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Thurles railway station

Thurles railway station serves the town of Thurles in County Tipperary in Ireland. The station is on the Dublin–Cork Main line, and is situated  from . It has two through platforms and one terminating platform.

An average of 17 trains each day between  and  serve Thurles station.

History

The Great Southern and Western Railway opened the station on 13 March 1848. The station was designed by Sancton Wood.

On 5 August that year William Smith O'Brien was arrested on the station while waiting for a train after an unsuccessful insurrection in Ballingarry in South Tipperary. There is a plaque at the station commemorating the event.

In 1880 the Southern Railway of Ireland opened between Thurles and  on the Waterford and Limerick Railway (W&LR), making Thurles a junction. Following failure to pay a debt the Board of Works took over the line with operations handed to the W&LR until that was absorbed by the GS&WR in 1901.

On 9 December 1921, Old IRA members were being released during the Irish War of Independence. As internees reached Thurles railway station, a bomb was thrown at the train. Vol. Declan Hurton was injured and later died of his wounds.

CIÉ withdrew passenger services from the Thurles – Clonmel line in 1963 and closed the line to freight in 1967.

Thurles station has three times won the Irish Rail Best Intercity Station prize.

Buses
A Local Link bus stops at Thurles Railway Station. Timetable is 391 – (T42) Thurles to Limerick via Newport & UL

See also
 List of railway stations in Ireland

References

Bibliography

External links

Iarnród Éireann stations in County Tipperary
Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland opened in 1848
Mozaic

Mozaic is a two-player abstract strategy board game, in which players try to score points by placing colored glass gemstones onto a game board to form square patterns. The game was designed by Martin H. Samuel. It was originally produced by Games Above Board, Sunnywood, Inc., of Hong Kong, then licensed and published  through Sterling Games in 2003.  Giseh Verlag launched the game in Germany at Essen Spiel in 2006.  An Axiom-powered electronic version of Mozaic was programmed for the PC platform by Greg Schmidt in 2010.

Gameplay
The Mozaic game board has 64 tiles (8 x 8 squares) with a score-keeping "ladder" on either end. Players may choose between either amber or cobalt gems, which are picked to construct their point-scoring squares. Players take turns drawing gems from a bag, one at a time, and place them on any empty tile on the board. 4 points are scored when four gems of the same color are placed to form a square. Existing squares may be built upon and expanded, and several point-scoring combinations may be completed at one time with a single gem. During the game, players keep score on their side of the board with an extra gem of their color. The game is over when the last gemstone is placed, all the tiles are covered, and only the four exception gems remain in the bag. The player with the most points wins the game.

In addition to the cobalt and amber gems, Mozaic also offers four "exception" gemstones that, when drawn, allow for certain actions:
Rubies cause the player to skip their turn.
Sapphires allow the player to slide any gem diagonally to an empty adjacent tile.
Onyx allow the player to take two turns.
Diamonds allow the player to remove any gem from the board and replace it in the bag.
Exception gemstones are always returned to the bag after a turn.

References

External links
 Games Above Board
 Mozaic at Boardgamegeek

Board games introduced in 2003
Return to Oz (disambiguation)

Return to Oz is:

 Return to Oz, 1985 film
 Return to Oz (TV special), 1964 animated television special
 "Return to Oz", 2004 song from the Scissor Sisters album Scissor Sisters
ʻotuhaka

The otuhaka (: row-of-dancemovements) is a traditional Tongan group dance with prominent Samoan influence wherein the performers are seated and make gestures with their arms only, with some accentuation from head and body.

Originally the otuhaka was performed by older, chiefly ladies only, who were supposed to be too old to stand. Very often a otuhaka was followed by an ula performed by their (standing) daughters or any young, chiefly ladies. In another respect, the 'Otuhaka was believed to be performed early in the morning to wake the King in a peaceful and subtle way. The performers sat crosslegged on the ground in a half circle with the guest of honour (the chief to whom they wanted to give homage) at the centre. Like the māuluulu part of the performance is on the beat of the music only, part of it is with additional singing of a chorus. The music by tradition, consists of beating with sticks on the tafua, bamboos, which are rolled up in a mat, just to keep the beat.

Nowadays the otuhaka can be performed by men and women of any rank, but as dance it is decidedly less popular than its successor the māuluulu, as the words and the dance movements are prescribed by tradition. Yet every dance master who is conducting this dance has a different version which he will claim is the right one from ancient times. The people from Lapaha may have the strongest claim, as they are the guardians of the Tui Tonga traditions.

Lyrics
The words of the several verses are largely archaic and since they are derived from Samoan origin some are not well understood by their Tongan performers. Several older parts seem to have to do with seafaring. A few example verses.

A quite recent example, in modern Tongan:

A verse in old Samoan, expressing grief about the death of the spiritual king of Tonga:

A verse in old Samoan. For Tongans Anilai and Siulafata may be names of unknown persons, but in Sāluafata harbour on Upolu was an important stopover in ancient times:

A verse in modern Samoan, a quite recent addition as it talks about the annexation of Tutuila by the Americans (sailors= US Navy) in 1900:

References

 Tonga history association conference; 1993

Tongan culture
Dances of Tonga
Fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

At the 1952 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.

