. Clicker training is a great training technique that rewards your dog for good behavior. Start by clicking and giving the dog a treat. Do this a few times until the dog expects a treat when it hears the click. Then ask your dog to do something it knows how to do, such as sit or get its favorite toy. Click and give the dog a treat. Continue to click when your dog does something you like and provide a treat. Once it learns how the clicker works, you can use clicker training to teach new skills. You can use clicker training to reinforce good behavior or to train your dog to obey commands. You can find a clicker at a pet store or online. accept things it fears. Counter conditioning uses something your dog loves to help it get used to the thing it hates. For example, you might feed the dog next to one of its triggers or place its favorite toy next to it. At first, you need to place the item far away from the trigger, but close enough that the dog is aware of the trigger. As the dog gets used to being near the trigger, slowly move the good thing closer until it's on top of or next to the trigger. For example, if your dog is afraid of the vacuum cleaner, you could place its food in a room with the vacuum cleaner. As your dog gets more comfortable, move the food closer and closer until it's on top of the vacuum. egun making progress. Your dog should feel safe with you and in its new home. Desensitization may be an option after your dog has responded well to clicker training or counter-conditioning. In fact, desensitization and counter-conditioning work well together. To desensitize your dog, identify your dog's trigger. Choose the one you'd like to focus on, and then expose the dog to the trigger in a safe environment. Your dog should be exposed for 5 minutes at a time. Start by placing the item far away but where the dog can see it, and reward the dog for tolerating it. Over time, move the trigger closer to the dog until it gets used to it. When using desensitization, make sure your dog does not encounter the trigger when you aren't doing a training session. In extreme cases, your vet can prescribe medication to help your dog stay calm. If your dog's fears are preventing it from making any progress or are interfering with your dog's life, it may be an option. Talk to your vet for more information. These medications are often similar to anti-anxiety medications that humans would take. Medications are not a replacement for behavioral training and socialization. It may take a few weeks for the medication to start taking effect. Continue with your dog's conditioning and training schedule.

Summary: Use clicker training to teach the dog to accept things it fears. once your dog has begun making progress. Talk to your vet about medications that can relieve your dog's fear.

A flatter bowl/dish works best as it is then easier to crush the butter. At first it will seem like there is way too much power for the amount of butter but as you carry on, the texture will change to become perfect. Don't be tempted to add more butter or any sort of liquid (such as milk or water) as if you do so, by the end, the overall consistency will be wrong. Alternatively, you can use an electric whisk.

Summary: Put everything into one bowl. Using the back of a spoon, crush the butter into the powder (cocoa and icing sugar). Finished!

Composting foods that can be organically disposed of at home is a great way to reduce the amount of food you throw in the trash. It's good for the environment, and can give you some useful compost for the garden. Homemade compost will fertilize your soil and help with any gardening you do. Use food scraps such as fruits and vegetables, coffee grounds, eggshells, nutshells and tea bags. Do not dispose of meat, dairy or oils this way. Add the food waste to cardboard, newspaper, vegetation and other organic materials in your compost pile. Mix it in with soil and dirt so the food can be broken down. When you add new material to the pile, turn it with a garden fork or other tool to let fresh oxygen in to help with the composting process. If you don't have a yard, you can still compost at home with an earthworm farm. If you don't have the space, or are uncertain about composting at home, you can still deal with your food waste responsibly by visiting your local recycling centre. Lots of recycling centres will have facilities to deal with food waste and composting. Generally you will be able to bring your food waste and either leave it with someone there, or dump it into the appropriate container. Be sure you check the specific guidelines for your centre before you go. You may need to separate your food waste in a particular way before you take in it. Make sure you know what food waste they accept and what they don't. For example, they will not take meat, but they will take organic waste, such as fruit and vegetables. Your local government will be able to provide details on recycling facilities near you. Depending on where you live, you may be able to use a food waste scheme that is run by your local authority. It is becoming increasingly common for local authorities to provide a small food waste composting bin to households, which is then picked up alongside the regular trash collection. If you are uncertain about this, contact your local authority to find out if your neighbourhood is part of a scheme. Talk to neighbours to find out if they know about it, and how you can get involved. In these schemes you will often be provided with compostable bags to put your compostable food waste in.

Summary: Compost at home. Visit your local recycling centre. Use a local authority food waste scheme.

Or use your computer, if that works better. This is the first thing you need to channel a character -- a blank canvas. It can be the name of a person you know, a person you read about, or just something that randomly pops into your head. Under the name, start making a list, ask yourself questions like: Who is this person? How does he/she look like? Does this person have any siblings, if yes then who? Allow the character to form in your mind, see the character in your head, become the character. What is it like when the character wakes up in the morning? Does he/she go to work or school? How does he/she feel about his family? What does he/she like to have for lunch? All of these details add up to a life. When you are done with the list, read through it and hopefully, you will be able to place this character in a scenario, that might spark the idea for a story maybe just one detail you came up with can spark your interest in an entire story. Surprisingly, this game is a great way to cut yourself out of writer's block. Start with any random sentence, for example, "One day there was a girl named Destiny" then you continue the story with "and then" after every sentence. "And then she met a guy named Daniel. And then she found out he was a vampire" etc. That might not be how you write a story, but, the deeper you get, you end up finding a plot. Create tons of info about your main character -- why is her hair so short when all of the other girls have long plaits? Her hair was like that too, but an evil man tried to cut her neck in a chase and she ducked, her hair flying up, causing him to slice it, instead.
Summary: Get a paper and a pen or a pencil. Write down a name, the first name that comes to mind, at the top of the page. Ask questions about the person. Let the character develop. Try to visualize the life of the character. Look over what you've written. Play the "and then" game. Write a backstory about your main character.