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The Mermaid Chair

The Mermaid Chair is a 2005 novel written by American novelist Sue Monk Kidd, which has also been adapted as a Lifetime movie.

Synopsis
The Mermaid Chair is the tale of Jessie Sullivan, a middle-aged woman whose stifled dreams and desires take shape during an extended stay on Egret Island, where she is caring for her troubled mother, Nelle. Once she returns to her childhood home, Jessie is forced to confront not only her relationship with her estranged mother, but her other emotional ties as well. After decades of marriage to Hugh, her practical yet conventional husband, Jessie starts to question whether she is craving an independence she never had the chance to experience. After she meets Brother Thomas, a handsome monk who has yet to take his final vows, Jessie is forced to decide whether passion can coexist with comfort, or if the two are mutually exclusive. As her soul begins to reawaken, Jessie must also confront the circumstances of her father's death, a tragedy that continues to haunt Jessie and Nelle thirty years later.

Reception
The Mermaid Chair reached the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list and remained on the hardcover and paperback list for nine months. Winner of the 2005 Quill Award for General Fiction, the novel has been translated into 23 languages.

Film adaptation
A film adaptation starring Kim Basinger as the main character, Jessie, premiered on the Lifetime network September 9, 2006. It was directed by Steven Schachter and produced by Michael Frislev and Chad Oakes of Nomadic Pictures.  The executive Producer was Randy Robinson and the associate producer was Jay Daniel Beechinor. The Mermaids images were created by Underwater Cinematographer Pauline R. Heaton.

References

2005 American novels
American novels adapted into television shows
Viking Press books
American novels adapted into films
Novels set on islands
Harold F. Dodge

Harold French Dodge (January 23, 1893 in Lowell, Massachusetts – December 10, 1976) was one of the principal architects of the science of statistical quality control. His father was the photographer  William H. Dodge. Harold Dodge is universally known for his work in originating acceptance sampling plans for putting inspection operations on a scientific basis in terms of controllable risks.  Dodge earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. in 1916 and his A.B. (Master's degree) in Physics from Columbia University in 1917.

From 1917 to 1958 worked at quality assurance department at Bell Laboratories with Walter Shewhart, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. Jones, Paul Olmstead, E.G.D. Paterson, and Mary N. Torrey. At that time the basic concepts of acceptance sampling was developed, such as:
Consumer's risk
Producer's risk
Double sampling
Lot tolerance percent defective (LTPD)
Average outgoing quality limit (AOQL)

Also he originated several types of:
Acceptance sampling schemes
CSP type continuous sampling plans
Chain sampling plans
Skip-lot sampling plans

During World War II, Dodge had an office in the Pentagon and served as a consultant to the Secretary of War, to NASA and the Sandia Corporation. He was also chairman of the American Standards Association (now the American National Standards Institute) War Committee Z1, which prepared the Z1.1, Z1.2, and Zl.3 quality control standards.

After he retired from Bell Labs in 1958, Dodge became a professor of applied mathematical statistics at Rutgers. 

The American Society for Testing and Materials honors Harold Dodge's memory with the Harold F. Dodge Award.

References

http://www.asq.org/about-asq/who-we-are/bio_dodge.html

Quality experts
1893 births
1976 deaths
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Sandia National Laboratories people
Viktor Sidyak

Viktor Alexandrovich Sidyak (; born 24 November 1943) is a Russian former left-handed sabre fencer, a pupil of Mark Rakita and David Tyshler. He was known for his aggressive style and the "one-and-a-half tempo attack".

Biography
Sidyak was born in Anzhero-Sudzhensk in Kemerovo Oblast, but spent most of his childhood in Donetsk. He started fencing at age fifteen. In the 1960s, while training in Lvov, he represented Ukraine on the internal Soviet circuit. He was part of the winning team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. In 1970, he moved to Minsk and joined the Belarusian fencing lobby which had produced Elena Belova, Alexandr Romankov, and Nikolai Alyokhin.

At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Sidyak became the first Soviet sabreur to win individual gold. At the same Olympics, he fenced in the team final with his right eye bandaged over after having a fragment of the Italian Michele Maffei's blade removed from his eye the previous day. Besides Sidyak, the team consisted of Vladimir Nazlymov, Eduard Vinokurov, and Viktor Bazhenov. The Soviet and Italian teams met again in the finals, Italy taking gold, and USSR silver. In 1994, Maffei's 1972 teammate Mario Aldo Montano invited Sidyak to coach the young fencers, including his own son, at his club in Livorno.

At the world championships Sidyak's won an individual title in 1969 and team titles in 1969–1971, 1974, 1975 and 1979.

As of 2016, Sidyak was the chairman of the professional boxing association of Belarus.

See also
Fencing
List of notable fencers
List of Olympic medalists in fencing (men)
Fencing terminology

References

External links
Biography from the Russian Fencing Federation (RUSSIAN)

1943 births
Living people
People from Anzhero-Sudzhensk
Soviet male sabre fencers
Russian male sabre fencers
Ukrainian male sabre fencers
Olympic fencers for the Soviet Union
Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic medalists in fencing
Fencers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Fencers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Armed Forces (sports society) sportspeople
Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Universiade medalists in fencing
FISU World University Games gold medalists for the Soviet Union
Medalists at the 1970 Summer Universiade
Sportspeople from Kemerovo Oblast
Surfperch

The surfperches are a family of perciform fishes, the Embiotocidae. They are mainly found in northeast Pacific Ocean (as far south as Baja California), but  a few species (genera Ditrema and Neoditrema) are found in the northwest Pacific, and the tule perch is found in freshwater habitats in California, United States. The largest species in the family reaches .

