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 * Kim Yale. Jhereg. Jr. Gone Wild. The Iron Dream. Thorarinn Gunnarsson. Quislet. Damage Control. Triazine. Thiazole.Ex Machina

 * Liberty Belle. Fan 3. Fespaco. Badger. Barra MacNeils. Allan Legere. Karl Silberbauer. Cat Yronwode. District X. Super-Skrull.

 * Blood Syndicate. Herb Alpert. George Lawrence Price. Mike Scioscia. Bill Mantlo. Bruno Thériault. Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Ricardo Asch. Albert Lasker. Vardan Kushnir

 * Struldbrug. Giant burrowing frog. Senapati Bapat. Govind Ballabh Pant. Hollywood accounting. Skipping Towards Gomorrah. Lecha Dodi. Neurinoma. Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Craig Neidorf.

 * Alex Steinweiss. George Robert Vincent. Battle of the Eclipse. Milton Born With A Tooth. Heelys. Henry de Groux. The Lockhorns. Jeremiah Burnham Tainter. Martha Wells. Darrell K. Sweet.

 * Procoptodon. L'Trimm Tales for the L33t. Patrick Tse Yin. Bernie Rhodenbarr Mojzesz Presburger. Neil Stonechild. Ernie Quigley. Special Handling Unit. Els de Temmerman.

 * Seaborn Roddenbery. Mike Barr. Médaille des Évadés. Kirk Bloodsworth. Ryk E. Spoor. The Edison Twins. Michael Eury. Herbert Lambert. Walter Whiter. Conic Sections Rebellion.

 * Phil Moy. Robin Riggs. Tom Mandrake. Michael Netzer. Barbara Kesel. Arthur Lawson. Dennis Black Magic. Horned gopher. Jackalberry. Charlie Cairoli.

 * Tinkhundla. Claude Dansey. Crypts of Lieberkuhn. Ralph Shaa. Essay mill. Peltephilus. Blood fractionation. Phil Harvey. Humus Sapien. Jesús Tecú Osorio.

 * March. Christopher Priest (comic book writer). Juan Matta-Ballesteros. Concert film. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Dawa (Tibet). Chronaxie. Marie-Victorin. Carnography. Tartan Air.

101-200

 * Lee Lue. Angkasa. Susuk. Charles Laking. Crap la Pala. Tonka (fuel). David Harutyunyan. Rao Bahadur. Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz. Morten Øen.

 * Malcolm Ross. Malcolm Ross (no, a different one). Malcolm Ross (still another one). Charles B. Moore. Jim Wiwa. Christopher Wase. Vinkenzetting. Durhane Wong-Rieger. Rufus Hannah.

 * Howard Simon. Gilles Aillaud. Singha Durbar. Boojum (superfluidity). Wellington Boone. Dan Raspler. Dan Curtis Johnson. Hilda Watson. Marlene Garcia-Esperat. Kobi Alexander.

 * Hornsleth Village Project. George Caragonne. Henry Hook. Mister Bones. Halting State. Supertramp (ecology). Kiviaq. Bob Edmonds. He Do The Time Police In Different Voices. Herbert Dargue.

 * Borrah Minnevitch. Seal finger. DC Challenge. Iccho Itoh. Degloving. Being Osama. Prozac+. Andreas Helgstrand. Blantyre Coma Scale. Tim Hunter (director).

 * Tom Artis. "Flash of Two Worlds". Bakanae. Ed Friendly. Bernard Brunhes (physicist). Christos N. Gage. Corante. Sonic Disruptors. First Kuwaiti Trading & Contracting. Leonidas Resvanis.

 * Malcolm Browne. Marta Gonzalez. "The Streets of Ashkelon". Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond. Jeff Moy. Ben X. Sargis Baghdasaryan. "We Want Your Soul". Emma Clarke. William Mackey (priest).

 * Nora Bernard. Srbija do Tokija. "Melancholy Elephants". Norman Mackworth. Gustave Nadaud. L'Illustration. Heng Pov. Zmelkoow. Alex Ligertwood. Special Forces.

 * Freddy Homburger. Gemina (giraffe). "Bookworm, Run!". Youngblood. Guy Lux. Bouwel. War Party (hip hop). Caroline Mikkelsen. The Men Who Stare At Goats. David Murphy (CIA).

 * Peter Buxtun. 2008 Armenian presidential election protests. She Ain't Pretty. Harish Salve. Gábor Máté (physician). Giraffes on Horseback Salad. Mamur Zapt. Earl Evans (scientist). The Space Between Our Ears. Kalon Tripa.

201-300

 * Beheading the Chinese Prisoner. Cy Leonard. Tama (cat). Icon (comics). New Somersetshire. Aseri. Greg LaRocque. Benjamin Beduneau. Rosemary Edghill. Denis Rodier.

 * Jeff Adams. Jane Farrow. Skateman. Oreste Pinto. Robert Thom (illustrator). "The Coffee Song". Abel Green. Aaron Lopresti. Neal Pozner. Andy Helfer.

 * The Late Show (CBC radio). Lorne Elliott. Bill Stulla. ASCAP Richard Rodgers Award. ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award. Scottown Fireworks Fire. Therdchai Jivacate. Khieu Kanharith. Lame delegation.

 * Thomas Shingles. Mike Kernell. Jan Strnad. James Nsaba Buturo. Jeff Bowler. Fauna Foundation. Project Oilsand. Harry LaForme. Daniel Ost. Debby (polar bear).

 * Bob Nimmo. Congress of Manastir. Bruce Hart (songwriter). Baby Fae. Leroy Nash. Bonnie Zacherle. Maximilien Polak. Fredrik Johan Wiik. Ptolemy Reid. Judy Maddren.

 * Bane, Nigeria. Barry Allen (musician). Judson Jerome. Umphakatsi. Ray Zone. Wasli. Sam (koala). Russ Germain. World Report. Butterflies Go Free.

 * Batista Tagme Na Waie. Samuel Jeake. Brian Thomsen. Henry Teuscher. Hipposudoric acid. Elaine Radford. "The Liberation of Earth". Lullaby Baxter. Ferdinand Elbers. Montreal Museums Day.

 * Echo Heron. Phil McNally. Ferme Angrignon. Halipegus eccentricus. Nicolaus Thomas Host. Steve Mattsson. "Tassez-vous de d'là". Cockroach plant. Soldier of the Mist. ReVision Quest.

 * Buzz Dixon. Drake Maijstral. Acharius Medal. Chicita F. Culberson. Wim Tellier. Effingham Wilson. Felix Gilman. David Feldshuh. Alfred Scow. Cythioate.

 * Mater si, magistra no. uMabatha. John Rozum. Glorifying Terrorism. Jack Poole. Peter & Max. "England Swings". Domingo Laino. Frank Doyle (writer). Chansa Kabwela.

301-400

 * John Woodenlegs. "Little Expressionless Animals". "Hell Is the Absence of God". Pretty, Baby, Machine. Elmo Roper. Cheves Perky. Dwight Whylie. Tommy Wonder (dancer). Corpus allatum. Dzintars Cers.

 * Samuel Steinfeld. Arterolane. Cocoonase. Carroll Williams. Christopher Kibanzaga. Broken wand ceremony. Leo Dorfman. Antozonite. Vsevolod Klechkovsky. Druk Thuksey.

 * Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love. Marty Lederhandler. Hippolyte Fontaine. Pao Ham Phan. John G. FitzGerald. Albert Gooderham. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. Ivan Velez, Jr. Bite inhibition. Vladimir Shcherbina.

 * Snuff. "Ballad of the Goodly Fere"'. Rina Venter. "Spar". Gail Carriger. Birds. Florigen. Nancy Whang. Dick Grove. Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede.

 * Kevin Pinto. Lev Perovski. "The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change". Jai Nagarkatti. Michael Pearce (author). Casa del Popolo. "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed". John Orr Young. I Who Have Never Known Men. David Hunt (judge).

 * Feed. Henry Hogeboom. Akira Fujii. Palimpsest. William P. Spratling. 1 Month 2 Live. Herbert Lambert. Walter Whiter. Conic Sections Rebellion. E. Lily Yu.

 * Among Others. Don Taxay. Gundersen flap. Dan Gavriliu. Jacques Delisle. "The Typewriter". Stubbs (cat). "What We Found". Spider lamb syndrome. "Six Months, Three Days".

 * 2012 Montreal shooting. Wanting Qu. Only The Beatles.... William Swan (physicist). Tannis Vallely. A.D. Condo. George Thiem. William Klyne. Lac-Mégantic derailment. Julius Muthamia.

 * "Bridesicle"'. "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi". "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W". "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk". Murray Boltinoff. "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window". Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary. Rex Barnett. William Louis Culberson. David Abner.

 * Soricidin. Er ist wieder da. Decimus et Ultimus Barziza. Mark Lasky. Antonio Bachour. Greater (flamingo). "Souls". Fred Kelly (comics). Afterlife with Archie. "Ponies".

401-500

 * Luis Kemnitzer. Piya Chattopadhyay. My Real Children. Lifelode. Bob Satterfield (cartoonist). E. A. Bushnell. "Magic for Beginners". Friday Jumbe. William M. Ampt. Edward Binnie.

 * "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love". "Fields of Gold". Hal Ellson. Pepe Julian Onziema. "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon". "Dinosaurs". Henry Wiggen. Barnabas Wood. Benjanun Sriduangkaew. "How's the Night Life on Cissalda?"

