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Georgia Scorcher

Georgia Scorcher, or simply Scorcher, is a stand-up roller coaster located at Six Flags Over Georgia located in Austell, Georgia, United States. Manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard, Georgia Scorcher opened on May 8, 1999, and was the last stand-up coaster installation ever built for almost 24 years until 2023 when Sea World Orlando opened Pipeline the Surf Coaster. Georgia Scorcher is  tall and reaches a maximum speed of . The attraction was marketed with the tagline, "Put your feet to the fire."

History
Georgia Scorcher is the third attraction to occupy this location in the Georgia section of the park. It replaced the Ragin' Rivers "wet-dry" raft slide tower that was added for the 1991 season, which itself replaced one of the two Log Jamboree log flumes.

Unlike Mantis, Chang and The Riddler's Revenge, which opened at Cedar Point in 1996, Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in 1997 and Six Flags Magic Mountain in 1998 respectively, Georgia Scorcher did not continue the trend of the world's tallest and fastest stand-up roller coasters. Its layout is more modest, in fitting with the long, narrow site selected for it.

On November 10, 1998, Six Flags Over Georgia announced that they would be building a new stand-up roller coaster. It would be named Georgia Scorcher and was scheduled to open for 1999 season.

Georgia Scorcher would open to guests in May 1999.

The track was originally painted yellow with purple supports. For the 2019 season, the track was repainted cherry red with dark grey supports.

Track layout
Georgia Scorcher departs the station and climbs its  lift hill, then drops down a 101 ft drop. Then the roller coaster enters its  vertical loop. It then climbs to the right, circling back towards the station before diving sharply down to the left, entering a non-inverting inclined loop that threads through the center of the vertical loop. After exiting the element, the roller coaster then climbs a small hill and is twisted over on its right side, twisting back as it enters its second inversion, a corkscrew.

The roller coaster climbs up to the left, crossing over the start of the lift hill, before diving down and performing a ground-level 270-degree helix turn, crossing itself again as it rises one final time to enter the brake run, returning to the station via a U-turn to the left.

References

External links 

Roller coasters introduced in 1999
Roller coasters in Georgia (U.S. state)
Roller coasters operated by Six Flags
Six Flags Over Georgia
Stand-up roller coasters manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard
A Tribute to Carl Albert

A Tribute to Carl Albert is a live album by heavy metal band Vicious Rumors, released in 1995. This live album is a compilation of recordings done in 1994 during their European Tour and put together as a tribute to singer Carl Albert.

Tracks 1 through 14 were recorded live, while tracks 15-17 are previously unreleased studio tracks.

Track listing
"On the Edge"
"Abandoned"
"No Fate"
"Ministry of Fear"
"Digital Dictator"
"Against the Grain"
"The Voice"
"Hell Razor"
"Thunder and Rain Pt. 1"
"Thunder and Rain Pt. 2"
"Worlds and Machines"
"Thinking of You"
"Down to the Temple"
"Don't Wait for Me"
"My Machine"
"Put the Blame on Me"
"Indisintegration"

Personnel
 Geoff Thorpe: Guitars
 Mark McGee: Guitars
 Carl Albert: Vocals
 Tommy Sisco: Bass
 Dave Starr: Bass (on My Machine, Put the Blame on Me and Indisintegration)
 Larry Howe: Drums

Rationale
The details for the recording rationale is included into the album as follow:

Dedication
"This album is dedicated to the Best Singer & Friend in the World"

Carl Albert
1962–1995

References

1996 live albums
Vicious Rumors albums
Tribute albums
Sidney High School

Sidney High School may refer to:

Sidney High School (Iowa) in Sidney, Iowa
Sidney High School (Nebraska) in Sidney, Nebraska
Sidney High School (Montana) in Sidney, Montana
Sidney High School (New York) in Sidney, New York
Sidney High School (Texas) in Sidney, Texas
Sidney High School (Ohio) in Sidney, Ohio
Sopila

The sopile (or roženice, as it is called in Istria) is an ancient traditional woodwind instrument of Croatia, similar to the oboe or shawm. It is used in the regions of Kvarner, Kastav, Vinodol, Island Krk, and Istria. Sopile are always played in pairs so there are great and small or thin and fat sopila. Sopile are musical instruments offering very interesting possibilities with a unique piercing sound. This is replicated in more modern examples of Kvarner music through use of modified double reed clarinet or soprano Dulzaina. Sopile are, by "mih" and "šurle," and today are very popular in the folk traditions of Istria, Kvarner and Island Krk.

Roženice are ancient traditional musical instruments which continue to be used today in the region of Istria. Roženice are very similar to sopile from Island Krk. Roženice are always played in pairs so there are great and small or thin and fat rozenica. Roženice have a very piercing special sound, and have the possibility of producing a variety of sounds. Roženice are, by "mih" and "šurle", today very popular in folk tradition of Istra.

The sopila is a wooden horn originating from Istria and some of the northern islands along the Adriatic Coast of Croatia. Like oboes, sopilas have double reeds, but are always played in pairs; one larger than the other. Both have six finger holes, being equally spaced on the smaller one, and set in groups of three on the larger one. Often used to accompany dancing, the voice of the sopila is that of the Istrian scale.

