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Alvin Schwartz (children's author)

Alvin Schwartz (April 25, 1927 – March 14, 1992) was an American author and journalist who wrote more than fifty books dedicated to and dealing with topics such as folklore and word play, many of which were intended for young readers.

Life and career
Schwartz was born the son of Gussie and Harry Schwartz, a taxi driver. After a stint in the Navy, Schwartz became interested in writing. He received his bachelor's degree from Colby College and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He reported for The Binghamton Press from 1951 to 1955. During his professional writing career his work had been published by a variety of firms, including Lippincott, Bantam Books, Farrar Straus, and HarperCollins.

A series of his books on folklore for children were illustrated by Glen Rounds and each featured a type of folklore: the first, A Twister of Twists, a Tangler of Tongues, was published in 1972. Others in this series included Tomfoolery, which featured wordplay; Witcracks which was about smart-aleck riddles and jokes; and Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat, about superstitions.

He is best known for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series, a series best recognized for its gruesome, nightmarish illustrations by Stephen Gammell. The series was America's most frequently challenged book series for library inclusion during the 1980s and 1990s.

Some of his other books, such as When I Grew Up Long Ago, were aimed at an older audience, and presented glimpses of life in the United States during the late 19th century and the early 20th century.

Schwartz died of lymphoma in Princeton, New Jersey, on March 14, 1992, at age 64. Schwartz was survived by his wife and four children.

The Scary Stories series

 * Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
 * More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
 * Scary Stories 3 : More Tales to Chill Your Bones

Other books

 *  In A Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories
 * Ghosts!: Ghostly Tales from Folklore
 * Stories to Tell a Cat
 * And the Green Grass Grew All around: Folk Poetry from Everyone
 * Gold and Silver, Silver and Gold: Tales of Hidden Treasure
 * I Saw You in the Bathtub and Other Folk Rhymes
 * Telling Fortunes: Love Magic, Dream Signs, and Other Ways to Learn the Future
 * Tales of Trickery from the Land of Spoof
 * All of Our Noses Are Here and Other Noodle Tales
 * Cat's Elbow and Other Secret Languages
 * Ten Copycats in a Boat and Other Riddles
 * Fat Man in a Fur Coat: And Other Bear Stories
 * Unriddling: All Sorts of Riddles to Puzzle Your Guessary
 * Busy Buzzing Bumblebees and Other Tongue Twisters
 * There Is a Carrot in My Ear and Other Noodle Tales
 * Flapdoodle: Pure Nonsense from American Folklore
 * Chin Music: Tall Talk and Other Talk
 * When I Grew Up Long Ago
 * Kickle Sniffers and Other Fearsome Critters
 * Witcracks: Jokes and Jests from American Folklore
 * Whoppers: Tall Tales and Other Lies Collected from American Folklore
 * Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat: Superstitions and Other Beliefs
 * "A Twister of Twists, A Tangler of Tongues"
 * "More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark"

Compilations

 * Scary Stories to Read When It's Dark (Reading Rainbow Readers series)

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Talk:Brass monkey (colloquialism)

A brass monkey was the rack for storing canon balls, it has nothing to do with body parts.

This is simply not true, what's the appropriate tag? According to, this is an urban legend. Does stuff like this go up for vfd? The legend itself isn't notable enough for its own page... perhaps I have answered my own question there. I'll put in a vfd tag in a little bit if there's no compelling reason not to. - Chairboy 03:40, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

This is not a British expression
I've removed the statement that this is a "British colloquial expression". The first reference clearly states that it is not confined solely to Great Britain. Jonathan de Boyne Pollard 22:51, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

Most likely origins
I've removed the text that states, without attribution, what the "most likely" origin is, leaving the original text that attributed such opinions on the likeliness of origins to named people. Jonathan de Boyne Pollard 22:54, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

Vote for Deletion
This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 02:24, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

"Brass Monkeys" are a classic saying - whether only in Britain or in other english speaking countries i know not, but in modern day colloquial use the term is meant to refer to part of the male reproductive anatomy and its generally used in reference to the coldness of the weather ("its brass monkeys") or in regard to someones confidence ("he must have brass monkeys"). From what i remember from my grandfathers navy day stories, it was used pretty much the same back then too...

Physics
I removed the following claim, as its author did not understand the relative coefficients of linear expansion and contraction of different metals (iron vs. brass), which notion gave rise to this folk etymology.

 * # The physics simply do not stand up to scrutiny. All of the balls would contract equally, and the contraction of both balls and plate over the range of temperatures involved would not be particularly large.  The effect claimed possibly could be reproduced under laboratory conditions with objects engineered to a high precision for this purpose, but it is unlikely it would ever have occurred in real life aboard a warship.

I have seen this claim made. Can you produce detailed calculations? PatGallacher 16:12, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

I have heard the explanation that successive layers of frozen water act to push the balls apart are the reason that the balls fall 'off' the brass monkey, as opposed to contraction of the tray. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.118.133.79 (talk) 23:55, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Anecdote
I moved this paragraph here both because it contradicts the rest of the article and because it is written in the first person. -- Nick 21:25, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Contribution 17:30, 7 February 2007 Nosekud
 * FD. I spent a week during each of the summers of 1963, 4 & 5 aboard the Training Ship Foudroyant (Formerly HMS Trincomalee) at Portsmouth. Among the many old artifacts on board were a few triangular brass plates with substantial raised edges. I was told these were "Brass Monkeys" made to hold 3 (not 4) cannonballs. The fighting force of a frigate such as the Trincomalee were mainly Marines and such ships carried only a small number of guns and a small crew of seamen. Unlike larger ships, the crew of a frigate did not include young lads who would act as powder or shot monkeys. Shot was kept on the deck alongside the cannon.
 * In cold weather, waves and sea spray would wash over the flat open deck. Ice would form on the brass monkey, The balls would freeze ON to it. In those conditions it would be cold enough to "Freeze the balls ON a brass monkey".

Nautical History regarding brass monkey
• Some additional mention of discredit or de-mystification of cannon balls and brass monkeys can be found in the archived U.S. Naval History FAQ regarding this specific topic. Specifically, it is that the usage of "freezing of brass monkey" and releasing cannon balls onto the deck is mostly Nautical myth among sailors, seamen, Marines et. al. Nick mentions that brass would freeze under conditions, or rather cannon balls would likely freeze onto the brass. (Not trying to attack or discredit Nick in anyway, just historical documentations as proposed by the U.S. Navy. As a disclaimer, IMHO, first hand experience (Nick) is much more accurate than historical accounts as recorded by third party researchers.) That having been said... The Naval FAQ proposes that in part, the term may have been coined as a result of nautical myth. The FAQ response continues to recite that tradition held that, not the brass monkey (which I always held to be true), but rather the cannon balls themselves contracted at a faster rate than brass, thus making it possible for the cannon balls to roll out of the "brass-monkey". Anyway, it's a proposed theory. I'm including the U.S. Navy's URL: History.Navy.Mil

155.98.242.152 15:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Ooops... forgot to log on... Jerry Zambrano

 * Whilst on a tour of the Palace of Westminster some years ago, the guide pointed out a painting depicting a ship in the Napoleonic Wars...and if I remember correctly, a brass monkey with canon balls on the deck. Darkieboy236 (talk) 00:20, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
 * My father, who was a Canadian naval officer, told me circa 1970 that this thing holding the cannon balls is called a brass monkey, ; if that's wrong, what's this thing called? i think you're just having trouble finding sources -- 135.23.66.249 (talk) 07:52, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd think anyone trying to insert an unsourced claim into the article would be the one who needs to find sources, not those trying to skeptically analyze the veracity of such claims.73.154.104.67 (talk) 12:57, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Blinking brass monkeys!
I really find the layout of this article most peculiar. Cannonballs actually has a heading, even though purely speculative, and under that heading are all the known examples of early referance to the phrase, which plainly  have no reference to canonballs. --Amandajm 06:38, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

quoting Quinion
I had rewritten the intro before I looked up Quinion. I presumed that he was a fairly minor citation in this subject, since his name was creditted beneath those "Snopes" who said (according to what is written here but i haven't checked yet) that they didn't know.

