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Veeresh Malik

Veeresh Malik is an Indian author, syndicated columnist and social worker. He is a Co-convenor and co-founder of the India Against Corruption anti-corruption movement. He writes a column for Chowk.com, Moneylife. Outlook India and Times of India

Achievements
1. Malik co-founded the India Against Corruption anti-corruption movement in 2007.

2. Malik is a leading RTI activist of India who helped in defining the scope of the Right to Information Act with the pathbreaking judgment in his case Indian Olympic Association vs Veeresh Malik & Ors. on 7 January 2010  "which confirmed that the IOC and the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee were public authorities for the purposes of the meaning of Section 2(h) of the Right to Information Act, 2005".

3. A former mariner, Malik  is an expert on piracy.

4. Mr Veeresh Malik is an expert on counterfeit currency. From May 2014 he along with another  associate began filing numerous (over 190) representations to India's financial authorities to "demonetise" India's much counterfeited Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 currency notes. The Bank finally acted on India Against Corruption's representations in Nov of 2016.

Books Authored 
1. Train to Pakistan - 2004

2. Just an Indian - the Man who Will not Bribe

3. Train to Goa

4. Essays on Pakistan from an Indian Point of View

5. Nirmal Hoon, Buccaneer of Turner Morrison: Life and times of the man who would not give up

6. Turbulence - my life in the Indian Merchant Navy Redux: Going out to sea?

7. BONDA! The 007 of dogs!!: Live and let live-dogs and humans

8. India's Online Public Grievance Mechanism: Case Studies 2013

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Indian columnists
Indian sailors
David Seth Doggett

David Seth Doggett (January 26, 1810 – October 27, 1880) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1866.

Biography

Early life
David Seth Doggett was born on January 26, 1810, in Lancaster County, Virginia. He was descended from the Rev. Benjamin Doggett, a Church of England immigrant to Virginia about 1650, Rector of White Chapel Church in Lancaster County. (Rev. Benjamin Doggett immigrated to Virginia in 1669/70 from England according to most sources.) He had Revolutionary forebears, and his parents were Methodists. His father was a lawyer. He was educated at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. He began studying law, but changed to the ministry.

Career
He joined the Virginia Annual Conference in 1829, serving as an itinerant minister, traveling through the Southern states. In 1866, he accepted a professorship at Randolph–Macon College.

Death
He died in Richmond, Virginia on October 27, 1880.

See also
 List of bishops of the United Methodist Church

References

 Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops, Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948.

External links

 

1810 births
1880 deaths
American Methodist Episcopal, South bishops
American religion academics
Converts to Methodism from Anglicanism
American theologians
Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
University of Virginia alumni
People from Lancaster County, Virginia
Randolph–Macon College faculty
19th-century American clergy
British NVC community OV4

British NVC community OV4 (Chrysanthemum segetum - Spergula arvensis community) is one of the open habitat communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. It is one of six arable weed and track-side communities of light, less-fertile acid soils.

It is widely distributed, and there are two subcommunities.

Community composition

The following constant species are found in this community:
 Corn marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum)
 Annual meadow-grass (Poa annua)
 Knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare)
 Corn spurrey (Spergula arvensis)

No rare species are associated with the community.

Distribution

This is a widely distributed community, most commonly found in western Britain.

Subcommunities

The two subcommunities are:
 the so-called typical subcommunity
 the Ranunculus repens - Sonchus asper subcommunity

References

OV04
Amami, Kagoshima

is a city located on the island of Amami Ōshima, in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Amami is the most populated municipality on Amami Ōshima. The most urban part of the municipality as well as the island's main port is a small city also known as Naze. As of June 2013, the city has an estimated population of 44,561 and a population density of 145 persons per km². The total area is 308.15 km².

History

The village of Naze was established on April 1, 1908. It was elevated to town status on October 1, 1922. As with all of the Amami Islands, the village came under the administration of the United States from July 1, 1946, to December 25, 1953.  It was elevated to city status on July 1, 1946.

The modern city of Amami was established on March 20, 2006, from the merger of the city of Naze, the town of Kasari, and the village of Sumiyō (both from Ōshima District).

Geography
Amami is bordered by the East China Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The Kasari area of the city is an exclave, separated from the main part of Amami by the town of Tatsugō.

Climate
Amami has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) with long, hot, humid summers and mild winters. Precipitation is abundant throughout the year, with particularly heavy rainfall in May, June, August and September. The area is subject to frequent typhoons.

Surrounding municipalities
Tatsugō
Setouchi
Yamato
Uken

Transportation

Airport
Amami Airport

Seaport
Naze Port is a regional transportation hub, with frequent ferry service to Kagoshima, Tokyo, Kobe, and Osaka, as well as Okinawa, the other Amami islands, and Tokara Islands.

Highway
National Route 58

Points of interest
 Amami Islands Botanical Garden

Sister cities
  Nishinomiya, Hyōgo

Notable people from Amami
Kousuke Atari, musician
Kyokunankai Hiromitsu, former sumo wrestler (Real Name: Hirokazu Ken, Nihongo: 健博和, Ken Hirokazu)
Kazuhito Sakae, olympic wrestling coach and retired freestyle wrestler and Greco-Roman wrestler
Utami Hayashishita, Japanese professional wrestler

References

External links

 Amami City official website 
 Kagoshima Prefectural Visitors Bureau official website

Cities in Kagoshima Prefecture
Populated coastal places in Japan
Highline Trail (Glacier National Park)

The Highline Trail is a scenic hiking trail in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States. The trail stretches  from Logan Pass to Granite Park Chalet, and continues another  from there to Fifty Mountain Campground.  The trail follows the Garden Wall ridge and the continental divide for most of its length.  The trail offers scenic views of glaciated U-shaped valleys.  A  round trip side trail takes hikers up the side of the Garden Wall to an overlook to Grinnell Glacier.

