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Freedom Isn't Free
One of the biggest mistakes dog people make is to give a new dog too much independence, too soon. Whether a puppy or adult dog, one of the most important techniques in getting a new pet to fit in nicely is to start with a regimented routine, then gradually, over a period of months, reward him with more and more privilege, and freedom. A puppy, for instance, has very little understanding of decorum, housetraining, manners, etc. If left to his own devices, he would surely live his life like one of the naked cherubs from Lord of the Flies.
I see it often; I’ll walk into a client’s home, and an eight month-old hellion storms up and jumps all over me. The home has the ill perfume of failed housetraining, and the furniture has dirty towels draped all over them. There are baby gates everywhere, scratches on the cupboards, a terrified cat sitting atop the fridge, and a frantic owner running around clicking a clicker and waving treats around like carrots to a donkey. Nine times out of ten, it’s all because the people have been far too permissive from the start, and, now faced with a maturing “teenager,” don’t know what to do short of calling me.
Do your new pooch a kindness, and limit his freedoms at first. Adopt a loving, “2nd grade school teacher” attitude, one that operates on a quid pro quo basis- the dog gets attention and praise only when he behaves and focuses. Crate train, to build solid housetraining, and to prevent destructive behaviors. Have the pup sleep in a crate for the first few months, to create a secure, predictable night routine, free from worry or temptation. Tether a puppy to your belt loop and walk around, instead of letting him run hog wild. Lots and lots of leash work, in and out of the home, right away, to create a sense of control and focus, and a “team” mentality. Basic obedience from the moment the dog comes home, including teaching a solid down/stay right off. Lots of controlled social interactions, with ramifications if/when the pup jumps up or chews on fingers. Initially deny the pup access to beds and furniture, to teach him there are others in the home with more privilege, and accountability. Teach boundary training (Wait), to build patience and respect, and the “leave-it” command to teach self-control. Remember, your dog isn’t a trust fund baby or an Astor, but a dog.
Regarding rewards, discipline, etc., don’t fall for the anthropomorphic chatter about never disciplining your dog, or even exposing him to “negative vibes.” Frankly, it’s crap, especially with pushy dogs who might be starting to show significant behavior problems. I have debates regularly with other behaviorists about even using the word “No,” as if teaching a dog good from not-so-good is an affront to his basic sentient rights. Baloney. They are brilliant animals who deserve to learn right from wrong.
Every sentient creature on earth experiences both positive and negative inputs in its life, on a moment-to-moment basis, then learns from these, and changes behavior accordingly. What would life be like for a fox kit, for instance, if it never learned about the dangers of getting too close to a grizzly? Or a crow not understanding the danger of eating road kill with its back turned to traffic? Does it harm them to learn these things, or help?
If in doubt, simply watch five unfamiliar dogs in a yard, interacting for the first time. They learn from each other almost instantly, in positive and negative ways. It’s nature, and it’s good.
With that in mind, why on earth would you not utilize the same basic process in training your dog? To think that the use of an occasional baritone “No” to tell a dog not to jump up on the baby’s crib, or to stop him from straying into the garden- it’s a pure example of trying to applying humanistic, non-judgmental, “permissive parenting” techniques to a sweet but egotistical canine with all-wheel-drive, and no idea of what is allowed if not taught. Distraction training, extinction techniques, etc- they rarely work consistently, and almost always create a pushy dog obsessed on treats. As long as you are not actually hurting your dog (hitting, choking, intimidating etc.), you can balance praise with steadfast, honest, caring authority. Just don’t try to make him into a proxy person; instead, make yourself into a proxy dog.
Slowly, you start rewarding the newbie dog with more and more freedoms. Let the pup have some free access indoors, then joyously call him. Work obedience, then reward with play and the occasional treat. Slowly teach a solid recall, first on-lead, then on a long-line or extendable lead, then off-lead. Put him on a sit/wait in a yard or field, walk off fifty feet, then call. Make these things seem to be privileges he is honored to earn.
Remember; training is all a game. It’s all drama and posturing and performance. But to him, it’s the real thing. By gradually giving him more freedom, as he earns it, while at the same time expecting manners and focus, you’ll create a happy home, and a happy dog. Freedom isn’t free, and when he figures that out, he’ll be grateful, trusting, and at ease, instead of problematic, pushy, and confused.