OK! Quinion was quoted as saying the monkey was "something solid and inert".

Solid and inert, but what? The Wiki editor who quoted Quinion leaves out what Quinion most importantly said- "Three Wise Monkeys".

Let me repeat- Quinion, who appears to be the only real expert here said, of the Three Wise Monkeys (commonly cast in brass as I have written in the article), "It’s more than likely the term came from them, as an image of something solid and inert that could only be affected by extremes."

So how did we manage to lose that crucial piece of information, and instead quote "Snopes" who don't know what a brass monkey is.

--Amandajm 08:32, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Naval terminology
It doesn't belong here. It's relevant to monkeys. It's relevant to the Navy. It's not relevant to freezing a brass monkey's balls off!

I have slightly editted the intro to this and placed it here for transfer to a more pertinent site, about naval terminology or some such.

Nautical terminology
The term "monkey" has a number of uses in nautical terminology, as follows:

 * "monkey" —
 * a small coastal trading vessel of the 16th century and 17th century, single masted with a square sail
 * a small wooden cask in which grog was carried after issue from a grog-tub to the seamen's messes in the Royal Navy
 * a type of marine steam reciprocating engine where two engines were used together in tandem on the same propeller shaft
 * a sailor whose job involved climbing and moving swiftly (which usage dates from 1858)
 * a kind of gun or cannon (which usage dates from 1650)
 * "monkey boat" — a narrow vessel used on canals (also dates from 1858).
 * "monkey gaff" — a small gaff on large merchant vessels.
 * "monkey jacket" — a close fitting jacket worn by sailors
 * "monkey fist" — the end of a line when tied into a knot or ball, used to give weight to the line for heaving (still in use today)
 * "monkey spars" — small masts and yards on vessels used for the "instruction and exercise of boys"
 * "monkey pump" — a straw used to suck the liquid from a small hole in a cask
 * "monkey block" — a block used in the rigging of sailing ships
 * "monkey island" — a ship's upper bridge
 * "monkey drill" — calisthenics by naval personnel (which usage dates from 1895)
 * "monkey march" — close order march by US Marine Corps personnel (which usage dates from 1952)
 * "monkey tail" — a short hand spike, use to aim a carronade
 * "powder monkey" — a boy who on a warship carried gun powder from the magazine to the cannon and performed other ordnance duties (which usage dates from 1682).

--Amandajm 08:32, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

New direction
Most of the information was here already. but.. The article has been re-structured so that it moves from what we do know to what is speculated, rather than the other way around. It moves from the opinion of the expert, to the theories which the expert rejects, rather than the other way around.

Th article now talks about what a "real" brass monkey is, and proposes, in agreement with an expert, that it is the source of the expression. It quotes known uses of the expression "brass monkey" as having intrinsic value to the subject and its definition, not simply in order to refute an idea rejected both by the article and the expert being quoted.

It gives validity to the opinion of an expert who knows, rather than quoting a source that say it doesn't know.

I have removed tags that say "original research" and replaced them with tags saying "citation needed". There is a difference! --Amandajm 09:39, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

The navy explained this already
A monkey is a cannon. A monkey made of gunmetal is a brass monkey. When cold the iron cannon balls wouldn't fit in the cannon. They'd be "off" the cannon in the same way a child might be "off" his food. => The cold froze the balls off the brass monkey. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.218.215.40 (talk) 23:59, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

citation needed
What is the source for the theory about the tray and the cannonballs? It needs to be turned into an inline cite, or else have the source quoted directly in the text. --Amandajm 08:32, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Fixed this with a reference to the US Navy that cites the story, then refutes it. --Amandajm 10:55, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

False assumption about the tray and cannonballs
The assumption that a tray with the cannonballs would be useless while a ship was underway is correct. However, the trays were present and used ONLY while the ship was at anchor in port. It apparently was used to decorate the deck. There are pictures of U.S. ships of the period in ports with these devices present. Thus the refutation by the U.S. Navy that these trays wouldn't be used is true only for ships under way, not in port.

 * Naval vessels are of course noted for their carrying of extensive decorative equipment. Photos or WP:RS please, otherwise it's still hearsay. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:37, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Not entirely convinced to the contrary
Nick's account of having been told that the brass trays were called monkeys and the suggestion that the saying was "cold enough to freeze the balls on a brass monkey", rather than "off a brass monkey" sounds fairly convincing.

However, this first hand account is not backed up by documentation. Where as, all the skeptical views are. The difference between freezing the balls on a monkey and freezing the balls off a monkey is simply a matter of second and third degree damage for the primate involved. Either way, it probably results in a neutered monkey.

However, if we are talking about science involving the different contraction rates of metal and whether or not it could be reproduced in lab conditions and so on and so forth, then there is a very big difference between whether the balls are frozen off the monkey, or frozen onto it.

A "brass monkey" as an object to hold cannonballs, would not need to be a solid metal plate with indentations. It could be a brass triangle similar to a billiards rack. The businees about the balls not being stacked on the deck all the time, because they would rust is true, but is nonsense as a refutation for the theory. The fact is, that the balls were on the deck at least some of the time, in times of battle, and in times of danger. At such times, they were surely not just rolling around the deck.

While larger, well armed ships may have had numerous cannons and cannon ports on a lower deck, the majority of lightly armed vessels had two guns, on the upper deck. The balls for those guns had to be on the deck when needed. Where were they? presumably in a brass triangle affair that held at least four balls. Why four, not three as Nick says? Because three balls fit into a triangle and the fourth ball sits neatly into the space on top of the other three, with no danger of it rolling away.

And yes, in very cold weather, when icicles were hanging from the spars, no doubt the balls would be frozen onto the "whatever it is that you call the triangular rack that the balls sit in".

This may sound very contradictory of me, having just rewritten this article from the point of view of the "experts" a linguist and a naval museum, but i have to ask the question.

Does anybody know for sure that the triangle that held cannonballs on the deck (ready for use when needed) was not called a "monkey". If it wasn't called a "monkey", what was it called?

I do not accept that the naval explanation is not feasible The evidence given by the naval museum only looks at the "off" factor, not at the quotation of Nick above that the balls were frozen "on" the monkey, not "off" it. I think that the that little word "off" has steered the whole blinking vessel onto the rocks.

The Theory that I would like to put forward is that both origins of the expression are feasible. That indeed the little Chinese brass monkeys made a contribution, but that at some point, a seaman with a sense of humour applied it, in a sense that had real meaning, in naval terms.

