OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# Uzbeks in China

The Uzbeks in China are one of the 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in China. The total population of China's Uzbeks in 2021 is 12,742, scattered in Yining, Shache, Ürümqi, Tacheng, and other places across Xinjiang. Most of them live in urban areas and a few in rural areas. The Danangou Uzbek Township is the only Uzbek township in China. The Uzbeks in southern Xinjiang speak Uyghur because they have lived amongst the Uyghurs for a long time, and the Uzbeks in the pastoral areas of northern Xinjiang speak Kazakh.
# Elachista tuorella

Elachista tuorella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in the United States, where it has been recorded from Idaho.
# Pilodeudorix hugoi

Pilodeudorix hugoi, the Hugo's diopetes, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Nigeria (the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda and north-western Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests.
# Pilodeudorix kallipygos

Pilodeudorix kallipygos is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Cameroon. The habitat consists of primary forests.
# The Double Cross

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| Source | Rating |
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| Rolling Stone | |
| Pitchfork Media | (8.1/10) |
The Double Cross is the tenth studio album by Canadian rock band Sloan. The title of the album is a nod to their 20th (or XX) anniversary. At a length of 34 minutes, it is Sloan's shortest album to date. It is also the band's first album to be released on the Outside Music label.
The album was named as a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize. The album was also nominated for "Rock Album of the Year" at the 2012 Juno Awards.

## Promotion and release

The band first announced plans to release the album in 2011, to coincide with the 20th anniversary of their first show. The album's lead-off track, "Follow the Leader", was the first song released from the album as an online giveaway track. The album's lead single, "Unkind", was released on March 29.

## Track listing

All songs were written and performed by Sloan.
* "Follow the Leader" – 2:56 (Murphy)
* "The Answer Was You" – 2:18 (Ferguson)
* "Unkind" – 4:15 (Pentland)
* "Shadow of Love" – 2:04 (Murphy)
* "She's Slowing Down Again" – 3:05 (Scott)
* "Green Gardens, Cold Montreal" – 2:01 (Ferguson)
* "It's Plain to See" – 1:57 (Pentland)
* "Your Daddy Will Do" – 3:04 (Murphy)
* "I've Gotta Know" – 1:22 (Pentland)
* "Beverly Terrace" – 3:01 (Ferguson)
* "Traces" – 4:58 (Scott)
* "Laying So Low" – 2:57 (Murphy)
* "Then Again" (iTunes Bonus Track) – 3:18 (Murphy)
* "Jesus Loves Me" (Pre-Order Only iTunes Bonus Track) – 2:52 (Pentland)
# Pin Oak I

Pin Oak I is a public art work by artist John Raymond Henry located at the Lynden Sculpture Garden near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The sculpture is an abstract form made of aluminum bars painted safety yellow; it has been installed on the lawn.
# Piola transformation

The Piola transformation maps vectors between Eulerian and Lagrangian coordinates in continuum mechanics. It is named after Gabrio Piola.

## Definition

Let $F:\mathbb {R} ^{d}\rightarrow \mathbb {R} ^{d}$ with $F({\hat {x}})=B{\hat {x}}+b,~B\in \mathbb {R} ^{d,d},~b\in \mathbb {R} ^{d}$ an affine transformation. Let $K=F({\hat {K}})$ with ${\hat {K}}$ a domain with Lipschitz boundary. The mapping
$p:L^{2}({\hat {K}})^{d}\rightarrow L^{2}(K)^{d},\quad {\hat {q}}\mapsto p({\hat {q}})(x):={\frac {1}{|\det(B)|}}\cdot B{\hat {q}}({\hat {x}})$ is called Piola transformation. The usual definition takes the absolute value of the determinant, although some authors make it just the determinant.
Note: for a more general definition in the context of tensors and elasticity, as well as a proof of the property that the Piola transform conserves the flux of tensor fields across boundaries, see Ciarlet's book.
# Piola (Milan Metro)

Piola is a station of the Milan Metro, on line M2. The station grants direct access to the Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI).

## History

Piola station was activated on September 27, 1969, as part of the first section of line 2, between Cascina Gobba and Caiazzo.

