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- Summary
Infuse food with the rich, smoky flavors of wood-fired cooking with our aromatic hardwood chips. Designed for use with all types of grills, the premium chips enhance everything from steak, ribs and burgers to chicken, seafood, vegetables and tofu. Simply soak the chips for 30 minutes, drain and place the wet chips in your grill's smoker box or spread them over hot coals, then cook as usual.
- Chips release a subtle smoky fragrance and wood-fire flavor that particularly flatters many types of foods.
- Ideal for use with both gas and charcoal grills.
- Made of solid hardwood: apple, cherry, maple or hickory.
- Dimensions & More Info
- Apple: 1 lb., 12 oz.
- Cherry: 1 lb., 12 oz.
- Maple: 1 lb., 12 oz.
- Hickory: 1 lb., 12 oz.
- Mesquite: 2 lb.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by FMB1994 from Amazing Smoking Chips for BBQ Although they are all amazing… the applewood chips are our favorite. We have tried a variety of other wood chips, but these are just perfect!!! We will never use another brand of wood chips for grilling efforts. Our family and friends rave over the results as well.Date published: 2015-08-06Rated 5 out of 5 by Blondie1 from Smokey Flavor This was one of the best chicken dishes ever. It had the rich smokey flavor from the mesquite. With or without BarBQ sauce, it was great. Can't wait to experiment with ribs and more.Date published: 2014-08-29Rated 5 out of 5 by grillingmamma from Hickory - Great Flavoring Great product! My hubby says its like we are at our favorite BBQ restaurant! Have used it with salmon, chicken and pork and they have all had a wonderful hickory taste.Date published: 2014-06-10


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- Do It Yourself: Act 250 – citizen's guide, compiled by Paul Gillies for the Vermont Institute for Government.
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Degarelix Solution for injection
What is this medicine?
DEGARELIX (deg a REL ix) is used to treat men with advanced prostate cancer.
This medicine may be used for other purposes; ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have questions.
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This medicine is for injection under the skin. It is usually given by a health care professional in a hospital or clinic setting.
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Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
Overdosage: If you think you've taken too much of this medicine contact a poison control center or emergency room at once.
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The European Commission has ordered Ireland to recoup 13 billion euro (£11.1 billion) from tech giant Apple over a sweetheart tax deal.
A three-year investigation by Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager found the arrangements dating back to the early 1990s were illegal under state aid rules.
She said it allowed Apple to pay substantially less tax than other businesses - 1% on its European profits in 2003 and 0.0005% in 2014.
The Republic's tax inspectors have been told to recover the unpaid billions.
"Member states cannot give tax benefits to selected companies - this is illegal under EU state aid rules," the commissioner said.
"The Commission's investigation concluded that Ireland granted illegal tax benefits to Apple, which enabled it to pay substantially less tax than other businesses over many years."


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Intel, IBM joust 90nm technology at IEDM meet
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Intel and IBM each came to the 2002 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) claiming logic performance leadership at the 90nm. But the two companies take much different technology paths: IBM uses partially depleted silicon on insulator, while Intel has adopted strained silicon technology for its 90nm process.
And the two companies emphasized different metrics. IBM claimed it has the fastest ring oscillator reported in 90nm CMOS, while Intel, which said it does not report ring oscillator results because each company has a different method of benchmarking that circuit, claimed it has the fastest drive currents seen to date for 90nm silicon.
Intel kept much of its strained silicon recipe under wraps at IEDM, but said the results were nearly a 20 percent performance improvement, with only a few additional process steps.
Scott Thompson, an Intel fellow who leads the 90nm process development program, took the stage at IEDM to describe the "1262" process that Intel will bring to its 300mm wafer fabs in 2H of next year, starting with the "Prescott" version P4 microprocessor.
Thompson said Intel uses an epitaxial silicon SiGe to create a strain on the upper layer of active silicon, with a modest 17 percent concentration of germanium atoms.
While other companies have struggled in strained silicon to match the PMOS transistors, which use holes as carriers in the valence band, with the generally faster NMOS transistors, Thompson said Intel was able to boost the speed of its PMOS transistors at nearly the same amount as the strained silicon NMOS devices.
"In general, the industry has seen the performance of the holes roll off at high fields, but we do not see that. We accomplish that by keeping germanium out of the channel, avoiding the Coulomb effect (of electrons repelling each other)," Thompson said.
Intel will use the base 90nm process as the foundation for a new communications process that incorporates SiGe bipolar transistors, integrated passives, and other communication-specific features.
Generation gap
Intel senior fellow Mark Bohr said with its 90nm SiGe process, Intel is "at least one process generation ahead" of other silicon vendors vying for the communication IC market. By late 2003 or early 2004, Intel will begin making some chips on the new process, with gigabit Ethernet, optical networking, and wireless ICs among the targets.
IBM engineer Mukesh Khare presented IBM's 90nm SOI process that yields a ring oscillator circuit with measured 4.5ps to 5ps delays. Bohr said Intel no longer publishes a ring oscillator metric because "there is no standard way to benchmark" that circuit.
Ghavam Shahidi, an IBM fellow, said IBM's "worst case off current is a lot less than Intel's," because the use of an SOI substrate allows "a much gentler off curve" than bulk silicon.
Ironically, IBM has been a leading proponent of strained silicon, with numerous papers published at IEDM and elsewhere over the last five years. But Intel will take strained silicon to market earlier than IBM and others. In a late paper planned for late Tuesday, IBM will describe its plan to marry strained silicon with SOI at the 65nm node.
Thompson said Intel believes it can get another performance boost by increasing the germanium content at the 65nm node, without going to SOI. Intel had been publicly negative about strained silicon, taking the industry by surprise with its adoption at the 90nm node ahead of the rest of the industry.
Bohr said that skepticism was based on a belief that long channel strained silicon devices would see a performance degradation in the short channel devices which are needed for commercial microprocessor production. "About a year ago we saw promising results from short channel strained silicon devices and made a decision to go that way," said Bohr.
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The Holiday Season is upon us. It is a very busy time of year. I would like to specially thank all of our community members, staff, and Board of Education members who attended our first community meeting on December 17 to discuss school finance, review district focus, and provide suggestions. You are all greatly appreciated! We want to keep the dialogue going. School finance is in the spot light as Colorado wrestles with overhauling a system in desperate need of change.
Our meeting began with Aaron Oberg, School Business Officer reviewing school finance and building understanding of how our district receives and spends funds. The second half of our meeting focused on where we currently are with academics and programs. Our district is focused on increasing student achievement, providing students with educational experiences relevant to the future they desire, and building community partnerships.
Over the next several months we will provide you with additional information on school finance as it relates to our district and community. If you would like to join the discussion our next meeting is January 9, 7 to 8 p.m. at the District Office. We need your advice, what opportunities would you like to see offered in our schools? If you have ideas you would like to share or questions, please attend, call, or send an email to email@example.com.
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Maine governor talks taxes in YouTube video
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � Gov. Paul LePage has made a YouTube video in which he talks about tax cuts passed during the last session and asks Democrats to support additional cuts in the session ahead.
In a five-minute video, the Republican governor is interviewed by his communications director, Adrienne Bennett, about tax cuts passed last session. He said the cuts will remove 70,000 Mainers with the lowest incomes from the tax rolls and that it represents the largest tax cut ever in Maine.
LePage says giving businesses targeted tax breaks can in turn stimulate the economy by allowing them to invest that money on an expansion, new jobs or higher wages.
Democratic Senate President Justin Alfond of Portland said Thursday that LePage has declined all attempts to meet with Democratic leadership.
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Loose steering even though steering box is relatively new?
There is a little "play" when the steering wheel is centered.
Is this causing my car to pull to the left when I brake? (i got drums all around). Or is that a braking problem?
I just got new tires, an alignment, new control arm bushings.
I would like it a little stiffer.
do i need a box adjustment?
could it be my coupling?
well, u should tell us what kind of car you have for one thing, it would help a bit. anyway, if your car is pulling to one side and you've already got an alignment then i would guess that it could be a warped drum causing excessive drag on one side, or you may have a stuck wheel cylinder so there is uneven braking on one side.
as far as your steering, this must be an older car if you've got drums all around. do you have a steering box? most older cars have a bit of play anyway in the wheel and from the column to the box or rack. if it is a steering box you might be able to adjust the play a bit. there is a worm gear in the box with a gear on the column that fits inside. maybe you can adjust this to take up some slack.
hope this helps.
