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Ninjalicious

Jeff Chapman (September 19, 1973 – August 23, 2005), better known by the pseudonym Ninjalicious, was a Toronto-based urban explorer, fountaineer, writer and founder of the urban exploration zine Infiltration: the zine about going places you're not supposed to go. He was also a prominent author and editor for YIP magazine, as well as its website, Yip.org.

Chapman died of cholangiocarcinoma on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 at the age of 31 — three years after a successful liver transplant at Toronto General Hospital (a location he loved to explore). Doctors claimed that Chapman's illness was caused by coming into contact with carcinogens during exploring, but his wife confirmed that Chapman had been diagnosed with auto-immune diseases well before he became an avid explorer. It was his extended stays at hospitals that got him hooked on exploring institutions. She expressed her belief that his exploration did not directly cause his death.

Background 

Chapman attended York University in the early 1990s and later studied book and magazine publishing at Centennial College.  He went on to serve as Editor at History Magazine and as Director of the Toronto Architectural Conservancy board.

Works 

Chapman first published Infiltration in 1996. In total, 25 issues were published — covering such urban exploration topics as the navigation of storm drains, evading hotel security and adventuring through abandoned military shelters. He also launched infiltration.org, an online version of the zine, in 1996.

His book, Access All Areas: a user's guide to the art of urban exploration, was published in July 2005, shortly before his death.  The book serves as a how-to-guide to urban exploration — covering topics from basic stealth and concealment, to social engineering techniques to ethics. Chapman is credited with coining the term "credibility prop", which describes a device, piece of equipment or other appurtenances used solely to reduce suspicion if one is encountered in a normally restricted area.  A specific example of "credibility prop" is simply being wet (wetness being a good credibility prop for infiltration of a hotel pool).
He was also featured in CBC Newsworlds program BIG LIfe showing him exploring Toronto.

Jeff and his wife Liz were both interview subjects in the film BBS: The Documentary as participants in the Toronto BBS community and other early online communities. He is credited under the handle Milky, though he was also known as Milky Puppy online.

References

External links 
Interview with the Philadelphia City Paper.
Interview with Ira Glass.

1973 births
2005 deaths
Deaths from cancer in Ontario
Canadian instructional writers
Canadian travel writers
Centennial College alumni
Urban exploration
Writers from Scarborough, Toronto
Deaths from cholangiocarcinoma
University Grants Commission (Sri Lanka)

University Grants Commission is the body responsible for funding most of the State Universities in Sri Lanka, and operates within the frame work of the Universities Act No. 16 of 1978. A public organisation, established under the Parliament Act No 16 of 1978. Location is at No 20, Ward Place Colombo 07.

It distributes public money, allocated by the Government for teaching and research to universities and university affiliated institutes, as such controls much influence and appointments at state universities.

Functions
The official functions of the UGC are;
 Allocation of funds to Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) that come under it
 Planning and co-ordination of university education
 Maintenance of academic standards
 Regulation of the administration of HEIs 
 Regulation of student admissions to HEIs

The Commission members

The Universities Act provides for seven members of the Commission appointed by the President. These are:
 Senior Prof. Sampath Amaratunge – Chairman   
 Senior Prof. Janitha A Liyanage –  Vice-Chairperson
 Rev. Prof. Kollupitiye Mahinda Sangharakkitha Thero – Commission Member
 Senior Prof. A K W Jayawardane – Commission Member 
 Prof. (Ms.) Vasanthy Arasaratnam – Commission Member
 Prof. Premakumara de Silva – Commission Member
 Mr. Palitha Kumarasinghe  – Commission Member

The following attend the meetings of the Commission but are not members and do not vote:
 Mr. R H W A Kumarasiri  – Treasury Representative who advises the Commission on funds 
 Dr. Priyantha Premakumara – Secretary to the Commission

Higher Educational Institutions controlled by the UGC
University of Colombo
University of Colombo School of Computing 
Institute of Indigenous Medicine 
Institute of Worker's Education 
National Institute of Library and Information Science 
National Center for Advanced Studies in Humanities & Social Sciences 
Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IBMBB) 
Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, Colombo
Sri Palee Campus
University of Peradeniya
Postgraduate Institute of Science, Peradeniya 
Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, Peradeniya 
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
University of Kelaniya
Gampaha Wickramaracchi Institute of Ayurvedic Medicine
Postgraduate Institute of Pali & Buddhist Studies, Colombo 
University of Moratuwa
Institute of Technology, Moratuwa 
University of Jaffna
Vavuniya Campus
University of Ruhuna
Open University, Sri Lanka
Eastern University, Sri Lanka
Swamy Vipulananda Institute of Aesthetic Studies
Trincomalee Campus 
Rajarata University of Sri Lanka 
Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka
Uva Wellassa University
Wayamba University of Sri Lanka
University of the Visual & Performing Arts
South Eastern University of Sri Lanka
Gampaha Wickramarachchi University of Indigenous Medicine
National Center for Advanced Studies

See also
Universities in Sri Lanka

References

External links
 University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka

University organizations
University governance
Statutory boards of Sri Lanka
Higher education in Sri Lanka
NOAA's Environmental Real-time Observation Network

The NOAA Environmental Real-time Observation Network (NERON) is a project to establish a nationwide network of high quality near real-time weather monitoring stations across the United States. A 20-mile by 20-mile grid has been established, with the hopes of having one observation system within each grid cell. Effort is being put forth by local National Weather Service (NWS) offices and other state climate groups to ensure that sites in the network meet important criteria. The network will be composed of existing, and in some cases upgraded, sites (ASOS, Cooperative Observer, etc.) as well as new sites being established for other local and state efforts. Many stations in New England and New York have already been installed.

