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The prescient, avant-garde comedy of Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams, recovered classics of early television
Early television didn't attract too many artists. Entertainers, sure—loads of those, varying in quality. But people with a distinctly honed sensibility were thin on the ground in the days of seltzer in your pants.
Ernie Kovacs was a big exception—maybe the big exception. He began as a morning host but soon his surrealist sense of humor and tricky visuals—he'd tilt sets and camera angles to make everything appear normal, only to then defy gravity—were too wiggy for the mainstream audience. That might have changed had he not died in a car accident in 1962.
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"The difficult thing with Kovacs was that he was on all four networks, including DuMont," said Josh Mills, who controls the estates for Kovacs and Edie Adams—Kovacs' primary creative partner and Mills' mother.
"He wasn't one of those people like Milton Berle, where you turn him on and you know you're going to get your show, or Jackie Gleason and 'The Honeymooners,'" Mills continued. "But he always had a really rabid following and a really crazy fan base. He was always getting new shows, and there were always things that people wanted because he was inventive and different.... As far as mass appeal, I don't think even he was interested in that. He just wanted to do what he wanted to do."
What Kovacs wanted to do continues to resonate. A year ago, Shout! Factory issued a six-DVD box set, The Ernie Kovacs Collection. A typical review came from Jonathan Lethem in Playboy, who wrote: "The Nairobi Trio [video above] is ... one of only two things in the entire universe with the power to wildly delight any human being from age two to the most sophisticated (i.e., sullen, punk, tripping on drugs) teenager to adults of any age and not only do so on first contact but repeated to infinity."
Now, with a single-disc excerpt from the box, Ernie Kovacs: The ABC Specials, featuring five half-hour shows aired monthly from September 1961 to January 1962, available for dabblers, the Museum of the Moving Image is beginning a month-long joint tribute to Kovacs and Adams. It kicks off tonight with a panel on the pair, moderated by stand-up veteran Robert Klein, and featuring Broadway producer Harold Prince, ex-CBS newsman Jeff Greenfield, TV critic David Bianculli, comedy writer Alan Zweibel, and Kovacs historian (and Moving Image series curator) Ben Model.
The box set had its own sendoff last year at the Paley Center. "The clips that they showed had almost no footage of Edie," said Model of the Paley event. "[But] she was not just his pretty wife. She was a collaborator in many ways. In a lot of ways, they are a comedy team, when you see the two of them in sketches together. That, and her influencing Ernie's interest in classical music [that] he ran with—all his music pieces he referred to as sound into sight pieces. Edie had gone to Juilliard for voice. She was writing 12-tone string quartets."
The Kovacs-Adams dynamic is not unlike that of John Cleese and Connie Booth. Booth co-created and co-wrote Fawlty Towers with then-husband Cleese but is usually given less or no credit. Though she seldom received official writing credits, Adams often referred to herself as Kovacs' editor.
"Goodness knows he needed it, because a lot of his sketches are extremely overwritten," said Model. "You can see her chops in that respect when you look at her television show, 'Here's Edie,' from 1962-1964, which she co-produced and co-created. She's no slouch when it came to putting on a good piece of television entertainment. She even did the costumes for 'Here's Edie.' [In] the credits it says 'By Enke'—her maiden name."
Mills says Adams' background helped refine Kovacs' shaggier inclinations.
"My mom had a very formal education," said Mills. "She was definitely the perfect little girl up until about 18. Then she went to Julliard and got, as she would say, a very artsy-fartsy education. Ernie was basically a guy who was literally going from radio show to television show to another radio show. At some point, he could have been on television ten hours a week, plus doing radio, so he had to come up with new material every single day. There was a certain point where I think my mom just said, 'You can't just recycle bits. You can't come up with fresh things all the time. Why don't you do it this way?' I think they really saw themselves as a partnership in that way."
Adams is also directly responsible for the abundance of available Kovacs footage. Of course, it's not all there—in general, little TV footage from the pre-"I Love Lucy" era still survives, and in many cases even old videotapes of shows were recycled. That nearly happened to Kovacs as well.
"Edie was always very friendly with the tech crew people, and vice versa," said Model. "So somebody on the inside tipped her off. In the early-to-mid-'60s, a cameraman or a tech guy at ABC called her up and said, 'You better get over here. They're taping over Ernie's shows.'"
"They were taping over them with weather reports and game shows and P.S.A.s," said Mills. "My mom essentially told her lawyer to go to every network and buy anything with Kovacs. That's the only reason they survived, and that's the only reason that we own it."
She managed to save plenty. In addition to the 13 hours worth of Kovacs on last year's box, the family archive contains some 150 more half-hours, with 15 half-hours of Adams' material as well. Mills said there may be more box sets to come.
"We're definitely talking about it," he said. "Not everything that Ernie did was genius, but not everything anyone does is genius. I don't want to say that we have 150 half hours that are amazing, but there's a lot of material to choose from. A lot of it's from his daily show called 'Take a Good Look,' which no one's seen since it was originally broadcast."
One rarity whose release Mills just announced is the June 19 issue, on Omnivore, of Percy Dovetonsils ... thpeaks, which Kovacs recorded for an independent label in 1960 but never finished. Dovetonsils was one of Kovacs' most beloved recurring characters—a lisping caricature he'd first developed for radio a decade earlier of an affected man of letters, reading verse to harp accompaniment, both equally silly. ("One poet I know signs his correspondence Percy Dovetonsils," wrote Lethem.)
"Ernie did the audio, [but] they never put the music on," said Mills. "We found the tape in our archive. We didn't even know it was there. It was mislabeled as a film tape, and it was audio."
One striking thing about The ABC Specials—in particular, the November 24, 1961 episode, which is all silent—is that a museum exhibit seems utterly appropriate for their creator. Kovacs was as much a modern artist working in the pop sphere as, say, Kraftwerk, and the specials' stark staging (many of his TV shows were notoriously low budget) and dry wit are strongly reminiscent the video art that would take shape in subsequent decades—a link also made by Lynn Spiegel in her 2009 book, TV By Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television, which features a chapter on Kovacs.
"On the box set," said Model, "there is a special called 'Kovacs on Music,' from 1958. During a musical number where Edie is singing, he uses video feedback—[you get it] by pointing a television camera at a monitor that is showing a direct feed from the television camera. It has this multiplying effect, like when you have ... two mirrors facing each other. Adding that over something else—it is pretty wild stuff."
"There's definitely people out there who see these specials as the beginning of postmodernism," said Mills. "A lot of comedians definitely point to them. He died in January '62, so these were done in late '61. I think technology had moved to a point where it wasn't as cumbersome and as bulky and as difficult as it was in the '50s. We were moving into a new era. Ernie, unfortunately, didn't live to the point where he could actually see it through."
The Moving Image show isn't just about Kovacs or Adams' avant-garde sides, either. "Part of the reason I really wanted to do it is that we're also putting together a Saturday afternoon kids program with about 45 minutes of some of that more inventive stuff," said Mills. "I've always maintained that kids enjoy him a lot more than parents, sometimes."
