The bomoh's original role was that of a healer and their expertise was first and foremost an in-depth knowledge of medicinal herbs and tajul muluk or Malay geomancy.

The craft remained primarily a homemaker's art until the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the new generation picked up on crochet and popularized granny squares, a motif worked in the round and incorporating bright colors.

The end of the period is marked by the abandonment of the cities and a return to lifestyles based on farming villages and semi-nomadic herding, although specialised craft production continued and trade routes remained open.

Some of the oldest surviving European ship models have been those of early craft such as galleys, galleons, and possibly carracks, dating from the 12th through the 15th centuries and found occasionally mounted in churches, where they were used in ceremonies to bless ships and those who sailed in them, or as votive offerings for successful voyages or surviving peril at sea, a practice which remained common in Catholic countries until the 19th century.

In a period of industrial development and modernization in urban areas, logging remained a traditional business in which the workers exhibited pride in their craft, their physical strength and masculinity, and guarded their individualism.

The fleet post office, supply depot, fuel depot, degaussing range, ECM repair facility, and naval training schools for small craft, fire fighters, merchant ship communications, and anti-submarine attack remained at San Pedro through World War II ; but the battle fleet never returned.

Despite the appearance of competitors, the company remained the largest " craft beer " company in the United States with nearly 141 million liters ( 1. 2 million barrels ) sold in 1996.

The craft-based AFL had been slow to organize industrial workers, and the federation remained steadfastly committed to craft unionism.

Though censured by the city council, he remained safe through his popularity with the craft guilds.

While honing her craft at the Actors Studio, Thomas remained active on other fronts.

After a lengthy trip in suspended animation, their craft was attacked by Scourge, and crashed in the Arctic, where Jetfire was frozen in an avalanche, and Omega remained in stasis in the crashed ship.

The new Soyuz remained docked as a lifeboat craft for the then current crew of three ( two Russian and one American ) astronauts.

By the onset of the Early Middle Ages, rigging had undergone a fundamental transformation in Mediterranean navigation: the lateen which had long evolved on smaller Greco-Roman craft replaced the square rig, the chief sail type of the ancients, that practically disappeared from the record until the 14th century ( while it remained dominant in northern Europe ).

The craft remained attached to VMS Eve as planned, and underwent a series of combined vehicle systems tests.

Australia continued to support the UN peacekeeping operation with between 1, 500 and 2, 000 personnel, as well as landing craft and Blackhawk helicopters and remained the largest contributor of personnel to the peacekeeping mission.

The orbiting craft monitored the lighting at the poles and looked for seasonal variations, in order to attempt to confirm that they remained illuminated during their lunar winter.

The greater part of the Ukrainian fleet remained in Sevastopol-there were 30 destroyers and torpedo boats, 25 auxiliaries, 7 battleships and small craft as well as 15 submarines left in Sevastopol under Admiral Myhaylo Ostrogradskiy who in this situation assumed command.

Despite this, Spike chose to return Maximus's body to the Ark, where it remained until the craft was crashed in 1991 by the Autobot medic, Ratchet, during the clash between Megatron and Galvatron.

McDonald declared that scientific scrutiny should be directed towards the small number of " unknowns ", which he defined as a UFO reported by a " credible and trained observer as machine-like ' craft ' which remained unidentified in spite of careful investigation.

Margosatubig, in spite of being a pioneer town, still remained isolated and reachable only by sea craft.

It is a Hughes HS-376 craft, and was launched from the Guiana Space Centre in December 2000 to join Astra 2A and Astra 2B at 28. 2 ° E, where it has remained for its active life.

In a few days we took up our line of march for Baltimore ; we remained in that city for some days, when small craft was prepared for our reception to proceed to Annapolis, where the French transports were waiting for the French army to embark.

But DALUs remained few in number until the early 1930s when the Congress of Industrial Organizations ( CIO ) challenged the AFL's craft unionism policies.

By the onset of the Early Middle Ages, rigging had undergone a fundamental transformation in Mediterranean navigation: the lateen which had long evolved on smaller Greco-Roman craft replaced the square rig, the chief sail type of the ancients, which practically disappeared from the record until the 14th century ( while it remained dominant in northern Europe ).

Lacking purpose-built landing craft and both doctrinal and practical experience with amphibious warfare, the Navy was largely improvising from scratch.

As before, the craft appeared largely among the Catholic communities.

The AP1-88 and the BHT130 were notable as they were largely built by Hoverwork using shipbuilding techniques / materials ( i. e. welded aluminium structure and diesel engines ) rather than the aircraft techniques used to build the earlier craft built by Saunders-Roe / British Hovercraft Corporation.

Apart from the men from No. 6 Troop which had been wounded in their landing craft, the commanding officer, Peter Young, found that his command was largely intact.

In its early days it was largely an area of well-to-do tradesmen and craft workshops, with Edwardian mansion blocks built by the Quakers to allow theatre employees to be close to work.

Unlike nearby Limehouse Basin, few craft larger than canoes can be seen on Shadwell Basin, which is largely used for fishing and watersports-and as a scenic backdrop to the modern residential developments that line it.

As craft production was largely replaced by assembly line that did not allow for any creativity, no place was left for positive aspects of daydreaming.

The Cruinniú na mBád, also largely the idea of Anthony Moylan, is the larger and longer-running, it celebrates the traditional sailing craft ( Galway Hookers ) and the trade they once did between Kinvara, western County Galway and the north of County Clare.