Medal summary

Men's events

Women's events

Medal table

Participating nations
A total of 286 fencers (249 men and 37 women) from 32 nations competed at the Helsinki Games:

References

 
1952 Summer Olympics events
1952
1952 in fencing
Fencing competitions in Finland
Templemore railway station

Templemore railway station is a mainline railway station situated 2 km from the town of Templemore, Ireland. The station is on the Dublin-Cork railway line.

Details
The station has two platforms, and is fully accessible to wheelchair users since the addition of lifts at each end of a footbridge.

The station is approximately 2 km from the Garda Síochána College (main police training centre for Ireland).

History

The station opened on 3 July 1848.

See also
 List of railway stations in Ireland

References

External links
 Irish Rail Templemore Station Website
Templemore Station Car Parking information

Iarnród Éireann stations in County Tipperary
Templemore
Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland opened in 1848
Utpal Chatterjee

Utpal Chatterjee  (born 13 July 1964) is a former Indian cricketer. He was a left arm spinner and a low order batsman. He had his early education at the Shyambazar A.V School and Calcutta Boys' School in Kolkata, India.

He played domestic cricket for Bengal and played three One Day Internationals for India in 1995. He is the only cricketer ever from Bengal to have picked up more than 500 first class wickets.
He picked up 52 wickets in the ranji trophy' season of 1999–2000. He retired in 2004 with 504 first class Wicket's to his credit.

Since 4 September 2008, he has been the head coach of Bengal cricket team.

External links

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Indian cricketers
India One Day International cricketers
East Zone cricketers
1964 births
Living people
University of Calcutta alumni
Cricketers from Kolkata
Indian cricket coaches
Wiggins Airways

Wiggins Airways is an American cargo airline based in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States, operating from Manchester–Boston Regional Airport. It is a subsidiary of Ameriflight.

History
Wiggins Airways was founded in 1929, by E.W. Wiggins, operating out of Manchester, New Hampshire. Wiggins Airways was bought out by its employees in the creation of an Employee Share Ownership Plan in 1985. Wiggins currently employs over 160 people.

In December 2014, Ameriflight acquired Wiggins Airways (48 aircraft and 100 employees), which resulted in Ameriflight becoming the largest regional air cargo carrier in the world, with 218 aircraft in its fleet. Ameriflight elected not to continue to operate Wiggins' FBO and airline service departments, resulting in these departments being sold to Signature Flight Support.

Note: while Signature Flight Support operates fueling and deicing services to aircraft flying into Manchester Boston Regional Airport, Wiggins Airways does maintenance on their fleet, as well as servicing the airlines that serve the airport and general aviation aircraft.

Routes 
Wiggins Airways flies across New England and other Northeast states from its base in Manchester utilizing a fleet of Beechcraft Model 99.

As well as flying for UPS, Wiggins Airways operates flights for FedEx utilizing Cessna 208 Caravan in the 208B Cargomaster configuration.

Fleet
 Wiggins Airways operates a fleet of 33 aircraft. The majority of these aircraft operate as feeders for UPS Airlines and FedEx Express.

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Airlines established in 1929
Airlines based in New Hampshire
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Companies based in Manchester, New Hampshire
1929 establishments in New Hampshire
American companies established in 1929
2014 mergers and acquisitions
Mecatina

Mecatina pronounced (me-kuh-TEE-nuh) is an Innu word that means large mountain.  It is also the name of two rivers (Big and Little), a school, and a municipality, on the Lower North Shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence of Quebec:

 Gros-Mécatina, Quebec
 Big Mecatina River
 Little Mecatina River
Sam Williams (footballer)

Sam Williams (born 9 June 1987) is an English footballer.

Career
Naturally a defensive midfielder before the start of the 2005–06 season, Williams took straight into the role of an attacker, after injuries to strikers. Although never having started a first team game for Aston Villa, Williams was a regular scorer for the clubs reserves.

Williams was sent on loan multiple times to gain first team experience, his first loan spell being at Wrexham where he scored on his debut against Wycombe Wanderers.

In November 2008, Williams spent a month on loan at League One side Colchester United, again scoring on his debut in a 1–0 victory over AFC Bournemouth.

In January 2009 he joined Walsall on another single month loan deal. He returned to Villa on 26 February due to a hip injury, although Saddlers boss Chris Hutchings refused to rule out Williams returning to the Bescot Stadium again.

Williams then joined Brentford on an initial one-month loan with a view to extend the deal. He came on as a substitute on his début against Barnet and missed a sitter, however 4 days later he came on again as a substitute and scored the goal in front on 10,672 fans which saw Brentford snatch a point in the 3–3 draw with Wycombe Wanderers. The loan was extended until the 2008–09 season on 25 March.

He joined Yeovil Town on 21 July 2009 on a two-year deal after impressing whilst on trial at the club. His first goal for the club was on 12 September in a 2 – 2 draw with Stockport.

