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Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy

Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy is Billy Bragg's first album, released in 1983. All songs on the original album consisted of Bragg singing to his electric guitar accompaniment.

The original album played at 45 rpm rather than the more usual 33⅓ rpm, contained only seven songs and lasted for only 15 minutes and 57 seconds. However, rather than being classified as an EP, it qualified for the UK Albums Chart due to its total number of tracks meeting the rules and reached number 30 in January 1984.

The album contains both politically charged songs, such as the attack on the school system and unemployment, "To Have and to Have Not", and love songs such as "The Milkman of Human Kindness" and "A New England" (which was later a hit for singer Kirsty MacColl).

The title of the album alludes to Bragg's pseudonym of Spy vs Spy which he used when busking prior to his recording career, and which in turn comes from the strip of the same name in Mad magazine.

Reception
It was ranked at number 3 among the "Albums of the Year" for 1983 by NME; thirty years later, the magazine ranked it at number 440 in its list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

Spin wrote the album would, "probably fully launch Bragg on the already friendly seas of college radio, and maybe beyond. It deserves a listen, but it's not going to spearhead any 'folk revival' you've read about yesterday or three years ago."

Versions
The album was originally released by Utility Records through Chrysalis in May 1983. The cassette version of the album was recorded on only one side of the tape; the second side of the tape was blank, inscribed with a message that fans should use it to bootleg his concerts. The album was then reissued in November 1983 on Go! Discs. In 1986 the tracks from the album along with the tracks from Brewing Up with Billy Bragg (1984) and the tracks from the Between the Wars EP (1985) were issued on a compilation album called Back to Basics by Go! Discs. This compilation was reissued by Cooking Vinyl in 1996. Cooking Vinyl released another compilation album in 1996 combining the tracks from the album with the four tracks from the Between the Wars EP and titled Life's a Riot Between the Wars.

In 2006 as part of a series of reissues of albums from his back catalogue, the album was reissued as Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy, with the original tracks on one disc along with a bonus CD of alternative versions and previously unreleased material. The tracks on the bonus CD were produced and compiled by Grant Showbiz.

In October 2013, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the original release, a new version was released. This featured a remastered version of the original tracks alongside a live performance of the album which was recorded live at the Union Chapel, London on 5 June 2013.

Track listing
All songs written by Billy Bragg, except where noted

 * 1) "The Milkman of Human Kindness" – 2:49
 * 2) "To Have and to Have Not" – 2:33
 * 3) "Richard" – 2:51
 * 4) "A New England" – 2:14
 * 5) "The Man in the Iron Mask" – 2:13
 * 6) "The Busy Girl Buys Beauty" – 1:58
 * 7) "Lovers Town Revisited" – 1:19

Additional tracks on 2006 reissue
 * 1) "Strange Things Happen" (alternative version) – 3:19
 * 2) "The Cloth I" – 2:50
 * 3) "Love Lives Here" – 1:42
 * 4) "Speedway Hero" – 2:39
 * 5) "Loving You Too Long" – 2:51
 * 6) "The Guitar Says Sorry" (alternative version) – 2:14
 * 7) "Love Gets Dangerous" (alternative version) – 2:32
 * 8) "The Cloth II" – 2:47
 * 9) "The Man in the Iron Mask" (alternative version) – 2:17
 * 10) "A13, Trunk Road to the Sea" (music by Bobby Troup, words by Bragg) – 2:27
 * 11) "Fear Is a Man's Best Friend" (John Cale) – 2:32

Additional tracks (live) on 2013 reissue
 * 1) "Intro"
 * 2) "Lovers Town Revisited"
 * 3) "To Have and to Have Not"
 * 4) "The Busy Girl Buys Beauty"
 * 5) "The Man in the Iron Mask"
 * 6) "Richard"
 * 7) "The Milkman of Human Kindness"
 * 8) "A New England"

Musicians

 * Billy Bragg – vocals, guitar
 * Dave Woodhead – trumpet on "The Man in the Iron Mask" (alternative version)

Production

 * Oliver Hitch – producer, engineer, (original album plus "The Guitar Says Sorry" (alternative version), "Love Gets Dangerous" (alternative version), "The Cloth II", "A13, Trunk Road to the Sea", "Fear Is a Man's Best Friend")
 * Grant Showbiz – responsible for compiling and production of reissue
 * Tim Young – digital remastering (original album tracks)
 * Duncan Cowell – digital remastering (bonus tracks)
 * Steve Goldstein – recording ("Strange Things Happen" (alternative version), "The Cloth I", "Love Lives Here")
 * Wiggy – recording ("Speedway Hero", "Loving You too Long")

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Not a notable website, 15900 google hits. Thue | talk 09:41, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
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 * Delete vanity. "TheCorpse.Com was founded in 2003 by dutch Superstar rapper Cilvaringz." is patently untrue. I'm not a music buff, but if he hasn't made the charts here in the Netherlands he can't be a superstar rapper. - Mgm|(talk) 09:10, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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Fiji's Daily Post

The Fiji's Daily Post (FDP) was a newspaper in Fiji that was founded in October 1987 by Wame Waqanisanini, Jr, who owned 50 percent of the shares. Taniela Bolea was the original publisher. The majority shares were later owned by the Fijian government. The newspaper suspended publication and has remain closed since 2010.

The FDP suffered criticism from its commencement in 1989 to its closure in 2010 that it represented an extreme ethnic Fijian/Itaukei viewpoint in Fiji's national discourse. The evidence for this conclusion is inconclusive. No other newspaper in Fiji has attempted to reach as wide a multicultural cross-section of the people as the FDP through the provision of five separate language publications. The staff of the newspaper was always multi-ethnic in complexion, representative of a wide range of religious and political viewpoints, and of both genders. As far as ideological orientation of the editorial staff is concerned, it is fair to suppose that once the Fiji government took an official role as major share-holder in the newspaper (late 1990s), the FDP was obliged to toe the government line, but again, this is an oversimplification of the facts. Content analysis of the FDP in comparison with Fiji's other major dailies, the Fiji Times and Fiji Sun does not bear this out.

History
The first Daily Post (Volume 1, No. 1) appeared as a 24-page tabloid with a red masthead, Saturday, 23 September 1989. The cover story, headlined ‘Fiji Now Drugs Transit Point’, was by Karalaini Naciqa. That first edition contained court reports, special reports, an editorial, a feature on the Consumer Council, a children’s page, a page of international news, and a back page devoted to sport.

The second edition of the FDP appeared Monday (25 September 1989, Volume 1, No.2) and carried the newspaper’s first ‘Letters to the Editor’. The newspaper listed Kameli Rakoko as sports editor and Robert Wendt (now deceased) was named as chief sub-editor. In its first year, the newspaper served as an incubator for new journalists as well as a refuge for disaffected others. Stories and articles appeared by Mark Langan (former managing editor of the Samoa Daily News), Percy Kean, Filimoni Verebalavu, Kini Nalatu, Hari Gounder, and Kamal Iyer.

In 1990 the FDP management was listed as publisher, Taniela Bolea; editor, Isimeli Koroi; Western manager, Hari Gaunder; accountant, Ashok Kumar; advertising manager, Simione Celua; circulation manager, John Singh; and production manager, Mohammad Ali.

Four years into its operation, the FDP was, at the end of 1993, publishing editions of 40 to 68 pages varying according to daily demand and advertising. The publisher was still Taniela Bolea, but the editor was Nemani Delaibatiki (replacing Isimeli Koroi). Ravin Lal had taken over as advertising manager (from Simione Celua), the production manager was Aisea Itautoka (replacing Mohammed Ali), and circulation was in the hands of Vishwa Nand (in place of John Singh).

By 1994, distribution was under Timoci Rabo; systems manager was John Mansell; and the Suva office under Elenoa Lagataki. `Sidetracks’ with the late (and great) Robert Keith-Reid was a popular column at that time. Cartoons were occasional with ‘Mafi’s World’ the feature.

By 1997 Laisa Taga was managing editor (replacing Floyd Takeuchi and Nemani Delaibatiki), Greg Pooran had become acting advertising manager and a new position of marketing manager was held by Andrew Joseph. Another new position of financial controller was held by Anura Bandara.

In 1999, James Ah Koy, finance minister at the time, persuaded the Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei (SVT) government to purchase a majority holding in the newspaper to assist government in public dissemination and explanation of its legislation and policies.

Despite government support, by 2000, the FDP was losing ground to the newly founded Fiji Sun. A new management group was thereby brought in to run the ailing newspaper. In 2005 the measures undertaken by that management group became the subject of Court action and criminal investigation brought on by the FDP's new Australian owner-publisher, Alan Hickling. Hickling had successfully bought a portion of both government and small share-holders' shares to acquire the newspaper.

The government retained its reduced percentage of the FDP shares, while Alan Hickling increased his percentage shares giving him the controlling interest.

During its time, the FDP was located at several addresses. It began as an office in Three Miles, Nabua (corner of Fletcher Road and Ratu Mara Road), before moving to Valelevu, Nasinu. The administration, editorial and advertising departments then split off and moved to Toorak (Toorak Road), Suva, leaving the press and production at Valelevu. The admin-ed-adv departments then moved downtown to Greig Street, Suva, before moving finally to Ackland Street, Vatuwaqa.