## Structures and facilities

The underground station is named after the nearby Piazzale Gabrio Piola, though it does not have a direct access to the square. There are three entrances to the station: Via Pacini, Via Bazzini, and Via d'Ovidio near Politecnico di Milano Architecture Building.
Piola station primarily serves the Politecnico di Milano, Città Studi area near the University of Milan and the Istituto dei Tumori.

## Interchanges

Several urban bus lines stop near the station:
* Trolley stop (V.le Gran Sasso P.le Piola M2, lines 90 e 91]])
* Trolley stop (V.le Romagna P.le Piola M2, lines 90 e 91]])
* Bus stop

## Services

The station has:
* Accessibility for Disability
* Escalators
* Ticket machine
* Stazione video surveillance
# Piola rubra

Piola rubra is a species of long-horned beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It is known from Bolivia.
# 2013 Antrim Senior Hurling Championship

The 2013 Antrim Senior Hurling Championship was the 113th staging of the Antrim Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment in 1901. The championship began on 4 August 2013 and is ended on 29 September 2013.
Loughgiel Shamrocks were the reigning champions, and successfully defended their title following a 3–14 to 2–6 defeat of Ruairí Óg, Cushendall.

## Results
### Final

| Round 1 | Round 1 | Round 1 | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final | Final |
| Loughgiel Shamrocks | Loughgiel Shamrocks | 3-27 | | | | | | | | | |
| St Gall's | St Gall's | 2-6 | Loughgiel Shamrocks | Loughgiel Shamrocks | 0-21 | | | | | | |
| | | | St Brigid's | St Brigid's | 0-6 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Loughgiel Shamrocks | Loughgiel Shamrocks | 2-20 | | | |
| | | | | | | McQuillans | McQuillans | 1-9 | | | |
| | | | McQuillans | McQuillans | 3-16 | | | | | | |
| | | | Glenariff Ossians | Glenariff Ossians | 0-4 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | Loughgiel Shamrocks | Loughgiel Shamrocks | 3-14 |
| | | | | | | | | | Ruairí Óg | Ruairí Óg | 2-6 |
| | | | Ruairí Óg | Ruairí Óg | 1-19 | | | | | | |
| | | | St John's | St John's | 0-10 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Ruairí Óg | Ruairí Óg | 1-18 | | | |
| | | | | | | Dunloy | Dunloy | 2-10 | | | |
| | | | Dunloy | Dunloy | 1-14 | | | | | | |
| | | | O'Donovan Rossa | O'Donovan Rossa | 0-8 | | | | | | |
# 2013 Apia International Sydney – Men's doubles

Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan successfully defended the title by beating Max Mirnyi and Horia Tecău 6–4, 6–4 in the final.

## Seeds

* Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan (champions)
* Leander Paes / Radek Štěpánek (quarterfinals, withdrew due to Štěpánek's intercostal strain)
* Marcel Granollers / Marc López (semifinals)
* Max Mirnyi / Horia Tecău (final)

## Draw
### Key

* Q = Qualifier
* WC = Wild card
* LL = Lucky loser
* Alt = Alternate
* SE = Special exempt
* PR = Protected ranking
* ITF = ITF entry
* JE = Junior exempt
* w/o = Walkover
* r = Retired
* d = Defaulted
* SR = Special ranking