 * "We Have Always Fought". "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion". Nina Golubkova. "A Braver Thing". Isabella Bannerman. The Man Who Bridged the Mist. Duane Eubanks. "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere". Kevin Vickers. The Just City.

 * The Tacoma Times. Barnett M. Clinedinst. Arsen Darnay. William H. Brill. May Be Some Time. Leo Nowak (artist). "Arvies". Everett Farmer. "Waiting for the Barbarians (poem)". Kockroach.

 * "Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU". Kumarasinghe Sirisena. Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen. Kenneth E. Stager. Darwin's Bastards. Towing Jehovah. Cotton Coulson. "When It Ends, He Catches Her". Lee Ridley (comedian). Bluma Tischler.

 * Wickett's Remedy. "Hell You Talmbout". Nick Santino. Alfred Pinsky. The Land Across. Bella Shaw. Karen Memory. "The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians". "The Cambist and Lord Iron". "The Moral Virologist".

 * "Cat Pictures Please". Mirabile. Kamaluddin Ahmed (physicist) . Loon (drill). Year Zero (Reid novel). "The President of the United States, Detective". Holy Tango of Literature. Home Fires (novel). "The Soul Selects Her Own Society". "Eurema's Dam".

 * "The Meeting". "Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer." The Sorcerer's House. "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast". Nobody's Son. Robert McLane. "Catch That Zeppelin!". "Baby, You Were Great". Igor Karassik. "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling".

 * "Yo, Is This Racist?". William Lutwiniak. "Selkie Stories Are for Losers". Glen Gould. Crunk Feminist Collection. A Borrowed Man. "Sam Hall". "Painted" (song). Lovecraft Country (novel). "giANTS".

 * Les Dales Hawerchuk. "Elemental". The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. "Fuck Was I". "The Liar (novella)". "The Tomato Thief". Larry Nadle. "The Function of Dream Sleep". An Inheritance of Ashes. "Seasons of Glass and Iron".

501-600

 * "How Interesting: A Tiny Man". Greg Peters. The Man of Maybe Half-a-Dozen Faces. "The Ballad of Black Tom". A Closed and Common Orbit. "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers". Conspiracy against the United States. "Covenant" (short story). Provenance (novel). Chisako Kakehi.

 * "The Nutcracker Coup". Brother Termite. Random Walk. "The Woman the Unicorn Loved". Fleep. "They've Been Working On...". The Refrigerator Monologues. "Periodically Double or Triple". "Audacity of Huge". "Straw" (story).

 * All Systems Red. "Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time". And Then There Were (N-One). "Fandom for Robots". The Litany of Earth. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe. Antoni Przybylski. "A Series of Steaks". Six-Gun Snow White. "The Pi Man".

 * "5,271,009". A Year in the Linear City. infinity plus. Eleanor and the Egret. "Jackalope Wives". "Nobody Bothers Gus". "The Blind Geometer". This Book Needs No Title. There and Back Again (novel). "Rachel in Love".

 * "Sun, Moon, Dust". "Utopia, LOL?". "San Diego Lightfoot Sue". "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs". "The Wages of Syntax". "Nirvana High". River of Teeth. "Hexagons (story)". "Devil You Don't Know". "The Man Who Had No Idea".

 * "The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck". Blind Voices. Osama (novel). The Ultimax Man. David, We're Pregnant!. "Midnight by the Morphy Watch". "Unicorn Variation". The Art of Starving. "Boobs" (short story). "Mantis Wives".

 * City of Stairs. "The Fort Moxie Branch". "Hollerbochen's Dilemma". "The Homecoming" (short story). "Letter to a Phoenix". "The Djinn's Wife". "The Secret Life of Bots". An Unkindness of Ghosts. "Movement" (short story). "i sing of Olaf".

 * "Waters of Versailles". "The Fire When It Comes". Under the Pendulum Sun. "The Best Policy". "A Birthday". "Ma Qui". "The Wedding Album" (short story). Too, Too Solid Flesh. Larry Lansburgh. "The Geometry of Narrative".

 * "Eyes of Amber". "Ripples in the Dirac Sea". City of Blades. "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation". "The Lady Astronaut of Mars". The Death of the Necromancer. Kalan Haywood. "Her Furry Face". "The Road of Needles". Charles Sultan.

 * "Mr. Jester". "The Day the World Turned Upside Down". Child of Fire. "Danny Goes to Mars". Naming of Parts. "It Takes Two". "The Compleat Werewolf". Pop Momand. "The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington". "Dolly" (story).

601 - 700

 * Desperate Desmond. "Stet" (short story). "If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again". "The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections". "The Thing About Ghost Stories". "Down Went McGinty". "The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat". "Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue". Dov Behr Manischewitz. "True Names" (2008 story).

 * Space Opera (Valente novel). Sylvan Byck. The Dewey Decimal System (novel). "Out of All Them Bright Stars". Brittle Innings. Kill Six Billion Demons. The Only Harmless Great Thing. "No Children". "Racist Word Association Interview". "The Moment" (story).

 * "The Man Who Never Forgot". Jesse Miller (writer). Guy Snyder. Witchmark. "The Queen Bee" (Garrett story). "Her Husband's Hands". "We Print the Truth". Lent (novel). This Is How You Lose the Time War. P. Djèlí Clark.

 * "Eight Miles". Rajesh Kumar (writer). Hok Lundy. "The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out". "Matthew Modine" (song). Magic for Liars. Golden shovel. Albéric Boivin. "Belsen Express". Ochilo Ayacko.

 * Werner H. Kirsten. The Little Animals. Ben Oluoch. Jorge Berindoague. "Legend Has It". "Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)". Eustache Ngabisha. John Randolph Lewis. "For He Can Creep". DIE (comic).

 * The Constant Rabbit. Middlegame. "Omphalos" (story). "57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides". "The Flowers of Vashnoi". "Ike at the Mike". Anne Rittenhouse. "The Haunting of Tram Car 015". "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station". "Kiss Me Twice".

 * "Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats". "How the Trick Is Done". Waypoint Kangaroo. "In the Western Tradition". "When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis". "This Is A Trent Reznor Song". John Nyaphuli. "The Nine Billion Names of God" (Scholz). "Old Souls" (story). Lincoln F. Brigham.

 * A Man Lies Dreaming. All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault. The Girl Who Could Move Shit with Her Mind. The Way of the Shadow Wolves. "The Things" (short story). Foundryside. Once & Future. "Knapsack Poems". D. Keith Mano. "The Weight of the Sunrise".

 * Beneath the Rising. Or What You Will. "The Shadow War of the Night Dragons". Viola Roseboro'. The Midas Flesh. "The Quickening" (short story). "Myrrha" (short story). Blackbirds (Wendig novel). Hench (novel). The Cute Girl Network.

 * "The Privilege of the Happy Ending". "The Political Officer". "Near Zennor". "Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse". "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather". Shambling Towards Hiroshima. Carl Day. "Time Deer". "The Singular Habits of Wasps". "Proof by Induction".

701 - 800

 * Howard Ayers. Aspects (novel). The Lark on the Wing. Rovina Cai. "Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island". "Unknown Number". "Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station". A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking. Fahmida Azim. We Are All Completely Fine.

 * "A Guide for Working Breeds". Stray Dogs (comic). "Still Life With Boobs". Ed Valigursky. Peter Hidden. "L'Esprit de L'Escalier". Independence Ogunewe. Hollow Kingdom. Trouble the Saints. Houston B. Teehee.

 * Daniel Miehm. The Affair of the Mysterious Letter. Flint and Mirror. Miss Caroline. Shelley Parker-Chan. Nate Paul. "The Nearness of You" (Astro City). Even Though I Knew the End. "I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno". Pink House (Montreal).

 * Elvie L. Smith. Famous Men Who Never Lived. "Murder by Pixel". Robert J. Suhadolnik. Arthur Grimwade. Hai Ya. Calvin (novel). Joseph S. Bartley. "As the Last I May Know". "If the Martians Have Magic".

More, more, more.
 * "The Sound of Children Screaming". "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another". Nathaniel Holmes (judge). "The Steiger Effect". Woman with a Blue Pencil. Princess Leia's Stolen Death Star Plans. Bea Wolf. Vajra Chandrasekera. Rose/House. "Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet".

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The Middletown Journal

The Middletown Journal was a morning newspaper published in Middletown, Ohio, United States seven days a week by Cox Media Group. The paper was printed at Cox's plant in Franklin, Ohio, and distributed in Butler and Warren Counties. In September 2013, Cox Media Group Ohio announced that The Middletown Journal would cease to exist effective November 1, 2013, when the paper was merged with the Hamilton JournalNews into a new publication, the Journal-News.

The paper was first published January 12, 1857, as the Western Journal, a weekly paper issued on Thursday mornings, by C.H. Brock, a Middletown grocer. The name was changed to the Middletown Journal in 1859. Publication was suspended during the American Civil War, but resumed by 1871, when Brock sold the paper to E.T. Hardraker. The paper went through a series of owners, including George H. McKee and James L. Raymond. In 1880, W.H. Todhunter acquired the paper and made it a Republican journal. Todhunter began daily publication of the paper in 1890. The first Sunday edition was published on September 4, 1921. In 1924, the paper was purchased by Chew Publications, the owner of the Xenia Gazette.

