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Countdown (video game)

Countdown is a point-and-click adventure game released by Access Software for MS-DOS in 1990. The game was re-released on GOG.com on 26 July 2021.

The player plays as Mason Powers, a CIA agent who wakes up in a Turkish mental hospital, suffering from partial amnesia and accused of murdering his supervisor. Powers must escape the hospital, find out who framed him, piece together his memory, and prevent terrorists from blowing up a peace conference.

Development 
Amiga and Atari ST versions of Countdown were planned for release in Autumn 1991, but were never released.

Reception
Computer Gaming Worlds Charles Ardai stated that "Countdown is as close to perfect as any game can be. It also comes closer to earning its self-appointed identification as an 'Interactive Movie' than any of its predecessors or competitors". The magazine wrote that excellent VGA graphics, sound, and controls made the game a "feature film" compared to the "mere cartoons" from Sierra On-Line, and compensated for the stock plot devices of amnesia and a protagonist falsely accused of murder.

The One gave Countdown an overall score of 84%, praising the game's "cinematic atmosphere", which they attributed to the game's digitized graphics, "spine-chilling" sound effects, and the game's flashback sequences. While expressing that Countdown isn't an 'interactive movie' but rather an adventure with cinematic effects, The One compared Countdown's visuals to British science fiction series Joe 90, and 1965 spy film The Ipcress File. Despite praising the game's 'good' animation, The One criticized Countdown's 'average' graphics and "limited" inputs, stating that it "can't quite match the breadth or complexity of a top class Sierra or Lucasfilm" game. Despite this, The One praised Countdown as "complex and substantial", and expressed that the game's espionage plot and exotic locations are 'engaging'.

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1990 video games
Access Software games
Cancelled Amiga games
Cancelled Atari ST games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Fictional secret agents and spies in video games
Point-and-click adventure games
Single-player video games
Spy video games
Video games about amnesia
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Egypt
Video games set in Jerusalem
Video games set in psychiatric hospitals
Video games set in Turkey
Video games with digitized sprites
HSwMS Göta Lejon

HSwMS Göta Lejon was a Swedish cruiser. Together with her sister ship , they were the largest ships ever to serve in the Royal Swedish Navy. In 1971 Göta Lejon was sold to Chile where she was renamed Almirante Latorre and served in the Chilean Navy until 1984. She was sold to Taiwan in 1986 to be scrapped.

References

External links 
 Göta Lejons sista resa (Göta Lejon's last voyage) Militærhistoria.se. 

Tre Kronor-class cruisers
Ships built in Gothenburg
1945 ships
Tre Kronor-class cruisers of the Chilean Navy
The Mattei Affair

The Mattei Affair () is a 1972 Italian drama film directed by Francesco Rosi. It depicts the life and mysterious death of Enrico Mattei, an Italian businessman who in the aftermath of World War II managed to avoid the sale of the nascent Italian oil and hydrocarbon industry to US companies and developed them in the Eni, a state-owned oil company which rivaled the "Seven Sisters" for oil and gas deals in Northern African and Middle Eastern countries.

The film shared the Grand Prix with The Working Class Goes to Heaven at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Italian star Gian Maria Volonté was the leading actor in both films.

The film is an innovative hybrid of documentary and fiction, representing Francesco Rosi's concept of cine-inchieste (film investigation). The flashback structure shows the influence of Citizen Kane and Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano (1962). Rosi remains faithful to his neo-realist roots with on-location shooting and non-professional actors. The main plot is interwoven with a fictionalized account of the director's own investigation into the death of his friend, the journalist Mauro De Mauro, who disappeared while doing research for the film. He was killed by the Sicilian Mafia, but like the death of Mattei, De Mauro's case was never solved.

In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."

Cast
 Gian Maria Volonté - Enrico Mattei
 Luigi Squarzina - Journalist
 Furio Colombo - assistant
 Gianfranco Ombuen - Ing. Ferrari
 Edda Ferronao - Mrs. Mattei
 Accursio Di Leo - Sicilian important man #1
 Giuseppe Lo Presti - Sicilian important man #2
 Aldo Barberito - Journalist Mauro De Mauro
 Dario Michaelis - Carabinieri official
 Peter Baldwin - McHale (journalist)
 Franco Graziosi - Minister
 Elio Jotta - Head of commission
 Luciano Colitti - Bertuzzi
 Terenzio Cordova - Police official
 Camillo Milli - Change teller
 Jean Rougeul - American official
 Francesco Rosi - himself

References

External links
 

1972 films
1970s business films
Films about the Sicilian Mafia
Films directed by Francesco Rosi
Films set in 1962
Films set in the 1950s
Italian drama films
1970s Italian-language films
Palme d'Or winners
Films with screenplays by Tonino Guerra
Films scored by Piero Piccioni
1970s Italian films
Geoffrey Burridge

Geoffrey Cecil Burridge (4 December 1948 – 30 September 1987) was an English actor noted for his performances in theatre and television.

On television, he appeared as Mark Proctor in early episodes of Emmerdale Farm and is also remembered for his guest appearance in Blake's 7 (as Dorian in the episode "Rescue").