See also
Rhaita
Shawm
Suona
Zurna

Sources
 Roženice (sopele, sopile, supiele, tororo) 
 Sopile 
 Sopile

Croatian musical instruments
Oboes
Istria
Novatus

Saint Novatus (died c. 151) is an early Christian saint. His feast day is 20 June.

Novatus and his brother, the martyr Timotheus, were the sons of Saint Pudens, and the brothers of Saints Pudentiana and Praxedes. His paternal grandfather was Quintus Cornelius Pudens, the Roman senator, who with his wife, Priscilla, was among St. Peter's earliest converts in Rome and in whose house the Apostle dwelt while in that city.  A portion of the structure of the modern church of Santa Pudenziana (Via Urbana) is thought to be part of the senatorial palace or of the baths built by Novatus.

According to the 5th-century church historian Philostorgius, Novatus was of Phrygian descent.

The city of Novato, California, is named after a local Miwok leader who had probably been given the name of Saint Novatus at his baptism.

References

151 deaths
2nd-century Christian saints
Year of birth unknown
Navnit Dholakia, Baron Dholakia

Navnit Dholakia, Baron Dholakia,  (born 4 March 1937), is a British Liberal Democrat politician and a deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords.

Education
Navnit Dholakia was born in Tanzania on 4 March 1937 to Permananddas Mulji Dholakia and Shantabai Permananddas Dholakia. He was educated in Tanzania and India, studying at the Home School and Institute of Science in Bhavnagar, Gujarat. Dholakia came to Britain to study at Brighton Technical College, taking his first job as a medical laboratory technician at Southlands Hospital in Shoreham-by-Sea.

Political career

He became active in the Liberal party and was elected to Brighton Borough Council between 1961 and 1964.

From 1976 he served as member of the Commission for Racial Equality and has been involved in the Sussex Police Authority, Police Complaints Authority and Howard League for Penal Reform. He is the current chair of Nacro, and also chairs its Race Issues Advisory Committee.

Dholakia was created a life peer as Baron Dholakia, of Waltham Brooks in the County of West Sussex, on 24 October 1997, and sits on the Liberal Democrat benches in the House of Lords.

From 1997 to 2002 he served as a Liberal Democrat whip in the House, and from 2002 to 2004 he was the Home Affairs Spokesman.

He was elected President of the Liberal Democrats at the end of 1999 and served in the post from 2000 to 2004. In November 2004 he was elected a joint deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords, and became the party's sole deputy leader in the Lords in 2010.

Dholakia is involved with a range of charities including being a Patron of the British branch of Child In Need India (CINI UK).

Honours 
In the 1994 New Year Honours, Dholakia was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to race relations. In 2000 he was named "Asian of the Year", and won the Pride of India Award in 2005.  In November 2009 he was given an honorary doctorate from the University of Hertfordshire. He was a deputy lieutenant (DL) in the county of West Sussex from 1999 to 2012.

Dholakia was appointed to the Privy Council (PC) in December 2010.

Personal life
He has been married to Lady Dholakia, née Ann McLuskie, since 1967. They have two daughters and live in West Sussex. He is a Hindu of Gujarati origin.

Sources
Lord Dholakia biography at the site of Liberal Democrats
UK Hindu youths' quest to find roots Times of India - 26 July 2001

References

1937 births
Indian peers
British Hindus
Commissioners for Racial Equality
Deputy Lieutenants of West Sussex
Dholakia, Navnit Dholakia, Baron
Life peers created by Elizabeth II
Liberal Party (UK) councillors
Councillors in East Sussex
Living people
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Presidents of the Liberal Democrats (UK)
Tanzanian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
British people of Indian descent
British people of Gujarati descent
Recipients of Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
English justices of the peace
WIXT

WIXT may refer to:

 WIXT (AM), a radio station (1230 AM) licensed to serve Little Falls, New York, United States
 WMJQ-CD, a low-power television station (channel 27, virtual 40) licensed to serve Syracuse, New York, which held the call sign WIXT-CA from 2005 to 2013 and WIXT-CD from 2013 to 2021
 WIXT-TV, formerly television station WSYR-TV
Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council

The Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council is the chairman of the Palestinian Legislative Council of the Palestinian Authority. As Chairman, the Speaker acts as interim President of the Palestinian National Authority if the latter is unable to perform his or her duties. Under Palestinian law, the interim President holds the role for sixty days until an election is held.

Since 29 March 2006, the Speaker has been Aziz Dweik, of Hamas, though the Palestinian Legislative Council has not met since 2007.

History 
After the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister, Mahmoud Abbas, on 6 September 2003, the Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Ahmed Qurei became acting Prime Minister, and he would be Prime Minister until 26 January 2006.

Rawhi Fattouh became interim President of the Palestinian Authority following the death of Yasser Arafat on 11 November 2004 until 15 January 2005, when Mahmoud Abbas was sworn in as President following the election.

List

See also
Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization
President of the State of Palestine
President of the Palestinian National Authority
Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority
Leaders of Palestinian institutions

References

1996 establishments in the Palestinian territories
Pseudodiarrhea

Pseudodiarrhea, also known as hyperdefecation or excess stool, is defined as increased stool frequency (more than three times daily) with a normal daily stool weight of less than 300 g.

Pseudodiarrhea is often associated with rectal urgency and accompanies irritable bowel syndrome, hyperthyroidism, and anorectal disorders such as proctitis.  Patients with rectal obstruction (e.g., from fecal impaction, obstruction due to a vaginal pessary) may also present with pseudodiarrhea, since only liquid stool can make it through.

