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Croteam

Croteam is a Croatian video game developer based in Zagreb. The company was established by Davor Hunski, Damir Perović, Roman Ribarić and Dean Sekulić, four former classmates, in late August 1992. Croteam is best known for Serious Sam, a series of first-person shooters introduced with Serious Sam: The First Encounter in 2001. The company also developed the 2014 puzzle game The Talos Principle and its 2023 sequel The Talos Principle 2. Croteam employed approximately 40 people in 2020 and was acquired by its long-time publishing partner Devolver Digital in October that year.

History
Croteam was founded by Davor Hunski, Damir Perović, Roman Ribarić, and Dean Sekulić. Hunski and Ribarić were born and raised in the Utrina neighbourhood of Zagreb and initially met around age 6 at the "Mladost" primary school, which they attended for eight years. Perović and Sekulić came from the neighbouring and Sopot, respectively. All four were in Neli Mindoljević's class during their four-year tenure at the "Nikola Tesla" high school in Zagreb, graduating as part of the school's last generation in 1991. The brother of another classmate was the first Croat to release a commercial video game. After Hunski and Ribarić learned that the developer made a profit with his endeavour, they decided to develop games for a living. In late August 1992, while studying at separate universities, Hunski and Ribarić teamed up with Perović and Sekulić to found Croteam. Personal computers, such as the Amiga, were expensive at the time, wherefore the team acquired hardware from grey market, duty-free shops. The company initially operated out of Ribarić's apartment in Utrina and later rented an office in the building where Hunski resided with his mother. Both rent and hardware were financed by the parents of various employees. Other team members, such as Sekulić, worked from home and shared source code with the others by exchanging floppy disks. Several Croteam employees, including Hunski, were drafted for one-year military conscriptions. Croteam later rented office space from the.

Croteam's first game was a clone of Sokoban, created to demonstrate that the team could successfully complete a game. Having finished that project, the team decided to create an association football game, which later became a clone of Sensible Soccer. The game, Football Glory, entered production in late 1993 and was completed in October 1994. During this time, the Croteam staff was expanded with Admir Elezović, Alen Ladavac, Tomislav Pongrac, and Marko Sekulić. The game was released on 6 November 1994 for the 500, 1200 and 4000 models of the Amiga. The company subsequently created an MS-DOS version of the game, which was released in May 1995. Sensible Software, the developer of Sensible Soccer, soon threatened with legal action, wherefore Croteam ceased all development on Football Glory. An indoor soccer version of Football Glory, titled Five-A-Side Soccer, was completed in 1995 and designed for the Amiga 500, 1200, and 4000 systems. It was due to be published by Black Legend as Football Glory Indoors but the company was shut down in 1996 due to a declining Amiga games market. The game was released by the publisher's surviving German branch in 1996 before that branch shut down as well. Croteam eventually released Five-A-Side Soccer as public-domain software in March 2000.

Also in 1995, the studio began work on Save the Earth, a game created for, a Croatian children's game show by the Croatian national broadcaster, Hrvatska radiotelevizija. The game was designed for the Amiga 4000 with additional hardware. The development wrapped up in January 1996 and the game was shown on Turbo Limach Show every week between March and July 1996. In mid-1996, Croteam decided that its next game would a 3D first-person shooter game with a dark, horror-themed atmosphere. The company announced the game Flesh in September that year. Davor Tomičić, another former classmate of the four founders, joined Croteam in late 1997. In 1998, the theme of the game, which was now known as In the Flesh, was changed to a more bright and open environment, followed by a name change to Serious Sam the year after, upon insistence from Ribarić. Damjan Mravunac was hired in 1999 as Croteam's composer and sound effects designer, taking over the latter occupation from Ribarić. He was followed shortly by Dinko Pavičić and Petar Ivanček, completing the development team for Serious Sam.

Serious Sam was released as Serious Sam: The First Encounter by Gathering of Developers in 2001, followed by Serious Sam: The Second Encounter in 2002. Both Serious Sam games debuted on Microsoft Windows and utilised Croteam's in-house Serious Engine. In 2002, Serious Sam for the Xbox was released, which consisted of both games with the additional number of cinematics, an updated scores system, combos, multikills, auto-aiming and other console specific features. A sequel, Serious Sam 2 for both PC and Xbox was released on 11 October 2005, using Serious Engine 2.

In 2007, development began on Serious Sam 3: BFE, a prequel to the original game. In 2010, Croteam released high definition remakes of the original Serious Sam games with upgraded textures and models, enhanced engine, user interface and audio, and additional features. Serious Sam 3: BFE was released for Windows in November 2011, soon followed by macOS and Linux versions. The Xbox 360 version of Serious Sam 3: BFE was released on Xbox Live Arcade in September 2012, and later made its way to PlayStation 3 via PlayStation Network in March 2014. In December 2014, Croteam released the first-person puzzle game The Talos Principle for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Ladavac left Croteam to join Google's Munich-based branch in October 2019 and work on the Stadia project. By the time of Serious Sam 4's late development in 2020, Croteam employed around 40 employees. On 16 October 2020, Devolver Digital acquired Croteam from Ribarić, Sekulić, Elezović, Hunski, and Tomičić. At the time, the company comprised five legal entities—Abest d.o.o., Des informatika 2010 d.o.o., Nebo iz sna d.o.o., Nebo media d.o.o, and Plavi slon d.o.o.—which each held portions of Croteam's intellectual property. They were consolidated by merging the latter four into Abest d.o.o. on 1 April 2021, leaving the latter as the sole entity for Croteam.

Croteam Incubator
In 2015, Croteam launched Croteam Indie, a division to support small indie game development teams based in Croatia with investments and co-production. Croteam's first such co-production was Scum by Gamepires, for which a contract was signed in December 2015. The division was later expanded into a business incubator programme providing teams with office space and technology, as well as occasionally financial support. In March 2018, it was formally announced as Croteam Incubator, at the time with six studios based in the same Zagreb office as part of the programme. Among the first games released under the Croteam Incubator banner were I Hate Running Backwards, Tormental, and Battle Bolts. Ribarić acts as the division's president, Nikola Mosettig as vice-president, Damjan Mravunac as chief operating officer, and Zeno Žokalj as marketing and public relations manager.

Serious Engine
For development of Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Croteam developed the Serious Engine (formerly named S-Cape3D), a proprietary game engine, which, while similar to other engines at the time, was designed to render large environments and support a large number of enemies visible at any time. Serious Engine 2 was developed alongside Serious Sam 2, adding in support for a physics engine, refraction, detailed textures, and high dynamic range lighting.

Serious Engine 3 was used to support the high-definition remakes of The First Encounter and The Second Encounter for release on Windows and Xbox 360, adding in true high-dynamic lighting support. As Croteam wanted to target more platforms with the release of Serious Sam 3: BFE, Serious Engine 3 was heavily reworked to support seventh-generation consoles, and became Serious Engine 3.5. With the introduction of eighth-generation consoles, Croteam continued to improve the Serious Engine, releasing it as Serious Engine 4, which premiered with The Talos Principle. Serious Engine was also used in Serious Sam 4.

In celebration of Serious Sam: The First Encounter 15th anniversary in March 2016, Croteam released the source code for the final version of the first iteration of Serious Engine, version 1.10, under the GNU GPL-2-0-only. For The Talos Principle 2, Croteam replaced Serious Engine with Unreal Engine 4, ultimately switching to Unreal Engine 5. The company's lead programmer Goran Adrinek described this in October 2023 as a "permanent transition" away from Serious Engine, which he said could not quickly be expanded with the features of Unreal Engine 5.

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Lal Hilditch

Clarence George "Lal" Hilditch (2 June 1894 – 31 October 1977), also known as Clarrie Hilditch, was an English footballer, and one of only two men to have been simultaneously a player and the manager at Manchester United (the other being Ryan Giggs).