In John Landis's 1981 film An American Werewolf in London, he appeared as the undead murdered man with his fiancée in the sex cinema scene. He also appeared in the 1978 BBC TV drama by Derek Lister The Ice House as one of the main characters, Clovis and in the same year made a guest appearance in the series 1990 as American chess champion Cyrus Asher in the episode "You'll Never Walk Alone". 

His extensive theatre credits included many musicals, notably the 1972 West End revue, Cowardy Custard, the 1978 production of Beyond the Rainbow in the West End and the 1985 revival of Gigi.

He died in London from an AIDS-related illness in 1987, leaving a partner, the actor Alec McCowen, who threatened to withhold permission to broadcast his This Is Your Life episode unless the relationship was acknowledged, which added as a voice-over at the end.

Filmography

References

External links

1948 births
1987 deaths
English male stage actors
English male film actors
English male television actors
AIDS-related deaths in England
English gay actors
English LGBT actors
20th-century English male actors
20th-century English LGBT people
Male actors from London
Stephen Kuffler

Stephen William Kuffler  (August 24, 1913 – October 11, 1980) was a Hungarian-American neurophysiologist. He is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Neuroscience". Kuffler, alongside noted Nobel Laureates Sir John Eccles and Sir Bernard Katz gave research lectures at the University of Sydney, strongly influencing its intellectual environment while working at Sydney Hospital. He founded the Harvard neurobiology department in 1966, and made numerous seminal contributions to our understanding of vision, neural coding, and the neural implementation of behavior. He is known for his research on neuromuscular junctions in frogs, presynaptic inhibition, and the neurotransmitter GABA. In 1972, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.

Honors and awards
Kuffler was widely recognized as an original and creative neuroscientist. In addition to numerous prizes, honorary degrees, and special lectureships from countries over the world, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1960, National Academy of Sciences in 1964, the Royal Society as Foreign Member in 1971, and the American Philosophical Society in 1978. In 1964 he was named the Robert Winthrop professor of neurophysiology and neuropharmacology. From 1966 to 1974 he was the Robert Winthrop professor of neurobiology, and in 1974 he became John Franklin Enders university professor.

A detailed, affectionate, and authoritative account of Stephen Kuffler's life and work has been provided by Sir Bernard Katz (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol. 28, pp. 225–59, 1982) and in a book entitled Steve, Remembrances of Stephen W. Kuffler, compiled and introduced by U. J. McMahan (Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Associates, 1990).  An account of Kuffler's work is given by Eric R. Kandel, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind (New York: Norton, 2006), stating: 'I don't think anyone on the American scene since then has been as influential or as beloved as Steve Kuffler.'

See also
 Seymour Benzer
 David Hubel
 Eric R. Kandel
 David Rioch
 Gunther Stent
 Torsten Wiesel
 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

References

External links
 Biography by The Lancet
 Biographical article in the Journal of Neurology, 2016.
 Stephen W. Kuffler's biographical memoir at the National Academy of Sciences.
 The Official Site of Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir

1913 births
1980 deaths
Harvard University faculty
American physiologists
American neurologists
Hungarian neurologists
Hungarian physiologists
Hungarian scientists
Foreign Members of the Royal Society
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Neurophysiologists
Hungarian emigrants to the United States
Members of the American Philosophical Society
Dante Alighieri Society

The Dante Alighieri Society (Italian: Società Dante Alighieri) is a society that promotes Italian culture and language around the world. Today this society is present in more than 60 countries.

It was formed in Italy in July 1889. The society was named after Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), a pre-Italian Renaissance poet from Florence and the author of the Divine Comedy. Dante is considered the father of the Italian language.

In October 1948 the society was restructured at a meeting in Venice to give total autonomy to all chapters of the Dante Society so that each could conduct its activities independently, under the direction of its own elected officers, in a manner that best suited local needs, preferences, and capacities while adhering to the Society's basic principles.

The cultural role of Dante Alighieri 
The sole purpose of the Dante Alighieri Society is to "promote the study of the Italian language and culture throughout the world...a purpose independent of political ideologies, national or ethnic origins or religious beliefs, and that the Society is the free association of people – not just Italians – but all people everywhere who are united by their love for the Italian languages and culture and the spirit of universal humanism that these represent."

The society operates throughout the world, with branches from Australia to the United States. Many societies offer language courses, ranging from tourist and beginner's Italian to advanced literature, in addition to their cultural activities.

In 2005, the Dante Alighieri Society (along with the Alliance française, British Council, Goethe-Institut, Instituto Camões, and Instituto Cervantes) was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities.

See also
 Istituto Italiano di Cultura

References

Further reading

External links 

 Official website (in Italian)
 Global Dante society

Cultural promotion organizations
Dante Alighieri
1889 establishments in Italy
Culture of Italy
Learned societies of Italy
The Great Macarthy

The Great Macarthy is a 1975 comedy about Australian rules football. It was an adaptation of the 1970 novel A Salute to the Great McCarthy by Barry Oakley. It stars John Jarratt as the title character (in his film debut) as a local footballer playing for Kyneton, who is signed up (or more appropriately, kidnapped) by the South Melbourne Football Club (now Sydney Swans). It also stars Barry Humphries and Judy Morris. It was released at a time of resurgence in Australian cinema but was not very successful despite its high-profile cast.