Or vice versa, the naval vulgarity (and I have no doubt it was a vulgarity, even if it had practical meaning), was softened for a literary public. While Shakespeare was perfectly able to say "Tell your pleasant prince this mock of his has changed his balls to gunstones", (Henry V, upon receiving a box of tennis balls as a gift from the French Dauphin), no 19th century writer could refer to the monkey's balls in a novel. Only his nose, tail or some other euphemism.

Moreover, the sailor who said that it was "cold enough to freeze the balls on a brass monkey" when he was at sea, probably retained the expression when he was at shore with his wife and kids, but broke it down because it wasn't what one wanted the toddler to repeat to the vicar's wife.

With the prevalence of brass monkeys, brought home as souvennirs, it would be easy to mistake the type of monkey that was meant. Which brings it around in a circle.

One more point- one reason why I suspect that the nose, tail etc is euphemistic, rather than referring to the "three wise monkeys" is that the tails of Japanese monkeys are negligible, and real brass monkeys are almost never depicted as having them.

--Amandajm 10:55, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Nautical or Naughty?

Although I am not sure further research into this charming expression is really worth the trouble, there is some evidence that the term is quite recent. http://seatalk.blogspot.com/2005/12/garlands-and-brass-monkeys.html I researched that article a few years ago, and it still seems to hold up.

Alanmike 23:09, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

 * One of the questions that I posed above was "whatever it is that you call the triangular rack that the balls sit in". Alanmike has supplied the answer that it was a "garland".

 * I find this term very interesting as the object described in the article cited by Mike has know similarity to a "garland" whatsoever. A garland was a circlet of something, perhaps flowers, but perhaps a gold coronet or a circlet of rope. In the latter sense the term was applied nautically to a rope or metal band around a spar and also to a ring of rope holding cannon balls on the deck.
 * This use of the word must have become very well established for it ultimately to be used for a wooden stand with indentations to hold cannon balls, an object bearing no similarity to a ring of rope, but serving the same purpose.
 * The article cited by Alanmike describes these things as being of wood, but Nick (above) states that he saw cannonball holders made of brass. And we really have no reason to doubt it..

So, my questions are these-
 * If a thing that is triangular and wooden with indentations to hold cannonballs can be called a "garland" (bearing no resemblance to the rope garland at all), could this same object, by association with the lads that carried powder, or some other association unknown, also be known as a "monkey"? If not, why not?
 * And if it has been known, in various places and from time to time as a "monkey", then is not the similar object, when made of brass, a "brass monkey".
 * And would it not be possible for cannonballs to be frozen onto it, thereby having weather that was "cold enough to freeze the balls on a brass monkey?
 * My personal opinion is that the topic has not been sufficiently researched if it is only the "off" factor that has been considered. If no-one has researched the "on" factor then we still don't know.
 * We need to consider what Nick has been told, and make changes if necessary. Not an easy thing to do when we have written an informative article, but, well, it happens all the time on wikipedia! Amandajm 10:25, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

I too spent time on several 'Sail Training' ships. These were schooners and similar craft, not ships of the line. The original ships carried one or two small cannon nothing more. They did not have large crews and therefore no 'powder monkeys' to run the powder and shot to the guns. I too saw brass plates in the deck, with a small lip, and the explaination given was that they were 'Brass Monkeys' (named for the powder monkeys) for the on deck storage of cannon balls. The US navy may not have used these but there are other navies and merchant fleets around the world and the US Navy is not the world authority on all things maritime, especialy as they are a relativly new navy in terms of the worlds shipping history. The Mary Rose was a large warship carrying cannon in the fleet of King Henry VIII, a little before the US Navy came of age and such ships varied vastly to the designs used by the time The US navy have any records!. Is it not therefore possible that there is an explaination beyond the shores of the US? In answer to and earlier assertion that the balls may have been frozen On - the brass monkey I would point out that water expands when frozen. (the same principle applies to burst water pipes) If salt water, having a lower freezing point than fresh water, due to the salt content, freezes when on the brass monkey then the ice expands and breaks up the neat pile of cannon balls, causing them to break off and roll along the deck. We all know the effect of salt on ice as seen when salt is put on our roads to de-ice them in winter. Therefore the point that salt water freezes is exeptionaly cold. QED 'Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey' is very very cold indeed and an apt nautical expression.Ward6666 (talk) 11:02, 17 April 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ward6666 (talk • contribs)

Early recorded uses of the expression
'The Ivory Trail, by Talbot Mundy (1919) has "He has the gall of a brass monkey"'

This is not the same usage and there is no reason to suspect it is related to the colloquial expression thus it shouldn't be in this article. TristanDC (talk) 03:02, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Fire surrounds
(Was/Is a "brass monkey" not meant to describe the ornamental brass fire surround? that had balls on either end... hence the expression "cold enough to freese the balls off of a brass monkey" and the irony being that it sat in front of a fire place? - 78.86.116.52

 * (moved from article page Andy Dingley (talk) 10:05, 27 January 2009 (UTC))

Nautical Basis
I remember this basis (added today) from discussions regarding marine and mechanical engineering where I received my engineering degree in the 1960's. After receiving an email from a friend relaying the cannon ball myth, I researched and discovered this nautical basis had not been presented.

I remember the expression as "...iron balls..."

Monkey used as an adjustable support was difficult to find but can be seen at: http://www.squidsicle.com/?p=22 and http://www.monkeyarms.com/ Typically it would refer to a wall mounted arm like a shelf support but with adjustments possible. Today this would be similar to a wall mount for positioning a fan or surveillance camera. Traditionally it was used to describe positioning holders for mechanical work. KeepItSimpleEngineer (talk) 19:29, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Brass Monkey is not a metaphor for a real monkey
The statement "All of these variations imply that an actual monkey is the subject of the metaphor." makes no sense at all. Weather that could freeze the ball off of a living monkey pales in comparison to weather that could freeze the balls off of a brass monkey, which is clearly oblivious to weather. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael.Urban (talk • contribs) 14:00, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

 * You may have a point. That sentence assumes that the reader has already read the Supposed etymology section and I suspect that at some point in the articles history the section ordering was different. The point being that a brass monkey cannot be a metal tray because a metal tray does not have a tail, throat, nose, ears, nor whiskers. Nick Austin (talk) 10:57, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Pawnbroker's sign
I have long heard that the derivation of the saying is from the traditional sign for a pawnbroker, three gold balls, also known as a "brass monkey". Problem is I cannot find any references to this online. Can anyone shed any light on this or is it an urban myth? – ukexpat (talk) 19:45, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The Wikipedia article about pawnbrokers explains the sign. Nick Austin (talk) 14:15, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

 * Yes it explains the sign, but it says nothing about what appears to be an urban myth that the sign is referred to a "brass monkey" and hence the derivation of the subject of this article. – ukexpat (talk) 17:00, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

original research
early recorded uses of the expression: I didn't look through all the unnumbered (uncited) references, but this section looks like someone just searched google books and pasted the results they found... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.103.113.95 (talk) 07:36, 4 April 2011 (UTC) ok, I found the Quinion reference (World Wide Words website) and will add the citation, though the article contradicts it with on earlier source (supported by a citation linking to Google Books) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.103.113.95 (talk) 07:42, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Photo caption
How exactly is Queensland, Australia a place known for "brass monkey weather", when the latter normally refers to extremely cold conditions? Coconutporkpie (talk) 03:12, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Most of the given examples of the phrase refer to cold, not heat. Locally the phrase may be used to refer to extreme heat, but the mainstream usage seems to be the cold weather reference. Therefore, I think the photo is misleading. Coconutporkpie (talk) 03:17, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

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Ronald Shavlik Randolph (born November 24, 1983) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils after a decorated high school career. After going undrafted in the 2005 NBA draft, Randolph played parts of eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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On May 13, 2005, Randolph declared for the NBA draft, foregoing his final year of college eligibility. In his three-year career at Duke, he played 92 games (36 starts) while averaging 6.3 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game. He was also a member of two ACC regular season championships, two ACC tournament championships, and one Final Four appearance.

