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Ahmetli

Ahmetli is a municipality and district of Manisa Province, Turkey. Its area is 227 km2, and its population is 16,963 (2022). The town lies at an elevation of , near the river Gediz.

History 
By the end of Greek Invasion of Anatolia, Ahmetli and all its surrounding villages were burned by the retreating Greek forces. The Greek soldier Giannis Koutsonicolas from Arahova describes the events with the following words;

Composition
There are 23 neighbourhoods in Ahmetli District:

 Alahıdır
 Altıeylül
 Ataköy
 Bahçecik
 Barbaros
 Canbazlı
 Dereköy
 Derici
 Dibekdere
 Gökkaya
 Güldede
 Hacıköseli
 Halilkahya
 Karaköy
 Kargın
 Kendirlik
 Kestelli
 Kurtuluş
 Mandallı
 Seydiköy
 Ulucami
 Yaraşlı
 Zafer

References

External links
 District governor's official website 
 Road map of Ahmetli and environs
 Various images of Ahmetli, Manisa

Populated places in Manisa Province
Districts of Manisa Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
Kula, Manisa

Kula is a municipality and district of Manisa Province, Turkey. Its area is 981 km2, and its population is 43,227 (2022). The town lies at an elevation of .

History
From 1867 until 1922, Kula was part of the Aidin Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. Until at least 1923, the town was inhabited by a mixed population of Christians and Muslims. The Christian population was composed of Turkified descendants of the original Greek inhabitants of the town, as well as by more recent immigrants from Samos and other Aegean islands.

Composition
There are 60 neighbourhoods in Kula District:

 Ahmetli
 Akgün
 Aktaş
 Ayazören
 Ayvatlar
 Balıbey
 Başıbüyük
 Battalmustafa
 Bayramşah
 Bebekli
 Bey
 Börtlüce
 Camicedit
 Çarıkballı
 Çarıkmahmutlu
 Çiftçiibrahim
 Dereköy
 Dört Eylül
 Emre
 Encekler
 Erenbağı
 Eroğlu
 Esenyazı
 Evciler
 Gökçeören
 Gökdere
 Gölbaşı
 Güvercinlik
 Hacıtufan
 Hamidiye
 Hayalli
 İbrahimağa
 İncesu
 Kalınharman
 Karaoba
 Kavacık
 Kenger
 Kızılkaya
 Konurca
 Körez
 Narıncalıpıtrak
 Narıncalısüleyman
 Ortaköy
 Papuçlu
 Sandal
 Saraçlar
 Sarnıçköy
 Şehitlioğlu
 Şeremet
 Şeritli
 Şeyhli
 Seyitali
 Söğütdere
 Tatlıçeşme
 Topuzdamları
 Yağbastı
 Yeniköy
 Yeşilyayla
 Yurtbaşı
 Zaferiye

Economy
As of 1920, Kula's main industry was carpet making.

Yanıkyöre volcanic rock formations
The district is renowned for the cone-shaped volcanic rock formations, numbering at about eighty, in the nearby Yanıkyöre (literally the burnt land) area, also sometimes still referred to, including in Turkey, under the Greek name of Katakekaumene, which has the same meaning. Increasingly brought to the attention of a wider public in recent years as a natural curiosity, other recently coined terms to describe the area include "Cappadocia of the Aegean Region, Turkey" or even "Kuladocia". 
 Kula Volcanic Geopark was accepted and certificated by UNESCO on 6 September 2013 at 37th UNESCO general conference in Naples. So that Kula Volcanic Geopark joined UNESCO Global Geopark Network. Also this patent became the first geopark of Turkey, 58th geopark in Europe, and 96th geopark in the world.

See also
 Kula volcano

References

 
Populated places in Manisa Province
Districts of Manisa Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
Soma, Manisa

Soma is a municipality and district of Manisa Province, Turkey. Its area is 820 km2, and its population is 111,789 (2022). The town lies at an elevation of .

History
From 1867 until 1922, Soma was part of the Aidin Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.

Composition
There are 71 neighbourhoods in Soma District:

 Adil
 Akçaavlu
 Atatürk
 Avdan
 Bayat
 Beyce
 Boncuklu
 Bozarmut
 Büyük Güney
 Büyük Işıklar
 Çatalçam
 Çavdır
 Cenkyeri
 Çerkez Hamidiye
 Çevircek
 Cuma
 Cumhuriyet
 Darkale
 Deniş
 Dereköy
 Devlethan
 Dualar
 Duğla
 Evciler
 Eynez
 Göktaş
 Hacıyusuf
 Hamidiye
 Hatun
 Heciz
 Hürriyet
 İnönü
 İstasyon
 Kaplan
 Karacahisar
 Karacakaş
 Karaçam
 Karamanlı
 Kayrakaltı
 Kiraz
 Kızılören
 Kobaklar
 Koyundere
 Kozanlı
 Kozluören
 Küçük Güney
 Kum
 Kurtuluş
 Menteşe
 Naldöken
 Namazgah
 Nihat Danışman
 Onüçeylül
 Pirahmet
 Samsacı
 Sarıkaya
 Sevişler
 Söğütçük
 Sultaniye
 Tabanlar
 Tekeli Işıklar
 Turgutalp
 Türkali
 Türkpiyale
 Ularca
 Uruzlar
 Vakıflı
 Yağcılı
 Yayladalı
 Yırca
 Zafer

Economy 
Lignite mining and a lignite-fired thermal power plant are the main economic activities in Soma. During World War I the mines were opened up for production. The lignite extracted during that time was described as being of "very bad" quality. That lignite was burned with German coal for trains in the region. A small portion was exported to İzmir. A just transition from coal could be supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

The Soma Wind Farm, with 119 wind turbines and an installed total capacity of 140.4 MW, is one of Turkey's largest wind farms.