In 1928, the paper purchased the other daily in Middletown, the Middletown News-Signal. The Journal was published as an evening paper chiefly distributed in the city and the News-Signal operated as a morning paper distributed to outlying areas. The two papers published a combined Sunday edition, the Sunday News-Journal. Chew owned the paper until 1978, when the company merged with the Thomson Corporation, the Canadian newspaper giant. When Thomson decided to exit the newspaper business, it reached a deal to sell the Journal, the Hamilton JournalNews, and several weekly papers in southwest Ohio to Gannett, the parent of The Cincinnati Enquirer. However, Cox Newspapers, the parent of the Dayton Daily News and the Springfield News-Sun, had an option on Thomson's properties and the papers were instead sold to Cox. The sale was completed September 2, 2000.

Over the years, the newspaper has been recognized by the Associated Press for photography, sports and headline writing. It has also won first-place awards from the Associated Press for Breaking News, Best Feature Writer and Best Sports Radio.

Its website was MiddletownJournal.com and featured local breaking news from Middletown, Monroe, Trenton, and Franklin.

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Good Bye

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Talk:Einars Repše

The correct spelling is Einars Repše
I have reasons to believe that the correct form is Einars without the macron. This is not a popular given name for Latvian men, but due to the similarity with a much more popular name Ainārs (which also, by the way, is often spelt without the macron, Ainars) Einars is often written with the macron. However, the official website of the New Era Party (jaunaislaiks.lv) of which he is the founder uses only the spelling Einars Repše. Therefore, I am moving this article. --Jūzeris ⇐ feedback appreciated 13:45, 16 July 2005 (UTC) True -- Kirils 21:22, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

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Walton-on-Thames railway station

Walton-on-Thames railway station is at the southern edge of the town of Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, England and borders Burwood Park, Hersham. It is 17 mi from London Waterloo and is situated between Hersham and Weybridge.

The station's main entrance borders the Ashley Park area of the largely residential town and features a taxi rank and pick-up apron. The station opened as Walton for Hersham in 1838 and today has rush hour services two stops from central London.

Only the two outer platforms on the slow lines are currently used. The central island platform is disused.

Services
Services from Walton-on-Thames are split into rush hour (Monday - Friday, early mornings and evenings), off peak (Monday - Friday, Saturday) and Sunday.

Rush hour

 * 4 trains per hour (tph) to London Waterloo, stopping to Surbiton then, non stop to London Waterloo.
 * 2tph to Woking
 * 2tph to Basingstoke

Rush hour services to London Waterloo only operate in the morning, and services to Woking and Guildford operate in the evening rush hour with one service running semi fast to Basingstoke.

Off peak

 * 2tph to London Waterloo, stopping service
 * 2tph to London Waterloo, semi fast
 * 2tph to Woking, stopping service
 * 2tph to Basingstoke, semi fast to Woking then stopping to Basingstoke

There are also three direct trains to Portsmouth Harbour two via Basingstoke one via Guildford per day, Mon - Sat, and one direct train to Branksome in the early morning. In the evening there are two services from Portsmouth Harbour via Basingstoke and one from Weymouth to Walton on Thames.

Sundays

 * 2tph to London Waterloo, stopping service
 * 1tph to London Waterloo, semi fast
 * 2tph to Guildford, stopping service
 * 1tph to Woking semi fast where the train divides to either Basingstoke or Alton

History
The station first operated in 1838, and was one of the first stations on the South West Main Line, between Ditton Marsh (now Esher) and Weybridge. The first services ran from Nine Elms to Woking Common (now Woking).

The middle platforms were abandoned when slower services only used the outer tracks, leaving the inside tracks for non stop services to Woking.

Ticket gates and accessibility
Walton-on-Thames railway station was one of the first stations selected by South West Trains to have automatic ticket gates installed at all of the exits to the station. These were installed and in operation on 25 June 2009. There were also smartcard validators installed, intended (in the future) for use when the barriers are unattended and open. As of June 2018, there was a digital barcode scanner installed for mobile ticketing on Platform 1.

Ramps were installed on 31 October 2009, making both platforms accessible to all from street level. Access from the Ashley Park / ticket office side of the station to the Burwood Park side requires use of the railway-owned subway which is via a short flight of steps or a detour of more than 600 m by road.

This station has a taxi rank and bus stops. Bus routes 458 and 555 serve the station, both connecting passengers to the town centre.

In 2016, a petition was started by a local resident calling for London Travelcard Zone 6 to be extended to include this station, as well as Esher and Hersham stations. In December 2022, Elmbridge Borough Council reaffirmed its commitment to lobby for Walton-on-Thames to be included in Zone 6.

A £6M station improvement programme, funded by the Department for Transport under the "Access for All" scheme, began in October 2022. Part of the project included the installation of a new footbridge connecting the two in-use platforms.

Immediate surroundings
The station is just north of the approximate midpoint of the medieval parish boundaries of Walton. Today it is on the southern boundary of Walton and the northern boundary of Hersham, and more particularly between two large-plot, neighbourhoods of detached homes, Burwood Park and Ashley Park. These are predominantly low rise and have avenues and greens; they are not a conservation area with no buildings which pre-date 1750 but the former has one or two listed buildings for architecture. The commercial centre of Walton is 0.6 mi north.

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Hudson Soft HuC6280

The HuC6280 8-bit microprocessor is Japanese company Hudson Soft's improved version of the WDC 65C02 CPU, an upgraded CMOS version of the popular NMOS-based MOS Technology 6502 8-bit CPU, manufactured for Hudson by Seiko Epson and NEC. The most notable product using the HuC6280 is NEC's TurboGrafx-16 video game console.

Description
The HuC6280 contains a 65C02 core which has several additional instructions and a few internal peripheral functions such as an interrupt controller, a memory management unit, a timer, an 8-bit parallel I/O port, and a programmable sound generator (PSG). The processor operates at two speeds, 1.79 MHz and 7.16 MHz.

A slightly revised HuC6280A was released and used in the PC Engine CoreGrafx and SuperGrafx. This revision reportedly fixed some minor audio issues in those systems.

Memory mapping
The HuC6280 has a 64 KB logical address space, but a 2 MB physical address space. The HuC6280 uses a Memory Management Unit that splits the memory space into segments of 8 KB. Each logical 8 KB segment is associated with one of 256 physical 8 KB sized segments. This can be set up with an 8-bit register (MPR0-7) that contains the most significant eight bits of the address of the 8 KB segment in physical memory. Thus the logical 64 KB address space can be overlapping, continuous or scattered in physical address space, depending on the eight MPR registers.

Two special instructions are used to access these registers:

- transfer the content of the accumulator (A) into an MPR register (0-7).

- transfer an MPR register into the accumulator.

Sound generator
PSG-styled wavetable synthesis provides six sound channels, which can be conveniently paired according to the functionality they provide:

0-1 - Waveform playback Frequency modulation (channel 1 muted) 2-3 - Waveform playback only 4-5 - Waveform playback White noise generation

Waveform playback is the most common and allows a 32-byte, 5-bit unsigned linear sample to be played back at selected frequencies. Frequency modulation takes this one step further, allowing the playback frequency to be dynamically adjusted according to a specified pattern. White noise is used to simulate percussion instruments and effects, such as explosions, by means of a pseudo-random square wave.

Alternatively, each channel can be individually switched to "Direct D/A" mode in which the programmer can send data directly to the sound mixer, allowing more complex sound patterns to be generated, such as speech. Inevitably, this requires more programming effort and CPU time.

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Tomistoma

Tomistoma is a genus of gavialid crocodilians. They are noted for their long narrow snouts used to catch fish, similar to the gharial. Tomistoma contains one extant (living) member, the false gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii), as well as potentially several extinct species: T. cairense, T. lusitanicum T. coppensi, and T. dowsoni. However, these species may need to be reclassified to different genera as studies have shown them to be paraphyletic, for example: previously assigned species T. taiwanicus from Taiwan, is reclassified to the genus Toyotamaphimeia, and T. dowsoni should be excluded from Tomistoma based on phylogenetic analysis.

Unlike the gharial, the false gharial's snout broadens considerably towards the base and so is more similar to those of true crocodiles than the gharial, whose osteology indicated a distinct lineage from all other living crocodilians. However, although more morphologically similar to Crocodylidae based on skeletal features, recent molecular studies using DNA sequencing consistently indicate that the false gharial and by inference other related extinct forms traditionally viewed as belonging to the crocodylian subfamily Tomistominae actually belong to Gavialoidea and Gavialidae.

Fossils of extinct Tomistoma species have been found in deposits of Paleogene, Neogene, and Quaternary ages in Uganda, Italy, Portugal, Egypt and India, but nearly all of them are likely to be distinct genera due to older age compared to the false gharial.

The below cladogram of the major living crocodile groups is based on molecular studies and shows the false gharial's close relationships:

Here is a more detailed cladogram from a 2018 tip dating study by Lee & Yates simultaneously using morphological, molecular (DNA sequencing), and stratigraphic (fossil age) data that shows the false gharial's proposed placement within Gavialidae, including extinct members:

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Talk:Butt of Lewis

GPS base station
Differential GPS, or is just plain old GSM? User:RHaworth

Its a GPS Base Station, I helped my dad maintain it. The GSM masts are beside the television mast Jamesmorrison

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Joe Hachem

Joseph Hachem (جوزف هاشم; ; born 11 March 1966) is a Lebanese-Australian professional poker player known for being the first Australian to win the World Series of Poker main event, which earned him $7.5 million, then a record for all-time biggest tournament prize.

The next year, Hachem won his first World Poker Tour title at the Bellagio Casino's Five Diamonds Poker Classic, earning him $2.2 million. He is one of only six poker players to win both a World Series of Poker main event and a World Poker Tour championship. Including his WSOP Main Event victory, Hachem has finished in the money in thirteen World Series events.

