Kaszaper

Kaszaper is a village in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary.

Geography
It covers an area of 33.28 km² and has a population of 1933 people (2015).

References

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Báthory Castle

Báthory Castle or Báthory Citadel, also known as Șimleu Silvaniei Fort, is a historic fort in Romania, in the modern-day city of Șimleu Silvaniei. Since the 1590s, the castle was the main residence of the Hungarian Báthory family during the era of the Principality of Transylvania.

External links
 Şimleu Silvaniei, Báthory fortress

Gallery

References

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Moses Dresser Phillips

Moses Dresser Phillips (May 15, 1813 - August 20, 1859) was an American publisher of books and magazines

, best known for creating the Atlantic Monthly.

Phillips was born in Charlton, Massachusetts. At age 18 he moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, where he served as a bookstore clerk in the shop of Clarendon Harris.
In 1835 he established his own bookstore in partnership with William Lincoln, and around 1843, in partnership with Charles Sampson, he founded the Boston publishing house of Phillips & Sampson (later Phillips, Sampson & Company). Phillips told an anecdote, recounted by Hale, of their first orders from San Francisco during the Gold Rush year of 1849: "So many hundred packs of 'Highland' cards, so many of the 'True Thomas' cards, and so on till the box was nearly full, and then 'one dozen Bibles.'" This was seed corn, as he said. By 1852 or 1853, the orders were for "Four hundred Byron's Poems, four hundred Scott's Poems, one hundred Cowper's Poems" and so on in large shipments.

In the autumn of 1857, Phillips and Sampson determined to create and publish the Atlantic Monthly. Their plan was launched in a dinner-party, as described in a letter by Phillips:

"I must tell you about a little dinner-pary I gave about two weeks ago. It would be proper, perhaps, to state the origin of it was a desire to confer with my literary friends on a somewhat extensive literary project, the particulars of which I shall reserve till you come. But to the Party: My invitations included only R. W. Emerson, H. W. Longfellow, J. R. Lowell, Mr. Motley (the 'Dutch Republic' man), O. W. Holmes, Mr. Cabot, and Mr. Underwood, our literary man. Imagine your uncle as the head of such a table, with such guests. The above named were the only ones invited, and they were all present. We sat down at three P.M., and rose at eight. The time occupied was longer by about hour hours and thirty minutes than I am in the habit of consuming in that kind of occupation, but it was the richest time intellectually by all odds that I have ever had. Leaving myself and 'literary man' out of the group, I think you will agree with me that it would be difficult to duplicate that number of such conceded scholarship in the whole country besides.... Each one is known alike on both sides of the Atlantic, and is read beyond the limits of the English language."

At that dinner he announced his idea for a magazine:

"Mr. Cabot is much wiser than I am. Dr. Holmes can write funnier verses than I can. Mr. Motley can write history better than I. Mr. Emerson is a philosopher and I am not. Mr. Lowell knows more of the old poets than I. But none of you knows the American people as well as I do."

The Atlantic's first issue was published in November 1857, and quickly gained fame as one of the finest magazines in the English-speaking world.

Phillips died at age 46 in his house in Brookline, Massachusetts and is buried in Worcester Rural Cemetery in Worcester, Massachusetts.

References

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ČSD Class E 669.2

The ČSD E 669.2 is a class of electric locomotives designed, built and used in the former Czechoslovakia for heavy freight trains. The class is a development of the E 669.1 class.

Surviving members of the class are now used in the Czech Republic (ČD Class 182) by ČD Cargo and ODOS, in Slovakia by private operator Lokorail and in Poland by various private operators including CTL Logistics and PTK Holding).

History
As the class is a slight modification of Class E669.1, no prototype was built. The locomotives were built in the years 1963–65 in three types: 59E1, 59E2 and 59E3. 168 locomotives were built in those series.

Currently the whole class is being systematically withdrawn in the Czech Republic, where the last survivors are based in Ostrava. In Slovakia the whole series was withdrawn on 31 March 2006. Since 2005, withdrawn locomotives have usually been rented or sold to various Polish private operators.

Nicknames
Šestikolak (English The Sixwheeler) in the Czech Republic - from the number of wheels
Rakaňa in Slovakia

See also
List of ČD Classes

References

External links
 Website for E 669 locos (Czech)
 Website for E 669.0 (Czech)

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Sakasegawa Station

is a railway station in Takarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, on the Hankyu Imazu Line operated by the Hankyu Railway. Trains connect from this station to Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi Station or Takarazuka Station every 10 minutes.

Layout
2 side platforms serving a track each

Adjacent stations

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1874 Philadelphia White Stockings season

The Philadelphia White Stockings played in 1874 as a  member of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. They finished fourth in the league with a record of 29-29.

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

Player stats

Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

Starting pitchers

Relief pitchers

References
1874 Philadelphia Whites season at Baseball Reference

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James Tahhan

James Tahhan (born October 26, 1988) is a Venezuelan chef, television personality, restaurateur, and author who uses the stage name of Chef James. He is best recognized for being the official chef of Telemundo, and being a co-presenter of its morning show Un Nuevo Dia. In 2014, together with his friend, television personality Raúl González, Chef James opened his first restaurant, Sabores - by Chef James . It has subsequently been named one of the best restaurants in Miami. In 2016, Chef James released a cookbook, The Homemade Chef: Ordinary Ingredients for Extraordinary Food.

Early life and education
James Tahhan was born in Los Teques, Venezuela, the son of Bachir Wahbi Tahhan, of Syrian-Armenian descent, and Mimi Masri, of Syrian-Venezuelan descent. He was later joined by one brother, Wahbi Tahhan. During his formative years, James learned home cooking from his parents. During this period, James was also influenced by David Abal, a neighbor and professional chef from Galician descent, who taught James the basics of at-home cooking.

At the age of 13, James emigrated to the United States with his mother, ultimately settling in Miami, Florida. James began to work in order to help his mother pay the household bills.

James suffered from childhood obesity, yet this did not impede him from pursuing sports. James particularly excelled in martial arts, where he was twice ranked number one in his division, and won the US Open Martial Arts Championship.

At the age of 16, Tahhan decided to go to college and study chemistry in order to become a dentist. At the same time, he started working on radio, as a spokesperson for different brands and products, where his advertisements played on radio stations including WAMR-FM, WAQI, and WMGE.

After two years, Tahhan attended Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Miami, where he specialized in international cuisine and pastries. While attending school, he also started his own catering business, called Avokado.

Television career

Early career
His first job after graduating from Le Cordon Bleu was as a line-cook at “Arabian Nights”, a Mediterranean restaurant in Miami.

After almost six years working with different brands and products on radio, Tahhan auditioned for a position in Telemundo. He responded to an open-call audition for Telemundo’s morning show Levantate (now known as Un Nuevo Día). He was named the official chef co-host of the show and the network.

Telemundo
Currently, Tahhan is a co-host of the morning show, Un Nuevo Día, which has earned him two Emmy Awards.

Tahhan has crossed-over to the English market. During an initiative named "Healthy Week" by the network NBC Universal, he spoke to American viewers, promoting healthy meals that could be made at home.

During Hispanic Heritage Month, Tahhan was chosen to participate in segments of the Today Show, where he shared his thoughts on Latin American dishes.

Utilísima
In March 2012, James was selected by Utilísima to be one of their newest faces on their hit T.V. show, “Puro Chef”. He has subsequently participated on the 4th and 5th season of the show, and has conducted the special Thanksgiving edition.

Author
In 2016, Tahhan released a cookbook, The Homemade Chef: Ordinary Ingredients for Extraordinary Food. The cookbook become a best-seller both regionally and internationally on Amazon.com.
Tahhan is also a food columnist and has written for "Venue Magazine", where he gives readers recipes, cooking advice, and his thoughts on healthy living.

Restaurateur

In 2014, Tahhan opened his first restaurant, Sabores, together with his friend and television personality, Raúl González. "People think it's rice and beans and shredded meat, and really it's this hidden treasure that nobody has pushed. We wanted to change that," he said. He first traveled to Latin America to better understand Latin American cuisine.

Public image

Tahhan has been named one of the leading Latin chefs in the U.S, and "Miami's Hottest Chef". Once source commented, “Not many chefs have their own restaurant, host an Emmy-award winning television morning show…but James Tahhan isn’t like many chefs.” In 2013 and 2014, Chef James was recognized by Latin Gourmet as the Chef of the Year.

Tahhan has been awarded the “Social Media Chef” of the year. He was selected for the “50 Most Beautiful People” edition of People en Español magazine.

Telemundo suspended Tahhan and Janice Bencosme indefinitely after the two made an offensive "slant eyes" gesture on-camera while celebrating South Korea being knocked out of the 2018 World Cup to allow Mexico to advance.

References

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Remora

The remoras ,  sometimes called suckerfish, are a family (Echeneidae) of ray-finned fish in the order Carangiformes. Depending on species, they grow to  long. Their distinctive first dorsal fins take the form of a modified oval, sucker-like organ with slat-like structures that open and close to create suction and take a firm hold against the skin of larger marine animals. The disk is made up of stout, flexible membranes that can be raised and lowered to generate suction. By sliding backward, the remora can increase the suction, or it can release itself by swimming forward. Remoras sometimes attach to small boats, and have been observed attaching to divers as well. They swim well on their own, with a sinuous, or curved, motion.