He was informed by the club at the end of the season that he would not be awarded a new deal.
 Williams joined Charlton Athletic on trial in July 2011 and scored in his uncompetitive debut against Welling United on 9 July 2011.
In August 2011 Williams signed for Dagenham & Redbridge. On 7 May 2013, he was released by the Daggers due to the expiry of his contract.

Career statistics

References

External links

Sam Williams's profile at the Yeovil site

1987 births
Living people
Footballers from Greenwich
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Aston Villa F.C. players
Wrexham A.F.C. players
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players
Colchester United F.C. players
Walsall F.C. players
Brentford F.C. players
Yeovil Town F.C. players
Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. players
English Football League players
Avery Cardoza

Avery Cardoza is an American author, professional gambler, and publisher. Cardoza is the owner of the Las Vegas-based Gambler's Book Shop / GBC Press.

References

1957 births
Living people
American poker players
American gambling writers
American male non-fiction writers
Vassar College alumni
American publishers (people)
Buckingham Friends School

Buckingham Friends School, an independent Quaker school in Lahaska, Pennsylvania was founded in 1794.  The current Quaker Meetinghouse was built in 1768.  An addition was put on in the 1930s, followed by the gymnasium in 1955 and the lower school building. Another addition was built in 2002/2003. In 2015, the Lower School was fully renovated. The school provides for grades K-8. Upper School curriculum includes: Advanced algebra, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology, American History, Model Congress, English Language Arts, Sustainability Workshop, Art, World Religion, Biology, and Music.

The JEM program

The JEM (Joint Environmental Mission) program started in 1991. It is a foreign exchange program with an environmental theme.  The exchange includes schools in  St. Petersburg, Russia; Belgaum, India; Honolulu, Hawaii; Ngong Hills, Kenya; Melbourne, Australia; Nanchang, China; Montmorillon, France; and Rio Blanco, Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador.  The first school partnership began with School #213 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.  Every 4–5 years a gathering of all JEM partner schools occurs to discuss one of the five environmental themes: Water, Soil, Light, Air, and peace. The last "Earth Summit" was held at Buckingham Friends School in April, 2013.

General information

Base Religion: Religious Society of Friends (Quaker)
Students: approx. 170
Grades: K-8
Classes Per Grade: 1
Extracurricular Activities: Music, Art, Woodshop, Photography, Acting, and many others.Sports: Basketball, Softball, Field Hockey, Yoga, Soccer, Cross Country, and Lacrosse. 
Head of School: Paul Lindenmaier

External links

Private elementary schools in Pennsylvania
Schools in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Private middle schools in Pennsylvania
Quaker schools in Pennsylvania
Prashant Vaidya

Prashant Vaidya (born 23 September 1967) is a former Indian cricketer. He played domestic cricket for Bengal and played four One Day Internationals for India in 1995 and 1996.  At that time he was considered to be the fastest bowler in India.

References

Bengal cricketers
Indian cricketers
India One Day International cricketers
East Zone cricketers
Vidarbha cricketers
Central Zone cricketers
1967 births
Living people
Opel straight-6 engine

Opel used the straight-6 engine configuration for many years. Opel used two straight-6 engines prior to the better-known CIH engine family.

Moonlight

The Opel Moonlight roadster was the first Opel vehicle with a straight-6. It used a  six in 1933. It was a 12-valve engine with a very-undersquare  bore and stroke, typical for the time. This engine produced  and .

Kapitän

The 1959 Opel Kapitän was the next vehicle from the company with a straight-6 engine. This was a  unit with 12 overhead valves. Bore and stroke were now oversquare for high power output at . A single Opel-designed carburetor and 7.8:1 compression yielded  and .

See also
 List of GM engines

References

Straight-six engines
Opel engines
Gasoline engines by model
United States House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness

The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness is a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee in the United States House of Representatives.

The Chair of the subcommittee is Michael Waltz of Florida and its Ranking Member is Democrat John Garamendi of California.

Jurisdiction

The Readiness Subcommittee exercises oversight and legislative jurisdiction over:

 Military readiness
 Training
 Logistics and maintenance issues and programs
 Military construction
 Military installations
 Family housing issues
 Base Realignment and Closure

Members, 118th Congress

Historical membership rosters

115th Congress

116th Congress

117th Congress

Sources:

See also
 United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support

References

External links
House Armed Services Committee 
Subcommittee page

Armed Services Readiness
Samuel Winslow

Samuel Ellsworth Winslow (April 11, 1862 – July 11, 1940) was an American politician and Republican Congressman from Massachusetts.

Biography
Winslow was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He spent a year at the Williston Seminary in Easthampton before entering Harvard College in 1881. Winslow graduated from Harvard University in 1885, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and served on the Harvard Lampoon staff.  At Harvard, Winslow also was the theatrical manager for the Hasty Pudding Club. Sam captained and coached the 1884–85 Harvard baseball team which accrued a record of 27–1, defeating Yale twice, and compiling a .306 team hitting average while winning the Intercollegiate Base Ball Association championship. Winslow both pitched and played outfield. During the summer of 1884, he pitched briefly for the Barnstable town team in what is now the Cape Cod Baseball League. Winslow's childhood friend and Harvard classmate Ernest Thayer often mentioned Sam when talking about his inspiration for "Casey at the Bat", which Thayer authored in 1888 as a contributor to the San Francisco Examiner.