As of January 2018, Hachem's tournament winnings exceed $12,200,000, making him the 35th-highest ranked player in live tournament career earnings.

Early life
Joseph Hachem was born in Lebanon on 11 March 1966. In 1972, at age six, Hachem and his family moved to Melbourne, Australia. He worked as a chiropractor for 13 years before giving up the career after developing a rare blood disorder that affected the blood vessels in his hands. Around 1995, while taking time off to consider his future, Hachem started to play poker with greater frequency, mostly in casinos, as well as online. He also ran a small brokerage business in Pascoe Vale, Victoria. Hachem said he was too temperamental when he first started playing poker and had to learn to control his temper. Around 2000, after years of casual playing, Hachem started playing regularly in tournaments at the Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex in Melbourne, where he often ended in the money. Hachem spent another five years playing regularly on the Melbourne tournament circuit before setting his sights on the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Nevada.

2005 World Series of Poker
Just prior to entering the 2005 World Series of Poker, Hachem visited the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California, to play in a no-limit Texas hold 'em game. One of the players made a joke that Hachem was stopping in before being crowned the new "Australian champion". Hachem entered the World Series of Poker as a relatively unknown poker player. Two weeks prior to the main event, Hachem finished 10th in the $1,000 buy-in no-limit Hold'em World Series event, winning $25,850.

Hachem won the 2005 World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit Texas hold 'em Main Event, outlasting 5,618 other players. He won $7,500,000 for the first-place finish, then a record for all-time largest poker tournament prize. He entered the tournament by paying the $10,000 entrance fee in cash. Hachem ended the first day of the tournament with 67,000 in chips, about twice the average, and he said the strong start gave him confidence going into the rest of the tournament. Hachem's chip stack stayed at the tournament average for most of the tournament until he reached the final table, which lasted a record 13 hours and 54 minutes. A number of fellow Australians provided moral support from the audience, chanting "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi!".

Hachem was short-stacked for much of the final table and was constantly being re-raised by professional player Aaron Kanter. With four players left in the hand, Hachem was rejuvenated when he went all in with against Kanter, who had. Hachem caught a queen on the flop and doubled his chips. In a later interview, Hachem said he knew the hand was a turning point for him. He took the chip lead with three players remaining and after going heads-up against Steve Dannenmann, it took Hachem only six hands to win the game. In the final hand, Hachem called a pre-flop raise from 300,000 to 700,000 chips with, one of the worst starting hands in Texas hold 'em. The flop came, giving Hachem a straight. When the turn brought the, Steve Dannenmann made the top pair (with an open-ended straight draw) with his starting hand of. Hachem bet, Dannenmann raised, Hachem moved all-in and was called. In the end, Dannenmann could only tie if the river brought a 7 (giving him the same straight), but the on the river ensured Hachem the win.

After winning the tournament, Hachem wrapped himself in an Australian flag and shouted, "Thank you, America!". Hachem was the first Australian to win the World Series of Poker Main Event, and he immediately developed a strong fan base in Australia. During a post-tournament interview, WSOP commentator Norman Chad declared, "Hachem turned 7–3 offsuit into $7.5 million. Pass the sugar!" Hachem himself first used the line, which came to be considered a winning catchphrase after flopping a flush with against Andrew Black's three queens and winning a large pot. (In actuality, Hachem had said "Pass the sugar!" prematurely. Had the board paired in this hand, Black would have had at least a full house, which would have eliminated Hachem.)

Hachem and his World Series main event win has been credited with consolidating the boom in popularity for poker in Australia and beyond (which was first thrust into the mainstream consciousness by Chris Moneymaker in 2003), including potentially being the impetus for the casino scenes in the 2006 movie Casino Royale; the original gambling action from the original Casino Royale novel was baccarat. Hachem continued playing home games with his friends after his main event victory, including friendly games with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Casino Royale star Daniel Craig. In 2008, it was announced that there would be a documentary film produced that was focusing on Hachem's 2005 World Series of Poker victory as well as the eight other players at the main event final table. The resulting 2009 film, Pass the Sugar, was directed by Gil Cates Jr., who previously directed the 2008 poker-themed film Deal.

Also in 2005, Hachem made the final table of a World Series of Poker circuit event at the Bally's Las Vegas Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Hachem was the chip leader during much of the final table, but he suffered a crippling setback against Kido Pham, who went all in with Jack-Ten. Hachem called with pocket kings, but lost when two jacks came up on the flop, costing Hachem almost all of his chips. He was eventually eliminated by Lee Watkinson in fifth place, earning Hachem $88,172. After the match, Hachem said, "I came here wanting to avoid making any mistakes. The fact is, I didn't make a mistake. I'm proud of the way I played in this tournament, although it is very painful not to win.

2006 tournaments
At the 2006 World Series of Poker, Hachem finished second in the $2,500 short-handed no limit hold 'em event, which drew 1,068 players. During the final hand, Hachem went all in with and was called by Dutch Boyd, who had. Although a favorite after the flop of, Hachem lost when Boyd caught a five of diamonds on the river. Hachem won $256,800 from the second-place finish, but was nevertheless visibly disappointed by the outcome, and was comforted by his wife Jeanine and friend Greg Raymer, the 2004 World Series of Poker champion.

Also in the 2006 World Series, Hachem finished fourth in the $2,500 pot limit hold'em tournament, which had a starting field of 562 players. In the final table, Hachem eliminated Lee Grove with a pair of kings and Alex Jacob with three queens. But Hachem was eliminated after once again taking a bad beat on the river. He moved all in against John Gale with on a, against Gale's. Gale eliminated Hachem after catching an ace of spades on the river. Hachem earned $90,482 for the fourth-place finish, and Gale eventually won the tournament.

Hachem finished in 238th place at the 2006 World Series Main Event, earning him $42,882. In defense of his 2005 title, Hachem outlasted about 97% of the record field of 8,773 players in the tournament. Hachem was eliminated after his pocket Aces were outdrawn by Andrew Schreibman's pocket Jacks. He was the last remaining Main Event champion left in the field, as Greg Raymer had been the year before.

In December 2006, Hachem won $2,207,575 and his first World Poker Tour title at the Bellagio Casino's Five Diamonds Poker Classic. The victory made Hachem one of only six poker players to win both a World Series of Poker main event and a World Poker Tour championship, along with Doyle Brunson, Carlos Mortensen, Scotty Nguyen, Dan Harrington and Ryan Riess.

Other poker events
Hachem won the "World Series of Poker Champions II" tournament on NBC's Poker After Dark on a table consisting of Main Event winners Doyle Brunson, Greg Raymer, Jamie Gold, Huck Seed, and Johnny Chan, whom he defeated heads up to win $120,000. In 2006, Hachem appeared in Poker Superstars III, but failed to advance to the Super 16 round by only one point. In December 2007, Hachem won the Poker Stars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Tournament of Champions, which included a field of such players as Raymer, Chris Moneymaker and Isabelle Mercier. In April 2008, Hachem came close to the final table of the PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final, finish in 11th place for more than $150,000.

Hachem finished in 103rd place in the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event, which drew a field of 6,494 players, earning himself $40,288. Also in 2009, Hachem participated in the fifth season of High Stakes Poker, a cash game television series on the Game Show Network. The season featured a buy-in of at least $200,000, the highest minimum requirement in the show's history. Also in 2009, Hachem produced and hosts the Australian reality show The Poker Star, which characterizes Hachem as a poker mentor searching for the next big player. The show features a group of contestants living together in one house and competing in a series of poker-related challenges.

Hachem was inducted into the Australian Poker Hall of Fame in 2009 with "Legend Status", to which he now serves as Chairman.

As of 2018, Hachem's total live tournament winnings exceed $12,200,000, more than $7.9 million of which comes from the World Series of Poker events. He is ranked 27th in live poker tournament career earnings by The Hendon Mob, a website which tracks tournament poker players.

Poker style and technique
Hachem said he believes his discipline and control helps him make good decisions at the right time. He credited his success at the 2005 World Series of Poker in part to his ability to make difficult laydowns. Hachem has also advised amateur players against bluffing too often or without any outs. Hachem said he rarely bluffs without any outs, and only does so when "you're confident the other guy can't stand the heat of a raise." Hachem said he tries to maintain the same poker face for each hand. During intense hands, he focuses on a point on the table, keeps his breathing under control and tries not to give away any information. Hachem has said he likes playing at featured tables in televised poker tournaments because, "Everyone wants to be on TV, and they are afraid to do anything silly so they don't get ridiculed. I try and take advantage of that." Hachem's talent and personality has drawn him a large fanbase, and people often surround his table to watch him during tournaments. Hachem is widely regarded as one of the best high-stakes cash game players in Australia.

Family and personal life
Hachem has been married since 1989 to Jeanie, who he has known since both were teenagers. They have four children, named Anthony, Justine, Daniel, and James. Hachem said his wife was extremely supportive of his decision to seek a career in poker and participate in the World Series of Poker in 2005. His children also play poker, and Hachem said he believes it teaches them discipline and how to handle adversity.

He operates a mortgage company and enjoys playing golf, especially with friends and other poker players.

Until December 2011, Hachem represented the online poker website PokerStars. He played under the name "JoeHachem" on the site.

Actor Matt Damon, who starred in the 1998 poker film Rounders, is a fan of Hachem and has played poker with him. Damon said of Hachem, "Poker can bring out the worst in people, but when you see somebody who's just winning with grace and class and dignity, it's nice."

