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11-06-2012 13:10 Hello! Are you ready to create some new momentum in your life? Are there any changes that you need to make so that you can feel better, look better, and be better? I hope you decide to take this journey. Here is Day 1 of a continuing video coaching series. I'll give you some simple tools to help you begin to get some better results in your life now. *You take action and let me know how it goes in the comments below. Are you up for the challenge? Are you up for feeling better, looking better, and being even better? Alright, let's do it then! Live This Day to the Fullest, Brodie Whitney Living Fully Enterprises

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Jordan Porter, center, hangs out on the uneven bars at Gymstar Fun N Fit Gymnastics with students Heidi Snow, 4, left, and Arianna Anderson, 6. Porter, 18, is an instructor for the business and has participated in gymnastics most of her life. A 2012 Moffat County High School graduate, she will attend the University of Northern Colorado in the fall and plans to become a preschool teacher.

Where is your hometown? I was born in Denver.

When did you first move to Craig? We moved here when I was 5 because my dad got transferred to Hayden for his job and they found a place in Craig.

Motto or outlook on life? Always strive to be the best that you can be.

When did you first get started in your job? Ive been coaching for five years, and I work with kids up to 14. I did gymnastics from when I was 2 to 16. My mom and I were watching the Olympics when I was little and I started doing cartwheels on the edge of her table and she said, Were taking you and putting you in gymnastics. It takes a lot of hard work, and I really enjoy competing and learning a lot about responsibility and just really growing up. You give your life to this sport.

Favorite part of life in Northwest Colorado? The weather. Its ever-changing and surprising. It keeps you on your toes because it could be 75 degrees one day and the next itll be 20 degrees and snowing.

Least favorite? The lack of things to do. You cant really keep kids interested in doing the same old thing every day.

Favorite meal from a local restaurant? The Philly cheesesteak from Ginos is really good. It would come down to that or pizza from pretty much anywhere. Im a pizzaholic.

Dream vacation? A beach on Hawaii. I went there when I was 15 for an All-American cheerleading team and I spent six hours a day practicing while my family was on the beach, so I would totally go back and not practice and spend more time relaxing. I havent been anywhere that pretty before.

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Oklahoma State has hired Rob Walton as its pitching coach, Cowboy head coach Josh Holliday announced Monday.

Walton has been the head coach at Oral Roberts for the last nine years and has spent 14 years total at ORU. He was a four-year letterman as a pitcher at OSU from 1983-86.

This is a really special opportunity for me and my family, Walton said. My wife and I went to school there, and it's a chance to come back to our alma mater and help Coach Holliday get the program going in the right direction. Hopefully we can bring it back to prominence.

I've known Josh (Holliday) for a long time. He has a passion for OSU baseball and so do I, and so we're going to team up and do the best job that we can do to put the program back where it needs to be.

In his nine seasons at the helm of ORU, Walton compiled a 365-167 (.686) record and was named the Summit League Coach of the Year five times.

We're really excited to bring someone of Rob's caliber to the program, Holliday said. He possesses the talents and character traits that identify our mission to develop and groom our players in an environment where teaching, discipline, passion, the ability to develop a person in all phases of their life, on the field and off, are the focus, as is the commitment to building a championship team. When this opportunity to bring Rob into our program presented itself, and after sitting and talking with him and his family and sensing the true passion for Oklahoma State, his unique and well-known talents in the game and his desire to team up and pour himself into the kids and help us become great, it was just a tremendous fit.

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IOWA CITY, Ia. The new guy in Iowas football complex has a national championship ring, three former quarterbacks starting in the NFL, and is a friend of former Texas coaching legend Darrell Royal.

Hes a history buff with a Masters Degree in Administration. Hes a speed reader, and he taught a young Hawkeye coach Cowboy boot etiquette during a recent Texas back roads drive.

But bagging a bear?

Ive done a lot of stuff, Greg Davis said during an hour-long interview recently, but Ive never hunted bear.

Iowa quarterback James Vandenberg, left, and offensive coordinator Greg Davis are pictured during a practice in March. (Benjamin Roberts / Iowa City Press-Citizen photo)

In this instance, quarterback James Vandenberg is one-up on just the second offensive coordinator Kirk Ferentz has hired in 13 seasons at Iowa, a respected veteran whose play calling starts Sept. 1 against Northern Illinois at Chicagos Soldier Field.