See also
 Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP)
 Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS)
 Mesonet

References

 Improved Accuracy in Measuring Precipitation with the NERON Network in New England

Meteorological data and networks
Tullynacross

Tullynacross () is a small village in Lisburn, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, near Lambeg. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 159 people.

It lies within the civil parish of Lambeg, the barony of Castlereagh Upper, and is situated within the Lagan Valley Regional Park. The local authority is Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council.

Economy
A major Coca-Cola owned bottling plant is sited in Tullynacross. The Deep RiverRock brand of water is bottled there. The plant is adjacent to a lock on the Lagan Canal (also known as the Lagan Navigation).

See also 
List of villages in Northern Ireland
List of towns in Northern Ireland

References 

NI Neighbourhood Information System

Villages in County Antrim
Civil parish of Lambeg
Lisburn City Council
List of state highways in Utah

The U.S. state of Utah, the  Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) operates a system of state routes that serve all portions of the state.  In official documents the state of Utah uses the term "state routes" for numbered, state maintained highways, since the legal definition of a "highway" includes any public road. UDOT signs state routes with a beehive symbol after the state's nickname of the beehive state. There are  of state routes in Utah.

The numbers and routes of all Utah highways are assigned by the state legislature, currently documented in Utah Code Title 72, Chapter 4. The code also defines the Utah maintained portions of Interstate and U.S. Highways. With the exception of state route numbers assigned to match U.S. Highways and Interstate Highways, Utah state route numbers are not designated per any consistent pattern, though there are a few regional clusters of sequentially numbered highways.

There have been multiple changes to the numbering of state routes. Since 1969, the block of numbers between 281 and 320 is reserved for routes serving state institutions and state parks. With a few exceptions, these routes do not have their numbers publicly posted. Since 1977, the legislative designations do not have any concurrencies. For the situations where two numbered roads share the same physical roadbed, one of the designations will have a discontinuity in the legislative designation. For example, Interstate 84 is defined as a highway with two separate segments in Utah code, the part where I-84 is signed concurrent with Interstate 15 is only legally designated I-15.

Two Utah state Routes are special cases. State Route 900 and 901 are actually federal and county-maintained dirt roads that were assigned state numbers as to give the state power to block the transportation of nuclear waste to a proposed dump on Goshute tribal lands.

The longest contiguous highway signed as a Utah State Route is State Route 24 at , but State Route 30 is longer at  when unsigned concurrencies are included. The longest highway of any type in Utah is U.S. Route 89 at . The shortest state route is State Route 231, a  connector route in Fairview, though this route is unsigned. The shortest signed route is State Route 103 at  long, connecting Hill Air Force Base to I-15 and SR-126.

List

See also

Utah Scenic Byways
1962 Utah state route renumbering

Notes

References

External links

  UDOT Data Analytics division
 Utah Highways Page by Dan Stober (wayback archive)
 Utah Gateway @ AARoads

 
State highways
Michael Eades Reserve

The bushland in Michael Eades Reserve and surrounds is rich in sensitive vegetation, unique to the upper Blue Mountains plateau, in New South Wales, Australia. Many of the significant plants in the area, such as Acacia ptychoclada and Grevillea acanthifolia, do not appear anywhere else in the world.

Vegetation
Hanging swamps are an interesting feature of the Reserve and are defined not only by the unique plant life - sedges, grasses and shrubs - but also by the underlying geology. Layers of sandstone, claystone and shale direct groundwater to exit points on the valley walls, which feed the swamps on a continuous basis. These hanging swamps are the source of water for creeks and waterfalls in the upper Blue Mountains. In this Reserve, Katoomba Creek flows downstream into the World Heritage Site of the Grose Valley.

Hanging swamps are home to many threatened and endangered animals: Blue Mountains Water Skink, Giant Dragonfly, and the Giant Burrowing Frog.

The natural systems of the area have deep cultural and landscape significant to the local Darug Aboriginal community - past and present and future. The Reserve is still highly valued today by the local community. The bushland and creek systems have inspired many active community volunteers to work on bushland protection and restoration here since 1996. This volunteer work continues in collaboration with Blue Mountains City Council and other land management agencies.

