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Movies
nowhere in this artical is it mentioned that several of these books have been turned into movies. to find out this information, a reader would need to go to the individual articals on each movie, and read carefully. this artical would benefit from this addition.--Whiteknight 06:50, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * So what's the problem? Why do you even have to consult with us on the talk page? I say, be bold.
 * EliasAlucard|Talk 10:02, 24 Aug, 2005 (UTC)

Merging?
Hi all,

So this page contains summaries of all of the books in the series... but there are also links to individual pages about individual books that contain (different, as far as I can tell) summaries of the books. What do people think about merging the summaries from this page into the summaries on individual book pages? (I know, "be bold," but since this would be a relatively major edit I wanted to see if anyone had a good reason to be strongly against it before moving forward.) I'll give it a few days for comments and then go ahead and start making changes if no one objects.

Hbackman 20:27, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

 * My vote is vehemently in favor of this proposal. There's no logical reason to have one set of summaries on this page, and then another set on the individual book pages, that's just messy. If you're willing to do such a major edit, I say do it. =) - Vaelor 07:24, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I've been working on it sporadically. More than halfway done now! :) Hbackman 22:55, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I think it makes the most sense to have the pages merged, as suggested. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.93.137.147 (talk • contribs) 26 April 2006 (UTC)

 * My vote is vehemently not in favor of this proposal. I think that a brief summary of each book on the Vampire Chronicles page is a good idea, and helpful.  The summaries on each of the separate book pages are long, detailed, and contiain massive spoilers.  On this page, they seem more like back-of-the-book summaries, which is helpful for those readers who are interested in learning about the Chronicles but not spoiling the books.  PantherFoxie 17:18, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

 * The summaries here are also horribly non-encyclopedic praising the novels and the author. I've attempted to remove some of this non-point-of-view but it is far from complete.  Jeff schiller 12:55, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

 * My vote is not in favor of this proposal. I quite agree with PantherFoxie; the summaries are more compact and certainly much more helpful to readers who want just a basic idea of the books. The goal of an encycolpedia isn't just to give you links to where you can find information. But still Jeff Schiller is right in that it needs some POV cleaning up. LestatdeLioncourt 13:58, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I favor summarizing generic aspects of The Vampire Chronicles, i.e. the Vampiric Powers section on The Queen of the Damned page, the major characters of The Vampire Chronicles, the timeline and history of The Vampire Chronicles, etc. However, each book should continue to have its own page, providing a summary of that particular story, characters and themes appearing in that book, actors and actresses portraying roles in the movie version, etc.  FeralDruid 19:46, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Strong Disagree Don't merge them. That would reveal several spoilers, besides this page would become huge. Disagree with the merge. xCentaur | ☎  11:51, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Featured?
Hey I just got this crazy idea... maybe not so crazy, but anyways, I think this article is very good, and really could stand a chance as a Featured Article after some cleaning up. What do you think? LestatdeLioncourt 14:09, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Has anyone seen the movie Queen Of The Damned?
They diviated (is my spelling wrong?)from the book quite a bit. The movie had Marius as Lestat's maker when it was really Magnus and Leatat didn't meet Marius until 10 years after he became a vampire. And what was up with the whole Jesse/Lestat romance thingy in the movie, in the book he only met Jesse once at the concert and then after she became a vampire when him and Akasha reunited with the rest of them at Maharet's place. It was still a great movie though. I am currently listening to the Queen Of The Damned soundtrack as I type,lol.Why wasn't Mekare mentioned at all in the movie? I hope to see more movies on the Chronicles.(I don't think there are but is there any other movies on the chronicles other then Interview With The Vampire and Queen Of The Damned)Does anyone know where I can get the book Blood and Gold? been looking all over.

This entire page plagiarized from Anne Rice's web site?
The Vampire Chronicles appeared on my watchlist recently, as having been updated. In reviewing the change, I realized the descriptions of the books in the wiki are taken, word for word, from the descriptions given on Anne's web site. For example, compare the The Vampire Chronicles entry with the Memnoch page on Anne's site. Question: Isn't this a violation of the copyright posted at the bottom of each page on her web site, and therefore a violation of Wikipedia policies regarding the posting of copyrighted material? FeralDruid 11:27, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Most definitely so. All copyvio material must be deleted on sight. —  Lestat deLioncour t  17:58, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Delete it then, why ask for a discussion when the evidence is so clearly in favour of a delete. I wish we could delete Rice's decision to become a religous nutter and fill her books with religous bullshit but whatever. Delete it all, it's just Christian gothic cliches from the 19th century. I can't believe I studied this in a University Gothic Literature class, it's nothing but born again Christian propaganda. 124.186.236.114 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 16:50, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Celerity?
Does anyone remember the term 'celerity' being used at all in The Vampire Chronicles? I know the term comes from Vampire: The Masquerade, I don't remember Anne Rice using the term in any of her books. I wonder if other editors are getting the two confused. FeralDruid 18:34, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Killing gift
I read "This power was originally combined with the Fire Gift in Queen of The Damned, but by Blood & Gold Rice had decided the two powers should be made separate abilities. The exact nature of the power is unknown, but it seems to cause numerous fatal ruptures in the entire cardiovascular system." Which is somehow true, but instead of citing blood and gold, I'd say the "killing gift", imagined as cardiovascular breakdowns as an idea came earlier, in the Mayfair trilogy, as the power of rowan mayfair ? Palleas (talk) 13:24, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

OVERHAUL - JUNE 13 2007
Oi, where do I even frickin' begin? For starters, I've removed all the book synopses; with the links on the page, not only would there be no use for them even if they were original, but whoever posted them ripped them right off of Anne's site. I went through and heavily edited all the basic page and all the power descriptions, taking out reams of prose that was so goth-tinged I felt like I was in Hot Topic just reading it. I also added links/details of the movies in the opening paragraph, and I will be monitoring this page closely in the future. If anyone who reads this wants to work on it, remember these things: 1 - When each novel has its own page, having summaries of them on this page is unneccessary; 2 - Try to get your spelling/grammar correct; 3 - Stop burning incense, open the drapes, and turn off the Type O Negative while you write. Please; 4 - and "Encylopedic" on this site means "impartial", not "containing everything." That is all! DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC 18:15, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

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Order of reading??
These books look interesting, i was wondering though in which order i would have to read them? 62.30.54.79 (talk) 20:33, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

 * I'm agree with this. A time line is missing. For example, the New Tales of the Vampires are not following the Chronicles time line but are part of it. Pandora is between Memnoch and Armand. I don't know yet when Vittorio is to be read. It could seem that Chronicles got to be read in there writing order. I have just reached the part where New Tales and Mayfair join in and I'm a little confused too. A books time line and a story events time line would be appreciated. Lacrymocéphale 09:17, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Fire Gift
Ummm, this needs to be edited. It can be used on unchanged humans, Lestat kills at least two gun men with it in Blood Canticle, setting them on fire with his mind, and even threatens another character in the book to be burned to ashes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.127.181.13 (talk) 07:17, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

LGBT?
How is this series LGBT?  moo cows rule talk to moo 20:29, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Letsat has several love affairs with lead male characters. While the relationships are nonsexual great length is taken to explain the lack of sexual ability by vampires. Some very detailed descriptions are made about the male anatomy in one novel in relationship to the erotic but sexless relationship between Lestat and his lovers/companions. Are you reading Twilight of The vampire Chronicles? LOL! Just kidding.--Amadscientist (talk) 23:11, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Notably, in Pandora, the titular character asks another vampire to put his penis in her vagina, very soon after becoming a vampire herself.--99.240.13.109 (talk) 12:07, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Totally inadequate
Very strange article. Consists of what should make up articles "Vampire (Vampire Chronicles)", and "List of Vampire Chronicles characters", and barring the header none of the information about development, publication, reception, etc. that should be in the article of one of the world's most notable series of novels. I don't know enough about it to work on it myself, it's been a long time since I've read them and I didn't read all of them. I came to fill in holes, and read about how they developed from a secular work by an atheist to Biblical fantasy by a devout Christian. -- AvatarMN (talk) 16:08, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Soccer Team Is Stacked

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 09:55, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

The Soccer Team Is Stacked, Alex Couch, John Fowlkes, Jordan Morrison, Edward Speaker and Chris Anderson (TSTIS)
Band vanity. Three Google hits, their website is a mypage. Zoe 06:54, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Reluctant Delete Pretty good page for a non-notable band. Most notable bands don't have articles like this. Name is kind of funny, too. By the way, it's Myspace. :) Acetic Acid 07:03, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Whoops. I knew that.  :)  Zoe 07:11, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete — Vanity. They do not deserve to be in an encyclopedia; they havent even released anything yet. They have no " Importance"
 * Delete. All you've got to do is take a look at the Wikipedia music guidelines. It's true though what Acetic said: not bad for a completely non-notable band. --Blackcap | talk 07:10, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

I would vote to keep it, but i guess that doesn't count... at least, apparently, i didnt suck, it was just virtually unknown. dammit, but oh well. although if my vote counts, i still vote yay....

