This is a clip from a show called The Dog Whisperer. He is an expert in dog behavior and training. Too bad it's not this easy to train kids!
Jenny and I have had this discussion that, we're journalists by training, so as a journalist when you are out at a scene you observe and you don't get in the way of things. And with that kind of a personality it is really a challenge for us to step up and impose our will on someone else, including a dog.
So you want us to kind of push back.
It's a bite. You're biting. What is lacking in the relationship is the respect. Respect comes from discipline. The respect comes because you know how to follow through. That's respect.
She's intimidated by you.
Not intimidated, submissive.
Ok.
But you do have to dominate. Dominating in the animal world is healthy. That's how they keep things balanced.
Look at this, she just laid an egg. He scared an egg out of her.
Oh, I'm the daddy.
Oh, it's warm. You're the daddy. You want that egg, Cesar. That's for you.
Oh my god.
That's a Pennsylvania egg.
That's amazing!
Thank you.
You even get our chickens to lay eggs.
We harvest eggs almost every day from them so...
That is funny. Unbelievable.
Look at Gracie sniffing her now. That's wonderful.
We want that.
And I want the sound, "Shhh!" The more of the sound...
No, you can't have the egg.
No, she can't even touch the egg either.
Anything that has belonged to the chicken, she can't touch.
See now, what I like now, even though she is pacing, she is breathing not obsessively. And that is part of like, ok, I've never done this, but it feels better not to be obsessing.
When he had Gracie sniffing the chicken's claws, I mean, I was really flabbergasted. I did not think that that was possible. And he did it within about a 3 minute window.
With tomorrow's breakfast safely chilling in the Grogan's refrigerator, Cesar bring the chicken and the Grogans back to the original scene of the crime.
Yeah, she started charging.
She's like, "This is my opportunity."
Well it's the sound that triggered. See, she's not thinking, it's just a reaction. There's no knowledge behind instinct, it's all reaction. So that's another exercise that you could do, you could make this sound over and over, "Shh!"
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Dog Training
Awwww
The elephant sanctuary in Tennessee is where elephants come to retire. And when they retire, most elephants seek out a companion that they will spend most of their time with. This four ton Asian elephant, Tara, bonded with a former stray dog named Bella. Soon they were spending every moment together. They were an inseparable odd couple.
For years, they were close, but no one ever knew how close until a spinal cord injury kept Bella laid up in the sanctuary office for 3 weeks. With 3,000 acres to roam, Tara never left. She spent the entire three weeks just outside the sanctuary office, keeping vigil. Eventually, the two were reunited and they now live happily together, teaching the whole world a daily lesson about unconditional love.
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bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay
"Atomic Dog" is a song by George Clinton from his 1982 album Computer Games. The track was released as a single in December of 1982 and became the P-Funk collective's last to reach #1 on the US R&B Chart.
Some have called it the greatest funk song of all time.
Atomic Dog is one of George Clinton's most heavily sampled songs, appearing in more than 50 songs, including the rapper Snoop Dogg's song "Who Am I (What's My Name)?"
1. Sample part of the song for free.
2. Learn the lyrics. Double-click on any word to learn more.
3. Download the song for 99 cents.
ATOMIC DOG
house dogs, street dogs
Dogs of the world unite
Dancin' dogs
Yeah
Countin' dogs, funky dogs
Nasty dogs (Dog)
Atomic dog
Atomic dog
Click below for the lyrics to the entire song.