Pseudodiarrhea may be more common than chronic diarrhea and should always be considered in patients complaining of chronic diarrhea.

References

Gastrointestinal tract disorders
Digestive disease symptoms
Devotional

Devotional may refer to:

 Acts of devotion, especially those repeated regularly
 Devotional song, a hymn which accompanies religious observances and rituals
 Devotional (video), of the 1993 Depeche Mode tour
 Daily devotional, religious publication or practice

See also

 Devotion (disambiguation)
 Devotional Songs, a 1992 studio album by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
 Devotional Tour, a 1993 concert tour by Depeche Mode
 Christian devotional literature, religious writing designed for personal edification and spiritual formation
 Filmi devotional songs, in Hindi movies
 Hindu devotional movements, various forms of Hinduism in India
Spalding High School

Spalding High School may refer to:

Spalding High School (Georgia), USA
Spalding High School, Lincolnshire, England
Spaulding High School (New Hampshire), USA
Spalding Institute, Illinois, USA
Archbishop Spalding High School, Maryland, USA

See also
Spaulding High School
Bronx Community Board 6

Bronx Community Board 6 is a local government unit of the city of New York, encompassing the neighborhoods of Bathgate, Belmont, East Tremont, and West Farms as Bronx Community District 6. It is delimited by Bronx Park to the east and north, Webster Avenue to the west, and Crotona Park North and the Cross Bronx Expressway to the south.

Community board staff and membership
The current chairperson of the Bronx Community board 6 is Evonne Capers. Its District Manager is John Sanchez.

The City Council members representing the community district are non-voting, ex officio board members. The council members and their council districts are:
 15th NYC Council District - Oswald Feliz
 17th NYC Council District - Rafael Salamanca

Demographics
As of the United States 2000 Census, the Community District has a population of 75,688, up from 68,061 in 1990 and 65,014 in 1980.
Of them, 46,391 (61.3%) are of Hispanic origin, 19,694 (26%) are Black, non-Hispanic, 7,021 (9.3%) are White, non-Hispanic, 891 (1.2%) are Asian or Pacific Islander, 201 (0.3%) American Indian or Alaska Native, 238 (0.3%) are some other race (non-Hispanic), and 1,252 (1.7%) of two or more races (non-Hispanic).

References

External links
 

Community boards of the Bronx
Belmont, Bronx
West Farms, Bronx
Emmaus Bible College (Australia)

Emmaus Bible College was an Australian Bible College established in 1954 last located in Macquarie Park, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was associated with the Christian Community Churches of Australia (Open Brethren). It was affiliated with the South Pacific Association of Evangelical Colleges and the Sydney College of Divinity. In late 2017 it amalgamated with the Australian College of Christian Studies (formerly known as Tabor College NSW).

It offered courses on site and by distance education, with courses accessed from 105 countries and in 125 languages. Emmaus Bible College was a sister institution to the founding Emmaus Bible College, opened in 1941 in Toronto, Canada.

The college had about 30 full and part-time students. Sixty percent of the student body were Brethren. Its library held the largest collection of Brethren books in the southern hemisphere.

References

External links
 

1954 establishments in Australia
Evangelical seminaries and theological colleges in Australia
Educational institutions established in 1954
Plymouth Brethren
Seminaries and theological colleges in New South Wales
Boomsday

Boomsday was an annual fireworks celebration that took place on Labor Day weekend in Knoxville, Tennessee. It was the largest Labor Day firework show in the United States, and was considered a top attraction in the region. The event was held on Volunteer Landing and accompanied by live music and festivities.

Boomsday's firework display attracted over 325,000 spectators every year. Fireworks were set off from the Henley Street Bridge (to a lesser extent Baptist Hospital and the Gay Street Bridge) and spectators could view the show from the riverfront, hillsides, or on boats from the Tennessee River. In 2006, Boomsday was expanded to a three-day event lasting through Labor Day weekend, causing Knoxville to lose money, and the city reverted to the one-day event in 2007. The fireworks display was choreographed to music with one such selection being Madonna's Lucky Star in which all the bursts were star shaped. The Tennessee Volunteer's fight song with the bursts being the team's colors bursting in front of Neyland Stadium was always a perennial crowd pleaser. Other musical selections included Smoke on the Water from Deep Purple, the theme from Jaws, and Born to Be Wild from Steppenwolf, just to name a few. The "waterfall" on the Henley Street Bridge marked the second half of the show.

In July 2015, organizers announced that 2015 would be the final Boomsday, stating that the city loses approximately $100,000 per year hosting the event.

Gallery

References

External links

Official site
Boomsday Knoxville

Festivals in Tennessee
Culture of Knoxville, Tennessee
Tourist attractions in Knoxville, Tennessee
Cenk Ünnü

Cenk Ünnü (born 1967 in Istanbul) is the drummer of the heavy metal band Mezarkabul (also known as Pentagram). He and Hakan Utangaç formed Pentagram together in 1986. He graduated from Istanbul University’s Faculty of Literature, Anthropology. He lives in Istanbul and runs an underground music store called Pena. He is married and has a son, Arda, and a daughter, Öykü.