--Rezurrxtionjoe, 2:33AM 8/24/05 (CST)Rezurrxtionjoe 07:32, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, fails WP:MUSIC. Rezurrxtionjoe, have you read WP:VAIN, WP:NOT and WP:BAI? - Mgm|(talk) 08:14, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Reluctant Delete - Not notable and doesn't fit WP:MUSIC. I say reluctant because I would prefer not to put off this rather talented writer! Try editting some articles already here then you won't have this trouble! Good luck. —Cel es tianpower háblame 20:05, 29 June 2006 (UTC) 08:50, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. -- Ryan Norton T 10:27, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Reluctant Delete. Rezurrxtionjoe has done a promising band a good article, If I were you (R)Joe, I'd save a copy of the page as text on your computer, keep that updated, and make another entry on them when they can meet the Wikipedia music guidelines. Alf 13:31, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - Not notable. Also, how can you be influenced by Nirvana AND Ashlee Simpson? User:Luigi30 (Ταλκ) 13:35, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Another reluctant delete simply because the main article is so well done. Joe, we welcome you, we need you and hang on to that article as suggested. - Lucky 6.9 17:42, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn band vanity. But good luck to them. --  Etacar11   02:14, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
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John Ausonius

John Wolfgang Alexander Ausonius (born Wolfgang Alexander Zaugg, 12 July 1953), known in the media as Lasermannen ("the Laser Man"), is a Swedish far-right extremist convicted of serial murder and 10 bank robberies. Between August 1991 to January 1992, he shot eleven people in the Stockholm and Uppsala area, most of whom were immigrants, killing one and seriously injuring the others. He first used a rifle equipped with a laser sight (hence his nickname), and later switched to a revolver. He was arrested in June 1992 and sentenced to life imprisonment in January 1994. Additionally, in February 2018 he was sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany for the 1992 murder of Holocaust survivor Blanka Zmigrod.

Early life
Ausonius was born Wolfgang Alexander Zaugg in Lidingö, northeast of Stockholm. He is the son of a Swiss father and a German mother, both of whom had emigrated to Sweden. He grew up in Vällingby, a working-class suburb of Stockholm. According to newspaper reports, he was bullied as a child because of his non-Swedish background, which manifested in him being teased for having very black hair and brown eyes. As an adult, he bleached his hair blonde, used blue contact lenses and legally changed his name. Initially, he changed his name to John Wolfgang Alexander Stannerman, and later to John Wolfgang Alexander Ausonius. He went to the German School in Stockholm, a private school, but dropped out before graduating. He later completed his secondary school education in an adult education programme. Ausonius was accepted into the Royal Institute of Technology, but dropped out after a couple of years of unsuccessful study.

In 1986, following the Olof Palme assassination, Ausonius, then named John Stannerman, was one of the police's initial suspects. However, Stannerman could not be linked to the murder as he was incarcerated at the time, serving a sentence for multiple counts of assault. In prison, he became an acquaintance of Miro Barešić, a member of Croatian National Resistance, a Croatian émigré anti-communist organization created by members of the fascist Ustaše movement. Barešić was imprisoned for the 1971 murder of Vladimir Rolović, the Yugoslav ambassador to Sweden.

Ausonius developed a hatred for Communists, Social Democrats, and immigrants while craving an ambition of gaining wealth. He worked a low-paying job as a taxi driver, but later started trading in stocks and bonds. His talent for the market quickly earned him a fairly large fortune, resulting in him adopting the yuppie lifestyle. By the late 1980s, he owned a luxurious apartment, a Toyota Supra (rather than owning a Porsche, which many other yuppies drove at that time, as he despised the company), and a mobile phone (before the 1990s, such a device was a luxury item usually associated with a jet-set lifestyle). However, poorly chosen investments depleted his fortune. This was further aggravated by an addiction to gambling. As a result of the latter, during a trip to Germany, he found himself in dire economic circumstances. With funds running out, Ausonius turned to bank robbing to maintain his lifestyle. He performed more than eighteen robberies, largely in an identical fashion.

Shooting spree
In 1979 Ausonius became a Swedish citizen. He had a strong hatred for immigrants and foreigners. These beliefs led him to start looking for immigrant criminals to kill. Eventually, he was tired of this and decided to simply kill any immigrant. He hoped that this way, he would scare all immigrants out of Sweden.

Between 1981 and 1982 Ausonius served in the Swedish army and thus learnt how to use weapons. But his personal weapons were of poor quality, very likely because Ausonius had modified them. He sawed off the barrel and the stock of his first rifle to make it shorter, and he fitted the Smith & Wesson revolver with a silencer. This modification may have been the key to his failure in killing most of his victims as it deviated the bullet's trajectory and consequently caused him to miss his victims. It was amateurishly done and damaged the weapon's performance.

 * 3 August 1991: Ausonius shot David Gebremariam, a 21-year-old immigrant from Eritrea. Gebremariam was shot in the back, but survived. Two of the victim's friends said they saw a circle of red light on his body before they heard the shot.
 * 21 October 1991: Shahram Khosravi, a 25-year-old student of Iranian origin, was shot in the face outside the Stockholm University. Khosravi survived the attack.
 * 27 October 1991: Dimitrios Karamalegos, a homeless man of Greek origin, was shot twice in the stomach. Although wounded, he survived. Karamalegos reported seeing a bright red light prior to hearing the shots.
 * 1 November 1991: During the middle of the day, Ausonius entered a restaurant kitchen in Stockholm and shot Heberson Vieira Da Costa, a musician from Brazil. Da Costa was shot once in the head and several times in the stomach. Despite these injuries, Da Costa survived. He reported to police that he saw a red light before he was shot. Da Costa was also able to provide a good description of Ausonius.
 * 8 November 1991: Ausonius mortally wounded Jimmy Ranjbar, another Iranian student, who died the following day.

Ausonius took a trip to the United States between the first and second waves of shooting. He visited Las Vegas to gamble and also journeyed to the Grand Canyon. He then returned to Sweden.

 * 22 January 1992: In Uppsala, Ausonius approached a couple in a café outside the Linnaeus Garden, and shot Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, a PhD student in medical sciences, in the head. Bongcam-Rudloff survived, and is now a scientist representing Sweden in several international scientific networks.
 * 23 January 1992: Having returned to Stockholm, Ausonius shot Charles Dhlakama, a bus driver originally from Zimbabwe, in the middle of the day. Dhlakama was shot in the chest but survived. That evening, Ausonius entered a Somali club and shot two men, both of whom survived.
 * 28 January 1992: Ausonius shot Isa Aybar, an immigrant of Syrian/Assyrian/Aramean origin, four times in the head and arm. Aybar was seriously wounded, but managed to call the police and survived.
 * 30 January 1992: In Hägerstensåsen, Ausonius shot Hasan Zatara, a Palestinian store owner, in the head, paralyzing but not killing him. Zatara's son Imad Zatara is a footballer.

Capture and trial
The police started a massive manhunt (second in size only to the hunt for Olof Palme's killer). On 12 June 1992, during a bank robbery, Ausonius was arrested. He later assaulted his own lawyer in court and spent the rest of his trial in handcuffs. He was convicted of murder and robbery, but could not be linked to all of the shootings (although he confessed to all of them in 2000). He was sentenced to life imprisonment and was later incarcerated at Kumla Prison. In June 2012, he was transferred to Österåker Prison.

Ausonius has applied to have his life sentence commuted to an arranged term on three occasions, in 2008, 2010 and 2012. The court has rejected his application on all occasions. On 2 November 2012, his third appeal was rejected by the Örebro District Court. On all three occasions the National Board of Forensic Medicine determined that there was a risk that Ausonius would re-offend due to his autism and personality disorder, which the court took into consideration when making its decision.

Trial for German murder
In 2016 Ausonius was extradited to Germany to face trial for the 23 February 1992 murder in Frankfurt of Blanka Zmigrod, a 68-year-old Holocaust survivor. While investigating, German police looked into ties to far-right terror group National Socialist Underground. Ausonius did not oppose being extradited under the condition that any sentence received would be served in Sweden.

