Verticordia pennigera, commonly known as native tea, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is usually a small erect or prostrate shrub with small leaves and lightly-scented spikes of pale pink to magenta-coloured flowers in spring.

Description
Verticordia pennigera is a shrub, often with a spreading habit, which grows to  high and  wide and which has several main stems with many short, leafy side-branches. The leaves are linear to oblong,  long and have a covering of fine hairs.

The flowers are lightly scented and arranged in spike-like groups, each flower on a stalk,  long. The floral cup is top-shaped,  long, glabrous, slightly warty and has two small green appendages. The sepals are pale pink to magenta-coloured,  long, with 5 or 6 hairy lobes and two small ear-like appendages on the sides. The petals are similar in colour to the sepals,  long and erect with short, coarse teeth along their top edge. The style is  long and hairy near the tip. Flowering time is from September to December.

Taxonomy and naming
Verticordia pennigera was first formally described in 1837 by Stephan Endlicher from a specimen collected near the Swan River by Charles von Hügel. The description was published in Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel. In his review of the genus Verticordia in 1991, Alex George selected a lectotype from the collections of James Drummond. The specific epithet (pennigera) is derived from a Latin word meaning "feather-bearer".

George placed this species in subgenus Eperephes, section Verticordella along with V. halophila, V. blepharophylla, V. lindleyi, V. carinata, V. attenuata, V. drummondii, V. wonganensis, V. paludosa, V. luteola, V. bifimbriata, V. tumida, V. mitodes, V. centipeda, V. auriculata, V. pholidophylla, V. spicata and V. hughanii.

Distribution and habitat
This verticordia usually grows in soils that are sandy or clay types and which are frequently gravelly or granitic. It occurs in a broad area from Kalbarri National Park to the Bremer River area in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions.

Conservation
Verticordia halophila is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.

Use in horticulture
There is a wide variety of forms of native tea in cultivation, from open shrubs with rigid stems to prostrate, bushy forms. There is also some variation in the size and colour of the flowers. Propagation is usually from cuttings. Some forms adapt well to winter rainfall areas but all do best when grown in a sunny position in well-drained soil.

References

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Endemic flora of Western Australia
Myrtales of Australia
Rosids of Western Australia
Plants described in 1837
Taxa named by Stephan Endlicher


Gordon Foxley was Director of Ammunition Procurement at the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence from 1981 to 1984. He was convicted on 12 counts of corruption in 1993 after he took bribes from arms manufacturers to set up defence contracts. A 1995 MoD report "Ministry of Defence: Fraud in Defence Procurement" concludes that Gordon Foxley's case is one of the worst cases of corruption that has come before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

MoD fraud

Conviction
Gordon Richmond Foxley had been Director of Ammunition Procurement in the Ministry of Defence for 20 years when he was wrapped up in a corruption case led by the Ministry of Defence Police Fraud Squad. In 1996, Mr Foxley was sentenced to four years in prison for receiving bribes of £1.3 million with Police estimating he received at least £3.5 million in total. However, police have always stated that their beliefs were only based on circumstantial evidence based upon the size and location of Foxley's house and the number of cars in the driveway. In 1995 Jack Straw said: "I have always maintained he was charged only in respect of a small number of the bribes he took. " Foxley served only two years of his four-year sentence in Ford Open Prison. His sentence had included a further three years in jail if he failed to hand over £1.5 million within 18 months, however this was never enforced, and Foxley was never sent back to prison. In 1996, the MoD secretly received £4.6 million in monies recovered as punitive payments (in place of industrial blacklisting) from the overseas companies cited as paying Foxley, none of which were declared publicly. These payments only came to light when the MoD was forced to disclose them under a successful "Strike Out" action brought in the High Court in 2008.

Bribes
Foxley was charged with receiving £1.6 million, with Police further estimating he received at least £3.5m in total in corrupt payments and substantial bribes from overseas arms contractors aiming to influence the allocation of contracts for fuses and ammunition, which he funnelled to Swiss bank accounts through three "front" companies. The exact amount received  is not clear, but the National Audit Office report shows that his English bank account received credits to the tune of £3.5 million between 1982 and 1990, but most of it could not be accounted for after his son Paul burnt the records. Paul was jailed for six months for this.

The Chief of Defence Procurement, Dr M McIntosh, admitted to the Committee of Public Accounts, referenced in the proceedings of the Committee of Public Accounts, Forty Sixth Report, dated 1 November 1995, that the MoD had not sustained any loss through the actions of Gordon Foxley, but rather that “ the Department had in their view done well”.  The Chief of Defence Procurement (CDP), Ministry of Defence, admitted to the Committee of Public Accounts, referenced in the proceedings of the Committee of Public Accounts, Forty Sixth Report, dated 1 November 1995, that “the Department have taken action against the three companies to recover the corrupt payments”. This resulted in the payments of 4.6M which exceeded the grossest estimation of corrupt payments made to Foxley. Thus, the Ministry of Defence can reasonably be stated to have made a handsome profit out of the proceedings.

Some 12 contracts worth £33 million were cited in the criminal charges against Foxley, involving companies in Germany, Italy and Norway - Fratelli Borletti in Italy, Gebruder Junghans in Germany, and Raufoss of Norway. There have been no charges, trials or convictions relating to that corruption in any of those countries.

The MoD responded by banning officials from accepting trips to the opera, free tickets to Wimbledon and Ascot, and days' shooting.

A 1994 estimate of the total cost of his corruption included almost £30 million in losses to a Blackburn factory that could have won the contract, including the loss of hundreds of jobs. Jack Dromey, then deputy general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, called him "an obscene product of his times".

Recuperation
In 1993, he was ordered by the judge to pay £1.5 million back to the MoD that had been used to buy his family eight properties, which excluded his home which had been transferred into his wife's name before he was charged. The CPS Crown Prosecution Service delayed enforcing it for 11 years, derived from the satisfaction of the Treasury at the receipt of £4.6 million which far exceeded the original estimates claimed. The judge ruled a fair trial of the issues was impossible after such a long delay. and stated that "His Honour Justice McCombe, and the MoD, believe that the claim was fulfilled with the payments by the arms companies in 1996 and 1997".

The trustee in bankruptcy had got £453,000 for the MoD from Foxley's wife for her husband's share of the house. The MoD also collected £85,000 from a flat in Switzerland, £35,000 from a joint bank account with his wife and £17,000 from the sale of a property in the name of one of Foxley's daughters and her husband. In 1997 the MoD  took civil action against the three foreign arms companies, which paid £3.39 million in an out of court settlement.  The Trustee in bankruptcy seized all banks accounts at the time of Foxley's arrest and has subsequently admitted that the seizure of Joint Bank Accounts in the name and use of Foxley and his wife was an illegal and unjustifiable act for which a payment in recompense has been made.

The judge said that from 1997, when the civil action against the foreign companies was settled, until 2005, "nothing whatsoever" had been done to try to make Foxley pay up. His Honour Justice McCombe was also most dismissive of the actions of the MoD and CPS in following up the case over he intervening years: “I also take with a pinch of salt protestations of “public interest” in a case when those charged with guarding that interest have shown as little enthusiasm in their duties in that regard as the CPS and MoD have done in this case. Interest only revived when the “task force” referred to by Mr Grist, resolved that something should be done to resuscitate the dead, among cases of this type generally.” All further actions against Mr Foxley which were requested by MoD and CPS, some 20 years following Foxley's initial arrest, were ordered to be struck off forthwith.

Captain Andrew Foxley
MP Mike Hall stated in a parliamentary debate: “Foxley's son, Captain Andrew Foxley--a serving Army officer--was found in possession of documents that he was passing on to his father. They contained information on commercial matters that would have been beneficial to Gordon Foxley's corrupt activities. Captain Foxley was not dismissed from the service.”
In fact MP Mike Hall was erroneous in his statement and it transpired that Captain Foxley had passed a humorous note to his father which was found during the search of Foxley's home office, but because it was written on an MoD memorandum sheet, and because Captain Foxley had been Aide de Camp (ADC) to the Master General of the Ordnance, it was assumed that he had been passing inside commercial information to his father. Note: An ADC is an administrative appointment filled by a junior officer to relieve a senior officer of the burden of arranging social / administrative arrangements.  A Military Assistant (MA) assists with operational matters. An Army Board of Inquiry cleared Captain Foxley of these accusations and he subsequently went on to serve with distinction on active service, sustaining wounds on operations in Northern Ireland.

European Court of Human Rights victory
On 21 June 2000, Gordon Foxley, then 75, won a case against the Government at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The Government was ordered to pay £6,000 in costs and expenses to Mr Foxley for violating article eight of the Convention on Human Rights when 71 of Foxley's letters were opened and copied by a bankruptcy trustee, including letters from Mr Foxley's legal advisers. Foxley's mail and other communications were 'intercepted' during the investigation - although details were not made public and a copy of the Home Office order authorising such actions has never been admitted or made public. However, an investigation into the actions of the MoD Police and supporting Government agencies in intercepting his communications and those of the other members of his family was conducted by the Police Complaints Authority in 1989 and declared to be of 'operational interest' and thus not for public exposure at the time. A county court had granted permission for all Foxley's post to be redirected to the bankruptcy trustee for three months, so his assets and creditors could be determined; however, the government  breached the 3-month period.

Lieutenant Colonel Ian Foxley
In December 2010, another of Gordon Foxley's sons, Lieutenant Colonel Ian Foxley, made allegations of corruption against the Executive Directors of GPT Special Project Management Ltd, a subsidiary of the Airbus Group, with the Saudi Arabian National Guard Communications (SANGCOM) Project for which he was the Programme Director. In a quirk of fate, Foxley further alleged that the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) and United Kingdom Trade and Investment Defence Security Organisation (UKTI DSO) who processed the payments to accounts in the Cayman Islands through an MoD bank account with HSBC, could not have been unaware of the dubious nature of these payments. On 7 August 2012, the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) initiated a criminal investigation. Private Eye independently investigated the allegations and found a history of payments from SANGCOM Prime Contractors to a succession of offshore accounts since the beginning of the project in 1978. The Private Eye special report (Private Eye Issue 1375) 'Shady Arabia and the Desert Fix' was joint winner of the Paul Foot Award for Investigative Journalism in 2015. An outcome to the SFO investigation is awaited.

