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"Lake Solina () is an artificial lake in the Bieszczady Mountains region, more precisely in Lesko County of the Subcarpathian Voivodship of Poland. Its coordinates are . The lake was created in 1968 by the construction of the Solina Dam on the San River. It has an area of and contains of water, making it Poland's largest artificial lake. It is the best known tourist attraction of the region, with waterside villages like Solina, Myczkowce and Polańczyk catering to watersports enthusiasts. The lake's great depth, water clarity, and mountainous scenery makes it a very popular destination e lake has been nicknamed the "Bieszczady Sea". Starting in the 1970s the Wojewódzkie Przedsiębiorstwo Turystyczne (State Tourism Enterprise) "Bieszczady" purchased a number of vessels for the lake and established the lake's White Fleet. The fleet's main ships offer cruises on the lake. Sailboats on the lake. ==External links== * *The Solina municipality website Solina Category:Lesko County Solina "
"Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (born 7 March 1980 in Töysä) is a Finnish former hammer thrower. The 1998 World Junior Champion, Karjalainen is the world junior record holder with 78.33 metres (7.26 kg). His personal best throw is 83.30, achieved in July 2004 in Lahti. == European Championships 2006 == Karjalainen took his first medal at the 2006 European Championships by throwing 80.84. He finished second, but became the Champion in 2014 as IAAF decided to strip Ivan Tskikhan of Belarus of the gold medal for doping. Karjalainen was awarded with the gold medal in a ceremony arranged at the 2014 Finland-Sweden athletics international in Helsinki. ==Achievements== { - ! colspan="5" Representing - rowspan=2 1998 World Junior Championships Annecy, France bgcolor="gold" 1st 72.40 m - European Championships Budapest, Hungary 24th 73.13 m - rowspan=2 1999 World Championships Seville, Spain 11th 75.59 m - European Junior Championships Riga, Latvia bgcolor="gold" 1st 75.80 m - 2000 Olympic Games Sydney, Australia 34th 69.64 m - rowspan=2 2001 European U23 Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands bgcolor=silver 2nd 80.54 m - World Championships Edmonton, Canada align="center" 10th 76.76 m - 2002 European Championships Munich, Germany 8th 78.57 m - 2003 World Championships Paris, France 14th 76.20 m - rowspan=2 2004 Olympic Games Athens, Greece 15th 76.11 m - World Athletics Final Szombathely, Hungary bgcolor="gold" 1st 81.43 m - rowspan=2 2005 World Championships Helsinki, Finland 4th 78.77 m - World Athletics Final Szombathely, Hungary bgcolor="gold" 1st 79.81 m - rowspan=2 2006 European Championships Gothenburg, Sweden bgcolor="gold" 1st 80.84 m - World Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 6th 78.47 m - 2007 World Championships Osaka, Japan 9th 78.35 m - rowspan=2 2008 Finnish Championships Tampere, Finland bgcolor="gold" 1st 77.93 m - Olympic Games Beijing, China 6th 79.59 m - rowspan=2 2009 Finnish Championships Espoo, Finland bgcolor="gold" 1st 77.76 m - World Championships Berlin, Germany 16th 74.09 m - 2010 European Championships Barcelona, Spain 10th 73.70 m - 2011 World Championships Daegu, South Korea 9th 76.60 m } ==References * Category:1980 births Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Category:European Athletics Championships medalists Category:Finnish male hammer throwers Category:Living people Category:Olympic athletes of Finland Category:People from Töysä "
"Kaisten is a municipality in the district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010 the municipality of Ittenthal merged into the municipality of Kaisten. ==History== Archeological finds in Kaisten include a Bronze Age burial mound of the Hallstatt period, and a Roman watchtower and brick kiln. Kaisten is first mentioned in 1282 as Keiston. Ittenthal was first mentioned in 1297 as Utendal though this comes from a 15th-century copy of the original. Ittenthal was also mentioned in 1318 as ze Uttendal. Kaisten castle was built in the 12th and 13th centuries and was part of the territory of Säckingen. After the 13th century, it was part of the Austrian Habsburgs land, until 1797. After the annexation of the Fricktal by the Canton of Aargau in the 1803 Act of Mediation it became a municipality. The Church of St. Michael, founded by Säckingen, was first mentioned in 1443. Until 1804 it was a filial church of the Laufenburg church. The present building dates from 1717. Before 1812 Kaisten and Ittenthal formed a parish. Economically, vineyards played an important role into the mid-19th century. Throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern age, smelting of iron was also important. In the 20th century, a brick factory was built in Kaisten. Until 1960 Kaisten was mostly a farming village, but it then moved to the chemicals industry. ==Geography== Aerial view (1953) Kaisten has an area, , of . Of this area, or 41.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 45.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 11.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 2.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.1% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.3% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.5%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.8% of the area Out of the forested land, 43.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 24.5% is used for growing crops and 15.2% is pastures, while 1.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams. The municipality is located in the Laufenburg district in the upper Fricktal (Frick river valley). It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Kaisten and the hamlets of Oberkaisten as well as the former municipality of Ittenthal. ==Coat of arms== The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or a Vine Leaf Gules slipped.Flags of the World.com accessed 6 May 2010 ==Demographics== Kaisten has a population () of , 14.7% of the population are foreign nationals.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bereich 01 -Bevölkerung accessed 20 January 2010 Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 14.1%. Most of the population () speaks German (93.0%), with Italian being second most common ( 1.5%) and Albanian being third ( 1.5%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 6 May 2010 The age distribution, , in Kaisten is; 248 children or 10.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 322 teenagers or 14.0% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 232 people or 10.1% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 310 people or 13.5% are between 30 and 39, 427 people or 18.6% are between 40 and 49, and 296 people or 12.9% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 243 people or 10.6% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 155 people or 6.7% are between 70 and 79, there are 57 people or 2.5% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 10 people or 0.4% who are 90 and older.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bevölkerungsdaten für den Kanton Aargau und die Gemeinden (Archiv) accessed 20 January 2010 the average number of residents per living room was 0.57, which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.57 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 62% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage or a rent-to- own agreement).Urban Audit Glossary pg 17 , there were 34 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 288 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 412 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. , there were 771 private households (homes and apartments) in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. there were 471 single family homes (or 54.0% of the total) out of a total of 872 homes and apartments.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau accessed 20 January 2010 There were a total of 8 empty apartments for a 0.9% vacancy rate. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 27.7% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (23.9%), the SP (19.7%) and the FDP (14.6%). The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Kaisten about 73% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non- mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the school age population (), there are 188 students attending primary school, there are 117 students attending secondary school in the municipality. The historical population is given in the following table: { - ! year ! population (Kaisten) ! population (Ittenthal) - 1803 875 171 - 1850 1,189 265 - 1900 994 217 - 1950 1,160 221 - 2000 2,054 222 - } ==Sights== The village of Ittenthal is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.ISOS site accessed 6 May 2010 ==Economy== , Kaisten had an unemployment rate of 1.96%. , there were 94 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 30 businesses involved in this sector. 516 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 19 businesses in this sector. 176 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 45 businesses in this sector. there were 1,015 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 724 or about 71.3% of the residents worked outside Kaisten while 344 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 635 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau-Bereich 11 Verkehr und Nachrichtenwesen accessed 21 January 2010 Of the working population, 16.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 48% used a private car. ==Religion== From the , 1,298 or 63.2% were Roman Catholic, while 395 or 19.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 10 individuals (or about 0.49% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic faith.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009 accessed 20 January 2010 ==ReferencesCategory:Municipalities of Aargau "