I will bet your problem is caused by the brakes. The first thing I would do is pull the hubs and look at the condition of the shoes, action of wheel cylinders, return springs, grease on drums,etc. If all that looks good the front brake shoes are probably out of adjustment. When you apply the brakes one set a brakes is grabing the hub at a slightly different time than the other. Try this method of adjustment on all 4 wheels, it has worked for me for years.
Jack the whole car up so you have all four wheels off the ground. Release the emergency brake. Wedge a 2 X 4 between the brake pedal and the seat so that you have a medium presure on the pedal. You may have to play with this until you get the feel of it. Now adjust the brakes on each wheel so that the drag on the wheel is the same on all 4 wheels. You will have to turn the wheel to determine the amount of drag you have, let off on the brake pedal, make your adjustment, then put your 2X4 back on the pedal and test your drag again. When you get all 4 wheel with the same drag, while the wheel turns freely without rubbing on your brake shoes, the brakes will be adjusted perfectly. I know that sounds a little undignified but this method has worked great for me for years.
Keep it simple. Frist check your air psi in the tires!! Take and jack up the front of the car,(no weight on the wheels)grab your 5/8s wrench ,loosen the jamb nut on the sterring box. With your screw driver or allen wrench(as required) turn in the worm gear until it seats. Then turn it out 1/8th to 1/4 turn.Lock down the jamb nut. Then look at the brakes. Simple stuff frist. My two pennys worth. But let us all know what you find out. I would think if you just rebuilt the front end and had it aligned, they would have adjusted the sterring box. However, stuff happens!!!!
Slider in Wa.
What kind of car is it? If it has front buggy springs like my Willys, it will pull to the side no matter what you do. This is caused by the springs flattening out on braking causing the pitman arm to be pulled and the wheels to steer. I quickly learned to compensate and do it subconsciously now. No big deal.
Do not adjust a steering box without consulting the appropriate shop manual for that vehicle or taht box!
Improper adjustment, failure to do periodic checks and adjustments, and lack of lubricant are the most predominant reasons why so many steering boxes are junk.
A steering box kept adjusted properly and properly lubricated will last virtually forever.
It seems like everyone here is just guessing. It is like someone calling a doctor and saying "I don't feel good. What's wrong with me?" Withoug some information on the vehicle, how can someone give any advise on what is wrong with it? Oh by the way, my wife's van died on her today. Can one of you guys tell me why?
I`ll give you the same advice for your wifes van. Keep it simple!!!!! That has allways been good advice for me. We tend to make things harder than they are. Hence, Check air psi, tighten gear box, then tear into ( trouble shoot)the brakes if you have to. To me that is common knowledge and part of the process of discovery. To me that`s not guessing that`s processing data. 2 penny`s worth from me!!! Remmember i`m certainaly not the brightest bulb in the lamp.I Just try to be consistant.
Slider in WA.
first of all if the car only pulls when you hit the brakes this could be caused by: brake adjustment, faulty wheel cylinder, or air in the lines. as far as the play in the steering, if you replaced the steering box don't try to adjust it.boxes are adjusted when they are built, so when you go back to try to adjust it you more than likely damage the worm gear. yes it does tighten up the steering shaft but it does nothing for the loosness in the frontend. what i would suggest is jacking up the frontend. lock the steering wheel in place. go to either front tire and try to move it back and forth. if the tire moves have you or someone to look under the car while you move the tire so you can tell where the movment is really coming from. there is more the one component in your frontend that will cause the play in your steering. the car pulling to one side when you hit the brakes could also be caused by a faulty frontend part. i rebuild frontends everyday at a gm dealership. it's wild what can cause your problem. hope this helps.
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Challenges to Oakland Council Incumbents Fizzle as Veterans Avoid Run-Offs
A campaign season that began with the possibility of a major overhaul of the Oakland City Council's old guard ended quietly in the status quo early Wednesday morning, as two incumbent Councilmembers avoided run-offs against what had been expected to be stiff opposition, and two others easily swamped their opponents.
Overall, as in Tuesday balloting all over the state, voter turnout in Alameda County was low. Of 725,098 registered voters in the county, 14.63 percent (106,093) cast absentee ballots and 9.6 percent (69,642) voted on election day, for a total turnout of 24.2 percent (175,735).
In Oakland's wide-open at-large City Council race, where incumbent Henry Chang had decided against running for re-election after numerous challengers had indicated their intention to run against him, At-Large AC Transit Board member Rebecca Kaplan and District 1 Oakland School Board member Kerry Hamill face a November runoff, with Kaplan comfortably ahead of Hamill in the first round of voting, 39.3 percent (17,086) to 21.6 percent (9,415), a margin of 7,671.
With 19.63 percent of the vote (8,531), former Oakland Planning Commissioner and AC Transit Director Clinton Killian missed making the runoff by 884 votes. Senior volunteer Frank Rose and Oakland Residents For Peaceful Neighborhoods co-founder Charles Pine came in a distant fourth and fifth.
A visibly pleased Kaplan said early Wednesday morning that while she had expected to be in the lead after Tuesday's voting, she had not expected to come ahead by as large a margin. She attributed her victory in the first round of voting in part to a large cadre of campaign volunteers—including representatives from labor—and the fact that she said she was the only at-large candidate to open her own campaign headquarters.
Killian, for example, ran his campaign out of his 8th floor downtown law office. A visit to his office while voting was still going on early Tuesday afternoon revealed no campaign literature, no signs, no volunteers, nor any other sign that a political campaign was in progress.
Kaplan also said that what she called Hamill's "scare tactics" may have backfired against the school board member. Citing campaign literature in which Hamill backed a controversial pending ballot measure to increase Oakland's police force by 300 officers, Kaplan said that while "you can legitimately be for law and order, this seemed to be a way to frighten people over the issue of crime and violence, and I think people resent being frightened."
Council President Ignacio De La Fuente beat off a scrappy challenge by Fruitvale businessperson Mario Juarez, 53.8 percent (2,332 votes) to 33 percent (1,431 votes), with two other minor challengers making up the remaining 13 percent, and 3rd District Councilmember Nancy Nadel pounded political newcomer Sean Sullivan 51.7 percent (3,576 votes) to 27 percent (1,873 votes). Education consultant Greg Hodge, who represents the same West Oakland-downtown geographical area on the Oakland School Board as he was trying to do on the Council, came in a weak third at 20.7 percent (1,435 votes), leaving his political future in some doubt.
With returns from Alameda County coming in unexpectedly late, De La Fuente's victory was not announced until 1:20 in the morning.
For the triumphant De La Fuente, however, it was a night of mixed emotions. The veteran council president missed the election day campaigning and electoral triumph altogether, flying out to Mexico Monday night to be at the bedside of a gravely ill uncle. Family members said that the uncle, 85-year-old Hiel Morales, had raised De La Fuente after the councilmember's father died.
In North Oakland, District 1 Councilmember Jane Brunner won easily over neighborhood activist Patrick McCullough, as expected, with 73 percent of the vote (7,835 to 2,933), and in the city's farthest East Oakland area, District 7, Councilmember Larry Reid did the same, beating out neighborhood activist Clifford Gilmore 62.7 percent (3,122) to 36.8 percent (1,833).
Despite the failure of challengers to oust any Council incumbents, Oakland City Attorney John Russo, who ran unopposed for re-election, said that he believed Tuesday's races signaled a changing of the guard in Oakland.
"For a long time, we've had a political alignment in Oakland dominated by the old Dellums-Barbara Lee faction on one side and the Perata-De La Fuente faction on the other," Russo said. "But as the baby boomer generation is being replaced by the new generation, we're beginning to see political newcomers who are not necessarily members of either faction, but are making their own alliances that cross many of these factional lines."
Russo said he expected that future elections would see a continuing shifting of Oakland's political alignments.
