Bolesławiec pottery (English: , Polish: [bɔlɛ'swavjɛt͡s]), also referred to as Polish pottery, is the collective term for fine pottery and stoneware produced in the town of Bolesławiec, in south-western Poland. The ceramics are characterized by an indigo blue polka dot pattern on a white background or vice versa.

The art originated in the late Middle Ages, but it fully developed in the 19th century and has continued ever since. The scope of the stoneware ranges from teapots and jugs to plates, platters and candelabra. The pottery is collectively known as "Polish stoneware", as it became one of Poland's unofficial cultural symbols.

Overview
For centuries one of the premier art forms in Central Europe has been the pottery and ceramics created in the Silesia region. The durable and functional creamy white and blue stoneware pieces are unique and easily identifiable. Ceramics and pottery are a definitive part of the identity of the city of Bolesławiec (Bunzlau). The town itself is often called Miasto Ceramiki (Town of Ceramics). The town is known for the ceramics and it is one of its defining features. The ceramics there have been produced for over a thousand years.

The ceramics works are referred to as Boleslawiec pottery, or they are sometimes called by their German name: Bunzlau pottery or Bunzlauer pottery. There has recently been a resurgence in the popularity of Boleslawiec ceramic art in the United States.

The geography lends itself to ceramic work as the area is rich in natural clay deposits; the clay is still excavated today. The clay is plentiful and of extremely high quality. It has a high feldspar and silicon content, and is classified as stoneware after firing. It is fired at extremely high temperatures, around 1100-1300 degrees Celsius. The clay is brown to grey in color, and rough in texture compared to finer claybodies such as porcelain. Stoneware is sturdy and vitreous to semi-vitreous and porous when fired. Glaze can be applied and the piece can be re-fired to create a watertight surface. There is also a unique clay slip associated with the Bolesławiec supply base, the application of which results in a glossy, brown surface.

History

Ceramics has been a part of Bolesławiec and the entire region's history for an extremely long time. Potters and ceramic artists are on record from as early as the 14th century, with the first written record of a potter in the municipal books of Świdnica (Schweidnitz) in 1380. However, archaeological digs have shown pottery and ceramics from the early Middle Ages, and trading patterns strongly indicate their presence at such an early time.

Potters from the Bolesławiec area first united into a guild around the start of the 17th century. Most of the earliest remaining pieces date from the beginnings of the eighteenth century. They are characterized by the brown glaze and were usually pitchers or jug type vessels. Some of the vessels are lidded forms with attached tin lids, though many are open. They are wheel made and uniform in shape, and were either smooth or bore a diagonal ridge pattern. Most bear a mark of some kind, usually an individual's initials and a date.

Starting around the middle half of the 18th century the vessels started to become characterized by a natural flowing motif of “sticks”, or a raised design of flowers and leaves on a stem. The sticks were a light white in color, with the surrounding pot usually brown. This added contrast and aesthetic appeal.

Throughout the late 18th century and early 19th century the stick motif was still popular. Other popular motifs included the Bolesławiec emblem, the potter's emblem of Adam and Eve, heraldic signs, and nature motifs like florals and birds. Pitchers, mugs, and tankards were the most commonly produced works.

Around the latter half of the 19th century the white clay that had previously been used only for the stick motif started to be used for whole vessels. This was due to the innovation of Johann Gottlieb Altmann, a master potter who was the first to cast dishes instead of throwing them on the wheel. Altmann also used a new type of lead-free glaze that enabled stamping and allowed for new motifs and designs. Most of the more recognizable designs today, like the repeating circles, scales, flowers, dots, and clovers, were created at that time.

Ceramics school
In 1897 a professional ceramics school was founded in Boleslawiec. The school's first headmaster was a renowned ceramics master from Berlin, Dr. Wilhelm Pukall. He initiated changes that helped reform technical abilities and new work methods, but also supported innovative new ideas and forms of creative expression. It was a time of great growth for Boleslawiec ceramics. The school accepted mostly sons of local potters, and after their completion went on to start their own workshops.

Three important potters that worked around the turn of the century were Julius Paul, Hugo Reinhold, and Carl Werner. They helped realize the new ideas and vision of the school.  These three artists and their studios started using stenciling techniques, matte glazes, vibrant colors, and gilding. It was their new techniques that revolutionized modern Bolesławiec pottery. In 1936 the school established a cooperative of six schools called the “Bunzlauer Braunzeug”. Their work can still be found today marked by brown pots with white decorations and signed on the bottom.

Although most of Lower Silesia's ceramic workshops and studios were destroyed during World War II, and the entire German population of the town and surrounding province were removed during the transfer of the territory from Germany to Poland in 1945, the new Polish authorities and refugees made a huge effort to revive the work. The cooperative CPLiA was formed and supported by the state-run Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. This permitted the cooperative to revive a high standard of artistic achievement and enabled funding and the influence of talented potters in Poland and throughout Europe.

Bolesławiec pottery today

All authentic Bolesławiec pottery has the “Hand made in Poland” stamped on the bottom. The Boleslawiec pottery that is most recognizable today is the white or cream colored ceramic with dark blue, green, yellow, brown, and sometimes red or purple motifs. The most common designs include dots, abstract florals, speckles, “windmills”, and the favorite “peacocks eye”. The traditions of 'Bunzlauer' pottery have been preserved in many locations in present-day Germany by expellees from the former town of Bunzlau, and their descendants. Currently, most of the original pottery that comes from Polish Bolesławiec is produced by the CPLiA cooperative and the many artists that work under it, either in factories or smaller studios. Many of the individual artists do their own work, and there is also a large crafts movement that still produces the traditional heavy brown and white stoneware.

Although Bolesławiec pottery has become more popular in the United States in the past few years, it is still largely a regional product and is known primarily in Germany and Eastern Europe. It is collected by private collectors all across the world, and is also part of many museum collections in Europe, the largest collection being in the Museum of Ceramics in Boleslawiec, in Boleslawiec, Poland. However, with the commercialization of the industry, Polish Pottery ceramics are now sold throughout the world for everyday use in the kitchen as well as collectibles.

Bolesławiec pottery was created as a mainly functional product, and still is functional today although the designs have increased in quality and intricacy. It falls in a very different category from fine English and Asian china and pottery that demands high prices in today's marketplace. Still, Boleslawiec pottery is not inexpensive. Mugs and cups usually cost anywhere from twenty to forty U.S. dollars, larger more intricate pieces like bowls, teapots, Memory boxes, and specialty plates can cost anywhere from one to two hundred U.S. dollars, and some hand-painted pieces by recognized artists can cost close to five hundred U.S. dollars or more. Price is dependent on size, type of item, quality of glaze/painting, and whether or not the piece is Unikat, or “unique” in English. When a ceramics artist has been deemed accomplished enough they earn the right to create a piece from start to finish and to be able to sign it. These pieces are stamped with UNIKAT on the bottom and are more rare and of better quality and therefore command a higher price.

Polish Pottery is hand crafted with pride at many small manufacturing companies in Boleslawiec, Poland. All of the pieces are hand painted, using sponge stamp and brushes to paint the art on each piece. All of the patterns are hand-cut by the artists in the sponge and then they use the sponges and brushes to apply the unique pattern to each piece. Sponges are used because they keep the paint wet for a long time, allowing the artist to slowly go around one piece at a time, stamping a unique specific pattern. Several of the artists will create the initial pattern and hand paint a pattern, so all of the artists know what each pattern will be and can keep a similar style to the completed pieces.

References

Polish art
Polish pottery


Sir Nicholas Byron (1416–1503) was an English nobleman, politician, and knight.

Family
Byron was the son of John Byron, and his wife, Margery Booth. He was created a Knight of the Bath by Arthur, Prince of Wales on the occasion of Prince Arthur's marriage on 14 November 1501.

Marriage and issue
Sir Nicholas married Joan Bushler, daughter of Sir John Bushler of Haugham, Lincolnshire and Elizabeth Berkeley, with whom he had five daughters and two sons, including John Byron. Joan survived her husband and married Sir Gervase Clifton of Clifton, Nottingham.

References

1416 births
1503 deaths
15th-century English people
16th-century English politicians
Nicholas
English knights
Knights of the Bath


Fernando Francisco Gómez Mont Urueta (born January 11, 1963) is a Mexican lawyer and politician who served as  Secretary of the Interior. He was appointed by President Felipe Calderón on November 10, 2008, following the death of secretary Juan Camilo Mouriño in a plane crash on November 4. Gómez Mont was a member of the National Action Party until his resignation from the party on February 10, 2010. He presented his resignation on July 14, 2010, and President Calderon appointed Francisco Blake Mora to take charge of the Secretary of the Interior.

Personal life and education

Gómez Mont is the son of Felipe Gómez Mont, one of the founders and main ideologists of the National Action Party. He was born in Mexico City in 1963 and became a member of the party during his adolescent years. His father had already died by this time.

Gómez Mont studied law at the Escuela Libre de Derecho. In 1999 he was a federal deputy in the LV Legislature where he presided over the Justice Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. He represented the National Action Party in the Federal Electoral Institute, a post he resigned to become a private lawyer.

Gómez Mont was an advisor to President Ernesto Zedillo along with Luis Téllez (former Secretary of Communications and Transportation in President Calderón's cabinet); he also worked with then Attorney General Antonio Lozano Gracia in the investigation of the 1994 assassination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio.

In his private practice he carried President Carlos Salinas and Tomás Peñaloza Webb in a supposed fraud to the Mexican Social Security Institute, and represented Rogelio Montemayor in the Pemexgate investigation in 2006.

References

External links
Biographical snapshot of Gómez Mont (El Universal)
Renuncia de Gómez Mont al PAN (Televisa)

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1963 births
National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
Mexican Secretaries of the Interior
Escuela Libre de Derecho alumni
Living people


The Washington State Parkinson Disease Registry (WPDR) was created in May 2007 to facilitate Parkinson disease research by maintaining a list of people in Washington state, who have Parkinson disease, and are interested in Parkinson disease research.  Parkinson disease researchers request the WPDR notify its members of potential research opportunities.  The WPDR executive board then evaluates the requesting researcher's study protocol and notifies suitable registry members of the research opportunity.

