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Auckland's latest Covid-19 episode will have proven "frustrating" to many - but the snap lockdown was nonetheless ultimately justified, an expert says.
Scientists today welcomed Cabinet's call to move Auckland to alert level 1, and to require masks on public transport across the whole country, at all alert levels.
Covid-19 modeller Professor Michael Plank said the drop down made sense, with a vast number of negative tests now giving officials "good confidence" there wasn't an undetected community outbreak.
"It's frustrating that we haven't got to the bottom of it, and we may never get to it," he said.
"Still, what we've seen is an example of really good response to a situation like this.
"Because when those first community cases initially came to light, it wasn't really clear what we were dealing with - and we could have been dealing with something like the Auckland outbreak.
"By last Wednesday, it was becoming apparent this wasn't the case, and that we had a much small number of cases.
"It might have been frustrating to have had this three-day lockdown in Auckland.
"But over the long term, that's preferable to sitting on your hands and risking a bigger outbreak that then becomes very difficult to control."
Those points were echoed by fellow Te Punaha Matatini modeller Professor Shaun Hendy.
"The week started with the announcement that there with new community cases with only a weak link to the border, much like the Auckland August cluster did," he noted.
"The whole genome sequencing then told us that there was no direct link to any known case at the border, but also that we were dealing with one of the new, more transmissible variants.
"However, a massive test and trace effort quickly contained the relatively small number of secondary cases and gave reassurance that we were not looking at the edges of a much larger cluster like the one we uncovered in August."
Given that the cluster now appeared well contained, and there was no evidence of any larger cluster, he said, it was appropriate that Auckland moved to alert level 1 at midnight.
"This case has shown us that we can't be complacent - Covid will continue to surprise us - but it also shows that when our community is vigilant and our systems are working well that we do have the measure of this virus."
University of Otago epidemiologist Professor Nick Wilson similarly backed today's decision and also thought it "disappointing" that the source of the incursion hadn't been found.
"It's good, at least, that the Government has leveraged this opportunity to get mask-wearing established on public transport across the country, on an ongoing basis."
There was now more than enough evidence to support the need for that wider measure.
University of Auckland aerosol chemist Dr Joel Rindelaub said the latest data showed the widespread use of masks could help reduce transmission of the virus - even if the masks themselves weren't 100 per cent effective.
"Wearing masks is particularly important in indoors areas where there is less air ventilation compared to outdoors. In fact, most super-spreader events have happened in indoor environments," Rindelaub said.
"Thus, wearing masks is a very useful tool in places like public transport, where a small enclosed space with minimal air flow allows for the transfer of tiny aerosol droplets between passengers.
"We have MIQ [managed isolation and quarantine] facilities across the country, so it would make sense to similarly require masks on public transit across the country."
He added that proper masking - and remembering to cover the nose - was also important.
"Since the nasal cavity has many sites where we know the coronavirus likes to attack, it may be a key area for infection and it could be related to loss of smell and taste that so many Covid-19 patients experience."


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Ward 11
Avatar Adi Da, 2004
On December 28, 2003, I received an email from my sister in New Zealand, telling me that my father was "in hospital and quite ill". I called her immediately. She said he had been rushed to the hospital with pneumonia. He was seventy-eight-years old, had suffered several heart attacks, and had a weak liver and other health problems—so I knew that this was a serious and potentially fatal condition.
My father's miraculous
recovery from pneumonia
by Raewyn Bowmar
"We were all in a kind of shock with the knowledge that we were going to lose him. The next few days were the most heartbreaking of my life up to that point."
We followed him down to Ward 11. There he was—and it was unbelievable that he was there. He still hadn't completely recovered, but he was "out of the woods", as they say.
He was in Ward 11 for another two weeks. No one could medically explain why or how he recovered.
During that time, the doctor who admitted him to hospital came in and said with a delighted smile, "Well, I never thought I would see you again."
One of the nurses who was taking care of him said, "Do you realize that your father's recovery is the highlight of my seventeen-year nursing career?" Another time she shook her head in disbelief and said, "You know this is a miracle, don't you?"
We visited him every day and he improved every time we saw him. It was truly amazing. On the first day of my father's recovery in Ward 11, my sister, who had been a nurse, took me aside to tell me that my father would be debilitated when he came out of the hospital and probably would have to go to a nursing home, as it would be too much for our mother to care for him. She said that at his age he would never fully recover from such a serious illness. On the day he came home, he told us with tears in his eyes that when he was being wheeled out of the hospital in a wheelchair, the doctors and nurses lined the corridor in an "Honor Guard" because he had survived something that literally no one thought he could survive.
There is no doubt in my mind or heart that he survived because of Avatar Adi Da's Blessing—there is no other explanation. Adi Da is not an ordinary man—He is alive as Life Itself, as all-pervading Energy and Light, as the Source and Substance of Reality. And His Compassion is beyond imagination—it is a Divine Compassion for all beings, everywhere, because in His Ultimate Identity He Is all beings, everywhere. That He saved my father's life is so obvious to me. I am grateful beyond words for this Gift.
Since his pneumonia, my father is healthier than he has been in many years. But I have noticed another difference in him, at a deeper level. He seems more vulnerable, and relates to life in a more feeling and less superficial way, as if he is living with the knowledge of death. And so are all my family. Adi Da gave us the Gift of more time. Time to feel the depth of the love we have for each other. Time to feel what He calls the "radiant wound of love"—opening your heart to another, even to all others, while also being fully and feelingly aware of their eventual death. This is what Adi Da does, and what He Teaches everyone to do, through His compassionate example and His miraculous Gifts.
The Wound Of Love
AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: Love Does Not Fail For You When You Are Rejected or Betrayed or Apparently Not Loved. Love Fails For You When You Reject, Betray, and Do Not Love. Therefore, If You Listen To Me, and (Also) If You Hear Me, and (Also) If You See Me—Do Not Stand Off From Relationship. Be Vulnerable. Be Wounded, When Necessary—and Endure That Wound (or Hurt). Do Not Punish the other In Love. Communicate To one another, Even Discipline one another—but Do Not Dissociate From one another or Fail To Grant one another The Knowledge Of Love. Realize That each one Wants To Love and To Be Loved By the other In Love. Therefore, Love. Do This Rather Than Make Any Effort To Get Rid Of The Feeling Of Being Rejected. To Feel Rejected Is To Feel The Hurt Of Not Being Loved. Allow That Hurt, but Do Not Let It Become The Feeling Of Lovelessness. Be Vulnerable, and (Thus) Not Insulted. If You Are Merely Hurt, You Will Still Know The Necessity (or The Heart's Requirement) Of Love, and You Will Still Know The Necessity (or The Heart's Requirement) To Love.
The Habit Of Reacting To Apparent Rejection (By others) As If It Were An Insult Always Coincides With (and Only Reveals) The Habit Of Rejecting (or Not Loving) others. Any one whose Habitual Tendency Is To Reject and Not Love others (In The Face Of their Apparent Acts Of Rejection and Un-Love) Will Tend To Reject and Not Love others Even When they Are Only Loving. Narcissus—The Personification Of the ego, the self-Contraction, or The Complex Avoidance Of Relationship—Is Famous For his Rejection Of The Lady, Echo (who Only Loved him). Therefore, If You Listen To Me, and (Also) If You Hear Me, and (Also) If You See Me—Be Vulnerable In Love. If You Remain Vulnerable In Love, You Will Still Feel Love's Wound, but You Will Remain In Love. In This Manner, You Will Always Remain In The human (and, Ultimately, Divine) Sphere Of My Avatarically Self-Transmitted Person Of Love-Bliss.
The Most Direct Way To Know Love In every moment Is To Be Love In every moment. . . .
Those who Love Are Love, and others Inevitably Love them. Those who Seek For Love Are Not themselves Active Love, and So they Do Not Find It. (And, Even If they Are Loved, they Do Not Get The Knowledge Of It.) Only The Lover Is Lovable. Therefore, I Call and "Brighten" Every Heart To Be As True Love Is. And My Every Listening Devotee, My Every Hearing Devotee, and My Every Seeing Devotee Is (By Me) Gifted and (By Means Of My Avatarically Self-Transmitted Divine Spiritual Grace) Enabled To Realize (and, Thus, To Really and Truly Demonstrate) This Radiant (and Radiating) Principle (and Way) Of The Heart—By Means Of True Active (and Freely, Deeply Attracted) Devotional (and Really ego-Transcending) Love Of Me (and With Real, True Trust In Me), The One Who Is (Self-Existing) As Self-Radiant Love-Bliss (or The "Bright") Itself.
[The Dawn Horse Testament Of The Ruchira Avatar, by Avatar Adi Da Samraj]
I was plunged into the chilling reality that my beloved father could die—and very quickly. I had never been threatened with the loss of someone so close to me, and my intense sorrow was the worst emotional pain I had ever felt. I was shocked that there was so much pain, but there was nothing I could do about it except feel it and surrender to my Divine Guru, Avatar Adi Da, continuing with my moment-to-moment devotional practice of turning to Him, even in the midst of my suffering and my father's possible death.