Plot
Macarthy is a country football player who is kidnapped by the South Melbourne Football Club and made a star player in the city. The Club Chairman, Colonel Ball-Miller, gives Macarthy a job in one of his companies and makes him attend night school. He is seduced by his English teacher, Miss Russell, and has an affair with Ball-Miller's daughter, Andrea.

Macarthy and Andrea get married but then divorce. Macarthy goes on strike to claim the family fortune.

Cast
John Jarratt as MacArthy
Judy Morris as Miss Russell
Kate Fitzpatrick as Andrea
Sandy Macgregor as Vera
Barry Humphries as Colonel Ball-Miller
 John Frawley as Webster
Colin Croft as Tranter
Chris Haywood as Warburton
Colin Drake as Ackerman
Ron Frazer as Twentyman
Max Gillies as Stan
Dennis Miller as MacGuinness
Lou Richards as Lou Arnold
Jack Dyer as Jack Diehard
Jim Bowles as Les
Bruce Spence as Bill Dean
Peter Cummins as Rerk
Vivean Gray as Mrs. Thompson
Frank Wilson as Mayer

Production
David Baker was an emerging director who was interested in Barry Oakley's novel. Richard Brennan optioned it for him and they agreed to make the film together, hiring playwright John Romeril to do the adaptation. According to Brennan, Romeril's second draft was "fantastic" but later drafts included too much sex and slapstick to make it more like other successful Australian films at the time such as The Adventures of Barry McKenzie and Alvin Purple.

Philip Adams later claimed he always knew the film would struggle "because of its idiosyncratic and complex nature".

The film was shot in mid 1974. Half the budget was provided by the Australian Film Development Corporation.

Release
The film performed poorly critically and at the box office.

References

External links

The Great Macarthy at the National Film and Sound Archive
The Great Macarthy at Oz Movies

1975 films
1970s sports comedy films
Films based on Australian novels
Australian rules football films
Australian sports comedy films
Films scored by Bruce Smeaton
Australian slapstick films
1975 comedy films
1970s English-language films
Films directed by David Baker
Berthold of Calabria

Berthold of Calabria (; ; died 1195) was a Calabrian crusader and saint who established a hermit colony on Mount Carmel in 1185. He was introduced into Carmelite literature around the 15th century as Saint Berthold of Mount Carmel and is said to have been a general of the Order before Brocard.

Berthold was a son of the Count of Limoges and was born in Malifaye in southwest France. The label "Calabrian" was a contemporary euphemism for "Westerner." Berthold was a nephew of Aymeric of Malifaye, the Latin patriarch of Antioch.

Berthold went to the Holy Land as part of the Crusades and was in Antioch when it was besieged by the Saracens. During this time he had a vision of Christ denouncing the soldiers' evil methods. At the time, hermits from the West were scattered throughout Palestine. Some accounts hold that in 1185 he came to Mount Carmel, built a small chapel there and gathered a community of hermits who would live at his side in imitation of the prophet Elijah. This community was believed to have given rise to the Order of the Carmelites, but this is not supported by evidence and is discounted by historians of the Order. Berthold lived out his days on Mount Carmel, ruling the community he had founded for forty-five years until his death in 1195.

Tradition holds that he was accepted as leader of the hermits by Brocard.  His feast day is celebrated on March 29.

See also
 Hermit
 Discalced Carmelites
 Carmelite Rule of St. Albert
 Book of the First Monks
 Constitutions of the Carmelite Order
 Dialogues of the Carmelites

References

External links
Carmelite Spirituality and Vocation
"Sayings of Light and Love" - Spiritual Maxims of John of the Cross

Founders of Catholic religious communities
Carmelites
French hermits
Palestinian hermits
12th-century Christian saints
Medieval French saints
1195 deaths
Year of birth missing
Christians of the Second Crusade
Priors General of the Order of Carmelites
Dicken Ashworth

Dicken Ashworth (born 18 July 1946) is an English actor.

Career
Ashworth's film credits include King of the Wind, Force 10 from Navarone, Tess, Krull and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

On television, Ashworth played Alan Partridge in Brookside from 1983 to 1984, Jeff Horton in Coronation Street from 1992 to 2000 and Duke Woods in Emmerdale from 2007 to 2008. Other television credits include Grange Hill, Juliet Bravo, Minder, Blake's 7, The Chinese Detective, Doctor Who, C.A.T.S. Eyes, The Bill, Boon, Inspector Morse, Dangerfield, Keeping Up Appearances, Heartbeat and Where the Heart Is.

Ashworth appears in the video to the Pretenders' 1986 single "Don't Get Me Wrong".

Filmography

External links
 

1946 births
Living people
English male film actors
English male television actors
People from Todmorden
Male actors from Yorkshire
Jan Lidén

Jan Lidén (born 1949) is a Swedish businessman and a former Chief Executive Officer of Swedbank, one of Sweden's largest banks. He graduated with a degree in business administration. Lidén started his career at the bank in 1990, working his way up the hierarchy before finally becoming CEO in 2004. He retired from the position in 2009, and was succeeded by Michael Wolf.