Media
In 1995, Modern Times: Open Prison, documented Foxley's genteel conditions in Ford Open Prison.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Civil servants in the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
Corruption in the United Kingdom


A sod roof, or turf roof, is a traditional Scandinavian type of green roof covered with sod on top of several layers of birch bark on gently sloping wooden roof boards. Until the late 19th century, it was the most common roof on rural log houses in Norway and large parts of the rest of Scandinavia. Its distribution roughly corresponds to the distribution of the log building technique in the vernacular architecture of Finland and the Scandinavian peninsula. The load of approximately 250 kg per m2 of a sod roof is an advantage because it helps to compress the logs and make the walls more draught-proof. In winter the total load may well increase to 400 or 500 kg per m2 because of snow. Sod is also a reasonably efficient insulator in a cold climate. The birch bark underneath ensures that the roof will be waterproof.

The term ‘sod roof’ is somewhat misleading, as the active, water-tight element of the roof is birch bark. The main purpose of the sod is to hold the birch bark in place. The roof might just as well have been called a "birch bark roof", but its grassy outward appearance is the reason for its name in Scandinavian languages: Norwegian and Swedish torvtak, Icelandic torfþak.

A sod roof is well suited to the dynamics of a barter economy because the materials are ubiquitous and cost nothing, although the work is labour-intensive. However, a typical household in the era that sod roofs were most common would usually have a lot of people to do the work, and neighbours would typically be invited to take part in the roofing party, similar to a barn raising in the United States. The Norwegian term dugnad denotes an established custom, where large undertakings were accomplished with help from the community.

History

Roofs in Scandinavia have probably been covered with birch bark and sod since prehistory. During the Viking and Middle Ages most houses had sod roofs. Churches and other buildings with steeper roofs were covered with boards, wood shingles, or lead.

In rural areas sod roofs were almost universal until the beginning of the 18th century. Tile roofs, which appeared much earlier in towns and on rural manors, gradually superseded sod roofs except in remote inland areas during the 19th century. Corrugated iron and other industrial materials also became a threat to ancient traditions. But just before extinction, the national romantics proclaimed a revival of vernacular traditions, including sod roofs. A new market was opened by the demand for mountain lodges and holiday homes. At the same time, open-air museums and the preservation movement created a reservation for ancient building traditions.

From these reservations, sod roofs have begun to reappear as an alternative to modern materials. The more recent idea of the green roof is developed independently from the traditional sod roof, but could benefit from the experience gathered during hundreds of years in Scandinavia.

Birch bark

Birch bark is eminently suitable as a roof covering because it is strong, water-resistant and soil-resistant enough to last for generations, although 30 years was considered the normal lifespan of a sod roof in most places. Birch is common everywhere in Northern Europe, and its bark is easily stripped from the trunk in spring or early summer, while the sap is running. One incision with a knife lengthwise down the trunk between two branches will produce a correspondingly wide sheet, its length equal to the circumference. The outer, flaky (white) bark is pried loose from the inner (green or brown) layer, the bast. Removing the bast will cause the tree to die, but removing the outer bark will not harm the tree, although the scar will remain for many years. A new, coarser bark will replace the stripped bark.

The sheets of bark must be stored flat under pressure to prevent curling. Left alone, a sheet will curl up into a tight roll, in the opposite direction of the natural curve of the trunk.

The bark is laid inside up directly onto the roof boards without any nails or other means of fastening. On roughly hewn or sawn roof boards, the friction alone will hold the layers of birch bark in place. They must, however, be weighted down with a heavier material to prevent them from curling or blowing away. Planks of split logs have been used, but sod has an additional advantage because it is a far better insulator.

Bark sheets were laid from the eaves upward, overlapping like shingles, and straddling the ridge. 6 layers of birch bark were considered adequate, but up to 16 layers have been recorded in roofs of high quality. The first layers project about 8 cm along the eaves, where they will curve down around the edge of the outer board to form a throating. Extra long sheets will straddle the roof ridge.

Sod

Sod or turf for roofing was cut from good pasture land, preferably with sandy soil. A naturally grown grass with a deep root system was desirable. The turf was cut into portable pieces, each about one foot (30 cm) square and about 3 inches (7.5 cm) thick, half the thickness of the finished covering. It was hoisted or carried up on the roof, or on a scaffolding.

Pieces of sod must be laid out immediately after the birch bark, to keep it in place. For this reason, the process must be carefully coordinated. Two workers will usually cooperate on the same strip of the roof, wide enough to be comfortably within reach. One will lay out the bark, the other will put sod on top.

The first layer of sod was traditionally placed with the grass down, as the wilted grass would protect the bark from acidic humus and act as a drain. The grass of the second layer faced upwards to establish a solid surface. Grass roots would eventually permeate the bottom layer to create one solid structure. The finished roof would in time look just like a flower-studded meadow.

A total thickness of about 15 cm is enough to make the sod survive a dry summer. More than 20 cm is superfluous, and the weight would be excessive. If the sod is too shallow, a severe drought will kill the vegetation, causing erosion and soil creep. Most of Scandinavia has enough precipitation to let an established root system survive an occasional dry spell. In very dry areas, it was customary to cultivate certain drought resistant plants - notably Rhodiola rosea, Allium fistulosum and Sempervivum tectorum.

Sod support along the eaves and verges

To stay in place, the sod must be supported by strong beams along the eaves. These logs or beams (Norwegian: torvvol) come in a variety of shapes and sizes, depending on the quality and status of the building, and on local tradition. An equivalent English term would be turf log.

The most common turf log is an undressed fir log 5 to 6 inches across. Also fairly common are squared timbers of similar size. In some districts planks raised on edge were used. Other traditions called for a more elaborate cross section with the appearance of a fascia, approaching "real" architecture.

The turf log was fastened to the roof boards and underlying rafters with naturally grown wooden hooks, preferably from durable juniper. The hooks were fastened with wooden pegs and covered by additional sheets of birch bark. Turf logs are also known to have been held in place by rafters hewn from logs with one root branch left to form a bracket. This method made for extremely cumbersome maintenance. When the brackets disintegrated, one would have to tear up the whole roof to renew all the rafters. A more refined fastening device was the kolv, an elaborately shaped stick of wood, around 60 cm long, pegged to the roof and extended through a hole in the turf log. Its wider protruding head would hold the log in place.

Erosion at the verges was in some districts prevented by means of similar logs, sometimes joined crosswise at the gable top. More common was a row of rocks gathered from the fields. Verge boards were not a feature of ancient log buildings with sod roofs, but were introduced during the 17th and 18th centuries through influence from urban architecture with tile roofs.

Modern turf roofs

In modern turf roof construction, bitumen roofing felt combined with dimpled plastic drainage membranes are usually used in place of birch bark. Bitumen roofing felt is nailed to the sarking and a dimpled cavity drainage membrane is laid over the top (dimples face down) to form a drainage layer. The turf is then laid over this drainage layer. Turf roofs are still widely used on newly built cabins in Norway.

See also
 Sod house
 Vernacular architecture

Notes

References
 Berg, Arne: Norske tømmerhus frå mellomalderen. Landbruksforlaget, Oslo 1989, Volume I, pp. 70–73.
 Byggforskserien, Byggdetaljer 544.803. Norges byggforskningsinstitutt, Oslo 1996.
 Drange, Tore; Hans Olaf Aanensen og Jon Brænne: Gamle Trehus - Historikk, reparasjon og vedlikehold. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo 1992, p. 93-99.
 Gjone, Erling: Utdrag av forelesninger i Byggekunst V. Arkitektavdelingen NTH, Trondheim c. 1960
 Hjelmeland, Britt-Alise: Husbygging langs kyst og fjord 1850-1950. UiO, Oslo 1993, pp. 100–113, 159.
 Melheim, Anders: Um floraen på hustak i Hornindal. Hovedoppgave i botanikk, UiO, Oslo 1933.
 Meyer, Johan: Fortids kunst i norske bygder. Kunstindustrimuseet i Oslo, Forum forlag 1987.
 Nicolaysen, Nicolay: Kunst og Haandverk fra Norges Fortid, Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments, Kristiania 1881–1890. 1. Række.
 Nordhagen, Rolf: «Taklauk og fjellkaur». In: Olsen, Magnus (Ed.) Maal og minne - norske studier. Bymaals-lagets forlag, Oslo 1934, pp. 101–127.
 Paulsrud, Geir: Fjos i Fron frå omkring 1750 og fram til 1980-åra. Magistergradsavhandling i etnologi, UiO, Oslo 1984, p. 112.
 Uppstad, Torjus: Taktekkjing med never og torv. Valle Laftebygg, Valle i Setesdal 1990.
 Vreim, Halvor: Laftehus - tømring og torvtekking. Noregs Boklag, Oslo 1966, pp. 64–75.

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Sestā grupa (Sixth Group) is the most northern district of Liepāja, located near Karosta and Tosmare.

History
On the present territory of the district in the second half of 20th century was located USSR military warehouses - sixth group of rear supply of Baltic Fleet, which gives the name to this area of the city. From 1997 the district is located on the territory of Liepaja Special Economic Zone, but is mostly uninhabited and are not built up, because of the lack of infrastructure, which was dismantled after withdrawal of Russian army from Liepāja in 1994.

References

Neighbourhoods in Liepāja


The Canton of Le Carbet is a former canton in the Arrondissement of Saint-Pierre on Martinique. It had 5,617 inhabitants (2012). It was disbanded in 2015. The canton comprised the communes of Le Carbet and Le Morne-Vert.

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Claude-Adrien Nonnotte (born in Besançon, 29 July 1711; died there, 3 September 1793) was a French Jesuit controversialist, best known for his writings against Voltaire.