Over the next two days I stayed in close contact with my siblings, who kept me updated about my father's condition. On December 30, my brother told me that the medical staff had asked him if he had called all the members of the family to be at their father's side, because he would not last much longer in his condition. I immediately made travel plans, and left for New Zealand on December 31, fervently hoping that my father wouldn't die before I arrived.
But before I left for New Zealand, I sent in a request to Avatar Adi Da for His Blessings. I knew this was the best thing I could do for my father.
I arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, on January 2, very early in the morning. My brother picked me up at the airport and took me straight to the hospital. He told me that my father's condition had worsened the night before and he had been moved into the intensive care unit (ICU). As soon as I arrived at the hospital I saw my mother, who of course was very upset. Then I went into the ICU. What a shock!
I had never seen anyone so sick, let alone my father. His skin was deathly white. He was hooked up to machines to keep him alive. His face was covered with a special mask that was aggressively forcing oxygen into his lungs. He was obviously very uncomfortable and very distressed. He appeared to recognize me and a tear ran down his cheek. He was trying to speak but wasn't making any sense.
In that moment, the emotion I felt was indescribable—I simply wasn't prepared to see my father so sick and distressed. I went up to him, whispered in his ear how much I loved him, and kissed him on the forehead. I told him that I had written to Adi Da and asked for His Blessing for him. I was crying, and so were my mother and sister. We were all in a kind of shock with the knowledge that we were going to lose him.
The next few days were the most heartbreaking of my life up to that point. To stay close to my father, my family spent most of our waking hours in the hospital. When I wasn't with him, I sat in the waiting room and communed with Adi Da in meditation. I would also do the Devotional Prayer of Changes. Of course, I prayed for my father's recovery.
During those days, my father was intensely distressed. He kept trying to pull the uncomfortable mask off his face. He kept trying to get out of bed. He kept pleading to go home. Sometimes we could hear him through the mask: "Please, please let me go home for just one day . . . just one day . . . I promise I will come back . . . I want to cooperate . . . just please let me go home."
We knew he was so upset because he was certain he was going to die and wanted to be at home one last time. To see him like this, to hear his desperate pleas, and to not be able to fulfill his wish—he was much too sick to go home, even for one day—was the worst thing of all.
My sister told me that when I was flying to New Zealand from the United States the medical staff kept asking her what time I was arriving: they desperately wanted to keep my father alive until I got there. And there was no improvement in his condition after I arrived. The doctors had tried various antibiotics but none of them were having any effect on the severe pneumonia. My father was getting worse.
On my father's fourth day in the ICU, a doctor got our family together to give us a reality picture. I asked him if there was any chance at all that my father would get through this. He said the chances were "very, very slim"—practically nil, in fact. Even a young person with a lot of physical reserves would struggle to fight such an infection, he said, and would take a year to recover full strength—and my father was fighting the infection with "minus reserves". He told us the machines my father was on could keep him alive indefinitely, and he asked us if we wanted that. We had only to feel my father's terrible distress and pain to help us say that we didn't want that—we knew it wasn't fair to keep him alive in such a dreadful state, no matter how much we loved him and didn't want to lose him. It was a sad and sober moment for us all. The doctor said they would unplug the machines in twenty-four to forty-eight hours and "let nature take its course". We all knew exactly what these haunting words meant, and they struck deep.
On the fifth day in the ICU, my father's condition suddenly and unexpectedly became quite different. He stopped struggling, became very peaceful, and appeared to enter a deep sleep, without intermittent waking. He didn't speak or move. We were happy to see him so peaceful, but we also had the sense that he was letting go of the body and his struggle with it, so it was also emotionally difficult, as we now felt we were facing the imminent reality of his death. The next day, however, he seemed a little more awake, but still relaxed and not struggling. That evening my mother, sister, and I drove home, which was about forty miles from the hospital.
The next morning, my sister and mother went to the hospital a little earlier than I did. I arrived about 11:00 AM. I walked into the waiting room of the ICU—and there were my mother and sister with huge smiles on their faces! They said, "He is going to Ward 11!" (a regular medical ward). I was stunned, and said, "What happened?" They both said, "We don't know." At that very moment, my father was wheeled out in his bed to be taken to Ward 11. No mask. Big smile. Good color. Totally present and clear-minded and speaking coherently. I couldn't believe my eyes. I never expected this, and I found out later that no one on the medical staff did either—they were as mystified as we were.

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Vilma Bankey Hudson
Vilma Bankey Hudson, age 92, a devoted wife, mother and grandmother, passed away peacefully at St. Joseph Carpenter House in Baton Rouge, LA on Sunday, September 8, 2019.
She and her husband, Bill, lived in Marietta, Ga for over 50 years before moving to Walker, Louisiana in 2005. Vilma was a very loving and caring person. She always had friends and family in her heart and in her prayers. She was a wonderful homemaker, and an excellent southern cook.
She is survived by her son, William D. "Skip" Hudson, Jr. and wife, Sharon; Granddaughter, Kristen Hudson and husband, Justin Lozoff and Great Granddaughter, Georgia Hudson Lozoff. She is preceded in death by her husband of 69 years, William D. Hudson, Sr. ; Parents Grover Cleveland Bankey and Laura Amanda Boyles; Brothers, Ralph E. Bankey, Roland F. Bankey, and Sister, Joyce Bankey Greene.
Visitation will be held at Greenoaks Funeral Home, 9595 Florida Blvd. Baton Rouge, La. 70815, on Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 10:30 am until funeral service starts at 11:00 am. Condolences are welcomed at www.greenoaksfunerals.com. In lieu of sending flowers, donations may be made in her memory to – St. Jude Children's Hospital.


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PODCAST: What Is Becoming of America?
All those Anti-Trump Christians who either did not vote for the oft-unpleasant Trump or, worse, voted for Befuddled Biden and his puppeteers now bear some culpability for ceding more control to those whose lust for power far exceeds their compassion for the weak or love of freedom. After leftists' Russian-collusion disinformation ruse failed, they floundered about until the Chinese Communists came to their rescue. An ocean of blood has been and will be spilled at the hands of leftists, and all who played a part in facilitating their acquisition of more power bear a measure of guilt.
PODCAST: Twitter, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon Collude to Crush Conservatives
No matter what you think of Trump's character or rhetoric (I've never been a fan of either), his presidency accomplished many great things for America, perhaps chief among them getting the left—especially Big Tech—to expose its purulent underbelly. The real power today rests in the delicate fingers of the tech Oligarchs sitting behind their screens moving walls to trap Americans in their prison-like mazes equipped with virtual solitary confinement cells and freedom-crushing language rules euphemistically called "community standards" and "policies." Trump was the immovable force that stood for a brief moment in their way.
Trump & Limbaugh Blast Public Schools for Destroying US
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Charlie Gard's Chilling Case Should Serve as a Dire Warning for Parental Rights in the United States
On July 27, 2017 a judge made the final decision in the case of Charlie Gard, ordering that the infant be moved to hospice for his last days on this earth. Charlie was one of 16 known children in the world to have mitochondrial depletion syndrome. This condition is a very rare terminal illness which causes progressive muscle weakness and brain damage.
This decision followed the determination of the hospital that he would be better off dead. The European Court of Human Rights backed this decision. According to BBC News the court determined that further treatment would "continue to cause …
PODCAST: Lawmakers Avoid Discussions of First Principles
Recently Ben Shapiro, writing for National Review, exposed a fundamental failure of lawmakers that partisan debates conceal. Partisan debates conceal that fundamental, first-principle policy arguments about governance are avoided like the proverbial plague by politicians of all political stripes.
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- https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2021/04/29/menthol-supplements-in-cycling-do-they-work/.
- https://www.sportsperformancebulletin.com/endurance-training/environmental-training/mint-performance-beating-heat-cold-menthol/
- https://www.premax.co/as/blog/the-growing-link-between-menthol-and-sports-performance
- Orally applied menthol improves endurance and time-trial performance when applied repeatedly throughout exercise
- https://www.sportsperformancebulletin.com/endurance-training/environmental-training/mint-performance-beating-heat-cold-menthol/
- a large body of recent research has established that your physical performance is profoundly influenced by not only the body's physiology and biochemistry during exercise, but also how the brain perceivesthat exercise/effort.
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30554924/
- Exercise performance can be improved by application of non-thermally cooling menthol, which also reduces perceptual measures of thermal sensation. Internal application appears to be the best strategy to improve performance.
- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0123815
The changes in perceptual parameters caused by absorbing a cold/menthol beverage reflect the psychological impact. The mechanism leading to these results seems to involve brain integration of signals from physiological and psychological sources.
- https://research.tees.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/6593673/620631.pdf
In this situation, menthol appears to have the greatest beneficial effect on 9 performance when applied internally. In contrast, the majority of investigations into 10 the external application of menthol demonstrated no performance benefit.
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9230767/#:~:text=We%20concluded%20that%20stimulation%20of,than%20during%20the%20elastic%20loading.
- We concluded that stimulation of cold receptors in the upper airway with nasal inhalation of l-menthol reduces the sensation of respiratory discomfort associated with loaded breathing.
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264128122_Instant_effects_of_peppermint_essential_oil_on_the_physiological_parameters_and_exercise_performance
- 20mg of menthol ingested (about 3 fisherman's choice lozenges)
- 30 male students 15 placebo?
