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UFO Magazine

UFO Magazine was an American magazine that was devoted to the subject of  unidentified flying objects (UFOs), the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), as well as paranormal and Fortean subjects in general.

History and profile
UFO Magazine (USA) was founded in 1986 by journalists Vicki Ecker and Sherie Stark, and its contents remained under their stewardship for over a decade with the help of Vicki Ecker's husband, Research Director Don Ecker. For several years after that, it was published by Bill Birnes and edited by his wife, Nancy Hayfield Birnes.
With the term "UFO" trademarked in 1998, UFO Magazine was initially published quarterly, then monthly, then bi-monthly, then erratically for several years. It was one of the few magazines in print primarily devoted to the UFO phenomenon, and the only one that remained in operation for more than a few years.

UFO Magazine was published in the United States and had covered every major breaking UFO story from the disclosure that a Soviet Spacecraft had encountered a UFO, to the Apollo Astronauts' accounts of an alien presence on the Moon, along with more widely publicized events such as the UFO encounter of a Japanese airliner and the controversial Roswell and Gulf Breeze UFO incidents. It featured columnists such as Stanton T. Friedman, Nick Redfern, Larry Bryant, George Noory, Camille James Harman and Colin Bennett, and included writers such as Ann Druffel, Nigel Watson, and Jaime Maussan, among others. UFO Magazine broke the story of Lieutenant Colonel Philip J. Corso's revelations about his involvement in the research of extraterrestrial technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell UFO Incident. It also broke the story of Lieutenant Colonel Marion M. Magruder's handling of the Roswell crash debris and face-to-face meeting with the Roswell alien; as well as Colonel Jesse Marcel, Jr., M.D.'s story of the night his father brought the Roswell debris back to his home before taking it to the Roswell Army Air Field.

There were a total of 158 issues. The final issue, Volume 24, No. 5, Issue #158, was published in early 2012.

See also
List of magazines of anomalous phenomena
UFO Magazine (UK)

External links

Science and technology magazines published in the United States
Bimonthly magazines published in the United States
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Duncan Preston

Duncan Preston (born 11 August 1946) is an English actor. He is known for his appearances in television productions written by Victoria Wood, including his role in the soap opera parody sketches Acorn Antiques and as Stan in the sitcom dinnerladies (1998–2000). He reprised his role of Clifford in Acorn Antiques: The Musical! in 2005. His other television roles include DS Todd in the soap opera EastEnders (1987), Jonathan Haslam in the hospital sitcom Surgical Spirit (1989–1995); and Doug Potts in the soap opera Emmerdale (2007–2011, 2014–2020).

Career
Preston appeared in a short 1981 Public information film entitled Say NO to Strangers, as a kerb-crawling predator attempting to lure a schoolgirl into his car. He has also made many guest appearances in various TV series, including Hunters Walk, Secret Army, The Professionals, All Creatures Great and Small, Robin of Sherwood, Bergerac, The New Statesman, Press Gang, Chalk, Boon, Casualty, Heartbeat, The Royal, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Holby City, Peak Practice, Midsomer Murders, Dalziel and Pascoe and My Family. His film career includes roles in Porridge (1979), A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979), Scandalous (1984), Milk (1999), Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey? (2014) and in the horror film Howl (2015).

He was also a regular cast member in the sitcom Surgical Spirit and appeared as Dennis Stokes in Coronation Street in 2004. Preston played Doug Potts, the father of Laurel Thomas in Emmerdale. He has also appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank.

From 2002 to 2012, Preston co-starred as Det. Sgt. Riley in the BBC Radio crime drama Trueman and Riley, opposite Robert Daws.

In 2022, Preston appeared in series 25 of Silent Witness.

Personal life
Preston was married to actress Susan Penhaligon between 1986 and 1992. They subsequently reconciled in 1997, though they have not remarried. Duncan has supported the Bradford Bulls Rugby League team throughout his life, having first attended a game when he was 3 years old.

Stage work
A renowned Shakespearean actor, Preston has performed in many productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, including playing Angus in Trevor Nunn's version of Macbeth (stage 1976, television 1978), starring Ian McKellen and Judi Dench. Other theatre work includes a 2007 production of To Kill A Mockingbird.

He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by the University of Bradford on 4 December 2002 "for his contributions as an actor".

References

1946 births
English male soap opera actors
English male stage actors
Living people
Male actors from Bradford
People educated at Bradford Grammar School
Alumni of RADA
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vaduz

The Archdiocese of Vaduz (), which was erected in 1997, is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church which encompasses the entire territory of the Principality of Liechtenstein.

History
The Archdiocese of Vaduz was erected by Pope John Paul II in the apostolic constitution Ad satius consulendum on 2 December 1997. Its territory, taken from the Diocese of Chur, was the entire Principality of Liechtenstein. Before then it had been the Liechtenstein Deanery, a part of the Swiss Diocese of Chur. The Archdiocese of Vaduz does not belong to any conference of bishops and reports directly to the Holy See.

Wolfgang Haas, who had been a controversial bishop of Chur since 1988, was appointed to head the new archdiocese. He took possession on his see on 21 December 1997 in Vaduz Cathedral, which had been the parish church of St. Florian.

Patrons
The principal patron of the Archdiocese is the Holy Virgin Mary, Mother of God, under the title of her Nativity (September 8). Additional patrons are the martyr St. Lucius (St. Luzi), also a patron of the diocese of Chur, and St. Florin.

