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Matteo Salvini

Matteo Salvini ( born 9 March 1973) is an Italian politician who has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport since 2022. He has been Federal Secretary of Italy's Lega Nord (Northern League) party since December 2013 and an Italian senator since March 2018. Salvini represented Northwestern Italy in the European Parliament from 2004 to 2018.

Salvini has been considered a hardline Eurosceptic politician, holding a starkly critical view of the European Union, especially of the euro. He opposes illegal immigration into Italy and the EU as well as the EU's management of asylum seekers. He is also considered one of the main leaders of the populist wave in Europe during the 2010s and a member of the neo-nationalist movement, which is a rightist ideology that emphasizes de-globalization, nativist and protectionist stances.

During his first stint as deputy prime minister, many international political commentators and newspapers, such as The Guardian, The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Economist, and The Huffington Post, characterized him as a strongman and the most influential politician in Italy after the 2018 elections. Salvini condemned the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. He was previously a strong supporter of Russia's president Vladimir Putin, describing Putin in 2019 as "the best politician and statesman in the world".

Early life
Matteo Salvini was born in Milan in 1973, the son of a business executive father and a homemaker mother. In 1985, at the age of 12, he took part in game show Doppio slalom (the Italian version of Blockbusters), hosted by Corrado Tedeschi on Canale 5 and in 1993, at the age of 20, he participated on Il pranzo è servito, hosted by Davide Mengacci, which was broadcast by Rete 4.

Salvini studied at the Classical Lyceum "Alessandro Manzoni" in Milan. He later attended the University of Milan where he first studied political science before switching to history. However, he interrupted his studies to start his political career and never graduated.

Salvini has sometimes claimed that, as a teenager, he used to visit the left-wing self-managed social centre Leoncavallo. However, in his autobiography, he writes: "I went to the Leoncavallo just one time. For a concert. When I wasn't even interested in politics". An investigation by Jacobin magazine found that according to some witnesses, Salvini in that occasion was already a sympathizer of The League, the same party that was trying to close down the center, and that the narrative of Salvini at Leoncavallo serves the purpose of depicting him as beyond left and right.

Early political career
In 1990, Salvini became a member of the Lega Nord, the regionalist and separatist movement founded by Umberto Bossi in 1989. He was an active member of Young Padanians Movement, LN's youth faction, of which he became city coordinator for Milan in 1992 and city secretary in 1997. In the same year, he started working as journalist for La Padania, the official newspaper of Lega Nord. In 1999 he also worked on Lega's radio broadcaster Radio Padania Libera and since July 2003 he has been registered as a journalist on the list of Italian professional journalists.

In 1993 he was elected in the City Council of Milan, a post that he would hold until 2012. While in 1997 he participated in the Padanian elections and was elected within the list Comunisti Padani (Padanian Communists), which gained 5 seats out of 210. In the following year, he was elected provincial secretary of the League for Milan.

In 1999, during an official visit of Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in Milan, Salvini refused to shake his hand, stating that Ciampi did not represent him.

European Parliament and local leader

Salvini was elected with 14,000 votes a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North-West region in 2004 and participated in the European Parliament as a part of the Non-Inscrits. During the legislature he selected Franco Bossi, brother of the party's secretary Umberto, as his parliamentary assistant.

In 2006, he lost his office as member of the European Parliament and was replaced by Gian Paolo Gobbo. Salvini was then re-elected city councilor in Milan, in the municipal election of that year, with over 3,000 votes. In the same year, he became deputy secretary of the Lombard League, along with Marco Reguzzoni, and the party leader in the city council.

He sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education, and was a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a member of the delegation to the EU–Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee. He stood down from the European Parliament in November 2006.

Salvini ran in the 2008 general election and was elected in the Chamber of Deputies for the constituency Lombardy 1. However he resigned on 13 July 2009, after being elected once again in the European Parliament in the June election. In the Parliament, he sat in the Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group.

After he was re-elected in 2009 as an MEP, he sat on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and was a member of the delegation for relations with India, and the delegation for relations with the Korean peninsula. He was a substitute on the Committee on International Trade and the delegation for relations with South Africa. On 2 June 2012, Salvini became the federal secretary of the Lombard League, defeating Cesarino Monti with 403 votes against 129. Following the election, on 12 October he decided to leave the office of group leader and city councilor after 19 years. Salvini was later elected deputy in the 2013 general election, but he renounced his mandate on the first day of the legislature, and was replaced by Marco Rondini; Salvini maintained the position of MEP.

After the 2014 European election, in which he was re-elected, he returned to the Non-Inscrits. In June 2015, he was part of the creation of a new group, the Europe of Nations and Freedom, which also included parties such as the French National Front and the Dutch Party for Freedom; he was also the vice-president of the Italian delegation.

Federal Secretary of Lega Nord

In September 2013, Roberto Maroni, secretary of LN and Salvini's mentor, announced he would soon leave the party's leadership. After a few weeks, Salvini announced his candidacy for the first Lega's leadership election. A congress was scheduled for mid-December and in accordance with the new rules set for the election five candidates filed their bid to become secretary: Umberto Bossi, Giacomo Stucchi, Manes Bernardini, Roberto Stefanazzi and Salvini. Of these, only Bossi and Salvini gathered the 1,000 necessary signatures by party members to take part in the internal "primary", and Salvini collected four times the signatures gathered by Bossi.

On 7 December 2013, Salvini, who counted on the support of Roberto Maroni and most of the party's senior figures (including Flavio Tosi, who had renounced a bid of his own), defeated Umberto Bossi with 82% of the vote in the "primary". A week later, his election was ratified by the party's federal congress in Turin. Under Salvini, the party embraced a strongly critical view of the European Union, especially of the euro, which he described a "crime against humanity". Ahead of the 2014 European Parliament election, Salvini started to cooperate with Marine Le Pen, leader of the French National Front, and Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom. These moves were criticised by Bossi, who called attention to Salvini's left-wing roots, and Tosi, who represented the party's pro-European wing and defended the euro.

In April 2014, Salvini presented the party's logo for the European Parliament election, with Basta Euro ("No more Euro") replacing Padania, to emphasize the party's Euroscepticism and desire to exit from the Eurozone. The party included in its slates candidates from other anti-euro and/or autonomist movements (hence Autonomie, meanining "Autonomies"), notably comprising The Freedomites, a right-wing populist and separatist party active in South Tyrol (whose symbol was also included).

In the European Parliament election, the party obtained 6.2% of the vote and 5 MEPs. The result was far worse than the previous EP election in 2009 (a fall of 4.0%), but better than that of the 2013 general election (a gain of 2.1%). The LN were third with 15.2% in Veneto (although Tosi obtained many more votes than Salvini, a fact that demonstrated Tosi's popular support and that the party was far from united on the anti-euro stance), ahead of Forza Italia (FI) and the other parties having emerged from the defunct People of Freedom, and fourth in Lombardy with 14.6%. Despite the party having lost Piedmont to the Democrats, after Roberto Cota had been forced to resign, Salvini was triumphant, with the success of Massimo Bitonci in being elected mayor of Padua, a Democratic stronghold, adding to the successes.

The party's federal congress, summoned in Padua in July, approved Salvini's political stance, especially a plan for the introduction of a flat tax and the creation of a sister party in central-southern Italy and the Isles. In November the Emilia-Romagna regional election represented a major step for Salvini's "national project": the Lega Nord, which won 19.4% of the vote, was the region's second-largest party, and far ahead of Forza Italia, helping paving the way for the Lega Nord to become the dominant centre-right party. In December the sister party for southern Italy, Us with Salvini (NcS), was launched.

The party's growing popularity among voters was reflected also in a constant rise in opinion polls. A December 2014 Ipsos poll showed that Salvini's approval rating had increased by from 28% to 33%, "cementing his position as a rising political force in Italy".

On 28 February 2015, Salvini led a rally in Rome protesting against illegal immigration.

In March 2015, after a long struggle between the two main Venetian party's leaders Flavio Tosi and Luca Zaia, backed by Salvini, over the formation of the slates for the upcoming regional election in Veneto, Tosi was removed as national secretary of Liga Veneta and ejected from the federal party altogether. Despite this in-fighting, the 2015 regional elections were another success for the LN, especially in Veneto, where Luca Zaia was re-elected with 50.1% of the vote and the combined score of the party's and Zaia's personal lists was 40.9%. The party also came second in Liguria with 22.3%, second in Tuscany with 16.2%, third in the Marche with 13.0% and third in Umbria with 14.0%. The LN had never polled so high in those five regions before.

After the 2016 local elections, in which the party ran below expectations in Lombardy (while doing well in Veneto—thanks to Zaia—as well as Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany) and the NcS performed badly,   Salvini's political stance came under pressure from Bossi, Maroni, and especially the recently elected leader of Lega Lombarda, Paolo Grimoldi, who criticized the party's right-wing turn and its focus on the South, while reclaiming the federalist and autonomist identity of the LN.

In the run-up of the 2017 leadership election, Salvini focused on becoming the leader of the centre-right and, possibly, changing the Northern League's name by ditching "Northern". Paolo Grimoldi, leader of Lega Lombarda, chose not to run against Salvini (and Maroni maintained his neutrality), but Gianni Fava, Lombard regional minister of Agriculture in the old social-democratic tradition, announced his bid aiming at representing the federalist / autonomist / separatist wings of the party. Fava, who was anti-prohibition of drugs, pro-civil unions for same-sex couples and, like Bossi, anti-National Front ("[it] is one of the most centralist and conservative blocs in Europe, what does it have to do with us?"), recalled an old activist saying "let's hurry up in making Padania, then I want to return voting the left" and added "this was the League and it has to be like this anew".