Name
Community efforts to protect bushland in the Blue Mountains were supported by Michael Eades (1954–2002) after whom this Reserve is dedicated. Eades made a major contribution to a heightened awareness and understanding of the special and fragile natural environment of the Blue Mountains, which resulted in the recognition of environmentally sensitive land in Council's Land Environmental Plan 1991. Eades's work has also contributed significantly to the eventual federal government listing at a National level of the Blue Mountains Sedge and Shrub swamps.

Eades was a champion of the need to protect the unique flora of the Mountains and identified a number of endangered plant species. He provided critical advice and support to community volunteer endeavours in bushland protection and the establishment of the Council's Bushcare Program.

References
 http://bluemountains.org.au/documents/hutnews/archive/0603news.pdf
 http://au.geoview.info/michael_eades_reserve,8157725
 https://mapcarta.com/28661128

Parks and reserves of the Blue Mountains (New South Wales)
Nature reserves in New South Wales
Yukon Liquor Corporation

The Yukon Liquor Corporation regulates the distribution, purchase and sale of alcoholic beverages in the Canadian territory of Yukon.

The Corporation came into existence in 1977 as a result of amendments to the Liquor Act. It currently operates six liquor stores and a central facility in Whitehorse.

External links
Yukon Liquor Corporation

Canadian provincial alcohol departments and agencies
Alcohol in Yukon
Retail companies established in 1977
Companies based in Whitehorse
Alcohol monopolies
Alcohol distribution retailers of Canada
1977 establishments in Yukon
Cuisine of Yukon
Keraladeshpuram Temple

Keraladeshapuram Temple in Thanur, Malappuram District is one of the oldest Hindu temples in Kerala state, South India.

The temple is dedicated to Hindu god Vishnu, and is situated about 3 km south of Thanur town. Thanur, a coastal town on the Malabar Coast, was one of the earliest settlements of the Portuguese explorers It is believed that St. Francis Xavier visited the Keraladeshpuram Temple place in 1546 AD. It was a part of kingdom of Vettattnad in medieval times. 

Now this temple is a part of the Malabar Devaswam board kerala
Keralrdesapuram is a place where the name Kerala was added even before the formation of Kerala.
Keraladeshwarapuram itself is very important in Hindu mythology.The this place  is located in the center of Kerala, which is believed to have been created by Parshuram's ax throwing

See also
 Thanur
 Malappuram district

Hindu temples in Malappuram district
Rebuilt buildings and structures in India
Vishnu temples
My Jealous God

My Jealous God were a British Indie music band from South London who had a recording career from 1989 to 1992, first on Rough Trade Records and then Fontana Records. The founder and lead singer was Jim Melly. Other band members were Danny Burke (Lead Guitar), Chris O'Donnell (Bass) and Andrew Barkley (Drums).

The band released three singles: "Everything About You" (July 1990), "Pray" (October 1990) and "Easy" (February 1992), made several live appearances, famously once supported by Release at The Venue, New Cross and recorded a session for Mark Goodier's BBC Radio 1 show, but did not release an album. They did, however, record an album that was shelved before it could be released because the group had disbanded. A fourth single, a re-recorded version of "Pray" with new lyrics was pressed but withdrawn (April 1992), although some copies have since surfaced.  A video was released for the original release of "Pray". The band received some criticism for being London-based and appearing to make music similar to the 'Madchester' scene of the time.

Founder Jim Melly became a Professor of Popular Culture and wrote a history of The Faces pop group. Christopher O'Donnell is a journalist for the Tampa Bay Times.

Discography
"Pray" (1990), Rough Trade
"Everything About You" (1990), Rough Trade
"Easy" (1992), Fontana
"Pray" (1992), Fontana

References

External links
Birdpoo (archived)

British indie rock groups
Musical groups from London
Musical groups established in 1989
Musical groups disestablished in 1992
4 in Love (group)

4 in Love is a former Taiwanese all-female pop group. In 2000, BMG recruited four girls between the ages of 16 and 19, and named them 4 in Love. 

Ling Chia-lin (冷嘉琳), Huang Hsiao-rou (黄小柔), Yang Cheng-lin (杨丞琳), and Chang Chi-huey (张棋惠) were each given new names based on different weather types: Cloudie, Sunnie, Rainie, and Windie, respectively. The label's strategy for the group was to promote their doll-like voices, and market them as "The World's First 3D Group". 

The music video for their first lead single, "Fall in Love", was a first in the Taiwanese music industry for its use of three-dimensional computer animations. In 2001, their second and last album, Who's Afraid of Whom?, earned them a Silver Award in the Most Adored Artiste category at the Malaysian Golden Melody Awards. 

Although Rainie's appearance in the hit drama Meteor Garden raised the group's profile, 4 in Love's popularity was still questionable at best. At the group's first autograph session, only a handful of fans had showed up. Their songs, with the exception of "1001 Wishes" (一千零一個願望), were rarely successful on music charts. In 2002, the group was disbanded as investment in their label was pulled after the 1999 Jiji earthquake and the all artistes under the label were terminated from their contracts.

On 25 February 2018, the group reunited and performed at Rainie's concert as a special guest.

