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"Site" the dog then move the treat to the ground just in front of the nose.As a result, it can be frustrating to repeat the same command over and over, only to have the dog apparently ignore you. Take special care with young hips - don't force a completely uncooperative dog this way. It seems it should be obvious - they've done the action with success many times before - but today they are just 'being obstinate'. Praise and reward anyway, even though you had to 'force' the sit.With a treat or toy, face the dog and place it above his head and slightly behind the forehead, but still visible. But if these are not the results you desire, be prepared to change YOUR behaviour, before you try to alter the dog's. Many dogs take two years to learn anything beyond the easiest basics to the point that it consistently sticks. Every behavior should be associated with a unique hand gesture that you don't otherwise use. You want the dog to associate the position with good feelings - his and yours.Dog Training - How NOT To Train Your DogJust about every dog owner truly wants to train their dog well. Watch and catch them in the middle of sitting and say 'sit' and gesture. Follow those futile techniques and you'll harvest the pay back of a neurotic dog and you will be an unhappy owner. Just dont EVER do it. We can wsh it were so but it's not and never will be! Though the average grown dog has a mental development someplace approximately on the level of a human two year old, there are more deviations than there are similarities. Wait for the response.Most dogs won't go own the first few times.- Get impatient and frustrated when they don't behave as you want them to. But that's reserved in the wild for only the most severe circumstances.. The result is often a common catalogue of errors that can be, with more or less effort, headed off before they begin.Fortunately,"Down" is usually easy to train. It also leads to behaviors like 'rollover' and 'crawl'. Don't be harsh, but don't give up easily either.Patience

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Mail delivery

My mail box has a holder on the bottom for second, third, bulk mail and unaddressed flyers but the postmen never use it. Instead they cram the regular first class mail along with the second, third, bulk mail and unaddressed flyers right into the mailbox. This forces me to go through the junk mail to be sure I do not throw first class away. Is this a conspiracy on the part of the post office and the advertisers who pay them for such method of delivery or can I somehow force them to use my mail box for only first class delivery? 71.100.14.54 (talk) 00:03, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Interesting... Normally I would think that of all people who might see the value in and respect and support the existing mail classification system (First class, etc.) it would be mailmen. Okay, so I can accept the fact that they are lazy. That said, it now does not make sense why they would go to all the trouble of unsorting the bulk and class mail when they are the ones who grab a piece of junk mail from a box of identical pieces and combine it with class mail to begin with. 71.100.14.54 (talk) 02:24, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

1. Not every mailbox is like yours. Many are just a single box, where the postal worker has to put all the mail. In general, it is quicker and easier to have a single method to apply in all cases, even though tailoring the method will produce better quality results (for example, catering for 100 by making big batches of food versus cooking individual dishes). In this case, the only method that can be applied to all mailboxes is to stuff everything together.
2. The postal worker has to pick up mail from two piles - the addressed stuff and the junk mail. Getting them both out together, holding them in the one hand, and putting them in the one mailbox is more efficient than getting one lot, putting it in its box, and then getting the other and putting it in its box, and less awkward than holding a pile of mail in each hand and trying to make sure that the right pile goes into the right box.

I haven't read through all the above, so apologies if I repeat anyone, but: two points:

1. I don't know where you live, but in the U.S., for as long as I've been aware, all the mail comes in one box. If there's a second place for non-first-class mail, it's an antique, a forgotten relic. Having the postman sort and deliver my mail in two piles simply isn't part of the current contract.
2. It's true that the postman has to do a certain amount of extra work to give everyone on the block one of those junky advertising circulars. I, too, wish that my postman didn't bother, so that I could be spared the time of sorting it back out from my real mail and throwing it away. But if my postman abided by my wishes and didn't deliver it to me (or delivered it to, say, a wastebasket I placed on my porch for the purpose), he would be, like it or not, violating his contract with the advertiser who paid to have that circular delivered to me. Supposedly, the profit margin for the post office is higher for bulk-rate junk mail than it is for first-class mail, so unfortunately, it really is in their best interest to keep taking money from the advertisers in return for shoveling the junk mail at us. —Steve Summit (talk) 03:51, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Followup: Can I avoid mail-spam if I use a P.O box?

