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Talk:Sea Cadets (United Kingdom)

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There is a very small amount of text on Sea Cadets to be "merged here". The more important edit is to split that page and create a disambiguation page Sea Cadets (disambiguation). The whole page at Sea Cadets is quite large and needs careful editing. Over the next few days I will take a part of it on. Fiddle Faddle 19:44, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

 * That merge is done Fiddle Faddle 11:15, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

How is a significant minority possible? CR7 10:35, 25 July 2006 (BST)

 * It is almost an oxymoron, like "Military Intelligence", but not really when you look at it in depth. One may be a member of a minority which is of oiself of statistical significance.  As an example one might be a part of the 10% of people in a particular village that have blond hair.  That is a minority group with statistical significance.  If you have a better phrase to use in the article, be bold and use it. Fiddle Faddle 09:55, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Picture of Grand Turk
This is not an SCC or RN vessel apart from a tenuous link with Trafalgar 200 I can't see any reason for being used, also I have moved the more boring pictures into a gallery, Grand Turk looks out of place. I will remove it.--Pandaplodder (talk) 15:05, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Removal of Trafalgar 200
I have just reverted the removal of the section on Trafalgar 200 which was stated by the removing editor to be "Promotional Spam" in the edit history.

Since this is a factual item that happened and also a link to a notable article I cannot understand the removal, but I see every reason to discuss it here, on the talk page. I will be asking the removing editor to contribute to the discussion here. Fiddle Faddle 10:11, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

 * User:Desk1 has been adding images to various military articles, and spamming to his own published works. The images he uploaded where are not permitted on Wikipedia, as they restrict commerical use. So I have been removing his promotional spam contributions. Astrotrain 10:13, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Nonetheless the section in this article is in no way spam. It linked to no other items that another wikipedia article.  If you look at the reinstated section and tell me clearly what is the alleged spam you object to then that element may easily enough be removed.  Removing the entire factual and notable section was, in my view, not the right action to have taken here.  Fiddle Faddle 10:19, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I've removed the offending image accordingly- you may keep the rest. Astrotrain 10:21, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually you have removed an image alleged to be an unfree image. I suggest you revert your own edit until that is resolved.  Jumping the gun over processes like this is not really within the spirit here.  Wikipedia may encourage us to 'be bold but it also asks us to expose ourselves to community scrutiny for all our actions.  Fiddle Faddle 10:24, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Such images are not allowed- and it is listed for deletion accordingly, so I will not revert my edit. In any case it is of poor quality. Astrotrain 10:28, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * It is listed, surely, for consideration for deletion. Until that consideration has been given by an admin who is not the nominator, the usual practice in such matters, I suggest you allow the process to run its course.  It is incumbent upon us to assume good faith, and it appears to me, especially with the comments by Desk1, below, that good faith may be absent.  I am about to reinstate that picture within the article, where it should stay until such time as either a better picture is provided or the nomination for deletion is resolved by consensus of the community.
 * The flag on the picture states This file has been listed on Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images, because it is currently only available to Wikipedia under a non-free license. and the word possibly is the key one here. A nominator of an item for deletion or discussion is not the final arbiter, and your editing of articles to remove items you have nominated is an incorrect action.  Equally I cannot find the entry on Possibly unfree images for this picture.  If it is there please point me to it.
 * I do not dispute your right to nominate a picture for deletion, nor your right to edit articles within the guidelines as you see fit. I am familiar with igniring all rules but do not see this as the place to do so.  So please leave thepicture alone until the outcome of your nomination is known, and then leave it to the closing admin to handle.  Fiddle Faddle 13:50, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Unless the user removes the restrictions to use on this image, it cannot be placed on any articles- as it is against Wikipedia image policy to include restricted use images. The user refuses to relicense his images, and responds with personal attacks. All his images are listed for deletion- and they will be deleted as they violate policy unless relicensed under GFDL- so they will continue to be removed. Astrotrain 13:57, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

 * But, and this is the fundamental point, not removed by you . The process is not designed that way, not intended to be used that way and shoudl not be used that way.  Your role is to nominate for deletion.  It is to argue strongly for deletion, and it is to seek to ensure that your view is exposed to community scrutiny and peer review.  There it ends.  By nominating it for deletion you pass that repsonsibility to other wise heads who will consider the matter and take relevant action.  Fiddle Faddle 14:10, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

 * You are completely wrong- perhaps you should read the image policy before resorting to telling other people what to do. Astrotrain 14:14, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I am always happy to learn. Please point me at the artcile and section you are relying on.  In return I can say that I am reading from Possibly unfree images and looking at specifically the instructions, startung with To list an image on this page: and ending with Listings should be processed by an administrator after being listed for 14 days.  It is that sentence Listings should be processed by an administrator after being listed for 14 days that is important, surely.  But your nomination is not there, or if it is I cannot see it.  You have put the tmeplate on the image page, that is for sure, but where is it on the possibly unfree images page? Fiddle Faddle 14:25, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I am very thankful that this has opened a discussion. My pictures have had all links removed, by me, at Astrotrain™ request. A mediator and Wikipedia licencing are considering my pictures and method of licencing and presentation including links on the picture pages (not article pages). The mediator initial ruling is that I am in the right, subject to further consideration. Astrotrain™ is aware of this but still persists in vandalising my work and I cannot seem to stop it, Astrotrain™ is following me around changing my work and even reverting other peoples edits to improve the display of my pictures, e.g.  User:ALR. I refuse to get into a reverting war or to tag Astrotrain™ work as this is not in the spirit of Wikipedia nor my place as a Newbie. Des Desk1 10:30, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Have ugraded the picture of TS Royalist in Sea Cadet Corps (United Kingdom) to 400px. Later today will include a picture of Elizabeth II on Endurance, waving back at international ships crews during the review. The Elizabeth II article has rejected the image on the grounds it was not a significant event for the Queen in the grand scheme of things; but you may be interested in using it elswhere. I will point you to the file when finished. Have also upgraded the Fleet Review pic in Royal Navy to 400px as requested by their editors. Best wishes, Des Desk1 11:57, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

New public domain image of The Queen and Admiral Sir Alan West placed at. Best wishes, Des Desk1 15:13, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikification
The most recent edit, which I have reverted and made a note on the editor's talk page about, was to add a Wikify tag.

The reason I removed it was that it appeared to me to be applied with less than usual thought for what might be wikified. I am raising it here on order that interested editors contionue to wikify this article well and within normal guidelines. I have invited the editor who applied the tag to come here and tell us what they believe requires attention. Fiddle Faddle 17:52, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Hello. I placed the wikify tag on the article for a few reasons. Several of the section headings have all of their words capitalized.  This should only be done for proper nouns, but since I am somewhat unfamiliar with the subject matter, I did not know which headings are proper nouns. For example, "Links to SCC Area Websites" should probably be written as "Links to SCC area websites", but I don't know if "National Level" and "Adult Staff" are proper names or generic descriptions.  Also, the "External references" section and "Links" sections are confusing and poorly formatted.  Some of the sub-sections are empty, one of them has a wikilink in the title, and some of the links are not bulleted and have stray characters. Would it be possible to format these sections into the usual "References" and "External links" sections with subheadings as appropriate? I can make some of the changes now, but would need input for the capitalization of section headers and formatting of the references/external links. I hope this is a satisfactory explanation. Khatru2 21:23, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I apologise for taking so long to get back to you. I am on a wikibreak.  I have taken your coments to heart and believe I have made the necessary corrections to capitalisation just now, but that is all I have done.  I am basing the capitalisation on my understanding of the formal naming convention of this organisation.  Fiddle Faddle 00:15, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

User comment in article
The following user comment was removed from the article:

"Bold textTS IRON DUKE SCC UNIT 191 RYDAL ROAD/THE PARK HUYTON LIVERPPOOL FORMED IN 1942 IN ARCHWAY ROAD, HUYTON LIVERPOOL ANYBODY WITH ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THE UNIT PLEASE ADD TO THIS SECTION THANK YOU,WE ARE WRITING A UNIT HISTORY PAUL JONES (HUYTON UNIT)" It was left by 84.64.181.68. Khatru2 04:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

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Locations?
Is there a list of locations that we could place into this article, similar to Army Cadets Interactive Map so that we could create a list of where different Sea Cadet detachments are?? Jez ☎ ✉ ✍ 18:44, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Junior Leaders
No mention of this in the article?

