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Kuemper's Hackfort, Yawarsky to receive diocese awards
By LARRY DEVINE
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Marlys Yawarsky (second from left) will receive a Good Shepherd Award and Barbara Hackfort will receive an Excellence in Education Teacher Award from the Catholic Diocese of Sioux City. The awards were announced at Kuemper all-school Mass Friday morning at Holy Spirit Church. Yawarsky and Hackfort are pictured following the Mass with Dan Ryan (left), diocese superintendent of schools, and Vern Henkenius, Kuemper Catholic School System president.
August 26, 2013
A 37-year teacher and 12-year secretary at Kuemper Catholic Schools will receive two top awards at the Bishop's Dinner for Catholic Schools.
Barb Hackfort will receive an Excellence in Education Teacher Award, and Marlys Yawarsky will receive a Good Shepherd Award.
Four Excellence in Education Teacher Awards and two Good Shepherd Awards will be presented at the dinner on Sunday, Oct. 13, in Sioux City.
Dan Ryan, superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Sioux City, announced Kuemper's award recipients at the conclusion of all-school Mass Friday morning at Holy Spirit Church, and Hackfort and Yawarsky received enthusiastic applause from students, fellow staff members and others at as they stepped up to the altar to be recognized.
In an interview following the Mass, Ryan, who's beginning his fifth year as superintendent of the diocese's schools, talked about the awards. A team of administrators from around the diocese selects award winners from nominations submitted from any of the 16 Catholic school systems in northwest Iowa.
Ryan said the Excellence in Education Teacher Award winners exemplify the Catholic faith.
"They demonstrate that and help students learn that and participate in the faith," he said. "Barb (Hackfort) is an excellent example of that with everything she's done in the middle-school grades here."
Hackfort has taught sixth- through eighth-grade social studies, language arts, Spanish and Iowa history.
She's moderator for the Kuemper Middle School Student Council, organizer of St. Lawrence Center food drives and fundraisers for charitable organizations, facilitator of a Kuemper collaborative team, member of the Kuemper Iowa Core leadership team, and participant on the diocesan curriculum team.
She's received a number of education awards including Daughters of the American Revolution 2003 Outstanding Teacher of American History and 2003 Wal-Mart Teacher of the Year.
In the community, she's president of the Carroll County Historical Society and chairwoman of the Carroll Historic Preservation Commission. She addressed the 2010 ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the "Miracle in the Cornfield Landing in Carroll," received a grant to purchase a transport trailer for a 1915 Model C Heider tractor, and received a grant to purchase and install a stair lift for accessibility in the Carroll County Historical Society Museum.
With approximately 600 teachers in the diocese, Ryan said, recipients of the Excellence in Education Teacher Award must be extraordinary.
"It's on the faith aspect, how they teach," he said. "They have to be extraordinary examples of what we want to see of our educators in Catholic schools."
The nomination of Yawarsky says she's served as a substitute secretary at the Holy Spirit, St. Angela and St. Lawrence Centers (kindergarten through eighth grades), substitute food-service employees at all Kuemper centers; lead volunteer for Parents Club Box Tops, Labels for Eduction, Land O' Lakes, Pizza Ranch, Tyson, Pizza Hut; and played key roles in playground equipment maintenance and replacement as well as other projects.
Her contributions to Catholic education cites "dedication to a well-rounded learning atmosphere through her versatility and flexibility and thus earning the respect of her peers; outstanding role model of good Christian living as she gives happily and willingly of herself for the good of many others; supports the efforts of the Parents Club's financial goals to provide additional learning support in an effort to maintain the current tuitions and keep Catholic education affordable for all who desire it."
Like the Excellence in Education Teacher Award, Ryan said, demonstration of faith is an important criteria of the Good Shepherd Award.
"Everybody in our schools helps to transmit the faith and works with our students, but they (award recipients) also go above and beyond in different categories and really exemplify what we're looking for," he said.
The Good Shepherd Award is open to any school employee who is not a teacher, such as school administrator, secretary, cafeteria worker, classroom aide, development director, custodian or librarian. Bishop R. Walker Nickless began the Good Shepherd Award four years ago, saying he felt it was important to recognize not only teachers but other employees who also care deeply about Catholic education and help provide quality schools.
Ryan said in a news release, "We want to recognize people who have dedicated a large part of their life and possibly a great portion of their professional life to Catholic education. That is very worthy of recognizing."
Ryan talked at Mass and also in the interview about the essence of Catholic schools and what sets them apart.
"Of course we have great concern about academics, and there are excellent academic programs," he said. "Sometimes folks think about the social aspects or the athletics or the fine arts. But I always make sure I remind them that the reason our schools exist is because of the Catholic-faith element and we're trying to transmit that to the next generation. We do that by teaching it in religion classes, we do that by role-modeling, we do that through expectations of our students both in school and outside school. It really makes a difference.
"People like Barbara and Marlys really make that happen, and that's why we stop and recognize them."
Tickets for the Bishop's Dinner for Catholic Schools can be purchased on the diocese's website beginning today.
The dinner will be at the Sioux City Convention Center, and featured speaker will be Father Jonathan Morris, an analyst for Fox News and Fox Business Channels who offers coverage of ethical, social and religious news stories. He was featured extensively on Fox News during Pope Benedict's resignation and Pope Francis' subsequent election. His presentation at the dinner will focus on the role of Catholic schools within families and communities.
The dinners serves as the single-largest fundraiser for all of the diocese's 16 Catholic school systems. More than 6,200 students attended Catholic schools in northwest Iowa during the 2012-13 school year. Last year's event raised more than $125,000 and drew more than 600 people.
Bob and Cheryl Adams of St. Bernard Parish in Breda are chairing the dinner. Bob graduated from Irwin Community High School in 1979 and Cheryl from Manilla Community High School in 1979. They have been married for 32 years and lived in Breda for 29 years. Six of their children have graduated from Kuemper Catholic High School, and they currently have a daughter in seventh grade and a son in second grade.
Bob and Cheryl are the owners of Adams Motor Co. in Denison. Cheryl works for Bob as the human resources manager and has 25 years as a medical secretary. Bob is a eucharistic minister and lector. Cheryl is an officer of the women's guild at St. Bernard Parish.
As chaircouple, Bob and Cheryl will help plan many details of the evening and will serve as representatives of all families supporting Catholic education throughout the diocese.
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CrossFit Carroll seeks to remove 'drudgery' from workouts
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Brian Bellinghausen teaches a CrossFit deadlift class Thursday morning.
Corey Boyer lifts a barbell as Brian Bellinghausen looks on during a deadlift class at CrossFit Carroll Thursday morning.
A grueling introduction to CrossFit
Working out has never been my strong point.
My traumatic days as an uncoordinated child and teenager who fumbled her way through a summer of softball and several years of ballet (all my friends were doing it!) naturally translated into a tendency for me, as an adult, to choose a couch, a bag of gummy worms and a video recording of a Josh Groban concert more often than a trip to the gym.