I've never had a PO box - but is it possible that I could simply take down my mailbox and get a PO box for my mail? I presume they don't send the inch thick grocery store junkmail to PO boxes - right? SteveBaker (talk) 14:22, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Half of the stuff does not have a name or address on it and no postage of any kind so how do you tell if it was put in the box by the post office or by a private carrier? Isn't there a postal regulation that says anything without postage can not go in the box? 71.100.14.54 (talk) 03:36, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Some objects I can see through my telescope at what magnification?

Hi. What celestal objects (eg. planets, deep-sky objects, comets, etc) can I see with a 114 mm reflector, and when? I'm not asking you to list all of them, just some good objects to look at during different times of year. The thing it, I can calculate limiting magnitude, and I can calculate surface brightness, but I can't calculate if the two correspond in a way so I can see the object well, or what bagnification I should use. Ok, I will list the magnifications and approximate FOVs here, FOVs in arcmins:

• 36x, 100
• 60x, 50
• 72x, 50
• 90x, 30
• 120x, 25
• 144x, 25
• 180x, 15
• 240x, 12
• 360x, 7

So, which objects should I look for, and at which magnifications? Yes, i know that aperture is more important, but I already set the aperture by buying the telescope, although it can be closed down to 57 mm if required, and I doubt that would be nessecary. Thanks. ~ AH1 ^(TCU) 01:00, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Telescope lenses/eyepieces' optical coating

Hi. Is it important to avoid scratching or touching the lenses/eyepieces' coating? Is the coating so important that the eyepiece/lens would be effectively useless/very poor quality without it? How does lens paper work, how does it prevent you from touching the lenses while using it to clean them, and about how much do they usually cost? Would washing or wiping lenses with a household tissue damage the coating? In an average eyepiece, approximately what percentage of its value belongs to the plastic components, the rubber components, the glass of the lens, the optical coating, and the metal components? Is the coating's job to allow more light to pass through, to supress false colour, to allow clearer images, etc? When an eyepiece says it has three-, four-, five-, etc element design, does that refer to the glass or the coatings? Are eyepieces perfectly symmetrical in terms of the shape of the glass parts, in all lines of potential symmetry, viewed from above, or do the optical element design cause it to be slightly not symmetrical? Oh, and as an aside, when my telescope is polar-alighned, on my telescope's RA slow-motion controls, when I rotate the knob clockwise, the RA number that it is pointed to goes down, and when I turn it counter-clockwise, the RA number goes up. Which way do I turn it to follow the Earth's rotation? Also, both on the left and right of the 90 mark for decilnation, the numbers go down from 90, go down to 0 on both sides, then go back up to 90 on the other side. I think one of the 90s is north pole, and the other one is south pole. I think i know which one it is, but when I point to an object with a specific declination, in which direction should I turn so that the declination lines up, or should I experiment with both and use the one that makes sense? Thanks. ~ AH1 ^(TCU) 01:19, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Twelve Days of Christmas

Are the Twelve Days of Christmas related to the twelve day difference between the Solar and Lunar Calendars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_calendar)? I heard this this holiday season and I have been unable to verify it.208.46.64.238 (talk) 05:59, 20 December 2007 (UTC)Scott

Christmas falls on December 25th because the early Christians adopted that date from another religion - something that Christianity has done a lot of throughout history, and especially in the Early Christian period. The "other religion" that I mentioned was Mithraism, which was an enormously popular and influential religion during the late Roman Empire. Indeed, when Constantine chose to make Christianity the official state religion, there was a debate as to whether to select Christianity or Mithraism, since many more members of the Roman military practiced Mithraism, and Christianity was for the most part viewed as a Slave Cult by the Roman elite at the time. However, be that as it may, the reason that December 25th became the date that Jesus was supposed to have been born on is due to the fact that that was the date that Mithras was supposed to have been born on, too.

When I say that Christmas came from Mithraism, I should insert a comment that it was actually indirectly from Mithraism. Christmas being celebrated on December 25th really came directly from the Roman festival known as Sol Invictus. However, this celebration was created by the Romans to more or less bring together a bunch of different Winter Solstice celebrations from various religious traditions throughout the empire, including Mithraism. The reason it was celebrated on December 25th (as opposed to any other date near the Solstice) was due to the influence of Mithraism, though - it was Mithras' birthday. So when Christianity adopted Sol Invictus to be the date that Jesus' birth was celebrated, it was actually going back to the birth of Mithras in a roundabout way.

Now, as to why Mithraism celebrated December 25th as the date that Mithras was born - that's another story. If I have time I'll write more about that later. -- Saukkomies 10:13, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

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