Philadelphia 76ers (2005–2008)
Randolph went undrafted in the 2005 NBA draft. On August 5, 2005, he signed with the Philadelphia 76ers. On June 30, 2006, the 76ers tendered a qualifying offer to make Randolph a restricted free agent.

On July 12, 2006, Randolph re-signed with the 76ers to a two-year, $2.1 million contract with the second year containing a player option. Two days later, he joined the 76ers for the 2006 Rocky Mountain Revue.

On November 30, 2006, Randolph broke his left ankle at practice and was taken by ambulance to a hospital. He was playing defense when he landed on the foot of Andre Iguodala. He was subsequently ruled out for the rest of the 2006–07 season.

On June 22, 2007, Randolph exercised the player option on his contract, keeping him with the team for a third season. In July 2007, he re-joined the 76ers for the 2007 NBA Summer League but did not end up playing for them in either the Las Vegas entry or the Rocky Mountain Revue entry.

Portland Trail Blazers and Miami Heat (2008–2010)
On September 25, 2008, Randolph signed with the Portland Trail Blazers. His first game of the 2008–09 season came on January 14, 2009, against his former team, the 76ers, where he managed four points in as many minutes.

On September 28, 2009, Randolph signed with the Miami Heat. He managed just two games for the Heat before he was waived on December 14, 2009. On December 30, 2009, he re-signed with the Trail Blazers to help the team deal with numerous injuries. Portland had to use an NBA hardship exemption in order to sign him as he made their roster stand at 16, one over the allowed limited of 15. His second stint did not last long as he was waived by Portland on January 6 after playing just three games. However, two days later, he signed a 10-day contract with the Trail Blazers. After his 10-day contract expired, he parted ways with the team.

On April 6, 2010, Randolph re-signed with the Heat for the rest of the 2009–10 season. In early July 2010, he joined the Heat for the 2010 NBA Summer League where he averaged 13.0 points and 5.8 rebounds in four games. On July 27, 2010, he again re-signed with the Heat but was later waived on October 20, 2010, before the start of the 2010–11 season.

Puerto Rico and China (2011–2012)
In March 2011, Randolph signed with Gallitos de Isabela for the 2011 BSN season.

In October 2011, Randolph signed with the Dongguan Leopards for the 2011–12 CBA season.

On April 9, 2012, Randolph signed with Piratas de Quebradillas for the 2012 BSN season.

Washington Wizards (2012)
In July 2012, Randolph joined the Washington Wizards for the 2012 NBA Summer League. On September 19, 2012, he signed with the Wizards. However, he was later waived by the Wizards on October 27, 2012, before the start of the 2012–13 season.

Foshan Long Lions (2012–2013)
On November 23, 2012, Randolph signed with the Foshan Long Lions for the rest of the 2012–13 CBA season. On February 5, 2013, he signed with Cangrejeros de Santurce for the 2013 BSN season. However, following the CBA season, he returned to the United States with hopes of re-joining the NBA. In 28 games for Foshan, he averaged 32.0 points, 14.6 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 1.7 steals per game.

Boston Celtics (2013)
On March 1, 2013, Randolph signed a 10-day contract with the Boston Celtics. On March 11, 2013, he signed a second 10-day contract with the Celtics. On March 21, 2013, he signed a multi-year contract with the Celtics. On August 1, 2013, he was waived by the Celtics.

Return to Foshan (2013)
In October 2013, Randolph re-signed with the Foshan Long Lions for the 2013–14 CBA season. However, just six games into the season, he was ruled out for 4–5 weeks with a left shoulder injury and was replaced in the line-up by Dexter Pittman on December 3, 2013.

Phoenix Suns (2014–2015)
On March 1, 2014, Randolph signed with the Phoenix Suns for the rest of the 2013–14 season, with a team option for 2014–15. He made his debut off the bench a day later against the Atlanta Hawks, recording 2 points, 2 rebounds and 1 steal in the 129–120 win. His contract became fully guaranteed for 2014–15 after the Suns did not release him prior to the July 17 cut off date.

Return to Boston (2015)
On January 15, 2015, Randolph was acquired by the Boston Celtics in a three-team trade also involving the Los Angeles Clippers. On April 6, 2015, he was waived by the Celtics after appearing in just five games.

On April 8, 2015, Randolph was claimed off waivers by the Denver Nuggets. However, he was later released by the Nuggets before appearing in a game for them.

Return to China (2015–present)
On July 31, 2015, Randolph signed a three-year deal with the Liaoning Flying Leopards.

Off the court
Randolph is a co-founder of North Carolina-based Big Prime Hauling, which was acquired by Bright Hope Capital in August 2020. He is also credited, along with several other NBA players, as an early investor in Fotmer Life Sciences, LLC., founded in South America in 2016.

Personal life
Randolph is the son of Ken and Kim Randolph who both attended the University of North Carolina. His grandfather, Ronnie Shavlik, was an All-American basketball player at N.C. State and a first-round draft pick of the New York Knicks in 1956. As a child, Randolph worked as a ball boy for the N.C. State team. He also has a brother, Dexter and a sister, Senna. His brother Dexter, died on October 8, 2019, in Tochigi, Japan.

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Mecha-Streisand

"Mecha-Streisand" is the twelfth and penultimate episode of the first season of the American animated television series South Park. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on February 18, 1998. In the episode, Barbra Streisand obtains the Diamond of Pantheos from Stan, Cartman, Kyle and Kenny, and transforms into a giant mechanical dinosaur called Mecha-Streisand. She is ultimately defeated by The Cure frontman Robert Smith, who himself transforms into a giant moth monster.

The episode was written by series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone along with writer Philip Stark, and was directed by Parker. "Mecha-Streisand" parodies numerous popular Kaiju films and features portrayals of actor Sidney Poitier and film critic Leonard Maltin.

According to Nielsen ratings, "Mecha-Streisand" was watched by 5.4 million viewers, a record high viewership for a South Park episode at the time. Streisand herself was critical of the series and her role in "Mecha-Streisand", although Leonard Maltin was complimentary about his portrayal.

Plot
During a field trip to an archeological dig, Cartman discovers a mysterious stone triangle, which he promptly throws away without interest. Shortly after Kyle picks it up, the guide identifies the writing on the triangle as Anasazi. Kyle appears on television to discuss the find, resulting in a jealous Cartman's wanting the triangle back. Cartman constantly pesters Kyle until he returns the triangle to him. Meanwhile, Leonard Maltin comes to South Park and asks Chef whether he has seen Barbra Streisand. Maltin, having seen Kyle and the triangle on television, tells Chef the boys are in great danger.