They are viviparous fishes, in which the embryo is nourished directly by the mother, as well as the yolk. This gives the family its scientific name, from Greek embios meaning "persistent" and tokos meaning "birth". This means the mother fish gives live birth instead of laying eggs.

Timeline of genera

See also
 List of fish families

References
 

Labroidei
Ovalentaria
Viviparous fish
Taxa named by Louis Agassiz
CBP

CBP may refer to:

Business parks
 Cebu Business Park, a central business district in Cebu City, Philippines
 Changi Business Park, an eco-friendly industrial park in Singapore
 Chiswick Business Park, a business park in Gunnersbury, West London

Science and technology
 Contention based protocol
 CREB-binding protein a protein used in human transcriptional coactivation
 Calcium-binding protein
 Coded Block Pattern, a term used in video compression
 Constrained Baseline Profile, the simplest of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC profiles

Transport
 Cangzhou West railway station, China Railway telegraph code CBP
 Castle Bar Park railway station, National Rail station code CBP

Other uses
 Captive bolt pistol
 Certified Benefits Professional, a certification for human-resource personnel
 Chorleywood Bread Process
 Citizens Bank Park, a baseball stadium used by the Philadelphia Phillies
 Columbia Basin Project, a large irrigation network in central Washington
 Crippled Black Phoenix, a British rock band
 U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the largest federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security
California Commission for Economic Development

The California Commission for Economic Development (CED) was established by statute in 1971 to serve as a bipartisan advisory board on economic development issues to the executive and legislative leadership of the State of California. The CED is composed of six members of the State legislature and ten members of the public appointed by the current Governor and represent several industries within California.

History 
The Commission served the state under the statutory Chairmanship of Lieutenant Governors from 1971 through 1994, but in the seven years that followed, funding for the Commission was not included in the annual state budgets. Recognizing the need for additional economic development efforts, Governor Gray Davis and the Legislature restored funding for the Commission in 2002. In mid-2003, the Governor appointed a sufficient number of members to establish a quorum. Under a previous Chair, Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante, the Commission held its first official meeting in more than ten years on December 15, 2003. The most recent Chair, prior to Gavin Newsom, was Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi. Under Garamendi, quarterly meetings took place in July and November 2007 and February and May 2008. He ended his term as Lieutenant Governor of California when he was elected into office in 2009. The current Lieutenant Governor, Gavin Newsom, provided an agenda for economic growth and competitiveness for California in 2011. This agenda was the first statewide economic plan in over ten years. By 2016, over 75-percent of the recommendations presented in the plan had been at least partially implemented.

Duties 
Pursuant to California Code §14999-14999.10, the Commission has the following powers and authority to carry out its statutory duties:

·  Evaluating specific economic development problems and providing recommendations for possible solutions.

·  Maintaining communication about economic dilemmas between the state government and the private sector.

·  Make recommendations to legislation regarding ongoing economic development projects and programs .

·  Evaluate development programs to ensure cost efficiency.

·  Preparing specialized reports, which can include key secondary outcomes on economic development of programs and/or regulations, to support and guide the Governor or Legislature.

Objectives 
The Commission for Economic Development assesses issues relating to developing the economy and workforce, trade and government efficiency. Its many goals include increasing effectiveness of the government and its partners in developing and augmenting the workforce of California. While maintaining the workforce, the commission seeks to assemble a strong connection between workforce development and a growing economy, all while encouraging education. The large-scale goal of the CED is to unite all major aspects of an economy (development, small businesses, trade, regulations, etc.) to transform California into a productive and continuously growing entity.

References

State agencies of California
Government agencies established in 1971
State departments of economic development in the United States
Bill Miller (film producer)

Bill Miller (born 1963) is a Sydney-based feature film producer.

Life and career
Bill Miller was born in Queensland and along with his older brother George Miller, attended Sydney Boys High School. Like George, who gave up practicing medicine to become a film director, Bill, a successful arts and entertainment lawyer, gave up the legal profession to pursue a film-making career. He collaborated with George and Byron Kennedy on their early short films, including Violence in the Cinema: Part One, a 14-minute parody of the violent films of the 1970s. This short won two Australian Film Institute Awards, and provided the film-making trio with the confidence to pursue more ambitious projects and Bill acted as associate producer on the original Mad Max, starring Mel Gibson.

Bill shared the honour of being an Academy Award nominee with George and long-time producing partner Doug Mitchell for their work as producers on the family film Babe. In addition to being nominated for Best Picture in 1996, the film earned a total of seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. It also won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture (Comedy/Musical) and garnered a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Film. Following the success of Babe, he also went on to serve as a producer on its sequel, Babe: Pig in the City.