At nineteen he entered the Society of Jesus and preached at Amiens, Versailles, and Turin. When Voltaire began to issue his Essai sur les moeurs (1754), which the Catholic Church considered an attack on Christianity, Nonnotte published, anonymously, the Examen critique ou Réfutation du livre des moeurs; and when Voltaire finished his publication (1758), Nonnotte revised his book, which he published at Avignon (2 vols., 1762). He dealt with what he saw as historical and doctrinal errors contained in Voltaire's work. Nonnotte's work reached the sixth edition in 1774. Voltaire retorted in his Eclaircissements historiques, and the back and forth attacks continued for twenty years.

Nonnotte's publication continued to circulate, and was translated into Italian, German, Polish, and Portuguese. After the suppression of the Jesuits by king Louis XV, Nonnotte withdrew to Besançon. In 1779 he added a third volume to the Erreurs de Voltaire, namely, L'esprit de Voltaire dans ses écrits, for which he could not obtain the approval of the Paris censor. Against the Dictionnaire philosophique, in which Voltaire had recapitulated all his attacks on Christianity, Nonnotte published the Dictionnaire philosophique de la religion (Avignon, 1772), in which he replied to all the objections then brought against religion. The work was translated into Italian and German.

Towards the end of his life Nonnotte published Les philosophes des trois premiers siècles (Paris, 1789), in which he contrasted the ancient and the modern philosophers. The work was translated into German. He also wrote Lettre à un ami sur les honnêtetés littéraires (Paris, 1766), and Réponse aux Éclaircissements historiques et aux additions de Voltaire (Paris, 1774). These publications obtained for their author a eulogistic Brief from Pope Clement XIII (1768), and the congratulations of St. Alphonsus Liguori. The latter declared that he had always at hand his "golden works" in which the chief truths of the Faith were defended with learning and propriety against the objections of Voltaire and his friends. Nonnotte was also the author of L'emploi de l'argent (Avignon, 1787), translated from Maffei; Le gouvernement des paroisses (posthumous, Paris, 1802). All were published under the title Oeuvres de Nonnotte (Besançon, 1819).

Works
 1757: Examen critique ou Réfutation du livre des moeurs
 1762: The Errors of Voltaire
 1766: Lettre à un ami sur les honnêtetés littéraires
 1772: Philosophic Dictionary of Religion
 1774: Réponse aux Éclaircissements historiques et aux additions de Voltaire
 1779: The Spirit of Voltaire as shown by his writings
 1787: L'emploi de l'argent
Le gouvernement des paroisses, 1802 édition posthume
Les philosophes des trois premiers siècles de l'église, Gauthier, Besançon, 1819 édition posthume
Les erreurs de Voltaire, nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée, augmentée, avec la réponse aux éclaircissements historiques et aux additions de Voltaire, Compagnie des libraires, Amsterdam,1766, in-8°, (2),48, 536, (4),(2), 475 et (2) S.

References
 cites:
Sommervogel, Bib. de la C. de Jesus (Paris, 1894), V, 1803-7; IX, 722.

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1793 deaths
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The Canton of Case-Pilote-Bellefontaine is a former canton in the Arrondissement of Saint-Pierre on Martinique. It had 5,977 inhabitants (2012). It was disbanded in 2015. The canton comprised the communes of Case-Pilote and Bellefontaine.

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The Canton of Le Morne-Rouge is a former canton in the Arrondissement of Saint-Pierre on Martinique. It had 5,003 inhabitants (2012). It was disbanded in 2015. The canton comprised the commune of Le Morne-Rouge.

References

Cantons of Martinique


General Guido is a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the administrative headquarters for General Guido Partido.

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Juan Gilberto Núñez Castillo (; born 26 March 1986) is a Colombian footballer who plays for Deportivo Pereira in the Categoría Primera B. He can play as a midfielder or striker.

Club career
On 14 July 2015, he completed a move to China with Harbin Yiteng F.C.

International career
Núñez played with the Colombia national under-17 football team at the 2003 South American Youth Championship, which Colombia hosted made it to the semi-final.

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The Canton of Saint-Pierre is a former canton in the Arrondissement of Saint-Pierre on Martinique. It had 5,169 inhabitants (2012). It was disbanded in 2015. The canton comprised the communes of Saint-Pierre and Fonds-Saint-Denis.

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The Canton of Le Prêcheur is a former canton in the Arrondissement of Saint-Pierre on Martinique. It had 1,644 inhabitants (2012). It was disbanded in 2015. The canton comprised the commune of Le Prêcheur.

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Ashalata Wabgaonkar (2 July 1941 – 22 September 2020) commonly known as Ashalata, was an Indian actress. Originally tracing her roots to Goa's Palolem village in Canacona taluka (or 'sub-district'), she was associated with the Mumbai-based Goa Hindu Association. She acted in over a hundred Hindi and Marathi movies. She also sang some Konkani songs broadcast over the Mumbai station of the All India Radio.

Life and Education
Goa-born Ashalata was also famous as a Marathi singer and playwright, besides being a film actress.  She studied at the prominent St. Columba's Girls High School at Gramdevi,Mumbai and was a post-graduate in Psychology from the SNDT Women's University.
She first started performing in Konkani and Marathi plays.

Career
She acted in more than a hundred Hindi and Marathi movies. Some of her Marathi plays are Guntata Hridhya He, Varyavarchi Varaat, Chinna (with Smita Patil and Sadashiv Amrapurkar) and Mahananda.  Her Marathi stage career took off with the musical play Matsyagandha.

She was introduced in Hindi films by Basu Chatterjee in Apne Paraye (along with Bharati Achrekar) for which she was nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress.  She starred in films such as Ankush (1986), Apne Paraye (1980), Ahista Ahista, Shaukeen, Woh Saat Din, Namak Halaal and Yaadon Ki Kasam (1985).
For appearing in Bollywood in Basu Chatterjee's film Apne Paraye, she bagged the 'Bengal Critics Award' and the Filmfare Award for the Best Supporting Actor. She played the role of Amitabh Bachchan's stepmother in the film Zanjeer. Ashalata has acted in many successful Hindi films including Ankush, Apne Paraye, Ahista Ahista, Shaukeen, Woh Saat Din, Namak Halal and Yaadon Ki Kasam.

Ashalata was a big name in the Marathi theater world too and made her dramatic debut in the role of Revathi in the play Sangeet Sanshaykallol presented by The Goa Hindu Association. The Marathi drama Matsyagandha proved to be a milestone in Ashalata's acting career. In this work, she also sang the songs Garda Sabbhoti Ran Sajni Tu Tar Chafekali, and Arthashunya Bhase Maja ha Kalaha Jeevanacha.

She received training in classical music and was a fine Marathi Natyasangeet singer. Some of her Marathi films are Umbartha, Sutradhar, Navri Mile Navryala and Vahinichi Maya.
Gard Sabhowati, a book authored by Ashalata Wabgaonkar and published by Lotus Publications, Mumbai, touches on the memories and journey of the author in the film industry.

Death
Wabgaonkar died from COVID-19 on 22 September 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in Satara, Maharashtra, while shooting for a Marathi serial (आई माझी काळूबाई) Aai Mazi Kalubai. She was 79. On being unwell, she was admitted to a private hospital in Satara, Maharashtra, and was found positive for COVID-19. She was taking a ventilator treatment. She died around 4.45 AM on the morning of 22 September 2020. Her remains were cremated in Satara itself by co-actor Alka Kubal. "She was put on a ventilator on Monday night after her oxygen levels fell drastically and died early on Tuesday at around 4:45 am. Her family couldn't come due to the ongoing pandemic and told us to cremate her in Satara and not bring her body down to Mumbai", Alka Kubal said.

Selected filmography
Tinhi Sanja (2016) Marathi film
Sunrise (2014) Marathi film as Radhabai (2014)
One Room Kitchen (2011) Marathi film as Joshi Kaku
Mani Mangalsutra (2010) Marathi film
Police Force: An Inside Story as Revathi (Vijay's mother) (2004)
Beti No.1 as Savitri (Priya's mom) ( 2000)
Do Ankhen Barah Hath (1997)
Daava as Bhishma's mom; Stepmom of Arjun & Suraj (1997)
Agni Sakshi as Mrs. Kapoor  (1996)
Zordaar as Ravi's mom  (1996)
Fauji as Bansilal's wife  (1995)
Insaaf Apne Lahoo Se as Laxmi H. Prasad - Mohan's mom (1994)
Prem Deewane (1992)
Humlaa as Mrs. Devkishan Sharma (1992)
Kisme Kitna Hai Dum as Lajwanti (1992)
Zindagi Ek Juaa as Laxmi (1992)
Jhoothi Shaan as Savitri (1991)
Khoon Ka Karz as Judge (1991)
Maherchi Sadi (1991) Marathi film
Saugandh as Ganga's mom (1991)
Pratigyabadh as Nun (1991)
Azaad Desh Ke Gulam as Sharda A. Bhandari (1990)
Kali Ganga (1990)
Shaitani Ilaaka (1990)
Bandh Darwaza as Kumar's mother  (1990)
Ghayal (1990) as Mrs. Ashok Pradhan
JailKhana (1989)
Kamla Ki Maut as Nirmala S. Patel (1989)
Mahaadev as Padma Singh (1989)
Apna Desh Paraye Log (1989)
Daata as Ratanbai (1989)
Billoo Badshah as Sumitra - Vijay's mom (1989)
Gair Kanooni as Mrs. Asha Dalal (1989)
Farz Ki Jung as Vikram's mom (1989)
Jeete Hain Shaan Se as Geeta Verma (1989)
Hatya as Vegetable vendor (1988)
Gammat Jammat as Mrs. Korde (1987)
Marte Dam Tak as Mrs. P.C. Mathur (1987)
Watan Ke Rakhwale as Mahavir's mom (1987)
Insaf Ki Pukar as Mrs. Jagannath (1987)
Woh Din Aayega as Sumitra (1987)
Ankush as Anita's mom (1986)
Pahuchey Huwey Log (1986)
Ghar Dwaar as Chanda's mother (1985)
Wafadaar as Mrs Daya Sagar (1985)
Rahi Badal Gaye (1985)
Karm Yudh (1985) as Geeta Kumar
Sarfarosh as Rani Urmial Devi (1985)
Zamana (1985 film)  as Sudha S Kumar (1985)
Navri Mile Navryala (1984) Marathi film
Purana Mandir as Damyanti - Ranvir's sister (1984)
   All Rounder as Ritu's mom (1984)
Raaj Tilak (1984)
Sharaabi as Mrs. Kapoor (1984)
Aaj Ki Awaaz as Mrs. V.V. Deshmukh (1984)
Gupchup Gupchup (1983) Marathi film
Woh Saat Din (1983) as Maya's mother
Sadma as Mrs. Malhotra (1983)
Coolie as Parvati (Nathu's wife) (1983)
Love in Goa as Mrs. Merry D'Souza (1983)
Namak Halaal as Nisha's mother (1983)
Dil-e-Nadaan (1982)
Shaukeen as Sita Choudhury (1982)
Ahista Ahista as Kaveri (1981)
Apne Paraye as Sidheshwari (1980)
Chalte Chalte (1976)
Zanjeer as Police Inspector's wife - Vijay's stepmother (1973)