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Alexander Gromov

Alexander Nikolayevich Gromov (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Грóмов) is a Russian science fiction writer, who began writing in 1986 and was first published in the early 1990s.

His work is influenced by that of the Strugatsky brothers, and he has stated a preference for the social science fiction genre. He writes primarily in his native Russian language.

Gromov lives in Moscow, and is an amateur astronomer and former electronic engineer.

Soft Landing
Soft Landing (original Russian title: Myagkaya posadka) was published in 1995. The novel is set in Moscow, approximately at the end of the 21st century. The novel centers on the life of an ordinary man fighting for survival while new subspecies of Homo sapiens wage war against normal humans. Soft Landing received a Belyaev Award and Interpresscon Award in 1996.

Year of the Lemming
Year of the Lemming (original Russian title: God Lemminga), was published in 1997. It is a prequel to Soft Landing and is set in the year 2040. In the novel, the appearance of contagious diseases and unexpected technological failures has caused the establishment of four services that harshly monitor the life of humankind. The protagonist Michail Malakhov is faced with a suicide epidemic, the cure for which is being hidden by scientists.

Master of the Void
Master of the Void (original Russian title: Vlastelin Pustoty) was first published in 1997. The plot involves the transition of a nation in peaceful harmony with the natural world on a distant planet, to a phase of industrial dictatorship created to defend against outer aggression.

"Saint Vitus' Minuet"
St. Vitus' Minuet (Менуэт святого Витта), published in 1997, is a novella which deals with an emerging society on an unexplored planet, and the psychological aspects of survival. Saint Vitus' Minuet won a Fancon Award in 1997.

Genres and themes
While most of his novels have a well-defined hard scientific background, Gromov's stated main interest is social science fiction:

''I still have to tell a couple of words about my works — not about each one, but about all of them. Most of the things I wrote can be considered social science fiction (not in the sense of "capitalism-socialism" — this topic does not interest me). The recipe of it, worked out by H. G. Wells, has not changed till the present day and looks like this: you take a socium (limited number of people is better — easier to work) and do some ugly thing to it, and then you sit and look at the consequences...''

Two of Gromov's books focus on a theme of power in a social context: his novella Saint Vitus Minuet (Menuet Svyatogo Vitta, 1997), deals with an emerging society; the novel Master of the Void discusses the transition of a peaceful nation in harmony with nature to an aggressive industrial dictatorship. The latter examines the surrounding mechanisms of power in the fictional government as well as the protagonist's rise to leadership.

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EAFF E-1 Football Championship

EAFF E-1 Football Championship, known as the East Asian Football Championship from 2003 to 2010, and the EAFF East Asian Cup for the 2013 and 2015 editions, is a men's international football competition in East Asia for member nations of the East Asian Football Federation (EAFF). Before the EAFF was founded in 2002, the Dynasty Cup was held between the East Asian top four teams, and was regarded as the East Asian Championship. There is a separate competition for men (first held in 2003) and women (first held in 2005).

The most recent edition was held in 2022 in Japan.

History
The Dynasty Cup is a defunct international association football competition that is regarded as the predecessor to East Asian Football Championship. It was held four times from 1990 to 1998. The purpose of the competition was to improve the quality of football in the East Asia and the national teams in the area participated in the tournament. After the East Asian Football Federation was formed in 2002, the East Asian Football Championship replaced this tournament.

In the tournament, China, South Korea, and Japan have the right to automatically enter the competition, while other participants have to go through a qualifying round. Other participants that take part are Taiwan, North Korea, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Hong Kong, Mongolia, and Macau. Australia, being a non-member of the EAFF, was invited to take part in the 2013 tournament.

In 2005 there was also a combined points competition in 2005, where the results of the men's and women's teams were added together (not including qualifiers). In April 2012, the competition was renamed to the "EAFF East Asian Cup". In December 2015, the new competition name "EAFF East Asian Championship" was approved, but later changed to "EAFF E-1 Football Championship".

Comprehensive team results by tournaments
Numbers refer to the final placing of each team at the respective games.

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Strattis

Strattis (Στράττις) was an Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy. According to the Suda, he flourished later than Callias Schoenion. Therefore, it is likely that his poetry was performed at the 92nd Olympiad, that is, 412 BC.

Strattis was a contemporary of Sannyrion and Philyllius, both of whom were attacked in the extant fragments of his plays. The drama in which Philyllius was attacked was the Potamioi. According to the scholiast of Aristophanes, this drama was performed before Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae. Therefore, this could not be later than 394/3 BC.

Also, in his Anthroporrhaistes, Strattis attacked Hegelochus, the actor of the Orestes of Euripides. Therefore this play would have been performed later than 408 BC, the year in which the Orestes was performed.

Strattis was performing his works at the end of the 99th Olympiad, that is, 380 BC, when he attacked Isocrates on account of his fondness for Lagisca when he was far advanced in years.

Some authors call him, inaccurately, Strato. Some scholars believed the comic poets Strato and Strattis to be the same person, but this idea is now considered by most classicists as to be incorrect.

Surviving Titles and Fragments
The Suda gives a list of his works:

 * The Human Orestes (Ἀνθρωπορραιστής)
 * Atalante (Ἀταλάντη)
 * Good Men or Disappearance of the Money (Ἀγαθοί ἤτοι Ἀργυρίου ἀφανισμός)
 * Iphigeron (Ἰφιγέρων)
 * Callippides (Καλλιππίδης)
 * Cinesias (Κινησίας)
 * Limnomedon (Λιμνομέδων)
 * Macedonians or Pausanias (Μακεδόνες ἢ Παυσανίας)
 * Medea (Μήδεια)
 * Troilus (Τρωΐλος)
 * Phoenician Women (Φοίνισσαι)
 * Philoctetes (Φιλοκτήτης)
 * Chrysippus (Χρύσιππος)
 * Psychastae (Ψυχασταί)

This list is not complete. Other writers mention four more plays:

 * Zopyros Surrounded By Flames (Ζώπυρος Περικαιόμενος)
 * Myrmidons (Μυρμιδόνες)
 * Potamioi (Ποτάμιοι)
 * Pytisos (Πυτίσιος)

Studies

 * Christian Orth, Strattis: die Fragmente. Ein Kommentar (Berlin: Verlag Antike, 2009) (Studia comica, 2).

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Nufenen Pass

Nufenen Pass (Italian: Passo della Novena, German: Nufenenpass) is the second highest mountain pass with a paved road in Switzerland, with an elevation of 2,478 metres. It lies between the summits of Pizzo Gallina (north) and the Nufenenstock (south). The road opened to motor vehicle traffic in September 1969.

Route
The pass road from Ulrichen in the canton of Valais leads to the Bedretto valley in the canton of Ticino, linking Brig to Airolo. It is not the lowest pass between the two valleys, as there is another unnamed pass one kilometre to the south, elevation 2,440 metres, which is traversed by a trail.

The source of the river Ticino lies east of the top of the pass. Towards the north are views of the Bernese Alps, including the Finsteraarhorn while there is a view over the Gries Glacier to the south.

Sources and further reading

 * This article incorporates information from the equivalent article in the German Wikipedia, consulted during April 2009.

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Sara Nunes

Sara Nunes (born 1980) is a Finnish pop singer who gained some attention in 2005 after releasing her debut single "Simon Can't Sing" which was a parody of Simon Cowell, the famous American Idol and Pop Idol judge. She and her song achieved some notice in the United States, and charted in her native country, Finland.

Biography
Sara Nunes was born in 1980 in Seinäjoki, Finland, to a Finnish mother and Portuguese father. From her early life she was multicultural; she spent the first nine years of her life in Sweden, then she and her family moved to Africa where she attended a Swedish-speaking school. As a result, she speaks four languages fluently: Finnish, English, Portuguese and Swedish.

Her first real experience in the musical business came at the age of 16 when she fronted the marginally successful band, Sinamour, which she founded with her best friend whom she met during high school, Simone, a native of Jamaica. They were discovered when they sang in a Finnish bus. Sinamour was one of the first Finnish bands who got their video on MTV Nordic. It is known for its small hit "Sync Out". Now Sara lives in Helsinki and is concentrating on her musical career. She released her album "How to Rule the World in 12 EZ Lessons" on August 3, 2005, only in Finland. The single "Simon Can't Sing" and MTV-Video with Swedish actor Rickard Castefjord was one of the biggest hits of 2005 in Finland getting much airplay outside Finland, too, through MTV Nordic. Her song "Britney Is Still a Virgin" was also recognized, despite not being a single.

On November 27, 2007, she released "How to Rule the World in 12 EZ Lessons" in the United States, on American Royalty Records, and in December 2007 on label TridentStyle/VillageAgain.

From 2008 to 2010, she was married to Jussi Ahde, the son of well-known Finnish politicians.

Discography

 * Simon Can't Sing (2005, single)
 * How to Rule the World in 12 EZ Lessons (2005, album)
 * Bleed (2005, single)
 * Dumbitch (2006, single)

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Rob Knight (politician)

Daniel Robert Knight (born 1967) is a former Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2005 to 2012, representing the remote electorate of Daly. He served as Minister for Local Government and Minister for Central Australia from 2008 to 2012. He also served as the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2012, having been appointed to the position after the resignation of Len Kiely.

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Prior to entering politics, Knight was a park ranger. He contested the newly created seat of Daly in the 2001 election against Country Liberal Party (CLP) candidate Tim Baldwin (who had represented the now-abolished seat of Victoria River, which had been redistributed to form Daly), but was unsuccessful.