On 21 February 2018, he was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany. Prosecutors had charged him with stealing her handbag after killing her because he thought she had taken an electronic device that he used to save his bank account numbers. Following his conviction, German prosecutors had to determine if his sentence would be served in Sweden. Ausonius appealed the verdict with the Federal Court of Justice confirming the verdict in November. In late January, Ausonius was extradited back to Sweden to serve his sentences.

Media
The journalist Gellert Tamas wrote a book about the case, Lasermannen – en berättelse om Sverige (2002), which became a bestseller. The book, which is very detailed, was published without consulting the victims first. The author's personal opinions not only deal with Ausonius and his life story, but also with Sweden in general, speculating that his actions were in part explained by a surge of far-right political and xenophobic sentiments in the country in the early 1990s, including the success of the right-wing New Democracy (Sweden) party in the election. According to Tamas, it could also be one of many attempts by Ausonius to prove his identity as a "true Swedish man'' by separating himself from immigrants.

In 2005, the book was adapted into a play, and the same year SVT produced a three-part TV miniseries, which premiered on 23 November. Ausonius was played by David Dencik.

Engagement
In late April 2006, the daily Aftonbladet revealed that John Ausonius had become engaged to an anonymous 23-year-old woman, who had fallen in love with him after having seen a recent television miniseries. According to the paper, a friend of the woman said the couple were planning to move abroad after Ausonius' putative release from prison by 2031. The couple are no longer together.

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No Excuses (Alice in Chains song)

"No Excuses" is the lead single from American rock band Alice in Chains' third EP, Jar of Flies (1994). Written by guitarist and co-lead vocalist Jerry Cantrell, the song was well received by music critics and was a charting success, becoming the first Alice in Chains song to reach No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, spending a total of 26 weeks on the chart. It has gone on to become one of the band's most popular songs. The song was included on the compilation albums Nothing Safe: Best of the Box (1999), Music Bank (1999), Greatest Hits (2001), and The Essential Alice in Chains (2006). Alice In Chains performed an acoustic version of "No Excuses" for its appearance on MTV Unplugged in 1996, which marked the last time they performed the song with Layne Staley, and that version was included on the band's Unplugged live album and home video release.

Composition
The song's sound (and that of the entire EP) is a departure from some of the band's better-known, heavier work. Guitarist Jerry Cantrell's subtle guitar riffs built around suspended chords (as well as drummer Sean Kinney's soft, syncopated drumming) help lend an unusually airy feel to the song.

"No Excuses" is based around a jangly A-to-B major barre chord change, with the open B and E strings ringing out.

Musical style
"No Excuses" use of open, ringing strings has been compared to the style of American rock band R.E.M., while Guitar Player wrote that Kinney's "crisp, splashy" drum grooves could "turn The Police's Stewart Copeland's head".

Lyrics
The lyrics, penned by Cantrell, are thought to be about his unstable relationship with band vocalist Layne Staley, highlighting both their difficulties as well as their friendship. The final verse seems to come to a resolve in stating that Cantrell will "defend" Staley and that, should they grow further apart, he will "love (Staley) anyway."

Release and reception
"No Excuses" was released as a single in 1994. The song found moderate airplay on alternative rock radio and is considered by music fans and critics as a grunge staple. "No Excuses" peaked at number 48 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart, making it the only Alice in Chains to reach the top 50. Although Alice in Chains fared well on mainstream rock radio, "No Excuses" was their only song to hit number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart until "Check My Brain" in 2009. "No Excuses" also peaked at number three on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 32 on the Pop Songs chart. In Canada, it rose to number 17 on the RPM Top Singles chart and was the 98th most successful hit of 1994.

Ned Raggett of AllMusic said that the song "proved in spades that Alice in Chains were far more than oppressive doom-mongers" and added, "Topped off with a catchy chorus, it made for another high point for a band seemingly blessed with them."

Music video
The music video for "No Excuses" was released in 1994 and was directed by Matt Mahurin, who had previously directed the "Angry Chair" music video for the band. Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell are the only band members to be featured on the video. It also features actor Max Perlich. The video is available on the home video release Music Bank: The Videos.

Live performances
Alice in Chains performed the song for the first time at the Hollywood Palladium during a benefit concert for Norwood Fisher of Fishbone on January 7, 1994.

The band performed an acoustic version of "No Excuses" for its appearance on MTV Unplugged in 1996, and the song was included on the Unplugged live album and home video release. This was the last time the band performed the song with Staley. in Jerry Cantrell's solo Boggy Depot tour in 1998 he included the song No Excuses in the setlist.

In popular culture
"No Excuses" was chosen as a playable track on the popular video game Guitar Hero: Metallica and was also released as downloadable content for the Rock Band series.

"No Excuses" was also featured in the season 5 Daria episode "My Night at Daria's" during the first commercial bumper.

The song was released as downloadable content for the music video game Rocksmith on December 12, 2017, as part of Alice In Chains Song Pack II, which also includes the songs "Rooster", "Nutshell", "Down in a Hole", and "Heaven Beside You".

Personnel

 * Layne Staley – co-lead vocals
 * Jerry Cantrell – co-lead vocals, guitars
 * Mike Inez – bass
 * Sean Kinney – drums, percussion

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Allure (magazine)

Allure (stylized in lowercase) is an American women's magazine focused on beauty, published monthly by Condé Nast in New York City. It was founded in 1991 by Linda Wells. Michelle Lee replaced Wells in 2015. A signature of the magazine is its annual Best of Beauty awards—accolades given in the October issue to beauty products deemed the best by Allure's staff.

History
In 1990, S.I. Newhouse Jr., chairman of Condé Nast, and then editorial director Alexander Liberman approached Linda Wells to develop a concept they had for a beauty magazine. At the time, Wells was the beauty editor and the food editor at The New York Times Magazine.

The magazine's prototype was shredded shortly before the scheduled launch date and, after overhauling everything (including the logo), Allure made its debut in March 1991  designed by Lucy Sisman. The magazine's original format was oversize, but this prevented it from fitting into slots at grocery-store checkouts and required advertisers to resize their ads or create new ones. After four issues, Allure changed to a standard-size glossy format.

On August 29, 2022, Conde Nast announced the December 2022 issue will be the last print issue of the magazine before transitioning to digital-only. Allure employees unionized in 2022. Conde states, "It's our mission to meet the audience where they are and with this in mind, after our December print issue, we are making Allure an exclusively digital brand."

Impact
Allure focuses on beauty, fashion, and women's health. Allure was the first women's magazine to write about the health risks associated with silicone breast implants, and has reported on other controversial health issues. The influence that Allure magazine had on society was impactful. Using publication to show the new beauty brand and other health needs.

After Lee took the helm in late 2015, the brand was celebrated for promoting diversity and inclusivity. In 2017, Adweek named Allure Magazine of the Year and awarded Lee as Editor of the Year.

The magazine's circulation, initially 250,000 in 1991, is over 1 million as of 2011.

Many writers have contributed to Allure. Among them are Arthur Miller, John Updike, Jhumpa Lahiri, Michael Chabon, Kathryn Harrison, Frank McCourt, Isabel Allende, and Francine du Plessix Gray. Elizabeth Gilbert's essay "The Road to Rapture," published in Allure in 2003, was the precursor to her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love (Viking Adult). Photographers who have shot for Allure include Michael Thompson, Mario Testino, Patrick Demarchelier, Norman Jean Roy, Tina Barney, Marilyn Minter, Carter Smith, Steven Klein, Steven Meisel, and Helmut Newton. Cover subjects have included Demi Lovato, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez, Helen Mirren, Zendaya, Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie, Reese Witherspoon, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Victoria Beckham, Beyoncé, Fergie, Britney Spears, Lupita Nyong'o, Jessica Simpson, Kate Hudson, Christina Aguilera, Ariana Grande, Rihanna, and Gwen Stefani. (See List of Allure cover models).

Best of Beauty Awards
Allure began its Best of Beauty awards program in the mid-1990s, at the initiative of Wells, to help readers choose among the vast array of makeup, skincare, and hair-care products on the market. In 2019, the magazine introduced the Allure Best of Beauty Clean Seal award to products that met the publication's "clean" standards.

Allure has two sets of awards, one judged by the magazine's editors and the other by readers. A "winners' seal" logo, developed by Allure, appears on many of the winning products. To ensure that its judgments are neutral, Allure's ad department isn't involved in the selections.

In 2010, the magazine developed an iPhone app that highlights the winning products and tells users where they can buy them based on their location.

