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BAKING

  BAKING Brought to you by the  Gus and Gia Puppet Show   Cooking and baking are sometimes used interchangeably.   Baking is a type of cooking wherein the cooking of flour based foods are placed under extensive heating.   The preferred method of baking is an oven, however, there are some additional methods for baking food, minus an oven. Historically, the oven goes way back to the world's first oven approximately when it was 6500.   This oven was discovered in the year 2014, in Croatia.   The baking of bread started in Greece around 600 B.C.   Some other pioneers in the world of baking were the Egyptians.   Their historical mark is around 2600 B.C.   They spearheaded the use of yeast in bread baking. The traditional picture of baking was set at home, and generally done by the women.   They would be responsible for baking for the family.   Men, however, would bake commercially in both restaurants and in bakeries. ...

AFFIRMATIONS

  AFFIRMATIONS Brought to you by the  Gus and Gia Puppet Show Affirmations are utilized for many purposes.  From a general sense, they are used to work with and reprogram the subconscious mind, to set an encouraging tone for us to believe various positive things about ourselves, or even the world in which we live and defining our place in this world.  Affirmations are also instrumental in supporting us to create the type of reality we desire.  The areas in which we can make, or also attract, are typically areas like love, financial abundance, happiness and beauty. To understand the importance of the role the subconscious plays helps to better grasp the adoption of affirmations into our everyday lives.  The subconscious is a major player in the positive actualization, or reality, of one's life as well as the fulfillment of what is desired.  The things we believe about ourselves at the level of our subconscious can have a large effect on the way events p...

Optimism

  Optimism Brought to you by the  Gus and Gia Puppet Show Because we live in an ever changing world, where our balance can be thrown off without a moment’s notice, it is important to rely on those things that we can control.  The way in which we view difficult times, difficult people and difficult circumstances offers two varying roads from which we must choose.  If we choose to fall prey to any one of those aforementioned, the destination of joy will be nearly impossible to achieve, but if we instead choose to forgo the negative mindset and allow ourselves to focus on what is possible, what is within our control and what we choose to feel, then we can choose optimism. Optimism is defined as a positive attitude towards the general future, or towards a particular outcome.  It is the way in which one shapes their mental outlook that allows one to see new things as options or opportunities.  Life transitions, for example, are seen as experiences for improvemen...

Bullying

  Bullying   Brought to you by the  Gus and Gia Puppet Show Greater than fifty percent of individuals under twenty-five years of age have experienced bullying at some point in their life.   It is defined as seeking to cause harm, coercion or intimidation.   It is more likely that those individuals that have a physical disability are more prone to experiencing bullying as opposed to those without a physical disability.   While twenty percent of those surveyed experienced verbal bullying, five percent were subject to constant physical bullying.   Another form of this behavior is social exclusion in which friends will purposely leave another friend out with the intention of hurting feelings.   Typically, a result of receiving this behavior is the development of depression and social anxiety, and often more than one third of people experience this.   And nearly a quarter of those recipients of bullying have thoughts of suicide. The bullies ...

WORKING DOGS

  WORKING DOGS   Brought to you by the  Gus and Gia Puppet Show Canines that are on a mission are the definition of a working dog.   Their joy comes from working tirelessly and doing whatever it takes to accomplish that mission.   They are equipped with a body that is made for difficult work.   In fact, it is a part of their breed, which has been developed for excellence in jobs requiring specialist activities and yet, are non-herding.   Their main objective is to protect and guard livestock or property, however they also include draught work.   Traditionally, this means pulling a dogcart, or in the winter months, this also applies to the pulling of sleds.   In addition it includes sledging work and rescue.   These canines are also responsible of guarding and protecting their owners, and generally, people. The larger, or giant dog breeds, encompass the type of dog fit to be a working dog.   Their fur, or coat, depends upon t...