Discography

Albums 
 Fall In Love (November 27, 2000)
 誰怕誰 Who's Afraid of Whom? (July 19, 2001)

References

External links 
 Former official site (only available through the Internet Archive)

Mandopop musical groups
Taiwanese girl groups
Musical groups established in 2000
2000 establishments in Taiwan
Musical groups disestablished in 2002
Taiwanese musical duos
Pop music duos
Drypetis

Drypetis (died 323 BCE) was the daughter of Stateira I and Darius III of Persia. Drypetis was born between 350 and 345 BCE, and, along with her sister Stateira II, was a princess of the Achaemenid dynasty.

Capture and marriage
When Darius III began a military campaign against the invading army of Alexander the Great, he was accompanied by Drypetis, along with her sister, her mother, and her grandmother Sisygambis. Following the Battle of Issus in 333 BCE, Darius fled and his family was captured by Macedonian troops. Alexander personally met with the women and promised to provide dowries for Drypetis and Stateira.

Although Darius tried repeatedly to ransom his family, Alexander kept them with him until 331 BCE when Drypetis and her sister were sent to Susa to learn the Greek language.

In the spring of 324 BCE, Drypetis was married to Hephaestion, a general in Alexander's army, during the Susa weddings. Soon after, Drypetis was widowed when Hephaestion accompanied Alexander to Ecbatana and upon arriving in autumn, died after falling ill with a severe fever.

Death
Many historians accept Plutarch's account that Drypetis was killed in 323 BCE alongside her sister Stateira. Alexander had died earlier that year, and his other widow, Roxana, wished to remove her potential rivals.

Alternatively, historian Elizabeth Donnelly Carney claims that Drypetis was not killed by Roxana as Drypetis would not have borne a child by Alexander and as such, would have been of little threat to Roxana's position. Instead, Carney theorizes that Roxana killed Parysatis II (daughter of Artaxerxes III of Persia), who was also a wife of Alexander.

Portrayals of Drypetis in fiction
 Drypetis is one of the main characters in Stephanie Thornton's 2015 novel The Conqueror's Wife ().
 Indian actress Shalini Sharma plays the character of Drypetis in the 2017 Indian TV series Porus.

Notes

References

Ancient sources
Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander

Modern sources

External links
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
Drypetis, daughter of Darius and wife of Hephaestion in Pothos.org

323 BC deaths
4th-century BC women
People associated with Alexander the Great
Murdered royalty
Women in Hellenistic warfare
People who died under the regency of Perdiccas
Achaemenid princesses
Year of birth unknown
4th-century BC Iranian people
Women in ancient Near Eastern warfare
Darius III
Impact driver

An impact driver is a tool that delivers a strong, sudden rotational force and forward thrust. The force can be delivered either by striking with a hammer in the case of manual impact drivers, or mechanically in the case of powered impact drivers.

It is often used by mechanics to loosen larger screws, bolts and nuts that are corrosively "frozen" or over-torqued. The direction can also be reversed for situations where screws have to be tightened with torque greater than a screwdriver can reasonably provide.

Manual impact drivers 

Manual impact drivers consist of a heavy outer sleeve that surrounds an inner core that is splined to it. The spline is curved so that when the user strikes the outer sleeve with a hammer, its downward force works on the spline to produce turning force on the core and any socket or work bit attached to it. The tool translates the heavy rotational inertia of the sleeve to the lighter core to generate large amounts of torque. At the same time, the striking blow from the hammer forces the impact driver forward into the screw reducing or eliminating cam out. This attribute is beneficial for Phillips screws which are prone to cam out. It is also excellent for use with the Robertson square socket head screws that are in common use in Canada.

Powered impact drivers 

Typical battery-powered impact drivers are similar to electric drills when used to drive screws or bolts, but additionally have a spring-driven mechanism that applies rotational striking blows once the torque required becomes too great for the motor alone. This shouldn't be confused with the hammer mechanism found on hammer drills, which is a longitudinal blow. Most impact drivers have a handle to make it easier to hold onto. The impact drivers can be used on various types of nuts and bolts, and surfaces. Various materials may be used with it, including steel, iron, wood, plastic, and more. An impact driver is more appropriate than a drill for tightening bolts.

Compared to an impact wrench 
An electric impact driver typically delivers less torque and accepts smaller tool bits than an impact wrench. This makes the impact driver (with its often lesser torque and smaller tool bit) more suited towards driving smaller screws in for example construction work, while the more powerful impact wrench is more suitable for driving larger bolts and nuts in heavy mechanical settings, such as lug nuts.

References

Mechanical hand tools
Stateira

Stateira or Statira may refer to:

People
 Stateira (wife of Artaxerxes II)
 Stateira (wife of Darius III)
 Stateira (wife of Alexander the Great)

Operas
 La Statira (1726), opera by Tomaso Albinoni
 Statira principessa di Persia (1655), opera by Francesco Cavalli

Other
 831 Stateira, an asteroid
 Statira (beetle), a genus of darkling beetle in subfamily Lagriinae
 Statira, a synonym of the moth genus Dasyuris
Upper Ballinderry

Upper Ballinderry () is a small village to the east of Lower Ballinderry in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is within the townland of Ballyscolly and civil parish of Ballinderry, the historic barony of Massereene Upper. Upper Ballinderry is about 10 miles (15 km) north- west of Lisburn. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 192 people.