Controversy
The magazine faced online criticism when it showed Marissa Neitling with an Afro haircut.

Singer Halsey has announced she will no longer do press after Allure failed to use her preferred pronouns in its August cover story and promoted the interview by allegedly taking quotes out of context.

Awards (for Allure)

 * Magazine of the Year from Adweek (2017)
 * Bronze Clio Award for Allure Unbound augmented reality app (2017)
 * The National Magazine Award for Design (1994)
 * The Editorial Excellence Award from Folio (2001)
 * The Circulation Excellence Award from Circulation Management (2001)
 * "Ring Leader", an essay by Natalie Kusz from the February 1996 issue of Allure, was selected for The Best American Essays 1997 (Houghton Mifflin).
 * The magazine has been on Adweek’s Hot List in 1993, 1994, 1995, 2003, and 2007.
 * Allure has received 29 awards from the American Academy of Dermatology, nine journalism awards from The Fragrance Foundation, and the Excellence in Media Award from the Skin Cancer Foundation.

Awards (for Linda Wells)

 * The Achiever Award from Cosmetic Executive Women (2001)
 * The Matrix Award for magazine leadership from New York Women in Communications, Inc. (2009)

Awards (for Michelle Lee)

 * Editor of the Year from Adweek (2017)
 * Digiday's Glossy 50 (2017)
 * A100 Most Influential Asians from Gold House (2018)
 * Creative 100 from Create & Cultivate (2017)

In the media
Wells, along with Allure editors Michael Carl and Kelly Atterton, have appeared as judges on the Bravo TV series Shear Genius.

Allure editors have appeared as experts on television programs such as the Today show and 60 Minutes, and Allure stories frequently receive national attention.

Hilary Duff played an Allure intern in Cheaper by the Dozen 2.

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Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry was a joint British and American committee assembled in Washington, D.C., on 4 January 1946. The committee was tasked to examine political, economic and social conditions in Mandatory Palestine and the well-being of the peoples now living there; to consult representatives of Arabs and Jews, and to make other recommendations 'as may be necessary' to for ad interim handling of these problems as well as for their permanent solution. The report, entitled "Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry Regarding the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine", was published in Lausanne on 20 April 1946.

World War II ended in Europe on 8 May 1945 and in Asia on 2 September 1945; in the United States Harry S. Truman had become president on 12 April of that year and in the United Kingdom Clement Attlee became Prime Minister on 5 July 1945. Following the Harrison Report, in August 1945 president Truman asked Britain for admission of 100,000 Holocaust survivors into Palestine, beginning a negotiation on Palestine between the two powers. On 13 November 1945, Attlee's foreign minister Ernest Bevin announced the formation of the Anglo-American Commission.

The British government suggested the joint inquiry in effort to secure American co-responsibility for a Palestinian policy, fearing Arab resistance to an influx of Jewish immigrants into Palestine. The report dealt with five subjects: immigration, land, form of government, development, and security. It recommended the admission of 100,000 displaced Jews, the annulment of the Land Transfer Regulations restricting Jewish purchasing of Arab land set forth by White Paper of 1939 and that Palestine shall be neither a Jewish state nor an Arab state.

The United States' decision to jointly lead the inquiry is considered to have been motivated by a desire to "clip the wings of political Zionism by treating the whole matter as a Jewish refugee problem". Moshe Sneh of the Jewish Agency noted on 11 December 1945 at an Inner Meeting of the Jewish Agency that "America's agreement to participate in the Committee was undertaken in order to strip us of our main argument...with which to appeal to the Americans against an English committee... the introduction of America is tantamount to disarming us." Nachmani wrote that the decision to include Palestine into the committee's scope was also not in the best interests of the Zionists. The British had conditioned the implementation of the report's recommendations on the admission of 100,000 new Jewish immigrants contingent on US providing assistance in case of Arab revolt. It wasn't offered and the British government, continued to carry out its White Paper of 1939 policy.

The plan was the base for "The Morrison-Grady Plan", calling for federalization under overall British trusteeship. Ultimately this Committee plans' as well was rejected by both Arabs and Jews; and Britain decided to refer the problem to the United Nations.

Background
In 1917, Britain drafted the Balfour Declaration, becoming the first Great Power to support Zionist calls for a 'Jewish National Home' in Palestine. Shortly thereafter, Britain defeated the Ottoman Empire in World War I and as a result took control of Palestine. The Balfour Declaration was recognized by the Great Powers and incorporated into the Treaty of Sèvres. The Great Powers once again incorporated the declaration into the draft Mandate for Palestine that they submitted to the Council of the League of Nations. The US Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles and as a consequence the United States never joined the League of Nations. The House and Senate passed a non-binding Joint Resolution, HR 360, 30 June 1922 favoring the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine. On 21 September 1922, President Warren G. Harding also signed the resolution. A commission had been proposed by the United States at the Peace Conference as an international effort to determine if the region was ready for self-determination and to see what nations, if any, the locals wanted to act as mandatory powers. The report of the King-Crane Commission was not made public until after the Congress had voted on their Joint resolution. Public opinion was divided when it was learned that the Arab majority had requested that the mandate be administered by the United States, and that they intended to establish a democratically elected constituent assembly. This early preference for American over British or French oversight reflected a broader Arab skepticism toward European imperial ambitions, which were deeply rooted in past commissions' failures to adequately address Arab aspirations for self-rule.

The rise of Nazism and the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine led the British to reverse the Balfour Declaration in the 1939 White Paper. This policy placed a limit of allowing 75,000 more Jews into Palestine (by 1949) after which Jewish migration was to be terminated. An independent state in Palestine with an Arab majority was to be established by 1948. In response to the White Paper, land sales to Jews were severely restricted by a 1940 law. The policy shifts of the 1939 White Paper also reflected the culmination of British diplomatic strategies that consistently underestimated or deliberately overlooked the complex national identities and political aspirations among Palestinians, as previously noted in historical commissions.

The end of World War II and the Holocaust left Europe with hundreds of thousands of displaced Jewish refugees. American public opinion supported a Jewish Homeland in Palestine, and in August 1945 president Truman asked for admission of 100,000 Holocaust survivors into Palestine but Britain persisted in opposing Jewish immigration, fearing damage to its extensive and vulnerable empire in the Middle-East. Britain ruled oil-rich Kuwait, The Arab Emirates, Oman and Bahrain. It also controlled Jordan and Yemen and had treaties binding it to Iraq (where the oil industry was British owned) and Egypt (where Britain administered the Suez canal). With the Jews in Palestine waging an underground war against the British occupation, the refugee situation was critical and British and American policy was at loggerheads. This standoff was aggravated by the historical legacy of British and French interventions, as documented in various investigative commissions, which had long stirred Arab distrust and resistance against imperial mandates.

Members
The committee comprised six Americans and six British. Judge Joseph Hutcheson was the American chairman. He was joined by Frank Aydelotte, William Phillips, Frank W. Buxton (editor, Boston Herald), James G. McDonald, and Bartley Crum. The group was a diverse group of diplomats, scholars, and politicians, most in favor of the proposal that 100,000 displaced persons be admitted to Palestine. The British contingent was chaired by Sir John Singleton, with the remaining members being Lord Morrison, Sir Frederick Leggett, Wilfrid Crick, Reginald Manningham-Buller, and Richard Crossman.

The diverse mix of personal and political beliefs among the members of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry (AACI) significantly influenced their approach to examining conditions in Palestine. Many members considered themselves liberals or, in the case of Richard Crossman, a liberal socialist, which shaped their motivations and goals. However, there was a paradox in how their liberal motivations ran counter to their final recommendations, suggesting that basic racism might have played a role. This complexity reveals how the committee's liberal sympathies for Jewish suffering became a performative requirement, overshadowing an objective assessment based on international legal principles. The committee aimed to be a "straight and honest jury," but their deliberations and assessments were influenced by implicit norms and unspoken demands for standards of comportment, which were not purely based on the facts presented. This indicates that the committee's approach was mediated not only by their political and personal beliefs but also by the prevailing political epistemology of the time, which emphasized suffering, sympathy, and humanitarianism.

Evidence provided
Evidence was provided by the Government of Palestine, the Jewish authorities and the Arab authorities.