Winslow was appointed as a colonel on the staff of Governor John Q. A. Brackett in 1890. He was chairman of the Republican city committee of Worcester from 1890 to 1892, and became chairman of the Republican State committee in 1893. He was delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1908. He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress, and to the five succeeding Congresses.  Winslow's father Samuel, a manufacturer of skates, had served as mayor of Worcester from 1886 to 1889.

Winslow was the chairman in the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce during the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses. He was appointed by Calvin Coolidge in 1926 as a member of the United States Board of Mediation, for the disposition of disputes between carriers and their employees. He was chosen chairman, and served until 1934.

References

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1862 births
1940 deaths
The Harvard Lampoon alumni
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
Harvard Crimson baseball players
Cape Cod Baseball League players (pre-modern era)
Hyannis Harbor Hawks players
Massachusetts Republican Party chairs
Gilles Guillain

Gilles Guillain (born 11 May 1982) is a Colombian-born French actor.

His breakthrough role was in the film, Brief Crossing in 2001.

Filmography

External links
 
 Official site

French male film actors
1982 births
Living people
Calvin Paige

Calvin DeWitt Paige (May 20, 1848 – April 24, 1930) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.

He was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts. He was president of the Central Cotton Mills Company, the Southbridge Savings Bank and the Edwards Company.

Political career
He served as a member of the state house of representatives in 1878 and 1879, he was delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884, and a member of the Governor's council in 1906 and 1907.

He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress by special election, after the death of representative William H. Wilder, and reelected to the five succeeding Congresses from 1913 to 1925.

After leaving congress, he withdrew from public life, and engaged in banking in Southbridge.

See also
 1878 Massachusetts legislature

External links
 

1848 births
1930 deaths
Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
People from Southbridge, Massachusetts
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
Filmfare Award for Best Scene of the Year

The Filmfare Best Scene of the Year Award is decided by Sony Executives who nominate five scenes of the most popular movies of the year and telecast them on their channel two weeks prior to the event.

The winner is revealed only at the ceremony.

Here is the list of the award winners.

See also
 Filmfare Award
 Bollywood
 Cinema of India

Scene
Willfred W. Lufkin

Willfred Weymouth Lufkin (March 10, 1879 – March 28, 1934) was a United States representative from Massachusetts.

Biography
He was born in Essex on March 10, 1879. He attended public schools. After completing school, Lufkin was a newspaper correspondent and a private secretary to Congressman Augustus P. Gardner. He was a member and chairman of the Essex School Board and a member of the 1917 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917–1919.

Lufkin married Georgia Story, daughter of Arthur and Margie Story.

1917 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention
In 1916 the Massachusetts legislature and electorate approved a calling of a Constitutional Convention. In  May 1917, Lufkin was elected to serve as a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1917, representing Massachusetts' 6th Congressional District.

Election to Congress
Lufkin was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Congressman Augustus P. Gardner.

Lufkin was reelected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses and served from November 6, 1917 to June 30, 1921. He resigned to become Collector of Customs for the Port of Boston on July 1, 1921 and served until his retirement in 1933. He was again elected a member of the Essex School Board and served as Town Moderator of the town meeting in 1925.

Lufkin died in Essex on March 28, 1934. His interment was in Essex Cemetery.

References

Bibliography
Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts  (1919).
Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts p. 324 (1922).

External links

1879 births
1934 deaths
Members of the 1917 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
Collectors of the Port of Boston
School board members in Massachusetts
Connecticut Route 68

Route 68 is an east–west state highway in the U.S. state of Connecticut connecting the towns of Durham and Naugatuck.

Route description
Route 68 begins at Route 63 in Naugatuck.  After crossing the Naugatuck River, it overpasses the Route 8 expressway, with access via Union Street (SR 723) and North Main Street (SR 710).  Route 68 then leaves the Naugatuck River Valley and ascends to Prospect, where it intersects Route 69 in the center of town.  It then descends once again into Cheshire, where it joins Route 70 for a 3.1 mile concurrency.  In the center of Cheshire, the concurrency becomes a 0.15 mile triplex with Route 10.  After the Route 70 concurrency ends, Route 68 becomes a 4 lane road as it enters Wallingford.  The road narrows to 2 lanes as it passes through Yalesville where it intersects Route 150.  After passing under the Wilbur Cross Parkway (Route 15) without an interchange, it meets US 5 at a one-quadrant interchange.  Route 68 becomes a 4-lane undivided, partially access controlled road for the next 2.3 miles to its junction with I-91 at Exit 15.  After overpassing I-91 and passing a couple of business parks, Route 68 becomes a 2 lane road once again.  It then enters Durham, where it passes the southern end of Route 157 before ending at Route 17 in the center of town.

History
The road connecting Naugatuck and Cheshire was designated in 1922 as State Highway 325. In the 1932 state highway renumbering, former Highway 325 was renumbered to
Route 68. The route was later extended east to Middlefield in 1966 along former SR 607 (Wallingford to Middlefield) and SR 730 (Cheshire to Wallingford) via an overlap with Route 70. In 1973 and 1974, parts of Route 68 were rerouted in Wallingford.

