text:
The fifth in a series of five exhibits at the Delaware Arts Center's Alliance Gallery, "Be Mine Forever" features love-themed photography and poetry — the works of 14 photographers and 14 poets, a bow to Feb. 14, Valentine's Day, incorporated within the dates of the three-week exhibit.
"Be Mine Forever" is a celebratory arts exhibition of love and romance — with a twist.
The fifth in a series of five exhibits at the Delaware Arts Center's Alliance Gallery, "Be Mine Forever" features love-themed photography and poetry — the works of 14 photographers and 14 poets, a bow to Feb. 14, Valentine's Day, incorporated within the dates of the three-week exhibit.
The quintessence of the show, however, is the display of "poem objects" on pedestals and shelves to complement the exhibited poems. A phrase coined by gallery director Rocky Pinciotti, a "poem object," he explains, "is some visual or some thought suggested by the poetry," represented in three-dimensional form.
For example, a poem about romance on the beach, Pinciotti says, might be complemented by "a beautiful bowl with sand in it." A pair of gardening gloves, he suggests, could be the poem object of a verse about growth. "It doesn't have to be literal."
Poet Mary Greene of the Upper Delaware Writers Collective curated the poetry selections for the exhibit while Pinciotti selected the photographs. What began as a local assemblage of photographers and poets has now extended to the entire East Coast, says Pinciotti. "The outreach is a little bigger each year."
The photographic art, says the gallery director, "doesn't link up with specific poetry, but lines up with the theme of love and romance," in all its shapes and forms. "It might be a cherry tree in the shape of hearts ... animals kissing ... people with their children."
While some poets fashion their own poem objects to complement their words, Pinciotti often contributes. For a previous year's exhibit, he says, a poet was in the state of Florida, unable to attend. To enhance her poem — "It was about being far away and writing a letter" — Pinciotti had the poet contributor write her poem on onionskin paper, enclose it in a tissue-thin envelope postmarked from Florida, and send it to the gallery, where it was hung dramatically under an accentuating light.
The objects may be simple or intricate, says Pinciotti. Some are for sale, along with most of the photographs.
In keeping with the ambiance of romance, the exhibition will open with a reception Saturday in the gallery's Gloria Krause recital hall, featuring vocalist Sharon Paige performing torch songs, accompanied by pianist Bob Lohr. Gallery artists will be in attendance, with presentations by participating photographers, and poets reciting their exhibited poetry.
The exhibit will include a magnetic poetry wall (a hallway where gallery-goers can arrange a m�lange of words to create their own poetic phrases). There will also be an opening-night photo wall where visitors can have their photos taken — expressing love by perhaps an embrace or a kiss, suggests Pinciotti — for display in the front window of the gallery.


text:
ehhh my mom says I laugh like a maniac sometimes... and I am completely unaware...
UBC Science or UTSG Rotman Commerce?
when i had fallen asleep and woke up one morning. my friend was frightened because i started acting all weird like, "HELLO? HELLO? IS THIS SPRINT? HELLO Hello hello ding! THIS IS THE PIZZA GUY, YOU GOT THE WRONG NUMBER." -laughs like a maniac- Then i started to moan and hang my butt in the air like a worm. saying "Oh come here master, im your slave"... such an awkward dream and moment...
Slowly editing profile
..I told my roommate a very naughty plan I wanted to try out on my crush... A very awkward morning indeed
lol i walked out from my bed and my mom tried to stop me and asked where are you going and guess what i said ......"dont stop me im climbing a path of a rock star".....she told me that while we were having a breakfast and i was like holy cow .......that was so awkward ...my sister laughed like crazy ...
All you need is 1 second to live!!
My bro talks in his sleep. Just the other day, when I tried to wake him up:
Me: Hey Bubby, get up.
Bro: That's a nice picture...
Me: ... What?
Bro: In the middle, of the phonebook...
Me: ??
Bro: It's the shape of the cape.
Me: *dies laughing*
I used to walk in my sleep, and my mom said it was creepy when I'd walk out into the living room in the middle of the night and just stare at her blankly. Like something out of a horror movie XD
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare
My friend told me I moaned in my sleep and I'm not even trolling
Click here to set your status message
I have walked and talked in my sleep since I was a little girl. Once, I guess I walked into my parents room and started saying "I want dustadeestain" over and over. Whenever the topic of my sleep talking comes up my mother always complains that I could never tell her what "dustadeestain" was. I have no recollection what I was dreaming of or even a clue as to what that could possibly be.
Easily distracted by shiny things.
My sister told me one day, "Record me going to bed [walking from the living room to the bedroom] because I can never remember how I get there."
I said, "Okay." So I waited for her to fall asleep, then I when she woke up I said, "Do you want me to record you?"
She replied, "No, don't record me; I'm not tired."
So I thought, "Oh, she's conscious right now; there's no point in recording her since she'll remember."
The following morning she wakes up, "Did you record me?"
I told her no and explained what happened.
Then she yelled at me, "DON'T LISTEN TO ME! I WAS TIRED!"
I didn't know I'd get yelled at D': She told me not to record D':
Not that I know of O___o Buuuuuuuuuuuut I do remember once my brother was sleeping and he said, "no, get back! I'm george of the jungle!" Then I was like, "what? o.o" LOLOL.
playing the electric guitar is frustrating, holy shiz =3=
Haha! I used to in college. Usually during high-stress times, like preparing for final exams. Strangely enough, as I am a light sleeper, I would wake up in the middle of my sleep-talking, confused and wondering what I was trying to say next.
I asked my roommates if I was sleep-talking the night before, and they would say yes, but what I had said was totally confusing. From what they have told me, once I was talking about "the first chapter of the water," and another time I was saying something about "playing golf in zero gravity."
As far as I know, I haven't talked in my sleep since.
My wife tells me that i will occasionally start speaking korean and/or japanese in my sleep, saying things with great emphasis as if trying to tell her something of dire importance. I never remember these conversations, but after a while she stopped trying to figure out what i was trying to tell her. Now i get woken up with a fist to the ribs every now and then, and she claims it was me talking in asian gibberish again.
The thing is, i can understand spoken korean and japanese, but i cant speak it with any effluancy. I think she just likes to hit me.
Also, I suffer chronic pain in my face, and take heavy narcotics 24/7 to manage it. Sometimes, my drugs start to lose effectiveness while i am sleeping, and i slip into these horrific nightmares themed around destroying/mutilating my lower jaw in various ways. I will start to moan in my sleep from the pain, but eventually i get locked/trapped in my subconcious and start to attempt the waking up thing.
This usually fails, with me clawing at the inside of my mind with the chipped and shredded remains of my fingernails. Then i graduate from moaning to asking for help, then yelling for help, then screaming at the top of my lungs in a Very loud blood-curdling fashion for anyone to please help me escape from my hellacious, never ending torment.
Feaked my mom out last time i visited, as i was napping on the couch.
Also, everytime we move (military moves us every few years), the nieghbors take a while to realise i am not ax-murdering squirrels and/or small children as my emanations can frequently be heard outside the walls of our houses.
Apparently one night I asked where they pie was, even though there wasn't any pie. I don't usually talk in my sleep but I guess it might be because I have wacky dreams.
On another note, my sister does this really annoying thing where she laughs in her sleep. I always end up asking what's so funny but she never answers. I'm still getting used to it because it only started fairly recently but it's so weird. I wish I dreamed about things that are funny enough to make me laugh in my sleep.
I don't think I do. No one has ever told me I've said anything, but I've been around other who do. My mom does. One time my cousin came to visit when I was about 11, and we all had a big sleep over in the living room and my mom slept on the couch and she scared the crap out of us. She sat straight up and started punching the air and talking about some dude attacking and he was wearing pink or something. No clue. After she laid back down she slept with an eye open... awkwardddd.
Some years back one of my friends was sleeping over and stayed up late to play games and apparently in my sleep I rolled over and said "Gouge their hearts and rip out their throats" It must have been one awesome dream.
We were sleeping in a tent for my best friend's sleep over when we were kids, and when her brother came around to scare us in the middle of the night, my other friend who shall remain nameless sat up and said "NOO TEJAS!" Clear as day. Which just so happened to be her favorite mexican food restaurant, and she was a slightly pudgy girl. We never could convince her that she actually said it, but she did!
Also a friend of mine crashed drunk at my house in college, and when we tried to move him off the bed to the couch, he sat up and pointed his finger at us all accusingly and said "Just put...the bible...DOWN" and laid back down. He was a big guy, we had to leave him be, because apparently he thought we were the local religious organization, coming to convert him.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
From a photoshoot at VrouwKindCentrum (WomanChildCenter) 'Even-Naar' in Tilburg, the Netherlands.
One of a series of photographs symbolizing the purpose of the center; a part of the exhibition collection 'Vrouwen van Even-Naar. Vrouwen zoals jij?' ('Women from Even-Naar. Women like you?'), April/May 2009.
March 2009. Canon EOS 300X, Sigma 28-135. Tripod Manfrotto, Falcon Eyes continuous lights. Post-processing: retouch, channels, orton effect, sharpening, sepia.


