 2003 all-state ... Led the team in batting average as a senior with .600 with 62 hits, 48 RBI and 28 runs in 111 at bats ... Charlotte Observer Player of the Year in 2003 ... Named honorable-mention for North Carolin's 4-A Miss Softball award ... Sports Illustrated Faces in the Crowd in 2003 ... FOX 18 and Huntersville Herald Athlete of the Week ... National Honor Society ... Four-time honor-roll member.
Personal: Born July 26, 1985 ... Parents are Johnny Ervin and Cathy and Johnny Prince ... Has three brothers Chris Prince, Darren and Daniel Ervin and three sisters, Crystal, Madison and twin sister Shaina, who is on the team as a pitcher ... Majoring in communication.


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Who cried watching this week's (1st) episode of Marrying the Game? Everyone? Okay, cool. *wipes away tears*
We've got two eps of MtG this week, and the first half hour starts with Tiffney lunching it up with her BFF Crystal. Tiffney has a close knit circle of supportive girlfriends, which is always a good sign when it comes to judging a lady's character. Her mind seems to be open to working on her relationship with Jayceon, and she even goes so far as to consider spending a little time in the studio without becoming a dreaded "studio girl." God forbid! But when she does decide to visit him, Game's face lights up when he sees his family stop by to watch him work, and just wait until he hears Cali and Justice rap.
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Meadowcreek High School, which opened in August 1986 to relieve overcrowding at Berkmar High School and Norcross High School, was named for the Meadows Family School and the Creek Indians, both once located near the site of the school. Today, the location at 4455 Steve Reynolds Boulevard is prime real estate, fronted by a five-lane thoroughfare a mile or so from Interstate 85.
The opening of Meadowcreek High School was not without problems. There were many delays in construction. The faculty and staff were unable to work in the building until the Friday before school began on Monday. Most worked all weekend to prepare for the first day of classes. The excitement and pride of being in a new facility had to be postponed for some faculty and students because the gym, theater, band and chorus rooms and science labs were not completed when school began. Still, the newly assembled staff of 50 and the new student body, two-thirds of whom came from Berkmar and one-third from Norcross, worked at overcoming these obstacles and created a spirit of cooperation and commitment to their new home. Also, during the first year, Meadowcreek temporarily housed 500 eighth-grade students and 20 teachers from Sweetwater Middle School, which was overcrowded.
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Cheese of the Week is Morbier
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This week we step into a little stink. Morbier is a traditional French cheese hailing from the Franche-Comte, one of the provinces of France that share a border with Switzerland.
Morbier has two very notable characteristics: the line of black vegetable ash that runs through the center of the cheese and the strong smell of the rind, courtesy of hand washing and brevibacteria linens.
In the days of farmhouse cheese-making (and still today on a couple of special farms), Morbier was made by the makers of Comte cheese, the French version of Swiss Gruyere. Comte is made in wheels that weigh up to 90 pounds, and at the end of the day there invariably were a few cheese curds left that would not fill an enormous Comte mold.
The farmer would press these curds into a smaller mold and sprinkle them with wood ash to keep the surface fresh until the next morning's cheesemaking was done, then use the leftover morning curd to finish the morbier. That evening, he would start again.
Today, the cheese is made all at the same time, and not out of leftover curd — but the line of ash (usually made from grapevine cuttings) still is present as a nod to tradition.
As the wheel matures for up to three months, it periodically is washed with salt water and brushed to keep mold from forming on the surface. This washing both toughens the rind and permits brevibacteria linens to live on the surface unhindered. It is this bacteria that ripens the cheese to a rich, shiny, nutty, elastic and barely sliceable goodness on the inside, while making the outside a little sticky and quite stinky.
Serve Morbier at room temperature with a light red wine, good bread and fruit. It is a lovely melting cheese and not too expensive to consider cooking with, so you might try melting a bit over salty boiled new red or fingerling potatoes, or include it in a gourmet grilled cheese. Or, try this recipe for fried potatoes, bacon and onions with Morbier from Ile de France (iledefrancecheese.com is a terrific source of French cheese recipes).
Purchase Morbier locally at Vecchio's Market in Newburgh.
La Morbiflette
n 1 pound potatoes
n 3 ounces bacon, chopped
n 1 medium onion, shredded
n Salt, white pepper and nutmeg
n 4 ounces Morbier cheese, sliced
Steam or boil the potatoes until tender, peel and dice them.