References

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Actresses in Marathi cinema
1941 births
2020 deaths
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The Briglin Pottery was a studio pottery founded in 1948 by Brigitte Goldschmidt (later known as Brigitte Appleby) and Eileen Lewenstein in the basement of premises at 66 Baker Street, London. Its object was "to produce well designed, attractive pots that could be used in the home, and to sell them at affordable prices."
It produced a large quantity of domestic pottery, much of it recognisable from its dark earthenware body, muted colours, white glaze and wax resist designs. In some ways Briglin was atypical of post-war studio potteries: it made tin-glazed earthenware when most others were making stoneware, it employed staff at the time when most studio potters worked alone or with a few assistants, and its pottery and shop were in the West End of London when many potters preferred the country.

Appleby said of the pottery, “While the London location presupposes high salaries and overheads, it has the advantage of easy access to raw materials, a perpetually changing patronage as well as an unlimited choice of assistants. We employ at our studio fifteen people and make over three thousand pieces a week.”  One of her staff, Michael Crosby-Jones,  commented, “Yes, Briglin is very commercial.  This means that the pottery is a viable concern and the ten full-time employees plus half a dozen part-time employees are very pleased about this.”  Their staff included Donald Mills, who worked with them from 1948 to 1952, and Anthony Barson who specialised in painted decoration.

Due to a fire in 1952, the pottery moved to 22 Crawford Street where it continued until its closure in 1990. Lewenstein left the pottery in 1959 to set up her own studio.  Both she and Appleby were active in forming the Craft Potters Association and served it for many years. Lewenstein co-edited its journal Ceramic Review from 1970 until 1997.

Brigitte Appleby died in April, 2000
and Eileen Lewenstein in March, 2005.

In 2002 Anthea Arnold published a history of the pottery.

Example of Briglin's pottery are included in the collection of the University of Warwick

References

External links
 Briglin.com | Collecting Briglin Pottery

English pottery
Ceramics manufacturers of England
Manufacturing companies based in London
Arts in London


Epilobium palustre is a species of willowherb known by the common name marsh willowherb. This plant has a circumboreal distribution, and can be found farther south in mountainous areas.

Description
This is a hairy perennial growing spindly stems sometimes exceeding half a meter in height. Its stems have widely spaced oval to linear leaves two to seven centimeters long. The stems are tipped with hairy inflorescences of small white or pink flowers. The stigma is club-shaped rather than 4-lobed. Each flower has four petals which may be quite minute to almost a centimeter long and notched to form two lobes. The fruit is a hairy capsule 3 to 9 centimeters long.

Distribution
Locally common in the British Isles.

References

External links
 Jepson Manual Treatment
 Photo gallery

palustre
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus


The Bornean bulbul (Rubigula montis) is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is endemic to the island of Borneo.

Taxonomy and systematics

The Bornean bulbul was previously placed in genus Pycnonotus. This genus was found to be polyphyletic in recent molecular phylogenetic studies and five bulbul species, including the Bornean bulbul, moved to Rubigula.

Until 2008, the Bornean bulbul was considered as conspecific with the black-capped, black-crested, ruby-throated and flame-throated bulbuls. Some authorities have considered the Bornean bulbul to be a subspecies of the black-capped bulbul.

Description
The Bornean bulbul has a black crest, yellow throat, and brownish eyes.

Distribution and habitat
This is a bird of forest and dense scrub. It builds its nest in a bush; two to four eggs are a typical clutch.

Behaviour and ecology
The Bornean bulbul feeds on fruit and insects.

References

Rasmussen, P.C., and J.C. Anderton. (2005). Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide. Volume 2: Attributes and Status. Smithsonian Institution and Lynx Edicions, Washington D.C. and Barcelona.

Rubigula
Endemic birds of Borneo
Birds described in 1879


The ruby-throated bulbul (Rubigula dispar), or yellow bulbul, is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is found on Sumatra, Java, and Bali.

Taxonomy and systematics

The ruby-throated bulbul was originally described in the genus Turdus and later moved to genus Pycnonotus. Pycnonotus was found to be polyphyletic  in recent molecular phylogenetic studies and five bulbul species, including the ruby-throated bulbul, moved to Rubigula.   Until 2008, the ruby-throated bulbul was considered as conspecific with the black-capped, black-crested, flame-throated and Bornean bulbuls. Some authorities have considered the ruby-throated bulbul to be a subspecies of the black-capped bulbul.

Description

It is virtually crestless, has a deep red throat and reddish eyes.

Distribution and habitat

This is a bird of forest and dense scrub.

Behaviour and ecology

It builds its nest in a bush; two to four eggs are a typical clutch. The ruby-throated bulbul feeds on fruit and insects.

References

Rasmussen, P.C., and J.C. Anderton. (2005). Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide. Volume 2: Attributes and Status. Smithsonian Institution and Lynx Edicions, Washington D.C. and Barcelona

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Birds of Sumatra
Birds of Java
Birds of Bali
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The flame-throated bulbul (Rubigula gularis) is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds and the state bird of Goa. It is found only in the forests of the Western Ghats in southern India. Formerly included as a subspecies of Pycnonotus flaviventris it has since been elevated to the status of a full species. They are olive-backed with yellow undersides, a triangular orange-red throat and a white iris that stands out against the contrasting black head. They are usually seen foraging in groups in the forest canopy for berries and small insects. They have a call often with two or three tinkling notes that can sound similar to those produced by the red-whiskered bulbul. The species has been referred to in the past by names such as ruby-throated bulbul and black-headed bulbul, but these are ambiguous and could apply to other species such as Rubigula flaviventris and R. dispar.

Taxonomy and systematics

The species was described by John Gould in December 1835 (but published in 1836) based on a specimen in the Zoological Society of London that had been obtained from Travancore State. Gould noted that it was very similar to Brachypus dispar (now Rubigula dispar) that had been described by Thomas Horsfield and placed the new species likewise in the genus Brachypus as B. gularis. Viscount Walden suggested that this had already been described by Jerdon as Brachypus rubineus and called the "ruby-throated bulbul" (although this name was published later). This was subsequently included as a subspecies of a larger number of similar bulbuls in the Asian region under a broadly circumscribed Pycnonotus melanicterus. With a resurgence in the application of the phylogenetic species concept, the isolated population in the Western Ghats of India was separated as the flame-throated bulbul. The crested populations in the Eastern Ghats and Himalayas that lack the red throat which were treated as subspecies flaviventris were also elevated into full species as Pycnonotus flaviventris. Pycnonotus melanicterus in this newer and narrower circumscription followed by Pamela Rasmussen in  Birds of South Asia (2005) and the Handbook of the Birds of the World (2005) only included the Sri Lankan population which was referred to as the black-capped bulbul. A 2017 study noted that the Western Ghats P. gularis and Sri Lankan P. melanicterus were closely related within a clade (the age of divergence from the common ancestor of its sister clades, however, has not been estimated in the study) that includes P. montis, P. dispar, and P. flaviventris leading to a placement of these species in a new genus Rubigula.

Description

The flame-throated bulbul is about 18 cm long with an olive-green back and yellow underparts, a squarish black head without a crest, an orange-red throat. The iris is white and contrasts with the dark head. The legs are brown and the gape is yellowish-pink. The bill is dark brown to black. The plumage of young birds has not been described.

Distribution and habitat

The flame-throated bulbul is found in the Western Ghats from southern Maharashtra and Goa southwards. It is a bird of forest that is only rarely seen at the edges of forests or inside coffee plantations.

Behaviour and ecology

The flame-throated bulbul keeps in small flocks and feeds on berries, including those of Lantana sp. It inhabits evergreen forests often along streams and valleys. The flame-throated bulbul feeds on fruit and insects, sometimes in mixed species foraging flocks.

Populations appear to move seasonally within the Western Ghats.

The breeding season is mostly from February to April. The nest is a small cup, placed in undergrowth from 1 to 3 metres from the ground level and is usually made of yellowing leaves bound with cobwebs and can easily be mistaken for a wind-blown accumulation of dry leaves.

References

External links

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Birds of South India
Endemic birds of India
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The black-capped bulbul (Rubigula melanictera), or black-headed yellow bulbul, is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.

Taxonomy
The black-capped bulbul was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the flycatchers in the genus Muscicapa and coined the binomial name Muscicapa melanictera. The specific epithet combines the Ancient Greek melas meaning "black" with ikteros meaning "jaundice-yellow". Gmelin based his description on the "yellow-breasted fly-catcher" from Sri Lanka that had been described and illustrated in 1776 by the English naturalist Peter Brown.

