title: Diana Walczak

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Diana Walczak is an American sculptor, computer graphics pioneer and filmmaker. She is most famous for creating the original Michael Jackson's HIStory Statue which she sculpted in 1994. She also created the digital representation of the statue for Michael Jackson's album, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I.

Early life and education
Diana Walczak began her visual arts education in the shops of her father and master printer, Jim Walczak. Diana studied engineering and sculpture at Boston University. She also assisted a medical illustrator and worked as a graphic artist for the Harvard Medical School while in college.

Career
In 1986, Diana was hired by Omnibus Computer Graphics to help create a superhero figure for Marvel Comics.

In 1987, she partnered up with Jeff Kleiser to form Kleiser-Walczak Construction Company. This company is now called Synthespian Studios. They developed some of the first computer-generated humans. They created the first digital stunt doubles for the feature film, Judge Dredd starring Sylvester Stallone. They also created the first face replacements in a feature film in The One starring Jet Li. Some additional feature films in which her work can be seen include Stargate, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Surrogates and she worked on the Computer animated Columbia Pictures film logo.

Diana has directed an advertising campaign for Sun Maid Raisins and has directed commercials starring Kobe Bryant and Hakeem Olajuwon. Diana and Jeff contributed to the digital magic behind many well-known projects including The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman, Monsters of Grace with Philip Glass, Honey, I Shrunk the Audience!, and Radio City Music Hall's Christmas Spectacular. In 1994, she created a sculpture of Michael Jackson which became the basis  for the cover of his 1995 album, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I and the international marketing campaign for the album and the HIStory World Tour.

For the U.S. Department of Commerce, Diana authored a paper called Encompassing Education. This is about her vision of the future of education and the technology that goes into it. She has served on the board of directors of the Norman Rockwell Museum and currently serves on the board of directors of Images Cinema and Greylock ABC. Diana has directed numerous live-action short films under the name Harmless Little Bunny Productions including a short shot in Kenya, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and most recently, Morocco, for World Connect.

Personal life
Diana Walczak loves improvising in visual arts, music, yoga and fitness, and food preparation.

Awards
 1994 – Created the original Michael Jackson HIStory statue
 1995 – Created the image for Michael Jackson's album, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I cover
 1997 – Annecy International Animation Festival France
 1999 – Clio award for Trophomotion commercial for Stardox
 1999 –  EDDY Award for “The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman”
 2002 – Best Short NY International children's film Festival for “Little Miss Spider”
 2011 – 8th Annual Keynote speaker for Women in Business Berkshire Chamber of Commerce
 2012 – Panelist: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Marc Davis Celebration of Animation
 2013 – Music Video selected for Berkshire International Film festival Smart Phone Film Festival
 2015 – Guest Speaker at KINGVENTION London with Live Interview with Pez Jax.

References

External links

Living people
20th-century American sculptors
American people of Polish descent
Year of birth missing (living people)
Boston University alumni


title: Juraj Miklušica

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Juraj Miklušica (14 April 1938 – 26 August 2018) was a Slovak cyclist. He competed in the tandem event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

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1938 births
2018 deaths
Slovak male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Czechoslovakia
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Bratislava


title: Selby Library

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The Selby Public Library was the first library in Sarasota County, Florida and was established in 1907. The current building is the largest public library in Sarasota County and serves the downtown district of Sarasota, Florida.

History
The Selby Public Library (originally known as the Sarasota Public Library) originated when the Town Improvement Society established a library room at Five Points with a fund of $65, . It first began with a contribution of books and 51 subscribers. In 1913, the Woman's Club took over the library then eventually in 1915 it was relocated to the east wing of the Women's Club. The Sarasota City Council soon appropriated $150 a year to locate the library in the old schoolhouse on Main Street rent free for five years. In 1940 the Women's Club requested that the city take absolute control of the library so the city moved it to Chidsey Library. As more individuals relocated into the county by the mid 1970s, the increasing need for additional books and materials was evident. The library soon progressed to the Boulevard of the Arts site on June 24, 1976, and Sarasota County Historical Resources took over its operation. After a large contribution of $500,000 from the William G. and Marie Selby Foundation it was named Selby Library. The Selby Foundation provided the largest single contribution to building the Selby Public Library. Other funds came from city, county, and federal governments and private donations. William and Marie Selby had been boosters of Sarasota, beginning around 1910 when they first came and visited the city for winter. With money from the Selby Oil and Gas Company, the Selby's were able to invest much wealth into Sarasota, including the donation provided to the library by their trust.

Architects and construction
The current Selby Library building was designed by architect Eugene Aubry who also designed the Wortham Theater Center and Richland Library.  Constructed in 1998 and at , Selby Library is the largest library facility in the County library system. Selby Library is a two-story building with a large central foyer enhanced by a mobile underwritten by the Art in Public Places program. Meeting space, including a 200-seat auditorium, is an important feature of the library. The Friends of the Library group operates a bookstore, the proceeds from which contribute to library enhancements. Parking has been at a premium since the building opened and various approaches have been tried to address this issue. By 2005, a two-hour parking was established with library-use-only enforced during the busiest season.

The building's Youth Library, named The Calvin and Kathryn L. Bean Children's Room, features a salt water aquarium called the Dee and Charles Stottlemyer Children's Aquarium.  The aquarium is arch-shaped and forms the entrance to the youth library.  It holds  of water, weighs  empty, and is , , and .  Designed by architects Gary Hoyt and Jeff Hole with assistance from Kevin Curlee, Mote Aquarium Curator, the aquarium was funded by Dee and Charles Stottlemyer.  It was installed on July 8, 1999, and tropical fish were added to the tank on August 16, 1999. The aquarium was dedicated on October 23, 1999.

The bookstore at the Selby Public Library was renovated in 2017 to expand accessibility and improve visibility.  A grand reopening was hosted on October 20–21, 2017.

Today
The Selby Public Library is the largest in the Sarasota County Library system serving a population area of 367,867. Friends of the Selby Public Library is a 501(c)(3) that has donated over $1 million to the library over the past 10 years. Donations include $15,000 in support for over 100 free youth programs and events, $4,200 for the presentation of more than 60 free special events and programs for adults and over $22,000 for the coordination, organization, orientation and support of Selby Library Volunteers. Their highlight event every year is the Crystal Ball: The People's Gala fundraiser

The Sarasota Music Archive is a part of the "special collections" department of the Selby Public Library.  The Sarasota Music Archive "contains several hundred thousand recordings, tapes, books, sheet music, and memorabilia".  The Sarasota Music Archive merged with the Selby Public Library in 2000; although it was established in 1980.  Mildred Petrie was the founder and the original location for the archive was in a strip mall.<ref name= "TSMA"  There are 14 Board Members with varied expertise in music and a solid core of volunteers help maintain and run the collection. The Sarasota Music Archive is located on the second floor of the Selby Public Library, and sells vinyl LP's, CD's and other musical items in its store.

Selby Library is also home to the largest "Creation Station" makerspace in Sarasota County with access to items like 3D printers, sewing machines, Cricut die cutting machines, virtual reality and more. “We see kids all the time sharing with seniors at the Creation Station. Seniors are showing kids how to sew and kids are showing seniors how to use a 3D printer. It’s decreasing isolation,” said former library director Sarabeth Kalajian.

Selby also hosts a number of art installations including a mobile by artist Tim Prentice (sculptor) called 'Just Browsing' as part of the Sarasota Arts in Public Places project. The bronze sculpture 'Sharing' was created by artist Bruno Lucchesi, installed in 2002 and depicts a family reading. Another bronze piece called 'Best Friends' depicts a young boy reading a book with his dog by his side and is by Chris Navarro. The statue was gifted to the library by Richard and Jean Ehlers and Family on December 14, 2000.

Gallery

References

External links

Sarasota Music Archive

Public libraries in Florida
Buildings and structures in Sarasota, Florida
Aquaria in Florida
Library buildings completed in 1998


title: Baqet III

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Baqet III was an ancient Egyptian official and Great Chief of the Oryx nome (the 16th nome of Upper Egypt) during the 11th Dynasty in the 21st century BCE. Apart from the position of governor of the entire nome, Baqet III also held the titles haty-a, treasurer of the king of Lower Egypt, confidential friend, true royal acquaintance, and mayor of Nekheb.

As a son of his predecessor Ramushenti, he administered the governorate in the city of Men'at Khufu.

Realizing that the fate of the civil war was definitely in favor of the Thebans led by Mentuhotep II, Baqet cunningly broke the long neutrality of his territory and took the Theban side. After his death, his new loyalty allowed him to be succeeded by his probable son Khety and by his descendants until the time of Amenemhat I, when a family turnover took place in the governorship with the installation of Khnumhotep I.

The tomb BH15
Baqet III was buried in the necropolis of his clan in Beni Hasan inside the tomb no. 15. The tomb is composed of a cult chapel and an inner burial chamber, and is well known for its remarkable paintings.

The northern wall depicts Baqet and his wife in their daily life, the hunting of various animals including fantastic ones, and various artisans whilst working.
The eastern wall shows a fortress garrisoned by Egyptians and besieged by a mixed army composed of Egyptians infantry, Nubian bowmen and maybe Libyan slingers, likely representing a Theban offensive; on the same wall are also depicted an impressive number of wrestling positions and techniques.
Finally, the south wall mainly shows Baqet's funeral, but also some people playing senet.

References

Further reading

Kanawati, N. and Evans, L. (2018). Beni Hassan. Vol. IV: The Tomb of Baqet III (ACE Reports 42). Oxford: Aris and Phillips.

Nomarchs
Officials of the Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt


title: The Devil in I

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"The Devil in I" is a song by American heavy metal band Slipknot. Released as a single from the band's fifth album, .5: The Gray Chapter (2014). It is the second single for the album and the first to be released to radio and music channels, with the previous single "The Negative One" being a digital only single.

In an interview with Loudwire, singer Corey Taylor revealed that the then new bass player and drummer would both be on stage (as opposed to former bassist Donnie Steele who played backstage out of sight) and both would wear the same mask, as the band felt it would be disrespectful for them to have individual masks at that time. However, he did not reveal their identities as the band kept them in a period of anonymity for some time for unexplained reasons. It was later revealed that these two new members were Alessandro Venturella on bass (previously the guitarist of Cry for Silence) and Jay Weinberg on drums (previously from The Reveling, Against Me! and the son of American drummer Max Weinberg of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band).

Background
Shortly after the reveal of "The Negative One", another countdown was put up on Slipknot's official website telling fans to come back on August 11, 2014 at 10am PDT for "A special announcement". The announcement was delayed but eventually revealed the cover art for the new single titled "The Devil in I". This was disappointing for some fans as Corey Taylor had already revealed the title of the single in an interview for BBC Radio 1 on August 4.