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Tropical Depression 33W or TD 33W had weakened and TRMM showed only two isolated areas of heavy rainfall in the fragmented system.
NASA's TRMM satellite captured this image of Tropical Depression 33W's sparse rainfall on Dec. 4 at 1045 UTC. There were two isolated areas of heavy (red) rainfall.
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Sometimes when your life changes in drastic ways, you make deals with yourself. “I’ll get such-and-such accomplished as soon as he gets his sh*t together;” the problem being, of course, that first he’s never going to get his sh*t together, and second, you have no control over when that might happen anyway.
My basement studio is one of those perennial deals I make with myself– I’ll start using it to make art when [fill in the blank]. The latest is “when my husband moves his massive amounts of stored music and filing cabinets out of the basement.”
I’m taking a few days off– to write (hello! here I am again!), to draw, to fulfill a promise to myself to be an artist if only for a few days. But like preparing for any vacation, you have to do the work first– the packing and the cleaning and the calendar clearing. I want to do some drawing with pastel, which meant that I had to find the pastels.
While I’ve kept my studio space reasonably free of the inevitable detritus that accumulates in an unused space, entropy sets in and things pile up. Since the pastels were not in the accessible place that I first looked for them– an easily reached drawer– I had to start excavating.
I’m good at cleaning– I don’t have emotional attachments to things as a rule (there are exceptions: don’t get between me and something that belonged to my mother) so it’s easy for me to throw things away. The general rule of throwing stuff away is that if you don’t know you have it, you don’t need it.
Except the stuff you do need. Someone listening to me clean would have been hearing “lookitthat!”, “oh this thing!”, “Oh, man, so glad I didn’t buy a new one of these!”, “I wondered where that was” and “Oh I LOVE this!” (respectively a photo of me with my gradeschool best friend, taken about 15 years ago when she looked me up; a blue pashmina that I’d completely forgotten I had; a clamp-on pencil sharpener; a piece of art I traded with the artist maybe 20 years or more ago; and a wonderful portrait I drew of my daughter when she was about six.)
I also found the pastels.

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26 August 2009—Weather permitting, a new type of aerial robot will take to the skies over Stuttgart, Germany, next week. Looking like something from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the new segmented airship is actually a serious contender for border security, emergency and battlefield communications, and other applications that call for long-duration, high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Unlike dirigibles, blimps, and other aircraft in the ”lighter than air” category, the new airship isn’t piloted or controlled remotely: From takeoff through landing, its flight control is entirely autonomous. No other airship has such a capability, says Bernd Kröplin, a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Stuttgart and one of the airship’s inventors.
Kröplin says the idea originated from a hallway conversation he had with colleague Frank Epperlein. The two engineers argued over the best type of vehicle for conducting high-altitude, long-duration flights. At the time, they were looking for alternatives to satellites that could provide telecommunications coverage in impoverished areas. ”Epperlein suggested an airship, and I had in my mind an extremely light plane,” Kröplin recalls. ”We started drawing on the wall. From that came the idea.”
Epperlein rushed back to the lab and built a mockup of what they’d discussed: a series of linked balloons that they dubbed an ”AirChain” and later a ”Sky Dragon.” (The commercial product will be known as the Stratellite.) It took the Stuttgart team 15 more years to refine their concept, and they built more than 30 prototypes, flew thousands of test flights, and ran countless computer simulations. In 2002, Kröplin founded TAO Technologies to commercialize the concept, and several years ago, TAO began a joint venture with Sanswire, an aerospace company headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (An earlier effort by Sanswire to develop its own long-duration floating telecommunications platform, also known as the Stratellite, failed to launch.)
Along the way the Stuttgart researchers have had to overcome a good deal of skepticism. ”At the beginning, one of my colleagues from flight mechanics told me, ’This will never fly stably. This will never work,’ ” Kröplin says. He wasn’t even sure himself. ”We then started and experimented and tested, and finally we believed it.”
One of the most complex elements of the design, Kröplin says, is the flight control software, which allows the vehicle to ascend and descend on its own, without any intervention from a human pilot. Other airships have rigid frames, which make them both heavy and tricky to maneuver in shifting winds. The Stratellite has no frame, so it’s lightweight and flexible. In videos, its body appears to undulate, like an eel in water. The airship takes just a few hours to inflate and ascend, and it requires no dedicated launch facility or ground control station.