The intent of the registry is to increase membership in high quality Parkinson disease research studies, while reducing the time and money necessary to recruit interested subjects.

Sponsorship
The Washington State Parkinson Disease Registry is sponsored by the Washington State Department of Health, a group of Washington state physicians at the University of Washington Department of Neurology and the American Parkinson Disease Association Northwest Chapter.

References

External links
 Home page of the Washington State Parkinson Disease Registry

Parkinson's disease
Organizations based in Washington (state)


This is a list of ISO 639-5 codes, including the code hierarchy as given in the ISO 639-5 registry. The code und (undetermined) from ISO 639-2 can be seen as top of the hierarchy (for example, und:aav, und:euq:eu). The hierarchy is not a complete genetic hierarchy; some of the collection codes are based on geography (like nai) or category (like crp) instead.

List

Notes
SIL International treats ISO 639-2 code him (Himachali languages / Western Pahari languages) as an ISO 639-5 code, although it does not appear in the official list of ISO 639-5 codes maintained by the Library of Congress (the registration authority for ISO 639-5).

See also
 Lists of ISO 639 codes

Sources

References

External links

 ISO 639-5 Registration Authority - Library of Congress

ISO 639


Thomas Emmett Quinn (September 10, 1877 – February 9, 1930) was a Canadian ice hockey executive, coach and referee. Quinn served as president of the National Hockey Association (NHA), the predecessor of today's National Hockey League (NHL). His brother Percy Quinn was also an ice hockey executive. At the time of his death, Quinn was a Fire Commissioner in Montreal.

Ice hockey career
Quinn first became notable in the field of ice hockey as a coach of the Montreal Shamrocks in the 1906–07 season. He was replaced after the season and worked as a referee for the 1907–08 season. He was the referee of the game, in Cornwall, Ontario in February, 1907 in which Owen McCourt died as a result of his on-ice injuries. He returned to coaching, for the Quebec Bulldogs of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (ECHA) in 1908–09. He also served as the ECHA's secretary-treasurer.

In 1909, he was part of the dissolution of the ECHA. He became the Canadian Hockey Association's secretary-treasurer. When that league dissolved, he joined the National Hockey Association (NHA) as secretary-treasurer.

In 1910, he was appointed president of the NHA. He held the position until October 18, 1916 when he resigned. During his tenure, the league moved into Quebec and Toronto, relocating franchises in northern Ontario that had been members of the Temiscaming Professional Hockey League. Under his tenure, the league imposed a salary cap on its players. The Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) was founded in 1911, and it became the NHA's major competitor, albeit in western cities, while the NHA operated in eastern cities. Quinn negotiated agreements between the leagues for the first regular Stanley Cup playoffs, holding finals between the two leagues for the Cup, ending the time period of Stanley Cup "challenges" under the control of the Cup's trustees. He also negotiated agreements to respect each league's player contracts and a controlled draft for the transfer of players between the leagues.

Quinn resigned from his position as president of the NHA after the 1915–16 season. He was rewarded with a silver tea service from the NHA in October 2016. He ended his involvement with hockey entirely.

Personal
Quinn had three brothers Fred, Percy and Raphael. Quinn married May Kiely. They had three children: Richard Francis Quinn, Robert Emmett Quinn and Millicent Quinn. Quinn was in the insurance business, as was his brother Percy. Quinn was nominated to the Fire Commissioner's Court in 1924 for his experience in fire hazards. He died in 1930 at 52 years of age.

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Bibliography

1877 births
1930 deaths
Canadian ice hockey coaches
Ice hockey people from Montreal
Ice hockey executives
Canadian sports executives and administrators


Exozodiacal dust is 1–100 micrometre-sized grains of amorphous carbon and silicate dust that fill the plane of extrasolar planetary systems. It is the exoplanetary analog of zodiacal dust, the 1–100 micrometre-sized dust grains observed in the solar system, especially interior to the asteroid belt. As with the zodiacal dust, these grains are probably produced by outgassing comets, as well as by collisions among bigger parent bodies like asteroids. Exozodiacal dust clouds are often components of debris disks that are detected around main-sequence stars through their excess infrared emission. Particularly hot exozodiacal disks are also commonly found near spectral type A-K stars. By convention, exozodiacal dust refers to the innermost and hottest part of these debris disks, within a few astronomical units of the star. How exozodiacal dust is so prevalent this close to stars is a subject of debate with several competing theories attempting to explain the phenomenon. The shapes of exozodiacal dust clouds can show the dynamical influence of extrasolar planets, and potentially indicate the presence of these planets. Because it is often located near a star's habitable zone, exozodiacal dust can be an important noise source for attempts to image terrestrial planets. Around 1 in 100 stars in the nearby solar systems shows a high content of warm dust that is around 1000 times greater than the average dust emission in the 8.5–12 μm range.

Formation
Although such dust was initially theoretical, we have now observed its infrared signature while attempting to observe exo-earths. As exozodiacal dust is the extrasolar equivalent of zodiacal dust, its formation is theorized to be the same. This is to be contrasted with interstellar dust, which is not trapped in a solar system. Leftover particulates from the formation of a solar system, as well as debris from the collisions of larger objects leave behind exozodiacal dust. The amount of potential exozodiacal dust is thought to be ever-decreasing, though, as massive bodies like planets absorb significant amounts of it. For instance, the earth absorbs 40,000 tons of this dust every year. The dust emits infrared radiation, and through gravitational interactions with bodies such as the sun it forms infrared rings. These rings have been observed across many solar systems throughout the Milky Way. Dust from different sources, such as from asteroid collisions, comets, and trapped particulates, are theorized to form different infrared structures, respectively.

Examples of stars with exozodiacal dust
 51 Ophiuchi
 Fomalhaut
 Tau Ceti
 Vega

Ongoing research
Observations have found that some spectral type A-K have the infrared signatures of exozodiacal dust much closer to the star than is theorized to be possible. Within a certain circumference of the star, the dust is expected to be ground down and ejected by the star within a few years. While the dust has been confirmed to exist this close to a star, models still cannot explain its presence. Modeling the behavior of both zodiacal and exozodiacal dust is a noteworthy area of research, as the dust presents itself as noise for astronomers attempting to observe planetary bodies. If the dust can be accurately modeled, it can be subtracted out of observations of exo-earths.

References

External links

 NASA Supercomputer Shows How Dust Rings Point to Exo-Earths

Exozodiacal dust
Exozodiacal dust
Cosmic dust
Articles containing video clips


Wooden cannons have been manufactured and used in wars in many countries. The wooden parts were invariably strengthened  with metal fittings or even rope.

Expedient technique
The use of wood for cannon-making could be dictated either by the lack of metal or the lack of skill to engineer metallic cannons. Wooden cannons were notoriously weak, and could usually fire only a few shots, sometimes even just one shot, before bursting. The balls for use in such wooden-barreled cannons could be made of various materials such as wood, stone, ceramics, or steel.

The barrel could be sometimes coated with tin in the interior, having the exterior reinforced with 8–10 iron rings. The firing system was identical with the one used on flintlocks.

The cannons could fire a variety of projectiles, from cannonballs made of iron, wood, or rock, to incendiary materials and a type of grapeshots (a load of smaller rocks with sharp edges to increase damage upon attacking compact infantry formations). Also, they were used as a psychological weapon, firing without projectiles, simply for the sound, which was enough to create in enemy ranks a state of panic, believing that it is being attacked by artillery. In the mountains, the sound was reverberated by the mountain slopes, the sound being thus repeated and amplified.

Wooden cannons have been used at various times. Aurangzeb in the Deccan used such cannons for defensive purposes, as he lacked regular cannons but had abundant wood available.

Wooden cannons were used by the Vietnamese against the French during the Cochinchina campaign in 1862. Some Japanese forces used wooden cannons during the Boshin war in 1868. Native peoples of South America used wooden cannons against the Spanish and Portuguese during the 17th and 18th centuries. The Native Americans in North America used improvised wooden cannons against fortifications. Squire Boone also constructed a wooden cannon used in the defense of Boonesborough, Kentucky in 1778 Siege of Boonesborough.

Wooden cannons were used in Europe on various occasions. Russian Tsar Peter the Great is known to have built several as a childhood pastime.

Romanians (moți) from the Apuseni Mountains in Transylvania manufactured this type of cannon extensively for use against the Hungarian army in 1848–49. The wooden cannons had various calibers, up to 120–150 millimetres, and were made from fir, cherry, or beech trees. They were made using man-powered drills to obtain the desired caliber. In battle, the largest-caliber cannons were employed from fixed positions, whereas cannons of smaller calibers could be deployed in the field, carried on man-drawn or horse-drawn carriages, or transported on horseback via pack saddles.

During the April Uprising in 1876, the Bulgarians used 52 cherry-wood cannons. The barrels were lined inside with copper tubes. After a few shots, the guns would begin to crack, and were reinforced with ropes soaked in tar.
During the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising in 1903 the macedonian rebels likewise produced cherry-wood cannons. Turks seized one cannon.

During World War I the Imperial German Army developed a series of heavy wooden mortars.

Deception method

In some wars, fake cannons made from a wooden log, sometimes painted black, were used to deceive an enemy. Misleading the enemy as to the strength of an emplacement was an effective delaying tactic. Both sides of the American Civil War used such faked weapons, called Quaker guns. The name derives from the Religious Society of Friends or "Quakers", who have traditionally held a religious opposition to war and violence in the Peace Testimony.

See also

Bamboo cannon
Leather cannon

Notes

Artillery by type
Cannon


The Directorate of Military Intelligence in Nepal is the Nepalese Army’s intelligence unit. With the head office at Military Headquarters in Kathmandu, DMI functions under a brigadier general of the army. DMI collects its intelligence from plainclothes military agents spread all over the country. During the Maoist insurgency period, DMI was focused on internal security than external activities. On the basis of the intelligence provided by DMI, Director of Military Operation (DMO) analyzes the information and prepares accordingly.

References

Military of Nepal
Nepalese intelligence agencies
Nepalese Civil War


The Ministry of Health () is a Portuguese government ministry.

