CAF

CAF or caf may refer to:

Armed forces

  • Canadian Armed Forces (Canadian Forces), the Canadian Air Force, Army, and Navy
  • Canadian Air Force, now the Royal Canadian Air Force
  • Republic of China Air Force, the air force of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
  • Chief of Air Force (Australia), the commander of the Royal Australian Air Force
  • Cactus Air Force, an American aviation force in the Battle of Guadalcanal
  • The Combat Air Forces, a collection of US Air Force organizations, commands and forces (as opposed to the Mobility Air Forces)
  • Computing and networking

  • Canadian Access Federation, a service of CANARIE Inc
  • SAP Composite Application Framework, a tool by SAP AG
  • Code Aurora Forum A consortium in the wireless industry engaging in software projects for Android and Linux
  • Core Audio Format, a file format from Apple for storing audio data
  • Co-array Fortran, a parallel extension to Fortran language
  • Federations and organisations

    Governmental organisations and projects

  • Caisse d'allocations familiales, French governmental agencies for family-supporting subsidies
  • Cafú (footballer, born 1977)

    Arlindo Gomes Semedo (born 17 November 1977), known as Cafú, is a Cape Verdean professional footballer who plays for S.C. Freamunde as a forward.

    After playing in his country of birth for Belenenses and Boavista, amassing Primeira Liga totals of 153 games and 17 goals over the course of seven seasons, he went on to have a brief spell in Germany with Freiburg.

    Already in his 30's Cafú moved to Cyprus, where he remained for five years in representation of several teams. Internationally, he played for Cape Verde.

    Football career

    Cafú was born in Lisbon, Portugal. During his early career he played for Almada AC, Amora FC, C.F. Os Belenenses – with which he made his Primeira Liga debuts in the 1999–2000 season – and Boavista FC, appearing in six games in the Porto team's quarterfinal run in the UEFA Cup in 2002–03 but starting rarely during his three-and-a-half-year spell with the club.

    In January 2006, Cafú moved to Sportfreunde Siegen in Germany's second division, his five league goals not being enough to avoid relegation (as last). He subsequently stayed in the category and joined SC Freiburg, where he would appear sparingly in one-and-a-half-years.

    Cafú (footballer, born 1993)

    Carlos Miguel Ribeiro Dias (born 26 February 1993), known as Cafú, is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Vitória Guimarães as a midfielder.

    Club career

    Born in Guimarães, Cafú had his first contact with football, in the youth ranks of his hometown club, Vitória Guimarães, which he would represent for two seasons. In 2008, he moved to Benfica, playing his first seasons as a defensive midfielder, then shifting to a striker role.

    On 19 September 2012, Cafú made his debut with Benfica B in a 2012–13 Segunda Liga match against CD Tondela where he replaced Cláudio Correa at half-time, scoring the equalizer at 83rd minute.

    On 26 July 2013, Cafú signed a four-year contract with Vitória Guimarães, returning to his hometown club after a five-year link to Benfica. At Guimarães he was immediately repositioned as defensive midfielder, being a usual starter in the miidfield of the reserve team, which earned promotion back to the Segunda Liga.

    He made his debut in Primeira Liga on 17 August 2014, in a 3-1 win against Gil Vicente, partnering with André André and Bernard Mensah in the midfield, adding 29 appearances throughout the season in the first tier.

    Terry

    Terry is both a masculine and feminine given name derived from Terence or Teresa.

    People

  • Terry Albritton, athlete
  • Terry Allen (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Terry Anderson (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Terry Baddoo, CNN journalist
  • Terry Balsamo, lead guitarist for rock band Evanescence
  • Terry Bollea, professional wrestler known as "Hulk Hogan"
  • Terry Bradshaw, former American football quarterback
  • Terry Branstad, American politician
  • Terry Brooks, fantasy author
  • Terry Brunk, professional wrestler known as "Sabu"
  • Terry Byrne, English football manager
  • Terry Caldwell, English footballer
  • Terry Callier (1945-2012), Chicago-born jazz and folk singer and guitarist
  • Terry Carpenter, 20th Century Nebraska politician
  • Terry Cochrane, Northern Irish footballer
  • Terry Cochrane (Canadian football), Canadian football player
  • Terry Coldwell, former member of pop group East 17
  • Terry Cooper (footballer born 1944), English footballer
  • Terry Connor, footballer, formerly of Leeds United
  • Terry Crews, American actor and retired football player
  • Terry (book)

    Terry is a pictorial biography of Terry Fox written by Canadian author Douglas Coupland in 2005 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Fox's death in 1981.

    Overview

    Written with the support of the Fox family, Terry reflects the minimalist style of Douglas Coupland’s Souvenir of Canada projects. Succinct narrative sections frame some 150 photographs, many of which are previously-unpublished images and memorabilia from the Fox family archives. The book presents Fox’s life, his Marathon of Hope, and his immediate and continuing resonance with the Canadian public. Coupland donates the full royalties from the book to the Terry Fox Foundation in support of cancer research.

    Structure

    Terry is arranged as a pictorial record of the life and influence of Terry Fox, using the family album or scrapbook as its artistic model. Coupland applies an economy of narrative to give the images, letters, and photography an increased biographical force. Arranged into brief sections that each service two or three pages of photography, Coupland’s narrative presents Fox as an unexceptional suburban Canadian accomplishing an exceptional thing. This artistic decision allows Coupland to demonstrate, at times explicitly, that Fox's heroism is similarly available to any otherwise ordinary person.

    Terry (Twinkle song)

    "Terry" is a song written and sung by British singer Lynn Ripley, who performed under the name Twinkle. It was her first single, and reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1964, spending fifteen weeks in the charts. The track also reached number 5 on the Canadian charts, spending four weeks in the Top 40 in February 1965.

    The song is about the death of a young man named Terry, killed in a motorcycle accident. It was banned by both the BBC, and by ITV's Ready Steady Go! on grounds of taste, but despite (or possibly because of) this, it shot up the charts. It was Twinkle's only Top 10 hit, although her follow-up, "Golden Lights" (later covered by The Smiths), reached number 21 in the UK.

    Cover versions

    Claude François released a French version of "Terry" on his 1965 EP Les Choses De La Maison. In 1988, The song was sung by Mandy Smith, for inclusion in her debut album, but was unreleased until 2009. In 2010, Anika included a cover of the song on her debut album Anika.

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