Hilditch was born in Hartford, Cheshire, and began his playing career with Hartford, before moving on to Cheshire League sides Witton Albion and Altrincham. In January 1914 he joined Manchester United as an outside left, but soon changed to his favoured half back position. He featured three times during the 1913/14 season before establishing himself in the team the following term. Although he joined Manchester United during the First World War, he quickly established a name for himself as an astute halfback who was an incredibly clean tackler and read the game well.

In the summer of 1920 he was selected by the Football Association to be part of the 20-man squad that travelled to South Africa for a 14 match tour. Hilditch featured in all three 'tests' against South Africa but it was the closest he came to international recognition.

In October 1926, after John Chapman was suspended for unknown reasons, Hilditch took over the manager's job for the rest of the season in addition to his playing duties.

A stalwart in the United team for over a decade, he played 322 league games scoring 7 league goals before retiring in 1932 without winning any medals with the club.

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Bhutan at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Bhutan competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Archery
Men

Women

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jefferson Food Mart/Archive1

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete moink 12:30, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Jefferson Food Mart
Delete, looks like nonsense KFP
 * Delete, Just a big advert in my honest opinion. - Diskadia 22:38, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete.... more than just an advert... most of the info is false. This is closer to vandalism than anything else. The anon IP who created the article also vandalized the Walmart article. Feco 22:39, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Either a hoax or a joke where they forgot to put in the funny part. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  22:41, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. The URLs provided both are dead.  A search on Google finds a number of convience stores scattered around the country, but no indication of a common corporate entity.  This looks like a hoax. --Allen3 talk 22:59, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, hoax. Megan1967 07:58, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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St. George Island Bridge

The 4-mile (6.4–km) St. George Island Bridge (officially named the Bryant Patton Memorial Bridge and designated State Road 300 from end to end, plus approaches) was built in 2002 (completed in 2004) when the two original bridges (cut by an island in the middle) that led to St. George Island, a small resort community 10 mi from Apalachicola, Florida, were deemed unsafe due to their old age. The original bridges opened in 1965; prior to that, visitors used a ferry to get to the island. The new bridge, by bypassing the middle island, became the 3rd-longest bridge in Florida. The north end of SR 300 is at US 98 (SR 30) in Eastpoint. It was opened on February 27, 2004.

Initially, the bridge was designated State Road G1A by the Florida Department of Transportation while Gulf Beach Drive on the island east of the bridge was given the SR 300 designation. Later, the bridge and Gulf Beach Drive were both SR 300. More recently, Gulf Beach Drive lost its State Road designation, leaving only the St. George Island Bridge with the SR 300 designation. The eastern half of Gulf Beach Drive is now County Road 300.

"State Road G1A" was an analogue on the Gulf of Mexico to SR A1A on the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of two x00 routes to not follow the numbering system - the other is SR 800, a short connection over the Intracoastal Waterway in Boca Raton. All other x00 routes are major cross-state diagonals.

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Dead reference
Second reference is dead. 93.157.16.74 (talk) 14:27, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Medal Photo
Let's keep it. Raul654, who is the main one who decides on Featured Articles, requested me to provide photos of the medals instead of drawings in the future. I mainly drew them out of copyright issues. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 20:11, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

List of Heroes
Just like with List of heroes of Ukraine, we can create the full list of heroes there. The main article could be just used for heroes that have articles. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 07:41, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Ukrainian cosmonauts
What's the deal with "Ukrainian" cosmonauts. They are ethnic Ukrainians, no doubt, but they are not "Ukrainian cosmonauts", I think. It's like calling Gogol a Ukrainian writer or Sikorsky (born in Kiev) a Ukrainian Engineer. Besides, why are they in the short list of the most notable recipients out of 700+ people? --Irpen 04:39, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * We have artilces on them. I try to have less "red links" as possible, and if we want to make a full list of Heroes of the RF, then we can do that. But as for the Ukrainian bit, they were marked that way because that was where they were born. If you feel this is not right, I will change it. Zach (Sound Off) 05:18, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Yes, I think just "cosmonaut" is better in this context. Cheers, --Irpen 05:53, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Your quite welcome. Zach (Sound Off) 05:55, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I just checked Leroy Chiao. He is listed as an American Astronaut, not a Chinese one. This is a very close analogy. Cheers, --Irpen 19:27, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I see where you are coming from. While he was born in China, he did his astronaut service for the US. In the Ukrainian situation, while that is their heritage/nationality, they performed their services for the Russian Federation, so that is why they received the title of hero from Russia, not the Ukraine. Zach (Sound Off) 22:57, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

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Vladimir Glebov
Hi. Would someone look again for Vladimir Glebov and verify if he's indeed on none of the lists? --HanzoHattori (talk) 14:11, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

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Czechoslovakia at the 1992 Summer Olympics

The Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (informally known as Czechoslovakia) competed as a nation for the last time at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia at the end of 1992, the Czech Republic and Slovakia would compete as independent nations at the 1996 Summer Olympics. 208 competitors, 146 men and 62 women, took part in 121 events in 25 sports.

Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Archery
Czechoslovakia's second archery appearance came twelve years after its first. Only one man competed for Czechoslovakia, not advancing to the elimination rounds.

Men's Individual Competition:
 * Martin Hámor – Ranking round (did not advance – 65th place)

Athletics
Men's 110m Hurdles
 * Igor Kováč
 * Heat — 14.12s (→ did not advance)

Men's 400m Hurdles
 * Jozef Kucej
 * Heat — 50.28s (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon
 * Karel David — 2:16:34 (→ 19th place)

Men's Long Jump
 * Milan Gombala
 * Heat — 7.69 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump
 * Milan Mikuláš
 * Heat — 16.82 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Discus Throw
 * Imrich Bugár
 * Heat — 58.70 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Javelin Throw
 * Jan Železný
 * Final — 89.66m (→ Gold Medal)

Men's Hammer Throw
 * Pavel Sedláček
 * Heat — 67.76 m (→ did not advance)

Men's 20 km Walk
 * Pavol Blažek – 1:29:23 (→ 17th place)
 * Igor Kollár – 1:29:38 (→ 19th place)
 * Jan Záhončík – 1:33:37 (→ 28th place)

Men's 50 km Walk
 * Roman Mrázek – 3:55:21 (→ 5th place)
 * Pavol Szikora – 4:17:49 (→ 27th place)
 * Pavol Blažek – 4:22:33 (→ 29th place)

Men's Decathlon
 * Robert Změlík — 8.611 points (→ Gold Medal)

Women's Marathon
 * Alena Peterková – 2:53:30 (→ 25th place)

Women's High Jump
 * Šárka Kašpárková
 * Heat — 1.88m (→ did not advance)
 * Šárka Nováková
 * Heat — 1.83m (→ did not advance)

Women's Discus Throw
 * Vladimíra Malátová
 * Heat — 59.04m (→ did not advance)

Badminton
Men
 * Tomasz mendrek – Round of 32 (lost to Foo Kok Keong MAS 0-2)

Women
 * Eva Lacinová – Round of 64 (lost to Doris Piche CAN 0-2)

Women's Team Competition

 * Preliminary round (group B)
 * Lost to United States (55-111)
 * Lost to Spain (58-59)
 * Lost to China (70-72)
 * Classification Matches
 * 5th-8th place: Defeated Brazil (74-62)
 * 5th-6th place: Lost to Spain (58-59) → Sixth place
 * Team Roster
 * Iveta Bielikova
 * Martina Luptakova
 * Ana Janostinova
 * Eva Nemcova
 * Ana Chupikova
 * Eva Antalecova
 * Renata Hirakova
 * Adriana Chamajova
 * Erika Burianova
 * Kamila Vodickova
 * Milena Razgova
 * Eva Berkova