Journey
The committee visited Washington, D.C., and London to gauge the official American and British policies and positions towards Palestine. They proceeded to Vienna, where they visited a displaced persons camp and interviewed Holocaust survivors. During their stay in Vienna they surveyed Jewish Holocaust survivors as to their preferred destination. 98% said Palestine."In Poland, Hungary and Rumania, the chief desire is to get out, to get away somewhere where there is a chance of building up a new life, of finding some happiness, of living in peace and in security. In Germany also, where the number of Jews has been reduced from about 500,000 in 1933 to about 20,000 now, and most traces of Jewish life have been destroyed, there is a similar desire on the part of a large proportion of the survivors to make a home elsewhere, preferably in Palestine. In Czechoslovakia, particularly in Bohemia and Moravia, and in Austria, the position in regard to the reestablishment of the Jewish populations is more hopeful. The vast majority of the Jewish displaced persons and migrants, however, believe that the only place which offers a prospect is Palestine." (Anglo-American Committee of inquiry, chapter 2 paragraph 12)

The committee then traveled to Cairo and Riyadh to discuss Arab sentiments. At Riyadh, King of Saudi Arabia Ibn Saud told them: "The Jews are our enemies everywhere. Wherever they are found, they intrigue and work against us... we drove the Romans out of Palestine... how, after all this sacrifice, would a merchant come and take Palestine out of our hands for money?"

The committee then visited Palestine and spent three weeks there. They visited Jewish and Arab settlements, and heard testimony from many Jewish, Arab, and British officials. Zionist leaders presented statistics and argued that there were already several Arab nations, so the Palestinian Arabs didn't need their own state.

The contrary realities of Zionist and Arab existence left an enduring impression on the committee members. Aydelotte later reported: "I left Washington pretty strongly anti-Zionist... But when you see at first hand what these Jews have done in Palestine... the greatest creative effort in the modern world. The Arabs are not equal to anything like it and would destroy all that the Jews have done... This we must not let them do." Buxton compared the Haganah to the Continental Army, "a rabble in arms in the fine sense."

The committee members finally retired to Lausanne to debate and draft their findings.

Recommendations
During a committee meeting Bevin told the committee that he would accept their decision if it were unanimous Hence, In April 1946, the committee decided unanimously. Its recommendations were as follows:

Aftermath
U.S. president Harry S. Truman endorsed the committee's recommendation that 100,000 Jewish refugees be immediately admitted into Palestine, and the right of the Jews to purchase land, but did not acknowledge the rest of the committee's findings, angering the British Labour Party. Within several days of the release of the committee's findings, its implementation was in jeopardy.

The British government and military believed that neither the Jews nor Arabs would accept the committee's recommendations. British Prime Minister Clement Attlee arranged a group of senior officials, who were to coordinate with the Chiefs of Staff, to prepare an analysis of the committee's recommendations. They concluded that the Jews would not accept anything short of partition, and that not only would the guerrilla raids by the Irgun and Lehi paramilitary groups continue, the Haganah might react by launching widespread attacks. In addition, the report concluded that there would likely be a general Arab uprising in Palestine with financial and material backing from the surrounding Arab states.

Although Bevin told the committee that he would accept their decision if it were unanimous, Attlee opposed the recommendation of a mass immigration. The British government, adamant that it would not bear the costs of resettling 100,000 Jewish immigrants, funding Arab development, and in disarming the Yishuv and suppressing any rebellion by itself, conditioned the implementation of the report's recommendations on military and financial assistance from the United States. The British cabinet agreed that the report should be rejected unless the US government was willing to provide financial and military assistance. Britain requested that the US government make two infantry divisions and at least one armored brigade available for immediate deployment to Palestine. The United States War Department had issued an earlier report which stated that an open-ended US troop commitment of 300,000 personnel would be necessary to assist the British government in maintaining order against an Arab revolt. However, the US government was, like the British government, eager to rapidly demobilize many of its citizens still under arms, and rejected the request.

In October 1946, the British government decided to gradually allow 96,000 Jews to immigrate to Palestine at the rate of 1,500 a month. Half of those admitted would be Jews who had attempted to illegally immigrate to Palestine and were being held in the Cyprus internment camps; the British feared that if the population of the camps continued growing, there would be an uprising among the prisoners.

The Morrison-Grady Plan
After the Anglo-American Committee issued its report, a new committee was created to establish how the Anglo-American proposals would be implemented. It was led by British cabinet minister Herbert Morrison and US ambassador Henry F. Grady. In July 1946, it proposed "The Morrison-Grady Plan" a plan for unitary federal trusteeship in Palestine. Jewish and Arab provinces would exercise self-rule under British oversight, while Jerusalem and the Negev would remain under direct British control. The plan became the point of departure for a Palestine Conference convened by the British on 1 October 1946. However the Arabs rejected the plan on the grounds that it would lead to partition, while the Jews refused to even attend. The Arabs instead proposed an independent unitary state. At a later meeting of the Conference the following February, Britain proposed a plan, known as the Bevin Plan, for a 5-year British trusteeship. The trusteeship was to lead to a permanent settlement agreed by all parties. When both the Arab and Jewish sides rejected the plan, Britain decided to refer the problem to the United Nations.

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Danny Schayes

Daniel Leslie Schayes (born May 10, 1959) is an American former professional basketball player who played for Syracuse University and played 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), from 1981 until 1999. At 6' 11" and 235 pounds, he played at center. He is the son of the late Dolph Schayes, who was selected for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Since his retirement from the NBA, Schayes has served as co-host of Centers of Attention, a sports talk show on ESPN Radio Syracuse in Syracuse, New York. His co-host is Etan Thomas, also a retired American professional basketball player.

Early life
Schayes was born into a Jewish family in Syracuse, New York, the son of Naomi Eva (née Gross) and Dolph Schayes, who played professional basketball and was inducted in the Hall of Fame. His father's parents were born in Romania, and immigrated to the United States.

Schayes grew up in DeWitt, New York. He is an alum of Jamesville-Dewitt High School, where he scored 1,012 points for the basketball team. The team won the Onondaga League North title in 1977.

Schayes played on the US basketball team that won a gold medal at the 1977 Maccabiah Games in Tel Aviv, Israel; he also played for Team USA at the 1981 Maccabiah Games, which won a gold medal. He served as Head Coach of Team USA in basketball at the 2013 Maccabiah Games, which won another gold medal.

College
During his senior year at Syracuse University, the first year in which he started for the team, Schayes averaged nearly 14.6 points and 8.3 rebounds a game, and compiled 284 rebounds. He was named to the 1981 All-Big East first team and was both an All-American and an Academic All-American. He holds the record at the Carrier Dome for rebounds in a game (23).

Professional career
He was selected in the first round with the 13th overall pick by the Utah Jazz in the 1981 NBA draft out of Syracuse University. Schayes was the second center to be drafted that year, with Steve Johnson of Oregon State being the first.

After spending two seasons with the Jazz, he played for several different teams, notably with the Denver Nuggets, in which he spent his best years. The highlight of his NBA career was his performance in the 1987–88 season with the Nuggets when he averaged 13.9 points and 8.2 rebounds per game. In the playoffs that season he averaged 16.4 points and 7.2 rebounds per game. He was 4th in the NBA with a .640 true shooting percentage.

He retired after the NBA lockout-shortened 1999 season, after averaging 1.5 points in an injury-plagued 19-game stint with the Orlando Magic. Schayes was briefly a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves after signing as a free agent before the start of the 1999–00 season. However, he made no appearances for them due to his injuries, and was waived. He had an 18-year career in the NBA, in which he averaged 7.7 points and 5.0 rebounds in 1,138 games.

Halls of Fame and awards
In 1989, he was inducted into the Jamesville-Dewitt High School athletic Hall of Fame. and the school retired his jersey number. Schayes was named "Best male athlete to hail from CNY" by the Post Standard in 2000. He was also added to the Syracuse University All-Century Basketball team and Hall of Fame. Schayes is also a member of the New York Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

Personal life
Schayes is married to Wendy Lucero-Schayes, a former Olympic diver. He currently runs No Limits Investing in Phoenix, Arizona, where he now lives.

Schayes was part of a promotional campaign put on by the Anti-Defamation League that depicts him slam dunking and says, "If you believe in America, prejudice is foul play!"

While attending Syracuse University, Schayes co-founded the United Students Financial Board, which gathered more than 200 members in its inaugural year.

Since retiring from basketball, Schayes has been an active supporter of the Jewish Democratic Council of America and has spoken at numerous events, including a rally for 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry in Omaha, Nebraska.

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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers is a biography of the famous mathematician Paul Erdős written by Paul Hoffman. The book was first published on July 15, 1998, by Hyperion Books as a hardcover edition. A paperback edition appeared in 1999. The book is, in the words of the author, "a work in oral history based on the recollections of Erdős, his collaborators and their spouses". The book was a bestseller in the United Kingdom and has been published in 15 different languages. The book won the 1999 Rhône-Poulenc Prize, beating many distinguished and established writers, including E. O. Wilson.