The black-capped bulbul was formerly placed in the genus Pycnonotus. A molecular phylogenetic study of the bulbul family published in 2017 found that Pycnonotus was polyphyletic. In the revision to the generic classification the black-capped bulbul and four other species were moved from Pycnonotus to Rubigula.
Until 2008, the black-capped bulbul was considered as conspecific with the black-crested, ruby-throated, flame-throated and Bornean bulbuls. Some authorities have considered the ruby-throated, flame-throated and Bornean bulbuls to be subspecies of the black-capped bulbul.

Description

The black-capped bulbul is virtually crestless and has a yellow throat and brownish eyes. It is yellowish green above and yellow below. The tail is brownish and ends in a white tip. The male has red irides and the female has brown irides. Calls include a broad repertoire of sweet, mellow, minor-key piping whistles and sharper calls. Breeding records are from March to September.

Distribution and habitat

This is a bird of forest and dense scrub. It builds its nest in a bush; two to four eggs is a typical clutch. The black-capped bulbul feeds on fruit and insects. Found in forests, wooded areas and in gardens. Usually found in pairs.

In culture
In Sri Lanka, this bird is known as Hisa kalu Kondaya - හිස කලු කොන්ඩයා in Sinhala language.

References

Rasmussen, P.C., and J.C. Anderton. 2005. Birds of South Asia. The Ripley guide. Volume 2: attributes and status. Smithsonian Institution and Lynx Edicions, Washington D.C. and Barcelona.

black-capped bulbul
Endemic birds of Sri Lanka
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Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN


William Travis McGriff (born June 24, 1976) is an American former college and professional football player who was a wide receiver in two different professional football leagues.  McGriff played college football for the University of Florida, where he was a member of a national championship team.  Thereafter, he played professionally for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL), and the Orlando Predators and Nashville Kats of the Arena Football League (AFL).

Early life and family

McGriff was born in Gainesville, Florida in 1976.  He attended P.K. Yonge High School in Gainesville, where he was a standout high school football player for the P.K. Yonge Blue Wave.

McGriff was born into a family of prominent University of Florida alumni.  His father, Lee McGriff, was a walk-on for the Florida Gators football team who became a first-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) wide receiver, and later, an assistant coach for the Gators.  His grandfather, Jack McGriff, was a member of the Florida Gators track and field team, and became the principal of the university's laboratory school, P. K. Yonge Developmental Research School.  His father's cousin, Perry McGriff, was a split end for the Gators in 1958 and 1959, and later became a state representative.  Perry's son, Mark McGriff, was a tight end for the Gators from 1984 to 1988.

College career

McGriff accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he was a wide receiver for coach Steve Spurrier's Florida Gators football team from 1995 to 1998.  He was a letterman on the Gators' SEC championship teams in 1995 and 1996.  He was also a member of the Gators' first national championship team in 1996, which defeated the Florida State Seminoles 52–20 in the Sugar Bowl to win the Bowl Alliance national championship.

McGriff had seventy receptions as a senior in 1998, including thirteen catches in a 222-yard performance versus the South Carolina Gamecocks.  He finished his final college season with ten touchdowns and an SEC single-season record of 1,357 yards receiving, and was a first-team All-SEC selection and a third-team All-American.

McGriff graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in exercise and sport sciences in 2004.

Professional career

McGriff was chosen in the third round (ninety-third pick overall) of the 1999 NFL Draft by the Denver Broncos. He played for the Broncos for three seasons from  to .  After three years with the Broncos, he was released in October 2001.  He also had a short stint with the Atlanta Falcons.

He also played in the Arena Football League, including three seasons with the Orlando Predators from 2003 to 2005, where he won AFL Rookie of the Year honors in 2003, and part of one season for the Nashville Kats in 2005.  He compiled 158 receptions for 2,290 yards and forty-five touchdowns in Arena Football League play.

See also

 Florida Gators football, 1990–99
 History of the Denver Broncos
 List of Florida Gators football All-Americans
 List of Florida Gators in the NFL Draft
 List of University of Florida alumni

References

Bibliography

 Carlson, Norm, University of Florida Football Vault: The History of the Florida Gators, Whitman Publishing, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia (2007).  .
 Golenbock, Peter, Go Gators!  An Oral History of Florida's Pursuit of Gridiron Glory, Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, Florida (2002).  .
 Hairston, Jack, Tales from the Gator Swamp: A Collection of the Greatest Gator Stories Ever Told, Sports Publishing, LLC, Champaign, Illinois (2002).  .
 McCarthy, Kevin M.,  Fightin' Gators: A History of University of Florida Football, Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (2000).  .
 Nash, Noel, ed., The Gainesville Sun Presents The Greatest Moments in Florida Gators Football, Sports Publishing, Inc., Champaign, Illinois (1998).  .

1976 births
Living people
American football wide receivers
Denver Broncos players
Florida Gators football players
Nashville Kats players
Orlando Predators players
Players of American football from Gainesville, Florida


The flag of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug is a blue field charged with a white triangle at the hoist side. At the center of the triangle is a roundel of the Russian national flag rimmed with a thick yellow border.

The blue is the national color of the Chukchi people. It also symbolizes the rivers within the autonomous okrug. The white symbolizes the ice and snow, which covers Chukotka for most of the year. The yellow symbolizes the sun, hope, and friendship.

Historical Flags

References

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Paul Matavire was a blind Zimbabwean musician and songwriter born in Maranda, Mwenezi District. He rose to prominence in the 1980s when he joined the Jairos Jiri Band based in Bulawayo at the Jairos Jiri Rehabilitation Centre. He was then elected to lead the Jairo Jiri Band, as one of Zimbabwe's finest musicians to emerge after the country gained independence from Britain in 1980. He died at the age of 44, in 2005, at his farm in Rutenga, Masvingo. By the time of his death, he is believed to have been an owner of a large herd of cattle, having spent the last days of his life as a farmer.

Music career
The Jairos Jiri Band are representatives of Jairos Jiri, the Disabled Musicians' Society. They were led by Matavire, who was a social worker, and had been left blind by glaucoma as a child. While his deep lyrics garnered him the nickname of Dr. Love, his songs were also known for their social commentary.

Matavire's music gained popularity due to his humor, the use of rich and deep Shona lyrics, and his willingness to tread on what many regarded sensitive societal issues. His songs touched on anything from religion to marital issues, but still retaining the humor that made it ever so popular. His hit song "Dhiyabhorosi Nyoka" stirred controversy at its release by its reference to the biblical Eve, and women in general, as the root cause of every man's troubles, while at the same time acknowledging the pivotal role women play in society. Matavire's music has remained popular even among the young in Zimbabwe years after his death. He is also remembered for his willingness to experiment with the Shona language in his songs, coining phrases that have remained part of everyday conversation among the Shona-speaking people in the country.

The JJB grew in popularity during the late 1980s, and toured abroad. Their success was interrupted by Matavire's one-year incarceration on rape charges. The band commemorated his 1991 release with the song "Back from College", which narrated his experiences in jail. The band, composed of various musicians under Matavire's leadership, released 13 albums, the latest being 2003's Zimbe Remoto.

Matavire was also known for leading a simple life. Semi-retired before his death, he balanced music with tending goats and cattle in Rutenga where he moved after 2000 when he was awarded a farm by the government. Just like his music, however, Matavire had his own fair share of controversies. These saw him serving a one-year sentence for rape in the early 1990s. At the time of his death, there were media reports of him having ejected a commercial farmer and taken over the farm, including the livestock, during Zimbabwe's controversial land reform programme. For most Zimbabweans, however, Matavire is fondly remembered for his music more than anything else.

Albums

 The Sounds of The Jairos Jiri Band (Featuring Angifuni Ukwendiswa) (with Jairos Jiri Band, 1985 LP)
 J.J.B. Style (with Jairos Jiri Band, 1986 LP)
 Amatshakada (with Jairos Jiri Band, 1988 LP)
 Ethno-Rock Zimbabwe (live album of 1988 concert in Stuttgart, Germany with Jairos Jiri Band, 1989 LP)
 Matavire Mbune (with Jaios Jiri Band, 1989 LP)
 Doctor Love, Volume 2 (1990 LP)
 Back From College (1991 LP)
 Dhindindi Fulltime (Reissue of Doctor Love Volume 2, 1992 LP)
 Akanaka Akarara (with the Hit Machine, 1993 LP)
 Gakanje (with the Hit Machine, 1995 LP)
 Mapanga Muhomwe (with the Hit Machine, 1995 LP)
 Asipo Haapo (with the Hit Machine, 1996 CASS)
 Fadza Customer (with the Hit Machine, 1998 CASS)
 Govanai (1999 CASS)
 Zimbe Remoto (2003 CD)
 Gonye Remari (2004, CD)
 Paul Matavire, Vol. 3 (2005, CD)

References

1961 births
2005 deaths
20th-century Zimbabwean male singers
Mwenezi (District)
People from Masvingo
21st-century Zimbabwean male singers


Van Hasselt's sunbird (Leptocoma brasiliana), is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. It is found in Northeast India, Bangladesh and Southeast Asia.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

Taxonomy
Van Hasselt's sunbird was described and illustrated in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson. He introduced the French name "Le grimpereau violet de Brésil" in the mistakenly belief that his specimen had been collected in Brazil. When the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin revised and expanded Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae in 1788 he included Van Hasselt's sunbird using Brisson's account. He placed it with the tree-creepers in the genus Certhia and coined the binomial name Certhia brasiliana. He specified the location as Brazil and cited Brisson's book. In 1825 the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck described and illustrated Van Hasselt's sunbird based on a specimen that had been collected on the island of Java by Johan Conrad van Hasselt. Temminck coined the binomial name Nectarinia hasseltii, choosing the specific epithet to honour the collector. Under the rules of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature Gmelin's epithet has priority and Temminck's name is a  junior synonym. The type location has been redesignated as Java.

Van Hasselt's sunbird is now one of six species placed in the genus Leptocoma  that was introduced in 1850 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis. The species was formerly considered conspecific with the purple-throated sunbird (Leptocoma sperata).