External links

See also
Healthcare in Portugal

Portugal
Health


The Iron Highway is a rail-based intermodal freight concept developed at New York Air Brake in the mid-1980s and tested by CSL Intermodal in the early 1990s. The Iron Highway system employs specially designed locomotives located at each end of a string of 60-meter articulated platforms that divide in the middle to form ramps for the loading and unloading of regular truck trailers. An objective of the concept is to serve standard trailers and containers that are not reinforced for lift-on/lift-off operations. The principal benefit is to extend the economy of intermodal traffic to distances as short as 200 km. One unpowered prototype was built, and was presumably tested on CSX, and it was moved to Australia afterwards. The fate of this prototype is unknown.

References

External links

Rail transportation in the United States


Bagillt railway station was a  railway station serving the village of Bagillt on the North Wales Coast Line  in the Welsh county of Flintshire. Although trains still pass on the main line, the station closed in 1966.

History
Opened by the Chester and Holyhead Railway,  then joining the London and North Western Railway, the station became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and was closed by the British Railways Board as part of the Beeching Report economies of the 1960s.

The site today
Trains still pass on the double track North Wales Coast Line. The remains of the platforms are visible from passing trains, including the footbridge.

References

Sources

Further reading

External links
Station on navigable O. S. map
 Sub Brit on Bagillt
Aerial View of site on Wikimapia

Former London and North Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1849
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966
Beeching closures in Wales
Disused railway stations in Flintshire


Musselburgh Grammar School a state-funded secondary school in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. It serves as the main secondary school for Musselburgh and the surrounding areas of Wallyford and Whitecraig. The school dates back to the sixteenth century, and the present building was erected in 1835. Until the 1950s, Musselburgh Grammar was a fee-paying school. In 2005, the school's roll was 1310. Jodie Hannan is the current head teacher.

Primary schools
There are six nearby primary school which feed into Musselburgh Grammar School: Stoneyhill Primary School, Campie Primary School, Pinkie Primary School, Musselburgh Burgh Primary School, Whitecraig Primary School and Wallyford Primary School.

HMIE reports
In June 1999 the school was criticised following a Care and Welfare Inspection by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education. The report referred to having witnessed a battle between rival gangs in the school entrance area and that a third of pupils surveyed feared for their own safety. It also mentioned general weaknesses in safety, security, care and welfare, although the staff were praised for their efforts in the face of serious challenges. This led to a media furore with some newspapers describing the school as the worst in Scotland.

A follow-up inspection in 2000 reported that the school and East Lothian Council had "responded promptly" and made "very good progress" in tackling the problems identified. The school also underwent a refurbishment of facilities between 2004 and 2005 under the PPP Scheme.

The 2014 HMIE report expressed concern at the level of attainment of pupils, but in 2015, inspectors noted that the school had made improvements in this area and elsewhere.

House system
The school has a house system, which divides all pupils in the school into three different Houses when they start. The three houses are called Caird, Grange, and Moray.

There was a fourth house in the school called Seton which disbanded in 2011. House assemblies are held weekly and pupils enter a wide range of activities between Houses during the school year.

Notable former pupils

Rhona Cameron, comedian and writer
Susan Deacon, former Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament and Minister for Heath and Community Care until 2001.
David Macbeth Moir, physician and writer
Callum Beattie, singer-songwriter
Gary Anderson, professional darts player
Alex Hay, professional golfer, writer and former BBC sports commentator
Kenny Miller, football player
Colin Nish, football player
Jason Holt, football player
Kris Renton, football player
Kevin Smith, football player
Alan Morgan, football player
Kirsten Reilly, football player
Billy Brown, football player and manager
Jim Jefferies, football player and manager
John McGlynn, football player and manager
Ross Muir, professional snooker player
Jock Wallace Jr., football player and manager
Gordon Hunter, football player
Yvonne Murray, middle and long-distance runner
Robert Black, serial killer
Mason Andrews - X-rated Model

References

http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/13592619.Improvements_made_at_Musselburgh_Grammar_School__say_inspectors

External links
School website
HMIE report May 2014

Secondary schools in East Lothian
Grammar schools in Scotland
Musselburgh


Theophidack "Kofi" Nti (3 April 1977 – 26 April 2017) was a Ghanaian footballer.

Career
He joined Nania F.C. from the second division side in Madina United in 2001, during this period he led the team to be promoted into the Ghanaian first division league. In 2003, he captained the team in its first major tournament in Switzerland in which Nania won a bronze medal, he won an MVP award in that tournament. In 2004, the team won a silver medal in Germany, during its second outing in Europe, Nti captained the team and won an award as one of the most outstanding midfielders of the tournament. He captained Nania in another tournament in Switzerland the same year in which Nania won a silver medal. In addition, Nti led Nania to qualify from the second division to the first division in August 2004, he moved in January 2005 to Richmond Kickers Future.

College Experience and Honors
In college, Nti led the University of Ghana soccer team to win the University League in 1999, in 2001, he led the same team to win the first West African University games held in Ghana.

International
Played with Ghanaian Under-20 National Team in 1995.

Death
Nti passed away unexpectedly on 26 April 2017 at the age of 40.

References

External links
 Richmond Kickers Profile

1977 births
Living people
Ghanaian men's footballers
Ghanaian expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
F.C. Nania players
Richmond Kickers Future players
USL League Two players


Same Time, Next Year is a 1978 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Robert Mulligan. The screenplay by Bernard Slade is based on his 1975 play of the same title. The film stars Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn (the latter reprising her Broadway role).

Plot
In 1951, at an inn on the Mendocino County coast, Doris, a 24-year-old housewife from Oakland, meets George, a 27-year-old accountant from New Jersey at dinner. They have a sexual tryst, and despite the fact that both are happily married with six children between them, agree to meet every year at the same hotel for one night together.

The film jumps forward five years at a time, episodically chronicling their time together, the changes each goes through, their respective marriages, and their deepening connection. In 1966, for example, George, now middle-aged and dressed in a suit, is shocked when Doris arrives in denim and wearing her hair to her waist, having enrolled in UC Berkeley and become ardently leftwing. George, meanwhile, reveals his newfound conservatism as a result of his son's having been killed in Vietnam the previous year.

At their meeting in 1977, George tells Doris that his wife, Helen, died unexpectedly earlier in the year, and that Helen revealed to a friend that she had known of the affair for ten years, but never told George she knew. Now a widower, George proposes to Doris, who refuses to accept because of her loyalty to, and respect for, her husband. Dejected, George leaves, but quickly returns, and they promise to continue the affair as long as they are able.

Production
The film is structured as six episodes, each occurring approximately five years apart. Between the scenes are shown a series of photos that depict cultural and political events that had ensued in the years between each segment, such as Harry S. Truman, Nikita Khrushchev, Lucille Ball, Elvis Presley, and John F. Kennedy. The episodes are period-specific, often making references to what was actually happening during the time portrayed. For example, in the segment set in 1966, Doris is caught up in the protest movement at Berkeley, while George takes a Librium and reveals that he had voted for Barry Goldwater, and later that his son had been killed in Vietnam.

Exteriors for the film were shot at the Heritage House Inn, a well-known resort and bed & breakfast in Little River, California,  south of Mendocino, California. The shell of the cottage was built on a temporary foundation overlooking the Pacific Ocean, but the interior was filmed on the Universal Studios sound stage in Los Angeles. After filming was completed, Universal paid for the shell to be relocated to a permanent foundation and the interior was outfitted with the studio furnishings. The cottage became a popular romantic getaway, so popular that the Heritage House eventually partitioned the cottage in half and added a second bathroom to the opposite end. One half of the cottage was called "Same Time" and the other half called "Next Year". The Heritage House closed due to foreclosure in December 2008. The cottage still stands, updated and remodeled, and the Heritage House reopened in 2013.

Theme song
Paul McCartney had composed a title song for the film, which he recorded with Wings, that was not used. He later released it as the B-side of a single in 1990. The theme song ultimately used was "The Last Time I Felt Like This," written by Marvin Hamlisch and Alan and Marilyn Bergman (eventually nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song) and performed by Johnny Mathis and Jane Olivor.

Critical reception
While Bernard Slade's acclaimed stage play earned a storm of praise, the film received mixed reviews. Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, "Mr. Slade's screenplay isn't often funny, and it's full of momentous events that can't be laughed away... As directed by Robert Mulligan... Same Time, Next Year is both less and more than it could have been. By moving the action outdoors once in a while, or into the inn's restaurant, Mr. Mulligan loses the element of claustrophobia that might have taken an audience's mind off the screenplay's troubles. But he substitutes the serenity of a California coastal setting, and gives the film a visual glamour that is mercifully distracting. Mr. Mulligan seems to have been more interested in sprucing up the material than in preserving its absolute integrity, and under the circumstances, his approach makes sense... Mr. Alda isn't terribly playful, and he reads every line as if it were part of a joke, which only accentuates the flatness of the script. Miss Burstyn, on the other hand... brings so much sweetness to Doris's various incarnations that the character very nearly comes to life." On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an aggregate score of 40% based on 2 positive and 3 negative critic reviews.

Variety called the film "a textbook example of how to successfully transport a stage play to the big screen" and added, "The production of Bernard Slade's play, sensitively directed by Robert Mulligan, is everything you'd want from this kind of film. And it features two first class performances by Ellen Burstyn and Alan Alda."

Awards and nominations

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
 2002: AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions – nominated

See also
Avanti! -  1972 comedy film by Billy Wilder with the similar idea of married lovers meeting secretly once a year in an hotel in Italy, and later their children.
One Day - Film with similar plot form, two characters meeting over the course of many years.

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American romantic comedy-drama films
1970s romantic comedy-drama films
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Films featuring a Best Musical or Comedy Actress Golden Globe winning performance
Films produced by Walter Mirisch
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Harry Samuel Broudy  (July 27, 1905 – June 24, 1998) was a Polish-born American professor of the philosophy of education.

Early life and education
Broudy was born in Filipów, Grodno Governorate (part of the Russian partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) in the Russian Empire on July 27, 1905, but his family emigrated, and moved to Milford, Massachusetts in 1912. Broudy attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a year, but then transferred to Boston University, where he received his bachelor's degree in German literature and philosophy in 1929. From there, he went to Harvard University and earned his master's degree and Ph.D. there (both in philosophy), completing the doctorate in 1935. His thesis title was The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Personal Existence.