In a large skillet, stir the bacon and the shredded onions until golden brown. Add the diced potatoes and stir well and cook through for a few minutes. (Don't overbrown the potatoes — these aren't German fries!) Season with salt, white pepper and a tiny pinch of nutmeg. Add the Morbier at the last minute. Serve the Morbiflette as soon as the Morbier is melted.
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I-SAFE: Information Security Awareness For Everyone
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The SPSU Center for Information Security Education (CISE) will maintain and conduct I-SAFE program to insure that all students and personnel within SPSU are aware of the information security policies and procedures, standards, and guidelines, as well as their individual duties and responsibilities for information security.
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About Ewing: A Premier Supplier and Quality Education ProviderEwing is the largest family-owned supplier of landscape and water management products in the country. With 200 nationwide locations, Ewing is the premier source for conservation solutions, and a leading authority on the latest water management products, trends and best practices. Ewing offers commercial and residential irrigation supplies, water management solutions, landscape and turf products, hardscape, landscape lighting, water features, erosion control, industry-leading seminars and more to professionals serving the landscaping, sports turf, golf, agricultural and industrial industries.
Ewing Irrigation is a private, family-owned company, and a nationally recognized leader in providing quality products and excellent service. Great people, innovative products, and a commitment to serve translates into an environment of success, opportunity, and determination to provide a better future for our customers, communities, and our Ewing Family of employees. At Ewing, we're committed to:Service Excellence. If you truly care about providing customers with the best possible service, Ewing is the place for you. We strive to provide each and every customer with a satisfying Ewing experience, every time. Technology. We embrace new technologies, both in terms of the products and solutions we offer our customers to help create healthier, more water efficient and sustainable landscapes, as well as our back end operations and warehouse systems. Water Management & Conservation. Water efficiency continues to be an issue we must face, as water delivery systems and infrastructure can't keep up with development and population increases. Outdoor water use efficiency represents the greatest area of opportunity for our customers and communities, and we view our role as educators and solutions providers very seriously. We proudly keep our staff, and our customers, up-to-speed on the latest water-management technology and trends. Education. Providing superior customer education programs, as well as hands-on training for Ewing staff members, is our thing. Education is an essential element to our success. We can confidently say that we have the most highly skilled, best-trained employees in the Green Industry. We invest a lot of time, effort and resources into making sure we have a comprehensive approach to education—one in which our employees and customers can be proud to participate. Some opportunities include:
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Logicon Advanced Technology, San Pedro, Calif., is being awarded an increment (appropriation number and dollar value will be issued with each delivery order) as part of a $26,868,407 (base year total) cost-plus-award-fee, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, with a not-to-exceed cumulative total of $214,000,000 if all options are exercised (one-year base period with four one-year option periods). The contractor will provide technical service in support of the Battle Command Training Program, to train Army personnel on computer hardware and software in support of Warfighter Simulations. Work will be performed at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2004. There were 42 bids solicited on Dec. 2, 1998, and two bids were received. The U.S. Army Training & Doctrine Command, Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., is the contracting activity (DABT65-99-D-0001).
Raytheon Systems Company, Sensors and Electronics Systems, Goleta, Calif., is being awarded a $62,370,913 modification to previously awarded contract N00019-98-C-0003 to exercise an option for the full rate production of 34 ALR-67(V)3 systems, plus spares for the F/A-18E/F aircraft. The ALR-67(V)3 is a radar warning receiver, which is an electronic warfare device that helps protect aircraft against radar-controlled weapons. Work will be performed in Goleta, Calif., and is expected to be completed by July 2002. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
Seaward Services, Inc., Port Everglades, Fla., is being awarded an $18,149,733 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, time and material contracting arrangement for engineering and technical support services at the South Florida Test Facility. Work under this contract entails a variety of tasks for submarine and surface ship signature trials and varied research projects in the field of ship signature measurement. Fifty-thousand dollars in contract funds will be obligated at time of award. Work will be performed in Port Everglades, Fla., and is expected to be completed by August 2004. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with 62 proposals solicited and three offers
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The City of Norfolk, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $5,850,814 firm-fixed-price contract for layberthing services for decommissioned WISCONSIN at a non-Navy pier. This requirement covers site preparation, set up, and acceptance of decommissioned WISCONSIN from the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Portsmouth, Va. to the City of Norfolk. Work will be performed in Norfolk, Va., and is expected to be completed by December 2000. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured through publication in the Commerce Business Daily and via the internet, and one offer was received. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity (N00024-99-C-2202).
