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For an unusual gift, take a look at promotional umbrellas. This is a gift that can convey a number of thoughts. First, it says someone cares enough to select a gift a person can use, to stay dry on a rainy day. Second, someone took enough time to think about gifts and choose something that is special. Third, the umbrella is a symbol of protection.
For an insurance company, a bank, a medical facility, or other customer care provider, the promotional umbrella is a great choice for a gift or incentive. Other little items are readily available, but how many people actually go out and purchase an umbrella? It is an item that many skip, preferring to dodge the raindrops. But, if there is an umbrella nearby, they will use it in a hurry. If you live in a humid, rainy geographical area, an umbrella is needed. Even in a sunny spot, people grab an umbrella to shade themselves from the heat and bright sunlight.
So, for an unusual advertising campaign, include promotional umbrellas. The cost is fairly inexpensive, and there are many styles from which to choose. Short, collapsible handle umbrellas, to oversize golf umbrellas are available, and you can choose combination colors for the material and for any text or imprint. The umbrella has a large fabric platform to hold any company name or product logo.
There are large beach, mini, fancy fashion, bubble styles, vented, sun, and plain stick umbrellas. The smaller ones run about each with minimum quantities of only a dozen, and up. Larger ones are to , and the very large patio umbrellas may be about . Still, for a nice advertising gift, employee perk, or corporate thank you, the promotional umbrellas will make outstanding and memorable promotional items.
Promotional Umbrellas - A Symbol of Protection
Imogen Brown is the marketing manager for Clickpromogifts one of the UK's premier suppliers of promotional umbrellas and custom printed promotional umbrellas.
The makings of a great youth football defense. How does it happen?
When designing a defense in youth football you have to first figure out what plays you are going to defend. I've done coaches clinics all over the country and I've yet to come across a group yet that didn't think that the sweep was the play they HAD to stop first in order to be successful in youth football. Most also agreed that the Dive, Reverse,Off-tackle Power and Drop Back Pass were the #2,#3,#4 and #5 threats.Many youth coaches felt the sweep was so important to stop that they often listed the Sweep as #1, #2, and #3 in order of importance. I may have to agree with that to an extent.
The second step in determining your defensive scheme is to make sure you have a mission statement for your team. Your defensive scheme has to align with your mission. Our mission statement is: To develop a love and appreciation of the game in our players so they can benefit from the life lessons the game teaches. We want to play competitive football, where the average individual and the team can have success while playing everyone in all games regardless of circumstances.
Obviously if you are like us and are going to play everyone ( not all the same amount) or have minimum play rules, you have to ask yourself; "Where can my weakest players play where they can have personal success and add team value on each and every snap?".You have to ask yourself, what schemes and techniques out there not only help us stop the plays we have to defend but also accommodate my goal of playing even weaker players on defense?
The 4-4
When we were designing the defense we use now we started with the base 4-4 that we got from Jay Smith who before coaching with us had coached at Canyon Springs California High School. They won two USA Today National Championships during Jay's tenure there. While this defense worked very well for our "select" teams, it didn't work well at all for our non-select teams. We found this defense required 2 pretty good down linemen, 2 rush ends that had to be fairly athletic, 4 reasonably athletic and aggressive linebackers and 3 descent defensive backs . While our "select" teams didn't always have the perfect mix of players for this defense they were able to make it work well. Our "select" teams were the best players chosen from a group of 100-150 players, those not chosen were put on "B" teams and played other "B" teams of similar size and abilities. As you might imagine those "A" teams were made up of a much different grouping of kids than our "B" squads.
Need for a Change
While this league had no minimum play rules, I mandated an 8 play minimum play rule for all of my teams in the league and a 16 play minimum play rule for my own personal team, to show my other coaches, that 8 plays were easy to get in. With about 25 players per team we had to really hustle to get everyone their plays. We found we did not have the athleticism on these non-select teams to run the 4-4 effectively and get everyone in the game like we wanted to. Our weaker players were just whiffing while playing in all that space and we didn't have 2 stud defensive linemen to anchor the middle, all the studs were on the "A" team. We were getting beat on sweeps because our 2 best linebackers had to play the middle and with the next 2 best players playing outside linebacker, they couldn't cut off the sweep from their positions.
Designing Something that Works
We had to design a defense that would allow these less talented kids the chance to play and compete by stopping the plays most of our opponents were trying to establish, the sweep, dive, reverse/counter, off-tackle and drop back pass (lesser extent). We also had to factor in the passing completion percentages for youth football teams in our area. For age 8-10 it was about 20%, for 11-12 it was about 25% and for 13-14 it was about 30%. So we came up with a defense that concentrated on stopping the run with a heavy emphasis on stopping the sweep, stopping the home run play (reverse), clogging the inside and allowing even our weakest kids to get on the field. While our new homegrown defense didn't look like anything we had seen before, it used some of the concepts of our old 4-4 for stunts and blitzes but incorporated a whole new group of techniques we found average kids could execute.
Colleges Using This Defense
Over time I discovered that this defense (minus a number of youth techniques and adjustments we have in place) was used back in the 60's when College teams had to worry about defending the run more than they do today with all the spread passing that is so popular, imagine that. The problem is that many youth teams run the popular college defenses like the 4-3, 4-4, 3-5-3 etc which are designed to stop the college offenses of today, not the run based offenses of the 60's or the youth offenses with their 20% pass completion rates. Our defense most closely resembles a youth version of the Wide Tackle 6 that Jerry Claiborne's teams used at Virginia Tech and Maryland in the 60's and '70's . When the college game moved to more passing, this defense was abandoned as they did not feel they had the coverages in it to effectively stop the better passing teams. It was very successful back in those days and widely used after Claiborne made it popular at Maryland and Virginia Tech.