Davis, 61, is a grandfather. Hes religious, but he doesnt lace interviews with his beliefs. Hes seen it all the good and the not so good during 38 years in football coaching, but he could only listen in amazement when told the story about how his passer killed a bear.

He comes back from his trip and tells me a story about being up in a tree with a compound bow, and this bear gets to the tree, rises up, puts his big claw in the tree, and pulls himself up, Davis said.

James said he was not in a position where he could shoot, and I said well, you had your pistol ready, and he said he didnt have a pistol. I said youre not as smart as you thought you were.

The affable Davis laughed and shook his head as he recounted the story, one of many he told during the get-to-know-you interview.

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08-06-2012 16:56 Joe White, President and founder of Get Life Coaching was the winner of the 2012 New Castle Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year. This is the complete acceptance speech.

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Move from groceries pays off for Jernigan: Daily Journal Softball Coach of the Year Keith Jernigan

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Houston's Keith Jernigan led the Lady Hilltoppers to the school's first state title in any sport since 1985.

Its been my dream to coach since I was a 12- or 13-year-old boy, he said.

Jernigan, 50, reached the pinnacle of coaching last month when his Houston Lady Hilltoppers swept a series against Newton County to win the MHSAA Class 4A state championship at Ridgelands Freedom Park.

Jernigan, who just completed his 11th season in coaching, is the Daily Journals 2012 Coach of the Year for leading his team to a 34-2 record and the schools first state title in any sport since 1985.

Smithvilles Jeremy Duke, Nettletons Dana Rhea and Hatleys Chris George, who led their teams to the state championship series, were all considered for the award.

Dukes Lady Seminoles won the 1A state title in fastpitch and slowpitch this season.

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Jernigan is quick to share his success with assistant coaches Braxton Franks, John Gravat, Derick Kirby and student coaches Wayne Arick and Jason Smith.

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by Gene Phelps/NEMS Daily Journal Djournal.Com

Houston's Keith Jernigan led the Lady Hilltoppers to the school's first state title in any sport since 1985.

Its been my dream to coach since I was a 12- or 13-year-old boy, he said.

Jernigan, 50, reached the pinnacle of coaching last month when his Houston Lady Hilltoppers swept a series against Newton County to win the MHSAA Class 4A state championship at Ridgelands Freedom Park.

Jernigan, who just completed his 11th season in coaching, is the Daily Journals 2012 Coach of the Year for leading his team to a 34-2 record and the schools first state title in any sport since 1985.

Smithvilles Jeremy Duke, Nettletons Dana Rhea and Hatleys Chris George, who led their teams to the state championship series, were all considered for the award.

Dukes Lady Seminoles won the 1A state title in fastpitch and slowpitch this season.

ASSISTANTS CONTRIBUTE

Jernigan is quick to share his success with assistant coaches Braxton Franks, John Gravat, Derick Kirby and student coaches Wayne Arick and Jason Smith.

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GOSHEN, Ind., June 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --When circumstances deliver an unforeseen life event, it's easy to become immobilized between wondering, "Why did that happen?" and "What am I going to do about it?" Like many victims of downsizing in the business world, Bill Flint found himself suddenly unemployed at age 61. He refers to it as a time when Faith and Fear collided: his, "Now what, God?" moment. Unlike many people, though, who see unemployment as an opportunity for early retirement or gradual withdrawal from activity, Bill saw this as an opportunity to follow his longtime dream of creating his own consulting firm, to help companies maximize the potential of their most important asset: the people who come to work every day wanting to accomplish something bigger than themselves. Bill says, "what is needed are servant leaders who care, motivate and encourage their people to discover and reach their potential."

Bill started Flint Strategic Partners, located in Goshen, Indiana, to provide strategic consulting, coaching and servant leadership training to companies of any size. He also found time to write his first book called "The Journey To Competitive Advantage Through Servant Leadership," which is currently among the top 10 best-selling books out of 4,700 titles on Amazon in the servant leadership category in the U.S., France, Italy, Canada, UK, Spain, China and Germany. It is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and other retailers.

"The Journey To Competitive Advantage Through Servant Leadership" was published by Westbow Press, a Division of Thomas Nelson. The intent of the book is to clearly illustrate his business philosophy of sincere motivation of and interest in people, drawing on his experiences to create a step-by-step guide for leaders. He states, "...it is truly possible to create an environment of caring, trust and respect between leaders and those they lead."