Five subspecies are recognised:
 L. b. brasiliana (Gmelin, JF, 1788) – northeast India and east Bangladesh to Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, islands west of Sumatra (except Simeulue), west Java and Borneo
 L. b. emmae Delacour & Jabouille, 1928 – south Indochina
 L. b. mecynorhyncha (Oberholser, 1912) – Simeulue (west of Sumatra)
 L. b. eumecis (Oberholser, 1917) – Anambas Islands (east of Malay Peninsula)
 L. b. axantha (Oberholser, 1932) – Natuna Islands (northwest of Borneo)

In 1939, a group of bird lovers in Hawaii known as the Hui Manu released 28 of these birds on various parts of the leeward side of Oahu in Hawaii in an attempt to get them to become established there; none appeared have succeeded.

References

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Birds of Northeast India
Birds of Southeast Asia
Van Hasselt's sunbird
Van Hasselt's sunbird


Castro is a village and former municipality in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland.

It was first recorded in year 1200 as Castri.

It had 68 inhabitants in 1567, which increased to 114 in 1808 and 129 in 1850. It then decreased to 97 in 1900, 81 in 1950 and 62 in 1970. In 2000 the population count was back on 81.

In 2004 the municipality was merged with the other, neighboring municipalities Corzoneso, Dongio, Largario, Leontica, Lottigna, Marolta, Ponto Valentino and Prugiasco to form a new and larger municipality Acquarossa.

References

Former municipalities of Ticino
Villages in Ticino


Sharpe's rosefinch (Carpodacus verreauxii) is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae.  It is found in central China and far northern Myanmar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the spot-winged rosefinch.

The common name commemorates  the British zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe.

Taxonomy and evolutionary history
Until recently considered conspecific with C. rodopeplus, but verreauxii differs genetically (1) and in its distinctly smaller bill (at least 2); strong, long black streaks on upperparts (1); and (in male) distinctly paler pink overall appearance vs dark and duller pink with heavy dark markings below (2); bright pink rump vs no distinct paler rump but just a few flecks of pinkish in dark rump feathers (2) (2). Monotypic.

Description
15 cm. Medium-sized slim, relatively small-billed rosefinch with long, slightly notched tail. Male has forehead to nape dark maroon with blackish streaks, very pale pink supercilium (some feathers tipped white) extending from above lores to just behind ear-coverts; lores, ear-coverts and cheeks very dark crimson with variable pink streaking; hindneck to lower back brownish with broad black streaks, scapulars and mantle sides with broad pale pinkish edges, rump contrastingly pale pink and more or less unmarked; upperwing blackish, tertials edged pinkish white, median and greater wing-coverts with pale pink or pale brown tips; tail dark brown, rectrices narrowly edged pink; chin and throat to neck-side dull pinkish maroon, underparts pale pinkish, undertail-coverts very pale pink-tinged greyish white; iris very dark brown; bill dark brownish; legs flesh-brown to pale greyish. Female is greyish olive-brown to greyish brown above, crown to rump heavily streaked blackish, head with pale buff supercilium from above lores to nape-side; upperwing dark brown, flight-feathers finely edged warm brown, tertials broadly edged pale whitish buff towards tips, coverts finely edged paler and tipped pale buff; tail dark brown, feathers edged buffish brown; lores to ear-coverts dark brown, cheeks to chin and throat paler and with blackish streaks; underparts almost entirely warm buff-brown, heavily streaked blackish on lower throat and breast to upper flanks, undertail-coverts paler buff-brown and more or less unstreaked; bare parts much as for male. Juvenile little known; resembles female.

Vocalization
Song un-described. Call is a short, sharp or piercing, metallic "spink spink".

Habitat and range
S China (S & W Sichuan and NE Yunnan) and NE Myanmar; winters at lower altitudes. Found in summer (presumed breeding period) in forest edge, second growth and areas of scrub and bushes in alpine meadows, at 3000–4600 m. At other times occurs in mixed forest, grassy hillsides with bushes and bamboo thickets at lower levels, at 2100–2900 m.

Conservation status
Not globally threatened (Least Concern). Very poorly known, but appears to be generally scarce to rare in most of its range. Perhaps uncommon in NE Yunnan. Uncommon in NE Myanmar, where possibly only a non-breeding visitor; fieldwork required in order to ascertain this species' true status in that country. It is not known to be subject to any significant threats.

References

Rasmussen, P.C. 2005. Revised species limits and field identification of Asian rosefinches. BirdingAsia number 3: 18–27.
Rasmussen, P.C., and J.C. Anderton. 2005. Birds of South Asia. The Ripley guide. Volume 2: attributes and status. Smithsonian Institution and Lynx Edicions, Washington D.C. and Barcelona
del Hoyo, J., N. Collar, and D. A. Christie (2020). Sharpe's Rosefinch (Carpodacus verreauxii), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA.

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Blyth's rosefinch (Carpodacus grandis) or the Himalayan rosefinch, is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae.  It is found in northern Afghanistan to the western Himalayas.  Its natural habitats are temperate forest and boreal shrubland.  It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the red-mantled rosefinch.

The common name commemorates Edward Blyth (1810–1873), English zoologist and Curator of the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

References

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2012. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.7. Downloaded from

Blyth's rosefinch
Birds of Afghanistan
Birds of the Himalayas
Blyth's rosefinch
Blyth's rosefinch


The spotted great rosefinch or spotted rosefinch (Carpodacus rubicilla severtzovi) is a finch in the family Fringillidae. It is found in Kashmir, Nepal, Tibet, and southwestern China.

Its natural habitats are tundra and temperate grassland.

It was formerly considered a distinct species, but is now commonly regarded as a subspecies of the great rosefinch.

References

Carpodacus


Right in the Middle of It is a studio album by American country artist Chely Wright. The album was released January 9, 1996 on PolyGram/Mercury Records and contained 11 tracks. The album was co-produced by Ed Seay and Harold Shedd. Although critically acclaimed, the album was not successful. Three of its singles charted in lower-end positions on the North American country charts, which later influenced Wright to leave the label.

Background
Right in the Middle of It was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at the Music Mill and Money Pit studios. It was co-produced by Ed Seay and Harold Shedd. This was unlike her previous Polydor release entitled Woman in the Moon, which was co-produced by both Shedd and Barry Beckett. Right in the Middle of It contained 11 tracks of material. Three out of the album's eleven tracks were either written or co-written by Wright: the title track, "The Other Woman", and "Gotta Get Good at Givin' Again". The album's production and sound mainly consisted of a traditional country sound that included both uptempo and ballad songs. Charlotte Dillon of Allmusic commented that the album's production included much of "natural country twang". The tenth track on the recording entitled "It's Not Too Late" was co-written by American country artist Tracy Byrd. The sixth track "What I Learned from Loving You" was originally recorded by Lynn Anderson and was a Top 20 country single for her in 1983.

Critical reception

Right in the Middle of It received a positive critical response upon its initial release in January 1996. Charlotte Dillon of Allmusic gave Right in the Middle of It four and a half out five stars, calling it Wright's "album pick". Dillon praised Wright for having the ability to record both ballads and have enough energy to record uptempo country numbers as well. Dillon also stated that many of Wright's musical influences (such as Connie Smith and Buck Owens) have shown influence on many of the album's individual tracks. In addition, Dillon praised Wright's musical experience, stating, "This might only be her second album, but she's had plenty of singing experience, starting with family get-togethers when she was a small child, where singalongs with fiddles and guitars were the norm. Before she hit her teens she had already formed a country band of her own. Early on Wright was exposed to music greats like Loretta Lynn, Buck Owens, Connie Smith, and Conway Twitty. Many of those influences can be heard in the songs on Right in the Middle of It."

Release and chart performance
Right in the Middle of It spawned three singles between 1995 and 1996, all of which charted on the Billboard Magazine country singles chart. The album's lead single entitled "Listenin' to the Radio" was released in October 1995, peaking at number 66 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and number 84 on the Canadian RPM Country Singles chart. The album's second track "The Love That We Lost" was released as the second single in January 1996, which peaked at number 41 on the Billboard country chart and number 51 on the Canadian RPM country chart. The final single released was "The Love He Left Behind" in 1996, which failed to chart any Billboard chart or in Canada. Right in the Middle of It was officially released on January 9, 1996 on PolyGram/Mercury Records. It was issued originally as a compact disc and a cassette. With the lack of the record's commercial success, Wright would later leave PolyGram/Mercury. She would then sign a deal with MCA Nashville.

Track listings

Compact disc and digital versions

Cassette versions

Personnel
All credits for Right in the Middle of It are adapted from Allmusic.

Musical personnel

 Eddie Bayers – drums
 Larry Byrom – electric guitar
 Butch Carr – triangle
 Joe Chemay – bass
 Tod Culross – clapping
 Cindy Fee – background vocals
 Larry Franklin – fiddle, mandolin
 Paul Franklin – dobro, steel guitar
 John Hobbs – hammond organ, piano, synthesizer, wurlitzer
 Dann Huff – electric guitar
 Mark Lambert – programming
 Anthony Martin – background vocals
 Joey Miskulin – accordion

 Wendell Mobley – background vocals
 John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
 Ed Seay – acoustic guitar
 Mitch Shedd – clapping
 Jimmy Stewart – clapping
 Billy Joe Walker, Jr. – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
 Cindy Richardson Walker – background vocals
 Biff Watson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
 Dennis Wilson – background vocals
 Chely Wright – background vocals, lead vocals
 Curtis Young – background vocals
 Russ Zavitson – clapping

Technical personnel
 Don Cobb – editing
 Todd Culross – assistant engineer
 Carlos Grier – editing
 Erik Hellerman – assistant engineer
 Mark Lambert – programmer
 Anthony Martin – assistant engineer
 Denny Purcell – mastering
 Ed Seay – engineer, mixing, producer
 Harold Shedd – producer

Release history

References

1996 albums
Albums produced by Harold Shedd
Chely Wright albums
Mercury Records albums
PolyGram albums


Shane Allen Minor (born May 3, 1968) is an American country music artist. Signed to Mercury Nashville Records in 1999, Minor released his self-titled album that year, and it produced three hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. Although he was dropped from Mercury's roster in 2000, he has continued to write songs for other artists, including the No. 1 singles "Beautiful Mess" by Diamond Rio, "Brand New Girlfriend" by Steve Holy, and "Live a Little" by Kenny Chesney.