Characteristics
Remora front dorsal fins have evolved to enable them to adhere by suction to smooth surfaces and they spend their lives clinging to a host animal such as a whale, turtle, shark or ray. It is probably a mutualistic arrangement as the remora can move around on the host, removing ectoparasites and loose flakes of skin, while benefiting from the protection provided by the host and the constant flow of water across its gills.  Although it was initially believed that remoras fed off particulate matter from the host's meals, this has been shown to be false; in reality, their diets are composed primarily of host feces.

Habitat

Remoras are tropical open-ocean dwellers, but are occasionally found in temperate or coastal waters if they have attached to large fish that have wandered into these areas. In the mid-Atlantic Ocean, spawning usually takes place in June and July; in the Mediterranean Sea, it occurs in August and September. The sucking disc begins to show when the young fish are about  long. When the remora reaches about , the disc is fully formed and the remora can then attach to other animals. The remora's lower jaw projects beyond the upper, and the animal lacks a swim bladder.

Some remoras associate with specific host species. They are commonly found attached to sharks, manta rays, whales, turtles, and dugongs, hence the common names "sharksucker" and "whalesucker".  Smaller remoras also fasten onto fish such as tuna and swordfish, and some small remoras travel in the mouths or gills of large manta rays, ocean sunfish, swordfish and sailfish.

The relationship between a remora and its host is most often taken to be one of commensalism, specifically phoresy.

Physiology
Research into the physiology of the remora has been of significant benefit to the understanding of ventilation costs in fish.

Remoras, like many other fishes, have  two different modes of ventilation. Ram ventilation is the process in which at higher speeds, the remora uses the force of the water moving past it to create movement of fluid in the gills. Alternatively, at lower speeds the remora will use a form of active ventilation, in which the fish actively moves fluid through its gills. In order to use active ventilation, a fish must actively use energy to move the fluid; however, determining this energy cost is normally complicated due to the movement of the fish when using either method.  As a result, the remora has proved invaluable in finding this cost difference (since they will stick to a shark or tube, and hence remain stationary despite the movement or lack thereof of water). Experimental data from studies on remora found that the associated cost for active ventilation created a 3.7–5.1% increased energy consumption in order to maintain the same quantity of fluid flow the fish obtained by using ram ventilation.

Other research into the remora's physiology came about as a result of studies across multiple taxa, or using the remora as an out-group for certain evolutionary studies. Concerning the latter case, remoras were used as an outgroup when investigating tetrodotoxin resistance in remoras, pufferfish, and related species, finding remoras (specifically Echeneis naucrates) had a resistance of 6.1–5.5 M.

Use for fishing
Some cultures use remoras to catch turtles. A cord or rope is fastened to the remora's tail, and when a turtle is sighted, the fish is released from the boat; it usually heads directly for the turtle and fastens itself to the turtle's shell, and then both remora and turtle are hauled in. Smaller turtles can be pulled completely into the boat by this method, while larger ones are hauled within harpooning range. This practice has been reported throughout the Indian Ocean, especially from eastern Africa near Zanzibar and Mozambique, and from northern Australia near Cape York and Torres Strait.

Similar reports come from Japan and from the Americas. Some of the first records of the "fishing fish" in the Western literature come from the accounts of the second voyage of Christopher Columbus. However, Leo Wiener considers the Columbus accounts to be apocryphal: what was taken for accounts of the Americas may have been, in fact, notes Columbus derived from accounts of the East Indies, his desired destination.

Mythology

In ancient times, the remora was believed to stop a ship from sailing. In Latin, remora means "delay", while the genus name Echeneis comes from Greek εχειν, echein ("to hold") and ναυς, naus ("a ship"). In a notable account by Pliny the Elder, the remora is blamed for the defeat of Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium and, indirectly, for the death of Caligula. A modern version of the story is given by Jorge Luis Borges in Book of Imaginary Beings (1957).

Gallery

Timeline

See also
 List of fish families

References

External links

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Bühl (Baden)

The city of Bühl is part of the district of Rastatt in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It has a history reaching back to the twelfth century and was formerly an agricultural town, especially famous for its plums. Bühl has a population of about 29,000, and is in the region between the Rhine Valley and the Black Forest.

Today it is mainly an industrial town, especially in the car manufacturing supply industry. Yet it still has preserved its character and is also renowned for its good restaurants.

Bühl is a town in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about  South of Baden-Baden. Bühl is the third largest town in Rastatt County (Landkreis), after Rastatt itself and Gaggenau. Due to its location, size and importance it has become a central place for numerous towns, townships and villages in the neighbourhood. Bühl was proclaimed a major district town (Große Kreisstadt) on 1 January 1973, after it lost its status as an independent county seat during municipal reforms in Baden-Württemberg. Bühl has agreed to form a joint administrative community with the municipality of Ottersweier.

History

Etymology
The word Bühl is derived from Old German "puhil" and Middle German "buhel", meaning "hill". The three yellow hills on blue ground seen on the coat of arms (already displayed in the court seal of Bühl in 1324) confirm this interpretation.
To distinguish Bühl from other towns named Bühl, not only in Germany, but other German-speaking countries like Switzerland and Austria, the town used the denominator Bühl (Baden) or Bühl/Baden, clearly identifying Bühl in the Margravate of Baden (Baden) and later in the Grand Duchy and the State of Baden. With the unification of Baden, Hohenzollern and Württemberg in 1952 forming the state of Baden-Württemberg and later the introduction of postal codes there was no need anymore for the denominator Baden. However, it is still used frequently.

Timeline

1148/49 Bühl is mentioned in a document for the first time "L. de buhel".
1200–1220 Windeck Castle was built.
1283 Oldest secured recording of the town's name Bühl. The esquire Burkhard of Crutenbach hands over his belongings „in banno Buhel“ to the abbey and convent of Schwarzach.
1324 Bühl is mentioned as a town with court-house, a mayor, twelve men at court, with a coat of arms - three yellow hills on blue ground.
1370/71 During a feud between the knight Reinhard of Windeck with the city of Strassburg the town of Bühl und the villages in the vicinity of Bühl were seriously affected.
1386 Margrave Rudolf VII. acquires the Northern part of Bühl.
1403 King Ruprecht of the Palatinate awarded knight Reinhard of Windeck with the right to hold a weekly market in the town of Bühl. From then on Bühl was known as market town or Flecken Bühl.
1514–1524 Construction of the oldest church in Bühl consecrated saints Peter and Paul (since 1880 city hall)
1582 Oldest record about the settlement of Jews in the town of Bühl.
1561 Windeck Castle is mentioned as a ruin. The knights of Windeck were living in a palace house in Bühl, nowadays the location of the hotel and restaurant Badischer Hof.
1592 With the death of the young aristocrat Jacob of Windeck the family of the knights of Windeck died out in their male line.
1622 During the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) troops from Croatia (Part of the Catholic Liga) conquered Bühl, killed numerous inhabitants, and burned the town to ashes.
1632–1634 and 1643 Troops from Sweden occupied Bühl.
1689 During the Nine Years' War (War of the Grand Alliance) the newly rebuilt town of Bühl was again destroyed completely by French troops.
1703–1707 During the War of the Spanish Succession Bühl became again a focal point of the war. At the so-called Bühl-Stollhofen defense line,  a  barricade, which was built and defended under the command of Margrave Louis William of Baden (Ludwig Wilhelm), a French army was held back successfully in 1703. The line was eventually conquered in 1707.
1776 With the purchase of the Southern part of Bühl, a fiefdom owned by the family of Waldersdorff at that time, through Margrave Karl Frederick of Baden (Karl Friedrich) all of Bühl was in the hands of the House of Baden.
1788 The county seat in Steinbach (previously called Yberg) is relocated from Steinbach to Bühl.
1813 The county of Bühl is converted to the district of Bühl.
1822/23 Construction of the synagoge, the new Jewish school.
1835 Grandduke Leopold of Baden awarded the Flecken Bühl the title Town with all corresponding rights.
In about 1840 a new species of plums was found in Kappelwindeck, which was more resistant and ripened faster than other plums. It was named Bühler Early Plums (Frühzwetschge), which soon found its way into markets all over Germany and Europe. It helped the town to overcome significant financial losses after the decline of the hemp industry, a major source of income in Bühl prior to the availability of cotton.
1846 Bühl is connected to the train line connecting Baden-Oos and Offenburg.
1848/1849 Civil Revolution. Major Josef Häfelin fled Bühl
1856 The first Protestant church was built.
1863 The County of Bühl became part of the District of Baden.
1873–1876 Construction of the new catholic church Sts. Peter and Paul after a design by Karl Dernfeld.
1879–1880 Reconstruction of the old parish church into the new city hall.
1902 Construction of the central water system.
In 1919 the Fruit Cooperative (OAG) was founded, the next year electric light was introduced.
1924 The county of Achern is resolved and its remains were integrated into the county of Bühl
1926–1934 Construction of the sour system.
In 1927, 6–8 August, Bühl celebrated its first annual "Zwetschgenfest" (plum festival), the following year the first movie theatre opened in Bühl
1933 The municipal council is replaced after the Nazi party NSDAP gained control over the country via new legislation called Gleichschaltung.
1934 Kappelwindeck became part of Bühl.
1938, 10 November. The synagogue in Bühl was destroyed. Jewish citizens of Bühl were harassed.
1939 The county of Bühl became the district of Bühl.
1945, 14 April, French troops marched into Bühl, in September 15, 1946 the first free municipal council was elected.
1971–1973: After integrating 9 neighboring villages into the town of Bühl the population reached the critical mark of 20,000 inhabitants. The government of Baden-Württemberg awarded Bühl the title "Große Kreisstadt" on 1 January 1973. The district county of Bühl was dissolved. Its area to the North was incorporated into the district of Rastatt, its Southern area incorporated into the district of Ortenau. The three towns of Steinbach, Neuweier and Varnhalt became a part of the county town of Baden-Baden.