Yeah, this is a story of a famous dog
For the dog that chases its tail will be dizzy
These are clapping dogs, rhythmic dogs
Harmonic dogs, house dogs, street dogs
Dogs of the world unite
Dancin' dogs
Yeah
Countin' dogs, funky dogs
Nasty dogs (Dog)
Atomic dog
Atomic dog
Like the boys
When they're out there walkin' the streets
May compete
Nothin' but the dog in ya
Bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah
Bow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah
Bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah
Bow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah
Untied dog in telematic society
Ain't your average Huckleberry Hound
Why must I feel like that
Oh, why must I chase the cat
Like the boys
When they're out there walkin' the streets
May compete
Nothin' but the dog in ya
Ruff
Ruff
Ruff
Why must I feel like that
Why must I chase the cat
Nothin' but the dog in me
Why must I feel like that
Why must I chase the cat
Nothin' but the dog in me
Why must I feel like that
Why must I chase the cat
Nothin' but the dog in me
Why must I feel like that
Why must I chase the cat
Nothin' but the dog in me
Do the dogcatcher, dogcatcher
Do the dogcatcher
Do the dogcatcher, dogcatcher
Do the dogcatcher
Do the dogcatcher, baby, do the dogcatcher
Ooh
Why must I feel like that
Why must I chase the cat
Nothin' but the dog in me
Why must I feel like that
Why must I chase the cat
Nothin' but the dog in me
Bow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah
Bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah
Bow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah
Just walkin' the dog
Oh, atomic dog
Futuristic bow-wow
Ruff
Leader of the pack
Wild dog
Why must I feel like that
Why must I chase the cat
Just the dog in me
Nothin' but the dog in me
Why must I feel like that
Why must I chase the cat
Just the dog in me
Nothin' but the dog in me
Why must I feel like that
Why must I chase the cat
The dog in me (Dog in me)
The dog is in me (Dog in me)
Do the dogcatcher, dogcatcher
Do the dogcatcher
Do you wanna do the dogcatcher
Well, baby, why don't you do it again for me
Dogcatcher, dogcatcher
Do the dogcatcher
House-trained dogs
Wild dogs
Say it again
Why must I feel like that
Why must I chase the cat
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Kalua Pig - Traditional Hawaiian Meal
Ron talks about Lau Lau, a Hawaiian dish made with meat that is cooked underground with hot rocks and other vegetables. Listen to the interview and watch the slide show here.
The following video is a similar dish called Kalua pig which they are making for Father's Day.
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"Massaged" Salmon
Matthew Gray explains another interesting Hawaiian dish:
Lomi Salmon (pronounced low-me), also known as lomi-lomi salmon is a seafood dish that originated in Hawaii. It is typically prepared by mixing salted, diced salmon with tomatoes, crushed ice, and green onions. Usually this mixing is done by hand with a "massaging" action, which gives the dish its name (lomi is Hawaiian for "to massage"). Lomi salmon is typically found at modern Hawaiian luaus, and it is said to complement poi, the Polynesian staple made from taro. Although lomi salmon is not, strictly speaking, a traditional Hawaiian dish, it is still considered an integral part of a luau. The color red in the Hawaiian religion has ritual significance, and the ancient Hawaiians offered kumu, a red-colored fish, to the gods.
It sounds and looks like the Mexican and South American seafood dish called ceviche.
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Poke
Matthew Gray Explains Modern Hawaiian Food:
Most people on the islands pronounce it Pokey, but it's pronounced Poke (rhymes with Okay). Otherwise it would be spelled Poki in Hawaiian. Anyway, it's usually made with ahi (the Hawaiian word for yellowfin tuna), basically it's a raw fish salad, usually flavored with soy sauce, sesame oil, kukui nut, and seaweed. Now, before you go "Yuck!" lots of cultures eat raw fish, especially Asian cultures. The Japanese love sushi and sashimi, and of course many people eat lox (which technically isn't raw, it's smoked), and the Scandinavians eat something called gravlax (which is salt-cured salmon). Ceviche is Peruvian in origin and is basically a raw fish dish; Hoe is Korean sashimi; I'm sure there are many others. Point is; you should give poke a try while visiting Hawaii. There are well over 100 kinds of poke throughout Hawaii.
Is this what "Poke Me" on Facebook means?
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Loco Moco
Learn what the locals in Hawaii really like to eat in this week's featured interview here. And below, check out another Hawaiian creation that surfers really love, the Loco Moco.
Dig into a classic Hawaiian plate lunch, Sugoi has some of the best in Waikiki.
My family's restaurant on the big island of Hawaii actually invented the Loco Moco and it was created as a cure-all for surfers' hunger. Surfers don't have a lot of money and what Loco Moco basically is, is two scoops of rice, a hamburger patty, brown gravy, and an egg cracked right on top. So it's a big meal for like four dollars.
The Loco Moco is truly the kitchen sink of meals.
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New Years Resolutions
It's amazing how far some focused goal setting can get you. You may use these questions to help guide your English learning for the year as well as for other goals you have. I have written in some examples to help guide you.
1. What 3 achievements would make you happier?
Examples:
a. Speak, read, write, or listen to English at least 30 minutes per day.
b. Put myself in situations where I will have to speak English.
c. Make at least 3 new English speaking friends.
2. Why will these achievements make you happier?
Examples:
a. I know my English will improve a lot if I practice a little bit everyday.
b. Speaking to people is difficult but it is very rewarding.
c. More English! More friends!
Write these down somewhere where you will see them frequently and check your progress and rewrite your goals when you need to. Another way to commit more fully to your goals is to tell someone about it.