With George and Doug Mitchell, he produced the computer-animated film Happy Feet, a musical epic about the life of penguins in Antarctica, featuring the voices of Robin Williams, Elijah Wood, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Anthony La Paglia, Magda Szubanski, Hugo Weaving and Brittany Murphy. Prior to starting production he took part in a six-week expedition to south Antarctica.  The Warner Brothers-distributed film was released in late 2006, and went on to become one of Australia's most successful animated film projects. A worldwide box office success, it was nominated for various awards including a Golden Globe, going on to win the Academy Award Oscar for Best Animated Feature and the equivalent British BAFTA award. Miller followed up as  producer on the animated sequel, Happy Feet 2, released worldwide in late 2011. He has since been developing projects for film, television and live theatre.

Filmography

References

External links

Living people
Australian film producers
Golden Globe Award-winning producers
1960 births
Peter Norton (British Army officer)

Major Peter Allen Norton, GC (born 10 December 1962) is a retired ammunition technical officer with the British Army's Royal Logistic Corps who was awarded the George Cross for his service in Iraq.

Early life
Norton was born in Edmonton, London, but grew up in Margate, Kent.

Military career
Norton joined the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (which later amalgamated into the Royal Logistic Corps) as a private in 1983. He reached the rank of warrant officer class 1 and was appointed a conductor, the most senior non-commissioned appointment in the British Army, before being commissioned as a captain on 8 July 2002.

George Cross
Norton deployed to Iraq in 2005, where he was second-in-command of the American Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell (CEXC) based in the outskirts of Baghdad. Going to the aid of a United States Army patrol that had been attacked by an improvised explosive device (IED) on 24 July 2005, he was checking for the presence of further devices when a secondary victim-operated IED exploded. He lost his left leg and part of his left arm, and he sustained serious injuries to his other leg and lower back. Despite his injuries, he continued to give instructions to his team, suspecting that further devices might be in the vicinity. He refused to be evacuated until he was certain that all personnel on the ground were aware of the danger. A third device was subsequently located and dealt with the following day.

Norton was awarded the George Cross for his actions. The announcement for the medal was gazetted in a supplement to the London Gazette of 24 March 2006. Since his team contained two special agents of the FBI, Christopher Rigopoulos and Nicholas Boshears, Norton was also awarded the FBI Star on 27 March 2009.

Later service
Norton was promoted to major on 31 July 2008. After a 30-year career, he retired from the army on 1 August 2013 on medical grounds.

Honours

Norton received the FBI Star from the Federal Bureau of Investigation on 27 March 2009, and the United States Army Commendation Medal. He was also awarded the Thornton Medal by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in May 2013, and an Honorary Doctorate by Canterbury Christ Church University in January 2017.

References

External links
Citation and biography from MOD website

1962 births
Bomb disposal personnel
British amputees
British Army personnel of the Iraq War
British military personnel of The Troubles (Northern Ireland)
British recipients of the George Cross
Living people
People from Margate
Royal Army Ordnance Corps soldiers
Royal Logistic Corps officers
Military personnel from London
Everything All the Time

Everything All the Time is the debut album of indie rock band Band of Horses and was released on March 21, 2006, on Sub Pop Records. It features new versions of five of the six songs from the band's Tour EP, some with different titles. The album is the only one to feature original band members Mat Brooke, Chris Early and Tim Meinig.

History
Everything All the Time features the band's original four-piece lineup, although both Tim Meinig and Sera Cahoone receive drumming credits. The band recorded this album in the heart of Seattle for Sub Pop Records. Discussing the album's sound, band leader Ben Bridwell said, "I thought before recording that I really wanted an ELO-sounding record, with strings and keyboards and synths, but then, as we got closer to it, we wanted to take a more raw approach." Regarding its lyrics, he added, "A lot of these songs didn't really come from any lyric writing, let alone any singing ability. A lot of the ways the words are sung were meant to hide or mask what's being said. But there are definitely words. I wrote 'em down on paper and everything."

The band performed the first single from the album, "The Funeral", on the Late Show with David Letterman. By that time Brooke, Meinig and Early had all left the band and had been replaced by Joe Arnone (keyboards, guitar), Rob Hampton (guitar, bass) and Creighton Barrett (drums). "The Funeral" has been used extensively in film, TV, video games and advertisements.

The two tracks with lyrics written by Mat Brooke, "I Go to the Barn..." and "St. Augustine" feature co-lead vocals by Brooke and Bridwell although Brooke's vocals are much quieter than Bridwell's. A demo version of "I Go to the Barn..." titled "I'd Like to Think" was recorded by Brooke and Bridwell as Nov 16, a short lived project between Carissa's Wierd and Band of Horses. On the Nov 16 version, Bridwell's vocals are much quieter than Brooke's. Neither "I Go to the Barn..." nor "St. Augustine" were played live after Brooke's 2006 departure from the band until December 2012, when both songs reappeared in their live setlist.

The album was a minor hit in Scandinavia, appearing in the lower reaches of both the Swedish and Norwegian album charts.

Reception

The album was generally well received by critics. It has a score of 78 out of 100 from 24 critics on the website Metacritic. Pitchfork placed Everything All the Time at number 109 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.

Track listing

All songs written by Band of Horses, lyrics by Bridwell, except 8 & 10 lyrics by Brooke.