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”I think there are many people who still think this is impossible,” Kröplin concedes. ”In the field of flight-vehicle design, there are only a few ideas around, and you get educated in these ideas, and it’s not so easy to switch your brain to a totally different concept. But if we continue to have discussions and tests, eventually we can convince people.”


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I watch the news daily for updates on Covid-19. I’m glad to see heartwarming stories of our success in the fight against the global spread or containment of the virus. I read that Cuban doctors and nurses are in Italy to help out. Now, this is good news, and I expect to see more.
The other side of the coin isn’t so bright. It’s sad to read of xenophobia in these trying times. How can we show love to people if we harbour mistrust, old grudges or direct hatred? My faith believes that to win means to love even your enemies. In Europe and America, cases of physical violence and abuse on people of Asian descent are reported. This is not humanity; this is not loving.
There’s too much suffering and dying already, let’s not contribute to it. It’s unfair and not the best time to discriminate or segregate, but time to act together in love, commitment and kindness to one another as one human unit.
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A BRITISH firm with operations in Nueva Vizcaya has made progress in its mining forest program (MFP) in line with the Philippine National Greening Program (NGP), establishing more than 2,140 hectares of plantations within and outside their area of operation in Quezon town.
In its progress report sent to The Manila Times, the FCF Minerals Corp. said its nursery operations made it possible to increase the area of their plantation through the establishment of its central and clonal nursery in Quezon town in the province.
James Carmichael, FCF Minerals Corp. country manager, said their clonal nursery has an area of 10,000 square meters that can cater to around 200,000 to 300,000 seedlings of different species.
"We can produce a large number of seedlings through the propagation of high-quality planting material source from seeds and wildlings," Carmichael said.
He said they have 1,600 square meters in their clonal nursery for their macro-somatic clonal propagation technology to clone forest tree species like guijo, yakal and bagtikan from the dipterocarpaceae family and other endemic that have seed-off year, difficulty in propagation and not available in a certain locality.
As part of its conservation measures, facilities constructed at the central nursery include elevated pot beds to increase the denseness of the root system, thus increasing the survival rate of seedlings once out-planted in the field.
Carmichael said they use a water misting system for water conservation, uniform coverage and gentle precipitation, thus eliminating mortality of germinants and transplants because of uncontrolled watering that can cause injury to the plant at the central nursery.
Orchidarium and butterfly garden included
The nursery includes an orchidarium and butterfly garden where orchids being collected at tree-cutting areas were nurtured; and agroforestry farm model to showcase multiple uses of a certain area to include cultivation for trees, fruit trees, livestock, cash crops and hedgerows as components for protection and production purposes.
Another feature in the central nursery is the vermicomposting facility using the African nightcrawler to produce organic soil conditioner/fertilizer applied in seedlings planted on the rehabilitation and reforestation project sites.
The nursery also has a wildlife rescue center for temporary safekeeping of wildlife encountered during mine operations and forest protection patrol operations before they are turned over to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) for proper custody.
To date, Carmichael said close to 4 million seedlings were already planted and donated under the various rehabilitation and reforestation programs of FCF within and outside Runruno village in Quezon town.
He said the company's MFP, pursuant to the DENR Administrative Order (DAO) 22-1989, also complies with the Mines and Geosciences Bureau requirement of establishing two hectares plantation for every hectare-disturbance on the ongoing mine operations.
He said 485.403 hectares were already planted under their MFP, making the company 103.67-percent compliant based on the total disturbed areas of 234.11 hectares to date.
Since 2007, FCF's Mine Environmental Protection and Enhancement office has been actively implementing the MFP under DAO 22 of 1989, formerly known as the "Adopt a Tree, Adopt a Mining Forest Movement," mandating mining companies to establish mining forest within their area of operation.
"With this, we continue to use biological engineering and approaches for rehabilitation of denuded, sparsely vegetated and mined-out areas, and protect the watershed areas to ensure adequate water supply to upland and downstream communities through rain forestation and assisted natural regeneration," Carmichael said.