In other Oakland election news, parent activist Jody London easily defeated education philanthropist Brian Rogers 55.8 percent (5,707 votes) to 35.1 percent (3,592 votes) in what had been expected to be a closely contested North Oakland race to replace Kerry Hamill on the Oakland School Board (Tennessee Reed, daughter of Oakland author Ishmael Reed, came in a distant third at 8.7 percent with 885 votes).
And despite Greg Hodge's decision to give up his school board seat to run for City Council, the board will continue its uninterrupted string of having a Hodge among its members. Greg Hodge's wife, West Oakland educational activist Jumoke Hinton-Hodge, will replace her husband on the board after beating program manager Olugbemiga Oluwole, Sr., 52.1 percent (3,011 votes) to 46.8 percent (2,703 votes).
Sylvester Hodges was the longtime Oakland School Board member from the 7th District, replaced several years ago by Jason Hodge, no relation to Gregory Hodge. Jason Hodge, in turn, was replaced by Alice Spearman in the 7th District seat after Jason Hodge opted not to run for re-election after the 2003 state takeover.
In Tuesday's election, Spearman missed avoiding a runoff by 0.07 percentage points, beating out former Acts Full Gospel Christian School principal Doris Limbrick 49.54 percent (2,299 votes) to 32.45 percent (1,506 votes). Administrative assistant Beverly Williams placed a distant third at 17.35 percent (805 votes). Spearman and Limbrick will square off again in the November voting.
District 5 School Board member Noel Gallo was unopposed for re-election.
Veteran incumbent 4th District Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley easily beat retired business owner Steve White 74.3 percent (20,775 votes) to 25.1 percent (7,026). Fifth District Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson ran unopposed.
In the races to succeed two retiring Alameda County School Board members, Gay Plair Cobb and Dennis Chaconas, business manager Conchita Tucker beat public affairs consultant Ernest L. Hardmon III to 54.6 percent (10,831 votes) to 44.3 percent (7,728 votes) in Area 2, and children's nonprofit director Ken Berrick faces a November runoff in Area 3 against school superintendent John Bernard after beating Bernard 43.5 percent (8,862 votes) to 35.4 percent (6,484 votes) in Tuesday's voting. Mentoring Center Executive Director Celsa Snead came in a distant third at 20 percent (2,334 votes).


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2. Below the picture, you will see your caption, if any, then two choices for text you can copy. To post pictures somewhere else, like in your own blog, copy the "Picture URL" text and past it into your blog.
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To post pictures here on Pet Talk, select, copy and paste the second section, called "BB Code" - it is best to "select all" when you are in that field, then you can paste it into your thread.
So it will look like this (without the extraneous spaces):
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with the IMG tags.
And your picture will show up like this:
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Copyright © 1994 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
This site is for entertainment purposes only.
1. Sea Breezes (Brian Ferry)
2. What Do We Really Know? (McCartney)
3. Norton (McCartney/McGear)
4. Leave It (McCartney)
5. Have you Got Problems? (McCartney/McGear)
Side Two
1. The Casket (McCartney/McGough)
2. Rainbow Lady (McCartney/McGear)
3. Simply Love You (McCartney/McGear)
4. Givin' Grease A Ride (McCartney/McGear)
Mike would like to thank:
Everybody's time and love
Paul and Linda McGear
Paul - Producer
Linda - Moog and vocal harmonies
Denny Laine - Leci guitar and vocal harmonies
Jimmy McCullough - Leci guitar
Gerry Conway - Drums
Brian Jones - Sax
Paddy "Pipes" Moloney (Chieftains) - Aeolian pipes
Peter Tattersall - Engineer
Martin Lawrence - Assistant Engineer
Mixed by Paul, Mike and Pete
Melvin Abraham (IBC Cutting Studios)
Derek of Seabrook/Graves/Aslett (Hollywood Cover Conceptionalists)
James Wedge - Album pics
Barbara Brunsdon - Collage
Robert Dougal - Ex-BBC charmer
Tony Coe - Sax on 'Leave It'
Denny Seiwell - Drums on 'Leave It'
Gerry Allison - Strings and brass arrangement (Paul & Gerry)
Derek Taylor on W. B. giggling
The Halle Orchestra and oboe lady
Gysmorchestra (Invented by Lol Cream and Kevin Godley, 10CC)
Buzz Aldrin on Moon
Benna and Theran with Harri Krishna
David Minns (McCartney Productions Ltd.)
Wine glasses and Rainbow Box
Plus Angie's Pate butties and Mike's Specials


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(CODEWIT) – President Barack Obama says he and the first lady have a good strategy to prevent their daughters from getting tattoos.
"What we've said to the girls is, if you guys ever decide to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo in the same place. And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo," he said in an interview that aired Wednesday on NBC's "Today."
He said his daughters, Sasha and Malia, have kept him "posted on what's cool and what's not," but argued he and Michelle know how to make things look not so cool.
Their tattoo threat, for example, is a good tactic to "dissuade them from thinking that that's somehow a good way to rebel," he said.
The president also answered a question about the first lady's recent slip-up in which she described herself a "single mother" during a television interview earlier this month.
"As somebody who has stumbled over my lines many times, I tend to cut my wife or anybody some slack when it comes to just some slips of the tongue," he said. "But there's no doubt there were times where Michelle probably felt like a single mom."
When he campaigned for the Senate and White House, he said he would often be gone for a week at one time.
"She was still working and having to look after the girls. She definitely, I think, understands the burdens that women in part tend to feel if they're both responsible for child-rearing and if they're responsible for working at the same time."
– CNN's Ashley Killough contributed to this report.


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Closing a sale requires that you focus not on your prospect's needs, problems or pain, but on what he wants.
By Mel Schlesinger
Have you ever wondered why there is so much emphasis on overcoming objections? Whether it's prospecting or closing the sale, sales trainers tell us that we must be prepared to overcome objections.
In prospecting, we are taught to use the "feel, felt, found formula" to overcome objections. This is the one that goes: "I know just how you feel Mr. Prospect. Many of my clients felt exactly as you do, but after giving me a chance to illustrate how this idea can help them, they saw the value and became some of my best clients."
To deal with objections at the close, we are taught that an objection is simply a request for more information. Trainers tell us that that the first order of business is to uncover the real objection so that we can answer it. I believe that overcoming objections creates an adversarial environment that is not conducive to creating a relationship in which you will be looked upon as the trusted advisor.
Emotions rule
In virtually all of my programs, I ask salespeople to fill in this blank: "In order to close the sale, you must uncover what the prospect __________________." Ninety-five percent of the time, participants respond with the word: "needs." This is not surprising since salespeople have been taught from the beginning of time that we must uncover the prospect's needs, pain or problem.
Unfortunately, people are not motivated by needs, pain or problems. As much as we would love to believe that sales success is a logical progression, it is not. And it is important to note that there is great science behind what I am about to share.
The May 2009 issue of Fast Company magazine features an article titled, "Change or Die." This article discusses many studies of people with coronary artery disease who have just undergone bypass surgery. Immediately following the surgery, they are told by their doctors that if they do not change their diet or exercise habits, they will undergo a second surgery within seven years. Obviously all the participants see and acknowledge the need. Yet five years post-surgery, less than 10 percent of members of the study group make any change to their diet or exercise.
Closing the sale requires that we somehow engage the prospect's emotions.
In addition, there are many newer studies that look at the brain in an fMRI (functional MRI) and watch as major decisions are made. Time after time, the areas of the brain associated with logic light up but fail to motivate a decision to change. But in every case where a decision is made, even those involving multimillion dollars, the areas of the brain that are engaged are those dealing with emotion. There can be no doubt that closing the sale requires that we somehow engage the prospect's emotions and that requires that we focus not on his needs, problems or pain but on what he wants.
Wants vs. needs
In a recent program on this subject, one of the participants asked this question: "If I help the prospect identify a problem and he wants to fix it, then haven't I identified what he wants?" The short answer is no. Saying that I want to fix a problem is easy but meaningless. Talk with a person who is overweight and you will discover that he knows that he has a problem and wants to lose the weight and get healthy. But this same person will still fail to take action. Intellectually, he knows all of the arguments for change but still lacks the necessary motivation.