How the book came about
Hoffman received an assignment by The Atlantic Monthly in 1987 to profile Erdős, which won the National Magazine Award for feature writing. After this, Hoffman followed Erdős on his travels for the last 10 years of his life learning about his exceedingly unusual life and interviewing his numerous collaborators in the process of writing this book.

Content
A large part of the book concerns Erdős, but a lot of it is about other mathematicians, past and present, including Ronald Graham, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and G.H. Hardy. In the book, Erdős enjoys listening to Hardy when he speaks about Ramanujan. Hoffman also tries to give examples of what mathematics is and why he views it as important, and why many mathematicians such as Erdős devote their whole lives to mathematics. It also contains some history of Europe and the United States of Erdős's time.

The book overall portrays Erdős in a favorable light, pointing out his many endearing qualities, like his childlike simplicity, his generosity and altruistic nature, and his kindness and gentleness towards children. However, it also attempts to illustrate his helplessness in doing mundane tasks, the difficulties faced by those close to him because of his eccentricities, and his stubborn and frustrating behavior.

Erdős's nursing of Jon Folkman
Hoffman reports the following anecdote, which displays Erdős's single-minded devotion to his friends and mathematics. In the late 1960s, the young mathematician Jon Folkman was diagnosed as having advanced brain cancer. During Folkman's hospitalization, he was visited repeatedly by Ronald Graham and Paul Erdős. After his brain surgery, Folkman was despairing that he had lost his mathematical skills. As soon as Folkman received Graham and Erdős at the hospital, Erdős challenged Folkman with mathematical problems, helping to rebuild his confidence.

Hoffman notes that Folkman's recovery was short-lived. Notwithstanding his ability to solve the problems posed by Erdős, Folkman purchased a gun and killed himself. Folkman's supervisor at RAND, Delbert Ray Fulkerson, blamed himself for failing to notice suicidal behaviors in Folkman. Years later Fulkerson also killed himself.

Writing style
The book is mostly written without much technical detail and can be read by anyone without a mathematical background. Hoffman does give some relatively simple examples of mathematical problems throughout the book (like Cantor's diagonal argument) to illustrate some of the ideas in modern mathematics.

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1895 English cricket season

1895 was the sixth season of County Championship cricket in England. It was the first season in which the official definition of first-class cricket was activated, following the 1894 ruling. Surrey won the championship for the fifth time in six years, despite increased competition, as the tournament was expanded from nine to fourteen teams. The points system was changed as the teams played differing numbers of matches and the new system involved division of the number of points gained by the number of matches that had ended in either a win or a loss. Draws were thus completely disregarded, as they gave zero points. Derbyshire was the best of the rookie teams, finishing in fifth place.

Another championship made its bow as this season was the first to stage the Minor Counties Championship. The inaugural title was shared by three teams: Durham, Norfolk and Worcestershire.

In the early part of the season, improved batting conditions and long spells of dry weather enabled much heavier scoring than in previous seasons. There were a number of very large scores up until mid-July, when Archie MacLaren played his famous innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton. After that, rain returned and most pitches from 20 July onwards were "sticky wickets", with the result that bowlers dominated the latter part of the season. Charlie Townsend in particular was able to generate prodigious spin of the ball on these treacherous pitches and took 122 wickets in the last 11 county games. Other established bowlers like Peel, Richardson, Mold and Briggs were very difficult to bat against.

At the age of 46 (when the season began), W. G. Grace enjoyed a remarkable career revival and was the leading run-scorer in all first-class matches, averaging over 50. He became the first player ever to score 1,000 runs during the month of May and also the first to reach the career landmark of one hundred first-class centuries.

Honours

 * County Championship - Surrey
 * Minor Counties Championship - Durham, Norfolk, Worcestershire (shared title)
 * Wisden - WG Grace

Final table

 * 1 Games completed

Points system:

 * 1 for a win
 * 0 for a draw, a tie or an abandoned match
 * -1 for a loss

Annual reviews

 * James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual (Red Lilly), Lillywhite, 1896
 * Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1896

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Croc 2

Croc 2 is a platform game developed by Argonaut Software and published by Fox Interactive. The sequel to Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, it revolves around the title character going on a quest to search for his missing parents, as well as saving the Inventor Gobbo from a revived Baron Dante.

Croc 2 was released for the Sony PlayStation in 1999, and later for Microsoft Windows and Game Boy Color in 2000 and 2001, respectively. A port of the game for the Dreamcast was also planned but ultimately cancelled. The game's release was accompanied by a heavy advertising campaign, with Fox cross-promoting the game alongside Nabisco's "Gummi Savers" brand of candy. Croc 2 received mixed reviews, with critics particularly praising the game's graphics while criticizing its camera and difficulty.

Gameplay
Croc 2 features gameplay similar to its predecessor; the player controls Croc through various open-ended levels in order to complete various missions. The game's levels are split across four Gobbo "villages" and are accessed through an open hub world. The missions involve helping other Gobbos with a certain task such as rescuing another Gobbo who is trapped within a steel cage and chasing a Dantini through a stage in order to retrieve a stolen sandwich. After completing a certain number of levels in a village, a boss level is opened up, which allows access to the next village when completed. There are also levels requiring players to control vehicles such as a go-kart, a speedboat, a hang glider, a hot air balloon and a giant snowball among others.

Levels contain various collectible items, including 100 crystals and five multicolored crystals scattered throughout the stage. The colored gems are hidden in different places throughout the stage, and they require completing a platform challenge or completing a puzzle in order to be retrieved. Finding all five colored gems makes a golden trophy appear at the end of the level that is collected by traversing through a small platforming challenge. Collecting every trophy in a village allows access to an extra level that can be completed in order to collect a Jigsaw puzzle piece; collecting these pieces is required in order to access the game's fifth and final world, consisting of remixed level segments. Several items can be purchased at the hub worlds from Swap Meet Pete, an anthropomorphic cat, some of which are needed to access certain areas and secrets within the game. Among these items are heart pots, which lengthen Croc's maximum life count; Gummi Savers Jumps, which can be used as a trampoline in order to reach certain ledges; and the Clockwork Gobbo, a small wind-up robot that can be controlled to collect items by being used on a certain pedestal.

Croc is controlled using the D-pad or the analog stick, and he maneuvers levels by running, jumping, climbing and swimming; new to the game are the abilities to perform a triple jump and a flip jump, both of which allow Croc to reach higher altitudes than he can by jumping normally. Croc attacks enemies by swinging his tail in a full 360-degree motion, and he can also perform a ground pound in order to defeat enemies as well as destroy wooden crates containing items. Croc's health is represented by a set life count that can be extended by purchasing certain items; upon running out of "hearts", he is sent back to the hub world of the respective level he's in. Croc's life can be refilled by collecting large hearts located throughout stages as well by collecting a certain amount of crystals in a stage. Croc 2 features an additional control option titled "OmniPlay", which gives two people split control over Croc's movements and abilities for cooperative gameplay. Inputs for movement, attacking, jumping, sidestepping, camera, inventory as well as feedback through vibration can individually be toggled to be shared between two controllers or to be exclusively tied to the first player's controller.

Plot
The game's plot is set several months after Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, and begins with Professor Gobbo being captured by the Dantinis while he was witnessing Baron Dante's resurrection.

Back at Gobbo Valley, Croc is playing on a beach and finds a message in a bottle. The message explains that the senders are looking for their child. Croc is surprised when he sees a crocodile's footprint on it, and takes the message to King Rufus, who reads it and tells Croc that he needs to look for other Gobbos far off, who may be able to help him in finding the crocodiles who sent the message. A large number of Gobbos make a see-saw. Croc stands on one end and a Gobbo pushes a boulder on to the other end to propel Croc to the distant Mainland, where his search begins.

Croc's reputation precedes him on the Mainland. Most of the Gobbo villagers speak with Croc as if they have previously established a rapport. There is little reference to the main point of Croc's quest until the player reaches the final village. Meanwhile, Baron Dante purposely sends his minions out to stop Croc in the form of boss battles.

Each Gobbo village has a different biome and cultural theme. Croc's goal is to defeat the various Dantinis that are plaguing each community, as well as the major minions the Baron sends to crush each village and prevent Croc from reaching his goal.

At the end of the Inca Village, Croc fights Baron Dante in a small airplane crafted by Professor Gobbo before rescuing the latter in the Dungeon of Defright. Eventually, Croc comes face-to-face with Baron Dante one last time, while protecting Professor Gobbo from the Baron's attacks so he can summon a portal to send him back to the dimension he had previously been banished to.