2018 general election

On 21 December 2017, Salvini presented the new electoral logo of the Northern League for the 2018 general election; for the first time since its foundation the party ran in all the constituencies of the country, using a logo without the word "Northern".

The League obtained a resounding success, becoming the third largest party in Italy with 17.4% of the vote. The ticket won most of its votes in the North (including 32.2% in Veneto, 28.0% in Lombardy, 26.7% in Trentino, 25.8% in Friuli-Venezia Giulia and 22.6% in Piedmont), but also made inroads in the rest of the country, especially in Central Italy (notably 20.2% in Umbria), the upper part of the South (13.8% in Abruzzo) and Sardinia (10.8%). The League became the party with the most votes in the centre-right coalition and thus Salvini was de facto chosen as coalition's leader; the centre-right won a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate; however, no political group or party won an outright majority, resulting in a hung parliament.

After the election's results were known, both Salvini and the head of the Five Star Movement, Luigi Di Maio, stated that they deserved to receive from President Sergio Mattarella the mandate to form a new cabinet, because they led, respectively, the largest party and the largest coalition. On 6 March, Salvini repeated his campaign message that his party would refuse any coalition with the Five Star Movement.

On 24 March, the centre-right coalition and the Five Star Movement agreed on the election of presidents of the Houses of Parliament, Roberto Fico of M5S for the Chamber and Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati of Forza Italia for the Senate.

On 7 May, President Mattarella held a third round of government formation talks, after which he formally confirmed the lack of any possible majority. The Five Star Movement was rejecting an alliance with the entire centre-right coalition, the Democratic Party was rejecting an alliance with both the Five Star Movement and the centre-right coalition, and the League refusing to enter a government with the Five Star Movement without Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party (yet whose presence in the government was explicitly vetoed by Luigi Di Maio).

Consequently, Mattarella announced his intention to soon appoint a "neutral government" (irrespective of M5S and League's refusal to support such an option). This would take over from the Gentiloni Cabinet, which was considered unable to lead Italy into a second consecutive election as it was representing a majority from a past legislature, and offering an early election in July (on what would be the first ever summer general election in Italy) as a realistic option to take into consideration due to the deadlock situation. The Lega and M5S agreed to hold new elections on 8 July, an option that was however rejected by all other parties.

On 9 May, after a day of rumours, both Salvini and Di Maio officially requested that President Mattarella give them 24 more hours to strike a government agreement between the two parties. That evening, Silvio Berlusconi publicly announced Forza Italia would not support a Five Star Movement – League government on a vote of confidence, but he would still maintain the centre-right alliance nonetheless, thus opening the door to a possible majority government between the two parties.

On 13 May, the Five Star Movement and the League reached an agreement in principle on a government programme, likely clearing the way for the formation of a governing coalition between the two parties, but could not find an agreement regarding the members of a government cabinet, most importantly the prime minister. Five Star Movement and League leaders met with Mattarella on 14 May to guide the formation of a new government. On their meeting with President Mattarella, both parties asked for an additional week of negotiations to agree on a detailed government programme and a prime minister to lead the joint government. Both M5S and the League announced their intention to ask their respective members to vote on the government agreement by the weekend.

On 21 May 2018, Di Maio and Salvini proposed the professor of private law Giuseppe Conte for the role of Prime Minister in the 2018 Italian government,  despite reports in the Italian press suggesting that President Mattarella still had significant reservations about the direction of the new government. On 23 May 2018, Conte was invited to the Quirinal Palace to receive the presidential mandate to form a new cabinet. In the traditional statement after the appointment, Conte said that he would be the "defense lawyer of the Italian people".

However, on 27 May, Conte renounced his office, due to conflicts between Salvini and President Mattarella. In fact, Salvini proposed the university professor Paolo Savona as Minister of Economy and Finances, but Mattarella strongly opposed him. In his speech after Conte's resignation, Mattarella declared that the two parties wanted to bring Italy out of the Eurozone, and as the guarantor of the Italian Constitution and the country's interest and stability he could not allow this. Moreover, in the same speech he affirmed that a possible abandonment of the euro had never been declared during the electoral campaign.

On the following day, Mattarella gave Carlo Cottarelli, a former director of the International Monetary Fund, the task of forming a new government. On 28 May 2018, the Democratic Party (PD) announced that it would abstain from voting for Cottarelli, while the Five Star Movement and the center-right parties Forza Italia (FI), Brothers of Italy (FdI) and the League announced their vote against.

Cottarelli was expected to submit his list of ministers for approval to President Mattarella on 29 May. However, on 29 and 30 May he held only informal consultations with the President, waiting for the formation of a "political government". Meanwhile, Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio announced their willingness to restart the negotiations to form a political government; Giorgia Meloni, leader of FdI, gave her support to the initiative. On 31 May, the Five Star Movement and the Lega Nord reached an agreement on the new government, without Paolo Savona as finance minister (who would become Minister of European Affairs instead), and with Giuseppe Conte at its head.

Party's developments
Along with the membership recruitment of the League in the Centre-North, in 2018 the party launched a parallel membership recruitment in the Centre-South under the name of "League for Salvini Premier" (LSP), practically supplanting the Us with Salvini movement. The LSP, whose platform had been published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale in December 2017 and had been described as a "parallel party", might eventually replace both the LN and NcS, which would be merged into one. In the meantime, the parties' joint parliamentary groups were named "League–Salvini Premier" in the Chamber and "League–Salvini Premier–Sardinian Action Party" in the Senate. According to news sources, all this is closely related to the seizure by the judiciary of the bank accounts of the LN, after the conviction of Bossi and Belsito for fraud (see Lega Nord). If the seizure is confirmed, extended to the bank accounts of the party's national sections or even involves any political entity featuring "Lega" in its name, Salvini might launch a brand-new party and absorb most of the centre-right parties into it.

On 22 February 2019, the Italian magazine L'espresso published an investigation revealing a 3 million euro funding scheme, paid for by Kremlin-linked entities and disguised as a diesel sale. The scheme involved the Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft selling 3 million dollars worth of diesel to an Italian company. Allegedly, the money was to be transferred from Rosneft to the League through a Russian subsidy of the Italian bank Banca Intesa, in which League's federal council member Andrea Mascetti is a board member. The money was supposed to fund the coming European election campaign. Italian authorities are currently investigating the matter.

The case obtained renewed attention in July 2019 when BuzzFeed made public the voice recordings and full transcripts of the meeting at the base of the investigation previously published by L'Espresso. The recordings show Salvini's public relations officer Gianluca Savoini meeting with Russian agents close to Vladimir Putin in Moscow, at the same time when Salvini was also in Moscow on an official trip. The meeting centered around providing the Lega with $65 million of illegal funding by the Russian state. The matter was made part of a larger investigation by Italian authorities into the League's finances. The League has an official cooperation deal with Russia's governing party United Russia.

In August 2019, in yet another funding scandal unrelated to the previously mentioned Russia investigations, Italy's highest court sentenced Salvini's party to pay back 49 million euros ($54.83 million) of illegally acquired taxpayer funding to the Italian state. Additionally, Belsito was given prison sentences.

In the summer of 2019, Salvini visited several public beaches to campaign, something unusual for an Italian politician.

In September 2022, numerous League committees expressed their desire to call for a Federal Congress and replace Salvini as Secretary. In October, the party founder Umberto Bossi announced the creation of the "Northern Committee" to re-gain trust from voters. Many politicians within the party joined this faction, which is openly challenging Salvini.

European politics
Leading up to the 2019 European Parliament election, Salvini worked to create a pan-European alliance of nationalist political parties,    and he continued these efforts after the election. He founded the European Alliance of Peoples and Nations on 8 April 2019. In the European elections in Italy, the League won a plurality of votes for the first time in a nationwide election, gaining more than 34% of votes,  something which strengthened Salvini's position in Italy. Overall, the European coalition Identity and Democracy, which the Lega is part of, became the fifth-largest group in the newly elected European Parliament.

Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister (2018–2019)
On 1 June 2018, Matteo Salvini was sworn in as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior. He immediately stated that his main aim was to drastically reduce the number of illegal immigrants to Italy. Early in his tenure, numerous media outlets noted that despite Salvini's junior status in the governing coalition, he placed himself in a role even more dominant than Conte and appeared to set Italy's agenda. The media also noted Salvini's "savvy social media presence."

Days after taking his oath, the new Interior Minister created a diplomatic incident with Tunisia, stating that the country sent Italy only convicts who came to Europe with the sole aim of committing crimes. The Tunisian government expressed "profound amazement at the remarks of the Italian interior minister regarding immigration."

On 10 June 2018, Salvini announced the closure of Italian ports, stating that "Everyone in Europe is doing their own business, now Italy is also raising its head. Let's stop the business of illegal immigration." The vessel Aquarius, which is operated jointly by Médecins Sans Frontières and SOS Méditerranée and carried more than 600 migrants, was refused a port of disembarkation by the Italian authorities despite having been told to rescue the migrants by the same co-ordination centre. The Italian authority told the vessel to ask Malta to provide a disembarkation port, but Malta has also refused. On the following day, the new Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez accepted the disputed migrant ship.