- A considerable enhancement in the grip force, spiromery, and other parameters were the important findings of this study.
- https://www.sportsperformancebulletin.com/endurance-training/environmental-training/mint-performance-beating-heat-cold-menthol/
- exercise performance can be improved by application of non-thermally cooling menthol, which also reduces perceptual measures of thermal sensation
- https://oxygenadvantage.com/nasal-breathing-running/
Dallam's study suggest that the body adapts to nasal breathing by developing an increased tolerance to changes in blood CO2, lessening air hunger. They also show that it is possible to maintain VO2 max and peak performance following a period of training using only nasal breathing, and that nasally restricted breathing during training may be beneficial for endurance athletes who want to boost their performance and maintain good respiratory health7. This is coherent with findings of previous research, which demonstrated that air hunger could be lessened by using exercises to increase end tidal carbon dioxide and push feelings of air hunger beyond normal 'comfortable' level
- https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.01144.2012
Menthol applied topically to the tracheal mucosa prior to and during citric acid application or administered continuously as vapors or as an aerosol to the lower airways was without effect on cough. These actions of upper airway menthol treatment were mimicked by cold air delivered to the upper airways but not by (+)-menthol, the inactive isomer of menthol, or by the TRPM8/TRPA1 agonist icilin administered directly to the trachea. Subsequent molecular analyses confirmed the expression of TRPM8 in a subset of nasal trigeminal afferent neurons that do not coincidently express TRPA1 or TRPV1. We conclude that menthol suppresses cough evoked in the lower airways primarily through a reflex initiated from the nose.
- TRPM8 receptors in nasal passages have different effects than those located in the mouth
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5649871/
Brain serotonin and dopamine are neurotransmitters related to fatigue, a feeling that leads to reduced intensity or interruption of physical exercises, thereby regulating performance. The present review aims to present advances on the understanding of fatigue, which has recently been proposed as a defense mechanism instead of a "physiological failure" in the context of prolonged (aerobic) exercises. We also present recent advances on the association between serotonin, dopamine and fatigue. Experiments with rodents, which allow direct manipulation of brain serotonin and dopamine during exercise, clearly indicate that increased serotoninergic activity reduces performance, while increased dopaminergic activity is associated with increased performance. Nevertheless, experiments with humans, particularly those involving nutritional supplementation or pharmacological manipulations, have yielded conflicting results on the relationship between serotonin, dopamine and fatigue. The only clear and reproducible effect observed in humans is increased performance in hot environments after treatment with inhibitors of dopamine reuptake. Because the serotonergic and dopaminergic systems interact with each other, the serotonin-to-dopamine ratio seems to be more relevant for determining fatigue than analyzing or manipulating only one of the two transmitters. Finally, physical training protocols induce neuroplasticity, thus modulating the action of these neurotransmitters in order to improve physical performance.
No FDA approved medication or device to relieve Dyspnea
- https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(18)30349-0/fulltext
To Improve COPD Care Chest Editorial 2017
"Although randomized clinical trials demonstrate that various medications provide clinically meaningful relief of dyspnea during daily activities in patients with COPD,5 there is no treatment approved by the FDA for relief of breathing difficulty."
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5278812/
- This shows the emphasis on oral inhalation over time and effort to improve oral inhalers for treatment of lung disorders.
- Nasal inhalation devices have seen little change over the past hundred years other than, the use of small plastic cylindrical containers holding TRPM8 agonists that can be inhaled trough nasal passages when inserted in the entrances to nasal passages and or the use of a hand held container holding hot water and volatile TRPM8 agonists which can be inhaled when container is held in front of nasal entrances.
Support for attempting to relieve Dyspnea through targeting TRPM8 and TRPA1 Receptors
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Now is the time to prepare strawberry plants for winter with an insulating layer of mulch. See the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Yard & Garden news release from November 5, 2014, for tips on mulching strawberries for winter.
Links to this article are strongly encouraged, and this article may be republished without further permission if published as written and if credit is given to the author, Horticulture and Home Pest News, and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach. If this article is to be used in any other manner, permission from the author is required. This article was originally published on November 14, 2014. The information contained within may not be the most current and accurate depending on when it is accessed.


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Grammy nominee Andra Day performed "Rise Up" while looking over the Black Lives Matter mural in Hollywood, while across the country 10-year-old skater Kaitlyn Saunders performed her routine on Washington D.C.'s Black Lives Matter Plaza. Their virtual performance was one of many during Wednesday's "Parade Across America," which celebrated the inauguration of President Joe Biden.
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New York Giants Waive Linebacker Ryan Jones: The New York Giants have waived/injured linebacker Ryan Jones with an undisclosed injury. The Giants signed Jones in April 2015. Jones was originally signed as an undrafted rookie free agent by the Baltimore Ravens after the 2014 NFL Draft, but he was waived/injured less than a month later with a foot injury. Jones had been earning reps with the second-team defense at strongside linebacker.
Because of this move, we have updated the Transactions, Roster, and Depth Chart sections of the website.
SI.com Q&A with RB Shane Vereen: The transcript of a Sports Illustrated interview with running back Shane Vereen is available at SI.com.
Giants.com Q&A with TE Jerome Cunningham: The video of a Giants.com interview with tight end Jerome Cunningham is available at Giants.com.
Giants.com Feature on Tight Ends: A video feature on the New York Giants tight ends is available at Giants.com.
Article on the New York Giants Cornerbacks: Health of starting cornerbacks is paramount for Giants by Dan Graziano of ESPN.com
Article on S Cooper Taylor: Cooper Taylor could bolster safety shortage by Arthur Stapleton of The Bergen Record
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The prime objective of Trishul Group of Companies is to understand the clients' requirements and to endeavour to offer them the best workmanship and services with optimum costing which fulfils their requirements to the fullest at all times. The quality checks are evolved into the system from the initial stages of Design, Procurement, Manufacture till the Execution of the project.
At TRISHUL excellence in quality is not a choice but a mustand our main goal is to reach this objective. Commitment to the implementation of supporting managerial and business operational systems is essential to realising that goal.
TRISHUL believes in working together with clients and suppliers to achieve this policy, and in continually striving for improvements in all areas of its business.
At Trishul, safety is the centre of its operating philosophy and is given the highest priority.
The Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Policy enunciated by the Corporate Management lays emphasis on Safety, Health and Environment through a structured approach and a well defined organization. Systems and procedures have been established for implementing the requisites of safety at all stages of fabrication and erection and in respect of plants, machinery and materials.
Besides the enforcement of Engineering measures and management controls, personnel protective equipments (PPE) as per the needs of the operations are provided to the employees
Periodic SAFETY DRILLS always keep our employees alert and fit for the job leading to increased safety and efficiency. Appreciation of innovative ideas of safe working practices is a tradition at TRISHUL


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Alfresco To Drive Growth After Funding Injection
Open source enterprise content specialist Alfresco gets £27 million to power international growth
Alfresco has announced a large injection of venture capital to help the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendor with its global growth drive.
The Maidenhead, UK-based company, which is widely considered to be the world's second most successful open source company after Red Hat, has received $45m (£27m) in funding. This investment brings Alfresco's total funding to $65.4m (£39.4m).
Growth Drive
This latest tranche of funding was led by private investment firm Sageview Capital, which joined existing investors Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund and SAP Ventures.
According to Alfresco, the company is looking to "accelerate disruption of the ECM market", and it will use the investment to drive its global go-to-market strategy. Essentially, it will hire more salespeople, boost its marketing capabilities, and try to turn the content market to a software as a service (SaaS) model.
The focus on growth comes at a time when the company is already performing well. Indeed, Alfresco says it is growing by more than thirty percent annually and at triple the pace of the ECM market overall. Alfresco already claims to have more than 1,800 active customers in 212 countries, and says that it manages more than seven billion documents for over 11 million users worldwide, using a modern architecture built on open standards.
"Alfresco has clearly established itself as the de facto ECM platform for customers who desire smart and modern software that unlocks the power of business-critical content, process and collaboration," said Ned Gilhuly, founding partner at Sageview Capital. "As demonstrated by its superior growth, product strength, partner ecosystem and leadership team, Alfresco is a great fit for our portfolio."
"Alfresco is innovating at the intersection of business-critical content, process and collaboration," said Doug Dennerline, CEO of Alfresco.
"With a customer renewal rate at 90 percent and a strong balance sheet, we took additional funding as jet-fuel to take the company and industry to the next level in critical business services."
Crowded Market
Alfresco plays in a crowded market, with a number of legacy ECM players on the one side, such as EMC Documentum and Micrsoft SharePoint, coupled with newer, cloud collaboration players on the other.
But the ECM market is also potentially very lucrative. Indeed, Gartner estimated in 2013 that the ECM market is a $5.1bn (£3.1bn) industry.
Alfresco is not a consumer-oriented content management organisation. Rather it specialises in enterprise-grade content management solutions, for highly-regulated industries that are bound by strict compliance rules. Alfresco is the hybrid solution, in that customers can choose to either use it n their premises, or via the cloud. Or they can adopt a hybrid approach, combining both options. And best of all, it is open source.
