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I then began to discover just how many clerical detectives there were! Rampo was an admirer of western mystery writers. Sherlock Holmes finds out that Jefferson Hope committed both murders due to the unhappy marriage of his love.
Hercule Poirot is a refugee and his friend was injured in the war, but there is no further connection between their story and the war.
Setting may be the prime consideration of some readers, who can be drawn to Conrad because he depicts life at sea or in the East Indies; they may be less interested in the complexity of human relationships that he presents. The aesthetic value of the work is frequently determined by subliminal forces that seem to operate independently of the writer, investing the properties of the surface story with a deeper significance.
His PI, Dan Fortunewas consistently involved in the same sort of David-and-Goliath stories that Hammett, Chandler, and Macdonald wrote, but Collins took a sociological bent, exploring the meaning of his characters' places in society and the impact society had on people.
Popular pulp fiction magazines like Black Mask capitalized on this, as authors such as Carrol John Daly published violent stories that focused on the mayhem and injustice surrounding the criminals, not the circumstances behind the crime.
When Spade meets Gutman in his hotel room, neither of them will tell what he knows. The next morning, she is asleep in his bed. It was there, the story goes, that while wandering the forests near Dundee looking for wood for barrel staves, he stumbled across a band of rural counterfeiters hard at work.
Very often, no actual mystery even existed: O'Shaughnessy calls the office, begging for Spade's help but sending him on a wild goose chase. It was made of gold and jewels by the 16th-century Knights of Malta as a gift to the King of Spain but was captured by pirates.
In France, Georges Simenon produced novel after novel at a rapid-fire pace, making his hero, Inspector Maigretone of the best-known detectives since Sherlock Holmes. Some argue that the first detective novel had appeared over a century before: In conclusion, it will be fine.
One of his rules was to avoid supernatural elements so that the focus remained on the mystery itself. A celebrated, skilled, professional investigator Bungling local constabulary Large number of false suspects The "least likely suspect" A rudimentary " locked room " murder A reconstruction of the crime A final twist in the plot Arthur Conan Doyle — Although The Moonstone is usually seen as the first detective novel, there are other contenders for the honor.
I say more or less, because the ever-ambitious Pinkerton continued to take numerous outside freelance detective work, and inrealizing the potential, formed his own private agency, the North-Western Police Agency, soon to become The Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Successors to Hammett included Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonaldwho also emphasized the characters of their tough but humane detectives Philip Marlowe and Lew Archerrespectively.
Some of these stories are whodunits; in others, the criminal is well known, and it is a case of getting enough evidence. It is because Miss Marple eventually explains her thoughts to the vicar that we, the readers, are introduced to them.
The mythic or symbolic intention of a novel may manifest itself less in structure than in details which, though they appear naturalistic, are really something more. How many ex-cops are there out there that seem to have become private eyes?
Sister Ria The nun who uses a huge candlestick as a weapon? The first thing that makes an appearance in all of these works is the fact that the detective is a bit like a god. The cases, oftentimes linked with railways, unravel through the endeavors of two Scotland Yard detectives.
In Ulyssesfor example, an episode set in a maternity hospital is told through the medium of a parodic history of English prose style. In the Russian version of the Gospel According to St. This format is the opposite of the more typical " whodunit ", where all of the details of the perpetrator of the crime are not revealed until the story's climax.
The film received poor reviews, and Davis later referred to the film as "junk". Three Gun Mack may have been the first, Race Williams may have introduced the PI to the world and The Continental Op and Sam Spade may have staked out the ambiguous moral code that would fuel the genre for years, but it was Raymond Chandler's Marlowe that would define for all time who, what, where and why a private eye is.
Most of them are unreliable, and some of them approach the impersonality of a sort of disembodied parody. Unlike the heroes of Christie, Chandler, and Spillane, the police detective was subject to error and was constrained by rules and regulations.
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Parish Council News – September 2019
Parish Council Grants: As mentioned in the August edition of the Newsletter, applications for grants payable in the 2020/21 financial year should be submitted to the Parish Clerk by 30 September 2019. Individual grants may be made available up to a maximum of £500. They must be match funded therefore applicants must cover at least…Read More
Proposed telecommunications installation
The Parish Council has received a photo montage of the proposed phone mast in South Street car park from Waldon Telecom. This has been published in the interest of public transparency but has not been endorsed nor its contents verified by the Parish Council. 75380o2 – PhotomontageRead More
East Sussex Hearing Resource Centre
A FREE SERVICE BROUGHT TO MAYFIELD East Sussex Hearing Resource Centre is a registered charity working in partnership with Adult Social Care to provide a no charge mobile information and advice service for Deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people living in East Sussex. The vehicle, which is funded by the Big Lottery, is equipped…Read More
Parish Council News – August 2019
Fire at Mayfield skate park On the evening of Tuesday 09 July youths lit a fire in the skate park that East Sussex Fire and Rescue had to attend. It has caused some damage to the surface of the skate parkwhichis a great shame and waste of public money to repair. It has beenreported to…Read More
PC Consultation Response to Proposed Telephone Mast
Re: Proposed base station installation at South Street Car Park, Mayfield, TN20 6DD I am writing further to your letter dated 21 June 2019 requesting the views of Mayfield and Five Ashes Parish Council on the proposal to install a mast and base station in South Street car park, Mayfield. The Parish Council is very…Read More
Road Closures in Five Ashes
Almost a mile of old unreliable water main will be replaced this summer when work gets underway along Stonehurst Lane and Skippers Hill, Five Ashes. Construction will start on 19 July 2019 and the project is expected to take until the end of October to complete. As a safety precaution for pedestrians, motorists and the both Stonehurst…Read More
Parish Council News – July 2019
New Councillor At our meeting on 10 June 2019 Richard Tupper was co-opted as Councillor to represent Mayfield Ward. Two candidates applied to be considered to represent Mayfield Ward and it was a difficult choice. Richard is a senior manager with a long and wide range of experience within the Financial Services and Investment Banking.Living…Read More
Proposed Site for Telephone Mast
A consultation from Cornerstone was received dated 21 June 2019 for a proposed site for a telephone mast with a monopole design in South Street car park. There are 14 days in which to reply therefore it will be discussed at the Planning Executive meeting on Monday 01 July 2019 at 09:30 scheduled to be…Read More
Road Closure – Little Trodgers Lane
Road Closure- Stonehurst Lane and Skippers Hill
Work to replace more a water main will take place along Stonehurst Lane and Skippers Hill between the A267 and Stockyards Farm is planned to start on 18 July 2019 and the project is expected to take approximately 14 weeks to complete. For safety precautions both Stonehurst Lane and Skippers Hill will be closed to through…Read More


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What is BitShares?
BitShares (BTS) was first introduced in a White Paper titled "A Peer-to-Peer Polymorphic Digital Asset Exchange" by Daniel Larimer, Charles Hoskinson, and Stan Larimer. It is a brand of open-source software based on the as blockchain technology as used by Bitcoin. Unlike bitcoins, which do not produce any income for their owners, BitShare can be used to launch Decentralized Autonomous Companies (DACs) which issue shares, produce profits and distribute profits to shareholders. As such, BitShares is about making profitable companies that people want to own shares in, thus creating return for the shareholders. The first DAC launched by this proces was called BitSharesX, a decentralized asset exchange based in Hong Kong. BitShares was originally launched under the name of ProtoShares (PTS); it was later renamed to BitShares (BTS) and "reloaded" in November 2014 by merging several products into BitShares (BTS).