Junior Leaders Course it is open to SCC. --Pandaplodder (talk) 23:32, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't you mean leading junior?  Puffin  Let's talk! 15:37, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

infobox and cleanup
This article needs an infobox and a general cleanup. This includes adding links, removing red links, removing useless information, reformatting lists perhaps into tables, etc. Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk | Sign 12:15, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

I have tagged this as its been two years and the referencing still has not been sorted out Pandaplodder (talk) 14:07, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Massive copyvio
I've just reverted the article to a two-year-old version due to massive copyvios in the lead and elsewhere. Text appears to have been copied from a variety of sea cadet and sea-cadet-related sites, including:
 * http://www.carlisleseacadets.org/press-releases.aspx
 * http://www.sccheadquarters.com/UserData/root/Files/Unit%20Management/Sea%20Cadet%20Unit%20Constitution/Unit%20Constitution%20%28Ch%201,%202%20and%206%29.pdf
 * http://www.tslynx.co.uk/history/index.php
 * Possibly http://www.thursoseacadets.com/ (not sure which came first)
 * http://www.eastmidlandsrfca.co.uk/news/rfca/2011/february/kettering-sea-cadets-jump-joy-gift-new-name

Some of this may have been their sites copying Wikipedia, but given the sheer volume of Wikipedia text that matches promotionally-phrased content from Sea Cadet sites, I'm inclined to think it's mostly us copying them, especially since much of their content has copyright notices. I'm going to do my best to double-check my work, and I'd welcome any further eyes on this issue if people want to track down exactly what of our content is redeemable and what isn't, but in the meantime I felt it was wise to revert back to a safe-ish version. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 15:39, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Cadet Rank Names
The names for the ranks of cadets is wrong or is out dated. It goes New Entry, Cadet, Ordinary Cadet (OC), Able Cadet (AC), Leading Cadet, Petty Officer Cadet (PO). Basically it is Cadet on the end not Seaman. These names I believe are used by the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets but not the Sea Cadet Corps. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.20.39.4 (talk) 16:56, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Dupliction
I have spotted 2 accounts of duplication, the picture of a cadet (right near the top and then in the Membership Section). The top photo which I changed the caption as the he was wrongly labled as a senior cadet he is only a cadet. Notice his badge with 1 star on it which signifies the Cadet rank. Also the Marine Engineering course is duplicated in the Specialisation and Proficiency section, in the table under the specialisation column. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.20.39.4 (talk) 17:13, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Table of Cadet rates
There is no rationale for the cross service comparison table here. It is also a bewildering array of not very correctness. Things in various columns are out of logical order. The best route is to remove all except the Sea Cadets element. Fiddle  Faddle  11:46, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Uniforms
The article currently lacks a section about uniforms of the Sea Cadets. The articles for the Army Cadet Force and Air Training Corps each have a section about their uniforms. This article should also have one. --Dreddmoto (talk) 14:40, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

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Uncited addition of an alleged FoIA refusal
I have twice reverted an additon to this page of uncited material. Without citations it can be considered defamatory. With citations in WP:RS it can be considered to be factual Fiddle   Faddle  11:46, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I would add that the removed material also included inferences about the leadership of this organization drawn from the uncited facts, which would be considered WP:SYNTH even if the facts about the FOIA denials could be reliably cited. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 12:10, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , Indeed it did. I understand that people feel strongy about child abuse. They should. But citations are essential for this type of material, and inferences may not be drawn. With a valid citation the facts and only the facts may go in.   Fiddle   Faddle  12:16, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Can we cite and evidence the refusal via https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/ or an e-mail - it is just identifying a sources that can be seen externally — Preceding unsigned comment added by 0A056FPF0A (talk • contribs) 12:30, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Sea Cadets FOI request
Is this getting to you - WikiDan61? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 0A056FPF0A (talk • contribs) 12:37, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , Talk pages are often monitored by other editors.
 * The site you mention cannot be considered a secondary source. Of necessity it contains user generated content, both for the requests and the responses to FoIA enquiries, thus it is also not WP:RS.  Emails are exactly the same and inadmissible.
 * Enforcement action by the ICO would be fine because that is the regulator.
 * You obviously have a strong criticism of the organisation, but Wikipedia may not be used to make it. It is not a forum and does not "have" or exhibit opinions. Fiddle   Faddle  12:42, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

It is not so much a critism but an interesting example of governance practice or rather praxis within a youth organisation, So key is an independent sources my assumption comments of twitter would not meet that degree of robustness but a journal or even a press article would - could you confirm is twitter a valid sources? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 0A056FPF0A (talk • contribs) 12:51, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

 * , please sign all talk page posts by using ~ which turns into your signature
 * No user generated site, none, is suitable as a reference.
 * Whether or not it is an interesting example is fine off Wikipedia. On wikipedia we do not have an interest in anything, We report on what others have said in significant coverage, and independent of the principal and in reliable sources.
 * This has nothing to do with rights and wrongs of the situations that obtain in organisations. We simply report plain, unadorned facts Fiddle   Faddle  12:59, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

 * The rather bald WP:42 should assist you here. Fiddle   Faddle  13:02, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Please continue this discussion here, not on my user talk page. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:03, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Sorry there is a lot to learn here within the system — Preceding unsigned comment added by 0A056FPF0A (talk • contribs) 13:08, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

 * Unless the FOIA request, and the Sea Cadets' refusal to answer it, have been covered in reliable sources (I urge you to follow that link to learn what are considered "reliable sources" at Wikipedia), then there's no point in raising the issue here in Wikipedia. The mere fact that the FOIA request was made is not necessarily notable; it is likely that an agency such as Sea Cadets receives thousands of such requests annually. But if independent journalistic sources have chosen to cover this story, then we can rely on what those sources have said about it. Instead, it appears that you are here to right some great wrongs, which is a noble goal, but this is not the place to do it. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:09, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

 * whilst is does not pertain to the FOIA request, if you so wished, there are plenty of articles and statements from newspapers and legal firms reporting on abuse that has occurred since the Panorama investigation, or cases that have come to light and been dealt with since the Panorama investigation in 2017, which you could use to expand the section. Cdjp1 (talk) 22:11, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 18:40, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Meredith Mishkin
Non-notable teenager whose only claim to fame is a one-time appearance on a reality TV show on a children's cable television network. RickK 00:19, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete. The author of this article seems to be creating entries about non-noteable high school aged students. Arkyan 01:27, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable. Megan1967 02:03, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable. Rje 03:14, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable enough. Zzyzx11 04:21, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable enough. —Brim 17:09, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

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This place being in the constituency of Ian Paisley, the Ulster bible belt, this smells a wee bit like satire... Can't say anything about it though.

No, its genuine and factual enough - I was born and brought up there. It won a *lot* more flower awards than just the ones mentioned though.

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Brother Power the Geek

Brother Power the Geek is a comic book character created in the late 1960s for DC Comics by Joe Simon. He first appeared in Brother Power the Geek #1 (October 1968).

The concept behind Brother Power was derived heavily from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein right down to reanimation with the use of lightning. At the same time, Simon was also attempting to capture the sort of "wandering outcast philosopher" characterization that made Marvel Comics' Silver Surfer a cult hit among the college student readers of the period.

According to Scott Shaw, the character was originally supposed to be called The Freak, but was renamed to The Geek due to concerns by DC Comics management over the possible drug reference "freak" implied at the time.

Original appearance
The original series lasted only two issues. Brother Power was originally a mannequin abandoned in an empty tailor's shop. The shop was taken over by hippies Nick Cranston and Paul Cymbalist, who dressed up the dummy in Paul's wet and bloodied "hip threads" to keep them from shrinking, having been attacked by Hound Dawg and other war hawks. Forgotten for months, but eventually struck by lightning, Brother Power was brought to life and endowed with superpowers.

Shortly after his creation, Brother Power was kidnapped by the "Psychedelic Circus". The freaks in the Freakshow at the "Psychedelic Circus" were all based on the styles of "Big Daddy" Ed Roth and Harvey Kurtzman, both of whom were good friends of Simon. After escaping, he was fixed up and given a face by another hippie named Cindy, and attempted to run for the United States Congress. His misadventures with the establishment led to finding work and encouraging other hippies to do so, eventually getting hired by the J.P. Acme Corporation just as it was taken over by the wicked Lord Sliderule. Brother Power's ingenuity still made the assembly line run more efficiently. Brother Power was last seen being shot into space on orders from Governor Ronald Reagan, after trying to prevent the sabotage of a rocket launch by Hound Dawg and his gang, knowing it would be blamed on hippies.

While sales of the title were modest, Brother Power was not popular among the staff. Former DC Comics Editorial Director Carmine Infantino claimed in several interviews following his retirement from comics that Superman editor Mort Weisinger disliked the character very strongly, and petitioned DC publisher Jack Liebowitz to shut down the title. According to Infantino, Weisinger harbored an admitted dislike for the hippie subculture of the 1960s, and felt that Simon portrayed them too sympathetically. It did not help that Hound Dawg and his cronies appeared with uniforms and gadgetry evocative of Nazis in the second issue. According to Joe Simon, the third issue was canceled just before the finished artwork was to be set up for print duplication, and Simon would neither discuss the plot of this issue nor release any of the original art.

Despite Weisinger's concerns over the hippie subculture and the level of drug abuse it represented, drug, substance and alcohol intake are not depicted.

Simon was not the artist on the title's two issues. The artwork was by Al Bare, who had been working with Simon at Sick. Simon had hired Bare to "ghost" the art, and was subsequently credited with the art.

Later appearances
The character was revived briefly two decades later, first in a short story by Neil Gaiman in Swamp Thing Annual #5 (1989) (reprinted in Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days), and then in a Vertigo one-shot by Rachel Pollack and Mike Allred titled Vertigo Visions - The Geek.

In Gaiman's story, Brother Power is revealed to be an imperfect elemental, similar to the Swamp Thing, and he is connected to all human simulacra such as dolls, dummies, statues, etc. The story resumes with the rocket's return to Earth, guided into Tampa Bay by Firestorm after an unsuccessful attempt to destroy it. His newfound ability to change his size at will leads to a call to Batman, who defers to Abigail Cable. Ultimately, an aging hippie named Chester calms him down.

Pollack's story featured a brief return of Brother Power's adversary, Lord Sliderule, now in a business suit, and depicted Brother Power being forced to perform as a circus geek, eating live animals for the first time. Eventually, after more misadventures with the establishment, he is reunited with Cindy (the hippie who had given him his face), now a prostitute, and is destroyed in his original form while saving her life; however, he ultimately survives by possessing one of her dolls.