The Museum of the Moving Image series 'Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams' begins tonight with a panel discussion featuring Robert Klein, Harold Prince, Jeff Greenfield, David Bianculli, Alan Zweibel, and Ben Model, and runs through May 27.


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- Class 5-A (tie): Kyler Murray, Jr., QB, Allen
- Class 5-A (tie): Desmon White, Sr., QB, De Soto
- Class 4-A: Patrick Mahomes, Sr., QB, Whitehouse
- Class 3-A: Blake Bogenschutz, Sr., QB, Carthage
- Class 2-A: Travis Quintanilla, Sr., QB, Refugio
- Class 1-A: Bo Wimberly, Sr., QB/S/K, Stamford
- Private Schools: Foster Sawyer, QB, Fort Worth All Saints' Episcopal
PLANO, Texas – February 9, 2014 – It's no secret that Texas high schools produce some of the greatest college and professional football players. The 2013 season is no exception and many of the Built Ford Tough Texas High School Football Players of the Week will go on to prestigious careers, following their predecessors.
On Saturday, February 8, Ford Motor Company recognized seven Texas high school football stars as the Built Ford Tough Texas High School Football Players of the Week for the 2013 season.
These athletes are among a long list of players recognized for outstanding efforts on and off the field. They are now among the likes of Heisman Trophy winners Johnny Manziel of Texas A&M, a likely top five pick in this spring's NFL draft, and Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, a Baylor alumnus. Other past winners include Atlanta Falcons running back Jacquizz Rodgers, Cincinnati Bengals running back Rex Burkhead, and Johnathan Gray of UT, the only two-time Built Ford Tough Texas HS Football Player of the Year.
This is the eighth consecutive year that Ford Motor Company is recognizing six outstanding student-athletes each week during the 2013 season. The Built Ford Tough Texas High School Football Player of the Week program honors one student-athlete in six of the state's athletic classifications every week during the high school football regular season for his accomplishments on and off the field.
Following are capsule summaries on the Player of the Year winners:
Class 5-A (tie): Kyler Murray, Jr., Quarterback, Allen: The word of the day around Allen is "three-peat." And if quarterback Kyler Murray has another year like he did last year, it's well within the realm of possibility. Murray led the Eagles to a perfect 16-0 mark and the 5-A Division 1 state title in 2013, completing 207 of 325 passes for whopping 3,669 yards and rushing 151 times for 1,274 yards. Combined with his sophomore numbers (2,004 passing yards, 1,370 rushing yards and his first state title), the 5-10, 160-pound flyer is destined to do substantial damage to the state record books. The son of former A&M QB Kevin Murray, Kyler was this year's Gatorade Texas Player of the Year and the first-team quarterback on USA Today's All-American team. Road crews around Allen are advised to be on special alert. Recruiters from every FBS university are already beating a path to his door, with A&M, Clemson, Florida, Oregon, and Texas Tech (alphabetically) in the lead at this time. Allen will likely be ranked #1 in the country when the 2014 polls hit the newsstands.
It's not surprising that Kyler is attracting as much attention as he has on the recruiting front. The owner of a B+ academic average, he's an all-district baseball player, who also participates in the Reading with the Eagles program, directed at Allen's elementary school kids.
"What's most amazing is the way we came out of the blocks and the way Kyler was able to maintain that consistency over 16 weeks," raved Coach Tom Westerberg. "Kyler performed at a high level despite playing banged up and didn't allow it to affect the way he played and practiced. He's looking for perfection whether that's running a better route or making a more accurate throw. Kyler is blessed with great genes but he couldn't be more different than his father, who is outward and dynamic. Kyler is quiet and is motivated by actions; he comes from a great family, who will keep his feet on the ground."
Class 5-A (tie): Desmon White, Sr., Quarterback, DeSoto: Desmon White is certainly the mighty mite. At only 5-6 and 140 pounds, White seemed headed for Division II when last season began. By the time it ended, in a heart-breaking 42-35 loss to eventual champion Allen in the 5-A Division 1 semi-final, Desmon had leaped into the national FBS picture, ultimately landing at TCU. Think Gary Patterson saw something special in White? You bet. In 15 games, Desmon completed 248 of 369 passes for 3,827 yards and 39 TDs (against only seven INTs). He also rushed 188 times for 1,917 yards and 19 scores. For one of the quickest players in the state, it was a second-straight trip to the semi-finals. In 2012, he passed for 3,521 yards and ran for 1,335, though RB Dontre Wilson was the main man for the Eagles. Though White may end up at a position other than quarterback in college, he leaves a legacy at DeSoto with 8,095 passing yards, 81 passing TDs, 4,071 rushing yards, and 41 rushing scores.
White's recruitment began with a verbal to North Texas but when the TCU Horned Frogs appeared he was convinced to sign a national letter-of-intent. Though he hopes to play quarterback in college, most feel he'll be a receiver and return specialist. He maintains a solid B+ average while running track—he runs on two sprint relay teams—in the spring. Desmon also reads to DeSoto elementary school children and is involved with his church.
"You can argue that Desmon is the most electrifying player to come out of the Metroplex," says Coach Claude Mathis. "He's special player who you could sit back, watch, and enjoy the moment … unless you we were an opposing defensive coordinator. The bigger the game, the more Dez wanted the ball in his hands. He wanted to be a difference-maker. He isn't a vocal leader but if a game went sour he spoke up and the kids listened. He made everyone better and his teammates always responded."
Class 4-A: Patrick Mahomes, Sr., Quarterback, Whitehouse: If the scuttlebutt from major-league scouts means anything, Whitehouse quarterback Patrick Mahomes may have thrown in last pass. If so, he had one heckuva football career. The son of former major-league pitcher Pat Mahomes, Patrick (whose fastball has been clocked in the mid-90s) almost led the Wildcats to the promised land, falling in the third round 65-60 to Mesquite Poteet. You can imagine that the folks at Texas Tech will be watching the MLB Draft, hoping against hope that Mahomes' name isn't called until the second day or so! Patrick wound up his senior season completing 287 of 495 passes for a whopping 4,619 yards and 50 TDs. He also rushed 148 times for another 895 yards and nine more TDs.
A shortstop/centerfielder/pitcher on the baseball team and an outstanding basketball player, Patrick knows that college football can be part of his life, whether it's next year or sometime in the future. His 94% academic average assures that.
"Patrick is the quintessential competitor," says Coach Adam Cook. "He started with us as a free safety, then became the starting QB in an intense competition with one of his best friends. He's the main reason we ended up 12-1 this year. Even in our third-round loss, he threw for more than 600 yards. We might have won that one too had his last pass not deflected off a receiver's hands into an interception. Whether it's football or baseball, Patrick has a brilliant future ahead of him. I can only tell you that in my first year as a head coach here, I was fortunate to have a leader like Mahomes. I know that he's going to want to share this award with his teammates. He's a young man who simply loves to please people.