Genesis Date: 2014-05-11
Website: https://bitshares.org/
The BitShares platform itself is run and maintained by the BitShares community–an open consortium of individuals and organizations committed to providing universal access to the power of smart contracts. Working together, this community has designed and developed the BitShares platform to include numerous innovative features which are not found elsewhere within the smart contract industry
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SmartCoins provide the freedom of cryptocurrency with the stability of the dollar
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- Delegated Proof-of-Stake Consensus A robust and flexible consensus protocol
Delegated Proof-of-Stake Consensus
Delegated Proof of Stake (DPOS) is a new method of securing a crypto-currency's network. DPOS attempts to solve the problems of both Bitcoin's traditional Proof of Work system, and the Proof of Stake system of Peercoin and NXT. DPOS implements a layer of technological democracy to offset the negative effects of centralization.
Delegated proof of stake mitigates the potential negative impacts of centralization through the use of witnesses (formaly called delegates). A total of N witnesses sign the blocks and are voted on by those using the network with every transaction that gets made. By using a decentralized voting process, DPOS is by design more democratic than comparable systems. Rather than eliminating the need for trust all together, DPOS has safeguards in place the ensure that those trusted with signing blocks on behalf of the network are doing so correctly and without bias. Additionally, each block signed must have a verification that the block before it was signed by a trusted node. DPOS eliminates the need to wait until a certain number of untrusted nodes have verified a transaction before it can be confirmed.
This reduced need for confirmation produces an increase in speed of transaction times. By intentionally placing trust with the most trustworthy of potential block signers, as decided by the network, no artificial encumbrance need be imposed to slow down the block signing process. DPOS allows for many more transactions to be included in a block than either proof of work or proof of stake systems. DPOS technology allows cryptocurrency technology to transact at a level where it can compete with the centralized clearinghouses like Visa and Mastercard. Such clearinghouses administer the most popular forms of electronic payment systems in the world.
In a delegated proof of stake system centralization still occurs, but it is controlled. Unlike other methods of securing cryptocurrency networks, every client in a DPOS system has the ability to decide who is trusted rather than trust concentrating in the hands of those with the most resources. DPOS allows the network to reap some of the major advantages of centralization, while still maintaining some calculated measure of decentralization. This system is enforced by a fair election process where anyone could potentially become a delegated representative of the majority of users.
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BitShares (BTS) Reviews & Critics
Another episode in my Undervalued Cryptocurrencies series. In this episode I cover Bitshares (BTS) BitShares 2.0 offers a stack of financial services including ....
- Frigen huge guys..if this gets created the amount of money that will be traded on the Bitshares exchange will be mind bogglinghttps://twitter.com/ForbesRx/status/922596218596937728
- Thank you Mr Scott, now i see the reason why everyone is spreading your name on every blog and media, calling you a trade god, i wish every trader can be so nice and kind like you, thank you sir for sharing your great strategy with me, i just made my first $18k within the first week of trading with your strategy, Am grateful sir.
- ATTENTION ALL: BitShares is NOT a SECURITY according to the Howey Test.I used the spreadsheet from coinbase.com to determine if BitShares was a security and then spoke with one of the longtime supporters of BitShares to ensure I didn't make any mistakes. If anyone has evidence to prove otherwise please let me know.Please do your own homework and don't believe everything you read or hear on the internet.This is the link to the spreadsheet I filled out. Check out the results for yourself.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cFunKTi3llcwGq5U7Wv9j5AoYHi7gApBYmTs_NVnVOE/edit?usp=sharingI also wrote an article about BitShares for those of you who are interested in learning more about it.https://steemit.com/bitshares/@kimchi-king/which-cryptocoin-could-overthrow-bitcoinI'm also providing regular updates about BitShares on Twitter to keep people informed. I don't talk about buying signals. Just important developments and updates.https://twitter.com/kevinmesserly
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Workers compensation watchdog to be replaced
The state government on Tuesday told Kim Garling, the chief to the independent workers' compensation scheme watchdog, that he will be replaced, and he finishes work on Friday.
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Kiwis have just thrown another grenade at battle-weary banks
New Zealand's reserve bank has added massive new capital demands to major bank woes.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
'Who audits the auditors?': The reform needed to stop corporate collapses
The big four audit firms have seen a deterioration in the quality of auditing and now a parliamentary inquiry is looking at how to fix the problem.
- by Adele Ferguson
ASIC investigates prominent investor Regal Funds Management
The news comes hours after the Australian Federal Police executed a search warrant on behalf of the corporate regulator.
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New star ratings for childcare centres will never shine
The NSW government puts the least amount of money into providing quality childcare - and now has been sidetracked by introducing ratings that will have no effect.
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iSignthis Ltd
iSignthis unveils fresh batch of ASX queries and lift in turnover
Controversial ASX tech darling iSignthis says it's preparing to respond to more questions from the bourse, as it revealed an uptick in merchant processing volumes
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iSignthis customer Ozifin earned $11m from client losses
Customers of Ozifin Tech, the iSignthis customer wound up by the corporate regulator last month, have collectively lost more than $11 million.
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Big Tobacco's big win: US shelves plans to cut nicotine in cigarettes
US regulators are hitting the brakes on plans to force tobacco companies to drastically reduce addictive nicotine in cigarettes. It's a major victory for the tobacco industry.
- by Drew Armstrong
Maggot magnate facing criminal charges resigns from celebrated start-up
James Sackl, the chief executive of a Melbourne biotech start-up seeking millions in investment, has stood down as a fraud trial looms.
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iSignthis Ltd
iSignthis and ASX trade blows over ASIC's role in suspension
Fallen tech darling iSignthis is in open battle with the ASX over its ongoing trading suspension after announcing that ASIC did not request the move.
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Tax reform
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A Queen City man is facing a felony charge after allegedly stealing a tractor in Scotland County.
The Scotland County Sheriff's Office reported the arrest of Kyle D. Randol, 23, of Queen City. According to court documents, Randol allegedly removed a 2011 Case 125 Maxxum tractor from property owned by Donnie Gibson on County Road 664. He allegedly drove the tractor from the property at around 2 a.m. on February 2nd and ultimately became stuck on a dirt road, where the tractor was abandoned.
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He appeared in Scotland County Court on February 4th for arraignment by Judge Kimberly Nicoli with a criminal setting scheduled for February 19th at 9 a.m.