References 

Swedish businesspeople
1949 births
Living people
Tautuku Peninsula

Tautuku Peninsula is a rocky headland in the Catlins on the south coast of Otago on the South Island of New Zealand. It is located 25 km (15 mi) east of Waikawa, at the western end of Tautuku Bay.

From 1839 to 1846, a whaling station was sited near the peninsula's neck, and a port was later developed for the fishing, flax and timber industries. When these industries declined, the port was closed. Today, southern right whales are making slow come back and still can be seen around the peninsula occasionally. New Zealand sea lions and yellow-eyed penguins (hoiho) also can be seen on beaches. Sporadic mammal visitors include leopard seals.

The estuary of the Tautuku River, just north of the peninsula, is inhabited by fernbirds.  A short walk leads from Outdoor Education Centre next to the Southern Scenic Route through this jointed rush wetland, partly as a boardwalk.

There are numerous cribs (holiday cottages) on the peninsula, but these are mainly reached by four-wheel drive or tractor, as no roads reach the peninsula.  The only access is via the mouth of the Fleming River, or along Tautuku Beach. A signposted lookout on the side of the Southern Scenic Route road on Florence Hill offers a scenic view south over Tautuku Bay and the Tautuku Peninsula.

References

Headlands of Otago
The Catlins
Southern Scenic Route
Peninsulas of Otago
Clutha District
Whaling stations in New Zealand
Heating plant

A heating plant, also called a physical plant, or steam plant, generates thermal energy in the form of steam for use in district heating applications. Unlike combined heat and power installations which produce thermal energy as a by-product of electricity generation, heating plants are dedicated to generating heat for use in various processes.

Heating plants are commonly used at hospital or university campuses, military bases, office tower complexes, and public housing complexes. The plant will generate steam which is distributed to each building where it is used to make domestic hot water for human consumption, heating hot water in the case of hydronic heating systems, air conditioning through the use of absorption refrigeration units, air heating in HVAC units, humidification, industrial laundry systems, or sterilization at hospitals. The steam may be sold to each customer and billed through the use of a steam flow meter. 

They feature boilers, either water tube or fire tube, which generate steam for various uses and demands. The plant also hosts all of the boiler auxiliaries such as water treatment equipment, air handling, fuel handling, controls, instrument air, and various other plant systems which support the production of steam. 

The heating plant can use different fuels: 
 Natural gas
 Heating oil
 Biomass
 Coal
 Refuse

See also
 Combined heat and power
 Cogeneration
 District heating
 Power station

Boilers
Residential heating
Tahakopa

Tahakopa is a small settlement in The Catlins, an area of the southern South Island of New Zealand. It is located 25 kilometres northeast of Waikawa on the Tahakopa River.  On 17 February 1915, Tahakopa became the terminus of the Catlins River Branch railway and retained this status until the branch line was closed on 27 February 1971.  From the line's opening until 12 August 1956, a railway locomotive depot was based in the village.  The old station building and goods shed still stand today.

References 

Populated places in Otago
The Catlins
Clutha District
Erica Alfridi

Erica Alfridi (born 22 February 1968) is a former Italian race walker, who has won an individual senior level World Race Walking Cup.

Biography
Erica Alfridi won three medals, at individual level, at the International athletics competitions. She participated at one edition of the Summer Olympics (2000), she has 29 caps in sixteen years in national team from 1988 to 2004.

Progression
She finished the season 10 times in world top 20, in 1997 she was World Leader in the 10 km walk.

10 km walk

20 km walk

Achievements

National titles
She won 11 times the individual national championship.
2 wins in the 5000 walk track (1998, 2002)
2 wins in the 10 km walk (1988, 1997)
3 wins in the 20 km walk (1996, 1997, 1999)
4 wins in the 3000 metres walk indoor (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000)

See also
 Italy at the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships - Multiple medalists
 Italy at the European Race Walking Cup - Multiple medalists
 Italian all-time lists - 20 km walk

References

External links
 
 Erica Alfridi at La marcia nel mondo 

1968 births
Living people
Sportspeople from the Province of Verona
Italian female racewalkers
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Italy
European Athletics Championships medalists
World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy
Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships winners
Blues for Greeny

Blues for Greeny is the tenth solo studio by Irish guitarist and singer Gary Moore, released in 1995. It is a tribute to Peter Green, guitarist and founder member of the band Fleetwood Mac. The album was recorded using the same 1959 Les Paul Standard used to record the original tracks. Green  loaned and then sold the guitar to Moore after leaving Fleetwood Mac.

Track listing

Bonus tracks on the 2003 digitally remastered edition. These Bonus tracks were released as CD-single tracks on Need Your Love So Bad CD-Single VSCDG 1456.

Personnel
Gary Moore – guitar, vocals
Tommy Eyre – keyboards
Nick Payn – baritone saxophone
Nick Pentelow – tenor saxophone
Andy Pyle – bass
Graham Walker – drums

Charts

References

Gary Moore albums
1995 albums
Charisma Records albums
Covers albums
Fleetwood Mac
International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations

The FIATA International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations is a non-governmental organisation representing freight forwarders worldwide. According to the FIATA Annual Report 2021, FIATA counted 109 Associations Members representing the freight forwarding industry within a territory and 5959 Individual members, representing freight forwarding and logistics companies.