text:
Christmas program
"Christmas in an Elevator," 7 p.m. Sunday, Fellowship Baptist Church, 2231 Howard Gap Road, Hendersonville. Info: 685-3730; 697-2282.
Christmas Eve services
Grace Lutheran Church, corner of Blythe Street and 6th Avenue W., Hendersonville, 5, 7 and 9 p.m. Monday. Info: 693-4890.
First Presbyterian Church, corner of 7th Ave. and Grove Street, Hendersonville, 5 and 6 p.m. Monday. Info: 692-3211.
First Congregational United Church of Christ, 5th Avenue W. & White Pine Drive, Hendersonville, Advent Lessons and Carols candlelight service, 5 p.m. Monday. Info: 692-8630.
Covenant Presbyterian Church, 2101 Kanuga Road, candlelight Christmas Eve service, 5:30 p.m. Monday. Info: 693-8651.
Pinecrest Presbyterian Church, 1790 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock, Christmas Eve candlelight and Communion service, 6 p.m. Monday. Info: 692-0063.
Trinity Lutheran Church, 235 St. Johns Road, Fletcher, candlelight Christmas Eve service, 6:30 p.m. Monday. Info: 684-9770.
Ebenezer Baptist Church, 2557 Chimney Rock Road, Christmas Eve celebration, 6-7 p.m. Monday.
All Saints Anglican Church, 15 McDowell Road, Mills River, Christmas Eve Choral Eucharist, 7 p.m. Monday.
Calvary Episcopal Church, 2840 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher, candlelight Holy Eucharist services, 7 and 11 p.m. Monday. Info: 828-684-6266.
Christmas Day services
All Saints Anglican Church, 15 McDowell Road, Mills River, Christmas Day Holy Communion with hymns, 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Calvary Episcopal Church, 2840 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher, Holy Eucharist service, 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. Info: 828-684-6266.
Nine Lessons and Carols service, 5 p.m. Sunday at All Saints Anglican Church, 15 McDowell Road, Mills River. Info: 891-7216.
New Year's Eve service
8 p.m.-midnight Dec. 31 at Fellowship Baptist Church, 2231 Howard Gap Road. Special singing. Info: 685-3730; 697-2282.
Study and retreats
Wonderful Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 900 Blythe St., Hendersonville. Info: trinitypresnc.org; 692-6114.
Men's Majestic Humanity of Jesus Bible study of Mt. Pisgah Lutheran Church meets 8 a.m. Thursdays at Denny's on Four Seasons Boulevard, Hendersonville. Info: 692-7027.
Calvary Kids Club meets from 3-4:30 p.m. the first and third Sunday at the church, 2840 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher. Info: 684-6266.
Celebrate Recovery meets from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday at Living Water Baptist Church, Sugarloaf Road. For anyone dealing with an addition. Info: 606-9259.
Extended Family meets at 6 p.m. the third Mondays at Blue Ridge Prison and Jail ministries house, 410 E. First Avenue. For families facing the trauma of incarcerated family members. Info: 696-0607.
Freedom That Lasts meets 7 p.m. Friday night and 10 a.m. Sunday at Progress Baptist Church, 1935 N. Rugby Road. For those who are hurting or have fallen. Info: 419-0722; 545-9177.
Good News @ 6 will be at 6 p.m. the fourth Sunday of each month at Calvary Episcopal Church, 2840 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher. Welcoming all ages to a different service of worship. Info: 684-6266.
Intercessory Time of Prayer, 5:15 p.m. the second Tuesday and 12:15 p.m. the fourth Tuesday at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 6th Ave. W., Hendersonville. Info: 693-4890.
Taize Worship will be at 6 p.m. the second Sunday of each month at Calvary Episcopal Church, 2840 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher. A quiet and reflective worship. Info: 684-6266.
Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS), 9:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m. the second and fourth Wednesdays through May at Mud Creek Baptist Church, 403 Rutledge Drive, Hendersonville. Info: 692-1262.
A free children's ministry, 1-5 p.m. the first and third Thursdays of each month at Cummings Memorial United Methodist Church, Banner Farm Road, Horseshoe. Free children's clothes for up to 6 years old, along with diapers, supplies and equipment at the BEAR closet. Info: 891-9413 or 891-1557.
Grief Share grief recovery group meets from 2-3:30 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesdays at Hendersonville First United Methodist Church, at Sixth Avenue and Church Street. Info: 693-3410; 693-1550; 693-4275.
My Sisters Closet, will be open 9 a.m.-noon Mondays, at First Methodist Church, 204 6th Ave. W. Clothing of different styles for work. Info: 693-4275.
Bread ministry— free bread from 3-4 p.m. Mondays at Balfour United Methodist Church, Highway 25 North, across from Hunter Chevrolet. Info: 692-5501.
Ministry for Separated and Divorced Catholics Support Group meets 5 p.m. Sundays at Immaculate Conception Church, at Seventh Avenue and Church Street, in Meeting Room 1, lower level of the church. Info: 693-7054; 388-3200.
Please email copy for the Crossroads page to firstname.lastname@example.com. Deadline is 5 p.m. Monday, the week before the event. If you don't have access to email, please mail typed copy to Crossroads, Times-News, P.O. Box 490, Hendersonville, NC 28793 or fax to 692-2319. Emailed submissions are given priority. Include contact name and number and a church or event information number for publication. Call 694-7874 for more information
Religion Bulletin: Dec. 22
Christmas program


text: Called Miller BMW in Tallahassee Florida (200 miles away) this morning and was told that today is their last day, will not re-open. Now I have to go 250 miles for dealer service, or do I trade on a primitive Harley piece of junk so I can get it worked on within 10 miles. I guess I will keep my RT until it quits running. HOW MANY MORE?


text:
The Black Sense Market has launched. Hosting exclusive product from over 25 sought after Japanese brands, the initiative celebrates the 10th anniversary of Sense Magazine. Labels include many of our favorites such as; visvim, OriginalFake, uniform experiment, Bedwin, Jam Home Made, Tenderloin, Hysteric Glamour, Mountain Research, mastermind Japan, WACKOMARIA, FABRICK and more! All items have been produced in tonal black make ups, and the result is extremely impressive. Highlighted above are a choice selection of releases from visvim – the Cordura 23L Ballistic Backpack with crocodile leather applications and the 7Hole '73-Folk boot in all-black.
Take a leap for detailed looks at the Black Sense x visvim pieces.


text:
Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg have been told the 'rules' for their future wheel-to-wheel battles. The Mercedes pair thrilled the F1 world last Sunday with their duel for victory in Bahrain, despit...
Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg have been told the 'rules' for their future wheel-to-wheel battles.
The Mercedes pair thrilled the F1 world last Sunday with their duel for victory in Bahrain, despite bosses urging them to "bring both cars home".
It was rumoured that the team denied the drivers ignored team orders for appearance only, and would quietly curb that sort of behaviour behind the scenes ahead of future races.
The fight in Bahrain was also timely for F1's 'show', in the wake of hefty criticism of the controversial new rules.
"I am so happy the race was so well received by the fans," said German Rosberg, "because the welfare of the sport is very important to me.
"In my eyes, the criticism of the new regulations was very unfair, especially so early on, and the negativity was getting louder and louder.
"For me, there was no better way to silence it than to deliver one of the most exciting races in the history of formula one," he added.
But team director Toto Wolff insists Bahrain was not simply a one-off.
"They can fight against each other," he told Sport Bild magazine, "so long as there are no harakiri-manoeuvres.
"So you're not driving with the same aggressiveness against your own teammate as you would against the others," Wolff explained.
He said Mercedes' attitude to 'team orders' is important, given that both Hamilton and Rosberg are conferred equal status inside the Brackley based team, whose W05 car is currently utterly dominant.
"We are here to race," said Wolff, "we have two really good drivers who can win races and deserve to be world champion."
Christian Danner, a former driver turned commentator, says Mercedes' approach will be welcomed by many.
"Mercedes is very dominant," he told German television n-tv, "but in contrast to what we have seen over the years with Ferrari and Red Bull, Rosberg and Hamilton can race freely.
"This is not only a very brave decision, but also the right decision for the sport," he applauded.


text:
Dave's Rating:
Burton's back in black.
I had a thing for Apple Jacks cereal when I was a kid. Each piece was dotted with jagged little cinnamon-flavored sugar shards. They'd rip up your mouth almost as effectively as Cap'n Crunch. Eating them was an adventure. Later in their evolution, the taste changed a bit (that stupid corn syrup). Half of them turned green. And the final step in the divorce was a smoothing process, a softening down of the rough bits. Nevermore shall Apple Jacks possess the power to damage your hard palate and gums, but eating them is a mental exercise, forcing you to leap the chasm between your tongue's sense memory and their new, improved, whatever-it-is. You keep waiting for them to pull a Pepsi Throwback and market an old-school version for adults who never got over it. And you keep waiting.
Tim Burton fans know this feeling. We continue to buy it, hoping for more and getting less. We search his recent films for evidence of the gentle anarchy implied in early, freaks-win-at-life pleasures like Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice and Ed Wood and what we mostly get now is visuals. Really cool visuals, of course, but that's it. Gone is... something... an underdog devotion to making a mark, maybe, a level of emotional care that's hard to find in a tentpole "property" like Dark Shadows, a focus on telling one strong story instead of two or three weak ones. It's been replaced with too much hand-wringing about all those Big Fish father issues, too much Johnny Depp unleashed, too much stuff and not enough nerve.
And now we get Burton back. This is the stop-motion, feature-length expansion of his own 1984 short film Frankenweenie, the Frankenstein story involving a re-animated doggie and the town that misunderstands him to the brink of tragedy. Young Victor Frankenstein (the voice of Charlie Tahan) loses his beloved mutt Sparky and, like the well-meaning, brainiac science nerd that he is -- with the inspiration of a Vincent Price-like teacher named Mr. Rzykruski (Martin Landau) to guide him -- he harnesses the power of lightning to jump-start the dead animal into the realm of the undead. Cue fearful, ignorant townspeople, power gone mad and the ignition of real monsters bent on destruction.
It's a jumble of Burton's greatest hits, lovingly arranged like he cares again, a personal reboot for kids who weren't around for his own first wave. But when that audience grows up, they'll understand him referencing Scissorhands' blunted suburban hyper-normalcy as well as Price's creepy coolness, Lisa Marie's hair in Mars Attacks (in turn lifted from Bride of Frankenstein, of course), Ed Wood's black and white garden of self-actualized strangeness, Hammer horror, and the ghost of Winona Ryder's goth past. Adults whose childhoods were spent absorbing Rankin-Bass stop-motion TV specials will feel jolts of Rudolph recognition over Sparky's prominent nose, wholesale character appropriation from Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town and, as if the technically advanced figuration of Coraline and ParaNorman never existed, a resolute vote for those vintage specials' less-than-silky-smooth aesthetic.
These parts add up to the kind of experience fans have been wanting from Burton for more than awhile now -- an oddball story on the weirdo setting that doesn't suffocate itself with heartfelt hot air. For monster-loving kids, it's already been a Great Pumpkin-style year of getting everything they want for Halloween, with this movie serving as a bridge between Hotel Transylvania's mission to entertain the very young and ParaNorman's older-kid-ready angst and darkness, the kind of film you love into adulthood. And for adults who've already pledged their Burton allegiance, it's a welcome return to form. You can taste those jagged little bits again.
74 out of 100 Metascore®
Read other critic reviews
You can fly. Eventually.
Songs about butts.
Death to the patriarchy.
Stay home.
All Dave White's Movie Reviews
Movies.com, the ultimate source for everything movies, is your destination for new movie trailers, reviews, photos, times, tickets + more! Stay in the know with the latest movie news and cast interviews at Movies.com.
Copyright © 2018 FANDANGO MOVIES.