Geography
Geographically, Bühl extends from as low as 123 to 1,038 meters (453 – 3,823 feet) above sea level in a three-step panoramic landscape, divided into the Rhine valley, an extended foothill zone, and the mountain range of the Black Forest, the latter with a panoramic view across the Rhine Valley into the neighbouring Alsace and to the Vosges in France. The lower flat part is mainly used for agriculture, the hilly zone is dominated by wine and fruit plantations, and the mountain forests are used for lumber. Bühl is located on both sides of the Büllot/Bühlot, a creek originating in the Northern Black Forest, which is renamed Sandbach after it has passed the town of Bühl on its way to the River Rhine.

Neighboring communities
The following towns and municipalities border the town of Bühl starting clockwise in the North. Baden-Baden (district town), Forbach, Lauf (Ortenau County), Ottersweier, Lichtenau, Rheinmünster and Sinzheim, all of them Rastatt County. The town of Bühlertal is completely surrounded by Bühl, forming an inclusion or enclave in the eastern part of the town of Bühl.

Municipal division
The area of the town of Bühl is divided into downtown Bühl and the suburbs of Altschweier, Balzhofen, Eisental, Kappelwindeck, Moos, Neusatz, Oberbruch, Oberweier, Vimbuch and Weitenung.
Except for Kappelwindeck, the aforementioned villages became an integral part of town of Bühl during the municipal reforms in the early 1970s. These townships are subordinated to the town of Bühl, each with its own administrative head, called Ortsvorsteher. Bühl and Kappelwindeck were already united in 1934 forming the town of Bühl, with Kappelwindeck about half the population of Bühl at that time.
Some of these villages are the result of municipal reforms over the past centuries forming bigger municipalities from even smaller villages or hamlets prior to the reforms between 1971 and 1973. In many cases the names of these smaller villages, hamlets or estates–farms still exist, in some cases within defined areas, in some cases only known by their former names within undefined areas, nowadays residential areas.
Balzhofen was formed by Henchhurst and Balzhofen, Eisental by the villages and/or hamlocks of Affental, Eisental, Horrenbach and Müllenbach, Neusatz by Bach, Fischerhöfe, Gebersberg, Kirchbühl, Neusatz, Neusatzeck, Waldsteg, Waldmatt and Wörth, Kappelwindeck by Brombach, Einsel/Einsiedel, Gucken, Kappel, Riegel, Hohbaum and Rittersbach, Weitenung by Elzhofen, Ottenhofen, Weitenung, and Witstung. Former estates such as Schlosshotel Bühlerhöhe, Burg Windeck (Windeck Castle), Kurhaus Sand, Schugshof, and Schweighof complete the list of names.

Villages
Besides the main city, there are also several smaller villages that belong to Bühl. Those are:

Kappelwindeck: Has belonged to Bühl longer than the other villages, and today it is hard to distinguish between parts of the main city and Kappelwindeck.
Altschweier: Situated in the Bühl Valley, literally translated Bühlertal, Altschweier, it is there where the first hills and the gentle vineyards begin.
Balzhofen: Located about five and a half kilometres from the main city of Bühl in the Rhine Valley. It became part of Bühl in 1973 and has about 700 inhabitants.
Eisental: Situated just at the beginning of the black forest and has got three parts: Müllenbach, Affental und Eisental. Together they have about 2000 inhabitants. Affental is where the local wine "Affentaler" comes from. Müllenbach was named already in 1070
Moos: Situated in the Rhine Valley and about 8 kilometres away from the city centre. Today it has about 800 inhabitants.
Neusatz: Situated in the Black Forest and has about 2600 inhabitants. There are at least two carnival societies.
Oberbruch
Oberweier
Vimbuch
Weitenung
Rittersbach

These formerly autonomous communities were incorporated into the municipality of Bühl little by little:
Kappelwindeck was incorporated in 1934, The Burg Windeck followed in 1936.
1. Januar 1971: Neusatz (1936: Waldmatt) und Oberweier
1. Januar 1972: Balzhofen, Eisental und Oberbruch
1. Januar 1973: Altschweier, Moos, Vimbuch und Weitenung

Population development

Population related to the respective territorial average. These figures are results of population census (¹) or official updates by the respective census bureaus (main domiciles only).

¹ result of population census

Infrastructure
Bühl is designated a "" (literally "middle centre") town, which mainly determines its infrastructural capabilities, such as the diversity of schools, hospitals, transportation systems, courthouse, notaries, shopping malls, etc. The serviced region of Bühl includes the municipalities of Bühlertal, Lichtenau, Ottersweier, Rheinmünster, interlaced with municipalities in the Northern Alsace. The whole area is part of Karlsruhe.

Economy

Following enterprises are located in Bühl:

 UHU, manufacturer of adhesive products (headquarter).
 LuK GmbH & Co. KG, manufacturer of Automotive components (headquarter).
 Gummi-Metall-Technik GmbH (GMT), manufacturer of acoustic and vibration dampers (headquarter).
 Bada AG, manufacturer of technical plastic (headquarter).
 R & E Stricker Reha-Entwicklungen GmbH, manufacturer of handicapped accessible bikes (headquarter).
 BamBuk, manufacturer of tandem trikes (headquarter)
 GlaxoSmithKline, business unit  consumer cealthcare (headquarter for Germany, Switzerland und Austria).
 Robert Bosch GmbH, manufacturer of automotive components.
 USM U. Schärer Söhne AG, manufacturer of modular furniture.
 Kaba Group, manufacturer of systems for securing and organizing access.
 Meckel-Spenglersan GmbH, manufacturer of pharm products.
 Pepperl + Fuchs GmbH, products for fabrication and process automation.

Twinned towns
Bühl has twin cities in France: Villefranche-sur-Saône (1987), Moldova: Călăraşi, Moldova (1990), Germany, Saxony: Schkeuditz (1991), Spain: Vilafranca del Penedès (2001), Italy: Cantù

Sons and daughters of the city

 1808, Alban Stolz, (1808-1883), professor of theology,
 1961, Ralf Dujmovits, Extreme Mountaineer who climbed all eight thousand meters mountains
 1981, Christian Lusch, sportsman
 1985, Stefan Kneer, handball player
 1973, Silke Hansel, volleyball player

References

External links

 Bühl city website
 Websters

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HD 209458 b

HD 209458 b, also given the nickname Osiris, is an exoplanet that orbits the solar analog HD 209458 in the constellation Pegasus, some 159 light-years from the Solar System. The radius of the planet's orbit is 7 million kilometres, about 0.047 astronomical units, or one eighth the radius of Mercury's orbit. This small radius results in a year that is 3.5 Earth days long and an estimated surface temperature of about 1,000 °C (about 1,800 °F). Its mass is 220 times that of Earth (0.69 Jupiter masses) and its volume is some 2.5 times greater than that of Jupiter. The high mass and volume of HD 209458 b indicate that it is a gas giant.

HD 209458 b represents a number of milestones in extraplanetary research. It was the first of many categories:
 a transiting extrasolar planet
 the first planet detected through more than one method
 an extrasolar planet known to have an atmosphere
 an extrasolar planet observed to have an evaporating hydrogen atmosphere
 an extrasolar planet found to have an atmosphere containing oxygen and carbon
 one of the first two extrasolar planets to be directly observed spectroscopically
 the first extrasolar gas giant to have its superstorm measured
 the first planet to have its orbital speed measured, determining its mass directly.
Based on the application of new, theoretical models, as of April 2007, it is thought to be the first extrasolar planet found to have water vapor in its atmosphere.

In July, 2014, NASA announced finding very dry atmospheres on HD 209458 b and two other exoplanets (HD 189733 b and WASP-12b) orbiting Sun-like stars.

Detection and discovery

Transits
Spectroscopic studies first revealed the presence of a planet around HD 209458 on November 5, 1999. Astronomers had made careful photometric measurements of several stars known to be orbited by planets, in the hope that they might observe a dip in brightness caused by the transit of the planet across the star's face. This would require the planet's orbit to be inclined such that it would pass between the Earth and the star, and previously no transits had been detected.

Soon after the discovery, separate teams, one led by David Charbonneau including Timothy Brown and others, and the other by Gregory W. Henry, were able to detect a transit of the planet across the surface of the star making it the first known transiting extrasolar planet. On September 9 and 16, 1999, Charbonneau's team measured a 1.7% drop in HD 209458's brightness, which was attributed to the passage of the planet across the star. On November 8, Henry's team observed a partial transit, seeing only the ingress. Initially unsure of their results, the Henry group decided to rush their results to publication after overhearing rumors that Charbonneau had successfully seen an entire transit in September. Papers from both teams were published simultaneously in the same issue of the Astrophysical Journal. Each transit lasts about three hours, during which the planet covers about 1.5% of the star's face.

The star had been observed many times by the Hipparcos satellite, which allowed astronomers to calculate the orbital period of HD 209458 b very accurately at 3.524736 days.