Career
Broudy worked for a short time at the Massachusetts Department of Education, where he supervised correspondence education. He taught philosophy of education and educational psychology at North Adams State Teachers College from 1937 until 1949, then moved to Framingham State Teachers College from 1949 until 1957. He moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a professor of the philosophy of education in 1957, where he spent the rest of his career at Illinois. He retired from the full time appointment in 1974 and was appointed as a professor emeritus, in which role he stayed active until the early 1990s.

Work

Broudy's philosophical views were based on the tradition of classical realism, dealing with truth, goodness, and beauty. However he was also influenced by the modern philosophies existentialism and instrumentalism. In his textbook Building a Philosophy of Education he has two major ideas that are the main points to his philosophical outlook: The first is truth and the second is universal structures to be found in humanity's struggle for education and the good life. Broudy also studied issues on society's demands on school. He thought education would be a link to unify the diverse society and urged the society to put more trust and a commitment to the schools and a good education.

Awards and honors
Broudy was appointed as a laureate of Kappa Delta Pi in 1968. Volume 25, issue 4 of the Journal of Aesthetic Education was dedicated to essays in honor of Broudy.

Personal life
Broudy was naturalized as a United States citizen in 1936. He died on June 24, 1998, in Urbana, Illinois.

Selected books

References

1905 births
Polish emigrants to the United States
Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Framingham State University faculty
1998 deaths
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
People from Suwałki County
People from the Russian Empire of Polish descent
Philosophers of education
20th-century American educators
Naturalized citizens of the United States
20th-century American philosophers


Davis Schneiderman (born 1974) is an American writer, academic, and higher-education administrator. He is a professor of English and Krebs Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Lake Forest College in Illinois. Prior to that appointment, he served as Associate Dean of the Faculty for Strategy and Innovation.

Biography
Schneiderman earned a B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University (1996), an M.A. (1998) and Ph.D. (2001) from Binghamton University. In 2001 he became a professor of English at Lake Forest College, and was Associate Dean of the Faculty from 2013 to 2018. He formerly served as Director of the Center for Chicago Programs, Lake Forest College In The Loop (a residential program in Chicago) and Forest College Press / &NOW Books. He currently serves as a national board member of the &NOW organization that has partnered with the University of Paris, UCSD, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and CalArts, among others. Schneiderman as edited the anthology, The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing.

Schneiderman is former chair of English Department, American Studies Program, and is currently Director of Digital Chicago, a four-year grant funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Schneiderman also directed an early digital humanities project, the NEH-funded Virtual Burnham Initiative, a project to create 3-D models of the 1909 Plan of Chicago.

A popular community lecturer, Schneiderman live interviews the authors of the Lake Forest Reads: Ragdale one-book program in Lake Forest, IL; including Lauren Groff in 2016. The Highland Park Public Library in Highland Park, IL, has recently named the Schneiderman-led discussion series "Discussions with Davis."

He lives in Highland Park, IL with the actor Kelly Haramis, and their two daughters.

Works
Schneiderman is the author or editor of 10 books. As a creative writer, his recent novels include the DEAD/BOOKS trilogy, including the blank novel BLANK, the plagiarized novel [SIC](a collaboration with Andi Olsen, with an introduction by Oulipo member Daniel Levin-Becker) and the ink-smeared novel INK. (collaboration with Tim Guthrie); as well as the sci-fi dystopia novel Drain (Northwestern). Schneiderman edited wrote the introduction for the last novel from WWII survivor Raymond Federman. Schneiderman's work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, Harpers.org, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse; he is a long-time contributor for The Huffington Post.

Writing about his novel Drain, reviewer Renée E. D'Aoust praised the way Schneiderman "conjures images within images" and called the book "creepy and bloody effective". Writing about Schneiderman's work, critic Edward S. Robinson notes that Schneiderman's "novels are imbued with theoretical complexity and a keen self-awareness, but without being smugly in your face with self-reflexivity....[and] his writing indisputably engages with contemporary discourse and is designed to provoke thought and debate."

Schneiderman's work has garnered notice for its unusual packaging, as well as for its writing. He bound his first book Multifesto in sandpaper to purposely damage the books next to it. Another of his books was encased in plaster. BLANK had collage musical tracks provided by Paul Miller, aka dj spooky. The remix edition of his debut novel Multifesto, originally 20086 and republished in 2013, contained remixes from the author Roxane Gay, Matt Bell, and Kathleen Rooney, among others.

As a scholar, Schneiderman is a recognized expert on the work of William S. Burroughs, and his co-edited collection Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization was republished on its tenth anniversary at Realitystudio.com, the leading Burroughs website. Schneiderman has also written extensively about innovative literature, the Surrealist Exquisite Corpse, and copyright and collage and remix culture.

As a journalist and essayist, Schneiderman has interviewed John Waters, Temple Grandin, Edward Snowden's ACLU lawyer Ben Wizner, Sherry Turkle, David Shields, Ruth Ozeki, Jean Kwok, and Aleksandar Hemon, about his work as a writer for the Netflix series Sense8, among others.

As Director of Lake Forest College Press, Schneiderman has published books on transportation and architectural issues including Beyond Burnham: An Illustrated History of Planning for the Chicago Region and Terminal Town: An Illustrated Guide to Chicago's Airports, Bus Depots, Train Stations, and Steamship Landings, 1939 - Present.  Schneiderman and the author of these works, Joseph P. Schwieterman of DePaul University's Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development, collaborated through the Digital Chicago grant on Windy City in Motion, an exhibit at Chicago's Union Station.

Digital humanities and non-paper works
Schneiderman has directed several digital humanities projects. These include the six-campus Exquisite Corpse project (2002-2005), funded by the Midwest Instructional Technology Center among Lake Forest College, Kenyon College, DePauw University, Monmouth College, Oberlin College, and Colorado College; the Virtual Burnham Initiative (2007-2010) funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities. His Virtual Burnham Initiative, and the work is now part of the Chicago History Museum digital collection, as part of the Digital Chicago website.

In addition, Schneiderman has served as PI for three grants from funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This first was a planning grant among Lake Forest College, Knox College, and Beloit College for a collaboration among English Departments, and the four-year $800,000 Digital Chicago: Unearthing History and Culture project. Digital Chicago involves "students and faculty in exploring specific at-risk or forgotten sites in Chicago's history, through urban archeological digs, innovative digital humanities projects, and complementary coursework in a wide array of disciplines, including English, History, Art, Music, and others." The works from Digital Chicago are now housed at the Chicago History Museum digital collection, and include Schneiderman's Virtual Burnham project, which "transforms a selection of flat images from the 1909 Plan of Chicago—by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett into 3-D models." The third grant is the $1.1 million Humanities 2020 initiative, a partnership between Lake Forest College and the Chicago History Museum, the Chicago Humanities Festival, and other Chicago cultural and humanitarian organizations.

As a multimedia artist, Schneiderman creates audio, video and performance works as part of The Muttering Sickness collective, and recent works include "Modern Business Machines" a collaboration with actor and director Regina Taylor and Chicago's Goodman Theater; performances as the 2014 and 2016 Chicago Humanities Festival; the former in performance with Jon Langford (of The Mekons) and Anne Waldman and others; the latter debuting a drone video connected to the Art Institute of Chicago's exhibit on Hungarian artist Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, published at Big Other; and an album, The Last Days of Radio, released on poet Ann Waldman's record label.

Schneiderman is also the lead writer for Tim Guthrie's award-winning exhibit The Museum of Alternative History, with the Omaha Reader noting that the show "is conceived of and executed masterfully. It taps into the current zeitgeist, which supports the twisting of fact, skewing of science, and values opinion and belief over data and truth." The show won the Omaha Arts and Entertainment Awards and Best Group Show in the group's 8th- and 13th-annual awards. The Museum's most-recent award-winning run, from June 1 – September 26, 2018 at Omaha's KANEKO gallery, and was followed by a "pop-up" exhibit at the 2019 &NOW Festival at the University of Washington, Bothell.

Media appearances
Schneiderman is featured prominently in the 2019 documentary film The World According to Radiohead, from ARTE TV, where he discusses Radiohead's connection to Noam Chomsky and Naomi Klein. He has appeared on Chicago area and national media, including Chicago Tonight where he offered counter-intuitive college success tips, the Collegiate Empowerment podcast, among others.

Bibliography

Novels
INK.: a novel. (Jaded Ibis, 2016).
SIC: a novel. (Jaded Ibis, 2013).
Blank: a novel. (Jaded Ibis, 2011).
Drain. (TriQuarterly/Northwestern, 2010).
DIS, Or, in the Shadow of the Dome of Pleasure. (Buffalo, NY: BlazeVOX Books, 2008).
Abecedarium. [w/ Carlos Hernandez] (Portland, OR: Chiasmus Press, 2007).
Multifesto: A Henri d’Mescan Reader. (New York: Spuyten Duyvil Press. Limited-edition art book, 2006; remix edition 2013).

Edited collections
The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game. Eds. Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Davis Schneiderman, and Tom Denlinger. (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2009).
Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization. Eds. Davis Schneiderman and Philip Walsh. (London: Pluto Press, 2004; Reality Studio, 2014).

Audiocollage albums
The Last Days of Radio. (Fast-Speaking Music, 2015).
Memorials to Future Catastrophes (with Don Meyer and Tom Denlinger). (Kansas City, MO: Jaded Ibis Productions, 2008).

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21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
Postmodernists
Novelists from Chicago
1974 births
Living people
Pennsylvania State University alumni
Binghamton University alumni
Lake Forest College faculty
21st-century American male writers


Mark-Ye-Well (1949–1970) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

Background
Mark-Ye-Well was bred and raced by Calumet Farm. He was sired by their five-time North American Champion Sire, Bull Lea.  Mark-Ye-Well was out of Mar-Kell, Calumet's excellent racing mare who was the 1943 American Champion Older Female Horse.

Trained by the father and son team of Ben and Jimmy Jones, Mark-Ye-Well  was ridden by Eddie Arcaro in most of his major races.