Streisand herself finds the boys at the bus stop and demands the "Triangle of Zinthar", and gets angry when they reject her. As they search for Streisand, Maltin tells Chef she is seeking the boys' triangle to complete a powerful and ancient relic, the "Diamond of Pantheos", which will allow her to become an evil and dangerous creature capable of conquering the world. He explains that the diamond was originally split into two pieces and hidden at different points of the world, but Streisand had managed to find the first of the two. Streisand later dons a disguise and visits the boys again, offering them a monetary reward for the triangle. Stan, Kenny and Kyle are suspicious, but Cartman insists they go along for the money.

Streisand takes them to her condo in the mountains, where she chains the boys up and tortures them with her singing voice. Cartman relents and gives up the triangle. Streisand uses the triangle to complete the diamond, transforming herself into a giant mechanical dinosaur version of herself, Mecha-Streisand, and begins to lay waste to South Park with her new form. Maltin and Chef arrive to free the boys, and Maltin asks Chef to call Robert Smith of The Cure for help. Maltin then transforms into a giant robot to battle Mecha-Streisand, but is quickly defeated. The boys evade fiery debris from the fight, but Kenny is killed when he stops to play tetherball and gets strangled by the rope. Actor Sidney Poitier arrives and turns into a giant fanged turtle to fight Mecha-Streisand, but he too is easily defeated. After getting a call from the boys and Chef, Robert Smith arrives and transforms into a giant moth creature.

During the ensuing battle, Smith-Moth manages to punch the Diamond of Pantheos away from Mecha-Streisand before flinging her into outer space, where she explodes and dies. The townspeople, including Jesus, joyfully praise Smith as a hero. As the singer walks off into the sunset, Kyle calls out "Disintegration is the best album ever!". The boys split the diamond again to try to prevent anyone else from getting its power and throw the pieces in the trash can. However, Kyle's little brother Ike finds the pieces of the diamond in the trash, resulting in the episode ending with the boys cowering in the presence of a new foe: Mecha-Ike.

Production
"Mecha-Streisand" was written by series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, along with writer Philip Stark, and was directed by Parker. "Mecha-Streisand" first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on February 18, 1998. Robert Smith, lead vocalist and guitarist for the English rock band The Cure, makes a guest appearance as himself, marking only the second time a celebrity guest played a major role in an episode, after Natasha Henstridge in "Tom's Rhinoplasty". Following the success of "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo", a large number of celebrities started contacting Comedy Central with the hopes of making guest appearances in South Park episodes, allowing Parker and Stone to practically take their pick of guest stars. Parker, a fan of The Cure, said it was his lifelong dream to meet Smith, and he was one of the few celebrities Parker specifically requested to make an appearance. Smith performed all of his lines via telephone and Parker used the first reading of each line, even though they were executed in a very dead-pan voice. When Parker and Stone made fun of celebrities in previous South Park episodes, they were chosen at random and "all just in good fun". However, they chose to mock Barbra Streisand based on a strong distaste for the actress. They explained that after Colorado passed the Amendment 2, an amendment to the Colorado state constitution which forbids homosexuals from being recognized as a protected class (and would later be struck down by the Supreme Court in Romer v. Evans), Streisand made a public statement in which she called the Coloradans "a bunch of hicks", vowing never to visit Colorado again. Parker said he also finds her singing voice "annoying", which inspired the scene with Streisand torturing the boys by singing to them. They tried to make Streisand's portrayal as "sick and disgusting as possible" in the episode. Mary Kay Bergman, a voice artist who had done most of the female voices on South Park, portrayed Streisand in the episode.

South Park animators created the episode using PowerAnimator, the Alias Systems Corporation animation program most commonly known as "Alias". Eric Stough, director of animation for the series, said "Mecha-Streisand" was slightly more challenging to animate than other first-season episodes due to the laser beam-type effects featured in the final monster fight, which were specifically designed to resemble a low-budget monster movie with poor graphics. The scenes with an instructional guide taking the kids on a fossil hunt were based on real-life arrowhead-digging excursions Parker and Stone went on in Red Rocks Park during their childhood in Colorado. During a scene with Chef and Leonard Maltin driving in a car, actual video footage of Colorado roads is visible through the back window of the car. The footage was shot by a friend of Parker and Stone and used because the animators did not yet know how to create roads in perspective.

Cultural references
"Mecha-Streisand" parodies Kaiju films such as Godzilla, Gamera, Mothra, and Ultraman. Parker and Stone watched many Godzilla films during their childhoods, and Parker said he knew from the beginning of South Park that he would base an episode around the films. Streisand is based on Mechagodzilla, the mechanical doppelgänger of Godzilla. Smith is based on Mothra, the giant moth-like monster from the 1961 film Mothra and also one of Godzilla's rivals, which Parker described as his favorite of the Kaiju films. The scene in which six-inch-tall twins appear and ask actor Sidney Poitier to fight Mecha-Streisand are based on similar scenes and characters from the Mothra film. Poitier portrays a monster similar to Gamera, a flying turtle monster, and film critic Leonard Maltin transforms into a giant mechanical superhero resembling that of Japanese television superhero Ultraman. During the fights sequence, Stan shouts for Smith to "use robot punch", a line frequently used in Japanese robot television shows. The Diamond of Pantheos, on the other hand, closely resembles the pendant worn by a major character in the anime Galaxy Express 999.

When the monsters battle each other at the end of the episode, a Japanese man sings songs about each of the monsters while they approach. This mirrors a common element throughout actual Japanese monster movies, which commonly have theme songs for the monster characters. Parker wrote the songs in Japanese language. The English translation for the lyrics sung when Robert Smith transforms translates are, "I really like Robert Smith", and the lyrics sung about Mecha-Streisand translate, "Barbra, Barbra, she's a bitch, Barbra". When Streisand becomes Mecha-Streisand, the line was written in Japanese, "From this moment on, I am Mecha-Streisand!", but Parker said Bergman misread some of the words so the on-air translation was imperfect. Before Leonard Maltin transforms, he screams in Japanese, "Listen, listen, here's a tulip", which Parker said is a phrase Japanese children say before passing gas.

During the fight scene, a number of skyscrapers are shown getting destroyed. Parker, who acknowledged the buildings were never featured in any other South Park episode, said they were modeled after real-life skyscrapers in Denver and included in "Mecha-Streisand" only so they could get destroyed during the monster fight, a frequent element of battles in real Japanese monster films. Musical elements from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Super Friends are also featured during the battle. Actress Sally Struthers, who was previously lampooned in the South Park episode "Starvin' Marvin", is briefly seen during a scene in "Mecha-Streisand", in which she is filming a movie scene with Poitier. Kyle tells Robert Smith, "Disintegration is the best album ever". The line was based on Parker's own enthusiasm for The Cure's 1989 album, Disintegration, and Robert Smith himself would go on to say in an interview that the line was his "happiest moment". As Smith walks into the sunset, a version of The Cure's "Let's Go to Bed" is played on the Japanese Lute (Biwa). Officer Barbrady makes a reference to singer-songwriter Fiona Apple with the line, "Well, you ain't Fiona Apple, and if you ain't Fiona Apple, I don't give a rat's ass." At the time of "Mecha-Streisand"'s airing, Apple had recently released her first studio album Tidal.

