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Spotters also measure the humidity, temperature, and the angle of the shot.
He then tells the sniper/shooter what adjustments to make to the rifle scope.
Finally, the spotter tells the shooter where the round hit—on target or a miss—and what adjustments to make to get back on-target.
New long range shooting record - 3720 yards: YouTube
Shooting Fundamentals - Long Range Shooting Technique; YouTube
A battle rifle is a select fire rifle that fires a powerful bullet such as 7.62×51mm NATO.
The FAL, G3, and M14 are the most common battle rifles used in the Cold War.
They are more powerful than assault rifles.
Assault rifles shoots a 5.56×45mm NATO which is less powerful than a 7.62×51mm NATO.
The Ofanto river starts in the Apennines mountains, within the Irpinia (a historical region of the southern Apennines around Avellino), at an elevation of about , in the comune of Torella dei Lombardi, Province of Avellino, Campania.
From there it runs southeast flowing into Lago di Conza, a man-made reservoir.
The river forms the border between the province of Avellino and the province of Potenza and then turns to the north, forming the border between the province of Foggia and the province of Potenza.
It then turns to the northeast and forms the border between the province of Foggia and the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani.
Finallly, the river flows, in the community of Fiumara between Margherita di Savoia and Barletta, into the Adriatic Sea near the Gulf of Manfredonia.
The Ofanto flows through 3 regions, 4 provinces and 33 comuni, all in South Italy:
Campania region
Avellino, 15 comuni: Aquilonia, Bisaccia, Cairano, Calitri, Conza della Campania, Lacedonia, Lioni, Monteverde, Morra De Sanctis, Nusco, Sant'Andrea di Conza, Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi, Teora, Torella dei Lombardi.
Basilicata region
Potenza, 7 comuni: Atella, Melfi, Lavello, Pescopagano, Rapone, Rionero in Vulture, Ruvo del Monte.
Apulia region
Foggia, 4 comuni: Ascoli Satriano, Candela, Cerignola, Rocchetta Sant'Antonio.
Barletta-Andria-Trani, 7 comuni: Barletta, Canosa di Puglia, Margherita di Savoia (foce), Minervino Murge, San Ferdinando di Puglia, Spinazzola, Trinitapoli.
Most tributaries of the Ofanto river are small streams.
Apple Maps is a mapping service.
It is an app that comes with every iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and Apple Watch, but not available on the web.
It gives information about local businesses and their ratings, and reads driving directions as you are driving; or on an Apple Watch, it will vibrate when you need to turn.
Apple Maps is also known for its 3D views of many major metro areas, which has been compared favorably to Google Earth.
It started in 2012, but when it started many users did not trust it and went back to using Google Maps.
Apple has been busy fixing it so users can trust it, and nowadays Apple Maps is used 3.5 times as much as Google Maps on devices Apple Maps is supported.
At first, Apple Maps was only on iOS, but Apple has made it so Apple Maps can also be used on Macs and Apple Watches.
Ajamu Baraka (born October 25, 1953) is an African American human rights activist.
He is the Green Party's presumptive nominee for Vice President of the United States, in the 2016 election running with Jill Stein.
Baraka has taught political science at Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, and other academic institutions.
The Parent Trap is a 1998 American romantic comedy movie co-written and directed by Nancy Meyers, and produced and co-written by Charles Shyer.
It is a remake of the 1961 movie of the same name.
The administrative district of Frutigen-Niedersimmental in the Swiss canton of Bern has 13 municipalities in an area of 774 km².
Frutigen-Niedersimmental
The administrative district of Interlaken-Oberhasli in the Swiss canton of Bern has 29 municipalities in an area of 1,229 km².
Interlaken-Oberhasli
Tonia Sotiropoulou (born on 28 April 1987 in Glyfada, Athens, Greece) is a Greek actress and model.
She left Greece to begin her international career when she was 21 years old.
She is best known for being in the 2012 film Skyfall.
She also played in the 2014 film Hercules with Dwayne Johnson and Ian McShane.
Cool (2007)
'NORMAL ' (Real Stories from the sex industry) (2012)
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
Paolo (short film)
Hercules (2014)
Shermine Shahrivar (; born on 20 November 1982) is a German model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Europe in 2005.
She was born in Tehran, Iran.
She became Miss Germany in 2004 and then won the overall title of Miss Europe in 2005 while competing in France.
She then participated in the Miss Universe 2004.
Shermine currently lives in New York City where she is studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.
Her family moved to Germany when she was one year old.
She was raised speaking German and Persian, and she is also fluent in French and English.
She was chosen to be the host of a Nowruz celebration in Oberhausen, Germany on March 19, 2005.
She hosted Traumpartner TV in Germany from December 2004 to August 2005.
She was also in an October edition of the German Playboy.
She dated German actor Thomas Kretschmann in 2008 and then Australian actor Xavier Samuel in 2010.
She is now dating Lapo Elkann.
Shermine at Model Management
At Iranian.com
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Persian Mirror article
American Apparel Models
Official website of Sigriswil
Social structure is the framework of a society founded by a distinct tradition of hierarchy by birth in the social group and by occupation or tradition of work as a distinct social class.
Social influence
UN Principles for Responsible Investment
Moskowitz Prize -Quantitative Research in the field of Socially Responsible Investing
Socially Responsible Investing at Appropedia
Socially Responsible Investing facts from the Social Investment Forum
The World Bank, (2010) Water and Climate Change: Understanding the Risks and Making Climate-Smart Investment Decisions.
Invest with Values – The Investor's Gateway to Socially Responsible Investing resources, topics and organizations
Official website of the municipality of Sonceboz-Sombeval
Official website of the municipality of Sonvilier
Combat boots are military boots designed to be worn by soldiers during combat or combat training.
