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Imagine you are a four-year old child and a complete stranger comes up to you and grabs you and hugs you. You most likely would be terrified and would scream and struggle. Your parents would never let that happen to you. Even if it were someone they knew, if they saw you were frightened they would stop it immediately.
Now imagine the world from your dog’s perspective. You are in the park and a complete stranger comes up to you, bends over you, puts their arms around your neck and squeezes you, and keeps hitting you on the top of your head. You are afraid and have no idea what is happening. You can’t scream like a child but you try to say you are afraid by body language and then by growling. Your human family is oblivious to your signals. Finally you struggle and snap at the scary person to get them away from you. The scary person backs away, but now your human family is yelling at you and jerking you away.
Sometimes it is even unpleasant to be hugged by people we know. I remember as a child being squeezed and suffocated by hugs from my very large, matronly aunts. It was unpleasant but I tolerated it because my parents assured me it was okay. Again, imagine the world from your dog’s perspective. As a dog, if someone familiar hugs you in a way that is uncomfortable or scary, you don’t know it is okay because you don’t understand human language. If you are frightened enough and no one pays attention to your signals telling them you are scared, you just might snap or bite to protect yourself.
Our parents recognized when we were frightened and intervened to remove us from those situations. As dog owners, we have an obligation to recognize when our dog is telling us they want an interaction to stop because it is scary or unpleasant. Dogs say “No” and say, “I don’t like this” through body language signals. If you or someone else is interacting with your dog and he does one or more of the following, odds are he is saying “No!” by the following actions:
• Looks away or moves away
• Puts his ears back
• Shows the whites of his eyes
• Yawns, scratches, or licks his lips
A good way to tell if your dog is enjoying an interaction is to do a consent test. In the consent test, you stop the interaction. If your dog tries to re-initiate the interaction, he or she is saying “Yes.” If your dog simply sits there, looks away, or moves away, he or she is saying, “No.”The consent test is nicely illustrated in a video by eileenanddogs.com:
https://youtu.be/-cGDYI-s-cQ
I believe dogs have a right to say “No” to interactions they find scary or uncomfortable. We humans should recognize when they are saying “No,” and respect it by intervening on their behalf. There was a time when women did not have the right to say no, but most of the world progressed. Perhaps it is time to progress a bit more.
Send your dog training and behavior questions to [email protected].
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Beginning December 1 and continuing through May, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels is offering public boatbuilding through its Apprentice for a Day program. During museum hours on select Saturdays and Sundays from December 1 through May 26th, participants will be creating a replica of Ghost—a circa 1916-1920 deadrise bateau skiff that is part of CBMM’s collection of historic Chesapeake vessels.
By constructing a boat from start to finish throughout the process, traditional Chesapeake boatbuilding techniques will be taught to participants of all skill levels under the direction of a CBMM shipwright. The process includes lofting; steaming and shaping the chine; milling and installing side frames; centerboard trunk and centerboard construction; decking, rudder and mast making; and more.
Participants can be a part of the whole process, or can sign up for specific dates. The Journeyman’s Special package includes any four days for one reduced price, and can diversify the experience to include several different skills.
Individual classes are $45 for museum members and $55 for non-members. A four-day Journeyman’s Special package is $150 for members and $200 for non-members, with gift certificates available. Participants must be 16 or older, unless accompanied by an adult.
To purchase a gift certificate or to pre-register, call 410-745-2916. To download the complete Apprentice for a Day winter/spring 2012 schedule, visit www.cbmm.org/l_boatyard.htm.
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Bmore online tells a remarkable story of Johnetta Hardy and her special mission to bring entrepreneurship to Maryland universities. Hardy was named director of the University of Baltimore’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in August. With the backing of the University of Baltimore’s Merrick School of Business Dean Darlene Smith, under whose aegis the center operates, she is expanding the center’s workshops, adding more entrepreneurs on site to mentor students and making the center’s programs accessible throughout the school.
Read the full story here.
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St. Michaels Library to Offer Tot Time Program
On Mondays, December 3, 10, & 17, January 14 & 28, February 4, 11, & 25, 10:15 a.m., the St. Michaels branch of the Talbot County Free library will offer a Tot Time program of story-time, puppets, and crafts for children 5 and under accompanied by an adult. All library programs are free and open to the public, but patrons are asked to pre-register for this program. For more information, call the library at 410-745-5877, or visit www.tcfl.org.
