Making a rainbow pony bead prism suncatcher is an easy craft for both kids and adults. The beads are strung in a rainbow of colors and the prism will cast beautiful rainbows all over the room when the sun hits it.
Kids can learn their colors and practice their fine motor skills while doing this simple craft. When paired with rainbow science putting one of these together becomes a fun STEAM activity for kids.
Please don't offer this craft to youngsters that are still mouthing objects or are not ready to handle small parts or plastic needles. The size of the pony beads presents a choking hazard to children 3 and under.
These make wonderful gifts for friends and family. They also make a great decoration or favor idea for a rainbow birthday party.
Putting one of these together requires simple engineering and easy math skills. Click on the link to learn how to turn this craft into a rainbow science STEAM activity for kids.
Prism(s) – We used these Crystal Teardrop Prisms , or you can use Crystal Ball Prisms , or Icicle Crystal Prisms.
There are two ways to prepare to string a rainbow pony bead prism suncatcher. Click on the links below to see which way would work best for you or your child.
Pony Bead and Prism Suncatchers – For young crafters with beginning fine motor skills. Explains how to teach a young child to use a needle to string the beads.
Heart Prism Pony Bead Suncatcher – For crafters with advanced fine motor skills. Explains how to use crimping pliers to put this simple craft together.
Use the directions on one of the projects above to make a rainbow pony bead prism suncatcher. Create a rainbow using colors in the order that you prefer.
One way to create a rainbow pattern can be seen in the photos below. Identifying and creating patterns is an easy way to explore beginning math concepts. Allow your child to play around with different rainbow patterns and ways to string a rainbow.
Making a rainbow pony bead and prism suncatcher is a fun fine motor craft for kids and adults of all ages. Putting one of these together is a great teaching aid. For tips on how to turn this into a STEAM activity click on the link.
Suncatchers made out of beads in a rainbow of colors look gorgeous in any window. The prism will cast beautiful rainbows all over the room when the sun hits it.
These would make a great decoration or favor idea for a rainbow birthday party. This DIY craft project also makes a wonderful gift idea for Christmas, birthdays or any other occasion!
Thanks Emma! I have been making suncatchers with prisms in many ways ever since I was a child. I have always loved the rainbows that they cast around the room when the sun hits them. It was always a magical time!


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For filmmaker Eammon Ashton-Atkinson, releasing his first feature-length documentary Steelers: The World's First Gay Rugby Club during a pandemic has been a labour of love. He sits down with the NZ Falcons' Karl Wilshire, ahead of the film's NZ television premiere on the Rialto Channel to discuss the unique...
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A research team led by the University of Melbourne has developed a novel technique that tracks diseased proteins behaving badly by forming clusters in brain diseases such as Huntington's and Alzheimer's.
The technique published in Nature Methods is the first of its kind to rapidly identify and track the location of diseased proteins inside cells and could provide insights into improved treatments for brain diseases and others such as cancer.
Developed by Dr Danny Hatters and his team of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne, the technique uses a flow cytometer to track the protein clusters in cells at a rate of 1000s per minute. In addition, cells with clustered proteins can be recovered for further study - neither of which had been possible before.
"Being able to identify locations of diseased proteins in cells enables drugs to be developed to target different stages of disease development," he said.
He said the technique has application to many neurological diseases, which are characterised by formations of proteins clustering such as in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases.
"A challenge for researchers has been trying to understand how proteins cluster and cause damage in diseases like Huntington's and Alzheimer's. This is the first approach which could enable us to answer those questions."
"Now we can see how the proteins form clusters inside a cell and can examine which cell functions are being damaged at different steps of the clustering process."
"No drugs at this stage can stop the clustering process in Huntington's disease for example. This sets up platforms to develop drugs that block the formation of clusters," Dr Hatters said.
The technique can also be used to examine how signaling processes occur such as when genes are switched on and off.
"It has application to track events of abnormal gene signaling such as in cancer " Dr Hatters said.
"This technique offers hope in improving treatments for a range of neurological and other conditions," he said.
This work builds on Dr Hatters previous research where he and his team identified the behaviour of diseased Huntington proteins forming into clusters.
The work was done in collaboration with Monash University.
University of Melbourne. "Proteins Behaving Badly Provide Insights For Treatments Of Brain Diseases." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 20 Mar. 2012. Web.