Class 3-A: Blake Bogenschutz, Sr., Quarterback, Carthage: Carthage fans may have trouble spelling the name of their heroic quarterback, but they certainly know how to cheer for him. Blake led the Bulldogs to the Class 3-A, Division I state title in 2013, putting up huge numbers along the way. In the championship game win over favored Kilgore, 34-23, he carried 11 times for 100 yards and completed nine of 19 passes for another 198 yards including a pair of scores. And when Kilgore made one last attempt at catching Carthage, their onside kick was fielded by—you guessed it—Bogenschutz! Overall, he completed 231 of 393 passes for 4,003 yards and 57 TDs (only four INTs) and rushed 97 times for another 446 yards and seven scores. LaGrange won't soon forget Blake's performance in their match-up: six TDs and 395 yards in the 51-22 victory. But that sort of game was routine for the future UTSA Roadrunner. In addition to that half-dozen, Blake threw for five TDs four times and four TDs four more times. His career numbers as a three-year starter: 9,569 yards and 121 scoring tosses.
The owner of an A academic average, Blake is the class valedictorian, scored 30 on the ACT, and is an all-district baseball player at first base and pitcher. He's also the leader of FCA, reads to Carthage elementary school children, and participated in a community outreach program with congregants from his local Methodist church.
"I told him before the state championship that he's the best player I've coached in 24 years," says Coach Scott Surratt. "We had a great run this year and our unquestioned leader was Blake; ask anyone. We've had a great players here at Carthage but what makes Blake really special is his football acumen. He's a student of the game and studies it. Because the game is always changing Blake wanted to be ahead of the curve and be ready for anything the defense threw at him. One thing that gets overlooked is that Blake was true to his word and signed with UTSA even though schools like Stanford and Texas Tech came into the picture late. Nothing he accomplished or will accomplish will surprise me and now that short, athletic quarterbacks are doing well in the NFL."
Class 2-A: Travis Quintanilla, Sr., Quarterback, Refugio: The next quarterback at Refugio is going to be like the guys who followed Vince Lombardi and Bear Bryant and Lou Gehrig. It's awfully tough to follow a legend—which is exactly what Travis Quintanilla is at Refugio. He virtually owns the Texas high school football passing record book—displacing several legendary quarterbacks in the process. Despite a 56-36 loss to Cisco in the UIL 2-A Division 2 title game, Travis led the Bobcats to consecutive victories over Rogers (in a 73-72 overtime thriller), top-ranked East Bernard (40-34), and Waskom (69-33) in the run-up to the title tilt. In the process, Travis set new state season marks for passing yardage (5,420, surpassing former BFT Player of the Year Garrett Gilbert's 4,854) and TDs (68, passing Graham Harrell's 67). He also set career marks with 13,335 yards (Gilbert had 12,534) and 178 TDs (Harrell had 167). He already held the state mark for TDs in a game with 10.
A two-time Built Ford Tough Player of the Week, Travis also competes in basketball, baseball, and track. He'd like to play football and baseball at the next level. His 3.5 GPA makes him a sure-thing candidate. He's active in his church youth group and often visits nursing homes to help brighten the residents' day.
"Coaching a kid like Travis is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," says Coach Jason Herring. "You don't realize how special he is until he's gone. Sometimes we're looking at film and we watch Travis make some crazy play and we still wonder how he did it. And the thing is that he seems to do everything so effortlessly. Quintanilla is a hard-working, humble kid who is a consummate team player. We knew the state records were in sight for him. But he understood we were trying to develop our whole offense and we were putting the records on the back burner. All I can say is that Travis has earned this award and any other accolades that may come his way!"
Class 1-A: Bo Wimberly, Sr., Quarterback/Safety/Kicker, Stamford: When Hagen Hutchinson graduated from Stamford in 2013, he left behind a huge pair of shoes. The 2012 Built Ford Tough 1-A Player of the Year and son of coach Wayne Hutchinson had led the Bulldogs to a 14-1 season and a state Division 1 title. But little did Stamford's rivals know that patient senior Bo Wimberly was ready to fill those shoes—and then some. When the Bulldogs trailed Shiner 28-7 in third quarter of the state final at AT&T Stadium in December, Bo put his team on his back and led them to a 41-28 victory by running for three TDs (1, 53, and 12 yards) and passing for a 60-yard score to tie it with 3:42 remaining. By the final whistle, he completed the trophy trifecta—state champion and offensive and defensive MVP. The shoes he leaves behind are perhaps bigger than the ones he inherited.
Indeed, Wimberly filled the shoes of former teammate Hagen Hutchinson, who became the first player to bag both offensive and defensive MVP in the 2012 Class 1A, Division 1 final. This season he passed for 2,239 yards and 30 TDs and rushed for 1,641 yards and 30 TDs on 212 carries. At 5-11, 165 pounds, Bo is a four-sport athlete, excelling as sprinter on the 800-meter state-championship relay team and a left fielder on the baseball team in addition to football and basketball. He holds a solid B-average while has a black belt in taekwondo. He also is a member of FCA and reads to the Stamford elementary school children.
"He's one of the most hard-nosed players on both sides of the ball I've ever coached," says long-time Coach Wayne Hutchinson. "Bo had some big footsteps to fill when [my son] Hagen graduated, but he didn't miss a lick. The most amazing thing about this season is that Bo played with a heavy heart when his dad died last April [of 2013] after a long battle with cancer. He dedicated the season to his dad, with whom he was very close; his dad was a very proud alumnus and fan of Stamford. The one thing I'll remember about Bo is his playmaking ability; how elusive he was in the open field. I referred to him as 'swivel hips' because he made people miss. Mostly, though, he's a humble person who never allowed his teammates to hang their heads even when we were down by 21 in the third quarter of the final. It speaks to the depth of his character and the respect he has for his teammates."
Private Schools: Foster Sawyer, Sr., Quarterback, All Saints' Episcopal School, Fort Worth: Foster Sawyer sure knows how to make a lasting impression. In leading the Saints to a second straight SPC title, the pro-sized QB (Foster's 6-5 1/2, 225 pounds) threw only 14 times but completed 11 of them for 308 yards and five touchdowns. All Saints' routed Houston Christian 42-7 in one of those no-doubt-about-it performances. He was just as economical in what turned out to be the semi-final over Houston St. John's, hitting 14 of 25 for 270 yards and six touchdowns. Just another day at the office for the future TCU Horned Frog. Foster was a hockey star in his youth (it helped him develop his strength and hand-eye coordination, he says) and an outstanding shortstop and pitcher in baseball before deciding to go all-in on football. The results have been obvious.
Foster skipped basketball this season to get more involved in the nearby TCU program. With a couple of coaching changes there, the Horned Frogs' offense will more closely match the offense at All-Saints'. His 3.5 GPA indicates that he'll have no problem digesting the playbook. He remains extremely active in his family's Tara Sawyer Foundation which conducts athletic events to raise money for youths in crisis to play sports as well as to assist special needs adults.