The FDP has also been responsible for publishing several ethnic newspapers each with its own editorial staff under the supervision and control of the English-language newspaper. The ethnic Fijian (now known as 'itaukei') language newspaper called Volasiga began under Samisoni Bolatacigi almost simultaneously with the inception of the FDP. In the mid-1990s, an ethnic Rotuman-language newspaper, No'ia Rotuma, commenced under the editorial direction of Aisea Eiali. At this time, an ethnic Indian Hindi-language newspaper Ramnik Joyati also commenced under the FDP flagship. In the early 2000s, two ethnic Chinese-language newspapers were also published by the FDP. These were the Chinese Mail and the Chinese Post - each taking a different perspective of China's role in the world.

2006 coup d'état
On Saturday, 2 December 2006 the FDP published what was alleged to be the military's timetable for taking control of the Qarase-led SDL government. The newspaper also reported that day that the incumbent Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, would be removed from power on 4 December (2006). Both reports were wrong, but warnings and intimidation from unknown persons led to concerns about the safety of staff and the FDP premises were evacuated at 3.30 pm, on 4 December and remained closed for a period of 24 hours. A further threat prevented the FDP from publishing on 5 December 2006, but it was the only newspaper to publish on the day after the coup (6 December).

On 8 December 2006, FDP general manager, Mesake Koroi, was detained and questioned by soldiers at Suva's Queen Elizabeth Barracks. Two days later, Koroi left for his village of Mavana on the Lau island of Vanua Balavu where he remained for three months. The newspaper continued to publish under editor-in-chief, Dr Robert Wolfgramm, news editor, Mithleshni Gurdayal, and Legal Officer, Api Mataitoga.

On 14 December 2006, Wolfgramm and Mataitoga were also taken to the military camp and detained for questioning, whereupon Wolfgramm had his passport confiscated and was informed of his deportation to Australia. Wolfgramm's deportation was not followed through and his passport was returned to him through the Office of the Fiji Human Rights Commission on 5 January 2007. The FDP had been refusing to accept military interference in its publications in the wake of the military coup which deposed the Qarase-led SDL government on 5 December 2006. In the two years leading up to the coup, numerous editorials were critical of the military leadership's position on the twice-elected government of deposed Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase.

On 17 October 2008, the FDP published a letter-to-the-editor that was deemed to be in contempt of court by the attorney-general. The letter was similar to that which was later published in the Fiji Times and for which the publishers and editors of both newspapers were charged and legal proceedings begun. Following the imposition of Fiji Public Emergency Regulations on 10 April 2009, censors were allocated to the newsrooms of all of Fiji's media including the FDP. Protests by various media against this measure initially took the forms of either black ink, blank spaces, or blurb. Eventually, the FDP negotiated a working relationship with this difficulty.

In February 2010, suffering the combined effects of falling staff morale, shrinking circulation, censorship demands, and weighty unresolved court cases, the FDP suspended publication and closed.

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Acetohexamide

Acetohexamide (trade name Dymelor) is a first-generation sulfonylurea medication used to treat diabetes mellitus type 2, particularly in people whose diabetes cannot be controlled by diet alone.

Mechanism of action
Acetohexamide binds to an ATP-sensitive K+ (KATP) channel on the cell membrane of pancreatic beta cells. This inhibits the outflux of potassium, which causes the membrane potential to become more positive. This depolarization in turn opens voltage-gated calcium channels. The rise in intracellular calcium leads to increased fusion of insulin granulae with the cell membrane, and therefore increased secretion of insulin.

Risks
Sulfonylureas, especially first-generation sulfonylureas such as Acetohexamide, can cause severe hypoglycemia and increase the risk of adverse cardiovascular events.

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2005 International Rules Series

The 2005 International Rules Series was the 12th annual International Rules Series and the 14th time that a test series of international rules football was played between Ireland and Australia and was won by Australia.

The 2005 series involved two test matches in Australia, the first in Perth (which was a sell-out) and a second test in Melbourne which was controversial due to the on field actions of the Australian team.

Previous series
Starting with the first official senior-level International Rules Series was played between players from the Australian rules football leagues and the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1984, the Irish had won 7 of the previous series to Australia's 6. Coming into the series, the Irish held the Cormac McAnallen Cup after their 2004 whitewash of the Australians at Croke Park in Dublin.

2005 series
The Melbourne test was played at the Telstra Dome rather than the Melbourne Cricket Ground, unlike previous series in Australia, since the MCG was preparing to host the 2006 Commonwealth Games. By 1 August 2005, a vast majority of the tickets for the Perth test had been sold. When the matches were last played in Australia in 2003, over 100,000 people attended the two tests in Perth and Melbourne, underscoring the popularity of the series with Australian football fans.

The Ireland team was managed by former County Down manager Pete McGrath, an All Ireland winning manager, while the AFL appointed long-serving Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy as its new head coach, to replace Garry Lyon, who had been in charge of the Australians from 2001 to 2004.

The Irish suffered a blow to their attempt to retain the cup when Sydney Swans backfielder and team mainstay Tadhg Kennelly (originally from County Kerry) was unable for selection due to a nagging ankle injury that he was playing through during the Swans' run to the AFL premiership. In a departure from previous years, the Australians selected a team specifically for these games, rather than giving automatic selection to members of the All Australian Team. Another Irishman who has played in the AFL, Jim Stynes, assisted with selection and planning, giving insight into the Irish game as he has in previous years.

The series was comprehensively won by the Australians. In the first test, they outplayed the Irish in all aspects of the game, including speed and kicking the round ball, which are traditionally strengths of the Irish players. Kicking 2 goals and 27 overs, Australia became the first team to score 100 points in an international rules test. Australian umpire Mathew James attracted some criticism from the Irish press for applying the 20 metre penalty rule more strictly than expected by the Irish.

The Irish team was more competitive in the second test, in which there were several brawls and Australian captain Chris Johnson was sent off. However, they still lost by 21 points, meaning that Australia won the series on aggregate by 57 points.

Fixtures

 * First test: 21 October 2005 at Subiaco Oval, Perth, WA
 * Second test: 28 October 2005 at Telstra Dome, Melbourne, VIC

Squads
1 – Australia named McLeod and Johnson as co-captains for the side. ² – Withdrawal replacement for Essendon's Matthew Lloyd. ³ – Officially ruled out for the first Test.

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Shooting at the 1932 Summer Olympics

When shooting was reintroduced at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles after being absent at the previous Games, it consisted of two events, one rifle event and one pistol event. The competitions were held on August 12, 1932 and August 13, 1932.

Participating nations
A total of 41 shooters from 10 nations competed at the Los Angeles Games:

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Aaron Solowoniuk

Aaron Solowoniuk is the drummer for the Canadian band Billy Talent.

Background
Solowoniuk was born and raised in Streetsville, a neighbourhood of Mississauga, Ontario, and began drumming at a young age. His first drum set was a gift from his parents. His father was born in Ukraine. His grandfathers were from Poland.

As he grew up, Solowoniuk continued drumming and eventually met Benjamin Kowalewicz and Jon Gallant at their high school, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Secondary School where they started a band called "To Each His Own". A few years later, the band met Ian D'Sa who was playing in "Dragon Flower". The four later joined up together and became "The Other One" then later "Pezz". Solowoniuk continued to play in Pezz and after high school, he got his auto body certificate and worked at a Chrysler factory as an assembly line worker. In 1999, Solowoniuk helped record two demo tapes, and Watoosh!, Pezz's first full-length album. Pezz would later become "Billy Talent".

In March 2006, he wrote a letter to the bands' fans in which he told them that he had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The Billy Talent song This Is How It Goes is written about Solowoniuk's battle with the illness. He had kept it secret in an attempt to avoid unwanted pity, but decided to reveal his condition after discovering some MS cases are diagnosed as early as three years of age. Since then Solowoniuk has become an advocate for finding a cure for MS. An example of his dedication for fighting MS, Solowoniuk helped organize F.U.M.S, a concert benefit on Boxing Day 2006 which Billy Talent, Moneen and Alexisonfire performed at The Opera House in Toronto. All proceeds from the show went to the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada.

On 2 February 2012, he underwent open-heart surgery. He wrote a letter to his fans through Facebook informing them of it on 17 February.

On 15 January 2016, Solowoniuk explained in a video that he would not be playing the drums for the rehearsal of their fifth studio album, due to an MS relapse. Instead, Jordan Hastings from Alexisonfire would be playing on the record.

As of Billy Talent's 2022 tour with Rise Against and Anti-Flag, Solowoniuk is still not playing drums live, but is still with the band on tour, handling charitable events and occasionally playing one or two songs. He organized the food drive during this tour.

Equipment
Aaron has been known to play Pearl Drums, most often the 'Masters' Kit, with tom sizes of 12" and 16", along with a 22" Bass drum. He also uses the HHX and AAX lines of Sabian cymbals.