Olive, walnut and almond cultivation is among the important agricultural activities of Soma.

2014 Soma coal mine disaster

On 13 May 2014, as a result of an explosion caused by a mine fire at the Soma coal mine, 301 workers were killed.

References

External links 
  
 Road map of Soma and environs

 
Populated places in Manisa Province
Districts of Manisa Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
Francis De Smet

Francis De Smet (born 3 December 1963) is a Belgian film producer. He was born in Bruges.

Films
La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978 (1994) with Noël Godin; Camping Cosmos (1996) with Lolo Ferrari; The Closing Down of the Renault Factory at Vilvoorde Belgium (1998) with Louis Schweitzer ; La Vie politique des Belges (2002) with Benoît Poelvoorde; Les vacances de Noël (2005) with Yolande Moreau; all with director Jan Bucquoy.

References

External links
Transatlantic Films
American Patents
Patent "Searching on the Internet".

Belgian film producers
Living people
1963 births
Simon Kelner

Simon Kelner (born 9 December 1957) is a British journalist and newspaper editor.

Kelner studied at Bury Grammar School. His older brother is the journalist and broadcaster Martin Kelner. He is Jewish. He started work at Neath Guardian in 1976. In 1980 he moved on to the Kent Evening Post. He became assistant sports editor of The Observer in 1983. He became deputy sports editor of The Independent in 1986. In 1989 he worked on the Observer magazine and then became Daily Mail magazine editor. Kelner was editor-in-chief of The Independent and Independent on Sunday newspapers from May 1998 to 2008, succeeding Andrew Marr and Rosie Boycott. After a stint as Managing Director of The Independent titles he was re-appointed editor in April 2010 by the new owner, Alexander Lebedev. Kelner won several awards during his employment at The Independent, including Editor of the Year in 2004 and 2010.

References

External links

1957 births
Living people
The Independent editors
20th-century British Jews
21st-century British Jews
Alumni of the University of Central Lancashire
British newspaper journalists
British republicans
English newspaper editors
English male journalists
I (newspaper) journalists
People educated at Bury Grammar School
Writers from Bury, Greater Manchester
River Wheelock

The River Wheelock is a small river in Cheshire in north west England. It drains water from the area between Sandbach and Crewe, and joins the River Dane at Middlewich (), and then the combined river flows into the River Weaver in Northwich. Alternative names for the river have were recorded in 1619 as Sutton Watter, Sutton Brooke, and Lawton Brooke.

Early recorded variations of the name Wheelock have included Quelok, Qwelok, Whelok, Whelocke, with later forms using Wheelock Watter and Wheelock Brooke. The name is said to mean "winding river" and it is reported to have based on the Old Welsh word chwylog, the chwyl part of which means "a turn, a rotation, a course", with an adjective suffix of og. The river has given its name to the large village of Wheelock.

Origin
In his book The History of Cheshire (1778), Daniel King et al write:
"The Wheelock is also engendered of three small rivers, which spring not far from Mowcop Hill. The first cometh from Morton Hall, in Astbury parish, the other two from Lawton and Rode Hall, and meet together not far from Sandbach. From whence it passeth to the town and manor place of Wheelock, belonging to Mr. Liversedge; to Elton, where it taketh in the Fulbrook, that cometh out of Oke-hanger Mere; and then goeth to Warmingham, Sutton Mill, Wheelock Mill, and not far off falleth into the Dane at Croxton. This is here to be noted, that like as the water which falleth down on the west-side of Mowcop engendereth the Wheelock, so doth that which falleth on the east-side make the very head of the famous river of Trent. The whole course of the Wheelock is about twelve miles."

Notes and references

Notes

Bibliography

Rivers of Cheshire
Rivers of Staffordshire
2Wheelock
SWAT Force

SWAT Force is the first game of the Police Quest series to be released for mobiles, developed by French studio Kaolink. The player controls a two-man team (sharp shooter and demolition expert) and tries to rescue hostages, arrest suspects and secure weapons. It was released February 28, 2006.

Gameplay
The player controls a two-person SWAT team consisting of an artilleryman and an expert. The expert is able to pick locks, hack computers and defuse bombs, while the artilleryman is equipped with a more lethal weapon as well as stun grenades, flashbang grenades and the ability to get enemies to surrender.

Reception

The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.

References

External links
 Vivendi Universal's SWAT Force Official Site

2006 video games
Mobile games
Police Quest and SWAT
Shoot 'em ups
Video games about police officers
Video games developed in France
Rockyford, Alberta

Rockyford is a village in southern Alberta, Canada. It is approximately  east of Calgary and  southwest of Drumheller. It was founded in 1913 upon the arrival of the Canadian National Railway.

Demographics 
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Rockyford had a population of 395 living in 144 of its 154 total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of 316. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Rockyford recorded a population of 316 living in 144 of its 151 total private dwellings, a  change from its 2011 population of 325. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2016.