Junction list

References

External links

068
Transportation in New Haven County, Connecticut
Transportation in Middlesex County, Connecticut
Zita Görög

Zita Görög (; born 27 September 1979) is a Hungarian actress and model, often credited as Zita Gorog.

Life and career
Görög was born in Nagybátony, Hungary. She specialized in drama at the Bródy Imre Grammar School in Budapest. She started modeling when she was 18; first job was an agnès b. fashion show in Paris with fellow model Laetitia Casta.  She has since participated in campaigns for Mont Blanc, Benetton, Vodafone, Nivea, Coppertone and Nissan. She has also been featured in magazines such as Playboy, Maxima, and several others.

Görög was the host of the weekly TV-shows Cinematrix and Megasztár (Pop-Idol), the most viewed Hungarian talent show.  Her film roles include parts in Den Of Lions, Café In The Sky, and several Hungarian movies. She is perhaps best known outside of Hungary for her brief appearances as the vampire elder Amelia in the films Underworld, Underworld: Evolution and Underworld: Blood Wars.

In a reported article it is known that Zita Görög divorced from her husband Attila Seres and it was known that he was gone for months citing the end of their relationship. However, in a news article on 9 July 2012 it was discovered that Zita Görög is in a 'nascent' relationship with a man named Imre Rakonczai who is a former band member of the teen pop band called V.I.P.

In 2015, a Hungarian magazine group called HOT! Magazin posted on their Facebook page that Zita Görög has wed a man named Tamás Koltai. Reports stated that she was proposed repeatedly, before she said "yes". The former Idol co-host and former press officer of TV2's name came to light in June. It was also reported that they have been together for some time, and were looking to settle down for a long healthy relationship not as a 'dating' couple, but as a married couple. What transpired between now and then, between the two; of the wedding-details and such is kept privately between the newlywed couple.

Selected filmography

References

External links

1979 births
Living people
Hungarian film actresses
Hungarian female models
People from Nógrád County
Zigongosaurus

Zigongosaurus (meaning "Zigong lizard") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic-Late Jurassic-age Shaximiao Formation of Zigong, Sichuan, China. Because of incomplete knowledge of Jurassic Chinese sauropods, it has been hard to interpret, with some sources assigning it to Omeisaurus, some to Mamenchisaurus, and some to its own genus.

History and taxonomy
The genus was based on CV 02501, a specimen including a partial mandible, maxilla, and basioccipital (a bone from the braincase region). Additional bones from all areas of the skeleton, belonging to multiple individuals, were also described and assigned to the new genus. The authors thought it resembled Omeisaurus, but was distinct based on vertebral details. Early accounts in the popular press suggested it was a brachiosaurid.

Chinese sauropod taxonomy became increasingly convoluted in the 1980s.  In 1983, Dong, Zhou, and Zhang named a species Omeisaurus fuxiensis, which they based on different material than Zigongosaurus fuxiensis, but then suggested that the two were the same animal. Following this, the genus was thought to belong to Omeisaurus, possibly as a synonym of O. junghsiensis. In the mid-1990s, opinion shifted, and the genus was instead assigned, by Zhang and Chen, to Mamenchisaurus. They noted that it came from a stratigraphic level between the usual Omeisaurus and Mamenchisaurus beds in age, but more closely resembled Mamenchisaurus.  In particular, the neural spines of the vertebrae (the part of the vertebra that sticks up, over the passage for the spinal cord) in both genera have distinctive weak bifurcation, or splitting, that is not found in Omeisaurus.  The authors renamed it Mamenchisaurus fuxiensis. This assignment was followed provisionally in the most recent major review of sauropods, but at least one author (Valérie Martin-Rolland) has found it to be a distinct genus.

Paleobiology
Whichever genus it turns out to be, as a mamenchisaur- or omeisaur-like sauropod it would have been a large, quadrupedal herbivore with a long neck. It is regarded as a medium- to large-sized sauropod, with a length of around 15 meters (50 feet).

References

Mamenchisaurids
Jurassic dinosaurs of Asia
Fossil taxa described in 1976
Portal Runner

Portal Runner is a platform video game developed and published by The 3DO Company for PlayStation 2 and Game Boy Color.

Overview
Portal Runner is a spin-off in the Army Men video game series, focusing on a conflict between characters Vikki Grimm and Brigitte Bleu.

Plot summary
In the video game Portal Runner, Vikki Grimm embarks on an adventure after receiving a mysterious package. Her quest takes her through various toy worlds, including a prehistoric jungle and a medieval castle. Along the way, she befriends a lion named Leo and rescues a wizard, Merlin. The villain, Brigitte Bleu, manipulates Vikki's boyfriend, Sarge, and plans to marry him using a love gun acquired from Martians in a Space World. Vikki and Leo thwart the wedding, stop an inter-dimensional attack, and return home. Brigitte ends up imprisoned, sharing a cell with General Plastro.

Reception and controversy

The PlayStation 2 version received "mixed" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.  The Game Boy Color version gave an earliest review from Nintendo Power, which gave it a score of two-and-a-half stars out of five, just nearly five months before the game was released.