text: Hello, My boyfriend began having problems with erections (he's older) and I suggested he look into VlAGRRA Softtabs. Boy, am I glad he did! The first time he tried it, one 50 mg piIl did nothing so he took another and that was a mistake. Three hours later he was still rock hard and had come multiple times (so had I)!! Since then a single 50 mg dose does iThe first of these was that he should have been brought to trial att very well--he's now good for almost 2 hours of good hard sex that leaves both of us worn out. - Bobbie, 21 female USA Try it with PharmacyByMail Shop. http://dusked.biz/cs/?aa Rockky


text:
It managed to escape my own apparently poor eyesight, but defensive tackle Pat Sims was suited up and on the field with the Raiders as the media window closed Tuesday.
We'll find out soon from coach Dennis Allen if Sims was simply going through individual drills or if he was included in team sessions, as fellow defensive tackle Vance Walker was Monday.
Either way, it's an encouraging sign provided Sims makes it through practice. He tried to come back midway through camp and then ended up limping off halfway through, not taking the field again until Tuesday.


text:
I keep a Happiness Jar. Throughout the year, I add tiny slips of paper on which I have written the things that have happened that make us happiest. It can be a small thing like enjoying ice cream at the park or something big like a new job. I looked through my happiness jar and wanted to share just a few things we did in 2013.
|Deek Diedricksen in Wilmington, NC
April 2013
In other tiny house community news this year I also started as the co-host of Andrew Odom's Tiny r(E)volution podcast, the r(E)vo Convo. We also partnered with fellow NC tiny housers Ryan Mitchell and Steven Harrell to form Tiny House NC. It is still barebones, but we have some ideas for the future.
|Kristie Wolfe
I had some professional accomplishments this year. I received a lot of additional work from my two biggest clients. I now earn almost as much as a freelance writer as I did when I left my recruiting position in Atlanta. I also picked up a part time job at my favorite laundromat that is also a bar, Bar of Soap. It is so much fun.
Probably the biggest news of my life in 2013 was the publication of my first book 120 Ideas for Tiny Living.
Matt won a Fat Tire bike in a raffle. That was pretty neat.We also traveled to New Mexico and Arizona to visit some friends. We went glamping in Minnesota with some other friends. We made our annual trek to Atlanta for Dragon Con. We celebrated Asheville beer week. Some friends came down to visit us. It was a really great year.
So, what am I looking forward to in 2014? This is the point where a lot of people make resolutions. I do want to exercise more and be more healthy, but I should just do that anyway not just because it is a new year.
A friend and colleague likes to create themes for each year. She picks a word that encapsulates that theme and works toward living that value every day in the new year. I think that is a great idea.
My theme for 2014 is Hospitality!
This year I want to host friends at the tiny house, show them around Asheville, and welcome people into my life. I want to make more local friends. I want to engage more with others. I want to give of myself so others can feel welcome and comfortable. That is my goal for 2014.
What things are you most proud of from 2013? What do you want to accomplish in 2014?


text:
Tisha B'Av, the 9th day of the month of Av, is an annual fast day. The fast commemorates the destruction of both the First Temple and Second Temple in Jerusalem. Many other terrible tragedies occurred on this day. Both the Jewish expulsion from Spain in 1492 and the beginning of World War I started on the Tisha B'Av. Accordingly it is the saddest day in the Jewish calendar.
However, we still need to eat before and after the fast and we live to serve.
Some of our picks for before or after the fast:
Tomato & Garlic Scrambled Eggs
Vegetable and cheese filled pasta shells
Easy, quick and yummy Shakshuka
Is the day too long? Are your kids going out of their mind?
Try Mimi's recipe of playdough to keep the kids busy.
Have your teens bake no mixer cookies, cookies and more cookies.
Spend some time in our community disscussing food on fast days.
And of course add recipes. We can always use craft recipes, breads, rolls and more desserts.
Have an easy fast and may we merit to see the coming of Moshiach!


text:
Bring all your retargeting together into one powerful dashboard. Setup takes minutes. See results immediately. Try it today and get a $100 credit.Try it FREE for 14 days
For app developers
Learn More »
Personalized product ads.
Learn More »
On premium publisher sites.
Learn More »
In the news feed and beyond.
Learn More »
Install a single tracking code. Create segments for every behavior you care about.
Track click and view conversions, sale value, order ID and much more.
Pass in revenue values and compare them against daily ad spend.
Manage campaigns for as many sites as you want, free of charge.
Track every dollar spent with detailed invoices sent to your inbox.
Count clicks, conversions, CTR, CPA, CPC and lots more, updated every 2 hours.
Track users based on pages viewed & actions fired in the browser.
Retarget only the freshest visitors to your site, not the old ones who don't care.


text:
quote:Originally posted by shimiqua: Any and all help is appreciated. When did this get so difficult?256 words.
quote:Falling in love in the middle of a gender war sucks. Larissa Alvarez, a second generation American and sixteenth generation Witch who lost her family as a casualty of a hidden mage war of the sexes, trusts the wrong people in order to save Joe Penrod, a hot mage who might just destroy the whole world, and worse-- he doesnt even love her back.
quote:FUNNY TRAGIC, CRAZY MAGIC is a 60,000 word YA Urban Fantasy.
quote:As the only freaks in a school full of normals, Larissa finds a sense of belonging with Joe that she lost when her family died. Since Joe can walk through walls, its only natural that Larissa enlists him to help her steal back her mothers notebook. And it made sense, the choices they made, to trust a few mages, to trust the witch whos watched over Larissa, but the outcome of these choices leaves Larissa beaten, kidnapped, and as a spy on the boy she loves.
quote:As she tries to free herself and save Joe, she ignites the next battle in the war between mages and witches, and SPOILER ALERT - it doesnt end well.
quote:Sheena Boekweg is a staff member at Flash Fiction Online. She has completed three novels, and is an active member of Hatrack River Writers Workshop. Sheena received an Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future Contest. Her work was accepted for publication by The New Era magazine. To read more about Sheena or her writing, check out theprosers.blogspot.com.
quote:Thank you for your time.
quote:...the powerful book of spells Larissa was supposed to inherit goes missing, ... its hard to ignore the side of her life thats trying to kill her.
quote:Its hard enough being one of the few Latin Americans in school, let alone a witch... [but when] the powerful book of spells Larissa was supposed to inherit goes missing ... its hard to ignore the side of her life thats trying to kill her.


text:
Southwest Airlines today announced the launch of nonstop service between Los Angeles and New Orleans and the addition of another daily non-stop between Dallas Love Field and New Orleans.
The new nonstop to Los Angeles begins November 7, 2010, and Dallas service begins November 8, 2010. Southwest operates a Boeing 737 with 137 seats.
Not only will this increase the service to Los Angeles, it will also provide connection opportunities to the San Francisco Bay area and the Pacific Northwest. Additionally, Southwest will make other schedule adjustments that will provide easier and timely access to other West Coast markets. There will be direct/one-stop same plane service to/from Seattle via Denver. This flight will also provide connection opportunities to may other West Coast cities. There will also be direct/one-stop same plane service to/from Oakland, San Diego and San Francisco.
"We are very pleased with Southwest's decision to add service to Los Angeles. West Coast service is in high demand and we are pleased that Southwest is going to help meet the demand with this non-stop flight as well as the schedule adjustments to provide single plane service to 4 major west coast destinations. The addition of a seventh daily non-stop to Dallas is also welcome and needed to meet growing demand in that market," stated Iftikhar Ahmad, Director of Aviation. "These additions along with the three previous additions this year from Southwest, the return of Frontier Airlines with two new flights, and Air Tran's new service to Milwaukee in October demonstrate the airlines' confidence in the New Orleans market."
Mayor Mitch Landrieu stated, "I am pleased that we continue to build expanded service at Armstrong International Airport. It speaks volumes about our future that the airlines are showing continued confidence in our market. We will continue to work with any and every airline possible to ensure that New Orleans remains a world class travel destination."
So far there have been announcements of 7 additional flights in 2010 increasing the total number of cities served from New Orleans to 35.
For flight information and reservations, visit www.southwest.com or call the airline at 1-800-435-9792.
Home | About Us | News & Stats | Employee Information | Contact Us | Site Search | Flight Info | Airport Facilities | Transportation & Parking | Business Opportunities | Travel Tips | NOAB Employees | Site Map
© Copyright 2018, Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. All rights reserved.