Composition
The Archdiocese consists of twelve parishes.

Ordinaries
 Wolfgang Haas (2 December 1997 – 20 September 2023)

See also
Religion in Liechtenstein
Catholic Church in Liechtenstein

References

External links
  Official website
 Statistics relating to the Archdiocese of Vaduz

Vaduz
Religion in Liechtenstein
Religious organizations based in Liechtenstein
Christian organizations established in 1997
Grant Dodwell

Grant Radnor Dodwell (born 2 July 1952, in Sydney) is an Australian actor, producer, writer, director, voice artist, and drama teacher. He is a triple recipient of the Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor. He is best known for his roles in television soap operas including as an original cast member in A Country Practice, Willing and Abel and Home and Away.

Career 
Dodwell has 50 years' experience in the entertainment industry in theatre, television and film appearing in many of Australia's best known stage shows and television series. He is best known for his Logie award-winning television acting role playing Dr. Simon Bowen in A Country Practice. He would later play Charles Willing in Willing and Abel (1987) in which he co-starred with his former ACP co-star Shane Withington who played the role of Abel Moore. He also appeared as Dr. Sam Wilkinson in Home & Away during its later years.

Dodwell worked on 2008 feature film Men's Group, produced by John L. Simpson and directed by Michael Joy. He won the Australian IF best actor award and the film won Best Film and Script.

Filmography

Awards

External links

References

1952 births
20th-century Australian male actors
21st-century Australian male actors
Australian male film actors
Australian male television actors
Drama teachers
Living people
Logie Award winners
Male actors from Sydney
Shane Withington

Shane Withington (born 22 August 1958) is an Australian actor, notable for roles theatre TV and film.

Career
Withington is best known for roles in TV serials, with two famous character portrayal's, these include his role as Brenden Jones, a farmer, nurse and subsequently the Deputy Matron of the fictional Wandin Valley in the television series A Country Practice from 1982 until 1986 the Deputy Matron of Wandin Valley Hospital;

Withington, first appeared in TV serial Home and Away as a guest character called Colin, before being given the permanent role of cranky but warm-hearted surf lifesaver and patrol officer John Palmer in 2009, initially as a 3-month stand-alone stint; he'd been in the role for ten years by 2019..

He has also featured as well as Willing and Abel, as Abel Moore, and the sitcom The Family Business.

He had a guest star appearance in film Strange Bedfellows, in 2004 starring Paul Hogan and Michael Caton.

In 2008, he was in the BBC drama Out of the Blue, playing the detective in charge of investigating a murder. Since 2009, he has had the regular

Withington co-starred in the play The Boys Next Door in 1992.

Filmography

Films

Television

Personal life 
Withington was born in Toowoomba, Queensland to a cowgirl mother, who was the daughter of a drover and an English father who worked in food processing and was a nightclub singer and champion first grade soccer player in Queensland. 

After being expelled from school, Withington worked as a horsesman and jackaroo, before auditioning an acting scholarship with the Elizabethan Quest Scholarship at 16. He toured with the Twelfth Night Theatre. 

Withington is married to actress Anne Tenney, who played his character's wife Molly Jones on A Country Practice.

References

External links
 

1958 births
20th-century Australian male actors
21st-century Australian male actors
Australian male film actors
Australian male television actors
Living people
Logie Award winners
Actors from Queensland
Blinky Bill
Eli Balas

Eli Balas is an Israeli professional poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Balas has won 3 bracelets at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). He has also finished 2nd in 5 WSOP preliminary events.

Balas finished on the television bubble, which was 7th place, for the inaugural World Poker Tour (WPT) event and made two final tables of the Ultimate Poker Challenge.

As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,300,000. His 24 cashes at the WSOP account for $1,148,041 of those winnings.

WSOP Bracelets

Notes

External links
 Eli Balas Hendon Mob tournament results

American poker players
Living people
World Series of Poker bracelet winners
Year of birth missing (living people)
Forged by Fire

Forged by Fire is the third full-length album by Greek power metal band Firewind and their first released through Century Media. From this album onwards, Gus G is the sole ever-present in their professional discography, following the replacement of Stephen Fredrick with Chitral "Chity" Somapala. It is also the first album to feature keyboardist Bob Katsionis.

Track listing
All tracks composed by Gus G. and Chitral Somapala except where noted
"Kill to Live"  – 3:41
"Beware the Beast"  – 4:21
"Tyranny"  – 3:29
"The Forgotten Memory"  – 3:42
"Hate World Hero"  – 5:38
"Escape from Tomorrow"  – 3:51
"Feast of the Savages" (Instrumental) (Gus G.) – 4:21
"Burn in Hell"  – 4:38
"Perished in Flames"  – 4:52
"The Land of Eternity"  – 5:53
"I Confide" – 5:05 (Japanese bonus track)
"Tyranny" (Ioannis Nikolaidis, Achilleas Kapahtsis) (Video clip)
"Making of/Burning the Earth Live" (Bob Katsionis) (Video clip)

Personnel
Band members
 Chitral "Chity" Somapala – vocals, backing vocals
 Gus G. – guitars, producing, engineering
 Bob Katsionis – keyboards, album layout
 Petros Christo – bass guitar
 Stian L. Kristoffersen – drums
Guest musicians
James Murphy – guitar solo on "The Forgotten Memory"
Marty Friedman – guitar solos "Feast of the Savages"
Lisa Gelenberg – backing vocals
Johannes Nimtz – backing vocals
Markus Teske – backing vocals
Technical staff
Patrik J. Sten – mixing
Fredrik Nordström – assistance
Christian Schmidt – mastering
R.D. Liapakis – mastering
Markus Teske – engineering
Espen Mjoen – engineering
Kazuo Hakamada – artwork
OB Solutions – photography

Footnotes

Firewind albums
Century Media Records albums
2005 albums
National Democratic Youth Front

National Democratic Youth Front is a youth organisation in Nepal. It is the student wing of the Constitutional monarchist Rastriya Prajatantra Party.