He contested Daly again at the 2005 election after Baldwin retired, and was initially thought to have little chance of winning. Daly was a fairly safe CLP seat on paper; after a redistribution, the CLP held it on a notional majority of 9.5 percent. However, on election night the CLP primary vote almost halved, and Knight gained the seat with a swing of 24.6 percent, turning Daly from a safe CLP seat into a safe Labor seat at one stroke. Knight actually won a majority on the first count, allowing him to take the seat from the CLP without the need for preferences. Even considering the size of the Labor wave that swept through the Territory, Knight's victory was considered a shock result, as a swing of this magnitude is almost unheard of at any level in Australia.

Knight was reelected in 2008, but was defeated in 2012 by the CLP's Gary Higgins amid Labor's collapse in the remote portions of the Territory.

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The Stadium Techno Experience

The Stadium Techno Experience is the ninth studio album by German hard dance group Scooter. Three singles were released from it: "Weekend!", "The Night" and a remix of "Maria (I Like It Loud)" featuring Marc Acardipane and Dick Rules. Its artwork is an homage to the 1991 album The White Room by The KLF. It is the first album featuring Jay Frog. In the United Kingdom, The Stadium Techno Experience became Scooter's second studio album in the top 40 after Our Happy Hardcore (1996).

Track listing
All songs written by H.P. Baxxter, Rick J. Jordan, Jay Frog, and Jens Thele, except where noted. M.C. lyrics by H.P. Baxxter a.k.a. "The Chicks Terminator"
 * 1) "Ignition" – 0:36
 * 2) "Maria (I Like It Loud)" (Baxxter, Jordan, Frog, Thele, Marc Acardipane, Shawn Mierez) – 3:55
 * 3) "Weekend!" (Baxxter, Jordan, Frog, Thele, Gerard Koerts) – 3:32
 * 4) "Take a Break" – 4:15
 * 5) "Pulstar" (Vangelis) – 4:33
 * 6) "The Night"  – 3:21
 * 7) "Roll Baby Roll" – 3:45
 * 8) "Level One" (Baxxter, Jordan, Frog, Thele, Chris Hülsbeck) – 3:34
 * 9) "Like Hypa Said" – 6:23
 * 10) "Liquid Is Liquid" (Baxxter, Jordan, Frog, Thele, Shane Heneghan, Eamon Downes) – 4:45
 * 11) "A Little Bit Too Fast" – 3:45
 * 12) "Soultrain" – 5:08

Sample credits

 * "Ignition" samples "The Final Conflict", composed by Jerry Goldsmith for the film Omen III: The Final Conflict.
 * "Maria (I Like It Loud)" is based on the 2002 rework of the song "I Like It Loud" by Marc Acardipane feat. Dick Rules. The original song is written by Marc Acardipane and was released in 1997 under the name "Marshall Masters feat. The Ultimate MC". The single version of "Maria (I Like It Loud)" was released under the name "Scooter vs. Marc Acardipane & Dick Rules" and both Marc Acardipane and Dick Rules have appeared in the music video.
 * "Weekend!" samples "Weekend" by Earth & Fire as well as "Strange World" by Push (aka M.I.K.E.), and "America: What Time Is Love?" by The KLF. The music video is based on the music video by The KLF. Three versions of the music video were released: censored (or UK video), uncensored and the X-rated video.
 * "Take a Break" samples a popular song of the American Civil War called "When Johnny Comes Marching Home".
 * "Pulstar" is based on the work of the same name by Vangelis, and is party based on Donna Summer's 1977 single, "I Feel Love"
 * "The Night" samples both Italian disco star Valerie Dore's hit 1984 single, "The Night" and "Magic Impulse" by Exposure. The song is probably inspired by Jay Frog's remix of the song released as "Planet Trax Remix" on the 1997 CD single "The Night" by Valerie. Two versions of the music video were released: censored video (or UK video) and uncensored video.
 * "Roll Baby Roll" samples the ABBA song "Arrival", taken from the 1976 album of the same name. It was replaced on later issues of the album (including 20 Years of Hardcore expanded edition) with the song "Swinging in the Jungle" with the different melody due to copyright violations. However, in 2008 Scooter performed "Roll Baby Roll" with the original melody by ABBA live in Berlin. The song appeared in the live stream by the VIVA TV channel, but was not included in the DVD version of the concert released as the part of the Jumping All Over the World album. In 2014 "Roll Baby Roll" was performed again during the 20 Years of Hardcore tour, but there were neither livestream nor official video of the tour however.
 * "Level One" samples the song "Freedom" by Chris Hülsbeck, the ending theme of Turrican II, and is probably inspired by the song "See You in the Next Life" by Atlantis ITA.
 * "Liquid Is Liquid" is the rework of the same name song by Liquid and also includes elements of the song "The Second Trip (DJ Scot Project Mix)" by Hennes & Cold.
 * "A Little Bit Too Fast" samples the song "I Am Rushin'" by Bump.
 * "Siberia" samples taken from Turkish folk song "Hüma Kuşu" performed by Devrim Kaya (on the 20 Years of Hardcore expanded edition).

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Stoke Park, Guildford

Stoke Park is a 52 ha park on the edge of the town centre of Guildford, Surrey, England donated to Guildford by the Lord Onslow in 1925 with the express wish that it "remain for all time a lung of the town". Between London Road and Parkway, two of the four arterial roads to the A3, Stoke Park is the largest park within the town signed area of Guildford. It is also a Green Flag award winning park. The park and its woodland have remained more or less intact since they were laid out in the 18th-century. Then, there was the manor house which owned slightly more land remaining from the manor of Stoke-next-Guildford, complete with walled garden and icehouse.

Geography
To the west of the park is Guildford College. The other side of the college, away from the park, is St John's Church. To the south of the park is Guildford Community Church, Guildford High School and London Road (Guildford) railway station. Surrounding the park to the south and east is the A3100 road. This meets the A25 road, which runs along the north side of the park, in the northeast corner close to the Guildfordian Bisons RFC pitches. To the north of the A25 road is the Guildford Spectrum with which the park shares its facilities.

History
Stoke was originally a parish south of the River Wey. In 1894, it became part of Guildford, when the parish of Stoke was split into two, Stoke-within-Guildford and Stoke-next-Guildford. Before 1762, the site of Stoke Park was called the Paddocks, it was owned by a Mr Dyson who laid out its dimensions. In 1780, it was purchased by a Mr Aldesey. He bought it along with Stoke Mills. The road that later became the A320 Stoke Road/Woking Road was diverted in 1780 to the west end of St. John's Church in Stoke away from Stoke Park. It runs north to south, to the west of the ornamental gardens and the model boating lake in the park. In 1879 Samuel Budgett bought 100 acres of the estate, along with the mansion for £35,000, from Lord Onslow.

Sport
It was home for many years to the Old Guilfordians RFC before their merger with Guildford and Godalming RFC to form Guildford Rugby Club in 2003. Following this, the junior rugby section of the club stayed at Stoke Park under the name of Guildfordians Rugby. They were joined in 2002, by disaffected Old Guildfordians, who had gone to Guildford and Godalming, thus forming Stoke Park Bisons RFC. At the beginning of the 2008–09 Season the RFU allowed the club to be named Guildfordian Bisons RFC, thus forming a link between both the senior and junior sides.

The Guildford Crows Aussie Rules FC train at Stoke Park during the summer.

Facilities
Stoke Park contains sports pitches, tennis courts, woodland areas, formal gardens, climbing frames, a water cascade, an outdoor ‘trim trail’, crazy golf course, children's play area with slides, a paddling and model boating pool, concrete skatepark and other large expanses of grass.

Events
Stoke Park is home to the annual Surrey County Show held during the second bank holiday weekend in May and a number of other events throughout the year such as the Race for Life and the Surrey County Agricultural Show.

Stoke Park was the site of the annual music festival GuilFest, and it holds the annual Guildford Lions Firework Fiesta on 5 November every year. The event includes many fairground attractions and food stands and starts with a torch lit procession from Guildford High Street and ends with a 20-minute firework finale.

A 5 km run against the clock is organised by the group Parkrun most Saturday mornings.

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Motya

Motya was an ancient and powerful city on San Pantaleo Island off the west coast of Sicily, in the Stagnone Lagoon between Drepanum (modern Trapani) and Lilybaeum (modern Marsala). It is within the present-day commune of Marsala, Italy.

Many of the city's ancient monuments have been excavated and are visible today.

Motya has become known for the marble statue of the Motya Charioteer, found in 1979 and on display at the local Giuseppe Whitaker museum.

Names
The Carthaginian settlement was written in their abjad as  or  (, possibly Motye). The name seems to derive from the Phoenician triliteral root, which would give it the meaning of "a wool-spinning center".

Motya is the latinization of the island's Greek name, variously written Motýa (Μοτύα) or Motýē (Μοτύη). The Greeks claimed the place was named for a woman named Motya whom they connected with the myths around Hercules. The town's Italian name appears as both Mozia and Mothia; its Sicilian name is Mozzia.

The island first received the name San Pantaleo in the 11th century from Basilian monks.

Location and site

Between the promontory of Lilybaeum (Capo Boéo) and that of Aegithallus (San Teodoro), the coast forms a deep bight, in front of which lies a long group of low rocky islets, called the Stagnone. Within these, and considerably nearer to the mainland, lies Motya island formerly called San Pantaleo, on which lie the remains of the ancient city. The island is nearly 850 m long and 750 m wide, and about 1 km (six stadia) from the mainland of Sicily. It was joined to the mainland in ancient times by a causeway, over which chariots with large wheels could reach the town.