The PS2 version gained notoriety when it was panned by GamePro, with a rating of 2.3 out of 5. GamePro was the first to review the game, saying that it "looks like a late-generation PlayStation title rather than a second-generation PS2 effort". Trip Hawkins, then-president of 3DO and publisher of Portal Runner, sent an angry email to John Rousseau, who was president of GamePro. The email was published on the internet in its entirety. In the email, Hawkins told Rousseau that his customers were the advertisers, not the readers, and implied that the reviews should be written to keep the advertisers happy. Hawkins wrote: "...there is something wrong with (the reviewer), not with Portal Runner. If you disagree with me, you do so at your own peril.... I should mention in passing that 3DO has been one of your largest advertisers. Effective immediately, we are going to have to cut that back".

References

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2001 video games
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Platformers
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Video games developed in the United States
Video games featuring female protagonists
Video game spin-offs
Robert S. Maloney

Robert Sarsfield Maloney (February 3, 1881 – November 8, 1934) was a United States representative from Massachusetts.

Early life and education
Maloney was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He attended public schools and learned the printer's trade.

Trade Union activities
Maloney was a fraternal delegate of the American Federation of Labor to the 1907 Canadian Trades and Labor Congress in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was New England organizer for the International Typographical Union 1908–1912.

Lawrence Board of Aldermen
He was elected a member of the Lawrence, Massachusetts Board of Aldermen in 1909 and he served as the Board's president.

City commissioner for Public health

In the November 7, 1911 city election the voters enacted a new city charter that enacted a City Commission form of government in Lawrence. The new charter  took effect on January 1, 1912. Maloney was member of the city commission  in 1912, and from 1916 to 1920 and served as president. Maloney was elected to the city commission to serve as the director of the Department of Public Health and Charities, Maoney served in this capacity  in 1912 and 1915–1920.

Congressional service
Maloney was elected as a Republican to the  Sixty-seventh Congress from (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1923), but was not a candidate for renomination. As of 2023, he was the last Republican to represent the 7th congressional district. He again served as director of the Department of Public Health and Charities, from 1924 until 1928, published a weekly newspaper and, later, engaged in the restaurant business until his death.

Death and Burial
Maloney died in Lawrence on November 8, 1934. His interment was in Immaculate Conception Cemetery.

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Massachusetts city council members
Politicians from Lawrence, Massachusetts
Catholics from Massachusetts
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
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Ugly Duckling Presse

Ugly Duckling Presse is an American nonprofit art and publishing collective based in Brooklyn, New York City founded in 1993 by Matvei Yankelevich as a college zine. It publishes poetry, translations, lost works, and artist's books.  A micro press, the company uses subscriptions, and gathered its early audience with guerrilla marketing techniques.

History
Ugly Duckling Presse is an American nonprofit art and publishing collective located in Brooklyn, New York City, founded in 1993 by Matvei Yankelevich as a college zine 
In 1995, it expanded to publishing other works and in 2000 it took shape as a collective.
A micro press, the company uses distribution methods not traditionally seen in publishing, such as subscriptions, and gathered its early audience with guerrilla marketing techniques.

Publications
Ugly Duckling Presse (UDP) focuses on new, international, and "forgotten" writers and specializes in projects which may be difficult to produce at other presses. Formats produced include full-length books, chapbooks, and broadsides. These formats, along with UDP's magazine and newspaper, all contain handmade elements. The Presse states that these, "call attention to the labor and history of bookmaking".

Past publications include Nets by Jen Bervin, erasure poetry of Shakespeare's sonnets, Poker by Tomaž Šalamun (which was a finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation) and works by New York-based writers Steve Dalachinsky and Lewis Warsh.  The Presse also publishes a regular series of translations of Eastern European poetry.  Publications include works by Czech poet Ivan Blatný and Russian conceptualists Dmitri Prigov and Lev Rubinstein. In 2020, UDP published their Pamphlet Series, which Cleveland Review of Books called it "rigorously ephemeral, resolutely partial."

As of 2007, Ugly Duckling Presse also created "paperless" works in collaboration with various visual and performance artists. These may be performed, or produced through media such as digital video, CD, or tree bark.

Premises and personnel
The Presse maintains a workshop and letterpress studio in the Gowanus neighborhood in the industrial complex of The Old American Can Factory on the Fourth Street Basin of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. Its current editors, as of 2023, are Yelena Gluzman, Chuck Kuan, Anna Moschovakis, Michael Newton, Daniel Owen, Kyra Simone, Rebekah Smith, Lee Norton, and Silvina López Medin.

Past editors are Matvei Yankelevich, Katherine Bogden, Abraham Adams, Emmalea Russo, David Jou, Phil Cordelli, G. L. Ford, Ellie Ga, Ryan Haley, James Hoff, Marisol Limon Martinez, Filip Marinovich, Julien Poirier, Linda Trimbath, and Genya Turovskaya.