In one issue of the crossover miniseries Legends, a marquee in the background reads Brother Power the Geek: The Movie. He is also among the superheroes briefly summoned by Snapper Carr in the Blasters Special.

In Grant Morrison's Animal Man, Brother Power is mentioned several times as someone who escaped from comic book limbo, in spite of other limbo dwellers' expectations, and his name appears in graffiti. He also appeared briefly in Tom Peyer's Totems, as a guest at John Constantine's 1999 New Year's Eve party.

Brother Power made a return appearance in The Brave and the Bold vol. 3 #29 (January 2010). This issue presents Cindy as having been a doctor at a free clinic, but after some tragedy, having opened a toy store that was burned before the story begins. The story also casts doubt over Brother Power's true origin, as conflicting urban legends are mentioned, some stating that Brother Power is a reanimated dummy and others saying he is an elemental. In addition, it is also established, retroactively, that the events of the original series had taken place in Gotham City, although they had previously been explicitly set in San Francisco, with "the governor" clearly drawn as Reagan. After awakening in 2009, Brother Power wanders throughout Gotham until he stumbles upon a burning building where several innocent people have been left tied up and gagged inside. Though Batman tries to convince Power to abandon the building and let him take care of the victims, he refuses, remarking that he does not belong in the modern world. The issue ends with the dazed and badly-injured Brother Power staggering through the sewers, where he eventually collapses. In the closing narration, Batman finds comfort in the idea that Brother Power will one day reawaken in a time when values have prevailed that are closer to his own.

The character played a role in the 6-issue limited series Inferior Five as a guidance voice in Peacemaker's helmet as a way for him to get more notoriety by a team-up. This plan failed as the series ended on 6 issues which caused him to mope about how his plan could have worked.

Alternate versions

 * An alternate-universe human-like version of Brother Power the Geek appeared in the Elseworlds mini-series Conjurors.
 * In the 1997 Tangent Comics title The Joker, there was a human character who called himself "Brother Power", but whom the Joker called "The Geek".
 * In Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, Brother Power appears in the back of a metahuman bar with Rorschach breaking his finger.
 * A version of the character appears in Planetary #7, where it appeared at the funeral of a man named Jack Carter, who bore a strong resemblance to John Constantine.
 * In the Multiversity Guidebook (January 2015), Brother Power is mentioned as a member of the Love Syndicate of Dreamworld on the countercultural, psychedelic Earth-47.
 * Brother Power appears in Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #67–68. He was initially thought to be a monster and was investigated by Mystery Inc. but was befriended by Shaggy due to their mutual taste for hippy culture.

Television

 * A Brother Power the Geek comic appears in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Time Out For Vengeance!".
 * A Brother Power the Geek comic appears in the Young Justice: Outsiders episode "Away Mission".

Video games
Brother Power the Geek appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.

Miscellaneous
Brother Power the Geek appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold #15.

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AES47

AES47 is a standard which describes a method for transporting AES3 professional digital audio streams over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks.

The Audio Engineering Society (AES) published AES47 in 2002. The method described by AES47 is also published by the International Electrotechnical Commission as IEC 62365.

Introduction
Many professional audio systems are now combined with telecommunication and IT technologies to provide new functionality, flexibility and connectivity over both local and wide area networks. AES47 was developed to provide a standardised method of transporting the standard digital audio per AES3 over telecommunications networks that provide a quality of service required by many professional low-latency live audio uses. AES47 may be used directly between specialist audio devices or in combination with telecommunication and computer equipment with suitable network interfaces. In both cases, AES47 the same physical structured cable used as standard by the telecommunications networks.

Common network protocols like Ethernet use large packet sizes, which produce a larger minimum latency. Asynchronous transfer mode divides data into 48-byte cells which provide lower latency.

History
The original work was carried out at the British Broadcasting Corporation’s R&D department and published as "White Paper 074", which established that this approach provides the necessary performance for professional media production. AES47 was originally published in 2002 and was republished with minor revisions in February 2006. Amendment 1 to AES47 was published in February 2009, adding code points in the ATM Adaptation Layer Parameters Information Element to signal that the time to which each audio sample relates can be identified as specified in AES53.

The change in thinking from traditional ATM network design is not to necessarily use ATM to pass IP traffic (apart from management traffic) but to use AES47 in parallel with standard Ethernet structures to deal with extremely high performance secure media streams.

AES47 has been developed to allow the simultaneous transport and switched distribution of a large number of AES3 linear audio streams at different sample frequencies. AES47 can support any of the standard AES3 sample rates and word size. AES11 Annex D (the November 2005 printing or version of AES11-2003) shows an example method to provide isochronous timing relationships for distributed AES3 structures over asynchronous networks such as AES47 where reference signals may be locked to common timing sources such as GPS. AES53 specifies how timing markers within AES47 can be used to associate an absolute time stamp with individual audio samples as described in AES47 Amendment 1.

An additional standard has been published by the Audio Engineering Society to extend AES3 digital audio carried as AES47 streams to enable this to be transported over standard physical Ethernet hardware. This additional standard is known as AES51-2006.

AES47 details
For minimum latency, AES47 uses "raw" ATM cells, ATM adaptation layer 0. Each ATM virtual circuit negotiates the parameters of a stream at connection time. In addition to the same rate and number of channels (which may be more than the 2 supported by AES3), the negotiation covers the number of bits per sample and the presence of an optional data byte. The total must be 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6 bytes per sample, so it evenly divides the ATM cell size. AES3 uses 4 bytes per sample (24 bits of sample plus the optional data byte), but AES47 supports additional formats.

The optional data byte contains four "ancillary" bits corresponding to the AES3 VUCP bits. However, the P (parity) bit is replaced by a B bit which is set on the first sample of each audio block, and clear at all other times. This serves the same function as the B (or Z) synchronization preamble.

The other half of the data byte contains three "data protection" bits for error control and a sequencing bit. The concatenation of the sequencing bits from all samples in a cell (combined little-endian) form a sequencing word of 8, 12, 16, or 24 bits. Only the first 12 bits are defined.

The first four bits of the sequencing word are a sequencing number, used to detect dropped cells. This increments by 1 for each cell transmitted.

The second four bits are for error detection, with bit 7 being an even parity bit for the first byte.

The third four bits, if present, are a second sequencing number which can be used to align multiple virtual circuits.

AES53
AES53 is a standard first published in October 2006 by the Audio Engineering Society that specifies how the timing markers specified in AES47 may be used to associate an absolute time-stamp with individual audio samples. A recommendation is made to refer these timestamps to the SMPTE epoch which in turn provides a reference to UTC and GPS time. It thus provides a way of aligning streams from disparate sources, including synchronizing audio to video, and also allows the total delay across a network to be controlled when the transit time of individual cells is unknown. This is most effective in systems where the audio is aligned with an absolute time reference such as GPS, but can also be used with a local reference.

This standard may be studied by downloading a copy of the latest version from the AES standards web site as AES53-2018.

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Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation. She is most known for her collage style that consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed text. The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as "you", "your", "I", "we", and "they", addressing cultural constructions of power, identity, consumerism, and sexuality. Kruger's artistic mediums include photography, sculpture, graphic design, architecture, as well as video and audio installations.

Kruger lives and works in New York and Los Angeles. She is an Emerita Distinguished Professor of New Genres at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. In 2021, Kruger was included in Time magazine's annual list of the 100 Most Influential People.

Early life and career
Kruger was born into a working-class family  in Newark, New Jersey. Her father worked as a chemical technician for Shell Oil and her mother was a legal secretary.

Kruger graduated from Weequahic High School. She attended Syracuse University, but left after one year due to the death of her father. After her year at Syracuse University, in 1965, she went on to attend the Parsons School of Design in New York for a semester. Over the next ten years, Kruger established herself whilst pursuing graphic design for magazines and freelance picture editing, as well as designing book jackets. By the late 1960s, Kruger became interested in poetry, and began attending poetry readings as well as writing her own poetry. While at Parsons School of Design, Kruger studied art and design with Diane Arbus and Marvin Israel, and soon obtained a design job at Condé Nast Publications in her late teens. Shortly after, Kruger was awarded the position of head designer for the following year. She initially worked as a designer at Mademoiselle and later moved on to work part-time as a picture editor for House and Garden, Aperture, and other publications. She also wrote film, television, and music columns for Artforum and REALLIFE Magazine at the suggestion of her friend Ingrid Sischy.

Kruger's earliest works date back to 1969, when she began creating large wall hangings which incorporated materials such as yarn, beads, sequins, feathers, and ribbons. These pieces represented the feminist reclamation of craft during this period. Kruger crocheted, sewed, and painted brightly hued and erotically suggestive objects, some of which were included by curator Marcia Tucker in the 1973 Whitney Biennial. She drew her inspiration for these pieces from Magdalena Abakanowicz's show at the Museum of Modern Art. Although some of these works were included in the Whitney Biennial, Kruger became detached and unsatisfied with her working output. In 1976, she took a break from making what had become more abstract works, feeling that her work had become meaningless and mindless. She then moved to Berkeley, California, where she taught at the University of California and became inspired by the writings of Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes. In 1977, she returned to making art, working with her own architectural photographs and publishing an art book, Picture/Readings, in 1979. She was inspired to photograph architecture by her family's practice of touring "model homes they could never afford".