Hey, these life decisions are important.
But I've tried to remedy that habit more recently, partly because I'm pretty sure metabolism stops at age 23, by joining a gym and learning my way around the machines it offers.
I was proud of myself - this was responsible adulthood at its finest. So when the opportunity arose for me to try CrossFit, which I've been hearing about for months, I jumped on it.
Little did I know that after the half-hour workout, jumping would no longer be something my legs could do.
I started off as easily as possible - by observing. This particular class had clients performing deadlift reps, working their way up to whatever weight each of them was able to handle.
OK, I thought, as I watched from the sidelines. Picking things up off the floor. I can handle that.
Today's class was different, though. When I showed up at 6 a.m. sporting bed head and fueled by caffeine, I saw what the 5:30 a.m. class was doing and I started to question my decision.
After I stretched and chatted with the other members of the upcoming class, CrossFit Carroll instructor Brian Bellinghausen outlined our task for the day.
Running. Rowing. One-legged lunges. Crawling on your hands and feet - rear end in the air - across the room. Pulling up your body by holding on to overhead rings.
Then, repeat. Over and over again. For 20 minutes.
Twenty minutes doesn't sound very long, you say. I can do anything for 20 minutes, you say.
Go to this class, I say.
I made it through the exercises, although by the end of 20 minutes, I had to look down and make sure my arms and legs were still attached. I was only able to get through four-and-a-half rounds of the exercises, compared to up to seven from the other members of the class, but I was still vertical at the class's end (collapsing on the floor when I got home didn't count), so I called it a victory.
Hours later, I still feel twinges from that workout, but I enjoyed it much more than my fearful self thought I would. Having the other members cheering me on, even as they sweated through their reps, was especially helpful during those last few minutes.
Bellinghausen had warned me that his goal is for CrossFit classes to be the hardest part of his client's day, and after trying it for myself, I'd be hard-pressed to disagree. But my aching muscles tell me that the workout was effective, and the class's friendly and encouraging atmosphere won me over.
I don't know if there's more CrossFit in my future, but it didn't quite scare me away, and I can now truthfully recommend it to others.
At the very least, I might start making one-legged lunges a part of my daily routine. You can do those on a couch, right?
October 4, 2013
Smile ... It could be harder tomorrow.
The words, painted above a glass door, salute Brian Bellinghausen's customers as they leave his CrossFit classes. More, though, they represent what he hopes they get from those classes.
He wants the workouts to be the hardest thing clients do each day - but he also wants them to be fun.
"I don't want to make coming to the gym and working out a drudgery," he said.
CrossFit classes emphasize variety and offer intensive workouts in short amounts of time. Their goal is to teach people how to move their bodies correctly. For instance, Bellinghausen said, learning to properly lift a barbell from the floor can translate into picking up a child, box of books or pile of firewood later in the day without pain or a pulled muscle.
Bellinghausen's classes last a half hour, and clients never know what they'll be doing on any given day until they walk into the gym and check the board Bellinghausen updates daily. One day, they might be doing deadlifts, with weights ranging from less than 50 pounds to more than 200, and the next, they're walking on their hands, doing one-legged squats and pulling their bodies up on sets of rings.
"People come in and know they're going to do something different than yesterday," he said.
It's not uncommon for clients entering the room to crane their necks and read the board to discover the day's exercises before they greet their peers.
The variety makes it easier to attend daily classes - and making the exercises a surprise each day keeps clients from shying away from classes they think will be more difficult. It also allows clients to do multiple types of training in one class, including cardiovascular, strength training and flexibility.
Bellinghausen's lighthearted approach in his classes carries over to his business approach. The only advertising Bellinghausen uses is word-of-mouth, and his CrossFit Carroll T-shirts - and clients only get one of those after surviving three months of classes. So far, that method has filled his classes.
Payment for classes is due during the first week of each month, and rather than charging late-paying clients a fee, Bellinghausen requires them to do 20 burpees - drop into a squat, kick back your feet, return to a squat, stand, repeat.
It's the exercise everyone loves to hate, he said. In the last few years, he's had to enforce the policy only twice.
"The guy handed me the check and dropped down and did the burpees," Bellinghausen said. "He knew it was coming."
Bellinghausen's clients vary widely; an experienced college athlete could be working out next to a 72-year-old grandfather. And they do the same workouts, with time and intensity adjusted as needed for each person.
Bellinghausen has exercise science and wellness and physical therapist assistant degrees and has been teaching CrossFit-style classes for several years. His physical-therapy experience colors his recommendations for clients and helps him better tailor their workouts.
During one class, a woman remarked her knee pain had lessened.
"See?" Bellinghausen said with a laugh. "It fixes everything."
Clients work hard during the classes, but they're not competitive. They encourage each other, joke and spend time together outside the gym, Bellinghausen said.
Information about Bellinghausen's classes is available at www.crossfitcarroll.com. Half-hour classes are offered at various times throughout each day. Access to unlimited small-group classes is $50 per month, and one-on-one training offerings start at $189 for 10 half-hour sessions. Members have 24/7 access to the gym and can use the equipment or try the exercises outlined on the board on their own.
CrossFit Carroll, on Adams Street downtown, periodically offers free Saturday classes; the next one is at 8 a.m. this Saturday. Bellinghausen said anyone is welcome, and he is available to answer questions about the program before and after the class.
"I enjoy having fun with my workout," he said. "I let people be as (disciplined) or as lighthearted as they want in the classes."
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford believes reality, or at least his version of it, should trump perception. Mayor Ford, in other words, still doesn't get it.
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By Jerry Morris
The Grant County Braves and Williamstown Demons battled each other on Nov 4th at the first of two meetings between the two teams.
The Braves came out on top with a 88 to 47 victory against the Demons.
The Grant County Braves came out motivated and strong to put up 56 points in the first half and only allowed the Demons to score 23 points.
Austin Anglin put up an impressive 23 points during the game with Tyler Carr adding on an additional 20 points to help the Braves earn a victory.
The Grant County and Williamstown school districts have agreed to kick off fundraising for the 2013 Grant County Relay For Life with the Coaches vs. Cancer event held during the Grant County vs. Williamstown boys and girls basketball games.
The first game is scheduled for Dec. 4 at GCHS. A portion of the proceeds from each of the four games will be donated to the relay, which is the signature fundraising event for the American Cancer Society.
Grant County High School will host the "Coach Carl Wenderoth Classic" on Dec. 1.
Wenderoth, of Dry Ridge, is an icon in Grant County's basketball history.
He began his coaching career in 1957 at Ludlow High School. He spent the next 38 years coaching at Ludlow, Scott High and GCHS and left his mark on players, parents and the community.
"We're just trying to honor coach for what he did in the past and for the kids in this community," said Scott Shipp, the former director of athletics for Grant County.
By Chantel March
Sports Correspondent
Runners from across the state travelled to the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington Nov. 10 for the KHSAA Cross Country state championship meet. Three members of the Grant County High School team raced individually in the Class 3A division.