"It's also worth sharing that one of the key frustrations of on premise software of the past is the slow pace of innovation," blogged Dennerline. "With an open architecture, you can actually operate and make changes to your on-premise architecture – when you're ready – at the pace of the Web."
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Heiress Anne Marion: An American Visionary
How one of America's greatest cultural philanthropists masterfully painted her life, leaving behind one of the country's greatest art collections.
They say life is a blank canvas, and it's up to you how you want to paint it. If that's true, Anne Marion has painted a masterpiece through the family legacy she has upheld and deepened, and the exceptional collection of artwork she has carefully put together throughout her lifetime.
An American heiress born into a ranching family, she inherited the world-renowned 6666 Ranch, known as the "Four Sixes Ranch," which today encompasses 260,000 acres of land in King County, Texas, from her great-grandfather Captain Samuel Burk Burnett. Marion was acutely aware of the risks and responsibilities that come with generational inheritance. As the saying goes, "The first generation makes it, the second generation spends it, and the third generation blows it."
Marion, however, ensured that this wouldn't apply to her stewardship of her family's legacy. She was extremely dedicated to the ranch, never straying away from the shared vision she and her predecessors had for it. As Marion once explained it, "The most important thing that ever happened to me was growing up on that ranch. It kept my feet on the ground more than anything else."
The foundation of Marion's life masterpiece is based on her love and pride for her family's ranch, philanthropy and art collecting. As one of America's greatest cultural philanthropists, Marion understood that what makes life rich is not the worth of an impressive art or jewelry collection, but rather, one's philanthropic work. Through her charitable foundation, Marion has distributed more than US$600 million in grants to a variety of institutions and causes over her lifetime. Her life's work reminds us that when leaving Earth, our legacy is not defined by what we take with us, but the impact we have on society.
In recognition of the fact that art is for all to enjoy, for 2021, Marion had previously arranged for a number of pieces from her art collection to be sold through Sotheby's New York, launching with an 18-lot dedicated evening auction in New York in May.
Estimated in the region of US$150 million, and anchored by post-war American art masterpieces, the collection showcases artworks by Warhol, Still, Diebenkorn, Kline, Motherwell, Lichtenstein, Hofmann, Francis, Noland and Louis, among other giants of 20th-century American art.
A few standout pieces from the prestigious collection include Clyfford Still's 1948 PH-125, with its large and visionary characteristics of the post-war abstract expressionist movement, and Roy Lichtenstein's Girl with Beach Ball II characterizing modern art, as well as Andy Warhol's 1963 Elvis 2 Times signature pop art.
"Unpretentious And Proud Of Her Rancher Legacy And Lifestyle, Anne Was A Bold-hearted Texan Through And Through" — Amy Cappellazzo, chairman of Sotheby's Global Fine Arts Division
Amy Cappellazzo, chairman of Sotheby's Global Fine Arts Division, describes best who Marion was: "Anne Marion was a true art collector and had an eye for quality. She was brave in everything she did, from her choice in artwork to her sense of design and colour. Unpretentious and proud of her rancher legacy and lifestyle, Anne was a bold-hearted Texan through and through."
In addition to Marion's fine art collection, Sotheby's will also hold a dedicated online sale of her jewelry collection, with American-made pieces by Verdura, Andrew Clunn and, most notably, David Webb. Decorated with turquoise, tourmaline, aquamarine, sapphires, emeralds and rubies, Marion's jewels reflect the colourful life she lived and will surely be conversation pieces for the woman lucky enough to be adorned by them.
Hugh Hildesley, who joined Sotheby's in 1961 and is a colleague of Marion's husband, John L. Marion, who was an American auctioneer and philanthropist who served as the chairman of Sotheby's, captures the richness of her philanthropic life: "The sheer scope of Anne's astounding achievements will prove influential and transformative for generations to come, from her role as president of the Burnett Foundation to founding the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, donor of the Marion Emergency Care Center in Fort Worth, to tireless trustee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Kimbell Art Museum and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Anne knew quality when she saw it, and that was never truer than when she first met John. For more than three decades, they together forged a legendary partnership, which was to the art world's supreme advantage. That legend represents one of the great treasures in my 60 years of Sotheby's history."
Just like Marion, we can all be the artists of our own destinies, using each stroke to paint the pictures of our desires. They can be as monumental in scale as Still's abstract expressionism or as lighthearted and fantastical as Warhol's pop art. Regardless of the method, we can be sure that, by the end, no canvas will remain blank if a life is lived with charity and art.


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I reallly have no idea what funerals cost, I figured 10k was a good guesstimate. My family is in Cleveland, it's not a too terribly expensive area so not sure how that factors in.I do have other cash in savings accounts but I will spend a good amount of it while travelling. I'll come home with say $5-10k in cash and the $10k in the 401(k), and that's all I'll have to my name. I normally would consider leaving it in the S&P but all the market hysteria the past few days has made me consider getting out now in case we are in for a volatile year.
IMO you are far better off looking for a second option life insurer than tieing down money theres a 0.5% chance of you needing in the next year. One year isnt long enough to hold bonds without loosing money. Hell, you're 27 - should have no problem getting life insurance. Unless you are planning in free climbing the worlds highest towers for GoPro. Then you should cash out first.
http://canadiancouchpotato.com/2015/05/18/how-changing-interest-rates-affect-fixed-income/Here it is. A one year outlook on any investment (stocks or bonds) is a plan destined to fail you. You are certainly reducing your one year risk by going 100% bonds over equities though!


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"The Naked Director" - Takayuki Yamada, Shinnosuke Mitsushima and Tetsuji Tamayama interview
Tōru Muranishi, "the pioneer of taboo" established a new era of Japanese adult videos. He revolutionized the pornographic film industry and expanded the market for bini-bon (erotic magazines wrapped in plastic), the predecessors of today's ero-hon (porn magazines) that are restricted to people over 18. Netflix's original series, "The Naked Director", which tells the story of the unconventional, repeatedly arrested director Muranishi who faced a 370-year prison term in the US, debuted on August 8.
In 1980 Muranishi worked as an English textbook salesman who manages to achieve top results shortly before his company goes bankrupt. At the time he comes home to find his wife cheating on him and as he is in the depths of despair, he crosses paths with a street punk Toshi. Muranishi learns from Toshi about porn magazines called bini-bon and decides to try to turn his luck around by establishing his own bini-bon distribution company with the help of a publisher named Kawata. Quickly he turns out to be the dark horse of the industry and becomes the hero of quite a few legends.
Takayuki Yamada as Muranishi, Shinnosuke Mitsushima as Toshi and Tetsuji Tamayama as Kawada talk so vividly as if they were recalling their own youth. Their commitment to the production is best described by Matsushima's comment "So now we go back to the outside world", as the shooting ended. We listen as the three men who re-created the exuberance of "Bubble Era" Japan of the 1980s talk joyfully about the series that caused a stir in today's Japan that is still bound by compliance.
――This is a sensational piece of work. Let's start with how the three of you decided to be part of it.
Mitsushima: Well, it all starts with Yamada。
Tamayama: You're right.
Yamada: OK. I have to admit that because of the generation gap and so on, at first I didn't actually know who Muranishi was. But after I was offered the role and did some research I thought 'wow, this is really interesting'. I knew I had to do it. I had a feeling that the work on the set would be a lot of fun and that we would come up with a really inspiring production. From then on I would frequently visit Netflix and as a first step discuss with producer Sakamoto how the story was going to be told. We hold many meetings with about a dozen people of different nationalities, age and sex just to discuss the script. However I removed myself from the picture once the actual work on the script started. I waited until it was completed and then reappeared as Tōru Muranishi.
――There were quite a few anecdotes in the dialogue. Was there anything in particular that surprised or moved you?
Mitsushima: I was fascinated by Muranishi's energetic and outgoing demeanour when he tried to attract people around him. It's quite obvious when you watch episode 1 and 2 that Muranishi was just an unsuccessful salesman, a simple man trying to feed his family. He struggled for quite a long time. That's important. If he had been extraordinary since childhood and a star, viewers might think that "it's all because he was born special" and feel a bit distant. But it's the opposite. He's actually a man who makes us believe that "anyone can bask in the limelight as there's a right time for everybody". He's not special, he's Everyman.
Yamada: He opened his heart believing that it would help others to do the same.
Mitsushima: That's it. This is the kind of strength of core that attracted me.
Tamayama: I was really startled by the story of the eki-ben (train station lunch box) position.
Mitsushima: That was really something!!
Tamayama: It's funny but at the same time a bit wistful. It's moving, it's a true story you know.
Yamada: It's something to pay attention to in episode 3.
――How do you feel about putting this kind of production out there in the world? Tamayama mentioned half jokingly "My popularity will probably drop". Do you worry about your image?
Yamada: Isn't our image something that's created by others rather than ourselves? I think everybody has a different idea of us. So if you despise me because of this production, it's fine by me.
Tamayama: But Takayuki, isn't it typical for you to betray everybody, the audience?
Yamada: (laughing) Typical.