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Prof. (Dr.) S.K. Sarin, Director, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, is a clinician - a Gastroenterologist, Hepatologist, a pioneer in clinical innovations, a gifted teacher, and a hybrid with great insights into basic and clinical research, a medical entrepreneur, and an ambassador of enthusiastic learning. His contributions to reforms in medical education and health sciences are also noteworthy. At present, he is working at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), the first of its kind in Asia. ILBS is the first, cost-effective and most comprehensive Liver Set-up in the region . The institute has a unique public perspective, most talented team of and administrators. The institute has already become a torch bearer of health care delivery and advanced learning. It has been conferred the status of a Deemed-to-be University by the GOI and UGC. His main mission is to develop ILBS as the best possible institution of its kind in the world.In his academic career spanning for nearly 30 years, he has immensely contributed internationally to the field of Liver Diseases. His approach for Primary Prevention of variceal bleeding by band ligation has become the standard of care worldwide. Similarly, the management protocols on Gastric Varices; and the nomenclature bearing his name as 'Sarin's Classification of Gastric Varices" are universally followed. He has more than 350 International publications to his credit, including The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology. His deep interest in physiology has recently resulted in the development of a unique model of endotoxemia induced portal hypertension and liver disease. He has helped describe two new disease entities, portal biliopathy, and 'Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure".He has edited eleven books on liver diseases, many of which are standard reference books and contributed more than 69 chapters in various medical text books. Dr. Sarin is the founding Chief Editor of a prestigious Journal, Hepatology International (Springer International). He has served editorial assignments in most prestigious journals in the specialized fields. He is credited globally to give a huge number relevant and new protocols for the management of patients with hepatitis and cirrhosis of the liver and its complications. His recent contributions in the field of liver regeneration using growth factors have a great potential for patients with advanced liver disease and liver failure so as to provide options for transplant-free survival. He has helped develop 17 major treatment guidelines, including spearheading five major Asian Pacific Treatment Guidelines in Liver diseases; which are widely quoted and practiced. He has immensely contributed to the field of hepatitis B, C and liver cancer. He is instrumental in changing the nomenclature of 'Hepatitis B carrier' to "Chronic HBV Infection". The treatment options and pathogenesis of these diseases have been greatly advanced by his work. He is deeply involved in preventing and protecting new born babies from HBV transmission. His group showed that the mother-baby transmission is the major route of transmission of hepatitis B in India. He also showed for the first time that the newborns born to these mothers are already chronically infected with HBV. The treatment of hepatitis B and C, alcoholic liver disease and liver cancer are specially looked after by him. Along with the team of experts from Asia, he has been able to define a new disease entity, Acute on Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF). Since such patients have a high mortality, the need for protocol based treatment and special intensive care management has been established through his efforts. This has led to improved outcomes by their team. Prof. Sarin is credited with the help of the Governments of Delhi and Sikkim, the launch of the Hepatitis B vaccination program in India. He undertook to generate public awareness through mass contact and awareness program related to hepatitis in the country. Started organizing the "Yellow Ribbon campaign" every year on December 4th since 1998. This proposal has been solely taken up by the GNCT of Delhi and for the past 15 years and the Govt of Delhi and all its hospitals and medical institutions organize this public awareness program. It has made a world of difference as now most schools of Delhi have also taken up this as part of their educational activity.Prof. Sarin is also a academic clinician with research interests. He is credited with training nearly 90 post-doctoral students in the field of Gastroenterology and more than two dozen students as guide for Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) courses in basic sciences. For his outstanding contributions in the field of basic sciences, he has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the Special Center for Molecular Medicine at JNU and Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Research (JNCAR) Banglore.Prof. Sarin was nominated to lead the Medical Council of India (MCI) as the Chairman of the Board of Governors, 2010-2011. He developed with other BOGs the 'Vision 2015' document for Medical Education in India. He introduced far reaching reforms in medical education and health sciences. Prof. Sarin has shown leadership roles in being the President of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology, Indin Association for the Study of the Liver, Asian Pacific Association of Liver (APASL), Vice President of International Association for Surgeons, Gastroenterologists and Oncologists, and now the Chairman Steering Committee of the APASL; responsible for major co-ordination of education and training in the Asian region. Has immensely contributed to medical education in Liver diseases, and has set up the first APASL School of Hepatology, in New Delhi India.Prof. Sarin is a fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences as well as he has been awarded fellowships from all the other major Science Academies of India [FNA, FASc, FNASc). He is a Member of External Advisory Board "Clinical Research Center at Severance Hospital, Yonossi University" Seoul, (Korea), Joint Steering Committee of Indo-German Science Centre for Infectious Diseases, World Digestive Health Day (WDHD) Steering Committee, External Advisory Board of the Institute of Translation Hepatology at Beijing, (China), board member, Asian Pacific Digestive Week Federation (APDWF), Singapore.Prof. Sarin, with his intense dedication, vision and work, is a role model for the country. He has been bestowed with Padma Bhushan by the Govt of India.He is also the recipient of several other awards, the important ones being: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, Third World Academy of Medical Sciences (TWAS) International Prize, Om Prakash Bhasin Award for Health and Medical Sciences, Ranbaxy Medical Sciences Award in the field of Clinical Science, for basic clinical research work related to Liver disease, Dhanvantri Medical Award for outstanding Medical man, Amrut Mody Research Foundation Award for Outstanding Research in Gastroenterology, Hoechst Om Prakash Foundation Award, Fogarty Fulbright International Fellowship, Japanese Research Science Award, WHO fellowship at the University of Freiburg, Germany and at the Albert Einstein University, USA, Dr. Dharamveer Datta Memorial Oration of ICMR, Rotary Award, Rashtriya Samman Puraskar of IEDRA, Lifetime Achievements Award of Delhi Govt., Knoll Oration Award of ISG, Netaji Oration of API, Mike Moshal Lecture of SAGES, South Africa, Dr. V.R. Khanolkar Oration of ICMR, Silver Jubilee Research Award of MCI, Dr. Y.S. Row Award of INSA, FICCI Award for Research and Development, Dr. Kunti Om Prakash Award of ICMR, Bhagwan Mahaveer Award for excellence in human endeavor in the field of Education & Medicine, DRC Gold Medal Oration, Malaysia Liver Foundation Award, Vashisht Chikitsa Ratan Award by DMA. He has recently been conferred with the Honorary Doctorate [D.Sc.]. He has also conferred by the American Association Physicians of Indian origin the coveted prize of "The most distinguished physician from India." He is one of the most sought teachers, invited speaker nationally and internationally, and has been awarded the "Gifted Teacher Award" by the Association of Physicians of India.His humility and touch with the common man, integrity, far reaching contributions to the health and well being of his patients, have indeed left an indelible impact on the well-being of millions of people in the country.
Visited For Liver Disease Treatment
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I am an overseas citizen of India and was on holidays in Delhi when I had ATT (anti tuberculosis treatment) induced Jaundice and liver damage 60-70%. Dr. Sarin and his team treated me and saved my life. Based on my condition at that point of time, although they prepared me and my family for liver transplant but they tried to revive liver with few sessions of Plasmapherisis which actually worked for me and i was not required to go for liver transplant. I will always be grateful to Dr. S.K.Sarin and Dr. Karan. They would listen your concerns and try to explain in a most friendly way to make you understand. I wish we could have them in Australia as well. I wish them very best and God bless them all.
One more thing, if you have to wait for him for a bit long, trust me its worthy.
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I came here in the year 2013, & i donated a part of Liver to my father. Well i would say dr. S.K. Sareen was god for our family. He did the best to save me & my father, even after my father parameters were down still he did his best to save.
And now its almost 4 years me & my dad is absolutely fit & fine.
His way of talking , how he explains to his patients are marvellous.
Visited For Hepatitis C Treatment
Hoped for better: Doctor friendlinessExplanation of the health issueTreatment satisfactionValue for moneyWait time
********** **** ** *** **** ***** *... Don't value for time.....wAiting time took much ...If Dr hv not time why call more people...
Visited For Chronic Liver Disease
Hoped for better: Treatment satisfactionWait time
No satisfactory response. Poor response . Poor admission criteria. Refusal of treatment even when patient needs stabilization. No regard for needy patient.
Visited For Chronic Autoimmune Hepatitis
Happy with: Doctor friendliness
all doctor is helpfull.there treatment is so careful .patient are say any ques.
all doctor recover all patient
at a time patient cure save live.
Visited For Liver Disease Treatment
Happy with: Wait time
So, while u r planing to visit at ILBS, please be prepared that it will take the entire day to wrap things and can even spill up to next day.
Over the phone, you will be told that no appointment is available from the concerned doctor in probably next 1 month, but once you reach there at the hospital, you can get an immediate appointment. So better not take an appointment prior over the phone. Just jump to hospital.