The confined space on which the city was built agrees with the description of Diodorus that the houses were lofty and of solid construction, with narrow streets (στενωποί) between them, which facilitated the desperate defence of the inhabitants. Much of the walls, with those of two gateways, can be seen whose circuit is about 2.5 km.

The island of Motya is owned and operated by the Whitaker Foundation (Palermo), known for Marsala wines. The museum has artifacts that display Egyptian, Corinthian, Attic, Roman, Punic and Hellenic influences.

The Tophet, a type of cemetery for the cremated remains of children, possibly (but not entirely proven) as sacrifice to Tanit or Baʿal Hammon is exposed. Many of the ancient residences are open to the public.

Phoenician Period
The foundation of the settlement dates from around 800 BC, about a century after the foundation of Carthage in Tunisia. Like Carthage, it was originally a Phoenician colony, who were fond of choosing similar sites, and probably was originally merely a commercial station or emporium, but gradually rose to be a flourishing and important town. The Phoenicians transformed the inhospitable island into one of the most affluent cities of its time, naturally defended by the lagoon.

By 650 BC the settlement had grown into a busy port-city with maritime trade extending to the central and western Mediterranean. This prosperity caused rivalry with powerful Carthage nearby on the North African coast, despite their ancient common ancestry. This led to Carthage defeating and demolishing Motya in the mid-sixth century BC. Motya recovered and the population quickly rebuilt the city on a monumental scale and, after two centuries without them, built the first defensive walls, some of the earliest in the central Mediterranean.

Motya is first mentioned by Hecataeus of Miletus, and Thucydides notes it among the chief colonies of the Phoenicians in Sicily at the time of the Athenian expedition in 415 BC. A few years later (409 BC) when the Carthaginian army under general Hannibal Mago landed at the promontory of Lilybaeum, he laid up his fleet for security in the gulf around Motya, while he advanced with his land forces along the coast to attack Selinus. After the fall of the latter city, we are told that Hermocrates, the Syracusan exile, who had established himself on its ruins, laid waste the territories of Motya and Panormus. During the second expedition of the Carthaginians under Hamilcar (407 BC), these two harbours became the permanent stations of the Carthaginian fleet.

Carthaginian Period
In common with the other Phoenician settlements in Sicily, it passed under the government or dependency of Carthage, since Diodorus calls it a Carthaginian colony, but this may not be strictly correct.

As the Greek colonies in Sicily increased in numbers and importance, the Carthaginians gradually abandoned their settlements in the east and concentrated themselves in the three principal colonies of Soluntum, Panormus (modern Palermo), and Motya. Motya became one of the chief Carthaginian strongholds, as well as one of their most important commercial cities in Sicily due to its proximity to Carthage and its opportune situation for communication with North Africa, as well as the natural strength of its position.

Siege of Motya
The important status of Motya led Dionysius I of Syracuse in 398 BC to invade Carthaginian territory in Sicily. The Motyans, supported by Carthage, made preparations for vigorous resistance and, by cutting off the causeway which linked them to the mainland, compelled Dionysius to repair it or build a new causeway. When the military engines of Dionysius (among which the formidable catapult made its appearance for the first time) were brought up to the walls, the Motyans continued a desperate resistance and after the walls and towers were breached by the overwhelming forces of the enemy, they still defended from street to street and from house to house. Their struggle only increased the hatred of the Sicilian Greeks for the Carthaginians and when the troops of Dionysius were victorious, they put the whole population, men, women, and children, to the sword.

Dionysus garrisoned it under an officer named Biton, while his brother Leptines of Syracuse made it the base of his fleet. But the next spring (396 BC) Himilcon, the Carthaginian general, having landed at Panormus with a large force, recovered possession of Motya with comparatively little difficulty. Motya was not destined to recover its former importance for Himilcon was struck with the superior advantages of the promontory of Lilybaeum and founded a new city there to which he transferred the few remaining inhabitants of Motya.

Greek and Roman Periods
From this period Motya disappears from documented history. Although we have no account of Motya having received any Greek population or having fallen into the hands of the Greeks before its conquest by Dionysius, there exist coins of the city with the Greek legend "ΜΟΤΥΑΙΟΝ". They are, however, of great rarity and imitated those of the neighbouring city of Segesta.

Archaeology has shown (e.g. the House of the mosaics) that it continued to be inhabited, including by wealthy Greeks.

In 2006 archaeological digs uncovered a house built against the town's walls, the finds from which have shown that the town had a "thriving population long after it is commonly believed to have been destroyed by the Ancient Greeks." Discovered items include cooking pans, Phoenician-style vases, altars, and looms.

Middle Ages
During the Middle Ages, Basilian monks settled on the island and renamed it San Pantaleo, and in 1888 it was rediscovered by Joseph Whitaker.

Motya Charioteer
The Motya Charioteer sculpture found in 1979 is on display at the Giuseppe Whitaker museum. It is a rare example of a victor of a chariot race who must have been very wealthy in order to commission such a work. It was found built into Phoenician fortifications which were quickly erected before Dionysios I of Syracuse invaded and sacked Motya in 397 BC.

Its superb quality implies that it was made by a leading Greek artist in the period following their defeat of the Persians, but its style is unlike any other of this period. It is believed it must have been looted from a Greek city conquered by Carthage in 409-405 BC.

The earliest settlement
Recent archaeology carrìed out by La Sapienza Universìty in the area of the "Kothon" found the earlìest occupation of the Phoenician settlement dating from the second quarter of the 8th century BC. It started at the anchorage identified on the southern shore of the island, and grew around the nearby springs, where the earliest sacred area was erected (Temple C5). This area initiated rapid growth of the town and houses spread over the acropolis (which had already hosted a huge prehìstoric village). Three main centres soon became established:
 * the southern housing quarter with public buildings (Building C8 and Temple C5)
 * the acropolìs
 * the northern quarter with docks and industrial areas linked to the Sicilian coast opposite.

At Ieast two thirds of the ìsland were still left free for agriculture.

The Kothon

A cothon, as it usually spelled in English, is a typical feature of Phoenician ports. The cothon at Motya is an artificial lake on an otherwise very dry island that had long puzzled archaeologists since the first excavations by Joseph Whitaker in 1906/07. The lake was fed by the only fresh water spring on the island and enclosed with a rectangular, 52.5 x, perimeter wall of carved limestone blocks with a drain towards the sea. The basin, which was slightly bigger than an Olympic-sized swimming pool, was carved into the rock with a maximum depth of 2.5 m.

Although thought at one time to be a harbour, in ancient times sea level was about 1 m lower than today (which is also shown by the depth the causeway to the island) and entry of large ships into the basin would have been impossible.

Instead it is the largest known sacred pool in the ancient Mediterranean world and the area all around the Kothon, the Temenos or temple area, was also sacred and was enclosed by a semicircular wall which has been exposed.

Next to the Kothon are three temples, the Temple of Baal, the Temple of Astarte and the "sanctuary of the Holy Waters". The temples of Baʿal and Astarte date to the first Phoenician settlement 800–750 BC. At this time, the site of the later Kothon was a natural spring-fed pool with a block-lined side.

The Kothon was rebuilt as a monumental pool with the rest of the city between 550-520 BC after the destruction of the city by the Carthaginians. The Kothon had a platform in the centre as a base for a statue of the Phoenician god Baʿal.

Only after the destruction of the city in 397/6 BC was a section of the nearby city wall dismantled and a small channel opened in the Kothon wall towards the sea. In the later Roman period (2nd to 4th c. AD) it was used for fish farming and the production of salt.

City walls

The city walls originally enclosed the entire island and are best preserved along the east coast.

In 1874 the area of the North Gate was discovered where a large sculpture ornamented the double-arch passage. The city walls were revealed further by G. Whitaker at the beginnìng of the last century. Their systematic exploration started in the 1960s by the Brltish Expeditlon who focused on the North and South Gates. From 1974 to 1992 La Sapienza University of Rome carried out yearly campaigns on walls, especially along the eastern and northern shores. Four major constructlonal phases were identified. They resumed excavation in 2002 with the identification of the West Gate and the excavation of the western fortress. Since 2015 archaeology was resumed on the walls between the East Tower and the North Gate.

The 4 phases are:
 * Phase 1 (550–520 BC): the main wall had a width of about 1 m, with rectangular towers at regular intervals (21 - 23 m) along the perimeter and can be admired on the northern and eastern sides of the island. The foundation was of irregular ashlars of medium size, forming a double curtain on outer and inner faces with mud mortar, and an inner fill. The upper layers used greyish mudbricks.
 * Phase 2 (520–480 BC): the main wall was built on a new foundation 1.5 m high of big limestone blocks. The upper layers used reddish-brown mudbricks plastered with lime. The North Gate is protected by adding two projecting towers.
 * Phase 3 (480–450 BC): the wall is further reinforced by adding protruding rectangular towers along the perimeter with side staircases of carefully-cut local sandstone slabs, possibly due to a change in tactics.
 * Phase 4 (450–397 BC): the wall reaches the maximum width of 5.2 m with the addition of a base made of big limestone splinters and an ashlar masonry revetment in some places. The wall base is preserved at some places at a height of more than 5m including part of the mudbrick superstructure. All around the wall at the changes of orientation, huge square protruding towers (12 x) (Eastern Tower, South Tower, Western Fortress) were built overlooking the walls in addition to the existing bastions.