Boxing
Flyweight (51 kg)
 * Stanislav Vagaský – Round of 32 (lost to Isidrio Visvera PHI)

Middleweight (75 kg)
 * Michal franek – Round of 32 (lost to Lee Seung-Bae KOR)

Heavyweight (91 kg)
 * Vojtěch Rückschloss – Quarterfinals (lost to David Tua NZL rsc – 5th place)

Super Heavyweight (+91 kg)
 * Peter Hrivňák – Quarterfinals (lost to Brian Nielsen DEN 4-14 – 5th place)

Flatwater
K1 – 500 m men
 * Attila Szabó – semifinal (did not advance)

K2 – 500 m men
 * Juraj Kadnár, Róbert Erban – semifinal (did not advance)

C1 – 500 m men
 * Slavomír Kňazovický – final: 1:54.51 (4th place)

C2 – 500 m men
 * Jan Bartůněk, Waldemar Fibigr – final: 1:44.70 (8th place)

K1 – 1000 m men
 * Róbert Erban – semifinal (did not advance)

K2 – 1000 m men
 * René Kučera, Petr Hruška – final: 3:23.12 (7th place)

K4 – 1000 m men
 * Jozef Turza, Juraj Kadnár, Róbert Erban, Attila Szabó – final: 2:57.06 (4th place)

C1 – 1000 m men
 * Jan Bartůněk – final: 4:15,25 (8th place)

C2 – 1000 m men
 * Jan Bartůněk, Waldemar Fibigr – final: 1:44,70 (8th place)

K2 – 500 m women
 * Jobánková, Janáčková – semifinal (did not advance)

K4 – 500 m women
 * Jobánková, Janáčková, Havelková, Vokurková – semifinal (did not advance)

Water slalom
K1 men
 * Luboš Hilgert – 116.63 (23rd place)
 * Pavel Prindiš – 117.60 (24th place)

C1 men
 *  Lukáš Pollert – 113.69 (gold medal)
 * Jakub Prüher – 151.85 (26th place)

C2 men
 *  Miroslav Šimek, Jiří Rohan – 124.25 (silver medal)
 * Petr Štercl, Pavel Štercl – 130.42 (6th place)
 * Jan Petříček, Tomáš Petříček – 131.86 (7th place)

K1 women
 * Zdenka Grossmannová – 135.79 (5th place)
 * Štěpánka Hilgertová – 141.43 (12th place)
 * Marcela Sadilová – 150.38 (20th place)

Cycling
Twelve cyclists, all men, represented Czechoslovakia in 1992.

Road cycling

 * Men's road race
 * František Trkal – 25th place
 * Miloslav Kejval – 27th place
 * Pavel Padrnos – 69th place

 * Men's team time trial
 * Czechoslovakia – 2:06:44 (8th place)
 * Jaroslav Bílek
 * Miroslav Lipták
 * Pavel Padrnos
 * František Trkal

Track cycling

 * Men's sprint
 * Jaroslav Jeřábek – 13th place

 * Men's individual pursuit
 * Michal Baldrián – 14th place

 * Men's team pursuit
 * Czechoslovakia – 8th place
 * Jan Panáček
 * Pavel Tesař
 * Rudolf Juřícký
 * Svatopluk Buchta

 * Men's points race
 * Lubor Tesař – 5th place

Diving
Women's 3m Springboard
 * Heidemarie Bártová
 * Preliminary Round — 286.14 points
 * Final — 491.49 points (→ 4th place)

Equestrianism
Showjumping
 * Jiří Pecháček, Garta – withdrew due to horse's illness in qualification round

Fencing
Five male fencers represented Czechoslovakia in 1992.

 * Men's épée
 * Aleš Depta – 16th place
 * Jiří Douba – 21st place
 * Roman Ječmínek – 35th place

 * Men's team épée
 * Czechoslovakia – preliminary group: 2 losses (did not advance, 9th place)
 * Aleš Depta
 * Jiří Douba
 * Roman Ječmínek
 * Michal Franc
 * Tomáš Kubíček

Gymnastics
Two men and three Czechoslovak women participated in the artistic gymnastics competition, but only Pavla Kinclová managed to advance to the all-around finals in comparison to three finalists in 1988, where Czechoslovakia entered whole women's team. Daniela Bártová later switched to athletics and participated in the 2000 Olympics in pole vault. Lenka Oulehlová recorded second of her three Olympic participations with her (and Czechoslovakia's all-time rhythmic gymnastics) best Olympics result - 8th place.

Artistic Gymnastics
Men
 * Martin modlitba – qualification all-around: 112.625 points (62nd place)
 * Arnold Bugár – qualification all-around: 111.200 points (77th place)

Women
 * Pavla Kinclová – final all-around: 38.899 points (24th place)
 * Iveta Poloková – qualification all-around: 76.773 points (58th place)
 * Daniela Bártová – qualification all-around: 76.535 points (64th place)

Rhythmic Gymnastics
Individual
 * Lenka Oulehlová – final: 56.137 points (8th place)
 * Jana Šrámková – qualification: 27.650 points (16th place)

Men's Team Competition

 * Preliminary round (group A)
 * Czechoslovakia – Sweden 14-20
 * Czechoslovakia – Iceland 16-16
 * Czechoslovakia – South Korea 19-20
 * Czechoslovakia – Brazil 27-16
 * Czechoslovakia – Hungary 18-20
 * Classification Match
 * 9th/10th place: Czechoslovakia – Germany 20-19 (→ Ninth place)
 * Team Roster
 * Petr Baumruk
 * Roman Bečvář
 * Zoltán Bergendi
 * Milan Folta
 * Petr Házl
 * Ľuboš Hudák
 * Peter Kakaščík
 * Peter Kalafut
 * Václav Lanča
 * Peter Mesiarik
 * Bohumír Prokop
 * Ján Sedláček
 * Martin Šetlík
 * Ľubomír Švajlen
 * Michal Tonar
 * Zdeněk Vaněk
 * Head coach: František Šulc

Judo
60 kg men
 * Petr Šedivák – 1st round (lost to Junior BRA)

65 kg men
 * Pavel Petřikov – 3rd round (lost to Csak HUN), repechage 1st round (lost to Laats BEL)

71 kg men
 * Josef Věnsek – 3rd round (lost to Korhoren FIN)

95 kg men
 * Jiří Sosna – 2nd round (lost to Aurelio BRA)

61 kg women
 * Miroslava Jánošíková – 3rd round (lost to Arad ISR), repechage 1st round (lost to Martin ESP)

Modern pentathlon
Three male pentathletes represented Czechoslovakia in 1992.

Men
 * Petr Blažek – 5.239 points (14th place)
 * Tomáš Fleissner – 5.128 points (29th place)
 * Jiří Prokopius – 4.635 points (57th place)

Men – teams
 * Czechoslovakia – 15.002 points (9th place)
 * Petr Blažek
 * Tomáš Fleissner
 * Jiří Prokopius

Rowing
Single sculls men
 *  Václav Chalupa – final: 6:52.93 (silver medal)

Coxed pairs men
 * Czechoslovakia – withdrew
 * Michal Dalecký, Dušan Macháček, cox Oldřich Hejdušek

Coxed fours men
 * Czechoslovakia – 10th place
 * Petr Batěk, Martin Parkán, Martin Tomaštík, Ivo Žerava, cox Martin Svoboda

Eights men
 * Czechoslovakia – 12th place
 * Radek Zavadil, Pavel Sokol, Petr Blecha, Jan Beneš, Pavel Menšík, Ondřej Holeček, Jiří Šefčík, Dušan Businský, cox Jiří Pták

Paired fours women
 * Czechoslovakia – final: 6:35,99 (6th place)
 * Irena Soukupová, Michaela Burešová, Hana Kafková, Lubica Novotníková

