text:
- Are there dependencies between tasks?
- Does the result of the operations change if you change the execution order?
- Will there be contention for data or some other resource?
- Will we get a return on investment for the overhead of configuring and running in parallel?
- Do we have a significant number of tasks to run? We should have more tasks to run than we have cores.
Task Parallel Computing
Programmer Productivity Tools
I've been reading Neal Ford's The Productive Programmer. It's a good read so far. I've picked up a few tools that have already been helping. Pick up the book for the details on the reasoning behind having/using these utilities.
Virtual Desktop Manager VirtuaWin this lets you have multiple virtual desktops. I'm using one for communication apps, one for development, one for research and one for miscellaneous stuff.
Clipboard Manager Tool Ditto. So far, I'm not very fond of the UI but I like the way it works. Let's you work with a clip board stack across all of your apps. I used it to clip all of the URLs for this article and then paste them in appropriately.
Clipboard Manager that is a Windows Gadget. Lots of background choices. It's a Windows Gadget so it's always visible. However, I'm not liking the way it works. I'll probably drop it. Just thought I'd give it a whirl and thought gadget lovers might go for it.
Cygwin for bash, *nix-ish utilities, vim, Emacs, wget, curl, etc. Keep around the downloaded executable. It's really a loader and not an installer per se. You'll also have a download folder that accompanies the loader. So, you may want to pre-plan where you're going to keep that before you run the loader.
Clean code motivates
I'm still dripping as I'm writing this. (Okay, maybe not now, but when I did the voice memo recording I was!) I'm just feeling very inspired and want to get this down in bits.
A lot of people talk about code smell, what it is, how to detect it and anti-patterns. However, the thing that struck me today was this: I was out mowing the yard. The temperature was like a billion degrees, it was humid and I was mowing uphill no matter which way I turned! So basically, it was hard work. The thing that struck me was that I hit a section of air that smelled like a fragrant fabric softener. It really perked me up. I felt rejuvenated and mowed with more gusto. I looked forward to returning to the portion of the yard that had the scent in the air.
The crossover
That got me thinking about code smell. Besides code taking us more time to work through because of quality issues, there is also the issue that it smells! It is repulsive, it is repugnant, it is de-motivating! Who wants to go work on the smelly code? No one wants to do it. It is like being told to retrieve a book that is in a library that is located in the middle of a landfill. No one wants to do that. I think there is a psychological aspect of smelly code that should be considered. That is, people want to stay away from stinky code.
On the flip side, are you excited when you get to go work in clean code? Code that is well factored, code that uses patterns, code that you can understand, code that is a joy to work with. I know that I can honestly say that if I have an application to work on and I know that it exhibits the qualities above, has a good design and has a reasonable amount of documentation I get excited about working on it.
Also, when I'm working in clean code I don't want to be the one that dirties it up—regardless of who wrote it.
In conclusion, I would counsel that messy code besides having quality issues is also de-motivating. Clean code, good smelling code is a joy to work with. Strive for clean code.
Selecting a machine for OpenCL / GPGPU use
What is GPGPU computing? GPGPU stands for General Purpose computing on Graphics Processor Units. The basic idea is that we use the graphics card to do some computing. Today most computers have 2 cores and some as many as 6. With hyper-threading we may see what appears to be double that many processors. However, a video card such as the NVidia 480 has "cores" or processors.
Portable or Desktop?
If you choose a portable machine you will be able to take the unit with you for presentations, research or on the go development. However, you will typically sacrifice in the power or number of cores that the video card has available. For instance a laptop with a GT330M has 48 cores. A desktop with a GT330 has 96-112 cores.
You'll also likely have a much harder time finding a suitable laptop. When choosing a desktop, go for a mini-tower case or one that can be purchased with the appropriate video card. Current video cards often take additional power from the power supply and require additional ventilation. For instance, you could purchase an HP HPE-380T with an NVidia GTX260 with 1.8G of DDR3 RAM and 192 cores!
ATI or NVidia?
NVidia is known for its CUDA entry. ATI has ATI Stream computing. Both companies now have drivers for OpenCL. I chose to go with NVidia because I was able to find my resources for their products. ATI Stream is fairly new.
Whichever you choose, you will need to know what type of computing/gaming you plan to do and if there is existing support for that. Also, you will need to make sure to check the manufacturers pages to see if the video card you have selected is supported for GPGPU use.
Cores, speed
In general, the more cores or shaders the better. Also pay attention to how fast they are running.
What type of memory? In general you want to stay away from shared memory. This makes use of the slower system memory and steals resources from the PC. Look for DDR3 or DDR5 memory. Sometimes they are prefixed with a G like GDDR3. In general DDR5 is faster.
How much memory? After consulting with a professor with experience in the field he suggested 512M minimum. If you can get more that is preferred.
Sony CW, F and Z series
Because I wanted to be portable and have the minimum 512M with an NVidia card, I considered the Sony CW, F and Z series computers.
However, these machines are new enough that the released video drivers do NOT support OpenCL. I did find that there is a way to modify the released NVidia drivers to work on them.
After using the information above, I was able to run the Particles demo from here:
However, the hardware identification and mandelbrot set generator on that site don't work.
I also downloaded and tested a CUDA based mandelbrot application that was listed on the NVidia featured applications site. It ran nicely.
Prelude: CTS, ITS & Parallel Computing
This summer I will start a journey into Computational Transportation Science (CTS), Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) blended with parallel, distributed and agent computing.
I will specifically be exploring OpenGL and OpenCL. One of my major objectives is to explore the use of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in "general purpose" computing (GPGPU). Specifically, I will be utilizing the NVidia GT330M GPU.
Along the way I'll also likely explore other environments such as JOMP, JPPF and MapReduce. I'm also planning to use Neo4j for persistence.
It is my intent to model some non-signal controlled intersections this summer. Long term I will explore coordinated signal controlled intersections.
As part of this exploration I will also seek input and insight from those in the industry and in academia so that I can avoid reinventing the wheel and stand on their shoulders.
Forthcoming posts will include specifics about hardware selection, and software installation.