References
 
 

Protected areas of Flathead County, Montana
Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Hiking trails in Montana
Going-to-the-Sun Road
The Unseen (album)

The Unseen is the debut studio album by Quasimoto, a hip-hop duo composed of Madlib and his animated alter ego Lord Quas. It was released under Stones Throw Records on June 13, 2000. It was re-released in 2005 as a deluxe edition with a bonus CD containing the instrumental version of the album.

Madlib took mushrooms for a month while creating the album. It was co-mixed by Kut Masta Kurt and Peanut Butter Wolf. The cover was designed by Jeff Jank. The song "Low Class Conspiracy" was on the soundtrack for the video game Tony Hawk's Underground.

Critical reception

Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club said, "The Unseen represents a dramatic leap forward for Madlib as a producer, as he integrates left-field, found-sound samples with dexterity and wit that brings to mind Prince Paul's consistently surprising production work." Meanwhile, Michaelangelo Matos of City Pages said, "The Unseen bursts with so much found material it's tempting to think Madlib changed his name to escape litigation, pilfering everything from Augustus Pablo to Melvin Van Peebles to enough jazz artists to fill a West Village loft".

Steve Huey of AllMusic called it "one of the most imaginative albums of the new West Coast underground, a puzzling, psychedelic jazz-rap gem riddled with warped humor and fractured musical genius."

The Unseen ranked at number 17 on Spins list of the best albums of 2000. Rhapsody ranked it at number seven on its "Hip-Hop's Best Albums of the Decade" list. In 2015, it ranked at number 29 on Facts "100 Best Indie Hip-Hop Records of All Time" list. In that year, it was also listed by HipHopDX as one of the "30 Best Underground Hip Hop Albums Since 2000".

Track listing
All tracks produced by Madlib

References

External links
 

Madlib albums
2000 debut albums
Psychedelic rap albums
Stones Throw Records albums
Albums produced by Madlib
Net Force

Net Force may refer to:
 Net force, the overall force acting on an object
 NetForce (film), a 1999 American television film
 Tom Clancy's Net Force, a novel series
 Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers, a young adult novel series
Tristan of Montepeloso

Tristan (born before 1020) was the first lord of Montepeloso from 1042. Unlike his fellow Norman mercenaries, Tristan was a Breton. He was one of the twelve leading barons of the Hauteville following as indicated by his inclusion in the partition which divided the conquered regions of Apulia. 

Tristan probably arrived in the Mediterranean around 1030. He took part in the Sicilian campaign of George Maniaches of 1038. In 1042, William Iron Arm was elected count of the Normans and the division was made. Montepeloso was his capital and he received the region of Potenza. He married a sister of William and undersigned two diplomas of William's brother and successor Drogo as Tristainus cognatus comitis: "Tristan, relative of the count."

It is possible that he is the Tristan recorded as the founder of the Deliceto, near Foggia, in 1073.

Italo-Normans
Norman mercenaries
Norman warriors
11th-century Breton people
Vrdnik-Ravanica Monastery

The Vrdnik-Ravanica Monastery (), also known as Little Ravanica (Мала Раваница / Mala Ravanica), is a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Vrdnik in the Fruška Gora mountains in the northern Serbia, in the province of Vojvodina. The exact date of its founding is unknown. The records indicate that the church was built at the time of Metropolitan Serafim Jovanović, in the second half of the 16th century. The present church in the monastery was constructed in the period from 1801 to 1811. The icons on the altar screen and the vaults were painted by Dimitrije Avramović in 1853.

Vrdnik-Ravanica Monastery was declared Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1990, and it is protected by Republic of Serbia.

See also
Monasteries of Fruška Gora - Fruškać
Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance
Tourism in Serbia
Monasteries of Fruška Gora
List of Serbian Orthodox monasteries

References

External links

Vrdnik monastery - Fruškać
More about the monastery (in Serbian)

Cultural Monuments of Exceptional Importance (Serbia)
Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Serbia
George Thew Burke

George Thew Burke (1776 – February 2, 1854) was a soldier, merchant and political figure in Upper Canada.

He was born in Ballyartella, County Tipperary, Ireland in 1776. He was a captain in the British Army serving in Canada from 1811 to 1818; he fought under Major General Isaac Brock at the Battle of Queenston Heights. In 1818, he became head of the settlement at Richmond, where a number of members of the army had received free land grants, and he set up a store there. He served in the Carleton militia and was named colonel in 1822. He became a justice of the peace in the Johnstown District in 1819 and in the Bathurst District in 1822. He represented Carleton in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1824 to 1828. He died in Bytown in 1854

References 
Becoming Prominent: Leadership in Upper Canada, 1791-1841, J.K. Johnson (1989)

1776 births
1854 deaths
Irish emigrants to pre-Confederation Ontario
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
Politicians from County Tipperary
Immigrants to Upper Canada
Canadian justices of the peace
George Burke

George Burke may refer to:

 George Burke (cricketer) (1847–1920), English cricketer
 George Thew Burke (1776–1854), soldier, merchant and political figure in Upper Canada
 George J. Burke (1886–1950), judge during the Nuremberg Trials
 George Burke Jr. (1917–1947), suspect in murders of Betty Binnicker and Mary Thames
New England Society of New York

The New England Society in the City of New York (NES) is one of several lineage organizations in the United States and one of the oldest charitable societies in the country. It was founded in 1805 to promote “friendship, charity and mutual assistance” among and on behalf of New Englanders living in New York.