He said they also adopt the bayanihan spirit or social voluntarism among communities, creating sustainable income generation through employment of the affected stakeholders as well as supporting research and development for innovations.
Carmichael noted that in compliance with the tree-cutting replacement under NGP that requires the planting of 100 seedlings for every tree cut during the mine operation activities, they have established to date a total of 1,654.875 hectares NGP plantation.
Owned 100 percent by the British Metals Exploration Plc, FCF operates the national government-sanctioned Runruno Gold-Molybdenum Project under an agreement with the government that has an initial validity of 25 years.
Located around 300 kilometers north of Manila, FCF expects to produce at its mine site an estimated 1.3 million ounces of gold for 10 years.


ON October 1, the retired partners of KPMG who are still awaiting their gratuity and pension were gathered in Abuja to celebrate Nigeria’s 58th Independence Anniversary as guests of President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR and also participate in the 48th Annual Conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria [ICAN]. Alas, as we drove from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport into town, we were confronted by huge billboards of President Buhari who is bidding for a second term in 2019. However, there were other bill boards (sponsored by XKPMG and Grant Advertising Nigeria Limited) contending for space and attention:
(i) Chief (Dr.) Sylvan Olisanye Ebigwe (Vice President-General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo (Worldwide); President Emeritus, Aka Ikenga; Consultant Dental Surgeon and the Iyasei Onowu (Prime Minister), Agbadagba, Okpanam, Delta State): “Nigeria is practising primitive democracy (revenge and retaliation) with some primitive minded individuals in the field. They don’t have the love of this country at heart. Why should people kill and maim others in order to come and serve a nation?” (ii) Jeff Rich : “The one thing we know about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” (iii) Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, former Governor of Old Anambra State: “Nigeria is a total failure and Nigeria may be inching towards extinction the way things are going. An Igbo man has never ruled Nigeria for one day, no elected Igbo President for one day. (Major-General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi was a military leader and he lasted only six months). Therefore, if by chance Dr. Kingsley Moghalu gets it, nobody should complain.”
(iv)Professor Neal Hartman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: “In this volatile, unstable, complex and ambiguous operating landscape, to survive and thrive, Nigerian leaders need to make innovative impacts in their organisations in several ways.”(v.) Daily Sun newspaper: “IMF’s timely warning: “The International Monetary Fund [IMF] recently warned Nigeria and other sub-Saharan African economies to urgently check rising debts and diversify their revenue bases. It advised that they should not delay such reforms because of rising oil prices in the international market as the ‘good times’ would not last for long. Specifically, the IMF warned the Federal Government to check the rising levels of debts and deepen diversification efforts and revenue base. Failure to heed the warning could result in serious economic crisis. This is not the first time this year that IMF has warned Nigeria of the likelihood of debt crisis, its latest warning came at the IMF/World Bank annual meeting in Bali, Indonesia, during which it unveiled the World Economic Outlook entitled,“Challenges to Steady Growth.”
“We urge the government to critically examine all the areas of the economy that the IMF has raised concerns and initiate far-reaching reforms that will stimulate sustainable growth.We agree with IMF that looming debt crisis, occasioned by frequent borrowing without deploying such funds to productive sectors, the need to enhance the non-oil revenue mobilisation and proactive banking supervision, are some of the challenges the government must quickly address. For instance, Nigeria’s debt stock reached N22.3trn as at June 30, 2018. About two-thirds of the government’s revenues are reported to go into servicing interest payments, with the principal still awaiting redemption at maturity. In 2017 alone, N1.8trn was spent by the Federal Government on debt servicing, out of which N1.455trn went into domestic debt servicing.
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“We recall that President Muhammadu Buhari is seeking the approval of the Senate for a fresh $2.86bn external loan for part-financing of key infrastructure projects, and another $82.54m from the international capital market to refinance the balance of $500m mature Eurobonds. In all, the fiscal plan recorded N2.426.73trn shortfall, according to figures from the Budget Office of the Federation (BoF). The Economic Counsellor of IMF, Mr. Maurice Obstfeld, observed that the Nigerian economy and those of other sub-Saharan African nations may witness growth rebound as a result of the current high oil prices, but warned that rising borrowing levels will likely vitiate the gains. This, therefore, calls for boosting non-oil revenues and fiscal consolidation plans. Such fiscal buffers will make room for policy responses in the likelihood of the “next recession” that awaits countries that fail to plan against the ‘rainy day.’