Critical reception
Blabbermouth.net noted that the single "chugs out of a warbling doom line at the beginning and sets itself onto a morose but tuneful course with moody guitar chimes, dirge-loaded bass and empathetic swills from Corey Taylor," as well as noting that "The choruses are a little too safe, but a massive and quick-stepped breakdown plus a grinding bridge thereafter keeps the song robust and hectic."

Music video
Plans for a music video for the song were revealed by Corey Taylor during an interview for BBC Radio 1. The band put out a casting call asking for "human maggots" for a video that was shot on August 22 and 23, 2014. They requested people between the ages of 20 and 35 with the condition they be okay with filming barefoot.

On September 11, 2014, Slipknot uploaded a trailer for "The Devil in I" music video to be uploaded the succeeding heyday; the trailer highlighted two people in red shrouds with eye-holes cut out. The video was uploaded on September 12 and featured the band members in a mental asylum encompassed by fans dancing in straitjackets while the band performed. It also featured Corey in his All Hope Is Gone mask and Clown in his Iowa mask. Chris Fehn is also seen in his Memorial World Tour mask.

The band commits suicide in various ways, such as Corey Taylor setting a bomb off while he sits at a table, Mick Thomson ripping his face apart, Sid Wilson eating himself, Craig Jones being locked in an elevator with an attack dog, Chris Fehn pecked to death by crows, Jim Root blowing himself up with dynamite (losing his beard in the process), and Shawn Crahan lighting himself on fire and hanging himself. The video also features the two new members of the band. They can be seen roaming throughout the asylum as patients in wheelchairs. They are eventually cornered by the band, who proceed to stab the new members. This stabbing could resemble the two new members being "baptized" into Slipknot. They appear playing with the band at the song's last chorus, both wearing uniforms and disguised in equal revels.

As of September 2023, the video has over 405 million views on YouTube.

Track listing
All music and lyrics written, arranged and performed by Slipknot.
Digital Download
 "The Devil in I" – 5:42

Best Buy CD single
 "The Devil in I" – 6:00
 "The Negative One" – 5:25

EU promotional CD
 "The Devil in I"  – 6:00
 "The Devil in I"  – 4:12

UK promotional CD
 "The Devil in I"  – 4:11
 "The Devil in I"  – 5:42

Personnel
(#8) Corey Taylor – vocals
(#7) Mick Thomson – guitar
(#6) Shawn Crahan – percussion
(#5) Craig Jones – samples, media
(#4) Jim Root – guitar
(#3) Chris Fehn – percussion
(#0) Sid Wilson – turntables
Alex Venturella – bass
Jay Weinberg – drums

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

Slipknot (band) songs
2014 singles
2014 songs
Roadrunner Records singles
Groove metal songs
American hard rock songs
Songs written by Corey Taylor
Songs written by Jim Root


title: Joshua Memorial Park

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Joshua Memorial Park and Mortuary is a cemetery and mortuary in Lancaster, California. It is a popular location for the burials of notable local figures of the Antelope Valley.

Notable interments
 Paul Baxley (1923–2011) – Actor
 Raymond Hatton (1887–1971) – Actor
 George Hummel (1887–1965) – Businessman
 John B. McKay (1922–1975) – Astronaut
 Bruce Peterson (1933–2006) – Test Pilot, basis for "The Six Million Dollar Man"
 John Quade (1938–2009) – Actor
 Milton Orville Thompson (1926–1993) – Test pilot
 Joseph A. Walker (1921–1966) – Test pilot and astronaut
 Clarence White (1944–1973) – Bluegrass musician

References

External links

Cemeteries in Los Angeles County, California
Buildings and structures in Lancaster, California


title: Archibald A. Glenn

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Archibald Alexander Glenn (January 30, 1819 – May 21, 1901) was an American politician from Kentucky. Raised in Indiana, Glenn's father died when he was thirteen and Glenn had to provide for his family. In 1837, he moved to Illinois where he learned the printing trade and became a publisher. He campaigned for Henry Clay in 1844 then became a prominent politician in Brown County, Illinois. He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1872 and was named its president two years later; this made him the acting Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. After his term, he moved to Wichita, Kansas, where he held several political positions.

Biography
Archibald Alexander Glenn was born in Nicholas County, Kentucky, on January 30, 1819. When he was three, his family moved north to Indiana. In 1832, Glenn's father died and he was forced to forgo his education work on the family farm. When he was eighteen, Glenn moved to Rushville, Illinois, to learn the printing trade. There, he published the Rushville Whig until 1844. During that year's presidential election, Glenn spent most of his life's earnings campaigning for Henry Clay.

After the election, Glenn moved to Ripley, Illinois, where was named a justice of the peace and served as postmaster. He rose to become clerk of the county court and recorder of deeds. Glenn was a delegate to the Illinois constitutional convention of 1862 and served on the State Board of Equalization of Taxes. He also served for four years as the Brown County superintendent of schools. He was elected to the Illinois Senate as a Democrat in 1872 and served two two-year terms. He was elected President of the Illinois Senate for the second term; this made him the acting Lieutenant Governor of Illinois from 1875 to 1877. He would be the last Democrat to hold the position until 1893.

Once his term as Lieutenant Governor was complete in 1878, Glenn moved to Wichita, Kansas. Glenn specialized in pension law and was elected Police Judge in 1881. He served two terms as city treasurer.

Glenn married Lavinia Cooper on February 13, 1851; they had six children, though only two (William C. and Ella) survived to adulthood. Lavinia died on May 28, 1881, and Glenn later married Catherine Stricker on June 9, 1885. Glenn enjoyed studying math, Latin, and Greek in his free time. The family were member of the Disciples of Christ. Glenn died after an illness on May 21, 1901, and was buried in Ripley Cemetery in Ripley.

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1819 births
1901 deaths
American people of Scottish descent
Democratic Party Illinois state senators
Lieutenant Governors of Illinois
People from Brown County, Illinois
People from Nicholas County, Kentucky
Politicians from Wichita, Kansas
Kansas Democrats
People from Rushville, Illinois
19th-century American politicians


title: Dušan Škvarenina

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Dušan Škvarenina (16 October 1939 – 16 September 1997) was a Slovak cyclist. He competed in the tandem event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

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1939 births
1997 deaths
Slovak male cyclists
Czechoslovak male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Czechoslovakia
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
People from Krompachy
Sportspeople from the Košice Region


title: Carlos Rivero (baseball)

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Carlos Luis Rivero Milán (born May 20, 1988) is a Venezuelan professional baseball third baseman for the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos of the Mexican League. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox.

Rivero was originally signed by the Cleveland Indians as an international free agent in 2005, and played for them for five minor league seasons (2006–2010) before joining the Philadelphia Phillies (2011) and Washington Nationals (2012–2013) organizations. He initially began as a strong-armed shortstop before being moved to third base, and has also spent time in left field. The Red Sox signed him in December 2013.

In between, Rivero played winter baseball for the Leones del Caracas, Bravos de Margarita and Cardenales de Lara clubs of the LVBP.

Career

Cleveland Indians
The Venezuelan infielder ranked among the 20-top Cleveland prospects from 2007 through 2009. He also was rated twice by Baseball America as having the best infield arm in the Indians organization in the 2008 and 2009 seasons, before being named the best defensive third baseman in the International League in 2012 while playing for Washington affiliate the Syracuse Chiefs.

Rivero earned International League All-Star honors during the 2012 season when he played at Syracuse. Previously, he was named the 2007 South Atlantic League Mid-Season All-Star while playing for the Lake County Captains, also a Cleveland affiliate.

Boston Red Sox
Not long after signing him, the Red Sox assigned Rivero to Double A Portland Sea Dogs to start the 2014 season. He then gained a promotion to Triple A Pawtucket Red Sox during the midseason. He struggled after being called up to Triple-A, batting just .179 through eight games in the month of May. But Rivero improved the rest of the way, hitting .319 to go along with a .375 on-base percentage in June. He finished the month with a solid week, recording at least a hit in all seven games to be named the International League Batter of the Week. He went 12-for-28 (.429) during the seven-game span, raising his season average to .286. In addition, Rivero drove in five runs and scored six times, while compiling three extra-base hits, as his efforts helped Pawtucket conclude a 5-2 stretch. He often filled the designated hitter role when he was not playing on the field. Overall, he hit .262/.320/.379 with five homers and 36 RBI in 74 games for Pawtucket before joining the Boston Red Sox.

Major Leagues
After nine seasons in professional baseball, Rivero became a major leaguer when the Red Sox purchased his contract from Pawtucket on August 25, 2014 after placing shortstop Xander Bogaerts on the seven-day concussion disabled list. He made his major league debut on August 29, pinch hitting for Will Middlebrooks. He was walked in his only plate appearance.

Seattle Mariners
Rivero was claimed off waivers by the Seattle Mariners on November 3, 2014 but on December 2, 2014 he was non-tendered and became a free agent. However, they soon re-signed him to a minor league contract.

Second stint with Boston Red Sox
On August 9, 2015, Rivero was traded back to the Boston Red Sox for cash and assigned to Triple-A Pawtucket.

Arizona Diamondbacks
On November 18, 2015, Rivero signed a minor league deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks. He was assigned to Triple-A. Rivero signed a new minor league contract with the Diamondbacks on January 24, 2017. He was released on June 19, 2017.

Tokyo Yakult Swallows
On July 6, 2017, Rivero signed with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball.

Mexican League
On March 20, 2018, Rivero signed with the Toros de Tijuana of the Mexican League. He became a free agent following the season. Rivero signed with the Bravos de León for the 2019 season. On February 16, 2020, Rivero was traded to the Algodoneros de Unión Laguna. Rivero did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the LMB season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, Rivero batted .278/.338/.456 with 11 home runs and 53 RBIs in 65 games. He became a free agent following the season. On January 13, 2022, Rivero re-signed with the Bravos de León for the 2022 season. On July 14, 2022, he was traded to the Rieleros de Aguascalientes in exchange for P Hayato Takagi.

On December 12, 2022, Rivero was traded to the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos in exchange for Wilfredo Tovar.

Accident
On December 6, 2018, Rivero, Luis Valbuena, and José Castillo were in a car in Yaracuy driven by Rivero's chauffeur when the car struck a rock. The driver tried to avoid it, but crashed. Rivero and the driver survived, but Castillo and Valbuena were killed. Castillo, Rivero, and Valbuena were all members of Venezuelan winter team Cardenales de Lara, and had played a game the day of the accident.