text:
Tea & Books - What are you reading?
I'm on a mystery kick so I just finished a cheesy chef based mystery, a Laura Lippman, a REALLY good mystery that I found out is a SERIES yay! and now I'm reading a British novel called "The Death List" Haha.
What's the title of the chef book? Culinary mysteries actually got me hooked on the "cozy" mystery genre.
The one I read was called "simmer down" but it was part of a longer series. it was cute but wasn't a THRILLER mystery like the one I'm reading now with threats and entrails! HAha
You can have the entrails with my blessing :) I'll take my mystries "cute—" tea and crumpets and quirky characters and only mild allusions to corpses.
Haha you will like the simmer down one then ;) by Jessica conant park and Susan conant
Ah…familiar with the name(s). Susan Conant, I think, did a series that had a dog-trainer/lover sleuth in it.
I enjoyed the Susan Conant dog books about a trainer named Holly Winter and her beloved malamutes, but my favorite dog mystery series so far as been the books by Carol Lea Benjamin. I can't say they are in the cozy genre though as they have a kind of dark side, but I really liked that. What does that say about me? ;) But, I'm with gmathis, I really can't tolerate violence, either in books or tv or movies…heck in real life, too! The Chihuahua of the Baskervilles by Esri Allbritten was a very humorous and light mystery for any little dog lovers out there.
Goofy culinary mysteries — the catering series by Diane Mott Davison is uniformly good, and don't really need to be read in order.
There is also a cozy tea series of mysteries, I believe, maybe?
Yes, by Laura Childs. The first half of the series is OK, but the latter ones aren't as good. I read them mostly for the tea descriptions, but in the last one I plowed through, there wasn't even much of that :(
There is also the Hannah Swensen Mysteries by Joanne Fluke. It's like food porn with a mystery in it. At least, that's what the latest ones seem like, the earlier ones are better.
Haha food porn ;)
It's sad when a promising series starts to tank; writers love ongoing contracts, but sometimes it's hard to be creative on schedule.
I am on a fluffy historical fiction kick, currently reading The Other Boleyn Girl. Next up, The Heretic Queen!
Haven't read a historical novel in way too long…may have to add these to the watch list. My mom started me on Jean Plaidy novels when I was old enough to graduate from Trixie Belden and asserted that you learn more history from a well-researched novel than you do out of a textbook. I still believe her.
I agree! There's so much detail about the period in a well-researched book, and even the fluffier ones do give you a sense of immersion that no textbook or class could convey.
I love all books by Philipa Gregory! I read The Other Boleyn Girl when it first came out years ago and it got me hooked on historical novels! That's pretty much all I read now.
Not that I only read novels to escape, but there is something so refreshing about historical fiction: you really do get to lose yourself in the past, and get away from current day to day things such as media and technology…well, until we come on Steepster to post about it, but, well, of course! I follow a blog called Peeking Between the Pages, and the writer loves historical fiction and often writes about books in that genre, but if you have any favorites in historical fiction, let me know, because I think I need to start wish list. I've read a few novels lately that took place in current time, and I felt a little exhausted by each one; too much like real life, know what I mean? :)
Serenity – have you read much Bernard Cornwell? I love his books. I was wary of reading historical fiction because history class is associated with memorizing names and dates and dry accounts, but his books made me interested. I started with a few of the Sharpe novels, then I devoured his Arthur trilogy and now I'm totally engrossed in the Saxon stories. These books are so carefully researched, and the characters so interesting; he always tells you what was historical and what was fiction at the end as well.
I'm a bit of a stickler about profanity (OK, I'm an old fuddy-duddy) so with regrets, I set "The Archer's Tale" by Cornwell aside. The story itself was promising, except for the language. Are any of his any milder? Recommendations?
Just looked at Wolf Hall on Amazon. I believe a used bookstore run needs to be in my future…
Just started reading Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser today…a book that's been on my shelf for several years, and I am just now getting to it.
One of the greatest Chinese books with tea scattered throughout the pages. Also, enjoy Mo Yan who just won the pulitzer this year
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien…. I'm just in love with Middle Earth :)
I just read that last month. Still a great story.
I've been itching to get back to some Tolkien ever since I saw The Hobbit at the theater. What a genius that man was.
I read this to my kids (ages 9 and 12) a few months ago. I loved watching them go from barely being interested to begging me to keep reading.
@ Veronica, oh, isn't that wonderful!
@ Kamyria, I should re-read it as well, such a marvelous tale!
I'd like to re-read the Hobbit…again…
Holy Cannoli! I finished Pride and Prejudice (which is celebrating it's bicentennial this year) and thought I'd give Dickens another try as he was another classic English author I was not so fond of. I picked up Great Expectations (one of the few books I had to fake my way through in high school as I simply found it too dull to read) and now I can't put it down! The characters are so much richer and more complex now that I'm an adult! I love this! Now I have to go back to read all the books that defeated me back in high school! House of Seven Gables and Silas Marner, here I come!
I'm feeling terribly nostalgic at the moment. Why didn't I appreciate my pre-adult days when I had them! Alas! Who was it that said, "Youth is wasted on the young"?
I think it's the "want to" factor instead of the "have to" factor. Great Expectations was the one Dickens I enjoyed even back in freshman lit class.
You all are inspiring me to tackle P & P soon.
Maybe so gmathis, but there were numerous times where I tried to pick up Austen and failed. It was only recently that I finally conquered my first Austen novel and enjoyed it. On the other hand, I've always loved Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain and so on. You can't always love everything you read, but thankfully, tastes change and now there's a whole new world of literature open to me.
Let me know what you think of Pride and Prejudice when you get to it. :)
I'm actually taking a single author seminar this semester on Jane Austen, we'll be tackling 7 of her books. I'm already a fan so I'm looking forward to it!
What makes Austen interesting, to me, is her choice of subject. Who else could pull off a novel about small goings on in little village towns? No major villains, no heroes, no violence.
Claire – that sounds like it would be a lot of fun! I imagine if I had taken that I'd be better at defending her books to my bf (who is interested in Napoleon warfare amongst other things), and hates that her books have such isolated settings with no mention (barely) of the war, or the decline of nobility or other big issues at the time. :p
Cacovorax – I would tell him that Austen was tackling a huge issue – feminism! Many of her characters (such as Elizabeth Bennett) are strong and self-sufficient women, interested in creating their own destinies. That was not the norm for the 1800s.
Mh, Mark Twain is just lovable on general principles, isn't he? His short stories "Adam's Diary" and "Eve's Diary" are particular favorites.
@ Cavocorax, has he read Persuasion by Jane Austen? She does touch more on those issues in that book, but I understand his point. She described her writing as being on a very small piece of ivory. She was such a marvelous writer.
The bicentennial for P&P is this week, actually! I was already planning on reading this one this year and had no idea it was 200 years old. It will be within the next couple of books! I also really loved Great Expectations. I'm guessing my school had LOW expectations, since the only Dickens we read was A Christmas Carol. No Austen or really any other bigger books, other than Shakespeare which was ridiculous considering every other book was such a low reading level.
I recently read Great Expectations myself and I would heartily recommend
The 1946 film adaptation. Very close to the book and free on YouTube.
I've been reading "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. I've been meaning to read it for years but since I've been drinking so much Dorian Grey tea I figured it's high time I read it. It's pretty interesting. I'll have to try to see the movie when I finish.
I read it last summer and loved it. Lord Henry made me laugh more than once just because he's so over the top.
This is one I've wanted to read for a long time. I'd also like to try the Dorian Grey tea one of these days.
It's a pretty quick read for a classic.
Dorian Grey tea is pretty good, I've tried the Metropolitan Tea blend but there are several different versions out there http://lazeysdailycup.blogspot.com/2012/12/dorian-grey.html I want to try Sympathy for the Kettle's Dorian Grey.
Mentioned it parenthetically in a tea post…a book called "The Almond Tree" by Michelle Cohen Corasanti. It was an author giveaway from librarything.com and has grabbed my attention since the early chapters. A young Palestinian refugee, mid-1950's, his family has been ripped apart by the Israeli occupation and at 12 he finds himself head of the family. Hat-tip to the author for interesting me enough to Google historical detail to understand the setting better.
One of my favorite periods in time is the events leading up to and the American Revolution so I am reading Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara.


text:
More powerful, multi-functional devices drive Dow's development activities
MIDLAND, Mich. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — December 3, 2012 — Dow Electronic Materials, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW), today announced two key commercial-ready technologies for leading-edge semiconductor and printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing. The company also unveiled new advances in its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography development efforts:
- Dow introduces the first two polishing pad families under its new IKONIC™ chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) pad platform.
- Dow brings to market two new MICROFILL™ copper plating products that enhance the performance of high density interconnect (HDI) and IC substrate PCBs.
- Dow unveils critical performance advances for its EUV photoresists and ancillary lithography materials.
"Dow is committed to delivering innovative solutions for the electronics industry. Our technologies are critical to extending Moore's law, allowing for improved processing power as well as memory capacity enabling our customers to manufacture the most advanced components that can differentiate consumer mobile electronic devices," said Dominic Yang, president, Dow Electronic Materials. "Dow is committed to supporting our customers with advanced materials for semiconductor, chip-to-circuit board packaging solutions and PCB manufacturing. Electronic Materials' IKONIC polishing pad platform, MICROFILL Electrolytic Copper and EUV technologies are at the leading edge of development. Our research, development and manufacturing capabilities, as well as our global footprint, allow us to address our customers' requirements with timely solutions," said Yang.
IKONIC CMP Polishing Pad Platform
The IKONIC CMP polishing pad platform is setting a new benchmark in performance, enabling customers to manufacture advanced semiconductors and memory devices. A breakthrough in CMP polishing pad technology, the IKONIC platform delivers the highest performance levels for the broadest range of CMP applications at or below the 28 nm technology node. IKONIC polishing pads are formulated with a unique chemistry in a range of hardness and porosity leading to increased wafer yields and lower cost of ownership. This new platform and Dow's expertise in manufacturing ensure Dow's ability to deliver product when and where needed.
The first two families of the IKONIC polishing pad series are slated to launch in early 2013. IKONIC 2000 polishing pads will target copper barrier polishing and other processes requiring soft and ultra-soft pads. The 2000 series is designed to deliver step-out reduction in wafer defects, tunable removal rate with selectivity, and longer pad lifetime. IKONIC 3000 polishing pads will target bulk copper polishing and other processes requiring medium hardness pads. The 3000 series is designed to reduce wafer defects, improve topography, and lower customer's cost of ownership. Samples are currently available and in beta testing with multiple key customers.
MICROFILL Electrolytic Copper for HDI and IC Substrate PCBs
Smartphones and tablets have become the primary driver for the ever-increasing circuit density of today's PCB designs, and MICROFILL plating products deliver critical technologies to enable miniaturization of next generation devices. Dow has brought to market its MICROFILL THF-100 Electrolytic Copper for through-hole fill of substrate core layers, and is set to launch its MICROFILL LVF Via Fill Electrolytic Copper for enhanced microvia filling in early 2013. MICROFILL products can help meet customers' needs for high density interconnect products, improved performance and reliability, and reduced cost of ownership.
EUV Materials Portfolio
As manufacturers work to increase the number of chips on a wafer in order to meet the size and performance requirements of next-generation mobile devices, current approaches to photolithography are becoming complex and expensive, necessitating the development of new patterning technologies. EUV represents an opportunity to further advance electronics and drive Moore's Law. Dow is actively pursuing the development of its EUV photoresists and ancillary materials to meet these emerging requirements. Dow has recently demonstrated an improvement of the resolution, line-width roughness and sensitivity of its EUV chemically amplified resists. The company expects its EUV portfolio to be market-ready for the adoption of EUV in high volume manufacturing.
"EUV lithography is widely viewed as an enabling technology for next-generation devices to come to market," said Cathie Markham, global director, research & development, Dow Electronic Materials. "Dow has invested strongly in this technology, working in close collaboration with leading chip manufacturers and industry development centers. Based on our strong imaging background and our dominant R&D capabilities, our portfolio of EUV materials is already demonstrating industry-leading performance," said Markham.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE:
DOW) combines the power of science and technology to
passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The Company
connects chemistry and innovation with the principles of sustainability
to help address many of the world's most challenging problems such as
the need for clean water, renewable energy generation and conservation,
and increasing agricultural productivity. Dow's diversified
industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials,
agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of
technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately
160 countries and in high growth sectors such as electronics, water,
energy, coatings and agriculture. In 2011, Dow had annual sales of $60
billion and employed approximately 52,000 people worldwide. The
Company's more than 5,000 products are manufactured at 197 sites in 36
countries across the globe. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean
The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless
otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be found at
www.dow.com .