Personnel
Ben Bridwell - Vocals, electric guitar (2,4,6,7), pedal steel (1,8,9), bass (3), piano (2)
Mat Brooke - Electric guitar (1,2,4,6,7,9), acoustic guitar (4-6,8-10), vocals (8,10), banjo (9), e-bow (4)
Chris Early - Bass guitar (1-9)
Tim Meinig - Drums (1,4,6,7) 
Sera Cahoone - Drums (2,3,5)

Chart performance

Certifications and sales

References

2006 debut albums
Band of Horses albums
Sub Pop albums
Albums produced by Phil Ek
Jack O'Connell (American politician)

Jack T. O'Connell (born October 8, 1951) is an American politician, educator and formerly the 26th California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, having been elected to the post in November 2002 with 61% of the vote. He was re-elected to his post by receiving a majority (52%) of the vote in the Primary election on June 6, 2006, thus avoiding a November run-off. He is a member of the Democratic Party. O'Connell was unable to run for a third term in 2010 due to term limits and was succeeded by former state assemblyman Tom Torlakson.

Career
Before his election to the Legislature, O'Connell served on the Santa Barbara County School Board. O'Connell previously served in the California State Senate representing the 18th District from 1994 to 2002. O'Connell considered a bid for President Pro Tem of the State Senate in 1998 but ultimately decided not to run. He also served in the California State Assembly representing the Central Coast-based 35th District from 1982 to 1994. From 1994 to 1996, O'Connell employed as a legislative aide Tara Reade, who had recently left the office of then-U.S. Senator Joe Biden.

In his 2006 re-election campaign, O'Connell won every county in California with at least an electoral plurality. Although the State Superintendent of Public Instruction is officially a non-partisan position, O'Connell is a member of the Democratic Party, and political parties will routinely make endorsements of candidates in the election (which was the case with O'Connell).

Personal life
O'Connell was born in Glen Cove, New York. In 1958, he moved with his family to Southern California, where he attended local public schools. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from California State University, Fullerton and earned his secondary teaching credential from California State University, Long Beach in 1975. He returned to Oxnard High School, his high school alma mater, to teach for several years and later served on the Santa Barbara County School Board.

See also
 California Charter Academy

References

External links

Join California Jack O'Connell

1951 births
Living people
Democratic Party California state senators
California State University, Fullerton alumni
California State University, Long Beach alumni
Democratic Party members of the California State Assembly
Politicians from Glen Cove, New York
Oxnard High School alumni
University of California regents
California Superintendents of Public Instruction
21st-century American politicians
20th-century American politicians
Cavity Search

Cavity Search may refer to:

 Body cavity search, a visual search or a manual internal inspection of body cavities for prohibited material (contraband), such as illegal drugs, money, or weapons
 Cavity Search Records, an independent record label based out of Portland, Oregon
 "Cavity Search" (song), the third track on the "Weird Al" Yankovic album Bad Hair Day
Sakura Square

Sakura Square (, Sakura Sukuea) is a small plaza located on the north/east side of the intersection of 19th Street and Larimer Street in Denver, Colorado. The square contains busts of Ralph L. Carr, Governor of Colorado from 1939 to 1943, Minoru Yasui, a Japanese-American lawyer, and Yoshitaka Tamai (1900–1983), a Buddhist priest who lived in Denver. Sakura Square also has a small Japanese garden, and it serves as the entrance to the 20-story Tamai Tower apartment building that occupies most of the block. There are several shops and restaurants in the ground and first floors of the apartment building.

Bust of Governor Carr

Denver's Japanese-American community installed the bust of former Colorado Governor Ralph Lawrence Carr as a tribute to his support of Japanese Americans during the period of their internment. At the time, Governor Carr was the only elected official in the United States to publicly apologize to the Japanese Americans for their internment.

The Annual Cherry Blossom Festival
Denver's annual Cherry Blossom Festival takes place in late June in and around Sakura Square and the Tri-State/Denver Buddhist Temple. During the celebration, many traditional Japanese practices are celebrated, such as the Japanese tea ceremony and ikebana (flower arrangement). During the festival, many food stands offering Japanese cuisine line the street, along with various vendor booths, community information tables, and a live music stage. In the evening, a traditional bon odori dance is held on the street, with many participants dressing in yukata or other traditional Japanese attire.

See also
 Japantown
 Sakura Park
 Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial
 Day of Remembrance (Japanese Americans)
 Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
 Empty Chair Memorial
 Fred Korematsu Day
 Go for Broke Monument
 Harada House
 Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II
 National Japanese American Veterans Memorial Court

References

External links
SAH Archipedia Building Entry

Culture of Denver
Geography of Denver
Japanese-American culture in Colorado
Japanese-American memorials
Internment of Japanese Americans
Landmarks in Colorado
Tourist attractions in Denver
Cherry blossom festivals
Yamin Yisrael

Yamin Yisrael (, lit. Right Israel) was a minor right-wing political party in Israel.

Background
The party was founded on 24 July 1995 when Shaul Gutman broke away from Moledet. It ran in the 1996 elections, but failed to cross the electoral threshold of 1.5% and did not win a seat.

In the 2003 elections the party ran a joint list with Herut – The National Movement. Although together the parties won 36,202 votes (1.1%), they were 8,000 short of the threshold. For the 2006 elections the party ran alongside Baruch Marzel's Jewish National Front, winning 28,824 votes (0.79%) and again failing to cross the threshold.