Lady Braves, Lady Demons look to next seasonBoth the Williamstown Lady Demons and the Grant County Lady Braves volleyball teams ended their seasons on Oct. 9 in the 32nd District Tournament held at Grant County High School.
Grant County faced the undefeated Simon Kenton Lady Pioneers, losing the game in three sets 25-9, 25-8, and 25-12.
Williamstown met rival Walton-Verona, losing 25-13, 25-8, and 25-15.
Both teams are proud of their accomplishments this season and look forward to improving next year.
By Philip Frommeyer
Sports Correspondent
Two young athletes from the Grant County High School soccer program have earned recognition this year when they broke school records.
Mollie Pelfrey and Forrest Schmitt kicked their way to new school records this soccer season.
Pelfrey, a junior at GCHS, shattered Jackie Kinman's previous record, by scoring 23 goals against opponents this year.
Pelfrey was quick to give credit to her former coach and her teammates.
On Sept. 29, the Williamstown middle and high school cross country teams attended the Pendleton County Cross Country Invitational, located at Sharpe Middle School in Falmouth.
The team had the previous weekend off and was ready to tackle the course.
"Lots of contact today" was how Grant County High School senior Jared Baker described his race Sept. 29 at the Pendleton County Cross Country Invitational at Sharpe Middle School.
Baker was describing the elbows and spiked shoes flying as the boys' varsity runners completed their 5K race.
Cody Kellam, a sophomore at Grant County High School, will be joining GCHS female golfers, Sarah Kellam and Macy Wright, at the state golf tournament later this week in Bowling Green.
Kellam finished third overall at the regional meet on Sept. 25 or Sept. 26.
The Grant County Lady Braves started their match Sept. 29 against the Henry County Wildcats with a cheer led by Gwen MacAdams.
Bethany Lawerence scored first with a penalty kick.
With 8:20 left in the first half the two teams started to slow down, but the start of the second half was fast and hard hitting with the Wildcats looking to score and tie up the game.
Dana Liggett had other ideas. Liggett roared down the field, called out to teammate Kelsey Lund for a pass and slammed the ball into the back of the net.
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Widespread Adoption of Renewable Energy: Challenges and R&D Opportunities
Jeffrey S. Nelson, Solar Technologies Department - Energy and Infrastructure Futures Group, Sandia National Laboratories
Friday, February 22, 2008, 3:30pm
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This seminar is part of the Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society series
Increased energy security, decreased dependence on fossil fuels, improved energy efficiencies, and reduction in CO2 emissions are primary drivers for future DOE/DOD military installations and civilian energy infrastructures. These goals suggest a greater reliance on centralized and distributed renewable energy (RE). As the RE content of our energy infrastructure increases, serious issues associated with availability and reliability of our electricity emerge. Because of this, new technologies will need to be developed to convert, route, and store diverse sources of energy. In this presentation, I will discuss these challenges and highlight R&D opportunities in solar electric, wind, geothermal, and solar fuels.
About the Speaker
Dr. Jeffrey Nelson received his Ph.D. in theoretical solid-state theory from the University of California, Davis. In 1987 he joined the theoretical materials science group at Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore. At Sandia Livermore, Jeff developed and applied advanced electronic structure methods to understand semiconductor surfaces and interfaces. In 1989 Jeff joined the semiconductor physics group at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, where he pioneered the use of massively parallel computers to predict the electronic and optical properties of semiconductor interfaces, surfaces and alloys. Much of his work focused on understanding the fundamental properties of phosphide- and nitride-based visible lighting emitting compound semiconductors. In 1996, Jeff was promoted to manager of the Semiconductor Materials and Device Department, and developed world-class research and development efforts in compound semiconductors, and nanoscale synthesis, characterization and modeling of advanced materials. His group was the first to demonstrate high power UV light emitting diodes in the 350-380nm range, with applications in chemical sensing and white light generation. Jeff joined Uniroyal Optoelectronics (UOE) as the Chief Technology Officer in 2000, where he developed R&D and manufacturing operations in Tampa, Florida. After leaving UOE, Jeff was a consulted to the Department of Energy on the Solid-State Lighting Initiative, and co-founded Medical Lighting Solutions, a newly established business focused on medical applications of LED technology. Currently, Jeff is managing the Solar Technologies Department at Sandia National Laboratories. Jeff has authored over 50 scientific papers, and was one of the original authors of the white paper outlining the need for a National Lighting Initiative focused on realizing energy efficient LED-based white light technology.


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Just wondering is a 5/4 the same as a 5 mm?
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Just wondering is a 5/4 the same as a 5 mm?
Most of the time you'll hear a wetsuit referred to by it's ultimate thickness.......i.e 5 mil................
But most 5 mils are five mm thick in the torso and then 4 or 3 mm thick in the arms and legs......the stretchy areas.
Same goes for 3 mils. 3 mm torso.........2 mm arms and legs
When you go to shops ax the dude if they have any of last years models hanging around. They may have older models that never sold laying around and they'll give you a good price.
Welcome to a special fraternity. Surfing in the winter on the east side makes you part of a special breed. A little bit better than dudes from Florida. Ha !
Haha nice. Thanks for the welcome. Looking forward to some solid swell. Last fall and this spring were my first in a 3/2. I need more though.
Have had many winter suits here in NJ over the years. 5mil glove 5 or 7 mil boats mainly 5mm Oniell wetsuits but I purchased a Isurus 5/3 hooded suit for last winter and hands down lightest, warmest, most flexible easy on/off suit I have ever had. Dries out fast too for the 2 session days. If you have the coin might be worth a look
The website the other guy recommended is actually called "wetsuitwearhouse"
It is a good site for reviews and buying. Make sure what you get fits.
Also be prepared to get worked in cold water. Waves are big in winter. Waist high is flat, head high-overhead is an every week-2 week thing some winters. Just be ready. What I've also noticed is always bring a bigger wave board with you too when it is supposed to be chest-shoulder. As opposed to the summer where the swell seems to always end up smaller than predicted, the opposite holds true more often than not in the winter. Three times last years chest high swell ended up overhead. Be prepared for that.
And have fun and enjoy surfing with 5 people.
Agree on the 5/4 with 7 mm boots and 5 mm lobster claw gloves. Should try a few brands on to get the right size. I have bought my last 2 wetsuits on Whiskey Militia (both Xcel.) great deals on WM.
I agry with you dude.
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For jersey winters, would a 5/3 work for me? It's cheaper and they have one that fits at local shop.


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If "Hannibal" gives you nightmares, you're not alone. Executive producer Bryan Fuller, the man responsible for bringing the psychological crime thriller to the small screen, is pretty disturbed himself.
"For me, with crime and crime stories, I'm sensitive," he told reporters Sunday at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif. "I look at dog videos all day to put me in a happy place."
Few other crime dramas are as twisted as "Hannibal" — the titular cannibalistic serial killer (Mads Mikkelsen) who serves up his victims to his dinner party guests — but Fuller says he counters the depravity by "stylizing the violence" and making it "purple and operatic. We're borderline fantasy with what we do on the show."