text:
A modern take on a classic fifties silhouette.
A fun, flattering and charming dress with the delights of the 1950's whilst carrying a slick modern perspective of today.The playful silhouette is both unique and flattering.
Nipped in waist, slash neckline with 3/4 sleeve and gently sccoped back neckline.
Small pockets in the skirt side seams add another playful dimension
Self belt completes the silhouette.
Lined in cream actetate.
Cb invisible zip.
Dry clean only
Outer Shell: 100% Silk Twill designed by Suzannah and produced exclusively for the Suzannah brand in Como Italy.
Style with Nude micromesh hosiery or bare legs,
Works well with a short soft jacket and charming millinery.
Also available in China Blue. and Oyster/Pink
Suzannah, 3 New Quebec Street, London W1H 7RE
The Atelier, 20 New Quebec Street, London W1H 7SB
0044 (0)207 258 0782


text:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The fall tennis schedule is an opportunity for players to enhance their strengths and correct their weaknesses.
Lipscomb's Stuart Tierney, a junior from Hillsboro, Ore., is doing a little of both. This past week he won three matches at the Dale Short Shootout at Middle Tennessee with wins against UAB, Southern Illinois-Edwardsville and Middle Tennessee. He earned tournament MVP honors for his singles play. The Bisons won two of three matches in the tournament.
"It was a solid weekend for everybody," Tierney said. "We all played really well. It was really fun. It was a great atmosphere.
"It is an individual sport, but you want to do well in order to contribute to your team. That is how we all try to work at it. When everyone else is playing well you can be a lot more relaxed."
Lipscomb coach Mario Hernandez stresses that each player should focus on his strengths as diligently as he does his weaknesses.
"Stuart's game is based around his strengths which include his serve, forehand, and court coverage," Hernandez said. "This fall we are continuing to work on him understanding his identity as a player based on those strengths.
"This is a continuation from last season, so most of it is a review. The challenge for him comes in staying disciplined to commit to that style of play each and every day without going away from it at all."
Tierney approaches the fall as a time to get back in top physical shape, develop consistency and sharpen the mental aspects of his game.
"It is a time to get the fight back as well as getting stronger and faster," Tierney said. "The tournaments in the fall give you more drive to your practices. After that first tournament you want to compete and be back out on the court as soon as you possibly can be.
"In team practice we work on everything so gradually your weaknesses will get better. But Mario wants us to focus on what your game is based around. If you focus on your weaknesses they will get better, but your strengths will stay the same. The focus is to make your strengths as good as they can possibly be."
Tierney is expected to be somewhere in the top four in the singles lineup for the Bisons this spring, though Hernandez is not ready to commit to a specific spot.
"Nothing is set in stone now because we have a good group of competitive and hard-working guys that are constantly pushing each other each day," Hernandez said. "Every spot in the lineup is important. So wherever Stuart or anyone else plays we expect the same fight and commitment to playing the game the right way whether they are No. 1 or No. 6, or fighting to be in the lineup."
The Bisons head to Chattanooga this weekend for the Steve Baras Fall Classic, a three-day event. Also in the field are Abilene Christian, Samford, ETSU, Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, Eastern Kentucky, Tennessee Tech, Belmont and Lee. Matches start each day at 7 a.m. CDT.
Tierney thinks that the team is going to play well under the direction of Hernandez who made a name for himself as a leader when he served as captain of the Bisons.
"He really has the right mentality," Tierney said. "He makes practices fun, but he also makes them competitive. We are not there for ourselves; we are there for the team.
"He has done an awesome job. The way we played at Middle Tennessee really spoke this weekend to how well he has been doing."


text:
|2006-04-02, 23:27
|Link #1
Knowledge is the solution
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: St. Louis, MO
Age: 34
Aria the Natural
Rightstuf / Nozomi Entertainment have announced the license for all of Aria, Aria the Animation, Aria the Natural, Aria the OVA ~Arietta~ and Aria the Origination.
Aria was produced by MFI, therefore we didn't list fansubs here on AnimeSuki. See Removal of Media Factory Inc. Works for details.
Since it is licensed, the following posts are no longer allowed in this thread.
You still are allowed to discuss the anime, that has not changed but please remember to limit the discussion to the story. End of edit by Mod (xris)
For all of us slow-paced anime lovers, the long wait (...3 months?) is over, since the first chapter of Aria the Natural came out some hours ago.
Spoiler for chapter 1:
One of the things that I enjoy about Aria the most is the fact that since it is so slow paced it is quite easy to follow the Japanese
Last edited by xris; 2008-05-01 at 15:10. Reason: Aria now licensed
|2006-04-04, 06:17
|Link #7
Weapon of Mass Discussion
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New York, USA
My favorite episodes were all of them. As long as I get another 13 episodes of nothing happening in a peaceful and gentle way, I'll be happy. Kitties are just a bonus. Like Athena is just a bonus. Like time travel is just a bonus. Like everything in this show is just a bonus. Lest anyone say that my love for this show is excessive, I only have one thing to say, "Embarassing remarks are not permitted!"
|2006-04-04, 06:18
|Link #8
Vampie Walrus. Big fangs
Join Date: Oct 2004
It's good to see it's still going strong. I really enjoyed that but the starting creeped me out.
But they couldn't have possibly picked a better spot to pick back up. I loved that little bit in the manga and the minor changes to it were really refreshing.
|2006-04-04, 10:22
|Link #9
Lost in your Eyes~~~
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: UK
Summed up far better than I could ever hope to do.......My,my,my....
|2006-04-04, 11:51
|Link #10
Sexy Tornado
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: The European Bunion
Age: 40
100% in agreement with NoSanninWa. Except... I have to say i'm glad i'm following 'another' group, because 'Embarrassing remarks are not permitted!' kind of sounds wrong, too tense and unnatural (hah, pun not intended). Heh, almost sounds like an evil overlord to his underlings, very straight and pronounced with little feeling.
Well, either way I'm looking forward to this more than any other series currently
|2006-04-04, 12:22
|Link #11
Join Date: Dec 2005
Spoiler for not really spoiler but some background info from manga:
based on the title of next ep. it looks like it will be based on volume 3 navigation 13 of the manga which i also really liked. : D
Last edited by kron; 2006-04-04 at 12:52.
|2006-04-04, 13:17
|Link #12
Beautiful fighter.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: England, UK
Age: 32
It was nice to see a episode from the chapter, though a lil' bit different with the appearence of Ai, nice touch.
Animation looks like its been done up a bit since the first season. Thats also a nice lil' touch.. i wonder if it'll carry on.
Also, i just adore how they're keeping the same music score from the first season, as well as adding a new OST.. can't wait to own it! >.<
|2006-04-04, 15:58
|Link #16
Beautiful fighter.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: England, UK
Age: 32
|2006-04-04, 18:30
|Link #18
Trophy Kill
As for the content, just what I expected. A nice slow-paced show perfect for unwinding after a stressful day at work. I haven't read the manga so I can't be nitpicky about specific plot details here or there, but I enjoy watching it nonetheless. So... time to sit back and watch another 13 episodes of the not-too-crazy adventures of our friends at Aria Company!
|2006-04-05, 02:56
|Link #19
Weapon of Mass Discussion
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New York, USA
|2006-04-05, 03:02
|Link #20
Somehow I found out
Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 34
What a simply wonderful episode to start off the new season with! Loved this episode so much that it ranks among my favourites from either series of ARIA so far.
I instantly fell in love with the OP song. I can see why people might not be used to it at first, since "Undine" was such an integral part of ARIA, but I think it's a great song, and fitting for the OP. I didn't quite like the ED as much, though.
As far as the episode itself was concerned, I actually thought the little twist was really clever (and extremely cute as well). Haven't read the manga, so I don't know how it stacks up, but I didn't have a single problem with Ai's presence in this ep. The only problem I had with this ep was that the dance scene was prolonged a bit too much, but that's just nitpicking.
Also, is it just me or did Akari get a haircut?
|drama, hal, science fiction, seinen, slice of life
|Thread Tools


text:
English teacher might be interested to read about views on Critical Literacy or reading in year 12.
Also, Somebody submitted a new article to http://www.thestaffroom.spacemonkey....nuke/index.php Its got quite a few
errors, but makes for interesting reading anyway. It seems to be from some
Canadian teacher complaining about a school in the Middle East..
Let me know what you think.
Last edited by Red5; 19-Jan-2005 at 12:35.
The complaint letter claims to be from Canadian teachers, yet the standard of English is appalling.