History and organization
FIATA was founded in Vienna, Austria, on 1926 and owes its name to its acronym . Also known as the ‘Architects of Transport’, FIATA has Association Members and Individual Members in some 150 countries.

FIATA has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (inter alia ECE, ESCAP, ESCWA), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and the UN Commission on International Trade Law. FIATA is recognised as representing the freight forwarding industry by many other governmental organisations, governmental authorities, and private international organisations in the field of transport such as the International Chamber of Commerce, the International Air Transport Association, the International Union of Railways, the International Road Transport Union, the World Customs Organisation, the World Trade Organization, etc.

FIATA is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Documents
FIATA has created several documents and forms to establish a uniform standard for use by freight forwarders worldwide. The documents are easily distinguishable as each has a distinctive colour and carries the FIATA logo which can be seen at the head of this page.

 FCR: Forwarders Certificate of Receipt
 FCT: Forwarders Certificate of Transport
 FWR: FIATA Warehouse Receipt
 FBL: FIATA Bill of Lading (negotiable Multimodal Transport)
 FWB: FIATA Waybill (non-negotiable Multimodal Transport)
 SDT: Shippers Declaration for the Transport (of Dangerous Goods)
 SIC: Shippers Intermodal Weight Certificate
 FFI: FIATA Forwarding Instructions

See also

 Freight forwarder
 Logistics
 Trade facilitation

References

External links
 , official website

1920s establishments in Austria
Canton of Geneva
International business organizations
International transport organizations
Freight forwarders associations
International organisations based in Switzerland
Organizations established in 1926
Carl Eric Stålberg

Carl Eric Stålberg, born 15 January 1951, is a Swedish businessman and the current Chairman of Swedbank. He graduated with a degree in business and economics. He entered the Board of the bank in 2001 and became its chairman in 2003. He also serves on the board of the Norwegian savings bank Sparebank 1.

Apart from his involvement in business, he was also the President of the Swedish Skiing Federation between 1996–2008 and Vice President of the International Ski Federation. Stålberg is also a member of the Swedish Olympic Committee.

He is also the chairman of Sweden-Japan Foundation.

References

1951 births
Living people
Swedish businesspeople
Brittas

Brittas may refer to:

Places in the Republic of Ireland
Brittas, County Cork, two separate townlands in the Barony of Ibane and Barryroe
Brittas, County Cork, a townland in the Barony of Duhallow
Brittas, County Dublin, a village and townland in South County Dublin, Barony of Uppercross
Brittas, County Kilkenny a townland in the Barony of Crannagh, County Kilkenny
Brittas, County Laois, a townland in the Barony of Tinnahinch, County Laois
Brittas, County Laois, a townland in the Barony of Portnahinch, County Laois
Brittas, County Limerick, a townland in the Barony of Clanwilliam, County Limerick
Brittas, County Louth, a townland in the Barony of Ferrard, County Louth
Brittas, County Mayo, a townland in the Barony of Kilmaine, County Mayo
Brittas, County Meath, a townland in the Barony of Morgallion, County Meath
Brittas, County Tipperary, three separate townlands in County Tipperary in the Baronies of Eliogarty, Iffa and Offa East and Middlethird
Brittas, County Westmeath, two separate townlands in County Westmeath in the Baronies of Kilkenny West and Moyashel and Magheradernon
Brittas, County Wexford, a townland in the Barony of Forth, County Wexford
Brittas, County Wicklow, three separate townlands in County Wicklow in the Baronies of Lower Talbotstown, Upper Talbotstown and Arklow
Brittas Bay, County Wicklow, a beach on the Irish sea coast

Other
Brittas Castle, principal seat of the Dunne family
Gordon Brittas, a character in The Brittas Empire, a British sitcom
John Brittas (born 1966), Indian journalist

See also
Britta
Two Cents Worth of Hope

Two Cents Worth of Hope () is a 1952 film directed by Renato Castellani. It is the third part of Castellani's Young Love trilogy, following Sotto il sole di Roma (1948) and È primavera...(1950).

It shared the Grand Prix prize with Othello at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."

Plot 
The story concerns the romance between Carmela (Fiore) and Antonio (Musolino). The ardor is one-sided at first, but Carmela is a determined young woman, willing to scale and conquer any obstacle in pursuing her heart's desire. Once he's "hooked", Antonio scurries from job to job to prove his financial viability. Faced with the hostility of their parents, Carmela and Antonio symbolically shed themselves of all responsibilities to others in a climactic act of stark-naked bravado.

Cast
 Maria Fiore - Carmela
 Vincenzo Musolino - Antonio
 Filomena Russo - Antonio's Mother
 Luigi Astarita - Pasquale Artu
 Luigi Barone - The priest
 Carmela Cirillo - Giulia
 Felicità Lettieri - Signora Artu
 Gina Mascetti - Flora Angelini
 Alfonso Del Sorbo - Sacrestano
 Tommaso Balzamo - Luigi Bellomo
 Anna Raiola - Signora Bellomo
 Gioacchino Morrone
 Luigi Cutino
 Pasqualina Izza
 Antonio Balzamo

References

External links 
 
 Cannes profile

1952 films
Italian black-and-white films
1952 romantic comedy films
Films scored by Nino Rota
1950s Italian-language films
Palme d'Or winners
Social realism in film
Films directed by Renato Castellani
Films scored by Alessandro Cicognini
Italian romantic comedy films
1950s Italian films
Malcolm Stoddard

Malcolm Stoddard (born 20 July 1948) is a British actor who has appeared in films and television.