References

Youth wings of political parties in Nepal
Youth wings of conservative parties
Rastriya Prajatantra Party
Vincent Malone

Vincent Malone (11 September 1931 – 18 May 2020) was an English prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Liverpool.

Life
Malone was born in Liverpool, educated at St Francis Xavier's College, and ordained to the priesthood on 18 September 1955, in Old Swan. On 13 May 1989, he was appointed Titular Bishop of Abora and Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 3 July from Archbishop Derek Worlock, with Bishops Kevin O'Connor and John Rawsthorne serving as co-consecrators.

In 2003 Malone wrote a contribution for Healing Priesthood: Women's Voices Worldwide, in which he argued that women should be allowed to hear confessions and absolve penitents, on the grounds that some Catholics might prefer to confess their sins to a woman.

The Vatican officially announced that on 26 October 2006, Malone was to retire from his post in Liverpool. As with all bishops, he was required to submit his letter of retirement to Pope Benedict XVI upon reaching age 75. He continued to be a Vicar General, a member of the Archbishop's council, and a trustee of the Archdiocese. Moreover, although he no longer carried out formal parish visitations, Malone continued to celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation.

Malone died on 18 May 2020, aged 88, at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, after testing positive for COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in England.

References

1931 births
2020 deaths
Roman Catholic bishops of Liverpool
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in England
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in England
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in England
People educated at St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool
Tom Williams (bishop)

Thomas Anthony Williams (born 10 February 1948) is an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Until his retirement on 25 March 2023 he served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Liverpool.

Early life and ministry
Born on Shrove Tuesday, 10 February 1948, in Liverpool, Tom Williams entered Junior Seminary to train for the priesthood at Christleton Hall, Chester in 1961 before studying at the English College in Lisbon, Portugal, from September 1966 to 1971. He completed his studies at St Joseph's College, Upholland. Williams was ordained to the priesthood on 27 May 1972, at the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, by Archbishop George Andrew Beck.

He served at several parishes, including: St Francis of Assisi, Garston; Sacred Heart, Liverpool (where he was also Chaplain to the Royal Liverpool Hospital); Our Lady of Walsingham, Netherton; Our Lady Immaculate, Liverpool and St Anthony's, Scotland Road, Liverpool.

Episcopal career
On 15 April 2003, Williams was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool and Titular Bishop of Mageo by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 27 May from Archbishop Patrick Kelly, with Bishops Vincent Malone and Augustine Harris serving as co-consecrators.

On 27 May 2012 Bishop Williams celebrated the Ruby Jubilee of his ordination to the Priesthood. It also marked the ninth anniversary of his Episcopal Ordination as Bishop of Mageo and Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool in the same Cathedral by Archbishop Patrick Kelly on 27 May 2003.

As Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool he also served as Chair of the Healthcare Reference Group of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.

At 12.00 noon, Rome time, on Saturday 25 March, it was published by the Holy See that the Holy Father Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Tom Williams from the office of Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool upon reaching the age of 75 years.  Bishop Williams will now be known as Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus.

Honours
 He was awarded the Freedom of the City of Liverpool on 30 September 2021.

References

External links
Catholic-Hierarchy website: Bishop Thomas Williams
Archdiocese of Liverpool Website

1948 births
Living people
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in England
Roman Catholic bishops of Liverpool
English College, Lisbon alumni
Wintergreen (book)

Wintergreen, written in 1987, is a book by Robert Michael Pyle.  It describes the devastation caused by unrestrained logging in Washington's Willapa Hills.  It was also the winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing.

Environmental non-fiction books
1987 non-fiction books
1987 in the environment
Patrick Kelly (archbishop of Liverpool)

Patrick Altham Kelly PHL KC*HS (born 23 November 1938) is an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.  He is the archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Liverpool following his resignation which took effect on 27 February 2013; he was formerly Vice President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.

Early life
Kelly was born in Morecambe, Lancashire, educated at Preston Catholic College, and was ordained to the priesthood on 18 February 1962, at the Venerable English College, in Rome.

Parishes
Kelly taught systematic theology in Oscott Seminary and later became rector of the latter in 1978.

On 9 March 1984, Kelly was appointed Bishop of Salford by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 3 April from Bishop Thomas Holland, with archbishops Derek Worlock and Maurice Couve de Murville serving as co-consecrators. Kelly was appointed Archbishop of Liverpool by Pope John Paul II on 21 May 1996.

In early 2012, Kelly celebrated the Golden Jubilee of his ordination to the sacred priesthood, commencing with an intimate Mass at the local Carmelite convent and followed the next day by a Solemn Mass at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. The Mass was attended by Roman Catholic clergy, including cardinals Cormac Murphy-O'Connor and Jean-Louis Tauran. The papal nuncios to Britain and Guatemala, archbishops Mennini and Gallagher were also in attendance; alongside Cardinal (then Archbishop) Vincent Nichols.