text:
Conference Tools for 2016 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
Register as a New User
Submit An Abstract
Propose A Symposium
Presenter/Author Tools
Organizer/Editor Tools
About this Abstract
2016 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
Phase Transformations and Microstructural Evolution
Presentation Title
Titanium Based Metal-matrix Composites via In-situ Nitridation: Microstructure and Tribological Properties
, Thomas Scharf, Rajarshi Banerjee
On-Site Speaker (Planned)
Abstract Scope
Tribological properties of titanium alloys are often enhanced by introduction of hard ceramic precipitates like titanium borides, carbides or nitrides. This can be achieved either by direct introduction of these hard compounds during the processing of these composites or via various case hardening techniques. In this novel study, laser additive manufacturing tool such as Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENSTM) was used for in-situ nitridation of β-titanium alloys, by direct introduction of gaseous nitrogen in systematically controlled quantities. Thus LENSTM deposited Ti-Mo-N alloys exhibited the formation of a dendritic α(Ti, N) phase within the β matrix, along with fine-scale hcp α precipitates. In contrast, in situ nitriding during the LENSTM process resulted in the formation of hard and wear resistant Ti2N+TiN phases and nitrogen-enriched α phase in β Ti-35Nb-7Zr-5Ta (TNZT) and α/β Ti-6Al-4V (Ti64) alloys, respectively. Based on these observations the sequence of phase evolution during solidification can be predicted.
Proceedings Inclusion?
Planned: A print-only volume
A Study of Phase Equilibria and Interdiffusion in Iron-based Alloy Systems Using Diffusion Multiples
Addendum to Correlations between Elastic Inhomogeneities and Amalgamation of γ′ Precipitate Microstructures in Nickel-Base Alloys
Alpha Phase Precipitation in Metastable Beta Ti-Nb-Fe Alloys
An Overview of Lower Temperature Precipitation under Irradiation: Mechanisms, Models, Consequences and Applications
Application of Dual-anneal Diffusion-multiple (DADM) Approach to Studies of Phase Transformations
Assessment of Tribological Properties of Cast and Forged Ti-6Al-7Nb and Ti-6Al-4V Implants for Dental Application
Atomic Resolution Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy of η Phase Formation Along SESFs in a Ni-Based Disk Alloy
Atomistic Modeling of Interfaces of Cementite and Ferrite
Ballistic Martensite
Boron Segregation and its Effects in Boron Containing Steels
Carbide Evolution during Quenching and Partitioning of Steel Studied by Mössbauer Spectroscopy
Characterization of Transition Carbide Formation in Steels Processed by Quenching and Tempering or Quenching and Partitioning
Combined Atom Probe Tomography and Electron Microscopy Investigation of Intermediate Carbides Precipitation from Supersaturated Virgin Fe-Ni-C Martensites
Correlation of Microstructure to Creep Properties of Fe-30Cr-3Al Alloys Strengthened by Laves Phase
Corrosion Effects on Mechanical Properties of Sensitized AA5083-H116
Coupling CALPHAD to Phase-field Modeling: A Pathway to the Prediction of Microstructures in Additive Manufacturing?
Determine Crystallographic Orientation Relationship and Orientation of Planar and Linear Features by Electron Microscopy
Effect of Concurrent Microstructure Evolution and Hydrogen Level on Flow Behavior of Near Alpha Ti-alloy
Effect of Non-wetting Nanoparticles on Precipitation Evolution
Effect of Time and Temperature on Microstructural Evolution for Improved Braze Joint Strength in Oil and Gas Drill Bits
Effect of Velocity Change on Ternary Eutectic Morphology
Effects of Microstructure on the Selective Internal Oxidation of Multi-Phase Alloys
Efficient Experimental Determination of Diffusion Coefficients and Elastic Modulus for the Ti-Mo-Nb-Ta-Zr System
Epsilon to Tau Phase Transformation in MnAl Alloy Systems
Evolution of Nanoscale Clusters in γ´ Precipitates of a Ni-Al-Ti Model Alloy
Formation of Precipitate Free Zones in the Vicinity of Second Phase Particles in Nickel Based Alloy 725
H-phase Precipitation and its Influence on Shape Memory Properties in Ni-Ti-Zr and Ni-Ti-Hf Alloys
High Temperature Microstructural Evolution of Ni-Co-Al-Ti-Cr Alloys Studied by In-situ Neutron Diffraction
High Temperature Spheroidization of Cementite in a 2C-4Cr Ultrahigh Carbon Steel.
Homogenization Behavior in the Au-Zn-Al and Al-Ag Systems
In-situ SEM Observation of Surface Diffusion and Intermetallic Compound Growth in Lead-free Solder Joints
In-situ Small-angle Scattering Study of ω Particles Growth in Metastable β Titanium Alloys
In Situ Analysis of Microstructural Evolution during the Devitrification of Amorphous Tantalum Films
Inertia Friction Welding of 304L Stainless to 1018 Steel
Insights Into the Microstructure and Nucleation of the Zeta Phase in Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides
Integrated Experimental and Computational Investigation of Omega Phase and Omega Phase Assisted Super-refined Alpha Precipitation
Interplay of Substrate Interaction, Electric Field and Confinement on Microphase Separation of Diblock Copolymers
Inverse Coarsening of Gamma-prime Precipitates in Ni-base Superalloys
Isothermal Annealing of Shocked Zirconium: Stability of the α-ω 2-phase Microstructure
Japan Institute of Metals International Scholar: Effective Utilization of ε-martensite in Fe-high Mn Austenitic Steels: Aspects of Deformation-induced Reverse Transformation
Magnetic Domain Structure Studies in Ferromagnetic Alloys
Mechanical Properties of 5000 Series Aluminum Alloys Following Fire Exposure
Mechanical Properties of NiMnGa Alloys as a Function of Composition and Phase Transformations Measured by Nanoindentation
Mechanisms Underlying Residual Stress Generation During the Oxidation of Silicon Carbide
Microscale Studies of Transformation Mechanisms in SMAs
Microstructural Evolution and Embrittlement of Thermally Aged Cast Duplex Stainless Steels
Microstructure Evolution and Stability of Nanostructured Electrodeposited Al-Mn Alloys upon Heating
Microstructure evolution of undercooled Co-Sn alloy melts solidified in Strong Magnetic Field
Microstructure Evolution of Uranium-6wt.% Niobium During Deformation Processing
Modification of Phase Evolution Pathways in Nanocrystalline Metallic Thin Films
Nano-sized Precipitate Stability and Its Controlling Factors in a NiAl-strengthened Ferritic Alloy
Nanoscale Precipitation-Strengthened Al-Er-Sc-Zr-(V,Nb,Ta) Alloys
Numerical Simulation of Solidification Microstructure with Active Fiber Cooling for Making Fiber-Reinforced Aluminum Matrix Composites
Observation of All 12 Alpha Variants and Strip Microstructure in Multi-component Titanium Alloys
Phase Field Modelling of Emulsion Formation
Phase Field Modelling of Microstructural Evolution in Titanium Alloy Welds
Phase Transformations and Structural Changes in Haynes 244, A New Ni Based Low CTE Alloy
Powder Processing of Ultra Ultra High Carbon Steels
Processing and Characterization of High-Temperature Resistant Aluminum Alloys Microalloyed with Sc, Er and Zr
Production of Corrosion Resistance Steel
Role of Alloying Elements on Thermal Stability of Duplex Stainless Steel
Role of Cyclic Solid-Solid Phase Transformations in Microstructure Evolution during Thermal Gyrations during Additive Manufacturing
S-1: Precipitation of Scorodite in Arsenic Containing Acidic Solution
S-2: Phase Stability in the Group IVB and VB Transition Metal Carbides
S-3: Transmission Electron Microscopy Study of Deformation-Induced Martensitic Transformation in 304 Stainless Steel using In-situ and Ex-situ characterization.
S-4: The Effect of Aluminum Content on Recrystallization and Grain-Growth of Magnesium
Shear-induced Phase Transition in Zr via Severe Plastic Deformation
Shock-Induced Phase and Microstructural Changes in Metallic Glass
Shock Induced Amorphization and Nanocrystallization in Silicon
Shot Peening Induced Microstructural Stability of a High Nb Containing TiAl Alloy during High Temperature Exposure
Simulated Welding Heat Affected Zone of a SAF2507 Super-duplex Stainless Steel by Gleeble Simulator
Solid-liquid Transformations during Powder-bed Additive Manufacturing
Some Steps towards Modelling of Dislocation Assisted Rafting: A Coupled 2D Phase Field -- Continuum Dislocation Dynamics Approach
Study of Phase Precipitation in Binary Systems using Diffusion Multiples and Simulations
Study of Phase Transformation, Recovery and Recrystallization in Ti-5Al-5V-5Mo-3Cr Alloy and Their Effects on Dilatometric Response
Study of Phase Transitions Occurring in β-Titanium Alloy Ti-15Mo
Supersaturation and Decay: The Life of Vacancies during Precipitation
Symmetry Breaking and Pathway Degeneracy during Structural Phase Transformations
The Effect of Composition upon the Precipitation of the Sigma Phase in a Model Nickel-base Superalloy
The Effect of Cooling Rate on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Thin Wall Ductile Iron Castings
The Effect of Excess Energy in the Simulation of Dendritic Growth Using the Phase Field Model Coupled with a CALPHAD Database
The Effect of Initial Microstructure on the Mechanical Properties of Bi-lamellar Ti-6Al-4V
The high temperature compression response of Al 319
[Replication or Save Conflict]
The Influence of Aluminum Content on Recrystallization and Grain Growth in α-titanium Alloys
The Influence of Nanoscale Precipitates on Phase Transformations in Shape Memory Alloys
The Large Scale Synthesis of Aligned Plate Nanostructures
The Microstructure of As-Quenched 12Mn Steel
The Study of Lead Segregation Behavior of the Heterogeneous Nucleation in Steel
There and Back Again: Microstructural Investigations of Forward and Reverse α-ω Phase Transformations in HCP Metals
Thermal Stability of ω-phase in Pure Ti Formed by High-pressure Torsion Process
Thermomechanical Characterization of Shape Memory Alloy Mode I Fracture
Titanium Based Metal-matrix Composites via In-situ Nitridation: Microstructure and Tribological Properties
Transformation and Deformation Characterization of NiTiHf and NiTiAu High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys
Using Temporary Hydride Formation in Metastable Beta Titanium Alloys to Improve the Microstructure
In Situ
Characterization and Phase Field Modeling of Irradiation-Induced Grain Growth
γ' in Co-Al-W: Why Won't It Just Go Away?
Questions about ProgramMaster? Contact