See also
 List of Major League Baseball players from Venezuela

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
Akron Aeros players
Algodoneros de Unión Laguna players
Baseball first basemen
Baseball shortstops
Boston Red Sox players
Bravos de León players
Bravos de Margarita players
Burlington Indians players (1986–2006)
Cardenales de Lara players
Gulf Coast Indians players
Harrisburg Senators players
Kinston Indians players
Lake County Captains players
Lehigh Valley IronPigs players
Leones del Caracas players
Major League Baseball players from Venezuela
Major League Baseball third basemen
Mexican League baseball third basemen
Nippon Professional Baseball first basemen
Nippon Professional Baseball third basemen
Pawtucket Red Sox players
Baseball players from Barquisimeto
Peoria Saguaros players
Portland Sea Dogs players
Reading Phillies players
Reno Aces players
Syracuse Chiefs players
Tacoma Rainiers players
Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos players
Tokyo Yakult Swallows players
Toros de Tijuana players
Venezuelan expatriate baseball players in Japan
Venezuelan expatriate baseball players in Mexico
Venezuelan expatriate baseball players in the United States


title: Hobby horse polo

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Hobby horse polo () is a mixed team sport played on hobby horses. It is similar to other polo variants, such as canoe polo, cycle polo, camel polo, elephant polo, golfcart polo, Segway polo, auto polo, and yak polo in that it uses the basic polo rules, but it has its own specialities.

Origin
Hobby horse polo originated in 1998 as a mockery of the expensive hobbies of "polite society" in Heidelberg-Neuenheim, which led in 2002 to the foundation of the Erster Kurfürstlich-Kurpfälzischer Polo-Club in Mannheim. It has since become a trendy sport with various teams in German cities and gained some notoriety in the press.

Playing polo with hobby horses has been described as a children's game in classical polo regions. Hugh van Skyhawk, an Indologist and professor of Islamic studies in Mainz and Islamabad, described hobby horse polo played by young boys as part of the ceremonies of the traditional Gindni (harvest preparations) festival in Hispar.

In 2013 the Grütlihüüler Guggenmusik from Allenwinden (Baar, Switzerland) organized the first Steckenpferdpolo on Swiss soil.

Rules

The objective is to score goals against an opposing team. The goals are traditionally marked by bar stools in width and height, but simple street hockey goals can also be used. Players score by driving a softball ball (hard despite the name) into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled croquet mallet. A full match has six 6-minute-long chukkas (periods), and each team may consist of up to six people (depending on the size of the field and the amount of interest). The minimum size of the field is  long and  wide. A 'last man' rule applies, as any player may act as goalkeeper. As players need some protection against possible injuries, cleated shoes and shin guards are recommended. The mallets should be stable and are often taped to reduce the risk of losing the hammer head. It is recommended to hit the ball instead of other players.

Each game starts with the teams in line behind their own goals and the ball in the midfield. On the umpire's command "Polo go", the teams gallop against each other, in one hand their mallets, in the other their hobby horses, which have to be led between the legs of the player. It is not allowed to kick or stop the ball with the foot.

Fouls or failures to gallop or to listen to the umpires result in a "punitive sherry" (or other drink such as vodka or Jägermeister, based on the taste of the umpire, or the nonalcoholic Brottrunk) which has to be drunk on the spot. The German rules permit hobbling under the influence but require that it "look particularly silly" as prescribed by the Monty Python walking gag.

Swiss rules for ball in and out of play and the use of free kicks and time-outs are closer to association football and do not involve punitive sherries; instead free hits or penalties are applied for fouls. As the Swiss cavalry tradition keepers from Kavallerieverein Zug had been involved in the first tournament, riding boots are permitted but spurs are explicitly forbidden as well as the production of "road apples" on the field by either horse or rider. However, Swiss teams must confirm goals by neighing.

At the hobby horse polo tournaments in Düsseldorf, the victory cup "is not a cup, but a cheesecake", an homage to the traditional victor's quaffing from a milk bottle at the Indianapolis 500.

References

External links
 Rules of the Game, German, at the Erster Kurfürstlich-Kurpfälzisch Polo-Club Mannheim website
 Picture Gallery Düsseldorf tournament
 Frankfurter Rundschau Gallery

Children's games
Polo
Sport in Germany by sport
German humour
Sport in Switzerland by sport


title: Eclipse Project

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In 1997 and 1998 the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California, supported and hosted a Kelly Space & Technology, Inc. (KST) project Eclipse, which sought to demonstrate the feasibility of a reusable tow-launch vehicle concept.  The objectives were: demonstration of towed takeoff, climb-out, and separation of the EXD-01 from the towing aircraft; validation of simulation models of the towed aircraft systems; and development of ground and flight procedures for towing and launching a delta-winged airplane configuration safely behind a transport-type aircraft.

The NASA Eclipse Project was designed to examine the feasibility of towing a delta wing aircraft having high wing loading, validate the tow simulation model, and demonstrate various operational procedures, such as ground processing, in-flight maneuvers, and emergency abort scenarios.  Further project goals were to successfully tow, in-flight, a modified QF-106 delta-wing aircraft with an Air Force C-141A transport aircraft.  This would demonstrate the possibility of towing and launching an actual launch vehicle from behind a tow plane.  The project was conducted in 1997-1998, with F-106 Delta Dart airframes modified to QF-106 drones, towed behind C-141A cargo aircraft.

The Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) supplied the C-141A transport aircraft and crew and configuring the aircraft as required for the tests. The first test of the series took place on December 20, 1997, when NASA research pilot Mark Stucky flew a QF-106 on the first towed flight. Stucky flew six successful tow tests between December 1997 and February 6, 1998.  On February 6, 1998 the Eclipse project accomplished its sixth and final towed flight, bringing the project to a successful completion.

References

NASA vehicles


title: Alexandre Bourgeau

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Alexandre Bourgeau (August 18, 1828 – August 16, 1882) was a merchant and politician in Quebec.  He served as mayor of Aylmer from 1872 to 1873, from 1880 to 1881 and from 1881 to 1882.

The son of Alexandre Bourgeau and Madeleine Paradis, he was born in Lavaltrie, Quebec. Bourgeau became an orphan at the age of 14 and worked for a local notary for some time. Later he became a shoemaker and came to Aylmer in 1846. The following year, he married Sophie Noël. He served on Aylmer municipal council several times between 1850 and 1870 and then from 1873 to 1877. He was official assigner for the court and a regional director for the Upper Ottawa Steamboat Company. He also was a money lender and sold lumber and charcoal. Bourgeau served as secretary and then chair for the Aylmer school board. He was elected mayor for the last time in February 1882 and he died several months later.

References

1828 births
1882 deaths
Mayors of places in Quebec
People from Lanaudière


title: Wayside Chapel, Rosamond, California

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Wayside Chapel is a chapel in Rosamond, California. It was built in the 1940s, funded largely by George Hummel, who sold off Mission land in lots to pay for it. Thomas Irvin Bailey was a pastor here from 1968.

References

External links
Official site

Churches in Kern County, California
Rosamond, California


Ivano-Frankivsk Theological Academy of Greek-Catholic Church is a Ukrainian University in Ivano-Frankivsk.

Ivano-Frankivsk Theological and Catechetical Theological Institute was reorganized in 2000 into the Ivano-Frankivsk Theological Academy.

On July 30, 2014, the Theological Academy was renamed Ivano-Frankivsk Theological University named after St. John Chrysostom.

On May 21, 2018, the university was reorganized into a private institution of higher education "Ivano-Frankivsk Academy of Ivan Zolotousty"

The purpose of the academy is the development of theological and philosophical sciences and related disciplines.

History
The university opened on July 21, 1991, as Ivano-Frankivsk Theological-Catechetical Spiritual Institute on the basis of the Ivano-Frankivsk Theological Seminary. The seminary continued on separately as Ivano-Frankivsk Higher Spiritual Seminary. In 1996, the first entrants finished the Theological Institute. In 2000, on the basis of the Spiritual Institute, the Ivano-Frankivsk Theological Academy was founded.

After coming out of the UGCC underground in 1989 and the proclamation of Ukraine's independence in 1991, active work began to resume the educational process at the Ivano-Frankivsk Theological Seminary of the UGCC named after St. Martyr Josaphat, which was the first in the former USSR. It hosted in-service and part-time training for serving clerics and future clerics. Auditoriums were rented for lectures in various institutions of the city, but the main room was the assembly hall of the Basilian monastery in Maizly (Ivano-Frankivsk). This choice was due to the fact that the first room of the seminary on Sirika Street 3 could not accommodate all students.

The teachers were professors educated before the Second World War, some of the teachers were from local universities, and teachers from Ukrainian emigration were also invited. Initially, more than 400 seminarians entered the first year, and the following year the number of seminarians, including distance learning, was about 900 people. Ordinary Bishop Sofron Dmyterko of Ivano-Frankivsk made efforts to establish and organize the educational institution. It was he who began to seek the return of the building on Sister Vasilianok Street for the establishment of a theological school there. He also initiated repairs in it for fitness for training. Iryna Bilyk was appointed the third rector of the Seminary in 1990.

On July 25, 1991, the Ivano-Frankivsk Theological and Catechetical Theological Institute was registered by the Council for Religion under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR (State Com. Of Religions), and the seminary continued its activities separately as the Ivano-Frankivsk Higher Theological Seminary. seminary". With the new registration and the involvement of more professors on the basis of this seminary in 1996 began graduating from the Theological Institute. It later became the current Theological Academy. Nuns and candidates for monasticism began to study at the catechetical and pedagogical faculty. Priests returned from abroad after defending their degrees and joined the teaching staff of emigration teachers.

The establishment of the Theological Academy was made by the bishop of the Ivano-Frankivsk diocese Sofron Mudry [2], who was a professor during its existence as the "Ivano-Frankivsk Theological and Catechetical Spiritual Institute". He was appointed in 1994 the fourth rector of the Ivano-Frankivsk seminary. Among the first students were not only natives of Ukraine, but also from the Republic of Belarus, Marmara region (Romania), the Russian Federation and others.

Institutes and faculties
4 Faculties function in the structure of the university.

Faculty of Philosophy
Faculty of Theology
Catechetical and Pedagogical Faculty
Cantor and Regency Faculty

References
 Official site
 History

Universities and colleges in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Education in Ivano-Frankivsk
Greek Catholic universities and academies in Ukraine


title: El Gora Airport

text:
El Gora Airport  is an airport serving the town of El Gorah, in the North Sinai Governorate of Egypt,  from the border with Israel, and  from the southern tip of the Gaza Strip.

See also

Transport in Egypt
List of airports in Egypt

References

External links
OurAirports – Egypt
  Great Circle Mapper – El Gora
El Gora Airport
OpenStreetMap – El Gora
 Google Earth

Airports in Egypt


title: Navajo grammar

text:
Navajo is a "verb-heavy" language – it has a great preponderance of verbs but relatively few nouns. In addition to verbs and nouns, Navajo has other elements such as pronouns, clitics of various functions, demonstratives, numerals, postpositions, adverbs, and conjunctions, among others. Harry Hoijer grouped all of the above into a word-class he called particles (i.e., Navajo would then have verbs, nouns, and particles). Navajo has no words that would correspond to adjectives in English grammar: verbs provide the adjectival functionality.