History
The founding NES meeting was held on May 6, 1805, at the State Street home of merchant, statesman, and first NES president James Watson. Watson’s Federal townhouse still stands and is on the National Register of Historic Places. It was also the residence of Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American Catholic saint. As of 2012, the home was occupied by the rectory of the Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church and is part of the Seton Shrine.

The first annual dinner was held on December 21, 1805, at the City Hotel on Broadway with 154 members in attendance. Every year since 1805, the Society has hosted speakers at various venues, including Delmonico's Restaurant, the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and Sherry’s in New York City. Speakers at these dinners included Commander Stephen Decatur, War of 1812 hero; statesman Daniel Webster; U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, J. Pierpont Morgan, who also served as the 26th NES president; Theodore Roosevelt; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens); and Woodrow Wilson.

In 1885, the New England Society of New York donated the statue The Pilgrim to New York City. The bronze statue, by sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward, is a  tall stylized representation of one of the Pilgrims, British immigrants to the New World led by William Bradford who left from Plymouth, England, in the cargo ship Mayflower in September 1620. The statue faces westward on the crest of a little knoll at the top of Pilgrim Hill in Central Park in New York City, on a rusticated Quincy granite pedestal that was created by architect Richard Morris Hunt, overlooking the East Drive at East 72nd Street.

Education
In 1953, NES launched the NES Scholarship Program to provide access to higher education to deserving young scholars.  NES provides funding for New York City students attending colleges and universities in New England.

Membership
The Society maintains its headquarters in midtown Manhattan.  Full membership requires evidence of New England ancestry, education, or residence; associate membership is available to those who share an affinity for New England and the mission of NES.

Notable members
Chester A. Arthur
William T. Blodgett
William Cullen Bryant
Grover Cleveland
Calvin Coolidge 
Horace Greeley 
Rush Christopher Hawkins 
Morris K. Jessup 
John F. Kennedy
Seth Low
Nathaniel Frary Miller
J.P. Morgan
Levi P. Morton 
Charles Pratt 
John D. Rockefeller 
Theodore Roosevelt
Elihu Root
Elliott Fitch Shepard
Charles Tiffany 
John Trumbull

References

External links

Cultural history of New York City
Clubs and societies in the United States
Lineage societies
Organizations based in New York City
1805 establishments in New York (state)
No Ennui

No Ennui is Mrs. Fun's third album, from 1995. It was produced by Victor DeLorenzo, and recorded by Michael Hoffman at Joe's Recording Studio, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Like all of their albums produced through 1998, it was self-released. The music is a bass-heavy, groove-based free jazz.

The record features guest artists k.d. lang, singing background vocals on "Daughtera" (which was dedicated to Sun Ra), and Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, singing background vocals on "Gossip".

Track listing
 "Love You Loud" (DeLorenzo/Connie Grauer, Kim Zick)
 "Daughtera" (Grauer)
 "Lulu's Walk" (Grauer)
 "Why Are Words So Different" (Foyne Mahaffey/Grauer)
 "Trinity" (Kathryn Korniloff/Zick)
 "Opportunity Lane" (DeLorenzo/Grauer)
 "Black Box" (Grauer)
 "Epistrophy" (Thelonious Monk/Kenny Clarke)
 "Ennui" (Mahaffey)
 "Gossip" (DeLorenzo, Grauer, Zick, Jim Eannelli)

Personnel 

 Connie Grauer - keyboards, vocals, chimes, accordion, glockenspiel, toy piano
 Kim Zick - drums, percussion, vocals,
 Michael Hoffman - guitar
 Allen Johnson - trumpet
 Jeff Pietrangelo - trumpet
 Dave Matsen - tenor saxophone
 Juli Wood - baritone saxophone
 Malcolm Michiles - scratching
 Robyn Pluer - vocal (spoken word)
 Eric Segnitz - violin
 Paul Gmeinder - cello
 Foyne Mahaffey - castanets
 k.d. lang, Dayna Kurtz, Paula Cabor, Micki Korb, Claire Morkin, Paul Cebar, Paul Scher, Wesley Savick, Rob Gjersoe, Emily Saliers, Amy Ray - background vocals
 Victor DeLorenzo - producer
 Michael Hoffman - engineer
 Tamar Zick - cover art

Mrs. Fun albums
1995 albums
Self-released albums
Ace of Hearts Records

Ace of Hearts was a British record label founded by Decca Records in 1961, with the aim of reissuing early jazz and popular music on low-priced LPs.

The catalogue included recordings by Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, and Ella Fitzgerald. Vocal groups are represented by the Ink Spots and the Mills Brothers, folk and traditional country music by Burl Ives, Uncle Dave Macon and the Carter Family, rock and roll by Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Brenda Lee and Johnny Burnette, blues by Josh White, Lightnin' Hopkins, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee (and two compilation albums issued under the title Out Came the Blues, and jazz by Louis Armstrong, Eddie Condon, King Oliver, and Art Tatum.