Still, he told TODAY after the press conference: "We want to find what's cool for the episode. We have some stuff coming up that's so over the top … so the conversations with the directors are , 'This could be ridiculous, so we need to find a way to make it elegant and beautiful at the same time to sort of combat how over the top it is.'
That said, he couldn't help giggling when he teased, "There's some stuff... coming up that is just so crazy!"
One particularly gruesome crime scene, which features a "human mural" of dismembered bodies, even troubled Laurence Fishburne. Fuller told TODAY after the panel that the veteran actor told him, "This the second-most disturbing thing I've ever filmed — the first being some stuff from 'Apocalypse Now.'"
"That was sort of a badge of honor," beamed Fuller.
Fans of the macabre can also look forward to "guest psychopath" Amanda Plummer ("Pulp Fiction"), playing a character who "will make you think twice about getting acupuncture," Fuller warned reporters with a laugh.
"We have a lot of fun with the guest psychopaths," said Fuller, noting that Jeremy Davies ("Justified"), and Jonathan Tucker ("Parenthood") are joining returning guest stars Eddie Izzard (Dr. Abel Gideon), Raul Esparza (Dr. Frederick Chilton), and Gillian Anderson (Dr. Du Maurier) this season.
"Every time we do have a guest psychopath on the show it's serving as a metaphor for what's going on with everything with the other characters, so we're just not a freewheeling soap opera."
Tortured profiler Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) will continue to spin out of control in the second season, which returns to NBC's lineup on Feb. 28 at 10 p.m.
"He's not the happiest character I've ever played," Dancy deadpanned. "Dark as it may be, it was incredibly fun and rewarding. And this season, he gets even worse, so I've been very happy."
Much of Will's anguish is embodied by the stag present in some of the show's most gorgeous imagery. Fuller explained, "It's his first exposure to what Hannibal is capable of as an artist and a murderer."
"It's his Patronus," he quipped, referring to Harry Potter's magical guardian.
At least Will can count on a few happy moments. Caroline Dhavernas promised that his "handler," Dr. Alana Bloom, "will continue to be really focused on making sure that Will is OK." And that includes "a little more kissing too. "
"Lots more kissing this season!" Fuller amplified.
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ByLisa Fleisher
High schoolers would have more time to catch up with new learning standards and fired teachers would be able to argue that their districts failed to properly adopt the new standards under new recommendations.
An internal report released Monday by the state Board of Regents was designed to evaluate how the state has handled the adoption of new academic standards, known in New York state as the Common Core Learning Standards, and recommend changes. The new standards, which rejiggered what teachers are supposed to teach and when they are supposed to teach it, have come as most New York districts also rolled out new, tougher teacher evaluations.
But the shift to new standards, tests and teacher evaluations have received low marks across the state from teachers and parents, who complained that the changes were happening too fast and without enough preparation. Others opposed the standards completely or said there was too much additional testing that went along with them.
Last week, legislative leaders in Albany said they thought the state should delay grading teachers based on test results tied to the Common Core for two years. Leaders of the Senate said they supported the delay unless the Board of Regents took action to make changes.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in unusually harsh language, criticized the report, arguing that it amounted to a delay in the new teacher-evaluation system.
"Today's recommendations are another in a series of missteps by the Board of Regents that suggests the time has come to seriously reexamine its capacity and performance," he said. "The Regents' response is to recommend delaying the teacher evaluation system and is yet another in a long series of roadblocks to a much needed evaluation system which the Regents had stalled putting in place for years."
Michael Mulgrew, president of the New York City teachers union, said he disagreed with Mr. Cuomo.
"What the Regents recommended does nothing to delay the teacher evaluation system," he said. Mr. Mulgrew said teachers can already argue that their school district did a bad job.
The report released Monday by a Regents panel recommended that the high school class of 2022 be the first required to pass English and math Regents exams aligned with the new academic standards, which are considered harder than the previous standards and emphasize critical thinking skills.
The report didn't, however, suggest that teachers be held harmless for their students' results, which some had been hoping for.
Last year, students in third through eighth grades were tested for the first time using exams designed to reflect the Common Core. Results plummeted after the state changed the way the tests were scored to better reflect how many students were on track to be ready for college by graduation.
The Board of Regents, which oversees education throughout the state and sets policy, is expected to vote Monday and Tuesday to accept the report's recommendations.
In allowing teachers to argue that districts did a bad job implementing new standards, the Regents would be attempting to shift focus back to local school districts.
A common complaint has been that the state Education Department didn't provide a new curriculum to go along with the new standards, which act like a blueprint for the academic year. State officials have bristled at the complaint, noting that local school districts are responsible for curriculum and textbooks. State officials also point to their effort to provide sample lesson plans and other materials for free online.
Mr. Cuomo has pulled together his own panel to look at the Common Core implementation in New York state. He said their recommendations should lead to changes to state law to "solve these problems."


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Did you know?
Per square metre, fynbos boasts a greater plant diversity than tropical rainforests.
The Flower Valley Conservation Trust farm, between Hermanus and Gansbaai in the Western Cape, employs about 130 people to harvest fynbos in a sustainable manner (picking and selling fynbos has been done for generations in the Cape. However, many species of fynbos are endangered and the vegetation is protected by both South African legislation and the United Nations).
Fynbos gathered on the farm is sold in Pick n Pay stores locally, and Marks & Spencer abroad. Flowers are also harvested from six other farms, giving the trust a 'flower catchment' of 20 000ha
Visitors to the farm can hike to the Stinkhoutsbos Forest, where they can donate and plant a tree as part of a restoration project, which was started shortly after a devastating wildfire in 2006.
Many people the world over plant trees to offset their carbon footprint, but most times the trees are planted and forgotten about. However, on this farm technology allows visitors to track the progress of their trees via satellite.
The harvesting standards on all properties adhere to strict ethical standards set up by CapeNature, a government body, and the Protea Producers' Association.
Much of the Cape's fynbos forms part of the Cape Floral Region. The Cape Floral Region is a World Heritage Site and one of the richest plant areas in the world – even though it takes up less than 1% of the African continent, it has 20% of its flora.
In 2004 the Cape Floral Region – a protected area measuring 553 000ha – was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. World Heritage Sites acknowledge and offer protection to areas of outstanding natural, historical and cultural value.
Critically endangered lowland fynbos species grow on the Flower Valley Conservation Trust farm, which has been cleared of all invasive alien plants. Visitors may also be lucky enough to spot a pair of leopards who live in the mountains.
There are five unguided hiking trails on the farm, ranging from a 3km ramble to longer 7km hike. The trails pass through fynbos and forested areas and offer the perfect opportunity to discover more about the unique natural vegetation and rich birdlife of the area.
For those who need to move a bit faster, there are mountain bike trails, as well as the option for a good couple of hours of riding if you decide to link up with the adjoining farms. There are also two 4x4 trails that offer panoramic views from the Twin Peaks and Ben Lomond Mountain look-out points.