It is a mill village, developed around a crossroads with a prominent church, mill building and estate. The A26 road bypasses the village to the east. Upper Ballinderry is situated on relatively flat land rising gradually to the east. The village has developed in a linear form on both sides of North Street and is contained by the Glenavy Road to the east and the disused railway line to the north. The original road has been realigned with the more recent Glenavy Road situated to the east of the earlier route.

Locally significant buildings include Ballinderry Parish Church (built 1824) and Glebe House, which are listed buildings, and Fruithill House, Rosevale, Oatland Cottage, Church View House, and converted mill buildings and outhouses.

Transport
The nearby Ballinderry railway station, which opened on 13 November 1871, is currently closed.

The Ulsterbus service from Lisburn to Antrim/Belfast passes through the area on an hourly basis.

See also 
List of towns and villages in Northern Ireland
Lower Ballinderry

References 

NI Neighbourhood Information System

Villages in County Antrim
Civil parish of Ballinderry (Massereene Upper)
Lisburn City Council
Makedonski Brod Municipality

Makedonski Brod ( ) is a municipality in western North Macedonia, named after the town of Makedonski Brod, where the municipal seat is located. Makedonski Brod Municipality is part of the Southwestern Statistical Region.

Geography
The municipality borders
 Želino Municipality and Brvenica Municipality to the north,
 Studeničani and Sopište municipalities to the northeast,
 Čaška and Dolneni municipalities to the southeast,
 Kruševo Municipality to the south,
 Plasnica Municipality to the southwest,
 Kičevo Municipality to the west, and
 Gostivar Municipality to the northwest.

The municipality includes the Kozjak Hydro Power Plant and the associated artificial lake, the largest such lake in the country.

Demographics
By the August 2004 territorial division of Macedonia, the rural Samokov Municipality was attached to Makedonski Brod Municipality, which then totaled 7,141 inhabitants. Before the merge,
 The municipality of Makedonski Brod had 5,517 inhabitants in 1994 and 5,558 in 2002
 Samokov Municipality had 2,057 inhabitants in 1994 and 1,553 in 2002
 In 2021 the municipality of Makedonski Brod had 5,889 people.

Notable people
 Gjurčin Naumov - Pljakot, revolutionary, born in Slansko
 Tasa Konević, Macedonian Serb Chetnik, born in Krapa
 Micko Krstić, Macedonian Serb Chetnik, born in Latovo
 Zafir Premčević, Macedonian Serb Chetnik, born in Ljupšte
 Trenko Rujanović, Macedonian Serb Chetnik, born in Krapa
 Ilija Slanštanec, writer and historian, born in Slansko 
 Dane Stojanović, Macedonian Serb Chetnik, born in Krapa
 Božidar Vidoeski, linguist, born in Zvečan

References

External links
 Official website

 
Southwestern Statistical Region
Municipalities of North Macedonia
Potomac Appalachian Trail Club

The Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) is a volunteer organization that works to maintain hiking trails in the Washington, D.C. area of the United States. PATC was founded in 1927 to protect and develop the local section of the then new Appalachian Trail. It has  expanded its mission to oversee over  of trails, 47 shelters and 39 cabins in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

Appalachian Trail
PATC maintains  of the Appalachian Trail, allocated to PATC by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, which manages all day-to-day trail and land management activities under agreement with the National Park Service.  PATC's area of responsibility begins at the southern end of Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and reaches north to Pine Grove Furnace in Pennsylvania.  General trail maintenance is the responsibility of volunteer trail overseers, while trail construction and repair from serious damage, as well as larger projects, are managed by volunteer work crews, such as the Blue and White Crew.

Other trails
In addition to the Appalachian Trail responsibilities, PATC also maintains several hundred miles of trails in Virginia, West Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. These trails are found in state and national parks, national forests, and occasionally through land held by municipalities, private owners, or the club itself. One such trail is the  Tuscarora Trail.  Other examples are the  Massanutten Trail, the  Bull Run-Occoquan Trail, and the trails in the Great North Mountain area that lead to the Big Schloss peak.

Other activities
The club also has separate sections for climbing and mountaineering, ski touring, wilderness search and rescue (SMRG/ASRC), and trail patrol. PATC operates a number of primitive cabins for rent to members and non-members (one such cabin is Corbin Cabin). In addition, the club publishes maps and guidebooks for the Appalachian Trail and other trails the club maintains, publishes a monthly newsletter, the Potomac Appalachian, and organizes hikes throughout the club's area of operations.

