Wilson back coaching for Steelers
Posted: July 27, 2012 at 8:17 am
LATROBE Ben Roethlisberger choked up. Mike Tomlin found perspective. Chris Rainey marveled at the display of cheating death.
To Kirby Wilson, it was just a jog. To the rest of the Pittsburgh Steelers, it was, to use Tomlins word, a blessing.
Wilson, Pittsburghs running backs coach, was on the field barking at his players and even running with them from drill to drill on the first official practice day of Steelers training camp at St. Vincent College.
Less than seven months after sustaining life-threatening burns over almost half of his body in a house fire, Wilson is doing what he wants to do.
Its awesome, Wilson said. My favorite time of the year. The most rewarding camp Ive had.
Beloved by his players, Wilsons services are arguably needed more than usual for Pittsburgh this season. With starter Rashard Mendenhall recovering from knee surgery, the Steelers have a young, deep and talented running back corps for Wilson to work with and sort through. When asked about the competition for roster spots and increased roles at running back, Wilson used a pun that might have been in poor taste only a few months ago.
Its heated, Wilson said. Thats the only way I can describe it.
You have one guy on (the physically-unable-to-perform list) in Rashard (Mendenhall), and after that, (new starter) Isaac Redman and a bunch of young guys who really have a lot of ability but really havent done it over the long haul and are trying to find their niche.
Mendenhall is recovering from surgery after he tore the ACL in his right knee during the regular-season finale in January. Redman takes over as the featured back in the Todd Haleys offense, but roles for Jonathan Dwyer, John Clay, Baron Batch and rookie Chris Rainey are still largely a mystery.
Dwyer, in his third year, and Clay, in his second, were high-profile college backs at big-time programs but went undrafted and have scant NFL experience. Batch was briefly the darling of last seasons camp as a rookie until he tore an ACL, and Rainey, the speedster of the bunch, was drafted in the fifth round out of Florida.
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Skip Prosser's son, Mark, and protégé Pat Kelsey carry on his coaching tradition at Winthrop
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ROCK HILL, S.C. It was one of the saddest days of his life, one of the saddest in recent college basketball history, but Pat Kelsey will talk about it. He'll talk about it openly, eagerly, thoroughly even without being asked. He mentions every heartbreaking detail, including the part where he got into the driver's seat of an ambulance and moved it in front of the Wake Forest basketball offices in the vain hope that he could do something, anything, to help. He couldn't. His mentor, boss, father figure, former coach, Skip Prosser, was gone at age 56.
It was five years ago Thursday.
Kelsey, 37, wants to talk about it. He points to the couch in his coach's office at Winthrop University, reliving the moment. Let's say that's where Coach was sitting when it happened, he says. Prosser was just back from a run and was wearing his ratty yellow shorts. He loved old clothes. He had an opened newspaper on his face, and Kelsey never will forget the color of that face. It was blue.
Kelsey wasn't the first to find him. But Kelsey was close behind. He remembers what people said. First, "Where's Mr. Prosser?" Then, "Call 911!" Then, "Hurry! Hurry!" Then, "It's not good, Kels. Not good, Kels."
He remembers the paramedics saying they would do everything they could, which he knew was code for "There's nothing we can do." Driving the ambulance probably was illegal, and definitely useless, but Kelsey would do anything and everything to keep Skip Prosser alive.
And that's why Kelsey is talking about the day he died. He does it without reluctance or anger because Mark Prosser (left) and Pat Kelsey have a special bond. (Eric Adelson)that's part of his mission now, five years later. He needs to keep this man alive.
Even though doing so nearly cost him his own career.
"The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
Skip Prosser loved that saying. Thomas Payne wrote it in 1776, about those who fought for the American cause only during the good times. Prosser had no use for summer soldiers or sunshine patriots, and that message got through to Pat Kelsey even when he was a young director of basketball operations at Wake Forest.
Kelsey is a Cincinnati boy, the son of a car salesman who taught him how to think creatively until it hurt, smile until it hurt and work until it hurt. It was some sort of miracle that Kelsey found a coach and leader who had the same belief system.
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Lobster mini-season 2012: Success was hit and miss, safety was priority
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At Stan Blum Boat Ramp in Fort Pierce Wednesday morning, D.J. Fisher of Vero Beach shows off a nice lobster - his boat's only lobster - caught the first hour of mini-season. ED KILLER TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS
Photo by Sam Wolfe
A catch of lobster swims Wednesday in the live well aboard Little Adam fishing charters with Capt. Richard Hunt. Lobster divers enjoyed two days of good diving conditions even if the lobster pickings were a bit slim.
Spiny lobster mini-season 2012 was calm, safe and by most accounts, a thoroughly enjoyed sportsman's holiday.
As for the personal take of highly prized crustaceans, Treasure Coast reports indicate that it was "so-so" for some and "great" for others.
The annual two-day dash by recreational divers in Florida waters came to a close Thursday with no fatalities for the first time since 2003.