On 16 June 2018, Matteo Salvini said, "These people should know that Italy no longer wants to be any part of this business of clandestine immigration and they will have to look for other ports to go to", adding "As minister and as a father, I take this action for the benefit of all".

On 18 June 2018, Salvini announced the government would conduct a census of Romani people in Italy for the purpose of deporting all who are not in the country legally. However, this measure was criticized as unconstitutional and was opposed by all the opposition parties and also by some members of the M5S.

On 19 June 2018, Salvini announced his intention to conduct a compulsive racial census of Italians to register Roma people, while stating that Roma who are Italians could "unfortunately" not be deported. This caused an outcry in Italy since racial registration is forbidden by the Italian constitution. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte forced Salvini to drop the proposal. The opposition leader Matteo Orfini reacted by suggesting Salvini should rather do a "census of racists and fascists". On 24 September 2018, the Council of Ministers approved the so-called "Salvini Decree", which contained a series of hardline measures that abolished key forms of protection for migrants and made it easier for them to be deported. The decree also suspended the refugee application process of those who were considered "socially dangerous" or who had been convicted of a crime.

On 12 June 2019, the Sea Watch 3 ship picked up 53 migrants in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast. Sea Watch 3 rejected an offer to dock at Tripoli, which is considered unsafe by humanitarian organizations, and headed toward Lampedusa. According to a report by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and NGOs this was the nearest safe harbor per maritime law. On 14 June, Italy closed its ports to migrant rescue ships. Salvini refused to allow the ship to dock until other European nations had agreed to take the migrants. Ten of the migrants, including children, pregnant women, and those who were ill, were allowed to disembark. On 29 June, without authorization, ship's captain Carola Rackete decided to dock. The motivation for this was that according to her the passengers were exhausted. Rackete was arrested by the Italian authorities after docking. Matteo Salvini accused Rackete of trying to sink an Italian patrol boat that was attempting to intercept her, calling the incident an act of war and demanding the Netherlands government intervention. However, on 2 July, Rackete was released from house arrest after a court ruling that she had broken no laws and acted to protect passengers' safety.

In August 2019, Salvini announced a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Conte, after growing tensions within the majority. Many political analysts saw the no confidence motion as a move by Salvini to force a call for snap elections where he could become the next Prime Minister of Italy. On 20 August, following the parliamentary debate in which Conte harshly accused Salvini of being a political opportunist who "had triggered the political crisis only to serve his personal interest", the Prime Minister resigned his post to President Mattarella. Salvini's alleged gambit failed, as Conte successfully negotiated the formation of a new cabinet with centre-left Democratic Party.

Leader of the opposition (2019–2021)
After the formation of the Conte II Cabinet, Salvini often criticized the new government for its views on immigration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he criticized Conte's plans to use the European Stability Mechanism to boost the economy.

Draghi government (2021–2022)
In February 2021, Salvini supported the League joining the national unity government of former European Central Bank president Mario Draghi, together with the Democratic Party, the Five Star Movement, Forza Italia and other minor centre and centre-left parties. This came despite Draghi's vocally pro-Europe stance. The right-wing party Brothers of Italy led by Giorgia Meloni, a partner of Salvini's League in the centre-right coalition, did not give its support to the Draghi government, making it the major opposition party.

On 22 October 2021, Salvini was recorded during a closed-door meeting saying that Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party "should remain the opposition without breaking our balls". He also admitted defeat in the 2021 Italian local elections, saying that "when you lose disgracefully, lagging by 30 points in some big cities, there is little to celebrate. The centre-right's split in two or three pieces certainly doesn't help." Salvini later claimed to have laughed about the recording in a WhatsApp exchange with Meloni.

Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure Minister (2022–present)
On 22 October 2022, Giorgia Meloni, the leader of Brothers of Italy party, was sworn in as Italy's first female prime minister. Lega leader Matteo Salvini became deputy prime minister in her government. The new government, Italy's most right-wing since World War II, included also centre-right party of ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Legal issues
In February 2020, the Senate formally authorized a trial against Salvini over the Gregoretti Italian coastguard ship case, in which – as Interior Minister at the time – he was accused of kidnapping the rescued migrants by forbidding the ship from docking the port of Augusta, Sicily. A judge in Catania dismissed the case in May 2021, saying that no crime had been committed, the incident was not a kidnapping, and that Salvini's six-day block to allow for other EU countries to resettle the migrants was permissible by international law.

On 30 July 2020, the Senate authorized (by 149 votes against 141) a second trial against Salvini over the Open Arms case, where he also stands accused of kidnapping migrants after disposing the stop of the NGO's rescue ship off the coast of Sicily in August 2019. Salvini defended the claims, and said his actions only went as far as protecting Italy. "Defending Italy is not a crime. I am proud of it, I would do it again, and I will do it again," Salvini was quoted as saying.

In May 2021, a preliminary investigations judge dismissed a charge of instigation against Salvini. He had been accused of urging violence against Carola Rackete for calling her a criminal. The investigation found that he was not responsible for her receiving death threats from others.

Also in May 2021, Salvini sued media magnate Carlo De Benedetti for defamation in Cuneo, Piedmont. De Benedetti, who is Jewish, had called Salvini an antisemite.

In October 2021, Salvini's second trial on migrant kidnapping charges began in Palermo, Sicily. The American actor Richard Gere was called upon as a witness by Open Arms, since he had gone on board of their rescue boat in an act of solidarity with the crew and passengers.

Domestic policy
Salvini has been described as hard Eurosceptic, holding a starkly critical view of the European Union (EU), especially of the euro, which he once described as a "crime against humanity". Though in October 2012, he said he supported euro for Northern Italy, whilst Southern Italy should not use it: "I in Milan want it, because here we are in Europe. The South, on the other hand, is like Greece and needs another currency. The euro cannot afford it." Salvini is also opposed to illegal immigration into Italy and the EU and the EU's management of asylum seekers. In September 2018, he said: "I'm paid by citizens to help our young people start having children again the way they did a few years ago, and not to uproot the best of the African youth to replace Europeans who are not having children anymore". His political views have been described as on the far-right, espousing policies such as, among others, collecting census data on and expelling members of the Roma community living illegally in Italy.

On economic issues, he supports a flat tax, tax cuts, fiscal federalism, protectionism, and, to some extent, agrarianism.

On social issues, Salvini opposes same-sex marriage, civil unions and adoption as well as anti-discrimination laws, while he supports the legalisation of brothels. He supports looser gun laws and has pushed that issue as interior minister. Salvini has criticized mandatory vaccination laws.

In 2016, a retweet posted from Salvini's Twitter account called for the shooting of "communist judges". Salvini disowned the retweet, claiming it was posted by a staffer by mistake.

Foreign policy
In foreign policy he opposed Turkey's accession to the European Union, criticized Saudi Arabia for its treatment of women, opposed the international embargo against Russia of 2014, and supported an economic opening to North Korea.

Salvini accused France of "stealing wealth" from former African colonies and generating mass migration to Europe. He also said that "In Libya France has no interest in stabilising the situation because it has oil interests opposite to those of Italy." In the wake of the MV Enrica Lexie case, Salvini called for the expulsion of the Indian Ambassador to Italy and a military operation to extract the two detained Italian marines accused by India of the shooting. He later advocated for Italy purchasing Indian COVID-19 vaccines in March 2021.

Salvini supported the Saudi-led blockade of Qatar prior to taking office on the grounds that Qatar funded terrorism. Upon becoming Deputy Prime Minister, he also praised Saudi Arabia as "an element of stability and reliability both in bilateral relations and as an actor in the more general Middle Eastern chessboard", and pledged to expand security, economic, commercial and cultural ties with the Kingdom. However, he later reversed his stance, praising Qatar for its "balance" as opposed to Saudi Arabian "extremism" and encouraged Qatari investment in Italy, while opposing Saudi investment proposals in Italy and condemning the decision to host the Supercoppa Italiana final in Saudi Arabia as "disgusting". Salvini has called for stronger Italian ties with Morocco, describing it as "the most stable country in the entire Mediterranean", and criticising an EU resolution that accused Morocco of using migration as political pressure towards Spain.

Salvini has been critical of Iranian policy towards Israel, and expressed scepticism towards the Iran nuclear deal. However, he prefers dialogue over new sanctions. He considers Hezbollah a terrorist organisation, contradicting the official stance of the Italian government. He supported recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and in January 2020, he stated his support for moving Italy's embassy in Israel to the city. On 12 December 2018, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, hailed him as a "great friend of Israel". Following the Hamas attacks in October 2023, Salvini accused the Italian branch of Amnesty International of "racism" for refusing to attend a comic and games festival, due to Israel's Embassy in Italy having sponsored the event. Salvini also condemned Erdoğan's labeling of Hamas as "liberators", saying such claims "do not help de-escalation".

Salvini also endorsed the Republican candidate in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump, whom he met in April 2016 in Philadelphia. Multiple news agencies have compared him and his views to those of Trump. In September 2018, Salvini pledged his support for The Movement, a European populist group founded by Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon.

