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Building a Better Me

Building a Better Me is the fifth full-length album from San Diegan punk band Dogwood released in 2000. Instrumentation for the album was produced and recorded by Sam Boukas and Dogwood at Goldentrack studio in San Diego but vocals were produced and recorded at the Blasting Room studios in Fort Collins, Colorado by Descendents and ALL guitarist Stephen Egerton, whose vocals appear on the final track "Nothing New". In 2001 the band was awarded the San Diego Music Award for best Punk band for the album.

Track listing
 "The Good Times"   
 "There's Room for Everyone"  
 "Building a Better Me"  
 "Comes Crashing"  
 "Autobiographies"  
 "Mycro"  
 "Come Back Down"  
 "The Battle of Them Vs. Them"  
 "Cheat Me"  
 "Someone See"  
 "The Bad Times (Reprise)"  
 "Overexposed"  
 "The Bad Times"  
 "Truth About It Is"  
 "Great Literature"  
 "Nothing New"

Dogwood (band) albums
2000 albums
Tooth & Nail Records albums
Victory Day (Croatia)

Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian Defenders () is a public holiday in Croatia that is celebrated annually on 5 August, commemorating the Croatian War of Independence. On that date in 1995 the Croatian Army took the city of Knin during Operation Storm, which effectively brought an end to Republic of Serbian Krajina proto-state. In 2008, the Croatian Parliament also assigned the name Day of Croatian Defenders () to the holiday, which honors the current service members and veterans of the Armed Forces of Croatia.

Celebrations 
The main celebration is centered in Knin where there are festivities commemorating the event, beginning with a mass and laying of wreaths in honour of those who died in the war, and continuing with parades and concerts. The event is attended by thousands, including the country's leading politicians. The Flag of Croatia on Knin Fortress is ceremonially raised as part of the celebrations.

2015 parade 
A special military parade of the Armed Forces in honor of Victory Day was held on 4 August 2015 in Zagreb, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Operation Storm. The parade was opened by the Honor Guard Battalion on the lawns of the National and University Library, with three MiG-21's flying over the city. "Lijepa naša domovino" was performed by the 12-year-old Mia Negovetić, accompanied by the Croatian Armed Forces Band and the Croatian Navy's vocal ensemble. It aroused great public interest considering that the last military parade in Croatia was organized in 1997. About 100,000 spectators attended the parade, additional sound systems were installed at the last minute until the intersection of City of Vukovar and Savska Streets. The editorial board of the Zagreb-based Jutarnji list, gave a positive review of the parade, demanding the introduction of regular parades for Victory Day. Military analyst Igor Tabak praised the event, while criticizing the inauthenticity of certain "historical units".

Silver jubilee 
On the silver jubilee in 2020, the celebrations were attended for the first time ever by an ethnic Serb political representative, Deputy Prime Minister Boris Milošević, a move which was applauded across the political spectrum, with Prime Minister Andrej Plenković among others stating that it will "send a new message for Croatian society". On top of this, Plenković, as well as President Zoran Milanović sent messages of peace to the people of Serbia. Opposition to the move from the Deputy Prime Minister came from members of the political far-right such as the Homeland Movement and the Croatian Defence Forces, as well as from politicians from Serbia and entity Republika Srpska from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

See also
Public holidays in Croatia
Operation Storm
Victory Day in other countries

References

Public holidays in Croatia
August observances
Homeland thanksgiving
Croatian War of Independence
Annual events in Croatia
Summer events in Croatia
Paro Wars

is a turn-based strategy video game produced by Konami in September 1997 in Japan only (with the re-release as a Konami the Best title in December 1999). It features characters and conflicts based upon the popular Parodius series of video games which in turn is a parody of the long running Gradius series. It is the last installment of the Parodius series and is the Parodius equivalent to Cosmic Wars, a turn-based strategy game set in the Gradius universe, or R-Type Tactics, set in the R-Type universe.

Plot
The "second great world war Parodius" that led the world into a fit of laughter ended more than 50 years ago. Three military organizations: "The Alliance Penta", "Organization Koitsu and Aitsu" and "Alliance Araji" will control each other in secret, and as a result of peace is maintained through this exquisite balance. However, this stability began to alter when a mysterious cat named John Myan Jiro begins to interfere in these relationships. Win the "third great war of the world Parodius" for peace and honor of your country!

Characters and voices 
 Hikaru - Voiced by Yuko Nagashima
 Akane - Voiced by Mariko Onodera
 John Nyan Jiro - Voiced by Isamu Tanonaka
  ( Pentarou) - Voiced by Fuyumi Shiraishi
  (a.k.a. Michael) - Voiced by Rica Matsumoto
  (a.k.a. Yoshiko) - Voiced by Shigeru Chiba

Gameplay
The object of Paro Wars is to utilize an army composed of Parodius characters (penguins, octopuses, etc.) and battle enemies on various 3D-rendered battlefields. There are many different unit types, ranging from troops, to planes, to tank-like vehicles. A single scenario may take multiple hours to complete.

Board Game
 A Board Game based on the video game Paro Wars was Developed by Konami on February 11, 1998, in Japan.

Notes

References
 Information about Paro Wars at Gamestone.co.uk

1997 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Parodius
PlayStation (console)-only games
Turn-based strategy video games
PlayStation (console) games
Board games
Video games developed in Japan
This Is Not a New Album

This Is Not a New Album is the 2001 re-issue of San Diegan punk band Dogwood's 1998 self-released eponymous album.  The only difference is the omission of the original track 2, "Never Die," which was re-recorded in 1999's More Than Conquerors.