Ace of Clubs Records, a partner label, issued music recorded in Europe.

See also
 Lists of record labels

References

British record labels
Record labels established in 1961
Record labels disestablished in 1973
Blues record labels
Jazz record labels
Folk record labels
Rock and roll record labels
British country music record labels
Reissue record labels
Ravanica (disambiguation)

Ravanica is a Serbian Orthodox monastery on Kučaj mountains near Ćuprija in Central Serbia. 

Ravanica may also refer to:
 Vrdnik-Ravanica Monastery, a Serb Orthodox monastery in Vrdnik in the Fruška Gora mountains in the northern Serbia, in the province of Vojvodina
 Ravanica (Kraljevo),  a village in Kraljevo municipality in Serbia

See also
Ravnica (disambiguation)
Ravašnica
Kinetta Camera

The Kinetta is a film scanner, capable of scanning various film formats at various resolutions, which evolved from an earlier digital camera project.

References

 NAB 2004 article (digitalcontentproducer.com)
 mavromatic article

External links 
 Official site

Camcorders
Fleet Farm

Fleet Farm (formerly Mills Fleet Farm) is an American retail chain of 49 stores in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota. Headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin, the company has a main distribution center in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, with a buying/support office and warehouse in Appleton.

The stores range in size from small hardware store formats to larger stores. They sell hunting and fishing equipment and licenses, small appliances, household goods, automotive goods, clothing and footwear, toys, food, hardware, lawn and garden supplies, paint, pet supplies, sporting goods, tools, and farm supplies. Most locations also have an auto service center, gas mart, and car wash.

On July 10, 2019, Fleet Farm announced that it had reached a deal with SECURA Insurance to purchase their current headquarters building in Appleton. Fleet Farm moved its headquarters to the former SECURA Insurance building in 2020.

History
Stewart C. Mills Sr. founded Mills Companies in Brainerd, Minnesota in 1922. The family later created an oil company and opened a dealership and auto parts stores. Fleet Farm was founded in 1955 by Stewart Mills Sr. and his sons Henry Mills II and Stewart Mills Jr. The first store, named Fleet Wholesale Supply, was opened in Marshfield, Wisconsin.

Similarly named Blain's Farm and Fleet was also founded in 1955 by Bert and Claude Blain, friends of the Mills family. The two families agreed to use similar names and have historically operated in different territories.

In 2016, Mills Fleet Farm was sold to KKR.
As of July 2018, the "Mills" part of the name has been dropped, shortening the name to "Fleet Farm". In addition, Fleet Farm launched a new brand campaign and added the tagline “Built for real life”, replacing the slogan "We Love It" which debuted in 2009.

Store brands

Fleet Farm carries a variety of store brands in a variety of departments. These include:
Road Runner      - Batteries and tires,
Big Max          - Trailers and automotive supplies,
Field and Forest - Clothing and footwear,
Fleet Boutique   - Women's clothing,
Dura-Built       - Farm supplies,
Milkhouse brand  - Dairy supplies,
Farm Life        - Animal supplements,
Sprout           - Animal feed,
Mills Fleet Farm - Candy and nuts,
Farm Toys.

Images

References

External links
 

Farm and ranch supply stores of the United States
Retail companies established in 1955
1955 establishments in Wisconsin
Companies based in Wisconsin
Agriculture companies established in 1955
American companies established in 1955
Whitecar Coaches

The Whitecars Coaches company ran daily coach services between Cairns and the Atherton Tableland, Australia until December 2007 when it ceased operation.

History
The inaugural trip of Cairns Tableland Motor Service Ltd was down the Gillies Highway on 10 June 1926, the day the Gillies Highway was officially opened, and the company was registered the day before – 9 June 1926. Whitecars became a hackneyed title for Cairns Tableland Motor Service Ltd as the first "buses" were Studebaker cars stretched to include an extra row of seats, and they were painted white for safety. The company was bought by other interests in 1947 and the founder purchased the company back in 1950 where it has remained in the family to this day, officially trading as Whitecar Coaches Pty Ltd.

Services
These services are now operated by Trans North Bus & Coach

Cairns – Kuranda – Mareeba – Atherton – Herberton – Ravenshoe
Ravenshoe – Herberton – Atherton – Mareeba – Cairns
Cairns – Kuranda
Kuranda – Cairns

References

Bus companies of Queensland
Transport in Cairns
Owen Merton

Owen Heathcote Grierson Merton, Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) (14 May 1887–18 January 1931) was a New Zealand-born British painter, known primarily for his watercolours, landscapes, and seascapes. His work shows the influence of the Post-Impressionist representational style.

Merton was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he studied at the Canterbury College School of Art. He married Ruth Jenkins, an American, by whom he had two sons, Tom, who became the American Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton and John Paul Merton.  Owen Merton is described in his son Thomas' famous spiritual autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain.) He worked at different times as church organist and cinema pianist. He studied sketching under Frances Hodgkins in 1910. He painted in England and France until 1916, when the First World War caused him and his family to relocate with his in-laws in the vicinity of Flushing, Long Island, where he worked briefly as a landscape gardener.

After the 1921 death of his wife, Merton lived in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, then in Bermuda. Throughout his career, Merton exhibited his paintings, with varying degrees of success. After returning to Europe during 1923, Owen Merton was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists. He was president of the local rugby club at Saint-Antonin where he settled with Tom in 1925; in Saint-Antonin he played piano in the local cinema. He continued to travel between his birthplace of New Zealand, Europe, and the US. He died of a brain tumour in London, England, during 1931.