“In spite of the Federal Government’s assurances that its borrowing plan is still within the acceptable threshold as well as its commitment to diversify the non-oil sector, we are inclined to side with the IMF position that our economy is yet to receive a significant boost from policy implementations that can truly withstand the shocks that pushed it into recession a few years ago. The IMF and the World Bank had insisted last year that the fanfare that greeted Nigeria’s exit from recession came on the heels of new foreign exchange measures by the Central Bank of Nigeria, rising oil prices, attractive yields on government securities, a tighter monetary policy regime and increased external reserves. But some of these are on the reverse gear now.
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On the morning of a new snow, a fat squirrel stirs from his nest high up in the fork of the old maple. He crawls far out on an eastwardly facing limb, pauses to pee, then moves a few inches farther to where the limb branches up and out. He just sits there, tail up, watching the sun rise through leaf bare trees. The air is cold, the sky is clear, there is very little wind. The squirrel's nose twitches. His eyes reflect the morning light. His ears stand alert. But, there is little to hear. In a while, the fat bushy brown squirrel returns along the snow dabbed limb to his nest in the hollow just above the fork to nibble and nap until it's time to forage in the woods.
Meanwhile, a second squirrel, a younger squirrel, wanders out from the woods to the west, into the snow matted high grasses, poking his nose here and there into the matts looking for forage. Eventually, he spies the tall maple out on the smooth snow of the lawn. He bounds toward its trunk and grabs hold. A few feet up, he stops, sniffing, twitching his high arced tail. Does he sense the other squirrel? He circles round the trunk, inching upward toward the main fork. The older squirrel can be seen with his head barely out of the nest, hands up, nibbling on an acorn, unaware of the approaching intruder.
Finally, the two meet. There is a momentary shocked standoff, and a bristling of hair. Then the fat older one drops the acorn and charges, chattering loudly and menacingly. The younger one turns and circles the trunk, perhaps baiting the older to leave the nest and follow, so he can claim it from the other side. But no, the old one is too wise. He halts his attack and flips round, up and over the fork, to defend the other side. More chattering and another charge. The young one gives up and descends the the main trunk, eventually bounding back across the snow covered lawn exactly as he came.
Some time later, the older squirrel, calmed, secure in his dominance, pokes his head out of the nest, descends the maple tree's thick trunk, and bounds eastward across the lawn toward the woods for another day's winter forage.
Each of us seeks a fruitful niche. Some try to usurp the niche of others. Others trample over and destroy the niches of many. Instead, may the niche you find to defend and exploit, by consequence, improve, not diminish, the healthful viability of many others.
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If you're an Aussie I'd be surprised if you hadn't heard of Michael Leunig.
For those friends visiting from overseas Mr Leunig is a cartoonist who creates thought provoking social commentaries which I've admired and enjoyed for many years.
One of his key characters along with Vasco Pyjamas and Mr Curly is the Duck and ever since seeing his gentle duck friends I have wanted one of my own, but alas it was never to be.
That was until this afternoon when I had a most delightful yet unexpected visitor...
...these images are a little blurry as they were taken from our front balcony and our visitor was over fifty meters away. This visit was a true gift of serendipity, unexpected and lovely and one of the wonderful things about living on acreage for which I'm entirely grateful.
My friend stayed for quite some time but was being dive bombed by the flying rats otherwise known as Indian Myna birds and eventually flew away to a gentler space.
So this week as I reflect upon the many gifts in my life that I'm grateful for...
* Garden Jewels
* Incredible Art
* Amazing People
* Happy-Making Tunes and
* Fragrant Flowers
...I'm also incredibly grateful for a visit, be it ever so brief, from my own gentle duck'ish friend.
I hope you have a brilliant weekend planned and take some time to visit my pal Maxabella who is also a fan of feathered friends and a great encourager of positive thinking & the gathering of gratefuls.
Oh, and if you see a long necked duck looking a little lost, please let him know that my door is always open.
If you're visiting via "Happy Homemakers" Post Of The Month Club - welcome!
I hope you have a little explore, there's lots to see and I'll look forward to returning your visit.