Free Dog Training Tips: Easy Steps to You Leading the Pack, part 3

Be a leader, a dog will follow.

From the last two articles, remember King and his dominant dog behavior? King was the leader of his pack — Mom, Dad, 2 kids. King set the rules in the house and didn’t hesitate to enforce them, with growling, snapping, and even biting. I introduced 3 simple dog training steps to help you begin to take the leadership role back from King.

Then there was Queenie and her family (especially Mom), who gently took the leadership position. Queenie learned dog manners and wonderful dog behavior through Mom’s gentle but firm positive dog training methods and her consistency in teaching Queenie house rules. Queenie was eager to learn and to please and received lots of praise and tons of treats. With humans as pack leaders and dogs as pack members (preferably at the bottom of the hierarchy!), the whole household is calm and happy.

Let’s talk about your household. Your angel might not be as dominant or aggressive as King, and you may have worked with her some but not quite enough to have a dog similar to Queenie. Time is sometimes a factor — with our lives as busy as they are, sometimes it’s difficult to make time to for even short periods of dog training. But if you’ll give it a little effort, the payoff will be tremendous. You can change your dog’s behavior in no time at all.

I want to give you a few more new recommendations for regaining leadership in your pack. But first, I want to review some of the ones found in the first two articles. For the complete list, go to [http://www.best-dog-articles.com].

SOME REVIEW STEPS

Get their attention first — say Fido’s name before you say the command.

Be kind — Use a gentle voice, give commands and direction calmly and lovingly.

Let’s play — YOU start and end all games. Keep them wanting more.

Let’s EAT — YOU eat before feeding the dog.

Praise, praise, praise — Pour on the praise for good dog behavior and good manners.

NEW STEPS

1. Are you sick?!

One of the first concerns with new or unwanted behaviors (e.g., excessive urination) is a health concern. Get a vet check to address any health concerns that might cause behaviors your dog has no control over.

2. Down every day!

Put your dog in a “down” position for 5-10 minutes every day. This reinforces for your dog that you are the leader. Beginning this program may involve many jump-ups. Just gently and firmly put the dog back down. (No need to restart time.) You will notice that the breaks of command quickly fall away. It’s fine for your dog to sleep through this one!

3. Do that AGAIN!

Dogs love routine. They have incredible internal clocks. One activity that dogs love and that routine is important is mealtime. I suggest feeding dogs two times a day (no running buffet) within an hour window each time (e.g., 7-8AM and 5-6PM). Watch your dog — if you do something regularly, they come to expect it and act appropriately. Other activities that can become routine are morning or evening walks, Saturday errands, the time you come home from work. If it’s a regular thing, your dog knows it’s going to happen.

4. Brush, brush, brush the coat!

One activity you both can enjoy is grooming. Daily gentle grooming reinforces a loving relationship with your dog. This can become prized private time for both of you.

5. Through the paces– Every day!

Obedience training is very important to do every day, even for 5 minutes at a time. Try to avoid the military commando approach. Be consistent and kind, get your dog’s attention first, praise, praise, praise for his willingness and compliance to your commands. Practicing obedience reinforces that you are the leader.

CONCLUSION

That’s it! You now have the arsenal for regaining the leadership position in your pack and getting some good dog behavior practices in place. Emphasizing the positive in your dog training efforts pays off exponentially — your dog will be your friend for life and won’t be scared of you. When you establish yourself as leader, dogs respect you and will work so hard to please you. Take the time to get these easy steps into your daily routine and watch the changes magically occur.

Wishing you a calm and happy adventure with your canine companions.

[This article is the third in a 3-part series about changing dog behavior using positive dog training methods.]

What is Carbon Copy Pro?

Carbon Copy Pro is considered one of the premier business opportunities on the internet right now. Carbon Copy Pro continues to expand and is currently in over 192 countries. Their main products are marketing education in the form of online courses, workbooks, DVD’s, webinars and training calls.

This business also doubles up as a business opportunity. If you wanted to use the system to learn about marketing and increase your knowledge about how to increase your brand popularity and sales then you can choose to be a student.

If you would like to use this business as your main business opportunity. There is an option to market the products and make high commissions on them. This is a legitimate business and has been around since 2004. The business is also a marketing funnel for another system called Wealth Masters International. Once you start making an income from home, Wealth Masters International will teach you everything you need to know about debt repayment, investing and what to do with your money.

The main benefit of this company is that support and training are unbeatable. With over 6 webinars each week and daily motivational calls you will not be starved for education. Carbon Copy Pro teaches people how to market anything to anyone anywhere in the world. The leaders of the system are always involved and constatly sharing their secrets of success with their members. This information is not available anywhere else.

If your still asking yourself “what is Carbon Copy Pro?”, in short it is a marketing and education platform and an community for entrepreneurs to share their knowledge and secrets in order to become wealthy without the need for a corporate job.