Paintings by Owen Merton are on permanent display in galleries around the world, most particularly in the Museum of New Zealand.

References

External links
Web pages about Owen Merton
Gallery of Paintings by Owen Merton

20th-century British painters
British male painters
New Zealand painters
1887 births
1931 deaths
Ilam School of Fine Arts alumni
Deaths from brain cancer in England
20th-century British male artists
New Zealand emigrants to the United Kingdom
Brock for Broglio

The phrase "Brock for Broglio" is sometimes used in the sport of baseball to signify a trade that, in hindsight, turns out to be an extremely lopsided transaction.

The names in the phrase refer to Lou Brock and Ernie Broglio respectively, the centerpieces of a June 15, , six-player deal:  Brock, Jack Spring and Paul Toth were traded from the Chicago Cubs to the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for Broglio, Bobby Shantz, and Doug Clemens.

It was thought initially the Cubs had done better in the deal, as Broglio was coming off some impressive seasons while pitching for the Cardinals, while Brock had been considered a disappointment for the Cubs.
 
Almost immediately, however, the trade was re-judged by sportswriters.  Brock batted .348 for the Cardinals and led them to winning the 1964 World Series. Brock also helped the Cardinals to another World Series title in 1967, a pennant in 1968, and played successfully for St. Louis through , amassing 3,023 hits and 938 stolen bases (at the time becoming baseball's all-time leader in stolen bases) en route to his Hall of Fame election in .  Meanwhile, Broglio went only 4–7 with a 4.04 ERA for the Cubs, and by 1966 was out of Major League Baseball. Broglio did not tell anyone at the time, but he had an injured elbow since the second half of the 1963 season, and in November 1964, had his ulnar nerve reset.

This is sometimes referred to as the most lopsided trade in baseball history.

The Emil Verban Society, an association of Cubs fans in the Washington, D.C. area, which includes national political leaders and journalists, occasionally recognizes bad decision-making with the "Brock-for-Broglio Judgment Award"—presented, for example, to Saddam Hussein for his invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

See also
Herschel Walker trade
White Flag Trade
Eric Lindros trade
Ricky Williams trade

References

Baseball terminology
Chicago Cubs
St. Louis Cardinals
1964 Major League Baseball season
Sports trades
Defence Communication Services Agency

The Defence Communication Services Agency (DCSA) was an agency of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence responsible for the procurement and delivery of Communications and Information Services (CIS) to the defence community and related public and private sector bodies.  The Agency was formed on 1 April 1998, bringing together a range of CIS organisations across all three services.

Formally a component of the Defence Logistics Organisation, the Agency brigaded together elements of the Defence Procurement Agency, the DLO and operational support elements within the three military Front Line Commands.

On 31 March 2007 the Agency was subsumed into Defence Equipment & Support, a new organisation bringing together the DPA and DLO, as the Information Systems & Services (ISS) cluster within that organisation.

Organisation

The DCSA was formed of a core headquarters, led by a military Chief Executive at Two-star rank, supported by an Operations Directorate, Directorate of Engineering and Interoperability, and a number of Integrated Project Teams, responsible for the procurement and support of systems and services.  The Agency was headquartered at Basil Hill Barracks, Corsham, Wiltshire, and had 5,000 staff at facilities in many locations in the UK and overseas.

DCSA Headquarters
Directorate of Operations
Customer Account Management - Basil Hill Barracks, Corsham
Global Operations and Security Control Centre - Basil Hill Barracks, Corsham
Defence High Frequency Service - Very Low, Low and High Frequency Radio Services - Headquartered at HMS Forest Moor and combining RN services with RAF services formerly headquartered at RAF Bampton Castle
Directorate of Engineering & Interoperability - Headquartered at RAF Henlow and bringing together RAF, RN and Army technical engineering services.

Integrated Project Teams

Network Layer
Defence Fixed Networks - Fixed and mobile telephony and core network services - Copenacre Site, Corsham
Satellite Communications - MoD Abbey Wood
HF Radio - MoD Abbey Wood

Presentation Layer
Defence Information Infrastructure - Desktop services - Copenacre Site, Corsham
Ground Based Air Defence - 
Air Command and Control

Application Layer
Corporate and Business Applications
Logistics Applications
Command, Control and Intelligence Systems
UK Cooperative Engagement Capability (naval air defence system)

Formation

The founding CE was Major-General Tony Raper CB CBE, late Royal Signals. He was succeeded by Rear Admiral Rees Ward in 2002, who continued as CE until 2007 when the Agency was disestablished.

References

External links
Defence Communications and Services Agency - Dead link
Cabinet Office reference

Corsham
Defence agencies of the United Kingdom
Defunct executive agencies of the United Kingdom government
History of telecommunications in the United Kingdom
Military communications of the United Kingdom
Organisations based in Wiltshire
Science and technology in Wiltshire
Tom Ament

Francis Thomas Ament (November 17, 1937 - March 10, 2014) was the fourth Milwaukee County Executive, serving from 1992 until his resignation in 2002 amid a county pension scandal. Ament had served as chairman of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors from 1976 to 1992.