Career
Before his recording career began, Minor was a deputy sheriff in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, as well as a rodeo bull rider. After leaving the LASD in 1994, Minor became a singer, working small gigs throughout California, eventually recording a demo tape which was sent to producer Dann Huff.

Shane was signed to Mercury Nashville Records in 1999. His debut single, "Slave to the Habit" (co-written by Kostas, Toby Keith, and Chuck Cannon), reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts that same year. In addition, he was signed as an opening act for country pop singer Shania Twain. The album also produced the top 30 hit "Ordinary Love" and "I Think You're Beautiful". Despite the success of its first two singles, however, the album did not chart on Top Country Albums at all.

Minor left Mercury Nashville in 2000, and has not recorded any albums since. In the 2000s, he found success as a songwriter when Diamond Rio reached number 1 in 2002 with "Beautiful Mess". Minor also co-wrote several hits for other artists, including "You're in My Head" by Brian McComas, "She Thinks She Needs Me" by Andy Griggs, "Brand New Girlfriend" by Steve Holy, "International Harvester" by Craig Morgan, "Fall" by Clay Walker (which was also released by Kimberley Locke), "Keep in Mind" and "Here Comes Summer" by LoCash Cowboys, "Hell Yes I Like Beer" by Kevin Fowler, "Playing the Part" and "I Remember You" by Jamey Johnson, "His Kind of Money (My Kind of Love)" by Eric Church, "Live a Little" by Kenny Chesney, "Close Your Eyes" by Parmalee, and "Chillin' It" by Cole Swindell. Minor has penned songs for Luke Bryan, Justin Moore, Chris Young, Trace Adkins, and Rodney Atkins.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Music videos

References

1968 births
American country singer-songwriters
Living people
Los Angeles Police Department officers
Mercury Records artists
Country musicians from California
Musicians from Modesto, California


Camp Wellfleet is a former United States military training camp. It occupies about  of land located along the Atlantic Ocean in the town of Wellfleet, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. The 548th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion (75mm Gun) used the Camp for a firing range from 1954-1956. The majority of the site (1,688.8 acres) is owned and maintained by the National Park Service, as the administrator of the Cape Cod National Seashore. The Town of Wellfleet owns a portion (49.2 acres) of the site. It was officially opened on March 19, 1943.

Military use

For almost 19 years, the former Camp Wellfleet property was used by the U.S. Government for military training purposes. The United States Army also conducted several surface removal clearances prior to property transfer. The property was used by the Army as an anti-aircraft training center from 1942 to 1944; Camp Edwards in the western part of the cape was also used for this. By June 1944, Camp Wellfleet encompassed  with a capacity of 64 officers and 1,052 enlisted personnel. In 1944, the United States Navy obtained a permit to use a portion of the property as a temporary bomb target, and it became a sub-installation of Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Hyannis. The Navy returned the site to the Army in 1947, and after World War II it was used as a training center for guardsmen and reservists.

National Park usage
In 1961, the site was declared excess and conveyed to the United States Department of the Interior by President John F. Kennedy to establish the Cape Cod National Seashore.

Army Corps of Engineers Investigations
The periodic discovery of ordnance in beach areas heavily used by the general public, coupled with the potentially large volume of ordnance suspected to be at the site, resulted in the initiation of an Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis (EE/CA) at the site by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.  During the EE/CA investigations of 1998-1999, geophysical surveys were conducted, and followed by intrusive investigation of geophysical anomalies, resulting in the finding of a rifle smoke grenade, inert 1000 pound Dove missiles, and one inert 250 pound bomb.  The EE/CA report recommended implementation of institutional controls and clearance of ordnance along coastal areas (where the majority of ordnance was used).  The EE/CA was followed by a aerial magnetic survey conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  The success of the survey was somewhat limited by tree cover, but 345 magnetic anomalies were identified for further investigation.  Government contractor Zapata Engineering investigated the anomalies and conducted further geophysical surveys, and discovered other ordnance items.  A removal action was conducted in a 5-acre area east of the southern parking lot where a rocket range had existed.

In the decades since the military used the property, various ordnance items, including anti-aircraft projectiles, bazooka rounds, smoke grenades, and small arms ammunition have been recovered. The majority of this was found along the beach and dune areas due to wave action and erosion.

Site today
It is not uncommon to find bazooka and anti-aircraft rounds on the beach.  A 14-inch long round was found in 2014 and detonated on site.

See also
 South Weymouth Naval Air Station
 Nomans Land
 Otis Air Force Base
 SS James Longstreet
 List of military installations in Massachusetts

References

External links

 Camp Wellfleet

1942 establishments in Massachusetts
1961 disestablishments in Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Closed installations of the United States Navy
Installations of the U.S. Army in Massachusetts
Military installations closed in 1961
Military installations established in 1942
Wellfleet, Massachusetts


Daniel Batista Lima (; born 9 September 1964) is a Greek former professional footballer of Cape Verdean descent who played as a forward. He has been given the title "Gullit of the poor" () by the Italian press after an impressive display against Torino. He is the Technical Director of Ethnikos Piraeus.

Club career
Batista started his football career at the academies of Feyenoord Rotterdam. After playing there a while a good friend of him and also a Feyenoord supporter brought him to Greece to follow his career there. Batista played for Ethnikos Piraeus in whose colors he impressed and soon became an interest of the big clubs of Athens. Finally, in the summer of 1989, he prefers to transfer to AEK Athens, while Olympiacos also strongly claimed him.

It didn't take long for him to impress at AEK as well. He started very well from his very first season at AEK, even though he had some injuries. Alongside Patikas and Christodoulou, he formed a very good trio in the "yellow-black" offense. The following season was not a good one for the team, but Batista again had a very good season, while among other things he also scored the winning goal against Olympiacos. In both of these years, Batista played mainly as a striker, but the arrival of Dimitriadis and Alexandris in the summer of 1991, made Bajević to play Batista behind the two strikers, in order to "fit" them all in the starting eleven. Batista formed an excellent duo with Dimitriadis in attack and helped AEK to win the championship. He also has excellent performances for the UEFA Cup.

In the summer of 1992, with the expiration of his contract and during a period of administrative changes at AEK, he decided to move to Olympiacos, displeasing the people of the "yellow-blacks". In the club of Piraeus, he had a good presence, but did not reach the high standards he at AEK. However he scored many goals in the matches against his former club. In the summer of 1995, he returned to AEK and got an excellent performance again, as he played a big part in winning the cup, scoring 2 times in the final with Apollon Athens. The following season was also great, despite facing some injuries, creating an excellent trio in the attack with Kostis and Nikolaidis, in a season where AEK was again crowned cup winner. In AEK he played for another 2 seasons and despite the new injuries contributed to club. With AEK he won 1 championship, 2 cups, 2 Super Cups and 1 League Cup. In the summer of 1999, he was released from the club and moved to Aris. Batista retired after the end of the 2000–01 season.

International career
Batista naturalized a Greek citizen, and debuted in the Greece national team on 12 October 1994. He holds the distinction of being the only Greek athlete of black ethnicity to do so. He played 14 times scoring twice.

Managing career
After his playing days were over, Batista coached Diagoras, Fostiras, he was the director of football of Lamia, head coach of AO Nea Ionia, AEK Athens U20, Peramaikos and a technical director of Niki Volos. From the summer of 2021 he is the Technical Director of Ethnikos Piraeus.

Personal life
Batista's uncle, Noni Lima was a former footballer who had a successful career in Greece at Panionios. His nephew and Noni's son, Konstantinos is a player of Episkopi.

Career statistics

Honours
AEK Athens
Alpha Ethniki: 1991–92
Greek Cup: 1995–96, 1996–97
Greek Super Cup: 1989, 1996
Greek League Cup: 1990
Pre-Mediterranean Cup: 1991

Olympiacos
Greek Super Cup: 1992

References

External links

RSSSF – Foreign Players in Greece since 1959/60
RSSSF – Rec.sport.soccer Player of the Year 1998

1964 births
Living people
People from Mindelo
Greek men's footballers
Greece men's international footballers
Men's association football forwards
Super League Greece players
Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. players
AEK Athens F.C. players
Aris Thessaloniki F.C. players
Olympiacos F.C. players
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Cape Verdean men's footballers
Naturalized citizens of Greece
Greek people of Cape Verdean descent
AEK F.C. non-playing staff
A.O. Nea Ionia F.C. managers
Greek football managers


Naked Without You is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Dayne, released on October 6, 1998. The album includes three singles; "Whatever You Want" (co-written by Dayne and originally recorded and released as a single by Tina Turner in 1996), "Unstoppable" and the title track "Naked Without You".