Salvini condemned the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and said he wanted to help Ukrainian refugees and support the countries that accepted them. In the past, however, he praised Russian president Vladimir Putin, and took a picture of himself wearing a T-shirt with Putin's face in Moscow. In response to the criticism, he said he preferred Putin to the Italian President Sergio Mattarella. He was confronted for his past support of Putin by Wojciech Bakun, the mayor of a Polish town Przemyśl, while visiting its refugee center during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In September 2018, Salvini endorsed conservative nationalist candidate Jair Bolsonaro in the Brazilian presidential election that year. In May 2021, he spoke at the congress of the Portuguese nationalist party Chega, saying that he wanted to unite Europe's populists, conservatives and identitarians against socialists and communists.

Personal life
In 2001, Matteo Salvini married Fabrizia Ieluzzi, a journalist who worked for a private radio station, by whom he had one child in 2003. After his divorce he had a daughter by his domestic partner Giulia Martinelli in 2012. He later became engaged to Elisa Isoardi, a popular TV host. After a relationship of nearly three years, Isoardi announced their split in November 2018 via an Instagram post. As of March 2019, Salvini is engaged to Francesca Verdini, daughter of the politician Denis Verdini. Salvini is nicknamed "The Captain" (Il Capitano) by his supporters.

Matteo Salvini is a Roman Catholic.

A long time resident of Milan, Salvini is an avid supporter of local football club AC Milan.

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Torngat Mountains (electoral district)

Torngat Mountains is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011 there are 2,130 eligible voters living within the district. The district takes its name from the Torngat Mountains.

Progressive Conservative Lela Evans was elected as the Member of the House of Assembly (MHA) for this district in the 2019 general election defeating Liberal incumbent Randy Edmunds. Evans was re-elected in 2021. On October 25, 2021, Evans left the PC Party to sit as an Independent in the House of Assembly. On March 7, 2022, Evans joined the NDP. On July 16, 2024, she rejoined the PC Party.

The district contains a large indigenous population, including the Inuit self-governing territory of Nunatsiavut, as well as the Naskapi community of Natuashish which is a federal reserve. The Voisey's Bay nickel mine, near Nain, is also in the district.

All six indigenous communities in the district are inaccessible by road and may be reached only by air or sea.

Members of the House of Assembly
The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:

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Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Gkhan

Gkhan
final (2/7/3) ending 02:21, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

I've been frequenting wikipedia for about a year (it took me awhile to get a user-name) and I am very familiar with all wikipedia policies (I read old ArbCom-cases when I'm bored :P). What I do here at wikipedia is almost exclusivly janitorial work, RC patrol mostly. I also stub-sort, image-tag, and occasionally even welcome new users and help them out. Admin-powers would hugely appriciated when doing RC Patrol, every time I do it there is a page I want to delete, pages needed to be rollbacked, and occasionaly a user that needs to be blocked. I don't have an impressive edit count at all, but I have participated in many discussions and I can guarantee that I know what is expected of me. This should be sorted under the "No big deal"-category.

Support
 * 1) Support, I see only good edits, no reason to oppose. --Bjarki 00:48, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Support; edit count is only a guideline by which I oppose (i.e. 10 edits is out of the question, as is 100, but 600 is adequate). ugen 64  06:36, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Oppose
 * 1) Only 740 edits, with a considerable amount towards Wikifun. More than half of his edits have been in the last month, and 15% of his edits have been in the last 3 days.  Little interaction on his talk page.  I do like what I see, but I'd like to see more. CryptoDerk 03:03, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Nice guy, but needs more article experience. -- M e r o v i n g i a n  (t) (c) 03:39, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Needs to get more involved with the project as a whole, his edits to date make it very difficult to judge whether he merits adminship. Particularly lacking is interaction with other users. He has made a good start though. Rje 12:55, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Not yet. Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 19:20, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support after 1200 edits. --Lst27 ( t a l k )  22:16, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Does not meet my admin criterion, jguk 07:23, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Oppose. try again in six months. it is still too early. Kingturtle 17:42, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Neutral
 * 1) An edit count of (as of this writing) 746, with a considerable amount towards Wikifun, is not a good sample to judge how Gkhan effectively interacts with the community as a whole. Zzyzx11 | Talk 03:14, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) While the edit count isn't impressive, I really like Gkhan's help with vandals. Please keep with your work. Pavel Vozenilek 18:11, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Nice work so far, but not enough edits in talk and important janitorial wikipedia namespace pages. Mgm|(talk) 21:51, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) I'll echo the sentiments of the others in the Neutral section. Andre ( talk ) 20:02, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

Comments
 * Gkhan currently has 746 total edits: 253/78 to articles/talk, 186/8 to Wikipedia/talk, 95/72 to User/talk, 32 to Image, and 21/1 to Template/talk. —Korath (Talk) 02:53, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. RC patrol, deleting pages and fighting vandals mostly. However I do alot of janitorial stuff, so I'd be happy to help out with VfD or any other requested task. I feel I also would be a good moderator and conflict-solver. Also, many times I think that ITN and DYK updates way too slowly, I'd love to be able to contribute there aswell.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. As I've said, I'm mostly a janitor, when I do contribute it's usially on some small obscure topic. I guess I'm proudest of Dynamic Programming and Derivation of the cartesian formula for an ellipse
 * 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and will deal with it in the future?
 * A. The few conflicts I have been in have been very small indeed, I rarely do any controverisal editing, and the discussions I have had never escalated. I am a strong believer in the No Personal Attacks-policy, almost to extreme lengths, and I always keep my head cool in the "heat of battle".

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Bellevue (electoral district)

Bellevue is a former provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2003 it had 7310 eligible voters. The district was abolished in 2015 and replaced by Placentia West-Bellevue.

The district combines traditional fishing communities such as Southern Harbour and Arnold's Cove with the heavy industry of Come By Chance (an oil refinery) and Sunnyside (near the Bull Arm offshore fabrication site). It is also one of the few districts to have elected a member of the Reform Liberal Party - a breakoff bloc of the provincial Liberals led by ex-Liberal leader Joey Smallwood in the 1970s.

The communities located within the district; Arnold's Cove, Bay L'Argent, Bellevue, Blaketown, Chance Cove, Chapel Arm, Come by Chance, English Harbour East, Fair Haven, Garden Cove, Goobies, Grand le Pierre, Harbour Mille, Jacques Fontaine, Little Bay East, Little Harbour East, Long Cove, Long Harbour, Mount Arlington Heights, Monkstown, Norman's Cove, North Harbour, Old Shop, St. Bernard's, South Dildo, Southern Harbour, Sunnyside, Swift Current, Terrenceville, Thornlea.

Members of the House of Assembly
The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:

Election results

 * NDP
 * Michael Fahey
 * align="right"|299
 * align="right"|5.49
 * align="right"|-1.62

 * }

 * NDP
 * Moses Ingram
 * align="right"|375
 * align="right"|7.11
 * align="right"|+2.56%
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 * NDP
 * Lee Ingram
 * align="right"|258
 * align="right"|4.55
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Reich Labour Service

The Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst; RAD) was a major paramilitary organization established in Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on the German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Nazi ideology. It was the official state labour service, divided into separate sections for men and women.

From June 1935 onward, men aged between 18 and 25 may have served six months before their military service. During World War II, compulsory service also included young women, and the RAD developed to an auxiliary formation which provided support for the Wehrmacht armed forces.

Foundation
In the course of the Great Depression, the German government of the Weimar Republic under Chancellor Heinrich Brüning by emergency decree established the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst ('Voluntary Labour Service', FAD), on 5 June 1931, two years before the Nazi Party (NSDAP) ascended to national power. The state sponsored employment organisation provided services to civic and land improvement projects, from 16 July 1932 it was headed by Friedrich Syrup in the official rank of a Reichskommissar. As the name stated, participating was voluntary as long as the Weimar Republic existed.

The concept was adopted by Adolf Hitler, who upon the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 appointed Konstantin Hierl state secretary in the Reich Ministry of Labour, responsible for FAD matters. Hierl was already a high-ranking member of the NSDAP and head of the party's labour organisation, the Nationalsozialistischer Arbeitsdienst or NSAD. Hierl developed the concept of a state labour service organisation similar to the Reichswehr army, with a view to implementing a compulsory service. Meant as an evasion of the regulations set by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, voluntariness initially was maintained after protests by the Geneva World Disarmament Conference.

Hierl's rivalry with Labour Minister Franz Seldte led to the affiliation of his office as a FAD Reichskommissar with the Interior Ministry under his party fellow Wilhelm Frick. On 11 July 1934, the NSAD was renamed Reichsarbeitsdienst or RAD with Hierl as its director until the end of World War II. By law issued on 26 June 1935, the RAD was re-established as an amalgamation of the many prior labour organisations formed in Germany during the Weimar Republic, with Hierl appointed as Reich Labour Leader (Reichsarbeitsführer) according to the Führerprinzip. With massive financial support by the German government, RAD members were to provide service for civic and agricultural construction projects. Per Reich Labor Service Act of June 26, 1935:

§ 1.

(1) The Reich Labor Service is honorary service to the German people.

(2) All young Germans of both sexes are obliged to serve their people in the Reich Labor Service.

(3) The Reich Labor Service is intended to educate German youth in the spirit of National Socialism in national community and in the true concept of work, above all in the due respect for manual work.

(4) The Reich Labor Service is intended to carry out charitable work.

§ 2.

(1) The Reich Labor Service is subordinate to the Reich Minister of the Interior. Under him, the Reich Labor Leader exercises command over the Reich Labor Service.

(2) The Reich Labor Leader stands at the head of the Reich leadership of the Labor Service; he determines the organization, regulates the work assignment and directs training and education.