In his spare time the Archbishop enjoys listening to classical music and attending concerts, especially those given by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

On the morning of Monday 10 December 2012, Kelly was admitted to hospital after suffering from a mild stroke, his condition was described as 'comfortable'

Subsequent suffering from the stroke, Kelly was advised to take a long period of convalescence which he did in Lancashire, North West England. Despite having a year left in office before he was due to tender his official resignation, it was announced on Monday 7 January 2013, that Kelly had submitted his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI, who accepted Kelly's resignation on 27 February 2013. On 21 March 2014, Malcolm McMahon, formerly Bishop of Nottingham, was appointed by Pope Francis to succeed Kelly.

SSPX
Kelly was opposed to making agreements with the Society of Saint Pius X in the hopes of better defending the legacy of the Second Vatican Council.

References

External links

 Profile at Catholic Hierarchy website

1938 births
Living people
People from Morecambe
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in England
21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the United Kingdom
Roman Catholic archbishops of Liverpool
English people of Irish descent
Roman Catholic bishops of Salford
English College, Rome alumni
British Roman Catholic archbishops
Contraband (band)

Contraband was a short-lived supergroup/side project that included members of several famous rock bands from the 1980s, such as Shark Island, McAuley Schenker Group, Ratt, L.A. Guns, and Vixen.

Contraband came to be after a Vixen and Ratt unplugged session on MTV.

The band released only one self-titled album in 1991 which received lukewarm reviews. The album was a commercial failure and the band disbanded shortly after, while touring with Ratt. The song "Loud Guitars, Fast Cars & Wild, Wild Livin'" was included in the movie If Looks Could Kill soundtrack. In the US, the album charted at number 187. Their cover version of "All the Way from Memphis" appeared on the UK  record chart in July 1991. "Loud Guitars, Fast Cars & Wild, Wild Livin'" was later covered as "Loud Guitars, Fast Cars & Wild, Wild Women" by Blue Tears later in the early 1990s and released for the 2005 album Dancin' On the Back Streets.

Band members
 Richard Black (Shark Island) – vocals
 Michael Schenker (McAuley Schenker Group) – guitars, backing vocals
 Tracii Guns (L.A. Guns) – guitars, backing vocals
 Share Pedersen (Vixen) – bass guitar, backing vocals
 Bobby Blotzer (Ratt) – drums, backing vocals

Contraband (1991)

Track listing

Credits
Spencer Sercombe – guitars, backing vocals, musical director
Steffan Presley – keyboards
Kevin Beamish – backing vocals, producer, engineer, mixing
Randy Nicklaus – producer, mixing
Joe Barresi – engineer
Steve Hall – mastering

See also
List of glam metal bands and artists

References

1991 debut albums
Glam metal musical groups from California
Hard rock musical groups from California
Heavy metal musical groups from California
Heavy metal supergroups
Impact Records albums
Musical groups established in 1990
Musical groups from Los Angeles
Albums recorded at Sound City Studios
Petros Christo

Petros Christodoulidis (), born March 4, 1975, in Greece, is the current bass player of the Power metal band Firewind. He has also played in Breaking Silence. He is the owner of The Wet Match Cafe, which was known as Emerald Cafe in the past,   in his home town, Thessaloniki.

Footnotes

Firewind members
1975 births
Living people
Heavy metal bass guitarists
Greek bass guitarists
Musicians from Thessaloniki
21st-century bass guitarists
OXXO

Oxxo (stylized as OXXO) is a Mexican chain of convenience stores, with over 21,000 stores across Latin America, as well as in the United States and parts of Europe. It is the largest chain of convenience stores in Latin America. Its headquarters are in Monterrey, Nuevo León.

It is wholly owned by the beverage company FEMSA (Fomento Económico Mexicano).

History 
OXXO was founded in Monterrey in 1976. In the first stores, the only products sold were beer, snacks and cigararettes. The success of the stores was such that the project kept growing and OXXO built new locations rapidly, becoming ubiquitous in Mexican cities and towns.

The first official OXXO store was opened in 1979 in Monterrey. OXXO stores then spread to Chihuahua, Hermosillo and Nuevo Laredo. Throughout the eighties, OXXO gained fame in the cities where it was established. In 1998, the 1000th store was opened. On July 6, 2010, the opening of the 9000th store, in Oaxaca, was announced. With Mexico liberalizing its oil and gas market, OXXO has started to open gas stations as well. The first station opened in San Pedro Garza Garcia. In 2019, Oxxo Gas aimed to rebrand 49 additional stations, mostly in Monterrey, that were operating under the Pemex name.

As of 2014, Oxxo was reported to have more than 15,000 stores across Mexico.  In the same year, a partnership between Oxxo and Amazon was announced, involving Amazon accepting Oxxo's prepaid debit cards as a payment method, and Amazon gift cards being sold at Oxxo stores.

Gallery

See also

 Convenience stores
 List of companies of Mexico

References

External links

 OXXO official site
 OXXO Inmuebles official site 

Retail companies established in 1977
Convenience stores
Retail companies of Mexico
Companies based in Monterrey
Mexican companies established in 1977
Automotive fuel retailers
Simone Spoladore

Simone Spoladore (born 29 October 1979) is a Brazilian actress. Her first film role was Ana in To the Left of the Father.