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Hi, there -- you might have noticed that I marked your vote on Articles for deletion/Eire Shamrock/ Prodigal Fenian with a note that it was your first edit. I wanted to assure you, it isn't anything personal, it's just a standard practice that unfortunately sometimes we have to be anal about to show that we're not showing favoritism to one side or the other. Any comments you make in the discussion will still be considered, but it's probably not going to be counted as a vote. If you stay, though (which I hope you will) you'll be past "voting age" before you know it. -- Antaeus Feldspar 02:22, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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^_^ Thanks, I understand, being an NSwiki user myself. Message on your page, should you read this, too. This United State 06:38, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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Do you think your username might be a bit controversial? Some wikipedians could be offended. Not me, but just a notice. Scienceman123 20:18, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't think it's offensive. I can't think of a group that could be offended by it. Anyway, as a fellow NSer (Borgui, Union of Ecoterrorist Nations) I just wanted to say hi, I just needed something to disguise this with so it wasn't completely stupid spam. --queso man 01:22, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

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Lega Toscana

Lega Toscana (Tuscany League), whose complete name is Lega Toscana per Salvini Premier (Tuscany League for Salvini Premier), is a regionalist political party active in Tuscany. Established in 1987, it was one of the founding "national" sections of Lega Nord (LN) in 1991 and has been the regional section of Lega per Salvini Premier (LSP) in Tuscany since 2020.

The party is currently led by Luca Baroncini.

History
The party was founded in 1987 as the Movement for Tuscany (Movimento per la Toscana, MpT) and its first leader was Mario Forconi. In 1988, under the leadership of Tommaso Fragassi, the party changed name to Tuscan Alliance (Alleanza Toscana, AT).

AT participated to the 1989 European Parliament election within the coalition Lega Lombarda – Alleanza Nord. In 1989–1990 it took part in the process of federating the northern regionalist parties, ahead of the 1990 regional elections. In February 1991 the AT was merged into Lega Nord (LN), taking the current name, and since then it has been the regional section of that party in Tuscany.

In the 1992 and 1994 general election Riccardo Fragassi was elected to the Chamber of Deputies (in 1992 along with Gianmarco Mancini), while his father Tommaso resigned from secretary because he rejected the alliance between the LN and the centre-right Pole of Freedoms. In 1995, when the alliance was dissolved, Riccardo Fragassi left the party in opposition to that break-up and formed the Tuscan Federalist Alliance (AFT) instead. He would return into the fold ten years later. The leader of the AFT were Riccardo Fragassi (secretary) and Renzo Del Carrìa (president), a former president of the LNT (1992–1994). Riccardo Fragassi eventually re-joined the LNT and spoke at the Lega Nord's federal congress June–July 2012.

The party's new secretary, Simone Gnaga, was elected to the Chamber in the 1996 general election. A right-winger, he would too leave in 1998 in order to join National Alliance. Between 1998 and 2006 the party was led by Vincenzo Soldati, a member of the party's libertarian wing. The party was then led by commissioner Luca Rodolfo Paolini, national secretary of Lega Nord Marche, from 2006 to 2008, when Claudio Morganti was elected national secretary. In the 2008 general election the party elected a deputy, Paolini himself, after almost ten years of no representation in the Italian Parliament. In the 2009 European Parliament election Morganti was elected MEP. In the 2010 regional election the party won 6.5% of the vote, its best result so far, and entered the Regional Council for the first time, with four councillors.

Despite these electoral results, Morganti's leadership was openly contested by many party members. In April 2011 Dario Locci, a regional councillor, left in protest. In September 2011 Morganti resigned from secretary and was replaced by commissioner Giovanni Fava. The move was not enough for Locci, who made no return, and another group of disgruntled members, including regional councillor Marina Staccioli, who left the party to form Tuscan Identity in December. The splinter party was led by president Giovanni Iadicicco and three coordinators (Andrea Asciutti, Federico Meanti and Marina Staccioli); Staccioli would later defect to the Brothers of Italy). In October 2012 the two remaining regional councillors of the party, Antonio Gambetta Vianna and Gian Luca Lazzeri, responded to the emphasis posed by the new federal secretary Roberto Maroni on the North and the establishment of a Padanian euroregion by changing the denomination of their group from "Lega Nord Toscana" to "More Tuscany".  Vianna and Lazzeri were soon expelled from the party, which was left without regional councillors.  In April 2013 also Morganti was expelled from the party. These internal clashes resulted in a dismal result in the 2013 general election, during which the LNT garnered a mere 0.7% of the vote. In April 2013, after a long transition under the supervision of Fava, a new national congress was held and Manuel Vescovi was elected new national secretary.

In the 2015 regional election the LNT obtained its best result so far in a regionwide election by jumping from 6.5% of 2010 to 16.2%, while its candidate for president, anti-Euro economist Claudio Borghi, who was endorsed also by Brothers of Italy, came second with 20.0% of the vote. In the 2016 local elections the party won Cascina (Pisa), its first large municipality in the region: Susanna Ceccardi obtained 28.4% in the first round and 50.3% in the run-off, while the party got 21.3%.

In the 2018 general election the party won 17.4% of the vote in Tuscany. In the subsequent 2018 local elections the party ran well in several races, especially in Pisa and Massa where two of its members, Michele Conti and Francesco Persiani. respectively, were elected mayors. In the 2019 European Parliament election the party reached a record 31.5% of the vote, while in the 2020 regional election, with Ceccardi as the centre-right candidate for president, it stopped at 21.8% (Ceccardi won 40.5%).

Following the formation of Lega per Salvini Premier and the 2019 federal congress of the LN, after which the latter became practically inactive, in February 2020 the LNT was re-established as Lega Toscana per Salvini Premier in order to become the regional section of the new party. The founding members of the new LR were Ceccardi, Tiziana Nisini, Elisa Montemagni, Jacopo Alberti and Elena Vizzotto. After that, the party was successively led by Mario Lolini and, since 2023, Luca Baroncini.

In the 2023 regional congress, Baroncini was elected secretary by obtaining around 60% of the vote, while his opponent Luca Tacchi won around 35%.

Popular support
Lega Nord Toscana has been one of the weakest national sections of the federal party and had received only low digits until the 2015 regional election, in which it obtained its best result so far (16.2%). The party was particularly strong in the provinces of Lucca (20.2%), Pisa (19.1%) and Grosseto (18.9%).

The electoral results of Lega Nord Toscana in the region are shown in the tables below.

Leadership

 * Secretary: Mario Forconi (1987–1988), Tommaso Fragassi (1988–1994), Simone Gnaga (1994–1998), Vincenzo Soldati (1998–2006), Luca Rodolfo Paolini (commissioner 2006–2008), Claudio Morganti (2008–2011), Giovanni Fava (commissioner, 2011–2013), Manuel Vescovi (2013–2018), Susanna Ceccardi (commissioner 2018–2019), Daniele Belotti (commissioner 2019–2020), Mario Lolini (commissioner 2020–2023), Luca Baroncini (2023–present, commissioner 2023)
 * President: Tommaso Fragassi (1987–1988), Guido Niccolini (1988–1992), Renzo Del Carrìa (1992–1994), Dario Locci (1994–1996), Emilio Paradiseo (1996–1998), Walter Gherardini (1998–2001), Moreno Menconi (2001–2006), Antonio Gambetta Vianna (2008–2011), Francesco Pellati (2013–2018)

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Morven, Queensland

Morven is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Murweh, Queensland, Australia. In the, the locality of Morven had a population of 184 people.

Geography
The town is located on the Warrego Highway of South West Queensland, 91 km east of Charleville, 92 km south of Augathella, 89 km west of Mitchell, 177 km west of Roma, 306 km west of Miles, 575 km west of Toowoomba and 665 km west of Brisbane.

Morven Aerodrome has an unsealed runway of red loam, 1725 x 45 m. It is operated by Murweh Shire Council.

History
Originally, the area on which Morven now sits was a popular spot for bullock teams on the road between Mitchell and Charleville. In 1859, a small area was taken from the property Victoria Downs and set aside for public use and designated on maps and documents as 'Victoria Downs Reserve'. It was on the Cobb & Co mail route from Brisbane to Charleville. Later it became informally known as 'Sadlier's Waterhole' after Captain TJ Sadlier and his wife camped at the property.

In 1876, a post office was opened and called Morven. When officially surveyed in 1880, it was officially given the name Morven. It is believed to be named after Morven in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Morven State School opened on 24 September 1887.

All Souls Anglican Church opened in 1906 and was dedicated in 1926.

On Sunday 14 March 1926, Archbishop James Duhig opened and consecrated the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic church.

On Tuesday 26 April 2016, the Morven Hotel Motel was burned down. It was a big loss to the town as it was the only hotel in the town. It was rebuilt by members of the local community in 2020 and now trades as Sadleir's Waterhole after the original name for the community.

Demographics
In the, the locality of Morven had a population of 276 people.

In the, the locality of Morven had a population of 199 people.

In the, the locality of Morven had a population of 184 people.

Heritage listings
Morven has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
 * 20 km west of Morven on the Roma–Cunnamulla railway line: Angellala Rail Bridge

Education
Morven State School is a government primary (Preparatory to Year 6) school for boys and girls at Albert Street (-26.4156°N, 147.1098°W). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 23 students with 3 teachers (2 full-time equivalent) and 5 non-teaching staff (2 full-time equivalent). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 20 students with 3 teachers (2 full-time equivalent) and 5 non-teaching staff (2 full-time equivalent).

There is no secondary school in Morven. School Bus Route S280 conveys students from Year 7 to Year 12 to Charleville State High School in Charleville to the west.

Transport
Morven is ideally situated at the junction of the Warrego Highway to Charleville and the Landsborough Highway to Augathella. this, coupled with the strategic position on which Morven is situated makes it an ideal launching point for travellers heading up to the Stockman's Hall of Fame or Trucks headed for Darwin.

Morven is a timetabled stop for the Intercity Bus Services operated by Greyhound Australia:

 * Gx493 Brisbane to Mount Isa
 * Gx494 Mount Isa to Brisbane
 * Gx495 Brisbane to Charleville
 * Gx496 Charleville to Brisbane

Morven Railway Station serves the town and people of Morven. it is used by the twice-weekly Westlander passenger train.

 * The Westbound service (3S86) from Brisbane Roma Street to Charleville stops at Morven Wednesdays and Fridays at 9:55 am.
 * The Eastbound service (3987) from Charleville to Brisbane Roma Street stops at Morven Wednesdays and Fridays at 7:55 pm.

Facilities
Morven has a historical museum and heritage trail. Nearby is the Tregole National Park (where the Mulga Lands and the Brigalow Belt meet).

The Murweh Shire Council operates a public library in Morven on the Warrego Highway.

The Morven branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association has its rooms in Roma Street.

All Souls Anglican Church is in Eurella Street (-26.4159°N, 147.1124°W) and holds services on the 3rd Sunday of every month.

Sacred Heart Catholic Church is in Eurella Street (-26.413°N, 147.1121°W). No regular services are held at this church.

The Sadlier's Waterhole Hotel is on the Warrego Highway on the site of the Morven Hotel/Motel (which was destroyed by fire in 2016).

Other facilities include:

 * Morven Police Station (-26.417°N, 147.1127°W)
 * Morven Fire Station (-26.4162°N, 147.1124°W)
 * Morven SES Facility (-26.4126°N, 147.1113°W)
 * Morven Community Health Clinic (-26.4147°N, 147.108°W)
 * Morven Ambulance Station (-26.4147°N, 147.1076°W)
 * Morven Cemetery (-26.4111°N, 147.1097°W)

Attractions
Morven Historical Museum is at 53 Albert Street (-26.4154°N, 147.1115°W).

Media
the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and its sister channels ABC Kids/ABC TV Plus, ABC ME and ABC News transmits to Morven through its relay station, ABMNQ, situated at 26°30′20″S 147°8′4″E (Morven–Nebine Road) and it also transmits ABC Radio National to Morven on 107.5 FM.

Radio 4VL (part of the Resonate Radio Network) transmits to Morven on 105.9 FM.

The Seven Network and its sister channels, 7two and 7mate transmit to Morven through its regional area affiliate, ITQ.

The Nine Network and its sister channels 9Gem and 9Go! transmit to Morven through its regional area affiliate, Imparja.

Network Ten and its sister channels 10 Bold and 10 Peach transmit to Morven through its regional area affiliate, CDT.

The Special Broadcasting Service and its sister channels SBS Viceland, SBS World Movies and SBS Food also transmit to Morven.

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Monster Planet of Godzilla

Monster Planet of Godzilla (怪獣プラネットゴジラ) is a 1994 Japanese kaiju short film directed by Kōichi Kawakita. The film served as a theme park attraction that was screened at Sanrio Puroland and Harmony Land from March 18, 1994 to July 1, 1998. It is a 3-D motion simulator featuring specially filmed sequences of Godzilla battling the monsters Mothra and Rodan. All the monsters were portrayed using the costumes and props from the early 1990s Godzilla films. In addition, a new super-plane named Earth is introduced to thwart the monsters' destructive rampage.

Cast

 * Megumi Odaka as Miki Saegusa
 * Iemasa Kayumi as Professor Dreamon (voice)
 * Megumi Hayashibara as Hello Kitty (voice)
 * Kaneto Shiozawa as Planet pilot (voice) / G-Force soldier (voice)
 * Kenpachiro Satsuma as Godzilla

Home media
The footage from the attraction was released as a bonus feature for the Japan-only Godzilla Final Box (with the Hello Kitty footage removed, possibly due to legal issues and the short's depiction of her as a general not particularly appropriate for the character).

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Jared W. Williams

Jared Warner Williams (December 22, 1796 – September 29, 1864) was an American lawyer and politician from Lancaster, New Hampshire, who was a U.S. representative, the 21st governor of New Hampshire 1847 to 1849 and a United States senator.

Biography
Williams was born in West Woodstock, Connecticut, on December 22, 1796. He graduated from Brown University in 1818, studied at the Litchfield Law School, and became an attorney in Lancaster, New Hampshire.

A Democrat, he sat in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1830 to 1831, the New Hampshire State Senate from 1832 to 1834 and the New Hampshire House again from 1835 to 1836.

In 1836, he won election to the U.S. House of Representatives and he sat two terms, March 4, 1837, to March 3, 1841. In 1847, he was elected governor and served two one-year terms, June 3, 1847, to June 7, 1849.

After leaving the governorship, Williams was appointed Coos County Judge of Probate, a position he held until 1852. In 1853, he was appointed to the U.S. Senate, temporarily filling the vacancy caused by Charles G. Atherton's death, and he served from November 29, 1853, to August 4, 1854.

Williams died in Lancaster on September 29, 1864, and is buried in the Summer Street Cemetery there.

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Jumplist

Jumplist was a term used in the early years of the World Wide Web to describe a collection of links, which were individually referred to as jumps. The Jumplist database-driven web service was developed by i/us Corp. and launched in 1998 at jumplist.com. It provided a highly-customizable method for users to create categorized collections of links, which they could access privately or display on their sites.

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Carlo Felice Trossi

Count Carlo Felice Trossi di Pian Villar (27 April 1908 – 9 May 1949) was an Italian racing driver and auto constructor.

Racing career
During Trossi's career, he raced for three different teams: Mercedes-Benz, Alfa Romeo and, briefly, Maserati. He won the 1947 Italian Grand Prix and the 1948 Swiss Grand Prix. He relieved playboy-driver Frederick McEvoy for 51 laps of the 75-lap 1936 Vanderbilt Cup; while the Australian started and finished the race, Trossi earned more points than him under the mileage-based AAA points system.

Trossi backed one of the most unusual Grand Prix cars, the Trossi-Monaco of 1935. It featured a 16-cylinder, two-stroke cycle, two-row radial, air-cooled engine and an aircraft-like body designed by Augusto Monaco. The car was a spectacular failure and never raced in a Grand Prix event.

Trossi had many exciting hobbies: racing boats and airplanes in addition to cars. He was also the president of the Scuderia Ferrari in 1932.

Enzo Ferrari said of Trossi: "He was a great racer but never wanted to make the effort to reach a dominant position and I remember him with emotion since he was one of the first to believe in my scuderia of which he was a part".

Personal life
Trossi was born in Gaglianico, Italy. He died of a brain tumor in Milan at 41 years of age.

European Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
 * Notes
 * – As a co-driver Trossi was ineligible for championship points

Post-WWII Grandes Épreuves results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

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Somethin' Stupid

"Somethin' Stupid", or "Something Stupid", is a song written by C. Carson Parks. It was originally recorded in 1966 by Parks and his wife Gaile Foote, as Carson and Gaile. A 1967 version by Frank Sinatra and his daughter Nancy Sinatra became a major international hit, reaching number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the UK Singles Chart. In 2001, a cover version by British vocalist Robbie Williams and Australian actress Nicole Kidman reached number one in the UK Singles Chart.

Carson and Gaile version
In the early 1960s, Carson Parks was a folk singer in Los Angeles. He was an occasional member of The Easy Riders, and also performed with The Steeltown Three, which included his younger brother Van Dyke Parks. In 1963, he formed the Greenwood County Singers, later known as The Greenwoods, who had two minor hits and included singer Gaile Foote. Before the Greenwoods disbanded, Parks and Foote married and, as Carson and Gaile, recorded an album in 1966 for Kapp Records, San Antonio Rose, which included the song "Something Stupid". The recording was then brought to the attention of Frank Sinatra.

Frank and Nancy Sinatra version
The most successful and best-known version of "Somethin' Stupid" was issued in 1967 as a single by Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra and subsequently appeared on Frank's album The World We Knew. Frank had played Parks's recording to his daughter's producer, Lee Hazlewood, who recalled, "He asked me, 'Do you like it?' and I said, 'I love it, and if you don't sing it with Nancy, I will.' He said, 'We're gonna do it, book a studio. Their rendition was recorded on February 1, 1967, after Frank had finished his collaboration with Antonio Carlos Jobim earlier in the day. Al Casey played guitar on the recording and Hal Blaine was the drummer. Hazlewood and Jimmy Bowen were listed as the producers of the single, with arrangement by Billy Strange.

The single spent four weeks at number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and nine weeks atop the easy listening (now adult contemporary) chart, becoming Frank's second gold single as certified by the RIAA and Nancy's third. In Norway the single qualified for silver disc. It was the first and only instance of a father-daughter number-one song in America. Nancy Sinatra was quoted as sarcastically saying, "Some people call (Something Stupid) the Incest Song, which I think is, well, very sweet!" . The single also reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart the same year. It was also nominated for the Record Of The Year at the 10th Grammy Awards, losing to the 5th Dimension's upbeat hit song "Up, Up And Away".

Usage in popular culture
In episode 21 of the third season of The Simpsons, Sideshow Bob and Selma Bouvier (voiced by Kelsey Grammer and Julie Kavner, respectively) perform the Frank and Nancy Sinatra version as a karaoke.

In the Breaking Bad spin-off series Better Call Saul, episode seven of season four is titled after the song, with the opening montage containing an original rendition performed by Lola Marsh.

In the movie Joy, in a flashback scene, Jennifer Lawrence's title character sings the duet with her soon-to-be husband played by Édgar Ramírez.

Vocalists

 * Frank Sinatra – vocals
 * Nancy Sinatra – vocals

Leaders

 * Claus Ogerman – conductor
 * Billy Strange – arranger, conductor

Instrumentalists

 * Hal Blaine – drums
 * Glen Campbell – guitar
 * Alvin Casey – guitar
 * Roy Caton – trumpet
 * Victor Feldman – percussion
 * Carol Kaye – electric bass
 * Bill Miller – piano
 * Oliver Mitchell – trumpet
 * Donald Owens – piano
 * Ralph Peña – string bass

Ali Campbell and Kibibi Campbell version
In 1995, Ali Campbell and his then 7-year-old daughter Kibibi Campbell covered the hit as a duet. After its release on the studio album Big Love, it can also be found on the compilation Silhouette.

Music video
The music video was shot in New York City. Ali Campbell and his daughter spend an afternoon in the city. They relax on the bench in the park, also walk through the city center, look through a sightseeing telescope, watch jugglers and fire breathers in a circus, figure skaters and stroll.

Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman version
English singer Robbie Williams recorded a cover version of "Somethin' Stupid" as a duet with Australian actress Nicole Kidman. The song appeared on Williams' 2001 album, Swing When You're Winning, and was released as the album's lead single on December 10, 2001, topping the UK Singles Chart at the end of the year. The song was Christmas number one in the United Kingdom, and Williams' fifth number one overall. The single sold 400,000 copies to earn a gold certification from the British Phonographic Industry. The accompanying music video was directed by Vaughan Arnell.

The song was the 30th-best-selling single of 2001 in the UK. It also gave Williams another number-one hit in New Zealand, earning a gold certification, and charted inside the top 10 in several European countries. In Australia, it became Williams' fourth top-10 single, earning a gold certification for over 35,000 copies sold.

Track listings
UK and Australian CD single
 * 1) "Somethin' Stupid" – 2:51
 * 2) "Eternity" (orchestral version) – 5:32
 * 3) "My Way" (live at the Albert Hall) – 7:00
 * 4) "Somethin' Stupid" (video)

UK cassette single
 * 1) "Somethin' Stupid" – 2:51
 * 2) "Eternity" (orchestral version) – 5:32
 * 3) "My Way" (live at the Albert Hall) – 7:00

UK DVD single
 * 1) "Somethin' Stupid" (video) – 3:08
 * 2) "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (audio) – 2:36
 * 3) "That's Life" (audio) – 3:07

European CD single
 * 1) "Somethin' Stupid" – 2:51
 * 2) "My Way" (live at the Albert Hall) – 7:00

Credits and personnel
Credits are taken from the Swing When You're Winning album booklet.

Studios
 * Recorded at various studios
 * Mixed at Capitol Recording Studios (Los Angeles) and Air Lyndhurst Studios (London, England)
 * Mastered at The Mastering Lab (Los Angeles) and Metropolis Mastering (London, England)

Personnel

 * C. Carson Parks – writing
 * Robbie Williams – vocals
 * Nicole Kidman – vocals
 * Mitch Dalton – guitars
 * Dave Catlin-Birch – bass
 * Ralph Salmins – drums
 * Frank Ricotti – percussion
 * Steve Sidwell – trumpet, arrangement, conducting
 * Simon Gardner – trumpet
 * Paul Spong – trumpet
 * London Session Orchestra – orchestra
 * Gavyn Wright – concertmaster
 * Guy Chambers – production
 * Steve Power – production
 * Al Schmitt – vocal recording
 * Charlie Paakkari – assistant engineering
 * Steve Genewick – assistant engineering
 * Steve Price – assistant engineering
 * Rupert Coulson – assistant mix engineering
 * Ricky Graham – assistant mix engineering
 * Mike Ross-Trevor – orchestral engineering
 * Richard Flack – Pro Tools
 * Doug Sax – mastering (The Mastering Lab)
 * Tony Cousins – mastering (Metropolis)

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Best Off (album)

Best Off  (stylised as tism.bestoff.) is a compilation album by the Australian alternative rock band TISM, released on 29 July 2002. The album peaked at No. 44 on the ARIA Charts.

Reception
Bronius Zumeris from Beat magazine opined that "Offbeat wit and profanity litter their work" while "Cynics argue that they are a puerile, one joke band trying to flog a dying horse" and the collection "is not a flawless appraisal of their 15 odd years of cultural/musical terror. But it does collate much of the essential TISM for the consumer society."

Bonus disc
Initial copies of the album came with a bonus disc, This Is Serious Mum: A Collection of Bedroom Recordings 1982-1992, containing 25 unreleased bedroom demos spanning TISM's first ten years.

 * "The Ballad of the Semitic Nazi" and "Doug Parkinson Sings Christie Allen" previously appeared in excerpt form on Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance.
 * The full version of "Unknown, Unacknowledged, Unforgettable, Underpants" would later appear as a hidden track on the 2021 remastered reissue of This Is Serious Mum, the band's 1984 demo tape.
 * Lyrics from "My Gerontation" reappeared in the 1993 song "Jesus Pots the White Ball" on the band's EP Australia the Lucky Cunt.
 * "Tu e La Tua Razza fa'un Culo" (correct Italian: Tu e la tua razza vaffanculo) was sampled in a demo recording of "Aussiemandias" dating back to October 1991, included on the iTunes version of the band's 1992 EP The Beasts of Suburban and the 2023 box set of that album.

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Shooting at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Shooting at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin saw the reintroduction of 50 metre pistol (then called Free Pistol) but still only had three events. The competitions were held from 6 to 8 August 1936 at the shooting ranges at Wannsee. Germany succeeded only in winning one of the three gold medals; the others went to Scandinavians after great accomplishments: Torsten Ullman won Free Pistol with a margin of 15 points and a new world record, and Willy Røgeberg achieved the maximum score in the Prone event.

Participating nations
A total of 141 shooters from 29 nations competed at the Berlin Games:

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Something Stupid (TV series)

Something Stupid was a short-lived Australian sketch comedy series which aired in 1998 on the Seven Network. The program was produced, written and performed by much the same team that was behind the Fast Forward series. The series had the working title The Lazy Susan Show.

Sketches
The characters of Kath, Kim, Sharon, Kel (then known as Nev,) Prue and Trude from the popular sitcom Kath & Kim appeared in regular sketches on the program. They had all originally appeared on Riley and Turner's previous project, Big Girl's Blouse, along with an early incarnation of Brett. These sketches also included characters that would later be dropped from the Kath & Kim lineup, including Kath's mother (portrayed by Szubanski, who had previously appeared in a Fast Forward sketch,) and Pip, a third retail assistant that worked with Prue and Trude (portrayed by Downey.)

Other sketches included:

Other more generic comedy sketches were also included
 * Crack O'Dawn (a parody of breakfast news shows) hosted by Dawn De Ponme (Downey)
 * Annie Get Your AK-47 (a parody of Annie Get Your Gun)
 * Supermodel Cafe
 * The Golden Boot Awards
 * The Poonce Institute (a medical drama)
 * a parody of Two Fat Ladies
 * Rei-Jing (a Chinese variety show) hosted by Chu Yang Phat (Szubanski)
 * A parody of the song Frozen by Madonna (played by Riley)
 * a Ruby Wax impersonation by Riley
 * The Global World News
 * Professor Janine O'Dowd and her Wonderful World of Ethnic Dance (Played by Szubanski)
 * Runaway, Hosted by Flicka Dickie (played by Riley)
 * Father Tom Stopit (played by Robbins)
 * IntoView
 * a Parody of ER
 * The Potato Players of Burwood
 * Positive Parenting

Cast

 * Marg Downey
 * Gina Riley
 * Magda Szubanski
 * Jane Turner
 * Glenn Robbins
 * Mark Neal
 * Kevin Shesux

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Ning Jing

Ning Jing (born April 27, 1972) is a Chinese actress and singer. She is best known for playing Mi Lan in In the Heat of the Sun (1994), Danzhu in Red River Valley (1997), Angel in Lover's Grief over the Yellow River (1999) and Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang in the television series Xiaozhuang Epic (2003). Ning has received various accolades, including a Silver Shell for Best Actress, a Golden Rooster Award from two nominations, two Hundred Flowers Awards, and has been nominated for one Golden Horse Award.

Early life
Ning Jing was born in Guiyang, Guizhou. Her mother is Nakhi, and her father is Han. She has a younger brother, Shun Wenqi, who is a rock musician.

Personal life
In 1996, while shooting Red River Valley, Ning fell in love with Paul Kersey, an American actor also performing a role in this film. Then they married each other and had a child. In 2011, Ning stated that due to cultural differences, they divorced.

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Marlborough Township, Ontario

Marlborough Township is a former incorporated and now geographic township in eastern Ontario, Canada.

Marlborough was located in the southern part of Carleton County. It was bounded to the south by Oxford Township, to the southwest by Montague Township, to the northwest by Goulbourn Township and to the northeast by North Gower Township. The Rideau River runs along the border with Oxford Township.

It was established in 1791. In 1800, it became part of Carleton County and was incorporated as a township in 1850. The first family to settle in this area was that of Stephen Burritt, a United Empire Loyalist, in 1793. The township merged with North Gower Township in 1974 to become Rideau Township. Rideau, in turn, became part of the amalgamated city of Ottawa in 2001.

Marlborough Township took its name from John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough.

According to the Canada 2016 Census, the Township had a population of 2,204. According to the Canada 2021 Census, this had increased to 2,368.

Reeves

 * 1850 John Pierce
 * 1852 S. Burrett
 * 1853 William Mackey
 * 1857 William Kidd
 * 1861 William Mackey
 * 1867 J. Mills
 * 1869 William Kidd
 * 1871 Hugh Conn
 * 1872 James Mills
 * 1875 William Hill
 * 1878 W.R. Pierce
 * 1881 R. Mackey
 * 1889 R. Beckett
 * 1893 R. Mackey
 * 1897 n/a
 * 1907 George Bearman
 * 1912 W. Ormrod
 * 1918 W.H. Pratt
 * 1923 A.H. Davidson
 * 1933 James S. Meredith
 * 1936 Ernest Cole
 * 1938 J. Cliff Donnelly

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Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity

The Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity (Partito Socialista Italiano di Unità Proletaria, PSIUP) was a political party in Italy, active from 1964 to 1972.

History
The PSIUP was formed on 12 January 1964 by a leftist section of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). PSIUP had been the PSI's name in 1943–1947. The new PSIUP was led by Tullio Vecchietti. Other leading members were Lelio Basso, Vittorio Foa, Lucio Libertini, Emilio Lussu, Francesco Cacciatore detto Cecchino and Dario Valori. The new party attracted PSI militants who were dissatisfied with the close cooperation between the PSI and the Christian Democracy. Instead, the founders of the PSIUP favoured cooperation with the Italian Communist Party (PCI).

On 13 July 1972, following a disappointing electoral result, the PSIUP split. The majority, led by Libertini, Valori and Vecchietti, joined the PCI. The rightist minority, led by Giuseppe Avolio, Nicola Corretto and Vincenzo Gatto, rejoined the PSI. The leftist minority, led by Foa and Silvano Miniati, continued to work under the name PSIUP, and in December 1972 they established the Proletarian Unity Party (PdUP). A Posadist faction within the PSIUP published the Bollettino della sinistra rivoluzionaria del PSIUP between 1965 and 1967.

Secretaries

 * Tullio Vecchietti (January 1964 – September 1971)
 * Dario Valori (October 1971 – July 1972)


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Dhimmi
Thanks you for great contributions to the article. I'd propose to restore the general material on the status of dhimmis, as well on their converison to Islam to the intro. The article is pretty long and a one-sentence intro is not sufficient to summarize it. Pecher Talk 19:32, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * That's OK by me. Eagleswings 07:27, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Why did you find the quote from Lewis about the economic usefulness of dhimmis "polemical"? Pecher Talk 14:46, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Why were dhimmis allowed to keep their religion? THis is a complex issue: too complex to be summarized using just one view in an introduction.  On a economic level, yes it did suit the Islamic state, and sometimes conversions were even discouraged for this reason.  Yes, the economic rational was real.  But the theological and legal prohibitions on forcing dhimmi conversions are quie clear - that is one of the points of Sura 9;29, that if the dhimmi is humbled and pays the jizya, the fighting stops.  To gloss over this complexity with this citation is going too fast too far for the introductory paragraphs to bear.  Another way of putting it, perhaps with the same reference, could be to say that  both the legally 'protected' status of dhimmi religions, and the economic advantage of the jizya tax to the Islamic state worked together as disincentives to forced conversions.Eagleswings 15:04, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

 * So, the solution may be to restore the quote into the "Freedom of religion and forced conversions section"? Pecher Talk 17:22, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, that makes good sense. It belongs there.  I am about to go away for a few days.  Would you mind doing this? Eagleswings 21:44, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Already done, see here. Pecher Talk 21:46, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Quotes on humiliation in Dhimmi
Some editors have proposed to shorten the "humiliation" section by removing most of the quotes as repetitive. The discussion is taking place here. Pecher Talk 18:47, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Bravmann
Please comment on the Bravmann quote here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dhimmi#Bravmann). Thanks --Aminz 00:26, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Iceland
Maybe you are interested in this project... --Michkalas 15:19, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for File:TheThirdChoice.jpg
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 * This problem has been corrected. Eagleswings (talk) 04:01, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Excellent improvement on Jizya article
Hi,,

Thanks a lot for the complete quote from the reference for the Etymology and meaning section of Jizya.

Thanks again!Drsms2002 (talk) 04:48, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

What happened to the "Humiliation section" in Dhimmi article?!
Hi,

I'm wondering What happened to the "Humiliation section" in Dhimmi article?!

I believe it contains one of the crucial points that shows clearly the Islamic attitude toward the non-Muslims.Drsms2002 (talk) 05:55, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

 * I've no idea what changed there. Eagleswings (talk) 06:07, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

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theoretical physics statement
I find this statement interesting: "Interestingly, this controversy within mathematics is occurring at the same time as questions are being asked in the physics community about whether twenty-first century theoretical physics is becoming too mathematical, and leaving behind its experimental roots." but there is no reference for it. I'm not sure that it NEEDS a reference, but I'm just curious for further reading if anyone has any information on this "controversy". Jackkoho (talk) 21:51, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

merge?
Should this article be merged with Automated theorem proving? S Sepp 14:34, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think so, but we can probably merge with Interactive theorem proving Outs 10:03, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

improve please
OK, that's expanded this to a reasonably-sized stub. Can someone with more knowledge in this area improve and polish this article, please? -- Anon.

I'm not a huge fan of the body of this article. It's a discussion of arguments against computer aided proofs and counterarguments.-Bob —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.157.200.63 (talk) 20:23, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Would an "in need of attention from an expert" flag be in order? Based on the previous version of this article I cited Kepler's conjecture as a thm proved by computer and was corrected by an expert: apparently (a) the originally announced proof used a highly-optimised computer program in a way which made it all but impossible to verify (b) a project to produce a computer proof is in progress, but not near finishing. I have tried to change the article to avoid giving anyone else the same mistaken impression I got, but I fear there might be other similar mistakes, and I am not able to check. (The expert who corrected me is certainly too busy right now to be harnessed, though I might try some time!) Educres (talk) 15:42, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Regarding Seventeen or Bust
I have removed Seventeen or Bust from this page because it's not a computer-assisted proof, per se, in the sense that once the necessary prime numbers have been found the proof is easy to state and verify succinctly without the aid of a computer; it's merely being used to accelerate the search phase. Dcoetzee 23:26, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Dry spell?
The list of computer assisted theorem ends in 1998. Any idea what happened? Are mathematicians getting distracted playing with iphones now? Any ideas about the dry spell? Thanks. History2007 (talk) 11:04, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

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South Capitol Street

South Capitol Street is a major street dividing the southeast and southwest quadrants of Washington, D.C., in the United States. It runs south from the United States Capitol to the D.C.–Maryland line, intersecting with Southern Avenue. After it enters Maryland, the street becomes Indian Head Highway (Maryland Route 210) at the Eastover Shopping Center, a terminal or transfer point of many bus routes.

History
South Capitol Street from the United States Capitol to the Anacostia River was part of the L'Enfant Plan of streets for the District of Columbia. The Residence Act of 1790 gave President George Washington the authority to select the location for the national capital, and the area comprising the District of Columbia was chosen in late 1790. A surveying commission was chosen in January 1791, and in August 1791 Pierre Charles L'Enfant had delivered his plan for the city to Washington. Construction of the segment of South Capitol Street from the Capitol to the Anacostia River occurred over the decade, as the roadway was surveyed, trees were felled, brush and stumps removed, a roadway graded, and the street later paved with a variety of surfaces (wood blocks, granite blocks, oiled earth, aggregate, and macadam).

The area east of the Anacostia River remained mostly farms and forest with few roads. The area was served primarily by the Navy Yard Bridge, constructed in 1820. The first residential development in the area was Uniontown (now the neighborhood of Anacostia), begun in 1854. The following year, the federal government constructed the Government Hospital for the Insane (later known as St. Elizabeths Hospital). To serve the hospital, Asylum Avenue was constructed from the Navy Yard Bridge to the new hospital and then, running on the east side of a line of hills, down to the District–Maryland line. Additional construction in the area occurred during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The United States Department of War constructed the George Washington Young cavalry magazine on 90 acre of land on Giesborough Point. Two forts, Fort Carroll and Fort Greble, were constructed on the bluffs that began just west and adjacent to Asylum Road. After the war, the 375 acre Barry Farm housing development for freed slaves opened in 1867 and was rapidly occupied. Asylum Avenue was named Nichols Avenue in 1879 in honor of hospital superintendent Charles Henry Nichols.

Asylum Avenue/Nichols Avenue was the only major southward road through the area until the 1890s, when the lower portion of South Capitol Street was constructed. A bridge connecting South Capitol Street to the area south of the Anacostia River was first proposed in 1889, but never acted on. However, in 1890, Colonel Arthur E. Randle founded the settlement of Congress Heights. The development was wildly successful, and he invested heavily in the Belt Railway, a local streetcar company. In 1895, Randle founded the Capital Railway Company, which constructed streetcar lines over the Navy Yard Bridge and down Nichols Avenue to Congress Heights.

The rapid development of Congress Heights and the areas adjacent to the streetcar line on Nichols Avenue led the government of the District of Columbia to extend South Capitol Street into the area east of the Anacostia River. The topography of the area largely dictated the route. Beginning near St. Elizabeths Hospital, a line of bluffs extended roughly southward until it reached what is now Chesapeake Street SW. (Fort Greble sat atop the southernmost of these cliffs.) To the west of these bluffs were broad, flat lowlands which provided views of the Potomac River and the city of Alexandria, Virginia. In 1893, the city surveyed South Capitol along the western side of these bluffs, laying out a broad avenue. Once the bluffs ended, the route followed existing local roads and curved eastward to connect with Livingston Road (now the Indian Head Highway) at the District-Maryland line. But because of the lack of development south of Congress Heights, South Capitol Street was only constructed to its intersection with Nichols Avenue.

The two ends of South Capitol Street remained unconnected, however. Congress again considered building a South Capitol Street bridge in 1902 and 1926, but nothing came of these plans. The Army Corps of Engineers finally extended South Capitol Street from Nichols Avenue to the District boundary in 1940. Congress also approved a South Capitol Street bridge in 1940, but the onset of World War II prevented its funding and construction.

The South Capitol Street bridge was finally constructed in 1949 at a cost of $5 million. It was dedicated to Frederick Douglass in October 1965.

Route
North of the Anacostia River, South Capitol Street runs in a straight north–south line. South Capitol Street begins at Southwest Drive, an access road on the south side of the grounds of the United States Capitol. It travels a half block south, and crosses Independence Avenue. Since roads on the grounds of the Capitol are closed to the public, this intersection has traditionally been the beginning of South Capitol Street. It widens from a two-lane to four-lane thoroughfare just before reaching Washington Avenue SE, and then passes beneath Interstate 695. Northbound traffic on South Capitol Street may access Interstate 695 westbound, and eastbound Interstate 695 traffic may leave the elevated highway and access southbound South Capitol Street. South Capitol Street passed beneath M Street SE/SW via an underpass, although access roads on both sides of South Capitol Street provide service either way on M Street. South Capitol Street bifurcates alongside Nationals Park, home of the Washington Nationals major league baseball team. Its last intersection north of the Anacostia River is with Potomac Avenue SE.

South Capitol Street crosses the Anacostia via the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, which is angled on a northwest–southeast line so that the bridge's southwest terminus does not occur on land owned by Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling. A "mixing bowl" of off- and on-ramps provides access to southbound Suitland Parkway, with an adjacent cloverleaf interchange giving access to Firth Sterling Avenue and the Anacostia Washington Metro station as well as northbound Interstate 295. South Capitol Street then follows a winding path along the eastern border of Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling. Deceleration lanes provide access to Malcolm X Avenue SE and the main gates of Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling and Interstate 295 again. South Capitol Street angles south-southeast at Overlook Avenue SW, passing below Interstate 295 and continues winding south-southeast until it reaches Southern Avenue. It is coterminous with Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE for a single block between Halley Place SE and 2nd Street SW before winding toward Southern Avenue and the District boundary line.

The section of South Capitol Street between Washington Avenue SW and Suitland Parkway is part of the National Highway System.

South Capitol Street forms the north-northeastern boundary of Oxon Run Park.

Taxation Without Representation Street
The D.C. City Council attempted to rename a portion of South Capitol Street adjacent to Nationals Park in 2008 as "Taxation Without Representation Street" in order to bring attention to the city's lack of voting rights in Congress. The goal, according to advocates, was to boost awareness by changing the address of Nationals Park. The name change required congressional approval. Congress failed to act on the bill, and it never became law.

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The Real Group

The Real Group is an a cappella group from Sweden. Members are Clara Fornander, Joanné Pastor Nugas, Johannes Rückert Becker, Axel Berntzon and Daniele Dees. The group's members compose and arrange most of their songs. They sing in English and Swedish and cite American vocalist Bobby McFerrin as an inspiration.

Background
The Real Group has performed more than 2000 concerts worldwide. In 2002 The Real Group performed at the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup in Seoul, South Korea to an audience of 60,000. On 22 December 1993, to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Queen Silvia of Sweden, The Real Group backed up former ABBA member Anni-Frid Lyngstad in a performance of the ABBA hit "Dancing Queen", using an a cappella arrangement that was released on the album Varför får man inte bara vara som man är.

The Real Group was formed in 1984 when its members were students at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. All of them attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School. Margareta Bengtson was the soprano in the group at its inception, but she left to work on solo albums in 2006. Johanna Nyström filled her spot for some time until Emma Nilsdotter replaced her in 2008 and had her first appearance with the group in Kremlin Palace. Johanna Nyström also filled in for both Margareta Bengtson and Katarina Henryson when they were on maternity leave or otherwise away. Morten Vinther Sørensen joined the group in 2010 to replace Peder Karlsson, who shifted his focus to develop The Real Academy. In 2015 Jānis Strazdiņš joined the group as the bass after Anders Jalkéus retired for health reasons.

On 19 January 2016 the Real Group announced that Lisa Östergren would replace Katarina Henryson.

Vocal ranges of previous members

 * Margareta Bengtson: F3-G5
 * Johanna Nyström
 * Peder Karlsson: E2-C5
 * Anders Jalkéus
 * Katarina Henryson: D3-C5

Awards and honors

 * Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards (CARAs):
 * 1995: Best Contemporary Cover: "Dancing Queen" from Varför får man inte bara vara som man är
 * 1995: Best Jazz Song: "Flight of the Foo-Birds" from Varför får man inte bara vara som man är
 * 1996: Best Female Vocalist: Margareta Bengtson
 * 1997: Live Album of the Year: Live in Stockholm
 * 1997: Best Original Pop Song: "Jag Vill Va Med Dig"
 * 1997: Best Jazz Song: "Waltz for Debby"
 * 1997: Best Female Vocalist: Margareta Bengtson
 * 1998: Best Holiday Album: En riktig jul
 * 2003: Best Classical Album: Stämning
 * 2003: Runner Up for Best Classical Song: "En vänlig grönskas rika dräkt" from Stämning
 * 2004: Best Holiday Album: Julen er her
 * 2004: Best Holiday Song: "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" from Julen er her
 * Other awards:
 * 2002 Karamelodiktstipendiet, an annual award given to a Swedish entertainer by Povel Ramel.

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Vertical lines are records, red line is the new generation TRG.

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Arachne (web browser)

Arachne is an Internet suite containing a graphical web browser, email client, and dialer. Originally, Arachne was developed by Michal Polák under his xChaos label, a name he later changed into Arachne Labs. It was written in C and compiled using Borland C++ 3.1. Arachne has since been released under the GPL as Arachne GPL.

Arachne primarily runs on DOS-based operating systems, but there are also builds available for Linux. The Linux version of Arachne utilizes SVGALib, allowing it to function without requiring a display server.

Background

Arachne supports many file formats, protocols and standards including video modes from CGA 640×200 in monochrome to VESA 1024×768 in high color mode ($65,536$ colors). It is designed for systems that do not have any windowing system installed.

Arachne supports multiple image formats including JPEG, PNG, BMP and animated GIF. It supports a subset of the HTML 4.0 and CSS 1.0 standards, including full support for tables and frames. Supported protocols include FTP, NNTP for USENET forums, POP3, SMTP and Gopher. Arachne includes a full-fledged TCP/IP connection suite, which has support for some dial-up and Ethernet connections. However, Arachne has no support for JavaScript, Java or SSL. Arachne can be expanded with the use of add-ons for such tasks as watching DivX movies, playing MP3 files, IRC chat, RSS and viewing PDF documents. Arachne also supports DOS Gateway Interface (DGI), a unique feature similar to Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripting on the client.

The first version of Arachne with a known release date was 1.0 Beta 2, which was released on 22 December 1996. The final and official version by Arachne Labs was 1.70R3 for DOS (released 22 January 2001) and 1.66 beta for Linux (released 20 July 2000). While there have been several more DOS versions, Linux development lay dormant until 24 May 2008 when a beta version 1.93 for Linux was released. The current DOS version, maintained by Glenn McCorkle, is 1.99 as of 23 December 2021. In 2006, there also was an experimental DPMI port of Arachne by Udo Kuhnt, named DPMI Arachne.

Support
Arachne supports a limited subset of stylesheets and HTML. Known support as of version 1.93:

Derivatives
xChaos software licensed the source code of Arachne to Caldera UK in 1997. Caldera UK added Novell's dialer and TCP/IP stack, JavaScript, SSL, implemented their own support for frames, added support for animated GIFs, audio output, printing on a multitude of printers, an optional on-screen keyboard for mouse and touch panel usage (SoftKeyboards), user profiles, and they completely changed the design of the browser (customizable), using Allegro for graphics. Also, they ported it to compile as a 32-bit protected mode extended DOS application (utilizing DPMI using DJGPP, a GNU compiler for DOS), while Arachne is a 16-bit application. This program was sold as DR-WebSpyder in 1998; the name was to associate it with DR-DOS, which Caldera owned at the time.

When Caldera had transferred DR-DOS to its branch company Caldera Thin Clients, which renamed itself into Lineo in 1999, the browser was referred to under the name Embrowser. Since 2000, the Linux port of the browser has been called Embedix Browser.

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Château de Pez is a vineyard located across the road from Château Calon-Ségur, in the northern parts of Saint Estèphe. Traditionally one of the leading Bourgeois Supérieur wines of the Médoc, it is believed by some to deserve higher classification. In a 2003 Cru Bourgeois classification revision, it was listed as one of 9 Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnels. It has a reputation of consistently producing wine that is both inexpensive and good.

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In the 17th century, the château was owned by the Pontac family, which also owned Château Haut-Brion. The wine was sold under the Pontac label in London before any other Médoc wine. Today the château is owned by the champagne house Louis Roederer since 1995.

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The Simulacra

The Simulacra is a 1964 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The novel portrays a future totalitarian society apparently dominated by a matriarch, Nicole Thibodeaux. It revolves around the themes of reality and illusionary beliefs, as do many of Dick's works. Additionally, it touches on Nazi ideology.

Publication
Dick originally published the story as a novelette in the magazine Fantastic, titled "The Novelty Act". He expanded the plot and titled the novel First Lady of Earth. Before publication, the title was changed to The Simulacra. The novel was originally published in 1964 as a paperback by Ace Books. It was one of four novels released by Dick that year.

Setting
Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, after World War Three, The Simulacra is the story of several protagonists within the United States of Europe and America (USEA), formed by the merger of (West) Germany and the United States, where the whole government is a fraud and the President (der Alte, "the Old Man") is a simulacrum (android). Other global superpowers are the French Empire, People's Republic of China and Free (Black) Africa. The war may have involved tactical nuclear weapons. Poland has become the global focus of communist authority, with its administrative centre in Warsaw.

Society is stratified into 'Ges' (German Geheimnisträger, "bearers of the secret" (the elite)) and 'Bes' (German Befehlsträger, "implementers of instruction" (professional and artisanal)) classes. Political and broadcast media power are highly consolidated. The Democratic and Republican parties have merged to become the 'Democrat-Republican Party' and the networks have amalgamated into the  'United Triadic Network'.

Actual political power has devolved to a permanent First Lady, Nicole Thibodeaux, whose consorts are a series of male presidents – die Alten. The current Alte, Rudi Kalbfleisch, is a simulacrum. Since the death of the original "Nicole", her role has been portrayed by four consecutive human actors, the latest of which is Kate Rupert. This is the Geheimnis (secret), possession of which ensures the conferral of elite Ges status. A secretive governing council controls the USEA; the manufacturer of the current der Alte-simulacrum, exerts some influence.

Plot
Kalbfleisch, whom Nicole dislikes, appears only momentarily in the story; because of planned obsolescence, he will soon suffer a heart attack and be replaced. The contract for the next simulacrum, Dieter Hogbein, has been awarded to 'Frauenzimmer Associates', and the previous contractor, 'Karp und Söhne Werke' is unhappy about this change. One subplot involves the Karp und Söhne Werke threatening exposure of what has been a state secret over the last five decades.

A. G. Chemie, the leading USEA psycho-pharmaceutical drug cartel, has engineered the prohibition of psychotherapy under the "MacPhearson Act." However, the USEA is willing to let Doctor Egon Superb continue to treat Richard Kongrosian, a well known pianist who performs in the White House, and who holds the delusory belief that his body odor is lethal. Kongrosian can play piano using only his telekinetic abilities; Nicole Thibodeaux is anxious to keep him under control, as are Wilder Pembroke, head of the National Police, and members of the covert national governance council.

Bertold Goltz, an alleged neofascist, is seemingly trying to overthrow the government, and runs the 'Sons of Job', a religious paramilitary organisation. Actually, he is head of the covert USEA governing council.

There is a subplot that involves Charles (Chic) Strikerock, Vince, his brother and a cut-price colonisation spacecraft sales firm (known as "Loony Lukes") involved in Martian colonisation. Mars boasts insectoid life, the sentient and empathic 'papoola', while Ganymede is inhabited by multicellular primitive life forms.

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Karp und Sohnen rebel against the abortive coup, however, and soon the National Police and USEA armed forces are engaged in civil war, with active use of low-yield nuclear weapons. Re-emerging Neanderthals (or "chuppers"), happy at this turn of events, gather near Kongrosian's home in anticipation that self-destruction of Homo sapiens might give them another opportunity to dominate Earth. The novel ends before the action concludes.

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Talk:Quasi-empiricism in mathematics

NPOV
This article has a clear POV in favour of its subject. Wording like "frank admission" is hugely POV (who's saying this?). It needs to be rewritten in a more NPOV style, with more citing of sources. -- Anon.

I disagree with your example. The admission is that of the author of the sentence quoted immediately previously. It is a point of view but its attribution is clear. -- Also Anon

Related work
Earlier, I added in pointers to Chaitin, Wolfram, and Entscheidungsproblem as being apropos to this discussion.

 * Slogan 1: 'truth' is not known at the limits of abstraction; rather, 'truth' is found in reality. Thanks to Joel Orr.

 * Slogan 2: Why differentiate when you can integrate? JMS jmswtlk 16:25, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I just added a pointer to Interactive computation. See ACM Communications, July 2006, "Principles of Problem Solving" Peter Wegner and Dina Goldin.jmswtlk 14:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Beyond the traditional schools
This article ought to agree with the sub-section of Philosophy of mathematics / Quasi-empiricism. In other words, neither the context nor the content of this article connote a fringe element, necessarily. jmswtlk 12:39, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify my remarks below and respond to what you wrote: I agree that it's not a fringe element. Quite the contrary, it's all quite interesting. But the medley of examples in this article, and the multiple characterizations of "quasi-empiricism in mathematics" that come with that, seem like a babble of voices to me. The two paragraphs you cite at philosophy of mathematics are much more tightly focussed and appear authoritive.   89.217.26.56 (talk) 12:48, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Primary arguments?
What does this mean? "A primary argument is that whilst mathematics and physics are more frequently being considered as closely linked fields of study, this may reflect human cognitive bias." Is it an argument *for* or *against* Quasi-empiricism? Why is this "primary" for the subject? Diego (talk) 10:20, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

 * I agree, this seems to have high bogosity to me... Wcerfgba (talk) 19:12, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

What is the overall thesis?
From this article, I can't even understand what "quasi-empiricism in mathematics" even means. Does it mean checking things by examples? By heuristic arguments? By computers? By authority? Is it randomness? Anti-rationalism?

The author of the article has grouped the following individuals together: Maddy, Wigner, Hamming, Putnam, Lakatos, Chaitin, Wolfram, Wegner. This looks like a grab-bag of different viewpoints just tossed together. What do they have in common besides saying that something else besides proof is important?

Who called it "quasi-empiricism" and decided it was a thing? Is there a citation for this? Does one of these authors survey the others and call it a movement?

Or has the synthesis first occurred in -- this article?

89.217.26.56 (talk) 12:26, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Unclear, very broad sentence
''A primary argument with respect to quasi-empiricism is that whilst mathematics and physics are frequently considered to be closely linked fields of study, this may reflect human cognitive bias. It is claimed that, despite rigorous application of appropriate empirical methods or mathematical practice in either field, this would nonetheless be insufficient to disprove alternate approaches.''

What does the second sentence mean?

Are "empirical methods" or "mathematical practice" supposed to be two distinct modes of thought that are being applied to physics and mathematics, respectively, or is it the other way around, or it it both being applied to both?

What am I supposed to imagine the phrase "alternative approaches" refers to? Excluded scientific hypotheses? Alternatives to rationality? I'm at sea here.

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