Organization
The RAD was divided into two major sections, one for men (Reichsarbeitsdienst Männer – RAD/M) and the voluntary, from 1939 compulsory, section for young women (Reichsarbeitsdienst der weiblichen Jugend – RAD/wJ).

The RAD was composed of 33 districts each called an Arbeitsgau (lit. Work District) similar to the Gaue subdivisions of the Nazi Party. Each of these districts was headed by an Arbeitsgauführer officer with headquarters staff and a Wachkompanie (Guard Company). Under each district were between six and eight Arbeitsgruppen (Work Groups), battalion-sized formations of 1200–1800 men. These groups were divided into six company-sized RAD-Abteilung units.

Conscripted personnel had to move into labour barracks. Each rank and file RAD man was supplied with a spade and a bicycle. A paramilitary uniform was implemented in 1934; beside the swastika brassard, the RAD symbol, an arm badge in the shape of an upward pointing shovel blade, was displayed on the upper left shoulder of all uniforms and great-coats worn by all personnel. Men and women had to work up to 76 hours a week.

Arbeits Dank ("Labor Thanks")
A health- and life-insurance program for NSAD members (from November 1933 to June 1935) and RAD workers (from June 1935 to 1945) in case they became ill or were injured or killed while on the job. The pre-war organization would also provide funding for education or training for poor members so they could learn a trade or get a university degree. Members had to carry a Mitglieds-karte ("membership card") that gave personal information (name, birthdate, and birthplace) and identified which Arbeitsgau and Mitgliedschaft ("membership group") they were assigned to, kind of like a soldier's Soldbuch ("military identification booklet").

Workers who benefited from the Arbeits Dank program were encouraged to pay back into it with donations. Donors received an enameled Erinnerungsnadel ("commemorative pin") that used the oval NSAD or RAD symbol with the text Arbeits / Dank added in the colored border. Officials and employees of the organization wore a larger version of the pin to indicate their status.

War
The RAD was classed as Wehrmachtgefolge (lit. Defence Force Followers). Auxiliary forces with this status, while not a part of the Armed Forces themselves, provided such vital support that they were given protection by the Geneva Convention. Some, including the RAD, were militarized.

Just prior to the outbreak of World War II, nearly all the RAD/M's extant RAD-Abteilung units were either incorporated into the Heer's Bautruppen (Construction troops) as an expedient to rapidly increase their numbers or else in a few cases transferred to the Luftwaffe to form the basis of new wartime construction units for that service. New units were quickly formed to replace them.

During the early war Norwegian and Western campaigns, hundreds of RAD units were engaged in supplying frontline troops with food and ammunition, repairing damaged roads and constructing and repairing airstrips. Throughout the course of the war, the RAD were involved in many projects. The RAD units constructed coastal fortifications (many RAD men worked on the Atlantic Wall), laid minefields, manned fortifications, and even helped guard vital locations and prisoners.

The role of the RAD was not limited to combat support functions. Hundreds of RAD units received training as anti-aircraft units and were deployed as RAD Flak Batteries. Several RAD units also performed combat on the eastern front as infantry. As the German defences were devastated, more and more RAD men were committed to combat. During the final months of the war, RAD men formed 6 major frontline units, which were involved in serious fighting.

Operation Market Garden
During Operation Market-Garden in September 1944, RAD troops were used as reinforcements. Losses for these troops were in the hundreds. Some RAD troops were assigned to the 9th SS Pionier Abteilung ("Engineer Battalion") under SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Moeller as part of Kampfgruppe Moeller. The understrength unit was made up of 90 Pioneers armed with flamethrowers and extra machineguns, which Moeller divided into two assault companies. On 17 September, SS-Kampfgruppe Moeller advanced from the railway station but were blocked just east of the Arnhem town square by the British 2nd and 3rd Parachute Battalions. They engaged in intense house to house fighting, which allowed their parent formation SS-Kampfgruppe Spindler to dig in and form a defensive line. The 2nd Parachute Battalion under Col. John Frost snuck past and took the Arnhem Bridge, but were then encircled by the German forces.

Moeller's Pioneers were then involved in the fighting on 18 September to reduce the British perimeter and retake the northern end of the Arnhem bridge. It was noted that the RAD troops had no combat experience. Captain Moeller's report concluded: "These men were rather skeptical and reluctant at the beginning, which was hardly surprising. But when they were put in the right place they helped us a lot; and in time they integrated completely, becoming good and reliable comrades."

Equipment

 * Luger pistol
 * Gewehr 98
 * Mannlicher M1895
 * Stielhandgranate
 * Model 39 grenade
 * Schiessbecher
 * Panzerfaust
 * Sturmpistole
 * Panzerbüchse 39
 * MP 3008
 * Einstossflammenwerfer 46
 * MG 08
 * Schwarzlose machine gun
 * Teller mine
 * S-mine
 * Stock mine
 * Schu-mine 42
 * Glasmine 43
 * Abwehrflammenwerfer 42
 * Topfmine
 * Riegel mine 43
 * 2 cm Flak 30/38/Flakvierling
 * Volkswagen Kübelwagen
 * Opel Blitz
 * Mercedes-Benz L3000
 * Krupp Protze
 * Sd.Kfz. 2
 * M42 Truppenfahrrad

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Amalia Sartori

Amalia Sartori (born 2 August 1947 in Valdastico) is an Italian politician.

Education

 * Graduate in literature

Career

 * 1971-1985: Teacher
 * 1985-1990: Member of the Regional Executive of the Veneto with responsibility for roads and transport
 * 1986-1987: Chairman of the international airport of Venice
 * 1988-1989: Chairman of the Veneto, Emilia Romagna and Piemonte inter-regional board for the management of the Po river - Veneto water-ways system
 * 1990-1993: Vice-chairman of the Regional Executive of the Veneto
 * 1995-2000: Chairman of the Regional Council
 * Drew up the first Regional Transport Plan for the Veneto, the 'Snow Plan' and the Plan for tourist ports
 * Launched the special Plan for 'black spots' and important safety campaigns
 * Has been responsible for major institutional initiatives upholding the interests of women in the institutional, family and social spheres
 * 1999-2014: Member of the European Parliament

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St. George's-Stephenville East

St. George's-Stephenville East is a defunct provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador. Created in 1995 from the districts of St. George's and Stephenville. In 2011, there were 7,861 eligible voters living within the district.

The district runs the length of Bay St. George (excluding Port au Port Peninsula) and all along the district of Humber West. Apart from parts of Stephenville, the district includes communities of Barachois Brook, Benoit's Siding, Black Duck Siding, Cape Anguille, Cartyville, Coal Brook, Codroy, Codroy Pond, Cold Brook, Doyles, Flat Bay, Great Codroy, Gypsumville, Heatherton, Highlands, Jeffrey's, Journois Brook, Loch Leven, Loch Lomond, Maidstone, Mattis Point, McDougals, McKay's, Millville, Noels Pond, O'Regan's, Red Rocks, Robinsons, Robinson's Station, St. Andrew, St. David's, St. Fintan's, St. George's, St. Teresa, St. Teresa's Station, Searston, South Branch, Stephenville Crossing, The Block, Tompkins, Upper Ferry, and Woodville.

The district was abolished in 2015, and was succeeded by the new district of Stephenville-Port au Port.

Election results
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 * align="right"|25.36
 * align="right"|-23.95
 * NDP
 * Bernice Hancock
 * align="right"|579
 * align="right"|15.49
 * align="right"|-1.03

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 * NDP
 * Bernice Hancock
 * align="right"|705
 * align="right"|16.52
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 * Independent
 * Dean Simon
 * align="right"|62
 * align="right"|1.45
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 * Independent
 * Nancy Critchley
 * align="right"|170
 * align="right"|3.06
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Port de Grave (electoral district)

Port de Grave is a defunct provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Fishing was a prime industry in the district and many people commute to work in the St. John's area. Bay Roberts was an important service centre for the region and there is some light industrial activity. In 2011, there were 8,914 eligible voters living within the district.

The district included the communities of Bay Roberts, Bareneed, Bishop's Cove, Blow Me Down, Bryant's Cove, Hibb's Cove, Port de Grave, Ship Cove, Spaniard's Bay, The Dock, Tilton and Upper Island Cove.

The district was one of the strongest Liberal regions of the province, and was one of only three districts to return a Liberal MHA in the 2007 election.

The district was abolished in 2015, and was succeeded by the new district of Harbour Grace-Port de Grave.

Members of the House of Assembly
The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:

Election results

 * NDP
 * Sarah Downey
 * align="right"|396
 * align="right"|6.53%
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 * NDP
 * Randy Wayne Dawe
 * align="right"|162
 * align="right"|2.47%
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 * NDP
 * Steve Quigley
 * align="right"|185
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Kilbride (electoral district)

Kilbride is a defunct provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011, there are 10,251 eligible voters living within the district. The district was abolished in 2015 and replaced by Waterford Valley.

The district made up the southern portion of the city of St. John's, including the rural neighbourhoods of the Goulds and Kilbride. Agriculture was an important industry in the district.

It was one of the strongest Progressive Conservative (PC) districts in the Newfoundland and Labrador, voting 85% for the Torys in the 2007 election. Since its creation, it had always returned a PC MHA to the House of Assembly.