"We've been blessed with a 10-year run of great quarterbacks here," says Coach Aaron Beck. "They've all gone on to play for major BCS schools. But Foster is a special one. If he continues to make progress and stays healthy, I can easily see him playing on Sundays in four years. For him, the sky's the limit. The progress he has made here has exceeded even our high expectations. His leadership qualities extend far beyond the football field and onto the classroom and the community. How much do I trust him? For the first time in my three decades in coaching, I allowed the quarterback to call the plays. I'd even trust him to manage my retirement portfolio! "
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Use of force liability risk management
By Marty Drapkin
By Marty Drapkin
Checklist: Use of force liability risk management: Corrections setting
Management of liability risk is an important element of any detention or corrections operation, small or large. Liability risk management applies to all aspects of a corrections operation, but is perhaps most important in regard to "critical task" issues that are commonly the focus of litigation based on the constitutional rights of detainees and prisoners. This includes such issues as medical and health care, suicide prevention, and use of force.
Managing liability risk is a way of trying to be proactive — that is, thinking in advance about things that can happen that could be problematic in terms of litigation, and then taking steps to (1) do the right thing and (2) be able to demonstrate that proper actions were taken, when lawyers and others start asking questions. It is always better to be proactive than reactive — that is, waiting until after something bad has happened and then try to control the damage the best you can.
Liability risk management must be viewed as a comprehensive system. The minimal components of this system include:
• Written policies and procedures
• Training of staff members
• Documentation of actions
• Review of incidents and implementation of necessary changes based on such review
• Ongoing supervision of personnel to ensure maximum compliance with policies and training
Use of force, as noted, is a key area in which liability risk management must be applied. There have been, and will continue to be, civil lawsuits in which plaintiffs allege that force used in a jail or prison was either inappropriate or excessive, or both, or that care provided following application of force was insufficient. Additionally, staff members can be charged criminally for their inappropriate use of physical force. The following is a brief overview of how each of the above-listed components of a liability risk management system apply in regards to use of force:
Policies and Procedures
The key purpose of written policies and procedures is to direct staff members in the proper performance of their duties. Good policies and procedures should tell staff members what administration expects them to do, and how to do that, in a basic way. A comprehensive policy on use of force in a jail or prison should reflect provisions of state laws and/or administrative rules, as well as constitutional guidelines governing use of force.
The policy must also be consistent with what staff members are trained to do in regards to application of use of force. It can be a significant problem if a policy says one thing but staff members are trained to do something different. That is why it's critically important that a department's use of force trainer(s) is involved in developing the use of force policy.
Once a policy has been finalized and approved at the highest levels of authority (sheriff, superintendent, warden, etc.), a system must be in place to distribute the policy to all staff members. But it is not enough just to distribute policies to those who are expected to carry them out, staff members must also be trained in both the cognitive aspects of policies as well as skills necessary to properly implement policies and procedures. All such training must be documented.
Policies and procedures on use of force (or other issues) are never static. Philosophies regarding use of force evolve and ideas about tactics and techniques change as well. For that reason, another element of good liability risk management is systematically reviewing and revising use of force policies, when warranted. Ideally, policies should be routinely reviewed at specified intervals, such as annually, to be sure that there is congruence between what policies set forth and actual practices.
Corrections managers should maintain an archive file of policies and procedures, so that it will be possible to locate the specific version of a policy that was in effect at the time that an incident occurred.
Staff Training
Training is a critical element in an overall program for managing liability risk in regard to use of force (or other issues). Staff members, of course, must be properly trained initially in "classroom model" application of all allowed use of force tactics and techniques. Their competency in application of techniques should be tested, and the results documented.
As noted, it is also important to train staff members in the contents of the use of force policy. Such training primarily focuses on the cognitive aspects of the policy — such as when use of force is appropriate or not appropriate, restrictions on use of force, approach considerations prior to application of force, allowed intervention options, follow-through considerations following application of force, reporting requirements, and so on.
Training, to be effective, must be continuous. Because application of force is a psychomotor skill, tactics and techniques must be practiced and proper use reinforced at regular intervals. Annual training is probably a minimum. Additionally, staff members should be trained at regular intervals — again, annually is a good standard — in the cognitive aspects of use of force. This includes ongoing training in the contents of the use of force policy. Of course, any time there is a significant revision to written policy, staff members must be trained in that.
There should be an evaluation component to all training, including cognitive training on policy contents and psychomotor skills performance. Unless there is such evaluation, corrections managers have no way of knowing — and proving — that staff members are competent to perform their job tasks.
All training must be documented. From a liability risk management perspective, if training isn't documented, it didn't happen.
Documentation of Incidents
Written reports on use of force incidents are critically important because it's an officer's official version of what happened during the incident, and it may be used in court. A report is an officer's official version of what happened during an incident, and it is the key document that may be used in court to explain and (hopefully) justify all aspects of an incident in which force was applied — approach considerations, intervention options used, and follow-through considerations.
Reports must be thorough and comprehensive, including information on all details of an incident. After all, an officer may be on a witness stand years after an incident occurred, and must depend on a written report to prompt his or her memory about what happened a long time ago.
Use of force reports are not separate from policy and training considerations. A good use of force policy should require that incident reports must be prepared and submitted according to specific guidelines and time frames. Also, the policy should indicate what is to be documented in a report. Staff members must be thoroughly trained on that policy requirement, and trained to write good reports.
Review of Use of Force Incidents / Implementation of Changes
A key element of liability risk management is routine supervisory review of all use of force incidents. Policy should specify who has responsibility for such review, and when reviews are to be done. A key purpose for such review is to determine whether or not use of force was in compliance with department policy and training.
Supervisory review should involve the following: a review of all use of force reports, review of videotapes of incidents when applicable, and interviews with staff members and inmates involved. Such reviews, and their results, must be properly documented. Specifically, there must be documentation of the determination as to whether actions by staff were or were not in compliance with policy and training.
In addition to reviewing specific incidents, it is a good idea to plan for routine reviews of all use of force incidents and inmate grievances or complaints involving use of force at specified intervals.
If an incident review or routine review of overall incidents and grievances indicates that there is a need for change of some kind in order to improve performance or responses, then such changes should be implemented. This may involve a revision to policy or procedures, alteration of training, improved documentation, a change in the way that staff members are supervised, and so on.
Clearly, it's a managerial responsibility to implement necessary changes in order to improve future responses to proper use of force. The failure to learn from things that happen and to make necessary changes to improve future performance can be tantamount to willful negligence or even deliberate indifference.
Supervision of Personnel
The final critical element of a comprehensive use of force liability risk management program is proper supervision of personnel. An agency can have the best policies and procedures in the world, and the training program can be terrific, but unless there is effective and ongoing supervision of staff members to ensure that they are acting properly, according to policy and training, problems will inevitably occur.
Proper supervision of line staff members can only occur, however, if first-line supervisors (such as sergeants) and higher-level supervisors know about and support the policies and procedures and training. If they do not, it is fairly certain that they will, one way or another, subvert or undermine those policies and training. This is potentially a big problem. It is the responsibility of managers or administrators to try to ensure that supervisors are on board with management policies and decisions and that they do their jobs of being good supervisors.