Now look at someone who actually lost weight and began an exercise program and you will find that this individual knows the outcome that he is expecting. Perhaps it is the impending birth of his first son and he wants to be able to play ball with him without struggling, or maybe it is a woman who is getting ready to go to her daughter's wedding and wants to look good in the photos. These people (who are actual people that I know) always knew that they had a problem and needed to lose the weight, but it took an emotional desire to motivate them to take action.
In business, the role of emotions is no less powerful. I may need to have a buy-sell agreement and I may agree with all of your points. I may agree that if my partner were to die prematurely, I would not want his wife as my new partner, but that will not engage my emotions. On the other hand, if you can get me to talk about my vision for my business if my partner dies, you can get my emotions engaged.
Uncovering what a prospect wants utilizes many of the same skills you use to identify his needs, problems and pain. While you will still ask questions, you will have to pay more attention to the language you use in asking those questions. But an understanding of what your prospect wants will have an impact on everything you do, from prospecting to closing.
With more than 30 years of commission-only sales experience, 23 in the insurance business, Mel Schlesinger understands what it takes to build a successful life and a health insurance business. He created the Objection-Free Sales Academy and can be reached at 336-774-3075 or at email@example.com.


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Over two-and-a-half billion years ago, the Earth was warm enough to have liquid water and teemed with bacterial life, even though the sun was only radiating at 70 percent of its current strength. Scientists have battled with this seeming paradox, which dates to the Archean eon—it's picked up the name the "faint young Sun" problem. Some previously thought that the relatively high temperature was a result of extra greenhouse gases, but a group of researchers published a paper in Nature this week that indicates greenhouse gasses may have been only a very small component. Instead, the high temperatures at the time may have been largely a result of the Earth's diminished albedo, or reflectivity.
Scientists know that, during the Archean, the Sun was still in the flush of youth, and yet was able to sustain an Earth's worth of liquid water. This time period predates the oxygenation of the atmosphere, so the suspected culprits were greenhouse gases that helped trap the sun's light, such as carbon dioxide and ammonia. However, according to some new evidence, there wasn't nearly enough of the two gases to keep the earth sufficiently warm.
Ammonia is photochemically unstable and breaks down easily into hydrogen and nitrogen molecules. Today, that nitrogen can oxidize into nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, but the atmosphere back then was too oxygen-poor for that to happen. This put ammonia out of the running, but carbon dioxide is much more robust.
To see how much carbon dioxide was around during the Archean, scientists looked at banded iron formations in marine sediment. They were looking for two kinds: siderite, which formed when there wasn't much carbon dioxide and hydrogen around, and magnetite, which formed if the atmosphere was rich in the two gases.
Given the amounts of each type of iron formation, there couldn't have been more than 900 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the air—three times more than we have today. Given the amount of incoming radiation, however, around 70 times today's levels would have been needed to keep a warm enough greenhouse. (The authors assume a significant amount of methane, another potent greenhouse gas, was present.)
So, the paper promotes an alternate idea—the Earth's albedo, or how much sun it reflected, may have made a larger contribution than previously thought. During the Archean, it's possible that a couple of different things contributed to a low albedo, allowing the Earth to absorb much more of the Sun's light.
Cloud cover is often a big contributor to albedo, and there may not have been many clouds billions of years ago. Clouds usually need to condense around a nuclei but, in the Archean, there was very little free-floating oxygen and sulfur to create cloud-forming aerosols. Any clouds that formed then would have had short life-spans and wouldn't have scattered short-wave light very well, contributing to the warming.
Another possibility was that much more of the Earth at the time was covered with water that absorbed the sun, as the continents (and the light-absorbing plants that grow on them) may not have fully emerged yet. When continents formed and how long they took to do so is still a fairly big point of contention, so this was a difficult scenario to model.
To test their ideas, the researchers ran an Earth simulator with slightly oversized continents compared to those expected at the time. The albedo of the sparse Archean clouds couldn't mitigate the heat absorption of the water vapor and the marginally elevated greenhouse gas levels. In the model, the overall effect was able to keep the atmosphere warm until the sun's radiation became stronger.
An accompanying News and Views article suggests that the authors model may overestimate the levels of methane in the atmosphere, and points out that a significant greenhouse effect is still the best explanation for why the rise of oxygen correlated with global glaciations. Still, integrating albedo into our models is likely to improve them. Given that the formation of continents play a key role in albedo changes, scientists will likely need to hash out a consensus on their formation before we can make further refinements.
Nature, 2010. DOI: 10.1038/nature08955
Nature, 2010. DOI: 10.1038/464687a (About DOIs).
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The cab careened across a lawn on the 1100 block of Jasmine Street.
It tore bark off of a tree and flattened a street sign. Neighbors heard a loud crash.
Only then did the Zone Cab stop.
Cab driver Martin A. Miley was found slumped over the steering wheel.
Police theorized at the time that the killer stole money from Miley following the crash and ran away, but neighbors did not see the suspect.
Police did not release the amount of money that had been taken in the robbery.
"But cabdrivers who 'work the bells,' that is, pick up and deliver passengers from door to door, say it couldn't have been very much," Ensslin's story says.
The 38-year-old cab driver was rushed to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
He had a gunshot in the back of the head, according to news reports.
Miley had received a late-night dispatch to pick someone up on Glencoe Street.
It was the last known contact with him before he was murdered, according to police records.
It was the evening of Dec. 6, 1993, 20 years ago.
Miley had only been working for the cab company for five months at the time and it was his first job as a taxi driver, according to a Rocky Mountain News article.


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Grieving family warns of dangers of kids holding breath
The family of a boy who drowned in their backyard pool have spoken out to raise awareness of the dangers of children holding their breath underwater.
Jack MacMillan, 12, drowned at Wollongong, south of Sydney, earlier this year after repeatedly challenging himself to hold his breath for long periods.
Shallow water blackout is a little-known cause of drowning, but could be much more common than many families realise.
Now the MacMillan family are lobbying the Federal Government to raise awareness to prevent further deaths.
"I just want my boy back. I still am finding it very hard to accept that this has happened," his mother Michelle told PM.
"I just have terrible days sometimes, can't stop crying," said Jack's father George.
"I still can't believe that my boy is gone, and like Michelle I just want him back and he's not coming back. I miss him."
I just have terrible days sometimes, can't stop crying. I still can't believe that my boy is gone, and like Michelle I just want him back and he's not coming back. I miss him.George MacMillan
Ms MacMillan says her son was doing what countless other children do; underwater laps, challenging himself to hold his breath for long periods.
"He just thought it was great. It was something he had been doing over the Christmas holidays with friends and family in the pool," she said.
"I'd been watching and I had my baby and momentarily took my eyes off the pool.
"I looked back and I saw him at the bottom of the shallow end of the pool and his knees were bent up almost as if he was in the foetal position and I thought, is he playing?"
Neither Jack nor his mother had any idea that what he was doing could be so dangerous.
"Such a silly simple thing that so many kids do," she said.
"So many parents, I think every parent I've spoken to since Jack died. Nobody knew. Nobody has heard of shallow water blackout."
Swimmers increase their levels of carbon dioxide and decrease oxygen when they hold their breath.
If they lose consciousness and breathe in, their lungs can fill with water.
John Lipman from the Diver Alert Network says repetitive breath holding is a common practice among free divers that requires close supervision.
"Unless they're grabbed immediately by somebody supervising them and pulled out of the water before they breathe they're at risk of drowning," he said.
Calling for change
Justin Scarr from Royal Life Saving Australia (RLSA) says while there have only been five cases of shallow water blackout in the past 10 years, he suspects many go unreported.
"We do believe that there are several other cases that may in fact not appear on our drowning database," he said.
"If the drowning is unwitnessed, the coroner may be reluctant to make a specific finding that cites shallow water blackout."
We do believe that there are several other cases that may in fact not appear on our drowning database. If the drowning is unwitnessed, the coroner may be reluctant to make a specific finding that cites shallow-water blackout.Justin Scarr, Royal Life Saving Australia
Sharon Washbourne, Jack MacMillan's aunt, says she is determined to raise awareness of the dangers of shallow water blackout.
"If I know that I can save one life let alone 1,000 it would help in Jack's legacy to keep the awareness going and it helps us remember him," she said.