Track listing
 "Firehead"
 "Belligerent Love"
 "Steinslinger"
 "Old Friends"
 "Preschool Days"
 "Suffer"
 "The Rise & Fall of Belinda & Ivan"
 "We Have No Talent"
 "What I Should Have Said"
 "Abandoned"
 "Redefine Defiance"
 "Progression"

Dogwood (band) albums
2001 albums
Reissue albums
The Dharma of Star Wars

The Dharma of Star Wars is a book by Matthew Bortolin. The book is a primer for basic Buddhist philosophy using the fictional characters and events of the Star Wars saga to explicate the Buddha's teachings.

Bortolin, an ordained Zen Buddhist and Star Wars fan, explains the principles and practices of Buddhism through the words and actions of Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Yoda and other Star Wars characters. The book also examines the underlying philosophical ideas of Star Wars from a Buddhist perspective.

External links
 http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=interviews&Id=948

2005 non-fiction books
American non-fiction books
Buddhism studies books
Books about Star Wars
Rivera (disambiguation)

Rivera may refer to:

People
 Rivera (surname), people with the surname
 Rivera (given name):
 José Rivera Indarte (1814–1845), Argentine poet and journalist

Places
 Rivera, Buenos Aires, a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
 Rivera, Huila, Colombia
 Rivera, Switzerland
 Rivera-Bironico railway station
 Rivera Department, Uruguay
 Rivera, capital of that department
 Pico Rivera, California

See also
 Ribera (disambiguation)
 Riviera (disambiguation)
 Riva (disambiguation)
Spellsinger (novel)

Spellsinger (1983) is a fantasy novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster. The book follows the adventures of Jonathan Thomas Meriweather who is transported from our world into a land of talking animals and magic. It is the first in the Spellsinger series.

Plot summary
In a world of sentient animals and humans, the hardheaded tortoise wizard Clothahump searches across the dimensions for another kind of wizard to help defeat the looming threat posed by the armies of the Plated Folk. What he gets is Jonathon Thomas Meriweather, law student, part-time would-be rock guitarist and janitor, who finds that with the use of a unique instrument called a duar, he can perform magic by playing and choosing from his well-worn repertoire of rock songs. Jon-Tom, as he is called in Clothahump's world, quickly discovers that while he might be able to use magic with his music making, the results are often unpredictable and usually humorous. Ever searching for a way to get back to Earth, Jon-Tom takes up the battle to save this world.

External links

Spellsinger review
Alan Dean Foster homepage

1983 American novels
Novels by Alan Dean Foster
Spellsinger series
American fantasy novels
Matt Aragon

Matt Aragon is the sixth full-length album from San Diegan punk band Dogwood. The album's title is in honor of the band's long-time friend Matt Aragon, who had continued to support and encourage the band as a whole and the members as individuals during a stressful period around the album's production. The album was recorded in January 2001 at Motor Studios in San Francisco, and produced by Ryan Greene, most notable at the time for working with artists on the prominent punk record label Fat Wreck Chords such as NOFX, No Use for a Name, and Lagwagon. Guitarist Sean O'Donnell departed the band after the album's release. The album went on to win a 2002 San Diego Music Award for Best Punk album.

Track listing
 "1983"   	
 "Nothing is Everything" 	
 "Matt Aragon"	
 "Lonely Road" 	
 "Juice" 	
 "Do or Die" 	
 "Point Counterpoint" 	
 "Singular" 	
 "Challenger" 	
 "Reasoner" 	
 "A Hope Unseen" 	
 "For What Its Worth"

Dogwood (band) albums
2002 albums
Tooth & Nail Records albums
Albums produced by Ryan Greene
Prix Albert-Tessier

The Prix Albert-Tessier is an award by the Government of Quebec that is part of the Prix du Québec, given to individuals for an outstanding career in Quebec cinema. It is awarded to script-writing, acting, composing music, directing, producing and cinematographic techniques. It is named in honour of Albert Tessier.

Winners

References

External links
 Award winners 

Quebec film awards
Albert-Tessier
Awards established in 1980
Tough All Over (Gary Allan album)

Tough All Over is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Gary Allan. It was released in October 2005 via MCA Nashville. It has been certified gold by the RIAA. Recorded after his wife's suicide, this album is more somber than his previous ones, with several of its songs termed to be "excruciatingly sad."

Two songs from the album were released as singles: "Best I Ever Had" (a cover of a 2001 Vertical Horizon song) and "Life Ain't Always Beautiful" . Both placed reached within the Top 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Critical acclaim
Rhapsody ranked the album number 7 on its "Country's Best Albums of the Decade" list. "Allan's sixth album was the first one released after his wife of three years committed suicide. This collection of haunting, heartbreaking songs chronicles his pain and, ultimately, his path back to living. Steeped in grief, Tough All Over is one of Allan's most consistent efforts to date, thanks in part to his gift of conveying emotions like regret, heartbreak and emptiness in a single, well-phrased line. Country Universe said the album was the 3rd best of the decade. Engine 145 country music blog list it number 7 on the "Top Country Albums of the Decade" list.