text:
How to choose the right DC-DC converter for HV gate driver applications
Bridge circuits using 'high-side' switches are common in applications from inverters to motor control (Figure 1, right). However, the high-side gate drive return is actually a switching node so the gate driver and its associated power rails are offset from ground by a high voltage, high frequency waveform with fast edges. While you can achieve this offset for the driver power rails with charge pumps, isolated DC-DC converters are often preferred and are actually necessary when safety isolation is required between control and power circuitry. Gate drive power can also be surprisingly high – 2W is typical for small systems but can be 10W+, especially when using large IGBTs. Power requirement scales directly with frequency so even newer technologies such as SiC and GaN with low gate charge need significant power when run at high speed.
Gate drive voltages are often bipolar and asymmetrical
The DC-DC has to be right for this application though – gates of IGBTs and MOSFETs of all technologies are often driven with asymmetric bipolar voltages. Even though data sheets might indicate that 0V is adequate for the OFF-drive, 'Miller' capacitance between gate and collector (drain) tends to inject charge opposing the gate drive so a negative drive ensures reliable switching. The same effect occurs with any emitter (source) inductance that is common to the gate drive loop: with high di/dt levels, a voltage transient is generated which again opposes gate drive. With packaged devices, this common inductance is inevitable and even a few nH causes volts of spikes with realistic rates of change of current. The bipolar gate drive voltage can be relatively uncritical for some devices such as Si-MOSFETs with typically +/-12V but SiC and GaN need to be much more exact with +6/-3V often recommended for GaN, for example.
DC-DCs see continuous barrier stress
General-purpose DC-DC converters are often specified with high insulation breakdown voltage and safety agency certifications but are only rated for occasional voltage stress and are expected to see little voltage across their barrier in operation. In high-side gate drive applications, however, the voltage across the barrier may be kV, switched at 100kHz or more with fast edges, over 100V/ns. This stress can lead to unreliable operation and short life of the DC-DC if not specifically designed for the job.
An operational consideration is barrier capacitance: often, general-purpose DC-DCs measure around 100pF but with this value, according to I = C.dV/dt, our 100V/ns edges would pump a massive 10A through the barrier into the control circuitry and back to the power switches through an indeterminate route. The effect would be increased EMI at best and at worst chaotic operation and damage. Barrier capacitances should therefore be a few pF maximum.
Figure 2: Current and voltage transients in high-side gate drives
Even with low capacitance, the barrier of DC-DCs in the application is subject to a high electric field with implications for long term reliability. A phenomenon known as 'Partial Discharge' (PD) is a measure of the degradation of insulation when subject to high electric field strength. PD is caused by the gradual and sequential breakdown of micro voids in insulation leaving them carbonised and conductive. As more voids break down, the remaining insulation is subject to yet higher field strength leading to eventual run-away and total failure. PD has a definite 'inception' voltage below which no breakdown occurs and a lower 'extinction' voltage. In DC-DCs designed for high-side gate drives, the inception voltage should exceed the normal operating voltage by a good margin to indicate that long-term degradation will not be a problem. Testing for PD is complex and dedicated equipment is necessary that can detect inception, typically at several kV, with discharges measured in pico-coulombs.
PD testing proves long-term reliability
Manufacturers of DC-DCs such as Murata have done extensive testing for PD on their products, both on general-purpose types and those intended for high-side gate drive applications. Some test results are shown in Figure 3 for Murata parts showing worst-case inception voltages well over 3kV for their MGJ series, designed for gate drive applications.
The NCM6 series shows lower inception values even though it has high levels of safety agency rating, demonstrating that PD and safety rating are not necessarily correlated. The difference in this case being the construction of the barrier – the MGJ series is solid material whereas the NCM6 is multilayer.
Figure 3: PD test results on Murata DC-DCs
In many instances, the DC-DC converter needs low capacitance, good PD performance and a safety agency rating as well. The control circuitry is often accessible to touch through interfaces, for example, and the DC supply to the power switches could be several kV. Safety rules therefore apply and the DC-DC needs to have reinforced isolation, mandating creepage and clearance distances and an adequate insulation system. For industrial systems utilising three-phase high voltage supplies, the requirements can be extreme – for example 690VAC systems need 14mm creepage for compliance with the common standard EN 61800-5 for safety in motor drives.
Murata features high-side gate driver DC-DCs in its portfolio at power levels from 1W to 6W, including parts with multiple isolated outputs for all high side drives in half, full and three phase bridges. All DC-DCs hold safety agency certifications including a 6W part with 14mm creepage for 690VAC reinforced isolation. Download the brochure to find out more.
Aimtec also has solutions at the 2W power level with high operating temperature to 105°C.
If you need advice on selecting the right DC-DC converter for your application, or would like to discuss your full design in more detail, click the Ask an Expert button to get in touch with our team of technical specialists in your local language. Alternatively, click here to explore our range of DC-DC solutions and find further resources to support your design.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Liz Peters is an award-nominated performer who has spent the last decade helping people feel relaxed and playful in the spotlight.
She teaches improvisation around the world and works with organisations and individuals to improve human communication: how we connect and collaborate with each other and how we deliver in front of an audience. A regular contributor on leadership programmes, Liz helps build presence and agility in the change-makers of tomorrow, and has brought her innovative approach to communication training into countless organisations, from social enterprises to global corporations.
Liz is a trained actress and a certified Embodied Facilitator: a multi-disciplinary qualification in how posture and movement affect the way we feel, think, relate and perceive.
With 20 years' experience in the entertainment industry, Liz is co-Artistic Director of The Maydays – one of the UK's leading improvisation companies – and tours worldwide, creating musicals live in the moment, without a script.
Why did Liz want to publish a book?
'I wanted to publish a book for a few reasons.
'One of the key drivers was that I'd found very little published content that was engaging to read on the subject of embodiment. As someone who has specialised in the subject and therefore clearly sees the value in it, I was frustrated by the available literature. I wasn't finding it accessible or engaging, so how could it possibly reach others? I wanted to create something that was informative and entertaining on the subject, which could be useful for people who might only have a passing interest.
'Another key driver was to organise my thoughts: I'd been working in three complimentary areas for some time. I could see how they crossed over and I wanted to focus and clarify this understanding.
'The other reason was to improve my credibility as an expert in my field. What better business card is there than a book?'
What Liz says about working with SRA Books
'Working with the team at SRA has been great. Initially, I was on the fence about whether to self-publish or work with a company. I can wholeheartedly say I have been happy with my choice every step of the way! There is so much to understand about book publishing and these guys know all about it. For a first-time author the task of writing a book is already big enough – to try and master all the other aspects would have been overwhelming and I am certain that if I had gone down the self-publishing route I wouldn't now have a published book.
'SRA have been helpful and encouraging, and I'm very happy to have had these experts on my team!'
Authored by Liz Peters
Our authors
- Marianne Abib-Pech
- Reg Athwal
- Kate Atkin
- Ambrose and Jo Blowfield
- Rob Brown
- William Buist
- Tony Burgess and Julie French
- Steve Bustin
- Matthew Chuck and Doug D'Aubrey
- Chantal Cooke
- John Dashfield
- Stephen Davis
- Melanie de Miguel
- Anna Del Conte and Michelle Berriedale-Johnson
- Jack Delmonte
- Angi Egan
- Tom Evans
- Arti Halai
- Paul Hargreaves
- Gerry Harrington
- Roger Harrop
- Robin Hills
- Della Hudson
- Andrew Jenkins
- Gene Johnson
- Tim Johnson
- Joolz Lewis
- Sue McGregor
- James Mendelssohn
- Kate Mercer
- Palma Michel
- Michelle Mills-Porter
- Sue Mitchell
- Neil Munz-Jones
- Shaz Nawaz
- Jim O'Connor
- Nikki Owen
- Brad Parkes
- Liz Peters
- Jonathan Rees
- Lynda Shaw
- Mel Sherwood
- Elaine Steane
- Chloë Thomas
- Daryl Woodhouse and Garry Smith
- Vicki Wusche