His book has also been nominated for Book of the Year by Forward Review in the career category. The winners will be announced at the American Library Association annual convention June 23, 2012, in Anaheim, California.

Over a 40-year period, Bill has lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin and Indiana as he navigated a successful business career that included 28 years in senior management positions and 12 years as president of two separate companies. One of those companies recorded annual sales of $125 million with ten manufacturing facilities in the United States, Mexico and Europe.

To contact Bill, e-mail him at bflint@flintpartners.com or call 888-395-9054. You can also visit http://www.servantleaders.org to sign up for Free Webinars, Newsletters and watch a video of Bill speaking at the Young Professionals Leaderfest Conference in Wisconsin in April 2012. Bill is available for speaking engagements, seminars, leadership retreats, and conventions.

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It could have been an ending to any other school year for Pam Wimberly, who handed out some diplomas at Menlo-Atherton's graduation ceremony on Thursday and looked ahead to teaching summer school.

When Wimberly returns to school in the fall to resume her PE teaching duties, however, things will be very different.

For one, the 65-year-old Wimberly will not be standing on the basketball court for the first day of practice on November 1. After 42 years of coaching the girls' hoop team at M-A (she started in 1968-69 but missed two seasons), Wimberly will be a spectator for the first time.

That decision was made on June 1 when M-A Principal Matthew Zito informed Wimberly that her coaching career at the school was over.

"I will go on and teach my classes, and enjoy more things in life," she said. "I'm coming to grips with what happened."

What happened was, after two losing seasons, co-Athletic Directors Paul Snow and Steven Kryger, along with Zito, decided that Wimberly evidently had seen better days. Forget the fact she had compiled a won-loss record of 663-340 in her 42 years while becoming the third-winningest girls' hoop coach in California. Forget the fact she had won four Central Coast Section titles (1984, 1991, 1992 and 1993) or been runner-up six times. And forget that she missed the CCS playoffs only 10 times in 36 years since the section postseason began in 1977.

In 2001, Wimberly was named Girls' Basketball Coach of the Year by the California Coaches Association and was selected as one of 13 coaches honored with the Model Coach Award by the California Interscholastic Federation.

While no one wanted to state the obvious, going 10-16 this past season and 7-18 in 2010-11 while missing the CCS playoffs both times reportedly did not enamor Wimberly with a group of M-A parents who evidently wanted more. It was a clash of style over substance and the supposed weight of parental pressure apparently won out.

A statement released by Kryger said: "Pam accomplished many great feats over the course of her career and the M-A community is grateful for all that she did for hundreds of student-athletes. We feel this is the time to make the transition to a new head varsity coach for our girls' basketball program."

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Once, only the wealthy paid other people to perform their most personal tasks: finding mates, raising (or even having) children, making meals.

Now those professionals have become available to the upper-middle and middle classes. We hire people to name our children and love our parents, shop for the gifts we give and walk our dogs. We even hire people to help us figure out what it is that we want. (That's right, you can grow up to be a wantologist.)

But these are complicated transactions, and we all need to pay attention, according to UC Berkeley sociology professor Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of the new book "The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times."

Hochschild, who interviewed more than 100 people for her book, is careful not to judge these services "that reach into the heart of our emotional lives" or the people who employ these strangers. And she acknowledges, "We are not going back. We don't want to."

The stories of the ordinary people she talked to reveal much about how we live today: what it means that, in large measure, "village life" has become so commercialized.

"These services are only likely to proliferate in a world that undermines community, disparages government, marginalizes nonprofits and believes in the superiority of what's for sale," Hochschild writes.

So how, she asks, do we go forward? We each must figure out what is too personal to outsource; we have to understand what we cherish and hold on to it.

Consider: The woman who hires a love coach but insists it's for her alone to sort through the Match.com replies. The dad who decides that he alone will put on his 5-year-old's birthday party, even when the parents of her friends hire professionals. The bride who hands almost every detail over to a planner but insists on choosing her dress with her mom because that, to her, is too personal.

"In the face of the market's de-personalization of our bonds with others, we do what we can, consciously or not, to re-personalize them, to make the market feel less like a market," Hochschild concludes.

The author of such books as "The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home" is not just an observer. She came to "The Outsourced Self" in part through her experience seeking care for an elderly aunt who lived 3,000 miles away. She sees her research as a bit of the canary in the coal mine an early warning of just how much we're giving over to strangers.

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