Life 

He graduated from Marquette University High School in 1955, earned his bachelor's degree from Marquette University in 1959 and his law degree from the Marquette University Law School in 1962. He was elected to the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. He was selected as board chairman in 1976, and stayed on the board until he defeated Joseph Czarnezki to become county executive in 1992, replacing one-term legislator Dave Schultz. After a scandal over pensions for county employees, an effort was mounted by conservative special interest group Citizens for Responsible Government in early 2002 to recall Ament. The group collected over 100,000 petition signatures to force a recall election.

On February 21, 2002, Ament announced his retirement effective February 26 at a Milwaukee County Board meeting. By retiring instead of resigning, Ament remained eligible to claim his own pension. He was replaced by former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janine Geske on an interim basis and by state Representative Scott Walker, a Republican, following a special election.

References

1937 births
2014 deaths
County supervisors in Wisconsin
Marquette University alumni
Marquette University Law School alumni
Milwaukee County Executives
Politicians from Milwaukee
Wisconsin Democrats
Tom Stacks

Thomas De Armen Stacks, known professionally as Tom Stacks (November 9, 1899 – February 19, 1936) was an American musician who was the lead singer, drummer, and sound effects man for many of Harry Reser's late-1920s jazz and novelty bands that included the Six Jumping Jacks.

Early life 
Born on November 9, 1899, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he was the son of Elmer E. and Margaret A. Stacks, both of whom were also Pennsylvania natives.

Career 
Stacks was an active musician by early 1920. During his career, Stacks worked as the lead singer and drummer for many of Harry Reser's bands. In 1936, he lived in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens. He died in 1936 when the restaurant he was performing in caught fire.

References

American jazz drummers
American jazz singers
1899 births
1936 deaths
20th-century American singers
20th-century American drummers
American male drummers
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Mail Pouch Tobacco barn

A Mail Pouch Tobacco barn, or simply Mail Pouch barn, is a barn with one or more sides painted with a barn advertisement for the West Virginia Mail Pouch chewing tobacco company (Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company).  The program ran from 1891 to 1992, and at its height in the early 1960s, about 20,000 Mail Pouch barns were spread across 22 states.

Locations

These barns can be found in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Connecticut and California (Ontario, on Jurupa and Turner, and Merced County, CA-99 and Worden Avenue), although an increasing number have fallen into dilapidation or have been demolished.  The barns, usually hand-painted in black or red with yellow or white capital lettering, read as: "Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco--Treat Yourself to the Best."  Sometimes, they are surrounded on the left and right by a thin vertical blue border.

Initially, barn owners were paid between $1 and $2 a year for the advertisement, equivalent in 1913 dollars to about $20–40 today, but more importantly, they received a much desired fresh coat of paint to preserve the integrity of the wood.  Mail Pouch painted their message on one or two sides of the barn (depending on visibility from the roadway, an additional ad for Kentucky Club pipe mixture might be included as well) and painted the other sides of the barn any color the owner wished.  Many of the barns were repainted every few years to maintain the sharp colors of the lettering.

After World War II, many of the ads were painted by Harley Warrick of Belmont County, Ohio.  He once estimated that he had painted ads on 20,000 barns in his life, spending an average of six hours on each.  Warrick claimed that he always began each barn with the "E" in the word "Chew".  Other barns were painted by Mark Turley, Don Shires, Dick Green and several others.  Their initials remain preserved on some of the barns with the date of the painting.  These initials can be found on the blue border surrounding the front side, or nearer to the roof.

The Highway Beautification Act of 1965, which sought to restrict the vast number of local advertisements that were being placed near highways, exempted Mail Pouch barns since they had been deemed historic landmarks.

In 1992, the owner of Mail Pouch Tobacco at the time, Swisher International Group, decided to suspend the use of barn advertisements when Warrick retired.

In the heyday of barn advertising (around 1900–1940) many companies paid farmers to use their barns as roadside ads, with other tobacco products (such as "Beech Nut" tobacco) and local feed and grain stores being the most common, but Mail Pouch was the only product advertised in so widespread and consistent a manner in this fashion.

References

External links 

 More information and pictures of Mail Pouch Barns
 Mail Pouch Barnstormers Organization Web Site

Barns in the United States
History of the Midwestern United States
Tobacco advertising
Tobacco barns
Tobacco buildings in the United States
Radio Music Awards

The Radio Music Awards was an annual U.S. award show that honored the year's most successful songs on mainstream radio. Nominations were based on the amount of airplay recording artists receive on radio stations in various formats using chart information compiled by Mediabase.

Originally conceived as an award show vehicle for The WB in 1999, it was moved to ABC in 2000 and finally to NBC, which promoted it as the music industry's answer to the Golden Globes.

In past years, the show included many of the top names in music including NSYNC, Shakira, Backstreet Boys, Green Day, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Train, Elton John, Destiny's Child, Tim McGraw, Kelly Clarkson, Lenny Kravitz, Nelly, Gavin DeGraw, Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne, Lifehouse, and Christina Aguilera, among others.