At the beginning of her art career, Kruger reportedly felt intimidated by entering New York galleries due to the prevailing atmosphere of the art scene which, to her, did not welcome "particularly independent, non-masochistic women". However, she received early support for her projects from groups such as the Public Art Fund, which encouraged her to continue making art. She switched to her modern practice of collage in the early 1980s.

Artistic practice
Addressing issues of language and sign, Kruger has often been grouped with such feminist postmodern artists as Jenny Holzer, Sherrie Levine, Martha Rosler, and Cindy Sherman. Like Holzer and Sherman, in particular, she uses the techniques of mass communication and advertising to explore gender and identity. She discusses her interest in representing "how we are to one another" and the "broad sort of scope" this provides for her work. Kruger is considered to be part of the Pictures Generation.

Imagery and text
Much of Kruger's work pairs found photographs with pithy and assertive text that challenges the viewer, known as word art. Her method includes developing her ideas on a computer, later transferring the results (often billboard-sized) into printed images. Examples of her instantly recognizable slogans include "I shop therefore I am", "Your body is a battleground", and "You are not yourself" appearing in her signature white letters against a red background. Most of her work deals with provocative topics like feminism, consumerism, and individual autonomy and desire, frequently appropriating images from mainstream magazines and using her bold phrases to frame them in a new context.

Kruger has said that, "I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren't." A recurring element in her work is the appropriation and alteration of existing images. In describing her use of appropriation, Kruger states:

"Pictures and words seem to become the rallying points for certain assumptions. There are assumptions of truth and falsity and I guess the narratives of falsity are called fictions. I replicate certain words and watch them stray from or coincide with the notions of fact and fiction."

Her poster for the 1989 Women's March on Washington in support of legal abortion included a woman's face bisected into positive and negative photographic reproductions, accompanied by the text "Your body is a battleground." A year later, Kruger used this slogan in a billboard commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts. Twelve hours later, a group opposed to abortion responded to Kruger's work by replacing the adjacent billboard with an image depicting an eight-week-old fetus.

Kruger's early monochrome pre-digital works, known as 'paste ups', reveal the influence of the artist's experience as a magazine editorial designer during her early career. These small scale works, the largest of which is 11 x 13 inches (28 x 33 cm), are composed of altered found images, and texts either culled from the media or invented by the artist. A negative of each work was then produced and used to make enlarged versions of these initial 'paste ups'. Between 1978 and 1979, she completed "Picture/Readings", simple photographs of modest houses alternating with panels of words. From 1992 on, Kruger designed covers for a number of magazines, including Ms., Esquire, Newsweek, and The New Republic. Her signature font style of Futura Bold type is likely inspired by the "Big Idea" or "Creative Revolution" advertising style of the 1960s that she was exposed to during her experience at Mademoiselle.

In 1990, Kruger roused the Japanese American community of Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, with her proposal to paint the Pledge of Allegiance, bordered by provocative questions, on the side of a warehouse in the heart of the historic downtown neighborhood. Kruger had been commissioned by MOCA to paint a mural for "A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation", a 1989 exhibition that also included works by Barbara Bloom, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Sherrie Levine, and Richard Prince. But before the mural went up, Kruger herself and curator Ann Goldstein presented it at various community meetings over a period of 18 months. After participants voiced protests about her design, the artist offered to eliminate the pledge from her mural proposal, while still retaining a series of questions painted in the colors and format of the American flag: "Who is bought and sold? Who is beyond the law? Who is free to choose? Who follows orders? Who salutes longest? Who prays loudest? Who dies first? Who laughs last?". A full year after the exhibition closed, Kruger's reconfigured mural finally went up for a two-year run.

In 1995, with architects Henry Smith-Miller and Laurie Hawkinson and landscape architect Nicholas Quennell, she designed the 200-foot-long (60 m) sculptural letters Picture This for a stage and outdoor amphitheater at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh.

For a site-specific piece that she produced at the Parrish Art Museum in 1998, Kruger placed across the upper range of the museum's Romanesque facade stark red letters that read, "You belong here"; below, on columns separating three arched entry portals, stacked letters spelled "Money" and "Taste". As part of the Venice Biennale in 2005, Kruger installed a digitally printed vinyl mural across the entire facade of the Italian pavilion, thereby dividing it into three parts—green at the left, red at the right, white in between. In English and Italian, the words "money" and "power" climbed the portico's columns; the left wall said, "Pretend things are going as planned", while "God is on my side; he told me so" filled the right. In 2012, her installation Belief+Doubt, which covers 6,700 square feet (620 m2) of surface area and was printed on wallpaper-like sheets in the artist's signature colors of red, black, and white, was installed at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

In 2022, as the arguably most important voice in art for Abortion-rights movements, Kruger created a series of new works in response to the leaked Supreme Court documents that would overturn Roe v. Wade. Kruger said, "The end of Roe was clearly the result of the right's rage-filled campaign to undo women's reproductive health and agency. They have been unrelenting, while the middle and left too often kept silent, seeing the issue as the third rail of American politics, regardless of the poll numbers favoring Roe. For decades, abortion was absent or marginalized at campaign debates."

Public transport
In 1994, Kruger's L'empathie peut changer le monde (Empathy can change the world) was installed on a train station platform in Strasbourg, France. For a 1997 show in New York, Kruger had city buses wrapped with quotations from figures such as Malcolm X, Courtney Love, and H.L. Mencken. To promote Kruger's first retrospective, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, she created 15 billboards and countless wild postings, executed and installed in both English and Spanish. In support of a public awareness campaign to promote arts instruction in the Los Angeles Unified School District, Kruger covered a bus with phrases like, "Give your brain as much attention as you do your hair and you'll be a thousand times better off"; "from here to there"; "Don't be a jerk"; and "You want it. You buy it. You forget it." In 2017, Kruger's artwork was featured on 50,000 limited edition MetroCards released by New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority.

Fashion
In 1984, Kruger created a T-shirt design that featured a blown-up image of a woman's face with text running across the figure's eyes and mouth reading, "I can't look at you ... and breathe at the same time." The shirt was produced as a collaborative project with fashion designer Willi Smith for his WilliWear Productions label.

In 2017, Kruger collaborated with clothing brand Volcom for her contribution to the Performa 17 biennial in New York. She created a pop-up shop in the city's SoHo neighborhood where T-shirts, beanies, sweatshirts, and skateboards were up for sale.

Permanent installations
Between 1998 and 2008, Kruger created permanent installations for the Fisher College of Business, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA, and the Price Center at the University of California, San Diego. From 2008 until 2011, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm showed a site-specific work consisting of three large, wall mounted collages at the museum's entrance area. In 2012, Kruger created the permanent installation of her work Belief+Doubt in the lower level of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.

In 2024, Kruger was among the 18 artists selected by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to create installations for John F. Kennedy International Airport’s new Terminal 6, set to open in 2026.

Other works
Since the mid-1990s, Kruger has created large-scale immersive video and audio installations. Enveloping the viewer with the seductions of direct address, the work continues her questioning of power, control, affection, and contempt: still images now move and speak and spatialize their commentary. In 1997, Kruger produced a series of fiberglass sculptures of compromised public figures, including John F. and Robert F. Kennedy hoisting Marilyn Monroe on their shoulders. In 2016, Kruger created a work protesting the election of Donald Trump for the cover of New York magazine and participated in a January 20, 2017, inauguration boycott. For the 2020 edition of the Frieze Art Fair in Los Angeles, she presented a series of 20 questions—including "Who do you think you are?" and "Who dies first? Who laughs last?"—displayed across digital billboards, street banners, landmarks, and public spaces throughout the city.

Teaching
Kruger has taught an Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum, and at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, the University of California, Berkeley, and in Chicago. After teaching for five years at UCSD, she joined the faculty at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, where she is an Emerita Distinguished Professor of New Genres. In 1995–96, she was artist in residence at the Wexner Center for the Arts, where she created Public Service Announcements addressing the issue of domestic violence. In 2000, she was the Wiegand Foundation Artist in Residence at Scripps College, Claremont. She has written about television, film, and culture for Artforum, Esquire, The New York Times, and The Village Voice.

Connections with other artists

Kruger was involved with a group of artists who had graduated from CalArts and gravitated to New York City in the 1970s, including Ross Bleckner and David Salle, listing them as her first peer group. She considered Diane Arbus to be her "first female role model ... that didn't wash the floor six times a day." She also associated with Julian Schnabel, Marilyn Lerner, Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman, James Welling, Nancy Dwyer, Louise Lawler, Sarah Charlesworth, Laurie Simmons, Carol Squiers, Judith Barry, Jenny Holzer, Richard Prince, Becky Johnston, and Lynne Tillman. Kruger joined the group called Artists Meeting for Cultural Change in the 1970s, but noted about the experience, "I wasn't a real [sic] active speaker; I was intimidated but also curious." In the same interview, Kruger explained that, although she was friends with a wide range of artists, she was not really influenced by them because she was working to support herself. In the early 1980s, Kruger also associated and exhibited with Colab artists, such as at the Island of Negative Utopia show at The Kitchen in 1984.

Exhibitions
In 1979, Barbara Kruger exhibited her first works combining appropriated photographs and fragments of superimposed text at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, in Long Island City, Queens. Her first institutional show was staged in London, when Iwona Blazwick decided to exhibit her work at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1983. In 1999, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles mounted the first retrospective exhibition to provide a comprehensive overview of Kruger's career since 1978; the show travelled to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 2000. Kruger has since been the subject of many one-person exhibitions, including shows organized by the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (1983), the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (1985), Serpentine Gallery in London (1994), Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea in Siena (2002), the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2005), and Moderna Museet in Stockholm (2008).