See also 
List of communities in Alberta
List of villages in Alberta

References

External links 

1919 establishments in Alberta
Villages in Alberta
German Unix User Group

The German Unix User Group (GUUG) is a registered association of German Unix users. The user group intends to carry out scientific research to promote technical development and communication of open systems which were initiated in particular by the operating system Unix.

References

External links
 GUUG

User groups
Cayo

Cayo or cayó may refer to:

 Cayo (film), a 2005 Puerto Rican film starring Roselyn Sánchez
 Cayo District, a district in the west of the nation of Belize
 San Ignacio, Belize, a town in the Cayo District (originally named "El Cayo")
 Caio, Carmarthenshire, a village in Wales sometimes spelt with a 'y'
 Cayo Hundred, a geographic division named after the village
 "Cayó", a 2022 song by Arca
 Elsa Cayo (born 1951), Peruvian filmmaker

See also 
 Caio (disambiguation)
 Cay (sand island)
The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living

The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living is the third studio album by Mike Skinner, under the music project The Streets. It was released on 10 April 2006 in the United Kingdom and 25 April 2006 in North America. It is also the shortest The Streets album released so far, with a running time of just 37 minutes and 12 seconds. The Mitchell Brothers and Ted Mayhem, two of Skinner's protégés, make guest appearances on the album.

Content
The album deals with the ideas of celebrity and success, partly in relation to Skinner's greater fame after the success of the first two The Streets albums. There are several references to recreational drug use.

The final track, "Fake Streets Hats", is about an incident that happened during the 2004 edition of the Dutch Lowlands festival, where a drunk Mike Skinner openly protested against the handing out of white hats with "The Streets" written on them, because he thought they were fake, and thus illegal merchandise. The hats actually were promotional material from his label, Warner. Mike Skinner also sees the song as a personal reflection on plagiarism in general.

Critical reception

Critical response for the album was generally positive, scoring 72/100 on Metacritic. However, this score is lower than his previous two albums, scoring 90/100 and 91/100 respectively. In a mixed review, Prefix Magazine said "With about half the tracks on this record falling short, Skinner would seem to be teetering on the edge of irrelevance. But even the failed tracks here sound interesting, and if he's lost his way somewhat thematically, it's all in the name of searching for his new voice." In a much more positive review, The Village Voice Consumer Guide said "His comic timing and mixture of slangs--not to mention his musical conception... are all so much more fully developed that he's actually made a record that's fun to play in the background." Spin named Skinner "the perfect poet for this snooze of a topic." In a negative review, Stylus Magazine described the album as "an exercise in empty nothingness. But it’s not Bacchanalian coked-out excess nothingness, it's the joyless hollow-eyed actions of a man who is waiting for the next fix and doesn't care what bullshit has to come out of his lips in order to get paid."

Track listing
All tracks are written by Mike Skinner
 "Prangin' Out" – 3:49
 "War of the Sexes" – 3:26
 "The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living" – 3:13
 "All Goes Out the Window" – 3:32
 "Memento Mori" – 2:36
 "Can't Con an Honest John" – 3:40
 "When You Wasn't Famous" – 3:18
 "Never Went to Church"  – 3:32
 "Hotel Expressionism" – 3:33
 "Two Nations" – 3:05
 "Fake Streets Hats" – 3:12

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

2006 albums
679 Artists albums
Albums produced by Mike Skinner (musician)
The Streets albums
South Stann Creek

South Stann Creek is a watercourse in southeastern Belize.  The administrative division, Stann Creek District, is named after the river.  South Stann Creek rises in the foothills of the eastern slopes of the Maya Mountains within the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary. It drains the Cockscomb West Basin.

See also
Jaguar
Logging

Rivers of Belize
Ridley sea turtle

Ridley sea turtles  are a genus (Lepidochelys) of sea turtle comprising two species: Kemp's ridley sea turtle and the olive ridley sea turtle.
 
Kemp's ridley sea turtles are currently on the New York and United States lists of endangered species.

Anatomy
Adult ridley sea turtles grow to a length of , and weight of .  They feed on crabs, fish, cephalopods, clams, and some marine vegetation.

Etymology and taxonomic history
The origin of "ridley" is a subject of speculation. Prior to being known as ridleys, French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède referred to the Lepidochelys species as "bastard turtles."  Renowned sea turtle conservationist Archie Carr claimed that "ridley" was a common Floridan term, quite possibly, a dialectal corruption of "riddle."

Conservation
The Kemp's ridley sea turtles were on the brink of extinction in the 1960s with low numbers of 200 nesting individuals. Due to strict  laws that protected their nesting sites in Mexico and altered fishing gear to avoid accidental capture of the Kemp's ridley, their numbers have increased to estimated an 7000–9000 nesting individuals today.
The olive ridley sea turtle is considered to have the most abundant numbers today, estimated as 800,000 nesting individuals. The threats to their survival are loss of nesting habitat, direct harvest of the eggs and adults, and entanglement in fishing gear. Laws against harvesting the adults and eggs also have helped the olive ridley sea turtles' numbers gradually increase.

References

External links
NY State Website - endangered species

Lepidochelys
Turtle genera
Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger
Amanda Overland

Amanda Overland (born August 30, 1981) is a Canadian short track speed skater who competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics. She is the sister of Kevin Overland and Cindy Overland, both Olympic Speed Skaters.