Track listing

Personnel
As listed in liner notes.
Gary Allan - lead vocals
David Campbell - string arrangements on track 7
Perry Coleman - background vocals
Chad Cromwell - drums
Eric Darken - percussion
Kenny Greenberg - acoustic guitar on track 2, electric guitar on tracks 2, 7, 8 and 12
Wes Hightower - background vocals
Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson - harmonica on tracks 1 & 7
Jake Kelly - acoustic guitar
Steve Nathan - B3 organ, synthesizer, piano
Michael Rhodes - bass guitar
Brent Rowan - electric guitar
John Wesley Ryles - background vocals
Hank Singer - fiddle
Russell Terrell - background vocals
Robby Turner - steel guitar
John Willis - acoustic guitar
Reese Wynans - B3 organ on tracks 3 and 10

Strings by the Nashville String Machine.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

2005 albums
Gary Allan albums
MCA Records albums
Albums produced by Mark Wright (record producer)
Gogol (disambiguation)

Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) was a Russian-Ukrainian writer.

Gogol may also refer to:

People

Surname
Georgy Gogol-Yanovsky (1868–1931), Russian and Soviet botanist
 Jonah Gogol (died 1602), bishop of Pinsk-Turowski
 Mariusz Gogol (born 1991), Polish footballer
 Michał Mieszko Gogol (born 1985), Polish volleyball player and coach
 Nikolay Gogol (canoeist) (1948–1997), Soviet sprint canoer
 Oleg Gogol (born 1968), Belarusian wrestler
 Shmuel Gogol (1924–1993), Holocaust survivor and musician
Vasili Gogol-Yanovsky (1777–1825), author of a number of theater pieces in Russian and in Ukrainian and father of the writer Nikolai Gogol

Stage name
 Gogol Premier (born 1957), French punk singer

Places
 Gogol, Goa, a suburb of Margão, Goa, India
 Gogol, Poland, a village
 Gogol River, in Papua New Guinea
 Gogol Center, avant-garde theater

Fiction
 Gogol (film series), Russian series of fantasy-horror films
 Gogol (Samaresh Basu), fictional Indian child detective
 Gogol, Indian film series based on the character
 General Gogol, character in the James Bond series
 Gogol, organization in Nikita
 Erzulie Gogol,  Discworld character
 Griffin Gogol,  Marvel comics character
Gogol Ganguli, character in the film The Namesake, as well as the novel it was based upon

Other uses
 2361 Gogol, asteroid
 Gogol (crater), on Mercury

 , Russian brand of fur hats

See also

 Google (disambiguation)
 Googol, a number
 Gogol mogol or Kogel mogel, a dessert
Gogolev
Contemporary Sociology

Contemporary Sociology is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal of sociology published by SAGE Publications in association with the American Sociological Association since 1972. Each issue of the journal publishes many in-depth as well as brief reviews of recent publications in sociology and related disciplines, as well as a list of publications received that have not been reviewed. In 2010 the journal published just under 400 book reviews. In addition, the journal also publishes a small number of review essays and discursive articles in each issue. The editor-in-chief is Yasemin Besen–Cassino (Montclair State University).

Abstracting and indexing 
Contemporary Sociology is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, CSA Sociological Abstracts, Current Contents/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 0.34, ranking it 134th out of 146 journals in the "Sociology" category.

References

External links
 
 Journal page at homepage of the American Sociological Association

SAGE Publishing academic journals
Academic journals established in 1972
Bimonthly journals
Sociology journals
English-language journals
American Sociological Association academic journals
Seismic (album)

Seismic is the seventh studio album by San Diegan punk band Dogwood, originally titled Your Tongue Is the Deadliest of Arrows by the band. Artwork photos feature former members Scott Bergen and Eddie Spangler, although they did not perform on the album's recording, and both had left the band by the time of its release. Bassist Jason Harper announced he was leaving the group during the album's recording.

Track listing
 "Seismic"   
 "Selfish Americans" 
 "Conscience in a Cave" 
 "Sunsets Are But Once a Day" 
 "Absolution" 
 "Home Is Here" 
 "Your Tongue Is the Deadliest of Arrows" 
 "Trailer Full of Tragedies" 
 "Faith" 
 "What Matters" 
 "Last of the Lost" 
 "Crushing"

Dogwood (band) albums
2003 albums
Tooth & Nail Records albums
0S

0S (zero S) or 0-S may refer to:

 0s, the period from January 1, AD 1 to December 31, AD 9, almost synonymous with the 1st decade (1–10).
 The period from January 1, AD 1 to December 31, AD 99, almost synonymous with the 1st century (1–100). 
 The period from January 1, AD 1 to December 31, AD 999, almost synonymous with the 1st millennium (1–1000). 
 0S, 0°S, or zero degrees south, coordinate for the equator
 Zero S, a model of electric motorcycle
 0 set, or zero set, a concept in mathematics
 0 sum, or zero-sum, a theory in games and economics
 0 sharp, also zero sharp or 0#, a concept in set theory
 0 section, or zero section, a type of section in a Vector bundle

See also
 0s (disambiguation)
 OS (disambiguation)
 S0 (disambiguation)
2002 Royal Bank Cup

The 2002 Royal Bank Cup is the 32nd Junior "A" 2002 ice hockey National Championship for the Canadian Junior A Hockey League.

The Royal Bank Cup was competed for by the winners of the Doyle Cup, Anavet Cup, Dudley Hewitt Cup, the Fred Page Cup and a host city.