Verbs
The key element in Navajo is the verb. Verbs are composed of an abstract stem to which inflectional or derivational prefixes are added. Every verb must have at least one prefix. The prefixes are affixed to the verb in a specified order.

The Navajo verb can be sectioned into different components. The verb stem is composed of an abstract root and an often fused suffix. The stem together with a "classifier" prefix (and sometimes other thematic prefixes) make up the verb theme. The thematic prefixes are prefixes that are non-productive, have limited derivational function, and no longer have a clearly defined meaning. Examples of thematic prefixes, include the archaic yá- prefix, which only occurs on the verb stem -tééh/-tiʼ meaning "to talk" as in yáłtiʼ "he's talking". The theme is then combined with derivational prefixes that in turn make up the verb base. Finally, inflectional prefixes (which Young & Morgan call "paradigmatic prefixes") are affixed to the base – producing a complete Navajo verb.

Verb template
The prefixes that occur on a Navajo verb are added in specified more or less rigid order according to prefix type. This type of morphology is called a position class template (or slot-and-filler template). Below is a table of a recent proposal of the Navajo verb template (Young & Morgan 1987). Edward Sapir and Harry Hoijer were the first to propose an analysis of this type. A given verb does not have a prefix for every position. In fact, most Navajo verbs are not as complex as the template might suggest: the maximum number of prefixes is around eight.

The Navajo verb is composed of a verb stem and a set of prefixes. The prefixes can be divided into a conjunct prefix set and disjunct prefix set. The disjunct prefixes occur on the outer left edge of the verb. The conjunct prefixes occur after the disjunct prefixes, closer to the verb stem. Two types of prefixes can be distinguished by their different phonological behavior.

{| class="wikitable" frame=void style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center; white-space:nowrap;"
|-
| disjunct prefixes
| conjunct prefixes
| stem
|}

The prefix complex may be subdivided into 11 positions, with some of the positions having even further subdivisions:

Although prefixes are generally found in a specific position, some prefixes change order by the process of metathesis. For example, prefix ʼa- (3i object pronoun) usually occurs before di-, as in

  ʼadisbąąs "I'm starting to drive some kind of wheeled vehicle along" [ ← ʼa- + di- + sh- + ł + -bąąs].

However, when ʼa- occurs with the prefixes di- and ni-, the ʼa- metathesizes with di-, leading to an order of di- + ʼa- + ni-, as in

 diʼnisbąąs "I'm in the act of driving some vehicle (into something) & getting stuck" [ ← di-ʼa-ni-sh-ł-bąąs ← ʼa- + di- + ni- + sh- + ł + -bąąs]

instead of the expected  ʼadinisbąąs (ʼa-di-ni-sh-ł-bąąs) (ʼa- is reduced to ʼ-).

Although the verb template model of analysis has been traditionally used to describe the Navajo verb, other analyses have been proposed by Athabascanists.

Pronominal inflection

Navajo verbs have pronominal (i.e. pronoun) prefixes that mark both subjects and objects. The prefixes can vary in certain modes, particularly the perfective mode (See Mode and Aspect section below for a discussion of modes). The prefixes are inflected according to person and number. The basic subject prefixes (and their abbreviations as used by Young & Morgan) are listed in the table below:

{| class="IPA wikitable" frame=void style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center; white-space:nowrap;"
! rowspan="2" | Number !! colspan="2" | Subject prefixes !! colspan="2" | Object prefixes
|-
! Singular !! Dual-plural !! Singular !! Dual-plural
|-
! First (1)
| -sh- || -Vd- || shi- || rowspan="2" | nihi-
|-
! Second (2)
| ni- || -oh- || ni-
|-
! Third (3)
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" | -∅- || colspan="2" | bi-
|-
! Third (3o)
| colspan="2" | yi-
|-
! Fourth (3a)
| colspan="2" | ji- || colspan="2" | ha- ~ ho-
|-
! Indefinite (3i)
| colspan="2" | ʼa- || colspan="2" | ʼa-
|-
! Space (3s)
| colspan="2" | ha- ~ ho- || colspan="2" | ha- ~ ho-
|-
! Reflexive
| colspan="2" | – || colspan="2" | (ʼá)-di-
|-
! Reciprocal
| colspan="2" | – || colspan="2" | ʼahi-
|}

The subject prefixes occur in two different positions. The first and second subject prefixes (-sh-, -Vd-, ni-, -oh-) occur in position 8 directly before the classifier prefixes. The fourth, indefinite, and "space" subject prefixes (ji-, ʼa-, ha-~ho-) are known as "deictic subject pronouns" and occur in position 5. The third person subject is marked by the absence of a prefix, which is usually indicated with a zero prefix -∅- in position 8. The object prefixes can occur in position 4 as direct objects, in position 1a as "null postpositions", or in position 0 as the object of postpositions that have been incorporated into the verb complex.

The fourth person subject prefix ji- is a kind of obviative third person. It refers primarily to persons or personified animals (unlike the regular third person). It has a number of uses including:
 referring to the main character in narratives
 distinguishing between two third person referents
 referring politely or impersonally to certain socially-distant individuals (e.g. when speaking to opposite-sex siblings and relatives through marriage, giving admonitions, speaking of the dead)
When used as an impersonal, it may be translated into English as "one" as in béésh bee njinéego hálaʼ da jiigish "one can cut one's hand playing with knives". The "space" prefix can be translated as "area, place, space, impersonal it" as in halgai "the area/place is white" and nahałtin "it is raining". The prefix has two forms: ha- and ho- with ho- having derived forms such as hw- and hwi-.

An example paradigm for "to freeze" (imperfective mode) showing the subject prefixes:

{| class="IPA wikitable" frame=void style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; white-space:nowrap;"
!
! colspan="2" | Singular
! colspan="2" | Dual-Plural
|-
! First
| yishtin
| "I freeze"
| yiitin
| "we (2+) freeze"
|-
! Second
| nitin
| "you freeze"
| wohtin
| "you (2+) freeze"
|-
! Third
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center" | yitin "he/she/it/they freeze"
|-
! Fourth (3a)
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center" | jitin "he/she/they freeze"
|-
! Indefinite (3i)
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center" | atin "someone/something freezes"
|}

Classifiers (transitivity prefixes)
The "classifiers" are prefixes of position 9 (the closest to the verb stem) that affect the transitivity of the verb, in that they are valence and voice markers.  Calling them "classifiers" is a misnomer, however, as they do not classify anything and are not related to the classificatory verb stems (which actually do classify nouns, see classificatory verbs below). There are four classifiers: -∅-, -ł-, -d-, -l-. The -∅- classifier is the absence of a prefix, which is usually indicated by a null morpheme.

The -ł- classifier is a causative-transitivizing prefix of active verbs. It often can transitivize an intransitive -∅- verb: yibéézh "it's boiling" (yi-∅-béézh), yiłbéézh "he's boiling it (yi-ł-béézh); naʼniyęęsh "somethings flows about in a meandering fashion" (naʼni-∅-yęęsh), naʼniłhęęsh "he's making it flow about in a meandering fashion" (naʼni-ł-yęęsh).

The -d- classifier occurs in most passive, mediopassive, reflexive, and reciprocal verbs that are derived from verbs with a -∅- classifier: yizéés "he's singeing it" (yi-∅-zéés), yidéés "it's being singed" (yi-d-zéés).

The -l- occurs in most passive, mediopassive, reflexive, and reciprocal verbs that are derived from verbs with a -ł- classifier: néíłtsááh "he's drying it" (ná-yi-ł-tsááh), náltsááh it's being dried" (ná-l-tsááh).

Some verbs can occur with all four classifier prefixes:
 siʼą́ "roundish object lies in position" (-∅-ʼą́)
 haatʼą́ "roundish object was taken up & out (i.e. extracted)" (-d-ʼą́)
 séłʼą́ "I keep a roundish object in position" (-ł-ʼą́)
 néshʼą́ "I have my head in position" (-l-ʼą́)

In other verbs, the classifiers do not mark transitivity and are considered thematic prefixes that simply are required to occur with certain verb stems.

Modes, aspects and tenses

Navajo has a large number of aspectual, modal, and tense distinctions that are indicated by verb stem alternations (involving vowel and tonal ablaut and suffixation) often in combination with a range of prefixes. These are divided into seven "modes" and approximately twelve aspects and ten subaspects. (Although the term mode is traditionally used, most of the distinctions provided by the modes are in fact aspectual.) Each Navajo verb generally can occur in a number of mode and aspect category combinations.

Modes
Navajo has the following verb modes:
 Imperfective (describes an action/event that began but is seen as incomplete)
 Perfective (describes an action/event that began and is seen as complete)
 Progressive (describes an action/event that is ongoing)
 Future
 Usitative (describes an action/event that happens customarily but not always)
 Iterative (describes an action/event that happens repeatedly)
 Optative (describes a potential action/event in terms of the speaker’s wishes)

The modes above may have up to five distinct verb stem forms. The progressive and future modes share the same stem form as do the usitative and iterative modes. The optative mode usually has the same verb stem as the imperfective mode, although for some verbs the stem forms differ (in the example "to play, tease" below, the perfective and the optative stems are the same). For example, the verb meaning "to play, tease" has the following five stem forms for the seven modes:

Imperfective
The imperfective indicates an event/action that has begun but remains incomplete. Although this mode does not refer to tense, it can usually be translated into English as a present tense form: yishááh "I'm (in the act of) going/coming", yishą́ "I'm (in the act of) eating (something)". With the addition of adverbials, the imperfective can be used for events/actions in the past, present, or future. The mode is used in the second person for immediate imperatives. The imperfective mode has a distinct imperfective stem form and four different mode-aspect prefix paradigms: (1) with a ni- terminative prefix in position 7 as in nishááh "I'm in the act of arriving", (2) with a si- stative prefix in position 7 as in shishʼaah "I'm in the act of placing a SRO" in dah shishʼaah "I'm in the act of placing a SRO up" (dah "up"), (3) with no prefix in position 7, usually identified as a ∅- prefix, as in yishcha "I'm crying", (4) with either a yi- transitional or yi- semelfactive prefix in position 6 (and no prefix in position 7).