One more important information. Don't think that since u have got an appointment now from Dr. Sarin, he will see you. No ways!! You will first be directed to a junior doctor who will further prescribe few tests and then will prescribe medication. And after all that you will then have to wait for few more hours to meet Dr. Sarin.
Seriously, you will have to have real patience for this. But after you meet him, he will ensure that you are right diagonised by the junior doctor.
Visited For Carotid Angioplasty And StentingCoronary Angiography
Happy with: Treatment satisfaction
** ***** ** ** *** **** *** **********My spouse had gastro problems since her childhood and even after 6 years of marriage she was still affected with it. Got her checked in Fortis and all other doctors specialised in this problem but wasn't cured.
Finally someone referred me to Doctor Sarin and it was cured in 6months of treatment. No doubt he is too experienced and has very little time for the patients but that little time is more than enough. People have to wait for him because the que is generally long but they know that they are going back cured so waiting becomes easy.
5 Start from my side!!!!
Visited For Ulcerative Colitis Treatment
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He is amazing..... We came here first time with a hope that he would be able to resolve the problem of ulcerative colitis.... God bless him.
Visited For Liver Disease Treatment
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We have met with Dr Manoj Sharma and Dr Bhaitya and treatment is running on room no 2412 Anjali Gautam.
I wnat a visit of Dr SK Sarin on 2-3 Jan.
Visited For Liver Disease Treatment
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Very reputed doctor, experienced and friendly with the patient, 90% of the patient visit ILBS because of Dr. Sarin's presence there. Regarding his personality, very cool and seems emotional and compassionate human being. Respected by the entire staff of the ILBS. I wish him all the best and may god always bless such a nice human being.
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I am a Neural Alpha user on my Android, and I see that it's no longer being supported. I'd like to know if all of my keystroke data will be transferred automatically to SwiftKey if I install it?
Thank you.
I am a Neural Alpha user on my Android, and I see that it's no longer being supported. I'd like to know if all of my keystroke data will be transferred automatically to SwiftKey if I install it?
Thank you.
I'm a beta tester.
You've recently made a change that that reduced the typing efficiency. In the past ,while typing a word, it automatically predicted the next word and entered an automatic space. In order to change the current word, i had to hit the backspace. Now, the keyboard gives me automatic suggestions for the current word and I have to hit the spacebar to get the next suggestion. BTW, it also puts automatically 2 spaces between the words. In addition, It makes the automatic quick period functionality redundant.
On newer iPhones and iPads there is a feature I don't know how it's called, but it looks like a trackpad/touchpad.
If you press somewhere on the keybord for a longer time or with 2 fingers, the letters disappear and you can use the trackpad to positioning the cursor.
I think, this is very usefull, because I often have problems to place the cursor where I want it to be.
Unless I am missing it... The long press needs to show both remove and add words to the dictionary
I have experienced many times a desired word is not learned and not added to the dictionary.
Make it easy for me to add.
One paragraph I will type a word, select the autocorrect desired... Next paragraph, same typing of same word... Is not given as a option to select.
And yes app has been reinstalled.
In landscape mode, spacebar is too small.
I don't need any other keys to be larger except for the spacebar.
Development Team,
I cannot find how I'm supposed to report bugs for SwiftKey Beta anywhere within the app or even anywhere on the website. Please advise as to the preferred method for doing so.
Everything I speak into the microphone is being printed out multiple times. What is causing that, and more importantly, how do we fix the problem? Incidentally, I typed this, didn't speak it. Thanks.
Is it possible to have SwiftKey *not* remove the preceding space when an underscore is being inserted?
This issue (along with a few others) was raised as far as December 2014. Unfortunately, it hasn't received attention from the developers.
It's rather frustrating having to go back through typed text to correct things from
"It_should_ be fixed immediately" to "it _should_ be fixed immediately".
Ordinarily it wouldn't be a problem if you could simply backspace and correct it. However, fixing this 'typo' requires a careful placement of the caret (which isn't at all easy) then inserting a space and then moving to the end of the line to continue with the text.
This slows text input especially when writing formatted text on WhatsApp and Telegram, both of which use the underscore for formatting.
Much as some individuals may find the 'flow through space' feature useful, I find it is often an encumbrance.
When flowing words, especially those on the bottom row, any accidental overshoot downwards automatically inserts a space, forcing a correction. Is it possible to include a toggle to disable this feature?
Hello everyone.
I want to know that is it possible to change the number keys layout? I like to use Google and Samsung type keyboard layout for numbers.
Well, when I try to write a tweet (specifically opening the compose tweet window on Twitter) the keyboard appears and one second later disappears, it tooks like 30-45 seconds to reappear with the "Loading predictions" message and after a while it works normally, so it makes me think that Twitter somehow force closes the keyboard but the force closing notification never shows up.
So, what do you think? It's a Twitter app related problem? SwiftKey is reacting bad to Twitter? Or is something else?
Btw I'm running 6.0 stock on my Moto X Force.
Is there any way, like on the default iOS keyboard, to add a word, say "yt", which would automatically expand to YouTube?
Neural network only seems to work for predictions? Not autocorrect? Is this accurate? If so, why not enable it for both? Thanks.
Same as here
but with Android OnePlus 3T.
Spellcheck from system with Swiftkey works only with one language. I`m using three.
Best regards,
I come from Google keyboard and I have really different order for the secondary letters
So how can I change the order of the letters ?
Thanks you so much
How do I turn predictive text on?
Can I backup my SwiftKey account in two different accounts for safety just for back purpose if the account gets deleted?
what is the use of SwiftKey account ID
How do I add more Emoji? I was hoping to have to add another app with more emoji
Many thanks Ron
By default, that 'gay' is not recognized at all. What is so bad about the word gay? How is that profanity?! This seems homophobic!
O teclado omitiu a tecla Ç, e deveria estar presente no teclado para o padrão de escrita brasileiro ABNT.
Where did the Ç key go?
The keyboard omitted the Ç key, and should be present on the keyboard for the Brazilian ABNT writing pattern.
Hola, cuando me aparece una palabra sugerida en la barra de predicciones y escojo esa palabra automáticamente me da espacio, pero no quiero eso porque si a esa palabra le quiero poner un signo de interrogación tengo que volver atras para ponercelo. No quiero al elegir la palabra sugerida me de espacio automáticamente, como hago?
How to send screen shots of an errors?
That's it.
I'm so dissapointed that I can't download a different style of emojis. The included ones are ugly and may also look interely different when used in different apps. This is a major fault to SwiftKey Keyboard which is really good in all other aspects, the best one out there.
I, by mistake, did hold my finger on an emoji prediction and chose to "removed it from predictions".
Now, after training it to predict this certain emoji in a couple of phrases, it won't predict it if I won't type the phrase FIRST and then choose it, instead of as before, get the emoji predicted while typing...
To be specific. When beginning to type "Ha" or "haha or "hahaha" it used to show the emoji prediction (based on my use) of 😂.
I've tried to "train" it, and it do recognize it, but I need to type the whole phrase, or press the prediction of the phrase FIRST, instead of directly predicting the emoji to enable me to press it directly, instead of pressing the phrase, then the emoji, go back two steps, delete the phrase....
I'm thinking about switching from my Android to an iPhone. I have purchased the swiftkey app. Was wondering can I transfer everything over to the iPhone. My account and cloud predictions, all of it. Without having to buy swiftkey again. And start over with the keyboard learning my vocabulary?
How do I post regarding new features that are a must for me...
(and I guess for all)
I do not want any suggestions. please tell me how to remove these?
Hello, I have an honor 8, but my personal dictionary does not work with the swiftkey keyboard. Is there a setup to do? I usually use my dictionary because I use regular abbreviated words. Example: "bjs = bonjour" ...