Dates, venues, and networks
 October 28,  1999: Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada: (The WB)
 November 4, 2000: Aladdin Casino & Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada: (ABC)
 October 26, 2001: Aladdin Casino & Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada: (ABC)
 October 27, 2003: Aladdin Casino & Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada: (NBC)
 October 25, 2004: Aladdin Casino & Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada: (NBC)
December 19, 2005: Aladdin Casino & Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada: (NBC)

Categories

Main
Best Female/ Top 40
Best Male/Top 40
Best Female/Top 40 Country
Best Male/Top 40 Country
 Artist of the Year/ Mainstream Hit Radio  
 Song of the Year/Mainstream Hit Radio
 Artist of the Year/Urban and Rhythmic Radio  
 Song of the Year/Urban and Rhythmic Radio  
 Artist of the Year/Alternative and Active Rock Radio  
 Song of the Year/Alternative and Active Rock Radio  
 Artist of the Year/Country Radio  
 Song of the Year/Country Radio  
 Artist of the Year/Rock Radio  
 Song of the Year/Rock Radio  
 Artist of the Year/Adult Hit Radio  
 Song of the Year/Adult Hit Radio  
 Legend Award

One-offs and discontinued
 Air Personality Of The Year (1999)
 Best Car Jam (1999)
 Best Hook-Up Song (1999)
 Artist Parents Just Don't Understand (1999)
 Most Requested Artist of the Year (2001)
 Most Requested Song of the Year (2001)
 Most Requested Party Song of the Year (2000)
 Humanitarian Award (Michael Jackson, 2003)
 Cingular Wireless Artist of the year (2004)

References

American music awards
Zappos Theater
Grgeteg Monastery

The Grgeteg Monastery () is a Serb Orthodox monastery on the Fruška Gora mountain in the northern Serbia, in the province of Vojvodina. According to tradition, the monastery was founded by Zmaj Ognjeni Vuk (Despot Vuk Grgurević) in 1471. The earliest historical records about the monastery date back to 1545/1546. The monastery had been deserted before the 1690 Great Migration of the Serbs, but a renewal, undertaken by Bishop Isaija Đaković, took place in 1708. Around 1770, the extant baroque church was erected and it underwent restoration in 1898 under the guiding hand of Hermann Bollé. It was then that the residential buildings which enclose the church from all four sides were reconstructed. The first walled rocaille iconostasis in the church interior was painted and inlaid by Jakov Orfelin in 1774–1775. The extant iconostasis is a 1902 work of Uroš Predić.

Grgeteg Monastery was declared Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1990, and it is protected by Republic of Serbia.

See also
Monasteries of Fruška gora - Fruškać
Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance
Tourism in Serbia
List of Serb Orthodox monasteries

References

External links

Grgeteg monastery - Fruškać
More about the monastery 

1471 establishments in Europe
Cultural Monuments of Exceptional Importance (Serbia)
Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Serbia
15th-century establishments in Serbia
15th-century Serbian Orthodox church buildings
Hermann Bollé buildings
Mount Cragus (Cilicia)

Mount Cragus or Mount Cragos or Mount Kragos (Greek: ) was a mountain in ancient Cilicia, Asia Minor; its location is in modern-day Antalya Province, Turkey.  At its foot was Antiochia ad Cragum.

References

Geography of ancient Cilicia
Cragus (Cilicia)
Landforms of Antalya Province
Daniel Maa Boumsong

Daniel Maa Boumsong (born 20 March 1987) is a Cameroonian former footballer who played as a midfielder.

Career

Inter Milan
Born in Ngambe, Maa Boumsong joined Internazionale in 2005, age 18. He arrived Italy for 2004 Torneo di Viareggio and escaped from the squad to seek asylum. Due to FIGC regulation, he could only signed by an Italian club after 1 year legal residence, which he trained with a Novara local teams before joined Inter. Maa Boumsong was included in the first team at the end of 2004–05 season, playing in end-season and pre-season friendlies. He also named in UEFA Champions League 25-men senior squad, as he was not eligible to List B. A regular in the Primavera youth team, Maa Boumsong made his competitive debut on 30 November 2005, winning Parma in 2005–06 Coppa Italia. On week later, he made his Champions League/European debut against Rangers. He only able to make his Serie A debut near the end of the season, which he was the starting midfielder. That season he won Coppa Italia with both first team and the Primavera team. Later, the FIGC also assigned Inter the 2005–06 Serie A title following the 2006 Italian football scandal.

Treviso
At the start of 2006–07 season, Maa Boumsong at first left for Spezia in July, but on 31 August left for Treviso, along with Alex Cordaz (in co-ownership deal).

On 11 January 2007 he returned to Inter, but along with Leonardo Bonucci, was sold to Treviso in co-ownership deal. Half of Maa Boumsong's contract was tagged for €100,000 at that time. Both players would formally become players of Treviso on 1 July 2007. With Inter Primavera team, Maa Boumsong finished as the runner-up of Coppa Italia Primavera but winning Campionato Nazionale Primavera.

However Maa Boumsong was excluded from Treviso's Serie B plan. He left for Pistoiese before returned to Treviso in January 2008.

Despite the co-ownership deal of Maa Boumsong was renewed in June 2008, Maa Boumsong joined Treviso permanently for an additional €250,000 fee on 1 September. Inter signed Yago Del Piero from Treviso on the same day.

Maa Boumsong then left for another Lega Pro clubs Rovigo. He played 16 games in the Lega Pro Seconda Divisione. In July 2009, Treviso bankrupted, he became a free agent.

Serie D teams
Maa Boumsong joined a Serie D team in 2009–10 season. In September 2010 he joined Noto.