References

Notes
The Potomac Appalachian, The Newsletter of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club.
The Bulletin, The original newsletter of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (early years).
Shenandoah National Park - Appalachian Trail History

External links
Potomac Appalachian Trail Club
PATC Acme Treadway Company trail crew
PATC A.T. Management, Shenandoah National Park - South District

Appalachian culture in Maryland
Appalachian culture in Virginia
Appalachian culture in Pennsylvania
Appalachian culture in Washington, D.C.
Appalachian Trail
Hiking organizations in the United States
Shenandoah National Park
West Virginia culture
Črni Kal Viaduct

The Črni Kal Viaduct () is the longest and the highest viaduct in Slovenia. It is located on the A1 motorway above the Osp Valley near the village of Gabrovica, about  east of Koper. It is named after the village of Črni Kal. The viaduct is  long and is mounted on 11 Y-shaped columns (its distinguishing feature), the highest reaching .

The viaduct was designed by Janez Koželj and Marjan Pipenbaher, who was also its constructor. The construction work began in 2001 and the viaduct was opened for traffic on 23 September 2004. When almost completed in May 2004, it served as a stage of the Giro d'Italia race.

References 

Road bridges in Slovenia
Viaducts in Slovenia
Bridges completed in 2004
21st-century architecture in Slovenia
Lyublino (Moscow Metro)

Lyublino () is a Moscow Metro station in the Lyublino District, South-Eastern Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line, between Volzhskaya and Bratislavskaya stations.

Lyublino opened on 25 December 1996 as part of the second stage of the southeast extension of the Lyublinsky radius. The station is a level single vault design with the main theme (architects V.Filippov and S.Belyakova) is dedicated to the architecture of the towns that are located in Moscow's outskirts (the district of Lyublino was originally a town before being swallowed by Moscow when the city expanded in 1961).

The station consists of two vaulted halves which stop in the apex of the vault where a niche containing the lighting effects is located, which runs the length of the ceiling. The white vaulted halves gently transform into the station walls which are revetted with dark marble in the lower half. Just above the exit portals are two medallions showing the coat of arms of the Lyublino district.

The station has two underground vestibules under the Krasnodarskaya and Sovkhoznaya streets, the exits are covered with closed metallic pavilions.

External links
 Mosmetro.ru
 Mymetro.ru
 News.metro.ru
 Metro.ru
 KartaMetro.info — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)

Moscow Metro stations
Railway stations in Russia opened in 1996
Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line
Railway stations located underground in Russia
Creagh

Creagh is an Irish surname derived from the Gaelic Craobhach, meaning "branch". The Creagh family was first found in County Clare, where they held a family seat from ancient times. It is also the name of several locations throughout the island of Ireland, for example:

 Creagh, civil parish of Ballinasloe, County Galway, Republic of Ireland in Galway and Roscommon
Creagh National School, in Ballinasloe, County Galway, Republic of Ireland
Creagh, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, just across the River Bann from Toome, County Antrim
Creagh near Skibbereen, County Cork, Republic of Ireland
Creagh Beg and Creagh More near Clonakilty, County Cork, Republic of Ireland
Creagh, in Kilcommock parish), County Longford, Republic of Ireland

Many spelling variations of the surname Creagh can be found in archives. One of the reasons for these variations is the ancient scribes and church officials recorded names as they were pronounced, often resulting in a single person being recorded under several different spellings. The different spellings that were found include Creagh, Crear, Creag, Creavagh, Cray, Cree and others.

See also
List of villages in Northern Ireland
List of towns in Northern Ireland
 Clan McGrath

References
House of Names

Surnames of Irish origin
Nadira Babbar

Nadira Babbar (born 20 January 1948) is an Indian theatre actress, director and an actress in Hindi cinema, who is the recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2001. Nadira founded a Mumbai-based theatre group called Ekjute, a known name in Hindi theatre in 1981.

Nadira Babbar  was seen playing mother to Aishwarya Rai in Gurinder Chadha's film Bride and Prejudice (2004), and M. F. Hussain's Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities (2004). She was also portrayed as the mother of Salman Khan in Sohail Khan's Jai Ho and as the mother of  Raj Bansal (main villain) in Sunny Deol's 2016 movie named Ghayal Once Again.

Early life

She graduated from National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi in 1971. Nadira was a Gold Medallist at NSD and went to Germany on a scholarship, and later got a chance to work with renowned directors like Grotovisky and Peter Brooks.

Career

She started her theatre group in  Ekjute (Together) in 1981 in Delhi, which came out with its first production Yahudi Ki Ladki in 1981, which revived the Parsi theatre style, and is considered one of its finest. The group has also been performing the Bhavai-based musical, Jasma Odhan, written by Shanta Gandhi for several years now. Nadira moved to Mumbai in 1988, and reestablished her theatre group.

Over the last 30 years, Ekjute has given Indian theatre over sixty plays including Sandhya Chhaya, Look Back in Anger, Ballabpur Ki Roop Katha, Baat Laat Ki Halaat Ki, Bharam Ke Bhoot, Shabash Anarkali and Begum Jaan; apart from directing plays written by herself: Dayashankar Ki Diary (1997), Sakku Bai (1999), Suman Aur Sana and Ji Jaisi Aapki Marzi. It has worked with actors like Raj Babbar, Satish Kaushik and Kirron Kher.