– Lark Miller

Mercury Makes Some Changes to the 2010 Mountaineer

The Mercury Mountaineer, Mercury’s version of the midsize Ford Explorer SUV, returns for 2010 with no engine changes.

Base and Premier models come standard with a 4.0-liter SOHC V6. This 12-valve engine is the latest iteration of Ford’s long-lived Cologne V6, developed in the mid-sixties by Ford of Germany. Originally an all-iron pushrod engine, it was updated in 1997 with aluminum heads and overhead camshafts. A jackshaft in the block, located where the camshaft used to reside, drives each cam via a timing chain. This engine is shared with the Ford Explorer, as well as the Ford Ranger, Mazda B-Series, Land Rover LR3, and Ford Mustang. In the Mountaineer, it produces 210 horsepower and 254 lb-ft of torque.

Optional on Premier models is Ford’s 4.6-liter modular V8. This SOHC engine, shared by the Explorer, Expedition, Mustang, and F-150 pickup, is also a very old design, dating back to 1991. Truck versions of this engine were updated in 2006 with three valves per cylinder and Ford’s Variable Cam Timing system, but they still use a cast-iron block. In the Mountaineer, the 24-valve V8 makes 292 horsepower and 315 lb-ft of torque.

Critics find both engines more than adequate for the Mountaineer’s weight, although even the V8 fails to match the muscle of newer rivals like the Nissan Armada. In daily commuting, the V8 does not feel dramatically stronger than the V6, although its extra torque gives it the edge for towing, and it is noticeably more refined. Both engines are well muffled, except at full throttle.

With nearly two and a half tons to haul, neither engine is thrifty. Surprisingly, EPA estimates suggest that the V8 is the more economical of the two, thanks mostly to its six-speed automatic; the V6’s automatic has only five speeds. Both engines use regular fuel.

Plot Summary of the Recently Released Comedy, Get Him to the Greek

Most movies these days are filmed using a mix of indoor and outdoor sets. When filming is taking place outside, generally the producers, directors and other people involved in making the movie choose to use mainly natural light of the sun while reflecting it where they want it to go. However, when inside there must be different forms of lighting used, such as fluorescent lighting and sometimes the light schemes are complicated and include people who have the sole job of doing interior lighting design. One of the movies recently released to the world is a film called, Get Him to the Greek, starring an English comedian Russell Brand and American Jonah Hill.

The movie is a comedy film and intended as something of a spinoff of the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which was released a few years ago. It is not exactly a sequel to, Forgetting Sarah Marshall because although Russell Brand plays the same character, hard partying rock star, Aldous Snow of the band Infant Sorrow, the other actor starring in this film, Jonah Hill, does not retain his role from, Forgetting Sarah Marshall. While this is slightly confusing and does not actually make a whole lot of sense, it is best for the viewer to just forget this minor detail and enjoy the comedy of the movie rather than sit and poke holes in the plot, which is of course, easier for some people than it is for others.

The plot revolves around a young intern at a record label, Jonah Hill, lying a little bit in his resume to get his dream job and then landing a big assignment right away. His difficult assignment is to take rocker, Aldous Snow, who has recently rediscovered partying and drinking after a failed single release and subsequent break up with his girlfriend, from London and get him to the Greek theater in Los Angeles. While at face value, many people would assume this to be a simple movie with gross out humor and typical jokes that people would expect for summer, teenage oriented films, and many reviews have in fact, suggested that it is more of a satire on the life of many rock stars. In fact, the film is said to have an excellent message deep down which suggests that the rock star life is not nearly what many of the people in it claim it to be and can often lead to bad things.

Actually, Get Him to the Greek is one of the best reviewed comedies of the year and many people are saying it is one of the funniest movies of the 2010 movie season so far. The film has in fact, been critically acclaimed by such critics from such famous papers as the New Yorker and such famed movie critics as Richard Roeper.

While humor from producer of, Get Him to the Greek, Judd Apatow, who also produced movies like, The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up, is not for everyone, it is generally well liked and well reviewed. Anybody who is even sort of a fan of Russell Brand or previous Apatow films should probably spend the time and money to go check out, Get Him to the Greek.

Adobe Premiere Elements Training

What You Can Do With Adobe  Premiere  Elements Software

There’s basically an unlimited range of things you can do with Adobe  Premiere  Elements. It’s a great application for somebody with absolutely no experience whatsoever with editing or video making, but it’s also great for somebody looking for more advanced features and functions too. That helps to explain why it’s so popular, highly rated and widely used.

For example, you can take regular static images, and turn it into a fun to watch movie. You’ll be able to add things like transitions, and hundreds of different effects. Zoom in or pan out on the photos, and then move from one to the next. Add in text or animations, sound effects and much more.

