Culture: The Society is a diverse chapter-based organization dedicated to the advancement of science and engineering through outstanding programs and services delivered in a collegial and supportive environment.

There is an international, chapter-based professional association, the IT Service Management Forum ( ITSMF ), which is focused on ITIL and the ITSM audit standard ISO / IEC 20000.

While run by a professional staff headquartered in Washington, D. C., the organization uses a chapter-based model on U. S. college campuses.

Following the event, the Million Mom March participants became a chapter-based organization to promote restrictions on the private ownership of firearms in state legislatures, merging with a victim led organization called the Bell Campaign, but keeping the name Million Mom March as the new organization.

CPSR was originally a chapter-based organization and had chapters in Palo Alto, Boston, Seattle, Austin, Washington, DC, Portland ( Oregon ) and other US locations as well as a variety of international chapters including Peru and Spain.

In addition to the new chapter-based storylines, an artificial intelligence system called " Tactics " was implemented that allowed the player to provide strategies to the party members ( who become NPCs in the final chapter ) while maintaining full control of the Hero.

It reconnected to its origins in 1985 by creating a chapter-based support and information network for people experiencing post-polio syndrome, or the late effects of polio.

Unlike other chapter-based organizations that may require dues or an adherence to organizational policy for each chapter, these coalition-based organizations of VSAs exist autonomously as well.

Parker, who had been consistently linked with moves away from Charlton for several years, finally left the Valley on 30 January 2004 to join Chelsea on a four-and-a-half-year contract for a fee of £ 10 million after a protracted and acrimonious transfer saga.

Sturlunga saga begins with the legend of Geirmundr heljarskinn, a regional ruler in late 9th century Norway, who moves to Iceland to escape the growing power of King Harald Finehair.

Thorfinn, the saga says, then marched south through Scotland as far as Fife, burning and plundering as he passed.

The period of common Old Norse literature continued up through the 13th century with Norwegian contributions such as Thidreks saga and Konungs skuggsjá but by the 14th century saga writing was no longer cultivated in Norway and Icelandic literature became increasingly isolated.

His 7 volume masterpiece, " The Golden Fleece " is a family saga through which European History is uniquely examined from its birth in Homeric Greece right up to Hitler's Third Reich.

The saga next follows this niece, Hallgerðr, through her first two marriages.

More recently, Pamela Sacred perpetuated the genre through La Voie de l ' ange, a continuation of The Diary of Anne Frank written in French by a fictional character from her Venetian Cell hypertext saga.

The two-volume historical novel saga White as Bone, Red as Blood: The Fox Sorceress ( 2009 ), and White as Bone, Red as Blood: The Storm God ( 2011 ) depict in detail the pivotal years 1160 – 1185 in Japan, as seen through the eyes of protagonist Seiko Fujiwara.

Making its theatrical debut on March 12, 1988, Char's Counterattack is the culmination of the original saga begun in Mobile Suit Gundam and continued through Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and Mobile Suit Gundam Double Zeta, marking the final conflict of the fourteen-year rivalry between Char Aznable and Amuro Ray.

The typical family saga follows generations of a family through a period of history in a series of novels.

* In Hervarar saga, king Ingold I rides to Sweden through Östergötland: Ingi konungr fór með hirð sína ok sveit nokkura ok hafði lítinn her.

In Sögubrot af Nokkrum for instance, Kolmården between Svealand and Östergötland is described as the border between Sweden and Ostrogothia (... Kolmerkr, er skilr Svíþjóð ok Eystra-Gautland ...), and in Hervarar saga, King Ingold I rides to Sweden through Östergötland: Ingi konungr fór með hirð sína ok sveit nokkura ok hafði lítinn her.

However, Woolf ( 2005 ) asserts that " contrary to the image, projected by recent clan-historians, of Clann Somhairle as Gaelic nationalists liberating the Isles from Scandinavians, it is quite explicit in our two extended narrative accounts from the thirteenth century, Orkneyinga saga and The Chronicle of the Kings of Man and the Isles, that the early leaders of Clann Somhairle saw themselves as competitors for the kingship of the Isles on the basis of their descent through their mother Ragnhilt " and that their claim " to royal status was based on its position as a segment of Uí Ímair.

The King's Quest series chronicles the saga of the royal family of the Kingdom of Daventry through their various trials and adventures.

Midir is one of the leading characters in the Old Irish saga Tochmarc Étaíne (" The Wooing of Étaín "), which makes leaps through time from the age of the Túatha Dé Danann to the time of Eochaid Airem, High King of Ireland.

The saga follows Egill through the various stages of his life, most of which are surrounded by battle and Egill virtually narrates his own life story with his frequent segments of poetry.

It is likely that he became known in Scandinavia in the 15th century through the translation of Karlamagnús saga, but he rapidly became popular and he is depicted on 15th-century paintings in two churches in Denmark and Sweden.

This continues into the End Game saga which takes place over a four issue span, # 47 through # 50.

Stiller was responsible for the early popularity of Greta Garbo, particularly through the film Gösta Berlings saga ( 1924 ).

Whereas the previous four novels had featured self-contained plots ( O ' Brian wrote Master and Commander as a stand-alone novel, and the following three titles merely acted as sequels whose story arcs integrated only loosely with any of the other novels in the saga ), in Desolation Island, O ' Brian now begins an arc that will continue through the entirety of Fortune of War before concluding in The Surgeon's Mate.