In 2009, Kruger was included among the seminal artists whose work was exhibited in "The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kruger has also participated in the Whitney Biennial (1983, 1985, and 1987) and Documenta 7 and 8 (1982 and 1987). She represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1982 and participated in 2005 and 2022. She received the prestigious Leone d'Oro (Golden Lion award) for lifetime achievement.

In 2007, Kruger was one of the many artists to be a part of South Korea's Incheon Women Artists' Biennale in Seoul. This marked South Korea's first women's biennial. That same year, she designed "Consider This...", an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In September 2009, Kruger's Between Being Born and Dying, a major installation commissioned by the Lever House Art Collection, opened at the New York City architectural landmark Lever House. In 2012, as a member of the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), Kruger volunteered to be the lead funder of the museum's scholarly exhibit Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 and to create a new work on vinyl to sell, with proceeds going entirely toward the show's $1 million budget. An exhibition of new and recent work from Kruger was hosted by Modern Art Oxford in 2014. In 2016, as part of the celebration of the reopening of the East Building Tower Gallery following years of renovation, The National Gallery of Art created an exhibition showcasing 13 works by Barbara Kruger.

From September 19, 2021, to January 24, 2022, Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You, I Mean Me, I Mean You is a broad comprehensive, immersive exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, traveling to Los Angeles County Museum of Art ( LACMA ) from March 20, 2022, to July 17, 2022.

Kruger's words and pictures have been displayed in both galleries and public spaces, as well as offered as framed and unframed photographs, posters, postcards, T-shirts, electronic signboards, façade banners, and billboards.

Personal life
Kruger lives in the Beachwood Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Recognition
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles awarded Kruger the MOCA Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts in 2001. In 2005, she was included in The Experience of Art at the Venice Biennale and was the recipient of the Leone d'Oro for lifetime achievement. At the 10th anniversary Gala in the Garden at the Hammer Museum in 2012, Kruger was honored by TV presenter Rachel Maddow. In 2012, Kruger joined John Baldessari and Catherine Opie in leaving the Museum of Contemporary Art's board in protest, but later returned in support of the museum's new director, Philippe Vergne, in 2014. In 2021, Kruger was included in Time magazine's annual list of the 100 Most Influential People.

Art market
Kruger's first dealer was Gagosian Gallery, with which she did two shows in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. In 1988, she became the first woman to join the art gallery of Mary Boone; she has had nine solo shows there. Following's the gallery's closure, she moved to David Zwirner Gallery in 2019. Kruger is also represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; and Sprüth Magers Berlin London (since 1985) and L&M Arts in Los Angeles.

In late 2011, Kruger's 1985 photo of a ventriloquist's dummy, Untitled (When I Hear the Word Culture I Take Out My Checkbook), was sold at Christie's for a record $902,500.

Supreme lawsuit
Supreme, a skateboard and apparel brand established in 1994, have been accused of taking their logo—the white word "Supreme" on a red box—from Kruger's signature style. James Jebbia, founder of Supreme, has admitted that the logo was taken from Kruger's work. Kruger herself had not commented on this issue until a recent lawsuit between Supreme and Leah McSweeney, founder of Married to the Mob (MTTM), a women's street clothing brand. MTTM used the Supreme logo to make a "Supreme Bitch" logo that was printed on T-shirts and hats. In response, Kruger said, "What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers. I make my work about this kind of sadly foolish farce. I'm waiting for all of them to sue me for copyright infringement." Eventually the lawsuits were dropped upon the parties reaching an agreement that McSweeney could continue to use the phrase "Supreme Bitch" as long as it was "not in the way Barbara Kruger does."

Books

 * My Pretty Pony (1989), text by Stephen King, illustrations by Barbara Kruger, Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art
 * Barbara Kruger: January 7 to 28, 1989 by Barbara Kruger, Mary Boone Gallery, 1989
 * Barbara Kruger: January 5 to 26, 1991 by Barbara Kruger, 1991
 * Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances by Barbara Kruger, 1994
 * Love for Sale by Kate Linker, 1996
 * Remaking History (Discussions in Contemporary Culture, No 4) by Barbara Kruger, 1998
 * Thinking of You, 1999 (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles)
 * Barbara Kruger by Angela Vettese, 2002
 * Money Talks by Barbara Kruger and Lisa Phillips, 2005
 * Barbara Kruger by Barbara Kruger, Rizzoli 2010

Film and video

 * "The Globe Shrinks". 2010
 * "Pleasure, Pain, Desire, Disgust". 1997
 * "Twelve". 2004
 * Bulls on Parade video clip, Rage Against the Machine (1996)
 * "Art in the Twenty-First Century". 2001
 * "Cinefile: Reel Women". 1995
 * "Picturing Barbara Kruger". 2015

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Nossa Senhora dos Remédios (Povoação)

Nossa Senhora dos Remédios  (Portuguese for Our Lady of Remedies) is a parish in the municipality of Povoação in the Azores. The population in 2011 was 1,112, in an area of 12.78 km².

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To a Skylark

"To a Skylark" is a poem completed by Percy Bysshe Shelley in late June 1820 and published accompanying his lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound by Charles and James Ollier in London.

It was inspired by an evening walk in the country near Livorno, Italy, with his wife Mary Shelley, and describes the appearance and song of a skylark they come upon. Mary Shelley described the event that inspired Shelley to write "To a Skylark": "In the Spring we spent a week or two near Leghorn (Livorno) ... It was on a beautiful summer evening while wandering among the lanes whose myrtle hedges were the bowers of the fire-flies, that we heard the carolling of the skylark."

Alexander Mackie argued in 1906 that the poem, along with John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale", "are two of the glories of English literature": "The nightingale and the lark for long monopolised poetic idolatry—a privilege they enjoyed solely on account of their pre-eminence as songbirds. Keats's Ode to a Nightingale and Shelley's Ode to a Skylark are two of the glories of English literature, but both were written by men who had no claim to a special or exact knowledge of ornithology as such."

Structure
The poem consists of twenty-one stanzas made up of five lines each. The first four lines are metered in trochaic trimeter, the fifth in iambic hexameter, also called Alexandrine. The rhyme scheme of each stanza is ABABB. There are total 105 lines in this poem.

Summary
The skylark's song is a metaphor or symbol of Nature. As in "The Cloud", Shelley seeks to understand nature, to find its meaning. This is his objective. The poem is infused with pathos because he knows that this is an illusive quest.

E. Wayne Marjarum argued that the theme was "an ideal being transcending common experience". Irving T. Richards maintained that the poem represented "the ideal being's full isolation from mundanity" in which "rhetorical questions concerning the source of his ideal's inspiration" are addressed.

Influence
Thomas Hardy wrote the poem "Shelley's Skylark" which referenced the work in 1887 after a trip to Leghorn or Livorno, Italy: "The dust of the lark that Shelley heard."

The 1941 comic play Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward takes its title from the opening line: "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! / Bird thou never wert".

In 1894, music by British composer Arthur Goring Thomas was set to verses from the work in the composition The Swan and the Skylark: Cantata orchestrated by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.

The poem was quoted in the 1979 musical Shelley which was written and directed by Moma Murphy with music composed by Ralph Martell.

In 2004, Mark Hierholzer set the lyrics to music in a score for chorus with keyboard accompaniment entitled "Ode to a Skylark".

In 2006, American composer Kevin Mixon wrote a score for band with an eponymous title based on the poem. Mixon explained: "I wanted to capture the exuberance in Shelley's To a Skylark."

The UK Royal Mail issued a postage stamp on April 7, 2020 commemorating Percy Bysshe Shelley's "To a Skylark" as part of a series of ten stamps on The Romantic Poets.

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HMS Fury (1814)

HMS Fury was a Hecla-class bomb vessel of the British Royal Navy.

Military service
The ship was ordered on 5 June 1813 from the yard of Mrs Mary Ross, at Rochester, Kent, laid down in September, and launched on 4 April 1814.

Fury saw service at the Bombardment of Algiers on 27 August 1816, under the command of Constantine Richard Moorsom.

Arctic exploration
Between November 1820 and April 1821, Fury was converted to an Arctic exploration ship and re-rated as a sloop. Commander William Edward Parry commissioned her in December 1820, and Fury then made two journeys to the Arctic, both in company with her sister ship, HMS Hecla (1815).

Her first Arctic journey, in 1821, was Parry's second in search of the Northwest Passage. The farthest point on this trip, the perpetually frozen strait between Foxe Basin and the Gulf of Boothia, was named after the two ships: Fury and Hecla Strait.

On her second Arctic trip, Fury was commanded by Henry Parkyns Hoppner while Parry, in overall command of the expedition, moved to Hecla. This voyage was disastrous for Fury. She was damaged by ice at the start of the second season and was eventually abandoned on 25 August 1825, at what has since been called Fury Beach on Somerset Island. Her stores were unloaded onto the beach and later came to the rescue of John Ross, who travelled overland to the abandoned cache when he lost his ship further south in the Gulf of Boothia on his 1829 expedition.

Legacy
In 1956, Captain T.C. Pullen, RCN, sailed HMCS Labrador on an expedition through the Northwest Passage. During this voyage Labrador recovered two Admiralty Pattern anchors on Fury Beach, Somerset Island. The anchors were left there in 1825 by the crews of Fury and Hecla, together with stores, boats, and other items. The anchors had been a landmark for sailors for 136 years.