The party did not run in the 2009 elections.

Ideology
The party's objectives were to:
Replace the current proportional representation system for elections with a constituency-based method.
Institute a presidential system of government.
Presidential appointment of Supreme Court judges.
Enforce the basic law prohibiting parties that negate the Jewish nature of the state
Rescind citizenship of "disloyal" citizens.
Rescind large child allowances.
Rescind the "grandfather clause" of the Law of Return (which allows individuals with a Jewish grandparent, but not recognised halakhically as Jews to claim Israeli citizenship).
Allow Israelis living abroad to vote.
Castigate CNN and the BBC for being "a facade for antisemitism".
Phase out U.S. military aid to Israel.

References

External links
Party history Knesset website

1995 establishments in Israel
Political parties established in 1995
Defunct political parties in Israel
Zionist political parties in Israel
Political parties with year of disestablishment missing
K. P. Appan

Karthikayil Padmanabhan Appan (25 August 1936 – 15 December 2008), better known as K. P. Appan, was a renowned literary critic in Malayalam. Born in Alappuzha (Alleppey), Kerala, Appan worked as a Professor of Malayalam literature at SN College, Kollam, Kerala.

Biography
Karthikayil Padmanabhan Appan was born to Poonthoppil Padmanabhan and Karthiyani in Alappuzha on 25 August 1936. He had his schooling at Sanadana Dharma Vidyalaya there and graduation at SD College, Alappuzha. He took his post-graduation from Maharaja's College, Ernakulam. Appan began his career as a high school teacher and then joined UC College, Aluva, as a lecturer in Malayalam. Later he joined SN College, Cherthala, and then got transferred to SN College, Kollam, in 1972. He retired from there in 1992.

Appan died at a private hospital in Kayamkulam on 15 December 2008, aged 72. He had been battling with cancer for almost three years.

Writing

He introduced modern European and Eastern literary visions in Malayalam literary criticism. Some of his works were Kshobhikkunnavarude Suvisesham (1972), Thiraskaram (1978), Kalahavum Viswasavum (1984), Marunna Malayala Novel (1988), Kalapam, Vivadam, Vilayiruthal (1992) Malayala Bhavana Mullyangalum Sangharshangalum (1992), Bible Velichathinte Kavacham (1994), Penayude Samaramukhangal (1995), Samayapravahavum Sahithyakalayum (1996), Abhimukha Sambashanangal (1997), UtharadhunikathaVarthamanavum Vamsavaliyum (1997).

Awards and honors
In 2008, K. P. Appan won the Kendra Sahithya Academy Award for his collection of essays in Malayalam, Madhuram Ninte Jeevitham. The award was announced after his death.

References

Further reading

External links 
 

1936 births
Indian literary critics
Malayalam-language writers
Writers from Alappuzha
Malayalam literary critics
2008 deaths
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Malayalam
Maharaja's College, Ernakulam alumni
Malayalam novelists
20th-century Indian novelists
Novelists from Kerala
Broken Spindles

Broken Spindles was a band solely consisting of Joel Petersen of Omaha, Nebraska, who also played bass, guitar and keyboards in The Faint. The band's music ranged from instrumental electronic songs to sparse piano pieces to rock-influenced pop songs. Broken Spindles originally started in 2001 as the soundtrack for a friend's film. It developed into a solo project with the first release in 2002 on Tiger Style Records. In between touring with the Faint and Beep Beep, Petersen found time to write music for Broken Spindles.

Discography

Albums
Broken Spindles (2002 · Tiger Style Records)
fulfilled/complete (2004 · Saddle Creek Records)
inside/absent (2005 · Saddle Creek Records)
Document Number One (2008 · self-released)
Kiss/Kick (2009 · blank.wav)

Compilations
Lagniappe: A Saddle Creek Benefit for Hurricane Katrina (2005 · Saddle Creek)
song: "Move Away (Broken Spindles Remix)"

Remixes
Yo Gabba Gabba - Summer Remix
Her Space Holiday - "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend"
 AFI - "Miss Murder"
 of Montreal - "Wraith Pinned to The Mist and Other Games".
 Good Charlotte - Keep Your Hands Off My Girl" .
 Manic - "Carolina Ghost"

See also
Beep Beep
The Faint

External links
Official site
Saddle Creek Records
Saddle Creek Records: Broken Spindles
Broken Spindles on MySpace
Broken Spindles at the Saddle Creek US Online Store

Interviews
Lazy-i Interview: October 2002
Lazy-i Interview: June 2004
One Times One Interview: March 2004

Musical groups from Nebraska
Remixers
Saddle Creek Records artists
Takefuji

is a Japanese consumer finance company, or sarakin. On September 28, 2010 it filed a petition for commencement of a corporate re-organisation under the Japanese Corporate Reorganisation Act.

Services
The Group's principal activity is the provision of consumer financial services, namely to the sub prime segment. This market was previously viewed as an area of money lenders and crime related activities. However, through a network of professional outlets, unmanned outlets, internet outlets and cash dispensers and ATMs, Takefuji claimed to revolutionise the market. The operations were carried out through the following divisions: Consumer Financing division deals with unsecured and non-guaranteed loans, internet financing, debt counseling services, credit cards and the Other Operations division which deals with other financing, parking lot operations, golf course operations, venture capital, Karaoke booth operations, re-insurance. As of 31-Mar-2005, the Group consisted of the parent company, five domestic consolidated subsidiaries and five overseas subsidiaries.