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Junior High School in America
Naomi talks about middle school in Wales here. And below is a close up look at middle school in the US. Funny and full of very natural English.
Middle Schoolers
Trying to impress...tired...puberty...kid with his head between two tables...AWKWARD!
Hi, my name is Lenay and that word (awkward) pretty much sums up my experience in middle school.
One time I fell down right there.
Ah, my sixth grade English class. This is where I sat. And this is where Josh sat.
"Then me and Josh went to the very top of the bleachers where he sat by me. I was in heaven."
"Today me and Josh wrote notes back and forth. I went to laminate them."
"Josh was shredding his backpack strap for no reason and he threw it on the floor. After band, me and Leah went up and took the shreddings as a souvenir. I still have them."
And no matter how many Josh memoirs I had, I still didn't change the fact that Josh just didn't like me. Josh liked Nicole.
"Josh did like me more than Lenay."
Here we are at the biggest middle school in the US--a great place to observe middle schoolers in their natural habitat.
Most the kids here, particularly the kids we work with...until you work through the social issues, until you work through the life distractions, there's really no point in academics, because they are so distracted.
What's your favorite part of school? ????? except the classes.
You can't just expect them on the hierarchy of needs to just all of a sudden, "Hey I really care about school and this test when I haven't eaten for a couple of days and somebody is going to jump me after school (attack me). Yeah right, meet those basic needs first.
Taylor is taller.
You have a friend give you a dirty look on the bus in the morning and forget doing well on that science test.
Um...get...ah...Nicky...Nicky...
I just broke up with my boyfriend yesterday.
You just see people beating each other...
And her friend was a ????? her, so I beat up her friend too.
I gave them to her on the first day of school, these pants, and she just gave them to me back yesterday.
And he wants to get back together for the third time.
Nicky told people and then Garret texted her and then Garret got mad a her and then...
The next weekend he came over to Taylor's house and he spent the night.
I didn't want to come to school today because I have a bad outfit on.
He's older than me...
I heard a rumor, I heard a rumor from my mom, that sounds really weird but um...
So many kids...their identity changes by the month.
Then he broke up with me and then we were going out again.
Their BFF is like the next day their worst enemy.
I just said stuff about Jessica when we weren't friends.
Do you think guys in school are respectful towards girls in school.
Sometimes, except when they de-pants you. I have to hold mine whenever Garrett comes around the hall.
You wouldn't believe the things that they come in with just asking out of nowhere.
Do a lot of people get married? Yeah, she was married. I was married, but I got divorced. I've been engaged since Friday, last Friday. How does getting engaged go? Do you get a ring? What are you going to do for your bachelor party? We don't do nothing. We just say we're married and walk away.
Here's the authentic report card and here is the fake report card that Jeremy is making for his mom.
They liked each other and then they got in a big huge fight on Wednesday and now they like each other again.
Which was kind of bad because his girlfriend was there...
Today I wasn't excited to go to school because they took me out to straighten my hair last night.
How do you know about that? Rumors...
I bet if we ran into Josh today, he would still like me more than Lenay.
Josh! Josh! Oh, Nicole.
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One for All and All for One
Check out this week's interview with Ron who talks about being a triplet. I wonder if Ron, Michael, and Patrick have what it takes to make it in Hollywood like the guys in this video.
Ted, Tom, and Tim are identical triplets who act like one. They took classes for each other in school, they even substituted for each other on dates. It sounds like a sitcom, so it should be no surprise that now they brought their mix and match world to Hollywood. Here's Sharon Reed.
It's actually a fantasy for some women. This guy has what many people say is the hottest beefcake calendar of 1996 and he has all of the qualifications for it: dashing good-looks and a buff bod to match. Meet Ted DiFillipo, and for those women out there who like their men in triplicate, meet Ted's brothers, Tim and Tom.
If you like a left-handed guy that would be myself. If you like a guy who's really serious and says a couple of words and they are powerful words that'd be Tom, and if you like a joker, that'd be Ted.
Yes Tom, Tim, and Ted DiFillipo are identical triplets and yes, they are inseparable, which has had its advantages. For example, in school, "Tom was the best in math so I used to have him take all of my math classes." And also in the world of dating, "Ted had a girlfriend, and I would go to dinner for him, because he wasn't as talkative and he couldn't get the parents to like him as much.
Six months ago these three hermanos were home in Rhode Island, confused about their future until Ted decided there was only one place in the country to market their wares. The young men agreed they had to go West, to Hollywood.
