March 2, 2008

Playing - To Stop Your Puppy From Nipping

Filed under: Animal Care @ 11:56 pm

A puppy is the equivalent of human baby/toddler, they do things
that we know they shouldn’t, but they don’t realise it for
themselves. The responsibility of training your puppy to not nip
or bite falls upon You, their owner and the pack leader.

Playing with Siblings

During playtime, puppies chew their other siblings, they need to
play because your puppy is socialising themselves with others.
Amongst themselves they will show each other what is acceptable
within the pack and without you knowing your puppy is learning
the rights and wrongs. People are not ‘other puppies’, we are
the pack leaders and do not tolerate antisocial pack behavior,
so it is up to us to demonstrate how we play, without the
nipping.

Play Games

Playing with our puppy is essential, at their age it is what our
puppy wants to do. These sessions should be treated as an
opportunity to teach you puppy, in a fun and enthusiastic way.
The games you play can also affect whether your puppy bites you
during play. Tug of war games can encourage your puppy to bite
anything and everything. Instead, play retrieving games with
your puppy. With retrieval toys you’ll soon find which item, for
other training days, is best suited to ‘bribe’ your little
friend.

Children Playing

If children live with your puppy, teach them how to play
responsibly. No wrestling or tug of war, of course, but they
should also learn not to play run away games. If a child runs,
the puppy is going to want to chase. Your puppy is going to want
to catch them and will try to catch by grabbing with those sharp
puppy teeth! Kids need to learn to interact with the puppy by
throwing toys for her to fetch or by petting.

Biting = Stop Playing

If your puppy tries to bite or chew on you during play, stop the
game. You can tell her, “NO! No bite!” and immediately move your
hands and arms out of reach, stand up and turn away. Ignore your
puppy, they will want to know what has changed, so they will
‘enquire’ and come around to face you. When the biting stops and
your puppy has settled then calmly praise. You will have to
repeat this lesson several times, but she’ll gradually learn
that biting you means the fun and games stop.

It Takes Time

During your efforts to teach your puppy not to bite people, keep
in mind too, that this is a very natural behavior for your
puppy. You will need to take your time and be patient. You’ll
also need to be consistent (as does everyone else in the family).

Keep in mind that in dog training, aggression begets aggression.
When you tell her puppy not to bite, be firm and consistent but
don’t be rough. If you are aggressive toward your puppy, your
puppy will react with fear or will be aggressive in return.

Best Online Casinos and Bonuses

Filed under: Gambling Parlor @ 4:30 pm

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Eric Baines-Reinvention

Filed under: Top Entertainment @ 4:09 pm

Artist: Eric Baines
Title: Reinvention
Genre: Rock-Pop
Label: Independent
Website: http://www.ericbaines.com
Listen To Samples: http://cdbaby.com/cd/ericbaines

When the Eric Baines CD Reinvention kicks in with the opening title track and he sings, “Who I am is always up to me,” you get the feeling that you are listening to an artist that writes songs that actually mean something; it is not just a of lot fluff.

Baines has a way of making you feel warm and self-assured inside with his soft vocal style backed by well-placed guitar, bass and drums. The musicianship on this album befits the singer’s style.

On “Something More,” Baines sings about other people with crosses to bear, holding the weight of their own baggage from life’s trials and tribulations. The song promises us that we are not alone in this world. The basis of the lyrical content suggest that we are on the same ship floating on the same ocean and the only differentiation is that we all are on a dissimilar course to reach the same destination.

The finely crafted rock-pop music offered on this CD will linger in your mind for a while after you hear it, prompting you to give it yet another spin. That is the goal of course, to get you hooked and encourage you to listen more intently to the lyrics. Baines does a fine job getting and keeping your interest throughout this album.

This is music to take the edge off so you can ease back and reflect on whom we are and why we are here. It sounds heavy but it is not at all, its basic every day life issues we all think about and it reminds you of the fact that it really is a small world that is getting smaller all the time.

© Keith “MuzikMan” Hannaleck-http://www.muzikreviews.com

May 20, 2005

01. Reinvention (5:03)
02. The Lucky One (4:56)
03. Something More (5:18)
04. I’m Coming Around (4:43)
05. Baggage (4:23)
06. The Light (5:08)
07. I Know The Day Will Come (3:55)
08. On The Inside (5:52)
09. Like I See You (4:30)
10. When It’s Over (3:41)

Rating-7/10

Credits:

Eric Baines: vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, bass
Chad Wright: drums
Gary Patrick: electric and acoustic guitar
Bobby Williams: electric guitar
Fred Mandel: keyboards
Kim Wimmer: background vocals
Noriko Olling: keyboards
Paula Fehrenbach: cello

I Love Cigars

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 12:40 pm

Cigars have long been associated with the rich and powerful, with relaxation and rich flavor. Cigar aficionados have created a culture around the art of smoking, assembling various theories and accessories to debate and facilitate smoking. Much like wine tasting, cigar smoking has been seen as a diversion of the upper echelons of society.

It is believed that cigars were probably first produced in Spain, and then quickly caught on in other European countries. Although many different countries manufacture cigars, Cuban cigars have long been highly regarded as one of the most flavorful and rich of all cigars. This is due to regional microclimates that are said to produce the highest quality tobacco, as well as the skill of the country’s cigar makers. Other countries that produce significant amounts of tobacco and cigars include Brazil, Mexico, Honduras, Ecuador, Cameroon, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, and the United States. Why have cigars long caught the attention of so many? Many speculate that the cigar’s main attraction is in the way it is manufactured. High quality cigars are always wrapped by hand. Unlike cigarettes, cigars undergo a lengthy process of fermentation and aging (much like wine), resulting in subtle flavors and textures. They are highly individual and the best cigars will provide no smoky aftertaste at all.