Reception and release

In its original American broadcast on February 18, 1998, "Mecha-Streisand" received a 6.9 Nielsen rating, translating to 5.4 million viewers in 3.2 million households. At the time, it was a record high viewership for a South Park episode, breaking the record that was set earlier that month by "Damien", and was ten times the average of Comedy Central's non-South Park programming. Mecha-Streisand remained the highest rated episode in the history of South Park until 2001 when "Scott Tenorman Must Die" broke the record with an 8.1 Nielsen rating.

Parker and Stone were very happy with the episode, but received feedback from fans that it was one of the weaker episodes of the first season, and that the constant jokes about Barbra Streisand started to grow redundant. Many fans also did not like Kenny's tether ball accident death scene because it had nothing to do with the plot of the episode, which Parker and Stone said was supposed to be the joke.

Streisand herself took a negative view of her portrayal, stating in a Mirabella interview, "I wasn't even aware of this show until I read in Time magazine that they had used me in a very negative way. Let me say that I enjoy satire and parody and I loved the movie In & Out. It made me laugh. It wasn't mean-spirited. But I wonder if shows like South Park and Beavis and Butt-head don't add to the cynicism and negativity in our culture, especially in children. These youngsters are formulating their attitudes and maybe they come away feeling that any woman who dares to accomplish something is the incarnation of self-centeredness and greed. And that would be very unfortunate, especially for young girls." Parker and Stone created the second season episode "Spookyfish" in response, where they took a picture of Streisand's head, placed the image into all four corners of the screen and called it "Spooky vision".

Leonard Maltin was complimentary about "Mecha-Streisand", and told Parker and Stone his children particularly enjoyed his portrayal in the episode. Regarding his appearance, Robert Smith had claimed that nothing in his career mattered as much to his younger nephews and nieces as the fact that he was featured on South Park.

"Mecha-Streisand" was released, along with 11 other episodes, in a three-disc DVD set in November 1998. It was included in the third volume, which also included the episodes "Starvin' Marvin", "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo" and "Tom's Rhinoplasty". "Mecha-Streisand", along with the other twelve episodes from the first season, was also included in the DVD release "South Park: The Complete First Season", which was released on November 12, 2002. Parker and Stone recorded commentary tracks for each episode, but they were not included with the DVDs due to "standards" issues with some of the statements; Parker and Stone refused to allow the tracks to be edited and censored, so they were released in a CD separate from the DVDs. In 2008, Parker and Stone made "Mecha-Streisand" and all South Park episodes available to watch for free on the show's official website, "South Park Studios".

The episode was revisited twelve years later in the show's 200th episode, along with many other past South Park storylines, featuring a redesigned Mecha-Streisand. During a duet with Neil Diamond, Mecha-Streisand lets out a green cloud from her groin that disgusts the people of South Park. The original Japanese theme song for the creature also plays in the episode. The Mecha-Streisand featured in "200" is designed with more sophisticated computer imagery than the original, as the animation quality of the series has improved over the years in general.

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The Pancakes

The Pancakes is a Hong Kong–based one-girl band consisting of independent singer-songwriter Dejay Choi. The music of the Pancakes is characterised by Dejay's very innocent, almost childlike voice with bright and catchy melodies. Most of the Pancakes' songs have English lyrics, unlike the majority of Hong Kong pop music, where Cantonese is the norm.

History
Dejay Choi, the sole member of the band, graduated from the University of Hong Kong, and Lee Hysan Hall (Old Hall), majoring in translation and German. She worked in the library of the Goethe-Institut Hong Kong (the German cultural centre in Hong Kong) prior taking up the profession as a singer-songwriter. Choi participated in several independent bands before founding the Pancakes, such as the Postcard (in 1996, a three-member band), Ginger Biscuits (in 1997, a solo act) and Tricycle Rider (in 1999, also with three members).

Her real Chinese name is unknown to the public, although appears as 蔡明麗 (coi3 ming4 lai6 in Jyutping) on her 2011 Cantonese album 腦殘遊記.

Choi handles almost everything by herself in the production of her albums, from musical composition, lyrics writing, instruments performance, singing, recording to production, etc. Dejay plays the guitar and keyboard. Furthermore, Dejay has also founded her own record label, Rewind Records, which handles the management and promotion for the Pancakes.

Her song, gum gum gum (Chinese: 咁咁咁, literally "like this, like this, like this"), written for the film McDull, Prince de la Bun won "Best Original Film Song" at the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards.

Discography
Albums
 * Les Bonbons Sont Bons (January 2000).
 * Pancakes can panick (August 2000).
 * All already ready (May 2002).
 * Stereo Radio/ Left (February 2003).
 * Stereo Radio/ Right (August 2003).
 * Everyone has a Secret (September 2005).
 * 1,2,3,4,5,6, cheese! (October 2007).
 * Sometimes I just can't remember all the things we did together (June 2010).
 * 腦殘遊記 (July 2011).
 * sometimes when we cry (December 2013).

Single
 * Demo Demo No.1 (March 2000)

Collaborated album
 * ok karaoke (with alok July 2001)
 * freeplay (with Chet Lam and ketchup (March 2004)

Album released under Elefant Records
 * Captain Curtain (March 2001)
 * Flying in the blue sky on a frying pan (November 2001)

Composition for advertisements
Hong Kong
 * Kowloon Motor Bus, July 2000, a (from the album les bonbons sont bons)
 * HSBC Hong Kong credit card, December 2000, patronage (from the album pancakes can panick).
 * San Miguel Beer Division, April 2001, wala wala (from album les bonbons sont bons) and 11 unreleased songs.
 * China Light and Power, July 2001, the pancakes and the music'.
 * Qoo soft drink, August 2002, the Qoo song.
 * Hong Kong Leisure and Cultural Services Department, July 2006, incidental music for public pools advertisement.
 * Hong Kong Centre of Health Protection, 2014, in the tune of If You're Happy and You Know It to lyrics giving instructions to stay home if one were to feel sick.
 * Hong Kong Arts Centre, theme song for the 14th Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, September 2008, 大踏步 (from album 1,2,3,4,5,6, cheese!)
 * Wah Sing Zihua Embrocation, 2011, 點點點，最啱係我 a song written specially for the advertisement in which telling one where to apply Zihua Embrocation and how (via drips).
 * Nestle 笨Nana Ice Cream, 2012, the 笨Nana Song.
 * Red Bull Soapbox Race Hong Kong, 2012, my super car.
 * Nestle 笨Nana, 2013, 三兄弟.
 * Nestle 笨Nana, 2014, 變身2姊妹.

Europe
 * Kia Motors Motors, 2007, tell me the truth before one of us dies ( from the album stereo radio/right) were used on the advertisement "cee'd sporty wagon Spot".

As director

 * Looking for true love, (September 2004) – as director, producer and screen script writer.

As voice actor

 * My life as McDull, (2001) – voice-acting for school teacher Ms Chan.
 * McDull, Prince de la Bun, (2004) – ut supra.
 * McDull, The Alumni, (2006) – ut supra.