Scandal
Once Japan's most profitable consumer finance company, Takefuji's reputation has been tarnished since founder and former chairman Yasuo Takei pleaded guilty in 2004 to charges he ordered illegal wiretaps on journalists. Now he's looking for a buyer for part or all of his family's 50-plus percent share in the company. Tokyo Goldman Sachs Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group are bidding for a controlling stake. Takefuji makes personal loans at some 530 branches across Japan, charging as much as 29% interest.

Sports
The company also owned Takefuji Bamboo, a professional women's volleyball team.

See also
 Loans in Japan

External links
 Takefuji Corporation
 Takefuji Corporation IR information

Financial services companies of Japan
Companies formerly listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Japanese juvenile law

was established on July 15, 1948 as Law 168.

Legal definitions 
According to Japanese law, the term "shonen" refers to "a person from the time they enter elementary school until the time they are 15 years of age", and  "Any person who has not reached the age of 15 years" (, Article 2.1). In the realm of education and culture, this is the period of compulsory education.  While the term "shonen" can refer to both young males and young females, the generally accepted term for young females is shōjo.

The following meanings can also be inferred from "shōnen" (a person under 15 years of age) with regard to juvenile law in Japan:
A youth who has been convicted of a crime or confessed to a crime. Other terms include hanzai shonen, shokuhō shōnen and guhan shōnen, depending on the crime and the age of the perpetrator. 
A youth who has committed a crime. (Juvenile Law Article 3.1.1; Juvenile Activities, Police Regulations Article 2.2)
A youth under the age of 14 who has committed a crime. (Juvenile Law Article 3.1.2; Juvenile Activities, Police Regulations Article 2.3)
A youth refusing to abide by parental authority, a youth having a lawful reason for not being with his or her family, a youth who is naturally disposed toward criminal activity or who associates with those disposed toward criminal activity, a youth who frequents suspicious locations, a youth with a tendency to injure or assault other people. (Juvenile Law Article 3.1.3; Juvenile Activities, Police Regulations Article 2.4)
A youth who does not fall under the descriptions under hikō shonen (above), but who is found drinking alcohol, smoking, being out late at night, or participating in other activities that might harm her or his moral character; basically youth that are being generally delinquent. (Juvenile Activities, Police Regulations Article 2.6)
A youth who has committed crimes due to having had a difficult upbringing. (Juvenile Activities, Police Regulations Article 2.7)
A youth who has been the victim of child abuse, in cases where there is no guardianship or guardianship has been deemed necessary for the youth's welfare, and where the youth does not fall under hikō shonen (above). (Juvenile Activities, Police Regulations Article 2.8)

Usage as a demographic term 
The term is also used as a demographic term describing media whose target audience consists primarily of adolescent or pre-adolescent boys. Shōnen manga is a popular demographic of Japanese manga, and often features a teenage cast as well as a combat based plot while exploring themes of protecting loved ones, mutual understanding and development of friendship/camaraderie.

See also
Boy
Adolescence
Shōjo
Bishōnen
Seinen
Juvenile delinquency
Minor (law)
Reform school

Education
Nursery school
Kindergarten
Elementary school
Gymnasium (school)
Middle school
High school

References

External links

Shonen-in, reformatory (Ministry of Justice site, in Japanese)

Childhood in Japan
Japanese words and phrases
Law of Japan
Juvenile law
The Madonnas of Leningrad

The Madonnas of Leningrad, Debra Dean's first novel, tells the story of Marina, a docent at the State Hermitage Museum during the 900-day Siege of Leningrad. Marina's clear and detailed recollections of the Hermitage collection and the war are interspersed with her current dementia-impaired life in Seattle, Washington as she prepares to attend a granddaughter's wedding. The novel uses the vivid memories of the past to contrast with the struggles of an Alzheimer's victim in dealing with everyday life.

Publication

Reception
The Madonnas of Leningrad received mixed reviews. The Guardian wrote "Debra Dean paints a powerful portrait of a woman with Alzheimer's, a disease that makes the past an increasingly persistent intrusion on the present." A review by the Historical Novel Society called it "a beautifully-written novel, a haunting tribute to the power of memory to help us survive in the worst of times." and Ruth Rendell described it as "marvellous". The New York Times observed that "The story is a little too schematic, and Dean's writing a little uneven", but also said that "it largely avoids the sentimentality that mars so much writing about the old and infirm."

The Madonnas of Leningrad has also been reviewed by BookPage, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews.

References

External links
Library holdings of The Madonnas of Leningrad
National Public Radio interview with Dean about The Madonnas of Leningrad

Novels set during World War II
2006 American novels
Novels set in the 1940s
2006 debut novels
Siege of Leningrad
Unalachtigo Lenape

The Unalachtigo were a purported division of the Lenape (Delaware Indians), a Native American tribe whose homeland Lenapehoking was in what is today the Northeastern United States. They were part of the Forks Indians.