text:
Furnish the living-room with a comfortable sofa or love seat, a chair or two, a coffee table, and a TELEVISION with TELEVISION stand. Low-cost options for providing the living-room consist of implementing patio furnishings, director chairs, or dorm-style collapsible chairs. Chairs from the kitchen area can be brought into the living-room to offer additional seating for guests. A set of wood TELEVISION tables can be utilized as side tables, and even as a TELEVISION represent a small TELEVISION. Nowadays, one can enjoy Leather Chesterfields Sofas without having the have to spend huge cash. Customization of these leather armchair and sofas are very much possible, given the many sellers and makers. Leather options, design and colors are more different and updated. Truly, Chesterfield sofas have actually come a long way. These sofas are no longer the couch for the elite but the furnishings of people with great taste.
Recliner sofa loveseat Car door flapper design outside release handle. Clifford Rocker Recliner Sofa by Coaster – 600281 This stunning brown leather sofa features dual recliners and a comfortable middle seat that easily accommodate up to 3. Recliner sofa loveseat Car door flapper design outside release handle.
You can also get lift jackson catnapper recliners chairs, this type is incredibly beneficial if you are struggling to get in and out of your chair. They come with an internal electric motor that operates the lift system in the chair, this gives aid to you to walk from the chair when in upright position. The senior and individuals with impairments find these chairs specifically beneficial to help in getting in and out of chairs, you will find that this type of chair can be costly to purchase due to the complicated system needed to operate the lifting procedure of the chair.
Excellent Manufacturers Of Recliners In Your Area
A loft bed is the very best space-saving furnishings item for an extremely little bedroom or a studio apartment where you have to combine your work Recliners On Sale Gig Harbor WA and resting area together. It will be much better if your bedroom has a high ceiling, because that suggests you will have lots of headroom. The area under the bed can be used for any activity. Some individuals place their desks there. Some like furnishing it with a few bean bags and recliners. You can do whatever you want with that additional area. If you have not found the joys of a recliner yet, you have not actually lived. At the end of a tough day there is no more comfortable furniture piece where you can unwind in and put your feet up for many hours without getting uncomfortable. Some models of recliner chairs have foot stools and some turn into rocking chairs. The choice is yours as the sort of customisations offered for recliners are absolutely limitless and buying one can be a little bit of a difficult choice specifically if you don't adopt the low end of recliner chairs.
If your sofa is not in really good condition and you do not believe that it would be of any usage to anybody else then you might be able to get your old sofa recycled. Being able to get your sofa recycled will depend on whereabouts in the nation you live. Sofa development given that the 16th century can primarily be credited to English and German craftsmen.
When shopping for Leather Recliners, to decide exactly what kind of product occurs. Looking Presidential is not important. It is important that you know when you're sitting on it. When you go to the shop, you can sit in a Leather Recliner and see if it matches. You can sit and view more than as soon as, about of whether the strategy is sound and functioning effectively. The seat must be covered under service warranty. If the seat is not covered by service warranty, do not purchase. This is due to the fact that they will be able to return and replace. They have actually ended up being fairly popular in the past years or two. The first ones appeared on outdoor patios, as an ultra comfortable way to sit by the pool and for sunbathing. They've migrated indoors and can be discovered in numerous living rooms and dens, providing a remarkable and fashionable way to relax your mind and body after a long day of work or play. An absolutely no gravity recliner chair would even be ideal in your office for when you are taking a much-needed break.
What Can The Music Market Teach You About Recliners On Sale Gig Harbor WA
Leather recliners, Pianos, and coffee tables that utilized to be huge now come in small sizes. You can sit on these leather stretch recliner cover chairs and enjoy yourself by seeing TELEVISION or checking out a book. Some of the chairs even come with the swivel system that adds a different experience for the person who is sitting.
Likely, if you're familiar with the Stressless brand, you've seen their infomercials or display screens in your regional furnishings store. And you may be questioning if the Stressless kids batman recliner is really worth the $1299 asking rate? Is it that comfy? Does the business back its item? Is the chair durable? For a complete review of the Stressless recliner and the responses to these concerns, keep reading. These recliners are offered in different styles and can be the ideal choice for your home. The Relaxateeze swivel is a very popular kind of recliner. It is more popular due to the versatility it offers and is offered in various designs. Since these chairs are quite huge in size, you should first have a plan where to keep the chair if you are preparing to purchase one. When acquiring a chair, have a look at the product implemented.
A number of material recliners occur to be masterfully handcrafted in order to match the actual interiors associated with the apartment or condo. Raw designs at this point are far more trendy, sleek, versatile, and in addition space-saving recliners without the requirement of compromising comfort. Fabric recliners can be discovered in various tones like brown, ivory, celery, chestnut, brick purple then black.
Obama's Guidebook To Recliners Excellence
• Foyer sideboard table: Sideboard tables, sofa tables, and consoles are perfect areas for smaller sized town groupings. They are really easy to organize town screens on top of, and are among the much better areas for isolating your display for a more focused watching point. These tables offer the benefit of displaying at a level where even smaller sized youngsters can see every element of your town setting. Naturally that can likewise be its biggest disadvantage. If you think small roaming hands might suggest the damage of your miniature town, pick another place. Now lets talk about the colors that are available in sofa. Typically people prefer to pick black and grey colors in it, however other then this tan, beige, navy, white colors are likewise available in it. If you like some different, cool and intense colors then red, yellow, purple, blue colors are likewise available. The choice and choice of colors depends completely on your choice and interior of your room where you are about to position it. In short I would like to conclude that the choice of sofa totally depends on your choice, house décor and of course on your budget.
Albert Einstein Weighs In On Recliners
It's commonly the finishing touch in a living-room, the sofa table. From elaborate pieces that help define the theme of a space and complete the look of your sofa to easy tables that offer you a location to put lights and display treasures behind your sofa, the design of these home furnishings run the gamut. While the design you pick will depend on your personal preferences, you must likewise consider a few of the other characteristics to a sofa table before bringing one into your house. A Camelback sofa takes its place among the standard styles and derives its name from the serpentine back that is located behind arms that are high and rolled. Various bottoms total Camelback, these varying from stretchers and exposed legs to cool skirting underneath a tight, cushioned seat usually in three pieces. The Knole sofa hails its design from 17th century English design. With straight angled arms the exact same height as the back, the distinction between the Tuxedo and Knole is that the arms are adjustable and stand straight or open out.
Sofa beds generally have actually the best made frames and spring building. If the sofa bed will be implemented rather frequently, you might want to lie down on it and test the quality of the bed mattress. If the bed mattress is thicker and you cannot feel the support bars, then it is a quality sofa bed that your friends and family will take pleasure in resting on.
Modern Furniture implements cost-effective products like glass, aluminum, vinyl and tubular steel. Notwithstanding the cost-effective products utilized, the cost of this furniture is still thought about expensive specifically to the masses. This is not the usual case, nevertheless, due to the fact that of the comfort and functionality it provides. To illustrate this well, you can have a bed, a night table and a light by having a single bed. Another method to show this benefit is a sofa and a bed in one. The 3rd, and final option is IKEA. I'm not a big fan of Ikea, as it's actually non reusable furniture/ stuff for future garbage dump in my viewpoint, and not the most comfy. But it does fit (and I do have Ikea bookshelves in my house for example – I'm not completely anti Ikea). I don't enjoy the sofas as I don't think they are as comfy in the long term. If you do purchase one, and want to enhance the appearance I've come throughout a couple of terrific sites for customising your Ikea sofa – Slipcovers here from Bemz with some terrific fabric options (picture is above) and various leg profiles here at Prettypegs
You Don't Have To Be A Celeb To Obtain Great Recliners
A sofa bed mattress pad is the crucial to turning your awkward sleeper sofa into a pleasurable, restful location for you or your guests. What if you like your visitor and you have no other option however to put them on your sofa? A sofa bed mattress pad is the inexpensive solution to making your sleeper sofa comfy.
The Chesterfield sofa invokes photos of formally attired gentlemen sequestered in a dark paneled research, drinking brandy and smoking stogies. Throughout history the Chesterfield sofa has actually pertained to represent many things to different people The Victorian era saw the Chesterfield as the key piece in living rooms, where gentlemen unwinded while their wives sat in chairs crafting needlepoint. Since the 19th century, it has actually been related to Freudian psychoanalysis, as Sigmund Freud originally made use of a sofa during his hypnosis sessions with clients. Flash forward 2 centuries and discover yourself seated in a sumptuous red leather Chesterfield in a dark corner of a regional coffeehouse or wine bar. A sofa bed must be structured solidly and must have completed edges so that the bed sheet or blanket do not connected and tear out. The best option is that to get rid of all kind of sheet or blanket prior to closing the sofa beds. Now sofa beds are readily available with built in mattress. Or you can utilize different mattress for comfortable and comfortable sleep. When purchasing sofa bed, inspect the quality of mattress, use of excellent quality mattress guarantees you comfort and simplicity. The thickness of mattress is not basically much better. A well built mattress either thick or thin is vital for proper sleep.
How To Make Your Recliners On Sale Gig Harbor WA Look Like A Million Bucks
If you desire a sofa that you will enjoy to make use of daily, microfiber may be the top choice. Microfiber is generally polyester made from really thin strands. The strands integrate to form a suede-like fabric that is really smooth and soft to the touch, not to point out stays relatively cool to the skin even in hot weather. Microfiber also has an excellent natural capability to ward off liquids so keeping one is not that big of a disadvantage. Being permeable and absorbent, microfiber needs consistent cleaning since it brings in dirt and debris-the very same reason it is popular as a cleaner. You might not be aware of it at the time, however image can suggest everything in a house. Replacing rough sofas with a Chesterfield sofa can do wonders for your home. It will liven the space up, provide it character, and present wealth in a brand-new manner. And since of the design, you can put practically anything around the sofa and create a beautifully crafted space.
On the top of the sofa table, I added this oval glass tray I picked up on clearance at Target. Given that I don't have the space to add tables to the ends of the sofa and this table is as tall as the sofa, I added a set of coasters to implement when a location is needed to sit drinks down. A beach-like design, for example, needs sofas and chairs in a relaxed design, with sandy, neutral upholstery.
Truths Everyone Ought To Know About Recliners
Their sitting height & leg length need to fit. In this method they can get simply the ideal size, and can pick from a big range of treatments to match their sofa or existing design. Some cheaper couches have a big cavity inside, if so you have plenty Recliners On Sale Gig Harbor WA room.
Okay, that is relevant, moulding outright the relief recliner fits the hank besides broadness of a cats tush is needed to arrange special feels stinking rich ticks sitting rule their hand recliner. A recliner is the best addition to your living room, household room, or man cave. There is absolutely nothing much better then coming home after a long day at work and kicking back in your recliner to unwind and see your preferred programs on TELEVISION or having household and buddies over for motion picture night on your reclining sofa.
Do Recliners Much Better Than Those Self Identified Experts
A lift chair, in some cases called a lift high leg recliners sale, are developed to look like mundane recliners however function to aid people, primarily senior citizens, that suffer from arthritis and other illness that makes transition in between sitting and standing tough. Riser recliner chair is a specially developed chair that is able to help people who have issues when getting in and out of a chair.


text:
MANILA, Philippines — Rep. France Castro (ACT Teachers party-list) has been named as a recipient of an international prize for her defense of trade union rights in the Philippines.
The Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights is given to an individual or an organization that has worked to promote trade union rights and/or to strengthen trade union organizing around the world.
In a statement, the Svensson Foundation said Castro was awarded the prize for "her struggle throughout many years to organize teachers and to fight for basic workers' rights in the Philippines."
The Philippines has been listed as one of the worst countries for workers in the world by the International Trade Union Confederation in its 2018 Global Rights Index.
"In a context of extreme state violence and suppression of civil liberties, workers and trade unionists in the Philippines faced threats and intimidation," ICUP, the world's largest trade union federation, then said.
Brave leader
The Svensson Foundation called Castro, a public school teacher for more than 20 years, a "brave" person for championing union rights.
"Despite threats and intimidation there are people who fight for democracy and human rights. Some active unionists, in particular and teachers, have been targeted by the regime and those around them. Some have been killed or imprisoned. Death threats are common," the foundation said.
It added: "France Castro is one of the brave persons who stands up for democracy and workers' rights."
The members of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers—in which Castro was a former secretary general from 2006 to 2015—have been subjected to profiling by the Philippine National Police.
Castro was also among those who were detained during a solidarity mission in Lumad schools in Talaingod, Davao del Norte in November last year.
The Svensson Foundation also lauded Castro for her works in the House of Representative such as pushing for the expansion of maternity leave, fighting for higher minimum wages and filing bills on the rights and welfare of teachers, among others.
"Both inside and outside the parliament, France Castro has been fighting for the poor, the workers and the human rights against powerful opponents," it said.
- Latest
- Trending


text:
In fact, real estate investment can generate huge profits after undergoing full research and evaluation of Thailand Property (determining current and future values).
This is one of the reasons many people choose Thailand Property investment for full time job.
Discussion about real estate is more focused on residential real estate. Commercial real estate, together with successful investors, often seems to have gone down.
However, commercial real estate is an excellent choice for real estate investment.
Commercial real estate includes various real estate.
- For most people, commercial real estate is simply a complex of office, factory and industrial unit.
- But these are not all commercial real estate. There are still many commercial characteristics.
- Shopping centers, health centers, commercial facilities and strip shops are good examples of commercial Thailand Property such as open space.
- Residential real estate like an apartment (or real estate with units of more than 4 houses) is also considered commercial real estate. Actually there is demand for commercial real estate.
So, is commercial profit really profitable?
- In fact, in the absence of profitability, not to use commercial real estate!
- However, compared with housing and real estate, commercial real estate knows that its probability is somewhat low.
- However, the profit of commercial real estate may be large (in fact it is much bigger than real estate transactions of the same size).
There are several reasons for thorough investigation of commercial real estate investment.
For example, after undergoing a certain level of audit, you can earn considerable money by purchasing resale or leasing real estate to a retailer or other type of business or both.
In fact, I think that the development of commercial real estate is a preliminary stage.
Indicators that the housing market will grow soon
Therefore, you need to evaluate the possibility of rising commercial property prices and implement your own strategy to understand the potential growth of the region's important business (for example, regardless of incentive for local tax etc.) . Investment is very fast.
From the viewpoint of commercial real estate investment strategy, grasp and set investment objectives (that is, through direct rental income and subsequent capital gains through resale), how much you can afford, It is important to know how it affects.
Before choosing commercial Thailand Property to make a selection, I confirm the goal and I will meet a banker (or financier).
Please clarify your ideas and understand that what you need is right.
Current opportunities, you need to change and change your investment strategy, and sometimes you need to be wide enough.
For example, if you think that many commercial real estate (for example, landlike thailand property portal) will be supplied, it is expensive to purchase separately, but it will be a good opportunity. Purchase with small group investors (eg friends and family) together (share later).
Or in other cases (for example, when a retail boom in a specific area is expected), it may be convenient to buy a mall or a small town commercial if the Thailand Property investment strategy tries to buy an empty land Yes. It may be a place where you can rent to a merchant or switch to a rental warehouse for small and medium enterprises.
In other words, commercial real estate provides many investment opportunities, knows it and looks for it.
Detailed info here