Perfective
The perfective indicates an event/action that has been completed. When referring to past situations, it usually corresponds to English simple past: yíyáʼ "I went/came/arrived", yíyą́ą́ʼ "I ate (something)". However, since the perfective mode is not a tense, it can be used to refer non-past actions, such as the future (where it may be translated as English "will have" + VERB). The perfective mode has a distinct perfective stem form and four different prefix paradigms: (1) with a yí- perfective prefix with a high tone in position 7 as in yíchʼid "I scratched it", (2) with a ní- terminative prefix with a high tone in position 7 as in níyá "I arrived", (3) with a sí- stative prefix with high tone in position 7 as in sélį́į́ʼ "I roasted it", (4) with a yi- transitional prefix in position 6 (and ∅- in position 7) as in yiizįʼ "I stood up".

Progressive and future
The progressive indicates an incomplete event/action that is ongoing without reference to the beginning or end of the event/action. This mode may be translated into English as BE + VERB-ing + "along": yishááł "I'm going/walking along", yishtééł "I'm carrying it along".

The future mode is primarily a future tense – indicating a prospective event/action: deeshááł "I'll go/come", deeshį́į́ł "I'll eat (something)". The progressive mode has a yi- progressive prefix (in position 7), the future has a di- inceptive prefix (in position 6) and the yi- progressive prefix.

Usitative
The usitative indicates a repetitive event/action that takes place customarily: yishááh "I usually go", yishdlį́į́h "I always drink (something)". The iterative is a frequentative indicating a recurrent event/action that takes place repeatedly and customarily: chʼínáshdááh "repeatedly go out" as in ahbínígo tłʼóóʼgóó chʼínáshdááh "I always (repeatedly) go outdoors in the morning" (ahbínígo "in the morning", tłʼóóʼgóó "outdoors"), náshdlį́į́h "drink (something) repeatedly" as in nínádiishʼnahgo gohwééh náshdlį́į́h "I drink coffee when I get up" (nínádiishʼnahgo "when I get up", gohwééh "coffee"). The iterative is distinguished from the usitative by a ná- repetitive prefix (in position 2) and also sometimes by a -d- or -ł- classifier prefix (in position 9).

Optative
The optative indicates a positive or negative desire or wish. The mode is used with the addition of adverbial particles that follow the verb, such as laanaa and lágo: nahółtą́ą́ʼ laanaa "I wish it would rain", nahółtą́ą́ʼ lágo "I hope it doesn't rain". With punctual verbs, the optative mode can be used to form a negative imperative: shinóółʼį́į́ʼ (lágo) "don't look at me!". In certain adverbial frames, the optative indicates positive or negative potential.

Aspects and subaspects
The Primary aspects:
 Momentaneous – punctually (takes place point in time)
 Continuative – indefinite span of time & movement with specified direction
 Durative – indefinite span of time, non-locomotive uninterrupted continuum
 Repetitive – continuum of repeated acts or connected series of acts
 Conclusive – like durative but in perfective terminates with static sequel
 Semelfactive – single act in repetitive series of acts
 Distributive – distributive manipulation of objects or performance of actions
 Diversative – movement distributed among things (similar to distributive)
 Reversative – result in directional change
 Conative – attempted action
 Transitional – shift from one state to another
 Cursive – progression in a line through time/space (only progressive mode)

The subaspects:
 Completive – event/action simply takes place
 Terminative – stopping of action
 Stative – sequentially durative and static
 Inceptive – beginning of action
 Terminal – inherently terminal action
 Prolongative – arrested beginning or ending of action
 Seriative – interconnected series of successive separate & distinct acts
 Inchoative – focus on beginning of non-locomotion action
 Reversionary – return to previous state/location
 Semeliterative – single repetition of event/action

Navajo modes co-occur with various aspects. For example, the verb "rain falls" can occur in the perfective mode with the momentaneous and distributive aspects: -tsąąʼ (perfective momentaneous), -tsįʼ (perfective distributive). As with the modes, different aspects have different stem forms even when in the same mode, as seen with the previous "rain falls" perfective stems. Thus, a given verb has a set of stem forms that can be classified into both a mode and an aspect category. Verb stem paradigms of mode and aspect are given below for two different verbs:

As can be seen above, some aspect and mode combinations do not occur depending mostly upon the semantics of the particular verb. Additionally, some aspects do not occur at all with a particular verb. The patterns of verb stem alternations are very complex although there is a significant amount of homophony. A particularly important investigation into this area of the Navajo verb is Hardy (1979).

Classificatory verbs

Navajo has verb stems that classify a particular object by its shape or other physical characteristics in addition to describing the movement or state of the object. Athabaskan linguistics identifies these as classificatory verb stems and  usually identifies them with an acronym label. The eleven primary classificatory "handling" verb stems appear listed below (in the perfective mode):

To compare with English, Navajo has no single verb that corresponds to the English word give. To say the equivalent of Give me some hay!, the Navajo verb níłjool (NCM) must be used, while for Give me a cigarette! the verb nítįįh (SSO) must be used. The English verb give is expressed by eleven different verbs in Navajo, depending on the characteristics of the given object.

In addition to defining the physical properties of the object, primary classificatory verb stems also can distinguish between the manner of movement of the object. The stems may then be grouped into three different categories:

 handling
 propelling
 free flight

Handling includes actions such as carrying, lowering, and taking. Propelling includes tossing, dropping, and throwing. Free flight includes falling, and flying through space.

Using an example for the SRO category, Navajo has

 -ʼą́ "to handle (a round object)",
 -neʼ "to throw (a round object)", and
 -l-tsʼid "(a round object) moves independently".

yi-/bi- Alternation (animacy)
Like most Athabaskan languages, Southern Athabaskan languages show various levels of animacy in its grammar, with certain nouns taking specific verb forms according to their rank in this animacy hierarchy.  For instance, Navajo nouns can be ranked by animacy on a continuum from most animate (a human or lightning) to least animate (an abstraction) (Young & Morgan 1987: 65–66):

humans/lightning → infants/big animals → midsize animals → small animals → insects → natural forces → inanimate objects/plants → abstractions

Generally, the most animate noun in a sentence must occur first while the noun with lesser animacy occurs second.  If both nouns are equal in animacy, then either noun can occur in the first position. So, both example sentences (1) and (2) are correct.  The yi- prefix on the verb indicates that the 1st noun is the subject and bi- indicates that the 2nd noun is the subject.

But example sentence (3) sounds wrong to most Navajo speakers because the less animate noun occurs before the more animate noun:

To express this idea requires that the more animate noun occur first, as in sentence (4):

Note that although sentence (2) and (4) are translated into English with a passive verb, in Navajo it is not passive. Passive verbs are formed by certain classifier prefixes (i.e., transitivity prefixes) that occur directly before the verb stem in position 9. The yi-/bi- prefixes do not mark sentences as active or passive, but as direct or inverse.

Nouns
Many concepts expressed using nouns in other languages appear as verbs in Navajo. The majority of true nouns are not inflected for number, and there is no case marking. Noun phrases are often not needed to form grammatical sentences due to the informational content of the verb.

There are two main types of nouns in Navajo:

 simple nouns and
 nouns derived from verbs (called deverbal nouns)

The simple nouns can be distinguished by their ability to be inflected with a possessive prefix, as in

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Noun stem
! Gloss
! Inflected
|-
|
| "knife"
|
|-
|
| "pack"
|
|}

Deverbal nouns are verbs (or verb phrases) that have been nominalized with a nominalizing enclitic or converted into a noun through zero derivation (that is, verbs that are used syntactically as nouns without an added nominalizer). An example of a nominalized verb is  "clock", which is derived from the verb  "it is moved slowly in a circle" and the enclitic nominalizer . Another example is the deverbal noun  "singer" (from verb  "he sings" + nominalizing enclitic ). Converted deverbal nouns include  "exit, doorway" and  "Phoenix, Arizona" – when used as verbs  may be translated into English as "something has a path horizontally out" and  as "place/space is hot". Deverbal nouns can potentially be long and complex, such as

 the nominalized noun  "caterpillar tractor"
 the noun  "cannon"
 the postposition  "on it"
 the verb  "they sit up"
 the nominalizer

Possession
Possession in Navajo is expressed with personal pronoun prefixes:

{| class="IPA wikitable" frame=void style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; white-space:nowrap;"
!
! Singular
! Dual
! Plural
|-
! First
| shi-
| nihi-
| danihi-
|-
! Second
| ni-
| nihi-
| danihi-
|-
! Third
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center" | bi-
|-
! Fourth (3o)
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center" | yi-
|-
! Fourth (3a)
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center" | ha-, hw-
|-
! Indefinite (3i)
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center" | a-
|}

Most of the time, these prefixes take a low tone, but in some nouns and postpositions, the final syllable of the prefix takes a high tone, such as shílaʼ "my hand," nihílaʼ "our/your hand."

The prefixes are also used when the possessor noun in a possessive phrase is a noun, as in Jáan bimá lit. "John his-mother," i.e., "John's mother."

Navajo marks inalienable possession for certain nouns – relatives, body parts, homes and dens.  These nouns can only appear with a possessive prefix, as in shimá "my mother."  If one wishes to speak of mothers in general, the 3rd person indefinite prefix ʼa- "someone's" is used, amá.

Postpositions
Navajo uses a number of postpositions where European languages tend to favor prepositions; thus, all spatial and most other relations such as under, on, or above are expressed by using the possessive prefix in combination with a postposition. All postpositions are inalienable, meaning that a prefix or fusion with a true noun is mandatory.

Examples include biyaa (under it), bikááʼ (on it), and bitah (among it). These can be combined with all prefixes to construct forms such as shiyaa (under me). Occasionally, postpositions are fused with true nouns to form a single word, such as Dinétah.

Numerals
Navajo uses a decimal (base-10) numeral system. There are unique words for the cardinal numbers 1–10. The numerals 11–19 are formed by adding an additive "plus 10" suffix  to the base numerals 1–9. The numerals 20–100 are formed by adding a multiplicative "times 10" suffix  to the base numerals 2–10.