The MacMillan family want increased education and mandatory warning signage in all pools, a move supported by RLSA.
"If we find that shallow water blackout is an ongoing issue, an underreported issue, I believe there is a case in terms of making compulsory signage on this particular issue," Mr Scarr said.
Federal Sports Minister Kate Lundy says she is working with RLSA to build warnings into existing water safety campaigns.
"I believe there is a serious opportunity here to build messages about the dangers of holding your breath for extended periods underwater and how that can lead to shallow water blackout and tragic deaths," she said.
For more information visit the Shallow Water Blackout Australia website
Topics: death, children, family-and-children, safety-education, wollongong-2500, nsw, australia
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The definition of cosmetic in Vietnam regulations is currently compatible with the definition of ASEAN Cosmetic Convention provided in Article 2.1 of Schedule B of ASEAN Cosmetic Directive. Accordingly, cosmetic product is a substance or a preparation which is used for touch with outside parts of human body (skin, hair system, finger nails, toenails, lip, and outside reproduction organ) or teeth and mouth mucous membrane with main purpose in order to cleanse, aromatize, change the outward characteristics, form, adjust body's smell, safeguard body, or maintain the human body in good condition.
For the classification of cosmetic, under the current Vietnam regulations, the criteria for the classification of cosmetic products based on the features, uses, recipe ingredients, route of administration of the product and the definition of cosmetic. Namely, beauty products are classified into 20 groups of products as the following:
- Creams, emulsions, lotions, gels and oils for skin (hands, face, feet, etc.)
- Face masks (with the exception of chemical peeling products)
- Tinted bases (liquids, pastes, powders)
- Make-up powders, after-bath powder, hygienic powders, etc
- Toilet soaps, deodorant soaps, etc.
- Perfumes, toilet waters and eau de Cologne
- Bath or shower preparations (salts, foams, oils. gels, etc.)
- Depilatories
- Deodorants and anti-perspirants
- Hair care products include: hair tints and bleaches, products for waving, straightening and fixing, setting products, cleansing products (lotions, powders, shampoos), conditioning products (lotions, creams, oils), hairdressing products (lotions, lacquers, brilliantines)
- Shaving product (creams, foams, lotions, etc.)
- Products for making-up and removing make-up from the face and the eyes
- Products intended for application to the lips
- Products for care of the teeth and the mouth
- Products for nail care and make-up
- Products for external intimate hygiene
- Sunbathing products
- Products for tanning without sun
- Skin whitening products
- Anti-wrinkle products
Besides, some products are not classified as cosmetic as the following:
- The product permanently adjust, restore or alter the function of the body by the immune mechanism, metabolic or pharmacological mechanism
- Products sweetened oral, injection or contact with other parts of the body (i.e. the nasal mucous membranes, genitals in, …)
- The mosquito, air fresheners, fabric softeners, water, toilet bowl cleaner, liquid oxygen aging, alcoholic antiseptic 70 0,90 0 alcohol, product Clean dentures are not exposed to the oral cavity, false eyelashes, eye cleaning solution/nose/ear protection products nasal congestion, anti-snoring products, vaginal lubrication gel, ultrasound gel, the exposure in genital, rectal enema, anesthesia, reduce/ control the swelling/edema, dermatitis treatment, hypoallergenic, anti-fungal, anti-viral, stimulates hair growth products/grow eyelashes products removed/reduced fat/reduced fat/reduced body size, weight loss products, prevent/stop the growth of hair, the process stops sweating, permanent tattoo ink, product remove scars, keloids reduction, wound cleaning products.


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New to the world of relay/microprocessor based switching. A friend of mine is looking for an overdrive, distortion, and fuzz in one box. He wants three footswitches, and wants the switching to function as follows:
OD-on, dist-bypass, fuzz-bypass
OD-bypass, dist-on, fuzz-bypass
OD-bypass, dist-bypass, fuzz-on
Is there a way to accomplish this using one of the "true-bypass relay" boards from Muzique or Small Bear? I'm having trouble finding any examples or starting points for this. Any help is a big help! Thanks!


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I'm happy to announce that I have a small giveaway today. I used a lovely Missoni fabric recently and got a fair amount of remnant. Then I got an idea too!
Click to enlarge photographs.Toys are not included in the giveaway, as probably suspected.
|'Clover Needle Sharpener & Polisher'
|I managed to make two of them and my one looks almost the same as the one for you.
Wishing you a lovely Valentine's day!
Thank you for visiting my blog regularly.
Thank you for leaving your comments on my posts.
I wish you know how happy I am to have you, here.
*I referred to this site(written in Japanese) to make the headbands. Thank you, tekara!
22th February 2011
Thank you all for the comments on the giveaway post!
I'm happy to announce that the random generator chose 6 among the numbers from 1 to 33, and therefore the winner is Sertyan who left 6th comment on the post. Congratulations, Sertyan, I hope you'll like my gift!
Thank you every one of you for visiting my blog, I hope you are having a wonderful day no matter where you are!


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Alabama's Pride, Mae Riley
Her passion is to combine brains with god's blessings to her n order to conquer the world. Check out that face and you be the judge if you have any doubts. Already armed with a degree in computer science Mae will pursue a degree in Pre-law.
Mae Riley
Where She's From: This beautiful model hails from Tuskegee, Alabama. She currently resides in Montgomery. Her passion is to combine brains with "god's blessings to her" in order to conquer the world. You check out her picture and you be the judge if you have any doubts.
Already armed with a degree in computer science Mae will pursue a degree in Pre-law.
Where She's At: Mae has just started modeling and again we refer you to her photograph. She has already created quite a buzz. She also sings and acts.
Where She's Headed: "I envision a bright future for myself," Mae tells The Black News. "I plan to do runway, commercial, and print work. I would also like to appear in films, videos, and on television."
Mae will soon have posters and other items with her image on them for sale to her fans. "I hope to put Alabama on the map," she says.
Mae's Words of Wisdom: "My advice to other models and actresses is to do your best in everything that you do. If it is worth doing, then it is worth doing right."
Mae's Secret To Success: "Setting goals and working toward them. Be willing to work hard and learn to work smart."
Mae's Personal Philosophy: "To be respected you must show respect."
For more information about Mae please visit: www.maeriley.com or www.myspace.com/maeriley
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The health of the northeast Indiana job market is on the mend after months of suffering more acutely than the rest of the country.
In the three months ended Sept. 30, employers in northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio announced plans to add 1,080 more workers than they planned to cut, according to a quarterly analysis by the Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne, Ind.
It's the third such analysis this year and the first to suggest a net gain of jobs in the 15-county region.
As in the previous two quarters, manufacturing was the dominant sector in the most recent economic scorecard. Big announcements at two of the region's manufacturing powerhouses accounted for 1,000 of the 1,670 jobs that employers promised to create.
General Motors Co. announced last month that with the closure of a truck plant in Pontiac, Mich., it would add a third shift at its Allen County assembly plant, bringing 700 jobs to the region by April.
And after a private-equity firm brought Fleetwood RV Inc. to decatur, Ind., it announced in August that it would add 300 jobs to its workforce of 630 by mid-November.
The analysis is based on announcements of which the newspaper was already aware, but it does provide a snapshot of the area economy. And John Stafford, director of the Community Research Center at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, said the numbers jibe with statistics his agency is compiling.
"We're just measuring audible sound," he said, explaining that many smaller job decisions probably aren't publicly announced.
Even so, the numbers reflect a tentative recovery in a regional manufacturing economy that fell further and faster than other sectors did.
In the first three months of 2009, companies announced 2,500 layoffs or cuts and 850 hires. In the second quarter, 4,560 layoffs and cuts were announced, compared with just 512 hires.
The region and the entire Midwest lost manufacturing jobs this year as companies cut production more quickly than sales plummeted, cutting deeply into inventories, said William A. Strauss, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago who compiles the Midwest Manufacturing Index.
"I think the financial crisis hit manufacturing more heavily than it did other parts of the economy," Strauss said.
Car and truck sales, for example, fell 27 % in the first eight months of 2009 compared with the same period of 2008. But production was slashed by 46%, Strauss said.