Discography
with Pentagram

 Pentagram 1990
 Trail Blazer 1992
 Anatolia 1997
 Popçular Dışarı 1998
 Unspoken 2001
 Bir 2002

External links
 Official Mezarkabul website

1967 births
Living people
Turkish drummers
Heavy metal drummers
Ralung Monastery

Ralung Monastery (), located in the Tsang region of western Tibet south of Karo Pass, is the traditional seat of the Drukpa Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. It was founded in 1180 by Tsangpa Gyare, 1st Gyalwang Drukpa, a disciple of Lingje Répa () who founded the Drukpa Lineage.

Location

The monastery is located in present-day Gyantse County several kilometers south of the road connecting Nakartse and Lungmar, immediately north of the Gasa district of Bhutan.  In previous times, trade could be conducted across the Yak La pass across the high Himalayas, extending the influence of Ralung to the south.

The monastery is surrounded by the towering peaks and glacier fields of Gyetong Soksum (6,244m), Jangzang Lhamo (6,324m) and Nojin Gangzang (7,191m). From the beginning the location was recognized as especially auspicious:

History
The founder of Bhutan, the first Zhabdrung Rinpoche, Ngawang Namgyal, was the 18th abbot of Ralung Monastery. In 1616, he fled Tibet when his recognition as the reincarnation of renowned scholar Kunkhyen Pema Karpo was challenged by the governor of Tsang province. Ngawang Namgyal unified the warring valleys of Bhutan, fending off attacks from Tibet, forming a national identity and establishing a dual system of government that continues to this day in modified form as the Royal Government of Bhutan.

Palden Drukpa lineage
Chart of the hereditary Palden Drukpa lineage () of Ralung from the founder, Tsangpa Gyare, to the last hereditary throne holder, Ngawang Namgyal. Successive throne holders are numbered with their names in bold text.

Footnotes

References
 Dorje, Gyurme; (1999). Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan (2nd Ed.) Footprint Handbooks. .  p. 253.

External links
 Ralung Monastery
  rwa lung  TBRC G44
 Ralung

Buddhist monasteries in Tibet
Buddhist temples in Tibet
Drukpa Kagyu monasteries and temples
1180 establishments in Asia
Religious organizations established in the 1180s
St. Paul High School

St. Paul High School may refer to:

Canada
St. Paul High School (Ottawa), Nepean, Ontario
Saint Paul Catholic High School, Niagara Falls, Ontario

United States
St. Paul High School (Arkansas), St. Paul, Arkansas
St. Paul High School (Santa Fe Springs, California)
St. Paul Catholic High School, Bristol, Connecticut
St. Paul High School, St. Paul, Kansas
St. Paul High School (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan)
St. Paul High School (Nebraska), a high school in St. Paul, Nebraska
St. Paul High School (Ohio), Norwalk, Ohio
St. Paul High School (Oregon), St. Paul, Oregon
St. Paul High School (Shiner, Texas)
St. Paul High School (Virginia), St. Paul, Virginia

See also
St. Paul's High School (disambiguation)
St. Paul's School (disambiguation)
Saint Paul (disambiguation)
Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs is a position of the United States government within the Department of State that heads the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, which is responsible for development of policies and programs to combat international narcotics and crime. The current acting Assistant Secretary is Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary James A. Walsh.

On October 1, 1978, Congress, in the Foreign Relations Authorization Act for fiscal Year 1979, authorized the position of Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters, to be responsible for the overall coordination of the role of the Department of State in the international aspects of narcotics problems. This title had been given in full in each appointee's commission. The new Assistant Secretary, who headed the Bureau for International Narcotics Matters, replaced a Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State on Narcotics, who had served with a rank equivalent to an Assistant Secretary of State since 1971. The Department of State first supported the Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Narcotics in 1909. The title of this position was changed from International Narcotics Matters to International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs on February 10, 1995.

List of Assistant Secretaries of State for International Narcotics Matters, 1979–1995

List of Assistant Secretaries of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, 1995–present
The title "Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters" was renamed "Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs" on February 10, 1995.

References

External links
Official website
www.state.gov Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
The Office of the Historian's list of former Assistant Secretaries

 
Drug policy of the United States
ConnNet

ConnNet was a packet switched data network operated by the Southern New England Telephone Company serving the U.S. state of Connecticut.

ConnNet was the nation's first local public packet switching network when it was launched on March 11, 1985.  Users could access services such as Dow Jones News Retrieval, CompuServe,  Dialcom, GEnie, Delphi, Eaasy Sabre, NewsNet, PeopleLink, the National Library of Medicine, and BIX.  ConnNet could also be used to access other national and international packet networks, such as Tymnet and ACCUNET.  Large companies also connected their mainframe computers to ConnNet allowing employees access to the mainframes from home.  The network is no longer in operation.

Hardware
The X.25 network was based on hardware from Databit, Inc. consisting of three EDX-P Network Nodes that performed switching and were located in Hartford, New Haven and Stamford.  Databit also supplied 23 ANP 2520 Advanced Network Processors each of which provided the system with a point of presence, a network control center and modems.  Customers would order leased line connections into the network for host computers running at 4,800 to 56,000 bits per second (bit/s).  Terminals would connect over a leased line from 1,200 to 9,600 bit/s synchronous, 300 to 2,400 bit/s asynchronous or using dial-up connections from 300 to 1,200 bit/s.  The connection to Tymnet was established over an X.75 based 9,600 bit/s analog link from the ConnNet Hartford node to Tymnet's Bloomfield node.