### Draw

| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| 1 | B Bryan M Bryan | 6 | 5 | [11] | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | JS Cabal M Matkowski | 4 | 7 | [9] | 1 | B Bryan M Bryan | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | J Benneteau M Llodra | 7$^7$ | 6 | | | J Benneteau M Llodra | 3 | 2 | | | | | | | | | |
| | R Lindstedt N Zimonjić | 6$^3$ | 3 | | | | | | | 1 | B Bryan M Bryan | 7 | 6 | | | | |
| 3 | M Granollers M López | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | 3 | M Granollers M López | 5 | 3 | | | | |
| | R Bopanna M Melo | 4 | 2 | | 3 | M Granollers M López | 3 | 6 | [13] | | | | | | | | |
| WC | J Duckworth C Guccione | 4 | 5 | | | J Chardy Ł Kubot | 6 | 4 | [11] | | | | | | | | |
| | J Chardy Ł Kubot | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | B Bryan M Bryan | 6 | 6 |
| | M Bhupathi D Nestor | 3 | 7$^7$ | [10] | | | | | | | | | | 4 | M Mirnyi H Tecău | 4 | 4 |
| WC | M Ebden M Matosevic | 6 | 6$^2$ | [8] | | M Bhupathi D Nestor | 3 | 4 | | | | | | | | | |
| | C Kas A Seppi | 1 | 4 | | 4 | M Mirnyi H Tecău | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| 4 | M Mirnyi H Tecău | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | 4 | M Mirnyi H Tecău | 6 | 6 | | | | |
| | D Marrero F Verdasco | 6$^3$ | 6 | [10] | | | | | | | D Marrero F Verdasco | 1 | 1 | | | | |
| | A-u-H Qureshi J-J Rojer | 7$^7$ | 3 | [5] | | D Marrero F Verdasco | w/o | | | | | | | | | | |
| | É Roger-Vasselin G Simon | 4 | 6 | [5] | 2 | L Paes R Štěpánek | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 2 | L Paes R Štěpánek | 6 | 4 | [10] | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
# 2014 Albany Great Danes football team

The 2014 Albany Great Danes football team represented the University at Albany, SUNY as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) during the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Led by first-year head coach Greg Gattuso, the Great Danes compiled an overall record of 7–5 with a mark of 3–5 in conference play, placing ninth in the CAA. The team played home games at Bob Ford Field in Albany, New York.

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Opponent | Rank | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
| August 30 | 6:00 pm | Holy Cross* | | Bob Ford FieldAlbany, NY | ESPN3 | W 14–13 | 6,748 |
| September 6 | 6:00 pm | at Central Connecticut* | | Arute FieldNew Britain, CT | | W 19–0 | 4,150 |
| September 20 | 1:00 pm | at Rhode Island | | Meade StadiumKingston, RI | | W 37–20 | 6,351 |
| September 27 | 6:00 pm | Columbia* | No. 24 | Bob Ford FieldAlbany, NY | | W 42–7 | 5,107 |
| October 4 | 6:00 pm | James Madison | No. 23 | Bob Ford FieldAlbany, NY | | L 28–31 | 3,284 |
| October 11 | 3:30 pm | No. 22 Richmond | | Bob Ford FieldAlbany, NY | | L 28–41 | 8,500 |
| October 18 | 12:30 pm | at Maine | | Alfond StadiumOrono, ME | | W 20–7 | 7,464 |
| October 25 | 3:30 pm | Colgate* | No. 25 | Bob Ford FieldAlbany, NY | TWCSC NY | W 24–17 | 4,952 |
| November 1 | 6:00 pm | at No. 2 New Hampshire | No. 23 | Cowell StadiumDurham, NH | | L 24–49 | 3,536 |
| November 8 | 3:30 pm | Delaware | | Bob Ford FieldAlbany, NY | | L 28–31 | 4,674 |
| November 15 | 7:00 pm | at No. 6 Villanova | | Villanova StadiumVillanova, PA | ASN | L 31–48 | 4,541 |
| November 22 | 3:30 pm | Stony Brook | | Bob Ford FieldAlbany, NY (rivalry) | | W 27–17 | 4,123 |
| *Non-conference gameHomecomingRankings from The Sports Network Poll released prior to the gameAll times are in Eastern time ||||||||

## Ranking movements

Ranking movements Legend: ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking — = Not ranked RV = Received votes :
| | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week |
| Poll | Pre | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Final |
| Sports Network | — | — | RV | RV | 24 | 23 | RV | RV | 25 | 23 | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV |
| Coaches | — | — | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | — | RV | RV | RV | — | — | — | — |
# The European Invasion – Doom Troopin' Live

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| Source | Rating |
| Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles | 8.5/10 |
| Metal.de | 8/10 |
The European Invasion – Doom Troopin' Live is the second live album by American heavy metal band Black Label Society. It was released on DVD in 2006, just before the band's Shot to Hell album. It was ranked at number 4 on the UK Music and DVD Chart.
The DVD contains footage from two different concerts, in Paris and London, and also includes videos from the songs "Suicide Messiah", "In This River", and "Fire It Up", as well as a making-of feature for the "Suicide Messiah" video. It also included is a 50-minute featurette called "Backstage Pass".
On August 24, 2010, The European Invasion – Doom Troopin' Live was released on Blu-ray.