Eights women
 * Czechoslovakia – 8th place
 * Hana Žáková, Hana Dariusová, Renata Beránková, Martina Šefčíková, Sabina Telenská, Radka Zavadilová, Michaela Vávrová, Eliška Jandová, (cox) Lenka Kováčová

Sailing
Men's Sailboard (Lechner A-390)
 * Patrik Hrdina
 * Final Ranking — 239.0 points (→ 25th place)

Women's 470 Class
 * Renata Srbová and Radmila Dobnerová
 * Final Ranking — 112 points (→ 16th place)

Shooting
Air rifle men
 * Petr Kůrka – 588 points (13th place)
 * Dalimil nejezchleba – 586 points (21st place)

Free pistol men
 * Stanislav jirkal – 553 points (17th place)

Air pistol men
 * Stanislav jirkal – 580 points (10th place)

Rapid fire pistol men
 * Jindřich Skupa – 584 points (13th place)

Rifle prone men
 * Milan Bakeš – 591 points (31st place)
 * Miroslav Varga – 591 points (31st place)

Rifle 3x40 men
 * Petr Kůrka – 1162 points (11th place)
 * Milan Bakeš – 1155 points (21st place)

Skeet men
 * Luboš Adamec – 197 points (11th place)
 * Leoš Hlaváček – 196 points (16th place)
 * David valter – 195 points (21st place)

Trap men
 *  Petr Hrdlička – 219 points (gold medal)
 * Pavel kubec – 218 points (5th place)

Running target
 *  Luboš Račanský – 670 points (bronze medal)
 * Miroslav Januš – 572 points (9th place)

Air rifle women
 * Dagmar Bílková – 494.9 points (4th place)
 * Lenka Koloušková – 586 points (17th place)

Standard rifle 3x20 women
 * Lenka Koloušková – 579 points (9th place)
 * Dagmar Bílková – 571 points (24th place)

Sport pistol women
 * Jindřiška Šimková – 575 points (14th place)
 * Regina Kodýmová – 573 points (21st place)

Swimming
Men's 100m Backstroke
 * Rastislav Bizub – heat: 57.57 s (did not advance, 24th place)
 * Marcel Blažo – heat: 57.61 s (did not advance, 26th place)

Men's 200m Backstroke
 * Marcel Blažo – heat: 2:02.81 (did not advance, 19th place)
 * Rastislav bizub – heat: 2:03.30 (did not advance, 23rd place)

Men's 100m Breaststroke
 * Radek beinhauer – heat: 1:04.88 (did not advance, 32nd place)

Men's 200m Breaststroke
 * Radek beinhauer – B-final: 2:16.07 (13th place)

Women's 50m Freestyle
 * Martina Moravcová – heat: 26.92 s (did not advance, 29th place)

Women's 100m Freestyle
 * Martina Moravcová – heat: 57.19 s (did not advance, 18th place)

Women's 400m Freestyle
 * Olga Šplíchalová – heat: 4:15.43, B-final: 4:16.41 (14th place)
 * Hana Černá – heat: 4:19.87, B-final, B-final: 4:21.50 (16th place)

Women's 800m Freestyle
 * Olga Šplíchalová – final: 8:37.66 (6th place)

Women's 100m Backstroke
 * Helena Straková – heat: 1:05.38 (did not advance, 30th place)
 * Martina Moravcová – heat: 1:05.73 (did not advance, 31st place)

Women's 200m Backstroke
 * Helena Straková – heat: 2:18.44 (did not advance, 30th place)

Women's 100m Breaststroke
 * Lenka Maňhalová – heat: 1:13.96 (did not advance, 29th place)

Women's 100m Butterfly
 * Martina Moravcová – heat: 1:02.11 (did not advance, 19th place)

Women's 200m Individual Medley
 * Hana Černá – heat: 2:19.93 (did not advance, 22nd place)
 * Lenka Manhalová – heat: 2:20.52 (did not advance, 24th place)

Women's 400m Individual Medley
 * Hana Černá – B-final: 4:50.30 (14th place)

Synchronized swimming
One synchronized swimmer represented Czechoslovakia in 1992.

 * Women's solo
 * Lucie Svrčinová

Table tennis
Men's singles
 * Petr Korbel – preliminary group: 2 wins, 1 loss (did not advance)
 * Roland Vími – preliminary group: 1 win, 2 losses (did not advance)
 * Tomáš Jančí – preliminary group: 3 losses (did not advance)

Women's singles
 * Marie Hrachová – 4th place
 * preliminary group: 3 wins
 * round of 16: lost to Chai Po Wa HKG 0-3

Women's doubles
 * Marie Hrachová, Jaroslava Mihočková – preliminary group: 2 wins, 1 loss (did not advance)

Tennis
Men

Women

Men's Team Competition

 * Preliminary round (group A)
 * Lost to Unified Team (6-10)
 * Lost to United States (3-9)
 * Lost to Germany (9-15)
 * Lost to France (6-14)
 * Lost to Australia (9-15)
 * Classification Matches
 * Lost to the Netherlands (8-9)
 * Lost to Greece (8-10) → 12th place
 * Team Roster
 * Roman Bacik
 * Eduard Baluch
 * Vidor Borsig
 * Tomas Bundschuh
 * Pavol Dinzik
 * Peter Hornak
 * Julius Izdinsky
 * Miroslav Janich
 * Stefan Kmeto
 * Roman Polacik
 * Ladislav Vidumansky
 * Petr Veszelits

Greco-Roman
62 kg
 * Jindřich Vavrla – eliminated in 2nd round

74 kg
 * Jaroslav zeman – 7th place

82 kg
 * Pavel frinta – 8th place

Freestyle
74 kg
 * Milan Revický – eliminated in 3rd round

82 kg
 * Jozef Lohyňa – 5th place

90 kg
 * Josef palatinus – eliminated in 3rd round

82 kg
 * Juraj Štech – eliminated in 2nd round


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Talk:Α-Linolenic acid

Desaturase clause
Just wanted to know I edited the "desaturase" clause. It said something like "humans must get alpha-linoleic acid from their diets because they lack desaturase enzyme to convert stearic acid". I believe what is meant by this is that if humans had desaturase they could metabolically convert stearic acid into A-L-acid, but it might not be obvious. So I added "stearic acid... into alpha-linoleic acid"

Baking temperature
Reference 6 is claimed to imply that ALA is not stable under baking conditions. Reference 6 however does not support that claim and says quite the opposite. 163.1.36.220 (talk) 14:08, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

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Herbert Bamlett

Herbert Bamlett (1 March 1882 – October 1941) was an English football manager and referee.

In 1909, Bamlett refereed the FA Cup fourth round tie between Manchester United and Burnley, but called the game off with only 18 minutes left and the score at 1–0 to Burnley due to heavy snow. United won the rearranged game 3–2 and went on to win the FA Cup for the first time. He also refereed the 1914 match between Scotland and England. At the end of that season, at the age of 32, Bamlett was appointed to referee the 1914 FA Cup Final between Liverpool and Burnley.

That same year, Bamlett took over as manager at Oldham Athletic, where he stayed for seven years before moving on to Wigan Borough (1921–1923) and Middlesbrough (1923–1926). After taking a break from the game, he was named manager of Manchester United in April 1927. He remained there until 1931, when his contract was not renewed following United's relegation. The club lost 12 consecutive matches that season and was strapped for cash after the death of owner John Henry Davies.

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Tangophobia Vol. 1

Tangophobia Vol. 1: Contemporary Sounds of Buenos Aires is a compilation CD released by Argentine independent label Constitution Music. It contains tracks from different neo-tango and electronic artists from Buenos Aires, including NeoShaft, B.A. Jam, Hybrid Tango and Tanghetto.