If supervision indicates that employees have performance problems with use of force (or any other job tasks), then steps must be taken to improve future performance. Such steps may range from counseling to discipline to provision of training to a staff member.
All of the above steps must be documented — including any corrective measures taken to improve employee job performance.


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Back in the early DOS days you actually performed all of your file management operations by typing cryptic commands on a prompt line. Fortunately, it wasn't long before DOS File Managers with mouse support came along and made it much easier to work with your files. Take a trip down memory lane and look at these DOS File Managers from the early days of computing
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The M.O.R.E. Program serves as a Pilot Project for the NEA. The plan is to organize a small but highly effective army of retired educators who will stand up for public education, educators and each other. This is a member engagement project and not a membership drive.
- If we can successfully motivate and inspire at least 10% of our retired members in Florida to take targeted, strategic actions, we'll make a huge difference in the big fights in public education in that state.
- Currently, there are 3,500 NEA/FEA-Retired members in Florida. However, there are 6,000 Florida-based NEA-Retired members who are NOT members of FEA. Through the Voter Activation Network and the NEA IMS, we have identified those members by counties and will begin to work with them to engage them in pro public education activities. We will work with all pension states that have NEA-Retired members living in Florida to communicate with their members. In addition, we will network with other Retired groups in Florida, like the NYSUT Retiree Councils, the Florida Alliance for Retired Americans and others to cooperatively work to support Public Education and protect retirement security.
- Lastly, we hope to engage Florida Retirees, especially those who vote in Florida, to help FEA sustain the momentum gained in previous election cycles.
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The Florida M.O.R.E.(Mobilize, Organize, Recruit and Engage) Project began hosting Regional Network Meetings last week. Seven Meetings were held in Orlando/Osceola, Miami/Dade, West Palm Beach, Hillsborough/Pasco/Pinellas, Okaloosa, Fort Myers and Brevard. A total of 212 Retirees attended and 80% of them signed up to volunteer for the 2014 Florida Elections and Governor's race. Each attendee was asked to recruit 3 additional retirees and have them complete the online MORE Survey at nea.org/retired. Currently 165 retirees have signed up for engagement activities ranging from phone banking, e-mailing or calling legislators to lobbying in Tallahassee.
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Here, at Nestlé Purina PetCare headquarters, Friskies product manager Shaun Belongie helps create eight flavors of cat food each year.
In 2011, he decided to add to his creative portfolio by devising a Friskies app for the Apple iPad featuring simple video games that humans could play with their cats. True, most cats walk by the iPad and pay no bother. But some of the more curious ones find the floating fish on the iPad screen interesting enough to paw. Nestlé Purina's experiment has garnered 500,000 downloads so far. Today, the company unveils an app for Android tablets, and says it plans to release a seventh game for cats later this year.
St. Louis is the pet food capital of the U.S., thanks to Nestlé Purina, created in 2001 when Ralston Purina merged with a subsidiary of Swiss giant Nestlé. The PetCare unit is No. 1 in market share for dog and cat food, with 47 percent of pet food sales in 2011, according to market tracker Mintel. Nestlé Purina reported pet food sales of $2.7 billion for the first quarter of 2012, up 7.7 percent from $2.6 billion in the year-ago quarter.
Cats doing funny things in online videos has long been a popular pastime. Nestlé Purina's idea was to go to the next level by helping consumers do funny things with their cats via its six games. The latest, You vs. Cat, was released in March.
"There is plenty of cat content on the Internet," says Belongie. "We wanted to make sure that whatever we do as a brand is something folks can't get anywhere else. Games fit the bill."
Belongie says some 300,000 videos of cats playing its games have been submitted to the Friskies' Youvscat.com website, which Nestlé Purina also shares on its Friskies Facebook page. At press time, cats were in the lead with 5.3 million points, to 4.6 million for the humans.
Companies are searching for new ways to reach the digital consumer, and most usually turn to Facebook and Twitter to solicit consumer feedback and offer deals and coupons.
Nestlé Purina was smart to look at gaming to differentiate itself and stay relevant, says Chris Silva, an analyst at Altimeter Group. "Any experience that's unique and engaging is a great way to use social media for brand association," Silva says.
YouTube-Sparked Idea
YouTube-Sparked Idea
The idea for the game started with Friskies, shortly after the release of the first iPad. A video quickly appeared on YouTube showing the tablet computer attracting the interest of a cat, who swiped at it.
Belongie called digital agency Fosforus in Austin to see if it could create a game for cats.
"The proof was in the pudding with the YouTube video," says Eric Sutherland, Fosforus' creative director, which also created the Friskies website and helps manage its Facebook and YouTube presence. "There was clearly something there."
Fosforus is a cat-rich agency, with 16 cats owned by the 10-member team, so those cats became its focus group. In developing the games, the agency found that sounds distracted the cats, while loud colors and shapes intrigued them. "Certain cats are more playful than others and more interested," Sutherland says. "For other cats, it may take a few tries before they're comfortable enough to play it."
A stop at the Tenth Life cat shelter in St. Louis bore that out. An effort to engage four cats in play proved futile. Still, the games found one fan at the shelter. "I thought they were adorable," says Tenth Life director Elizabeth Frick. "I thought for sure the fish game would get their attention."
Nathan Handy, who works at a restaurant in Davenport, Iowa, pulled out his iPhone to document his mom's cat Neko taking to the iPad game, and he posted the video on YouTube. "I love to watch the cat smack at the screen," he says.
Belongie can't quantify that the games have boosted sales, but having the Purina and Friskies name out there to consumers of tablets doesn't hurt, he says. "I don't know if it's subliminal, but I will say the research we've done has shown that folks who have played the game are more interested in Friskies products," he says.
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Starts off simple, becomes pretty later. Destroy enemy lines by catching the ends in the explosions. Similar to Missile Command if you were alive in the 1980's, which I doubt most of you were but you can take credit for anyway. Play and enjoy :). The game calibrates lag (hence the base 50-60 fps), so it may seem like its lagging but it should still be playing normally.
Controls: Mouse to move and shoot, 1-3 keys to select turret
Added In: July 10th, 2011
Categories: Arcade
Tags: Missile Command
Developer/Publisher: John
Played: 41 times.
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(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is increasing its oversight of Chinese manufacturers of pharmaceutical ingredients to improve the safety of the U.S. drug supply chain, the director of the agency's China office, Christopher Hickey, said on Thursday.
Hickey was one of several witnesses who testified before a hearing of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which monitors and investigates the national security implications of bilateral trade and economic relations between the two countries.
Armed with new legal authority and additional funding, the FDA has begun adding staff and inspectors in China, but the process is not without challenges, Hickey said.
In 2012 the agency began to notice delays in the issuance of Chinese visas, forcing the agency to fly investigators to the country for brief and expensive visits. That situation began easing after U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited Beijing in December.
"We faced delays for many months but I think when the senior levels of the Chinese government were engaged we saw some movement on the issue," Hickey said.