They are not intended for wear during parades and other ceremonial duties.
Modern combat boots are designed to provide a combination of grip, ankle stability, and foot protection suitable for a rugged environment.
They are traditionally made of hardened and sometimes waterproofed leather.
Today, many combat boots incorporate technologies originating in civilian hiking boots, such as Gore-Tex nylon side panels, which improve ventilation and comfort.
They are also often specialized for certain climates and conditions, such as jungle boots, desert boots, and cold weather boots as well as specific uses, such as tanker boots and jump boots.
Jump boots are the combat boots worn by paratroopers.
They have calf-length lacing and hard toes.
During World War II, many countries came up with their own type of jump boots.
The uppers are usually made of smooth black leather that is easy to shine.
It is also a paratrooper tradition to lace jump boots in a ladder or cobweb style which increases ankle support during a parachute jump.
"Vogue" is a 1990 dance-pop song by Madonna.
The song is about Hollywood fashion.
The song's rap section talks about 16 stars from the 1920s to the 1950s, such as Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe.
The song hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1990.
The song also hit #1 on several other charts worldwide.
The song comes in many remixes.
One of them is eight minutes/twenty five seconds long.
The Assassination of Orlando Letelier was a car bombing which killed Orlando Letelier, a Chilean socialist political figure when Salvador Allende was president of Chile during those years.
It all starts when he was based in the United States as an activist but Letelier was assassinated in Washington, D.C. with mainly his American assistant, Ronni Karpen Moffitt and her husband Michael (who worked for Letelier) by some Chilean DINA agents in September 21, 1976.
Until 9/11, it was known as the most infamous act of international terrorism in the capital of the US.
Chilean political scandals
Chile under Pinochet
National Security Archive
Dinges, John, and Landau, Saul.
Assassination on Embassy Row (London, 1981) , (McGraw-Hill, 1981)
Dinges, John.
The Condor Years (The New Press: 2004)
Hitchens, Christopher, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, (Verso: 2001)
Taylor Branch and Eugene M Propper Labyrinth (Viking Press 1983, Penguin Books1983 )
Orlando Letelier Archive held by the Transnational Institute.
MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base Nine legal documents from the trials of Letelier's assassins.
Includes trial transcripts.
Institute for Policy Studies, where Letelier and Moffitt worked at the time, gives circumstances surrounding bombing.
John Dinges John Dinges was a correspondent for the "Washington Post" in South America from 1975 to 1983, author of The Condor Years: How Pinochet and his Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents (The New Press 2004) and (with Saul Landau Assassination on Embassy Row (Pantheon 1980), (Asesinato en Washington, Lasser 1980, Planeta 1990)
1970s explosions
1970s in Washington, D.C.
The Beauty of Loulan (楼兰美女) or Loulan Beauty (Other aliases: Loulan middle-aged woman(楼兰長女)) is the preserved dead body of a woman who lived about 4000 years ago, during the Bronze Age.
She was found on April 1, 1980 near the Silk Road in the Xinjiang region of China, by Chinese archaeologists Mu Sun-ing (穆舜英) and members of the Archaeological Institute of the Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences.
She is one of the Tarim mummies, named after where they were found, the Tarim Basin.
Unlike Egyptian mummies, which were preserved on purpose, the Loulan Beauty was preserved almost by accident.
She was buried near a salt lake in a desert, where the arid and dry conditions preserved even the finer details of her face such as her eyelashes.
For many years, the Chinese government forebode the testing of the mummy's DNA, due to fears that it would lead to it being used by nationalist local Uighurs.
In 1993, Victor H. Mair and Italian geneticist Paolo Francalacci, were able to test some tissue samples, and although the Chinese government confiscated the samples, Mair claims a Chinese scientist later 'slipped in to their hands' as they were leaving.
They found that the Loulan Beauty probably came from Siberia.
Later, in 2007 and 2009, scientists from China's Jilin University and Fudan University both tested the Loulan Beauty's DNA. .
They found she was at least part European, but her people might have lived in Siberia before migrating to Xinjiang.
But they all found that the Loulan Beauty was not an Uighur woman, which meant there was less reason for people to argue about her.
In 2015, the Chinese government let the Loulan Beauty and other mummies tour foreign museums as an exhibit about the Silk Road.
The woman is estimated to have been between 40 and 48 years old at the time of her death.
The body is 152-155 cm in stature, and her blood type was O.
Scientists learned things about her life by looking at her body and clothes.
Her shoes and clothing had been worn out and fixed repeatedly.
Her hair was infested with lice.
She had inhaled a great amount of sand, dust and charcoal and she may have died of lung problems.
She lived around B.C 1900~B.C 1800.
The mummy is wrapped in a wool cloth, cowhide leather, and linen.
She is wearing leather shoes.
Several items made out of clay and some grain were found with her.
In 1980, she was restored by a Japanese painter named Yamaguchi Terunari(山本耀也).
The mummy is currently displayed on the second floor of the Xinjiang Museum, "Mummy Hall"(古尸馆).
Beauty of Xiaohe
Xinjiang discovery provides intriguing DNA link xinhuanet, 2010-04-29.
楼兰美女系列二：4000年前美女长啥样
3800歲樓蘭美女將在新疆文物大展亮相
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楼兰美女3800年面容之下的血缘之谜  北方新闻网2014-06-23
相似率可达90%以上 专家复原出古楼兰美女原貌  人民网2004年5月31日
木乃伊复原出“楼兰美女”
Biography at Memoria Chilena
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The 2015 Rugby World Cup was the 8th Rugby World Cup tournament.
It was played in England from 18 September to 31 October.
Scotland won the tournament over Australia to win their 3rd title.
20 nations competed in the tournament.
On 28 July 2009, the International Rugby Board chose England as the host for the 205 tournament, and Japan for the 2019 competition.
Italy, Japan and South Africa all wanted to host the tournament.
Pool stage
Total number of points scored: 2,439
Average points per match: 50.8
Total number of tries scored: 271 (including 6 penalty tries)
Average tries per match: 5.65
Total number of braces: 26
Total number of hat-tricks: 8
Total number of conversions missed: 77
Total number of conversions scored: 194
Conversion success rate: 71.6%
Total number of penalty goals missed: 64
Total number of penalty goals scored: 227
Penalty goal success rate: 78.0%
Total number of drop goals scored: 8
Total number of penalty tries awarded: 6
2015 in the United Kingdom
Qarabağ Futbol Klubu (usually just called Qarabağ) is a professional association football club from Baku, Azerbaijan.
The club was originally from Agdam, but moved to Baku because of the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
The club plays in the Azerbaijan Premier League.
Qarabağ was formed in 1951, and were the founding members of the Azerbaijan Premier League in 1992.
A season later they won their first league championship, which made them the first non-Baku based club to win the Azerbaijan Premier League title.
The clubs plays at the Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium, which has a capacity of around 31,200.
The Azerbaijan national football team also uses that stadium.
They used to play at the Imarat Stadium, but it was destroyed by the Armenian military during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
The club won their first league title in 21 years in 2014.
Qarabağ  have won the Premier league four times and Azerbaijan Cup five times.
In the same year, Qarabağ became the second Azerbaijani team to advance to the group stage of a European competition after they beat Twente in the play-off round of the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League.
Azerbaijan League
Winners (4): 1993, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16
Winners (5): 1993, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2014–15, 2015–16
'Azerbaijan Supercup
Winners (1)'': 1994
Official UEFA profile
Maryam Zakaria (Persian: مریم زکریا; born on 27 September 1985 in Tehran) Swedish-Iranian actress.
She has worked in Bollywood and the South Indian Cinema.
She is best known for her work in the 2012 film Agent Vinod.
In Sweden, Zakaria worked as model, dance teacher, choreographer and established a Bollywood Dance School called the Indisk Dans Studio.
She moved to Mumbai in 2009 and began to model in ads for Set Wet, Layz and Coke.
She performed an item number in the film Nagaram (2010), after the director saw a video of her dancing on YouTube.
The film was a big breakthrough for Zakaria.
The French-made Fusil de chasse (fu-zi dee chā-se), originally meant "gun of the hunt”, was a light smoothbore flintlock musket designed for hunting.
They were an elegant flintlock with a distinctive "cow's foot" shape to the buttstock that softened recoil.
This La Peid stock shape is typical of long guns made at Tulle.
The Fusil de Chasse was made at the Tulle (France) arms factory.
The fusils were very similar to the Charleville musket, also made at Tulle.
Fusils were typically lighter and shorter than the Charleville muskets.
The name fusil is phonetically pronounced "fusee" in English."
The French name Fusil is a corruption of the Italian fucile meaning flint.
The British fucils were based on the Brown Bess musket.
Also from the name fusil comes the term fusilier.
A very similar but cheaper version was the fusil de traite (trade gun).
The officer's fusil is fitted for a sling and the stock is  shorter than the barrel in order to fit a socket bayonet.
But there is some confusion between the two versions.
At 20 gauge (.62 caliber) the fusil was also used as a fowling gun (early predecessor of the shotgun).
Fusils were a common musket in 18th century Colonial America and were used by Americans during the American Revolution.
In France, the manufacturing of arms got its start as a large industry in Saint-Étienne in about 1535.
The first armory was set up in 1669.
By 1646, arms manufacturing had started up at Tulle nearby.
In 1690 an armory was set up there as well.
The flintlock was adopted by France for her armies in 1630.
Both Tulle and Saint-Étienne furnished flintlocks for the French troops in America.
The typical musket in 1690 was about  long and had a barrel of about .
Until about 1718, captains were responsible to make sure each soldier had a working firearm, but other than that the captain allowed his soldiers to choose which musket they would use.
Often, that meant there was no standard musket in use in a company let alone an army.
This was a common failing of all armies of the time.
That changed with the Model 1717 fusil which standardized the muskets and ammunition used by the French army.
It was longer than the British muskets of the time giving French troops an advantage.
At  and with a barrel of  it allowed troops to fire from three ranks at the same time.
With the bayonet, it had the advantage of being longer.
The combination of a longer barrel and a front sight to aim the weapon also made it slightly more accurate than British muskets.
A few improvements were made with the M1728 model but it was otherwise the same musket.
More improvements were made in 1746 when the wood ramrod was replaced with a metal one.
The French muskets shot 18 bullets to the pound which translates to .69 caliber.
A fourth model was issued in 1754 with a shorter lighter version for officers.
The officers model weighed about  and was  in length.
All officers, including generals, carried an officer's model fusil.
These were used during the French and Indian War and many were used by Americans during the American Revolution.
The fusil de chasse was designed for hunting.
Generally the muskets made at Tull were defined by models, but some hunting fusils were made to order.
Differences were based on their intended purpose and market.
In 1695 and 1696 contracts for muskets from the Tulle factory each called for "five hunting muskets for the Indian Chiefs".
These models would later be called a Fusil fin (chief's grade musket).
These muskets were to be caliber 28 balls to the pound (approximately .56 caliber),  long, "well filed and well polished with fine mountings and a flat lock".
These gifts to Indian chiefs were elegant hunting muskets.
Fusil de traite
In New France, the Indians allied to the French carried French fusils.
These were either Fusils de chasse or de traite.
At the Battle of the Monongahela, British General Edward Braddock led his troops directly into an ambush by native american and French troops in July of 1755.
Braddock was killed, no doubt, by a .62 caliber ball fired from a French fusil.
The smoothbore Tulle musket was carried by most, if not all, the Indians who attacked Braddock at the Monongahela River.
Native warriors took very good care of their muskets and strongly preferred the French fusils over guns made elsewhere.
Although the fusil de traite was designed as a less-expensive trade gun, many Indians knew the difference and preferred the fusil de chasse.
While there were a number of different models of fusils sent to the Americas, the light musket de chasse was designed for those who hunted for a living.
So many were needed that the factory at Saint-Étienne had to handle the extra demand.
Most of these were shipped to New France where trading was the main activity between Native Americans and the French.
Both varieties were made with either iron or brass fittings and most were .62 caliber.
Both were marked "Tulle" (earlier spelling was "Tvlle") on the lock plate.
This makes archaeological finds harder to tell apart over two centuries later.
Many of the reproductions made today are marked "Tulle".
Fusil de Chasse (ordinary) - 15 to 20 livre.
In 1997 US dollars, that would be between $30 and $40.
Fusil de fin (chief's grade) - 25 to 40 livre.
In 1997 dollars, $50 to $80.
Fusil de traite (ordinary) - 9 to 15 livre.
About $18 to $30 in 1997.
Fusil de militarie (grenidier or ordinary) - 20 to 30 livre.
About $40 to $60 US dollars in 1997.
Bindi the Jungle Girl (2007–10)
Kenny the Shark (2003–10)
Growing Up Creepie (2006–10)
Tracey McBean (2002–06)
Flight 29 Down (2005–10)
Darcy's Wild Life (2004–09)
Grossology (2007–10)
Polar Horse Hunters (2003–10)
Endurance (2002–10)
Crash, Bang, Splat! (
2004–09)
Dinosapien (2007–10)
The Paz Show (2003–10)
Wilbur (2007–10)
Hip Hop Harry (2006–10)
Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks (2006–10)
Peep and the Big Wide World (2004–10)
ToddWorld (2004–08)
Hi-5 (2003–10)
The Save-Ums (2003–08)
The Magic School Bus (2003–09)
Timothy Goes to School (2004–06)
Brum (2003–06)
Animal Jam (2003–06)
Balamory (2005–07)
Sun Myung Moon (25 February 1920 – 3 September 2012) was a Korean religious leader, businessman and political activist.
He believed he was the second coming of Jesus Christ.
He founded the Unification Church.
He was an ardent anti-communist and advocate for Korean reunification.
He was recognized by the governments of North and South Korea.
His business interests included New World Communications, an American news group that owned The Washington Times.
Moon was born in what is now North Korea.
He moved to the United States in 1971.
He became well-known after giving a series of public speeches based on his beliefs.
Critics called Moon a cult leader because he made high demands on his followers.
He was criticized for his relationships with political and religious people, such as Presidents of the United States Richard Nixon, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush.
His wedding ceremonies drew criticism, especially when they involved members of other churches, such as the Roman Catholic bishop Emmanuel Milingo.
The Dream Job (Chinese: 绝世好工) is a Singaporean drama television series.
It began its run from 28 June 2016.
There are 30 episodes.
It stars Hugo Ng, Shaun Chen, Jeanette Aw, Rebecca Lim, Zhang Zhenhuan and Ian Fang as the main characters.
A vast fortune and inheritance is at stake when a mysterious man offers three young candidates a dream job at his horticulture estate.
They are eventually discovered to be his illegitimate children from the many affairs he had during his younger days.
In the beginning, revenge and family politics are at play, but when one of them gets falsely accused of committing murder, the "siblings" finally overcome differences and band together.
Hugo Ng as Zhang Qingdong
Shaun Chen as Li Junfeng / Zhang Junfeng
Jeanette Aw as Cheng Huishan
Zhang Zhenhuan as Zhang Lixing
Rebecca Lim as Jiang Xinya
Ian Fang as Lin Zijie
Aileen Tan as Wang Bizhi
Pan Lingling as Lin Meilan
Romeo Tan as Tim Goh
Sheila Sim as Chen Yiqing
Hong Ling as Pan Xiaoxue
Bonnie Loo as Qiu Xinling
Brandon Wong as Liang Yongqiang
Chen Tianwen as Zhang Mingde
Lawrence Wong as Qiu Zhiying (Earthworm)
singaporean television programs
The administrative district of Oberaargau in the Swiss canton of Bern has 50 municipalities in an area of 354 km².
Oberaargau
Sirkazhi is the major town in the Mayiladuthurai district, Tamil Nadu, India.
The town covers an area of 13.21sq.km.
The population according to 2011 census is 34,927.
This city is the part of Cauvery delta region.
Activism career
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Its relative minor is B minor, and its parallel minor is D minor.
This is usually replaced by C♯ minor because D♭ minor's eight flats (including the double-flat) make it generally impractical to use.
Therefore, D♭ minor is often used as the parallel key of C♯ minor.
For example, Chopin's Prelude No.
15 in D-flat major ("Raindrop"), modulates from D-flat major to C-sharp minor for the middle section in the parallel minor, and in his Fantaisie-Impromptu, primarily in C-sharp minor, Chopin switches to D-flat major for the middle section for the opposite reason.
Claude Debussy also switches from D-flat major to C-sharp minor in the significant section in his famous Clair de lune.
Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony likewise switches to C-sharp minor for a while for the significant section in the slow movement.
C-flat major (or the key of C-flat) is a major scale based on C, containing the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. Its key signature has seven flats.
The B major is the same as C-Flat, B major is a key signature with five sharps.
On February 26, 2015, Bonya and her husband Avijit Roy were attacked by machete wielding Islamic extremists while they were visiting Dhaka, Bangladesh, on a book signing trip.
They were attacked in the middle of the street at a very crowded book fair.
Avijit died after he was taken to the hospital, and Bonya was seriously injured.
Bonya was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
She completed her undergraduate degree in Computer Information Science at Minnesota State University in Mankato.
Bonya met Avijit through their writing on Mukto-Mona, the first online platform for Bengali speaking freethinkers, atheists, and secular bloggers and writers founded by Avijit.
This group started the first celebration of Darwin Day in Bangladesh.
Mukto-Mona was internationally recognized in 2015 and received The BOBS jury award.
Bonya wrote one of the first popular science books in Bangladesh about biological evolution, named Bibortoner Path Dhore ("Along the Evolutionary Path", 2007).
She is one of the moderators of Mukto-Mona.
Bonya has a daughter, Trisha Ahmed, from her first marriage.
Trisha wrote an article with her stepfather Avijit for the Free Inquiry magazine about imprisoned secularist bloggers.
Ahmed has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
Bonya decided to take a leave of absence from her job as a Senior Director at a credit bureau in the US after the attack on her and Avijit.
She started working with the humanist associations in Europe and the US to raise awareness about the attacks on the secular intellectuals in Bangladesh by Islamic fundamentalists.
She is currently doing research work on Islamic fundamentalism as a visiting research scholar at University of Texas, Austin.
A week after her husband's death, Bonya started meeting with humanist associations in Europe, and working to get other activists out of Bangladesh, before they could be killed.
In 2016, Bonya received the Freedom From Religion Foundation's "Forward" award.
She is on the jury of Deutsche Welle's The BOBS Best of Online Activism Award.
Works and activism
Bibortoner Path Dhore ("Along the Evolutionary Path"), 2007, Abosor Prakashani, Dhaka.
"Fighting Machetes with Pens", Voltaire Lecture 2015.
Rafida Ahmed Bonya on the UN panel "Ending Impunity for Crimes against Journalists".
Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Briefing on Human Rights in Bangladesh .
Talk at Harvard Humanist Hub .
Keynote address at Reason Rally 2016.
Talk at American Humanist Association Annual Conference 2016.
Lecture in the 4th Women in Secularism Conference 2016.
Rafida Bonya Ahmed's blog
Rafida Bonya Ahmed on Facebook
Hayes School is a mixed secondary school in Hayes, Bromley.
This school is an academy.
The head teacher is Mr. Whittle, as of July 2016.
This school has an Ofsted rating of "Outstanding".
This school has some of the highest GCSE and A-Level results in the country.
In 2016, the school was announced as one of the top 100 schools in England for its GCSE results.
Hayes School has a long waiting list and is very popular.
The school became independent from the local Parish school in 1956.
In 1956, the only building in the school was a Victorian-style mansion named Gadsden.
Today, the Gadsden holds the main reception, the student reception, a few offices, and other things.
As soon as it became independent from the Parish school, it started accepting both genders.
By then, most of the school was relocated to A Block, which had 3 floors.
Official website of the municipality of Petit-Val
The administrative district of Obersimmental-Saanen in the Swiss canton of Bern has 7 municipalities in an area of 575 km².
Obersimmental-Saanen
Official Website of the city of Spiez
Recoil or kick (sometimes incorrectly called kickback) is the tendency of a firearm to move backwards and at the same time the muzzle of the gun to rise when fired.
This is a reaction to the explosive force of a bullet leaving the barrel of a firearm.
A handgun shooter feels the recoil in the hands and arms.
A rifle or shotgun shooter feels most of the recoil in his or her shoulder.
Physics of recoil
Recoil is explained by Newton’s third law of motion.
It is usually paraphrased as: "to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction".
In simpler terms, when a projectile and the hot gasses go forward, the firearm goes backwards.
There are a number of factors that determine the amount of backward force.
Projectile mass - The bullet, shot or shell fired from any size gun has an effect on recoil.
The heavier the projectile, the more the recoil.
Gun mass - The heavier the gun, the less the recoil.
Speed of the projectile - The faster the bullet, shot or shell, the more the recoil.
Also, the recoil will happen quicker than with a low mass projectile.
This is felt as a "sharper' recoil by the shooter.
For example, a .22 Long Rifle (the designation of the bullet not the gun) has very little recoil.
For this reason it is a caliber recommended for beginning shooters and, because the rounds are cheap, it is good practice ammunition for more experienced shooters.
It is a favorite ammunition for target shooting.
By comparison, the .500 S&W Magnum handgun round has very heavy recoil.
Also, the recoil from the .500 magnum round is more sharply felt since the recoil speed is much greater.
Recoil anticipation
One of the first things new shooters want to know is if a gun will kick them.
New shooters learn to hold the gun firmly to reduce and control recoil.
If firing a handgun, use both hands.
If firing a shotgun or rifle, press it firmly against the shoulder and press your cheek on the gunstock.
But, instructors often tell new students that recoil is 80% mental and only 20% physical.
In other words, no matter how well you hold the weapon, recoil anticipation can ruin every shot.
Recoil anticipation, or more commonly known as "flinching", is the unintended (not intended or planned mental and physical response to firing a gun.
The shooter knows the loud noise and shock of firing the weapon is coming and at the last moment flinches.
This often causes an inexperienced shooter to hit low of the intended target.
Another form of recoil anticipation is when new shooters unconsciously move the gun forward while pressing the trigger.
This is very difficult for instructors to see until the shooter presses the trigger on an empty chamber.
Only then can the instructor see the shooter moving the gun forward.
Another problem is jerking the trigger.
Instead of smoothly pulling the trigger while concentrating on the target, an inexperienced shooter often "jerks" the trigger.
If shooters are consistently hitting low and to the left (right handed shooters) they are usually jerking the trigger.
Shooters probably don't understand that quickly yanking the trigger back ruins the shot.
All forms of recoil anticipation are eliminated or reduced through practice.
Good instruction in safe firearms practices is also very important.
Handguns 101 - Managing Recoil; YouTube
Fixing Trigger Jerk: YouTube
Lego Ninjago is a line of sets (video games, television series, and toys) produced by Lego.
It is based on the sets of six Ninja: Lloyd, Kai, Jay, Nya, Zane, and Cole,  and many other characters from the television series.
The television series is about all characters in the land of Ninjago.
The television series first aired in 2011.
It was a major success and airs on Cartoon Network
There are many toys of Lego Ninjago which all are based on a certain character.
The toys are Lego Ninjago's first success.
Lego Ninjago video games are usually based on the television series.
Lego Ninjago games are produced by Lego System A/S. Most Lego Ninjago video games are placed in Google Play.
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Ceratonia oreothauma
†Ceratonia emarginataCeratonia siliqua}}Ceratonia is small genus of flowering trees in the pea family, Fabaceae, endemic to the Mediterranean region and the Middle East.
Its best known member, the carob tree, is cultivated for its fruits (called pods) and has been widely introduced to regions with similar climates.
The genus was created by Carl Linnaeus and published in Species Plantarum 2: 1026 en 1753.Ceratonia in PlantList The type specimen is Ceratonia siliqua.
The genus was long considered monotypic (with only one species), but a second species, Ceratonia  oreothauma, was identified in 1979 from Oman and Somalia.
Some photos of Ceratonia siliqua'' (the carob tree):
Ceratonia in Encyclopedia of Life
Ceratonia L. in Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The carob is a species of flowering evergreen tree  in the pea family, Fabaceae.
Its  scientific name is Ceratonia siliqua L.
It is widely grown for its edible pods, and as an ornamental tree in gardens.
The ripe, dried pod is often ground to carob powder, which is used to replace cocoa powder.
Carob bars, an alternative to chocolate bars, are often available in health-food stores.
The word carob, used commonly for the fruit, comes from Middle French carobe (modern ), which borrowed it from Arabic  (kharrūb, "locust bean pod").
, caroubier
, caroba
Ceratonia siliqua, the scientific name of the carob tree given by Carolus Linnaeus to this plant, comes from the Greek kerátiοn κεράτιον 'fruit of the carob (from keras κέρας 'horn'), and Latin siliqua "pod, carob".
The carat, a unit of mass for gemstones, and of purity for gold, takes its name, indirectly, from the Greek word for a carob seed, kerátion.
The carob tree grows up to  tall.
The crown (the upper part of tree)  is broad and semispherical, supported by a thick trunk with brown rough bark and solid and firm branches.
Leaves are  long, alternate and compound.
Most carob trees are dioecious (with separate male an female plants) but some are hermaphrodite.
The male trees do not produce fruit.
The flowers are small and in an inflorescence axis in racemes like catkins; the pollination is by both wind and insects.
The fruit is a legume (also known as a pod).
The pods take a full year to develop and ripen.
The sweet ripe pods eventually fall to the ground and are eaten by various mammals (goats, sheep, cows), and so the hard seeds are dispersed.
Carob eaten by humans is the dried (and sometimes roasted) pod.
The pod have 5 to 18 hard brown seeds (10% of the pod weight) within a sweet thick pulp substance.
Carob is mildly sweet and is used in powdered, chip, or syrup form as an ingredient in cakes and cookies, and as a substitute for chocolate.
Carob bars are widely available in health food stores.
A traditional sweet, eaten during Lent and Good Friday, is also made from carob pods in Malta.
Syrup, drinks
In Malta, a syrup (ġulepp tal-ħarrub) is made out of carob pods.
Carob syrup is also used in Crete as a natural sweetener, and is considered a natural source of calcium.
It contains three times more calcium than milk.
It is also rich in iron, phosphorus, and natural fibers (Due to its strong taste, it can be found mixed with orange or chocolate).
Carob juice drinks are traditionally drunk during the Islamic month of Ramadan.
Crushed pods may be used to make a beverage; compote, liqueur, and syrup are made from carob in Turkey, Malta, Portugal, Spain, and Sicily.
Several studies suggest that carob may aid in treating diarrhea in infants.
C. siliqua is widely planted in the horticultural as an ornamental plant for planting in Mediterranean climate and other temperate regions around the world, as in California and Hawaii.
The plant can be used as a dense and large hedge.
According to FAO, the top carob-producing countries are (in metric tonnes, 2012): Source: UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
40,000 (F)
30,841
23,000 (F)
22,000 (F)
20,500 (F)
14,218
5,186
3,136
2,300 (F)
Carob recipes, Cooks.com.
Purdue Univ: Fruits of Warm Climates: Carob treatment - horticulture and cultivars, species and native habitat treatment.
The 2014–2016 Turkish judicial purges were purges of the judicial system of Turkey that took place in January 2014 and July 2016 during the presidency of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
In January 2014, 120 judges and prosecutors were reassigned during a major corruption enquiry and on 16 July 2016, 2,745 judges were dismissed immediately following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt.
Purges by numbers
The IX Araucanía Region () is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.
Its capital and largest city is Temuco.
The Auracanía means "place where the Araucanians live".
Araucanian () was the name given by the Spanish to the Mapuche people that live in the region.
The highest mountain in the region is the Lanín volcano (), , on the border with Argentina (Neuquén Province); it is .
The largest city in the region is its capital, Temuco, with 227,086 inhabitants (2002 census).
The other provincial capital, Angol had 43,801 inhabitants.
Gobierno Regional de la Araucanía Official website
The XIV Los Ríos Region (, Region of the Rivers) is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.
Its capital and largest city is Valdivia.
It began to operate as a region on 2007, having been created by subdividing the Los Lagos Region in southern Chile.
It consists of two provinces: Valdivia and the new El Ranco province, that was part of the Valdivia province.
The highest mountain in the region is the Villarrica volcano () (),  high, near the border with Argentina.
The largest city in the region is its capital, Valdivia, with 127,750 inhabitants (2002 census).
The other provincial capital, La Unión had 25,615 inhabitants.
Gobierno Regional de Los Ríos Official website
The X Los Lagos Region () is one of the fifteen regions of Chile.
It has four provinces.
The capital city of the region is Puerto Montt.
Other towns are Puerto Varas, Ancud and Frutillar.
Provinces of the region
Province of Llanquihue: capital Puerto Montt.
Province of Chiloé: capital Castro.
Province of Osorno: capital Osorno.
Province of Palena: capital Chaitén
The VII Maule Region () is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions.
The city of Talca was founded in 1692 by General Governor Tomás Marín de Poveda.
On 17 February 1742 it got the name of Villa San Agustín de Talca by Governor José Antonio Manso de Velasco.
Curicó followed in 1743, Linares and Parral in 1794.
In Talca is the house where Bernardo O'Higgins signed the proclamation of the independence of Chile on 12 February 1818.
, there were (estimated) 1,042,989 persons living in the region, for a population density of  inhabitants/km².
People from this region are known as Maulinos (women: Maulinas).
Gobierno Regional del Maule  Official website
Hurricane Earl was a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico in August 2016.
The storm struck Belize and Mexico with wind of around 80 mph.
The storm caused 13 deaths in the Dominican Republic.
More than fifty other deaths took place, mostly in Mexico.
Damage totaled over $115 million.
21st century in the Dominican Republic
2010s in Belize
2016 in North America
Gwangju is the sixth largest city in South Korea.
It is in the southwest of Korea and is the center of Honam's economy, culture, education and government.
Kerckhoffs's principle (axiom, or law) is an idea in cryptography.
It was stated by Dutch cryptographer Auguste Kerckhoffs in the 19th century.
"A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge".
Kerckhoffs's principle was more briefly stated by American mathematician Claude Shannon as "the enemy knows the system", that is, "one ought to design systems under the assumption that the enemy will immediately gain full familiarity with them".
It is opposite to the idea of "security through obscurity".
The system must be practically, if not mathematically, indecipherable;
It should not require secrecy, and it should not be a problem if it falls into enemy hands;
It must be possible to communicate and remember the key without using written notes, and correspondents must be able to change or modify it at will;
It must be applicable to telegraph communications;
It must be portable, and should not require several persons to handle or operate;
Lastly, given the circumstances in which it is to be used, the system must be easy to use and should not be stressful to use or require its users to know and comply with a long list of rules.
Some are no longer relevant given the ability of computers to perform complex encryption.
The second axiom, Kerckhoffs's principle, is still vitally important.
The Charleville muskets were .69 caliber French smoothbore flintlock muskets used in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Charleville was used during the American Revolutionary War by the Americans and was later copied and manufactured in the US as the Springfield Model 1795 Musket.
About 1630, Frenchman Marin le Bourgeoys (c.1550–1634) created the first "true" flintlock, also called the "French lock".
Throughout the 17th century, flintlock muskets were produced in a wide variety of models.
In 1717, the original "Charleville" flintlock musket was made for the French military.
This became the first standard flintlock musket to be issued to all troops.
While it is more correctly called a French infantry musket or a French pattern musket, these muskets later became known as "Charleville muskets".
They were named after the armory in Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes, France.
The standard French infantry musket was also produced at Tulle, St. Etienne, Maubeuge Arsenal, and other sites.
While technically not the correct name for these muskets, the use of the name Charleville dates back to the U.S. Revolutionary War, when Americans tended to refer to all of the musket models as Charlevilles.
It should be noted that the naming of these muskets is not consistent.
Some references only refer to Model 1763 and later versions as Charleville  flint lock muskets, while other references refer to all models as the Charleville.
The Charleville musket's design was refined several times during its service life.
Later models of Charleville muskets remained in service until 1840.
This was when percussion lock systems made the flintlock mechanism obsolete.
Charleville muskets had a smoothbore barrel.
Rifles were more accurate than muskets because of their rifling, but military commanders favored smoothbores on the battlefield.
Both types used black powder which caused fouling.
Because the bullet was a tighter fit in the barrel (weapons), Rifles became very difficult to load after a few shots.
Early on, the longer range and better accuracy of the rifle was also considered to be of little value on a battlefield that was quickly obscured by black powder smoke.
Like all smooth bore muskets, the Charleville flintlock musket was only accurate to about  against a column of men, or  against a single man-sized target.
The Charleville's .69" (17.5mm) caliber barrel was slightly smaller than its main competitor, the .75 caliber Brown Bess produced by the British.
The smaller round was intentionally chosen to reduce weight in the field.
But the .69 caliber ball round still had enough mass to be effective against enemy soldiers.
The Charleville's stock was usually made out of walnut.
Instead, Charleville muskets, like the Brown Bess muskets, were fired in mass formations.
In modern warfare, bayonets are considered to be last-ditch weapons.
But in the 18th century firing muskets only paved the way for a bayonet charge.
Muskets with bayonets attached were used as a pike type weapon in close Hand-to-hand combat.
This use as a pike dictated the Charleville's general length and weight.
A shorter weapon could not be used as a pike, and its weight was a balance between being heavy enough to be used as a pike or club, but light enough to be carried and used by general infantrymen.
The rate of fire depended on the skill of the soldier, but was typically about three shots per minute.
After 1728, the Charleville's  barrel was held into place by three barrel bands making it much sturdier.
In 1743 the wooden ramrod was replaced with a steel one.
Additional improvements were made in the 1750s and 1760s.
The 1763 model was determined to be too heavy.
In 1766 it was replaced by a lighter version.
Shooting the 1766 Charleville Musket
Making paper cartridges (French flintlocks
Not to be confused with Kerckhoffs's principle.
Kirchhoff's circuit laws (electrical circuits)
Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation
Kirchhoff equations (fluid dynamics)
Kirchhoff's three laws of spectroscopy
Kirchhoff's law of thermochemistry
There are 5 arrondissements in the Charente-Maritime department.
1790 : creation of the department, with the name Charente-Inférieure (changed in 1941 to the present Charente-Maritime), with seven districts: Marennes, Montlieu, Pons, Rochefort, La Rochelle, Saintes and Saint-Jean-d'Angély.
The capital of the department Saintes alternating with La Rochelle and Saint-Jean-d'Angély but soon was changed and Saintes was kept as the only capital.
1800 : creation of the arrondissements: Jonzac, Marennes, Rochefort, La Rochelle, Saintes and Saint-Jean-d'Angély.
Montlieu and Pons were left out but Jonzac was created.
1926 : the arrondissements of Marennes and Saint-Jean-d'Angély were eliminated.
1943 : the Saint-Jean-d'Angély was made again an arrondissement.
The arrondissement of Jonzac is an arrondissement of France, in the Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
Its capital is the city of Jonzac.
When the Charente-Maritime department was created on 1790, Jonzac was not one of the original districts but soon, in 1800, it was made one of the arrondissements of the department with the territories of the Monlieu and Pons districts.
The arrondissement of Jonzac has an area of , and a population of 56,973 inhabitants for a density of  inhabitants/km².
Jonzac is the southernmost arrondissement of the department.
It is bordered to the north by the arrondissement of Saintes, to the east by the Charente department and to the southeast and east by the Gironde department.
To the northwest of the department is the southern part the Gironde estuary, the largest estuary of France.
In the arrondissement of Jonzac, there is only one canton where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement: the Thénac canton.
The arrondissement of Jonzac has 129 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):
Agudelle (17002)
Allas-Bocage (17005)
Allas-Champagne (17006)
Archiac (17016)
Arthenac (17020)
Avy (17027)
La Barde (17033)
Bedenac (17038)
Belluire (17039)
Biron (17047)
Bois (17050)
Boisredon (17052)
Boresse-et-Martron (17054)
Boscamnant (17055)
Bougneau (17056)
Bran (17061)
Brie-sous-Archiac (17066)
Brives-sur-Charente (17069)
Bussac-Forêt (17074)
Celles (17076)
Cercoux (17077)
Chadenac (17078)
Chamouillac (17081)
Champagnac (17082)
Champagnolles (17084)
Chartuzac (17092)
Chatenet (17095)
Chaunac (17096)
Chepniers (17099)
Chevanceaux (17104)
Cierzac (17106)
Clam (17108)
Clérac (17110)
Clion (17111)
La Clotte (17113)
Consac (17116)
Corignac (17118)
Coulonges (17122)
Courpignac (17129)
Coux (17130)
Échebrune (17145)
Expiremont (17156)
Fléac-sur-Seugne (17159)
Fontaines-d'Ozillac (17163)
Le Fouilloux (17167)
La Genétouze (17173)
Germignac (17175)
Givrezac (17178)
Guitinières (17187)
Jarnac-Champagne (17192)
Jonzac (17197)
Jussas (17199)
Léoville (17204)
Lonzac (17209)
Lorignac (17210)
Lussac (17215)
Marignac (17220)
Mazerolles (17227)
Mérignac (17229)
Messac (17231)
Meux (17233)
Mirambeau (17236)
Montendre (17240)
Montguyon (17241)
Montlieu-la-Garde (17243)
Mortiers (17249)
Mosnac (17250)
Neuillac (17258)
Neulles (17259)
Neuvicq (17260)
Nieul-le-Virouil (17263)
Orignolles (17269)
Ozillac (17270)
Pérignac (17273)
Le Pin (17276)
Plassac (17279)
Polignac (17281)
Pommiers-Moulons (17282)
Pons (17283)
Pouillac (17287)
Réaux sur Trèfle (17295)
Rouffignac (17305)
Saint-Aigulin (17309)
Saint-Bonnet-sur-Gironde (17312)
Saint-Ciers-Champagne (17316)
Saint-Ciers-du-Taillon (17317)
Sainte-Colombe (17319)
Saint-Dizant-du-Bois (17324)
Saint-Dizant-du-Gua (17325)
Saint-Eugène (17326)
Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde (17328)
Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge (17331)
Saint-Georges-Antignac (17332)
Saint-Georges-des-Agoûts (17335)