The name was a Munsee language term for the Unami-speakers of west-central New Jersey. Moravian missionaries called the Lenape people of the Forks region near Easton, Pennsylvania "Unami," and the Northern Unami language-speakers in New Jersey "Unalachtigo." It is debated whether Unalachtigo constituted a distinct dialect of Unami. Unalachtigo words were recorded in 17th-century vocabulary drawn from the Sankhikan band of Lenape in New Jersey.

The Sankhikan band were enemies of the Manhattan people, who spoke Munsee

Synonymy
"Unalachtigo" probably came from the term wə̆nálâhtko·w, which according to Ives Goddard has an unknown translation. Some sources translate unalachtigo as meaning "people who live near the ocean", or "people who live down by the water" Other spellings include Unalâchtigo (1818) and Wunalàchtigo (1798).

History
Linguist Ives Goddard has determined that the Unalachtigo had their origins around the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania, and adjacent portions of New Jersey. They spoke a Northern Unami or Southern Unami dialect of Lënape.

Recent events
An organization that self-identifies as a Native American tribe that calls itself the Unalachtigo Band of the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape Nation claims descent from the Lenape of the Brotherton Reservation, an 18th-century Indian reservation, near Shamong Township in Burlington County, New Jersey. The group unsuccessfully filed for federal recognition with the Bureau of Indian Affairs on 1 Feb 2002. In 2005, the Unalachtigo Band of the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape Nation and their tribal chairman James Brent Thomas Sr. sued the State of New Jersey and Governor Donald DiFrancesco for restoration of the Brotherton Reservation lands and the expulsion of non-Indian peoples. Their complaint was dismissed by the Superior Court of New Jersey.

Notes

Citations

References
 Goddard, Ives. "Eastern Algonquian Languages." Bruce G. Trigger, vol. ed. Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 15: Northwest. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978: 70–77. .
 Goddard. "Delaware." Bruce G. Trigger, vol. ed. Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 15: Northwest. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978: 213–239. .
 Newman, Andrew. On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012. .

External links 
Unalachtigo Band of the Nanticoke-Lenni Lenape v. State of New Jersey

Lenape
Native American tribes in New Jersey
Algonquian ethnonyms
Unrecognized tribes in the United States
Guillaume Fichet

Guillaume Fichet (; 21 September 1433 – c. 1480) was a French scholar, who cooperated with Johann Heynlin to establish the first printing press in France (Paris) in 1470.

Biography
He was born at Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, in Savoy. He studied in Paris between 1450 and 1454 and then followed up on his studies in Avignon. According to his own account as mentioned in his Rhetorica, he taught liberal arts, scriptures and rhetoric since the mid 1450s. In 1467, he was elected rector of the Sorbonne. In 1469 he and Heynlin installed the first press ever set up in France. They brought from Basel three printers: Michael Friburger, Ulrich Gering and Martin Crantz. He was in charge of the library of the Sorbonne between 1469 and 1471. The first book printed was the Epistolae ("Letters") of Gasparinus Pergamensis (1470). Also Fichet's own works followed, such as his Rhetorica (1471). The publisher gained recognition by publishing several speeches made by leading Cardinal Basilios Bessarion. Bessarion's 1471-2 "Orations against the Turks," as the piece came to be called, is known as one of the first pieces of mass-propaganda used in Europe. Together with Bessarion, he left Paris and went to Rome in 1472.

References

Further reading

Philippe, J. (1892). Guillaume Fichet: sa vie, ses œuvres. Introduction de l'imprimerie à Paris. Annecy: J. Dépollier.

1433 births
1480s deaths
Academic staff of the University of Paris
French printers
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15th-century French writers
French male writers
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15th-century French businesspeople
El ministro y yo

El ministro y yo () is a 1976 Mexican film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, Chela Castro, Lucía Méndez and Ángel Garasa. It is the last film in which Cantinflas acted alongside Garasa.

Plot
Mateo Melgarejo "Mateito" (Cantinflas) is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, Don Antonio (Miguel Manzano), earning an audience with him. The minister is so pleased with Mateo's honesty that he hires him to reform the bureau. Mateo also ends up making friends with the minister's sister Vicky (Chela Castro) and the minister's daughter Bárbara (Lucía Méndez).

Mateo is initially appointed to work in the basement where the oldest archives of the offices are located, nicknamed "la ratonera" ("The Mousetrap"), alongside a kind elderly man, Avelino Romero, "Romeritos" (Ángel Garasa), but after the government official in charge of supervising the bureau (Raúl Padilla) realizes Mateo's connection with the minister, he places Mateo in charge of the bureau. However, after the minister is appointed as an ambassador overseas, Mateo is demoted again to the Mousetrap, this time alongside a younger, petulant employee (since Romeritos by then had retired). Mateo, tired of the multiple problems with his co-workers, resigns, but not before lecturing the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he returns to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.