Beginning Aug. 6, recreational divers and commercial fishers can begin the regular season for lobster that continues until March 31, 2013. The daily bag limit statewide for recreational divers will be six lobsters per person instead of the 12 it was during the sport season.
Brandon Dolan of Kirk's Dive and Surf in Port St. Lucie said the feedback from his customers was that diving for lobsters seemed to be a little better off Fort Pierce and St. Lucie inlets in 50 to 70 feet of water than it was closer to shore.
"It sounded like visibility was minimal and the water was colder closer to the beach in Fort Pierce and that many divers did not find their limits," Dolan said. "We had several customers come in who did get their limits, including one boat with four divers that had 48 including three larger than 10 pounds, and several grouper, too."
Tim Russell of Dive Odyssea in Fort Pierce was part of a group that limited out easily early Wednesday morning.
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COACHING LIFE: The eight habits
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Last week the personal development world lost one of its most influential voices, Dr Stephen Covey.
Famous for his seminal work, The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People, Dr Coveys lasting legacy to organizations the world over will among others be a principle-based practical framework for the practice of personal and professional effectiveness that will endure for centuries to come.
It would seem that he lived what he preached. I was fortunate enough not only to have met Dr Covey but to have shared the stage with him. It was quite an honour as a young inspirational speaker at the beginning of my speaking career.
I remember the greeting. You know how they say that the eyes are the windows to the soul? Well, in the few minutes it took to exchange pleasantries, Dr Covey looked directly into my eyes with such presence that it made him very transparent to me.
It was a remarkable couple of minutes. I cannot honestly say that I have ever experienced such authenticity in another persons eyes. I felt as if I could see his entire being, who he was and what he exemplified. It was a privilege to sense that brand of humanity in another human being.
After our meet-and-greet, it was time for me to take the stage. I spoke on my signature topic, Passion. When Dr Covey took the stage, he took us on a journey of interwoven stories filled with characters and colours that illustrated the Seven Habits.
Then he came to the eighth habit not a tack-on, he was careful to add, but a whole new level of human capability he referred to as greatness. And just how do we find and experience greatness? Through our voice; our authentic voice, of which passion is a part.
I must admit that I had made an obligatory scan of the eighth habit only a few hours before the speech, having purchased the book to get the Seven Habits CD. Yes, I am one of those people. So I was just beside myself to discover in my perusal that the guru of the personal development industry believed, like I did, that adopting and expressing your authentic expression is not only a capstone to excellence but is the key to truly expressing our greatness on this planet and that passion was a key ingredient.
We experienced his grace and generosity as he kept alluding in agreement to statements I had made in my little talk on how to find your passion. As we listened to him, we watched how he worked many of the habits from his own framework into his delivery. He gave examples from his own life that demonstrated his personal practice of all the habits.
As he spoke on finding our authentic voice, he said that finding our passion was critical to expressing ourselves authentically and that it had lots of validity in the workplace, especially among leaders seeking to influence. It is difficult to influence others to identify their gifts and greatness and bring their authentic voice to the world if you have not yet found your own.
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Personal Development Company Mind Movies Announces Co-Founder Natalie Ledwell Will Present at the California Women's …
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San Diego, CA (PRWEB) July 27, 2012
Personal development company Mind Movies today announced that co-founder and Law of Attraction guru Natalie Ledwell will speak at the California Women's Conference at Long Beach, CA in September, 2012. Ledwell's presentation will be entitled "3 Things I Wish I Learned 10 Years Ago" and will reveal the three key factors she believes made the difference between her early failures in business and her last decade of global success.
The two-day California Women's Conference provides attendees from all walks of life with inspiration, networking opportunities and training on how to excel in business, personal development, wellness and philanthropic endeavors. The events overarching goal is to empower women to see themselves as the game changers of their own lives, and to inspire and empower them to make a difference in their communities and around the world.
The California Womens Conference has formed partnerships with several established and respected organizations across the United States in order to continue the development of far-reaching womens empowerment programs.
Natalie Ledwell co-founded Mind Movies LLC in 2008 with a mission to help others bring the full power of visualization and the Law of Attraction into their lives. The Law of Attraction is a personal development philosophy made popular by the best-selling book and hit film The Secret.
"My presentation will cover the three key thought patterns that I believe will determine whether you will constantly struggle in life or be uber-successful, said Ledwell. My mission is to continue transforming the lives of thousands of people around the world by empowering them with proven, time-tested principles that ultimately allow them to achieve any goal they set for themselves."
In addition to stage presentations from dozens of high-profile speakers, the conference will also feature a live "dolphin tank session, where five companies will be selected to make a live pitch for their business idea, product or service while swimming alongside dolphins.
To learn more about Natalie Ledwells presentation at the California Women's Conference, visit: http://californiawomensconference.com/california-womens-conference/featured-speakers/item/natalie-ledwell
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Founded in 2008, Mind Movie's mission is to help empower people from all over the world to visualize their goals and manifest their greatest dreams and desires. Mind Movies has touched the lives of over 900,000 people around the world and is headquartered in downtown San Diego, California.
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