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Overcoming Objections

Just like all sales, you need to get through the “no” people before you get to the “yes” people. You can turn many of the "no" people into "yes" people by overcoming their objections and informing them with facts.  People that do not know things in general are skeptical and have anxiety towards then until they try them out, become educated or both!

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Overcoming Objections

Just like all sales, you need to get through the “no” people before you get to the “yes” people. You can turn many of the "no" people into "yes" people by overcoming their objections and informing them with facts.  People that do not know things in general are skeptical and have anxiety towards then until they try them out, become educated or both!

Read more… 453 more words

A century later, current Navy Secretary Ray Mabus is one-upping Daniels, ordering the installation of breath-test machines on all ships and submarines, as well as on Marine Corps bases. One can only imagine how he will go down in naval lore.

According to Mabus, the breath tests are not intended as a crackdown measure but rather to help identify sailors who might be struggling with booze. The alcohol testing is part of a broader new Navy program designed to improve the physical and mental well-being of those having difficulty coping with the stresses of a decade of war.

“We are not telling you not to drink, if you are old enough,” Mabus told an audience of sailors and Marines Monday afternoon aboard the USS Bataan at Naval Station Norfolk. “We are telling you that it is important to keep legal, responsible use of alcohol from turning into a problem.”

The problem generally is not that sailors are showing up blitzed to work, Mabus said in an interview. It’s that alcohol is surfacing as a factor in a host of social and professional ills that are increasingly of concern to the Navy brass: sexual assault, domestic problems, suicide, even poor physical fitness.

Mabus said the Navy has a bunch of separate programs to address each of those problems, but decided that it needed to take a more comprehensive approach. “We’ve done a lot of good and pretty effective things, but they’ve been piecemeal,” he said.

By detecting those who show up to work with a drink or two still in their system — especially on more than one occasion — the Navy will be able to intervene and offer counseling before things escalate, he said.

All ranks are vulnerable, Mabus said. He noted that 13 of 20 commanding officers recently fired by the Navy admitted afterward that drinking was a contributing factor to their problems.

The Navy will take other measures to reduce or prevent unhealthy behavior. It will stop subsidizing cigarette sales on bases and increase smoking cessation programs, following a complete ban on smoking aboard submarines that took effect last year.

The Navy will also begin random testing for synthetic marijuana, known as Spice. (The service already has random testing for other drugs.)

But the biggest, and most visible change, will be the breath tests. Navy officials said between one-sixth and one-eighth of those reporting for duty on board will be automatically tested at any given time, though others will still face random testing.

The Navy already has breath-test machines on board submarines in the Pacific Northwest as part of a pilot program that is being expanded across the force.

Mabus made his announcement aboard the Bataan, an amphibious assault ship that returned last month after 322 days at sea — the longest deployment of any Navy ship in four decades.

In remarks to sailors, he acknowledged that the Navy and Marine Corps have already been stretched thin over the last 10 years. But he said the workload wouldn’t lighten up anytime soon. The U.S. military recently adopted a new strategy that will emphasize operations in Asia and the Pacific, a region where the Navy will play a predominant role.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/navy-to-place-breathalyzers-on-all-its-ships/2012/03/06/gIQAIC4ZuR_blog.html

By Hannah Hess Virginia Statehouse News | 0 comments

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Shippensburg University is making space for a new vending machine which will dispense emergency contraception.

Students can now walk into a room inside the school’s health center, put $25 into a vending machine and buy Plan B, otherwise known as the “morning-after pill.” The emergency contraception will be available to anyone 17 and older, according to CBS affiliate WHP-TV in Harrisburg, Penn.

“We had some conversations with them and did a survey of the student body and we got an 85 percent response rate that the students supported Plan B in the House Center,” Dr. Roger Serr, VP Student Affairs at Shippensburg University, said to WHP-TV.