Thank you for your feedback
Since a few weeks Swiftkey applies no space after typing a word, therefore I get got suggestions either. But if i manually press the space button, I'll get the suggestions. Very annoying...
This problem is everywhere; SMS, Whatsup, email etc
I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S7


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This is the home page for the Almo Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Crystal Structure of CTLA4 bound to first in class immune checkpoint regulator ipilimumab.
SynTacs are precision protein therapeutics that allow for the specific targeting of unique T-Cell populations.
The MTDF is a world class protein production facility that offers expertise in miniaturized and large-scale culturing in a range of expression platforms.


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I was a little wary when I arrived because I knew that sometimes Border Collie Patch nips people he doesn't know.
When they walk in the gate he barks loudly. When that doesn't work, he goes round behind them and nips their legs. Continue reading…
I was a little wary when I arrived because I knew that sometimes Border Collie Patch nips people he doesn't know.
When they walk in the gate he barks loudly. When that doesn't work, he goes round behind them and nips their legs. Continue reading…
Ollie won't let anyone groom him. He absolutely hates it. The Border Collie has developed tangles inside his back legs and behind his ears which need to be cut out.
The only way a groomer can work on him is to muzzle him and then use force. The otherwise very friendly dog completely changes personality. He becomes aggressive, snarling and showing his teeth.
His last visit to a groomer was a year ago now.
Within a few minutes of being with them, I discovered two things that may be relevant. He had been jumping at me in a very friendly fashion. When his feet were on the floor I gently put my hand out to touch him behind his ears.
Immediately I saw his teeth. He growled, backing away.
Oh! I didn't expect that.
It's hard to imagine they could have stressful walks or any trouble at all with Badger.
The two-year-old Border Collie quietly watched me walk towards his house through the glass door. He greeted me with polite interest.
A Border Collie could be a challenge for a first dog and the family have done brilliantly. He is happy, well-trained and biddable.
Unfortunately Badger is becoming 'difficult' when they are out and meeting other dogs. It's not all dogs and he walks with doggy friends. He seems to have been targeted by a few dogs and yapping smaller dogs increasingly upset him.
Recently a couple of off-lead German Shepherds went for him and, according to the man, he 'gave as good as he got'. Rehearsing this kind of thing isn't good at all.
A short while ago the stressful walks came to a head when he saw a smaller dog appear and 'suddenly' charged at it. This wasn't really so sudden. It was against a background of the young man having come home after two weeks away and great excitement. He had the ball thrower and he was repeatedly throwing the ball.
All this will have increasingly wound Badger up.
Then, in full 'chase' mode, the little dog appeared. He charged after that instead. He did no damage, but the dog and owner were upset. Badger, whose recall is fine normally, won't have even heard their calls.
This wasn't actually out of the blue at all. It will have been the direct result of 'trigger stacking'.
There are a few things they can do at home. Badger should be in the best state of mind possible for being self-controlled and calm around other dogs when they are out. The more stable and unstressed Badger is in general, the better he can cope with the arousal caused by the proximity of another dog.
Like many Border Collies, he loves the movement of a ball. He continually drops it at their feet and those of anyone who comes to see them. Anything quite so repetitive over such a period of time isn't natural. Anything that's not natural will fire him up.
They will now save balls for when they see another dog, to gain his attention and to associate the other dog with something he loves. (We thought we had collected all the balls and he would find another!).
To fill the void left by no ball-kicking they will give him things to chew and to forage for. Already well trained, they will give him more activities that exercise his clever brain.
A big problem they are finding that contributes to the stressful walks is the number of off-lead dogs that suddenly appear.
Even if they can't control other people and their dogs, they can control Badger. Reliable recall is key.
Stressful walks would be less stressful if they could get, and keep, Badger's attention. If he is to be safely off lead they need to get him back immediately.
They will change to a whistle to get his attention, working at whistle recall first at home. They will condition Badger to come, without thinking, when he hears the whistle.
To change how Badger behaves and reacts towards other dogs requires his humans also to change how they behave and react.
They need now to help Badger associate other dogs with only positive and good things. If his human tenses up, so will he.
Negative things have a far greater impact than positives. Something scary has a much longer lasting effect than something good. That's just life unfortunately.
To expect Badger to be relaxed and non-reactive when off-lead dogs rush up to him, particularly if they show aggression or are very noisy, is unreasonable. Unfortunately, each time Badger is (justifiably) forced to react by a dog being too close for him, he rehearses the very behaviour they don't want.
There should be no more discomfort to Badger's neck as they change to using a harness. They should avoid him feeling unsafe by no longer holding him tightly beside them while another dog approaches. Instead they should give him more space.
Comfortable distance, relaxed humans and only valuable, positive things like food and his beloved ball should now be associated with other dogs.
Unplanned and scary encounters will add to any dog's wariness to the extent that he may eventually go for other dogs just in order to maintain distance. He's given no choice.
People can avoid the tension of stressful walks by considering carefully where they go. They should avoid narrow alleys where increasing distance is hard without turning around. People don't like turning round and going back the way they came. They also understandably don't like to seem rude by turning away from a potentially too-close encounter with another dog.
Badger's confidence needs building again as does his trust in them to respond appropriately (to him) when he's feeling uneasy or vulnerable.
Stressful walks with their dogs can overshadow people's lives. My advice here is to do all they can to avoid putting Badger in a position where he feels he may need to defend himself. To keep his excitement levels down so that he is more tolerant.
Meanwhile they can work on other dogs in more controlled environments – or at least in places where they can beat a retreat if necessary. So far he's very good with the majority of dogs, but it's going in the wrong direction.
Jasper is a wonderful Border Collie. He is beautifully suited to life as a house pet in his particularly lovely home environment. They have a big garden with a stream running through it, lots of lawn with rougher areas, two alpacas and a couple of geese.
As soon as I arrived and walked through the garden, sun shining (at last), having said a polite hello the super-friendly Jasper leapt into the stream! I'm sure he has a sense of humour. They will play a game where Jasper hides the ball and the lady has to find it!
Jasper's 'Border Collieness' breaks through just sometimes. Whether his attitude to the geese and alpacas is prey driven or herding gone wrong, something instinctive kicks in. He goes deaf to being called. It's the same when he hears a football bouncing. He's off!
Apart from being a talented escape-artist, the young dog has just these two failings. He will chase and attack the geese if he gets the chance. Jasper gets very aroused at the sound of a bouncing football; he will chase and attack that also. He flattens it – kills it!
They have inadvertently taught him to chase and attack a football!
Their previous dog had loved playing with a flattened football and Jasper was introduced to this at a young age. It's not surprising that the sound of a football bouncing gets him going. A dog's hearing is so much better than our own that they often get no warning when he suddenly runs off.
He could then scare children if he leaps up at them to grab their ball. He is such a gentle and friendly dog, a complaint would be dreadful.
The geese are a different matter and he is drawn to them. Their flapping of wings when they are alarmed he finds highly arousing.
The couple need Jasper on 'remote control' which means rock solid recall. Over time they can condition him to respond to a whistle followed by food, as the sharp sound is much more likely to interrupt him if caught quickly enough. He will build up an automatic response to the sound of the whistle.
They will also use clicker for work with both the geese and the ball – where, although he's not actually clicking it himself, Jasper in effect works the clicker by behaving in a certain way, thus earning food. By looking away and staying calm he will in effect cause the click which will result in food.