Tamayama: When working with you, we find this aspect really amazing and there's something about it that we can't imitate. But I think that there's actually quite a lot of artists who secretly share this approach. For example, they might simply lack the courage or not have the opportunity to try it out. Well, I suppose this is what Japanese culture is like. It's the same for everyone, so probably there are also writers who think "In fact, I'd like to write it more like this, but for now I better just stick to the safe solutions", everybody got their something.
But that's nothing more than creating an invisible enemy and being a coward, I believe everybody should be like "here we go!" and just do it. Japan's going to wither, these are difficult times, so I hope that making this kind of production in this particular moment might encourage those who watched it to loosen up a bit and then maybe, just maybe, we might actually end up seeing far a more interesting Japan.
Yamada: (laughing) So even if there're concerns like "What if young people who watched 'The Naked Director' start doing similar things on social media?" we'd say "Well, it's the responsibility of parents to explain these things to them properly". It's nothing new: it was always like this, it just became easier to talk about it now. So if we were to hold ourselves back, we definitely wouldn't be able to create anything interesting or stimulating.
Mitsushima: You're right. And anyway, isn't "The Naked Director" available worldwide? I was born in Japan, raised in Japan, I speak Japanese, I have a body that grew in Japanese culture and on Japanese cuisine so I want to make productions in Japan. Somewhere deep inside I always wanted to create a worldwide movie with Japanese stuff, Japanese actors and Japanese script. It might not be much, but it might bring completely new possibilities. I'm so excited, because once it's on air it could be the start of something new.
Plot summary
As Tōru Muranishi (Takayuki Yamada) hits rock bottom when the company where he works as a salesman goes bankrupt and his wife cheats on him. Along with his friends Toshi (Shinnosuke Mitsushima) and Kawada (Tetsuji Tamayama), he fights to turn his luck around with the help of adult videos. He quickly becomes the dark horse of the industry, but due to the interference of a business rival, he ends up driven into a corner. It is then when meets Megumi - a female university student, who was raised by her strict mother to suppress her true self. The destiny that brought them together turns the social norms upside down.
Stars: Takayuki Yamada, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Misato Morita, Tokio Emoto, Sairi Itō, Ami Tomite, Takenori Gotô ・ Kōtarō Yoshida, Itsuji Itao, Kimiko Yo/Koyuki, Kunimura/Tetsuji Tamayama, Lily Franky, Ryo Ishibashi
- General Director:Masaharu Take
- Director:Hayato Kawai, Eiji Uchida
- Based on:Nobuhiro Motohashi's "Zenra Kantoku Muranishi Toru Den"(Ohta Publishing)
- Writers:Yoshitatsu Yamada, Eiji Uchida, Kōsuke Nishi,Kana Yamada
Continue reading: https://filmaga.filmarks.com/articles/2921/ (Japanese)


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Phil Ivey has been labeled as the greatest poker competitor on the planet by quite a few of the top-ranked professionals. He was born in Riverside, CA and moved to New Jersey before his first birthday. His grandpa taught Phil penny-ante 5-Card Stud poker. From that point on, he was hooked on poker and wished to pickup whatever he possibly could about the game. Phil routinely told his elders that he was going to be a professional poker player. He didn't permit the adverse comments from others kill his ambition of becoming one of the best poker players on the planet.
Phil began playing seriously after acquiring a fake ID with the name of Jerome. He practiced his game at the casinos in Atlantic City. The initial number of years for him were a learning experience and winning wasn't a normal outcome at the time. Phil made his mark at the 2000 WSOP where he made 2 final tables and came away with his first World Series of Poker bracelet, in a $2, 500 Pot-Limit Omaha game. At the final table he destroyed quite a few of the well known pros including "Amarillo Slim" Preston, David "Devilfish" Ulliot, and Phil Hellmuth, Jr.
Phil decided to take his game to the successive level and moved out west to Las Vegas. He continues to compete in in "The Big Game" at the Bellagio with the greatest players on the planet. Phil credits his achievements to discipline and a continuing love for the game of poker. He states that he is learning every day and is quite humble about his achievements. Phil knows he makes errors in each game of poker and constantly strives to get better.
Despite the fact that Ivey has come first in some large tournaments, he likes destroying cash games on a normal basis.


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34 Military Veterans Become Franchise Business Owners with Aid from Fee Discount Program
Home Franchise Concepts, Inc. (HFC), parent company of Budget Blinds, Inc., Tailored Living, LLC and American Decorative Coatings, LLC is pleased to announce that the company has achieved its goal of giving $1 million in discounts to U.S. veterans through its Million Dollar Franchise Event (MDFE) program.
Through the MDFE program, HFC has welcomed 34 new Veteran business owners to its franchise network. The franchisees, who signed on through the MDFE program, represent a major growth milestone for HFC as nearly 10% of its entire franchise network is now made up of Veterans. To date, HFC has more than 1,100 franchise territories across the United States, Canada and Mexico.
"Reaching this $1 Million milestone is a celebration of the American Heroes that make up 10 percent of our franchise network," says Chad Hallock, CEO and Co-Founder of Home Franchise Concepts. "We truly believe that our Veteran franchisees are some of the most talented, hardworking individuals out there and we couldn't be more honored to have them in our family."
Although the MDFE program has officially ended, Veterans interested in becoming independent business owners for one of HFC's franchise brands will continue to receive discounts on their initial fees. A $15,000 initial fee discount will be offered to Veterans interested in purchasing a Budget Blinds franchise – the standard initial fees for the franchise are about $75,000. Veterans interested in purchasing a Tailored Living or Concrete Craft franchise will receive a $5,000 initial fee discount – the standard initial fees for these franchises are about $55,000 and $50,000, respectively.
As a separate Veterans initiative, in early 2015, HFC also launched its Troops in Transition™ program, which provides honorably discharged Veterans who have left active duty within the past two years, or who will leave within the next two years, an opportunity to own a franchise with no initial fees. Veterans eligible to participate in the Troops in Transition program will enter into a limited, sixmonth franchise agreement to allow the Veteran to evaluate the business as a franchisee. Throughout this evaluation period the Veteran franchisee also has the opportunity to be mentored by an existing Veteran franchisee in the HFC network.
At the end of the evaluation period, and upon meeting certain eligibility criteria including sales objectives, the Veterans in the program can elect to sign on as a traditional Budget Blinds franchise owner for a 10 year period. The Troops in Transition program relieves the Veteran franchisee of the requirement to pay $75,000 in initial fees that would normally be required to become a Budget Blinds franchisee and, even better, includes financial bonuses for hitting certain sales targets.
"We worked closely with many of our existing Veteran franchisees to develop our Troops in Transition program," says Hallock. "We are extremely thankful that these franchisees have taken the time to help educate us on what will truly make an impact in the lives of other Veterans."
Budget Blinds would like to thank its private label manufacturing partner Springs Window Fashions for its continued support for the Troops in Transition program.
Veterans that have signed on through the MDFE program include:
Tailored Living:
• Kevin & Maria Griffin – Holladay, Utah
• Daniel & Shirley MacKay – Edmond & Norman, Okla.
• Denny Rupp & Kevin Melton – West Chester, Ohio
• Dana & Eugene Nuesca – Serving North County, Calif.
Budget Blinds:
• Nevin & Shawnna Ball – Garland, Tx.
• Andrew & Maria Birge – Sandusky, Ohio
• James Bradford Akers – Little Creek, Va.
• Edward & Andrea Burns – Costa Mesa, Calif.
• Mark & Julie Byassee – Southwest Rochester, N.Y.
• Nicholas & Jessica Gervasi & Johnny & Lisa Cagno – Kernersville, N.C.
• Eugene Alexander & Victoria Cicalo – Huntington Beach, Calif.
• Cedric & Clarita Cook – Fulshear, Tx.
• Maurice Coombs – Davie, Fla.
• Thomas & Kelly Draeger – Red Wing, Minn.
• Michael & Allison Dunn – Killeen & Temple, Tx.
• Luis & Griselle Fontanez – River City, Ga.
• Bradley James Gerron – Prosper Tx.
• Richard & Roya Grimes – Lawrenceville, Ga.
• Joe & Joanna Hebert – Grand Prairie, Tx.
• William C, Bill & Jill Laird – Santa Rosa, Calif.
• Michael & Jane Larsen – Brainerd, Minn.
• Steven, Lawrence & MaeBelle Linnemeyer – Scottsdale, Ariz.
• Keith & Terry Matz – Southern Pines, N.C.
• James W. & Travis Mullins – Kansas City, Kans.
• Jamie & Benilda Moralina Montell – Littleton, Colo.
• Christopher Petty – Lexington, S.C.
• Kevin Paulson – Charlotte, N.C.
• David & Melinda Richardson – Council Bluffs, Iowa
• Shawn & Jody Smith – Arlington, Tx.
• Charles & DeAnn Strickland – La Vernia, Tx.
• Ryan Wilde, – Raleigh, N.C.
• Joel & Bailey Thode – Hutchinson, Kans.
• Kenneth & Linda Thode – South Hutchinson, Kans.
• Gary & Kirsten Zimmerman – Amherst, N.H
Those interested in learning more about HFC's Veteran support programs can visit www.homefranchiseconcepts.com.