The most important point of interest of this compilation are five unreleased tracks from the band Tanghetto, one of them being a remnant from "Emigrante (electrotango)" sessions, named "Otra oportunidad" ("Second chance").

In Tanghetto's words: "As we were still working on Emigrante (electrotango) and Hybrid Tango, we occasionally gathered together in the studio with friends and colleagues who are also exploring the path of tango and electronica. From these joint sessions arose this unusual compilation. We felt like this music was worth releasing as a full-length album".

The palette of styles goes from house to trip hop, from electrotango to chill out music.

The artists that performed in the album are Tanghetto, Hybrid Tango (Tanghetto's side project), NeoShaft, B.A. Jam and Black Market, all Buenos Aires–based electronic musicians.

Track listing

 * 1) "Humedad" (Humidity) [3:44] – Performed by Tanghetto
 * 2) "La Huída" (The Runaway) [4:11] – Performed by Tanghetto and Black Market
 * 3) "Incognito" [4:21] – Performed by B.A. Jam
 * 4) "Aire" (Air) [5:22] – Performed by NeoShaft
 * 5) "Renacer" (Rebirth) [5:04] – Performed by NeoShaft
 * 6) "Tango Provocateur" [3:55] – Performed by B.A. Jam
 * 7) "Diagonal Sur" [3:32] – Performed by Hybrid Tango / remixed by B.A. Jam
 * 8) "Biorritmo" (Bio Rhythm) – Performed by Tanghetto and NeoShaft
 * 9) "Sector 'A'" [3:30] – Performed by Hybrid Tango / remixed by B.A. Jam
 * 10) "Sesión de Medianoche" (Midnight Session) [4:19] – Performed by B.A. Jam
 * 11) "Otra Oportunidad" (Second Chance) – Performed by Tanghetto (Emigrante (electrotango) sessions)
 * 12) "El Derrumbe" (The Downfall) [3:53] – Performed by Tanghetto

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Russell Norman (disambiguation)

Russell Norman may refer to:

 * Russell Norman (restaurateur) (1965–2023), English restaurateur, food writer
 * Russel Norman (born 1967), New Zealand politician and environmentalist

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Kevin A. Lynch

Kevin Andrew Lynch (January 7, 1918 – April 25, 1984) was an American urban planner and author. He is known for his work on the perceptual form of urban environments and was an early proponent of mental mapping. His most influential books include The Image of the City (1960), a seminal work on the perceptual form of urban environments, and What Time is This Place? (1972), which theorizes how the physical environment captures and refigures temporal processes.

A student of architect Frank Lloyd Wright before training in city planning, Lynch spent his academic career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, teaching there from 1948 to 1978. He practiced site planning and urban design professionally with Carr/Lynch Associates, later known as Carr, Lynch, and Sandell.

Early life and education
Lynch was born as the youngest child of an Irish-American family on January 7, 1918. He was raised on Chicago's North Side. After graduating from the Francis Parker School in 1935, Lynch matriculated at Yale University intending to study architecture. Finding its pedagogy too conservative, he left to study under Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin and Scottsdale Arizona. Lynch later stated that Wright was a great influence, but disagreed with his individualistic social philosophy. Leaving Wright after a year and a half, he enrolled at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York to study engineering in 1939, but did not complete the program and went to work for Chicago architect Paul Schweikher. In 1941, Lynch married Anne Borders, a fellow graduate of the Parker School.

Three weeks after his wedding, Lynch was drafted into the Army Corps of Engineers, serving in the siege of Peleliu, the Philippines and Japan through January 1946. After the war, he completed his undergraduate education at MIT and received a Bachelor's degree in city planning in 1947.

Academic career
After graduation, Lynch began work in Greensboro, North Carolina as an urban planner but was soon recruited to teach at MIT by Lloyd Rodwin. He began lecturing at MIT the following year, becoming an assistant professor in 1949, a tenured associate professor in 1955, and a full professor in 1963.

In 1954, after receiving a grant from the Ford Foundation to study urban form in Italy, Lynch and his MIT teaching colleague György Kepes were awarded a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to study perceptions of the urban environment and urban form. In 1958 Lynch wrote an essay ‘The theory of urban form’ with Lloyd Rodwin where the city is described through the complementary of two systems – flows and adapted spaces – interpreted starting from a group of descriptive categories of urban form. Lynch and Kepes' research was published in 1960 as Lynch's book The Image of the City. In 1970, Lynch received funding from UNESCO to study the use of cities by young people in urban areas of Salta, Melbourne, Toluca, and Kraków, a project summarized in his book Growing Up in Cities (1977).

Lynch provided seminal contributions to the field of City Planning through empirical research on how individuals perceive and navigate the urban landscape. His books explore the presence of time and history in the urban environment, how urban environments affect children, and how to harness human perception of the physical form of cities and regions as the conceptual basis for good urban design.

Parallel to his academic work, Lynch practiced planning and urban design in partnership with Stephen Carr, with whom he founded Carr/Lynch Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Later life
Lynch became professor emeritus in 1978, but continued to write and practice architecture. He died of a heart attack at his summer home at Gay Head on Martha's Vineyard on April 25, 1984.

The Image of the City
Lynch's most famous work, The Image of the City (1960), is the result of a five-year study on how observers take in information of the city. Using three American cities as examples (Boston, Jersey City and Los Angeles), Lynch reported that users understood their surroundings in consistent and predictable ways, forming mental maps with five elements:
 * paths, the streets, sidewalks, trails, and other channels in which people travel;
 * edges, perceived boundaries such as walls, buildings, and shorelines;
 * districts, relatively large sections of the city distinguished by some identity or character;
 * nodes, focal points, intersections or loci;
 * landmarks, readily identifiable objects which serve as external reference points.

In the same book, Lynch also coined the words "imageability" and "wayfinding". Image of the City has had important and durable influence in the fields of urban planning and environmental psychology.

Personal life
Anne Borders Lynch and Kevin Lynch were married in 1941 and had four children. The Lynches were long-term residents of Martha's Vineyard, where Anne continued spending her summers until her death in 2011.

Books

 * (2nd ed. 1971; 3rd ed. 1984)
 * (2nd ed. 1980)
 * (2nd ed. Good City Form 1984)
 * (2nd ed. 1980)
 * (2nd ed. Good City Form 1984)
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Archos

Archos (, stylized as ARCHOS) is a French multinational electronics company that was established in 1988 by Henri Crohas. Archos manufactures tablets, smartphones, portable media players and portable data storage devices. The name is an anagram of Crohas' last name. Also, in Greek (-αρχος), it's a suffix used in nouns indicating a person with power. The company's slogan has been updated from "Think Smaller" to "On The Go", and the current "Entertainment your way".

Archos has developed a variety of products, including digital audio players, portable video players (PVP), digital video recorders, a personal digital assistant, netbooks, more recently tablet computers using Google Android and Microsoft Windows (tablet PCs), and smartphones (which are manufactured by ZTE under the "Archos" brand name).

History
By the year 2000, Archos became an important player in the portable media player market and this was demonstrated by the groundbreaking year 2000 release of the very first disk-based digital audio player (DAP) called Jukebox 6000. This product paved the way for the high-capacity DAPs, which finally resulted in the wide adoption of digital and MP3 players. Archos' success during this period was attributed to its strategy of technological leadership, releasing different iterations of a product line, which featured a succession of products with better specifications and technology than their predecessors.

In the latter part of the 2000s, Archos began to lose to Apple, which - for its part - introduced its own portable devices such as the iPod. This development highlighted a trend in the technology industry where beating competitors to the market and equipping products with the most advanced technology available do not always translate to success. The company started phasing its portable media players in 2008 to focus more on its Android tablet range.

In 2013, the company entered the mobile phone market by launching a series of smartphone models for instance, Archos Cesium, Archos Diamond, Archos Titanium, Archos Platinum, Archos Neon, Archos Xenon, Archos Oxygen and Archos Helium.