About 80 percent of the active ingredients and bulk chemicals used to make drugs sold in the United States come from overseas. Of those, nearly half are made in China and India.
Between 2003 and 2013, pharmaceutical imports from China increased 192 percent, raising the potential for substandard products to reach U.S. consumers. The FDA has placed products from 33 Chinese facilities on import alert, meaning certain products may be refused admission into the United States.
"As the number of medical products coming from China has increased, so have the challenges," Hickey said.
The quality of China's supply chain made headlines in 2008 after dozens of people were killed or injured after taking Chinese suppliers of the blood-thinner heparin substituted a lower cost, adulterated raw ingredient.
Since then other quality control problems have emerged, including the use of industrial-grade gelatin to make pharmaceutical-grade gelatin capsules for drugs and food, though not on the scale of the heparin crisis.
In 2010 the FDA conducted 46 drug inspections in China. Last year it conducted 84, Hickey said. The agency currently has 13 staff in China. Using funding provided by Congress in 2013 the agency is working to increase the number to 27.
Allan Coukell, senior director of drugs and medical devices at The Pew Charitable Trusts, told the panel that the FDA has inspected foreign plants about every nine years on average, compared with every two to three years for U.S. facilities.
"China is home to the highest number of sites subject to FDA inspection outside of the United States but in the past has received the lowest levels of oversight compared with other countries," he said.
During its inspections, Hickey said, the agency focuses on a company's systems. Investigators look at the "big picture" to assess how well firms have identified risks, what they have done to address them, how well those risks have been documented, and whether what is recorded can be verified.
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Do You Need More Reasons to Read Raymond Roussel?
One of the precursors to the Oulipo, and cult-author extraordinaire, Raymond Roussel is one of those authors that everyone of a certain aesthetic leaning likes to rave about. He is the admiration of many a literary fan-boy, and if there was an international fiction cosplay festival, his hat, cane, and 'stach would adorn many a nerd.
That said, his books still aren't as widely read as they should be. Part of that is due to the fact that for the longest time Calder was the only publisher of Locus Solus and Impressions of Africa. Calder is a great home for both of these books (the quality of the Calder list taken as a whole will likely never be replicated), but there were various distribution and availability issues.
Thankfully, last summer Dalkey Archive issued Impressions of Africa in Mark Polizzotti's new translation.
I haven't read this version, but knowing the book, and knowing Mark, I'm 100% sure that it's brilliant. And for those of you unfamiliar with this book, here's the Dalkey description:
In a mythical African land, some shipwrecked and uniquely talented passengers stage a grand gala to entertain themselves and their captor, the great chieftain Talou. In performance after bizarre performance—starring, among others, a zither-playing worm, a marksman who can peel an egg at fifty yards, a railway car that rolls on calves' lungs, and fabulous machines that paint, weave, and compose music—Raymond Roussel demonstrates why it is that André Breton termed him "the greatest mesmerizer of modern times." But even more remarkable than the mindbending events Roussel details—as well as their outlandish, touching, or tawdry backstories—is the principle behind the novel's genesis, a complex system of puns and double-entendres that anticipated (and helped inspire) such movements as Surrealism and Oulipo. Newly translated and with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti, this edition of Impressions of Africa vividly restores the humor, linguistic legerdemain, and conceptual wonder of Raymond Roussel's magnum opus.
Anyway, the main point of this post is to gush on about Roussel in context of this fantastic essay by Alice Gregory that went up on the Poetry Foundation website earlier this week.
First of all, anything with the subtitle "the upside of crazy" is effing awesome in my book. But more importantly, this is a really interesting look at Roussel's odd being and its relation to his very strange works. You really have to read the whole article, but here are a few bits:
"Whatever I wrote was surrounded by rays of light," a young Raymond Roussel told his psychoanalyst, Pierre Janet. "I used to close the curtains, for I was afraid that the shining rays emanating from my pen might escape into the outside world through even the smallest chink; I wanted suddenly to throw back the screen and light up the world." Roussel was speaking literally, and Janet, who would treat Roussel for years, was taking notes.
Though nobody knows for sure, it's suspected that Roussel first started seeing Janet in the years just before World War I, almost a decade after that first ecstatic experience he described in their early sessions. The manic spell coincided with the editing of La Doublure, a novel in verse that took most of Roussel's adolescence to complete and that he believed "would illuminate the entire universe" when it was published. When it finally was published in 1897, La Doublure was ignored by critics. The reception to his obsessively detailed and obviously unsalable work ushered in a lifelong series of public disappointments for Roussel, a writer whose work was met—in his own words—with "an almost totally hostile incomprehension."
In later sessions with Janet, Roussel proved himself to be outlandishly hubristic and deluded about his chances at fame, predicting, for instance, that he would "enjoy greater glory than Victor Hugo or Napoleon." Over dinner recently, I quoted this prophecy to a friend and roussellâtre (what one calls a Roussel enthusiast), and he laughed. "That's what's so insane about him," my friend shouted over the restaurant's ambient noise. "He actually thought that what he wrote was normal, that people would like it, that he deserved—and would find—a mainstream audience!" [. . .]
Roussel's world is strange because it is so specific, and his imaginative audacity reminds me of nothing so much as anime. Like Hayao Miyazaki movies—in which buses look like cats, amphibious girls have mouths full of salubrious saliva, monsters vomit up bathhouse employees, and decapitated spirit heads cure leprosy—Roussel's works are littered with inconceivable amalgams. But at least in anime, there are protagonists with motives, however simplistic—they avenge family members, fall in love with characters that look like themselves, and seek adventure in parallel worlds. Roussel's characters, if they can even be called that, express almost nothing a reader could identify as emotions. Bearing witness to the products of Roussel's imagination isn't nearly so unnerving as the moment that comes—quite late, it seems—when you are finally struck by the severe lack of human feeling. Janet outlines what he understands to be some of Roussel's aesthetic principles: "The work must contain nothing real," he deduces, "no observations on the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary combinations." [. . .]
Roussel's eccentricities were sundry and systematic. His biographer, Mark Ford, generously identifies them as "attempt[s] to screen out or neutralize the anxieties of living." He fasted for days, wore garments for only limited amounts of time (collars, once; neckties, three times; suspenders, 15 times), and started and stopped work always on the hour. Roussel's love for his own mother bordered on the erotic, and when she died, he had a pane of glass inserted into the lid of her coffin so that he could look at her corpse just a bit longer. There are more impish examples too, like his habit of tearing pages from his favorite books so that nobody could see what he was reading and then devouring them in the back seat of a chauffeured car. Most telling of what was clearly a personality disorder was Roussel's conduct at social events, where "he became so afraid of causing offence, or of himself being offended, that he would pre-empt all potentially upsetting topics by asking an endless series of factual questions."
That last little bit is so amazing . . . I think I'm going to employ it next time I'm anxious at some social event . . .
But seriously, you should check out this article and then read the new translation of Impressions of Africa.