The tournament will be hosted by the Halifax Oland Exports in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The Playoffs

Round Robin

Results
Halifax Exports defeat Chilliwack Chiefs 4-3 in Overtime
Ottawa Jr. Senators defeat Rayside-Balfour Sabrecats 4-3
Halifax Exports defeat OCN Blizzard 4-3 in Overtime
Chilliwack Chiefs defeat Rayside-Balfour Sabrecats 9-2
OCN Blizzard defeat Ottawa Jr. Senators 4-3 in Overtime
Halifax Exports defeat Ottawa Jr. Senators 2-1
Chilliwack Chiefs defeat OCN Blizzard 8-5
Halifax Exports defeat Rayside-Balfour Sabrecats 6-3
OCN Blizzard defeat Rayside-Balfour Sabrecats 5-0
Chilliwack Chiefs defeat Ottawa Jr. Senators 5-3

Semi and Finals

Awards
Most Valuable Player: Jeff Tambellini (Chilliwack Chiefs)
Top Scorer: Jeff Tambellini (Chilliwack Chiefs)
Most Sportsmanlike Player: Jason Snow (Halifax Oland Exports)
Top Goalie: Scott Gouthro (Halifax Oland Exports)
Top Forward: Matt Quinn (Halifax Oland Exports)
Top Defenceman: Jeff Barlow (Chilliwack Chiefs)

Roll of League Champions
AJHL: Drayton Valley Thunder
BCHL: Chilliwack Chiefs
CJHL: Ottawa Jr. Senators
MJHL: OCN Blizzard
MJAHL: Halifax Oland Exports
NOJHL: Rayside-Balfour Sabrecats
OPJHL: Brampton Capitals
QJAAAHL: Valleyfield Braves
SJHL: Kindersley Klippers
SIJHL: Dryden Ice Dogs

See also
Canadian Junior A Hockey League
Royal Bank Cup
Anavet Cup
Doyle Cup
Dudley Hewitt Cup
Fred Page Cup

External links
Royal Bank Cup Website

2002
Ice hockey competitions in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Royal Bank Cup
2002 in Nova Scotia
Kakaban

Kakaban island is part of the Derawan Islands, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

The island has an area of  and is quite steep. Its limestone cliffs are covered with dense jungle right down to the water's edge.  The wall drops to , and currents can be strong with upwelling, downcurrent and reversing directions.

The most distinctive feature is the huge brackish water lake in the middle of the island, in the local dialect Kakaban means "hug" as the island hugs the lake from the surrounding seawater.

Jellyfish Lake

In the middle of this island is a mangrove-fringed lake, slightly above sea level, where thousands of jellyfish live, making it interesting for diving. The jellyfish consist of four different species which do not have the ability to harm humans with their stinging cells. They are Aurelia aurita with a transparent body, Tripedalia cystophora which is fingertip size, Mastigias papua is like a green-brown bulb, and Cassiopea ornata which is an upside-down jellyfish with upright tentacles. Although they cannot sting humans, they still have poison and can sting their prey. Similar lakes exist in the Philippines (Siargao) Palau, with Jellyfish Lake being the best known.

The lake has warm brackish water and the bottom is covered with marine green algae. There are other animals, including sea cucumbers, gobies, sea anemones, tunicates, crustaceans, nudibranchs, orange purple clams and yellow clams on the branches, and snakes.

The lake is at most  deep with poor visibility and is 10 minutes walk from the beach. Kakaban was probably uplifted during the Holocene era and seawater was trapped, forming a landlocked marine lake. The water is now a mixture of saltwater and fresh water from rain.

Barracuda Point
This is a steep wall, where the current brings large pelagics like whitetip sharks, leopard sharks, jack, tuna, snapper and barracuda. Drift diving can be done with the help of a grab line permanently secured  across a relatively flat area on the upcurrent side of the point. Currents can be fierce with down currents.

Blue Light Cave
The cave starts at a crack at  deep and descends through a narrow chimney. At about  the chimney opens into a large cavern that extends for about . The exit is a long vertical crack in the wall at . The name of the cave comes from the blue light of the sea which is seen from the cavern.

References

Derawan Islands
Landforms of East Kalimantan
Islands of Kalimantan
Uninhabited islands of Indonesia
Terence Parr

Terence John Parr (born 1964 in Los Angeles) is a professor of computer science at the University of San Francisco. He is best known for his ANTLR parser generator and contributions to parsing theory. He also developed the StringTemplate engine for Java and other programming languages.

Education
Parr holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a Master's degree in Engineering, and a PhD in Computer Engineering from Purdue University. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Army High-Performance Computing Research Center (also known as AHPCRC), located in the University of Minnesota.

Books

References

External links
 Personal homepage

American computer scientists
University of San Francisco faculty
1964 births
Living people
Foxit PDF Reader

Foxit PDF Reader (formerly Foxit Reader) is a multilingual freemium PDF (Portable Document Format) tool that can create, view, edit, digitally sign, and print PDF files. Foxit Reader is developed by Fuzhou, China-based Foxit Software. Early versions of Foxit Reader were notable for startup performance and small file size. Foxit v3.0 was found to be comparable to Adobe Reader. The Windows version allows annotating and saving unfinished PDF forms, FDF import/export, converting to text, highlighting, and drawing. Until version 9.7.2 Foxit Reader had PDF creation features, including a "Foxit PDF Printer" for Windows, allowing all programs to "print" output to PDF; they were removed in May 2020 from later versions. Foxit PDF Reader also includes an Enterprise version, which requires a Foxit account.