The main plot of the game ends with Croc and Professor Gobbo flying to a small island to meet Croc's long-lost family before pivoting to another part of the island where Croc's parents' eggs can be seen being stolen by Baron Dante. After collecting each Jigsaw Piece in every secret area of the villages with the aid of the Golden Gobbos collected throughout the levels, Croc ventures to Baron Dante's Secret World, which consists of the villages (except the Inca Village) that Croc had previously visited, inhabited by Dantinis instead of Gobbos. Croc must collect five Colored Crystals in each village to retrieve one egg. Three eggs must be retrieved to beat the game.

Development
A Dreamcast port of the game was planned, having been mentioned in the UK print of the Dreamcast Monthly magazine and touted for release in Q3 of 2000, but was cancelled in light of Argonaut's decision to stop developing Dreamcast games due to the declining commercial performance of the system.

Promotion and release
Croc 2 was originally advertised in the instruction manual of the original game for a release on the PlayStation and Sega Saturn for a Christmas 1998 release; however, the game was later delayed to a summer 1999 release, and the Sega Saturn version of the game was ultimately never released. A Dreamcast port was also planned yet cancelled in mid-2000. It also got a 2D platformer of the same name released in 2001 on Game Boy Color.

The game was heavily advertised during its release, with a multimillion-dollar advertisement campaign entailing television commercials, retail support, and customer incentives. A cross-promotional brand deal was held with Nabisco to promote the game alongside the company's Gummi Savers line of gummy candy. Alongside the candy being prominently featured as a usable item within the game, over 6.5 million candy wrappers were printed with Croc 2 logos on them. A promotional sweepstake competition, called the "Croc 2 Down Under" sweepstakes, was held during the game's release, with the contest's grand prize consisting of a family trip to Australia, as well as a copy of the game, a PlayStation console, and a copy of the game's strategy guide being featured as the other obtainable prizes.

Reception
Croc 2 received mixed or average reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. Nintendo Power gave the Game Boy Color version an average review, over four months before it was released Stateside. Many other reviewers gave the PlayStation version received varied responses months before it was released Stateside.

IGN praised the voice acting, graphics, soundtrack and size of the PlayStation version, but criticised its difficulty and camera angles. GameSpot gave the PlayStation and PC versions poor ratings, also criticizing the camera angles and the difficulty. Matthew House of AllGame criticised the PlayStation version for its camera angles and difficulty, while also criticizing the game's graphics. Nash Werner of GamePro was also negative, saying of the PC version: "After weeks of playing Croc 2, I was praying each new level would be Croc 2's last, but it just kept dragging on and on." However, Scary Larry called the PlayStation version "an acquired taste. While not as edgy and fast-paced as Crash Bandicoot: Warped or as well-oiled as Spyro, Croc 2 deserves a place on the same platform as your other platform games. With a little practice and patience, you'll find that Croc 2 provides plenty of ditzy diversion." Next Generation called the same PlayStation version "one of the better 3D platformers [...] if just by a claw." In Japan, where the same console version was ported and published by Koei under the name Croc Adventure (クロックアドベンチャー) on 2 September 1999, Famitsu gave it a score of 26 out of 40.

Suzi Sez of GameZone gave the PC version 7.5 out of 10, calling it "a game you will want to play over and over again just to find things you missed when you last played." She later gave the Game Boy Color version 8.5 out of 10, saying that it was "one game that you will have a hard time putting down!" Alan Lackey of Computer Games Strategy Plus gave the PC version three-and-a-half stars out of five, saying: "With its cute storyline, Croc 2 is an entertaining but fairly unremarkable romp, especially suited for the younger gamer in the family."

The game sold around 500,000 copies.

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Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment

"Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" is the thirteenth episode of the second season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. The 26th episode of the series overall, it originally aired on Fox in the United States on February 7, 1991. In the episode, Homer gets an illegal cable hookup. Despite the family's enjoyment of the new channels, Lisa suspects they are stealing cable. Her suspicions are confirmed by Reverend Lovejoy and she protests by no longer watching television. Homer invites his friends to watch a cable-TV boxing match, but Lisa's protest persuades him to cut the cable when the fight ends.

The episode was written by freelance writer Steve Pepoon and directed by Rich Moore. It is based on the Eighth Commandment ("Thou shalt not steal"). The episode marks the debut of Troy McClure, who was voiced by Phil Hartman and based on the typical "washed up" Hollywood actor. The character Drederick Tatum, one of the boxers in the boxing match Homer and his friends watch, also makes his first appearance on the show in this episode.

In its original broadcast, "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" received a Nielsen rating of 15.2, finishing 25th the week it aired.

It received favorable reviews from critics and became the second episode of The Simpsons to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming less than One Hour).

Plot
After seeing Ned Flanders reject an offer from a crooked cable man for a $50 illegal cable hookup, Homer chases after the cable man and takes the offer. The Simpsons like the new channels and spend hours watching them. However, Lisa is suspicious about the cable hookup, and after a Sunday school lesson about the existence and nature of Hell, she fears that Homer is violating the Eighth of the Ten Commandments—"Thou shalt not steal"—and will go to Hell when he dies.

After seeing other examples of common thievery everywhere, Lisa visits Reverend Lovejoy. He dissuades Lisa from reporting her father's illegal cable hookup to the police since the Fifth Commandment states one must "honor thy father and thy mother", but instead advises her to lead by example and refuse to watch programs via the cable hookup. Marge pleads with Homer to either disconnect the cable or pay for it, but he refuses. However, after the cable man offers to sell him a stolen car stereo and attempts to break into Ned's house, Homer barricades his windows in fear. Bart one evening discovers a porn channel called "Top Hat Entertainment", despite fear of punishment from Homer, who spots him watching it. Homer lets Bart off with a warning, telling him not to watch the channel again. Bart pretends to agree to this and behind Homer's back charges the neighborhood children 50 cents to watch the cable porn channel, but just as it begins Homer catches him and sends him to his room as punishment.

Homer invites his co-workers and bar buddies to watch Drederick Tatum fight for the World Heavyweight Championship during a cable-TV boxing match. Unfortunately for Homer, Mr. Burns also finds out and decides to attend the gathering to watch the match. Whilst preparing for the viewing party, Homer is forced to hastily hide items he stole from some of his guests, namely office supplies from the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and beer mugs from Moe's. When Lisa announces she will boycott the screening, Homer banishes her to the lawn, where she is joined by Marge and Maggie. Eventually Homer's conscience bothers him and he begrudgingly chooses not to watch the fight, dragging Bart outside with him. When his friends leave, Homer hesitantly cuts the cable hookup over Bart's objections. However, he ends up cutting off power to his neighborhood while trying to find the right wire to cut the cable.

Production

"Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" was written by freelance writer Steve Pepoon and directed by Rich Moore. It was originally going to be named "Homer vs. the 8th Commandment", but the writers decided to include Lisa in the title because they wanted the cast to feel as if all their characters were equally represented on the show. The episode is based on the Eighth Commandment ("thou shall not steal"), which is one of the Ten Commandments. The Simpsons writer Al Jean said that "whenever people come up to me and say that The Simpsons is just sort of this outrageous show that has no moral center, I always point them to this [episode], where Homer gets an illegal cable hook-up (which many people have done in real life) and suffers enormous consequences."

The Simpsons writer Mike Reiss feels that episodes such as "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" are his favorite episodes to write because they have a "solid theme or an issue" (in this case, religion and theft), that one can "discuss endlessly and just have it present itself in so many different ways". Producer Jeff Martin said the writers tried to use a "very strict construction of the Eighth Commandment," considering cable theft to be "essentially a victimless crime". "Homer vs. the 8th Commandment" was produced at a time when illegal cable hookups were becoming commonplace in many homes. This episode later inspired the season four episode "Homer the Heretic", in which Homer stops going to church on Sundays. Based on the Fourth Commandment, "remember the Sabbath and keep it holy", that episode originated when Jean commented to Reiss, "We had a lot of luck with Homer stealing cable, so maybe we could look to other commandments?"