Spectroscopic
Spectroscopic analysis had shown that the planet had a mass about 0.69 times that of Jupiter. The occurrence of transits allowed astronomers to calculate the planet's radius, which had not been possible for any previously known exoplanet, and it turned out to have a radius some 35% larger than Jupiter's.

Direct detection
On March 22, 2005, NASA released news that infrared light from the planet had been measured by the Spitzer Space Telescope, the first ever direct detection of light from an extrasolar planet. This was done by subtracting the parent star's constant light and noting the difference as the planet transited in front of the star and was eclipsed behind it, providing a measure of the light from the planet itself. New measurements from this observation determined the planet's temperature as at least 750 °C (1300 °F). The circular orbit of HD 209458 b was also confirmed.

Spectral observation
On February 21, 2007, NASA and Nature released news that HD 209458 b was one of the first two extrasolar planets to have their spectra directly observed, the other one being HD 189733 b. This was long seen as the first mechanism by which extrasolar but non-sentient life forms could be searched for, by way of influence on a planet's atmosphere. A group of investigators led by Jeremy Richardson of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center spectrally measured HD 209458 b's atmosphere in the range of 7.5 to 13.2 micrometres. The results defied theoretical expectations in several ways. The spectrum had been predicted to have a peak at 10 micrometres which would have indicated water vapor in the atmosphere, but such a peak was absent, indicating no detectable water vapor. Another unpredicted peak was observed at 9.65 micrometres, which the investigators attributed to clouds of silicate dust, a phenomenon not previously observed. Another unpredicted peak occurred at 7.78 micrometres, for which the investigators did not have an explanation. A separate team led by Mark Swain of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory reanalyzed the Richardson et al. data, and had not yet published their results when the Richardson et al. article came out, but made similar findings.

On 23 June 2010, astronomers announced they have measured a superstorm (with windspeeds of up to 7000 km/h) for the first time in the atmosphere of HD 209458 b. The very high-precision observations done by ESO’s Very Large Telescope and its powerful CRIRES spectrograph of carbon monoxide gas show that it is streaming at enormous speed from the extremely hot day side to the cooler night side of the planet. The observations also allow another exciting "first"—measuring the orbital speed of the exoplanet itself, providing a direct determination of its mass.

Rotation
As of August 2008, the most recent calculation of HD 209458 b's Rossiter–McLaughlin effect and hence spin–orbit angle is −4.4 ± 1.4°.

Physical characteristics
It had been previously hypothesized that hot Jupiters particularly close to their parent star should exhibit this kind  of inflation due to intense heating of their outer atmosphere. Tidal heating due to its orbit's eccentricity, which may have been more eccentric at formation, may also have played a role over the past billion years.

Stratosphere and upper clouds
The atmosphere is at a pressure of one bar at an altitude of 1.29 Jupiter radii above the planet's center.

Where the pressure is 33±5 millibars, the atmosphere is clear (probably hydrogen) and its Rayleigh effect is detectable. At that pressure the temperature is 2200±260 K.

Observations by the orbiting Microvariability and Oscillations of STars telescope initially limited the planet's albedo (or reflectivity) below 0.3, making it a surprisingly dark object. (The geometric albedo has since been measured to be 0.038 ± 0.045.) In comparison, Jupiter has a much higher albedo of 0.52. This would suggest that HD 209458 b's upper cloud deck is either made of less reflective material than is Jupiter's, or else has no clouds and Rayleigh-scatters incoming radiation like Earth's dark ocean.<ref name="albedo">Matthews J., (2005), [http://www.astro.umontreal.ca/~casca/PR/Casca2005_Matthews.html MOST SPACE TELESCOPE PLAYS `HIDE & SEEK' WITH AN EXOPLANET; LEARNS ABOUT ATMOSPHERE AND WEATHER OF A DISTANT WORLD]</ref> Models since then have shown that between the top of its atmosphere and the hot, high pressure gas surrounding the mantle, there exists a stratosphere of cooler gas.  This implies an outer shell of dark, opaque, hot cloud; usually thought to consist of vanadium and titanium oxides, but other compounds like tholins cannot be ruled out yet. A 2016 study indicates the high-altitude cloud cover is patchy with about 57 per cent coverage
. The Rayleigh-scattering heated hydrogen rests at the top of the stratosphere; the absorptive portion of the cloud deck floats above it at 25 millibars.

Exosphere
Surrounding that level, on November 27, 2001, the Hubble Space Telescope detected sodium, the first planetary atmosphere outside the Solar System to be measured. This detection was predicted by Sara Seager in late 2001. The core of the sodium line runs from pressures of 50 millibar to a microbar. This turns out to be about a third the amount of sodium at HD 189733 b..

The additional data did not confirm the presence of sodium in the atmosphere of HD 209458 b as in 2020.

In 2003–4, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph to discover an enormous ellipsoidal envelope of hydrogen, carbon and oxygen around the planet that reaches 10,000 K. The hydrogen exosphere extends to a distance RH=3.1 R''J, much larger than the planetary radius of 1.32 RJ. At this temperature and distance, the Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution of particle velocities gives rise to a significant 'tail' of atoms moving at speeds greater than the escape velocity. The planet is estimated to be losing about 100–500 million (1–5×108) kg of hydrogen per second. Analysis of the starlight passing through the envelope shows that the heavier carbon and oxygen atoms are being blown from the planet by the extreme "hydrodynamic drag" created by its evaporating hydrogen atmosphere. The hydrogen tail streaming from the planet is approximately 200,000 kilometres long, which is roughly equivalent to its diameter.

It is thought that this type of atmosphere loss may be common to all planets orbiting Sun-like stars closer than around 0.1 AU. HD 209458 b will not evaporate entirely, although it may have lost up to about 7% of its mass over its estimated lifetime of 5 billion years. It may be possible that the planet's magnetic field may prevent this loss, because the exosphere would become ionized by the star, and the magnetic field would contain the ions from loss.

Presumed atmospheric water vapor
On April 10, 2007, Travis Barman of the Lowell Observatory announced evidence that the atmosphere of HD 209458 b contained water vapor. Using a combination of previously published Hubble Space Telescope measurements and new theoretical models, Barman found strong evidence for water absorption in the planet's atmosphere. His method modeled light passing directly through the atmosphere from the planet's star as the planet passed in front of it. However, this hypothesis is still being investigated for confirmation.

Barman drew on data and measurements taken by Heather Knutson, a student at Harvard University, from the Hubble Space Telescope, and applied new theoretical models to demonstrate the likelihood of water absorption in the atmosphere of the planet. The planet orbits its parent star every three and a half days, and each time it passes in front of its parent star, the atmospheric contents can be analyzed by examining how the atmosphere absorbs light passing from the star directly through the atmosphere in the direction of Earth.

According to a summary of the research, atmospheric water absorption in such an exoplanet renders it larger in appearance across one part of the infrared spectrum, compared to wavelengths in the visible spectrum. Barman took Knutson's Hubble data on HD 209458 b, applied to his theoretical model, and allegedly identified water absorption in the planet's atmosphere.

On April 24, the astronomer David Charbonneau, who led the team that made the Hubble observations, cautioned that the telescope itself may have introduced variations that caused the theoretical model to suggest the presence of water. He hoped that further observations would clear the matter up in the following months. As of April 2007, further investigation is being conducted.

On October 20, 2009, researchers at JPL announced the discovery of water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane in the atmosphere.

Magnetic field
In 2014, a magnetic field around HD 209458 b was inferred from the way hydrogen was evaporating from the planet. It is the first (indirect) detection of a magnetic field on an exoplanet. The magnetic field is estimated to be about one tenth as strong as Jupiter's.

See also
 51 Pegasi b
 HD 189733 b

References

Further reading

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External links

 Hubble Finds Three Surprisingly Dry Exoplanets

 AAVSO Variable Star Of The Season. Fall 2004: The Transiting Exoplanets HD 209458 and TrES-1

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Reston Station

Reston Station is a transit-oriented, mixed-use, urban employment center in the community of Reston in Fairfax County, Virginia. It is being developed through a public-private partnership between Comstock Partners LC and Fairfax County. The development, which provides access to the Wiehle–Reston East Metro station, consists of a subterranean Metro parking facility beneath a public plaza surrounded by office and residential high-rise buildings.

The initial phase of Reston Station delivered as part of Phase 1 of the Metro Silver Line in July 2014, on the same day that Metro's Silver Line began service. It is the only parking structure and transit-oriented development fully integrated with any of the Phase 1 expansion stations. After the opening of the Metro station, construction commenced on the buildings located on the plaza. Future development with residential, office, hotel, and retail uses is planned for the property north of the existing plaza.

Development
Reston Station will integrate more than 1.3 million square feet of mixed-use development consisting of more than 500,000 square feet of Class A office space, approximately 100,000 square feet of restaurants, shops, and service-oriented retailers, a 200-plus room hotel, and approximately 900 luxury residences.  The Reston Station Metro Facility includes a commuter kiss and ride facility, a 10-bay transit bus depot, 2,300 commuter parking spaces, and a large secure bike room. Vertical transportation through the garage and the bus level leads visitors to Reston Station Plaza, which connects directly to the pedestrian overpass via which passengers cross the westbound lanes of the Dulles Toll Road to enter the Metro station situated in the median.

The Reston Station Metro garage facility construction project was one of the biggest of its type east of the Mississippi River. It required the excavation of over 500,000 cubic yards of dirt and over one million man hours to construct.