Once a year, in December, the farm hosts a music festival that sees the best local talent perform in Flower Valley's natural amphitheatre. Festival-goers can also choose to explore the fynbos on horseback, on guided trails, or even on tractor trips up into the mountains.
After a day of hiking or mountain biking, visitors can relax on the lush lawns next to a dam and picnic in the peaceful fynbos surroundings. Pre-packed picnic baskets can be arranged on request and should be ordered at least a day in advance.
Alternatively, use the opportunity to learn more about the sustainable harvesting of fynbos and the threats facing the lovely lowland fynbos on the Flower Valley Conservation Trust farm.
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Take the N2 from Cape Town, then on to the R43 to Hermanus (taking the Bot River turn-off). This will take around an hour and a half. From Hermanus, stay on the R43, passing Stanford. Flower Valley is close to the Grootbos Private Nature Reserve.
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Fynbos is at its best from the end of winter, August, to the end of spring, November.
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You're perfectly situated to take advantage of whale watching in Hermanus, country charm in Stanford and shark cage-diving in Gansbaai.
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Did you know that some cat species which are considered as the most savage animals on Earth such as lion, tiger, leopard live as families and hunt together and that they have very advanced visual and audial systems or that there is a reason that their furs have different patterns?
Like any other carnivorous animals, big cats that we cannot see around us very easily in our daily lives, eat their food without chewing but rather with cutting into small pieces, instead. They use their extremely sharp molar teeth that are able to mesh like scissors when shut down. As these animals hunt to eat, they have very advanced eyesight and sense of hearing.
Advanced Senses
Cats have very advanced eyesight. Thanks to this feature, they can easily detect the location of their prey while hunting at night. There is a particular layer behind the retina called tapetum lucidum that helps the eye adapt to dim light. This particular cell layer receives the light coming to the eye and reflects it on retina by increasing it. Additionally, curves of the retina and lens are sharper as to increase the sensitivity of retina. Retina is consisted of cells called rods and cones. Rods are more sensitive to dim less than cones. And cats have a great amount of rods. Cats' eyes are closer to each other in comparison to other species and this enhances their eyesight.
Cats can hear noises between frequencies ranging from 100 kHz to 200kHz. That means, they can hear even very low noises, such as the footsteps of a mouse. Their sensitive ears help them detect the exact location of its source, as well.
Though not very advanced, their sense of smell is very important for communication. Cats have a structure above their mouth called vomeronasal organ, this organ detects the pheromones, chemical messengers, in the air. With this organ, cats usually detect the smell of another cat of its own species and the urea-like chemicals released by the females alerting their readiness to mate.
Colored Furs and Special Whiskers
Cat furs have two important functions; one is that they protect the animal from environmental effects such as hot and cold, and the other is that they provide camouflage for the animal to hide itself from other animals. Not only cats living in cold regions but also ones living in deserts, have long furs to isolate the heat on the ground.
Whiskers, known as vibrissae, that are generally found on their faces and above their eyes are very sensitive. These responsive hairs enable them to find their way at dark or when they are not able to see well. By way of these hairs, they sense the vibrations on air. They sometimes use the hair on their feet to sense the vibrations on earth surface. Big cats have very flexible windpipes as they are mostly made of cartilages instead of bones. This helps them roar. All cats have very flexible spinal columns and they can bend in any direction. This helps their internal organs to be less damaged when they fall down.
Lions Live As Big Groups
Lions are known as the "most social of the big cats" as they live in social groups. This social group of theirs is called "pride". A pride consists of about 30-40 lions, mostly females. That is to say, they live as big families. Unlike other social animals, there is no hierarchy among females. In daytime, lions sleep altogether and the preparations for hunting begin as the weather becomes cooler. Each lion approaches to the prey from a different angle. Females who are easily noticeable due to their lacking mane usually lead the hunt. Lions crawl to their preys until reaching to 20 meters of distance. No lion hunts unless it is hungry and it does not hunt more than one animal at the same time. That is to say, these abstemious animals only hunt when it is necessary and in the amount needed.
Lions use leaving marks method for communication. They determine the borders of their land by leaving urea. This is an alert for other lions warning them about that there is another pride living here, 'do not trespass!'
World of Jaguars
Jaguar, the only big cat living in South Africa, is often confused with leopards but the easiest way to identify them is that they have a black dot right in the center of the clover shape in their furs and that they have shorter tails. Jaguars living in forest have darker furs. This provides them a better camouflage while hunting in dim forests where light glides in. Unlike other big cats, jaguars have no predators. There is no other animal which tries to hunt this powerful cat. They are very good swimmers as well as very good climbers. They are skilled fishers and they climb up to trees to eat the animals they hunt on land. They have a stronger jaw in comparison to other wild cats, and this enables them to eat its prey at a single bite. Females and males come together only for mating.
Leopards Have Different Patterns on Their Furs
Leopards living in Africa and Southeast Asia are easily recognized from the particular pattern on their furs. However, this particular pattern differs for each leopard on earth. The color of their furs varies according the place they live. It varies from golden to yellow in plains, from yellow to cream in deserts, and in dark golden color in forestry. Black ones are known as Black Panther. Leopards have extremely strong trapezius muscles and thus they can carry preys that are 3 times of their own body weight. They eat their hunted preys on trees, like jaguars. They are usually alone but they own the land they live.
The Strongest Cat: Puma
Puma is known as one of the most aggressive cats. They can jump 12 meters away from where they are and they are expert on climbing trees. They can knock out another animal that is 8 or 9 times of their size and therefore they are accepted as the strongest cats of the world. Their eyes are blue when they were born, but later they turn into yellowish green. They cannot roar like other cat species do, though.
Tigers living in Asia differs from the other big cats with horizontal dashed lines on their furs. Like the fingerprint of human beings, these patterns are unique in each tiger and they are placed on two sides of the animal. They hunt alone but they eat their prey along with their families. Lines on tiger's furs provide camouflage to the animal as they look like shadows of the grass especially in meadows. Their tails work as a balancing factor when they run fast.
As you see, these miraculous systems in big cats that are known as the most savage animals of nature present the invalidity of the theory of evolution and also present evidence for a greater fact: A supreme Creator created the whole universe and every single animal acts by Our Creator Allah's will. Every man having reason and conscience easily understands that these behaviors can only appear under the power and dominion of Allah, the Owner of all beings.