Early life
He attended the all-male grammar school Chichester High School For Boys.

Career
His TV credits include The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Colditz, The Brothers, The New Avengers, Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974), Blake's 7, The Treachery Game, Oxford Blues (1984), Rain on the Roof, The Assassination Run, Squadron, By the Sword Divided, Juliet Bravo, Boon, The Bill, Families, Emmerdale, The Campbells, Heartbeat and Road to Avonlea.

His films include Cari Genitori (1973), Luther (1974), S.O.S. Titanic (1979), The Godsend (1980), Tree of Hands (1989), Innocent Victim (1989), Gulliver's Travels (1996), Treasure Island (1999) and Dil Jo Bhi Kahey... (2005).

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links
 

1948 births
English male soap opera actors
People from Chichester
Living people
People from Epsom
Male actors from Surrey
Marie Ljalková

Marie Ljalková-Lastovecká (3 December 1920 – 7 November 2011) was a Czech sniper and member of the Czech Army who fought in exile in World War II.

Personal life
Ljalková (born Petrušáková) was born in Horodenka, Poland (today in Ukraine) to a family of Volhynian Czechs. She lost her parents at the age of 12 and then lived with her aunt in Stanisławów (today Ivano-Frankivs'k, Ukraine) where she met her first husband, Michal Ljalko. After the World War she remarried twice.

World War II
After the German attack on the Soviet Union, Ljalková together with her husband joined the First Czechoslovak Independent Field Battalion as a volunteer in March 1942, aged 21. She then underwent a medical course and three-month sniper course in Buzuluk.

Her first combat experience came during the three-day Battle of Sokolovo (8–11 March 1943) when she was credited with killing seven German soldiers, earning her immediate ace status. Her performance was even noticed by Nazi anti-Czechoslovak propaganda in the occupied Czech lands (in order to stress the outlandish character of the Czechoslovak military unit.).

Ljalková later became a sniper instructor of the Czechoslovak and Soviet infantry. After the women were withdrawn from combat units in 1944, she became a head medic of the Czechoslovak tank battalion.

Awards
She was credited with at least 30 confirmed kills during the war. This number is not exact according to Ljalková's own words, because the real numbers are not known. She was awarded the Soviet Order of the Red Star and the Czechoslovak War Cross.

Post World War II
After the war, she studied medicine and worked as a military doctor in Olomouc and at the Central Military Hospital in Prague. She later moved to Brno hospital where she met her second husband, Václav Lastovecký. She eventually attained the rank of colonel, but due to health problems she left the army and started to work as a tour guide for Russian-speaking tourists. She spent the rest of her life in Brno.

On 28 October 2010, she received the Order of the White Lion, Second Class, the Czech Republic's second highest military honour.

References

Sources
 Láník, Jaroslav - Vojenské osobnosti československého odboje 1939-1945 (2005) 
 Benešová, Hana - Máme snajperku!, Reflex.cz (2009)
 Jičínská, Vendula - Zdravotnice vzala pušku a šla do první linie, Brněnský deník (2008)
 hrad.cz - Prezident udělil státní vyznamenání, hrad.cz (2010)

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1920 births
People from Horodenka
Czech military doctors
Czech people of World War II
Women in World War II
Women in the Russian and Soviet military
Czechoslovak military personnel of World War II
Grand Officers of the Order of the White Lion
Recipients of the Czechoslovak War Cross
2011 deaths
Polish emigrants to Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovak Army officers
Nikolay Matyukhin

Nikolay Ivanovich Matyukhin (; born December 13, 1968 in Zhukovsky) is a Russian race walker. He is married to the sprinter Tatyana Chebykina.

International competitions

References

1968 births
Living people
People from Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast
Sportspeople from Moscow Oblast
Russian male racewalkers
Olympic male racewalkers
Olympic athletes for Russia
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia
World Athletics Championships medalists
Russian Athletics Championships winners
St Leo's College, Carlow

St. Leo's College is a girls secondary school in Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland that was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1839.

Notable alumni 
 Olivia O'Leary, journalist, writer and current affairs presenter
 Kathryn Thomas, TV presenter

External links

References 

Buildings and structures in Carlow (town)
Education in Carlow (town)
Girls' schools in the Republic of Ireland
Secondary schools in County Carlow
Sisters of Mercy schools
Educational institutions established in 1839
1839 establishments in Ireland
Funoon

Funoon  was an Urdu literary magazine published by Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi from Lahore, Pakistan. The magazine was started by Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi and Habib Ashar in 1963. The magazine ceased publication in July 2006. Its publication was restarted in 2009.

Introduction 
Funoon's main purpose was to bring new and fresh talent to recognition. Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi was the first editor of this magazine. He used to make selections and edit the magazine till 2006.