They will start work well away from the geese with Jasper on lead. I suggested a squeaky ball if suddenly a goose flaps its wings. Squeak to get his attention. Then roll the ball the other way, thus redirecting his urge to chase onto something acceptable.
The aim is for Jasper to not only gain self-control around the geese, but also to have something alternative to redirect onto. something that is incompatible with the chase and attack on a goose.
Because he so loves playing with his flattened ball, they will differentiate between flat footballs and round ones. He's such a clever dog this should be no problem. Any new football will now need to be flattened before he's given it.
As with the geese, they work slowly from a distance where he doesn't react, Jasper on lead. They can start by holding the ball, then putting it down somewhere out of reach but not moving. The clicker will mark and shape every little bit of desired behaviour like relaxing or looking away.
When he no longer is excited by the sight the stationery football and when he can calmly sniff it, they can introduce a small bounce from behind their trellis. And so on. A bouncing ball will become the signal for Jasper to run to them for fun of a different kind rather than chase and attack the ball. 'Fun' will be things that are specifically fun to Jasper.
For now, when they are out anywhere they think there may be a football, Jasper must be on a long line. This is so he is no longer able to rehearse his football chase and attack.
With a bit more brain work in other areas of his life, clever Jasper should be less in need of getting gratification from the behaviours they want to avoid.
The two females have had several minor fall-outs over the past year, but during the last few weeks things have escalated with the two dogs fighting in ernest.
Blood has been drawn and the owners injured splitting them up.
Once this door is opened it is hard to properly shut it again.
It is a huge shame. The couple has done so well with training their two lovely rescues. They can be taken anywhere. They have made great headway with the more nervous of the two, Border Collie Meg, now nine years old.
Younger Nellie is a mix of Collie and Labrador, a more confident and straightforward character. For the first two of her three years with the family they also had a male Lurcher.
It's most likely that the dynamics began to change when the Lurcher who kept Nellie in line died about a year ago. Nellie, previously the younger and more carefree of the two dogs, began to try it on with Meg. Any fights, however, were still minor and infrequent and easy to break up.
Recently Nellie has changed. They described her way of walking about near Meg as 'strutting'. She would posture and stand over her, almost like she was goading her.
Unfortunately this wasn't turning out to be a bloodless coup.
Everything began to escalate about six weeks ago, leading to the dogs fighting seriously.
In the past week it had become so severe that they were considering re-homing Nellie.
After the second big fight in one day they had kept the dogs separate. A couple of days passed and all seemed calm, so, hoping things would now have gone back to 'normal' they let Nellie into the room where Meg was lying on the floor near the lady.
Nellie came into the room, walked towards Meg, walked around her….then she attacked her. Unfinished business?
The very distressed lady phoned me that evening. Nellie had taken a hole out of Meg's head and Meg had turned on her. Restrained and unable to get back at Nellie, she had bitten the lady instead.
Why was this happening now?
There had a build-up of events over the past four weeks. They needed to visit a sick mother who lives a long way away and who was hospitalised. The well-behaved, beautiful dogs always go with them everywhere.
They are selling their house and estate agents were showing people around. They had also made several long trips and stopovers in the short period including one to the West Country and another to Scotland. Then there was the snow. Nellie became very excited indeed in the snow.
I am sure 'too much' pushed the dogs over the edge, Nellie in particular.
The dogs fighting will actually be a symptom of other things with two probable main causes.
Where before the dogs could tolerate a certain amount of stress/arousal without it resulting in full-blown dogs fighting, it seems now to take a lot less to trigger something serious. Attacking Meg is fast becoming Nellie's default reaction to arousal.
One of the causes is undoubtedly stress levels. The other looks like a 'battle for supremacy' between the two dogs as Nellie tries to take over.
I had both dogs in the room together. The lady with instructions to act relaxed, sat holding Meg on a longish lead down one end of the room. The man then walked in with an Nellie, also on lead, and sat down the other end of the room. I sat opposite where I could see both dogs. Everything was set up for them to be calm.
Whenever she moved about, Meg was clearly finding Nellie's presence distressing with her lip-licking, paw lifting and yawning. Nellie however looked blase – she is calling the shots and almost baiting Meg.
I tried to get as much information as possible about the more serious fights. Two common denominators seem to be that multiple people or dogs had been present, or they had recently been on walk (when Nellie comes home from a walk she actually seems more stirred up than when she left).
Nellie and Meg have great lives. They are dearly loved. They have previously had time spent on training and they aren't left alone for long periods; they have plenty of exercise.
Like many people however, their owners hadn't realised that stress from arousal of any kind can last in their dogs for several days.
It then gets to the stage where eventually one small thing can push things over the edge, with Meg and Nellie triggering fights. See 'trigger stacking'.
It's vital Meg and Nellie have no further opportunity to rehearse the behaviour. No more dogs fighting. Control and management is key. Fighting simply needs to be impossible. It must be removed from their repertoire altogether for some time.
Management will include dogs being on lead when in the same room and not too close – and only when all is calm. They can tie the leads around their waists if they need hands free. They can sort out a couple of anchor points on which to hook the leads. The dogs will be trained to be happy wearing muzzles. They will get a dog gate for the kitchen doorway. At present Nellie goes happily into her crate but a gate means the dogs can swap rooms. We don't want either to become territorial.
In addition to management, less arousal and more enrichment sums up the areas to be worked o
With their clever dogs, the couple will go back to training games, searching activities and more enrichment that doesn't involve too much excitement. One necessary bonus in all this is that the dogs now have more time spent on them individually.
With more brain work and focus upon their humans, they should become less focussed upon one another.
The very worst scenario is that the dogs will always need to be kept from getting at one another and only walked together if there are two people. However, over time, with some hard work and keeping arousal down, I have high hopes that some of the time they can eventually be back together.
Their humans now recognise the trigger situations and the devastating effect of mounting stress levels.
Sometimes it's hard to see the wood from the trees. Oscar is a dog, like many of our dogs, living in a world that he's not been bred for. The couple do all they know to give him a good life, particularly by way of long daily walks, but it's not enough unfortunately.
The way to improve his life involves lots of changes. They want a family pet that is affectionate, reliable, companionable and to be trusted around children. Oscar's primary needs are different.
There are so many things to deal with from his diet through to feeding his clever brain. Each little change links to the next so it is impossible to simplify things and extract just two or three things for them to concentrate on. It's complicated.
Oscar is a beautiful Border Collie, age five. They have had him since he was a year old and they were already his third home.
He is extremely easily agitated and aroused. Things that wire him up include noises outside, animals and sounds on TV, bangs and young children.
He tries to bite when they brush his long hair. He paws persistently and painfully for attention – which he always eventually gets in some form. When the phone rings he goes mental. These are just a few of the daily challenges the retired couple face with Oscar.
Unfortunately, the man believed in advice that dominating him by staring him down would make him respect them and change his behaviour. This, to my mind, will have made things worse and actually caused him to bite those few times. He has only gone for people who have challenged him like this – the man, their son and another man they met when out.
I saw how arousal affects Oscar and causes his repetitive behaviour during the three hours I was there. People talking or his simply being ignored triggers the start of a ritual.
He runs to the window and starts to stare like he's seen a fly to chase – he's an obsessive fly-chaser. He then starts barking and scratching at the door. This is the start of a repetitive behaviour sequence. It results in the man getting up and letting him out – every time.
However, it's not as simple as just letting him out. He is told 'Sit' and 'Stay' before the door is opened otherwise he will jump at the man, barking.
Once out, Oscar's ritual involves running exactly the same circuit of the small garden, across a little path and then back to the door again. The man then gets up again and lets him in. This earns a 'Good Boy'.