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Computer Science ColloquiumIm Rahmen des Informatik-Kolloquiums, das von den Instituten des Fachbereichs Informatik, der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Informatik (ÖGI), der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung (ADV) sowie der Österreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG) abgehalten wird, spricht
Dr. Manfred A. Jeusfeld
Tilburg University, Department of Information Managementüber das Thema:
Fixing MOF and RDF - A View from the ConceptBase Data ModelZeit: Thu 6.6.2013, 15:30, 90 Minuten
Ort: HS19 (Science Park III)
ZusammenfassungThe talk constrasts the Telos modeling language against two seemingly unrelated frameworks: RDF and MOF. RDF stems from the semantic web community and uses triples to make statements about information resources. MOF is a metamodeling framework from the software engineering community that aims to integrate multiple modeling languages via metaclasses. We argue that both like some features that were already introduced into Telos in the late 1980-ties. First, extending the RDF triples into quadruples solves the reification problem of RDF. Secondly,flattening the metaclass hierarchy of MOV into just one instance level with a tiny schema level solves the clabject problem of MOF.
We shall also elaborate on some extensions of the Telos language as implemented by ConceptBase. Specifically, we discuss active rules and recursive functions on numeric domains. Active rules allow to specify abitrary state changes and can be used to capture some of the semantics of dynamic modeling languages such as petri nets. Recursive functions can be employed to specify model metrics. They are implemented by deductive rules at the expense of the termination guarantee.
VortragenderManfred Jeusfeld studied computer science (minor Operations Research) from 1980 to 1986 at the University of Technology Aachen (RWTH), Germany. After getting his Diploma degree he moved to University of Passau, Germany, to join the institute of Prof. Matthias Jarke. He worked on development support for database applications and on foundations of deductive & object-oriented databases. In 1992 he received his Doctoral degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Passau.

 In 1992 he returned to the RWTH Aachen as a senior researcher of the Information Systems Institute (Informatik V). He led research projects in the areas of distributed cooperative information systems, meta modelling techniques, and medical terminology. He has been the principal developer of the ConceptBase system, which is now used by several thousand institutes and companies world-wide for designing information systems and metamodeling.

 In 1995, he spend one year as a visiting assistant professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Information & Systems Management. There, he worked on interoperable decision support systems and information architectures for electronic shops.

 Since 1997, he is assistant professor in the department Information Management (IM) at the faculty of economics of the Tilburg University, The Netherlands. His research covers cooperative conceptual modeling, data warehouse quality management, meta modeling, method engineering, and repository systems.

 From 2007-2011, he was research coordinator of the research group Information Management (IM), formerly labeled CIS, responsible for the fundamental research on information systems at the department IM.

 Dr. Jeusfeld has published more than 10 journal articles (Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, etc.) and numerous conference articles. He is area editor for the Requirements Engineering Journal. He was co-PC-chair of KRDB-94 to KRDB-97, DMDW-99,DMDW-2000, DMDW-2001, DMDW-2003, and of ER-2011. He is or has been reviewer for international journals like Transactions on Informations Systems and conferences including ICIS, VLDB, CAiSE, ER and others. He is also the publisher of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, a publication service for open-access proceedings of scientific workshops and conferences.
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Fruitcake is a love-it-or-hate-it holiday tradition. But these cookies are everything a fruitcake should be.
Fruitcake is a love-it-or-hate-it holiday tradition. But these cookies are everything a fruitcake should be. Studded with all manner of dried and candied fruit (you can easily substitute your favorites), these cookies are a chewy, spicy delight that'll be sure to make a fruitcake lover out of even the skeptics.
Start to finish: 1 hour (15 minutes active)
Makes about 40 cookies
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 egg
Zest of 1 orange
1/4 cup orange juice
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup candied peel
3/4 cup chopped dates
3/4 cup candied cherries
3/4 cup chopped dried apricots
3/4 cup chopped toasted pecans
Colored sugars, if desired
Heat the oven to 350 F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the sugar, butter, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice, salt and baking soda. Beat until light and fluffy.
Add the egg and orange zest, then beat to combine. Add the orange juice and half of the flour, then mix, scraping down the bowl as needed to ensure even mixing. Add the remaining flour and mix to thoroughly incorporate. Stir in the candied peel, dates, cherries, apricots and pecans.
Working in batches, drop the dough by the tablespoon onto the prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle with colored sugars, if desired. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes. Allow to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer to a rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container at room temperature.
Nutrition information per serving (values are rounded to the nearest whole number): 100 calories; 35 calories from fat (36 percent of total calories); 4 g fat (2 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 10 mg cholesterol; 15 g carbohydrate; 1 g protein; 1 g fiber; 45 mg sodium.


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If there were queues at your local Post Office last week, this is why: Royal Mail's much-talked-about prices increases came into force today. The price of a first class stamp is up 30%, from 46p to 60p. Second class stamps have rocketed by an inflation-busting 38% - from 36p to 50p.
The most obvious and immediate effect of the price rise has been stamp stockpiling. But perhaps more worryingly, research conducted by Pitney Bowes suggest that 81% of small and medium-sized companies think today's postal rate change will have a negative impact on their business. Of these, 7% say that they fear their business may not survive the threat.
Going second class?
The research, conducted amongst 1,000 businesses, found that 15 per cent of companies would consider moving to a franking machine to avoid the price hike. However, almost half claimed they will be sending less post, or swapping postal communications for email. And 25% reckoned they'd switch to second class more often in an effort to save cash.
Given the widespread news coverage and controversy over the new prices, it's perhaps surprising to see the research reveal that many businesses were entirely unaware of the changes. Almost three quarters (69%) of those polled said that advance information provided to them was 'poor and confusing', and they were not aware that the changes would be so significant.
Stamp out any panic
So, how prepared are you for the new postal rates? Well, it doesn't spell disaster just because you're not sitting pretty on thousands of stamps. "It's important that businesses don't panic and abandon physical mail in a bid to avoid high postage rates," reckons Phil Hutchison, marketing director of Pitney Bowes UK.
He says that while email has a part to play, an envelope sent through the post is still a compelling proposition: "Successful customer communications depend on a delicate balance of message, medium and timing. Although digital communications undoubtedly have their place, traditional print campaigns are still critical for most businesses and are likely to remain so for many years to come."
Tweak your postage habits
You may be able to reduce the impact the rate change has on your company by making small changes to how you use the mail. Shifting to a franking machine can save you a significant amount of cash – in some cases, bulk discounts can be more than enough to offset the increased price of stamps.
There are other benefits to using a franking machine too. You can add your logo to the top right of every envelope you send, reinforcing your company identity and perhaps increasing the number of people who open your mailings.
If you'd rather stick with stamps, take a close look at how Royal Mail charges for different envelope sizes. If you fold your documents into letter format, you can cut the cost of first class postage from 90p to 60p.
For more help dealing with the postage increase, you can check www.ratechange.co.uk, where Pitney Bowes has published advice.