See also
Southern New England Telephone (SNET)

References

 Southern New England Telephone (Mar 13, 1985). SNET; Offers its Connecticut customers the first local packet switched data network in the nation. Press Release
 ConnNet Online Help.  Accessed Jan 07, 1991
 AT&T (Jan 29, 1986). Untitled.  Press Release
 SNET / Packet/PC (Nov 12, 1987). PC users can link to IBM mainframes with Packet/ PC software and SNET's Connect.  Press Release
 Scully, Sharon (June 2, 1986). "Protocol Conversion; SNET heralds services".  Network World, p 4.
 Databit (May 27, 1986). DATABIT; Announces point-of-sale terminal application with Southern New England Telephone.  Press Release
 Strauss, Paul R.  (Jan 1 1987).  "Feature 1986: Information networking's quiet watershed year in review".  Data Communications, p 169.

1985 establishments in Connecticut
Communications in Connecticut
History of the Internet
Paul Henderson (disambiguation)

Paul Henderson (born 1943) is a Canadian former ice hockey player and member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.

Paul Henderson may also refer to:
Paul Henderson (sprinter) (born 1971), Australian sprinter
Paul Henderson (cricketer) (born 1974), English cricketer
Paul Henderson (soccer) (born 1976), Australian football goalkeeper
Paul Henderson (journalist) (1939–2018), winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Paul Henderson (photojournalist) (1899–1988), African-American photojournalist for the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper
Paul Henderson (politician) (born 1962), former Chief Minister of the Australian Northern Territory
Paul Henderson (rugby union) (born 1964), New Zealand rugby union player
Paul Henderson (sailor) (born 1934), Canadian sailor and member of the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame
Paul Henderson (basketball) (born 1956), American-French professional basketball player
Paul Henderson, lead vocalist for the 1980s Canadian band The Front
Cooper Spur ski area

Cooper Spur ski area is a ski area located on northeast Mount Hood, Oregon, United States. The resort has one double chair ski lift serving ten runs, and a vertical drop of 110 meters (350 ft). There are  of cross-country skiing trails. The uphill capacity of the lift is 1,200 skiers per hour, and the summit rises to . The resort encompasses  of terrain, and receives an average of  of snow per year.

Cooper Spur Mountain Resort has  of forest on which condos, log cabins, a restaurant, and a hotel are located.

Expansion 
In the summer of 2001, Cooper Spur was purchased by an affiliate of Mount Hood Meadows named Meadows North LLC, and announced its intention to develop the Cooper Spur area as a year round destination resort with additional lifts, runs, and accommodation.  A July 18, 2001 proposal included developing a golf course, 450 housing units, a conference center, ice rink, swimming pool, amphitheater, shopping mall, and other developments.  The development was opposed by groups which favor preserving and expanding wilderness areas of northern Mount Hood.  Other concerns include potentially disrupting a key elk migration route, watershed disruption for two thousand nearby residents, and deforestation.

A controversial land swap was concluded with Hood River County by Meadows North LLC which increased the acreage adjacent to Cooper Spur owned by Meadows North LLC.

In the summer of 2002, the decades-old T-bar lift was replaced with a double chair, and excavation work created a tubing area.

After Meadows North LLC abandoned its initiative to develop Cooper Spur, a proposal was made to trade Cooper Spur's facilities, existing , and its special-use permit which authorizes  of development in exchange for  of Forest Service land near Government Camp.  The proposal became a provision of House Bill 5025 [109th] (Mount Hood Stewardship Legacy Act) and passed the House, but expired without senate approval.  According to a GAO assessment, the value of lands were not appraised equivalently and probably not fairly.

See also 
List of ski areas and resorts in the United States#Oregon

References

External links 
 Cooper Spur Resort - Official Website

Buildings and structures in Hood River County, Oregon
Ski areas and resorts in Oregon
Mount Hood
Mount Hood National Forest
Tourist attractions in Hood River County, Oregon
Motorola StarMax

The Motorola StarMax was a line of licensed Macintosh clones produced by Motorola Information Systems Group in 1996 and 1997.  They used versions of Apple's Tanzania motherboard, which was designed to use standard IBM PC compatible components in addition to Apple-proprietary components then in common use in the Power Macintosh family. StarMax computers featured SVGA video ports rather than the proprietary port Apple used at the time, and PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports in addition to ADB. The motherboard was also capable of using manual-eject floppy drives, though Motorola disabled this functionality and shipped the computers with software-eject drives.

The StarMax line was discontinued on 11 September 1997 after Apple terminated the Macintosh clone license program that year. The StarMax's termination resulted in strained relations between Motorola and Apple and later Motorola's expulsion from the AIM alliance.

Licensing
Shortly after Gil Amelio was appointed CEO of Apple in February 1996, Motorola Computer Group acquired a license for Mac OS 7.5 to ship with its own computer systems that it plan to release in China later that year. The license also allowed Motorola to sub-license Mac OS to its customers along with motherboards it would sell as OEM. Ultimately Apple terminated the license in 1997.

Reportedly, a heated telephone conversation between Jobs and Motorola CEO Christopher Galvin resulted in the contentious termination of Motorola's clone contract, and the long-favored Apple being demoted to "just another customer" mainly for PowerPC CPUs. Apple later expelled Motorola from the AIM alliance as retaliation, leaving IBM to make all future PowerPC CPUs.