Development of an additional 1.3 million square feet on 8.4 acres north of Reston Station Boulevard ("Reston Station Promenade") was approved April 10, 2018. Comstock plans to begin construction on this next phase in early 2020.

Reston Station Plaza
The Reston Station Plaza is currently being developed directly above the Reston Station Metro Facility and adjacent to the Silver Line Metro Station. Once completed, it will form the core of the greater Reston Station neighborhood; it will include multiple buildings connected by civic spaces dedicated to public activities throughout the year. Five office and residential buildings, retail spaces, and a hotel are planned. Comstock began construction on June 1, 2014 and stated that construction of the five buildings would be phased and some or all would not begin without tenants signing leases which would reduce risk and ensure costs are recouped.

References

External links
 Reston Station
 Dulles Corridor Rapid Transit Project

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St. John's South—Mount Pearl

St. John's South redirects here. For the provincial electoral district please see St. John's South (provincial electoral district)

St. John's South—Mount Pearl (; formerly St. John's South) is a federal electoral district in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004.

Demographics
Ethnic groups: 99.2% White
Languages: 98.7% English
Religions: 52.8% Catholic, 42.4% Protestant, 3.6% No affiliation
Average income: $25 379

Geography
The district includes the south end of the City of St. John's, the City of Mount Pearl, and the Town of Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove.

The neighbouring ridings are Avalon and St. John's East.

According to Elections Canada, the geographic boundaries of this riding for the 39th General Election are:

 "All that area consisting of:

 (a) that part of the City of St. John's lying southeasterly of the southeasterly limits of the towns of Conception Bay South and Paradise, and southeasterly of a line described as follows: commencing at the intersection of the westerly limit of the City of St. John's with Kenmount Road immediately north of the northwesterly limit of the City of Mount Pearl; thence northeasterly and easterly along said road, Freshwater Road and Longs Hill to Gower Street; thence northeasterly along said street to Kings Bridge Road; thence northerly along said road to Rennie's River; thence generally easterly along said river, Quidi Vidi Lake and the channel known locally as Quidi Vidi Gut to Quidi Vidi Harbour;

 (b) the City of Mount Pearl; and

 (c) the Town of Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove.  Including all islands adjacent to the shoreline of the above-described area."

See also Elections Canada's map of the riding (.PDF).

History
The electoral district was created in 2003: 95.1% of the population of the riding came from St. John's West, and 4.9% from St. John's East ridings. As of the 2012 electoral redistribution, 5% of this riding will be moved to St. John's East, and it will gain 3% from Avalon.

The 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution concluded that the electoral boundaries of St. John's South—Mount Pearl should be adjusted, and a modified electoral district of the same name will be contested in future elections. The redefined St. John's South—Mount Pearl had its boundaries legally defined in the 2013 representation order which came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for 19 October 2015.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Election results

St. John's South—Mount Pearl

2019 general election

2015 general election

2011 general election

2008 general election

2006 general election

St. John's South

2004 general election

See also
 List of Canadian federal electoral districts
 Past Canadian electoral districts

References

External links
 St. John's South—Mount Pearl riding from Elections Canada
 Riding history for St. John's South (2003–2004) from the Library of Parliament
 Riding history for St. John's South—Mount Pearl (2004– ) from the Library of Parliament
 Election Financial Reports from Elections Canada

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Chinese used vehicle exporting

Chinese used vehicle exporting is a grey market international trade involving the export of used cars and other vehicles from China to other markets around the world. With 300 million cars in China, Chinese vehicles are now entering the used vehicle market overseas to boost demand for the domestic market.

According to the African Courier, it's suggested that the export of used cars is a way to deepen implementations to the Belt and Road Initiative.

History

The Automotive industry in China had contracted when vehicle sales declined with 28 million vehicles in 2018, which represented an annual drop of 2.76%. This was the first decline in the industry seen since 1990 due to falling sales and the effects of the China–United States trade war with US$200 billion raised on Chinese-made products.

The concept of exporting used Chinese-made vehicles were made public in April 2019 when the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Public Security, and the General Administration of Customs jointly issued a public notice on Supporting the Export of Used Cars in Conditionally Mature Areas. These are responsible for certifying the export of used cars from China.

In May 6, 2019, it was reported that the Chinese Ministry of Commerce officially announced the approval of legally exporting used Chinese vehicles in an effort to increase domestic sales and promote trade in the automotive market. MOFCOM has mentioned that they'll work in identifying companies that can handles vehicle exports and for testing standards to ensure that the used cars are sold safely. In a MOFCOM press conference on May 9, 2019, it was mentioned that it is working with officials from the General Administration of Customs and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to administer export licensing for vehicles shipped out of China.

On July 2019, it was announced that the first exports consisted of 300 used cars for Cambodia, Myanmar, Nigeria and Russia from Guangdong. The first exports were made through the Nansha Port while others were done via the China-Europe Railway Express.

On September 3, 2019, Tianjin had exported 60 used vehicles with a value of US$700,000 from the Dongjiang Free Trade Port Zone to the Port of Apapa in Nigeria.

On November 2019, an export of 500 used cars were reported to be sold to Benin for US$3 million from Guangdong. A statement released by Guangdong Good Car Holdings Co. Ltd. on November 21, 2019 says that it was the most valuable order received for the export of used cars. On November 11, 2019, it was reported that some used vehicles were sold to Kyrgyzstan.

Designated Locations
Ten cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong, were announced to be designated areas where used vehicles can be legally exported from. Xi'an and Tianjin were also designated as export cities.

Effects
According to Alan Kang, an analyst at LMC Automotive, he said that exports of Chinese vehicles overseas will have a medium to long term effect in helping Chinese automobile manufacturers "smoothen sales of new cars".

Sales of used Chinese vehicles to emerging markets would drive down prices, it would make an impact on new cars being sold and manufactured. They would be preferable to persons who want to buy cheaper vehicles. This gives Chinese vehicle manufacturers a chance to sell any vehicles that may run into trouble with the State VI vehicle emission standards that were implemented on July 1, 2019. The market allows the vehicles to be exported to countries that do not have strict standards for vehicles used in their own markets.

Challenges
Challenges that face used vehicle export are for countries that have strict import standards. For instance, the United States does not allow the import of a vehicle unless it's 25 years old and most newer Chinese vehicles made domestically were only made from 1994.

In Myanmar, the Myanma Ministry of Commerce announced strict guidelines on used car exports from China in order to crack down on vehicles that are being sold from China, but are not made in China. Proof that Chinese vehicles sold through imports, new or used, are required to have certified papers that shows that they were manufactured in China.

References

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Aleksei Tyurgashkin

Aleksei Vasilyevich Tyurgashkin (; born 20 July 1981) is a former Russian professional football player.

Club career
He played in the Russian Football National League for FC Torpedo Vladimir in the 2011–12 season.

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Bobsleigh at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Four-man

Four-man bobsleigh at the 1994 Winter Olympics took place on 26 and 27 February 1994 at Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track.

Results

References

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Kalamaki

Kalamaki is the Greek word for a small reed, and thus for a skewer or drinking straw, and may refer to:

an alternative name for souvlaki
places in Greece:
 Kalamaki, Attica, a neighborhood of Alimos in South Athens
 Kalamaki, a village in the community of Limnochori, Achaea
 Kalamaki, Zakynthos, a resort town on the island of Zakynthos
 Kalamaki, Patras, a neighbourhood of Patras, Achaea
 Kalkan, a town in Turkey formerly called Kalamaki


The Stock Tip

"The Stock Tip" is the fifth episode of the first season of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld.

It aired on June 21, 1990. In the episode, George Costanza (Jason Alexander) tells Jerry Seinfeld and Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) that a friend of a friend of his has given him a stock tip, and he encourages them to invest with him. Jerry does so, but as soon as he does, the value of his stock falls. At the same time, Jerry takes his girlfriend on a trip to Vermont, which does not go as planned.

The episode was written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, and was directed by Tom Cherones. It received ratings and praise good enough to commission a second season.

Plot
While dining at Monk's Café, Elaine tells Jerry and George that she is suffering from an allergic reaction to her boyfriend Robert's cats. George reads the business section of the newspaper, where he learns that a stock that a friend of a friend of his—Simon's friend Wilkinson—had tipped him off to had gone up. George invests $5000 in the stock and persuades Jerry to invest $2,500.

Jerry persuades his girlfriend Vanessa (Lynn Clark) to go away with him to a bed-and-breakfast in Vermont. He reads the newspaper in hope that his stock has gone up, but it has in fact fallen in value. The next day, Kramer (Michael Richards) tells Jerry that his stock has fallen again. Jerry calls George to get advice from Wilkinson, but no one can find him. George rings him back and tells Jerry that Wilkinson is in the hospital. Jerry wants to sell his stock, but George insists that the tip is good. George says he will go and visit Wilkinson to find out what they should do, despite the fact that George does not know him personally.

At Jerry's apartment, Elaine says that the only way that she can get rid of Robert's cats is if they should have some form of "accident" and offers Jerry the job, but he refuses. Wilkinson throws George out of the hospital as soon as he mentions Simon, indicating the two had a falling out. Jerry sells his shares, while George decides to "go down with the ship". Jerry takes Vanessa to Vermont, but rainy weather keeps them stuck inside the bed-and-breakfast. He regrets going with her because they have nothing to talk about. Jerry reads the business section of the newspaper to see that the stock has risen dramatically since he sold it. Vanessa then claims that Jerry only took her to Vermont because he lost so much money. Back in New York, George celebrates selling his stock after he had netted a profit of $8,000. Elaine says that she gave Robert an ultimatum, and he chose the cats. George tells Jerry and Elaine that Wilkinson has another stock tip involving some sort of "robot butcher."