Spoladore won the Gramado Film Festival’s award for Best Actress in 2010.

Filmography
To the Left of the Father (2001)
Desmundo (2002)
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)
Elvis & Madonna (2010)
Southwest (2012)

Television
Os Maias (2001) – Young Maria Monforte
Esperança (2002) – Caterina
América (2005) – Helô
O Profeta (2006) – Luci
Bela, a Feia (2009) – Verônica Matoso / Veronica Matoso
Vidas em Jogo (2011) – Andrea Vasconcellos
Magnifica 70 (2015–16) – Dora Dumar

References

External links

1979 births
Brazilian people of Italian descent
Living people
Actresses from Curitiba
21st-century Brazilian actresses
Brazilian film actresses
Brazilian telenovela actresses
Rangpur, Gujarat

Rangpur is an ancient archaeological site in Surendranagar district near Vanala on Saurashtra peninsula in Gujarat, western India. Lying on the tip between the Gulf of Khambhat and Gulf of Kutch, it belongs to the period of the Indus Valley civilization, and lies to the northwest of the larger site of Lothal. It is the type site for the Rangpur culture, a regional form of the late phase of the Indus Valley Civilization that existed in Gujarat during the 2nd millennium BCE.

Excavation 

Rangpur culture: Based on the distinct pottery excavated here, it was identified as a separate culture or subculture.

Trail Diggings were conducted by the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) during 1931 led by M.S.Vats. Later, Ghurye (1939), Dikshit (1947) and S. R. Rao (1953–56) excavated the site under ASI projects.

S.R.Rao has classified the deposits into four periods with three sub periods in Harappan Culture, Period II with an earlier Period, Microlithic and a Middle Paleolithic State (River sections) with points, scrapers and blades of jasper.
The dates given by S.R.Rao are:
 Period I - Microlithis unassociated with Pottery : 3000 BC
 Period II - Harappan : 2000–1500 BC
 Period II B - Late Harappan : 1500–1100 BC
 Period II C - Transition Phase of Harappa : 1100–1000 BC
 Period III - Lustrous Red Ware Period : 1000-800 BC.

Architecture and town planning
Acacia wood was used in Rangpur for construction, tools and furniture.

Artefacts found 
Dishes with beaded rim and grooved shoulder, painted black - and redware and high-necked jars. Evidence of shell working found. Other artifacts found at the site include axes, beads of steatite and carnelian and Earthen wares.

Cultivation 
Large quantity of plant remains were found at Rangpur. Bajra,
rice
(Period IIA) and Millet (Period HI) were found.

Diet 
People of Rangpur culture used rice and bajra for food. They also used to consume milk and curds from their domesticated animals.

See also 

 Bet Dwarka

 Chronological dating
 Phases in archaeology
 Pottery in the Indian subcontinent

 List of Indus Valley Civilization sites
 Periodisation of the Indus Valley Civilisation
 Ahar-Banas culture
 Late Harappan Phase of IVC (1900 - 1500 BCE)
 Cemetery H culture in Punjab
 Jhukar-Jhangar culture in Punjab
 Rangpur culture in Gujarat

References

Further reading
 

Indus Valley civilisation sites
History of Gujarat
Archaeological sites in Gujarat
Monuments of National Importance in Gujarat
Villages in Surendranagar district
Young Liars

Young Liars is the first major release by the New York City band TV on the Radio. Released in 2003 on Touch & Go Records, the EP helped establish the band's distinctive blending of electronica, doo wop, post-rock, and avant-garde styles.

The release featured the single "Staring at the Sun," which would later be remixed and reissued in their full-length album Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes. It contains an a cappella version of "Mr. Grieves," which was originally a rock song by Pixies, from the album Doolittle.

Track listing
"Satellite" – 4:33
"Staring at the Sun" – 4:01
"Blind" – 7:15
"Young Liars" – 5:12
"Mr. Grieves" – 4:10

Charts

References

2003 debut EPs
TV on the Radio albums
Touch and Go Records EPs
Bhagatrav

Bhagatrav () is a minor archaeological site belonging to the Indus valley civilization. Excavated by the Archaeological Survey of India led by Dr. S. R. Rao, Bhagatrav is located in Hansot (51 km away from Surat) taluka of Bharuch district in south Gujarat, near the coastline with the Arabian Sea, and gives access to the agate-bearing mines and forested hills of the valleys of the rivers Narmada and Tapti.

Port
Bhagatrav seems to have been an important port, as Lothal. However, backwaters of sea and floods from Kim river has washed out the site to a large extent and only peripheral area is left for exploration and for eight months in a year, the site is surrounded by water.

The number of lead pieces, many earth samples with rich iron contents, stone beads, evidences of production of glazed ware (pottery) are found. It may have been a trading port contemporary to Lothal.

Significance
It is observed that flood was one of the reasons for decline/destruction of some Harappan settlements such as Bhagatrav, Lothal, Rangpur, Desalpur, Chanhu-daro etc.

This is one of southernmost Harappan settlements and the distance between Manda, Jammu (one of northernmost Harappan settlement located in Jammu and Kashmir) and Bhagatrav is about 1350 km.

See also
 List of Indus Valley Civilization sites

References

External links
 IVC sites Map

Indus Valley civilisation sites
Archaeological sites in Gujarat
Geography of Gujarat
Tourist attractions in Gujarat
Eagle Rock Entertainment

Eagle Rock Entertainment is an international producer and distributor of music films and programming. It operates two record labels (Eagle Records and Armoury Records), a full-service production company (Eagle Rock Productions) and a music publishing subsidiary (Eagle-i Music).