Members of the House of Assembly
The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:

Election results

 * NDP
 * Paul Boundridge
 * align="right"|1,927
 * align="right"|33.64%
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 * NDP
 * Michelle Broderick
 * align="right"|421
 * align="right"|8.01%
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 * Independent
 * Paul Perrier
 * align="right"|31
 * align="right"|0.59%
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 * Progressive Conservative
 * John Dinn
 * align="right"|2,744
 * align="right"|78.83
 * align="right"|+0.55

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 * Gemma Schlamp-Hickey
 * align="right"|229
 * align="right"|6.58
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 * NDP
 * David Reynolds
 * align="right"|404
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 * NDP
 * Lee Ingram
 * align="right"|289
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 * Independent
 * Vicki Stuckless
 * align="right"|289
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User:Oklahoma Tornado

This user has been blocked for vandalism. Meelar (talk) 02:23, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

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File:Alexkidd shinobi start.gif

Summary
This is a screenshot from Alex Kidd in Shinobi World.

Fair use rationale
This image, Alexkidd shinobi start.gif, is believed to be covered by fair use laws, because:
 * 1) No free or public domain images have been located for this video game.
 * 2) The image does not limit the copyright owners' rights to distribute the video game in any way.
 * 3) The image is being used for informational purposes only, and its use is not believed to detract from the original video game in any way.
 * 4) The information could not provided without this image.
 * 5) The image is being used purely to illustrate an aspect of the article.

Copyright owned by Sega.

Screenshot of a retail video game come under fair use correct?

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PJF

PJF may stand for:

 * Policía Judicial Federal, the former federal police force of Mexico
 * Pre-Joycean Fellowship
 * Philip José Farmer (1918–2009), American science fiction and fantasy author
 * Philip J. Fry, the protagonist in the animated television series Futurama
 * WPJF, AM radio station in Greenville, South Carolina

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Cape St. Francis (electoral district)

Cape St. Francis is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

The vast majority of the district is made up of suburban communities neighbouring the provincial capital St. John's, though the district does take in the northeast end of the city. The majority of residents commute into St. John's daily for work. Prior to 1996, the district was named St. John's East Extern, though that riding did not contain the actual Cape St. Francis prior to 1975. That district was created in 1962 from St. John's East.

The district's boundaries encompass the northeastern tip of Avalon Peninsula, including the outer stretches of St. John's as well as Bauline, Flatrock, Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove, Pouch Cove and Torbay. Torbay is the largest community in the district.

The district has been a Progressive Conservative stronghold for over 60 years.

Members of the House of Assembly
The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:

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Pre-Joycean Fellowship

The Pre-Joycean Fellowship, abbreviated PJF, is a collective identification that was semi-seriously adopted by several writers known for fantasy and science fiction, to indicate that they value 19th-century values of storytelling. An example of such values is clarity, which was called by Jane Yolen the "lovely limpid quality" of writing.

Steven Brust wrote that "it is in large part a joke, and in another large part a way to start literary arguments."

The term was probably coined by Will Shetterly, and was adopted in imitation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, positing James Joyce as the dividing line (in English) between 19th-century fiction intended for a general audience and a modern desire to write for readers who are well educated in literary history. Writer Tappan King is credited with the comment, "The Pre-Joycean Fellowship exists to poke fun at the excesses of contemporary literature while simultaneously mining it for everything of value."

The name was meant as a joke; a "gathering of the PJF" was an excuse for writers with shared interests to meet at a bar. Steven Brust took the joke public when he began signing "PJF" after his name on his title pages.

Members have included:

 * Steven Brust
 * Emma Bull
 * Pamela Dean
 * Kara Dalkey
 * Neil Gaiman
 * Will Shetterly
 * Adam Stemple
 * Jane Yolen

On page 2 of issue #31 of Vertigo Comics' The Sandman, the comic's author is identified as "Neil Gaiman, P.J.F." in the credits box. This credits box was not included in at least some editions when the issue was reprinted as part of The Sandman, Volume VI: Fables & Reflections.

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Talk:Thomas Eakins

Phrase
This phrase: The Gross Clinic is impressive for its ambition as well as its subject, that of a renowned Philadelphia surgeon, Dr. Samuel Gross, presiding over an operation to remove part of a diseased bone from a patient's thigh. conflicts somewhat with the The Gross Clinic page, which states a tumour is being removed. Whichever it is (I dunno and don't care, so I leave it up to the Art History Majors here at Wikipedia), they should match for continuity's sake. 82.93.133.130 22:53, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

 * The website for Jefferson Medical College, long-time owner of the painting, refers to the removal of diseased bone as the subject of the operation portrayed. JNW 04:42, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Recent news of the painting's sale on November 11, 2006 added. Plus, and I hope it isn't a problem, the end result was his artwork, not photographs, so I replaced the photo study of the jumper in motion (a few photographers did such studies back then) with a very beautiful portrait of Maud Cook he did in 1895.  All in all, Eakins was simply an outstanding artist.Carajou 03:42, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

first heading on article
It looks like someone has deliberately step into this article and the first heading that is shown is "He was gay!" with a perhaps irrelevant sentence; i reverted some changes for this reason; it is just not in a formal tone; such titles or the description of his works are absolutely indecent, especially if this is to be found in an encyclopedia or just not expressed in the right manner.

150.176.93.182 01:53, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Philly Wikiproject rating
The article has a good overview of Eakins life, but lacks references, which is particularily problematic when discussing his work. Medvedenko 00:26, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Expansion
I am expanding this article--so far have added to youth, early career, and teaching, and will continue with photography, portraits, legacy, and, in time, am planning to add a heading for figure work (boxers, wrestlers, swimmers, female nudes). JNW 17:32, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Enough for now. JNW 02:36, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Still needs a passage on sculpture. JNW 13:30, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

 * The article has improved greatly, good work. It's great to see. I think to be considered A-Class the introduction needs to be expanded according to Lead section. When you have the time, can you include your book sources' ISBN and cite websites in a proffesional format. (as seen at Citation templates). Medvedenko 19:36, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

It's great that you added so much JNW, but this expansion relies almost entirely on the work of Lloyd Goodrich's very outdated biography - much work has been done since then - three or four biographies, two published very recently, including one which demonstrated that Goodrich repressed a lot of information. I thought I'd put the newer biogrpahies (by Adams & Kirkpatrick) on the further reading section last fall? And references to scholarship on sexuality too? Weren't they also there at some point? The text about those conversations is still in the main body (which is great). We need contributions from others, to even out the tone and blend of sources, no? Judyholliday 18:52, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Indeed, your contributions to 'further reading' last year were deleted by a vandal. I see now that I reverted their vulgarisms, and did not notice the further damage that had been done. Thanks for restoring the references. Granted, I relied heavily on Goodrich's biography. His access to Eakins' widow and friends, and his general perceptiveness of Eakins' qualities, make his scholarship, if flawed, the touchstone for subsequent studies. When expanding the article I did want to take care not to delete the material on his personal life, and sought to add to it by giving some account of sexual scandal and inappropriate behavior, without having it take over the article. JNW 21:54, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

It is an incredible entry - still marred by bits of wild overstatement - "most neglected artist" of the period? I think the women and african american and native artists who don't even have entries here would disagree. he was head of instruction at the PAFA, and controversial - but it isn't like he was anonymous or unknown! and, i notice my own scholarship - regularly suppressed by conservative publications - has still not been restored in further reading. i am proud of my work on the artist, and dismayed to see my scholarship as well as my early work on this entry disregarded! I'm the author of "Sex, Scandal, and Thomas Eakins's The Gross Clinic", an article from Representations (1999). We used to have articles in this entry - an important resource for students who want to know more!Judyholliday (talk) 22:40, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Eakin's dismissal from the Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Art
A recent biography of Eakins by William S. McFeely, the Pulitzer Prize winning biographer, documents and presents convincing evidence that is was NOT the "loincloth incident" that caused Eakins to be pressured into resigning his post as professor at the Academy. See chapter 13 of McFeely's book "Portrait: The life of Thomas Eakins" although I concede the stripping off of a male model's loincloth was a convenient excuse ... to obscure a more scandalous reason Eakins was booted out. The real scandal? Eakins was in the habit of going on outings with some of his adoring male students skinny dipping, wrestling in the nude, and what we called "messing around" when I was a teenager. That Eakins was gay is no longer controversial or disputed as is in the case of his dear friend poet Walt Whitman. Five male students went directly to the board of directors of the Academy and presented evidence of Prof. Eakin's "unmanly" behaviour. Interestingly the whole city of Philadelphia was fascinated with the controversy and most Academy students sided with Eakins: demanding his re-appointment, holding rallies in his support, even founding the Art Student's League as a rebuke to the Academy. Many years later the elderly Eakins was offered his job back, but he politely and proudly refused. 76.124.111.230 (talk) 22:27, 21 October 2008 (UTC)buddmar

Messages from "The Conversation"
Disclosure: the information presented in the messages (or web pages) mentioned here might be anywhere from authoritative (likely to be reliable) to "crowd-sourced" (perhaps less likely to be reliable). I do not know.

I also do now know whether the "implication" that this Wikipedia article has some "room for improvement" (in regard to the topics mentioned) is exaggerated (and hence should perhaps be ignored), or whether some edits should be "considered" (with the appropriate links to "reliable sources").

The web page at this internet address is basically an html "copy" of something that was sent out as an email message (dated "Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 5:30 AM") recently.

The message says, in part, [that]"While painter Thomas Eakins is considered one of the greatest 19-century American artists, over the past few decades enough evidence has emerged to suggest that Eakins was a serial sexual abuser. Yet his Wikipedia entry doesn’t breathe a word on the subject. Nor do art history textbooks. [...]" where the words [displayed as] "Eakins was a serial sexual abuser" are also a hyperlink to the [world wide web] internet address (or URL) << https://theconversationus.createsend1.com/t/r-l-jyfkijd-hyjkkhpli-i/ >> ... which seems to [auto] "forward" to this longer internet address (or URL) which might be of interest (perhaps to historians... or artists ... or other Wikipedia editors). (If so, here is an "archiveurl" from the Wayback machine, which might help if the original [web page] should move or disappear or something.

I do not have the time nor the interest to investigate what changes ("if any") to this article are appropriate. Someone else ... might. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 20:52, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Imagemap of Eakins
The imagemap below shows Eakins (you can find him with a cursor). He was paited by his wife. Does someone want to include this picture too and get it to FA Victuallers (talk) 11:55, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

New image

Here there is an image that you may be interested in. Cheers OboeCrack (talk) 18:33, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Article rating
No GA class review, no A class review. Article rating previously was inconsistent with Bs & an A rating. Article needs serious work on wikiformats on references and alt text on all images for a GA/A/FA rating. This article does seem to meet B-class, but needs work as mentioned. I have asked for a peer review. Jrcrin001 (talk) 17:01, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Kathrin
The link goes to disambiguation, and no mention of Kathrin Cromwell or the painting is found. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wezelboy (talk • contribs) 06:29, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Great article and great painter
One of his paintings is up for Featured Picture.TCO (Reviews needed) 19:40, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 08:36, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

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Labrador West (electoral district)

Labrador West is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. From 1975 to 1996, the district was known as Menihek.

Known as the iron ore capital of Canada with two modern mining communities, Labrador City and Wabush, the district has a strong base of labour support. This district was the first in Newfoundland and Labrador to send a New Democratic member to the House of Assembly, electing party leader Peter Fenwick in a 1984 by-election. The NDP regained the seat in 2019 election, beating the Liberals by a mere two votes and holding the riding in the 2021 general election by a twenty one point margin.

Members of the House of Assembly
The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:

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Mount Pearl South

Mount Pearl South is a defunct provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Prior to the 2007 provincial election, the district was known as Mount Pearl. Mount Pearl South has seen an expansion in big-box retail outlets in recent years. In 2011, there were 8,114 eligible voters living within the district.

The district was created in 1975 and was a Tory stronghold for two decades, with Progressive Conservative Neil Windsor holding the seat from 1975 to 1995. The seat went Liberal in 1996 when Brian Tobin won a large majority government, but returned to the Progressive Conservatives, under Dave Denine, in 2003 when the party swept back to power. Denine won again in the 2007 election.

Dave Denine retired just before the writ was dropped in 2011. The 2011 Election was contested between Progressive Conservative nominee Paul Lane, a Mount Pearl city councillor, New Democrat John Riche, a Real Estate Agent and Liberal Norm Snelgrove, a civic administrator. Paul Lane won the 2011 contest by 700 votes on October 11, 2011 and remained the district's MHA until its dissolution.

On January 20, 2014 Paul Lane announced he was leaving the governing PC Party to sit with the Opposition Liberal Party. In 2015, an electoral district boundary review resulted in the districts dissolution, with its territory being incorporated into Mount Pearl-Southlands.

Members of the House of Assembly
The district had elected the following members of the House of Assembly:

Election results

 * NDP
 * John Riche
 * align="right"|1,675
 * align="right"|38.51
 * align="right"|+31.78

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 * NDP
 * Tom McGinnis
 * align="right"|332
 * align="right"|6.73
 * align="right"| -0.51
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 * NDP
 * Roy Locke
 * align="right"|504
 * align="right"| 7.24
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Willem Schuth

Willem Schuth (born 14 June 1954 in Assen) is a Dutch politician and former Member of the European Parliament for Germany with the Free Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

He is a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, a member of the Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.

Education

 * 1975-1976 military service in the Netherlands
 * 1977-1979 worked in the Netherlands Defence Ministry
 * 1979-2004 Netherlands Defence Ministry official, Seedorf Barracks, Germany
 * 1996: Joined the FDP
 * since 1998 Elbe-Weser FDP District Vice-Chairman
 * since 2001 Member of the Federal Committee on International Policy
 * since 2002 Member of the Lower Saxony FDP Regional Executive
 * since 2003 Member of the ELDR Council
 * Member of the Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) (nature conservation)

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Virginia Waters (electoral district)

Virginia Waters is a defunct provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The district was represented by former premier Kathy Dunderdale.

A residential district in the northeast end of St. John's, the area included Airport Heights, Wedgewood Park, residential areas off Newfoundland Drive, as well as a fairly wealthy enclave near Virginia Lake. The district was created in 1995 from parts of the districts of Pleasantville, St. John's East Extern and Mount Scio Road-Bell Island. Virginia Waters retained 80 per cent of its original territory in the 2007 redistribution, while taking in 14 per cent of Cape St. Francis. In 2011 there were 9,938 eligible voters living within the district.

The district was abolished in 2015, into new districts of Windsor Lake and Virginia Waters-Pleasantville.

Members of the House of Assembly
The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:

Election results

 * align="right"|1,892
 * align="right"|39.05
 * align="right"|-20.99
 * NDP
 * Sheilagh O'Leary
 * align="right"|1,021
 * align="right"|21.07
 * align="right"|-9.35

 * }

 * NDP
 * Dave Sullivan
 * align="right"|1,708
 * align="right"|30.42
 * align="right"|+17.59

 * }

 * NDP
 * David Sullivan
 * align="right"|710
 * align="right"|12.83
 * align="right"|+3.60

 * Independent
 * Fred Wilcox
 * align="right"|353
 * align="right"|6.38
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 * NDP
 * David Sullivan
 * align="right"|666
 * align="right"|9.23
 * align="right"|-4.92

 * }

 * NDP
 * Amanda Will
 * align="right"|887
 * align="right"|14.15
 * align="right"|+5.74

 * Independent
 * Deanne Stapleton
 * align="right"|131
 * align="right"|2.09
 * align="right"|

 * }

 * NDP
 * Bob Buckingham
 * align="right"|550
 * align="right"|8.41

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Erich Klossowski

Erich Klossowski or Kłossowski (19 December 1875 – 23 January 1949) was a German and Polish-French art historian and a painter, now primarily known as the father of the writer-philosopher- painter and actor Pierre Klossowski and the artist Balthus. He was born in Ragnit, Germany.

He came from a family which belonged to  Polish  nobility (drobna szlachta), bearing the Rola coat-of-arms and living in the Prussian part of today's Poland. His son Balthus added "de Rola" to his family name.

Erich Klossowski wrote (in German) one of the early monographs on Honoré Daumier, first published in Munich in 1908 and again in 1914. He married the artist Baladine Klossowska, whom Rainer Maria Rilke called "Merline." Later, the couple moved to Paris.

He died in Sanary-sur-Mer on 23 January 1949.

Works

 * La collection Cheramy; catalogue raisonné précédé d'études sur les maîtres principaux de la collection, par J. Meier-Graefe et E. Klossowski; illustré de 127 héliotypies et de 2 héliogravures hors texte. Munich, R. Piper et Cie, 1908 (Contents Les peintres anglais et Constable, par J. Meier-Graefe.—Eugène Delacroix, par E. Klossowski.—La collection Cheramy, par J. Meier-Graefe.—Catalogue des tableaux anciens.—Catalogue des tableaux de l'école anglaise.—Catalogue des tableaux de l'école française)

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Bonavista South

Bonavista South is a former provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011 the district had 6,843 eligible voters.

It contains the communities of: Bonavista, Spillars Cove, Birchy Cove, Newman's Cove, Amherst Cove, Elliston, Little Catalina, Knights Cove, Stock Cove, King's Cove, Duntara, Keels, Open Hall, Redcliff, Tickle Cove, Plate Cove, Summerville, Princeton, Southern Bay, Charleston, Sweet Bay, Bloomfield, Musgravetown, Lethbridge, Brooklyn, Portland, Jamestown, Winterbrook, Catalina, Port Union and Melrose.

The district is heavily dependent on the fishery, but agriculture and tourism are significant to the local economy.

The district was abolished in 2015 and largely replaced by the new district of Bonavista.

Members of the House of Assembly
The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:

Election results

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 * NDP
 * Sam Kelly
 * align="right"|179
 * align="right"|3.27%
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 * NDP
 * Shawn Crann
 * align="right"|80
 * align="right"| 1.26
 * align="right"|
 * }

 * }

 * NDP
 * Malon Quinton
 * align="right"|147
 * align="right"|
 * align="right"|
 * }
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 * NDP
 * Rex Sheppard
 * align="right"|259
 * align="right"|
 * align="right"|
 * }
 * }

 * NDP
 * Harry Clarence Faulkner
 * align="right"|519
 * align="right"|
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 * }
 * }

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Grand Bank (electoral district)

Grand Bank is a defunct provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Prior to the 1974 redistribution, the district was called Burin. The district was abolished in 2015 and replaced by Burin-Grand Bank.

Grand Bank covers the southernmost part of the Burin Peninsula. The fishery, particularly deep-sea activity, has historically driven the economy of towns like Grand Bank, Fortune and Lawn. Mining was once prominent in St. Lawrence area, but no longer. Other communities include: Epworth, Frenchman's Cove, Grand Beach, Garnish, L'Anse au Loup, Lamaline, Lewin's Cove, Little St. Lawrence, Lord's Cove, Point au Gaul, Point May, St. Lawrence, Salmonier, Taylor's Bay, Tides Brook and Winterland.

Members of the House of Assembly
The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:

Election results

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 * NDP
 * Bill Wakeley
 * align="right"|136
 * align="right"|2.15%
 * align="right"|-7.37
 * }

 * NDP
 * Richard Rennie
 * align="right"|538
 * align="right"|9.52
 * align="right"|
 * }

 * }

 * NDP
 * Joseph L. Edwards
 * align="right"|181
 * align="right"|2.83
 * align="right"|
 * }
 * }

 * }
 * }

 * NDP
 * Calvin Peach
 * align="right"|431
 * align="right"|7.0
 * align="right"|
 * }
 * }

 * NDP
 * Eric Miller
 * align="right"|234
 * align="right"|4.23
 * align="right"|
 * }
 * }

 * NDP
 * Harvey Tulk, Jr.
 * align="right"|198
 * align="right"|3.8
 * align="right"|
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Conception Bay South (electoral district)

Conception Bay South is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011 there are 9,938 eligible voters living within the district.

Composed of part of the town of Conception Bay South. A mix of rural and suburban populations, especially as the town of Conception Bay South grows. The district includes the communities of Foxtrap, Long Pond, Manuels, Kelligrews and part of Chamberlains. It is part of the St. John's metropolitan area.

The riding was created for the 1975 election from Harbour Main and St. John's North.

Members of the House of Assembly
The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:


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Humber Valley (electoral district)

Humber Valley is a defunct provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of the 2011 Census, there were 7,938 eligible voters living within the district.

Humber Valley covered some of the best agricultural land in Newfoundland and Labrador, and ran from Deer Lake to just north of Great Harbour Deep. Apart from Deer Lake, other communities in the district included Cormack, Reidville, Hampden, Sop's Arm and part of Pasadena.

The district was created for the 1975 provincial election out of parts of White Bay South, Humber East and St. George's.

In 2015, the House of Assembly was reduced to 40 seats, and the district of Humber Valley was combined with part of the district of St. Barbe, forming the new district of Humber - Gros Morne.

Members of the House of Assembly
The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:

Election results

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Exploits (electoral district)

Exploits is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

In central Newfoundland on the Bay of Exploits, it lies between the Trans-Canada Highway in the south and Notre Dame Bay in the north. Most of the population lives in the southern centres of Botwood and Bishop's Falls.

To the north, Exploits includes communities in Notre Dame Bay such as Cottrell's Cove, but most of the population lives in southern centres such as Botwood and Bishop's Falls. Communities include: Bishop's Falls, Bishop's Falls South, Botwood, Charles Brook, Cottrell's Cove, Fortune Harbour, Glovers Harbour, Leading Tickles West, Moore's Cove, Northern Arm, Peterview, Phillip's Head, Pleasantview, Point Leamington, Point of Bay, Ritter's Arm and Wooddale.

The district was formerly represented by Liberal Premier Roger Grimes.

Members of the House of Assembly
The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:

Election results

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 * PC
 * Clayton Forsey
 * align="right"|2,605
 * align="right"|55.2
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 * John Whelan
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 * align="right"|3.4
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 * NDP
 * John Whelan
 * align="right"|168
 * align="right"|2.93%
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 * NDP
 * Arnold Best
 * align="right"|633
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Bonavista North

Bonavista North was a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It existed from when Newfoundland joined confederation in 1949 until 2015.

As of 2011 the district had 6,956 eligible voters.

When it was abolished in 2015, it contained the communities of: Trinity, Centreville, Wareham, Indian Bay, Greenspond, Valleyfield, Badger's Quay, Pool's Island, Brookfield, Wesleyville, Pound Cove, Templeman, Newtown, Cape Freels, Lumsden, Deadman's Bay, Musgrave Harbour, Ladle Cove, Aspen Cove, Carmanville, Noggin Cove, Frederickton, Davidsville, Main Point, Gander Bay South, Clarke's Head, Victoria Cove, and Wing's Point.

The district's principal industry was fishing. Former Premier Beaton Tulk represented the district until he resigned in 2002.

The district was abolished in 2015 and replaced almost entirely by Fogo Island-Cape Freels and a small piece going to Gander.

Members of the House of Assembly
The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:

Election results

 * NDP
 * Ed Brown
 * align="right"|349
 * align="right"|
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 * NDP
 * Ingwald Feltham
 * align="right"|117
 * align="right"|
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 * NDP
 * John Blackwood
 * align="right"|150
 * align="right"|
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 * Independent
 * Wayne Davis
 * align="right"|58
 * align="right"|
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Metal Works '73–'93

Metal Works is a compilation album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, released in April 1993. A remastered edition was released in 2001, with the same track listing.

All material was previously available. All albums to that date are represented with the exception of their debut, Rocka Rolla, although a live version of "Victim of Changes" (from Unleashed in the East, with what appears to be an American sounding audience dubbed on at the end, instead of the familiar Japanese one from the album version) is used rather than the studio version on Sad Wings of Destiny. This is because the band no longer owns the rights to their first two albums.

The band selected the tracks themselves, and made comments in the sleeve-notes.

As an album it showcases versatility of their musical career. This album also brought Rob Halford back into the fold for a short while following his departure from the band due to internal tensions.

Cover art
The album cover by Mark Wilkinson (who had done the band's cover art from Ram It Down to Nostradamus) combines elements from the band's previous releases. In the foreground are the Hellion from Screaming for Vengeance and the Painkiller from its eponymous 1990 album. Under the Hellion's body is a razor blade, a reference to the album British Steel. The lower left shows the female hand holding a gear shift knob from Turbo and a mannequin wearing sunglasses and a studded leather headband representing Killing Machine/Hell Bent for Leather. The lower right corner features the door and columns from Sin After Sin, the metallic head from Stained Class enveloped in smoke, and the Metallian from Defenders of the Faith. At the end of the trail of flames in front of the Metallian is the shaft of light from Point of Entry. Additionally, one of the chimneys on the factory in the lower right corner is the band's familiar trident logo.

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Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi

Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi is a former provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011 there were 8,137 eligible voters living within the district.

The district included the east end of the downtown St. John's, and ran north to Newfoundland Drive. The residential mix ranged from apartments and refurbished townhouses in the older part of the city to the edges of suburban subdivisions in the east end.

The last MHA was New Democratic Party MHA, Lorraine Michael. This district was also represented by former Newfoundland and Labrador NDP leader, Jack Harris from 1990 to 2006. The district was abolished in 2015, and became St. John's East-Quidi Vidi.

Members of the House of Assembly
The district has elected the following members of the House of Assembly:

Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi

 * NDP
 * Lorraine Michael
 * align="right"|3,239
 * align="right"|65.28
 * align="right"|+8.5

 * }

 * NDP
 * Lorraine Michael
 * align="right"|3,062
 * align="right"|56.8
 * align="right"|+1.6
 * Progressive Conservative
 * Maria Afonso
 * align="right"|2,135
 * align="right"|39.6
 * align="right"|-5.2

 * }

 * New Democrat
 * Lorraine Michael
 * align="right"|1,968
 * align="right"|55.2
 * align="right"| +6.7
 * Progressive Conservative
 * Jerome Kennedy
 * align="right"|1,595
 * align="right"|44.8
 * align="right"| +1.0
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 * New Democrat
 * Jack Harris
 * align="right"|2,456
 * align="right"|48.5
 * align="right"|
 * Progressive Conservative
 * Karen Carroll
 * align="right"|2,221
 * align="right"|43.8
 * align="right"|

 * }

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 * style="width: 185px"|New Democrat
 * Jack Harris
 * align=right|2,179
 * align=right|41.91
 * align=right|-9.2

 * style="width: 185px"| Progressive Conservative
 * Chris O'Brien
 * align=right|793
 * align=right|15.25
 * align=right|-1.2

 * style="width: 185px"| Newfoundland and Labrador Party
 * Paul David Hillier
 * align=right|116
 * align=right|2.23
 * align=right|+2.2

 * style="width: 185px"| Independent
 * Shaun Dunn
 * align=right|53
 * align=right|1.02
 * align=right|+1.0

 * style="width: 185px"| Independent
 * John Whelan
 * align=right|48
 * align=right|0.92
 * align=right|+0.9

{| class="wikitable" ! colspan="6"|1996 Newfoundland and Labrador general election ! colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party ! style="width: 170px"|Candidate ! style="width: 40px"|Votes ! style="width: 40px"|% ! style="width: 40px"|+/-
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 * style="width: 185px"|New Democrat
 * Jack Harris
 * align=right|2,800
 * align=right|51.07
 * align=right|+7.4

 * style="width: 185px"| Progressive Conservative
 * Cy Mills
 * align=right|902
 * align=right|16.45
 * align=right|-7.6

 * style="width: 185px"| Independent (Terra Nova Greens)
 * Jason Crummey
 * align=right|120
 * align=right|2.19
 * align=right|+2.2

St. John's East

 * NDP
 * David Thompson
 * align="right"|353
 * align="right"|11.8
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