{| class="wikitable"
!  !! base numeral
| rowspan="11" style="background-color: lightgrey;" |
! colspan="2" | +10 ()
| rowspan="11" style="background-color: lightgrey;" |
! colspan="2" | x10 ()
|-
! 1
|  ||  || (11)
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | –
|-
! 2
|  ||  || (12) ||  || (20)
|-
! 3
|  ||  || (13) ||  || (30)
|-
! 4
|  ||  || (14) ||  || (40)
|-
! 5
|  ||  || (15) ||  || (50)
|-
! 6
|  ||  || (16) ||  || (60)
|-
! 7
|  ||  || (17) ||  || (70)
|-
! 8
|  ||  || (18) ||  || (80)
|-
! 9
|  ||  || (19) ||  || (90)
|-
! 10
|
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | –
|  || (100)
|}

In the compound numerals, the combining forms of the base numerals have irregular vowel and consonants changes. The numeral "1" has three forms:
  (used in counting "one", "two", "three", etc.)
  (a shortened combining form)
  (used in larger numbers and with a distributive plural prefix)

The combining form  is used in the compound  "11". The numeral  loses the final  consonant while the final vowel in  is shortened when the  "+10" suffix is added. The suffix loses its initial  becoming   when added to  "5". Several changes occur when the  suffix is added involving a loss of the final consonant or a reduction in vowel length:
  →
  →
  →
  →
  →
  →
  →
  →
  →

For the cardinal numerals higher than 20 between the multiples of 10 (i.e., 21–29, 31–39, 41–49, etc.), there are two types of formations. The numerals 21–29 and 41–49 are formed by suffixing the ones digit to the tens digit, as in  "22" ( ←  "20" +  "2") and  "41" ( ←  "40" +  "1"). Here the  suffix appears in the combining form . The combining form  "1" is used as well:

{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2" | 20
| rowspan="12" style="background-color: lightgrey;" |
! colspan="2" | 40
|-
|  || (20) ||  || (40)
|-
! colspan="2" | 21–29
! colspan="2" | 41–49
|-
|  || (21) ||  || (41)
|-
|  || (22) ||  || (42)
|-
|  || (23) ||  || (43)
|-
|  || (24) ||  || (44)
|-
|  || (25) ||  || (45)
|-
|  || (26) ||  || (46)
|-
|  || (27) ||  || (47)
|-
|  || (28) ||  || (48)
|-
|  || (29) ||  || (49)
|}

The other numerals are formed by placing dóó baʼąą "and in addition to it" between the tens digit and the ones digit, as in tádiin dóó baʼąą tʼááłáʼí "thirty-one" and ashdladiin dóó baʼąą tʼááʼ "fifty-three". The numerals 41–49 may also be formed in this manner: "forty-two dízdiin dóó baʼąą naaki or dízdįįnaaki.

The cardinal numerals 100–900 are formed by adding the multiplicative enclitic =di to the base numerals 1–9 and adding the word for "hundred" neeznádiin, as in tʼááłáhádí neeznádiin "one hundred", naakidi neeznádiin "two hundred", táadi neeznádiin "three hundred".

{| class="IPA wikitable" frame=void style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; white-space:nowrap;"
!  !! base numeral !! x100 (=di + neeznádiin)
|-
! 1
| tʼááłáʼí || tʼááłáhádí neeznádiin (100)
|-
! 2
| naaki || naakidi neeznádiin (200)
|-
! 3
| tááʼ || táadi neeznádiin (300)
|-
! 4
| dį́į́ʼ || dį́įʼdi neeznádiin (400)
|-
! 5
| ashdlaʼ || ashdladi neeznádiin (500)
|-
! 6
| hastą́ą́h || hastą́ądi neeznádiin (600)
|-
! 7
| tsostsʼid || tsostsʼidi neeznádiin (700)
|-
! 8
| tseebíí || tseebíidi neeznádiin (800)
|-
! 9
| náhástʼéí || náhástʼéidi neeznádiin (900)
|}

The base numerals with a high tone in the last syllable change to a falling tone before =di.

For the thousands, the word mííl (from Spanish mil) is used in conjunction with =di: tʼááłáhádí mííl "one thousand", naakidi mííl "two thousand", etc. The word for "million" is formed by adding the stem -tsoh "big" to mííl: mííltsoh "million" as in tʼááłáhádí mííltsoh "one million", naakidi mííltsoh "two million", etc.

References

External links

 Remarks on the syntax of the Navajo verb part I: Preliminary observations on the structure of the verb (Ken Hale), lingphil.mit.edu

 A Computational Analysis of Navajo Verb Stems (David Eddington & Jordan Lachler), linguistics.byu.edu
 Grammaticization of Tense in Navajo: The Evolution of nt’éé (Chee, Ashworth, Buescher & Kubacki), linguistics.ucsb.edu
 A methodology for the investigation of speaker’s knowledge of structure in Athabaskan (Joyce McDonough & Rachel Sussman), urresearch.rochester.edu
 How to use Young and Morgan’s The Navajo Language (Joyce McDonough), www.researchgate.net
 Time in Navajo: Direct and Indirect Interpretation (Carlota S. Smith, Ellavina T. Perkins, Theodore B. Fernald), www.researchgate.net
 OLAC Resources in and about the Navajo language

Native American grammars
Grammar


title: Spring 1990 (The Other One)

text:
Spring 1990 (The Other One) is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead.  Packaged as a box set, it contains eight complete concerts on 23 CDs, recorded during the band's spring 1990 concert tour. It was produced as a limited edition of 9,000 numbered copies, and was released by Rhino Records on September 9, 2014. In addition to the music CDs, the box set includes a 144-page paperback book, three art prints, and replica tickets stubs and backstage passes from all eight shows.

Spring 1990 (The Other One) is a follow-up to the Spring 1990 box set, released in 2012, which contained six other concerts from the same tour, on 18 CDs. Between those two box sets and the albums Dozin' at the Knick, Postcards of the Hanging, Without a Net and Terrapin Station (Limited Edition), the entire spring 1990 concert tour has been officially released. This is the second complete tour by the band to be released officially (following Europe 72: The Complete Recordings and preceding July 1978: The Complete Recordings), though several venue runs have also been released, as well as the middle of the May 1977 tour (released in 2013 as live album May 1977).

One of the concerts included in Spring 1990 (The Other One) – the one recorded on March 29, 1990 at Nassau Coliseum, with Branford Marsalis sitting in on saxophone for much of the show – was also released separately on September 9, 2014, as the album Wake Up to Find Out.

Spring 1990 (The Other One) was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package.

Concerts
Spring 1990 (The Other One) contains the following complete concerts:
March 14, 1990 – Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland
March 18, 1990 – Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, Connecticut
March 21, 1990 – Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario
March 25, 1990 – Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, New York
March 28, 1990 – Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York
March 29, 1990 – Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York
April 1, 1990 – The Omni, Atlanta
April 3, 1990 – The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia

Personnel
Grateful Dead
Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
Mickey Hart – drums
Bill Kreutzmann – drums
Phil Lesh – electric bass, vocals
Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals
Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
Additional musicians
Branford Marsalis – saxophone at the March 29 concert
Production
Produced by Grateful Dead
Produced for release by David Lemieux
Recording: John Cutler
Mixing: Jeffrey Norman
Mastering: David Glasser
Artwork: Jessica Dessner

Track listing

March 14, 1990 – Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland
Disc 1
First set:
"Cold Rain and Snow" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:56
"Feel Like a Stranger" (Bob Weir, John Barlow)  – 7:44
"Never Trust a Woman" (Brent Mydland) – 6:27
"Mama Tried" > (Merle Haggard) – 2:31
"Big River" (Johnny Cash)  – 5:21
"Loose Lucy" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 6:56
"Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" (Bob Dylan) – 8:50
"Row Jimmy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:17
"Let It Grow" (Weir, Barlow) – 11:54
Disc 2
Second set:
"Crazy Fingers" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:12
"Playing in the Band" > (Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 10:27
"Uncle John's Band" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:05
"Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 7:12
"Drums" > (Hart, Bill Kreutzmann) – 7:38
"Space" > (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Mydland, Weir) – 6:34
"Dear Mr. Fantasy" > (Steve Winwood, Chris Wood, Jim Capaldi) – 5:53
"I Need a Miracle" > (Weir, Barlow) – 4:07
"Black Peter" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:53
"Turn On Your Lovelight" (Joseph Scott, Deadric Malone) – 6:01
Encore:
"Black Muddy River" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:00
Note

First "Loose Lucy" since Oct. 19, 1974

March 18, 1990 – Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, Connecticut
Disc 1
First set:
"Shakedown Street" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 12:45
"Little Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon) – 9:28
"Stagger Lee" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:29
"Me and My Uncle" > (John Phillips) – 3:08
"Mexicali Blues" (Weir, Barlow) – 5:22
"Friend of the Devil" (Garcia, John Dawson, Hunter) – 8:44
"Just a Little Light" (Mydland, Barlow) – 5:55
"When I Paint My Masterpiece" (Dylan) – 5:32
"Ramble On Rose" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:02
"The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow) – 7:38
Disc 2
Second set:
"Iko Iko" (James Crawford) – 8:08
"Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow) – 8:27
"He's Gone" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:56
"Truckin'" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 8:54
"Spoonful" > (Dixon) – 7:19
"Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 6:52
Disc 3
"Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Mydland, Weir) – 11:23
"The Wheel" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:49
"All Along the Watchtower" > (Dylan) – 6:06
"Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 11:32
Encore:
"U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:31

March 21, 1990 – Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario
Disc 1
First set:
"Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:33
"New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:36
"Far From Me" (Mydland) – 5:05
"Queen Jane Approximately" (Dylan) – 6:29
"Loose Lucy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:27
"Victim or the Crime" > (Weir, Gerrit Graham) – 8:07
"Standing on the Moon" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:00
"Promised Land" (Chuck Berry) – 4:53
Disc 2
Second set:
"Hey Pocky Way" (Joseph Modeliste, Art Neville, Leo Nocentelli, George Porter Jr.) – 7:10
"Crazy Fingers" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 07:38
"Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 5:30
"Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow) – 11:51
"He's Gone" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 12:42
"Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 9:37
Disc 3
"Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Mydland, Weir) – 7:39
"I Need a Miracle" >  (Weir, Barlow) – 4:16
"Wharf Rat" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:41
"Throwing Stones" > (Weir, Barlow) – 8:59
"Turn On Your Lovelight" (Scott, Malone) – 6:51
Encore:
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (Dylan) – 7:10
Note

March 25, 1990 – Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, New York
Disc 1
First set:
"Greatest Story Ever Told" > (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 4:06
"Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:42
"Wang Dang Doodle" (Dixon) – 7:22
"Never Trust a Woman" (Mydland) – 7:36
"Jack-a-Roe" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 4:36
"When I Paint My Masterpiece" (Dylan) – 5:27
"Bird Song" (Garcia, Hunter) – 13:08
"Let It Grow" (Weir, Barlow) – 11:36
Disc 2
Second set:
"Eyes of the World" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 13:26
"Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:47
"Crazy Fingers" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:21
"Truckin'" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 7:43
"Spoonful" > (Dixon) – 5:37
"Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 9:59
Disc 3
"Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Mydland, Weir) – 8:58
"I Will Take You Home" > (Mydland) – 4:18
"Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:58
"Black Peter" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:09
"Around and Around" (Berry) – 6:45
Encore:
"Quinn The Eskimo" (Dylan) – 4:40
Notes