About Home Franchise Concepts
Home Franchise Concepts (HFC) is the parent company of Budget Blinds, Inc., Tailored Living, LLC and American Decorative Coatings, LLC d/b/a Concrete Craft™. Budget Blinds offers customers a full line of quality window coverings including shutters, shades, blinds and draperies. Tailored Living offers homeowners high quality organizational solutions for their garages, closets, pantries, family rooms, home offices and more through complimentary in-home consultations. Concrete Craft offers a variety of decorative, stained and stamped concrete options for indoor and outdoor living spaces. Based in Orange, Calif., Home Franchise Concepts brands collectively have over 1,100 franchise territories serving nearly 7,500 cities throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico.
For more information on Home Franchise Concepts and Budget Blinds franchise opportunities, visit www.veteransbusinessservices.us/product-item/budget-blinds/
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Is your mutt's mane a total mess? Luckily, detangler sprays can be helpful for easing the knots and mats out of your dog's hair without causing her any pain or stress.
Below, we'll explain what to look for in a dog detangler spray and share a few of our favorite options. We'll also point out two kinds of detanglers you should always avoid to keep Fido feeling his best.
Best Dog Detangler Sprays: Quick Picks
- #1 Lillian Ruff Leave-In Conditioner [Best Overall Dog Detangler Spray]: Effective, pleasant-smelling, and made in the USA, this conditioner is the best choice for most matted mutts!
- #2 Burt's Bees Detangling Spray [Most Affordable Dog Detangler Spray]: An affordable, US-made detangler spray from a brand you know and trust.
- #3 Bodhi Dog Detangling Spray [Gentlest Dog Detangler Spray]: A gentle dog detangler spray that's perfect for pooches with sensitive skin.
What Is a Dog Detangler Spray? Why Use a Detangler Spray for Your Pet?
Detangling spray isn't necessary for all pups, but it can be a helpful component of your dog-grooming toolbox if your pooch has long, thick, or easily tangled hair.
Dog detangler spray acts as a sort of leave-in conditioner. They help to soften your dog's hair, loosen knots, and make the hair a little slicker. This makes it much easier to brush through your dog's hair.
The best dog detangler sprays can also reduce the amount of pressure you need to apply to comb through your canine's hair, and they generally make the grooming process easier for your furry friend.
So, while they're not especially helpful for dogs with short hair, dog detangler sprays are certainly worth considering if you have a canine with an impressive coat.
In fact, your groomer probably already uses one when making Fido look his best!
If you're in the market for a detangler spray, chances are your pooch could also benefit from a good dog hair dematting comb. When used together, a dematting comb and detangler spray will make the entire grooming process much easier!
And while you're at it, be sure to check out our comprehensive dog hair dematting guide to learn some useful tips and tricks!
The 4 Best Dog Detangler Sprays
Are you ready to comb through your canine's coat? Check out our four of the best dog detangler sprays on the market!
1. Lillian Ruff Leave-In Conditioner
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About: This leave-in conditioner from Lillian Ruff is made in the USA and has a light, fresh scent. It's also safe for both cats and dogs, making it a great pick for multi-pet households.
- US-made, leave-in conditioner and detangler
- Moisturizing spray has a subtle, fresh scent
- Safe for dogs and cats
- Can be purchased in bulk quantities
- Vegan and tear-free formula
- It was a hit with dog owners who wanted a relatively subtle scent
- Owners reported that the detangler helped soften knots without leaving behind a greasy coat
- Detangler was easy to use for both dogs and cats
- Some owners didn't like the baby powder scent
2. Burt's Bees Detangling Spray
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About: This lemon-scented detangling spray from Burt's Bees is easy to use and won't empty out your wallet. But despite being super-affordable, this spray is still made in the USA, paraben-free, and is safe for dogs of all ages.
- Gentle detangling spray has a light lemon scent
- Can be used with topical flea and tick medication
- Made with linseed oil to coat and protect hair
- No sulfates or added fragrance
- Nourishing honey leaves canine coats soft and supple
- Owners appreciated the lightweight feel of this detangler
- Dogs didn't seem to mind the light lemon scent
- Spray makes it easier to comb through pooch hair and leaves coats feeling soft
- This spray cannot be purchased in bulk gallon quantities
3. Bodhi Dog Detangling Spray
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About: Need something especially gentle for your sensitive-skinned pooch? Bodhi Dog Detangling Spray may be just what you need! Made with soothing Aloe vera and jojoba oil for your four-footer, this US-made spray has a light, fresh apple scent and comes in a convenient spray bottle that's perfect for pups with massive manes.
- Gentle formula is crafted without parabens or detergent
- Moisturizing detangler utilizes Aloe vera, jojoba oil, and mineral oil
- Detangling spray is made in the USA
- Spray can be purchased in gallon quantities for bulk use
- Light apple scent
- Owners were impressed with the moisturizing power of this spray
- Most dogs and owners liked the light fresh apple scent
- Detangling spray made fur easy to comb through and was great for freshening up Fido in between baths
- Some owners found that the spray was too thick for their fur baby's coat
4. Pet Head Detangling Spray
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Pet Head Detangling Spray
Strawberry-scented, pH-balanced, US-made dog detangling spray.
About: If you are looking for a detangling spray with a really great scent, Dog BFF is a fantastic choice. This pH-balanced detangling spray has a delightful strawberry scent that'll have your four-footer smelling sweet, clean, and a bit fruity.
- pH balanced detangling spray has a sweet strawberry scent
- Spray is made in the USA without sulfates or parabens
- Helps condition coast as it detangles
- Suitable for dogs of all ages
- Formula utilizes Aloe vera to help moisturize your mutt
- Detangler helped owners brush through coats easier and left dogs with a sweet scent
- Owners loved using this spray to freshen up Fido in between baths
- Spray leaves canine coats smooth and soft
- Though most owners liked this product's scent, some found it a bit strong
- Spray cannot be purchased in bulk quantities
The Three Kinds of Dog Detangler Spray You Shouldn't Use
Note that not all types of detangler are appropriate for our furry family members. You shouldn't use the following types of detangler to keep your furry friend safe:
- Don't use human detanglers on your dog. While they may seem similar, human detanglers are different from those made for your dog, and they aren't balanced to your dog's skin pH. This could irritate your dog's skin and make it more difficult to brush your pooch. Human detanglers may also contain unsafe ingredients for your four-footer, so make sure you're using something that's specifically crafted for dogs.
- Avoid cheap, Asian-made detanglers. Many Asian-made products are perfectly acceptable to use with your dog, but detanglers don't fall into this category. Asian-made detanglers may contain harmful or irritating ingredients and are regulated less than products made in the USA or Europe. Though these detanglers may seem like a better bargain up front, they're going to cost more in the long run for your wallet and your pooch should they cause irritation.
- Don't use a detangler your dog doesn't like. If your dog dislikes a particular detangler (most likely due to the scent), it's best to try out a different product. You want to make sure the grooming experience is as pawsitive as possible, so make sure your dog tolerates your detangler of choice.
Which Dogs Need Detangler Sprays? Which Ones Don't?
Essentially, any long-haired dog could benefit from detangling spray. Here are some of the best canine candidates for detangling sprays:
- Bernese Mountain dog
- Afghan hound
- Chow Chow
- Great Pyrenees
- Havanese
- Old English sheepdog
- Pomeranian
- Shetland sheepdog
- Border collie
- Australian shepherd
- Golden retriever
- Newfoundland
- Maltese
There are countless others, so don't hesitate to try a doggo detangler spray if you don't see your pooch listed above.
However, dogs with super short coats probably don't need a detangling spray to effectively comb through their coats. For example, a beagle, Doberman pinscher, or greyhound wouldn't benefit from using one of these specialized sprays.
Buying Considerations: How Do You Pick a Dog Detangler Spray?
Not all dog dentaglers are created equally! It's important to keep the following factors in mind when selecting the perfect dog detangler for your four-footer:
- The detangler should use dog-safe ingredients. Make sure that your detangler of choice is truly safe for four-footers, especially if your pooch has sensitive skin. In fact, it's a good idea to patch test the detangler on a small part of your dog's fur before committing to using the spray all over his body. This way, you can proactively check for any adverse reactions to the spray.
- The scent of the detangler is agreeable. Make sure that both you and your dog like the scent of the detangler before using it liberally. Some dogs are averse to citrus scents, for example, and may create a negative association with grooming if they know they'll smell like a fresh orange once the process is completed. Also, if you're using detangling spray primarily for the scent factor, it may be worth looking into dog deodorant instead.
- The price is reasonable. Most long-haired dogs need to be groomed a couple of times a week, if not daily, so it's wise to find a detangler that's as affordable as it is effective. Of course, if money isn't an issue, you can go ahead and buy the fanciest product you can find.
- The detangler does its job. It can be difficult to determine the efficacy of a detangler in advance, but make sure your product of choice is working the way you intended. Detanglers all have different formulas, so it's possible that one brand may work better than another for your dog's individual coat type.
- Make sure it's compatible with any topical flea or tick medication. If your dog takes topical flea or tick treatments, you'll want to make sure that your detangler of choice does not interfere with the efficacy of your pup's medication. Just check with your vet if you're unsure.
Doggie detangler can be an excellent tool for keeping your canine's coat feeling its best. A high quality detangler makes it easier to brush your best buddy and work through nasty knots with ease.