In 2018, Archos introduced a slew of products to the market. The most notable of these involved the product unveiled in February, which was the very first Android-powered scooter called Citee Connect. Several weeks later, the company announced the Archos Hello, which is touted as an A.I.-powered smart display to challenge the likes of Amazon Echo. The Saphir 50X joined these gadgets in April 2018. This new release was an update to the Archos 50 Saphir, the tech company's rugged phone brand.

Archos announced the launch of the X67 5G smartphone in 2021. The manufacturer is offering this mobile device with 6.67 inches display, Mediatek Dimensity 800 MT6873 chipset, 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage.

Faced with increased competition from China, in 2019 Archos was forced to change its economic model.

Archos 9 PC Tablet
The Archos 9 PC Tablet is a 9" tablet computer launched October 22, 2009 and contains Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system.

Archos 133 PC 13.3" netbook
The Archos 133 PC is a notebook computer with a 13.3" screen. Intel Atom D510 Dual Core, 1 GB 667/800 MHz, Webcam, Windows 7.

Archos 5 Internet tablet
In September 2009 Archos announced the Archos 5 Internet tablet.

Being an extension of the Archos 5, this internet tablet uses Google's Android mobile operating system.

Specifications:
 * Processor based on ARM Cortex-A8, 32 bit, dual-issue, superscalar core @ 800 MHz 65 nm
 * 256 MB of RAM
 * 4.8" display, 800x480 resolution
 * Video playback
 * Music playback
 * Storage: 8 or 32 GB flash memory + microSD slot (SDHC compatible) or 160-500 GB with 2.5" hard drive (ext3 file-system)
 * Built in GPS
 * Bluetooth 2.0
 * FM radio

Archos 7 home tablet series
The home tablet series includes 7 in tablets that utilizes Google's Android mobile operating system. All versions have video and music playback and come equipped with a microSD slot that can support up to 32 GB cards.

Archos 8 home tablet
The Archos 8 home tablet is a device that resembles a digital photo frame but is actually a full featured computer system that comes with an 8" touch screen with a resolution of 800x600 pixels.

Generation 8
On August 31, 2010 Archos announced its eighth generation of tablets. The five tablets were supposed to be launched with Android 2.2 Froyo along with a hold-over release of the Archos 5 without its GPS. Froyo was not released until sometime around December, due to numerous delays with the Archos firmware development team.

Arnova series
Under the new brandname Arnova, in 2011 Archos released a series of low-cost Android tablets for the mass-consumer market. They are priced at 100 Euro to 200 Euro (in the U.S. $99 to $199). Older models have resistive touch screens, and uses the RK2818 Rockchip SoC. All versions have Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g). All currently come with the AppsLib application store. The official Android Market is not included out of box, but the Arnova devices may easily be rooted, and the Android Market is commonly installed by Arnova owners.

The Arnova 8.4's configuration is aimed at those who wish to use their tablet primarily as an e-book reader. The Arnova cG2 has a built-in GPS and limited video and audio format support.

Generation 9
Archos announced in 2011 that it would release a $199 Honeycomb tablet. The G9 tablets are powered by the TI OMAP4 series of SoCs, using the 4430 and 4460 variants at 1 GHz, 1.2 GHz, or 1.5 GHz and are equipped with either 512 MB or 1 GB RAM. They have 8 GB or 16 GB of flash memory, and a microSDHC slot or a 250 GB hard drive. The earliest releases of these tablets utilized Android 3.0 and are upgradable to Android 4.0.3. All have official access to Google Play. Connectivity includes WiFi (802.11 b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, and GPS and are upgradable to 3G using an Archos G9 3G stick.

Generation 10
Archos launched a new series of tablets, under the Name Gen 10 XS.

Vision Line
Archos introduced their Vision line in 2009. The Archos 3cam Vision had similar features to the 3 Vision, adding an integrated camera for recording video and taking pictures. The Archos 43 Vision, a video media player, was released on March 3, 2010.

FamilyPad
Archos launched a 13.3" tablet in December 2012. Sold for €299, it was aggressively placed among the other large screen tablets (superior to 9.7"). Other 13.3" inch tables include Toshiba's Excite™ 13 Tablet, which has been discontinued.

In March 2013, the FamilyPad was quickly followed by the FamilyPad 2, with an improved dual core Cortex-A9 at 1.6 GHz and quadruple GPU Mali 400 (compared to the former mono Cortex-A8 at 1 GHz of the Familypad 1). Its technical specifications were:
 * Display: 13.3": 1280 x 800 pixels
 * Application Framework: Android 4.1, "Jelly Bean"
 * Processor: Dual-core A9 @ 1.6 GHz and Quad-core GPU Mali 400 MP4
 * Capacity: 8GB + micro SD (compatible with cards up to 64GB)
 * RAM: 1GB
 * Battery life:	Video playback time: 10h / Standby: 6 days
 * Dimensions / weight: 337 mm x 230 mm x 11.6 mm (13.3 x 9.0 x 0.45'') / 1.3 kg (2.86 pounds)

Elements Series
In 2013 Archos introduced their Elements series which include Cobalt, Xenon, Carbon, Titanium, and recently the Platinum tablet line-ups. Archos has mostly been pushing to publicize the Titanium & Platinum series which they announced at CES 2013. In announcing their Titanium & Platinum series, Archos stated that each of the tablet models were made to compete against another major tablet range in the market, but at a lower price:
 * 70 Titanium – Amazon
 * 80 Titanium & Platinum – iPad mini
 * 97 Titanium & Platinum – iPad 3 and iPad (4th generation)

Past products

Former Archos products since discontinued include handheld and portable computers, digital camcorders, audiovisual playback equipment, portable storage devices, and peripherals for the Amiga line.

Content portals
Released along with the Generation 5 and Archos TV+ devices in 2007, the Archos Content Portal (ACP) provides video on demand purchase or rental directly to the internet enabled devices. However, there is no PC based software for the service such as iTunes. A major difference from similar services is that given "portals" are serviced by different distributors, such as CinemaNow in North America. Archos has numerous ACP partners worldwide but they vary by region.

MoovyPlay
In the summer of 2007 French-based Cinebank announced MoovyPlay. The device runs on a kiosk to harddrive rental service with Archos building the 40GB player. The Drive attaches to a Dock similar to those seen in Archos players and connects to a Video Display. The device was launched in France on December 10, 2007 with initial success.

PocketDish
DISH Network Corporation, which owns 19% of Archos since 2005, sold Archos PVPs under the PocketDish brand. There were three versions, the AV700E (AV700), AV500 (AV500), and the AV402E (Gmini 402). While the original products are no longer available, on December 18, 2007 Dish Network released info on a new similar deal with the current generation 605 and 705 Wi-Fi, allowing high speed transfers to the devices from their current HD receivers. Unlike with the original PocketDish, the products will not be sold a Dish rebranding, instead the software plug-in was made available for free for the two products. They are expected to be sold alongside Dish products in January. In 2008 Dish Network's PocketDish page was updated to show the new service and products.

American Airlines
In May 2007, American Airlines revealed plans of offering modified Archos 604 and 704s to first-class passengers for entertainment during their flight.

Opera
Opera Software has provided the web browser for Archos devices since the PMA400. They are a version of Opera for devices similar to that seen on the Wii video game console and the Nokia N800 Internet appliance. On Generation 5 devices Adobe Flash support was added. An update to full Flash 9 support was announced in April 2008 from the current Flash 7.

SFR
In late 2007, SFR, a French mobile phone company, announced to be building a new device with Archos that utilizes 3G communication. It was revealed to be the Archos 5g. The Archos 5g is currently available for a discounted price through SFR for a service contract.