By the third time of exactly the same sequence in a short time it was obvious Oscar couldn't possibly need to toilet again. I could see this was a repetitive behaviour – a ritual that probably gives him some control over his own life and over those around him.
I asked the man not to get up. Let's see what happens.
This triggered lots of frustrated door scraping and loud barking and we braved it. Oscar stopped briefly. Immediately I quietly said 'Good' and dropped a tiny bit of food. He went back to scratching and barking and I repeated this process many times. Eventually he walked away from the window.
'Good', then food.
He then went and lay down. 'Good' and more food. Any more chatting to him would simply arouse him again.
A few peaceful minutes would go by then Oscar would be back to the start of the routine of repetitive behaviour again, scratching the window and barking. The man, on automatic, started to get up. I stopped him.
This happens repeatedly when they are sitting down in the evening, punctuated by barking at TV and pawing for attention.
His very failure to get the man to engage in his routine of repetitive behaviour was now frustrating in itself.
Understandably, when he is peaceful they breathe a sigh of relief. Let sleeping dogs lie!
Oscar is generating all his action by pestering and getting no reinforcement or action in return for being calm and non-demanding. This needs to be reversed.
I gave them a list of suggestions of things to exercise Oscar's clever brain and enriching activities that include scenting, sniffing, hunting and so on. I shall go back and do clicker work. He will love the problem-solving.
Oscar has long walks but this isn't enough – in fact, when he returns he is sometimes more aroused and demanding than when he left. This indicates that even the walks should be done a bit differently.
The first challenge is to bring his stress levels down as low as possible. Only then will they make significant headway. Robbed of his rituals of repetitive behaviour, he needs other things added to his life to bring him enrichment and action.
With lower general stress levels, Oscar should be better able to cope with the things that scare or intimidate him like staring men and little children. Very unfortunately a child came from behind him and hit him with a stick when he was lying beside them in an outdoor cafe. Before this he had no problem with children. Unless and until they manage to change how he feels around them – yet more work for them to do – he should be muzzled when kids are about just in case. The law never takes the side of the dog even if he's provoked.
There is a lot to deal with. Oscar, born on a farm in Wales and now living with a retired couple in a bungalow, is bred for a different kind of life. They are very committed to doing the best they can for him. It's not by chance that Border Collies are the dog of choice for trainers who work hard with their dogs and get them to do amazing things.
Here's a strange thing. After a couple of weeks in kennels when they go away he is a lot more relaxed. It does him good. Is it because the rituals of repetitive behaviour that he himself creates to make 'things happen' in themselves stress him? Is it because the usual triggers such as TV and telephones won't be there? In the kennels he has an enforced break.
At last, after going to several dogs reactive to visitors, here were dogs that were pleased to see me!
Two Border Collies greeted me, two of the most polite, chilled and friendly dogs I've met for a while. Absolutely beautiful.
It was hard to imagine one of these dogs barking at the door, disturbing the neighbours.
When looking at a problem, I ask myself 'what does the dog get out of it'?
What can Forrest, aged two, get out of standing at the front door and barking? What does the younger Luna get out of wrecking things? Often the answer is that because of the dog's state of mind the behaviour simply helps him or her to feel better – to vent.
These two dogs are quiet dogs. There was no barking when I rang the bell and they greeted me calmly.
Before ten-month-old Luna arrived there was no barking at the door. Forrest never barked when left. Puppy Luna was more of a challenge. She would cause wreckage including digging in the carpet. The dogs also had access to the garden where she would dig and then bring the mud indoors.
They tried various things including, more recently, crating her. This seems to be when the barking at the door began.
It seems that, from the crate, she would whine – maybe bark. The assumption is that she is either bored or unhappy at being left.
I wonder.
In the crate she was, unlike previously, separated from Forrest who had free run of the downstairs. She may well have wanted to join him. Even when they abandoned the crate the two dogs were now left in different rooms. Luna continued to bark and whine.
The noise however that has got the neighbour unhappy is Forrest's barking at the front door which had only started since they began to confine Luna due to the damage she was causing. This also coincided with when the dogs were no longer left freely together.
That dogs barking when left alone are suffering from straightforward separation problems is an obvious assumption to make.
Could it be that Luna's crying when unable to join him started the whole thing by unsettling Forrest?
Could it be that the very neighbour who is worried by the barking has himself actually taught Forrest to bark at the front door?
Both dogs can hear him doing things down the side of his own house. They can hear when he's about. Forrest, with access to the front door through which people enter, barks.
What has the neighbour (who, incidentally, loves the dogs) done?
He has come to the front door with Forrest behind it, let himself in, no doubt made a big fuss of the dogs – and then taken them for a long walk!
It is very likely that Forrest's barking at the door eventually brings the neighbour round. The result is a walk.
I asked the question, does Forrest bark after the neighbour puts the dogs back after the walk? They think not, but will check. If the answer is no, it adds weight to my argument.
Luna may be different. She is a young dog and inseparable from her humans. She is only ever alone if they are out, so she could well be anxious, particularly if separated also from Forrest.
Separation could be the cause of damage but so also could boredom and frustration generated by Forrest barking at the door where she can't join him. It could be a mix of all three.
We try the most likely and obvious things first. (We will look at separation distress of some kind if Forrest is still barking later when he realises barking at the door no longer results in a walk). They have a camera and have watched him on their phone and that's all he is doing – barking at the door. No pacing or other signs of distress. This is what they tell me, they haven't recorded it.
He could of course get worse before things improve. If barking has always resulted in an exciting walk, he's not easily going to give up trying!
Keeping Forrest well away from the front door is essential as is leaving both dogs together. If nothing else, the barking will be more muffled in the kitchen. Giving Luna plenty to do and to chew will help any boredom and chewing will help any stress.
If we are very lucky, leaving Forrest and Luna in the kitchen with no access to either back or front door may be different enough for Forrest to be less persistent at barking at the door as a way of getting a walk. Of course, the neighbour could spoil that very quickly by entering the house while Forrest is barking! I suggest he doesn't walk the dogs at all for a couple of weeks and after that only enters the house when it's silent.
The dogs are a great tribute to the way their family care for them. There are however a few other things they can do a bit differently that should help any underlying stress which may or may not be compounding the problem but would be good for them anyway. I like to take a holistic view.
These include getting Luna used to not following them everywhere by sometimes shutting doors; by changing diet, by providing more brain work and less physically arousing stuff.
They give their dogs at least two wonderful long walks daily, one being immediately before they leave them – which is never for very long. The walk is meant to tire them out physically, but would it be better to have the kind of walk that would relax them? The dogs, off lead, have the environment and all its smells – what more could they need? See Worshipping the God of Exercise Walks.
So let's see what happens.
They family will first get the dogs used to being left together in the kitchen for short periods with something nice to do, like a stuffed Kong each. They will film and record them this time. It will be interesting to see how Forrest reacts after a few days when he can't get to the front door and realises that barking from the kitchen, away from the front door, never results in a walk.
Pearl came from a 'farm' in Wales. At six weeks old she was driven from there to the house the young couple bought her from. There were lots of dogs there. I have my suspicions about what kind of farm that was – a puppy farm very likely.
They say she's a Border Collie, but doesn't she look like an African Wild Dog! Look at those huge upright ears and the colouring.
The 9-month-old Pearl is a puzzle behaviourally also.
Pearl doesn't like being touched whilst seeming to invite it.
She approaches the young lady who assumes it's because she wants her to pet her, and then growls and bares her teeth when she does so.