"And in the Creation of yourselves and the fact that animals are scattered (through the earth), are Signs for those of assured Faith." (Surah Al-Jathiyya, 4)


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The röntgen (or roentgen, symbol R) was a unit of exposure to X-ray radiation named after the Earth physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. A dose of five hundred röntgens in five hours was a lethal dose for Humans. A röntgen was also a unit of chroniton radiation, as indicated by The Doctor when Kes was treated in the bio-temporal chamber. (VOY: "Before and After")
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- Prior to The Doctor treating Kes with his bio-temporal chamber, he noted that her vitals indicated that her chroniton level was at 79 röntgens. After activating the chamber, and initiating five second pulse anti-chroniton at ten MeVs, her chroniton level dropped to 71 röntgens. With additional bursts, her chroniton level continued to fall from 51 röntgens, to 46 röntgens, to 34 röntgens. After a final twenty MeV burst, her chroniton levels finally dropped to 0 röntgens. (VOY: "Before and After")
- In order to coerce Trip Tucker and Malcolm Reed, who had stowed away aboard a Romulan drone ship, into reinitiating the ship's warp matrix, Admiral Valdore remotely released some of the ship's reactor coolant. Initial readings indicated exposure at 100 röntgens and climbing. (ENT: "United")


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Millions of dollars in debt are at the center of a major disagreement between Florida State College at Jacksonville and about 1,800 of its students.
The school wants the students to pay back federal student aid the college never should have approved in the first place.
Students are now taking action against the school.
FSCJ student Katelyn Matchett is one of the students scrambling to find out more about the thousands of dollars she owes to the college, a debt that has locked her out of registering for classes.
"It's just stressful. It's a very, very, very stressful situation," Matchett said. "This is my future."
That money -- $4,163 -- was a grant and was already spent on tuition.
"I totally freaked out," Matchett said.
The college's financial aid office granted an appeal to about 1,800 students whose federal grants were being questioned. An audit showed the school had no right to grant those appeals. It had to pay back $4.2 million.
Interim President Will Holcombe said going after the students for that debt is required by Florida law.
"Which says that we must do everything within our power to collect a debt," Holcombe said.
That's not good enough for students like Randy Durden, who owes $1,600.
"If you mess up, then oh well," Durden said. "Don't look at me to pay your problem. I'm not going to pay it."
Durden has started an online petition to try to convince the school to absorb the debt. He's also started a Facebook page and, with other students, plans to file a class action lawsuit against the school.
"They've not only done me wrong, they've done 1,800 other students wrong," Durden said. "And this isn't just for me, it's for everybody."
Durden said he and his fellow students feel the school lacks compassion.
"We do have compassion for their situation. We're trying to act that way," Holcombe said. "Does compassion mean we're going to forget about it? We can't do that."
What the president says he can do is allow the students a 90-day grace period to sign up for a payment plan, interest free up to 10 years, and then they can keep going to school and get their transcripts.
He said he's not waiting until a board meeting March 12 to get board approval for that plan. He's just doing it. The 90 days started Friday.
Students said they will be showing up to that board meeting to voice their opinion.
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Shares of MannKind Corporation (MNKD) made a no change as they have increased 0.00% to end at $1.51 on Monday. Shares seen downfall move of -1.95% in the past five days; the stock price is now -52.57% so far on the year — still in negative territory. The stock lost about -75.84% in past year. MNKD, a "Healthcare stock" with an industry focus on "Biotechnology".
In recent trade look, shares of MannKind Corporation (MNKD) are at -76.77% from the 52-week high, and are keeping their distance at 126.66% from 52-week low. Currently, the company net profit margin for the 12 months is at 75.50% and ROA is 125.50%. The number of outstanding shares currently held by MNKD are 98.37 million. The numbers of shares traded in the last trading session were 1.83 million. The TTM operating margin is 78.60%. The return on invested capital is at -396.80%. The stock remained 8.66% volatile for the week and 9.93% for the month. The relative strength index of the stock stands 55.88.
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The well-designed physical keyboard is probably what most users of older BlackBerries love about the devices, so when they went soft in BB10 BlackBerry knew it had to do a good job. I think the company did very well.
As you type a word, the OS predicts what you intend to type and mixes suggestions into the keyboard as pictured here. You may then "flick" the suggestion up and it will show up in the field where you are typing. I've been using the phone less than a day and I'm definitely getting used to looking for the suggestions and flicking. It works. Other soft keyboards, especially the iOS keyboard, seem weak by comparison, although there are many 3rd party keyboards for Android which bring innovation like the BlackBerry soft keyboard.
It's not perfect. Perhaps it's early still, but so far in my experience, there are times when the predictions could be smarter. For instance, I've typed in my email address a dozen times already. You'd think that in an email field the software would know to suggest that one, especially after I start typing my name. Perhaps this will come in a software update.


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Volume 12, No. 2
June, 1934
THE JOURNAL OF JOHN LOWERY BROWN, OF THE CHEROKEE NATION EN ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA IN 1850 Transcribed from the Original and annotated
By Muriel H. Wright
Born Elizabeth Lowery, daughter of Chief John Lowery of the Cherokee, Her descendants gather on a semi-annual basis to remember her at the site of the Historical marker in her honor in Marion County, TN and per HISTORICAL MARKER IN JASPER, TN she lived in a house about 60 yards southeast after her marriage," the marker in downtown Jasper notes. "She donated the ground on which the town of Jasper was laid out in 1820, when the county seat was moved here from Cheekville, near Whitwell about 12 miles northeast." The marker is on U.S. Hey 72, on the right when traveling west. "Betsy Lowery Pack established a ferry on the Tennessee River," said TN TOTA secretary Vicki Rozema in her book, Footsteps of the Cherokees (pp. 90-91). "It is believed to have been located four or five miles west of Bogg's Ferry at Runningwater Town and approximately seven miles east of her father's ferry at Battle Creek. In 1815, she and her mother ran a public house on Battle Creek called Lowrey's Place."