Product line
The StarMax was sold in four different product lines.  In addition, the StarMax 6000 was based on the PowerPC 750 processor, but was never shipped due to the termination of the Macintosh clone program. The StarMax 6000 would have been the first CHRP machine and the first machine with the PowerPC G3 months before Apple released the Power Macintosh G3.

StarMax models numbers were derived using a standard system: (product line)/(CPU speed)(case type)
product line was 3000, 4000, 5000, or 5500 and designated the CPU used in the machine
3000 and 5000 used PowerPC 603e processors.
4000 and 5500 used PowerPC 604e processors.
cpu speed was the processor's clock speed, in megahertz
case type was either DT or MT and designated the type of case used
DT was a desktop case suitable for placing under a monitor
MT was a minitower case

5000 and 5500 models used an upgraded "Tanzania II" logic board featuring faster system bus speeds and improved integrated graphics based on the ATI 3D RAGE II+ chip.

References

External links

Motorola StarMax page Low End Mac
All Motorola StarMax Mac Clones (at EveryMac.com)
StarMax-talk YahooGroup

Macintosh clones
Starmax
Products introduced in 1996
PowerPC computers
Sydney College of Divinity

The Sydney College of Divinity (SCD) is a consortium of Christian theological educational institutions and Bible colleges based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The college is structured as a federation of member institutions, each of which retains its autonomy and respective theological traditions. Member institutions represent a range of Christian churches.

SCD is a registered Higher Education Provider, with degrees and awards accredited by the Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, a regulatory and quality agency for higher education. The consortium offers undergraduate awards that meet Australian and Korean education standards, postgraduate qualifications by coursework and research that meet Australian standards, and postgraduate qualifications by coursework that meet Korean standards. Awards range from Diploma in Theology to Doctor of Theology (Th.D.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.).

In Australia, seminaries which deliver instruction and prepare people for religious ordination are sometimes separate from theological educational institutions.

Member institutions
Australian College of Ministries (ACOM)Churches of Christ
NAIITS An Indigenous Learning CommunityNAIITS An Indigenous Learning Community
Nazarene Theological College (NTC)Church of the Nazarene
Nisibis Assyrian Theological CollegeAssyrian Church
College of Clinical Pastoral EducationInterdenominational
Planetshakers CollegePlanetshakers Church
St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological CollegeEastern Orthodox Church
St Cyril's Coptic Orthodox Theological CollegeCoptic Orthodox Church

Affiliated institutions
In Australia
Australian Catholic University
Edith Cowan University
The University of Sydney
University of Western Sydney
In Korea
Chongshin University and Theological Seminary
Soongsil University 
Sungkyul University

Notable alumni
Peter Nguyen Van Hung, anti-human trafficking activist in Taiwan
Graham Joseph Hill, former principal of Stirling Theological College

References

External links
Sydney College of Divinity website

Seminaries and theological colleges in New South Wales
1983 establishments in Australia
Verdonk

Verdonk and Verdonck are Dutch toponymic surnames. They are a contraction of van der Donk ("from the donk"), where "donk" was a name for sandy raised terrain in a swamp. The spelling Verdonk is more common in the Netherlands (2126 vs. 261 people in 2007), while Verdonck is more common in Belgium (4341 vs 118 people in 2008). Notable people with the surname include:

Verdonk
Calvin Verdonk (born 1997), Dutch footballer
Eric Verdonk (1959–2020), New Zealand rower
Lambert Verdonk (born 1944), Dutch footballer
Rita Verdonk (born 1955), Dutch politician
Verdonck
Cornelis Verdonck (1563–1625), Flemish composer
 (1546–1624), Flemish composer
Maurice Verdonck (1873–?), Belgian rower
Nico Verdonck (born 1985), Belgian racing driver
Rudy Verdonck (born 1965), Belgian cyclist
Sven Verdonck (born 1988), Belgian footballer

See also
Adriaen van der Donck (c.1618–1656), Dutch lawyer in New Netherland
Sabrina van der Donk (born 1988), Dutch model

References

Toponymic surnames
Dutch-language surnames
Nicholson Road

Nicholson Road is a major north-south road in the southeastern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, connecting Albany Highway in Cannington with the large residential areas of Thornlie and Canning Vale, before leaving the Perth urban area and terminating in Oakford. 

Nicholson Road is allocated State Route 31.

History
Until the construction of Kwinana Freeway to Thomas Road in 1993, Nicholson Road was one of southern Perth's most important routes.

Nicholson Road formerly crossed the Kwinana freight railway at a level crossing. Construction of a six-lane road bridge over the rail line to replace the crossing began in May 2017 and was completed in March 2018.

Major intersections
All intersections below are at-grade except for the intersections with Roe Highway and Armadale Road, which are grade-separated interchanges in favour of those two roads over Nicholson Road.

See also

References

External links

Roads in Perth, Western Australia
Cannington, Western Australia
River Valley Local School District

The River Valley Local School district (abbreviated RVLSD) is a public school district serving students in and around the village of Caledonia in Marion County, Ohio, United States. As of June 2020, the superintendent of the schools is Mr. Adam Wickham. As of October 2017, the school district enrolls 1,934 students. In addition to Caledonia, the school district includes the communities of Claridon, Martel, Waldo, and eastern Marion. The school district gained some controversy in the late 90s and early 2000s when there was a possibility of cancer-causing chemicals contaminating the grounds of the old high school and middle school campuses.

Schools

Elementary schools
Heritage Elementary School (Grades K through 5th)
Liberty Elementary School (Grades K through 5th)

Middle schools
River Valley Middle School (Grades 6th through 8th)

High schools
River Valley High School (Grades 9th through 12th)

History
The River Valley Local School District was founded in 1964 when the River Valley High School and Junior High School were created, along with adding Caledonia Elementary School, Claridon Elementary School, Martel Elementary School, and Waldo Elementary School to the district. Martel Elementary School was closed in the 1980s and remaining students from that community began attending Caledonia Elementary. In 2003 the new high school, middle school, and 2 elementary campuses were completed in new locations. Currently there are only two elementary schools - Heritage Elementary and Liberty Elementary. The Waldo, Claridon, and Caledonia elementary buildings have since been demolished for community safety purposes.

References

External links
River Valley Local School District website

School districts in Ohio
Education in Marion County, Ohio
School districts established in 1964
Adam Kasper

Adam Kasper is an American, Seattle area record producer and engineer, with platinum and gold awards, working with such bands as Aerosmith, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, The Tragically Hip, R.E.M., Soundgarden and Pearl Jam.  He went to Capital High School in Olympia, Washington.  

He won a Grammy Award in 2001 for his work on the Foo Fighters' There Is Nothing Left to Lose (see Grammy Awards of 2001), and again in 2004 for his work on the Foo Fighters' One by One.

Albums produced
 Truly - Fast Stories... from Kid Coma (1995)
 Seaweed - Spanaway (1995)
 Soundgarden - Down on the Upside (1996)
 Pond - Rock Collection (1997)
 The Watchmen - Silent Radar (1998)
 Wellwater Conspiracy - Brotherhood of Electric: Operational Directives (1999)
 Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999)
 Cold - 13 Ways to Bleed on Stage (2000)
 Foo Fighters - One by One (2002)
 Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (2002)
 Pearl Jam - Riot Act (2002)
 Aya - "Senjou no Hana" (2002)
 The Tragically Hip - In Between Evolution (2004)
 Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam (2006)
 Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild (2007)
 Soundgarden - Live on I-5 (2011)
 Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs (2011)
 Spoonshine - Song of the Sockeye (2012)
 Soundgarden - King Animal (2012)
 Ume - Monuments (2014)
 Pop Evil - Up (2015)

Albums mixed
 Truly - Fast Stories... from Kid Coma (1995)
 Soundgarden - Down on the Upside (1996)
 Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On (1998) 
 Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999) (except 3, 6, 7)
 Spys4Darwin - microfish (2001)
 Wellwater Conspiracy - The Scroll and Its Combinations (2001)
 Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (2002)
 Cat Power - You Are Free (2003)
 Queensrÿche - Tribe (2003)
 Wellwater Conspiracy - Wellwater Conspiracy (2003)
 Jack Irons - Attention Dimension (2004)
 Queensrÿche - The Art of Live (2004)
 Visqueen - Sunset on Dateland (2004)
 Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam (2006)
 Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild (2007)
 The Elms - The Great American Midrange (2009)
 Soundgarden - Live on I-5 (2011)
 Mark Blacknell - Mystery City Pretenders (2017) (3, 5, 10)
 The Jins - It's a Life (2023)

Songs produced
 Nirvana - "You Know You're Right" (2002)
 Pearl Jam  - "Man of the Hour" (2003)

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Record producers from Washington (state)
Grammy Award winners
American audio engineers
People from Olympia, Washington
Murder book

In law enforcement parlance, the term murder book refers to the case file of a murder investigation. Typically, murder books include crime scene photographs and sketches, autopsy and forensic reports, transcripts of investigators' notes, and witness interviews. The murder book encapsulates the complete paper trail of a murder investigation, from the time the murder is first reported through the arrest of a suspect.

Law enforcement agencies typically guard murder books carefully, and it is unusual for civilians to be given unfettered access to these kinds of records, especially for unsolved cases.

In modern culture

In films and television
In the thriller novel The Murder Book (2002) by Jonathan Kellerman, a murder book is sent to psychologist Alex Delaware, renewing the hunt for a murderer in a 20-year-old case.
A murder book featured heavily in the plot of the 2006/2008 ABC miniseries Day Break.
Episode 387–1716 of the TV series Law & Order is titled "Murder Book" (2007).
Murder Book (2014–) is an American television series on the Investigation Discovery channel.
In the film of the Michael Connelly novel Blood Work, the murder book is a key investigative tool to find a suspect in several killings.

In literature and publications
American crime novelist Michael Connelly makes regular references to the meticulous murder books kept by LAPD detective Harry Bosch, particularly in The Black Echo, The Concrete Blonde, The Last Coyote, Trunk Music, The Closers, and The Drop. In 2020, Connelly created a true crime podcast titled Murder Book.

Novelist Lisa Gray makes regular references to murder books in her Jessica Shaw novels.

References

External links
 The Gangs of Los Angeles – The Homicide Library FBI

Law enforcement terminology
Leandro Despouy

Leandro Despouy (April 4, 1947 – December 18, 2019), who was born in San Luis, Argentina, was an Argentine human rights lawyer. He was the United Nations Commission on Human Rights Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers from August 2003 until end of July 2009
..  He was also Special Rapporteur of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities 

Despouy was one of the five authors of a report on human rights abuses committed against the extrajudicial captives the United States detainees at its naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

He played a significant role for the recognition of extreme poverty as a human rights issue within the United Nations system.