As composer

 * Triumph in the Skies (2015)

Publication

 * 班門弄戟 (Cantonese：Baan Mun Nung Gig; Pinyin: bān mén nòng jǐ), Chinese proses collection, published by Kubrick in July 2005. ISBN 988-97905-3-X

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Tour de Snowy

The Tour de Snowy was an international women's road bicycle race held in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia from 1998 to 2002. The Tour had from five to nine stages and attracted professional cyclists from around the world as an important event in the women's road racing calendar.

Originally sponsored by the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority and the NSW Department of Sport & Recreation, the Tour De Snowy was discontinued in 2003 due to lack of sponsorship.

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Artois Hound

The Artois Hound or Chien D'Artois is a medium-sized breed of dog. A scent hound, the Artois was breed in northern France as a pack hunter. It is a rare breed today, but was popular in France before the 20th century. The breed was heavily crossbred and had to be reconstructed in the 1970s to more closely resemble the historical breed.

Characteristics
The Artois is a medium-sized, muscular dog about 53 to 58 cm high at the withers and 28 to 30 kg. They have a square-shaped muzzle and long, low-hanging ears. Their tail is long and carried upwards in a "sickle" shape. The coat is short and typically dark fawn tricolor, "similar to a hare or badger".

A scent hound, the Artois is a small pack hunter with a strong pack instinct. They have been used to hunt small game, as well as deer and wild boar. Like many hounds, they have a loud musical bark.

History
The Artois Hound are from Artois, in northern France. A similarly named dog was referenced as early as 1609, with Prince Alexandre de Gray mentioning "a pack of little d'Artois dogs" in a letter.

During the 19th century, the Artois Hound was increasingly crossbred with British breeds. Le Couteulx de Canteleu, in the 1890 Manuel de Vénerie Française, writes that it was difficult to find a purebred Artois, but the breed remained one of the best breeds for hare hunting. In the 1880s, Ernest Levair in Picardy had attempted the re-establishment of the old Artois type. Another prominent breeder contemporary to Levair, Mallard, also bred Artois, but his dogs were much less similar to the historical descriptions of the breed. For all their efforts however the Second World War was very damaging for the breed and after the Second World War, the Artois was all but extinct.

In the 1970s a few aficionados, in particular Audrechy, decided to reconstitute the breed from a few remaining specimens, including those of the Prince de Conde. Thanks to their efforts the modern day Artois closely resembles the original.

The modern Artois Hound is recognized by the FCI and the United Kennel Club.

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Technically this was original research - I went and looked at mine (yeah, I'm so cool). It's not a picture disc, so I sort of described it in the article. Huw Powell (talk) 00:19, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect Track Lengths
Aren't some of the track lengths quite wrong? A bit of arithmetic demonstrates the listed lengths don't add up to the given album length in the album info box. I'm going off the track lengths given here: http://www.we7.com/#/album/Speaking-In-Tongues-w-Bonus-Tracks-!albumId=166501. Granted, this is a bonus track remastered edition, but it's unlikely they put in different song takes or anything like that. I propose this be corrected unless an explanation can be given for why there is such a disparity. The Coj (talk) 03:23, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

 * it's unlikely they put in different song takes or anything like that
 * Actually, that's sort of what happened. When the album was released, the running lengths of some songs were shorter on the LP than they were on cassette. The first CD release used the LP-length songs but subsequent CD issues have used the longer cassette versions. I don't know the source of the track lengths used in the article, but it's possible they're from the original LP (or the initial CD) and the website has the latest CD track lengths. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 05:00, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

 * That's interesting, thanks for clearing that up. With this in mind then should something not be changed in the article? So that at least the album length given in the info box and the total of the added track lengths match up. Perhaps even including two seperate album length values marked as LP and CD reissues, and/or in the track listing section state that all times refer to the original LP release. What are your thoughts? The Coj (talk) 14:13, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Singles
The article mentions that "Burning Down the House" was a substantial hit single, and that "This Must be the Place" was also released as a single. The Chart Performance section only includes an entry for "This Must be the Place". Is there a reason for this? Did "Burning" predate the album, or could no-one find a reference for the song's US chart position? I would fix it myself, but the omission seems too obvious to be an accident. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 12:40, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Speaking in Tongues was released on June 1, 1983. "Burning Down the House" was released in July 1983. I have added its chart place with a source. Thanks. 86.187.227.246 (talk) 18:35, 31 May 2023 (UTC)


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User talk:Dragglebaggle

Welcome!

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User:Bmicomp/RfC

 '''Welcome to my own Request for Comments page. I encourage constructive criticism regarding my performance on Wikipedia, and this is the page to do it on. Please sign and date your entries by inserting ~ at the end.''' Note: Destructive criticism belongs on its own page (vandalism, profanity, pictures of male genatalia, etc) [ Start a new talk topic.]

Sasquatch's Evidence comments
First, it must be pointed out the this is of course a mock RfC and a quick scan of bmicomp's edits reveals he is endlessly reverting vandalism and a great asset to this community.

That being said, here are some things he might conisder improving: I think that sums it up for me XD the fact that I found one thing seems like a victory. Happy Editting!
 * 1) You seem to love adding  and  templates to things but not doing much of it. Remember, it's always better to cleanup things ourselves than to leave it for others (something my mother taught me, that and life is like a box of chocolates... or was that Forest Gump?).

Users who endorse this version sign here:
 * 1) Sasquatch′↔Talk↔Contributions 03:42, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Take this page out of your signature it confuses me profusely! I will eat your children! Redwolf24 00:29, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Response
 * Yeah, I was thinking about that, it's a good point. Usually I try to stick to RC patrol but I was taking the time to tag articles in need of attention with a template rather than doing the work myself (if it needed a lot of work), so I could get back to RC patrolling.  However, I've been taking your advice and trying to do the work myself rather than leave it for somebody else.  Thanks for your comments.  -- BMIComp  (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 16:59, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Third party view
 * I do that a lot too. I figure that there is already a cleanup crew, and if I stopped to wikify every article that I came across that needed wikifying, a ton of vandalism would get missed. Think of it as specialisation: Bmicomp, Sasquatch, func, me, etc, are dedicated vandal slayers. We're good at what we do. Wikifying is a low-priority job, but vandals need to be killed right away before they can inflict too much damage. So I wouldn't encourage an RC patroller to stop RC patrolling to wikify an article unless things are really slow.

Users who endorse this statement:
 * 1) ⟳ ausa کui ×12:17, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) I'd've endorsed this long ago if I'd seen it before today. Athænara   ✉  09:25, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Texture's Evidence road rage
I have found the following disturbing behaviors:
 * 1) Driving on the right side of the road. (Where do you think you are?)
 * 2) Failing to signal a change in discussion. Blinkers are required for each subject change - ignorance of policy (well... there should be!) is no excuse.
 * 3) Violating city beautification laws.  Bumper stickers at the tail of a signature violate city ordinance.  (And we're gonna measure the length of your grass, too!)
 * 4) Exceeding edit limits per hour. (Slow down, young man.  Where's the fire?)
 * 5) Equipment repair warning - busted tail lights.  Your tail lights look like "(" and ")" on either side of your bumper.  They should look like "(o)". (Modern tail lights just look like "o" but yours is way old... nice tail fins.)  You have seven days to get this repaired.

You moving violations will require that you appear in federal district circuit supreme state traffic court. Your court date is 8/3/5+6-2/1**3. If you fail to appear your will be found in violation of your parole and your wife will be returned to you.