## Track listing
### Paris chapter

* Intro Jam
* Stoned and Drunk
* Destruction Overdrive
* Been a Long Time
* Iron Man Interlude
* Funeral Bell
* Suffering Overdue
* In This River
* Suicide Messiah
* Demise of Sanity
* Spread Your Wings
* Solo Acoustic Jam
* Spoke in the Wheel
* Fire It Up
* Stillborn
* Genocide Junkies

### London chapter

* Been a Long Time
* Suicide Messiah
* Stillborn Jam
* Genocide Junkies

## Credits

* Zakk Wylde – vocals, guitar
* Nick Catanese – guitar, backing vocals
* James LoMenzo – bass, backing vocals
* Craig Nunenmacher – drums
# The Empire of Diamonds

The Empire of Diamonds is a 1920 American silent crime film directed by Léonce Perret and starring Robert Elliott, Lucy Fox and Léon Mathot.

## Cast

* Robert Elliott as Matthew Versigny
* Lucy Fox as Marguerite Versigny
* Henry G. Sell as Paul Bernac
* Léon Mathot as Arthur Graves
* Jacques Volnys as Trazi d'Aricola
* Laurent Morléas as Andre Zarnoff
* Fernand Mailly as Baron de Lambri
* Ruth Hunter as Esther Taylor
# The Fall of the House of Usher (Glass opera)

The Fall of the House of Usher is a 1988 opera by Philip Glass to a libretto based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1839 short story by Arthur Yorinks who also worked with Glass on The Juniper Tree.
Since its 1988 staging in Cambridge, Glass’s opera has been mounted by numerous opera companies, including Long Beach Opera (California), Wolf Trap Opera (Virginia), Cottbus (Germany), and the renowned Maggio Musicale Festival in Florence (Italy).
The Fall of the House of Usher was staged in Firenze, Italy during the "Maggio Musicale Fiorentino" Festival in May 1992, conducted by Marcello Panni and staged by Richard Foreman in presence of the author in Teatro della Pergola, Firenze.
# Placidium

Placidium is a genus of crustose to squamulose to almost foliose lichens. The genus is in the family Verrucariaceae. Most members grow on soil (are terricolous), but some grow on rock (saxicolous). The fruiting bodies are perithecia, flask-like structures immersed in the lichen body (thallus) with only the top opening visible, dotting the thallus. Lichen spot tests are all negative. Members of the genus lack rhizines, but otherwise resemble members of the genus Clavascidium.
Members of the genus are commonly called stiplescale lichens or earthscale.$^{:327}$

## Taxonomy

The genus was circumscribed in 1855 by Italian lichenologist Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo.
María Prieto and Ibai Olariaga suggest that Placidium is a superfluous illegitimate name according to strict application of nomenclatural rules. This is because when Massalongo circumscribed the genus in 1855, he included the original type species of genus Endocarpon, E. pusillum. When Othmar Breuss resurrected the genus for use in 1996, he assigned P. michelii as its type, even though Massalongo did not include P. michelii in Placidium in his original 1855 circumscription, but rather in a later treatment of the genus. In 2019, Prieto and Olariaga submitted a proposal to conserve the name Placidium with Placidium michelii as its conserved type species.

## Species

* Placidium arboreum (Schwein. ex E. Michener) Lendemer (2004)
* Placidium californicum Breuss (2000) – USA
* Placidium lesdainii Breuss (2002)
* Placidium nigrum T.T.Zhang & X.L.Wei (2022) – China
* Placidium nitidulum T.T.Zhang & X.L.Wei (2022) – China
* Placidium podolepis (Breuss) M.Prieto (2012)
* Placidium umbrinum (Breuss) M.Prieto & Breuss (2009)
* Placidium varium T.T.Zhang & X.L.Wei (2022) – China
* Placidium yoshimurae (H.Harada) Breuss (1996)
# The Favourite of the Queen

The Favourite of the Queen (German: Der Favorit der Königin) is a 1922 German silent historical film directed by Franz Seitz and starring Erich Kaiser-Titz, Hanna Ralph and Willy Kaiser-Heyl. It is based on a play set in Elizabethan England.
The film was shot at the Emelka Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Willy Reiber.