In 2016 he was awarded the Premio Konex

From 2002 to 2016, Despouy was the president of the Auditoría General de la Nación of the Argentine Republic.

References

  UN Cites Torture Reports At Gitmo, CBS News, June 23, 2005

1947 births
2019 deaths
People from San Luis, Argentina
20th-century Argentine lawyers
United Nations special rapporteurs
Members of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
Argentine officials of the United Nations
21st-century Argentine lawyers
X.75

X.75 is an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (formerly CCITT) standard specifying the interface for interconnecting two X.25 networks. X.75 is almost identical to X.25. The significant difference is that while X.25 specifies the interface between a subscriber (Data Terminal Equipment (DTE)) and the network (Data Circuit-terminating Equipment (DCE)), X.75 specifies the interface between two networks (Signalling Terminal Equipment (STE)), and refers to these two STE as STE-X and STE-Y. This gives rise to some subtle differences in  the protocol compared with X.25. For example, X.25 only allows network-generated reset and clearing causes to be passed from the network (DCE) to the subscriber (DTE), and not the other way around, since the subscriber is not a network. However, at the interconnection of two X.25 networks, either network might reset or clear an X.25 call, so X.75 allows network-generated reset and clearing causes to be passed in either direction.

Although outside the scope of both X.25 and X.75, which define external interfaces to an X.25 network, X.75 can also be found as the protocol operating between switching nodes inside some X.25 networks.

Further reading

External links
ITU-T Recommendation X.75

Network layer protocols
Wide area networks
ITU-T recommendations
ITU-T X Series Recommendations
X.25
Sialkot International Airport

Sialkot International Airport  is situated 14 km (8.7 mi) west of Sialkot in the Sialkot District of Pakistan. It has the distinction of being the first privately owned  airport in Pakistan. It was built by the business community of Sialkot. Before the completion of the new green field Islamabad International Airport, it also had the longest runway in Pakistan.

Approximately 1,000,000 travellers from Sialkot and adjacent areas are expected to benefit from this international airport each year.

Structure

Sialkot is a major export hub of Pakistan. The airport is being upgraded to make it capable of accommodating the load of ten Boeing 747s or A340s. The airport authority is currently collaborating with a private company to develop the airport to meet international standards and already has developed a new runway so heavier aircraft can land. Additionally, a new terminal is currently under construction to deal with an increase in passengers as well as cargo imports and exports.

The airport provides services of fuel farms, aircraft ground maintenance , catering and related services through concessions to private parties.

The runway is 3,600-metres long, and 45-metres wide with 7.5-metre wide shoulders on either side corresponding to International Civil Aviation Organisation Category 4E.

The link taxiway is 263-metres long, and 23-metres wide with 10.5-metre shoulders.

It has aprons for passenger and cargo, 95,000-sq metre area. It is a combination of flexible and rigid pavements and also for nose-in parking for 7 wide bodied aircraft plus 4 ATR-42 aircraft at a time.

Two passenger boarding bridges have also become operational.

Airlines and destinations

Cargo

See also
 List of airports in Pakistan
 Sialkot Cantonment Airport
 Sialkot International Airport Limited

References

External links
 
 Official Website of Sialkot International Airport Limited
 

Airports in Punjab, Pakistan
International airports in Pakistan
Buildings and structures in Sialkot
Transport in Sialkot
Tourist attractions in Sialkot
Privately owned airports
Mark Wilkerson

Mark Wilkerson is an American musician, who was the lead singer and guitarist for rock band Course of Nature, previously known as COG.

Wilkerson co-wrote the song "It's Not Over" which was released as a single and as the opening track on the eponymous album by Daughtry. On December 6, 2007, the song earned him and the other co-writers a nomination for Best Rock Song for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards.

On May 3, 2007, Wilkerson gave a concert to help the relief efforts of Enterprise High School in Alabama, two months after a violent storm destroyed the school and killed eight students.

Personal life
On July 19, 2003, Wilkerson married actress Melissa Joan Hart, having met at the Kentucky Derby in May 2002. They have three sons: Mason (born January 2006), Braydon (b. March 2008), and Tucker (b. September 2012).

Discography

Albums with COG
No Time at All (2001)

Albums with Course of Nature
Superkala (2002)
Damaged (2008)

Filmography
Tying the Knot: The Wedding of Melissa Joan Hart [2003] [TV] ... Himself
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch ... Himself

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Alternative rock guitarists
Alternative rock singers
American alternative rock musicians
American rock guitarists
American male guitarists
American rock singers
Living people
Singers from Alabama
People from Enterprise, Alabama
Rhythm guitarists
Guitarists from Alabama
21st-century American guitarists
21st-century American male singers
Roger Johnson

Roger Johnson may refer to:

Roger Johnson (by 1530–64 or later) (died ?), member of Parliament
Roger Johnson (California official) (1934–2005), American businessman
Roger Johnson (politician), American politician
Roger Johnson (hurdler) (born 1943), New Zealand hurdler
Roger Johnson (footballer) (born 1983), English football player
Roger Johnson (TV presenter), English journalist and presenter
Roger Johnson, President of the British Computer Society
Roger Kirk Johnson (1922–1991), architect, artist and educator

See also
Roger Johnston (born 1930), Australian politician