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Q: Jenkins / How to deploy with one click I am working on a project with git and jenkins (pipeline).
I want to build the project at every commit but only deploy it when the chief wants.
So I would like to have like, two pipelines, one that run at every commit and only build / test and one that I can run by clicking on a button labelled "click me to deploy" that do the job.
Do I must create 2 jenkins jobs or is there a plugin or a way to do this with 1 job.
I have searched but I found nothing about this.

A: Try a parametrized Job with a Boolean parameter and two separate stages for Build and Deploy:
pipeline{
    parameters {
        booleanParam(name: 'deploy_param', defaultValue: false, description: 'Check if want to deploy')
    }
    stages{
        stage("Build"){
            steps{
                // build steps
            }
        }
        stage("Deploy"){
            when {
                environment name: 'deploy_param', value: 'true'
            }
            steps{
                // deploy steps
            }
        }
    }
}

In this way yo can have a CI build with "Deploy" stage turned off, as the deploy_param is set to false by default. And also a manual build ("when the chief wants") with "Deploy" stage turned on by manually setting the deploy_param to true.

A: You can achieve with 1job using Input Step (Pipeline). As part of your pipeline, after the build and test execution, add input step (Wait for Interactive input) and then add the deployment related stages.
So for each check-in, Jenkins build will trigger. But it will complete only build and test stages after that it will wait for chief approval to proceed for deployment.
reference: https://jenkins.io/doc/pipeline/steps/pipeline-input-step

A: This is an example on how to build a pipeline that builds, waits for input, and deploys when input is yes. If input timeout is exceeded then the job will exit. If one does not need the timeout then it can be ommited and the pipeline will wait indefinately without consuming an executor (note the agent annotation in the top pipeline and in each stage)
pipeline {
  agent none

stages {
stage('Build') {
  agent { label 'master' }
  steps {
    sh 'build  something'
  }
}

stage('Production deploy confirmation') {
    options {
      timeout(time: 60, unit: 'SECONDS')
    }
    input {
        message "Deploy to production?"
        ok "Yes"
    }
    steps {
      echo 'Confirmed production deploy'
    }
}

stage('Deploy Production') {

    stage('internal') {
      agent { label 'master' }
      steps {
        sh 'deploy something'
      }
    }
  }
 }
}

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Rocket Science project lifts off!
The project, Rocket Science, has given around half a million UK children the chance to become space biologists and to learn how science in space contributes to our knowledge of life on earth, using the invaluable expertise of the European Space Agency (ESA) and RHS Science team. Clewer Green children are taking part to see what growing plants in space can teach us about life on Earth and whether we can sustain human life in space through the production of our own food.
Last week we planted 200 rocket seeds - 100 from a blue packet and 100 from a red packet. One packet contained seeds that had travelled to space with Tim Peake and one packet contained seeds that had remained here on earth. The seeds will be grown side by side on a windowsill for 35 days and the children will measure and record any similarities or differences that they observe. At the end they will be invited to make a prediction as to which seeds have been to space, before Tim Peake reveals to us the true identity of the seeds.
Our 8 trays are on the windowsill in the corridor opposite Victorians, so do look through the window if you are in the main school playground. In order to comply with this national experiment however, we do need to make certain that the seeds are not disturbed in any way.