Track listing
 "Don't Make Me Love You" (Andrew Roachford) – (4:10)
 "Whenever You Fall" (Taylor Dayne, Robert P. Graziose, Ernie Lake, Janice Robinson) – (4:49)
 "Unstoppable" (T. Dayne, Arnie Roman) – (4:07)
 "Naked Without You" (Rick Nowels, A. Roachford, Billy Steinberg) – (3:52)
 "Whatever You Want" (Andrew Baker, T. Dayne, Fred Zarr) – (4:50)
 "Stand" (Henry Hey, Stephanie Saraco) – (4:26)
 "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (Simon Napier-Bell, Giuseppe Donaggio, Vito Pallavicini, Vicki Wickham) – (4:09)
 "Love's Gonna Be On Your Side" (T. Dayne, Robbie Nevil) – (4:27)
 "Dreams" (T. Dayne, Tom Keane) – (4:00)
 "There Is No Heart That Won't Heal" (Diane Warren) – (5:17)
 "Soon As My Heart Breaks" (T. Dayne, Billy Mann) – (3:12)
 "Whatever You Want" (Remix) (A. Baker, T. Dayne, Fred Zarr) – (4:41)

Expanded Edition
In 2005, Naked Without You was re-released with three extra tracks recorded from the live sessions in 1999/2000
 "Don't Make Me Love You" (A. Roachford) – (4:10)
 "Whenever You Fall" (T. Dayne, B.G. Grazoise, E. Lake, J. Robinson) – (4:49)
 "Unstoppable" (T. Dayne, A. Roman) – (4:07)
 "Naked Without You" (R. Nowels, A. Roachford, B. Steinberg) – (3:52)
 "Whatever You Want" (A. Baker, T. Dayne, F. Zarr) – (4:50)
 "Stand" (H. Hey, S. Saraco) – (4:26)
 "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (S. Napier-Bell, G. Donaggio, V. Pallavicini, V. Wickham) – (4:09)
 "Love's Gonna Be On Your Side" (T. Dayne, R. Nevil) – (4:27)
 "Dreams" (T. Dayne, T. Keane) – (4:00)
 "There Is No Heart That Won't Heal" (D. Warren) – (5:17)
 "Soon As My Heart Breaks" (T. Dayne, B.E. Mann) – (3:12)
 "Can't Get Enough of Your Love" (Live) (B. White) – (6:02)
 "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" (Live) (B. Gibb, R. Gibb) – (5:14)
 "Love Will Lead You Back" (Live) (D. Warren) – (7:42)

Personnel

Musicians

 Taylor Dayne – lead vocals, background vocals
 Robert A. Arbitter – keyboards
 Jamie Muhoberac – keyboards
 Tom Keane – programming
 Carmen Rizzo – programming, percussion, drums
 Craig Else – guitar
 Louis Metoyer – guitar
 Tim Pierce – guitar
 Joel Shearer – guitar
 Tony Bruno – electric guitar
 Saul Zonana – acoustic guitar, bass
 Reggie Hamilton – bass
 Curt Bisquera – drums
 Ernie Lake – drums
 Joe Bell – string arrangements
 Yvonne Williams – background vocals
 Therese Willis – background vocals

Production

 Taylor Dayne – arranger
 Tom Keane – arranger
 Eddie DeLena – engineer
 Adam Kagan – engineer
 Ray Pyle – engineer
 Mike Ross – engineer
 Carmen Rizzo – engineer, mixing
 Andrew Scheps – engineer, mixing
 Rob Chiarelli – mixing
 Jez Colin – mixing
 Pete Lorimer – mixing
 Dave Way – mixing
 C.J. DeVillar – assistant engineer
 Yoshi Sakashita – assistant engineer
 Lee Moore – wardrobe
 Omar Galeano – production assistant
 David Gardner – hair stylist
 Bert Stern – photography

References

Taylor Dayne albums
1998 albums
House music albums by American artists


The Indian golden oriole (Oriolus kundoo) is a species of oriole found in the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia. The species was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the Eurasian golden oriole, but is now considered a full species. Adults can be told apart from the Eurasian golden oriole by the black of the eye stripe extending behind the eye.

Taxonomy and systematics
The Indian golden oriole was described by the English naturalist William Henry Sykes in 1832 and given the binomial name  Oriolus kundoo. Although initially described as a separate species, the Indian golden oriole was usually treated as a subspecies of the Eurasian golden oriole. In 2005, the ornithologists Pamela Rasmussen and John Anderton in their Birds of South Asia decided to treat the two varieties as separate species based on the differences in morphology, plumage, calls and the fact that the two varieties do not intergrade. Support for this split was provided by a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010, and most ornithologists now treat the Indian golden oriole as a separate species. The race baltistanicus was judged by Charles Vaurie to be indistinguishable from the nominate subspecies and the Indian golden oriole is considered to be monotypic.

Description

The Indian golden oriole is very similar to the Eurasian golden oriole but has more yellow in the tail and has a paler shade of red in the iris and bill. The male has the black eye stripe extending behind the eye, a large carpal patch on the wing and wide yellow tips to the secondaries and tertiaries. The streaks on the underside of females is more sharp than in the females of the Eurasian golden oriole. The European species is larger with a wing length of 149–162 mm in adult males compared to 136–144 mm in O. kundoo. The wing formula is also different with primary 2 longer than 5 in O. oriolus while primary 5 is longer than 2 in O. kundoo.

Distribution and habitat

This oriole breeds from Baluchistan and Afghanistan along the Himalayas to Nepal. Some populations breed in the peninsular region but are very local. The northern populations winter in southern India, with some birds wintering in Sri Lanka. The populations that occur in the Maldives and the Andaman Islands have not been carefully examined.

The Indian golden oriole inhabits a range of habitats including open deciduous forests, semi-evergreen forests, woodland, forest edge, mangroves, open country with scattered trees, parks, gardens orchards and plantations.

Behaviour and ecology
The Indian golden oriole's flight is dipping but strong and has been recorded to reach about . It sometimes bathes by repeatedly flying into a small pool of water. An individual ringed in Gujarat was recovered in Tajikistan more than nine years later.

Breeding
The Indian golden oriole is a partial migrant. It breeds in central Asia and the Indian subcontinent. The Indian populations are largely resident while the other populations are migratory. The breeding season is April to August, the nest being a small cup placed in a fork near the end of a branch. Nests are often built in the vicinity of the nest of a black drongo. Two or three white eggs with reddish, brown and black speckling form the typical clutch. Both parents take part in nest and brood care, defending the nest against intruding birds such as shikras and crows.

Food and feeding
Orioles feed on fruits, nectar and insects. They are capable of dispersing the seeds of many berry-bearing plants including the invasive Lantana camara. An oriole has been recorded preying on southern flying lizards.

Threats
A protozoal blood parasite, Haemoproteus orioli, described from this species has been suggested to occur in many oriole species but may represent different lineages.

References

External links

Oriolus
Orioles
Taxa named by William Henry Sykes
Birds described in 1832


Northwest Detention Center is a privately-run detention center located on the tide flats of the Port of Tacoma in Tacoma, Washington, USA. The detention center is operated by the GEO Group on behalf of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The NWDC's current capacity is 1575, making it one of the largest detention centers in the United States. Numerous hunger strikes have been launched by inmates of the NWDC to protest the Center's poor conditions. Detainees have repeatedly reported overcrowding, a lack of medical attention, and severely unsanitary conditions, especially during COVID-19: "they're not even offering us soap."

The prison is expected to close in 2025 when GEO's contract with ICE expires, as the state has passed a law banning private detention facilities.

History
The detention center opened in 2004 by Correctional Services Corporation (CSC) under a contract with The US Department of Homeland Security. In 2005, CSC was purchased by the GEO Group, thus acquiring the Northwest Detention Center.

In June 2008, the Seattle University School of Law's International Human Rights Clinic published an investigation on the NWDC concluding that conditions they found, "violate both international human rights law and domestic Constitutional protections."

A contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) expanded the detention center's housing capacity in 2009, making it the largest detention center owned by GEO Group on the West Coast.

In March 2014, inmates launched a hunger strike to protest conditions at NWDC. According to ICE, 750 detainees had refused meals. House Representative Adam Smith (D-9) criticized the NWDC in an interview with The Stranger in May, calling for improvement of the "shocking" conditions. Protesters are calling for better food, speedier trials, lower commissary prices, and increased wages for labor.

In April 2015, guards allegedly beat Alfredo Rodriguez, an undocumented Honduran immigrant in his 60s. Rodriguez had reportedly criticized a guard for mistreating an inmate who was mopping. Rodriguez has since been deported, and Jennifer Lesmez, who represents six detainees who witnessed the incident, says some were threatened with retaliation if they complained. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Andrew Muñoz disputed the account, adding that "ICE policies forbid retaliation" toward detainees.

In October 2015, the GEO Group renewed a ten-year contract with ICE. The contract pays GEO for almost 1,200 beds daily, regardless if they are used.

On August 18, 2016, the U.S. Justice Department announced that they would end privatization of federal prisons, however this would not affect immigrant detention centers, which were 62% privately operated in 2014 compared to 8% of federal prisoners. Geo stocks declined sharply after the announcement.

On September 20, 2017 WA State Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit against GEO Group, Inc., the private prison company that runs Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center (NWDC). The lawsuit alleges that GEO Group, Inc., the second-largest private prison provider in the country, has for years violated Washington State's minimum wage law, paying its workers $1 per day or in some instances, with snacks and extra food. "Let's be honest about what's going on," said Ferguson, speaking at a downtown Seattle news conference. "GEO has a captive population of vulnerable individuals who cannot easily advocate for themselves. This corporation is exploiting those workers for their own profits."

On July 13, 2019 an armed individual allegedly attempted to attack the detention center with a rifle and threw incendiary devices. The individual was killed during a confrontation with law enforcement. Four Tacoma police officers were placed on paid administrative leave.

On April 17, 2020, a group of female detainees began a hunger strike to protest the dangerous conditions they faced at the NWDC during the COVID-19 epidemic. The women reported severe overcrowding, a lack of access to medical care, and total disregard for sanitation.

References

External links
Northwest Detention Center on the GEO Group website
Northwest Detention Center on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement website
 Inside Tacoma's NWDC

Buildings and structures in Tacoma, Washington
Prisons in Washington (state)
GEO Group
Immigration detention centers and prisons in the United States
2004 establishments in Washington (state)


General La Madrid is a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the administrative seat of General La Madrid Partido.

The settlement was founded on February 14, 1890, by provincial law. Before that time, it was a small trading center known as Centro La Gama, next to a railroad line (Ferrocarril Roca Sud) since 1883.

It has a summer resort named Balneario Eduardo Baraboglia made on the shores of the Arroyo Salado, 3 km away from the city.

External links

 Municipal website
 Local News

Populated places in Buenos Aires Province
Populated places established in 1890