In 1990, Ekjute started the 'Ekjute Young People's Theatre Group', which has given productions like Aao Picnic Challen and Azdak Ka Insaaf. The groups celebrated 30 years of its foundation in 2011, with a week-long theatre festival, 30 Years Caravan 2011, at Prithvi Theatres, Mumbai which began on 14 April 2011. She also appeared in Salman Khan-starrer Hindi movie Jai Ho (2014).

In 2016, she featured in Sunny Deol's Ghayal Once Again.

Nadira Babbar was recently seen in the web series, The Married Woman, directed by Sahir Raza. The star cast also includes Ridhi Dogra and Monica Dogra.

Awards 
 Newsmakers Achievers Awards 2022

See also
 Theatre in India

References

External links

 Official website of 'Ekjute'
 Sandhya Chhaya in Pakistan

Indian film actresses
Indian stage actresses
Indian theatre directors
Indian women dramatists and playwrights
Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
National School of Drama alumni
Living people
Hindi theatre
1948 births
Actresses from Mumbai
Screenwriters from Mumbai
20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Indian women writers
21st-century Indian dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Indian women writers
21st-century Indian writers
Women writers from Maharashtra
Indian women theatre directors
Dramatists and playwrights from Maharashtra
Niagara Escarpment Commission

The Niagara Escarpment Commission (), founded in June 1973 by the Niagara Escarpment Planning and Development Act (last revised 2012), is an agency of the Ontario government.  Its mission is to "conserve the UNESCO-designated Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve as a continuous natural environment and scenic, working countryside".  The Niagara Escarpment Commission published the first Niagara Escarpment Plan in 1985.  This plan is reviewed and updated every five years, with the most recent version of the plan published in 2017.

The Niagara Escarpment Commission has essentially the same powers and responsibilities as a municipality, including control over zoning and bylaws.

The Commission staff are split between two geographical offices:

 (MTO Complex) Owen Sound, Ontario - north
 (Guelphview Square) Georgetown, Ontario - south

Commission

 8 Public Members at Large including the Commission Chair
 8 municipal representatives from:
 Bruce County - Escarpment runs on the eastern edge of the county
 Dufferin County - Escarpment runs on the eastern edge of the county
 Grey County - Escarpment runs on the eastern edge of the county
 Simcoe County - Escarpment runs on the western edge of the county
 Halton Region - Escarpment runs on the western edge of the region
 Peel Region - Escarpment runs on the western edge of the region
 Niagara Region - Escarpment runs on the northern edge of the region
 City of Hamilton - Escarpment runs through the city

References

External links
 Niagara Escarpment Commission website

Niagara Escarpment
Ontario government departments and agencies
1973 establishments in Ontario
Government agencies established in 1973
Dukpu people

Dukpu is an ethnic group of the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. They speak Mid-Southern Banda, a Ubangian language. The number of persons in this group exceeds 100,000.

Ethnic groups in the Central African Republic
Ethnic groups in the Republic of the Congo
Ethnic groups in Sudan
Will Jefferson

William Ingleby Jefferson (born 25 October 1979) is a former professional cricketer who played for Essex County Cricket Club, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire in a 12-year career. He retired from the game in 2012 as a result of a chronic hip complaint. Standing  tall, he was the tallest player in county cricket during most of his career, and among the tallest professional cricketers ever.

Jefferson was a right-handed opening batsman and a reliable slip fielder. He was born in Derby to a cricketing family; his father Richard Jefferson played first-class cricket for Surrey, while his grandfather Julian Jefferson played first-class cricket in the 1920s for services teams. He showed his promise at Oundle School and Durham University. Jefferson studied at Durham from 1999 to 2002, completing the Sport in the Community course. He made his first-class debut for British Universities against the touring Zimbabweans in 2000.

His first full season at Essex was 2002, during which he scored 815 first-class runs; his 165 not out in the final match of the season
made a major contribution to Essex winning the second division of the County Championship.

His best season was 2004, in which he scored 1555 first-class runs at an average of 55.53 with 6 centuries including a high score of 222. In 2005, a slump in form saw him relegated to the Essex Second XI, but he responded with 303 not out against Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) Young Cricketers, and regained his place in the first team.

Before the start of the 2006 season, he suffered a freak accident, cutting his left wrist whilst trying to open a window, and severing the tendons. After recovering from this injury, he failed to regain a regular place in the Essex side, and left the county by mutual consent in August 2006. In September of that year, he signed a three-year contract with Nottinghamshire.

In January 2007, he was selected for the England A team to tour Bangladesh in February and March.

Jefferson had his contract terminated by Nottinghamshire in September 2009 after a run of poor form stretching back two years. However, he marked a return to form by scoring 112 in the first match of the 2011 county season, and his finest moment for Leicestershire was probably to secure their place in the T20 Final that year by smashing three boundaries in the "super over" needed, after their semi-final against Lancashire ended in a tie.