Production
"The Stock Tip" was recorded in front of a live studio audience at Ren-Mar Studios in Hollywood, California on March 12, 1990.

This episode contains the first Seinfeld reference to Superman, which would be a recurring feature in later episodes in the series. An earlier draft of the episode featured Jerry arguing that in a nuclear holocaust, when everyone is very depressed, Superman could cheer everyone up with his "super humor". George responded by saying that no one would laugh because they would blame Superman for not stopping the holocaust in the first place.

The character of Vanessa first appeared earlier in season one in the episode "The Stake Out". She is one of only a few of Jerry's girlfriends to appear in more than one episode. According to Larry David, co-writer of the episode, her character returned because there was no mention of any break-up in "The Stake Out", and therefore the characters were still dating. Benjamin Lum, who plays the grocery store worker, reappears as a mail carrier in the season five episode "The Cigar Store Indian".

Reception
When "The Stock Tip" was first broadcast on June 21, 1990, it attracted a Nielsen rating of 13.5/24, meaning that 13.5% of American households watched the episode, and that 24% of all televisions in use at the time were tuned into it. The second season of Seinfeld was commissioned after this episode and a repeat of the pilot episode was broadcast.

Critics praised several elements of the episode, including Jerry's confrontation with the dry cleaner. Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide said that the episode "succeeded in a few ways. For one, it includes DVD One's [The first disc of the 'Seinfeld Seasons 1 & 2' DVD boxset] funniest bit: Jerry's confrontation with a dry cleaner. In addition, the episode offers our first look at a program that tries to branch out substantially beyond just one story. The prior shows went with one overriding plot, but "Tip" indulges equally in the stock and Vanessa elements. It's still not a great show, but it provides some advancement."

David Sims of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B−. He praised the acting, if not the writing: "Kramer's non-specific glee and Jerry's passive frustration at it are both different tones for the characters, and it's fun to see the show play with the archetypes they've already set up. Later on, after Jerry has cashed out with a loss but George hangs on to make a profit, George's incongruous happiness (replete with cigar, suit, and him daintily picking up the check) is equally amusing. But script-wise, it's again apparent that David and Seinfeld are pretty new to the concept of actually sketching out coherent plots... The whole thing kinda just moves along until it isn't moving along anymore. It's not unfunny, and there's some choice dialog, like Jerry and George having the first of many Superman conversations about whether he has super-humor powers."

Steve Schrider wrote, "While neither the strongest nor the second-strongest show of the first season, The Stock Tip proves that the show has come a long way, even after only five episodes. With this first season, the show's main issue is that it didn't equally utilize all four of its main characters... Jerry and Larry are the first to admit that they went into Seinfeld with little to no writing experience, but they were always very good about recognizing weaknesses and addressing them as needed."

References

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Kippax Centre

Kippax Centre is a designated group centre located in the Canberra suburb of Holt. Named after cricketer Alan Kippax, it serves a sizeable area of suburban Belconnen, including the suburbs of Higgins, Holt, Latham and Macgregor. It includes the Kippax Fair shopping centre (major tenant: Woolworths Supermarket), an  Aldi store and the Kippax Library. The area also boasts two clubs on opposite sides of the Kippax Centre: the Magpies Club and the West Belconnen Leagues Club. A veterinarian are in free-standing buildings. There are petrol stations on each end of the complex. The Kippax Uniting Community Centre is on the corner opposite the Fair, operated by Kippax Uniting Church.

Gallery

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Plasmodium cynomolgi

Plasmodium cynomolgi is an apicomplexan parasite that infects mosquitoes and Asian Old World monkeys. This species has been used as a model for human Plasmodium vivax because Plasmodium cynomolgi  shares the same life cycle and some important biological features with P. vivax.

Life cycle
The life cycle of P. cynomolgi resembles that of other Plasmodium species, particularly the related human parasite Plasmodium vivax. Like other Plasmodium species, P. cynomolgi infects both an insect host and a vertebrate (generally Old World monkeys). The parasite is transmitted when the mosquito host takes a blood meal from the vertebrate host. During the feeding, motile parasites called sporozoites are injected from the mosquito salivary gland into the host tissue. These sporozoites move into the bloodstream and infect cells in the host liver, where they grow and divide over the course of approximately one week. At this point, the parasitized liver cells rupture, releasing thousands of parasite daughter cells, called merozoites, which either move into the bloodstream to infect red blood cells, or remain in the liver to reinfect liver cells. Those that reinfect liver cells form a quiescent stage called a hypnozoite, which can remain dormant in the liver cell for months or years before reactivating. The merozoites that enter the bloodstream infect red blood cells, where they grow and replicate. After approximately 48 hours, the infected red blood cell bursts, allowing the daughter merozoites to infect new red blood cells. This cycle can continue indefinitely. Occasionally, after infection of a red blood cell, the parasite develops into one of two distinct sexual forms called male and female gametocytes (also micro and macrogametocytes respectively). If a mosquito takes a blood meal containing a gametocyte of each sex, the two sexual stages merge and form a zygote. The zygote develops into a motile stage called the ookinete which penetrates the wall of the mosquito gut and forms a stationary oocyst. The oocyst develops over about 11 days, then begins to release thousands of sporozoites into the mosquito's hemolymph. The sporozoites move through the hemolymph and infect the mosquito salivary glands, where they will again be injected into a mammalian host when the mosquito takes a blood meal.

Description
P. cynomolgi closely resembles the human parasite P. vivax throughout its life cycle. Similar to P. vivax, P. cynomolgi infection changes the red blood cell membrane structure, causing surface perturbations that appear as pink dots (called Schüffner's dots) when stained with Giemsa.

Ecology and distribution
P. cynomolgi is found throughout Southeast Asia where it naturally infects a variety of macaque monkeys, including Macaca cyclopis, Macaca fascicularis, Macaca mulatta, Macaca nemestrina, Macaca radiata, Macaca sinica, Trachypithecus cristatus, and Semnopithecus entellus. The effect of infection on primate hosts has primarily been studied in rhesus monkeys, where P. cynomolgi generally causes mild and self-limiting illness. Monkeys can suffer anemia and thrombocytopenia as well as occasional kidney inflammation, however all generally resolve without treatment. The exception to this is in pregnant monkeys, where P. cynomolgi infection can be severe, resulting in death of the mother and fetus without antimalarial treatment.

Infection of humans with P. cynomolgi is exceedingly rare. However, occasional zoonotic infections have been described. In addition to a few naturally occurring cases, human infection by P. cynomolgi has been verified in laboratories both by experimental infection of human volunteers and by laboratory accidents resulting in human infection. Transmission of P. cynomolgi from human to human by a mosquito vector has also been shown in laboratory experiments, although it appears to occur rarely if at all in the environment.

P. cynomolgi also infects a broad variety of Anopheles mosquitoes; the effect of infection on these mosquitoes is not known.

Taxonomy and evolution
P. cynomolgi is in the genus Plasmodium, which contains all Apicomplexan parasites that undergo asexual reproduction through schizogony and digest red blood cell hemoglobin to produce the crystalline pigment hemozoin. Within Plasmodium, P. cynomolgi is in the subgenus Plasmodium, containing all species of Plasmodium that infect primates (except for some that infect the Great Apes, which are in the subgenus Laverania).

Evolutionarily, P. cynomolgi is most closely related to the other Plasmodium species that infect monkeys, as well as P. vivax which infects humans. Evolutionary relationships among Plasmodium species have been inferred from ribosomal RNA sequencing, and are summarized in the cladogram below:

Research
P. cynomolgi is the second-most studied malaria parasite of non-human primates after Plasmodium knowlesi, primarily due to its similarity to the human parasite P. vivax. In particular, P. cynomolgi is used as a model for hypnozoite biology as it (along with P. vivax) is one of the few Plasmodium species known to have this lifecycle stage. P. cynomolgi can infect a variety of monkey species and can be transmitted by several common laboratory-grown mosquitoes. Due to this, P. cynomolgi has been used in research on a broad variety of malaria topics including hypnozoite biology, host immune responses to infection, and to test the efficacy of antimalarial drugs and vaccines.

History
P. cynomolgi was first observed in 1905 in the blood of the long-tailed macaque.

References

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Kyle Briggs

Kyle Briggs (born 7 December 1987) is an English professional rugby league footballer who has played in the 2000s and 2010s. He has played at club level for Doncaster (Heritage № 978), the Featherstone Rovers (Heritage No. 929) (four spells, including the second on loan), the Bradford Bulls (Heritage No.), Harlequins RL (Heritage No. 515) (loan), the Dewsbury Rams (loan) and the Sheffield Eagles, as a  or .

Bradford Bulls

2011 - 2011 Season

Kyle featured in two of the four pre-season games, he played against the Dewsbury Rams and he kicked a goal against the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.

He featured in 7 games this season. His first was Round 1 (Leeds Rhinos). He picked up an injury and missed the next four. He was not selected again until Round 10 (Salford City Reds), he was dropped again but selected to play against the Hull Kingston Rovers (Rnd 14) and the Salford City Reds (Rnd 15). He was then sent out on loan to Harlequins RL but after he broke his wrist he returned to the Bradford Bulls, after recovering from the broken wrist he appeared against the Crusaders (Rnd 26) and Wakefield Trinity Wildcats (Rnd 27). Kyle scored tries against the Hull Kingston Rovers (1 try), the Salford City Reds (2 tries) and the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats (1 try).