Labrador transported the artifacts to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and they were placed in the Maritime Command Museum (1961). In 1972, Fury's anchors were moved to CCG Base Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. In 1981, the anchors were removed to the Canadian Coast Guard College at Sydney, Nova Scotia. In 1991, the relics were prepared to be part of a popular exhibit. On 6 May 1998, the anchors were donated by the Canadian Forces Maritime Command (MARCOM) to the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean at Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. Currently, the anchors are displayed at the northeastern corner of the parade square, and are in the custody of le Musèe du Fort Saint-Jean.

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Nossa Senhora dos Remédios

Nossa Senhora dos Remédios may refer to the following locations:

 * Nossa Senhora dos Remédios (Povoação), a parish in the municipality of Povoação (Azores), Portugal
 * Nossa Senhora dos Remédios, Piauí, a municipality in the state of Piauí, Brazil

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Prez (character)

"Prez" is the name of several characters appearing in comics published by DC Comics. The original was Prez Rickard, the first teenage President of the United States, who appeared in a short-lived comic series by writer Joe Simon and artist Jerry Grandenetti in 1973 and 1974. Similar characters have appeared since then, revisiting the concept or paying homage to the original character. In 2015, DC published a miniseries about a teenage girl named Beth Ross who is elected President via Twitter in the year 2036.

Story
Following the real-world passage of the 26th Amendment in 1971, which lowered the minimum vote age to 18 nationwide, an amendment is passed allowing teenagers to also be elected to public office. Teenage Prez Rickard – named by his mother with the dream of him someday becoming President – takes the initiative of fixing the clocks in his town of Steadfast to run on time, making him a local hero. Shady businessman Boss Smiley (a political boss with a smiley face for a head) recruits him to run for the Senate, thinking that he can manipulate the boy. However, inspired after encountering Eagle Free, a young Native American, Prez campaigns on his own terms, and is instead elected president.

He selects his mother to be Vice President, makes his sister his secretary, and appoints Eagle Free Director of the FBI. As president, Prez fights a legless vampire and his werewolf henchman, a right-wing militia led by the great-great-great-great-great-grandnephew of George Washington, evil chess players, and Boss Smiley. He is attacked for his stance on gun control and survives an assassination attempt during that controversy.

Publication history
The series was abruptly cancelled after four issues. Several years later, issue #5 was included in Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #2 (though Prez itself predated the DC Implosion which prompted the production of that book). Prez also appeared in Supergirl #10 (Sept.-Oct. 1974). Although the first issue of Prez specified that the series was an imaginary (non-continuity) story, this story by Cary Bates implies that Prez is President of the U.S. on Earth-One of the DC Multiverse. In the story, Supergirl saves Prez from two hoaxed assassination attempts, only to be entrapped into a third by a politician working with a witch. In this story, Prez's repair of clocks is presented as a personal hobby.

Other versions

 * In 1993, Neil Gaiman featured the character in issue #54 of his Sandman (vol. 2) series, in a story called "The Golden Boy", wherein appear revised versions of real-life events from years that followed that in which the story is set, and the assassination attempt on Prez's life takes the life of his fiancé, which Prez forgives when he learns that the assassin is mentally unbalanced. Eventually, he is killed, and Boss Smiley confronts him with a day of reckoning. At this point, The Sandman's protagonist Dream offers him passage to various alternate Americas as a travelling philanthropist.
 * Prez was the indirect subject and appears briefly in the 1995 one-shot issue Vertigo Visions: Prez - Smells Like Teen President by Ed Brubaker and Eric Shanower. In this story, a Generation X teenager seeks out the vanished former president, whom he believes to be his father. The cause of Prez's death is here reported to be brain cancer, apparently caused by a metaphorical cancer growing in the collective soul of the country during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
 * A character based on Prez appears in Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Strikes Again. Lex Luthor creates a computer program which takes on human form and assumes the role of Commander in Chief. Its name is "Rick Rickard" and it resembles a middle-aged Prez, acting as a satirical stand-in for George W. Bush.
 * In The New 52 DC Multiverse, Prez is mentioned as having been a past President on Earth-23. Another version of Prez is also mentioned as being the current, immortal President of Earth-47. In that capacity, he funds the Love Syndicate of Dreamworld, Earth-47's core metahuman team.
 * A new version of the character appears in a six-issue miniseries published in 2015, written by Mark Russell and drawn by Ben Caldwell with Dominike “Domo” Stanton. She is a teenage girl named Beth Ross who is elected President via Twitter in the year 2036. The original Prez, here named "Preston Rickard", becomes her Vice President to help her through the dangers of politics.

In other media

 * An adult version of Prez appears in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Triumvirate of Terror!", voiced by Jeff Bennett. This version is President 50 years in the future and is shown opening a time capsule created by Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman.
 * Prez makes a cameo appearance on a poster in the Stargirl episode "Brainwave Jr.".
 * Prez Rickard appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.
 * Prez appears in the Audible adaptation of The Sandman, played by KJ Apa.

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Fintona

Fintona, is a village and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Its population at the 2011 Census was 1,164.

Name and etymology
Fintona is derived phonetically from the Irish name of the area, Fionntamhnach; this is often translated to mean "white field" however other meanings have been recorded due to various English translations for "fionn" and "tamhnach". "Fionn" may refer to a colour that is described as white, bright, blonde or fair-coloured, while "tamhnach" may refer to a field, clearing, oasis, grassy upland or arable place in a mountain.

In the past, the English spelling of the area has varied, with "Findonagh" in use as recently as 1937 in Church of Ireland documents, while "Fentonagh" and "Fintonagh" were also in use in the 19th century. The current spelling of Fintona has been recorded as first used in 1774.

History
The local area has been known to have had human activity for around 4000 years; there are many burial places, standing stones, stone circles and graves in the area around Fintona. The current village is developed from an Uí Néill fortress built in 1431 and is one of Tyrone's oldest settlements. Some time after the Plantation of Ulster, by 1668 the dominant landowners in the area was the Eccles Family and their Manor House, which was located in what is nowadays Fintona Golf Club and Ecclesville Park on the Ecclesville Demesne, was built in 1703.

As in many other parts of Ireland during the 19th Century, the expansion of the railway network saw the village connected with the rest of the country. There were two stations, Fintona (open 5 June 1853) and Fintona Junction (open 1 May 1856). Connecting the two stations was a horse-drawn tram which took passengers from the village to Fintona Junction railway station which was a stop on the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway which itself was part of the Great Northern Railway. Both stations closed on 1 October 1957.

Horse tram
Possibly the most well known bit of history associated with Fintona was the horse-drawn tram (or "van" to the locals) that took passengers from Fintona railway station to Fintona Junction station one mile away. The name of the horse was always "Dick" regardless of sex. First class and second class passengers travelled inside while third class travellers sat exposed to the elements on the top.

The tram made its last trip on 30 September 1957 when the Omagh to Enniskillen line closed, and with it, Fintona's rail links to the rest of Ireland. When retired, it was the second last existing example of a horse-drawn tram in public service in the British Isles, the only remaining one now being on Douglas promenade, Isle of Man. The "van" now lies at the Ulster Transport Museum.

The legacy of the horse tram's service and identity to Fintona can be seen with the unique road signs welcoming you into the village, which includes an image or silhouette of the horsetram with "Dick" pulling the tram along with the driver, conductor and a third person on board on the top of the tram.

Geography
Fintona lies in the civil parish of Donacavey, in the south west of County Tyrone bordering County Fermanagh. The parish was split between two historical baronies – Fintona itself along with the majority of Donacavey was part of the Clogher barony while a northern portion of the parish lay in the barony of Omagh East.

The village lies across several gentle hills, including Main Street whose centre lies on a hill summit and its ends at the feet of the same hill. There are small pockets of flat ground, mostly at the Ecclesville Demesne. By road distance, Omagh, the county town of Tyrone, lies 8 mi north, Enniskillen is 19 mi south-west, while Belfast and Dublin are 66 mi east and 108 mi south-east respectively.

Towards the south-east about 4 mi away, about half-way between Fintona and the village of Fivemiletown, the land rises to the summit of Murley Mountain, (known better locally as "Fivemiletown Mountain", also occasionally known as "Stranisk Hill" after its local townland), which has a peak of 312 m above sea level. At this peak and the surrounding land are two close by wind farms, Lendrums Bridge (open 2000) and Hunters Hill (open 2008).

A small river named the "Quiggery Water", whose source is located on the northern slopes of Murley Mountain, flows through Fintona with bridges crossing it at Kiln Street and Mill Street as well as just outside the village at a location known as the Carnlea crossroads. This river then joins with the Ballynahatty Water to form the Drumragh River, which in turn joins the Camowen River in Omagh to form the River Strule.

Climate
Located 33 mi from the Atlantic coastline, Fintona has an Oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfb). Winters are normally cool to mild with morning frosts being a common occurrence, especially with settled weather. Summers are usually cool to moderate with high temperatures normally around the upper teens, with the warmest temperatures of the season rarely peaking at less than 24 degrees Celsius.

Rainfall is common throughout the year with the wettest months between October and January, and the driest months being April and May. Rainfall in the later autumn, winter and early spring tends to fall as prolonged light or moderate showers while heavier, shorter bursts mixed with dry or sunny spells are more common in the summer months; in between these periods during the months of April, May, & September both kinds of showers can happen as conditions change quickly, with "four seasons in a day" weather often occurring.

Sleet and snow showers happen occasionally, usually falling between the months of December and March though it can fall any time between October and May. Snow accumulation usually happens several times each year, though it rarely lies for more than three of four days and sometimes only for a few hours.