Cast
Cantinflas as Mateo Melgarejo "Mateíto"
Chela Castro as Vicky (as Celia Castro)
Lucía Méndez as Bárbara
Ángel Garasa as Avelino Romero "Romeritos"
Manolita Saval as Estrellita
Delia Peña Orta as María (as Niña Delia de la Peña)
Alonso Castaño as Don Nachito
Miguel Manzano as Don Antonio, minister
Daniel "Chino" Herrera as Guest from Yucatán
Raúl Padilla as Licenciado (as Raul Chato Padilla)
Tamara Garina as Tamarita
Alejandra Meyer as Julia Ramírez, Licenciado's secretary
José Manuel Fregoso
Pedro Damián (as Pedro Muñoz Romero)
Judith Velasco as Anita
Pedro de Aguillón as Alcalino Buenrostro
Gastón Melo as Guest from Nuevo León
Mónica Prado as Office employee
Héctor Suárez as Office employee
Manuel Alvarado as Fat Man (uncredited)
Socorro Avelar as Lupita (uncredited)
Carmen del Valle as Office employee (uncredited)
Federico González as Complaint Department employee (uncredited)
Rojo Grau as Spindola Jr. (uncredited)
Cecilia Leger as Client (uncredited)
Inés Murillo as Chonita, maid (uncredited)
Rubén Márquez as Office employee (uncredited)
Fernando Pinkus as Bureaucrat (uncredited)
Marcelo Villamil as Office employee (uncredited)
Fernando Yapur as Butler (uncredited)

References

Bibliography
García Riera, Emilio. Historia documental del cine mexicano: 1974–1976. Universidad de Guadalajara, 1992.

External links

1976 comedy films
1976 films
Mexican comedy films
Films directed by Miguel M. Delgado
1970s Mexican films
Hercules Mooney

Hercules Mooney (1715–1800) was an Irish veteran of the French and Indian and American Revolutionary wars.

Born to a catholic family from present day Co.Offaly, in 1733 he emigrated to the United States and settled in Dover, New Hampshire. In 1738 he married Elizabeth Evans, also of Dover. Having been a tutor back in Ireland, Mooney became a teacher and schoolmaster at Dover and after 1750 in Durham.

In 1757 Mooney joined the New Hampshire Provincial Regiment to fight in the French and Indian War as a captain in command of a company of soldiers. Capt. Mooney was at the Siege of Fort William Henry that ended in the fall of the fort and attack by the Native Americans. After the end of the war Mooney returned to Durham to teach and was elected selectman in 1765.

In 1775 he was a delegate to the provincial congress at Exeter, New Hampshire and in 1776 was appointed lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army. Lt. Col. Mooney served in Col. Pierse Long's regiment (Long's Regiment) and fought at the Battle of Fort Anne during the Saratoga campaign. During 1778 and 1779 Col. Mooney served on New Hampshire's Committee of Safety. In June 1779 he was given command of a regiment of the New Hampshire Militia that was sent to Rhode Island to keep watch on the British Army at Newport.

After the end of the Revolutionary War Col. Mooney moved to Holderness, New Hampshire and served as a justice of the peace for Grafton County and in the New Hampshire General Court. He died at his home in April 1800.

Sources
A List of The Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H. by Samuel Carroll Derby, Press of Spahr & Glenn, Columbus, Ohio  1901
State Builders: An Illustrated Historical and Biographical Record of the State of New Hampshire. State Builders Publishing Manchester, N.H., 1903

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1800 deaths
18th-century Irish people
Irish soldiers in the Continental Army
Military personnel from County Offaly
Continental Army officers from Ireland
Continental Army officers from New Hampshire
New Hampshire militiamen in the American Revolution
People from Grafton County, New Hampshire
People from Durham, New Hampshire
People of New Hampshire in the French and Indian War
Irish emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies
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People of colonial New Hampshire
Members of the New Hampshire General Court
People from Dover, New Hampshire
People from Holderness, New Hampshire
18th-century American politicians
Đuro Salaj

Đuro Salaj (1889 – 20 May 1958) was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and the first president of the United Labour Unions of Yugoslavia.

Salaj was born in Valpovo and received secondary education as a tailor. In 1907 he travelled to Austria, Germany and Switzerland looking for work, and became a social democrat and a trade union activist. In 1909 he moved to Sarajevo and became a local sewing trade union representative. After World War I he moved to Slavonski Brod where he became further involved in politics, and led the local branch of the Social Democratic Party to become the Communist Party.

Between 1930 and 1944, he was the representative of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia with the Comintern, stationed in the Soviet Union.

In 1945, he attended the World Trade Union Conference in London alongside many renowned trade unionists.

In SFR Yugoslavia, he was decorated with the Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour.

His remains are buried in the Tomb of the People's Heroes, Zagreb.

Sources
 Salaj, Đuro 

1889 births
1958 deaths
People from Valpovo
People from the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
League of Communists of Croatia politicians
Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery
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Members of the Executive Committee of the 7th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
Members of the Presidency of the 8th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
Members of the Central Committee of the 3rd Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Members of the Central Committee of the 4th Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Members of the Central Committee of the 5th Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Members of the Central Committee of the 6th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
Members of the Central Committee of the 7th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
Fulfilled/complete

fulfilled/complete is the second release by Omaha band Broken Spindles. It was released on Saddle Creek Records. It was released on May 4, 2004.

Track listing

Credits
string arrangements for tracks 1, 2, 6, & 10 by Nate Walcott
Tracy Sands - cello
Cindy Ricker - viola
Donna Carnes - violin
Kim Salistean - violin
piano on tracks 3, 6, and 10 played by Nate Walcott
additional vocals on track 5 and 10 by Geraldine Vo

External links
Saddle Creek Records: Broken Spindles
Saddle Creek Records

2004 albums
Broken Spindles albums
Saddle Creek Records albums