Racing career
At age two, the colt was taken out of training as a result of a stifle joint problem and did not return to racing until February 1952. Brought back slowly, the then three-year-old colt did not compete in any of the 1952 U.S. Triple Crown races, but by mid-year he had developed into one of the top runners in his age group in the United States. In July, he recorded a five-length win in the Arlington Classic, which was reportedly the most valuable three-year-old race ever run. In the following month, Mark-Ye-Well was described as a "sensation" after he easily won the $103,325 American Derby. The Calumet colt seemed on the way to winning divisional honors at least, but at Belmont in September he was decisively beaten by Tom Fool in the Jerome Handicap. Two weeks later, he beat Belmont Stakes winner One Count by four lengths in the Lawrence Realization Stakes, but One Count was voted American Champion Three-Year-Old Colt after reversing the form in the Jockey Club Gold Cup.

Mark-Ye-Well was sent to race in California in 1953, where he won the Santa Anita Maturity, the San Fernando Stakes, and the state's richest and most important race, the Santa Anita Handicap. His win in the Santa Anita Handicap was the first for Calumet Farm after three previous tries. He then was sent to compete in the Eastern United States but developed a quarter crack that hampered his performance.

Sent back to start the 1954 racing season in California, the five-year-old  Mark-Ye-Well won the San Antonio and San Marcos Handicaps.  At Chicago's Arlington Park, he won the Stars and Stripes Handicap and the Laurance Armour Memorial Handicap.

Stud record
He was retired to stud duty at Calumet Farm beginning with the 1956 season. Mark-Ye-Well sired only three stakes winners before he was sold to breeders in Scandinavia.

References

1949 racehorse births
1970 racehorse deaths
Thoroughbred family 9-f
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States


Kate Harrington, born Rebecca Harrington Smith and later known as Rebecca Smith Pollard, was an American teacher, writer and poet.

Biography
She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania on September 20, 1831. She spent her most productive years in Iowa. Her father, Prof. Nathaniel Ruggles Smith, was a playwright and an authority on Shakespeare, whose interpretations gained the attention of both Edwin Forrest and John Wilkes Booth. Her father's work on public presenting became the basis for Samuel Kirkham's English Grammar, which proved very influential on Abraham Lincoln. She was married to New York City poet and editor Oliver I. Taylor. Harrington was the anonymous author of Emma Bartlett, or Prejudice and Fanaticism, a fictional reply to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, intended to expose the hypocrisy of Know-Nothingism.

Harrington’s family moved to Ohio, then Kentucky, where Harrington worked as a teacher. Later, she taught in Chicago. Harrington lived in various Iowa cities, including Farmington, Keosauqua, Burlington, Ft. Madison and Keokuk. She began her writing career with the Louisville Journal, whose editor opposed secession and was an important influence in keeping Kentucky in the Union. Samuel Clemens would later recall "setting up" the type for some of her poems published in his brother's newspaper office.

In her Letters from a Prairie Cottage, Harrington included a children's corner with tales about taming and raising animals and of a cat who adopted orphan chicks. Harrington also wrote other children’s books, including a primer and a speller. Pollard's work in the field of reading represented a pioneer effort in terms of creating a sequential reading program of intensive synthetic phonics, complete with a separate teacher's manual and spelling and reading books, and moving into a broad based graded series of literature readers.

Her series is important for its high correlation of spelling and reading instruction, for its concern for the interests of children, for its incorporation of music into the process of learning to read, and as the forerunner for other phonics systems. Her readers were used in every state in the Union and were still in use in Keokuk, Iowa, as late as 1937. Few women have single-handedly contributed so much to the field of reading.

In 1869, she published a book of poems entitled Maymie, as a tribute to her ten-year-old daughter who died that year.

Emma Bartlett received mixed reviews when it was published in 1856. The Ohio Statesman gave her a very good review but the Cincinnati Times said, "We have read this book. We pronounce the plot an excellent one and the style charming, but she has failed to fulfill the intended mission of the book." It accused her of also showing prejudice and fanaticism typical of the politicians that she tried to defend.

In 1870, Harrington published In Memoriam, Maymie, April 6th, 1869, a meditation on death and suffering, written on the occasion of the death of Harrington's young daughter.

In 1876, Harrington published Centennial, and Other Poems, to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, the first official World's Fair to be held in the United States. The volume included many poems about Iowa, as well as selected poems of Harrington's father, Prof. N.R. Smith, and illustrations of the Centennial grounds in Philadelphia.

Kate Harrington, or Rebecca Harrington Smith Pollard wrote all of her life. She was 79 years old when she produced the poem, "Althea" or "Morning Glory," which relates to Iowa. She died in Ft. Madison on May 29, 1917. She was interred in Farmington, Van Buren County, Iowa.

Bibliography

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American women poets
American children's writers
1831 births
1917 deaths
Writers from Iowa
American educators
Reading skill advocates
American women children's writers


Swallowing Darkness (2008) is the seventh novel in the Merry Gentry series written by Laurell K. Hamilton.

Plot
Swallowing Darkness follows the further adventures of Princess Meredith "Merry Gentry" NicEssus. Merry has finally succeeded in getting pregnant. Having done so before her cousin Cel could impregnate one of his women, she will be able to claim the Unseelie throne from her aunt Andais as long as she successfully carries her twin babies to term and gives birth. This news makes her a target for many of the fae who are unhappy with the idea of Merry gaining the throne, forcing Merry's royal guard to become more cautious about her security. Meanwhile Merry is still reeling from the sexual attack from her uncle Taranis, King of the Seelie court, as well as with the loss of her lover Frost. To make matters worse, Taranis claims that he was the one who impregnated Merry.

Audiobook narrated by Claudia Black

Reception
Publishers Weekly praised Swallowing Darkness, stating "The dreamy development of the surrealistic fey world puts this installment well above its predecessors; a tidy ending will leave fans wondering whether it concludes the series." RT Book Reviews gave the novel 2 stars, stating that "descriptions of clothing, hair and eyes take precedence over story; random objects of power appear fortuitously; and Merry and her guards take time to process their emotions while running for their lives. Some may enjoy this volume; others may prefer something with more meat on its bones."

References

External links
 Book page on Official Laurell K. Hamilton website
 Publisher website
 https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/74325/swallowing-darkness/

2008 American novels
American horror novels
American fantasy novels
American erotic novels
American alternate history novels
Merry Gentry (series)


Juan Carlos Anangonó Campos (born March 29, 1989) is an Ecuadorian footballer currently playing for Cumbayá.

References

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1989 births
Living people
People from Ibarra, Ecuador
Ecuadorian men's footballers
C.D. El Nacional footballers
Mushuc Runa S.C. footballers
C.D. Universidad Católica del Ecuador footballers
S.D. Aucas footballers
C.D. Técnico Universitario footballers
Ecuadorian Serie A players
Footballers at the 2011 Pan American Games
Ecuadorian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina
Men's association football defenders
Pan American Games competitors for Ecuador


Nyeri Town Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of six constituencies in Nyeri County. The constituency in its current form was established for the 1988 elections, after splitting of former Nyeri Constituency into two; Tetu Constituency and Nyeri Town constituency.

Members of Parliament

Wards

References

External links
Nyeri Town Constituency

Nyeri
Constituencies in Nyeri County
Constituencies in Central Province (Kenya)
1988 establishments in Kenya
Constituencies established in 1988


Emmett Wilson Hanger Jr. (born August 2, 1948, in Staunton, Virginia) is an American politician of the Republican Party. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1983 to 1991, when he was unseated by Creigh Deeds. Since 1996 he has been a member of the Senate of Virginia, representing the 24th district. This district, located in the central Shenandoah Valley and nearby sections of the Blue Ridge Mountains, includes the independent cities of Staunton, and Waynesboro, as well as Augusta County, Greene County, Madison County, and parts of Rockingham County and Culpeper County.

Early life and career

Hanger was a former National Guard Commander and served as a Captain in the United States Army.

Political career

Virginia House of Delegates

Hanger served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1983 to 1992.

Virginia State Senate

Hanger was already elected to the State Senate for the first time in 1996. In the Senate, he is a member of the following committees: Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources; Finance; Local Government; and Rehabilitation and Social Services.

In 2018, Hanger was rated the 10th most productive state legislator in the United States by FiscalNote, a data analytics firm based out of Washington, DC. FiscalNote's methodology is based on the quantity of bills sponsored, how far each sponsored bills progresses through the legislative process, and how substantive the bill is.

Healthcare

Emmett Hanger is known for his open support of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, which he pursued for multiple budget cycles.

Due to his open support of Medicaid expansion, many organizations have taken it upon themselves to oppose Emmett Hanger. In October 2013, the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) group began, according to Hanger, “an attempt to intimidate me” in the AFP group's campaign to oppose "Obamacare" in the state of Virginia. In 2015, Emmett Hanger was challenged for the Republican nomination by Dan Moxley, former Augusta County GOP chairman and Republican activist, and Marshall Pattie, former Augusta County Democratic Committee chairman and Augusta County Board of Supervisors member from Augusta County's North River District.

In 2018, Hanger succeeded in pushing through the Medicaid expansion as part of the 2018 budget cycle with the support of a bipartisan coalition in both the House of Delegates and the State Senate. Along with governor Ralph Northam, Hanger received the "Hero in Health Care Extraordinaire" award from the Virginia Health Care Foundation.

Hanger also advocates for mental health, and has called for improving treatment resources in state mental health facilities.

Political reform

Hanger supports redistricting reform in order to combat gerrymandering. In 2019, he co-sponsored a successful bipartisan resolution alongside Senator Mamie Locke (D-Hampton). This bill, SJ 274, would create a 10-member Citizens Redistricting Commission made up of members of the general public selected by leaders in both chambers of the General Assembly as well as retired circuit court judges. This panel would be responsible for drawing the state legislative boundaries as well as Virginia's 11 Congressional districts and would be charged with ensuring that the district lines not be biased against any party or candidate, not abridge the rights of minority voters, and respect existing municipal boundaries. This bill would require a state constitutional amendment, which under Virginia law requires it to pass the General Assembly in two consecutive sessions and then be voted on in a referendum in fall 2021.

Women's rights

Hanger voted in favor of ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment during the 2020 session of the General Assembly. If enacted, the ERA would guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex.