Government
Fintona lies in the Fermanagh and Omagh District Council local authority area. Prior to the reorganisation of local government in Northern Ireland on 1 April 2015, Fintona was part of Omagh District Council.

For elections, Fintona lies in the Fintona ward. For district council elections the ward makes up part of the district electoral area of West Tyrone (not to be confused with the House of Commons and Northern Ireland Assembly constituencies of the same name) that elects six councillors via the Single Transferable Vote.

For elections to both the House of Commons at Westminster, London and the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont, Belfast, the Fintona ward lies in the West Tyrone electoral constituency.

Economy
Fintona is home to a number of small businesses that include two supermarkets, a GP clinic, a veterinary surgery, a restaurant and an optician among other smaller shops, cafes and pubs. A substantial amount of working residents however are employed at locations outside of Fintona, with Omagh and Enniskillen being common.

Agriculture
Farming plays a key role in the economy of Fintona. Much of this is cattle based involved meat and milk production, with some sheep rearing particularly on higher ground. There are also some pig and chicken farms in the area. The land and climate does not lend itself to arable farming, but in the past some maize was grown, being produced to boost the protein of cattle feed. On higher ground near the summit of Murley Mountain, there are also peat bogs.

Education
Fintona has two primary schools;

 * Denamona Primary School (Controlled)
 * St. Lawrence's Primary School (Catholic Maintained)

Both schools teach the Northern Ireland Curriculum Key Stages 1 & 2 (Years 1 to 7) to students between the ages of 4 and 11 years, as well as containing a nursery unit, accommodating children in the 3–4-years-old age group.

In April 2017, St. Lawrence's P.S. won the junior category of the BBC Radio Ulster School Choir of the Year, which was broadcast live on the radio station.

Two other primary schools, St. Patrick's (townland of Garvallagh) and St. Joseph's (townland of Lisconrea), both Catholic Maintained, closed due to falling enrolments; St. Joseph's in 2003 and St. Patrick's in 2009.

There are no post-primary schools in Fintona, children continue their education at schools usually either in Omagh, Dromore or Fivemiletown, while a few also attended schools in Ballygawley and Enniskillen.

Fintona Library
Fintona has its own branch library that was originally opened in the early 1980s in a prefabricated building in Ecclesville Park before moving to its current location on Main Street in 1991.

In early 2011 the library was one of ten marked down by Libraries NI for closure, who claimed that the library was one of the least used in Northern Ireland and that the roof of the building required repair at a significant cost. A public consultation meeting in Fintona Golf Club on 3 March that year saw a strong local turn out calling for the retention of the library, while representations were also made to the Committee for Culture, Arts and Leisure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

On 20 October 2011, Libraries NI announced that the Fintona branch library would remain open while efforts were made to either improve its current premises or find an alternative location in due course. It was confirmed in July 2013 that the library building would receive a full refurbishment.

Transport
Fintona today is linked to Omagh though the B122 that connects to the A5 Omagh to Ballygawley road about 2 mi outside Omagh. Other roads linking Fintona to elsewhere include the B80 to Enniskillen (via Tempo), the B46 to Dromore, the B122 to Fivemiletown, the B46 to Seskinore and Beragh, the B168 to Clogher and the Derrybard & Greenmount roads that connect to the A5 Omagh to Ballygawley road on to towards Belfast and Dublin.

Public transport
The only public transport available is an Ulsterbus bus service provided by Translink that connects Fintona to Omagh (Service No. 87). Seven services run on weekdays and five on Saturdays. There is no service on Sundays.

Fintona had been connected to the railway network via Fintona and Fintona Junction stations on the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway's horse-drawn spur line as mentioned in the history section above. These stations opened in the 1850s, but were closed in October 1957.

Sport and leisure
There are numerous sports clubs and facilities in Fintona which cater for a range of activities. Local clubs include Fintona Cycling Club, Fintona Badminton Club and two bowling clubs. Partly thanks to the numerous public houses in Fintona, darts, pool and snooker also prove popular.

Fintona Golf Club
Fintona Golf Club was founded in 1904 by C.W.L. Brown-Lecky and is located on part of the Ecclesville Demense. It is a nine-hole course which have twin tees allowing players a different challenge on their second time round. Ronan Rafferty rated it the best nine-hole course in Northern Ireland in a feature on the TV programme 'Ronan Rafferty's Great Golf Journeys'. The course includes a club house and a bar with a function room and catering facilities. In September 2021 the club won the All-Ireland AIG Women's Challenge Cup at Shandon Park in Belfast after defeating Gort in the Final.

Fintona Pearses GAA Club
Fintona Pearses GAA club was founded in late 1916 and first played competitive Gaelic football games a year later. There was already a GAA club in Fintona at the time, the Davitts, which was founded in 1907 and won the Tyrone Senior Football Championship in 1914 but the Davitts folded not long after the Pearses club started, whom themselves went on to win a Tyrone SFC title in 1938. The current club is based at its own grounds just outside the town on the Tattymoyle Road in the townland of Tonnaghbane, named St. Lawrence's Park which has undergone substantial redevelopment since the early 1990s which today includes two full-size pitches (one with floodlights), a smaller training pitch, a clubhouse with four changing rooms and two stands (one roofed). Gaelic Football teams are fielded at adult & underage levels along with hurling teams at underage levels. A Ladies Gaelic Football club of the same name, fielding teams at adult and underage levels, also play their games at the same ground.

In 2023, the Senior Men's Gaelic Football team won the Tyrone Junior Football Championship after defeating Drumragh in the final in Healy Park, Omagh by 1-10 (13 pts) to 0-12 (12 pts) after extra time.

Fintona Swifts Football Club
Fintona Swifts are a Junior Football Club that was originally founded in the early 1990s and affiliated to the Fermanagh & Western FA. Up until the 2010/11 season the team did not have a home ground in the village and was forced to play their 'home' games elsewhere, normally in Omagh. After years of discussions and stalling, the club finally had a permanent home in Fintona with a pitch based at the Ecclesville Demense opened in August 2010. In August 2015, the club was disbanded after withdrawing from the Fermanagh & Western Football League, a lack of player numbers cited as the reason for folding. A year later, the club was reformed and in its first season back won the Fermanagh & Western Division 3 League. A reserve team was reintroduced at the start of the 2019/20 season. For the 2023/24 season the first team will play in Division 2 of the Fermanagh and Western Football League while the reserve team will play in the corresponding Reserve Division 3 as well as entering the Fermanagh and Western FA Mulhern & Rehill cup competitions, and the IFA Junior Cup.

Ecclesville Centre
Based within the grounds of the Ecclesville Demense, opened in 1995 the Ecclesville Centre is unique in the UK and Ireland in being a combined equestrian and community/leisure complex. The facility has proven popular not only among show jumpers and horse riders, but also for other sporting activities especially those based indoors. The equestrian end of the centre includes stables, an indoor arena with judges box and seated stand, and an outdoor facility that includes an outdoor floodlight arena, open parkland and the forest of the Ecclesville Demense. The leisure part of the centre includes a minor hall, a sports hall, changing rooms and a fitness suite with outdoor all-weather tennis courts also available. The centre is a popular venue for local and regional sports competitions including bowls, badminton and indoor football. At a community level the centre is the home of Fintona Cross-Community Youth Club and also a local Sure Start centre. The centre is also capable of holding children's parties with catering facilities & an inflatable bouncy castle.

The centre has also been the venue for several special events and exhibitions since the early 2000s which have proven popular locally and beyond including farm machinery, sport & modified cars, transport, home & garden, and music concerts. The Northern Ireland National Charolais Show has in recent years been an annual fixture at the centre as has the Omagh and District Canine Club Dog Show.

Parks
The main public park in Fintona is at the Ecclesville Demesne, known as Ecclesville Park. The park itself has a play-area for children and all-weather football & basketball area used alongside the Ecclesville Centre, alongside walking routes, pond and forest. In 2014 additional work was done which extended the play-area and also added an outdoor gym.

There is also a children's play-area at Ashfield Gardens. Previous play-areas in Mill Street and Denamona Court were converted to "Green Spaces" in 2023.

Catholic
Fintona lies in the Catholic parish of Donacavey, which is a part of the Catholic Diocese of Clogher. There is a single church serving the parish called St. Lawrence's, which is located outside the village next to Lisdergan Road. The church also has two nearby graveyards named "St. Peter's and St. Paul's" and "St. Lawrence's", as well as a church hall called St. Patrick's that is located on Main Street in the village.

Christian Brethren
A Christian Brethren group is based at Fintona Gospel Hall, located on the edge of the village on the Loughmuck Road.

Church of Ireland
Fintona lies in the parish of Donacavey, which is a part of the Church of Ireland Diocese of Clogher. The parish church is located next to the Ecclesville Road with a church hall lying across the same road, opposite the church.

The church parish of Donacavey contains only part of the civil parish of Donacavey; the south western corner of the civil parish is served by a separate parish of Barr that has its own parish church. However, both parishes are covered by the same rector whom serves "Donacavey and Barr".

Methodist
Fintona Methodist Church lies on the Craigavon Road, next to the Fintona Presbyterian Church. It is part of the Omagh and Fintona circuit in the North Western district of the Methodist Church in Ireland.

Methodist (Independent)
Fintona Independent Methodist Church is located on Kiln Street and is an outreach ministry from its parent church in Omagh. It is part of the Fellowship of Independent Methodist Churches based in Northern Ireland.