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2010 Biodiversity Target
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Convention on Biological Diversity>
In April 2002, the Parties to the Convention committed themselves to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional and national level as a contribution to poverty alleviation and to the benefit of all life on Earth.
This target was subsequently endorsed by the World Summit on Sustainable Development and the United Nations General Assembly and was incorporated as a new target under the Millennium Development Goals.
The Conference of the Parties has considered the 2010 Target during deliberations on the Convention's Stragic Plan during its 6th, 7th 8th and 9th meetings. At COP 9, the Parties further considered the evaluation of the Strategic Plan beyond 2010 in it's Decision IX/9.
Assessing Progress Toward the 2010 Target
Global Biodiversity Outlook is the flagship publication of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Preparations are currently underway for the production of its third edition. Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 will be formally launched in 2010, the year proclaimed as the International Year of Biodiversity.
Global Biodiversity Outlook 2 assesses the current status and trends of biodiversity and the key drivers of biodiversity loss.
The full text of the Global Biodiversity Outlook 2 is available here: English (PDF 8Mb)
The Conference of the Parties (COP) agreed on a provisional list of global headline indicators, to assess progress at the global level towards the 2010 target (decision VII/30), and to effectively communicate trends in biodiversity related to the three objectives of the Convention.
In decision VIII/15, the COP distinguished between:
indicators considered ready for immediate testing and use (green),
indicators confirmed as requiring more work (red)
Table: Provisional Indicators for Assessing Progress towards the 2010 Biodiversity Target
Focal Area Indicators
Status and trends of the components of biological diversity
Trends in extent of selected biomes, ecosystems, and habitats
Trends in abundance and distribution of selected species
Coverage of protected areas
Change in status of threatened species
Trends in genetic diversity of domesticated animals, cultivated plants, and fish species of major socioeconomic importance
Sustainable use
Area of forest, agricultural and aquaculture ecosystems under sustainable management
Proportion of products derived from sustainable sources
Ecological footprint and related concepts
Threats to biodiversity
Nitrogen deposition
Trends in invasive alien species
Ecosystem integrity and ecosystem goods and services
Marine Trophic Index
Water quality of freshwater ecosystems
Trophic integrity of other ecosystems
Connectivity / fragmentation of ecosystems
Incidence of human-induced ecosystem failure
Health and well-being of communities who depend directly on local ecosystem goods and services
Biodiversity for food and medicine
Status of traditional knowledge, innovations and Practices
Status and trends of linguistic diversity and numbers of speakers of indigenous languages
Other indicator of the status of indigenous and traditional knowledge
Status of access and benefit-sharing
Indicator of access and benefit-sharing
Status of resource transfers
Official development assistance provided in support of the Convention
Indicator of technology transfer
The second edition of Global Biodiversity Outlook makes use of the indicators and provides a clear presentation of the trends of biodiversity loss.
Development of the indicators
In decision VII/30 the COP established a process for testing and developing the indicators, with inputs from SBSTTA, the ad hoc Working Groups on ABS and Article 8(j), and an AHTEG on indicators for assessing progress towards the 2010 biodiversity target. The work of the AHTEG (Montreal, 19 – 22 October 2004) was prepared by an electronic discussion forum in which a series of task forces commented on possible indicators and lead organziations. The AHTEG meeting was preceded by a Liaison Group meeting (Montreal, 18 October 2004) in which representatives of possible lead organizations on individual indicators discussed strategies for supporting the process. The organizations are now members of the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership, established at the initiative of UNEP-WCMC and with funding from the GEF.
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Hey, Games, Stop the Violence—It's So Boring
With Splatoon 2, Nintendo reminds us killing isn't the only way
By Jon Irwin | July 24, 2017 | 1:00pm
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Violence is embedded into videogame's very DNA. 1962's Spacewar!, which some say was the first videogame, focused on blasting your opponent out of the cosmos. And like DNA, we see patterns in the repetition: Space Invaders and Asteroids begot Geometry Wars and Eve: Valkyrie. On terra firma, we used our hands. For a time, to play a videogame meant to punch others in the face. Urban Champion. Kung Fu. Double Dragon. Vigilante. When clenched fists weren't enough, we slung balls of mystical fire (Street Fighter II) or lodged harpoons into our opponent's neck (Mortal Kombat). Then came the big guns: We built a labyrinth of Doom and got lost in it; we felt a collective Call of Duty to mow down a field full of soldiers; we destroyed the better angels of our nature but kept the Halos.
Go back to the very beginning, though, and we realize not all games spring from an innate desire to see others obliterated. Four years before that first war in space, William Higinbotham gave us a gentler version of spatial combat; his Tennis for Two depicted the graceful rebounding of a ball within a rectangle, evoking the same primal satisfaction that would be mined in that other industry cornerstone, Pong. Both incorporate conflict, yes, but also sportsmanship and a thankful lack of gratuitous plasma spurt. In a way these ur-games anticipated the same territory control featured in Nintendo's Splatoon franchise, where the need for players to use and cover space supersedes the urge to end another's virtual life. With Splatoon 2, Nintendo continues their pitch for seeing games as something other than another venue for annihilation.