Users who endorse this version sign here:

2. Strong support from myself and my magnetic fish. Fernando Rizo T/C 01:39, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Response

I love your talk page. Actually, I didn't know about the multiple block issue. Thanks for filling me in. That doggoned IP was causing nothing but trouble. Is it back on 24-hour block? - Lucky 6.9 04:36, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hotels Sir George Athelstone II 00:03, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Bmicomp, I think a hotel list would be good! Please read my comments at : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hotels#A_Hotel_List_is_Good

Bad form
You would do well to learn the difference between a |editing proposed decision and a final decision, and only link to the latter as evidence of what a given final decision is. Still, the ArbCom's writing ability seems more in need of improvement than yout ability to make this distinction. I guess we can at least be happy that they're not involved in any projects that involve very much writing ...

Marsden 20:59, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

 * You referred to "editing restrictions with respect to you (me)" in your comment. Is there something I should know about?  Marsden 19:26, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Fotherington-Thomas
You jumped on the article very quickly as it was being worked on - but dealt with my comments quickly and well - carry on being vigilient and polite - well done! :) ...en passant! 19:53, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Okay I looked up the word Passel here and could not find it.

I looked it up in a tangible dictionary

it means a group of things

So I thought I would be helpful and add that, but it was later deleted. It is not vulgarity or profanity. It is the actual meaning of the word.

Fruit Flies
Hello Bmicomp/RfC,

Just wanted to mention that lemons will not destroy fruit flies. In fact, they love them.

Thanks Mike

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Snowy Hydro

Snowy Hydro Limited is an electricity generation and retailing company in Australia that owns, manages, and maintains the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme that consists of nine hydro-electric power stations and sixteen large dams connected by 145 kilometres (90 mi) of tunnels and 80 kilometres (50 mi) of aqueducts located mainly in the Kosciuszko National Park. Snowy Hydro also owns and operates two gas-fired power stations in Victoria and one in New South Wales, three diesel power stations in South Australia and owns two electricity retailing businesses, Red Energy and Lumo Energy.

The company is owned by the Government of Australia and whilst not a statutory corporation, is established by the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act 1949 (Cth). Prior to its incorporation under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), the company was previously known as Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority.

Generating assets
The company manages the Snowy Mountains Scheme that generates on average around 4,500 gigawatt hours of clean, renewable energy each year, which was around 37% of all renewable energy in the mainland National Electricity Market in 2010.

The company also owns a 300 MW gas-fired peaking power station in the Latrobe Valley, a 320 MW gas-fired peaking power station at Laverton North near Melbourne, and a 667 MW gas-fired peaking power station at Colongra on the Central Coast of New South Wales. It also owns three diesel-powered peaking power stations in South Australia providing 136 MW between them. The company's production assets are summarised in the table below. These assets are used to generate electricity for sale under contract to the National Electricity Market.

Water storage and diversion
As part of the company's responsibilities for managing the Snowy Mountain Scheme, Snowy Hydro Limited also collects, stores, and diverts water for irrigation from the Snowy Mountains catchment west to the Murray and Murrumbidgee River systems under what is called the Snowy Water Licence. Granted as part of the for fixed five-year terms, this licence prescribes the rights and obligations on the company with respect to the collection, diversion, storage, use, and release of water within the Snowy area. The Snowy Water Licence also imposes some obligations on the company in terms of releasing environmental flows east into the Snowy River and other rivers in the Snowy Mountains region.

Proposed public divestment
In December 2005, the Government of New South Wales announced it would sell its 58% share in Snowy Hydro, expecting to yield A$1 billion. The Federal and Victorian governments had followed suit, announcing by mid-February 2006 the intent to sell their 13% and 29% respectively, with A$1.7 billion (ranging up to A$3 billion) expectations through a public float. Pre-registration for shares in Snowy Hydro opened in mid May and it was expected that the float would take place some time in July. Over 200,000 people pre-registered to purchase shares in the company over two weeks.

On 2 June 2006, the Federal Government announced that it would no longer sell its 13% stake in the project, effectively forcing the hands of the New South Wales and Victorian governments to follow suit. The aborted sale followed strong opposition from the public, including government MPs and prominent Australians.

In February 2014 the National Commission of Audit recommended in its Phase One Report that the Federal Government sell its interest in Snowy Hydro. In March 2018, the Federal Government bought out the New South Wales and Victorian government shareholdings.

Current market position
Since privatisation was cancelled in 2006, the company has continued to grow with investment into Snowy Scheme modernisation projects, cloud seeding, development of mini hydro opportunities such as the 14 MW Jounama mini-hydro (commissioned in 2010) and growth of its retailing business, Red Energy. In September 2014 Snowy Hydro purchased gas and electricity retailer Lumo Energy for $600 million. Red Energy currently has 1.6 million electricity and gas customers.

In addition Snowy Hydro has developed its gas-fired power station portfolio to reduce risks to the business due to its reliance on water as an energy source, and the potential impact of transmission constraints on the ability of the remote Snowy Mountains hydro generation assets to access the electricity grid. In January 2015 Snowy Hydro acquired the gas-fired Colongra Power Station in New South Wales.

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Talk:Marvolo Gaunt

This is a redirect to The House of Gaunt

Deathdate
I added his Deathdate. Dumbledore mentioned that he died before Morfin was released from Azkaban. Since the later happened in early 1928, I put Marvolo's deathdate as around 1927.

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User talk:DaveMetzger

FSU
Hey, welcome to the Film School. I'm a first year BFA myself. Kushboy 02:22, September 13, 2005 (UTC)

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Factoría de Ficción (TV channel, 2000–2007)

Factoría de Ficción (lit. 'Factory of Fiction') was a Spanish specialty television channel specialised in drama series, available on satellite and cable TV providers. It started operations on 19 June 2000, and was available through satellite platform Digital+ and cable operator ONO. The channel was owned by Globomedia, Grupo Antena 3 and Gestevisión Telecinco.

Factoría de Ficción broadcast mostly Spanish TV shows but also some international programming. The episodes of Spanish series were broadcast by this channel about 1–2 weeks after they premiered on Antena 3 and Telecinco.

It broadcast series such as 7 vidas, Los Serrano, Mis adorables vecinos, Hospital Central, Motivos Personales and The Tribe, as well as older series like Manos a la Obra and Antivicio and the Canadian series Are You Afraid of the Dark?.

The channel closed on 1 June 2007 due to contract renewal problems with Digital+. On 18 February 2008, Gestevisión Telecinco relaunched its free-to-air TV channel Telecinco Estrellas as FDF Telecinco, and later as the new Factoría de Ficción.


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Studio Kajino

Studio Kajino (スタジオカジノ) is a subsidiary of Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli. It was created prior to 2000 by Ghibli animator Yoshiyuki Momose to handle live action films for the studio. Kajino is run by Ghibli's president Toshio Suzuki, and its first release was Shiki-Jitsu in 2000. In 2001, Studio Kajino co-produced Katsuyuki Motohiro's film Satorare, but was not credited. However, the studio's involvement is acknowledged through an extra feature on the R3 DVD, entitled "Ghibli Studio".

Films

 * Shiki-Jitsu
 * Satorare

Music videos

 * capsule – "Portable Airport"
 * capsule – "Space Station No.9"
 * capsule – "A Flying City Plan"

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