text:
Posted on The carbide puzzle
#1 posted 11-24-2017 04:21 PM
With no pictures didn't happen.
Biggest draw back to carbide steel is cost and need to replace when can no longer sharpen. True most commercial carbide tools are scrapers but that's okay for somethings turners turn they cannot be beat. Talking about dense antlers, exotic woods, bone or stone.
Yes carbide scrapers are okay for what they can do but don't think will ever completely replace conventional turning tools. Not sure average turner has time or money to make their own cardbide gouges, but prehaps some company will start making them some day.
-- Bill


text:
Itinerant Arias LP (Black)
More Information
Christopher Paul Stelling – Itinerant Arias LP (Black)
Track list:
Side A
- Destitute
- The Cost Of Doing Business
- Oh, River
- A Day Or A Lifetime
- Sleep Baby Sleep
Side B
- You Have To Believe
- Stranger Blues
- Badguys
- Red Door
- A Tempest
This purchase includes a digital download of the singles "Destitute" and "Badguys" as well as the entire album. You will be emailed a link to access "Destitute" and "Badguys" shortly after purchase. You will be emailed a link to access the full album download on the release date.


text:
English country cottage in East Runton, near Cromer - sleeps 4Mill Haven Cottage, East Runton, near Cromer, Norfolk, NR27 9PH.
Property Reference: UKC1105
Bedrooms - 2
Sleeps - 4
Bathrooms - 1
Sorry no pets
Holiday rental prices and last minute offers
Please select your start date
Mill Haven Cottage
2 bedrooms, sleeps 4
Enjoy a family seaside holiday at this spacious, detached cottage, which lies just ½ mile from the beach, shops and pub.
Boasting spacious, light accommodation, Mill Haven has been furnished and decorated to a very good standard with home from home comforts. This detached holiday cottage stands proud on a hillside overlooking the village of East Runton. Situated on the North Norfolk Coast, this popular holiday village has amazing cliff top views and a long sandy beach, popular with families and surfers. There is a designated footpath on the doorstep, with circular routes and coastal paths adjoining. The beach and village centre with a variety of shops, two pubs, 9-hole golf course and village greens, are within walking distance.
The traditional seaside towns of Sheringham and Cromer are located a little further along the coast. Both offer a selection of independent shops, cafés, restaurants, pubs and golf courses. Cromer, 2 miles, is famous for its pier with live entertainment (seasonal), and Sheringham, 3½ miles, is home to Splash Leisure and Fitness Centre, and the North Norfolk Steam Railway which visits Weybourne and Holt.
There are frequent bus and train services to Cromer, Sheringham and Norwich from the village. RSPB Nature Reserves, stately homes, parks and historical places of interest are all within easy reach. Other places to visit include Blakeney Quay, 13 miles, the pretty historic market town of Holt, 9½ miles, and the city of Norwich, 24 miles, with its excellent shopping, market square, cafés, restaurants, castle museum, theatre and cathedral. Beach ½ mile. Shop, pub and restaurant ½ mil
Accommodation details
Ground Floor:Living room: With Freeview TV. Kitchen/dining room: With gas range, microwave, fridge/freezer, dishwasher, tiled floor and patio door leading to garden. Utility room: With washing machine. Separate toilet. Open tread stairs to.
First Floor:Bedroom 1: With super kingsize bed. Bedroom 2: With twin beds. Bathroom: With shower over bath, and toilet.
Extra Amenities
Gas central heating, gas, electricity, bed linen, towels and Wi-Fi included. Travel cot and highchair. Enclosed lawned garden with sitting-out area and garden furniture. Garage with bike storage. Private parking for 3 cars. No smoking.
Cromer map and Mill Haven Cottage location
Self-catering features
- Detached Property
- DVD player
- Dishwasher
- Fuel and Power Included
- Enclosed Garden / Patio
- Garden / Patio
- Golf nearby
- Highchair
- Pub within 1 mile
- Television
- WiFi
- Bed Linen & Towels Included
- Cot Available
- Washing Machine
- Fishing Nearby/On-site
- Welcome Cottages
- Coastal within 1 mile
- Coastal within 3 miles
- Coastal within 5 miles
- Norfolk Coast
- Parking - On Site


text:
An article in the New York Times, titled Using Smartphones and Apps to Enhance Loyalty Programs, recently caught my attention. The author John Grossman talked about how the world of loyalty schemes, once the province of car washes and sandwich shops with their 'ten-punch' punch cards, is about to be blown open through the use of loyalty apps on smartphones.
The article spoke about two kinds of behaviour enabled through a programme that rewards loyalty, in this case defined as frequency of purchase. The first is something called the 'endowed progress effect', where research has proven that a 'ten-wash' punch card with the first two washes already punched will be redeemed faster than an 'eight-wash' card. People seem to be pulled along a repeat purchase path faster when they think they have a head start on the game.
The second is 'random intermittent reinforcement', which refers to the act of providing an unexpected reward to the most valued customers (ie, a free drink at checkout). Think slot machines. If people believe that they have a random chance of winning something, they'll be more likely to drop their quarters in the machine again and again.
But as I read this, I was thinking, is that what loyalty has become in the age of digital media and mobile apps? Is loyal behaviour only built by the manipulation of that behaviour through incentives?
I would argue that loyalty bought this way is empty loyalty. It may work to drive traffic in the short term, but without an underlying brand affinity, driven much more by other emotional and rational considerations, these sorts of schemes are bound to fail, and for several reasons.
First, we're saturated with loyalty programmes. They're no longer differentiators. Rather, they're a price of entry. We've come to demand and expect to be rewarded for our purchases. Second, for a loyalty scheme to work, it has to be based on a foundation of product benefits. If it doesn't feel good to do it, eventually no incentive is high enough. Third, the proliferation of options, and the ease with which one can switch between brands, means that there's a brand right next door that will step in when another fails, loyalty programme or not.
All of this means that the loyalty I exhibit today could easily be discarded tomorrow. Only through a more enduring bond – that can stand up to the efforts of others to buy that loyalty through better, more 'rewarding' incentives – will a brand achieve lasting loyalty.
In other words, the path to loyalty is the same as the path to building a successful brand.
She said: "In our post-truth era, brands must be honest with themselves, and brave enough to challenge their own status quo.
"I always admired Hall & Partners' global reach, deep client relationships and cutting-edge approaches for translating human truths for the world's biggest brands.
"I look forward to working with clients to co-create and craft their blueprints for the future."
Drexler was previously executive vice president for research and strategy agency Now What and held roles at Ketchum Communications and Insight Strategy Group.
Vanella Jackson, CEO of Hall & Partners, said: "In a dynamic, changing environment, identifying opportunities for growth is challenging.
"Rapid innovation experimentation is vital to ensure brands survive and prosper.
"Jen brings with her a wealh of knowledge and a history of non-traditional approaches to insights and innovation that clients love."