The recession and tighter credit markets made it difficult for consumers and small manufacturers to get loans and do business. And it helped tip some huge companies – such as General Motors Corp. and Fleetwood Enterprises Inc. – into bankruptcy.
Auto sector's shifts
The 2,600 workers at the Allen County truck plant were idled for 10 weeks starting in May as bankrupt GM struggled to reduce inventories. But after the new General Motors Co. emerged from bankruptcy court in July, inventories fell further than expected, thanks in part to the federal "Cash for Clunkers" program.
In July, GM announced it would spend $46 million retooling the Allen County plant so it could make heavy-duty pickups. In August, GM said it was cranking up production in Allen County and at its Defiance, Ohio, foundry. Then in September, GM said it was adding a 700-employee third shift in Allen County.
Many of the new workers at the plant will come from the roughly 1,000 who lost jobs this month when GM closed its truck plant in Pontiac, but it still will be a boon to the regional economy.
Even though the biggest news in the regional job market for the quarter is the new auto industry jobs, the sector also accounted for the biggest losses.
GM announced in August that 175 workers – 115 in Allen County and 60 in Defiance – took advantage of a second round of buyouts offered this year to employees.
And in July, parts maker Meridian Automotive Systems Inc. closed its Grabill plant, putting 120 out of work.
For Fleetwood, orders have steadily grown since summer, said John Draheim, president of the new Fleetwood RV. The problem has been in getting parts.
"The supply chain has been fractured," he said.
While most firms that directly supply Fleetwood made it through the downturn, some suppliers didn't, causing disruptions.
"Occasionally we have to take some down days to let them catch up," Draheim said.
Even so, Fleetwood's staffing was "a little bit north of 850" last week and growing, Draheim said.
The third-quarter's third-largest job addition also was in the RV industry. Sweden-based Dometic LLC announced it would move 116 jobs from Mexico to LaGrange, Ind., by 2012 to make retractable RV awnings.
Confidence grows
Overall, the net additions to the regional workforce in the third quarter were modest compared with the losses announced earlier in the year. Fleetwood, for example, likely will finish 2009 with about 400 fewer workers in Decatur than it had in 2007.
And some huge losses might loom. Navistar Inc. is considering buying an office complex in Lisle, Ill. Navistar won't say whether it's thinking about moving more than 1,000 well-paying jobs there from Fort Wayne, but the company has told Lisle officials more than half the 3,500 office employees would come from out of state.
Other than Fort Wayne, the only city where Navistar has a sizable white-collar operation is Knoxville, Tenn., where it employs 89, according to the company website.
But as the Federal Reserve's Strauss meets with business leaders throughout the Midwest, he said things are slowly getting better.
"There has been a very significant change in terms of business confidence," he said.
Jeff Rohyans of New Haven also is more confident. In January, he was laid off from the Parker Hannifin plant in New Haven. He drew unemployment for six weeks before going back to Parker Hannifin on temporary status in April and then moving to a temporary job at steel fabricator Almet Inc. in June.
He took more than a $3 hourly pay cut from the $14 an hour he made at Parker Hannifin. But after commercial construction starts to recover, Rohyans, 35, expects to be made permanent at Almet and to get the insurance and other benefits that come with it.
Judging from the train traffic he's seen through New Haven, Rohyans said he feels the economy is on the mend.
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Jenna Goldstein, a 5-8 senior from Mt. Airy, has made a name for herself as captain and No. 1 player on Germantown Friends School's thriving girls tennis team.
"Jenna has a habit," coach Jessica Smith said, "of smacking her thigh and saying, 'Come on, Jenna!' If you didn't know her name before a match, you will know it. She focuses and she turns situations around. She is the best captain I've had with our Girl Tigers."
Goldstein said it is always her right thigh.
"I have to calm myself down," she said. "No one else smacks their thigh and talks to herself. They make fun of me."
She had a 4-1 record at No. 1 singles in late October.
Olivia Fichter, No. 2: "Jenna has a deadly crosscourt backhand, she is dangerous at the net and she places her serves well. She is a very good captain. She raises the energy and gives us good tips."
Haley Abbott, No. 3: "Jenna brings energy. She wants us to work hard and have fun."
Goldstein started tennis at the Germantown Cricket Club. "Dan Dotsey has been my coach," she said. "He works strategy with me. I had surgery on my right wrist and had to re-learn all of my strokes."
Goldstein has attended GFS since kindergarten.
"I love it," she said. "The kids are down to earth. My favorite teacher is Meg Rabinowitz, English. She has really improved my writing. She relates well with students."
College? "I definitely won't be studying chemistry or physics. Maybe communications or journalism."
Goldstein this summer worked at the Arthur Ashe Tennis Center.
"The Future Stars program has underprivileged kids who show great talent. I worked with kids who weren't that good. I enjoyed it."
Jenna's mother, Debra, an environmentalist, plays guitar and writes songs. And, James says, always knows the right thing to say.
Her dad, Jay, is president of Valley Green Bank. He introduced Jenna to tennis.
"My brother Greg is in the ninth grade at GFS," Jenna said. "He plays guitar and he rows on the Schuylkill. He is a really sweet kid. He is the first to apologize after we fight over something silly."
Olivia Fichter, a 5-7 freshman from Chestnut Hill, has played a little tennis this season for Germantown Friends School. She has won matches in 20 or 25 minutes.
"I get focused," she said, "and I want to get it over with. I go over and cheer my teammates, loudly. I get pumped. I'm mainly a squash player, so I can put in drop shots and I have a slice backhand. The older girls have been really supportive."
Coach Jessica Smith: "One match, the other girls came over to me after their first set. Olivia sat down. Her match was over in 20 minutes. She has spin on her slices, from squash. She is nationally ranked in squash."
Senior captain Jenna Goldstein: "Olivia is great at placing her shots. She is so sweet."
Junior Haley Abbott: "Olivia is more of a spins and angles player, from squash. She has a very cool aura about her."
Fichter recently turned 15. She was ranked No. 1 nationally in squash for girls under 15. She is now No. 3 in girls under 17. She hopes to make the USA team for an under 19 world tournament in Cairo, Egypt, next summer.
"There is women's pro squash," Olivia said. "The top l0 make good money, but it's nothing like women's tennis."
She has taken squash lessons from the Baldwin School's Karen Kronemeyer and done fitness work with Penn Charter coach Damon Leedale Brown.
Fichter transferred from Springside to GFS.
"It was academically more challenging," she said, "and it is coed, which I like. My favorite teacher has been Will Penny, seventh grade English. He taught me how to write in great depth with more details. We have a close relationship."
Fichter gets mostly A's. In 2014, she will select a college which offers squash.
Olivia does a lot of babysitting.
"I like playing with kids," she said. "I don't mind getting dirty."
Fichter said parents Bayard and Stacy are supportive and loving, not pushy.
"They have told me," she said, "that the minute I don't enjoy squash and tennis, I can put down my racquet and walk away. I know kids who burned out because their parents put pressure on them to do well in sports.
"My half-brother Sam (Penn Charter, Woodlynde) is pretty much a comedian. He picks me up when I have a bad match and I'm moody."
Her bad matches are rare.
Haley Abbott, a 5-4 _ junior from Montgomeryville, who entered late October with a 6-0 record in No. 3 singles for the 5-1 Germantown Friends School girls tennis team.
When the season ends, she will get back up on her horse. "Poppy is a great horse," Haley said. "He is shy and nervous around strangers, but, once he gets to know you, he is very friendly."
Summer tennis lessons and tournaments made Abbott mentally tougher.
"I couldn't close out matches before," she said. "I used to get frustrated. I try to execute what the coach asks."
Coach Jessica Smith: "Anything I tell Haley, she can do. She has a precise hard forehand down the line. Off the court, she is a funny kid. We have a lot of funny kids."
Senior captain Jenna Goldstein: "Haley plays similarly to me, so we can help each other. We're very close. Haley is real caring and very selfless."
Freshman Olivia Fichter: "Haley has improved a lot. She is extremely fast, going from the back. She is very level-headed and focused."
Abbott said she chose GFS for the academics and the friendly environment. Her favorite teachers are Jim Barron, history ("pretty cool") and LucyBell Jarka-Sellers, Latin ("passionate").