Sections 
The major sections that were always a part of Funoon magazine are: 
 Tanqeedi mazameen (Essays)
 Ghazlen
 Nazmen (Poems)
 Afsanay (Short stories)
 Funoon e latifa (Fine arts)
 Mazah (Humor)
 Inshaiya (Article)

Restart of publication 
The publication of Funoon magazine was restarted in 2009, by Naheed Qasmi and Nayyer Hayat Qasmi. Since then, it is being published continually. Till July 2016, its 137 volumes have been published.

Numbers 
There are various numbers published, some of them are "Mirza Ghalib" , "Khadija Mastoor" , "Akhtar Hussain Jafri" , "Parveen Shakir" and "Jadeed Urdu Ghazal Number".

Titles 
The first title of Funoon magazine was composed by artist Abd-ur-Rehman Chughtai. Later, most of the titles were prepared by artist, Basheer Mujid. Now its titles are designed by Nafisa Hayat Qasmi.

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1963 establishments in Pakistan
2006 disestablishments in Pakistan
Defunct literary magazines
Defunct magazines published in Pakistan
Magazines established in 1963
Magazines disestablished in 2006
Literary magazines published in Pakistan
Urdu-language magazines
Mass media in Lahore
X-PLOR

X-PLOR is a computer software package for computational structural biology originally developed by Axel T. Brunger at Yale University. It was first published in 1987 as an offshoot of CHARMM - a similar program that ran on supercomputers made by Cray Inc. It is used in the fields of X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of proteins (NMR) analysis. 

X-PLOR is a highly sophisticated program that provides an interface between theoretical foundations and experimental data in structural biology, with specific emphasis on X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in solution of biological macro-molecules. It is intended mainly for researchers and students in the fields of computational chemistry, structural biology, and computational molecular biology.

See also
Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
Molecular mechanics

References

External links
The program's reference manual hosted at Oxford University

Molecular dynamics software
Computer libraries
Wang Liping

Wang Liping may refer to:

Wang Liping (Taoist) (born 1949), Chinese Taoist
Wang Liping (footballer) (born 1973), Chinese footballer
Wang Liping (racewalker) (born 1976), Chinese race walker
Wang Liping (politician), former chairman of Shanghai CPPCC
Wang Li-ping (born 1962), Taiwanese activist and politician
XPLOR-NIH

Xplor-NIH is a highly sophisticated and flexible biomolecular structure determination program which includes an interface to the legacy X-PLOR program. The main developers are Charles Schwieters and Marius Clore of the National Institutes of Health. Xplor-NIH is based on a C++ framework with an extensive Python interface enabling very powerful and easy scripting of complex structure determination and refinement protocols. Restraints derived from all current solution and many solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and X-ray scattering experiments can be accommodated during structure calculations. Extensive facilities are also available for many types of ensemble calculations where the experimental data cannot be accounted for by a unique structure. Many of the structure calculation protocols involve the use of simulated annealing designed to overcome local minima on the path of the global minimum region of the target function. These calculations can be carried out using any combination of Cartesian, torsion angle and rigid body dynamics and minimization. Currently Xplor-NIH is the most versatile, comprehensive and widely used structure determination/refinement package in NMR structure determination.

References

External links
The home page for the software package.

Science software
Wang Liping (racewalker)

Wang Liping (; born July 8, 1976, in Fengcheng, Dandong, Liaoning) is a Chinese race walker who became an Olympic champion by winning the 20 kilometer event in 2000. Four years later in Athens she finished eighth in the 20 kilometre walk race. Wang Liping also participated in the 2017 Liupanshui International Marathon held in Liupanshui, Guizhou Province, China.

Her personal best time is 1:26:23 hours, which puts her 8th on the all-time performers list.

References

 
 

1976 births
Living people
Chinese female racewalkers
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for China
Olympic gold medalists for China
Sportspeople from Dandong
Athletes from Liaoning
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
People from Fengcheng, Liaoning
Manchu sportspeople
Universiade bronze medalists for China
Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade
Sáenz Peña Law

The Sáenz Peña Law () was Law 8871 of Argentina, sanctioned by the National Congress on 10 February 1912, which established the universal, secret and compulsory male suffrage though the creation of an electoral list (Padrón Electoral). It was approved during the presidency of Roque Sáenz Peña, main supporter of the law, and was published in the official government bulletin on 13 February 1912.

The right to vote for females was not covered by this law until 1947, during the first presidency of Juan Perón. The "universal" scope of the original law included only native and naturalized men but not women and working class men who were non-citizen immigrants, a very significant portion of the population at the time. Indeed, in Buenos Aires in 1914, 49% of the population was foreign born. In the entire country, 30% of all residents were foreign born according to the 1914 national census. The right to vote was not extended to immigrants due to concerns among the governing elite that migrants would back "extremist" parties.

Origin

Sáenz Peña made his intentions about the voting system public during his first speech before the National Congress, in 1910. Interior Minister Indalecio Gómez proposed a reform that left the compilation of the electoral list in the hands of the War Ministry (males over 18 were recorded when called for conscription), and the judicial branch was put in charge of dictating who would organize the elections and who would be allowed to vote. That deprived the executive branch of its former ability to write and manipulate the electoral list.