Blockbuster
A similar deal to the one with Cinebank was announced with Blockbuster Inc. in 2008. The specifics were revealed and Blockbuster hinted that the service will not be Archos exclusive.

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SmartLynx Airlines

SmartLynx Airlines Limited, previously LatCharter, is a Latvia-based ACMI, charter and cargo airline based in Mārupe, operating flights on wet lease out (ACMI), holiday charter flights, ad-hoc passenger charter and cargo flights across Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada and the United States.

History
The privately owned company started operations in 1993 with a leased Tupolev Tu-134B. In 2001, the Tupolev fleet was replaced with the larger Yakovlev Yak-42 and in 2003, first Airbus A320-200 was inducted into the service on behalf of the airline.

In 2006, Loftleiðir, the aircraft lease arm of Icelandair Group, acquired a majority 55% shareholding in the LatCharter stock, and eventually the whole company.

In 2007, the airline expanded its fleet by adding five more A320-200s and two 767-300s. The aircraft were wet-leased to different airlines around the world. Since then, the ACMI market has been the company's primary focus, having operated for numerous carriers such as Air Malta, SBA Airlines, Finnair, Condor. In 2008, the company was renamed SmartLynx Airlines.

In 2012, the airline was bought from Icelandair in a management buy-out also forming a single aircraft subsidiary Smartlynx Airlines Estonia to serve Estonian tour operators. In 2014, SmartLynx transitioned into a paperless cockpit environment by using the Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro app as its electronic flight bag (EFB).

In 2016, the company was bought by a Netherlands-based investment fund.

In June 2016, Zygimantas Surintas was appointed as the company's CEO.

In 2019, the airline established a subsidiary in Malta (SmartLynx Malta). SmartLynx Airlines also became a part of Avia Solutions Group in 2019.

In 2020, the airline expanded into air cargo transportation. In February 2021, SmartLynx and DHL signed a partnership agreement. The partnership included two of SmartLynx Malta A321-200s transporting freight and goods on behalf of the Deutsche Post subsidiary.

In October 2021, SmartLynx announced the establishment of an in-house line maintenance centre, SmartLynx Technik. SmartLynx also leased several Airbus A320 aircraft to Nigerian airline Air Peace in November 2021. In December 2021, the airlines announced plans to open a new office in Vilnius, Lithuania.

In February 2022, SmartLynx Airlines signed an agreement with SMBC Aviation Capital to lease the first two Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft. In March 2022, SmartLynx announced the introduction of first Airbus A330-300 freighters to its fleet after signing an agreement with Air Transport Services Group.

SmartLynx also formed partnerships with airlines such as British airline EasyJet, leasing several aircraft to EasyJet in June 2022. In October 2022, SmartLynx also announced it was adding four Airbus A321F freighters to its fleet, with plans to have 20 A321F aircraft by the end of 2023. The four new aircraft were acquired through a freighter conversion programme in partnership with Aero Capital Solutions.

In 2022, SmartLynx Airlines celebrated its 30th anniversary.

Training centre
SmartLynx Training Centre is an approved training organization (ATO) in the Baltic States, providing type rating courses for Airbus A320 family and Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft.

Fleet
, SmartLynx Airlines fleet - including all subsidiaries - consists of the following aircraft:

Accidents and incidents

 * On 28 February 2018 a Smartlynx Airlines Airbus A320-214 made an emergency landing at Tallinn Airport, landing 150 meters from the runway during a touch-and-go landing exercise. After a successful runway approach, the aircraft was unable to regain altitude and collided with the runway. During the collision, the aircraft's engines touched the runway, and the covering flaps of the aircraft's main landing gear fell apart. The aircraft managed to regain altitude after the collision and turn back to make a landing, but after the turn both engines stopped. The pilot made an emergency landing about 150 meters from the runway, stopping at about 15 meters south of the runway. All of the aircraft's tires broke in the course of the training. The instructor and one of the students sustained mild injuries as a result of the accident.

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Minister of Militia and Defence

The Minister of Militia and Defence was the federal government minister in charge of the volunteer army units in Canada, the Canadian Militia.

From 1855 to 1906, the minister was responsible for Canadian militia units only, as the British Army was still stationed in Canada. From 1906 to 1923, the minister was in charge of the Department of Militia and Defence (Canada). After 1923, the position was merged with the Minister of the Naval Service and the Minister of Aviation into the new position of Minister of National Defence. The Minister of National Defence became responsible for the Canadian Militia, the Royal Canadian Navy and, from 1924, the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Pre-Confederation (1855–1867)
The following individuals were named the Minister of Militia and Defence for the Province of Canada.

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Post-Confederation (1867–1922)
The following individuals were named the Minister of Militia and Defence for Canada.

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Ministers with military experience
Several individuals that served as the Minister of Militia and Defence have served with the Canadian Militia. They include:
 * Private John Alexander Macdonald, Sedentary Militia during 1837 Rebellion
 * Lieutenant Étienne-Paschal Taché, 5th Battalion of Select Embodied Militia, Chasseurs Canadiens Militia
 * Lieutenant Colonel David Tisdale, 39th Norfolk Battalion of Infantry
 * Assistant Surgeon Frederick William Borden, 68th (Kings) Battalion of Infantry, Non-Permanent Active Militia
 * Colonel Sir Sam Hughes, 45th Canadian Volunteer Militia (45th West Durham Battalion of Infantry, later The Victoria and Haliburton Regiment and lastly as 45th Medium Battery, RCA) merged into what is 50th Field Artillery Regiment (The Prince of Wales Rangers), RCA) in 1960; Canadian volunteer to the British Army
 * Major Sydney Chilton Mewburn, Commanding Officer of Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Permanent Active Militia

Deputy Minister of Militia and Defence

 * Eugène Fiset 1906-1922

Fiset was a retired as Surgeon Colonel of Royal Canadian Regiment

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Talk:NHS National Programme for IT

Old discussions
There are some niggling inaccuracies in this piece that really could do with correcting.

 * 1) NPfIT is not an initiative of the "British" NHS, such an organisation does not exist. It is the NHS in England - quite distinct from NHS's in other parts of the UK: NI, Wales, Scotland. May sound like a small point, but England comes under the DoH, other UK NHS's come under their respective national executives. If there was a "British NHS" then NPfIT would cover the entire country. However, passports not withstanding, "Britain" is not a country, UK is.
 * 2) CfH did not replace the NHSIA. CfH was a renaming of the National Programme Office. At the same time, it  absorbed about half the NHSIA, which was disbanded. CfH(NPfIT) and NHSIA had been separate (and relatively antagonistic) agencies which embodied very different approaches to healthcare informatisation: NHSIA was a product of the NHS - originally the Information Management Group (IMG) based at Quarry House, Leeds, later based in Birmingham.
 * 3) NPfIT/CfH did not receive a Big Brother award in 2000 - it couldn't, it didn't exist then. The NHS as a whole received a Big Brother Award because of what was considered a poor attitude to data security and encryption - the result of long campaign mainly driven by Cambridge lecturer Ross Anderson.
 * 4) The financial figures given in this piece are highly misleading - and really should be corrected. The £2.6 billion was always described as the first tranche of funding. This was then increased to approx £6 billion. This is for capital spending.

However, the government also acknowledged that there would be extra spending involved at the trust level. From my rather hazy memory, I think they put this figure at between £500 to £1 billion a year. This they said would be funded from two sources - increases in NHS IT budget to trusts in line with Wanless recommendations, and savings in trust IT from the benefits brought by NPfIT. Last point much disputed by trusts and various others. Also it has been loudly pointed out - by the BCS amongst others - that all these figures only deal with the capital elements, and do not include the cost of re-engineering, staff training, consultants, time lost, etc etc. A figure of £15 to £30 billion then became accepted as real cost of NPfIT: DoH acknowleges possibility of £15 billion as top line figure - all journalists, critics etc claim £30 billion+. I think I've even seen figure of £50 billion bandied about. I think the statement that "Government estimates put figure at between £20 to £30 billion" is wrong - I'm pretty certain that Government does not accept the £30 billion figure. That was first pushed by Computer Weekly(?).

