The districts of Bangladesh are divided into subdistricts called Upazila Parishad (UZP), or Thana (Bengali উপজেলা ''oopojela''). Upazilas are similar to the county subdivisions found in some Western countries.
Bangladesh, at present, has 500 upazilas and 509 administrative thanas. The upazilas are the second lowest tier of regional administration in Bangladesh. The administrative structure consists in fact in Divisions (7), Districts (64), Upazila/Thana and Union Porishods (UPs). This system of devolution was introduced by the former military ruler and President of Bangladesh Lieutenant General Hossain Mohammad Ershad in an attempt to strengthen local government.
Below UPs, villages (''Graam'') and ''Paara'' exist, but these have no administrative power and elected members. The Local Government Ordinance of 1982 was amended a year later, redesignating and upgrading the existing ''thanas'' as ''upazilas''.
There is a non-elected administrative Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) [ Bangla: উপজেলা নির্বাহী কর্মকর্তা or Upazila Executive Officer] in each Upazila. UNOs are Senior Assistant Secretary of Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS). They act as executive officer of the upazila under the elected posts.
The last election of Upazila Porishod held in 22 January 2010 after around 20 years.
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In late 1941, after Tex Avery left, he was replaced as the unit director by Bob Clampett. Scribner turned out to be arguably Clampett's best animator. Clampett classics such as ''A Tale of Two Kitties'' (1942), ''Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs'' (1943), ''Falling Hare'' (1943), and ''The Great Piggy Bank Robbery'' (1946) showcase some of his greatest work: his trademark "Lichty style" of animation. Clampett left Warner Bros. in 1945 to pursue a career in puppetry and television. Not much is known about where Scribner was between 1946-1949 (although he does some animation on two McKimson cartoons starring Porky and Daffy in 1947). In 1950, Scribner returned to Warner Bros. under Robert McKimson's unit. His animation was tamed down to McKimson's standards, but he still got away with wild scenes, like in ''Hillbilly Hare'' (1950), ''Hoppy Go Lucky'' (1952) and ''Of Rice and Hen'' (1953). He left Warners in 1954 and worked at UPA. In his later years, Scribner worked with former colleague Bill Melendez on various Charlie Brown movies and television specials.
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birth name | Patricia Anne Boyd |
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birth date | March 17, 1944 |
birth place | Taunton, Somerset, England |
haircolour | Golden Flax |
eyecolour | Cornflower Blue |
yearsactive | 1959 – present |
occupation | Model |
spouse | George Harrison (m. 1966–1977) (divorced)Eric Clapton (m. 1979–1989) (divorced) }} |
Patricia Anne Boyd (born 17 March 1944) is an English model and photographer, and the former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton. She was the inspiration for songs written by both musicians: Harrison's "Something", "I Need You", "For You Blue" and "Isn't It a Pity", and Clapton's "Layla", "Wonderful Tonight" and "Bell Bottom Blues".
Boyd started her modelling career in 1962, but was rejected by many photographers owing to her unconventional looks, including rather prominent front teeth, with one saying, "Models don't look like rabbits." Despite this, she modelled in London, New York, and Paris (for Mary Quant and others), and was photographed by David Bailey, and Terence Donovan.
An exhibition of photographs taken by Boyd during her relationships with Harrison and Clapton opened at the San Francisco, California San Francisco Art Exchange on February 14, 2005, titled ''Through the Eye of a Muse''. The exhibition also ran again in San Francisco in February 2006, and for six weeks between June and July 2006, in London.
Boyd attended Hazeldean School, Putney, and the St Agnes and St Michael Convent Boarding School, East Grinstead as well as St Martha's Convent, Hadley Wood, Hertfordshire, which she left with 3 GCE O level passes in 1961. She moved to London in 1962, first working at Elizabeth Arden's as a shampoo girl. A client who worked for a fashion magazine asked her if she had thought of modelling as a career.
Boyd modelled in London, New York, and Paris (for Mary Quant), and was photographed by David Bailey and Terence Donovan. She appeared on covers of the UK and Italian editions of ''Vogue'' in 1969. After becoming George Harrison's girlfriend, Boyd was asked by Gloria Stavers to write a regular column for ''16 Magazine''. Twiggy, the popular 1960s model, commented that she based her own look on Boyd when starting her modelling career in 1966.
Boyd was present, along with Harrison, John and Cynthia Lennon, during their first encounter with LSD, a medical acid, in early 1965. A dentist, John Riley, the son of a London police officer, laced their coffee with it. The four of them were furious and left extremely scared. In an agitated state, Boyd threatened to break a store window until Harrison dragged her away.
Harrison and Boyd were driving through London in December 1965 when he proposed marriage to her, but said he would have to talk to Epstein first, to make sure no tours had been planned. Boyd married Harrison on 21 January 1966, in a ceremony at the then Registry Office, Upper High Street, in Esher, Surrey, with Paul McCartney (Best Man) and Epstein (sharing Best Man duties with Paul) in attendance. John Lennon and Ringo Starr had gone on holiday abroad with their wives, distracting journalists from finding out about the wedding. Boyd had started living with George at Kinfauns in 1965. Boyd and Harrison later went on holiday with Epstein, staying at the Hotel Cap Estel, near Eze, in the south of France.
