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"Giannis Vardinogiannis (, born 7 April 1962) is a Greek billionaire shipping magnate, the eldest son of petroleum tycoon Vardis Vardinogiannis. He is included in the Lloyd's List Most influential people in the shipping industry. Early life and career Vardinogiannis is of Cretan descent. After graduating from the Athens College preparatory school, he majored in economics at Vassar College in the United States. He is a former car rally champion who owns the private rally team Cyclon Rally Sport, with seven participations (from 1986 to 1992) in the international Acropolis Rally. He was the first Greek driver in Acropolis Rally for five years from 1988 to 1992. He won the Greek Rally title six times (1987 to 1992), driving Lancia Delta with co- driver Kostas Stefanis. Since his retirement from the sport, in 1993, he works in the family business (Vardinogiannis group of companies), which has diverse sectors such as energy, oil refineries, shipping, television broadcasting, publishing and banking. The Vardinogiannis family owns the multi-billion oil refining company Motor Oil Hellas, where he is a member of the board of directors as the executive vice chairman, and also serves shipping company Avin International S.A., and Piraeus Bank. In May 1996, he was married to Mellissa Gromel and now has three sons. He is the principal shareholder of the Cairo-based Vegas Oil and Gas. As owner of Panathinaikos F.C. In the summer of 2000, the President of Panathinaikos, Yiorgos Vardinogiannis, resigned from his duties and sold his share to his nephew Giannis Vardinogiannis, who succeeded him and changed the style of management into the club (while continuing to work for various family companies). In 2005, he was a founding member of the Greek Super League and was elected president in 2007, being credited in his efforts to achieve European league standards in Greece. On 22 April 2008, main shareholder Vardinogiannis gave a press conference in which he announced the decision of his family to reduce their share in the club to 50% – after 30 years of full ownership – through an €800 million increase of the company's capital stock. After the negotiations and the share capital increase, the Vardinogiannis family would hold 56% of the club, Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos 10% and the rest shareholders 34%. The Vardinogiannis family finally withdrew from Panathinaikos in 2012. The team had the following successes as an owner of Panathinaikos: * Quarter-finals in Champions League: 2001–02 * Quarter-finals in Uefa Cup: 2002–03 * Greek Championship: 2004, 2010 * Greek Cup: 2004, 2010 Political views In February 2015 Vardinogiannis said in a statement to Reuters that the new Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras had a valid point in attacking the corrupted Greek oligarchs. References External links Category:Living people Category:1962 births Category:Greek businesspeople Category:Greek football chairmen and investors Category:Greek rally drivers Category:Vassar College alumni Category:Greek male sport shooters Category:Panathinaikos A.O. Category:Panathinaikos F.C. Category:People in the petroleum industry "
"Volkert Kraeft (born 7 August 1941 in Timmendorfer Strand, Germany) is a German television actor. Selected filmography * A Handful of Heroes (1967) * Derrick: Kalkutta (1976, TV series episode) * The Buddenbrooks (1979, TV series) * ' (1980, TV film) * Vom Webstuhl zur Weltmacht (1983, TV series) * ' (1988, TV series) * ' (1989) External links Eichhorn Agency Düsseldorf *Short Biography Category:1941 births Category:Living people Category:German male television actors Category:German male film actors Category:20th-century German male actors Category:21st-century German male actors "
"Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire The Upper Calder Valley lies in West Yorkshire, in northern England, and covers the towns of Todmorden, Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Luddendenfoot, and Sowerby Bridge, as well as a number of smaller settlements such as Portsmouth, Cornholme, Walsden, and Eastwood. The valley is the upper valley of the River Calder. Major tributaries of the Upper Calder include the Walsden Water, which flows through the large village of Walsden to join the Calder at Todmorden; the Hebden Water, which flows through Hebden Dale to join the Calder at Hebden Bridge; Cragg Brook, which flows through Cragg Vale to join the Calder at Mytholmroyd, and the largest, the River Ryburn, which joins the Calder at Sowerby Bridge. The Upper Calder Valley falls entirely within the much larger metropolitan district of Calderdale. The towns of the Upper Calder are situated linearly along the valley, which cuts through the eastern slopes of the Pennines from Portsmouth in the west to Sowerby Bridge, a market town on the outskirts of Halifax, in the east. In popular culture The rugged and steep-sided Upper Calder Valley inspired such literary artists as the poets Ted Hughes (who was born in Mytholmroyd and wrote about Scout Rock), Sylvia Plath (who is buried in Heptonstall, near Hebden Bridge) and the writer Emily Brontë. The valley has also been a popular setting for film and TV, such as the series Happy Valley. Further reading External links *Upper Calder Valley Renaissance Category:Geography of Calderdale Category:Valleys of West Yorkshire Category:Aire catchment "