text:
The Young Prince
|Baritone Horn BC
Share with your friends
Price: $4.95
Available for sale by
Sheet Music Plus
Sheet Music Plus
Show Store Details
Tweet about this sheet music
for a chance to get it for free!
orAdd to wish list to buy later
The Young Prince by Floyd O. Harris. For Baritone/Euphonium B.C. Solo. Brass. Grade 2. Published by Ludwig Music Publishing Co. (LG.10540131).
This sheet music has not received any reviews yet, you can be the first one to write one!
Sheet Music Plus
Sheet Music Plus offers one of the world's largest selection of sheet music. Their collection includes music books, music sheets, songbooks, music scores, choral sheet music in many genres.
This store has not received any reviews yet, you can be the first one to write one!


text:
State Agencies |
Online Services
Find more...
Early Entrance to Kindergarten
Kindergarten & KRA
Kindergarten & KRA
Sign up to receive email updates
2017-2018 Kindergarten Survey Results
According to ORC 3321.01, the department is required to survey all public school districts, including community schools, on an annual basis regarding kindergarten schedules and fees or tuition charged for providing all-day kindergarten services. The survey results from the 2017/18 school year are now available.
Choices on Kindergarten Entrance Date
Beginning with the 2001 school year, school district boards may choose to adopt either the first day of August or the thirtieth day of September as the date by which a child must be 5 years of age to be admitted to kindergarten, and 6 years of age to be admitted to first grade. (ORC 3321.01)
Any school district may operate full-day kindergarten. If a district provides full-day kindergarten and the parent requests half-day services (minimum hours), the district must accommodate the request. (ORC 3321-05)
A student must be age 5 to enter kindergarten or age 6 to enter grade one. Compulsory school age is 6. However, if a child enters kindergarten at age 5, he or she is considered to be of compulsory school age. No district shall admit to the first grade a child who has not successfully completed kindergarten.
Early admission to kindergarten may be requested when a child turns age 5 after a district's kindergarten entrance date (August 1/Sept. 30) but during the school year for which admittance is requested. The Ohio Department of Education recommends that districts follow their Academic Acceleration Policy for Advanced Learners in making decisions about early admission. For more information, see the Ohio Gifted Education Early Entrance Guide.
A child's screening and assessment data cannot be used to determine eligibility to enter kindergarten. The only criterion for entrance into kindergarten is age eligibility. By November 1 of the school year in which a child is enrolled for the first time, the child must be screened for vision, hearing, speech and communication, medical problems and any developmental disorders. If the screening reveals the possibility of potential learning needs, the district must provide further assessment. Schools must note that screenings are not intended to diagnose educational disability or to be used for placement procedures. A parent may sign a statement that they do not wish to have the child screened. (ORC 3313.673)
Amended Sub. H.B. 281 declares a child who attends kindergarten to be of compulsory school age for purposes of the mandatory attendance law. (ORC 3321.01)
After a child has been admitted to kindergarten in a school district or chartered non-public school, no school district or board of education to which the child transfers shall deny admission based on the child's age.
For the purpose of instruction, schools must be open for not less than four hundred fifty-five (455) hours in the case of pupils in kindergarten unless such pupils are provided all-day kindergarten (ORC 3321.05), in which case the pupils shall be in attendance for nine hundred ten (910) hours. (ORC 3313.48)
The ratio of teachers to students in kindergarten through fourth grade on a school district-wide basis shall be at least one full-time equivalent classroom teacher per twenty-five student in the regular student population. Said ratio shall be calculated in accordance with sections 3317.02 and 3317.023 of the Revised Code. (ORC 3301-35-05)
Last Modified: 12/14/2018 8:40:56 AM


text:
Telefax: No fax number available
Website: No web address available
Biz owner? Moderate reviews or edit listing.
Search entire category for Caterers
Caterers, in Mount Zion, are professionals trained in catering services and catering etiquette. They are usually given charge of managing the kitchen and serving guests with food in style in social gatherings like birthdays, weddings, carnivals, conventions, corporate events, grad nights, proms, etc.


text:
An East Montpelier man discovered something unusual while fishing outside of Montpelier last week. An exotic fish species known as a clown knifefish, native to Southeast Asia, was found dead near the boat ramp.
The angler took a photo of the fish and contacted Shawn Good, fisheries biologist for the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, to identify it.
"This was likely someone's pet, " said Good. "The clown knifefish is a popular species when they are young and small, but they can often outgrow the confinement of hobby aquariums."
Although the specimen discovered in North Montpelier Pond was only 17 inches long, the species is capable of growing to nearly 40 inches and has the potential to be a voracious predator of other fish. They cannot survive in temperatures below 55 degrees Fahrenheit, so this one quickly perished in the cold water.
"Unfortunately, many aquarium owners believe they are helping their pet by releasing it into a nearby waterbody, " said Good. "In reality, the illegal release of aquarium fish is a common source of invasive species introductions."
There have been dozens of known introductions of invasive species into North American waterways from people releasing aquarium species, including fish, plants and invertebrates. These infestations can devastate native aquatic ecosystems, introduce disease, disrupt recreational and commercial fisheries, and cost millions of dollars for control and management.
"If this introduction had been a fish species that is able to survive Vermont's cold water temperatures such as a snakehead, we may have had to take drastic measures to reclaim the waterbody, " said Good. "When this happens, we are forced to eliminate all of the fish in the pond and then rebuild the pond's fish stock with native species."
Good advises owners not to release unwanted aquarium fish and plants into the wild, but instead to give them away to another aquarium owner or a pet shop. "If no other options are available, you can dispose of the fish by placing it in a container of water and putting it into the freezer, as cold water is a natural anesthetic to tropical fish."
Vermont fish are a public trust and protected by law. Releasing aquarium fish and many other fish species into Vermont waters is illegal and punishable by a fine of up to $500. Sightings of exotic species should be reported immediately to the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department at 802-828-1000.


text:
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A league-leading 30 athletes represented MIT on the 2012 New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Winter Academic All-Conference Team. Criteria includes a minimum GPA of 3.5/4.0 scale or 4.35/5.0 scale, achieving second year academic status at his or her institution, and being a member of a varsity team for the entire season.
The NEWMAC consists of 10 highly selective institutions committed to academic excellence: Babson College, Clark University, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Springfield College, Wellesley College, Wheaton College, WPI, and MIT.
Winter sports sponsored by the NEWMAC are: men's and women's basketball and men's and women's swimming and diving.
WPI secured the second-highest number of honorees with 20, followed by Clark (19), and Springfield (15). The following is a list of MIT's NEWMAC Academic All-Conference recipients:
Billy Bender
Will Dickson
Noel Hollingsworth
Jamie Karraker
Arni Lehto
Cuong Nguyen
Liz Burton
Lauren Sascha Burton
Sharon Hao
Anna Merrifield
Men's Swimming
and Diving
Brendan Deveney
Colby Dunn
Jeffrey Lin
David Parell
Max Pruner
Ron Rosenberg
Ryan TerBush
Wyatt Ubellacker
Swimming and Diving
Allison Alwan
Nora Darago
Chelsea Finn
Sydney Giblin
Alexandra Hall
Elina Hu
Morganne Klein
Calley Murphy
Katelyn Rossick
Elise Stave
Megan Tadge
Sarah Weiss