Presbyterian
Fintona Presbyterian Church lies on the Craigavon Road next to the Fintona Methodist Church. A church hall lies behind the church building. It is part of the Omagh Presbytery in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.

Media and communications
In the late 1980s and early 1990s a monthly local news magazine, the Village Voice, was published by the now defunct Fintona Development Association. The magazine covered news, features and activities in Fintona, Seskinore and Eskra. As of October 2021, local events in Fintona are often covered by Omagh-based newspapers, the Tyrone Constitution, the Tyrone Herald and the Ulster Herald.

A Post Office branch is located inside Supervalu supermarket on the Tattymoyle Road with daily collections (inc. Saturdays). Local postcodes are normally in the form of BT78 2xx.

An Openreach telephone exchange lies just outside the village on the Castletown Road, serving Fintona as well as Seskinore and much of Eskra and Tattyreagh. The STD code is 028 in common with the rest of Northern Ireland, with local numbers assigned by BT being in the format 8284xxxx. The exchange was enabled for ADSL broadband in September 2004 while the first Fibre to the Cabinet broadband services went live on 30 December 2010. Openreach Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) connections are also available at some premises.

A Fibre to the Premises network operated by Fibrus also exists in Fintona, having come into service in August 2021.

Terrestrial Television along with FM & DAB radio can be received from the Brougher Mountain and Strabane transmitting stations, while similar TV & radio services from the Republic of Ireland can also be received by most people in Fintona. Satellite television is also popular, usually through either Freesat or the Sky subscription service. There are no cable operators in the village.

Demography
Fintona is classified as a village by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (i.e., with population between 1,000 and 2,250 people).

2011 Census
On Census day (27 March 2011) there were 1,164 people living in Fintona, accounting for 0.06% of the Northern Ireland total. Of these:

 * 17.10% were aged under 16 years and 16.41% were aged 65 and over.
 * 40 years was the average (median) age of the population.
 * 52.32% of the usually resident population were female and 47.68% were male.
 * 72.16% belong to or were brought up in the Catholic Christian faith and 26.55% belong to or were brought up in a 'Protestant and other Christian (including Christian related)' denominations.
 * 35.22% indicated that they had an Irish national identity, 33.42% had a Northern Irish national identity and 31.62% had a British national identity (respondents could indicate more than one national identity).
 * 15.56% had some knowledge of Irish and 3.15% had some knowledge of Ulster-Scots. 4.05% did not have English as their first language (considering the populations aged 3 years old and over).
 * 8.07% of the population aged 16 to 74 years old were unemployed.

2001 Census
On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 1,359 people living in Fintona. Of these:

 * 24.95% were aged under 16 years and 13.02% were aged 65 and over.
 * 34 years was the average (median) age of the population.
 * 51.66% of the usually resident population were female and 48.34% were male.
 * 72.26% belong to or were brought up in the Catholic Christian faith and 27.08% belong to or were brought up in a 'Protestant and other Christian (including Christian related)' denominations.
 * 11.73% had some knowledge of Irish.
 * 5.94% of the population aged 16 to 74 years old were unemployed.

Census records in the 20th century
Records from the census conducted in 1911 and published in 1913 revealed the population of Fintona to be 1,107 in 1901 and 1,100 in 1911.

Census records in the 19th century
The population of the village of Fintona measured in the census between 1841 and 1891 varied slightly overall, with a peak of 1,504 persons in 1851 and a low of 1,271 in 1891. In the remainder of the Parish of Donacavey, population figures fell continuously from that recorded in 1841.

¹ Refers to population in the part of Donacavey that lay in the Barony of Clogher, excluding Fintona village. ² Refers to population in the part of Donacavey that lay in the Barony of Omagh East.

Fintona townland
At 20.63 acre, Fintona is the smallest townland in the civil parish of Donacavey.

Census records from the period of 1841 to 1891 do not list population or house numbers for the townland, instead publishing such figures for "Fintona Town". The 1891 census records state "The town of Fintona stands on the townlands of Castletown, Edenasop West, Fintona and Lisky; its estimated area is 44 acres".

People

 * John of Fintona, fl. late thirteenth century.
 * Gerry Armstrong (born 1954), the Northern Irish footballer, who scored three goals in the 1982 World Cup grew up in Fintona.
 * John Montague (1929−2016), poet
 * Warren Maguire, linguist, author of the book Language and Dialect Contact in Ireland: The Phonological Origins of Mid-Ulster English
 * Edward Maginn (1802−1849), Roman Catholic coadjutor bishop of Derry.
 * Alan Buchanan (1905–1984), Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin

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Hullabaloo (The Farm album)

Hullabaloo is the third and final studio album released by Liverpool-based indie dance group the Farm. It was released on the Sire Records label in 1994 and was not critically well received.

Track listing
All songs written by Peter Hooton, except where noted.
 * 1) "Messiah" – 4:26
 * 2) "Shake Some Action" (Cyril Jordan, Chris Wilson) – 4:05
 * 3) "Comfort" – 4:52
 * 4) "The Man Who Cried" – 5:59
 * 5) "Hateful" – 4:28
 * 6) "Golden Vision" – 5:06
 * 7) "To the Ages" – 4:19
 * 8) "All American World" – 4:36
 * 9) "Distant Voices" – 5:43
 * 10) "Echoes" (Hooton, Steve Grimes) – 2:30

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Yisrael Galili

Yisrael Galili (ישראל גלילי; 10 February 1911 – 8 February 1986) was an Israeli politician, government minister and member of Knesset. Before Israel's independence in 1948, he served as Chief of Staff of Haganah, the main Zionist paramilitary organization that operated for the Yishuv in the British Mandate for Palestine.

Biography
Yisrael Berchenko (later Galili) was born in the town of Brailiv in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine). His family immigrated to Palestine when he was three years old and settled in Jaffa. Galili attended school there and apprenticed to be a printer. Galili was a founder of the HaNoar HaOved ("Working Youth") youth group, and of Na'an, a kibbutz where he lived until his death.

Military career
Galili began his military career in 1927, when he enlisted in the Haganah. He was appointed to the organization's leadership committee in 1935, and was later placed in charge of Acquisitions and Armaments. During the Second World War, he was involved in preparations to counter an anticipated German invasion of Palestine. He was appointed Chief of Staff of the Haganah in 1946, and served in that capacity until June 1948 when he was removed by David Ben-Gurion in what was called the "Generals' Revolt".

Political career
He served in the first Knesset from 1949 to 1951, and then again from 1955 until 1977, first on behalf of the Mapam party, before being part of the split that formed Ahdut HaAvoda and later merged into the Alignment. He served briefly as Minister of Information and was Minister without Portfolio in several governments. One of Prime Minister Golda Meir's top advisers, and member of her Cabinet, he was also a member of the prestigious Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and on the Ministerial Committee for Settlement.

Victor John Ostrovsky, a self-proclaimed former katsa (case officer) for the Israeli Mossad (foreign intelligence service) claimed in his book By Way of Deception that Galili had a lengthy affair with Golda Meir who was some 13 years his senior.

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Bernard Grandmaître

Bernard "Ben" C. Grandmaître, (born June 24, 1933) is a former politician from Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1984 to 1999 who represented the riding of Ottawa East. He served as a cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson.

Background
Grandmaître was born in Eastview, Ontario, and educated at Ottawa schools. He owned a small business in Vanier, Ontario for thirteen years. He was named a life member of the Centre francophone de Vanier, and was active in the Knights of Columbus.

Politics
Grandmaître was an alderman on the Vanier city council from 1969 to 1974, and served as its mayor from 1974 to 1980 and from 1982 to 1984.

He ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1981 provincial election, but lost to Bob MacQuarrie in the riding of Carleton East (future NDP cabinet minister Evelyn Gigantes finished third).

In government
On December 13, 1984, he was elected in a by-election to succeed retiring MPP Albert Roy in the riding of Ottawa East. This riding is one of the safest Liberal seats in the province, and Grandmaitre was returned without difficulty in the 1985 provincial election.

The Liberals formed a minority government after this election, and Grandmaître was appointed as Minister of Municipal Affairs and Minister responsible for Francophone Affairs. In the latter capacity, he played a major role in passing the province's French Language Services Act in 1986.

The Liberals won a landslide majority in the 1987 election, and Grandmaître defeated his nearest opponent by almost 15,000 votes. He appointed as Minister of Revenue on September 29, 1987, while retaining responsibility for Francophone Affairs. His term in cabinet ended on August 2, 1989.

In opposition
The Liberals were defeated by the NDP in the 1990 election, although Grandmaître again retained his seat without difficulty. He was re-elected again in the 1995 election, and retired in 1999. He endorsed Dalton McGuinty's bid to lead the Ontario Liberal Party in 1996.

Honours and awards
In 2013 he was made a member of the Order of Canada. His citation reads, "for fostering the vitality and growth of Ontario's francophone community." There is an arena named after him in Ottawa and a French Catholic school in the Riverside South neighbourhood of Ottawa that bears his name.

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Otley, Iowa

Otley is a small unincorporated community in Marion County, Iowa, United States. Governed by state laws and county ordinances. It is located approximately 45 miles southeast of the capital, Des Moines, on Iowa Highway 163. The US Post Office has a ZIP Code of 50214. Otley has one post office and is home to Vyke Industries, Mills Mid-Iowa Machinery, LLC, Otley Reformed Church, and Two Rivers Co-op. Additionally, home of several people who went on to form O.P.S. Social Club.

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