Parents Cindy Yule and Tom Abbott attend every match they can. Haley hears their cheers.
"My mother and I played doubles in a winter league," Haley said. "We won some, lost some. My mother played better than her friends.
"My sister Emily Abbott is 13 and she is good in several sports. Emily is a very loving, bubbly person."
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BOOK I. declares the eternal counsel and distinct actual concurrence of the holy Trinity unto the work of redemption in the blood of Christ; with the covenanted intendment and accomplished end of God therein.
Chapter I. treats in general of the end of the death of Christ, as it is in the Scripture proposed:— I. What his Father and himself intended in it. II. What was effectually fulfilled and accomplished by it:— 1. Reconciliation; 2. Justification; 3. Sanctification; 4. Adoption; 5. Glorification. III. A general view of the opposite doctrine.
Chapter II. Of the nature of an end in general, and some distinctions about it:— I. The general distinction of end and means. II. Their mutual relation:— 1. In a moral sense; 2. In a natural sense. III. A twofold end noticed, viz.:— 1. Of the work; 2. Of the worker. IV. The end of every free agent is either that which he effects, or that for the sake of which it is effected. V. The means of two sorts, viz.:— 1. Such as have a goodness in themselves; 2. Such as have no goodness, but as conducing to the end. VI. An application of these distinctions to the business in hand.
Chapter III. considers, — I. The Father as the chief author of the work of our redemption; II. The acts ascribed to the person of the Father:— 1. The Father sending his Son into the world for the work of redemption:— (1.) By an authoritative imposition of the office of mediator upon him:— [1.] The purposed imposition of his counsel. [2.] The actual inauguration of Christ as mediator. (2.) By furnishing him with a fulness of all gifts and graces:— [1.] Christ had a natural all-sufficient perfection of his deity; [2.] He had a communicated fulness. (3.) By entering into covenant with him about his work:— [1.] With a promise of assistance; [2.] With a promise of success. 2. The Father laying upon him the punishment of sin.
Chapter IV. Of those things which, in the work of redemption, are peculiarly ascribed to the person of the Son:— I. His incarnation; II. His oblation; III. His intercession.
Chapter V. The peculiar actings of the Holy Spirit in this business:— I. As to the incarnation of Christ; II. As to the oblation or passion of Christ; III. As to the resurrection of Christ.
Chapter VI. The means used by the fore-recounted agents in this work:— I. The means used is that whole dispensation from whence Christ is called a Mediator:— 1. His oblation; 2. His intercession. II. His oblation not a mean good in itself, but only as conducing to its end, and inseparable from his intercession; as, — 1. Both intended for the same end; 2. Both of the same extent, as respecting the same objects; 3. His oblation the foundation of his intercession.
Chapter VII. contains reasons to prove the oblation and intercession of Christ to be one entire mean respecting the accomplishment of the same proposed end, and to have the same personal object:— I. From their conjunction in Scripture; II. From their being both acts of the same priestly office; III. From the nature of his intercession; IV. From the identity of what he procured in his oblation with what results from his intercession; V. From their being conjoined by himself, John xvii.; VI. From the sad consequence of separating them, as cutting off all consolation by his death.
Chapter VIII. Objections are answered, being a consideration of Thomas More's reply to the former arguments for the inseparable conjunction of Christ's oblation and intercession, viz.:— I. As to Christ being a double mediator, both general and special, alleged from 1 Tim. ii. 5, iv. 10; Heb. ix. 15. II. As to the tenor of Christ's intercession, according to Isa. liii. 12; Luke xxiii. 34; John xvii. 21–23; Matt. v. 14–16; John i. 9. III. As to Christ being a priest for all in respect of one end, and for some only in respect of all ends, alleged from Heb. ii. 9, ix. 14, 15, 26; John i. 29; 1 John ii. 2; Matt. xxvi. 28.
BOOK II. removes false and supposed ends of the death of Christ, with the distinctions invented to salve the manifold contradictions of the pretended universal atonement, rightly stating the controversy.
Chapter I. Some previous considerations to a more particular inquiry after the proper end and effect of the death of Christ:— I. The supreme end of Christ's death in respect of God; II. The subordinate end of his death in respect of us.
Chapter II. removes some mistaken ends assigned to the death of Christ:— I. It was not his own good. II. It was not his Father's good, to secure for him a right to save sinners.
143Chapter III. More particularly of the immediate end of the death of Christ, with the several ways whereby it is designed. The immediate end of the death of Christ particularly asserted from the Scriptures, viz.:— I. From those scriptures which hold out the intention and counsel of God with our Saviour's own mind in this work, Matt. xviii. 11, etc. II. From those scriptures which state the actual accomplishment or effect of his oblation, Heb. ix. 12, 14, 26, etc. III. From those scriptures that point out the persons for whom Christ died, viz., Matt. xxvi. 28; Isa. liii. 11, etc. The force of the word "many" in several of these texts, and the argument taken from them, in comparison with other texts, vindicated from the exceptions of Thomas More. Who are meant by Christ's sheep, and who not, John x. 15; and his objections answered.
Chapter IV. Of the distinction between impetration and application:— I. The sense wherein this distinction is used by the adversaries, and their various expressions about it. II. The distinction itself handled:— 1. The true nature, meaning, and use thereof:— (1.) It has no place in the intention of Christ; (2.) The will of God in this business is not at all conditional; (3.) All the things obtained by Christ are not bestowed upon condition, and the condition on which some things are bestowed is absolutely purchased; (4.) Impetration and application have the same persons for their objects. 2. The meaning of those who seek to maintain universal redemption by that distinction; with a discovery of their various opinions on this head. III. The main question rightly stated.
Chapter V. Farther of application and impetration:— I. That these, though they may admit of a distinction, cannot admit of a separation, as to the objects thereof, is proved by sundry arguments. II. The defence made by the Arminians on this head (alleging that Christ purchased all good things for all, to be bestowed upon condition; which condition not being performed, these good things are not bestowed), overthrown by sundry arguments.
BOOK III. contains arguments against universal redemption from the word of God; with an assertion of the satisfaction and merit of Christ.
Chapter I. Arguments against the universality of redemption. The first two from the nature of the new covenant, and the dispensation thereof:— Arg. i. From the nature of the covenant of grace, as being made in Christ, not with all, but only some. Arg. ii. From the dispensation of the covenant of grace, as not extended to all, but only some.
Chapter II. Three other arguments:— Arg. iii. From the absolute nature of Christ's purchase for all the objects thereof. Arg. iv. From the distinction of men into two sorts by God's eternal purpose. Arg. v. From the Scripture nowhere saying that Christ died for all men.
Chapter III. Two other arguments, from the person which Christ sustained in this business:— Arg. vi. From Christ having died as a sponsor. Arg. vii. From Christ being a mediator.
Chapter IV. Of sanctification, and of the cause of faith, and the procurement thereof by the death of Christ:— Arg. viii. From the efficacy of Christ's death for sanctification. Arg. ix. From the procurement of faith by the death of Christ. Arg. x. From the antitype of the people of Israel.
Chapter V. Continuance of arguments from the nature and description of the thing in hand; and, first, of redemption:— I. Arg. xi. From redemption by the death of Christ.
Chapter VI. Of the nature of reconciliation, and the argument taken from thence:— II. Arg. xii. From reconciliation by the death of Christ.
Chapter VII. Of the nature of the satisfaction of Christ, with arguments from thence:— III. Arg. xiii. From satisfaction by the death of Christ:— 1. What satisfaction is:— (1.) Christ made satisfaction, and how; against Grotius. (2.) Acts exercised by God in this business:— [1.] Of severe justice, as a creditor; against Grotius. [2.] Of supreme sovereignty and dominion. Consequences of these acts as to those for whom Christ satisfied. 2. Inconsistency of all this with universal redemption.
Chapter VIII. A digression, containing the substance of an occasional conference concerning the satisfaction of Christ:— I. Its consistency with God's eternal love to his elect. II. Necessity of it for executing the purposes of that love.