But the Kyoto toymakers are not immune to gunplay. One of their most well-remembered games of the Nintendo 64 era is Goldeneye. Martin Hollis, an employee of Rare at the time, directed the James Bond shooter. A decade later, he would spearhead a very different kind of project, one based on his aim to lower our collective crosshairs and do something else… like cut them.
Bonsai Barber released on WiiWare in 2009. You play the titular barber whose clients are a bunch of stylish vegetables. Using the Wii Remote, you slice and manicure leafy stems in various shapes. Succeed and the happy customers will return, even sending you vacation photos featuring their new coif. Fail and risk their moody wrath. There is no other game like Bonsai Barber. And Hollis saw that as a problem.
"I feel the games that get made are typically from a fairly narrow set of possibilities," Hollis told Wesley Lin-Poole of Eurogamer in 2010. "There's an incredible range of possible games that could be made, [but] most people aren't really exploring that."
In the seven years since, an increasing pool of small teams and independent studios have mined the outskirts of what had been done before. But even here, outside of the traditional demands of corporations, many smaller games that find success—Super Meat Boy, Hotline Miami, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds—are steeped in violence.
Some blockbuster titles appear to swerve and do something else but the usual veneer is simply painted over; Sunset Overdrive wanted to be the game that shined through the years of brown-and-grey ammunition ballets but once your eyes adjust to its sunburst of orange goop you see another landscape dominated by mutants waiting to explode.
But perhaps the typical, perennial question—Are Games Too Violent?—is the wrong one to be asking. Violence is inherent to nature. We destroy others so as to survive. But too often games give us the lowest common denominator version. Violence is not only suffering. It can be beauty. It can be clever. It can be thoughtful and contemplative and surprising. And thankfully, an increasing number of game creators are using these other forms of violent impulse as a catalyst for new experiences.
Her Story is a depiction of the psychological violence created by our own perception and faulty memories.
Spelunky gives us a set of violent rules that mirror our own unpredictable world, finding humor in the inevitability of a shopkeeper's breakdown.
How Do You Do It is an experiment in the same bodily violence we all enact upon our poor lifeless dolls in order to understand our burgeoning bodies and how they're meant to work.
What Remains of Edith Finch takes the ultimate result of violence—death—and imbues it with the mysticism of childhood, each character's violent end not an end at all, but the means of telling a compelling, playable story.
Splatoon 2 is not a triumph because it trades shotguns for Super Soakers and viscera for ink. It is a triumph because your guides are two anthropomorphic mollusks who sing, dance and spin records. Instead of maintaining the importance of a Kill-Death ratio, two cats sit in judgment of your paint-slinging efficacy. The first boss is not a historically accurate Panzer tank but a toaster run amok with eyeballed bread loaves. Games don't need less violence. They need less violence depicted lazily or expected cynically.
A few years back, Hollis returned to his first-person shooter roots. But this was no Goldeneye 2. Designed specifically for the Game City festival in Nottingham, Aim for Love was a participatory game using the conventions of the FPS to ensnare strangers into spontaneous action. Two cameras were pointed into the festival's crowd, each providing a live feed onto two huge screens. Players pointed the cameras at a particular person in the public square, who would then see themselves beamed onto the massive screen. It was up to them to decide how to act. Might they find each other and embrace? Hide behind their neighbor? Pretend to fall, as if sniped by the zoom lens? The chosen two then took over the camera and found their next victims.
"Most of the interest is in how people behave," Hollis told The Guardian in 2013, "and most of the benefit is from forming relationships." Games have the ability to portray an innumerable range of action. Too often that behavior list is "kill" or "be killed;" the relationships end when one pulls the trigger. More often than not, real-life relationships make our bloodiest gaming interactions look positively genteel. As developers continue to mine the angst and fraught reality surrounding them everyday for new ideas, our beloved shoot-em-ups will become an anachronistic thing of the past, like a film reel of a train pulling into a station.
Death and explosions aren't going anywhere; we have a bottomless capacity to see virtual blood spilled, an unquenchable hunger to cause digital injury. But we're tired of executioners lacking vision. Headshots are so passé. In this way, violence is the same as sex: Doing it the same way over and over can be enough but it gets tiring. Sometimes it's the suspense of the impending moment, the anticipation for what comes next, that thrills. Higinbotham would agree: There's a reason a long tennis rally is more compelling than a never-ending series of aces.
Our industry's decades-long affair with physical violence has inured us to its impact. If our medium is to continue to evolve, the games of tomorrow must showcase a different kind of destruction. What does a heart look like the moment it's being broken? How does a brain entrenched in the slow spiral of dementia crumple like a bombed-out building? What happens to desire when a long-held dream shatters like shrapnel? Games need to show us.
Since 2003, Jon Irwin has been paid to write about film, techno, ice cream, wine, golf, drag-racing, French children and videogames. His first book, Super Mario Bros. 2, was published last year by Boss Fight Books. Follow along: @WinWinIrwin.
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Master of Business Administration and Master of Health Administration
This double-degree program is delivered jointly by the School of Psychological Sciences and Public Health and the La Trobe Business School. The program is designed for professionals in health services settings who are seeking to expand their career pathways into senior management roles in public and private sector organisations. The program also provides managers working in non-health care settings with a pathway into the health sector.
Students will enrol in two and a quarter semesters of full-time study for the Master of Health Administration and two and a quarter semesters of full-time study for the Master of Business Administration, making a total of two and a half years full-time study. Part-time study is available for domestic students.
Students will be required to complete seven subjects (135 credit points) from the existing Master of Health Administration program and nine subjects (135 credit points) from the Master of Business Administration program. The course structure lists the core and elective subjects. This structure ensures that essential areas are covered, whilst allowing some flexibility for students to pursue personal and professional interests.
Annual tuition fee (A$)
Do you have an excellent academic record? If you're a full-fee paying student, you may be eligible for a La Trobe College Excellence Scholarship and receive up to a 25% reduction on your course fees.
Scholarships are available for both current and future students. Find out what La Trobe scholarship opportunities might be available to you.
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La Trobe will be a University known for its excellence and innovation in relation to the big issues of our time, and for its enthusiasm to make a difference. We will be one of the top three Universities in Victoria, one of the top dozen nationally and one of the top 500 internationally.
La Trobe has been one of Australia's pioneering universities for more than 50 years. Discover our unique history, including our motto and coat of arms.In 1967, 552 students enrolled at La Trobe University, the third university to open in Victoria, which has grown to accommodate more than 36,000 students, with over 7,000 international students from 110 countries.We now have a network of campuses, with over 28,000 students at our Melbourne Campus and over 7,500 at our campuses in Albury-Wodonga, Bendigo, Mildura, Melbourne City (Collins Street), Shepparton and Storia's disadvantaged communities.
La Trobe University was named after Charles Joseph La Trobe, the first Superintendent of the Port Phillip District from 1839 to 1850 and first Lieutenant-Governor of the new colony of Victoria from 1851 to 1854. He was driven by his need to make a difference to the communities he served, leaving a legacy that continues today at La Trobe University.Sir Charles La Trobe did more to shape the Australian State of Victoria than others. From his love of the Australian environment and its conservation, his ambitious plan to transform the colony of Victoria, to his concern for the welfare of the first Australians, he was deeply driven by progressive social values.His values are echoed in La Trobe University's founding mission to serve the community through improving access of higher education, and it is a tradition that continues today with a range of programs and initiatives to increase higher education participation rates amongst Victoria's disadvantaged communities.
La Trobe University Coat of Arms
La Trobe University's Armorial Bearings combine significant symbols that encapsulate its history, goals and pride in its Victorian genesis.Australia is represented by the Australian wedge-tailed eagle, one of the world's largest eagles. Victoria is represented by the sprigs of heath, the state's floral emblem. The eagle is represented in La Trobe's brandmark.The open book refers to the University's commitment to learning. The scallop shells are part of the La Trobe family bearings, and have been included to acknowledge the La Trobe name.
University Motto
The French motto "Qui cherche trouve" (Whoever seeks shall find) is a modern version of the La Trobe family motto.Today La Trobe is renowned for its academic excellence and research achievements.Over 200,000 students have graduated from La Trobe University thus far, and have gone on to achieve great things in all walks of life, giving La Trobe its well-deserved reputation.
Advancing knowledge and learning to shape the future of our students and communities.
To promote positive change and address the major issues of our time through being connected, inclusive and excellent.
Management and Planning
La Trobe University invests considerable time, energy and expertise in management and planning. We aim to ensure that all decisions achieve the best outcome for students, staff and the wider community.
Our research is among the world's best. We rank in the top 1.2 per cent of the world's universities*.La Trobe University has been ranked in the world's top 400 universities by all three major independent ranking agencies. That makes us one of the world's best young universities.We continue to improve our world rankings, currently recording a strong result in the respected Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) – La Trobe University is now ranked at 317 in the world.The 2018 QS World University Rankings has La Trobe University ranked 397 in the world, while Times Higher Education World University 2019 rankings placed La Trobe at 341 and ranked us 59th globally in their Golden Age Rankings. These rankings placed La Trobe in the top 1.2 per cent of universities globally.National Taiwan University's 'Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities' evaluates research universities' achievements in scientific research by comparing the performance of scientific papers in each university for quality and quantity. In 2018 La Trobe was 498th globally, and 173rd in the field of Social Sciences.La Trobe ranks well for employability, as demonstrated in the 2018/2019 QS Graduate Employability Rankings in which the University ranks 14th in Australia and fourth in Victoria (and in the top 300 universities globally). For graduate employment rate – the number of graduates in full or part time employment within 12 months of graduation – La Trobe ranks ninth in Australia and 129th in the world. La Trobe's reputation amongst employers is further demonstrated with our graduates rated second among Victorian universities and eighth nationally by Australian employers for overall satisfaction in the 2017 Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) Employer Satisfaction Survey with a rating of 86.6 per cent.


POWDERLY, Ky. (AP) - A memorial service was held for Phil Everly near Central City, where the Everly Brothers entertained for years at a homecoming benefit.
About 200 people attended the memorial on Saturday where several acts performed songs by the duo.
Phil Everly died Jan. 3 at 74. With his brother, Don Everly, the duo had 19 top 40 hits between 1957 and 1962. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and are members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
The Everly Brothers began the homecoming concerts in 1988 and continued through 2001 to help raise scholarship money and funds for other projects.


FREE Online Youngs Literal Translation. 2 Chronicles Chapter 8:1-18.
8:1 And it cometh to pass, at the end of twenty years, that Solomon hath built the house of Jehovah, and his own house.
8:2 As to the cities that Huram hath given to Solomon, Solomon hath built them, and there he causeth the sons of Israel to dwell.
8:4 and he buildeth Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the cities of store that he hath built in Hamath.
8:6 and Baalath, and all the cities of store that Solomon had, and all the cities of the chariot, and the cities of the horsemen, and all the desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
8:8 of their sons who have been left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel consumed not -- doth Solomon lift up a tribute unto this day.
8:10 and these `are' heads of the officers whom king Solomon hath, two hundred and fifty who are rulers among the people.
8:13 even by the matter of a day in its day, to cause to ascend according to the command of Moses, on sabbaths, and on new moons, and on appointed seasons, three times in a year -- in the feast of unleavened things, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths.
8:14 And he establisheth, according to the ordinance of David his father, the courses of the priests over their service, and of the Levites over their charges, to praise and to minister over-against the priests, according to the matter of a day in its day, and the gatekeepers in their courses at gate and gate, for so `is' the command of David the man of God.
8:15 And they have not turned aside `from' the command of the king concerning the priests and the Levites, in reference to any matter, and to the treasures.
8:16 And all the work of Solomon is prepared till the day of the foundation of the house of Jehovah, and till its completion; perfect is the house of Jehovah.
8:18 and Huram sendeth to him, by the hand of his servants, ships and servants knowing the sea, and they go with servants of Solomon to Ophir, and take thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and bring in unto king Solomon.


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McGeoch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Alex McGeoch (1854–1922), Scottish footballer
Catherine McGeoch, American computer scientist
Charles McGeoch (1899–1985), American football coach
Ian McGeoch (1914–2007), British Royal Navy officer
John McGeoch (1955–2004), Scottish guitarist
John Alexander McGeoch (1897–1942), American psychologist and educator
Lillian McGeoch (1903–1992), Canadian painter and sculptor

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– Reasonably priced, especially compared to some of the other aftermarket options for this kit.
The newly released (Jan. 2012) photo-etch set by White Ensign for the new Zvezda 1/350 HMS Dreadnought has arrived at my door. Thanks to the United States Postal Service, who tried to shove it into my mailbox, it was a little bent. Thankfully, it wasn't mangled like a set I received in 2011, but it was bent nonetheless.
The photo-etch comes in a large white padded envelope, with the standard brown WEM envelope with a cardboard stiffener insert inside of that.
Inside are two frets – A & B – and an instruction booklet.
Part A was in a plastic bag, and was on one side of the cardboard stiffener with the directions. Part B was on the other side of the stiffener, and was not enclosed in plastic.
Part A contains the railings – both without and with canvas "dodgers", inclined ladders, accommodation ladders, torpedo nets, rigging for the boat davit, parts for the torpedo boat guns and what look like coal scuttles. There are also some photo-etch yard arms and what appear to be the small ladders for the platforms on top of the turrets.
Part B contains the torpedo net shelves, a new boat deck platform (for a later version of Dreadnought, not the 'as launched' version); starfish platforms and supports, the bridge, davits, oars, thwarts and lots and lots of hatches and skylights.
The instructions are the usual WEM fare, booklet form and well done. My only complaint is that there isn't a plan and profile view of the ship to help with the placement of parts.
There is lots of relief etching on both frets and – as mentioned – options to build an 'as built' or later- 1915 – version. The set is typical high quality work from White Ensign, and while it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of some other sets that have been released, it should help dress up that Zvezda Dreadnought quite nicely, and at a lower cost.


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The Eco-Friendly Pallet Industry
With a wide range of pallets on the market, the choice can be overwhelming. A new initiative, however, could make that decision a little bit easier for those concerned about the environment.
The National Wooden Pallet and Container Association (NWPCA), the Canadian association the Western Pallet Association (WPA) and the Pallet Foundation have joined forces to form Nature's Packaging, an initiative to encourage the use of wood pallets and packaging. The organisation distributes educational literature to pallet users and aims to inform them about the benefits of using wooden packaging through their website, which launched in March 2016. While the organisation claims it has no interest in criticising other forms of packaging, such as plastic, it certainly makes a persuasive case for the use of wooden products.
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While Natures Packaging is based in North America, the initiative has sparked some interest in Europe, with more customers showing an interest in green alternatives to non-wood materials. In terms of wooden pallets price has been a concern for some, who were worried that wooden pallets' price may be higher than their regular orders. However, with the rise in popularity of wood, the prices are becoming more and more competitive and affordable. What's more, many companies are stocking wooden pallets in the standard pallet size UK and Europe customers require, so systems need not change to accommodate the new products.
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