External links 
CBC.ca biography

1981 births
Living people
Canadian female short track speed skaters
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Olympic short track speed skaters for Canada
Olympic silver medalists for Canada
Olympic medalists in short track speed skating
Short track speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Kitchener, Ontario
21st-century Canadian women
Hardikar Hospital

Hardikar Hospital is a Multi Speciality  hospital in Pune, Maharashtra, India. It has 120 beds, serves as a private institution, and has a medical school attached to it.

Hardikar Hospital also refers to a 5-bed hospital in Dombivli, India.

External links 
 

Hospitals in Pune
Year of establishment missing
Tania Vicent

Tania Vicent (born January 13, 1976, in Laval, Quebec) is a Canadian short track speed skater, who competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics.  On February 22, along with Alanna Kraus, Anouk Leblanc-Boucher and Kalyna Roberge, Vicent won a silver medal for Canada in the 3000m relay. She won the bronze medal in Nagano and at Salt Lake City.

She won her fourth consecutive Olympic 3,000 metre relay medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics, skating alongside Jessica Gregg, Kalyna Roberge and Marianne St-Gelais.

References

External links 
CBC.ca Bio
Tania Vicent on Real Champions

1976 births
Living people
Canadian female short track speed skaters
Short track speed skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Short track speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Short track speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Short track speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
Olympic silver medalists for Canada
Sportspeople from Laval, Quebec
Olympic short track speed skaters for Canada
Olympic medalists in short track speed skating
Canadian female speed skaters
Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
21st-century Canadian women
Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 5000 metres

The women's 5000 m speed skating competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, was held on 25 February.

Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.

Results

References

Women's speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Islamistan

Islamistan (, ; lit. "Islamland" or "the Land of Islam") is a Persian, Pashto and Urdu term referring to Dār al-Islām.

In Afghanistan during the Soviet–Afghan War, anti-Soviet factions came together to try to present a united front for the country. Some of these groups suggested that the name of Afghanistan be changed to Islamistan.

In 1949, the president of Muslim League in Pakistan said in a speech that the country would bring all Muslim countries together under Islamistan.

Daniel Pipes quotes Hafeez Malik of Villanova University who writes that: "Pakistanis have started to speculate that Pakistan's natural habitat includes Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and the Central Asian Republics." Pipes then writes that "Sometimes called Islamistan, this region gets counterpoised against the Arabic-speaking south."

See also
Šuʿūbiyyah, movement of non-Arab Islamic civilisation
Islamic world

References

Islamic terminology
Islamism
Hammam-Lif

Hammam-Lif (, pronounced hammam linf) is a coastal town about 20 km south-east of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. It has been known since antiquity for its thermal springs originating in Mount Bou Kornine.

History 
Naro, which means fire, was Hammam-Lif's Punic name. In 1883, the French captain Ernest De Prudhomme discovered in his Hammam-lif residence the first archeological ruins of an ancient synagogue that once stood in Hammam-Lif in 3rd-5th century AD.

Hammam-Lif was once the home of Italian, Greek and Jewish communities, especially before the end of the French colonial period.

Hammam-Lif's most interesting site is probably Dar El Bey, which was the residence of Ali II Bey, the 4th bey of Tunis.

Sport
The local football team Club Sportif de Hammam-Lif won the Tunisian championship in 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956 and won the Tunisian Cup in 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1985, 2001

Notable people
Ahmed Achour (1945-2021), conductor and composer
Wajiha Jendoubi (1960-), actress and comedian
Aly Ben Ayed (1930-1972), actor and director
Férid Boughedir (1944-), film director and screenwriter
Abdelmajid Lakhal (1939-2014), film actor and theater director
Témime Lahzami (1949-), football player
Selma Baccar (1945-), filmmaker and producer
Noureddine Kasbaoui (1931-1996), actor and director
Mouna Noureddine (1937-), actress
Walid Mattar (1980-), film director

References

External links 
 Information and pictures
 CSHL: Hammam-Lif's soccer team

Populated places in Ben Arous Governorate
Seaside resorts in Tunisia
Communes of Tunisia
Spa towns in Tunisia
Brent Rademaker

Brent Rademaker, is a musician, formerly of The Tyde and Beachwood Sparks.

He was also in Frausdots, a band with Michelle Loiselle, a former backing singer for Guns N' Roses, Carl Tapia, Roger Brogan, Exiquio Talavera and David Baum. Their debut album, Couture, Couture, Couture, features guest appearances from Roger O'Donnell of The Cure, Rob Campanella and Hunter Crowley of Brian Jonestown Massacre and Mia Doi Todd. Rademaker also fronts the band GospelbeacH.

Albums

With Frausdots 
Couture, Couture, Couture (Subpop, 2004)

With GospelbeacH 
Pacific Surf Line (Alive Naturalsound Records, 2015)
Another Summer Of Love, (Alive Naturalsound Records, 2017)
Another Winter Alive, (Alive Naturalsound Records, 2018)
Let It Burn, (Alive Naturalsound Records, 2019)

References

External links
 Frausdots at MySpace
 Frausdots at Subpop

Indie rock musical groups from California
Musical groups from Los Angeles
Rocket Girl artists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Wade Trophy

The Wade Trophy is an award presented annually to the best upperclass women's basketball player in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I competition. It is named after three–time national champion Delta State University coach Lily Margaret Wade. The award debuted in 1978 as the first–ever women's national player of the year award in college basketball. State Farm Insurance sponsors the award, and the trophy is presented at the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) National Convention.