March 28, 1990 – Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York
Disc 1
First set:
"Cold Rain and Snow" >  (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:29
"New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:27
"Easy to Love You" (Mydland) – 5:48
"High Time" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:14
"Queen Jane Approximately" (Dylan) – 6:32
"Loose Lucy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:11
"Cassidy" > (Weir, Barlow) – 6:06
"Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:18
Disc 2
Second set:
"Foolish Heart" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:21
"Looks Like Rain" > (Weir, Barlow) – 8:09
"Cumberland Blues" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 5:50
"The Weight" (Robbie Robertson) – 5:46
"Hey Pocky Way" > (Modeliste, Neville, Nocentelli, Porter) – 7:04
"Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 11:17
Disc 3
"Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Mydland, Weir) – 9:22
"The Other One" > (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 6:52
"Wharf Rat" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:35
"Good Lovin'" (Rudy Clark, Artie Resnick) – 7:52
Encore:
"Revolution" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 4:55
Notes

March 29, 1990 – Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York
Disc 1
First set:
"Jack Straw" > (Weir, Hunter) – 6:15
"Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:59
"We Can Run" (Mydland, Barlow) – 6:04
"Ramble On Rose" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:08
"When I Paint My Masterpiece" (Dylan) – 6:02
"Bird Song" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 13:05
"Promised Land" (Berry) – 4:46
Disc 2
Second set:
"Eyes of the World" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 16:33
"Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow) – 14:47
"Dark Star" > (Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Ron McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 18:19
"Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 10:22
Disc 3
"Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Mydland, Weir) – 7:53
"Dark Star" > (Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 2:46
"The Wheel" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:23
"Throwing Stones" > (Weir, Barlow) – 9:25
"Turn On Your Lovelight" (Scott, Malone) – 7:41
Encore:
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (Dylan) – 8:24
Notes

April 1, 1990 – The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia
Disc 1
First set:
"Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:41
"Walkin' Blues" (Robert Johnson, arranged by Weir) – 6:27
"Just a Little Light" (Mydland) – 6:12
"Candyman" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:20
"Me and My Uncle" > (Phillips) – 3:05
"Big River" (Cash) – 5:28
"Althea" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:09
"Victim or the Crime" > (Weir, Graham) – 9:55
"To Lay Me Down" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:24
"The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow) – 7:55
Disc 2
Second set:
"China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:33
"I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 4:51
"Ship of Fools" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:50
"Man Smart, Woman Smarter" > (Norman Span) – 7:54
"Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 7:30
Disc 3
"Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Mydland, Weir) – 11:48
"Dear Mr. Fantasy" > (Winwood, Wood, Capaldi) – 5:42
"Hey Jude" > (Lennon, McCartney) – 2:37
"Truckin'" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 7:00
"Stella Blue" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:21
"Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 9:15
Encore:
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Dylan) – 7:40
Notes

April 3, 1990 – The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia
Disc 1
First set:
"Shakedown Street" (Garcia, Hunter) – 12:15
"Hell in a Bucket" > (Weir, Mydland, Barlow) – 6:17
"Sugaree" (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:24
"We Can Run" (Mydland, Barlow) – 6:55
"When I Paint My Masterpiece" (Dylan) – 5:17
"Row Jimmy" (Garcia) – 10:11
"Picasso Moon" (Weir, Bralove, Barlow) – 7:14
"Tennessee Jed" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:39
"Promised Land" (Berry) – 4:42
Disc 2
Second set:
"Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow) – 14:03
"Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:57
"Crazy Fingers" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:06
"Playing in the Band" > (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 11:40
"Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 8:17
Disc 3
"Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Mydland, Weir) – 6:56
"I Will Take You Home" > (Mydland) – 4:17
"Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:14
"Throwing Stones" > (Weir, Barlow) – 8:42
"Not Fade Away" (Norman Petty, Charles Hardin) – 7:27
Encore:
"We Bid You Goodnight" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 3:14

References

Grateful Dead live albums
2014 live albums
Rhino Entertainment live albums


title: William D. Ward

text:
William D. Ward was an American politician.

From St. Lucie County, Florida (1844-1855), Ward served in the Florida House of Representatives in 1846.

Notes

Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
People from St. Lucie County, Florida
Members of the Florida House of Representatives


title: Piute Ponds

text:
Piute Ponds are a group of ponds located about  southeast of Rosamond, California in the Mojave Desert, on the southwestern edge of Edwards Air Force Base and on the southern margin of Rosamond Lake, a dry lake bed. They form part of the Harley Berhow Recreational Area and are home to over 200 species of migratory birds.

Description
The largest remaining freshwater wetlands in Los Angeles County,
the site is cited as an important bird area of California, and a resting ground for over 200 species of migratory birds such as the great blue heron, the great horned owl, the black-crowned night heron, and the western snowy plover. The area covers an area of about  and contains a number of claypan ponds such as Big Piute, Little Piute, Teal Pond, Ducks Unlimited Pond and Amargosa Creek and several other smaller ponds, creeks, and low sand dunes. A dike created the ponds, and they are maintained by treated reclaimed water pumped from Lancaster’s sewage treatment plant, with channels augmenting the ponds into two principal sets of large ponds.
Some  of wetlands were added to the complex of marshes in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Restricted hunting is permitted with a license in the fall, and the Piute Ponds Tour is conducted for tourists and bird enthusiasts.

Studies
The Piute Ponds have been studied extensively by ornithologists such as Kimball Garrett who collected data here over many years. Studies conducted in the late 1990s estimated that the marshes of Piute were home to over 150,000 frogs. In 1990, vertebrate fossils were unearthed from lacustrine silts and sands at the site. The Mojave Environmental Education Consortium (MEEC) provides education kits for children for field studies in the ponds, with a night sounds CD, casting kits, owl pellet kits, a field press and dryers, magnifying glasses, vials, and microscopes and other equipment.

References

External links
Official site
Site map
Satellite images

Rosamond, California
Lakes of Los Angeles County, California
Edwards Air Force Base
Lakes of the Mojave Desert
Wetlands and marshes of Los Angeles County, California
Lakes of California
Landforms of Los Angeles County, California
Lakes of Southern California


title: Thomas M. Herbert

text:
Thomas Morgan Herbert (December 1, 1927 – February 23, 2014) was a Republican lawyer from Ohio who was elected twice to the Ohio Supreme Court, succeeding his father in the seat.

Background
Thomas Herbert was born at Columbus, Ohio on December 1, 1927, to Paul Morgan & Ruby Thomas Herbert. His father had been a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and was in the Ohio Senate. He would later be Ohio Lieutenant Governor, and sit on the Ohio Supreme Court. Thomas Herbert graduated with a bachelor's degree from The Ohio State University in 1950. He entered the United States Air Force in 1951, earned his wings in 1952, and flew 260 hours of combat in B-29s as a navigator during the Korean War, earning an Air Medal with cluster.

Herbert completed his military service in 1955, and entered the Ohio State University College of Law, earning a Bachelor of Laws and Juris doctor. He joined his father's law practice in 1957.

Career
In 1960, Herbert was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives, where he was re-elected in 1962 and 1964. In 1966 he won election to the 10th District Court of Appeals of Ohio. His father announced he would retire from the Ohio Supreme Court, and not seek re-election in 1968. Thomas Herbert ran for the seat that year, and defeated Merrill D. Brothers. He won re-election in 1974.

In 1978, Herbert ran for Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, but lost to Democrat Frank Celebrezze. In 1979, Herbert announced he would not seek re-election in 1980, and he resigned his seat July 31, 1980. Governor Jim Rhodes appointed David Dudley Dowd, Jr. to the unexpired months of Herbert's term.

Herbert then joined the Columbus firm Porter, Wright, Morris, and Arthur. He was a judge of the Southern Bankruptcy Court from 1982 to 1984. He was married to Patricia Mae Harris in 1956 and they had two children. Herbert died February 23, 2014, at Columbus. He was preceded in death by his wife and survived by his children and four grandchildren.

References

1927 births
2014 deaths
Justices of the Ohio Supreme Court
Lawyers from Columbus, Ohio
Ohio State University Moritz College of Law alumni
United States Air Force officers
United States Air Force personnel of the Korean War
Republican Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives
Judges of the Ohio District Courts of Appeals
Recipients of the Air Medal
Judges of the United States bankruptcy courts
20th-century American judges
20th-century American lawyers


title: Al-Rumaikiyya

text:
E'etemad al-Rumaikiyya () was an Andalusian poet, consort of Emir Al-Mu'tamid of Seville. She is believed to have been born between 1045 and 1047.

Biography

She was of humble origin and was servant (slave) to a Moor of Seville named Jachach, who employed her in driving beasts of burden. One day, the future king met her in the street and was so impressed by her abilities and beauty that he at once removed her and made her his wife. This was greatly displeasing to the prince’s father, Emir Al-Mu'tadid, who however was soon captivated by Al-Rumaikiyya, especially after she had given him a grandson.

Despite her lowly background, Al-Rumaikiyya carried out her duties as consort wonderfully well, even in a court so magnificent as that of Seville. It may also be said that she loved her husband dearly, matching Al-Mu'tamid’s love for her. When her husband succeeded to the throne, he complied with every whim of his wife, to the extent that his subjects could not stop themselves expressing their dissatisfaction. This mutual passion between husband and wife led each to compose inspired and deeply felt poetry for the other, although only one poem of Al-Rumaikiyya’s remains to us.

It is evident that the queen was not occupied solely in indulging her caprices and writing poems. An inscription kept in the Museum of Seville shows that it was she who caused the tower to be built at the mosque that once occupied the present site of the Church of San Juan de la Palma; indeed the mosque as a whole may have been her work.

After Al-Mu'tamid was dethroned by Yusuf ibn Tashfin in 1091, she with her husband and children were taken to a fort at Aghmat, where she is thought to have died. Her misfortune was mourned by her contemporaries.

Children and descendants

 Prince Abbad. Died in battle.
 Prince Arradi. Died in battle.
 Prince Al-Ma'maún. Died in battle.
 Prince Rashid. Crown Prince of the Taifa of Seville.
 Prince Al-Motab.
 Prince Abu Hashem.
 Princess Buthaina. Poet.

In legend

The relationship of the King of Seville with Rumaikiyya was the source of many stories, one of them being the following famous Spanish story:

One day, the earl spoke with his counselor as follows:

"Patronio, look what happens with a man: he often asks me to help and succor him some money; but every time I do so, he gives me tokens of appreciation, but if he is not happy with the money I give, he is unhappy and seems to have forgotten the favors I've done to him earlier. As I know your judgment, please let me your advice on how to behave with that man."

"My lord, I think, that what happens between you and this man is the same thing that happened to King Al-Motamid of Seville with Al-Rumaikiyya, his wife."

The count asked what had happened.

"My lord, the king Al-Motamid was married to Al-Rumaikiyya, and loved her more than anyone in the world. She was very good and the Saracens still remembered her for her words and deeds, which are exemplary. But sometimes, she was a whimsical and capricious woman.