text:
Bible Commentaries
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible
Jonah 1
This chapter gives an account of the call and mission of Jonah to go to Nineveh, and prophesy there, and the reason of it, Jonah 1:1; his disobedience to it, Jonah 1:3. God's resentment of it, by sending a storm into the sea, where he was, which terrified the mariners, and put the ship in danger of being lost, Jonah 1:4; The discovery of Jonah and his disobedience as the cause of the tempest, and how it was made, Jonah 1:6; The casting of him into the sea at his own motion, and with his own consent, though with great reluctance in the mariners, Jonah 1:11. The preparation of a fish for him, which swallowed him up, and in which he lived three days and three nights, Jonah 1:17.
Verse 1
Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai,.... Or, "and the word of the Lord was"
"the word of prophecy from the Lord;'
and it may be so interpreted, since Jonah, under a spirit of prophecy, foretold that Nineveh should be destroyed within forty days; though the phrase here rather signifies the order and command of the Lord to the prophet to do as is expressed in Jonah 1:2; whose name was Jonah "the son of Amittai"; of whom see the introduction to this book. Who his father Amittai was is not known: if the rule of the Jews would hold good, that when a prophet mentions his own name, and the name of his father, he is a prophet, the son of a prophet, then Amittai was one; but this is not to be depended on. The Syriac version calls him the son of Mathai, or Matthew; though the Arabians have a notion that Mathai is his mother's name; and observe that none are called after their mothers but Jonas and Jesus Christ: but the right name is Amittai, and signifies "my truth"; and to be sons of truth is an agreeable character of the prophets and ministers of the word, who should be given to truth, possessed of it, and publish it:
saying; as follows:
Verse 2
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,.... That is, arise from the place where he was, and leave the business he was about, and prepare for a long journey to the place mentioned, and be as expeditious in it as possible. Nineveh was the metropolis of the Assyrian empire at this time; it was an ancient city built by Ashur, not by Nimrod; though he by some is said to go into Ashur or Assyria, and build it, Genesis 10:11; and called it after the name of his son Ninus; for it signifies the mansion or palace of Ninus; and by most profane writers is called Ninus; according to Diodorus Siculus
and cry against it; or prophesy against it, as the Targum; he was to lift up his voice, and cry aloud, as he passed along in it, that the inhabitants might hear him; and the more to affect them, and to show that he was in earnest, and what he delivered was interesting to them, and of the greatest moment and importance: what he was to cry, preach, or publish, see Jonah 3:2;
for their wickedness is come up before me; it was come to a very great height; it reached to the heavens; it was not only seen and known by the Lord, as all things are; but the cry of it was come up to him; it called aloud for vengeance, for immediate vengeance; the measure of it being filled up, and the inhabitants ripe for destruction; it was committed openly and boldly, with much impudence, in the sight of the Lord, as well as against him; and was no more to be suffered and connived at: it intends and includes their idolatry, bloodshed, oppression, rapine, fraud, and lying; see Jonah 3:8.
Verse 3
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord,.... He was not obedient to the heavenly vision; he rose up, but not to go to Nineveh, but to Tarshish, the reverse of it; to the sea, as the Targum, the Mediterranean sea, which lay west, as Nineveh was to the east. Tarshish sometimes is used for the sea; see Psalm 48:7; he determined to go to sea; he did not care where, or to what place he might find a ship bound; or to Tarsus in Cilicia, the birthplace of the Apostle Paul, Acts 22:3; so Josephus
"lest he should prophesy in the name of the Lord:'
but there is no need to seek for reasons, and which are given by others; such as going out of his own country into a foreign one; the length of the journey; the opposition and difficulties he might expect to meet with; and the risk he should run of his life, by prophesying in and against the metropolis of the Assyrian empire, where the king's court and palace were; and he not only a Heathen, but a sovereign and arbitrary prince; when the true reasons are suggested by the prophet himself; as that he supposed the people would repent; he knew that God was gracious and merciful, and upon their repentance would not inflict the punishment pronounced; and he should be reckoned a false prophet, Jonah 4:2;
and went down to Joppa; a seaport town in the tribe of Dan, upon the Mediterranean sea, where was a haven of ships, formerly called Japho, Joshua 19:16; at this time Joppa, as it was in the times of the apostles: here Peter raised Dorcas to life, and from hence he was sent for by Cornelius, Acts 9:36; it is now called Jaffa; of which Monsieur Thevenot
"it is a town built upon the top of a rock, whereof there remains no more at present but some towers; and the port of it was at the foot of the said rock.--It is at present a place of few inhabitants; and all that is to be seen of it is a little castle with two towers, one round, and another square; and a great tower separate from it on one side. There are no houses by the seaside, but five grottos cut in the rock, of which the fourth is in a place of retreat for Christians.--There is a harbour still in the same place where it was formerly; but there is so little water in it, that none but small barks can enter.'
It was a very ancient city, said
and he found a ship going to Tarshish; just ready to put to sea, and bound for this place: Providence seemed to favour him, and answer to his wishes; from whence it may be observed, that the goodness of an action, and its acceptableness to God, are not to be concluded from its wished for success:
so he paid the fare thereof; the freight of the ship; the whole of it, according to Jarchi; that haste and a quicker dispatch might be made, and no stay for passengers or goods; but that it might be put under, sail directly, and he be the sooner out of the land; which, if true, would show him to be a man of substance; and agrees with a notion of the Jews, and serves to illustrate and confirm it, that the spirit of prophecy does not dwell upon any but a rich man; for which reason the above interpreter catches at it; but Aben Ezra more truly observes, that he paid his part, what came to his share, what was usual to be paid for a passage to such a place: and whereas it might be usual then, as now, not to pay till they were arrived at port, and went out of the ship; he paid his fare at entrance, to secure his passage, lest through any pretence he should not be took in upon sailing; so determined was he to fly from God, and disobey his orders:
and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord; having paid his fare, he entered the ship directly, lest he should be left behind; and went down into the cabin perhaps, to go along with the mariners and merchants, all Heathens to Tarshish, whither they were bound, in order to be clear of any fresh order from the Lord, to go and prophesy against Nineveh: here again the Targum adds,
"lest he should prophesy in the name of the Lord.'
Verse 4
But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea,.... He took a wind out of his treasures, and hurled it, as the word
and there was a great tempest in the sea; which caused the waves to rise and roar, and become very tumultuous: this wind was an extraordinary one, like that "laelaps" or storm of wind which came down into the sea when the disciples of Christ were on it in a ship; or like the "Euroclydon", in which the Apostle Paul was, Acts 27:14;
so that the ship was like to be broken; it was in danger of it; it seemed as if it would, the waves of the sea were so strong, and beat so hard upon it. It is in the original text, "the ship thought it should be broken"
Verse 5
Then the mariners were afraid,.... Perceiving that the storm was not an ordinary, but a supernatural one; and that the ship and all in it were in extreme danger, and no probability of being saved. This shows that the storm must be very violent, to frighten such men who were used to the sea, and to storms, and were naturally bold and intrepid. The word used signifies "salters", so called from the salt sea they used, as they are by us "mariners", from "mare", the "sea"; though R. Japhet in Aben Ezra thinks the commodity they carried in their vessel was salt:
and cried every man to his god: to help them, and save them out of their distress. In the ship it seems were men of different nations, and who worshipped different gods. It was a notion of the Jews, and which Jarchi mentions as his own, that there were men of the seventy nations of the earth in it; and as each of them had a different god, they separately called upon them. The polytheism of the Pagans is to be condemned, and shows the great uncertainty of their religion; yet this appears to be agreeable to the light of nature that there is a God, and that God is to be prayed unto, and called upon, especially in time of trouble:
and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them; or, "the vessels"
"when they saw there was no profit in them;'
that is in the gods they called upon, then they did this; the other was a matter of religion this a point of prudence; such a step the mariners took that belonged to the ship in which the Apostle Paul was, Acts 27:18;
but Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; into one of its sides, into a cabin there; the lowest side, as the Targum:
and he lay, and was fast asleep; even snored, as some versions have it: it may seem strange he should when the wind was so strong and boisterous; the sea roaring; the waves beating; the ship rolling about; the mariners hurrying from place to place, and calling to each other to do their duty; and the passengers crying; and, above all, that he should fall into so sound a sleep, and continue in it, when he had such a guilty conscience. This shows that he was asleep in a spiritual as well as in a corporeal sense.
Verse 6
So the shipmaster came to him,.... The master of the vessel, who had the command of it; or the governor of it, as Jarchi; though Josephus
and said unto him, what meanest thou, O sleeper? this is not a time to sleep, when the ship is like to be broke to pieces, all lives lost, and thine own too: thus the prophet, who was sent to rebuke the greatest monarch in the world, is himself rebuked by a shipmaster, and a Heathen man. Such an expostulation as this is proper enough to be used with professors of religion that are gotten in a spiritual sense into a sleepy and drowsy frame of spirit; it being an aggravation of it, especially when the nation they are of, the church of Christ they belong to, and their own persons also, are in danger; see Romans 13:11 Ephesians 5:14;
arise, call upon thy God; the gods of this shipmaster and his men were insufficient to help them; they had ears, but they heard not; nor could they answer them, or relieve them; he is therefore desirous the prophet would pray to his God, though he was unknown to him; or at least it suggests that it would better come him to awake, and be up, and praying to his God, than to lie sleeping there; and the manner in which the words are expressed, without a copulative, show the hurry of his spirit, the ardour of his mind, and the haste he was in to have that done he advises to: every good man has a God to pray unto, a covenant God and Father, and who is a prayer hearing God; is able to help in time of need, and willing to do it; and it is the duty and interest of such to call upon him in a time of trouble; yea, they should arise and stir up themselves to this service; and it may be observed, that the best of men may sometimes be in such a condition and circumstances as to need to be stirred up to it by others; see Luke 22:46;
if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not; the supreme God; for the gods they had prayed to they looked upon as mediators with the true God they knew not. The shipmaster saw, that, to all human probability, they were all lost men, just ready to perish; that if they were saved, (as who knew but they might, upon Jonah's praying to his God?) it must be owing to the kind thoughts of God towards them; to the serenity of his countenance, and gracious acceptance of prayer, and his being propitious and merciful through that means; all which seems to be the import of the word used: so the saving of sinners in a lost and perishing condition, in which all men are, though all are not sensible of it, is owing to God's thoughts of peace, to his good will, free favour, and rich grace in Christ Jesus, and through him, as the propitiatory sacrifice. The Targum is,
"if so be mercy may be granted from the Lord, and we perish not.'
Verse 7
And they said everyone to his fellow,.... That Jonah awoke and rose up, upon the shipmaster's calling to him, is certain; but whether or no he called upon his God is not; perhaps he did: and when his prayer was over, and the storm still continuing, the sailors said one to another,
come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us; for, Observing something very uncommon and extraordinary in the tempest, and all means, both natural and religious, failing to help them; and though they might know that they were each one of them sinners, yet they supposed there must be some one notorious sinner among them, that had committed some very enormous crime, which had drawn the divine resentment upon them to such a degree; and therefore they proposed to cast a lot, which was an appeal to the divine Being, in order to find out the guilty person. That the Heathens used the lot upon occasion is not only manifest from profane writers, but from the sacred Scriptures; as Haman, and other enemies of God's people; and the soldiers that attended the cross of Christ, Esther 9:24 Nahum 3:10. Drusius reports, from Xavierus, of some Heathens sailing to Japan, and other places in the East Indies, that they used to carry an idol with them, and by lots inquire of it whither they should go; and whether they should have prosperous winds, &c.
so they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah; through the overruling providence and disposing hand of God, which attended this affair; for, not to inquire whether the use of the lot was lawful or not, or whether performed in that serious and solemn manner as it should be, if used at all; it pleased God to interfere in this matter, to direct it to fall on Jonah, with whom he had a particular concern, being a prophet of his, and having disobeyed his will; see Proverbs 16:33. The Syriac version renders it, "the lot of Jonah came up"; that is, the piece of paper, or whatever it was, on which his name was written, was taken up first out of the vessel in which the lots were put.
Verse 8
Then they said unto him, tell us, we pray thee,.... They did not fall upon him at once in an outrageous manner, and throw him overboard; as it might be thought such men would have done, considering what they had suffered and lost by means of him; but they use him with great respect, tenderness, and lenity: and entreat him to tell them
for whose cause this evil was upon them: or rather, as the Targum,
"for what this evil is upon us;'
and so Noldius
what is thine occupation? trade or business? this question they put, to know whether he had any, or was an idle man; or rather, whether it was an honest and lawful employment; whether it was by fraud or violence, by thieving and stealing, he got his livelihood; or by conjuring, and using the magic art: or else the inquiry was about his present business, what he was going about; what he was to do at Tarshish when he came there; whether he was not upon some ill design, and sent on an unlawful errand, and going to do some ill thing, for which vengeance pursued him, and stopped him:
and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou? which questions seem to relate to the same thing, what nation he was of; and put by different persons, who were eager to learn what countryman he was, that they might know who was the God he worshipped, and guess at the crime he had been guilty of.
Verse 9
And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew,.... He does not say a Jew, as the Targum wrongly renders it; for that would have been false, since he was of the tribe of Zebulun, which was in the kingdom of Israel, and not of Judah; nor does he say an Israelite, lest he should be thought to be in the idolatry of that people; but a Hebrew, which was common to both; and, besides, it not only declared what nation he was of, but what religion he professed, and who was his God:
and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land; this answers to the other question, what was his occupation or business? he was one that feared the Lord, that served and worshipped him; a prophet of the great God, as Josephus
Verse 10
Then were the men exceedingly afraid,.... When they found he was a Hebrew, and that it was the God of the Hebrews that was angry; of whom they had heard much, and what great and wonderful things had been done by him, and now had an experience of his power and providence, and that it was for fleeing from his presence that all this was; and therefore, since they had been guilty of greater sins than this, as they might imagine, what would be done to them? and particularly it might fill them with dread and terror, when they heard of the destruction of Nineveh, the prophet was sent to denounce; of which no doubt he had told them, and they might from hence conclude it would certainly be:
and said unto him, why hast thou done this? they wonder he should act such a foolish part as to flee from such a God he had described to them, who was Lord of heaven, earth, and sea; and therefore could meet with him, and seize him, be he where he would; and they reprove him for it, and the rather as it had involved them in so much distress and danger:
for the men knew that he had fled from the presence of the Lord,
because he had told them; not when he first entered into the ship, but now, though not before mentioned; for no doubt Jonah told the whole story at length, though the whole is not recorded; how that he was sent by the Lord with a message to Nineveh, to denounce destruction to it; and that he refused to go, and fled from his face; and this was the true reason of the storm.
Verse 11
Then said they unto him, what shall we do unto thee,.... Though, both by the lot and his own confession, they knew he was the guilty person; for whose sake this storm was; yet were unwilling to do anything to him without his will and consent, his counsel and advice; perceiving that he was a prophet of the God of the Hebrews, whom he had offended, and knew the mind and will of his God, and the nature of his offence against him, and what only would appease him they desire him to tell what they ought to do; fearing that, though they had found out the man, they should make a mistake in their manner of dealing with him, and so continue the distress they were in, or increase it; their great concern being to be rid of the storm:
that the sea may be calm unto us? or "silent"
(for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous); or, "it went and swelled"
Verse 12
And he said unto them, take me up, and cast me forth into the sea,.... This he said not as choosing rather to die than to go to Nineveh; or as having overheard the men say that they would cast him into the sea, as Aben Ezra suggests, greatly to the prejudice of the prophet's character; but as being truly sensible of his sin, and that he righteously deserved to die such a death; and in love to the lives of innocent men, that they might be saved, and not perish, through his default; and as a prophet, knowing this to be the mind and will of God, he cheerfully and in faith submits to it, with a presence of mind and courage suitable to his character. It was not fit he should leap into the sea and destroy himself; but that he should die by the hand of justice, of which the shipmaster and the ship's crew were the proper executioners:
so shall the sea be calm unto you; or "silent", as before; it will cease from its roaring, and do no further hurt and damage:
for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you; for the sin he had committed in fleeing from God, this storm was raised and continued; nor could it go off till they had done what he had directed them to; there was no other way of being clear of it. In this Jonah was a type of Christ, who willingly gave himself to suffer and die, that he might appease divine wrath, satisfy justice, and save men; only with this difference, Jonah suffered for his own sins, Christ for the sins of others; Jonah to endured a storm he himself had raised by his sins, Christ to endure a storm others had raised by their sins.
Verse 13
Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to bring it to the land,
but they could not,.... Or, "they digged"
for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them; it grew more and more so; the storm beat right against them, and drove them back faster than they came; so that it was impossible to stand against it.
Verse 14
Wherefore they cried unto the Lord,.... Not unto their gods, but unto the true Jehovah, the God of Jonah, and of the Hebrews; whom they now, by this providence, and Jonah's discourse, had some convictions and knowledge of as the true God; and therefore direct their prayer to him, before they cast the prophet into the sea:
and said, we beseech thee, O Lord, we beseech thee; which repetition shows the ardent, vehemence, and earnestness of their minds in prayer:
let us not perish for this man's life; they were in the utmost perplexity of mind, not knowing well what to do; they saw they must perish by the storm, if they saved his life; and they were afraid their should perish, if they took it away; and which yet they were obliged to do; and therefore had no other way left but to pray to the Lord they might not perish for it; or it be reckoned as their crime, and imputed to them, as follows:
and lay not upon us innocent blood; for so it was to them; he had done no hurt to them since he had been with them, except in being the cause of the storm, whereby they had suffered the loss of their goods; however, had not been guilty of anything worthy of death, as they could observe; and as for his offence against God, they were not sufficient judges of, and must leave it with him: the light of nature teaches men to be tender of the lives of fellow creatures, and to avoid shedding of innocent blood:
for thou, O Lord, hast done as it pleased thee; it appeared to them to be the wilt of God that he should be cast into the sea; from the storm that was raised on his account; from the determination of the lot; from the confession of Jonah, and his declaration of the will of God in this matter, as a prophet of his: they did not pretend to account for it; it was a secret to them why it should be; but it was no other than what he would have done; and therefore they hoped no blame would be laid on them.
Verse 15
So they took up, Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea,.... They took him out of the hold or cabin where he was, and brought him upon deck; they took him, not against his will, but with his full consent, and according to the direction and advice he gave them: "they", for there were more than one employed in this affair; one or more very probably took him by the legs, and others put their hands under his arm holes, and so threw him into the sea:
and the sea ceased from her raging; immediately, and became a calm; and the wind also ceased from blowing, which is supposed; the end being answered by the storm, and the person found and obtained, what was sought after by it, it was still and quiet. The story the Jews
Verse 16
Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly,.... This was not a natural fear, as before, but a religious one; and not a servile fear, or a fear of punishment, but a reverential godly fear; for they feared him, not only because they saw his power in raising and stilling the tempest, but his goodness to them in saving them:
and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord; a spiritual sacrifice; the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving for a safe deliverance from the storm; for other sort of sacrifice they seemed not to have materials for; since they had thrown overboard what they had in the ship to lighten it, unless there might be anything left fit for this purpose; but rather, if it is to be understood of a ceremonial sacrifice, it was offered when they went out of the ship, according to the gloss of Aben Ezra; or they solemnly declared they would, as soon as they came to land; to which sense is the Targum,
"and they said, they would offer a sacrifice:'
and agreeably to this the words may be rendered, with what follows, thus, "and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord", that is,
and made vows; they vowed that they would offer a sacrifice
Verse 17
Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah,.... Not from the creation of the world, as say the Jews
and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights: that is, one whole natural day, consisting of twenty four hours, and part of two others; the Jews having no other way of expressing a natural day but by day and night; and to this the antitype answers; namely, our Lord's being so long in the grave; of whose death, burial, and resurrection, this was a type, as appears from Matthew 12:40; for which reason Jonah was so miraculously preserved; and a miracle it was that he should not in this time be digested in the stomach of the creature; that he was not suffocated in it, but breathed and lived; and that he was able to bear the stench of the creature's maw; and that he should have his senses, and be in such a frame of mind as both to pray and praise; but what is it that the power of God cannot do? Here some begin the second chapter, and not amiss.
Copyright Statement
Bibliography Information
Commentary Navigator
Search This Commentary