Just 18-19 TD's Given up in Last 8 Seasons Total
This defense has served us well, helping us to a 78-5 record over the last 8 seasons. Our first team defense has had just 18-19 total touchdowns scored against us in that time period. The first team has had just 1 sweep play and 1 reverse play of over 10 yards run against it in that same time period. For those that have the 2006 or 2007 season DVDs, they can attest to that. More importantly this defense has allowed us to play and even start some of our weakest players on defense. Many coaches I know play their best 11 on defense and then put their weaker kids on offense. This not only hamstrings the offense, but deprives the kids of getting the experience of playing both sides of the ball.Think about the plays you need to stop and how you are going to get everyone in the game before you choose a defensive scheme for your youth football team. While many will tell you to "coach what you know", if you know a defense that is designed to defend High School or College offenses, that defense may not be the best choices to defend what you will see from youth offenses. And remember the College and High School teams aren't required to play all their kids, it is an entirely different equation than those of us coaching youth football have to deal with.
Youth Football Defense - How to Design an Effective Defense For Youth Football
Dave Cisar-
Dave is a Nike "Coach of the Year" Designate and speaks nationwide at Coaches Clinics. His book "Winning Youth Football a Step by Step Plan" was endorsed by Tom Osborne and Dave Rimington. His personal teams using this system to date have won 94% of their games in 5 Different Leagues.
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While the digital age presents new opportunities, it also poses new threats to young people. The Internet allows predators to make contact with unsuspecting children. It means the exploitation of children in one country can devastate families half a world away. It has turned child pornography into a global crisis.
Pornographic images of children are not exercises in free speech. They are criminal acts of child abuse. The United States is working to end this abuse through the government's Internet Crimes Against Children task forces. With the help of task force members, federal prosecution of child pornography and abuse has increased from 350 cases in 1998 to more than 1,400 cases in 2005."
-First Lady Laura Bush
Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces
The Internet Crimes Against Children Task force program exists under the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Justice, as a portion of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). This program trains individual states and government entities to set up their own task forces to combat cyber crimes against our most vulnerable of citizens, our children.
At its conception, New York Senator Hillary Clinton asked congress for funding of million to get the program rolling. The ICAC Task Force Program was set up to help State and local law enforcement agencies augment and strengthen their investigative response to predators who use the Internet, online communication systems, or other computer technology to sexually exploit children. 46 Regional Task Force Agencies currently make up the program. Those agencies are relatively evenly spread across the nation, and the majority of states are represented.
Law enforcement has long been aware that the naiveté and trusting natures of most children make them easy targets for predators. Teenagers, while older and a few years wiser, remain vulnerable to victimization. These governing agencies know that more than 77 million kids are online today. They also realize that the nature of the Internet presents a never before faced complexity to investigating crimes, collecting evidence, identifying and apprehending offenders, and assisting child victims and their families.
One big reason for this is the anonymity of the Internet. Unless there is viable evidence that a person committed an online crime, the argument could be raised that "someone else" either hacked into the accused person's accounts or used his computer while they were a visitor in the accused person's home. Another reason for this is that the crimes often cross several jurisdictions, and the victim and the perpetrator are often separated geographically.
Predators can and do travel hundreds of miles to different states and countries to engage in sexual acts with children they met over the Internet. Many of these cases involve local, state, federal, and international law enforcement entities in multiple jurisdictions.
The national Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force provides training to the state and local branches of the ICAC, so that they are better equipped to handle this escalating online problem. Some of the training courses include the Investigative Techniques Training Program, the Child Sex Offender Accountability Training Program, and the Undercover Chat Investigations Training Program.
Each local Internet Crimes Against Children task force is composed of federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel. Federal and local prosecution officials participate as well, as do local educators and service providers such as mental health professionals. The local task forces serve as valuable regional resources to assist parents, educators, prosecutors, law enforcement personnel, and others who work on child victimization issues.
Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force
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Personal umbrella policy covers you in the event that damages (almost always under your liability coverages) from some accident or event caused by you exceed the limits of your "underlying coverage". Typically the underlying coverage is the liability coverage in your auto or homeowners policy.
Let's say you own a trampoline. It is in your back yard, and there is no fence or other restriction around it. Neighborhood kids are playing on your trampoline, and one of them is severely injured. Not only are the medical and rehab expenses huge, but you are sued by the kid's parents for negligence in leaving the trampoline unprotected and unattended. You lose in court, and the parents are awarded 0,000. Your homeowner's policy only covers you for 0,000. Now you will have to make up the rest on your own. Your personal assets are at high risk of being taken to pay the judgment against you.
This is where personal umbrella policies can save the day. If you have assets of reasonable value to protect from such a judgment, a personal umbrella policy is a relatively inexpensive way to protect yourself. It will cover you over and above your auto and homeowners policy. You can choose limits from about a million dollars on up, usually for a relatively low premium. The premium is low because the probability of a loss is low. The consequences of such a loss, though can be devastating. Because this policy sits above your home and auto coverage, it is called an umbrella. Generally, your home and auto liability coverages must be selected at the high end - say 0,000 or 0,000 for most insurers, in order to add a personal umbrella. Talk to your agent to make a good choice.
Personal Umbrella Policy - Why Should I Have One?
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