The Exclusions section is also misleading.

The Programme is "National" because England is a nation, just as Scotland and Wales are (I'll leave NI out of discussion for obvious reasons). England has separate legal system, separate national insignia (the English Royal Arms), separate monarch (yes, it's the same person, but she's actually legally a separate "person" in England from in Scotland), separate Parliament etc. The Parliament at Westminster is both the English Parliament, the UK Parliament, and the Imperial Parliament (I kid you not): three for the price of one. Always has been, since the Act of Union. While the Scots lost their parliament, the English never lost theirs, they just gained two more - one after Act of Union, second with the Canada Dominion Act in the 1880s.

Secondly, the point about opticians and dentists - these are not fully part of the NHS. However, there are NSFs, and related information strategies, that cover diabetes, cancer, etc that do affect opticians and dentists. CfH is increasingly involved in these NHS information strategies, viz pathology, RIS, and PACS. There is also a Dental Health Information Strategy that envisages the creation of a separate Electronic Dental Record (EDR) that will then connect with the nCRS. The analogy is with GPs moving from spine compliance to running the full Web services-based LSP core service.

The piece seems to suggest that NPfIT is not involved in surgery. This is not true.

What is important is that NPfIT does not currently touch on medical systems - ie Intensive Care, etc. It is clear that they have ambitions in this area, but are currently struggling with what they're committed to do.

Piece does not mention fiasco of IDX in Southern cluster, nor the problems facing Lorenzo in three northern clusters, nor problems around PACS delivery in NWWM and Eastern, etc. Doesn't mention either appointment of Cerner and Millennium to South.

Nor is there any discussion of software behind system, and why it seems to suffering so many glitches - ie use of obsolescent s-cobol system in London, and the problems the Programme seems to be having with .Net Framework 2.0 in rolling out core services. Nor why the Nat Prog went initially for cheap software solutions, that it then has had to buy itself out of expensively via heavy duty hardware (eg NonStop). --Prokopios 19:40, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Some new criticisms of the project have come out in the press today:

 * http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1682859,00.html
 * http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=213589&liFlavourID=1&ebref=3203

Maybe someone could write some of these up into the article?

-- TomRobinson 17:34, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

I have no particular opinion about this topic, but it would be good to balance out the criticisms with some of the stated benefits.

--212.159.18.8 22:33, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Agreed this page is a vast over reaction to a poorly misunderstood concept. The NHS in my region alone has 4 Hospitals and 60 GPs, but every single computer system in this area (50sq miles) has a non-compliant, non communicating computer system; of which three of the primary patient information systems (PAS) were written 30 years ago on UNIX machines and are no longer supported or able to cope with the mass of new data.

What did the author expect the NHS to do?

Privacy assurances have always been utmost in the design of the system, and the concept has been built into the core of the data structure. Indeed the protection is so high staff have problems accessing it from authorised stations using Smartcard (Chip enabled) cards as the dummy testing is carried out.

As a Healthcare Scientist and Clinical Computer Systems expert I must object to this unbalanced knee jerk reaction. CjW

Connecting for Health
I think the name of this project/initiative/whatever has been changed to Connecting for Health - can someone confirm this is the case, and if so, the article needs to be moved. I'll do it if someone else has confirmed it and it hasn't been done next time I check. Proto t c 13:42, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Name changes
The NPfIT is still called the NPfIT. However the agency responsible for delivering it is now known as NHS Connecting for Health.

 * Oh, OK. Thanks. Proto t c 12:20, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Italic in NPfIT
Is the f in NPfIT supposed to be in italics? It doesn't seem to be on the connecting for health website --VinceBowdren 10:05, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

No, it's not supposed to be italicised. The NHS CFH website is the authoritative source for "official" information about the NPfIT.

 * NPfIT is written both with an italic f and without, ther eis some inconsistency between the new Connecting for Heatlh and old NHSIA websites as well as foundation and Primary Care trusts. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 11:29, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

National Identity Register
Inclusion of this reference to identity cards is misleading as it implies a relationship between NPfIT & ID cards which doesn't exist. Delete? Pimdip 13:46, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I can't see what reference you are referring to. I actually think it would be valid to have a reference in the criticism section, as the criticism is inherently related to the government's insistence on placing everyone's personal details on national databases without adequate privacy safeguards, however I will not be insisting on such a reference. The only reference I can see is a 'see also' link, which I think is perfectly appropriate. -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:17, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

True Costs
Setting aside the 'waffle' comment, why would one need to 'cite' that a systems procurement incurrs off-contract costs? It's an accepted fact. The "£12Bn" figure relates to the activities I described. Feel free to 'unDilbertize' ttiotsw, but if the £12Bn is referred to, it needs context. That's what the NAO report stated. PS. Love the "against Censorship" logo on your page ;-) Pimdip 18:33, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Rewrite 2008-05-29
I've just reorganised the article slightly. Going straight into the nuts and bolts of what the project deliverables are was to my mind less relevant and less interesting than the major concerns over the project, which I've accordingly moved up behind the section on scope. I've moved a little of the serious stuff from the criticisms section up to support the relevant higher sections, too - the open letters from a large group of leading IT academics in the UK deserved better than to be tucked away at the end of the article as it's extraordinarily trenchant stuff.

Similarly, I've divided the criticism section into subsections: if readers have to endure a section on "Clusters and Local Service Providers", I think it's reasonable that we also offer them one explaining what security risks the project carries. Nmg20 (talk) 10:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * As one who usually challenges unsubstantiated criticism or 'rumours passd off as facts', this edit seems a very balanced and impartial perspective. Pimdip (talk) 16:28, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Google Health
An anonymous user posted about Google Health and claimed that it "offers what appears to be an identical service". At best, it offers a shareable care record, but with no interface to any of the other architecture of a healthcare IT system (Diagnostics, clinical noting, results reporting, booking etc.) I deleted the reference.

If it does deserve a mention here (I don't believe it does), someone who can be arsed (I can't) needs to explain and contextualise it accurately. Oh, and perhaps mention that as Google is US Based, all data are subject to the US Patriot Act, and may make interesting reading for any bored officer in Homeland Security. Pimdip (talk) 17:54, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Observer Article
I've added a couple of words to compensate for sloppy journalism in The Observer. They transpose problems with Cerner Millennium in South & London (horrendous) to the whole of England.

I'm not implying that Lorenzo/iPM has been a cakewalk north of Watford, but the imbalance needed to be addressed. Any similar article about criticisms of CSC's offering would add balance, but I'm not aware of relevant equivalents to this Observer piece that relate to the rest of England.

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India at the 1992 Summer Olympics

India competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Archery
In India's second appearance in Olympic archery, the nation was represented by three men.

Team Roster

 * (01.) Anjaparavanda Subbaiah (gk)
 * (02.) Cheppudira Poonacha
 * (03.) Jagdaev Rai
 * (04.) Harpeet Singh
 * (05.) Sukhjit Singh
 * (06.) Shakeel Ahmed
 * (07.) Mukesh Kumar
 * (08.) Jude Felix
 * (09.) Jagbir Singh
 * (10.) Dhanraj Pillay
 * (11.) Didar Singh
 * (12.) Ashish Ballal (gk)
 * (13.) Pargat Singh (captain)
 * (14.) Ravi Nayakar
 * (15.) Darryl d’Souza
 * (16.) Ajit Lakra

Wrestling
4 wrestlers in Men's Freestyle and 2 in Men's Greco Roman has represented India in the 1992 Summer Olympics.

title: India at the 1992 Summer Olympics