Tax reform

Hanger supports a proposal to allow Virginia localities to impose local taxes on cigarettes. These sales taxes, which could be up to 40 cents per pack, would be levied in addition to the existing state taxes. This proposal was introduced as part of Hanger's bill allowing counties the same authority to impose taxes on meals, lodging, and admissions without requiring a referendum.

LGBT rights

In the 2020 session of the General Assembly, Hanger voted in favor of the Virginia Values Act, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected characteristics under Virginia's laws against discrimination in housing, employment and places of public accommodation.

Electoral history

2019 Virginia state elections

Hanger was challenged for his seat by Tina Freitas, the wife of incumbent Delegate Nicholas "Nick" Freitas. Freitas criticized Hanger's views on gun control, abortion, as well as his support for Medicaid expansion.

Hanger overcame the primary challenge and secured the Republican Party nomination in a June 10 vote. He went on to actually win the general election in a landslide against yoga teacher Annette Hyde, with 71% of the vote.

Awards and honors

Alongside Governor Ralph Northam, Hanger received the "Hero in Health Care Extraordinaire” from the Virginia Health Care Foundation for his work in passing the Medicaid expansion.

Hanger also received plaudits at the first inaugural unity breakfast held by Unite America's Virginia branch, Unite Virginia in 2019. Unite Virginia, a non-profit group that promotes bipartisanship and independent candidates, honored Hanger for his work in passing the Medicaid expansion as well as for advocating for redistricting and campaign finance reform. Alongside Hanger, the group honored Virginia state delegate and Hanover Republican Chris Peace as well as Democratic state delegate Sam Rasoul from Roanoke and state senator Mamie Locke from Hampton Roads.

Notes

References

Emmett Hanger: Responsible Leadership in Virginia's Senate (Constituent/campaign website)

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1948 births
Living people
Republican Party Virginia state senators
Republican Party members of the Virginia House of Delegates
James Madison University alumni
Politicians from Staunton, Virginia
21st-century American politicians


Benvenuto di Giovanni, also known as Benvenuto di Giovanni di Meo del Guasta (13 September 1436 – c. 1518) was an Italian painter and artist known for his choral miniatures, pavement designs, and frescoes. Working chiefly in Siena, he was first recognized to be working as an artist in 1453 and continued his work nearly until his death in approximately 1518. During his lifetime, he was influenced by many various artists and in the 1480s, Benvenuto's style changed drastically.

Though Benvenuto did explore into other fields of work, painting was consistently a part of his life. His son, Girolamo di Giovanni, followed in his footsteps and also became a painter. In fact, there have often been instances in which the work of one the two has been confused for that of the other. Nevertheless, Benvenuto left behind significantly more works. Some of his works were both signed and dated, some were only signed, and some were only dated. However, regardless of debate over date or authorship, Benvenuto left behind a significant number of works, both ones that are quite well known as well as others that are more minor in their distinction. His pieces that are signed, dated, and still existing have dates spanning a period of 43 years. In addition to the works that he left behind, he also left behind a legacy through the artists that he influenced during his lifetime.

Life and influences
Born to a bricklayer in Siena, Benvenuto remained there for his entire life,  only occasionally venturing to nearby cities for his work. The first records of him as an artist are of his contributions to the Siena Baptistery in 1453. His work here was likely in collaboration with il Vecchietta, as it is believed that Benvenuto was trained in his workshop. Outside of Vecchietta, Benvenuto was also likely to have worked under Sano di Pietro because they share a number of similarities stylistically.

Benvenuto was commissioned to do a number of works in the Siena Cathedral during his life that included choral miniatures, pavement designs, and frescoes. However, he was not the only artist requested to work in the cathedral; artists and painters such as Matteo di Giovanni, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, and Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi were also commissioned, or hired, for nearly the same jobs. This commonality led to Benvenuto and the other artists having a significant amount of influence upon one another's style.

Other painters that had works in the Siena Cathedral were Liberale da Verona and Girolamo da Cremona. What sets these artists apart is that it is believed that their pieces in the cathedral were what led to Benvenuto's great shift in style in the 1480s. In 1482, he was commissioned to paint Donation of the Keys to St. Peter in the Antiphonary of the Birth of St. John. It was at this time that he saw Liberale and Girolamo's recent works in the cathedral that incorporated bright colors and manipulated light. As a result of this, he began to do the same in his paintings. Additionally, not only did his style shift in this way, but he also began to experiment with the concept of spatial distortion that was common in paintings by Vecchietta and Donatello. He used a very naturalistic style for his figures, but paired them with a brightly colored and sharply lit background. The combination of his efforts to depict realistic figures, to strategically utilize colors, and to manipulate space in order to give his paintings depth led to a style that was both distinct and uniquely his. These shifts in his style can be seen in paintings such as Maestà and Ascension.

Outside of painting, Benvenuto also explored other personal endeavors. In 1466, he married Jacopa di Tommaso de Cetona. After their marriage, he served at least two terms in a public office. Together, they owned a vineyard and also had seven children. The only child that much is known about is Girolamo, as he was Benvenuto's only follower. However, Girolamo is regarded as both less gifted and less influential, largely because he only survived his father by six years.

Major works

Annunciation

It is known that Benvenuto painted at least two versions of the Annunciation. His first Annunciation is the earliest known painting by him, dated in 1466. Despite this being his first work, there was little evidence of the influence of his teacher, Vecchietta. Rather, this work was very clearly inspired by Simone Martini's 1333 painting of the same name. Many other Annunciation works by other artists during Benvenuto's lifetime used landscapes and backgrounds, but Benvenuto employed a more simple gold ground that was typical in works of the early Trecento. Benvenuto's 1466 version resides in the church of St. Girolamo in Volterra.

Benvenuto's growth as an artist is evident through comparison of his 1466 Annunciation with his 1470 version. In 1466, Benvenuto opted for a more subtle coloration in his work. However, in 1470, while many of his contemporaries still utilized softer palettes, Benvenuto chose to paint with rich, deep colors that pleased the viewer's eye. This shift in style is likely to have been inspired by two artists that were quite famous during the latter part of the Quattrocento, Girolamo da Cremona and Liberale da Verona. Additionally, Benvenuto traded in his previous flat gold background for one of detailed scenery, including lush gardens, mountains, and lakes.

Expulsion from Paradise

This painting, done by many artists, depicts Adam and Eve being cast out of the Garden of Eden by the archangel, Jophiel. However, Benvenuto's version stands out from the others because his depiction of Eden is far more realistic than that of other artists. He paints Eden as a lush green forest rather than a land full of a myriad of plants and animals. He expertly constructs the figures in a way that makes the subjects come alive through the intermingling of their arms and angling of their bodies. Most likely painted between 1480 and 1500, this exhibits Benvenuto's later style that combines realistic backgrounds and dramatic subjects.

At this time, nothing is known of this painting's provenance, or ownership, before 1921, when it became a part of the Engel-Gros Collection. In fact, even the validity of who may be the artist of this painting underwent speculation. Expulsion from Paradise is unsigned and was originally attributed to Benvenuto's son, Girolamo. The credit continued to be given to his son for quite a while, until it was also given to Cosimo Tura, and then finally to Benvenuto, which was settled upon by art historians.

Despite the credit eventually being given to Benvenuto, it is likely that this confusion arose in the first place due to their probable collaboration on the piece. Towards the end of his life, Benvenuto regularly worked with his son, which this piece seems to exhibit. The design itself appears to be Benvenuto's, but certain aspects point towards the assistance of his son. The details of the figures' faces, as well as their shaping, is in a style that is typical of Girolamo.

Minor works

The Adoration of the Magi

This theme is one that has been depicted in Italian paintings since the Middle Ages, but it became particularly popular with Sienese painters after Bartolo di Fredi created his triptych to decorate the altar of the Three Kings in the Siena Cathedral. After this creation, Bartolo's influence began to be seen in nearly every Sienese painting of the same theme, including Benvenuto's. However, the influence of other artists is evident as well. It is believed that Benvenuto's version was inspired by Gentile da Fabriano's 1423 version that was commissioned by the Church of Santa Trinità.

Benvenuto's work now resides in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., but is currently not on exhibit. The date of the painting is unknown, with estimates ranging from 1460 to 1490. The difficulty in deciphering the date largely comes from the wear on the work, with most of the original painting being now covered by retouches. Nevertheless, when compared to Bevenuto's dated pieces, many art historians are convinced that it was completed between 1470 and 1475. This conclusion is a result of the perspective of the painting, or the way in which the flat painting is made to seem three-dimensional. Much like his 1470 Annunciation, the apparent vanishing point of the painting is lower than the horizon of the background would suggest.

Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint Bernardino of Siena

Unlike many of Benvenuto's works, this one in particular has consistently been attributed to him without any confusion. Nevertheless, its date is still unclear. In most paintings of this theme, Madonna's child is held in her arms, but Benvenuto depicts him seated in front of her. The child is holding a pomegranate that is representative of both the Church and the blood of Christ. The choice to not place the child in Madonna's arms as well as the inclusion of the pomegranate are both artistic decisions that don't appear in Italian paintings until significantly after 1470, thus, the painting's date has been approximated as c. 1480/1485.

Much of the confusion with the date of this painting revolves around the fact that it doesn't quite fall into either Benvenuto's early, flat and crisp, style or his later, brightly colored and more detailed, style. It is far simpler than nearly all of his paintings, likely due to his patron's request. Recently, the first expressions of doubt of his attribution have surfaced due to this stark contrast. Nevertheless, attribution still lies in Benvenuto's hands.

The Crucifixion

Framed alongside four other of his works (Agony in the Garden, The Way to Calvary, The Resurrection, and The Descent into Limbo), this predella set of paintings details the struggles of Christ. It is believed that these paintings were created in or around 1491 due to the similarities in the landscapes of The Crucifixion and Benvenuto's 1491 Ascension. In The Crucifixion, various prominent biblical figures within this story can be seen in Benvenuto's portrayal of the event. Longinus is depicted on horseback slightly behind Christ, holding the spear that he had pierced Christ with earlier. In the bottom left corner of the painting is the Virgin, Saint John, Mary, the mother of James, the Magdalene, and the three holy women. The Virgin is the figure that is fainting and the others are the ones surrounding and supporting her.