Plan B contains hormones which are meant to stop ovulation or prevent fertilization, according to CBS station KYW in Philadelphia. However, doctors caution that there is a risk of contracting an STD or developing infertility if people abuse Plan B as birth control instead of using it correctly as an emergency contraceptive, reports WHP-TV.

The medication can legally be sold to anyone 17 and older over the counter.

Serr hopes that the vending machine will make it more comfortable for students to buy the pills if they need them. He told WHP-TV that somewhere between 350 and 400 doses are sold to the school’s female population each year.

“It’s really there, the machine is really used for privacy if anything else if a person wants to come in,” Serr said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57372589/pa-university-installs-plan-b-vending-machine/

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The Must-Have Fashion Item For the Heavy Drinking Set!
Here’s an interesting new way to make sure you don’t drive drunk. New Zealand designer Matt Leggett has invented a “breathalyzer jacket” which lets the wearer know whether they’ve had too much to drive. You simply blow into a nozzle in the collar and a sensor in the jacket’s pocket analyses your blood alcohol level. The results are displayed on lights sewn into the forearm of the jacket– the more lights that glow — the drunker you are! But Leggett takes the project quite seriously and says, “This project is designed to address the very real problem of driving under the influence of alcohol, something which is especially prominent within New Zealand culture. The lights will only glow for around a minute after the breath sample has been taken, enough time for wearer to process the information without becoming a walking light show. To the unfamiliar observer, the jacket’s function is a mystery.”

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The Alco-Checkpoint “breathalizer machine for bars”

Joshua Noble set down his drink, walked up to a breathalyzer machine by the front door at The Mint bar on 19th Street, put in a dollar, grabbed a clean straw and blew.

“Woo-hoo!” the Bakersfield resident said when his blood-alcohol level reading came to .05 percent. “I’m legal to drive!” Then he returned to his drink.

Similar routines play out regularly at bars around Bakersfield as breathalyzers become an increasingly common fixture in bars here and elsewhere. Although the vending-type machines clearly state that they’re for “novelty use only,” patrons sometimes use them for informal sobriety tests — and occasionally, for games that actually promote excessive drinking.

This potential for misuse makes wall-mounted breathalyzers “kind of a double-edged sword,” said Silas Miers, a program specialist for Mothers Against Drunk Driving. The devices are helpful if after using one people decide to call a cab for a ride home, he said, but if they promote drinking games, they have the potential to defeat the purpose.

Beyond that, the machines aren’t necessarily as accurate as police breathalyzers, and so they may give drinkers a false sense that they’re OK to drive, he said.

“These devices aren’t something that’s going to keep somebody from being legally arrested,” he said.

The San Diego company that sells the machines, Alco-Checkpoint, acknowledges as much. But owner Jonathan Ohana maintains that if they’re properly calibrated on a regular basis, the machines are accurate. He emphasized that users need to follow the guidelines printed on the machines, such as making sure not to drink or smoke for five to 10 minutes before use.

As for the drinking games, Ohana said he has heard of them, including contests to see who produces the highest reading. His position is that they tend to remind people how inebriated they are, reinforcing the message that they shouldn’t drive.

“I like to tell people that no matter what they’re (used) for … the undertone of don’t drink and drive is still there,” he said.

James Grasty, owner of DDI, a Bakersfield-based driving service geared mainly toward people who don’t want to drive after drinking, said he considered buying some of the machines to promote his business. Although he ultimately decided against that, he does own a personal breathalyzer that he and his friends occasionally use for fun to see who is the most intoxicated.

Grasty’s overall position is that the devices can be helpful or unhelpful, depending whether the user acts responsibly.

“Even though there is a warning on there,” he said, “it’s not going to prevent people from doing bad things.”

Back at The Mint, Noble recalled using one of the machines recently and learning that his blood alcohol level was well beyond the legal limit. Based on that information, he decided to call a cab — even though he lived only a few blocks away.

“The shots of Goldschlager probably didn’t help,” he said.