Supported platforms
Foxit Software adds support for new platforms, and withdraws ones considered obsolete. Microsoft operating systems from Windows 95, Windows Mobile (CE), Windows RT, and Windows Phone were all supported, but have been discontinued. Systems currently supported are reported on the Foxit Web site, and include versions of Windows, Mac OS, and older versions of Linux. Mobile versions are available for telephones and tablets running Android and Apple iOS.

Issues
The Foxit installer was bundled with potentially unwanted programs like the Ask Toolbar and OpenCandy which installed the browser-hijacking malware Conduit.

In July 2014, the Internet Storm Center reported that the mobile version for iPhone was transmitting unencrypted telemetry and other data to remote servers located in China despite users attempting to opt out of such data collection.

Versions of Foxit Reader up to 9.7.2 added a "Foxit PDF printer" to Windows; this allowed any program to send its printable output to a PDF file. This was removed in later versions, an action much criticised by users. On 9 June 2021 Foxit said "Foxit PDF Printer will not be added in Foxit Reader in the foreseeable future", and suggested using Foxit PDF Editor for PDF creation. Ways to extract the PDF printer from an older version were published. Alternatively, Foxit PDF printer can also be installed directly from the link provided by Foxit Support.

See also
List of PDF software

References

External links 
 

Freeware
PDF readers
Portable software
Technical communication tools
Windows text-related software
Software that uses Qt
Richard Ross

Richard, Rick, or Ricky may refer to:

 "Freeway" Rick Ross (born 1960), also known as Ricky Ross, American drug trafficker
 Richard C. Ross (1927–2012), American politician in the New York State Assembly
 Richard J. Ross, Massachusetts State Senator
 Richard P. Ross Jr. (1906–1990), United States Marine Corps general
 Richard Ross (basketball) (born 1992), American basketball player
 Richard Ross (photographer), American photographer
 Richard S. Ross (1924–2015), American cardiologist
 Richie Ross (born 1982), American football player
 Rick Alan Ross (born 1952), consultant and founder of the Cult Education Institute
 Rick Ross (William Leonard Roberts II, born 1976), American rapper
 Ricky Ross (musician) (born 1957), Scottish musician known for his work with the Deacon Blue

See also

 Dick Ross, American baseball player
 Jack Ross (footballer, born 1911) (1911–1996), real name Richard Ross

 Richard Younger-Ross (born 1953), English politician
 Richard Ross Museum of Art, Delaware, Ohio, United States
Ulus

Ulus may refer to:

Places
Ulus, Bartın, a district in Bartin Province, Turkey
Ulus, Ankara, an important quarter in central Ankara, Turkey
Ulus (Ankara Metro), an underground station of the Ankara Metro

Other uses
Ulus (newspaper), a defunct Turkish newspaper
Orda (organization) or Ulus, a tribe, clan, village or group under a given leader
Ulus, an administrative division type of the Sakha Republic, Russia
Ulus, an inhabited locality type in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia

People with the given name
Ulus Baker (1960–2007), Turkish Cypriot sociologist

See also
Ulu (disambiguation)
Teaching Sociology

Teaching Sociology is a quarterly academic journal in the field of sociology. It has been published since 1973 by American Sociological Association. The journal's goal is to publicize both theoretical and practical information useful for professionals teaching sociology courses.

History
Teaching Sociology incorporates Teaching Newsletter (1979–1985), which was formerly named On Teaching Undergraduate Sociology Newsletter (197?-1979).

External links
 Home page

Academic journals established in 1973
Education journals
Sociology journals
Quarterly journals
SAGE Publishing academic journals
American Sociological Association academic journals
Tamuda

Tamuda was an ancient Berber city and military camp in Mauretania Tingitana. It is located 6 km (4 miles) west of the present-day Tetouan in northern Morocco. Stone ruins from the site are found by the south bank of the Martil Valley. It was considered a city in accordance with the rules of urbanization of the time.

History
The ancient city was founded in the 3rd century BC by the Mauretanian Berbers of northern Morocco. Probably there was a Phoenician presence during the next century, mainly for commerce. A type of a seahorse, representing Phoenician iconography, with rider encountered on a clay jar was found at Tamuda.

Under the Emperor Augustus Romans occupied the city. Around 42 AD, Roman garrisons leveled Tamuda during an insurrection and in its stead erected a fortified settlement. The Emperor Augustus' successors later rebuilt the city as a Roman castrum.

Tamuda became later one of the major cities of the Roman province Mauretania Tingitana and enjoyed a development during Trajan and Septimius Severus rule. It was used for fish salting and purple production, according to researcher from the University of Cadiz. On the Notitia Dignitatum, written in the fifth century, it is stated that at the end of the fourth century Tamuda's castrum was the headquarters of an "Ala Herculea" (cavalry unit) of local limitanei and that was related to a cohortes  of Lixus.

The region around Tamuda was fully Romanized, Christianized and "pacified" during the fifth century and the fort probably was dismantled. By the time the Vandals arrived in the fifth century the city had been possibly abandoned as no contemporary chronicle mentions it anymore.

In the late 13th century small fortifications existed near the Roman ruins with the name "Tittawin", that later were renamed "Tetouan".

Excavations
Artifacts from both the Roman and the Phoenician era have been found in the site of Tamuda.

In 1933, a third century (circa 253-257 A.D.) stone recording a Roman victory over some unnamed barbarians was discovered at the site of Tamuda. It is believed that the inscription refers to the Franks.