text:
August 22, 2015 from 11:45pm to 11:45pm – The Goat Come join us for The Dirty South ride. We'll head to some freakin' awesome destinations south of...stuff. Funk and Reggae and bikes that can handle a light trek off-road are more than welcome. If you… Organized by Your Mom | Type: jammin, in, the, name, of, icehouse
October 31, 2015 at 11:45pm to November 1, 2015 at 7am – The Goat It's October. As usual, we're being slackers and putting the ride off until the last possible Saturday. Which actually had the good taste to fall on Halloween this year. As in past years, costumes… Organized by Your Mom | Type: season, of, the, witch
April 16, 2016 at 11:45pm to April 17, 2016 at 6am – The Goat It's April, which means the weather really needs to get its @#%& together. That means it's a great time to ride our bikes and drink some beer. In honor of the new and improved weather, we'll ha… Organized by Your Mom | Type: work, is, the, curse, of, drinking, class
July 16, 2016 at 11:30pm to July 17, 2016 at 7am – Billy Goat Tavern It's July. Third Saturday is coming up and it's about time we have another Playground Ride. All playgrounds, all the time. Come join us for another triumphant evening of bikes, beer, and playing o… Organized by Your Mom | Type: i, want, a, pony, and, fries, on, the, side
September 17, 2016 from 7:30am to 11am – 1400 N. Ashland Ave. and Blackhawk st. 2nd Ward Office - start/finish Bike The 2nd Ward with Alderman Brian Hopkins. Saturday September 17th at 7:30 a.m. Join Alderman Hopkins on a bike ride around the 2nd Ward ! Ride rolls out at 8:00am ! Free refreshments and Bike t… Organized by 2nd Ward Alderman Brian Hopkins | Type: tour, and, social, ride, of, the, ward, with, its, alderman
February 3, 2017 from 6pm to 7:30pm – The Hideout The first 2017 edition of Active Trans' Stories on the Move, our storytelling series hosted by our Membership Associates, is at the Hideout on February 3rd! Join us after work for TRUE TALES from you… Organized by Active Transportation Alliance | Type: storytelling, social, the, hideout, happy, hour
August 5, 2017 at 8:30pm to August 6, 2017 at 2am – City of Crystal Lake City Hall Complex 100 w. Woodstock Street Pedaling into the Night for a Bicycle Friendly Crystal Lake! In collaboration with local bicycle enthusiasts, The Sixth Annual Crystal Lake Night Owl Bike Ride will take place Saturday night, Augus… Organized by Zoe Clemmons | Type: fun, social, late, ride, in, the, chicago, metro, area, owl.
May 20, 2018 from 7:30am to 12:30pm – Lake Shore Park, 808 N. Lakeshore Drive https://rnrachicago.org/events/bike-the-2nd-ward-with-alderman-brian-hopkins-sunday-5-20-18-in-memory-of-commander-paul-bauer/ Bike The 2nd Ward with Alderman Brian Hopkins! Free refreshments, T-sh… Organized by Lisa Ryan with Alderman Hopkins | Type: social, tour, of, the, 2nd, ward, with, alderman, brian, hopkins
July 14, 2018 from 10am to 4pm – Arlington Heights Ford You're invited to our 6th annual BBQ For The Troops! We are firing up the grill again this year to raise money to support our troops. 100% of proceeds will support members as well as their families i… Organized by Tracy Sefcik | Type: bbq, for, the, troops, -, cross, country, cycle, 4, vets, and, uso
September 16, 2018 from 6am to 4pm – Dawes Park - Evanston Riders can choose between 25, 50, 62 & 100 miles to cycle through the North Shore up to Kenosha, WI and back along the lakefront. Organized by Megan | Type: street, ride, through, the, north, shore
© 2008-2016 The Chainlink Community, L.L.C. Powered by