## Cast

* Erich Kaiser-Titz as Lord Surrey
* Hanna Ralph as Königin Elisabeth
* Willy Kaiser-Heyl as Pembroke
* Maria Mindzenty as Evelyne
* Oskar Marion as Comte Warwick
* Alf Blütecher as Arthur Leyde
* Otto Kronburger
* Carl Goetz
* Elise Aulinger
* Ferdinand Martini
* Albert Patry
# Placopsis imshaugii

Placopsis imshaugii is a species of lichen in the family Trapeliaceae. Known from Chile, it was described as new to science in 2011. It is characterised by its distinctive rust-coloured thallus and unique morphology.

## Taxonomy

David J.Galloway described Placopsis imshaugii as a new species in honour of the American lichenologist Henry Andrew Imshaug, who made contributions to the study of lichens in South America. The type specimen was collected in October 1969 at Desolación Island, a treeless anchoridge in the Fondeadero Nassau region of Chile.

## Description

Placopsis imshaugii is characterized by its closely attached, rosette-forming thallus without a marginal prothallus. The grey-brown to pinkish-brown marginal zone contrasts with the orange-brown or rust-brown upper surface found centrally. The species lacks isidia, maculae, pruina, pseudocyphellae and soredia. The apothecia are aspicilioid at first, eventually becoming somewhat thelotremoid, often with a prominent thalline margin obscuring the disc. The hymenium measures 200–300 μm in height, with cylindrical asci measuring 200–250 by 8–10 μm. The broadly ellipsoidal ascospores are typically 25–30 by 15–18 μm in size, while the filiform (threadlike) conidia measure 27–32.5 by 1 μm. The principal secondary metabolite is gyrophoric acid, accompanied by traces of lecanoric acid and atranorin.

### Similar species

Placopsis imshaugii can be distinguished from other rust-coloured species such as Placopsis baculigera, Placopsis bicolor, Placopsis elixii, and Placopsis lateritioides by differences in thallus morphology, hymenium height, ascospore size, conidia dimensions, and secondary metabolite composition. Each of these species exhibits unique characteristics, such as the presence of white effigurate (with a defined form) maculae in P. baculigera, the orange-yellow to red-brown convex lobes in P. bicolor, the white laminal pseudocyphellae in P. elixii, and the grey-blue scattered laminal soralia in P. lateritioides. Additionally, the chemistry of these species varies, helping to distinguish them from Placopsis imshaugii.

## Habitat and distribution

Placopsis imshaugii is currently known only from several remote coastal sites in Region XII of western Patagonia, Chile. It colonises hard siliceous rocks on scattered outcrops on ridges and open hillsides, occasionally associating with Aspicilia sp., Placopsis gelida, and rust-coloured species of Porpidia.
# 2013 Babil governorate election

The Babil governorate election of 2013 was held on 20 April 2013 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan, Kirkuk, Anbar, and Nineveh.

## Results

Summary of the 20 April 2013 Babil governorate election results :
| Party/Coalition | Party/Coalition | Allied national parties | Leader | Seats | Change | Votes |
| | State of Law Coalition | | Nouri Al-Maliki | 8 | - | 142,568 |
| | Citizens Alliance | | Ammar al-Hakim | 7 | 2 | 115,188 |
| | Independent Iraqi Qualifications Gathering | | | 4 | 4 | 69,087 |
| | Liberal Coalition | | Muqtada al-Sadr | 4 | 1 | 51,869 |
| | Babil Civil Alliance | | | 2 | 2 | 30,578 |
| | Al Iraqia National and United Coalition | | | 1 | 2 | 24,227 |
| | Iraq’s National Coalition | | | 1 | 1 | 20,755 |
| | Islamic Dawa Party - Iraq Organization | | | 1 | 1 | 19,527 |
| | National Partnership Gathering | | | 1 | 1 | 18,565 |
| | Al Amin Coalition | | | 1 | 1 | 16,865 |
| | Iraqia Babel | Muttahidoon Arabian Al Iraqia | | 1 | 1 | 12,754 |
| | Iraq’s Advocates for State Support | | | | | 11,798 |
| | Iraq’s Benevolence and Generosity List | | | | | 4,849 |
| | National Moderation Front | | | | | 3,580 |
| | National White Bloc | | | | | 2,899 |
| | Sons of the City Bloc | | | | | 2,002 |
| | Iraqi Commission of Independent Civil Society Organizations | | | | | 1,560 |
| Total | Total | | | 31 | - | 548,671 |
| Sources: ISW, al-Sumaria - Babil Coalitions, IHEC Babil Results |||||||
# Pittsburgh Savoyards