UConn has the most all-time winners with nine. Maya Moore is the only player to win the Wade Trophy three times, accomplishing the feat in 2009 (only sophomore ever to win the award), 2010 and 2011. Other multiple award winners include Nancy Lieberman (1979, 1980), Seimone Augustus (2005, 2006), Brittney Griner (2012, 2013), and fellow UConn alum Breanna Stewart (2015, 2016), and University of Oregon standout Sabrina Ionescu (2019, 2020).

Baylor is in sole possession of second in total awards, and is in a second-place tie with two other schools for the most individual recipients. Three Baylor players have combined to win four awards. The other two programs with three individual recipients are Louisiana Tech and Texas, with all of each school's winners having received the award once. There have never been any ties for the award.

Eligibility and criteria
All academically eligible women's basketball athletes, except freshmen, in NCAA Division I qualify as candidates.

Member of the NCAA Division I Kodak/WBCA All-America Team
Game and season statistics
Effect on team
Leadership
Character
Overall playing ability
Player that embodies the "Spirit of Margaret Wade" as defined by the WBCA and the NAGWS

Winners

See also

 List of sports awards honoring women

References

External links
Official website

College basketball player of the year awards in the United States
College basketball trophies and awards in the United States
College women's basketball in the United States
Sports awards honoring women
Awards established in 1978
1978 establishments in the United States
College sports trophies and awards in the United States
State Farm
HMS Swiftsure (S126)

HMS Swiftsure was the lead ship of her class of nuclear fleet submarines built for the Royal Navy. Entering service in 1973, she served until 1992.

Construction and design

Swiftsure was ordered on 3 November 1967, as the first of her class, and laid down at Vickers Armstrongs Barrow-in-Furness shipyard on 6 June 1969. She was launched on 7 September 1971 and commissioned on 17 April 1973. The cost of building Swiftsure was £37.1 million.

Service
Swiftsure became famous for her mission to acquire the acoustic signature of the Soviet aircraft carrier . Upon locating a new unique acoustic sound that indicated the Kievs presence, hid underneath her for several hours, with her raised periscope just 10 feet under the aircraft carrier's hull, allowing the crew to take photos and record the ship's acoustic signature. This was documented in 2013 as part of the BBC's Cold War season.

Swiftsure arrived in HMNB Devonport in January 1979 for her first scheduled refit. However, due to an industrial dispute the refit did not begin until April 1980, 15 months after the boat arrived into Devonport. Despite a statement in the House of Commons in mid-November 1981 that the refit would be completed by mid-1982 Swiftsures refit was eventually completed in March 1983, at a total cost of £85 million.

Swiftsure was due to enter a second refit in 1992, but instead she was decommissioned that year. The reason for the premature decommissioning is often cited as pressure hull damage suffered during sea trials although that is now thought to be incorrect; it is believed the reason for the boat's premature decommissioning was due to the finding of cracks in her reactor during a refit. Her nuclear core was safely removed in June 1992.

Since 1992, she has been stored afloat in the non-tidal basin at Rosyth dockyard, awaiting dismantling under MOD's Submarine Dismantling Project (SDP). She has undergone periodic dockings for re-preservation and maintenance inspections, the latest from August 2016 onwards. She will be the first, or 'demonstrator' submarine to undergo  Initial Dismantling through the SDP. As of 2023, it was reported that the process would take until the end of 2026 to complete.

References

Publications

 

Swiftsure-class submarines
Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness
1971 ships
Voyage of Slaves

Voyage of Slaves is the third and final novel in Brian Jacques' Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. It was released on September 13, 2006 in the UK and September 14, 2006 in the US. The cover art was illustrated by Michael Koelsch, who had previously illustrated the cover art of the first novel in the series.

Ben is at first separated from Ned, previously known as Den, when their adrift boat is found by slave traders, who throw Ned overboard, because he is a black dog, which they think is a sign of the Devil. Ben is taken to Al Misurata, while Ned is found by a wandering troupe of entertainers that nurse him back to health. Among them is the beautiful African maiden, Serafina, who sings like an angel. Ben and Ned are reunited when Al Misurata has the troupe perform for him, and Ned has been incorporated into their act. Ben also falls in love with Serafina, who returns the affection.

Ben and Ned find out while staying with Al Misurata that he plans to sell the troupe into slavery, under the guise of returning the troupe to Italy. While on his ship, the Sea Djinn, Ben and Ned jump overboard to escape, with the intention of rescuing their friends. As they reach land, they see a young boy named Joshua who is about to be attacked by sharks. They save him, and find out that the boy is the grandson of a Jewish sailor/warrior, who pledges to help the two in anything they might require aid with. They ask only to be taken to Italy. After saving his grandson, he quite willingly obliges. Once they reach Italy the boy and his faithful dog set sail once again for their destination with a friendly Greek sea captain. After another adventure, they finally rescue the troupe, and take shelter in a convent. Ben begins to tell Serafina the truth about his story, but is interrupted because Al Misurata finds them, and in the struggle, Ben is stabbed in his shoulder. Al Misurata, his second-in-command Ghigno, and Serafina fall to their deaths over a cliff. Overwhelmed by sadness at the loss of his wonderful friends, but comforted by a heavenly vision that assures Ben that Serafina is in Heaven, the ancient boy and dog flee to the sea to get away from sorrows, and continue their eternal journey on the Blue Turtle.