22 agents called within a week's time and said they wanted to see us as soon as possible. But there was a problem: no money to travel to Tinsel Town. So a few neighbors who knew the boys saw a gold mine. Libby Rique decided to invest in the boys future. I expect a big return from those gentlemen. With the money, the triple "T"s took Hollywood by storm, appearing in episodes of 90201, Melrose Place, and Rolanda. But it's their calendar that they are really proud of. We're here to expose that to everyone. The calendar took four months to shoot and pictures the three in some very potent poses. We're all single.
What does the future hold? The brothers three are hoping for a sitcom or an action adventure film, but for now these model musketeers just want to be one for all and all for one. We want to keep the team together, we owe it to each other.
Well the triple Ts agent says they are indeed developing a network sitcom starring themselves but the name "Three's Company" was already taken.
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Twins Separated at Birth Marry Each Other
Some difficult vocabulary here but it's a very interesting story. (you can double click on words that you don't know to check their meaning)
It's like a story from Tales of the Unexpected, a pair of twins, separated a birth married one another without realizing they were brother and sister. The case has come to light after the high court's annulment of the marriage after the twins found out about their relationship. The peer Lord Olson who highlighted the case in the House of Lords said the twins felt an "inevitable attraction" when they met. Here's our home affairs correspondent Andy Davis.
Although reported for the first time today, this desperately poignant story was first revealed in the House of Lords on December the 10th, by Lord Olson. They were debating the human fertilization and embryology bill, "I was recently in conversation with a high court judge who was telling me the story of the case he recently dealt with and this didn't involve in-vitro fertilization, it involved a normal birth of twins.
According to Lord Alton, the two twins, understood to have been born in Britian, were separated at birth--how long ago is not known. Each was adopted by a different family and grew up oblivious to the fact that they had a twin sibling. Then as adults, by pure coincidence, their paths crossed and they fell in love. It was only after they married that they discovered that they were in fact twins. It's not known how they found out. The marriage was subsequently annulled in the high court. No other details have ever been released.
Cases of what is known as accidental incest are incredibly rare according to workers in the adoption field. Given the stringent guidelines governing modern adoption practice in the UK. It is almost inconceivable they say that such a case could be repeated. It is now exceptional for an adopted child to grow up separate from a sibling. But it is in the field of human fertilization with growing numbers of children conceived through donor sperm and eggs that the risk of accidental incest occurring is far more of a reality. Lord Olson and their supporters want the law changed so that children born from donor eggs and sperm have that information recorded with symbols on their birth certificates. But that, say some fertility specialists, would simply backfire.
The suggestion of putting big "D"s on people's birth certificates is to coerce parents, to force people, to brand the offspring with a big D (for donated). And do we really want as a state that sort of control over our lives and the information about us?
This evening Lord Alton declined to discuss in further detail the case of the twins.
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Podcast #928
I've got the rest of the week off for the Thanksgiving holidays. Time for a podcast about Free Time. Ahhhhh! Sign up for the free podcast to your MP3 player here.
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Ultimate Frisbee
Ultimate is a limited-contact team sport played with a 175 gram flying disc. The object of the sport is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to an end zone in American football or rugby. Players may not run while holding the disc. Ultimate is distinguished by its spirit of the game — the principles of fair play, sportsmanship, and the joy of play.
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Capoeira from Brazil
Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian art form that ritualizes movement from martial arts, games, and dance. It was brought to Brazil from Angola some time after the 16th century in the regions known as Bahia, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, and São Paulo. Participants form a roda or circle and take turns either playing musical instruments (such as the Berimbau), singing, or ritually sparring in pairs in the center of the circle. The game is marked by fluid acrobatic play, feints, and extensive use of sweeps, kicks, and headbutts.
As students master the basic moves, their game naturally acquires a more cunning slant as they begin to perfect the art of trickery, or malandragem. This involves a lot of improvisation and modifications of basic moves into a flurry of feints and fakes to trick the opponent into responding wrongly. These attempts can be blatant or subtle at discretion of the players. Effective malandragem lies in the development of sharp observation skills and a keen innate ability to anticipate the moves of the opponent and prepare an appropriate response. Some capoeiristas take this aspect of the art to heights akin to the guile of theatrics and drama. Games displaying elaborate performances and even staging skits reenacting historic cultural aspects of capoeira are commonly demonstrated amongst the most learned of the arts.