History
Eagle Rock Entertainment was founded in April 1997 by Terry Shand, Geoff Kempin and Julian Paul, three former colleagues at Castle Communications, with capital coming from BMG. It was later acquired by Edel Records and in 2001 entirely sold to the British investment company HgCapital for £34 million. In 2007 a minority stake was re-acquired by Edel AG. The Eagle Vision division was established in 2000. Eagle Rock Entertainment's headquarters are in London with offices in New York and affiliate offices around the world. In April 2014, Eagle Rock Entertainment was acquired by Universal Music Group. Universal Music's purchase of Eagle followed that of much of EMI. Terry Shand continues to lead the company as chairman and CEO from its headquarters in London. In 2020, Universal Music established Mercury Studios which absorbed Eagle Rock Entertainment.

Awards
The company won a Grammy Award for The Doors documentary When You're Strange in 2010.

See also
List of record labels

References

External links
 

 
Record labels established in 1997
IFPI members
British record labels
Music publishing companies of the United Kingdom
Labels distributed by Universal Music Group
Rojdi

Rojdi is an archaeological site belonging to the Indus valley civilization. It is located on the northern bank of the Bhadar River in Gondal taluka of Rajkot district in central Saurashtra peninsula of Gujarat state in India. It was continuously occupied from 2500 BCE to 1700 BCE.

Chronology
The site was excavated for seven seasons between 1982 and 1995 by the Gujarat State Department of Archaeology and the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania. The excavation confirmed three periods of occupation, called Rojdi A, B and C. Twenty radiocarbon dates have helped to estimate the chronology of Rojdi as follows:
 Rojdi C 1900-1700 BCE
 Rojdi B 2200-1900 BCE
 Rojdi A 2500-2200 BCE

Architecture
Two large excavation areas have been exposed at Rojdi, which are known as the South Extension and the Main Mound. There was also a systematic excavation at an outer gateway and at an isolated structure at the northern slope of the site. All of these very finely preserved structures can be dated to Rojdi C period (early second millennium BCE). The houses in Rojdi were built on stone foundations, probably with mud walls above them. No bricks were found, baked or otherwise, in the excavations. No wells, bathing platforms and the associated street drains were found either.

The material culture
Much of the pottery found in Rojdi is a hard, red to buff ware made from well-prepared clay. The most frequently found vessel is the hemispherical red ware bowl, often with a stud handle, this accounts for over half of all shreds recovered from Rojdi. The pottery often has graffiti with signs from the Indus script, such as jar sign. There is also a short inscription in Harappan writing on the rim of a potshred. Five (four complete and one broken) copper or bronze flat axes were found, all belonged to Rojdi C period. Signs of industrial and manufacturing activities are absent in all phases at Rojdi. Its overall character suggests a farmer's village.

See also

 Indus Valley civilization
 List of Indus Valley Civilization sites
 List of inventions and discoveries of the Indus Valley Civilization
 Hydraulic engineering of the Indus Valley Civilization

Notes

Archaeological sites in Gujarat
Club X

Club X is a short-lived 1989 Channel 4 arts and music magazine programme that is often cited as an example of TV Hell.

Details 
The production and presentation team was largely taken from the earlier Channel 4 success Network 7 and had the same editor Charlie Parsons. At the time Club X was commissioned Channel 4's new Chief Executive Michael Grade was attempting to make the channel's cultural programming more accessible, a process regarded by some as dumbing down.

The Club X format was intended to blend items on relatively high-brow arts with the kind of quirky stories and items that had been features of Network 7, such as feminist pornography. Club X was broadcast live over 23 weeks during Summer 1989 in a Wednesday night 90-minute slot scheduled directly against BBC2's new arts magazine The Late Show, another production by Network 7 graduates. There was an edited repeat the following Sunday.

Fortunately the show's presenters led by Murray Boland and Martina Attille had live experience yet struggled bravely with the often spurious chaotic direction. The other presenters included drag artist Regina Fong and Fou Fou L Hunter. Hunter died mid-series (11 August 1989). In a reference to the then current Acid House scene the programme's set was modelled on the nightclub Heaven though the constant background music made it impossible for the presenters to hear cues and studio interviews were often inaudible while members of the audience occasionally interfered with the set ups. Each week was themed around an avant-garde art movement, Dada, Surrealism etc.

Buygones
Club X was the first television work of Victor Lewis-Smith whose stand-alone segment Buygones featured humorous takes on withdrawn consumer items such as the Aztec Bar and OMO washing powder.

Cancellation
An edited version of the Wednesday broadcast was shown at 14:00 the following Sunday. Although the edited version tidied up the presentation and removed the more graphic elements, the content remained the same and an off-colour remark about the dead comedian Eric Morecambe drew complaints. A second series was not commissioned; as Channel 4 had, unusually, produced the series in-house, the channel bore the full cost. This made it one of the most expensive failures in the company's history. Some elements such as 'Buygones' were recycled as stand-alone programmes or greatest hits compilations. Charlie Parsons went on to set up a production company with Waheed Ali, which then merged with Planet Pictures, which subsequently produced several shows including The Big Breakfast and "The Word".