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Browse our list of 17 qualified Hypnotherapists in or around Paignton. Refine by area (quit smoking, weight-loss, childbirth and more) and view information on fees, availability and contact details.All hypnotherapists comply with our policy
Chris Fleet
I specialise in 3 main areas, weight loss, anxiety/depression and stress/anger management. As well as treating clients I train hypnotherapists to Diploma standard. Free 1hr consultation.
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I am an Integrative Therapist and have been using Hypnotherapy to help clients achieve their goals and get to the root cause of their issues for over 6 years. I offer video call and in-person appointments 7 days a week. Please get in touch.
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I am a qualified Clinical (Brain Based Solution Focused) Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist offering individually tailored therapy to match your needs. Sometimes for one reason or another we can all do with a helping hand in regaining control of our...
Sylvia Belle Kuszmider SRN SCM CHP DHP HPD ASFSF MNHC(reg).MDH.CNHC reg.
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy.Brain based therapy focusing on future goals and how to achieve them. Conditions treated: depression anxiety phobias stress smoking weight loss sports performance insomnia and whatever the client presents.
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Hi,My name is Lisa Kimble and I am a fully qualified and fully insured Solution Focused Hypnotherapist based in Brixham. Also I am a qualified beauty and holistic therapist for ladies. I am aware of how stressful our lives can be and how anxiety can...
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Are you sick of feeling anxious? I will help you to build the confidence and motivation to move forward in a positive way. Imagine how amazing it will feel to be happy and in control. Contact me now to book your no obligation phone consultation.
Neville Mundy BSc (hons), MSc, C Hyp, Dip EH P NLP (distinc), MFHT
I'm Neville Mundy, one of the UK's leading registered hypnotherapists and one of the few operating from an established NHS hospital for a truly professional service. Many doctors even recommend me to their patients when other treatments haven't...
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Hello, I'm Samantha, a registered Clinical Hypnotherapist offering a friendly, professional service from therapy rooms in Buckfastleigh, South Devon. I specialise in helping people overcome anxiety and related issues. Whether you want to feel more...
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Make the changes you want to make in your life. I work in a client centred, non judgemental way.
Nick Farmer
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Kate Guest Hypnotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner, Life Coach, Reg. Nurse,
Are you looking for help with anxiety, low self-esteem, and confidence or maybe you want to lose weight or stop smoking? Free 20 minute initial consultation to explain how hypnosis can help you. Availability 9am to 7pm Mon-Fri,10-12 Sundays.
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Looking for help from a caring professional? During a career spanning 30 years I have helped people with a wide range of problems. Hypnotherapy can bring about lasting change in a relatively short time and all ages can be helped.
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Hypnotherapy is a valuable way of supporting good health.Our beloved NHS is recognising this and making Hypnotherapy available.Come and experience the joys for yourself.
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The Big 12 Conference has named 106 student-athletes to the 2013 Academic All-Big 12 Rowing Team, the league office announced.
The following student-athletes were nominated with 4.00 grade point averages: Caty Clements (Kansas); Elizabeth DeMars and Abigail Weaver (Kansas State); Marilyn Kozlowski, Kim Moldenhauer, Laura Combs, Nicole Furmanek and Emmie Preskitt (Oklahoma); and Angela Bumstead, Chelsea Burns, Rachel Donnelly and Jess Glennie (Texas)
Oklahoma led all teams with 24 first team honorees, while Texas' 25 members (18 first team, seven second team) were the most total.
Eighty-five student-athletes earned first team distinction, while 21 comprised the second team.
First team members consist of those who have maintained a 3.20 or better GPA while the second team selections hold a 3.00 to 3.19 GPA.
To qualify, student-athletes must maintain a 3.00 GPA or higher (either cumulative or the two previous semesters) and must have participated in 60 percent of their team's scheduled contests. Freshmen and transfers are not eligible in their first year of academic residence. Senior student-athletes who have participated for a minimum of two years and meet all the criteria except percent of participation are also eligible.


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South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier thinks it's unanimous among his SEC brethren: Football and basketball players should get paid.
HOOVER — South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier thinks it's unanimous among his SEC brethren: Football and basketball players should get paid, and Notre Dame should join a conference for football.
Spurrier opened his quip-filled media days address Tuesday by saying the 28 football and men's basketball coaches were in favor of paying players about $300 a game in football and perhaps a little less in hoops. Spurrier, who has made the pitch before, also said the coaches each indicated at spring meetings they were willing to pony up the $280,000 or so he estimated it would cost.
"This is tiny compared to the money that's coming in now," he said. "I think we all know that.
"I'm going to keep fighting for our guys. If President Obama would say, 'Spurrier, you and those coaches need to quit fighting for your players, that they get enough, they get enough full scholarship,' then I'll shut up about it."
He said that "little bit" — $3,600 or so a year per player, he figures — would give players some pocket money and help their parents attend games.
Spurrier also said the football coaches spoke with BCS executive director Bill Hancock, who told them he was meeting with the commissioners of BCS conferences — and Notre Dame's athletic director.
"We just started trying to figure out why the athletic
director of Notre Dame is equal to all the conference commissioners," Spurrier said. "Nobody had a good answer except that's the way it's always been done.
"For whatever reason, all 14 of our head coaches thought that Notre Dame should join the ACC and play football like the rest of us."
The colorful coach added he knows that notion would anger "the Notre Damers" at him and his colleagues in the conference but didn't back down from his remarks.


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Randal A. Sergesketter is Senior Vice President, Global Platform - Crop Harvesting, Agriculture & Turf Division, Deere & Company, a position he's held since March 2013. He is responsible for the efficient and effective design and delivery of innovative crop harvesting products in support of the company's business and global growth objectives.
Sergesketter began his career at Deere & Company in 1980 through the company's summer training program and became a manufacturing management trainee in 1981. He has held a number of leadership positions, including Director, Worldwide Ag Order Fulfillment; General Manager, John Deere Ottumwa Works; and General Manager, John Deere Harvester Works. In June 2005, Sergesketter was appointed Senior Vice President, Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Management and Order Fulfillment, Worldwide Commercial & Consumer Equipment Division. With the formation of the Ag & Turf Division in May 2009, Sergesketter was named Senior Vice President of the Turf & Utility Global Platform. In November 2009 he was appointed Senior Vice President, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Supply Management for Deere's Worldwide Construction & Forestry Division.
He holds a bachelor's degree from Purdue University and a master's in business administration from St. Ambrose University.
Sergesketter is John Deere's key executive for Purdue University and a member of the Dean's Executive Council. He previously served as the key executive for North Carolina State University, and on the board of directors for the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, the North Carolina Chamber, United Way, and Boy Scouts of America.
Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) is a world leader in providing advanced products and services and is committed to the success of customers whose work is linked to the land—those who cultivate, harvest, transform, enrich, and build upon the land to meet the world's dramatically increasing need for food, fuel, shelter, and infrastructure. Since 1837, John Deere has delivered innovative products of superior quality built on a tradition of integrity. For more information, visit John Deere at its worldwide website at www.JohnDeere.com.


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