House of mosaics

This house is built on two levels against the city walls on the seashore, suggesting the walls were no longer in use and in ruins. On the upper level is a courtyard with a peristyle paved with a pebble mosaic which is the only example of its type in Sicily. It resembles a panelled carpet with a complex geometric border and with the panels containing depictions of hunting wild animals (a lion attacking a bull, a bird of prey, a deer). Its format dates it from similar ones in mainland Greece and its colonies to the 3rd century BC. The peristyle has residential rooms around it.

On the lower level in the southwestern part of the house are 6 service rooms with three large pithoi (food storage vessels).

In fiction
The 399 BC Battle of Motya, part of the war of Syracuse's tyrant Dionysios I against Carthage is a major event in the 1965 historical novel The Arrows of Hercules by L. Sprague de Camp.

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Magnus Volk

Magnus Volk FII (1851–1937) was a British-German inventor and pioneering electrical engineer.

He is most notable for having built Volk's Electric Railway, the world's oldest operating electric railway.

Career
Aside from the Volk's Electric Railway, he also built the unique but short-lived Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway, together with its unusual Daddy Long Legs vehicle. He also built another short-lived line, similar to the VER, in the pleasure grounds at Aston Hall, Birmingham.

In 1887 he attracted attention in Brighton by building a three-wheeled electric carriage powered by an Immisch motor. In 1888 he built another electric car, this time a four-wheeled carriage which was made to the order of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, for which he was awarded an Order of Osmali, presented to Magnus by the Sultan in person whilst in Constantinople.

Other projects of Magnus included inventing a fire-alarm system, early successful attempts at electricity in the home, telecommunications and installing electricity to the Royal Pavilion for the first time.

Personal life
Magnus Volk was the son of a German clockmaker and was born on 19 October 1851 in Brighton. He lived at 38 Dyke Road in Brighton. On 8 April 1879, he married Anna Banfield in Burgess Hill. George Herbert Volk, his second son, is noted as a pioneer builder of seaplanes, whilst another son, Conrad Volk, wrote a biography of his father. His descendants include the musician Joe Volk and the journalist Scott Campbell.

Magnus Volk died in Brighton on 20 May 1937, and is buried at St Wulfran's churchyard in Ovingdean near Brighton.

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Operation Crevice

Operation Crevice  was a raid launched by Metropolitan and local police in England on the morning of 30 March 2004. It was in response to a report indicating cells of terrorists of Pakistani origin operating in the Thames Valley, Sussex, Surrey and Bedfordshire areas, the source of which was said to be an interception of an instruction sent from Al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan to militants in Britain. In March 2020 Jonathan Evans, Former Director General, MI5 gave an interview and citing one passage: 'The plot itself, however, appeared to be encouraged and fomented by al-Qa`ida in the tribal areas. It was one of the early ones we saw. It involved predominantly British citizens or British residents of Pakistani heritage, something which became something of a theme for this period'. The operation resulted in five men being found guilty in April 2007 of conspiring to cause explosions likely to endanger life.

The arrests
A number of arrests were made, and 1,300 pounds (600 kg) of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which can be used to make bombs, were confiscated. The chemical was seized in a storage space in Hanwell in west London. One of the staff reported her suspicions as to the activity to the police and subject of a police audio clip (other issues are covered).

At least six homes in Langley Green, Crawley, were searched, and an area was excavated at one site. A biscuit tin filled with aluminium powder, another potential bomb ingredient, was recovered behind a garden shed.

The arrest of software engineer Momin Khawaja on 29 March 2004, in Ottawa, Canada, was reportedly related to Operation Crevice. He was reportedly experimenting with remote-controlled detonators.

The court case against the men began in March 2006 and lasted till April 30, 2007. The jury was out for 27 days. The accused were named as:
 * Salahuddin Amin, 31, from Luton, Bedfordshire
 * Jawad Akbar, 22, from Crawley, West Sussex
 * Anthony Garcia (also known as Rahman Benouis), 23, of Ilford, east London
 * Nabeel Hussain, 20, of Horley, Surrey (subsequently found not guilty)
 * Omar Khyam, 24-year-old computer student from Crawley, West Sussex, who was captain of the Sussex Under-18 Cricket team and had been expected to play for the England national team.
 * Waheed Mahmood, 34, from Crawley, West Sussex
 * Shujah Mahmood, 19, from Crawley, West Sussex (subsequently found not guilty)

Mohammad Momin Khawaja, in life imprisonment in Canada, was the eighth man charged with being involved in the plot. A ninth man, Mohammed Junaid Babar, was the prosecution's star witness. An alleged leader of this group was a man named Mohammed Quayyum Khan who was an alleged associate of both Abu Hamza and Omar Bakri. Mohammed Quayyum Khan (or "Q" as he was called by the group and the courts) was apparently still at large after the police, inexplicably, failed to arrest him.

The court case was based mainly on the evidence of so-called supergrass (informant) Mohammed Junaid Babar, who was found guilty of terrorist offences in the United States. The counsel for the defence called this witness "a liar, nothing more than a conceited fantasist."

The trial
The BBC reported that potential targets included the Bluewater shopping centre in Greenhithe, Kent, the Ministry of Sound nightclub in London and London synagogues.

Mohammed Junaid Babar
Mohammed Junaid Babar was the prosecution's star witness. He was flown to London to give evidence in the case, and arrived at court amid heavy security, driven from a police station in an armoured convoy with a helicopter overhead.

The prosecution claimed that he was part of the plot and had "an insight as an insider into the events and plans, which an outsider could not have."

He was given immunity from prosecution in relation to the charges the British defendants face.

He claims to have stolen three computers from a software company he worked for in Peshawar and given them to Mahmood because they were needed by Al Qaeda. The company was run by the older brother of one of the founder members of al-Muhajiroun.

The trial began in March 2006, and the prosecution ran its charges until the end of August. The allegations brought up by the witness testimony and evidence included the following:

 * Possession of a 600 kg bag of ammonium nitrate fertiliser "which could have been used to make bombs".
 * Planning to hide ammonium nitrate in bags of dried fruit so that it could be shipped to the UK by Federal Express.
 * Conspiring with Mohammed Momin Khawaja, a Canadian, and other unknown persons to "cause... an explosion... of a nature likely to endanger life".
 * Working for Abdul Hadi, said to be number three in Al Qaeda.
 * Planning to transport detonators inside small radios or bottles of shampoo or shaving cream from Pakistan to the UK via Iran, Turkey, eastern Europe, and Belgium.
 * Planning to buy a radio-isotope bomb from the Russian mafia in Belgium.
 * Plotting to poison football crowds by selling spiked drinks at matches, and sell poisoned food from a takeaway restaurant.
 * Receiving terrorist training in the use of explosives in Pakistan.
 * Planning to set off explosions in shopping centres, nightclubs, synagogues, and disrupt electricity and gas supplies. The police played secret recordings during the trial made in February 2004 of the suspects discussing potential targets.
 * Plotting to emulate the 11 September 2001 attacks by finding 30 "brothers" willing to commit suicide and crash a plane. (This discussion was also caught on tape.)

Omar Khyam's defence testimony began with him telling the court of his gradual conversion to militant jihadist and wish to help the fighters in Kashmir and Afghanistan.

Then, on 18 September, to the surprise of his defence counsel, Khyam refused to give any more evidence, stating that the ISI in Pakistan has had words with his family and were worried that he might reveal more about them. He added: "right now, as much as I want to clarify matters, the priority for me has to be the safety of my family so I am going to stop." He assured the judge that he understood that his refusal to answer questions might cause the jury to be suspicious.

Salahuddin Amin's testimony consisted of claims that he had been tortured by his Pakistani jailers during his 10-month detention, and that this must have been known to the US and British officials who interviewed him numerous times during his detention. He said he confessed to being involved in a plot to buy an "isotope bomb" after being hung up by his wrists and beaten on his back and "things" with the lashes, and threatened to be raped by the handle.

Nabeel Hussain, who loaned the money to pay for the storage of ammonium nitrate, claimed he thought it was sand.

Counsel for Shujah Mahmood, who was only 16 at the time of the events, claimed he was not aware of the plot and was merely taken advantage of by his older brother.

Judge Sir Michael Astill announced on 20 April 2007 that he would accept a majority verdict in the case. On 30 April, Omar Khyam, Waheed Mahmood, Jawad Akbar, Salahuddin Amin, and Anthony Garcia were found guilty of conspiring to cause explosions likely to endanger life between 1 January 2003 and 31 March 2004. Shujah Mahmood and Nabeel Hussain were found not guilty of all charges.

The defendants found guilty were sentenced to life imprisonment. Omar Khyam was given a minimum term of 20 years, Anthony Garcia 20 years, Jawad Akbar 17½ years, Waheed Mahmood 20 years and Salahuddin Amin 17½ years.

Momin Khawaja was found guilty in Canada’s first terrorism trial on charges of helping to develop bomb detonators, possession of explosives, helping to finance terrorist activity, receiving terrorist training and facilitating terrorism. On March 12, 2009 he was sentenced to 10.5 years in prison which was later increased to Life-24.

Background
An organisation associated with the attacks is the group al-Muhajiroun. According to the BBC, some of the perpetrators became interested in jihad during the time they were involved with al-Muhajiroun. According to Professor Anthony Glees, director of the Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies – "The fertiliser bomb trial has given us the smoking-gun evidence that groups like al-Muhajiroun have had an important part in radicalising young British Muslims, and that this can create terrorists."

Al-Muhajiroun was disbanded by its founder Omar Bakri Mohammed in 2004. Shortly after 7 July 2005 London bombings, Prime Minister Tony Blair "announced the group would be banned as part of a series of measures against condoning or glorifying terrorism."

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