Painting the Virgin Mary fainting is an artistic choice that was very common in fourteenth-century Sienese representations of this event. However, what was not common, was Benvenuto's choice to include the children on the hill in the upper left corner. They are, from a distance, pointing towards and spectating the cruelty that is occurring in the center of the painting. This inclusion had never been made before, thus, it exemplified Benvenuto's creativity and inventiveness.

Extant signed and dated paintings
Benvenuto has 11 signed and dated paintings that are still surviving. Their dates of creation span 43 years.

Christ in Limbo
1491
National Gallery, Washington DC

Legacy
As stated previously, Benvenuto's only known follower was his son, Girolamo. Nonetheless, it is believed that he did have influence upon other artists during his life. Specifically, works by the Sienese painter, Andrea di Niccolò, show significant evidence of Benvenuto's influence. In her dissertation, Diane Vatne details this connection, showing that Andrea and Benvenuto had a lifelong relationship, beginning with Benvenuto writing Andrea's tax returns in 1481 and continuing through Benvenuto's influence upon Andrea's work. However, it must be noted that Andrea was not a follower or student of Benvenuto, the latter's influence was a mere result of proximity, both physically and emotionally.

Benvenuto's influence is the most evident in Andrea's 1502 version of the Crucifixion. In this painting, the sharpness and intensity of the drapery, figures, and colors point directly towards the influence of Benvenuto's later style. Other works are less obviously influenced by Benvenuto, but still hold characteristics that point towards his impact upon Andrea. These characteristics are largely ones pertaining towards Benvenuto's distinct naturalistic depiction of figures, crisp backgrounds, and intentional draping of clothing that are evident in Andrea's works.

References

Further reading
 (see index; plates 69-70)

External links

1430s births
1500s deaths
15th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
16th-century Italian painters
Painters from Siena


The following is an episode list for the American television sitcom Rude Awakening, which ran from August 1, 1998 until February 15, 2001. A total of 55 episodes were produced.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1 (1998)

Season 2 (1999–2000)

Season 3 (2000–2001)

External links

 Rude Awakening at TVGuide.com
 Rude Awakening at Zap2it
  Rude Awakening at SeriesLive.com
  Rude Awakening at Fr.TVCircus.com
  Rude Awakening at Episotheque.com
 Rude Awakening Information and Episode Guide at TV.MSN.com
 Rude Awakening Information and Episode Guide at TV.Yahoo.com

Lists of American sitcom episodes

it:Episodi di Rude Awakening (terza stagione)


Natércia is a municipality in southern Minas Gerais State, Brazil.

References

Municipalities in Minas Gerais


America Athene Olivo (born January 5, 1978) is an American actress and singer best known as a member of the band Soluna, for her roles in the films Bitch Slap (2009), Friday the 13th (2009) and Maniac (2012), as well as starring in the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.

Personal life
Born in Van Nuys, California, she has dual citizenship to the United States and Canada. Olivo is the daughter of Danica d'Hondt, of Belgian and Irish descent, Miss Canada in 1959, and winemaker Nello Olivo, of Italian and Basque descent. She married actor Christian Campbell in 2009. Their first child, a daughter, was born in 2012, but died three days later due to the genetic condition Edwards syndrome. The couple had a second daughter in 2019.

Career

Music and modeling
Olivo appeared on the cover of the June 2009 issue of Playboy magazine. Inside, she appears in seven fully nude photos, shot by fashion photographer Terry Richardson.

Stage and screen
The Soluna pilot opened many doors for Olivo, allowing her the opportunity to return to her roots in the theater when she performed the lead female role in a new musical Hotel C'est L'Amour, at The Blank Theatre in Los Angeles. In 2007, Olivo was nominated for an LA Weekly Theater Award for originating the role of "Marie" in this production.

Olivo recently starred in the new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark as a swing and understudy for the lead role of "Arachne". Previews began on November 28, 2010. When Natalie Mendoza, who starred as Arachne, suffered a concussion at that first preview, Olivo played the role for several weeks in December 2010. The physically demanding role involves aerial sequences, including being spun upside-down. When Mendoza unexpectedly left the show permanently later that month, the role of Arachne went to T.V. Carpio instead of Olivo, who remained as understudy. When Carpio was injured in March 2011 and withdrew from the show for two weeks, Olivo performed the role again.  Olivo left the show on April 17, 2011, when the show closed for revisions. She did not return when performances resumed May 12.

Aside from performing on stage, she quickly became busy outside of her musical career with Soluna, appearing as a guest star in numerous television series such as House, General Hospital, The Brother's Garcia, How I Met Your Mother, Jake In Progress, Cuts, Blue Bloods, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, NCIS: Los Angeles, "Warehouse 13". Currently recurring on Degrassi: The Next Generation, Olivo continues to perform as a singer, recording original music and performing covers for films.

In 2007, Olivo completed features titled The Last Resort and Love Shack. In 2008, she was featured in the DVD release The Thirst: Blood War starring opposite Tony Todd and Jason Connery and the theatrical release Circle. Olivo's 2009 theatrical releases in leading roles are action/comedy Bitch Slap and Michael Bay's 2009 version of Friday the 13th. In February 2009, she wrapped the feature film Neighbor, where she met husband Christian Campbell. More recently she filmed the remake of Maniac starring Elijah Wood, No One Lives starring Luke Evans and Conception starring David Arquette.  Recently Olivo joined the cast of Chicago PD, a spin-off of Chicago Fire.

In 2013, Olivo and husband Christian Campbell began development of a script based on the life of Olivo's uncle, Olympic gold medal winner Walter D'Hondt.

In 2013, Olivo became the spokesperson for Baby Quest Foundation founded by Pamela Hirsch to help raise funds for medical expenses imposed on infertile couples. She had a role in the spy action film Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015).

Filmography

Notes

References

External links
America Olivo at MySpace
America Olivo at MySpace Music

America Olivo at FEARnet
Interview

1978 births
21st-century American actresses
21st-century American singers
21st-century American women singers
Actresses from Los Angeles
American film actresses
American people of Basque descent
American people of Belgian descent
American people of Canadian descent
American people of Chilean descent
American people of Irish descent
American people of Italian descent
American stage actresses
American television actresses
Best Musical or Comedy Actress Golden Globe (film) winners
Hispanic and Latino American actresses
Hispanic and Latino American musicians
Hispanic and Latino American women singers
Juilliard School alumni
Living people
People from San Fernando, California


Ian David Luder  (born 13 April 1951) was the 681st Lord Mayor of London, serving from 2008 to 2009.

Biography
Born into a Jewish family as the son of a mathematics teacher, Luder attended The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree before reading Economics and Economic History at University College London (BA). He then worked as a tax accountant for Arthur Andersen and later Grant Thornton. He regularly comments on tax matters and helped to found the Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers, and is a liveryman of the Coopers' Company. He entered local government as a Labour councillor on Bedford Borough Council, serving for 23 years from 1976 to 1999. Luder also stood for Parliament as the Labour candidate for Yeovil in 1979.

Luder was Aldermanic Sheriff of London for 2007–08 and was elected Lord Mayor on 29 September 2008, taking office in the "Silent Ceremony" on 7 November. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.

In 2008, Luder and his wife were involved in a dispute with their neighbours over the neighbours' cat. Apparently the Luders had refused their neighbours' request to stop feeding the animal, who was overweight and had a heart condition, and in fact had shut the cat in their home for 36 hours while they were away.

On 28 March 2012, Luder was announced as the new chairman of Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He took up the post on 1 July that year. Shortly after his selection in January 2015 as a UKIP candidate for the 2015 general election, Luder stood down as Trust chairman.

Politics
In December 2014, Luder was one of five people on the shortlist to become United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) candidate for the constituency of South Basildon and East Thurrock at the 2015 general election. At the initial selection meeting he was not chosen as the candidate. Shortly afterwards, the successful candidate, Kerry Smith, resigned as UKIP's nominee for the seat after he was recorded making offensive remarks about fellow party members in a telephone conversation. A new selection was held in January 2015, which Luder won. Luder contested the general election and came second, polling 12,097 votes (26.5% of the total), 7,692 votes behind the incumbent Conservative candidate, Stephen Metcalfe. Smith polled 401 votes and finished in fifth place.

References

External links
 Debrett's People of Today

1951 births
Living people
British Jews
Jewish British politicians
People educated at Haberdashers' Boys' School
Alumni of University College London
21st-century lord mayors of London
20th-century British politicians
21st-century British politicians
Sheriffs of the City of London
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates
Councillors in Bedfordshire
Labour Party (UK) councillors
UK Independence Party parliamentary candidates
Masters of the Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars


Montpellier () is a town and municipality in the Papineau Regional County Municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. The town is located  northwest of Papineauville.

The municipality includes the settlements of Montpellier and Lac-Schryer. Its western portion consists mostly of undeveloped Laurentian Hills, part of the Papineau-Labelle Wildlife Reserve.

History
In the late 19th century, pioneers arrived in the area searching for work in logging and agriculture. In 1882, in the north-west of what would later become the village, the forestry company W.C. Edwards opened a project to exploit timber at Muskrat Lake. Under the supervision of foreman, a man named Schraire, the log drivers brought logs down the creek to Lake Schryer to reach the saw mill downstream of the lake.

Settlement occurred slowly along the shores of Lake Schryer. In 1892, Louis Beaulieu, called Montpellier, settled here on a farm and opened a post office and general store. After his marriage to Albina Bissonnette, they settled in the village known as Montpellier today. Shortly after, Moses Faubert left Mulgrave Township and settled here with his sixteen children. Several other families from neighboring townships came to reside in the village, contributing to the development of the small community.

In 1900, construction began on a chapel at the village center. On 25 September 1902, the mission of Notre-Dame-de-la-Consolation was founded, and on 21 October 1907, the Archbishop of Ottawa decreed the establishment of the parish. On 23 October 1920, the Municipality of Montpellier was formed, matching the boundaries of the parish.

In 1998, the southern portion of the Lac-des-Écorces Unorganized Territory was annexed by Montpellier, adding about  and more than doubling its size.

Demographics

Mother tongue:
 English as first language: 4%
 French as first language: 92.4%
 English and French as first language: 2.7%
 Other as first language: 0.4%

Local government

Montpellier forms part of the federal electoral district of Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation and has been represented by Stéphane Lauzon of the Liberal Party since 2015. Provincially, Montpellier is part of the Papineau electoral district and is represented by Mathieu Lacombe of the Coalition Avenir Québec since 2018.