References

2006 British novels
2006 fantasy novels
Flying Dutchman
Novels by Brian Jacques
Philomel Books books
One by One (TV series)

One by One is a British television series made by the BBC between 29 January 1984 and 2 May 1987.

The series, created by Anthony Read, followed the career of international veterinary surgeon David Taylor (called Donald Turner in the series) and his work caring for exotic animals at zoos in Britain, from the 1950s to the 1970s. Each series was set during a different decade, with exteriors filmed at Dudley Zoo, Chester Zoo and Knowsley Safari Park.

Thirty-two episodes were made over three series, transmitted on BBC1 in the early parts of 1984, 1985 & 1987. BBC1 repeated series 2 during the early months of 1986, as no new series had been made that year. The third series was also repeated on BBC1 over the Spring & Summer of 1988.

Cast

 Rob Heyland – Donald Turner
 James Ellis – Paddy Reilly
 Sonia Graham – Ethel Leadbetter
 Peter Jeffrey – Maurice Webb (Series 1–2)
 Heather James – Maggie Raymond (Series 1–2)
 Liz Smith – Gran Turner (Series 1)
 Garfield Morgan – Howard Rundle (Series 1)
 Rosie Kerslake – Jenny Blount (Series 1)
 Jack Hedley – Peter Raymond (Series 1)
 Peter Gilmore – Ben Bishop (Series 2)
 Catherine Schell – Lady Ann Pendle (Series 2)
 Andrew Robertson – Jock Drummond (Series 3)
 Christina Nagy – Liz Collier (Series 3)
 Tenniel Evans – Teddy Haslam (Series 3)
 Clifford Rose – Challon (Series 1 and 3)

Series overview

Episodes

Series 1

Series 2

Series 3

External links

1984 British television series debuts
1987 British television series endings
1980s British drama television series
BBC television dramas
English-language television shows
Period television series
Television series about animals
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Veterinary medicine in the United Kingdom
Bandar Charak

Bandar Charak (, also Romanized as Bandar-e Chārak and Band-e Chārak; also known simply as Chārak) is a coastal city in, and the capital of, Shibkaveh District of Bandar Lengeh County, Hormozgan province, Iran. The city also serves as the administrative center for Bandar Charak Rural District. More than half of the town speaks Gulf Arabic.

At the 2006 census, its population was 2,958 in 609 households. The following census in 2011 counted 3,758 people in 711 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 4,066 people in 1,049 households.

References 

Bandar Lengeh County

Cities in Hormozgan Province

Populated places in Hormozgan Province

Populated places in Bandar Lengeh County

Populated coastal places in Iran

Port cities and towns of the Persian Gulf

Port cities and towns in Iran
Kenny Gradney

Kenny Gradney (born February 25, 1950, in Baton Rouge) is an American bassist and songwriter, best known as a member of the band Little Feat.  He joined after their second album, replacing founding bassist Roy Estrada in 1972. Gradney has remained their bassist ever since and coinciding with his arrival, his friend Sam Clayton also joined the band on percussion and Paul Barrere, who knew bandleader Lowell George from Hollywood High School, joined as a second guitarist and cementing the classic line-up of George, Barrere, Richie Hayward, Bill Payne, Gradney and Clayton.

In the summer of 1970, Gradney participated in a multi-group tour of Canadian stadium shows known as Festival Express as a member of Delaney & Bonnie & Friends in which all of the groups traveled together on a passenger train. He appears in the documentary film of the same name playing and partying with Janis Joplin, Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia, Rick Danko and others.

In addition to his work with Little Feat, Gradney has played and recorded with many notable musicians, including Delaney & Bonnie, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Bob Weir's Bobby and the Midnites, Jazz Is Dead, jazz drummer Chico Hamilton, Warren Zevon, Robert Palmer, Mick Fleetwood, and Carly Simon.

References

External links 
 Biography on the official Little Feat website

Guitarists from California
Living people
Jazz musicians from New Orleans
American funk bass guitarists
American male bass guitarists
American male guitarists
Little Feat members
American rock bass guitarists
American session musicians
American rhythm and blues bass guitarists
American jazz bass guitarists
American male songwriters
Guitarists from Louisiana
Bobby and the Midnites members
American male jazz musicians
Jazz Is Dead members
20th-century American bass guitarists
1952 births
Rosemary, Alberta

Rosemary is a village in southern Alberta, Canada. It is approximately  northwest of Brooks and  north of the Trans-Canada Highway. It is home to one school and several businesses.

Demographics 
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Rosemary had a population of 370 living in 139 of its 167 total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of 396. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Rosemary recorded a population of 396 living in 146 of its 150 total private dwellings, a  change from its 2011 population of 342. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2016.

The Village of Rosemary's 2012 municipal census counted a population of 421.

See also 
List of communities in Alberta
List of villages in Alberta

References

External links 

1951 establishments in Alberta
Villages in Alberta
Norway at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Norway competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States. The nation enjoyed its best ever results in gold medals, most notably in the biathlon events, when Ole Einar Bjørndalen swept all four gold medals.

With 13 gold medals, Norway tied the Soviet Union at the 1976 Winter Olympics for most gold medals a country won at a Winter Olympics. However, Canada broke this record with 14 when they hosted the Vancouver games.