While Lennon was in Spain filming ''How I Won the War'' in September 1966, Harrison and Boyd flew to Bombay as guests of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, and returned to London on 23 October 1966. Through her interest in Eastern mysticism and her membership in the Spiritual Regeneration Movement, she inspired all four Beatles to meet the Indian mystic Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in London on 24 August 1967, which resulted in a visit to Bangor, Gwynedd, to join him again in the following day. Boyd attended the ''Our World'' broadcast of "All You Need Is Love", which was shown on 25 June 1967. She accompanied Harrison, with the other Beatles, on their visit to the Maharishi's ashram in Rishikesh, India in 1968.
In 1984, whilst they were still married, Clapton began a year-long relationship with Yvonne Kelly; they had a daughter, Ruth, born in January 1985. Clapton and Kelly did not make any public announcement about the birth of their daughter, and Ruth was not revealed as his child until 1991, at the funeral of his son Conor. Boyd says that she did not know of Ruth's existence until 1991: "What cut deepest was that Eric had known about the child all along. While declaring undying love to me and pleading with me to go back to him, he had been paying Yvonne maintenance for the past six years."
Boyd states that she divorced Clapton after years of alcoholism as well as numerous affairs on his part, which began before their marriage. Clapton and Boyd divorced in 1989, following his affair with Italian model Lory Del Santo, who had given birth to his son, Conor, in August 1986. Boyd herself has never been able to conceive children, despite attempts at in vitro fertilisation. Boyd and Clapton's divorce was granted on the grounds of "infidelity and unreasonable behaviour".
On 7 September 1976, Clapton wrote "Wonderful Tonight" for Boyd while waiting for her to get ready to attend Paul and Linda McCartney's annual Buddy Holly party. Talking about the song, Boyd says: "For years it tore at me. To have inspired Eric, and George before him, to write such music was so flattering. 'Wonderful Tonight' was the most poignant reminder of all that was good in our relationship, and when things went wrong it was torture to hear it."
Boyd's autobiography''Wonderful Today: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me'', was published in England on 23 August 2007, by Hodder Headline Review and in the U.S. (as ''Wonderful Tonight'') on 28 August 2007, by Harmony Books, includes her own photographs and was written with a £950,000 ($2.2 million) advance. It was co-written with journalist Penny Junor.
In 2008, Boyd was living in a 17th-century cottage in West Sussex, and was said to be enjoying the prospect of her autobiography competing head-to-head with Clapton's own autobiography. In the United States, Boyd's book debuted at the top of the New York Times Best Seller list. Boyd has exhibited photographs taken during her days with Harrison and Clapton, from ''Through the Eyes of a Muse'', at Gallery Number One, in Dublin, in August and September 2008, and in Toronto, Canada in November and December 2008, at the Great Hall. "Through the Eyes of a Muse" was also exhibited in December 2009 at the Blender Gallery in Sydney, Australia, in May 2009, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and from 28 December 2009 to 10 January 2010 at Lancaster Great House in Barbados.
In July 2011, she exhibited her photographs at Santa Catalina Island in southern California. The exhibit was titled "Yesterday and Today: The Beatles and Eric Clapton as Photographed by Pattie Boyd." In July and August, 2011, she exhibited her photographs in Moscow.
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In 1900, after a year of military service, Dufy won a scholarship to the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where again he crossed paths with Othon Friesz. (He was there when Georges Braque also was studying.) He concentrated on improving his drawing skills. The impressionist landscape painters, such as Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, influenced Dufy profoundly. His first exhibition (at the Exhibition of French Artists) took place in 1901. Introduced to Berthe Weill in 1902, Dufy showed his work in her gallery. Then he exhibited again in 1903 at the Salon des Independants. A boost to his confidence: the painter, Maurice Denis, bought one of his paintings. Dufy continued to paint, often in the vicinity of Le Havre, and, in particular, on the beach at Sainte-Adresse, made famous by Eugene Boudin and Claude Monet. In 1904, with his friend, Albert Marquet, he worked in Fecamp on the English Channel (La Manche).
Henri Matisse's ''Luxe, Calme et Volupté'', which Dufy saw at the Salon des Indépendants in 1905, was a revelation to the young artist, and it directed his interests towards Fauvism. ''Les Fauves'' (the wild beasts) emphasized bright color and bold contours in their work. Dufy’s painting reflected this aesthetic until about 1909, when contact with the work of Paul Cézanne led him to adopt a somewhat subtler technique. It was not until 1920, however, after he had flirted briefly with yet another style, cubism, that Dufy developed his own distinctive approach. It involved skeletal structures, arranged with foreshortened perspective, and the use of thin washes of color applied quickly, in a manner that came to be known as ''stenographic''.
Dufy's cheerful oils and watercolors depict events of the time period, including yachting scenes, sparkling views of the French Riviera, chic parties, and musical events. The optimistic, fashionably decorative, and illustrative nature of much of his work has meant that his output has been less highly-valued critically than the works of artists who have addressed a wider range of social concerns.
Dufy completed one of the largest paintings ever contemplated, a huge and immensely popular ode to electricity, the fresco ''La Fée Electricité'' for the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris.
Dufy also acquired a reputation as an illustrator and as a commercial artist. He changed the face of local fashion and fabric design with his work for Paul Poiret. He painted murals for public buildings; he also produced a huge number of tapestries and ceramic designs. His plates appear in books by Guillaume Apollinaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, and André Gide.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s Dufy exhibited at the annual Salon des Tuileries in Paris. Dufy died at Forcalquier, France, on 23 March 1953, and he was buried near Matisse in the Cimiez Monastery Cemetery in Cimiez, a suburb of the city of Nice.
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