The taste of cigars is much more complex than cigarettes. The majority of all cigars are created by wrapping three different layers of tobacco leaves together. High quality cigars usually contain long leaves of nicotine as the filler, although they may also contain a combination of scraps. This results in subtle variations, different textures, and complex flavors. Cigarettes, on the other hand, are mass-produced and generally only contain one type of tobacco. Cigars also come in an incredible variety of flavors. The dedicated cigar aficionado can find chocolate, vanilla, apple, and even coffee-flavored cigars!

I Love Cigars

Can You Really Make Money In A Free Business Opportunity

Filed under: Brands + Marketing @ 12:19 pm

The word free has to be one of the most overused words in the home business niche. Everyone has a free this and a free that to offer you. So consider this, can you really make money in a free business opportunity.

The short answer to that is, yes you can. Here is how you can do that and we will use affiliate marketing as the business model.

Did you know you can join almost any affiliate marketing program for free? In a matter of a few minutes you can be set up with and affiliate i.d. number that is coded into an affiliate website.

You promote this affiliate website and whenever you make a sale you earn a commission. Your cost to do this is nothing but the time it takes you to promote your free affiliate website.

Before you think you have died and gone to heaven there is a couple of things you should know.

1. Getting traffic to your affiliate web page for free is harder than it sounds. You will have to work hard and master traffic generation methods such as classified ads, article marketing, forum marketing, blogging and so on.

2. Using the affiliate web page given to you by the merchant you are representing is a hard way to make money. If everyone is selling the same product with the same affiliate web site how do you make yourself stand out!

3. A person needs to be followed up with over and over before they buy. This is true both online and offline. Very few people buy much today without thinking it over.

If you promote your affiliate website you are sending traffic to a page that gives you no way to follow up in the future. Your visitor comes to your page, looks it over, and leaves. You have wasted your efforts for nothing.

So how do you get around that? You create your own web site and send visitors to it. You create a landing page and capture names and email addresses into and autoresponder. This is known as building a list and really does work.

Another thing you can do is create a pre sell page where you give a personal testimonial on the product you are selling. This will help you make more sales than the competition who is using the same old affiliate sales page.

So as you can see even affiliate marketing can go from being free to costing you a little bit of money for website hosting and an autoresponder. This is still a very little cost compared to setting up a traditional business.

How To Stop Procrastinating

Filed under: Miscellany @ 6:51 am

Procrastination is something that everyone does, including you. So what is procrastinating, it’s putting something off until later due to carelessness or laziness. Procrastination is putting off something till another day what you could just as easily do today. Lots of people put off something that only ends up getting done at the last minute or not at all.

Procrastination is very common for students who need to do research, write papers or even study for a test. This is generally where the term "cram" comes to play, in the case of having to cram for an exam due to not studying before hand.

So Why Procrastinate?

The behavior of procrastination affects almost everyone at one time or another in their life. For some it become a continuous habit, a part of who they are; for others it may only be due to a specific situation and doesn’t affect the majority of their day to day events. For whatever the reason, people put things off that they don’t want to do.

Some reasons you procrastinate are:

Because you are afraid - no one likes to admit their fear, but fear might be the reason you are putting off doing what you know you should do. Whether it’s fear of failure or fear of success, it’s still fear. Fear is a paralyzing emotion that has the ability to stop us in our tracks.

You don’t think it’s important enough - if you don’t give a high enough priority on the task at hand then it’s not worthy of you beginning it. You may already know that you need to do that task but there is always something else more important on your to do list that keeps bumping that job back to the bottom of the pile.

You don’t know enough to do the task - you simply don’t know everything you need to know in order to complete the task, so you put it off. This could be because you just haven’t done all the research and collected the data that you need to complete that project or you just don’t want to put the time in to do it.

Some other reasons you procrastinate are: because you’re too busy, you haven’t committed yourself to the job, you just don’t want to do it or just because your lazy.

How To Change Your Behavior?

Now that you know a little bit more about why you procrastinate, or did you procrastinate and decide to read that section later? How can you expect to stop procrastinating if you don’t know why you do it in the first place? Taking a good look at why you put things off is the first step in learning how to change your behavior.

Here are a few strategies to help you stop procrastinating. Not every tip will help every person, so you need to take what works for you and apply it.

Create a list - look at all the clues that tell you just when and how you’re procrastinating and you’ll be able to see that you are indeed putting something off. By having a list of clues you’ll be able to pinpoint your behavior in order to get a handle on it.

Get rid of procrastination myths - "I work best under pressure" Once you believe that you can only work under pressure, you’re giving yourself permission to procrastinate. "I can’t do this unless it’s perfect" perfection is impossible.

Break down the job - if you have a big job to do, you may think you’ll never get it done, so why even start? In order to beat this kind of thinking, you must break down the job into smaller, manageable chunks that you can complete.

Change your attitude - by having a negative attitude you may tell yourself that a task will be too difficult, disgusting or simply that you will hate doing it. It’s all a matter of mind over matter. If you think you can, you can.

Ask for help - many people think asking for help is a sign of weakness but it’s actually a sign of strength knowing that you don’t know everything and getting the right help to get the job done.

Some other tips are: keep what needs to be accomplished in plain sight, keep yourself on a schedule, be free from distractions.

Basic human nature will always play a role in procrastination. We all seek out things that make us feel good and attempt to avoid anything that annoys or bothers us. Consciously determining why you procrastinate will go a long way in helping you change your behavior. Don’t expect immediate results over night, take small steps in the right direction and you will gradually see better results.

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