List of former mayors:

 Rhéo Faubert (2001–2005)
 Stéphane Séguin (2005–2009)
 Pierre Bernier (2009-2013)
 Stéphane Séguin (2013–present)

References

External links

Incorporated places in Outaouais
Municipalities in Quebec


WLKM may refer to:

 WLKM-FM, a radio station (95.9 FM) licensed to Three Rivers, Michigan, United States
 WRCI, a radio station (1520 AM) licensed to Three Rivers, Michigan, United States, which held the call sign WLKM until September 2008
 WLKM machine gun — Polish rotary machine gun.


The 1974 France rugby union tour of Brazil and Argentina was a series of rugby union team matches played in June 1974 by the France national team in Argentina and Brasil.

Touring party

 Manager: Laurent, Marcel
 Coach: Henry Fourès, Jean Desclaux

Forward
 Pierre Dospital,  – Prop, Dax
 Jean Iraçabal – Prop, Bayonne
 Armand Vaquerin – Prop, Béziers
 Alain Paco, hooker Béziers
 Jean-Louis Ugartemendia, hooker(St. Jean de Luz)
 Georges Senal, lock Béziers
 Jean-Pierre Bastiat, lock, Béziers
 Alain Esteve, lock Béziers.
 Francis Haget, lock Agen
 Jean-Claude Rossignol, Prop, Brive
 Christian Paul, flanker, Tarbes.
 Victor Boffelli, flanker, Agen.
 Serge Lassoujade, flanker, Agen.
 Olivier Saïsset, flanker Béziers.
 Jean-Claude Skrela, flanker, Stade toulousain

Half
 Max Barrau, scrum half, Agen.
 Jacques Fouroux, scrum half, La Voulte
 Henri Cabrol, fly-half, Béziers.
 Jean-Pierre Romeu, fly-half, Montferrand

Three-quarters
 Roland Bertranne, Roland	– center, Bagnères.
 Claude Dourthe center, Dax
 Jean-Martin Etchenique, center, Biarritz
 Jean-Pierre Lux – center/wing Dax, Dax
 Joel Pecune, center, Tarbes.
 Laurent Desnoyer, Laurent, wing, Brive
 Jean-François Gourdon, wing, Racing Club de France
 Jean-Michel Aguirre, full-back, Bagnères
 Michel Droitecourt, full-back, Montferrand

Match details
Complete list of matches played in Argentina and Brazil:
 Points scoring rules: try 4 points, conversion 2 points, penalty goal, drop goal and goal from a mark 3 points

France: 15.M.Droitecourt; 14.J.F. Gourdon, 13.R.Bertranne, 12.J.Lux, 11.L.Desnoyer; 10.J.Romeu, 9.M.Barrau (c); 7.J.Skrela, 8.O.Saisset, 6.V.Boffelli; 5.G.Senal, 4.F.Haget; 3.J.Iracabal, 2.J.Ugartemendia, 1.P.Hospital

 San Isidro Club: F. Insúa; O, Rocha, A. Orzábal; J. Rodríguez Jurado, A. Anthony; J. Carracedo, R. Lucke, M. Iglesias (capt.); M. Cutler, F. González Victorica; R. Morganti, R. Matarazzo (79' E.Martínez), M. Walther, J, Otaola; A. Rodríguez Jurado.
France:   J. Irazabal, A. Paco, A. Vaquerin; J. Bastiat, G. Senal; V. Boffelli, C. Paul (J.Rossignol); O. Saisset  (capt.); D. Fouroux, H. Cabrol; J. Pecune, R. Bertranne (C. Dourthe), J. Lux, J. Gourdon; J. Aguirre.

Cuyo: J. González, J. Crivelli, R. Fariello; A. Cat¬taneo, R. Irañeta (capt.); J. Ragazzone, J. Nasazzi, J. Navesi; L. Chacón, P. Guarrochena; M. Brandi, O. Terranova, D. Muñiz, C. Dora; J. Castro.
France:; A. Vaquerin, A. Paco, P. Dospital; J. Rossignol, F. Haget; S. Lassoujade, J. Bastiat, J. Skrela; R. Astre, J. Romeu; J. Pecune (H. Cabrol), C. Dourthe (capt.), J. Etchenique, L. Desnoyers; J. Aguirre.

Buenos Aires: M.Carluccio, F.Lafuente, O'.Carbone; C, Bottarini (R.García Fernández), J.Rodríguez jurado; J.Carracedo, R.Lucke, N. Carbone (capt.) (O.Rocha); M.Cutler, F.González Victorica; F.Villamil, E.Morgan, A.Cappelletti, R.Benyon; T. Harris Smith,
France: A.Vaquerin, J.Ugartemendía, P.Dospital; J.Senal, F, Haget; S.Lassoujade, J.Rossignol, V.Boffelli; M. Barrau (capt.), H.Cabrol; R.Bertranne, C.Dourthe, J.Etchenique, L.Desnoyers; M.Droitecourt.

First test

 Rosario: S.Furno, J.Costante, E.Pavani; J.Mangiamelli, J.Giannone; E.Mainini, M. Cuesta (capt.), V.Macat; R.Castagna, J.Escalante; G.Blanco, R. del Villar, C. Blanco Ansaldi, H.Radiculé; A.Rodríguez.
France:   J.Iracabal, J.Ugartemendía, P, Dospital; J.Bastiat, F.Haget; O.Saisset, C.Paul, S.Lassoujade; M. Barrau (cap.), J.Romeu; L.Desnoyers, J, Etchenique, R.Bertranne, J.Gourdon; J.Aguirre.

Interior:  J. Pavani (J.Viders), J.Costante, S.Fumo; J.Mangiamelli, R.Passaglia; J.Nasazzi, M. Chesta (capt.) (E.Mainini), J.Navesi; R. Castagna (64' G.Bergallo) J.Escalante; R.Tarquini, O.Terranova, L.Muñiz, C, Dora; L.Chacón
France:   P. Dospital, J. Ugartemendía, A. Vaquerin; J. Rossignol, G. Sena; S. Lassoujade, C. Paul, O. Saisset (capt.); R. Astre, J. Cabrol; L. Desnoyers, J. Etchenique, J. Lux, J. Gourdon; M.Droitecourt.

Second test

Notes

References

France tour
France national rugby union team tours of Argentina
Rugby union tours of Brazil
France national rugby union team tours
1974 in Argentine sport
tour


The BNB VIb (six-B) was a class of two branch line tank locomotives of the Bohemian Northern Railway Company (Böhmische Nordbahn-Gesellschaft) for use  on the Böhmisch Leipa-Steinschönau railway line. They later passed to the Imperial Austrian State Railways, who classified them as kkStB 265.

The two locomotives were built in Prague in 1907 by the Erste Böhmisch-Mährische Maschinenfabrik (later part of ČKD).

The locomotives spent their entire lives on their home line. In 1924 the Czechoslovakian State Railways (ČSD) grouped the engines into their ČSD Class 312.7. After the Second World War the Deutsche Reichsbahn gave them the designation DR Class 90.3.

On the introduction into service of new ČSD Class M 131.1 railcars, these locomotives were retired in 1949.

See also
 :de:Liste der Lokomotiv- und Triebwagenbaureihen der ČSD for a list of Czech locomotives. (German Wikipedia)
 Deutsche Reichsbahn
 List of DRG locomotives and railbuses

References

External links
 Description of the ČSD Class 312.7 (Czech)

0-6-2T locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1907
Standard gauge locomotives of Austria
Standard gauge locomotives of Czechoslovakia
Standard gauge locomotives of Germany
Steam locomotives of Austria


Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) is a Bangladesh-based intergovernmental organization involved in rural development and poverty alleviation. It was established on 6 July 1979 at the initiative of the countries of the Asia-Pacific region and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations with support from several other UN bodies and donors. Initially it had six members countries and has grown to fifteen.

The agency is headquartered in Chameli House, a British Raj-era mansion in front of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in Dhaka. Present director-general is Thailand's Dr. Cherdsak Virapat.

Members
Afghanistan
Bangladesh (Host State)
India
Indonesia
Iran
Laos
Malaysia
Myanmar
Nepal
Pakistan
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Vietnam
Fiji (Joined as 15th member in June 2010)
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization ) - Member Organization.

Meeting developments

First Ministerial Meeting was held in 1987
Second Ministerial Meeting on Rural Development in Asia and the Pacific was held 24–28 January 2010 in Dhaka

Events

 Regional Cooperation Crucial for Watershed Management, Seminar on CIRDAP's 31st Foundation Day, Dhaka, 6 July 2010.
 Second Ministerial Meeting on Rural Development in Asia and the Pacific, 27–28 January 2010, Dhaka
 Seventeenth Regular Meeting of the CIRDAP Governing Council (GC-17), 25 January 2010, Dhaka
 Twenty-Seventh Regular Meeting of the CIRDAP Executive Committee (EC-27), 24 January 2010, Dhaka
 Fourth Regional Policy Dialogue on Sustainable Rural Livelihoods, 26 January 2010, CIRDAP, Dhaka
 Initiation of the ICT Centre at the CIRDAP International Conference (ICC), 26 January 2010, CIRDAP, Dhaka
 Training-cum-Exposure visit on Micro-Finance in Bangladesh for Indian Officials, 05-12 February 2010 (STST.56), Dhaka
 Twenty Fifth Meeting of CIRDAP Technical Committee (TC-25), 26–29 July 2009, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
 Policy Dialogue on Success Story of Malaysia on Rural Transformation and Poverty Reduction, 27–30, April 2009, Langkawi, Malaysia.
 Ministerial Retreat for Rural Development Ministers of CIRDAP Member Countries

Objective

 To assist national action and promote regional co-operation relating to Integrated Rural Development (IRD), in the region
 To act as a servicing institution for its member states
 To encourage joint collective activities to benefit the member countries both individually and collectively
 To poverty alleviation through people's participation in the development process.

External links
Official site

References

Intergovernmental organizations
Non-profit organisations based in Bangladesh
Development organizations
Organizations established in 1979
Community development organizations