2012 - 2012 Season

Briggs featured in three of the four pre-season friendlies. He played against the Castleford Tigers, the Dewsbury Rams and the Keighley Cougars. Kyle kicked a goal against the Castleford Tigers, scored a try and kicked 2 goals against the Keighley Cougars.

Kyle was loaned back to the Featherstone Rovers for the season.

Sheffield Eagles

Midway through the 2014 Season, Briggs signed for Sheffield Eagles.

References

External links
(archived by web.archive.org) Sheffield Eagles profile
 Profile at featherstonerovers.net

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Jewett

Jewett may refer to:

Places
In the United States
Jewett, Illinois
Jewett, Minnesota
Jewett, Missouri
Jewett, New York
Jewett, Ohio
Jewett, Texas
Jewett, Wisconsin
Jewett City, Connecticut

Other uses
Jewett (surname)
Jewett staging system, a system for describing the state of prostate cancer
Jewett (automobile), the name of an automobile manufactured the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company from 1923-26
Jewett Car Company, an Ohio manufacturer of street cars

See also
 Jewitt


2018–19 Florida Gulf Coast Eagles men's basketball team

The 2018–19 Florida Gulf Coast Eagles men's basketball team represented Florida Gulf Coast University in the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Eagles were led by first-year head coach Michael Fly and played their home games at Alico Arena in Fort Myers, Florida as members of the Atlantic Sun Conference.

Previous season
The Eagles finished the 2017–18 season 23–12, 12–2 in ASUN play to win the ASUN regular season championship. In the ASUN Tournament, they defeated USC Upstate and North Florida to advance to the championship game where they lost to Lipscomb. As a regular season conference champion who failed to win their conference tournament, they received an automatic bid to the National Invitation Tournament where they lost in the First Round to Oklahoma State.

On April 4, 2018, head coach Joe Dooley left the school to become the head coach at East Carolina, where he was previously the head coach from 1995 to 1999. The following day, assistant head coach Michael Fly was promoted to head coach.

Roster

Schedule and results

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References

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2014 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships – Singles

Shelby Rogers was the defending champion, having won the event in 2013, but chose not to participate.

Anna Tatishvili won the all-American final, defeating Irina Falconi 6–2, 6–4.

Seeds

Main draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

References
 Main draw

Coleman Vision Tennis Championships - Singles
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Maplewood Historic District

The Maplewood Historic District is located in Rochester in Monroe County, New York. The district is distinguished as having landscape designs, including Maplewood Park, originally laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted.

The district consists of 432 contributing structures and four contributing sites.  They include 245 contributing primary buildings (234 houses, two apartments, three churches, two church-related residences, three buildings associated with a church school, and one recreational facility).  There are also 187 contributing outbuildings (carriagehouses and garages). The four contributing sites are three parks and one archaeological site.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. In 2016 its boundaries were increased to take in more properties.

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in Rochester, New York

References

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Abstinence (conscription)

The Abstinence (, Ashkenazi pronunciation: Histagfus) tactic of draft evasion was a type of hunger strike (or other forms of self-harm, such as sleep deprivation, tending to cause tachycardia, or self-inflicted wound), employed by young men in the Russian Empire's Jewish Pale of Settlement (and in neighboring Austria-Hungary's Galician community), in order to be found unfit for military service by the Imperial authorities.

Russian Empire
The "Abstension" resistance by self-harm was most extreme in the Russian Empire under the Cantonist system implemented for Jews from 1827 - 1856, though self-harm actions continued afterward.  An 1835 secret report by the chief of the Special Corps of Gendarmes in Vilnius expressed the government's difficulty in preventing self-mutilations.

The phenomenon was covered in the Russian Hebrew press, and Ha-Melitz warned against the practice as violating Jewish law as well as Russian law.  The phenomenon of self-induced hernia received attention in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1891.

Just before World War I, the Jewish author and folklorist S. Ansky conducted an ethnographic survey of Russian Empire regions of Volhynia and Podolia, devoting a section of his large questionnaire to conscription-related cultural practices.

Austro-Hungarian Empire
Concription among Jews in Galicia was introduced by Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor in 1788.

In some Galician communities (e.g. Tlumach, Liuboml, Kalush), deprivation efforts among young men became a rite of passage, when fasting during the day was followed by communal all-night sessions of excessive caffeine, excessive exercise, chain smoking, and sometimes taking on a pranking Mischief Night character.

Further reading
Memoirs

Stories
"Grandfather and Grandson" - Isaac Bashevis Singer
"The Conscription of Troops" and "A Hunger Artist" (Jewish self-degradation themes) - Franz Kafka
"Out of the Depths" - Yosef Haim Brenner
"The Automatic Exemption" - Sholem Aleichem

History
1890s account -

See also
Segula

References

External links
"The Conscript" - from the diary of Russo-Japanese War veteran Jacob Marateck

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Leucozonia ocellata

Leucozonia ocellata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.

Description

Distribution

References

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Upton (name)

Upton is a surname of English origin and a rarely used given name. At the time of the British Census of 1881 Upton Surname at Forebears, the frequency of the surname Upton was highest in Sussex (6.2 times the national average), followed by Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire, Kent, Bedfordshire and Derbyshire.
The name Upton is a variation of Upperton and is derived from the Old English for Upper Ton, Upper Enclosure or Upper Field.

Given name

 Upton Sheredine, (1740–1800), Maryland jurist
 Upton Sinclair, (1878–1968), American author

Surname

 Arthur Upton (disambiguation), several people of this name
 Anthony F. Upton (born 1929), British historian
 Barry Upton (born 1954), British hit songwriter, arranger, musician and producer of pop music
 Caitlin Upton (born 1989), an American fashion model and beauty queen from South Carolina
 Charles Upton (poet), (born 1948), American poet, Sufi and metaphysician
 Charles H. Upton (1812–1847), nineteenth century Congressman from Virginia
 Charles W. Upton, economist
 Clive Upton, consultant, Oxford Dictionary
 Eben Upton (born 1978), British computer engineer, inventor of Raspberry Pi
 Emory Upton (1839–1881), US army general
 Frank Upton (born 1934), English former professional footballer and football club manager
 Fred Upton (born 1953), American politician
 Louis Upton (born 1886), American business magnate, founders of Whirlpool Corporation
 George Upton (disambiguation), multiple people
 Gordon Upton (1920–2010), Australian diplomat
 Richard Upton (Born 1967), African Surveyor
 Graham Upton, Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Brookes University
 Harriet Taylor Upton (1853–1945), American suffragette and author
 James Upton (1888–1949) British soldier awarded the Victoria Cross
 Jason Upton (born 1973), independent Christian worship leader
 John Upton (disambiguation), multiple people
 Justin Upton (born 1987), American baseball player
 Kate Upton (born 1992), American swimsuit model
 Lawrence Upton (born 1949), poet and artist
 Lee Upton (born 1953), American poet
 Mary Upton Irish politician
 Melvin Upton Jr. (born 1984), American baseball player formerly known as B.J. Upton; older brother of Justin Upton
 Pat Upton (1944–1999), Irish veterinarian and senior Labour Party politician
 Simon Upton (born 1958), New Zealand politician
Solomon Upton (1891–1972), English footballer
 Steve Upton (born 1946), Wishbone Ash drummer
 Sue Upton (born 1954), British comic actress and dancer
 Robert Upton (1884–1972), American Congressman
 William Upton (cricketer) (1804–1867), English cricketer
 William W. Upton (1817–1896), Oregon judge and U.S. Treasury comptroller
 Winslow Upton (1853–1914, American astronomer

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Florentino Ameghino

Florentino Ameghino (September 19, 1853  – August 6, 1911) was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially on Patagonia, rank with those made in the western United States during the late 19th century. Along with his two brothers –Carlos and Juan– Florentino Ameghino was one of the most important founding figures in South American paleontology.

From 1887 until his death, Ameghino was passionately devoted to the study of fossil mammals from Patagonia, with the valuable support of his brother Carlos Ameghino (1865–1936) who, between 1887 and 1902, made 14 trips to that region, where he discovered and collected numerous fossil faunas and made important stratigraphic observations which helped to support his journal Ameghiniana.

Biography
Born in Luján, son of Italian immigrants, Ameghino was a self-taught naturalist, and focused his study on the lands of the southern Pampas. He formed one of the largest collections of fossils of the world at the time, which served him as base for numerous geological and paleontological studies.  Ameghino was a leading pioneer in the development of phylogenetics and of the paleontological approach of evolutionary biology. He also investigated the possible presence of prehistoric man in the Pampas and made several controversial claims about human origins in South America. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, president of Argentina 1868–1874, described Ameghino as "a countryman from Mercedes that nobody knows of here, but that is admired by scholars worldwide."

The Antiquity of Man in the Río de la Plata, later translated into French, was published in 1878. Phylogeny, published in 1884, was a theoretical work on developing an evolutionary concept in the Lamarckian vein, and led to the establishment of zoological taxonomy as a discipline with mathematical foundations. He later directed the Department of Zoology at the National University of Córdoba, which awarded him with an honorary doctorate, and was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences of Argentina.

