2010 World Fireknife Champion-Mikaele Oloa

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Mikaele Oloa is the 2010 World Fireknife Champion. After watching and reflecting upon his performance, how can you relate to his expertise? Do you see your own possibilities at pursuing your righteous desires and pursuits? To become really outstanding in your worthy pursuits requires that you Work Hard, Work Smart, and Work Together, just like Mikaele Oloa did to become a world champion in his own right. CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO SEE THIS AWESOME PERFORMANCE.

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Basketball Can Make You Smarter

Basketball Can Make Your Kids Smarter

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The Last Lecture

Under Construction

Mr. Haymore's Student Greeting during Intercession Break

Mr. Haymore's Greeting to Students

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Sow and Reap

“As you sow, so shall you reap”

Law of the Harvest 

This Present Moment

“Your past is behind you, learn from it.

Your future is ahead of you, prepare for it.

Your present is here, live in it, 
Even this present moment.”

Thomas S. Monson

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Think and Become

"We become what we think about."

Earl Nightingale

Work: Gift-Blessing-Success

“The privilege to work is a gift.

The power to work is a blessing.

Love of work is success.”

David O. McKay 

Excellence

“Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.”

Marva Collins

Independence and Freedom

"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right."

Brigham Young

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Be Prepared

"The will to win is not as important as the will to prepare to win."

UCLA Coach John Wooden  
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1959–1960	UCLA	14–12	7–5	2
1960–1961	UCLA	18–8	7–5	2
1961–1962	UCLA	18–11	10–2	1	NCAA 4th Place
1962–1963	UCLA	20–9	8–5	T–1	NCAA Regional 4th Place
1963–1964	UCLA	30–0	15–0	1	NCAA Champions
1964–1965	UCLA	28–2	14–0	1	NCAA Champions
1965–1966	UCLA	18–8	10–4	2
1966–1967	UCLA	30–0	14–0	1	NCAA Champions
1967–1968	UCLA	29–1	14–0	1	NCAA Champions
1968–1969	UCLA	29–1	13–1	1	NCAA Champions
1969–1970	UCLA	28–2	12–2	1	NCAA Champions
1970–1971	UCLA	29–1	14–0	1	NCAA Champions
1971–1972	UCLA	30–0	14–0	1	NCAA Champions
1972–1973	UCLA	30–0	14–0	1	NCAA Champions
1973–1974	UCLA	26–4	12–2	1	NCAA 3rd Place
1974–1975	UCLA	28–3	12–2	1	NCAA Champions

Table from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wooden (June 8, 2010)

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The First Law of Success

"The first law of success...is concentration; to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left."

--William Matthews

Character Education

"Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education."


Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Message to Students from Mr. Raul E. Correa, Principal

Mr. Raul E. Corea, Principal

Steve Haymore Casts

Honesty is More Important than Victory

Davis calls penalty on himself, gives up shot at first PGA win

By Jay Busbee

“Honesty is more important than victory.”

Imagine standing on the edge of achieving your life's dream. You make a small mistake that will cost you your dream -- but if you don't say anything, you might just get away with it. Would you own up to the mistake, or would you keep quiet and hope for the best?

Brian Davis isn't the best-known name in golf -- or even the hundredth-best-known -- but after Sunday, he ought to move up the list a few notches. Davis was facing Jim Furyk in a playoff at the Verizon Heritage, and was trying to notch his first-ever PGA Tour win.

Davis's approach shot on the first hole of the playoff bounced off the green and nestled in among some weeds. (You can see the gunk he was hitting out of in that shot above.) When Davis tried to punch the ball up onto the green, his club may have grazed a stray weed on his backswing.

So what's the big deal? This: hitting any material around your ball during your backswing constitutes a violation of the rule against moving loose impediments, and is an immediate two-stroke penalty. And in a playoff, that means, in effect, game over.

Okay, you can think that's a silly penalty or whatever, but that's not the point of this story. The point is that Davis actually called the violation on himself.

"It was one of those things I thought I saw movement out of the corner of my eye," Davis said. "And I thought we’d check on TV, and indeed there was movement." Immediately after the shot, Davis called over a rules official, who conferred with television replays and confirmed the movement -- but movement which was only visible on slow-motion. Unbelievable.

As soon as the replays confirmed the violation, Davis conceded the victory to Furyk, who was somewhat stunned -- but, make no mistake, grateful for the win.

"To have the tournament come down that way is definitely not the way I wanted to win," Furyk said. "It’s obviously a tough loss for him and I respect and admire what he did."

Furyk took home  $1.03 million for the win. Davis won't exactly have to beg for change to get a ride home; he won $615,000 for second place. And he may have won much more than that by taking the honorable route.

To be sure, this isn't quite in the same category as J.P. Hayes, the golfer who disqualified himself from qualifying school after learning -- in his hotel room, all alone -- that he had played a nonqualifying ball; or Adam Van Houten, who cost his team an Ohio state title when he admitted signing an incorrect scorecard.  For starters, Davis's shot was on television, and while he could have "not noticed" the movement, the TV cameras still did, and someone might have called him on it later on.

But the bigger deal is this -- the guy gave away a chance at winning his first-ever PGA Tour event because he knew that in golf, honesty is more important than victory. It's a tough lesson to learn, but here's hoping he gets accolades -- and, perhaps, some sponsorship deals -- that more than make up for the victory he surrendered.

We Must be Readers

T.H. Bell, former U.S. Secretary of Education said, 

"Time must be scheduled for reading, quiet reflection, and conversation on what is read. Despite the glamour of the electronic marvels of today, a great book in quiet contact with a curious and hungry mind is still the highest use of leisure time. Whatever other pressures there may be on our time, we must never let a significant period of time pass without reading a good book. We must be readers, and what we read should be carefully planned to help us in our quest for excellence. Reading can be a stimulating source of conversation and intellectual growth. "

["Keys to Attaining Excellence in Our Lives"]

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