History
Capoeira's origins are not clear. It is a combination of African and Brazilian martial arts,
but camps are generally divided between those who believe it is a direct descendant of African fighting styles and those who believe it is a uniquely Brazilian dance form distilled from various African and Brazilian influences. The best working theory is that it's an African fighting style that was developed in Brazil.
Some proponents believe that Capoeira was first created and developed by slaves brought to Brazil from Angola, the Congo, the Gulf of Guinea and the Gold Coast, who used it as a way to practice their martial arts moves while making it appear to be a game or dance. Since the slave-masters forbade any kind of martial art, it was disguised as an innocent-looking recreational dance. Others believe that Capoeira was practiced and used to fend off attacks by Portuguese slavers in Palmares, Brazil's most famous Quilombo maroon colony of escaped slaves.
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Takraw: Kick Volleyball from Southeast Asia
Sepak takraw or kick volleyball is a sport native to Southeast Asia, resembling volleyball, except that it uses a rattan ball and only allows players to use their feet, knee, chest and head to touch the ball. It is a popular sport in Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Laos, Australia, Philippines and Indonesia.
History
The sport had already become popular in Malaysia and Thailand by the early 1400s. Back then it was called takraw in Thai or sepak raga (literally "kick rattan ball", because the ball is made of rattan) in Malay and played mainly by men and boys standing in a circle, kicking the ball back and forth between them.
In Bangkok,
murals at Wat Phra Keow depict the Hindu god Hanuman playing takraw in a ring with a troop of monkeys. Other historical accounts mention the game earlier during the reign of King Naresuan of Ayutthaya. The game remained in its circle form for hundreds of years, and the modern version of sepak takraw began taking shape in Thailand sometime during early 1740s. In 1866 the Siam Sports Association drafted the first rules for takraw competition. Four years later, the association introduced the volleyball-style net and held the first public contest. Within just a few years, takraw was introduced to the curriculum in Siamese schools. The game became such a cherished local custom that another exhibition of volleyball-style takraw was staged to celebrate the kingdom’s first constitution in 1933, the year after Thailand abolished absolute monarchy. Later in 1935, the game was first played differently in the state of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia during the Silver Jubilee celebration of SMK King George V.
By the 1940s, the net version of the game had spread throughout Southeast Asia, and formal rules were introduced. In the Philippines the sport was called "Sipa", in Myanmar, or Burma, it was dubbed "Chinlone", in Laos "Kator", "cầu mây" in Vietnam and in Indonesia "Raga."
International play is now governed by ISTAF, the International Sepak Takraw Federation. The King's Cup World Championships are held every year in Thailand .
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Kabaddi!!!
Watch the video first and see if you can figure out the rules. Then click below and read the rules to see if you were right.
In this game originally from India, two teams occupy opposite halves of a field and take turns sending a "raider" into the other half, in order to win points by tagging or wrestling members of the opposing team; the raider then tries to return to his own half, holding his breath during the whole raid. The word "kabbadi" derives from a Hindu word meaning "holding of breath".
Awesome!!!
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Netball
This week Naomi from Wales talks with Dai about a sport that is popular in Wales but relatively unknown in the US. Click here to listen to her interview. The video below demonstrates netball in action:
For over 100 years, women and girls all over the country have enjoyed playing netball. In 2007, the game has excelled both on and off the court. In only its second year an 18 strong super league which features teams from New Castle to Bath and from Cardiff to London has raised standards across the game.
Hello and welcome to Super League Netball exclusively on Sky Sports. Thanks to a groundbreaking deal with Sky Sports, a combined audience of over 2,000,000 people have enjoyed the speed and excitement of the Netball Super League. And if you thought it was a non-contact sport, think again. Sky viewers have witness the bumps, the bruises, the agony and the ecstasy of England's biggest female participation sport. And whilst the fans have enjoyed the roller coaster ride of break neck action, the sponsors and partners of England netball have enjoyed clear, consistent branding delivering millions of pounds of advertising equivalent value: perimeter signage, LED displays, interview backdrops, and onscreen graphics all helping sponsors engage with the netball public and deliver their own brand objectives.
And just when you thought it couldn't get any better, for the first time in 37 years, England beat world number one New Zealand at a pulsating game in the NEM arena. "It's the final whistle! Wooo! England have beaten the world champions New Zealand. Final score: England 50, New Zealand 45."
Performance standards in the game are at an all-time high. The elite players train as full-time athletes and with community projects across the country, the next generation of super stars are just waiting to play in Super Leagues. So if women and girls is your target market, then we'd look for you to be part of the action next season.
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