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http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v012/v012p177.html Page 177 Foreword Yellowed and crumbling with the passing of eighty-four years, the pages of a small, leather bound notebook reveal the story of the overland journey of a party of Cherokees who set out from the Grand Saline, Cherokee Nation, for California in 1850. This journal was kept by a young Cherokee, John Lowery Brown, who recorded the progress of the emigrants day by day. It tells the difficulties encountered along a wilderness trail through the Rocky Mountains; the perils of travel over vast stretches of desert without water and food; the danger of attack by hostile Indians living in those regions; and the terrible epidemic of cholera that swept the West, causing the deaths of thousands of emigrants along all the thoroughfares to the Pacific coast in 1850. Something in the flourish of the faded words "Off for California" at the top of the first page of this old journal still imparts the enthusiasm and high courage that fired the spirits of the adventurers to leave their nation in view of such hazards. Lured by the discovery of gold in California, several parties of Cherokees, other than Brown's, set out about the same time. Many of them were young men who never returned home. The journal was written in ink, an entry being made every day from the time Brown left a point near present Stillwell, Adair County, Oklahoma, on April 20, until reaching the gold fields in California on September 28, a total of 161 days. Intermittent entries were set down in the journal up to December 11, 1850. The writing, spelling and punctuation compare well with other early records, kept in the midst of the excitement and the hardships attending life on an overland trail. The pages are not numbered, all entries having been set down consecutively on the right hand page up to and including page forty-four, after which regular
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v012/v012p177.html 1John Lowery Brown was the son of David and Rachel (Lowery) Orr Brown. Rachel Brown was the fifth child and youngest daughter of George and Lucy Benge Lowery. George Lowery born about 1770, was one half Cherokee and Scotch. He was town chief of Willstown in the Cherokee Nation East and also a leading citizen after the immigration to the West. He died in 1852. David Brown was three-fourths Cherokee, the son of John and Sarah Webber Brown. David's sister, Catherine Brown, noted for her beautiful character and personality, was the first Christian convert among the Cherokees, at Brainerd Mission, Tennessee, in 1818. After her death, a book "Memoir of Catherine Brown" was published in her memory by the American Board at Boston in 1824. David attended both Cornwall Mission School, in Connecticut, and Andover Theological Seminary, in Massachusetts. After his return to the Cherokee Nation East, he was prominent in religious and educational work among his people. For a time he lived among the Western Cherokees in Arkansas and clerked in the store of his half brother, Walter Webber, who later moved up the Arkansas River and settled what is now known as Webber Falls, in Muskogee County. Just before Sequoyah made known his invention of the Cherokee alphabet, David Brown and his father-in-law, George Lowery, completed a Cherokee spelling book in English characters. In 1826, they were both appointed by the General Council of the Cherokee Nation to make the first translation of the Cherokee laws and the New Testament in the Cherokee language using Sequoyah's alphabet. After John Lowery Brown returned to the Cherokee Nation from California, he and his wife. Ann E. (Schrimsher) Brown, made their home at Fort Gibson. Their second son, Martin R. Brown, was born in 1858. In 1887, Martin R. Brown married Miss Nannie Adair. He was a successful business man and prominent in educational circles in his nation, elected clerk of Illinois District in 1881, member of the National Board of Education in 1886, and superintendent of the Male Seminary in 1894. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were the parents of Mrs. Gist who is the namesake of her great-aunt, Catherine Brown. She was married to Mr. Emmet W. Gist, of Oklahoma City, in 1915. They are the parents of one daughter, Dorothy, who graduates from Classen Highschool, Oklahoma City, this year (1934).
April 20, 2013 — Jasper, Tennessee
Betsy Pack Descendants to place flowers in her honor at Jasper Courthouse
The forming Association for the Descendants of Betsy Pack have planned a memorial service to be held at the heritage sign beside the Jasper, TN courthouse to take place Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 2:00 p.m. CST till 3:00 p.m. CST.
Everyone is invited to attend this ceremony.
Participants and guests are requested to wear red and white at the event to show solidarity. Red represents LIFE [and its struggle] and white represents PEACE [and happiness]. Descendants and Cherokees are also asked to wear appropriate regalia if they prefer.
Family & Friends of Betsy Lowery Pack, a Cherokee Woman, will gather to honor the memory of Betsy Pack and to celebrate the survival of her descendants and of the Cherokee People.
The flowers will be placed at the marker beside the courthouse. The marker is on U.S. Hwy 72, on the right when traveling west.
Who is Betsy Pack?
"Born Elizabeth Lowery, a daughter of prominent Chief John Lowery of the Cherokee, she lived in a house about 60 yards southeast of the present day Jasper Courthouse after her marriage. She donated the ground on which the town of Jasper was laid out in 1820, when the county seat was moved here from Cheekville, near Whitwell about 12 miles northeast.
"Betsy Lowery Pack established a ferry on the Tennessee River," said TN TOTA secretary Vicki Rozema in her book, Footsteps of the Cherokees (pp. 90-91). "It is believed to have been located four or five miles west of Bogg's Ferry at Runningwater Town and approximately seven miles east of her father's ferry at Battle Creek. In 1815, she and her mother ran a public house on Battle Creek called Lowrey's Place."
Betsy's land dwindled to 640 acres of land under the treaty of 1819, where the town of Jasper (Marion Co.) TN. now stands; She sectioned off the land with her home and the burial sites of her children to about 40 acres of which she deeded/leased to the commission of the town for $1 to remain IN TRUST for her and her heirs "FOREVER".
Betsy then sold the other 600 acres & moved to Wills Valley in Alabama where many other Cherokee had gathered for safety reasons. Wills Town was under the Red haired "CHIEF WILL". It was located in NORTHEASTERN ALABAMA.
There she is said to have lived in great style until she and many other Cherokee were forced to emigrate west in 1838.
Two of her children also emigrated while a third remained behind in the east.
Many of her descendants still remain in the areas of
Chattanooga, TN;
Monteagle, TN;
Jasper, TN;
Sewanee, TN;
Sequachie, TN
and north Alabama and North Georgia.
The group has a facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/BETSYPACK/


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CLERMONT, Fla. – The Saint Leo softball team (16-14) split its non-region doubleheader Wednesday afternoon from the National Training Center; losing to New Haven, 4-3, in game one before overturning West Chester (Pa.), 8-3, in the nightcap.
A three-run Chargers' sixth inning highlighted New Haven's (3-3) come-from-behind win in game one, while the Lions regrouped to pound-out 13 hits in an 8-3-run beating of West Chester (11-7) in game two.
Despite being outhit in game one, the Lions rallied to post 17 hits on the day while scoring a combined 11 runs. Four Lions collected multiple-hit games, including Brittany Yates who went a combined 4-for-6 with three RBI. Ali Lamb contributed three hits and led the team with five RBI. Rachelle Gremo also connected on a trio of hits and Victoria Cooper went with 2-for-5 with a double.
The Lions opened their contests in Clermont playing catch-up as they found themselves down 1-0 in the first inning. Still, the red-hot bat of Yates tied the game in the bottom of the frame as her RBI single scored McKenzie Burns from third.
The score remained tied until the fourth inning when Saint Leo scored a pair of runs on back-to-back doubles by Lamb and Cooper to put the Lions in front, 3-1. The advantage did not hold, however, as New Haven rallied to score three runs in the sixth inning to steal the win away from the Lions, 4-3.
Kristen Kelly was tagged with the loss as she fell to 4-5 on the season.
Game two saw a more aggressive Lions' bunch take to the field as they platted three runs on five consecutive hits in the first inning. Lamb marked the first frame outburst with a bases clearing double to put Saint Leo up 3-0.
West Chester cut the lead down with a pair of runs in the third inning, before Lamb's RBI base hit in the bottom of the third gave the Lions a 4-2 lead.
Another Rams' run sliced the lead to 4-3, but a four-run surge in the fourth inning solidified the game for the Lions. Moreda blasted a pinch hit RBI double, in addition to a Yates two-RBI double, and a Gremo RBI single smack.
In the circle, freshman Ashley Ehlers (4-1) posted her fourth win of the season as she tossed 5.0 innings of work. She struck out three batters while scattering eight hits. Megan Still contributed with 2.0 innings of scoreless relief.
The Lions posted five extra-base hits, while turning a pair of double plays on the defensive ends.
Saint Leo will return to action on Friday, March 16, when they travel to Tampa, Fla. to battle rival the University of Tampa. First pitch for the single game is set for 6 p.m. from the Vince Naimoli Softball Complex.