Honours
Inter
 Serie A: 2005–06
 Coppa Italia: 2005–06
Inter Primavera
 Coppa Italia Primavera: 2006
 Campionato Nazionale Primavera: 2007

References

External links
 Inter Archive
 Rovigo Profile 
 AIC profile (data by football.it) 

Cameroonian men's footballers
Serie A players
Inter Milan players
Treviso FBC 1993 players
US Pistoiese 1921 players
Rovigo Calcio players
Men's association football midfielders
Cameroonian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
1987 births
Living people
Sharlene Flores

Sharlene Flores, born in Trinidad and Tobago, is a singer of parang music.

References

21st-century Trinidad and Tobago women singers
21st-century Trinidad and Tobago singers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chisholm Trail Academy

Chisholm Trail Academy (CTA) is a Seventh-day Adventist       co-educational high school located at Fourth and Old Betsy in Keene, Texas.  Keene is located midway between Alvarado and Cleburne,  south of Fort Worth. Chisholm Trail Academy is situated on  of land.

Facilities
Facilities include two sports fields, a gymnasium with a stage, 15 classrooms, a library, an industrial vocational building, an administrative complex, four bathrooms, and a music hall

History
Chisholm Trail Academy came into existence when Southwestern Junior College (now Southwestern Adventist University) was granted full college status and closed its academy operation in 1967.  Chisholm Trail Academy's first graduating class was in 1968.

Curriculum
The schools curriculum consists primarily of the standard courses taught at college preparatory schools across the world. All students are required to take classes in the core areas of English, Basic Sciences, Mathematics, a Foreign Language, and Social Sciences.

Spiritual aspects
All students take religion classes each year that they are enrolled. These classes cover topics in biblical history and Christian and denominational doctrines. Instructors in other disciplines also begin each class period with prayer or a short devotional thought, many which encourage student input. Weekly, the entire student body gathers together in the auditorium for an hour-long chapel service.
Outside the classrooms there is year-round spiritually oriented programming that relies on student involvement.

See also

 List of Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools
 Seventh-day Adventist education

References

External links

Educational institutions established in 1967
Private high schools in Texas
Adventist secondary schools in the United States
Schools in Johnson County, Texas
1967 establishments in Texas
Cragus (Cilicia)

Cragus or Cragos or Kragos (Greek: ) was an ancient city in Cilicia, Asia Minor at the foot of Mount Cragus; its location is in modern-day Antalya Province, Turkey.  Some scholars claim that it is the same city as Antiochia ad Cragum.

References

Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey
Former populated places in Cilicia
John Beikie

Lt. Col. John Beikie (February 14, 1766 – March 20, 1839) was a merchant and political figure in Upper Canada.

Biography
He was born of Scottish parents in Gibraltar in 1766. He settled in Cornwall in 1794 and was named justice of the peace in the Eastern District in 1796.  He moved to York (Toronto) in 1801 where he lived on the north side of Front Street east of Spadina Avenue where Windsor Street now stands.  Rev. Dr. Henry Scadding describes him as a tall, upright, staidly moving man who was usually seen in a long snuff-coloured overcoat and, also, as one of the dramatis personae of York.  He served in the local militia during the War of 1812 and was actively engaged in the defence of York against the American invaders in 1813 and was held by them as a hostage.  His wife, Penelope, was one of the few who held fast in her home to keep off American looters.  From 1810 to 1815 John Beikie was Sheriff of York and, as such, he probably was the first to complain of wretched conditions in York Gaol; a protest repeated by Sir William Campbell and many others over the years.  Beikie represented Stormont and Glengarry in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1812 to 1816.  He was clerk of the Executive Council from 1820 to 1825 and was named justice of the peace in the Home District in 1822.  He became Lieutenant Colonel of the militia in 1826.

John Beikie was a Freemason and one of the founding members of St. Andrew's Lodge.  He was Master from 1825 - 1828.

He died in Toronto in 1839.

See also
 List of Gibraltarians

References 
Becoming Prominent: Leadership in Upper Canada, 1791-1841, J.K. Johnson (1989)
History of St. Andrew's Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 16, G.R.C. 1822 - 1922, R.W. Bro. Henry T. Smith, P.G.R.

References

1766 births
1839 deaths
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
People from Cornwall, Ontario
Canadian people of Gibraltarian descent
Gibraltarian emigrants to Canada
Cueto

Cueto may refer to:

Cueto (surname)
Cueto, Cuba, a municipality in Holguin, Cuba
Cueto, Spain, Cantabria, Spain
Divša Monastery

The Divša Monastery (), also known as Đipša (Ђипша), is a Serb Orthodox monastery on the Fruška Gora mountain in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina. It is believed to have been founded by Despot Jovan Branković in the late 15th century. The earliest historical records about the monastery date to the second half of the 16th century. Owing to Turkish raids, the monastery was deserted in the 17th century; at the beginning of the 18th century, Dipša was mentioned as an appendage of the neighbouring Kuveždin monastery. Its old church underwent reconstruction in 1744, but the final alteration was made in 1762, when a new narthex was built. A chapel dedicated to the Mother of God was placed therein, upstairs. The iconostasis for the restored church was carried out by Teodor Stefanov Gologlavac in 1753.

Divša Monastery was declared Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1990, and it is protected by Republic of Serbia.

See also
Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance
Tourism in Serbia
List of Serb Orthodox monasteries
Monasteries of Fruška Gora

References

External links

More about the monastery

Christian monasteries established in the 15th century
Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Vojvodina
Cultural Monuments of Exceptional Importance (Serbia)
16th-century Serbian Orthodox church buildings
Bačka Palanka
16th-century establishments in Serbia