References

Channel 4 original programming
1989 British television series debuts
1989 British television series endings
Srđan Cvijić

Srđan Cvijić is a Serbian political scientist who is a senior policy analyst on European Union external relations. Cvijić is the Senior Policy Analyst at the Open Society Foundations in Brussels and member of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group. He is an expert in the area of democratisation, public and international law and human rights law. Prior to working for the Open Society, Cvijić was employed at the European Policy Centre, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe, and in the area of diplomacy for Serbia. He received his LLB from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, M.A. in International Relations and European Studies from Central European University and PhD from the Law Department of the European University Institute. He is a regular contributor to news sources, including Politico, EUobserver, the European Western Balkans as well as a commentator for Euronews, Radio Free Europe, Voice of America and others.

References

External links
Transatlantic Assembly
Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe - Who is Who - Working Table I - Democratisation and Human Rights

Serbian political scientists
Living people
University of Belgrade Faculty of Law alumni
Central European University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
The Wild Stallion

The Wild Stallion is a 2009 American direct-to-DVD film directed by Craig Clyde and starring Miranda Cosgrove, Danielle Chuchran, Robert Wagner, Paul Sorvino, Connie Sellecca and Fred Ward. It was distributed by Myriad Pictures. In December 2010, the popular Horse Book Club PONY included The Wild Stallion in their package.

Plot 
Hanna Mills (Miranda Cosgrove), an 11-year-old girl from Cleveland, Ohio, wants to photograph wild horses for a project and to try to help save them. After visiting a ranch during summer vacation and befriending CJ (Danielle Chuchran), another 11-year-old girl, she learns about illegal activities that might jeopardize the mustangs. Along the way she learns about the horses including the legend of the black stallion.

Cast 
 Miranda Cosgrove as Hanna Mills
 Danielle Chuchran as C.J.
 Fred Ward as Frank Mills
 Manuel Ojeda as Jorge Valencia
 Connie Sellecca as Maddie
 Robert Wagner as Novak - The wild horse buyer
 Paul Sorvino as Sheriff Buck
 Corbin Allred as Depute Morg Haynes
 K. C. Clyde as Dallas Brody
 Gib Gerard as Ty Brody
 Carlisle Studer as Lilly
 RaeAnn Christensen as Ellie Reynolds
 Scotty Meek as Murdock
 Bob Lanoue as Virgil
 Michael Lawson as Alvin Niedermeyer - the cook
 Dustin Hunter Evans as Kyle

References

External links 

2009 direct-to-video films
2009 films
Films about horses
2009 drama films
2000s English-language films
Yumie Hiraiwa

was a Japanese Naoki Award-winning author.

Life 
The daughter of the chief priest of Yoyogi Hachiman shrine, Hiraiwa was born in Tokyo in 1932. After graduating from the Department of Japanese Literature at Japan Women's University, the aspiring author studied under novelist Togawa Yukio and became a member of Shinyo-kai, an organization to promote literature established in memory of novelist Hasegawa Shin. In 1959, her work Taganeshi (A Sword Name-Engraver) won the Naoki Award.

Hiraiwa died from pneumonia on 9 June 2023, at the age of 91.

Works 
Hiraiwa's representative works include the historical detective-story series Onyado Kawasemi (The Kawasemi Inn). Her works cover a wide range of genres, including historical and contemporary novels, mysteries, novels on adolescence and scripts for plays and TV dramas. In 1987, she became a member of the selection committee for the Naoki Award.

References

External links
 J'Lit | Authors : Yumie Hiraiwa* | Books from Japan 
 Yumie Hiraiwa:books by Yumie Hiraiwa

1932 births
2023 deaths
Japanese writers
Japanese historical novelists
Women historical novelists
20th-century Japanese screenwriters
21st-century Japanese screenwriters
Recipients of the Order of Culture
Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon
Persons of Cultural Merit
Naoki Prize winners
Japan Women's University alumni
Writers from Tokyo
Zahid Ali

Zahid Ali (; born 30 June 1977) is a Norwegian stand-up comedian. He is known for his participation in the TV2 show Rikets Røst, which is hosted by Otto Jespersen. After the publicity this show resulted in, he has become a popular comedian and actor.

In 2006 Ali, who is of Pakistani descent, gathered almost all of the most popular comedians in Norway to raise money for relief work in Pakistan after the earthquake disaster that year. All the money raised was donated to the Embassy of Pakistan and was used to build a new school in Kashmir.

In December 2006, Ali appeared in the series Jul i Tøyengata on Norwegian channel TVNorge, playing the lead role as shoemaker Ali. The series was an Advent calendar-type series, aired daily up until 24 December. It was a spoof of an original children's Christmas series in Norway, Jul i Skomakergata.

In 2010 Ali received the Brobyggerprisen, a Norwegian prize for building relations between immigrants and  Norwegian natives. His work is also about fighting prejudice. Zahid Ali has also toured with his stand-up show Zahid Ali-live and often appears in corporate videos.

He acted in the 2005 film Izzat and the television series Hellfjord.

See also
 Norwegians of Pakistani descent

References

External links
 

Norwegian male comedians
Norwegian people of Pakistani descent
Norwegian male film actors
Norwegian male television actors
21st-century Norwegian male actors
Norwegian stand-up comedians
1977 births
Living people
Bernard Hollander

Bernard Hollander (1864 – 6 February 1934) was a London psychiatrist and one of the main proponents of the new interest in phrenology in the early 20th century.