Notes

References

Will Jefferson from the ECB

English cricketers
Essex cricketers
Nottinghamshire cricketers
People educated at Oundle School
1979 births
Living people
Leicestershire cricketers
Durham MCCU cricketers
Cricketers from Derby
British Universities cricketers
Alumni of the College of St Hild and St Bede, Durham
Gary Anderson (swimmer)

Gary Myers Anderson (born April 7, 1969) is a former competition medley and backstroke swimmer from Canada, who competed for his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

At Seoul, Anderson finished in 8th position in the 200-metre individual medley. Four years later at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Anderson claimed the same spot in the same event.

Anderson was the head coach for the California Aquatics swim team in Pasadena, Santa Clarita, and South Pasadena, California.

See also
 List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men)

References

1969 births
Living people
Canadian male backstroke swimmers
Canadian male medley swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Canada
Swimmers from Montreal
Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
Swimmers at the 1995 Pan American Games
Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada
Anglophone Quebec people
Pan American Games competitors for Canada
Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School

West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School (also informally known as West Side High School or simply West Side) is the only high school within the West Lafayette city limits, and is administered by the West Lafayette Community School Corporation.

West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School was constructed in 1939 of cream brick and glass at a cost of $225,000, and was remodeled in the late 1990s. The school is located near Purdue University, and the children of many Purdue faculty and staff attend West Side. In 2012, the school was ranked as the 2nd and 4th best public high school in Indiana by U.S. News & World Report and Newsweek, respectively.  As of 2021, the high school was ranked in U.S. News & World Report as 2nd in Indiana and 239th nationwide.

Athletics
The school offers athletic programs including football, baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, soccer, wrestling, golf, track and field, swimming, tennis and volleyball. The teams play under the nickname of the Red Devils and belong to the Hoosier Athletic Conference. The Red Devils have won 7 state championships.

Notable alumni

Sonia Y. Angell (Class of 1983), public health leader
Moungi Bawendi (Class of 1978), winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and professor at MIT
Katie Bouman (Class of 2007), imaging scientist
Greg Christopher (Class of 1984), athletic director
Neil Eggleston (Class of 1971), White House Counsel
Paul Eremenko (Class of 1997), innovator and technology executive
Bob Friend (Class of 1949), pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Gen Fukunaga (Class of 1979), founder of Funimation Entertainment 
George Karlaftis (Class of 2019), NFL football player
Tom Kelly (Class of 1967), songwriter
Jay McDowell (Class of 1987), bassist for country music band BR549
Gavin Mikhail (Class of 1991), singer-songwriter
Sameer Mishra (Class of 2012), won the 81st Scripps National Spelling Bee
Tom Moore (Class of 1961), director
Toby Moskowitz (Class of 1989), financial economist
Chike Okeafor (Class of 1994), NFL football player
Eric Rodwell (Class of 1974), professional bridge player
Carolyn Wood Sherif (Class of 1940), social psychologist
Janet Tobias (Class of 1976), television producer
Randy Truitt (Class of 1986), member of the Indiana House of Representatives

See also
 List of high schools in Indiana

References

External links
 School website
 West Lafayette Community School Corporation
 Indiana Department of Education: School Snapshot

Public high schools in Indiana
West Lafayette, Indiana
Educational institutions established in 1939
Schools in Tippecanoe County, Indiana
Public middle schools in Indiana
1939 establishments in Indiana
Jaroslav Šajtar

Jaroslav Šajtar (December 3, 1921 – February 4, 2003) was a Czech chess master and an honorary grandmaster, born in Ostrava.

He won at Kraków 1938, thrice placed joined 4th at Choceň 1942, Prague 1943 (Alexander Alekhine won), Zlín 1943, and 4th at Teplitz-Schönau 1947. His peak years were about 1950, his best results being shared 2nd with Isaac Boleslavsky, Luděk Pachman, and Vasily Smyslov at Warsaw 1947 and 3rd at Bucharest 1949.  Šajtar played on the Czechoslovak team against Great Britain in 1947 and in the Helsinki 1952 and Amsterdam 1954 Olympiads.  He finished 2nd in the 1952 Czechoslovak Championship.

In 1956 Šajtar was elected vice-president of FIDE (as president of Zone 3 [Eastern Europe]).  He served as a FIDE official until 1974, devoting himself to the organisation of chess.  He often served as arbiter at the Students Olympiads.

Šajtar earned the International Master title in 1950 and became an International Arbiter in 1955.
FIDE made him an Honorary Grandmaster in 1985.

Notable chess games 
 Jaroslav Sajtar vs Bogdan Sliwa, Warsaw 1947, Queen's Gambit Accepted (D23), 1-0 A nice, very short game: Undeveloped Black position is successfully attacked by the White light pieces.
 Jaroslav Sajtar vs Ludek Pachman, UJCS-17. Kongress 1943, Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 (E47),  1-0 Another short game of two (then young) Czech masters demonstrates a typical exchange sacrifice for the sake of attack.

References

External links
 
 Jaroslav Šajtar player profile at Chessmetrics

1921 births
2003 deaths
Czechoslovak chess players
Czech chess players
20th-century chess players
Chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Chess arbiters