Contact: Shauna Beulah, telephone: 410-745-5877
Holidays Crafts Program Scheduled for Library
On Wednesday, December 5, at 3:00 p.m., and again on Saturday, December 8, at 10:00 a.m., the Easton branch of the Talbot County Free Library will offer a program of seasonal crafts for children of all ages. All library programs are free and open to the public, but patrons are asked to pre-register for this program. For more information, call the library at 410-822-1626, or visit www.tcfl.org.
Contact: Rosemary Morris, telephone: 410-822-1626
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He’s been called “a revelation” by Rolling Stone. Woody Allen recruited him to score the theme for last year’s smash film Midnight in Paris, and he performed his irresistibly catchy original song “Bistro Fada” live during the 2012 Academy Awards. To say that French-born guitarist/composer Stephane Wrembel—who learned his craft among the Gypsies at campsites in the French countryside—has already had a remarkable career would be an understatement. But this virtuoso, who is now Brooklyn-based, has truly just begun to make his mark as one of the most original guitar voices in contemporary music.
Origins, Wrembel’s fifth and most highly anticipated release yet, finds the multi-faceted musician corralling all of his myriad influences into a hybrid that simultaneously reflects where he’s been and points to where he’s headed. Although he built his reputation as a stylist in the mode of the iconic French Sinti guitarist Django Reinhardt, Wrembel now revels in transcending and expanding. “I’m digging deeper and deeper into my roots,” he says about the album. Origins touches upon everything from blues to flamenco to rock; all of these influences come together as something identifiable only as Stephane Wrembel. It is the most sophisticated representation to date of Wrembel’s superior compositional skills; his melodies burst with a panoply of textures and colors, moods and emotions.
“It’s a different state of mind altogether,” adds Wrembel, talking about Origins. “I always compose with a picture in mind. That Impressionism approach is the main thing that I’ve carried with me from Fontainebleau.”
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youtube.com/user/StephaneWrembelTV
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The December skies, meanwhile, will feature several planet treats, a major meteor shower, and the start of the winter solstice. Jupiter will draw the most attention all month as it reaches opposition (opposite the setting Sun in the sky) on December 2nd. Jupiter will become conspicuous above the eastern horizon soon after sunset, appearing among the stars of Taurus the bull. On December 7th it will be seen just 5 degrees above Aldebaran; the 1st magnitude star in Taurus. But Jupiter outshines even Aldebaran at magnitude –2.8 —- 30 times brighter than the star. Amazing views of the giant planet can be had by skywatchers with telescopes all month. Parallel colored bands of clouds are the most obvious features of its thick atmosphere and its 4 largest moons; Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto can be seen as shiny jewels swinging around the planet on successive nights through the month.
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In 1984, 18 of the original 22 miles of Bermuda Railway (created in 1931 and used until 1948) were transformed into a Railway Trail by the Bermuda Government. The trail runs from St. Georges to Somerset, almost the length of the island, (actually islands, as Bermuda is a chain of give-or-take about 120; with Bermuda Island the largest and most populous).
Here is a glimpse of the Somerset Parish section skirting Fort Scaur, including steps down to a fishing ledge, with a side trip up to a cross made of Bermuda Cedar on the Heydon Trust land.
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Employees of Talbot Bank, member Shore Bancshares family of companies, blended the best of two fall events, Halloween and Breast Cancer Awareness, to raise money for the American Cancer Society at the end of October. Staff wore black costumes with pink breast cancer scarves to draw awareness to the ‘scariest’ of diseases. Sonia Perez, a teller at Talbot Bank, initiated the idea and rallied fellow colleagues to ask customers and visitors to contribute to the effort using witch cauldrons as collection points in the branch lobby. Over $200 was raised and will go directly to the American Cancer Society.
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From Mercola.com
If you live in the U.S. and drink Mountain Dew and some other citrus-flavored sodas, then you are also getting a dose of a synthetic chemical called brominated vegetable oil (BVO).
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