In July 2018, a group of researchers discovered at the site a rib fragment from a North Atlantic right whale dated from 180 A.D. 396 A.D. They suggest that the Romans may have conducted industrial-scale whaling in the coasts of the Western Mediterranean.

See also

 Lixus
 Tingis
 Septem
 Rusadir
 Sala Colonia
 Mauretania Tingitana
 Christian Berbers

References

Bibliography

El Azifi, M.R.  L'habitat ancien de la vallée de Martil in "Revue de la Faculté des lettres de Tétouan", année 4, n° 4 Tetouan, 1990

Mauretania Tingitana
Populated places established in the 3rd century BC
Roman towns and cities in Morocco
Tétouan
Ancient Berber cities
Archaeological sites in Morocco
History of Tétouan
Roman towns and cities in Mauretania Tingitana
Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center

The Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC), also known as the National Agricultural Research Center, is a unit of the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service. It is located in unincorporated Prince George's County, Maryland, with sections within the Beltsville census-designated place. The BARC is named for Henry A. Wallace, former United States vice president and secretary of agriculture. BARC houses the Abraham Lincoln Building of the National Agricultural Library.

Among its research programs are Air Quality; Animal Health; Crop Production; Crop Protection and Quarantine; Food Animal Production; Food Safety; Global Change; Human Nutrition; Integrated Farming Systems; Manure and Byproduct Utilization; Methyl Bromide Alternatives; Plant Biological and Molecular Processes; Plant Diseases; Plant Genetic Resources, Genomics, and Genetic Improvement; Quality and Utilization of Agricultural Products; Rangeland, Pasture, and Forages; Soil Resource Management; Veterinary, Medical, and Urban Entomology; and Water Quality and Management.

The center's Harvest for the Hungry program donates about  of fruits and vegetables each year for distribution to local charities, in conjunction with volunteers from the community who do much of the labor of harvesting.

Each February, BARC hosts the Washington's Birthday Marathon, the eighth oldest marathon in the United States.

During the tornado outbreak of September 24, 2001, the BARC facilities sustained extensive damage as the result of an F3 tornado. 

The center is also referenced in local folklore as the creation place of Goatman (urban legend), claiming that Goatman was once a scientist who worked at the center before an experiment on goats backfired and mutated the scientist into a half man, half goat creature who aggressively attacks cars in the vicinity of Beltsville.

See also
 Beltsville Small White

References

External links

 
 Agricultural Research Service Northeast Area
 
The Beltsville Small White: A Heritage Turkey (A digital exhibit containing information about the Small White and BARC)

United States Department of Agriculture facilities
Agricultural research institutes in the United States
Beltsville, Maryland
Buildings and structures in Prince George's County, Maryland
Government buildings in Maryland
Agriculture in Maryland
Superfund sites in Maryland
United States National Agricultural Library
Georgian Revival architecture in Maryland
Research institutes in Maryland
Reverse, Then Forward Again

Reverse, Then Forward Again is a compilation of music from San Diegan punk band Dogwood, made up of songs from previous releases. The title is a reference to a very brief scene from a Tooth & Nail Records DVD compilation that features the band driving their rental van in a very erratic manner outside of the record label's office.

Track listing
 "Label Me"   	
 "Tiramisu" 	
 "All Hands On Deck" 	
 "Preschool Days" 	
 "Redefine Defiance" 	
 "Suffer" 	
 "Never Die" 	
 "My Best Year" 	
 "Control" 	
 "The Good Times" 	
 "Building A Better Me" 	
 "Comes Crashing" 	
 "Nothing New" 	
 "1983" 	
 "Nothing Is Everything" 	
 "Do Or Die" 	
 "Seismic" 	
 "Conscience In A Cave" 	
 "Absolution" 	
 "Last Of The Lost" 	
 "Flower Soon Die" 	
 "Sanctuary" 	
 "Undertaking" 	
 "Instigator"

Dogwood (band) compilation albums
2004 compilation albums
Tooth & Nail Records compilation albums
Ernest Buckler

Ernest Buckler  (19 July 1908 – 4 March 1984) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer best known for his 1952 novel, The Mountain and the Valley and the short story The first born Son.  "Since its publication in 1954, Ernest Buckler's story of David Canaan's life in the Annapolis Valley, The Mountain and the Valley, has gradually established itself as a touchstone of Canadian Modernism. Its continuing presence in Canadian Literature courses and its effect on such writers as Margaret Laurence and Alice Munro attest to its power as a novel exploring imaginative experience."  (Van Rys 1995)

Buckler was born in the village of West Dalhousie, Nova Scotia, where he attended a one-room schoolhouse. He was a scholarship student at Dalhousie University (B.A., 1929), and a philosophy student at  the University of Toronto (M.A., 1930).  After graduation, he stayed in Toronto, working as an actuary, until 1936, when he returned to rural Nova Scotia, eventually settling on a farm in Centrelea near Bridgetown.

In 1967, he was awarded the Canadian Centennial Medal and in 1974, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

In 1978, he was awarded the Leacock Medal for Whirligig.

Bibliography

Novels
 The Mountain and the Valley. New York City: Henry Holt, 1952.
 The Cruelest Month, 1963.

Other works
 Ox Bells and Fireflies: A Memoir. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968; New York: Knopf, 1968.
 Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973.
 The Rebellion of Young David and Other Stories. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975.
 Whirligig. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977.
 The Harness
 The Locket
 Penny in the Dust, 1927. 
 The Clumsy One
 The Bars and the Bridge
 Long, Long After School

References
 Lecker, Robert and Jack David. The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors, volume III.