8 of the Hrafnkels saga: the chieftain Hrafnkell, who lived in the East Fjords and rather close to the northern end of Sprengisandur, prefers to travel to the Alþingi by going south along the shore of the island-his route is much longer and slower, but it goes all the way through inhabited regions.

The saga is told with the " Inma Ngintaka ", a dance of Ngintaka's journey of creation that includes a song whose stanzas follow his travels through the land, thus the 500km trail is called a Songline.

The saga hints at the take-over of the shadowed kingdom through the damage-destroy-take-over stratagem.

According to saga sources, he traveled with his 3, 600 man army through Sweden and crossed the mountains into the valley of Verdal ( Old Norse: Veradalr ), about north of the city of Trondheim.

Sturlaugs saga ( section 22 ) brings in King Snow of Finmark and his daughter Mjöl who flies quickly through the air.

The Orkneyinga saga, written c. 1200, does speak of Eirik ’ s presence in Orkney and his alliance with the joint jarls Arnkel and Erland, sons of Torf-Einarr, but not until his rule in Northumbria was challenged by Olaf ( Amlaíb Cuarán ).

On March 13, 2012 Bert Fields, attorney for the estate of Mario Puzo filed a counterclaim against Paramount Pictures, who sued the estate to stop the author ’ s son, Anthony Puzo, from publishing a new sequel to his father ’ s classic Mafia saga, " The Godfather.

The name was already in use during the saga period and became, after the canonization of Saint Olaf and important pilgrim ’ s route from Europe to Nidaros.

Broun stated that “ the substance of any two Zane Grey books could be written upon the back of a postage stamp .” T. K. Whipple praised a typical Grey novel as a modern version of the ancient Beowulf saga, “ a battle of passions with one another and with the will, a struggle of love and hate, or remorse and revenge, of blood, lust, honor, friendship, anger, grief — all of a grand scale and all incalculable and mysterious .” But he goes on to criticize Grey ’ s writing, “ His style, for example, has the stiffness which comes from an imperfect mastery of the medium.

attacks against the Italian copyright office, the office of employment, and other semi-improvised direct actions which culminated in one of the most well-known episodes of the Blissett ’ s saga.

Neither of these singles was a hit, but " Damn The Defiant ", which was a Johnny Horton-style naval saga, was Johnny Burnette ’ s first self-penned A-side for Liberty as well as his last single for the label.

Eyrbyggja Saga details the transition of paganism to Christianity within Icelandic settlement under the direction of Snorri Goði, or “ Snorri the Priest .” The emphasis on justice and the conviction in their system of governance is reflected within the saga: “ They say we ’ ll suffer setbacks in court ; we must plead for support from powerful chieftains: but Arnkel will argue an eloquent case, he ’ ll sway judge and jury-I have faith in justice .” However, court decisions were often displaced by personal and violent acts of vengeance as a matter of duty and honor.

The saga begins with a mission by the Freedom Fighters and the Wolf Pack, led by Lupe, to attack Robotnik ’ s base.

The most important historical source on Sverre ’ s life is his biography, Sverris saga, in part written while Sverre was alive.

This saga is likely biased, since the foreword states that part was written under Sverre ’ s direct sponsorship.

Glencoe and the Indians: a real-life family saga which spans two continents, several centuries and more than thirty generations to link Scotland ’ s clans with the native peoples of the American West.

The first edition of the Rawhide Kid ’ s gay saga was called Slap Leather.

The saga of Ethiopia ’ s Jews was perhaps the most dramatic, culminating in Operation Solomon, the massive 36-hour airlift of 14, 000 Jews from Addis Ababa to Israel on May 24 and 25, 1991, just as the city was about to come under rebel attack.

I suppose I didn ’ t want people to be thrown by the change in the format, as this is a first-person novel unlike the third-person format of the Tales of the City ... Having said that, it is still very much a continuation of the saga and I think I realized it was very much time for me to come back to this territory.

On the January 19, 2002 broadcast of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update sketch, host Jimmy Fallon, while reporting on ABC's refusal to show the Roots 25th anniversary special, gave a quick recap on the Roots story, stating: " For those of you who don ’ t remember Roots, it follows a saga of Kunta Kinte from young African tribesman, to slavery, to becoming literate, and eventually being the top of his class at Starfleet Academy ".

* The Doctor ’ s “ name ” saga is finally concluded in the first few minutes of the show, where a future Doctor is seen confessing that he has finally decided, after thirty-three years, to call himself Joe after his new wife ’ s grandfather.

In the summer of 1994 he played the role of Jacob Mercer in Salt Water Moon, part of David French ’ s Mercer family saga set in Newfoundland.

However, Hanley ’ s most effective depiction of this subject can probably be found in three novels of his maturity, published in the 1950s, The Closed Harbour ( 1952 ), Levine ( 1956 ), and the last of the Furys saga, An End and a Beginning ( 1958 ), where the male protagonists, following some trauma, are both unemployed and isolated from family and society.

The saga has been seen by some commentators as the defining issue of Court ’ s final, unfinished term in office, and a problematic political legacy.

Sansweet has turned his love of the Star Wars saga into a second career, acting as Lucasfilm ’ s liaison to fans worldwide, and their liaison to the company.

Among the most noteworthy Mirisch projects that Walter personally produced are: Man Of The West ; The Magnificent Seven ; Two For The See-Saw ; Toys in the Attic ; the film version of James A. Michener ’ s monumental novel, Hawaii, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and its sequel, The Hawaiians ; Midway, the saga of America ’ s greatest naval victory ; the tender and moving Same Time, Next Year ; and Romantic Comedy.