The episode marks the debut appearance of the character Troy McClure, voiced by Phil Hartman. McClure was based on the typical "washed-up" Hollywood actor, and B movie actors Troy Donahue and Doug McClure served as inspiration for his name and certain character aspects. According to show creator Matt Groening, Hartman was cast in the role due to his ability to pull "the maximum amount of humor" out of any line he was given. McClure's visual appearance is similar to that of Hartman himself. McClure became a recurring character on the show after "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment", but was retired in 1998 after Hartman's death. In addition to McClure, Hartman also provided the voice of the cable guy. The character Drederick Tatum, one of the boxers in the boxing match Homer and his friends watch, also makes his first appearance on the show in this episode. His physical appearance was based on the American boxer Mike Tyson, and he was named after a real boxer Simpsons writer George Meyer had seen.

Cultural references
The opening scene with Moses on Mount Sinai parodies the 1956 film The Ten Commandments. The scene in which Homer fakes getting hit by the cable man's truck resembles a scene in Alfred Hitchcock's film North by Northwest. In a joke about Mr. Burns' age, Burns recalls watching a bare-knuckle match between Gentleman Jim Corbett and "an Eskimo fellow". The films that are watched by the family on the new cable are Jaws, Die Hard, and Wall Street. One of the X-rated films Bart and his friends watch on cable is called Broadcast Nudes. The title parodies Broadcast News, which was written by Simpsons executive producer James L. Brooks. Towards the end of the episode, Bart mentions Atlanta Braves Baseball in reference to their frequent appearances on TBS from 1977 to 2007. He also mentions Joe Franklin.

Reception
In its original broadcast, "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" finished 25th in ratings for the week of February 4–10, 1991 with a Nielsen rating of 15.2, and was viewed in approximately 14 million homes. It did better than the show's season average rank of 32nd, and was the highest-rated program on Fox that week. The episode finished second in its timeslot to The Cosby Show, which aired at the same time on NBC and had a Nielsen rating of 16.8.

In The Gospel According to The Simpsons, Mark I. Pinsky writes that the episode has "the structure of an exquisitely crafted twenty-two-minute sermon". DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson felt that "[The episode] helped establish the show's reputation as a master lampooner of pop culture. The introduction of cable into the home allowed [the writers] to mock many different movies and other media outlets, and this helped make the episode very entertaining. It also worked in many other ways and offered a fine show."

Writing for Maclean's magazine, Jaime J. Weinman described "Homer vs. Lisa and the Eighth Commandment" as "the first truly great episode—the one that established The Simpsons as the funniest and most multi-layered sitcom around. The story of Homer stealing cable was an excuse for dozens of parodies of early '90s cable TV, but it was also a story about Homer and his daughter and an examination of how we rationalize little acts of theft in our daily lives."

The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, called the episode a "skilful demonstration of a moral dilemma that must have plagued millions since the inception of cable TV". Doug Pratt, a DVD reviewer and Rolling Stone contributor, wrote that "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" is "one of the many demonstrations that while [The Simpsons] may have pushed the censorship envelope for its day, it remained moral to its core. The running satire of cable programs is also quite amusing." The episode won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming less than One Hour). It was the second episode of the show to win the award. It was also nominated in the "Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special" category.

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Camilla Power

Camilla Joy Cynthia Power (born 13 November 1976) is an Irish-born English actress. She is best known for her appearances in the television series Emmerdale and Waterloo Road.

Early life and education
Power was born in Cork, Ireland, and is a distant cousin of the actor Tyrone Power. Her great-grandfather was Sir John Power, Member of Parliament for Wimbledon before the Second World War. She attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone, and started acting from an early age; her first TV appearance was on a chicken nuggets commercial, and an early screen role was as Sabina Halliday in A Summer Story (1988).

Career
Power appeared in Channel 4’s The Manageress in 1990, and played Jill Pole in BBC Television’s The Silver Chair (1990), an adaptation of the book by C. S. Lewis. She also had parts in Bonjour la Classe (1993), and Moonacre (BBC, 1993), the last calling for skill at horse-riding. From 1993 to 1995, she was a regular cast member playing Jessica McAllister on the Yorkshire Television soap Emmerdale.

From 1997 to 1998, she played teenager Adele Bannerman in The Grand, a series set at the "Grand hotel", Manchester in the 1920s. Power made her stage debut in a theatrical adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the National Theatre in 1998. She had roles in the television drama series Murder in Mind (2002), and in the 2003 film Hornblower: Duty.

In 2006, she appeared in the BBC One school-based drama series Waterloo Road as English teacher Lorna Dickey, and returned for the second series in 2007, until her character committed suicide after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. In early 2008 she starred in the Torchwood, episode "From Out of the Rain" as Pearl, a circus star who escapes from an old cinema film and seeks revenge on those who put her out of business. Power was seen in the British action movie The Tournament, as the ruthless assistant to Liam Cunningham's Tournament Master. In 2012, she appeared in two episodes of ITV drama Whitechapel.

In 2013, she appeared in two episodes of Lewis, as Tara Faulkner, and in 2 episodes of Father Brown. In 2016, she appeared in "Shut Up and Dance", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror. In 2022, she appeared as Agatha Jack in Trigger Point.

Personal life
Power is a supporter of 'ERA (Equal Representation for Actresses)', a movement devoted to gender equality for actresses, within the stage, television and film industry.

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Yoichi

Yoichi may refer to:

 * Yōichi, Japanese given name
 * Yoichi District, Hokkaidō (余市郡), district in Shiribeshi, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan
 * Yoichi, Hokkaidō (余市町), town in Yoichi District
 * Yoichi distillery (余市蒸溜所), a Japanese whisky distillery in the town
 * Yoichi Station (余市駅), train station in Yoichi District
 * also Yoichi is a masculine Japanese given name.
 * Yoichi Hatta (八田 與一), Japanese engineer
 * Yoichi Hayashi (林 与一), Japanese actor
 * Yoichi Kaya, Japanese energy economist
 * Nasu no Yoichi (那須 与一), famous Japanese samurai archer
 * Yoichi Numata (沼田 曜一), Japanese actor

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The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 09:59, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Thayer Dining Hall
Non-notable college dining hall. Zoe 07:09, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * It is, Sir, as I have said, just a small dining hall. And yet there are those who love it. Faethon387 13:04, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

 *  Redirect to Dartmouth college. It seems pretty clear to me. --Apyule 07:49, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Reserve until someone has a good idea as to what should happen to it.

 * Well, I didn't want to lose the info if it is redirect-worthy, but the Dartmouth article is already huge. Zoe 08:11, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * That is a good point. There isn't space in the Dartmouth article for anything in this, but at the same time I don't think that a whole individual article is needed for a single dining hall.  The homework thing below complicates things too.  --Apyule 12:31, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Please note that this may be the result of this homework set for Dartmouth college students every Summer. See User:Dpbsmith/Dartmouth, and School and university projects - instructions for students. Uncle G 09:15:02, 2005-08-24 (UTC)
 * Which makes me wonder how many student would find their way to User:Dpbsmith/Dartmouth, maybe we should get this in a place where they can't avoid it, like a temporary 'banner' at the top of Contributing to Wikipedia as they are told to read that before contributing> Alf 13:46, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The guide(s) weren't really done in time. I doubt that any of User:Pcw's students even saw it. But let's relax. Last year there were literally dozens of articles like this one. This year, I think there were only a handful. This makes me think that even though the written assignment doesn't mention it, the word must have gotten out anyway. If the ratio of good articles to problem articles is 100:1, as I think it is this year, I don't think we need to do anything special about it at all. Dpbsmith (talk) 15:11, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I couldn't be more relaxed if I tried : ), fair 'nuff, no worries then.Alf 18:34, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I have to wonder what grade this student will get, considering their first two entries were copyvios. Zoe 05:16, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete, because the article does not point out anything notable about the dining hall. I don't even think this is worth merging into Dartmouth College. I would reconsider if evidence were presented showing that the "etched-leather paintings" were of encyclopedic interest (who painted them? are they famous? old?) and if someone were to upload an image of them. By the way, the assignment asks students to "please register and use a name that makes sense," which this contributor did not do. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:35, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable, and is more Dartmouth vanity than anything else.  -- Kaszeta 14:20, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete.Subject falls below threshhold. Dottore So 14:36, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree with Dpbsmith's views, in particular.  Anville 15:07, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn dininghallcruft. But, man, could I go on about my college dining hall. --  Etacar11   02:18, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Dartmouth College Delete Changed my mind...Roodog2k 17:38, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
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Four years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:50, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Wars and the Israel-Palestine conflict...please fill out my survey?
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I'm reasonably sure that the intended derivation of the fictional word "bellyfeel" was that in a loyal citizen, gut instinct - a "feeling" in the "belly" - should support all pronouncements of the Party. The perfect Party member would be one who internalizes Party doctrine to such an extent that he bellyfeels it.

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