The Pittsburgh Savoyards are a theater company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1938 (one year before Pittsburgh Opera), they are currently the oldest theater company in the Pittsburgh area, performing a repertoire of mainly Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. The current headquarters of the company is located in the nearby borough of Bellevue, Pennsylvania.

## History

The Pittsburgh Savoyards were founded in 1938 and gave their first performance, The Pirates of Penzance, on May 9, 1939 at the Twentieth Century Club in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The company has had a few notable alumni in its history, including actor Burt Mustin and opera singer Mimi Lerner.
# Pitstop II

Pitstop II is a 1984 sequel to the 1983 racing game Pitstop, both of which were published by Epyx. Ported to more platforms than the original, Pitstop II was released for the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit computers, and as a self-booting disk for IBM PC compatibles. Apple II and TRS-80 Color Computer versions were released in 1985.
Pitstop II adds a split-screen, simultaneous two-player game mode. Players can be in completely different places on the racing track, and each half of the screen shows the view of the track according to the player's position.

## Gameplay

The game requires that players keep an eye on their tires and fuel gauge. Players are able to pull in for a pit stop to change tires as well as re-fuel.
Six international race tracks are available: Brands Hatch, Hockenheim, Rouen-Les-Essarts, Sebring, Vallelunga, and Watkins Glen — with a choice of either racing for three, six or nine laps and from one of three difficulty levels.

## Reception

Zzap!64 called Pitstop II "Fantastic! ... a SUPERB implementation of the 3D racing format ... This has to be the best ever driving game".
IGN reviewed the Virtual Console release. They thought that the game was worth playing for nostalgic reasons but might not appeal to those unfamiliar with the title due to dated graphics, sound and controls. It was rated 6/10.

## Legacy

Pitstop II was re-released on the Wii Virtual Console in Europe on August 8, 2008 and in North America on February 23, 2009.
# Pitsos

Pitsos A.E. (Πίτσος) was founded in Athens in 1865 and began as a company manufacturing small household appliances and oil heaters. In 1959 it began production of fridges in a new factory; it soon invested heavily on the development and production of a wide range of modern home appliances, including TV sets. Other metal structures, including 3-wheel pickup trucks were also produced. In 1976 it was bought by Bosch-Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH. In 1996 was rebranded to "BSH A.B.E. Ikiakon Syskeyon". Many people at that time thought that Bosch Siemens and Pitsos were called BSP, wrongly.Gaggenau and Neff joined the group in 1998 and 2002 respectively. The company was rebranded to "BSH Home Appliances" ("BSH Ikiakes Syskeves A.B.E"). It then boasted a leading position in the Greek household appliances market with a market share of approximately 40%. Its revenue reached €308 Million in 2005. Approximately one third of the total revenue came from exports mainly to Europe and the Middle East.
Production facilities were located in Rentis, near Piraeus, and the company employed 1200 personnel in 2007. By that time it remained the leading white goods manufacturer (such as refrigerators, fridges and ovens and, decreasingly, washing systems) in Greece producing 400,000 units per year, 30% of which for export. The company manufactured products that incorporated substantial innovations such as the "No Frost" and "Super Frost" technologies on refrigeration systems and "pyrolysis" system on cooking systems.
In 2020 the company announced the shutdown of its factory in Greece and its relocation in Turkey. The factory was permanently closed on March 31, 2021, and the company only retains trading activity, however, the Pitsos brand name is still used, on products manufactured outside Greece.
Parts of Pitsos infrastructure, as well as technology and former personnel, were transferred to Pyramis, a Greek appliances company, which started production of electric appliances in a new factory in December 2022.