Medalists

Alpine skiing

Men

Men's combined

Women

Biathlon

Men

Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Women

Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay

 1 A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target. 
 2 Starting delay based on 10 km sprint results. 
 3 One minute added per missed target. 
 4 Starting delay based on 7.5 km sprint results.

Bobsleigh

Men

Cross-country skiing

Men
Sprint

Pursuit

 1 Starting delay based on 10 km C. results. 
 C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

4 × 10 km relay

Women
Sprint

Pursuit

 2 Starting delay based on 5 km C. results. 
 C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

4 × 5 km relay

Curling

Men's tournament

Group stage
Top four teams advanced to semi-finals.

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Medal round
Semi-final

Gold medal game

Contestants

Women's tournament

Group stage
Top four teams advanced to semi-finals.

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Contestants

Freestyle skiing

Women

Nordic combined 

Men's sprint

Events:
 large hill ski jumping
 7.5 km cross-country skiing 

Men's individual

Events:
 normal hill ski jumping
 15 km cross-country skiing 

Men's Team

Four participants per team.

Events:
 normal hill ski jumping
 5 km cross-country skiing

Skeleton

Men

Ski jumping 

Men's team large hill

 1 Four teams members performed two jumps each.

Snowboarding

Men's halfpipe

Women's halfpipe

Speed skating

Men

Notes

References
 Official Olympic Reports
 International Olympic Committee results database
 Olympic Winter Games 2002, full results by sports-reference.com

Nations at the 2002 Winter Olympics
2002
2002 in Norwegian sport
1972–73 European Cup Winners' Cup

The 1972–73 European Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by Milan after a 1–0 victory against Leeds United at the Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Competition holders Rangers would have been eligible to compete in the Cup Winners' Cup, but were banned from European competition in the 1972–73 season due to the violent disturbances at the 1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final.

First round 

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First leg

Second leg

AC Milan won 7–1 on aggregate.

Leeds United won 2–1 on aggregate.

Rapid București won 3–1 on aggregate.

Hajduk Split won 2–0 on aggregate.

Hibernian won 7–3 on aggregate.

Second round 

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First leg

Second leg

AC Milan won 3–2 on aggregate.

Leeds United won 2–0 on aggregate.

Rapid București won 4–2 on aggregate.

Hajduk Split 3–3 Wrexham on aggregate. Hajduk Split won on an away goals rule.

Quarter-finals 

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First leg

Second leg

AC Milan won 2–1 on aggregate.

Leeds United won 8–1 on aggregate.

Slavia Prague won 4–2 on aggregate.

Hajduk Split won 5–4 on aggregate.

Semi-finals 

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First leg

Second leg

Leeds United won 1–0 on aggregate.

Milan won 2–0 on aggregate.

Final

See also
 1972–73 European Cup
 1972–73 UEFA Cup

References

External links 
 1972–73 competition at UEFA website
 Cup Winners' Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
  Cup Winners Cup Seasons 1972–73 – results, protocols
 website Football Archive  1972–73 Cup Winners Cup

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UEFA Cup Winners' Cup seasons
Birdie Cree

William Franklin "Birdie" Cree (October 23, 1882 – November 8, 1942) was a Major League Baseball outfielder. He spent his entire 8-year career (1908-1915) with the New York Highlanders, which became the New York Yankees.

Life
Born in Khedive, Pennsylvania, Cree was a small man at  and 150 pounds.  He threw and batted right-handed, and he also attended Penn State University.

Prior to the major leagues, Cree played in the High Hat League, then went to play ball in Burlington, Vermont and Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Cree made his major league debut on September 17, 1908 at the age of 25. He was a solid outfielder until 1911, when he had an extraordinary season. He had or tied career highs in every major category, with the highlights being 22 triples (which tied him for 32nd all-time in a season and the most in a season for a right-hander in the American League), 48 stolen bases and a .348 batting average. He was third in the league in stolen bases and because of his great performance, he was tied with Hall of Famer Tris Speaker for 6th highest in the voting for Most Valuable Player, and was the only non-Hall of Fame player in the top six in the voting. He also hit his only career grand slam in 1911.

Cree was on pace for a similar season in 1912, but it was cut short by a wrist injury from a Buck O'Brien pitch, and he played in only 50 games. He hit .332 during that time.  On April 22, 1910 Cree was hit in the head by a pitch thrown by Walter Johnson.

Cree never again lived up to his 1911 season, playing over 100 games only once in the remaining four years of his career. Rejecting baseball disdainfully, he ended his career early on September 21, 1915 with a .292 career batting average, 132 stolen bases and 62 triples. In the field, Cree had a career .962 fielding percentage. Cree retired from baseball because, "I had no intention of going to the bush leagues". After baseball, he entered the world of banking. Jack Warhop and Ed Sweeney had been teammates of Cree for eight seasons, longer than any other teammates.

On November 8, 1942 at the age of 60, Cree died in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, after fighting a long illness. He was laid to rest in Pomfret Manor Cemetery in Sunbury, PA. At the time of his death, he was a cashier at the First National Bank of Sunbury.

On July 6, 1914, the Yankees sent Bill Holden and cash to Baltimore of the International League for Cree.

References

External links

Pennsylvania State University alumni
Penn State Nittany Lions baseball players
Sportspeople from Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Baseball players from Pennsylvania
New York Highlanders players
New York Yankees players
1882 births
1942 deaths
Major League Baseball left fielders
Williamsport Millionaires players
Baltimore Orioles (International League) players
Lockheed Martin Cormorant

The Cormorant was a tailsitter project under development at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works research facility until 2008 when its contract for development was cancelled. It is named after a species of diving bird in reference to its intended role as a submarine-launched UAV.