Unfortunately, the couple feel the way to touch the dog is vigorously, kind of ruffling her with both hands. The man gets away with it – Pearl tolerates being touched by him – but not by the young lady, not even being touched gently. This understandably upsets her.
Pearl used to just growl and occasionally show her teeth.
They then had some very unfortunate advice from a trainer over the phone.
The couple admit that things have gone downhill from then, even though they only did it the once.
Pearl started snapping too and although it's mostly at the young lady, it's other people also. Family members want to fuss her. Looking as she does, people everywhere want to touch her. When she reacts, telling them in clear 'dogspeak' that she doesn't like it, she is scolded. NO!
How confusing this must be.
The real puzzle is that she seems to be asking to be touched – or that is the conclusion they jump to. I however don't think so. She wants to interact but she doesn't want hands.
If she were to go to another dog, put her face against him and look into his eyes, what might she be saying? It would be inviting interaction and maybe play, certainly not hands on her or even paws.
Below is a still from a short video the young lady sent me of Pearl baring her teeth as she touches her. I see a dog exercising great self-control.
It is evident to me that, like many dogs, Pearl particularly doesn't like a hand coming from above. Her first signal is to momentarily freeze. She did this with me, even though I was just very briefly touching her chest (with her consent). I immediately stopped.
Their reaction to 'aggression' is to be firm and shout NO. They have had the wrong and old-fashioned advice. To stop is to 'give in' and she 'needs to know who is boss'.
The young man perceptibly made the point that touching Pearl is really for their own benefit and not Pearl's.
I suggest they no longer ruffle her at all and no hands-on play. The lady's daily routine is to touch her vigorously, particularly when she comes home from work. This is when the main trouble starts.
The evenings deteriorate into Pearl jumping on her – 'demanding' to be touched. Then Pearl shows her teeth, growls and maybe snaps when it happens.
Now they will resist nearly all touching and any done will be brief and not on the head. No vigorous 'ruffling'. They will no longer go over to touch her when she's lying down.
I showed the young lady how to clicker train Pearl to come to touch her hand. In this context Pearl will learn to like hands. Let the dog initiate the touching and find it rewarding.
Another aspect to it all is that, because she's left alone while they are at work, the clever young dog may not get sufficient stimulation. Instead of 'fielding' her puzzling and demanding behaviour in the evenings, they will now initiate frequent short mentally stimulating activities. Activities that don't get her stirred up unnecessarily and don't involve too much physical contact.
They have already taught her lots of words. They have worked hard with her and I am sure there is a strong genetic element to her behaviour. She's just not born to be a cuddly dog. They can accept her for who she is, a dog who likes at most being touched gently and briefly. Instead they can spend time doing with her the many things that she does enjoy.
You never know, in time and as her confidence and trust in them grows, she may enjoy short petting sessions.
I have just come home from seeing three wonderful Border Collies.
They are all rescues and like so many, two are from Ireland.
So often Border Collies I visit, beloved family pets, also live a life of frustration, unable to use their clever brains or fulfill their instinct to herd. The loving hard work the couple has done has paid big dividends. The dogs are given plenty of enrichment in their lives including being regularly taken to training classes. Two of them do agility also.
Their main reason for my visit is for both Ben and Timmy to be less reactive to other dogs – most particularly Ben who will react as soon as he sees another dog in the distance.
Ben will soon be nine and has some Australian Shepherd in the Collie mix.
He adores the training itself but takes a while to get used to the other dogs in the class, even those he sees week after week.
How can they mix training classes with changing Ben's reactivity to other dogs?
It's proven that the way to help a dog with reactivity to other dogs is to work with sufficient distance between them that the dog feels safe and relaxed.
Here is an excerpt from an excellent article by Tobin Foster PhD: 'Letting another dog approach and greet a fearful (or reactive) dog is too intense! Quick retreats at the first sight of an approaching dog is too brief! Letting your dog watch another dog from a distance and for a long time (until he loses interest is best!) will produce the most effective results in most cases.'. Tobin Foster, PhD
Bearing this in mind, how then can Ben manage the classes?
The lady will see if Ben can now join the final class. He then no longer has to run the gauntlet of other dogs waiting to come in to the next class as he leaves by the only door.
They can arrive very early, watching the other dogs arrive one or two at a time from a distance. Ben can also watch the dogs from the previous class leave – from a distance. The lady can be ready to retreat, putting more distance between them, if he gets agitated.
She can then work at pairing the sight of sufficiently distant dogs with food and happiness.
She can even point them out: 'Look at that!'.
Now I suggest the lady experiments with walking towards and into the hall, lead loose, being ready to walk out again if Ben 'tells' her with his body language that he's not happy – before he starts to bark if possible.
Fortunately the lady believes that her good, switched-on trainer will be up for this.
He barks at some dogs, not always and only when they get really close. It's probable he has caught some of this reactivity from Ben.
Timmy is the most recent to join them and is also two years old.
He adores agility, but gets so fired up that he has nipped several people and gone for another dog. He now has solo lessons.
Just as it's hard to make indoor training classes compatible with keeping sufficient distance, it's hard to make agility, particularly when competitive, compatible with lowering arousal levels. Agility requires a dog to become fired up; lower arousal levels are necessary to stop him being so stirred up that he nips. Catch 22.
The third dog, Tom, is two years old and is a dream. He is however prone to fixate on the elderly cat, waiting to herd her whenever she moves.
They currently send him to his bed. I prefer to deal with the emotions behind the behaviour rather than simply controlling the behaviour. He goes to his bed willingly enough when asked but doesn't stay there for long before he's back staring at the cat.
Instead of simply sending him to his bed with the urge to herd or chase unfulfilled, our plan should help diffuse frustration a little.
They will also interrupt the staring a lot sooner to try to break the habit and before it gets to the stalking stage.
Going back to Ben, he loves his training classes once he's been there for a while and has stopped barking at the other dogs. They are very keen for him to continue and, being a Border Collie, activity is especially necessary for his brain and breed.
Stopping the training classes and agility for now would be the easy way to work on resolving reactivity and over-arousal problems.
But at what price?


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Monday, March 12, 2018
Four decades and six years ago...
... we brought forth into this world a new life. Little did we know how much it would change our lives.
Enough of that sounding statesman-like stuff - today is Stephanie's birthday. We will be going out for supper to her choice of restaurant. This morning, she and Joan are off to find some carpet to recover a cat tower that Steph built for Tasha 3 years ago. Seems that the little kitten has grown into quite a large cat. And Alfie, another large cat has been added to the family. The platform for that tower is a bit too small for those big cats, plus Tasha has trashed the carpet on it. Steph has an emotional attachment to the tower, so it will be a re-build rather than toss and buy new.
This outing will be Mother and daughter, leaving Dan to his own, me to mine. I'm guessing Rufus and I will get some patio time.
Speaking of Rufus, Joan took this photo this morning...
When Steph came by to pick up Joan, she got to have some Rufus time on her birthday. Instead of breakfast in bed, Dan brought in cats, one at a time, for Steph this morning. Apparently she is having a good day.
On edit: the finished tower project...
That is their male cat, Alfie, by the new tower. Substantial build... yes, the tower and the cat. Alfie is furry, but he is a big boy under all that fur. Joan was there during the re-build, for moral support. I was at home, more for immoral support.
We visited around the coach when Steph brought Joan back. Then, back to their place and off to Abuelo's Mexican Restaurant for supper. Good food and conversation. Then, back to Steph and Dan's house for opening cards and presents. In our family, the cats give presents to their people.
That is Torrie in the foreground - the "vintage" cat in the family. She is the one that was having some health issues at Christmas, but is doing great now.
A nice birthday celebration.
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