 Van Rys, John C.. Diminishing Voice in Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley. Studies in Canadian Literature, [S.l.], jan. 1995. ISSN 1718-7850.

External links
 

 Ernest Buckler at The Canadian Encyclopedia
 Ernest Buckler at The Literary Encyclopedia
 Ernest Buckler: A Remarkable Nova Scotia Novelist at Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management
 <http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/8210/9267>. Date accessed: 15 Feb. 2015.

1908 births
1984 deaths
Writers from Nova Scotia
Canadian male novelists
University of Toronto alumni
Officers of the Order of Canada
Stephen Leacock Award winners
20th-century Canadian novelists
20th-century Canadian male writers
People from Annapolis County, Nova Scotia
Taunton Deane Borough Council elections

Taunton Deane Borough Council in Somerset, England was elected every four years. The first elections to the council were held in 1973, ahead of it coming into being in 1974. The last election was held in 2015. The council was abolished in 2019 when the district merged with neighbouring West Somerset district to become Somerset West and Taunton.

Political control
From the first election to the council in 1973 until its abolition in 2019, political control of the council was held by the following parties:

Leadership
The leaders of the council from 1974 to 2019 were:

John Williams also served as leader of the shadow authority for Somerset West and Taunton during 20182019 ahead of the new council coming into force, but was unsuccessful in securing a seat on the new council at its first elections in May 2019.

Council elections
1973 Taunton Deane District Council election
1976 Taunton Deane Borough Council election
1979 Taunton Deane Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)
1983 Taunton Deane Borough Council election
1987 Taunton Deane Borough Council election (New ward boundaries & borough boundary changes also took place)
1991 Taunton Deane Borough Council election
1995 Taunton Deane Borough Council election
1999 Taunton Deane Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)
2003 Taunton Deane Borough Council election
2007 Taunton Deane Borough Council election (New ward boundaries increased the number of seats by 2)
2011 Taunton Deane Borough Council election
2015 Taunton Deane Borough Council election

District result maps

By-election results

1995-1999

1999-2003

2003-2007

2007-2011

2011-2019

References

By-election results

External links
Taunton Deane Borough Council

 
Council elections in Somerset
Taunton Deane
Mahjabin Qazalbash

Mahjabin Qazalbash () ,(1958 - 26 February 2020) was a Pashto singer from Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. She also sang in other languages including Urdu, Punjabi, Hindko, Sindhi, Seraiki, Persian and Turkish. She earned the title of Bulbul-i-Sarhad for her melodious voice. and was recipient of numerous awards, including President’s Pride of Performance. She also worked in Pashto plays, but focused on her singing.

Personal life 
She was born in Peshawer, Pakistan in 1958. Her real name was Surraya Begum.  Her father was of Turko-Persian Qazalbash origin, who had migrated to Peshawar from Qandahar, Afghanistan. She started singing at the age of 13. She was married to Amanullah Khan Orakzai alias Aimal Khan who was a Pashto film actor.

Career 
She started singing when she was studying at school, as her teachers encouraged her to sing. Afterwards, she started her career at Radio Pakistan Peshawar, and later at Pakistan Television.

Death 
Mahjabin Qazalbash died on 26 February 2020 in Peshawar.  She left behind two sons and a daughter.

References

External links
Pashto Music

20th-century Pakistani women singers
Pashtun women singers
Pashto-language singers
20th-century Pakistani singers
Metatheorem

In logic, a metatheorem is a statement about a formal system proven in a metalanguage. Unlike theorems proved within a given formal system, a metatheorem is proved within a metatheory, and may reference concepts that are present in the metatheory but not the object theory.

A formal system is determined by a formal language and a deductive system (axioms and rules of inference). The formal system can be used to prove particular sentences of the formal language with that system. Metatheorems, however, are proved externally to the system in question, in its metatheory. Common metatheories used in logic are set theory (especially in model theory) and primitive recursive arithmetic (especially in proof theory). Rather than demonstrating particular sentences to be provable, metatheorems may show that each of a broad class of sentences can be proved, or show that certain sentences cannot be proved.

Examples
Examples of metatheorems include:
 The deduction theorem for first-order logic says that a sentence of the form φ→ψ is provable from a set of axioms A if and only if the sentence ψ is provable from the system whose axioms consist of φ and all the axioms of A. 
 The class existence theorem of von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory states that for every formula whose quantifiers range only over sets, there is a class consisting of the sets satisfying the formula.
 Consistency proofs of systems such as Peano arithmetic.

See also
 Metamathematics
 Use–mention distinction

References
 Geoffrey Hunter (1969), Metalogic.
 Alasdair Urquhart (2002), "Metatheory", A companion to philosophical logic, Dale Jacquette (ed.), p. 307

External links
 Meta-theorem at Encyclopaedia of Mathematics
 

Metalogic
Mathematical terminology
Manure-derived synthetic crude oil

Manure-derived synthetic crude oil  is a synthetic bio-oil chemically engineered (converted) from animal or human manure. Research into the production of manure-derived synthetic fuel began with pig manure in 1996 at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign by the research team led by professors Yuanhui Zhang and Lance Schideman. They developed a method for converting raw pig manure into bio-oil through thermal depolymerization (thermochemical conversion). This process uses a thermochemical conversion reactor to apply heat and pressure for breaking down carbohydrate materials. As a result, bio-oil, methane and carbon dioxide are produced.