See also
 Futurepoem Books

References

External links
Ugly Duckling Presse
Ugly Duckling Presse in The New York Times
Interview with Ugly Duckling Presse
Ugly Duckling Presse in The Brooklyn Rail

Book publishing companies based in New York City
Publishing collectives 
Publishing companies established in 1993 
Poetry organizations 
Literary editors
1993 establishments in New York City
Zephyrosaurus

Zephyrosaurus (meaning "westward wind lizard") is a genus of orodromine ornithischian dinosaur. It is based on a partial skull and postcranial fragments discovered in the Aptian-Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Formation of Carbon County, Montana, USA.  New remains are under description, and tracks from Maryland and Virginia, also in the US, have been attributed to animals similar to Zephyrosaurus. It lived approximately 113 mya.

Discovery and history

Hans-Dieter Sues named his new genus in recognition of the fossil being found in western North America, and Charles R. Schaff, who found the specimen. MCZ 4392, the type specimen, is composed of jaw fragments, the braincase and associated bones, several partial vertebrae, and rib fragments. He found the new genus to represent a previously unknown lineage of hypsilophodont (a taxon now considered not natural), similar in some respects to Hypsilophodon.

Because of the fragmentary nature of the type, and lack of additional remains, Zephyrosaurus had not attracted much attention until recently, when two separate events brought it more recognition.  First, Martha Kutter, in a 2003 abstract, reported on new remains of this genus under study at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, including the remains of at least seven individuals with bones from all regions of the body.

Then, Stanford et al. (2004) published on dinosaur tracks from the Patuxent Formation of Maryland and Virginia, which they named Hypsiloichnus marylandicus and attributed to an animal akin to Zephyrosaurus based on the proportions of the hands and feet.

Description

Zephyrosaurus is still very incompletely known. Among other distinctive characteristics, it had a steep face, a raised knob on the upper jaw, and a larger knob on the cheekbone.  Some of the bones may have allowed movement within the skull (cranial kinesis) as well. Like other orodromines, it had beak teeth.

Classification
Several studies have suggested that Zephyrosaurus and Orodromeus are closely related, mostly by virtue of both having bosses on their cheeks. Other studies have had difficulty classifying it, due to the sparseness of the original material. Oryctodromeus also shares several characteristics with Zephyrosaurus and Orodromeus, some of which may be related to burrowing. Phylogenetic analysis in the 2010s has classified Zephyrosaurus  as part of the Thescelosauridae family.

Paleobiology
Zephyrosaurus would have been a small, swift, bipedal herbivore. Like Orodromeus and Oryctodromeus, it may have burrowed as well.

References

External links

Press release for Hypsiloichnus marylandicus.
Dinosaur Mailing List discussion on what would become Hypsiloichnus marylandicus.
Photograph of a Hypsiloichnus marylandicus footprint, from The Paleontology Portal.
Zephyrosaurus  in The Natural History Museum's Dino Directory.

Neornithischians
Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America
Fossil taxa described in 1980
Taxa named by Hans-Dieter Sues
Cloverly fauna
Paleontology in Montana
Ornithischian genera
Wakinosaurus

Wakinosaurus (meaning "Wakino lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian-Barremian) Sengoku Formation of Kyushu, Japan. The genus is a tooth taxon, based solely on the middle section of a single tooth.

Discovery and naming
In 1990 the ice hockey player Masahiro Sato in Fukuoka found the tooth of a theropod. The same year Yoshihiko Okazaki first reported on the find. In 1992 Okazaki named the type species, Wakinosaurus satoi. The generic name refers to the Wakino Subgroup of the Kwanmon Group, of which the Sengoku Formation is a member. The specific name honours Sato.

Description
The holotype is KMNH VP 000,016, a single damaged tooth, the crown of which must have been about seven centimetres long. Its base length is , its base width . It has about thirty serrations per five millimetres.

Wakinosaurus was initially described as a megalosaurid but is today considered a nomen dubium and an indeterminate neotheropod. The holotype tooth is similar to a leaf with fine cutting serrations on both edges and according to Okazaki, it is similar to those of "Prodeinodon" kwangshiensis, which is also a dubious tooth taxon. In 2020, it was suggested that Wakinosaurus may represent a basal carcharodontosaurid theropod similar to Acrocanthosaurus.

References

Prehistoric neotheropods
Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia
Fossils of Japan
Fossil taxa described in 1992
Nomina dubia
Walgettosuchus

Walgettosuchus (meaning "Walgett crocodile") is a dubious or possibly invalid genus of extinct tetanuran theropod dinosaur that lived in Australia during the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian). It is known from a single caudal vertebra.

Discovery and naming
 
An opalised vertebra of a theropod dinosaur was discovered in 1905 by Tullie Cornthwaite Wollaston (May 17, 1863-July 17, 1931) in an opal bearing sandstone at Lightning Ridge near Walgett, in New South Wales. The fossil was sent to the British Museum of Natural History and was reported in January 1909 by Arthur Smith Woodward. Following this, the specimen was briefly described by Woodward in 1910.

In 1932 the type species Walgettosuchus woodwardi was named by Friedrich von Huene, based on this vertebra. The generic name is derived from the town of Walgett and Soukhos, the Greek name of the Egyptian crocodile god Sobek. During the 1930s Von Huene tended to form dinosaur names with the ending ~suchus instead of ~saurus because of the closer relationship to crocodiles than to lizards. The specific name honours Woodward.