"It happened that one day, in Córdoba in the month of February, snow fell and when Al-Rumaikiyya saw snow, she began to mourn. The king asked why she was crying, and she told him she was crying because he never let her go to the places where it snowed. The king, to please her, because Córdoba is a city of warm temperature and there is rarely snow, planted almond trees sent from the mountains above Córdoba so that when they bloomed in February, they appeared to be covered with snow and the queen saw her desire fulfilled.

"And again, while Al-Rumaikiyya was in her room, which was next to the river, she saw a barefoot woman who collected mud to make bricks. And when she saw this the queen began to mourn. The king asked her why she was crying, and she said she could never do what she wanted, unlike that humble woman. The king, to please her, sent for rosewater to fill a large lake in Córdoba; then ordered that the land taken out of the lake should be filled with sugar, cinnamon, lavender, clove, musk, amber and civet, and a number of spices that smell good. When the lake was full of all these things and the mud was as you can imagine, the king told his wife to take off her shoes and step out, and then she could make mud bricks all she wanted.

"Again, she was craving something else, and she began to mourn. The king asked why she was crying, and she replied that she would not mourn if he ever did anything to please her. The good king, seeing that she did not appreciate all that he had done for her, not knowing what else he could do, he said these words in Arabic: "Not even the day you played with mud?" for her to understand that by the mud she should always remember that he had tried his best to satisfy her.

"And so, my lord, if that man forgets, and does not thank you for all you've done for him, simply because you have not done as he would like, I advise you not to do anything to harm him. And I also advise that if someone did a favor for you, but then does not do everything you want, do not forget the good that person has done to you."

To the count this seemed good advice, and he followed it and did very well.''

References

Arabic-language women poets
Arabic-language poets
Writers from Córdoba, Spain
11th-century women writers
11th-century writers
Women poets from al-Andalus
1040s births
Year of birth uncertain
Year of death unknown
Slaves from al-Andalus


title: St. Augustine Saints

text:
St. Augustine Saints were a professional minor league baseball team that played primarily in the Florida State League, winning two league titles. The team did play however for two seasons in the Southeastern League. During World War II, Saints' pitching phenom, Forrest "Lefty" Brewer was one of 5 men, who played minor-league or semipro ball, to die while taking place in the D-Day Invasion. Brewer had pitched a no-hitter for the Saints in the 1938 season.

During the 1927 season, the team was briefly known as the Waycross Saints.

The Saints folded on June 1, 1952. A newspaper report cited "poor attendance and a lack of funds." The club had a 10–37 record at the time.

References

External links
Baseball Reference

Defunct Florida State League teams
Baseball teams established in 1926
Baseball teams disestablished in 1952
1926 establishments in Florida
1952 disestablishments in Florida
St. Augustine, Florida
Chicago Cubs minor league affiliates
Defunct baseball teams in Florida
Waycross, Georgia micropolitan area


title: Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's rings

text:
The men's rings competition at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China was held on 13 and 16 November 2010 at the Asian Games Town Gymnasium.

Schedule
All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Results

Qualification

Final

References

Results

External links
Official website

Artistic Men rings


title: Lake St. George State Park

text:
Lake St. George State Park is a public recreation area located on the northwest shore of Lake St. George in the town of Liberty, Waldo County, Maine. The state park covers  and offers camping, lifeguard-supervised swimming, picnicking, canoeing, motorized boating, and fishing. The lake's  support populations of landlocked salmon and brook trout. The park is managed by the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry.

References

External links

Lake St. George State Park Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Lake St. George State Park Brochure Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry

State parks of Maine
Protected areas of Waldo County, Maine
St. George
St. George


title: Chetana

text:
Chetana may refer to:

Chetana Das, Indian actress
Chetana (Surat), Gujarati language monthly
Chetana Jagrati Punj, welfare society
Chetana Nagavajara, Thai academic
Chetana (theatre group), a renounced Indian theatre group based on Kolkata, West Bengal

See also
Chetan (disambiguation)
Chaitanya (disambiguation)
Chit (disambiguation)


title: Humphrey Arthur Gilkes

text:
Humphrey Arthur Gilkes MC & Three Bars (13 October 1895 – 11 July 1945) was a British soldier and medical doctor. He is one of four soldiers to have been awarded the Military Cross four times, all in the First World War. He was a medical officer in the Colonial Medical Service between the wars. He also served in the British Army in the Second World War, and was killed in an aeroplane crash at Djibouti.

Early life
Gilkes was the second of four sons of Arthur Herman Gilkes. He was educated at Dulwich College, where his father was the Master from 1885 to 1914. He played football for the First XI in 1910, rugby for the Second XV, and also played the violin. His brother Christopher Herman Gilkes was Master of Dulwich College from 1941 to 1953.

First World War
Gilkes joined the Honourable Artillery Company as a private soldier after the outbreak of the First World War, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the London Regiment in September 1915, joining the 21st (County of London) Battalion (First Surrey Rifles). He served with the 142nd (6th London) Brigade in the 47th (1/2nd London) Division through the First World War. He became a temporary lieutenant in July 1916.

He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) on four occasions, for his actions as an intelligence officer between September 1917 and September 1918, on reconnaissance missions ahead of the British lines.  He was awarded his first MC in September 1917. He was wounded in early 1918, and awarded a first Bar in March 1918, a second Bar in June 1918, and a third Bar in January 1919 for actions at Moislains on 2 September 1918. Two other officers received their third Bar in the same January 1919 edition of the London Gazette, Percy Bentley and Charles Gordon Timms, emulating Francis Wallington whose third Bar was gazetted on 13 September 1918.

Later life
Gilkes read medicine at Christ Church, Oxford from 1919, and then trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, qualifying as a doctor in 1922 and serving briefly as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps from February to November 1923.
He resigned his regular army commission, but remained a lieutenant in the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers. He joined the Colonial Medical Service, serving in Northern Rhodesia until 1936 and then in Trinidad until 1940.   He was the author of two novels, Black (1935) and The Unclean Spirit (1937).

He rejoined the army in the Second World War, serving as a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Uganda until 1943 and then in British Somaliland.

About to return home on leave, he was one of seven servicemen killed in an aeroplane crash at Djibouti, and buried in a collective grave at the New European Cemetery, Djibouti.

References

External links
 Humphrey Arthur GILKES, Christ Church, Oxford
 Dulwich College Roll of Honour, p.80
 GILKES, HUMPHREY ARTHUR, Commonwealth War Graves Commission
 Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Republic of Djibouti
 For conspicuous gallantry: winners of the Military Cross and bar during the Great War, Addington, Scott (2006), p. 347–348

1895 births
1945 deaths
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
British Army personnel of World War I
People educated at Dulwich College
Recipients of the Military Cross
Royal Army Medical Corps officers
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Africa
British Army personnel killed in World War II
London Regiment officers
Military personnel from London
Colonial Medical Service officers


title: 2015 Kelly Cup playoffs

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The 2015 Kelly Cup Playoffs of the ECHL started April 14, 2015 following the conclusion of the 2014–15 ECHL regular season.

Playoff format
At the end of the regular season the top four teams in each division qualified for the 2015 Kelly Cup Playoffs. The first two playoff rounds are played entirely within the divisions, with the divisional playoff champions facing each other in the conference championships. The Kelly Cup final pits the Eastern Conference champion against the Western Conference champion. All four rounds are a best-of-seven format.

Playoff seeds
After the regular season, 16 teams qualified for the playoffs. The Toledo Walleye were the Brabham Cup winners with the best record, winning their first regular season title since the 2002-03 season, when they were known as the Storm.

Eastern Conference

North Division
 Toledo Walleye
 Fort Wayne Komets
 Kalamazoo Wings
 Wheeling Nailers

East Division
 Florida Everblades
 South Carolina Stingrays
 Reading Royals
 Orlando Solar Bears

Western Conference

Central Division
 Allen Americans
 Rapid City Rush
 Quad City Mallards
 Tulsa Oilers

Pacific Division
 Idaho Steelheads
 Ontario Reign
 Colorado Eagles
 Utah Grizzlies

Playoff Brackets

Division Semifinals
Home team is listed first.

North Division

(1) Toledo Walleye vs. (4) Wheeling Nailers

(2) Fort Wayne Komets vs. (3) Kalamazoo Wings

East Division

(1) Florida Everblades vs. (4) Orlando Solar Bears

(2) South Carolina Stingrays vs. (3) Reading Royals

Central Division

(1) Allen Americans vs. (4) Tulsa Oilers

(2) Rapid City Rush vs. (3) Quad City Mallards

Pacific Division

(1) Idaho Steelheads vs. (4) Utah Grizzlies

(2) Ontario Reign vs. (3) Colorado Eagles

Division Finals
Home team is listed first.

North Division

(1) Toledo Walleye vs. (2) Fort Wayne Komets

East Division

(1) Florida Everblades vs. (2) South Carolina Stingrays

Central Division

(1) Allen Americans vs. (2) Rapid City Rush

Pacific Division

(2) Ontario Reign vs. (4) Utah Grizzlies

Conference Finals
Home team is listed first.

Eastern Conference

(North #1) Toledo Walleye vs. (East #2) South Carolina Stingrays

Western Conference

(Central #1) Allen Americans vs. (Pacific #2) Ontario Reign

Kelly Cup Finals
Home team is listed first.

(Central #1) Allen Americans vs. (East #2) South Carolina Stingrays

Statistical leaders

Skaters
These are the top ten skaters based on points.

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes

Goaltending

This is a combined table of the top five goaltenders based on goals against average and the top five goaltenders based on save percentage, with at least 240 minutes played. The table is sorted by GAA, and the criteria for inclusion are bolded.

GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime Losses; SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; SV% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts; TOI = Time on ice (in minutes)

References

See also
 2014–15 ECHL season
 List of ECHL seasons

Kelly Cup playoffs
2014–15 ECHL season


title: The Asia Group

text:
The Asia Group (TAG) is a strategic advisory firm based in Washington DC. The firm was founded in 2013 by Kurt Campbell, the former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and Nirav Patel, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Strategy and Multilateral Affairs.

On June 21, 2017, TAG announced that former US Ambassador to India Richard Verma would be joining the firm as its Vice Chairman. In 2019, the former U.S. consul general in Hong Kong, Kurt Tong joined the firm as partner.

References

Financial services companies established in 2013
Financial services companies of the United States
Privately held companies based in Washington, D.C.
Consulting firms established in 2013
2013 establishments in the United States
2013 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Companies established in 2013
Consulting firms of the United States


title: El Gouna Airport

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El Gouna Airport  is an airport serving the Red Sea resort town of El Gouna, Egypt.

The Hurghada VOR-DME (Ident: HGD) is located 12.6 nautical miles off the threshold of runway 34.

See also
Transport in Egypt
List of airports in Egypt

References

 Google Earth

External links
 OurAirports - Egypt
 OpenStreetMap - El Gouna
 El Gouna Airport

Airports in Egypt