text:
Leather Body Cuirass Made from Strong Harness Pulp Genuine Leather
- Product Code: Leather Body Cuirass Strong Harness Pulp Genuine Leather
- Availability: In Stock
Riveted Leather based body armor also called a leather cuirass provides complete full upper body protection to chest area from the shoulders to the waist line. Side buckles to adjust the size, this product will fit a person with 44 to 48 chest.
Product Weight: 6.61 LBS
Complete measurement on the listing photo
Includes breastplate and back plate
Fastened with adjustable leather straps
Increased defense for light LARP combat
Excellent addition to any historical reenactment outfit


text:
Pearson Whiffin is a recruitment agency with offices in both our Churchill Square Business Centre in Kings Hill and in St. George's Business Park in Sittingbourne. They operate over four different divisions: commercial and business support, IT, finance and education. The education division, which was established in September 2015, is based in St. George's Business Park and run by the business manager for the education division, Daniel Goodwin: "The education division was set up because all of our directors are acutely aware that there are significant difficulties in the education market at the moment. It's hard to find good staff or teachers and schools are under significant pressure in terms of money and budgets. We introduced Pearson Whiffin Education to try and combat some of that to provide a solution to schools that met some of those needs."
Building partnerships with schools
To help combat the challenges in education, Pearson Whiffin Education aims to be more than just a recruiter for the schools with which they work: "We partner with our schools in a robust way different to other recruiters. For example, while we recruit for a school, we provide their students with free careers advice. At the moment schools are under a lot of pressure to deliver against benchmarks to provide kids with a more rounded view of the world when they leave school. We spend a lot of time delivering projects such as CV workshops and interview training.
"We also provide a very cost-effective solution, doing everything we can to keep prices low for schools and we really focus on quality; schools are happy to pay if they know they're getting good value. We make sure we do this by providing a very transparent service so that schools know the value they're getting out of us. That means we pre-vet candidates, doing a lot of work prior to sending them into a school, involving significant security checks and a lot of preparation on the phone and face to face so they know the behaviour and assessment polices and academic levels and are better prepared to work at that school.
"It's about building that partnership and building a relationship with that school on as many different levels as possible; we understand how schools operate and what their students are like and when we understand that, we can provide a better member of staff for them in a more streamlined process."
"A happy Capital Space customer"
When the education division was set up, Pearson Whiffin needed to expand. Since so many of the education division staff members live in Sittingbourne, taking out a unit at St. George's Business Park in addition to their existing space at Churchill Square Business Centre felt like the ideal solution: "Schools like local recruiters. If they need a teacher to come in first thing in the morning it helps to have a local teacher, and it's much easier for us to find a local teacher if I am local!
"Being based in Sittingbourne has significantly improved our relationships with Swale schools, because we can get to the schools and our teachers easily. We can also take on work experience students from local schools, which further builds relationships; the kids learn a lot from it and get to learn about how workplaces function, not only helping their education but giving them a more rounded understanding of things.
"Our block is a brilliant piece of commercial accommodation; Capital Space just make it all incredibly easy. All I had to do was get in some furniture; the Capital Space team helped me put the IT in place and we had it all setup and doing business within one morning; it was so easy and the room was cleaned and repainted.
"What I also like about Capital Space is the comradery. We bump into people and everyone shares things with us – there's a nice group of people here. We can show our work experience people different companies and they can see what other offices are like. Also, whenever I've needed anything done like a sign made or some cleaning, there's a company here that does it. If not, I can get a message to the centre manager, Jeanette, and she will reach out to the Kings Hill office and see if there's somebody who can do it there. There's a great network of professionals."
Business success
Pearson Whiffin Education aren't just concerned about making money, they love to build relationships with their clients and candidates: "A lot of recruiters measure their success by the money they make, but we love repeat custom. If a school continues to use us, or an existing client uses us in a different way such as to come in for workshops as well as facilitating recruitment, then we consider that a success. On the flipside, if we have a candidate who has gone away because of a job and then they come back to us after a while, it's great to hear because they know the level of support we give them and they want to keep coming back to us!"


text:
SPRINGFIELD -- At the beginning of the school year High School of Commerce freshman Orlendimar Faria was struggling with English and social studies.
"I think I had only turned in like one English worksheet all year," said the soccer and volleyball player who also likes to act. "Now since coming to the scholars program, my grades are really high, like a 99 in one class and 89 in the other."
Faria is a perfect example of students benefiting from the Scholar Athletes program in place at Putnam Vocational Technical Academy, the High School of Science and Technology and now Commerce.
Tiffany Holmes serves as the regional coordinator for Boston-based Scholar Athletes while Jason Plamondon is the program coordinator at Commerce. Scholar Athletes is a nonprofit corporation that brings together college athletes and other interested tutors with student-athletes who are struggling with school work or anything else.
"Every day after school except for Fridays there are tutors in here. Each sports team is required to come in at least one hour a week and during that hour I'm checking grades and making sure they are on task," Plamondon said. "We take it week by week and see where each student is struggling and find ways to get ahead of it."
There are also drop-in times throughout the day when students can come in during a free period to talk about what's going on with them, discuss college options and more, Plamondon said.
The program was founded in 2009 in Boston through the efforts of then-Mayor Thomas Menino, Suffolk Construction Company chairman and CEO John Fish and former Boston Breakers professional soccer player Rebekah Salwasser, who serves as the executive director of the program.
"When I first talked to Commerce principal Diane Bauer about the program she asked, 'What's the catch?' but there is no catch, we just want to be here to support your students academically and athletically," Salwasser said.
Students and contributors gathered at the high school Monday to officially open the "zone," as the rooms dedicated to Scholar Athletes are called, which has been open since the beginning of the school year and already has more than 160 participants. While geared toward athletes, the program is available to any student interested in participating.
Mayor Domenic Sarno and Superintendent of Schools Daniel Warwick attended the opening. They said they want to see zones in every city high school.
"Excelling on and off the field or court, you can't lose with that combination," Sarno told students.
A major collaborator has been American International College, which provides credit to students who tutor at the school for at least two hours a week.
"They have been the most supportive college of this program here or in Boston, so I am so proud of AIC," Warwick said.
"Partnerships like these allow us to bring in undergraduate students and volunteers from those campuses to create meaningful relationships with our zone members and create pipelines that hopefully lead to those higher ed institutions that are so critically important," Salwasser said.
For students like Faria and junior soccer player Kemar Ferguson, the program has done more than improve their grades.
"I had mostly D's, especially in math, and now I have B's and A's, so it has been really great, but it has also helped me approach situations in a different way," Ferguson said. "Coming here, it has helped me to become a better person."


text:
Players to players
Players to players
It all started in 2007 when we decided with my wife Lucia and two friends of ours Filip and Marian, that it's time to pursue our dream of making games. We rented a tiny old industrial place and made a few DIY projects to furnish it. We loved it there, but when it rained, we had to rush to unplug all the computers because unfortunately, our 'office' was not waterproof.
So, 9 months later, we gathered some money and moved to a decent office near Bratislava city center. The new place was especially great for Maxik, our hungarian vizsla, as there was a vet ambulance right in the building. In 2009, we started to work there on TrainStation game which, a few years later, became a huge hit. As the company grew, we found ourselves limited by space and it was time to move to new premises.
Here in Digital Park, we have already celebrated successful launch of the Diggy's Adventure mobile app and Seaport game as well. Together, we have built a company where there's no limit to creativity and fun and I am thankful to work with such talented and driven people.
Šimon Šicko, CEO and Co-founder of Pixel Federation
Press releases
Pixel Federation reported a 52,5% year-on-year growth in revenue
Pixel Federation is an independent game studio from Slovakia. We focus on transportation
and puzzle free to play mobile games. During the past year, we strengthened...
TrainStation 2: From Zero to Hero
Pixel Federation's train simulator sequel of the popular TrainStation game called [TrainStation...
Pixel Federation creates R&D department in pursuit of finding "The next big thing"
Slovakia-based free to play games developer Pixel Federation has established a brand new R&D department. The leading role took up CEO Simon Sicko who historically...
Pixel Federation - our way of protecting the employees and helping the country in face of pandemics
Slovakia was one of the first countries to embrace the quick measures against spreading the COVID-19. We, at Pixel Federation, acted even faster and it brought us interesting results!
For more Pixel insights, follow us on Facebook
We develop and publish free-to-play games,
which are available on Android and iOS mobile devices, Facebook and here on our PIXEL portal site.
Besides the games, we love to cook, bike, run, sing, grill, chill, and play table football, table tennis or darts.
working in Pixel
the market
in 2019


text:
Composing Obituaries in Lawrenceville, Georgia
Lawrenceville, Georgia
Wages & Sons Funeral Home & Crematory
1031 Lawrenceville Highway
Lawrenceville, GA 30045
For those who have opted for cremation services in Lawrenceville, Georgia we are experts at composing obituaries to honor a wonderful life. An obituary is an important aspect of communicating to the community the details regarding any Celebration of Life or Remembrance Gathering as well as memorial information and requests.
When composing the obituary for your loved one you want to tell a story about their history as well as their accomplishments, and of course highlight the people who were near and dear to them. It should be a meaningful tribute befitting a life well lived.
Cremation-With-Care has selected the local family owned funeral home that is best qualified to provide you with all of the information that is required in an obituary for someone having cremation services. They will help and assist you in preparing and placing the obituary for your loved one in a timely and proper manner.
Coming Soon! Helpful Resources


text:
Are you planning on remodeling your home sometime soon? Maybe a renovation is long overdue for your home. Many homeowners are scared that they are going to end up breaking the bank with their home remodel. If you fall into this category of people, you need to remember that you are in control and that there are all sorts of ways you can save money on a home remodel. If you are one of the many homeowners who want to save money on their home remodeling projects, here are some tips for you!
Bring In Natural Light
Take advantage of what mother nature offers every day! Instead of purchasing unnecessary amounts of expensive light fixtures, find ways you can bring in natural light! Maybe you can reconstruct your living room windows in a way that permits more light to shine through. You won't see your cost-saving initially, but you will surely save money in the long-run if you rely on natural light for your home.
Don't Move Your Sink/Toilet
If possible, do not move the home's existing plumbing locations! For example, sometimes homeowners who decide they want to move the sink or toilet in their bathrooms. This could end up costing you thousands of dollars! Is it even worth spending that kind of money just to move your sink a few feet?
Plan Ahead
One of the best ways to save money on a home remodel is to plan ahead! After you decide what you want to have done to your home, you will want to ensure you have at least a ballpark idea of what everything is going to end up costing you. Set your budget and determine what are the necessities of your home remodeling project and what are the additional luxuries that aren't as important.
Your Project Loan can help you With All Your Home Improvement Needs today!
We offer a vast array of loan services, just for you. You'll never need to worry about paying too much out of pocket for your home improvement projects, and you can start working on your home improvements immediately. We also are partnered with the best contractors in the area, so you'll be supported by quality throughout your entire project.
We know that repairs like these are urgent matters, that is why we offer a nearly instant loan decision once you fill out our 60-second loan application! We conduct business in all 50 states* and our rates start as low as 3.99%*. We can also finance up to $150k* for your project! What are you waiting for? Apply on line today!


text:
- My Abandonware >
- Strategy >
- Osiris
Also available on: Amiga
Description of Osiris
Osiris is a video game published in 1993 on DOS by Boeder Software GmbH. It's a strategy and puzzle game, set in a board / party game and turn-based themes, and was also released on Amiga.
Captures and Snapshots
Screenshots from MobyGames.com
Comments and reviews
Write a comment
Share your gamer memories, help others to run the game or comment anything you'd like. If you have trouble to run Osiris, read the abandonware guide first!
Download Osiris
We may have multiple downloads for few games when different versions are available. Also, we try to upload manuals and extra documentations when possible. If the manual is missing and you own the original manual, please contact us!
Just one click to download at full speed!
DOS Version
Amiga ROM
- Year: 1993
- Publisher: Boeder Software GmbH
- Developer: Pixlers Vienna
Similar games
Fellow retro gamers also downloaded these games:


text:
What a great challenge and a perfect start to talk about another kind of change than the seasonal one. One I've been thinking about a lot lately – or better, the past few years with the rise of smartphones, Apps, Instagram and technology getting cheaper and more accessible for everyone):
How our perception is changing with the possibilities of technology and software, how altered images become the norm and we don't even think about how much we may be "fooled".
Hello Everyone, I'm Mona, a 30 year old Graphic Designer taking Passport Pictures, retouching Images and digitally restoring old photographs in a Portrait Studio all day long.
In my spare time I love the opposite for my personal relaxation and happiness:
Capturing beautiful light and moments in nature & cities.
Starting with the camera settings
this is the most basic part and already such a big influence on the mood of the image. From setting the temperature, the exposure/brightness or a wide or closed aperture for a magical sparkly blur or pin sharp lines in landscape and architecture to working with ND / Polarizing / Gradient Filters to preserve certain parts of the image and alter the other parts (mostly the darker parts we want to brighten)
Now into the editing software / apps
this is basically the new dark room where there's almost endless possibilities to change our shot into what we want it to be. In addition to the physical work during taking the shot we can basically edit almost all of the above.
Change is nothing new
it's only the methods changing and the ways we work and make things happen. From Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (Source:Wikipedia) who took some of the first color photographs around 1900 by using RGB filters, taking three photographs and "stacking" them into one additive color image, to Ansel Adams (Source:Wikipedia) during the 1920s to 1950s, doing everything in every step of the process to make his images as beautiful and dramatic as possible.
If you are interested, there's a very beautiful documentary about Ansel Adams, one of the greatest landscape photographers of all time and how he had full control over his images from the taking of the photo to virtuosic work in the darkroom
Technology is making it very easy and accessible to alter images the way we want them to look – without much knowledge – from photoshopped reality to body slimming apps and filters taking us back to the warm, nostalgic feel of film sometimes when digital looks too cold, flat and clean. Just soften the lights and shadows, add some grain et voilà…
As much as I love editing images and creating a certain mood or atmosphere
A sad downside of it I'm experiencing every single day at work is the changing self image of people (mostly female teenagers) who still don't seem to be aware of how altered images have become the norm and trying to achieve that technically created reality – be it body image or flawless homes & lives which for both body and mind is very unhealthy till impossible in some aspects.
An aspect I'm really hoping is becoming more aware and people seeing altered images as art, pleasing to watch but not reality.
Week 1–Patti of https://pilotfishblog.com/


text:
Biofreeze® Pain Relieving Singles delivers targeted pain relief with the benefits of cryotherapy to treat athletic and muscle related injuries, sore or strained muscles, shoulder and arm discomfort, neck, hip and leg pain, back pain, painful joints, ankle or foot pain, and pain associated with bruising, and arthritis.
The Singles are the ideal size for:
Anytime. Anywhere.
- Running
- Hiking
- Biking
- Travel
- Purse
- Golf Bag
- Gym Bag
- Desk
- Backpack
- Car
- And More...
Active Ingredients: Menthol USP (10%) (Cooling Pain Reliever).
Other Ingredients: Arnica Montana, Calendula, Chamomile, Dimethyl Sulfone, Echinacea, Ethanol, ILEX Paraguarenis, Isopropyl Myristate, Juniper Berry, Water, White Tea
Other Information:
Store in a cool dry place with lid closed tightly.
Manufactured in the USA
Not tested on animals


text:
Our Ingredients
We deeply believe in the importance
of high quality ingredients and
commit to using the best in class.
Our Beliefs
We believe in quality by design. Starting from the right ingredients, utilizing modern technologies and challenging the status quo.
We believe in good manufacturing practices. Our manufacturing equipments are state of the arts. Our facility is efficient sophisticated and built to maintain cleanness and safety for the products, our employees, and the environment.
We believe in diligent quality control and we are equipped to do so.
We believe in people; our staff of highly qualified, passionate and caring professionals are internationally diverse group that is committed to continuous improvement.
Sustainability is one of our core values and we adhere to the highest international standards of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and quality management concepts.
We embed sustainability throughout our engineering process right from the supply chain to ingredients and packaging respecting 'green chemistry' practices. Marssai bottles utilize recycled and recyclable material.
A fragrance is an agreement reached thanks to a knowledgeable combination of ingredients, As in a musical composition, the harmony of a chord depends on the equilibrium of proportions and the olfactive intensity of each note. With Marssai Products I can feel this harmony.
Over the years i have tried many products, Marssai transfers my mood immediately to a calm and happy one.
Marssai products clean the skin while protecting its natural barrier function. I am happy to see a product line that provides balanced cleaning effect without irritation.
Marssai's packaging are modern, simple, convenient and cool.