The holotype, BMNH R3717, was found in the Cenomanian-age Late Cretaceous Griman Creek Formation. It consists of a  long incomplete amphicoelous caudal vertebral centrum. For unknown reasons, Von Huene believed it had elongate prezygapophyses. He also suggested that if more material was known, it could prove to be synonymous with other Lightning Ridge "coelurosaurs" (i.e. Rapator; coelurosaur in the outdated sense of any small theropod).

Classification
Von Huene assigned Walgettosuchus to the Coelurosauria in 1932. In his 1990 review, Ralph Molnar noted that the type cannot be distinguished from tail vertebrae from ornithomimids or megaraptorids, and considered it to be an indeterminate theropod and a nomen dubium or (more likely) an invalid taxon.

Possible synonymy with Rapator
It is possible that Walgettosuchus and Rapator represent the same dinosaur, but this synonymy is impossible to prove as there is no known common fossil material between the two genera (Rapator is only known from a hand bone while Walgettosuchus is known from a vertebra).

References

Prehistoric tetanurans
Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Australia
Paleontology in New South Wales
Fossil taxa described in 1932
Taxa named by Friedrich von Huene
Invalid dinosaurs
Rapator

Rapator is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Griman Creek Formation of New South Wales, Australia, dating to the Albian-Cenomanian ages of the Cretaceous period, 105-96 million years ago. It contains only the type species, Rapator ornitholestoides, which was originally named by Friedrich von Huene in 1932.

Discovery

The holotype and only known specimen, BMNH R3718, consists of a single left hand bone, discovered around 1905 near Wollaston, on Lightning Ridge. The fossil has been opalised. The meaning of the generic name is problematic. Von Huene gave no etymology. "Rapator" does not exist in Classical Latin and occurs only very rarely in Mediaeval Latin with the meaning "violator". One possible explanation is that von Huene, having been influenced by Latin raptare, "to plunder", mistakenly thought such a word actually existed with the meaning of "plunderer". It has also been considered a simple misspelling of, or confusion with, raptor, "seizer" or "thief". The specific name means "resembling Ornitholestes". Remains of a megaraptorid, nicknamed "Lightning Claw," were discovered in opal fields southwest of Lightning Ridge, Australia, may well represent more material of Rapator.

Description
 
The bone has a length of seven centimetres. This manual element shows a prominent dorsomedial process, a feature shared with the much smaller Ornitholestes which occasioned the specific name. The process with Ornitholestes is much less distinctive though. On its upper end there is only one cotyle, from which von Huene deduced it must have been a metacarpal. However, several coelurosaurian groups lack a second cotyle on the first phalanx also. If Rapator had a build like Australovenator, it would have attained a considerable size: a body length of nine metres (30 ft) has been estimated.

Classification

The type specimen of Rapator was originally described as a metacarpal I, a bone from the upper part of a theropod's hand. It was later noted that the bone is similar to a finger bone, the first phalanx of the first finger, of an alvarezsaur or of a primitive coelurosaurian similar to Nqwebasaurus. With the discovery of Australovenator, which had a similar metacarpal, Rapator was recognized as a probable megaraptoran. In fact, Australovenator and Rapator differ only in some small details of the bone and may be synonyms, though Agnolin and colleagues in 2010 considered Rapator a dubious genus (nomen dubium) due to its fragmentary nature. However, White et al. found differences between the hand bone of Rapator and the equivalent bone of Australovenator, supporting the distinction between the two. They also noted that the two genera come from formations separated chronologically by at least 10 million years, making them unlikely to be synonymous.

Rapator has been synonymised with Walgettosuchus, a theropod found in the same formation. As the latter is only known from a caudal vertebra, the identity cannot be proven.

References

External links
 Rapator in The Theropod Database
 Rapator

Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Australia
Megaraptorans
Fossil taxa described in 1932
Taxa named by Friedrich von Huene
Paleontology in New South Wales
Charles L. Underhill

Charles Lee Underhill (July 20, 1867 – January 28, 1946) was a United States representative and anti-suffrage activist from Massachusetts. He was born in Richmond, Virginia on July 20, 1867. He moved to Massachusetts in 1872 with his parents, who settled in Somerville.  He attended the common schools, was office boy, coal teamster, and a blacksmith. He subsequently engaged in the manufacture and sale of hardware in that city.

Underhill served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1902-1903 and 1908-1913), and was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1917 and 1918. 

Underhill was opposed to women voting. He was a state delegate of the Men's Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage to Washington DC in 1913.

He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1933).  He was chairman  of Committee on Claims (Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses) and the Committee on Accounts (Seventy-first Congress).  He was not a candidate for renomination to the Seventy-third Congress.  He then engaged in real estate development in Washington, D.C. from 1933 until he retired in 1941.  Underhill died in New York City on January 28, 1946.  His interment was in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

See also
 1918 Massachusetts legislature
 1919 Massachusetts legislature

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1867 births
1946 deaths
Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Members of the 1917 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention
Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts