A poem from around 1020, the Austrfaravísur (' Eastern-journey verses ') of Sigvat Thordarson, mentions that, as a Christian, he was refused board in a heathen household, in Sweden, because an álfablót (" elves ' sacrifice ") was being conducted there.

One can also alternately pass the board examination conducted by National Board of Examinations, leading to awarding of Diplomate of National Board ( DNB ).

In January 2011, a member of a group in support of the Warrior logo / name presented a donation to the school board from a bumper sticker sale that was conducted the previous fall.

Village business is conducted by an elected board of trustees.

The board conducted additional workshops scheduled to continue their progress in directing the city toward more open communication with the public.

Salonen later took the orchestra on many other tours of the United States, Europe, and Asia, and residencies at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, The Proms in London, in Cologne for a festival of Salonen's own works, and perhaps most notably, in 1996 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for a Stravinsky festival conducted by Salonen and Pierre Boulez ; it was during this Paris residency that key Philharmonic board members heard the orchestra perform in improved acoustics and were re-invigorated to lead fundraising efforts for the soon-to-be built Walt Disney Concert Hall.

For each space in which ships and enemy planes now exist, a battle is conducted on the battle board.

The group conducted a bitter year-long public campaign that included an unsuccessful lawsuit against the party and later-disproven allegations against the party ’ s leader and board of directors including fraud, vote-rigging and even theft.

Prior to each flight a safety check is conducted to ensure all equipment such as life-vests, torches ( flashlights ) and firefighting equipment are on board, in the right quantity, and in proper condition.

The United States Department of Transportation ( DOT ) Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) conducted testing and released a report which in summary states "... the release of hydrogen gas from these flameless ration heaters is of a sufficient quantity to pose a potential hazard on board a passenger aircraft.

He conducted bingo games similar to the ones he had witnessed and Ward had standardized, using dried beans, a rubber numbering stamp and card board.

In London in 1994, convicted murderer Stephen Young was granted a retrial after it was learned that four of the jurors had conducted a Ouija board seance and had " contacted " the murdered man, who had named Young as his killer.

Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, used a Ouija board and conducted seances in attempts to contact the dead.

ZZZZ Best's new board conducted an internal investigation that largely substantiated the fraud allegations.

Salonen later took the orchestra on many other tours of the United States, Europe, and Asia, and residencies at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, The Proms in London, in Cologne for a festival of Salonen's own works, and perhaps most notably, in 1996 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for a Stravinsky festival conducted by Salonen and Pierre Boulez ; it was during this Paris residency that key Philharmonic board members heard the orchestra perform in improved acoustics and were re-invigorated to lead fundraising efforts to complete construction of Walt Disney Concert Hall.

In his 30-year career as an educator, Honda was a science teacher, a school board member, and a principal at two public schools, and he conducted educational research at Stanford University.

During her eight day stay on board the International Space Station, Ansari conducted four experiments for the European Space Agency, including researching the mechanisms behind anemia, how changes in muscles influence lower back pain, consequences of space radiation on ISS crew members and different species of microbes that have made a home for themselves on the space station.

This can be obtained by passing the exam conducted by the National Board of Examinations after completing 3 years of post-MBBS residency training in teaching hospitals recognised by the board.

In it he questioned O ' Brien's previous threats to personally sue Sam Smyth and asked " ow plausible is it that the removal of Sam Smyth from a Sunday morning radio programme on Today FM, which Denis O ' Brien controls, and his ostracisation now within the Irish Independent to which he is contracted ( not one article by him has been published for some months ), isn't part of the same campaign which Denis O ' Brien and of his then representatives on the board of INM Leslie Buckley, conducted against Sam Smyth in 2010?

Academic rankings in the Philippines are conducted by the Professional Regulation Commission and the Commission on Higher Education, based on the average passing rates in board tests.

Every person had an equal voice in the affairs of the community whose business affairs was conducted by a board of directors voted in by the community.

Using electronics test instruments including an oscilloscope and electrical test meter, Sherlock conducted tests on a mock printed circuit board and communicated with ground controllers via computer messages on suggested repair procedures and their results.

Research conducted as planned, with the exception of the Mammalian Development Team, which had to reprioritize science activities because of the unexpected high mortality rate of neonatal rats on board.

Also on board in the payload bay were eight Get Away Special experiments, while combustion, crystal growth and radiation monitoring experiments were conducted in Discovery ’ s mid-deck crew cabin area.

This was a powerful video effects board which turned the Amiga into an affordable video processing computer which found its way into many professional video environments.

There are many different types and styles of board games.

German-style board games are notable for often having rather less of a luck factor than many North American board games.

Although many board games have a jargon all their own, there is a generalized terminology to describe concepts applicable to basic game mechanics and attributes common to nearly all board games.

Most games use a standardized and unchanging board ( chess, Go, and backgammon each have such a board ), but many games use a modular board whose component tiles or cards can assume varying layouts from one session to another, or even while the game is played.

Bulletin board systems were in many ways a precursor to the modern form of the World Wide Web, social network services and other aspects of the Internet.

Thus, many users of a given BBS usually lived in the same area, and activities such as BBS Meets or Get Togethers were common, where users of the board would gather at a local restaurant, the SysOp ’ s home or similar venue and meet face to face.

Most hardware companies today have more software programmers on the payroll than hardware designers, since software tools have automated many tasks of Printed circuit board engineers.

When there are no enemy discs on the board, many ( but not all ) rules also state that a player must shoot for the centre of the board, and a shot disc must finish either completely inside the 15-point guarded ring line, or ( depending on the specifics of the rules ) be inside or touching this line.

Ingram, older than the rest of the members of the band, left to serve active duty in Vietnam, and was later replaced by Walter " Clyde " Orange, the second lead singer who wrote or co-wrote many of their hit tunes before Lionel Richie came on board.

Meier admits to " borrowing " many of the technology tree ideas from a board game also called Civilization, published in the United Kingdom in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil ( later by Gibson Games ), and in the United States in 1981 by Avalon Hill.

In many states, members of a community's board of education are elected by voters.

Ackerman was a board member of the Seattle Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, where many items of his collection are now displayed.

Brenda Salkield ( Southwold ) preferred friendship to any deeper relationship and maintained a correspondence with Blair for many years, particularly as a sounding board for his ideas.

He has also designed many card games such as Lost Cities, Schotten-Totten, and Blue Moon, and the cooperative board game The Lord of the Rings.

There are many German companies producing board games, such as Hans im Glück and Goldsieber.

The Hong Kong Transport Department ( HKTD ) allows and licenses the operation of two types of public light buses – ( 1 ) green minibuses that have route numbers, stop at designated stops ( many routes have hail and ride sections along which passengers can board and exit anywhere unless it's a no-stopping zone ) and which have their fares, service and frequency regulated by the HKTD ; and ( 2 ) red minibuses that may or may not have regular routes, may or may not be numbered, may or may not have fixed stops and whose fares and service levels are not regulated by HKTD.

Education was now compulsory from five to thirteen and many new board schools were built.

Melville left little direct information about the events of this 18-month cruise, although his whaling romance, Moby-Dick ; or, The Whale, probably gives many pictures of life on board the Acushnet.

Billionaire Nelson Peltz initiated a proxy battle during 2006, culminating in a vote to place Peltz's nominees on the Board, which, depending on how many seats the dissident group received after the final vote tally, would displace some of the current board members.