Does your dog use a detangler? How often do you brush your furry friend? We'd love to hear all about it in the comments below!


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Varied and vast, the ocean floor is largely unexplored terrain that plays host to an abundance of marine life, much of which we're still yet to discover. It is also home to a material many see as the key to unlocking a green future – polymetallic nodules. These small lumps of rock yield the newly valuable minerals of lithium, iron and manganese; materials essential in the creation of renewable technologies.
The largely unknown landscape of the deep seabed has thus far not been a deterrent to companies who have set their sights on reaping the benefits of its deposits, with mining operations already staking their claim on sites – predominantly in the Pacific.
UK Seabed Resources is one such company, and while the licences granted to the firm have only just come to light, the project is not a new one – having been initially approved 10 years ago. The announcement has been met with criticism, with issues ranging from the length of time allotted for exploration to the reported failure to provide an environmental impact assessment.
Licence technicalities aside, the question of whether deep sea mining is the golden ticket to a renewable future remains the subject of intense debate. On the one hand, we need to get the materials for our green future from somewhere; on the other, the true harms of operations on the seafloor are still unknown. So who is right?
What's wrong with the UK's licences?
In its report on the issue, Greenpeace raised a multitude of concerns – including the fact that exploration areas detailed in the licences are more than double the size that UK Seabed Resources Ltd (UKSRL) is permitted by the International Seabed Authority to operate in, as well as the licence length of 15 years, despite 10 years being the current lawful limit in the UK.
The report also claims that campaigners have been trying to access details of the licences for over two years through Freedom of Information requests – requests that have been repeatedly denied.
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By GlobalData"These licences are riddled with so many errors and inaccuracies that their very lawfulness is thrown into question," says Louisa Casson of Greenpeace's Protect the Oceans campaign.
"With problems spanning the high seas to the corridors of power, it's time for ministers to rethink their deals with deep sea miners," she adds. "We don't know whether other governments' licences are just as bad or even worse, but we do know that supporting deep sea mining is not compatible with the UK's claims to be a global ocean champion."
Indeed, the first deep sea mining test in the Pacific was something of a PR nightmare, with a 25 tonne mining robot lost on the seafloor after its communication cable was severed. While the robot was soon recovered, it has given fodder to the argument that this industry is harmful to marine life.
The report concludes with a call for a moratorium on deep sea mining, a stance that has been echoed by other governments. The lack of data on impacts of this type of mining has not gone unnoticed, with the Papua New Guinea Government, Fiji, Vanuatu, and a number of other Pacific island nations announcing a ban on deep sea mining until more is known of its environmental risks and impacts.
In March of this year, Google, BMW, Volvo, and Samsung similarly announced they will not support deep sea mining in their supply chains.
Even the companies investigating nodule extraction have admitted there is a lack of information on mining's impacts on marine life. Canadian miner DeepGreen released a white paper on their mining intentions, in which they say it is "difficult to say with certainty that biodiversity and species impacts from deep-sea nodule collection would be less significant than those observed and measured on land".
Given this uncertainty, the question that arises is how do we manage growing demand for renewable tech without jeopardising marine or terrestrial life?
A need for information
Professor Steinar Løve Ellefmo, an associate professor from the Department of Geoscience and Petroleum at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, says that the renewable revolution needs to source materials from somewhere.
"The Green Deal requires minerals and metals. Given the increased demand (driven by population growth and living standard increases for example), much of these minerals and metals must be mined. We should increase focus on recycling, but that will not be enough to meet the future demand. Where should you get the minerals and metals from? Onshore? Offshore? Space?"
"Deep sea mining offers an opportunity, but it is a controversial one," he adds. "Much because there is a lot we do not know. That we do not know should not hinder us in collecting data, investigating, and understanding. The mineral resource potential of the deep sea is uncertain and there are uncertainties about suitable technologies and the environmental consequences. We must reduce these uncertainties."
It is a necessity that Ellefmo is not alone in wanting.
A need to develop guidelines for deep sea mining
A paper authored by researchers from the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute at The University of Queensland found there are 'significant data gaps' in deep sea mining. The team argues that as knowledge from terrestrial mining is not always transferable to the ocean, the latter should be considered and governed as an entirely new industry type – bringing with it the need to investigate further.
Paper co-author Dr Anthony Kung says that such uncertainties are compounded by the fact that there are no commercial deep sea mining projects that could function as a precedent – either in terms of project design, or the impacts of design on environment and people.
"There's no current commercial extraction, the closest we've come is the Solwara One project in Papua New Guinea," he says. "That was licensed in 2011, and it just never got off the ground."
"There are two main risks. What's down there, and what's the extraction method?" he adds. "You've got uncertainties squared – we don't have established technologies and we don't fully understand deep sea ecosystems."
When asked what should be done to progress this industry in a sustainable and safe way, Kung highlights the need to develop novel guidelines for deep sea mining.
"There is a real need to develop a way for companies to navigate what is responsible mining when it comes to deep sea mining," he says. His paper similarly concluded with the need for regulators to develop a better understanding of the ESG risk landscape before progressing with projects.
For some, the ocean floor seems the only viable option to meet the burgeoning demand for battery technologies, with expansion of terrestrial sites endangering sites of biodiversity risk. Yet it seems clear that without sufficient understanding of the terrain we're heading into, we could easily cause more harm than good, and transparency in the regulation process is the only way to ensure best practices are maintained as we forge ahead into the deep.


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Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. Streamlines Disaster Relief Procedures
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. Streamlines Disaster Relief Procedures
Victims of natural disasters will no longer need to wait for extension instructions from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) to meet certain deadlines, thanks to a new policy issued in July 2018.
The PBGC announced in the July 2 Federal Register that victims of natural disasters may use the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) instructions for late filings and deadlines found in its disaster relief news releases. Victims will need to look at the IRS statement to determine whether they qualify, and they will need to notify the PBGC that they are eligible for the extension. For premium filings, the agency will not impose any late fees or interest on the payment if made within the relief timeframe.
In the past, the PBGC, which serves as the insurance backstop for defined benefit plans, has waited for the IRS to issue its disaster relief policy before following with an announcement. Filers had to wait for the PBGC to respond to the IRS announcement to make sure the PBGC was going to provide disaster relief. In many instances, the follow-up information was boilerplate and did not give any new details.
The July 2 Federal Register notice serves as a one-time announcement outlining the qualifications and procedures to follow each time the IRS issues a disaster relief news release. The notice clarifies how the PBGC relief is tied to the IRS disaster relief news; it also explains other details including the types of filings covered, how to notify the PBGC and exceptions to the rule.
In addition, filers will be able to request relief for issues not covered by the general announcement.
The agency's new policy applies to disasters covered by an IRS disaster relief news release on or after July 2, 2018.


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Construction Companies in Castlebellingham; Premier Builders company are a family run general builder and building contractor company operating in the Castlebellingham area.If you're going to dip your toe in to the seas of building job, you want to know what you are becoming and have a few assurances. Finding the proper construction companies in Castlebellingham for you could be a tall order. In Premier Builders we pride our self for manage entire residential job from home extension, home renovations and conversions in a competitive cost on time and on budget. Our staff welcome the chance to get the absolute most out of your undertaking. Here is our take on how to choose a construction firm.
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If you're hunting for Castlebellingham construction companies in the area or elsewhere then you certainly need to be certain the construction companies that you contact are experts in their niche. If you're searching for loft conversions, extensions, renovations or basement conversions, you're going to want a professional when compared with a jack of all trades, or office builder.Make certain you have a crystal clear idea about what you would like, but also do not forget that many construction companies are experts. Be receptive to their ideas and advice based on many years of expertise. They'll know how to find the best value from your build, the best end, and possess the industry network to make it occur.
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Cowboy construction companies are the stuff of horror tales. A quick look at your shortlisted construction companies in Castlebellingham' sites will provide you an insight into if you will find specialist accreditations and Trade Association memberships that will give you some peace of mind. Premier Construction Companies, as an instance, are fully licensed significance we experience assessment on a regular basis, so that you can be certain that you're getting the best in terms of technical expertise and safety. Similarly, check that they have the relevant insurance.
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Get your ear to the floor and start narrowing down the options by hearing what other Castlebellingham have felt concerning the construction companies they've chosen? Word of mouth and looking across the local region at present work underway is 1 way. But also speak to some Construction Companies in Castlebellingham and ask for testimonies.
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in regards to costs be certain you're comparing like for like. A few construction companies provide a lot more detailed and accurate breakdowns of costs compared to others. Thus, don't just select the cheapest. Rather spend the time to assess the content of every quotation and see what's included, and what is not. Things you may need to look out for include clearance and jump hire, supplies and materials, fittings and fixtures, building regulations prices, and guarantees.
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Once you've considered all of the above you need to have a high degree on confidence you have selected a a good contractor who is worthy of your trust, minimize the upheaval,and provide an excellent finish which adds value to your home.So if you are searching for a reliable, trust-worthy high end construction company in Castlebellingham that provides luxurious home extensions, phone us now our alternative fulfill our contact page, our staff will be happy to assist you and not take advantage of our free initial consultation. Our expert manhood will come around and discus your vision for the project while giving you invaluable advice all at a no obligation initial meeting.
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Castlebellingham (Irish: Baile an Ghearlánaigh) is a village and townland in County Louth, Ireland, and medical care. The village has become a lot quieter since the construction of the new M1 motorway which bypasses the village. Because of its proximity to Dublin and Dundalk, the village has seen an influx of new inhabitants and construction.
The castle of Castlebellingham has served as one of the ancestral homes for Bellinghams since the 17th century. The Bellingham family originated in the small town of Kendal, Westmorland in England, the original ancestor of the Irish Bellinghams, Alan Bellingham hailed from here.[1] Henry Bellingham, a descendant of Alan was a cavalry officer who first came to Ireland during the English Civil War. The lands of Gernonstown were granted to Henry during the Cromwellian Settlement, in which a large amount of native Irish lands were given to Englishmen in reward for their service. Henry is named in the list of grantees under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation of Charles II s. In 1666, Charles II formally granted the lands to him for his 'faithful service as a good soldier in the late wars'[2]


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Obituary – Allan Molsbee
Allan Molsbee
Allan Ray Molsbee, 75, died Feb. 8, 2020, in Denton.
A Celebration of Life will be held at Molsbee Chapel (Church of the Brethren), in Nocona on Feb. 29, at 2 p.m.
Born March 14, 1944, in Nocona to the late Charles Ray and Grace Irene Molsbee, Allan graduated from Prairie Valley High School, having never been tardy or absent in 12 years of school.
While studying at Cooke County College, Allan met Dowleen Slagle, and they began their marriage of 54 years. He provided a good life and security for his family. He was an introspective man of integrity, honesty, and generosity. His wonderfully dry sense of humor was not recognized by all but was appreciated by those who knew him best. He lived in Gainesville, Weston, Mass., and Lake Forest / Lake Bluff, Ill. before returning home to Corinth in retirement.
Allan began his career in business with the Nocona Boot Company in Quality Control. He moved on to Southland Paint Company, where he rose from Purchasing Agent to company President and co-owner. He then moved to Boston with HMK Enterprises, Inc., and served as Vice President of Acquisitions, where he was responsible for the turnaround of newly acquired companies.
Throughout his career, he held senior executive positions with companies including, Sheffield Steel, International Business Interiors, Dillon Transport, Officite and most recently Bilz USA. He began ARM Consulting and provided executive level consulting into his retirement. Comfortable in the country or in a boardroom, Allan respected the value of every person and their role within an organization.
He will be remembered with great love by his wife and by his children, who learned perseverance and the value of hard work by watching his example. Allan loved animals, country music (Willie, Waylon & the Boys), golf, nature documentaries, rib-eyes, murder mysteries, and a good single malt. He never forgot where he came from, and he will be greatly missed.
He was preceded in death by brother Kenneth Molsbee (1975) and son Justin Allan Molsbee (2017), and is survived by wife Dowleen Molsbee; son Staley Molsbee; daughter Brooke Molsbee Weatherford (Mike Weatherford); grandchildren Ashleigh Pembroke (Vance Weintraub), Garrett Molsbee, Emily Molsbee, Dylan Pembroke, Sarah Gorostiega (Israel Gorostiega), and Collin Molsbee; and 4 great-grandchildren.


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Access Code: LHAccess20
(If you are a CBH or DBHIDS internal employee do not create a new account and please contact [email protected] to create an account for you)
Welcome to the DBHIDS Learning Hub! Here, you will find a number of courses for behavioral health professionals in Philadelphia including:
- COVID-19 Safety
- Opioid Use Disorder Overview, Treatment & Resources
- Intimate Partner Violence Overview
- Stages of Change and Building Motivation
- Chart Documentation
- Treatment Planning
- Professionalism, Ethics & Boundaries
Follow the steps listed below to create your account.
- Open a new browser window, preferably Google Chrome or Firefox (Do not use Internet Explorer)
- Go to DBHIDS Learning Hub at https://learninghub.dbhids.org/splash
The, "Create Your Account" button will take you to a form to complete. Read the eligibility criteria for creating an account with the DBHIDS Learning Hub. If you do not meet criteria, you will not be able to complete the form. If you do meet criteria, click, "yes." The "Create Your Account" button will take you to a form to complete. Read the eligibility criteria for creating an account with the DBHIDS Learning Hub. If you do not meet criteria, you will not be able to complete the form. If you do meet criteria, click, "yes."
Next, add the Access Code that you have received. The Access Code for the DBHIDS Learning Hub is LHAccess20.You will not be able to create an account without an Access Code.
Add your primary work email address. This email address should be associated with an agency that accepts CBH members for services. This email address will act as your username and will not change, regardless of whether you have the same email address. Always use this to log in. Create a secure password with 7 characters and verify that password below it.
Under, "Create your Profile," add your name to each of the designated boxes. The display name will appear at the top of your account page when you log in. The names you put in prefix, first name, middle name, last name, and suffix will appear on your transcript as well as your certificates of completion so please be mindful of the name you are using.
Under, "Employment Information," add your job title, the agency for which you work and program name. Please check off your highest level of education. If it is not listed here, check, "Other" and continue.
Under, "Level of Care," choose the level of care descriptions that apply to your job. Choose as many level of care options as applicable.
In, "Contact Info," provide an alternate email address. This email address will be used to rest your password if you no longer have access to the work email you used to create the account. This can also be used to help communicate any changes to job titles, place of business, or personal info in the DBHIDS Learning Hub.
Providing a cell phone number is optional. If you are interested in receiving text messages regarding the cancellation of in-person trainings, you can choose to allow the DBHIDS Learning Hub to send you text messages. Otherwise, choose no. These cancellations will also be sent out via email.
In, "Primary Work Address," please provide the physical address of your Agency.
Under, "Areas of Interest," click on each topic area that interests you. This will help the DBHIDS Learning Hub team identify which courses and content to offer. You can choose more than one. Once you have reviewed your registration form, click, "Register." Following this, you will receive an email from the DBHIDS Learning Hub informing you that your account has been created. This email will provide you with instructions for accessing your account.
If you have trouble with this form, please contact the Learning Hub at [email protected].
Once you have created an account, log into the system with the following instructions:
- Open a new browser window, preferably Google Chrome or Firefox (Do not use Internet Explorer)
- Go To: https://dbhids.org/learninghub
- Your Username is your work email address
If you cannot remember your password, you can always reset it by clicking the, "Rest Password" button at the bottom of the page. An email will be sent to the email address you used to sign up for the DBHIDS Learning Hub. If this email does not come to your email address, check your Spam folder to make sure that it has not been sent there.
If you have trouble logging into the system, please reach out to the DBHIDS Learning Hub Team via email at [email protected]
Once you successfully logged into the DBHIDS Learning Hub, take a look at the Welcome Page. On the right side of the page, you will find a section for announcements. This section will inform you of new and interesting courses that are available to you through the DBHIDS Learning Hub. You can also find announcements about the DBHIDS Learning Hub itself here.
At the bottom of the page is a calendar that will inform you of upcoming due dates for courses on the Learning Hub as well as an in-person courses for which you have signed up.
At the top of your page there is a tab called, "My Courses."At the top of your page there is a tab called, "My Courses."
In this section you will be able to view courses to which you have access. Courses can be assigned to you by the system administrator or you can add specific courses yourself by enrolling in them from your Electives Tab. In your My Courses page, you are able to click on the, "Open," button to the right of the course and this will launch it. Again, make sure that you are not using Internet Explorer to open complete these courses. Internet Explorer may not save your progress.
You can also choose a session for an in-classroom training. Open the course and choose the Sessions button to register for a specific session.
When completing a course, make sure you read all the instructions first. Some instructions will tell you that you must complete the course and an evaluation in order to access your certificate of completion.
If you need to unregister from an in-classroom session, open up the session for which you registered. You will be able to see a button that says, "Unregister." Click this and you will be immediately unregistered for that session. You will not be able to register for multiple sessions of the same course if you are already registered for one.
If you have any trouble registering for a course, reach out to the DBHIDS Learning Hub via email at [email protected].
To add classes to your My Courses tab, you can enroll in them from the Electives Tab. If you click on the Electives tab at the top of the page, you can view the available courses.
Once you click on the Electives tab, look through the courses and see which ones you would like to take. If you click the, "Open," button, you will be able to see a description of the course. Make sure you read all the instructions for a course before enrolling in it.
Clicking, "Enroll," next to a course will prompt a box with a description of the course to pop up. If you are still interested in enrolling in the course, scroll to the bottom of the box and click, "Enroll."
Once you click the, "Enroll," button, the course will appear in your My Courses tab.
If you want to see a record of the courses that you have taken, you can click on the, "Transcript," button. This will allow you to see the courses, the score you received, and the date it was completed. You can also choose the Adobe icon on the right-hand side of the screen to get a PDF of your course completions.
If you have any questions or are experiencing difficulty with a course, contact to the DBHIDS Learning Hub team via email at [email protected]. In your email, be as detailed as possible as you describe the issue or question so that we can provide you with the best help possible.
Need help with the DBHIDS Learning Hub? Email us at [email protected]