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To sacrifice is to give up something valuable or precious, often with the intent of accomplishing a greater purpose or goal. Sacrifice has always been a part of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is a reminder of the great atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ for all who have lived or will live on earth. Before the ministry of Christ, animal sacrifices were offered for this purpose. After the Atonement of Christ, followers of Jesus Christ—by His direction—began to offer instead a "broken heart and contrite spirit" (3 Nephi 9:20), a willingness to repent of sins and a desire to follow Jesus Christ and align one's life with His commandments.
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The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the great and eternal sacrifice at the center of the gospel (see Alma 34:8-16). Before the Savior carried out the Atonement, His covenant people sacrificed animals as a symbol of His sacrifice. This practice helped them look ahead to the Atonement (see Moses 5:4-8). The command to offer animal sacrifices ended with the death of Jesus Christ. In the Church today, the ordinance of the sacrament is a reminder of the Savior's atoning sacrifice.
In addition to remembering the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ, Church members offer their own sacrifice: a broken heart and a contrite spirit. The Savior said: "Ye shall offer up unto me no more the shedding of blood; yea, your sacrifices and your burnt offerings shall be done away. … And ye shall offer for a sacrifice unto me a broken heart and a contrite spirit. And whoso cometh unto me with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, him will I baptize with fire and with the Holy Ghost" (3 Nephi 9:19-20).
To have a broken heart and a contrite spirit is to be humble and receptive to the will of God and to the counsel of those He has called to lead His Church. It also means to feel deep sorrow for sin and a sincere desire to repent. The prophet Lehi emphasized the importance of offering this sacrifice: "Behold, [Christ] offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit; and unto none else can the ends of the law be answered" (2 Nephi 2:7).
Those who show their willingness to sacrifice as the Lord has commanded will be accepted by Him. He taught: "All … who know their hearts are honest, and are broken, and their spirits contrite, and are willing to observe their covenants by sacrifice—yea, every sacrifice which I, the Lord, shall command—they are accepted of me" (D&C 97:8).
See also Atonement of Jesus Christ; Love; Obedience; Repentance; Sacrament; Service
—See True to the Faith (2004), 149-50
Scripture References
Prophetic Teachings
"Sacrifice Brings Forth the Blessings of Heaven"
If we are caring, if we are charitable, if we are obedient to God and follow His prophets, our sacrifices will bring forth the blessings of heaven.
"Sacrifice: An Eternal Investment"
Sacrifice is an amazing principle. … It can develop within us a profound love for each other and our Savior, Jesus Christ.
From a talk given on 13 February 1996 at Brigham Young University. Some of our greatest blessings come through our willingness to sacrifice as the Lord directs.
From an address given to Church Educational System educators at Brigham Young University on 13 August 1996. The two major purposes of the law of sacrifice are to test and prove us and to assist us in coming unto Christ.
Additional Study Materials
Guide to the Scriptures
Gospel Principles, Chapter 26
"Building the Kingdom of God"
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Capt Frank McGowan, 321st Bomb Group, WWII B-25 MTO
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Frank had tried to enter the service several times and was not "heavy" enough (136' and needed to be 138') but had completed 2 Years of College and then did enter the Service on 29 Dec. 1941 in Texas at Kelly Field. Frank was accepted directly into the Army Air Corp and would eventually fly Combat in the B-25 Mitchell Medium Bomber in the Mediterranean Theatre in the 321st Bomb Group, 447th Bomb Squadron.
Frank would also be one of "the 1st" of the Pilots who seemed to have all walked in shoulder to shoulder and all were in the [Now Famous] Gen Bob Knapp's 321st Bpmb Group "Flight over the Atlantic (The "HOP") the Southern Route in a single mass without loss. Leaving Morrison Field, Fla. 15 Feb. 1943,
Capt. Francis E McGowan was an original with the Knapp Group that crossed the Atlantic by the Southern Route, a pilot that flew in the co-pilot's seat with Lt Austin D Andrews in the Southern Belle #41-12997 with W Murtha, M Small, and M Boris. Frank was a bunkmate with Lt Dan McDuff. . . Great friends with John "Buster" Burns, Big Rich ( R Richardson), Big and Little Brink (Hamilton and Wilton Brinkley), McKinnley (KIN) Cohagen. Frank and Al Duke were also friends and trained together with Bob Spikes and Jim Bugbee. . . well, they pretty much all went through pilot training together at Randolph and Ellington Field. These men made up the original Cadre' . Frank was all of 21 years old when he went to SC, the 321st BG, then the 447th BS. Frank said "I flew about the 1st fifteen to twenty Missions with Austin Andrews, as co-pilot, then got my own ship with Paul Gill, and Harold Paiton as my Bombardier. I also flew many Missions with Roy Tate as my Bombardier. I still correspond with Serge Neprash, (2007) our Squadron Intelligence Officer, who stayed on with the Bomb Wing until the war ended in Europe.
In the War Diary, Frank became 1st Lt. on 21 Aug. '43 . . . Reaching his 50th Mission on 14th Oct. '43. By then had become Captain. Capt. McGowan said "On one of my first Missions (Africa) I was instructed to land at about 50 feet and after a wide-eyed landing, asked the crew chief how high the strip was ?" (as he was certain that he had touched the waves) and he said, "Oh, about 50 feet !" He figured his approach, then , had been about 5 feet above sea-level !
Frank also said that "The small landing strip near Ain M'Lila was usually covered with sheep g raising on the grass, so they would have to buzz the runway before we could land the planes. And especially "One Mission over Sicily, we shot down 14 Fighters and lost not one B-25 !" ***************************************************************************** Correspondence 4 Jan. 2007 to Historian Barbi Ennis Connolly from Frank's proud son Mike..... Dear Barbi, My father, Frank McGowan, had only one bullet strike his plane during his tour! The bullet came from another B-25! It happened when his plane & crew was dispatched as a reserve aircraft in case another scheduled aircraft had to return to base before it could complete the mission. Frank's plane was 'in trail' after launch and formation assembly. He followed the main formation out to sea until it was evident his aircraft was not needed and he turned back to base. However, before that could take place various gunners 'cleared' their guns and a stray bullet struck his wing. He was not aware of it and it was not until he RTB'd (returned to base) that the ground crew saw the damage and asked "How the hell did that happen when you did not go on a mission?"!!!! His most memorable mission was when the lead ship turned the wrong way after the bombing run and nearly caused a massive mid-air between the two flights of B-25s. Dad and the aircraft he was in formation with pulled up to avoid the mid-air. The lead then corrected his course and the formation proceeded back towards base leaving Dad's plane and the one he was in formation with well behind as a result of their evasive maneuver. Frank flew very close formation with the other aircraft as a flight of enemy ME-109s lined up for an attack on them. However, faced with the combined defenses of the two B-25s so closely together, the 109s soon left them and proceeded to attack the main body of B-25s in front of them. They returned to base unscathed and with gunners claiming several enemy aircraft 'shot down'! Mike McGowan