Development
The U.S. Navy's s, feature large, , , tubes to launch Trident missiles. Researchers at Skunk Works had the idea of creating a drone aircraft that can be stored in those missile tubes.

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) provided funding for tests of models and some of the systems on board the Cormorant. The tests were completed by September 2006. After the tests were complete, DARPA was to determine whether it will fund a flying prototype. While achieving goals and capabilities during tests, DARPA cancelled the contract due to budget cuts in FY08.

Design
While in the tube, the aircraft's wings are folded around itself. The Cormorant, while floating to the surface, unfolds its wings and prepares itself for launch. Rockets then assist the aircraft with lifting off from the water's surface.

A normal aircraft would never survive the pressures that are encountered at a launch depth of 150 ft (46 m). To prevent corrosion, the Cormorant was made from titanium, and to resist crushing, empty spaces were taken up with plastic foam. The interior of the craft was filled with a pressurized inert gas. To keep the Cormorant watertight, the doors, inlets, and any covers required inflatable seals.

One principal means of defense for a submarine is the ability to remain hidden underwater. Thus having an aircraft lift off near the submarine or come directly back to the submarine after its objective is complete would give away the submarine's position. To combat this, the submarine was to slip away while the Cormorant is floating to the surface. After its objective has been completed, the submarine was to transmit rendezvous coordinates to the Cormorant. A robotic retrieval vehicle was then to fetch the drone after it has landed on the surface of the water.

External links
DARPA page on project archived version
Popular Science article: Navy's swimming spy plane

2000s United States experimental aircraft
Cormorant
Unmanned military aircraft of the United States
Tailsitter aircraft
SuperFetch (TV series)

SuperFetch was a show on Animal Planet that stars Zak George. He instructs and advises on how to train dogs to perform tricks.

Episodes

Season one (2009)

References

TVGuide episode guide

External links

Animal Planet original programming
2009 American television series debuts
2009 American television series endings
Television shows about dogs
Rycroft, Alberta

Rycroft is a village in northern Alberta, Canada. It is approximately  north of Grande Prairie and  east of Spirit River. Dunvegan Provincial Park is located 20 km north of the community.

The post office was originally known as Spirit River.  The name was changed to Roycroft in 1920 to honour R.H. Roycroft, a prominent local citizen, and was altered to Rycroft in 1933.

Demographics 

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Rycroft had a population of 550 living in 243 of its 299 total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of 612. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Rycroft recorded a population of 612 living in 274 of its 316 total private dwellings, a  change from its 2011 population of 628. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2016.

See also 
List of communities in Alberta
List of villages in Alberta
Peace Country

References

External links 

1944 establishments in Alberta
Municipal District of Spirit River No. 133
Villages in Alberta
Leonardo Dati

Leonardo di Piero Dati (1360 – 16 March 1425) was an Italian friar and humanist. He was Master General of the Dominican Order from 1414 to his death.

He was a Prior of Santa Maria Novella from 1401, and took part in the Council of Pisa of 1409. Dati was the head of the Dominicans belonging to the Roman obedience during the Great Schism. At the time of the Council of Constance, Dati became Master General of a reunited Dominican Order. Dati then focused on the internal reform of the order, authoring the tract Lamentationes de regularibus observantiis lapsis, in which he expressed strong dissatisfaction with the laxity and confusion of the order. His sermons at Pisa and Constance include references to literary texts, and he was well known as an author of commentaries on Aristotle. Leonardo also gave financial aid to his brother Gregorio, a Florentine merchant and diarist.

Both Leonardo and Gregorio Dati are attributed authorship of La Sfera ("The Sphere"), an astronomical-geographic poemetto in ottave, written in the second half of the 14th century, and a work much popular in its time. This work in verse gives information about the world, the marinaresche compass and other things, adding observations, notes about travel and designs. In some manuscripts of La Sfera there are designs representing ports, headlands, islands, linked by many lines.

Dati's sermons on the feast of St. Francis (October 1416) and the feast of the Circumcision of Jesus (January 1417) advocated respect for papal power and reform within the context of the established order. The earlier sermon touched off an exchange of polemical memoranda between Dati and supporters of conciliar supremacy. Dati then addressed issues raised in this exchange in the later sermon. Dati's discussion of circumcision was traditional for his time, describing the Jewish rite as superseded by baptism.

He is buried in the Cappella Rucellai at Santa Maria Novella. His tombstone is attributed to Lorenzo Ghiberti.


Works
 La Sfera
 Trophaeum Anglaricum

References

Sources
 Hillenbrand, Eugen. "Die Observantenbewegung in der deutschen Ordensprovinz der Dominikaner," in Elm, Kaspar, ed. Reformbemühungen und Observanzbestrebungen im spätmittelalterlichen Ordenswesen.  Berliner Historische Studien, 14, Ordensstudien 6. Berlin, Duncker and Humblot, 1989: 232–233.

External links
 The manuscript of La Sphera, digital copy of the manuscript in the collections of The National Library of Finland
 The text and commentary of Trophaeum Anglaricum (in German)

1360 births
1425 deaths
Italian Dominicans
Italian Renaissance humanists
Masters of the Order of Preachers