Even if you don’t have any video to work with, you can still have a fun movie. Plus, if you have old or low quality video footage you want to use, you can easily enhance the color of the videos, make color corrections, edit out things or pieces you don’t want, and on down the line from there.

It’s very easy to work with once you get the hang of it. The editing screen and movie creation screen is also very intuitive. You’ll be able to instantly share your movie with your social networks and YouTube, you’ll be able to add in music without any hassle, organize your videos into projects and files, tag different clips so you can quickly find them and much more.

All of this is great, but you’ll definitely want to utilize some training or tutorials for Adobe  Premiere  Elements. It’s an award-winning product, and it’s intuitive once you know what to expect, but you’ll need something to help get you started and get you on your way.

Today, thanks to various websites and online resources, you can simply do your learning with various online tutorials and guides. These are free, and open to access to anybody without obligation. You’ll see step by step instructions and guides, pictures and screen captures showing you specific things to note, and much more.

They’re much more fun and easier to work with than long, boring books and printed guides, which not only cost money, but may also be out of date. It’s quick, easy and it’s free, and it will open up the doors for you to make the most out of this great video editing software.

Adding Text to Images in Photoshop

The possibilities for creating images with text in  Photoshop  are exciting. By adding text to your photo projects you will be able to make your own postcards, add slogans to photo collages, create advertisements, web site graphics, logos, signs, color photo brochures, flyers, and much more.

The following are a few of the things you can do with text in  Photoshop .

Moving Text

One of the benefits of  Photoshop’s  system of layers is that you can move text around. In fact, you can move each letter of a word independently of each other. This allows the user to perfectly position text for the best composition.

3D Text Effects

You can create shadows behind text, give it texture or make it glow.

Put Photos inside Text

With  Photoshop  it is easy to create text with photo image inside. In other words instead of creating a solid color or texture you can fill the text with a photographic image. This is only useful when you are working with very large fonts.

Curved Text

You can even create text that is curved or is in different shapes.

You can see that the possibilities for incorporating text into your images are limitless. The most important thing to consider when working with text in  Photoshop  is to choose the right font for the job. Some fancy fonts may not be strong enough to show up or print well over a busy image. Experiment with different fonts and font sizes for the best result. Also, if you plan on printing your project don’t assume that because it looks good on your monitor that it will print well. Print your image to see how the text looks on paper. One way to make your text stand out is to use blending options including shadows and various filters.

How to Create Layers in Photoshop

How to Operate Layers in  Photoshop 

The layers palette displays all the layers; as well as, a thumbnail of the image. You can hide, view, reposition, delete, rename, and merge layers in the layers palette. At the top of the  Photoshop  interface you will see the menu click window, and click layers to open the layers palette. New files are generally created with a background layer, which contains a color or image that shows through the transparent areas of other layers. When you create a new image with a background the bottom layer in the layers palette is named background. So the first step in working with layers is to create a background layer to which all other images will be stacked to make the entire composition. I have included the steps to add your background below:

1. Choose start > All Programs > Adobe  Photoshop  (Windows)

2. If prompted click yes to delete the Adobe  Photoshop  settings file (to restore default settings if needed)

3. On the menu bar click file > new

A dialog box will open the first input box will contain the name of your document, the preset input box will open different types of canvases. For this purpose use the drop-down menu on the input box to choose Default  Photoshop  Size. Leave the other settings as is. Then a new white document will appear in the  Photoshop  window. You may then add the color of your choice to the image. For this purpose I will use the Paint bucket on the toolbar to the left.

· Choose the background colors picker at the bottom of the toolbar to find a color for your background it is the one with the double arrow just click on the top square not the double arrow, and a color picker will open.

· Choose a color then go to the toolbar and pick the paint bucket, Click on your document and the paint bucket will color it.

In the layers panel you will see it is titled “background.” Now you will add your other layers by picking images or text to add to the background.

To find an image go to file and open an image that is stored on your hard drive or in Adobe Bridge to add to the background. Text and shapes can be added as a layer as well by selecting them on the toolbar then click inside the document where you want them to appear. You can add as many of them that please your eye, you are the artist. If you do not like an image you have added you can click and drag it to the little trash can icon at the bottom of the layers Palette, and drop it in that will delete it from your composition. You can either choose save or not save when you have gone as far as you are willing. Just remember if you are pleased with your results click save often.

Hint; you can open two views in  Photoshop  click the little window icon on the menu bar- right-top then just click and drag your image to the background you just created. Remember when working with layers that the image has to be highlighted in the layers palette so you can work with it.

This is a basic example of how to use layers in  Photoshop  play with it and have fun you can always start over by dragging layers to the delete bin at the bottom right corner of the layers palette. You can also find help with other questions by using the help link on the menu bar. Look for books on  Photoshop  with visual representations of what you want to do as well. It will lift your spirit to do something creative.

by Dorolis Day-Morris