Life and work
Hollander was born in Vienna, and settled in London in 1883, where he attended King's College. After graduation he was appointed to the post of physician at the British Hospital for Mental Disorders and Brain Diseases. Hollander was naturalized a British citizen in 1894.

Hollander first received critical acclaim for his Positive Philosophy of the Mind (L. N. Fowler, 1891). His main works, The Mental Function of the Brain (1901) and Scientific Phrenology (1902), are an appraisal of the teachings of Franz Joseph Gall. Hollander also introduced a quantitative approach to the phrenological diagnosis, defining a methodology for measuring the skull and comparing the measurements with statistical averages.

Hollander founded the Ethological Society, and was the first editor of the Ethological Journal.

Notes

Further reading
Works by Hollander:
 The revival of phrenology (London and New York, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1901).
 Scientific Phrenology: being a practical mental science and guide to human character (London, Grant Richards, 1902)
 The mental symptoms of brain disease: an aid to the surgical treatment of insanity, due to injury, haemorrhage, tumours, and other circumscribed lesions of the brain (London, Rebman, 1910).
 Nervous disorders of men; the modern psychological conception of their causes, effects, and rational treatment (London, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. [etc.], 1916).
 Abnormal children : nervous, mischievous, precocious, and backward (London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1916)
 In search of the soul: and the mechanism of thought, emotion, and conduct. Volume 1, Volume 2 (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1920).
 The psychology of misconduct, vice, and crime (London : G. Allen & Unwin, ltd., 1922).
 Methods and Uses of Hypnosis & Self-Hypnosis: A Treatise on the Powers of the Subconscious Mind (London : G. Allen & Unwin, ltd., 1928).

About Hollander:
 Culbertson, J.C. (ed.) (1890) "The Old and New Phrenologies" The Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic vol. 63 (New Series, vol. 24)  pp. 176-177, reprinted from the British Medical Journal.

1864 births
1934 deaths
Phrenologists
English psychiatrists
Ethologists
Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United Kingdom
1256 Contract

A 1256 Contract, as defined in section 1256 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, is any regulated futures contracts, foreign currency contracts, non-equity options (broad-based stock index options (including cash-settled ones), debt options, commodity futures options, and currency options), dealer equity options, and any dealer security futures contracts. For U.S. Federal income tax purposes, mark-to-market accounting is used for each 1256 contract as of the end of each tax year, and such contracts are treated as sold for its fair market value on the last business day of such taxable year (i.e., as "closed").

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is not clear on whether QQQ, DIA and SPY options should be treated as section 1256 contracts.  On one hand, these are seen as equity options, not within the definition of a 1256 Contract, but others consider them as non-equity option and meeting the definition of a "broad-based" index option. Instead, the IRS grants penalty relief if a broker determines in good faith that an index is, or is not, a narrow-based index, following published guidelines.

Tax advantages
Any gain or loss from a 1256 Contract is treated for tax purposes as 40% short-term gain and 60% long-term gain, regardless of holding period. Because most futures contracts are held for less than the 12-month minimum holding period for long-term capital gains tax rates; the gain from any non-1256 contract will typically be taxed at the higher short-term rate. Thus the 1256 Contract designation enhances the marketability based on the after-tax attractiveness of these products. The reason for the implementation of section 1256 was the fact that traders were hedging their short term futures contracts (going long and short at the same time) to transition to the next tax year without paying the short-term capital gains tax on these positions, and were effectively making these positions qualify for long-term tax treatment.

Individuals with a net Section 1256 contract loss can elect to carry it back three years (instead of being carried forward to the following year), starting with the earliest year, but only to a year in which there is a net Section 1256 contracts gain, and only up to the extent of such gain (the carrying back cannot produce a net operating loss for the year). To carry your loss back, file Form 1045, Application for Tentative Refund, or an amended return. Attach an amended Form 6781 and an amended Schedule D (Form 1040) for the applicable years.

See also
 99-year lease
 Securities Exchange Act

References

Derivatives (finance)
United States federal income tax
Lake railway station

Lake railway station is a station on the Isle of Wight serving the village of Lake, situated in a quiet residential area not far from Lake Cliff Gardens and the beach at Sandown Bay. Until the construction of an interchange station with the Isle of Wight Steam Railway at Smallbrook Junction in 1991, this station was the newest on the island: it was opened by British Rail in 1987. The station is formed of a single platform with a shelter.

Services
All services at Lake are operated by Island Line using  EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 2 tph to  of which 1 continues to 
 2 tph to 

These services call at all stations, except , which is served only during operating dates for the Isle of Wight Steam Railway.

References

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Railway stations on the Isle of Wight
DfT Category F2 stations
Railway stations opened by British Rail
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1987
Island Line railway stations (Isle of Wight)
988 transaction

A 988 transaction is a transaction described in section 988(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code in the United States of America. This transaction occurs when a taxpayer enters into or acquires any debt instrument, forward contract, futures contract, option, or similar financial instrument held in a non-functional currency. The rules for 988 transactions do not apply to any regulated futures contract or non-equity options which would be marked to market under 26 USCA § 1256 (1256 contract) if held on the last day of the taxable year.

History
The provisions covering 988 transactions were enacted as part of the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

Application
The foreign currency gain or loss on a 988 transaction is treated as ordinary income or loss unless an election is made to treat it as a capital gain or loss.

See also
International taxation
Foreign tax credit

References

External links
IRS publication

0988
United States federal income tax