While he received a deep classical education, becoming proficient in Latin and Greek as well as learning the craft of music composition, his early years were largely spent as a soldier.

Due to sabotage during the voyage, Roger, his battalion of bodyguards, his valet, his one time tutor and now chief of staff, and a small number of small craft pilots are forced to land on Marduk, a largely unknown planet that is only loosely a member of the Empire of Man.

Those seeking to learn the technical craft of filmmaking in the early days of cinema were largely self taught engineers or still photographers who experimented with new film technology.

The craft ’ s control is largely left to the player, but often day-to-day tasks such as navigating from a hyperspace exit-point to a desired planet or space-station and docking can be handed over to a ship's autopilot.

The chain had functioned largely as a wholesaler of variety and craft merchandise sold to its franchisees under the name Ben Franklin Retail Stores Inc.

* this model could be fitted with full wading equipment to allow deep water entry from landing craft, again largely for Royal Marines use

Fortunately we were alone in the building -- so few people nowadays are interested even in their own past or in the lovely craft of other days -- for they began to abuse each other in the foulest language.

Once on course towards the Moon, the crew put the spacecraft into a rotisserie " barbecue " mode in which the craft rotated along its long axis three times per hour to ensure even heat distribution about the spacecraft from the Sun.

A film editor must creatively work with the layers of images, story, dialogue, music, pacing, as well as the actors ' performances to effectively " re-imagine " and even rewrite the film to craft a cohesive whole.

Other writers ( including Joseph Schumpeter ) have traced back the concept even further to Ibn Khaldun, who in his Muqaddimah ( 1377 ), described labor as the source of value, necessary for all earnings and capital accumulation, obvious in the case of craft.

He argued that even if earning “ results from something other than a craft, the value of the resulting profit and acquired ( capital ) must ( also ) include the value of the labor by which it was obtained.

The other is a beamy craft, whose center of gravity may even be slightly above its center of buoyancy but, achieves its stability purely by the geometry of its wide stance on the water, to keep its rollcenter below its center of gravity.

Recognising the need for an even larger craft capable of landing both tanks and infantry onto a hostile shore, the Navy began development of the 220-ton Marinefährprahm ( MFP ) but these too were unavailable in time for a landing on English soil in 1940, the first of them not being commissioned until April 1941.

While there are still some places in the world where sail-powered passenger, fishing and trading vessels are used, these craft have become rarer as internal combustion engines have become economically viable in even the poorest and most remote areas.

Although an SSTO rocket might theoretically be built, margins would be likely to be very thin: even comparatively minor problems could mean that the craft may fail to achieve the necessary mass-fraction to reach orbit with useful payload.

Although " TARDIS " is a type of craft rather than a specific one, the Doctor's TARDIS is usually referred to as " the " TARDIS or, in some of the earlier serials, just as " the ship ", " the blue box ", " the capsule " or even " the police box " and with the new Doctor " Sexy ".

Most yachting is conducted in salt water, but smaller craft can be -- and are -- raced on lakes and even large rivers.

Dinghy designs vary from small, stable, and slow craft for novice sailors to lightweight, high-speed designs that are very difficult for even experienced crews to sail safely and effectively.

:' But Jason called to mind the counsels of Medea full of craft, and seized from the plain a huge round boulder, a terrible quoit of Ares Enyalius ; four stalwart youths could not have raised it from the ground even a little.

Some cruising craft with fore-and-aft sails will carry a small square sail with top and bottom yards that are easily rigged and hauled up from the deck ( not requiring climbing the mast ); such a sail is used as the only sail when running downwind under storm conditions, as the vessel becomes much easier to handle than under its usual sails, even if they are severely reefed ( shortened ).

Schooners have traditionally been gaff-rigged and in small craft are generally two-masted, however many have been built with Marconi rigs ( and even junk rigs ) rather than gaffs and in the golden age of sail, vessels were built with as many as seven masts.

The craft and artistry of David Roentgen, Neuwied, ( and later at Paris as well ) was unsurpassed, even in Paris, by any 18th-century marquetry craftsman.

Muck Fleet, which connects the broads to the River Bure, is too shallow even for such craft.

Some one-hit wonder artists have embraced this following openly, while others distance themselves from their hit in an attempt to craft successful songs with different sounds, or embark on new careers as songwriters ( such as Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes and Gregg Alexander of New Radicals ), or even game show hosts ( such as Chuck Woolery of The Avant-Garde ).

This restricts most of the river to canoes although, even for such small craft, the river is not sufficiently navigable to allow easy passage along its entire lower section.

While the Weyrwoman and the Weyrleader hold the same rank as a Lord or Lady Holder or Mastercraftsmen, even the lowest ranked adult dragonrider is equivalent to a senior journeyman in a craft, and are given the respect due any dragonrider as the protectors of Pern.

A crude form of collision avoidance radar ensured the craft would not crash into another airborne object, and an onboard sensor mechanism would even instruct the machine to depart swiftly if it was fired upon.

The maned spacecraft Soyuz 1 was launched with the expectation of " union " with the manned Soyuz 2 craft, but even before the second craft was launched, it became apparent that the Soyuz 2 mission had to be canceled before the landing of Soyuz 1 – this saved the lives of the crew of Soyuz 2.

The success of Operation Overlord in June meant even more craft from the Home Fleet could be sent, including precious amphibious assault shipping.

Westerburg seems much more to have been a craft centre for the surrounding region in which even such rare crafts as arrowsmithing and crossbow making were settled.