TRW Space and Electronics Group, Redondo Beach, Calif., and Spectrum Astro, Inc., Gilbert, Ariz., were each awarded on Aug. 16, 1999, a $275,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for the Program Definition and Risk reduction phase of the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Low Component. This phase will result in preliminary system designs which can be used to develop, manufacture, deliver, operate, and sustain the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) component of the SBIRS System-of-Systems (SoS) architecture and perform extensive risk reduction and ground demonstration efforts. The SBIRS mission is to develop, deploy, and sustain space-based surveillance systems for missile warning, missile defense, battlespace characterization, and technical intelligence. Expected contract completion date is October 2002. Solicitation issue date was July 23, 1998. Negotiation completion date was May 21, 1999. Headquarters Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles AFB, Calif., is the contracting activity (F04701-99-C-0047, TRW Space and Electronics; F04701-99-C-0048, Spectrum Astro, Inc.).


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – One of the more challenging nonconference tests awaits the University of New Mexico women's basketball team in 2014-15, with three teams that reached the Sweet Sixteen or better in last year's NCAA Tournament on the schedule.
The Lobos are hoping to use the pre-Mountain West schedule to get them ready for league play, which begins Dec. 31 at Fresno State.
"We jump into the fire early with some tough games," head coach Yvonne Sanchez said. "But I feel we're at a point in our program where playing some of the nation's best teams is going to be beneficial to us over the course of the season. We won't have any excuses about not being prepared when we enter conference play."
UNM's Nov. 24 home game against Stanford, which reached the Final Four of the 2014 NCAA Tournament, highlights the nonconference schedule. The Cardinal finished with a 33-4 record, winning the Pac-12 regular-season title with a 17-1 record. Two of their losses came to national champion Connecticut, including their meeting in the national semifinals.
The Cardinal, who lost All-America Chiney Ogwumike to graduation, still return their next three leading scorers in Amber Orrange, Lili Thompson and Bonnie Samuelson.
After an exhibition against Eastern New Mexico on Nov. 9 to start the season, the Lobos waste no time going into the deep end of the women's hoops talent pool when they travel to Chicago for DePaul's home tournament, the Maggie Dixon Classic from Nov. 14-16. UNM will face Texas A&M and DePaul, both of which also were among the NCAA's elite teams last season, as part of its three-game trip.
Texas-Pan American will be the other team at the Maggie Dixon Classic, which precedes UNM's game against Stanford at The Pit.
"The Maggie Dixon Classic is important to me because Maggie was an incredible coach and person, and we are privileged to play in her honor," Sanchez said.
In most years, a meeting with Texas A&M alone would highlight a nonconference schedule. The Aggies compiled a 27-9 record in 2013-14 and advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, also falling to eventual national champion Connecticut. The Aggies went 13-3 in Southeastern Conference play last season, matching their best-ever conference record.
A&M's top two scorers from last season, Courtney Walker and Courtney Williams, both will return for their senior seasons.
DePaul had an impressive 2013-14 season, reaching the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament. The Big East regular-season and conference tournament champion finished 29-7, including a 13-2 record at home. The Blue Demons return three of their top four scorers and their leading rebounder.
The Lobos play host to their own Thanksgiving Holiday Tournament from Nov. 28-29. Also competing in the event are 2014 Women's Basketball Invitational finalist Stephen F. Austin, Boston University and UC Riverside. The matchups are still to be announced.
UNM then travels to 2014 NCAA Tournament representative and 22-game winner Texas on Dec. 3. The Longhorns, who advanced to the round of 32 at the tournament, return three of their top five leading scorers, including 6-foot-7 Imani McGee-Stafford.
After the Rio Grande Rivalry game against New Mexico State in Las Cruces on Dec. 7, the Lobos return to The Pit to face 2014 Women's National Invitation Tournament finalist UTEP. The Miners had a 29-8 record last season, finishing 12-4 in Conference USA.
Two-year starter Chrishauna Parker and sharpshooter Jenzel Nash (11.5 points off the bench in 2013-14) return to lead the Miners.
UNM's nonconference schedule concludes with home games against WNIT representative Cal Poly and Northern Arizona.
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