Chapter IX. Being a second part of the former digression, containing arguments to prove the satisfaction of Christ:— Arg. i. From Christ bearing sin, and the punishment thereof. Arg. ii. From his paying a ransom for sinners. Arg. iii. From his making atonement and reconciliation. Arg. iv. From the nature of his priestly office as exercised on earth. Arg. v. From the necessity thereof unto faith and consolation. Arg. vi. From 2 Cor. v. 21, and Isa. liii. 5.
144Chapter X. Of the merit of Christ, with arguments from thence:— IV. Arg. xiv. From the merit ascribed to the death of Christ. V. Arg. xv. From the phrases "dying for us," "bearing our sins," being our "surety," etc.
Chapter XI. The last general argument:— VI. Arg. xvi. From some particular places of Scripture, viz.:— 1. Gen. iii. 15; 2. Matt. vii. 23, etc.
BOOK IV. — All considerable objections are answered as yet brought to light, either by the Arminians or others, in the behalf of universal redemption, with a large unfolding of all the texts of Scripture by any produced and wrested to that purpose.
Chapter I. Things to be considered previously to the solution of objections:— I. The infinite value of the blood of Christ. II. The administration of the new covenant under the gospel. III. The distinction between man's duty and God's purpose. IV. The error of the Jews about the extent of redemption. V. The nature and signification of general terms used:— 1. The word "world" of various significations. 2. The word "all" of various extent. VI. Persons and things often spoken of according to their appearance. VII. Difference between the judgment of charity and verity. VIII. The infallible connection of faith and salvation. IX. The mixture of elect and reprobates in the world. X. The different acts and degrees of faith.
Chapter II. An entrance to the answer unto particular objections. Answer to objections from Scripture, viz.:— I. From the word "world" in several scriptures:— 1. John iii. 16 largely opened and vindicated.
Chapter III. An unfolding of the remaining texts of Scripture produced for the confirmation of the first general objection or argument for universal redemption. 2. 1 John ii. 1, 2, largely opened and vindicated. 3. John vi. 51 explained. 4. A vindication of other texts produced by Thomas More, viz.:— (1.) 2 Cor. v. 19. (2.) John i. 9. (3.) John i. 29. (4.) John iii. 17. (5.) John iv. 42; 1 John iv. 14; John vi. 51.
Chapter IV. Answer to the second general objection or argument for the universality of redemption. II. From the word "all" in several scriptures, viz.:— 1. 1 Tim. ii. 4, 6. 2. 2 Pet. iii. 9. 3. Heb. ii. 9. 4. 2 Cor. v. 14, 15. 5. 1 Cor. xv. 22. 6. Rom. v. 18.
Chapter V. The last objection or argument from Scripture answered. III. From texts which seem to hold out a perishing of some for whom Christ died, viz.:— 1. Rom. xiv. 15. 2. 1 Cor. viii. 11. 3. 2 Pet. ii. 1. 4. Heb. x. 29.
Chapter VI. An answer to the twentieth chapter of the book entitled "The Universality of God's Free Grace," etc., being a collection of all the arguments used by the author (Thomas More) throughout the whole book, to prove the universality of redemption:— Answers to Arg. i. From the absolute literal sense of Scripture. Arg. ii. From an alleged unlimitedness of Scripture phrases. Arg. iii. From Christ's exaltation to be Lord and Judge of all, Rom. xiv. 9, 11, 12. Arg. iv. From the proposal of Christ's death to all by the gospel. Arg. v. From the confession to be made of Christ by all. Arg. vi. From Scripture assertions and consequences. Answers to the proofs of this sixth argument:— 1. From 1 John iv. 14; John i. 4, 7; 1 Tim. ii. 4. 2. From some texts before vindicated. 3. From Ps. xix. 4; Rom. x. 18; Acts xiv. 17, etc. 4. From John xvi. 7–11, etc. 5. From Ezek. xviii. 23, 32, xxxiii. 11, etc. 6. From Matt. xxviii. 19, 20; Mark xvi. 15; Isa. xlv. 22, etc. 7. From Acts ii. 38, 39, etc. 8. From 1 Cor. xv. 21, 22, 45–47; Rom. iii. 22–25, etc. 9. From Matt. xxviii. 19, 20; 2 Cor. v. 19, etc. 10. From Matt. v. 44, 48; 1 Tim. ii. 1–4, etc. 11. From 1 Tim. ii. 3, 8, etc. 12. From 1 Cor. vi. 10, 11, etc. 13. From Tit. ii. 11, 13, iii. 4, 5, etc. 14. From John iii. 19, etc. 15. From Scripture expostulations with men. 16. From Jude 4, 12, 13, etc. 17. From Rom. xiv. 9–12, etc. 18. From Jude 3–5.
Chapter VII. Other objections from reason are removed:— Answers to Objection i. From men being bound to believe that Christ died for them. Obj. ii. Alleging that the doctrine of particular redemption fills the minds of sinners with doubts and scruples whether they ought to believe or not; the objection retorted. Obj. iii. That this doctrine disparages the freedom of grace; the objection retorted. Obj. iv. That this doctrine disparages the merit of Christ; the objection retorted. Obj. v. That this doctrine mars gospel consolation; in answer whereto it is proved that, — 1. The doctrine of universal redemption affords no ground of consolation; 2. That it quite overthrows the true ground of consolation; 3. That the doctrine of particular redemption is not liable to any just exception as to this matter; 4. That this doctrine is the true, solid foundation of all durable consolation. — Ed.
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Nanette Burstein is different from other filmmakers, a fact she learned back in her days at the NYU Graduate Film Program. That's where she decided to go against the grain — while everyone was making short fiction films, she wanted to make a feature-length documentary.
Nanette Burstein is different from other filmmakers, a fact she learned back in her days at the NYU Graduate Film Program. That's where she decided to go against the grain — while everyone was making short fiction films, she wanted to make a feature-length documentary.
"I had seen [the basketball documentary] 'Hoop Dreams' and I thought perhaps I could do some epic story," she remember. "I wanted to use the same rules that are used in fiction films: character development and three-act structure and subtext, but with real people, who are complicated and empathetic."
It's those same instincts that helped her sink her teeth into "American Teen," her new documentary about four students at a large Midwest high school. She shot more than 1,000 hours of film, as she followed them from the first day of their senior year through to the last day.Choosing a high school was the first challenge.
"I wanted it to be in a town that had only one high school, so you couldn't escape from whatever social reality or status that you had," she explains. "I went to 10 high schools and interviewed all of the incoming seniors that were interested, in order to pick the right ones. So I interviewed hundreds of kids."
She ended up at Warsaw Community High School in Indiana, with popular Megan, geeky Jake, sports star Colin and free spirit Hannah.
"I guess I related most to Hannah," replies Burstein, when asked to pick one. "That's probably why she starts and ends the film. But I really relate to all of them in different ways. I definitely had a super-nerdy side and an awkward side. When I started in high school, I was more popular. I wasn't like Megan, but I was in her group. But then that changed; I got dumped, and then I discovered myself and became more of a bohemian."
Burstein got very close to all of her subjects over her year with them, in order to achieve the intimacy that comes across in the film.
"Gaining their trust was a sort of an up-and-down process," says Burstein, who got an Oscar nomination (and an agent) for "On the Ropes," a documentary about three young boxing hopefuls in Brooklyn. "With Hannah and Jake it was really easy. They were the more underdog kids, so maybe they felt they had less to lose. Whereas the people who are more popular are more worried about their image, more worried more about what you might expose. But it would go up and down with all of them because they'd get sick of you filming all the time. So I would just lay low and not bother them."
Once the footage was in the can, she faced the monumental task of cutting it and shaping it.
"There are four stories, so we took each story on its own, and cut it as if it was its own story," she explains. "Then we started interweaving them. Because then you can really focus on each person's narrative before you start complicating it with how does it fit in to everyone else's stories. The last step was the fine-cutting. When we edit, we don't feel that every cut has to be perfect visually — it's more about the story. But then at the end you polish it to make it look as nice as it can look."
It's a testimony to the power of these kinds of projects that Burstein often had recurring memories of her own teen years while making the film.
"It would bring up these feelings that I had in high school," she says softly. "But you're also older and wiser, so it doesn't really bother you in the same way. But you can remember how you felt at the time."
"American Teen" opens on Aug. 1.
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