With further research, large-scale chemical processing in a refinery-style environment could help process millions of gallons of "pig biocrude" per day.  However, this technology is still in its infancy and could produce only  of oil per  of manure.  In 2006, preparations for a construction of a pilot plant started. It is developed by Snapshot Energy, a start-up firm.

According to the tests conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology pig manure biocrude produced by current technology contains 15% water, sulfur and char waste containing heavy metals, which should be removed to improve the quality of oil.

See also 
 Alternative fuels
 Energy and the environment
 Poultry litter

References 

Feces
Sustainable technologies
Biofuels
Synthetic fuels
Gokayama

is an area within the city of Nanto in Toyama Prefecture, Japan. It has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List due to its traditional gasshō-zukuri houses, alongside nearby Shirakawa-gō in Gifu Prefecture. The survival of this traditional architectural style is attributed to the region's secluded location in the upper reaches of the Shōgawa river. This is also the reason that Gokayama's lifestyle and culture remained very traditional for many years after the majority of the country had modernized. Many of the houses surpass 300 years in age.

The Gokayama region includes the former villages of Taira, Kamitaira, and Toga. The gasshō hamlet of Ainokura is located in Taira, while that of Suganuma is in Kamitaira; both are nationally designated Historic Sites.

Ainokura 
, in the Gokayama region, was inscribed on the World Heritage List in December 1995 as one of the three villages of gassho-style houses.

Ainokura has 20 gassho-style houses known as minka. Most of them are 100 to 200 years old, and the oldest is said to have been built some 400 years ago. The gassho roof has a slope of about 60 degrees forming a nearly equilateral triangle. This steep pitch allows snow to slide off the roof easily. The enormous roof is supported by stout oak beams called chonabari, which are curved at the base. The roofs are rethatched every 15 to 20 years. Nowadays this is done by Gokayama Forest Owners' Cooperative.

Fumihito, Prince Akishino stayed at an Ainokura inn two times. The first time was when he was a second-year student at the Gakushūin high-school when he took part in a summer geography  training seminar. While staying in Ainkoura, he said, "I like three places in the world most, one of them is Gokayama". The second time was nine years after that with his wife.

Suganuma 
  is surrounded on three sides by the Shōgawa River. There are currently 12 houses in the village, nine of which are gassho-zukuri style houses. Two were built in the late Edo period (early to mid-19th century), six were built in the Meiji period, and the newest one was built in 1925.  During the Edo period, the economy of Gokayama was based on Japanese paper, sericulture, and the production of saltpeter, which is the raw material for gunpowder. The inhabitants of Suganuma hamlet also practiced rice cultivation using a small amount of land and slash-and-burn  agriculture.

International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities
Gokayama is twinned with:
 Alberobello, Italy

See also 
 Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama
 List of Historic Sites of Japan (Toyama)
 World Heritage Sites in Japan

References

External links 

Japanese Guest Houses to stay a night in Gokayama
Travel diary and pictures of a stay in Ainokura

World Heritage Sites in Japan
Tourist attractions in Toyama Prefecture
Historic Sites of Japan
Nanto, Toyama
Würde/Salza

Würde/Salza is a former Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") in the Saalekreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was situated west of Halle (Saale). The seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft was in Teutschenthal. It was disbanded in September 2010.

The Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Würde/Salza consisted of the following municipalities:

 Angersdorf 
 Teutschenthal

References

Former Verwaltungsgemeinschaften in Saxony-Anhalt
Götschetal-Petersberg

Götschetal-Petersberg was a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") in the Saalekreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was situated north of Halle (Saale). The seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft was in Götschetal. It was disbanded in January 2010.

The Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Götschetal-Petersberg consisted of the following municipalities:

 Brachstedt 
 Götschetal
 Krosigk 
 Kütten 
 Morl 
 Ostrau 
 Petersberg

References

Former Verwaltungsgemeinschaften in Saxony-Anhalt
When the World Sings

When The World Sings is the debut studio album by the indie rock band Fine China.

Track listing
 "We Rock Harder Than You Ever Knew"   	
 "Labor Saving Device" 	
 "They Will Love Us for Our Instruments" 	
 "When the World Sings" 	
 "Give Us Treble" 	
 "The Patient" 	
 "For All Centuries" 	
 "Comforting, Gondoliering" 	
 "I Dropped a Bomb on Your Heart" 	
 "Young, and Having Fun"

References

2000 debut albums
Fine China (band) albums
Tooth & Nail Records albums
The Hour of the Gate

The Hour of the Gate (1984) is a fantasy novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster. The book follows the continuing adventures of Jonathan Thomas Meriweather who is transported from our world into a land of talking animals and magic. It is the second book in the Spellsinger series.

Plot introduction
Barely accustomed to the strange new world in which he has found himself trapped, Jon-Tom accompanies the wizard Clothahump to try to mount a defense against the invasion of the monstrous insectoid Plated Folk.  He and his otter companion Mudge, along with other allies gained in "Spellsinger", find themselves faced with ever more serious obstacles: From an underground river that leads to the four waterfalls known as The Earth's Throat, to the spider-silk city of the wary Weavers and their horrific arachnid queen, into the heart of Plated Folk territory, and even to the stars themselves.

External links

Alan Dean Foster homepage

1984 American novels
American fantasy novels
Novels by Alan Dean Foster
Spellsinger series