Ameghino worked with Francisco P. Moreno, founder and director of the La Plata Museum, as deputy director, secretary, and director of the Paleontology Department upon its establishment in 1888. Ameghino enriched his department with his own collection, which he sold to the provincial government for the purpose. But it was little time in which these two scientists worked together. A year later his magnum opus appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Mammalian Fossils in the Argentine Republic, comprising 1028 pages and an atlas.  This latter contribution to the knowledge of the fossil mammals of Argentina won the bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 in Paris.

He later served as director of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum, in Buenos Aires, and in 1906 published Sedimentary Formations of the Cretaceous and Tertiary Eras in Patagonia, a work of synthesis is not limited to descriptions, but it raises hypotheses about the evolution of various mammals and analyzes the different layers of the crust and their possible ages. Ameghino returned between 1907 and 1911 to his earlier dedication: anthropology, the descriptions of the first inhabitants, industries and cultures.

His published works include 24 volumes of between 700 and 800 pages each, containing classifications, studies, comparisons and descriptions of more than 9000 extinct animals, many discovered by him. This was an important contribution to the known catalog of extinct mammals, and would, along with the Ameghino collection, be consulted by scientists from America and Europe in subsequent years. He died from the symptoms of diabetes in La Plata in 1911.

The Ameghino Crater on the Moon is named in his honor. The Florentino Ameghino Partido and its county seat of Ameghino, situated in the north-west of Buenos Aires Province, are also named after him, as is the palaeontology journal Ameghiniana. Several Argentine cities are named Florentino Ameghino as well as various educational institutions across the country, libraries and museums, squares, schools, parks and other locations.

This is a list of places in Argentina named in honour of Florentino Ameghino:

The square Parque Florentino Ameghino, located in Buenos Aires; the Florentino Ameghino Department, administrative division of the Province of Chubut; the judicial district Florentino Ameghino Partido, legal jurisdiction of the Province of Buenos Aires; Florentino Ameghino, Buenos Aires, a city in the Province of Buenos Aires; Florentino Ameghino, a town in the Province of Misiones; the Florentino Ameghino Dam, artificial lake in the Province of Chubut; the Villa Dique Florentino Ameghino, a small town in the Province of Chubut; Florentino Ameghino, a town in the Province of Chubut; the petrified forest "Bosque Petrificado Florentino Ameghino"[1] in the province of Chubut; the school "Colegio Nacional Florentino Ameghino", located in the city of Mercedes, Buenos Aires Province; the municipal garden in the city of Miramar, Buenos Aires Province has the name "Vivero Dunícola Florentino Ameghino" and a club from the city of Necochea in the province of Buenos Aires, among others.

Selected publications

 "La Antigüedad del Hombre en el Plata". París, 1880  (2nd edition in 2 volumes, Editorial Intermundo, Buenos Aires, 1947)
 "Los monos fósiles de la República Argentina". 1891
 "Énumeration synoptique des espèces de mammifères fossiles des formations éocènes de Patagonie". 1894, in which 440 species are catalogued
 "Sur les oiseaux fossiles de la Patagonie". 1895
 "Las sequías e inundaciones en la provincia de Buenos Aires". online text
 "L'Âge des formations sédimentaires de Patagonie". 1900–1903
 "Línea filogenética de los proboscídeos". 1902
 "On the primitive type of the Plagiodont molars of Mammalia". 1902
 "Los Diprotodontes del orden de los plagiaulacoides y el origen de los roedores y de los Polimastodontes". 1903
 Paleontologia argentina. 1904
 "Recherches de morphologie phylogénétique sur les molaires supérieures des ongulés". 1904

Notes

References
  Official Web of the petrified forest "Bosque Petrificado Florentino Ameghino" – Trelew, Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina.
 Doctor Florentino Ameghino, 1854–1911 (Spanish)
 Florentino Ameghino: su vida y sus obras

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Ameghino (Google Scholar)''

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List of protected heritage sites in Beauvechain

This table shows an overview of the protected heritage sites in the Walloon town  Beauvechain. This list is part of Belgium's national heritage.

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See also
 List of protected heritage sites in Walloon-Brabant
 Beauvechain

References
 Belgian heritage register: Direction générale opérationnelle - Aménagement du territoire, Logement, Patrimoine et Energie (DG4)

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Locusts on Hudson

Locusts on Hudson is a  estate in Staatsburg, New York, owned by hotelier André Balazs. The property has both an operating farm and manor. The historic estate now acts as an events venue due in part to its naturalistic landscape.  A portion of the produce and animals of the farm are sent to The Standard Grill, The Standard, High Line Hotel, and Narcissa at The Standard, East Village Hotel, also owned by Balazs, in New York City, New York.  Designed by architect John Churchill in the early 1940s, the estate's manor is of a neo-baroque style. Beside the manor, there are many grey and white, antique remnants of dairy barns on the property.

History of the estate

American Revolutionary War officer and Associate Justice Henry Brockholst Livingston bought the "Wittemount" estate from a man by the name of De Witt in 1782.
Brockholst Livingston developed the land on the estate more than had been done before. In 1797, he gave the property the new title “The Locusts” (not to be confused with Locust Grove) for its black locust trees. Brockholst Livingston removed a log cabin from, and added a red brick mansion to, the property.
Brockholst Livingston resided on the estate for some years before selling it to Major George William Augustus Provost.

George William Prevost inherited a large portion of this property and conveyed it in April 1811 to James Duane Livingston, son of Robert Cambridge Livingston. On October 19, 1835, James Livingston sold it to William C. Emmet of New York, who occupied it as a country seat until 1854, when it was purchased by William Brown Dinsmore (1810-1888), president of the Adams Express Company. The mansion was built by Dinsmore in 1873. The grounds surrounding the house formed a lawn of from fifty to sixty acres, beautified by extensive floral display and a profusion of bedding plants. Dinsmore had a particular interest in horticulture and especially floriculture.

Dinsmore added extensive gardens, farmland, and greenhouses to the estate. In the 19th century, the property was the subject of at least one American School painting.
Helen Dinsmore Huntington, daughter William B. Dinsmore Jr. (1844-1906), inherited the property which was called "Staatsburg on Hudson". Huntington had the mansion demolished and replaced it with the manor that is currently on the property. After divorcing her husband of 26 years, Vincent Astor, she married Lytle Hull. During that time, many famous musicians, such as Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, and Elsa Maxwell, visited the estate for galas held to support her philanthropic projects.
Bob Guccione, founder and publisher of Penthouse Magazine, owned the property, utilizing it as a weekend country house. At the time, the property was referred to as “The Willows”.
In 2004, the estate was foreclosed before being bought by Uma Thurman and André Balazs.

References

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Olympias Patras B.C.

A.E.P. Olympias Patras B.C. (), is a Greek professional basketball club that is located in Patras, Greece. The club is also known as Olimpiada Patron B.C.

Logos

History
The basketball team participated in the Greek A2 League from 1977 until 1981. The club competed in the top Greek League in the 2006–07 season and the 2007–08 season. Olympias Patras' basketball club also participated in the FIBA EuroCup during the 2007–08 season.

Arenas
Olympias' home arena is the 2,500 seat Olympiada Indoor Hall. The club has also used the 4,150 seat Dimitris Tofalos Arena, to host home games.

Titles
Greek A2 League
Champions (1): 2005–06
Greek C League
Champions (1): 2002–03
Achaea Regional Champion
Champions (4): 1965, 1967, 1968, 1998

Season by season

Notable players

Head coaches
 Dimitris Tsolakis
 Yannis Christopoulos
 Nikos Oikonomou

External links
AEP Olympias - Official Website
Eurobasket.com Team Page
Dimitris Tofalos Arena In Patras

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1947 Mestaruussarja

The 1947 season was the 17th completed season of Finnish Football League Championship, which culminated in a play-off group comprising the winners and runners-up of the Palloliiton league and the Työväen Urheiluliiton league.  The two top teams finished on equal points and met again in a play-off to determine the winners of the championship.

Championship play-off
HIFK Helsinki 3-2 TuTo Turku

References
Finland - List of final tables (RSSSF)

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I'm Throwed

"I'm Throwed" is the second single from Paul Wall's album, Get Money, Stay True. The song was released in late March 2007, nearly a week before the release of the album. The song is produced by and features Jermaine Dupri. Dupri uses the sounds from a Theremin as a part of the loop in the song. A music video was shot and released, featuring appearances by TV Johnny and Paul Wall's Son, William "Fat Pat" Slayton. In the issue dated April 28, 2007, the single debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 94, eventually peaking at number 87.

Remix
There is also a remix version of the song that features Bow Wow, Chamillionaire and Lil' Keke, in addition to Dupri.

Charts

References

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Uili Koloʻofai

Uili Kolo'ofai (born 29 September 1982, in Auckland, New Zealand) is a rugby union player from Tonga. He plays for the Tongan national side and previously for Newcastle Falcons as lock. Kolo'ofai was named in Tonga's 2015 Rugby World Cup squad.

Kolo'ofai signed with Newcastle Falcons in 2014 on a two-year contract. After only a year he left the club due to injury woes that saw him make only a few appearances for the Falcons. He played in Japan before he moved to Europe and played in Italy for Parma and Cavalieri Prato. Then he moved to France and played for Colomiers before joining the Newcastle Falcons. After granted early release from Newcastle, Kolofai signed for Jersey Reds from the 2015-16 RFU Championship season.

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