text:
We Can't Let the Pope Decide Who's a Criminal
Bringing priestly offenders and the church's enablers to justice.
In 2002, according to devout Catholic columnist Ross Douthat, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger spoke the following words to an audience in Spain:
I am personally convinced that the constant presence in the press of the sins of Catholic priests, especially in the United States, is a planned campaign ... to discredit the church.
On April 10, the New York Times—the apparent center of this "planned campaign"—reprinted a copy of a letter personally signed by Ratzinger in 1985. The letter urged lenience in the case of the Rev. Stephen Kiesle, who had tied up and sexually tormented two small boys on church property in California. Kiesle's superiors had written to Ratzinger's office in Rome, beseeching him to remove the criminal from the priesthood. The man who is now his holiness the pope was full of urgent moral advice in response. "The good of the Universal Church," he wrote, should be uppermost in the mind. It should be understood that "particularly regarding the young age" of Father Kiesle, there might be great "detriment" caused "within the community of Christ's faithful" if he were to be removed. The good father was then aged 38. His victims—not that their tender ages of 11 and 13 seem to have mattered—were children. In the ensuing decades, Kiesle went on to ruin the lives of several more children and was finally jailed by the secular authorities on a felony molestation charge in 2004. All this might have been avoided if he had been handed over to justice right away and if the Oakland diocese had called the police rather than written to the office in Rome where it was Ratzinger's job to muffle and suppress such distressing questions.
Contrast this to the even more appalling case of the school for deaf children in Wisconsin where the Rev. Lawrence Murphy was allowed unhindered access to more than 200 unusually defenseless victims. Again the same pattern: repeated petitions from the local diocese to have the criminal "unfrocked" (an odd term when you think about it) met with stony indifference from Ratzinger's tightly run bureaucracy. Finally a begging letter to Ratzinger from the filthy Father Murphy himself, complaining of the frailty of his health and begging to be buried with full priestly honors, in his frock. Which he was. At last, a human plea not falling on deaf ears! (You should pardon the expression.)
So in one case a child rapist escaped judgment and became an enabled reoffender because he was too young. In the next, a child rapist was sheltered after a career of sex torture of disabled children because he was too old! Such compassion.
It must be noted, also, that all the letters from diocese to Ratzinger and from Ratzinger to diocese were concerned only with one question: Can this hurt Holy Mother Church? It was as if the children were irrelevant or inconvenient (as with the case of the raped boys in Ireland forced to sign confidentiality agreements by the man who is still the country's cardinal). Note, next, that there was a written, enforced, and consistent policy of avoiding contact with the law. And note, finally, that there was a preconceived Ratzinger propaganda program of blaming the press if any of the criminal conduct or obstruction of justice ever became known.
The obscene culmination of this occurred on Good Friday, when the pope sat through a sermon delivered by an underling in which the exposure of his church's crimes was likened to persecution and even—this was a gorgeous detail—to the pogroms against the Jews. I have never before been accused of taking part in a pogrom or lynching, let alone joining a mob that is led by raped deaf children, but I'm proud to take part in this one.
The keyword is Law. Ever since the church gave refuge to Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston to spare him the inconvenience of answering questions under oath, it has invited the metastasis of this horror. And now the tumor has turned up just where you might have expected—moving from the bosom to the very head of the church. And by what power or right is the fugitive cardinal shielded? Only by the original agreement between Benito Mussolini and the papacy that created the pseudo-state of Vatican City in the Lateran Pact of 1929, Europe's last remaining monument to the triumph of Fascism. This would be bad enough, except that Ratzinger himself is now exposed as being personally as well as institutionally responsible for obstructing justice and protecting and enabling pederasts.
One should not blame only the church here. Where was American law enforcement during the decades when children were prey? Where was international law while the Vatican became a place of asylum and a source of protection for those who licensed or carried out the predation? Page through any of the reports of child-rape and torture from Ireland, Australia, the United States, Germany—and be aware that there is much worse to come. Where is it written that the Roman Catholic Church is the judge in its own case? Above or beyond the law? Able to use private courts? Allowed to use funds donated by the faithful to pay hush money to the victims or their families?
There are two choices. We can swallow the shame, roll up the First Amendment, and just admit that certain heinous crimes against innocent citizens are private business or are not crimes if they are committed by priests and excused by popes. Or perhaps we can shake off the awful complicity that reports this ongoing crime as a "problem" for the church and not as an outrage to the victims and to the judicial system. Isn't there one district attorney or state attorney general in America who can decide to represent the children? Nobody in Eric Holder's vaunted department of no-immunity justice? If not, then other citizens will have to approach the bench. In London, as already reported by the Sunday Times and the Press Association, some experienced human-rights lawyers will be challenging Ratzinger's right to land in Britain with immunity in September. If he gets away with it, then he gets away with it, and the faithful can be proud of their supreme leader. But this we can promise, now that his own signature has been found on Father Kiesle's permission to rape: There will be only one subject of conversation until Ratzinger calls off his visit, and only one subject if he decides to try to go through with it. In either event, he will be remembered for only one thing long after he is dead.
Become a fan of Slate on Facebook. Follow Slate and the Slate Foreign Desk on Twitter.


text:
ICE Agents must intelligently disobey inhumane orders
June 19th, 2018
Front Royal, VA 22630
June 19th, 2018
February 1st, 2018
December 3rd, 2017
December 3rd, 2017
December 3rd, 2017
Courageous Followership recognizes that to be effective at almost every level of an organization, individuals need to play both the leader and follower role adeptly.
The Courageous Follower offers a new model for the follower role that provides dynamic support for leaders but does not hesitate to constructively speak truth to power. It also offers a model of Courageous Leadership that creates the conditions in which it is easier for followers to speak the truth as they see it and for leaders to give appropriate consideration to what they are being told. It offers a developmental path to true partnership between leaders and followers in the service of the organization's mission.
The concept of "courageous followership" is based on the award-winning book:
The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders, written by Ira Chaleff and published by Berrett-Koehler. The book is a landmark in the newly emerging field of Leader/Follower studies.
Order the book
More about the book
Articles on Courageous Followership
The Art of Followership, co-edited by Ronald E. Riggio, Ira Chaleff, and Jean Lipman-Blumen, with a foreword by James MacGregor Burns, is published by Jossey-Bass (an imprint of Wiley) as part of its Warren Bennis series of books. Warren Bennis himself wrote the introduction.
This collection of essays puts dynamic leader-follower interaction at the forefront of the discussion and examines the multiple roles followers play and their often complex relationship to leaders. Leading scholars and practitioners from the burgeoning field of leadership/followership studies have contributed to this groundbreaking book which outlines how followers contribute to effective leadership and to organizations overall.
Order the book
More about the book


text:
What You'll Get
Being a new Groupon subscriber gets you great deals in your inbox every day, unlike being a new parent, which gets you a 12-year waiting period before you can give "the talk" about Michael Jackson's death. Today's Groupon—offered exclusively to new subscribers—gets you $10 worth of authentic Chicago-style eats and drinks for $3 at Taste of Chicago in the University District.
This lunch, dinner, and late-night snack shack dishes out an impressive menu of handheld hunger tamers, all of which come with a side of fries. Transport taste buds to the streets of the Second City by noshing on a Chicago-style hot dog, dressed for erratic weather in layers of tomatoes, green relish, diced onions, pickle spear, mustard, sport peppers, and celery salt, and served on a poppy-seed bun ($6). The Chicago Maxwell Street Polish ($6.25) is another Windy City classic, topping beef sausage with grilled onions, sport peppers, and mustard. Pizza puffs ($4.50), burgers (starting at $5.75), pork chop sandwiches ($6.50), and jumbo wings ($7 for three) are also available, as are many vegetarian options. Top off your tummy with a cold beer ($3–$3.50) or old-fashioned milkshake ($3.50).
Though globe trekking is an effective way to taste different cities' native nosh, if you don't speak the dialect, you might ask for a crepe and emerge with a perm. Today's Groupon lets you feast on far-flung fare without risking your pride, appearance, or pocketbook. Purchase additional Groupons to lunch with friends, dinner with a date, or snack with a group of friendly albatrosses. Taste of Chicago stays open late, M-W 11AM-1AM & Th- Sat 11AM-3AM. Closed Sundays.
Taste of Chicago's Chicago dog was featured by Seattle Weekly. Yelpers give Taste of Chicago a four-star average and 90% of 10 Urbanspooners recommend it:
- I had the italian beef dipped with cheese.... OMG it was totally tasty and I was happy that it came with fries. – Heather S., Yelp
- Yum in the tum. Greasy, cheesy comfort food. – John D., Yelp
- My boyfriend really enjoyed the Chicago dog, I believe his exact words were "I can never have a regular dog again" – Kristin C., Yelp
The Fine Print
Promotional value expires Aug 5, 2011. Amount paid never expires. Limit 1 per person, may buy a second as a gift. Not valid with other offers. No cash or credit back. Gratuity not included. Merchant is solely responsible to purchasers for the care and quality of the advertised goods and services.


text:
Build a Website
Budget $250-750 USD
I would like to hire someone who can build a HTML5 SPA website that features following items.
1) Seed with 6 users with 2 of them with roles as admin and system. Rest as normal users.
2) One of the UI pages has ability for normal user to create a task. The user then identifies another user as task collaborator.
3)They both chat with each other in real time and contributes to the task together. Admin can see these chats too but can't participate in the chat. System role on the other hand can see and contribute to the chat. It will be database trigger or back-end nodejs trigger that will drop some system related information in the chat window.
4) These chats are stored in Mongodb as history logs and later Admin can view them and retrieve them all in one place.
36 freelancers are bidding on average $649 for this job
Hi, Let me keep this really short as i am sure you would be swamped with proposals :)! We have been developing/maintaining various web applications in NodeJS (both Express and Sails). Mostly these applications ar More
Hi there , I am a software engineer with a 5 years of professional experience building web applications for the smallest of small startups, to some of the web's largest sites. Previously I worked in Capgemi More
It's understood that you need to build a salon service booking portal to showcase your business logic with booking details globally where from users can book an available listed service related to salon, admin can mana More
Hello, my name is Olya. I got acquainted with Your description of the task, ready to create Your website as soon as You need. However, I shall discuss about the requirements and functionalities in details to have a be More
Hello, Thanks for taking time to view our proposal. We are a Professional Company with 7+ years of experiences in Bespoke and Need based web applications development with more than 50+ In-house Development team. More
Dear Sir. We claim to get it done perfectly for you EXACTLY in the way you want it - Kindly give we a chance and we will prove myself - Ready to prove our words, let's get it done right away and I mean RIGHT AWAY !! Lo More
Hi, I have read your post and understood your requirement. I have great experience working on /PHP/MySQL/HTML5/Socket IO/jQuery/Laravel/Wordpress/Magento/Joomla/Drupal/AngularJS/node.js/CSS3/Java/Python/Django/Ja More
I have good working experience with angular js, nodejs, backbonejs. I have developed school management system, and ebay like site using laravel and angularjs. Here are some developed sites using laravel and angu More
Hi I am Pratiksha and I am blessed with the opportunity to create a multitude of projects, in a variety of styles for a range of clients across the world. With all this diversity, I remain committed to providing award More
Hello sir, Good day! we will develope your website. sir your project will 100% Dynamic, fully responsive, SEO friendly and user friendly. I am project manager of Narmada Solution .we have team of 50 develovers wit More