Consequences
The conservatives, who had stayed in power for decades through dubious and fraudulent elections, could not consolidate a political party without popular support. Hipólito Yrigoyen, the candidate of the Radical Civic Union (Unión Cívica Radical, UCR), won the first presidential elections after the new law by a considerable distance, and the UCR became the most powerful political force.

As a consequence of the law, all political parties had to reorganize themselves, revising their regulations, creating electoral platforms, opening local seats and periodically gathering in assemblies.

References

  Sucesos Históricos Argentinos.

History of Argentina (1880–1916)
Argentine legislation
1912 in Argentina
February 1912 events
Kissing gate

A kissing gate is a gate that allows people, but not livestock, to pass through.

The normal construction is a half-round, rectangular, trapezoidal or V-shaped part-enclosure with the free end of a hinged gate trapped between its arms. When the gate is touching an arm it must be pulled or pushed to pass through. The gate may need to be pushed to give access to the small enclosure, and when in the enclosure the person pulls the gate past the bulk of the enclosure to exit. Some examples have latches. Most are installed self-closing, to the side away from the pasture (livestock field), by hinge geometry, a spring or weight.

The gate may be made large enough to fit wheelchairs and the like. Alternatively, to allow pushchairs, wheelchairs, bicycles, and other things too large to pass through, a conventional gate with a less consistent swing-back or default animal-proof mechanism may be nearby, or an additional latch may allow it to open more fully.

The name dates back to at least 1875. It reliably forms a barrier rather than needing to be securely latched on each use. Examples, as with stiles, on footpaths published as accessible are those replaced, improved or supplemented by gates.

See also 
 Bump gate
 Rambler gate
 Stile

Further reading 
 Kissing gates are included in British Standard BS5709:2018. This extends to their recommended design, signs and maintenance. The standard is functional rather than prescriptive.

References

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Types of gates
Damien Thomas

Damien Thomas (born 1942 or 1943) is a British actor noted for his roles in British films and television, such as his role as Father Martin Alvito in the 1980 hit miniseries Shōgun and as Richard Mason in the 1983 BBC production of Jane Eyre.

Film credits include Journey into Darkness (1968), Julius Caesar (1970), Twins of Evil (1971), Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972), Tiffany Jones (1973), The Message (1976), Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), Pirates (1986), Never Let Me Go (2010) and Grave Tales (2011).

TV credits include: Jason King, Van der Valk, Special Branch, Warship, Wilde Alliance, The Professionals, A.D., Noble House, Blake's 7, Beau Geste, Tenko, Widows, Dempsey and Makepeace, Wish Me Luck, House of Cards, Doctors, The Brittas Empire, Sherlock Holmes, and Agatha Christie's Poirot ("Murder on the Links").

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1943 births
British male film actors
British male television actors
Living people
20th-century British male actors
21st-century British male actors
British people of Egyptian descent
Áurea of San Millán

Aurea or Oria (from the ) (1043-1070), was a Spanish anchorite saint attached to the Monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla, in the Spanish Province of La Rioja (Europe). She is commemorated on 11 March.

Life
Aurea was born in 1043 in the village of Villavelayo, then part of the Taifa of Zaragoza, a region controlled by the Moors. According to tradition, her mother was St. Amunia. As a child, she studied the Scriptures and the lives of the early martyrs of the Church under the guidance of a monk named Munio, who would later write her vita. Her favorite saints to meditate upon and to try to imitate were Agatha, Eulalia and Cecilia.

When she was aged nine, Amunia and Aurea decided to leave the world and to embrace a life of asceticism. They went to the Monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla, where they appealed to the prior, Dominic (later founder and namesake of the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos) for help in this. After some consideration as to how to proceed, for Aurea Prior Dominic had a narrow anchorhold built for her in the wall of the monastery church, with a small window through which she could see the altar, and another to the outside. He then consecrated her and had her walled into her new cell.

Aurea completely applied herself to the contemplative life. By the age of 20, she was living in a cave where she received a vision of her three favorite saints and was encouraged to follow her chosen lifestyle with more zeal. Eulalia gave her a pigeon, which image became connected to her, instructing her to follow it as an example of how she was to seek God. According to tradition, she performed many miracles and many people began to seek her advice and prayers. She supported herself by embroidering vestments for the monastery and baking hosts for the Mass.

Aurea did not live long after her visions. During the winter of 1070 she contracted a painful disease, in the course of which she sent for her tutor, Munio. At the time of her death, Aurea was twenty-seven years old. Her body was initially buried in her cave, which served as her shrine until 1609, when the bulk of her remains were enshrined at the monastery, with some being given to the parish church of her home town of Villavelayo, where a special chapel was built to house them and to honor her as the patron saint of the town.

A confraternity established to honor her cares for the shrine at the church and organizes an annual trip to the shrine at the monastery.

Veneration
Gonzalo de Berceo, considered the first poet of the Spanish language, wrote an account of her life called the Vida de Santa Oria.

References

External links
Aurea at Catholic Online
Aurea at Patron Saints Index
St. Aurea Hagiography 

1043 births
1070 deaths
People from La Rioja
Spanish hermits
Spanish Roman Catholic saints
Medieval Spanish saints
11th-century people from the Kingdom of Pamplona
Female saints of medieval Spain
11th-century Christian saints
11th-century Spanish women